Initial BBC Career
In 1981 Salmon joined the staff of the BBC in London as one of three general trainees, alongside Kevin Lygo (now head of studios at ITV), and multi-award-winning film-maker Peter Kosminsky. In 1984 he was the director of the first dramatic reconstruction to be featured on the crime series Crimewatch, and he later went on to produce the programme. He also worked on the children's magazine show Blue Peter and the current affairs series Newsnight.
In 1989 he moved away from the central BBC in London to become the Head of Television Features at BBC Bristol. There he oversaw over forty environmental documentaries made by the BBC Natural History Unit, and was also responsible for forging the BBC's relationship with Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Animations, becoming an executive producer on the company's Academy Award-winning short film The Wrong Trousers (1993).
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