Are 20-somethings really this clinically brain-dead? How could people this stupid possibly

get a job? Hold a job. Let alone be able to go to some resort. These mindless idiots

have no knowledge of books, films, art, history, politics, or anything else that normal people

would use in small talk on a date. They appear to be completely uneducated, completely

uncultured, and massively immature. An extremely sad and pathetic commentary on the current

generation. Disgraceful. So that, Tom Holland, is a review entitled Brainless More On

this. Was this in the Daily Mail, Dominic? No, it's an IMDB. It's a review of Love Island.

That actually reads very like some of the reviews that academics write about the rest

of history. Anyway, so that's Love Island, the great television sensation of our times.

And Tom last year, we did a rest of history special themed around Love Island. You enjoyed

it so much you wanted to do it again. Well, they do love Island every summer. So if they

do love Island every summer, we should do historical love Island every summer. So last

year's winners were Stanley Baldwin, your great hero, 1930's Prime Minister, and the

Empress Theodora, and they made a lovely couple. They did. And we should explain to listeners

who are not mad. Why don't we, what the hell is happening here? Who are not Brainless

More Ons? We should explain to these listeners what's going on. And to do that, Tom, we have

recruited an absolutely tip-top expert, the same expert who joined us last year, one of Britain's

leading Love Island connoisseurs. And that is, of course, would you like to introduce

us to the audience? Yes. So this is my daughter, Katie, who actually introduced me to Love Island

because Katie and her sister Eliza watch it a great deal and talk about it a great deal.

So that's what inspired last year's historical love Island. And Katie, welcome back to the

show. It is lovely to have you on. And I wonder, for the benefit of those very few of

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