The Story Of Tomorrow's World: How A Tv Show Predicted The Future And Helped Shape British Enterprise telegraph.co.uk

Tonight, the most famous brand in science television will be revived. Tomorrow’s World Live: For One Night Only reunites former presenters Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford and looks back at the show which introduced Britain to electronic banking, personal computers and fast trains to Paris; a show created by my father, Glyn Jones.

Yet he told me that the series, which ran on BBC One for 38 years, had an inauspicious start. In 1965, Glyn, a staff producer at the BBC, was asked to devise a science series to fill a vacant 30-minute slot. He had been asked to do so because of his success with Challenge, a New Year round-up of the old year’s technology stories.