Presenter / Producer / Director / Journalist
Now this is where it gets a little anorakky, so pull up your hood, do up the zip and brace yourself… On the telly, the bits between the programmes where you hear the announcer speaking and saying things like “This is BBC1, now it’s time to see who’s the most depressed, in tonight’s seventeenth edition […]
Postbag was the first programme that I actually presented on Big Centre, on a single occasion in April 2015. The programme initially had a number of presenters and did exactly what it said on the tin – it was a way for viewers to get in touch with the station, find out more, air their […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for a good box set. Just looking up from my laptop screen right now I can see box sets of Doctor Who (old school of course), Minder, Superman, Live Aid, Round the Twist (remember that!) that I’ve integrated into my collection over the years. It drives […]
On 11th June 2013 radio presenter Rory Morrison died. Rory had worked at Beacon Radio in the late 80s. He presented the afternoon show and then he went out and about on the roads to do the travel news (as “Fonzie”). He moved to the BBC and later worked on Radio 4 – a regular […]
Whilst at Made in Birmingham, and Big Centre Television before it, I produced a number of promotional trailers which served to advertise upcoming programmes. Here are some of them, but do remember that the programmes may not still be airing at the advertised time! A quick note about how the listings below work. Videos all […]
Whilst working on “Birmingham News” at Made in Birmingham, I compiled a number of News items and packages. Here’s a selection of the News reports I produced and voiced, including some updates on previous material. All reports should include the original introductory script in the description. A quick note about how the listings below work. […]
During the late Summer of 2015, Crossroads Check-in was drawing to a close, and my Tiswas Pies Again! series was getting ready to be launched on Big Centre Television, I was made aware of an exhibition was staged at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry entitled “The Story of Children’s Televison from 1946 […]
Ah, the first automatic post in someone’s WordPress website blog. Forever destined to either be deleted or pushed right down to the very end of a (hopefully) long line of posts. I thought I’d leave this one where it is, so that one day, someone will be browsing the old pages on this website and […]