English Science History Indian maths

Transcribing the programme 'INDIAN MATHS' I have encountered hard to understand section, I’ve marked it by putting the unintelligible section in the double parentheses (()). I guess that the pronounced words were ((there is)). Do you hear the same?

MELVYN BRAGG: Can you drop one second, because it – it so -- it fascinating – 09:40 ((there is)) -- just to tell the listeners. So the idea of numbers is very intricately bound up with the religious texts with the notions of religion. We are talking about religious -- that them feeding off each other very closely, right.

09:40 is a timestamp. After downloading the programme, open RealPlayer, then press CRL-E and put 00:09:40. In that way you will get straight to the incomprehensible section.

In fact, the whole first sentence is difficult to understand for me, and I am not sure if I have transcribed it well.

Thanks in advance. Darek

PS. You can download or listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtm...