TELEVISIONATION Swedlow Show: Iain Logie Baird – The Story of Television—From the Family That Lived It

September 2, 2026

What was it really like to be there at the very beginning of television? Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of ITVT/Televisionation, had a wonderful opportunity to interview Iain Logie Baird, grandson of TV Scottish pioneer John Logie Baird, and explore the remarkable life, experiments, inventions and imagination of his grandfather. With wonderful visuals throughout—and stories and details she had never heard before—this became a fascinating journey into the strange, ingenious and very human beginnings of the medium that changed the world.

John Logie Baird is widely recognized as one of the key inventors of television, specifically “mechanical television.”