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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

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Tonight we're joined by a man who knows how to host a party

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and make all his guests feel welcome.

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Good evening my Lords, Danes, ladies, gentlemen. I know it's been

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a very tough year for many of you, what with the shock of both George

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Clooney and me being removed from the matrimonial market. Oh, thank

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you so much. You've made one married man very happy, and another one

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rather jealous. Can I say how deeply hurt I was that you didn't choose to

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kiss me earlier, Stephen. Hey! . We are not expecting kisses, don't

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worry. You can save that for Sunday night. How are preparations going?

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Pretty well. Huber Gooding Junior is going to be here on Sunday as well,

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so maybe another kiss. And it is Valentine's Day, so we are preparing

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quite a few Valentine's Day themed bits. Cuba is on the show tomorrow.

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With these global ceremonies, is it part of the brief to raise the odd

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eyebrow when you are putting the script and gags together? For me the

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most difficult thing is to relax people and humour is the best way to

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relax people. I'm not somebody who is very good at offending people.

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Well maybe I am, but not deliberately. As in being rude or

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making people grasp, it's not quite my think. My mother always brought

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me up to be excessively polite. That makes us feel comfortable. Yes.

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After all, you correctly used the word host, although you actually

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said hooost. But I am thinking of it like I am a host with a party on

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Sunday, I don't want the phone to ring and somebody says they are not

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coming. All the major nominees are coming, in some cases 6000 miles

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from Los Angeles or 3000 from New York, or around Britain top and only

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two cannot make it because they are working elsewhere. That's a great

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testament to the BAFTAs, and nothing to do with me, but how the BAFTAs

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have become an important fixture in the calendar. We will talk more

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about the BAFTAs later. It seems that barely a week goes

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by without news of another online scam and there are no lengths

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to which the cyber criminals won't go in order to get

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their hands on our cash. We sent Dan to meet those fooled

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by the latest convincing con. The stock market is no longer just

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the playground of city traders. Now all you need is the Internet to

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start trading. You can even do it in your own home. There are scores of

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websites out there claiming easy profits for one willing to take the

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plunge. But there's no such thing as a dead cert, especially if someone

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stacks the against you. This former teacher has learnt that, to her

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cost. She's no fool, she's been trading successfully online for the

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past few years. It was something I could do at home as I was then

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coming into retirement, and I didn't have a terrific pension. So I was

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looking, really, to earn extra income. A website called the Bridge

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method seems to offer just the thing. It says its boss Jason Taylor

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designed a software programme that does all the trading for you. The

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site even has a live feed of successful traits, and videos by

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users who say the software really works. ?482,000 in the first month,

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and I'm simply blown away. Convinced, Lindsey paid in ?300 to

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begin training on the currencies market. She soon learned Jason

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Taylor's profit guarantee was worthless. To say that he is 100%

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successful is a light. You are gradually losing more and more and

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more. And then you will get the automated mails asking you to top up

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against quite what happened when you contacted them, what their response?

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You don't get a response. Sadly this is not the only trading software out

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there failing to deliver. This site says its ground-breaking's system

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has helped 50,000 traders increased their investment tenfold. Its boss

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even appeared on an American talk shows. There are a limited number of

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positions and we expect the hype to be very high. This senior investment

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analysis is unimpressed. He says these websites trading something

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called binary options, and each trade is just about. Binary options

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trading asks you to bet money on the direction of a very unpredictable

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market, either up or down. Depending on whether you get that bet right

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money. So it's a really risky way of trading. This site offers a chance

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to try before you buy with a free demo version of their trading

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software. Any profits or losses are purely virtual, but Laith agrees to

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give it a go. Surprise surprise we have won. Our Midas touch holds good

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throughout the trial. We've won close to ?1000 and we've only been

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sitting here five minutes. This is suggesting you can make profits time

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after time after time in a matter of seconds. Using Picard do that on the

