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Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
And we're back in the studio after last night's special show from | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
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Buckingham Palace. Where did you get that? Nowhere. LAUGHTER A big | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
thank you to everyone who sent messages. And di buy it from a shop. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Just to clarify. If you had problems last night registering on | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
the website for the ballot for tickets to the Diamond Jubilee | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
concert, don't worry. There was a huge amount of people doing the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
same and it caused some congestion on the site. Everything is back up | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
and running today, and don't forget - the tickets are not first come | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
first served and you have until 2nd March to apply, so there's still | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
plenty of time. Back to tonight, and we're talking | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
about one of the funniest bridges in Scotland. The Forth Bridge? | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
funny. The Tay Bridge? Couldn't crack a joke if it tried. OK. What | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
about the man who's been called the best Scottish stand-up of his | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
generation? Now you're talking. It's Kevin Bridges! | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
CHEERING Good to see you, Kevin. As we were saying, we were in the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Palace yesterday. Such a shame you couldn't have been our guest then. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
I would have loved that. Have you met the Queen? No, never. This | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
year? No, I've never bumped into the Queen. You don't bump into the | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
Queen. Not really. I haven't done the Royal Variety Show. So far you | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
have had an incredible career for such a young lad. We'll get to that | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
later. And Superintendent Brandreth of the Yard will be opening a case | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
file on a murder which scared a whole village into silence. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
The current housing crisis has meant that a growing number of | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
landlords are cashing in by cramming tenants into dangerous | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
properties. Even garden sheds. Anita Rani has been out on patrol | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
in one of the worst-hit areas to see just how bad it can get. 21st | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
century Britain. Shocking images of the conditions in which some people | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
are living. All of these pictures were taken in the borough of Newham, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
East London. Newham is one of the most deprived boroughs in England | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
and the council here have seen a huge rise in slum conditions in | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
rental properties. Much of the accommodation is made up of so- | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
called supersheds, small outbuildings which unscrupulous | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
landlords build without planning permission. This one was rented to | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
four adults, netting the landlord an astounding �12,000 a year. The | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
planning enforcement team are expecting the incidences of problem | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
rental properties to more than double in the coming year. The | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
council uses aerial photography to track down landlords who risk the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
wellbeing of their taents by renting illegal accommodation. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Newham Council officers have been tipped off that there's a property | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
that's potentially being rebted out illegally. -- rented out illegally. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
The biggest problem the team face is getting into the houses to | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
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inspect them. Eventually their persistence pays off. Inside we | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
find a tenant whose room seems to have been created from part of what | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
was once the kitchen. Did you speak Hindi? Yes. He tells me that he | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
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shares the room with his wife who is studying in the UK. This chaps | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
is from Gujarat and pays �60 a week. The room is cramped and the doorway | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
opens directly into the communal kitchen. This is typical of the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
conditions that Christine sees every day. The tenants renting here | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
are not doing anything wrong. Christine's team finds seven other | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
rooms in the house, one of which is crammed with beds for four people. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
There is no telling how many people use this extremely basic condition | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
and outside toilet, and at the back of the house we discover a newly | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
built shed. More room that could potential I will be filled with | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
future tenants. We've just seen a building being erected at the back. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
We've come into the property and found one of the rooms occupied by | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
a gentleman and his wife. The front room has two bunk beds, four beds | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
in there. Upstairs there are three further rooms being represented out. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
We couldn't get in there. And there's a room in the roof being | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
rented out. What's problem of that man having that room for his wife? | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
From a planning point of view, anything more than six people | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
sharing a house requires planning permission. So there is a problem | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
there. And this poor chap with his bedroom off the kitchen, if the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
kitchen catches fire, he can't go anywhere. It's lethal, that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
property. The problem isn't just confined to this section of the | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
