It's not entirely unusual for Sir Tony Robinson to be served a turnip in a restaurant by a sniggering waiter. Several times a day for several decades, someone has asked him if he has a cunning plan. But he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Landing the role of loveable idiot Baldrick in legendary sitcom Blackadder back in the early 1980s dramatically changed the course of Tony’s life.
But he very nearly missed out after another actor was cast in the pilot, an episode lost in the archives until now.
