Hart-Davis's work in broadcasting began in 1977 when he joined Yorkshire Television ( YTV ) as a researcher, working on material for Magnus Pyke, David Bellamy, Miriam Stoppard as well as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.

There is a part for narrator on pre-recorded video which was played in the original production by Magnus Pyke and in the London production by the noted astronomer and TV personality Sir Patrick Moore.

Among the prominent British personalities he portrayed were Eddie Waring, the famously impossible to understand rugby league commentator ; Brian Clough, the controversial football manager ; Robin Day, the then top political interviewer on the BBC ; Magnus Pyke, the eccentric TV science presenter ; Alf Garnett, the star from Till Death Us Do Part ; the fictional American detective Columbo ; Frank Spencer, the comic creation of sitcom actor Michael Crawford ; and Wilson's Conservative Party rival Ted Heath.

From New York, Pyke sent the proposal he had composed on Habbakuk via diplomatic bag to COHQ with a label forbidding anyone apart from Mountbatten from opening the package.

( Meltem John and Magnus Spike are plays on Elton John and Magnus Pyke.

Pyke was a regular panellist on the Yorkshire Television science programme Don't Ask Me from 1974 to 1979, and was awarded the Pye Colour Television Award as the most promising male newcomer to television in 1975.

Musical guests who have appeared on Sunrise include Fergie, Paulini, the Young Divas, Pink, Sam Sparro, The Veronicas, The Wiggles, Hinder, Take That, Keith Urban, Joss Stone, Eskimo Joe, Sneaky Sound System, Thirsty Merc, Missy Higgins, Josh Groban, Girls Aloud, Human Nature, Grinspoon, Avril Lavigne, Patrizio Buanne, Small Mercies, Zac Efron, Tamara Dowhaluk, Mark Dawson, Wilhediva Slater, The Androids, Michael Bublé, Maroon 5, Crowded house, Silverchair, Paul Kelly, Colbie Caillat, Gym Class Heroes, Editors, Jose Gonzalez, Josh Pyke, Daddy Cool, Something for Kate, The Whitlams with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Cat Empire, Rogue Traders, Kelly Clarkson, The Last Goodnight, Ben Lee, Anthony Callea, Delta Goodrem, David Campbell, Kate Miller-Heidke, Tina Arena, Hi-5, Mika, Operator Please, Newton Faulkner, Kelly Rowland, Guy Sebastian, Simple Plan, Ian Moss, The Pussycat Dolls, Ozzy Osbourne, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Usher Raymond, Alexandra Burke, Amy Meredith, Ne-Yo, The Choirboys, Florence + the Machine, Michael Paynter, Katy Perry, Little Red, Cody Simpson, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Sophie-Ellis Bextor, Susan Boyle and Reece Mastin, Direction among many others.

Its seat is on Pyke.

The song features interjections from the British scientist and TV presenter Magnus Pyke, who repeatedly shouts " Science!

Throughout the course of the video, Magnus Pyke ( as the Home Doctor ) tries to diagnose what he is suffering from, all the while being seduced by Miss Sakamoto, a secretary in the home.

Akkerman's " House of the King " ( from the Focus Plays Focus album ) was the title theme of Don't Ask Me, a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy.

Although Pyke was known for bringing science to a lay audience, in The Science Myth ( and similar writings, such as Slaves Unaware?

In 2009 Dr David Mulford was appointed as Headmaster and the College is presently preparing to celebrate its Sesquicentenary and the opening of two new buildings honouring two former Headmasters-The Lawrence Pyke Science Centre and The Tony Rae Resources Centre Library.

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

The first continuous round of the Munros was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the current holder of the record for the fastest continuous round is Stephen Pyke who completed his 2010 round in just under 40 days.

His record was broken by Stephen Pyke of Stone, Staffordshire, in 2010 who completed the round in 39 days, 9 hours.

Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Pyke learned from a report by Herman Mark and his assistant that ice made from water mixed with wood fibres formed a strong solid mass — much stronger than pure water ice.

Pyke worked at Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ), alongside Bernal, and was regarded as a genius by Mountbatten.

David Lampe, in his book, Pyke, the Unknown Genius, states that the name was derived from Voltaire's Candide and was misspelt by his Canadian secretary.

It has been suggested that Pyke was inspired by Inuit sleds reinforced with moss.

The gallery was opened in 1888 by local resident, James Pyke Thompson, originally to house his personal art collection.

Lillee persevered, undergoing an intensive physiotherapy routine, formulated by sports scientist Frank Pyke, and remodelling his bowling action.

This was later replaced with the studio show Don't Just Sit There presented by Magnus Pyke with David Bellamy.

Pyke was appointed OBE by the Queen in 1978.

Pyke professes that there are alternative systems to that of the Western industrialized nations which could retain many of the benefits of science and technology, allow a reasonable standard of living, but still make room for the " good life ", many aspects of which were enjoyed by pre-industrial societies.

* To Ruhleben — and Back ( Book 2 in Collins Library ) ( by Geoffrey Pyke ) 2003 / 04 / 15

Lake Alabaster drains, and is drained by, the Pyke River, a small tributary of the Hollyford River.

* Freeform ( musician ), an alias used by experimental / IDM producer Simon Pyke

Mike Pyke who was born in Canada became the first Canadian to play in the Australian Football League when he was drafted by the Sydney Swans in 2008.

The museum's collection of modern art includes works by international artists ( Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Frank Stella and many others ) and Dutch artists ( Charlotte Dumas, Pyke Koch, Piet Mondriaan, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop, Hans Wilschut and many others.

Both the original store and the current site were designed by Matt Pyke, originally of The Designers Republic and now running his own design studio, Universal Everything.

Magnus Alfred Pyke ( Paddington, London, 29 December 1908 — 19 October 1992 ) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience.

The next governor, Isaac Pyke ( 1731 – 1738 ), had a tyrannical reputation but successfully extended tree plantations, improved fortifications and transformed the garrison and militia into a reliable force for the first time.

In the second match, Swans ruckman Mike Pyke had a Goal of the Year contender disallowed as replays showed it had hit the post.

* Jean Medawar and Pyke, David, 2000.

Andrew Pepper's " The Last Days of Newgate " ( 2006 ) describes a fictitious Bow Street Runner, Pyke, who tries to prove his innocence in a murder trial.

* June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher ( d. 1884 )

Geoffrey Pyke managed to convince Lord Mountbatten of the worth of his project ( actually prior to the invention of pykrete ) some time around 1942, and trials were made in two locations in Alberta in Canada.

The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke who worked for Combined Operations.

Geoffrey Pyke was an old friend of J. D.

Pyke conceived the idea of Habbakuk while in the US organising the production of M29 Weasels for Project Plough, a scheme to assemble an elite unit for winter operations in Norway, Romania, and the Italian Alps.

Pyke realized that the answer was ice, which could be manufactured for only 1 % of the energy needed to make an equivalent mass of steel.

Pyke was not the first to suggest a floating mid-ocean stopping point for aircraft, nor even the first to suggest that such a floating island could be made of ice: German scientist Dr. Gerke of Waldenberg proposed the idea and carried out some preliminary experiments in Lake Zurich in 1930.