WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.010 align:middle line:84% And this kind of sound poem is sort of terribly popular 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:06.300 align:middle line:90% currently in England. 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:08.710 align:middle line:90% We are all sort of doing them. 00:00:08.710 --> 00:00:15.570 align:middle line:84% And I'll try one on a different sort on you. 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:18.300 align:middle line:84% America is the last place in the world to read it, really. 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:22.020 align:middle line:84% Hands up all those who've heard of An-an and Chi-chi? 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:23.850 align:middle line:84% Anybody know who An-an and Chi-chi are? 00:00:23.850 --> 00:00:27.350 align:middle line:90% 00:00:27.350 --> 00:00:28.130 align:middle line:90% No. 00:00:28.130 --> 00:00:29.333 align:middle line:90% Somebody does. 00:00:29.333 --> 00:00:30.500 align:middle line:90% Right, well there's one man. 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:32.090 align:middle line:90% I shall read it. 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:34.820 align:middle line:84% An-an and Chi-chi are giant pandas. 00:00:34.820 --> 00:00:38.900 align:middle line:84% Chi-chi is the English panda, and An-an is the Russian panda. 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:40.790 align:middle line:84% Now for the last five years, there's 00:00:40.790 --> 00:00:42.590 align:middle line:84% been no news of greater importance 00:00:42.590 --> 00:00:44.630 align:middle line:84% in the British and Russian press than what's 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:46.760 align:middle line:84% happening between An-an and Chi-chi, 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:51.260 align:middle line:84% because in 1965 Chi-chi went to Moscow to meet An-an 00:00:51.260 --> 00:00:53.570 align:middle line:84% to see whether a love affair might develop, 00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:56.630 align:middle line:90% and nothing happened. 00:00:56.630 --> 00:01:01.480 align:middle line:84% Well, alas, An-an has been back in London for the last year. 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:03.877 align:middle line:84% Nothing is going on happening, or not happening, 00:01:03.877 --> 00:01:05.960 align:middle line:84% and it's really terribly tragic, because you know, 00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:08.510 align:middle line:84% everybody wants the most expensive 10,000 pound 00:01:08.510 --> 00:01:11.000 align:middle line:90% baby giant panda to be born. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.270 align:middle line:84% Whether he'd go to Moscow or to London remains to be seen. 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:17.030 align:middle line:84% Well, I wrote this poem about the nothing that happened 00:01:17.030 --> 00:01:20.450 align:middle line:90% between An-an and Chi-chi. 00:01:20.450 --> 00:01:22.760 align:middle line:84% Incidentally, it's an untranslatable poem, 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.940 align:middle line:84% because it's entirely a permutation on their names, 00:01:25.940 --> 00:01:27.370 align:middle line:90% An-an and Chi-chi. 00:01:27.370 --> 00:01:29.870 align:middle line:84% And believe it or not, in every other language in the world, 00:01:29.870 --> 00:01:33.080 align:middle line:84% An-an and Chi-chi are known as An-an and Chi-chi. 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:35.090 align:middle line:84% I know this, because I read the poem in Hungary 00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:38.390 align:middle line:90% and people understood it. 00:01:38.390 --> 00:01:48.515 align:middle line:84% Well, it's called "Pavan for an Unborn Infanta." 00:01:48.515 --> 00:01:54.760 align:middle line:90% 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.590 align:middle line:90% An-an, Chi-chi. 00:01:56.590 --> 00:01:58.900 align:middle line:90% An-an, Chi-chi. 00:01:58.900 --> 00:02:00.790 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi, An-an. 00:02:00.790 --> 00:02:02.575 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi, An-an. 00:02:02.575 --> 00:02:05.020 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:05.983 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:05.983 --> 00:02:06.949 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:06.949 --> 00:02:07.915 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:07.915 --> 00:02:08.881 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:08.881 --> 00:02:09.970 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:09.970 --> 00:02:11.020 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:11.890 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:11.890 --> 00:02:13.510 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:13.510 --> 00:02:14.080 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.130 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:15.130 --> 00:02:16.120 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:16.960 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:17.950 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:17.950 --> 00:02:18.970 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:18.970 --> 00:02:19.870 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:19.870 --> 00:02:20.860 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:20.860 --> 00:02:22.792 align:middle line:90% Chi-an. 00:02:22.792 --> 00:02:23.770 align:middle line:90% An-chi. 00:02:23.770 --> 00:02:24.730 align:middle line:90% An-chi. 00:02:24.730 --> 00:02:26.560 align:middle line:90% An-chi-an. 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align:middle line:90% An-an! 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:44.740 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:44.890 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:44.890 --> 00:02:45.120 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:45.270 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:45.510 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:45.510 --> 00:02:45.690 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:45.690 --> 00:02:46.190 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:46.190 --> 00:02:46.720 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:47.220 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:49.900 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:02:49.900 --> 00:02:51.150 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:52.125 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:52.125 --> 00:02:53.040 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:54.260 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:54.260 --> 00:02:55.470 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:55.470 --> 00:02:56.690 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:56.690 --> 00:02:57.920 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:57.920 --> 00:02:59.130 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:02:59.130 --> 00:03:01.120 align:middle line:90% An-an. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:02.320 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:02.320 --> 00:03:03.580 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:04.700 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:06.010 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:06.010 --> 00:03:07.240 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:08.740 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:09.740 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:09.740 --> 00:03:11.240 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:11.740 align:middle line:90% Chi-chi. 00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:14.280 align:middle line:90% 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:15.750 align:middle line:90% It's very serious. 00:03:15.750 --> 00:03:21.490 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:21.490 --> 00:03:23.590 align:middle line:84% It's a serious poem about infertility, really. 00:03:23.590 --> 00:03:26.470 align:middle line:84% You know, one of the major crises of the Western world, 00:03:26.470 --> 00:03:29.260 align:middle line:84% and we see it mirrored in the face of these two sad black 00:03:29.260 --> 00:03:31.110 align:middle line:90% and white beasts.