Telly veteran Johnny Ball is calling for National Service to be brought back – 60 years after it was axed. Johnny, famed for presenting science shows and Play School, left the RAF in 1959, a year before the forces took their last full intake of national servicemen.
The 82-year-old said: “National Service was the making of me. “I wish we could afford it today, not for everyone, but for kids floundering around.
You meet strangers from all walks of life. In Bolton my mates started to form a gang. The forces got me out of that. It was an absolute dream.” From 1948 to 1963, when the last man was demobbed, about two million passed through the Army, Royal Navy and RAF.
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