How Are You It's Alan (Partridge) Season 1 Episode 2

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00:00Alan Partridge

00:30One that flows from the teats of this wonderful beast

00:33The glorious kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoys a thriving camel milk sector

00:38With products including milk, cheese, yoghurt, gelato, leban and other derivatives

00:44I've tried them all and I can tell you they really are delicious

00:48Cheers!

00:52That kind of thing? Go again?

00:54And do as many as you like until I have pleased you

00:56I spent 12 months in Saudi fronting everything from Happy Birthday Crown Prince

01:01To today at the Riyadh Stock Exchange

01:03But far from selling my mouth to the highest bidder

01:06I talk because it makes me feel good

01:08Which makes me wonder

01:10Could talking be the key to better mental health?

01:13Welcome to How Are You?

01:16It's Alan Partridge

01:19How are you?

01:21The final then of the year 9 200 metres

01:25Naeswith, Velocottsin, John Atwell, Wu and Douglas Hyde

01:30In this series I'm exploring the mental health of the nation

01:33In association with Flench & Son tanning centres

01:36Today I'm lending my commentary skills to the annual sports gala at All Hallows School in Norfolk

01:42The borders here come from a long line of stiff upper lips

01:46And I'm wondering, has not talking about their problems ever done them any harm?

01:51Good to see a few handshakes, the firm grip of beautifully brought up boys

01:54When they tame their marks of course the conviviality ends

01:57The school motto, triumphans et invictus, never being more pertinent

02:02Latin for triumphant and unconquered

02:04Which some see as a bit hateful

02:06But you don't produce the leaders of tomorrow

02:08With mottos about being kind and helpful to people you don't know

02:12And they take their marks

02:14The year 9 200 metre dash

02:16Sponsored by hibiscus wealth management

02:18Shaping dreams, securing futures

02:20Lesser schools use a klaxon

02:23Here of course we're allowed to use a starting pistol

02:25Safe in the knowledge

02:27But they won't fall into the wrong hands

02:29And be used to hold up a post office

02:31And they're off!

02:32All these boys racing with each other

02:33But they've already won the race of life by going to a fee paying school

02:35Douglas Hyde in the lead

02:36Douglas Hyde looks about 25 years old

02:38Obviously post pubescent

02:39Nothing wrong with that

02:40Douglas Hyde wins the race

02:41For the boys it's a chance to both strive for sporting excellence

02:45And glimpse parents they've not seen since the Easter holidays

02:48Parents who've worked up a thirst

02:50Do pay a visit to the champagne tent

02:53Sponsored by Jupiter Asset Management

02:55Recruiting the best and brightest for a better tomorrow

02:59And anyone who thinks that sounds a bit stuffy

03:02Let me tell you there'll also be a live performance

03:05From five piece school rock band Riot Shield

03:09And they'll be performing in the Benjamin Britten Music Centre

03:12Some see boarding school as a way of subcontracting parenting to strangers

03:17And whilst that's literally true

03:19What would you rather have?

03:20A mopey joe traipsing round the house leaving the lids off jars

03:24Or a well connected asset who adds value to the family

03:27Ask them what they feel

03:29And I'm sure they'll say that feelings are something to lock in a tiffin box under the bed

03:32Along with biscuits and letters from mum

03:34No they do just fine with their stiff upper lips

03:38Our country's future is safe in the hands of these wonderful fee paying boys

03:43Cheers!

03:44Cheers!

03:45And how dare their parents be made to pay VAT

03:50Personally I love to talk whether it's to an audience of millions or an audience of one

03:55Here I am recording personalised messages for fans

03:58Happy 49th birthday Penelope! What a day!

04:01To get your decree nysi from your divorce

04:04And planning permission for your barn conversion on the same day

04:07Gotta be sweet!

04:08Hello Sheila, I know you can't be here

04:10But Brian's told me to show you the chickens

04:12There's a ginger one pecking at my toe

04:14Look at that

04:15There's a sort of tan one

04:17Okay

04:18That's it

04:19A hundred quid

04:22It's a nice little earner

04:24But what's interesting is how willing people are to talk about

04:26Almost any subject apart from mental health

04:30So what does the data say?

