Educational TV Work
Much of his recent work has been on educational televisison. He wrote, produced and directed the television series We Can Work It Out, an educational series for parents about managing child behaviour. He has also written and directed, educational, training and promotional programmes for a number of large companies (such as Sainsburys and BT) and a number of UK government departments and organisations.
He wrote, directed and produced The Learning Bug, a 6 part series of documentaries to help parents of 5-7 year old children. He was the writer and director of Jolly Phonics an eight part puppet TV series teaching children to read using the phonics approach. Jolly Phonics won the “Teachers Choice” award at the US Education Media Awards in 1997. He was also both writer and director of a number of BBC schools TV programmes including Words and Pictures, You & Me, and Watch.
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