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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be.

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Speaker 3: Mike Godley is our travel correspondent. He's focusing on Stone

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Speaker 3: Hinge and Bath in the UK today.

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Speaker 2: Hi Mike, Good morning Jack.

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Speaker 3: So if you are planning a UK trip, do you

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Speaker 3: reckon Stone Hinge is worth a visit or is a

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Speaker 3: little bit you know, underwhelming?

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Speaker 2: Well, previously I found it a real down there, and

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Speaker 2: the reason for that was in the past used to

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Speaker 2: be all of this rather constant road traffic clattering right

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Speaker 2: past the antiquity on the Soul's pre plane, and I

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Speaker 2: think people just thought this is real bad. So thankfully

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Speaker 2: that section of road has been re rooted. So now

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Speaker 2: when you go to Stonehenge you actually have to walk

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Speaker 2: to the monument across these fields. And it's so good

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Speaker 2: because Stone Hinge feels like it's been liberated and a

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Speaker 2: new found sense of solitude, so much better. And I've

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Speaker 2: done a really good job in recent years with the

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Speaker 2: makeover to the visitor center. So they've now got this

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Speaker 2: awesome gallery which does a really good job showcasing the

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Speaker 2: life and times of the druids who built the Stone Circle. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: about four thousand years ago. I only found out there recently, Jack,

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Speaker 2: that the Druids they were only second to the King

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Speaker 2: and Queen, you know, in terms of important and Celtic life. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were so hugely regarded. And yeah, you were just

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Speaker 2: learning so much about Neolithic Britain at this visitor center,

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Speaker 2: So definitely worth a stop.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great, Okay, cool. I've never been to Stonehinge, but

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Speaker 3: I did sometimes wonder if it was a bit sort

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Speaker 3: of you know, yeah, it's a bit underwe way, But

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Speaker 3: that sounds great with the visitors center, it sounds amazing.

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Speaker 3: Just what half an hour away is? Ye is Bath?

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Speaker 3: So what do you think is Bath's great calling card?

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Speaker 2: I adore Bath, Jack, and I think it's the architecture

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Speaker 2: that really stands out. Everything is just so semetrical, you know,

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Speaker 2: so Georgian, so region, and it's all crafted from that

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Speaker 2: honey colored limestone. Then you've got those staggering ancient Roman

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Speaker 2: baths which are tapped into Britain's only thermal hot springs.

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Speaker 2: But I've always thought a really good test for a

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Speaker 2: city's grandeur when they tout they have grandeur, is how

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Speaker 2: well does your city look under gray skies? And this

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Speaker 2: is Britain after all. But I can say that Bath

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Speaker 2: passes the rain test and flying colors. It is a

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Speaker 2: showstopper in all weathers.

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Speaker 3: Nice are there are essential sort of landmarks that you

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Speaker 3: should be ticking.

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Speaker 2: Off well for architectural nerds like me, I think the

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Speaker 2: circus in the Royal Crescent are the top two. They

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Speaker 2: are just marked pieces of urban living, you know, from

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Speaker 2: a couple of hundred years ago, all of those symmetrical curves,

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Speaker 2: multi story stone buildings, they're just so beautiful. Interestingly, the

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Speaker 2: circus check it was actually inspired by Stonehenge and the

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Speaker 2: Sun's movements, so that is what sort of dictated the

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Speaker 2: design of the Z. And then there's all sorts of

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Speaker 2: other interesting curios like Pulteney Bridge, this big grand stone

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Speaker 2: structure which was actually inspired by Florence's ponte Vecchio with

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Speaker 2: all of the shops incorporated into it. And if you've

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Speaker 2: seen Russell Crow's Le mis film from about a decade ago,

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Speaker 2: that that actually featured in Le Miz depicting Paris, which

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Speaker 2: is a bit out there. But what really intrigued me

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Speaker 2: when I was in Bath just a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: The city has become such a hit with set chests.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about set jesting in the past, and Barth

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Speaker 2: is absolutely on that map. And I tell you one

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Speaker 2: thing that's really fueled that recently Bridgeton, because so much

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Speaker 2: of Bridgeton is shot in Bath. Ah.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's so good. Do you know I interviewed Russell

