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Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast

Tony Robinson is best-known for playing turnip-brained Baldrick who always had "a cunning plan" in the iconic TV show Blackadder. He"s presented countless documentaries throughout his 50-year career, including 20-years on Channel 4"s Time Team, inspired by his passion for history and for digging deep into the past to understand more about the present. That"s his thing!In his history podcast, Tony is delving into weird and wonderful stories that grab his attention.He’s asking: Why was Stonehenge

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1:09:07

A Cunning History of Dr WHO and the WHONIVERSE

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/05/02

Fresh off the back of celebrating 60 years of Dr Who last year and looking ahead to welcoming the 15th Doctor to the blockbuster show, Tony is joined by Sophie Aldred who played Dr Who’s assistant Ace and the writer, broadcaster and Dr Who superfan, Matthew Sweet. Together they look back over an incredible history of this abidingly successful show, sharing all the Whoniverse gossip from the very first episode starring William Hartnell as the Doctor; the cutting-edge soundtrack created by Delia

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48:11

A Totally Tremendous History of the TURNIP...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/04/25

20 years after playing Baldrick, Tony is still stopped in the street and asked where my turnip is! Turnips made him famous, so today Tony is talking turnips in history: have they always been so unloved, a food fit only for animals and peasants like Baldrick, or is this a recent British bugbear? And when did the potato steal their veggie crown? Tony’s guests today are food historians Rebecca Earle and Serin Quinn alongside a chef for all seasons who loves to cook with turnips, Oliver Rowe.Hosted by

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HOWARD GOODALL | Blackadder: The Lost Pilot

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/04/18

Today Tony is talking to the composer Howard Goodall CBE, who wrote the now iconic Blackadder theme tune.Howard is one of Britain’s best-known composers of choral music, stage musicals, TV and film scores. He wrote the themes tunes for many hit comedy shows including Red Dwarf, Mr. Bean, The Vicar of Dibley, The Catherine Tate Show, 2point4 Children and Q.I. but like so many of the talent who worked on the show, it all started with Blackadder.Last year Blackadder turned 40, to mark the occasion,

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58:07

Building The Wall: An Enthusiast’s Guide to HADRIAN’S...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/04/11

Marching 73 miles from coast to coast across the narrowest neck of England, Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire for nearly 300 years and yet there is still so much we don’t know about it: only 5% of the wall has been excavated and 7% is viable today. Tony is joined by leading archaeologist Richard Hingley and Collections Curator for Hadrian's Wall and the North East at English Heritage, Frances McIntosh, to give him the low down on how and why Hadrian’s Wall was built, by

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54:51

BLETCHLEY PARK: Codebreaking Then and Now

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/04/04

Passwords and codes are something we take for granted in the digital age, but this is such a new development and today Tony is going back to a time when making and breaking codes was an almost exclusively high-level military activity: most famously done behind closed doors by the brains at Bletchley Park. He is joined by two people who are giving him the long view on codes and codebreaking: the Bletchley Park military historian David Kenyon and the Chief Information Security Officer at the BBC,

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45:06

A Fan-tash-tic History of FACIAL HAIR

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/03/28

Men’s facial hair is very prone to fashions: moustaches and beards are back in, but why is that and what sparks bread trends and facial hair fashions? To help him find out, Tony has invited ‘beard’ historian Alun Withey and male grooming influencer Robin James | Man For Himself. They discuss 17th Century notions of facial hair as a waste product; through barber-surgeons and early shaving practices; powdered wigs; the Victorian beard movement; King Camp Gillett’s safely razor; the First World War

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58:58

RICHARD CURTIS | Blackadder: The Lost Pilot

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/03/21

Today Tony is talking to his old friend and collaborator, the screenwriter Richard Curtis. They share memories of making Blackadder from the early years to how it all ended. Along the way, they discuss Richard’s comedy roots and how he became a top comedy screenwriter: meeting Rowan Atkinson at Oxford Uni; working on Not The Nine O’Clock News; the influence of Fawlty Towers and plans for a Blackadder series set in the 1960s that never happened. Plus, they read lines from the Blackadder pilot script

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52:54

The Past, Present and Future of CAR Engineering and...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/03/14

Electric cars are the future of motoring, or so we are told, but today’s Cunningcast guests don’t agree. In fact, Hugo Spowers of Riversimple thinks hydrogen is the future and he’s designing hydrogen powered cars to prove it. Together with experienced car broadcaster Richard Sutton, they give Tony the low down on the past, present and their vision for the future of car engineering and sustainability.Hosted by Si Tony RobinsonX | InstagramWithHugo SpowersChief engineer and founder of Riversimple, who

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1:05:26

Conjuring up… A History of Stage MAGIC

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/03/07

Today Tony is conjuring up a history of stage magic: from Reginald Scot's 1584 ‘Discovery of Witchcraft’ to Servais LeRoy ‘The Belgium Conjuror’ and Talma, ‘The Queen of Coins’ via escapologist Harry Houdini to TV magic with David Berglas, Paul Daniels and David Copperfield. Tony also explores women in magic and how ‘female assistants’ were integral to the magic tricks they performed.He’s invited two accomplished magicians and knowledgeable members of the magic circle, Paul Kieve and Laura London,

