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I'm Timothy Spall,
and this is my wife, Shane.

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Ready? Right, hold on,
let's get her started.

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OK, well, it's wedged.

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Six years ago we left London
to go clockwise around Britain.

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Just kick her out,
just kick her out.

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So far, we've travelled 1,700 miles.

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That's just over a mile a day.

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Right, just let go of it.
Hold that rope.

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We're trying to get out of here,
not go back in.

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I know, well, I'm going
to be garrotted.

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Somehow, we've made it all
the way back to England

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and the Northumberland port
of Amble.

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Right, let's go, then.

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Let's go then? Let's go.

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When we set off on this
maritime adventure,

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we didn't know what we'd find.

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We discovered a hidden
Welsh village...

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..an English island
with its own king.

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No, it does rather become you,
actually.

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Fetching, isn't it?

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And the tip of Scotland,
a biblical storm.

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My God.

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With 500 miles of the
English east coast to navigate,

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we're on the home straight.

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There are still some big
challenges ahead.

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But by the end of this summer,
will be back in London.

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With a bit of luck.

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Look at it, beautiful.
Come on, tell me the history, then.

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We're now in the Northumberland
village of Warkworth.

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It's about a mile up river from
when Matilda is moored in Amble

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and 40 miles from
the Scottish border.

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The church spire has a spiral
staircase

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with 33 steps to
the clock room.

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Well, give us a shout
when you're at the top.

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And tell me what they're like.

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And its clock is wound
by hand each week.

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Wound by hand?

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Yeah.

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This is St Lawrence Church.

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It was built by the Normans at
the beginning of the 12th century.

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St Lawrence was a martyr

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and he was put on to a grid iron
and roasted alive.

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Apparently.

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The good old days(!)

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This is not the first
church on this site.

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The original dates back more
than 1,200 years to 737 AD.

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There's something going
on here, look.

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Bloody hell. Oh, God.

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Ancient tombs.

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God, I mean, they are literally...

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They were literally just
placed in there, like.

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Sarcophaguses.

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And you see the hole there?

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That was just a drain out the body
fluids. Yeah, I know.

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I think these are called
sarcophaguses, aren't they? I don't
know what they're called.

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The stone coffins,
I think they're called sarcophagus.

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This one was thin.
I mean, thin legs.

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I think they're definitely
called sarcophaguses.

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Let's go and have a look round,
I want to see the buttresses.

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The buttresses? Yeah.

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Excuse me.

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You're walking on people's graves
here, it's not right.

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I'm saying, "excuse me".
They don't mind.

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Sorry, sorry, excuse me.

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So this was the old
front door, then.

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Yeah, listen to the
wind in the trees.

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That's the...

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It's right on the river, there.
No, I know.

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Come and stand here.

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It's the Spalls.

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Warkworth also has
a medieval castle.

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It's considered a Northumberland
jewel in the crown.

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That's nice, look.
That broken bit there.

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Oh, quite like it now I'm here.

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I'm going to go sit on the bench.

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I can't be bothered to go there,
can you?

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At this point of the journey

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it means a lot to be back in
England, home is not far now.

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We're like two thirds of the way
round, I think this could,

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this, as we crossed the border,
Berwick-upon-Tweed,

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it felt like we were two
thirds of the way round.

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Given the fact that the west of
Britain is jagged and in and out,

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the east of Britain is far
more of a straight line.

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Pretty much going southeast,
south southeast all the way.

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Anyway, come on,
let's go back to the boat.

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Lovely place.

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Yes, it's nice.

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Our next destination
is Newcastle upon Tyne.

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But before we set off,
I need to fix the dinghy...

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I've ascertained a perforation.

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Now we've ascertained a perforation,

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you possibly can proceed
with a medical procedure.

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..which I somehow managed to melt
on our boat's
central heating outlet.

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I haven't mended
a puncture in 20 years.

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I'm useless at anything like this.

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Any repairs, save a fiver,
cause five grand's worth of damage.

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Well, it's just a matter of playing
the waiting game now.

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Shane has heard about a small boat

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that's due to arrive
in Amble at any moment.

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The skipper, Oliver Rofix is
circumnavigating the British Isles

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in the opposite direction to us,
anticlockwise.

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Hi, there. At last!

