Bob Geldof

Geldof's television-production businesses are a less obvious second career than his campaigning. With Waheed Alli and Charlie Parsons, he co-founded Planet 24, the company behind The Big Breakfast, and later co-founded Ten Alps. These were organisations making programmes, with creative and commercial responsibilities beyond the use of a famous name. Start with the production companies and the people involved in their programmes. The story becomes more interesting when the Boomtown Rats singer is considered as a media entrepreneur as well as a public campaigner.