Planet Hogmanay

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0:00:02 > 0:00:05Hogmanay, the night when anything can happen and usually it does.

0:00:05 > 0:00:07Definitely!

0:00:07 > 0:00:11It's Hogmanay, everybody, and tonight we're saying cheerio to the old

0:00:11 > 0:00:14- and a right big... - Hello.

0:00:14 > 0:00:16..to the new.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23For one night only, we're going global,

0:00:23 > 0:00:25ramping up to the bells by taking a riotous look

0:00:25 > 0:00:29at how the rest of the world chooses to see in our night.

0:00:29 > 0:00:31That's right, our night,

0:00:31 > 0:00:35because we invented celebrating the New Year...didn't we?

0:00:35 > 0:00:37We put the mental into sentimental.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39It's a time of hope.

0:00:39 > 0:00:42And trying to get off with people you shouldn't.

0:00:42 > 0:00:43Yay!

0:00:43 > 0:00:46We're dancing with bears, sparking up dummies...

0:00:46 > 0:00:48A right arsonist. It's a bit scary, know what I mean?

0:00:48 > 0:00:50..diving into the future

0:00:50 > 0:00:53and getting stuck into some festive fisticuffs.

0:00:53 > 0:00:56I think it's time somebody was told a few home truths.

0:00:56 > 0:00:58Argh!

0:00:58 > 0:01:02We'll also look back at the proud Scottish traditions we've lost,

0:01:02 > 0:01:04and the ones we can resurrect.

0:01:04 > 0:01:07Is this a Scottish thing? I'm Scottish, I've never... What is it?

0:01:09 > 0:01:13So pull on your lucky pants and prepare for lift-off

0:01:13 > 0:01:17as we soberly reflect on which nation gets most mad with it

0:01:17 > 0:01:22and take a whistle-stop tour around the wild and wonderful world

0:01:22 > 0:01:24of our Planet Hogmanay.

0:01:30 > 0:01:31Ring out the old

0:01:31 > 0:01:33Ring in the new

0:01:33 > 0:01:35Ring happy bells across the snow

0:01:35 > 0:01:37The year is going, let him go...

0:01:37 > 0:01:41Tonight we're going to party like it's 2016,

0:01:41 > 0:01:47so join me in saying "come away in" to your exclusive guest list.

0:01:47 > 0:01:48Hi, everyone.

0:01:48 > 0:01:50Hello, hello!

0:01:51 > 0:01:55A happy New Year when it comes.

0:01:55 > 0:01:56Sit ye doon.

0:01:56 > 0:02:01Hogmanay, to me, means getting together, good friends,

0:02:01 > 0:02:05good company, remembering, you know, the times you used to have,

0:02:05 > 0:02:07the Hogmanays you used to have in Scotland.

0:02:09 > 0:02:12To me, it means, when I was younger, getting to stay up late,

0:02:12 > 0:02:13have some Babycham.

0:02:16 > 0:02:17Cold out, isn't it?

0:02:17 > 0:02:19- Shortbread! - HE CLAPS

0:02:21 > 0:02:22Right!

0:02:22 > 0:02:25New Year's Eve, like all great inventions in the world,

0:02:25 > 0:02:26is undoubtedly Scottish.

0:02:26 > 0:02:30We've got the phone, we've got penicillin, we've got the telly -

0:02:30 > 0:02:33the three things you need for a perfect Hogmanay -

0:02:33 > 0:02:34and New Year's Eve is Scottish.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37It's a build-up. Everybody's looking forward to Hogmanay,

0:02:37 > 0:02:40they've booked their parties and it's a buzz, there's an energy.

0:02:40 > 0:02:42I've always loved it, always loved it.

0:02:42 > 0:02:43Hogmanay's nae big deal to me.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hogmanay's just like another day of the week.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48It's like Hogmanay... In my life, it's like Hogmanay every weekend,

0:02:48 > 0:02:51isn't it, really? What I mean by that is it's not like a big party,

0:02:51 > 0:02:55it's just like I'm kind of always needing a new start every weekend,

0:02:55 > 0:02:56you know what I mean?

0:02:56 > 0:02:58I always have to make some new resolutions every week.

0:02:58 > 0:03:01So what's all this about, then?

0:03:01 > 0:03:03Hogmanay? Right.

0:03:05 > 0:03:07What do you want to know?

0:03:08 > 0:03:13Well, Phil, we all want to know how the planet celebrates New Year.

0:03:14 > 0:03:17Let's kick off at home - Caledonia.

0:03:17 > 0:03:20Wha's like us in the party stakes?

0:03:20 > 0:03:26Scotland invented that fun, festive tradition of tidying up.

0:03:26 > 0:03:29There's oose loose aboot this hoose.

0:03:29 > 0:03:31Hogmanay is a busy time.

0:03:31 > 0:03:34All over Scotland people give their homes a good clean

0:03:34 > 0:03:37so that everything will be fresh and bright when the New Year comes.

0:03:37 > 0:03:40Out with the old, and open up the bleach.

0:03:40 > 0:03:44This Hogmanay tidy-up is known as "redding the house".

0:03:44 > 0:03:47Redding, clear everything. The old year's gone.

0:03:47 > 0:03:49This was the full thing. The curtains came down,

0:03:49 > 0:03:51the windows were cleaned, the bakkie was taken out.

0:03:51 > 0:03:53That's the wee ash can under the fire.

0:03:53 > 0:03:56Polish the floors, polish the furniture.

0:03:56 > 0:03:59Gosh, that is quick.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02Oh, yes, I'm a fair speed demon with my Flash.

0:04:02 > 0:04:05And people now boast about it on social media -

0:04:05 > 0:04:09"That's me, everything's cleared. A new slate, it's a new me."

0:04:09 > 0:04:11And you're going, "Whit, you've hoovered?"

0:04:11 > 0:04:12That's just tidying your hoose.

0:04:12 > 0:04:15That's something you should be doing regularly.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19One old custom is to open the door

0:04:19 > 0:04:22to let the old year out and the new year in.

0:04:22 > 0:04:25It's all about getting rid of evil spirits

0:04:25 > 0:04:30and I think the point is that that evil accrues during the year.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32You have to leave the windows and curtains open so the old year

0:04:32 > 0:04:35- can get out, and the New Year can get in.- Really?- Oh, yeah.

0:04:35 > 0:04:38- I never knew that. - And the burglars.

0:04:43 > 0:04:46Many people believe that a bright fire means a lucky year ahead,

0:04:46 > 0:04:49so every Hogmanay they light a fire

0:04:49 > 0:04:51to burn the old year out and the new year in.

0:04:51 > 0:04:55So we strike a match to extinguish evil.

0:04:55 > 0:04:58Let's say feliz ano nuevo to Panama,

0:04:58 > 0:05:01where they really torch their demons.

0:05:01 > 0:05:04They build an effigy of someone they dislike and then they'll burn it

0:05:04 > 0:05:06and then they'll leap over it,

0:05:06 > 0:05:08as if that's them jumping into the new year.

0:05:08 > 0:05:13This flame-filled tradition practised by fire-starters

0:05:13 > 0:05:17all over Central and South America symbolically burns all the failures,

0:05:17 > 0:05:21regrets, gripes and scapegoats of the old year.

0:05:21 > 0:05:25While we're dusting our houses, these Panamanian pyromaniacs

0:05:25 > 0:05:29are crafting effigies in papier-mache before driving up...

0:05:29 > 0:05:31No, no, that's...no chance that's going to fit, nope.

0:05:31 > 0:05:33Try it on the roof. Yeah, that's it.

0:05:33 > 0:05:36After all, you don't want to damage it before you burn it.

0:05:36 > 0:05:39It's a chance to say adios to what bugs you.

0:05:39 > 0:05:44It seems to be very much going, "That year is done. It's over."

0:05:44 > 0:05:48Some believe this fire-fest dates back to a yellow-fever epidemic

0:05:48 > 0:05:51that required the mass burning of corpses.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55These days, dummies from sportsmen to politicians face the fury

0:05:55 > 0:05:58and feel the burn, though quite what Woody from Toy Story

0:05:58 > 0:06:00did to annoy Panama is anyone's guess.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03Obviously don't try this at home.

0:06:03 > 0:06:07I think it's an ultimate revenge that no-one can touch you for.

0:06:07 > 0:06:10So, at the end of the year when Scotland's World Cup hopes

0:06:10 > 0:06:14were so cruelly dashed, would it be a "reffigy" we'd pick?

0:06:14 > 0:06:17I just wonder what the rugby boys would make of it.

0:06:17 > 0:06:20Disappointment still clinging to all those connected to Scottish rugby...

0:06:20 > 0:06:22Oh, no, I'm getting flashbacks.

0:06:24 > 0:06:28The ref...the line-out...

0:06:28 > 0:06:32the knock-on... Joubert!

0:06:32 > 0:06:34If there was an effigy getting burnt in Scotland this year,

0:06:34 > 0:06:36I don't know who that would be.

0:06:36 > 0:06:40- No, not that I remember. - No, none that I could think of.

0:06:40 > 0:06:42Because we're kind of mair football guys,

0:06:42 > 0:06:46it was difficult to figure out what happened. People were kind of going,

0:06:46 > 0:06:49"That's outrageous!" And then you're going, "But what happened?"

0:06:49 > 0:06:51And they were like, "We don't really know."

0:06:51 > 0:06:53Gracias, Panama.

