The Grand Tour: One for the Road | In Vogue: The 90s | Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter | Taskmaster

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Hello and welcome to Binge Watch, the podcast where we take a look at the hottest new TV

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and film releases on streaming television platforms. I'm Hannah Fernando, the group editor of Woman

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and Woman Home magazine. And I'm Ian McEwan, writer on TV and Satellite Week, TV Times and

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what's on TV magazines. And today we're looking at the new releases that will be available

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on Friday the 13th of September 2024, including Clarkson and Co in Prime Video's final Grand

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Tour. road trip and a new series of Taskmaster on Channel 4. We'll also be flicking through

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old issues of the fashion industry Bible with In Vogue the 90s on Disney Plus and checking

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out moving documentary series into the fire, Lost Daughter on Netflix. But first Ian, what

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is in the news? Next week of course it's the Emmy Awards, the prestigious television awards.

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You'll be able to watch them on Monday September the 16th on Sky Max. and leading the nominations

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well. You've got Shogun, you've got the Bear, you've got the Crown, Baby Reindeer which had

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a lot of press didn't it, Ripley and Palm Royale so a lot of our favourites that we've discussed

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on Binge Watch over the past year. What else is in the news Hannah? Well strictly starts

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this weekend, would you believe it? Winter Christmas is coming! got Paul Merson the ex-Arsenal and

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England footballer and we've got Sam Quek who's the Olympic gold medal winning hockey player.

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We've got a few names in there including Nick Knowles as well you'll remember him from DIY

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SOS. So yes lots to watch and of course Shane Ward who won the X Factor and I wrote his book

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so there we go shameless plug. We're going to start on Prime Video with the final road trip

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for the Grand Tour appropriately called one for the road and it will be available from

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Friday the 13th of September. Here's a clip. And do the lock nuts first. What are you talking

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about? What's the lock nuts? That is a lock nuts. This spanner's too big for the Tumutans.

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We don't all have to go to the same old folks home, do we? No. It's not obligatory after

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this that we all the next day. He said he's deleting our numbers as soon as we finish.

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And we've finished delete. There they've gone. Well, Hannah. cast your mind back it was in

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2003 that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May first teamed up on Top Gear as a

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presenting trio and of course after Clarkson punched a producer in the face because he couldn't

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have his hot dinner they had to leave the Bebe of course and so they launched the Grand Tour

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on Prime Video and very successful it has been. two 5 series 187 cars 73 breakdowns and 41

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countries yes those are the stats and I kind of feel like it's the right time to call time

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on the grand tour and although there are you know there are a lot of things particularly

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about Clarkson that I don't particularly like I always enjoy watching these three I mean

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it is always entertaining though I kind of

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I'm sure most people would have caught it, but it's basically, they just go on a road trip

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basically. It's a one-off road trip to some, usually somewhere quite exotic, in some interesting

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cars which break down a lot. I think it's difficult to kind of keep coming up with new things.

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That's part of the problem. And of course the guys, you know, they're getting on a bit now.

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You know, these are quite grueling shows to make. So the things that I particularly think

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have worn a bit, think... they modify their own cars which is quite a fun idea but clearly

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they're not doing it some team in a garage are having to do it and also the pranks which again

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they don't come up with the pranks and they probably don't actually do them you know that

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a lot of it is set up but there are certain aspects where I think they are for this one

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they're going to zimbabwe they're choosing cars that they've always... wanted to own. So a

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couple of them very much from my era. There's a Mark 1 Ford Capri, beautiful yellow Capri

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as seen in Mike Bubbins' comedy show. And there's also a Triumph Stag which I remember from my

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childhood. It's the usual really. I mean they end up in Kubo Island in Botswana which is

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where they film... their first special so it's very much par for the course. You know what

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you're going to get with the Grand Tour, of course you do. It's just a different location,

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different cars, same formula but it's a winning formula but I kind of feel that, yeah, maybe

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it's right to park up now. Hannah, will you be sad to see the end of the Grand Tour and

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did you enjoy this swan song? I like what you did there, Park Up. You know what, I know exactly

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what you mean about Jeremy Clarkson but I feel like the new Jeremy Clarkson era has come along

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and this has kind of almost paled into the sort of history books to a degree, albeit both of

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us have discussed this a number of times and we both really enjoy it. And this is no different,

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it is a swan song like you say, it's kind of the best to end with a bang but it does feel

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like the Clarkson's farm, particularly with everything else that he's doing at the moment.

