:00:08. > :00:12.She's just coming round the corner, tonight's guest is almost here. I
:00:13. > :00:17.hope she maibgdz it to the studio. Why? She's offended some people
:00:17. > :00:25.that you don't want to get on the wrong side of. Who, gangsters?
:00:25. > :00:35.Worse than that. Hoodies? Worse than that. Who then? Sci-fi fans.
:00:35. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:52.What have I done? Welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker...
:00:52. > :00:56.Alex Jones. You might think today's guest is the happiest person on
:00:56. > :01:00.television. Tonight we'll show you her dark side. It is of course,
:01:00. > :01:04.Fern Britton! APPLAUSE
:01:04. > :01:06.Due make it safely to the studio. Thank goodness. It was very fun
:01:06. > :01:12.tkwroi drive up and they're all standing there.
:01:12. > :01:16.When, why and how have you been offending sci-fi fans. Room 101 is
:01:16. > :01:21.back and so, you have to make a choice. One of my choices was sci-
:01:21. > :01:26.fi. And here is a clip. I mean that is the point. Look it's a bit of
:01:26. > :01:31.rubber. Somebody's cut it out of washing up liquid bottle. It's
:01:31. > :01:37.rubbish. They've been outside for rather a long time. Shall we get
:01:37. > :01:43.them in for a cuppa, is it safe? Are they friendly? Come on in
:01:43. > :01:48.everybody. Pointy ears and... Oh, my word! Actually that's a real man.
:01:48. > :01:57.That's Keith, that's who that is. Princess Leia is obviously real.
:01:57. > :02:02.Hello. All of the others are men dressed up. Pathetic. We'll see
:02:02. > :02:05.more Room 101 later on. This is your chance to say what you want to
:02:05. > :02:09.go into Room 101, the place where people put the things they can't
:02:09. > :02:14.stand. Tell us what riles you and why and if you have a picture even
:02:14. > :02:18.better. Hany young people might be tempted to put school in room 101
:02:18. > :02:22.but not these pupils from County Antrim. They don't just love their
:02:22. > :02:25.school, they've made a right song and dance about it.
:02:25. > :02:34.I'm really worried about my first day at school. Don't worry, you'll
:02:34. > :02:37.be fine. This is Friends' School Lisburn. On
:02:37. > :02:45.the surface it's like every other school in the UK. A couple of weeks
:02:45. > :02:50.ago it was tapbs formed into this: -- transformed.
:02:50. > :02:56.MUSIC: These from Friends. # So no-one told you life was gonna
:02:56. > :03:02.be this way # Your job's a joke, you're broke,
:03:02. > :03:05.your love life's DOA... # Believe it or not that song and
:03:05. > :03:08.dance act involved nearly a thousand pupils and took just a
:03:08. > :03:15.couple of hours to film. It was posted online last Friday and
:03:15. > :03:22.already it's had hundreds of thousands of views.
:03:22. > :03:28.# You make my dreams come true... # The guys behind the film are PE
:03:28. > :03:32.teacher Stephen Robinson and former pupil Matthew qun good. Who gave
:03:32. > :03:37.himself the title director of photography. How did the film come
:03:37. > :03:40.about? We've done a couple of PR videos for schools for prospective
:03:40. > :03:44.pupils coming to look round. This year we decided to do something
:03:44. > :03:53.slightly different. I got myself on YouTube and found some energetic
:03:53. > :03:58.videos in Canada. I thought we Matthew, you were director of
:03:58. > :04:02.photography. First of all, talk us through what this is here, how due
:04:02. > :04:07.make it? Because this was a zero budget production, we had to work
:04:07. > :04:13.with what we had. So I had this tripod. Basically I added a few
:04:13. > :04:18.weights onto it from the PE department. This plank of wood to
:04:18. > :04:25.keep it secure. It made the camera movement a lot steadier. This is a
:04:25. > :04:30.home-made steady cam. Steadier cam. How proud are you of the film?
