8. Call My Bluff S12E7, S12E8 (1978) Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt

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S12E7 Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt.  S12E8 Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt.  Host/Team captains: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell.

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00:00No, neither's he.

00:01Get on with it.

00:02What it is, it's a very, very cheap and expensive form of hassock.

00:08Because when a peasantry knelt down and their kneecaps came in touch with the stone floor,

00:14the vast cries of, ow, which was bad for worship.

00:18So what a trush is, it's a rather tallish bit of stone with matting on top so that when

00:25the peasantry drop down, there's only a muted agony and the service is much quieter and

00:30more suitable to worship.

00:33Right.

00:34Yes, now David Hunter.

00:39I think it must be obvious that this is from one of those typical British artisan vocabularies,

00:49which I personally find really rather dull, not like caramusal or caramushal or whatever

00:54you call it.

00:55This is an ordinary word from nothing more important than brick building.

01:02What it means, it's a verb, of course, you trush a brick.

01:05You dip a brick in the water to make it a porous brick, to make it soaked.

01:12The main thing is that this keeps out the mortar you're going to slosh it into.

01:16And that is simply what trushing is.

01:20Some bricks, of course, are extremely porous.

01:22The mind thinks instantly of Aylesbury Cobbins, for example, and they have to be very well

01:30trushed.

01:31Yes, one might expect so.

01:33Gabrielle.

01:34Well, trush is actually what's left when you've burnt a candle right down and the wick's gone

01:38and all you're left with is the mushy sort of wax in the bottom.

01:42That is actually called trush.

01:45And if you remember in the electricity strike, we were told to use trush, it wasn't actually

01:50called trush, for making new candles with.

01:52But what you can also do with trush is mix it with lanolin and it's an excellent cure

01:58for chill blains.

02:00Yes, just smear it on.

02:03It's candle ends, it's a nasty hard hassock and of course it's soaking a brick that needs

02:09soaking.

02:10Patrick.

02:12These fairly stern observations about the noble profession of brick building, rather

02:19unwelcome, I thought.

02:21They may be artisans, but they're still good workers, well, some of them, if they're at

02:25it.

02:26It's their language.

02:29No connection with brick building and hassockery.

02:35The end of a candle is called the end of a candle.

02:38It's a hassock.

02:39It's a hassock.

02:40Let's see your card, quick.

02:42Frank, Frank did say it was a hassock, true or false, Frank?

02:45I was here when you said it was a hassock.

02:47Of course it's true.

02:48APPLAUSE

02:55You didn't really believe you were going to get lucky there, did you, Patrick, but you

02:58did.

02:59Yes, it's that sort of hassock, it's made of stone, little bit of canvas over the top,

03:03just comfortable time for chassery.

03:05Patrick.

03:06The chassery is a shrine that's built over...

03:09You'd better move faster.

03:10..the remnants of a saint.

03:11It could be some pancreas, it could be some pancreastation, but...

03:16It said underneath that it would be a chassery.

03:19Goodie, goodie.

03:20Arthur, a few words.

03:21It's a very, very late ripening pear and sometimes, if the winter's been kind, you can have them

03:27for Christmas dinner.

03:28Pauline.

03:29It's the mark of office of a very grand housekeeper.

03:31It's a purse in which she keeps all her bits and pieces, like a screwdriver, a pencil,

03:36screwdrivers and corkscrews and all the things she needs.

03:40Braces and bits and everything.

03:41It's a pear, late ripening pear, it's a monument over a saint and it's a housekeeper's badge

03:46of office.

03:47Frank, you may now do Christmas.

03:49How much have I got, nine minutes?

03:52Just to say.

03:53Oh.

03:54Quick.

03:55The pear.

03:56The pear, the pear, the pear.

03:57That was...

03:58Oh, goodness me, it was Arthur, wasn't it?

03:59True love, Arthur.

04:00It was.

04:01It's a bullseye!

