William Woollard
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William Woollard (born 20 August 1939 in London) is a television presenter and executive. He is best known for presenting the BBC television programmes, Top Gear which he presented between 1981 and 1991 and Tomorrow's World.
Woollard was educated at Grammar School and Oxford University. After graduation he joined the RAF and trained as a fighter pilot. He then worked around the world for an oil company and studied the Arabic language in Beirut. Upon his return to the UK he worked as a producer, director and then presenter for the BBC.
He presented The Risk Business and was the writer and presenter of a three-part BBC series on British scientific intelligence during World War II called The Secret War. In this series Woollard described how the British codebreakers were able to listen to German military "Enigma" cypher messages, the discovery of centimetric radar, and the precision bombing aids developed by German scientists and the see-sawing of events that lead to successful attempts by other scientists to defeat those systems. He was later the executive producer and narrator for the 1996 series Ghosthunters.
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