I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.

In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?

Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.

A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by

their own light and that light is to be recognised by others. The long history of heroism

with me, Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, welcome to this week's podcast.

Hello.

It's not Simon and Mark, if you missed the show, and you're just listening to podcasts.

It's me, Edith Bowman.

And me, Clarice Lockery.

Now, before we dive into this week's show, I've got a couple of,

they're kind of, not health and safety points that

have come in on emails and stuff, but they kind of border on that. So I just want to get your

take on these. We've got two of them. The first one's from Matt Tatum. He said, this week I took

my three and a half year old for his first cinema experience to the Lego movie too. First things first, three and a half. What's your thoughts on that as a first cinema experience? I feel like, okay. I don't remember it, but. I mean, I'm a terrible judge of this. I mean, I think my youngest saw Star Wars when he was three. I mean, I am a terrible parent when it comes to the films that I've shown my kids

way too early. Anyway, back to Matt. We were both excited, as it was also my first time back

to the pictures since he was born. We chose the only U certificate film playing so he wouldn't

get too overwhelmed by anything. On arrival at a well-known multiplex chain, we bought our popcorn,

took our seats.

Then the trailer started. After a few minutes, there was a whining sound coming from the seat next to me. Too loud, daddy, he complained. I covered his ears until the film started and hoped

things would improve. However, as the bangy, crashy, exciting stuff happened, he became

increasingly uncomfortable again. Too loud daddy, came the voice again, crashy, exciting stuff happened. He became increasingly uncomfortable again.

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