country. Across the UK complaints about serious and potentially life- | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
threatening hazards such as gas and electricity connections have gone | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
up by 25% Some cases the rent for these slums can coming out of your | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
pocket. One survey showed �3.5 billion of taxpayers' money is | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
being paid to effectful landlords who fail to repair properties, | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
harass and illegally evict tenants. Christine's team have plans to use | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
thermal images of the area to zero in on outbuildings that could | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
potential I will be used as rental accommodation. We are dealing with | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
properties that are under the radar. They are living in squalor. This | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
council is trying to ensure that everybody lives in a properly- | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
created dwelling house and has a proper life. Unscrupulous landlords | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
are notoriously difficult to police. Newham Council is planning to force | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
landlords to register before they can rents out a property. If they | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
don't register, they'll be breaking the law. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Anita is here. As bleak as it seems this is the only type of property | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
that some people can get into isn't it? These landlords are exploiting | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
vulnerable section of society which for whatever reason can't get | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
social housing, and charging them extortionate amounts of money. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Three people died last year in this type of accommodation. You said | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
that Newham are planning on getting landlords to register. Which will | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
be rolled out across the country? In Scotland, if you are a landlord | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
you have to be registered full stop. Northern Ireland, it looks like | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
they are going the same way This country, in England, different | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
councils can do it their own way, depending on their situation. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Newham wants to roll out to say if you are a landlord you have to | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
register with them by 2013. But in Oxford and Sheffield, they have a | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
voluntary accreditation system for landlords. You can go and check. If | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
you are a landlord and you own a property and are unsure what to do, | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
ask your council. Kevin you have moved out of your house. I'm not | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
suggesting that it is anything like that! On the topic of sheds... I | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
have a mattress in my mum and dad's garden hut! No, I have a nice gaffe | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
in the nice bit of Glasgow. Does your mum do the housework? My mum | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
has a job as a home help, so she has spare time, as I see it, so I | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
employed her to come up and clean my house. I'm 25 and I have a home | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
help. She's probably watching now and cleaning. There's a KitKat | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
wrapper under the couch. A couple of socks. She comes up. She's good. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
Only when I'm away. I never go shopping. That's every guy's dream. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Get your mum to come round and clean up. You are spoilt, Kevin. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Barack Obama could soon be looking for a new house if he loses the US | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Presidential elections later this year. One of the frontrunners | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
hoping to get into the White House is particualrly in the spotlight | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
because of his Mormon faith. Simon Boazman thinks we should all | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
learn a little more about Mormons. Brace yourself for some terrible | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
singing. # America, God shed his grace on | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
thee, stkwhrrks US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is not only the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Republican front run ir but he's a devout member of the Church of | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, meaning he could be the first ever | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Mormon President. But although it's a fast-growing religion, claiming | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
800 new converts every day around the world, it would seem that the | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
people in the UK don't know a great deal about it. I think they are | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
allowed to have quite a few wife es. You give them half your wages. | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Lake City in America, a kind of cult. I don't know anything about | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Mormons. These young men should have the answers. All young single | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
Mormons are encouraged to become missionaries, so for these elders | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
that means two years devoted to spreading the Mormon word, when | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
they can persuade people to listen. Excuse me? My friend and I share a | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
message on how families can be together forever. This book talks | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
of Jesus Christ. Despite the brush- offs they are still smiling and | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
agreed to tell me anything about Mormonism. Two guys in your early | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
20s, why are you called elders? means teacher or missionary. That's | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
our title. You seem to be rolling up to people in the street. What | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
are you saying to them We are hoping to help others understand | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
our beliefs better and then set a time that we can go and see them | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
and teach them more. We could give you our number and if you are | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
interested, give us a call. I know you are not that far from home. You | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
are not allowed to see your family for two years, how tough is that? | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
It is just two years. I know that through this my family gets blessed, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
