Two decades of thought-provoking entertainment
Responsibilities & Principal Credits
Director, Shut Up & Write Me (Doc Channel, Corus Group) live action/animated documentary
Co-producer, My Annie Ong (for CBC television strand The Passionate Eye)
Director of Content, Reuters Synchroplayer prototype (ilovetv and Reuters)
Producer, Toronto (Personal Group) Highly entertaining corporate video for British Insurance Co
Director of Content, Lou Reed Simulcast (ilovetv.ca and Corus Entertainment )
Interactive Lou Reed documentary experience, simulcast live across Canada
Judge, Script Doctor, Moc Docs (for CBC television) national mockumentary contest
Producer, member of team that built and launched the Documentary Channel in Canada
Produced themed weekends - curating, negotiating, buying and editing content;
scripting or script-editing and studio-producing hosts Valerie Pringle, David Gilmour and Geoff Pevere
Also developed the series In Camera, one hour profiles of eminent filmmakers, with Christina Pochmursky
In Camera with Ron Mann (Grass et al) producer
In Camera with Allan King (Warrendale et al) producer
In Camera with Shelley Saywell (Crimes of Honour et al) producer, director
In Camera with John Zaritsky (Just Another Missing Kid et al) producer
In Camera with Peter Raymont (The World is Watching et al) producer
In Camera with Robin Benger (East Side Showdown et al) producer
In Camera with Sun Kyung Yi (Thai Girls et al) producer
Editorial consultant, writer, independent producer, hired gun
Solving problems, directing, re-editing, brand extension, interpreting,
story development, good ideas, emergency production to tight deadlines:
Brain Surgery for the Soul (CBC Ideas) writer, presenter
The Art of War (Wesley Snipes / Warner Bros) creative consultant
devised futuristic techniques for special fx espionage sequences
The Secret Life of Gardens (Q Films / HGTV) field audio, recording & editing commentaries (Gemini nomination: Best Sound)
Slippery Blisses (NFB Canada) editorial consultant, interpreter (French & Italian)
Lads & Dads (BBC R5) soccer documentary by Jon Kay, executive producer
Market Forces (Dimbleby Partners / BBC R4) experimental short, producer
Centurions: James Joyce's Ulysses (BBC R3) emergency producer
With Great Pleasure: Designers Double (BBC R4) producer
literary series with Sir James Dyson and Sir Hardy Amies
Discovery Channel Radio, co-producer with Malcolm Love and Sunset +Vine
brand extension concept, 100 international broadcasters on board
The Legacy of Wealth (BBC R4) with Evan Davies, documentary, hired gun producer
Last King of the Gondoliers (BBC TV, PBS) specialist research, translator (Italian)
Children In Need (BBC TV) segment producer, FOH manager (live shows)
Total immersion in TV production, BBC Features
The Voyage of the Matthew series for BBC1 & PBS hosted by Peter Snow
Planning, finding content, story editing, orchestrating location segments,
co-scripting & directing presenter links, onlines.
"Diplomatic relations" with Canadian coastguard, presenter, composer et al.
Rat wrangling, maggot handling, prop building, port-hole painting, you name it.
Also provided weekly stories for CBC's The National and adapted content for
other media (radio, web, BBC News).
Team player in TV crew skippered by Peter Firstbrook.(Live Aid, Lost on Everest, etc.)
Producer, BBC National Radio documentaries, specials & regular series at the BBC's Centre of Excellence, documentaries and features
Science, psychology, human nature, history, comedy, music, live shows.
