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00:00One that flows from the teats of this wonderful beast.
00:03The glorious kingdom of Saudi Arabia
00:05enjoys a thriving camel milk sector,
00:08with products including milk, cheese, yoghurt,
00:11gelato, leban, and other derivatives.
00:14I've tried them all, and I can tell you
00:16they really are delicious. Cheers.
00:22That kind of thing? Go again?
00:24I'll do as many as you like until I have pleased you.
00:26I spent 12 months in Saudi
00:28fronting everything from Happy Birthday Crown Prince
00:31to today at the Riyadh Stock Exchange.
00:33But far from selling my mouth to the highest bidder,
00:35I talk because it makes me feel good.
00:38Which makes me wonder,
00:40could talking be the key to better mental health?
00:43Welcome to How Are You?
00:46It's Alan Partridge.
00:49How are you?
00:53The final, then, of the year nine 200 meters,
00:55Naismith, Velocottsin, John Atwell, Wu, and Douglas Hyde.
01:00In this series, I'm exploring the mental health of the nation
01:03in association with Flench & Son tanning centres.
01:06Today I'm lending my commentary skills
01:09to the annual sports gala at All Hallows School in Norfolk.
01:12The borders here come from a long line of stiff upper lips,
01:15and I'm wondering, has not talking about their problems
01:19ever done them any harm?
01:21Good to see a few handshakes,
01:22the firm grip of beautifully brought-up boys.
01:24When they tame their marks, of course, the conviviality ends.
01:27The school motto,
01:28triumphant et invictus, never being more pertinent,
01:32Latin for triumphant and unconquered,
01:34which some see as a bit hateful,
01:36but you don't produce the leaders of tomorrow
01:38with mottos about being kind and helpful to people you don't know.
01:42And they take their marks,
01:44the year nine 200 meter dash,
01:46sponsored by Hibiscus Wealth Management,
01:48shaping dreams, securing futures.
01:51Lesser schools use a klaxon.
01:53Here, of course, we're allowed to use a starting pistol,
01:55safe in the knowledge,
01:57but they won't fall into the wrong hands
01:59and be used to hold up a post office and they're off!
02:01All these boys racing with each other,
02:03but they've already won the race of life
02:04by going to a fee-paying school.
02:05Douglas Hyde in the lead.
02:06Douglas Hyde looks about 25 years old,
02:08obviously post pubescent.
02:09Nothing wrong with that.
02:10Douglas Hyde wins the race.
02:11For the boys,
02:12it's a chance to both strive for sporting excellence
02:15and glimpse parents they've not seen since the Easter holidays.
02:18Parents who've worked up a thirst
02:20do pay a visit to the champagne tent,
02:23sponsored by Jupiter Asset Management,
02:25recruiting the best and brightest for a better tomorrow.
02:29And anyone who thinks that sounds a bit stuffy,
02:32let me tell you there'll also be a live performance
02:35from five-piece school rock band Riot Shield,
02:39and they'll be performing in the Benjamin Britten Music Centre.
02:43Some see boarding school as a way of subcontracting parenting
02:46to strangers, and whilst that's literally true,
02:49what do you rather have?
02:50A mopey Joe traipsing round the house,
02:52leaving the lids off jars,
02:54or a well-connected asset who adds value to the family?
02:57Ask them what they feel,
02:59and I'm sure they'll say that feelings are something
03:01to lock in a tiffin box under the bed,
03:03along with biscuits and letters from Mum.
03:05No, they do just fine with their stiff upper lips.
03:08Our country's future is safe
03:10in the hands of these wonderful fee-paying boys.
03:13Cheers!
03:14Cheers!
03:15And how dare their parents be made to pay VAT!
03:20Personally, I love to talk,
03:22whether it's to an audience of millions,
03:24or an audience of one.
03:25Here I am recording personalised messages for fans.
03:28Happy 49th birthday, Penelope!
03:31What a day!
03:32To get your decree nysi from your divorce
03:34and planning permission for your barn conversion
03:36on the same day, gotta be sweet!
03:39Hello, Sheila!
