Jem Stansfield
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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.[1] 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.[2][3]
Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).[4]
In 2010, Stansfield used vacuum cleaners to create "Spider-Man style" climbing gloves, climbing 30 feet up a brick wall.[4][5] He also drove a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 210 miles from London to Manchester using coffee granules for fuel.[6][7]
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.[8]
In 2021 Stansfield was awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle.[8] 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.[8]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2003 | Science Shack | Presenter | |
| 2002–2003 | Home On Their Own | Inventor / Engineer[1] | |
| 2004 | Zero to Hero | Engineer | |
| 2006 | Scrapheap Challenge | Staff Engineer | Briefly credited as "Ballistics Expert" |
| 2006 | Men in White | ||
| 2006 | Wild Thing: I Love You | Presenter / Aeronautical Engineer | |
| 2008 | Planet Mechanics | Presenter | 8 episodes |
| 2009–2014 | Bang Goes the Theory | Presenter / Head of Engineering | 49 episodes |
| 2010 | Explosions: How We Shook the World | Presenter | Documentary |
| 2010 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | Science correspondent | |
| 2011 | Big, Bigger, Biggest | Presenter / Engineer | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | Horizon | Presenter | April 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials" |
| 2012 | Stargazing Challenges | Presenter | |
| 2013 | Newsround | Judge | for "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment |
Film
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Lost in Space[1] | Special effects technician | For Magic Camera Company |
| 1998 | The Avengers[1] | Special effects | |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Special effects |
References
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External links
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