Tony Robinson's career has been pretty dazzling.

One of the UK's most highly thought of and, apparently, busiest performers, his acclaimed Time Team show continues to be one of Channel 4's highest audience-rated programmes.

Tony is returning to the Brewery Arts Centre tomorrow (Saturday, 8pm) with his one-man show Cunning Night Out, which has made audiences the length and breadth of the land laugh, cry and singalong in addition to answering the question uppermost on many people's minds - how did a man who made his name as a stinking, turnip-loving simpleton crawling through the trenches with Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder, hit the big time by grubbing around in the mud, alongside men with dubious fashion sense in Time Team, before achieving superstar status by rolling up his trousers to wade through urine in The Worst Jobs in the History?

Well, join Mr Robinson as he takes the Kendal arts centre audience on a helter-skelter journey, following the twists and turns of a career that has spanned more than 40 years.

And he's got plenty to tell, from his days as a precocious child actor making his West End debut as the Artful Dodger in Oliver to The Real Da Vinci Code in 2005 and last year's hard-hitting documentary Me and My Mum, which gave a moving look at society's attitude towards elderly people, using Tony's own experiences with his mum, who suffered from Alzheimer's for several years.

Next for Tony - apart from another 13 episodes of Time Team - will be making several new Channel 4 documentaries such as Global Warming In The Bronze Age, Sex And Satire In The Landscape Gardens Of Britain's Stately Homes and a four-part series on the law, which will include an exploration of the medieval custom of putting a haystack on trial if it fell on a peasant and killed him.

Meanwhile, if he's any time on his hands, there's always the next Terry Pratchett movie, following the success of last year's Hogfather.

Tickets for Cunning Night Out are £15/ concessions £12.50 and available from the Brewery box office on 01539-725133.