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Oliver was inspired to take to
the sea, like me...

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Tiny boat, isn't it?

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..after surviving leukaemia.

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So, I believe we're fellow
survivors?

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Yes, 15 years, is it for you?

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15 years, yes, just on the eighth.
Last Sunday.

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Two days ago, yeah.

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May the eighth.

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I left on the 28th, which is the
day after my five-year all clear.

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Oh, was it?
On 28th March.

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Brilliant, brilliant.

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Where did you, where were
you treated?

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I started in Ipswich...

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Ollie's mission is to recruit 40
potentially life-saving donors.

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He was given a bone marrow
transplant from a donor,

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which is the reason he's here
with us today.

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And then they decided
I was this special job,

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and they said is there any
chance of a transplant?

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Right.

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We went for it, and there was
two donors in the world,

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one in America and one in the UK.

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And it just worked.

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Which one did you take?

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The UK one.

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I don't want to do it again,
that's for sure.

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So you went through hell, did you?

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Sort of, yes.
The transplant wasn't...

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It was the treatment that
messed me about.

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Oliver's adventure is in a boat
that's less than a sixth
the size of Matilda.

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Flipping hell, that's really tiny,
isn't it?

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Tell you what, mate,
what a beautiful refit.

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Jump on.

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Well, we can't all get on, can we?
Yeah, we can, darling, get on.

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Very bijou.

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You can go down.

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Will I be able to get out?

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Do you know what,
you got my admiration,

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you've got my complete
and utter admiration.

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I don't say that to many people.

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It's good fun, it is good fun.

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Oh, don't grab the...

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Ollie, I want you to give that back
to us when you get back to London.

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OK.

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I'll try not to break it.
Well, if you do, never mind.

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You can give it back to us in
pieces, just give us the handle
back.

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Oh, thanks for that,
that's kind of you.

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Northumberland has been delightful.

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But it's time to move on.

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We bid farewell to Ollie,
as he heads north to Scotland,

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and we had 40 nautical miles south,
to Newcastle.

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After the huge success of
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in the '80s,

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I became an adopted
son of Newcastle

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even though I played a Brummie.

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On our way up the River Tyne,

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we pick up fellow Auf Wierdersehen,
Pet actress Melanie Hill.

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She played Barry's first wife,
the lovely Hazel.

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Although, unfortunately,
she did leave him for a woman.

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Well, it's
quite choppy for the river.

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Raining and all.

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What's the worst you've been in?

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Yeah, that was when the coming
around Rattray Head.

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We were coming along like this, we
turned the corner of Scotland,

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sky went black,

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it started to hail like
someone firing frozen peas at us
out of a bazooka.

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The sea went from like this
to about 10 foot waves, honestly,

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I've never been more scared.

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You know all those bridges,
you know in Newcastle there's
like six bridges.

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Yeah, they're right up there.
Do we go under them? No, they're...

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We'll go in the dinghy under them.

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They'll go,
you might be to see them,

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but it's about a mile down river.

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Now, we think our barge is big,
look at the size of that.

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Newcastle is situated
eight miles inland

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on the north bank
of the River Tyne.

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It was originally a Roman settlement
called Pons Aelius.

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When the Anglo-Saxons took over
they called it Monkchester.

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And eventually, in 1080,

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after a new castle was built,
it became Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Across the river, the town
of Gateshead has also changed

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but more recently.

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There's the Baltic.

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I remember about eight years ago,
maybe ten,

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I don't know what I was doing
up here,

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none of that was here,
none of that,

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none of that was there at all.

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That church was, obviously.

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I remember a bloke saying to me,
he was in the council,

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or the, uh...development society,

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he said... The Baltic was
just an empty old warehouse,

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and he said, "Oh, we've got great
plans to turn that into
an arts centre,

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"and it's good to be a great
big deal, and it's all going to..."

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And I thought, oh, good luck, mate.
And now look at it!

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The Baltic was a flour mill.

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And now was one of Britain's leading
visual arts centres.

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Why do people look at you and laugh?

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Because they find me amusing, like.

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This transformation dates back to
the new millennium.

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But Newcastle has always been
a stage for the performing arts.

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Yeah, look, they're doing it up,
brand spanking old.

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Shane, this is where... The first
time ever came to Newcastle.

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1980?

