Walking Through History: Brontë Country
05:00 am - 06:00 am, Monday, July 6 on Blaze (Freeview) (64)
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Brontë Country
Season 4, Episode 1
Tony Robinson embarks on another expedition through some of Britain's most historic landscapes. The moors and valleys of West Yorkshire were the home of, and inspiration for, the Brontës, the literary family who produced such classics as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Over four days, Tony heads out from the Victorian wool capital of Bradford and treks in a giant loop around what is now known as Brontë Country. From the birth of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell in the suburb of Thornton, he traces their childhoods to the much-romanticised Brontë hub of Haworth, finding that the harsh reality of life in the 1820s was far removed from the fantasy world dreamed up by the children at their father's parsonage home
Education/Science/Factual Topics
General
Cast & Crew
Tony Robinson
(Presenter)
Philip Clarke
(Executive producer)
Owen Rodd
(Series producer)
James Franklin
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
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.'
Philip Clarke
(Executive producer)
Owen Rodd
(Series producer)
James Franklin
(Producer)
