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good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
good evening, good evening and welcome to QI, the show that tickles | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
the armpit of tedium with the feather duster of interestingness. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
Tonight, we're taking a lingering look at love. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
My guests are the lovely Josh Widdicombe... | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
..that love machine, Tony Hawks... | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
..the best beloved, Aisling Bea... | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
..and a complete luvvy, Alan Davies. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
So, let's hear their love calls. Josh goes... | 0:01:11 | 0:01:16 | |
-Oh, is that my buzzer? -Yes. -Oh, I thought... | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
You can give another love call if you want. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
I thought I was going to have to get my phone out. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
What am I wearing? Erm... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
Oh! Aisling goes... | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
-Ah. Frank Sinatra. -Yeah, bit negative. -Tony goes... | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
Oh, yes. And Alan goes... | 0:01:44 | 0:01:45 | |
I LIKE IT PLAYS | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Wonderful. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
# I like the way you run your fingers through my hair... # | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
It wouldn't be possible to run one's fingers through your hair, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
without there being some awful rending noise. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
-Yeah, an alarm goes off. -Yes. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
I ought to tell you, though, because it's the L series, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
there is the likelihood of one question being lavatorial. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
And if it is, you can spend a penny. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
TOILET FLUSHES | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
Very good. And if you correctly spend your penny, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
when I ask the question, you get extra points. It's that simple. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Right, to get you in the mood, here are some foods for you to try. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
-You should have some on your little prop tables. -Ooh. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
You've got chocolates there, Josh. You've got a potato, Alan. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
-Hot damn. -What have you got, Tony? -Well, I don't... | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
-Oh, champagne. -It looks like champagne. It could be anything. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Probably cava, knowing our budget. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
You could have had a wee in here, all of you, for all I know. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
You wouldn't want it to fizz, though, would you? | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
No, you wouldn't, mate. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
You put your finger on top to stop it overflowing. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
That's what I always do on the loo. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
-Yes, it is. -It is? I hope it's fresh. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
-I think it's fresh if you want to eat it. -I hope it's fresh, as well. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
-You could drop it in the champagne. It's delicious. -I love... | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
-Am I allowed? -I'm allergic to champagne, literally. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
-Are you? -Yeah. I can't drink it. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:00 | |
Oh, darling, it must be simply terrible for you. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
It's not, actually. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:04 | |
Christopher Hitchens rather wonderfully said | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
the four most overrated things in the world are lobster, champagne, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
anal sex and picnics. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
But we don't like champagne. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
What a night that would be. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
Come on, they're all daytime ones. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
Anyway, so, by all means, eat yours. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:27 | |
But what do you think they have to do with our theme? | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
-Chocolate... -They're sexy foods. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
-Yes. -They're aphrodisiacs. -Aphrodisiacs. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
They're considered to be aphrodisiacs. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
Oysters have long been considered it. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
-Potato? -Yes, Alan, a thousand times yes. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
You can go on a date, of course, with two potatoes and a carrot, | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
and lay them out on the desk or the table in a very erotic way, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
and tantalise people. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
That's true. Two potatoes and a carrot. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
Are you single, Tony, or are you...? | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
At what point in the date do you pull out the potatoes? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
-Where's the desk? -Well, the desk, I admit that the desk on the date, | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
the date's going badly wrong. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
Well, do have a piece of chocolate. Do sip your champagne. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
-And do, by all means, have your oyster. -I mean, I do love oysters, | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
but one time I did get poisoning on Valentine's Day... | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
-On Valentine's Day, as well? -Oh! | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
-Oh, no, are you eating your potato raw? -Is that allowed? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
Oh, oh. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
OK, here she goes, here she goes, oyster down. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
-It's bigger than I'm used to. -Hey. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
-How is it? -Very nice. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
I'm definitely going to tape this episode, I can tell you that. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
-Try your chocolate. -Oh, they're very nice. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
-It might have rose petals or violets. -Are you all right, Alan? | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
I feel horny. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
Look out, Josh! | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
It's worked. Bloody hell, two bites! | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
Well, the reason that potatoes were considered to be aphrodisiac, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
at one point in history, this may be something Aisling knows, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
is that when they were introduced to Ireland as a major crop, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
the population of Ireland increased a huge amount, but it was simply | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
because there was less starvation than there had been before. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Though, as we know, there was then the terrible potato blight, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
and the population reduced. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:21 | |
-Oh, you had to bring it up. -I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
It was a bad moment in Irish history, a bad moment. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
It's fine, it's fine. I'm nearly over it. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
There's still more guilt to be got out of it from us. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
Carbs are the last thing you'd want before sex, aren't they? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
-Make you feel heavy, you would think. -Yeah. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
It depends how long you want to go on for, Josh. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
Do you have slow release? Porridge. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
-Slow release! Oh, dear. -About an hour and a half. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
Oh, I didn't mean it like that, Stephen! | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
Oh! I'm going to have a chocolate and stop lowering the tone, I think. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
The fact is, if you go online, not that this is the most authoritative | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
way of finding out, but almost any food that you put next to the word | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
aphrodisiac in a search field, will return a result of some kind. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
There seems to be no food in history | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
that hasn't been regarded at some time as aphrodisiac. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
There's a wonderful book | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
called Venus In The Kitchen by Norman Douglas, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
which includes such things almond soup | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
and sow's vulva and trussed crane - | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
