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No Cunning Plan

My Unexpected Life, from Baldrick to Time Team and Beyond

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No Cunning Plan

By: Sir Tony Robinson
Narrated by: Sir Tony Robinson
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Packed full of incident and insight, No Cunning Plan is a funny, self-deprecating and always entertaining memoir by Sir Tony Robinson.

Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty years. In this autobiography he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, a pint-sized pickpocket desperately bleaching his incipient moustache, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder.

It wasn't all plain sailing though. Along the way he was bullied by Steve Marriott, failed to impress Liza Minnelli and was pushed into a stinking London dock by John Wayne. He also entertained us with Maid Marion and Her Merry Men (which he wrote and starred in) and coped manfully when locked naked outside a theatre in Lincoln during the live tour of comedy series Who Dares Wins. He presented Time Team for twenty years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archaeology, and risked life and limb filming The Worst Jobs in History.

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What a life and Tony's reading it really made it like you were living it wity him.

amazing journey

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The book offers an intimate insight into the life and experiences of a well known and admired person. He knows how to tell a story and it is as if you are sitting with him at the pub as he regales you with his reminiscences. Some of the stories seem a bit far fetched but somehow I had no doubt they were true! Sometimes his ego was a bit more prominent than I thought it would be, as he always seems so humble in interviews, but he probably deserves to boast a bit after all he has achieved. I loved Robinson’s narration of some of the Terry Pratchett books and it seems he is even better when narrating his own.

Well done, Balders!

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Tony Robinson's story is a fascinating one, well written and engaging. He is both descriptive and reflective, painting delightfully honest pictures of key incidents and characters in his eventful life. I learned a lot, not just about his career, his socialism and his growth as a person, but also about politics, British theatre in the 1960s, archeology and why you need to take activated charcoal if you are in a small submarine. His reading is very natural and easy to listen to. An excellent book.

A pleasure to to listen to.

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Great book, very interesting and read beautifully. I loved it. Highly recommended as an educated audio read.

More than Baldrick

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In the fewest words possible, some things I just didn't want to know.

I was introduced to Tony through his stories about Fat Tulip and Maid Marion. I've seen one or two of his documentaries and of course Time Team, but my appreciation for his narrative powers is always my first expectation from him.

Unfortunately, for all his wonderful experiences, he was also up front about the faults: drugs and cheating on wife and/or girlfriend. Is it too much to ask for a celebrity/idol who is clean and faithful????

I'm afraid I won't be able to forget this and now my expectations will be tarnished: any time I see him come on tv I think what once might have been bated breath I might now sigh in recollection of a lost innocence.

For the autobiography itself, well written although a little all over the place time-wise. Couldn't keep straight what period he was talking about.

Disillusioned

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