Philippa Clare Ryan Forrester[1] (born 20 September 1968[1]) is a British television and radio presenter, producer and author.
[3] She holds a degree in English from the University of Birmingham,[4] where she appeared on the internal Students Guild television station.
[citation needed] Forrester first worked as a children's presenter for BFBS television in 1986, and was often seen reading out birthday cards onscreen.
At the end of the same year, she was also part of the corporation's team covering the turn of the new millennium, and was duped into appearing on the spoof documentary Brass Eye's 2001 paedophilia special, in which she wore a large pair of gloves, and explained how a paedophile could use them to touch children through a screen, such as a television screen.
[5] She was a co-presenter with Brett Westwood on World on the Move, a BBC Radio 4 series that started in 2008 on migration in the animal kingdom.