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Updates from Maritime Film UK’s Rob White, TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN

Humorous – Not

21 November 2016

Sorry, loyal reader, to be gone so long. The picture is why – that’s my broken right shoulder, after a brilliant surgeon called Peter Reilly sorted me out. (The X-ray shows the titanium plate and 9 screws he used, not some weird internal alien I’ve acquired!) In April I tried to clear a porch gutter without making completely sure the step-ladder was OK. Result: ejection of self at speed onto ground. (Something happened to the ladder too, as became evident at the scene of the crime.) I was only four steps up, but the bill was: socket of shoulder joint fractured, ball snapped off upper arm bone – called the humerus – damage to same and two major nerves. Brilliant, eh? Anyway I needed to cut back on work, and so the blogs had to go. Orders from the top!

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About Rob

Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years of experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four-time award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with the Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995 when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.

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