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I never realized how tough a Shepherd's life was. I really dig the shows that Tony Robinson does. Once I've exhausted all of the worst jobs episodes, I then started watching his crime and punishment series. Next was fact or fiction, etc. Tony is a funny guy. Although he may act a bit posh at times, some of the things he does are pretty tough. Especially when dealing with heights seeing as how he has a fear of them. And yet he does it. Thank you Tony for providing us for much needed educational entertainment, sir!

Fair play to Tony Robinson. His fear of heights is well recorded, yet he still ascended the church steeple.

Tony Robinson is one of the greatest funniest and kindest people on tv. i love this show.

agricultural work is difficult even in Modern times and mechanisation. BUT, the people must eat. In a pre-mechanised time it was even more difficult. God Bless farmers and ranchers.

I admire Tony for being hands-on the tasks in every episode. He's brave!

I will NEVER complain about my work again after watching a few of these shows!

Fred Dibnah would be laughing at the last bit. That man was a absolute beast of a human being.. Completely fearless.

so nice of all the advertisers to allow you to show bits of your program in between

seen lots of these types of series, but all of a sudden i realize what is so good about this series, and that is the fact that boldrick isnt scared of doing the dirty work him self, and he always jumps in with both feed!.

Think about all those poor camera men who had to climb that spire before Tony.

Tony is such an amenable chap, I think he's the best choice for these great programs. AND he's funny too.

All the jobs done by Baldricks throughout history 😂

Whew him climbing that tower had my feet sweating and stomach turning

I lived as a Yank in the UK in Hampshire during the 80’s and loved every day. The Brits are a tremendous people! They are inventive, funny, warm, and extremely caring people. I hated having to come back to the States. I especially loved the theater in London. It was marvelous! Thank you for this truly educational and inventive series!I love it!

Sin Eater? My God, people were strange back then.

SIN-EATER - now that's a great name for a metal band!

I thought my paper route at age ten sucked in the rain in the 80's. I'm so soft.

The maids who collected chamber pots and washed them out in the sluice room - then cleaned the sluice room, the chamber pots and the bedrooms.

My great grandfather was killed when he was pulled into the belt on his steam engine whilst unblocking it. Not a nice death.

Love Tony and these documentaries! Mad respect to our ancestors!

This episode was so amazing to me! showing how far we've come in farming and ranching and how little things have changed at the same time!

Mike Rowe, eat your heart out. These are amazing documentaries.

How amazing that Tony went all the way up there!! I can only manage my step ladder and a proper ladder i couldn’t do. Tony is very brave 👏🏻👍❤️

I am seeing a pattern here. His pick for worst frequently involves heights. Of course, anyone with a fear of heights would hate these, but some of the others seem worse to me.

I'm binging too! So much to learn about. Tony really gets in there and demonstrates. He does it all! Awesome. Thank you!🤗🇬🇧🎄

Six pints of beer to work with unguarded dangerous machinery. *OSHA faints*

19:21 deaths from eating to excess!! Did anyone notice?😂😂😂

For anyone wondering about the death from excess eating part, I found the newspaper article in the Bury and Norwich Post from October 22nd, 1856, page 3: Death from Eating to Excess. On Friday last .in inquest was held upon the body of a Prussian, named Karl Yanke, captain of the ship Hurrah, from Stettin, which had been lying in the harbour for about a tort-night. The deceased had resided during that time at the Mermaid Inn, Nelson-street; and it appears that, although abstemious with regard to drink, he was much less so with regard to solid food. On the evenin in question, he and some others had had a supper of sausa anu oysters, 01 winch he partoi whilst in conversation ho was c ok very heartily ; and observed to smile in a peculiar manner. His appearance cxeitinff alarm. Mr Kendall, surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about three minutes, but by that time lit' was nuite xtinpt. At flm inquest, on Friday afternoon, the medical evidence shewed that the stomach and bowels were enormously distended by food, so much so that the heart and lungs were displaced and pressed upon ; and that the immediate cause ot uentn was apoplexy. erdict accordingly. (Errors due to OCR, copied as provided by the archive)

I always find it fascinating how British last names are based on what your occupation was. "Bob the Thatcher?" "No, I'm talking about Bob the Shoemaker." Goldsmith, Cooper, Shipwright, etc. My great grandmother's maiden name was Porter.

