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01:22And Alan goes.
01:561897, he wrote a big book about homosexuality and a couple of years later, he wrote a...
02:01book about autoeroticism, in which these three words feature the...
02:06The Warbulator was to assist you. The Wood Pussy was to inspire you.
02:11And the Womblescropped is how you felt afterwards.
02:21Charles, I think you need an OnlyFans.
02:26And that was...
02:29It's educational.
02:30I have to say, the whole look...
02:31It sounds a bit like menopause as well.
02:33And midlife dating.
02:34Yeah, Wood Pussy sounds a bit...
02:36It's lubricated, doesn't it?
02:37It does.
02:38Wood Pussy is a word from 1899 and it is...
02:41North American slang for a skunk.
02:43OK.
02:46Ooh!
02:47Look at that!
02:48Is it trying to pretend to be something else?
02:51Yeah, I think so.
02:52Is it giving a signal?
02:53I think so.
02:54Either that or it's being beamed up by...
02:56An alien ship run by tiny rodents from another galaxy.
03:02I love that.
03:03What if that was the case?
03:04What?
03:05What?
03:06The...
03:06Aliens who come to Earth in ships are tiny and furry and really, really small.
03:11And they're not interested in all the big mammals, only the tiny ones.
03:14They only want the skunks.
03:15And they're off...
03:16They're off being probed and no one cares.
03:18LAUGHTER
03:19Have you...
03:20Have you recently encoded...
03:21A knock to the head?
03:22LAUGHTER
03:26So, I grew up in New York and we had these striped skunks.
03:31They're very common in North America.
03:33It comes from an Algonquin word meaning urinating f...
03:36And that's because of the extraordinary way it sprays this stink behind.
03:39Anybody know what you do if you've been...
03:41You've been sprayed by a skunk.
03:42Tomatoes.
03:43It's what everybody thinks it is.
03:46And it doesn't work.
03:47So, people used to take a bath in tomato juice but, in fact, it's just that it's...
03:51It smells stronger briefly than the skunk.
03:54And then once the tomato juice wears off...
03:56Links.
04:00LAUGHTER
04:01LAUGHTER
04:02APPLAUSE
04:06I mean, I'm going to give you a point because that is so true.
04:09Let's come on to the next word of hope.
04:11What about wobulator?
04:12What do we think about wobulator?
04:13I do know this word, I think.
04:15Oh, dear God.
04:16LAUGHTER
04:17I think it's going to be a word to do with the early...
04:21..of radio and trying to get the waves working properly.
04:25How are you doing...?
04:26I think it's going to be on the wobulator.
04:27You are correct.
04:29Wow.
04:30APPLAUSE
04:31Thank you so much.
04:32OK.
04:34Thank you very much.
04:36In the very simplest terms, it is a gadget that is able to make noises, so it...
04:41It looked like that, but in these modern times we have created our own, which now looks like this.
04:46What it can do is it can send out infinite sound frequencies within a certain...
04:51range, so it can make very low sounds, it can make very high sounds, and every sound in between.
04:55So I just turn it on.
04:56So then you can make these...
04:59Oh, Doctor Who is arriving.
05:01Well, funnily enough, do you want to have a play?
05:05Yes, I do.
05:06I thought you might.
05:08The BBC Sound Department used this for entertainment...
05:11purposes, and used it to create the Doctor Who theme tune.
05:14Oh, did they?
05:15Yeah.
05:16Well, funnily enough photo, that's Delia Derbyshire.
05:18She produced the Doctor Who theme tune in 1963...
05:21That's her working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale in London, and she is the mother of...
05:26electronic music influencing Pink Floyd, the Chemical Brothers, Paul McCartney, lots of people.
05:30Fabulous.
05:31This is a reproduction of the Wobulator, which was designed by the technologist Nina Richard for...
05:36the Delia Derbyshire Day charity for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary.
05:39Can I have a bang on that?
05:40Can I have a bang on that?
05:41What I don't know about playing with a little switch on a board.
05:45LAUGHTER
05:46How familiar are you at your age with radio, Michael?