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Speaker 3: Crowe when he when he released that film. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: remember the Hands of Time so well as well as

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Speaker 3: Russell crow and Lamors fans. Jane Austen fans swoon over

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Speaker 3: my goodness. So what can you do with your Jane

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Speaker 2: Yeah, her footprints are everywhere, but the Jane Auston Center

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Speaker 2: is the big drawer, very much telling the story of

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Speaker 2: how Bath shaped her life and her writing. The center

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Speaker 2: is just so well put together, lots of authentic period

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Speaker 2: exhibits and lots of costumed mannequins. And the reason I

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Speaker 2: mentioned that is because I thought they were mannequins, but

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Speaker 2: they suddenly spring to life as real people. So they've

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Speaker 2: got some really good little theatrical touches in that center,

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Speaker 2: and these mannequins come real people offer some really good

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Speaker 2: pithy anecdotes as you're head around the center. Yeah, definitely

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Speaker 2: worth checking it out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, nice, And Jane Austen is not the only major

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Speaker 3: literary figure with a museum, and bart.

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Speaker 2: No also on the literary trail. Just down the street

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Speaker 2: Mary Shelley's House of frank and Sign and this is,

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Speaker 2: I have to say, more of an entertainment experience than

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Speaker 2: a museum. So you've got the likes of an eight

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Speaker 2: foot automaton of Frankenstein her beautiful Monster. There lots of

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Speaker 2: electric shock displays, which is kind of cool, but also

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Speaker 2: unpacked Shelley's life and times and Bath one of the

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Speaker 2: most amazing things Jack but known to Shelley back in

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Speaker 2: the day. She was practically living on top of the

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Speaker 2: Roman baths and their big gates and they were only

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Speaker 2: discovered about sixty years after she left, So she was

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Speaker 2: a little of this amazing antiquity and no one knew.

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Speaker 3: Is that amazing? Yeah? So was it? What like they're

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Speaker 3: built on top of it or had been covered with ground?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, just layers, you know, layers

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Speaker 2: of civilized that happens.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy to me that would happen. But anyway, so

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Speaker 3: Bath got really good buns, doesn't.

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Speaker 2: It very good? Yes? So for starters, there's Sally LUNs Buns,

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Speaker 2: which you will find in Barb's oldest house. It's like

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Speaker 2: from the fourteen hundreds of this house, and Sally was

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Speaker 2: a French refugee. She established your bakery here about four

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Speaker 2: hundred years ago and it's still the same site that

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Speaker 2: operates today as the bakery with these enormous, delicate, semi

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Speaker 2: sweet buns obviously best washed down with the pot of tea,

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Speaker 2: but they have this quite unique bready m cakey texture

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Speaker 2: that's supersized. So they will serve them in the halves

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Speaker 2: and then you can choose a topping to slather on them.

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Speaker 2: But I would definitely recommend the cinnamon butter. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: that is so good.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Okay, how does that differ from the bath bun?

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Speaker 2: I know, this becomes quite an academic exercise to explore

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Speaker 2: these buns. Jack, But the bath bun interesting story. It's

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Speaker 2: just around the corner from sally LUNs there's the bath

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Speaker 2: bun Tee shot and this is the place to go

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Speaker 2: for the bath fun. So this is a smaller and

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Speaker 2: sweeter bun than Selly's. Lots of currants, they put crushed

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Speaker 2: sugar cubes on top of it and the bath bun

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Speaker 2: was actually created by an eighteenth century doctor called William Oliver,

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Speaker 2: but his bunds became so popular with his patients have

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Speaker 2: proved to be the undoing so then William all Oliver

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Speaker 2: moved into the biscuit trade. But all the moderation jackets

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Speaker 2: are good thing. Those buns and bath, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They sound very tasty. Indeed, all right, thank you so much, Mike.

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Speaker 3: I've never bed Bath, would absolutely loved it because Bristol

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Speaker 3: is just up the road, isn't it. So yeah, now

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Speaker 3: out the western side of the aisle. Yeah, no, I

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Speaker 3: would absolutely love to go. So those are really useful tips.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. We'll make sure all of Mike's advice for

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Speaker 3: exploring Bath and Stonehenge are up on the news talks.

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