We’re sisters, we’re best friends and we’ve always loved making things together – starting with a hand-drawn comic that we created as children more than 30 years ago. Experts in our respective fields, knowledgeable and curious, we’ve never taken ourselves too seriously. We guarantee we’ll bring you all the expertise you’d expect from two of Britain’s leading cultural commentators, but there’ll also be a healthy dose of warmth, irreverence and new perspectives. People called us ‘The Carbon Copies’ because we looked and sounded so alike – so maybe it was inevitable that we ended up creating The CC.
Suzy has worked in arts and culture broadcasting for more than 20 years. Starting out as producer and director in BBC Television, she then starting presenting the Radio 3 Breakfast show. She currently hosts the station's highest rating programme, Essential Classics, broadcast on weekday mornings. She has made a series of critically-acclaimed documentaries for BBC TV, and hosted live broadcasts for Sky, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Opera House. She lives in London with her husband and children and loves walking in the Chilterns, listening to Baroque music and prides herself on being exceptionally bad at TikTok dances.
Jacky is an art historian, author and broadcaster. She worked as a curator at the Tate, Courtauld and Hayward galleries before moving into art book publishing as Commissioning Editor at Thames & Hudson, Executive Editor at Tate Publishing and Director of HENI Publishing. She is the author of a bestselling monograph on artist Grayson Perry and has co-authored a number of books including Alfred Cohen: Between Figuration and Abstraction, Body of Art and What is Contemporary Art? A Children’s Guide which she and Suzy co-wrote. She has presented and contributed to radio and television programmes for the BBC, Channel 5, Discovery Channel, Bloomberg TV, Tate, the Art Fund and Christie’s, and has taught at arts institutions including the Courtauld Institute, Christie’s Education and the V&A. A trustee of the UK Association for Art History, she is a keen baker, gardener and wild swimmer. Her secret culture crushes include Tom Waits, the metaphysical poets and, most recently, the Octonauts.