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This programme contains
strong language.
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A hundred years ago,
the people of Britain
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were living in a very different era.
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This era was called the olden days,
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and Britain was a very different
place.
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Every woman in this era was called
Vera or Lynn.
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One woman was even called both.
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She was soon to sing about bluebirds
over the White Cliffs of Dover.
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But this was a fallacy. There were
no Bluebirds in Vera's Britain.
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And although the cliffs of Dover
looked white,
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they were in fact
Farrow & Ball Slightly Munge.
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The British were living in the
shadows of the First World War.
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Their generals lived in chalets
at the back
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and asked their soldiers at the
front to kill millions of Germans,
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by calling them on the telephone
after breakfast.
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Patch in the L-2-5-1, please.
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But frequently, their telephone
lines were cut by shells.
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Hello?
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Which meant the soldiers had
no idea at all...
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Had me blood test.
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..whether to kill millions of
Germans after breakfast.
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And then something happened.
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A man called Marconi invented
a device
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that used short-wave radio signals
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to transmit voices without the need
for wires.
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Hello? MAN: Hello.
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And the generals realised that if
they had these devices
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they would no longer need telephones
to ask their men
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to kill millions of Germans...
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..after breakfast.
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But someone else was excited by
Marconi's wireless.
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His name was John Reith.
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Despite being Scottish, John Reith
had an optimistic view of life...
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..and no interest in killing Germans
after breakfast.
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He'd observed British soldiers
returning from the war
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to their cottages with pianos
in the kitchen parlour.
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Here they could listen to their
children making music.
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# Yip, yap, yuppie
And butters our bread
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# I scrubbered me a foreigner
And now he's dead. #
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But their music was primitive,
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their accents indecipherable.
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Ee, by gum, the black face,
you bugger.
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Shut up, woman.
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And their dancing unrefined.
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Reith realised that if he could
place Marconi's wireless
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in their homes, they could hear
refined classical music
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and words spoken by their betters.
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He would teach the working classes
to say "napkin"
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instead of "serviette."
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RUMBLING
And "lavatory" instead of "toilet."
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And instead of clobbering
foreigners...
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..they'd learn to love them.
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Reith dreamt of a Britain where
every home would have a lovebox.
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BOTH: # We like to watch the BBC
The lovely BBC
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# We like to watch the BBC
When we come home for tea
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# The One Show is sublime
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# And Crimewatch with its crime
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# We like to watch the BBC
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# And listen to Radio 3. #
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You can't sing that, Candice Marie.
Why not, Keith?
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Well, it doesn't scan. Come along.
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MAN: Are you ready for the music?
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It's different today.
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ORGAN MUSIC PLAYS
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It began a hundred years ago, and
by the time of the Second World War,
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it had already become
the voice of Britain.
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A father figure, and a listen
with mother.
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A beating heart of British culture,
and a cornerstone of our democracy.
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A Great British institution.
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UPBEAT PERCUSSION
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This made the politicians and
newspapermen puke.
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They weren't as popular as the BBC,
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so they claimed it was no longer
in tune with the people.
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It didn't scan.
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And because Great British
institutions
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are no longer held in respect
by young people...
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..they don't give much of a toss.
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WOMAN: Did you like that tune?
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WOMAN: Have you seen my napkin?
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MAN: You took it with you to
the lavatory.
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Perhaps you left it in the lavatory.
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I shall go and look in the lavatory
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and see if my napkin is there.
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And I shall play Schubert
on the pianoforte.
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PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
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DOG BARKS
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Hush, Napkin.
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CAT MEOWS
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Quiet, Lavatory.
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John Reith also broadcast news
and weather.
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MAN: Here's the news. The weather
is going to be bad.
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And the King.
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MAN: I am the King.
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And instead of killing Germans
after breakfast,
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the Generals killed pheasants,
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and left the BBC alone.
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But then, everyone in Britain
went on strike.
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Except for the Generals,
who didn't go on strike,
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even though the General Strike
was named after them.
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Now Prime Minister Stanley Baldrick
spoke on the BBC.
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This is one of my little
fireside chats.
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This going-on-strike business
is a silly business.
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But Prime Minister Baldrick refused
to allow
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Labour Party leader Ronald McDonald
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to speak on the BBC in support of
the strike.
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ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
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Now John Reith made up his mind.
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He wanted autonomy, so he wrote a
song about it by the Buzzcocks.
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# Autonomy... #
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Then he gave the
British Broadcasting Company
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a swanky new name...
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..and made himself Director General.
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MAN: Jackanory, Jackanory.
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On the other side of the world,
a small boy had been abandoned
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and raised by dingoes in an
abandoned house.
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And in the abandoned lavatory,
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Raised By Dingoes discovered
an abandoned wireless.
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Now he heard human voices
for the first time.
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They were loud and violent.
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What he didn't know
was that these voices
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were just Australians
speaking normally.
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MAN IN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: If music
be the food of love, play on!
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And he called his wireless the
Crapbox In The Crapper.
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Sometimes these voices
told the truth.
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But Raised By Dingoes found
the truth boring.
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Mainly, they talked any old
bollocks,
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and this made him feel better
about himself.
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Now he saw his future.
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He would gain acceptance in
the world of humans by giving them
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any old bollocks that made them feel
better about themselves.
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Jackanory.
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John Reith now met another Scottish
John.
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His name was John Yogi Bear.
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He had invented a wireless
with pictures.
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# All the lassies say hello
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# Donald, where's your troosers? #
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Inspired by John Yogi Bear's
invention,
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Reith declared that the future was
the wireless with pictures.
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In November 1936, the BBC broadcast
its first television programme.
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OPERA SINGING
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But this programme was only seen by
400 households,
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because the workers couldn't afford
televisions.
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So the workers became depressed.
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And this became known as
The Great Depression.
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Now nobody had anything to do
except listen to the King abdicate.
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I am the King.
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But I've fallen in love with a
wicked American floozy.
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But then something happened.
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It was time for a Second World War.
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Therefore I must tell you, that when
you've finished your kippers
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or your kedgeree,
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you must kill all the Germans.
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ALL: Hooray!
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This was to be a people's war,
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so the Conservatives were now
replaced by a
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government of national unity.
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John Reith's mission to inform,
educate and entertain
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was now abandoned and Reith
resigned.
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The airwaves now belonged to
cheeky chappies.
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# Yip, yap, yuppie
And butters our bread
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# I scrubbered me a Jerry
And now he's dead
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# I cut out his liver and I cut off
his head
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# I chucked them in the river
Now the river runs red. #
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The BBC had scrapped television for
the duration of the war.
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It now used its wireless programmes
to send coded messages
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to agents in occupied Europe.
