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Blackadder star inspired by Essex history
From his stage debut aged 12 as one of the workhouse boys in Oliver, to digging through our hidden past on Time Team, there's very little that Tony Robinson hasn't done in his long and varied career.
Now an established author with more than a dozen children's books to his name, Tony's debut novel 'The House of Wolf' has influences of Essex history....
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