The Gardeners' World Blog

A long time before I enjoyed the privilege of actually working on the programme, Sports Personality of the Year was always my favourite television show.

Growing up as a sports-mad youngster, it was the one opportunity to guarantee seeing all your sporting heroes appearing at the same time and in the same place together. It was also one of the few television programmes I would sit down and watch with the rest of my family, including my grandparents.

It signalled the start of Christmas for the Doran family. We would enjoy looking back at the great sporting moments of the year and we'd always have some great debates on who we thought should be the overall winner of the prestigious award.