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At nine o'clock this evening,
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you must take your napkin
to the lavatory.
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Then it came up with a programme
that was broadcast to Germany itself
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that was so boring that millions of
Germans instantly became dead.
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Das Archers!
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After hearing Das Archers himself,
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Hitler committed suicide.
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GUNSHOT
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And even though they'd been human
and dancer,
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they were killers.
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And Britain was glad they were dead.
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# Are we human
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# Or are we dancer? #
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The BBC was now established.
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Unlike any other broadcaster
in the world,
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it was cheap, cheerful,
and not particularly cool.
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But because it was fuelled by
information,
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it gave people the freedom to
think about things
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they'd never thought about before,
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such as the danger of drugs.
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Hello, Muffin. What's that package
on your back?
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Heroin? Silly me.
You're a drug mule.
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You bring drugs into the country
for bad people.
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And did the boy who was going to
buy your drugs
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try to swizzle you out of
ten shillings and sixpence?
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Did that led to a fight in which
you trampled the boy to death?
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What a naughty drug mule you are.
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PIANO PLAYS
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# Let's hang Muffin
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# Muffin the Mule
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# Let's hang Muffin
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# Muffin the Mule
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# Let's hang Muffin
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# Muffin the Mule
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# Let's hang Muffin the Mule. #
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# I like to be a busy, busy bee
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# Being just as busy as a bee
can be... #
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Britain now needed a boom in babies.
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But because such things
weren't talked about,
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few people knew how babies
were made.
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How are babies made? Go to bed!
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So the government asked the BBC
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if it had any information
on the subject.
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And the BBC remembered it had
a twin called David Attenborough.
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He'd been born on the same day
as the BBC himself,
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because he must be 100 by now.
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And he was fascinated
by living creatures having sex.
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So he showed the British people
how to create a baby boom.
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This spinster has dedicated herself
to a life of learning
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here at Cambridge University.
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But now she's ready to mate.
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And she's looking for a
suitable partner.
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Making a display of her
brightly coloured things,
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she immediately draws the attention
of some fusty professors.
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Mmm. Mmm.
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But neither of these confirmed
bachelors seem to cut the mustard.
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She's found her match at last.
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GRUNTING
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It's all over for the other two.
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They'll have to wait for
another day.
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Or perhaps continue their life
as confirmed bachelors.
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But for the happy couple,
it's time to copulate
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and produce a child that
combines their love
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of brightly coloured things
and splendid vacuum cleaners.
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But few could afford
splendid vacuum cleaners,
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because post-war Britain was poor.
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And the once-great Britons
were now a bit crap.
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The BBC reflected these times
by inspiring people
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to make their once-great homes
a bit crap.
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I don't know whether you've got
a problem like this,
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a rather ugly old panel door.
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It's one that can be solved
quite simply.
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You can make it look like this.
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No-one was more inspired
than a young boy.
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His name was Anthony Wedgwood Blair.
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As he watched Barry Bucknell,
he realised something.
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He could take something great
and make it crap,
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but more in tune with the times.
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He now Barry Bucknelled his name
to Tony Blair
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and transformed himself into
a regular guy with no soul,
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like a plywood door panel,
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and began to dream that one day he'd
do the same to the Labour Party
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and to Britain.
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What he didn't dream was that he'd
also become
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best pals with Raised By Dingoes.
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Jackanory, Jackanory.
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In the abandoned house in
the Outback,
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young Raised By Dingoes
had found some letters.
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They spoke of love and morality
and self-improvement.
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Raised By Dingoes now realised
something profound.
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He could use these letters
to wipe his arse.
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The authors of these letters
were Jason and Kylie.
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They'd once lived in the
house of dingoes,
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and one day they spotted
a backpacker.
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He was from England on his gap year.
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The young man now took a wireless
from his backpack
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and told them he was going to
explain the world's problems
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on the BBC.
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And when he finally shut the
fuck up, they asked him his name.
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It was Richard Dimbleby.
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It looks as though we've got about
six places neck and neck.
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Nobody knows who's going to be
first,
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but we're watching them with
eagle eyes.
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And here is our first result, it
comes from Finchley in North London,
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where the seat has been taken for
the Conservatives by a lady.
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Erm, a rather attractive lady
by the look of it, called Thatch.
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Where there is bread,
may we bring butter.
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Where there is mutton,
may we bring Jeff.
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Where there is tuppence,
may we bring ha'penny.
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And we have trapped Mr Jeremy Thorpe
who won North Devon for the Liberals
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and Polly Elwes is sitting with him
in Exeter. Let us go over to them.
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Now, let's look rather more at your
own campaign, your own victory.
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You're a bachelor and I'm told you
have conducted a very gay campaign.
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Erm, I think that people in Devon
enjoy a little bit of gaiety,
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but I think they feel that they
have to know you first
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before they'll stand much of it.
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Now everyone in Britain could enjoy
a bit of gaiety.
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The new ITV seemed gayer
than the BBC.
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It financed its programmes with
advertisements
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for things people didn't need.
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Why does he reject me?
Because your bosoms smell!
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But now there's a way to keep
chest whiff at bay.
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Smear your bra once a day with new
Bravellous.
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ITV made popular working-class
programmes.
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But the BBC didn't know anyone
working class
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because it was like a giant
public school.
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You should've been filming Z-Cars
yesterday afternoon.
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Why weren't you?
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Sir, the cameraman, Mr Pilkington,
said he would be away then, sir.
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But he wasn't away, was he?
He was on set all day. Yes, he was.
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You're quite sure that you, erm,
didn't miss it intentionally?
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Because the BBC didn't know anyone
working class,
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it looked to the theatre, where a
group called the Angry Young Men
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had started to write plays about
working-class life.
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But the Angry Young Men weren't
actually working class.
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They just pretended to be.
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And the liberal middle classes
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didn't actually like the
working class.
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They just pretended to,
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and bought expensive theatre tickets
to watch them from a safe distance
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and empathise with their
ghastly lives.
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Just as they do today.
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The BBC now asked the
Angry Young Men
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to write Plays For Today.
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Would you like one?
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A cup, I mean, of tea.
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I would.
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I'll put it on, then.
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The kettle, on the hob.
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You don't... What?
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..have to make one.
A cup, I mean, of tea.
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It's no trouble.
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But what then?
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The teapot.
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Shall I...? Would you like me to?
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I'll get it myself,
when I put it on.
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The kettle, I mean.
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On the hob.
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For the tea.
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For the tea.
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Middle-class viewers thought
Play For Today was frightfully good.
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But it had been aimed at the
working classes,
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and they found it boring
and turned over to ITV.
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Fancy a cuppa?
Aye, put t'kettle on, eh?
