:00:18. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.
:00:20. > :00:32.Sophocles and Socrates - now please be upstanding for the
:00:33. > :01:04.CHEERING Micky Flanagan! Come on over. Very
:01:05. > :01:09.exciting. Nice to see you. Please take a seat. And maybe we should
:01:10. > :01:16.start by asking what is on your mind at the moment. These big questions,
:01:17. > :01:23.you have a whole series about it. It is falling off already. Seductive.
:01:24. > :01:27.What is keeping you up at night? When presenters get my name wrong
:01:28. > :01:38.like you did last night. That has upset me. It really has, Mark. You
:01:39. > :01:43.have got to be a professional! We were very pushed for time last night
:01:44. > :01:49.and had to talk quickly. Everything has been on my mind, patriotism, men
:01:50. > :01:54.and women. This is quite distracting. I will be naked by the
:01:55. > :01:58.time we finish this bit! This is my new series we are talking about
:01:59. > :02:06.here, patriotism, midlife crisis, don't know what all that is about.
:02:07. > :02:13.Loads on my mind. I am a thinker. We can see. Especially the getup. You
:02:14. > :02:17.are either a thinker or you are not. But we are trying to answer some
:02:18. > :02:24.unexplained questions like why are these seals doing this? They are
:02:25. > :02:28.swimming upside down. If there are any questions troubling you at home,
:02:29. > :02:33.the great philosopher Micky is on hand to answer. We will do this
:02:34. > :02:39.later. Don't be shy, sending whatever queries you have got. It
:02:40. > :02:45.could be why are we -- are we alone in the universe? Why do we dream?
:02:46. > :02:52.Why do men not put the toilet seat down. Why do women not put it up! If
:02:53. > :02:58.you have one of those which lowers itself slowly, as a man, you want to
:02:59. > :03:03.watch it happen. Why do we have toilet seats? I am happy with the
:03:04. > :03:09.porcelain area. I think the toilet seat squeezes the buttocks together.
:03:10. > :03:15.There we go, it is happening right now. This will be an interesting
:03:16. > :03:19.show. Keep it coming. Now, it has been ten years since the Animal
:03:20. > :03:21.Welfare Act came into force place a legal obligation on owners to take
:03:22. > :03:27.care of their pets but it seems like the message is not getting through.
:03:28. > :03:35.The RSPCA has released its annual figures and reports of animal
:03:36. > :03:40.cruelty on the rise. We said Don to find out more.
:03:41. > :03:47.You would think a law which makes owners take care of their pets
:03:48. > :03:53.properly and introduces penalties would reduce animal suffering. But
:03:54. > :03:58.there were 140,000 cases of animal cruelty investigated by the RSPCA
:03:59. > :04:04.last year alone. It is here that many of those investigations
:04:05. > :04:08.started. The RSPCA's national call centre in Rotherham handles more
:04:09. > :04:14.than 1 million calls a year to its 24-hour hotline. Mark Bowman
:04:15. > :04:19.oversees the centre. You have a busy call centre here. Hamley calls are
:04:20. > :04:24.coming? On average we take the call every 27 seconds and in the summer
:04:25. > :04:31.about 4000 a day. Why are you getting so many calls? Social media
:04:32. > :04:35.has taken off and people are more aware of cruelty. It is so easy
:04:36. > :04:40.these days to take a snapshot or screenshots and e-mail them into
:04:41. > :04:46.investigate. I have only been here 20 minutes and the calls are coming
:04:47. > :04:57.in thick and fast. You are through to the RSPCA, I am Patricia, how can
:04:58. > :05:07.I help? Some of the details are truly shocking. Sadly, calls like
:05:08. > :05:13.this are all too familiar to the call handlers. You must have seen
:05:14. > :05:17.some calls which were distressing? Yes, it definitely. You think about
:05:18. > :05:21.everything you have listened to. There are some horrendous things
:05:22. > :05:25.that you do listen to. Now I would say not as much because you have to
:05:26. > :05:33.let it go, you take a call and you have to let it go and move on to the
:05:34. > :05:38.next. An incredible 400 calls a day spark a full investigation by a team
:05:39. > :05:44.of nearly 500 inspectors like Keira Benham. She has just received a call
:05:45. > :05:50.about concerns over pets living at this flat. She has allowed me to tag
:05:51. > :05:57.along for the day. Just explain to me what has been going on. There is
:05:58. > :06:02.some sort of net on it. You can see some dead fleas there. There were
:06:03. > :06:08.some other concerns, was it cats here? Six cats. A quick check
:06:09. > :06:13.reveals the owner has been dealing with the problems. There are no
:06:14. > :06:19.creepy crawlies running around which is great to see so I think it is
:06:20. > :06:25.getting on top of the eye infection. It was the Animal Welfare Act which
:06:26. > :06:30.gave the RSPCA more powers to intervene by advising owners before
:06:31. > :06:34.any pet suffers. How do you feel about the fact the RSPCA have
:06:35. > :06:39.knocked on your door today? They have said they want to check the
:06:40. > :06:44.animals. You are quite happy to get a on the door? Not everybody
:06:45. > :06:50.probably takes as much time and care as they ought to so I do not have an
:06:51. > :07:01.issue whatsoever. But our -- at our next stop the visit is less welcome.
