Tonight's show is rather rough-and-ready at the ready Tomalin
Susan kalma my little bit of rough Allen Davis
Their puzzles are rough stuff Tom goes ooh
What's that it's a concrete brick being dragged Oh dragged up like with a wig and a dress
So he goes
Angle grinder is this an angle crane? It is meeting a goose. I think it was very good and Alan goes
Zoe I hope you don't mind me pointing this out, but you appear to been in a fight. You should see the other guys
Do you know who's come on? I tripped over my own feet and I suppose at my age. That is a fall. Yes
Love the time and date and then the frequency. Yeah social work they come round so you don't need it any Andals anyway
Fight and well know
Why do you think I'm wearing this neck brace
I've been doing boxing lately
Yes, sandy, you wouldn't believe it. But I have and I'm very good at it. So the man I do it with
I started soup to begin. So if each got a bowl here of beetroot soup
so what I want you to do is I want you to demonstrate please how to eat this bowl of beetroot soup without
Getting your rough all red
Oh
So I think you've definitely nailed it I think
One of those lazy boys sofas, yeah, and I can eat
Anything the horizontal? Okay. Well, they didn't have those sofas in Elizabethan times what they did have in fact was a spoon
Specifically for eating you're just gonna treat you like beetroot soup. It's very not level
Yeah, but be careful with beetroot that's in the morning. You'll think you need a colonoscopy. Yes
There's a rough spoon, there's more wobble with along the spoon Oh do not like this long I find it more difficult
Because you
This is all and I think that's rather beautiful
Down Susan Susan sight of you slurping back trying to drop a spoon
In high society Oh Susan
We're talking 1562 1620s, but everybody will the women men young people old people dogs
Funny waiter they the big cone. Yeah throw a biscuit in the car drives America
We will not rest
Walking down the seafront the other day one of those massive cones
It was a really really windy day, but it was walking with the wind that he's tailing. He was going along quite happy
I thought yeah, we'll wait till you turn round
So the biggest ones were warned by Elizabeth the first because frankly nobody else had the money to
So you have to imagine it's up to 7 yards of cloth
So imagine at least between Susan and Zoey that kind of length of cloth
600 pleats and soaked in starch
So unbelievably difficult to where you did it with something called a goth ring on and this is what it looked like
Familiar looking yeah
Once you've done the rough you think what shall I do now?
So there was a Dutch woman called mistress ningún vanden plas and she came to London in 1564
She's to give lessons in how to starch ruff. She charged five pounds, which doesn't sound like a lot but it was 1,500
Pounds equivalent today and then if you did the extra starch making module that was another pound so that was 300 quid
So even just to learn how to do it was fantastically expensive now
You've all got white ruffs on and the paintings often show them as white, but mine is blue
So why might that be what does it say about me that I'm wearing a beard that you're better than us? No, I'm a prostitute
And from Scotland
I'm just putting it out there
So one of the reasons why we have lots of white in paintings is because of successive restorations
But in fact there were lots of colours of roughs
They were principally pink or saffron yellow quill is with the first did not like blue because they were associated with them
Which used to be called Winchester geese?