04:02That was a fine move.

04:03Well done.

04:04Well done.

04:05Well done.

04:06Well done.

04:07Wonderful, yes.

04:08Absolute bullseye.

04:09Yes, yes, yes.

04:10So, a chasserie is indeed that.

04:13It's a pear, late ripening pear, eated at Christmas.

04:16Brings us to the end.

04:17I declare that the winners, certainly, five, three, are Frank Muir and his team.

04:20Thank you.

04:21Thank you.

04:22Thank you.

04:23Thank you.

04:24Thank you.

04:25Thank you.

04:26Thank you.

04:27Thank you.

04:28Thank you.

04:30Four rum swizzles from the Oxford English Dictionary next time.

04:33Until then, goodbye from David Hunt.

04:35Goodbye.

04:36Arthur Marshall.

04:37Gabrielle Drake.

04:38Pauline Collins.

04:39Frank Muir.

04:40Patrick Campbell.

04:41And goodbye.

04:59Goodbye.

05:00Goodbye.

05:01Goodbye.

05:02Goodbye.

05:03Goodbye.

05:04Goodbye.

05:05Hello.

05:29Call My Bluff with, as ever, the clog dancing champion of Old Tralee, Patrick Campbell.

05:35Thank you.

05:37Thank you.

05:39After an unaccountable defeat last week, mostly through bad luck and business worries.

05:48Nonetheless, Pauline Collins.

05:51Hello.

05:52And the only laugh in the whole of the new statesman, Arthur Marshall.

06:03I don't think there should be more than one laugh in the new statesman.

06:12Anyway, now we have the Mr Chips of St Andrews University, Frank Muir.

06:18Good evening.

06:20Naturally enough, I'm making no changes in my winning team for the next bout.

06:30And from Bristol and the Bristol Old Vic, Gabrielle Drake.

06:37And from the Commonwealth Institute, mastermind, Sir David Hunt.

06:49Let's try and get ourselves a word.

06:51They're all there behind the set.

06:53Calabas is the first one.

06:54And as you probably remember, Patrick Campbell and his team will define calabas three different

06:59ways.

07:00One is true.

07:01And that last one is the one that Frank and his team are going to try and pick.

07:05So what about this word, Patrick?

07:08Calabas is a very wide canoe used by red Indians who are going hunting.

07:18But accompanied by more than one wife.

07:23Up to the number of two to three or four squaws.

07:30Plus little nippers and mothers-in-law.

07:33You've got to have a wide canoe for that mob.

07:35That's why it's called a calabas.

07:38Oh, yes, yes.

07:41Arthur Marshall has a turn.

07:44Arthur Marshall.

07:45A calabas was something that went off with a not very loud bang about the time of the

07:51Spanish Armada.

07:53It was a smallish field gun that was rather erratic.

07:57And rather a nasty thing because it wasn't filled with cannonballs.

08:01But filled with, I don't know, stones, boulders, almost anything you happen to be lying around.

08:07Somebody's head, your sandwiches, anything.

08:10You popped into the calabas and shot it off.

08:15Now, Pauline Collins.

08:19A calabas is a stone, like a peach stone or a plum stone,

08:23which is very rarely found inside a coconut.

08:27And it's such a rare thing that the South Sea Islanders regard it as more than a mere freak of nature.

08:33They think it's a source of good luck.

08:35And they wear it as a charm around their necks.

08:39Right enough.

08:40Well, it's a family canoe.

08:43It's a stone inside a coconut, not very often come across.

08:46Field gun, firing sandwiches, apart from anything else.

08:49Frank.

08:50I've consulted with my union here and management.

08:55And we are unanimous.

09:01If ever there was an ideal bluff, it's a rare stone in the South Seas,

09:07which the natives believe to be holy or something.

09:10So it must be a bluff.

09:13It's a wide canoe full of mothers-in-law.

09:17Could be, I suppose.

