<p>Reading Aloud: Episode 9</p><p>0001 10:00:12:09 10:00:15:16</p><p>Hello, and welcome to "Reading Aloud", the programme about books</p><p>0002 10:00:15:16 10:00:17:21 that's more than just a review show.</p><p>0003 10:00:17:21 10:00:23:06</p><p>It's about sharing books that you're passionate about using in schools.</p><p>0004 10:00:23:06 10:00:27:20</p><p>Now, these exam crammers may not excite much passion,</p><p>0005 10:00:27:20 10:00:31:22 but in today's programme, one top author launches a blistering attack</p><p>0006 10:00:31:22 10:00:33:06 on testing.</p><p>0007 10:00:33:06 10:00:37:16</p><p>These exams don't just crucify the children, they crucify the teachers.</p><p>0008 10:00:37:16 10:00:41:15</p><p>(Michael) Also in this show: pupils play pitching to the publisher,</p><p>0009 10:00:41:15 10:00:43:15</p><p>I do my Russell Crowe impression.</p><p>0010 10:00:43:15 10:00:46:20</p><p>"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius."</p><p>0011 10:00:46:20 10:00:50:12</p><p>And the public prove why we need Bill Bryson's guide to science.</p><p>0012 10:00:50:12 10:00:53:21</p><p>- Do you know what a proton is? - No.</p><p>0013 10:00:57:09 10:01:01:21</p><p>First, an author with a fascinating range of material and interests -</p><p>0014 10:01:01:21 10:01:03:13</p><p>Robert Swindells.</p><p>0015 10:01:03:13 10:01:06:05</p><p>He's not afraid to tackle controversial issues</p><p>0016 10:01:06:05 10:01:08:19 like nuclear disarmament and homelessness.</p><p>0017 10:01:08:19 10:01:12:19</p><p>He's also responsible for chilling and magical adventure stories</p><p>0018 10:01:12:19 10:01:15:07 like "Ice Palace".</p><p>0019 10:01:15:07 10:01:17:14</p><p>The hero, Ivan, lives in a land</p><p>0020 10:01:17:14 10:01:20:02 where the winter is dark and fearful.</p><p>0021 10:01:20:02 10:01:24:04</p><p>Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother,</p><p>0022 10:01:24:04 10:01:27:17 and Ivan braves the bitter cold and packs of wolves</p><p>0023 10:01:27:17 10:01:30:05 to find the little boy.</p><p>0024 10:01:31:05 10:01:33:24</p><p>"And somewhere, back there, he knew</p><p>0025 10:01:33:24 10:01:36:12 the wolves were running in his tracks."</p><p>0026 10:01:36:12 10:01:39:13</p><p>"He must find a tree to climb."</p><p>0027 10:01:39:13 10:01:44:14</p><p>"Wolves can outrun any living thing, but they cannot climb trees."</p><p>0028 10:01:44:14 10:01:49:03</p><p>"He stumbled on, looking wildly around him,</p><p>0029 10:01:49:03 10:01:54:11 but the trees just here were pines with smooth, icy trunks."</p><p>0030 10:01:54:11 10:01:56:11</p><p>"The wolf cries drew nearer." 0031 10:01:56:11 10:01:58:20</p><p>"He plunged forwards, gasping."</p><p>0032 10:01:58:20 10:02:00:15</p><p>"They had seen him now."</p><p>0033 10:02:00:15 10:02:05:12</p><p>"A few seconds more and they would be upon him."</p><p>0034 10:02:07:12 10:02:10:24</p><p>(Michael) Ivan's adventures have really captured the imagination</p><p>0035 10:02:10:24 10:02:14:16 of the children at Leegomery Junior School in Shropshire.</p><p>0036 10:02:14:17 10:02:17:14</p><p>They've all read the book, but teacher Merle Traves</p><p>0037 10:02:17:14 10:02:20:01 wants to know how they would promote it.</p><p>0038 10:02:20:01 10:02:22:11</p><p>What is it that's so special about this book</p><p>0039 10:02:22:11 10:02:24:17 that I should spend the money to publish it?</p><p>0040 10:02:24:17 10:02:28:10</p><p>It's really exciting and thrilling, 0041 10:02:28:10 10:02:32:05 and every child in the world would want to buy it.</p><p>0042 10:02:32:05 10:02:34:21</p><p>(Merle) Really, the focus was children's writing.</p><p>0043 10:02:34:21 10:02:37:15</p><p>I wanted to improve their writing,</p><p>0044 10:02:37:15 10:02:39:18 instead of the sudden story that started,</p><p>0045 10:02:39:18 10:02:42:08 this happened, this happened, and there's the end.