0:06:53 > 0:06:55Fun, but maybe a bit loco.

0:06:55 > 0:07:01Whereas, in Scotland, our ancient traditions make perfect sense...

0:07:03 > 0:07:06Man, it takes a Scotsman who's been saving up his temper

0:07:06 > 0:07:10and his thirst for the occasion to appreciate New Year's Eve.

0:07:10 > 0:07:13Bring in the haggis, let's hear a wee bit music.

0:07:13 > 0:07:16..traditions our comedy shows respect enormously.

0:07:16 > 0:07:20No matter how cold it may be out here, we can be sure of

0:07:20 > 0:07:23a very warm welcome when we go in to join the festivities.

0:07:23 > 0:07:28And, may I say, what a bumper bundle of fun we have for you tonight.

0:07:28 > 0:07:31We've got soul singers, we've got bands, we've got pipers,

0:07:31 > 0:07:34we've got accordion players, we've got the lot.

0:07:34 > 0:07:37And if you think that sounds terrific, you should see

0:07:37 > 0:07:39the celebrity guest list.

0:07:39 > 0:07:43Yes, there are stars of stage, screen, record, cabaret, television,

0:07:43 > 0:07:48Highland Games, and they all have one thing in common, because tonight

0:07:48 > 0:07:53is the only night in the entire year when any of them will work.

0:07:55 > 0:07:58Hogmanay stirs our memories of parties past.

0:07:58 > 0:08:03Time to get nostalgic down memory lane, reminiscing about reminiscing.

0:08:03 > 0:08:06When I was a kid, Hogmanay was something you really, really

0:08:06 > 0:08:09looked forward to because you nev... for a start,

0:08:09 > 0:08:11you never got to stay up until after midnight.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13You know, that was a really special treat.

0:08:13 > 0:08:18And it was a real...Scottish party.

0:08:18 > 0:08:20Family and food. You were up late,

0:08:20 > 0:08:23you were getting filled with sweeties, you were drinking juice.

0:08:23 > 0:08:26It was brilliant, you know what I mean? It was really good fun.

0:08:26 > 0:08:30We always had a sing-song. Auntie... - well, I'll not say her name -

0:08:30 > 0:08:33she used to sing to her husband because she hated her husband.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35I mean, really hated him.

0:08:35 > 0:08:38But she's kept him, but she hated him.

0:08:38 > 0:08:39And she used to sing -

0:08:39 > 0:08:43# Some of these days you're gonna miss me, honey... #

0:08:43 > 0:08:44And eyes like cold steel.

0:08:44 > 0:08:47If she got an encore she sang -

0:08:47 > 0:08:50# You're free to go, darling... #

0:08:50 > 0:08:54They made me sing at Hogmanay sometimes and I was too shy

0:08:54 > 0:08:56so I'd sing from behind the couch

0:08:56 > 0:08:59and I'd just sing over the top of the couch.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01I had somebody in my family that used to leave the room and go

0:09:01 > 0:09:05into the hall and sing from the hall and just with the door ajar.

0:09:05 > 0:09:08# Wee chookie birdie... #

0:09:08 > 0:09:09That was the song, as well?

0:09:09 > 0:09:13That was the song, aye. Wee Chookie Birdie.

0:09:13 > 0:09:14You're not going to get, you know,

0:09:14 > 0:09:17Nessun Dorma from somebody that has to go into the hall.

0:09:20 > 0:09:23I remember going about looking for parties, looking up at closes

0:09:23 > 0:09:26and looking up at the flats and seeing who looked like they were

0:09:26 > 0:09:28having the best party, and everybody let you in.

0:09:28 > 0:09:31There was no buzzers in those days at the door,

0:09:31 > 0:09:33so you would just go up and just join in a party

0:09:33 > 0:09:34and if that was rubbish

0:09:34 > 0:09:37then you'd maybe go to the next close or whatever.

0:09:37 > 0:09:41But...yeah, it was always disappointing.

0:09:41 > 0:09:44Is that terrible to say that?

0:09:44 > 0:09:46Not at all, Jane.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Maybe this year we'll raise the roof.

0:09:49 > 0:09:5324, 23, 22, 21...

0:09:53 > 0:09:55- Jim.- What the hell's going on upstairs?

0:09:55 > 0:09:57Stop the countdown, Jim. We've decided to abort.

0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Abort? Over my dead body. - Abort it, Jim. Abort it!

0:10:00 > 0:10:03No! This project's all systems go.

0:10:03 > 0:10:07Stop the countdown, Jim! Thousands of innocent people could suffer.

0:10:07 > 0:10:08..three, two, one...

0:10:08 > 0:10:09Cue announcer!

0:10:09 > 0:10:13Now we go over to Aberdeen and The Hogmanay Show.

0:10:18 > 0:10:20Scotland's the ultimate nation of party animals,

0:10:20 > 0:10:24but, in Romania, they party AS animals.

0:10:24 > 0:10:26An nou fericit, Romania!

0:10:26 > 0:10:30Get on your best fur coat and step out for some pagan evil-bashing.

0:10:30 > 0:10:33Yeah, the dancing bears of Romania, aye.

0:10:33 > 0:10:37Taking it up a notch from dusting the lobby or burning dummies,

0:10:37 > 0:10:40this caper is intended to put the frighteners

0:10:40 > 0:10:44on any pesky, uncouth vibes following us into the New Year.

0:10:44 > 0:10:45THEY look like evil spirits.

0:10:45 > 0:10:48I don't see how in any way that they would be warding them off.

0:10:48 > 0:10:51The bear is a powerful image to the Romanians.

0:10:51 > 0:10:54Hibernation and waking symbolises resurrection

0:10:54 > 0:10:57and represents the birth of a new year.

0:10:57 > 0:10:58Makes sense to me.

0:10:58 > 0:11:01Would you argue with someone dressed as a bear?

0:11:04 > 0:11:06And they're wearing actual bear skins.

0:11:06 > 0:11:08Bears have been skinned for this ceremony.

0:11:08 > 0:11:12Go to Primark, mate, they're doing really good onesies, seriously.

0:11:12 > 0:11:14Very, very cheap.

0:11:16 > 0:11:17They're all saying,

0:11:17 > 0:11:20"We're going to pass these skins down from generation to generation."

0:11:20 > 0:11:24Like, that's what bears used to do, just by having cubs.

0:11:24 > 0:11:26HE SCREAMS

0:11:26 > 0:11:28The advantage that I see of the dancing bear outfits

0:11:28 > 0:11:31that they have in Romania in the street is there's always that thing

0:11:31 > 0:11:34about Hogmanay, there's a pressure - "What are you going to wear?

0:11:34 > 0:11:35"What are you going to wear?"

0:11:35 > 0:11:38If we're all wearing the dancing bears, it takes that out of it.

0:11:40 > 0:11:42"Are you wearing the bear? Fine, same as me. Perfect."

0:11:47 > 0:11:51It's a proud, noble and GRISLY tradition.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55In Scotland, we don't have any great track record

0:11:55 > 0:11:59of dressing up as bears before the bells, but, once upon a time,

0:11:59 > 0:12:01we were big on equine costumery.

0:12:01 > 0:12:04Yes, long before Primark stocked onesies,

0:12:04 > 0:12:06we went guising at Hogmanay -

0:12:06 > 0:12:10squeezing on a horse's head and noising up the neighbours.

0:12:10 > 0:12:13THEY SING MOURNFULLY

0:12:13 > 0:12:15Their role was to come round

0:12:15 > 0:12:18and basically, I suppose, scare away the evil spirits.

0:12:18 > 0:12:23These jolly/terrifying scenes show this tradition occurring in Wales.

0:12:23 > 0:12:27To re-enact our lost art, Scotland's pluckiest wrestler, Grado,

0:12:27 > 0:12:32was happy to pull on a rubber cuddy's napper to get into a pub.

0:12:32 > 0:12:34One he's barred from.

0:12:34 > 0:12:37It'd certainly scare the bejesus out of me if they turned up at my door.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42No doubt about it, that's a good look.

0:12:43 > 0:12:45But if you really want to turn heads at Hogmanay,

0:12:45 > 0:12:48you might want to take some fashion tips from Ecuador.

0:12:52 > 0:12:56Time to say feliz ano nuevo

0:12:56 > 0:13:00and doff our bunnets to these sensational senoras.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03# I get all the girls I get all the girls

0:13:03 > 0:13:07# I get all the girls I get all the girls

0:13:07 > 0:13:09# I get all the girls... #

0:13:09 > 0:13:11Why is it always, when guys cross-dress,

0:13:11 > 0:13:14it's always the short skirts, it's the stockings, suspenders,

0:13:14 > 0:13:17schoolgirls dancing to Britney Spears with lipstick on?

0:13:17 > 0:13:19It's never, "Can you pass me a cardigan?

0:13:19 > 0:13:21"Can you give me some pearls? That would be lovely."

0:13:22 > 0:13:25OK, I knew they were men all along.

0:13:25 > 0:13:29Running counter to the Ecuadorian culture of machismo,

0:13:29 > 0:13:32these boys play the widows of the old dead year.

0:13:32 > 0:13:36He's snuffed it and left his wife skint and the merry widows

0:13:36 > 0:13:38beg for essentials for the wake, such as beer.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42Penny for the guy in a skirt?

0:13:42 > 0:13:46I'm just so impressed with... They've just got such a wiggle on.

