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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.

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Sophocles and Socrates - now please be upstanding for the

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CHEERING Micky Flanagan! Come on over. Very

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exciting. Nice to see you. Please take a seat. And maybe we should

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start by asking what is on your mind at the moment. These big questions,

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you have a whole series about it. It is falling off already. Seductive.

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What is keeping you up at night? When presenters get my name wrong

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like you did last night. That has upset me. It really has, Mark. You

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have got to be a professional! We were very pushed for time last night

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and had to talk quickly. Everything has been on my mind, patriotism, men

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and women. This is quite distracting. I will be naked by the

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time we finish this bit! This is my new series we are talking about

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here, patriotism, midlife crisis, don't know what all that is about.

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Loads on my mind. I am a thinker. We can see. Especially the getup. You

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are either a thinker or you are not. But we are trying to answer some

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unexplained questions like why are these seals doing this? They are

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swimming upside down. If there are any questions troubling you at home,

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the great philosopher Micky is on hand to answer. We will do this

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later. Don't be shy, sending whatever queries you have got. It

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could be why are we -- are we alone in the universe? Why do we dream?

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Why do men not put the toilet seat down. Why do women not put it up! If

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you have one of those which lowers itself slowly, as a man, you want to

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watch it happen. Why do we have toilet seats? I am happy with the

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porcelain area. I think the toilet seat squeezes the buttocks together.

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There we go, it is happening right now. This will be an interesting

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show. Keep it coming. Now, it has been ten years since the Animal

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Welfare Act came into force place a legal obligation on owners to take

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care of their pets but it seems like the message is not getting through.

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The RSPCA has released its annual figures and reports of animal

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cruelty on the rise. We said Don to find out more.

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You would think a law which makes owners take care of their pets

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properly and introduces penalties would reduce animal suffering. But

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there were 140,000 cases of animal cruelty investigated by the RSPCA

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last year alone. It is here that many of those investigations

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started. The RSPCA's national call centre in Rotherham handles more

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than 1 million calls a year to its 24-hour hotline. Mark Bowman

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oversees the centre. You have a busy call centre here. Hamley calls are

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coming? On average we take the call every 27 seconds and in the summer

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about 4000 a day. Why are you getting so many calls? Social media

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has taken off and people are more aware of cruelty. It is so easy

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these days to take a snapshot or screenshots and e-mail them into

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investigate. I have only been here 20 minutes and the calls are coming

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in thick and fast. You are through to the RSPCA, I am Patricia, how can

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I help? Some of the details are truly shocking. Sadly, calls like

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this are all too familiar to the call handlers. You must have seen

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some calls which were distressing? Yes, it definitely. You think about

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everything you have listened to. There are some horrendous things

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that you do listen to. Now I would say not as much because you have to

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let it go, you take a call and you have to let it go and move on to the

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next. An incredible 400 calls a day spark a full investigation by a team

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of nearly 500 inspectors like Keira Benham. She has just received a call

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about concerns over pets living at this flat. She has allowed me to tag

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along for the day. Just explain to me what has been going on. There is

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some sort of net on it. You can see some dead fleas there. There were

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some other concerns, was it cats here? Six cats. A quick check

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reveals the owner has been dealing with the problems. There are no

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creepy crawlies running around which is great to see so I think it is

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getting on top of the eye infection. It was the Animal Welfare Act which

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gave the RSPCA more powers to intervene by advising owners before

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any pet suffers. How do you feel about the fact the RSPCA have

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knocked on your door today? They have said they want to check the

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animals. You are quite happy to get a on the door? Not everybody

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probably takes as much time and care as they ought to so I do not have an

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issue whatsoever. But our -- at our next stop the visit is less welcome.

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RSPCA, are you there, lovely? Eventually, the owner allows Keira

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to check her dogs. Are you happy there's no very happy that the lady

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is OK and the dogs are OK. Back on the road and Keira receives an

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urgent call out. Receiving, go ahead. There is a goose with fishing

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wire wrapped around its peak. When we arrived there is no sign of the

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animal. We may be on a wild goose chase that it gives me a chance to

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ask here about one of the criticisms levelled at the RSPCA. Some people

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have said the RSPCA are too quick to remove pets from their owners, what

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would you say? I would disagree. Since the Animal Welfare Act came in

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we have more tools in place to work with people in situ and

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offer help and support so we don't have to remove animals. In fact,

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since the Animal Welfare Act came into force, the RSPCA has helped

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over 3.5 million animals. But with complaints on the rise it seems like

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inspectors like Keira here will have their work cut out for some time.

