Jack Hargreaves OBE (31 Dec 1911-15 Mar 1994) was an author and TV presenter whose enduring interest was to comment on growing distortions in relations between the city and the countryside via the weekly programme ‘Out of Town’ on Southern Television, following the success of his 1959 debut with the B&W series ‘Gone Fishing.’
“We think we belong to the age of do-it-yourself,” said Jack. “We think we invented it. That’s because we are so utterly unconscious of our past, because for a thousand years everybody was almost entirely do-it-yourself.
Most well-known to many as a presenter of the young person’s programme ‘How?’, in which a group of presenters explained how things worked… Jack Hargreaves also presented ‘Out of Town’, with the latter series being presented from his garden shed in Dorset.
What Killed up to a Third of Dorset’s Population?
Jack Hargreaves out of Town George Dunton the 100-year-old Fisherman
The Great Dorset Steam Fair 1981 – Jack’s Country
In 1981 he presented this film at The Great Dorset Steam Fair. This historic documentary was shot on film and tells the complete story from harvesting the corn and bringing the steam engines to the site to the thrill of the Great Dorset Steam Fair.
A Tribute to Jack Hargreaves
What we have now only exists as a consequence of the past, and what we have now will determine much of the future. In these times, what a scary thought.
