Television Gallery

David Attenborough, British naturalist

David Attenborough. Caricature of the British naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) holding a frog. Attenborough is most famous for the numerous BBC television nature documentaries he has presented. In the 1960s and 1970s he was controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television. His awards include Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1974), Fellow of the Royal Society (1983), Knight Bachelor (1985), Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1991), Companion of Honour (1996) and the Order of Merit (2005)

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Sir Mortimer Wheeler

Portrait of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890 - 1976), archaeologist and broadcaster, seated at his desk in the British Academy. Through the medium of television, Wheeler succeeded in bringing the meaning of archaeology and a knowledge of the antique to a very wide public and in so doing became one of TV's brightest stars. He was a brigadier in the Salerno landings in 1943 and won the M.C. in 1917 as a battery commander, and was President of the Society of Antiquaries and Secretary of the British Academy. The Roman civilization was his particular subject, and he was Professor of Archaeology of the Roman Provinces in the University of London until 1955

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Shukhov broadcasting tower

The Shukhov radio tower, Moscow, photographed at night. Also known as the Shabolovka tower, this broadcasting tower was designed by architect Vladimir Shukhov to serve the Russian capital. The tower is 160 metres tall and is made from a lattice of steel known as a hyperboloid - the vertical steel components describe hyperbolas over the surface of the conical tower. This design minimised wind loading on the structure. It was built in 1920-22 and is found on Shabolovka Street a few kilometres south of the Kremlin

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