Yamal Productions is named after the Yamal (Яма́л) region of Northern Siberia, a place that has fascinated John since he traveled there with a film crew, just after the fall of the Soviet Union – the first non-Russians to visit the area since 1917.
Obviously it’s not practical to live and make programmes in the Yamal but we have found another inspiring setting – the spectacular Ardnamurchan peninsula in Argyllshire, Scotland – the westernmost point on the British mainland.
We divide our time between Ardnamurchan and our home city of Belfast – equally inspiring!