</p><p>0046 10:02:42:08 10:02:45:17</p><p>I wanted them to think carefully about the type of language</p><p>0047 10:02:45:17 10:02:48:17 they were using in that opening sequence.</p><p>0048 10:02:48:17 10:02:52:12</p><p>(Michael) Did you ask them to guess what might come next as you read?</p><p>0049 10:02:52:12 10:02:55:15</p><p>(Merle) That's right. I waited till the first incident,</p><p>0050 10:02:55:15 10:03:00:00 because what takes place is he's got a number of obstacles.</p><p>0051 10:03:00:00 10:03:03:12</p><p>The main character is going to get his brother back,</p><p>0052 10:03:03:12 10:03:07:13 and in order to do that he has to overcome a number of obstacles.</p><p>0053 10:03:07:13 10:03:11:09</p><p>So after the first obstacle I wanted them to predict</p><p>0054 10:03:11:09 10:03:13:12 what was going to happen next.</p><p>0055 10:03:13:12 10:03:16:19</p><p>There was some really good thinking coming from the children.</p><p>0056 10:03:16:19 10:03:20:14</p><p>"As Ivan was walking, he felt the ground start to shake."</p><p>0057 10:03:20:14 10:03:23:10</p><p>"He did not know what was happening and felt scared."</p><p>0058 10:03:23:10 10:03:26:00</p><p>"He was alone in the woods with the ground shaking."</p><p>0059 10:03:26:00 10:03:28:17</p><p>"And as he turned, he saw a blinding light, 0060 10:03:28:17 10:03:31:20 and a crack in the ground started to open</p><p>0061 10:03:31:20 10:03:34:11 until it was as big as a lake."</p><p>0062 10:03:34:11 10:03:36:21</p><p>"It's so cold that the trees shiver."</p><p>0063 10:03:36:21 10:03:40:00</p><p>"Because it's magical it's like a dream come true."</p><p>0064 10:03:40:00 10:03:42:05</p><p>"The snow looks..."</p><p>0065 10:03:42:05 10:03:46:03</p><p>(Merle) If they weren't committed to the story, it wouldn't work,</p><p>0066 10:03:46:03 10:03:48:03 but at the same time, you are able to say:</p><p>0067 10:03:48:03 10:03:50:19</p><p>"Listen to this. How does he describe it?"</p><p>0068 10:03:50:19 10:03:55:18</p><p>And you've got really good examples of the description in the book.</p><p>0069 10:03:55:18 10:03:58:12</p><p>I love that phrase you use - "committed to the story". 0070 10:03:58:12 10:04:02:16</p><p>Yes, in the sense that they wanted to know what happens at the end.</p><p>0071 10:04:02:16 10:04:07:06</p><p>And what works really well is that it pulls the class together.</p><p>0072 10:04:07:06 10:04:11:06</p><p>There's a lovely shared experience that they have.</p><p>0073 10:04:19:05 10:04:23:03</p><p>"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius,</p><p>0074 10:04:23:03 10:04:25:09 commander of the Armies of the North,</p><p>0075 10:04:25:09 10:04:27:24 general of the Felix Legion,</p><p>0076 10:04:27:24 10:04:31:21 loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius,</p><p>0077 10:04:31:21 10:04:36:07 father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife."</p><p>0078 10:04:36:07 10:04:40:16</p><p>"And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next."</p><p>0079 10:04:40:16 10:04:43:12 Russell Crowe, eat your heart out.</p><p>0080 10:04:43:12 10:04:46:17</p><p>Well, the man who penned those famous lines from "Gladiator"</p><p>0081 10:04:46:17 10:04:49:21 is the Oscar-nominated writer William Nicholson.</p><p>0082 10:04:49:21 10:04:52:03</p><p>The screenplay has brought Nicholson fame,</p><p>0083 10:04:52:03 10:04:55:12 but he's also an award-winning, best-selling children's writer</p><p>0084 10:04:55:12 10:04:58:05 specialising in fantasy.</p><p>0085 10:04:58:05 10:05:01:02</p><p>(William) What I'm doing now is writing fantasy novels.