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The Bodybuilder

Season 1 Episode 2 | 3m 13s

If Sherlock Holmes had been about brains, this was about brawn. Arthur became the judge of Britain’s very first body building competition at the Albert Hall. Can you image 80 men standing on pedestals, wearing leopard skin? But what was the aim of it?

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