Background
Ochota was born and grew up in Wincham, Northwich, Cheshire, to Indian and Polish parents.
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She studied at the sixth-form college of Sir John Deane"s College. From 1999 to 2002 she studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, specialising in Social Anthropology.
Career
She represented her college in the 2013 University Challenge Christmas Special, reaching the final, against Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Ochota has reported for Channel 4"s foreign affairs documentary strand, Unreported World. Her first film for the series, India"s Slumkid Reporters was broadcast in September 2013, her second, Kickboxing Kids was broadcast in 2014 She contributed to series 1 and 2 of the Independent Television archaeology programme Britain"s Secret Treasures presenting the history of artefacts including the Pegsdon Mirror, Putney "Brothel" Token, Stone Priory Seal Matrix, Lincoln Roman Statue, Canterbury Pilgrim Badges and the wreck of the HMS Colossus.
In Britain"s Secret Homes ( Independent Television, 2013), she presented the stories of life at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire.
Street Mungo"s Home for Working Girls, London. The Knap of Howar, Orkney, and the Broch of Mousa, Shetland.
Ochota presented the three-part series, Raised Wild for Animal Planet (broadcast as Feral Children in the United Kingdom), investigating cases of "feral" children, defined as children either raised by or with animals, or children who had survived for a significant period in the wild. There were three episodes in Season 1, in Uganda, Ukraine and Fiji.
Ochota was the co-presenter for Series 19 (2012) of Channel 4"s archaeology show Time Team with Tony Robinson.
She has contributed to current affairs radio programme Weekend World Today on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 (Our Daily Bread) and is a regular reviewer on the Sky News paper preview.
