![]() ![]() Norwich was the host of the BBC radio panel game My Word! from 1978 to 1982. Robbins Landon wrote Five Centuries of Music in Venice. His books included The Normans in the South, A History of Venice, The Italian World, Venice: A Traveller's Companion, 50 Years of Glyndebourne: An Illustrated History, A Short History of Byzantium, Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, and A History of France. He was a historian, travel writer, and television personality. In 1964, he resigned from the Foreign Service to become a writer. In 1954, he inherited the title of Viscount Norwich. ![]() ![]() After graduation, he joined the Foreign Service and served in Belgrade, Beirut, and as a member of British delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. John Julius Norwich was born in London and served in the Royal Navy before receiving a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. ![]()
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