| Discover Archaeology LIVE: 2-4 May, 2008: Olympia, London | |
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This show, which takes place alongside Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, is the place to meet leading experts and TV personalities all engaged in this popular historical pursuit! You'll have the chance to come face to face with leading organisations and groups involved in Archaeology including those that are able to examine and identify your finds. Plus, we're delighted to have Time Team presenter Tony Robinson making a special appearance at the show to talk about his passion in the subject. Tony Robinson will be appearing on Sat 3rd May. Please check here for more details. |
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| National Doodle Day: Friday March 7, 2008 | |
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Tony's been doodling for charity again. Get all the info here. Click on the image to see his picture more clearly. |
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| Tony to Open BTTF 2008: 11th & 12th March 2008, in Hall 17 at the NEC Birmingham | |
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British Travel Trade Fair (BTTF), the leading travel trade show promoting tourism in the UK and Ireland, has enlisted Tony Robinson to open this year’s event at the NEC, Birmingham. Actor and scriptwriter Tony commented: "Britain has been welcoming visitors since the days of the druids, and we're still one of the world's most popular destinations today. “But often it is people from abroad who explore what Britain has to offer more than we do, which is daft, because the opportunities are endless! It also helps the economy to support our tourism industry, because when we holiday at home a huge range of businesses benefit, from those who provide the accommodation, to local tour guides, bus drivers, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and of course entertainers! “And don’t forget when you holiday in Britain rather than jetting off to the Continent, you’re doing your bit for the environment!” BTTF will be officially opened by Tony Robinson along with Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, and Christopher Rodrigues, Chairman of VisitBritain, at 11am on Tuesday 11 March. More info here. |
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| Tony on Tour | |
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Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out Tony will be touring again in 2007 with his excellent show. Click here to go to the Cunning Night Out section for all the latest info. |
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| Tony on TV | |
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The Real Knights of the Round Table, A Time Team Special Monday 25th February, 2008: Channel 4, 9.00pm 650 years ago Edward III built a huge round building in Windsor Castle. Two years ago Time Team found it. And discovered the Real Knights of the Round Table. Click on an image to see the transmission card more clearly. |
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Time Team: Series 15: Starting Sunday January 6, 2008 at 5.45pm The Time Team industry is in full flow with this new series of 13 programmes subtitled " A national treasure". Pages to accompany the new series will appear here in time for each programme. Click on an image to see this years transmission card more clearly. |
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Codename: Ainsbrook - A Time Team Special - Monday 14th January 2008, Channel 4 at 8.00pm Two metal detectorists find a huge collection of treasure in a field. This is the story of what happened next. Click on an image to see the transmission card more clearly. |
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Jamestown: America's Birthplace: Tuesday 1st May, 2007: Channel 4: 9.00pm A Time Team Special. Click on the image to see the transmission card more clearly. |
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Britain's Drowned World: Tuesday 24th April, 2007: Channel 4: 9.00pm A Time Team Special that follows archaeologists as they investigate the lost world of the sunken landscapes under the waters around Britain. Click on the image to see the transmission card more clearly. |
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Pugin: The God of Gothic: Thursday 1st March, 2007 at 9.00pm A Time Team Special Tony looks at the life and work of Augustus Pugin, one of this country's greatest architects. Click on an image to see the transmission card more clearly. |
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Tony's Voice over for the Australian Honda Jazz commercial is now online. In perhaps one of the most interesting matches of product and 'celebrity' of recent times, Honda has enlisted the services of Tony Robinson to help sell its facelifted Jazz small car. The new Honda campaign hits Australian televisions to coincide with the launch of the new Thai-built, facelifted 2006 Jazz range this month. Tony Robinson voices the Jazz and other toy cars in the 60-second commercial. The delivery and theme is reminscient of the Thomas the Tank Engine childrens program. Click here to see it. |
