Serving several terms with the SABC (in Cape Town and Johannesburg), I was variously a documentary writer, presenter and producer; a news reader, and presenter of music programmes. My weekly documentary series Cameos of the Holy Land was broadcast by Springbok Radio (a commercial service of the SABC) weekly between 1981 and 1985, ending only when the station closed down in a revamping of South African broadcasting. The series was nominated for three broadcasting awards: two given by the SABC… Show more Serving several terms with the SABC (in Cape Town and Johannesburg), I was variously a documentary writer, presenter and producer; a news reader, and presenter of music programmes. My weekly documentary series Cameos of the Holy Land was broadcast by Springbok Radio (a commercial service of the SABC) weekly between 1981 and 1985, ending only when the station closed down in a revamping of South African broadcasting. The series was nominated for three broadcasting awards: two given by the SABC itself, and the third at the International Radio Festival of New York. In 1971 I was a crew-member-cum-radio correspondent abord the 15-metre Norwegian-built ketch Sandefjord in the first Cape-tto-Rio Yacht Race. My two papal documentaries Habemus Papam and John-Paul: A Legacy of Two Popes documented the death of Pope Paul VI, and the elections of Pope John-Paul I and John-Paul II, all within a space of a few months in 1978. Show less

I was an English-language announcer-reporter for the Dutch international shortwave service, the English service of which has since closed down for lack of government funding.