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53:41

DAVID MITCHELL | Blackadder: The Lost Pilot

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/02/29

Today Tony is talking to comedian David Mitchell. They cover David’s comedy awakening; meeting Robert Webb and the early years of Peep Show; how Olivia Coleman got involved; his love of Blackadder; playing William Shakespeare and working with Ben Elton in Upstart Crow and meeting his wife, Victorian Coren Mitchell.Last year the iconic comedy Blackadder turned 40, to mark the occasion, Tony made a TV show in which he tracked down the lost Blackadder Pilot to discover the truth of Blackadder's

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49:53

A Wobbly History of JELLY, from Aristocratic Dining...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/02/22

Today it’s all going a bit wobbly in Cunningcast Towers as we are talking about the history of jelly.Tony wants to rescue jelly from its place as a children’s party food because there was a time when making jellies was an art form and took pride of place on the tables of the wealthy. He’s invited leading food historian Annie Gray and jellymonger-in-chief Sam Bompas to help him out.Hosted by Sir Tony RobinsonX | InstagramWithSam BompasFood designer, one half of Bompas and Parr food design

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1:10:02

What Do BONES Tell Us About Past Humanity With ALICE...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/02/15

Today Tony catches up with Alice Roberts to talk about her new book ‘Crypt’ and what developments in the extraction of ancient DNA from bones can tell us about the humans they once belonged to.They cover the syphilitic anchoress of All Saints Church, Fishergate, York; new findings about the Black Death and the bones in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Braemore, Hampshire; damage to the bones of the Mary Rose crew; 'the cockle amongst the wheat’ and new finds relating to the St Brice’s Day Massacre via

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1:04:40

The History of Painting on Skin: Where Do TATTOOS...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/02/08

The art of painting on the skin, it’s fashionable now, but it wasn’t always so.To kick of the second series of his cunningly curated podcast, Tony and his special guests Matt Lodder and Grace Neutral discuss where we can find the oldest tattoos, what’s the history behind them, ancient and modern tattoo techniques, tattoo inks, queer tattoo history, body modification including tattooing eyeballs and when did tattoos stop being taboo?Hosted by Sir Tony RobinsonX | InstagramWithDr Matt LodderSenior

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Tony Robinson's Cunningcast Series 2 TRAILER

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2024/01/16

Sir Tony Robinson isback with another series of hit history podcast. Launching on Thursday 8th February 2024, Series 2 of Tony Robinson's Cunningcast will treat listeners to brand-new cunningly curated episodes including;·The history of painting on skin: where do TATTOOS come from?·What do BONES tell us about past humanity with PROF ALICE ROBERTS·Harry Houdini to David Blaine: conjuring up the history of stage MAGIC·Who built HADRIAN’S WALL and why?·From aristocratic dining centrepiece, to kids’

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CHRISTMAS with Christina Rossetti: Tony explores the...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/12/21

A Cunningcast Christmas treat: today Tony is reading his favourite poem ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti, an often-overlooked member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and he's discussing the context and history of Rossetti’s iconic work with Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.In his electrifying reading, Tony captures all the magic and strangeness of ‘Goblin Market’, which is set in a fairy-tale world where a fraught encounter takes place

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TRAILER: CHRISTMAS Episode and SERIES 2 announcement

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/12/13

Tony Robinson is pleased to announce his Christmas episode of Cunningcast is dropping on the 21st December and stay tuned for Series 2, starting in the new year.Follow us on social and hit the notification bell wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss out.X: @cunningcastpodInstagram: @cunningcastpodYouTubeHosted by Sir Tony Robinson X | InstagramCredits:Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @melissafitzgExecutive Producer: Dominic de TervilleCover Art: The BrightsideA Zinc Media

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Cunningcast S1 BEST BITS

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/06/22

Tony looks back at the best bits of Series 1 with Cunningcast’s series producer Melissa FitzGerald.If you like the these best bits but haven’t heard the full episodes, have a wander back and check them out. Or if you listened first time and liked them so much that you want to hear it all over again, give us another listen...Follow us on social and hit the notification bell wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss out.Twitter: @cunningcastpodInstagram: @cunningcastpodYouTubeHosted

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55:06

MEN'S HEALTH WEEK: Living with PROSTATE CANCER

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/06/08

Tony has lived with prostate cancer for 10 years and yet he knows very little about it. 1 in 8 men in the UK will get prostate cancer and the risk of getting it rises with age, but men can also be pretty rubbish at getting medical concerns checked out, especially down in the nether regions.In this special episode, made to mark Men’s Health Week, Tony is having a frank chat about prostate cancer - the most common cancer in men - with leading urologist Professor Hash Ahmed.He also hears from his old

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TRAILER: PROSTATE CANCER and S1 BEST BITS special...

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/05/25

As we reach the end of Series 1, Tony Robinson is pleased to announce a special episode on PROSTATE CANCER in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK to coincide with Men's Health Week PLUS a special episode celebrating the BEST BITS of series 1. Coming soon.Follow us on social and hit the notification bell wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss out.Twitter: @cunningcastpodInstagram: @cunningcastpodYouTubeHosted by Sir Tony Robinson Twitter | InstagramCredits:Series Producer: Melissa

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48:58

The National CENSUS 100 Years Apart

Tony Robinson"s Cunningcast ·

2023/05/18

Tony is a self-confessed Census nerd and today he’s having a nose around the newly released data from the 1921 census, alongside data from the 2021 census, to reflect on the National Census 100 years apart: what it says about us and why it matters.Hosted by Sir Tony Robinson Twitter | InstagramWith:Jessamy CarlsonJessamy is a historian and an archivist who has worked at The National Archives for fifteen years. She was the research lead for the 1921 Census when it was released, and she has just

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