00:21It's a titanosaur, its scientific name is Batagotitan, and it would have ticked the
00:25scales at probably around 60 tonnes, and it reaches 37 metres in length.
00:30The cathedrals are a fantastic setting, because the animal is so big, there are not many venues
00:35that can take the bulk of it and be able to stand back and actually get some sense of
00:41the scale without it totally dominating the space, but here it's complemented perfectly
00:45by the architecture of the building, and there's another interesting local connection, which
00:50is that some early relatives of these animals were found locally in some of the brick pits
00:54around Peterborough.
00:55So in some respects, there's a nice local cousin for it that it could have met.
01:10Everything my team does in terms of making money for this cathedral goes back into the
01:14cathedral.
01:15We have a £12 million bill over the fabric of the building in terms of repairs and maintenance.
01:19We're open seven days a week for worship.
01:21We have an in-house choir, and of course that's all such a substantial cost for us to continue
01:27doing, and that's why we have to bring in that commercial arm.
01:39My fabulous technophobe characteristics have now designated me as the dinosaur, so I don't
01:46take it too personally.
01:47But I probably have a similar technological aptitude as to our skeleton friend.
02:03We have a systemic
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