Ghosts | Robin's Guide to the History of the World (Live at the Gillian Lynne Theatre)

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  • 📜 "A bit of war. Someone win, don't know who... Someone lose, don't know who..." Having died thousands of years ago, Robin has seen it all. From the Ice Age, to the invention of 'ele-trickery' and beyond, Laurence Rickard reads the caveman's guide to everything that has ever happened in the history of the world, from the BBC programme's new companion book: The Button House Archives.
    An Evening with the Cast of Ghosts was originally broadcast on Sun 29 Oct live from the Gillian Lynne Theatre, in London.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 123

  • @thedylanbowen
    @thedylanbowen Рік тому +183

    Larry: makes robin noises
    Crowd: goes crazy

  • @alyburr6645
    @alyburr6645 Рік тому +520

    it's so so weird seeing Larry do the Robin voice without the costume my brain can't quite compute xD

    • @robertk2194
      @robertk2194 Рік тому +8

      IKR it feels edited!!!

    • @billswifejo
      @billswifejo Рік тому +11

      I had to listen with my eyes shut 😂

    • @CatrionaS1989
      @CatrionaS1989 Рік тому +7

      And in glasses

    • @qtmelly2012
      @qtmelly2012 Рік тому +10

      Wow! I didn’t realise that Larry played Robin!! Robin……..my favourite character. ❤💐👏🏻

    • @lilymarinovic1644
      @lilymarinovic1644 Рік тому +8

      Funny, he was often the wisest and most capable character too ...

  • @amylucy0
    @amylucy0 Рік тому +275

    It's like the opposite of "BUT NOT FOR LONG" just "Nuffin... nuffin...nuffin"

    • @sarahglover3286
      @sarahglover3286 Рік тому +22

      Robin is Bob Hayle confirmed! 😮

    • @oliviadaly4795
      @oliviadaly4795 Рік тому +6

      ​@@sarahglover3286always has been both Bob Hale and Robin are Larry aha

    • @sarahglover3286
      @sarahglover3286 Рік тому +9

      @@oliviadaly4795 Are know they're both Larry but that's not what I meant. I'd love to see them meet!

  • @LordHorst
    @LordHorst Рік тому +382

    An audio book version of this read by the actors would be amazing.

    • @baconmoop
      @baconmoop Рік тому +66

      It exists! It’s on audible and it’s incredible.

    • @HollyLou223
      @HollyLou223 Рік тому +25

      It’s available on audible and it’s amazing!

    • @ddhu5396
      @ddhu5396 Рік тому +7

      Not in the United States sadly

  • @timber72
    @timber72 Рік тому +144

    Brilliant.
    Of course, underlying it is sadness. Robin was alone for a longgggggggggggggggg time.
    But, then, that's one of the reasons this was such an incredible show.
    People come. People go. Moonah ston always there.

  • @LindaMChristie
    @LindaMChristie Рік тому +175

    Robin is my absolute favourite. I'll miss him.

    • @nicmarks1332
      @nicmarks1332 Рік тому +19

      The moon episode :)

    • @richardenglish2195
      @richardenglish2195 Рік тому +19

      Me too. There's a real poetry to the character that I like; he's so wise and yet comes across like an over-excitable dog.

    • @johnnymancspice
      @johnnymancspice 8 місяців тому

      I like to think that he’s been (sucked off) taken to the big shiny star (International Space Station) in the sky. He deserved it 💫

  • @Themaxdu1
    @Themaxdu1 Рік тому +157

    I know it's just fiction but i feel sory for Robin... specially when Mary "suckt off" and Robin was like "I been here long time" he looked so lonely...bravo to the actor.

    • @miboogaroo
      @miboogaroo Рік тому +14

      Agreed. My fav character.

  • @tmac7547
    @tmac7547 Рік тому +18

    I already miss all these guys!! I absolutely loved the show, every character... I hope they find a way to bring it back somehow. Grieving the loss already.