so I would city here for the two years knowing that they are going | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
to get blessed in return. Do you ring her up and make sure she is | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
alright, your mum? No, I speak to her at Christmas and on Mother's | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Day. She's doing fantastic. normal 21 and 22-year-old, what are | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
the restrictions you are under? don't smoke, we don't drink alcohol | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
and we don't partake of illegal drugs. I don't view them as | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
restrictions, but as a blessing, to allow us the opportunity to keep | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
our bodies clean so the spirit can be with us more. Mormonism was | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
founded in 180 in America and its headquarters are in Salt Lake City, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Utah. They identify as Christians, but there are some differences | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
between their beliefs and mainstream Christianity. They | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
believe Christ's modern church has been restored by apostles. The | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
first Mormons came to the UK in 1837 and now Bishop Turner preachs | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
to 200 in Chorley, Lancashire. Family is important to all Mormons, | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
so Bishop Turner spends at least one it in a week reading, playing | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
and -- praying and playing games. have heard that everyone in the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Mormon faith has to hand over a proportion of their salary? That's | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
true. I have never failed to give 10% of my income to the Church. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
people in the Mormon church can have many wives, is that true? | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
That's not true, but I'm sure it is a common misconception. It is not | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
something the Church practises. It is against civil and Church law. | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
Where does that belief come from? small percentage of the Church | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
practised polygamy and it was outlawed. It is not something we | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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You have to look at the name of the church. It's the Church of Jesus | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Christ of Latter-day Saints. There is nothing cultish about the Church | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We invite everybody to come | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
and find out more about the church and examine for themselves. With | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
more than 2,000 members here in the UK and Mitt Romney's beliefs likely | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
to become an election issue in America we could be hearing a lot | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
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And, as if this was pre-planned, you actually -- you actually went | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
to a party hosted by a Mormon, didn't you? It was all right. They | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
do not drink, so it was just drinking Red Bull and getting sober. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Did you have a good time? It was good, there was a lot of energy in | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
the party, because alcohol makes you a bit lethargic. Loads of Red | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
Bull and all of that. The idea is, you're going in search of material. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Yes, you will see some stand-up footage from Glasgow, and then me | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
going behind the routine. I did a routine about American house | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
parties, compared to the parties that we would be used to. That was | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
only because I had used this particular name, doing my stand-up | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
stuff, this guy, who got bombarded on Facebook, and it turned out to | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
be a real guy. He e-mailed me, telling me he has got 15,000 new | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
Facebook mates, all from Glasgow. It gave me this idea for the series, | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
we flew over and met the guy. We were hoping it was going to be a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
New York was something, and we found out that it was the home of | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
the Mormon church. Amazing, really friendly people. In every episode, | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
you met a comedian, did you? Yes, Frank Skinner is on tonight. And in | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
a couple of weeks, you meet James Corden, don't you? Yes, I went back | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
to do a show in my old school. It was all about school memories. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
you were talking about changing for physical education. Yes, we were | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
both the fat guys at school. I used to just embrace the fact that I was | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
big. At any point you're about to be told off, you do that, everybody | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
thinks it's funny. And then it's, can I get dressed now? But were you | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
dying inside? Of course, it is the worst time to tell people to get | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
changed in front of each other. There is no good time, when you're | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
13, 14, 15, it is so cruel that twice a week you make kids going to | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
a room and take their clothes off. That was cut out just in time, it | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
was going to go a bit post- watershed. It is on at 10:45pm, | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
tonight. It is a big night for you. Yes, I hope it is good, it has been | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
done now, so you can just forget about it and hope people enjoy it. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
You were talking about getting changed and things, one thing you | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
do not want is communal changing rooms, and you did work in a shop | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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before, didn't you? I worked in TK Maxx. You did not tell anybody | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
about your stand-up comedy duo, originally? No. But why keep it | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
from your friends, when you were doing stand-up? I just gave it a go, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
it was a one-off thing, I always got in trouble in school for being | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
funny, so I tried to make it something positive, go and give | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
stand-up comedy a go. The gig went well, they phoned me, and I thought, | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
all right, we are on to something here. It was something me and my | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
dad did. I never played football and all of that kind of stuff. My | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
dad doesn't drink, so we never went down the pub for a pint. And then I | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
thought, if my mates showed up, they would win it. And also, | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
because everyone on the bill, they were all drama students with | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
degrees and stuff, and I was worried that my mates would think, | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
these guys were mental. So I thought I would just keep them to | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
one side. Then I got a review, and one of my old teachers brought it | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
into the school. And then my friends sussed out it was me. And | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
the next gig was a sell-out, I knew everybody in the audience. That's | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
on tonight at 10:40pm, Kevin Bridges - What's The Story?. In | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
case you did not know, next Tuesday is Valentine's Day. We want you to | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
write a poem for your loved one. And we want you to send it into us. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Six lines or less, keep it clean, and make it really good - or really, | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
really bad. And you can send it to this address... We are looking | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
forward to reading them. Now, Valentine's Day is particularly | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
well remembered in one English village for a bizarre crime which | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
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took place 67 years ago. Yes, Inspector Gyles has reopened the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
very strange case of Charles Walton. In 1964, a revolutionary new crime | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
drama was opened by the BBC, based on the real-life investigations of | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
this man, legendary detective Robert Fabian. He was famous for | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
his thoroughness, tenacity, and for embracing the new techniques of | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
forensic science. But this was a case he would never crack, and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
which would haunt him for years to come. It is a tale of murder and | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
witchcraft, set in the sleepy village of Lower Quinton in | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
Warwickshire. On the evening of St Valentine's Day 1945, the local | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
constabulary was called to a murder scene. In a field near Meon Hill | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
lay the body of a 74-year-old man, his body was found pinned to the | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
ground with a pitchfork, and he had been slashed to death with this | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
instrument. Immediately, rumours began of ritual sacrifice. The | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
victim's name was Charles Walton, a farmhand from the village. His | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
macabre murder made headlines, and the Warwickshire Constabulary asked | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
Scotland Yard for assistance. They sent their best man, Fabian, hoping | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
his advanced crime-fighting techniques would crack the case. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
When Fabian arrived, what were his initial thoughts? Initially thought | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
it was a simple robbery, and a murder, obviously. His money belt | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
had gone, his watch had gone, there was a motive for theft. What about | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
the nature of the killings? He was murdered in exactly the same way as | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
somebody who had been murdered many years before, which was believed to | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
be a ritualistic killing, all the signs of a witchcraft murder, to | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
appease the local gods and feed the earth. So, Fabian was wrestling | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
with two strike for possibilities - a straightforward murder, or a | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
murder motivated by witchcraft? Absolutely. By mid-afternoon the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
next day, Detective Inspector Fabian had brought the 20th century | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
to the village, an RAF surveillance plane shot across the countryside, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
providing high resolution photographs of the surrounding area. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
The images were so detailed, they even picked out the bloodstains on | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the trampled grass. Fabian's detectives began to plot the | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
movements over the previous 24 hours of every last resident in the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
surrounding area. But this was where Fabian's cutting-edge | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
technology was brought to its knees by a village determined to keep a | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
secret. By the end of the week, Fabian had interviewed all 493 | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
villagers. He was troubled by their reluctance to talk, except about | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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the failure of that year's harvest. He was also met by a collective | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
silence when he entered the local pub. But 66 years on, people are | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
still talking about why Fabian was stonewalled by the entire village. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Graham Saunders was a child at the time. I remember groups of men | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
going from house to house in the village, with clipboards, wearing | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
long, dark overcoats and trilby hats. Why do you think people said | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
nothing? The people of Lower Quinton did not like to think that | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
this could happen in the village, and I think that is the reason why | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
they just shut up. Why do you think this happened? I believe that it | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
was an outsider. There's little to remember Charles Walton by today. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Even his headstone is missing from the graveyard. But it was a case | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
