Paul Heiney is a well known writer and broadcaster in the UK and over 30 years has appeared on all Britain's major radio and television networks. Currently you will see him weekly on BBC1's top-rated consumer affairs show, Watchdog, which continues a career in consumer journalism which began with That's Life in 1978, and continued later with Radio 4's You and Yours.

But Paul has had a rich life outside broadcasting. With over a dozen books to his credit, both fiction and non-fiction, he is a widely read author and his current Can Cows Walk Downstairs? has been a best-seller in fifteen languages. He has written on both rural, maritime and farming matters, and more recently on popular science.

He has also found time to be a pioneer organic farmer when, in 1990, he decided to master the skills of traditional farming using carthorses, Suffolk Punches, instead of tractors, and farmed 40 acres of Suffolk countryside. This experience inspired not only his hugely successful column, Farmer's Diary, which appeared weekly in the Times for seven years, but also a number of books.

In 2005, he fulfilled a longstanding ambition to sail the Atlantic singlehanded in the wake of the solo sailing pioneers, which led to his book 'The Last Man Across the Atlantic'.

His TV programmes for ITV Anglia has proved to be enormously popular with audiences, including his re-creations of the Victorian and Wartime farming year, and his journeys along the Secret Rivers of East Anglia by canoe. These are now available on DVD.

He is currently putting the finishing touches to his latest book, 'Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?' and will shortly be seen when the new series of Watchdog starts on BBC1.

The new series of Watchdog starts on BBC 1 on the 3rd October.

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Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?

So what's the answer? Find out in Paul Heiney's follow-up to the bestseller 'Can Cows Walk Down Stairs' - published this autumn