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# Gorgeous Georgians Slimy Stuarts, vile Victorians

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# Ferocious fights Daring knights

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# Horrors that defy description Cutthroat Celts

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# Vicious Vikings Punishment from ancient times

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# Roman rotten, rank and ruthless

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# Groovy Greeks Mean and measly Middle Ages

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# Gory stories - we do that

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# And your host - a talking rat

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# The past is no longer a mystery

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# Welcome to Horrible Histories. #

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In Saxon Britain lots of men lived as monks. We had some very strict rules.

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For instance, we weren't allowed to speak during meals,

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so we developed our own sign language.

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Brothers, brothers, I have urgent new...

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The gorillas are making clay pots.

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Ooh, uh,the gorillas are ringing the bells.

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The Vikings are attacking. Yes! Yes!

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By Odin's thunder!

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Ooh, are the gorillas ringing the bells?

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Arrrgh!

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Hello, I'm Brother Alfred and this is my new assistant, Brother Timothy.

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Today we're going to teach you how to write like a monk.

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Now you'll need something to write on,

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so first take one cute little fluffy lamb...

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BLEATING

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..and cut its throat.

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Remember, always ask your parents' permission

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before you brutally slaughter a pet lamb.

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Now you'll need a pen.

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Brother Timothy, go and fetch a goose feather.

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Remember, always ask the goose's permission before plucking a feather.

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Next, you need to cut off the skin from the lamb

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and stretch it over a wooden frame.

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To make your pen, you simply trim off the feathers with a sharp knife,

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square off the end, make a slit up the shaft and there, perfect.

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So now you have a pen, something to write on.

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Now, you just need some ink

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and for that we're going to need some wasp's eggs.

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HE GRUMBLES

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You'll also need some vinegar, some gum for thickening...

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and some copper water for colour.

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SCREAMING AND BUZZING

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Take the wasp's eggs and mix them all together.

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And now...

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we're ready for some fancy monk writing.

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Mmm...yeah. Oh.

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Oh, drat.

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We're going to have to do that all over again.

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Viewers may like to know that all the names in the following sketch

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are genuine Victorian names.

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Good day.

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Right, settle down.

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Mr Butler isn't here today, so I'll be taking the register.

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Uh, now I don't know any of you,

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so be sure to call out when you hear your name.

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Raspberry Lemon,

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Lettuce Burger.

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Bovril.

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I'm sorry, I think I must have picked up a shopping list.

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No, Miss, those are children's names.

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They're not answering cos they're sick.

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Bovril and Raspberry?

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Honestly, Christian names have got really weird

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since Victoria became Queen.

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Well, OK, on with the register.

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On my way, Miss. Sit down, what are you talking about?

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You said, "OK, on with the register."

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I'm OK, OK Johnson.

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Well, OK, uh,

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unless I give permission, never get out of your seat.

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Yes, miss.Why are you standing up?

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You said, "Never get out of your seat," I'm Never, Never Rookrook.

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Has nobody got an ordinary name in this classroom? Yes?

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Toilet.All right, be quick.

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No, that's my name.

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I think that's quite a normal name. My sister's called Baboon.

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Toilet and Baboon?

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Your parents must be evil.

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No, that's Evil over there.

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Yes?

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I've got an ordinary name, Miss, it's Susan.

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Ah, that's more like it.

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Susan Semolina Thrower.

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Right, let's just try and get through this, shall we?

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I'll say your names, you say here

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and uh, I'll try not to say your names accidentally. Happy?

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Yes, Miss? Don't tell me your name's Happy?

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Right, register, here we go.

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Freezer Breezer. Here, Miss.

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Princess Cheese. Here, Miss.

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Minty Badger. Here, Miss.

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Scary Looker...

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No, I'm sorry, why would anybody call their child Scary Looker?

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Forget I asked.

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I am...

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Miss...

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Farting...

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Clack.

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Good morning Miss Farting Clack.

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CHILDREN GIGGLE

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Oh, hello there. Yes, those really were all real Victorian names.

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Minty Badger and Princess Cheese.

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Eh, it makes what celebrities call their children nowadays

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almost normal.

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Yeah, right!

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Our Queen, Victoria, had something of a weight problem.

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She was advised to do more walking but she refused.

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Victoria simply hated taking exercise.

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Do you want a body like Queen Victoria's?

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Do you want to be wider than you are tall?

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Then you need help, or The Queen Victoria workout.

