PETER UNDERWOOD PRODUCTIONS

Name: Peter Underwood Productions
Telephone: 07831538076

Life - History - Politics - Landscape and anything else that takes my fancy

All my working life has been spent as a journalist and communicator, working for newspapers, TV and radio news and running a couple of Public Relations Companies. Now I utilise those skills to video the things that pique my curiosity and to offer my take on the quirks of history, the politics of places and people of the past and how they relate to modern issues.

People, politics and history are what have made Britain what it is - for better of worse.

Life - History - Politics - Landscape and anything else that takes my fancy

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ABOUT ME

I have stuck my nose into other people's business since I first joined a newspaper back in 1968. Since then I have worked in television news, for national news agencies in the UK and for a variety of daily newspapers, almost always as a reporter and investigative journalist but also as a sub editor and leader writer.

Later in life I was recruited to a public relations agency and later began one of my own, specialising in providing crisis PR for blue chip companies.

Ill health took me back to reporting and I worked for the Guardian Media Group and Express Newspapers, amongst many others, as a freelance journalist, whilst travelling the country on our narrowboat. I also began reporting on waterways news through an online newspaper I founded and later regular video news reports under the title News From The Water.

Now I indulge my fascination for history, politics and people and use video to share such insights as I can manage with anyone who wants to watch

Life - History - Politics - Landscape and anything else that takes my fancy

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'History is bunk'

Henry Ford (attrib)

Life - History - Politics - Landscape and anything else that takes my fancy

Orford

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From my YouTube Channel

Some already published videos looking at aspects of UK history and the landscape, plants and wildlife of some great estates.

English Heritage

Conspicuous consumption – a monument to Victorian values

Whitley Court might be a gaunt and empty ruin of a building, but it still reeks of the sort of extravagance peculiar to the brash aristocracy of the late Victorian era, with apparently endless funds based on land and heavy industry.

The modern equivalent might be internet billionaires crossed with Russian oligarchs.

The history of the building is as convoluted as that of the families which have owned it since a medieval manor house was first built on the site.

It sits on the south eastern edge of the Black Country, a few miles from Stourport. Just far enough away to be able to ignore the, smoke, dust, and furnace fires, to say nothing of the poverty, of the families working in the harsh conditions of the pits, iron and other heavy industries that provided the Earl of Dudley and previous owners with millionaire lifestyles.