A BBC radio and television reporter for 40 years, my husband, Michael Robinson, who has died aged 76, will be familiar to listeners of Radio 4’s Moneybox and File on 4, and to viewers of The Money Programme and Panorama. He specialised in business and financial journalism, always trying – and usually succeeding – in making accessible the convoluted and arcane machinations of the business world.
Michael was born in Cape Town, South Africa. His father, Derek Robinson, was in advertising, his mother, Blatch (nee Alice Blatchford), a graphic artist. At the age of 17 Michael woke up to apartheid and decided to leave the country. Fortuitously his parents came to the same conclusion and the family emigrated to London. Michael then went to York University to study music. It was there that he and I met: we lived together for the next 55 years, and were married in 2000.
