Before he became one of Britain’s best-loved presenters, Michael Aspel was one of the faces of early TV as a continuity announcer in the fledgling days of broadcasting. In this programme, Aspel looks back on a career that spanned newsreading, children’s favourites like Crackerjack and Ask Aspel and shows including This Is Your Life and Antiques Roadshow. With stories of interviews gone delightfully wrong, encounters with silver screen legends, and even his comic turns with Morecambe and Wise, this is the definitive portrait of a man who helped shape British TV
Michael Aspel at the BBC airs on BBC Four HD at 7:45 PM, Sunday 14 December. (Subtitles, new.)
Topics
Arts ➝ Culture (without music)
Simon Goretzki
Series Producer
