What common wild plant gets its name because it resembles something when the sun rises?

The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

Take a measure of intriguing stories, a little bit of sideways thinking, two shots of humour and a splash of anecdote,

shake and pour over ice, and please enjoy our guests responsibly, who today are from the London

History Show, Jay Draper.

Hello, good to be here.

How are you doing? Welcome back to another episode. How did you feel about last time?

Yeah, I really enjoy coming on this show. It's so much

fun. And yeah, thank you very much for having me. These questions are always like utterly bizarre.

I wish I read the funny pages more, like those weird, like page seven parts of the newspaper,

because I feel like that would come in handy. The question I always have for returning guests is, what do you work on at the minute?

It's going to be a few weeks till this episode comes out.

So what can people expect if they look now at what you've been making?

So I'm currently working on an episode about Budica, who burned London to the ground in 60C.E. And yet we have a big statue of her right next to

Big Ben. And I'd ask why, but the answer is going to be watched the video about it, isn't it?

The answer is the Victorians. Okay. The answer's always the Victorians. Yeah, Walter Scott.

Sorry. Also, returning to the show, our botanist and science communicator, Molly Edwards. How's it going, Tom? Thanks for having me. Well, thanks for being back on the show. How did you find it last time? Oh, I loved it. It tickled my brain. It was great. I'm just getting praise for the show here. It's lovely. Thank you very much.

What are you working on at the minute, then? What can people expect from you in the weeks between this recording and the episode coming out? Yeah, I've been visiting some fun labs. I think I'll have a

video coming out where I visit a lab at Purdue and we do some really crazy genetic manipulations on

a really common weed that grows out of the pavement. And so we'll be doing some fun, weird

things with plants. And I want to ask more, but the answer is again going to be, watch the

video on your channel. The last person we have today is a maker and I don't know how else to describe.

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