0:13:46 > 0:13:48I can't... I can't get over how good their wiggle is. I can't do that.

0:13:48 > 0:13:51- I mean, that's some set of pins. - Absolutely.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53Would this appeal to any of our guests?

0:13:53 > 0:13:54I think that is a cracking idea,

0:13:54 > 0:13:57where you need to dress in your bird's or your maw's

0:13:57 > 0:13:59or your gran's claes, stop motors on Hogmanay

0:13:59 > 0:14:01and just annoy folk that are going out for a brilliant night out.

0:14:03 > 0:14:05My song to dance in front of them

0:14:05 > 0:14:08would probably be a song called Dick-A-Dum by Des O'Connor.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10# Dick-a-dum-dum

0:14:10 > 0:14:13# Dick-a-dum-dum, a-dick-a-dum-dum

0:14:13 > 0:14:15# Dick-a-dum-dum, a-dick-a-dum-dum

0:14:15 > 0:14:17# Dick-a-dum-dum A-dick-a-dum-dum... #

0:14:17 > 0:14:23Hands across the ocean, the joy of Hogmanay is exchanging ideas.

0:14:23 > 0:14:26Now, have we got all our party snacks?

0:14:26 > 0:14:28Know what I've done? I've left them lying at the till.

0:14:28 > 0:14:30- You're kidding me on. - No, I was wishing a happy New Year

0:14:30 > 0:14:33- to the wee lassie with the Santa hat...- Oh, Eric!- What's going on?

0:14:33 > 0:14:36He's went and left the crisps and dips up by the till at Tesco's.

0:14:36 > 0:14:39It's not my fault! It was the wee lassie with the Santa hat.

0:14:39 > 0:14:40Oh, Christ, Eric!

0:14:40 > 0:14:43All you had to do was go to the Costco, pick up the gazebo,

0:14:43 > 0:14:45drop the flowers off at the cemetery, nip into Superdrug

0:14:45 > 0:14:47and get me a pair of tights and then go to Tesco's

0:14:47 > 0:14:50and get five packets of Kettle Chips, a big bag of Hula Hoops

0:14:50 > 0:14:52- and some of that peri peri hummus. - What's happening?

0:14:52 > 0:14:55- It's a nightmare.- What? - There's no crisps.

0:14:55 > 0:14:56I'm not bothered about crisps, anyway.

0:14:56 > 0:14:59- What about tonic water? Did you get any of that?- No.

0:14:59 > 0:15:01Right, get yourself back up there, Eric.

0:15:01 > 0:15:04- Do you need me to move my car? - No, you stay where you are.

0:15:04 > 0:15:05This is a party.

0:15:09 > 0:15:10Yes, it's a party,

0:15:10 > 0:15:13and those of us who don't have to squeeze into a miniskirt

0:15:13 > 0:15:16for the bells can eat what we want.

0:15:16 > 0:15:19Every hoolie needs scran, sustenance, grub.

0:15:19 > 0:15:24We've all got our favourite Hogmanay snacks to keep our bouches amused.

0:15:24 > 0:15:27- Stovies.- Vol-au-vents.- Steak pie. - Finger buffet and a sausage roll.

0:15:27 > 0:15:30Maybe an avocado or two.

0:15:30 > 0:15:32Chipolata and a packet of Monster Munch.

0:15:32 > 0:15:35Ritz crackers with that squeezy Primula cheese

0:15:35 > 0:15:38and pickled onions with maybe a little bit of black pepper,

0:15:38 > 0:15:40cos it was dead exotic.

0:15:40 > 0:15:44Sophisticated, traditional and delicious,

0:15:44 > 0:15:46but no party in Auchenshuggle would be complete

0:15:46 > 0:15:51without Oor Wullie's Hogmanay favourite - black bun.

0:15:51 > 0:15:53- Black bun?- What is that?

0:15:53 > 0:15:56I've never brought black buns on any day of the year.

0:15:56 > 0:16:00Is this a Scottish thing? I'm Scottish, I've never... What is it?

0:16:00 > 0:16:02Black bun, brioche noire, panettone negri?

0:16:02 > 0:16:05Pastry base, fruitcake.

0:16:05 > 0:16:08It's sweet, it's rich, it would've been expensive to make.

0:16:12 > 0:16:16That was to say, "We will have this for the rest of the year."

0:16:16 > 0:16:19But you can still get your teeth into new things.

0:16:19 > 0:16:20Here, you tried these?

0:16:20 > 0:16:21What's that?

0:16:21 > 0:16:24Heaven, my friend. Paroka!

0:16:25 > 0:16:27Paroka? Is it spicy?

0:16:27 > 0:16:30Aye, they're good. Oh, them and all, have you tried them?

0:16:30 > 0:16:32Samosas.

0:16:32 > 0:16:34Oh, no, no, you're all right.

0:16:34 > 0:16:36You don't know what you're missing.

0:16:36 > 0:16:39Ease up, Jack, you're going to do yourself an injury.

0:16:41 > 0:16:43Here, ho!

0:16:43 > 0:16:47These are lovely. Did your wife make these, eh?

0:16:47 > 0:16:49Oh, aye.

0:16:49 > 0:16:51Paroka!

0:16:52 > 0:16:55How do you stop yourself taking one mouthful too many?

0:16:55 > 0:16:59Time to say a guten frohes neues Jahr to our pals in Germany.

0:16:59 > 0:17:02This is what they do to warn against over-indulgence -

0:17:02 > 0:17:05Russian, well, German roulette with doughnuts.

0:17:05 > 0:17:07In one sweetness,

0:17:07 > 0:17:10the other mustard. Achtung!

0:17:10 > 0:17:11Spin the rings, take a bite.

0:17:11 > 0:17:13We have to just pick one? It's kind of...

0:17:13 > 0:17:16It's like Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter.

0:17:16 > 0:17:18This is not going to end well for me.

0:17:18 > 0:17:23- Good luck.- I'm going to hope the bigger one has jam in it.

0:17:23 > 0:17:24I know I'm going to win this.

0:17:24 > 0:17:27- Is this the bigger one? - Yeah. Cheers.

0:17:29 > 0:17:31A challenge to strike terror

0:17:31 > 0:17:34into the hearts of hardened rugby players

0:17:34 > 0:17:36and character comedy actors alike.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42I got the mustard one.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53Get it down you, Karen.

0:17:53 > 0:17:54It's horrible!

0:17:54 > 0:17:55Try it tonight.

0:17:55 > 0:17:56It's disgusting as well.

0:17:56 > 0:17:58To the victor, the spoils.

0:17:58 > 0:18:02To the loser, the taste of mustard in your mouth for three days.

0:18:02 > 0:18:05Danke, goodnight.

0:18:07 > 0:18:09But enough globe-trotting.

0:18:09 > 0:18:12Time to catch up with the New Year headlines where you are.

0:18:12 > 0:18:15And now a recap of tonight's main stories.

0:18:15 > 0:18:18Here to interpret for the neds is Rab McGlinchy.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20RAB BELCHES

0:18:20 > 0:18:23Oh, I nearly boaked up there. Season's greetings, troops!

0:18:23 > 0:18:25The Hogmanay celebrations

0:18:25 > 0:18:28are already in full flow in Princes Street, Edinburgh.

0:18:28 > 0:18:31As always, there is a mix of music and fireworks,

0:18:31 > 0:18:34with some top acts lined up to bring in the New Year.

0:18:34 > 0:18:36Whoa, man, that's excellent, isn't it, aye?

0:18:36 > 0:18:39Bunch of tourists, man, wearing kilts, drinking whisky, man.

0:18:39 > 0:18:41Bunch of fandans.

0:18:41 > 0:18:43Good chance for some heavy pickpocketing, but.

0:18:43 > 0:18:45Elsewhere, Scotland's off-licences

0:18:45 > 0:18:48have been reporting record sales of alcohol

0:18:48 > 0:18:50and Strathclyde's chief of police

0:18:50 > 0:18:53has been asking that everyone drink sensibly.

0:18:53 > 0:18:55"Drink sensibly." How are you supposed to do that, man?

0:18:55 > 0:18:57It's the New Year. What are they talking about?

0:18:57 > 0:18:59If you're wanting a wee programme

0:18:59 > 0:19:01about how you should drink sensibly, here's how it works.

0:19:01 > 0:19:03You get some pakora, fire that in, right?

0:19:03 > 0:19:06Then you drink a wee bit more, and then you get a samosa,

0:19:06 > 0:19:09you fire that in, then tan the rest of your can.

0:19:09 > 0:19:12Just keep going like that, putting stuff in the middle, right?

0:19:12 > 0:19:14Then you blast up, bring the lot up, right,

0:19:14 > 0:19:15before you go to your bed

0:19:15 > 0:19:18cos you don't want to be firing it up on the sheets and all that

0:19:18 > 0:19:20cos she'll go mental, no?

0:19:20 > 0:19:23And, finally, the owners of a moggy named Sylvester were last night

0:19:23 > 0:19:28reunited with the cat after it had spent nine hours stuck up a tree.

0:19:28 > 0:19:30The owners feared that the New Year would come and go...

0:19:30 > 0:19:31Whoa, wait a minute, man!

0:19:31 > 0:19:34I'm no' listening to this pish, a daft cat up a tree, man.

0:19:34 > 0:19:37There's bevvy to be drunk. Take a drink, you pie.

