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First broadcast 8th November 2013.

Stephen Fry

Alan Davies
Bill Bailey
Sarah Millican
Jason Manford
Ian Robinson (as Dr. Ian Robinson)

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00:00Welcome to True Eye, where tonight we're playing for Keeps.
00:05Keeping his eye on the ball, Jason Manford.
00:11Keeping her ear to the ground, Sarah Millican.
00:18Keeping his nose to the grindstone, Bill Bailey.
00:24And keeping his pecker up in spite of everything, Alan Davis.
00:33And I'll be keeping the peace, everything on track, and the score.
00:38So, Jeepers Creepers, let's hear your peepers.
00:40Jason goes...
00:41Keep on moving.
00:46Sarah goes...
00:47Keep on running.
00:50Keep on hiding.
00:53Bill goes...
00:54Keep on rocking.
00:57Keep on rocking.
01:00Nice.
01:01Nice.
01:02And Alan goes...
01:03We'll keep a welcome in the inside.
01:08The voice of your forefathers there.
01:10The ancestors, isn't it?
01:11Keeping a welcome in the inside.
01:12You did that.
01:13So, before we start...
01:15What are they in Pakistanis?
01:17Stop it.
01:18Stop it right now.
01:20I'm going to lay down the law.
01:21Keep bringing it.
01:21Like the teacher's first day at school, he's strict, just so that people are afraid of him.
01:25Yes.
01:26Authority's got to be laid down.
01:27I'm not going to have...
01:28Right.
01:29Yes.
01:30How's that going?
01:31I'm trying to get all empty.
01:33Yes.
01:33Before we start.
01:34Mocking my Welsh accent.
01:48You stop halfway through, isn't it?
01:51Isn't it?
01:51Yes.
01:52It's Donald Street now.
01:54Yeah, I stop halfway through, isn't it?
01:56That's like that.
01:57Right.
01:58Okay.
01:58All right.
01:59Stephen Fry.
02:00Yeah.
02:01That's it.
02:03Anyway, an easy K-series question to start us going at.
02:07I still think in pounds and ounces, but what unit does modern science use to measure weight?
02:13Kilograms?
02:14Oh!
02:16There you go.
02:17First word!
02:18First word!
02:19Kilograms, no.
02:20What does kilogram weigh?
02:212.2 pounds.
02:24What does it measure?
02:26Say, what does the kilogram measure?
02:27Weight.
02:28Weight.
02:28No.
02:30Kilograms.
02:30It measures water.
02:31Water.
02:31Grams.
02:32Rucksacks.
02:32There are 1,000 grams in a kilogram, but what is it actually measuring?
02:36In my case, a crying lady.
02:38What quantity?
02:40What aspect of a thing or an object?
02:43Hatred.
02:43Hatred and vileness.
02:45Vile.
02:46Vile.
02:47Sarcasm.
02:48I don't know.
02:49Perversion.
02:51No.
02:52Mass.
02:54Mass.
02:54It's mass.
02:55How many points does it get for that?
02:57A few.
02:58Yeah.
02:59You, I'm afraid, get taken away a few.
03:01I don't mind.
03:01That's it.
03:01You're in minus already.
03:02But you can get your points back if you can tell me what weight is measured in.
03:05So this is the time I shouldn't say kilograms again?
03:07Yeah, it doesn't begin with K.
03:10No.
03:10No.
03:11Try it in.
03:11In the audience?
03:12What?
03:28Kilograms.
03:29Yeah, I see what you did there.
03:30No, the weight is the force resulting from gravity of mass, and that is how it acts on the earth,
03:34is weight.
03:35And of course it varies according to the amount of gravity.
03:38That's right.
03:38Which is why it's not a constant, which is why, you know, so if you're in a lift even, you
03:41weigh slightly less, I know it sounds weird, but you weigh slightly less when you're dropping and slightly more when
03:47you're going up.
03:47If you stood on scales, if you were using them for weight.
03:49On the scales in my bathroom, they, um, God bless them, work horses that they are.
03:54Yeah.
03:56When the batteries start going, because it's only got three digits, it says, it starts the word error, so it
04:02says E-double-R.
04:03But when you get on it, everything just goes, E-double-R.
04:08It's like them not really wanting to tell you.
04:10How much do I weigh?
04:12E-double-R.
04:15Do you really want to hear this?
04:17And then they say, how much do you usually weigh?
04:21I don't have bathroom scales, I've just got kitchen scales.
04:25Well, you could try and...
04:25But I have measured bits of me on the arm.
04:28Can you guess which bits?
04:30The left one's heavier.
04:31Is it?
04:32By how much?
04:34Uh, some Newtons.
04:36There you go.
04:37Very good.
04:39What is the bear?
04:40The bear's not happy about this, really, is it?
04:42Being weighed in a sack.
04:43It's like some sort of Arctic, uh, Weight Watchers or something.
04:47He's actually the fattest bear.
04:49He's like, I can't believe I used three points this week or another.
04:52It's just me glands, it's me glands.
04:55I'm a big bone.
04:57I'm a bear, come on.
04:58Let me take me earrings out.
05:01The kilogram is the only metric measure that still relies on a physical object,
05:05which is called the International Prototype Kilogram.
05:11And where do you think it's kept?
05:12Is it kept in the National Physics Laboratory?
05:15The National Physical Laboratory?
05:16No, it isn't.
05:17The Queen.
05:17There is a replica of it in the National Physical Laboratory.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Here is...
05:22Everything's in the nation.
05:23There you go.
05:24Oh, it's there.
05:25Do we have Ian Robinson from the National Physical Laboratory?
05:27No, he's raising his hand.
05:29This belongs to you, yes?
05:31It belongs to NPL, yes.
05:32And this is a replica of the original IPK, yeah?
05:36It's the same size, but it weighs 400 grams rather than...
05:40Weighs or has mass off?
05:42It's massive.
05:42Yeah.
05:44You're a liar.
05:45And this is what's inside the case.
05:47It's so incredibly susceptible to either adding weight to it
05:51or taking weight away.
