Sir Tony Robinson The House of Wolf

Best known as the hapless Baldrick in Blackadder, historical expert and presenter of Time Team, the screen polymath talks about his career and his move into adult fiction with an earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the makingof England. It’s an epic struggle between greed and idealism, ambition and betrayal, freedom and tyranny. Because change always meets with resistance and, on the path to power, nobody can be trusted.

Talking to Clare Clark