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1973: The Time Machine Man | The Fanatics | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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9:24Now PlayingThe Fanatics profiles people with unusual enthusiasms.
Clocks, carillons, chronometers: T.R. Robinson has a lot of time on his hands. He spends most of it studying and preserving our finest timepieces in museums, up church towers, and at the workbench. These are the places to find out what it is that makes this horologist extraordinare tick!
Clip taken from The Fanatics, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 11 January, 1973.
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