QI (2003) s12e08 Episode Script
Lovely
Goooood evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening and welcome to QI, the show that tickles the armpit of tedium with the feather duster of interestingness.
Tonight we're taking a lingering look at love.
My guests are the lovely Josh Widdicombe.
That love machine, Tony Hawks.
The best beloved Aisling Bea.
And a complete luvvy, Alan Davies.
So, let's hear their love calls.
Josh goes - Oh, is that my buzzer? - Yes.
- Oh, I thought You can give another love call if you want.
I thought I was going to have to get my phone out.
What am I wearing? Um LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Oh! Aisling goes LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS - Ah.
Frank Sinatra.
- Yeah, bit negative.
Tony goes LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS Oh, yes.
And Alan goes I LIKE IT PLAYS Wonderful.
I like the way you run your fingers through my hair It wouldn't be possible to run one's fingers through your hair, without there being some awful rending noise.
- Yeah, an alarm goes off.
- Yes.
I ought to tell you though, because it's the L series, there is the likelihood of one question being lavatorial.
And if it is, you can Spend a Penny.
TOILET FLUSHES Very good.
And if you correctly spend your penny when I ask the question, you get extra points.
It's that simple.
Right, to get you in the mood, here are some foods for you to try.
- You should have some on your little prop tables.
- Ooh.
You've got chocolates there, Josh.
You've got a potato, Alan.
- Hot damn.
- What have you got, Tony? - Well, I don't - Oh, champagne.
- It looks like champagne.
It could be anything.
Probably cava, knowing our budget.
You could have had a wee in here, all of you, for all I know.
- You wouldn't want it to fizz though, would you? - No, you wouldn't, mate.
You put your finger on top to stop it overflowing.
That's what I always do on the loo.
- Yes, it is.
- It is? I hope it's fresh.
- I think it's fresh if you want to eat it.
- I hope it's fresh as well.
- You could drop it in the champagne.
It's delicious.
- I love - Am I allowed? - I'm allergic to champagne, literally.
- Are you? - Yeah.
I can't drink it.
Oh, darling, it must be simply terrible for you.
It's not, actually.
Christopher Hitchens rather wonderfully said the four most overrated things in the world are lobster, champagne, anal sex and picnics.
But we don't like champagne.
What a night that would be.
Come on, they're all day-time ones.
Anyway, so, by all means, eat yours.
But what do you think they have to do with our theme? - Chocolate - They're sexy foods.
- Yes.
- They're aphrodisiacs.
- Aphrodisiacs.
They're considered to be aphrodisiacs.
Oysters have long been considered it.
- Potato? - Yes, Alan, a thousand times yes.
You can go on a date, of course, with two potatoes and a carrot, and lay them out on the desk or the table in a very erotic way, and tantalise people.
That's true.
Two potatoes and a carrot.
Are you single, Tony, or are you At what point in the date do you pull out the potatoes? - Where's the desk? - Well, the desk, I admit that the desk on the date, the date's going badly wrong.
Well, do have a piece of chocolate.
Do sip your champagne.
- And do, by all means, have your oyster.
- I mean, I do love oysters, but one time I did get poisoning on Valentine's Day - On Valentine's Day as well? - Oh! - Oh, no, are you eating your potato raw? - Is that allowed? Oh, oh.
OK, here she goes, here she goes, oyster down.
- It's bigger than I'm used to.
- Hey.
- How is it? - Very nice.
I'm definitely going to tape this episode, I can tell you that.
- Try your chocolate.
- Oh, they're very nice.
- It might have rose petals or violets.
- Are you all right, Alan? I feel horny.
Look out, Josh! It's worked.
Bloody hell, two bites! Well, the reason that potatoes were considered to be aphrodisiac, at one point in history, this may be something Aisling knows, is that when they were introduced to Ireland as a major crop, the population of Ireland increased a huge amount, but it was simply because there was less starvation than there had been before.
Though, as we know, there was then the terrible potato blight, and the population reduced.
- Oh, you had to bring it up.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
It was a bad moment in Irish history, a bad moment.
It's fine, it's fine.
I'm nearly over it.
There's still more guilt to be got out of it from us.
Carbs are the last thing you'd want before sex, aren't they? - Make you feel heavy, you would think.
- Yeah.
It depends how long you want to go on for, Josh.
Do you have slow release? Porridge.
- Slow release! Oh, dear.
- About an hour and a half.
Oh, I didn't mean it like that, Stephen! Oh! I'm going to have a chocolate and stop lowering the tone, I think.
The fact is, if you go online, not that this is the most authoritative way of finding out, but almost any food that you put next to the word aphrodisiac in a search field, will return a result of some kind.
There seems to be no food in history that hasn't been regarded at some time as aphrodisiac.
- It's all a myth, isn't it? It's all nonsense.
- It seems to be.
I don't think there's any way of proving.
It's so hard to prove.
If I understand correctly, it's about the brain, sex.
Yeah, yeah.
The limbic lobe in the brain sends a message to your pelvic area.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes by carrier pigeon.
- And these foods, they don't affect that part of the brain.
- No.
You're quite the sexy talker, though, aren't you? Is this your opening line before you take out the potatoes and carrot? I'm not giving any trade secrets away here tonight.
So you say, "Daphne, my limbic system is sending me messages.
" Yeah, I think most people would agree that a lack of inhibition hurries one toward the bedroom, and alcohol, naturally, is something that would But it doesn't enhance the performance.
Shakespeare makes that very point through the porter in Macbeth.
Does he? I don't care.
- It increases the desire, but it mars the performance.
- Yes.
The fact is, there is no proof that, as Tony rightly said, that, except possibly the alcohol as a disinhibitor.
Well, there you are.
Almost everything in the history of food has been reputed to be an aphrodisiac, even potatoes.
Who did Napoleon's ex go out with next? Are we talking about Josephine? Well, yes we are, but not the Empress Josephine.
Oddly enough, he seemed to have a predilection for Josephines.
Well, he had two mistresses, one was called Josephina and one was called Josephine, neither of whom was the Empress Josephine.
There they are.
There was Josephina Grassini, who was a beautiful dancer, opera singer, opera dancer they used to be called.
And Josephine Weimer, an actress.
So they were both very beautiful.
She looks like she's doing the Single Ladies dance.
Like she's, "Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh.
" She's showing how tall Napoleon is, that's what she's doing.
"I want one this high.
" But these, as I say, were different Josephines, they were later ones.
Just before the Battle of Waterloo, who was the British Ambassador in Paris? - British Ambassador - I'll leave this one to you, Alan.
- Before Napoleon escaped.
- Hang on.
There was Schniesberkin, Wilson It's kind of easier than you think.
He was the victor of Peninsular and he'd beaten Napoleon before and he was about to beat him again.
- It's not Wellington, is it? - It's the Duke of Wellington himself.
And there's Old Hooky on the right, and there's Napoleon on the left.
And, yeah, Wellington really knew how to rub it in when he beat someone, as it were.
- That sounds terrible.
- Oh, did he go out with? Yeah, he went out with both of these mistresses.
He seduced both during his stay in Paris as Ambassador in 1814 and 1815, just before Waterloo, before the escape of Napoleon, while Napoleon was in Elba, having abdicated, if you remember.
"Able was I ere I saw Elba.
" - What's odd about that phrase? - It's a palindrome, isn't it? - Yeah, that's right, exactly.
- Yes.
- It's a palindrome.
It's actually a palindrome, guys, so And Weimer was the only one who compared the two in bed, which is extremely unkind of her.
She said "Monsieur le Duc etait de beaucoup plus fort," is a lot stronger in bed.
Fort is fiercer, stronger, mightier.
Yeah, better, basically.
Was there a Mrs Wellington back home who was a bit fed up about this? The Duchess, yeah.
Yeah, she must have been, you know, unimpressed, I'd say.
Well, he famously did have a lot of affairs.
There were so many potatoes around in those days.
- There's no doubt that they were up to it.
- That's right.
And after the wars ended, he was presented with Napoleon's sword, three paintings of him and the painting of his sister, Pauline Borghese, there she is, that's Napoleon's sister, there with a nipple showing.
She's got something keeping her chin on as well.
Yes, she has.
It's keeping her mouth from falling open.
Exactly.
I think it's a mask.
It's clearly some sort of a face mask, like it's got a bit of elastic round the back.
Well, Napoleon had commissioned a statue of himself, eleven foot tall, basically twice the height of himself.
And this wasthis was bought by the British Government and given to Wellington, along with the house they gave him.
Do you remember what it's called? - Oh, number one, London.
- Number one, London, Apsley House.
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, good house.
- And it really works.
If you get into a cab and say number one London, the cabbie will go, "I've always wanted someone to say that.
" And they will take you there.
Is that supposed to be the sculpture of Napoleon? That is it.
I know, it's somewhat idealised, to say the least.
- Oh, God.
- In the stairwell of Apsley House, as it's also called.
- Where is number one, London, then? - It's at Hyde Park Corner.
It's easier to spot in real life, because there isn't a bloody great big picture in front of it.
- That's true.
- And is the Duke of Wellington beef Wellington man? - Yes, it is named after him.
- Interesting.
- And the boots.
And the boots as well.
A lot of military figures had clothing named after them, particularly in the Crimean War.
There was Lord Cardigan, who was in charge of the Light Brigade.
- Balaclava! - The Balaclava helmet, absolutely.
And - The jodhpur.
- Jodhpur is a place, I think.
But Raglan was also - Dr Martin.
- Raglan - The raglan sleeve.
- Lord Bobble Hat.
Colonel Stiletto.
Earl of Sandwich.
Have we done him? - Colonel Scarf.
- Old Jock Strap.
- The Earl of Head and Shoulders.
- Lieutenant Washing Machine.
Well, there were a lot, a few.
So, good.
The Duke of Wellington's conquests included Napoleon and no fewer than two of his exes.
Who would bite their arm off to get their leg over? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Yes, Josh? You! - KLAXON BLARES - Oh, dear.
- This must be from the animal kingdom.
- It is from the animal kingdom.
And what type of animals usually have to suffer in order to give their seed, as it were? - Spiders are usually - Spiders is the right answer.
- Oh! Look at that.
There's a particular kind of spider.
There's the female on the left and there's the male on the right.
That's a neat packet there, isn't it? - He's going to have a Napoleon complex, isn't he? - He really is.
Have you seen that picture of Bernie Ecclestone and his ex-wife? It's a bit like that? He's said to his mates His mates have said, "No, don't bother, she's too big for you.
" He's going, "No, I can get her, you watch, you watch.
"She's no problem at all, mate.
" He actuallyhe won't let her wear heels on a night out, will he? She is a hundred times bigger.
- And if we see him close up, you might notice - He's Tom Cruise.
It's quite hard to see, but the front two, the left one is curled inwards a bit, but the right one is straight up, are actually penis legs.
Oh, no.
What? He has eight legs like any spider, but the front two are penises and are charged with his seed.
I've got a couple of them down under here.
The old penis leg there.
They're called pedipalps.
And the thing he does, in order to get a better chance of shagging that enormous female, is he actually spins some silk and ties it round one of his penis legs and pulls, so that it basically pulls it off.
So he actually tears it off.
If he pulls it off, there's no point in having sex with her.
- No, there's one left.
- Oh.
And it gives him a speed advantage.
So he's much much quicker.
So he can scuttle after her.
It all seems a most complicated life cycle.
The oddest procedure, but it's honestly true, it's the male tent cobweb spider.
So the males that do this are 44 per cent faster than ones who've kept both their penis legs.
But even then, when they get the female, which is their reward, the female then will suck them dry and discard them.
- Yeah.
Which - Oh, isn't that just the way with women? Yes, I know, poor you.
You deserve it, you're all bastards.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
- Is the human equivalent of this - Katie Price.
- No.
Researchers tested the tent cobweb spider, rather meanly, by chasing them, some intact, some not, round a little running track, to see how long they lasted, and the spiders with intact sex organs lasted 16 minutes on average, but the spiders that had snapped one off, or snipped one off, lasted up to 28 minutes, so it is a big advantage.
Once you've mated, of course, you have to bring up the children.
To that end, what are the advantages of having a goat as a nanny? LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Tony? - I think it's because they've got hooves.
And if you had a nanny that had hooves, they couldn't sneak up on you.
Well, that's true.
The fact is nanny goats are called nanny goats for a dashed good reason.