0:19:37 > 0:19:38Aye, all right.

0:19:40 > 0:19:41Happy New Year.

0:19:41 > 0:19:42Cheers.

0:19:42 > 0:19:44Cheers, guys.

0:19:44 > 0:19:47Hogmanay is a great time for a stiff drink,

0:19:47 > 0:19:49especially if you need to get the taste

0:19:49 > 0:19:51of bowfin' doughnut out your mouth.

0:19:51 > 0:19:53So, to wash the snacks down,

0:19:53 > 0:19:55celebrated chef Tony Singh is in the kitchen,

0:19:55 > 0:19:57brewing up a long lost traditional

0:19:57 > 0:20:02Scottish Hogmanay swally of yesteryear - the het pint.

0:20:02 > 0:20:04Eggs, sugar, bit of spice,

0:20:04 > 0:20:09bit of nutmeg there, ale, whisky.

0:20:09 > 0:20:12So we're going to make the het pint, very simple.

0:20:12 > 0:20:13The het - or hot - pint

0:20:13 > 0:20:16was traditionally carried in a copper kettle by first-footers.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18Pop in the whisky.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20Offered up to punters in the street -

0:20:20 > 0:20:21the Mad Dog 20/20 of its day.

0:20:21 > 0:20:23That's going to be nice.

0:20:23 > 0:20:25And it's easy to prepare.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28Heat the whisky and ale, add a dod of nutmeg,

0:20:28 > 0:20:31whip up the sugar and eggs, mix it all together...

0:20:34 > 0:20:38..do a shoogly Tom Cruise cocktail thing between two jugs and bosh!

0:20:38 > 0:20:40Happy New Year, everybody!

0:20:40 > 0:20:43Het pint, come on now, let's get back with the tradition.

0:20:43 > 0:20:46Sweet and intoxicating. Recipe on website.

0:20:46 > 0:20:50Please drink responsibly, particularly our viewers in Govan.

0:20:53 > 0:20:57- SLURS:- Hogmanay is coming up, right?

0:20:57 > 0:21:02So, come Hogmanay, we'll have a dirty big party at my house.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04There you are, what do you say?

0:21:04 > 0:21:06- BOTH:- Yeah, man!

0:21:07 > 0:21:09Hogmanay...

0:21:11 > 0:21:15How many sleeps is that, Rab?

0:21:15 > 0:21:18It's not many, is it? It's not many.

0:21:18 > 0:21:20There, there, there.

0:21:21 > 0:21:22Oh, Rab...

0:21:22 > 0:21:27Rab, will Mary let us have a party, you know,

0:21:27 > 0:21:32with that wee disagreement we had last year with the riot squad?

0:21:32 > 0:21:35I guarantee, James, I guarantee it.

0:21:35 > 0:21:38I'll soften her up lovely.

0:21:38 > 0:21:41Look, I've a Chinese takeaway,

0:21:41 > 0:21:45I have...knicker-dropper...

0:21:45 > 0:21:48and I've got Maltesers!

0:21:49 > 0:21:53I've got every angle covered, you know?

0:21:53 > 0:21:56What could possibly get in the way?

0:21:58 > 0:22:01Hello there, Mary, doll.

0:22:01 > 0:22:05Hello, Rab. Look who's staying for Hogmanay.

0:22:05 > 0:22:07- Hello, Rab.- Hello, Rob.

0:22:10 > 0:22:13New Year gatherings can get tetchy. It's...

0:22:13 > 0:22:15HE SPEAKS INDIGENOUS PERUVIAN LANGUAGE

0:22:15 > 0:22:17..to Peru.

0:22:17 > 0:22:20Here, the run-up to the bells is a traditional time

0:22:20 > 0:22:22to knock seven bells out of each other.

0:22:22 > 0:22:25Seconds out, ding-ding!

0:22:25 > 0:22:27Slap, bang, wallop.

0:22:27 > 0:22:28They just have a massive fight.

0:22:28 > 0:22:32And they just arrange a scrap between somebody

0:22:32 > 0:22:35that they don't like, so it gets out all the old aggressions

0:22:35 > 0:22:38so they don't carry that through for the next year.

0:22:38 > 0:22:42Whole villages in the rocky Andes channel their Rocky Balboas

0:22:42 > 0:22:45to take part in a right good Takanakuy,

0:22:45 > 0:22:48meaning "to hit each other".

0:22:48 > 0:22:50That sounds like a good idea.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52I'm surprised that we don't do that

0:22:52 > 0:22:54because I think we would be good at that.

0:22:54 > 0:22:59There's a long tradition of fighting as part of their judicial process,

0:22:59 > 0:23:02as they have a distrust of local government settling their disputes.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05Kind of universal sentiment, that, if you think about it.

0:23:05 > 0:23:06I think that's brilliant.

0:23:06 > 0:23:09If you've got something that you're annoyed with somebody,

0:23:09 > 0:23:10somebody's said or done something,

0:23:10 > 0:23:13you challenge them to a fight, and the first of January it's done.

0:23:13 > 0:23:16How many times have you been at a family gathering,

0:23:16 > 0:23:18it's usually at New Year, and you hear the phrase,

0:23:18 > 0:23:21"I think it's time somebody was told a few home truths"?

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Me and one of my best friends, Aileen,

0:23:23 > 0:23:25her and I had a fight one New Year

0:23:25 > 0:23:29because she wanted to rent Agnes Of God from the video shop

0:23:29 > 0:23:33and I think I wanted to rent the Rocky Horror Show or something,

0:23:33 > 0:23:34it was ridiculous.

0:23:34 > 0:23:36And I've never had a fist fight before,

0:23:36 > 0:23:39but we had a fight round at the shops and I bit her on the head.

0:23:41 > 0:23:43The bouts, featuring all ages,

0:23:43 > 0:23:46act as a form of social catharsis for the locals,

0:23:46 > 0:23:49regardless of them swedging or not.

0:23:49 > 0:23:52You're fighting with your friends. This is before you've had a drink.

0:23:52 > 0:23:55You're getting it out your system. Drink and make up,

0:23:55 > 0:23:56I think that's much better.

0:23:58 > 0:24:00After that it was good, we sorted it out,

0:24:00 > 0:24:02and she was right, Agnes Of God was a smashing film.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05But we saw it in the new year.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12Would we be up for a good punch-up,

0:24:12 > 0:24:14then a cuddle for the bells in Scotland?

0:24:14 > 0:24:17It could work, but then we'd miss all the good stuff on the telly.

0:24:17 > 0:24:21A little drop of mulligatawny soup, Miss Sophie.

0:24:21 > 0:24:23I'm particularly fond of mulligatawny soup, James.

0:24:23 > 0:24:24Yes, I know you are.

0:24:24 > 0:24:28This isn't some long-lost British TV comedy classic.

0:24:28 > 0:24:30This is the sketch Germany loves so much,

0:24:30 > 0:24:33Hogmanay wouldn't be Hogmanay without it.

0:24:33 > 0:24:36The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?

0:24:38 > 0:24:40The same procedure as EVERY year, James.

0:24:40 > 0:24:44Dinner For One's send-up of pickled English aristocracy

0:24:44 > 0:24:48has been shown on German prime-time TV every year since 1963.

0:24:48 > 0:24:53It's one of those classic, like, one-gag, ten-minute stretch-outs.

0:24:53 > 0:24:57The gag is that her ladyship is celebrating her 90th birthday,

0:24:57 > 0:24:59but her friends have long since snuffed it

0:24:59 > 0:25:03so James the butler makes up the numbers.

0:25:03 > 0:25:04Cheerio, Miss Sophie.

0:25:06 > 0:25:08Slainte! I mean...prost.

0:25:11 > 0:25:12Admiral von Schneider.

0:25:12 > 0:25:15There's a safety in that tradition

0:25:15 > 0:25:18and, like, I do wonder if they're still at it.

0:25:18 > 0:25:19They sure are.

0:25:19 > 0:25:21The Germans adore its themes

0:25:21 > 0:25:23of slapstick, celebration and melancholy.

0:25:23 > 0:25:26It captures whatever the German word is for "zeitgeist" on Hogmanay.

0:25:26 > 0:25:28I would love for people to just

0:25:28 > 0:25:31traditionally want to watch the same sketch every year.

0:25:31 > 0:25:33That would make our job really easy, wouldn't it?

0:25:33 > 0:25:36- That would be good. - It'd be good for the royalty fees.

0:25:36 > 0:25:41And the punchline's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser at New Year.

0:25:41 > 0:25:42Eine kleine hint of hanky-panky.

0:25:42 > 0:25:45The same procedure as every year, James?

0:25:46 > 0:25:49Well, I'll do my very best.

0:25:50 > 0:25:52Same as last year?

0:25:53 > 0:25:56One moment, frozen in time for the Germans.

0:25:56 > 0:25:58But there's another place on the planet

0:25:58 > 0:26:01where they were so desperate to start the New Year,

0:26:01 > 0:26:04they altered the space-time continuum

0:26:04 > 0:26:07and made headline news all over the world.

0:26:07 > 0:26:09The South Pacific island nation of Samoa

0:26:09 > 0:26:11is about to perform a magic trick.

0:26:11 > 0:26:14It's going to make a whole day disappear.

0:26:14 > 0:26:17At midnight tonight, its calendar will not change to Friday,

0:26:17 > 0:26:19but to Saturday, December 31st.

