John Logie Baird

A number of different scientists and inventors were working on similar projects at the same time.

But a man from my country, John Logie Baird, is the man who created the first working television system.

He first demonstrated his invention to the public in 1925.

At one of London's most famous department stores, Logie Baird demonstrated how silhouette images could be seen to move on a screen.

I've written lots of songs, but...

The one that I really love is the musical play that I've written about the life of John Logie Baird.

What is the title of your Logie Baird musical?

It's just called Logie, and then underneath it's got Man of Vision.

That was a design flaw.

It was actually John Logie Baird's puppet and it was the first thing ever seen on television.

I asked you what word Alexander Graham Bell suggested we should say when answering the telephone.

What did you think?

Grief, once again, sits at the heart of the story.

Bell was named alongside Marconi and the television pioneer John Logie Baird among the scientific men of his era drawn into spiritualism.

He moved in circles thick with it.

His own father-in-law, Gardiner...

So your information is absolutely correct.

I don't know if he was absolutely the fir- I mean, if you wanna get technical, John Logie Baird was the first person to be transmitted, or at least the doll that he used when doing tests of his, uh, television.

But basically, um, yes, Adolf Hitler was absolutely one of the first, possibly the first person to be broadcast, um, across the airwaves.

Probably prefer to forget that one.

The world has become much smaller with travel and the airwaves.

1926, it's the year that John Logie Baird showed off the early prototype of the first television.

Don Juan was the hit movie of the year.

It had a soundtrack.