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Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker... | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
One of Britain's favourite comedians is undergoing training | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
at the European Astronaut Training Centre in Cologne, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
But who is this comedian who is taking "one small step | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
for a comedian", but "one giant leap for comedian kind"? | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
We'll be beaming over to John and Liz Bonin a bit later on. | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
And from Stargazing, to two of EastEnder's biggest stars! | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
I think you'll find they're the Moons. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Well, to be honest, it's complicated. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Please welcome, Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
We saw John doing some astronaut training. Who would make the best | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
astronaut, do you think, out of you two? She is a bit spacey, a bit air | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
head. Constantly gazing at the stars, and you?! To be honest, you | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
were telling us earlier on that today, you went out and bought a | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
pair of moon boots, but it is the quite an interesting reason, isn't | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
it? Why is that? You were telling us! I have come off crutches, after | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
I broke my leg, and I was wearing this big pump up air boot. Look at | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
the size of it! Everybody said, break a leg. I said, if one more | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
person says that! I have come out of that boot now and I have treated | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
myself to a pair of shoes. We were in town rehearsing, and you walked | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
for the first time in shoes. It was like walking down the road with...! | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
We will find out what you were rehearsing for a little bit later. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Now, from 8am this morning, 55,000 junior doctors, | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
about one third of the workforce, went on 24-hour strike, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
leaving hospitals in England facing major disruption. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Only level 5 emergency care is being provided, | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
and with two further strikes planned, Angela Rippon headed | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Oxfordshire's mein A Hospital is the John Radcliffe. Last night I | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
joined some of the 100 or so junior doctors it employs as they prepared | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
to strike for the first time in 40 years. And as the vice president of | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
the Patients Association I want to find out why the junior doctors are | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
in a situation where, instead of being able to negotiate around the | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
table, they have to stand on a picket line? They cannot make their | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
banners on hospital property, so we have come to the home of one of the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
junior doctors. She has got more than five years experience, but | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Rachel is still a junior doctor. What is it about the plan for a | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
seven-day NHS which makes her willing to strike? We are a finite | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
pot of doctors. He is not giving us any extra money for more doctors to | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
provide these new services. That means the only way they can be | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
provided is if doctors like me are forced to work longer and harder | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
than we already do. You say it will be dangerous - in what way will it | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
be dangerous for patients? At the moment hospital trusts can be | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
penalised financially if they make as work longer hours than we are | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
meant to do. And that is very important because it disincentivise | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
is them from essentially abusing us. Part of he is hunt's contract is the | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
removal of those safeguards. In his new system, the financial penalties | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
which other to safeguard us as well as patients are no longer going to | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
be fines paid to doctor, it will be fines which the hospital trusts paid | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
to themselves, which is ridiculous. While everybody here support the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
strike, not all of them will be on the picket line. Some of them will | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
be working as normal. We pledged to provide emergency care, and I am an | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
obstetrician, so I will be doing 12 hours on the labour ward, living | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
babies for women. What do you find unacceptable about the current | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
contract? I appreciate some of the governments early moves to make out | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
of hours working better, I think you need to river reward the people | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
doing that care. Do you think a seven-day NHS in the end will be | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
good for the country? At the moment the NHS is on its knees, stretched | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
to its limit. To stretch it further with this plan at this current time | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
is a dangerous and difficult decision and something which should | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
not be gone into without a lot of thought. With eight months to go | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
before the new contract kicks in, I am struggling to understand why the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
junior doctors feel the need to strike now rather than sit round the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
table and devise a way to make the changes actually work. To have a | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
meaningful negotiation, something is essential, which is trust. I would | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
not trust Jeremy Hunt if he was trying to sell me a used car, let | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
alone have the future of the NHS in his hands. Are you saying this is a | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
political argument you are having with the Secretary of State for | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Health? There is only one thing I care about in this dispute, which is | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the safety of patients. This is not a political game, this is patients' | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
lives. In spite of a last-minute appeal by the Prime Minister | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
yesterday, the junior doctors' strike is going ahead across the | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
country. We had barely set up our cameras before the junior doctors | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
were told to get off hospital property. We have come up to the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
junction with the main road. Already, local people are coming out | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
to support them. The junior doctors, when I come up here, the service you | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
get to, you could not get anywhere. If I paid for it I would not get a | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
better service. Others are less sure. I would rather they were not | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
striking. I don't think either side have especially put their position | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
clearly out. What do you think about doctors going out on strike today? I | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
think it is very sad that they feel it is necessary. I can understand to | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
a certain extent, but I feel everybody should be able to sit the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
table and work it out. I really have been impressed by the passion and | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the validity of many of these doctors' arguments. So what we need | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
now is tough but honourable negotiation to settle this dispute. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
But we also need more doctors. And if we can't manage that, then it is | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
not just the safety of patients which will be put at risk, but the | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
very heart of the NHS itself. Angela joins us now in her capacity | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
as the vice-president The Association is opposed to the | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
strike. Today, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said that the | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
number who have gone into work has shown the values of the vast | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
majority of junior doctors. At the moment, we have an NHS where if you | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
have a stroke at the weekend, you are 20% more likely to die, which | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
cannot be acceptable. So, what are we hearing about the effect of | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
today's strike? The figures are pretty eye-watering. 3454 operations | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
have been cancelled. But of course the various trusts had plenty of | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
opportunity to plan for today. You have also got things like routine | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
tests and consultations, many of which were also cancelled. But as we | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
heard, some of the junior doctors were providing emergency service | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
today for people like cancer patients and those who need | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
dialysis, so their treatment would not be interrupted. But it has been | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
a bad day for a lot of patients. The organisation you represent are | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
opposed to the strike, but having spent time with the junior doctors, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
have you changed your mind? No, I haven't. Yes, I do think that if you | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
have the kind of issues which the doctors are arguing about, these are | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
things which should be settled around a table. They should be | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
discussing and coming to an agreement, they should not be on the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
picket line. But they have been in talks for 2.5 years. I know. One | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
point Jeremy Hunt has made today - the seven-day operation is really at | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the heart of all of this, and frankly it is not right for doctors | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
to say they cannot make it work. They will have to make it work | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
because the British public will never operate by only being ill | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Monday to Friday. They will have heart attacks, strokes, accidents, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
on a Saturday and a Sunday. They expect a 24/7 health service. Most | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
importantly today, because I still believe they should not have gone on | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
strike and we should have a seven day a week NHS, the major point the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
doctors made is that they cannot make it work because they do not | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
have enough doctors. 54,000 junior doc is, who already tired on their | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
feet because of the hours they work, stretched to the limit, trying to | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
work a contract which runs for five days, that same number of doctors | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
trying to make it work for seven days, means they will go over the | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
edge. We need more doctors. That I am afraid is at the heart of most of | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
the arguments, and they have got to sort it out around the table. And we | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
will be watching very closely. Shane and Jessie, we know you have | :09:46. | :09:55. | |
worked together for something like 30 years. It feels like 40! We have | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
had affairs, arson... Babies swaps! And then it all came together | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
because you won the lottery! Yes, we did! It has all happened to Kat and | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
Alfie. But three weeks today, exactly, you are on stage together | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
for the first time in a play called Perfect murder. Tell us about it. It | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
was based on a wonderful novel, and it is an adaptation from the book. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
It is about this couple who have been married for 20 years, the | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
marriage is coming to an end, they have got no children, and they end | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
up loathing and this testing each other. And so one of us decides to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
kill the other. -- testing each other. Do not want to give too much | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
away. This is the new play we are talking about, not EastEnders, isn't | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
it?! It could be EastEnders, Yes! It is a black comedy, though, it is | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