05:52The acidity of the fingers, the addition of dust.
05:55The original is...
05:55Well, where did the metric system originate?
05:58Beuth Wells.
06:00I don't know.
06:01France.
06:01France, you do know.
06:02Of course, of course, yes.
06:03Of course, you know.
06:03So it's actually outside Paris.
06:04And there's Cervé, where the porcelain comes from.
06:06It's made out of platinum iridium.
06:09And they're worried that it's put on the weight of a small grain of sand
06:13over the period since it was first made in 1879.
06:18So they're going to change.
06:19They're going to change next year, possibly, or 2014,
06:22to using Planck's universal quantum constant instead of...
06:26Oh, yes.
06:26Thank God for that.
06:27Yeah.
06:28Then they won't have to worry about bits of dust.
06:30What a worry as well, yeah.
06:31Yeah, what a worry.
06:33Thank you, Ian Robinson and the National Physical Abroadry.
06:35Thank you very much.
06:40Is there different parts of the world that you could go
06:42and weigh, more or less, if you went to a...
06:44Yes, I mean, we'd all weigh less than that.
06:48Yeah.
06:50And light.
06:50How much does light weigh?
06:52And does it sound way more than light?
06:54If you had a bit of sound there and a bit of light,
06:55you wouldn't do that.
06:57No.
06:59That's a bit suggestive, isn't it?
07:02Can you get in the bed before you put the light out?
07:05Ah, that's true, isn't it?
07:06Yeah.
07:07Turn in the light so it doesn't...
07:08And then you get in the bed before it went dark.
07:10Oh, yeah.
07:11Well, it's difficult, but it can be done.
07:13It can.
07:15Did Muhammad Ali say that, didn't he?
07:17He was so fast he could get into bed before the light went off.
07:20Yeah, I think someone said,
07:21just get a bedside light.
07:24Because he's one of those ones.
07:26And then you can clap when you're in bed,
07:28and who doesn't like that?
07:29Ah, yes, but when...
07:30Ah, that's very interesting, then,
07:31because then you see what the sound...
07:32You just turn the camera off.
07:33What, sir?
07:34You just turn the camera off.
07:35Could you do two?
07:36Could you do two now?
07:39Oh, sorry.
07:41You used the same system.
07:43You didn't expect anybody to clap.
07:44What just happened?
07:45You turned the camera off by clapping.
07:47Just the whole universe.
07:48Just...
07:51Yeah.
07:53If I could get that.
07:54Don't clap.
07:55What would happen...
08:01If...
08:01No, I'm just saying it was rhetorical.
08:03I was just saying...
08:06There's a question.
08:07What would happen, Stephen?
08:08Discuss.
08:10Let's see whose house it is.
08:12It is.
08:14Now, we were talking about bits and bytes.
08:15What is kilobyte, in fact?
08:17How many bytes in a kilobyte?
08:19Thousand?
08:20Thousand?
08:20Hundred?
08:21Thousand?
08:21Ten thousand?
08:22One hundred thousand.
08:23I want a million.
08:24No, no, it's a...
08:25Nine.
08:26Nine?
08:27I'd just like to be different.
08:28Four to two.
08:29Anyone in the audience?
08:31Oh, the audience gets a big penalty.
08:42Unfortunately, our team isn't intelligent enough to know the wrong answer.
08:50You thought it was two to the ten, which is a thousand and twenty-four.
08:54But actually, according to the International Electro-Technical Commission,
08:58it is now one thousand, as you said, is the right answer.
09:01It's a thousand bytes.
09:02So I beat all those people, then?
09:03You did, by...
09:04Didn't you say ten, a hundred, a thousand?
09:06Yeah.
09:08You did?
09:10Yeah, but...
09:22I'm sorry about that.
09:23It's not my fault.
09:24No, I'm not blaming you, Stephen.
09:25It's just...
09:25I know.
09:27Now then, finders keepers, losers weepers, right?
09:29That's the rules.
09:30Yes, it is.
09:31Yes.
09:32Oh.
09:33What?
09:33What?
09:34What?
09:34Hey, you took me up.
09:37You could have said no.
09:40You...
09:40That's...
09:41That's a dirty trick, guy.
09:43You've done this programme long enough to know that dirty tricks are up.
09:46Well, I didn't think that even you would stoop so low.
09:52Well, I did.
09:53How dare you.
09:53It doesn't work in law.
09:54If you find lost property and don't make reasonable steps to discover the person to whom it belongs,
10:01then that's the crime of theft by finding.
10:05So, just, how does this apply to, if you're in the supermarket, right,
10:08and you put some fresh herbs in,
10:10and you're walking around, da-da-da, all oblivious,
10:13thinking no one's going to, you know, mess with your head,
10:15and then, before you get to the checkout,
10:18someone's nicked the herbs out of your trolley,
10:20and you go back, and then there's none left.
10:23That's a dirty trick.
10:24It is.
10:25Because it's just a moral bad citizenship.
10:28But it's not technically theft.
10:29No, that's not theft, is it?
10:30It's bad citizenship, because they weren't yours until you'd paid for them.
10:33No.
10:33So they were morally mine.
10:34Because they took them after you'd paid.
10:35They were morally mine.
10:36I agree with you.
10:37How urgent were the herbs?
10:39Well, look, there was a chili con carne that was ruined,
10:42because...
10:43If you've gone, if you decked that lady, I don't blame you.
10:47Yes.
10:48She smashed around the kitchen.
10:50Smacked around the head.
10:51To the tomato.
10:52Don't do it again!
10:54She's not telling us.
10:56Yes.
10:56So, if you...
10:58So technically, with that rule,
10:59is if someone's done their full shop,
11:01and they're right at the end,
11:02and then they've just wandered off for a tin of something,
11:04you can go,
11:04I love that, I love that.
11:06That would be so...
11:08That's vile.
11:08They're tiny.
11:09What do you actually do that?
11:10So you just follow somebody around the shop
11:12who looks like the mate like what you like?
11:14Yeah.
11:15This is a wholly different question.
11:17Yes.
