[1] His father, Colin McCrery, served in the RAF, so the family travelled during his early childhood before settling in Nottingham.

[9] In 1992, while working as an assistant producer on the BBC1 show Tomorrow's World, McCrery arranged for the remains of the Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the Russian Royal Family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, to be flown to the UK for DNA examination to verify their identities.

[10] He wrote in his book Silent Witnesses: "There can't be many people who've had an entire royal family in the boot of their car".

[4] In 1988, McCrery persuaded Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram to race around the Great Court at Trinity College, replicating a scene in the film Chariots of Fire.

[11] In October 2024, in an interview on BBC Radio 4, McCrery revealed that he had recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness.