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        "description": "<p>Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips learn how to safely \"play with fire\" from a professional fire-eater and stunt performer.</p>", 
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        "title": "I Didn't Know That: Fire Stunts", 
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        "transcript": "<p>NARRATOR: Fire one of the most useful natural phenomena in the world, but also one of the most destructive.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: So, what's fire all about?</p><p>NARRATOR: There's a three part formula to fire.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: It's called the fire triangle.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: And this is what you need; oxygen, usually from the air; a fuel, which is basically anything that will burn and heat to get the fuel to the temperature at which it will burst into flames.</p><p>NARRATOR: So how can you make fire?</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Method one, elbow grease and plenty of it.  The friction creates heat and tiny embers of wood which act as the initial fuel to start the fire, eventually.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: And method two, flint and steel.  This makes incredibly hot sparks of the steel, and once there's a flame, silver birch bark is ideal tinder, because it contains a natural oil which lights up very easily.  Jonny, how you getting on?</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Yeah, really well mate, yeah.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Yeah, [laughs], whey hey, flint and steel!  Look at it!  Excellent!</p><p>NARRATOR: The three elements of fire; fuel, heat and oxygen are the everyday stock in trade of Sandy McClure.  Who has his own unique take on the fire triangle.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE &amp; JONNY PHILLIPS IN UNISON: Whoa!  How do you do that?</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE: Basically you just take some paraffin in your mouth um, and you need to blow it out so that you get as fine a mist as possible.  It tastes absolutely disgusting to be honest.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Is it that bad?</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE: It really is that bad.  Liquid paraffin doesn't burn.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: So you're making a vapor.</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE: Yeah, you kind of um, mix air in your mouth as you blow it out.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: And Sandy have you ever hurt yourself doing this?</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE:</p><p>Not, not too seriously, I had the wind change and blow the flame into my face once, uh, that burnt my lips and my face a little bit obviously, lost the eye, the eyebrows for a couple of weeks uh, and have had a couple of chemical burns on the gums.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: So one word, should children try it at home?</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE: Oh no, definitely not.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: What about adults?  \u2018Yeah, fine'.</p><p>SANDY MCCLURE: No!  Definitely....</p><p>GROUP LAUGHTER</p><p>NARRATOR: It's the final part of our investigation into fire and Now we're going to find out how to burn a human.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Oh!  What are you doing man?!</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: [laughing]</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: What are you doing?</p><p>NARRATOR:</p><p>This is about the limit of our special effects budget plus we need Jonny for future shows.  So just like in Hollywood we found ourselves a stunt man.  He's Rod Woodrough, veteran human fire ball.  He's performed over a hundred fire stunts for TV and movies.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Hi Rod.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: How you doing alright nice to see you.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Yeah, you too.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Alright Rod, how's things?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Yeah, good.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: What's this you're putting on then?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Uh, well this is the uh, undergarment to the main racing drivers' suit for being on fire and it's a like a one-layer nomex.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Yeah?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Yeah, Kevlar based.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Right, ok.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Keeps the flame from uh penetrating right the way through really.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Rod, how long have you been doing this?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: I've been a professional stunt man for about 25 years now, yeah.  Eaten quite a bit of hospital food all round the world.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Have you seriously?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: [laughs] Yeah.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: So...</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: In um, in the early days when I...</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: So it does go wrong?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Uh, it's had it's moments yeah.  I mean in a hundred fire stunts, I've had two go wrong really, so...</p><p>NARRATOR: But just one mistake could be disastrous.  So emergency medical help is always on hand in case the fire gets out of control.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: What sort of heat will be coming off?  I mean, have you ever measured it?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: It's difficult to describe really, but if you can imagine, I don't know, when you open your oven at home, times that by about 50.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Oh dear!</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Right.</p><p>NARRATOR: This is mega high risk so fire fighting kit is essential.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Drop more then.  I'm just putting on a water based gel as a preparation just before I get..., that's it, that'll be fine.  Fire will go everywhere, so it's got to go in the ears, up the nose...</p><p>NARRATOR: The body burn is only seconds away so it's time for solvent based glue.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: This is your fuel, this is what you burn.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: This is what we're gonna be setting alight with, yeah.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Rod do you start to get nervous now at all?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Uh, I can see the adrenaline just a little bit, yeah.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Indeed, Rod are you really gonna do this?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Uhhh...</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Are you serious?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: I've come this far so uh...</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: [nervous laugh] Ok, rather you than me.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Rod we're gonna stand back and we'll see you when you've been extinguished, ok?</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Good luck mate, all the best.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Ok, light me and let's go.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH STUMBLING AROUND MOANING</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: I don't believe it.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: [MOANING]</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: There's a bit just down here.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Water.</p><p>PARAMEDIC: Where?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Just a bit of water.</p><p>PARAMEDIC Where?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: In the middle of the back, little bit, not a lot, little bit.   And in the middle of that leg.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Rod, are you alright?</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: You ok Rod?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH:</p><p>Just two seconds, yeah?  [inaudible]</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: That was stunning.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Did it look good?</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Whoa!</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: That was stunning.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Bit of CO2, CO2, CO2 just a bit.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: Do you want some water?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Yeah, ok?</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Wow!  That was stunning, absolutely stunning.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: When you, when it set off, I couldn't believe how much flame was there is.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: I thought you'd put too much on.  I really was shocked</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE &amp; ROD WOODROUGH LAUGHING</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: My heart's going like a train.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: I was like, hold on, it's already gone wrong.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Yeah, yeah, quick, put him out, that's too much.</p><p>LAUGHTER</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Well it's good to try and get that height with, with no gloves and everything.  I could feel it licking a bit.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: Burn?  Did it burn?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: No, no, feels alright.</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS: No?  Definitely not?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: I got a bit when I turned on that bottom camera there.  Did you see that when it came up here?</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH STUMBLING AROUND MOANING</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS[replay]: I don't believe it.</p><p>RICHARD AMBROSE: When you started going down, I thought hold on we, we've really got to put you out quickly and it's like no, no, this is my flame.  Do they call you hot rod?</p><p>GROUP LAUGHTER</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH: Funny you should say that.</p><p>ROD WOODROUGH STUMBLING AROUND MOANING</p><p>JONNY PHILLIPS[replay]: I don't believe it.</p><p>NARRATOR: But this is all in a day's work for a movie stunt man.</p>", 
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