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-In a recent survey of mankind's

-most important inventions...

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-..what do you think topped the poll?

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-The wheel?

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-The steam engine?

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-No, the toilet.

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-It's one of mankind's

-most important inventions.

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-People live longer

-in societies that have toilets.

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-In the first programme, we saw

-early attempts at providing toilets.

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-Some are still used today.

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-Today, we look at how flush toilets

-became common in Wales...

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-..and all over the world.

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-In the last programme, we saw

-how the latest flush toilets...

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-..had reached Westminster

-by the 1870s.

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-At that time, they were also found

-in Wales's grandest homes...

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-..like Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor.

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-But the new toilets

-weren't accepted immediately.

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-Some aristocrats

-preferred to use a chamber pot...

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-..and get servants to empty it.

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-The upper classes even brought

-chamber pots into the dining room.

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-They were kept in specially designed

-cupboards until needed...

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-..just to save the bother

-of going to the garden or loo.

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-Centuries-old customs

-weren't going to change overnight.

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-This cupboard was still used...

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-..even after a flush toilet

-was installed at Penrhyn Castle.

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-So what persuaded aristocrats

-to change their ways?

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-How did toilets become common

-in the homes of all social classes?

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-The answer is in Stoke-on-Trent,

-still the ceramic world's capital.

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-There used to be 2,000 kilns

-like these in Stoke.

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-In the 19th century...

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-..it also became

-the capital of the toilet...

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-..as I saw

-when I visited this museum.

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-Here in Stoke,

-a whole industry evolved...

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-..to supply new customers

-with toilets.

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-As manufacturers competed,

-prices came down...

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-..and the technology improved.

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-By the 1880s, many manufacturers

-had taken the final step...

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-..towards producing a toilet

-for the mass market.

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-The S-bend was integrated into

-one self-standing ceramic piece.

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-It didn't smell or leak and it was

-comparatively cheap to manufacture.

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-This is the predecessor

-of the modern toilet.

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-This model, the Unitas,

-sold in its millions...

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-..not only in Britain,

-but all over the world.

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-Even today, the Russian word

-for toilet bowl is "unitas".

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-At the end of the Victorian age...

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-..several toilet manufacturers

-came to prominence.

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-Thomas Twyford, George Jennings...

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-..Armitage Shanks.

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-I'm sure there's one name

-you thought I'd include...

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-..Thomas Crapper.

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-But Thomas Crapper

-didn't invent the toilet.

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-The word crap

-didn't derive from his name.

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-Thomas Crapper didn't make toilets.

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-His master stroke

-was to ensure that his name...

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-..was prominent

-on every toilet and cistern...

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-..produced by others

-for him to sell to the public.

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-The public linked the name Crapper

-with their purchase.

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-As a marketing man,

-Thomas Crapper was unrivalled.

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-In the 19th century, as flush

-toilets became more popular...

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-..some homeowners wanted to benefit

-from the new technology.

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-But some of them found

-that space was limited.

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-One popular solution

-here in Tenby...

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-..was to build a toilet

-on the side of the building...

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-..suspended in mid-air, as it were.

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-They have been described

-as "the hanging toilets of Tenby".

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-If toilets were becoming the norm

-in middle-class homes...

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-..what about the working classes?

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-This is Hurst Street, Birmingham.

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-Similar courts were common

-in Welsh towns a century ago too.

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-Seventy families

-shared three toilets.

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-They often had to queue.

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-Hygiene standards were dependent

-on the other families.

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-Rubbish was also left

-in these courts.

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-So they were shared

-with other families...

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-..and probably with cockroaches,

-spiders and rats too.

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-Until the 1960s and the 1970s,

-this was the toilet...

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-..for many town dwellers

-all over Britain.

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-To find out what sharing a toilet

-was like, I met Anne and Ted...

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-..who grew up in a back-to-back

-like this in the 1950s.

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-In night time, it would be dark,

-no electric lights or gaslight.

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-Not even in the yard.

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-Not even in the yard.

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-No.

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-You'd take your friend, brother or

-sister to go over the yard with you.

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-If it was dark, you wouldn't go on

-your own - that's apart from rats.

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-It was also a play area

-for the children.

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-It was just another space

-within the complex.

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-This lady, if you did anything

-wrong, she'd always tell you off.

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-So when we knew she was going to the

-toilet, we'd nip on the toilet roof.

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-We waited until we thought she was

-sitting down, then hit the roof.

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-That cures the constipation.

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-Public toilets helped to popularize

-the new flush technology.

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-At the 1851 Great Exhibition

-in London...

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-..the toilets designed by George

-Jennings attracted attention.

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-Three years later, Jennings designed

-the first underground toilet...

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-..also in London.

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-In 1898, his company built

-this splendid underground toilet...

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-..in The Hayes,

-in Cardiff city centre.

