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Al Murray

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
371 total appearances

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

That engine will work in a straight line, right?

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

There will be the things you have at the start of the engine and the output at the end, right?

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

But they have to fit it into a box.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

a square box in the armoured box inside the ship.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

So what they've had to do is, you know, pack it in.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

So it all bends round itself and it's sort of concentric and all this sort of stuff.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

There's obviously a bit that has to be at the back of that box, but then everything else is curling round inside.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

I expect if it was a straight line, that engine would be as long as the ship, but they have to pack it all into the space they've got.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

Yeah, that's exactly what it's like.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

Yeah, all crammed in together.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

It's all got to fit in together.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

And obviously, all of it clad in lovely asbestos.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

And there are asbestos warnings absolutely everywhere in the ship.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

And it says, please do not touch or damage the asbestos.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

Well, at least the sign's up.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

And you made a really great observation, which ties into what you just said, is that you said it's like a cottage.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

It feels like an old country house, you know, ramp.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

sort of rambling with lots of different staircases that pop up in different places and Bakelite telephones.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

So it feels like an old country house.

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Belfast, Bunkers, and Vichy Show Trials

But when you get into the shell room, that doesn't.