Greg Foot

Greg Foot (born 6 September 1983) is a British science presenter. He's the 'resident scientist' on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, has been into BBC Radio 1 to do experiments with The Scott Mills team and is a regular presenter on the YouTube Head Squeeze channel. In March 2012, he presented a 6-part science series for BBC Three called The Secrets of Everything.

Biography

Foot was born in Bradford, lived in Suffolk until he was 8, and spent the next 10 years in the Lake District and went to Ulverston Victoria High School. He read Natural Sciences at King’s College at Cambridge University, gaining a first class BA Hons degree, and then an MSc in Science Media Production from Imperial College London.

TV career

Foot's first television appearance was in 2007 presenting the children’s science/invention series Whizz Whizz Bang Bang on BBC One making implausible inventions such as an underwater canoe, hover-board, robotic horse and a jet engine bed driven by The Stig.

During 2008 Foot appeared performing explosive experiments on Richard & Judy and was an on-screen expert for Channel 4’s Routes Game (supported by the Wellcome Trust) where he also gave a lecture in Cambridge to tie in with the fictional Alternate Reality Game.