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It's not easy staying in shape when you're a busy royal, so I don't.

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Let me show you how.

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And sit, and rule. And sit and rule.

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Wait for it.

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And rule some more.

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That's right, sit and rule, like Queen Victoria did for 63 years.

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Now, let's exercise those arms.

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And recreate Queen Victoria's mourning for her husband Albert.

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Don't forget to wear black.

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And...

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Mourn. And mourn. That's it.

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Keep going for the next 40 years.

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OK, time to try some dips.

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Watch out, Ma'am, he's an assassin.

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And dip.

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And dip again.

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Yes, dip like Queen Vic.

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She survived seven attempts to assassinate her.

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Phew, some real exercise.

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Now I'm exhausted and hungry.

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The Queen Victoria workout,

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learn the secrets of how the Queen stays out of shape.

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Yes, you too can have a body that only looks good in a black sack.

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We Romans had some horrible ways of entertaining ourselves,

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like watching gladiators fight against wild animals.

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People of Rome,

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welcome to the final day of Emperor Titus's 100 days of games.

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To mark the opening of the mighty Coliseum,

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we've seen gladiators take on lions, tigers, buffalo, rhino,

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even crocodiles.

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What will they bring you today?

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Oh, just as long as it's not tiger, I hate tigers.

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Release the beasts.

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CHEERING

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Well, um, we've got a bit of a problem with today's show.

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We, we've run out of animals.

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What?Well, after 100 days of entertainment,

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they have all been slaughtered.

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We've literally run out.

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So no lions?No.Tigers?No.

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Thank gods.

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We have found half a bear, but it's not much good at fighting.

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Elephants? Leopards? Hippos?

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No. Rome has plundered the whole of North Africa for wild animals

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and you gladiators have killed them all.

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There are none left.

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What's going on down there?

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Nothing. Won't be a second.

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Listen, the crowd are baying for blood.

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We'vegotta find an animal to slaughter, otherwise we're dead men.

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We'll have to fight one another. Well, there is one, I suppose.

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CHEERING

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A gerbil?

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That's 100% accu-rat.

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Well, except that little bit about the gerbil,

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which is just a bit silly.

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But the Romans really did run out of animals for their games.

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In fact, they took so many lions from North Africa,

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that there are no lions in North Africa to this day.

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That's right, the rat knows all. Aha!

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One performance in the Roman arena featured elephants

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doing what with their trunks?

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Was it:

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The answer is...

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B.

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The elephants traced Latin words in the sand with their trunks.

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Of course, we Romans didn't just use animals for entertainment,

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we also used them to execute people, in some very strange ways.

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Get your animals for execution here.

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All the animals you need for traditional Roman executions

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under one roof.

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Yes, sir?

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Yeah, hi, um, I'd like to buy 5,000 wasps.

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Ooh, we've had a bit of a run on wasps, very low on stock.

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Oh, dear. Um, do you have any other winged insect

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that can sting a man to death who's covered in honey?

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Not really. A bee could do it on a good day, but there's no guarantee.

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I've got this criminal

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and I'm supposed to get him stung to death by wasps.

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Well, have you considered sticking him in a sack

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with a wild dog and a lobster?

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The thing is we've already covered him in honey.

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Oh, yes, I see your point.

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Well, I do have a delivery of wasps coming in on Tuesday,

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if that's any good to ya.

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No, I really need him killed this side of the weekend.

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In which case, I think, honey or no honey,

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your best bet is gonna be a dog and a lobster.

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Do you think it would do the job?

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Yeah, you'd usually tie up the sack and chuck it in a river,

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just to be sure.

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Seems a bit cruel to the dog. But the lobster loves it.

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And we're giving away a free sack with every dog-lobster combo,

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this week only.

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I dunno, the boss was quite specific about the whole wasp thing.

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I'll do you a good deal and uh, that's not the only combo, nah, no,

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dog and lobster's the most popular one,

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but I can do ya pig and octopus,

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badger and prawns, monkey with a stingray, camel and a goldfish.

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I wouldn't recommend camel and a goldfish, you need a massive sack

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and they don't do a good job.

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Mmm. D'you know what, thinking about it,

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I might just hit him over the head with a shovel.

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Yeah, that's probably best. Thanks, anyway.All right.

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Right, come on you.

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Yes, mate? I'd like to make a complaint.

