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Boulogne sur mer - my home town and port
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Michael E. Briant directed numerous episodes of classic TV series throughout the 1970s such as Blake’s 7, Secret Army, Warship and most famously Doctor Who. Many of his Who stories (The Sea Devils, The Green Death and Robots of Death) are regarded as all-time greats by fans of the series. In this memoir, Briant reminisces about his life and work, from his beginnings as a child actor...........
JUNE THORBURN CECIL PARKER & MICHAEL E. BRIANT AS Jane Hudson Dudley Partridge & Paul TRUE AS A TURTLE DIRECTED BY WENDY TOYE THE RANK ORGANISATION 12 August 1957
Acting 'Paul' in ' True as a Turtle' aged 13
When I was 23 having been at the BBC for three years I completed the BBC directors course and have been lucky enough to direct many productions on film and TV
Onedin Line
FOR MORE DETAILS OF THE TELEVISION SHOWS I DIRECTED
Colony in Space
Revenge of the Cybermen
Robots of Death
Death to the Daleks
The Sea Devils
I directed the first episode: THE WAY BACK,
THE WEB,
PROJECT AVALON
DELIVERANCE
Tangier,
Z cars,
Dixon,
Howard's Way, Angels etc. etc. etc....
I spent some time directing In Amsterdam for
The
Complete Secret Army .
available on DVD
ROBOTS OF DEATH
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I started out my career in show
business as a 12 year old child
at the
Italia Conti Stage School
in
Archer Street
Piccadilly W1
(behind the
Windmill)
Weekly rep at
and
The
Little Theatre
Great Yarmouth,
Touring for Carl Clopet
and Children's Theatre
and
lots of television and movies.
A load of fun, even if I was perhaps
lacking in real talent as an
actor.
FRENCH CANALS INFORMATION PAGES
North to South via Le Havre Paris or Calais or St Valerie
North to South via Atlantic Coast
South to North via Canal du Midi
South to North via Paris & Le Havre
Lists the possible routes via the French Canals or Portuguese coast. All UK to Med routes in both directions
FACILITIES I HAVE FOUND USEFUL IN SPAIN, MAINLY THE COSTA DEL SOL, and GIBRALTAR
Waypoints and anchorages up the Red Sea together with routing details and information on ports.
Assortment of different methods of Watch Keeping depending on the crew and time/distance involved.
The sea route to the sun from Britain.
In the Chesapeake a Lightning strike which destroyed every electrical item in the boat - $47000 !
All the major French and British hauliers who specialise in trucking boats with their Web sites for fast quotes.
The prices of boats in the USA appear to be at least one third to a half cheaper than those in the UK. This is particularly true of motorboats but many sailing yachts are bigger, better and much, much cheaper than anything you can buy in the UK or other parts of Europe.
Details of all the marina and boating facilities as well as how duty free works, local boatyards to haul, chandlery shops.
Details of the various canal routes to and from the Mediterranean, sea or lorry options + shipping boats across the pond.
FRENCH CANAL ROUTES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Over 2700 copies sold.... This book has become the standard work for transiting the French canals to the Mediterranean and back
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Details of the various canal routes to and from the Mediterranean, sea or lorry options + shipping boats across the pond.
FRENCH CANAL ROUTES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Over 2700 copies sold.... This book has become the standard work for transiting the French canals to the Mediterranean and back
IMPORTING YOUR NON SPANISH VEHICLE
FRENCH CANALS INFORMATION PAGES
North to South via Le Havre Paris or Calais or St Valerie
North to South via Atlantic Coast
South to North via Canal du Midi
South to North via Paris & Le Havre
Lists the possible routes via the French Canals or Portuguese coast. All UK to Med routes in both directions
FACILITIES I HAVE FOUND USEFUL IN SPAIN, MAINLY THE COSTA DEL SOL, and GIBRALTAR
Waypoints and anchorages up the Red Sea together with routing details and information on ports.
Assortment of different methods of Watch Keeping depending on the crew and time/distance involved.
The sea route to the sun from Britain.
In the Chesapeake a Lightning strike which destroyed every electrical item in the boat - $47000 !
All the major French and British hauliers who specialise in trucking boats with their Web sites for fast quotes.
The prices of boats in the USA appear to be at least one third to a half cheaper than those in the UK. This is particularly true of motorboats but many sailing yachts are bigger, better and much, much cheaper than anything you can buy in the UK or other parts of Europe.
