Jamie is the face and voice
of some of BBC Wales' most popular television and radio
programmes.
He is best known to television viewers as the anchorman
of the nightly news show BBC
Wales Today. The award
winning programme is consistently the most watched news
programme in Wales. Along with Louise Elliott he is one
half of BBC Radio Wales daily flagship morning show Jamie
& Louise broadcast
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Not all of his life is spent
in television and radio studios. Jamie has made many successful
series for the BBC in the great outdoors. He sailed around
the Welsh coast in a 100 year old pilot cutter for a six
part series called Magic Islands. It was the first of
many travel documentaries that have won fans from all
over the country.
Magic Harbours, Welsh Journeys and More Welsh Journeys
followed in later years and along with these projects
Jamie began a second career as a writer. The books of
the same names quickly established him as a popular author.
His latest book Around
Wales by B-Roads and Byways
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Jamie was born in Pembrokeshire and grew up with his brothers
Richard and Huw, who both claim to be better looking. He was
educated at Christ College, Brecon, University of Gloucestershire
and Cardiff University.
His broadcasting career started in London in 1989 where he worked
for BBC Radio 3's music department; a first love that he would
return to in later years to narrate Prokofiev's Peter and the
Wolf with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Jamie joined BBC Radio 4 a year later where he became a familiar
voice of the shipping forecast, announcing The Archers and later
reading the news.
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