Philippa Forrester
A charismatic wildlife expert, presenter, producer and author.
Philippa’s recent work for the BBC includes Halcyon River Diaries, a series of programmes about a year in the life of the Halcyon River. The programmes follow Philippa’s husband Charlie filming the wildlife, Philippa caring for the ecology of their surroundings, and their three children following them around asking funny questions!
She has also appeared on Tomorrow’s World, Robot Wars, Bang Goes the Theory, Making Animal Babies, Clever Critters, Man Meets Dog, Barking Mad, Market Kitchen and she has written and produced numerous programmes including The Wild Wood and Tarka.
Philippa writes regularly for The Mail on Sunday’s travel section and has also penned three books to date - The River, Halcyon River Diaries (which accompanied the BBC One series) and a third book written for children.
Live events she has worked on for the BBC have included Eclipse which she presented with Michael Burke, the Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations with David Dimbleby, Crufts, which she anchored for four years, a live discussion programme on Foot and Mouth, Zoowatch with Rolf Harris and the Heaven and Earth Show.
2005 also saw Philippa make her debut as a radio presenter for BBC Bristol, where she presented the Saturday morning show.
Philippa co-founded and now runs a production company that specialises in natural history programming alongside her husband, renowned wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton-James. She researches, scripts, produces and often also appears or voices the commentary for their productions for both the BBC and Animal Planet amongst others.