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trading markets. It's not just the guaranteed profits that are bogus,

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this is not a real talk show, and this is not the real boss. His only

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real TV appearance was on Dragons then. He told us he had simply taken

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an acting role in what he believed was a fictional promotional tool. He

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says he's shocked it's been used to mislead investors. Disclaimers have

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now been added to the website, but only after we contacted them. And

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remember the Brit method? Boss Jason Taylor doesn't exist. This photo

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pops up on lots of Taylor doesn't exist. This photo

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it's likely the model has no idea how it's being used. And what about

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those positive online reviews? Well, Lindsey is in for another shot, he

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is actually an actor. I feel angry with myself that I was so taken in.

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I feel a fool, a nutter. Quite the actor told us he had no idea his

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testimonial was being used to scam anyone.

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We contacted them but we've had no response. In the meantime if you are

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thinking of becoming a DIY trader, take a tip from a pro-. If you come

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across a website offering you profits without any risk, be very,

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very, very cautious because that just doesn't exist.

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That phrase is all too common isn't it - if it's too good to be true

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If you want to check whether a trading company

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is legitimate there are links on our website with advice.

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This Sunday you'll be hosting the BAFTAs.

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You've seen pretty much all of the films. Do you know any of the

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winners? Absolutely not, they are all in sealed envelopes, controlled

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by these auditing and accounting companies, all very serious, under

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lock and key. In the late afternoon as the event comes, you see these

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huge burly guards standing next to the table where the envelopes are

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put out for the presenters to open and read the winner. Fantastic. When

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you are presenting you still don't know. It is a complete surprise. Two

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films have nine nominations, could one of them sweep the board? It is

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unlikely, but you never know. Most bookies are offering very short odds

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indeed on Leonardo DiCaprio for best actor. Very much the hot favourite.

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And Dame Maggie Smith could make history, she has five already, do

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you think she could go one better? If she does she will be the most

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decorated BAFTA winner of all time of either gender, which would be

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quite something. Awards ceremonies have been making headlines,

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particularly the Oscars, for kind of the wrong reasons to do with

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diversity. What do you make of that? It's an immensely thorny business.

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Films, of all art forms, really do reflect the totality of human

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experience. Fantasy, of course, and superheroes, as well as the dark

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lives of many. And I think most of us would recognise that things have

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got better, but that also then maybe haven't got as good as they should

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be. As it happens with the BAFTAs, we are giving the Fellowship this

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year to Sidney Poitier. That was decided last year. Nothing to do

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with the current sort of frenzy over diversity. And he is a black

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American actor who has forged a fantastic position for himself and

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for other black actors with immense strength and dignity and passion and

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power. So we are very proud to be doing that. And it's a coincidence

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that this whole issue has arisen. But I think the most important thing

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is that BAFTA does an enormous amount of work men touring young

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people to make films, rights groups, winning them together with

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established film makers. Because it will be the new generation making

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stories about their lives, and we need to make sure that they can then

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become BAFTA members. Because if BAFTA members are predominantly

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white and middle-class it is because they have been the film-makers of

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yesteryear. You can't actually expect BAFTA to go into the middle

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of the cities and say, you can be in an academy member... You have to be

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a film-maker to be an academy member. But the young people will

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change it. A huge amount of work goes into the film-making and what

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have you, but the event itself, things can take a turn for the

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worse, all sorts of wonderful moments. As far as those vivid

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memories of... Hang on a minute... What is the one for you? They tend

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to be slips, and it is either me falling over which is always

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embarrassing. Don't get me wrong but I've always found the female

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obsession with heels peculiar. They are uncomfortable and to me they

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look preposterous. Certainly I don't know any men who are interested in

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them, only other women look at them, look at her heels... What? You might

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as well wear something coming out of your ears, peculiar. When someone in

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extravagant heels falls over, pardon me, but I do feel joy. We thought we

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would help you get ready for the unpredictable BAFTAs.

