In fact, some of you might well know that the barber pole, the red and white stripes, represents the blood bandages of the barber surgeon, and the receptacles on either end represent the pots in which the blood was collected.

The barber gave him a haircut.

I'm going to the barber today.

Tom is the best barber in town.

I want to go to the barber.

I had my hair cut at the barber shop yesterday.

The temperature at the North Pole is different from at the South Pole.

A barber is a man who shaves and cuts men's hair.

North Pole goes to the South, South Pole goes to the North, and vice versa.

Unlike the balancing pole,

Pole caught no bycatch.

Dan Barber and Alice Waters are leading passionately the green food Delicious Revolution.

There isn't even a pole at the Pole. There's nothing there, purely because it's sea ice. It's drifting.

Balancing a pole is hard.

The North Pole in Peril

She is learning pole dancing.

We believe there's some water in the polar caps, there are polar caps of North Pole and South Pole.

Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

Santa lives at the North Pole.

Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole

Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole

And the thing that fascinates me about the North Pole, geographic North Pole, is that it's slap bang in the middle of the sea.

The first one was reaching the Pole itself.

North Pole. I've done this picture last summer.

At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.

I lift the balancing pole. I approach the edge.

I skied on for a week past the Pole.

Surgeons still had a bit of a PR problem, because the landscape was dominated by the itinerant barber surgeon.

I got to the Pole on the 11th of May.

And the water at the North Pole is minus 1.7.

The professional journals won't touch it with a barge pole.

So, Dan Barber , if you want billions of chicken pellets for your fish farm, I know where to get them.

But the mother lode of discoveries on Enceladus was found at the south pole and we're looking at the south pole here where we found this system of fractures.

Man Some type of extension pole like what the painters use.

You've got pole caught yellowfin tuna here comes from sustainable stocks.

The stories we were hearing got us to the South Pole.

Ninety degrees north that is slap bang in the North Pole.

So they have the slide, and they even have a fireman s pole.

We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film shark.

Including me, only four people have skied solo to the North Pole.

At the South Pole there's a big scientific base. There's an airstrip.

We carried on sailing through the ice packs towards the North Pole.

So we carried on sailing and we arrived at the North Pole.

This is how Scott and his men arrived at the South Pole.

And one thing that is kind of very useful is that we use a pole cameras this is my colleague Joanne with a pole camera where you can actually look underneath the shark.