Background
Stableford grew up in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a business skills lecturer and a shipping agent.
Stableford grew up in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a business skills lecturer and a shipping agent.
He attended Hutton Grammar School.
He read for a Geography degree at Durham University where he also played rugby and acted in student theatre. There, he hosted Beat the Teacher and presented Newsround amongst many other programmes before joining the British Broadcasting Corporation"s flagship science and technology programme Tomorrow"s World in 1985. More recently Stableford has worked for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, the Open University, Granada Television and National Broadcasting Company. Stableford was also President of the United Kingdom"s Institute of Patentees and Inventors.
Stableford now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America. He has two daughters.