Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine.

And today we've uncorked another classic from the archives.

And this week, as the Hay Literary Festival takes place, we're revisiting my conversation from 2023 with someone on this year's lineup, actor, author, Blackadder, superstar, all-round

legend, so Tony Robinson, enjoy.

I have read over what is a fascinating resume.

And something that stood out and stuck with me is a show that you presented many years ago

that did really, really well.

It was called The Worst Jobs in History.

And I wanted to know from you which of your own jobs would make it onto your personal CV

of worst jobs in Tony Robinson's history.

That's a very easy one to answer in one way. The answer would be presenting a series called

The Worst Jobs in History because I had to do them all. At least if all you had to do for the whole of your life was processed

leather by standing up to your waist in urine, it's not the greatest thing to do. But that's

the only bad job you do. That was like one out of six in one episode.

And what you pretty soon recognise, I mean, most of those worst jobs, as you can imagine, come from the medieval period, if not before.

What you realise is that you don't have the robustness to do these jobs because, you know, you haven't developed the muscles, you haven't got all those bugs inside you to eat away the bugs that you'll inhale when you're doing the worst

jobs. So by the end of each series, I was completely wasted, absolutely, as poorly as one could

possibly be just through doing all that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What were the worst of the worst then?

Well, the wee-wee one was pretty difficult.

Particularly, we did it.

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