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And now on BBC2, it 's time to take
our weekly look into the future,

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as we join Peter, Jack, Pam and
Pealy in London's Shepherd's Bush

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for tonight 's edition of
Look Around You.

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Hello. Coming up
on tonight 's programme...

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we'll be unveiling
a brand-new sport.

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We'll also be hosting
a unique sporting event,

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right here in the studio, whoa!

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And attempting to break
a world record.

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That 's all on tonight 's
sporting edition of Look Around You.

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Take it away, Brian.

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# Look Around You #

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(Commentator)
Oh, would you look at this!

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Charging through the competition
with an incredible burst of energy,

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Ros Lamb, the Southport Sparrow,

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surges through to become
the world 400,000 metres champion!

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There she is, being congratulated by
her husband and trainer, Ron Lamb,

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Oh! She's overcome so much,
this girl, to get here today,

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and now, brave Ros Lamb
is the pride of Roast Britain!

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Wow!

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Who can forget
that incredible victory?

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- So inspirational!
- Fantastic!

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And here she is to tell us about
a remarkable breakthrough

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in running technology - Ros Lamb.

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- Ros, welcome to Look Around You.
- Hello.

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- Pleasure to meet you.
- Hi, Ros, hello.

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- It 's lovely to meet you.
- Hello.

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Now, Ros, first of all,
congratulations once again.

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Thanks.

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You've brought your medal
to show us.

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I have, yeah.

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(Gasps)

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- It 's beautiful.
- Well done.

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Now, Ros has run some pretty
impressive distances in her career,

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but now she's able to run further,
and much faster than ever before.

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And it 's all thanks to this -

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a serum, known as
di-tutetamine brohohibe.

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Ros, tell us a bit about it.

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Well, di-tutetamine brohohibe
is a new form of rocket fuel.

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- Rocket fuel?
- Yeah.

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Which has been flavoured
with caramel.

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And there's also a savoury version,
available soon.

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- It 's been adapted for human use?
- Yeah, that 's right, yeah

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Now, Ros, tell us, what speed
can an average runner achieve?

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Well, er, an Olympic sprinter
can reach about 20 miles an hour.

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And how fast can you run using
di-tutetamine brohohibe?

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About three and a half thousand
miles an hour, give or take.

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Well, that 's a pretty big increase.

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Well, we're really going to put Ros
to the test now,

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because we've devised a special
Look Around You challenge for her.

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Ros is going to attempt
to run from here,

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BBC Television Centre in London,

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all the way to our studio
in Aberdeen,

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where she'll be met by BBC
Scotland's Mario Abdullah-Levy.

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- Hello Mario!
- Hello Peter!

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Mario, tell us, just how far away
are you up there?

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Well, we're 524 miles away
from Shepherd's Bush,

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so it 's a fair old distance.

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And I have to tell you, Ros, that
it 's absolutely freezing up here.

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And although
I'd love to see it myself,

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I hope you're not wearing anything
too skimpy!

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(Laughs) Thanks Mario. Now, Ros
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in just under five minutes.

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Five minutes, yeah.

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Well, you might want
a look at this first.

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Thanks, I think I know the way.

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Well, best of luck!

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Ros is just taking
her di-tutetamine brohohibe.

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And now we'll just wait
for the serum to take its effect.

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(Heartbeat)

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(Jet engine)

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Ah! Oh!

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Whoa!

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Eddie! Eddie!

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Mario! Thanks Eddie!

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Mario, hopefully we'll see
you and Ros in about five minutes.

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I can't quite hear
what you're saying,

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but hopefully Ros and I will see you
in about five minutes.

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And it 's neck and neck for Grandma's
Ghost and Victim of Circumstance,

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but he's having none of it.

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And it 's a mighty win
for Victim of Circumstance.

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Another 50 quid down the drain.

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Most of us enjoy a good flutter
every now and then,

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but perhaps not the heartache
of losing.

