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Navy to remember the bravery and heroism of those who fought in the | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Battle of the Atlantic. To do so we've come aboard this, the aircraft | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
carrier at the centre of the commemorations, so welcome to a very | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Tonight our sofa has landed on the flight deck of the Royal Navy's | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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largest warship, HMS Illustrious. Or, as her crew calll her, "Lusty". | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
She's sailed up the Thames to Greenwich as part of the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Atlantic, and she's not the only warship visiting the capital for | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
this event. The destroyer HMS Edinburgh and the mine-sweeper, HMS | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Blyth, have also made the journey and are berthed furthur up the | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
river. Last night there was a special service at St Paul's | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
Cathedral. Tonight there's royalty here and veterans, of course, and | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
we've got another special event, of a different kind. It's the first | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
British television interview in 30 years with Agnetha from Abba, which | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
will be fabulous. Yes, all these people are expectantly waitling for | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
a fly-past. We hear the pilot are on their way. Helping us join in with | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
the commemorations and the celebrations we've got Eddie Izzard | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
with us today. Dan Snow is also here and we've got veterans Eric | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Winkle-Brown and Edwin Lande. Super to see you all. Isn't this exciting? | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Dan, just before we start, we started over there with what we call | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
the moanial sun rise is taking place. Give us an idea of what that | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
is and the significance of that flag. That flag is the white ensign, | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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which Des ignites it is a Navy ship. The Royal Marines band from Plymouth | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
are playing the Sun set. It has been going for 500 years. At the end of | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the day you close everything down, call in your patrols and settle in | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
for the day. That ensign is lowered. At sea it is always up. , this is | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
something your dad wouldis something your dad would have experience | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
times, because he was in the Navy? He was on HMS Formidable, just after | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
the war. It was still wartime arrangements, October '45 he joined | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
up. He is watching right now. Another aircraft carrier. Yes, I | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
know and I am wearing this the charity of the Royal Navy and the | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Royal Marines for dad. And we are all here to commemorate the 70th | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. It was very long and | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
drawn-out battle wasn't it? Battle of the Atlantic, as these | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
gentlemen are about to tell us, it went from the first day of the war | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
to the very last day, an attempt by Germany to starve Britain, to | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
destroy industry and they used submarines to sink ships bringing in | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
supplies from Canada, North America. They were in large convoys, in large | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
groups to evade these. From Derry and Liverpool, bringing in those | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
vital supplies, without which Britain wouldn't have been able to | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
continue in World War II. Edwin, if you can hear me over the band, you | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
were on those ships as part of the Merchant Navy. Give us an idea how | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
many times you were sunk? I was sunk three times, but when we were sunk | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
we weren't in convoy, we were independent. So be sunk the first | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
time was enough, but to keep going, because obviously you were bringing | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
in vital supplies. Those days you kept going. When you're young you do | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
what you have to do. Yes, and you are here to tell the tale tonight. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
I'm still alive. , you were one of the first to land a plane on the | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
carrier. How did HMS H audacity compare to Illustrious? It was the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
very first operational escort carrier in the world. This was one | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
of Churchill's brain Childs. It was highly successful. We did three trip | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
trips in the convoy protection before we were sunk, but in those | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
three ships we kill five four-engined aircraft and five | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
U-boats, so we proved this was a way to protect convoys. This was a | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. Eric, everybody here is | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
wait waiting for the arrival of the fly-past. It is just coming over the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
top of HMS Illustrious. You will know exactly how those pilots are | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
feeling. We've got a Swordfish starting us off. It is very | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
exciting. Very windy, good north Atlantic conditions Eric? Here we | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
are on an aircraft carrier flat and level. But in the Atlantic it was up | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
and down like a matchbox in the bath. And these Swordfish landed on | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
in spite of these dreadful conditions. And killed U-boats at | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
such a rate that the Admiral commanding the German U-boats | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
literally said the aircraft carrier will be the death of us. And the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Swordfish is leading in this fly-past. It was famously the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
aircraft that dropped the torpedo that hit the Bismarck in the rudder, | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
so it played a big role against the U-boats and surface ships. It is | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
followed by two Lynx and a Merlin. They are the modern equivalent, they | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
are anti-submarine aircraft, but they do other things, drop troop | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
troops and commandos on to pirates in Africa. And the one in the middle | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in orange and grey is a search and rescue aircraft. Prince William | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
flies one of those off the coast of Wales. These conditions the pilots | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
are doing incredibly well to keep them straight and level. I feel the | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