03:40I know you can't be here,
03:41but Brian's told me to show you the chickens.
03:43There's a ginger one pecking at my toe.
03:45Look at that.
03:46There's a sort of tan one.
03:48Okay.
03:49That's it.
03:51A hundred quid.
03:53It's a nice little earner,
03:54but what's interesting is how willing people are
03:56to talk about almost any subject apart from mental health.
04:00So what does the data say?
04:02In a fascinating study by Pairtree Analytics,
04:05when asked if they found it hard to talk about their problems,
04:0875% said they did.
04:1012% said they didn't know,
04:12which is a pointless answer.
04:14And Norfolk is more affected than most
04:16with farmers feeling the least able to open up.
04:19But then who want to spend an afternoon talking to a farmer?
04:24And yet the view among psychologists
04:26is that only if we learn to talk
04:28can we address the mental health problems that dog us.
04:31To learn more, I've come to Norwich Cathedral.
04:33I adore Norwich Cathedral.
04:35The Dean rarely grants permission to film here,
04:37but I've been given special dispensation
04:39because I'm both a proud patron
04:41and the voice of the visitor's audio guide.
04:43A far cry from modern churches
04:45which look more like shoe shops or spaceships.
04:47One of several local attractions to feature my voice.
04:50Get out of the way.
04:51Including a fleet of grocery vans
04:53and the lift at Norwich Library.
04:55Second floor.
04:56Which went less well
04:57due to a milkshake repeating on me in the booth.
05:00But I'm not here to educate sightseers.
05:03I've come to learn about the language of mental health.
05:06And in Dr. Marion Boyle,
05:08I'll be talking to an actual expert
05:10rather than just a confident person with a podcast.
05:13Dr. Marion.
05:14Thanks so much, Van.
05:16Shush!
05:17You're glaring at me,
05:18but I'm not being rude
05:19because that's the name of your new book, isn't it?
05:21That's right.
05:22It's called Shush!
05:23Finding Placid Amid the Noise and the Haste.
05:25And it's really just an exploration
05:27into our mental health and our well-being.
05:30Yes, because mental health can mean different things
05:32to different people, can't it?
05:33From anxiety disorders right through to dissociative conditions
05:36such as paranoid schizophrenia.
05:37Well, that's a very good way of putting it.
05:39Well, thank you.
05:40I've got it off the internet.
05:41We should be looking after our minds
05:43in the same way that we look after our bodies.
05:45If you have indigestion, you can pop a Rennie.
05:48But when it comes to this,
05:50you can't just go to the bathroom cabinet,
05:52take out some mental cream and rub it on your head.
05:55Well, no, of course.
05:56But what we do have is antidepressants.
05:58Oh, yeah, I've forgotten about those.
05:59Are they any good?
06:00Well, they can be.
06:01But, of course, you do make a very good point.
06:02Cheers.
06:03Which is that up until recently,
06:05some of the language surrounding mental health and wellbeing
06:08hasn't always been very helpful.
06:10What were once medical terms
06:11are now words you would only ever use
06:13to a learner driver.
06:14Imbecile.
06:15Lunatic.
06:16And up until very recently,
06:18we used to use the word idiot as a clinical term.
06:21I mean, it's horrific to think that a GP
06:24could have called you into his surgery,
06:26sat you down and said,
06:27the results have come back.
06:28They're not what we would have hoped.
06:30There's no easy way of putting this,
06:32but I'm sorry to have to tell you,
06:33you're an idiot.
06:35Of course, and that's why the terminology
06:36is so, so important.
06:38OCD, ADHD, bipolar,
06:41and it is just to get rid of that stigma,
06:43if you like.
06:44Absolutely, and not before time.
06:45Time was when OCD would be house-proud or fussy.
06:49ADHD would have been ants in the pants.
06:52Bipolar disorder would have been moody.
06:55When my assistant has her panic attacks,
06:57I think most people would say she's flapping or in the tis.
07:02Do you mind me saying that you don't blink?
07:05It had been a useful meeting with the doctor,
07:07even though I later found out her book was self-published
07:10and she'd got her degree
07:11from the University of Central Lancashire.
