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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
Tonight's guest is a woman of many talents. She is that TV presenter, | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
novelist and all-round good egg. is Sandy Toksvig. Good to see you. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
You have got a new drama series, stand-up, the News Quiz is back. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
Did you have time for an Easter egg hunt. We did and we did it in the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
garden and I forgot what fan it is. We put clues in the eggs and the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
youngest is seven and she has just learnt to read, but we found it in | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
the end. You had all the family around. A all my children are | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
grown-up and they still come. There is nothing like sitting at the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
table and looking at them all enjoying themselves. We will be | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
talking about your new series. It is a roll-call of British talent, | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
including Tom Jones. First Miranda Krestovnikoff is what the Wildlife | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Crime Unit. This is the story of how a domestic pigeon provided | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
vital clues leading wildlife crime investigators directly to this | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
man's front door. Across the country for the past 30 years bird | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
of prey numbers have been rising. This part of the Peak District | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
should be the perfect place to spot them, but over the last decade the | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
population has plummeted almost leading to their extinction. It is | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
vital we did something about it before they disappear, so we put a | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
team of people on the ground who are checking the nest sites to try | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
and find out what is going on. After two months we drew a complete | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
blank. This RSPB footage shows a large cage trap which was hidden in | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
a remote part of the forest. It contained live bait in the form of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
a pigeon. Traps like these commonly used to catch crows are illegal in | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
the UK, but not when they are used like this. That is a classic bait | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
for a hawk, especially a powerful bird who sees it as a ready meal. | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
How does it work? The bird of prey goes into the slots to get to the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
pigeon and once it is inside, it cannot escape. If it was being used | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
lawfully, if there was a bird accidentally caught in it, he | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
should release it. Next they set up a covert camera system around the | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
cage hoping they would capture the trap's user on camera and they | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
clipped the bird's wings in a unique pattern, so they could | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
identify it if they ever came across it again, dead or alive. | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
Everything was in place and after two days of 24 hour surveillance, | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
the teams struck gold. Tellingly the man went to the trap. He took a | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
good look. And then he just walked away. The RSPB team recognised the | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
man immediately. It was a local gamekeeper, Glenn Brown, and by not | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
releasing the pitch and he had implicated himself. Things were | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
starting to fall into place and at last they had a possible motive. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Glenn Brown, employed to protect grouse, could have been trying to | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
clear the area of their main predators. The team continued | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
surveillance for two more days, gathering more evidence. Early on | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
Saturday morning, a man wearing a balaclava turned up at the trap. He | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
opened the cage and released the pigeon. It is thought he released | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
it to avoid drawing any attention to the trap because there were so | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
many tourists around at the weekend. His disguise could not conceal | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
everything. As at the bird flew away he could clearly be seen | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
watching which way it went. The team could not be sure who this man | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
was, but they knew Glenn Brown kept birds at his home. Surely he would | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
not be stupid enough to bait the trap with one of his own birds | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
which could lead the team of investigators straight to his | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
doorstep? The next stage was getting a warrant to search his | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
premises. I knocked on the door and was greeted by Mr Brown in his | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
combat gear ready to go out on to their health. Their crucial | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
evidence came when they searched a shared with nearly 20 birds in it. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
The RSPB officers could not believe what they found. The first bird | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
they picked out was the bird with the marked feathers. It was an | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
important piece of evidence to secure a conviction. It proved the | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
link between the trap and the premises of Mr Brown. Brown was | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
convicted and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
pay �10,000 in costs. Another success for the fight against | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
wildlife crime. That is why you do not see much | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
crime on pigeons. You are wasted! As we mentioned earlier, you are | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
this driving force behind this wonderful new series which is | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
showcasing British talent. I am hugely excited about it, we have | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
got 12 astonishing plays coming out on Sky arts and I am pleased to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
have have been part of it and the executive producer. We went along | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
and we talked to some of the great names of British talent, like Emma | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Thompson. We have hardly got any money and she came and played the | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
queen. I have never met Tom Jones, but you know you think you know him | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
because he is famous. I went to lunch at the Savoy and it was too | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
early for him and we did not have lunch. I said I could go to his | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
suite to say hello. He was leaning against the door in the shortest | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
towelling robe I have ever seen in my life and I thought, Tom, this is | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
wasted on me. But it was very Tom Jones. This marvellous voice and he | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
is fantastic. What was underneath the rope? Are I did not inquire. We | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
have got Tom Jones and the most astonishing range, not just of | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
acting talent, but of writing talent. I am hugely proud. Let's | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