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He seems to be making headlines for all sorts of other reasons and I don't know, I just I

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think probably it does need, it needs a rest whether it will come back after a few years

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and they'll have the same, because this really thrives on their dynamic doesn't it really,

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more than anything. It kind of is, they annoy me in a lot of situations with what they do,

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they're kind of ridiculous and you know Jeremy gets cross about things and does things to

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cars that I don't think genuinely, you know, generally kind of is badly behaved at times

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and I suppose that just all adds to it but really it's the banter between them that makes this

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and so it will be nice I think in a few years time like I can see them coming back together

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for that sort of nostalgic moment and people will enjoy that but I think everyone who likes

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this series, likes what they've done before will absolutely enjoy this but it didn't feel

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like a sad moment it felt like the right moment. them back perhaps in a few years time for a

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mobility scooter special. How about that? You're going to get down to the shop on back and see

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who comes first. Over on Disney Plus, arriving also on Friday the 13th of September, we have

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a new documentary series called In Vogue, the 90s, and here's a clip. What's the defining

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publication about fashion? Vogue.

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Boat's biggest pores is going to win tour. Oh my god. Why are you already taking sunglasses

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off? No, I'm going to wear them. I said... Everything was changing. It was a whirlwind. Way too messy.

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A crazy, amazing, astonishing time. The 90s turned the fashion industry upside down. I

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mean everybody knows Vogue don't they and it's a sort of pages of unobtainable joy that you

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look at and think gosh who can possibly afford these wares but actually you want it sitting

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on your coffee table and Vogue has been through a bit of a roller coaster ride and this is

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well there's six episodes to it firstly which in a weird way feels like a documentary but

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there are so many people involved I think that it would be hard to kind of squash down to

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the usual kind of hour or so. And this tells the story of the fashion industry during the

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90s and I suppose that interests me as well because 90s was sort of my era I suppose

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from you know Kim Kardashian, SJP, Victoria Beckham and of course the sunglass wearing

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Anna Wintour herself and there is actually a nose-bath, I found her quite interesting in

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this actually because you kind of you imagine what someone's actually like, you know she's

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obviously a kind of a fiercely strong powerful woman but there was a bit of a joke about her

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sunglasses in one situation and she said yeah I'm gonna keep it. on wearing them and she

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kind of changed the face of Vogue quite cuttingly for the last editor she says you know that

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she needed changing it was just boring it was kind of it was it was the same it just every

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cover looked the same and she put Vogue, she put Madonna on the cover of Vogue for her first

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issue in 1989 and that was a really big deal it was controversial that you know that sort

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of caused a stir but that's what she wants to do and that's what continue to do and in a

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world of declining print and interest levels where you can get things on really any platform

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you want to for free. It continues to thrive in its own way and it will, I think Anna Wintour

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has got something, she hasn't got anything to prove anymore but she is the face of that brand

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isn't she? And I just, I don't know, I found it quite interesting, I also found it interesting

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hearing from the top designers. included in there, Lestela McCartney, Mark Jacobs, hearing

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from them and what it means to them to be a part of something that is so big because it's

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quite hard to believe that you are in some cases, some instances, bigger than them. They want

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you, they need you and you have you have that power and we've seen some incredible shoots

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from Vogue. As I say it all feels very unobtainable, I don't look at it and think oh yeah I can

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relate to this but it is that coffee table thing where you just look at and they do some amazing

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shoots with some incredible access. So from what I have seen so far I did find it quite

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interesting and I mean I'm sure it's quite

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there are lots of episodes behind the scenes that we will never be party to. But you certainly

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see more than I feel I've seen before. What did you think? Well I'm not particularly interested

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in fashion, it may surprise you to hear that Hannah, but I absolutely loved this and in

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fact I went straight on to episode two because I had enjoyed it so much. It's the era of kind

