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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Tonight, a One Show first. A guest arriving on horseback. I think I | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
can hear him now. CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOP. Eric Idle and his magnificent | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
steed, props man Dave! LAUGHTER. | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Brilliant! Good to see you! Hello! Come and sit down. Can you clear up | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
the rumours? Was using coconuts a money-saving device? No, it was the | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
first joke we ever wrote for the Holy Grail. You could he be clock | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
clock, we got to a hillside and over the hill comes offer and | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
behind Patsy and the coconuts, so it was actually a radio joke on | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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film -- you could hear the clop clop. There is a location in mind | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
for our office... I thought you had been fired! More from a Rick about | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Spamalot in a bit. Indeed. -- Eric. Andy Murray was knocked out of the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
French Open yesterday after suffering extreme back pain all | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
week. But for many, back trouble isn't something you can play | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
through. Tonight, in the third of Dr Mark Porter's films on pain, he | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
looks at a revolutionary treatment that allows sufferers to switch it | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
off at the touch of a button. Four years ago, Lisa Stapley hurt | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
her back shifting a desk and this was an inconsequential accident | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
apparently, that has ruined her life. I used to run, I used to | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
cycle when I came home from work. All of a sudden, it stops. Your | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
whole life stops. Lisa has already had to read the operations on her | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
spine but even though the surgery was technically successful, she now | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
suffers from intense pain in her legs. It feels like my feet and my | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
legs are on fire. A lot of time I do not sleep at night. I would try | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
anything to get rid of this pain and to get back to normal. And that | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
includes today's extraordinary this surgery, during which Lisa will be | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
woken up and asked to help. Pain consultants at Guy's Hospital | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
believes the nerves running through Lisa's spinal cord have gone | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
haywire, misfiring messages to her brain. There is no tissue, muscle | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and bone injury. The pain is coming from nerves that are not working as | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
they should. It is like a fire alarm ringing when there is no fire. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
The doctor will implant as permanent spinal stimulator to try | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
to mask Lisa's dysfunctional know of pain by remote control. It works | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
by delivering small pulses of electric current to the spinal cord, | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
when normal sensation is processed, and that influences the pains | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
system and decreases the plane transmissions to the brain -- the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
pain transmissions. Lisa will have a hand-held device that works | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
wordlessly, which transmit to this, right through her stomach wall. -- | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
that works wireless Lee. Instead of pain, Lisa should experience a | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
tingling sensation when she switches it on. The first job is to | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
throw it electrodes between eight two's vertebrate and the spinal | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
cord. -- between Lisa's vertebrate and the spinal cords. The | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
electrodes will deliver low voltage impulses along the problem pathways | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
and the challenge is to get them in the right place. Until we test, we | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
are never certain that we are going to be stimulating the right area | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and was then we need to adjust it and be prepared to be flexible | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
about the right position. And only one person can tell them. Lisa is | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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We need to know that we are stimulating the area that she feels | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
pain him. You can wake her up. team sent the first electrical | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
impulses up Lisa's spine. Let us know if it gets too much. Where is | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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that? My right leg, the whole of it. No, the left leg. The whole of it? | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Yes. Top to middle. She is already reporting pain relief in both her | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
legs and lower back. That is good. OK. That is covering your whole | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
left leg. Has it less and? Yes. nerve pain is being replaced by | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
electrical impulses that her brain is reading as pleasant and rather | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
than painful. It sounds like we are covering more than 80%. OK. Lisa | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
can be sedated again. Now the electrodes are in place, they will | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
be connected to the battery charged stimulator implanted under the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
scheme in the abdomen. This surgery is only suitable for a very small | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
percentage of back pain patients but for those who do get selected, | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
70% report good results. 6, 12 miles down the line, we have made a | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
significant difference to their pain -- 12 months. They are coming | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
off the drugs and have a better quality of life. 5 hours after the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
operation, Lisa is already getting used to pain relief by remote | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
control. The eye put it on to my stomach and turn it on. -- I put it | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
on. The tingling down my back and into my feet. It takes a lot of the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
pain away. I think this is the last thing I need to have done now to | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
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Mark is here with a skinny friend. And my skeleton! How is Lisa? | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
has just had her follow what appointment today and things have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
gone very well. She is having some fine-tuning to make it work better | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
for her but remember, this is someone who was told three years | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
ago that she would be unlikely to hold down a full-time job. She has | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
been working full-time for more than three weeks. She will have | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
this impossibly permanently. really is a last resort. Yes, this | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
is not a cure for standard back pain. She had been through two | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
operations. Other people have tried every drug and this is the last | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