11:19It's a very important point.
11:22It is.
11:22I'm just applying the ancient law to the modern-day context.
11:26So you find something on the bus,
11:27or, you know, on the street,
11:28or, if, for example,
11:29you're a dry cleaner,
11:30and you find a £20 note
11:31and a pair of trousers
11:31that's taken in,
11:32you don't think,
11:33oh, I can keep that.
11:34Well, that definitely is, Steph,
11:36because you know whose trousers they are.
11:37Yeah.
11:38But also, if you found a lottery ticket on the floor,
11:41and then it was a winning number,
11:42and you cashed it in,
11:42and it wasn't yours,
11:43you would be committing a crime.
11:44But you wouldn't care, though, would you?
11:46Yes, you would.
11:47Does it be a million?
11:48You wouldn't be paid.
11:50You wouldn't get the money,
11:51you'd go to court.
11:52How, though?
11:52How would they know?
11:53They'd know because of the number
11:54and the time it was bought
11:55and the shop it was bought from.
11:56C-C-C-B-R.
11:57In 2009, a Wiltshire couple
11:59got an 11-month suspended sentence
12:02for doing exactly that.
12:03They cashed a winning lottery ticket.
12:05And even more, in 2003,
12:06a Coventry family
12:07made repeated visits
12:09to a faulty cash machine
12:10and withdrew £134,410.
12:15Three of them were in prison.
12:16I used to work in a cinema,
12:18and anything that was found
12:20on the floor and the screens,
12:22sort of, depending on what it was,
12:23so if it was an umbrella,
12:25it would go and lost property.
12:26If it was a pound coin,
12:27it would just, you know,
12:28the guy, whoever,
12:29it would just, exactly, yeah.
12:30But there was one time
12:31that a pair of used pants were found.
12:35And they didn't really,
12:36they sort of took them out on a stick
12:38and they didn't really know
12:38what to do with them.
12:39And then two weeks later,
12:41they got a letter from a man.
12:43Soon, I was in the 11-20 showing
12:48of Titanic in Screen 6
12:50on the 23rd of February,
12:52and I appear to have left my pants.
12:56Could you return them to me
12:58in the jiffy bag provided?
13:00Oh, my God!
13:01Oh, I don't think I'd have put them
13:04in a jiffy.
13:05If it was used pants,
13:06they would have got it in
13:07some sort of one of those things
13:08they put nuclear waste in.
13:10You know,
13:11a lead-line casket.
13:14Well, it is true
13:15that if you haven't made
13:16reasonable terms to find something,
13:17well, you know that it's morally wrong.
13:19It behoves you to do the right thing.
13:20Yeah, we hope you will.
13:22But if property is deliberately
13:23abandoned, you can keep it.
13:25Archaeological finds,
13:2690% of them are from amateurs
13:28with metal detectors.
13:29And famous metal detectors
13:31include Bill Wyman,
13:32who I think has his own brand
13:33of metal detector,
13:34called Bill Wyman,
13:35which you can use
13:36for your metal detecting.
13:38Things really picked up
13:39from him after he left the stones.
13:43But in 2009,
13:44a man called David Booze
13:45discovered four Iron Age
13:47gold neck bands
13:49worth a million pounds.
13:50What's extraordinary about it
13:51is it was the first time
13:52he'd ever used a metal detector.
13:54He found it seven paces
13:57from where he'd parked his car.
13:59It's been an hour.
14:01All the other detectors
14:02have been really annoyed.
14:03It's been shunned
14:05from the fan club.
14:06Oh, absolutely.
14:07If you do it without permission
14:08and or at night,
14:09you're known as a night talk
14:10and you look down on.
14:12Yeah, because during the day
14:13it's fine,
14:13but at night you look a bit weird.
14:18I mean, that guy's on,
14:19you know, on holiday as well.
14:21Look at the background.
14:23His wife's on a towel over there
14:24just going, you dick.
14:27Leave it alone, Frank.
14:28Leave it, Frank.
14:30So, legally speaking,
14:31finders isn't necessarily keepers.
14:33Now, let's have a round
14:35of keep still or scarper.
14:37I'm going to show you
14:38some dangerous animals
14:39and I want you to tell me
14:40what you should do.
14:41Stand your ground
14:41or skedaddle for the hills.
14:43All right?
14:44Okay.
14:44So, let's start
14:46with the first animal.
14:47Here it is.
14:48It's a snake.
14:49With a snake,
14:50should you keep still
14:50or scarper?
14:52Keep still.
14:54Keep still.
14:55Why?
14:57Because,
15:00you're so terrified.
15:03A snake will not attack
15:05a moving object.
15:07In which case,
15:08you'd say you should move.
15:09What?
15:10You said it will attack
15:11a moving object.
15:12I mean, it will attack.
15:14Right.
15:14It will attack a moving object.
15:15It actually forgets you're there
15:16if you stand still.
15:18Yeah.
15:18We'll just ignore you.
15:19I get that a lot.
15:22So, for you married.
15:24Does it depend on
15:25how fast you run?
15:26Because if you can run,
15:28outrun it.
15:28They can strike very quickly
15:29and if you're close to it,
15:30just the act of turning
15:31to run would...
15:32Like that.
15:33If you felt right.
15:34But certainly the best thing
15:35to do is just simply
15:35stand stock still
15:36and then nothing happens.
15:37Well, you'd feel a fool
15:38if you stood still
15:38and then it bit you anyway.
15:39You would!
15:41Your mobile went off
15:42or something.
15:43That's true.
15:44Keep your mobile...
15:45Don't have your mobile
15:45on vibrate.
15:46That would be the worst
15:47because they had
15:47a marvellous sense of vibration.
15:48Yeah.
15:48OK, our next ones.
15:50Let's have a look
15:50at this little trio.
15:52Harmonising.
15:53Ha-ha, you say.
15:55I'll tear you the pieces.
15:57Three of a wolf pack.
15:58A wild wolf pack.
15:58When they finish their song.
15:59So, should you keep still?
16:01Should you keep still
16:03or Scarpa?
