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

by Sir Tony Robinson

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Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty 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 theatre in Lincoln during the live tour of comedy series Who Dares Wins. He presented Time Team for twenty years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archaeology, 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.

  • ISBN10 0283072571
  • ISBN13 9780283072574
  • Publish Date 22 September 2016
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 4 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Language English