Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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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.

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.” Blue Plaque - Bill Sowerbutts". Archived from the original on 29 August 2006 . Retrieved 10 September 2006. The programme typically comes from a village hall or other public venue somewhere in Britain, or occasionally further afield, such as in the Republic of Ireland or northern France. GQT often records at special locations throughout the UK including on a moving train, on top of Snowdon, [3] from inside the Tower of London [4] and in December 2016 from the state dining room at 10 Downing Street. [5] [6] 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?” 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.He studied Horticulture at Pershore College and then trained further at Cheltenham University where he studied Landscape Architecture. Chris later lectured horticulture and design at Pershore College and it was here that he was asked to contribute to a number of television programmes including House Call, Gardening Neighbours and Weekend Gardener. Chris left full time lecturing to concentrate on TV work and has since featured in The Flying Gardener, Hidden Gardens, Gardeners' World, Great Garden Detectives and Country Lives. I have had a few pinch-me moments since I started at Radio 4, but this beats them all. Gardeners' Question Time is one of the pillars of Radio 4 - I feel honoured and excited — Kathy Clugston Panellists include Matthew Wilson, Chris Beardshaw, Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, James Wong and Christine Walkden. A year or so ago he says he was taken out for lunch by a BBC head honcho who politely requested Robson provide as much notice as possible when he decided to call it a day. “I went home, thought about it and said to them ‘my contract is up in 18 months. Why don’t I give you 18 months notice?’”

Jim Walker comments, “It has been a huge privilege to serve as Chair of Cumbria Tourism’s Executive Board during the last 3 years. The pandemic has required us to dramatically strengthen our work to support our members during one of the most difficult periods of the organisation’s history. brought a small equestrian facility which is about an acre and a half ( 6070m2) We are not going to put horsesWhen she was 14, her father moved the family to Hove, in East Sussex, reasoning that there would be greater opportunities there. Her education continued at Hove grammar school and Brighton School of Music and Art but her father objected to Anna’s acting ambitions, steering her instead toward teaching. “There were terrible arguments about it,” she said. ER: Did you ever believe, as the people who were sponsoring you believed, that you were some sort of messiah? 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? Based in the Wasdale Valley in the English Lake District, for twenty eight years Striding Edge Productions has been providing the very best hill walking programmes. Ten years later he went on holiday to the Lake District and admitted he immediately fell in love with the area.

K: There is only one truth. There is not Muslim truth and Christian truth, or Hindu or Buddhist; there is only truth. Would you agree or see that truth has no path? – it’s not Christian path, Hindu path or communist path. So it’s a pathless land. If truth was fixed, then there is a path to it. But it’s a living thing; you can’t say… – you follow? It’s a living thing, and each one interprets it in his own… according to his own conditioning. They generally agree truth is universal. Any obviously thinking man does. But I’ve been brought up… suppose one has been brought up as a Christian; you translate that truth according to your… what you have been programmed to. You see, the question really is whether one can be free of this conditioning totally and have a brain, have a mind that is completely free from all program; then there is a different state altogether. 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. Bob was born into a family that's tilled the land in Norfolk and Suffolk since pre-Elizabethan times. A member of Garden Organic and the Soil Association, he practises what he preaches with his own organic garden in Norfolk. All the names you mentioned are of an age. I loved doing the programme and could have carried on doing it until my clogs fell off but the travel was getting very wearying.”

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Joe Shute (23 April 2019). " 'It was my decision': Eric Robson on leaving Gardeners' Question Time after 25 years". The Telegraph. 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.” 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. It started with Wainwright.Eric Robson, who is one of the directors of the company, was Wainwright’s walking companion in the classic television series. Now, as you will see, we offer a wide range of outdoor DVDs and books along with other products which we know will appeal to our customers. 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.

Another EastEnders star, Jake Wood, described Scher as “this whirlwind of energy … I’d never met anybody with that drive. I was a bit intimidated, to be honest.” In 1975, Scher moved premises again, establishing the Anna Scher theatre. There were no auditions to get in, only a waiting list, which reached as many as 5,000 names. Once admitted, each member of her class could expect Scher to impress upon them a cherished saying from one of her heroes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “Everyone’s a VSP – Very Special Person.” 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.

It's been said that her enthusiasm for plants would make even the least green-fingered person sit up and take notice! Carol Klein is the owner of a thriving nursery, and she also writes regularly for the gardening press. We are having a conversation now, a dialogue, in which both of us are sharing. We talk freely – I hope – inquire, investigate, therefore there is no system in that; both of us are seriously concerned about something and we begin to have a dialogue about it: why human beings throughout the world live in conflict. Why should I have a system about that? And whether we can live without conflict. Because conflict is destroying the world, not only in personal relationship but with nature, with other human beings. So is it possible to live without conflict? Is it possible to live a life of great – if I can use that word which has been so spoiled – love? And be free of suffering. This is… why should we have a system of inquiry into that? But in inquiring we discover a great many things. If we are both attentive, watchful, we discover the most fantastic and real things. And the perception of that brings us together; there is no “you” and “me”: perception. 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. 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. Mr Robson said: "The publishers obviously feels the titles no longer fit their profile, but the books are too popular and too good to disappear.