0:26:19 > 0:26:22Samoa binned a day. Now, is that allowed?

0:26:22 > 0:26:25Yes, Sanj, you'd better believe it.

0:26:25 > 0:26:30So, for Samoa, Friday December the 30th will never happen.

0:26:31 > 0:26:32Samoa made the news in 2011

0:26:32 > 0:26:35when they wound on their clocks 24 times

0:26:35 > 0:26:37and moved across the date line.

0:26:39 > 0:26:42For Samoans who can't wait for New Year's Eve parties,

0:26:42 > 0:26:45this year, impatience has been rewarded.

0:26:45 > 0:26:48So manuia le tausaga fou to Samoa,

0:26:48 > 0:26:50now one of the first places on the planet

0:26:50 > 0:26:54to celebrate the bells rather than one of the last.

0:26:54 > 0:26:56So they get to be the first ones to party,

0:26:56 > 0:26:58everyone watches them, big celebrations.

0:26:58 > 0:27:03New Year's Eve has come early to Samoa in the South Pacific.

0:27:03 > 0:27:07The tiny nation has moved across the international date line.

0:27:07 > 0:27:10I can't think of any other equivalent madness that's happened.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12It's like a total Jedi mind trick.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14Like, "It's tomorrow. What happened to today?"

0:27:14 > 0:27:18"Well, it is today but it's also tomorrow. It's New Year's Eve."

0:27:18 > 0:27:19It's amazing!

0:27:19 > 0:27:22The problem is that all their pals

0:27:22 > 0:27:26and cousins from American Samoa, obviously connected to America,

0:27:26 > 0:27:29they're still on the same date and time as they were before,

0:27:29 > 0:27:33so they're now celebrating...only 50 miles away but 24 hours later.

0:27:33 > 0:27:35They're like a day behind in this.

0:27:39 > 0:27:42Just imagine if you could celebrate that in Glasgow

0:27:42 > 0:27:45and then go down the motorway and celebrate it in Edinburgh.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48Just imagine what a mess you're going to be at that second New Year.

0:27:48 > 0:27:52Two Hogmanays, two New Years. Do you like Hogmanay?

0:27:52 > 0:27:53Do you want some more?

0:27:53 > 0:27:56Follow the example of Samoa. Genius.

0:27:56 > 0:28:01Hogmanay mega-party double-dunt. Is there a word for that?

0:28:02 > 0:28:04Oh, my God!

0:28:04 > 0:28:06What's the matter, Mother?

0:28:07 > 0:28:10I'm sick o' this Hogmanay caper.

0:28:10 > 0:28:13I could dae wi' a bite to eat.

0:28:13 > 0:28:15I've got a black bun in the oven.

0:28:15 > 0:28:19No. Oh, no, I'd raither stay stairvin'.

0:28:19 > 0:28:23Och, away and get knotted!

0:28:23 > 0:28:26Go on, get stuffed!

0:28:27 > 0:28:29- USING RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION: - Let us examine

0:28:29 > 0:28:32some of the lovely Glaswegian words and phrases

0:28:32 > 0:28:35we have heard in Mattie's kitchen.

0:28:35 > 0:28:38When the young man reveals that he is thirsty,

0:28:38 > 0:28:42Mattie is more than a little concerned.

0:28:42 > 0:28:44With difficulty,

0:28:44 > 0:28:47she utters a traditional Hogmanay cry...

0:29:01 > 0:29:05The young man resents the implication that he is parsimonious

0:29:05 > 0:29:08and he answers his hostess in her native tongue...

0:29:12 > 0:29:15He thereupon places a bottle of wine on the table.

0:29:15 > 0:29:16Alas, Mattie is not impressed.

0:29:16 > 0:29:20She uses a word borrowed from an old Spanish lament...

0:29:24 > 0:29:30She swiftly adds the harsh-sounding Teutonic expletive "bliddiplonk"

0:29:30 > 0:29:32to complete the condemnation...

0:29:48 > 0:29:50Right, stop the trip for a sec.

0:29:50 > 0:29:54All over Scotland, the parties are in full swing

0:29:54 > 0:29:56as we get ready for the big countdown to the bells.

0:29:56 > 0:30:01But, first, a quick New Year's Eve parlour game.

0:30:01 > 0:30:04For a doughnut and a het pint,

0:30:04 > 0:30:08can anyone tell me what Hogmanay means?

0:30:08 > 0:30:10Jane?

0:30:10 > 0:30:12Oh, Hogmanay...

0:30:12 > 0:30:16Well, black bun, shortbread...

0:30:16 > 0:30:18Sorry, Jane, I'm being etymological.

0:30:18 > 0:30:20Where does the word come from?

0:30:22 > 0:30:26Hogmanay, from the old Scots Gaelic Latin "Hogmanay",

0:30:26 > 0:30:29which means...HOGMANAY!

0:30:32 > 0:30:36Hogmanay. Hog... Hogmananay.

0:30:36 > 0:30:39Hogmanay gives you a really, really good score in Scrabble.

0:30:41 > 0:30:43Hog...man...ay.

0:30:43 > 0:30:45I've no idea, mate.

0:30:45 > 0:30:48But there's a lot of words that you don't know where it's come from.

0:30:48 > 0:30:50Houghmagandy?

0:30:50 > 0:30:54There's plenty of that goes on at Hogmanay, that's for sure.

0:30:54 > 0:30:55Umbrella?

0:30:58 > 0:31:00Is there a reason why that's called that?

0:31:00 > 0:31:04Don't expect to see Grado on the New Year's Day QI.

0:31:04 > 0:31:07What you should do, you should get a historian in or something

0:31:07 > 0:31:09to explain it. You certainly shouldnae ask us, because

0:31:09 > 0:31:11- we don't know what Hogmanay means. - Nah, not got a clue.

0:31:11 > 0:31:13We don't know what it means.

0:31:16 > 0:31:19There's a debate about where it comes from,

0:31:19 > 0:31:22whether the origin is Norse, or it's Flemish, or it's French.

0:31:24 > 0:31:29The French is "homme est ne", "man is born". Now, that's fascinating.

0:31:29 > 0:31:33It all seems to be words and phrases that relate to a new beginning,

0:31:33 > 0:31:37or a good day, or a friendship and kinship.

0:31:37 > 0:31:41The Gaelic "ogemaidne," it's got to come from there.

0:31:41 > 0:31:45Scandinavians make the case for their feast of yule, Hoggonott.

0:31:45 > 0:31:47Hoggonott, happy Hoggonott.

0:31:47 > 0:31:50Sounds like a group of superheroes, the Hoggonotts, doesn't it?

0:31:50 > 0:31:51- Or baddies, surely?- Or super-pigs.

0:31:51 > 0:31:54They're baddies, are they no', Hoggonotts?

0:31:54 > 0:31:57Back to our travels on this very special Hoggonott.

0:31:57 > 0:32:00We've checked out how the planet gets rid of the old year,

0:32:00 > 0:32:02we've picked up a few party tips,

0:32:02 > 0:32:04we've bid for a few bear skins on eBay.

0:32:04 > 0:32:07But how should we prepare for the thrill of the new?

0:32:07 > 0:32:08Leave it to chance?

0:32:09 > 0:32:11No way, Jose!

0:32:11 > 0:32:14From South America, to Italy, to Turkey, many believe the colour

0:32:14 > 0:32:18of your underwear - yep, your undercrackers, jockeys, scants,

0:32:18 > 0:32:24bawbags or knick-knacks - irrefutably dictates how your year will pan out.

0:32:24 > 0:32:27Yellow for wealth and red for...?

0:32:28 > 0:32:30Red pants, red equals danger, doesn't it?

0:32:30 > 0:32:33Why would you want any danger attached to that part of your body?

0:32:33 > 0:32:36Underwear footage added for intellectual criticism

0:32:36 > 0:32:38and review purposes only.

0:32:38 > 0:32:41Red pants were supposed to bring you, like, sexy-sexy-time.

0:32:41 > 0:32:45It's going to be all about the love.

0:32:47 > 0:32:49Well, there'll be a lot of big pants in there as well.

0:32:49 > 0:32:52Very, very big pants.

0:32:52 > 0:32:54Lot of luck. Like, a l-o-o-t of luck.

0:32:54 > 0:32:59As any expert in futurology, colour pigmentation or underpants

0:32:59 > 0:33:04will tell you, this tradition stems from red symbolising fertility.

0:33:04 > 0:33:06But why stop there? Whatever you want next year,

0:33:06 > 0:33:10there's a pair of pants that's the right shade to make it happen.

0:33:10 > 0:33:13I personally tend to go for the sort of slightly grey ones

0:33:13 > 0:33:15with the hole in them, you know?

0:33:15 > 0:33:17So I don't know what that's going to bring me.

0:33:17 > 0:33:20I used to play with lucky pants for years and years but by...

0:33:20 > 0:33:21To be honest, by the end,

0:33:21 > 0:33:24the lucky pair of pants weren't keeping anything in.

0:33:24 > 0:33:26I'm currently wearing white pants, so that presumably means

0:33:26 > 0:33:30that I'm just going to have some kind of incredibly virginal year.

0:33:30 > 0:33:32Do you see yourself in a thong?

0:33:32 > 0:33:34I'd gie it a bash.

0:33:34 > 0:33:36Easy, Darren.