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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - Sun 17 December, 2006, 8.05pm & Mon 18 December, 8pm At last someone has tried and succeeded in filming one of Terry Pratchett's extraordinary Discworld books. Pratchett's massively popular fantasy fiction books have always seemed too wildly imaginative to be filmed, but advances in special effects have brought Discworld within reach. Pratchett himself is delighted with Sky One's approach to The Hogfather, especially with Sir David Jason playing Albert and Ian Richardson as the voice of Death. Lavishly produced at a cost of around £6million, the story revolves around the Hogfather, the creature responsible for delivering presents to the world's children during the winter festival of Hogswatch. But this particular year the Hogfather is nowhere to be found. And if the children's presents aren't delivered, the sun won't rise in the morning. And then where will we be? Luckily help is at hand in the form of Death. Yes, Death. Death is going to don a festive beard, and aided by his trusty manservant, Albert (Jason) he mounts his pig-driven sleigh and sets about getting down the chimneys of all the expectant boys and girls. It's not a role that comes easily to Death, which makes it all the more amusing. It's a wonderful, original story, beautifully told, full of Pratchett charm and humour. It's a real treat, a different kind of Christmas tale. A seasonal spectacular that will thrill adults and children alike. |
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Codex:Channel 4 from Sunday 12 November 6.45pm & More4 Sunday 19 November 11.45am Locked in the British Museum overnight, a team of intrepid contestants must turn historical detectives to crack the mysterious Codex. Along the way they need to solve puzzles based around some of the world's most important and mysterious treasures, including the Rosetta Stone and the Flood Tablet. More info here. |
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The Doomsday Code, Saturday 16th September, 2006: 7pm The Book of Revelation, with its apocalyptic imagery, is one of the most known books of the bible. The Anti-Christ, The Great Tribulation and the blood-soaked Battle of Armageddon are all part of St John's terrifying vision of the end of the world. Tony Robinson uncovers the realities behind the Book of Revelation. Tony said: "I travelled to New York, San Antonio, Uganda, the Greek Islands and Israel all in a month, in order to make the programme. Its about the fact that a lot of right wing American Evangelical Christians believe in the literal truth of the book of Revelation. This wouldn’t matter, if they were just a bunch of powerless cranks but many of them are key opinion makers in the U.S and have a particular influence on the Republican party in general and George Bush in particular. For instance they believe that Jesus won’t come again until Israel reigns supreme and the rest of the Middle East is in turmoil. Consequently, they are opposed to any negotiated peace settlement. In Africa, their missionaries preach that safe sex, school work, indeed anything to do with making this world a better place are not important, because all that matters is preparing yourself for Jesus’ second coming. The documentary decodes the obscure writings of the book of Revelation, looks at what influence these evangelists have and explains how they have misinterpreted this extraordinary book." |
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Worst Jobs: Series 2: Channel 4: Sundays from April 23rd, 2006: 5.45pm This new series of programmes begins transmission later this month... Click on the image to see a bigger version of the transmission card. |
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Time Team 2006: Channel 4: Sundays, 2006: 5.55pm The latest series (13 programmes)! Of which Steve Platt says: "TT is an industry, not a TV programme." More info here Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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Me and My Mum: Channel 4: 27th March: 9pm In an intensely moving film Tony Robinson looks at how we care for our parents as they get older. It's a deeply personal issue for Tony, whose 89-year-old mum Phyllis suffers from dementia and lives in a care home. Tony looks candidly at a concern that will eventually face most of us, but which we prefer not to talk about: the reality of what we should do when our parents can no longer live independently. He explores his relationship with his own children, asking them about their views on his old age in order to examine the decisions he took regarding Phyllis. Tony also talks to experts, organisations representing the elderly and politicians about the possible solutions. He faces all of this with honesty, wit and a determination to find a solution. And while Tony wonders whether more could be done for his mum, he also appreciates that it may happen to him in time. Click on the Transmission Card images to see a bigger picture. |
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The Big Roman Villa: A Time Team Special: Channel 4: 8th January 2006 at 5.55pm Tony Robinson presents the story of the excavation of a big Roman villa in Somerset, originally discovered by Time Team in 2002 and revisited in 2005. The programme demonstrates how the villa grew from a small farm building to a fine stone building, and how that was expanded again and turned round to face the busy new Fosse Way. More info here Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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The Worst Christmas Jobs in History: Channel 4: Monday 26th December: 8pm Tony presents an alternative history of Christmas from the Roman puke collectors to the very first Christmas cracker joke writers. More info here Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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Tony Robinson’s Titanic Adventure: Channel 4: Tuesday 20th December: 9pm Using the latest technology, Tony works with Titanic director James Cameron and his team to give history’s best look yet at the Titanic’s interior. More info here Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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Time Team Special: Journey to Stonehenge: Channel 4: Monday 28th November: 9pm This summer Time Team filmed a documentary special about the excavations at Durrington Walls, the biggest henge in the country. This is the third year of a 10 year project thats looking at Stonehenge and the area around and the digging involved mostly university students. The programme also features what is probably Time Team's best ever reconstruction - the Southern Circle! More web pages to go with this Time Team Special can be found here. Click on the image to see a bigger picture . |
