Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On two days episode, brace yourself, get it together. I'm joined by Nancy Bertwistle winner

of Great British Bake Off series 5 where we discuss all things Great British Bake Off and

essentially like the question of this episode is why are you such a badass Nancy Bertwistle?

For like the first like 10 months I was hallucinating an age that wasn't there. I kept wanting

to say birth whistle the first like the first like that was like in 2000 and 14.

I'm joking. So welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Vaness and I just I want you

to brace yourselves if you're in the car, if you're driving just prepare this is of all 100

plus episodes I've ever done. Honey, this is the one I've I've literally been waiting

for this episode since May, 2018 just like shallowly like from when I was supposed to come

with queer. I but then I didn't get to come and now it gets finally happening in front

of my face. It's welcome Nancy Bertwistle. I can't believe you're finally here. So you know,

first of all just so that everyone understands you obviously are one of the most iconic winners

of Bake Off of all time in America. We call her what I call the Great British Bake

Challenge turns out we don't even call that it's not even that name in America. It's

like the Great British baking show. That's right. Yes. And then over here it's Bake Off.

Bake Off. Yeah. So and you so why is it that on Netflix that it seems like it's series

one but it's or no series. How does that work? Well what happened Jonathan was and bake

I was series five. The the four series before that the first two were on what's known

as BBC two which BBC one is the main channel. And but Bake Off was on BBC two for the first

four series. Oh, what off were for the first one. And then for series was I series five

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