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This episode is dedicated to the late but in her day magnificent Stephanie Cole, who has died at the age of eighty four, world class actor with a career most in the biz would give their right arm for, all round superwoman and a very devil on the
ukulele banjo. She will be greatly missed. Thank you, Stephanie.
I was in York recently, which is very lovely. Hm. York to me is uh what Exeter is supposed to look like. Right, yes. So in what in your mind you picture York. Norwich is also sort of equivalent to that. Both Bidecker Blitz, but yeah, like Y York York and Norwich they did a better job of repairing it. And also they did they had less like bulldozers ravaging the old town in the sixties and putting up sort of bits of breeze blocking. There's a phrase you used there, w which you tossed off. I beg your pardon. And it confounded both me and Ben.
Tossed off, is that what you'd say?
Um wank wanked out um wanked out. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, go on. Um Which was by Decker Blitzed. Oh yeah, as in like the bl the blitz, as in the the the bombings of the Second World War, you got a there's a there was a sub blitz called the Baidecker Blitz. Right. Where he had a a guide book, the Baidecker guide book. It was a tourism book published before the war. Yeah. That was used by Goebbels to go, if we if we bomb the the premium cities in this book, that'll really make everyone in Britain sad. Oh, I see. Oh wow. Because Baidecker really says you must see York, you must see Coventry, you must see Norwich, you must see Exeter. But not Oxford, 'cause Hitlerwon did that for his base, you see.
It's time for Provincial Dad Chat.
Who's hidden my bloody walking boots? I'm not saying it's ruined the holiday, I'm just saying I asked for rum raisin. Get your skates on kids, otherwise we'll miss the inflatable session.
She's taking her mother to see Blood Brothers, which means more top gear time for me. Why would I need to go and see a podiatrist?
Of course I've kept the warranty information, darling. But there was a deal, so Oxford and Cambridge got let off and then certain cities in Germany were also let off as a kind of deal. We won't we won't touch your your Oxford if you don't touch our Vorps. Wasn't it?
We did their um we did their Dresden and We did horribly. I always assumed that Dresden was some kind of industrial town and we were w you know, taking out all of the munitions factories and stuff. And then I went to Dresden. It's the most beautiful place. Yes. It's this incredible, like old seventeen hundreds buildings. It's kind of yeah, it's their Oxford or Georgia. It's amazing. And then I was like
Oh we that was such a bad that was bad. Yeah, yeah. This is such a weird start to the show. It is, yeah. But they did it both sides. But in the they they did a dreadful job in Exodus of of rebuilding and in the sixties like m mashed up all kinds of nice stuff as well. They're quite weird about it to this day. Mike, Mike, are you skirting
around
a little phrase
that you like to pull out? Gum. Which is uh What the Luftwaffe couldn't do with the council bloody dead.
Who needs the Luftwaffe when you got extra counsel? All right. They're basically doing the same job. You should give them the same bloody uniforms as well because basically one like for like. Yeah. Although the difference is the trains actually would have run on time if the Luftwaffe had landed and then g became in charge of It landed. Landed and become in charge of trains. Anyway, I was treated to York and I had a a lovely little s surprise on Saturday because there York was uh beset by n uh swarms of naked cyclists. Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh. Oh, I'm just thinking about seats. I'm just thinking about the seats and the crack I'm just thinking about the crack and the seat the seat and the crack. Yes. Well also kinda 'cause the age range there was quite a wide age range, but the it was
I would m most of it was was centered around the sort of middle age and late middle age, I would say. It's never the person who you want to see their ass crack splayed over a hard leather seat, is it?
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