Peter Ginn

{{short description|British archaeologist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Peter Ginn

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| other_names = Fonz

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}}

| occupation = Television presenter

| notable_works = BBC Farm series

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Peter Ginn is a British archaeologist, best known as a presenter of the BBC educational television documentary series (2005–2014) known as the BBC historic farm series. Ginn and Ruth Goodman were the only presenters to appear in every Farm series, although he did not appear in the related Victorian Pharmacy. His later television work includes Secrets of the Castle (2014) and Full Steam Ahead (2016).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lpglf|title=BBC Two - Full Steam Ahead|website=BBC}}

Ginn grew up in Bodicote, Oxfordshire, and went to St John's RC Primary and Blessed George Napier Schools in Banbury. He studied Egyptian archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1ksq9SFM6C6FD92HxSGbRDn/peter-ginn|title=Wartime Farm - Peter Ginn - BBC Two|website=BBC|access-date=24 July 2017}} Ginn, or Fonz as he was generally called on the series, {{Citation |title=BBC Historical Farm Series |url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BBCHistoricalFarmSeries |access-date=2024-02-17}} was added to the cast of the 2005 Tales from the Green Valley when his university friend Alex Langlands was injured.{{Cite web|url=http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/peter-s-time-travels-on-tv-1-587549|title=Peter's time travels on TV|date=4 October 2005|website=www.banburyguardian.co.uk|language=en|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820142537/http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/peter-s-time-travels-on-tv-1-587549 |archive-date=2016-08-20 |url-status=dead}}