Nick Bamford
TV Director Theatre Director Writer
Born in 1952 Nick grew up in Kent and was educated at Gravesend School for Boys and Christ Church, Oxford where he read English, obtaining an M.A., 2nd Class Hons.
He moved to London to begin his career at the BBC as a Studio Manager in Radio, soon moving to Television as an Assistant Producer in Presentation.
In 1983 he took a year out to work as a Flotilla Skipper in the Sporades Islands of Greece before returning to the BBC take a Producer job in Presentation.
In 1986 he left again to pursue his other love – the theatre – and moved to the West Country to attend the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School on a Director’s Attachment. He has continued his TV work on freelance basis and been based in the West Country ever since.
His work as a Director and Producer/Director has included a huge range of TV programmes from drama through magazines and features to factual entertainment and observational documentary. He also does voiceover work.
He has also directed and produced theatre, for two fringe companies – Show of Strength and his own FOD Productions – as well as major community Son-et-Lumière spectaculars at historic sites in S.E.Wales.
Additionally he is a writer, with one short film and two stage plays produced.
Throughout his life a love of sailing has dominated his leisure time as well as sometimes being a source of income. In 2003 he sailed the Atlantic from Las Palmas in the Canaries to St. Lucia in the Windward Isles, and in 2006 he sailed his current yacht Such Stuff to Sardinia, where she now resides. Nick has also bought a house there, in Bosa, which is available for holiday lets.
He continues to pursue a living in all these fields of activity, in the UK as well as in Sardinia.
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