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of the collision between fashion and the music business, isn't it? So there's quite a lot

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about that. Mark Wahlberg did a Calvin Klein campaign. And then of course they've got the

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George Michael video where he got all the supermodels. He wasn't in the video himself. It was just

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the supermodels, the big, I think it's the big five of that time, lip syncing. So that was

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very interesting. And then you've got the kind of the era of the supermodels when they became

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real celebrities. And then suddenly in comes Kate Moss. who was recruited by Calvin Klein

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for a campaign and the so-called heroine chic which was quite controversial look. Yeah, there's

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lots of interesting characters in the fashion industry and in the fashion publishing industry

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as you will know. I particularly enjoyed the stuff about Galeano and also Alexander McQueen.

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Really interesting. You don't have to be a fan of fashion to get a look or even a... ever

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to have read Vogue to get a lot out of this. I think it's really well done. Over on Netflix

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arriving on Thursday the 12th of September we've got a new documentary series called Into the

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Fire the Lost Daughter and here's a clip. She'd been missing 21 years when they finally found

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me. I was only 17 years old when I put my daughter up for adoption. Throughout my life, she was

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always in my mind. When I found out she'd went missing, I thought, I gotta find this kid alive.

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I don't care if I have to walk over God's green earth, do it. This is a two-parter. It's actually

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produced by the actor Charlize Theron. And at the heart of it is a woman called Kathy Turcanian.

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So she's telling her story basically and when she was a teenager she got pregnant and she

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gave up her baby for adoption, her baby girl, and it's something clearly she's very much

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regretted ever since. Anyway, fast forward many decades to 2010 and she gets a letter from

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the police saying Well, first of all, they tell her that her daughter, who she's had no contact

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with, who she's not heard from at all, went missing 20 years earlier. And secondly, that

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they've now found a body, and they need to find out whether it is her daughter, and can she

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send a DNA sample. So that's kind of the jumping off point, and she sends in the sample, but

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it's... it isn't her daughter. But this kind of sets her off on a quest to find out... Well,

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what did happen to my daughter? You know, because she ran away from her adoptive family when

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she was 14. What became of her? Is she still alive? So yes, she hits the internet, she sets

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up a Facebook page, she goes to meet her daughter's friends from high school. I don't want to say

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too much about how it pans out, but there are some big twists and turns and it's very moving,

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I must say. She tells the story very well. I'm an absolute sucker for these kind of true crime

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type documentaries and this is a very good one. Also, you can get through it quite quickly,

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it's only two episodes. But it is an amazing story, it really is. Very well done. What did

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you think, Hannah? Oh my goodness me, this is so incredibly moving isn't it? And I just think...

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say any parents I think it probably perhaps affect parents more maybe seeing something

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like this I don't know. It's hard to ever, I think of this real life stories that we tackle,

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it's hard to imagine a world in which you give up your child but of course there's many reasons

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and real reasons and courageous reasons that mothers and fathers have to make that decision

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sometimes and I think that's what comes across in this doesn't it really there she was giving

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up a daughter for adoption and then finding out that this daughter has then gone missing

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all those years on and then I don't know, I think that mother-daughter, mother-child bond

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is just so clear in this and it's just incredibly well executed I think. Really different, really

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heart rendering for a number of different reasons and yet it's

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like you say, you don't want to give too much away, but there's lots to this I think. I mean

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this probably could be made into a drama one day and would be, you know, would be incredibly

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hard for someone to play that part but maybe she could. It's just, yeah, very interesting

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and moving. We're going to end with a little bit of Much Needed. light relief over on channel

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4, Hannah, arriving on Thursday the 12th of September. It is the latest series of Taskmaster

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and here's a clip. Dad is back. This sounds like a total pain. Oh no. I found a pineapple

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and some string. That feels gross. Who's coming up with this nonsense? That was rubbish.

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Well you will have noticed that I was a little bit late to the podcast today, Ian, and that

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was because I was giggling away to the episode that was sent to us because it's really rather

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funny. Now I've got to be honest with you, I'm not a huge Taskmaster fan, you know, I'm not

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one of those people that's just waiting for this to drop at all, but I can see it's just

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brilliant.

