Mary Ann Ochota

Mary-Ann Ochota (born 8 May 1981) is a British broadcaster and anthropologist specialising in Anthropology, Archaeology, Social History and Adventure factual television.

Mary-Ann is the co-presenter for Series 19 (to be broadcast in 2012) of Channel 4's archaeology show Time Team with Tony Robinson, and has presented for Discovery Networks (Squeamish 2011; Anthropology series in production 2012), Nat Geo (The Truth Behind King Arthur 2011) and for the BBC.

She presented the documentary Silbury Hill:The Heart of the Hill for BBC Four about the neolithic mound Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Her co-presenter was Neil Oliver. She was part of the expert panel on a BBC Two daytime game show in 2007, hosted by Donny Osmond. She was the resident anthropologist on BBC Three's Castaway Exposed, the sister show to BBC Castaway 2007, hosted by Richard Bacon. She has contributed to current affairs radio programme Weekend World Today on the BBC World Service.

She is a key chairperson and interviewer at the annual Institute of Art and Ideas Crunch arts festivals and HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy festivals, and she regularly blogs for The Independent newspaper's Notebook.

Biography

Mary-Ann Ochota was born and grew up in Wincham, in Cheshire to Indian and Polish parents. She read Archaeology and Anthropology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

In 2008, she married children's author Joe Craig.

Other work

After graduation from Cambridge, Mary-Ann worked as a top UK plus-size model. She also shot several commercials including for Kellogg's Special K.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

[1] Noel Gay website [2] Mary-Ann Ochota website [3] Handbag.com

External links

• Mary-Ann Ochota website
• presenter Mary-Ann Ochota
• Castaway Expert
• Independent Newspaper Author Page

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Name	Ochota, Mary Ann
Alternative names	Craig, Mary Ann
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Date of birth	8 May 1981
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