Bell lived out her last days in Baghdad, where she took up again archaeology, founding what became the National Museum of Iraq. Suzannah Lipscomb Actress | Witchcraft Suzannah Lipscomb was born in 1978 in Surrey, England, UK. He is also known for presenting the popular documentary series The Real Football Factories. The impressive collection A Writer's World: Travels 19502000 reflects the life of a compulsive traveller, although during the final stages of her life before she sadly passed away in November 2020, she was mostly ensconced in her converted stable home in north-west Wales, tired of taking my shoes off at airports. Our TV presenters are all true professionals who have years of experience within the industry, so know how to entice an audience, and they feel more than confident on camera too. 4. Ship journals are contradictory, but there is some suggestion she pronounced herself a eunuch when suspicions were raised about her gender; other accounts hint at violence and rape. Rachel Hatton GIA AJP. She drags around a suitcase she named the Coffin, full of books, a single-cup electrical-heating element and a jar of Marmite, and always carries a stuffed toy monkey called Mr H. Yet the pioneering researcher-turned-activist doesnt plan to change her schedule any time soon. Smith is truly an underrated talent. His interview with Richard Nixon was adapted into a play and film. Accompanied only by three Amazigh Muslim men and their camels, Scottish explorer Alice Morrison set off to find a hidden . Tony Bourdain. His support of NORML definitely gives him more street cred with the PBS crowd. Shes not a scientist but likes to have a fact-finding mission to her expeditions, because we need nature today more than ever. Her last trip was three months solo walking the west coast of Tasmania, collecting data on plant life for the Australian government; while there, she fell down a gorge, broke a shoulder and continued to carry her 35kg backpack on it for the next three days. She headed off on her travels: spending years moving around the Middle East from Tehran to Jerusalem to Beirut to Damascus and became fluent in Persian, Arabic, French and German, as well as speaking Italian and Turkish, and holding titles such as Liaison Officer, Correspondent to Cairo and Oriental Secretary for the British government. They divorced, but she continued to run the farm, now single-handedly, fighting drought, fire and creditors. Reeve is a relative newcomer and has the potential to be the next Michael Palin. Debbie McGee is an English radio, television, and stage performer. SJA Young Sports Writer of the Year 2012. All rights reserved. At the peak of his career, he was probably the most listened-to radio broadcaster in Europe. They found me about an hours walk away. He has presented numerous science programs for BBC radio and TV, especially the Wonders ofseries. In 2020, she set up her own foundation called Sarah's Trust. upenn summer research program for high school students. Apart from being a media personality, Amanda Holden is also known for her charity work; in 2018, she posed as a mermaid underwater as part of a PETA awareness campaign against the SeaWorld. They are the ultimate buddy movies and the backdrops are unreal. Kirsty Gallagher - UK Kirsty hails from Scotland and first appeared on the Sky Sports screen in 1998. The former Country Living magazine editor fronted the show for five years and was also known for. Morriss essays, biographies and novels, including intimate portraits of Trieste, Oxford, New York, Hong Kong and Venice, have shaped our idea of what it is to go abroad, and what it is to belong. Hes about as good as it gets. Critically, Lonely Planet carries on the mission that independent travel is easy and doesnt cost a fortune and that has inspired millions to haul on a backpack and head off across the world. Full list of female presenters who have signed the letter Aasmah Mir Katya Adler Anita Anand Wendy Austin Samira Ahmed Clare Balding Emma Barnett Zeinab Badawi Sue Barker Fiona Bruce Rachel. She went back to school to study fine-art photography, while following her husband with their family to more than 100 countries. "Building the confidence and careers of 25,000 people by 2025." Hello@sonyabarlow.co.uk www . She wasnt yet 40, and was never seen again. The common theme is that she prefers to be alone. Kate McCarthy GIA AJP. Born in California, this fearless, multilingual photo-journalists first forays took her to Mexico when she was 24, followed by a two-year trip from the Andes to the Amazon, and later crossing Haiti by horseback documenting her travels in National Geographic magazine. Pilkington is credited with co-founding a TV production company called RiSK Productions. 8. In Basra, they say the day belongs to Iraq; the night to Iran. Photo: alexkramer.me. Jameela Jamil, who works as an actress, model, writer, and radio presenter, is a fighter in every sense of the word; she fought conditions like hearing loss, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, coeliac disease, and anorexia nervosa before establishing herself as an entertainer. In spring 1975, just after the Vietnam War finally drew to a close and as Diane von Furstenbergs wrap dresses were selling in their millions and Tammy Wynettes 'Stand By Your Man' was blaring from Roberts Radios across the UK, a 35-year-old, five-foot-tall Japanese climber became the first woman to scale Mount Everest as part of an all-female team she had put together. Think about the more localised context and her achievements are even more brilliant. She says she carried hummous sandwiches in her packed lunch, while a classmate brought peanut butter and jam; she imagined theirs would be disgusting, but when she tried it, she thought it was heavenly (a story she wrote down and turned into a childrens book, The Sandwich Swap). Meet the presenters and reporters for BBC One and BBC NewsChannel's Breakfast programme. The daughter of a black mother and a mixed-race father, Coleman laboured in the cotton fields of Texas with her 12 sisters and brothers as a child. Fifteen years later she became the first climber to summit Mount Huascarn in Peru (at the age of 58) pledging to attain some height where no man had previously stood. 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Hi there, my name is Monique Jeremiah and I am a commercial model and the entrepreneur behind Diversity Models modelling agency. She was occasionally joined by journalist Rick Smolan, who photographed her progress, and by Eddie, an indigenous man who walked her through the Jameson Ranges. Named to the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World six times, actor Lisa Faulkner is best known for her roles in series such as Murder in Suburbia and EastEnders. She overturned social conventions smoking cigarettes, heading out without a chaperone and had plans to establish a flying school and teach the Negro to fly so they will able to serve their country better, but she died before her dream could be realised. But she managed to notch up the miles on the cheap exploring the US in her 1979 Chevy LUV pickup called Myrtle, which she fitted out with a twin-sized futon. Our Story; Our Chefs Mittermeier went on to study marine biology, imagining it would be more about pirate ships and swimming with dolphins than the realities of fisheries and exploitation, a strange start for a woman who now runs SeaLegacy, the powerful ocean conservation non-profit. I remember my Nanny always used to get excited when Moira came on BBC news and would call out to us to "Come and see Moira on the TV" with her soft and sweet Guyanese accent. After smashing 11 world-bests and notching up a staggering breath-hold of five minutes 39 seconds, she gave up competing. Shed been working as housekeeper to, before becoming the lover of, naturalist Philibert de Commeron, whod been invited to join the round-the-world expedition of Commander Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Her family fled to Jordan, she joined them, there hobnobbed with royalty and ended up marrying the future king. It was based, of course, on Karen Blixens memoir Out of Africa, published under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Then married to the president of Conservation International whose trips took them all around the world, she borrowed his camera and took a first snap of an indigenous community in Brazil which turned out to become the outside advertising banner for an Amazonian art exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Houston.