
2 Season
12 Episode
The Worst Jobs in History - Season 2 Episode 2 The Worst Royal Jobs in History
Tony Robinson examines the history of employment opportunities in the royal court, including such roles as lance-maker, laundry woman, fireworker and hall boy. He also offers an insight into one of the worst posts - purple maker - in which the worker was given the task of creating purple items by extracting the colour created when shellfish rotted in urine.
- Year: 2006
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- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Channel 4
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- Cast: Tony Robinson