Jim Potts, Esq, OBE

Surname: POTTS
Style: Jim Potts, Esq, OBE
Recreations: Greek islands and walking in Dorset, Corfu and Epirus, blues music, poetry, visual arts and photography

Career: Br Cncl: film and TV prodr Ethiopia 1971-75, film and TV prodr Kenya 1975-77, media conslt and ed Educnl Broadcasting Int 1977-80, regnl dir Northern Greece 1980-85, dir Czechoslovakia 1986-89 (concurrently cultural attaché), head E and Central Europe Dept London 1990-93, dir Aust 1993-99, dir Sweden 2000-04 (concurrently cultural attaché); cultural relations advsr and writer 2004-; 3 documentary films, many educnl films overseas and 2 Blues CDs

Books and Publications: Literary Links, Australia and Britain (preface, 1997), Swedish Reflections, From Beowulf to Bergman (co-ed, 2003), Corfu Blues (2006), The Ionian Islands and Epirus (2010), Greece and Britain since 1945 (contrib, 2010), Dorset Voices (co-ed, 2012); numerous jl and magazine articles on poetry, media and film