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Eric Bell Robson (born 31 December 1946) is a television broadcaster, author and documentary film maker who has lived for most of his life in Cumbria, where he has a Sheep husbandry. For many years he was the main presenter of Brass Tacks.
Robson had earlier contributed to various regional TV series about Alfred Wainwright's walking guides. Frances Lincoln – Eric Robson In 1980 he presented the final episode of the first series of Great Railway Journeys of the World, produced by the BBC.
In 2011, he was accused of a conflict of interest by anti-nuclear protesters opposed to a second generation of nuclear power plants and the possible siting of a high-level waste dump in the Lake District. Gardeners' Question Time chairman accused of conflict of interests, The Guardian, 23 September 2011 Robson is the chairman of the Cumbria Tourism organisation, but at the same time is a part owner of Osprey Communications, a PR firm that is advisor to the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria.
Robson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to tourism as honorary president of Cumbria Tourism.
He married Mary Armstrong in 1976, but they divorced in 1984. They have a son and daughter. He married Annette Steinhilber in 1988. They have a son and two daughters, one grandson and three granddaughters.
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