need to applaud. Can we do that! APPLAUSE | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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There's one more coming apparently. Absolutely incredible. This is | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
nostalgia. What's this like for you lads knowing what you've gone | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
through? To see this and it vividly reminds you of what it was like in | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
these dreadful days in the Atlantic. In the would be a mild day in the | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
Atlantic. The ships were pitching up and down and life was pretty | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
precarious. We lost a lot of people. When we were on a ship, we must not | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
forget the people who are not here today, because they gave their live | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
lives. Thank you both for your time. I know there's lots of people that | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
want to talk to you on board, so thanks for stopping bit. It is no | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
mean feat getting a boat like this up the Thames. Can you imagine the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
people who live in those flats seeing this enormous aircraft | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
carrier. Don't forget in the history of London loads of ships used to go | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
up here in the old days, and Napoleon came to Greenwich. Is a 210 | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
metre by 36 metre floating city. said Napoleon, I meant to say they | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
brought Nelson back. I'm dyslexic. Lucy joined "Lusty" on her journey | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
from Portsmouth to see exactly how she managed to get here. I join HMS | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
Illustrious as she leaves Portsmouth for her short voyage to London. 16 | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
hours later she's in the mouth of the Thames and a daunting challenge | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
lies just ahead. I'm about to witness the ship's very difficult | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
passage through here, the Thames barrier. Captain Martin Connell is | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
the man in charge. Captain, this is a big day for you? It is.Are you | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
nervous? It is always good to have a bit of athen lip nerves would be a | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
bad thing, but no, it is something we've planned in some detail, so we | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
are confident, particularly in the pilots and their expertise, that | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
this will go entirely smoothly today. What's unique with this ship | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
as an aircraft carrier is the bridge is displaced to starboard, so we are | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
looking out at one side of to vessel. As we approach the Thames | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
barrier we have to line it up correctly so we'll have about 12 | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
metres either side, which sounds like quite a lot but believe me when | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
23,000 tonnes approaching the Thames barrier, that isn't much room. | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
is steered from here, the bridge. As HMS Illustrious waves her way up the | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Thames estuary I get my hands on the helm had, a moment to sense just how | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
difficult it is to manoeuvre a vessel of this size. Why does it | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
take so long? Because it is a huge ship? I've just had a little go at | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
staring Illustrious. Really difficult. The amount of | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
concentration needed is unbelievable. I'm just glad I'm not | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
going to be in the hot seat when they are steering through the Thames | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
barrier. It is not just about the steering. The propulsion is | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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controlled from six decks below. Stoke Stoker is Scott Scotty. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Upstairs they are using these Telegraphs to ask us what | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
revolutions they want. That will decide the ship's speed, at the | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
moment it is 13 knots. If it gets a bit hairy on the bridge, do you | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
notice the tension in their voices? Yes, you've got conning one, we call | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
it pipe. You feel the tension in the voices and that's when things happen | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
a lot quicker. Ship approaches the Thames barrier the Captain takes up | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
a position on the bridge roof and the atmosphere is tense. I set off | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
in the ship's Lynx helicopter to get a really good view. How is that | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
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side, but it was safe and we got through in one piece. Now then, we | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
said didn't we there was another plane that was going over and the | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Catalina went over during that film. Dan's back on the sofa to tell us | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
the significance of the Catalina. The Catalina is an interesting | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
place, a flying boat, it landed in Northern Ireland, on a loch. It | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
would fly miles out into the Atlantic. You can see looking at the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Catalina bulbous that look like insect eyes and they would spot | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
submarines. They also spotted the Bismarck. Eddie, we were just saying | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
a few years ago you honoured the memory of Royal Navy veteran Billy | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Swift? I went out in the 60th anniversary of the Normandy | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
landings. He was a real character and he put a lot of effort into | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
getting the first Navy memorial on the D-Day beaches. He raised cash to | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
do this. He was on the Arctic convoy. These guys went through hell | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
getting into Murmansk in Russia. There's a medal the Russians wanted | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
to give them but for some technical reason, the Americans and the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Canadians have got it, but the British aren't allowed to have this | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
one. I think David Cameron should let the Russian medal go to the | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
sailors who were on the Arctic convoys like Billy Swift. You know | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
such a lot of history. Noticed that nobody was talking about history on | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
stand-up. I was never good at these in school, why did the First World | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
War start? I have no idea. Making jokes about the triumvirate in Rome | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
is niche but I like it. Been all over the place. I've been all around | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Europe, playing in Bucharest, in Vienna, in Berlin. It is a World | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Tour basically. It is. Well, it is going to be cat Mooned awe this year | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
