Outside Broadcaster: An Autobiography

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It’s entirely my decision,” he insists, his mellifluous Cumbrian drawl booming about the empty hall of Manchester Grammar School where we are sitting ahead of his final broadcast. But for more than 35 years, he’s been one of the instantly recognisable voices of British broadcasting.

The last time broadcaster and author Eric Robson made a Great Railway Journey of the World was for the BBC.

It is a selective canter through part of his life; his upbringing is left virtually untouched as is most of his home and family life. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. It is quite possible that some the more anecdotal aspects of the book are true, but if that is the case, it would have been far better if some the details had been left unrecorded. He said: “I am honoured and delighted but this is evidence of how important the tourism and the hospitality sector is to the economy in counties such as Cumbria.

John Humphrys is soon to finish up on the Today programme and in February Andrew Neil followed suit announcing his departure from The Week, which the 69-year-old has fronted since 2003.

Walpole was also ridiculed in Maugham’s novel Cakes and Ale as a selfish social climbing opportunist – an unfair caricature of a far more complex (and generous) man. But after 25 years of fronting BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time he has decided to hand over the reigns.