Reverend John Stuart Roberts (born c.1939) is a Welsh writer and broadcaster, best known as the producer of the BBC's Everyman and Heart of the Matter series.[1][2] He was also a presenter of the long-running Songs of Praise.[3]
Roberts was ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church before going into television, and is a Christian Socialist.[4] He began his television career as Religious Broadcasting Organiser,[5] and was later Head of BBC Radio.[6] Huw Edwards, who sees him as a mentor, described him as "a free-thinking, provocative, unpredictable figure who openly despised the leaden ways of BBC management at that time".[7]
Roberts's 1999 book about the writer Siegfried Sassoon was the first full biography of the subject, and gave some prominence to Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism in later life.[8]
Publications
edit- Siegfried Sassoon (1999)
References
edit- ^ "Roberts, John Stuart 1939(?)–". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ Gareth Price (12 January 2018). Broadcasters of BBC Wales. Y Lolfa. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-78461-535-2.
- ^ "Songs of Praise". BBC Genome. 23 January 1983. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ Phil Parry (17 December 2018). "A Christmas Story". The Eye. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ British Broadcasting Corporation (1979). BBC Year Book. British Broadcasting Corporation. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-563-17508-7.
- ^ Benn's Media Directory. Benn. 1992. p. 674. ISBN 978-0-86382-140-0.
- ^ Huw Edwards (8 March 2008). "My mentors". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ Nigel Jones. "Mad About The Boys". Literary Review. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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