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We will bring in the audience can change the lighting, it's almost

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like we are there. Hello, hello. There could be technicalities on the

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night, so you just have to read the words on the screen, and there might

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be some left out, so just fill in the blanks. Please welcome your host

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tonight, Mr Stephen Fry. Thank you very much.

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Good evening and welcome to the 69th British Academy Film Awards.

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What a pleasure to be back hosting yet again.

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I bet you're wondering how many times I've now hosted.

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What a year for cinema it's been with huge blockbusters,

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such as Jurassic World - in which the iconic

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And 'Tyrannosaurus', of course, is Ancient Greek for king.

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Or tyrant, as we would say. So it means kinking. Because Rex is also

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King. And who could forget

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the new Star Wars film? I enjoyed it so much,

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as soon as I got home from the cinema, I watched all six

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of the previous Star Wars films. I don't know one, two and three,

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they were so awful. Four is of course the death Star one, the

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original. Five is the best of them all.

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Now, let's thank the first filmmakers in history,

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the Lumiere brothers from France, whose first names

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the Lumiere brothers from France, whose first names were French

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And also thanks to the current President of Chile,

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But it's been a sad year in the entertainment industry also,

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with the shock of Zayn leaving One Direction.

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But all the best to the four remaining members of 1D...

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I do know that one. There will always be Harry.

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Now, an obvious outrage is that The One Show inexplicably

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But I'd personally like to thank The One Show for...

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Consistently and reliably providing children's entertainment.

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Marvellous, a primary coloured beauty. Thank you all very much

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indeed. Wonderful. Brilliant, thank you so much for doing that.

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The BAFTAs will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday night.

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I'm sure it will be Thank you. While Stephen

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I'm sure it will be revealing the big BAFTA winners on

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Sunday night, one guaranteed recipient of one of

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Sunday night, one guaranteed actually have one, it has just come

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in. It is quite heavy. It will actually have one, it has just come

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with their costumes including this rather fetching outfit.

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We have sent Angela Scanlon to look through the country's biggest

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dressing up box. Maybe it is a little number for Abigail's Party.

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Or perhaps something from a galaxy far, far away. It is all here under

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one roof. Started in eight team 13 as a second-hand closing store,

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Angels is now the world's largest costume house. How did it all start?

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My great, great, great grandfather set the business up in 1840. Act as

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were responsible for their own clothes in those days. One day, one

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actor said to them, I would like to borrow my costume, not by it. So we

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started hiring. How many pieces are there in the warehouse?

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Approximately about a million, give or take. This happens to be one of

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my favourites, and also one of the oldest. Roughly about 150 years old.

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And this is BAFTA-nominated Lady In The Van, I am guessing? This one was

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not made for her. It was broken down to make her look like a tramp. The

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shoes were my mother-in-law's. So she is very happy because she can

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tell her friends that Maggie Smith wore her shoes. And these...?

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Actually Del Boy and Rodney, which was an iconic piece of television.

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It feels like these should be in a museum. You can walk around and find

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bits of film or television history hanging on the rails. Really what we

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are is the custodians of film heritage and television heritage

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over the last 100 years. A highly skilled team run things behind the

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scenes. The creative manager is Tim's son Jeremy. Eight miles of

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costume, it is tidier than my bedroom, but is there a system?

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Everything is chronological, from Edwardian all the way through. And

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then colour and gender. Searching through these incredible creations

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got me thinking about just how much skill is involved in making them.

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They are all made-to-measure, so we have to incorporate people's

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different shapes and sizes. We are currently working on a show about

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when Victoria. We are doing some diplomatic tail coats and tunics. We

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have got an original one here but the fabric is so old, it is what. We

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are taking the old gold off and remaking the coats. The cost of

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these now, if we did it from scratch, would be about 10,000.

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There is a good sense of pride, when things are finished and they go out

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on time. A year and a half later you see them on screen or at a party,

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and you think, we made that. I could spend days just walking around here.

