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St George, welcome. You've survived the centuries to make it on GB News
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I have, yes. In actual fact, you are Russell Palmer, a professional St George actor, do we call you
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Um, I, well, performer, yes. I run lots of children's workshops for primary schools, lots of events and things like that
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I have many different, different characters. I don't really answer to Russell Palmer anymore. I don't know who that person is
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Just St George. Yes. You've transitioned. For the day. Transitioned. For the day. Good stuff. What's going on today then in the town centre? Big parade, what can we expect
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Yeah, so it's because it's St George's Day. Happy St George's Day, everybody
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It's the sort of thing that we do every year. It's for the children. I think it brings all the children together from all the local schools
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I'll get out there in a little while. I'll be meeting them all. I'll be talking to them. The one question they always ask me is, is it a real sword
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And I like to explain to them I'm the only person that can walk through a town centre with a real sword, so it's quite good
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But yeah, it's all about the children. They show off and display all of their creations that they made for St George's Day, dragons and everything
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and they really, really enjoy it. And how important is it, do you think, to instill the knowledge of St George into children
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He was a defender of the faith, a martyr of Christianity. Do you think it's forgotten in this day and age
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I think a lot of the times these days we don't really focus on the church here
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We don't really focus on religion anymore. It's a symbol. St George is a symbol
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And I get many, many people say to me every year, but St George was a Roman. And you say, well, that's true, but if I dressed as a Roman, nobody would know who I was
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so being this sort of symbolism here it's kind of people recognise it
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I mean I've been asked a couple of times do I work for the Red Cross so that's always quite funny
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but yeah I think people recognise it Lovely Russell, St George thank you very much
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