Prostitutes, why would they called Winchester key because the Bishop of Winchester owned so many brothels
Prostitutes who wants to hear about some rough sex me? Yeah. Okay. Obviously I'm talking about a bird
The rough sandpaper. Sorry I said again
I find more of a turn-on than carpentry. No
Weirdly true
Rough sandpaper is what I meant to say. This is nature's most
Gender-fluid bird so you can see they've got the rough a bit like the sort of Elizabethan rough
But this particular bird there are three types of male and they differ in mating behavior
So the one that you've got on the left, there is called a territorial or an independent male
They've got the dark neck rough and they make it stand up these satellite males. They've got the white neck rough
they will frankly go after any woman who will have them and then we have the
Feeders, the feeders look identical to females and they will very quickly have sex with a female who hadn't spotted that they were coming
But they also quite happy to have homosexual pairings with the independence and territorial ones
right rough off super way
Those down there
Right name an animal that will a dog
I
Think extra point to Ellen, I mean he was fast
Ready name a horse
Named an animal it will attack anything red I
Do think because I've seen clips of those dreadful
Matadors
Where they wave the red and then the bull. Yeah, it's the movement not the color that is
A particular color just gets irritated by the cloth waving would be a nightmare in a curtain shop. Wouldn't it? Yes
Which does see red in both senses is the tiny little Robin they're incredibly aggressive 10%
Percent of Robin deaths are due to fractured skulls from altercations with other Robins
I thought it was stapled to Christmas cards
So there was some experiments done by a man called David Lac in 1943
And he showed that Robin would attack a stuffed Robin placed in its territory good to know that he was helping with the war effort
The Robert attacked and the head came off the staff Robin and the Robin carried on and he began to wonder
How little stuffed Robin you would need in order to prompt this particular response
So he mounted
various body parts on trees and so on and he found as long as red feathers were present the Robin would attack a
headless wingless tailless legless
Bodiless bundle of red feathers was still a legitimate target as far as a Robin was concerned
In fact, the Robin would sometimes attack a tomato left on
the Nazis were terrified weren't
Looking mirrors then clearly just set themselves up. Yeah
You think the red breast is something to attract yeah before mating it isn't that at all it's a warning to stay away
So a robin's breast gets bigger and redder with each year
so the bigger and redder the breast the more fights its head and you don't want to
You just said they could read the rest of you
Yes, yes they loved it no
It's a different one. Well, they don't last very long. So only 25% of newborns get through the very first year
Less than 1% make it to the age of 5 the lifespans about 1.1 years for a Robin so they don't actually live
It's the same Robins coming back to my guards and fat Robin and thin Robin. Yeah, no not a thing. I'm afraid well
No, probably the Robin, you know is dead
No, it's dead Suze I said I was a terrible parent died
On the subject of animals being able to see in colour had Tigers get away with being orange
It seems an extraordinary color to me. Does it know such a bright colour you would imagine impossible to sneak up on your prey?
I think being a tiger
Probably put around them
You can choose your own
Neon lights high heels and party hats are still be a target
well
The answer is that they are able to sneak up on the prey because their favorite meals which are deer and other ungulates
Are orange green colorblind? So they've got two color receptors in their eyes. They are dichromats now. We wanted to try and recreate the
jungle for you, so
If you imagine that the tiger is hiding
It's hiding this tiger seems very lush. You can see him for sorry look at his eyes. He doesn't he's not out to get anything
Complain maybe in his local Preta Monge
Deer would see because they cannot see those colours agree. So there's what we might be able to see
Yeah, but what they would be able to see is a slightly fuzzy a picture
Len I know and in fact, it wouldn't even be that green
It would be more of a sort of muddy color so that the thing would hide so pop him down there
Let me just put the rainforests away as well. There we go. Right what's red and black and a complete racket Oh
Dennis the Menace falling down the stairs
Yes, yeah good luck with that yeah
Table tennis rackets. Oh they are very shape any size any weight?
But they have to be read on one side and black on the other. Sorry any size
Yes, if you want to do play with an enormous, are you serious to the Royal is you because it's difficult
It's you can't speak almost tiny. That's why I'm
Room handles any weight
Weight one that would be 18 foot
Oh is it so they can also be used to park an aeroplane
I'm gonna see something known. It's something that someone said to me once says you can spin it differently depending on the different sides
Yes, I was told at the youth club is correct
So this rule in 1986 because players were using
Rubbers with different characteristics on the different sides and the opponent needed to see which one you were using in each shot
What happened was in 1980?
There was a player called John Hilton and he won the European men's singles title
And it was a shock result
And the reason it was a shock result is that he was only the fourth best player at his local?