all kinds of extraordinary dishes, most of which are classical. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
Can we go back to the second one? | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
-Sow's vulva. -Sow's vulva? | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
It begins with the wonderful words, "Take that part of the pig." | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
Which you ask your butcher, I assume, to cut. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
Imagine going into the butcher, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
"Hiya, can I get a pound of mince | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
and some sow's vulva. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
"Big night, I think he's going to propose." | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
"I'm sorry, it usually comes in on a Thursday, I'm fresh out." | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
If you're making someone eat that, | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
they don't want to have sex with you. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
Well, I agree, it's pretty much enforced, isn't it? | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
Any other vulvas? | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
-Very good point. -Just the sow's vulva that's a good... | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
-It seems to be, yeah. -Do any other animals have a vulva? | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
-Well, all mammals, I would hope. -Do they? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
Well, not all mammals, not egg-laying mammals. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
-But just about any other kind. -Do they? | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
I don't really know what a vulva is, to be honest. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
-It's a Swedish car, Stephen. -Oh, it's Swedish car! | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
It's a Swedish car that's due for a cervix. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
-But it's all nonsense, isn't it? -No, they exist. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
-You mean, aphrodisiacs? -Aphrodisiacs, I think... | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
-it's all a myth, isn't it? It's all nonsense. -It seems to be. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
I don't think there's any way of proving. It's so hard to prove. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
If I understand correctly, it's about the brain, sex. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
Yeah, yeah. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
The limbic lobe in the brain sends a message to your pelvic area. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:49 | |
-Yeah. -Sometimes by carrier pigeon. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
-And these foods, they don't affect that part of the brain. -No. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
You're quite the sexy talker, though, aren't you? | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
Is this your opening line before you take out the potatoes and carrot? | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
I'm not giving any trade secrets away here tonight. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
So you say, "Daphne, my limbic system is sending me messages." | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Yeah, I think most people would agree that a lack of inhibition | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
hurries one toward the bedroom, | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
and alcohol, naturally, is something that would... | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
But it doesn't enhance the performance. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
Shakespeare makes that very point through the porter in Macbeth. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
Does he? I don't care. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
-It increases the desire, but it mars the performance. -Yes. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
The fact is, there is no proof that, as Tony rightly said, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
that, except possibly the alcohol as a disinhibitor... | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
Galen, the Roman doctor, thought that any food that produced | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
flatulence was in some way an aphrodisiac. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
This was believed until the 18th century, | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
when they thought the opposite. In Elizabethan times, stewed prunes | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
were so highly regarded as aphrodisiacs, | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
they were served for free in brothels. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
You'd get them to get you up there. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
-And beans... -What, like outside? | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Like outside Starbucks? On a taster plate? | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
That's right. Have your prunes. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
St Jerome forbade beans, | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
because he thought that they would make nuns or women extremely horny. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
-Nuns or women? -They excited the... | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
Who knows what's under there? | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
They excited the genitals of women, he thought. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
Frog juice, putting a frog in a blender, is... | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
..considered a Peruvian aphrodisiac. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
-Do they have blenders? Not now. -They do now. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
I assume, when they first thought of it, they didn't have blenders. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
The Incans were very, very advanced, though. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
-They probably used... -A pestle and mortar. -Yeah. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Do any of the active ingredients in Viagra occur naturally? | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
-Good point. I like that. -Whoa, cool. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
That would be interesting to know. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:43 | |
Why? Are you worried about what that potato's done to you? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
No, I'm fine. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:49 | |
How long does it last? | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Well, there you are. Almost everything in the history of food | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
has been reputed to be an aphrodisiac, even potatoes. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
What wouldn't you like to get on Valentine's Day? | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Chlamydia. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
A perfectly reasonable response. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
Is that what of VD stands for? Valentine's Day? | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
Never occurred to me, that's brilliant, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
This is probably... A few people have had this... | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
which is the most tragic thing you can get on Valentine's day | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
is the card from your mum. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
-Oh, yes. -Or from my nan, in my case. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
-Both! One from my mum, one from my nan. -That's sweet, though. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
But it's better... | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
than a one-way ticket to New Zealand. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
-That would be... -That would be a hint too far. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
I once got on a... I'd just split up with my girlfriend | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
and it was my birthday and my family don't really do birthdays much, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
but her family did, so I received one birthday card, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
which was from my ex-girlfriend's mum. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
-Oh, my goodness. -Oh, Josh. -And I've just realised how bleak that is. | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
Thought that was an amusing anecdote, | 0:11:00 | 0:11:01 | |
turns out it's actually the bleakest moment of my life. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
We're all very sorry for you. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:06 | |
Can anyone tell me why on the Valentine's Day cards | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
you're not supposed to admit that you've sent it? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
Cos that's the most pointless thing, isn't it? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
You send... You get a card from someone, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
you want to know who it is, | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
so you can go round and sort them out, don't you? | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
-"Sort them out?" -JOSH: Who are you? Ray Winstone? | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
-"Sort them out." -..to your office. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:26 | |
-Take them to your office... -Show them... -Show them the desk. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
-Get your carrot out. -Get the carrot and potatoes. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
Go via the greengrocer to pick up your vegetables. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
We've had a window into your life, Tony, that's weird. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
The really high watermark of Valentine card sending | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
was a 50-year period from 1840 to 1890, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