Conceiving or commissioning ideas, selling programme proposals, recording,
directing experienced actors, journalists, comedians & new broadcasters;
managing production teams, several $100k budgets, schedules & delivery:
Highlights
Bodies of Evidence, with Tony Robinson
(riveting new archaeological series - Independent, The most dramatic series for ages - Observer
...the most popular programme on Radio 4 - BBC memo after RI survey)
A Retiring Fellow, satirical travelogue series with the unique Willie Donaldson
(Disgracefully funny & quite unlike anything else on radio... More please - Daily Mail)
Beam Me Up, Scotty, space age design, tv & pop culture with legendary John Peel
(a triumph of tight, sharp editing & production - Sunday Times)
Fedback, with Piers Bishop & Kenneth Cranham, letters to the BBC (exquisitely produced mini-series - Daily Telegraph)
The Psychology Of War, Anglo-American doc series with ex commando Hugh McManners
(thoughtful & chilling - Guardian, documentary of the year - Scotsman,
grim but essential listening - Mail on Sunday)
Grand Tour Venice, with Germaine Greer (co-producer Martin Buckley), BBC R4 & BBC Worldwide
Destinations, (pilot) with Mark Lawson, travel series (series producer Martin Buckley) bought by BBC R4
In-house producer on longer running series,
4th Column (commissioning satire) Itchy Feet, Something to Write Home About (intelligent travel shows)
On-air host of BBC World Service educational Arts Show for 6 months, until the BBC features producer 'dream job' came up (see above)
Freelance radio producer/director/reporter running successful small business under the wing of the BBC's Oral History Unit:
Developed new series and new ways of making radio under the guidance of creative, talented and very experienced mentors
Le Top, kitsch, avant garde, weekly bilingual French pop music show on national radio (BBC R5)
Tuning In, acclaimed history of the radio from the listeners' point of view (BBC R2)
The Victorians, transport, home & entertainment in the 19th century, with Margaret Howard (BBC R2)
Sunday Edition with Barry Johnston, national Sunday breakfast show (BBC R5)
The Brighton Festival, annual broadcasts from major arts festival with broadcasting legend Margaret Howard (BBC R2)
The European Arts Festival, adapted for kids, hosted by Nonny Dumville (BBC R5)
The Day Before Yesterday, history magazine show with cult DJ Annie Nightingale (BBC R5)
How We Lived Then, How We Played Then, An Old Fashioned Christmas,
County Tales, distinctive Oral History series (BBC R2 & R5)
Write Me Soon & Write Me Long, (researcher) historical documentary set in
Scotland and Nyasaland, nka Malawi (producer Roy Apps) (BBC R4)
Last of the Great Landladies, socio-historical tribute (producer Peter Hoare) (BBC R4)
Played in Japan, monologue written for & read in slot for new broadcasters (producer Angela Hind) (BBC R4)
Early Days:
Ardent Apprentice to visionary Radio Producer and multiple Sony Award winner, Peter Hoare
Freelance writer, researcher, BBC national and local radio, local newspapers
Finding provocative, entertaining content, telling stories, starting a business
Actor in NonChan's Dream, Japanese television drama on NHK
Set up giant human backgammon event for ITV Telethon, after conceiving & orchestrating
giant human rat maze for university psychology conference
Host on Nexus, UEA University TV station, co-wrote & acted in play for BBC Radio Sussex
Co-producer, My Annie Ong (for CBC television strand The Passionate Eye)
Director of Content, Reuters Synchroplayer prototype (ilovetv and Reuters)
Producer, Toronto (Personal Group) Highly entertaining corporate video for British Insurance Co
Director of Content, Lou Reed Simulcast (ilovetv.ca and Corus Entertainment )
Interactive Lou Reed documentary experience, simulcast live across Canada
Judge, Script Doctor, Moc Docs (for CBC television) national mockumentary contest
Producer, member of team that built and launched the Documentary Channel in Canada
Produced themed weekends - curating, negotiating, buying and editing content;
scripting or script-editing and studio-producing hosts Valerie Pringle, David Gilmour and Geoff Pevere
Also developed the series In Camera, one hour profiles of eminent filmmakers, with Christina Pochmursky
In Camera with Ron Mann (Grass et al) producer
In Camera with Allan King (Warrendale et al) producer
In Camera with Shelley Saywell (Crimes of Honour et al) producer, director
In Camera with John Zaritsky (Just Another Missing Kid et al) producer
In Camera with Peter Raymont (The World is Watching et al) producer
In Camera with Robin Benger (East Side Showdown et al) producer
In Camera with Sun Kyung Yi (Thai Girls et al) producer
Editorial consultant, writer, independent producer, hired gun
Solving problems, directing, re-editing, brand extension, interpreting,
story development, good ideas, emergency production to tight deadlines:
Brain Surgery for the Soul (CBC Ideas) writer, presenter
The Art of War (Wesley Snipes / Warner Bros) creative consultant
devised futuristic techniques for special fx espionage sequences
The Secret Life of Gardens (Q Films / HGTV) field audio, recording & editing commentaries (Gemini nomination: Best Sound)
Slippery Blisses (NFB Canada) editorial consultant, interpreter (French & Italian)
Lads & Dads (BBC R5) soccer documentary by Jon Kay, executive producer
Market Forces (Dimbleby Partners / BBC R4) experimental short, producer
Centurions: James Joyce's Ulysses (BBC R3) emergency producer
With Great Pleasure: Designers Double (BBC R4) producer
literary series with Sir James Dyson and Sir Hardy Amies
Discovery Channel Radio, co-producer with Malcolm Love and Sunset +Vine
brand extension concept, 100 international broadcasters on board
The Legacy of Wealth (BBC R4) with Evan Davies, documentary, hired gun producer
Last King of the Gondoliers (BBC TV, PBS) specialist research, translator (Italian)
Children In Need (BBC TV) segment producer, FOH manager (live shows)
Total immersion in TV production, BBC Features
The Voyage of the Matthew series for BBC1 & PBS hosted by Peter Snow
Planning, finding content, story editing, orchestrating location segments,
co-scripting & directing presenter links, onlines.
