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![]() 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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