Tom Holland

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Yes.

So hello, everybody.

A very recognisable anthem.

It's been reinterpreted very controversially at times by Jose Feliciano, by Jimi Hendrix, by Whitney Houston and by Borat Sagdiev.

It played a central role, of course, in the Black Lives Matter protests in the late 2010s and in 2020.

So it was during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner.

that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first took the knee in 2016, and we'll be talking about that a bit later.

There have actually always been people who don't like this anthem, Americans who don't like it.

And there have been lots of alternative versions as Americans have tried to adapt it to their own political causes.

So again, we'll talk about that a little bit later.

But first of all, I think it would be fun to start off with the historical moment that the anthem is all about.

So this is the British attack on Fort McHenry, which is just off Baltimore in Maryland in September 1814.

And that means that we will be talking about a war that I think is genuinely never spoken about from one year to the next in Britain.

So on British soil, I don't think it is ever mentioned.

That is true.

This is the War of 1812.