Robert Robinson

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Robert Robinson is best remembered as the chairman of BBC TV's classic quiz 'Ask the Family' and BBC Radio 4's 'Brain of Britain'. But in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992. Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends in the company of some of the former contributors to Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison and Nick Tucker. There are also contributions from Will Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith and one of the first TV celebrities. Robert died aged 83 in 2011. Producer: Helen Lee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.