Radio & TV CV    1992 -2001

            1992

Blood Earth & Medicine performance Hyde Park - Appeared live on Radio 4 with Farming Today

            1992

ON YOUR FARM 30' Radio 4

            1992

Cliff Mitchelmore 's countryside programme

            1992

Poetry featured on Kaleidoscope Radio 4

            1993

Poetry featured on World Service - Falklands edition

            1993

Featured on FAT MAN GOES WEST Channel 4 - sheep shearing in Dorset

            1994

Poetry featured on Somerset Sound & live debate

            1996

Appeared with poetry on Spotlight South West BBC Bristol, HTV & Westcountry for publication of IN TIME OF FLOOD

            1997

Went to Yukon with Hugh Prysor Jones recording for Radio 4 broadcast Xmas

            1997

12' documentary HTV about Poetry & Somerset

            1997

Appeared on ON FOOT Programme Channel 4

            1997

Poetry featured on HISTORY MAN BBC 2

            1997

Co- produced "FLAT WET & WILD" Radio 4 30' Kaleidoscope feature based on IN TIME OF FLOOD with Tim Malyon and Julian May

            1997

Poetry featured in Kaleidoscope documentary on South Crofty Cornwall's last tin mine with Tim Malyon and Adrian Washbourne 30' Own idea. Radio 4

            1998

Poetry featured on Westcountry Live for South Crofty

            1998

Poetry featured on Somerset Sound twice

            1998

Took part in debate on BBC Radio Cornwall

            1998

Poetry featured on OPEN COUNTRY 20'

            1998

Poetry and presenter on TRAILING THE PARRETT Somerset Film & Video

            1999

Poetry featured in TV DINNERS Channel 4 March

            1999

BBC Spotlight South West - cider feature

            1999

Poetry featured in BBC2 Bristol Documentary on Cider

            1999

OPEN COUNTRY Researched and co presented a 50 min programme on Portland

            1999

OPEN COUNTRY Radio 4 Programme / Cider & Wassailing

            2000

OPEN COUNTRY Radio 4 feature on Cornish tin mining

            2000

OPEN COUNTRY Radio 4 Christmas special Turkey plucking & Worcestershire

            2000

BBC Somerset Sound interview - Bridgwater

            2001

Researched Channel 4 News documentary on Foot & Mouth

            2001

Featured on BBC Radio Bristol twice

            2001

West Country News item for Cider Map

            2001

Points West item for Cider Map

            2003

James made an in depth series of recordings about Food Rationing and rural diet for Chard Museum during the Second World War contrasting village and town life. These are now available as a three part CD

            2004

Presented and recorded a programme called 'Chasing Hares' which was an investigative feature about the Three Hares symbol, which is found not only in medieval churches in Devon but in many religious contexts across Europe and Central Asia.
See www.chrischapmanphotograhy.com 'Three Hares Project' for more information.

            2005

Since 2004 James has featured on several more 'Open Country' programmes and has taken part in a new series called 'Landlines' pioneered by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol which has taken him to Gloucestershire, Derbyshire and the Kent Marshes. The third series is due to go out in Dec 2005. He has also taken part in a 'Ramblings' with Clare Balding around Melbury Abbas in Dorset.
See www.bbc.co.uk

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