Robin Day
Robin Day
Sir Robin Daywas a British political broadcaster and commentator...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth24 October 1923
interview state
This is not some kind of interview panel for state executioner
arctic spent time walked
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
build career
You've got to build a career and a practice.
glad hear
And I'm very glad to hear it, sir.
advertising vodka used
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
motherhood morality commerce
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
freak climbs i-can
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
stories vodka entertaining
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
thinking ideas new-day
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
thinking design stuff
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
television emotion strikes
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.