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Ellie Harrison is a geographer and ecologist known for her work presenting wildlife and natural science programmes for BBC1, Channel Five and Discovery. She has travelled to Namibia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia to film wildlife for a series – Michaela’s Wild Challenge – which earned a BAFTA in 2005. She has travelled throughout the UK to film wildlife spectacles for BBC1’s The ONE Show. Up until 2023, she presented for BBC1 Countryfile and Wild British Winters. She was a regular on the Alan Titchmarsh show and wrote for Countryfile Magazine. Ellie has also fronted BBCV’s Spring Into Action campaign. It was in 2023, after 13 plus years with Countryfile, Ellie decided to move to pastures new
Ellie grew up in living off the land in rural Gloucestershire. During her early travels she worked on a farm in Zimbabwe, canoed unguided on Lake Kariba and camped under the dam taking portrait photographs. She spent many wildlife watching trips in both Zimbabwe and Canada before returning to the UK to study Geography at King’s College, London, specialising in biogeography and third world political ecology, and winning a scholarship to travel to Zimbabwe for her thesis on conservation development and elephant management.
Ellie Harrison now writes for The Radio Times. She covers many types of programmes, ranging from comedy, Drama and Documentaries. She spends her spare time watching peregrine falcons, cycling, diving and studying zoology.
