Alan Davies

Now, one day into my rat-free world...

I've heard alarming things about bubonic plague returning and increasing.

It sounds like removing all rats.

It's only going to be a small part of that.

Yeah.

So perhaps we're being a bit unfair.

Rats have a branding problem, I suppose.

Garbage and germs.

We don't want them in our homes.

We don't want to see them.

But, Joe, some people are feeling sad now that they've been gone for 24 hours, aren't they?

It's the end of the first day, and I'm feeling slightly wistful and emotional for the people's pets, but delighted for communities in other countries who are perhaps looking to a rat-free future.

It's one month in and I'm moving the party to the countryside.

The rat menu there is limitless.

Grains, vegetables, fruits.

So Stephen, with them gone, have our farms become super productive?

Now, if you think my no rats plan is a fantasy, I want you to look at Alberta in Canada.

Back in the 1950s, they launched an aggressive anti-rat campaign and to this day it is considered a rat-free place joke.

Is Alberta the utopia I'm imagining it to be?

Now, earlier, I said it was unthinkable that we are related, but it's a scientific fact.