Tony Website

[cally]

Hello, sorry been gone far too long Still plodding on with the degree but its coming to a close soon and hope to get fully back into the forum world then!!

Did do a few small updates to the website in December but not much has happened since, obviously when new series starts again, there will be more stuff going up.

I did go and see an episode of Big Top being filmed early last year and at the time I was very unsure of how it would be received. Sad to say your comments haven't surprised me. It had a great cast but it didn't really delivered. Good to see Tony doing something on the BBC though and in a comedy role.

Well, back off I slope, essay on Timber framing traditions in the medieval period and a dissertation to do! Hopefully should graduate in July

[Nish]

Nice to hear from you. Keep up with the study!

[Jean]

History buff hits town to celebrate apprentices - both present and past

TV star and history buff Tony Robinson paid a visit to Portsmouth to teach young apprentices how their ancestors used to live. The Time Team presenter spoke at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard about some of the gruesome tasks apprentices of the past were forced to perform. Around 50 apprentices and employers from across the south east gathered at the meeting, which was organised by the National Apprenticeship Service to promote its National Apprenticeships Week.

There s much more of the story, plus a video.

[Jean]

Tony is backing the campaign to save Colchester's Roman chariot racing circus.

Ben Hur in Colchester? Race is on to save UK's only Roman chariot racetrack

Residents need to find nearly £1m to safeguard unique find and build visitor centre for 2nd century racetrack.

Colchester, it seems, was the Formula One track of Roman Britain, with the only chariot racing circus ever found on the island, and the first found in northern Europe for 20 years. Now modern residents have less than a month to raise the money to save a unique monument and create a visitor centre to reveal the site's history. Wendy Bailey, chairwoman of Destination Colchester, said a campaign had received a boost with a £30,000 council contribution. "This has really caught the imagination of ordinary local people," she said....

The campaign is backed by historians, archaeologists and celebrities including Tony Benn, Dan Cruickshank, and Tony Robinson, who as Baldrick in the last Blackadder Goes Forth, trained yards away on the Colchester parade ground.

Robinson, presenter of the archaeology series Time Team, called the circus a fantastic find: "I hope local people, politicians and businesses will all play their part in ensuring as much of it as possible, including the starting stalls, is made secure and accessible for future generations."

[Lyn]

Tony is on BBC Breakfast TV this morning...

[Lyn]

That was a very good plug for Ancestry.co.uk

This is what he was advertising this morning: http://www.eco.co.uk/event/who-do-you-t ... re-live/85

Olympia Show, looks interesting!

[RockBadger]

That was a very good plug for Ancestry.co.uk

This is what he was advertising this morning: http://www.eco.co.uk/event/who-do-you-t ... re-live/85

Olympia Show, looks interesting!

I went last year. Whilst it was good and I enjoyed it I don't think it is worth the money. There are some interesting talks (if you can get tickets) but not worth the admission alone and a lot of the information can be found elsewhere. It is the name WDYTYA? that turns it from an event that would cost half the price into this. If you do go stay till the end, as the queues to speak to people on the stands will have subsided and you have a good chat with them.

[Lyn]

Tony has a new programme!

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blitz-street

[Jean]

Tony Robinson appeared at Watford Trade Union Hall tonight, to launch MP Claire Ward's re-election campaign.

Mr Robinson left to travel to Leicester, where he was filming for Time Team, and added that he hoped that the next time he came to Watford it would be for a football match.

[Tetricus.]

I thought he'd given up on his political activities

[Jenni]

With a comment like that, I think he has!

[durnovarian]

Although the article in the new Radio Times implies otherwise.

[Nish]

Hi Cally. Hope you pick this up fairly soon.

As you are now a stalwart of the team behind the Team, can you drop in someone's ear that it would be really nice and much appreciated if the producer(s) could find some way of paying tribute to Robin Bush, who (as you'll see from the thread elsewhere here) died recently? He was a much valued team member - and much liked and respected by the TT audience. It would be a really nice gesture. Hope you can work the miracle!