04:32In a fascinating study by Pairtree Analytics

04:35When asked if they found it hard to talk about their problems

04:3875% said they did

04:4012% said they didn't know

04:42Which is a pointless answer

04:44And Norfolk is more affected than most

04:46With farmers feeling the least able to open up

04:49But then who want to spend an afternoon talking to a farmer?

04:52And yet the view among psychologists

04:56Is that only if we learn to talk

04:58Can we address the mental health problems that dog us?

05:01To learn more, I've come to Norwich Cathedral

05:03I adore Norwich Cathedral

05:05The Dean rarely grants permission to film here

05:07But I've been given special dispensation

05:09Because I'm both a proud patron

05:11And the voice of the visitor's audio guide

05:13A far cry from modern churches

05:15Which look more like shoe shops or spaceships

05:17One of several local attractions to feature my voice

05:20Get out of the way

05:21Including a fleet of grocery vans

05:23And the lift at Norwich Library

05:25Second floor

05:26Which went less well

05:27Due to milkshake repeating on me in the booth

05:29Fourth floor

05:30But I'm not here to educate sightseers

05:33I've come to learn about the language of mental health

05:36And in Dr Marion Boyle

05:38I'll be talking to an actual expert

05:40Rather than just a confident person with a podcast

05:43Dr Marion

05:44Thanks so much, Van

05:46Shush!

05:47You're glaring at me

05:48But I'm not being rude

05:49Because that's the name of your new book, isn't it?

05:51That's right

05:52It's called Shush

05:53Finding Placid Amid the Noise and the Haste

05:55And it's really just an exploration into our mental health

05:59And our wellbeing

06:00Yes, because mental health can mean different things to different people

06:03Can't it?

06:04From anxiety disorders

06:05Right through to dissociative conditions

06:06Such as paranoid schizophrenia

06:08Well, that's a very good way of putting it

06:09Thank you

06:10I've got it off the internet

06:11We should be looking after our minds

06:13In the same way that we look after our bodies

06:15If you have indigestion, you can pop a Rennie

06:18But when it comes to this

06:20You can't just go to the bathroom cabinet

06:22Take out some mental cream and rub it on your head

06:25Well, no, of course

06:26But what we do have is antidepressants

06:28Oh yeah, I've forgotten about those

06:29Are they any good?

06:30Well, they can be

06:31But of course you do make a very good point

06:32Cheers

06:33Which is that up until recently

06:35Some of the language surrounding mental health and wellbeing

06:38Hasn't always been very helpful

06:40Well, once medical terms

06:41Are now words you would only ever use to a learner driver

06:44Imbecile, lunatic

06:46And up until very recently

06:48We used to use the word idiot as a clinical term

06:51I mean, it's horrific to think that a GP could have called you into his surgery

06:56Sat you down and said

06:57The results have come back

06:58They're not what we would have hoped

07:00There's no easy way of putting this

07:02But I'm sorry to have to tell you, you're an idiot

07:05Of course, and that's why the terminology is so, so important

07:08OCD, ADHD, bipolar

07:11And it is just to get rid of that stigma, if you like

07:14Absolutely, and not before time

07:15Time was when OCD would be house proud or fussy

07:19ADHD would have been ants in the pants

07:22Bipolar disorder would have been moody

07:25When my assistant has her panic attacks

07:27I think most people would say, she's flapping or in the tizz

07:31Do you mind me saying that you don't blink?

07:34It had been a useful meeting with the doctor

07:37Even though I later found out her book was self-published

07:40And she'd got her degree from the University of Central Lancashire

07:45How are you?

07:47So that's the theory

07:50But does talking really help us surmount problems?