07:15How are you?
07:19So that's the theory.
07:21But does talking really help us surmount problems?
07:24Time to put it to the test in a familiar high-stress situation.
07:28What you're about to watch is a controlled experiment.
07:30I'm with my assistant.
07:32She's an unskilled worker in her early 70s
07:34in the middle to low-income bracket.
07:37She's of sound mind, in good health,
07:39and not under the influence of any prescription medication,
07:42apart from something for IBS and cod liver oil
07:45as a rear-guard action against arthritis.
07:48But nothing for anxiety.
07:50We both agreed we wouldn't want to compromise her concentration.
07:57Relax your jaw.
07:58My assistant, whose driving style is best described as flustered hesitancy,
08:02will be taking the short drive into Norwich twice.
08:04Down into second.
08:05The first with me talking about the flaws in her driving,
08:07the second in silence.
08:08Don't punch your teeth.
08:11Which will prove fastest.
08:17Easy, easy tiger.
08:19Yeah, that wasn't bad, was it?
08:21Easy.
08:22You're a little too heavy on the throttle,
08:24a little too heavy on the brake.
08:26You do suffer from pedal panic, Lynn.
08:28That's the thing.
08:29Remember, it's a three-pedal dance.
08:31Be in harmony with the car.
08:32The Japanese have a word for it,
08:34but I can't remember what it is.
08:36You can pop her into third, if you want.
08:39I was just doing that.
08:41You're panicking, Lynn.
08:43Breathe.
08:44You're allowed to breathe.
08:46Wrong lane.
08:47Sometimes I feel like I'm a driving examiner, you know.
08:51When I want you to do an emergency stop,
08:53I will tap the dashboard.
08:54Wait!
08:55What the f*** are you doing?
08:57After a frank exchange of views and a muttered apology,
09:00we continued the drive and reached Norwich.
09:02This time, rather than expressing myself,
09:08I'll be keeping silent and comparing the difference.
09:12And while the atmosphere was markedly more frosty,
09:15what would it mean for her time?
09:18Oh, that's interesting.
09:19The drive had been quicker than when I'd been providing guidance,
09:22but that may have been just her trying to make a point,
09:24which sadly voids the experiment.
09:26What the f*** is she doing?
09:31How are you?
09:37In 2023, I sunk a large portion of my savings
09:40into a start-up that generates AI video.
09:46Yet, prompted to show Alan Partridge in a yurt with Carol Vorderman,
09:50or Alan Partridge flies a jetpack over Norfolk,
09:53the results are incredibly poor.
09:55The company whose software struggles to animate movement
09:57and is unable to do hands
09:59was named One To Watch
10:01in the business pages of the Norwich Gazette.
10:04But, AI is a useful metaphor for what each of us do in our own lives,
10:08artificially generating different versions of ourselves
10:11to pass off as the real thing.
10:13There's Business Alan,
10:14Tuff Alan,
10:15Sexy Alan,
10:16Grandad Alan,
10:17Beefy Alan,
10:18Beefy Alan,
10:19cool Alan,
10:20Jet Set Alan,
10:21Judo Alan,
10:22Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan!
10:24Alan! Alan! Alan!
10:25And there are more Alans.
10:26Look at that.
10:28At home with my neighbour and lover Katrina,
10:31I tend to be laid back, Alan,
10:33shooting the breeze at my tripedal breakfast bar
10:35and helping out where I can.
10:37If you're filling your car up later, can you do mine as well?
10:40You want me to drive my car to a petrol station
10:43and then do the same with yours?
10:45Might as well.
10:46Yeah, I'm there anyway, aren't I?
10:48But you'll have to go back to me. Leave it.
10:50But to get to the heart of who we really are,
10:52experts say the key is to talk about our feelings.
10:56So how do we do it?
10:58For taciturn, emotionally stunted people,
11:01e.g. from Eton or Scotland,
11:04speaking about your emotions can be a daunting experience.
11:07One useful exercise is to talk about something else,
11:11be it cookery or soccer or the Second World War.
11:15After time, you'll develop a muscle memory for chat,
11:17at which point you can jump off and tell people
11:19why you're so fed up.
