Andrew Robert Martin Eagle, known as Robert Eagle (born April 30, 1948), is a British writer, producer and director of documentary and drama for film and television.[1]
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Eagle was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he was a member of Crossways and Farfield, 1957-1965 [2] and then at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
His documentary Guru Busters, about the campaign to eradicate superstition, religious fraud and quackery in India, provoked controversy with its vivid, occasionally disturbing, depiction of the work of leading Indian rationalist campaigners such as Prabir Ghosh, Sanal Edamaruku and Basava Premanand. Followers of the guru Satya Sai Baba attempted, unsuccessfully, to prevent the documentary being broadcast in South Africa[3] and Australia, complaining about the film's use of previously suppressed video material that allegedly showed the guru using legerdemain trickery.[4] Eagle continued to investigate supposedly supernatural phenomena as series producer of Supernatural Science for the BBC. His book Alternative Medicine - a guide to the medical underground won the Medical Journalists Association's special award in 1980. He went on to write and present two series of programmes on alternative and traditional medicine for BBC Radio 4. He was series editor of the Channel 4 television health series Well Being.