written when he was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford. The title refers to a popular radio interview he did with John Cleese on the topic of psychiatry. This Is the Science Show (1995, nonfiction) Normal Service Won't Be Resumed: The Future of Public Broadcasting (1996, nonfiction) Future Perfect (2007, nonfiction), about "the future of just about everything" 2007 (published 2001) is a dystopian novel describing a rebellion of animals. Personal life Williams met Pamela Traylor when in Australia for the first time, and they married on June 10, 1966 before both moving back to the UK, where he studied science. They had two children. He is a good friend of fellow ABC presenter, Norman Swan, a qualified medical doctor, who intervened to help save his life when he suffered a cardiac arrest in 1988. Williams is in a long-term relationship with Jonica Newby, a former presenter on ABC Television's Catalyst science journalism program. Williams underwent chemotherapy for colorectal cancer in 2014 and 2015; at one point he was hospitalised for five weeks but continued to make The Science Show from his hospital bed. Footnotes References External links Robyn Williams, Full Biography ABC Science Unit Encyclopedia of Australian Science 1944 births Living people Alumni of the University of London English male journalists English humanists English people of Welsh descent English expatriates in Australia Honorary Officers of the Order of Australia Honorary Members of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Australian humanists ABC radio (Australia) journalists and presenters