0:33:36 > 0:33:39Hogmanay's also a time of sombre reflection and this

0:33:39 > 0:33:43man of the cloth's sombre reflections were nothing short of hilarious.

0:33:44 > 0:33:46Hello.

0:33:49 > 0:33:52Well, here we are again, eh?

0:33:53 > 0:33:56Doesn't time fly when you're excruciatingly happy?

0:33:58 > 0:34:00What a year I've had.

0:34:00 > 0:34:03Honestly, as the...

0:34:03 > 0:34:05What's his name? God...

0:34:10 > 0:34:14As God is my judge, I've had a hell of a year.

0:34:15 > 0:34:19To start with, Ephesia's been telling everybody about her OBE.

0:34:19 > 0:34:22That's her out-of-body experience.

0:34:23 > 0:34:26If only she'd had the sense not to go back in.

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Aye, she told me she left her body

0:34:30 > 0:34:32and floated right up to the ceiling

0:34:32 > 0:34:35and then drifted out the window. God, if only I'd been

0:34:35 > 0:34:38awake at the time I could've nailed the window shut.

0:34:41 > 0:34:44From the reflective to the future.

0:34:44 > 0:34:47It's a gott nytt ar to Scandinavia,

0:34:47 > 0:34:51where they take predicting the new year very seriously indeed.

0:34:51 > 0:34:55- I'm going to go for the bell. - I'm going to go for the pig here.

0:34:56 > 0:34:59It's a bit like an episode of The Wire, isn't it?

0:34:59 > 0:35:01The end of my bell's starting to go.

0:35:01 > 0:35:05This is molybdomancy and it's as good a way as any to try

0:35:05 > 0:35:08and fathom out how the next 12 months will unravel.

0:35:10 > 0:35:13Heat the lead, tip into cold water, hey presto,

0:35:13 > 0:35:16random shapes predict your year ahead.

0:35:16 > 0:35:19Basically, my year's going to go off like a firework, I think.

0:35:19 > 0:35:23That means your limbs are going to separate from your body this year.

0:35:23 > 0:35:25Right, hope for the best here. Here we go.

0:35:27 > 0:35:29Look at that!

0:35:29 > 0:35:32- Mine's a beauty.- Be honest, we've all thought about trying

0:35:32 > 0:35:34something like this during the party season.

0:35:34 > 0:35:37I don't even smoke and I got a big pipe and it means

0:35:37 > 0:35:39be careful, danger approaches.

0:35:39 > 0:35:42Is there anything else we can melt?

0:35:42 > 0:35:44Will we try and get a bit of the carpet up?

0:35:44 > 0:35:48Expect Robert to open his own smelt works in early 2016,

0:35:48 > 0:35:50or get done for arson.

0:35:50 > 0:35:52But back to the big build-up.

0:35:52 > 0:35:55Well, as we leave the hullabaloo of Princes Street,

0:35:55 > 0:35:58you join me here with less than 60 minutes to go

0:35:58 > 0:36:00now to the stroke of midnight.

0:36:00 > 0:36:03I'm here at McGowan Hall, the old folks' home,

0:36:03 > 0:36:06and I'm amongst the old people here who have no family, of course,

0:36:06 > 0:36:08but are still up for a bit of a party!

0:36:08 > 0:36:10ALL CHEER

0:36:10 > 0:36:11With me, Betty McCarrol.

0:36:11 > 0:36:14Betty, are you looking forward to the bells?

0:36:14 > 0:36:19Oh, aye, aye. Hogmanay's a rare time, you know? It's magical.

0:36:19 > 0:36:23It's a time when people should just forget their differences

0:36:23 > 0:36:26and join together in harmony.

0:36:26 > 0:36:28Oh, a lovely sentiment there. Thanks very much, Betty.

0:36:28 > 0:36:31But, tell me, is this going to be the best New Year ever for you?

0:36:31 > 0:36:35Well, it'll have to go some to beat 1941.

0:36:35 > 0:36:38My Charlie was away fighting at the front at that time,

0:36:38 > 0:36:40along with half the street.

0:36:40 > 0:36:45But, see, for us that were left, well, we had a rare hoolie.

0:36:45 > 0:36:49I can mind leaving the front door open to welcome in the New Year,

0:36:49 > 0:36:52you know? And I left the back door open as well

0:36:52 > 0:36:56so that I could nip out to the coal scuttle for a ride.

0:36:56 > 0:36:59See, I could hear all my friends in the lobby singing

0:36:59 > 0:37:03"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,"

0:37:03 > 0:37:07so I just put my Charlie right out my head and got fired right in

0:37:07 > 0:37:11amongst it with big Cafferty, the conscientious objector, you know?

0:37:13 > 0:37:17Aye, Cafferty went to war on me that night, all guns blazing.

0:37:18 > 0:37:22And when the bells chimed, it was out with the old,

0:37:22 > 0:37:26and off with the drawers, and in with the new.

0:37:26 > 0:37:31I suppose you could call big Cafferty my first-foot

0:37:31 > 0:37:34because my Charlie only had a baldy half-incher.

0:37:34 > 0:37:36Right, now, thanks very much, Betty.

0:37:36 > 0:37:39Now we're going back to Princes Street.

0:37:42 > 0:37:44Not long now, folks.

0:37:44 > 0:37:48The clock is ticking, the build-up to the bells,

0:37:48 > 0:37:52when we take a leap into the brand-new year.

0:37:52 > 0:37:56We'd better put the children to bed first. Their time will come.

0:37:56 > 0:37:57In Scotland, of course,

0:37:57 > 0:38:00they have another word for it - they call it Hogmanay.

0:38:00 > 0:38:02Everyone except the children sees the New Year in.

0:38:04 > 0:38:07It's an old Scottish custom to see the New Year in

0:38:07 > 0:38:09with joy unrestrained.

0:38:09 > 0:38:11Did you know Scotland invented the countdown?

0:38:11 > 0:38:14In 16-oatcake when James VI of Scotland

0:38:14 > 0:38:19counted down to become James I of England(!)

0:38:19 > 0:38:22Anyway, counting's easy, isn't it?

0:38:22 > 0:38:24One thing about the countdown is sometimes I get

0:38:24 > 0:38:26so stressed out by the counting.

0:38:26 > 0:38:29Ten, nine, eight... Er...

0:38:29 > 0:38:31Ten, nine, eight!

0:38:31 > 0:38:32One time I restarted.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36Six, five, four...

0:38:36 > 0:38:39- TOGETHER:- Three, two, one!

0:38:39 > 0:38:42CHEERING

0:38:42 > 0:38:43BELL CHIMES

0:38:43 > 0:38:47- Happy New Year!- Happy New Year! - Happy New Year!

0:38:49 > 0:38:51EVERYONE FALLS SILENT

0:38:58 > 0:38:59So...

0:38:59 > 0:39:02- It's flew in, hasn't it? - Yeah.- Aye.

0:39:05 > 0:39:07- Any New Year's resolutions?- Nah.

0:39:07 > 0:39:09- Nah. You?- No.

0:39:12 > 0:39:15- When yous all heading back to work? - THEY START TO SPEAK

0:39:15 > 0:39:17And that's that.

0:39:17 > 0:39:20We've got our awkward conversations to greet the New Year.

0:39:24 > 0:39:27For the rest of the planet, it's a cavalcade of customs.

0:39:27 > 0:39:30Feliz ano nuevo, Espana!

0:39:30 > 0:39:34In Spain, a fruity celebration involves gubbing a grape

0:39:34 > 0:39:38for every bong of the bells to keep you sweet for the next 12 months.

0:39:38 > 0:39:41Far healthier than the traditional 12 slugs of tonic wine.

0:39:41 > 0:39:43Godt nytar to Denmark, where it's good luck

0:39:43 > 0:39:47to smash crockery on your neighbour's doorstep.

0:39:47 > 0:39:50Perfect for getting rid of that bogging plate you got for Christmas.

0:39:50 > 0:39:54And on to the USA to say happy New Year

0:39:54 > 0:39:59to "Noo Yoik", a place where they're waiting on something big going down.

0:39:59 > 0:40:02The ball drop, which I've never quite understood, to be honest.

0:40:02 > 0:40:04IN NEW YORK ACCENT: What's not to understand?!

0:40:04 > 0:40:07The massive glittery orb drops down, already!

0:40:09 > 0:40:12The ball drop is a thing that's just waiting to not work.

0:40:12 > 0:40:16You know, you just wait for that year where it just jams at four.

0:40:16 > 0:40:18Gravity is gravity, I don't... You know. You can celebrate it

0:40:18 > 0:40:21or don't celebrate it, it's going to happen, do you know what I mean?

0:40:21 > 0:40:26The ball drop was originally a way to let ships set their instruments.

0:40:27 > 0:40:30You could slag gravity off to its face, say things about its mum.

0:40:30 > 0:40:34It's not going to stop being gravity. I don't understand why we need to celebrate it.

0:40:34 > 0:40:38Tradition was born when the New York Times Building stuck one

0:40:38 > 0:40:42on its roof in 1907. Today, millions watch it on TV.

0:40:42 > 0:40:45Thousands throng the streets to see the anticlimax in person.

0:40:48 > 0:40:50The ball drop caught on all over America,

0:40:50 > 0:40:53and they've passed it from coast to coast.

0:40:53 > 0:40:56Each big drop allows different states to promote themselves

0:40:56 > 0:41:01and their produce - that means pickles, possums, potatoes

0:41:01 > 0:41:06and even racing cars get slowly lowered while the crowd goes wild.

