Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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Being proposed for President by the CT Board and following in Eric Robson’s highly capable and high-profile footsteps is an amazing and completely unexpected honour for me. Eric Robson: Hello. In the next two weekends thousands of people will arrive at a country house in Hampshire; their pilgrimage is to see and hear a man who, for many of them, is a spiritual figurehead in the same league as Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus Christ. Now, these are comparison which J. Krishnamurti, now 89 years of age, would be the first to shrug aside. Eric Robson says: “Having travelled the length and breadth of the UK with Gardeners Question Time for 25 years, it feels an appropriate time to be moving on. I’ve loved every minute of it, but I’m also delighted to be handing the trowel on to Kathy - someone I know will fit right in to the GQT family.” K: If you change radically in that sense, you are going to affect the world. It may be very little but you are going to affect it. Like a bad case, like Hitler – it’s a bad case; he was insane and all the rest of it – he affected the whole world. He… all the rest of it. So I think if a few of us radically changed, there would be tremendous effect, naturally. At 47 years old, Eric Roberson height not available right now. We will update Eric Roberson's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Scher was appointed MBE in 2013. Two years earlier, she had been a guest on Desert Island Discs, where she said: “Teaching is the love of my life. Teaching is everything for me. It’s my raison d’être.” 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. Over the years presenting GQT, Robson has noticed a marked shift in the demographic. “Our audience is a lot younger in general. No doubt quite a lot of people are cut off from gardening because all they can afford is a one-bed flat.” Monty's first TV work came as the presenter of a gardening segment on breakfast show This Morning and has featured as a guest presenter for the BBC's Holiday programme. He went on to present several Channel 4 land and gardening series: Don Roaming, Fork to Fork, Real Gardens and Lost Gardens, and wrote a regular weekly gardening column for The Observer between February 1994 and May 2006. Blue Plaque - Bill Sowerbutts". Archived from the original on 29 August 2006 . Retrieved 10 September 2006.Eric Robson chairs a live recording of Gardeners' Question Time at the Wellcome Collection in 2017. On the panel are Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw. Already well known to Radio 4 audiences as a continuity announcer and newsreader on the network, Kathy’s first programme as chair will air to audiences on 3 May. Eric’s departure will be marked by a special programme broadcast on 26 April from Manchester - not far from where the first episode ofGardeners’ Question Time was recorded in 1947, and Eric’s first episode in 1994.Gardeners’ Question Time co-chair Peter Gibbs will continue in his current role, presenting around a third of the episodes. There are scores of glossy guides to the Lakes, but not one has come close to Wainwright in terms of beauty, simplicity and elegance of presentation." Anna Scher outside her theatre school in Islington, north London, in 1977. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Over the ensuing decade he became one of the BBC’s main outside broadcasters, covering events of national significance such as Remembrance Day, Trooping of the Colour, plus the 50th anniversary of the Second World War. Eventually the mantle was passed to David Dimbleby, although Robson insists he feels no bitterness. K: Yes, yes, yes. But you see the difficulty is, to go into it very seriously… I don’t know how to put it clearly to you. You know, there is a great tradition among the religious… serious religious people, perhaps not so much in the West, that you must go through various forms of self-purification. Not by starving, fasting and all that torturing the body, but a sense of inward cleansing, as it were, if we can so put it, a purification of a brain that is not self-centred, that is not concerned with personal progress, personal achievement and all that business. I think it was, and it still is, part of deep religious feeling that, not the abandonment of the world, but share very little of it, as much… as little as you can, because you have to live in this ugly world – not the beautiful nature but what man has made of it. I think that’s what happened, to put it very, very simply. ER: Did you ever believe, as the people who were sponsoring you believed, that you were some sort of messiah? He says panellists are as likely now to discuss house plants as they are an elaborately trained espalier. Accordingly, he deems GQT in rude health.He's Britain's leading organic gardener, but Bob Flowerdew also runs a consultancy landscape service, teaches at agricultural college and can be heard on Gardeners' Question Time. K: How can you organise a human being according to a pattern? Whether it is a religious pattern – faith, belief, dogma rituals – how can you shape man, who is extraordinarily alive, to a particular mode, like the communists are trying to do? The totalitarians are trying to force man to a certain way of thinking, which is so contrary to freedom. Freedom… I mean, man has always sought throughout history to be free. That was one of his urgent, constant demands – not only from poverty, environmental ugliness and so on, but to be free from the sorrow, pain and anxiety and so on, those things. And how can any structured religious attitude give him freedom? This Friday, Robson’s last broadcast from the chair of GQT, as it is fondly abbreviated, will go out on Radio 4. The 72-year-old is stepping down from the hallowed chair to be replaced by newsreader Kathy Clugston. Cumbria Tourism offers its sincere thanks to Eric for his long-standing service and contribution, along with the Board members also stepping down following their terms as valued Non-Executive Directors and observers: Kerry Powell, Mike Turner, Paul Armstrong and Liz Moss.

