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| name = Andrew White
| image = Andrew White at Manx LitFest.jpg
| caption = Andrew White at Manx LitFest
| birth_name = Andrew Robert White
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| birth_place = Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
| occupation = writer, film-maker, broadcaster
| years_active=1997–present
| spouse(s) = Amanda Hugill (2001–present) | children = 2 | height = | nationality = British | credits = { { nowrap|The Walker Mysteries (2022–present)Walks Around Yorkshire with Andrew White (2022–present)Walks Around Britain (2016–present)East Yorkshire Walks with Andrew White (2015)}} | website = }}
Andrew White (born 22 February 1974, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a writer, filmmaker and broadcaster.
He is known for his mellow and distinctive Doncaster-area accent and his friendly, passionate presenting style. He is most associated with the multimedia brand Walks Around Britain for which he is the senior editor and the presenter/producer of the associated TV series.
In February 2022, he released his first novel "A New World"; the first story in The Walker Mysteries, a series he created.
Early life and education
White was brought up in the Armthorpe area of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and attended Shaw Wood Infants and Junior School in the village and then Armthorpe Comprehensive School. In the Sixth Form at Armthorpe Comprehensive School, White made television programmes such as game shows in the Common room and then edited them together with graphics from his Amiga computer. These programmes gained him an unconditional offer to join the Electronic Media Video Production course at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1992. He graduated in 1994 from the University of Wolverhampton as the polytechnic had since converted to a university.
Career
After leaving university, White freelanced for several broadcasters before moving to Italy to work at the new Orbit Satellite Television network at the Sapienza Network Center in the Tor Sapienza area of Rome. Upon returning to the UK, he studied at the now closed Northern Media School – a part of Sheffield Hallam University, and then returned to his home town of Doncaster to set up his own production company Nova Productions.
With his passion for transport, White was interested in making programmes about railways, buses, trams and trolleybuses, and joined with his lifelong friend Gareth Atherton to release some programme on VHS video cassette. The first release was in 1997 – Buses of the South Yorkshire PTE : 1974–1986 – and was produced using archive Super 8 film telecined and edited into a 60-minute documentary, with authentic vehicle sounds painstakingly dubbed onto the previously silent cine film. White and Atherton went on to produce over 50 transport programme which were released on VHS and later DVD-Video until 2005 as Atherton had changed jobs and moved to Sheffield.
White changed from direct sales of programmes on DVD to making transport programmes for other production companies to release and sell on their video label. This continued until 2008 when retailers which sold these DVDs like Woolworths collapsed and others like WH Smiths stopped selling DVDs in their stores. The commissions for these programmes began to dry up and White decided he needed to change track.
Knowing that something was changing, White registered the domain name www.walksaroundbritain.co.uk in April 2006 with the intend on doing something about his other passion of walking. He ideas grew whilst watching the Wainwright Walks series on BBC Four in 2007, presented by Julia Bradbury. With his first child at the age of four at the time, he decided to build a website featuring much more accessible walks than Alfred Wainwright promoted in his guide books. He launched the Walks Around Britain website in 2009, which became popular by focusing on walks between 2 – 8 miles and on walks with stories rather than always having the best views. White launched the Walks Around Britain podcast in 2012 and in January 2016 the first edition of Walks Around Britain was broadcast – with White presenting and producing the series.
Writing
White's first professional writing feature was in Lakeland Walker magazine, quickly followed by Countryfile.
He regularly writes for magazines such as Countryfile, Walk, Coast, RAIL, BBC Sky at Night, Your Dog, Dogs Today amongst others.