Oliver Popplewell vice-chairman of the Parole Board, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 1975 he defended his godson Stephen Fry, who was 18 at the time, at his trial for credit card fraud. Popplewell and his wife had long been friends of Fry's parents. Stephen Fry writes about the event in his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot". Following the fire at Valley Parade, the Bradford City stadium, on 11 May 1985, Popplewell was chosen to chair an inquiry held under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. Following this inquiry, he was chosen to chair a Committee of
John Grundy (television presenter) North West England. "Travels with Pevsner" is a BBC Four series, an episode of which involved Grundy visiting places visited by Nikolaus Pevsner during his ambitious review of English architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. From 2010 John Grundy has presented a regular series for 'Look North' called 'Grundy's North', aired from BBC North East and Cumbria John Grundy (television presenter) John Grundy (born 1946 in Carlisle, Cumberland) is a television presenter and author. His work mainly features North East England. Strongly influenced by reading Nikolaus Pevsner's "The Buildings of England", architectural review of the country, Grundy has taught at