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-It's splendid here.

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-There's an almost imperious

-confidence to the design...

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-..reflecting Britain's

-global status at that time.

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-These luxurious marble urinals

-are delightful...

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-..and wrap around you

-like a warm topcoat.

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-Look at the small targets.

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-You can aim at them

-to get the precise angle...

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-..and not splash back on yourself.

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-It cost a penny to use them.

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-That was probably the source

-of the saying "to spend a penny".

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-Public toilets still cost a penny

-until decimalization in 1971.

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-Nothing else probably cost

-the same price for 120 years.

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-Everywhere you look,

-there are details and luxury...

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-..that you'd expect in a public

-space like a church or a museum.

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-But by this time,

-toilets were publicly accepted.

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-The city's leaders allowed

-their names to be linked...

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-..to a project of this kind...

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-..because it was a temple

-to hygiene, a palatial toilet.

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-They were probably built underground

-because of a lack of space.

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-Toilets are still hidden away now.

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-This is an example of an Urilift

-in London's Westminster.

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-It's an attempt

-to stop antisocial people...

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-..from passing water in doorways

-after being drinking.

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-It appears

-when pubs open at night...

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-..then sinks back

-into the pavement at dawn.

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-But women wouldn't be comfortable

-using it, would they?

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-It's a common complaint that there

-are never enough toilets for women.

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-I discussed this in Caernarfon

-with Jenny, Siwan and Mali.

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-There's always a longer queue

-outside the Ladies.

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-I admit I have jumped the queue

-and gone to the men's toilet.

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-And put a lot of toilet paper

-on the seat!

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-But why is there a longer queue?

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-The Ladies is a social place.

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-You see people you haven't seen

-that evening in the toilet.

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-It's a meeting place.

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-It's a meeting place.

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-You have a gossip and chat there.

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-To try to speed things up,

-Cofi Roc has installed...

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-..three Lady P urinals

-in the women's toilet.

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-I've often looked at it

-but I don't know how to use it!

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-Do you actually stand there,

-like a man?

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-I've never had a pee standing up!

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-I have. It's really hard.

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-But how hard is it?

-There's only one way to find out.

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-I've never done this before.

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-Down we went to the Ladies.

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-What's difficult about that?

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-It's not very private.

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-It's not very private.

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-There's no door.

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-It's a bit exposed.

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-It's a bit exposed.

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-Yes.

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-I've read a little about these!

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-Apparently,

-the psychology behind it...

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-..is that walls give you some cover

-so you don't feel totally exposed.

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-The idea is

-to make people go faster.

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-It wouldn't make me go faster.

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-I'd be paranoid about who passed.

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-The Lady P isn't the only

-unusual toilet in Cofi Roc.

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-This is much more popular

-with the girls.

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-Here it is.

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-Here it is.

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-Two!

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-This is where it all happens.

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-This is where it all happens.

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-Yes!

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-If the walls could talk!

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-If the walls could talk!

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-True.

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-We need more of these.

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-We need more of these.

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-More toilets in one cubicle?

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-Three or four.

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-Three or four.

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-That'd be good.

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-And have a proper chat.

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-You wouldn't see that in the Gents.

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-You must talk about something.

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-You must talk about something.

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-It wouldn't happen.

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-Everyone is like this.

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-OK?

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-Then you go.

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-Let's get out!

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-Thank you.

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-Ooh!

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-The women's urinal

-came from Holland.

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-After the break, I'm in Amsterdam...

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-..to seek more developments

-in public toilets.

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-I also visit Japan to see

-some really sophisticated loos.

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-After talking the drawbacks

-in Wales's public toilets...

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-..I've come to Holland to see

-if the situation's better here.

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-The first places I saw

-were designed only for men.

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-These are called pisbak

-or pissijn.

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-But the city also has

-more sophisticated toilets.

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-2theloo provides public toilets...

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-..on Holland and Belgium's

-busiest streets.

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-It costs an euro to use them,

-but you get a 50 cent credit...

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-..to spend in the shop or cafe

-on the same site.

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-Every toilet has a different design.

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-But each one is spotless.

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-I wonder if they'd like to run

-the toilets in the Eisteddfod.

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-Seeing how the designers made

-each cubicle look so different...

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-..made me think how our toilets

-developed to look as they do today.

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-The earliest toilets needed

-a complicated flushing mechanism.

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-It was often hidden in a wooden box.

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-But when the design

-integrating the bowl and S-bend...

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-..was perfected in the 1880s...

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-..there was nothing to hide.

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-Manufacturers competed

-to produce the handsomest toilets.

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-Some were finely decorated,

-like huge soup tureens.

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-Some were shaped like fish.

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-After the Great War, plain toilets

-like this one were the fashion.

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-This, the British Standard,

-dates back to the 1920s.