05:49Yeah, I'm familiar.
05:50You are familiar?
05:51They are like...
05:52Yeah, but I'm not aware of them.
05:53Yeah.
05:54You probably haven't ever tuned a radio.
05:56You've just gone on your phone...
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58I've just kind of used...
05:59I've never really tuned one, no.
06:00No.
06:01No.
06:01I've never tuned a radio.
06:02On my radio, I can...
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06:30Anybody got a follow-up?
06:35Anecdote?
06:37OK, let's move on to Womble Scropped.
06:40I love the Wombles.
06:41Is it to do with the Wombles?
06:42It's nothing to do with the Wombles.
06:44Who was your favourite?
06:45Orinoco.
06:46Oh, yeah, Orinoco.
06:47Orinoco, because he was an idiot.
06:50Wombling free in Wimbledon still.
06:51Yeah.
06:52The Wombles are the wood pussy of our generation.
06:54Really?
06:55I don't know.
06:56I understand like one in three of your sentences.
07:06No, here's the thing, Michael.
07:07If you want to sit closer to me, that's fine.
07:10I spent five years doing a podcast with Susie Dent.
07:13Ah, yes.
07:14And she loves these...
07:15Old words.
07:16And she would say,
07:17Oh, I'm feeling a bit Womble Stromped this morning.
07:20And I said, does that mean you're feeling a bit queasy?
07:22And she says, yes, probably more indigestion.
07:25Than being hungover.
07:26Yeah.
07:27It is absolutely correct, darling.
07:28You do get two points for that.
07:30I will send them to Susie.
07:35Susie Dent and I'll show you a picture of her later.
07:37So it's in...
07:40Indigestion, but particularly after drinking.
07:42After excess.
07:43Can I just tell you about one of my favourite studies...
07:45This was one of last year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
07:47So it was for Womble Scropped Worm.
07:50And it was the chemists at the University of Amsterdam.
07:53And they figured out if you...
07:55If they flush worms through a maze, the drunk ones take longer to...
08:00Escape.
08:01I wonder why this happened in Amsterdam.
08:05So these are sludge worms and they're found in the sediment of lakes and rivers and so on.
08:09And what they found...
08:10Is that the drunk ones initially would go limp, right?
08:12And they'd be less resistant and they would float through...
08:15Through the maze.
08:16But it turned out that they got stuck on corners and pillars along...
08:20The way a bit like drunk people latch on to lampposts.
08:23So then...
08:24Go, go, go.
08:25And then they're like, ohhhh.
08:26And so they took longer.
08:28Let's look at some...
08:29Oh, no.
08:30Oh, no.
08:30Other words?
08:31Anybody want to pick a word from there?
08:33I quite like Woodner.
08:34Isn't that like an Edward?
08:35The Canadian Viagra.
08:36What is that word?
08:37That's very good.
08:38Any thoughts?
08:40Well, Daddy Wooden Top was Woodener than Mummy Wooden Top.
08:43Yes.
08:44Wooden Top...
08:45When I'm...
08:45I'm telling you later about...
08:46I'll show you.
08:47I've got some lovely old wooden tops.
08:50Bob Daniels.
08:51Okay.
08:52Michael.
08:55Say no.
08:56Yeah.
08:57I'm just asking for Angela.
08:59I want Angela.
09:00Yes.
09:01Yes.
09:07Thank you very much.
09:08Thank you very much.
09:11Oh, it worries me that you know that.
09:12No.
09:13So, no, it's a knockout.
09:15I like to punch a Woodner.
09:17So, it makes the target seem to be like an unmoving plank.
09:20It's...
09:20It's from the early 20th century, a Woodner.
09:22Michael, pick one.
09:23A wee quashing.
09:24Okay.
09:25What do you reckon?
09:25Is it toilet based?
09:26No.
09:27It comes from one of the Algonquian languages.
09:30Okay.
09:31So, that's North American like Cree or Blackfoot or Delaware or something?
09:33Mm-hmm.
09:34Does that help you?
09:35We quash it.
09:35Like a tribe?
