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One of the best ways to improve your English is by listening to native speakers.
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And a few weeks ago I went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park to interview people visiting there and we had a look around.
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If you haven't seen that video, please watch it now.
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I'll put a link on the screen.
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Or enjoy part two.
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so when I was a kid I used to love coming in here
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and then when you come out it's just like open fields you know with the sculptures
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so look come over this way
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when I was a kid this place felt absolutely massive and now it well it doesn't strange
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so behind me you'll notice there are some rabbits actually they're not rabbits they're just white rubbish bags
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and i heard that the artist was driving along the road
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and she thought she saw rabbits in the field she stopped her car looked outside
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and it was just white plastic bags and that gave her the idea to create this.
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What's your name, sorry?
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Rick.
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Rick and?
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Susie.
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Susie, lovely to meet you and thank you for doing this interview.
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So what brings you to Yorkshire Sculpture Park today?
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To see the latest exhibitions, see what's going on.
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Yeah, okay, and do you come here often?
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Yes, we do, yes.
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We see most of the exhibitions.
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Wow.
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But we don't live so far away, so it's okay.
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Oh, right, how far exactly?
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20 miles.
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20 miles okay if not nearer and uh what do you like about
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or like what's your favorite thing about yorkshire sculpture park well i like the trees i do too actually
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and the wildlife the lake yeah just the whole um environment really yeah it's
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and and of course they have loads of different exhibitions in the chapel
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and uh in the big underground um display place so yeah it's it's just lovely yeah
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We used to come here when it was a college.
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Wow, okay.
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And we have friends who are students here.
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So this was their campus.
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When was that?
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A rather nice campus.
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In the 80s, 80s, 90s.
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Oh, wow.
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It was a teacher training college as well.
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Yeah.
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Wow, that's really cool, isn't it?
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So you're both artists?
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No, well...
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I'm a composer, musician, but retired.
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Oh, amazing.
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That's really cool.
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Right.
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What's your favourite season?
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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That's tricky.
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This is one of the really nice things I mean it's obviously lovely in autumn
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because of the autumn colours but then in the spring you get all the blossoms.
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Late spring when the bluebells are coming out in the woods.
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There's a wonderful wall around the lake and there's a beautiful bluebell.
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And somewhat cooler.
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Yeah it's actually a bit hotter than I was expecting actually.
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It was supposed to be cloudy
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and raining today i thought 20 chance of rain yeah
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but no it's a lovely place to come just very relaxing
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as well it is isn't it would you like to pick a card we could just read it out slowly
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what do you very much want to achieve you what a peaceful life I asked the question,
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I've got to answer it.
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A peaceful life is a good one.
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Survive the next 25 years I suppose, is the main ambition I think.
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I think that's a good ambition.
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Particularly now in the current climate, or lack of climate.
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Okay fantastic, thank you and then you've got many to choose from.
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I feel like I'm doing a magic trick.
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What would you like to change about yourself?
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Oh, gosh.
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Be a bit more tolerant.
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Be a bit more tolerant.
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Yes.
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Yeah, that's good.
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I'll answer that one.
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Yeah?
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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Oh, isn't that lovely?
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Be a bit more tolerant.
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OK, yeah.
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So are you married, are you?
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Yes.
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How long have you been married for?
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34 years.
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54 years.
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Any advice to, we're relatively recently married, haven't we?
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Any advice?
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About a successful marriage, you know, to have a successful marriage.
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Give each other some space.
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Patience.
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Patience.
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Listening.
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Listening.
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You say it first and you say it's okay.
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Telling what your partner tells you to do, do it.
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Okay, that's good advice.
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Yeah, fantastic.
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Well, thank you ever so much for being on the channel.
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It's really helpful.
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And yeah, I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
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Thank you.
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I hope you have success with yours.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah.
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So we've filmed a few people and it's been really interesting.
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What's so fascinating for me is, you know, when you see a stranger from across the road or something and you don't know anything about them.
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But just from a short one or two minute conversation, you can really get a vibe, a feel of what kind of person they are.
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And I just find it really interesting.
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And I think for me, I always get this kind of impression that we're kind of all the same.
