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This is top flight time machine. I am Andy Hop body Dawson.

Popper I'm saying I'm nifty Delaney so what?

Welcome along is It is the final part of the John Knox Odyssey. We're looking at the

the the might of the man who was the Blue Peter's star, let's face it in the 60s and 70s, John Knox and his possibly

his finest moment when he climbed up Nelson's column wearing some flares and a jacket

looking at the business to be a look looking like the front man of a half decent mid-90s Britpop band.

This one of the most courageous acts by anybody ever in the history of Britain.

But the mad thing looking back on it is it's a legendary thing right even if I think even if you didn't because John

notes wasn't quite my era I was more of a Peter Duncan Simon grew me or a guy but you just knew if you grew up in the eight years new John Oaks and when you thought

of John Oaks you thought of Shep and you thought of climbing Nelson's column it's just

part of the cultural fabric do you know what I mean you You were raised with it. They taught you it in

schools, right? I did, this is what it means to be British. Yeah, they have pictures of

him up on the wall next to a picture of the Queen and Churchill, right?

And he, um, and so you have this notion, oh yeah, John Nokes Clim Nelson's column,

oh yeah, it was the most amazing thing of all time it was

really courageous and it was this huge deal right what a fucking man what a legend

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