Yes.

I'll do that.

I'll just start the book, which is the best way of doing it because it means they'll go out and buy it, which is good for my pension.

Anyway, look, the first chapter.

I have to say that the editor of this book... is in the room tonight.

She's called Angeline Murtaugh, and she was the editor on this book.

I don't know when it was done.

Is that something that you experience a lot on the farms, watching children with animals and forming those connections?

But it's just that visible connection to history, and that's what you created.

Well, I hope so, because it seems to me that history is certainly something which we don't do enough of.

We have to know who we are, where we've come from, if we're to know where to go in the future.

It's the pathway.

The pathway leads from the past through our lives and into the future, but we have to know where we've come from.

So that story was really because I was told it originally.

I mean, I knew about the First World War.

LAUGHTER I got there first.