Bill Nicol

I joined the BBC in 1968 as a Sound Recordist for the BBC covering international news. After twenty fascinating years ‘on the road’ working with all the great names I decided it was becoming a young mans game and moved back to Scotland to manage BBC Scotland News Resources and eventually BBC Scotland Production Resources.

I’m now retired from the BBC and Trudi my wife of 42 years and I live happily on an acre of Perthshire near the village of Forgandenny. We both work on a voluntary basis for the Camphill organisation. I chair their Central Scotland Property Trust which runs a village near Dunkeld for learning disabled adults, a young persons training college at Blair Drummond and a School in Auchterarder. Trudi is a Director of the Camphill Village near Dunkeld. We also run a business consultancy which although it initially started as specialised broadcasting analysis consultancy now has a client base in the residential care sector where we concentrate on turning round ailing care homes. (I’m still trying to retire!)

Our three children have all gone their separate ways (peace at last!). Graham the eldest works for Oracle and lives in Alva with his wife Carolyne and our two grandchildren Lachlan (4) and Diarmid (1+). Kenneth, our autistic son, lives in a care facility in Hexham and is a frequent visitor home. Heather the youngest is a Sergeant in Grampian Police after completing an English degree at Aberdeen.