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Pass us t'teapot, love.
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Now everybody had a cup of tea.
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And even though the government said
they'd never had it so good,
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they were still poor.
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So the BBC gave children Blue Peter,
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and taught them to make their
very own crap toys.
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But Blue Peter wasn't blue.
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Val and Chris, and then John Noakes,
were forbidden to swear.
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So they couldn't say "Sellotape",
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which in the '60s was a very
bad word
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and only tolerated post-watershed.
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MAN ON TV: I'd like to kiss you and
hug you until the end of time.
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What would you like to do to me,
Albert?
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I'd like to Sellotape your
mouth shut. Oh!
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The watershed was nine o'clock.
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It had been invented by
BBC executive Ted Watershed,
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which is why it's called the
watershed and not just nine o'clock.
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Ted Watershed insisted children
should never hear the word
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"Sellotape." So on Blue Peter, when
Val and Chris, and then John Noakes,
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made crap things,
they said "sticky-backed plastic."
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Sticky-backed plastic.
Sticky-backed plastic.
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Sticky-backed plastic.
Sticky-backed plastic.
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Sticky-backed plastic to go
round the...
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Sticky-backed plastic.
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But children didn't know what
sticky-backed plastic was,
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and their Blue Peter toys
fell apart.
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Now Britain itself was
falling apart.
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And in 1964, there was a coup
and the Beatles assumed power
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and appointed Harold Wilson
as Prime Minister.
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And the BBC noticed that children
were copying
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the mop-topped musical junta
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by growing their hair long and
behaving like animals.
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To frighten children into being
good,
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the BBC invented Doctor Who
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and exposed them to really scary
fluffy creatures
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and terrifying slightly green
painted man-eating bubble wrap.
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Keep close, Suki.
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This must be the way.
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Doctor, watch out!
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Exterminate!
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Cut! DALEK VOICE: Have I got time to
pop out for a fag?
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Of course, yes.
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BOY: I find it frightening.
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I hide behind the sofa. So do I.
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But at the time, most houses in
Britain were small,
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and sofas had to be positioned
against a wall,
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so were impossible to hide behind.
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Which is how the BBC knew
these children were lying.
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They were taken to the Blue Peter
garden
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and exterminated.
Exterminate! Exterminate!
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In 1968, Europe was consumed
by revolutions,
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and the BBC now consumed itself
and embraced Beatleism.
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Exterminate!
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All you squares out there, turn off
now to avoid heart palpitations,
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for this is Whizz Bang Pop.
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What's your name, young lady,
and who are you here to dig?
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00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,240
My name's Camilla Parker Bowles
and I'm here to dig The Smooths.
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Do you have a question for the boys?
Yes, I do.
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Why did you call yourself
The Smooths?
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00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,200
Well, everyone drink a cup of tea,
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we digs drinking a cup of
cappuccino coffee
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like an exotic foreigner and that's
what makes us smooth, you dig?
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SCREAMING
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Take it away, guys.
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# You got to take the rough
with the smooth
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# Baby, can you feel the groove?
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# You got to take the rough
with the smooth
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# Come on, honey, do your move
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# It's all right... #
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Now Beatleism Britain was the
envy of the world.
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00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,520
But there was a problem. Everyone
in Britain wanted to be the Beatles,
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but only four people could.
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00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,640
And this caused massive
industrial unrest.
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We demand to be the Beatles!
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00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,520
The strike spread from workers'
legitimate demands to be the Beatles
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to other grievances.
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00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,920
Now the might of the trade unions
dominated every workplace,
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00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,760
including the BBC. And this nearly
scuppered the recording
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00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,600
of the greatest tune ever written.
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ORCHESTRA TUNING
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The Greatest Tune Ever Written,
take one.
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Everybody out!
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We can't have women playing on
The Greatest Tune Ever Written.
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Women are a menace.
A bloody menace. I quite agree.
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00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,640
We give in to your trade union
demands.
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The Greatest Tune Ever Written,
take two.
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MATCH OF THE DAY THEME PLAYS
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At the time, there was only
one woman
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believed to be working at the BBC -
Joan Bakewell.
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And they called her
thinking man's crumpet.
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00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,880
Val from Blue Peter was also
a woman,
422
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,720
but they didn't think of her as one.
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They thought of her as a normal
person and left her alone.
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A decade later, they were joined by
Sue Lawley.
425
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,400
This was still a traumatic event,
426
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,760
so they bet she went like
the clappers in the sack.
427
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,440
Ten years later, they were joined by
Lenny Henry's wife
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00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,680
and Adrian Edmondson's wife.
429
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,480
By then, the BBC was swarming
with so many women
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00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,320
you could count them on the fingers
of Moira Stuart's hand.
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00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,920
To congratulate itself on being
so progressive,
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the BBC gave them their own
lavatory.
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00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,320
In the late '60s, the Beatles
decided to replace
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violence and strife
with peace and love.
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The solution lay in drugs.
436
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,200
So the BBC produced radical
new dramas
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00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,480
which viewers could only endure
if they were on drugs.
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00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,520
RINGING
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00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,480
Hello? You've got the wrong number.
440
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,600
This is haberdashery. You want
cabinets on the third floor.
441
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,160
Excuse me, you're in my way.
442
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,760
This is my line, you see?
443
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,720
I'm sorry. Fee-fi-fo-fum.
444
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,000
I gobbled up a kipper and the war
got won.
445
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,360
I'm Beelzebub.
446
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,360
And I'm Satan.
447
00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:35,680
Here he is. Devils?
448
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,680
Silly Tarquin. They're just pretty
names here in Gooplania.
449
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,720
Now even Doctor Who was on drugs.
450
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,200
Fuck it.
451
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,680
There was one man who preferred
sailing to drugs.
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His name was Ted Heath.
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00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,400
In 1970, he disbanded the Beatles
on Disney+
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and formed a Conservative government
with Rod Stewart.
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00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,240
And then went sailing.
456
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,080
# I am sailing... #
457
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,040
And as he sailed towards France,
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00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,160
he thought of a new
government policy.
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00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,040
Evening, all.
460
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,000
Now, it's not everyday you can
say to yourself
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00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,120
a politician's got it right
for a change.
462
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,840
But yesterday was one of them.
463
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,560
That's a very fine car you're
driving.
464
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,920
I build them, Officer.
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00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,800
At Ford in Dagenham.
466
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,840
My shift starts in half an hour,
so...
467
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,080
Well, hold your horses, sonny boy.
468
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,320
There's a new government policy.
469
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,320
And us coppers have been charged
with issuing fellas like you
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a voucher for your local
sailing club.
471
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,400
Mr Heath wants fellas like you
472
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:10,600
off the reefers and out into the
fresh air of the high seas.
