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Hello and welcome to the The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Jones. With us tonight is a man who has | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
politicians quirking and Mastermind contestants panicking. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
He started so I will finish. It is John Humphrys. Welcome to the show. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
I thought something had gone wrong there. You know the difference | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
between asking Masterminded people questions and politician, on | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Mastermind they want to answer the questions. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
You have got Chris Moyles shaking in his his boots this morning. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
I am glad you mentioned that because I wasn't going to bring it | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Only 700,000 listeners behind. It is the most we have ever had for | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the Today Programme. Are you going to overtake Chris | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
Moyles? What's your plan? destroy him. To have him wimpering. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
He nearly didn't go on this morning because he was so intimidated! | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
Not! Do you think this outfit will help overtake Chris Moyles? | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
LAUGHTER What's this about John? What are | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
you going in a leopard print outfit? That's a good question. I | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
was being nice to one of our newsreaders and she said, "I'm | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
getting everybody to wear it. Do you mind doing it? ." I said I | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
would put it on as a special favour and the next day I opened the paper | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
and - the moral is never do a friend a favour! | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
But they are cosy! John, later on we will be talking about your other | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
day job which is Mastermind. Six months ago thousands of | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Southern Cross home residents were left with an uncertain future when | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
the care home collapsed. Justin Rowlatt has been to meet the woman | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
helping to run 241 care homes to see if she learnt from Southern | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Cross's mistakes. Elderly residents found on the | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
floor covered in bruises. One woman said "please take us | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
home.". Residents left for hours in soiled clothes. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
The level of care that was given from practically the the time my | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
father went into that nursing home was sub-standard. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
With stories of neglect like this and financial problems, last year | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
it became obvious that Britain's biggest care home provider Southern | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Cross was in dire difficulty. Southern Cross the troubled firm | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
which runs 750 residential care homes is to close. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
When it finally announced its closure last July, the 31,000 | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
elderly residents who lived its homes were left facing an uncertain | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
future. Southern Cross's homes have been | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
transferred to other operators. 241 have gone to HC1. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
At a time when the industry's reputation has taken a battering, | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
can public sector champion and the Government's former learning | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
disability tsar help turn around the image of private care in her | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
new role at HC1? How can you persuade me that homes that | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
delivered such poor care really very recently are good enough for | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
me to want to put my mum or my dad in there? To be fair, we have | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
inherited a spectrum of homes and we have spent the last three months | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
getting to know which are the ones that need special attention. The | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
ones that the programme exposed under Southern Cross. | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
In our original report last year, we featured the case of Avis who | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
was placed in a Southern Cross care home in Durham by her son, Brian. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Within a month Avis sustained a number of suspicious injuries which | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Brian believes could have been avoided if properly trained staff | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
were on duty. One of the problems was a shortage | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
of staff. I asked the manager how many there were up there. She said | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
there was 18 and I said, "Well, only two staff to look after 18." | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
The answer I got was, "Well, we are short of staff." I wished I had | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
never ever sent her there. Although HC1 hasn't taken over the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Southern Cross home where Avis stayed, there were staffing issues | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
in many of its homes. It is a problem the new company says it | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
will address. How can you effect change if you | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
have got the same people who were running this failing business | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
before? We have had brought in additional staff to strengthen | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
quality assurance, turn around teams, the in-house inspection | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
service to those are a mixture of existing staff and new appointments | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
and we are appointing a significant number of new home managers for | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
these homes. The stories of neglect started to | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
surface some local authorities became unwilling to place residents | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
in Southern Cross homes. HC1 says it is going to spend money to boost | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
standards. We are investing �30 million into | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
the homes directly into training and development, into the structure | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
of the buildings, into equipment, all those things. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
I mean which all sounds wonderful, but Southern Cross cut costs and | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
failed. You are saying you are going to increase costs and that's | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
an a viable model tor a sustainable business, how does that work? | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
works because homes have to deliver high quality care that people | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
choose, that families tell each other, that my mum is really being | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
looked after there and if that happens, then homes are full. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Despite the assurances, some believe that without better and | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
tighter regulation, residents in private care homes will always be | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
vulnerable to companies who have to make money. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
The private companies are making a profit on the back of of elderly | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
care and that's always been our issue. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
It would be much better if there wasn't private care homes that it | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
