Eric Bell RobsonOBEDL (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. For many years he was the main presenter of Brass Tacks.
Robson started at Border Television (based in Carlisle) in 1966. In the 1980s and 90s he was also a reporter on the BBC Scotland Landward show. He has been a sheep farmer since 1987. On 20 February 1994 he became the principal chairman of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time programme,[1] but announced on 20 March 2019 that he would be handing over his chair to Kathy Clugston, a BBC newsreader and continuity announcer, on 3 May 2019.[2]
Robson had earlier contributed to various regional TV series about Alfred Wainwright's walking guides.[3] In 1980 he presented the final episode of the first series of Great Railway Journeys of the World, produced by the BBC.
In 2011, he was accused of a conflict of interest by anti-nuclear protesters opposed to a second generation of nuclear power plants and the possible siting of a high-level waste dump in the Lake District.[4] Robson is the chairman of the Cumbria Tourism organisation, but at the same time is a part owner of Osprey Communications, a PR firm that is advisor to the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria.[5]
He is chairman of the Wainwright Society and made a series of TV programmes with Alfred Wainwright in the mid-1980s that looked back over the reclusive writer's life. He lives in Wasdale, where he farms at Crag House Farm and (with his wife) runs a mail order company named after Striding Edge, specialising in DVDs, maps and books about the countryside, particularly that of Cumbria.
He married Mary Armstrong in 1976, but they divorced in 1984. They have a son and daughter. He married Annette Steinhilber in 1988. They have a son and two daughters, one grandson and three granddaughters.
Books
Co-author, Great Railway Journeys of the World (BBC)
Editor, The Allotment Handbook (Arena Press)
Author, Outside Broadcaster (autobiography), 2007 (Frances Lincoln Ltd)
References
^"Interview: Eric Robson, farmer and Gardeners' Question Time chairman". www.hortweek.com. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
^Kathy Clugston to replace Eric Robson as the chair of Gardeners’ Question Time
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