Jude Collins - writer and broadcaster

Jude Collins - writer and broadcaster

2009

Hello.
The description I’ve given myself above - ‘writer and broadcaster’ - is a half-truth. Or a half-lie, if you prefer. The untrue bit is that I’ve never actually earned my living as a writer or a broadcaster. The bread-on-the-table part was covered for ten years by working as an English high school teacher in Ireland and in Canada, then for thirty more as a university lecturer at the University of Ulster outside Belfast. The true part of the writer/broadcaster thing is that I’ve been part-time writing and broadcasting for over thirty-five years. I’ve written two collections of short stories and two novels, and I’ve been a newspaper columnist for The Irish News and Daily Ireland (both Belfast papers) and for The Irish Herald (San Francisco). Almost all of my broadcasting has been radio work, starting in the 1970s with CBC Radio in Canada and then BBC Radio Newcastle in England. Since the early 1980s I’ve worked with BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Radio Four. I retired from my day job in the autumn of 2008 but I’m still writing and picking up any broadcasting crumbs that fall from the BBC table.

Jude
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