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We all have these same kind of desires, hopes and dreams and fears and stuff.
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but we kind of separate ourselves and think that we're different to others when really we're quite similar.
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First of all, thank you so much for saying yes.
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You haven't said what we've got to say yet.
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So what are your names, sorry?
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Richard.
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Richard.
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John.
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John.
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And I'm Dave.
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Hi, Dave.
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Hiya.
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So what brings you to Yorkshire Sculpture Park today?
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Just going for a walk, basically.
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OK.
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That's it.
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Do you live nearby?
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I live in Barnsley.
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Barnsley.
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Cool.
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Great.
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Sheffield.
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Sheffield.
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Sheffield as well.
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We meet up every two or three weeks for a stroll somewhere, so today was here.
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That's great, great choice.
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We came here years ago, not together, but I came years ago when it was more
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or less first opened and always meant to return and then Richard suggested it, so here we are.
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We've seen it's grown.
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So when was the last time you came here?
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Oh, I can't remember, I can't remember at all say it hadn't been open long
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and you can see it's grown yeah wow yes it must have changed a lot did you come here
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when it was still a college then i can't remember i
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can't remember it's i've been talking a long time ago yeah we yeah i came with me uh now wife
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and my son and her grandson
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and we just had a wander around i don't remember there being a great deal of cultures
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so like i say it's It has definitely grown hasn't it?
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Yeah, even over the past 15 years.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And it's not your first time either?
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I've been once or twice, can't remember.
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I have been, brought my wife and some of my grandkids.
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Oh great, do they like it?
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They like some of the sculptures, obviously the giant rabbits, a big success.
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Anything that looks like a robot.
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No, you choose one.
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You want to go first?
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You go first then.
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The meaning of life.
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What would you do if you could wave a magic wand?
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That's easy.
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Yeah, I can do that.
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I could wave one.
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But what would you do if you get the idea?
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I'd take John back to 1967 so he could see Frank Zucker and the Mothers of Invention.
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That's a good one, isn't it?
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That's a good one.
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Yeah, a really good one.
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OK, your turn.
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A bit small font.
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Which unfortunate emotional traits have you inherited from your parents?
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Sorry about the question.
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Oh dear, which unfortunate emotional traits have you inherited from your parents?
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That's difficult, isn't it?
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I think I can be a bit...
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Nasty with it.
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No. Emotional?
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I can sometimes feel difficult to express emotions.
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Because my parents weren't particularly emotional.
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They weren't very...
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Kind of that generation.
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Yeah.
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we're very touchy-feely so I think I've sort of inherited that
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so I would say that yeah yeah yeah
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so there's a word there's a term for it these days a emotional neglect I think it's called something like that
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so yeah I think that's okay great well thank you both
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for answering can I can I do one yeah for you
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oh for me yeah oh no one's ever done asked me
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that before so you have to hold them and I'll pick them out.
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Oh yeah, fair enough.
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Oh this is fun.
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Okay.
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Well we've got to be honest.
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Yeah, oh god I don't like this question.
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What are your biggest mistakes?
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I'm stuck in these two.
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My biggest mistake is not starting sooner.
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That's a good one.
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Yeah.
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And that would be for this channel.
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So for example I wanted to start about 19, 20 years ago and it took me that long to, because you have to really pluck up the courage to go up to people
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and ask them if they want to be filmed and stuff
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and you get rejected and then
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when you put it online people might give you good comments people might give you mean comments
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and or comments that might you know yeah probably the wrong way
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or whatever and uh yeah
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so that's what it would be yeah starting sooner well thank you very much yep cheers lovely to meet you
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and you have a good walk
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and uh yeah cheers this is what it's all about guys walking through nature and discovering these amazing sculptures on the way
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wow look at it reminds me of an amethyst stone i
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think anyway let's keep going let's keep going around wow i
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just love this tree i feel like my nana would absolutely love it so i'm here with Mark and Paulina.
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And is it your first time here?
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Second time.
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Second time.
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Second time too.
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Okay, so what brought you back then I should say?
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Well we wanted to see the Henry Moores, because we remembered them from last time.
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And there was the American Indian exhibition, so that was another reason to come back.
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Because we don't live that far away.
