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who is this historical figure

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oh no who's that is that einstein no

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who's i don't i don't if it's modern we

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might not know no

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uh i can't tell from there

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oh i've got no idea

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some scruff bag

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hello welcome to easy english so

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wikipedia has a list of the 100 greatest

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britons of all time which you're seeing

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here and it made me think how many of

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these great britain's do typical brits

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know

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i'm brighton beach to find out here we

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go

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who is this britain winston churchill

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winston churchill

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can you tell me who is this britain oh i

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think it's winston churchill

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okay and uh what what did you know what

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do you know about him any fact he was

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the prime minister when i was young yeah

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so yes i've remembered him from years

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and years that's good

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do you know any fun facts about winston

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churchill fun facts he like he's like me

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you're bricklayer

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oh really yeah really what built all

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these garb malls around his property

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apparently yeah that's a fun fact apart

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from being the prime minister

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all right come on let's we're going to

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go a bit a bit more modern

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a nice big one for you oh well there you

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are david beckham isn't it

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david david beckham

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oh that looks like david beckham a long

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time ago

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david beckham very good okay are you a

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fan of his work

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do i admire david beckham's work well he

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was a he was a good footballer yeah i'm

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not really a football fan but i mean i

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recognize him obviously

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we do like football but we do like

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football but not man united

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he owns a football franchise in miami

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nice

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yeah that'll do

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[Laughter]

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his wife is a successful

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fashion designer having been a

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pop singer in the first place so yeah

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one of the glamorous couples of our time

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shakespeare shakespeare yeah

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okay william shakespeare with the best

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playwright ever ever to have lived any

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facts you know about women shakespeare

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meet upon the heath

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fun facts

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did one of his plays at school did you

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like it which is quite a comedy yeah a

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lot of further education is built around

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a lot of his works

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and studies and um so many contemporary

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things have been based on his works

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is this a dagger i saw in front of me

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yeah yeah that's the one who's that lady

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diana

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princess diana perfect

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yeah lady day of course she

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who's she

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she was just increased people she was

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the first wife of prince charles

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okay obviously the mother of um

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william and harry

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yeah uh married to prince charles yeah

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came to a a sticky end unfortunately

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died much too early uh maybe didn't

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necessarily fit into the royal family

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but probably the first of the royals to

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sort of break ranks as it were and right

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become more popular make the monarchy

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more popular i think she had a miserable

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life

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while she was with charles and the royal

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family yeah and i think she

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yeah had a lot of depressions and

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frustrations and i think

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she was unhappy with the

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this whole royal

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as well summarized yeah yeah

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okay next one

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okay so david attenborough yeah

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oh yes david attenborough yeah

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well he's oh he tells us everything

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about nature and everything he's

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wonderful man yes you like him oh yes

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more recently about climate change and

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saving the planet um you know probably

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the most recognized voice i would say on

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tv yeah a fantastic voice that he's got

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and very soothing and loved by everybody

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who is this historical figure

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queen is about the first very good

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fantastic and do you what do you know

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about her any little facts or

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she was daughter of

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henry viii

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she was queen in the 16th century

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um by the time william shakespeare was

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around

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but he obviously went into james as well

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um

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favorite people for her were people like

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raleigh who is a privateer or pirate or

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great sailor depending on your point of

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view

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um

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yeah she was unmarried no children which

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is why we then had a scottish king

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afterwards

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but all related because

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james was

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son of mary queen of scots

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or something like that

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oh i've got no idea

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[Laughter]

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some scruff bag

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i've got no idea who he is i'm not into

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pop songs i'd probably like it if he was

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referred to as a scruff bag who is he

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let's have a look oh johnny what's his

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face

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johnny rotten well done it's not johnny

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rotten or somebody yeah hang on

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you can tell he reads the newspaper

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and tell us what you know about um

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johnny rotten

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punk

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yes

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that's about it really

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john lydon or johnny rotten

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do you like the sex pistols i've heard

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of them but i've never heard of him sex

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pistols are punk

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loud

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obnoxious

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selling selling butter

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[Laughter]

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no i don't know who that is let's have a

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look

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that's isn't go up isn't bad kingdom

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brunel

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oh that's easenbar kingdom bruno wow

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you're the first one to get that so far

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from what i've asked all right

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i mean once i said his name then they

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knew but yeah he generally knew what he

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looked like it's one of the most famous

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pictures of him yeah right that's all i

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could find

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maybe you know if i said the name embard

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kingdom brunel oh brunel oh yeah the

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chap who did all the lovely bridges and

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railways and things ah so you know who

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he is then that's good it's bristol or a

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bristol area yeah

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perfect eisenberg kingdom brunel was

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definitely one of the greatest

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engineers of the victorian era

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the great

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engineer of the great western railway

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but

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he championed broad gauge

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to start with which went to

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normal gauge which was what four foot

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eight and a half or something and

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he also pioneered a

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vacuum railway on the south coast he

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also built

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things like clifton suspension bridge

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uh and also ships great western great

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eastern um and one of those great

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western greece wait great western i

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think ended up no no ss great britain

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sorry right ended up on the faultland

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islands and is now back in bristol

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having been fully restored yes so you

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can visit it

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jordan

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ah john lennon perfect

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okay john lennon remember the beatles

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yeah wrote some fantastic songs imagine

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probably the best one he's ever written

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uh yeah i think the beatles were very

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good in

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earlier times i thought they went a bit

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off in the late 60s but yes they were

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pretty good band yeah from liverpool of

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course jafan

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kind of yeah yeah

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we're music fans so basically when he

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was in the beatles yeah not really after

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that well not me personally none of his

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later stuff

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no

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yeah i wasn't a fan of the beatles no

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never really liked the beatles no not at

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all i didn't particularly like their

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music but um obviously he was um

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you know

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one of a kind

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yeah started off in the cavern club and

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places like that in the north northwest

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of england

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and yeah very popular very successful

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across the world with lots of little

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screaming girls following them and

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meeting them at airports and things like

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that yes unfortunately he did get shot

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in new york and killed um

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which was a great shame

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yeah

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yeah well done

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who is this

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i would guess that's george bernard shaw

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it's actually it's wrong but i can see

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where you think where you going oh

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charles darwin wow

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very good might be darwin

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no i don't know you're correct second

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guest how's darwin

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and uh what do you know about darwin

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yeah

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his most

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popular theory about uh species

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and survival of the fittest

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uh evolution basically yeah yeah

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he invented it

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uh well i don't know if he invented it

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he's part of it himself because it's his

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theory wasn't it yeah beagle

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oh yeah hms people oh yeah

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is that his tell me more i think he i'm

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fairly sure he sailed on hms beagle with

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banks and all that long yeah he could

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have done yes that's that's possibly

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true

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he might not be making that up one for

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wikipedia as i was

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is that that's not um

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is that nelson isn't it racial nelson

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yeah

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no that's yeah nelson so um

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yeah trafalgar came to a sticky end

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oh

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roland wow

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and other than other than the obvious do

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you any of the facts about her

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she writes as

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i don't know she does have pseudonyms

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jk rowling but i can't remember it's a

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detective

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series which have been

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done on the tv

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below how

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many of the brits you knew and we'll see

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you next week bye

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are you a fan of harry potter at all uh

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i read them all when they first came out

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i can't remember a thing now

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i don't think i've read anything

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that's not good

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thank you very much that's everything i

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really need

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you're really great thank you very much