Love your Show Tony, You must have HUGE BALLS!!! I got Vertigo JUST WATCHING YOU!!!! Cheers Mate!!!!

Honestly one of the best series I’ve ever seen

43:38 respect to those who build that scaffolding just getting the material up there had to be exhausting

I always say I was born in the wrong century. Then I watch programs like this and am content. Good on you Tony Robinson for giving it a go; says a lot about your character!

I seriously think I have watched every documentary with tony in my t lol there’s a lot of them love the way he host

I love this show but the audio channels are always off. Sometimes I can barely hear the host speaking.

Another thumbs up for Sir Tony

In tonight's episode, Baldrick becomes Fred Dibnah! And I make a cup of tea ☕️! "It was the workforce who made the history of Britain happen", you're too god damn right it was Tony.

Poor Tony you are a real trooper.

The sound mixing is a bit off.

Having seen a number of these episodes, Tony is now one of my favorite people

He actually went up that ladder? hes crazy, good work Tony!

The Newspaper article "DEATH FROM EATING TO EXCESS" I wish to know more please?

I love this documentary series. Robinson is a great presenter who puts a lot of dedication into these and it's a lot more fun to watch than a dry recitation of historical facts.

This gentleman's face and body language matches this programme. His expression and way of explanation after doing the jobs is priceless.

It never occurred to me to have Baldrick host a historical documentary show, but now I want him to do it for everything!

I just found this series, and love them! Wish they had these when I was in school.

The worst thing I saw him do was eat a live toad in another documentary - horrible medieval jobs or something. He went running off screen & I think he was about to hurl. There was quite a bit of blood involved...🤮

Can you imagine the pain he goes through to show us how lucky we are.

This is seriously one of the best documentary series I’ve ever seen

sheperd used to dunk the sheep in the rivers not because the wanted the sheep clean but to get rid of alot of the lanalin in the wool because it would be much easyier to shear the sheep with shears, we dont do this anymore bacause we have mechanical shears

In 3rd grade, one of those plants cut me REALLY badly. I was holding a leaf and my bully at the time yanked it away, cutting all the way across my palm, and pretty deeply, too. It hurt like forking shirt.

Now see America’s own Mike Rowe actually castrated sheep in that manner one of the best episodes of dirty jobs ever

When I was a little girl in the country 75 years ago, my uncle still used "raddle" in a box, strapped to the chest of the ram, to see which of the ewes had been covered, and should be pregnant. But it wasn't just red, like Tony's face ,he had two rams and one had red powder, and the other, blue.

I think it would be neat if they had skeletons belonging to the people who worked these jobs, to show the changes caused by a lifetime doing them. Like how they show the teeth of a sugar addict in the Hidden Dangers of the Home: Tudor episode.

4:40 "I had a kebab like that once." LMFAO, omg, too funny.

Great trip log. Hadn't heard of the river before and you sure weathered the portages and challenges with grace. Thanks for sharing.

Tony’s an absolute champ. He’s actually sort of inspiring! 👍🏼 Thanks for the superb covid medicine! Edit: thats a hacky sack not a golf ball! 😂

A good old classic for the last day of weekend.

LOL. My Dad was a Desert Rat, and who became the Royal Ordanance Survey, after WW2. One of my fondest memories of him is being taught to use a staff and chain in 2 foot of snow on a very steep slope. I was his child labour 12yo. About 1972. After about 4 hours of slogging around in wellies, with 2 pairs of socks and plastic bags filled with hay as insulation....Measure thrice! I got taken to the local pub and he asked if I could come in! I got very clucked over by the landlady, The best Devon pastie ever, with gravy and extra buttered mash and apple crumble with homemade Devon cream AND a half pint of mulled cider! and about 2 pints of builders tea FIRST! Why I smile about this is he was completely bemused ! She is my girl, she never complained. She even wound up the chain right and shook off the snow and put it in the grease bag.