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Okay, great.
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What thing in the underground gallery, the contemporary Indigenous Native American stuff, any particular pieces that stood out for you?
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I like the photographs, because I'm a photographer.
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Yeah, I can see that.
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So that was my highlight of that place.
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You like the tapestry stuff?
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Yeah, I like the tapestry, so there was some very powerful tapestry,
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and I especially found the photograph of the women with the red paint on their mouth quite moving.
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So I found the whole exhibition quite moving because it dealt with the topics that I think are very contemporary,
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but I'm a weaver, or I'm trying to become a weaver.
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So the tapestries were the most interesting thing, but that photograph had a very strong emotional impact for me.
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Absolutely.
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What got you into weaving?
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Well, good question.
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I've just retired and I come originally from Latin America.
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And thinking about what to do when I retire, I'd like to do something artistic and painting is too complex, too many things, while weaving takes me back to,
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it's linked to family history.
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I like that you can play with colours and textures and it's taking me back more to my roots.
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So it gives me the opportunity to think more about the history of my family, that sort of thing.
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Amazing.
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Yeah.
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And what kind of photography do you like?
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I mainly do seascapes. Do you?
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Yeah.
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So we go to the coast a lot.
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I'm photographing some of the statues here and the sculptures as well.
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But that's not my main thing.
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What is it that attracts you the most about seascapes then?
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Its beaches are flat and I've got arthritis so it's easy.
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I used to do landscapes but I can't do the hills anymore so Right, right.
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I tend seascapes are easier on the legs.
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Wow yeah I like the photographer.
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Is his name Philip Plesson or something?
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Do you know him?
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No. I don't know if that's his name.
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I might have cut that out.
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You go first.
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Okay so pick one and then please read it out.
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What would you try to achieve if you didn't worry about what other people thought?
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I never worry about what other people think.
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Oh wow.
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So it doesn't bother me.
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What's a way to live?
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So I don't care what people think.
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My photography, people don't like it.
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It doesn't make any difference to me whatsoever.
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What's the secret to that?
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I'll carry on doing my own thing.
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Do you have a secret
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or a technique of not caring about what other people think of you? or is that your nature?
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I think it's partly my nature, but I think if you want to be artistic, you have to be your own person and do your own direct thing.
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I don't think, you can look at other artists and get influenced by them, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to decide what you want to do,
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not what other people think of it.
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Wow, that's such a great answer.
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That's it.
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Yeah, great.
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Okay, well, thank you very much.
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And then it's your turn.
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Yeah.
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I knew you'd say that.
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I don't care what.
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You've been married a long time.
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So, oh, this is a double whammy, this one.
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What do you normally worry about?
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What would you worry about if you couldn't worry about those things?
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You can choose a different one if you don't like it.
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No, I do worry about lots of things at different levels.
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I also worry a lot about political, societal things.
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I worry a lot about societal things, about poverty, about a society that's becoming less and less inclusive,
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more and more cutting the opportunities of people.
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So I worry a lot about that.
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I also worry a lot about my own family.
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Until recently, I was looking after my mother who had bad health.
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She passed away.
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I looked after my father.
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I also looked after my daughter who had bad health problems
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so I worry a lot about that that sort of personal issues
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and again what sort of support exists for those people now
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if I didn't have to worry about those things what would be worried well I'd probably sort of try
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and do more thinking more about art and colour and
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that sort of thing that are not you know not the big questions of society
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but more about how to express what is it that I'm trying to express, that sort of more existential thing about my own self.
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But I haven't really had time to do that.
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Yeah, understandable.
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That's the answer.
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It's been really lovely to meet you both.
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Thank you.
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Great talking to you.
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Thank you for being on the channel today.
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You're welcome.
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So I'm here with...
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Susanna.
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Susanna and...
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Chloe.
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Chloe.
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And we are heading to the chapel.
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Where are you two heading?
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We're heading towards Henry Moore.
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OK.
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And he's going to be our sort of last bit of our journey, really.
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We thought we'd end with Henry.
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Aha.
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And we've loved it.
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We've loved just walking around the lake and the grounds, which are stunning, and then being up close and personal with these incredible sculptures,
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leaving us with more questions than answers.
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Oh.
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So, did you say it's your first time here?
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It's my first time here.
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Because it sounds like you're, I don't know, a seasoned art critic or something.
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Yeah, we both love art.
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You both love art.
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You tell them where you are and the art you see a lot.
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Wait, I don't want to dox myself.
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Can I speak on your behalf?
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I don't know.
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A bit.
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Chloe's in a beautiful architectural environment, let's put it that way.
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And she shares her cultural experiences with me on a WhatsApp regularly,
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which I love because she's an academic
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and very clever, I think this is me talking for her
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and very interesting but she has this wonderful sort of cultural
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so she searches out lovely cultural things and sharing
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that with me at my end of my life as against
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my niece's young it's lovely it's a sort of nice joining of the minds of young and old so
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so i've saved coming until clearly could come and stay and we could have a trip together that's really nice.
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We didn't do a lot of research, I have many friends who have been many times and
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so I'm the last in place to get there but yeah
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so but it's been lovely so far and we've got more to do.
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Yeah and Chloe you can hold it if you like, what kind of academia are you in like?
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I'm doing maths at uni.
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Maths?
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Yeah I really like it and it's kind of like it's like a weirdly creative subject
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so um really yeah like weirdly like you kind of really have to think of outside the box
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when you're trying to prove new things
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so um i think it's kind of been interesting to see
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like these two different types of creativity in my life right like the the maths
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that i'm used to and then like kind of coming here
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and almost like using a different part of my brain to try
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and appreciate art and yeah with my very artistic aunt
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and everything so and i i do not understand the maths language yeah we talk
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and i make her tell me things and i don't understand any of it
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so the translation is poor for me
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but then we find something like this where we can meeting
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of the minds yeah you're literally on the same page and
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and chloe's interest of math in life what you what we
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use it for yeah interests me whether it's in biology
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or i don't know everything is well it's a way to
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describe the universe as well isn't it you know it's it's
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yeah i'd love to to have a go absolutely fantastic
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so here are the cards we both have a go do
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we yep you'll each have a turn you want to go first
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so you can pick a card does it say meaning that's really interesting
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because 10 minutes ago I said I'm coming away with
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so many meanings not clear isn't
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that interesting we actually said we need a meaning for so many things didn't we so okay if you dared
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what would you be more like?
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Oh gosh, what would I be more like?
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An owl.
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An owl?
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Why is that?
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Because they have great wisdom, they do weird things with their head, they can see things underground,
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they can listen and hear and they live at night and they live in the day and they're spooky and they're beautiful.
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Would you say you're more nocturnal as a person?
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I think I could be, I'm not, but I think the night is fascinating. But they're just beautiful.
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Owls are beautiful from that side.
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They are, they really are.
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Great answer.
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Bonkers answer.
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I love it though.
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I absolutely love it.
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I love it so much.
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You have no idea.
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What might surprise people if they really knew you?
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Ooh, maybe it's sort of...
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I don't know what surprises you about me.
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I'll tell you what surprised me that's terrible isn't it
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and this is this is in appreciation
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that with her amount of work she has to do for
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her studies she still has understood the balance of life
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and needing to get into the world enjoy architecture enjoy trees enjoy nature her balance is really healthy
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and I that is good for me yeah
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so she's very good to be it's rare to find someone who really knows the balance of life to be honest.
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And it's innate, nobody's told her to do it, she's just done it.
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You talk a lot about architecture but you're doing maths at the moment, so what's this architecture angle about?
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Because she sends me pictures of lovely buildings.
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I just appreciate a good building, you know, I think sort of looking around you, you know, we're always kind of looking down at our phones these days,
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it's kind of, it's good to really just like take a beat
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and look around you and I think sometimes using technology
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and you know you don't have to cut out all technology but using it to connect with other people, show people what you've been seeing,
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what you've been doing, starting that conversation it really helps build connections in life and keep connections strong I think.
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Yeah, yeah.
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What's your favourite type of architecture?
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Do you have a favourite style or like for example you know the kind of brutalist architecture or classical gothic.
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I appreciate both or all kinds really.
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I do enjoy a bit of a bit of a brutalist structure.
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I think that's quite interesting just the way that I think but obviously like
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old beautiful architecture is something completely different so I don't know I think it just depends what mood I'm in.
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Okay great.
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All right, so I'm here with...
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Oliver.
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Oliver.
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Alex.
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Alex, nice to meet you and thank you for doing this interview.
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So, what brings you to Yorkshire Sculpture Park today?
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We're actually driving back down from Scotland all the way back down to London.
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So we thought we'd stop off and also I came here about 18 years ago
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my parents and my family so I thought it'd be a cool place to stop off
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and see it all those years later.
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What a story, eh?
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Wow and well I need to ask you then how has it changed
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or your memory of it and then until now if you have much memory.
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I can only remember a few sculptures and they're still here
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so I can't really say yes it has changed or hasn't changed.
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It's a new experience and not a new experience so it's good.
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Okay and is it your first time here?
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Yeah I've never been before, Yeah.
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Impressions?
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First impressions?
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It's good yeah, got some strong pieces.
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Yeah.
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Are you guys arty guys or are you here more for the nature and for a bit of a walk?
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Arty, yeah.
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Arty.
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Okay so you're arty, less so.
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Yeah.
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Okay interesting.
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So are you into sculptures?
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Are you into?
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Yes sculptures, all sorts of art forms really.
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Okay well again I think I should ask the question like did anything stand out to you today?
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Anything from the new exhibition in in the underground gallery?
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Yeah that was a cool exhibition, the aboriginal, the contemporary indigenous Native American stuff.
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Yeah it's very cool, I actually know one of the artists
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that was in it so it was cool to come back and see her work.
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Wow, how do you know them since they're in America?
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I've exhibited with them before in America.
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Oh so you're also an artist?
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Okay what kind of art, are you Are you willing to share your art?
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Sure, it's like ceramics and painting mostly.
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Okay, I'll put some stuff on the screen if that's okay.
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Sure, yeah.
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Alex is a scientist, so he, you know, different field.
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Just like different sides of the brain?
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Basically.
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Okay, you're a scientist?
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Yeah, microbiologist.
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Microbiologist, okay.
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What are you doing at the moment then?
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At the moment I'm just working for a pharma company, but we're both actually moving back to New Zealand in less than a month.
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I've only just heard your accent.
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Yeah.
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I only just noticed that.
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I was born in New Zealand and Oliver was born here in Blesley.
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And then you moved over, what, like 18 years ago?
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17 years ago?
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Oh, sorry.
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Moved over?
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My whole family moved to New Zealand.
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And then we've been living here in the UK the last two years.
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Wow.
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Why did you leave New Zealand?
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It looks incredible.
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It's just small and you know there's so much of the world outside of New Zealand.
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It's hard to get to places, travelling time and price and everything.
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So yeah, we've just done some travelling around Europe and just seeing the rest of the world.
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But yeah, time to go home.
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Any favourite place on this European tour?
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Italy's very nice.
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Italy?
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Where did you go in Italy?
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All over.
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All over.
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Any favourite place?
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Venice was nice, Florence was very good, Pompeii was amazing.
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Yeah.
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I'm going to take my wife to Florence I think.
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It's my favorite place.
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I have to take her, but I need to learn Italian first.
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What's your Italian like?
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We manage to survive with very little.
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Oh really?
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Just English.
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Okay.
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You pick up, you know, certain bits, but generally just surviving them, being nice.
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Absolutely.
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Would you recommend someone to visit New Zealand?
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Definitely.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, for sure.
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What would you say is like, what are some of the three top things that someone should do if they go to New Zealand?
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They should do a camper van tour around the South Island.
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That's always good to do.
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Okay.
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I think my sister did that.
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Yeah, that's probably the best way to see most of the country.
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It's just to drive it.
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Yeah, well in the North Island, definitely check out the beaches.
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Yeah, both the West and the East Coast are great.
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You get different vibes.
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Yeah, if you're into surfing, then it's the West Coast.
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But if you want just more family-friendly beaches, it's the East. But yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah okay so pick a card don't pick from the bottom
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because the people have already answered them all right
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so one second okay if you couldn't fail what would you do um
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if i couldn't fail probably try
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and start um a business where i mean aims to help people
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but but generally i'm currently in the pharmaceutical industry um and
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if i couldn't fail i'd try and make a less
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or non-for-profit pharmaceutical company but those don't really exist but um
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but if yeah if i couldn't fail then yeah just trying to give access to medicine
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and health care to everyone else that when do you feel most alive um probably when i'm out in nature
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yeah like i love going for walks in the woods i love uh fishing so being doing that and being outside.
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Anything that's where I'm at outdoors is the best time to be alive.
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Yeah, amazing.
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I always wondered about fishing, right?
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Because I'm interested in fishing, but you can't just start by yourself.
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I don't feel like I could just buy a rod and some bait and just sit on a river and...
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You could try.
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I could try, couldn't I?
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I could try, but probably fail.
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And so how does one get into fishing?
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I was brought up doing it.
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So there you go.
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So my dad and my grandfather loved doing it.
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But also most fishermen are very keen to teach other people to fish.
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So you just need to find someone that will teach you.
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Okay.
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Do you also like fishing?
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I come along.
553
Most of the trips I'm reading and watching the fish.
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But there are times when you grab a jet ski and go on the water in New Zealand and just fish.
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And that's fun.
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I enjoy doing that on the back of the jet ski.
557
There's that TV show what's it called uh it's bob mortimer
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and someone else and it's gone what's it called uh gone fishing gone fishing i i love
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that i love watching that when i can't sleep at night yeah that
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that that's half a fishing show half just uh just chatting
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just just friends yeah it's actually a fun fun show
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that yeah anyway guys thank you for being our last interview of the day um i'm really happy
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i i asked you both to uh do it
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so thank you enjoy the rest of your day safe travels back thank you
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and good luck with everything wow what an amazing day i
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really didn't expect it was going to be like this we met some truly incredible people um all creative
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and thoughtful reflective and just really wonderful to talk to
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and it makes me think that i want to speak to strangers more often i hope
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that doesn't sound weird but i feel like maybe we should talk to each other more
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and uh we have more in common than we think we do.
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Anyway, I'd better find the car because I don't know where I am,
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but thank you so much for watching and of course we'll see you in another episode.
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Bye-bye.

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この動画で話す練習をする理由

ネイティブスピーカーの自然な会話を聞き、真似ることは英語上達の近道です。この動画ではイギリス・ヨークシャーの彫刻公園でのリアルな会話が収録されています。日常的な場面で使われる表現やイントネーション、さらに地域特有のアクセントまで学べるので、shadow speech(シャドーイング)の最適な教材です。特にIELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。なぜなら、実際の会話で使われる柔軟な表現や流れを体得できるからです。

文脈の中の文法と表現

会話から学べるポイントをいくつか紹介しましょう。

  • used to ~:「昔は~していた」という過去の習慣を表します。「I used to love coming in here」のように、思い出話でよく使われます。
  • What brings you ~?:「何で~に来たの?」という丁寧な聞き方で、観光地での会話で頻繁に使われます。「What brings you to Yorkshire Sculpture Park today?」のように使います。
  • loads of:「たくさんの」という口語表現で、「they have loads of different exhibitions」のように、カジュアルな場面で使われます。

発音の注意点

ヨークシャーのアクセントは独特で、いくつかの単語の発音に注意が必要です。例えば、「20 miles」の「miles」が「マイルズ」ではなく、軽く「マイルズ」と発音されることがあります。また、「exhibitions」のような長い単語は、途中で息を継ぐように発音されるので、英語シャドーイングの際はリズムを合わせることが重要です。「shadow speak」の練習でこれらの発音を覚えれば、自然な会話ができるようになります。

さあ、この動画を使ってシャドーイングを始めましょう。少しずつでも繰り返すことで、発音やリズム、表現力が向上し、自信をつけることができます!

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作i've been talking · you've been seeing · you've been doing
「used to」 used to + 動詞 — 今はもう違う過去の習慣や状態used to love · used to come · used to do
条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果if you couldn't fail what would you · if i couldn't fail i'd try
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhaven't seen · have you been · we've filmed

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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