‘Mr Baird was so excited that words didn’t come’: The office worker who became the first person ever to appear on TV

A century ago, on 2 October 1925, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted a recognisable moving image of a human face. The original TV star was a young office worker, William Taynton, who returned to television 40 years later to tell the BBC about that dramatic moment.

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