Winifred Robinson

Who is Winifred Robinson?

Winifred Robinson is a BBC Radio presenter working on the You and Yours programme. Robinson was the fourth of six daughters of a docker and a housewife. In 1979 she graduated from Liverpool University with a degree in English.

Robinson started her career on the Ormskirk Advertiser newspaper, and later moved to local radio, and the local television news Northwest Tonight. She has also presented File on 4. Robinson became a reporter on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme in 1995, and briefly was a presenter, but was reportedly 'passed over' because of her Liverpool accent, an accusation the BBC has denied, and Sarah Montague was appointed.

Robinson joined You and Yours, but continues to present documentaries on social issues, an area she previously tackled as a Today reporter. In 2007 Robinson revisited the Norris Green housing estate in Liverpool, where she spent most of her formative years, for a radio documentary. It is now an area faced with serious problems, and the area approximately 3 miles from where the murder victim Rhys Jones lived. Robinson has also written for the Daily Mail and The Independent newspapers.

Winifred Robinson is married to the writer and journalist Roger Wilkes; they have one son, Tony, and live in Oxfordshire.