Face it: “Video/Audio” is a very boring title for a page but, honestly, I’m stumped. I want you to see and to hear some of the many productions or interviews I’ve done. It is entirely ego. Maybe that should be the title. But I think, I hope that at least some of it may be of interest even if your name doesn’t begin with “W” and end in “illiam Gallagher”. There are radio pieces here about writing, there’s BBC Breakfast on the closure of Ceefax and there are also videos I’ve produced for BBC Worldwide and Radio Times.

Do have a look. And if you’ve a better idea for the title of this page – please, this is a family show – or you have any reason to go oi, that shouldn’t be on here, just drop me a line.

William Gallagher short video showreel

BBC Breakfast on the closure of Ceefax

I wrote thousands upon thousands of pages of BBC Ceefax back in the day and it was one of the highlights of my writing career. And it’s gone. This is a clip from October 2012 when BBC Breakfast featured the final closing down of the service. I didn’t clip this to YouTube: I don’t know who did, but I appreciate the copyright-busting courtesy. One other thing: I was interviewed here really because I wrote about my time on Ceefax in a feature on Radio Times. That was one of my most popular and most successful, also frankly one of my best articles on the RT website: Farewell to Ceefax – it was nice working with you. And that would’ve been a forgotten and very boring little piece if editor Tim Glanfield hadn’t got me to rewrite it and make it better.

Gillian Bailey interview

I met Gilli while researching a book about Blake’s 7 and she is a clever treat to talk to. So we got to talk together on stage: this is an hour interview from Kaleidoscope, the television archive organisation, in June 2013. She talks about her whole career as an actor and now an academic – and I have the best seat in the room.