:04:30. > :04:33.proud in terms of the amount of time we spent on it. The phrase we
:04:33. > :04:38.used was for the pupils to find their happy place. We think a lot
:04:38. > :04:42.of them took that and went a wee bit overboard. But the feeling you
:04:43. > :04:49.get watching it back is unbelievable. It's just brilliant.
:04:49. > :04:55.# I've got a feeling... # The video is part of an internet
:04:55. > :05:00.denom none called LipDub. It started in Germany. But it's spread
:05:00. > :05:07.around the world. This one has attracted over nine million views
:05:07. > :05:11.online. As far as this LipDub, for some of the school's star turns the
:05:11. > :05:15.feeling was unforgettable. How was it? Amazing. It's gone viral, why
:05:15. > :05:19.do you think it's been so popular? Just everyone joined in together,
:05:19. > :05:23.like, they all just had such a great time and enjoyed every minute
:05:23. > :05:27.of it really. Everyone got involved, even the teachers too. You saw some
:05:27. > :05:33.of them dancing too. Our school is a big, happy family. We're all
:05:33. > :05:37.friends and we can have friends whenever. Forget any LipDub videos
:05:37. > :05:47.you may have seen online. While we're in the hot bed of talent,
:05:47. > :05:55.there's really only one thing left to do, Matt, Alex, this is for you.
:05:55. > :06:00.MUSIC: Theme to The One Show That was brilliant. If you want to
:06:00. > :06:05.see the full video, we will put a link on our website. A little bird
:06:05. > :06:09.tells us were a performer at school. Well, not, yes, well, I was never
:06:09. > :06:13.allowed to be in the school play, you see. My father is an actor. Soy
:06:13. > :06:18.think they thought I was going to be a show off. I was never invited
:06:18. > :06:22.to dot big stuff ever. I'd be on the, you know the cool kids are on
:06:22. > :06:27.the back seat of the coach, obviously me w, my mates. We were
:06:27. > :06:32.busy writing stechs all the time. I'd write what I thought were
:06:32. > :06:36.hilarious and do femme for sixth form entertainment. Did they go
:06:36. > :06:43.down well? They did. My funky gibbon is still remembered fondly
:06:43. > :06:49.and then I won a prize playing the jublg in wind in the willed yoz.
:06:49. > :06:54.Wind in the Willows. A prize? Like a school Oscar? Yes, all right, it
:06:54. > :06:59.wasn't even a cup! You are one of the guests on the new series of
:06:59. > :07:06.Room 101. Sci-fi, you're not keen on that at all. Let's see you
:07:06. > :07:11.putting the case forward. A, it's not real. That's why the word
:07:11. > :07:15."fiction" is in it. APPLAUSE
:07:15. > :07:20.I agree, but tell that to these people who think that it is real
:07:20. > :07:25.and treat it as some kind of religion. And why is it always set
:07:25. > :07:31.in the future. Of course that's all made up. I'd like to see some sci-
:07:31. > :07:37.fi from history. Or present day. Past or present would be more
:07:37. > :07:43.interesting. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. You didn't
:07:43. > :07:47.have must support there, did you? No, three men, you see, Danny baker,
:07:47. > :07:53.Robert Webb and Frank Skinner. I bet you like it, don't you? I never
:07:53. > :08:01.got to grip was it. My wife is a massive fan. Is she? I'm with you,
:08:01. > :08:09.I'm not keen. You feel the same way? Yes, I have to admit.
:08:09. > :08:12.better watch what we're saying. are obviously real! And Mr Ant man
:08:12. > :08:19.is continually in character. It's the neck movement. I like the
:08:19. > :08:24.collar with the studs. Gorgeous. sci-fi it wasn't successful. One
:08:24. > :08:28.thing that made it into Room 101 was home work. We will go back to
:08:28. > :08:33.our friends in County Antrim to hear their thoughts on home work.
