285:. Roberts is the author of The Villes Children's Books series. One of the books in the series, Sadsville, was written in partnership with the NSPCC to encourage children to contact ChildLine if they need someone to talk to about any problems, although it is unrelated to the subject of mental health. To promote this book, Martin Roberts went to his local primary school, at which his children attended. He performed a reading of the book and brought in a red bus for the children to go on.
315:. He intended to spend at least half a million pounds of his own money on the project. He had already bought and converted a nearby farm into a B&B. Roberts said, "It's been a bit spiritual for me in lots of ways, I can't really explain it. I just feel it and I felt it when I started to come to Wales in recent times, I just felt this sense of being at home, at peace and happy."
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Roberts has presented radio throughout his career as the BBC's UK and
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