have a look at Tom Jones in action. I should have smashed that bottle | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
Factory and gone as well. Smashed it to smithereens. Smash it now. | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
should have smashed every last bottle and rode off. With me? Would | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
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it have been with me? It is very endearing. That was called King of | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Teds. The first one is with Paul O'Grady and Sheila Hancock. We | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
watched it and it is incredible, it is half an hour of pure genius. How | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
much of an input did they have? Paul and I wrote it together and I | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
have also known Sheila's since I was 18. It was me who thought they | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
should be a mother and son. I did a lot of the structure and the boring | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
stuff and a lot of the dialogue is Paul and Sheila and I think you can | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
tell. I have not seen a relationship like that on screen | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
for a very long time. It is a kind of Morecambe and Wise, or Steptoe | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
and Son, the sort of relationship that has always been. I thought | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
they were fantastic. That is the first one. The first one is with | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
David Tennant, and that is the second one. My microphone is broken. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Do you have something to contribute? Only years of | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
professionalism. Right, let's get started. Started? I have got my | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
work cut out if I am going to turn you into an artist. I am going to | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
switch their heater on. No, Mother, I do not need your help. Put the | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
kettle on. Mother, fasten your seat belt, it is going to be a bumpy | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
night. I think it is lovely, it is | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
classical and it has got everything we love. That two of them are | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
lovely together and it is a joy to watch. Paul O'Grady is not Paul | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
O'Grady in it at all. It is wonderful to watch. This is not the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
only thing you are working on. keep myself off the streets, my | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
dear boy. I have a novel coming out in August which is about a woman | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
who dresses up as a man and who goes to serve in the Boer War and | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
which took place in 1899. It is the first war in which the average | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
soldier was literate and people began to realise how dreadful war | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
was and it begins the end of the British Empire, an interesting | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
period of history. I am obsessed with history. Have you started | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
writing the new stand-up comedy? will be written the week before, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
but it will be hilarious none the less. To all of those people who | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
wet rambling at the weekend with a sat nav or a mobile phone in their | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
pockets, here is a cautionary tale. Rani Price is in Snowdonia at | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
meeting a man who valued the value -- discovered the value of an old- | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
fashioned map the hard way. Every year 6 million people visit | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Snowdonia and 400 thousands of them set their sights on Snowdon. Some | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
people come to Snowdonia and they are kitted out with all the | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
paraphernalia. They have the book, the hats and the all important map | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
and compass. But there is a new breed of climate he thinks all they | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
need is a sat nav and a print-out from internet. In January lorry | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
skipper went on an 11 mile hike in Snowdonia and he did not take a | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
proper map and when his GPs failed, he was in trouble. The weather | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
started to close in and I lost my way. I figured out where I thought | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
I was and started my trek down from the mountain. Unfortunately I came | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
to a Shea rock face. I realised I was not going to make it down in | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
daylight. I telephoned home to let my wife know I was going to be late. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
I told her not to worry. But his wife could sense something was | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
wrong and tried to call him back, but could not get through, so | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
quickly called for help. The case was assigned to the mountain rescue | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
team, but Tim and his colleagues had to pinpoint where lorry might | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
be before venturing out to search for him. We had to work out | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
potential places where he might have walked. We could see a | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
potential path here down to the road where his car was. On the | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
mountain lorry had no idea anyone was searching for him. I was still | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
not on a path and at that point I took a tumble and I sat down and | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
thought, I am going to stay here. When I did that I started to think | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
it is quite cold and I am soaking wet and it I stay here, that could | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
be it. I felt I might not be here in the morning. The whole side of | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
the mountain lit up and suddenly I saw these three headlamps coming | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
towards me. Then I knew I was OK. lorry's case is far from rare. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Mountain rescue teams say they have seen an increase in call-outs to | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
help hikers who are not prepared. The GPs and mobile phones are | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
fantastic when they were, but when they stop working you have got to | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
consider what you do then. Do you have a map? Is that they like | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
running out? How many of the walkers and climbers are aware of | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
what to take with them on the wake up to Snowdon? To find out I am | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
joined by mountain yet Lawrence Cox who has been guiding people up and | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
the kind of bad you take up with you, it is big and heavy, what is | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
inside? Waterproof jacket, waterproof trousers, first aid kit, | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
some emergency food, some jelly babies. You have got your map as | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
well. Yes, even though I know this area very well. But I do today's | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
hikers as well equipped as Lawrence? How about the trainers? | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
If it rain has, you will get wet feet. I have got my compass around | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
my neck. Does he know how to read a map? We are going south. We meet a | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
