Robert Robinson (television presenter)

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Robert Robinson (born December 17, 1927) is a British radio presenter and television presenter.

Robert Robinson was born in Liverpool and educated at Exeter College, Oxford.

Robinson normally fronts Brain of Britain on BBC Radio 4, but had to discontinue this role during the 2004 series owing to illness. He returned, however, to host the new series in 2005. He also presented Today, BBC Radio 4's flagship news show, and Stop the Week, a news/chat show. His heyday was during the 1960s and 1970s, when he presented the television series Open House, Picture Parade, Points of View, Ask the Family and Call My Bluff.

He has published three selections of journalism: "Inside Robert Robinson", "The Dog Chairman", "Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor's Clerk". He is the author of three novels: "Landscape with Dead Dons", "The Conspiracy" and "Bad Dreams" and the editor of "The Everyman Book of Light Verse". His autobiography, Skip All That, was published in 1997.

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