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Ian Robertson has now officially retired from the after dinner speaking circuit and is no longer accepting requests to speak.
Ian Robertson is a former BBC Rugby Correspondent who covered both Radio and T.V. These days he is a very entertaining after-dinner speaker. His rugby career ended with a bad knee injury at the age of 25 but by that time he had won Blues at both Aberdeen University and Cambridge University, had played for London Scottish, the Barbarians and had won 8 international caps for Scotland. He also became vice-captain of Scotland.
Ian Robertson joined the BBC as a rugby commentator in 1972 and has covered almost every major match all over the world for the past 25 years. He was Rugby correspondent of the Sunday Times for three years between 1980 and 1983 but returned to the microphone to become BBC correspondent in 1983. He appeared regularly on T.V as a member of the Rugby Special team with BBC 2 and presented rugby previews and features for BBC 1.
Ian is a prolific writer and is author or co-author of over 20 books, including several best sellers with Gareth Edwards, Bill Beaumont and Andy Irvine. He also helped to write Richard Burton: My Brother the official biography of the actor Richard Burton for Burton’s younger brother, Graham, with the forward written by Elizabeth Taylor. This book was a best seller in over 20 countries.
In the summer he masqueraded as an expert on horse racing for the BBC and he has had numerous shares in a succession of very slow horses lacking in any sort of ambition.
