Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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Don't know how much longer I can keep going but weather and health permitting I will attend 4 this year.

in the old days he was just" Eric"; personally, Just as I was grateful to have had the opportunity of leading him to a love of history, so later I was glad to be able to ask him for advice and information. It’s entirely my decision,” he insists, his mellifluous Cumbrian drawl booming about the empty hall of Manchester Grammar School where we are sitting ahead of his final broadcast. Yet in spite of his high academic distinction he retained his old charm and modesty; and above all he kept his affection for his old school.He has made a fine film, Herries Lakeland introducing Walpole by way of the Cumbrian places he wrote about and lived in. Robson told the PA news agency that the honour would draw attention to the plight of domestic tourism amid the coronavirus pandemic. He showed how a poet can take the most ordinary-seeming place and make it extraordinary – in such a way that every reader looks at his or her own place and sees it freshly and more vividly.

Eric Bell Robson OBE DL (born 31 December 1946) is a television broadcaster, author and documentary film maker who has lived for most of his life in Cumbria, where he has a sheep farm.

The Theatre will be premiering its new dramatisation of Walpole’s novel Rogue Herries on 23 March (full details from http://www. between 1929 and 1936, he took the fullest part in all sides of school life and endeared himself to many. John Humphrys is soon to finish up on the Today programme and in February Andrew Neil followed suit announcing his departure from The Week, which the 69-year-old has fronted since 2003.

There is a huge amount of work to be done following the pandemic and I am proud to be part of that effort.Throughout his long-standing service the 72-year-old says he’s enjoyed watching how the pastime has changed. Eric Robson is probably best known as the chairman of one of the longest running broadcast programmes in the world - Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4. The former Gardeners’ Question Time presenter was appointed to the honorary role in 2019 following a long-standing association with Cumbria Tourism, including a number of years as chairman.