Christopher "Chris" Richard Serle (born 13 July 1943, Bristol

Bristol

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, England

England

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) is a former BBC

BBC

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 TV presenter, reporter and actor. 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

Dave Allen (comedian)

David Tynan O'Mahoney , better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, very popular in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. He also became known in the United States through repeats of his shows on public television. His career had a major resurgence during the late...

 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!

That's Life!

That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters. The show was generally recorded about an hour prior to transmission, which was originally on Saturday...

and later presented and appeared in In At The Deep End

The Big Time (TV series)

The Big Time was a British documentary and reality television series made by the BBC, which ran from 1976 to 1980.Devised and produced by Esther Rantzen and narrated initially by Rantzen but later by John Pitman, each programme followed a member of the public placed in the limelight as a result of...

, a series in which he and former That's Life! presenter Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney has been a radio broadcaster or television reporter in the United Kingdom for over thirty years.-Early life:...

 were pitched into professional situations with no prior knowledge.

In the 1980s he presented Windmill

Windmill (TV series)

Windmill was a British television series, usually shown on Sunday lunchtimes on BBC2, which ran from 26 August 1985 to 3 April 1988, presented by Chris Serle, its name taken from the BBC television archives being housed at Windmill Road in West London at the time...

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

Brentford

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). He later presented the viewer-response show Points of View

Points of View

Points of View is a long-running television show shown in the United Kingdom on BBC One, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and purportedly witty observations on the television of recent weeks...

, The Computer Programme

The Computer Programme

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they were capable of. The BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed as part of...

, and Monkey Business

Monkey Business (TV series)

Monkey Business is a long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing...

. Also was in Greek Language and People with Katia Dandoulaki

Katia Dandoulaki

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. He currently serves as the Honorary President of the Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service, a registered charity which provides a radio service to the hospitals of Bristol.

Chris featured on an episode of the BBC gameshow The Adventure Game

The Adventure Game

The Adventure Game was a game show, aimed at children but with an adult following, which was originally broadcast on UK television channels BBC1 and BBC2 between 24 May 1980 and 18 February 1986. The story in each show was that the two celebrity contestants and a member of the public had travelled...

 with Sandra Dickinson and Adam Tandy on 16 February 1984.

Personal Life

Chris lives in Bristol, is married and has two grown up sons. His recreations include jazz, silent films, keeping roadworthy a small collection of elderly cars and hospital radio for children.
Chris Serle has a passion for cars and has an Aston Martin DB2 and a Model T Ford. He is President of the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum.http://www.atwellwilson.org.uk/president.htm