Nick Horrell

Nick Horrell has spent more than 12 years in broadcasting, working for the BBC and ITV as well as independently. After leaving Cambridge with an economics degree, Nick turned his attentions towards journalism. He started as a researcher at Anglia TV in 1990 and within a year had been awarded a place on the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme.

By 1993, at the age of 26, he had become one of the BBC's and country's youngest full time television reporters. Based at BBC Three Counties Radio in Luton, he produced more than 1,000 television reports on topics as varied as riots, floods and political protests, and he has interviewed people from all walks of life including William Hague MP, Paddy Ashdown MP, John Prescott MP, Michael Heseltine MP, Dame Barbara Cartland, Cleo Lane and
Paula Radcliffe.

In 1998 he became a freelance producer and media trainer. He has made promotion and education films for The National Probation Service - Hertfordshire, The Environment Agency, Shire Inns Hotel Group, and a large number of local authorities. He has provided broadcast media training for FT quoted companies, county councils and government agencies.

His first independent film - a documentary called The Sunflower House - was shown at the Leeds International Film Festival and used by ITV current affairs. His first fiction film called Blindspot was nominated as one of the top ten amateur videos of 1998 by Camcorder User magazine and was shown at film festivals and arts cinemas across Britain. He has also filmed and directed short films for The Film Council.

His film work is used as study aids at schools in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He is the narrator of a large number of transport video productions as well as the narrator on information films for CAT Boots, The Passport Agency & Zurich Financial Services.

In 2001 he bought a piano and couldn't stop playing. By 2002 he had committed himself to producing a CD and this ambition became a reality in the form "Changed Priorities Ahead", an album of more than fifty minutes worth of modern piano music. His piano work brought him into contact with record producer Alan Emptage and the two artists are currently working together on a chillout album of modern sounds.

Nick Horrell is 36 years of age and lives with his family near London. He is a freelance producer, providing film making, media training and promotional video and music production.