09:19But we rather think that it's Arthur's inaccurate field gun,

09:24stuffed with people's heads.

09:26Yes, he did say it.

09:27Arthur, now you own up.

09:28True or bluff?

09:29He tells you now.

09:39That field gun you scored a bullseye.

09:41Yes.

09:43We must have another word.

09:45Shermer is the next word, and Frank will define it.

09:49Shermer.

09:51If you've ever taken any interest in the private life of a pilchard,

09:57you will know this word.

10:00Because what is known by those who know about the private life of a pilchard

10:06is that they go a bit balmy in late summer.

10:09Your average hair goes a bit balmy in March.

10:12Your pilchard goes strange late-ish summer.

10:17Just below the surface of the sea,

10:20they shimmer and tumble and jump and play so joyfully.

10:25And this piece of larky behaviour is done by a shoal.

10:29In other words, a shermer, which is a shoal of playful pilchards.

10:36LAUGHTER

10:38All seem gloomy fish to me, but they are.

10:40David Hunt?

10:42I can't hope, I'm afraid, to sparkle in the way in which Frank Muir does.

10:49First of all, I haven't got the equipment,

10:51and secondly, what I have to say is not in the least bit sparkling.

10:55It's all nothing but etymology.

10:57The shermer spells, you'll notice, with an S-H and not an S-C-H,

11:04although it is the Yiddish rather than the high German form

11:07of the thing that comes from the verb meaning to protect,

11:11and that's exactly what it is.

11:13It's a leather protector which cobblers put over their knees.

11:18It's like an apron, only it's really more of a pad.

11:23I think it doesn't have strings.

11:25But it is a protection for the knees of a cobbler

11:28as he cobbles away, cobbling shoes,

11:31and so he knows that a really shrewd blow at the shoe

11:35won't break his thigh because he has his shermer there.

11:39That's a pretty full sketch of it.

11:42Yes, indeed. Gabrielle, it's your turn.

11:45Well, a shermer is a sort of a drinking glass

11:49which is to be found mostly in certain parts of the United States,

11:54notably Philadelphia, and it's really a tumbler.

11:59And the bottom third of it is glass, solid glass.

12:03I suppose the second third or even the top two thirds

12:06are filled with bourbon or gin or something,

12:09and you slug it down, one off, like that,

12:12and then you bang your shermer's bottom down on the table again.

12:16It's a tumbler.

12:19It's a shoal of playful pilchards

12:22and it's a sort of cobbler's apron.

12:25Patrick chooses now.

12:28A glass is called a glass all over the world.

12:32It's never been called a shermer.

12:35Whatever it's filled with, you don't hang down your shermer.

12:38Especially glass that's found in a schooner.

12:41What about this non-Elch-Deutsch?

12:44Yiddish pad.

12:47Just a moment. Don't...

12:50Don't bash your own knee with your hammer yet, lad. Don't go away.

12:53Fish don't go mad.

12:57They might fly around a little underneath the water.

13:00They're not going mad.

13:03Your pilchard is not...

13:06It's a pad used by shoemakers.

13:09The cobbler's apron. David Hunt, you said quite a lot about that.

13:12Was that true or was it a bluff?

13:15I must look and see. It's another bluff, isn't it?

13:18APPLAUSE

13:22We knew too much there.

13:25It certainly didn't sound as though he was teasing, but he was.

13:28Now, who gave the true definition?

13:31Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer, shimmer.

13:34I don't believe it!

13:37APPLAUSE

13:40Yes, shermer is a shoal of pilchards.

13:43Tomato sauce that makes them mad.

13:46Virile is the next one. I'll pronounce it, you will, I don't know.

13:50Arthur Marshall defined it.

13:53A virile is a rather fancy sort of mouthpiece

13:57for a brass instrument,

14:00a trumpet or a hunting horn.

14:03And why it's called a virile

14:06is that it isn't the normal kind of one.

