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John Percival (25 May 1937 – 6 February 2005), was a British television producer and documentary maker.


Biography

Percival was born in
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on 25 May 1937. He was educated at Bedford School, and read
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at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Percival was one of the first reporter-producers of the
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's '' Man Alive'' programme in 1965 - the first documentary series to report on social issues by interviewing "real people" rather than experts. This was followed by his anthropological series ''The Family of Man'' (1969), which compared life in the
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with tribespeople in
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, and ''Rich Man Poor Man'' (1972), exploring the consequences of globalisation. In 1978, he produced '' Living in the Past'', a
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fly on the wall documentary programme which followed a group of fifteen young volunteers, six couples and three children, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available in Britain in the 2nd Century BC. In 1980, Percival made the acclaimed series ''Africa'', with the historian Basil Davidson, for
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. This was followed by ''The Great Famine'', ''Living Islam'' and ''All Our Children''. He also focused on horticulture as series producer of ''
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's ''Real Gardens''. Percival was the author of three books on the documentary subjects of his programmes, ''Living in the Past'' (1980), ''For Valour'' (a history of the
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, 1985) and ''The Great Famine: Ireland's Potato Famine, 1845-1851'' (1995).


Personal life

Percival and his first wife, the TV presenter and author Jacky Gillott, had two sons; she killed herself in 1980. He married his second wife, Lalage, in 1984, and they had a daughter. He contracted cancer and died in
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on 6 February 2005.


References


The Independent


External links

* 1937 births 2005 deaths Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge BBC television producers English television producers People educated at Bedford School {{UK-tv-bio-stub