  • @nikkimoore7654
    @nikkimoore7654 Рік тому +16

    Love the "Saw first book" bit, had me in stitches.

  • @JavertRA
    @JavertRA Рік тому +144

    I thought it was good that you start to see some of Robin's depths come out in the final series - particularly the French episode.

    • @adennett86
      @adennett86 Рік тому +15

      I shed afew tears during that episode

  • @annetteerica1136
    @annetteerica1136 Рік тому +6

    Absolutely loved that! Robyn is my favourite character! The funniest. The craziest. The most lovable!

  • @RojamZane
    @RojamZane Рік тому +25

    Robin - My favourite character... There's a whole Robin spin-off right there!!

  • @vjc2270
    @vjc2270 Рік тому +46

    The city I live in (Hobart, Tasmania) has a suburb called "Moonah". I think Robin would approve.

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 10 місяців тому +4

      I still call Earth's natural satellite "Moonah"

  • @Lukethefox
    @Lukethefox Рік тому +59

    I never realised that Robin & Sir Humphrey were played by the same actor. It explains why Humphrey is hardly seen with the other Ghosts.

    • @dunscotus01
      @dunscotus01 10 місяців тому +6

      Also another guy in the basement.

    • @Lukethefox
      @Lukethefox 10 місяців тому +14

      @@dunscotus01 The Peasants in the Basement were all the same actors so it was fun working out who was who.

    • @officialpigeons9921
      @officialpigeons9921 7 місяців тому +5

      Just the head though

    • @snappo20
      @snappo20 6 місяців тому +5

      Humphreys body is another actor.

  • @isobellea1540
    @isobellea1540 Рік тому +85

    What a brilliant afternoon at Comic Con, and then the guys reading excerpts from the book at the Gillian Lynne Theatre was amazing 🤩 The way they just go straight into character is incredible and Robin's history of the world, well....🥰

  • @welshskies
    @welshskies Рік тому +34

    There could be a complete new series based on Robin meets the 21st century! A genius character. ❤

    • @Twannnng
      @Twannnng Рік тому

      Isn't that basically Cunk On Britain?

    • @deborahwarren6710
      @deborahwarren6710 Рік тому +2

      A brilliant idea whole series of Robin’s ghost in 21st century city life, genius

  • @sheriffboss6544
    @sheriffboss6544 Рік тому +48

    as a horrible histories fan i can keep up with almost everything . hh has informed the way i view history so the entire time robin would mention a king or a war i would view what ever they covered in hh in my minds eye. for the war of the roses i got a sped up version of the bob hale report queen vic as played by martha etc

  • @doctormartha2008
    @doctormartha2008 Рік тому +71

    What an amazingly talented man!
    I absolutely love his facial expressions, lol.
    Even though he loses a bit of Robin's guttural voice sometimes he more than makes up for it with his intonation.
    I would like to know how he manages to do that voice and not make his neck and the rest of his body look all tense lmao
    Great great stuff

  • @barryp4700
    @barryp4700 Рік тому +36

    I love it! I had a vision of a more articulate version of Animal from the Muppets 😂

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz Рік тому +8

    Robin's View of History. Genuine. Wholesome. nice tears in this Olde Ogre's eyes

  • @WinterLove13
    @WinterLove13 Рік тому +33

    Ahhh. I’m starting to miss Robin now. He wasn’t one of my favourites but there’s no one like him. Going to miss all his funny ways. (Love Larry though) 😭

  • @markerwin2110
    @markerwin2110 4 місяці тому +4

    Robin is one of my favourite characters ever. Steak and chips is now bum and chips

  • @geisterglow4857
    @geisterglow4857 Місяць тому +1

    oh, yes, just another thing i wanted to mention... i think this kind of being totally candid is wonderful... just see the things the way they are... don't judge anything... let go and off to the next adventure... life is beyond beautiful, is magic...

  • @neil8238
    @neil8238 Рік тому +105

    Of all the ghosts, it’s Robin I’ll miss most. I’m hoping he gets sucked off in the last episode, he’s been wandering around too long, the poor old soul.

