Glyn Worsnip

Glyn Worsnip (2 September 1938 – 7 June 1996) was a British radio and television presenter. Born in Highnam, Gloucestershire, he was most famous for his appearances on That's Life! (where he was teamed with Kieran Prendiville from 1973 to 1978) and on Nationwide.[1]

Biography

He attended Monmouth School and after two years service in the RAF as a Photographic Intelligence Officer he graduated from St John's College, Oxford, with an honours degree in English. He trained as a journalist and actor, was a prolific writer of revues and appeared on stage in revue, farce and Shakespearian productions before his first appearance as a TV presenter on That's Life!.

In the late 1980s Glyn began experiencing the symptoms af a cerebellar disorder. In 1986 he developed dysarthria (slurred speech) as part of an initial cerebellar ataxia diagnosis. In his autobiography, Up the Down Escalator, he mentions being diagnosed with multiple system atrophy (MSA) at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.[2] MSA is a progressive, adult onset disorder characterised by any combination of parkinsonism, autonomic failure (see nervous system) and cerebellar ataxia.

The BBC did not renew his contract in 1987.

He made the programme, A Lone Voice, about his struggle with the disease, which would claim his life in 1996 at the age of 57, and which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988. It has been described as "the most engaging programme in Radio 4's history".[3]

Autobiography
  • Glyn Worsnip - Up the Down Escalator (1990)[3]
gollark: You claimed to be a qualified electrical engineer, see.
gollark: You can't say ? because you exploded.
gollark: Apparently the patent expired now, vaguely relatedly.
gollark: It's not the same as actually developing the entire standard, but it's something I guess.
gollark: > In the early 1990s, O'Sullivan led a team at the CSIRO which patented, in 1996, the use of a related technique for reducing multipath interference of radio signals transmitted for computer networking. This technology is a part of all recent WiFi implementationsAh, so they contributed somewhat to WiFi.

References
  1. Obituary in The Independent
  2. last page and last paragraph
  3. Ed Green (13 March 2017). "Remembering A Lone Voice - My Homage To Glyn Worsnip". Huffpost. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
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