On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:49:12 +0000, Tim W wrote:

I always liked James Burke personally.


Not many people did. But he had an undeniable gift for getting a
technical message across with great enthusiasm in an accessible,
non-technical way.

As did Raymond Baxter, who was the voice of (among many other things)
Formula 1 motor racing (before Murray Walker), the Farnborough Air
Show, the first flight of Concorde as well as being the main presenter
on Tomorrow's World for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He was an RAF
fighter pilot in WW2.