473
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,120
Think I may be sailing round
the world.
474
00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:17,080
As long as I don't get stopped by
the Royal Navy every five minutes.
475
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HE LAUGHS
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00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,960
When Ted Heath arrived in France,
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00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,280
he asked a pretty young Frenchman
at the bar
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what the song was on the jukebox.
479
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,440
The pretty young Frenchman told
Ted Heath it was Puppet On A String,
480
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,520
a song chosen by the BBC which had
won the Eurovision Song Contest.
481
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,960
Ted Heath now learned that Britain
was known as the sick man of Europe.
482
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,880
But now it had won the
Eurovision Song Contest,
483
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,800
it was great again.
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00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,120
Ted Heath now sailed back to
Britain deep in thought.
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00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,600
And as he reached the Farrow & Ball
Slightly Munge Cliffs of Dover,
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he made up his mind.
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00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,360
Britain would join the
European Union
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and dominate it, as it dominated the
Eurovision Song Contest.
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00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,000
Britain entered Europe in triumph,
490
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,800
and saved all its kisses for the
Brotherhood Of Man.
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00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,000
# Bye-bye, baby... #
492
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,560
But then something happened.
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00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,320
SCREAMING
494
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The United Kingdom lost to
the Netherlands.
495
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,520
# Bingy boingy boo
496
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,440
# Say hello
Say good morning
497
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,440
# Say how do you do
498
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,480
# Bingy boingy, bingy boingy
499
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,480
# Because I love you... #
500
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,920
Enraged, the miners went on strike.
501
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,680
And sitcoms featuring beating up
Europeans
502
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,440
became hugely popular.
503
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,480
Ted Heath was now replaced
by Labour.
504
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,520
# Bingy boingy, bingy boingy
505
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,520
# Because I love you. #
506
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,840
But British workers were still
furious,
507
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,400
and refused to stop making
Austin Allegros.
508
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,680
The BBC now reflected the nation's
determination
509
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,760
to make poor-quality products
510
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,680
by spending several fivers on a
production of a Star Trek rival.
511
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,600
Warning! Votron attack detected
and communications intercepted.
512
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,400
Orders are to destroy our galaxy.
513
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,720
Hmm, if the Votrons succeed, this
will mean the end of life on Earth.
514
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,720
We should probably do something
about this.
515
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,680
Bucknell. Commandress.
516
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,000
Destroy the Votron attack force
immediately.
517
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,040
Votron attack force destroyed.
518
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,080
That was a close shave.
519
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,960
# Wake up, Maggie, I think I've got
something to say to you. #
520
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,520
One afternoon in the late '70s,
521
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,560
Thatch was walking home to
Finchley from Parliament
522
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,160
because her Austin Allegro
was fucked again.
523
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,440
As she reached the road to
Damascus Gardens,
524
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,640
she saw, as if in a vision,
525
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,800
that Great Britain had become
Little Britain.
526
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,280
"You're the thick man of Europe,"
said Lou with an amusing lisp.
527
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,480
Thatch now told Little Britain
it didn't have to be so negative.
528
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,480
It could have lovely thoughts.
529
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,520
And if it watched the BBC,
530
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,240
it would learn that it didn't matter
if you were in a wheelchair.
531
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,960
Or quite large.
532
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,120
If your raincoat was filthy,
533
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,880
or you suffered from
wrap-around cardigan syndrome.
534
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,600
You could be heroes.
535
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,000
"Don't want Allegros," said Andy.
536
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,120
"Want Nissan Bluebirds."
537
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,320
Where there is discord,
may we bring harmony.
538
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,440
Where there is Marks,
may we bring Spencer.
539
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,400
Where there is prawn,
may we bring cocktails.
540
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,240
Phwoar.
541
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,720
Now Japanese carmakers
flocked of seagulls to Britain
542
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,600
to make cars glued together
with big boy's glue -
543
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,240
Nissan Bluebirds.
544
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,480
And Bluebird Britain gave a
fucks bizz about Europe.
545
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,160
It had made its mind up.
546
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,200
# For making your mind up... #
547
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,400
The BBC reflected Britain's
new place in the sun
548
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,280
by making dramas even more
glamorous than Dallas.
549
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,400
I thought I might find you here,
Jan.
550
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,480
You're back earlier than expected.
551
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,800
The Jag ate up the M3.
552
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,840
I think I might have overtaken
Jackie Stewart.
553
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,200
Never were a feminist, were you,
Maurice?
554
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,000
And I don't intend to become one
now.
555
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,160
How was your shopping trip
to Harrods?
556
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,520
Calvin Klein's £60 richer,
I'm afraid.
557
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,360
You're in a good mood.
Penny for your thoughts?
558
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,200
I think you mean £5,000.
559
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,520
Go one. That's the investment
I'll make in the boat yard
560
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,680
when I win the race on Saturday.
561
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,680
It's always when, never if,
with you.
562
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,120
Which is why you married me in
June 1972 and not Roger de Beaufort.
563
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,160
And now I'll be able to build bigger
boats in my boat yard
564
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,520
than Roger can in his.
565
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,480
Champagne from France?
566
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,840
It seemed the BBC could do
no wrong. But it could.
567
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,360
We all retain one piece of knowledge
from high school days.
568
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,720
Whilst most of our teachers
were swell,
569
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,920
there were some who lurked in our
classrooms
570
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,720
who must be described thus.
They are...
571
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,400
I find the big wide world
a frightening place.
572
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,920
May I crawl back inside your womb,
Mother?
573
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,320
My darling boy.
574
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,720
You can't call back inside my womb.
575
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,480
But you can go back to school
576
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,520
and take out your inadequate
wankiness on children.
577
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,160
Oh!
578
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,320
What wanker teachers don't realise
579
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,440
is that while they're belittling
one child,
580
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,320
the other children are
gobbing on their backs.
581
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,880
Because it was like a giant
public school,
582
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,760
some wanker teachers ended up
at the BBC by mistake.
583
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,840
Chelsea-Arsenal for
Match Of The Day.
584
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,600
You should've been filming it
yesterday.
585
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,480
Yes, but I got the wrong division.
586
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,400
How do you mean you got the
wrong division?
587
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,880
I filmed the Second Division, sir.
Hull v Blackpool.
588
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,840
Yes, I see.
589
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,760
These wanker teachers now became
political interviewers.
590
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,520
Do you know, since you raised
interest rates,
591
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,760
other members of the Cabinet
consider you to be royalty.
592
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,600
I don't know what you mean, Robin.
593
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,680
They call you the Cock-up King.
594
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,240
But ITV had a nice teacher.
