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Late to the party!

All right, let's have a look at some of the emails that came in over the weekend for Late to the Party.

Christian, you were talking on the show about what you remember from history lessons at school

after helping your daughter with a Cuban missile crisis test. It reminded me that when I was 11 at the time of the height of the Cuban missile crisis, the government put out an information film.

Do you remember how scary government information films used to be?

There's public service announcements and videos. There should be some terrifying ones in the UK

about the dangers of chip pan fires, flying a kite near overhead electricity.

Yeah, that. Kristen, the government putting out an information film. This is incredible.

Bear it in mind, this was quite a few years ago, right?

This was a height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Information on how to build an atomic bomb shelter by taking the doors off from inside your

house and putting them around the kitchen table.

So basically, the atomic bomb is going to be set off anytime soon.

And you've got to start finding the screwdriver to take that.

That's going to stop an atomic bomb.

That's what stopped all those people surviving, is they didn't take their doors off.

It would honestly take you half an hour or more to take a door off the hinges.

A door versus an atomic detonation. When the four-minute

warning went off, we were then supposed to get the mattresses off the beds as well to reinforce

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