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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
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Birth: | 23rd May, 1938 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Television Presenter |
Johnny Ball was born in Bristol, England. He is an English television presenter, a populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball. He studied at Bolton County Grammar School. He then signed on for three years in the Royal Air Force, worked as a Butlin's Redcoat, and was an entertainer in northern clubs and cabaret. He was a regular fixture on children's television in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, presenting several series of popular science and technology programmes intended for children, including Think of a Number, Think Again, and Think Backwards. He was also one of the hosts of infant education programme Play School beginning in 1967 and continuing throughout the 1970s and beyond.
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