Robert Robinson
Revision as of 10:14, 1 June 2006
Biography
Robinson was a film and television critic for newspapers before appearing on screen as the presenter of a film review programme, Picture Parade. In 1962 he became the gossip columnist of The Sunday Times, and continued to work in television as the host of BBC viewer feedback programme Points of View.
He is particularly noted for accumulating as many as six concurrent presenting roles on TV and radio panel games, quizzes and talk shows. On Radio 4, he presented Stop the Week, and still hosts Brain of Britain.
Trivia
He wrote two novels: Landscape with Dead Dons (1956) and The Conspiracy (1968)
He chaired the infamous 1965 discussion on BBC-3 during which Ken Tynan became the first person to say the F-word on British television.
