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Michael Hugh Scully (5 March 1943 – 8 October 2015) was an English journalist, radio and

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. He was the host and longest-serving presenter of the

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programme ''

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'' from 1981 to 2000.

Education and early life

Born in

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, Scully spent much of his childhood in

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and

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, where his father was stationed with the

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. He was educated at

Prior Park College Prior Park College is a mixed Roman Catholic public school for both day and boarding students. Situated on a hill overlooking the city of Bath, Somerset, in southwest England, Prior Park has been designated by Historic England as a Grade I li ...

, a boarding school in

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, at the age of thirteen and after leaving, worked for a period with the

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company

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. For a short time he worked as a record producer at Saga Records in London.

Career

Scully auditioned successfully as a temporary newsreader on BBC radio, and made his debut regular radio broadcast reporting from

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in 1963. Always a

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journalist rather than an employee, Scully worked on

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magazines and was a presenter on the

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news programme ''

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'' from 1965, before joining the networked news programme '' Nationwide.'' After a producer discovered that he collected

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, he became chairman of the radio show ''Talking about Antiques'' in 1967 and ''Collector's World'' in 1970. Scully was chosen in 1981 to present ''

'', along with

Arthur Negus Arthur George Negus, OBE (1903–1985) was a British television personality and antiques expert, specialising in furniture. Biography Negus was born in Reading, Berkshire, to Amy Julia Worsley and father Arthur George Negus Sr, a cabinet maker ...

. Negus retired in 1983, and Scully was the sole host on that show for 17 years. He resigned as presenter in 2000, to join Internet auction company QXL.com and help launch its on-line antiques business, and was replaced by

Michael Aspel Michael Terence Aspel (born 12 January 1933) is an English retired television newsreader and host of programmes such as '' Crackerjack'', ''Aspel & Company'', '' Give Us a Clue'', ''This is Your Life'', '' Strange but True?'' and ''Antiques Ro ...

. From 1988, Scully ran a television production company, Fine Art Productions; he also hosted the episode on Stately Homes part of the ''

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''. series in 2003 for Channel 5. He was married to his wife Barbara for 43 years before she died on 9 March 2009.

Death

Scully died on 8 October 2015, at the age of 72, in his home in Tresillian, Cornwall. He is survived by his two sons.

References

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