Gay Search

Gay Search is a British television presenter perhaps best known for her work on the BBC television series Gardeners' World with the late Geoff Hamilton and for the groundbreaking series Front Gardens. She has devised and hosted gardening shows for BBC2 since 1988.^[1] She worked as gardening editor for Sainsbury magazine for 13 years and is the author of many gardening books, including:

• Front Gardens
• Gardening from Scratch
• Gardening without a garden
• Delia's Kitchen Garden, written in collaboration with her old friend Delia Smith.

She is also patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.^[2]

As a teenager she was a bystander in the capture of the Portland spy ring. Her parents' house was used to surveil Peter and Helen Kroger who were part of the Portland spy ring. ^[3]

References

1. Literary agents for novelists, travel writers, scientists, biographers, historians, television presenters, children's writers and literary illustrators - Gay Search
2. "British Thyroid Foundation Patrons". British Thyroid Foundation. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
3. "BBC World Service - The spies in a suburban bungalow". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.