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- History Today Pt. III
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-
- Welcome again to History Today. I'm afraid that tonight the axe is
- hanging over our programme and we have been warned that unless we
- properly explore tonight's topic of discussion, the Industrial
- Revolution, my and Professor F.J.Lewis' tenure on the television
- will be terminated forthwith. Err, so Professor Lewis what do you
- feel that the primary problems faced by urban society during the
- period 1702-1756 were ?
-
- Well, the Industrial Revolution caused a shift to urban conurbations,
- by what had been largely agrarian populations and communities and so
- forth. This lead to very poor living conditions and, in his journal
- Samuel Pepys gives a particularly harrowing account of one, err, man
- whom he describes thus : "He had scurvy and rickets and was covered
- from head to foot in festering sores. All in all he was quite the
- most ghastly apparition of a man I had ever seen."
-
- I see. And who exactly was this poor unfortunate ?
-
- That's you that is. That's the nicest thing he could find to say
- about you.
-
- I see. See that M. Khan ?
-
- I have certainly heard of the fellow.
-
- He's your best mate he is. He's like your special friend. You are
- him. Professor F.J.M. Khan is bent.
-
- Oh, a-ha-ha-ha. See a piece of old crust with like blue mould all
- over it ?
-
- That's got a bit wet in the corner ?
-
- Yes, yes, that's right. And very stale and hard.
-
- Has it been on the floor ?
-
- Yes, it has been on the floor. And it smells very bad because of it.
-
- Yes.
-
- That's your dinner that is. That's what you have at Christmas. That's
- your special birthday meal.
-
- See this ? That's you that is.
-
- Sorry, I didn't see you do anything then. What you did was: See this
- ? That's you that is. Oh, are you pulling a funny face now ? Oh,
- that's horrible, uh-uh-uh-uh ! Oh, stop it, no.
-
- You know that song ? [Hums part of "Popcorn"] That's your favourite
- number one song of all time. Oh, you've had a haircut. HAIRCUT !
- HAIRCU-U-UT !
-
- See that Theo Kojak ? That's you that is.
-
- [Spits] See that bit of flob ?
-
- Yes.
-
- That's you that is.
-
- No. That's your swimming pool. In your garden. Oh look, there's your
- mum.
-
- Well I think that no-one can be in any doubt that we have had tonight
- a most rich and enlightening debate. Professor Lewis, thank you very
- much.
-
- Thank you.
-
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