Carlee Davis has recently joined the Media Parents team, covering jobs and talent throughout the UK.

Carlee Davis, pictured at the Wildscreen Awards, will be working on the Media Parents team - welcome!

Having worked in media production for the past 20 years, Carlee decided to take an extended maternity leave after having her third child 2 years ago to enjoy time with her husband and children. With a busy home life looking after three little people, plus an excitable Labrador (by the name of Audrey), Carlee is excited to be helping parents to juggle the logistics of childcare and parenting with TV – especially as she has first hand experience of doing so.
To contact Carlee re posting a job or about Media Parents talent search just hit the contact tab above.

From her first media job at Endemol West back in 2004 Carlee has worked on a variety of entertainment programmes before moving to BBC Bristol to work on The One Show inserts, and three series of Wanted Down Under.

Carlee also spent a number of years working as a Production Co-ordinator on BBC dramas such as Casualty and Bonekickers with Hugh Bonneville. However it was when Carlee moved into the world of natural history in 2011 that she discovered her love for working on landmark series such as BBC’s David Attenborough’s Life Story, Thailand:Earth’s Tropical Paradise and most recently National Geographic/Disney+ award-winning Queens.

When Carlee gets any spare time she likes to raise money for various charities close to her heart – usually by running. The trainers need a little dusting off since running her second half marathon back in May but she hopes to pick this up again in the new year.

Welcome to Media Parents Carlee!

Our next event is on Dec 5th, scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers go here: https://blog.mediaparents.co.uk

Tinopolis talent exec Katie McAfee won our hearts at Media Parents Autumn Drinks! First by being there and being fun, meeting people irl and via our zoom link up – and secondly by offering this brilliant December CV Surgery!

Katie McAfee zooms with remote Media Parents members at our Autumn Drinks. Get your CV in front of her this December

Twelve lucky Media Parents members will have the chance to send in their CVs to Katie via Media Parents by the end of November. Then on December 5th Katie will offer each person five minutes of tailored advice on zoom. If you would like to take up this amazing offer please join Media Parents and see the watercooler for event details. Sign up quick!

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Katie McAfee the Talent Exec for Tinopolis Factual which includes the production companies Mentorn Media, Firecracker Films and Pioneer Productions – all making content across the factual spectrum for UK and US broadcasters. Some of our productions include:

Traffic Cops, Inside the Force, Question Time, Emma Willis Delivering Babies, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, Open House the Great Sex Experiment, Mother Undercover, Gold: a journey with Idris Elba….

To find out more about the event and book in, see the watercooler at https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/

Our next event is on Dec 5th, scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers go here: https://blog.mediaparents.co.uk

ALT TEXT: Flyer with Christmas tree, deer and candy canes advertising Freelancers Christmas Drinks on Weds 4th December from 6pm til late at The Miller, Snowsfields, London SE1. Turn up early if you want a free drink!

Writer Mel Melvin shares a piece from Doon Mackichan's Loch Rannoch writing and wild swimming retreat

UNWRITTEN

Blacken the pages
Take down the books from the shelves
Remove the pen from every scribe
Stand by the gravestone and utter not a word

I can’t write without you

I learnt to form my letters on your knee
I herded ink into squares
Only to delight you,
To lie down in the ‘C’ of your thin-lipped smile

I can’t write without you

At primary school I wrote a pearly sentence to hang around your neck and learnt how to disappear
into a book.

As a teenager, you drew out novels for me from your high shelves
Like an apothecary dispensing a vial of medicine
Heyer, Trollope, Mitford, Shreve

You could spot the past imperfect subjunctive from a mile off,
you taught me how to place an adjective and turn a phrase
You were my grammar,
My exclamation mark,
My full stop.

Finally I wrote my first novel and you kept it beside you during your final chapter,
At the hospice I read you Keats and left gaps for you to mouth the words – Alien corn.

I can’t write without you.

So let’s stand at the graveside,
may the inscription I ordered be my final words:

CICELY KNOWLES
1940-2023
BELOVED MATRIARCH

To join Mel’s Brighton Yoga retreat on Saturday December 7th click here.

Our next event is on Nov 6th, scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers go here: https://blog.mediaparents.co.uk