Contributors

Scott Moeller is a professor at Cass Business School and director of the M&A Research Centre. He is a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank.

Hashi Mohamed arrived in Britain as a child refugee, and is now a Barrister at No5 Chambers in London. A contributor to the Guardian, The Times and Prospect, he has also explored class and mobility for the BBC. His first book, People Like Us, looked at social mobility and inequality and was also published by Profile. A Home of One's Own is his second book.

Jelmer Mommers is a climate journalist based in Amsterdam. He made world headlines when he uncovered an alarmist climate documentary made by Shell in 1991, and again when he released internal Shell-documents showing the companies' internal research into global warming. Those documents are now being used in court cases against the oil giant worldwide.

Marie Mongan was a clinical hypnotherapist and recipient of the 1995 National Guild of Hypnotists President's Award. She founded the HypnoBirthing Institute in the US in 1989 and it now operates globally. She was the mother of four children, all born using the techniques upon which HypnoBirthing is based. Marie Mongan passed away in June 2019.

Robert Monroe is the founder of the internationally renowned Monroe Institute for Applied Sciences, known for its work on the effects of sound wave forms on human behaviour, and the Mind Research Institute, which undertakes extensive psychological and psychic research.

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, Vogueand Harpers Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

R. I. Moore was professor emeritus of Medieval History at Newcastle University. His books include The First European Revolution and The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Western Europe 950-1250, which was described by the Guardian as "One of the most influential and controversial books of medieval history of the last twenty years". He died in 2025.

Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and other newspapers. His book On Roads was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, together with his previous book, Queuing for Beginners, received unanimous critical acclaim.

Martin Moran grew up in Denver, lives in New York City where he is an actor and writer, and has appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He performs a one-man play of The Tricky Part all over the world.

Elaine Morgan was born in 1920, and after studying at Oxford University, worked as a television writer. In 1972, she published The Descent of Woman suggesting that human evolution had an aquatic origin. This idea was attacked at first by scientists but the book became an international bestseller. In the decades since, Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis has gained widespread support. She died in 2013.

Aditi Mittal is a comedian, writer and actor. She has produced two stand-up specials for Netflix, 'Things They Wouldn't Let Me Say' and 'Girl Meets Mic', and her third special, 'Mother of Invention' is available on Amazon Prime. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the UK Melbourne Comedy Festival and at the Soho Theatre in London.

Llewelyn Morgan teaches Classics at Oxford where he is a Fellow of Brasenose College. He has been to Afghanistan several times and has written a number of pieces on the country ancient and modern.

Dr John Mittermeier is the founder and director of the Search for Lost Birds at American Bird Conservancy. He led his first expedition to find a lost bird nearly twenty years ago and ever since has been traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to look for and learn about these species.

Mittermeier founded the Search for Lost Birds in 2021 after joining American Bird Conservancy, and since its inception the initiative has resulted in multiple rediscoveries and coverage in hundreds of news articles around the world including the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, and New Scientist among others. He is based in the US.

Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. He previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Universities of Sheffield, York and Cambridge, before joining the University of Reading. An award-winning archaeologist, Steven Mithen specialises in prehistoric hunter-gatherers and the earliest Neolithic farmers, with long-term field projects in southern Jordan and western Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New Scientist and the Guardian and has authored over 200 academic articles and books, including The Singing Neanderthals and After the Ice. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

Dani Messerschmidt is a comedy writer and Murdle's creative director