Details of all the marina and boating facilities as well as how duty free works, local boatyards to haul, chandlery shops.
North to South via Le Havre Paris or Calais or St Valerie
North to South via Atlantic Coast
South to North via Canal du Midi
South to North via Paris & Le Havre
Lists the possible routes via the French Canals or Portuguese coast. All UK to Med routes in both directions
Colony in Space
Revenge of the Cybermen
Robots of Death
Death to the Daleks
The Sea Devils
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FRENCH CANAL ROUTES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
Over 2700 copies sold.... This book has become the standard work for transiting the French canals to the Mediterranean and back £10 DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK NOW
Why not take your boat to the Med next summer? A guide to the nicer places and a suggested passage plan, from the South Coast of the UK to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.
GENTLE SAILING ROUTE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
Over 1600 copes of this book have been sold making it one of the most widely used publications for this route £10
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THE ATLANTIC CROSSING GUIDE
This book covers all
the aspects of making a transatlantic voyage from Europe to the Caribbean.
MEDITERRANEAN MARINAS
If you are looking for a place int the Mediterranean to keep your boat and be able to sunbath on Christmas Day then this book lists them all from Morocco to the Costa del Sol to Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, Malta etc. £10
BOATING WITH BREXIT
This is the transcript of the YouTube video (Edition 2) and describes the procedures for British boats visiting French ports and the 90/180 day rule. It then covers the new situation of keeping your boat in the European Union - Mediterranean and your options for visiting it - Post Brexit - it has 18 pages. £5 This is a download from Sailing Gently books
I was boarded and robbed in the Gulf of Aden
NOTES: I hope helpful for transiting this area.
is the story of the boarding by pirates in the Gulf of Aden -
The Panama Canal pages have full details of costs, transit, documentation
Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Tunisia and back via Balearics to Gibraltar - here in
If you are thinking of going off to
LIVING ABOARD AROUND THE WORLD
By Michael E Briant For more information go to Living Aboard Around the World £5 DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK NOW
also has
to items including:-
is my personal log of my first Atlantic crossing.
I carry on ocean voyages.
across the Pacific Ocean
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Why not take your boat to the Mediterranean next summer? There are several ways of getting your boat to the Mediterranean. On the back of a lorry, via the French canals, four or five day’s non stop across the Bay of Biscay then down the Portuguese coast or spend the summer or two, gently coasting southwards, enjoying the harbours, cities, towns and villages of France Spain and Portugal. This is not a pilot book, rather a passage plan and guide to the nicer places between the South Coast of the UK to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. It can all be done in easy stages, to suit a lightly crewed boat, with perhaps only a couple of people on board who are without ‘offshore’ experience. Actually, it is a lovely way to explore a lot of delightful foreign places.
Specially drawn charts of: Cherbourg to L’Aber-Wrac’h. Chenal du Four to La Rochelle La Rochelle to Spain La Rochelle to Coruña Coruna to Gibraltar +illustrations, pictures, paintings
1 – Planning the voyage 2 –South coast to Chenal du Four 3 - Chenal du Four to La Rochelle 4 - La Rochelle to Spain overview 5 - La Rochelle to Coruña 6 - Coruña to Gibraltar DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK NOW £10
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If you are thinking about going long distance cruising then this is the book for you! CHAPTERS: 1Which Boat and what equipment? 2 The canal route to the sun 3 The sea route to the sun 4 Cruising the Mediterranean 5 Crossing the Atlantic 6 Cruising the Caribbean 7 Panama and Pan Pan 8 The Canal and into the Pacific 9 South Pacific Islands 10 Tahiti to New Zealand 11 Helicopter Rescue 12 The Great Barrier Reef 13 Pirate Attack 14 Tragedy in the Red Seaall sailors 15 15 Homeward Bound
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Has full transit details, costs and copies of the official documentation.
(Trade winds route of the South Pacific from Panama)
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Summer cruise to:
steers into trouble .
Published in
The details and grocery list to
Victual a boat for an ocean passage of 2 to 3 weeks. How I make the list and the
vital items
Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Tunisia
and back via Balearics to Gibraltar
The personal log of my first Atlantic crossing. My concerns, fears, conversations with Herb and much more.