11:21One man I know went from speaking about cathedrals
11:24to his erectile dysfunction in about four minutes,
11:27and that's the quickest I've seen it done.
11:29To try this idea out, I'm heading to a book group,
11:32although I've arrived slightly late,
11:33because the woman now showing me in gave me the wrong postcode.
11:36Hello, everyone.
11:37Joining our group just for today.
11:39While men enjoy reading books,
11:41women enjoy talking about them.
11:43It's a sociable and collegiate way to boost their well-being
11:45while finding out if they like the book they've just read.
11:48This week, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
11:51No relation to Kevin, which I skim read in the car.
11:54She wrong-foots you, though, doesn't she?
11:56Like, showing the brutality of the Magdalene laundries
12:01through the eyes of a man.
12:03I thought, hmm, I'm not sure about that.
12:05Bit of a bold choice.
12:06Barbara's bold.
12:08I did think there was a sweetness to it, though.
12:10The Christmas bit where they're decorating the...
12:12Tree.
12:13No, it's the cake.
12:14It is the cake.
12:15I just wanted to reach into the book and hug high.
12:18They're like Bridget Jones, but turbocharged.
12:23Yeah, probably what you meant to say is Bridget Jones,
12:26but supercharged rather than turbocharged,
12:29because that way you eliminate the turbo lag.
12:32But I absolutely get the gist of what you ladies are trying to say.
12:35I know you're not a lady.
12:36You understood what I meant, didn't you?
12:38Yeah, turbo lag.
12:39Turbo lag, precisely, yeah.
12:41To my surprise, I found talking about books immensely enjoyable,
12:45and I soon found myself fully engaged,
12:47despite the fact that it had been a long day.
12:49I think it's more of a novella than a novel.
12:51But all the same, I didn't feel shortchanged by the story.
12:54Pardon me?
12:55You're absolutely right there, Susan.
12:57I would agree.
12:57I felt it was...
12:58While these bookworms might look like they're just discussing novels,
13:02but a regular attendee will see a different dynamic at play,
13:05one in which Cynthia gets to flex the grey matter,
13:08which lies dormant when she's around her estate agent husband,
13:12and Susan gets to forget all about her drink-drive conviction,
13:15in which a police horse died.
13:17And, yeah, she's doing fine.
13:22What do you do in a woman's book group?
13:24I just haven't got to read this. It's a great book.
13:27You read it?
13:27Yeah.
13:28It's good. It's a good book.
13:29Yeah.
13:31You?
13:33Um...
13:36Yeah.
13:39So what are we going to read next week, do you think, guys?
13:41Do you have any suggestions?
13:42Yes. Ice Station Zebra by Alastair MacLean.
13:45It's about a Russian submarine with nuclear warheads
13:49hidden beneath the polar ice caps,
13:51and you think, that's crazy, but it was later discovered
13:55that there was a Soviet submarine
13:58hidden beneath the polar ice caps with nuclear warheads,
14:01and so you think, well, did Alastair MacLean predict the future,
14:05or did the Russians read Ice Station Zebra and think,
14:08let's do, that's a good idea,
14:11but when you think about how the Soviets nearly destroyed the world,
14:17it makes a shiver go down your spine, but does it make a shiver go down your women's spines?
14:22I relished the chance to talk, but the important thing about any social event
14:26is knowing just the right time to leave.
14:28OK. You all right?
14:29Yeah, I just think, if you're going to run a book group,
14:31you have a moral duty to tell people you're going to provide white wine,
14:35so they don't turn up with an empty stomach.
14:37Well, you know, just do some sandwiches.
14:40How are you?
14:49But what if talking isn't the answer?
14:51What if the best way to process your feelings isn't to be grown up about it,
14:55but to do the opposite?
14:57After all, children don't sit around talking about their feelings,
15:00yet you don't see depressed eight-year-olds staring at women in hotel bars.
15:05Instead, they play.
15:07To explore this further, I've come to the estate I grew up on,
15:11where childhood friend Jez Chaudry, who's thinking about getting a bigger house number,
15:15has agreed to spend the afternoon with me for the fee.