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-Without too close an inspection,

-it looks like a modern toilet.

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-The exterior looked plainer,

-as did the interior.

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-This design is called washdown.

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-Waste falls into the water

-and is washed down.

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-Before the Great War,

-another design was in vogue...

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-..namely the washout.

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-The hole isn't in the back,

-it's in the front.

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-Waste falls into a shallow pool

-of water on a shelf.

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-That meant less splashing,

-but more of a smell...

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-..because waste

-wasn't immediately covered by water.

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-Then it was flushed out,

-the washout.

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-This design was very popular

-in Britain until the Great War.

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-We don't have it now, but it's still

-popular in Holland and Germany.

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-The design has one other problem,

-if you're a man.

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-When you pee,

-it comes back towards you.

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-You could splash everywhere.

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-So here, you're advised to do

-what is called "sitzpinkeln".

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-To pee sitting down.

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-Men's tendency to splash

-encouraged toilet manufacturers...

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-..to provide targets to aim for.

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-We saw that this Cardiff toilet

-has rings.

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-This one in Amsterdam

-appeals to the golfer in us.

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-In Tokyo, they encourage men

-to extinguish the flame.

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-Some Victorian urinals

-had bees on them.

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-This was a rather intellectual joke

-at a time when everyone knew Latin.

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-The Latin word for bee...

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-..is "apis".

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-What about the future?

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-What kind of toilet will our

-children and grandchildren have?

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-In this London nightclub,

-they've tried to evoke the future.

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-The toilets look like something

-from a sci-fi story.

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-But when you open the door...

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-..you see a design that hasn't

-changed much for over a century.

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-To see how the flush toilet

-can really go to the next level...

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-..we must go to Japan.

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-At first, this toilet

-looks rather complicated.

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-By Japanese standards,

-it's quite simple.

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-The seat warms your backside.

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-This button makes it hotter

-or colder, as you wish.

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-This controls the mechanism

-that washes your backside.

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-I'll put my hand here, so the

-machine thinks my backside's there.

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-If I press this...

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-Oh!

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-Water comes out

-to wash your bottom!

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-I wasn't quite ready for that.

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-It runs for quite a while.

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-When I first came here...

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-..it took a few days to pluck up

-the courage to give it a go.

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-But now, I can see myself

-having one at home.

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-How do I stop it?

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-My backside would stop

-all this water coming out.

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-As well as a love

-for the latest technology...

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-..the Japanese also love simplicity.

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-So what has driven them

-to improve the toilet's design?

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-Is it their love for technology,

-or something deeper...

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-..their belief

-in the importance of self-cleansing?

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-I'm meeting an architect

-who designs public toilets...

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-..Junko Kobayashi.

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-Her office is next door

-to this temple...

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-..where we talked about her work.

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-Is there a Japanese tradition

-of designing toilets?

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-Personally, I believe

-that simplicity and silence...

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-..are great virtues.

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-But I also like to have fun...

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-..and have things around me

-that cheer me up.

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-When designing professionally...

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-..I design toilets

-for a specific location and context.

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-I have to keep this in mind...

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-..as well as the desire

-to create a haven of perfection.

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-The desire to create

-the perfect toilet...

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-..reflects something deep

-in Japanese culture.

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-Here's a quotation from an essay

-about Japanese architecture...

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-..written by Junichiro Tanizaki

-in the 1930s.

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-"Anyone with a love of traditional

-architecture would agree...

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-"..that the Japanese toilet

-exemplifies perfection.

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-"I love being in a toilet,

-listening to rain gently falling.

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-"It's the perfect place to hear

-grasshoppers, birds warbling...

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-"..to watch the moon...

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-"..to enjoy those bitter-sweet

-moments noting the seasons' passing.

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-"Looking at Japanese architecture...

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-"..one could claim that the toilets

-have the purest aesthetics."

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-So how has Junko Kobayashi adapted

-the ancient love of simplicity...

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-..to the present age?

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-One has to remove clothes,

-or partly, at least...

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-..to sit on the toilet.

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-You can't move around a lot.

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-So everything has to be

-within easy reach of the toilet.

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-That's why I compare the toilet

-to an aeroplane cockpit.

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-I try to design toilets that

-are high-tech, but easy to use...

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-..when space is limited.

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-The Japanese enjoy their toilets.

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-The way they've embraced

-all the technical potential...

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-..and developed advanced toilets

-says a lot about them.

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-In the next programme,

-I return to Britain...

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-..to attend

-the Golden Poo Awards in London.

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-What does that say about us?

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-"What a feeling, on the bog

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-"The next day

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-"To crap a hedgehog"

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-LAUGHTER

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-I discuss toilet humour, and attend

-the World Toilet Congress in China.

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-To make good hygiene practice

-a shared responsibility.

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