-- at Midland ow this year and -- Kathmandu this year and America next | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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year. I'm doing it in French now. See you talking about the spartans. | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
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Spartan women, Spartan dogs, Spartan cats. Spartan moles, Spartan sheep. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
There is another helicopter which is about to come on land and | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
interrupters, but it is not quite here yet. That it is quite | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
interesting, the union Jack has been lowered on the back of take | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
illustrious, but you have got 1... Yes, I have got a European flag | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
here, which I know will annoy some people. But I am very positively | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
going around Europe. We do not want this kind of Second World War thing | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
to happen ever again. Me and Dan Snow both agree on this. I am | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
touring all around Europe, opening up new countries and new areas to | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
play when you go to these countries, do you adjust your | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
material to suit the country? No doubt I am talking about Spartans | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
and Greeks and Romans, Lord of the rings, people smoking pipes, it is | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
like Monty Python, it is silly and intelligent, stupid and crazy. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Whether it is Wembley, Berlin, Vienna or Istanbul. When you come to | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
a working aircraft carrier, you have got to expect this is a Merlin | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
helicopter, is it? But kept it is the new boy of the helicopter fleet. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
It is such a workhorse, so versatile. It is coming into land | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
now, they are just checking there are no objects on the deck which | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
might get sucked up into the engines. Let's just enjoy it | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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engines. Let's just enjoy it landing. Look at that. How long does | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
a helicopter take to land? On board here, we have got a very special | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
guest, who is going to the charity dinner tonight, having raised money | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
for a fantastic course. It is worth remembering, this is actually a | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
helicopter carrier. These are the aircraft is carries at the moment. A | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
perfect landing. There is applause going up all around, this is | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
brilliant. It looks like a really tricky manoeuvre, but in fact, they | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
do this when the aircraft is moving, so they are used to it. I | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
have got a pilot's licence, so I know a little bit about this. It is | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
a little bit hairy. Something else that Eddie Izzard and do! I wanted | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
to fly Spitfires, that was it. Apparently it is really difficult, | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
because the controls are in reverse? No, Spitfires are beautiful | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
to fly but difficult to taxi. After the D-Day landings, with Spitfires, | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
more people died in accidents than in combat. At 450 miles an hour, | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
some people, unfortunately, the landing is really tricky. I am just | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
picking up on something you were saying, these days, HMS illustrious | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
is a commando and helicopter carrier. Back in 2009, that was when | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
the last Harrier took off. The sister ship, the HMS Ark Royal, will | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
take its final journey to the scrapyard next week. And then next | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
year, this ship come the illustrious, will be decommissioned. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Wits begs the question, what does the future hold for the British | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
Navy? HMS Montrose, firing the anti-ship harpoon missile off the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
north-west coast of Scotland last week. This American-made system has | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
been fitted in 600 ships worldwide. Fewer and fewer of those are | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
British. The days when Britannia ruled the waves are long over. At | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
the end of the Second World War, the Royal Navy had 262 major ships and | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
submarines, employing nearly half a million people. Now, the Royal Navy | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
has shrunk to a T warships and submarines, with 34,000 personnel. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Retired naval officer John mucks worthies or great change over his 32 | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
years of service. He is concerned that the modern Navy is just too | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
small. In 1960, when I joined, there were 12 aircraft carriers, 30 | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
cruisers, 150 frigates and destroyers. Now, we will only have | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
19 frigates and destroyers. We are a shadow of our former selves. It is a | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
shame. We were the best Navy in the world, but we are becoming one of | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
the smallest. How do we compare to other countries? Our nearest | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
neighbours, France, have 10,000 more personnel, but five fewer ships. As | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
for China, they have 68 submarines, four times as many as we have got, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
but the biggest Navy in the world is, unsurprisingly, the US. I have | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
got almost ten times as many people as the Royal Navy, and a massive 283 | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
fighting ships and submarines. We clearly need to keep the US onside, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
but a smaller fleet does not mean we are not a force to be reckoned with. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Under construction are tender of the largest warships ever built in the | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
UK am a at a cost of �5.9 billion. HMS Queen Elizabeth is three times | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
the size of HMS illustrious, and will enter service in 2018. John | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Gifford, from BAE Systems, has given Gifford, from BAE Systems, has given | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
us a preview. Everything has been fitted in seven different shipyards, | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
all indoors, and the idea now is to put it all together, in the assembly | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
yard. The flight deck is more than 300 metres long, and 70 metres high. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
And then there is another 26 metres when you put the island on top of | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