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Uh, 1980, before I met you, before
I met the future Mrs Spall,

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I was in the Royal Shakespeare
Company,

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I was just 22 years old,

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and we'd been at Stratford doing
Shakespeare and Chekhov, Brecht,

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to, ostensibly, an audience of
40 percent Japanese schoolboys

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in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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So can we brought a show here,

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we brought all the big shows here,
Shakespeare shows here,

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to the Theatre Royal.

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Then I've been back
and forth quite a lot.

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But the second time, I came up here
to do a training film,

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with a lovely actress called
Jan Francis, I think it was my 30...

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..35th birthday, was it? 36th?

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35.

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And we were outside the...
We were outside the Theatre Royal,

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I was standing there talking
about the fact that I'd been here,

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and these two old women came up
and one of them grabbed me.

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"Eeeh, look, look, Rita, it's um...

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"oh, it's, uh...

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"Oh, it's Jeremy Biggins!"

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And I thought,
"What a birthday present!"

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This old woman thinks,
somehow she's morphed me

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into half Christopher Biggins,
half Jeremy Beadle.

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Happy birthday.

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"Happy birthday, lamb."

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That's nice.

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Yeah, if you're 24.

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Look that. I'm looking at the menu.

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Yeah, but look at that.
Wonderful. Yeah.

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Where do you want to go now, then?

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I think we want to hide
because I just saw,

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I just saw a 50-year-old man in a
pink romper suit,

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and 17 women in pink Stetsons.

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So, I think we might want to find
a quiet corner somewhere.

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It's only half past four.

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Our next destination is Hartlepool.

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But I can't leave Newcastle without
taking a little detour.

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I mean, we have to do it, just
simply because we've got go under
the Tyne Bridge, haven't we?

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You know, being to a certain degree,

243
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an adopted son of Newcastle
by association with

244
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, which was
a massive, massive hit here.

245
00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,920
Funnily enough, Barry,

246
00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,480
in a lot of places was conceived
as a bit of a prannet,

247
00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,000
a bit of a radish.

248
00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,920
But the Geordies really liked him.

249
00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,880
They thought he... They didn't
call me a wally up here,

250
00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,840
I don't know, they thought
I was a sensitive character.

251
00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,920
I suppose, they've got
a peculiar accent themselves,

252
00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,280
a Brummie accent doesn't
sound that weird to them.

253
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,280
Or Black Country, should I say?

254
00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:23,040
The Tyne Bridge was opened
on the 10th of October, 1928,

255
00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:28,320
and the first two people to drive
over it were King George V
and Queen Mary.

256
00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,440
And today, there's a princess
passing underneath.

257
00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,000
I think I might turn here.

258
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,440
Now we've done our detour,
it's eight miles up the Tyne,

259
00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,720
back to the North Sea.

260
00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,520
The Tyne was once one of the world's
largest shipbuilding

261
00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,800
and ship repairing centres.

262
00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,920
But a lot of the industry has gone.

263
00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,400
Some of it is actually going
right in front of us.

264
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,240
Oh, we can't all be the Baltic
Flour Mill, can we?

265
00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,560
It's all right for that, that's been
turned into a poncey arts centre.

266
00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,360
They're tearing me down.

267
00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,520
What's so good about the Baltic?

268
00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,000
It's a shame to lose such
a wonderful industrial monument.

269
00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,120
I do hope they replace it with
something nice.

270
00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,000
An ASDA, perhaps.

271
00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,440
Enormous cable layers aren't they,
look at them.

272
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,400
Yeah.

273
00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,640
They must be for the rigs,
they've got massive cables,

274
00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,560
submarine cables.

275
00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,960
Is that what a submarine cable is?

276
00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:50,080
What, did you think it was a cable
that sent soup down
to the submarine?

277
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,880
Yes.

278
00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,560
From the mouth of the River Tyne

279
00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,440
it's 50 nautical miles
to Hartlepool.

280
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,400
The name Hartlepool is
derived from old English, hart,
meaning stag,

281
00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,080
and lepool, meaning by the sea.

282
00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,920
So, stags by the sea.

283
00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,640
I hope my friend the stag has had
a word with the North Sea

284
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and told him to stay calm.

285
00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,520
In time-honoured fashion,

286
00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,760
I'm a bag of nerves.

