Writer and documentary film maker, I now describe myself simply as a storyteller.
I’ve worked in media all my life, first as a television presenter, then as a documentary director and one-person camera-operator. I’ve made films in New Zealand, East Africa and the South Pacific, and also spent a number of years producing and directing current affairs.
Throughout my life I’ve written features for various magazines as a freelance contributor, often requiring a depth of investigative research.
More recently, I’ve turned to writing nonfiction books. My strength, I believe, is to take complex material and turn it into a story that is accessible and interesting.
Over the course of my career I’ve traversed a good many subject areas, cultures, genres and war-torn corners of the globe, and interviewed people from every walk of life.
I like to think of myself as adaptable, as someone who can offer the requisite sensitivity and understanding in order to tell the right story.
BOOKS
Over recent years, I’ve been able to pursue writing nonfiction books, three with the support of publisher Robbie Burton, Potton & Burton Publishing.
EDITORIALS
I’ve written feature stories for New Zealand magazines as a freelance contributor throughout my career. Magazines include NZ Listener, North & South, Heritage NZ, Wilderness, Mindfood, Metro, Next, NZ House & Garden, Scout and 1964. Examples include:
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One man and his boat (NZ Listener, March 2025)
Flight risk (NZ Listener, July 2025)
A pig of a job (NZ Listener, February 2022)
Not If, But When, North & South Magazine, 2022.
Guardians Angels (North & South 2004, Winner of the NZ Peace Media Award 2005).
Fly Guy – Search & Rescue helicopter pilot Sir Richard ‘Hannibal’ Hayes (North & South 2006).
The People’s Professor – genetics versus Māori beliefs and culture (North & South 2005).
The Fire Inside – restoration of the only wood and coal-fired bakery in NZ (Heritage NZ 2020).
Change of Life, All Right – investigation into the science of menopause (North & South 2015).
Babes in the Wild – investigation of deaths on the Milford Track (North & South 2014).
Furore in Fiordland – investigation into DOC concession process (North & South 2012).
DOCUMENTARY