was under local authority control and the public were running them. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Because the public sector can't provide care for everyone who needs | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
it, for the foreseeable future, many of us will have no choice but | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
to rely on companies like HC1 to look after us or our elderly | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
relatives. The really important thing, whoever | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
delivers care, is that it is the best quality. Justin is here. The | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
down fall of Southern Cross meant that it caused stress and heartache | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
to lots of people. What actions are being taken to make sure this | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
doesn't happen again? In the light of what happened at Southern Cross, | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the Government is reviewing the way it regulates the care industry. It | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
says it wants to put in place safeguards to ensure this never | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
happens again. They are putting together a white paper which will | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
be published in the spring, the Public Accounts Committee, the kind | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
of Parliamentary Committee that tries to make sure that governments | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
don't waste money has been looking at the sector and it raised a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
series of problems. It says it is worried the Government don't have | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
enough financial insight, it can't open up the books of the companies | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and find out if there are financial problems such as Southern Cross had. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
They are worried if another company goes bust like Southern Cross, they | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
don't have a viable plan in place to deal with the consequences if | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
that happens. It is hard to detect. Is there any | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
thoughts on how healthy the private care home sectors is at the moment | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
There is a lot of bory. Age -- worry. Age Concern said the amount | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
of money money being spent on the care of the elderly has gone down | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
at a time when the number of elderly is going up. Although the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Government doesn't have the power to open up the books of private | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
companies, but has opened its books. It has shown, it is a company | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
called Four Seasons, it is another provider of care in Britain. They | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
have �780 million of debt. The One Show have spoken to them and they | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
have emphasised their business model is different to that of | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Southern Cross, but there are still problems in the sector. It is | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
something to worry about there. John, your dad spent a lot of time | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
in care homes because he suffered from dementia. What are your views | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
It was a horrible experience and in his case he wanted to die. We | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
couldn't care for him any longer and then he went into a private | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
home and that was a disaster, he went into a state home and that was | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
worse. They didn't know what kind of dementia he had, he ended up in | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
a good home, but my concern is when people develop dementia like that, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
they have sane, rational periods and they have periods of dementia | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
and in his case, in his sane, rational periods, he wanted to be | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
allowed to die. He collapsed in my view, in our view, he should have | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
been allowed to die, but they brought him back. For what? He kept | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
saying, "I want to die." We have got to take another look at this | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
hole question. -- whole question. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Thank you very much indeed. A change of topic now. I can't end | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
the day without a lovely, nice, soak in the bath. Are you a bath or | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
shower man? Shower. Justin? I am a bath man. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
I have come up with a lot of good ideas in the bath. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Well, you are not the only one. Marty Jopson explains how a man | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
helped turned the tide of World War II whilst having a soak in the tub. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
The 6th June 1944, deDay when the allies began their assault of | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
mainland Europe, it was the beginning of the end of World War | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
After the allies had been pushed into the sea at Dunkirk in 19 1940, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
they planned to return to Europe, but key to this was having control | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
of a harbour. A problem was the Germans were dug in in all the | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
ports along the coast here and they were they were prepared to destroy | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
them in the event of an invasion. In May 1942, Mr Churchill wrote a | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
memorandum. A harbour was essential, but if we could not capture one, we | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
must build our own. A plan was hatched to build | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
temporary floating harbours, codenamed mull better bury -- | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Mulberry. They were to allow ships to off load vital supplies and | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
troops. But there was a snag, the treacherous conditions of the | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
English Channel could make mooring and unloading the ships impossible. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
So before the invasion could happen, a means of protecting those | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
floating harbours needed to be invented. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Several designs were tried, all of which failed. The answer came in | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
:11:59. | :12:00. | ||
the spring of 1943 when Robert Locknear lay flu ridden in this | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
bath. As he was splashing with one hand, he noticed the water on the | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
other side of his his flannel was calm. This was his eureka moment! | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
His daughter still lives at her father's house in Haslemere. | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
He leapt out of the bath saying, "Eureka, I have got it." He shouted, | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
"Get a Lilo, get a cricket bat." We went down to the pond and we | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
experimented with her holding a lino. This was the start of what | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
was to become the break waters. It would go on to be the floating | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
harbour's first line of defence. To understand how the invention worked, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
I'm meeting Thomas at the University of Oxford who is an | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
expert in the science of waves and built a model of the break water | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
for us in a wave tank. This is a bit different to a lilo then? | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
is a load of weight at the bottom. This is similar who what was used | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
in the harbours. With this model, we can put the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
