Katherine Mary Humble is an English television presenter and narrator, mainly working for the BBC, specialising in wildlife and science programmes. Humble served as president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 2009 to 2013. She is an ambassador for the UK walking charity Living Streets.
In 1990, Kate Humble appeared for the first time as an actress in a TV production, Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, and was credited as “Lauren Heston … The redhead”. She was the assistant to a casting director who was looking for an actress to play a brief nude scene, and she got the job herself.
Kate Humble started her television career as a researcher, later transferring to presenting programmes such as Top Gear, Tomorrow’s World and the 2001 series The Holiday Programme – You call the shots where the team travelled the world[14] doing whatever viewers recommended, using the then-novel media of text messaging and emailing the team as they travelled.
From 2000 to 2005, Kate Humble presented a BBC series called Rough Science, in which a number of scientists were set various challenges to be solved using basic tools and supplies.
Kate Humble presented The Blue Planet Live! on the 2008 UK tour at Wembley Arena, St David’s Hall in Cardiff and at Symphony Hall in Birmingham.
In February 2011 Kate Humble presented a three-part series of programmes, The Spice Trail, on the trail of six of the world’s most valuable spices, covering their history, trade, mythology and usage.
In March 2012, she co-presented with Helen Czerski a three-part BBC series, Orbit. In July, Kate Humble co-presented Volcano Live with Iain Stewart.
In 2017, Kate Humble presented the BBC Two documentary series Extreme Wives with Kate Humble. In the first episode she visited the Kuria people in Kenya and explored issues of polygamy and female genital mutilation. In the second episode she spoke to members of the Haredi orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem. The third episode meets the matrilineal community of Shillong in the Indian state of Meghalaya. In 2018 she became president of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.
Kate Humble’s book, Thinking on My Feet: The small joy of putting one foot in front of another, was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Prize.
In November 2020, Kate Humble was included in the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Power List 2020.
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