    • @adennett86
      @adennett86 Рік тому +15

      I will be bawling my eyes out, sad and happy if that that happens

    • @victoriagolmehdi8506
      @victoriagolmehdi8506 Рік тому

      If this does happen, then I hope they make another series that takes place wherever it is that they have been sucked off to.@@adennett86

  • @sophietippett3948
    @sophietippett3948 3 місяці тому +3

    Laurence Rickard is so handsome in my opinion. And Robin is the sweetest character in the show xx

    • @ratsters7
      @ratsters7 3 місяці тому +2

      He is handsome - he has a beautiful face, which sadly he keeps covering up with masses of beard! It's not that mind a beard, it's just that in his case it covers up something some of us would prefer to be able to see! 🥰😉 But hey - his face, his beard, he can do what he likes of course, and plenty of people like the beard!

  • @alixalixandra
    @alixalixandra Рік тому +7

    This is just the best. I'm loving the book, I can hear all the sections in the ghosts distinct voices, it's so brilliant that the team actually wrote it, it's just spot on ❤

  • @megb7675
    @megb7675 Рік тому +8

    now I want to hear robins voice say “……but not for long!!”

  • @welshskies
    @welshskies Рік тому +9

    Robin is my favourite ghost!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @cristianmiranda8637
    @cristianmiranda8637 9 місяців тому +2

    They need to bring this comedy to London theatres, it would be a boom.

  • @rde4017
    @rde4017 11 місяців тому +9

    "...more people come, village now, but all get coughs and scab and then, ha, no village anymore!" Bubonic Plague history in 7 seconds flat. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @dunscotus01
    @dunscotus01 10 місяців тому +2

    Love Larry, because Robin is inside.

  • @AngelicusImmortus
    @AngelicusImmortus Рік тому +14

    Awesome! From the get go, my favourite character.

  • @lynndodson248
    @lynndodson248 Рік тому +1

    That was brilliant 👏 amazes me how well you can switch to Robin .

  • @romeaffair
    @romeaffair Рік тому +11

    He's wonderful.

  • @phobosketch
    @phobosketch Місяць тому

    it's a lot of fun listening to this while i read the book

  • @lindsaydrewe8219
    @lindsaydrewe8219 Рік тому +8

    Oh Larry, such a talent❤❤

  • @cynhanrahan4012
    @cynhanrahan4012 2 місяці тому

    Bravo Robin! I miss the British Ghosts. I even got a VPN so I could watch it, right up until the last holiday episode when BBC somehow noticed I was using a VPN and said No, can't watch this anymore. I loved the series.

  • @tricia5792
    @tricia5792 7 місяців тому +3

    Elektrickery! What a wonderful word, anyone remember the wizard Catweazle using it (that and the magic telling bone - telephone ) in the 70's?

  • @Marketsolo
    @Marketsolo Місяць тому

    Gotta love Robin!!

  • @SickBoiFanatic
    @SickBoiFanatic Рік тому +7

    I’m going to re read the book in a whole new light 😅

  • @CatchingBulletsBondFan
    @CatchingBulletsBondFan Рік тому +16

    Robin is my spirit animal!!

  • @elainepannell2858
    @elainepannell2858 Рік тому +14

    Now when I read it it will be in Robin’s voice! 😂

  • @aquariusbathandbody
    @aquariusbathandbody Рік тому +27

    My favourite character is Robin, he's brilliant.

  • @emmyjo720
    @emmyjo720 Рік тому +5

    Larry is Robin with a bit of Bob Hale here.

  • @copycat21c
    @copycat21c Рік тому +1

    Love Robin. He da best.

  • @oliverharris60
    @oliverharris60 Рік тому +15

    This is fantastic 👌

  • @jomac6004
    @jomac6004 Рік тому +5

    We love u Robin. X 😁

  • @karenmpbrandon
    @karenmpbrandon Рік тому +5

    Love you, Larry.

