Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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His London publishers, Faber, were grudging about his work, and didn’t produce a Collected Poems until well after his death, when readers lobbied for it. 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 wrote regularly for the leading historical journals and some of his articles and criticisms may be found in the bound volumes of "History To-day," in the School Library. I know very little more about this broadcaster having finished the book than I did at its opening page.

Like most people Eric Robson is probably known to most only as the "Man who accompanied Alfred Wainwright in the fabulous Walking with Wainwright series on TV, or the "Man with a dog on a string" or probably best known to radio listeners as Chairman of Gardeners Question Time. Jim said: “It has been a huge privilege to serve as chair of Cumbria Tourism’s Executive Board during the last three years. com/) and they kindly invited us over to talk about Walpole, his work, and why the reputation of this once leading novelist has faded, so that he’s now remembered, if at all, almost entirely for his Cumberland tetralogy.Eric said: “Working with Gill Haigh and the talented management team at Cumbria Tourism has been a privilege and a pleasure.

In 1994, Robson became the principal chairman of the long-running Gardeners’ Question Time programme, where amateur gardeners put questions to a panel of experts, stepping down in 2019 after nearly three decades. 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. But he wrote about the town, its inhabitants, and the nearby landscape and geology of the Lakes in a unique way. And if anyone from BBC or Granada TV is reading this, why don’t you think about a full-scale dramatisation of the Herries novels? We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.I loved doing the programme and could have carried on doing it until my clogs fell off but the travel was getting very wearying.

Sat by the stove in his isolated farmhouse study, we learn about Eric's long love affair with Wasdale, and the decision to donate his OBE to his beloved adopted Cumbria; we take the long view of a broadcasting career that has included Gardeners ' Question Time, Remembrance Sundays and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; we talk about Eric's life as a fell farmer, and his passion for rare breeds; and we re-live the many frustrating, rewarding – and amusing – weeks spent in the company of Alfred Wainwright during the making of the TV films that made the great fellwanderer a reluctant star. Eric is making a programme for BBC Radio 4, to go out in early January around the time of Norman Nicholson’s centenary. Radio 4 newsreader Kathy Clugston, who will become the show's first female host, said she was "honoured and excited" to be stepping into the shoes of "the great Eric Robson.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. Read the witch-drowning episode in Rogue Herries, the burning of Fell House in Vanessa or the bleakly terrifying duel between Uhland and John Herries in The Fortress if you want to see Walpole at his dark and terrifying greatest. Thanks to a superbly experienced and skilled board of directors together with the most brilliant staff team we have come through this and supported Cumbria’s valuable visitor economy to the very best of our ability. It was a very simple format and the simplicity of the format saw it through the changing fashions that affected so many programmes.