Richard Hill

Is there a significant difference between mooring fees in the Midlands compared to say the London region? Which are the cheapest and which are the dearest?

Hi, My name is Richard Hill and I'm a writer. One of the publications I occassionally write for is 'Canal & Riverboat' magazine. Have you got an interesting story to tell, but are'nt quite sure how to get it into print? In 1996, I'd never been published, but today my work has been read by an estimated 5 million people. Yet I left school without any qualifications and didn't (and still don't) know my adverbs from my adjectives. This is what some people have said about my work:- In addition to writing, I also lecture and give talks in 'journalism' and 'writing for magazines'. If your 'group' or 'organisation' is interested in a talk on 'How to get published' please feel free to contact me at mail@richardhill.co.uk If you want to find out more about me and my work, please visit my website by clicking here. Kindest regards, Richard

Ghosts of the Waterways. Canal & Riverboat Magazine Click here to download in pdf format.

Behind the Scenes at Water World (Series 1) Click here to download (in pdf format) an article on the making of the first series of 'Water World'

I'm not sure about NTL (or Telewest etc) as these are regional 'cabled' networks. On installation, the SKY engineer 'tunes' in your SKY digibox to your local 'default' ITV regional channel based on your postcode. However, the satellite is transmitting all ITV regions throughout the UK. BBC regions however, for some reason, appear in the usual channel line-up (somewhere in the 900's). BTW Water World used to be repeated a few weeks later on a Friday afternoon in the Carlton London and Carlton West regions. Whether this is the case for this series remains to be seen. Water World is also re-broadcast the following year on the Discovery Channel. The series will not be made avaialable on VHS or DVD as Series 1 sold too few copies to make it commercially viable. The series is aimed not only at Inland Waterway enthusiasts, but mainly to a general viewing audience. In the Carlton Central region, over 1,000,000 viewers watch it each week and Series 1 achieved 37% of the viewing audience against competitors especially 'EastEnders'. In itself, no mean achievement. What makes it popular amongst a general viewing audience is not that it's a series strictly about canals, but about interesting people who live and enjoy an alternative, enviable and/or unusual lifestyle. It's not broadcast nationally because the Central Region has a higher proportion of canals than elsewhere in the UK. How do I know all this technobabble?! Because I was research associate on Series 1 and caught the documentary making 'bug' and went on to graduate in the 'Moving Image (Factual).

You can watch all 16 ITV1 Regions (and other channels) on your SKY digibox by adding them to the 'Other Channels' section. You add extra ITV channels by pressing the "Services" button on the Sky Remote, choose option 4 "System Setup" choose option 4 "Add Channels" For example, there are four things you have to enter to recieve the ITV 1 Carlton Central region. Frequency 10832 Polarisation H Symbol Rate 22 FEC 5/6 Once you have entered the parameters select "Find Channels" After a while a list of ITV channels will appear mark the ones you want using the Yellow button on the Sky Remote Control and press Select. Once you have set up extra channels you can view these channels by pressing "Services" and choose "Other Channels" For more detailed information and a list of tuning details for all 16 ITV regions (and other channels), click on the link below:- http://www.vowles-home.demon.co.uk/Sat/SkyITV.htm Image reproduced by kind permission of Carlton Television Series Producer Keith Wooton Above: Simon Hawthorn and partner Richard Hill being interviewed for Episode 2 of the 2005 series of 'Water World' broadcast Thursday 13th January 2005. Photo: Chris Burford B.T.W. This year's series of 'Water World' runs for 13 weeks.