A centenary profile of John Logie Baird (1888-1946) in his own words. He was the archetypal inventor - obsessive, impatient and frustrated by the lack of recognition for his achievements.
And those achievements were unparalleled - the first television transmission, first colour transmission, 3-D TV, a revolutionary navigational aid called Noctovision, not forgetting more down-to-earth inventions, such as the medicated undersock.
But Baird died embittered by the refusal of the establishment to give him the credit he deserved, by the moneymen's failure to back him and his own naivety that had lost him a fortune.
In 1941, while convalescing from a heart attack, Baird dictated his autobiography. Never published, it forms the core of this progamme.
Narrator Mary Marquis
Associate producer DOROTHY-GRACE ELDER
Producer MATTHEW SPICER
Director MICHAEL TOSH
BBC Scotland
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