Television and Radio

Building Wonders was a six part series made by Available Light Productions for ITV West. The series is about how some of the great icons of the West Country were designed and built and is a fascinating mix of Stonehenge (inevitably), Brunel’s Box Tunnel, Bristol’s floating harbour, the Fosse Way Roman road, Gloucester Cathedral and Concorde.

There’s a lot to pack into half an hour but the programmes are helped enormously by great computer animations in which I am shrunk down and the miniature me then walks around in the original plans and diagrams. Lots of blue screen filming and a chance for me to be a bit more light-hearted than I had to be when dealing with the more serious subject of ancient burials.

On the non-broadcast side I am just completing a film about the Viking raids on Holy Island (Lindisfarne) for the Lindisfarne Trust. This will be shown in their new exhibition that opens in June 2008.