group who are not prepared. What are you thinking about getting up | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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there? That a firm and follow the path around. I do not think we are | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
well prepared. I would be a little bit concerned. I can see loads of | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
enthusiasm and that is great, but you have got quite a tricky day and | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
with the cloud it can be disorientating. Be saved and make | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
sensible decisions. The mountain will be there tomorrow. Say age at | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
iSport today's walkers, but has lorry learnt his lesson? My sat nav | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
is in the draw. I will stick to using maps. I am not going to get | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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Lots of people heard you on Radio 4 on the News Quiz. This is a good | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
headline. Sat nav takes lorry the wrong way up a mountain. I am in | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
awe! That is the best reaction you could have given! The crew were in | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
stitches! The News Quiz is a great show, it is back, and earlier, they | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
said that the one at the weekend was the best I have ever heard. | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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They were rolling laugh. -- laughing. First pandas in | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
Edinburgh! From his point of view, for most of the year, she does not | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
want to know, and for 36 and was, she is all over him. I had a wife | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
like that! They have a small fertility window. The creepiest | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
thing you will ever find! We could hear a few in the | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
background corpse end. I love the show. It is a 28 minute show, with | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
record 75 minutes. If you can come and hear us recall it, -- record it, | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
it is a heady mix, it is good fun. Do you look for a joke in every | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
store reek in the newspapers? suppose so. When it is a punt | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
remained. But everybody on the show, we are friends, so it is like | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
listening in on a conversation. It is like a holiday for elderly, ex! | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
It Jeremy is a genius, and Rick Wakeman has become Benbecula. It | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
was great. We were talking about the use of drugs in rock and roll, | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
and Jeremy had his inhaler! would be hard pressed not to note | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
that on this day 100 years ago, the Titanic began its voyage from | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Southampton to New York. We have the story of the man who was | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
responsible for sinking the unsinkable. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
For 100 years, Edward John Smith has laid two miles under the North | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
Atlantic. For 98 years, he has had his head in the clouds in South | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Staffordshire. He has taken flak for the sinking of the Titanic, so | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
why was he put on a pedestal? And why in Lichfield? He had next to | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
nothing to do with Lichfield. He came from the other end of | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Staffordshire, Hanley. And the people of Hanley did not want him | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
looking down on them from a great height. History has not know what | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
to make of him. Back in 1912, his name did not sink as fast as a ship, | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
but taking the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean was not good | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
for his posture Ms PRS. 1500 had perished with him. Then, 80 years | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
later, Hollywood threw him a lifeline. Bernard Hill's portrayal | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
of him fascinated filmgoers, tempted to see him as a stomach | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
captain going down with the ship. Who was he? His was a rags-to- | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
riches story. Born in this very house in Hanley, he joined the Navy | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
at 13, biting through the ranks to become not just the captain of the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
White Star Line, but also among its rich and famous passengers, a star | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
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attraction. He looked a dashing figure. People loved a nod and a | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
wink from him and the exchange of the orb confidence. A seat at his | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
table was very important to the rich and the glitterati of the day. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
A safe pair of hands and the legendary leader, this reputation | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
meant he was first choice to skipper the colossus that was the | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
Titanic. His status may have come to be to his downfall when the ship | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
hit the iceberg on that fateful night. Some said he was hobnobbing | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
with the rich and famous, others said he was transfixed by events | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
when more could have been done to save lives. In so far as he was the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
commander of the Titanic, it could be said he was all to no | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
irresponsible for all of the defects. -- he was ultimately | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
responsible. But he would not have been responsible for the inadequacy | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
of the numbers of lifeboats. That was a British Board of Trade | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
requirement. But as for the ultimate cause of the tragedy, | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
colliding with an iceberg while moving at speed, that would seem to | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
reflect badly on the captain. wealthy fans stayed loyal. They | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
stumped up for a statue to be sculpted by Kathleen Scott. Her | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
husband had also died a few weeks before, among the icebergs. But | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Hanley's reluctance to give him pride of place saw his statue end | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
up in Lichfield. The locals here were not exactly thrilled either. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
This is the local newspaper, it is quite clear there was not universal | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
support! It seems that Lichfield people did not see why his memory | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
should be perpetuated. Hollywood changed all that. People | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
began to warm to Captain Smith, who was presented in a more sympathetic | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
way. The tide had turned full Captain Smith. Hanley became less | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
embarrassed about claiming Kim of one of their known -- as one of | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
their own. He is a great of Hanley, and we are keen to celebrate him. | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
We have been delighted to have him back, we want him back. Lichfield, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
though, is keen to hang on to him, and has splashed out on sprucing | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
him up. I open a -- eye open an invitation to the people of Hanley,, | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