14:09It has rather beautiful concentric rings engraved

14:12or whatever around it,

14:15which makes it a thing of beauty

14:18and it's very tall with the purity of the tone of the instrument.

14:22A mute, is it?

14:25A mouthpiece.

14:28You fit on to the trumpet.

14:31I got the wrong end.

14:34Don't be drawn into further explanation, Arthur.

14:37I haven't elaborated.

14:40Now it's Pauline Collins' turn.

14:43I suppose the best known owner of a virile is Cary Grant.

14:46It's one of these, you see.

14:49It's the cleft part of a cleft chin.

14:52It's called a virile.

14:55And also it was reputed

14:58to have been sported or indigenous

15:01to people who were witches or warlocks.

15:04Yes.

15:07Just like Cary Grant.

15:10It's the middle one.

15:14We'll take a poll later on.

15:17Anyway, Patrick's turn now.

15:20A virile is a small beetle that floats

15:23on the surface of ponds.

15:26It's got little feeble legs.

15:29It can't move around at all.

15:32Little legs don't push it forward.

15:35But when it has a little wind coming up,

15:38it erects a kind of appendage on its back

15:41that makes a little sail.

15:44Good little fellow.

15:47And this causes it to fly across the water

15:50in such a nuts which it munches.

15:53Lovely.

15:56So it's a rather feeble but clever little beetle.

15:59It's a cleft in the chin

16:02and it's the mouthpiece of a trumpet

16:05with all sorts of engraving on that.

16:08Would you like to choose?

16:11We think these descriptions have been absolutely splendid.

16:14All three, and how they're managed I don't know.

16:17This is the best game I ever played in.

16:20We go forward now without hope

16:23but without fear

16:26and suggest that it's a mouthpiece of a musical instrument.

16:29That means you've forgotten what the other two were.

16:32LAUGHTER

16:35I can never forget the description and the gestures.

16:38I thought it was sweet.

16:41Nonetheless, you swiftly dive for the engraved mouthpiece.

16:44Arthur, you did say it was that, true or false?

16:47I did.

16:50You've got it!

16:53APPLAUSE

17:00The man's a marvel.

17:03You've got the mastermind on your side.

17:06I think a handicap should be added there.

17:093-0.

17:12Virol is certainly that part of the trumpet.

17:15Now it's David Hunt's turn to tell us about

17:18Halicret, Halecret, I don't know.

17:21The frog...

17:24The French pronunciation is the correct one.

17:27Halecret.

17:30I'm sorry to be pronouncing it with a Norman French accent.

17:33There is some argument about whether it came to England with the Angevins.

17:36But whether that or not, it was extremely early.

17:39You seem to say Anchevies.

17:42I do, yes.

17:45You get that clear, not Anchevies, but Anchevies.

17:48The Anchevins, yes, I prefer calling them that.

17:51And what it is in one word is a vulnerary.

17:54Stop there.

17:57My dear fellow, that was the next word.

18:00Well, in other words,

18:03if I may, for the benefit of our viewers,

18:06in other words, a thing that you put on...

18:09that you put on wounds.

18:12It is a lotion for wounds much used in medieval times.

18:15The name itself, of course, is purely local

18:18and derives from Halecret,

18:21which is a small village in the Angoubois

18:24near Alençon,

18:27where the water originally came from

18:30and it was at one stage, I must admit,

18:33blended with Alamon according to another source with treacle.

18:36And it comes in Henry VI, Part I,

18:39where Talbot says, give me some Halecret to my wounds.

18:42Now, he pronounced the T.

18:45Well, I should tell you that Sir David will answer questions afterwards.

18:48Gabrielle.

18:51A Halecret is, or it was,

18:54a wooden tombstone which was used to mark a grave

18:57in the Isle of Man.

19:00It was carved from yew wood.

19:03Alas, it is no longer,

19:06presumably because the Isle of Man ran out of...