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So a system that could predict
the winner every time

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would be a very attractive, not
to mention lucrative, proposition.

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There are a number of betting
systems around at the moment,

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the most famous being
the Lombard system,

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which is not particularly reliable,

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and is also quite tricky to use.

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But now, there's a new system

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that 's said to be 100 per cent
accurate at predicting the winner.

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And to hear about it, we have to go
straight to the horse's mouth.

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That 's because its inventor is,
in fact, a horse.

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Please welcome Championess
and her owner, Paul Alan.

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Whoa! Hey.

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- Welcome, both of you.
- Hello.

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Now, Paul,

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Championess actually designed the
betting system - how did she do it?

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Well, erm, I first noticed that
she was up to something when, er,

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she locked herself away
in her stable for about six months.

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Erm, occasionally I'd hear
the odd banging noise,

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erm, but I just thought,
"Best leave her to it, really".

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One day the stable doors were flung
open and there was her machine.

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- And this is it.
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She made it from stuff she found
lying around her stable.

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And, as you can see, it 's all
held together with her manure.

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I see.

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Sorry, animals and children,
they say, don't they? There we go.

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- Indeed. Yes.
- And how does it work?

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I tell her the names of the horses,
don't I, darling? That 's right.

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I tell her the names of the horses,
and the odds, the form...

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- Come forward a little bit.
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Then she types all the information
into her machine with her hoof.

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- I see. Right, yeah.
- Yeah.

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And then, a little bit later,
she gets the result.

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She's been doing pretty well
from it, haven't you, darling?

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Now, Championess has won 60,000
guineas this season alone.

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And, Paul, may I ask,
what does she spend her winnings on?

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hay, a new saddle,
carrots, sugar lumps.

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I suppose the only luxury
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But she only got in it the once.
I don't think she liked the bubbles!

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Right.

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Well, we're going to try out
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right here on the programme.

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(Laughs) Pongo!

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Obviously there's not enough room in
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is there, Championess?
So, we've got the next best thing -

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ants.

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And we'll be holding our very own
Look Around You Ant Derby later on,

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which should give Championess just
enough time to study the runners.

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We can now go back to BBC Scotland
and rejoin Mario Abdullah-Levy.

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- Hello, Peter
- Hello, Mario.

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Any sign of Ros Lamb?

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Not yet, Peter, but we're
expecting her any second now.

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- (Whooshing)
- In fact I can just hear....

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She's arrived! She's here!
Stop the clock.

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Four minutes
and twenty-eight seconds.

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And that smashes the previous record
of 22 days, 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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That 's a new world record.
So Ros, how are you feeling?

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Ros is understandably pretty well
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And as you can see, she's quite
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That 's due to a massive increase
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from travelling
at such a great speed.

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And now, back to Peter Packard
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Thanks, Mario. Yes, outstanding.

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Hopefully we'll be hearing from Ros

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once she's had a chance
to catch her breath.

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Now, question - what do these
four footballers have in common?

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Think you know?

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Well, the obvious answer
is that they're all deaf,

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but you may not know that they
all had footballs made for them

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by one of soccer's unsung heroes -

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the world's greatest football
designer, Sebastian Jackson.

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During his career, Sebastian Jackson
produced some of the most innovative

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and ingenious footballs ever,

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including the controversial
Invisiball.

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Jackson himself
was a flamboyant figure,

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and was linked romantically
to a string of glamorous women,

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including Marilyn Monroe's sister,
Margaret.

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Unfortunately, Sebastian Jackson
passed away last year,

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after swallowing a pin. He was 62.

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However, with typical flair,

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he took the precaution
of creating several copies,

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or clones, of himself
before he died.

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And we're very lucky to be joined
by one of them tonight -

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please welcome Provastian Jackson.

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- Hello, Jack.
- Hello, welcome to Look Around You.

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You're an exact copy of the original
Sebastian Jackson, aren't you?

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- Yes, I am.
- And how many of you are there?

