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From Shooting Stars to tales from the riverbank: Bob Mortimer was one half of a ...
The Daily Mail 16 Sep 2021
Humour needs no analysis, which may be why so many clever people don’t take it seriously ... Cliff Michelmore’s favourite harness was made of meat?’ Or come on stage as The Man With The Stick, holding an enormous stick with a plastic bag stuck on the end, empty because Mortimer had forgotten to put anything inside it? The audience would shout ... .
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Watch A Teenaged David Bowie Speaking About His “Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Long-Haired Men”
Vogue 10 Jan 2021
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Tomorrow's World presenter James Burke: 'The future for us could be paradise or Armageddon'
Belfast Telegraph 02 Jan 2021
Burke reported for Tomorrow's World after it first aired in 1965, was one of the team, along with Patrick Moore and Cliff Michelmore, that fronted the BBC's Apollo mission programmes, including the 1969 moon landing, and the person who conceived and fronted Connections, ...
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Former Grandstand presenter Frank Bough dies in care home aged 87
Metro UK 25 Oct 2020
Sports presenter Frank Bough has died at 87 (Picture. Rex). Former Grandstand presenter Frank Bough has died aged 87, a family friend has said ... Bough died in a care home last Wednesday (Picture. REX). Bough stepped down from breakfast television in 1987 to join the travel programme Holiday, taking over from Cliff Michelmore. Advertisement. Advertisement ... .
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Inside the 1966 Aberfan Disaster, one of Great Britain's most tragic mining disasters, where a collapsing mountain of coal waste killed 116 school children
The Times of India 21 Nov 2019
More than 50 years ago, Aberfan, a small coal mining town in Wales, was irreversibly changed in a few minutes when 144 people, mostly school children, were killed by a coal-waste landslide. What made it worse was that it was a mistake ... In an in-depth article titled "Aberfan ... {{}} ... BBC ... Cliff Michelmore was one of the television reporters at the scene ... .
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BBC Apollo 11 broadcaster: Why I ignored orders during moon landing
Belfast Telegraph 19 Jul 2019
The BBC broadcaster who commentated on the 1969 moon landing says he would have ruined the experience for viewers if he had obeyed orders ... Cliff Michelmore anchored all the main broadcasts, while Burke and Patrick Moore focused on the technical aspects and science of the mission in a broadcast which attracted a peak of 16 million UK viewers ... He said.
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Where were you when man first landed on the Moon?
BBC News 19 Jul 2019
But for many who did manage to make it to the big moment, it was life-changing. Fifty years on, we speak to three people who have been contributing to a UK Space Project/AHRC project, Moon Memories ... In the studio, James Burke, Patrick Moore and Cliff Michelmore were trying their best to keep things going without any pictures from the Moon ... .
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Returning to moon is waste of money, says presenter of BBC´s Apollo 11 coverage
This is Money 13 Jul 2019
The 82-year-old co-presented the BBC’s Apollo programmes with astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and Cliff Michelmore in 1969, with special broadcasts from launch day on July 16, running through to the moment Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, the first all-night broadcast on British television, and its return to Earth on July 24 ... .
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Returning to moon is waste of money, says presenter of BBC’s Apollo 11 coverage
AOL 11 Jul 2019
The 82-year-old co-presented the BBC’s Apollo programmes with astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and Cliff Michelmore in 1969, with special broadcasts from launch day on July 16, running through to the moment Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, the first all-night broadcast on British television, and its return to Earth on July 24 ... .
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