Robert Robinson (television presenter)

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

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

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 also presented Today, BBC Radio 4's flagship news show, and Stop the Week, a news/chat show. Currently, Robinson 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 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.

Private Eye used to lampoon Robinson under the nickname Smuggins. He has also been the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, available on UK DVD.