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About Jeff Watson
Jeff Watson is a broadcaster, author and journalist with 40 years in the business. He started his career as a newspaper reporter in England, moving to BBC radio and then television as a reporter and news presenter with ATV (now Carlton Television).
Special reporting assignments included a stint in the Middle East during the Cyprus emergency, and Libya during the takeover by General Gaddafi. Jeff Watson moved to Australia in 1971 and has since contributed to such programs as This Day Tonight, Four Corners, Towards 2000 (a program which he devised in 1979), Holiday, Sixty Minutes, Beyond 2000 and Getaway
In 2001, he became motoring and aviation editor of Channel 9's Today programme. Jeff remains best known as one of the presenters of Beyond 2000 which was seen in most countries including the United States and the USSR.
Jeff was also executive producer of The World Tonight program with Clive Robertson and presented a weekly segment on classic cars, My Car which has now emerged as a documentary, Classic Cars in Australia.
For five years Jeff wrote and presented the ABC radio program Travellers Tales.
In 1980 Jeff set up his own production company which has specialised in making documentaries on aviation. As an aviator he has flown, or flown in more than fifty types of aircraft including the Harrier Jump-Jet, the F/A 18 Super Hornet , the English Electric Lightning and the Concorde and has kicked the tyres on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
In 1991 Jeff was made a Chevalier of the Order of Merit by President Mitterrand of France, the civilian equivalent of the Legion d_Honneur or an OBE in the British system. This is a rare honour for an Australian, awarded for services to France and acknowledging the many films he has made on French developments in science and technology, in particular, aviation.
In 2003, he was created an honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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