Career
Strongly committed to regional broadcasting, he was responsible in the mid-1960s for a pilot local radio station in the Channel Islands, which eventually led to the setting up of a string of British Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio stations across the United Kingdom. In 1967 he joined British Broadcasting Corporation South in Southampton, where he remained for most of his career, making a name as a regular presenter and reporter for South Today. In September 1977 he filed probably his most famous news reports, about the story of Victor, a giraffe at Marwell Zoological Park. He also presented the short-lived BBC1 arts magazine Mainstream in 1979.
He was also the British Broadcasting Corporation commentator for the raising of the Mary Rose in October 1982, clips of which regularly appear on nostalgia and retrospective programmes.
He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, the University of Wales and Reading University.