19:09not of corpses, but of yew wood.

19:12Corpses?

19:15No, it didn't run out of corpses. It ran out of yew wood.

19:18You're arguing with me. You're arguing with her.

19:21You would. I think, Frank, you'd better get off.

19:24I think so. I don't know how to pronounce it.

19:27It could be Halecret or Halecret or Halecret

19:30because, quite frankly, you do not see a lot of these about now.

19:33They are iron waistcoats

19:36which were split in two

19:39and then buckled on.

19:42Tudor Elizabethan times,

19:46although they were pike-proof,

19:49and pilchard-proof, as far as I know,

19:52they were much used to enhance a great noble's equipment.

19:55You're not listening to me.

19:58Shall I stop? Yeah. I'll stop.

20:01Good. Well, what they say it is, it's a heavy iron waistcoat.

20:04It's a sort of lotion you put on wounds

20:07and it's a wooden tombstone.

20:10Arthur Marshall has the chance to choose one.

20:13There was too much of this wound lotion.

20:16It went on forever, so I rule that out immediately.

20:19I rather like your wooden tombstones in the Isle of Man

20:22and it's hard luck they ran out of wood.

20:25But I don't think it's right.

20:28I settle for the iron waistcoat.

20:31Ah, well, now, that was, yes, that was frank, wasn't it?

20:34I am prepared to give you another chance.

20:37Would you prefer to choose something else?

20:40No.

20:43Oh, yes!

20:46APPLAUSE

20:52Yes, we've got the first 11 here tonight.

20:55Yes, that's finally what it is.

20:58It's an iron waistcoat.

21:01Amazing that anyone should want to wear one.

21:04Now we have willy wool and Pauline, you define it for us.

21:07A willy wool is an Australian term

21:10for a large expanse of country.

21:13Oh, thank goodness.

21:16Like the outback.

21:19And they do have an expression in Australia...

21:22They do, yeah.

21:25..which is in the willy wars, which means somebody lives very far away,

21:28like we say in the sticks. That's it.

21:31Yep, OK, well, that's one of the definitions. Now comes Patrick's.

21:34A willy war is a willful wind

21:37that howls around the horn.

21:40You might ask me, which horn?

21:43Which animal has the horn belonged to that the willy war howls around?

21:46But you'd be wrong.

21:49Because it's Cape Horn.

21:52That's where the willy war howls around, because it's a willful wind.

21:55Thank you.

21:58Lovely. Arthur Marshall's turn now.

22:01A willy war is a Lancashire slang term

22:04for something that rarely is called

22:07willy's tentering machine.

22:10And it's to do with cotton.

22:13And it's a sort of drum that revolves

22:16and it has hooks on it, hence tenter hooks.

22:19And it sort of unravels the cotton

22:22and puts it into a more manageable form,

22:25willy war.

22:29Well, it means outback in Australia.

22:32It's this machine that teases out the cotton

22:35and it's a sudden gust of wind

22:38more or less round Cape Horn.

22:41Gabrielle, your choice.

22:44Well, I should say probably the most unlikely

22:47sounding definition

22:50is this wind howling round Cape Horn,

22:53this willy war wind.

22:57Outbacks, yes, it's quite an Australian sounding word,

23:00being banished to the willy wars,

23:03I suppose.

23:06Or the cotton machine.

23:09Well, that also sounds quite likely,

23:12but because it sounds the most unlikely,

23:15I'm going to say that it's the wind howling round Cape Horn.

23:18Oh, it was Patrick who said this.

23:21Now he's got to tell us, true or bluff.

23:27APPLAUSE

23:38Willy war is all that Patrick said it was,

23:41possibly more.

23:44Now we have Cicel.

23:47Gabrielle, your turn to define.

23:50I expect you've all wondered how those Roman matrons

23:53managed to get all their menfolks togas

23:56so glistening white.

