Sir Patrick Stewart

You could probably keep the torch in the same hand.

I had to switch hands two or three times because...

I'm holding it in my hand now, and I would say it weighs six pounds.

Oh, all right.

You're not impressed, are you?

I can hear you're not impressed.

Exactly.

And I would say maybe the one other piece of advice I would give, and I think this is very important, try really hard not to fall over.

I think so.

I think perhaps that's maybe the best thing that I can pass on to any of your listeners who find themselves Olympic torchbearers in the future.

Try and stay upright, if possible.

Well, indeed, all of us signed four pages of restrictions.

Only in your dreams.

No, all of that is really frowned on.

It is there as a symbol of the Olympic flame carried from Athens to

And the flame stays alight all the time.

I was the last one to run before lunch, so instead of transferring the fire from one torch to another torch, it was transferred to an oil lamp, like a miner's, like an old-fashioned miner's oil lamp.

And that was kept burning all the way through lunch, and then the next torch was lit off the oil lamp and so on.

And I find that a rather beautiful...

and touching symbol, the idea of the eternal flame.