Steve Punter

 
The All New Commonplace Blog is where you’ll find anything that’s caught my attention from day to day Meanwhile you’ll find me in a slightly more reflective mood in The Bumblebee Blog For example On going to Kington is a celebration of two old ladies On One Horn is a celebration of a old ewe and On hay (making) a celebration of an old, and disappearing, way of life Also in danger of disappearing is any meaningful regional identity on ITV So here’s an article I wrote for Ann Clwyd MP when Ann was shadow heritage secretary and I was her senior researcher in the House of Commons and here’s an open email I sent to Michael Grade boss of ITV And this is where you’ll discover why there are no full stop at the end of my paragraphs There’s photography This is my favourite picture from my flickr site If it’s pictures you’re looking for then flickr is worth checking out You’ll find me there most days And no more than a couple of clicks away you’ll find four short films - Mastermind, Mud Race, Market Square and Mini Marr which are part of the General Election coverage 2005 by Look North in BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire And as with all good movie makers there’s a trailer too   After the Ban is Look North’s documentary on the first days of the hunting ban   The Only Shop in the Village is a very funny take on a very simple story There’s also The Only...Rocket Scientist...Blacksmith and...Taxidermist   Gang Masters is a clip from an undercover investigation And Mrs Kent is a very revealing interview with the Duchess of Kent. The interview is also on YouTube The Valentine’s Day Murder of Joanne Nelson won the Royal Television Society nations and regions news award This is just some of my television work. More than anything else here this has been a team effort Click here if you want to check it out   Plus there’s radio where you will find a wide variety of Punter podcasts all from the days when we called them programmes   There’s a 1991 Downing Street interview with the prime minister John Major   And pieces from Farming Today and from The Today Programme on Radio 4 plus others from Radio Five Live and BBC Hereford and Worcester my spiritual home   Some are very serious - there’s a 15 minute mini-documentary on crofting as a model for post surplus farming - and some like the two chants - the fat stock prices and the market report for Children in Need - that are not Neither is Udder cream an April Fools This is my favourite piece. It has rhythm, character, and a sense of community and I love it And only in Herefordshire would you hear: ‘The Americans - they are queer all together’ And ‘They won’t grow Merrill, they won’t grow’   Where material is not mine, or where there has been a creative collaboration, I will always try to acknowledge the other artists and authors. See individual pages for credits There are many people who deserve thanks for helping during different points in my career and who’ve been willing, even eager, to share their precious supply of pixie dust with me - John Springall, Robert Lacy, John Pickles, Bob Jones, Nick Pollard, and Helen Thomas And then there’s the hundreds and thousands of people I’ve met and whose stories I’ve been lucky enough to tell   First words gives you more of a flavour of what’s on here and introduces you to just some of them Where appropriate I’d like to be recognised as the author publisher and creator of this work - in all - not many rights reserved See here for details          The_all_new_Commonplace_Blog/The_all_new_Commonplace_Blog.htmlThe_Bumblebee_Blog/Archive.htmlThe_Bumblebee_Blog/Entries/2006/6/18_On_One_Horn.htmlThe_Bumblebee_Blog/Entries/2006/9/15_On_regional_television.htmlThe_all_new_Commonplace_Blog/Entries/2007/3/16_Live_from_London_but_not_quite_from_Granada.htmlThe_Bumblebee_Blog/Entries/2007/3/12_On_full_stops._Towards_a_21st_century_gramma.htmlPhotography.htmlBangkok.htmlhttp://flickr.com/photos/spunterTelevision/Entries/2006/7/16_Election_Hot_Seat_2005.htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/16_Mud_Race_2005.htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/16_Mud_Race_2005.htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/16_Market_Square_2005.htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/15_Mini_Marr_2005.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhulTelevision/Entries/2006/7/15_Election_2005_The_trailer.htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/6_The_Only....htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/6_The_Only....htmlTelevision/Entries/2006/7/6_The_Only....htmlhttp://youtube.com/SouthbankSteveTelevision/Entries/2006/7/16_The_Valentine%E2%80%99s_Day_Murder_of_Joanne_Nelson.htmlTelevision/Television.htmlFarming_Today/Entries/2006/6/22_The_Farming_Week_with_the_prime_minister.htmlFarming_Today/Archive.htmlThe_Today_Programme/Archive.htmlRadio_Five/Archive.htmlBBC_Hereford/Archive.htmlFarming_Today/Entries/2006/6/20_Crofting%3A_Myth_of_Model.htmlBBC_Hereford/Entries/2006/6/20_Chanted_fat_stock_prices.htmlFarming_Today/Entries/2006/6/20_Chanted_fat_stock_prices_-_the_producer%E2%80%99s_cut.htmlBBC_Hereford/Entries/2006/6/20_Udder_cream_April_Fool.htmlFirst_words.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12shapeimage_3_link_13shapeimage_3_link_14shapeimage_3_link_15shapeimage_3_link_16shapeimage_3_link_17shapeimage_3_link_18shapeimage_3_link_19shapeimage_3_link_20shapeimage_3_link_21shapeimage_3_link_22shapeimage_3_link_23shapeimage_3_link_24shapeimage_3_link_25shapeimage_3_link_26shapeimage_3_link_27shapeimage_3_link_28shapeimage_3_link_29shapeimage_3_link_30shapeimage_3_link_31shapeimage_3_link_32
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