Philippa Forrester

Philippa Forrester

Philippa Forrester (born birth date and age|1968|09|20|df=y in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British television and radio presenter producer as well as an author.

Career

Forrester first worked for the BBC as a presenter on Children's BBC alongside Toby Anstis until 1994 (she was gunged on "Get Your Own Back"). She then went on to host many programmes including "Tomorrow's World" (with Peter Snow), "Barking Mad", "The Heaven and Earth Show" and "Robot Wars".

She also co-presented the BBC's coverage of the total solar eclipse of August 1999. At the end of the same year she was also part of the corporation's team covering the turn of the new Millennium, and was duped into appearing on the spoof documentary "Brass Eye"'s notorious 2001 paedophilia special, in which she wore a large pair of gloves, and explained how a paedophile could use them to touch children through a screen, such as a television screen. [cite web| publisher = The Observer | title = Stupidity scuttled Survivor | url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,528976,00.html | date = 2001-07-29 | accessdate = 2007-08-31]

She has appeared in television adverts for Lloyds Pharmacy [cite web| title = Lloyds Pharmacy| url=http://www.lloydspharmacy.com| accessdate = 2007-06-21 ] and supports the Recycle Now campaign to encourage more people to take up home composting.cite web| title = Recycle Now| url=http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/celebrity_composters/index.html|accessdate = 2007-06-21 ]

In 2007, she co-produced with her husband "An Otter in the Family", a short documentary series about the adoption of an otter cub called Grace and their attempts to raise her as a wild animal in order to be released into the wild. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=yesterday&service_id=4224&filename=20071216/20071216_1830_4224_5903_30 BBC Two website programme guide] ] She is a co-presenter with Brett Westwood on "World on the Move", a BBC Radio 4 series that started in 2008 on migration in the animal kingdom.

Personal life

Forrester is married to wildlife cameraman and producer Charlie Hamilton-James [cite web| title = The Telegraph - Interview|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2006/08/02/pcounty02.xml|accessdate = 2007-06-21 ] . The couple live just outside Bath, Somerset, run Halcyon Media which specialises in wildlife productions, and have three sons. The arrival of the first, Fred, in 2000, is described in her book "the River".

She is an avid environmentalist and took a part-time degree in Ecology and Conservation at Birkbeck, University of London when presenting "Tomorrow's World". She also holds a degree in English from the University of Birmingham. [cite web| title = Hilary Knight Management, Philippa Forrester|url = http://www.hkmanagement.co.uk/philippa_forrester/philippaforrestercv.html|accessdate = 2007-08-02 ]

Bibliography

*"The River" Orion, 2004, ISBN 0-7528-5685-5

References

External links

*imdb name|id=286741|name=Philippa Forrester
*tvtome person|id=138797|name=Philippa Forrester
* [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-32220/The-River.htm Publishers' page on "The River"]
* [http://www.hkmanagement.co.uk/philippa_forrester/philippaforrester.html Philippa Forrester at Hilary Knight Management]


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