From the Archive

Press and personal photographs

• Brian's parents, William and Cicely greeted at Institute dinner in London

• First major lecture in London: the Royal Society lecture theatre, Brian aged 25

• Recording weekly TV review, 'Week In, Week Out', aged 25

• Brian on location as film director for 'The Fund'

• In China - on the Great Wall north of Beijing.

• Early television commentary on topical science

• Spear-fishing and exploring the coral reefs of Tonga, South Pacific

• On the trail of beaver, a dam under construction in California

• Presenting 'Where Are You Taking Us?' for the BBC

• With koalas on Magnetic Island, Australian Barrier Reef

• Brian as Guest of honour at an Institute dinner in Cardiff

• Family visit behind the former 'Iron Curtain'

• Living with an extended family on a teak stilt house in Thailand

• Studying humming-birds feeding from the hand in Jamaica

• Brian J Ford at the first Institute of Biology conversazione

• Appearance on 'Monique' chat-show, St Tropez, France

• Sabah, Borneo: with the headhunter tribes

• University visit in California

• Writing Cult of the Expert at the beach

• Jan and Brian J Ford with author John Hillaby

• Christmas family luncheon at Mill Park House

• Greeting the New Year - a family photograph from Cardiff

• Visit to Shanghai sports park - the pre-work exercise session.

• Moment of truth: removing the sheep's eyes at a Saudi feast

• The all-night grape harvest at the Californian Zinfandel wineries.

• Science history in the making: photography with Leeuwenhoek's microscope at Utrecht

• Major lecture at University of Kent, Canterbury (where Brian is now an honorary member)

• Science in school: a hands-on presentation in Cambridgeshire

• Malaysia, exploring in the tropical rain forest vegetation.

• With Larry Albrite and his plasma workshop in Los Angeles

• In the Netherlands: research at the Boerhaave museum on the microscope collection.

• Checking the page proofs with the Guinness Book of World Records editorial team.