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HE LAUGHS

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OK, some of those weren't real execution methods,

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but they did sting people to death with wasps,

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and the Roman punishment for killing your father

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really was being tied up in a sack with an angry dog...

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and a lobster... and thrown into the river.

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Cor, what a way to go, eh?

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Heh. Nippy, but clean.

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Time again for our fairytale series,

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where the stories are retold in different historical settings.

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Today, The Ugly Duckling - the Middle Ages Version.

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And the Ugly Duckling was very sad because he was so very ugly.

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But then, one day, the Ugly Duckling looked at his reflection

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and found that he had grown into a beautiful swan.

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"Oh, happy day, I'm not ugly any more!" said the swan.

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Ha ha ha ha, you certainly aren't.

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Said the King, who happened to be passing that day.

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You're a beautiful swan.

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And the beautiful swan was very happy, until the King added...

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And you'll make an even more beautiful pie.

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Yes, the King killed the swan and ate him,

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because this was the Middle Ages and swan pie was a bit of a treat

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for posh people in those days,

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and so the Ugly Duckling would've been better off staying ugly.

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The end.

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Did you know that in the late 1400s,

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King Henry VII passed a law

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saying that only royals could kill and eat swans?

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To this very day, the Queen owns all the swans in Britain,

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except for the ones in Orkney,

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where an old Viking law still states that they belong to everyone.

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Hmm, not just a pretty face, me, eh?

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And if you think eating roast swan is weird, wait till you find out

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what one posh bloke served up for his Middle Ages dinner party.

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Almost there.

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I tell you, if I ever have to look at another napkin again,

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or another swan for that matter...

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Eh, look lively, here comes the boss. His Lordship, the Earl of Warwick.

257
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Right, I wish to see the Chief Cook

258
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or whichever peasant stinks the least.

259
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My Lord?

260
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Mmm, tolerable.

261
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I would ask your name, but I don't care.

262
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No, I simply came down here

263
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to check on the preparations for tonight's banquet.

264
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It's not every day I get the chance to celebrate

265
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my brother being made Archbishop. No, my Lord.

266
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Which is why I've laid 60 cooks at your disposal, to create a feast,

267
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the likes of which the world has never seen.

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Yes, my Lord.After all, I need to set a good example.

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HE BURPS

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As requested, we've lovingly prepared 104 juicy oxen.

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Marvellous. I love a bit of nice, lean beef, don't you cook?

272
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I wouldn't know, sir,

273
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us peasants can't afford such pleasures.

274
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Well, if you'll insist on being poor. And what else?

275
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Um, 1,000 sizzling swine.

276
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1,000? Oh, better make it two, be on the safe side.

277
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Uh, an extra thousand swine, right you are, my Lord.

278
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Then we've 1,000 sheep, 13 desserts.

279
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13?!

280
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Oh, well, excuse me, 13,000 desserts.

281
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Mmm.

282
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And uh, the vegetables? None at all, sir.

283
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Excellent. I don't want my guests thinking I eat like a peasant.

284
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Oh, no, sir, carrots and the like are for scum like me, sir.

285
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Yes, they are. Hmm-mmm.

286
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All right, go about your business, you grubby little commoner.

287
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Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

288
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Right, we need 1,000 extra swine.

289
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NO-O-O-O!

290
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Cancel the swans, I've changed my mind.

291
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Make 'em into the shape of crowns.

292
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Yes... Little crowns.

293
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SHE SOBS

294
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That's exactly what the Earl of Warwick served up to his guests

295
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when his brother became Archbishop.

296
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That's 100% accu-rat.

297
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Ha. Personally, I'm happy with the odd dead pigeon.

298
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HE GASPS

299
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Darn rats.

300
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Which of these table manners was considered acceptable

301
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in the Middle Ages?

302
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Was it:

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The answer is...

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C. You could burp at the table, but not into people's faces.

305
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And now it's time to meet those ever- so-clever chaps, the brainy Greeks.

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Good evening, I'm Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher.

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And I'm Archimedes, inventor, physicist, mathematician, engineer.

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And big head.

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THEY LAUGH

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And now, from Ancient Greece,

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another brilliant invention, the First Play Ever.

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Greetings other person in this play.

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Greetings yourself.

314
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CHEERING

315
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'Two men stand still onstage and talk to each other for four hours.

316
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'Yes, four hours!

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'With no action.

318
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'No costumes, and no interval.

319
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'The First Play Ever, by Aeschylus.