07:54Time to put it to the test in a familiar high-stress situation

07:57What you're about to watch is a controlled experiment

08:00I'm with my assistant

08:02She's an unskilled worker in her early 70s

08:04In the middle to low-income bracket

08:06She's of sound mind, in good health

08:08And not under the influence of any prescription medication

08:12Apart from something for IBS

08:14And cod liver oil as a rear-guard action against arthritis

08:17But nothing for anxiety

08:19We both agreed we wouldn't want to compromise her concentration

08:22Relax your jaw

08:27My assistant, whose driving style is best described as flustered hesitancy

08:32Will be taking the short drive into Norwich twice

08:34Down into second

08:35The first with me talking about the flaws in her driving

08:37The second in silence

08:38Don't clench your teeth

08:40Which will prove fastest

08:47Easy, easy tiger

08:49Yeah, that wasn't bad, was it?

08:51You're a little too heavy on the throttle

08:53A little too heavy on the brake

08:55You do suffer from pedal panic

08:57That's the thing

08:58Remember, it's a three-pedal dance

09:00Be in harmony with the car

09:02The Japanese have a word for it

09:04But I can't remember what it is

09:06You can pop her into third

09:08If you want

09:09I was just doing that

09:11You're panicking, Lynn

09:13Breathe

09:14You're allowed to breathe

09:16Wrong lane

09:18Sometimes I feel like I'm a driving examiner

09:20You know

09:21When I want you to do an emergency stop

09:23I will tap the dash

09:24What the f*** are you doing?

09:27After a frank exchange of views

09:29And a muttered apology

09:30We continued the drive and reached Norwich

09:32This time, rather than expressing myself

09:38I'll be keeping silent and comparing the difference

09:42And while the atmosphere was markedly more frosty

09:45What would it mean for her time?

09:48Oh, that's interesting

09:49The drive had been quicker than when I'd been providing guidance

09:52But that may have been just her trying to make a point

09:55Which sadly voids the experiment

09:57What the f*** is she doing?

10:01How are you?

10:07In 2023, I sunk a large portion of my savings

10:10Into a start-up that generates AI video

10:16Yet prompted to show Alan Partridge in a yurt with Carol Vorderman

10:20Or Alan Partridge flies a jetpack over Norfolk

10:23The results are incredibly poor

10:25The company whose software struggles to animate movement

10:27And is unable to do hands

10:29Was named one to watch

10:31In the business pages of the Norwich Gazette

10:34But AI is a useful metaphor for what each of us do in our own lives

10:38Artificially generating different versions of ourselves

10:41To pass off as the real thing

10:43There's Business Alan

10:44Tough Alan

10:45Sexy Alan

10:46Grandad Alan

10:47Beefy Alan

10:48Beefy Alan

10:49Cool Alan

10:50Jet Set Alan

10:51Cardigan Alan

10:52Chef Alan

10:53Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan

10:56And there are more Alans

10:57At home with my neighbour and lover Katrina

11:00I tend to be laid back Alan

11:02Shooting the breeze at my tripedal breakfast bar

11:05And helping out when I can

11:07If you're filling your car up later, can you do mine as well?

11:09You want me to drive my car to a petrol station

11:12And then do the same with yours?

11:14Might as well

11:15Yeah, I'm there anyway, aren't I?

11:17But you'll have to go back

11:19Leave it

11:20But to get to the heart of who we really are

11:23Experts say the key is to talk about our feelings

11:26So how do we do it?

11:28For taciturn, emotionally stunted people

11:31E.g. from Eton or Scotland

11:34Speaking about your emotions can be a daunting experience

11:37One useful exercise is to talk about something else

11:41Be it cookery or soccer or the Second World War

11:44After time you'll develop a muscle memory for chat

11:47At which point you can jump off and tell people why you're so fed up

11:51One man I know went from speaking about cathedrals

11:54To his erectile dysfunction in about four minutes

11:57And that's the quickest I've seen it done

11:59To try this idea out, I'm heading to a book group

12:02Although I've arrived slightly late

12:04Because the woman now showing me in gave me the wrong postcode

12:07Hello everyone

12:08Joining our group just for today

12:09Hi

12:10While men enjoy reading books, women enjoy talking about them

12:13It's a sociable and collegiate way to boost their wellbeing

12:16While finding out if they like the book they've just read

12:18This week, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

12:22No relation to Kevin, which I skim read in the car

12:25She wrong-foots you though, doesn't she?