16:06Yes, Jesse?
16:08I'm going to say Scarpa.
16:11I'm afraid not.
16:12No, you should know.
16:13They are coursing predators.
16:14They actually tear
16:15and eat things on the run.
16:18So, that's how they like to eat.
16:19They've not seen me run, though.
16:20Ha-ha.
16:21Ha-ha.
16:21Ha-ha.
16:22Ha-ha.
16:22My running is the same
16:23as me keep it still.
16:24Ha-ha.
16:25Ha-ha.
16:26You should just shout,
16:26throw stones, pebbles,
16:28whatever,
16:28and then back slowly away
16:29and you'll be fine.
16:30Shout.
16:30What?
16:31What?
16:31Ha-ha.
16:32You're like a wolf.
16:33Ha-ha.
16:33Ha-ha.
16:33Ha-ha.
16:33Like that.
16:35I'm not used.
16:37I'm terrified.
16:37I'm not used to that behaviour.
16:39And the wolves,
16:40they just back away going,
16:42he's mental.
16:45Ha-ha.
16:45Ha-ha.
16:46Ha-ha.
17:00And so he lived with the wolves for a year and ate raw meat and growled and snarled at them.
17:05Learned the body language.
17:06Learned the whole body language. It was amazing.
17:07And his girlfriend wrote, it has put a little bit of a strain on our relationship.
17:14Oh, really?
17:15Oh, really?
17:16Yeah, every time you go out hunting of a night, you know, I'm a little bit left out.
17:20You will tear the waiter apart from living.
17:23She doesn't keep still.
17:26I shouted at a moth once and it died.
17:30It was too high up the curtain, so I couldn't reach it, so I got really mad at it and
17:34it just dropped.
17:36Some would say it was dead already, but I like to think it was because of me.
17:39Yes, it was worse.
17:41The other is playing dead.
17:42Well, it was definitely dead once. It was under my shoe.
17:47Fair enough.
17:48What about a shark?
17:50Yes.
17:51I would say...
17:54I was going to say fight.
17:56Are you supposed to fight?
17:57Yeah, because you put your thumbs in its eyes, you punch it on the nose.
18:02Well, get out of there!
18:03Run!
18:04Well, no, swim!
18:06Don't stand still.
18:08Scarfer is the answer.
18:09Oh, Scarfer.
18:09Can I do an hour and gouge first?
18:11No, I wouldn't bother with any of that.
18:13I really wouldn't.
18:14Just get out of the way.
18:14He was on holiday, and a shark started attacking a load of kids, and he went in and just, and
18:20he grabbed it by its tail and, get out of it, throw it back in, and then got home and
18:24they sacked him because they saw him on the news saying you were on sick leave.
18:27Oh!
18:28Oh!
18:28Yes!
18:29He was a hero!
18:30He said I was on holiday for stress.
18:32Oh!
18:34Blow bubbles, apparently it's not bad.
18:35On the water.
18:35But if you're in its mouth, don't play dead.
18:37That's a bad thing.
18:38So, struggle in the mouth.
18:39Well, in a moment you won't have to play.
18:40You will have to play.
18:42While you're still conscious.
18:43Now, what about Africanized honeybees, also known as killer bees?
18:47Stay still or Scarfer?
18:48Um.
18:49Keep on wrapping.
18:51Stay still.
18:52No!
18:53Oh!
18:53Run away, the other one.
18:55No!
18:56It's a binary question.
18:59One for cheek.
19:01Yeah, no.
19:02Run away as fast as you can.
19:03Don't stop to help friends or anything.
19:05Just get the hell out of there.
19:06And keep on running at least 400 meters.
19:08And don't think you can hide in water.
19:10They will wait above your head where you are.
19:11When you come up for a hour, they will absolutely attack you.
19:14What shifts!
19:14They are really.
19:17Nicely put.
19:18Thanks.
19:18They're not nice.
19:19How far is 400 meters?
19:22It's about 400 meters, I think.
19:24How many?
19:25You can do this.
19:26It's slightly less than half a kilometer.
19:28And the kilometer is five-eighths of a mile.
19:30Yes, you can do five minutes.
19:31Okay.
19:31I'm just checking.
19:34Put a shirt over your face as well, if you can.
19:36Really?
19:37Yeah.
19:37To protect it from stingy.
19:38Could you not just quickly open a can of Fanta and put it down on the ground?
19:42There!
19:43There!
19:43Look!
19:44You love that!
19:45Put your top over your face?
19:47Yeah.
19:47Are they distracted by boobs?
19:48No!
19:52So what do you do with a monkey?
19:54Keep still and scarper.
19:55Nice, isn't it?
19:56Well, just reason with it.
19:57How many heads?
19:58How many heads has it got?
19:59Sign language.
20:02Keep still.
20:03Dead still.
20:03Yes, but not dead still.
20:04There's a particular open-mouthed, open-lipped thing that you do.
20:09Bare your teeth.
20:10Yeah.
20:10Round-mouthed, bare your teeth.
20:12Round.
20:13That's it.
20:13That's it.
20:13It's shaking around like that.
20:15That's it.
20:16That's it.
20:17Raise your eyebrows.
20:18That's it.
20:19Show your teeth.
20:20Raise your eyebrows.
20:22What does that mean?
20:29You have monkeys, don't you?
20:31Yes, we have golden-handed tamarinds.
20:32Oh, lovely.
20:33Are these...
20:34They live in the house easily?
20:35They live in the house, yeah.
20:36Yeah, we don't let them out.
20:38Are they house trained?
20:39Yes, of course.
20:40That's amazing.
20:41Yeah.
20:41I think it was Jane Goodall discovered that when you're trying to house train a chimpanzee,
20:44their intelligence is of a different order, and it's kind of smart, but stupid.
20:48And she had these chimpanzees, and when one pooed on the floor of this little wooden bungalow
20:54that she had in Africa, what she'd do is she'd make it confront its own poo, spank it on the
20:59bottom
20:59and throw it out the window.
21:01And...
21:01This ground floor, yeah?
21:02It's a bungalow, yeah.
