Silent Movie
Here’s the latest in my And Finally TV reports. I met a group who compose and perform music for classic silent movies. They’re called the Southwell Collective and the movie featured is the 1928 French gothic horror, The Fall of the House of Usher, based on the novel by Edgar Allen Poe. In the story […]
Three Aladdins and lots of hats
Here’s my regular BBC East Midlands Today pantomime round-up. It was broadcast yesterday and features me at three different versions of Aladdin in Buxton, Leicester and Nottingham. There’s a running gag of me wearing different hats for every piece to camera. I also wear hats in all the noddy shots, including the head of a […]
Fireworks
I’ve compered many events for companies over the years, but I’ve never compered a bonfire night before. Until now. On November 4th I was at the global headquarters of Boots to run the stage at their 7th annual fireworks night. It was for their staff, but as Boots is such a massive company, there were […]
The Bakewell Show
The Bakewell Show Here’s some pictures of Thursday’s BBC East Midlands Today roadshow at the Bakewell Show in Derbyshire. I smiled a lot at people and if they looked short sighted, I signed photos that weren’t of me. Viewers had a chance to read the news. The vicar of Bakewell was a star at doing […]
A free chapter from my book
I’ve co-written a book called MediaMasters with my good friend Alan Stevens. The aim of the book is to learn how top sports stars, performers, business people, politicans and others in the public eye, use the media to best effect. Below is a free chapter about one of my footballing heroes, Brian Clough. We didn’t […]
Hillsborough
In April 1989 I went to Hillsborough for a football match, an FA Cup semi final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. I was commentating on the game for BBC Radio Nottingham. 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives in a dreadful crush on the terracing behind the goal. 20 years on here’s my account of the […]
Assisted suicide
Earlier this week I was making a cup of tea in the BBC Nottingham kitchen, while a wild haired man with very red cheeks was holding court with a couple of producers. He was Ray Gosling, a veteran TV presenter, well loved in the East Midlands. He has a great style and a fantastically rich […]