  • @skintandminted
    @skintandminted Рік тому +3

    he's so good at the voice hahah

  • @sheila-pu5me
    @sheila-pu5me 7 місяців тому

    Robin is my favorite character.

  • @CountTentacula
    @CountTentacula 9 місяців тому +1

    To be honest, I would’ve loved to have seen an episode featuring Robin and how everything appeared around him.
    It would’ve also been fun to have seen the other ghosts he met in all that time: Clarence, Godric, Elizabeth, and of course, William.

    • @ratsters7
      @ratsters7 3 місяці тому +1

      We did meet William :)

    • @CountTentacula
      @CountTentacula 2 місяці тому

      @@ratsters7 I mean, I know we saw him, but it would’ve been nice to see more of him.

  • @geisterglow4857
    @geisterglow4857 3 місяці тому

    now that's beautiful acting. respect.

  • @celticfire99
    @celticfire99 Рік тому +10

    I love this so much

  • @jb888888888
    @jb888888888 Рік тому +17

    Is this supposed to be some kind of magic trick? Six minutes of silence while the camera focuses on a microphone and a book kind of floating in air.

  • @safeerah_6690
    @safeerah_6690 Рік тому +3

    Love this!

  • @superlynnie
    @superlynnie 26 днів тому +1

    Took me a while to realise that I have a crush on Robin, not Larry. 😅

  • @suzkent609
    @suzkent609 Рік тому +7

    So depressed it has ended, I can’t watch the final series - when I watch it, it will really be over. 😭 Like Lady B having some problems reading the handwriting in the Compaion book. That's my age - I need new glasses 😱

  • @HN-kr1nf
    @HN-kr1nf Рік тому +2

    why does it have to be over 😭

  • @olielapz3534
    @olielapz3534 6 місяців тому +1

    rOBIN FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

  • @witness4Him
    @witness4Him Рік тому +6

    Love the horrible histories team- watched them as my son grew up- then watched them in wondaland, then ghosts. Utterly brilliant, the innuendo was so funny. I will miss them, unless they do something else 😜

    • @oliviadaly4795
      @oliviadaly4795 Рік тому +1

      They've been working together and best friends for 15 years, they'll always do something together. I think they're coming up with new ideas. Larry and Martha are working on something and Mat's working on a comedy film and is Bottom in Midsummer Nights Dream this yr in Stratford-Upon-Avon

  • @annamcuthbert3993
    @annamcuthbert3993 Рік тому +2

    BRILLIANT

  • @IngriddenDigre
    @IngriddenDigre Рік тому +11

    I'm not british, so I wonder who the King he's talking about (that he couldn't vouch for, that Julian says is 'almost funny'). I assume it's William I, though I can't make out what Robin tries to call him. Is it just funny, because Simon Farnsby is William I in HH?

    • @NinjaSquirrel777
      @NinjaSquirrel777 Рік тому +37

      There was a king called King Cnut (I think in the saxon times)

    • @TheFashionablyDepressedBard
      @TheFashionablyDepressedBard Рік тому +14

      @@NinjaSquirrel777 Or Canute, or Knut or Knud or Knútr. It's one of the scandinavian ones. He was King of England, Norway and Denmark. He died in 1030-somthing.

    • @minanes6549
      @minanes6549 Рік тому +14

      Yeah. Canute. One of the Scandanavian Kings. Guy who was so fed up with his people asking for him to do the impossible he set his throne on the seashore. He commanded the waves not to come any further but the tide still came in regardless. So he proved to his people that some things were more powerful than human action.

    • @GrrAargh1
      @GrrAargh1 Рік тому +15

      ​@@TheFashionablyDepressedBardIt has to be spelled Cnut for the joke to work fully!

    • @HollyLou223
      @HollyLou223 Рік тому +7

      It’s a joke on the very easy way to accidentally misspell King Cnut - almost funny 😂

  • @Southeastcorner-w1f
    @Southeastcorner-w1f 5 місяців тому

    Love his uses electrickery just like catweezle did in the 70’s kid show

  • @OrangeTabbyCat
    @OrangeTabbyCat Рік тому +5

    This is so so brilliant but can’t be good for the voice chords.