23:59Well, the answer is Cicel.

24:02Cicel was a compound of lime and starch

24:05and Roman laundresses

24:08used to use it to starch the togas.

24:11And some recipes for Cicel

24:14recommend just a pinch of indigo.

24:18And that is presumably...

24:21It presumably acted like sort of Victorian blue bag,

24:24you know, whiter than white.

24:27Right, so after that, Frank, it's your go.

24:30I hesitate, really, to say what this is.

24:33Oh, not again!

24:36Cicel is a weight you hold in your hand

24:39to make you jump better.

24:42The Greeks used to hold them,

24:45the Greeks used to hold them one in each hand

24:48and for a long jump they would

24:51thrust the weights backwards and then jump forward

24:54and they were under the impression that it helped.

24:57I don't understand how it did, but...

25:00Cicel.

25:03Yes, nice guy there, David Hunt.

25:06Well, this makes me feel very much at home,

25:09although on television,

25:12you ought to be asking Magnus Magnusson this,

25:15although I think that Arthur Marshall,

25:18with his knowledge of Dr Johnson,

25:21who, remember his book on the history of Iceland that he read,

25:24will do just as well, because Cicel is

25:27an administrative district of Iceland.

25:30It's the area presided over by a Cicel man

25:33who is the Icelandic equivalent

25:36of a Lord Lieutenant

25:39and I'm given to believe

25:42that in the year 1798

25:45there were no less than 21 Cicels

25:48but no snakes at all in Iceland.

25:51It was 1799.

25:54A sharp reproof.

25:57It's a pleasure to be busking with you both, I may say.

26:00Anyway, let me repeat in short order what it was.

26:03It was bleach for making togas crisp,

26:06it's an Icelandic county or region

26:09and it's a couple of weights in a jumper's hand

26:12apparently made you jump better.

26:15Pauline, your turn.

26:18Have a good guess.

26:21I'm fairly drawn to David Hunt's

26:24Icelandic regions

26:27but from my slim knowledge of Icelandic

26:30I don't know that it's a particularly Icelandic word

26:33but he's blinking away.

26:36Now, Gabrielle's

26:39Roman robin

26:42starch

26:45is also quite tempting

26:48but then again

26:51Cicel doesn't seem to have any Latin roots

26:54and I don't think that we would have

26:57translated such a word into an English form

27:01therefore

27:04I'm going to swing towards Frank

27:07and his weights

27:10because I think it probably helps you to jump

27:13I think if you have two bags which you swing along

27:16as you walk, you move a little bit quicker.

27:19Yeah, well, if it helps you in the end, it hinders you at the beginning

27:22but still we should soon.

27:25Too off-luff was that, Frank, I wonder.

27:28It's true, isn't it?

27:37How can it help? You're carrying great stones.

27:40It's a very seductive notion

27:43that if you swing them forward it might take you back.

27:46Anyway, who gave the truth?

27:49I know you've got it there.

27:52There.

27:58It's this Icelandic region and...

28:01I told you my knowledge was slim.

28:04The rest of you is too, very attractive.

28:07Thank you.

28:10I ring the bell and we get Twagga.

28:13The score's standing at 5-1 and Patrick will define Twagga for us.

28:16Twagga is a

28:19kind of Hampshire Dorset word

28:22meaning to walk delicately

28:25or to shuffle along.

28:28Was it not

28:31in 1907

28:34that a jocular nature lover

28:37wrote to the Daily News

28:40and said green finches

28:43may often be observed

28:46twaggering along a branch

28:49as if they had corns on their little feet?

28:52He wasn't making a joke, obviously,

28:55but he had observed green finches,

28:58whatever they are.

29:01Sounds as though he suffered from a lisp or something

29:04from swaggering along.

29:07A Twagga is an old word

29:10for a piece of tuft of hair

29:13that sticks up on top of a boy's head.