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Hosts Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out Having spent years of his working life uttering the phrase 'I have a cunning plan!' Tony Robinson started to believe it. His one-man show will make you laugh, cry, sing along and retch. More details here. |
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CSSD Centenary Reunion, 2006 To mark their special year, Central School of Speech and Drama hosted a centenary celebration at the Old Vic on Sunday 4 June 2006. Tony said it was a great event which he really enjoyed and was amazed at just how many people had started from there. Find their website here. |
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The Bulmer's comedy festival 2006 The Bulmers Comedy Festival 2006 has been launched with the news that among other items announced and on sale now are live at the Olympia; Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out, September 7th. Visit their website here. |
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| National Doodle Day Ebay Auction from February 23rd, 2007 | |
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Tony has been doodling again in a Baldrick type manner! This is to be auctioned on ebay along with other celebrity doodles and all the proceeds go to charity. There is also a section on the organisers website where you can vote for your favourite doodle. The National Doodle Day website is here. And Tony's entry is here. Click on the image to see a bigger version. |
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From 16th April to 28th May, the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is auctioning on eBay more than 40 original, celebrity designed handprint paintings of butterflies. This is to raise money for conservation, and in particular work to protect the beautiful Chalkhill Blue butterfly Famous names from the worlds of art, showbiz, journalism, and politics have donated their own handprints, transformed into butterflies by painterly effects and in some cases, humorous doodling. And, of course a very nice picture by Tony... Handprints by Damien Hirst, recently named the most powerful person in the international art world by ArtReview magazine; Bristol-based Nick Park whose film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit has been released on DVD; and Jamie Cullum, the jazz maestro from Hullavington, near Chippenham, are among the butterflies that will be fluttering onto eBay during the auction, which will run for six weeks. More info here. |
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| Tony Robinson designs Christmas tree decoration for Charity Auction | |
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Phoenix House (a national charity that helps people overcome an addiction problem) has commissioned some of the UK's top celebrities to design a unique 'bird-in-flight' decoration to brighten up your Christmas tree, as part of their Festive Phoenix campaign. With a selection of decorative pens, celebrities such as Tony Robinson have been flexing their creative muscles by decorating individual Christmas tree hangings to raise money for the work of Phoenix House. Pictured is the unique 'Baldrick' design - what a fabulous Christmas present! All tree hangings will be auctioned from 5th to 12th December 2005. The Festive Phoenix campaign is supported by Altrix Healthcare Plc. For more information phone the hotline on 020 7234 9761. Send an email to tamsin.roberts@phoenixhouse.org.uk Or check the website at: www.phoenixhouse.org.uk The final and winning bid for this was £12.27 Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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| Devon Wildlife Trust Ebay Auction | |
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News just in that an original signed drawing by Tony is going up for auction on Ebay week commencing 14th November. The drawing has been donated to Devon Wildlife Trust in support of raising funds for wildlife and biodiversity in Devon. More info available on the Devon Wildlife Trust Website. The final and winning bid for this was £77 Click on the image to see a bigger picture.. |
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| DVD's | |
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The Very Best Time Team Digs. New DVD will be released on the 21st August 06 This exclusive 3 disc box set features the very best of those digs as chosen by the team themselves. These include; the discovery of the huge Roman villa at Turkdean, the Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered at Breamore, Time Team's adventures in the Caribbean, an investigation into a crashed spitfire from World War 2, and the dig that no one will ever forget - the mysterious site at, Llygadwy in Wales, where the archaeology seemed just too good to be true. The Very Best Time Digs are introduced and reviewed by Tony and the Time Team. Also included extra features: Bonus digs: Turkdean 2 - the only site that was so good that Time Team went back to do more excavation, and Nevis Part 2 - the second half of the teams dig in the Caribbean 2 episodes of Time Team extra - the follow up history programme broadcast in 1998 A new film 'Geofizz Explained', aimed at guiding viewers through 3 very different geofizz techniques regularly used during the Time Team's digs Click on the image to see a bigger picture. |
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The Real Da Vinci Code The Channel 4 documentary film is now available on DVD. Available from: Play.com |