:08:33. > :08:38.Sometimes it's just you don't have much time to do it. It's annoying
:08:38. > :08:44.when you go home because you want to sit down but you have to do work.
:08:44. > :08:49.If you have, like, an organisation or club on and you don't get time
:08:49. > :08:55.to do your home work. Then you go in the next day and get shouted at.
:08:55. > :09:01.That's a fair point actually. But it's important to knuckle down
:09:01. > :09:05.Fern, what do you think? appreciate that. There's such a lot
:09:05. > :09:10.of it. I have four children of school age and they're very
:09:10. > :09:14.dedicated and they do it. My boys are doing A-levels now. They will
:09:14. > :09:17.be sitting up till 2am working on essays and revision and things.
:09:17. > :09:22.They don't get a chance to come home and eat biscuits and watch
:09:22. > :09:27.telly, which I think they should do more of. Now to viewer suggestions.
:09:27. > :09:30.We've had a view in already. Here we are. This is from Emily Harris.
:09:30. > :09:36.She says "Ignorant people who don't realise other people in the world
:09:36. > :09:43.are there when you're pushing a trolley round a supermarket. Those
:09:43. > :09:46.ignorant people should go into Room 101." Nabil says that pigeons who
:09:46. > :09:55.relieve themselves on carbon etc and monuments should be put into
:09:56. > :10:00.Room 101. But it's their career? That is a pigeons' career. Mike
:10:00. > :10:05.Dilger is coming on he might have advice on that. Keep sending them
:10:05. > :10:09.in and we'll see what Fern thinks later. Tuneless whistling,
:10:09. > :10:16.builders... Man I... Yeah, repetitive with the same tune over
:10:16. > :10:19.and over again. More for you later on. As we know, holidays can be
:10:19. > :10:23.expensive, with the right travel insurance you'd expect to get your
:10:23. > :10:30.money back if you had to cancel. For one couple that wasn't the case.
:10:30. > :10:36.Lucy Siegle found out why. New England America in the fall,
:10:36. > :10:39.the Autumnal yellows and reds make this a popular holiday destination.
:10:39. > :10:43.Peter and Jackie from Stafford booked a trip last Autumn, but less
:10:43. > :10:46.than two weeks before they were due to fly, Jackie was diagnosed with
:10:46. > :10:50.breast cancer. They cancelled and their holiday insurance covered
:10:50. > :10:56.most of the cost of the trip, but they were left with a �620 short
:10:56. > :11:00.fall. Not only did I have to deal with the emotion of having cancer,
:11:00. > :11:06.I knew immediately I'd have to cancel the holiday, which obviously,
:11:06. > :11:11.your health comes first. But I never thought that we wouldn't get
:11:11. > :11:19.our money back. The couple paid �3,699 for the cost of their
:11:19. > :11:24.holiday. Off this, �620 was for taxes and surcharges. These are the
:11:24. > :11:28.charge as plied to the cost of the flight. Most of us take no notice.
:11:28. > :11:31.But we should. Most insurance companies won't cover this part of
:11:32. > :11:36.the cost. Why? Because they say it's the responsibility of the
:11:36. > :11:41.airline or the holiday company. What are these taxes and
:11:41. > :11:45.surcharges? Well, there's the compulsory Government tax known as
:11:45. > :11:50.Air Passenger Duty or OPD, which can cost anywhere between �12 for
:11:50. > :11:53.short haul economy to �170 for long haul business class. But in
:11:54. > :11:57.addition, airline often tack on their own fees such as fuel and
:11:57. > :12:00.security charges. We looked at Britain's five most popular
:12:00. > :12:04.airlines and found that each company has very different policies
:12:04. > :12:08.on which extra charges they make and how open they are about them.
