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Jeremy Stansfield (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC One science show Bang Goes the Theory.

Career

Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and, before his television career, worked in a Czech school, as a shepherd in the Australian outback, and briefly in stand-up comedy. Stansfield was an on-screen ballistics expert for the television show Scrapheap Challenge and went on to become a permanent part of the engineering team for subsequent series.

Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).

In 2010, Stansfield used vacuum cleaners to create "Spider-Man style" climbing gloves, climbing 30 feet up a brick wall. He also drove a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 210 miles from London to Manchester using coffee granules for fuel.

In 2013 Stansfield sustained injuries during filming of a segment for the series Bang Goes the Theory. The segment was about the safety of front-facing and rear-facing seats in car crashes. Stansfield was in a cart which crashed, simulating the impact of a car hitting a lamppost and suffered from spine and brain injuries as a result.

In 2021 Stansfield was awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle. It emerged in court that the BBC had been warned of the dangers by crash test experts but this information was never passed to Stansfield.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

1. "Jem STANSFIELD". Gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
2. ^ Grimshaw, Vicki (6 July 2002). "Wacky Inventor Jem Stansfield Creates Amazing Gadgets to Make Kids' Dreams Come True in a New TV Series". Daily Mirror.
3. "BIOGRAPHIES: Planet Mechanics". National Geographic Channel. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
4. Gould, Julie (November 2013). "Speaking to... Jem Stansfield". Speaking of Science. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
5. ^ Hough, Andrew (16 February 2010). "Jem Stansfield: 'human spiderman' scales 30 ft wall using only vacuum cleaner suctions". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
6. Nosowitz, Dan (25 July 2009). "British Man Climbs Up Side of Building Using DIY Vacuum Gloves". Gizmodo. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
7. "Bang goes the coffee in drive for science in Manchester". BBC News. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
8. "TV host's coffee car nears finish". Metro. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
9. ^ "Jeremy Stansfield: Bang Goes The Theory host wins £1.6m BBC damages". BBC News. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.

External links

• Jem Stansfield at IMDb

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