This 6-part series started on BBC4 and was so popular it was later transferred to BBC2. ‘The Boats that Built Britain’ was the flagship programme in a major new season called ‘Sea Fever’ which looked …
Island Race
In 1994 I sailed round Britain in my 1911 pilot cutter Hirta to make a series for BBC2 called Island Race. Accompanying me were John McCarthy, the Beirut hostage, and Sandi Toksvig, comedienne. With …
Boatyard
This ten-part series was immensely popular and people still stop me in the street to say how much they loved it. It was first screened in 2005 on Discovery Realtime TV and frequently repeated – the …
Award-winning film narration
I've been working with Tom Nitsch for many years now. He's a German film maker who produces award-winning films about classic boats and superyachts. We collaborate on the words and I narrate them. …