:12:08. > :12:12.Of the five airlines we looked at two will only refund the Government
:12:12. > :12:16.air pang duty. The other three will refund some or all fees and
:12:16. > :12:21.surcharges. The airlines know who you are, whether you've turned up
:12:21. > :12:26.for your flight, what your credit card number is and so on. They
:12:26. > :12:31.could make it easy, just automatically to refund Air
:12:31. > :12:35.Passenger Duty if you don't travel. But it isn't automatic. All five
:12:35. > :12:40.companies have a procedure for OPD refunds. If you want the money back
:12:40. > :12:43.you have to initiate a claim. There's a catch, just when you
:12:43. > :12:48.thought there couldn't be any further charges... Four of the
:12:48. > :12:53.airlines demand an admin fee for refunding the money. Depending on
:12:53. > :12:56.the carrier that could be up to �30 per personment Peter and Jackie
:12:56. > :12:59.booked with Thomas Cook and despite four months of trying to reclaim
:13:00. > :13:03.their money, they were still out of pocket. Thomas Cook are responsible
:13:03. > :13:08.for chasing the refund in this case. They've now told us British Airways,
:13:08. > :13:14.who they would have flown with, will refund �278 to the couple.
:13:14. > :13:19.That's less than half of the �620 they were claiming. The rest of the
:13:19. > :13:24.money? You guessed it, a surcharge. This time BA's �310 fuel surcharge.
:13:24. > :13:29.They will only refund that on an unused fully flexible ticket, which
:13:29. > :13:36.is more expensive. So Peter and Jackie have paid �310 towards fuel
:13:36. > :13:42.for a flight they never took. We've spoke ton Thomas Cook and they've
:13:42. > :13:49.said they will refund you �278, how do you feel about that? Where's the
:13:49. > :13:54.rest of it? We've been told the �210 is a fuel surcharge and that
:13:54. > :13:59.is chargable by British Airways. Right... Does that make sense to
:13:59. > :14:02.you? No. If it's a fuel surcharge and my bum wasn't on the seat, I
:14:02. > :14:09.didn't take up any space, they didn't carry me anywhere, where is
:14:09. > :14:13.my money? Why am I paying the fuel? Why am I paying it, if I haven't
:14:14. > :14:17.used it. What have BA said? They said it is clearly stated in their
:14:17. > :14:21.terms and conditions. They point out that they're currently paying
:14:21. > :14:26.record fuel prices, which they try to absorb, but some costs are
:14:26. > :14:31.passed onto customers. Thomas Cook have apologised to Peter and Jackie
:14:31. > :14:36.in the delay of getting their partial refund. Flybe and BMI have
:14:36. > :14:43.a fuel surcharge which they refund. EasyJet and Ryanair don't charge at
:14:43. > :14:48.all. What about APD being automatically refunded. BMI says if
:14:48. > :14:51.you cancel online within 24 hours of purchase on a fully refundable
:14:51. > :14:55.ticket, it is automatic. With the others there's nothing on that
:14:55. > :15:01.point yet. If we do hear we'll put it on the website. You did lose
:15:01. > :15:06.quite a few belongings on the way to Cuba, was it? Yes, we went to
:15:06. > :15:09.Cuba on one of these charities bike rides that I do. We arrived in
:15:09. > :15:16.Havana Airport and as we got through Passport Control, there
:15:16. > :15:21.were three vae tractive ladies with that kind of Bennie Hill naughty
:15:21. > :15:27.nurse outfits on, short skirts, white stockings and hats and things.
