Chris Packham

[Crafty_]

DrTre said:

He's a petrolhead so he can't be all bad..(he's a biker, at least)

I think he lives Winchester way ? either way I seem to remember him being in the paper (at least once) for getting banned for naughty speeds on a bike.

[Eric Mc]

He covered the BBC 2006 70th aniversary Spitfire celebrations - so he likes his planes too.

[Mr GrimNasty]

I used to think he sometimes looked incredibly awkward on camera, like he had a terrible bad back or he was deperately trying to hold in a poo - but I recently read he suffers from chronic vertigo which maybe explains it.

[DoctorX]

Mr GrimNasty said:

I used to think he sometimes looked incredibly awkward on camera, like he had a terrible bad back or he was deperately trying to hold in a poo - but I recently read he suffers from chronic vertigo which maybe explains it.

er, do you mean lumbago?

[Mr GrimNasty]

DoctorX said:

er, do you mean lumbago?

No. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1382836/...

[Kiltie]

he's still a wk

[Eric Mc]

Seems he suffers from Meniere's Duisease - a problem with the inner ear. He's in good company. Mercury astronaut Alan B Shepard was grounded from 1962 to 1971 because of the same problem.

[MartinM]

No idea who Chris Packham is but the bloke in the pictures is Cwith Packham surely.

[Cupramax]

MartinM said:

No idea who Chris Packham is but the bloke in the pictures is Cwith Packham surely.

Indeed, another BBC pwesenter who cant pwonounce his R's pwoperly.

[rumbletum]

Most folk who spend a lot of time outdoors in the fresh air (rather than the pale sorts hunched over their PCs moaning) seem to be decent enough.

Apart from the Hitler Youth.

[Mr Kitten]

Six Fiend said:

He also has a habit of slipping song titles into his scripts. 2009 was the year of The Smiths, 2010 THe Cure and this year it was the Manic Street Preachers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13903...

This year's autumn watch seems to be The Damned...

[Mr GrimNasty]

rumbletum said:

Most folk who spend a lot of time outdoors in the fresh air (rather than the pale sorts hunched over their PCs moaning) seem to be decent enough.

For those old enough to remember, I don't know what Jack Hargreaves had in his pipe, but Out of Town was as chilled out as TV gets.