A bit about me. I was born in 1961 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. I went to school there and in neighbouring Hemel Hempstead.
Having much older siblings, I can remember some impressions of the 1960s as a child ... I remember seing the Beatles on TV, man walking on the moon (Neil Armstong in 1969), anti-Vietnam demonstrations on the news ... I even have a very early memory of a steam train at Berkhamsted station.
I remember the strikes and blackouts of the 1970s, but I also remember a country that was safe and friendly, streets that weren't full of traffic, life that wasn't just about possessions and prestige - I even remember serious drama on the TV.
I turned 18 in 1979, just in time to vote in the general election of that year which brought Margaret Thatcher to power. That year I went to Manchester University to study Politics and Modern History.
After that I went to work for a music venue in central Manchester, Band on the Wall, and stayed there for three tough but very enjoyable years.
I went on to get a second degree, an MA in Political Science and Survey Research, at the University of Connecticut in the USA, where I also had a four-hour jazz show on WHUS Radio and played piano with one of the university jazz ensembles (that's a recent pic of me on piano below).
Since then I have worked for the BBC World Service as an audience researcher, in TV as a researcher and journalist for Alastair Stewart's GMTV Sunday Programme, for the Music Publishers Association as Communications Manager, and for BBC News Online as an arts journalist.
I was Events Co-ordinator for BBC Radio 3 and then became Media Relations Manager for Contemporary Music at the Barbican Centre, before ending up here at Bucks. As Jacques Brel would say, '...et nous voila ce soir'.
Having much older siblings, I can remember some impressions of the 1960s as a child ... I remember seing the Beatles on TV, man walking on the moon (Neil Armstong in 1969), anti-Vietnam demonstrations on the news ... I even have a very early memory of a steam train at Berkhamsted station.
I remember the strikes and blackouts of the 1970s, but I also remember a country that was safe and friendly, streets that weren't full of traffic, life that wasn't just about possessions and prestige - I even remember serious drama on the TV.
I turned 18 in 1979, just in time to vote in the general election of that year which brought Margaret Thatcher to power. That year I went to Manchester University to study Politics and Modern History.
After that I went to work for a music venue in central Manchester, Band on the Wall, and stayed there for three tough but very enjoyable years.
I went on to get a second degree, an MA in Political Science and Survey Research, at the University of Connecticut in the USA, where I also had a four-hour jazz show on WHUS Radio and played piano with one of the university jazz ensembles (that's a recent pic of me on piano below).
Since then I have worked for the BBC World Service as an audience researcher, in TV as a researcher and journalist for Alastair Stewart's GMTV Sunday Programme, for the Music Publishers Association as Communications Manager, and for BBC News Online as an arts journalist.
I was Events Co-ordinator for BBC Radio 3 and then became Media Relations Manager for Contemporary Music at the Barbican Centre, before ending up here at Bucks. As Jacques Brel would say, '...et nous voila ce soir'.
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