Time Team's Tony Robinson: A Life in History

Gone Medieval

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis talks to Sir Tony Robinson — actor, author and presenter — who is now hosting his own podcast, Tony Robinson’s Cunningcast.

Sir Tony talks about how he has been making history fun, funny and accessible for decades, ranging across Black Adder, Time Team and Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit.
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0:23.2	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis.
0:26.3	It's only Satoni Robinson on Gone Medieval.
0:29.7	Tony has a brilliant new podcast called Cunning Cast and when I went to him about nights
0:34.4	since he is one, I asked him if he'd come and talk to us.
0:37.6	From Black Adder to Maid Marion and her Mary Men and from time team to the peasant's
0:42.3	revolt, Tony's been making history fun, funny, and accessible for decades.
0:48.2	We spoke about the show's Tony's made, his experiences working around history and archaeology
0:53.8	and how it's turned his own view of history into a doobalontondra.
0:57.4	Enjoy!
1:00.4	Welcome to Gone Medieval, Tony. It's fantastic to have you here.
1:08.5	Oh, it's nice to be here. I'm actually still sitting in my room.
1:11.5	What a cliche that was to start with, sorry.
1:15.4	I guess to start off with, a lot of people might associate you with time team,
1:19.9	particularly people who are interested in history and perhaps time team was a way into history
1:23.6	for a lot of people. Do you have a favorite medieval dig that you took part in
1:28.7	and anything that particularly stood out about it?
1:30.6	The problem with that, and you must have had this conversation a million times on your podcast,
1:35.0	is what the heck are we talking about when we say medieval?
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