Robert Robinson RIP

[Serial_Apologist]

For once don't agree S_A, to me he was a wonderful broadcaster and Lat's posts remind me of all the great names we have lost Ray Moore and Benny Green were also particular favourites.

I think it comes down to a matter of personalities, anton, and whether or not they click with one. Outside of music and politics I've never really been a "culture vulture", having always seen that side of life as a kind of add-on. As with what I would see as knowledge-for-knowledge's-sake, where "The Art of One-Upmanship" echoed myown sentiments. Also there is or was a certain type of erswhile working class commentator who, having pulled up the drawbridge behind him/herself, now looks down with lofty disdain on the hoi polloy I treat likewise, i.e. avoid.

I take it you think Paxman's OK then??

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Stop the Week" was unmissable.

[antongould]

I take it you think Paxman's OK then??

We are straying a bit off subject but as a presenter of University Challenge I do see where you are coming from. As an interviewer of evasive politicians I'm right there with him - although I'm not sure Mr. Howard would be!

[Stillhomewardbound]

Anton,

Benny Green? Ah yes, my former Professor of Music at the R2 Academy of the American Songbook. He taught me everything I know and always encouraged me to take my studying further.

[antongould]

indeed it was a Sunday afternoon must!

[vinteuil]

... always a bit too "lofty" ...

o, I like lofty. We don't have anywhere near enuff of it - nowadays 's all too matey an' cosy an' inyer face for my likin'.

Bring back Hans Killer an' Isaiah Berlin I say. Now they was rôle models...

[EdgeleyRob]

Not much too add really , he will be missed .RIP.

I seem to remember him being a lover of Mozart or have I imagined that?.

[Serial_Apologist]

o, I like lofty. We don't have anywhere near enuff of it - nowadays 's all too matey an' cosy an' inyer face for my likin'.

Bring back Hans Killer an' Isaiah Berlin I say. Now they was rôle models...

Oh yer, that Lofty - he was in EastEnders, wonnit!

[french frank]

I seem to remember him being a lover of Mozart or have I imagined that?.

I may have got this entirely the wrong way round , but I think he was the one who objected to that jazzed up version of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik as the theme music to, erm, Brain of Britain(?) and it was subsequently changed.

[Andrew Slater]

I may have got this entirely the wrong way round , but I think he was the one who objected to that jazzed up version of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik as the theme music to, erm, Brain of Britain(?) and it was subsequently changed.

I think you might be right.

[Segilla]

French Frank *is* right.

[Segilla]

I can't not comment on my belief that John Peel was taking the piss out of his listeners, playing as he often did, dreadful drivel most of the time.

I sleep with BBC World Service very quietly on during the night and too often used to find that his unseemly row would wake me up. It seems somewhat offensive finding his name in any piece about Robert Robinson.

Robinson's particular sense of humour was always enjoyable though I can understand why it annoyed some people.

My favourite quote is something like.

"I've fired a shotgun out of a moving car; it isn't illegal but it felt like it".

[Boilk]

I'm old enough to remember only Call My Bluff and Ask the Family. It's when you think of programmes like that that you realise how far television quizzing have fallen. To my mind, today the only comparable programmes are University Challenge and Only Connect, which today (Monday 15th August) began a welcome fifth series on BBC Four.