Ben Fogle
Description:
Ben is an adventurer, presenter and writer. He has hosted a number of hit shows including eight series of the BBC's Animal Park. He also presents Wild in Africa, Wild on the West Coast, Countryfile, One Man and His Dog and Crufts.
In 2005 he rowed the Atlantic with Olympic Gold Medallist James Cracknell, the five part BBC series, Through Hell and High Water, followed their efforts winning an RTS award. In 2009 Ben teamed up with Cracknell once again to race 500 miles on foot across Antarctica to the South Pole, the prime time BBC series, On Thin Ice. Ben's passion for adventure culminated in three series of the BBC hit, Ben Fogle's Extreme Dreams, in which he leads ordinary people on extraordinary journeys around the world from the jungles of Papua New Guinea to the desert of Libya.
Ben has written a number of bestselling books including Offshore (penguin), The Teatime Islands (penguin) and The Crossing (Atlantic Books), his fourth, Race to the Pole will be published by Macmillan in June 2009. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph on rural affairs and a monthly environmental column for Sky magazine and is a regular travel writer for the Independent.
Ben currently presents the BBC Sunday morning show, Country Tracks
Link:
http://www.benfogle.com/videos/extreme-dreams
http://www.bbcshop.com/Travel/On-Thin-Ice-DVD/invt/bbcdvd2992
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v68y
If you are interested in contacting Ben, please email Hilary