Tony Jay was a graduate trainee at the BBC when he joined me at Sportsview in 1956. I asked him to produce a relatively simple programme: the football results at 5pm on a Saturday. He achieved what no one else before or since has done: the results appeared on the TV screen upside down.
He moved on to the Tonight programme, where he became the most civilised and, by a distance, the wittiest member of a talented team.