YMCA
Let alone in Europe
He had one of these
combination rackets and nobody could work out which side he was using and
What they needed to do was to see which side you were using because it mattered to the opponent
But what we really want to do with our rackets is a little bit of business. So if you look down
Beside you there is a table tennis racket and we can see that they have one red side
And they have one black side. Now. What I want you to do is hold your rackets red side up like this, okay
Lu that's every sports shop you've everything to convince him to unwrap I start quick fit going in the back and quick fit
You don't need to know what I was doing
Oh
God I need balls. No, we're not doing that
We're going to cross them in the air
And so that the rackets spin over and I want you to catch it red side up again
Every time
So you cannot do it if fundamental you cannot do it if it starts red it will end up black
So look here we've done a video of somebody rather more adept
And you can see flip it and it lands the opposite side each time. Does anybody know why because of this mouth?
It's heavier on one side
No, so you'd think it was something to do with air resistance or gravity or the weight of the thing
There's an American theoretical physicist called Richard Feynman
And he was asked if anybody could explain this in a simple way and he thought about it from Italy meant no
I'm gonna pronounce it wrong as a Russian name. It's called a near enough the Johnny bake-off effect
He was a Soviet cosmonaut and he was up in the salient 7 space station in 1985
He spun a wingnut in order to remove it from a threaded bolt it spun right off the bolt it
continued to spin after it had to come loose and it suddenly flipped over and
started spinning in the opposite direction and then it flipped back to the
Original orientation and kept flipping from one to another this has never been seen before
Let's have a look at a video. It is the most bizarre thing. So there it is. Look at it
Wow
the air in simply spinning and
Then it starts to spin the other way and then it spins the other way and it's bends the other way like that
Isn't that it paired with a wing nut and another galaxy?
With a tennis record as well
It's to do with it having an axis here and an axis here and an axis here
And this one is the one that we sort of don't think is going to come into play
It's weird. Let's put the tennis racquets away
Okay, here are two squirrels that they are which of these is the most recent
It's the grey
Trap right there. So it is absolutely true that the red squirrel is native to Britain. Whereas the grey one is North American
However, the native Reds were regard is an absolute pest and they were hunted to pretty much to extinction in the 18th and the 19th
Century so in order to restore their the population and the Reds were imported from Scandinavia. Thank you very much
Central Europe, and we now know from DNA studies
That's where most of the Reds that we have have actually come from so the Reds are in fact the modern
Interlopers are not the native species. We now have about two and a half million greys and we have less than
15,000 Reds really? Yeah, I think
Nia in the islands
So there's someone Adam for example that you see but mostly on the islands because in Glasgow, for example, it's just grey squirrels
There's not some people eat them. No, there's I was gonna say can you eat them? There is a restaurant in London
I can't run which one it is. They do a lot of game and a very occasion they'll have squirrel on the menu
There's nothing to stop you about eating a square on the door this kind of thing of eating locusts and bugs
But for any alternative sources of protein I've tried that is not pleasant
I have a locust badgy and it was one of the worst thing Oh
What's a virgin I was and I was like an onion pakora thing
symbology a bhaji Oh
We thought you said budging batchi I was thinking like a patchy but you wouldn't call it a badger up out
Here are all sorts of voices on the BBC one of which is corrected on her pronunciation of bhaji
My mistake not is a Lucas bhaji do it the whole show like this they sue me
He has introduced a word upset or de Lucas boy to the other two
Yes telling you don't need to do that because when we put this show out, we'll use subtitle
So this is the rough-and-ready show but what's red and Ruffy
That photograph to be taken of themselves my
Comprehensive accent, well I ask now
Come dancing the one thing I had to do and I was I wasn't talked to do but someone said to me, you know
They film it in 4k
Alright and you wear a leotard? I thought got it and what they were seeing was please do something
Because the first time a fitting I was winning shorts
and
So I had to go for the very first time at the age of 43 for a bikini wax and it was the most terrifying
Thing that's ever happened in my entire life. It really was it was a exposing and strange and after it's ever so cool
You suggested you have a wax if you're wearing shorts