when Victorians sent each other Valentine's cards | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
on Valentine's Day, but they didn't just send love letters. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
They sent, what you might almost call hate mail, | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
but they were known as vinegar valentines. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
And there's... I don't know what... | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
Basically saying, "You are bald and smelly. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
"You're not very good at DIY." | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
-JOSH: -You shouldn't have cut through that wire. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
Not surprisingly, they're quite rare, | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
because people who received them tended to throw them away, | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
so people who collect cards value them very highly. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
What did they expect to sort of get back? | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
They think, "This is really going to help the situation." | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
I'm afraid, it's the same human instinct that is about trolling - | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
accused of being drunk, ugly, overweight, stuck up, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
all the things that trollers accuse people of. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
Also, they accuse grocers of cheating their customers | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
and things like that. And very often they didn't put stamps on, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
so that the recipient had to pay the stamp. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
"Oh, what a lovely Valentine's card," | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
and then they open it and it's a huge insult. I mean, it's very mean. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
But we do have, I'm glad to say, this is not really a vinegar, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
but it's a rather charming one, this is one with a moustache. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
-This is in York Museum. -Not any more, it isn't. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
Well, yeah, good point. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
It's from York Castle Museum and it's got a moustache and it says, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
"With heartiest greetings | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
"and best hopes that she'll soon get another..." | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
that's a moustache, "..with a man attached." | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Bit of a joker, this guy. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
Yeah, I mean, cos sending locks of hair through the post | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
is a sign of love. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:22 | |
It's a very old thing, but to send a moustache is quite something, | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
isn't it? And the little joke of... | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
You probably know who it was who sent it, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
because he'd be going around with no moustache on. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
"That wasn't me." | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
If you kidnapped a man with a moustache... | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
-Yes? -You know, then you'd send the moustache to show that you've got... | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
That's true! It's kinder than sending an ear. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
"Recognise this moustache?" | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
Salvador Dali's wife is, like, "No!" | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
Well, that's what a vinegar Valentine was. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
From love letters to l'amour. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
Who did Napoleon's ex go out with next? | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
Are we talking about Josephine? | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
Well, yes, we are, but not the Empress Josephine. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
Oddly enough, he seemed to have a predilection for Josephines. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
Well, he had two mistresses, one was called Josephina and one was called | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
Josephine, neither of whom was the Empress Josephine. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
There they are. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:16 | |
There was Josephina Grassini, who was a beautiful dancer, | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
opera singer, opera dancer they used to be called. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
And Josephine Weimer, an actress. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
So they were both very beautiful. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
She looks like she's doing the Single Ladies dance. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Like she's, "Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh." | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
She's showing how tall Napoleon is, that's what she's doing. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
"I want one this high." | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
But these, as I say, were different Josephines, they were later ones. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
Just before the Battle of Waterloo, | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
who was the British Ambassador in Paris? | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
-British Ambassador... -I'll leave this one to you, Alan. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
-Before Napoleon escaped. -Hang on. There was Schniesberkin, Wilson... | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
It's kind of easier than you think. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
He was the victor of Peninsular | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
and he'd beaten Napoleon before and he was about to beat him again. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
-It's not Wellington, is it? -It's the Duke of Wellington himself. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
And there's Old Hooky on the right, and there's Napoleon on the left. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
And, yeah, Wellington really knew how to rub it in | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
when he beat someone, as it were. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
-That sounds terrible. -Oh, did he go out with...? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
Yeah, he went out with both of these mistresses. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
He seduced both during his stay in Paris as Ambassador in 1814 | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
and 1815, just before Waterloo, before the escape of Napoleon, | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
while Napoleon was in Elba, having abdicated, if you remember. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
"Able was I ere I saw Elba." | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
-What's odd about that phrase? -It's a palindrome, isn't it? | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
-Yeah, that's right, exactly. -Yes. -It's a palindrome. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
It's actually a palindrome, guys, so... | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
And Weimer was the only one who compared the two in bed, | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
which is extremely unkind of her. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:46 | |
She said, "Monsieur le Duc etait de beaucoup plus fort," | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
is a lot stronger in bed. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Fort is fiercer, stronger, mightier. Yeah, better, basically. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:58 | |
Was there a Mrs Wellington back home who was a bit fed up about this? | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
The Duchess, yeah. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:03 | |
Yeah, she must have been, you know, unimpressed, I'd say. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
Well, he famously did have a lot of affairs. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
There were so many potatoes around in those days. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
-There's no doubt that they were up to it. -That's right. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
And after the wars ended, he was presented with Napoleon's sword, | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
three paintings of him and the painting of his sister, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
Pauline Borghese, there she is, that's Napoleon's sister, | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
there with a nipple showing. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:25 | |
She's got something keeping her chin on as well. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
Yes, she has. It's keeping her mouth from falling open. Exactly. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:32 | |
I think it's a mask. It's clearly some sort of a face mask, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
like it's got a bit of elastic round the back. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
Well, Napoleon had commissioned a statue of himself, 11 foot tall, | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
basically twice the height of himself. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
And this was...this was bought by the British Government | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
and given to Wellington, along with the house they gave him. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Do you remember what it's called? | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
-Oh, Number One, London. -Number One, London, Apsley House. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
