Fogle First Came To Public Notice By Participating In The BBC Reality
Ben Fogle first came to public notice by participating in the BBC reality show Castaway 2000, which followed a group of thirty-six people marooned on the Scottish island of Taransay for a year starting 1 January 2000. Ben Fogle made a film about the facial deforming disease Noma for a BBC 2 documentary “Make Me A New Face” which followed the work of the charity Facing Africa and Great Ormond Street Hospital. They took 60 hours to reach the capital, raising money for SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association).
The book was short-listed for the W H Smith’s people’s award for Best Travel Book. Fogle has also written Offshore published by Penguin in 2006 in which he travelled around Britain in search of an island of his own. Ben Fogle writes a weekly Country Diary for the Sunday Telegraph and is a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph and travel writer for The Independent and has contributed to the Evening Standard, New York Times, The Sunday Times and Glamour magazine. He is guest director of Cheltenham Literary Festival and a regular at Hay-on-Wye.
