DID YOU KNOW? Robson Green

As Robson, 56, continues his journey Walking Coast To Coast (9pm, Ch5), we look at a few things you might not know about the actor and angler…

● He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in

1964, to miner Robson and cleaner/shopkeeper Anne; he has two sisters and a brother.

● Robson left school with six O levels, and worked as a draughtsman at the Swan

Hunter shipyard; at the end of his fourth year there, he landed a seven-week acting job and left his old career behind – although in the 2001 series Takeme, he played a venture capitalist who closed down that very shipyard.

● In 1989, he landed his first big role – as porter Jimmy in Casualty – and followed it up with Dave Tucker in

Soldier, Soldier (1991-95), Tony Hill in Wire In The Blood (2002-08) and Geordie Keating in Grantchester (2014present). He describes Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1997) – which he did ‘purely for the money’ –

as his biggest career disappointment, but says that ‘working on Grantchester is a joy’. ● Robson caught his first fish when he was seven. He’s been making angling programmes since 2008, and it was while filming Grand Slam in Costa Rica in 2017 that he ruptured a disc in his lower back landing a monster marlin. ● He would like to travel into space. ‘I’d book a ticket. They’re a bit expensive at about £150,000. I think I’ll wait until the prices come down and some passengers return safely.’