Wednesday 27 May 2009

Time team travesty

In my semi-comatose state, I watched a few minutes of Time Team, featuring Tony Robinson excavating a World War 1 British command bunker in Belgium. I had to stop when he said 'nobody knows what life in the bunkers was like'.
1. Yes they do. There are thousands of diaries, accounts etc.
2. Tony Robinson does. He lived in the trenches for a whole series as Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Fourth (or was it Forth?). Yet for Time Team, he didn't make a single reference to this funny and heartbreaking series. It was the elephant in the room and I couldn't bear it any longer.

In case you've missed the reality of life in the trenches, and like poetry, here's Robinson's earlier take:

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