This is not a list of plasters and aspirin! It contains details of the
drugs & equipment for ocean passages
An unexpectedly exciting adventure off the West Australian coast at
Shot from the deck of Bambola in Lady Musgrave just off the coast of Australia near Brisbane
A Scout's Guide to Boating Knots
worth a visit
https://www.hmy.com/a-scouts-guide-to-boating-knots
PORTS ON THE WEST COAST OF FRANCE
A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE PORTS AND HARBOURS I HAVE VISITED ON THIS COAST
the boat can sometimes be a problem. This is how I solved it. This page may also be helpful to people wanting to crew
If you want to know more about
La Rochelle/Les Minimes facilities
If you are planning on heading further south next season, you might want to look at this page
which lists some of the marinas and ports we have recently visited.
Horror pictures
Panama Canal Transit in a small boat 12 minutes
FACILITIES I HAVE FOUND USEFUL IN SPAIN, MAINLY THE COSTA DEL SOL, and GIBRALTAR
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from the Caribbean and Panama to Australia and New Zealand and the islands of the South Pacific Just published on Amazon and gentlecruising.com
If you are bored with the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, read this book, then you will want to dream of visiting the nearest place to paradise on this globe. How to transit the Panama Canal see giant rays on the way to the Galapagos and the best islands in the Marquesas and Touamotu groups before reaching Tahiti the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji then laying up for the hurricane season in New Zealand or Australia. Available from
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https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingGently
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IMPORTING YOUR UK VEHICLE INTO SPAIN
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English Car Import to Spain -
post Brexit for
This download tells you exactly how to do the importation of your UK car into
Spain easily and very inexpensivly.
You can do it yourself saving huge amounts on paying other brits to do it for
you!
£5
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Ronda is where I used to live. A beautiful town up in the mountains and about an hours drive from the sea. Wonderful place to be in. Vejer de la Frontera is a white hill town near the entrance to the Straights of Gibraltar. Probably the most unspoilt of all the hill towns - white villages in Southern Spain Boat Import tells you how to handle the importation of your boat legally into Spain and how to avoid paying the 12% matriculation tax. Car Import tells you how to change the plates to Spanish registration, and if its a near new car how to avoid the 12% matriculation tax - How to Register gives full details of how to 'clock into' the Spanish system if you are going to become a resident Northern Spain is just that - a wonderful cruising area for yachties and far removed in every way from the 'Costa's' Banking in Spain give some helpful info on what can be expensive and complicated. |
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How to buy and sell houses in France and understand the inheritance laws |
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If you are thinking of buying a property there or keeping your boat there then this section tells you the rules and regulations as they exist today. - Post Brexit it may be the same - or not! Once you get away from the 'Costa's', which foreigners created, it really is a very beautiful country. Northern Spain, Basque country, is amazing and a wonderful cruising ground and with Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea you can have the best of both worlds If you become a resident there is a National Health System which is considered to be one of the best in Europe and a living standard which is both high and inexpensive. The countryside and mountains are spectacularly beautiful.
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is where I used to live. It is a beautiful town up in the
mountains and about an hours drive from the sea. Wonderful place to be
in. Vejer de la Frontera is a white hill town near the entrance to the Straights of Gibraltar. Probably the most unspoilt of all the hill towns - white villages in Southern Spain Boat Import tells you how to handle the importation of your boat legally into Spain and how to avoid paying the 12% matriculation tax. Car Import tells you how to change the plates to Spanish registration, and if its a near new car how to avoid the 12% matriculation tax - How to Register gives full details of how to 'clock into' the Spanish system if you are going to become a resident Northern Spain is just that - a wonderful cruising area for yachties and far removed in every way from the 'Costa's' Banking in Spain give some helpful info on what can be expensive and complicated. With the current 'crises' it's quite a 'cash' society so you need easy and cheap transfers.
I highly recommend
They cover the entire Andalucía area and Carlos speaks perfect English & German. Email:- jcsalas@salasduran.com
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WHO is Michael E Briant When the publishers Classic TV Press asked me to write these memoirs I was very flattered but somewhat unsure. The title sums up the question I have been asking myself for years. |
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The book is available from here More about it |
I highly recommend
builders, who recovered
the terrace disaster and installed the inside staircase with all the works
done to the highest standards at very, very reasonable prices.
They cover the entire Andalucia area and Carlos speaks perfect English & German. Email:- jcsalas@salasduran.com
For my sailing books and French canal guides please go to gentlesailing.com
I am pleased to say this web site is
who have been kind, helpful and understanding. I really recommend them