21:04So she did that twice, and then the third time, she saw one poo, slap its own bottom,
21:08and jump out the window.
21:11It's amazing.
21:14That's brilliant.
21:15I think it would have been really good.
21:17And you kind of go...
21:18That's...
21:18That's not dissimilar to my...
21:19My daughter's nearly four.
21:21Right.
21:22And...
21:22Save her embarrassment for the future shows.
21:24She'll be fine.
21:25I won't tell you which one.
21:25I've got twins.
21:26Oh, fine.
21:28She's...
21:28You know, if there's a point where they're slapping each other and fighting,
21:30then you go, right, get on the naughty step.
21:32There's a point where she's so annoyed that she will just slap her sister, you know, in the face or
21:36whatever,
21:37and then just go and get on the naughty step herself.
21:39Oh.
21:39And sort of sit there with her face saying,
21:41it was worth it.
21:46That's very good.
21:48Very good.
21:49Excellent.
21:49Cows?
21:50Why would you need to?
21:52Well, you say that, but the more than 50 a year...
21:55Really?
21:56...injuries caused by cows.
21:5750 idiots.
21:58Particularly, well, particularly calving mothers.
22:00They can get more aggressive than bulls.
22:02Well, fair enough.
22:03We're afraid of bulls, but actually cows are...
22:05Yeah.
22:05Presumably, if you're putting your arms up a cow's nunny, to pull a calf out...
22:11Yes.
22:11...she's allowed to kick you in the face.
22:12Oh, well, there'll be a bit of that.
22:13I don't know what I'm talking about.
22:14No, we're talking about ramblers.
22:16Actually, yeah, ramblers.
22:17And what happens is, particularly dogs tease them.
22:19The cow then gets aggressive with the dog and chases the dog.
22:21And the dog, of course, yelps back to its owner.
22:24Yes.
22:24And then the cow will hurt the owner.
22:26They crowd you, don't they?
22:27And then if you fall down, you get trampled.
22:29Yeah.
22:30So you need to scarper.
22:31Yeah, you do need to scarper as the answer, yeah.
22:33So, how do you get an ant to keep still?
22:37Sarah?
22:38Start the music.
22:40And then...
22:41Play...
22:42No, that's very good.
22:43Do you know by any chance who was the first person accurately to portray...
22:48...small insects?
22:50Most famously, the flea, which is a very recognizable image.
22:53Which is the cover of his book, Micrographia.
22:55He was a remarkable scientist, town planner,
22:58named after him of Tension and Springs.
23:01He was Humphrey of Newton and Christopher Wren.
23:03He was responsible for much of the town planning after the fire of London.
23:06And he used a microscope to see animals, including this little flea.
23:12And an ant, and there it is.
23:13Which he was an amazing artist, as you can see.
23:15And he describes precisely how he got the ant to keep still.
23:21He said,
23:21I gave it a gill of brandy.
23:24Which, after a while, knocked him down dead drunk.
23:27He struggled, wonderful phrases,
23:29For a pretty while, very much.
23:31Sounds like he was drinking...
23:33For a pretty while, very much.
23:34One for you, one for me.
23:37Until at last, certain bubbles issuing out of its mouth,
23:40It ceased to move, and remained moveless for a good while.
23:44Moveless?
23:44Moveless, yeah.
23:45Well, it was in 1665 the book came out, Micrographia.
23:48Well done.
23:48A gill, by the way, is a quarter of a pint.
23:50Wow.
23:51They can hold their booze, can't they, Ants?
23:53Yeah.
23:54Really?
23:55Eight times their body weight.
23:56But what was this man's name?
23:58Remember?
23:59Audience?
24:00Remember.
24:01Robert.
24:01Robert Hooke?
24:02Well, yeah, Ian Robertson shouted that.
24:03He said, Ian Robinson is a physicist, that's cheeky.
24:05But yes, Robert Hooke.
24:07And he suffered as many did,
24:08Although he was one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived.
24:11Isaac Newton was a really thoroughly ghastly man.
24:15And he particularly hated Hooke,
24:16And had him erased from history.
24:18Because anybody who wasn't Newton was just not good enough.
24:21And all the portraits of him he got rid of,
24:23Because he was so powerful Newton,
24:24Because he was such a genius,
24:25And so recognised around the world.
24:27And an artist named Rita Greer
24:28Has set herself the task of creating more portraits of Hooke
24:31Than there are of Newton,
24:32To redress the balance.
24:33And here's one.
24:34It's based on meticulously researched likenesses of him.
24:37There are now 20 in the world,
24:38As opposed to 16 of Newton.
24:40So, Hooke is one.
24:41Though, obviously, Newton was a truly great man.
24:44He was a bit of a wrong-un.
24:46I'm afraid he was.
24:47A terrible egomania.
24:48Totally egomania.
24:49Gravity.
24:49Goes to your head.
24:50Yeah.
24:53He looks like he's had a few gills of whisky there.
24:56He does.
24:56He looks like he's a little ruler.
24:58He doesn't look like he's had much sunburn.
25:00Two little ants.
25:02Amazing.
25:03In a pub.
25:05Hello, Mr. I'm really pretty.
25:13I love you.
25:14No.
25:15I love you.
25:18Well, there you go.
25:19On the subject of keeping still,
25:20How hard is it to be a nude model?
25:30Don't you remember that?
25:35Oh, that was a good night.
25:37It's the woman, second from the left,
25:38who seems to be most enjoying the view.
25:42One of the orange scarf.
25:45Were you, were you being...
25:45She's got to need a bigger pad than that.
25:51They're all just drawing sections of you, aren't they?
25:55I'll do the helmet.
25:57Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:58Were you being funny there, or...?
26:00That's not really him.
26:01Oh, it's not really?
26:02No.
26:05I assumed...
26:06Bless you.
26:06...that you would be funny naked.
26:07I'm sorry, Alan.
26:08You wouldn't be funny naked.
26:10Well, that's what...
26:10That's what I can see.
26:12Yes.
26:13You say what you see.
26:14Yeah.