"Diplomatic relations" with Canadian coastguard, presenter, composer et al.
Rat wrangling, maggot handling, prop building, port-hole painting, you name it.
Also provided weekly stories for CBC's The National and adapted content for
other media (radio, web, BBC News).
Team player in TV crew skippered by Peter Firstbrook.(Live Aid, Lost on Everest, etc.)
Producer, BBC National Radio documentaries, specials & regular series at the BBC's Centre of Excellence, documentaries and features
Science, psychology, human nature, history, comedy, music, live shows.
Conceiving or commissioning ideas, selling programme proposals, recording,
directing experienced actors, journalists, comedians & new broadcasters;
managing production teams, several $100k budgets, schedules & delivery:
Highlights
Bodies of Evidence, with Tony Robinson
(riveting new archaeological series - Independent, The most dramatic series for ages - Observer
...the most popular programme on Radio 4 - BBC memo after RI survey)
A Retiring Fellow, satirical travelogue series with the unique Willie Donaldson
(Disgracefully funny & quite unlike anything else on radio... More please - Daily Mail)
Beam Me Up, Scotty, space age design, tv & pop culture with legendary John Peel
(a triumph of tight, sharp editing & production - Sunday Times)
Fedback, with Piers Bishop & Kenneth Cranham, letters to the BBC (exquisitely produced mini-series - Daily Telegraph)
The Psychology Of War, Anglo-American doc series with ex commando Hugh McManners
(thoughtful & chilling - Guardian, documentary of the year - Scotsman,
grim but essential listening - Mail on Sunday)
Grand Tour Venice, with Germaine Greer (co-producer Martin Buckley), BBC R4 & BBC Worldwide
Destinations, (pilot) with Mark Lawson, travel series (series producer Martin Buckley) bought by BBC R4
In-house producer on longer running series,
4th Column (commissioning satire) Itchy Feet, Something to Write Home About (intelligent travel shows)
On-air host of BBC World Service educational Arts Show for 6 months, until the BBC features producer 'dream job' came up (see above)
Freelance radio producer/director/reporter running successful small business under the wing of the BBC's Oral History Unit:
Developed new series and new ways of making radio under the guidance of creative, talented and very experienced mentors
Le Top, kitsch, avant garde, weekly bilingual French pop music show on national radio (BBC R5)
Tuning In, acclaimed history of the radio from the listeners' point of view (BBC R2)
The Victorians, transport, home & entertainment in the 19th century, with Margaret Howard (BBC R2)
Sunday Edition with Barry Johnston, national Sunday breakfast show (BBC R5)
The Brighton Festival, annual broadcasts from major arts festival with broadcasting legend Margaret Howard (BBC R2)
The European Arts Festival, adapted for kids, hosted by Nonny Dumville (BBC R5)
The Day Before Yesterday, history magazine show with cult DJ Annie Nightingale (BBC R5)
How We Lived Then, How We Played Then, An Old Fashioned Christmas,
County Tales, distinctive Oral History series (BBC R2 & R5)
Write Me Soon & Write Me Long, (researcher) historical documentary set in
Scotland and Nyasaland, nka Malawi (producer Roy Apps) (BBC R4)
Last of the Great Landladies, socio-historical tribute (producer Peter Hoare) (BBC R4)
Played in Japan, monologue written for & read in slot for new broadcasters (producer Angela Hind) (BBC R4)
Early Days:
Ardent Apprentice to visionary Radio Producer and multiple Sony Award winner, Peter Hoare
Freelance writer, researcher, BBC national and local radio, local newspapers
Finding provocative, entertaining content, telling stories, starting a business
Actor in NonChan's Dream, Japanese television drama on NHK
Set up giant human backgammon event for ITV Telethon, after conceiving & orchestrating
giant human rat maze for university psychology conference
Host on Nexus, UEA University TV station, co-wrote & acted in play for BBC Radio Sussex