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Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. He speaks on issues of visualisation and lateral thinking to a wide range of audiences.

He has curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo da Vinci and many other themes. In the programme, Martin explores symbols in art and what they meant when they were painted.

Joann Fletcher is an Egyptologist and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York in the UK.聽 Her main interests centre around body adornment throughout the ancient world, long-term research into the use of wigs, perfumes, cosmetics, tattoos and amulets by the living and the dead led to a fascination with mummification and burial practices.

In the programme, Jo explores the meaning of ancient symbols and what they tell us about the past and the present.

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. She is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine. She has led a three-year collaborative ethnographic study, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, examining youth new media practices in the US, and focusing on gaming, digital media production, and Internet use.

Mimi is interested in how we use symbols today and how this might evolve.