:07:02. > :07:06.RSPCA, are you there, lovely? Eventually, the owner allows Keira
:07:07. > :07:12.to check her dogs. Are you happy there's no very happy that the lady
:07:13. > :07:16.is OK and the dogs are OK. Back on the road and Keira receives an
:07:17. > :07:26.urgent call out. Receiving, go ahead. There is a goose with fishing
:07:27. > :07:31.wire wrapped around its peak. When we arrived there is no sign of the
:07:32. > :07:36.animal. We may be on a wild goose chase that it gives me a chance to
:07:37. > :07:40.ask here about one of the criticisms levelled at the RSPCA. Some people
:07:41. > :07:46.have said the RSPCA are too quick to remove pets from their owners, what
:07:47. > :07:49.would you say? I would disagree. Since the Animal Welfare Act came in
:07:50. > :08:01.we have more tools in place to work with people in situ and
:08:02. > :08:05.offer help and support so we don't have to remove animals. In fact,
:08:06. > :08:08.since the Animal Welfare Act came into force, the RSPCA has helped
:08:09. > :08:10.over 3.5 million animals. But with complaints on the rise it seems like
:08:11. > :08:15.inspectors like Keira here will have their work cut out for some time.
:08:16. > :08:19.Helen is here now with Sally Firth and her poodle Mavis. Looking at how
:08:20. > :08:25.beautiful may this is, you would never believe how neglected she was
:08:26. > :08:33.as a young dog. We have some photos here. This was the condition she was
:08:34. > :08:37.in. There were nine of them originally, the mother and eight
:08:38. > :08:44.puppies. They were dumped in a Winchester Lane. A member of the
:08:45. > :08:51.public phoned it into the RSPCA. I found out about the story, it was on
:08:52. > :08:56.my local news back in January 2015. I thought it was a shame, but I had
:08:57. > :09:02.no intention of getting involved with that. And then I contacted the
:09:03. > :09:06.poodle network back in March and then I started fostering her back in
:09:07. > :09:13.May and she was a complete basket case. It was like having a feral
:09:14. > :09:18.animal in my house. What is she like now? She is like a normal pet but
:09:19. > :09:24.she still suffers from anxiety. I can only leave her by her sell for
:09:25. > :09:30.about an hour. I work from home so I try and leave her most days if I
:09:31. > :09:40.can. She's still very clingy and dependent on me. She is still a
:09:41. > :09:46.young dog. Improving all the time. Helen, we saw in the film with Dom
:09:47. > :09:50.that that was just a snapshot of the cases the RSPCA and other welfare
:09:51. > :09:56.charities have to deal with every single day. The RSPCA get a call to
:09:57. > :10:02.help every 27 seconds. In the short time we have been on air, they will
:10:03. > :10:06.have had approximately ten calls already and they get one point 5
:10:07. > :10:10.million every year. The inspectors looking to 140,000 cases every year
:10:11. > :10:15.of cruelty and neglect to animals and they are just one of hundreds of
:10:16. > :10:20.animal charities and shelters up and down the country. What is worrying
:10:21. > :10:24.is the law changed in 2007 in England and then Wales to allow
:10:25. > :10:28.those inspectors to go in where there is suspicion of cruelty rather
:10:29. > :10:34.than evidence and now the cruelty figures fluctuate between 150000 and
:10:35. > :10:43.160,002 be honest, they don't seem to be improving. There is a call for
:10:44. > :10:49.an offenders register? The RSPCA looked into a case in 2015 of age
:10:50. > :10:56.while I called Chunky. He was taken from his home by four young boys and
:10:57. > :11:03.he was abused the four hours. He has made a good recovery. The boys were
:11:04. > :11:06.banned from owning dogs for five years but this led to a call for a
:11:07. > :11:09.register, bit like the Sex Offenders Register, where if you have been
:11:10. > :11:14.banned from owning an animal, you go on a register and people who plays
:11:15. > :11:17.dogs like Mavis into loving homes can see those names. There are
:11:18. > :11:22.600,000 names on a petition to DEFRA at the moment to bring this in and
:11:23. > :11:25.make it the first in Europe. The government is worried it could lead
:11:26. > :11:30.to people taking the law into their own hands and at the moment, we rely
:11:31. > :11:36.on police capturing that kind of data. Thank you, Sally and Helen and
