The Worst Jobs in History

Rural jobs

Watch this episode now on 4oD Tony Robinson carrying hay

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 cutter, sin eater, pole man, lead-white maker and featherie man, what could be worse?

How about the age-old job of steeplejack? 'It's not the heights I mind,' says Tony. 'It's falling on to the hard ground from them.'

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