1. Sir Robin Day was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster.
20 Facts About Robin Day
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Robin Day received his early formal education at Brentwood School from 1934 to 1938, briefly attended the Crypt School, Gloucester, and later Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight.
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Robin Day was deployed to East Africa and saw little action.
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Robin Day was discharged from the British Army in 1947 with the rank of Lieutenant, and went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford to read law.
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Robin Day was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1952, but practised law only briefly.
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Robin Day rose to prominence on the new Independent Television News from 1955.
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Robin Day was the first British journalist to interview Egypt's President Nasser following the Suez Crisis.
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Robin Day was on the staff of ITN for four years, resigning to stand at the 1959 general election as a Liberal Party candidate for Hereford but was not elected.
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Robin Day was a regular fixture on all BBC general election night programmes from the 1960s until 1987.
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Robin Day presented The World at One from 1979 to 1987.
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Robin Day became known in British broadcasting as "the Grand Inquisitor" for his abrasive interviewing of politicians, a style out of keeping with the British media's habitual deference to authority in the early days of his career.
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Robin Day claimed that he was the first to present the detailed arguments in favour, in a Hansard Society paper in 1963.
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Robin Day appeared as himself on an installment of the Morecambe and Wise show, in which he berates Ernie Wise in character.
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Robin Day was frequently lampooned by the satirical TV programme Spitting Image.
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Robin Day died from heart complications, aged 76, on the evening of 6 August 2000, at the Wellington Hospital in London.
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Robin Day's ashes were buried in a grave near the south door of the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, at Whitchurch Canonicorum in the county of Dorset.
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In 1965, Robin Day married Katherine Ainslie, an Australian law don at St Anne's College, Oxford; the couple had two sons.
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Robin Day had always fought against a tendency to put on weight.
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Robin Day is portrayed by Bertie Carvel in the episode "Marionettes" in season 2 of the Netflix series The Crown.
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Robin Day was parodied in The Goodies episode "Saturday Night Grease" in 1980.