:11:37. > :11:42.Mavis. Made this has made herself at home. She is absolutely gorgeous --
:11:43. > :11:50.Mavis has made herself at home. We will talk more about Micky's budding
:11:51. > :11:55.career as a philosopher. And we have another puzzle for you now. One
:11:56. > :11:57.which has wildlife experts scratching their heads in confusion,
:11:58. > :12:11.including Miranda. This is a grey seal behaving in a
:12:12. > :12:14.way I have never seen before. This footage obtained exclusively for the
:12:15. > :12:18.One Show shows the seals blipping themselves on their backs and
:12:19. > :12:23.rubbing themselves on the sea bed. But the question is why? That is
:12:24. > :12:28.what I am keen to find out. We have enlisted some of the country's
:12:29. > :12:31.leading seal experts to study the footage and give their thoughts.
:12:32. > :12:36.Each one has come up with a different theory about why the seals
:12:37. > :12:40.are performing this behaviour. Many of the seals doing this I
:12:41. > :12:49.youngsters, juveniles. One of the things we know about first-year
:12:50. > :12:52.seals is they keep their coat for longer, so it may be they are trying
:12:53. > :12:57.to scratch some of the old hair off. I think it is some kind of scent
:12:58. > :13:01.marking. The shoulder and back region in grey seals have skin cells
:13:02. > :13:06.which secrete odours which appeared to be very important in social
:13:07. > :13:12.contact and play. For me, I think this is really something that feels
:13:13. > :13:15.good, but the area between the shoulders is somewhere they cannot
:13:16. > :13:21.reach with their mouth or flippers. I think this is just a new technique
:13:22. > :13:25.animals have come up with to solve a problem. So it could be getting rid
:13:26. > :13:30.of old hair, scent marking or just having a plain odd scratch. But I
:13:31. > :13:39.would like to see this for myself, so I am off to the Farne Islands of
:13:40. > :13:43.Northumberland with an expert who has filmed this behaviour. He has
:13:44. > :13:49.been studying seals for 16 years and he has his own theory about this. I
:13:50. > :13:53.think the actual behaviour allows them to assert their position in the
:13:54. > :13:58.social hierarchy and that may be connected with how dominant they are
:13:59. > :14:11.in their rubbing. But what is really going on down there? Time to see for
:14:12. > :14:16.myself. Once in the water, then leads me to the area where he has
:14:17. > :14:26.seen the seals back rubbing regularly -- Ben leads me. You can
:14:27. > :14:31.see rows where they have driven themselves to the sandy bottom.
:14:32. > :14:35.There are nine or ten grey seals, all very inquisitive. They are
:14:36. > :14:37.looking at us, we are looking at them. We want them to do something
:14:38. > :14:48.interesting. It is a waiting game. Thankfully we don't have to wait
:14:49. > :14:53.that long. Look at that. Oh my word that is beautiful. Look at it. Right
:14:54. > :14:58.in front of me. Oh yes. There is definitely something going on here.
:14:59. > :15:03.It is like the place they all come to hang out.
:15:04. > :15:06.I feel like I'm on the dance floor, and they're all just strutting their
:15:07. > :15:10.stuff on a Friday night. It is like this area is an
:15:11. > :15:15.amphitheatre and the seals take it in turns to come down and show off
:15:16. > :15:20.what they can do. Look, I can do it on my back, on my side. I can go
:15:21. > :15:25.anywhere I wan. I have never seen anything like this in my life
:15:26. > :15:29.before. This is utterly incredible. Unfortunately, after just over an
:15:30. > :15:33.hour of watching this incredible but bizarre behaviour, we have to return
:15:34. > :15:37.to the surface. But Ben is going to continue his study, to try to get
:15:38. > :15:42.the definitive answer of why they are doing this. What we are looking
:15:43. > :15:48.at doing now, is using a thing called a sound trap, which is a very
:15:49. > :15:53.sophisticated hydrophone to record their vocalisations, in real time,
:15:54. > :16:00.while we are imifing them and what we are doing is link specific vocals
:16:01. > :16:03.to specific behaviour. Very often experts have already reached their
:16:04. > :16:07.conclusions as to why other wildlife behaves in a certain way, but on
:16:08. > :16:13.this occasion, it is all got us scratching our heads!
