Harding won the Henry Stopes Memorial Medal of the Geologists' Association in 2012. The medal is awarded once in every three years for work on the Prehistory of Man. He was voted Archaeologist of the Year in March 2013 by readers of "Current Archaeology" magazine. In 1991 Harding took part in the series "Time Signs", which was produced by Tim Taylor, who went on to create Channel 4's popular archaeology series "Time Team". Harding was a regular on "Time Team" from the first series in 1994 until its cancellation in 2013. He also took part in the various spin-off series such as "Time Team Extra" (1998), "Time Team Digs" (2002) and "Time Team Live". In addition, he has appeared in episodes of "Meet the Ancestors" (2003) and "Chris Moyles' Quiz Night" (2009). He appeared in an episode of BBC's "Digging for Britain" in December 2016.