26:15But there is, actually,
26:16a register of artists' models, RAM,
26:19that looks after the interests of models,
26:21and it thinks that the idea
26:23that life modelling is a breeze
26:24is completely wrong.
26:25It keeps still for a long while.
26:26Well, you get pins and needles and cramp.
26:28Yeah.
26:28Pins and needles, cramp,
26:29so you have to do one thing at a time.
26:30You start with short poses called gestures,
26:32bold, action-oriented poses,
26:35which are used as a warm-up,
26:36and then you go two minutes,
26:37then five minutes,
26:37and then eventually 30-plus.
26:39There's more work for women than men.
26:41The classes prefer them,
26:42and there are more of them in the market,
26:43it appears.
26:45And in 1998,
26:45a man called George Bond
26:46took Northampton College
26:49to an industrial tribunal,
26:50claiming that he was not being employed
26:52on the basis of his gender,
26:54and that it was sexual discrimination.
26:55In fact, they were able to demonstrate
26:57that it was personal.
26:58And the reason was,
26:59he couldn't hold a pose,
27:01he fidgeted,
27:01went to the loo too often,
27:03had a background in erotic films
27:04which troubled the A-level students,
27:06particularly one 16-year-old
27:07at whom he winked when she was drawing.
27:09Oh!
27:10Wait, what did he wink with?
27:11He claimed he was squinting.
27:12Oh!
27:13What did he wink with?
27:15Oh!
27:19Oh!
27:20Oh!
27:20He said that,
27:22he explained to him,
27:23he didn't have glasses,
27:23so he was squinting,
27:24but he did also improvise a pose
27:26which involved sticking his bottom
27:28into the air,
27:28which was described by some students
27:30as giving an unfortunate view.
27:33So, er...
27:33They didn't want him.
27:34They didn't want him there.
27:35They didn't want a drawing.
27:35No, they just didn't want George there.
27:36Get out, George.
27:37So, he lost the case.
27:38Er...
27:39But there are contentious issues
27:40described by
27:41the Register of Artists Models,
27:43and contentious issues include
27:45raids on studios
27:47by amusing non-art students
27:49who just want to see a nudie person.
27:51Ah, yes.
27:51Very silly.
27:52A warning against passing window cleaners.
27:55And their policy is to suspend any member,
27:59odd we're phrasing it,
28:00who gets an erection during a sitting.
28:03When I say suspend any member...
28:05Suspend a member?
28:06Right, okay, yeah.
28:08Suspend yourself.
28:09Forced out of the register.
28:10You don't have to say,
28:11all right, I'll get me a coat.
28:12Right, yeah.
28:12I'll just hang out with him.
28:16He's like being struck off, then, it is.
28:18Yes, basically, it is.
28:19You can never be a nude model
28:20if you can't control yourself.
28:22Keep on moving.
28:26How are you doing that?
28:27Yeah, you're suspending.
28:29Ouch!
28:30Oh, that's why I'm banned from RAM.
28:35Yeah.
28:36Yeah.
28:37That was very impressive.
28:39That's what his clothes are on, as well.
28:45Let's give him a gill of brandy.
28:48An A gill of brandy.
28:50Absolutely.
28:51Well, there you are.
28:52That's RAM.
28:53Now, Little Bo Peep keeps lesbian sheep
28:55but doesn't know how to find them.
28:56Can you help?
28:57Oh, look at that.
28:59Lesbian sheep.
29:00Right.
29:01How can you tell if sheep are lesbian?
29:04Well...
29:05By their conduct.
29:06Yes.
29:08You can't.
29:09You can't with so many species.
29:11Can't you?
29:11Just the wafts of the...
29:13Katie Lang coming from the field?
29:16Katie Lang.
29:17Is it something to do with sex?
29:19Well, no.
29:19The foot of the thing is, yous just stand still.
29:21If they want sex.
29:22If they want sex.
29:22If they want sex.
29:23So, you can't tell if sheep are lesbians.
29:25And yet, this is also true.
29:27We've had a huge problem with lesbian sheep.
29:30What?
29:31I saw Michael.
29:32Yeah.
29:33But we have.
29:34How did this happen?
29:35Well, they're not producing any lambs.
29:37Yeah, they were.
29:38Oh.
29:38But I just told you, you can't tell whether a sheep's lesbian or not.
29:40So, the rams don't know.
29:43Think of the word.
29:43The word.
29:44Lesbian.
29:45Sheep.
29:45It has two meanings.
29:46Problem.
29:47One is sapphic, preferring their own kind.
29:49Female.
29:49Gay.
29:50Homosexual.
29:50Yeah.
29:51The other is from the island of...
29:54Lesbos.
29:54Yes.
29:55Sheep from the island of Lesbos were transported around Europe and they had foot and mouth disease
29:59and they communicated it all around Europe.
30:02Oh.
30:02So, lesbian sheep were responsible for an outbreak in 1994.
30:08Well, you need Jonathan Crete to get that one.
30:14Well, there you are.
30:15So, that's pretty exciting, isn't it?
30:17Well...
30:18No, it's not.
30:18No, no.
30:20Do you know how you said the lady ones just stand still if they want sex?
30:24Yeah.
30:25Do the lesbian ones stand still close together so that they can do stuff?
30:30No.
30:30Or are they all just sparsely standing apart?
30:33They're all waiting for someone else to make the first move.
30:35Yeah.
30:35And the ram will do it.
30:37The ram will tupper, as the word is in truth.
30:40Bloody rams.
30:41Good word, tupper, isn't it?
30:43We didn't use it as often as we should.
30:45I'm not wearing it tupper.
30:46It's good.
30:47Yeah.
30:47I know what me tuppence is, but...
30:51Now, on to keeping time.
30:54When is the present?
30:56Wow.
30:56Yeah.
30:57Now.
30:57Now.
30:59I knew it!
31:01I knew it!
31:02I knew it!
31:02Yeah, I thought it was about 70 milliseconds ago.
31:04Yeah.
31:05We're always 70 milliseconds behind.
31:07They were good times, Mum.
