Jack Hargreaves

Jack Hargreaves

John Herbert Hargreaves OBE (31 December 1911 – 15 March 1994) was an English television presenter and writer whose enduring interest was to comment without nostalgia or sentimentality on accelerating distortions in relations between the city and the countryside, seeking – in entertaining ways – to question and rebut metropolitan assumptions about its character and function. Hargreaves is remembered for appearing on How, a children's programme which he also conceived, about how things worked or ought to work. It ran from 1966 on Southern Television (of which Hargreaves was a director) and networked on ITV until the demise of Southern in 1981. Hargreaves was the presenter of the weekly magazine programme Out of Town, first broadcast in 1960 following the success of his series Gone Fishing the previous year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 1 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Hargreaves is the 163rd most popular presenter (down from 149th in 2024), the 9,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 9,019th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Presenter.