</p><p>0086 10:05:01:02 10:05:04:15</p><p>I've got a new novel out called "Seeker".</p><p>0087 10:05:04:15 10:05:08:08</p><p>What I'm trying to do in "Seeker" - it's very ambitious -</p><p>0088 10:05:08:08 10:05:12:10 it's three books, and I'm taking three teenagers,</p><p>0089 10:05:12:10 10:05:16:15 and I'm putting them through enormous changing experiences</p><p>0090 10:05:16:15 10:05:20:03 as they pursue what, to them, is the most valuable thing they can do,</p><p>0091 10:05:20:03 10:05:21:19 which is serve their god.</p><p>0092 10:05:21:19 10:05:25:06</p><p>I have tell you, their god will turn out to be not what you expect.</p><p>0093 10:05:25:06 10:05:27:00</p><p>Nothing is simple in these books.</p><p>0094 10:05:27:00 10:05:30:17</p><p>But what I promise you is this is me trying to say:</p><p>0095 10:05:30:17 10:05:33:00</p><p>"Everything that you need to learn for life,</p><p>0096 10:05:33:00 10:05:35:18 these characters will learn in front of your eyes,</p><p>0097 10:05:35:18 10:05:37:17 including how to have superpowers."</p><p>0098 10:05:37:17 10:05:41:12</p><p>(Michael) In "Seeker" there's a pirate called the Wildman.</p><p>0099 10:05:41:12 10:05:43:13 Now, the Wildman looks rather like me,</p><p>0100 10:05:43:13 10:05:47:12 except you've got to imagine me with long, blond curls, OK?</p><p>0101 10:05:47:12 10:05:49:12</p><p>My arms are bare and tanned,</p><p>0102 10:05:49:12 10:05:52:02 and I've got these silver bangles all down it,</p><p>0103 10:05:52:02 10:05:55:07 and I've got bright-coloured clothes, and I am a river pirate.</p><p>0104 10:05:55:07 10:05:57:23</p><p>I come in my boat with my team of pirates,</p><p>0105 10:05:57:23 10:06:00:12 and all I want to do is rob and kill.</p><p>0106 10:06:00:12 10:06:04:21</p><p>I come into a village of terrified villagers, and I'm the Wildman,</p><p>0107 10:06:04:21 10:06:09:07 and the first thing I say is, "Hee-ya! Do ya love me?"</p><p>0108 10:06:09:07 10:06:11:18 because the Wildman loves to be loved. 0109 10:06:11:18 10:06:14:08</p><p>And if you don't love him, he cuts your throat.</p><p>0110 10:06:14:08 10:06:17:19</p><p>Something very interesting happens when you write a story.</p><p>0111 10:06:17:19 10:06:21:03</p><p>You think what you're doing is writing a story that's just fun,</p><p>0112 10:06:21:03 10:06:25:00 and all you're interested in is the plot and how it develops,</p><p>0113 10:06:25:00 10:06:27:06 and making your characters be fun.</p><p>0114 10:06:27:06 10:06:29:08</p><p>Actually, what happens when you write</p><p>0115 10:06:29:08 10:06:32:14 is everything you most believe starts to come out,</p><p>0116 10:06:32:14 10:06:34:11 and you don't know it's happening.</p><p>0117 10:06:34:11 10:06:39:09</p><p>But the act of storytelling is also the creation of values,</p><p>0118 10:06:39:09 10:06:41:10 the communication of values. 0119 10:06:41:10 10:06:45:00</p><p>(Michael) Values that, in "Seeker", involve a quest for power.</p><p>0120 10:06:45:00 10:06:47:20</p><p>And he doesn't even touch him, and the Wildman flies,</p><p>0121 10:06:47:20 10:06:50:01 flies away, he's completely knocked over.</p><p>0122 10:06:50:01 10:06:55:08</p><p>So the Wildman gets up and he thinks, "This is real power."</p><p>0123 10:06:55:08 10:06:58:00</p><p>"I want some of this."</p><p>0124 10:06:58:00 10:07:02:00</p><p>When I started writing my first children's novel, "The Wind Singer",</p><p>0125 10:07:02:00 10:07:04:15</p><p>I said to myself, "If anybody will want to read this,</p><p>0126 10:07:04:15 10:07:06:22 it must have strong emotion driving it",</p><p>0127 10:07:06:22 10:07:09:06 and, "What do I really feel strongly about?"</p><p>0128 10:07:09:06 10:07:11:19 And up popped the idea - exams.