Vanessa Collingridge

Vanessa Collingridge ( * 1968 in Oxfordshire ) is a British author and radio speaker.

She is the youngest of five children and was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Scottish mother and half -Irish father. She grew up in Woking, Surrey. She studied Geography at Hertford College, Oxford, where she eventually became a first class Master of Arts, though she fell ill in her second year of studies at meningitis, which caused a near-fatal swelling of her brain. At Oxford she met her partner Alan Watt know.

Immediately after graduation, she began her career in television, first as Fragenprüferin at game shows like Wheel of Fortune and Win, Lose or Draw, and then for 14 months as a weather forecaster for BBC Scotland, a work for which she is still known. Since then she has worked as a producer and presenter on all five British terrestrial TV channels and radio at the BBC.

In 2000, she quit her TV presenter job at McDonald Tonight with Trevor to write two biographies about James Cook, an explorer of the 18th century and one of the Celtic warrior queen Boudica. A During her research on James Cook discovered that it has a common ancestor with the controversial Australian writer and illustrator George Collingridge, of the theory of a Portuguese discovery of Australia declared in 1895.

Collingridge lives in Scotland, where it is housed in a converted farmhouse on the banks of Castle Semple Loch near Lochwinnoch with her ​​partner and her sons Archie and Angus since 1989. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis at the University of Glasgow. She also works as a radio spokesperson for BBC Radio Scotland's 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