By minute 14, Hanks has commandeered the decanter. By minute 17, Harrison Ford is smiling . Not a grimace. A genuine, crinkled-eye, I’m-having-fun smile. The studio audience gasps as if witnessing the second coming. The deep magic of BD5 occurs during the “red chair” segment. A contestant tells a mundane story about a lost ferret. But it’s what happens after that matters.
Ruth Jones, emboldened by her second glass of Sancerre, leans over to Mirren and whispers something inaudible. Mirren throws her head back and emits a laugh so raucous it sounds like a foghorn in a cathedral. Harrison Ford, infected, mutters a deadpan reply about “shooting first” in reference to the ferret. the graham norton show season 17 bd5
Then, at the 11-minute mark, Graham deploys his secret weapon: . Not a single pour—a full decanter. By minute 14, Hanks has commandeered the decanter