He is also a popular documentary host, having fronted documentaries on John Betjeman, Arthur Ransome, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Kenneth Grahame.
He’s also presented a range geographical documentaries, on everything from Mountains and Cities to Rivers, and hosted the travel documentaries, Slow Train Through Africa and Griff’s Great Britain for ITV and multiple episodes of the  Three Men go to…  series, on BBC2 with fellow comedians Rory McGrath and Dara O Briain.