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Well, there's Ninastian, Compastian,

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Hairhastain, Fantastian,
Clilthrastian,

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and Torvartian,
who's our leader in a way.

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I understand Ninastian
is with us tonight.

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Yes, he is, he's over there.

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- He's a little camera-shy.
- Oh well. Now, Provastian,

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there haven't been any Jackson
footballs in the shops for a while.

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No, but me and the other copycats

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have been busy developing
a new range.

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Let 's take a look. Now, this first
football here, I have to say -

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I'm not the best at football
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looks like any football
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Yes, it does look pretty ordinary,
I agree, but if you look at the top,

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just press that button.

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So, when you want to put it away,

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it 'Il fit neatly on your shelf
without rolling off.

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We call it a footcube.

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How does it work?

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It 's a mixture of pistons, springs
and Gary Bonds, very clever.

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It is clever.
Now, this one over here,

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please don't take this the wrong
way, but it does smell a bit.

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- Pongo!
- Pongo!

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This is our meat-ball,
made from meat scraps

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which would otherwise
just be thrown away.

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It gently decomposes
during the course of the match.

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So it 's ecologically friendly.

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Yes. Best not to use it in hot
weather - gets covered in maggots.

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And it 's all meat?

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Well, there's a bit of cod
in this one.

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Now, this jolly chap over here,
what is this?

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- This is a piggyball.
- Piggyball?

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Piggyball. You can see the slit
in the top.

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- Mm-hm.
- (Coins jingle)

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Used mainly for charity matches.

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Now, this last one
looks extremely intriguing.

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Just over here.

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Well, this is our principal project
at the moment.

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Its, erm...

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Well, we... We've...

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Do you know? Ninastian knows more
about this one than I do.

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- OK.
- Ninastian.

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Ninny, come on, Ninny!

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(Jack) Well, I think we're going
to meet Ninastian Jackson now.

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- Hello, Ninastian.
- Hello.

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Tell him about it.

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Oh, in order to create
a more aerdo...

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aerodynamic football,
we designed an object

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which is about 250 times more round
than a normal ball.

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So what you're saying is you've
managed to out-round the sphere.

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Unfortunately, we can't show
the football for legal reasons,

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so I'll just have
to describe it to you.

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Just please be careful you don't
pull the curtain back too far.

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Don't worry.

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Cor! That is extraordinary!
That is just so...round.

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Well, the only way I can attempt
to describe it is,

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if you can try to imagine a perfect
circle, and then round it out,

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so that it 's even rounder...

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That is extraordinary. When can
we expect to see this in the shops?

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Oh, that 's a moot point actually,

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because currently it 's illegal
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as it does contain
a working human heart.

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(Both) So It 's only on sale in
Germany at the moment, I'm afraid.

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Well, best of luck,
Provastian and Ninastian,

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and thank you both
for showing us your balls. Peter.

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And I believe we can go
to BBC Scotland

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and rejoin Mario Abdullah-Levy,

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who is now talking with Ros Lamb.

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Ros, that was a terrific run,

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London to Aberdeen in four and a
half minutes, a new world record.

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(Squeaky voice) Thanks, yeah.

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What happened to your forehead?

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I ran into a parking meter
in Kilburn.

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So after that
I just stuck to motorways.

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So, a smooth journey?

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Well, I got pulled over
a couple of times by the police.

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- Oh really?
- Nothing serious, just a caution.

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But in general, it was
a very good run, I'm very pleased.

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Well, Maseltov once again.

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And now Ros Lamb will be running
back down to our studios in London,

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so Ros, if you'd like to take
your di-tutetamine brohohibe.

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- And best of luck!
- (Squeaky voice) Thanks!

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(Jet engine rumbles)

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(Heartbeat)

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Dougal!

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And back to you, Peter,
at Shepherd's Bush.

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When the Olympics take place next
year in Swansea Industrial Park,

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there'll be a record number
of new events

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which have been formally accepted

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by the Olympic Committee
and Swansea Council.

