Richard Mabey
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Richard Thomas Mabey 20 February 1941 |
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| Alma mater | St Catherine's College, University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Writer and broadcaster |
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Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.
Mabey was educated at three independent schools, all in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The first was at Rothesay School, followed by Berkhamsted Preparatory School and then Berkhamsted School. He then went to St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
After Oxford, Mabey worked as a lecturer in Social Studies in Further Education at Dacorum College, Hemel Hempstead, then as a Senior Editor at Penguin Books. He became a full-time writer in 1974. He spent most of his life among the beechwoods of the Chilterns. He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavendar, and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads.
In the 1970s and 80s Mabey wrote and presented several television documentaries. He appeared in the 1975 BBC programme In Deepest Britain, with John Gooders and other naturalists, giving an unscripted narration of the wildlife observed during a country walk. He wrote and narrated the 1996 BBC television series Postcards from the Country, for whose eight, 40- minute episodes he was series producer, as well as being the producer- director on four. He made a film for the BBC on Kew Gardens. His 'Unofficial Countryside' and 'The Flowering of Britain' were based on his books of the same names. 'White Rock, Black Water' was a specially-written film about the limestone Country of the Yorkshire Dales, and a Channel 4 8-part series - 'Back to the Roots' – explored the role of plants in Britain’s contemporary culture . In the 1990s he appeared regularly on BBC’s Country File.
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