Looking Back at Journalism on the Screen

Years ago I did quite a lot of video work alongside the stuff I was also presenting for ITV Westcountry - here are a couple of examples.

The first is a video I made to promote an early website we put together called Westcountry Walks.

It was a great idea and a great website - put together by my good friend Marc Tassell in Paris. But alas being the poor businessman that I am, I was never able to fully monetise it sufficiently. Could have done - should have done - but other things got in the way. Wasn’t it always the same with the Wreck of the Hesperus - which is how I refer to my business dealings.

This next video comes from the time when I was doing part time work as a TV presenter for ITV Westcountry - and on this occasion we were doing a series with the Western Morning News called Icons of the Westcountry…

And here’s a little video report I did which I know will interest some people of a big international bike race - the Tour of Britain - being staged in the West Country and ending up at Taunton - a Taunton full of crowds in sunshine I may add… Those were the days…