15:18Shall I come in? Shall I come in? Shall I come in?
15:20Shall I come in?
15:21Um, yeah.
15:21I've asked you five times, then.
15:23They say, show me a seven-year-old boy, and I'll show you the man,
15:28although there's got to be a better way of phrasing that.
15:31That man was me, and I wanted to rediscover him.
15:34And so we set off on vintage cycles, hired in an ironic way by Shoreditch millennials,
15:41but which we were able to enjoy at face value.
15:43I was keen to reminisce about the freedom and hijinks of our salad days,
15:47but in the end couldn't, because Jez wanted to tell me about how interesting his job was.
15:51I'm in digital marketing for Pfizer.
15:54Yeah, I love it.
15:54Yeah, I've got a great team, licensed to develop digital marketing strategy,
15:58but also individual campaigns.
15:59When he was a child, he wanted to be an astronaut.
16:03But maybe the happiness I experienced when I was seven exists only in my mind.
16:07In fact, life wasn't always rosy.
16:10I was punched on three occasions outside a chip shop by a 13-year-old girl.
16:14I think this is her now, or this.
16:18Do you remember Mickey had stabilizers on his bike even when he was 12?
16:23Softie. Mickey.
16:25Yeah. He still lives around here.
16:27Yeah?
16:29Yeah. So did Bill Pinson. He's gone now.
16:31Quite a few of our cars have gone now.
16:33Yeah. There were about six of them in a row.
16:34It was, uh, cancer, cancer, stroke, cancer, suicide, choked.
16:41Yeah. I think Bill just fell over, didn't he?
16:44Oh, you heard about that?
16:45Yeah. I was invited to the funeral, but it clashed with the, uh,
16:48clashed with the National TV Awards, so...
16:50Wow! You were in the National TV Awards?
16:52No, I was just watching it on TV, but, uh, yeah.
16:55It's a shame, because he was a nice guy.
16:57Big heart.
16:58Yeah, big heart, big portions.
17:01Jess, do you ever look back on those days and think, you know,
17:03maybe we were happier then?
17:05Sometimes, yeah.
17:07Lying on grass where sunlight dapples,
17:09enjoying apples and boyish grapples on those forever afternoons.
17:14That's really nice.
17:16It's nice.
17:17Grazy knees and rows of cheek.
17:19We'd ride our bikes up to the creek.
17:21Trousers short, but days so long on those forever afternoons.
17:29Then Bill said bye, but why we cry?
17:32Tis late, Bill sighed, but soon we'll ride on another forever afternoon.
17:36Then a few minutes more, oh, let's explore till ten past four when bums are sore on this forever afternoon.
17:44And when next we came to call on Bill, his mother's eyes began to fill.
17:49Where's Bill, said I?
17:52She began to sigh.
17:54Bill went off to die.
17:56But why?
17:58Because fifty years went by.
18:01Oh, what we'd give to see Bill live.
18:05We'd knock on doors, then ride in fours.
18:08Pedals without a cause.
18:10One more forever afternoon.
18:12Oh, shit, I don't know why I wrote it.
18:14You're just going to leave that there?
18:17No, I'll pick it up.
18:19But no recreation of the good old days would be complete without our other childhood friend,
18:23Mickey Allsop.
18:24You all right?
18:25Yeah, I'm fine.
18:26I was doing a wheelie.
18:27This is the wrong house.
18:29I think it's this one.
18:30Yeah, I know.
18:31Hello.
18:43Hi, Mrs. Allsop.
18:46Er, is Mickey in?
18:47He's in the other room.
18:48Oh, right.
18:50Is he watching TV?
18:52He's doing his account.
18:54Of course you're his wife.
18:55OK, tell him we'll be, er, down on the green if he's got, er, wants to join us in about half an hour.
19:02It's just a, it's just sort of a reunion.
19:05Yeah.
19:05Tell him to where he's trained us.
19:07Thanks.
19:09And so, for a fleeting moment, we were seven again,
19:13when the dreams we had as children were still possible.
