Hugh Scully
Michael Hugh Scully (5 March 1943 – 8 October 2015) was a British television presenter. He is best known as the host of the BBC show Antiques Roadshow from 1981 to 2000.
Born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, he spent much of his childhood in Malta and Egypt, where his father was stationed with the Royal Air Force. He was sent to boarding school in Bath at the age of 13, and after leaving worked for a period with the piano company Steinway & Sons. He auditioned successfully as a temporary newsreader on BBC radio, and made his first radio appearance reporting from Southampton in 1963.
Always a freelance journalist rather than an employee, he worked on BBC news magazines and was a presenter on the BBC South West news programme Spotlight from 1965, before joining the networked news programme Nationwide. After a producer discovered that he collected antiques, he became chairman of the radio show Talking about Antiques in 1967 and Collector's World in 1970.
Scully was chosen in 1981 to present Antiques Roadshow, along with Arthur Negus. Negus retired in 1983, and Scully was the sole host on that show for 17 years. He resigned as presenter in 2000, to join Internet auction company QXL.com and help launch its on-line antiques business, and was replaced by Michael Aspel. From 1988, Scully ran a television production company, Fine Art Productions, and he also hosted a segment on Britain's Finest. He was married to his wife Barbara for 43 years before she died on 9 March 2009.
Podcasts:
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by RX Bandits
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by Partia
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by Friday Night Boys
High Skool
by: RX Banditswell, whoever tied the rope behind you has the keys you know
inebriation is the place in parities that you go
gives you fake security and makes you free to live your life
but you live it to be superficial and we'll see that tonight
you aren't any different then the people at your school
you kids that see me rock the set think that we're the funny fools
and the room of pleasure is all i can believe
you envy others and they have no personality
come on baby let me show you what you got, yea
for being part of the crowd
come on baby let me show you what you got, yea
let's be a part of the crowd
well, ill take my insecurities and listen to the ska
well i'm thinking that i think about it and i sing about it quite a lot
i don't know what it's all about, but i know it's cool
and i know i can do it because i'm in high school
only in high school
your driving around in daddy's new car
you think that you're a pimp
you think that you're the bomb
you know that i'm right
you know that you're wrong
but you know what you can do because your doing it, doing it now
keeping up the drug war
give me some sugar baby
i'll get laid and i'm fucking drunk now
you are all screwed up and what can you say
with a baby in your arms there is no more play
what's wrong with you
but you go and do what your friends do
and you, you don't know what's going on with you
so take warning, take warning
take warning my best friend
because i don't want to see you left with a fall
high school
well, whoever tied the rope behind you has the keys you know
inebriation is the place in parities that you go
gives you fake security and makes you free to live your life
but you live it to be superficial and we'll see that tonight
you aren't any different then the people at your school
you kids that see me rock the set think that we're the funny fools
and the room of pleasure is all i can believe