Every weekday I turn up at the BBC White City where they let me loose making science and nature documentaries. This is almost my dream job and suspect that if I got fired I’d just keep turning up for work hoping no-one would notice (so continue to hope my series producer never reads this blog and gets any ideas). In case you’re wondering, my absolute dream job would one day to be a science correspondent and presenter where I would immediately challenge Brian ‘physics boy’ Cox to a rap-style science show-down.
Minibio: My fascination for science, nature and technology led me to spend the early part of my career as a geneticist. It didn’t take me long to discover I was better writing about science than trapped in a lab doing it and so set out instead to become a journalist. But not before a spell bumming it around the world for a year, living with mountains tribes, escaping from armed opium bandits, and having my eyes almost completely eaten by jungle parasites.
My wanderings finally ended in Spain where I spent two years writing for newspapers and running my own ‘yoof’ culture magazine company in Spain which featured on the BBC show Living in the Sun. I returned to the UK to do a Masters degree in Science Broadcast Journalism at University College Falmouth in Cornwall where I graduated with a distinction in October 2007. As part of my thesis I wrote, produced, and directed my first documentary short called ‘Creationists in the Classroom’ on the controversy surrounding fundamentalist religious groups intent on infiltrating science classes in British schools in their battle to win converts.
Nowadays I live in Bedford in Bedfordshire where entertaining a constant stream of visiting friends gives me the perfect excuse to avoid doing any DIY.
Examples of my TV work include:
- Human Journey (BBC, transmission in 2009)
- Creationists in the Classroom (University College Falmouth)
- The Killigrew Plot (University College Falmouth)
- Monkfish Ban (Packet Newspaper, Cornwall)
- Nudes in Eden (Associated Press Television News)
- Living in the Sun (Ricochet production for BBC)