287
00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,680
10 miles to the first wave point,
second wave point.

288
00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:38,800
What I'm worried about is we're
going to get to Hartlepool

289
00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,280
and there's not going to be
enough water to get in.

290
00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,320
Oh, we will.

291
00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,040
What, do you know why?

292
00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,520
Yes, I heard you talking to the man.

293
00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,440
There will be.
What man? The woman I was talking
to? The woman, then.

294
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,880
I heard you talking to the woman,
there will be enough to get in
tonight.

295
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,880
You don't know that. I do.

296
00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,880
You don't know. You don't know, no.

297
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,720
You don't know.

298
00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,760
From here we can see Middlesbrough,

299
00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,040
even though it's further down
the coast from Hartlepool.

300
00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,680
And you can see why they
call them "smoggies".

301
00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,560
You know, people talk about
Middlesbrough and say,

302
00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:16,720
"oh, it's smoggy,"

303
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:21,160
but there's something really
beautiful about it,

304
00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,400
you know, in a very industrial way.

305
00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,080
I don't know whether it's
beautiful to live there,

306
00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,040
I'm sure people love it.
Of course they do.
I'm sure some people hate it.

307
00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,720
And there's Hartlepool,
top corner of the Victoria docks,
I think it's called.

308
00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,920
We're going to go around there
in a minute

309
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,520
and hopefully not run aground
because we're at low tide.

310
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,720
So we have to be very, very careful.
We're not going to run aground.

311
00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:55,720
Mercifully, there's just
enough water to allow us safely
into the marina.

312
00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,560
But there are no stags to greet us.
Instead, there's a monkey.

313
00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,080
A famous monkey.

314
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,960
It too arrived by sea,
during the Napoleonic Wars.

315
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,440
It was the only survivor
from a French shipwreck.

316
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,360
The townsfolk decided it was a spy
and hanged it.

317
00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:20,840
Poor little blighter.

318
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,600
We are in Hartlepools!

319
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,400
Hartlepool, Hartlepools!

320
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,040
Another one,
another one ticked off.

321
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,960
As the sea is calm,
I'm hoping to be off tomorrow.

322
00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,720
We'll have to do
Hartlepool another time.

323
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,480
It does look a bit fresh out there.

324
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,200
I'm doing that,
pretending I got a telescope.

325
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,600
It does help, actually,
to concentrate your eyes.

326
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,400
It's white horses.

327
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,560
The forecast says it's slight sea.

328
00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,720
It looks all right,
we can always come back.

329
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,360
Yeah, we're going that way
to Whitby,

330
00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:14,560
the entrance to Whitby
can be a bit...uh, rough.

331
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:18,160
I think, I'm going to have to go
back and read up on this.

332
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,720
Yeah, I've got to think about it.

333
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,360
I've read about it
and I've thought about it

334
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,160
and I've decided to go.

335
00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,160
Why do I do it?
Why do I do it?

336
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,680
Perhaps I didn't
think about it hard enough.

337
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,320
This is too much for us, Shane.

338
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,360
I think this is too much for us.

339
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,040
I think we might have
to turn round, love.

340
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,920
We're going backwards now,
we're going the wrong way.

341
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,120
We're fine, we're fine.

342
00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:43,000
I've got... No, we're going back.

343
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,760
Look at it. Look at it.

344
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,840
That's it, I've had enough,
we're going back.

345
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,440
I'm not putting myself
through this again.

346
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,520
What's the point?
It's supposed to be fun, isn't it?

347
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,560
I'm ashamed, but...

348
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,800
It's nothing to
do with being ashamed,

349
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,960
it's to do with being sensible.

350
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,480
For God's sake.

351
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,720
We might be stuck in Hartlepool
for the next three weeks.

352
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,320
Worse places to be.

353
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,080
Yeah.

354
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,840
Whitby will have to wait.

355
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,880
Going back for at least another
night in Hartlepool.

356
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,560
Oh, well, that was horrendous.

357
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,720
So we'll get to see
the town after all.

358
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,600
Bloody hell.

359
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,600
Aren't you going to lock that?

360
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,000
Yeah, I'm just having
a look at the wind.

361
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,360
It's...

362
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,040
No, we wouldn't...

363
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,080
We thought yesterday was bad, it
would be terrible out there today.