-Oh, wow. -Oh, good house. -And it really works. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
If you get into a cab and say Number One, London, the cabbie will go, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
"I've always wanted someone to say that." And they will take you there. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
Is that supposed to be the sculpture of Napoleon? | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
That is it. I know, it's somewhat idealised, to say the least. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
-Oh, God. -In the stairwell of Apsley House, as it's also called. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
-Where is Number One, London, then? -It's at Hyde Park Corner. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
It's easier to spot in real life, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:15 | |
because there isn't a bloody great big picture in front of it. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
-That's true. -And is the Duke of Wellington beef Wellington man? | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
-Yes, it is named after him. -Interesting. -And the boots. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
And the boots, as well. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:25 | |
A lot of military figures had clothing named after them, | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
particularly in the Crimean War. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
There was Lord Cardigan, who was in charge of the Light Brigade. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
-Balaclava! -The Balaclava helmet, absolutely. And... | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
-The jodhpur. -Jodhpur is a place, I think. But Raglan was also... | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
-Dr Martin. -Raglan... | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
-The raglan sleeve. -Lord Bobble Hat. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
-Colonel Stiletto. -Earl of Sandwich. Have we done him? | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
-Colonel Scarf. -Old Jock Strap. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
-The Earl of Head and Shoulders. -Lieutenant Washing Machine. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
Well, there were a lot, a few. So, good. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
The Duke of Wellington's conquests included Napoleon | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
and no fewer than two of his exes. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:03 | |
Who would bite their arm off to get their leg over? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
Yes, Josh? | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
You! | 0:18:11 | 0:18:12 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -Oh, dear. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
Even if we hadn't got that one ready, | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
you'd already reveal what a sad act you are | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
and we would have tagged it on. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
-This must be from the animal kingdom. -It is from the animal kingdom. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
And what type of animals usually have to suffer in order to | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
give their seed, as it were? | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
-Spiders are usually... -Spiders is the right answer. -Oh! Look at that. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
There's a particular kind of spider... | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
There's the female on the left and there's the male on the right. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
That's a neat packet there, isn't it? | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
-He's going to have a Napoleon complex, isn't he? -He really is. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
Have you seen that picture of Bernie Ecclestone and his ex-wife? | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
It's a bit like that? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:55 | |
He's said to his mates... His mates have said, | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
"No, don't bother, she's too big for you." | 0:19:00 | 0:19:01 | |
He's going, "No, I can get her, you watch, you watch. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
"She's no problem at all, mate." | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
He actually... He won't let her wear heels on a night out, will he? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
She is a hundred times bigger. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
And if we see him close up, you might notice... | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
He's Tom Cruise. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
It's quite hard to see, but the front two, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
the left one is curled inwards a bit, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
but the right one is straight up, are actually penis legs. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
-Oh, no. -What? | 0:19:26 | 0:19:27 | |
He has eight legs like any spider, but the front two are penises | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
and are charged with his seed. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
I've got a couple of them down under here. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
The old penis leg there. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
They're called pedipalps. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:39 | |
And the thing he does, in order to get a better chance of shagging that | 0:19:39 | 0:19:44 | |
enormous female, is he actually spins some silk and ties it round | 0:19:44 | 0:19:50 | |
one of his penis legs and pulls, so that it basically pulls it off. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:56 | |
So he actually tears it off. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
If he pulls it off, there's no point in having sex with her. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
-No, there's one left. -Oh. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
And it gives him a speed advantage. So he's much, much quicker. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
So he can scuttle after her. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
It all seems a most complicated life cycle. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
The oddest procedure, but it's honestly true, | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
it's the male tent cobweb spider. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
So the males that do this are 44% faster | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
than ones who've kept both their penis legs. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
But even then, when they get the female, which is their reward, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
the female then will suck them dry and discard them. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
-Yeah, which... -Oh, isn't that just the way with women? | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
Yes, I know, poor you. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
You deserve it, you're all bastards. Ha-ha-ha-ha. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
Her mum sends him a card. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
-Is the human equivalent of this...? -Katie Price. -No. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
-The octopus has a penis arm. Didn't we have that once? -Yes, that's right. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
Completely correct. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:47 | |
I read that the eight legs of the octopus all function independently | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
and they don't know what the other ones are doing. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
-Isn't that weird? -Yeah. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
The only thing in the world that an octopus sucker won't stick to | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
-is an octopus leg. Which is why they don't get all tangled up. -Yeah. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
-I know things about octopuses. -You do. You do. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
Researchers tested the tent cobweb spider, rather meanly, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
by chasing them, some intact, some not, round a little running track, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
to see how long they lasted, | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
and the spiders with intact sex organs lasted 16 minutes on average, | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
but the spiders that had snapped one off, or snipped one off, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
lasted up to 28 minutes, so it is a big advantage. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
Once you've mated, of course, you have to bring up the children. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
To that end, what are the advantages of having a goat as a nanny? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:32 | |
LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
-Tony? -I think it's because they've got hooves. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:39 | |
And if you had a nanny that had hooves, | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
they couldn't sneak up on you. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:43 | |
Well, that's true. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
The fact is nanny goats are called nanny goats | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
for a dashed good reason. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
In the days of foundlings, who were left on church doors, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
if you left a baby on a church steps, it was a foundling | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
and it was therefore thrown on mercy of the parish. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
And it had to be fed, and of course there was no such thing as SMA | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
or Cow And Gate, or anything like that. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
The only way they could get milk was from a breast. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