19:16Maybe you will join NASA.
19:18Maybe you should become the chairman of ICI.
19:22Maybe you can marry your cousin.
19:25I've been waiting for so long
19:29To go and I want to sing the song
19:33Oh, don't crack up
19:36Bet you're afraid
19:38Steve on starts
19:40Throw up your mantle train
19:47So, er, what do you want to do now?
19:49We were just saying we might go for a pint if you fancy joining us.
19:52I'm not sure.
19:53I might cycle around a bit more.
19:54I heard some lads saying they were building a ramp.
19:57I might go and check it out.
19:58Oh, if you change your mind.
19:59Nah.
20:01How are your parents?
20:02They're both dead.
20:03Ah, yeah.
20:04And yours?
20:05Same.
20:05Yeah, mine too.
20:06See ya!
20:07But one last forever afternoon had made me realize not only that I should make my poem,
20:15song for the biker boys, available as a free download for private schools,
20:19But also that reaching out and talking have brought me real mental health benefits.
20:27And now, having found my voice, I'm going to use it for good.
20:31I'm going to take that voice and put it into the mouth of someone who needs it more than I do.
20:35A woman.
20:36Because for too long, people like me have put the men into mental and the he into health.
20:42Well, not anymore.
20:43I've had my run-ins with Mum's Net, but it remains a great way to find women with a grievance.
20:50While browsing one day, I was touched by the story of a woman dismissed by her employer
20:54when she'd raised her mental concerns. So I arranged to meet her in some remote woodland.
20:58Leona, I want to take you back to a very painful time. It's summer 2023. Britain is
21:06sweltering in record temperatures. HS2 has just been cancelled correctly. In my view,
21:11why would you want to get to the north quicker? And for Leona Maguire, that's you,
21:16you've just landed your dream job as an administrator for CXG Technologies. Tell me what happened.
21:23Well, I'm not a very loud person, so...
21:25Just do speak up a little.
21:26OK, I'm not very outgoing, and they were very demanding. They were sort of that ex-public
21:32school type, very sort of full of themselves.
21:34And I imagine for a quiet woman like you, and you are quiet, really quiet,
21:39I can imagine that that abrasive, underqualified, overconfident, I want to say twattery,
21:46must have been quite overwhelming.
21:48Well, yeah, I started to struggle with anxiety, and then I missed the odd day,
21:53and of course the bosses didn't like that.
21:54Yes, they do try and speak up a little bit.
21:56OK, sorry, and then they gave me all these reasons, but I just think that they couldn't
22:00be bothered with me.
22:01Yeah, and that's not on, because I'm an employer, I have staff, and sometimes she's unwell or has a
22:08personal issue, and obviously your first thought is, oh great, looks like I'm picking up my own dry
22:12cleaning then. But as an employer, you have a duty of care. So you say, all right, take the day off,
22:18just come in early tomorrow to make up the time you lost, but they didn't do that.
22:21No, no, they called me in and they told me that my services were no longer required,
22:26even though the week before I had asked to speak to a counsellor.
22:29And they definitely heard you?
22:31Yeah, but when I asked them if that was the reason why, they didn't really elaborate.
22:36Well, they're going to elaborate today, Leona, because I'm going to bang some heads together.
22:40In fact, I'm going to bang so many heads together, it's going to be like human conkers.
22:44You ready?
22:44I think so.
22:45All right, remember volume. Do you have conkers in Ireland?
22:48OK, now this is your story, all right? So I'll go over there and pin them down,
22:57and then you give that speech, everything you said in that incredibly moving voicemail.
23:02Oh, I wasn't sure that you got that.
23:04Yeah, I just didn't reply.
23:07OK, well, the hardest thing was coming home with no job and telling my son that Disneyland had been
23:13cancelled.
23:13OK, now make it personal. Use his name. What's his name?
23:16Taig. Taig.
23:18Yes.
23:18Yeah, don't use his name.
23:19OK, well, he's being very brave and...
23:22No, no, don't say he's brave. You're brave. He's broken. And what are you not going to do?
23:28Speak quietly.
23:29Pardon?
23:29Speak quietly.
