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Citizenship
  
United Kingdom

Institutions
  
Brunel University

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Fields
  
Bioengineering

First episode date
  
2 January 1979

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Born
  
29 April 1928 (age 88)Berlin, Germany (
1928-04-29
)

Alma mater
  
University College London

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The Great Egg Race was a BBC television series that ran from 1979 to 1986 and featured Brian Cant (1979), Professor Heinz Wolff (originally head judge, later promoted to series presenter) and Lesley Judd, who joined the series in 1984. Re-edited 15-minute episodes of the original show were later made for BBC Choice in 2000, under the title The Great Egg Race Rides Again.

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In a similar vein to the later Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge, the show featured teams creating Heath Robinson-esque mechanical creations in an attempt to solve a problem set at the start of the show. The series obtained its name from the initial challenge of making a device capable of transporting an egg in a rubber-band powered vehicle the furthest possible distance without breaking it. After the initial egg-related challenges, other non-egg events were introduced.

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The producers were Peter Bruce (12 episodes, 1979-80) and Charles Huff (10 episodes, 1983-86).

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References

The Great Egg Race Wikipedia


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