In the days of foundlings, who were left on church doors, if you left a baby on a church steps, it was a foundling and it was therefore thrown on mercy of the parish.
And it had to be fed, and of course there was no such thing as SMA or Cow and Gate, or anything like that.
The only way they could get milk was from a breast.
So you had wet nurses.
But you also had goats.
- So goats were amazing.
- They'd feed on the goats? They'd feed on the goat milk.
Very good stuff, straight from the teat.
Straight from the teat.
It's better than Until 1870 pasteurisation was invented, by Pasteur, obviously, it was the healthiest way you could have it, straight from the teat.
- Was the goat OK with? - Not only OK, let me I've seen Josh's little eyes light up, like, "straight from the teat".
- Yeah.
- "The goat was OK?" - And you say goats are OK with this? Not only OK, you may have seen cows that are desperate to be milked, and they queue up for the dairy in order to be milked.
Well, goats are the same, if they're ready to give suck.
- So we have here a description - For what?! Whoa.
You know, the phrase, Shakespearean again, Lady Macbeth.
French doctor Alphonse Leroy described it, in a foundling hospital in France, "Each goat which comes to feed enters bleating "and goes to hunt the infant which has been assigned to it.
" So there's a particular child that it's been assigned to.
"Pushes back the covering of the bed, with its horns," like that - Sounds familiar.
- "And straddles the crib to give suck to the infant.
" It sounds like an accident waiting to happen, really.
Goat soup on the Can you imagine trying to get insurance for that in the NHS.
So, we just had this goat straddle a baby and then the baby just sort of knows to suck off the goat.
- You can imagine the Daily Mail all over that, can't you? - Well, maybe.
- Maybe.
- Goat Straddles Baby! Why do they have Why goats? Why not? Well, it's a very good question.
A cow is just a bit too big I think to go into a little to go over a crib.
You don't want a pat on the head.
- Hey! - Hey, hey-hey! Hey.
Been waiting for that.
You asked about goats, and some people thought into the 19th century that breast milk contained not only nutrition but the character traits of whoever gave it.
So if the mother was a loose woman and had given the baby out of wedlock, she wasn't to be trusted to give milk to her baby because she would be passing on her immorality to the child.
This is how mad we once were.
- How do they know what the goat's been up to? - Well - They thought they were a better risk.
- It has to be a married goat.
It might have been an unmarried goat, you're absolutely right.
Dirty goat.
In 1816, there was a writer who compared different milks and wrote the definitive book called The Goat is the Best and Most Agreeable Wet Nurse.
Others preferred donkeys, which are thought to have a better moral reputation.
They are very noble, they carried our Lord.
That's it, in Palm Sunday.
Well remembered, exactly.
Yeah, and also Mary.
Then there was the syphilis outbreak in the 16th and 18th centuries.
What's he up to? - Milking a goat?! - Oh, OK, fair enough.
"This better be for the baby!" I think that's a different bloke that usually does it, according to that goat's face.
- "Hang on a minute, that's not the grip I'm used to.
" - Oops.
Hello.
"That's a bit firm!" Do you know what I've found mad about I don't have kids, so maybe women in the audience will know, but that, when you're breast-feeding your child, if you are, say, in a supermarket or something like that and someone else's baby cries, you leak, like a spider sense.
- Yes.
- Is it not true, any women have had? - Yeah, it's a - Yeah, it is.
There's a bloke there going, "Yep.
" "There is, mate.
" "I always leak when I hear a baby crying.
" I don't even know why that's funny.
Is that true, though? It is, isn't it? But if you have, you've presumably expressed into a pot and given it to the baby-sitter, because that's what happens isn't it? Why would the baby-sitter want some? - There was, there was - Thanks a million! - There was an ice cream shop - Shot glasses.
Dinner would have been fine.
Help yourself to anything in the fridge.
There was, for a very brief time, an ice cream shop, wasn't there, - here in London, which sold baby - Yeah, breast milk ice cream.
- Human breast milk ice cream.
- You say a very brief time, - because it's the worst business plan of all time.
- I guess you're right.
You try it once I think, like incest or country dancing.
I wish that were my own.
You've not been to Devon, Stephen.
I come from Norfolk, for God's sake.
No, the sad thing about the syphilis outbreaks of the 16th and 18th century, is that it was believed then, and all the way up to the 19th century that one of the cures for syphilis, a kill or cure really, was mercury.
Which is poisonous, as I'm sure you know.
And they decided a good delivery system for babies that were born syphilitic was to make them suckle on the milk of goats that had been fed mercury.
A lot of goats died that way, it was very unkind.
- Did the babies die? - Probably.
It probably didn't help them.
I mean, it's not good for the brain at all, a growing brain.
- It's good for thermometers.
- It's very good for thermometers, I agree.
These days thermometers have little ear click things and everything.
- They've moved on.
- Yes, they have.
Yeah.
Just goes in the ear, ping, like that, it's so amazing.
- Or you can stick a thing under the armpit.
- Or But more difficult.
Mmm.
More fun.
- Under the tongue.
- Oh, under the tongue, under the tongue.
What were you thinking?! Nothing, nothing.
More difficult though for you to fake your temperature to get off school, though.
- You used to stir coffee with it and things like that.
- Did you? - Yeah.
You were having coffee as a schoolboy?! This was at university.
"Mother, I'm not ready for primary school, "I'll just have this latte and stay here.
" Oh, lawks.
Anyway, now to bundles of love.
Why did the Puritans want lusty young men to get into the sack? That picture tells a story.
What's - LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yes? I think that theyit was It's to do with them not having sex, early on.
Yes, you're right.
Because they were Puritans and they thought sex was evil or you shouldn't do it, until you were married, anything like that.
- Completely correct.
- So they had a thing called bundling.
- You're absolutely right.
- Where they put them into sacks - That's right.
- Or something, was it? - That's right.
So, there was getting the young man into the sack in that literal sense.
You put the man in a sack and he could sleep next to his intended, or he could have a board between them, like that.
I mean, what kind of man can't get over that? You've got the old hand-held drill under the covers.
He's actually looking at that and saying, "This is more over my side.
" Yeah.
- And does the duvet go under the? - It does.
You basically fit this wooden thing on once you've made the bed.
Are you sure they haven't misread the instructions to an IKEA bed? The IKEA bundling kit, yeah.