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'In Greek amphitheatres in 474 BC.

321
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'I know it looks boring, but there's literally nothing else on.'

322
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HE SNORES

323
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Mmm, sorry. Hmm. Up to that point, going to the theatre

324
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meant watching one man drivelling on for hours.

325
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Two men drivelling on for hours was a major breakthrough.

326
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HE SNORES

327
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That's right, and from then on

328
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Greek plays were either tragedies or comedies,

329
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which is funny because the way their inventor died was a bit of both.

330
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# Stupid deaths, stupid deaths

331
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# They're funny cos they're true

332
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# Stupid deaths, stupid deaths

333
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# Hope next time it's not you. #

334
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Ooh.

335
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Next.

336
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Ah, at last.

337
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Name?Aeschylus.

338
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Oh, year of death?

339
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458 BC.

340
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Profession?Greek playwright.

341
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I'll just put la-di-dah writer. Hmm.

342
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Method of death?

343
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Well, I was walking along, minding my own business.

344
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There was an eagle flying high in the sky above me,

345
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it had caught a tortoise and was looking for a rock to drop it upon.

346
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Eh?

347
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You know, to crack it open so it could eat it.

348
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Oh, I see, and?

349
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It saw my bald head shining in the sun.

350
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And mistook it for a rock?

351
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Yes. Splat.

352
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I was killed instantly.

353
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HE LAUGHS

354
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What, stone dead?

355
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HE LAUGHS

356
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You're dead funny.

357
00:21:41,774 --> 00:21:44,935
And what happened to the tortoise? Oh, it was fine.

358
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TURTLEY fine?

359
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HE LAUGHS

360
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Turtley fine.Very funny.

361
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It was a tortoise.

362
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It still works. No, it doesn't.

363
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Turtley fine - tortoise.

364
00:21:57,657 --> 00:21:59,857
It works. Get out.

365
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HE LAUGHS

366
00:22:01,057 --> 00:22:04,898
Did you hear my joke? It was very funny. Next.

367
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# Stupid deaths, stupid deaths

368
00:22:07,297 --> 00:22:09,938
# Hope next time it's not you. #

369
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

370
00:23:20,706 --> 00:23:24,546
In World War II, lots of children were sent to the countryside

371
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to be safe from bombs,

372
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and to find a family to take them in, they needed to look their best.

373
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It's no good, dear, too late. All that's left are the dregs.

374
00:23:40,949 --> 00:23:43,069
Don't be mean. These poor little urchins

375
00:23:43,109 --> 00:23:46,989
have come from the city to escape Hitler's bombs.

376
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They've left their mothers and fathers behind,

377
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they need care, compassion and a roof over their heads.

378
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They need a good wash.

379
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I mean, look at this little fellow.

380
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Hello there, have you got a name?

381
00:24:00,551 --> 00:24:01,832
Got fleas.

382
00:24:01,872 --> 00:24:05,232
Urgh. Maybe you're right, dear,

383
00:24:05,272 --> 00:24:07,792
perhaps we should come back tomorrow.

384
00:24:07,832 --> 00:24:09,113
Mmm.

385
00:24:10,193 --> 00:24:13,032
Oh, why, thank you.

386
00:24:13,072 --> 00:24:15,433
Oh, Harold, look, she's perfect.

387
00:24:15,473 --> 00:24:19,393
We'll take this one, please. Come on.

388
00:24:20,753 --> 00:24:23,755
At last, I've been standing there for BLEEP ages.

389
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:25,915
Let's go BLEEP home.

390
00:24:25,955 --> 00:24:27,514
I'm BLEEP starving.

391
00:24:27,554 --> 00:24:30,476
On second thoughts, we'll take the fleabag.

392
00:24:35,154 --> 00:24:38,956
And life wasn't any easier for the children in Germany.

393
00:24:40,836 --> 00:24:44,596
Are you a German boy aged 10 to 14?

394
00:24:44,636 --> 00:24:46,956
Vant to learn how to tie knots,

395
00:24:46,996 --> 00:24:50,877
pitch a tent und sing songs around ze campfire?

396
00:24:50,917 --> 00:24:53,637
Vant to learn how to march?

397
00:24:53,677 --> 00:24:55,237
Fight und die in battle?

398
00:24:55,277 --> 00:24:56,278
Eh?

399
00:24:57,399 --> 00:24:59,838
So join the Hitler Youth today

400
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and be taught to despise anyone who isn't German.