:16:14. > :16:19.It is shrine a sun trap. It is like a sunbathing thing. They are putting
:16:20. > :16:26.their tummies in the sunshine. It could be a question for Micky's new
:16:27. > :16:30.series. I know I am going to sort out the gravel on my drive. I am
:16:31. > :16:35.going to roll round on my back. Easy. So thinking allowed starts on
:16:36. > :16:40.Monday, and your attempting to answer the big questions of our
:16:41. > :16:45.time. It came from taking a break from comedy, really, didn't it. Yes
:16:46. > :16:50.I had a year off and I sat down doing a lot of cogitating, and I
:16:51. > :16:54.thought about the big questions. And a lot, because I was sort of, I had
:16:55. > :16:59.nothing to do all day, that is where thinking begins. When you are not
:17:00. > :17:05.busy you can think. Have time to... Head space. We don't have to think.
:17:06. > :17:09.When you wake up in the morning the there is nothing to do, my wife
:17:10. > :17:16.would give me a leter, I would think there is two hours. Go to the pose
:17:17. > :17:20.office an bavenlingt during the walks I would think an I would think
:17:21. > :17:25.I will go to the pub, then I would have a pint and think again, then I
:17:26. > :17:29.would get home. My wife would say what have you been doing and I would
:17:30. > :17:34.say thinking. You have got a new series out of it. It had to come
:17:35. > :17:40.out. When it is all in there, where is it going to go, if not out to the
:17:41. > :17:44.people. Into a series. I keep it to myself. You have broken it up into
:17:45. > :17:49.different episodes. The first one is men and women. You have been married
:17:50. > :17:54.17 years. For about seven. I held out! No, I have been married for
:17:55. > :17:59.seven but I have been with my wife for 17 years. OK, what did you learn
:18:00. > :18:03.then about your marriage through that particular episode? Because you
:18:04. > :18:09.go off all over the place, you meet lots of experts and you conclude it
:18:10. > :18:12.all. We tried not to focus on men and women's relationship, although
:18:13. > :18:17.we look into that. We tried to work out where men are now, and where
:18:18. > :18:21.women are now, and where are they when they come together, and you
:18:22. > :18:23.know, the new problems, the old problem, what is changing with men
:18:24. > :18:29.and women. We try to make it like that. I didn't want it just to be
:18:30. > :18:34.the problems with men and women, of which I don't know, there have been
:18:35. > :18:40.a few... But I have ironed all my out. This is how I start my day. I
:18:41. > :18:45.wake up and I go, don't upset her. That is my opening thought. Don't
:18:46. > :18:50.upset her. When I go to bed at night. I think oh, I haven't upset
:18:51. > :18:56.her. Then I know I have had a nice day. Your research has taken you to
:18:57. > :19:00.some odd places. Yes. You have done some crazy things. I like to throw
:19:01. > :19:05.myself into thing, you know. If someone asked me to do something, I
:19:06. > :19:10.don't say how would that make me appear to the general public, I
:19:11. > :19:17.think will it be funny, will we learn anything? Will it get a laugh?
:19:18. > :19:21.Will it get laughs? That is you wrapped in bandages a, being
:19:22. > :19:26.squirted with mineral water. Not just mineral water. This is me
:19:27. > :19:32.potentially trying to lose weight very quickly. What they call the LA
:19:33. > :19:37.Slim within wrap. You walk in as a fat person and you leave as a still
:19:38. > :19:43.a fat person but with less money in your pocket. Because this is in Los
:19:44. > :19:49.Angeles, this is the sort of things people will do for the quick fix.
:19:50. > :19:53.You know, so she wrapped me up and then she unrap wrapped me and I was
:19:54. > :19:59.about an inch slimmer all round. So it works. She just did the
:20:00. > :20:04.measurements loser on the first time. This was all to do with the
:20:05. > :20:07.midlife crisis episode. Where we start, the midlife crisis is created
:20:08. > :20:12.by the sort of knowledge of your impending death, you know. So what
:20:13. > :20:20.happens is you start thinking about dying, and this, this is not my
:20:21. > :20:26.theory, this is Freud and Jung. You start to think about your life. This
:20:27. > :20:32.is when you look at the differences between men and women. You end up
:20:33. > :20:38.chatting to a cosmetic surgeon. Let us take a look. Would you say I am a
:20:39. > :20:44.good looking man? Are you working from a good basic? Yes. Be honest.