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Helen is here now with Sally Firth and her poodle Mavis. Looking at how

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beautiful may this is, you would never believe how neglected she was

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as a young dog. We have some photos here. This was the condition she was

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in. There were nine of them originally, the mother and eight

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puppies. They were dumped in a Winchester Lane. A member of the

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public phoned it into the RSPCA. I found out about the story, it was on

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my local news back in January 2015. I thought it was a shame, but I had

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no intention of getting involved with that. And then I contacted the

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poodle network back in March and then I started fostering her back in

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May and she was a complete basket case. It was like having a feral

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animal in my house. What is she like now? She is like a normal pet but

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she still suffers from anxiety. I can only leave her by her sell for

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about an hour. I work from home so I try and leave her most days if I

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can. She's still very clingy and dependent on me. She is still a

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young dog. Improving all the time. Helen, we saw in the film with Dom

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that that was just a snapshot of the cases the RSPCA and other welfare

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charities have to deal with every single day. The RSPCA get a call to

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help every 27 seconds. In the short time we have been on air, they will

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have had approximately ten calls already and they get one point 5

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million every year. The inspectors looking to 140,000 cases every year

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of cruelty and neglect to animals and they are just one of hundreds of

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animal charities and shelters up and down the country. What is worrying

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is the law changed in 2007 in England and then Wales to allow

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those inspectors to go in where there is suspicion of cruelty rather

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than evidence and now the cruelty figures fluctuate between 150000 and

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160,002 be honest, they don't seem to be improving. There is a call for

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an offenders register? The RSPCA looked into a case in 2015 of age

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while I called Chunky. He was taken from his home by four young boys and

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he was abused the four hours. He has made a good recovery. The boys were

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banned from owning dogs for five years but this led to a call for a

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register, bit like the Sex Offenders Register, where if you have been

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banned from owning an animal, you go on a register and people who plays

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dogs like Mavis into loving homes can see those names. There are

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600,000 names on a petition to DEFRA at the moment to bring this in and

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make it the first in Europe. The government is worried it could lead

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to people taking the law into their own hands and at the moment, we rely

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on police capturing that kind of data. Thank you, Sally and Helen and

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Mavis. Made this has made herself at home. She is absolutely gorgeous --

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Mavis has made herself at home. We will talk more about Micky's budding

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career as a philosopher. And we have another puzzle for you now. One

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which has wildlife experts scratching their heads in confusion,

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including Miranda. This is a grey seal behaving in a

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way I have never seen before. This footage obtained exclusively for the

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One Show shows the seals blipping themselves on their backs and

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rubbing themselves on the sea bed. But the question is why? That is

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what I am keen to find out. We have enlisted some of the country's

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leading seal experts to study the footage and give their thoughts.

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Each one has come up with a different theory about why the seals

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are performing this behaviour. Many of the seals doing this I

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youngsters, juveniles. One of the things we know about first-year

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seals is they keep their coat for longer, so it may be they are trying

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to scratch some of the old hair off. I think it is some kind of scent

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marking. The shoulder and back region in grey seals have skin cells

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which secrete odours which appeared to be very important in social

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contact and play. For me, I think this is really something that feels

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good, but the area between the shoulders is somewhere they cannot

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reach with their mouth or flippers. I think this is just a new technique

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animals have come up with to solve a problem. So it could be getting rid

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of old hair, scent marking or just having a plain odd scratch. But I

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would like to see this for myself, so I am off to the Farne Islands of

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Northumberland with an expert who has filmed this behaviour. He has

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been studying seals for 16 years and he has his own theory about this. I

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think the actual behaviour allows them to assert their position in the

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social hierarchy and that may be connected with how dominant they are

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in their rubbing. But what is really going on down there? Time to see for

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myself. Once in the water, then leads me to the area where he has

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seen the seals back rubbing regularly -- Ben leads me. You can

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see rows where they have driven themselves to the sandy bottom.

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There are nine or ten grey seals, all very inquisitive. They are

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looking at us, we are looking at them. We want them to do something

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interesting. It is a waiting game. Thankfully we don't have to wait

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that long. Look at that. Oh my word that is beautiful. Look at it. Right

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in front of me. Oh yes. There is definitely something going on here.

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It is like the place they all come to hang out.

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I feel like I'm on the dance floor, and they're all just strutting their

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stuff on a Friday night. It is like this area is an

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amphitheatre and the seals take it in turns to come down and show off

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what they can do. Look, I can do it on my back, on my side. I can go

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anywhere I wan. I have never seen anything like this in my life

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before. This is utterly incredible. Unfortunately, after just over an

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hour of watching this incredible but bizarre behaviour, we have to return

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to the surface. But Ben is going to continue his study, to try to get

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the definitive answer of why they are doing this. What we are looking

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at doing now, is using a thing called a sound trap, which is a very

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sophisticated hydrophone to record their vocalisations, in real time,

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while we are imifing them and what we are doing is link specific vocals

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to specific behaviour. Very often experts have already reached their

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conclusions as to why other wildlife behaves in a certain way, but on

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this occasion, it is all got us scratching our heads!