that. So, as you can see, with facilities, we are talking about a | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
very big piece of structured dock all the ships are getting bigger, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
but overall, the Navy has recognised that it has got much smaller. But | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
they say the reduced budget just means it has to be smaller with the | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
resources it has got. The Navy is the right size for the task we are | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
asked to do wherever that may be around the world. It could be in the | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Gulf, the Middle East... The Navy is very different to the Navy of the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Second World War, which was involved in a full-scale war. At the moment, | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
that is not the case, so we are asked to do what we are asked to do, | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
with a Navy of an appropriate size. We are joined now by Captain | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Connell. I sat in your chair earlier today. Somebody said, do not press | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
that button. It is unbelievable that you managed to navigate the ship | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
through that passage which was so thin. Yes, I think I will leave the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
ship here. I do not want to think about sailing it out again. Was it | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
really tricky? I aged ten years, but we are going to have to turn it | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
around, and drive it backwards. is bigger than the ships of the old | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
days. I do not think I would like to bring a bigger ship here. What is | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
going to happen to her when she is decommissioned, and what is going to | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
happen to you? We are still the nation's on-call helicopter carrier. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
We are on a few days notice to go anywhere in the world. When the | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
sister ship comes out next year, we will decommission, after 32 years of | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
service to the nation. Will it be turned into a museum? I hope so. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Right has said it is grown to save this ship for the nation. It is the | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
last surviving Invincible class carrier. And you and Illustrious are | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
bowing out at the same time. Yes, it is very sad, I have got very good | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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memories. Shortly, we will be hearing from the Royal Marine band, | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
but first of all, a very different kind of music. Yes, Agnetha Faltskog | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
has been a virtual recluse for 30 years, but she is back, and she has | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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given her first British television interview to us. Like thousands, I | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
grew up listening to ABBA, which is why I am intrigued to be meeting | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
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Agnetha today. She is back, and I cannot wait to ask her why. I want | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
to read a review to you which I read about your voice from the new | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
album. The tender age in her voice is still there, as if burned by | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
love, and the embers are still hot to the touch. Isn't that lovely? | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
is lovely. It is always good to hear positive things. The new album is | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
was going to do another one. I thought my last record was my last | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
record. Then, when the guys came to my house and presented three new | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
songs, it was very good quality, and I could feel a challenge to do this | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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again. Because I love to record. how was your voice after a few years | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
of not singing regularly? Yes, it was a bit rusty to start with. I had | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
to take some singing lessons just to get back to that old feeling. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
going to be the 40th anniversary in 2014 of Waterloo going to number one | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
and winning Eurovision. Are there any plans to celebrate that | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
anniversary? There should be! We now have a museum in Stockholm as well. | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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So, there is a celebration every year, I think! One big talking point | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
about ABBA, was it you who chose them? No, we had two guys who chose | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
them for us, and I would say they did a very good job. It was good | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
material to work in, because it was a bit stretchy. It looks pretty | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
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tight. Yes, but it but it was tight anyway! I recently did a singalong | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
with a group of children, and I said, what song shall we sing? | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Waterloo. Because they enjoyed mamma Mia. Yes, it is fantastic, because | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
it goes from generation to generation. | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
# Mamma Mia, here I go again. # Do you see each other? Yes, now and | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
then. I met Frida last summer, on vacation. We sat down and spoke very | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
emotionally, we spoke about nostalgic memories and so on. | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
have something in common that only the four of us have gone through. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
And yet, in Britain, when we have weddings, there is one song which is | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
guaranteed to be played, dancing Queen. It appeals to energy and | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
happiness are. Does it give you energy, does it made you get up and | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
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want to dance? Yes she is back! album is out on the 13th of May. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
ceremonies do not end here, what else is planned over the next | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
month? Obviously, it will be marked in places like Liverpool, so, at the | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
end of the month, there will be a big service and ceremony in | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
Liverpool, which BBC One will be carrying. And there are other | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
events, particularly on that Western coast of Britain. It was heavily | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
bombed by the Luftwaffe, amongst other places. So they were really | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
part of the battle. Some good news before we go, we have what a | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
surprise for several able seaman. You have been promoted. They have | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
been promoted to leading hand. We are not quite sure what that means, | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
but huge congratulations. Thank you so much for everybody's hospitality | :28:11. | :28:18. |