"Your corner of the bed.
" Why were they sleeping together before marriage? Well, I think that they did want them to get used to each other conversationally.
- That's right.
- Genuinely, that was it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I believe that's the idea.
That was bundling, an American and Dutch tradition, which Americans took to, particularly in Pennsylvania where a lot of Dutch people went.
Now, what horror was first shown in the film Psycho? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Joshlington? Was it someone in the shower? - KLAXON BLARES - Oh! No, I mean, she's in the shower, but you The film shoot took 30 days to film, which is very short by any Hollywood standards, and seven of those days were devoted to the shower scene.
- Janet Leigh - He actually got it in the first day, but he was - He was.
- "Better get Janet back to the shower.
" - LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yeah.
Yes, you're right! - There was a toilet in the shower scene.
- Yes.
- Is that it? - Yeah.
TOILET FLUSHES It's not just that there is one, it's the first time one had been seen flushed with the water going round.
It spirals down the lavatory.
The film is black and white, there's the murderer, we won't say who, they or he or she is.
And it's considered a masterpiece now, but particularly the Bernard Herrmann score which "Ee-ee-ee-ee" Anyway, Psycho was the first film to feature a flushing lavatory.
Now, it's time to clear the blockage of received wisdom with the plunger of General Ignorance.
So fingers on buzzers, please.
What should a Welshman wear in his hat on St David's Day? LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yes? - A daffodil.
- KLAXON BLARES - Hmm.
Well, if it's not, it's got to be a leek, right? It's got to be a leek.
KLAXON BLARES What about cheese on toast? Is it going to be cheese on toast? - Is it a dragon? - A Welsh rabbit.
We've been rather unfair there, of course, because Welsh people do wear leeks on their heads, but we're going way back to the original battle they fought where supposedly they wore leeks to distinguish themselves.
You can see, if that's the Royal Welsh Regiment or whoever, with, what look more like actually I've never seen the Queen so happy.
Why is she so happy? - She really does look thrilled.
- What's that bloke said to her about his hat? She loves that.
There's something about it.
"They've all got leeks on their hats! HE MIMICS THE QUEEN'S LAUGH - She's probably saying - "They're all Welsh, ha-ha!" She's probably saying, "They don't know "that they're actually spring onions!" They look a lot more like spring onions.
Well, there's a whole issue about whether or not they were leeks, and Alan Davidson - close name - author of the Oxford Dictionary of Food Never liked him.
He claims that leeks as we know them didn't arrive in Britain for much longer after the Battle of Heathfield, where the Welsh, who beat the Saxons there, believed that they first wore leeks to identify themselves.
In Anglo-Saxon, the suffix 'leac' meant any member of the onion family.
So 'enneleac' was an onion and 'garleac' was garlic.
So they might have sported something like garlic, which is slightly more light and practical than certainly a fully grown leek.
The Museum of Wales thinks that actual leeks may have been brought over by the Romans.
So there's dispute, really, to be honest, we just wanted to take points away from you.
Anyway, It's possible that the national emblem of Wales should really be a garlic.
There's a layer of the atmosphere which protects us from ultraviolet radiation.
What's it made of? Hint, it has a hole in it.
- LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS - Yes? Ozone.
KLAXON BLARES No! What are the odds? What are the odds? Because it is called the ozone layer, but it is neither a layer nor made primarily of ozone.
Which is very mean of scientists to do that to us.
We wouldn't even know it existed.
It's named after the Irish family, the Zones, or the O'Zones.
- The O'Zones.
- Yeah.
The O'Zones have moved in next door.
It's only 15 parts per million, ozone.
Do you know what the chemical formula for ozone is? Yeah, but I'm not going to tell you.
- It's O3.
- Oh.
Yes, it's a pale blue form of oxygen, with a very pungent smell.
At nought degrees Celsius and normal atmospheric pressure, all the ozone in the sky would cover the earth to a depth of just three millimetres.
Under the same conditions, the rest of the air would make a layer five miles thick.
That's how rare it is.
And finally, here's one for surf lovers.
Where can you find the biggest waves in the world? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS - Widdicombe.
- Uh, Hawaii.
- KLAXON BLARES - Oh! Dear.
Oh, dear.
- Newquay.
- Sorry, where? - KLAXON BLARES - Oh! Oh, Newquay.
Oh, dear.
The Indian Ocean? No.
Well, possibly, yeah.
- Malibu.
- Malibu, well I was just on a hat-trick, I thought I'd go for it.
There is good surfing to be had there on the Californian coast.
But let's forget coasts, let's forget Australian coasts and any other coast.
Is it going to be a different type of wave? It is No, it's a water, seawater wave, but it's underwater.
- The biggest waves are actually sub-surface waves.
- Oh.
Uh, he's so disappointed.
It was satellites that showed us.
We didn't know until satellite photography.
And there are lots of drowned surfers on them.
Well, they'd be very hard to surf, because they really go incredibly slow, they crawl along, a few centimetres a second, so, a few metres an hour I think.
And a tsunami, on the other hand, which is obviously a gigantic wave, is Japanese for harbour wave.
Because we say tidal wave, but tidal wave isn't correct, because it isn't tidal.
Tsunamis result from earthquakes, landslides and volcanos, as we probably know.
In the open ocean the waves are about only 300 millimetres high, but with a very long wave length, sometimes hundreds of kilometres apart.
As they approach land, the sea gets shallower, and that's what pushes them up.
Oh.
How fast is a tsunami? Because he is not going to He's not going to make it, I'm afraid.
No, he's not.
Especially with three sharks on their way.
And what with him not having any feet is another problem.
That's really going to slow him down.
Dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
Well, before it gets any sicker, the world's biggest waves are underwater.
And so, finally, to the scores, which if you're lucky will be love-all.
Well, they aren't.
They're fascinating, though.
He did run into the wall several times, the tousled towheaded dear from Devon, minus 36 points in fourth place is Josh Widdicombe.
How relieved is our third placer, on minus seven, Alan Davies.
Thank you very much.
Minus seven.
Pretty good.
Aisling just ahead on minus six.
Whoo-hoo! On plus seven, it's Tony Hawks.
- Bravo.
- Thank you very much.
So, it's goodnight from Aisling, Tony, Josh, Alan and me.
And I leave you with the last words of English essayist Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "It's all been very interesting.