595
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,240
You're widely considered to be the
most intelligent member
596
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,200
of the government. I suppose I am.
597
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,960
And with that intelligence
comes a humility.
598
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,760
Yes, I am very humble.
599
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,120
Would a man of your intelligence
and humility admit
600
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,880
that rising interest rates was the
wrong thing to do? Yes, he would.
601
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,200
And has cost Britain thousands
of jobs? Yes, it has.
602
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,640
And this decision was made by
one man and one man alone? Me.
603
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,160
And even though the BBC had broadly
reflected the Thatch project
604
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,320
of turning ghastliness...
605
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,320
Oi, I want a word with you.
Can't it wait? No, it can't.
606
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,080
What's that supposed to mean?
607
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,720
..into sunshine...
608
00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:30,760
AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: Can I have a word
with you, mate?
609
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,560
Oh, it can't wait, can it?
610
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,680
No, I'm afraid it can't. No worries.
Come in, I'll get us a tinny.
611
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,280
..Thatch herself was not immune from
the wanker teachers.
612
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,520
How would you answer those in
Number Ten
613
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,080
who say that you are immune to
Domestos?
614
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,400
Where there is confusion,
may we hear clarity.
615
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,200
Domestos gets rid of bad smells
that linger,
616
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,040
and yet you're still here.
617
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,320
Thatch misinterpreted the rudeness
of BBC wanker interviewers
618
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,640
as political bias, and began a
process that continues to this day
619
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,560
of gobbing on the BBC's back.
..Cabinet members who are so...
620
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,240
The BBC caved in, stripped the
wanker teachers of their bow ties
621
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,880
and beat them to death.
622
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,760
And replaced them with
David and Jonathan,
623
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,400
The Dimbleby Brothers.
624
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,760
# ..reasonable
625
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,480
# So reasonable
626
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,320
# An argument has always got
two sides... #
627
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,960
But the powerful forces of the
establishment
628
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,480
now smelt the BBC's blood.
629
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,040
They thought the BBC was worthy
and superior.
630
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,640
They wanted to replace the
freedom to think
631
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,280
with the freedom to choose,
632
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,280
and to choose not to think.
633
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,680
But to turn over to other channels
that were less worthy,
634
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,320
and zone out.
635
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,440
# We're reasonable... #
636
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,920
They now began to undermine the BBC,
637
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,920
hoping to confine it to the
rubbish tip of history.
638
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,520
# As reasonable as can be. #
639
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,920
Raised By Dingoes had bought some
newspapers in Britain
640
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,680
which gave people a truth that was
often bollocks
641
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,400
but made them feel better about
themselves.
642
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,400
Now he turned to television,
643
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,480
and giving people so much bollocks
644
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,840
they wouldn't have to do anything
with their days
645
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,880
except watch bollocks.
646
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,000
He was ready to launch his crapbox.
647
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,880
You see that, Grandad?
That there is the future.
648
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,600
Your state-of-the-art
extra-terrestrial set-top telly box.
649
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,840
Oh. Complete with satellite dish
extreme
650
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,480
picking up all the alien channels
from outer space
651
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,960
what up until now has only rumoured
to have existed.
652
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,760
And all inclusive and included
for only 250 nicker.
653
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,160
That's a lot more than the BBC,
Del Boy.
654
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,520
And the BBC lob in your wireless
for nothing.
655
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,160
Oh, I should've pulled the plug out
of your wireless years ago,
656
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,800
you dipstick.
657
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,560
Look at all them history channels.
658
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,560
They improve your bonce, Grandad.
659
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,040
I don't want to know about
Hitler's dog.
660
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,200
Well, that is because you are
determined to remain ignorant.
661
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,240
You're like that Phyllis Stein bird.
662
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,800
Ooh, I like that film.
663
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,760
Oh, got to pay extra for that.
664
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,640
Oh, look. West Ham-Spurs.
665
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,960
Oh, you've got to pay extra
for that, an' all.
666
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,760
You know what happens to plonkers
like you, Grandad,
667
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,760
what stand in the way
of scientific advancement?
668
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,000
No, what, Del?
669
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,360
Ooh, satellite tele. Lovely, Del.
670
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,440
With crapbox competition,
the BBC needed to remind people
671
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,160
of its founder John Reith's
great mission.
672
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,960
# Like a virgin
673
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,480
# Touched for the very
first time... #
674
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,920
It now turned to a post-teenage
thirtysomething
675
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,600
called Richard Curtis.
676
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,480
He had written a funny sketch show
called Not The Ted Watershed News,
677
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,280
and a funny sitcom starring former
Prime Minister Sir Stanley Baldrick.
678
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,960
Baldrick, what are you doing
out there?
679
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,120
Don't worry, Mr B.
I have a cunning plan.
680
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,600
Richard Curtis was sad emoji because
of all the poverty in the world.
681
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,760
Now he heard the voice of
John Reith.
682
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,680
He would help alleviate this poverty
on the BBC
683
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,480
by creating an exciting new day
for children.
684
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,760
THEY LAUGH
685
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,160
With Comic Relief's help,
Save The Children and Oxfam
686
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,320
raised enough to buy
a large fleet of trucks.
687
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400
# Today is going to be the day
688
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,760
# That they're going to throw it
back to you... #
689
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,720
I've always wanted to walk
more like Liam Gallagher.
690
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:48,240
Move your fucking arms, Sir Tony,
you fucking twat!
691
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,680
He's always telling me I mustn't
give a toss.
692
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,240
I don't give a toss, I don't give
a toss... Come on, Tony.
693
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,240
You don't care, that's it.
I don't give a toss. Yes, Tony!
694
00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,960
# You got to take your time
You got to say what you say... #
695
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:01,600
You see, I'm doing it!
696
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,640
Bruno Tonioli. Ten!
697
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,240
The BBC was living the
Reithian dream.
698
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,440
The total is 4 million...
699
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,400
It had found its great mission.
700
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,240
Seizing the moment, it decided to
get rid of communism.
701
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,520
The Berlin Wall had been built by
the East German secret police.
702
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,280
For years, they'd been bugging
the BBC
703
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,800
and had learnt how to make walls
from Blue Peter
704
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,160
with sticky-backed plastic.
705
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,560
And in 1989, the wall collapsed.
706
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,760
But now a tidal wave of
East European pop groups
707
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,520
overwhelmed Eurovision.
708
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,560
ELECTRO POP MUSIC PLAYS
709
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,080
# Rapping, chatting, rapping,
chatting
710
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,960
# We don't sing the songs
711
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,120
# Rapping, chatting, rapping,
chatting
712
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,120
# This is not so wrongs. #
713
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,440
Thatch was furious.
714
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,640
Where there is yes,
715
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,480
may we bring no.
