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Kate Humble
Kate Humble has worked on a wide variety of TV Programmes and is adept at conference facilitation and Awards Hosting
From Holiday to Top Gear
Kates’ presenting portfolio sparkles with; the pioneering Rough Science for BBC 2, diving to the depths of The Abyss, developing the fast and furious internet-led Holiday you Call The Shots for BBC 1 and holding together the live Wild In Your Garden & Springwatch
She made a stunning debut on BBC 1’s live City Hospital late in 2001, joined the series in 2002 at the same time joining Tomorrow’s World.
Kate entered the new millennium co-presenting *TOP GEAR*, examined rural matters for BBC’s Country File, reported from the parkland of Longleat (Animal Park) and joined the team for Rolf’s Amazing Animals – including a report on the dancing bears in India.
Holiday developed from research in '97 to reporting for Summer Holiday and Holidays Out (Paragliding, Whitewater rafting, Polo, etc.). She moved to Holiday with reports from Nepal (trekking) and Kipungani Bay.
By now a Holiday regular, Kate was given the task of training as a Rep for Club 18-30 for Fasten Your Seat Belt '98! She emerged from a testing experience with flying colours. Salvation came with the Dominican Republic and Australia for Summer Holiday ‘98
Identified by now as a gir1 who'll have a shot at most things, Kate researched and presented her own mini-series - Humble Holidays - exploring the most fun for the least money which led to fronting Holiday on a Shoestring.
Her introduction to the Top Gear stable came when she contributed to wetter version called Waterworld - from a mechanical whale on the Thames! Back on dry land she presented The Essential Guide To Rocks. BBC 2 (Oct 98) and Webwise
Kate, Animals and Travelling
Reporter/writer/traveller Kate began ‘99 on the back of a camel following the salt trail in Mali, and has since spent months at a time variously in Ecuador, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Venezuela.
Kate grew up next door to a farm in Berkshire where she spent the majority of her childhood mucking out horses. After leaving school she travelled to Africa and spent a year doing various jobs from hatching crocodiles to driving and cooking for safari companies whilst making her way slowly and not altogether directly from Cape to Cairo She arrived in Egypt with £5 and no ticket home.
On her return to England she started making tea and typing things for people who worked in television production companies and gradually worked her way up the ladder to becoming a producer. In 1994 she again left for Africa with her husband of two years, Ludo. Together they drove around Southern Africa in a broken down pick-up for several months and then sold it to buy tickets to Madagascar. This journey was to become the subject of the first article she wrote for 'The Telegraph'
Springwatch and Autumnwatch
Her passion for diving lead to her first job with the BBC's Natural History Unit when she was asked to go to the Caymen Islands and dive in a submarine to look for the rarely seen six gill shark for 'The Abyss'. Another live deep water series 'Beyond the Abyss' followed the next year as well as 'Wild in Your Garden' with Bill Oddie. The immensely popular and successful 'Springwatch' followed, along with 'Amazon Abyss', 'Wild in Africa' and 'Seawatch'. She continues to contribute to several magazines and newspapers, is co-author of the 'Springwatch & Autumnwatch' book, and presents a number of science and natural history programmes for the BBC, including 'Climate Change: Britain Under Threat', 'Wild in California' 'Springwatch' and 'Autumnwatch'.
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