  • @gbcommandogaming5942
    @gbcommandogaming5942 3 місяці тому +5

    This was hilarious until the sad realization that Robin the adorable caveman has admitted that he lost his mind thanks to loneliness and boredom no less than three times.

  • @milnespetchristo1882
    @milnespetchristo1882 Рік тому +3

    Robin, you missed the first ( & 3rd) Lady King! (E1 & Ell)😉😮

    • @lilymarinovic1644
      @lilymarinovic1644 Рік тому +1

      Not to mention a few other Lady Kings (Bloody Mary and Anne)

  • @elaineb4490
    @elaineb4490 Рік тому +2

    Why is a Larry so 🔥🔥🔥 dressed as Robin?

  • @drgonzo1985
    @drgonzo1985 Рік тому +3

    I already own the book. How do I watch the full show?

  • @winterlighthome
    @winterlighthome 10 місяців тому

    Oh, poor Robin.

  • @SunnieGirl63
    @SunnieGirl63 Рік тому +2

    How can I get that book?!

    • @jazzkazz
      @jazzkazz Рік тому +2

      I'm in the UK and it is on sale at West Horsley Place where the house is that they use for filming, and if you buy it there the funds help with the upkeep of the house - but it's also on Amazon 🙂

    • @SunnieGirl63
      @SunnieGirl63 Рік тому +1

      @@jazzkazz I'm in the US. I looked on Amazon. Not there. I'll keep searching. Thank you!

    • @chaosdream21
      @chaosdream21 Рік тому +1

      ​@@SunnieGirl63it's there now but about $50. Also on audible but only in UK. 😐

    • @SunnieGirl63
      @SunnieGirl63 Рік тому

      @chaosdream21 Yes I saw that it is indeed there now. Last I checked it was $42, not bad. There is a used one for $16 or so but I think I'd sooner buy new. Thank you everyone for helping me find where this book is!

  • @donnamcdonald-g8n
    @donnamcdonald-g8n Рік тому +1

    Robin is my favourite character but hearing Larry talk in Robins voice is actually a bit weird!!!

  • @jonb3311
    @jonb3311 Рік тому +1

    Having nicked "elec-trickery" from Catweasel, why not use "telling bone" ?

  • @Keyda3star.
    @Keyda3star. 2 місяці тому

    And its odd to think that robins....
    Long long long distant descendant worked for HHTV news.

  • @peggyaeschlimann4180
    @peggyaeschlimann4180 Рік тому +5

    That rendition of English history ought to be taught at school! 🤣

  • @MarionBaggins
    @MarionBaggins Рік тому +1

    Child/Teenage Me Loves Laurence Rickard as Bob Hale, Adult Me still Loves him as Bob Hale but recovered him and Loves him as Robin!!!

  • @kellydalstok8900
    @kellydalstok8900 Рік тому +1

    Which king does he mean when he says ‘Ctun’ and what’s so funny about it? I’m not English, you see, and English is not my first language.

    • @CanadianTimeLord
      @CanadianTimeLord Рік тому +11

      The actual name is Cnut (pronounced ca-newt), but it's "almost funny" because if you switch the middle two letters, it's a rude word.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 Рік тому

      @@CanadianTimeLord Thanks

  • @chuck80y
    @chuck80y 3 місяці тому

    I JUST realized that "Robin" sounds like a Muppet. heh!

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess Рік тому +7

    can I just say I really, really appreciate providing glasses of water instead of bottled! we need these guys around for a long time, keep the microplastics and toxic chemicals away from them!

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 3 місяці тому

    That is kind of everything -- someone won, don't know who, someone lose, don't know who, lots of loud, angry men ... that'll cover a lot of history actually.
    And I'd like to thank David Mitchell and Marc Morris, whose books allowed this yank to follow everything he said. 🙂