Nick Ross
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Spouse | Sarah Caplin |
Children | 3 |
Nicholas David Ross
Early life
He was brought up in Surrey.[4] His German Jewish father, Hans Rosenbluth, fled Germany in 1933 soon after the Nazis came to power. In 1940 Rosenbluth was interned as an ‘enemy alien‘ and sent from England to Australia on HMT Dunera. When allowed to return, Rosenbluth changed his name to John Caryl Ross and joined the British Army’s Pioneer Corps; he became an officer in 1945.[5] His paternal grandfather was Pinchas Rosen (born Felix Rosenblüth), who served three times as justice minister of Israel.
Ross went to Wallington County Grammar School and then read psychology at Queen's University Belfast. He graduated with a BA (Hons), later became a Doctor of the university (honoris causa) and he was deputy president of the Student Union and a leader of the student civil rights movement in 1968 and 1969. He started in journalism by reporting on the violence in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland.
Career
He began working part-time for the BBC in Northern Ireland while still a student and reported on the violence as
He was on the presenting team of a short-lived early-evening news programme
He presented A Week in Politics on Channel 4, then moved to cover BBC Two's live broadcasts of parliament in Westminster with Nick Ross. At one stage in the 1990s he was often doing three mainstream live programmes a day such as Call Nick Ross, Westminster with Nick Ross and Crimewatch. He was used in a variety of BBC formats including chat shows, travel programmes and debates, but was most at home in live studios, often orchestrating debates.
His Crimewatch co-presenter,
In 2000 Ross presented a general knowledge quiz called The Syndicate, aired on BBC 1 which pitted two teams across three rounds on general knowledge.[9]
In late 2007, Ross left Crimewatch, soon followed by his co-presenter Fiona Bruce. The replacement presenter, Kirsty Young, was 21 years younger than Ross and the BBC were accused of ageism over these changes.[10] His 23 years as the main Crimewatch anchor marks him as one of the longest-serving presenters of a continuous series in TV history.
He spent a year creating a major BBC One series The Truth About Crime,[11] which aired in mid-2009 and explained the fall in crime rates and how offending can be reduced further. The show was described by The Times as an "outstanding... sane, insightful and compellingly argued documentary series."[12]
He has since been making other TV shows, such as Secrets of the Crime Museum and science programmes for BBC Radio 4 including an acclaimed re-examination of the Chernobyl disaster Fallout: the Legacy of Chernobyl.[13] His written journalism has included a re-examination of the Air France Flight 447 air crash that provoked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic.[14][15]
He made a guest appearance on Are You Being Served?, playing himself in the last episode "The Pop Star", broadcast in April 1985, and has appeared on other shows, including Have I Got News for You.
Ross was appointed
Activities away from broadcasting
Away from broadcasting Ross has a wide range of philanthropic involvements, centred on medical ethics as well as promoting science and evidence-led health-care. He has also played a leading role in social action campaigns, most notably
Ross coined the term
Ross has written several books including Crime, how to solve it and why so much of what we're told is wrong,[19] and is President of the British Security Industries Association.
He has served on several government committees (including the Committee on the Ethics of Gene Therapy, the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, the NHS National Plan Task Force, the National Crime Prevention Board and the Crime Prevention Agency Board). He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1999–2005 and a member of the council's Working Party on Ethics of research involving animals[20] (2003–2005).