09:36Yes, darling.
09:37Like a Native American tribe.
09:38Okay.
09:39Yeah.
09:40It's a Native American tribe.
09:41No.
09:42No.
09:43That's...
09:44That's...
09:45It's the spearing of eels from a canoe by candlelight.
09:49Oh.
09:50Wow.
09:51That sounds like it's making it disproportionately difficult.
09:53Yeah.
09:54So, unlike a...
09:55Fish spearing, where you actually stab the thing, the eels spears are designed to hold the eels...
10:00Oh, wow.
10:01You can see how Havelock Ellis would have been interested in all this sort of...
10:05Oh, sorry.
10:06Yeah.
10:07What other words have we got?
10:09Alan, do you want to...
10:10Do you want to choose one?
10:11A weeple is a wonky steeple.
10:13It's a wonky something.
10:15Is it a dyslexic nun's wimple?
10:18LAUGHTER
10:19There was...
10:20This dyslexic nun is the beginning of a Barry Cryer joke.
10:23I like that.
10:24Something man made.
10:25Is it a garment?
10:26A weeple.
10:27No.
10:28It's a very feeble wimple.
10:30A weeple.
10:31A weeple.
10:32Yeah.
10:33It's 18th century.
10:34You know about Jiminy Cr...
10:35A weeple.
10:36A weeple.
10:37A weeple.
10:38A weeple.
10:39Give a little whistle.
10:40Can you...
10:40Do you have a proper whistle?
10:41No, I can't.
10:42No.
10:43So you are, in fact, a...
10:45a person who does a weeple.
10:46So the people most prone to weeples, apart from Michael, are astronauts.
10:50In 1999, the NASA astronaut Daniel Barry discovered he could not whistle.
10:55In a space suit.
10:56Because the air pressure inside is three and a half times lower than normal...
11:00atmospheric pressure on Earth.
11:01And so there's not enough air molecules to blow through the lips.
11:04So you just do a weeple.
11:05I never could whistle until I got a dog.
11:07And I loved my dog so much that I realised another rain...
11:10of communication would be denied between us if I didn't learn to whistle.
11:14So my weeple turned into...
11:15because of a little wire-haired dachshund.
11:17Oh, I love that.
11:18And if the dachshund could...
11:20and the dachshund could speak, it goes,
11:21shut the fuck up!
11:22Yes, exactly.
11:23It had longer legs.
11:24It was...
11:25It was going like that.
11:26LAUGHTER
11:30I think we've got one word left on our list.
11:35Giles.
11:36Wow.
11:37Where do you go nimble?
11:38Is it a kind of Jack and Apes?
11:39A where do you go nimble?
11:40It's...
11:40It sounds like a Victorian hen party after a...
11:42Where are you going nimble?
11:43Well, after you've been to a hen party, you might have...
11:45this.
11:46It is...
11:47It's a loosening of the bowels.
11:48Oh!
11:49Sort of hen party.
11:50She's like, what have you been going to?
11:51LAUGHTER
11:52It's diarrhoea, basically.
11:53One of my worst things.
11:55Oh, I love it.
11:56Yeah.
11:57Just one of your worst things.
11:58Yeah.
11:59One of my worst discharges.
12:00It is.
12:00LAUGHTER
12:01Oh, it's not one of my worst discharges.
12:03No?
12:04LAUGHTER
12:05Not even in the top three.
12:06LAUGHTER
12:07LAUGHTER
12:10I don't know if you two might discuss that later.
12:12LAUGHTER
12:13Right.
12:14Moving on.
12:15What is the use of handwriting now that we've all got computers?
12:18Everything.
12:19OK.
12:20I mean...
12:20Seriously.
12:21OK.
12:22You can't write a love poem on a computer.
12:24Uh...
12:25If you want something from the heart, it has to come through the hand.
12:28I really believe this.
12:29But I don't think you'll...
12:30You're so far off, Giles, because the thing is that the movements that you do in handwriting
12:34require you to...
12:35..to process information actively.
12:36And that means there are many more links between regions of the brain which process information...