resort. I see a couple of patients a day with back pain. 7 million GP | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
consultations in England alone. The main problem we have, over 90% of | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
them, is simple strains and sprains coming from the lumbar region of | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the spine. Although we live in an age where we have machines digging | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
holes for us, we do far less than we used to, back pain is the number | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
one cause of time off work and the causes are weak muscles, because we | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
are not doing very much, obesity. We are not strong enough when we do | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
do things. And posture. We spent a lot of time sitting. We have a | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
graphic to show the classic mistake that everybody makes. On the left, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
he is slouching. A lot of people sit worse than that. We should be | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
sitting there like the graphic on the right. The same applies to | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
driving. But although, if you have a slipped disc, it is sometimes | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
better to lean backwards. The him back and get something support your | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
back like that but it is very difficult -- lean back! Do you | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
suffer from back pain? Yes, because I am a writer so I always get pain | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
in my shoulders. Fortunately, my son does acupuncture so whenever he | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
comes, he gives me needles and it is very helpful. It is very helpful. | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
My wife does acupuncture as well. My wife is always needling me. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Thanks very much, Mark. We've all seen those vans on street | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
corners selling food. Late at night usually, after a few! Burgers or | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
kebabs? I would go for a chicken burger. Are we having this | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
conversation? But you usually regretted the next day. -- regret | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
it. But as chef Paul Merret has found out, street food up and down | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the country is getting better and better. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
In the old days, eating from a van lament the burger, hot dog and | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
fried onions but these guys claim they on leading a street food | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
revolution and this time, the emphasis is on quality. Maverick | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
vendors selling locally sourced, imaginative and exotic cuisine. 10 | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
leading British street food sellers have come to Bristol today to bring | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
their food to a new audience. foot from Taiwan, with fresh | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
ingredients. These a wood fire pizzas. They are the real deal. | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
Delicious. But how will the street food fair with a tough crowd? A | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
group of local builders who have their own ideas of a good lunch. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
full English breakfasts. sausage roll. A packet of crisps. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
How what they've fancy some posh street food? Not the sort of thing | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
I would do. Cheap and cheerful, really. Before they arrive, it is | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
my turn to check out the food. Jonathan Williams was top prize | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
winner at last year's British street food awards. I could not | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
afford to have a cafe because it costs a bomb to set it up. Massive | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
overheads. We have different overheads, and it is not every day. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Jonathan goes to great lengths to source the finest ingredients. | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
bacon is hame read from Pembrokeshire. -- Home read. We | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
have cockles from Wales as well. It is a classic Welsh combination. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Laver bread is seaweed. It is a fiver but you get what you pay for. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
It is estimated in the last three years, the number of gourmet street | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
food stalls in the UK has quadrupled to 400. If I only have | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
four Grant and I want to start a business, this is affordable. -- | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
four brand. You can be out earning a living within a couple of weeks. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
I don't need to do 50 dishes, as long as I do it really well. Can I | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
persuade my builders to swap the sausage rolls for some seafood | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
wraps? Most dishes are from �5 to �8, which is a few quid more than | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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they would normally spend on their They look a bit wary of this. Can I | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
persuade them there is nothing to fear from the Anglo Indian classic | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
of rice, eggs and fish. It is nice. A little bit of spice. The fish is | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
nice, yeah. I don't like eggs, so... Beautiful. A fiver. That would fill | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
you up. You could build all day on that, he says having never built | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
anything in his life! At last, something familiar. A burger van | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
but not what they are used to. Fresh ground Scottish beef from a | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
small farm. But there is a premium price tag. �7.50! One of the best | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
because I have ever tasted. least they appreciate the quality, | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
even if it does blow the budget. There are plenty of other hot | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
dishes, like pizza and Premium Hot Dogs, but the builders are | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
strangely drawn to the frozen yoghurt van, for some reason. | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
other gummy bears? Pretty damn good! I would never have believed | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
that Britain was being rebuilt by builders who eat 100% natural fat- | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
free yoghurt with gummy bears! Overall, I get the feeling the | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
builders would come back for second helpings but not every lunchtime. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Maybe the late night burger van is not about to become extinct but | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
from what I have seen today, Britain has the beginnings of a | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
truly exciting and gourmet street Spamalot would be a good name for a | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
fast food van? It's not really for eating, it is more for comedy. | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
agree. We used to throw it at school. Spam fritters. Deep-fried. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
Anyway, on the topic of Spamalot, the musical is back. It did take a | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
long time to evolve her. Was it 83, Yes, I was writing for a long time. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
We did a radio music on Radio Four, about the three things the English | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
love most, sex, royalty and cricket. We thought, well, that is never | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
going on to Broadway. I was always looking for a subject. I thought, | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
you know what, the Holy Grail is a brilliant subject for a musical. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
That was the end of the 90s. you think that it would be so | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
