Need you look any further for a glimpse of our ancestors and a practice probably as old a human-kind than those 3 gents (and gentlemen they were), nerves of steel, self confidence in their knowledge of what we now call Animal Psychology. Most predators have the sense to distinguish between "something's going to die here" and "it could be me!"
Just recalling the scene makes a shudder run down my spine and my skin creep!
I so wanted to watch the spice trail one afterward... Is there a transcript for the series ?
cheers, Toddy
There will more than likely be a transcript available from the BBC, Toddy. It may be quicker to acquire by "snail-mail" that wait until it's placed on the net after the re-run.
Acht, KH isn't the worst, at least not quite in the category of a comedian presenting a serious topic; ie, Baldric on archaeology or The Smell of Reaves and Jack the Ripper. I can't help seeing Baldric kneed in the nuts while wearing a dress, or Vic Reaves boxing with drawers bulging at the rear.
There were excellent progs some years ago with the historian Michael Wood on the Spice, Perfume and Silk Routes which are more than likely on YouTube.
I'm fascinated by the influence of North Africa on Europe from the burning of the Library of Alexandria (Julius Ceasar, et al), the Crusades and the explosion of knowledge from, and final destruction of, Andalusia.
"You have made the mundane of the exquisite."
(Charlemagne)
Cheers,