Adam Hart-Davis
He was the guy on a bike generally in vile fluorescent pink and yellow cycling clothes who presented "what have the Romans done for us" and other pop-science/history programs.

He gave a speech and handed out awards for Scientific innovation that a spin out company at the University I used to work for had won. Then we had a lunch. He sat next to me and he was lots of fun and an enormous piss head . There were tables of eight and on each table were 2 bottles of wine. Every person on the table apart from me and Adam were driving but no one really had the chance to drink any because Mr Heart-Davis was swilling it back like Oliver Reed after a trip to Saudi Arabia.

Once he had polished off the bottles on the table he shouted over to other tables to pass over their bottles (it seemed there were a lot of drivers). By the end of the afternoon he was incredibly loud (he was hardly quiet before) and a little incoherent. But all in all a really nice bloke.
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 12:24, Reply)