31:07Yeah.
31:08Yeah.
31:09The time taken between light hitting the eye being processed was about 70 milliseconds.
31:14So is it...
31:14Which you may say isn't much.
31:15Is it then?
31:16It's then.
31:17Yeah, exactly.
31:18But if a reasonably mild 85 miles per hour cricket ball or tennis ball, that would be 10 feet.
31:26So you really have to anticipate where the ball...
31:29So you're seeing the ball in the future?
31:32Yeah.
31:32Yeah, yeah.
31:33And you have to predict the future.
31:34Yeah.
31:35You have to predict where it'll be.
31:36Where it'll be.
31:36Because your brain won't see it until it's already passed.
31:39But so you'll have to just...
31:40You'll have to guess it's going to be there.
31:41You're so used to the course it's taken.
31:42You can see it from the racket or you can see it from the bowler's arm.
31:45Right.
31:45But you don't have time physically to see the ball with your eye.
31:48Right.
31:49It's past you.
31:50Bowlers bowl up to 100 miles an hour and tennis serves are way faster.
31:53Yes.
31:53Now researchers at the University of Tokyo have proved how we are indeed incapable of this
31:58kind of speed by building a robotic hand that can play paper, scissors, stone and always beat a human being.
32:05Because it can read our gestures quicker than we can read.
32:10Its processing is so much faster than ours.
32:12We've got a bit of VT of this.
32:14Here we go.
32:17You've hardly got time to see it yourself.
32:18It's so quick.
32:19It's all...
32:20It wins 100% of the time.
32:22It won't beat me.
32:24We didn't have a telly for 10 years when I was growing up.
32:27I'm brilliant at that game.
32:28But you have to...
32:29It just reads your hand movement before...
32:32Even so, Steven.
32:33I think I could take it.
32:35What if your hand was underneath the table and then you brought it out?
32:38Because it hasn't seen you do it then.
32:40So you could beat it then.
32:41So if you cheated, it would...
32:42Yeah.
32:44It's just if you're shy or something.
32:46That's not how the game is played.
32:48Somebody's playing rock, paper, scissors with a robot.
32:50That's the future, isn't it?
32:52It's how it all begins.
32:54It's how Skynet first adapted the cyborg.
32:56Really?
32:57Yeah.
32:57It starts with chess and games.
32:59We've sent him back from the future to play rock, paper, scissors.
33:04It's absolutely astonishing.
33:06It's beating our own brain, which is the most extraordinary thing we know in the universe.
33:10Yes.
33:10At perception and time and reflex.
33:13In a small way.
33:13I played chess against a computer on a flight.
33:17Oh, yeah.
33:18And it turns out I'm rubbish at chess.
33:20After a few games, I'd lost everyone.
33:23The computer started taking its king out and putting it right in the middle of the board.
33:30Completely on its own.
33:31And then I would really struggle to pin it down.
33:34Oh, no.
33:35I did.
33:36I did win a couple of games.
33:37It was immensely satisfying.
33:38Isn't it?
33:38Oh, they're so good chess programs.
33:40No, it's frightening.
33:41But, I mean, you know, in terms of human achievements, poetry, music, and such a lie.
33:45Oh, yes.
33:46Way behind.
33:47Yes, yes, of course.
33:49And, of course, they haven't passed what's called the Turing test, which is the most important
33:52thing for a machine.
33:53Alan Turing, who posited a test, which was whether or not you could conduct a conversation
33:58with an artificial machine in such a way that you wouldn't know it was an artificial
34:02machine.
34:02And if it passes that stage, that really is a moment in computer development.
34:08It's quite scary.
34:08And then you've got a consciousness, because what sort of questions would you ask to check
34:13Are you a machine?
34:15Well...
34:16Yeah.
34:17It's going to help.
34:20That's right.
34:21And when he goes, no.
34:22No.
34:25Let's just assume that it won't be that easy.
34:28If it lied to win, that really would be the next step of evolution for all.
34:33What's your happiest memory?
34:34Things like that.
34:34Just now.
34:37That would give it away.
34:38You have to switch me on this morning.
34:43Oh, it's a beautiful moment.
34:44Now, I live in the moment.
34:46Well, I'm 17 milliseconds before the moment.
34:52Anyway.
34:53Here's a test to show you how easy it is to keep an image in your head.
34:56This is the departure board at Grand Central Station in New York.
35:00Try and memorise it.
35:01Alright.
35:03Now, the question is, when does the next train to White Plains leave?
35:0512.25.
35:0712.25.
35:08Is that what I thought?
35:1012.25?
35:11No.
35:12It's really mean of me.
35:14Oh.
35:14In Grand Central Station, all trains depart a minute after the time given.
35:18What?
35:20That was great.
35:21No.
35:22It's not 25.
35:23But you had to know that in Grand Central Station they have a minute's gate time to allow
35:27you, without accidents, not to have to run.
35:29I know it's so unfair on you.
35:30I'm really sorry.
35:32You've never owned it so well, sir.
35:33I feel like such a pig.
35:35Oh, God.
35:36Did you secretly flick a V at her?
35:39You totally did.
35:41You totally did.
35:42You did.
35:43Anyway, sorry.
35:44They have this gate time.
35:46Well, they don't do that here.
35:47Quite the reverse.
35:48Exactly.
35:4930 seconds before.
35:49It's impossible.
35:50Yeah.
35:51The service is now leaving.
35:52My wife is pregnant, coming down the steps, and they shut the door.
35:55I said, there's a wife there.
35:56She's pregnant.
35:57Can you wait just 19 seconds?
36:00Because it's actually before the time the train's supposed to go.
36:03No.
36:03Are you serious?
36:04Did you miss her?
36:05I shut the door.
36:06You could have just left her.
36:10Take it back to the next one.
36:11Darling, you take the next one.
36:12Yes.
36:13Oh, fine.
36:16Here's an interesting thing.
36:17Have you been to India?
36:18Yes.
36:19Do you remember India's time difference from us?
36:22Five or six hours.
36:23It's actually five and a half hours.