" Goodnight.
Tonight we're taking a lingering look at love.
My guests are the lovely Josh Widdicombe.
That love machine, Tony Hawks.
The best beloved Aisling Bea.
And a complete luvvy, Alan Davies.
So, let's hear their love calls.
Josh goes - Oh, is that my buzzer? - Yes.
- Oh, I thought You can give another love call if you want.
I thought I was going to have to get my phone out.
What am I wearing? Um LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Oh! Aisling goes LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS - Ah.
Frank Sinatra.
- Yeah, bit negative.
Tony goes LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS Oh, yes.
And Alan goes I LIKE IT PLAYS Wonderful.
I like the way you run your fingers through my hair It wouldn't be possible to run one's fingers through your hair, without there being some awful rending noise.
- Yeah, an alarm goes off.
- Yes.
I ought to tell you though, because it's the L series, there is the likelihood of one question being lavatorial.
And if it is, you can Spend a Penny.
TOILET FLUSHES Very good.
And if you correctly spend your penny when I ask the question, you get extra points.
It's that simple.
Right, to get you in the mood, here are some foods for you to try.
- You should have some on your little prop tables.
- Ooh.
You've got chocolates there, Josh.
You've got a potato, Alan.
- Hot damn.
- What have you got, Tony? - Well, I don't - Oh, champagne.
- It looks like champagne.
It could be anything.
Probably cava, knowing our budget.
You could have had a wee in here, all of you, for all I know.
- You wouldn't want it to fizz though, would you? - No, you wouldn't, mate.
You put your finger on top to stop it overflowing.
That's what I always do on the loo.
- Yes, it is.
- It is? I hope it's fresh.
- I think it's fresh if you want to eat it.
- I hope it's fresh as well.
- You could drop it in the champagne.
It's delicious.
- I love - Am I allowed? - I'm allergic to champagne, literally.
- Are you? - Yeah.
I can't drink it.
Oh, darling, it must be simply terrible for you.
It's not, actually.
Christopher Hitchens rather wonderfully said the four most overrated things in the world are lobster, champagne, anal sex and picnics.
But we don't like champagne.
What a night that would be.
Come on, they're all day-time ones.
Anyway, so, by all means, eat yours.
But what do you think they have to do with our theme? - Chocolate - They're sexy foods.
- Yes.
- They're aphrodisiacs.
- Aphrodisiacs.
They're considered to be aphrodisiacs.
Oysters have long been considered it.
- Potato? - Yes, Alan, a thousand times yes.
You can go on a date, of course, with two potatoes and a carrot, and lay them out on the desk or the table in a very erotic way, and tantalise people.
That's true.
Two potatoes and a carrot.
Are you single, Tony, or are you At what point in the date do you pull out the potatoes? - Where's the desk? - Well, the desk, I admit that the desk on the date, the date's going badly wrong.
Well, do have a piece of chocolate.
Do sip your champagne.
- And do, by all means, have your oyster.
- I mean, I do love oysters, but one time I did get poisoning on Valentine's Day - On Valentine's Day as well? - Oh! - Oh, no, are you eating your potato raw? - Is that allowed? Oh, oh.
OK, here she goes, here she goes, oyster down.
- It's bigger than I'm used to.
- Hey.
- How is it? - Very nice.
I'm definitely going to tape this episode, I can tell you that.
- Try your chocolate.
- Oh, they're very nice.
- It might have rose petals or violets.
- Are you all right, Alan? I feel horny.
Look out, Josh! It's worked.
Bloody hell, two bites! Well, the reason that potatoes were considered to be aphrodisiac, at one point in history, this may be something Aisling knows, is that when they were introduced to Ireland as a major crop, the population of Ireland increased a huge amount, but it was simply because there was less starvation than there had been before.
Though, as we know, there was then the terrible potato blight, and the population reduced.
- Oh, you had to bring it up.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
It was a bad moment in Irish history, a bad moment.
It's fine, it's fine.
I'm nearly over it.
There's still more guilt to be got out of it from us.
Carbs are the last thing you'd want before sex, aren't they? - Make you feel heavy, you would think.
- Yeah.
It depends how long you want to go on for, Josh.
Do you have slow release? Porridge.
- Slow release! Oh, dear.
- About an hour and a half.
Oh, I didn't mean it like that, Stephen! Oh! I'm going to have a chocolate and stop lowering the tone, I think.
The fact is, if you go online, not that this is the most authoritative way of finding out, but almost any food that you put next to the word aphrodisiac in a search field, will return a result of some kind.
There seems to be no food in history that hasn't been regarded at some time as aphrodisiac.
- It's all a myth, isn't it? It's all nonsense.
- It seems to be.
I don't think there's any way of proving.
It's so hard to prove.
If I understand correctly, it's about the brain, sex.
Yeah, yeah.
The limbic lobe in the brain sends a message to your pelvic area.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes by carrier pigeon.
- And these foods, they don't affect that part of the brain.
- No.
You're quite the sexy talker, though, aren't you? Is this your opening line before you take out the potatoes and carrot? I'm not giving any trade secrets away here tonight.
So you say, "Daphne, my limbic system is sending me messages.
" Yeah, I think most people would agree that a lack of inhibition hurries one toward the bedroom, and alcohol, naturally, is something that would But it doesn't enhance the performance.
Shakespeare makes that very point through the porter in Macbeth.
Does he? I don't care.
- It increases the desire, but it mars the performance.
- Yes.
The fact is, there is no proof that, as Tony rightly said, that, except possibly the alcohol as a disinhibitor.
Well, there you are.
Almost everything in the history of food has been reputed to be an aphrodisiac, even potatoes.
Who did Napoleon's ex go out with next? Are we talking about Josephine? Well, yes we are, but not the Empress Josephine.
Oddly enough, he seemed to have a predilection for Josephines.
Well, he had two mistresses, one was called Josephina and one was called Josephine, neither of whom was the Empress Josephine.
There they are.
There was Josephina Grassini, who was a beautiful dancer, opera singer, opera dancer they used to be called.
And Josephine Weimer, an actress.
So they were both very beautiful.
She looks like she's doing the Single Ladies dance.
Like she's, "Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh.
" She's showing how tall Napoleon is, that's what she's doing.
"I want one this high.
" But these, as I say, were different Josephines, they were later ones.