12:40..and the ones responsible for memory, for example.
12:42So I think you're right.
12:43I think there is an...
12:44..unlocking of creativity when you use handwriting.
12:47Do you handwrite anything, Michael?
12:48Yeah!
12:49I mean, I like, you know, like, love notes.
12:51Yes.
12:52You know.
12:53Exactly.
12:54You up.
12:54You know.
12:55Send that by.
12:56Yes.
13:04How old are you?
13:09What did you do when you first began to practice your autograph?
13:14Must have been about four, I suppose, but not because I thought of it as my autograph.
13:18Oh, didn't you develop it?
13:19Most people, I think, will have developed their autograph over the years.
13:22Worked out the full name.
13:24One L and one L, two Ls, all this.
13:26No?
13:27I feel the male psyche is fascinating.
13:29I was always writing people I fancied names.
13:32That's what I was doing, yeah.
13:34Yeah.
13:35I spent lots of time doing that.
13:36Did you practice, Michael?
13:37Did you practice?
13:38Just my autograph.
13:39Just like...
13:39I was normally, like, in detention, you know, just being written in there.
13:41LAUGHTER
13:42Were you a naughty boy?
13:43No.
13:44A little bit.
13:45It's getting more exciting by the minute.
13:46LAUGHTER
13:49Practicing my signature came into its own when I signed the larger...
13:54..the largest cheque in the history of this country.
13:56When you were the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury?
13:58I was the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
13:59And I signed a cheque for £137 billion.
14:02Wow.
14:03What did you buy?
14:04Why?
14:05LAUGHTER
14:06Social Security payments, first quarter.
14:08Uh, every...
14:09A bit of government expenditure has to be signed off by a Treasury Minister.
14:13And I...
14:14I was the junior Treasury Minister, the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury,
14:16who had to do this.
14:17They explained to me, with these big cheque...
14:19..the billion-pound cheques, you'll be doing them with the head of the Treasury.
14:22I said, who's that?
14:23They said, it was the Queen.
14:24So, I would go down the mile with the government cheque book
14:27to sign these huge cheques with the Queen.
14:29..our signatures together.
14:30And the first time I did this, I wasn't sure what the etiquette was,
14:32you know.
14:33I didn't want to patronise her.
14:34She was a woman saying, after you.
14:35Oh, and he'd pull rank, cos I was the elected one.
14:37Anyway, she was...
14:38LAUGHTER
14:44She was holding the pen and she seemed to think she should sign first,
14:47so I let her.
14:48Big, loopy hand...
14:49I did write Elizabeth R, and then I put mine underneath.
14:51Almost as big, but I know my place.
14:53LAUGHTER
14:54And the last time we did this, this was the cheque for £137 billion.
14:58It...
14:59It was she who told me it was the largest cheque she had ever signed,
15:02and she said, you know, the way the government insists on the...
15:04..the two of us signing these cheques.
15:05I can't help wondering which of the two of us it is the government
15:08doesn't entail...
15:09LAUGHTER
15:10LAUGHTER
15:11APPLAUSE
15:14..
15:19Now, if somebody dies without making a will, what's a f...
15:24one way to decide who gets what?
15:27Ooh...
15:28A race.
15:29LAUGHTER
15:30Yeah, that's a good idea.
15:31The money's over there.
15:32Go.
15:33Yeah, go.
15:34LAUGHTER
15:35What'd you rank?
15:36I don't know.
15:37Whoever loved him most, and he...
15:39He just kind of goes from there.
15:41You've had no dealings with the law, have you?
15:42No.
15:43LAUGHTER
15:44I feel very bad about this.
15:46Oh, do you, darling?
15:47Well, because over the years, I have inadvertently...
15:49..he killed a number of people.
15:50LAUGHTER
15:51LAUGHTER
15:52LAUGHTER
15:53LAUGHTER
15:54I have just realised the Queen is no longer with us.
15:58LAUGHTER
15:59LAUGHTER
16:00LAUGHTER
16:04LAUGHTER
16:05Oh, dear.
