1. Jack Hargreaves is remembered for appearing on How, a children's programme which he conceived, about how things worked or ought to work.
19 Facts About Jack Hargreaves
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Jack 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.
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In each episode Jack Hargreaves appeared in short 16mm film reports on some aspect of rural life, usually one in each half of the episode.
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Jack Hargreaves was involved in the setting up of ITV, and a member of Southern's board of directors, and was employed by the National Farmers' Union, serving on the Nugent Committee.
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Jack Hargreaves was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 New Year Honours.
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The family was rooted in Armitage Bridge near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where at the time of his marriage in 1907 James Jack Hargreaves was a commercial traveller.
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Jack Hargreaves based himself partly in London in connection with his work and to allow his wife the benefits of the capital's midwifery.
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The brothers attended Merchant Taylors' School, then at the London Charterhouse, in Farringdon, after which Edward and Ronald Hargreaves pursued successful careers in medicine, while in 1928 Jack went to study at the Royal Veterinary College of London University.
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On leaving the college, Jack Hargreaves worked as a vet's assistant, but he was earning a living as a journalist.
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Jack Hargreaves became a copywriter, and script writer for radio and films, and by the late 1930s he had established a reputation for his pioneering approaches to radio broadcasting.
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Jack Hargreaves left the army in 1945 with the substantive rank of major, having briefly held the acting rank of lieutenant-colonel.
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Jack Hargreaves was deputy programme controller of Southern Television from 1964 to 1976, in which role he devised new programmes.
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Jack Hargreaves's writing and contacts among anglers saw the president of the Piscatorial Society, Sir Robert Saundby, asking Hargreaves to organise the Society's library.
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Jack Hargreaves became of the opinion that one of the best ways to reserve the countryside for its proper purpose was to keep most people out of it.
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Jack Hargreaves believed that although agriculture would be preferable, military exercises seemed less harmful in their impact on the environment than its use for the recreational choices of a predominantly urban population.
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Jack Hargreaves had a daughter Polly, born in 1957 as a result of a six-year relationship with his secretary Judy Hogg.
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Jack Hargreaves had worked with Steve Wade on How before Southern Television lost its franchise.
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In 1985 Jack Hargreaves worked with Wade to make 28 new Out of Town episodes for video release.
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Jack Hargreaves authored a number of audio-tapes and long play records on his favourite subjects.