:15:27. > :15:31.They beckoned to me. I thought, I'll be helpful, yes, uh-huh. They
:15:31. > :15:36.pointed to my inflatible pillow that you sleep in. I said oh, yes,
:15:36. > :15:39.I gave it to one of them, who took it, walked off, open aid door and
:15:40. > :15:43.dais peered in a room and closed the door. Then the other two, I
:15:43. > :15:49.went oh, and the other two picked up the desk and walked off. They
:15:49. > :15:54.were just, it was a brilliant scam. Wow. It was so brilliant you had to
:15:54. > :15:58.go fabulous, well done. Isn't that great? That's very cheeky. They
:15:58. > :16:02.were doing it all over the place. They didn't need the nurse's
:16:02. > :16:05.costume for that. It attracted people's attention. Any way, if you
:16:05. > :16:09.head to the right place at the right time in the British Isles,
:16:09. > :16:13.you will find spectacular wildlife displays. No nurses. But you can
:16:13. > :16:19.stay where you are now because we sent Mike Dilger to do the hard
:16:19. > :16:22.work for you. Every year the East Anglian coast
:16:22. > :16:32.becomes a winter wonderland for wading birds in their hundreds of
:16:32. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:39.thousands. Put simply, mud matters for waders. That might look like a
:16:39. > :16:44.bleak, desolate estuary, but it's absolutely jam packed full of food,
:16:44. > :16:49.so much so that birds come from as far afield as Canada and Arctic
:16:49. > :16:56.Russia to spend the winter right here on the wash. On average
:16:56. > :17:01.300,000 wading birds overwinter here mai,ing -- making it a great
:17:01. > :17:09.place to witness this amazing sight and keep a check on numbers. Doing
:17:09. > :17:19.just that is the wash wader group with an early start and a Big Bang.
:17:19. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:24.Three, two, one... Fire. Go, go, go. They use a technique called canon
:17:24. > :17:31.netting, which fires a net over the top of the birds roosting on the
:17:31. > :17:35.beach. That way the group and their team leader, Sarah, can handle the
:17:35. > :17:37.waders for checking and ringing. Putting rings on we can understand
:17:37. > :17:41.their movements and understand how long they're living. If that
:17:41. > :17:44.changes over time, that helps us understand if there's a problem on
:17:44. > :17:49.the wash, particularly is there anything with can do from a
:17:49. > :17:53.conservation point of view. group have been studying these
:17:53. > :17:57.waders for more than 50 years. Today's results are particularly
:17:57. > :18:01.pleasing. We've caught grey plover, a speciality bird for the wash.
:18:01. > :18:05.This has already got a ring on it. Brilliant to get this. We can get
:18:05. > :18:13.good data back from this bird. I know this bird is one that we
:18:13. > :18:18.ringed on this beach here in 1991. So it's 20-odd years ago. It was
:18:18. > :18:22.ringed as an adult. It will be at least 22 years old. People will be
:18:23. > :18:30.astonished to find out it is at least 22 years of age. Older than
:18:30. > :18:35.me! Many waders have long sensitive bills and use their sense of touch
:18:35. > :18:42.to find food in the mud. Plovers have larger eyes giving them great
:18:42. > :18:49.eye sight to hunt day or night, when the tide is low. This is much
:18:49. > :18:54.more, longer than the grey plover. These do what we call stitch
:18:54. > :19:00.feeding. It's like the needle of a sewing machine into the mud trying
:19:01. > :19:07.to find food. This bird will have come from Norway or Siberia. In the
:19:07. > :19:17.winter, there are many species of wader that make the Wash their home.
:19:17. > :19:19.
:19:19. > :19:24.Look at that! Fabulous. Just up the road at the RSPB reserve, one wader
:19:24. > :19:28.creates one of the most amazing displays in the British bird world.
:19:28. > :19:32.Watching wildlife often means waiting around for hours on end
:19:32. > :19:42.with not a lot happening. Every now and again, with inside knowledge
:19:42. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:51.and a bit of luck, you get to see These waders are called nox.
:19:51. > :20:00.Thousands migrate here to feed on the mud and roost in the gravel pit.
:20:00. > :20:06.If you manage to time it just right, you can see this amazing spectacle.
