Other than working alongside and meeting some of the most famous names in rugby, I was called upon to conduct the first television interview with Welsh coach Warren Gatland on his first day in the job… in Dubai! It's true to say that I love what I'm doing and that I'm always looking to get involved in as many things as I can on the programme. Sport has been my life-long passion, having played rugby, football and cricket to a good standard and golf to a very average one. Gradually, I was able to make the transition to the production side of things and decided to leave my lecturing job at the start of 2000 to work full-time as a freelancer in television. I started reporting on rugby and football for Wales on Saturday and Rugby Special Wales. I then qualified to lecture in further education and was involved in the early years of media education, establishing and running various successful media courses at a local further education college (Jason Mohammad is an ex-student of mine!).Īfter several years experience of producing non-broadcast television, I started part-time in the sports department at BBC Wales in the season 1991-2, just as my playing days were coming to an end.
I did an honours degree in Communication Studies which involved various media elements.
I am also responsible for some camera work and reporting when required.Īs one of the older members of the team, my route into television is probably less conventional. I am involved in the whole process of programme making, from generating ideas, producing filmed features for the show, and other sequences including analysis and match edits. The text is shrewdly written in the first-person voice of each baby animal, mingling personality with scientific fact.Steve is responsible for assisting to produce the show. "Jenkins's masterly paper collages achieve their usual high standards of zoological accuracy and beauty. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "The style would work as an easy read as well as a readaloud." "The striking depictions of mother and child set against full-bleed colored backgrounds or clean white space should make for many return readings." Appealing to a wide age range, this is another crowd pleaser." "Jenkins and Page find yet another inviting way to connect young human readers and listeners to creatures who share their world. "Jenkins and Page's simple text effectively highlights the differing degrees of independence of a variety of species' young." " handsome examination of child-rearing across the animal kingdom."
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