So you had wet nurses. But you also had goats. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
-So goats were amazing. -They'd feed on the goats? | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
They'd feed on the goat milk. Very good stuff, straight from the teat. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
Straight from the teat? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
It's better than... Until 1870 pasteurisation was invented, | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
by Pasteur, obviously, it was the healthiest way you could have it, | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
straight from the teat. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:26 | |
-Was the goat OK with...? -Not only OK, let me... | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
I've seen Josh's little eyes light up, like, "straight from the teat". | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
-Yeah. -"The goat was OK?" -And you say goats are OK with this? | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
Not only OK, you may have seen cows that are desperate to be | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
milked, and they queue up for the dairy in order to be milked. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Well, goats are the same, if they're ready to give suck. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
-So we have here a description... -For what?! | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
Whoa. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:50 | |
You know, the phrase, Shakespearean again, Lady Macbeth. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:58 | |
French doctor Alphonse Leroy described it, in a foundling | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
hospital in France, "Each goat which comes to feed enters bleating | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
"and goes to hunt the infant which has been assigned to it." | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
So there's a particular child that it's been assigned to. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
"Pushes back the covering of the bed, with its horns," like that... | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
-Sounds familiar. -"And straddles the crib to give suck to the infant." | 0:23:16 | 0:23:21 | |
It sounds like an accident waiting to happen, really. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
Goat soup on the... | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
Can you imagine trying to get insurance for that in the NHS? | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
So, we just had this goat straddle a baby | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
and then the baby just sort of knows to suck off the goat. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
-You can imagine the Daily Mail all over that, can't you? -Well, maybe. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
-Maybe. -Goat Straddles Baby! | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
Why do they have...? Why goats? Why not...? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
Well, it's a very good question. A cow is just a bit too big, I think, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
to go into a little... to go over a crib. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
You don't want a pat on the head. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
-Hey! -Hey, hey-hey! | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
Hey. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
13 years! | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
Been waiting for that. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
You asked about goats, and some people thought into the 19th century | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
that breast milk contained not only nutrition | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
but the character traits of whoever gave it. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
So if the mother was a loose woman and had given the baby | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
out of wedlock, she wasn't to be trusted to give milk to her baby | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
because she would be passing on her immorality to the child. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
This is how mad we once were. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
-How do they know what the goat's been up to? -Well... | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
-They thought they were a better risk. -It has to be a married goat. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
It might have been an unmarried goat, you're absolutely right. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
Dirty goat. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
In 1816, there was a writer who compared different milks | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
and wrote the definitive book called | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
The Goat Is The Best And Most Agreeable Wet Nurse. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
Others preferred donkeys, | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
which are thought to have a better moral reputation. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
They are very noble, they carried our Lord. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
That's it, in Palm Sunday. Well remembered, exactly. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
Yeah, and also Mary. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:51 | |
Then there was the syphilis outbreak in the 16th and 18th centuries. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
-Oh, then the party's over. -Dirty donkey. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
And goat wet nurses were used there | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
and, unfortunately, though, they were used very unkindly... | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
What's he up to? | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
-Milking a goat! -Oh, OK, fair enough. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
"This better be for the baby!" | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
I think that's a different bloke that usually does it, | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
according to that goat's face. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
-"Hang on a minute, that's not the grip I'm used to." -Oops. Hello. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
"That's a bit firm!" | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
Do you know what I've found mad about...? | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
I don't have kids, so maybe women in the audience will know, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
but that, when you're breast-feeding your child, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
if you are, say, in a supermarket or something like that | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
and someone else's baby cries, you leak, like a spider sense. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:40 | |
-Yes. -Is it not true? Any women have had...? | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
-Yeah, it's a... -Yeah, it is. -There's a bloke there going, "Yeah." | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
"There is, mate." | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
"I always leak when I hear a baby crying." | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
I don't even know why that's funny. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
Is that true, though? It is, isn't it? | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
But if you have, you've presumably expressed into a pot and given it | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
to the baby-sitter, because that's what happens, isn't it? | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
Why would the baby-sitter want some? | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
-There was, there was... -"Thanks a million!" | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
-There was an ice cream shop... -Shot glasses. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
-"Dinner would have been fine." -"Help yourself to anything in the fridge." | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
There was, for a very brief time, an ice cream shop, wasn't there, | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
-here in London, which sold baby...? -Yeah, breast milk ice cream. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
-Human breast milk ice cream. -You say a very brief time, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
-because it's the worst business plan of all time. -I guess you're right. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
You try it once, I think, like incest or country dancing. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
I wish that were my own. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
You've not been to Devon, Stephen. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
I come from Norfolk, for God's sake. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
No, the sad thing about the syphilis outbreaks | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
of the 16th and 18th century, is that it was believed then, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
and all the way up to the 19th century, that | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
one of the cures for syphilis, a kill or cure really, was mercury. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
Which is poisonous, as I'm sure you know. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
And they decided a good delivery system for babies that were born | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
syphilitic was to make them | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
suckle on the milk of goats that had been fed mercury. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
A lot of goats died that way, it was very unkind. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
-Did the babies die? -Probably. It probably didn't help them. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
I mean, it's not good for the brain at all, a growing brain. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
-It's good for thermometers. -It's very good for thermometers, I agree. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
These days thermometers have little ear click things and everything. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