Just before the Battle of Waterloo, who was the British Ambassador in Paris? - British Ambassador - I'll leave this one to you, Alan.
- Before Napoleon escaped.
- Hang on.
There was Schniesberkin, Wilson It's kind of easier than you think.
He was the victor of Peninsular and he'd beaten Napoleon before and he was about to beat him again.
- It's not Wellington, is it? - It's the Duke of Wellington himself.
And there's Old Hooky on the right, and there's Napoleon on the left.
And, yeah, Wellington really knew how to rub it in when he beat someone, as it were.
- That sounds terrible.
- Oh, did he go out with? Yeah, he went out with both of these mistresses.
He seduced both during his stay in Paris as Ambassador in 1814 and 1815, just before Waterloo, before the escape of Napoleon, while Napoleon was in Elba, having abdicated, if you remember.
"Able was I ere I saw Elba.
" - What's odd about that phrase? - It's a palindrome, isn't it? - Yeah, that's right, exactly.
- Yes.
- It's a palindrome.
It's actually a palindrome, guys, so And Weimer was the only one who compared the two in bed, which is extremely unkind of her.
She said "Monsieur le Duc etait de beaucoup plus fort," is a lot stronger in bed.
Fort is fiercer, stronger, mightier.
Yeah, better, basically.
Was there a Mrs Wellington back home who was a bit fed up about this? The Duchess, yeah.
Yeah, she must have been, you know, unimpressed, I'd say.
Well, he famously did have a lot of affairs.
There were so many potatoes around in those days.
- There's no doubt that they were up to it.
- That's right.
And after the wars ended, he was presented with Napoleon's sword, three paintings of him and the painting of his sister, Pauline Borghese, there she is, that's Napoleon's sister, there with a nipple showing.
She's got something keeping her chin on as well.
Yes, she has.
It's keeping her mouth from falling open.
Exactly.
I think it's a mask.
It's clearly some sort of a face mask, like it's got a bit of elastic round the back.
Well, Napoleon had commissioned a statue of himself, eleven foot tall, basically twice the height of himself.
And this wasthis was bought by the British Government and given to Wellington, along with the house they gave him.
Do you remember what it's called? - Oh, number one, London.
- Number one, London, Apsley House.
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, good house.
- And it really works.
If you get into a cab and say number one London, the cabbie will go, "I've always wanted someone to say that.
" And they will take you there.
Is that supposed to be the sculpture of Napoleon? That is it.
I know, it's somewhat idealised, to say the least.
- Oh, God.
- In the stairwell of Apsley House, as it's also called.
- Where is number one, London, then? - It's at Hyde Park Corner.
It's easier to spot in real life, because there isn't a bloody great big picture in front of it.
- That's true.
- And is the Duke of Wellington beef Wellington man? - Yes, it is named after him.
- Interesting.
- And the boots.
And the boots as well.
A lot of military figures had clothing named after them, particularly in the Crimean War.
There was Lord Cardigan, who was in charge of the Light Brigade.
- Balaclava! - The Balaclava helmet, absolutely.
And - The jodhpur.
- Jodhpur is a place, I think.
But Raglan was also - Dr Martin.
- Raglan - The raglan sleeve.
- Lord Bobble Hat.
Colonel Stiletto.
Earl of Sandwich.
Have we done him? - Colonel Scarf.
- Old Jock Strap.
- The Earl of Head and Shoulders.
- Lieutenant Washing Machine.
Well, there were a lot, a few.
So, good.
The Duke of Wellington's conquests included Napoleon and no fewer than two of his exes.
Who would bite their arm off to get their leg over? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Yes, Josh? You! - KLAXON BLARES - Oh, dear.
- This must be from the animal kingdom.
- It is from the animal kingdom.
And what type of animals usually have to suffer in order to give their seed, as it were? - Spiders are usually - Spiders is the right answer.
- Oh! Look at that.
There's a particular kind of spider.
There's the female on the left and there's the male on the right.
That's a neat packet there, isn't it? - He's going to have a Napoleon complex, isn't he? - He really is.
Have you seen that picture of Bernie Ecclestone and his ex-wife? It's a bit like that? He's said to his mates His mates have said, "No, don't bother, she's too big for you.
" He's going, "No, I can get her, you watch, you watch.
"She's no problem at all, mate.
" He actuallyhe won't let her wear heels on a night out, will he? She is a hundred times bigger.
- And if we see him close up, you might notice - He's Tom Cruise.
It's quite hard to see, but the front two, the left one is curled inwards a bit, but the right one is straight up, are actually penis legs.
Oh, no.
What? He has eight legs like any spider, but the front two are penises and are charged with his seed.
I've got a couple of them down under here.
The old penis leg there.
They're called pedipalps.
And the thing he does, in order to get a better chance of shagging that enormous female, is he actually spins some silk and ties it round one of his penis legs and pulls, so that it basically pulls it off.
So he actually tears it off.
If he pulls it off, there's no point in having sex with her.
- No, there's one left.
- Oh.
And it gives him a speed advantage.
So he's much much quicker.
So he can scuttle after her.
It all seems a most complicated life cycle.
The oddest procedure, but it's honestly true, it's the male tent cobweb spider.
So the males that do this are 44 per cent faster than ones who've kept both their penis legs.
But even then, when they get the female, which is their reward, the female then will suck them dry and discard them.
- Yeah.
Which - Oh, isn't that just the way with women? Yes, I know, poor you.
You deserve it, you're all bastards.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
- Is the human equivalent of this - Katie Price.
- No.
Researchers tested the tent cobweb spider, rather meanly, by chasing them, some intact, some not, round a little running track, to see how long they lasted, and the spiders with intact sex organs lasted 16 minutes on average, but the spiders that had snapped one off, or snipped one off, lasted up to 28 minutes, so it is a big advantage.
Once you've mated, of course, you have to bring up the children.
To that end, what are the advantages of having a goat as a nanny? LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Tony? - I think it's because they've got hooves.
And if you had a nanny that had hooves, they couldn't sneak up on you.
Well, that's true.
The fact is nanny goats are called nanny goats for a dashed good reason.
In the days of foundlings, who were left on church doors, if you left a baby on a church steps, it was a foundling and it was therefore thrown on mercy of the parish.
And it had to be fed, and of course there was no such thing as SMA or Cow and Gate, or anything like that.
