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Tomorrow's World
''Tomorrow's World'' is a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. First broadcast on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. The ''Tomorrow's World'' title was revived in 2017 as an umbrella brand for BBC science programming. Content ''Tomorrow's World'' was created by Glyn Jones to fill a half-hour slot in the 1965 BBC summer schedule. Jones and his wife conceived the show's name the night before the ''Radio Times'' went to press. In its early days the show was edited by Max Morgan-Witts and hosted by veteran broadcaster and former Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter. For some years it had an instrumental theme tune composed and performed by John Dankworth. During the 1970s the programme attracted 10 million viewers per week. The programme was usually broadcast live, and as a result saw the occasional failure of its technology demonstrations. For example, during a demonstration of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Morgan-Witts
Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Biography Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on 9 January 1956. He directed television shows for Granada, including '' The Army Game'', which was the UK's No. 1 television show during each of the approximately 50 episodes he directed. Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of ''Coronation Street'' (between July & August 1961 and January and April 1963), which followed ''The Army Game'' as Britain's top-rated TV show. After Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, as a producer and executive producer in the Science & Features Department. He was editor and executive producer of '' Tomorrow's World'', a live, weekly, popular science programme. He was responsible for 14 one-hour episodes of ''The British Empire'', a historical documentary series. It was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shreddies
Shreddies are a breakfast cereal marketed in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was first produced in Canada in 1939 by Nabisco. The ''Shreddies'' brand is held by Post Consumer Brands in Canada, and Nestlé in the United Kingdom and Ireland. History In Canada, production began in 1939 at Lewis Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario. As of 2024, this plant was still in operation. Shreddies were produced under the Nabisco name until the brand in Canada was purchased in 1993 by Post Cereals, whose parent company in 1995 became Kraft General Foods, which sold Post to Ralcorp in 2008 and is now Post Foods Canada Corp., a unit of Post Holdings, which was spun off from Ralcorp in 2012. In the United Kingdom, the cereal was first produced by Nabisco's former UK division but was later made by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand at a factory in Welwyn Garden City. The factory opened in 1926 and began making Shreddies in 1953. The site was briefly owned by Rank Hovis McDou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Philbin
Margaret Elizabeth Philbin Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 23 June 1955) is an English radio and television presenter whose credits include ''Tomorrow's World'', ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop'' and latterly ''Bang Goes the Theory''. Early life As a child, she became interested in science through wanting to become a veterinarian, veterinary surgeon. She grew up in Leicester and went to a girls' Roman Catholic grammar school, St Paul's Catholic School, Leicester, Evington Hall Convent School in Evington. In the sixth-form she studied English, History, French and German, although she says she was also good at Maths and Physics, but not Chemistry. Career After studying English and Drama at the University of Manchester, Philbin responded to an advertisement in ''The Stage'' and was offered the job of co-presenter on ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop''. During her time on ''Swap Shop'', with Noel Edmonds and others, she formed the one-hit wonder band Brown Sauce (band), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Macann
Peter Macann is a British former actor, reporter, and television presenter who is most notable for co-hosting the BBC science show ''Tomorrow's World ''Tomorrow's World'' is a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. First broadcast on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. The ''Tomorrow's World' ...'' in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since retiring from the BBC, he has worked as a consultant for various companies on managing culture change within their organizations. Filmography References External links * Living people English television presenters Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieran Prendiville
Kieran Prendiville (born 25 December 1947) is an English-Irish television writer, producer, and presenter. Early life Prendiville was born on 25 December 1947 in Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of an Irish father from Killorglin, County Kerry, who had relocated to Rochdale to practise medicine. He attended Clongowes Wood College in Clane, County Kildare, the same Jesuit boarding school his father had attended. Career Presenting Working alongside Glyn Worsnip, Prendiville was a presenter of the BBC consumer programme ''That's Life!'' from 1973 to 1978, having served on the production team from the very first episode. He was the BBC's on-site commentator on the first Space Shuttle mission, reporting from Cape Canaveral and Edwards Air Force Base. He was also a reporter at football matches on the BBC's ''Grandstand'' Saturday afternoon sports programme in the 1980s. Writing The creator of the 1990s BBC dramas '' Ballykissangel'' and '' Roughnecks'', Prendiville's other writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ford
Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is an English retired journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. Ford helped launch the British breakfast television broadcaster TV-am. She retired from broadcast news presenting in April 2006 and was a non-executive director of Sainsbury's until the end of 2012. Ford now lives in her home town of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Early life Ford was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, to parents who were both West End actors. Her father, John, had declined an offer from Samuel Goldwyn to work in Hollywood, and her mother, Jean (née Winstanley; sister of MP and broadcaster Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley) had worked with Alec Guinness.Bill Hagert"Anna Ford: Try a little tenderness" ''British Journalism Review'', 18:3, 2007, pp. 9–16 Her father later became ordained as an Anglican priest and took Ford and her four brothers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Hann
Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942) is a broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment. Education Hann attended the University of Durham, where she edited Palatinate, the university newspaper, for two terms in 1963. Life and career Hann presented BBC's ''Tomorrow's World'' between 1974 and 1994. She has since made television guest appearances, and also some TV commercials. In 1997, she appeared in a Shredded Wheat advertisement, in which she used her scientific judgement to inform viewers that the product could possibly help keep their hearts healthy. In 2006, she presented ''Two's A Crowd'', a series on BBC Radio 4 that searched for the secrets of human identity. She runs her own media training and presentation skills company. Personal life Hann lives on a farm near the small town of Lechlade, in the Cotswolds. She was married to John Exelby, a former executive at BBC News, who died in 2019; they had two sons. She is passionate about herbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Woollard
William Woollard (born 23 August 1939) is a British historian and retired television producer and presenter. Biography Woollard went to a state grammar school in London and Oxford University. He trained to be a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force. He worked with an oil company in Borneo and Oman. He has worked as a social scientist on corporate social responsibility with several American and European organisations. He has written about his Buddhist beliefs. Television career Woollard has produced, written and presented many television documentaries and series, particularly on science and technology. They have been broadcast on the BBC and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, as well as the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel and the Public Broadcasting Service in the US. He is known as a producer and presenter on the BBC's science magazine programme ''Tomorrow's World,'' and on the BBC's motoring programme '' Top Gear''. On ''Tomorrow's World'' he was a leading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson (12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008) was a South African botany, botanist, zoology, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethology, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller ''Supernature''. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the hundredth monkey effect, "hundredth monkey" effect in his 1979 book, ''Lifetide''; later, in ''The Whole Earth Review'', he conceded this was "a metaphor of my own making". Life Malcolm Lyall-Watson was born in Johannesburg. He had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush, learning from Zulu people, Zulu and !Kung people, !Kung bushmen. Watson attended boarding school at Rondebosch Boys' High School in Cape Town, completing his studies in 1955. He enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1956, at the age of 15 where, by the time he was 19, he had earned degrees in both botany and zoology, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Smith (explorer)
Anthony John Francis Smith (30 March 1926 – 7 July 2014) was, among other things, a writer, sailor, balloonist and former ''Tomorrow's World'' television presenter. He was perhaps best known for his bestselling work ''The Body'' (originally published in 1968 and later renamed ''The Human Body''), which has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, ''The Human Body'', known in America by the name '' Intimate Universe: The Human Body''. The series aired in 1998 and was presented by Professor Robert Winston. Life and work Smith read zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, became a pilot in the RAF and went on to write as a science correspondent for ''The Daily Telegraph''. He also worked extensively in both television and radio, writing for several natural history programmes. Smith's first expedition was to Persia, exploring the Qanat underground irrigation tunnels. This expedition was documented in his book ''Blind White Fish in Persia''; a spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rodd
Michael Rodd (born 29 November 1943 in North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom) is an English television presenter and businessman. Education Rodd was educated at the independent school Trinity College, Glenalmond (now Glenalmond College) near Perth in Scotland, and at Newcastle University. Media career Having begun his career on '' BBC Look North'' in 1967, Rodd became a familiar face to millions of television viewers in Britain as a presenter for the BBC of ''Screen Test'' (1970–79), '' Tomorrow's World'' (1972–82) and ''The Risk Business'' (1980–81). He also hosted television coverage of the early Space Shuttle launches for the BBC. Later he worked for the ITV contractor TVS on its science programme ''The Real World''. In 1980 Rodd established Blackrod, an independent producer of film, video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Burke (science Historian)
James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series '' Tomorrow's World'' from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series '' Connections'' (1978), and its more philosophical sequel '' The Day the Universe Changed'' (1985), about the history of science and technology. ''The Washington Post'' has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world". Early life Burke was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. During World War II he was evacuated to Downhill, County Londonderry where he lived between the ages of 4 and 9. When his father returned home after the war, the family moved to Kent, England, where James Burke attended Maidstone Grammar School. He then served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1957 before being accepted at Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied Middle English, obtaining BA and MA degrees. Personal life B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