Unless they are transporting try Angelus
Seven years you just could have stopped killing because there is you could have fade anybody else
You just cannot let it all kinda join up
Knowing what's in vogue if you haven't been on the market for a while, isn't it? Cuz you know, I've been with my partner for
20-plus years and back then it was it was it was plots and beads
So Willie Nelson if you will
Okay
The question was what's red and roughy and it has nothing to do with these pence
Like a dog is it a red setter it is not a no, but we are heading in more of the right direction
We're heading into the in the animal kingdom. I know about a red panda
Okay. No, so wait. It's fish
Red snapper. No, it's called the orange. Roughy Red Bear. Well, it is actually red. It's wizard
Is the answer the question tell us about your pubes
Thirty minutes on your pubic hair
American restaurants after 1979 when they changed its name to orange, roughy
Do you have any idea why they might have judged its name because all the other fish were also called Dave
Its original name was slime head
Thirty inches long. It's a member of the perch family - you have X 30 emptiness feet
And they're extremely long-lived, I mean assuming that they don't get eaten
Average lifespan is more than a hundred and twenty years. No
There were two court recently
Trance mania and at one off New Zealand turned out to be we think about two hundred and fifty years old
Meaning they were born in the late seventeen hundred
So at the same time as the first Europeans arrived in the area as the age of these fish
How'd like age of fish sounding? What do you cut through it? And you count the risk?
You are very nearly right so fish have something called an otter list so we all have otter lists
We have one in our ear system which enables us to basically stay balanced but in fish
They're layers of calcium carbonate and they they grow over the years so we can tell how old the fish is by
Counting the rings in the Otters looks a little bit like an onion. It's a bit like tree rings you can count that
It's amazing. It's amazing
Well, this is the really sad thing because if you eat an orange roughy in a restaurant
There's a likelihood that your lunch is older than your grandparents
We should eat the older thing first, we've got two pots of hummus you'll eat the one
So then you eat the fish and then you eat your grandmother
All fish
I
Know it's so extraordinary, isn't it?
It doesn't work the same in humans are often
It stops growing after about a week and then in fact
it deteriorates as we get older and it's wild people sometimes have balance problems is because they're
How do I know when you are ready for sex when I'm finished at the burfi is
It you here the Antiques Roadshow music
Raveled rattle there's no. Yeah, I sheared a sheep recently Oh Oh Susan why?
Why can't you saw out your Pew
Sorry extra point
I need some it's too mushy. Yes it is. It's you as in aw
So it's to do with something called rebel it's a pigment which is originated from ochre
so has a sort of reddish tint has been used for centuries by Shepherds to tell whether or not the Sheep of
Been mated there's the maze but right so what?
They would smear this stuff this hookah is Redl onto the chest of a ram and then release him
Into the flock of views to have firmus who's from and as he worked his way around
new you could see if you look at the
Sheath got it on a nose
That's not really
So nowadays the technique has been refined there as a range of colors
So you might say put blue red Alon one week and then you might put green in the second week in red in the third
You can tell which you she's got blue and yeah
Very busy, but it helps you work out when the lambing is going to happen, but now get ready for rough weather
We're heading into a perfect storm of general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please
How can you tell the difference between a raspberry and a blackberry?
Yes flavor. I
Just say we discussed this a lot of highly intelligent graduates not one of us went it's the flavors
Got a hole in the middle
So you can place it on the end of your finger is the correct answer
Think as you can't do it by looking at them because you can't get a black raspberry. That is the thing Oh,
Can't tell by looking at the bit. All right about the hole in them
So when you pick a raspberry the middle the stem or the Taurus pulls out but when you have a blackberry
It does not so rosebuds has a flavor
I feel so foolish
Okay
Are you ready for the score?
Oh, yeah. Oh
Wait, so in fourth place Oh in a long way done with minus 13. It's
Points
For six points, it's
So it's thanks to Tom Susan Zoey and Alan and I leave you with a fact by American clown red skelton
That's roughly true
Did you know that when van Gogh cut off his ear he actually went blind?
Because every time he put his hat on it slipped down over his eyes
Good night
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