16:06When I was a child, I was in the...
16:09choir at Holy Trinity Brompton.
16:11And we were paid a shilling a week for service...
16:14..two shillings for weddings, but five shillings.
16:16I'll tell you what they are later.
16:17Yeah, two shillings.
16:18Five shillings...
16:19..for funerals.
16:20Yeah.
16:21So we wanted funerals.
16:22We were little boys who wanted death.
16:24..in our midst.
16:25So we would, during the prayers,
16:27we would eye up the congregation...
16:29..as we were praying, through our hands like this.
16:32..and we'd focus on the frail...
16:34..the nationalist looking member of the congregation.
16:36LAUGHTER
16:37..and then we would all simultaneously...
16:39..pray for this person to die.
16:42LAUGHTER
16:43LAUGHTER
16:44..and God loves...
16:48..and God loves...
16:49..a young entrepreneur.
16:50LAUGHTER
16:52..because week after...
16:54..for a week, these old buggers fell off the...
16:56..fuck.
16:57Millions of them, unfortunately, dying in...
16:59..without a will.
17:00..without a will.
17:01Right.
17:02So that is the point.
17:03So I feel...
17:04..I feel guilty that people do die without needing a will.
17:07But if they were old and frail, by that...
17:09..then they really should have had wills.
17:10They should have known better.
17:11They weren't like...
17:12..if Michael didn't have a will, it would be more...
17:14..understandable than no offence...
17:15..if you didn't have a will.
17:16LAUGHTER
17:20..I've got stuff.
17:21I've got, like, tamagotchis.
17:22I can give them...
17:23LAUGHTER
17:24..I've got valuable stuff.
17:25Have you made a will?
17:26I've not made a will, no, but...
17:27No.
17:28In the UK...
17:29..if you die without a will, your assets...
17:31..automatically will go to your spouse or your...
17:33..to your civil partner.
17:34..or, you know, abortion to your children, if you have any.
17:36So, we're going to South America in the Indigenous...
17:39..so, Ecuadorian Saliscans, the Canelo...
17:41..and the Canelo...
17:42..and the Canelo...
17:43..and the Canelo...
17:44..and the Canelo...
17:44..because they traditionally gambled for the deceased's possessions.
17:49..in a game with dice called Huero.
17:52So, they used dice, which looked like this...
17:54..made from the bones of donkeys or llamas or oxen and so on.
17:57And what I like about this, they blather...
17:59..the game at the wake.
18:00Right?
18:01Yeah.
18:02So, the person's died.
18:03There's no will.
18:04..and then they play with these dice to work out who's going to do it.
18:07So, they put the coffin beside the...
18:09..and it's believed that their spirit will reach out
18:12to affect the game, to...
18:14..affect the roles and so on.
18:15And that means that their intentions will be honoured,
18:17even if it hasn't been written down.
18:19I think this is a fantastic way of doing it.
18:22If somebody from the Saliscan community...
18:24..if somebody actually dies without getting married,
18:26what they do is they place a chicken or a cockerel by the...
18:29..to stand in for the would-be spouse.
18:32And the dead person's hand is...
18:34..and they're made to touch the chicken so that they're married.
18:37And the idea is that they'll have a companion.
18:39..in Afterlife.
18:40And afterwards, the chicken gets to live with the bereaved family.
18:43And then...
18:44..and it gets a funeral of its own when it dies.
18:47Ah, yes, I know.
18:48Aren't we weird?
18:49We are.
18:49..so, we're doing a chicken.
18:50It's just...
18:51THEY LAUGH
18:52So, they let the chicken die of, like, natural causes?
18:53Yes, they don't even...
18:54They're not fried.
18:55No, no, no.
18:56Add some seasoning.
18:57Yeah.
18:58I mean, suddenly you're making it sound very...
18:59Attempting.
19:00Yeah, this sound good.
19:01In India, there's a group of people who...
19:04Eat their own relatives.
19:05They eat...
19:06Well, actually they eat their grandparents when they've died.
19:09I don't know what to do with that.
19:10I'll be honest with you.
