Tony Robinson takes a slide down the festive career ladder to investigate The Worst Christmas Jobs in History.
From trudging through waist-deep snow and performing as the back end of a pantomime cow to squelching through mounds of turkey giblets, being deafened by explosions, reeling from the taste of numble pie (deer entrails) and burning the hair off boars' heads, Tony traces an alternative history of Christmas
And he answers some of the Christmas questions you may never have thought to ask: Why did Jane Austen's Christmas dinner table need an Irishman collecting seaweed? Why did someone have to collect puke at Roman Saturnalia? And how exactly did the poor man Good King Wenceslas saw gather his winter fuel?
As usual, Tony decides which job is the very worst of all - first-hand.
.jpg)
.jpg)
