Robin Houston (born London, 1947) is a British voiceover artist and former announcer, radio and television newsreader and quiz show host.

[8] In the late summer of 1975 he took over the station's early evening classical music show and the late-night phone-in and arts interview duties, presenting Robin Houston's Nightline[9] At the start of 1976 he became LBC's daily drive time presenter on Newsbreak, a combination of news, features and arts interviews.

From March 1997 as a voice-only presenter he launched the daily half-hour-long quiz show 100% on five days a week for the new television station Channel 5.

[17] As an actor he starred with Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft in the 1986 animated film When the Wind Blows in which he played the radio announcer warning of a nuclear attack.

[22] He also played the newsreader in Kenny Everett's science fiction radio and television serial Captain Kremmen[23] and has performed in a number of film and television dramas, including Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Custard Boys, Kavanagh QC, Thursday the 12th, Holby City, Dempsey and Makepeace and The Gentle Touch.

[24] As well as his broadcast work, since 1967 he has voiced and presented commercials, conferences and conventions, training and internal communication films, product launches and awards ceremonies.

Major clients have included IBM, Campaign magazine, BMW, the Royal College of Nursing and Volvo Cars.

Throughout his life he has written casual articles and occasional obituaries for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Oldie[27] and five of his audio dramas—A Bark of the Fox, Essay on Betrayal, The Trumpet in the Hall, Peter in the Sky, and an adaptation of Godfrey Smith's novel The Business of Loving—have been produced by BBC Radio 4.

[28][29] He is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art[1] and a Long Service member of the British actors' union Equity.