Tony Robinson

(on the financial implications facing commercial TV's production of children's programming) However much many of us may welcome a ban on junk food advertising during the hours children watch television, the objective result will be a massive decrease in the amount of revenue available to be spent on high quality children's programmes. At best they will be replaced by wall-to-wall imported animation, at worst by nothing at all. Unless we move quickly to ensure children's television is properly funded, a central part of the modern child's world will be cheapened and debased.

(on how he feels about working with "Comic Relief") Tony: I think I'm just about the luckiest bunny I know!! I was a bit nervous the first time I went out to Africa, I thought why am I here, what role is there for a comedian off British television to be going into an African village where people have so little food that they might not be here in six months time. What can I say to them, what can they say to me?

(on researching his book "The Worst Children's Jobs in History") Tony: I never realised that when factories were originally built, there were places in them that were so tiny only children could work in them.