Tony Robinson

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.

I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

I have a passion for knowing stuff.

I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I've been there, it's been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you're happy to keep walking, but you'll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you'll occasionally see a small mammal.

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows what the narrative was.