Fred Harris (presenter)

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Fred Harris
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Born7 May 1947  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Occupation Television presenter, comedian   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Works Play School   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Fred Harris (born 1947) is a British comedian [1] and children's television presenter. Formerly a schoolteacher, he began his television career as a presenter of the BBC children's programme Play School , on which he appeared regularly between 1973 and 1988. During this time he was also a presenter on Ragtime and Chock-A-Block .[ citation needed ]

During the rise of the microcomputer in the early 1980s he fronted several home computing BBC programmes, including Micro Live (which formed part of BBC's ongoing Computer Literacy Project). [2] He also presented a number of educational and schools programmes on the subject of maths, including ATV's Figure it Out (memorable for having a set which included a giant pocket calculator), Central Television's Basic Maths and Channel 4's Make It Count. In 1980 Harris appeared as a contestant on the first episode of The Adventure Game .

His career in comedy involved regular appearances in radio shows such as Huddwinks, The Half-Open University , The Burkiss Way and Star Terk II and in the television show End of Part One .

In the 1990s, he presented the Radio 4 programme The Litmus Test .

From the late 1990s until circa 2009 he worked on the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) children's programme Room 785 . [3] On this show he presented the "Broom Cupboard" slot introducing the forthcoming programmes.

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References

  1. Guide, British Comedy. "Fred Harris". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  2. "BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive" . Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  3. Room 785: Meet the Gang, BFBS (via archive.org, archived 6 January 2009)