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I do! So, how does it feel to have that contribution recognised by

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BAFTA? It is amazing. We are really over the moon about it. Normally we

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are always the bridesmaid, never the bride, and we never get recognition.

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It is the first one and that makes it even more special. What will you

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wear?! You will not be stuck for choice, with more than a million

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pieces?! I think I might wear black. Understated! Well-deserved of their

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BAFTA award which they will be getting on Sunday night. Now, many

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of you will remember that Stephen made a ground-breaking documentary

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about mental health, and his personal struggle with it. Ten years

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on he is making a follow-up programme for the BBC's

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mental-health season. Let's have a look at the moment you spend with

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your psychiatrist. I have a dim memory of arriving here... You

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arrived, let me remind you, sorry that you were still alive, and

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wanting to die. And feeling that you should have died. From two years

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ago, when we first met, just by being very depressed, you were also

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extremely manic in your speech. You talked and talked and talked about

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the purposeless of your life, your talents were meaningless and your

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future seemed hopeless. So it was valuable to put you on to that

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medication and to get rid of the alcohol at that point and look at

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your mood state. And I can remember that, that I WAS in pain, but I

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cannot recreate it. But I remember thinking it, and I meant it. How

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difficult was it for you to invite the cameras into that situation? It

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was not easy. The film-maker Russell Wilson, with whom I made the first

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film, we called it The Not So Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive because

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we wanted people to understand. Phrase manic depression was what

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people would understand. Now, we use the phrase bipolar, and it is more

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commonly understood. But I trusted Ross, is the point. We made the

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first film and he was very keen, and the controller of BBC One was very,

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very keen that the BBC should actively engage in helping spread,

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you know, the word about the truth about what mental health is, as a

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threat to people and families and to the country generally. I suppose, if

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you are lucky enough, as I have been, to have had some success in

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the world, and you have this problem that you have lived with, it seems a

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small thing to share it. But it is a painful one, obviously. It is like

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looking at a dark side of yourself. Even watching myself then, I could

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see that I was less happy than I am now. It is a mixture of that

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wonderful psychiatrist who I can honestly say saved my life, and of

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course, the love of my life, my Husband, who has also saved my life,

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I think, and medication, finding the right medication for me. What I

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always want to say about mental health is, on the one hand, you have

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to establish how serious a problem it is, if you have a condition like

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bipolar, which I have, mine is bipolar one, or indeed bipolar two,

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or any other kind, it can lead to death. It can lead to self harm,

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suicide, but also any reliance on drugs, alcohol, things to take you

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out of this terrible mood you are in, to numb your mind, which can

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provide a slippery slope to more ill health and destruction of family

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connections and so on. So you want to emphasise how serious it is.

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Another part of me wants to shout out how you can live a full and

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fulfilling life, which is in every respect a proper life, full of love

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and hope and connection and all the other things. Two are not mutually

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exclusive. But you have to recognise the first, the seriousness, and...

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So it helps to be diagnosed? Exactly, it does. You do an

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inspiring thing by talking about it, for so many people. Have things

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changed over the last ten years, do you think? I think they have changed

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enormously. It has entered what people like to call the national

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conversation. People in schools... Just take self harm. I wanted to do

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a programme entirely about that. When I was at school, I had never

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heard the phrase. It had no meaning. I did not have any school friends

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who cut themselves, for example. I have been to schools to give talks

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or whatever, and I mention self harm, and kids, afterwards and

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say... And that is not just in schools in the inner cities, where

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you might expect some children to have difficult lives, whose parents

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might be from split families, parents might have drug is used or

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whatever. But quite literally the most famous public school in the

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country, the most exclusive. I was giving a talk about one thing and

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just mentioned are self harm, someone came up and said, yes,

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actually, it is a real epidemic here. It is a real problem. What is

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going on?! Can you imagine, you are a parent, you can see a child of

