Sarah :What can you refer to if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is?   is only one place ,where you will find the information. And that ' s the GuinnessBook of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book , Tomas  Manning.    to the  program, Tomas !
Tomas : Thanks, Sarah. It ' s a pleasure to be here.
Sarah : Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from?
Tomas : Well ,it was first suggested in the early  1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver .the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird    ( fly)  away so  quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe. And it wasn't the fastest. He wondered      it was.
Sarah :So I suppose he went to the      ( near)  library to look for the information and he couldn't find it.
Tomas : Yeah , that ' s  exactly what  happened. And  this  made  Sir Hugh  think  there    be other people in the same  situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that ,  like     ,people would be interested in finding facts about the records to satisfy their      ( curious) .
Sarah : So    idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book' come out ?Tomas : A few years later, in  1955. S0       ( answer)  your question : the  tallest  person  in the  world is 231. 7cm tall.