Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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whose proud boast was that he'd had 43 engine outs and lived to tell the tale" might mean something to you, but not to me it doesn't! When he got the gig – as the eighth chairman in the venerable history of the programme which started in 1947 - he was warned he was being ‘handed the keys to middle England’.

Eric, who lives in Cumbria's Wasdale Valley, will chair his final instalments in Manchester next month, which is where he recorded his first episode back in 1994. Eric is making a programme for BBC Radio 4, to go out in early January around the time of Norman Nicholson’s centenary.

He says panellists are as likely now to discuss house plants as they are an elaborately trained espalier. Being proposed for president by the board and following in Eric Robson’s highly capable and high-profile footsteps is an amazing and completely unexpected honour for me. Last year David Dimbleby retired from Question Time to be replaced by Fiona Bruce and in March it was announced his brother Jonathan was leaving Radio 4’s Any Questions after 32 years in the role. It’s entirely my decision,” he insists, his mellifluous Cumbrian drawl booming about the empty hall of Manchester Grammar School where we are sitting ahead of his final broadcast.

The former Gardeners’ Question Time presenter was appointed to the honorary role in 2019 following a long-standing association with Cumbria Tourism, including a number of years as chairman. His stories concerning "Father Tom" are a riot, and anyone would have been proud to have been associated with this Lakeland character. 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? He has made a fine film, Herries Lakeland introducing Walpole by way of the Cumbrian places he wrote about and lived in. He wrote about the damage done to land and people by industrial exploitation; he believed that ultimately man must became ‘farmer rather than miner; cultivator rather than exploiter’.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Shortly after I took over, one of the old worthies said to me, 'you do realise Eric that there will be many places you go to where you and the panel are the only people in the room with your own teeth and hair'.

Although come to think of it, when I read the final chapter I decided I agreed with his analysis of modern television. Large Operator – Rachel Bell from Lake District Estates, which operates in five out of the six Cumbrian districts across a wide range of tourism products. 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. between 1929 and 1936, he took the fullest part in all sides of school life and endeared himself to many. I look forward to this new role immensely and will do everything I can to continue to support our members as we navigate the many new challenges our industry now faces.He grew up on a council estate in Carlisle (his father was a fireman) and attended the local grammar school. At the end of Chapter One of "Outside Broadcaster" Eric Robson reveals that his wife Annette counselled him against the writing of his autobiography. This includes a previous role with national parks across the UK, leading tourism development and working with VisitEngland / VisitBritain and other destination management organisations nationally. The world’s best locations are there waiting for you, and you could have a Lakeland Downton on your hands. Bonus for me, it is now 192 miles instead of 262, I did like the show as it was, missed last year but was rather disappointed with the previous year.