successful? On a global scale? It's been unbelievable. I go to see | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
it around the world. It keeps on going. As you say, it is coming | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
again into the week -- West End. But those that have not seen it, | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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# Always Look On The Bright Side Of # Life is quite absurd, that the | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
final word. # You must always faced the | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
curtained with a bow. # Forget about your sin, give the | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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We were wondering where Todd Carty had gone. Grange Hill, EastEnders, | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
The Bill, now we know. He's been on the road for quite a while. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
else? Marcus Brigstocke plays King Arthur. We have Bonnie Langford | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
playing the Lady of the lake. John Culshaw is going to take over. We | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
like to book funny people. It is a very funny cast. It's completely | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
different from the last time it was in the West End. Different sets, | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
different costumes, we even have a new song. Why did you decide to | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
write a new song? One song was not working so well in the UK. We | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
changed it to you won't succeed in showbiz, if you don't have any | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
stars. You get Susan Boyle coming on stage, Ozzy Osborne. Simon | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
Cowell, he gets referenced for abuse. It's a true story. You need | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
some TV stars to do well in the West End now. Speaking of writing | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
songs, is it true you have written a new song for Professor Brian Cox? | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
It's partly true. It's not a new song, we adapted the universe song. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
He asked me if I would write a song for his new series on life. I put | :16:51. | :17:00. | |
in all of the things about DNA. He would send me facts, like it is 4.8 | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
billion years, we think it might be 4.7, I'm trying to make it right! | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
That's the hardest thing, how do you get the facts in with the | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
music? You have to write the lyrics. We recorded it and it will be in | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
the new series. Would you say that is your main passion? I like | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
writing musicals, certainly. We just did a play, I'm not supposed | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
to mention the title, because it could be an innuendo, it is called, | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
what about Dick? We had some wonderful people in it. I liked | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
adding silly songs. In later life you think there will be more | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
musicals and plays to come? there is much later life, maybe. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
They take a long time. They are hard to do and get right. You have | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
got to get the playwright. Monty Python's Spamalot returns to the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre on July 24th. We are moving | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
on to litter. I'll tell you what, if I see anybody dropping litter, I | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
am straight behind them telling them they have dropped it. I chased | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
a van, biscuits out of the window. It's very dangerous, chasing vans. | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
It's got to be done. You'll get a shot! In Wales, one castle has a | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
zero-tolerance policy. Surprisingly, it has some locals up in arms. Joe | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Crowley has been to see why they want the policy binned. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
What could be more popular than a crackdown on this? In Wales alone, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
�70 million is spent clearing up after fly-tipping and litter louts | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
every year. But when one town with a bigger problem than most decided | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
to get serious, the result was a backlash against the tear-up. I've | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
come here, to the Welsh valleys. In this area, the zero-tolerance | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
campaign has seen approximately 1500 fines issued for dog fouling | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
and glittering in the past eight months alone. The town is part of | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Blaenau Gwent council, one of a growing number employed in private | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
litter and forces. It recently made national headlines due to the anger | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
of some locals, who say that fines have been awarded for the most | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
inoffensive of reasons. I dropped my betting slip. They went over | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
there, they came back to look for it, someone had it. Even though you | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
came back to look for it? Yes. understand about litter. But when | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
somebody has an accident, where they drop something, they are there, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
they have to make the money. They have been given these powers and | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
they have taken it to the extreme. I've seen situations where children | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
have dropped litter and they haven't had the option to pick it | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
up. They are fined, a single parent with a two-year-old in a pram. | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
not just litter. Many dog-walkers work caught out when exclusion | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
zones were created, they claim, without sufficient notice. The day | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
I took her out, I had a �75 fine. I just brought her through there, let | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
her off the lead for five seconds, �70 fine. Have you paid it? No. I'm | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
not going to cost of take it to court and let the law decide who is | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
in the right. Blaenau Gwent council declined to put forward a | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
spokesperson. But I did meet with two litter and forces employed by | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the company XFOR. They are not exactly the most popular men in | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
town. Their kit includes stab proof vests, with built-in cameras to | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
film exchanges with the public, if necessary. Unfortunately, we get a | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
lot of stick from certain members of the public. When we approached | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
defenders, we are not aware of their circumstances. If they have | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
littered, we have to speak to them civilly and professionally, and | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
issue a fixed penalty to keep it black-and-white, I'm afraid. This | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
firm approach has led to XFOR being awarded a similar contract in the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Vale of Glamorgan. How much pressure is there on members of | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
staff to issue penalties? You would not employ a traffic warden who | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
issues no tickets for traffic offences. XFOR is not going to | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
employ somebody who works for a month and does not issue tickets. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
We are supplying a service for the local authority and they want to | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
see results. Having previously come bottom of the league across the UK | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
for littering and dog fouling, some residents agree that zero tolerance | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
is the only solution. You have to do something about it otherwise the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
town will be a tip. There was a lot of dog litter around and they don't | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
pick it up. It they do, they have a black bag and they just put it on | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
to a tree branch. I don't think the majority of people drop litter. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Most people I have spoken to think that minority should pay for their | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
actions. They should be fined. They also dingbat the fine should be | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
applied with a bit of common sense. -- they also think that the fine | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
should be applied with common sense. Blaenau Gwent has told us it is | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
pleased to be the second most improved Council in Wales on litter. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
They say using a private company allows them to implement a | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
proactive approach, in an efficient way. Where do you stand on the | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
issue? I'm against it. Especially with dogs. You must clean up after | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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your dog. You cannot allow that all Well, from that to Euro 2012. Are | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
you excited? I am so not excited. The Premier League was so great | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
that I haven't got ready for football again. I'm going to get | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
excited. It is in the Ukraine? And it is UK rain. It will be like | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
being at home. You were watching LA Galaxy? I was. And you can see | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Stuart Pearce. He kept looking at the crowd. He couldn't believe all | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
of these beautiful women watching the ball. Did he give you any | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
inkling of who he was going to choose for the Olympic team? | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
asked me, but I was too old. Beckham in there? I hope so. It is | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
holiday football. Just knock it about and have a good time. That is | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
what Euro 2012 should be as well. Life of Brian famously asked, what | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
have the Romans done for us? answer was nothing apart from | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
education... Irrigation... roads... Public Health... What | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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In its heyday, back in the 4th century, Chedworth Roman villa in | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Gloucestershire was home to some of the richest people in the country. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
These days, the Romans have long gone. As well as some beautiful | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
artifacts, they have left behind an ancient rite that is still alive | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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and well and calling displace home. -- this place. The Roman snail. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
This species of snail was a tasty delicacy brought across the Channel | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
some 2000 years ago by the occupying Roman soldiers and French | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
traders. For the Roman army, they would have been the equivalent of | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
our elevenses. AGC mid-morning snack. They would put them at in a | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
big wooden bowl. You would give them whatever heard that he wanted | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
them to taste of. Garlic, Thai, a little bit of rosemary. They also | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
tenderised. You have a nice juicy, plump snail. They are flavoured | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
with what you want them to take stop. You just add them to what | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
ever meal you are eating. Fortunately, a few lucky ones | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
escaped the pot and their descendants have made home in the | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
UK ever since. Today, cooking and eating these snails is a criminal | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
offence. They are now so rare that it is the only invasive species in | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
the country that is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
It is now illegal to kill, collect or sell them. I have had to get a | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
licence just to handle one. Safeguarding their future is of | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
utmost importance for Martin willing. What is so special about | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
this? A lot of people these days are quite keen on a wild foraging | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
for food. Unfortunately, this is one of their targets. In fact, | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
these things can live for up to 20 years. That is longer than most | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
dogs. That is pretty incredible. Being slow-growing animals, they | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
take a long time to reach maturity. It is two or three years before | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
they start to breed. They are more vulnerable to collecting. If you | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
took most of them out from a particular site, you could do | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
significant damage for many years and you could wipe it out | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
altogether. Staff here have been recruited to protect these styles. | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
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Max shows me a good place to spot them. I've got one! People say, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
they are not rare because there are loads of them. Overall, they are | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
very rare. Why have they done so well? We manage this site | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
specifically for them. They love limestone. And we have limestone | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
and lots of grass? We leave the grass to grow on the banks. It | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
probably gets about that height. That is brilliant, because it | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
protects them. I would normally complain if we were out in the rain. | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
But this is perfect for the snails? They love the damp weather. As you | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
can see, a little bit of rain and they come out. Just 100 generations | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
of this snail's ancestry takes you right back to Roman Britain. I find | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
it fascinating that we have such a direct and living link with our | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
ancient history. With any luck, there will continue to thrive and | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
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Before we go, a quick reminder about the 999 award. It is for a | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
member of the public that showed quick-thinking in an emergency or | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
for somebody that helped the emergency services do their job. We | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
want you to nominate them. Get the permission of the person you on | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
nominating and follow the instructions and terms and | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
conditions of the website. Eric, thank you ever so much for joining | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
us. Spamalot is at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from July | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
24th. The One Show is off air until July 22nd because of the football. | :28:46. | :28:51. |