‘I wanted to play the polar opposite of Baldrick’ – Tony Robinson on making Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

The Blackadder star loved playing the villain in this Robin Hood spoof - but Kate Lonergan had to get checked for bites between shots as her yellow underwear kept attracting ticks

I did a Jackanory Playhouse and got slightly drunk after the recording. I said: It's not real storytelling, is it? We're reading off an Autocue." The senior BBC figures said: Well, what would you do?" My daughter was 10 at the time, tiny, feisty, but crap at football. I watched her charging around the playground yelling at the boys and thought: If there really was a Robin Hood and he'd met my daughter, it wouldn't have been him who was in charge of the gang."