After researching and producing Channel 4 schools programmes in Nigeria and Indonesia, Susi was series producer/writer for ‘Geographical Eye Over Britain’.
We could talk politics in school geography back then! One episode looked at how London’s grown, and who it’s FOR.
Fair Isle was a favourite location; this story of sustainable energy and community was part of a longer programme on Scotland and energy. Small-format video had just got good enough to broadcast, and we could make the most of budget and carbon footprint if Susi was on camera… the ‘self-shooting’ miniDV revolution was beginning…
Here’s the full 20-minute programme:
Fishing & Survival in Devon showed complexities of ‘conservation in action’
And Welsh hill-farming is an ecological as well as economic story, too: