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🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 133 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC 5 Live. |
0:05.1 | Wasail. Wasail. Wasail. |
0:08.3 | That's very good. |
0:09.2 | It's a sea sander. |
0:10.5 | No, I know, I know, it's good. |
0:11.9 | I think you've used it before, but I absolutely used it before. |
0:15.4 | But when have we ever tried anything just once? |
0:17.6 | There are very few times of year that you can use the wassailing gag. |
0:22.0 | And for the benefit of those who don't, what would wassailing be? |
0:26.9 | If you go wassailing, it's an old tradition where |
0:29.8 | you go out and wassailing and you sing and you get nice, spicy Christmas time drinks |
0:37.6 | as a result of it. |
0:38.8 | Exactly. It's basically going round and making a noise outside people's houses. |
0:42.8 | Getting drinks for men. |
0:44.0 | Till they give you alcohol to go away. |
0:46.8 | Give us a drink for no reason. |
0:49.3 | No, no, give us a drink or we'll carry on singing. |
0:51.7 | It's a bit, yeah, I guess it is a bit like. |
0:53.6 | Ken Russell used to love a good wassail. |
0:56.0 | Yeah, he did. |
0:56.9 | He was often as Christmas approached, he would say, you know, we must go wassailing. |
1:01.9 | We never did. |
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