Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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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. 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. 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?” 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.”

ER: Did you ever believe, as the people who were sponsoring you believed, that you were some sort of messiah? 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.” 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] In the 1980s, Don and his wife formed a successful company that made and sold costume jewellery under the name Monty Don Jewellery. The collapse of the company in the early 1990s, prompted him to embark on a career in writing and broadcasting. He has written about the rise and collapse of their business in The Jewel Garden, an autobiographical book written with his wife. Eric Robson comments, “Working with Gill Haigh and the talented management team at Cumbria Tourism has been a privilege and a pleasure.

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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.” 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.” 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. 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. Gardeners' Question Time Christmas Show, 03/12/14 - Garden Museum". Archived from the original on 25 April 2016 . Retrieved 15 April 2016.

They are not just guide books, but works of philosophy, explaining among other things Man's impact on the landscape. K: Oh, long ago. As a… when I… It meant nothing, really, to me, whether to be a Hindu or a Muslim or, you know, a Christian. I mean, these are all… human brains have been programmed, like computers. K: You know, that word messiah is really a Jewish word; it comes from… – you know, all that. I never bothered about it, really (laughter). It sounds rather funny but really, seriously, I never bothered about it, who I was, what I was. It was not very important, and I really mean it. And I was given a great many properties all over the world – a castle in Holland with five thousand acres. I returned all that because I didn’t believe – I don’t believe still, organised religious structure, hierarchical attitude towards life.Anna Scher outside her theatre school in Islington, north London, in 1977. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images Decades ago in a distant past, Eric Robson was strolling through the corridors of BBC’s Manchester HQ when he heard the controller for the north of England booming behind him: “that’s the voice I want on Gardeners’ Question Time”. 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.