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Tony Robinson

Worst Jobs In History Tour

"Is there going to be another series of Blackadder?" " When Time
Team leaves town what happens to the gardens you've wrecked?" "Are
you that bloke with the mallet off Whack-a-Day?" People's curiosity
knows no bounds.

In my show you can ask me anything you like. I want to tell you
about my early life as a sickeningly precocious child actor
in "Oliver", I want to show you where Baldrick's boils came from,
recount my meteoric rise from lefty leaflet distributor to member of
Labour's ruling NEC, and reveal the secrets of the groupies who knit
Professor Mick Aston's stripy jumpers.

But more than that I want to talk about some of the Worst Jobs in
History. I'm sick of telly programmes that show the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth single-handedly transforming England in between snogging
sessions with her latest court toy-boy. Most of our history is a
million miles from that. It's the story of ordinary people doing
crappy jobs for crappy wages. The Gong Scourer, the Pipe Roll
Transcriber and the Tosher have all got fascinating stories to tell.
And now's the time to tell them.

This show is the love child of Simon Schama, Alastair Campbell and
Eddie Izzard. See it and you'll be the envy of your friends. You'll
laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along, you'll throw up. Miss it and
you'll probably contract the Purples or the Rising of the Lights or
some other symptom of the Great Plague, and die a slow, lingering
death.


October 13th Wed Brighton Corn Exchange
14th Thurs Brighton Corn Exchange
15th Fri Dartford Orchard
16th Sat Basingstoke Anvil
17th Sun Leeds City Varieties

19th Tues Tunbridge Wells Trinity
20th Wed Kings Lynn Corn Exchange
21st Thurs Colchester Arts Centre
22nd Fri Winchester Theatre Royal
23rd Sat Liverpool Neptune

25th Mon High Wycombe Swan
26th Tues Redhill Harlequin
27th Wed Bury St Edmonds Theatre Royal
28th Thurs St Albans Arena
29th Fri Coventry Arts Centre
30th Sat Stafford Gatehouse
31st Sun Worcester The Swan