is and what's said to be the world's most beautiful car race and from ripping the wheel. to gripping literature the collector of worlds a must read novel about a real life adventure and richard francis you are if you or anyone even tries this because of the money as a box we begin with a visit to the fascinating world of the monday night in the humdrum the drab and the dull the annual boring conference that took place in the british capital recently my colleague adrian chemist kennedy was there and discovered subjects that normally might appear trivial and tedious can be given a new lease of life it will be here to explain how drudgery can get you excited in a couple of minutes but 1st it's good for e. conway hall is a famous home of radical free thinkers in the heart of the great the poor in conference is taking place here for the 9th time. founder james ward is

master of ceremonies and a veritable titan of tedium. and my name is james ward and i neve found a boring conference a one day celebration of the mundane people of nary a p.s. and here phillips the theme is boring but the content should be focused incorporate for example rachel really is fascinated by the greenwich time signal. might bates has a passion for postcards of nearby battersea park. joyce smith explains how she started collecting books certificate. conferences sold out so who are these people and why are they wasting their weekend here. what's the big attraction here. big boards

listening to people talking about things that they care way way to the play about a minute i enjoy science i enjoy competing and things like that trivial the monday of my straight the most boring thing is the lunch break there's quite a which is thankfully over james to cherington likes to walk in straight lines for his film underfoot he paused once a minute to take a 5 2nd shot off the ground i think beginning to take her child i. lucy all storms paper on the smell of laundry is accompanied by a video of a washing machine cycle. and live and dump a bit of audience participation in homes how intense is it does it remind you james wood has generously allowed me to take to the stage myself to bestow oring prize

most boring. at the boring conference. goes to joyce smith. for her pioneering work on book certificates. at the end of the day i've gathered a lot of fun facts and a pleasant now i'm made to launch a book from you friend. do you think i could be boring i think given enough practice because you can't buy you a boring person can be boring. in school. not at all. we've managed to tear him away from his stamp collection a drug habit is here adrian was the conference boring enough for you while there were moments of genuine boredom but much of it was surprisingly interesting i learnt

a lot about the strength tests for these boxes for example the early tests measure the resistance of the box to bursting but was late so replaced by the edge crash test because boxes were increasingly being stacked and it was important to know whether the box of the boat some of the stack could withstand all that weighing. really let's move swiftly on i think you've been affected by that culprits you've also identified a boring trend well i think the success of the conference and the rise of or import costs is testimony to a hunger for tedium the podcasts sleep with me is downloaded free 1000000 times a months in fashion there is a trend for the color bay you so well done robin boarding laundry is a big thing and norm call which began as a bit of a joke is now gone mainstream norm core of course says rejects collectivity you

can wear something boring you don't have to wear something exciting so that's a very important trend young people also rejecting venture holidays in favor of offline holidays where you can't do anything where you have no 5 reception surely in reality boredom should be avoided at all costs and no border me actually a good thing a recent study showed that people who are given a boring task sorting red and green beans into separate piles did much better on creativity tests that followed also the beneficial effects of boredom a borne out by many famous examples for example. the famously took a year off high school and just wandered off a loafing around aimlessly he likes to say that creativity is the residue of time

wasted steve jobs apple found was also a pioneer of norm core as we say and he said boredom announce want to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything kerry says briefly if people want to embrace the boring a few tips well good start. to go offline a default activity people trying to avoid boredom is playing with their phones but washing up without a dishwasher drying up using an old fashioned tea towel ironing shirts there are many many ways to get bored most of them are cheap and environmentally friendly genome afraid you haven't been born again thank you anyway. now a car race like that while the media combines beautiful italian countryside and stunning traditional architecture with painstakingly restored vintage cars it's an enjoyment

of a 4 days and to take your car has to have been produced before 957 we joined 2 professional racing drivers in a classic mercedes sports car with growing dual. leave it to italy to make car racing look this good the mealie meal is nothing if not stylish in the 1957 mercedes 300 s l l in new york and sofia flows from germany to professional race car drivers together for 4 days through the heart of the bella top you. know it's a real challenge for both of us an 18 year old driving a 2000000 euro conquered all the surface not bad right. eleanor is one of europe's most successful female racecar drivers. it's a few throws there's a rising star a year ago she was lucky to survive a major crash and macau but that didn't stop her dream of piloting

a formula one race and she won't be stopped today either. exams or the i asked her if she wanted me to try she said and i'm 18 years old and i get to drive this com what do you think so i said all right i'm stuck in the passenger seat but i remember i used to be the same way. i could do it. it's the co-pilot's job to find the correct route and to make sure the old car makes it over the finish line safely. don't forget it was built in 1970 and feel free to switch to. one stage of the race can take up to 14 hours and a moment of carelessness is all it takes to get lost. in this battle of we got to rome and that all these cars behind us we took

a wrong turn and they followed we all had to turn around on the main road it was funny but we came 1st. in italy the mealie meal is a huge party of back children get the day off from school to go wave at the cars. it all started in 1027 back then it was just men behind the wheel female teams have only recently joined. them up all women are much better drivers than men where behind the wheel we go heavy on the gas we want to feel the vibrations and the power of the engine. driving through the regions of a mediocre oh man yeah and tuscany is an experience for all besides eleanor is participating in the 1000000 media for the 4th time but her younger colleague is still way ahead of her in one area. as a few of you have told me that it's completely possible to drive with total focus and still keep up with several 1000000 instagram channels it's

a good deal because it. has a few fresh hopes her posts will inspire more women to get into motor sports so that more female teams will take part in the media and media in the years to come. richard from was one of the world's great adventure as in the 19th century it was also a soldier a diplomat's an alkie ologist a poet and was said to speak at least 2 dozen languages in the novel the collectors of worlds also try and offer terms buttons unbelievable life into believe a bull fiction resident but david leavitt's has more on our continuing series 100 just. hated to put the hotelier because of the one with the roof actually you know i really need a new profile pic what about the one with the infinity pool. and . what was travel like before their world like in the

19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isn't allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but that's no skin off his nose actually to pass as a muslim the skin has to come off somewhere else. you can disguise yourself as much as you want but you'll never learn what it's like to be one of us you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our skin fasting is not the same as starving. the collector of world is about adventure spiritual sexual and intellectual and it's about privilege like so richard burton heliotrope enough has

made hindu and muslim pilgrimages he's lived in europe and east africa he's one collector of worlds paying tribute to another. more on always topics on the website at v.w. dot com slash culture by the way it's the 10th anniversary of the boring called next year so it should be especially tedious but now if you want to be with the in crowd and don't forget the comma is bad bye bye for the.

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