Paul Heiney BBC That’s Life
For seven years he was presenter/reporter on the BBC 1 top-rated consumer show, Watchdog and is well remembered for That’s Life in the early ’80s which led to a long string of successful shows including In at the Deep End (BBC1), This Sunday (ITV), Food and Drink (BBC2), Lion Country (BBC 1), Crossing Rome (ITV) as well as many series on rural affairs ITV Anglia.
On the radio, Paul has presented many programmes including for BBC Radio 4 – You and Yours, Today, Home Truths and On Your Farm.
Paul Heiney Writing
But Paul has had a rich life outside broadcasting. With over a dozen books to his credit, both fiction and non-fiction, he is a widely read author. He has written on rural, maritime and farming matters, and more recently on popular science.
He has also found time to be a pioneer organic farmer when, in 1990, he decided to master the skills of traditional farming using carthorses, Suffolk Punches, instead of tractors, and farmed 40 acres of Suffolk countryside. This experience inspired not only his hugely successful column, Farmer’s Diary, which appeared weekly in The Times for seven years but also a number of books.
Paul Heiney Sailing
In 2005, he fulfilled a longstanding ambition to sail the Atlantic singlehanded in the wake of the solo sailing pioneers, which led to his book ‘The Last Man across the Atlantic’.
His latest is One Wild Song – a Voyage in a Lost Son’s Wake – describing an 18,000-mile voyage to Cape Horn and back.