:20:06. > :20:12.As the water rises, the expanse of mud begins to diminish. This pushes
:20:12. > :20:15.all the birds together. They end up being packed like sardines. As the
:20:15. > :20:25.water continues to rise they don't like to get their feet wet. This
:20:25. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:33.causes them to rise as one, a massive ball of birds. The swirl
:20:33. > :20:37.searching for a new area of mud that the tide hasn't reached or for
:20:37. > :20:43.predators. Stay long enough and you'll see them rise again and
:20:43. > :20:50.again in perfect harmony. Mike, is a ball of birds a correct
:20:50. > :20:55.term? I don't necessarily know! I think it's possibly a flock. I got
:20:55. > :21:01.carried away. It was lovely. That's what it was. Phenomenal sights.
:21:01. > :21:06.Starlings and knot are the finest swirlers out there, I don't think
:21:06. > :21:12.that's a term otherwise. You have gone to all sorts of lengths to tag
:21:12. > :21:16.these birds. This is abseiling or rock climbing? I went abseiling in
:21:16. > :21:20.Anglesey. I did rock climbing as well, all in favour of trying to
:21:20. > :21:24.save these wonderful Welsh birds. So there's no lengths to which I
:21:24. > :21:29.won't go. Of course. Interesting to see that plover at 22 in that film,
:21:29. > :21:35.for some species of birds that's not unusual. It depends on the type
:21:35. > :21:41.of bird. Blue tits and great tits a of years. Sea birds are incredibly
:21:41. > :21:47.long lived. The oldest known British bird is a Manx Shearwater,
:21:47. > :21:52.aged 59 years, 49 years 11 months and five days. It was rung as an
:21:52. > :21:56.adult, making it 53 or 54. That's not the oldest. This is an
:21:56. > :22:01.albatross. This is the world record. It was respotted last year aged 60
:22:01. > :22:06.years of age in the middle of the Pacific. He look goods on it as
:22:06. > :22:09.well. They just don't age. It's so annoying. Tagging can be a
:22:09. > :22:15.wonderful insight into their world. It's much more than finding out
:22:15. > :22:18.just about the age. The thing is people were catching birds all over
:22:19. > :22:22.the world, how do we Noah goes on with the birds not arrange our
:22:22. > :22:26.shores. That's how we've found out about the wonders of migration. The
:22:26. > :22:30.birds go to west Africa, down to South Africa. We wouldn't know that
:22:30. > :22:34.if people were catching the birds and saying, that's a British ring.
:22:35. > :22:38.When they find where they are, they can conserve those areas. It's all
:22:38. > :22:42.about protection. When Fern heard you were in today, she prepared
:22:42. > :22:47.some questions. We only have time for one. I was in Cornwall over
:22:47. > :22:52.Christmas, outside my bedroom window at 1am, Phil and I were
:22:52. > :22:57.woken by a bird singing its heart ou. I said it's got to be a
:22:57. > :23:02.nightingale, but it wasn't was it? Did it sound like this? Yes.
:23:02. > :23:07.think it probably was. Actually, it's such a sweet song. Was it
:23:07. > :23:11.singing near a street light? Yes, there say street light.
:23:11. > :23:16.interesting thing is robins are the only bird who sing all year.
:23:16. > :23:21.Because it was next to a street light it was confused thinking it
:23:21. > :23:26.was early dawn. A Robin sing that's well. How long do they live? Two,
:23:26. > :23:31.three. How Martins, swallows? little longer. Must have been a
:23:31. > :23:34.partridge in a pear tree. The name name of Greek and Romans gods are
:23:34. > :23:38.well known. If you've been watching stargazing live you'd have a good
:23:38. > :23:43.view of the planets named after them. What about the ancient gods
:23:43. > :23:51.that were once worshipped here? We discovered how they left their
:23:51. > :23:58.legacy in the names of the days of the week.
:23:58. > :24:04.Wednesday is the corruption of wardensdai, named after an Anglo-
:24:04. > :24:10.Saxon God Woden. You may not have heard of him. But 1600 years ago it
:24:10. > :24:15.was big news. Turn back the clock to 410AD and
:24:15. > :24:19.the Romans have just retreated from Britain as their empire collapses.
