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Worst Christmas Jobs in History (48 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.30PM Sunday 13 Dec 2009 Channel 4

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    Worst Christmas Jobs in History (48 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7.30PM Sunday 13 Dec 2009 Channel 4

    Tony Robinson takes a slide down the festive career ladder to investigate The Worst Christmas Jobs in History.

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    Industrial jobs (49 mins)

    Tony experiences the jobs that made Watt, Stephenson and Brunel what they are today.

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    Maritime jobs (50 mins)

    Tony's all at sea as liar, underdog, midshipman, fusée-chain maker, flying man, lighthouse builder and keeper, gut-girl, stoker and trimmer.

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    Royal jobs (50 mins)

    Life at court wasn't much fun for the lance maker, armourer, falconer, fireworker, food taster, whipping boy, laundry woman, groom of the chamber, hall boy or the royal messenger.

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    Rural jobs (49 mins)

    This green and pleasant land was forged by people willing to do some terrible jobs. After Tony samples life as a shepherd boy, nettle harvester, reddleman, thresher, chaff-box boy, sedge…

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    Urban jobs (50 mins)

    Tony does the back-breaking job of water caddy, confronts his fear of heights as a fireman, suffers the ignominy of clearing up dog excrement as a pure collector and even risks a bloody…

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