Tom Heap

Tom Heap (born 3 January 1966 in Hertford, Hertfordshire) is an English television and radio reporter and presenter best known for his contributions to the BBC One programme Countryfile, the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth and The Climate Show on Sky News.

Early life Heap is the son of John Heap, a former scientific adviser who became the head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Section (from 1975 to 1992), and Margaret Grace Gillespie Spicer, known as 'Peg', the daughter of Captain Sir Stewart Spicer, 3rd Baronet, of the Royal Navy. He has two sisters. After making contributions to Countryfile, in around April 2012 he took over the investigative reporter role on the programme from John Craven. In 2014 he interviewed Princess Anne in this role. Since 2022, Heap has presented The Climate Show on Sky News.

Family Heap married Tammany Robin Stone in 1992, and lives in Napton on the Hill near the market town of Southam in Warwickshire, south of the city of Coventry. They own the media company Checked Shirt TV.

During an edition of Countryfile screened in November 2014, it was revealed that Heap is the great-nephew of Olympic medallist and soldier Thomas Gillespie who was killed in action at La Bassee, France, in October 1914, aged 21.