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It is shrine a sun trap. It is like a sunbathing thing. They are putting

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their tummies in the sunshine. It could be a question for Micky's new

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series. I know I am going to sort out the gravel on my drive. I am

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going to roll round on my back. Easy. So thinking allowed starts on

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Monday, and your attempting to answer the big questions of our

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time. It came from taking a break from comedy, really, didn't it. Yes

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I had a year off and I sat down doing a lot of cogitating, and I

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thought about the big questions. And a lot, because I was sort of, I had

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nothing to do all day, that is where thinking begins. When you are not

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busy you can think. Have time to... Head space. We don't have to think.

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When you wake up in the morning the there is nothing to do, my wife

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would give me a leter, I would think there is two hours. Go to the pose

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office an bavenlingt during the walks I would think an I would think

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I will go to the pub, then I would have a pint and think again, then I

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would get home. My wife would say what have you been doing and I would

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say thinking. You have got a new series out of it. It had to come

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out. When it is all in there, where is it going to go, if not out to the

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people. Into a series. I keep it to myself. You have broken it up into

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different episodes. The first one is men and women. You have been married

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17 years. For about seven. I held out! No, I have been married for

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seven but I have been with my wife for 17 years. OK, what did you learn

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then about your marriage through that particular episode? Because you

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go off all over the place, you meet lots of experts and you conclude it

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all. We tried not to focus on men and women's relationship, although

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we look into that. We tried to work out where men are now, and where

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women are now, and where are they when they come together, and you

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know, the new problems, the old problem, what is changing with men

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and women. We try to make it like that. I didn't want it just to be

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the problems with men and women, of which I don't know, there have been

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a few... But I have ironed all my out. This is how I start my day. I

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wake up and I go, don't upset her. That is my opening thought. Don't

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upset her. When I go to bed at night. I think oh, I haven't upset

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her. Then I know I have had a nice day. Your research has taken you to

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some odd places. Yes. You have done some crazy things. I like to throw

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myself into thing, you know. If someone asked me to do something, I

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don't say how would that make me appear to the general public, I

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think will it be funny, will we learn anything? Will it get a laugh?

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Will it get laughs? That is you wrapped in bandages a, being

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squirted with mineral water. Not just mineral water. This is me

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potentially trying to lose weight very quickly. What they call the LA

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Slim within wrap. You walk in as a fat person and you leave as a still

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a fat person but with less money in your pocket. Because this is in Los

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Angeles, this is the sort of things people will do for the quick fix.

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You know, so she wrapped me up and then she unrap wrapped me and I was

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about an inch slimmer all round. So it works. She just did the

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measurements loser on the first time. This was all to do with the

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midlife crisis episode. Where we start, the midlife crisis is created

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by the sort of knowledge of your impending death, you know. So what

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happens is you start thinking about dying, and this, this is not my

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theory, this is Freud and Jung. You start to think about your life. This

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is when you look at the differences between men and women. You end up

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chatting to a cosmetic surgeon. Let us take a look. Would you say I am a

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good looking man? Are you working from a good basic? Yes. Be honest.

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You have an oval face, that is good. That is good. This is female. This

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is male. OK. Really? Yes. Besides that this makes you look old, tired

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and angry. Other than that you look fine. Could you put the word failure

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on the end of that and then we will have the set. You weren't tempted to

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get anything done? No. That was the lowest moment in LA, when he sort of

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said I looked old tired and angry and said I had a bit of after boot

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nose. I don't know if he was looking for work, I left there feeling very

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unattractive. You end, do you end up almost competing in Mr World? Yes.

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What? Do you know about it? We all thought this was from the past, but

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it is back but for men, and it is looking for the hottest, most, you

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know, undateable man in the world. It is in Southport? Yes, that is

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where you go if you are looking for looker, that is where they hold it

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every year. Looking good there. There was a lot of dancing going on.

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They like to dance. And... That was the next night was Mid World. We

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have asked for questions this evening, and we have had a lot in.

