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Robins in 2024

Danny Robins (born September 1976[citation needed]) is an English comedy writer and performer, broadcaster and journalist.

Career[edit]

Robins began his comedy career as a teenager doing stand-up in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was friends with Ross Noble, and later at Bristol University as part of the trio "Club Seals" with Marcus Brigstocke and Dan Tetsell.[1][2] Club Seals' spoof archaeology programme We Are History (BBC Two, 2000) was followed by an adaptation of their Edinburgh Fringe Show The Museum of Everything for BBC Radio 4. The radio sitcom Rudy's Rare Records was written with Tetsell and Lenny Henry[3] and adapted for the stage in 2014.[4] Other comedy writing credits include That Was Then, This Is Now (2004), Armando Iannucci's Gash (2003) and The Basil Brush Show (2007).

The CBBC comedy Young Dracula, also written with Dan Tetsell, ran for five series between 2006 and 2014. A one-off sitcom episode "Monks" was written by Robins for the sixteenth series of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse in 2014. His Radio 4 sitcom The Cold Swedish Winter (2014) was inspired by meeting his Swedish wife, Eva, in 2005, and his subsequent time spent in the country.[5]

Robins' interest in the supernatural has led to him writing and researching several radio series and podcasts on the subject. He created the podcast Haunted for Panoply in 2017.[6] For BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, he wrote and presented The Battersea Poltergeist (2021), followed by Uncanny later in 2021 and The Witch Farm in 2022.[7][8] His play 2:22 A Ghost Story starring Lily Allen won Best New Play at the 2022 WhatsOnStage Awards.[9][10] Uncanny launched as a TV series on 13 October 2023 on BBC Two, written and presented by Robins. He was also an executive producer on the series.

Personal life[edit]

Robins lives in Walthamstow, London.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "An Interview with Danny Robins". Humourdor. 6 May 2011.
  • ^ "Marcus Brigstocke". Comedy CV. 2 March 2022.
  • ^ "Rudy's Rare Records". BBC Programmes. 1 March 2022.
  • ^ Billington, Michael (10 September 2014). "Rudy's Rare Records review – Lenny Henry's reggae romp has the audience roaring". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  • ^ "Danny Robins: 'I didn't have any expectations of Sweden'". Scan Magazine. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  • ^ "Haunted". Apple Podcasts. 2 March 2020.
  • ^ "Danny Robins, creator of The Battersea Poltergeist, returns with Uncanny - a new paranormal investigation for BBC Radio 4". BBC Media Centre. 21 October 2021.
  • ^ "The Witch Farm". BBC Programmes. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  • ^ "22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards: the winners in full". WhatsOnStage. 27 February 2022.
  • ^ "2:22 A Ghost Story". Criterion Theatre. 1 March 2022.
  • ^ "Finding Hope in Horror and Hauntings with Danny Robins". Center Theatre Group. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
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