:20:45. > :20:55.You have an oval face, that is good. That is good. This is female. This
:20:56. > :21:02.is male. OK. Really? Yes. Besides that this makes you look old, tired
:21:03. > :21:07.and angry. Other than that you look fine. Could you put the word failure
:21:08. > :21:13.on the end of that and then we will have the set. You weren't tempted to
:21:14. > :21:18.get anything done? No. That was the lowest moment in LA, when he sort of
:21:19. > :21:22.said I looked old tired and angry and said I had a bit of after boot
:21:23. > :21:30.nose. I don't know if he was looking for work, I left there feeling very
:21:31. > :21:37.unattractive. You end, do you end up almost competing in Mr World? Yes.
:21:38. > :21:42.What? Do you know about it? We all thought this was from the past, but
:21:43. > :21:47.it is back but for men, and it is looking for the hottest, most, you
:21:48. > :21:52.know, undateable man in the world. It is in Southport? Yes, that is
:21:53. > :21:58.where you go if you are looking for looker, that is where they hold it
:21:59. > :22:07.every year. Looking good there. There was a lot of dancing going on.
:22:08. > :22:13.They like to dance. And... That was the next night was Mid World. We
:22:14. > :22:17.have asked for questions this evening, and we have had a lot in.
:22:18. > :22:25.We have. We have one from Debbie irVIP who said where do all the odd
:22:26. > :22:30.socks go? They meet up with other odd socks and become pairs. Gordon
:22:31. > :22:42.says what if there were no hypothetical questions? That is when
:22:43. > :22:50.someone says can I ask you a question, you just have. Scott says
:22:51. > :22:56.why do we snow? To annoy our partners. When we go off it is pay
:22:57. > :23:01.back. John from Edinburgh, he is raging. Why do other drivers insist
:23:02. > :23:07.on parking next to my car in an empty car park? It is called being
:23:08. > :23:11.considerate. Leaving a space beside you. What does he want the whole car
:23:12. > :23:20.park? How much space does this man want? We have Ryan who said why have
:23:21. > :23:24.I never seen a baby pigeon? I have never seen one. Because they stay in
:23:25. > :23:32.their nest until they are fully grown. Like children, now. Now. Who
:23:33. > :23:36.don't leave until they are 33 or 34. Chris says how does a snow plough
:23:37. > :23:41.driver get to work? That is an old one, he calls in and says I can't
:23:42. > :23:46.make it. Being British, he say I know I'm
:23:47. > :23:53.supposed to be driving it but I won't get there. Tom says who would
:23:54. > :24:01.win in a fight, Batman or Superman? I think Batman. Batman? Yes. There
:24:02. > :24:06.is no real debate. That is one of those big questions. Maybe on series
:24:07. > :24:11.two. All the answers to your big questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
:24:12. > :24:19.Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud starts on Monday. Micky is the
:24:20. > :24:21.latest in a long line of people who haven't had recognition for their
:24:22. > :24:25.extraordinary mind. The physicist James Clark Maxwell,
:24:26. > :24:28.on the other hand, really does have reason to feel hard done by,
:24:29. > :24:40.as Marty's discovered. In 1687 Sir irsack Newton found fame
:24:41. > :24:42.for his explanation of gravity. Questions. Maybe on series two. All
:24:43. > :24:44.the answers to your big questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan. Micky Flanagan:
:24:45. > :24:47.Thinking Aloud starts on Monday. Micky is the latest in a long line
:24:48. > :24:49.of people who haven't had recognition for their extraordinary
:24:50. > :24:51.mind. In 1687 Sir irsack Newton found fame for his explanation of
:24:52. > :24:53.gravity. Questions. Maybe on series two. All the answers to your big
:24:54. > :24:55.questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan. Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud
:24:56. > :24:58.starts on Monday. Micky is the latest in a long line of people who
:24:59. > :25:00.haven't had recognition for their extraordinary mind. In 1687 Sir
:25:01. > :25:02.irsack Newton found fame for his explanation of gravity. 200 years
:25:03. > :25:04.later Albert "Einstein entered the books with his theory of relativity.
:25:05. > :25:07.There is another scientist who should be up here. Here. He caused a
:25:08. > :25:09.revolution in fizz sicks is and was Einstein's hero, his name is James
:25:10. > :25:11.Clark Maxwell. His discovery was electromagnetic
:25:12. > :25:13.waves which are used in everything from medicine to communication.
