It's a great idea! This is a terrible idea.
Can you ride a bike, Rosie?
No!
Cities can be quite annoying
to disabled people.
[SCREAMING]
Well, this disabled person
is going to be quite annoying to cities.
Do you know who I am?
That is why they have to make TV programmes to get folk to hang about with you.
This is Mission: Accessible.
Cambridge is the home of achievement.
People come here and they do great things.
So I fit in perfectly.
That's the dance moves of success.
It's Ashley Storrie!
It's me!
Who's your favourite Cambridge alum?
Hawking! I actually liked when Stephen Hawking died,
because it made me the most intelligent disabled person of them all.
I think we need to like check.
No, no, no!
It goes Stephen Hawking, me...
[LAUGHING]
I am from the West Coast of Scotland, AKA Glasgow.
100 times better than Cambridge.
Like, you can get a roll and sausage for a pound fifty.
Shall we meet Dextra?
All right.
Hi, Rosie.
I'm Dextra. I'm 19 years old.
I'm a fashion model and a philosophy student.
Oh, I love them.
I'm autistic and I have ADHD. Right.
Me and my best friend, Maud
love going on city breaks
but sometimes it can be really tricky.
How?
We try and find green spaces so it's a bit
more quiet where we can sit down, less like noises and traffic.
We can do that.
In terms of sensory overload
we just love going out late at night.
That's our favourite thing to do.
That's your mission
Rosie cheeks!
Bloody hell! We can do this.
All of that in mind, Rosie
you've brought me to a bin.
Look, Alan Turing.
One of the greatest codebreakers
and minds in British history.
And I believe he had autism.
He's pretty much a hero.
So I'm gonna be inspired and think
about what my blue plaque will hold.
I thought we were here to organise a city
break for Dextra and Maud not find your genius.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that as well.
She's a high achiever at noise.
She's really good at loudness.
If that was something she could get a wee blue plaque on a wall for,
I'm sure there would just be hundreds of them,
if Rosie Jones deafened me with her squealing.
It's a great idea!
This is a terrible idea.
Can you ride a bike, Rosie?
No!
Charlotte's Tandems lend out bicycles for disabled people.
We're biking
around Cambridge!
[SCREAMING]
Where are we Rosie?
I brought you to Britain's brainiest cemetery.
This is why they have to make TV programs to get folk to hang about with you.
Do you reckon I deserve to be buried here
amongst great people?
No.
It holds a lot of people who were...
proper clever.
Frances Cornford.
She was the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, an alumnus of Cambridge.
I was going to tell you that.
We are in a graveyard.
How existential! That's perfect for me and Maud.
And we have found
a philosopher for you.
Wittgenstein.
Oh my god.
He was really controversial at Cambridge when he did his thesis, Tractatus.
It was very, like, not well received.
I told you all of that.
What was the piece of writing that people found controversial?
Dextra just said it!
You name it because it's your specialist subject.
What was it?
Tractatus.
It was about being
scratchy.
[LAUGHING]
I'm having a lovely time. Are you?
No.
I'm on the autism spectrum. My dad also has autism.
And it means I'm sensitive to things like light
and I'm very sensitive to sound.
We're bloody here
because Dextra said they like
'open space and places that are quiet'.
Perfect.
I'm starting to think: ‘What have I done?’
Like Turing helped win the war!
And then I thought,
come here, find a plant or whatever
and I will discover
a new species.
I like the ambition.
I think you're really unlikely to find a new species here because the whole point of the Botanic Garden
is that we carefully collect and catalogue and look after the plants here.
So we have a record of everything that's already here.
I think if Rosie is to discover a new plant species
it's probably going to be in the underside of her bra.
And it'll be moss.
I'm sure you don't know every tree in here.
Like have you discovered that one?
That is a pine tree. That's pinus nigr-
[LAUGHING]
Hayley, what's that?
So that is a Jerusalem artichoke.
And you can eat the roots.
What? Wait! Has someone discovered it?
Yep and they've discovered- I'm not bothered.
Never mind. Okay.
Has that been discovered?
Yep.
Yellow flower?
Yeah.
You can tell because there's a label in front of it.
I never liked bloody labels.
I just think we need some proper thinking time.
Here we go!
This is like the most relaxing smear test ever!
This is so lovely.
It's giving you thinking time.
[SCREAMING]
Let's just be punt punks!
Do you know who I am?
I don't think those people knew who you were.
They did.
They said something about English football.
I think they thought you were David Seaman.
Very similar energy.
Dextra and Maud
are at their most iconic at night.
Unburdened
by the noises of the city.
That was a lovely sentence.
The Institute of Astronomy
do nights for disabled people.
What we usually talk about the telescope
is that it almost discovered Neptune.
Idiots.
I know! If it was you, I'm pretty sure that would never have happened.
If there's a planet to find
I'll find it.
Neptune...
I'll find it.
Jupiter...
I'll find it.
Uranus...
[LAUGHING]
I'll tell you what...
I will find it.
These are the voyages of the Starship Rosie.
I've never seen that star before.
It's an aeroplane.
I think it's a new star.
I'm 100% sure it's an aeroplane.
I'm gonna ask Dr Nina.
Leave that lady alone.
This is my moment.
Guess what?
What?
It's a new star.
No!
It is!
So I can name it.
And what are you gonna name it?
It needs to be something beautiful,
groundbreaking.
I'm gonna name it Dextra.
Aww!
I would have called it EasyJet.
Hello, Maud.
Nice to meet you, Rosie.
Do you think you two would enjoy stargazing?
I really think so.
I think you'd enjoy it a lot more. Yeah.
I get quite bored easily I need to listen to music or something.
What about if we all danced under the stars?
Aww, I love it! We love that!
Let's do that!
Ready?
We're living the dream.
You two put the sexy
in Mission: Acc - sexy - ble!
Thank you so much!
Thank you.
Bye!
What shall we do now?
Shall we dance more?
Absolutely not.
Come back.
Got a plaque.
I got a plaque.
Who's Rosie Jones?
Dunno.