No Cunning Plan: My Unexpected Life, from Baldrick to Time Team and Beyond - Paperback

by Tony Robinson (Author)

Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter, and author with a stellar career lasting more than 50 years. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver , a pint-sized pickpocket desperately bleaching his incipient moustache, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder. It wasn't all plain sailing, though. Along the way he was bullied by Steve Marriott, failed to impress Liza Minnelli, and was pushed into a stinking London dock by John Wayne. He also entertained us with Maid Marion and Her Merry Men (which he wrote and starred in) and coped manfully when locked naked outside a theater in Lincoln during the live tour of comedy series Who Dares Wins. He presented Time Team for 20 years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archeology, and risked life and limb filming The Worst Jobs in History. Packed full of incident and insight, No Cunning Plan is a funny, self-deprecating and always entertaining read.

Author Biography

Tony Robinson is the author of Tony Robinson's Kings and Queens and The Worst Children's Jobs in History, as well as the Weird World of Wonders series. He has written several television series for children, including Maid Marion and Her Merry Men, for which he received a BAFTA and a Royal Television Award. He presented Channel 4's archeology series Time Team for 20 years, and played Baldrick in Blackadder.