and visit Lichfield. He is not for sale. 100 years after his death, | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Captain Smith looks securely anchored in Lichfield, but his | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
memory will always be clouded by being the man who sank the | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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Captain Smith had a few mishaps before he set foot on the Titanic. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
He was accident-prone. He was popular with the passengers. He was | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
the captain of the Titanic's Winship, the Olympic, and he took | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
her on her maiden voyage, and that ship had a commission with the | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
British battleship on her maiden voyage in the English Channel. It | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
resulted in this Olympic having to be pulled back and the maiden | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
voyage was cancelled. Part of the Olympic Way used in the building of | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
the Titanic, and when the Titanic set-off, later than advertised, | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
because it had these extra bits, it also had a commission, a near miss, | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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a mishap with another ship. -- it also had a commission. There was | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
another near disaster. You would think the powers-that-be would say, | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
have we got the right guy? After the event, people were on board, | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
they said, they had overheard him instructing passengers to go to do | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
pronged attack on the ship when looking for rescue. -- to go to the | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
wrong Dec. It would have been the correct one on the Olympic. After | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
the event, it is easy to look back, you can see omens. There was a | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
rumour of a ghostly figure when the ship set off. There was no | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
champagne cracked on the ship. In 1896, somebody wrote a novel about | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
the sinking of a ship called the Titan that collided with an iceberg | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
and sank. Was that an omen? He was due to retire as well. More than | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
1500 people lost their lives. unlikely art critic Phil Tufnell | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
has been to an unlikely place for his latest cultural fix. He gets a | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
lesson from the artist himself. We have got an Arc challenge for due | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
two. It is time for you to draw like Quentin Blake. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
I have come to Cambridge, the home of the highest concentration of art | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
collections outside London. I am not heading for a gallery or a | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
museum. I am going to a hospital. I have not enjoyed myself, this is a | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
great place to come and see some art. Here, they have tried their | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
hardest to lift the spirits of the patients, visitors and staff. I am | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
here to see one of work in particular. That is cheery. It | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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takes me back to my childhood. Created to celebrate the 800 the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
birthday of Cambridge University, the style is instantly recognisable. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
The artist is Quentin Blake. He is best known for his collaborations | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
with children's author Roald Dahl. Together, they wrote and | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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illustrated nearly 30 books, including the BFG. I loved him when | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
I was a kid, so I was delighted when the man himself came to | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
explain how this work found its way on to these walls. I was at | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Cambridge, I have connections, so they said, would you like to draw | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
something? We settled on a sequence of famous people associated with | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
Cambridge. The sequence starts with the scholars comment from Oxford, | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
which was to riotous, and they found Cambridge, to pursue their | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
studies in peace. Each pair of the pictures have a twist. Isaac Newton, | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
the joke is that the ray of light is coming out of his eye, which | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
suggested he could see things that nobody else could see. These are | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
not the originals? These are enlarged on the originals. These | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
are the originals. It should be the size. I had a rough drawing of the | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
way the whole sequence happened. Are there any Quentin Blake | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
signatures? We hope they all become that! The way that it is drawn, | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
they or draw with a scratchy pen. I have quite a repertoire of noses! | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
And, I have dots for eyes. It is interesting that you can do that | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
and they have an expression. What are people in the hospital thinking | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
about this? I think they are good to have, they cheer you up. It is | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
fantastic, it is distracting, it is lovely for the staff, it is great. | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
It is amazing for the children. It brightens up the hospital. One of | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
the great things about meeting the artist, you can ask him to reveal | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
his secrets. I need a rough drawing. This is one of the original ones. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
If I am at home, I putted on the light box, and I get over the sheet | :27:55. | :28:05. | |
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of paper. I can see this underneath. But I do not actually copy it. I | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
trace it, it would look boring, so you want to be able to draw the | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
hands as though you were drawing them for the first time, and not | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
tracing them. Drawing 30 people is enjoyable. When children talk to me, | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
it is surprising how often they mention the twits, they were very | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
dirty. They were most unpleasant, but they were very enjoyable to | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
draw. How would you describe your style? It pretends to look easy, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
but it is like a theatre performance, there is often a lot | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
of rehearsal. It looks as though it is not difficult. But there is | :28:46. | :28:55. | |
quite a lot of plotting beforehand. There are miles of white, clinical | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
balls in hospitals, so it is amazing when you come across a | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
masterpiece handing on one of them. They have been so busy, and we have | :29:05. | :29:15. | |
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not heard a peep! I am on my own! You have had a nightmare! That is | :29:17. | :29:27. | |
lovely! That is Matt Baker! It is very good! I have tried to do Sandi | :29:27. | :29:37. | |
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Toksvig/Matilda. But my pen ran out! It is very good! We should | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
swap! Police sign that. How could it not work? Did Shakespeare ever | :29:44. | :29:51. |