brought a small equestrian facility which is about an acre and a half ( 6070m2) We are not going to put horses The first visit Burke made after returning from Cannes was to see Scher. Asked how she felt when one of her students enjoyed such acclaim, Scher said: “Like a proud mum.” Each year the programme visits a botanic garden to stage its annual GQT Summer Garden Party. The event includes seminars and talks given by the GQT panel, a chance to receive first hand advice from a panelist inside the GQT Potting Shed plus two programme recordings. A highlight of the horticultural calendar, the event attracts a large audience of keen amateur gardeners. Most recently the Summer Garden Party has been hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, [8] National Botanic Garden of Wales [9] and Ness Botanic Gardens. [10] Ten years later he went on holiday to the Lake District and admitted he immediately fell in love with the area.

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K: It’s rather complex. To put it simply, human beings have been always self-centred, always selfish – to put it very brutally, simply – and various religions have tried to help him not to be so self-centred, and identify yourself with something greater. But “the greater” is still part of selfishness. And so I think one should really begin with self-knowledge. The ancient Hindus, long before the Greeks, have said ‘know thyself first,’ because if you don’t understand yourself, basically, fundamentally, whatever you do will still be the activity of illusions. So, know thyself – not according to some philosopher or some psychologist but know yourself in your relationship with the world; not only the external world of nature – I’m saying this, not the ancient… – not only your relationship with nature but also your intimate relationship with whom you live. Relationship is like a mirror in which you see yourself directly as you are: no pretensions, watch your reactions, understand your reactions and go beyond them. And it’s much more complex – human structure, the human brain, human behaviour and so on – so begin with yourself.

It’s so quiet! Her voice has a sweet Irish lilt. “Hello everybody and welcome. Our inspiration for this term is Dr Martin Luther King and our word of the week is strength.” You notice “strength” on a card on a wall. “We can show strength in many different ways, but is it always a positive thing? I look forward to your interpretations and improvisations. Now, is anyone new this evening?” For his successor he has nothing but the warmest praise: “She’s a charming lady with a wonderful voice, consummate broadcaster and a great sense of humour”. But the man who has spent decades clipping his panellists like so many wayward roses can’t resist adding: “I will keep listening. I’ve told Kathy that I will and I will be honest with her.” It is one of the pillars of Radio 4. I feel honoured and excited. I’m most looking forward to visiting the gardens - and meeting Radio 4 listeners - in parts of the country that I might otherwise never have gone to. One of my jobs as host will be to make new listeners feel welcome. I’m a novice and won’t be shy about asking the panellists to spell things out if they get too technical.”

Broadcasts

One of her greatest success stories was Burke, who put her name on the theatre waiting list at the age of 13, got in shortly before her 16th birthday, was cast a year later in the female borstal drama Scrubbers (1982) and went on to be a successful writer, director and actor. She won the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival in 1997 for her performance as an abused woman in Gary Oldman’s hard-hitting Nil By Mouth. The first programme was broadcast in the North and Northern Ireland Home Service of the BBC at 22.15 on 9 April 1947, and came from the "singing room" at the Broadoak Hotel, Ashton-under-Lyne. Originally entitled How Does Your Garden Grow?, it was inspired by the wartime Dig for Victory campaign. On the first panel were Bill Sowerbutts, [1] Fred Loads, Tom Clark and Dr E.W. Sansome. Scher was born in Cork, Ireland, the eldest of four daughters of Eric, a dentist, and Claire (nee Hurwitz). She was educated at St Angela’s convent, where she was the sole Jewish pupil. She showed an interest in tap-dancing and being on stage. “Life was bliss there,” she said. Gardeners’ Question Time is on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds on Fridays at 3pm (repeated on Radio 4 on Sundays at 2pm). Krishnamurti: I’m afraid I don’t remember actually, but I was rather shy; I avoided all this; I didn’t like all the personal worship and kind of looked up to as a great man and all that kind of stuff. As I grew up, I avoided crowds. When I was asked to speak in a public meeting, I was so shy I tried to speak behind a curtain (laughter) and that didn’t work out, so I came out from behind the curtain and talked. Probably I’ve led a rather a lonely life; not lonely in the sense apart but keeping away from all the noise and all the fuss and all the absurdities.