29:16In the days when schoolmasters

29:19were excellent boys, they would pull these tufts

29:22and boys fighting amongst themselves, ragging about,

29:25would do the same thing and cry out,

29:28oh, look, he's tweaked my Twagga.

29:31Pauline Collett, now it's your turn.

29:34Twagga is an exceptionally well-developed

29:37south-down lamb.

29:40When a farmer sees a lamb which is much better endowed

29:43than any other sheep in his flock,

29:46he says, by God, that's a fine Twagga.

29:49And he cuts it up and makes it into chops.

29:52So, well... Twagga.

29:55So it's a fat lamb, fat south-down lamb,

29:58tuft of hair sticking up on a chap's head

30:01and it's to walk delicately or that.

30:04Frank, your choice.

30:07Mastermind said I haven't got the faintest idea,

30:10so...

30:13It's not the first time either.

30:19Now, Greenfinchers,

30:22dancing along, singing,

30:25see them twagging along.

30:28I think not, corns and all.

30:31But I might come back to you.

30:34Don't bother.

30:37The tuft of hair that small boys are tweaked was very jolly.

30:40Jolly good. Thanks very much, Arthur. Enjoyed it.

30:43That isn't it.

30:46The lamb is a bit non-you,

30:49being ill and being cut up into chops.

30:52So I think...

30:55Lamb.

30:58I wonder now whether it was, because who gave the lamb?

31:01Yes, it was Pauline who said about the fat lamb.

31:04True or bluff?

31:07I didn't post my card.

31:10I didn't post my last card. Ah, there it is!

31:13APPLAUSE

31:20It's a well-known fact.

31:23Let us move briskly

31:26for Soros, shall we, and hear from Frank.

31:29Soros.

31:32Musical instrument.

31:35Rather equivalent to...

31:41Without the drone. Bagpipes.

31:44Yes, bagpipe, but without the drone, not like a Scottish bagpipe.

31:47Rather jolly, French one.

31:50Used in Brittany a lot to accompany their dances, very ancient.

31:53Now I have to ask David Hunt to be fairly swift.

31:56Sorace is, in fact,

31:59the name in the Cordillera de los Andes

32:02altitude sickness.

32:05If you're in Chile or even in Peru, Cusco, for example,

32:08you get too high, you get the Sorace,

32:11they say, he's got the Sorace.

32:14He's got a headache, he's never retired, he's feeling awful.

32:17Gabrielle.

32:20Sorocce is a sort of Italian pottery made from hot mud

32:23taken from the hot springs of northern Italy

32:26and it's poured into moulds while it's still hot and baked

32:29with the result that lots of the little bubbles still get trapped in the mud

32:32and that's what gives this pottery its particular

32:35unique, fragile, delicate quality.

32:38Right, so it's pottery with bubbles in, it's mountain thickness

32:41and it's a bagpipe without the drone.

32:44Patrick.

32:47Fairly swift, my dear chap.

32:50A dismal prospect, isn't it?

32:53It's all silly about bubbles in mud and that mountain thickness is nonsense.

32:56It's this non-droning bagpipe

32:59but it isn't really because it's mountain thickness.

33:02You're choosing mountain thickness. That was David Hunter of Love.

33:05There you have it.

33:08Hunter!

33:20Well, there you have it.

33:23Thank you. Yet again, Frank Muir's team has won.

33:26Thank you.

33:35So they are the winners but still they did have the mastermind on their side

33:38whether the other side was fighting...

33:41We didn't have any Confucius on their side.

33:44I'm going to try and remember everything he said but anyway, I must get on now.

33:47We'll have another dollop of ectoplasm from the Oxford English Dictionary

33:50next time. Until then, goodbye from Arthur Marshall.

33:56David Hunt.

33:59Pauline Polling.

34:02Gabrielle Grape.

34:05Patrick Campbell.

34:08Frank Muir.

34:11And goodbye.

34:20APPLAUSE

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