The only way they could get milk was from a breast.
So you had wet nurses.
But you also had goats.
- So goats were amazing.
- They'd feed on the goats? They'd feed on the goat milk.
Very good stuff, straight from the teat.
Straight from the teat.
It's better than Until 1870 pasteurisation was invented, by Pasteur, obviously, it was the healthiest way you could have it, straight from the teat.
- Was the goat OK with? - Not only OK, let me I've seen Josh's little eyes light up, like, "straight from the teat".
- Yeah.
- "The goat was OK?" - And you say goats are OK with this? Not only OK, you may have seen cows that are desperate to be milked, and they queue up for the dairy in order to be milked.
Well, goats are the same, if they're ready to give suck.
- So we have here a description - For what?! Whoa.
You know, the phrase, Shakespearean again, Lady Macbeth.
French doctor Alphonse Leroy described it, in a foundling hospital in France, "Each goat which comes to feed enters bleating "and goes to hunt the infant which has been assigned to it.
" So there's a particular child that it's been assigned to.
"Pushes back the covering of the bed, with its horns," like that - Sounds familiar.
- "And straddles the crib to give suck to the infant.
" It sounds like an accident waiting to happen, really.
Goat soup on the Can you imagine trying to get insurance for that in the NHS.
So, we just had this goat straddle a baby and then the baby just sort of knows to suck off the goat.
- You can imagine the Daily Mail all over that, can't you? - Well, maybe.
- Maybe.
- Goat Straddles Baby! Why do they have Why goats? Why not? Well, it's a very good question.
A cow is just a bit too big I think to go into a little to go over a crib.
You don't want a pat on the head.
- Hey! - Hey, hey-hey! Hey.
Been waiting for that.
You asked about goats, and some people thought into the 19th century that breast milk contained not only nutrition but the character traits of whoever gave it.
So if the mother was a loose woman and had given the baby out of wedlock, she wasn't to be trusted to give milk to her baby because she would be passing on her immorality to the child.
This is how mad we once were.
- How do they know what the goat's been up to? - Well - They thought they were a better risk.
- It has to be a married goat.
It might have been an unmarried goat, you're absolutely right.
Dirty goat.
In 1816, there was a writer who compared different milks and wrote the definitive book called The Goat is the Best and Most Agreeable Wet Nurse.
Others preferred donkeys, which are thought to have a better moral reputation.
They are very noble, they carried our Lord.
That's it, in Palm Sunday.
Well remembered, exactly.
Yeah, and also Mary.
Then there was the syphilis outbreak in the 16th and 18th centuries.
What's he up to? - Milking a goat?! - Oh, OK, fair enough.
"This better be for the baby!" I think that's a different bloke that usually does it, according to that goat's face.
- "Hang on a minute, that's not the grip I'm used to.
" - Oops.
Hello.
"That's a bit firm!" Do you know what I've found mad about I don't have kids, so maybe women in the audience will know, but that, when you're breast-feeding your child, if you are, say, in a supermarket or something like that and someone else's baby cries, you leak, like a spider sense.
- Yes.
- Is it not true, any women have had? - Yeah, it's a - Yeah, it is.
There's a bloke there going, "Yep.
" "There is, mate.
" "I always leak when I hear a baby crying.
" I don't even know why that's funny.
Is that true, though? It is, isn't it? But if you have, you've presumably expressed into a pot and given it to the baby-sitter, because that's what happens isn't it? Why would the baby-sitter want some? - There was, there was - Thanks a million! - There was an ice cream shop - Shot glasses.
Dinner would have been fine.
Help yourself to anything in the fridge.
There was, for a very brief time, an ice cream shop, wasn't there, - here in London, which sold baby - Yeah, breast milk ice cream.
- Human breast milk ice cream.
- You say a very brief time, - because it's the worst business plan of all time.
- I guess you're right.
You try it once I think, like incest or country dancing.
I wish that were my own.
You've not been to Devon, Stephen.
I come from Norfolk, for God's sake.
No, the sad thing about the syphilis outbreaks of the 16th and 18th century, is that it was believed then, and all the way up to the 19th century that one of the cures for syphilis, a kill or cure really, was mercury.
Which is poisonous, as I'm sure you know.
And they decided a good delivery system for babies that were born syphilitic was to make them suckle on the milk of goats that had been fed mercury.
A lot of goats died that way, it was very unkind.
- Did the babies die? - Probably.
It probably didn't help them.
I mean, it's not good for the brain at all, a growing brain.
- It's good for thermometers.
- It's very good for thermometers, I agree.
These days thermometers have little ear click things and everything.
- They've moved on.
- Yes, they have.
Yeah.
Just goes in the ear, ping, like that, it's so amazing.
- Or you can stick a thing under the armpit.
- Or But more difficult.
Mmm.
More fun.
- Under the tongue.
- Oh, under the tongue, under the tongue.
What were you thinking?! Nothing, nothing.
More difficult though for you to fake your temperature to get off school, though.
- You used to stir coffee with it and things like that.
- Did you? - Yeah.
You were having coffee as a schoolboy?! This was at university.
"Mother, I'm not ready for primary school, "I'll just have this latte and stay here.
" Oh, lawks.
Anyway, now to bundles of love.
Why did the Puritans want lusty young men to get into the sack? That picture tells a story.
What's - LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yes? I think that theyit was It's to do with them not having sex, early on.
Yes, you're right.
Because they were Puritans and they thought sex was evil or you shouldn't do it, until you were married, anything like that.
- Completely correct.
- So they had a thing called bundling.
- You're absolutely right.
- Where they put them into sacks - That's right.
- Or something, was it? - That's right.
So, there was getting the young man into the sack in that literal sense.
You put the man in a sack and he could sleep next to his intended, or he could have a board between them, like that.
I mean, what kind of man can't get over that? You've got the old hand-held drill under the covers.
He's actually looking at that and saying, "This is more over my side.
" Yeah.
- And does the duvet go under the? - It does.
You basically fit this wooden thing on once you've made the bed.
Are you sure they haven't misread the instructions to an IKEA bed? The IKEA bundling kit, yeah.
"Your corner of the bed.
" Why were they sleeping together before marriage? Well, I think that they did want them to get used to each other conversationally.
- That's right.
