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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Stuart Heritage

Michael Mosley excelled at making complex ideas look breezily simple

Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley on an episode of Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg. Photograph: AP

Few figures in television changed the way we thought, ate and behave like Michael Mosley. But then again, he was almost uniquely placed to achieve this.

Mosley, a medical school graduate who joined the BBC as a trainee assistant producer in 1985, quickly found himself able to communicate groundbreaking scientific and medical ideas to mass audiences, a skill he used to great advantage time and time again.

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