0:00:05 > 0:00:09Hello! Come on, everybody, take a seat.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Wow!
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Woo!
0:00:14 > 0:00:15BOTH: Hello!
0:00:15 > 0:00:19- BOTH:- Hello!
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Wiggle your fingers and cross your feet.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26Are you ready?
0:00:26 > 0:00:31One, two, three. Watch me.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Four, five, six. I've got some tricks.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Seven, eight, nine, it's almost time.
0:00:41 > 0:00:4310!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46ALL: Magic hands!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Just look at my magic
0:00:49 > 0:00:51# My magic hands
0:00:51 > 0:00:54# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Magic Hands!
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- BOTH:- Hello!
0:01:02 > 0:01:03My name is...
0:01:07 > 0:01:08And my name is...
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Look at what my hands can do!
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Oh...
0:01:18 > 0:01:21It's a very old-looking book.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26It's written by a famous poet called Homer.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31The book is called The Odyssey,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and it's set in ancient Greece.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41It's about a hero called Odysseus.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48In the story, Odysseus is sailing home after a long war,
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and he meets lots of fantastical creatures and monsters,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55including a one-eyed giant
0:01:55 > 0:01:57called the Cyclops.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Let's see how Odysseus tells the story
0:02:03 > 0:02:07of how he and his friends got away.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11It all starts as they are hiding in a cave.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Are you ready?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43We sit, expecting.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Lo, he comes at last!
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Near half a forest
0:02:48 > 0:02:49on his back he bore
0:02:49 > 0:02:52and cast the ponderous burden
0:02:52 > 0:02:53at the door.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56It thundered as it fell.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58We trembled then,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00and sought the deep recesses
0:03:00 > 0:03:01of the den.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05New driven before him,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07through the arching rock
0:03:07 > 0:03:09came tumbling heaps on heaps,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11the un-numbered flock -
0:03:11 > 0:03:12big-uddered ewes
0:03:12 > 0:03:15and goats of female kind.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Then, heaved on high
0:03:18 > 0:03:20a rock's enormous weight
0:03:20 > 0:03:22to the cave's mouth he rolled
0:03:22 > 0:03:24and closed the gate.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35His labour done, he fired the pile
0:03:35 > 0:03:37that gave a sudden blaze
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and lighted all the cave.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42We stand discovered
0:03:42 > 0:03:44by the rising fires.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Askance, the giant glares.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Odysseus and his men are hiding in the cave.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57The Cyclops is big and strong and hungry.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59He gobbles up two of the men!
0:04:01 > 0:04:06Odysseus knows that he and the rest of his men need to escape,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08but how?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Luckily, he has a clever plan.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I then approached him,
0:04:24 > 0:04:26reeking with their gall...
0:04:34 > 0:04:36..and held the brimming goblet
0:04:36 > 0:04:37foaming o'er.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Cyclops now drained this goblet,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45potent to digest.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51He heard, he took,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and pouring down his throat
0:04:54 > 0:04:55delighted,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58swilled the large luxurious draught.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04"More! Give me more!" he cried,
0:05:04 > 0:05:05"the boon be thine
0:05:05 > 0:05:07"whoe'er thou art
0:05:07 > 0:05:09"that bearest celestial wine."
0:05:11 > 0:05:16When the Cyclops has drunk lots of wine, he falls fast asleep.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Odysseus uses one of the logs from the fire to blind him.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23The next morning,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26the blind Cyclops rolls the stone away from the cave's mouth
0:05:26 > 0:05:29to let his sheep and goats out to eat.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33This is the men's chance to escape,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35but how will they get past him?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Strong were the rams,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48with native purple fair,
0:05:48 > 0:05:50well-fed and largest
0:05:50 > 0:05:52of the fleecy care.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54These, three and three,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57with osier bands we tied.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59The midmost bore a man.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00The outward two
0:06:00 > 0:06:02secured each side.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05So bound we all the crew.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25One ram remained,
0:06:25 > 0:06:27the leader of the flock.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28In his deep fleece
0:06:28 > 0:06:31my grasping hands I lock,
0:06:31 > 0:06:32and fast beneath,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34in woolly curls enwove,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37there clings implicit,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and confide in Jove.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55When rosy morning glimmered
0:06:55 > 0:06:56o'er the dales...
0:06:58 > 0:06:59..he drove to pasture
0:06:59 > 0:07:02all the lusty males.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05The ewes, still folded
0:07:05 > 0:07:07with distended thighs...
0:07:11 > 0:07:13..unmilked, lay bleating
0:07:13 > 0:07:14in distressful cries.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24But heedless of those cares,
0:07:24 > 0:07:25with anguish stung,
0:07:25 > 0:07:27he felt their fleeces
0:07:27 > 0:07:30as they passed along...
0:07:35 > 0:07:37..fool that he was,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40and let them safely go,
0:07:40 > 0:07:41all unsuspecting
0:07:41 > 0:07:43of their freight below.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05No sooner freed,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09and through the enclosure passed,
0:08:09 > 0:08:12first I released myself,
0:08:12 > 0:08:14my fellows last.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Fat sheep and goats
0:08:21 > 0:08:23in throngs we drive before...
0:08:26 > 0:08:28..and reach our vessel
0:08:28 > 0:08:30on the winding shore.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43With joy the sailors
0:08:43 > 0:08:45view their friends returned,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47and hail us living
0:08:47 > 0:08:49whom, as dead, they mourned.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Big tears of transport
0:08:54 > 0:08:57stand in every eye.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59I check their fondness,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and command to fly.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- BOTH:- Yay!
0:09:10 > 0:09:13So Odysseus and his friends got away.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14That was close!
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Odysseus could have been eaten alive by the Cyclops,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22but he came up with a good plan,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26and hid all his men under the sheep who were going out of the cave.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Phew!
0:09:30 > 0:09:33But the Cyclops doesn't really exist,
0:09:33 > 0:09:35so we're all safe!
0:09:35 > 0:09:36- BOTH:- Bye!
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- ALL:- Magic Hands!
0:09:40 > 0:09:43# Just look at my magic
0:09:43 > 0:09:45# My magic hands
0:09:45 > 0:09:49# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Magic Hands!