12:27Like showing the brutality of the Magdalene laundries

12:31Through the eyes of a man

12:33I thought, hmm, I'm not sure about that

12:36Bit of a bold choice

12:37Ferb is bold

12:38I did think there was a sweetness to it though

12:40The Christmas bit where they're decorating the...

12:42Tree

12:43No, it's the cake

12:44It is the cake

12:45I just wanted to reach into the book and hug high

12:48I felt like Bridget Jones but turbocharged

12:53Yeah, probably what you meant to say is Bridget Jones but supercharged rather than turbocharged

12:59Because that way you eliminate the turbo lag

13:02But I absolutely get the gist of what you ladies are trying to say

13:04I know you're not a lady

13:06You understood what I meant, didn't you?

13:08Yeah, turbo lag

13:09Turbo lag, precisely, yeah

13:10To my surprise I found talking about books immensely enjoyable

13:15And I soon found myself fully engaged despite the fact that it had been a long day

13:19I thought it was more of a novella than a novel

13:21But all the same, I didn't feel shortchanged by the story

13:24Pardon me?

13:25You're absolutely right there, Susan

13:27I would agree, I felt it was...

13:29While these bookworms might look like they're just discussing novels

13:32But a regular attendee will see a different dynamic at play

13:35One in which Cynthia gets to flex the grey matter

13:38Which lies dormant when she's around her estate agent husband

13:42And Susan gets to forget all about her drink drive conviction

13:45In which a police horse died

13:47And, yeah, she's doing fine

13:52What do you do in a woman's book group?

13:54I just have a little read this

13:56It's a great book

13:57You read it?

13:58Yeah, it's good, it's a good book

14:00Yeah

14:01You?

14:02Um...

14:07Yeah

14:10So what are we going to read next week, do you think, guys?

14:12Do you have any suggestions?

14:13Yes

14:14Ice Station Zebra by Alastair MacLean

14:16It's about a Russian submarine with nuclear warheads

14:20Hidden beneath the polar ice caps

14:22And you'd think that's crazy

14:24But it was later discovered

14:25That there was a Soviet submarine

14:28Hidden beneath the polar ice caps with nuclear warheads

14:31And so you think, well, did Alastair MacLean predict the future

14:35Or did the Russians read Ice Station Zebra

14:37And think, let's do, that's a good idea

14:40But it, er, when you think about how the Soviets nearly destroyed the world

14:46It makes a shiver go down your spine

14:48But does it make a shiver go down your women's spines?

14:50I relished the chance to talk

14:51I relished the chance to talk

14:53But the important thing about any social event

14:54Is knowing just the right time to leave

14:55You alright?

14:56Yeah, I just think, if you're gonna run a book group

14:57You have a moral duty to tell people you're gonna provide white wine

15:01So they don't turn up with an empty stomach

15:03Well, you know, just do some sandwiches

15:04Stupid burgers

15:05How are you?

15:07But what if talking isn't the answer?

15:21What if the best way to process your feelings isn't to be grown up about it

15:25But to do the opposite?

15:27After all, children don't sit around talking about their feelings

15:30Yet you don't see depressed eight-year-olds staring at women in hotel bars

15:34Instead, they play

15:37To explore this further

15:39I've come to the estate I grew up on

15:41Where childhood friend Jez Chaudry

15:43Who's thinking about getting a bigger house number

15:45Has agreed to spend the afternoon with me for the fee

15:48Shall I come in?

15:49Shall I come in?

15:50Shall I come in?

15:51Shall I come in?

