Database

Having started his career in children's TV at ATV, by the mid-1970s Tony Bastable had progressed from presenting to producing the Thames youth magazine Magpie. Later, he worked in genres as diverse as current affairs, consumer protection, history and science, for instance. He was also the host of Drive-in, Mind Over Matter (a paranormal investigation he devised with Kit Pedler) and Database, which looks at home computing.