Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson


5:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Tuesday, April 21 on 5SELECT (46)

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Season 1, Episode 4

As he travels across Australia, Tony visits an outback farm where herding is done by helicopter and learns about the uncertain future facing the Great Barrier Reef


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Education/Science/Factual Topics Foreign Countries/Expeditions

Cast & Crew

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Tony Robinson (Presenter)
Abigail Adams (Executive producer)
Fintan Maguire (Executive producer)
Chris Parkin (Executive producer)

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Tony Robinson (Presenter)
Born: August 15, 1946 in London
Best Known For: Playing Baldrick in the Blackadder series and fronting Time Team.
Early-life: Tony Robinson was born in Hackney, London, on August 15, 1946, and brought up near Epping Forest. His father was a civil servant and his mother took part in amateur dramatics. He caught the acting bug at the age of 12 when he landed the role of the Artful Dodger in a West End production of Oliver! After leaving school with four O-levels, he studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career: Robinson's first TV appearance was on the children's show Play Away in 1971, and he made his film debut in 1975, with a small part in the John Wayne movie Brannigan. He featured in Channel 4 satire Who Dares Wins in 1983, but his big TV break came that same year when he played Baldrick in The Black Adder, which ran for six years. In 1989, he wrote and starred in Bafta award-winning children's series Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Five years later, he began presenting Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team and has since hosted The Worst Jobs In History and documentaries about figures including Macbeth and Boudica. Away from TV, he has toured the country with his one-man show and is a prolific children's author.
Quote: 'In the UK virtually all of our landscape has been continually worked and reworked by human beings for thousands of years. Our country is like a big trifle of history.'
Abigail Adams (Executive producer)
Fintan Maguire (Executive producer)
Chris Parkin (Executive producer)