John Stuart Roberts

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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]

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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]

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  1. "Roberts, John Stuart 1939(?)–". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. Gareth Price (12 January 2018). Broadcasters of BBC Wales. Y Lolfa. p. 242. ISBN   978-1-78461-535-2.
  3. "Songs of Praise". BBC Genome. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. Phil Parry (17 December 2018). "A Christmas Story". The Eye. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  5. British Broadcasting Corporation (1979). BBC Year Book. p. 99. ISBN   978-0-563-17508-7.
  6. Benn's Media Directory. Benn. 1992. p. 674.
  7. Huw Edwards (8 March 2008). "My mentors". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  8. Nigel Jones. "Mad About The Boys". Literary Review. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

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