num_pages: 260
description: Eric Robson, born 31 December 1946 (age 65) in Scotland, 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. Robson started at Border Television (based in Carlisle) in 1966. He is currently co-chairman of Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4.[1] Previously he contributed to various regional TV series about Alfred Wainwright's walking guides.[2] In 1980 he presented the final episode of the first series of Great Railway Journeys of the World, produced by the BBC. He has been a hobby farmer since 1987, and was also a reporter on the BBC Scotland Landward show. In September 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.[3] Robson is the chairman of the Cumbria Tourism organisation but at the same time is a part owner of Osprey Communications, a PR fir
language: English
title: The American Revolution in Its Political and Military Aspects, 1763-1783
publisher: W.W. Norton