BBC Birmingham Sundays at 9.00am for half an hour. The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example "The Brothers" starring Jean Anderson, the children's programmes, "Play School" and "Jackanory", and the current affairs programme Nationwide during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness. Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and filmed at the "Pebble Mill Studios" which included the children's programme The "Basil Brush" show. A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was snooker programme "Pot
Michael Nicholson the Messenger' in 2009, a Sony Broadcasting Awards Finalist in 2007 and three times Gold Medallist in New York's Broadcasting Guilds Award. 1999–2009 Reporter-Presenter for ITV's current affairs programme 'Tonight'. A regular contributor-presenter for BBC Radio 2 and 4. Documentaries include 'Falklands Families', 'Civvy Street', "Vietnam", 'Churchill', 'Archive Hour'. Contributor to 'Sunday Times', ' Economist', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Mail', 'Spectator'. Falklands and Gulf Campaign Medals. In 1992 he was awarded the OBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II Fiction: "The Partridge Kite", "Red Joker", "December Ultimatum", "Pilgrim's Rest". Non Fiction: "A Measure of Danger", "Across the Limpopo", "Natasha's Story",