which Fabian could not forget, because modern forensics had failed | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
him. Fabian was convinced that the villagers knew the answer, but | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
would take it to their graves. These are the last words in his | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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The case is not yet closed. A remarkable story, I'm delighted to | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
say that the grandson of Fabian has joined us in the studio. Now, he | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
was a remarkable policeman. Yes, when I was a boy, he was the first | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
TV detective, a national hero. Back in 1939, Fabian of the Yard was at | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
a police station in the West End and there was an explosion at | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Piccadilly. It was an IRA bomb that had detonated. He went into it, he | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
defused the bomb himself, single- handedly, and became a national | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
hero. Robert Fabian received two awards, the King's Medal for | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
gallantry, the other, an intriguing award, where he got a note saying, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
please come to this pub. He turned up at a pub, and there were | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
London's underworld, saying, or we would like to salute you for the or | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
bravery, this is from the boys. And he got this cheque. This cheque was | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
given to my grandfather by the police reward for an for this | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
wonderful gallantry for �15. He did not cash it? No, he put it in the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
book. Because he felt it was part of his line of duty, he was doing | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
this because that is what a copper should do. He was a really famous | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
copper. He had two maxims. What was his favourite? To be a good copper, | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
you have got to think like a criminal. And he did know the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
underworld. What was the second one? I don't know, what was the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
second one? To be a successful copper, you have got to be married | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
to the job. Yes, and unfortunately, that meant that his marriage was | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
not all that successful, either. One of those things. Thanks over so | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
much for coming in. Another great Scottish comedian, Billy Connolly, | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
walked off stage after being heckled recently. So, Kevin, just | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
for you, we have come up with this... Get on with it! All right, | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
calm down, here it comes. You will have to heckle better than that, | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
mace, or your face is going to be settled. What was that? Well, that | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
was the joke, but... But obviously, I did not know I was in a double | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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act. Life as a stand-up comedian is not always funny... Rubbish! In | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
alone on stage in front of an audience leaves you open to abuse. | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
Get on with it? But is heckling all pot of the job? Do we do what Billy, | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
he did recently, and just enjoy routine early? Get off! There's a | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
lot of stupid people in the world - you're all of them. You look at | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
someone, they're all going, off, off. Then you look at someone else, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
doing the same thing. Then I looked at the back, and my wife was going, | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
off, off. She was trying to get me off, because I was dying. I started | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
doing some stuff which people had been laughing at, I was told, in | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the dressing room. One girl at the front whispered to her friend, he | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
has lost it. And I heard that, that's how quiet it was in the room, | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
and all my confidence left me. should something be done about | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
hecklers? This man runs a successful comedy club in Scotland. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
How do you feel about Billy Connolly? There is a world of | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
difference between audience interaction, a bit of report, and | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
on the other hand, somebody setting out to just interrupt and be | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
abusive and disruptive, which is what heckling is, so I think Billy | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Connolly has got a fur point. worst ever one I had was from my | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
aunty. Up in Scotland, I got heckled by a dog. You could just | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
put your hand up and go, you're rubbish. As long as you engage with | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
him, and make out that he's the idiot, not you, then you're going | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
to win. I love the way you say that. I think it can be good, heckling, | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
because it can tighten up your material. You hear a heckler, is it | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
a good thing? No, it puts it down on their Act. It puts them off. | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
have to be honest with you, I am genuinely staggered by what | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
happened in there, because the majority of comedy fans, paying | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
punters, actually want to see comedians being heckled, and | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
they're quite disappointed if they do not deal with it. So, Kevin, | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
what's your process, have you got lines ready just in case? No, I | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
always try and take it as an individual. It is a bit of a myth | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
that you get a funny heckles, it is always just a drunk guy. One guy, | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
as soon as I walked on stage and he found out I was Scottish, he called | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
me a porridge Goblin. That made me laugh. Just something to break it | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
down and make it part of my act. So I asked him basically what it meant. | :29:01. | :29:07. |