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'''Sir Tony Robinson''' is an English actor, writer and presenter, best known for his television work: playing Baldrick in ‘'Blackadder'', creating and starring in ''Maid Marian and Her Merry Men'', telling children’s and mythological stories in programmes like ''Tales From Fat Tulip’s Garden'' and ''Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All'', and more recently as the host of long-running archaeological programme ''Time Team''. To Discworld fans he’s best known as the long-time narrator of Corgi’s abridged [[audiobooks]], and also for appearing in [[Terry Pratchett's Hogfather|The Mob’s television adaptation]] of {{H}}.

== Books ==
=== As audiobook narrator ===
Robinson narrated abridged versions all of the [[Discworld Books and Stories#Novels|Discworld novels]] for Corgi Audio between 1993 and 2015.

He's has also red abridged audiobooks of other Pratchett novels, including:
* {{T}}, {{D}} and {{WI}}
* {{OY}}, {{JATD}} and {{JATB}}
* {{N}}
* {{DO}} 

Robinson also read “Shaking Hands with Death”, Pratchett’s 2010 Richard Dimbleby lecture, as “Pratchett’s voice for tonight” when he was uncertain of being able to do so himself.

=== Other ===
Robinson wrote a special introduction to the 2021 anniversary edition of {{H}}.

== Actor ==
* ''[[Discworld (videogame)|Discworld]]'' (videogame) - various characters
* {{HTV}} - Vernon Crumley

== Podcast episodes ==
=== As guest ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date !! Show !! Episode !! External link
|-
| 2022-03-09 || ''[https://play.acast.com/s/chalke-talk-podcast Chalke Talk]''<ref>Official podcast of the [https://cvhf.org.uk/ Chalke Valley History Festival]</ref> || “Tony Robinson and Tom Holland” || [https://shows.acast.com/chalke-talk-podcast/episodes/tony-robinson-tom-holland acast.com]
|-
| 2023-01-02 || ''[https://podfollow.com/mytimecapsule/view My Time Capsule]''<ref>Hosted by [[Michael Fenton Stevens]]</ref> || “Ep. 250: Sir Tony Robinson” || [https://shows.acast.com/mytimecapsule/episodes/ep-250-sir-tony-robinson acast.com]
|}

== External links ==
* [[lspace:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] on the L-Space Wiki
* [[wikipedia:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] on Wikipedia
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733153/ Tony Robinson] on the Internet Movie Database

== Footnotes ==
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