1. Katherine Mary Humble was born on 12 December 1968 and is an English television presenter and narrator, mainly working for the BBC, specialising in wildlife and science programmes.
16 Facts About Kate Humble
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Kate Humble served as president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 2009 to 2013.
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Kate Humble is an ambassador for the UK walking charity Living Streets.
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Kate Humble is the great-great-great granddaughter of Joseph Humble, colliery manager of Hartley Colliery at the time of the Hartley Colliery disaster.
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Kate Humble 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.
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Kate Humble has specialised in presenting wildlife programmes, including Animal Park, Springwatch and Autumnwatch with Bill Oddie, Simon King, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games and later, Wild in Africa and Seawatch.
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Kate Humble's BBC television series, The Hottest Place On Earth, is a record of a month spent living with the Afar people in Ethiopia's hostile Danakil Depression.
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Kate Humble's paternal grandfather Bill Humble was a test pilot who tested the Hawker Tempest and her maternal grandfather Stan Carter was an officer in the RAF and after being shot down was held as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III at the time of "The Great Escape".
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In 2013, Kate Humble was succeeded as President of the RSPB by Miranda Krestovnikoff.
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In 2010 Kate Humble described being on holiday in the north-eastern region of Afghanistan where there were no signs of conflict, but where the Wakhi people were expected to be hostile.
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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.
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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.
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Kate Humble now owns her own farm after working on Lambing Live.
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Kate Humble reacted to public criticism on ITV's Lorraine about her lack of intent to have children, stating that "I don't want them, I've never wanted them".
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Kate Humble is a naturist who "likes to get closer to nature by being naked".
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Kate Humble is a beekeeper and a member of the British Beekeepers Association.