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We have. We have one from Debbie irVIP who said where do all the odd

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socks go? They meet up with other odd socks and become pairs. Gordon

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says what if there were no hypothetical questions? That is when

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someone says can I ask you a question, you just have. Scott says

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why do we snow? To annoy our partners. When we go off it is pay

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back. John from Edinburgh, he is raging. Why do other drivers insist

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on parking next to my car in an empty car park? It is called being

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considerate. Leaving a space beside you. What does he want the whole car

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park? How much space does this man want? We have Ryan who said why have

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I never seen a baby pigeon? I have never seen one. Because they stay in

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their nest until they are fully grown. Like children, now. Now. Who

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don't leave until they are 33 or 34. Chris says how does a snow plough

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driver get to work? That is an old one, he calls in and says I can't

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make it. Being British, he say I know I'm

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supposed to be driving it but I won't get there. Tom says who would

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win in a fight, Batman or Superman? I think Batman. Batman? Yes. There

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is no real debate. That is one of those big questions. Maybe on series

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two. All the answers to your big questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan.

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Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud starts on Monday. Micky is the

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latest in a long line of people who haven't had recognition for their

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extraordinary mind. The physicist James Clark Maxwell,

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on the other hand, really does have reason to feel hard done by,

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as Marty's discovered. In 1687 Sir irsack Newton found fame

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for his explanation of gravity. Questions. Maybe on series two. All

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the answers to your big questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan. Micky Flanagan:

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Thinking Aloud starts on Monday. Micky is the latest in a long line

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of people who haven't had recognition for their extraordinary

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mind. In 1687 Sir irsack Newton found fame for his explanation of

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gravity. Questions. Maybe on series two. All the answers to your big

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questions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan. Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud

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starts on Monday. Micky is the latest in a long line of people who

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haven't had recognition for their extraordinary mind. In 1687 Sir

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irsack Newton found fame for his explanation of gravity. 200 years

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later Albert "Einstein entered the books with his theory of relativity.

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There is another scientist who should be up here. Here. He caused a

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revolution in fizz sicks is and was Einstein's hero, his name is James

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Clark Maxwell. His discovery was electromagnetic

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waves which are used in everything from medicine to communication.

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Maxwell was born in Edinburgh in 1831. I have come to his childhood

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home to find out more about him, from Dr Firth. What was he like as a

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child? He was very curious in the world about him. He would ask what

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is the go of that, meaning what is the driving force, good Scots

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expression of curiosity. Naturally inquisitive and give

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itted, the young Maxwell produced a mathematical paper on shapes, at

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just 14. This is the first of many scientific

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paper, written in Maxwell's own hand writing, on what looks very much

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like a school jotter. And indeed, accepted for publication by the

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Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 29, Maxwell made an amazing

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breakthrough. He created the world's first colour photograph. A mixture

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of a par tan ribbon. Maxwell's own hand writing, on what looks very

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much like a school jotter. And indeed, accepted for publication by

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the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 29, Maxwell made an

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amazing breakthrough. He created the world's first colour photograph. A

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mixture of a par tan ribbon. -- tartan ribbon. In 1861 his attention

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was drawn to solving one of the greatest puzzles of the age. A

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electrical phenomenon was observeded by Michael far day, one of the most

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eminent scientists of the day. If you take a coil of wire, and you

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attach it to a little light bulb and then you take a strong magnet, and

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if I move the magnet into the coil of wire, the light bulb lights up.

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So moving a magnet inside a coil of wire generates electricity, an

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interesting observation but nobody could explain what was going on.

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Intrigued Maxwell turned to mathematics, to try to make sense of

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it all. He came up with a complex set of

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equation, explaining how electricity, and magnetism interact.

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His equations revealed that electro Mag any tinge energy travels in

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waves, and those waves travelled at the speed of light, and that was no

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coincidence. The electromagnetic wave he

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discovered was light. For the very first time, we understood the very

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nature of light itself. The implications were huge.

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Here, I am splitting light into its component parts. I have used my

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prism to create a rainbow of colour, from the red, all the way through to

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the violet, and that is it will light that we can see. But Maxwell's

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equations predicted that there was invisible light, that we can't see,

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beyond the red, and beyond the violet.

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What he predicted was the existence of different forms of electro

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magnetic wave, from radio, to microwaves, and from ultraviolet to

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x-rays, the application of these waves and these discovery was

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mind-blowing. Today, we use electromagnetic waves

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for more than just seeing, there is communication, and cooking, and even

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medical treatments. Physicist Peter Higuains won the

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Nobel Prize in 2013, for his work on the Higuains bow sun particle. He

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understands better than most the relevance of Maxwell's equations.

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Maxwell was important to modern physics but also to all kinds ofs a

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pecks of modern life. If he has survived into the 20th century he

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would have picked up one of the earliest Nobel Prizes. This

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unassumed Scottish scientist deserves widespread recognition for

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his extraordinary work. What a show it has been. We have

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answered so many questions tonight. So much knowledge. That is it for

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That's it for tonight - thanks to our guest Micky Flanagan.

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His new show, Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud, starts

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on Monday at 9pm on Sky 1, and he's on tour from May.

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Fern Britton will be here with Doctor Who's

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