Robin Houston Television, for a number of other ITV companies and for BBC Television. As an announcer he provided the voiceovers for the ITV television shows: For BBC Television he also announced Clive James' New Year specials and "Dame Edna Live at the Palace". As an actor he played the radio announcer warning of a nuclear attack in the 1986 animated film "When the Wind Blows", the newsreader in Kenny Everett's science fiction radio and television serial "Captain Kremmen" and has performed in a number of television dramas, including "Kavanagh QC", "Thursday the 12th", "Holby City", "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "The Gentle
Captain Abby and Captain John Captain Abby and Captain John Captain Abby and Captain John, or Captain Abby and Captain John: An Around-the-world Biography is a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (1892–1955). The book was written in 1939, and was published by Macmillan Press. It chronicles the true life adventures of a husband and wife team that co-captained a tall ship in the heyday of wooden shipping in the 19th century. The couple at the heart of the story are John and Abby Pennell, part of the Pennell shipbuilding dynasty of Brunswick, Maine (U.S.A.).The family company was known as Pennell