Bill and Helen unearth a treasure trove of fact-based gems from the great internet rabbit hole that takes them from oysters and Casanova to Benny Hill and Elvis via Batman and Kate Bush. They also discover some alarming speculation about Elvi's' famous manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Casanova trailer. Heath Ledger didn’t much care for his performance in this film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSt1NFGgVUs
An amazing performance from Heath Ledger as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, starring Christain Bale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY
Johnny Rotten pens a song for Kate Bush
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-song-johnny-rotten-wrote-for-kate-bush/
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush perform Don’t Give Up. Peter had Dolly Parton in mind for the duet when he wrote it, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
Video for Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill featuring the extraordinary dancing of Michael Hervieu who became Misha after gender reassignment surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM
Jonathan Swift’s essay on the benefits of farting
Benny Hill performs Tinga A Ling A Loo which he claims was plagiarised by Spitting Image for their no.1 novelty hit, The Chicken Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFrt3V7nvI
Elvis’s saxophonist performs Yakety Sax, used in the Benny Hill Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
Blue Hawaii trailer, starring Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10-aqZKLKY
Did Colonel Tom Parker really go on the run after a murder, to become Elvis’s manager?
https://www.grunge.com/224820/was-elvis-manager-a-killer-on-the-run/
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