{{Short description|British radio and television presenter and producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Wendy Robbins''' (born 30 October 1963 in [[Bromley]], [[Kent]]) is a British radio and television presenter and producer. She presents ''[[The House I Grew Up In]]'' broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] and reports for ''[[The One Show]]'' on [[BBC One]].

== Career == Prior to her career as a presenter, she was a journalist for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', and was one of the reporters who worked with [[Mordechai Vanunu]], the Israeli nuclear technician kidnapped by [[Mossad]] for revealing Israel's nuclear secrets to ''The Sunday Times.'' She was portrayed by the actress Celia Meiras in ''[[Nuclear Secrets|Nuclear Secrets – Vanunu and the Bomb]]'', which chronicled the Vanunu affair, shown on BBC Television in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/12507-what-americans-need-to-know-about-mordechai-vanunu.html|title=What Americans Need to know about Mordechai Vanunu|last=Fleming|first=Eileen|date=14 December 2009|work=Atlantic Free Press|accessdate=22 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619174526/http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/12507-what-americans-need-to-know-about-mordechai-vanunu.html|archive-date=19 June 2010|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name=Hounam>{{cite book|last=Hounam|first=Peter|title=The Woman From Mossad: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1tuzIXNAxUC&dq=The%20Woman%20From%20Mossad%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Mordechai%20Vanunu%20and%20the%20Israeli%20Nuclear%20Program&pg=PP1|year=1999|publisher=Frog Ltd.|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=1-58394-005-7|pages=42–57}}</ref>

Robbins has worked for the [[BBC]] on the current affairs programmes ''[[Panorama (British TV programme)|Panorama]]'', ''[[Newsnight]]'', ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]'', ''Correspondent'', ''Public Eye'', ''Here And Now'' and ''[[Watchdog (TV programme)|Watchdog]]''. For [[BBC Radio]] she has presented ''[[From Our Own Correspondent]]'', ''[[File on 4]]'', ''Taking Note'', ''Violent Britain'' and [[BBC Radio 5 Live|Five Live's]] ''Breakfast Show'' as well as ''Jewish London'' on [[BBC Radio London|GLR]]. In 2010, she presented a two part "personal journey" on modern antisemitism in Europe for the ''Heart and Soul'' programme on BBC World Service.

Robbins has also presented ''France Inside Out'' for [[BBC Two]]'s ''Learning Zone'' and ''What's The Story?'' on [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel Five]] as well as ''BBC London News''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=21009&sectioncode=1|title=Revamped BBC news for London|last=McNamara|first=Martin|date=28 September 2001|work=[[Press Gazette]]|accessdate=22 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616111431/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=21009&sectioncode=1|archive-date=16 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the regional programmes ''First Sight'' in London and ''[[Spotlight (BBC Northern Ireland TV programme)|Spotlight]]'' in Northern Ireland. On the day [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] died in 1997, she reported for BBC Television and took part in the subsequent funeral coverage. Since 2007 she has presented [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[The House I Grew Up In]]'', and since October 2010 has presented reports for ''[[The One Show]]'' on [[BBC One]].{{cn|date=April 2020}}

She has been Executive Producer for numerous BBC programmes including ''[[Casualty 1907]]'' and ''Everest ER'' and for the independent production company CTVC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvc.co.uk/team.html|title=The Team|work=CTVC|accessdate=22 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814170612/http://www.ctvc.co.uk/team.html|archive-date=14 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> She presented ''Bosnia's War Babies''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvc.co.uk/radio3.html |title=Radio |work=CTVC |accessdate=22 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814170821/http://www.ctvc.co.uk/radio3.html |archivedate=14 August 2010 }}</ref> on the [[BBC World Service]] and was Executive Producer for ''Too Old To Be A Mum?''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvc.co.uk/oldmums.html|title=TV Productions: ''Too Old to be a Mum?''|work=CTVC|accessdate=22 July 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> on BBC One in 2010 and ''My Big Gay Jewish Conversion'' on BBC One in 2017.

== Personal life == Robbins lives in north-west London with her partner, the journalist/presenter of BBC ''Panorama'' [[John Ware (TV journalist)|John Ware]], and three children.<ref>''[[Woman & Home]]'': July 2005.</ref><ref name=guardian-20060821>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/21/bbc.broadcasting |title='It's the last chance for Panorama' |author=Silver, James |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 August 2006 |accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> She is Jewish.<ref name=Hounam>{{cite book|last=Hounam|first=Peter|title=The Woman From Mossad: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1tuzIXNAxUC&dq=The%20Woman%20From%20Mossad%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Mordechai%20Vanunu%20and%20the%20Israeli%20Nuclear%20Program&pg=PP1|year=1999|publisher=Frog Ltd.|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=1-58394-005-7|pages=42–57}}</ref>

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== External links == *{{IMDb name|2932595}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20121021111748/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/655256?view=credit Wendy Robbins at British Film Institute database]

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