0:41:06 > 0:41:10And in Florida, they get ten out of ten for thinking outside the box.

0:41:10 > 0:41:14I give you the planet's most fabulous queen of the New Year.

0:41:14 > 0:41:18In Florida, they drop a drag queen in a giant stiletto shoe,

0:41:18 > 0:41:19which I love.

0:41:19 > 0:41:23The Sunshine State's gay community have been dropping the red shoe

0:41:23 > 0:41:26for 20 years in their own unique nod to the iconic ball drop.

0:41:26 > 0:41:29I'm sure I saw Stanley Baxter doing that

0:41:29 > 0:41:31routine in the Edinburgh King's when I was a kid.

0:41:31 > 0:41:34And now feliz ano novo to Brazil,

0:41:34 > 0:41:37where the girls and boys from Ipanema enjoy

0:41:37 > 0:41:41a more superstitious and fashion-conscious celebration.

0:41:41 > 0:41:44MUSIC: The Girl From Ipanema by Frank Sinatra

0:41:46 > 0:41:50Everybody dresses in these gorgeous white linen outfits.

0:41:50 > 0:41:52They go down to the seashore at midnight

0:41:52 > 0:41:56and then they throw gifts to the sea god.

0:41:56 > 0:42:00Fling, erm, into the water, and it's important that they don't come back,

0:42:00 > 0:42:03cos if they come back, that's it, your whole year's knackered.

0:42:03 > 0:42:07So one mistimed throw, it's like the end of your year.

0:42:07 > 0:42:10It's all very well, if you're in Brazil, of course you're going to

0:42:10 > 0:42:13worship the sea goddess, it's beautiful down on the beach there.

0:42:13 > 0:42:16You know, I challenge them to come to Troon with an ice cream

0:42:16 > 0:42:18and getting lashed by Bank Holiday waves.

0:42:18 > 0:42:21You're not going to worship anyone, are you?

0:42:21 > 0:42:23Unless you worship the god of sleet.

0:42:23 > 0:42:25What about the god of snogs?

0:42:25 > 0:42:28It's felice anno nuovo to the smoochers of Venice.

0:42:28 > 0:42:31This is Venice's New Year's kissathon,

0:42:31 > 0:42:34a winchfest promoting the city as the world's most romantic.

0:42:34 > 0:42:37It's a mass tribute to tonsil hockey.

0:42:37 > 0:42:40Think of the chapped lips if you were doing that in George Square.

0:42:40 > 0:42:42Freezing, slobbery mouths.

0:42:42 > 0:42:45MUSIC: Kiss Me by Sixpence None The Richer

0:42:45 > 0:42:47There's a few folk just doing wee sneaky looks at the camera

0:42:47 > 0:42:49as well, like, "Are you getting this? Are you?"

0:42:49 > 0:42:53I've definitely had a few New Year kisses!

0:42:53 > 0:42:55- IMITATES KISSING - C'mere, you.

0:42:55 > 0:42:57I've been waitin' all year for this.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05So there's some things we all share,

0:43:05 > 0:43:09some things we'd run a mile from, but one thing we all join in with.

0:43:09 > 0:43:10# Should auld acquaint...? #

0:43:10 > 0:43:13- HE WHISTLES - Auld Lang Syne time, come on.

0:43:13 > 0:43:15# Should auld acquaintance...

0:43:15 > 0:43:18# Be forgot and never brought to mind? #

0:43:18 > 0:43:23OVERLAPPING SINGING

0:43:23 > 0:43:26# For auld lang syne...

0:43:26 > 0:43:29- QUICKLY:- # For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne...

0:43:29 > 0:43:34# We'll tak' a cup o' kindness, dear, for auld lang syne. #

0:43:34 > 0:43:36- Is that right?- No.

0:43:36 > 0:43:37No? OK, there you go, then.

0:43:37 > 0:43:40I always cry at Auld Lang Syne, you know?

0:43:40 > 0:43:42The words mean so much, you know,

0:43:42 > 0:43:45and it's always about who you're with, I suppose,

0:43:45 > 0:43:48and it's just always an emotional time.

0:43:53 > 0:43:58There's something about that moment, just after the bells, you know,

0:43:58 > 0:44:00when you all join hands and you sing it

0:44:00 > 0:44:02and it's a really fantastic moment.

0:44:06 > 0:44:10And you're linked to every New Year party you ever had

0:44:10 > 0:44:13since you remember New Year parties and every...

0:44:13 > 0:44:16all the grown-ups singing Auld Lang Syne and you, you know,

0:44:16 > 0:44:19holding hands and surrounded by big people

0:44:19 > 0:44:22who are singing Auld Lang Syne. It's a magical, magical moment.

0:44:23 > 0:44:25There is that, Alex.

0:44:25 > 0:44:26TEARFULLY: Speak for all of us.

0:44:26 > 0:44:29Sorry, where are we? I'll be OK in a moment.

0:44:29 > 0:44:33# Should auld acquaintance be forgot and, er...

0:44:34 > 0:44:35# ..Auld lang syne! #

0:44:37 > 0:44:39Midnight's fast approaching.

0:44:39 > 0:44:42All over the planet, they salute 12 bells

0:44:42 > 0:44:44with a riot of fireworks.

0:44:44 > 0:44:46OK, they look good.

0:44:46 > 0:44:49If that was going on in your garden, you wouldn't shut your curtains.

0:44:49 > 0:44:53But with these displays they make you stand a safe distance away.

0:44:53 > 0:44:58Only in Scotland does "firework" actually mean you work the fire.

0:44:59 > 0:45:01Check out these daredevils.

0:45:01 > 0:45:04All hail the swingers of Stonehaven!

0:45:08 > 0:45:10Stonehaven, flaming balls.

0:45:13 > 0:45:16I don't think the phrase "flaming balls" and Hogmanay

0:45:16 > 0:45:18is something you want to associate.

0:45:18 > 0:45:20I mean, you do meet strangers and things happen,

0:45:20 > 0:45:23but if you're waking up the next day talking about the flaming balls,

0:45:23 > 0:45:24time to go to the doctor.

0:45:27 > 0:45:30There's this school of thought that our Hogmanay is very much

0:45:30 > 0:45:33based on this Pagan Viking celebration.

0:45:36 > 0:45:40The Vikings aren't only associated with our fire festivals.

0:45:40 > 0:45:43So now the folks go off to first-foot their friends,

0:45:43 > 0:45:45a prime call in the New Year

0:45:45 > 0:45:48with salutations and, of course, celebrations.

0:45:48 > 0:45:51We're a superstitious nation, touch wood.

0:45:51 > 0:45:52KNOCKING Gonnae get that?

0:45:54 > 0:45:56Happy New Year. Tall, dark, handsome, first-foot.

0:45:56 > 0:45:58Can I come and all? I'm his pal.

0:46:03 > 0:46:04I love first-footing.

0:46:04 > 0:46:07I love that whole thing of coming round with a lump of coal,

0:46:07 > 0:46:09something to eat, and a wee drink,

0:46:09 > 0:46:11because that's like a kind of microcosm

0:46:11 > 0:46:15of what you want to happen for the coming year, you know?

0:46:15 > 0:46:17Plenty of heat, plenty to eat, and plenty to drink.

0:46:17 > 0:46:20First-footing, that was a very, very important thing.

0:46:22 > 0:46:26The first person through your door after midnight needs to be

0:46:26 > 0:46:28a kind of tall, dark stranger.

0:46:28 > 0:46:31I'm tall, dark, and you're not going to get much stranger, are you?

0:46:31 > 0:46:33Well, I'll bring a little bit of good luck

0:46:33 > 0:46:34because I'm a short, dark stranger.

0:46:34 > 0:46:39People say that the alternative is somebody with long blond hair

0:46:39 > 0:46:42and an axe, ie, a Viking raider.

0:46:42 > 0:46:45They must bring coal and they must have dark hair,

0:46:45 > 0:46:48so it was always my friend Eilidh across the road,

0:46:48 > 0:46:49so she would always do that.

0:46:49 > 0:46:51It had to be a man.

0:46:51 > 0:46:54It's bad luck if it's a woman that comes? That's terrible.

0:46:54 > 0:46:57Oh, no, that's what... That's what I've been doing wrong.

0:46:57 > 0:47:00That's 45 years I've had bad luck.

0:47:00 > 0:47:03From now, from this year, Eilidh... That's her.

0:47:03 > 0:47:07Never again will she darken my door at five past 12.

0:47:13 > 0:47:15It was really hard when you went into somebody's house

0:47:15 > 0:47:18and they looked at you and went, "Oh, no, not you."

0:47:18 > 0:47:21My mother said, "Right, Dorothy's coming after the bells

0:47:21 > 0:47:24"with her new boyfriend so that'll be fine."

0:47:24 > 0:47:26Knocked on the door, my mother opened it,

0:47:26 > 0:47:28- and she went, "Oh, come in." - FORCED LAUGHTER

0:47:28 > 0:47:32She turned to my faither, "The bugger's got red hair."

0:47:32 > 0:47:35FAST GIBBERISH

0:47:35 > 0:47:38In the past, strangers could just go in and out of people's houses.

0:47:38 > 0:47:40Everybody should just, this Hogmanay,

0:47:40 > 0:47:42get your doors unlocked, right?

