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| birth_name = 194313|df=y}}| birth_place = Bristol, England| death_date = | death_place = United Kingdom>British| other_names = | known_for = Television presenter| occupation = }}Christopher Richard Serle (born 13 July 1943 in Bristol, England) is a former BBC TV presenter, reporter and actor.

Biography

Serle was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied modern languages. He appeared as a foil for Irish comedian Dave Allen in his series Dave Allen at Large in 1971, but gained greater UK public recognition as one of the presenters on the TV series That's Life!.BOOK, Stevens, Christopher, Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, John Murray, 2010, 978-1-84854-195-5, 403, WEB, Doherty, Aileen, February 6, 1981, It's a Full Life (Ealing Gazette),weblink 2022-05-11, Newspapers.com, en, He later presented and appeared in In at the Deep End, a series in which he, and fellow former That's Life! presenter Paul Heiney, were pitched into professional situations with no prior knowledge.In the 1980s, he presented Windmill in which clips from the BBC archives on particular themes were shown (so called as the then base for BBC archives was in Windmill Road, Brentford). He also presented the viewer-response show Points of View, The Computer Programme,NEWS,weblink 25th anniversary of BBC Micro TV series, Drobe, 13 January 2007, 23 March 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110609041144weblink">weblink 9 June 2011, dead, and Monkey Business. On radio, he was the regular host of Pick of the Week between 1991 and 1998, and a frequent guest presenter until 2006. He also was the interviewer and host of the BBC series Greek Language and People with Katia Dandoulaki. As of 2005, he serves as the honorary president of the Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service, a registered charity which provides a radio service to the hospitals of Bristol.WEB, BHBS Members,weblink 2022-05-11, Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service, en-US, Serle featured on an episode of the BBC game show, The Adventure Game, with Sandra Dickinson and Adam Tandy on 16 February 1984. He also presented BBC's Radio Bristol The Afternoon Show for several years.WEB, Chris Serle,weblink 2022-05-11, IMDb,

Personal life

He is president of the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum.The Atwell Wilson Motor Museum

References

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External links

• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110718183402weblink">Chris Serle, Esq's Biography. Debrett's. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110706085148weblink">Meet our Presenters: Chris Serle. Travel Channel. Retrieved 2011-03-10.

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