Eric Bell Robson OBE DL (born 31 December 1946) is a television broadcaster, author and documentary film maker who has lived for most of his life in Cumbria, where he has a sheep farm.
[2] 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.
In 2011, he was accused of a conflict of interest by anti-nuclear protesters opposed to a second generation of nuclear power plants and the possible siting of a high-level waste dump in the Lake District.
[4] Robson is the chairman of the Cumbria Tourism organisation, but at the same time is a part owner of Osprey Communications, a PR firm that is advisor to the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership.