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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex starts | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
rehearsals, just for tonight and joined by Anita Rani. Lucky for us, | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
we are in the presence of a home- grown screen goddess and Hollywood | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
legend. It is Joan Collins! lovely to see you again! You look | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
amazing. Thinking back to the last time we saw you, you were about to | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
throw yourself into the world of pantomime. How was it? It was | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
absolutely fantastic, I loved it. Oh, my God! I got swine flu! Just | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
before Christmas, yes, and I was staggering around and trying to do | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
my number and feeling really ill. I had to take five performance as off, | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
which was for all. Now I know what swine flu is, it is not something | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
you want to get! Do not shake hands with anyone! You mention that in a | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
book. We'll be talking about that in a moment, we cannot wait to talk | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
to you about it, but members of the public will be tapping into your | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
wisdom. Yes? All this week on the One Show, we are keeping tabs on | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
David Walliams as his wins the Thames. As we are finding out, | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
things are going from bad to worse. Pretty rough. Before we get that | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
progress report from the man himself, this is what happened when | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Matt Allwright went to the River Dart in Devon to meet one man who | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
likes to take a dip on the wild The River Dart in Devon. Throughout | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
history, its unpredictable rapids and currents have claimed many | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
lives. Given the nature of the raging river, not necessarily the | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
best place, you might think, is to stage a 10 kilometre river swimming | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
marathon, but that is exactly what they are doing down there in Totnes, | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
where the river becomes tidal, all the way down to where the waters | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
are much deeper. The challenge for one of the younger swimmers, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
sending old Toby, is quite different. Struck down with chronic | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
fatigue syndrome, he is worried the condition will stop him finishing | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
at all. I was hit by glandular fever when I was 15. From then on, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
my training declined. I used to train up to 16 hours per week. It | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
slowed me down, made me feel lethargic. Running upstairs send my | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
heart rate through the ceiling. I still am somebody who really likes | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
to go for it, give everything my best shot. It became more difficult | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
psychologically because I felt I could do less and less physically. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
The start his moments away. Under the rubber caps, there are worried | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
looking faces. Toby is in the white My greatest fear swimming the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
marathon was that I would hit a wall and not physically be able to | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
go on. I want to competed. If I do not, I think it will send me into a | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
downward spiral. -- complete it. are at the three, to mark, and you | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
can see the first feeding station behind me. -- three kilometre mark. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
How is it going? It is going OK. You took off at quite a pace. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
just wanted to get going and then working to a pace from there. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
have got the ferry coming down, what does that mean for the | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
swimmers? Because the river is narrow, it is forcing the swimmers | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
closer to the bank. The wake of the boat will have some sort of pushing | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
against them. There is quite a lot of stuff to avoid. There is. There | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
are things that come loose, like that long whistle. There is other | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
debris floating, underwater and time comment. It poses big problems. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
You can see the estuary is opening rider, and they are facing a strong | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
wind now, as well as the tide, which is why you have got these | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
waves. How is it going? It is getting more difficult to get the | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
arms above the water. I am barely kicking any more, which isn't great. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
There is only two kilometres left. Now Toby is absolutely cream | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
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Congratulations, mate. As you came round, you put a little sprint on. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
I was going on adrenalin and determination. I will let you go | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
and get warmed up. Thanks a lot. Thank you. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
As fun as that looks, remember that while swimming is dangerous, and | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
you should seek expert advice. we said, David Walliams is on day | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
three of his win down the Thames for Big Splash to raise money for | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
Sport Relief. He gave us an update at lunchtime it. I have had the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
darkest time on the swim so far. I was quite surprised they let me | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
going, because I am not well. Just very odd to move your body through | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
the water when you feel like you're going to throw up. I just do not | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
want to give up. Well, I sort of do. If there were no consequences, if I | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
could just stop and nobody would mind, I would. But I would be | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
letting people down. Oh, dear! a trouper. It is not just about | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
physical endurance, it is mental endurance as well. He is still | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
going for it. He started this morning in Abingdon, and the latest | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
is that his team has reached Wallingford. So he is still going, | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
doing very well. Please show all the support you can. I will be down | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
there tomorrow. You are welcome to join us on the writ and give him | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
support. There is a number you can texts to give a donation. How does | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the thought of swimming 140 miles down the 10 is a strike you? Well, | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
first of all, you are swimming in sludge. That is correct. I would | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
rather eat tones! Well, we will move on to chicken! Although the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
number of free range eggs purchased in the UK is on the rise, there are | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
still an estimated 6 million battery hens in cramped conditions. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
And don't I know about it! Thanks to new EU legislation, their cages | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
are about to get bigger, but not Scrambled, boiled, fried or poached, | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
we love eggs, and while free range is growing in popularity, around | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
half of the 11 billion that the aplastic came from battery farm | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
hens. -- that we ate last year. By the end of next year, traditional | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
battery cages like these will be illegal under European law. And | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
that means big changes for many British poultry farmers. Duncan is | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
currently moving 120,000 hens on his Cheshire farm out of the old- | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
style battery cages. This is quite a sight, how many chickens have you | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
got? In this particular shed, 25,000. So this is a battery cage. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Yes, they are 60 centimetres wide. Every bird has 10 centimetres. They | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
have 550 square centimetres inside the cage. They have access to two | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
water points, so they have continual water. All the eggs roll | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
forward on to these belts. If we go to the far end of the shed, they go | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
down into the grading room. Next stop, a shed filled with pens in | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
brand new cages. There are now 60 rather than six per cage. It may | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
look cramped, but each bird has twice as much space and access to | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
Stepping into here, I did initially think, it looks very similar, but I | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
can say that they are moving around a lot more, they have got more | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
space. They can all move about, they can flap their wings, as they | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
showed. The hens are a lot happier in there. All in all, I think it is | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
a far better system. Animal welfare organisations say the new cages, | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
known as enriched colony systems car and an improvement but only a | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
marginal one. The confinement is less extreme, there is | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
consideration for the needs of the hens, but it is still a cage. We | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
always urge consumers to look out for free range for organic. If you | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
want to be sure the hens have had the kind of life that they should | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
have, that is what you should do. According to compassion in World | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
farming, this would only add two pens under the cost of each egg, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
but farmers say they are struggling to meet the expense of the new | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
cages. It is estimated that it will cost the industry around �400 | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
million to convert from the old battery system to the new enriched | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
colonies system in order to meet the EU deadline. Given the huge | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
costs involved, it is no surprise that some European countries are | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
lagging behind. The fear is that in some parts of Europe, illegal egg | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
production in a old-style battery cages will continue after the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
deadline, putting British farmers at a disadvantage. While boxes of | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
these eggs are highly unlikely to end up on our supermarket shelves, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
the worry is that they could find their way into Britain through | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
other routes. There is a particular concern about the eggs that are | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
used in manufacturing are things like cakes and in catering. Our | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
government has a responsibility to ensure that these products are not | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
important. Duncan fears that an influx of cheap continental eggs | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
could force British poultry farmers out of business. A my concern is | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
that if illegal eggs come from abroad, they will undercut our | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
market. We just cannot afford to allow the price to be pushed down | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
by illegal eggs coming in. Farmers here won the European Commission to | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
introduce a European ban preventing eggs produced in battery cages | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
being traded across national boundaries. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Joan, the EU making life as good as they can for battery hens, but | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
there is other legislation that you are concerned about, the world of | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
light bolts. Can you and light and as? Well, the EU has said they want | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
to get rid of the 60 watt and 100 watt light bulbs that you just | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
screw in. You have got a little thing that goes in like that. They | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
want to replace them with these twisty ones, whatever they are | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
called. That is right. They are filled with mercury, if they break. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
They are difficult to get rid of, and the light is appalling, I | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
cannot read by them. If I go to a hotel and they have those, because | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
a lot of them have them, you cannot read. I do not understand why we | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
have to go along with everything the EU says, because some of their | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
rules and regulations, like bananas have to be a certain shape, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
cucumbers have to be a certain length... Don't get me started on | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
that! We could be here for hours, it is a big deal for me. I love | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
wonky vegetables. It is nice. Your book is full of opinions along | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
those lines, but it is not a novel, A Biography, not a self-help book. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
How would you describe it? It is a light-hearted look as the way the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
world is today, according to me and my opinions about a lot of things | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
that bother me at that I do not like, and a lot of things I do like. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
It has quite a few anecdotes and amusing stories about people I have | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
met. It is not the story of my life at all. I touched on things like | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
make-up and men and morals and manners and values. Airports and | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
hotels! We love that side of you, the honesty. Do you? It is clear | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
that you have a lot of wisdom to share. So we have been out and | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
about, talking to members of the public who need your help, so for | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
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one night only, it is time to moan Hello, John, how are you doing, | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
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love? Troubles with rioting, how do we stop it? I think it is a very | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
tricky question. I think that the riots, although our lot of the kids | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
that were riding were like feral you this, there were a lot of | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
criminals involved, and apparently at the end of a lot of streets | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
there were people who were receiving television sets and | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
clothes and all kinds of things. I do not know how to stop the rioting. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
Hopefully it has stopped. What I say in my book is that these kids | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
today have so much more than my generation had. We did not have | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
anything. We did not have television, we had record players | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
and radios, but we amused ourselves. To hear children from 11 up to 18 | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
saying, we are bored, we do not have anything to do. They have more | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
things to amuse themselves today, with things like that, the internet | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
and the television and videos and DVDs and everything. We have | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
another question for you. This is Annabel. Some thing that really | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
annoys me is when I'm walking down the street and I smile at somebody | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
and they do not smile back. What has happened to manners in his day | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
and age? The she wants to know about Mahler's Fourth of it | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
happened to me today. I was walking around the park. I smiled at a | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
gentleman who had a dog, and he did not smile back. Who was that man?! | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
I cannot believe it! Maybe men are a bit short-sighted! Yes, manners, | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
I do have a long chapter about manners in my book. I think mothers | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
do not seem to exist any more. When I go to a talk, I expect a man to | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
open it for me. My husband always does and always would. If I open it | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
myself, he gets cross. And I expect somebody to carry my bags if I am | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
at the airport. And I just think the whole thing has just turned | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
into a mess, a mess, really. Quickly to Sarah in a charity | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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Hello, Joan. I have a nine-year-old daughter. How do I teach her to be | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
glamourous without being unnecessarily sexy? That is a very | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
interesting point up, because I know a lot of little girls want to | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
look sexy. She should not wear anything too short. When I say | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
short, I'm in thigh-length. And she should not wear anything too low or | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
with slogans on that's a "I and sexy" or "I want a boyfriend". | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
moment to, we will make Rav's dreams come true and let her -- him | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
sit very close to Joan. Be for that, he takes us back to a | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
time when a particular scientific breakthrough changed modern | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
policing forever. Twenty-five years ago, a double | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
murder case had Leicestershire police stumped. 15-year-old Dawn | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Ashworth had been raped and murdered in the village of Enderby. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Police believed it was linked to Lynda Mann's murder three years | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
earlier. A young local man had confessed to dawn's murder, but he | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
had no link to the earlier case. A confession alone was not enough to | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
secure a conviction. Police needed corroborating evidence, but after | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
months of painstaking investigation, they had drawn a blank. In the end, | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
it was not traditional detective work that identified Dawn's killer. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
A new scientific technique gave them their breakthrough, a | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
technique which would change the way we fight crime forever. It | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
would come to be known as DNA fingerprinting or profiling. It was | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
the brainchild of Alec Jeffreys, who at the time of the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
investigation was researching how DNA, the molecule that makes up our | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
genes, varies from one person to another. In 1984, we discovered a | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
way of getting variable bits of DNA, which by accident provided the | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
technology of DNA fingerprinting and opened a fantastic door on the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
world of human DNA identification. Be in a is a long string of code. | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Jefferies found a way to identify parts of the code that are unique | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
to an individual. He used X-rays to visualise the results. These are | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
DNA fingerprints from the very first case in the world to be | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
tackled at this level. On this X- ray, each column represents one | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
person's DNA. It is their DNA fingerprint. None of the columns | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
match completely, showing that samples have been taken from | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
different individuals. When I first came up with this technology in | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
1984, I said, maybe we could use these front edification. At that | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
point, about half the audience thought I had lost the plot. In a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
surely, his breakthrough was used to resolve paternity and | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
immigration cases. Its crime solving potential was spotted by | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
David Baker, the man leading the Leicestershire murder investigation. | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
He recruited Mr Jefferies and sent him DNA samples from both cases | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
along with that of the man who had confessed to one of the murders. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
established that Buckland was not the guilty party. What did that | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
mean to you? Did it throw you, or was what you expected? Be it was | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
not what we expected. There was a lot of heart-searching when we | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
thought we had got a confession from Buckland. Our first task was | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
to get him released. This was an important result, but it left the | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
case without a single suspect. There was no such thing as a DNA | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
database in the 1990s, so in another pioneering move, the police | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
carried out the first mass DNA screening. All local miles between | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
16 and that five were called upon to give a sample. It we had sent | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
them a letter inviting them to come in, and asked them to bring some | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
form of identification so that we could check firstly to the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
identification and the invitation and then take the blood sample. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
end police got a lucky break. In this pub, a local was overheard | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
bragging that a man called Colin pitchfork had paid him to take his | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
ID and give a sample on his behalf. Police arrested Colin Pitchfork. | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
His DNA sample was taken, and they got a result. A pitchfork's unique | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
DNA profile matched that taken from the murder scene. It proved beyond | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
all doubt that Colin Pitchfork was the culprit. He became the first | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
man to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence. You pretty much | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
single-handedly changed worldwide policing. You must be so proud. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
am, but if I had not done this, I was just the lucky guy who was in | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the right place at the right time with the right idea. Since the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
conviction of Colin Pitchfork, major cases like the sewer murders | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
and the abduction of shown Matthews have been solved with the help of | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
DNA. And millions of DNA profiles have been created to settle | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
paternity and immigration disputes as well as to identify victims of | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
war. But as a former police officer, I know the impact that DNA | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
profiling and the national DNA database has on fighting crime. It | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
is now a frontline tool relied on by police all over the world. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys was playing down his discovery somewhat. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
I know! I said, you have revolutionised policing, and he | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
said, someone else would have done it. It changed the world. I and it | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
only happened in the '80s. You would think it had been around for | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
ages. Now we are on the verge of another breakthrough? A very | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
exciting one. When I joined the police, it would take weeks to get | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
a DNA result back. Now I have heard we could have results within an | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
hour, which would really change policing. How? If you take a | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
burglary. You might find blood left behind by the burglar, who has | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
stolen the property. If you can get to that burglar's house within an | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
hour, with the property that would be sold on, that is fantastic. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
to make his work, there will need to be a massive database of DNA. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
How do you feel about this, Joan? It is a tricky subject. Could they | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
do other things with that DNA? Could it be stolen and cloned? They | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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might be able to make another Matt Baker. Is that such a bad thing? | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Maybe it is like babies having to be inoculated. They could do it | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
when a baby is born. It is one of the ideas that has been bounced | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
around. Saliva is one of the best body fluids. But it would be very | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
expensive. But if the EU say we have got to do it... Don't get has | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
started on that! But Joan, you are no stranger to databases. You are | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
probably on a customs list somewhere, because you get into | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
other. I once got into trouble with Customs. I had been in Paris, | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
making a movie. I had been there for three months and came back with | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
my 11-month-old daughter, and her nanny and her sister, and I had | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
lots of suitcases. Valentino had made need lots of dresses. As it to | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
the concierge, please send these to my house in the south of France. He | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
did not, and the next thing that happened was that the customs man | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
opened it and found all these beautiful dresses. He said, what is | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
this? I said, this is a mistake. And I went bright red and felt | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
guilty. He started taking out everything - my underwear, | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
stockings... And there were people going by with cameras. Luckily, | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
this was before cellphones, but they took pictures. I was there for | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
two hours and they put me on a database for about four years. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Talking of taking photos, all week Jamie Crawford has been inspiring | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
viewers to get out with their cameras. These have been sent to us | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
without asking for them. I love this photograph. This is a | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
beautiful one of a robin red breast from Jess Stuart Smith. And this is | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
from Mike Davies. Jamie Crawford would be proud. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Tonight, he is off in search of the dragonfly. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Some of the most amazing sights in nature are so tiny that they can | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
barely be seen by the naked eye. Like the intense colours on a | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
butterfly wing. All the fine hairs on a spider. But I want to get some | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
of the most amazing eyes in nature. Almost as big as their heads, | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
dragonflies have up to 30,000 lenses, so they can see 360 degrees | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
at the same time. Macro photography is like looking through the world | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
through a microscope in tiny detail. You need to get up close. And | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
personal. It will not be easy, as dragonflies can wash by at around | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
15 miles an hour. So I have drafted in wildlife photographer Ross | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Hoddinott, who specialises in macro and dragonflies. When are they up | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
to? As soon as the sun warms up. Once their bodies are warm, there | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
are active. Then it is a lottery whether you can get close enough. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
If you fancy having a go, flowers are a great thing to practise on, | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
as they don't fly away.... Photography of flowers is not | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
without its difficulties. biggest challenge is the shallow | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
depth of field you have to work with when you shoot I magnification | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
so. It means it is hard to get the whole subject in focus, so a tripod | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
is useful, but not always practical. It is such a tiny focus, that you | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
just have to hold your breath. A standard 50 mm lenses find the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
things you can get close to, but the dragonflies, it is good to have | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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a bit more oomph. It is 6:30am, and today I have the real deal. It is a | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
180 mm lens, which means I can get about a metre away from them, but | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
still take close-up photographs without disturbing them. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
Dragonflies are cold-blooded, which is why they slow down at night. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
They had for long weeds and grass is to hide from predators. With his | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
eagle-eyed, boss finds a close relative of the dragonfly, A damsel | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
fly. It is important that your camera is parallel to the subject. | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Keep the insect in focus. Dragonflies perch with their wings | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
outstretched, while the dainty red damselfly tucks them back at rest. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
I am pleased with these shots and more that determined than ever to | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
find a dragonfly. There the next hour, although we see plenty of | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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wildlife, it is not the right sort. Or it is too fast. A flying | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
dragonfly, not a stationary one. It is really warm now, and active. But | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
I am finding them easier to spot, especially as they seem to like the | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
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warmth of this fence. I have to be stealthy. Look at that. That is | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
good. This is exciting. That is an amazing bright red. Or it was | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
amazingly bright red. But then I spot one landing. And with Ross's | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
tips in mind, I am getting level with the subject. Please don't | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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flyaway. Wow. This is amazing. I am really happy with that photograph. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Great tips. Even Joan was getting tips. Can we just look at the last | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
frame? That dragonfly seems to be smiling! Pappy to be on the Cher. | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
Joan, you have been on the front cover of over 700 magazines? | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
first one was when I was 17, a long time ago. And when I was doing | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
Dynasty, I was on magazine covers constantly. I did a couple only | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
last month. Talking of a Dynasty, we know Dallas is being remade with | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
some of the original cast members. Will Dynasty come backwards fact -- | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
will it come back? Unfortunately, John Forsythe, who played Blake, is | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
dead. You would have wanted the three of us. They have been talking | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
about it, but they are waiting to see how the public received Dallas. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
It has been a pleasure to have you on. That is all for tonight. Thanks | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
again to Joan. Her book, The World According To Joan, is available to | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
buy exclusively at Sainsbury's. Thank you also to Anita. Tomorrow, | :28:44. | :28:47. |