He knew the game, understood its history and genuinely enjoyed presenting the weekly broadcast.
He enjoys presenting programs that intriguingly juxtapose the old and the new, as his recital on Saturday night at the 92nd Street Y excitingly demonstrated.
He told Richard Bacon's Five Live Show that he was still enjoying presenting the BBC2 current affairs flagship show but admitted it had been damaged by what happened.
He often practises a Muldoonish kind of semi-surreal word-play ("scarecrows, skyscrapers, / scapegoats, smallish lexical mercies"), and, like Muldoon, enjoys presenting violence in a wry, unshockable tone: The pistol jammed and they kicked him over.
As the Taliban grew internationally notorious, banning television and imposing beards, sheathing women head-to-toe and amputating the hands of thieves, Mr. Massoud enjoyed presenting himself to the West as a "reasonable" Muslim.
We're busy working behind the scenes these days, including helping our Newspaper in Education colleagues with their annual series of teacher workshops (PDF), which this year we've enjoyed presenting out at The New York Times printing plant in Queens.
The book featured information on topics that included the cleanliness of streets, test scores at public high schools, and the number of people who receive welfare, statistics that this mayor, who made his fortune by making financial data accessible to anyone with one of his trademarked terminals, clearly enjoyed presenting in a new format.
Having enjoyed presenting science to adults and school groups, Catherine decided to study for an M.Sc. in communicating science.
"I enjoyed presenting the show so much last year so being asked back for the third time is a real honour," the 33-year-old said.
I did not find writing too hard and also enjoyed presenting a summary of my ecological results at an international conference on the biology of social insects at the Sorbonne.
