1. Christopher Leonard Trace was an English actor and television presenter, notable for his nine years as an original presenter of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter.
11 Facts About Christopher Trace
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Christopher Trace was educated at Cranleigh School, a boarding independent school in the town of Cranleigh in Surrey, which he left early.
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Christopher Trace received a commission in the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army in 1953.
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Christopher Trace was promoted to lieutenant in February 1955, but resigned his commission in September 1956.
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At the age of 25, and alongside his co-presenter Leila Williams, Christopher Trace launched Blue Peter.
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Christopher Trace often threatened to resign and once the production team were happy that viewers had accepted John Noakes as a member of the team, Christopher Trace's next resignation was accepted.
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Christopher Trace became a writer and production manager for a film company named Spectator which failed after two years, losing him his life savings.
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Christopher Trace was declared bankrupt in 1973, then returned to the BBC, first on local television in East Anglia and then on the network TV programme Nationwide.
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Christopher Trace appeared on local television as a presenter on BBC's early evening news programme Look East.
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Christopher Trace died in 1992 from cancer of the oesophagus while living in Walthamstow.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Christopher Trace with coining two phrases that have become prominent in British popular culture: the line "And now for something completely different", later taken up by, and usually attributed to, Monty Python, and "Here's one I made earlier", since adopted by nearly all subsequent presenters on Blue Peter.