A live recording with celebrated artist Gavin Turk and innovative designer Nelly Ben Hayoun
Robin designs and hosts conversations that define our moment. He creates a stimulating atmosphere, with chemistry and insight.
He is as at home with Nobel laureates, Oxford academics and politicians as he is with a live festival crowd. He prides himself on finding the right tone.
Selected credits
Recent interviews
Louis Theroux — the headline show at How The Light Gets In, September 2026, on cults and online subculture.
Katherine Ryan — live at King’s College, Cambridge University, for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, on authenticity and the parallels between stand-up and short-form video.
Professor Christopher Summerfield — Research Director of the UK AI Security Institute, for Thinking Deeply at The Ned, on how to navigate AI and cultivate human thinking.
Has also hosted for
Demis Hassabis · Alastair Campbell · Jarvis Cocker · Gavin Turk
Thinking Deeply
Robin curates and hosts Thinking Deeply, a collaboration between Oxford University’s Wadham College and The Ned London that foregrounds the humanities at a time of technological change.
Professor Christopher Summerfield on human thought in an age of AI
Professor Carolin Duttlinger on attention and distraction
Next: Tom Sinclair, Wadham philosophy fellow, 23 November
Sunday Papers Live
“No holds barred, lively, engaging, provoking — Sunday Papers Live is everything that alas most actual Sunday papers are not!”
Jon Snow
Since 2022 Robin has been the regular host of Sunday Papers Live, hosting discussions and interviews on everything from the future of design to geopolitics and fashion.
Double Take Debate
Robin hosts Double Take Debate, a live debate show recorded in a cocktail bar, pitting two sharp minds against each other on cities, technology, culture, politics and ideas. Recent debates include:
- Author Jon Alexander vs former Labour adviser Matthew Torbitt on political reform
- Journalist Olivia Petter vs architecture critic Phineas Harper on dockless bikes and who owns the street
- Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun vs artist Gavin Turk on whether art can change the world
Opinion and writing
Robin is a forthright contributor on culture and current affairs. His satirical series News From a Basement, published by The Independent, has over 800,000 views. He is a regular contributor to panel discussions.
As a writer, his short film Lockdown City was judges’ choice at the Unified Filmmakers Film Festival and joint winner of Fullwell73’s short film competition, and he wrote the Best British Short at Munich Film Festival 2022.
To book Robin to chair, interview, moderate or contribute, get in touch.
