I believe in…
The power of the arts to excite, entertain and to inform. Whether it’s the Turner Prize or The Arctic Monkeys, with a bit of effort all of the arts can be accessible to everyone.
 

I’m against…
All the prejudices that the arts seem to incite like the "any one can do that" attitude to modern art, that rock is the only cool music, that film is always better than theatre, that sci-fi is not really literature or that opera is just for intellectuals.
 

Ask me about…
What’s going on in the world of arts and entertainment
 

Career highlights
As a Producer/ Director and then Executive Producer of Arts Programmes at Granada Television, I was lucky enough to make hundreds of television shows and to meet a wide range of interesting, wonderful, nauseating, attractive or infuriating people and to travel to some extraordinary places.

I've made programmes for ITV, BBC1, BBC2, Channel Four, WNET in the USA , as well as the European Arts Channel, Arte, and Hungarian Television.

I now devote most of my time to my first love, writing… that is when I am not practicing kung fu or taichi.
 

Memorable moments include...
Having dinner with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in Boulder, Colorado

Interviewing three of The Beatles – sadly not John Lennon

Writing a script for Kenneth Williams

Getting fitness advice from George Best over breakfast in Fortnum and Masons

Being personally serenaded by Yehudi Menuhin on his Stradivarius violin

Giving Placido Domingo a cold

Getting a famous female singer very drunk.

Being introduced to David Bowie by Marc Bolan in a Granada Studios lavatory

I'm also know to many Mansized regulars as Wolfgang