About us

Tony Robinson has been an ambassador for Age Concern since early 2007. Over the last couple of decades he has emerged as one of Britain’s most recognisable faces of popular history‚ as creator of a worldwide comedy icon and as an award winning writer of children’s books and television programmes.

Tony presents Channel 4's popular archaeology series Time Team‚ and played Baldrick in hit comedy series Blackadder. He also devised and wrote four series of the BBC's Maid Marian and Her Merry Men in which he played the Sheriff of Nottingham. He has recently made two series of The Worst Jobs In History‚ and last year a documentary about the elderly entitled Me and My Mum.

Tony’s first professional appearance was at the age of thirteen in the original version of the stage musical Oliver! This was followed by a number of shows‚ films and TV appearances as a child actor. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama‚ he spent several years in rep‚ and worked for two years as a theatre director‚ before moving on to the Chichester Festival Theatre‚ the RSC and the National Theatre. It was around this time that he made his first notable television appearance as the cerebral palsied Ernie Roberts in Horizon's award-winning documentary Joey.

A talented writer

As a writer of children's television programmes he has won two Royal Television Society awards‚ a BAFTA and the International Prix Jeunesse. His childrens work includes thirty episodes of Central TV's Fat Tulip's Garden‚ a thirteen-part BBC series based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey called Odysseus – the Greatest Hero of Them All‚ and twenty six episodes of his Old Testament series Blood and Honey.

His three most recent books for adults are The Worst Jobs in History‚ Archaeology is Rubbish – A Beginner's Guide‚ co-written with Professor Mick Aston‚ and In Search of British Heroes. He has also written eighteen children's books‚ including Tony Robinson's Kings and Queens‚ and in 2005 The Worst Children’s Jobs in History.

From 1996 – 2000 he was Vice-President of British Actors Equity and is currently President of the Young Archaeology Club. From 2000 – 04 he was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Exeter University‚ Oxford Brookes‚ and the Open University‚ and Honorary MAs by Bristol University and the University of East London.

Tony comments‚ “I'm really pleased that Age Concern have asked me to become an ambassador for their work. They do a superb job‚ and I'm proud to add my voice to those arguing for a better deal for older people”.

For further information‚ please contact Jacob Howe-Douglas on 020 8765 7745.