-They've moved on. -Yes, they have. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
Yeah. Just goes in the ear, ping, like that, it's so amazing. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
-Or you can stick a thing under the armpit. -Or... | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
But more difficult. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
Mmm. More fun. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:25 | |
-Under the tongue. -Oh, under the tongue, under the tongue. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
What were you thinking?! | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
-Nothing, nothing. -More difficult, though, for you | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
to fake your temperature to get off school, though. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
-You used to stir coffee with it and things like that. -Did you? -Yeah. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
You were having coffee as a schoolboy?! | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
This was at university. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
"Mother, I'm not ready for primary school, | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
"I'll just have this latte and stay here." | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
Oh, lawks. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:54 | |
Anyway, now to bundles of love. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
Why did the Puritans want lusty young men to get into the sack? | 0:27:58 | 0:28:04 | |
That picture tells a story. What's... | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
-LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS -Yes? | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
I think that they... It was... | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
It's to do with them not having sex, early on. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
Yes, you're right. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
Because they were Puritans and they thought sex was evil or you | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
shouldn't do it, until you were married or anything like that. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
-Completely correct. -So they had a thing called bundling. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:26 | |
-You're absolutely right. -Where they put them into sacks... | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
-That's right. -Or something, was it? -That's right. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
So, there was getting the young man into the sack in that literal sense. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
You put the man in a sack and he could sleep next to his intended, | 0:28:33 | 0:28:37 | |
or he could have a board between them, like that. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
I mean, what kind of man can't get over that? | 0:28:40 | 0:28:43 | |
You've got the old hand-held drill under the covers. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
He's actually looking at that and saying, "This is more over my side." | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
Yeah. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:56 | |
-And does the duvet go under the...? -It does. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
You basically fit this wooden thing on once you've made the bed. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
Are you sure they haven't misread the instructions to an IKEA bed? | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
The IKEA bundling kit, yeah. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
"Your corner of the bed." | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
Why were they sleeping together before marriage? | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
Well, I think that they did want them | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
to get used to each other conversationally. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
-That's right. -Genuinely, that was it? -Yeah. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
Yeah, I believe that's the idea. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:25 | |
That was bundling, an American and Dutch tradition, | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
which Americans took to, particularly in Pennsylvania, where a lot of Dutch people went. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
Teenagers in sacks has a certain logic, but frogs in underpants? | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
What would you do that for? | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
If you run out of carrots. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
It sounds like a new game show on Channel 5, Frogs In Underpants. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:48 | |
-It does, doesn't it? -That frog is smiling, | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
cos of what that bloke's doing with his right hand. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
Well, actually, it's putting frogs in their own underpants, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:55 | |
putting underpants on frogs is actually... | 0:29:55 | 0:30:00 | |
Is it something the French do? | 0:30:00 | 0:30:01 | |
To make them more appetising. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
Snap a thong on it. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
It was actually an Italian priest who did this. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
He was quite a clever fellow. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:14 | |
Oh, I don't think he was. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
-He had a lot of time on his hands, though, didn't he? -Well, yes. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
Up until the 18th century, they didn't know what sperm was for. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:22 | |
And why would they? It seems so obvious to us. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
So, like all good scientists, this particular fellow... | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
He put a frog in some underpants. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
He was called Lazzaro Spallanzani. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:32 | |
It's the obvious next step. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
So Spallanzani... Well, it is, if you think about us. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
He knew that frogs fertilised their eggs outside the female's body, | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
so it's a lot simpler than doing it to an animal that actually shagged, | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
you know, like we do. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
-Don't do that with your chair. -Sorry! | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
You spotted me. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
It was an easy way of testing, because the females lay the eggs | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
and the males come along and the eggs are fertilised. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
So he thought, "If I cover these in little taffeta pants," | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
which he put on the frogs, the frogs then tried, you know, | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
and the eggs did not fertilise, | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
so he was able to make the correct assumption | 0:31:08 | 0:31:10 | |
that inserting the semen was necessary for fertilising eggs. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
And he extrapolated that into other animals. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
But he didn't just work on frog sperm. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
So I would say he was clever, Spallanzani. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
He also was one of the first people | 0:31:20 | 0:31:21 | |
to carry out artificial insemination, on a spaniel. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
First person to suggest that bats use sound to navigate in the dark. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
He experimented on snail regenerations - | 0:31:27 | 0:31:29 | |
this was slightly less kind. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:31 | |
He had this idea... I think it was known that snails | 0:31:31 | 0:31:33 | |
could regenerate their heads, | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
so he took quite a lot of them, 423, cut all their heads off... | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
-Did you say he was a priest? -Yes. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
-He wasn't doing many sermons. -Quite a lot of people were priests. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
A very small parish. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:46 | |
So 423 snails, of which a fifth supposedly grew their heads back, | 0:31:46 | 0:31:51 | |
which is not a lot, | 0:31:51 | 0:31:52 | |
but it would be a lot more than if he had done it to humans. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
He also... This is a very extraordinary experiment, | 0:31:57 | 0:32:00 | |
he tested the power of gastric juices | 0:32:00 | 0:32:02 | |
by putting food in a cheesecloth bag, which he tied up, | 0:32:02 | 0:32:05 | |
and then swallowed and lowered into his tummy on a string | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
and then brought it up to see how much it had been... | 0:32:08 | 0:32:11 | |
Yeah. How else would you do it? | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
Sounds like one of those people you just would not want to get | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
stuck with at a dinner party. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
"You did what? Oh, yeah, good." | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
When he's getting out his cheesecloth for the dinner. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
-Tying it up. -"Excuse me." | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
There might be something more unpleasant still. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
What horror was first shown in the film Psycho? | 0:32:29 | 0:32:32 | |
LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
Joshlington? | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
Was it someone in the shower? | 0:32:36 | 0:32:39 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -Oh! | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