716
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,520
But Eurovision defied her.
717
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,640
And next year, Britain was defeated
by Bulgaria.
718
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,600
# I love to pogo
Ha, ha, ha
719
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,880
# Such funny jumping
Ha, ha, ha
720
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,160
# Picky pucky picky pucky
Because I hate you
721
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,400
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
722
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,640
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
723
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,800
# Ha, ha, ha... #
724
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,040
Thatch was forced out of
Downing Street in tears.
725
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,480
They were tears that cried her
a river.
726
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,640
Three little fishes swam and swam
right over the dam.
727
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,000
The new Prime Minister,
Syd Little lookalike John Major,
728
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
set his specs on the BBC
729
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,360
and appointed a new man,
Syd Little lookalike John Birt,
730
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,400
to make the BBC as efficient as
Britain's newly privatised railways.
731
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,240
The BBC was still run like a
giant public school.
732
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,680
May I borrow your pencil,
Whitehouse?
733
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,840
Of course, Hector. Topping.
734
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,200
Syd Little lookalike John Birt
now split the BBC
735
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,720
into lots of little pretend private
segments
736
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,400
so it could pretend it was part of
a market economy.
737
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Can I borrow your pencil,
Mr Whitehouse?
738
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,320
You can't borrow it, Mr Enfield,
739
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,560
but you can lease it from my
department, BBC Chuckles,
740
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,880
upon signing the appropriate form.
Mr Greenall?
741
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,760
You'll also need a form from
BBC Pencils. Miss Cavaliero?
742
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,240
And finally, one from
BBC Borrowing Things. Mr Fisher?
743
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,720
May I borrow your pen?
You can't borrow it...
744
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:41,280
The politicians now used the
BBC reforms
745
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,960
as a model for everything,
746
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,280
which is why all our public services
are now so great.
747
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,080
PANICKED BREATHING
748
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,560
Ah!
749
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,560
DOG BARKING
750
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,920
Hi.
751
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,920
MAN SCREAMS
752
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,040
But then something happened.
753
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,600
After 18 years, the Labour Party
was back in power.
754
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,240
Tony Blair had given Labour
a makeover.
755
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,520
And now, Blair told the BBC
756
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,320
that everyone and everything
should have a makeover.
757
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,320
He's always the kind of
soft gangster.
758
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,280
But a moustache on a big man
like him
759
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,960
should be incinerated
and then shredded.
760
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,080
My God, is she getting it wrong now.
761
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:29,880
And look at you. You know, he's
quite sexy. Yeah, he is.
762
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,400
Now he's sort of...
763
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,360
He's sort of catwalking.
764
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,240
We've put something back in
their marriage.
765
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,480
Then Tony Blair gave the BBC
a makeover itself.
766
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,880
Inspired by Barry Bucknell's
plywood door panel,
767
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,360
he made the BBC move from
London's glamourpuss West End
768
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,280
to Salford near Manchester,
769
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,000
where it became bored shitless
770
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,480
because it kept on having to go on
morning television.
771
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,160
With the BBC safely out of the way
and bored shitless,
772
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,920
Tony Blair entered into a marriage
of convenience
773
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,720
with Raised By Dingoes.
774
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,840
And this union was so confusing
that everyone now decided
775
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,320
they didn't give much of a shit
about anything much.
776
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,120
Things that looked a bit shit might
be supposed to look a bit shit.
777
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,000
And you might look a bit shit
if you didn't know that.
778
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,880
And most importantly, people who
really did give a shit
779
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,560
were completely shit.
780
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,440
No-one encapsulated this
giving-a-shit shittiness
781
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,520
more than Richard Curtis.
782
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,120
Now his film Love Actually was
declared shit actually.
783
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,480
And love was actually declared shit.
784
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,240
Curtis' age of optimism was now
replaced
785
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,480
with the age of coke hedonism,
or post-modernism,
786
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,040
and Ricky The Great. Obviously.
787
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,120
For the previous two decades,
788
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,120
blue-collar workers had aspired
to being white-collar workers
789
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,040
so they could look more like
Spandau Ballet.
790
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,720
# Gold
Gold
791
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:05,760
# Always believe in your soul... #
792
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,960
But in
White-Collar Workers Are A Bit Shit,
793
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,480
Ricky The Great exposed white-collar
workers as a bit shit.
794
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,680
And White-Collar Workers
Are A Bit Shit
795
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,320
was so funny that now everyone
wanted to be a bit shit,
796
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,560
even dead famous celebrities.
797
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,440
So Ricky The Great made
a new sitcom called
798
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,400
Dead Famous Celebrities
Are A Bit Shit.
799
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,120
Ricky, I've just done a poo-poo
in my panties, uh-huh.
800
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,000
Disgusting.
801
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,040
FARTING
802
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,000
Because Ricky The Great
was so great,
803
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,800
Tony Blair got jealous and decided
he had to something great himself.
804
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,600
So he made Afghanistan and Iraq
a bit shit.
805
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,400
Are you a criminal? No.
806
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,320
You duped the United Nations,
doesn't that make you a criminal?
807
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:48,960
No, you BLEEP.
808
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,200
Was it correct to go to war
809
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,680
when there was no evidence at all
to support your claim?
810
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,320
Well, I, er...
The Tony Blair I know,
811
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,800
the deeply moral, deeply charismatic
and sexually attractive Tony Blair,
812
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,720
would only have one answer.
You're right, Brian. I'm a BLEEP.
813
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,840
War had damaged Britain's
international reputation,
814
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,720
but the BBC's reputation was still
intact.
815
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:16,960
It was admired around the world
for its news reporting
816
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,960
and it's period dramas.
817
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,040
Mr Darcy, how lovely to see you.
818
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,760
Well, I wish I could return the
compliment, Miss Bennett.
819
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,600
But your father's a cretin,
your mother a prattling windbag,
820
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,880
your sisters are daft
and your bosoms smell.
821
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,280
Good day to you.
822
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,920
Don't worry about him.
823
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,960
He's just shy.
824
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,880
But now the BBC was to embark on
its own war with ITV,
825
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,840
which had come up with
a period drama
826
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,920
with a modern, sensitive twist.
827
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,600
HE CHUCKLES
828
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,440
Oh, I do love Oscar Wilde, Carson.
829
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,040
Such a shame he was sent to prison.
830
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,200
I don't know why we don't just
leave homosexuals alone.
831
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,320
Perhaps one day they'll be able
to hold hands in public
832
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,840
after arranging to meet on portable
telephones
833
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,800
with bespoke applications
for same-sex couples.
834
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,560
If I may be so bold, your Lordship,
835
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,080
that's remarkably forward thinking
of you.