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and then the relationship that he has with Alex Horne and those two are the ones that set these

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tasks for the comedians on the panel. Now this is the 18th outing for this show so it's popular,

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it's absolutely popular so I am incredibly late to the party really having seen bits and pieces

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of it but not really yet I'm really enjoying this. I was having a proper chortle to myself

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just before we before we started this. They've got all the comedians on the Andy Zoltzman,

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Babatunde, Alicia, Emma Seedy and Rosie Jones. So they they're the ones that have to go and

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do these ridiculously fiendish tasks which are set by the judges, Greg and Alex. And and then...

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they have to decide which will the taskmaster choose. It's quite, it took me a little while

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initially to understand, it sounds a bit stupid, makes me sound a little bit stupid, doesn't

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it? But what actually was going on here, because you get so caught up in, I mean these comedians

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are just really funny anyway, without them doing really silly things and they're just so, so

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quick. with their responses which of course I know they're comedians but it just never

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fails to amaze me how quick these people can be and you just, it's just a laugh fest, it's

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just absolutely fun and it's just really, I don't know. just seeing the, particularly someone

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like Jack Dee, who rarely smiles does he. I really like Jack Dee, I think I really find

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his humour funny. And, you know, seeing him do things that he doesn't necessarily want

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to do is quite funny in itself, you know, that alone. So, I don't know, they're kind of out

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of their comfort zone. It's a bit of fun, it's the 18th series and this is just going to keep

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on going, isn't it? I hope so because I'm a massive Taskmaster fan and although it's not

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being streamed, it's not being released as a box set, if you go onto channel 4 streaming

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every single previous series is on there and I'm what they call a retro-wonner because once

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I got into Taskmaster I just went back and watched every single series and I absolutely love it

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and I haven't grown tired of it at all. And yeah, as you say, Jack Dee is good value in

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this. I thought he was very funny. And Andy Zaltzman is quite an interesting character.

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He looks a bit like a mad professor. He's a bit of a polymath because he presents the news

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quiz, but he's also the stats man on Test Match Special. And one fun thing about Taskmaster

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is that quite often the celebrities decide to wear quite a weird outfit to take part in it.

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So you had Nick Mohammed's was dressed as a vampire at all the tasks. Phil Wang wore a

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sort of yellow jumpsuit, which was much discussed because of the things you could see outlined

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below the waist. John Robbins, one of my favorites, he wore a Freddie Mercury outfit. Yeah, so

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it's always fun to see what people turn up in. And Zultzman, he decided to do it wearing full

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cricket kit, including pads and gloves. And of course it was created. Alex Horne and there's

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now a live Taskmaster experience isn't there that you can... I think it's sold out actually

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but yeah it's an absolute joy. I love it and I'm so glad it's back but yeah, if you've never

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seen it, well what a treat you've got in store because there's so many series to binge your

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way through. Now we've got to that time Hannah where we find out what you've been binge watching

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over the last seven days. Well of course it's all about the new Beetlejuice but not for me.

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I went back to Prime and watched the original Beetlejuice. I love Beetlejuice but don't say

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it three times a year. Okay, well I found a film on Netflix which I remember seeing...

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Cinema trailers are so long now aren't they? You feel like you've seen the whole film. Anyway,

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I saw a trailer for Mother's Instinct not so long ago which is a thriller starring Jessica

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Chastain. and Anne Hathaway, so two big star names. It's a period drama and they're both

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suburban mothers, living perfect lives but then there's a tragic accident which affects their

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friendship. It's really good, they're both great in it although it does go a little bit crazy

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at the end. Now we've just got time to look ahead to next week which is a very strong week.

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I have to say. What's on the binge watch menu Hannah? Emily Maitlis' Prince Andrew interview

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gets a second dramatisation in a right royal scandal which stars Michael Sheen and Ruth

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Wilson and that's on Prime Video. And rebooted sitcom Frasier returns to Paramount Plus with

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a Seattle radio station reunion in Prospect. Yes, so we look forward to those and much,

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much more but in the meantime listeners.

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