364
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,760
The North Sea has got us
trapped here,

365
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,400
so we might as well
take in a few sights.

366
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,280
"Jump back in time."

367
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,080
"It's got the story of Hartlepool
brought to life to you."

368
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,680
Hartlepool's reproduced harbour
portrays what life was like

369
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,160
in the British seaport
in the 18th century.

370
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,200
They're actually very nice,
they're very nice models actually.

371
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,600
Sometimes they're not, are they?
They're beautifully made.

372
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,040
I like it, I like it.

373
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,160
I likes it, it's really nice.

374
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,080
I could play him. Shane, don't I...?
We look alike, don't we?

375
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,040
Perhaps he is based on me.

376
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,200
No, he's got too much chin.

377
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:03,480
This place is also home to the
oldest floating warship in Britain,

378
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,040
HMS Trincomalee.

379
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,320
She was built in Bombay in 1817,

380
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,200
and was the last
of Nelson's frigates.

381
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Beautifully done, isn't it? Yeah.
Beautifully preserved.

382
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:23,080
Can you imagine the smell and the
row in here? The noise.

383
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,920
Sometimes used to blow up,
didn't they, as well?

384
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,960
Which way do you want to go next?

385
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,760
Up the end there.

386
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,720
A frigate is a light,
fast and agile warship.

387
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,120
They were used by the grand
fleets of their day as predators

388
00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:42,920
to seek out and destroy hostile
merchantman, slavers or pirates.

389
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,080
The sight of a frigate bearing
down on you instilled real terror.

390
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,640
Is this for the, um...?

391
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,800
I suppose this is the officers
dining place here.

392
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,760
The mess. Look at all this.

393
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,080
Potatoes.

394
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,000
Imagine being down here
when it's all over the place.

395
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,320
What were those canons firing?

396
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,480
They'd have had that walk,
the sailor's waddle.

397
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,000
I'm done now.

398
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,560
Shane and I can do
a museum in 25 minutes.

399
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,880
We went to Versailles once,

400
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,400
we did that in 18 minutes.

401
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,480
Luckily I went back though,

402
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:34,280
because, I went because
I was supposed to, we had to
film in Versailles, so...

403
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:42,400
Present-day Hartlepool
is the amalgamation of two towns -

404
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,240
West Hartlepool

405
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,720
and old Hartlepool,

406
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,320
that's why it's often called
Hartlepools.

407
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,680
Early in the 20th century,

408
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,160
it was home to over 40
ship-owning companies,

409
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,440
making it a key target
for Germany in the First World War.

410
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,360
"This tablet marks the place
where the first shell

411
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:12,160
"from the leading German battle
cruiser struck at 8:10am

412
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,080
"on 16 December, 1914,

413
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,080
"and also records the place where,
during the bombardment,

414
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:23,240
"the first soldier was killed
on British soil by enemy action
in the Great War."

415
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,920
The bombardment lasted 40 minutes.

416
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,080
More than 1,000 shells rained
down on the town

417
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,400
as the coastal defence
batteries returned fire.

418
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,400
Three German ships were damaged,

419
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,040
but the town lost 117 people.

420
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,160
At last, the wind has calmed,

421
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,120
and as much as we love Hartlepools,
it's time we are on our way.

422
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,400
Our next destination takes us into
the largest county in Britain,
Yorkshire.

423
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,960
We're on our way to Whitby.

424
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,240
The clouds aren't moving so fast,
so I think we're going to be fine,

425
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,480
and the sun's out.

426
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,520
But it was such an anti-climax
last time, you know.

427
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,680
You do all that rope stuff,
and the gates open,

428
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,640
and then we came back
two hours later.

429
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:32,320
C'est la vie, it's better than
coming back with a lifeboat anyway.

430
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,760
It's only 25 nautical
miles to Whitby.

431
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,520
Please, please,
let it stay like this.

432
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,200
There's the man himself,
Captain Cook,

433
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,960
with his dividers in his hands,
look. I've got a pair of them.

434
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,320
# You need hands to... #

435
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:01,920
Just put it in the pan.

436
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,680
Don't do that!

437
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,040
I don't like that noise.

438
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,360
It's fine. No, it's not fine.

439
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:17,880
Another lovely day at sea.

440
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,240
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