Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
Programme. Could you hazard a guess as to why Ocean Temperatures are so vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . Vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . There are a number of they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories being they ordinarily would be . There are| a number of theories being explored at the moment by climate scientists. The first, youve already mentioned, is this transition from La Nina To El Nino. The three years prior to 2023, el nino in the tropical pacific, with cooler surface waters, a rapid transition from La Nina To El Nino in 2023, and that tends to push up temperatures. What we saw was Sea Surface Temperatures in other parts of the world were rising even before el nino kicked in, so there are other potential theories, including things like changes in the amounts of sulphur in shipping fuel over the past few years, influence from the tonga eruption. And
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Since then, ive been on a mission to use social media to showjust because im blind, it doesnt mean im broken. How does a Blind Girl Play tennis . Girl organise her wardrobe . How does a blind girl ride a motorbike . She revs the engine. I dont my dad does. Im going to get off this now because its scary. She screams. When i first lost my sight, it felt like my world had shrunk forever. But now im embarking on a great big african adventure in kenya. With the help of my cane and a guide, ill tackle some challenging terrain. And you were using my cane, werent you . She laughs. Its the toughest. The toughest thing that ive ever done. Come face to face with the effects of rhino poaching. You know, hes meant to teach people a lesson. Hmm. He was meant to. He was meant to be here to get people to understand that you shouldnt be poaching these beautiful animals. And end up metres away from some very hungry lions. Roaring. The lions here. Here he is. I can hear a lion and a buffalo. Yes. 0h he w