All you need to know about presenter Iolo Williams, whose passion for his subject shines through on television <\/p>
Meet popular wildlife presenter Iolo Williams, a staple of the Springwatch presenting team alongside\u00a0Chris Packham<\/a>,\u00a0Michaela Strachan<\/a>, Gillian Burke\u00a0and\u00a0Megan McCubbin<\/a>.<\/p> Iolo Williams is a Welsh wildlife television presenter, ornithologist and conservationist. He is well-known as one of the main presenters of BBC Two’s\u00a0Springwatch<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Winterwatch<\/em><\/a>, having first joined the programme as a field reporter. <\/p> Iolo Williams was born on 22 August 1962 in \u00a0Builth Wells,\u00a0Breconshire.<\/p> Although he was born in Breconshire, his parents moved to Pembrokeshire and then Montgomeryshire when he was five years old and he grew up in\u00a0Llanwddyn near Lake Vyrnwy.<\/p> Iolo is pronounced Yoh-low.<\/p> Iolo Williams wife is Ceri Williams.<\/p> He and Ceri have two children, sons Dewi and Tomos.<\/p> Iolo and Ceri live near Newtown in Powys.<\/p> After studying ecology at university he joined the\u00a0Royal Society for the Protection of Birds<\/a>\u00a0(RSPB) in 1985, where he stayed for 14 years. His work in the field and as a regional co-ordinator led to his making regular appearances in the media as a leading expert on\u00a0Welsh bird life.<\/p> In 1997 Iolo teamed up with the BBC Wales to make his fist TV programme Visions of Snowdonia<\/em>.<\/p> Since his first affray into television Iolo has gone onto presenting lots of programmes, including programmes for the Welsh language channel S4C, and a number of Welsh natural-history programmes for the BBC, including\u00a0Iolo’s Pembrokeshire<\/em>,\u00a0Iolo: The Last Wilderness of Wales<\/em>, Rugged Wales<\/em> and\u00a0Iolo’s Anglesey<\/em>. He has also gone further afield and presented Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with Iolo Williams<\/em>.<\/p> Iolo started working on ‘The Watches’- as Springwatch and Winterwatch are known – in 2019.<\/p> Find out more about Springwatch<\/strong><\/p> All you need to know about presenter Iolo Williams, whose passion for his subject shines through on television <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":37119,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter.png",1488,998,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter-300x201.png",300,201,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter-768x515.png",768,515,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter-1024x687.png",800,537,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter.png",1488,998,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/05\/who-is-iolo-williams-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wildlife-television-presenter.png",1488,998,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"All you need to know about presenter Iolo Williams, whose passion for his subject shines through on television","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/37118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is Iolo Williams<\/h2>
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