36:27But there is a very interesting thing about a five and a half hour difference.
36:31You think, oh, God, how am I going to work out the difference?
36:34And old Aggers put me onto this, the cricket commentator, because he's often in India.
36:38He said, this is what you want to do, old boy.
36:40He said, take your watch.
36:41So here we are.
36:42Let's say it's five past nine in England.
36:45Right.
36:46Nine, yeah.
36:47Yeah.
36:47If you turn the watch upside down.
36:492.35.
36:50You get...
36:51Yeah.
36:53And that's the time it is five and a half hours ahead.
36:56So it's just the watch upside down.
36:57Mine's digital.
36:58There you are.
36:59You see?
37:00Well, that's useless.
37:02It's quarter past eight.
37:03Well, that's hopeless.
37:04But with an analogue watch, as you can see, it works.
37:07Oh, that's brilliant.
37:08It's really neat, isn't it?
37:08Climb up.
37:09It is neat.
37:10Climb up.
37:10Well neat.
37:12Neaty neat neat.
37:13Why do clocks go clockwise?
37:14Why do they go that way round?
37:16Because that's the way we see things, isn't it?
37:19Not necessarily.
37:20Because it's forward.
37:21Left to right.
37:21There's a particular reason.
37:22And it's in the northern hemisphere.
37:24That's how sun dies.
37:27Sun moves that way round.
37:28Oh.
37:29So we're just used to the shadow from the gnome in the sundial.
37:33Now, a question about keeping quiet.
37:35How quiet is the quietest place in the world?
37:40Well quiet.
37:42Well quiet.
37:44There's an anechoic chamber somewhere in America.
37:47There is.
37:48There's one in Britain too.
37:49And there's one here.
37:50Yeah.
37:50Which is completely devoid of all sound.
37:53Yeah.
37:53And it sort of absorbs sound when you go in it.
37:55That's right.
37:56It's at the University of Salford.
37:58And it is minus 12.4 decibels.
38:02As you can see there, it's got all these sort of wedges and things to stop any kind of echoing.
38:07Actually, there's a hemi anechoic chamber with a reverberation chamber as well in the National Physical Laboratory.
38:13And I went there and I recorded myself popping a balloon first in the reverberation chamber and then in the
38:20hemi anechoic chamber.
38:21Which is slightly less than a full anechoic but still pretty bloody amazoid.
38:24Did I just say a mesoic?
38:27You really did.
38:29God, I'm sad.
38:30Hang on.
38:31I am in the reverberation chamber.
38:37It's extraordinary.
38:40Wow!
38:42No!
38:43Can you burst the balloon?
38:45Now!
38:50Remember that.
38:52Right.
38:52That's the balloon?
38:53That's the reverberation chamber.
38:55It's still going.
38:57That was fantastic!
39:01A crazy little balloon!
39:04You're off your face in there, aren't you?
39:06And now I am in a hemi-anechoic chamber. Here we go. Three, two, one.
39:15That's incredible.
39:17That sound, how exciting is that?
39:20There we are.
39:22Thank you to the National Physical Laboratory.
39:29So, who has the world's biggest mouth?
39:32Blue eye.
39:33Oh!
39:36Oh, the strange thing is you're so close.
39:41The blue whale's the biggest animal on Earth that's ever been.
39:43The second biggest. Has the biggest mouth, oddly enough.
39:46Another whale? A different sort of whale?
39:47It's another whale, yes. It's usually found in the Arctic under the ice pack.
39:51It's a hugely slow animal. Beautiful.
39:53One was found recently that had an 1870s harpoon in it.
39:57It's still alive. They live a very long time.
39:59Good gosh. Huge things.
40:00They want a lovely smile on their face that is curved.
40:03A bit like a bow. So they're known as bowhead whales.
40:07Oh, right.
40:08Isn't they marvellous?
40:09The idea of killing them is just over there, but they have the most blubber of any whale.
40:13That's probably why he's not so happy.
40:16The bowhead has a unique organ in its mouth.
40:19It's really nothing quite like it.
40:21It's the only thing that you could say is like it, frankly.
40:24Though it's baleen plates, the sort of hairy, feathery bits that it sibs food with.
40:28Wow.
40:29But the bit underneath that isn't a tongue is actually more like a penis.
40:32I know that sounds silly, but it's...
40:33Sounds great.
40:34Well, yes.
40:36It's beautiful.
40:38It's...
40:39It's...
40:40It's...
40:40I was supposed to just think that, sorry.
40:43It's fine.
40:45It is a sort of material, I mean the fleshy material, that engorges...
40:50It engorges with blood.
40:52Yeah.
40:53And becomes absolutely huge...
40:55Erect.
40:55...with blood.
40:56And erect in its mouth.
40:57Yes.
40:57And it cools it, because it takes all the blood right up and it pushes it out and gets the
41:02water over it.
41:02So when it overheats, it's all this water goes...
41:05And all its blood is in its sort of mouth cock, if you call it that.
41:10It's a whale.
41:11It's a whale.
41:12It's a whale cooling its brain.
41:17It's the corpus cavernosum maxillaris is its proper name.
41:20Mouth cock.
41:21Mouth cock.
41:22It opens the mouth, the arctic water flows in.
41:25Mouth organ.
41:26Cools the organ.
41:28Mouth organ.
41:30And that cools its brain.
41:32So it's a kind of 12 foot long penis in its mouth.
41:3412 foot long, I mean it's like a lamp post in it.
41:38I don't think he's a member of the Ram Society.
41:42So it's like its own thermostat then, really.
41:45Yes.
41:46Absolutely.
41:46A cooling system.
41:47So, anyway, there's your bowhead whale.
41:51Now, that brings us to the business of the scores.
41:54Heh, you must say.
41:55Damn, it's close.
41:56In first place, with minus seven, it's Bill Bailey.
42:00Oh!
42:05And second equal with minus nine, it's Jason and Sarah.
42:09Oh!
42:13Oh, thank you.
42:14Oh.
42:14Fourth place with minus 10 is the audience.
42:17Oh!
42:32You got it?
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