Background
Robyn Williams was born on January 30, 1944, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. He is the son of Gwyn and Ray Williams.
2016
Robyn Williams
2018
Robyn Williams with Eddie Woo and Nalini Joshi.
2019
Robyn Williams
Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
The University of London where Robyn Williams received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
The Centenary Medal which Robyn Williams received in 2007.
The Order of Australia which Robyn Williams received in 2020.
(The Uncertainty Principle is a series of conversations fr...)
The Uncertainty Principle is a series of conversations from the ABC-TV series with Robyn Williams and leading members of the Australian science community.
https://www.amazon.com/Uncertainty-Principle-Australian-Scientists-Future/dp/0642129045
1991
(And Now for Something Completely Different is an entertai...)
And Now for Something Completely Different is an entertaining and detailed autobiography of Robyn Williams. The author outlines the events of his personal and professional life and explores the world of science and ideas.
https://www.amazon.com/Now-Something-Completely-Different-Life/dp/0670855219
1995
(The first 100 years of broadcasting are over. A revolutio...)
The first 100 years of broadcasting are over. A revolution is underway. Two revolutions, in fact. One, the upheaval we all know about, is brought by the new technology. The spectrum is no longer limited: TV and radio can reach anywhere, in almost unlimited profusion. The second revolution is by stealth. Public broadcasters such as the ABC face burial or dismemberment. The values their programs represent are being torn apart. Newspapers write pre-emptive obituaries nearly every day. This is a worldwide phenomenon. It is caused by political myopia and technological opportunism. It is against the public interest. In fact, the public is not being asked what it wants. This book attempts to analyze the forces for change in Australia, Britain, Canada, the United States and parts of Europe. It suggests that the context of broadcasting is being ignored while everyone is being asked to genuflect to the new machinery.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Normal-Service-Wont-Resumed-Broadcasting/dp/1864482494
1996
(Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity....)
Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity. Since we first came down out of the trees, most of our waking hours have been preoccupied with staying alive - life expectancy was so short, it was hard to seriously plan ahead. The religions we concocted taught us that the future was in the hands of our gods and we should concentrate mainly on the afterlife. Future Perfect is a book for those who believe we can shape the future of our earth, and that there is a moral responsibility for us to do just that. It's difficult to disembark once you're here, after all. Written in Robyn Williams' characteristically whimsical and provocative style, it conjures up the possibilities before us - in our cities, our employment, our transport and even our sex lives. It confronts the challenges before us and does not shrink from the hard answers. Witty and immensely entertaining, informative and didactic, Future Perfect will fuel many an argument.
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Perfect-other-impossible-questions/dp/174175318X
2007
(Robyn Williams reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest...)
Robyn Williams reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest and often blackly funny reflection on his life, friends, the people he loves and loathes, and a multi-faceted career that includes over forty years on radio. Robyn writes frankly about everything, from performing with Monty Python, his impressions of fellow scientists Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough, and his unique insights on climate change and the recent devaluing of science, to frugality and being treated for bowel cancer.
https://www.amazon.com/Turmoil-Letters-Brink-Robyn-Williams-ebook/dp/B07FV6M4ZF
2018
Robyn Williams was born on January 30, 1944, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. He is the son of Gwyn and Ray Williams.
Robyn Williams obtained his early education in many English schools but he also spent a few years in Vienna, attending a German language school. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of London in 1968. During his university years, he was active in university acting and made guest appearances in the BBC series The Goodies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Doctor Who.
When Robyn Williams was twenty, he went to Australia for the first time to work. Among other positions, he served as a temporary clerk for that country's Decimal Currency Board. He also met his wife Pamela in Australia and, after he married her, Williams brought her back to England with him for a few years. While back in the country of his birth, he studied and supplemented his wife's broadcasting income by making appearances in British television series, including the popular Monty Python's Flying Circus. In fact, the title of Williams' autobiography is also the title of a Monty Python film.
Since 1975 Williams has been presenting ABC Radio National's The Science Show and, since 1984, Ockham's Razor. He conducted countless interviews with scientists on ABC TV on programs such as Quantum and Catalyst, narrated the Nature of Australia series and appeared in World Safari with David Attenborough.
He also penned several books and articles related to both science and broadcasting. In This Is the Science Show and Normal Service Won't Be Resumed he wrote about aspects of his career. His 1991 book The Uncertainty Principle is a collection of interviews with important Australian scientists. In 1995, he provided his fans and other interested readers with the story of his life and career, And Now for Something Completely Different which relates incidents from his subsequent career in broadcasting with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Williams also included in this book excerpts from his travel diary as a young man - trips he made with friends hitchhiking throughout Europe and Asia.
He was also a contributor of articles to periodicals, including the UNESCO Courier and World Press Review. Williams is also known as the author of the introduction to The Florey: The Story of the Sheep Hilton by Tim Hewat (1990) and Outside the Square: Inspirational Science and Tales of Extraordinary Australians by Hugh Morgan (1993). His recent book Turmoil: Letters from the Brink was released in 2018.
(Robyn Williams reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest...)
2018(The Uncertainty Principle is a series of conversations fr...)
1991(This is the Science Show is an account of the 20 years of...)
1995(And Now for Something Completely Different is an entertai...)
1995(Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity....)
2007(The book 2007 describes a rebellion of animals.)
2001(The first 100 years of broadcasting are over. A revolutio...)
1996Quotations: "Broadcasting in Australia is at a turning point. It is being led, politically, by a vision of what the future could hold for this country. We are, instead, blundering forward, buffeted on one side by the politics of spite, on the other by commercial expediency."
Robyn Williams is deputy chairman of the Commission For The Future, president of the Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress held in Brisbane and co-chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Texas, El Paso.
Robyn Williams married Pamela Traylor on June 10, 1966. The marriage produced two children, Tom and Jessica. Now he has a long-term relationship with Jonica Newby.