Sad to see that Bamber Gascoigne has also left us, aged 87. Bamber presented University Challenge from 1962 until 1987 when the show was quietly retired. When it was revived in 1994, Jeremy Paxman became only the second presenter in the show's history when Bamber declined an invitation to return. Surprisingly, Jeremy has now presented the quiz for longer than Bamber did (though he returned for two 'Specials' in the '90s, one a parody), but to people of and around my age, University Challenge will always be mainly associated with the one, the only, Bamber Gascoigne.
