From 1966 to 1992 I made my living as a TV producer and director.   In this role I produced over 600 editions of YTV’s local show Calendar and from 1972 to 1974 I produced the legendary Indoor League with Fred Trueman and his catch line ‘I’ll sithi in a tick.’

          In 1970 I began making network documentaries on sport, politics and science. I worked with the great eccentric scientist Magnus Pyke and in 1972 was Alan Whicker’s ‘boss’ for a few weeks when I produced  Whicker’s Women. 

          At the BBC in Manchester in the early 1980s I worked on The Russell Harty Show and on sports shows as a reporter with Eddie Hemmings, Eamonn Holmes and the great Denis Law.

          In 1993 I did a series for Tyne-Tees TV called Waddell’s World in which I was a by turn a butler to a posh Tweeddale family, a caravanner and on the dole.

          In 1999 I was the Voice of the Balls on the Lottery on Red Alert on BBC and was SACKED after one performance. Reason?  ‘Voice too Geordie’ !*!