Reverend John Stuart Roberts (born c.1939) is a

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writer and broadcaster, best known as the producer of the BBC's ''

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'' and '' Heart of the Matter'' series. He was also a presenter of the long-running ''

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''. Roberts was ordained as a minister in the

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before going into television, and is a Christian Socialist. He began his television career as Religious Broadcasting Organiser, and was later Head of BBC Radio.

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, who sees him as a mentor, described him as "a free-thinking, provocative, unpredictable figure who openly despised the leaden ways of BBC management at that time". Roberts's 1999 book about the writer

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was the first full biography of the subject, and gave some prominence to Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism in later life.

Publications

*''Siegfried Sassoon'' (1999)

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