15:52Um, yeah

15:53I've asked you five times then

15:54They say, show me a seven-year-old boy

15:56And I'll show you the man

15:58Although there's got to be a better way of phrasing that

16:01That man was me

16:03And I wanted to rediscover him

16:05And so we set off on vintage cycles

16:08Hired in an ironic way by Shoreditch millennials

16:11But which we were able to enjoy at face value

16:13I was keen to reminisce about the freedom and hijinks of our salad days

16:17But in the end couldn't

16:18Because Jez wanted to tell me about how interesting his job was

16:21I'm in digital marketing for Pfizer

16:24Yeah, I love it

16:25Yeah, I've got a great team

16:26Licence to develop digital marketing strategy

16:28But also individual campaigns

16:30When he was a child, he wanted to be an astronaut

16:33But maybe the happiness I experienced when I was seven

16:36Exists only in my mind

16:38In fact, life wasn't always rosy

16:40I was punched on three occasions outside a chip shop

16:43By a 13-year-old girl

16:45I think this is her now

16:47Or this

16:48Do you remember, um, Mickey had stabilizers

16:51On his bike even when he was 12

16:53Softie

16:54Mickey

16:55Yeah

16:56He still lives around here

16:57Yeah?

16:58Yeah

16:59So did Bill Pinson, he's gone now

17:01Quite a few of our class have gone now

17:03Yeah, there was about six of them in a row

17:05It was, er...

17:07Cancer, cancer, stroke

17:09Cancer, suicide, choked

17:11Yeah

17:12I think Bill just fell over, didn't he?

17:14Oh, you heard about that

17:15Yeah

17:16I was invited to the funeral

17:17But it clashed with the, er...

17:18Clashed with the National TV Awards, so

17:20Wow, you were at the National TV Awards?

17:22No, I was just watching it on TV

17:24But, er, yeah

17:25It's a shame, cos he was a nice guy

17:27Big heart

17:28Yeah, big heart, big portions

17:30Jess, do you ever look back on those days

17:32And think, you know, maybe we were happier then?

17:35Sometimes, yeah

17:36Lying on grass where sunlight dapples

17:39Enjoying apples and boyish grapples

17:42On those forever afternoons

17:44That's really nice, it smells

17:46Grazy knees and rows of cheek

17:49We'd ride our bikes up to the creek

17:51Trousers short, but days so long

17:54On those forever afternoons

17:57Then Bill said bye

18:00But why, we cry

18:02Tis late, Bill sighed

18:03But soon we'll ride

18:05On another forever afternoon

18:07A few minutes more

18:08Oh, let's explore

18:09Till ten past four

18:11When bums are sore

18:12On this forever afternoon

18:14And when next we came to call on Bill

18:17His mother's eyes began to fill

18:20Where's Bill? said I

18:22She began to sigh

18:24Bill went off to die

18:27But why?

18:29Because fifty years went by

18:32Oh, what we'd give

18:34To see Bill live

18:35We'd knock on doors

18:37Then ride in fours

18:38Pedals without a cause

18:40One more forever afternoons

18:42Oh, it's shit

18:43I don't know why I wrote it

18:45You're just gonna leave that there?

18:47No, I'll pick it up

18:48But no recreation of the good old days

18:51Would be complete without our other childhood friend

18:53Mickey Allsop

18:54You alright?

18:55Yeah, I'm fine

18:56Doing a wheelie

18:57This is the wrong house

18:59I think it's this one

19:00Yeah, I know

19:01Hello, Mrs. Allsop

19:15Is Mickey in?

19:17He's in the other room

19:18He's in the other room

19:19Oh, right

19:20Are you watching TV?

19:22He's doing his account

19:24Of course you're his wife

19:26Okay, tell him we'll be down on the green if he's got to join us in about half an hour

19:32It's just a

19:33It's just sort of a

19:34Reunion

19:35Yeah

19:36Tell him to wear his trainers

19:37Thanks

19:39And so for a fleeting moment

19:41We were seven again

19:43When the dreams we had as children were still possible

19:46Maybe you will join NASA

19:48Maybe you should become the chairman of ICI

19:51Maybe you can marry your cousin

19:54I've been waiting for so long

19:56I've been waiting for so long

19:58To go and out and sing a song

20:02Oh, don't crack up

20:05Bet your brain

20:07Steve all starts

20:09Throw up your mental trace

20:13Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

20:15So, er, what do you want to do now?