23:31What else aren't you going to do?
23:32Be bullied.
23:33Finally!
23:35Time for the sting. Wearing a hidden camera disguised as a standard dental brooch,
23:40I'm infiltrating an investor open day.
23:43And you're going to see why I set up this company.
23:45A public showdown designed to achieve maximum embarrassment for this guy.
23:49The man who sacked Leona, smug CEO Craig Gardner.
23:54Wearing what people like him call a gilet, and people like me call a body warmer.
24:00Within the next four years, maybe even sooner.
24:02I wanted to ask about the recently discontinued LM unit.
24:06The LM unit.
24:07Yeah, it was a multifunctional appliance, just didn't realize it was disposable.
24:11Now, I'm not aware of the LM unit.
24:12There's one over there.
24:13Come on.
24:14LM. Leona Maguire.
24:16OK, got it.
24:17Yeah, you decommissioned the unit earlier this year.
24:19Threw in a skip with a load of hard drives in the bottom half of a shop dummy.
24:23Do you normally terminate people's employment without due process?
24:26Don't talk over me just because you went to public school.
24:28You know, you may be able to drown out a timid woman with a thin voice.
24:31Not so easy when it's a professional broadcaster, is it?
24:34We tried the switchboard already.
24:35Her name is Leona Maguire.
24:37You know who she is.
24:38You see, I can talk and listen at the same time.
24:39It comes from having talk back in my air whilst presenting live TV.
24:42I can go on all afternoon.
24:46You know, it doesn't matter how many fancy websites you have or high-tech computer backpacks or whatever it is.
24:52It's a jetsuit.
24:55What, like a jetpack?
24:56We prefer to say jetsuit.
24:58Wow.
24:59What, can these actually fly?
25:02Yeah.
25:04My son Tyke has been broken by this.
25:06Yeah, she's a very brave woman.
25:08Do you need specialist skills to operate it, or?
25:10You can pick it up in a couple of hours.
25:13Huh.
25:16What, me?
25:18A tete-a-tete with Leona confirmed what I already knew,
25:22that this was something I had to do to give her story the hearing it deserved.
25:26Now, do you think if I put on one of these so-called jetpacks,
25:29I'll help shine a light on people like you?
25:34I don't know.
25:34Because I think it will.
25:37I just don't see what that has to do with it.
25:39Yeah, but otherwise all you've got is middle-aged woman gets the sack.
25:42You introduce the jetpack, and bam, you've got it.
25:45You see?
25:46Do you see now how I'm trying to help you?
25:50Yeah.
25:50Right, good.
25:51Let's get the jetpack!
25:54Okay.
25:55Has Dan Snow had a go at this?
25:57No.
25:57Good, good.
25:58And Ben Fogle?
25:59No.
26:00Great.
26:01So if Fogle or Snow get in touch, just delay getting back to them so that it doesn't actually happen.
26:08Okay, I'm ready to fly.
26:12And while my microphone may have caught some gentle exuberance,
26:15women's mental health was never far from my mind.
26:18Oh, that is absolutely awesome!
26:28Absolutely awesome!
26:30Oh, that's all these costs, because I'll tell you something.
26:37I'm definitely getting one of these!
26:43Sell your house, sell the kids, but get one before they ban it, because I'll tell you what they say!
26:53Producing throttle for controlled descent onto Range Rover Roof.
26:57Land required.
27:00Well, for Leona, it's very much mission accomplished.
27:02My flight drew attention to her plight.
27:04In that regard, very much a plight flight.
27:07But it was whilst I was airborne, flying like an eagle,
27:10I realised the weightlessness I felt from jet propulsion
27:13was nothing compared to the weightlessness we all feel when we unburden ourselves,
27:17let our feelings out,
27:19Jesus!
27:20and just talk.
27:21Goodbye.
27:27Bye.
27:29Bye.
27:31Bye.
27:33Bye.
27:35Bye.
27:37Bye.
27:39Bye.
27:41Bye.
27:43Bye.
27:45Bye.
27:47Bye.
27:49Bye.
27:51Bye.
27:53Bye.
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