No, I mean, she's in the shower, but you... | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
The film shoot took 30 days to film, which is very short by any Hollywood | 0:32:45 | 0:32:50 | |
standards, and seven of those days were devoted to the shower scene. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
-Janet Leigh... -He actually got it in the first day, but he was... | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
-He was. -"Better get Janet back to the shower." | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
Yes, you're right! | 0:33:02 | 0:33:04 | |
-There was a toilet in the shower scene. -Yes. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
-Is that it? -Yeah. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
TOILET FLUSHES | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
It's not just that there is one, it's the first time one had been | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
seen flushed with the water going round. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:19 | |
It spirals down the lavatory. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
The film is black and white, there's the murderer, we won't say who, | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
they or he or she is. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:26 | |
And it's considered a masterpiece now, | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
but particularly the Bernard Herrmann score which... | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
"Ee-ee-ee-ee..." | 0:33:31 | 0:33:32 | |
Didn't they make a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho? | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
-They did. What a disastrous idea. -Why would you...? -Colour. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
-Oh, colour. -It was in colour. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:39 | |
There's a whole generation of people who if they are channel surfing | 0:33:39 | 0:33:42 | |
and they see something in black and white, | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
will never stop to look at it, | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
which is extraordinary, given that probably most of the best films... | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
-Not even Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?! -Probably. Most of the best films | 0:33:49 | 0:33:52 | |
-ever made are in black and white. It just seems so extraordinary. -Not even Broadway Danny Rose?! -I know! | 0:33:52 | 0:33:57 | |
-Idiots. -Elephant Man. | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
Why did you point at me when you said "Elephant Man"? | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
"Or Elephant Man." | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
"Good to have you show, John." | 0:34:06 | 0:34:08 | |
That was purely accidental. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:13 | |
Anyway, Psycho was the first film to feature a flushing lavatory. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:17 | |
From flushing to blushing. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:18 | |
Why did half the brides in London go to prison? | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
Because it's... | 0:34:22 | 0:34:23 | |
LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
Because women like a bad boy. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
Well, that is a syndrome, of course. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
You're absolutely right, there are women who fall into... | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
They used to have weddings sometimes in prisons. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
They did. And there was a good reason for that, we're going back... | 0:34:39 | 0:34:43 | |
-150 years? -Probably even more than that, actually, we're talking the | 0:34:43 | 0:34:46 | |
18th-century, cos there was a law brought in to stop it happening. | 0:34:46 | 0:34:49 | |
Essentially, there were certain kinds of prisons. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:51 | |
Obviously, there were prisons where people were sent | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
for committing crimes. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:55 | |
But you were in prison, really commonly... | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
-Charles Dickens' father is an example... -For debt. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
For debt, exactly. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:02 | |
The most famous debtors prisons, one was the Marshalsea, | 0:35:02 | 0:35:05 | |
which is where Little Dorrit is set, where Charles Dickens' father was, | 0:35:05 | 0:35:08 | |
and the other was called Fleet Prison. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
Fleet Prison was the most popular for this. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:13 | |
And there's a picture of it, it had a yard, | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
and people were more or less free... | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
They went a bit far with that wall, don't you think? | 0:35:17 | 0:35:21 | |
"No, higher than that. Higher. I've seen them jump, they can jump. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
"They can make ladders out of shoes, I've seen them. Higher." | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
Alan, it's because they kept losing their ball over the wall. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
They could get out the top window. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
Quite a lot of the people who got into debt were priests, | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
and they didn't get defrocked for it, it wasn't a defrockable offence, | 0:35:38 | 0:35:41 | |
so they didn't get cast out of the church, | 0:35:41 | 0:35:43 | |
so they retained their ability, their licence, to marry. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
So, if you wanted to get married in a hurry, | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
you went to an indebted priest and, you know, | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
he wouldn't charge that much and it would go against his debt, | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
the debt that he had to pay to get out of prison. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
So it all worked very nicely. | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
If you're in debt, how do you get out of prison? | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
Your family or someone eventually raises the money. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:06 | |
So you're basically kept as a kind of hostage, | 0:36:06 | 0:36:08 | |
it's a miserable business. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
I mean, it doesn't look that miserable. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:12 | |
It just looks like an advert for, "Come to prison!" | 0:36:12 | 0:36:15 | |
You were pretty much allowed to mingle. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
Children, brothers and sisters, a visiting day was available. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
If you read Little Dorrit, you'll see that his father | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
was kind of the king of the Marshalsea - he had the best rooms | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
and he was treated as if he was a great gentleman. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
-That would be worth... Think how much that property would be worth in London now. -Oh, goodness me. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:32 | |
For the wall alone! | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
Lot of outside space, it's lovely. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
They don't get tennis rackets in prisons these days, do they? | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
They're all out playing tennis. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:42 | |
They don't go to the warder and just say, | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
-"I'm just off for a game of tennis. -It's true. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
There's a person in the bottom left, are they smoking a crack pipe? | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
I think they are. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:52 | |
Fleet weddings were brought to an end by 1753 by Lord Hardwicke, | 0:36:52 | 0:36:56 | |
his Marriage Act, so after that most people | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
who wanted an irregular marriage, as it was called, went to... | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
Where did they have to go to to get married in a hurry? | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
-Gretna Green. -Gretna Green is the right answer. | 0:37:04 | 0:37:07 | |
The nearest they could get to. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:08 | |
Just over the Scottish border, where law is different. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
The effect of the Act was that it got rid of this idea | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
of a common-law marriage. So for 250 years, | 0:37:13 | 0:37:15 | |
there's been no such thing as a common-law marriage, | 0:37:15 | 0:37:18 | |
although over 60% of people asked | 0:37:18 | 0:37:20 | |
if there is such a thing as a common-law marriage | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
believe there is. But it has no basis in law at all. No standing. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:27 | |
Now, it's time to clear the blockage of received wisdom with | 0:37:27 | 0:37:30 | |
the plunger of general ignorance. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
So fingers on buzzers, please. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:33 | |
What should a Welshman wear in his hat on St David's Day? | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
-Yes? -A daffodil. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:40 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -Hmm. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
Well, if it's not, it's got to be a leek, right? It's got to be a leek. | 0:37:43 | 0:37:46 | |
KLAXON BLARES | 0:37:46 | 0:37:49 | |
What about cheese on toast? Is it going to be cheese on toast? | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
-Is it a dragon? -A Welsh rabbit. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:54 | |