836
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,040
Though what business your daughters
had marching with Mrs Pankhurst,
837
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,000
I do not know.
838
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,840
You're quite an opinionated little
servant, aren't you, Carson?
839
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,400
The BBC now fought back
with violence.
840
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,560
GUNSHOT
841
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,880
We're Brummies with guns.
842
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,000
And haircuts.
843
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,520
We've come for your ratings.
844
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,440
Our ratings are enormous.
845
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,840
Why, this episode alone peaked at
14 million viewers.
846
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,080
The peaky blinder and we're taking
the lot, because we've got guns.
847
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,880
And haircuts!
848
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,920
Scrummies with guns. And haircuts!
849
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,240
I don't like you, do I?
850
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:05,320
But we do like you, doe eyes.
851
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,840
Before modern medicine, leeches
were attached to the human body
852
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,040
to suck the illness out of the blood
of the floundering patient.
853
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,080
The modern leech is called
a PR monkey.
854
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,240
It attaches itself to the host
855
00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,360
which immediately begins to
feel better about itself
856
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,040
and becomes soppy.
857
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,160
What the host doesn't know is that
the PR monkey
858
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:38,800
is sucking at its heart.
859
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,960
The BBC claimed to have filmed
the Queen
860
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,520
storming out of a photoshoot with
Annie Leibovitz.
861
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,680
But even though Buckingham Palace
has 775 rooms,
862
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,520
it doesn't have a photoshoot room.
863
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,560
So you have to storm about a bit
864
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,560
before you bump into
Annie Leibovitz.
865
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,240
And this is what the Queen
was doing.
866
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,640
Now Raised By Dingoes suddenly
forgot all the bollocks
867
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,560
he'd printed about the Royal family
in his newspapers
868
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,080
and realised that the Queen was
human and dancer,
869
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,120
and what the BBC had done was a
Phoebe Waller-Bridge too far.
870
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,080
# Or are we dancer?
871
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,280
# My sign is vital
872
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,560
# My hands are cold
873
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,600
# And I'm on my knees
874
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,960
# Looking for the answer... #
875
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,720
The BBC now panicked.
876
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,520
It exterminated its boss,
Peter Flinchless.
877
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,400
And sucked up to the new
Prime Minister Dave
878
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,520
by renaming its popular
comedy channel Dave.
879
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,280
# Down on Jollity Farm... #
880
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,800
Prime Minister Dave was a
hug-a-hoodie PR monkey.
881
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,400
You're a political pipsqueak,
aren't you, Dave?
882
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:57,040
Dave now wondered if the BBC was
less trustworthy and relevant
883
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,360
than Raised By Dingoes' news.
884
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,200
Ooh.
885
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,640
So he asked some trendy PR monkeys
886
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,440
to look into whether the BBC
was still relevant.
887
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:16,440
"What do we think about great
institutions?", asked Windy Windbag.
888
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:20,480
"They're not relevant, are they?",
said Shoreditch.
889
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,320
"Unlike us."
890
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,360
"The BBC should be as relevant
as us."
891
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,600
"Yah."
892
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,600
So they told the BBC to become
more relevant.
893
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,400
To stop being a great actor...
894
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,600
..and become one of the guys.
895
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,200
Hiya. Hiya. Hiya. Hiya.
896
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,960
To replace meaning...
897
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,160
..with a state of nothingness.
898
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,800
Hiya. Hiya.
899
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,680
To make the interesting inclusive.
900
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,360
It was just down to luck that I
survived and Marie died.
901
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:58,080
Paul Conroy, who very nearly
lost his life in Syria.
902
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,400
Have you very nearly lost your life?
903
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,080
Or anything, for that matter?
904
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,160
Perhaps your car keys, or your
toothbrush before an important date.
905
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,200
Email us here at Saturday li...
906
00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:19,520
"What about diversity?",
said Windbag.
907
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,800
"Yeah, where are all the people of
colour?", said Shoreditch in a huff.
908
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,120
"Oh, goodness me, yes,"
worried Windbag,
909
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,840
looking around the office.
910
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,480
"On the BBC?", said Shoreditch.
911
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,000
"Oh, yeah," said Windbag.
912
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,680
"Yeah!"
913
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,280
So they told the BBC it was time to
reflect the lives
914
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,880
of people of colour on programmes
that weren't just EastEnders.
915
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,280
I want a word with you.
Can't it wait?
916
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,720
No, it can't.
What's that supposed to mean?
917
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,920
Isn't it amazing, sir, that someone
from your heritage
918
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,920
should rise to command one of
Britain's nuclear submarines
919
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,280
despite the pervasive underlying
racism in British society.
920
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,920
Not at all, Lieutenant. As a young
Ford Dagenham factory worker,
921
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,480
the pervasive underlying racism
in British society
922
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,280
led to me learning to sail.
923
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,480
But then on the high seas I kept
getting pulled over
924
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,480
by the Royal Navy
and one thing led to another.
925
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,400
You're an inspiration, Commander.
So are you, Lieutenant.
926
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,240
We're role models to the youth.
927
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,560
One day they'll live in a world
like this
928
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:28,320
without prejudice of class, creed,
sexuality or race.
929
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,600
Sir, we have confirmed reports
930
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,480
that we are being followed by our
enemies.
931
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,720
The lousy Chinese or the mad
North Koreans?
932
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:38,480
Commander? Mm. A message has just
come in from the BBC.
933
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,880
A mixed message, sir.
934
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,720
Up periscope.
935
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,480
There's been another murder.
936
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,720
Which is why I've been sent from
Great Britain.
937
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:52,680
I quite fancy him.
938
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:56,440
And even though I have an amusing
obsessive-compulsive disorder...
939
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,080
Ah!
940
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,600
I'm scared of mangoes.
941
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,600
THEY LAUGH
942
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,080
I do fancy him.
943
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,680
I'll solve this murder because I'm
not a jolly simple
944
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,440
little island plonker like you lot.
945
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,480
THEY LAUGH
946
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,400
I hope my part gets more substantial
in season 13.
947
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,720
The more inclusive the BBC
now became,
948
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:23,920
the more it worried it wasn't being
inclusive enough.
949
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,240
It had seen what had happened to
JK Rowling
950
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:28,720
when she had opinionated on
transitioning,
951
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:30,640
and didn't want to get it wrong.
952
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:34,520
So it put RuPaul's Drag Race on the
front page of the iPlayer,
953
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,640
and hoped that everyone would think
it thought whatever it was
954
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,120
that was right to think.
955
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,040
Then it considered exterminating
Richard Curtis.
956
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,360
It worried his
Vicar Of Wibbly Wobbly
957
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,280
wasn't actually a woman,
958
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,800
but Mrs Brown, who wasn't actually
a woman.
