[2] After graduating from Oxford, Harrod joined The Sunday Telegraph, writing the "Albany column" under Kenneth Rose.
[3] Harrod was made redundant following changes under the Director-General of the BBC John Birt, but later participated in several budget reports for the broadcaster.
"[4] Harrod spent a year as the city editor of the Yorkshire Post, and in 1994 became programme director of St George's House, a private institution for discussion founded by the Duke of Edinburgh.
[2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992, and served on the council of the Save the Children Fund and on the Church of England's board for Social Responsibility.
In 2000 he wrote War, Ice and Piracy: The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor about the Arctic exploration by his great-great-great-uncle, Samuel Gurney Cresswell, in the 1850s.