0:47:42 > 0:47:45Get the windows open, get the lights on, get the windows open,

0:47:45 > 0:47:47just shout at strangers, "Come in." Whatever.

0:47:47 > 0:47:49I don't think you need the lights on to invite people in.

0:47:49 > 0:47:51- I think you could... - How do they see? How do they see?

0:47:51 > 0:47:53You just go to your window and just open it up a wee bit

0:47:53 > 0:47:56and go like, "Mate, mate...

0:47:56 > 0:47:58"Come here, c'mon in."

0:47:58 > 0:48:01People would go for that. "In yous come.

0:48:01 > 0:48:04"C'mon. Wee party in the dark."

0:48:04 > 0:48:05Fair play to you, Iain,

0:48:05 > 0:48:08for trying to pioneer an alternative Hogmanay ritual,

0:48:08 > 0:48:10or maybe it's an old Burnistoun custom.

0:48:10 > 0:48:15The point is, we all love to party like there's no tomorrow.

0:48:17 > 0:48:19Morning. How are you?

0:48:22 > 0:48:25GROANING

0:48:27 > 0:48:30What... What time is it?

0:48:30 > 0:48:31- Er... Back of 11.- Oh.

0:48:33 > 0:48:34What...

0:48:34 > 0:48:37CUTLERY RATTLING

0:48:38 > 0:48:39What day is it?

0:48:39 > 0:48:41It's New Year's Day.

0:48:44 > 0:48:45What year?

0:48:47 > 0:48:50We had a party. Do you not remember?

0:48:50 > 0:48:53Oh, no. Have you seen my car keys?

0:48:53 > 0:48:54What car?

0:48:54 > 0:48:56My BMW in the drive there.

0:48:56 > 0:48:58Oh, that car, aye.

0:48:58 > 0:49:01The one you lost in the card game?

0:49:04 > 0:49:06What... What-what card game?

0:49:06 > 0:49:08- Do you no' remember?- No.

0:49:08 > 0:49:10Big Eddie had a full house.

0:49:10 > 0:49:11And what did I have?

0:49:11 > 0:49:13Mrs Bun the Baker's Wife.

0:49:16 > 0:49:18Oh, my God.

0:49:18 > 0:49:21I don't, I don't believe... I don't...

0:49:21 > 0:49:23Here, wait a minute.

0:49:23 > 0:49:24This isnae my house.

0:49:24 > 0:49:28No, this is my house. Do you no' remember?

0:49:28 > 0:49:31Your house burnt doon,

0:49:31 > 0:49:33just after you set off the fireworks

0:49:33 > 0:49:36and after you told me you hadn't any insurance

0:49:36 > 0:49:39and just before the fire brigade arrived and ran over your dug.

0:49:41 > 0:49:45Oh, no, I cannae believe all that.

0:49:45 > 0:49:47Oh, come on, come on.

0:49:47 > 0:49:50Look on the bright side - look what you won in the raffle.

0:49:55 > 0:49:58Ugh, it's the morning after the night before.

0:49:58 > 0:50:01Celebrations are still ringing in your ears.

0:50:01 > 0:50:03How do you clear your head?

0:50:05 > 0:50:08Back to Italia, where they answer the age-old question,

0:50:08 > 0:50:11"If I jumped off a bridge, would you do it?"

0:50:11 > 0:50:13Seven for the technique,

0:50:13 > 0:50:14eight for the hair,

0:50:14 > 0:50:16nine for the Speedos,

0:50:16 > 0:50:19and a perfect ten for doing a high dive like this

0:50:19 > 0:50:21while sooking in your stomach.

0:50:21 > 0:50:24In the USA, there's the Polar Bear Club,

0:50:24 > 0:50:27which is a kind of winter swimming thing.

0:50:27 > 0:50:30And Russia's hardy souls cut holes in the ice.

0:50:31 > 0:50:33Loony behaviour?

0:50:33 > 0:50:35THIS is loony behaviour.

0:50:35 > 0:50:36The great Queensferry Loony Dook.

0:50:36 > 0:50:39Bracing and practical - with the bridge shut,

0:50:39 > 0:50:41it's the quickest way across the Forth.

0:50:41 > 0:50:43I get the idea of cleansing.

0:50:43 > 0:50:45A fresh start, I mean,

0:50:45 > 0:50:48that's kind of, I guess, what New Year should be about.

0:50:51 > 0:50:55I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the hell you would

0:50:55 > 0:50:58want to run out in your underpants and jump into freezing water.

0:50:58 > 0:51:01There's always one guy that's like, "I'm into this."

0:51:01 > 0:51:03He's probably the most into it when you get to the beach.

0:51:03 > 0:51:05"I'm into this. We're diving into the water!

0:51:05 > 0:51:06"This is going to be amazing.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08"Go!" He never jumps in.

0:51:08 > 0:51:10No danger.

0:51:11 > 0:51:14But if you're still chasing extreme thrills,

0:51:14 > 0:51:19there is one ultimate destination to exorcise your New Year demons.

0:51:19 > 0:51:23The one place on Earth that they're still having a ba'.

0:51:23 > 0:51:28Time to say happy New Year to the hardy folk of Orkney

0:51:28 > 0:51:31and get stuck into the ba' game.

0:51:31 > 0:51:34Let's play ba'.

0:51:35 > 0:51:38The game's been going for over 100 years.

0:51:38 > 0:51:41The streets are shut, the town becomes the pitch,

0:51:41 > 0:51:44and Kirkwall is split into twa teams.

0:51:44 > 0:51:47The Uppies need to get the ba' to a wall in the south,

0:51:47 > 0:51:49the Doonies have to get it to the harbour.

0:51:49 > 0:51:54How's that for a ba' drop? Eat your heart out, Times Square.

0:51:54 > 0:51:57And the rule book has one rule in it -

0:51:57 > 0:51:59there are no rules.

0:51:59 > 0:52:03The game lasts eight hours and, as for injury time,

0:52:03 > 0:52:05it's all injury time.

0:52:05 > 0:52:08That is just like a big... a big melee, to be honest.

0:52:08 > 0:52:09I don't have the endurance for it.

0:52:11 > 0:52:15I don't know what formation they're playing.

0:52:15 > 0:52:17It'll be 60-20-20, won't it?

0:52:17 > 0:52:18The wing-backs pushing forward.

0:52:18 > 0:52:21500 in the front line and then maybe one.

0:52:21 > 0:52:23- That's naive. - Just get everyone in there.

0:52:23 > 0:52:25Some people are on the pitch!

0:52:25 > 0:52:27They think it's all over, it is now.

0:52:27 > 0:52:29And it's nice to know that on the first of January

0:52:29 > 0:52:32the first foot you're going to get is a boot in the nadgers.

0:52:32 > 0:52:35Scotland - Hogmanay world champions.

0:52:37 > 0:52:39And there you have it, folks.

0:52:39 > 0:52:41We've shone a light on how the world celebrates New Year,

0:52:41 > 0:52:44traditions old and new.

0:52:44 > 0:52:46Maybe there's a universal truth in there.

0:52:46 > 0:52:49We're all just looking for love.

0:52:50 > 0:52:52Or food. Or strong drink.

0:52:52 > 0:52:55Or a square go, or all of the above.

0:52:55 > 0:52:59But wherever you're at on the planet this Hogmanay, have a good yin.

0:52:59 > 0:53:00Resolutions?

0:53:00 > 0:53:03I'm going to eat exclusively Wham bars and Pot Noodles.

0:53:03 > 0:53:05I'm going to be the first person in the New Year

0:53:05 > 0:53:06to blow a raspberry, ken?

0:53:06 > 0:53:08Ken, one of them.

0:53:08 > 0:53:10"Good for you. Good for you. That's a great idea.

0:53:10 > 0:53:12"Oh, that's... It's not going to be easy but you'll do it.

0:53:12 > 0:53:13"I know you'll do it."

0:53:13 > 0:53:15Resolutions?

0:53:15 > 0:53:18I kind of want to dress as a bear now and set fire to stuff.

0:53:22 > 0:53:25If you want something different, the world is your oyster,

0:53:25 > 0:53:29but there's nothing like coming home, friends, family.

0:53:29 > 0:53:31That's what it's about.

0:53:38 > 0:53:40Anyone I know that comes to Scotland will say,

0:53:40 > 0:53:42"Oh, you guys know how to do Hogmanay.

0:53:42 > 0:53:44"You guys know how to do New Year's Eve, don't you?"

0:53:44 > 0:53:46Because we do do it very, very well.

0:53:50 > 0:53:54At the heart of it, there are more things I think that unite us

0:53:54 > 0:53:58and, just in that moment, nothing else matters.

0:53:58 > 0:54:00Suddenly, we're all Scottish.

0:54:03 > 0:54:05Well, I'll leave you with this thought.

0:54:07 > 0:54:11Look to your fellow man, your neighbour. Love him and trust him.

0:54:11 > 0:54:13He will not fail you, and together

0:54:13 > 0:54:18you will go forward to a bigger, better, brighter future

0:54:18 > 0:54:19than ever before.

0:54:21 > 0:54:23If you can believe that,

0:54:23 > 0:54:25you can believe anything.

0:54:28 > 0:54:31- Six, four, three, two, one, happy... - BLOWS RASPBERRY

0:54:34 > 0:54:36Happy New Year...

0:54:50 > 0:54:53CHEERING, BELLS