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I stood on the beach for some considerable time, drinking in the beauty, grace and immaculate strength of her. Beauty and grace seem rather ludicrous words to describe a vessel of such size,

particularly one whose primary function was for destruction. But I can honestly say I never could,

nor indeed can even today think of more suitable words to describe her. And that was Albert Ted Briggs

upon seeing HMS Hood as a child. Welcome to We Have Ways of Make You Talk with me, Al Murray and James Holland, for Hood versus Bismarck, episode three. We've given you two episodes of Bismarck lingering. I mean, if, you know... We're calling this episode The Mighty Hood, aren't we? We're just doing what it says on the tips. Yes, but I think it was in the Lady Chattley trial where the judge said, I know pornography when I see it. This is the thing with battleships, isn't it? It can get a bit lingering, can it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This will slightly give you the horn. Dare I say it. Particularly HMS hood. What a beauty. Well, this is the thing, isn't it?

Obviously, we're going to talk about what then happens to the hood.

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