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yours mutilating themselves? Something desperately wrong. Thank

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you and it is really inspiring to watch. The Not So Secret Life Of The

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Manic Depressive: 10 Years On is on on Monday at nine o'clock on BBC

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One. There is a real joy in sitting and listening to a wonderful voice

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tell a story. I have spent countless hours going up and down the M1 with

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my children listening to your dulcet tones, with Harry Potter. So, once

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upon a time, I cannot do it quite like you, but we sent Cerys to

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investigate. The flick

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investigate. Sometimes it almost seems as if

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rabbits have a secret language all of their own. And

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rabbits have a secret language all the world of rabbits to

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rabbits have a secret language all ship down, his classic novel about a

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grab ship down, his classic novel about a

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journey to find ship down, his classic novel about a

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dangerous world. Watership Down was first

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dangerous world. Watership Down was an instant literary phenomenon and

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was famously adapted into the much loved

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was famously adapted into the much is safe now.

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was famously adapted into the much 95 years old and lives in Hampshire.

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He remembers 95 years old and lives in Hampshire.

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his daughters as if it was 95 years old and lives in Hampshire.

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yesterday. Many years 95 years old and lives in Hampshire.

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daughters here were little, when we had to go on long car journeys, I

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used to tell stories. On this particular journey, they asked for a

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good, long story. And one that we have never heard before. Well, this

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obviously put me on the spot! I started just off the top of my head.

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Once upon a time there were two rabbits. The

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Once upon a time there were two daddy, you ought to write that down.

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That is too good to waste. Watership Down tells the story of a group of

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courageous Down tells the story of a group of

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leave their home after a premonition of coming danger. And so begins a

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perilous quest to reach the safety of Watership Down.

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perilous quest to reach the safety would be your enemy. And

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perilous quest to reach the safety they catch you, they will kill you.

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But first they must catch you. With swift warning, becoming and full

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But first they must catch you. With be destroyed! You read it to us in

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the evenings when we were going to bed, and we corrected it. My

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the evenings when we were going to she said, you will frighten the

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children out of their lives! I said, good, carry on! Children like

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children out of their lives! I said, of scaring sometimes. This is

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children out of their lives! I said, very bad, some terrible thing,

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coming closer! Hazel, look, the field! It is covered with blood!

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coming closer! Hazel, look, the When it was all finished, I left

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with one publisher after another. And do you know, it was reject it

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seven times. But Adams persevered, eventually finding success with

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publisher Rex Collins. Rex Collins said, I like your story and I would

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like to publish it. I thought, crikey! From there on, the book has

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never been out of print. One avid reader who fell under the spell of

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the book during her childhood was our very own Miranda. I brought you

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here to the real-life Watership Down. And it is a real place as

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well. I was really surprised to find out! How old were you when you first

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read it? I think I was about nine or ten. You read it on the fantasy

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rabbit level. And then I came back to it as a teenager. Then you just

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yet whole other level. You do not realise it you are learning a huge

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amount about rabbit society and behaviour. The twitchers, the nose

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and the ears, the scratching and the thumping. What is the legacy of a

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book like this? If you look around here, I can imagine the rabbits in

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this landscape. That is what the book does, it connects you not just

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with rabbit society, but with the natural world in general. The book

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has been unexpectedly successful, beyond my wildest dreams. I

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sometimes wake up wondering if it is real. I did not plan it that way, I

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just planned it for them. Richard Adams' masterpiece went on to

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capture the Hearts and minds of millions of readers around the

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globe. And to think it began as a story a father told for his two

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daughters in the back of a car. Wonderful! Thank you for joining us

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tonight, Stephen. And if you would like more information about what

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Stephen was talking about, please go Tomorrow, Alex will be back

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on this side of the sofa with Dermot O'Leary -

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and Cuba Gooding Jr will be here. Back to the old script writing,

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Stephen Schilling we look forward to seeing it on Sunday night on BBC

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One! Good night!

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