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

  • Siegfried Sassoon (1999)

References

  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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