Other Various Appearances
Apart from crosswords, he is a member of Mensa and The Magic Circle, and he was a Fleet Air Arm observer in his twenties, during which time he qualified for the Goldfish Club (for survivors of aircraft ditchings) by escaping from his Gannet AEW aircraft 60 feet below the surface off Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in March 1961. His first civilian job was Entertainments Manager at Butlin's busiest Holiday Camp at Bognor Regis. "When I realised I was paying a professional act more for one night than I was being paid for a week" said Squires "I knew I was in the wrong job". He left to earn his living from crosswords, acting, writing and magic. From 1964 to 1977 he made over 250 appearances on TV as a comedy magician (26 Rolf Harris Shows (BBC1), five Crackerjacks (BBC1), and ATV Today); as an actor, playing for three months in the weekday Crossroads (ITV) as Amy Turtle's nephew Harold Bracket, and roles in Doctor Who, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Licking Hitler, Spy Trap and War and Peace, plus films including The Beauty Jungle; and as a contestant (Countdown, Crosswits (twice), Catchword, and captained the Wolverhampton teams in both the IQ programme Pencil & Paper (ITV) and Crossword on Two (BBC2).
He was featured talking about crosswords in the TV programme "How To Solve Cryptic Crosswords" (BBC4) in 2009, and in the BBC One Show (BBC1) in 2011. In November 2011 Roger was interviewed by Shuchi on her Indian-based Crossword Unclued website.
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