invention to the test, but first, we're going to need a boat. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
With the help of my human wave machine, I want to see what happens | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
without any protection from the break water. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Wave on! Blimey, look at them. They are | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
getting quite steep. She has gone over. | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Man the lifeboats, oh dear. If we try it on this side. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Here come the waves again. Now we see your boat where the | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
water is calmer and our ship is fine. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
What's going on here? Well, if we look, we can see the waves coming | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
in this side and they are coming in and hitting the break water and | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
most of the energy is being reflected back out to sea, leaving | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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this relatively calm water for These formed the outer protection | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
for two mulberry floating harbours. Each were a huge, one Square Mile | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
in size. It took one of a larger storms on record to break or one of | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
them up. But the other survived and over 10 months landed over half a | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
million vehicles, 2.5 million soldiers and 4 million tons of | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
supplies. It was a significant factor in the allies's victory in | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
World War II and all because of a man claiming about in his bath! | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
It all came from the flannel. is brilliant. John, the series | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
marks 40 years of Mastermind. Not that you have been there for 40 | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
years! You have seen lots of contestants sit in the famous chair. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
How do they describe the experience? It must be highly | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
intimidating? There are two sorts of contenders. There are those who | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
are regulars, they are the quiz. And all people who think let's have | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
a go at it. At the beginning, they are terrified, most of them. Almost | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
trembling. At the end of it, they think it is great. Even if they do | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
badly, they enjoy it. I am amazed by it. It is intimidating. I have | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
sat in the chair. You just have the light and me staring at you. Well | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
actually, not staring at you, I am staring at the questions and I | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
never look up at them. Do you read them all beforehand? The s, I | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
checked them. What I found fascinating, the creator leant on | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
his experience from prisoner of war comes to create this atmosphere, | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
the interrogation with the solitary chair, a lighting and a whole lot. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
We don't allow the audience to applaud as they walk out. And the | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
opening music. The name of the theme tune is "approaching menace". | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
It is crawls. Of all those questions, which question have you | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
most like? There was a very nice one that said, what is the | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
inscription on the front door above the letterbox of Number Ten Downing | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
Street? You think it will be something profound. What does it | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
say? Very near, go around the back please. You would want it to be | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
mementos, but it is not. Moving away from Mastermind. What about | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
the deftest answer? Which breakfast cereal do you associate with | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
:17:35. | :17:36. | ||
prison? Cornflakes? Porridge. But he said she Rio's. We move on to | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
the Today programme. Would you agreed there aren't enough women | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
guests on your show? It depends what you mean by enough. At the | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
moment it is 17%. The Government minister who attacked us for this,, | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Ed Vaizey, I would like to ask him how many ministers in his | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
department's are women? The answer is zeros. What is the proportion of | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
women MPs, roughly 20%. Cabinet ministers, under 20%. We have got | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
to reflect. We have to talk to people who have something to say | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
who are important, we can hold to account. If most of them happen to | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
be men, overwhelmingly men. But the people who run our big companies | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
are overwhelmingly men, I think there are two chief executives of | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
the FTSE 100 companies. We really do try very hard. Redress the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
balance and get Alex on in the morning. I was told I had to invite | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
you. You can both sit in the chair together. Mastermind is on Fridays | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
at 8pm on BBC Two, except Wales, when it is on on a Sunday. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
The legal poaching of wild rhinos for their horns is big business in | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
Africa and Asia. But rhino poaching is a threat in this country. As a | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Mike Dilger finds out, the poachers could already be here. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
In the dead of night, two men forced their way through a fire | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
escape and into Ipswich Museum. The raiders were organised and | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
professional, spending less than five minutes in the building before | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
making off with their horns. It wasn't a lavish, gold Egyptian | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
burial masks they were after, they were after something entirely | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
unexpected. One night last July, the rhino horn was stolen by | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
thieves. They took that and the skull of the shelf. The chances of | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
getting back the original are minimal. We have had a replacement | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
built so we can restore some of Rosie's dignity. This is it. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
quite the real McCoy, and she is an Indian rhinoceros, so she only has | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
one. It is not a bad fit. With rhino horns affecting up to | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
�50,000 per kilogram on the black market, it is almost twice the | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
price of gold. It represents a one of 42 thefts of rhino ones that | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
have blighted its museums and galleries across Europe in 2011. | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Intelligence suggests the problem could get worse in 2012. This | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
business with rhinoceros horns is an ongoing concern in the UK? | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Absolutely, we seized two rhino horns last week. They were bound | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
for the Chinese market. Some of these villains have gone to | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
extraordinary lengths? People stealing them are ruthless | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
