Robin Askwith: The legendary actor with a life you couldn't make up

A chance encounter with the director Lindsay Anderson changed
Robin Askwith's life forever. It led to his first acting job,
playing the schoolboy Keating in Anderson's film if.... which
became one of the most popular British films of all time.


If.... kickstarted Robin's incredible career that spans an
extraordinary period of time. Over the past 50 years, he's
appeared in everything from Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury
Tales to the Confessions comedies to Inside No. 9, The Madame
Blanc Mysteries and even a stint in pantomime that saw him
batting bread rolls with Ian Botham. Now he's enjoying something
of a renaissance moment. And boy, does he have some stories to
tell...