After Dinner Speakers: Jack Scott, Dickie Bird, Pamela Armstrong

Jack Scott joined the Met Office in 1941 at the age of 17. Wartime service on RAF stations took him to Sullom Voe in Shetland, North Africa and Malta. In the 1950s and '60s he worked at RAF Watnall (now Nottingham Weather Centre), in Nairobi, Kenya, and at RAF Uxbridge. In 1968 he auditioned for television and transferred to the London Weather Centre where he was based until he retired from the Met Office in 1983, broadcasting on BBC TV and radio. He made regular appearances discussing weather topics on both `Pebble Mill At One' and John Dunn's Radio 2 show and fronted the TV series `Under The Weather'. He introduced the current BBC weather symbols to the public in 1975 and laid early foundations for the current computerised system. He was a weatherman on Thames TV between 1983 and 1988 and was a presenter of Channel 4's magazine programme for the over-60s, `Years Ahead', from 1988-89. His main interest in retirement is golf and he is a member of Burnham Beeches Golf Club (along with George Cowling, and (until his death in 2001) with Bert Foord).