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In fact there are a staggering
22 brand-new Olympic sports,

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but there's one sport
everyone wants to play.

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So Look Around You sent Pealy Maghti
off to our sister country, America,

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to try it out.

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(# Pounding rock music)

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(Pealy) Pennsylvania, USA.

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When you think of Pennsylvania,
you probably think of pencils.

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But in America, Pennsylvania
is best known for its baseball team,

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the Pennsylvania Pippins.

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And every Monday and Wednesday,

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thousands of fans flock to see such
baseball legends as TJ Nottingham,

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Sonny Thompson,

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and Xythantiops.

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But it 's not just baseball that 's
put Pennsylvania on the map.

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Jogging recently
became compulsory here,

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with stiff penalties for anyone who
doesn't fulfil the weekly mileage.

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But now,
there's a new sport in town,

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which may be about to take
the state, and the world, by storm.

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So I caught up with its inventor,
Scott Nolan.

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This sport you've created
isn't completely new, is it?

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Not exactly, Pealy, no.

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You see, I wanted to combine key
aspects of my two favourite sports,

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into a new hybrid, or combo-sport,

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which I believe has the potential

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to become the most exciting
spectator sport at the Olympics.

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What are the two sports
that you've combined?

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Tennis and golf.

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Well, I'm dying to try it out.
Now, am I dressed for the occasion?

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I hope so, let 's see,
you've got the shoes and the socks,

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the pants, the hat...

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All you need is this...
and you're all set!

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Let 's play gonnis!

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Gonnis is a perfect mixture
of golf and tennis.

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The rules are very simple -

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get the ball over the net, onto the
green and into your opponent 's hole,

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whilst avoiding the bunkers
and the water hazard.

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The game was overseen by the world's
only professional gonnis umpire,

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Bunny Gnowles, who also happens
to be Scott 's boyfriend.

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- Go easy on me, Scott!
- Not a chance!

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With its classy blend
of elegance and style,

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gonnis has become the game of choice
for the jet set,

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with such players as Manhattan Dave
and the Shah of Israel,

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and Scott even had an order
for 40,000 gonnis sets

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from none other than Tony Curtis.

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Quiet, please!

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Birdie-love.

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- I'm getting the hang of this!
- We'll see about that.

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Out! Quiet, please!

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Eagle - 15.

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(Softly) Come on, Scott, come on.

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- Advantage, Miss Maghti.
- Go on, Pealy!

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- Quiet, please!
- Go on, Pealy!

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Tensions ran high,
both on and off the court.

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Ma'am, did you not hear me
say "quiet" then?

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It 's (bleep) off-putting
to the players,

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it 's (bleep) off-putting to the
opponent who you're not rooting for,

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it 's a (bleep) for him and for me!

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And if you continue, I'm gonna
(bleep) remove you from the court.

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Do you understand? Thank you.

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(Bleep)

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Miss Maghti, you are four under par.

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Finally, it was time for me to put
my putting skills to the test.

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- (Woman) Go on, Pealy!
- (Bleep)

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Hole, set and match, Pealy Maghti.

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I'd done it! Against all odds, I'd
beaten the American at his own game.

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- That was fantastic!
- Yes, beginner's luck.

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Miss Maghti, congratulations.
You played a good game.

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Quiet, please.

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Quiet, please.

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Where now for Scott Nolan?

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I'm developing another combo-sport
at the moment.

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Again, it 's a mixture
of two other sports -

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fencing and darts.

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Gosh, you were really good
at gonnis!

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Thanks. And the funny thing is, I've
never played golf or tennis before.

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- And I was on my period.
- Obviously a natural.

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- Yes, well done, Pealy.
- Yeah, well played.

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- Thanks, chaps.
- That is a beautiful trophy.

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Well, we're just waiting for
Ros Lamb to speed into the studio

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all the way from Aberdeen,

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and I believe she should be here
any second now.

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Well, while we're waiting
for Ros, erm...

