Tony Robinson wants schools to teach pupils about Britain's wars.
Tony Robinson
The 'Blackadder' star says "the inspiration for 'Blackadder Goes Forth'" comes from education, but the 71-year-old actor fears schoolchildren are no longer learning about the UK's conflicts of the past, and he suggests that is a potential problem because a country unaware of its history is "likely to repeat its mistakes".
Speaking to Radio Times magazine, Tony - who played long-suffering sidekick Baldrick in the historical drama - said: "The inspiration for 'Blackadder Goes Forth', the First World War comedy in which I played Private Baldrick to Rowan Atkinson's Captain Edmund Blackadder, didn't appear from nowhere.
"It came out of education - and I fear that kind of education is disappearing fast.
"Since we made it, in 1989, the vision of what should be taught in schools and universities has contracted - and that's a real problem, because if a country doesn't know its history, it's likely to repeat its mistakes ... it's to the country's detriment that most of these wars aren't routinely taught in British schools."
Tony previously admitted it would be hard to better the final episode of 'Blackadder Goes Forth'.
And while he wouldn't rule out a return for the comedy - written by Rowan, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton - he admitted co-star Rowan has always insisted they won't do another TV series.
He said: “It’s hard to know how you could do anything that would be more iconic than that final episode of 'Blackadder Goes Forth' when we all went over the top.
“But Rowan has always said that if anything did come back it wouldn’t be a television series it would be something else.
“Who knows, maybe somewhere down the line someone will think of an appropriate way to bring those characters back to life.”
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