They say astronauts return from space & look longingly up at the moon... being on Tomorrow’s World is like that
love of science led her to launch Teen Tech, in 2008, organising events and contests for kids, and presenting BBC science show Bang Goes The Theory.
But she’s always carried a torch for Tomorrow’s World...
Inspiring women was a big incentive. A female technology professor recently told her she was behind her career.
“She said, ‘I used to watch Tomorrow’s World. You looked perfectly normal and enjoyed tech. It gave me permission to do it’. It’s very humbling,” she says. “I will always do things I feel are meaningful. The word celebrity fills me with horror.”
Perhaps the I’m A Celebrity jungle is not for her, unlike ex co-host Noel? She laughs: “I’ll watch I’m A Celeb with interest, but could never see myself in the jungle.” Maggie wonders how he will survive without his mobile phone.
Giggling, she recalls: “Noel had one of the first ones. In Swap Shop, he came in with this huge briefcase and said, ‘Guess what’s in here?’
“Inside was this radio telephone, enormous! Keith and I were looking at all the telephones on desks and trying to think what the advantage of this telephone in a suitcase could possibly be!”
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