criminals. People have been physically assaulted. They will go | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
to any lengths they can to get their commodity. A few weeks ago, | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
all 15 British zoos and safari parks were placed on high alert. | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
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Zoo-keeper Sofia live rhinos could be targeted next. This is that your | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
writer others do. You don't expect it to happen in Essex. How would | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
you go about removing a haunt of such a fantastic beasts? It is not | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
going to give it up easily? One of the methods is a mobilising the | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
animal with drunks. Take a chainsaw to the face of the rhino. It wakes | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
up a few hours later in a terrible state. It is still alive. We cannot | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
consider the thought of it happening. It is the fascinating | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
element, but it is only like our fingernails and hair? There is no | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
value to it, no medicinal properties and no function at all | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
other than what it does for the rhino, which allows it to defend | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
its territory and fight with other rhinos. It is crazy animals are | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
being killed for this. How do you go about protecting a rhino, | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
security wise here? We have installed a high-tech alarm system | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
for this building. Scotland Yard have suggested museums should keep | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
their rhino horns out of use. We cannot do that at a zoo? No, and I | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
don't think we should. We are here to save the species, but educate | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
the public. And one of the ways we are going to fight poaching in | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Africa is by educating the public and creating up wrath. If we take | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
the rhinos away and people cannot see them, we lose the edge on it. | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
Extraordinary figures, in 200730 miners were killed in South Africa. | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
Last year, 448? It is hideous. This year, and we are at the start in | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
February, 25 have already been killed in South Africa. It seems to | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
come from an internet rumour. There is a Vietnamese official who is | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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supposedly having his things secured by poaching. But it seems | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
to be an urban myth. This is made a fingernail and it has no medicinal | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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value. Be careful, it is pricey. How much? This has been brought in | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
by the Met's wildlife crime unit. And this way is two kilograms and | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
it is so valuable we have two police officers. They are not | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
allowed to let it out of their side. Current market suggests it is worth | :24:10. | :24:19. | |
about �100,000. And the same amount of gold is worth around �40,000 | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
less. The Royal Society for the Protection of animals are funding | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
the wildlife crime unit to keep an officer going. Unveiling his on the | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
website. Recently been ran a piece on how Wednesday got its name. We | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
have had an angry e-mail from Mr Thor, threatening "threatening to | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
smite you with the awesome power of my hammer and mercy do the same". | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
We won't be intimidated by your threats. | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
THUNDERING AND LIGHTNING. Thursday is named after the Norse | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
god, the god of thunder. Who is thought and why is one of our days | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
of the week named after him? Dr Chris Abraham teaches mythology at | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
University College in London. Do we know how Thursday got its name? | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
don't, not really. It is lost in the myths of time. But probably | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
goes back to the Roman period because the Romans named the 4th | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
day of the week after their thunder god, Jupiter. It was imitated by | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
other people around Europe, including the Vikings. How can we | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
be sure thought was the god of thunder? His name derives from the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
word meaning thunder. He has been connected with thunder. He just | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
wasn't the God of Thunder, was God of all of the weather. He was | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
important? He was important because the weather was so important for | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
the Vikings. A thunderstorm was a threatening thing. It could sink a | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
ship, the lightning could set fire to your house. Why did people | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
believe so much in him as the god of thunder? Because they did not | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
have any other way of explaining the weather. If you think of how | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
dramatic a thunderstorm must appear, if you know nothing about where it | :26:29. | :26:38. | |
comes from. Explains things of what people do not understand. People | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
needed a God to explain something as powerful as a thunderstorm. | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
Today, we turn to science or explanation. What we hear as | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
thunder is the sound waves created by a lightning flash heating the | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
air and causing it to explode outwards. Some people think who | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
think they have been struck by lightning have been blown off their | :27:04. | :27:13. | |
feet by the sound of thunder. To demonstrate, this doctor at | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Manchester University is going to use a testing laboratories to show | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
us what the sound wave created by a lightning strike does to some | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
candles and a tube of paper. How realistic do you think this | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
experiment will be when you compare it to rely thunder? The energies | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
inside this are quite a large. They are comparable with what you get in | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
nature. Delight in in Channel we will produce is about 10 | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
centimetres or so. But in nature we have channels that are kilometres | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
long. To capture the power and understand why the Vikings were so | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
taken by thunder, we are filming with the ace super-fast camera | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
which slows it down. THUNDER. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
These are candles being blown out by the sound of thunder travelling | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
at around 330 metres per second. If you thought that was impressive, | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
just watch what it does to the Tube of paper. In nature, this huge | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
energy means the sound of thunder can be heard for many miles. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
Science may help us understand the real origin of thunder, but it has | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
a power that strikes within us. It is no wonder the Vikings chose to | :28:41. | :28:48. |