Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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Robson had earlier contributed to various regional TV series about Alfred Wainwright's walking guides.We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. It may have been the experience of this frightening illness that led him to stay, lifelong, at home: that, and becoming somewhat institutionalised during those years when his airy hut at the sanatorium was his entire world and he was hardly allowed to get out of bed.

But for more than 35 years he's been one of the instantly recognisable voices of British broadcasting.In this blunt, humorous and indiscreet memoir, Eric Robson bites the hand that feeds him in a canter through the stupidities of broadcasting which he still can’t bring himself to think of as a proper job. There is a huge amount of work to be done following the pandemic and I am proud to be part of that effort. At the end of Chapter One of "Outside Broadcaster" Eric Robson reveals that his wife Annette counselled him against the writing of his autobiography. 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. We walked out on the nature reserve at Hodbarrow – former site of the Millom ironworks and the haematite (iron ore) mines that gave rise to them.

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. Based in the Wasdale Valley in the English Lake District, for twenty eight years Striding Edge Productions has been providing the very best hill walking programmes.I’m the longest serving chairmen of one of the longest running programmes in the world and it couldn't get better than that. I think we gave a lively and balanced view of Walpole, and we had great fun doing it, and meeting old friends and new upstairs in the Theatre bar afterwards.

He has made a fine film, Herries Lakeland introducing Walpole by way of the Cumbrian places he wrote about and lived in.In 1980 he presented the final episode of the first series of Great Railway Journeys of the World, produced by the BBC.