20:19We were just saying we might go for a pint if you fancy joining us

20:22I'm not sure

20:23I might cycle round a bit more

20:24I heard some lads saying they were building a ramp

20:27Might go and check it out

20:28Oh, if you change your mind

20:29Nah

20:30How are your parents?

20:32They're both dead

20:33Ah, yeah, and yours?

20:35Same

20:36Yeah, mine too

20:37See ya!

20:39But one last forever afternoon had made me realise

20:43Not only that I should make my poem, Song for the Biker Boys

20:46Available as a free download for private schools

20:49But also that reaching out and talking have brought me real mental health benefits

20:54And now, having found my voice, I'm going to use it for good

21:01I'm going to take that voice and put it into the mouth of someone who needs it more than I do

21:05A woman

21:06Because for too long, people like me have put the men into mental and the he into health

21:12Well, not anymore

21:14I've had my run-ins with Mumsnet, but it remains a great way to find women with a grievance

21:20While browsing one day, I was touched by the story of a woman dismissed by her employer

21:24When she'd raised her mental concerns

21:26So I arranged to meet her in some remote woodland

21:29Leona, I want to take you back to a very painful time

21:34It's summer, 2023

21:36Britain is sweltering in record temperatures

21:38HS2 has just been cancelled correctly

21:41In my view, why would you want to get to the north quicker?

21:43And for Leona Maguire, that's you

21:46You've just landed your dream job

21:48As an administrator for CXG Technologies

21:51Tell me what happened

21:53Well, I'm not a very loud person

21:55Just do speak up a little

21:57I'm not very outgoing

21:58And they were very demanding

22:00They were sort of that ex-public school type

22:03Very sort of full of themselves

22:05And I imagine for a quiet woman like you

22:07And you are quiet, really quiet

22:09I can imagine that abrasive, underqualified, overconfident

22:14I want to say twattery

22:16Must have been quite overwhelming

22:18Well, yeah, I started to struggle with anxiety

22:21And then I missed the odd day

22:23And of course the bosses didn't like that

22:24Yes, they do try and speak up a little bit

22:26Okay, sorry

22:27And then they gave me all these reasons

22:29But I just think that they couldn't be bothered with me

22:31Yeah, and that's not on

22:32Because I'm an employer, I have staff

22:35And sometimes she's unwell

22:37Or has a personal issue

22:39And obviously your first thought is

22:40Oh great, looks like I'm picking up my own dry cleaning then

22:43But as an employer, you have a duty of care

22:46So you say, alright, take the day off

22:48Just come in early tomorrow to make up the time you lost

22:50But they didn't do that

22:52No, no, they called me in

22:53And they told me that my services were no longer required

22:56Even though the week before I had asked to speak to a counsellor

23:00And they definitely heard you?

23:01Yeah, but when I asked them if that was the reason why

23:05They didn't really elaborate

23:06Well, they're going to elaborate today, Leona

23:08Because I'm going to bang some heads together

23:10In fact, I'm going to bang so many heads together

23:12It's going to be like human conkers

23:14You ready?

23:15I think so

23:16Alright, remember volume

23:17Do you have conkers in Ireland?

23:21Okay, now this is your story

23:25Alright, so I'll go over there and pin them down

23:27And then you give that speech

23:29Everything you said in that incredibly moving voicemail

23:32Oh, I wasn't sure that you got that

23:34Yeah, I just didn't reply

23:36Okay, well

23:38The hardest thing was coming home with no job

23:40And telling my son that Disneyland had been cancelled

23:43Okay, now make it personal

23:45Use his name, what's his name?

23:46Tig

23:47Tig?

23:48Yes

23:49Yeah, don't use his name

23:50Okay, well he's being very brave and

23:52No, no, don't say he's brave

23:53You're brave

23:54He's broken

23:55And what are you not going to do?