:25:14. > :25:16.Maxwell was born in Edinburgh in 1831. I have come to his childhood
:25:17. > :25:22.home to find out more about him, from Dr Firth. What was he like as a
:25:23. > :25:28.child? He was very curious in the world about him. He would ask what
:25:29. > :25:33.is the go of that, meaning what is the driving force, good Scots
:25:34. > :25:38.expression of curiosity. Naturally inquisitive and give
:25:39. > :25:42.itted, the young Maxwell produced a mathematical paper on shapes, at
:25:43. > :25:48.just 14. This is the first of many scientific
:25:49. > :25:53.paper, written in Maxwell's own hand writing, on what looks very much
:25:54. > :25:59.like a school jotter. And indeed, accepted for publication by the
:26:00. > :26:05.Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 29, Maxwell made an amazing
:26:06. > :26:09.breakthrough. He created the world's first colour photograph. A mixture
:26:10. > :26:11.of a par tan ribbon. Maxwell's own hand writing, on what looks very
:26:12. > :26:14.much like a school jotter. And indeed, accepted for publication by
:26:15. > :26:16.the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 29, Maxwell made an
:26:17. > :26:18.amazing breakthrough. He created the world's first colour photograph. A
:26:19. > :26:21.mixture of a par tan ribbon. -- tartan ribbon. In 1861 his attention
:26:22. > :26:23.was drawn to solving one of the greatest puzzles of the age. A
:26:24. > :26:26.electrical phenomenon was observeded by Michael far day, one of the most
:26:27. > :26:29.eminent scientists of the day. If you take a coil of wire, and you
:26:30. > :26:35.attach it to a little light bulb and then you take a strong magnet, and
:26:36. > :26:44.if I move the magnet into the coil of wire, the light bulb lights up.
:26:45. > :26:47.So moving a magnet inside a coil of wire generates electricity, an
:26:48. > :26:53.interesting observation but nobody could explain what was going on.
:26:54. > :26:57.Intrigued Maxwell turned to mathematics, to try to make sense of
:26:58. > :27:02.it all. He came up with a complex set of
:27:03. > :27:09.equation, explaining how electricity, and magnetism interact.
:27:10. > :27:14.His equations revealed that electro Mag any tinge energy travels in
:27:15. > :27:20.waves, and those waves travelled at the speed of light, and that was no
:27:21. > :27:24.coincidence. The electromagnetic wave he
:27:25. > :27:29.discovered was light. For the very first time, we understood the very
:27:30. > :27:36.nature of light itself. The implications were huge.
:27:37. > :27:41.Here, I am splitting light into its component parts. I have used my
:27:42. > :27:46.prism to create a rainbow of colour, from the red, all the way through to
:27:47. > :27:52.the violet, and that is it will light that we can see. But Maxwell's
:27:53. > :27:57.equations predicted that there was invisible light, that we can't see,
:27:58. > :28:03.beyond the red, and beyond the violet.
:28:04. > :28:08.What he predicted was the existence of different forms of electro
:28:09. > :28:12.magnetic wave, from radio, to microwaves, and from ultraviolet to
:28:13. > :28:18.x-rays, the application of these waves and these discovery was
:28:19. > :28:22.mind-blowing. Today, we use electromagnetic waves
:28:23. > :28:28.for more than just seeing, there is communication, and cooking, and even
:28:29. > :28:32.medical treatments. Physicist Peter Higuains won the
:28:33. > :28:37.Nobel Prize in 2013, for his work on the Higuains bow sun particle. He
:28:38. > :28:45.understands better than most the relevance of Maxwell's equations.
:28:46. > :28:50.Maxwell was important to modern physics but also to all kinds ofs a
:28:51. > :28:54.pecks of modern life. If he has survived into the 20th century he
:28:55. > :29:00.would have picked up one of the earliest Nobel Prizes. This
:29:01. > :29:04.unassumed Scottish scientist deserves widespread recognition for
:29:05. > :29:08.his extraordinary work. What a show it has been. We have
:29:09. > :29:10.answered so many questions tonight. So much knowledge. That is it for
:29:11. > :29:15.That's it for tonight - thanks to our guest Micky Flanagan.
:29:16. > :29:17.His new show, Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud, starts
:29:18. > :29:20.on Monday at 9pm on Sky 1, and he's on tour from May.
:29:21. > :29:24.Fern Britton will be here with Doctor Who's