Ross contributed the foreword to
Ross is an Honorary Fellow of the
He is President of the
He has campaigned for sprinklers in social housing, chaired fire sector summits, lobbied ministers and was a critic of 'complacency' that led to mass fatalities in the Lakanal House and Grenfell Tower fires in London.[28] In 2023 he was appointed chair of trustees of the National Fire Chiefs Council.[29]
In 2003 he was tipped by The Sun newspaper as a candidate for Mayor of London, and his name was mentioned again for the 2008 election.[30] Although he did not stand,[31] he wrote a manifesto for London's evening paper[32] and chaired one of the key public debates. In 2011 he was mentioned as a possible police and crime commissioner.[33]
In 2012 it was reported that he had sold his home in
Ross works as a chairman and moderator for corporate and government meetings. His wife
Filmography
Year | Title | Channel |
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1971–1972 | Scene Around Six | BBC One Northern Ireland |
1972–1974 | The World Tonight | BBC Radio 4 |
1972–1974 | Newsdesk | BBC Radio 4 |
1973 | Newsbeat | BBC Radio 1 |
1974–1975 | The World at One | BBC Radio 4 |
1975–1982 | Out of Court | BBC Two |
1975–1983 | Man Alive |
BBC Two |
1983–1984 | Breakfast Time | BBC One |
1983–1984 | Sixty Minutes |
BBC One |
1985 | Are You Being Served? | BBC One |
1984–2007 | Crimewatch | BBC One |
1985 | Star Memories | BBC One |
1985–1987 | Watchdog | BBC One |
1986 | Drug Alert | BBC Radio 4 |
1986–1988 | A Week in Politics | Channel 4 |
1986–1997 | Call Nick Ross | BBC Radio 4 |
1988–2000 | Crimewatch File | BBC One |
1992–1994 | Crime Limited | BBC One |
1992–2002 | So You Think You Know How To Drive | BBC One |
1994–1997 | Westminster with Nick Ross | BBC Two |
1997 | Party Conferences | BBC Two |
1997 | Election Campaign | BBC Two |
1997–2005 | The Commission | BBC Radio 4 |
1998 | Newsnight | BBC Two |
1999–2006 | Crimewatch Solved | BBC One |
1999 | We Shall Overcome | BBC Northern Ireland |
1999 | Nick Ross | BBC Two |
1999 | Trail of Guilt | BBC One |
1999 | Storm Alert | BBC One |
1999–2000 | The Search | BBC One |
2000 | The Syndicate | BBC One |
2000 | Destination Nightmares | BBC One |
2002 | Jimmy Young Show | BBC Radio 2 |
2002 | Cracking Crime Day | BBC One |
2004 | The Archive Hour |
BBC Radio 4 |
2008 | Secrets of the Crime Museum | History Channel UK |
2009 | The Truth About Crime | BBC One |
2010 | Crime Hotspots | BBC Radio 4 |
2011 | Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl | BBC Radio 4 |
Bibliography
- Crimewatch UK (with ISBN 9780340405413
- Crime: How To Solve It, and Why So Much of What We're Told Is Wrong (ISBN 9781849544993
By others
- ISBN 9781845401184
- ISBN 9780752220031
References
- ^ "England & Wales, Birth Index 1916–2005". Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Ross to depart from Crimewatch – Greater London Online". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
- ^ "Nick Ross says goodbye". The Times. 3 July 2007.
- ^ "Nick Ross". nickross.com.
- ^ "My father fled the Nazis – now I've become a German citizen". The Times. London. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
- ^ Dallas Campbell, A Horizon Guide to Car Crashes," BBC4, 9pm, 21 October 2013
- ^ Adam Morgan, "Eating The Big Fish", Wiley, London, 2009, pp134-136
- ^ "BBC – Press Office – Jenny Abramsky Oxford lecture two". BBC.
- ^ "The Syndicate – UKGameshows". ukgameshows.com.
- ^ "Ross quits BBC's Crimewatch in row over ageism – Showbiz – London Eve…". 5 May 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
- ^ "BBC One – The Truth About Crime". BBC.
- ^ "Home Page – The TLS". TheTLS.
- ^ "Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl – BBC Radio 4". BBC.
- ^ "Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we're going to crash'". The Telegraph. 28 April 2012.
- ^ "Report: Airbus design may have contributed to deadly crash". Fox News. 1 May 2012.
- ^ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B10.
- ^ "Sprinklers and enlightened self-interest – FIRE". FIRE.
- ^ [1] UCL Dept of Security and Crime Science
- ^ Biteback, London. Ref The Times 27 May 2013.
- ^ "Ethics of research involving animals Nuffield Council on Bioethics' official website". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84540-712-4.
- ^ Ross N (2 June 2014). "The 'Saatchi Bill': can a PR guru cure cancer?". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 3 June 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- Pharmaceutical Journal. Archived from the originalon 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ (www.waters-creative.co.uk), Waters Creative Ltd. "Cancer Tissue Biobank – Wales Cancer Bank". walescancerbank.com.
- ^ Henness (SU), Alan. "Home". HealthSense. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ "Welcome to UK Stem Cell Foundation". ukscf.org.
- ^ "Home – The Kensington Society". The Kensington Society.
- ^ Lack of sprinklers highlighted amid tower block fire safety concerns Yorkshire Post
- ^ https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/News/new-nfcc-chair-of-trustees-announced/278573
- ^ Nick Ross urged to stand for Mayor[dead link] London Evening Standard
- ^ My mayoral manifesto – the A-Z of what needs doing Archived 13 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine London Evening Standard
- ^ "My mayoral manifesto – the A-Z of what needs doing". Archived from the original on 13 April 2008.
- ^ [2] Independent
- ^ [3] Sunday Times, 23 September 2012
- ^ [4] "Crimewatch Nick Ross presenter 'sells house for 40 times what he paid for it'" at telegraph.co.uk.
External links
- Official website
- Nick Ross at IMDb