401
00:25:03,879 --> 00:25:06,399
Everyone is signing up.

402
00:25:06,439 --> 00:25:09,600
Don't miss out, you must join today.

403
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,480
No, really, you MUST join.

404
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,600
It's compulsory.

405
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,600
Join up and get our Hitler Youth special offer.

406
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,961
Report your parents for listening to enemy radio today

407
00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:26,042
and we promise to have them locked up for years.

408
00:25:26,082 --> 00:25:29,961
Plus, get three posters of your favourite German celebrities.

409
00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:34,402
There's me, und there's me und there iz also me.

410
00:25:34,442 --> 00:25:36,523
Yes, join the Hitler Youth,

411
00:25:36,563 --> 00:25:39,483
and if you're lucky we'll run so short of troops

412
00:25:39,523 --> 00:25:43,563
we'll send you off to fight und get killed for the Fatherland.

413
00:25:43,603 --> 00:25:46,044
But I'm only 10.

414
00:25:46,084 --> 00:25:49,565
Talk to the hand coz the face ain't listening.

415
00:25:49,605 --> 00:25:56,005
The Hitler Youth, it is just like the Scouts, only evil.

416
00:25:57,245 --> 00:26:00,925
When the Allies stormed into Berlin at the end of World War II,

417
00:26:00,966 --> 00:26:05,566
most of the German soldiers they found were children or teenagers.

418
00:26:05,606 --> 00:26:09,607
They were forced to defend their capital or be shot for cowardice,

419
00:26:09,647 --> 00:26:13,247
and one anti-aircraft gun was manned entirely by teenage girls.

420
00:26:13,287 --> 00:26:15,727
It's horrible, but it's true.

421
00:26:15,766 --> 00:26:18,007
True or false?

422
00:26:18,047 --> 00:26:22,168
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and hated to see creatures suffer?

423
00:26:23,728 --> 00:26:24,808
It's...

424
00:26:24,848 --> 00:26:25,848
true.

425
00:26:25,888 --> 00:26:27,448
Amongst other things...

426
00:26:30,969 --> 00:26:35,089
When he knew he'd lost the war, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader,

427
00:26:35,130 --> 00:26:37,289
killed himself in his Berlin bunker.

428
00:26:38,850 --> 00:26:42,571
Hitler was dead, or was he?

429
00:26:42,611 --> 00:26:47,691
Well, obviously he was, but many believed Hitler had survived.

430
00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:51,291
After the war, there were hundreds of stories circulating

431
00:26:51,332 --> 00:26:53,012
about him being alive and...

432
00:26:53,052 --> 00:26:57,053
Well, here are the top three strangest Hitler rumours.

433
00:26:58,612 --> 00:27:03,413
Number three, he was living as a shepherd in Switzerland.

434
00:27:03,453 --> 00:27:06,774
All right, men, will you follow me?

435
00:27:06,814 --> 00:27:09,774
SHEEP BLEAT

436
00:27:09,814 --> 00:27:14,975
Goot. Right, I'm off to teach a goose how to march the goosestep.

437
00:27:16,015 --> 00:27:20,735
Number two, he was working as a fisherman in Ireland.

438
00:27:21,736 --> 00:27:23,616
Are you coming, Sean?

439
00:27:23,656 --> 00:27:26,176
I'll be with you in a second, Patrick, begorra.

440
00:27:26,216 --> 00:27:28,976
I just need to trim the old moustache.

441
00:27:31,896 --> 00:27:36,416
And number one, he was living in an underground hideout in Sweden,

442
00:27:36,456 --> 00:27:39,977
with enough tinned food to last for years.

443
00:27:40,018 --> 00:27:43,578
Unfortunately for me, it's all baked beans.

444
00:27:43,618 --> 00:27:44,657
HE BREAKS WIND

445
00:27:44,698 --> 00:27:48,858
Urgh, phewph, I wish I WAS dead.

446
00:27:48,898 --> 00:27:52,259
# Tall tales, atrocious acts We gave you all the fearsome facts

447
00:27:52,299 --> 00:27:54,499
# No glitz We showed you all the juicy bits

448
00:27:54,539 --> 00:27:59,220
# Gory, ghastly, mean and cruel Stuff they don't teach you at school

449
00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:02,620
# The past is no longer a mystery

450
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# Hope you enjoyed Horrible Histories. #