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Wire in the Blood, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green

Robson Green (born 18 December 1964) is an English actor, singer–songwriter and presenter.

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Robson Green (born 18 December 1964) is an English actor, singer-songwriter and presenter. Robson Golightly Green was born in Dudley and baptised in Bethel Chapel (Ford View), and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother`s maiden surname, while Golightly is after William Golightly, a famous trade union leader in the 1920s. Green grew up in Dudley, a small mining willage in North Tyneside, where his father worked down the coal mining pits. After being inspired by over-flying jets, he decided he wanted to join the Royal Air Force. On starting secondary school, he joined the Air Training Corps, and also picked up a guitar for the first time, later forming his first band, Solid State, in 1982. Latterly he also spent one night a week at Backworth Drama Centre, and then played in a series of productions at both school and Backworth. On leaving school at 17, and deciding against the RAF, he joined Swan Hunters ship yard as a draughtsman, and on one occasion tried his hand at professional boxing (actually attended 3 boxing training sessions for a play called Francie Nichol in which he played a boxer). After two years at Swan`s, he decided on a career in acting, and after auditioning began training under the tutelage of artistic director Max Roberts - his director previously at Backworth. During his training he continued his musical career, as one member of a successful local band, The Workie Tickets. By 1988 he had started his screen career, featured in Shields Stories a series of short stories made by Amber Films. Green first made his name as an actor in the BBC series Casualty, but after three series moved to national prominence as Fusilier Dave Tucker in the drama series Solider Soldier. One episode in 1995 called for Green and co-star Jerome Flynn to sing "Unchained Melody." Sebsequently ITV was inundated by people looking to buy the song, and the pair were persuaded by Simon Cowell to release it as a single - a double A-side with White Cliffs of Dover. It stayed as No. 1 for 7 weeks in the UK Singles Charts, selling more than 1.9 million copies and making it the best-selling single of the year, and winning the duo the Music Week Awards in 1996 for best single and best album. Subsequently they had two further #1 singles and two #1 album, all re-makes of standards. The song gave Green the opportunity to sign a long term deal with ITV, and star in several of the network`s drama, including Touching Evil, Grafters and Reckless. In 1996, he set up an independent production company, Coastal Productions, with business partner Sandra Jobling to give youngsters from the North East the oppotunities he struggled for. The company has since produced or co-produced most for Green`s television work, as well as local productions at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2002, Green starred as clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill in the crime drama Wire in the Blood. His production company has brought four new dramas to the small screen in the last two years, including the massive ratings his Christmas Lights. The success of this one-off drama led to a series being commissioned under the name Northern Lights, which was followed by a sequel called City Lights). Coastal also produces drama series, including Hereafter starring then showbiz couple Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan. In July 1998, Green received an Honorary Degree from the University of Northumbria and, September 2006, he was voted by the general public as number 35 in a poll of TV`s Greatest Stars. In 2005, Green co-starred in the miniseries "Like Father Like Son", as Dominic Milne, a teacher whose finacée`s son is accused of murdering a school student. The boy`s father was a well-known serial killer, thus the title. Milne was later accused, after it was revealed that the student had sexual obsessions with him. Ultimately, Milne`s daughter confessed to murdering the girl, because her sexually-motivated obsession threatened her father`s impending marriage. In 2005, Green starred in a miniseries, Rocket Man, playing a widower trying to build a rocket to send his dead wife`s ashes into space. Green presents his own series Robson Green Extreme Fishing, where he travels over the world investigating and participating in the sport. Coining fishing chatchphrases such as "get in" and "we`re in". During 2009 whilst promoting the second series on BBC Breakfast, Green claimed that 90% of all coarse fish caught by anglers die. This rapidly caused an angry response from coarse anglers in the UK who believed this comment to be unsubstantiated and potentially damaging to the sport. In December 2009 a new show came to ITV1 called "Robson Green`s Wild Swimming Adventures", which tours swimming around the UK. Green met occupational therapist Alison Ogilvie when he was introduced to her by his then close friend television director Andrew Gunn. They married on 22 June 1991,

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