We've been rather unfair there, of course, | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
because Welsh people do wear leeks on their heads, | 0:37:56 | 0:37:58 | |
but we're going way back to the original battle they fought | 0:37:58 | 0:38:01 | |
where supposedly they wore leeks to distinguish themselves. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
You can see, if that's the Royal Welsh Regiment or whoever, with, | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
what look more like actually... | 0:38:06 | 0:38:08 | |
I've never seen the Queen so happy. Why is she so happy? | 0:38:08 | 0:38:10 | |
-She really does look thrilled. -What's that bloke said to her about his hat? She loves that. | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
There's something about it. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
"They've all got leeks on their hats! | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
HE MIMICS THE QUEEN'S LAUGH | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
-She's probably saying... -"They're Welsh, ha-ha!" | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
She's probably saying, "They don't know | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
"that they're actually spring onions!" | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
They look a lot more like spring onions. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:33 | |
Well, there's a whole issue about whether or not they were leeks, | 0:38:33 | 0:38:37 | |
and Alan Davidson - close name - | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
author of the Oxford Dictionary Of Food... | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
Never liked him. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:43 | |
He claims that leeks as we know them didn't arrive in Britain | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
for much longer after the Battle of Heathfield, where the Welsh, | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
who beat the Saxons there, | 0:38:49 | 0:38:51 | |
believed that they first wore leeks to identify themselves. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:54 | |
In Anglo-Saxon, | 0:38:54 | 0:38:55 | |
the suffix 'leac' meant any member of the onion family. | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
So 'enneleac' was an onion and 'garleac' was garlic. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
So they might have sported something like garlic, which is slightly more | 0:39:01 | 0:39:04 | |
light and practical than certainly a fully-grown leek. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
The Museum Of Wales thinks that | 0:39:07 | 0:39:08 | |
actual leeks may have been brought over by the Romans. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:11 | |
So there's dispute, really, to be honest, | 0:39:11 | 0:39:12 | |
we just wanted to take points away from you. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:14 | |
Anyway, it's possible that the national emblem of Wales should | 0:39:14 | 0:39:17 | |
really be a garlic. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:18 | |
There's a layer of the atmosphere which protects us | 0:39:18 | 0:39:20 | |
from ultraviolet radiation. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
What's it made of? | 0:39:23 | 0:39:24 | |
Hint, it has a hole in it. | 0:39:26 | 0:39:27 | |
-LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS -Yes? | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
Ozone. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -No! What are the odds? | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
What are the odds? | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
Because it is called the ozone layer, | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
but it is neither a layer nor made primarily of ozone, | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
which is very mean of scientists to do that to us. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
We wouldn't even know it existed. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:45 | |
It's named after the Irish family, the Zones, or the O'Zones. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
-The O'Zones. -Yeah. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
The O'Zones have moved in next door. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
It's only 15 parts per million, ozone. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:56 | |
Do you know what the chemical formula for ozone is? | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
Yeah, but I'm not going to tell you. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
-It's O3. -Oh. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
Yes, it's a pale blue form of oxygen, with a very pungent smell. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
At nought degrees Celsius and normal atmospheric pressure, | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
all the ozone in the sky would cover the earth | 0:40:09 | 0:40:11 | |
to a depth of just three millimetres. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
Under the same conditions, | 0:40:13 | 0:40:14 | |
the rest of the air would make a layer five miles thick. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
That's how rare it is. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:19 | |
And, finally, here's one for surf lovers. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:21 | |
Where can you find the biggest waves in the world? | 0:40:21 | 0:40:24 | |
LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS | 0:40:24 | 0:40:25 | |
-Widdicombe? -Erm, Hawaii. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -Oh! | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
Dear, oh, dear. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:33 | |
-Newquay. -Sorry, where? | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
-KLAXON BLARES -Oh! | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
Oh, Newquay. Oh, dear. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
-The Indian Ocean? -No. Well, possibly, yeah. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
-Malibu. -Malibu, well... | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
I was just on a hat-trick, I thought I'd go for it. | 0:40:46 | 0:40:48 | |
There is good surfing to be had there on the Californian coast. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:51 | |
But let's forget coasts, let's forget Australian coasts | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
and any other coast. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:55 | |
Is it going to be a different type of wave? | 0:40:55 | 0:40:58 | |
It is... No, it's a water, seawater, wave, but it's underwater. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
-The biggest waves are actually sub-surface waves. -Oh... | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
"Oh..." He's so disappointed. It was satellites that showed us. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:09 | |
We didn't know until satellite photography. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
And there are lots of drowned surfers on them. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
Well, they'd be very hard to surf, | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
because they really go incredibly slow, they crawl along, | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
a few centimetres a second, so a few metres an hour, I think. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:22 | |
And a tsunami, on the other hand, which is obviously a gigantic wave, | 0:41:22 | 0:41:26 | |
is Japanese for "harbour wave". | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
Because we say tidal wave, but tidal wave isn't correct, | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
because it isn't tidal. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
Tsunamis result from earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes, | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
as we probably know. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:36 | |
In the open ocean, the waves are about only 300 millimetres high, | 0:41:36 | 0:41:40 | |
but with a very long wave length, | 0:41:40 | 0:41:42 | |
sometimes hundreds of kilometres apart. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:44 | |
As they approach land, the sea gets shallower, | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
and that's what pushes them up. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
Oh. How fast is a tsunami? Because he is not going to... | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
He's not going to make it, I'm afraid. No, he's not. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
Especially with three sharks on their way. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
And what with him not having any feet is another problem. | 0:41:57 | 0:42:00 | |
That's really going to slow him down. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:02 | |
Dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. Well, before it gets any sicker, | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
the world's biggest waves are underwater. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:08 | |
And so, finally, to the scores, which | 0:42:08 | 0:42:10 | |
if you're lucky will be love-all. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:12 | |
Well, they aren't. They're fascinating, though. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:15 | |
He did run into the wall several times, | 0:42:15 | 0:42:17 | |
the tousled tow-headed dear from Devon, | 0:42:17 | 0:42:21 | |
minus 36 points in fourth place is Josh Widdicombe. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:25 | |
How relieved is our third placer, on minus seven, Alan Davies. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
Thank you very much. Minus seven. | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
Pretty good. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
Aisling just ahead on minus six. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:41 | |
Whoo-hoo! | 0:42:41 | 0:42:43 | |
On plus seven, it's Tony Hawks. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:49 | |
-Bravo. -Thank you very much. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
So, it's good night from Aisling, Tony, Josh, Alan and me. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
And I leave you with the last words of English essayist | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - | 0:43:02 | 0:43:04 | |
"It's all been very interesting." | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
Good night. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:08 |