</p><p>0129 10:07:11:19 10:07:16:23</p><p>My three children were beginning to get into this mad testing thing,</p><p>0130 10:07:16:23 10:07:18:20 where everything gets tested.</p><p>0131 10:07:18:20 10:07:22:10</p><p>They get measured, the schools get measured. It just drove me crazy.</p><p>0132 10:07:22:10 10:07:26:20</p><p>I thought, "I'll write a novel which smashes the idea of exams."</p><p>0133 10:07:26:20 10:07:30:12</p><p>These exams don't just crucify the children, they crucify the teachers.</p><p>0134 10:07:30:12 10:07:33:07</p><p>They force the teachers to go down these narrow rails.</p><p>0135 10:07:33:07 10:07:36:06</p><p>And I know teachers hate this. Many of them have told me.</p><p>0136 10:07:36:06 10:07:37:17</p><p>I'd hate it if I was a teacher.</p><p>0137 10:07:37:17 10:07:40:11</p><p>What I want from a teacher who's teaching my child</p><p>0138 10:07:40:11 10:07:45:20 is for that individual to pass on the passions and the enthusiasms</p><p>0139 10:07:45:20 10:07:49:12 and the knowledge and wisdom of that individual, whatever that may be.</p><p>0140 10:07:49:12 10:07:51:16</p><p>I mean, what else is worth passing on?</p><p>0141 10:07:51:16 10:07:55:05</p><p>And it just makes me weep when I see that they say:</p><p>0142 10:07:55:05 10:07:57:21</p><p>"I'm sorry, I can't answer that question."</p><p>0143 10:07:57:21 10:08:01:00</p><p>"It's not part of the syllabus. We must stick to the syllabus."</p><p>0144 10:08:01:00 10:08:03:05</p><p>I mean, that's not education.</p><p>0145 10:08:03:05 10:08:06:14</p><p>William Nicholson sounding off about exams there,</p><p>0146 10:08:06:14 10:08:08:10 and I tend to agree with him.</p><p>0147 10:08:08:10 10:08:13:10</p><p>I've sat a good few exam papers in my time and had my scary moments.</p><p>0148 10:08:13:10 10:08:16:12 And the things that nervous candidates come up with</p><p>0149 10:08:16:12 10:08:19:15 can be quite surprising.</p><p>0150 10:08:19:15 10:08:22:15</p><p>"The first five books of the Bible are Genesis, Exodus,</p><p>0151 10:08:22:15 10:08:25:02</p><p>Deuteronomy, Numbers and Laxatives."</p><p>0152 10:08:25:02 10:08:27:05</p><p>"The First World War was caused by</p><p>0153 10:08:27:05 10:08:30:13 the assignation of the archduck by a serf,</p><p>0154 10:08:30:13 10:08:35:03 and ushered in a new error in the anals of human history."</p><p>0155 10:08:35:03 10:08:37:10</p><p>"In one of Shakespeare's famous plays,</p><p>0156 10:08:37:10 10:08:40:08</p><p>Hamlet relieves himself in a long soliloquy."</p><p>0157 10:08:40:08 10:08:42:18</p><p>"William Tell shot an arrow through an apple</p><p>0158 10:08:42:18 10:08:44:22 while standing on his son's head."</p><p>0159 10:08:44:22 10:08:46:17</p><p>And my all-time favourite:</p><p>0160 10:08:46:17 10:08:52:16</p><p>"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a hundred-foot clipper."</p><p>0161 10:08:52:16 10:08:55:24</p><p>How much do we know about the world around us?</p><p>0162 10:08:55:24 10:08:58:19</p><p>Travel writer Bill Bryson woke up one morning</p><p>0163 10:08:58:19 10:09:01:00 and asked himself that very question,</p><p>0164 10:09:01:00 10:09:05:06 and realised that, in his case, it wasn't very much, or, as he put it,</p><p>0165 10:09:05:06 10:09:07:21 he didn't know a quark from a quasar,</p><p>0166 10:09:07:21 10:09:09:19 a proton from a protein,</p><p>0167 10:09:09:19 10:09:13:09 and he had no idea how an atom is put together.</p><p>0168 10:09:13:09 10:09:17:03 So he spent three years attempting to answer these conundrums,</p><p>0169 10:09:17:03 10:09:20:09 and the result - a brilliantly funny, bestselling book -</p><p>0170 10:09:20:09 10:09:22:17</p><p>"A Short History of Nearly Everything".</p><p>0171 10:09:22:17 10:09:25:04</p><p>In a moment, I'll be putting it to our panel,</p><p>0172 10:09:25:04 10:09:31:04 but do we really know our protons from our proteins?