[4] He left school aged 16, and began an apprenticeship at Yorkshire Copperworks, writing for the company magazine.
The first such programme ever produced by British television, it drew on the full journalistic resources of the BBC.
It featured a number of news scoops, including the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, which occurred minutes before the programme went on air.
[5] In 2015, he presented the BBC Two game show series Beat the Brain, which began airing on 11 May.
They released a cover version of the single "Wake Me Up" in November 2014 to raise money for the BBC's Children in Need charity.