Biography[edit] Radio and televisionHe began supplying radio and television with odd facts and quiz questions such as Celebrity Squares. As a radio presenter he began on BBC Radio 3 and later on BBC Radio 4 became chairman of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? and also had his own late night BBC Radio 2 show titled Nightline. On another a late-evening phone-in show on LBC in London during the late 1970s (where he used to announce himself as Jeremy James Anthony Gibson Beadlebum and his Producer as 'Butch' Bavin) he developed a cult following. He also became renowned for his off-air pranks and intellectually challenging quizzes. He wrote, devised and presented many pilots for the highly successful game show company Action Time. He wrote and and became accidental presenter of The Deceivers a BBC2 television series recounting the history of swindlers and hoaxers. The success of this led to using the same format for Eureka which told the background behind everyday inventions. He then went on to become nationally famous as one of the presenters of LWT's Game for a Laugh (along with Matthew Kelly, Henry Kelly and Sarah Kennedy),a pivotal show in the history of British television since it was the first time ITV 'won' the Saurday night ratings battle. This was followed by a hidden-camera style practical joke show, Beadle's About (1987-1996) which became the world's longest continuously-running hidden camera show. From 1990 he wrote and presented You've Been Framed!, a family show featuring humorous clips from viewers' home video recordings. In total Beadle hit the UK Number One ratings slot four times. In 1995, reflecting his days on LBC, he presented a relatively short lived by hugely popular Sunday late-evening show on the newly launched Talk Radio UK. In between his considerable television output as writer, presenter and producer he appeared in numerous pantomimes and ring mastered many circuses notably for Gerry Cottle. He currently works as a consultant for many television companies, writes books and presents quizzes both commercially and for charity.[edit] WritingBeadle wanted to be the British Robert L. Ripley. A love of trivia led him to write Today's the Day, (published in UK by WH Allen in 1979 and by Signet in the USA two years later), researched in his own library of more than 25,000 volumes. This book recounts -- for any given day of the year -- notable births, deaths and other events which occurred on this date in previous years. Beadle briefly performed a similar duty on television's TV-am, informing each morning's viewers of prominent events on this date in past years.For more than two years, he scripted a daily cartoon series of Today's the Day for the Daily Express. He worked alongside Irving Wallace and son David Wallechinsky and daughter Amy Wallace as the biggest contributor to the sex and death chapters of the sensationally successful Book of Lists and was the London editor of The People's Almanac 2. The Wallaces' book The Intimate Sex Lives of the Famous (Hutchinson, 1981) was researched in part in Beadle's library, which contains an extensive canon of erotic literature. In autumn 2007 three new Beadle titles are due to be published; Firsts, Lasts & Onlys Crime, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys Military (both co-authored by Ian Harrison) and Beadle's Miscellany a thousand incredibly tough questions from his weekly quizzes in The Independent.[edit] Knowledge (General)Famous for his general knowledge, he was host of Win Beadle's Money (based on the US format Win Ben Stein's Money) he lost only 8 times in 52 shows. He wrote and presented a notoriously difficult quiz at London's The Atlantic Grill restaurant, usually attended by celebrities and members of the press. He also currently writes a quiz for The Independent every Saturday. He occasionally appears as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote and in dictionary corner for Channel 4's Countdown.[edit] Charity workIn 2000, he became an MBE for his services to charity.[1] Beadle is a keen supporter of the charity Children With Leukaemia, and by coincidence he was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2005. The condition is not thought to be life-threatening, though he had an operation to remove a cancerous kidney in 2004. He spends much time raising money for many different charities with Plastermind his 'outrageous quiz for those who don't like quizzes'Beadle is a Trust Patron of The Philip Green Memorial Trust, and he annually hosts a quiz party to raise money for disadvantaged children.Beadle was Patron of Reach, an organisation providing support and advice for children in the UK with hand or arm deficiencies, and their parents.[2][edit] DisabilityBeadle has Poland syndrome[3] and is noted for being one of the first TV presenters with a visible disability. His disability manifests as a disproportionately small right hand.