Vanessa Collingridge
Vanessa Collingridge (* 1968 in Oxfordshire ) is a British author and radio broadcaster.
Career
Collingridge was born in Oxfordshire , the youngest of five children to a Scottish mother and a half- Irish father. She grew up in Woking , Surrey . She studied geography at Hertford College, Oxford, where she earned a world-class Master of Arts , despite developing meningitis in her sophomore year , which caused near-fatal swelling of her brain . In Oxford she also met her partner Alan Watt.
Immediately after graduation, she started her career in television, first as a question checker on game shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Win, Lose or Draw and then for 14 months as a weather presenter at BBC Scotland . Since then she has worked as a producer and presenter on all five UK terrestrial television channels and on the BBC radio .
In 2000, she quit her television presenter job at Tonight with Trevor McDonald to write two biographies, one on James Cook , an 18th-century explorer , and one on the Celtic warrior queen Boudica . While doing research on James Cook, she discovered that she shared ancestry with the controversial Australian writer and illustrator George Collingridge , who in 1895 had explained the theory of a Portuguese discovery of Australia.
Collingridge has lived in Scotland since 1989 , where she lives with her partner and sons in a converted farmhouse on the shores of Castle Semple Loch near Lochwinnoch . She is currently writing her PhD at the University of Glasgow . She also works as a broadcaster for BBC Radio Scotlands Buried Treasure .
bibliography
- Cook: Obsession and Betrayal in the New World. Ebury Press 2002. ISBN 0-09-187913-2
- Boudica. Ebury Press 2005. ISBN 0-09-189819-6
Web links
- Vanessa Collingridge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e Stephen Phelan: You can't pigeonhole me… geographer, biographer, broadcasterm historian, weathergirl, scientist, cosmonaut, Latin scholar, PhD student, playgroup leader, mother… because of my magpie brain . In: Sunday Herald. April 28, 2007
- ↑ a b c d Fancy meeting you here… . In: The Scotsman . March 4, 2002
- ↑ a b Biography on Take 3 Management ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Meet the Author USA: Vanessa Collingridge (video clip; 1:00 min)
- ↑ PhD candidates , Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Collingridge, Vanessa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author and broadcaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxfordshire |