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Join us to hear from alumna Clare Balding (DH 1988), writer, broadcaster, animal lover, and sports fan.
Winner of the BAFTA Special Award and RTS Presenter of the Year Award for her coverage of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Clare Balding is one of Britain's leading broadcasters. She is also a bestselling and award-winning author and a committed campaigner for better coverage of women’s sport.
Clare has worked in radio since she left university in 1994 and has been presenting major events on television and radio since becoming the face of the BBC’s horse racing output in 1998. She has worked on landmark sporting events, including seven Olympic Games, five Paralympic Games and five Winter Olympic Games, as well as major Royal events including Trooping the Colour, the Queen’s Royal Pageant and the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
She has also worked on Wimbledon since 1995 and presented Crufts since 2004. She was the main presenter for Channel 4’s coverage of the European Women’s Football Championships and fronted the documentary ‘When Football Banned Women’. She has also presented factual documentaries on icons in sport, the suffragettes, the Queen and her horses, and a series about veterinary work on wild animals called Operation Wild. Clare’s much-loved walking series, Ramblings on Radio 4, has been on air since 1999.
Clare is also a bestselling author. My Animals and Other Family was based on her childhood growing up in an unusual household and was published to critical acclaim. It went on to win biography of the year at the National Book Awards. This was followed by Walking Home and Heroic Animals. Clare has also written several children’s books including, The Racehorse Who Wouldn’t Gallop, The Racehorse Who Disappeared, The Racehorse Who Learned to Dance and The Girl Who Thought She Was a Dog.
Her latest book, Pasture’s New, is her first novel for adults. Published in September it’s already a Sunday Times bestseller. The heartwarming tale of working hard to realise your dreams, it follows carefree forty-something Alex whose life is upended when she unexpectedly inherits a ramshackle farm in Wales.
Clare lives in London with her wife, Alice who is a Radio presenter on Mellow Magic, with their cats Button and Eric.
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