Even at the age of 16 I knew I wanted to be a journalist. I was about to take my A levels in geography, history and geology, and there was an idea that I would go to university and become a teacher. Then a job came up to work in the photographic department of the local newspaper. And I thought, actually, this is a real opportunity for me. That’s what I want to do, I want to be a photojournalist. I want to take pictures and write stories. So I made a sudden decision to walk away from my A levels, which didn’t make me very popular at school, I can tell you. But I had an instinctive idea of what I wanted to be. So it’s ironic that I ended up in television, the ultimate combination of pictures and words.
And taking pictures was what my father taught me. He had a little
