Robert Orchard

Robert Orchard is a freelance British radio journalist and presenter.

Robert Orchard is one of three children born to a Devon farmer and a Welsh nurse. Educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, he was a regular voice on its campus radio station, and wrote and presented several TV epilogues for ITV's Westward Television. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1972–75, followed by a year's PGCE teacher training. While at Corpus, he was features editor of Isis, the student magazine, and a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society, also acting in numerous plays and revues, and directing Molière's The Miser with Peter Grose.

He began writing revue sketches during a holiday job soon after leaving school. He succeeded Geoffrey Perkins as president of Oxford University's student revue company, the Etceteras (part of the Experimental Theatre Club), and gathered a team to write sketches for a major show at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976, After Eights, intended to raise the company's profile. The team included former TW3 scriptwriter and chemistry tutor, the late John Albery, and various fellow-students — among them Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, who met here for the first time. Both made their Oxford debut in revues he directed, and Robert took his own satirical revue, Knockers, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1977 with the Oxford Actors Company, returning two years later in the cast of Knockers 2.

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