Paxman became a focus of media attention in his own right in October 2000 when the stolen Enigma machine, which had been taken from Bletchley Park Museum, was inexplicably sent to him in the post.

The track, which was co-written by Tzuke with Mike Paxman, became a Top 20 hit in the UK in the summer of 1979 and a # 1 hit in Australia and was featured on Tzuke's 1979 debut album, Welcome to the Cruise, which was also a Top 20 hit.

With the more liberal society of the 1960s, the coeducational liberal arts ethos of the school became extremely fashionable, attracting many literary and artistic parents, including Lawrence Durrell, Simon Raven, Robert Graves, Cecil Day-Lewis, Peggy Guggenheim, Ted Hughes, Edna O ' Brien, John and Penelope Mortimer, Frederick Raphael, Joseph Losey, Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Susan Hampshire, Jill Balcon, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Pete Townshend, Sandie Shaw, Trevor Nunn, Jeremy Paxman, A.

The Ruston Paxman diesels division became known as Ruston Diesels, and moved the former English Electric diesel works.

In 1996 Paxman received BAFTA's Richard Dimbleby Award for " outstanding presenter in the factual arena.

Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades.

Famous ex-editors include the BBC news presenters Jeremy Paxman and David Frost, film director Michael Winner, the late television presenter Richard Whiteley, Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, novelist Robert Harris, novelist and biographer Graham Lord, historian Jonathan Spence, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and BBC1's EastEnders executive producer Matthew Robinson.

Later, during a 20th anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview since the next item in the running order wasn't ready.

Paxman asked Halliday in a Newsnight interview, " Aren't you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein?

In April 2006 The Sun claimed that Paxman earned £ 800, 000 for his Newsnight job and £ 240, 000 for presenting University Challenge, bringing his TV earnings to a yearly total of £ 1, 040, 000.

Paxman has been widely condemned as disrespectful when commented in an absurd way the possible exit of Greece from the Eurozone (' like bad kebab vomiting ") on 31 May 2012 edition of Newsnight.

Similarly, Graeme Garden suggested on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in 1994 that one way to increase Newsnight < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s ratings would be to " arm Jeremy Paxman ".

* BBC ' Newsnight ' biography of Jeremy Paxman

A further controversy came when the television interviewer, Jeremy Paxman, relentlessly asked him the same question 12 times in all, ( 14 if including two earlier inquiries that were worded somewhat differently ) during an edition of the Newsnight programme.

In November 2004, Newsnight again concentrated on Howard with coverage of a campaign trip to Cornwall and an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

The network was in discussions to unveil a weekly news program fronted by Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman.

Later, during a twentieth anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he'd simply been trying desperately to string out the interview because the next item in the running order had failed to materialize.

Each episode is brought to an interrupted ending with just enough time to quickly overview the following day's newspapers ( a parody of Jeremy Paxman on BBC2's Newsnight ) printed with absurd headlines such as Lord Mayor's pirouette in fire chief wife decapitation, and a final humorously misused video.

In a live interview on Newsnight during the Ron Davies scandal of 1998, he famously told interviewer Jeremy Paxman that there were two gay members of the then current Labour Cabinet, one being Peter Mandelson.

Oborne was ' chided ' by Jeremy Paxman, chief Newsnight anchor, for ' gratuituous rudeness ' after he himself, given Oborne's ' pace-setting ,' and before Tardio's walk-out, had asked for a response from, ' Mr. Idiot in Brussels.

** Jeremy Paxman, interviewer on the BBC's Newsnight.

In July 2007 in interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's " Newsnight " programme, it was reported that Hunter had pledged to donate a further £ 1 billion to charity.

The second section is an analysis of a BBC2 Newsnight programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by Jeremy Paxman with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it.

( Includes: excerpt from the book ; a hyperlinked RealPlayer or Windows Media Player News Player Newsnight clip of interview with Joseph C. Wilson, conducted by Jeremy Paxman, on BBC Two, on November 3, 2005 ; and a clip of an earlier interview with former Ambassador Wilson, conducted on Newsnight, by Martha Kearney, on November 3, 2003.

* Anjem Choudary interviewed by Jeremy Paxman Newsnight, BBC

It was while working on this show that O ' Callaghan was spotted by the Editor of Newsnight, Tim Gardam, who recruited her as a high profile reporter on the BBC's flagship news programme, Newsnight, with Jeremy Paxman.

* Paxman, J .; Harris, R. ( 2002 ).

In 1994 the show was resurrected by the BBC with Jeremy Paxman as the new quizmaster.

The show, and the catch phrase used Gascoigne ( and later Paxman ) before each toss-up question, " Your starter for 10 ," was the inspiration for the novel Starter for 10, and the subsequent film.

It's just me, Geoff, Steve R, and Mike Paxman in the studio --- Carl is pretty much all done, Steve H is half done, and returns to the fold after Yes tour.

Jeremy Dickson Paxman ( born 11 May 1950 ) is an English journalist, author and broadcaster.

Paxman was born in Leeds.

His mother, Joan McKay ( née Dickson ), born 1920, was a housewife, and his father, Arthur Keith Paxman, worked in industry.

Paxman is the eldest of four children and has two brothers, one of whom, Giles, is the British Ambassador to Spain ( having previously been ambassador to Mexico ), and a sister, Jenny, a producer at BBC Radio.

While at Cambridge, Paxman was briefly a member of the Labour Club.

The documentary concluded him to be descended from one Roger Packsman, a 14th century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman ( man of peace, " Pax " translates from Latin as peace ) to impress " the electorate.

The programme generated much publicity prior to its transmission by displaying the usually pitiless Paxman teary-eyed on camera when informed that his impoverished great-grandmother Mary Mackay's poor relief had been revoked because she'd had a child out of wedlock.

Paxman joined the BBC's graduate trainee programme in 1972.

In 2004 Paxman raised the subject again with Howard, by then leader of the Conservative Party.

Later that year Paxman won a Royal Television Society award.

In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair opted to make the case for the invasion of Iraq via questions from a TV studio audience, mediated by Paxman.

The programme is chiefly remembered for the fact that Paxman asked Blair if he and U. S. President Bush prayed together.

Referring to Oona King, whom Galloway had just defeated, Paxman asked more than once whether he was proud of having got rid of " one of the very few black women in Parliament.

Paxman questioned the apparent change in her views on fuel duty.

Paxman has presented the weekly TV programme review Did You See ?, You Decide and, most notably, since 1994, University Challenge, bringing him the distinction of " longest-serving current quizmaster on British TV.

Paxman appeared as himself in an episode of BBC comedy The Thick of It which aired in January 2007.