- Genuinely, that was it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I believe that's the idea.
That was bundling, an American and Dutch tradition, which Americans took to, particularly in Pennsylvania where a lot of Dutch people went.
Now, what horror was first shown in the film Psycho? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS Joshlington? Was it someone in the shower? - KLAXON BLARES - Oh! No, I mean, she's in the shower, but you The film shoot took 30 days to film, which is very short by any Hollywood standards, and seven of those days were devoted to the shower scene.
- Janet Leigh - He actually got it in the first day, but he was - He was.
- "Better get Janet back to the shower.
" - LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yeah.
Yes, you're right! - There was a toilet in the shower scene.
- Yes.
- Is that it? - Yeah.
TOILET FLUSHES It's not just that there is one, it's the first time one had been seen flushed with the water going round.
It spirals down the lavatory.
The film is black and white, there's the murderer, we won't say who, they or he or she is.
And it's considered a masterpiece now, but particularly the Bernard Herrmann score which "Ee-ee-ee-ee" Anyway, Psycho was the first film to feature a flushing lavatory.
Now, it's time to clear the blockage of received wisdom with the plunger of General Ignorance.
So fingers on buzzers, please.
What should a Welshman wear in his hat on St David's Day? LET THERE BE LOVE PLAYS - Yes? - A daffodil.
- KLAXON BLARES - Hmm.
Well, if it's not, it's got to be a leek, right? It's got to be a leek.
KLAXON BLARES What about cheese on toast? Is it going to be cheese on toast? - Is it a dragon? - A Welsh rabbit.
We've been rather unfair there, of course, because Welsh people do wear leeks on their heads, but we're going way back to the original battle they fought where supposedly they wore leeks to distinguish themselves.
You can see, if that's the Royal Welsh Regiment or whoever, with, what look more like actually I've never seen the Queen so happy.
Why is she so happy? - She really does look thrilled.
- What's that bloke said to her about his hat? She loves that.
There's something about it.
"They've all got leeks on their hats! HE MIMICS THE QUEEN'S LAUGH - She's probably saying - "They're all Welsh, ha-ha!" She's probably saying, "They don't know "that they're actually spring onions!" They look a lot more like spring onions.
Well, there's a whole issue about whether or not they were leeks, and Alan Davidson - close name - author of the Oxford Dictionary of Food Never liked him.
He claims that leeks as we know them didn't arrive in Britain for much longer after the Battle of Heathfield, where the Welsh, who beat the Saxons there, believed that they first wore leeks to identify themselves.
In Anglo-Saxon, the suffix 'leac' meant any member of the onion family.
So 'enneleac' was an onion and 'garleac' was garlic.
So they might have sported something like garlic, which is slightly more light and practical than certainly a fully grown leek.
The Museum of Wales thinks that actual leeks may have been brought over by the Romans.
So there's dispute, really, to be honest, we just wanted to take points away from you.
Anyway, It's possible that the national emblem of Wales should really be a garlic.
There's a layer of the atmosphere which protects us from ultraviolet radiation.
What's it made of? Hint, it has a hole in it.
- LOVE AND MARRIAGE PLAYS - Yes? Ozone.
KLAXON BLARES No! What are the odds? What are the odds? Because it is called the ozone layer, but it is neither a layer nor made primarily of ozone.
Which is very mean of scientists to do that to us.
We wouldn't even know it existed.
It's named after the Irish family, the Zones, or the O'Zones.
- The O'Zones.
- Yeah.
The O'Zones have moved in next door.
It's only 15 parts per million, ozone.
Do you know what the chemical formula for ozone is? Yeah, but I'm not going to tell you.
- It's O3.
- Oh.
Yes, it's a pale blue form of oxygen, with a very pungent smell.
At nought degrees Celsius and normal atmospheric pressure, all the ozone in the sky would cover the earth to a depth of just three millimetres.
Under the same conditions, the rest of the air would make a layer five miles thick.
That's how rare it is.
And finally, here's one for surf lovers.
Where can you find the biggest waves in the world? LOVE IS ALL AROUND PLAYS - Widdicombe.
- Uh, Hawaii.
- KLAXON BLARES - Oh! Dear.
Oh, dear.
- Newquay.
- Sorry, where? - KLAXON BLARES - Oh! Oh, Newquay.
Oh, dear.
The Indian Ocean? No.
Well, possibly, yeah.
- Malibu.
- Malibu, well I was just on a hat-trick, I thought I'd go for it.
There is good surfing to be had there on the Californian coast.
But let's forget coasts, let's forget Australian coasts and any other coast.
Is it going to be a different type of wave? It is No, it's a water, seawater wave, but it's underwater.
- The biggest waves are actually sub-surface waves.
- Oh.
Uh, he's so disappointed.
It was satellites that showed us.
We didn't know until satellite photography.
And there are lots of drowned surfers on them.
Well, they'd be very hard to surf, because they really go incredibly slow, they crawl along, a few centimetres a second, so, a few metres an hour I think.
And a tsunami, on the other hand, which is obviously a gigantic wave, is Japanese for harbour wave.
Because we say tidal wave, but tidal wave isn't correct, because it isn't tidal.
Tsunamis result from earthquakes, landslides and volcanos, as we probably know.
In the open ocean the waves are about only 300 millimetres high, but with a very long wave length, sometimes hundreds of kilometres apart.
As they approach land, the sea gets shallower, and that's what pushes them up.
Oh.
How fast is a tsunami? Because he is not going to He's not going to make it, I'm afraid.
No, he's not.
Especially with three sharks on their way.
And what with him not having any feet is another problem.
That's really going to slow him down.
Dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
Well, before it gets any sicker, the world's biggest waves are underwater.
And so, finally, to the scores, which if you're lucky will be love-all.
Well, they aren't.
They're fascinating, though.
He did run into the wall several times, the tousled towheaded dear from Devon, minus 36 points in fourth place is Josh Widdicombe.
How relieved is our third placer, on minus seven, Alan Davies.
Thank you very much.
Minus seven.
Pretty good.
Aisling just ahead on minus six.
Whoo-hoo! On plus seven, it's Tony Hawks.
- Bravo.
- Thank you very much.
So, it's goodnight from Aisling, Tony, Josh, Alan and me.
And I leave you with the last words of English essayist Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "It's all been very interesting.
" Goodnight.