The flies laying maggots in poopy fur is called flystrike here in the US. Happens to chickens and rabbits too, especially the fluffy breeds 😝

Amazing series...love all of them...Time Team too. Just found these videos about a month ago and have learned so much-thank you..!!❤️

I think those sheep were cleaner before having their 'bath'! lol As a side note, there is nothing that would get me to climb that steeple... nope, nope, NOPE!!!

Interesting choice of placement of the bread. I can think of another reason that's called sin eating lol.

It's somewhat funny when you think about it but I've had no problems jumping from a plane with a chute no matter what height, but seeing Tony climb that steeple had me shaking my head in a big negative.

Courageous Tony to climb that steeple, great man!

Tony: *says the word Steeplejack* me: *flashbacks to Fred Dibnah*

At 12 years old I would drink about 4 litres of cider on threshing day. I must have been ratted. At 15 years old we carried 200lb sacks of grain to the farm granary

Really curious to know more about that “DEATH FROM EATING TO EXCESS” story at 29:05 🤔

Tony is such a trooper

the sheep bathing scene was funny. *_*

Yes, this series falls and stands with Tony doing it all himself. Chapeau! Very courageous!

The soundmixer of the series should be sentenced to these worst jobs for each episode with barely distinguishable narration.

Another healthy dose to illustrate that we 'do not know we're born'. These docs are very eye-opening.

Mr Baldrick should know about this jobs, bet Lord Blackadder made him do couple of them.... great show, being watching them during this quarantine time.

Words fail me: mind boggling, horrific, incredible! The most mind numbing, horribly paid jobs in modern britain are, by comparison, cushy - and I would still think them ghastly if I had to do them.

19:15 "Death from eating to excess" that one sounds pretty interesting.

I tried telling a cop I was using drugs to ease the pain of cutting reeds. He didn't buy it. :(

Tony seems to be like the Duracell rabbit. Never running out of energy! - chapeau - ! though not only to him, but also to his whole team and the people who worked with him. and which for most of the time we do not see or hear them...

*Rest in Peace* Fred Dibnah. Amazing British Steeplejack personality.

They used to have stone basins with water that was feed by a river that was called a sheep deep that was made for washing sheep. Some of them are 2000 years old. I can't imagine they don't still have them. Maybe they weren't close to one so they did it in the river.

Those sheep lived like kings with their own Groom of the Stool.

💕 you & your work, Tony. In so many ways, always quality viewing. Thank you.

I believe the music tracks were added recently. I saw this series before and the music was different and mixed correctly. Some idiot decided to remix with punched up music.

I think I wouldn't mind making golfballs, though I'm concerned that the white paint is also made with lead.

I love these documentaries, and I purposely find Tony's, he's so interesting and entertaining to listen to!

Been watching these all over again I don’t remember all that horrendous music interrupting speech

Okay but what about that "Death by Eating to Excess" obituary?

I'm binge watching these!!😊

I love Tony! I try to watch all his documentaries, half way through time team only another 16 seasons 😅 favourite history teacher 👍

I absolutely love this series!

Omg rofl “just cut his balls with a sharp knife, and draw them out with your mouth”. (His face!) “you’re joking” hahaha tears Of laughter are flowing at his face. Ahhhh this is going to be a good episode

sometimes the music drowns out Tony...otherwise it's good!

A really interesting subject. Unfortunately, that sound balance is whacked-out. I can hear the machines and background music far better than the sound of Toni's voice.

Thank you for the video. It has given me creative ideas.

I'd have loved to climb that steeple. The view was amazing!

I have the utmost respect for these people💯

6:38 when he nearly drowned the sheep so it stood on his foot 😅

Dagging, I am glad I use electric clippers. I always hated removing fly strike. Live maggots eating the sheep alive

Tony you are AMAZING!!

We're all privileged to live in the 21st century