His plays include Snapshots (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Events In An Upper Room (Belgrade, Coventry and ICA) and the Sony Award-winning Last Loves on BBC Radio 4.
He has written stories and plays and poems for young people: most successfully with Down Your Way (Nelson), A Time Of Bears (Macmillan) and I Want Doesn't Get (Faber).
His The Beano has been adapted for various stage performances broadcast by the BBC and published in the United States.
[citation needed] As a broadcaster, Robinson has presented a daily show on BBC Radio Sheffield uninterrupted since 1984.
For the BBC network, he has written and voiced various documentaries and scripted seven radio and one television play.