Ah, would that it weren’t, would that it weren’t.
“It’s always a surprise to find out it takes so much to produce so little”:
httpv://youtu.be/WfGGmpD12ZY
“I wish you’d said ‘mongeese’. I just wanted to live to hear someone say that”:
httpv://youtu.be/OuhSig9XTXg
A dazzling line up of bluffers, including Geeson, Woodward, Bakewell and – it being the late 70s – Edmonds:
httpv://youtu.be/HoiKoIZ7wwo
The People’s SongsI Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor tonight, which allows us to mention that when it got to number one, Calendar showed a clip from its Whistle Test-inspired video and captioned it “amateur video”. In fact that video was the first we’d heard of them or it, when it was shown on Popworld in fact, and we never thought the record version was quite as good because it was a bit overproduced. Anyway, it’s included here because it started bands being broken via the internet and that rather than the major labels and Top of the Pops.
I hope Robert gets some sort of tribute and it would be nice to see a few Call My Bluff’s rerun if the BBC still have them!
I second that, along with some vintage Brain of Britain on the wireless.
Watched an episode of QI earlier: Stephen Fry did a superb RR voice on it “and this is for eldest son and mother, only”. Nice!
I really hope he wont stop doing the occasional RR voice on QI
Early happy memories – Monday nights on BBC2, High Chaparral or Alias Smith and Jones, followed by Call My Bluff, which could only be properly compered by one man, and they chose the right man for the job.
I was so sad to hear of Mr Robinson’s death. So clever, so well read, so witty and such an excellent speaker of our beautiful English language. We shalll not see his like again, I fear.
Like the others, I do hope the BBC will re-broadcast some of his TV and Radio programmes.
Robert Robinson made me want to be clever. Whether I became so isn’t for me to judge, but his Radio 4 discussion programme Stop The Week gave me an entirely unrealistic expectation of how witty and incisive adult conversation would be when I grew up.