Tony Robinson was at a First World Memorial in Belgium when he met a group of teenage British schoolkids and decided to have some fun with them. Most of them recognised him from TV’s Time Team or Blackadder and he recalls: “I was winding them up and saying, ‘It’s not nearly as interesting as whether you’re going to buy a beer or have a snog on the back of the coach, is it?’ “And they told me, ‘No, this is really important. These people are the reason that we have the lives we have now.’ “And I just found that very touching and important because if you can start to get the fact that people sacrificed their lives in order to protect our way of life then that means our way of life is of value.” That moment at the Memorial to the Missing in Ypres was one of many that gave the 68-year-old actor and presenter pause for thought while filming his new series Tony Robinson’s World War One. Getting blown up by a “bomb” was another. He’s no stranger to standing in muddy trenches from filming Time Team, but the production team decided he needed to to go… Read full this story
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