23:57Erm, speak quietly

23:59Pardon?

24:00Speak quietly

24:01What else aren't you going to do?

24:02Be bullied

24:03Finally

24:05Time for the sting

24:07Wearing a hidden camera

24:08Disguised as a standard dental brooch

24:10I'm infiltrating an investor open day

24:13You're going to see why I set up this company

24:15A public showdown

24:16Designed to achieve maximum embarrassment for this guy

24:19The man who sacked Leona

24:21Smug CEO Craig Gardner

24:24Wearing what people like him call a gilet

24:27And people like me call a body warmer

24:30Within the next four years

24:31Maybe even sooner

24:32Just wanted to ask about the recently discontinued LM unit

24:36The LM unit

24:37Yeah, it was a multifunctional appliance

24:39Just didn't realise it was disposable

24:41I'm not aware of the LM unit

24:43There's one over there

24:44Come on

24:45LM, Leona Maguire

24:46Okay, got it

24:47Yeah, you decommissioned the unit earlier this year

24:49Threw in a skip with a load of hard drives

24:51And the bottom half of a shop dummy

24:53Do you normally terminate people's employment without due process?

24:57Don't talk over me just because you went to public school

24:59You know, you may be able to drown out a timid woman with a thin voice

25:01Not so easy when it's a professional broadcaster, is it?

25:04We tried the switchboard already

25:05Her name is Leona Maguire

25:06You know who she is

25:07You see, I can talk and listen at the same time

25:09It comes from having talk back in my air

25:11Whilst presenting live TV

25:12I can go on all afternoon

25:14Thank you

25:15You know, it doesn't matter how many fancy websites you have

25:18Or high-tech computer backpacks or whatever it is

25:22It's a jet suit

25:24What, like a jet pack?

25:26We prefer to say jet suit

25:27Wow

25:28Wow

25:29What?

25:30Can these actually fly?

25:32Yeah

25:33My son Tighe has been broken by this

25:37Yeah, she's a very brave woman

25:38Do you need specialist skills to operate it or?

25:41You can pick it up in a couple of hours

25:43Huh

25:46What, me?

25:48A tete-a-tete with Leona confirmed what I already knew

25:52That this was something I had to do to give her story the hearing it deserved

25:56Now, do you think if I put on one of these so-called jetpacks I'll help shine the light on people like you?

26:04I don't know

26:05Because I think it will

26:06I think it will

26:07I just don't see what that has to do with it

26:09Yeah, but otherwise all you've got is middle-aged woman gets the sack

26:12You introduce the jetpack and bam, you've got it

26:15You see?

26:16Do you see now how I'm trying to help you?

26:20Yeah

26:21Right, good. Let's get the jetpack

26:22Okay

26:25Um, has Dan Snow had a go at this?

26:27No

26:28Good, good

26:29And, uh, Ben Fogel?

26:30No

26:31Great

26:32Uh, so if Fogel or Snow get in touch

26:34Uh, just delay getting back to them so that it doesn't actually happen

26:39Okay, I'm ready to fly

26:40And while my microphone may have caught some gentle exuberance

26:45Women's mental health was never far from my mind

26:48That is absolutely awesome! Absolutely awesome!

27:01Oh, that's what he's cost!

27:06Can I tell you something?

27:07I'm definitely getting one of these!

27:13Sell your house!

27:14Sell the kids!

27:15But get one before they ban it!

27:17Because I'll tell you what they say!

27:18Yeah!

27:19Reducing throttle for controlled descent onto Range Rover Roof

27:28Ladder required

27:30Well, for Leona, it's very much mission accomplished

27:32My flight drew attention to her plight

27:34In that regard, very much a plight flight

27:37But it was whilst I was airborne, flying like an eagle

27:40I realised the weightlessness I felt from jet propulsion

27:43Was nothing compared to the weightlessness we all feel

27:46When we unburden ourselves, let our feelings out

27:49Jesus!

27:50And just talk

27:51Goodbye

27:52I'll see you next week!

27:53Bye!

27:54Ooo

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