:24:20. > :24:24.The Anglo-saxons have arrived from stkwrerm any and taken over much of
:24:24. > :24:33.the south of the country -- Germany. This huge ditch earth work was
:24:33. > :24:36.built to separate two rival territories. This stretches for 35
:24:36. > :24:45.miles across the English countryside, this great earth work
:24:45. > :24:52.here. It's huge. The Anglo-saxons called it Wodend yke, in honour of
:24:52. > :25:02.one of the most important gods. We call it Wands Dyke. Woden was so
:25:02. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:08.important they named lots of things after him. Wednesbury, wham brook,
:25:09. > :25:14.Woodbridge. Why did the middle day of the week get this honour? The
:25:14. > :25:23.Romans called this day after their God Mercury, who was a God of trade
:25:23. > :25:33.and a messenger. This name stuck over much of Europe. In France for
:25:33. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:41.example -- in Spain it's miercol es. They were both known for cunning
:25:41. > :25:48.and trickery so they just swaped the names.
:25:48. > :25:54.This expert in Paganism and folklore, what sort of a God was
:25:54. > :25:59.Woden? God of poetry, wisdom, magic, war, all the skill that's human
:25:59. > :26:04.beings can deploy for good or evil. If you are a warrior, a king,
:26:04. > :26:09.somebody with an art or craft to offer, Woden is your man or your
:26:09. > :26:13.deity. That makes sense of why Woden would be who you'd want to
:26:14. > :26:20.name something like this after, a great big defensive ditch.
:26:20. > :26:24.Certainly is. Not just defensive, it's I beganic -- gigantic. What
:26:24. > :26:29.did the Anglo-Saxons think he looked like? The northern peoples
:26:29. > :26:33.thought he was like an old man w, a long beard, a grey cloak, a blue
:26:33. > :26:40.hood and a slouched hat that covered one eye and concealed the
:26:40. > :26:46.fact that he'd lost it gaining wisdom. Woden, a one-eyed God, a
:26:46. > :26:49.traveller and tricksters -- trickster. The Anglo-Saxon gods
:26:49. > :26:53.were largely abandoned as Christianity spread across Europe,
:26:53. > :26:59.but that's not quite the end of Woden. Let me read you something
:27:00. > :27:04.out a book that I think you'll be familiar with. "He wore a tall,
:27:04. > :27:07.pointed, blue hat, a long, grey cloak and a silver scarf. He had a
:27:08. > :27:17.long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of
:27:18. > :27:19.
:27:19. > :27:25.his hat. "That was JRRTolkein's description of Gand ulph in Lord of
:27:25. > :27:30.the Rings. Tolkein wof the ideas and myths ever those people into
:27:30. > :27:40.his own work. Quite amazing really, isn't it, stories, place names,
:27:40. > :27:44.earth works, wherever you look there are echos of Woden.
:27:44. > :27:49.Wow, she's great. I love her! I want one of those hats immediately.
:27:49. > :27:56.I thought you were going to say I want one of them, as in her. Oh, no,
:27:56. > :28:02.yeah I wo. You've been sending in your pet hates. We have loads.
:28:02. > :28:11.Sticky labels. Jedward, fog lights, fleecey jumpers, the EU, high fives
:28:11. > :28:16.and litter bugs. And some here, mushrooms, jint essential, as a
:28:16. > :28:24.word. And James says metal coat hangars. Itchy labels in your vest.
:28:24. > :28:30.Oh! Adam grundy wants to put The One Show in Room 101 because he's
:28:30. > :28:34.being forced to watch it because his mum loves it. Mine would be
:28:34. > :28:38.signs from service stations. Mine would be tinned fruit. That's it,
:28:38. > :28:41.thank you for joining us this evening. It's been a pleasure.