19:14I don't know if you want it from me from that moment.
19:15I thought I lied.
19:16What happens when...
19:19What happens is this, you see?
19:20They actually...
19:21When the grandparents die, they put them into the...
19:24Yeah.
19:25And then the fish eat them.
19:26And then the children and the grandchildren eat the fish.
19:29It's to carry on.
19:30Michael, you don't have to believe all of this.
19:32LAUGHTER
19:34Stay away from the man.
19:35It's gone to one in five, I understand.
19:36One in five, I understand.
19:37There, I've got you.
19:38Yeah, yeah.
19:39What do we think a holographic will is?
19:42Oh, is it back in Star Wars?
19:44Harry Fisher comes up and says,
19:46I'm leaving you half the house.
19:48LAUGHTER
19:49You're good.
19:50Maybe it just has a bit of pointy.
19:54You're getting nothing.
19:55You're getting nothing.
19:56You're getting nothing.
19:57Give it all to the cat.
19:58LAUGHTER
19:59So, a holographic will is one that's written entirely by hand.
20:03And it can be...
20:04It's problematic because it doesn't have the right terminology.
20:06There's a very famous court case.
20:07It's called Thorn and Dickens.
20:09In 1906.
20:10And it was a three-word holographic will and it just said all four...
20:14Mother.
20:15OK.
20:16And it's often used as an example of the importance of clarity in documents.
20:19The...
20:19The man's widow claimed that mother referred to her.
20:22That they used to refer to each other as...
20:23Ooh.
20:24..as...
20:24father and mother.
20:25Hmm.
20:26And his actual mother challenged it but, in the end, the courtroom...
20:29..and his actual mother challenged it but, in the end,
20:30the courtroom...
20:39strippers members of parliament
20:44It's a question about weaving weaving yes
20:49These are all terms from victorian cotton mills. How does that help anybody at all?
20:54Can you say the sentence again the steamy blowing room full of male strippers
20:59spinning jenny
21:01It's the only thing you know about weaving
21:04What is a spinning jenny something about a loom you didn't have to do it
21:09Because you've got jenny to do it
21:14There's steam in the room there is yes, so here's the thing about cotton is that you
21:19Need to keep it artificially hot and moist in order to keep the threads from breaking this is very very
21:24Important and it's one of the reasons why lancashire for example was very famous for cotton weaving because it's often
21:29And the air is very dumb, but first of all they have to smooth the raw cotton by press passing
21:34Steam through it, so this is in the blowing room then there is the carding room and then there is drawing
21:39And roving this is what's happening here, but you mentioned male strippers and these are girls. Yes, so
21:44Stripping was seen as a man's job because it required more strength and the women on the hold of the weaving, but why do you think there was so much?
21:49Kissing going on kissing board in it
21:54It's a technique it's a
21:59Delicate technique for plucking of something that needed to be plucked
22:04I mean you're heading in the right direction, so I don't know if you've ever seen a shuttle
22:07I do a lot of weaving myself and I have many
22:09Of these old you do a lot of weaving I do darling and so you get an old shuttle and the thread has to go through
22:14The eye of the shuttle and so the easiest way to do it was to suck it in and it was called kissing
22:19the shuttle when your wife said let's do some kissing the shuttle she didn't think you were going to get a
22:24Loom sand issue
22:27She's from Lancashire. I didn't understand
22:29Anything she was saying
22:31But once industrialization kicked in then kissing the shuttle
22:34Became incredibly unhygienic the government set up a shuttle kissing committee
22:39It had to be banned because it was unhygienic, but the machinery was so
22:44Allowed in order to get their point across to each other they would exaggerate the mouthing and the mind
22:49And the lip-reading and it's known as me moing me moing me moing. Yeah, and
22:54Every mill had its own dialect even though this is your mouthing words and
22:59People were able even to have private conversations by holding their hands over their mouth like that and I know this because
23:04My wife's family all me moing and I went to a party at a working men's club
23:09And it was a bingo and karaoke night and the bingo and the karaoke was happening at
23:14The same time and they were all having this long conversations
23:19But they were me moing to it you have married very well, haven't you?
