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ECCENTRIC CREATOR OF BIZARRE CONTRAPTIONS
"Possibly the best English eccentric inventor living today...."
(Time-Life Books)



AMAZING APPEARANCES



Officially appointed Minister of Inventions for the Monster Raving Loony Party by the late Screaming Lord Sutch. John Ward created the party's ‘Manifesto Muncher’ which turned other political parties' manifestos into toilet rolls.

TELEVISION

AUSTRALIA
60 Minutes (Channel 9)
The World Tonight (Channel 9)

CANADA
The Man, The Inventions (CBC)

DENMARK
news items re British eccentrics

FRANCE
La Clac (Canal 4)
The Inventive World of M. Ward

(Canal 4)

GERMANY
Newsweek (ZDF)
This Strange World (ZDF)

HOLLAND
news items re British eccentrics

IRELAND
Kelly – Live (BBC, Belfast)
Gerry Ryan Tonight (RTE, Dublin)

ITALY
news items re British eccentrics

JAPAN
The World of John Ward (Fuji TV)
Worldwide (Fuji TV)

NEW ZEALAND
news items re British eccentrics

NORWAY
news items re British eccentrics

SPAIN
news items re British eccentrics

SWEDEN
news items re British eccentrics

USA

Donohue Show
(CBS, live in New York)
Good Morning, America

(NBC live in New York)
Newsnight (NBC)
The Night Watch (CBS)
That’s Life (NBC)
Today Live

(CBS live in New York)

TELEVISION in Great Britain

BBC
Citizen Smith (BBC3, 2009)
Daytime Live (twice)
Here and Now
Kilroy
Pebble Mill at One (twice)
Summer Scene

CHANNEL 4
All Sorts (RDF)
The Big Breakfast (Planet 24)
The Inventing Jungle (Hart Ryan)

ITV NETWORK
Bizarre (LWT/Central)
Christmas Disney Club (Walt Disney Productions)
Docurama (TVS)
Game For a Laugh (LWT)
GMTV (GMTV – three times)
Good Morning (TVAM)
James Whale Radio Show (YTV)
Lorraine Live (GMTV)
Motormouth (TVs)
Prove It! (TVs - resident inventor for 13 week series)
Spatz (Thames TV in UK/Disney in US)
The Time, The Place (Anglia)
This Morning (Granada – four times)

ITV LOCAL
Anglia News (Anglia)
Central News (Central)
Telethon 88 (Thames)
Telethon 90 (Anglia)
Telethon 92 (Central)
The Tuesday Special (Central)

NICKELODEON
Ross Lee's Ghoulies

SKY
Jameson Tonight

(Michael Hurll Productions)

WATCH
Richard and Judy

RADIO

Too many to remember, including Radio 4’s Start The Week and Midweek With Libby Purves, Radio 1’s Newsround, plus various BBC local stations, various independent radio stations plus numerous interviews for various foreign stations - both recorded and live items.


NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
news items and features

FRANCE
Le Figaro

US

Forbes Magazine
Newsweek
New York Times
Philadelphia Enquirer
Reader’s Digest
(over 20 million copies)

Time magazine
Washington Post
etc etc -
due to syndication, untold other publications sometimes come to John’s notice because of researchers phoning up after spotting mentions of him in them. He has been repeatedly used by Syndicated News Features (UK) and Gamma Press Bureau (France) who supply 3,000 client publications worldwide.

UK
Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Sun, Sunday Times, The Times and a variety of national magazines including Chat, Titbits and Weekend plus various regional & local newspapers


BOOKS
(lengthy references)

Alternative Book of Records
(Haddock, UK)
ISBN -0 -7105-0598-1

Eccentrics
(Weidenfeld & Nicholson, UK)
0-297-81447-8

Eccentrics - A Study
(Villard/Random House, US)
0-394-56565-7

Eccentrics - The Scientific Investigation
(Edinburgh Scientific Press, UK)

ISBN - 0-948812-00-1

I Am
(Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK)
ISBN-1-899-235-13-2

Odd & Eccentric People
(Time-Life Books, US)
ISBN- 0-8094-7723

Timpson’s English Eccentrics
(Jarrold, UK)
ISBN - 0-7117-0559-3

Weird England
(Sterling, US/UK)
ISBN-10: 1402742290
ISBN-13: 978-1402742293


PERSONAL APPEARANCES -
A PARTIAL LIST

- Appeared on GMTV to promote the Robin Williams film "Flubber" for Buena Vista/Walt Disney Productions

- Special guest to promote the launch of the Ford Focus car at the NEC Motor Show 1998 for UK Ford Motor Company

- Winner of the Sun newspaper’s Wacky Races at Castle Donnington, April 2000, driving ‘The Furry Flyer’

- Devisor, Curator & Artist in Residence at the Tat Modern Gallery in Wellingborough (a rubbish recycling centre)

- Guest at various Trade Fairs

- after dinner speaker

- motivational guest lecturer to Northampton school science classes

- Creator of ‘themed inventions’ for corporate functions and businesses


"Reality is for those who lack imagination...."
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