Artistes of the Month
Pen Hadow
Pen Hadow, 'the thinking man's explorer', has spent longer than most on the North Pole ice cap and has watched its gradual thinning with growing alarm. Twenty years ago, you could walk to the North Pole - now you have to swim part of the way there. Pen has seen for himself the indicators of climate change: polar bears and other Arctic wildlife where they shouldn't be; polluted atmospheric hazes where once the horizons were pristine, and he relates his observations with passion and science, illustrating his talk with images and dramatic film footage that he has taken himself.
John Harris
John Harris is one of the last remaining characters in the increasingly dull world of IT and Telecommunications. 25 years a senior manager in operational and sales roles he is much sort after as a coach and mentor. Recently recovered from very serious cancer surgery his positive energy is
contagious.
Kirsty King
A key member of the Ground Force team, Kirsty King started as the horticultural researcher on the show and is now one of the four presenters.
She was raised in Perthshire, Scotland, and became interested in gardening in her early teens. At eighteen she moved down south to study horticulture at Writtle Agricultural College in Chelmsford, Essex. After graduating, Kirsty worked for a landscaping company in East Sussex for two years. Her work involved running a team of landscapers, building show-home gardens, and designing private gardens as well as general garden maintenance.
Her life changed when she met the executive producer of Ground Force in 1997.
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