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Oh, and I believe we're now seeing
outside Television Centre,

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where Ros Lamb should be speeding
into view any second now.

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Erm, Jack, I believe you used to
go out with Ros Lamb, didn't you?

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(Jack) Yes,
it was several years ago

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and I used to fool around
with one of her sisters as well.

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(Pealy) Not at the same time I hope!

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(Peter) Here she is!

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That 's four minutes
and fifteen seconds.

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That smashes her previous record,

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by, I think, thirteen seconds,
so that 's another world record.

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- Erm, well done!
- Wow!

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- Congratulations!
- Two in one show.

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Well, let 's go and say hello.

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Ros, a new world record -
how do you feel?

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(Panting)

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(Peter) As you can see,
the run has really taken its toll,

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there's been some further
miniaturisation.

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Anyway, well done, Ros!

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(Peter) What an athlete!

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Well, now it 's time
for our Look Around You Ant Derby.

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And to tell us about the runners,

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let 's hand over to BBC's racing
commentator, Leslie Maxwell.

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Thank you, in lane one at 5-1,

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we have Beetleface,
looking very confident today.

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In lane two, one of
our foremost racing ants, Mr Snips,

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the favourite at 3-1.

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Fancy Nancy is in lane three,

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the going's a bit hard for her
today, I fear, she's at 7-1.

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And finally,
the rank outsider, Nutmeg,

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who looks like he's put on a bit of
weight recently, he's at 600-1.

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- Back to you, Pam
- Thanks.

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- Well, my money's on Beetleface.
- I fancy... Fancy Nancy.

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I'm going to take a chance on
Nutmeg. How about you, Pete?

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Yeah, me too.
And Ros, who will you be backing?

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(High-pitched squeaking)

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One pound on Mr Snips,
certainly Ros.

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And there we are!

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(Faint squeaking continues)

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So, Paul, Championess has had time
to make her calculations.

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Can we have her prediction, please?

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(Paul) Go on, girl!

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(Mechanical whirring)

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- Is she finished?
- Yes.

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So, which ant does Championess think
is going to win?

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(Deep voice) Beetleface.

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Beetleface!
Oh, that 's my ant, great!

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So, let 's go back to Leslie
for the race.

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Thanks, Pam. You join us
for the Look Around You Ant Derby,

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all the ants are
at the starter's gate.

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(Trumpet fanfare)

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And they're off! Mr Snips
off to a good start, Nutmeg refuses,

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Beetleface coming up,
Fancy Nancy picking up speed,

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But it 's Mr Snips and Beetleface,
they're thorax to thorax,

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but it 's Beetleface the winner!

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- Yeah!
- Oh!

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00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,195
- Oh!
- I win!

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00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,391
- Well done!
- Bad luck, guys!

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And well done and thank you very
much to Paul Alan and Championess.

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And Championess and Paul Alan
go through to the final

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of our Invention of the Year
competition

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at the end of the series,

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where they could win
this magnificent trophy,

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presented by His Royal Highness
Sir Prince Charles.

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Well, that 's nearly all
we've got time for tonight.

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Thanks to all our guests
for being such great sports.

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- Thank you to Provastian and...
- I'm Ninastian.

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00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,160
- Oh, I beg your pardon.
- Provastian's dropped off.

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Well, thank you to you both,

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and also, of course,
thanks to Ros Lamb.

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(Squeaks)

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Special thanks to BBC Scotland
and Mario Abdullah-Levy.

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And thanks to racing commentator,
Leslie Maxwell.

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My pleasure, Pam.

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And a special thanks to Beetleface,
Mr Snips, Fancy Nancy and Nutmeg.

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Thanks, ants!

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Thants.

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Next week, we'll be taking
a tantalising look

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at the world, and the future,
of food.

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So make sure you make a reservation.

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So, in the meantime, from all of us
here at Shepherd's Bush,

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take care of yourself, and remember,
wherever you are, whatever you do...

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(All) Look Around You!

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(All chatter)

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