959
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,000
I've wet me knickers,
ha, ha, he, he!
960
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,000
But as usual, when Richard Curtis is
involved, there was a happy ending.
961
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,720
I'm not your mum.
962
00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:01,200
And I love your pretty dress.
963
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,240
But then something happened.
964
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:14,960
Britain got a new Prime Minister
and his name was Porridge Johnson.
965
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,320
Porridge Johnson had begun his
career as Ian Richardson
966
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,360
in House Of Cards.
967
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:30,480
We haven't won Eurovision since
Katrina And The Waves.
968
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,320
Do I think it's time to leave
Europe?
969
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,760
I couldn't possibly comment.
970
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,720
Oh, Porridge. Maddie.
971
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:39,360
I'm so worried, Porridge.
972
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,120
The editor of the newspaper I work
for has got wind of your plans
973
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,120
to trash Eurovision and leave
Europe.
974
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,280
But he says he'll spike the story
if you come clean
975
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,640
about having an affair with me.
What shall we do?
976
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,560
Oh, Maddie.
977
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,720
Maddie, Maddie, Maddie.
978
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,560
Come here, Maddie.
979
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,440
I love you, Porridge.
980
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,560
And I love you, Maddie.
981
00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:08,400
Porridge?
982
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,840
Porridge?! Ah!
983
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,720
THUD
984
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,720
Hattie.
985
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:19,520
Hattie, Hattie, Hattie.
986
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,320
Come here, Hattie.
987
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,640
I rather like this new look,
don't you?
988
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,360
Because he was easily bored,
989
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,040
Porridge Johnson had stopped being
Ian Richardson from House Of Cards
990
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,240
and become Prime Minister. Ah!
991
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:42,080
Prime Minister, did you just
murder the tea lady?
992
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,880
I-I think it's vital that, er,
we move on
993
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:51,760
from this amo, amas, amat, amamus,
amatis, amanty murdery ballyhoo
994
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,680
a-a-and really focus on doing
something important.
995
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,200
Say that and see if it sticks.
996
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,920
I don't condone murder, but your
charming use of Latin and "ballyhoo"
997
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,360
has left me nostalgic for the
whimsical class divisions
998
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,280
of PG Wodehouse.
999
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:15,600
And I'd forgotten your homicidal
idiosyncrasies already.
1000
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,440
Bingo. Yes, Prime Minister.
1001
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,400
Let's do something important.
1002
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,200
Nadine was important,
1003
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:31,040
so Porridge Johnson put her in
charge of the BBC.
1004
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,960
Nadine now told the BBC that because
she'd eaten an ostrich's anus
1005
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,200
on I'm A Celebrity
Get Me Out Of Here
1006
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,640
and been buried in maggots,
she was more important than it.
1007
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,680
She now told the BBC that it must
reinvent itself
1008
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,200
as a greater marvellous
British minnow.
1009
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,240
And just before he resigned,
1010
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:50,520
Porridge Johnson forgot to tell
Parliament
1011
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:55,040
that he'd sold the BBC in what he
said was a great deal for Britain.
1012
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:59,600
It's new owner rebranded the BBC
and put it on its streaming service,
1013
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,960
if you scrolled down far enough.
1014
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,840
Then Raised By Dingoes gobbled up
the streaming service
1015
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:09,440
and shat the BBC out, because he'd
never liked it in the first place.
1016
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,400
And that was the end of the BBC.
1017
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,360
Now the British were free to watch
any old bollocks
1018
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,520
that made them feel better about
themselves.
1019
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,440
Oh, Britain's Fattest Families.
1020
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,320
Celebrity Morons On Water Skis.
1021
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,520
And most people returning from
holiday that summer felt sad,
1022
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,240
because there wasn't much
in Britain left to believe in.
1023
00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:34,640
In life, loved ones can be
annoying, irritating,
1024
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,360
occasionally exasperating.
1025
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,040
But after they die,
1026
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,440
and grand things have been said
about them at funerals,
1027
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,480
it's the little things we miss.
1028
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,960
Mr Mainwaring?
1029
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,280
Mr Mainwaring? I'm meeting a young
lady from Mancunia, Mr Mainwaring.
1030
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,400
Now look here, Pike. There's no
such place as Mancunia.
1031
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,040
Do you understand?
1032
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,080
That's strange, she told me she was
Mancunian.
1033
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,840
Hello! Stupid boy.
1034
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,760
I've got you these.
1035
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,320
They're flowers.
1036
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,760
HE WHISTLES
1037
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,760
Ah!
1038
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,800
MASTERMIND THEME PLAYS
1039
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,560
MAN: In March 2022, what was the
average weekly total of people
1040
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,240
who came to BBC News?
1041
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,080
Five million. No, 438 million.
1042
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,520
And at the end of the round,
Mr Mainwaring,
1043
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,560
you have scored no points.
1044
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,960
Oh, we love tipping the hat.
Super light, wonderful!
1045
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,000
What a lovely day for the park
1046
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,640
and pretending you like other
people's weird-looking dogs.
1047
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,040
Who's this lovely fellow?
1048
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,480
He's called Munge. Munge!
1049
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,880
Like the White Cliffs of Dover.
1050
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,200
Oh, no, Michael.
The White Cliffs of Dover are
1051
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,760
Slightly Munge.
1052
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,200
Oh, Christ.
I've pissed off Dame Judi.
1053
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,520
Ladies and gentlemen,
Sir Michael Caine.
1054
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,080
Hello, Sir Michael.
Hello, Sir Michael.
1055
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:16,160
Did you know, that the other day
I went fishing
1056
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,800
with them two bleeding jokers,
Mortimer and Whitehouse.
1057
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,320
And what will you fishing for?
Don't tell him.
1058
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,360
Pike!
1059
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,880
BOTH: # We used to watch the BBC
The lovely BBC
1060
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:33,080
# We used to watch the BBC
When we came home for tea
1061
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:37,400
# The one show was sublime
And Crimewatch with its crime
1062
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,920
# We used to watch the BBC
And the listen to Radio 3. #
1063
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,800
Come along, Candice Marie.
1064
00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:01,680
# And did those feet in ancient time
1065
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:07,440
# Walk upon England's mountains
green?
1066
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:13,600
# And was the holy Lamb of God
1067
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:19,960
# On England's pleasant pastures
seen?
1068
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:26,080
# And did the Countenance Divine
1069
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:32,400
# Shine forth upon our clouded
hills?
1070
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:38,720
# And was Jerusalem builded here
1071
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:45,200
# Amongst those dark
Satanic mills? #
1072
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,960
Who are you? My name is
Adam Adamant. Adam Adamant?
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