23:24Absolutely the most glorious people and Debbie's auntie Betty came up to me and she looked at me
23:29She went which was you're off the telly
23:34But we get a lot we get a lot from weaving the word rocket that we use comes from weaving
23:39It means the bobbin it comes from an Italian word rocket though. It's the cylindrical shape and
23:44Shuttle we use the shuttle like trains for example, so things are going very fast
23:49What's the biggest thing you've ever woven? I once did a complete tapestry
23:54Of the story of the wizard of Oz what the buyer of Oz
23:59Who was with William Wordsworth when he wandered
24:04As lonely as a cloud in a field of golden daffodils
24:09And Titchmarsh
24:11Wonder lonely as a cloud there's stuff about that
24:14Isn't there there was jiggery pokery around how that got written and when well some people think he originally wrote
24:19I wandered lonely as a cow which I rather prefer
24:22Who do you think he was with?
24:24Giles knows
24:26I think I do know. Yes darling. He was with his
24:29Sister is right. Yeah, he was always with his sister. Okay, even when he
24:34Was with his wife he was with his sister
24:36It's quite a strange relationship his sister
24:39Was the meaning of his life in many ways they were brought up I think separately
24:44Yes, and when they came together
24:46They really became almost inseparable they loved one another
24:49I think in a perfectly lovely way they loved gambling across the moors together
24:54The hills is all happening in Cumbria Lake district, then he got married and that
24:59Created a bit of tension his wife was called Mary is that right? Yes, so she's called dorothy and Mary
25:04He became a friend of dorothy, but in a nice way
25:09He got a better artist to do his drawing
25:11Yes
25:14But it is quite a strange relationship the night before he got married to mary he allowed dorothy to
25:19wear the wedding ring and in the morning he took the ring off dorothy
25:24finger she refused to go to the actual ceremony and when she learned it was done she became
25:29As they say insensible and she never married that dog's got stories to tell
25:34So the story of the poem they were
25:39Exploring owls water together dorothy and a william 1802. So this is the lovely
25:44path from gow barrow down to ulls water isn't it beautiful and she wrote about it in her diary which
25:49He would have read because he was this way did his sister is that what we're saying
25:54Thank you
25:59If that's what you're into what you need to know about is lord baron okay
26:04Lord baron i think
26:09Possibly did have it away with his half sister who was called aurora there's no
26:14evidence that the act of darkness took place between dorothy and william but what you should know is all of these
26:19Poets they were constantly bickering with each other because you mentioned lord baron william once badmouth the works of alex
26:24Alexander pope who was another poet and he was seriously admired by lord baron and baron was
26:29So angry he renamed william wordsworth william turdsworth so
26:34But she talks about the fact that they were in galbaro park and saw daffodils close to the
26:39Water so it was definitely a thing that they did together
26:44He becomes quite a grumpy old man because originally look at this place it's fantastic you know when he was
26:49Young he said everybody must have access to this place equal access to nature and so on
26:54And he wanted the lake district to become a sort of national park and everything but then as he got
26:59He got very cross with the working class invading the place by train and also he'd become a
27:04Sort of tourist attraction people used to go and knock on his window when he was sitting and they want to go hi
27:09Willie wordsworth
27:11But anyway wonderful poet if you haven't
27:14Read it the prelude oh oh it's magnificent it's one of the greatest poems ever this poem
27:19Hmm basically
27:21He tells the story of his poetic awakening and it's almost
27:24That's the story of his life and
27:26He and the people around him they really invented
27:29Our modern view of the world our view of childhood and nature would you not agree I would
27:34I mean the way he talks about nature both being in awe and in fear of it is just magnificent but did he
27:39Write that or did Dorothy I mean that's a very good question and then we'll never know but
27:44The opening of the prelude is so beautiful talks about a pinnace which is a kind of ship she wasn't
27:49Elfin pinnace lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake and as I
27:54Rose upon the stroke my boat went heaving through the water like a swan
27:59Isn't it magnificent or filth
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