Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

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He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1993 to 1996. science" in London for suggesting that climate change is not anthropogenic. In 2012 the 74 year old Ball was announced as one of the 14 celebrities who would take part in the Strictly Come Dancing TV show.

Johnny Ball (born 23 May 1938) is a British television personality a populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.