Background
Educated at Christ"s Hospital School in Sussex he was the son of a doctor. He initially followed his father into medicine, but soon stopped and entered the world of television via a stint on a local newspaper in The New Forest area.
Educated at Christ"s Hospital School in Sussex he was the son of a doctor. He initially followed his father into medicine, but soon stopped and entered the world of television via a stint on a local newspaper in The New Forest area.
He worked on programmes such as South Today and Breakfast Time, and on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 he appeared on Ned Sherrin’s Saturday evening show Loose Ends. However he will primarily be remembered for a 50-programme Radio 4 series called The Village (which went on to become a television series). Three series of "Country House" set at Woburn Abbey, "An Island Parish", which evolved from "A Country Parish", launched in 2001 on British Broadcasting Corporation Two and a series on Channel 4 called "A Place In France".