Tony Robinson

‘’'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 The Mob’s television adaptation of Hogfather.

Books

As audiobook narrator

Robinson narrated abridged versions all of the Discworld novels for Corgi Audio between 1993 and 2015.

He's has also red abridged audiobooks of other Pratchett novels, including:

• Truckers, Diggers and Wings
• Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb
• Nation
• Dodger

Robinson also read “Shaking Hands with Death”, Pratchett’s 2010 Richard Dimbleby lecture, when he was unable to do so himself at the event.

Other

Robinson wrote a special introduction to the 2021 anniversary edition of Hogfather.

Actor

• Discworld (videogame) - various characters
• Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - Vernon Crumley

Podcast episodes

As guest

Date	Show	Episode	External link
2023-01-02	My Time Capsule	“Ep. 250: Sir Tony Robinson”	acast.com

External links

• Tony Robinson on the L-Space Wiki
• Tony Robinson on Wikipedia
• Tony Robinson on the Internet Movie Database