I’m a writer and storyteller for TV commercials and sponsored films. You may know something about communities in Nigeria, the development of North Sea oil, or Twentieth Century British art from one of my films. Or you may have given blood or given up smoking through some of the commercials I worked on. Rather worryingly, while I was proud of most of what I produced, two featured in a British Library exhibition, ‘Propaganda’.
Having written on demand all my life, my first novel Homeward Bound was published in January 2020 and is contemporary fiction. And a second, I’m Still Standing, is now out, delayed in part through inheriting a dog, acquiring four grandchildren and trying to play tennis better, but mostly through sloth and inefficiency.
I have created a YouTube page of some of these (plus some I’ve made more recently). The British Film Institute collected the master films that I held, but before they went, I copied them off and have been occasionally and randomly uploading them. It was mostly like a personal library for me, but feel free to browse – oddly, one went viral and collected 160,000 views before sanity was restored!