I lead the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) and I am a founder member of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project (WASP). Our wide field telescopes continuously scan millions of stars, searching for the tell-tail dip in brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its parent star. NGTS achieved first light in January 2015 and began full survey operations in February 2016. Our discoveries include NGTS-4b, a sub-Neptune in the Neptunian desertLink opens in a new window, and NGTS-11b, a warm SaturnLink opens in a new window that was the first exoplanet confirmed from a TESS single-transit event. You can watch a brief introduction to NGTS on BBC regional TV news. WASP discovered over two hundred transiting exoplanets, all with precisely measured masses, making it the most successful ground-based project searching for such objects. Our early discoveries were rated among the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007 by TIME magazine. The WASP team received the group achievement award of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2010. I was interviewed on BBC local radio about our discovery of a possible carbon-rich exoplanet.