</p><p>0173 10:09:31:04 10:09:34:14</p><p>- Do you know what a proton is? - No.</p><p>0174 10:09:34:14 10:09:36:07</p><p>- A car? - No.</p><p>0175 10:09:36:07 10:09:38:19</p><p>- It's a fast vehicle. - What is? A proton?</p><p>0176 10:09:38:19 10:09:40:20</p><p>- Part of a cell. - Something to do with atoms.</p><p>0177 10:09:40:20 10:09:42:05</p><p>The bit in the middle. 0178 10:09:42:05 10:09:45:16</p><p>- Do you know what protein is? - That's a coffee drink, man.</p><p>0179 10:09:45:16 10:09:48:05</p><p>- It helps builds muscles. - A vitamin you need?</p><p>0180 10:09:48:05 10:09:50:14</p><p>- It's good for the body. - Ah, right.</p><p>0181 10:09:50:14 10:09:53:13</p><p>- Ever heard of a quark? - You can make cheesecake with it.</p><p>0182 10:09:53:13 10:09:55:14</p><p>A quark - a little bird</p><p>0183 10:09:55:14 10:09:59:15 we find in the wheat fields.</p><p>0184 10:09:59:15 10:10:02:01</p><p>- Right. What is it? Like a rodent? - That's right.</p><p>0185 10:10:02:01 10:10:05:10</p><p>It's not some kind of fat, is it?</p><p>0186 10:10:05:10 10:10:07:08</p><p>Or is it a unit of measurement?</p><p>0187 10:10:07:08 10:10:13:05</p><p>It's a building block of an atom, of protons, electrons and neutrons. 0188 10:10:13:05 10:10:15:09</p><p>- I didn't do science. - He's a bit flash.</p><p>0189 10:10:19:12 10:10:23:01</p><p>Well, plenty of interpretations of the word "quark" there.</p><p>0190 10:10:23:01 10:10:26:06</p><p>Now, is this book - "A Short History of Nearly Everything" -</p><p>0191 10:10:26:06 10:10:28:07 is this going to help them, Julia?</p><p>0192 10:10:28:07 10:10:31:10</p><p>Probably, but I can't remember finding out about quarks.</p><p>0193 10:10:31:10 10:10:34:23</p><p>You would find out who discovered the quark, who found the quark,</p><p>0194 10:10:34:23 10:10:37:15 how they are related to others who knew about quarks.</p><p>0195 10:10:37:15 10:10:42:00</p><p>All of that would be in this. This is more about people than science.</p><p>0196 10:10:42:00 10:10:46:02</p><p>You'd have to remember the detail. There's a lot of detail in the book.</p><p>0197 10:10:46:02 10:10:49:00</p><p>- Too much detail, Ghulam? - Yes.</p><p>0198 10:10:49:00 10:10:52:11</p><p>To to an extent, it's like going maybe four rounds with Mike Tyson,</p><p>0199 10:10:52:11 10:10:54:23 but instead of having brain cells knocked out,</p><p>0200 10:10:54:23 10:10:57:07 it's like having a whole lot crammed in.</p><p>0201 10:10:57:07 10:11:00:10</p><p>At the end of it, you still wake up face flat on the canvas.</p><p>0202 10:11:00:10 10:11:02:11</p><p>It's a lot to take in.</p><p>0203 10:11:02:11 10:11:05:04</p><p>But, having said that, it's very informative.</p><p>0204 10:11:05:04 10:11:07:24</p><p>It's a lively style, isn't it, Stacey?</p><p>0205 10:11:07:24 10:11:12:11</p><p>He's telling many stories and knitting in a few gags on the way.</p><p>0206 10:11:12:11 10:11:15:13</p><p>Is that just making science palatable?</p><p>0207 10:11:15:13 10:11:17:15 Is it a way of sugaring the pill?</p><p>0208 10:11:17:15 10:11:19:23</p><p>Well, I think that's what he's trying to do,</p><p>0209 10:11:19:23 10:11:21:20 and, in a way, it sort of works.</p><p>0210 10:11:21:20 10:11:25:03</p><p>But ultimately, it is still a book about science.</p><p>0211 10:11:25:03 10:11:30:00</p><p>And at the end of it, if that isn't your particular interest, I think...</p><p>0212 10:11:30:00 10:11:33:23</p><p>- I suspect it may not be yours? - No, it isn't, unfortunately.</p><p>0213 10:11:33:23 10:11:35:22</p><p>I did appreciate the literary style.</p><p>0214 10:11:35:22 10:11:38:16</p><p>There are a lot of techniques that he uses to liven it up</p><p>0215 10:11:38:16 10:11:42:12 and make it interesting, but I'm afraid for me, it just didn't work.</p><p>0216 10:11:42:12 10:11:45:21</p><p>Aren't you excited now that you know how important carbon is?</p><p>0217 10:11:45:21 10:11:48:17 No. I've got through my life so far without knowing.</p><p>0218 10:11:48:17 10:11:51:06</p><p>Now, I don't... I think I am excited.</p><p>0219 10:11:51:06 10:11:53:21</p><p>I'm excited by his excitement with science.</p><p>0220 10:11:53:21 10:11:57:16</p><p>Amazing stuff, like about the Curies -</p><p>0221 10:11:57:16 10:12:01:11 nobody realising how dangerous everything they were working on was,</p><p>0222 10:12:01:11 10:12:04:05 and that Marie Curie's papers are now kept in a lead box,</p><p>0223 10:12:04:05 10:12:08:12 because they are so incredibly impregnated with plutonium.</p><p>0224 10:12:08:12 10:12:11:11</p><p>It's things like that that were absolutely fascinating.</p><p>0225 10:12:11:11 10:12:13:07</p><p>You do come away knowing a lot.</p><p>0226 10:12:13:07 10:12:18:00</p><p>You come away knowing about how people understood about fossils. 0227 10:12:18:00 10:12:19:22</p><p>The science is hard to remember.</p><p>0228 10:12:19:22 10:12:22:06</p><p>It's more the stories about the science.</p><p>0229 10:12:22:06 10:12:27:02</p><p>The problem is it's not the "Oxford Illustrated Guide to Science".</p><p>0230 10:12:27:02 10:12:30:03</p><p>It's not what a scientist would pick up and use as a manual.</p><p>0231 10:12:30:03 10:12:33:11</p><p>If I walked into a book with no knowledge, say, as a 13-year-old,</p><p>0232 10:12:33:11 10:12:36:04 if I walked into that book and started hearing about</p><p>0233 10:12:36:04 10:12:41:03 protons being ten to the minus-nine or whatever the figure is,</p><p>0234 10:12:41:03 10:12:43:22</p><p>I would put the book down. I couldn't comprehend that.</p><p>0235 10:12:43:22 10:12:49:12</p><p>I think you need to have a bit of background before you pick it up.</p><p>0236 10:12:49:12 10:12:51:20 It isn't a short history of nearly everything.</p><p>0237 10:12:51:20 10:12:55:11</p><p>I think this is a short history of the ideas and the people in science.</p><p>0238 10:12:55:11 10:12:57:12</p><p>Any implications for teaching science?</p><p>0239 10:12:57:12 10:13:02:01</p><p>I think it would be a really useful teaching tool in science classrooms.</p><p>0240 10:13:02:01 10:13:06:10</p><p>It would create cross-curricular links because of how it's written.</p><p>0241 10:13:06:10 10:13:09:14</p><p>I think it would be an interesting way for them to approach it.</p><p>0242 10:13:09:14 10:13:12:01</p><p>I don't know how the science teachers would feel.</p><p>0243 10:13:12:01 10:13:15:09</p><p>I'll be positive and say there's something in here for everyone,</p><p>0244 10:13:15:09 10:13:19:22 but it just might be very different particles.</p><p>0245 10:13:22:23 10:13:25:10</p><p>Time to say goodbye, but before I go, 0246 10:13:25:10 10:13:28:19 have you got any idea where that word "quark" comes from?</p><p>0247 10:13:28:19 10:13:30:20</p><p>Bill Bryson's got the story.</p><p>0248 10:13:30:20 10:13:33:21</p><p>He says, to start with, they wanted to call them "partons"</p><p>0249 10:13:33:21 10:13:37:08 as in "Dolly", but in the end, they went for quarks,</p><p>0250 10:13:37:08 10:13:39:24 which they took from a line in "Finnegans Wake":</p><p>0251 10:13:39:24 10:13:42:05</p><p>"Three quarks for Muster Mark."</p><p>0252 10:13:42:05 10:13:44:12</p><p>"Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.</p><p>0253 10:13:44:12 10:13:47:02</p><p>You see, it all comes back to books, doesn't it?</p><p>0254 10:13:47:02 10:13:48:22</p><p>Bye.</p><p>0255 10:13:55:04 10:13:57:20</p><p>Visiontext Subtitles: Sarah Johnston 0256 10:13:57:20 10:13:59:20 www.visiontext.co.uk</p>