Robert Robinson the broadcaster has died. One of those voices that that I grew up. Shall miss him.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8699379/Robert-Robinson.html
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Sat 13 Aug 11 at 08:48
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We bid him goodbye.
When we were first married, we always listened to Stop the Week. I can't think now what I liked about it, but I know we looked forward to it (it probably helped that we had no TV for about four years. It's a wonder I didn't go out looting).
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Part of the soundtrack of my life again...
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A man who entertained and educated with equal panache. A loss indeed.
I once shared briefly a doctor's waiting room with him many years ago when he had house on the Somerset/Devon border, high on the Blackdown Hills.
The system was that you turned up and took a number then waited, often interminably, until it lit up on the board in the waiting room.
My friend's wife was the receptionist and I'm ashamed to say that if I wanted to see the doctor I would ring her, she would then give me a number and an estimate of how long it would be before I had to bother to turn up.
Robert Robinson was offered this 'service', so he wasn't pestered by the public, but he would have none of it and pointed out his place was in the queue with everyone else.
When we crossed paths he had been waiting some time as I walked in and although I would have loved to talk to him I was too embarrassed.
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Having just seen his obit on the BBC lunchtime news I was amused by the clip of him interviewing "Miss Mansfield"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14514388
" a visit to you is rather like a visit to the tower of london - you're both institutions... I wonder what it feels like to belong to the public?"
I must confess my immediate reaction was - both open to the public for money...
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Robert Robinson has died - Manatee