very funny. We met the cast yesterday for the first time - it is | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
a wonderful cast. You have heard a read-through already. Yes, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
yesterday. And we started warehousing today. It was very | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
intense! We were just comparing it to a read-through on The One Show. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
This was ours this afternoon! I know that is exactly what goes on! That | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
was the only one we could show! But you are very talented actors, the | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
pair of you, but it must be difficult for you, having worked so | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
closely together for so many years, to see different characters within | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
each other, is that a challenge? Not really. Because we have worked so | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
closely together and we are such close friends, we know how each | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
other works. Playing two different characters, it is exciting. And they | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
are very, very different. Yes, very different. So it must be a joy for | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
you to do that together. It is very nerve-wracking, though. It feels | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
like a lot of pressure. We are literally nine weeks all over the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
country. We kicked off in shell them in a few weeks. Unlike EastEnders, | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
if you get it wrong, stop, cut. Going back to the theatre... I am | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
already thinking about it. I might have to go to the toilet in a | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
minute. In EastEnders, you do it and then you throw the script away. With | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
this one, you keep the same script until April 2nd. How much do you | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
think it will evolve heavily after nine weeks, it will be a musical. I | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
am kidding! It is a very pacey play, isn't it? You have always got that | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
feeling, and the fear, of doing the wrong thing, forgetting your lines. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
But because we have worked so closely together, if you drop the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
ball, you will be able to pick it up. The funny thing is, though, it | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
is still about murder, which not a funny subject in itself. But what | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
happens around it is very dark. I would like to go and see it. Well, | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
the touring show, The Perfect Murder, begins in Cheltenham and | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
February 2nd and goes nationwide until April 2nd. I hope you come and | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
see it. We would love to. Now, let's head over live | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
to Cologne in Germany, where comedian John Bishop | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
is following in the footsteps of Astronaut Major Tim Peake | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
for tonight's Stargazing Live. Britain calling Liz Bonin - | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
can you hear us? Thank you very much. Welcome to the | :13:43. | :13:58. | |
European Astronaut Training Centre, just outside of Cologne in Germany. | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
We are in the neutral buoyancy facility, an epic set up with this | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
pool, which has lots of goodies in it. There is a replica of the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Columbus module, which is basically Europe's Spacelab on the ISS. Lots | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
of submersible work stations and other great things. This is where | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
astronauts begin to train for spacewalks. As we all know, our very | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
own Tim Peake is doing his very first spacewalk on Friday. And this | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
is where it all began. He started training in this pool and embarked | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
on 150 hours of training to get ready for what has to be the most | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
challenging and difficult task an astronaut has to do on the ISS. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Let's go into the control room now. The lead instructor tonight is | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
supervising a training session as we speak. But he is also in charge of | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
our very own training astronaut for the week, Mr John Bishop, who is | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
getting some tips. This is what you will have to do later tonight! How | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
do you feel? I am excited. It is every boy's dream. And you have done | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
some diving before. How are you marrying the two, your experience, | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
with something completely weird? This is completely different, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
because you are diving in a simulated spacesuit, so you have got | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
to try and manoeuvre your fingers as if you are outside the space | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
station. You are wearing bulky gloves. Yes. The whole thing. It is | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
pretty extraordinary when you look at it on the screen. It is one of | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
those experiences that you cannot imagine being able to do. People are | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
coming home from work. They have had their life. This goes on every day | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
here. This is what people call work. It is exciting. It is fantastic to | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
get to come to places like this and get an insight into what some people | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
are doing on a regular workday. You had a look around the centre - what | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
did you make of the place? You met some astronauts already. Italy's | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
first astronaut, among them. Also, the Danish astronaut Andreas | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Mogensen is here. Denmark's ONLY astronaut! How have you felt about | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
all of this? It's quite inspiring. Everybody's | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
working to the end goal. Everybody's working. For us, for the UK, to have | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Tim Peake at the top of that pyramid. It's quite empowering. It | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
ises. John Bishop will be ept aring Tim Peake tonight for us. I'm the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
new Tim Peake. I am he what Tim Peake would be if he wasn't - It | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
will be amazing. BBC Two, 9.00pm. Don't miss it. Good luck to John. | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
Stargazing Live is on tonight at 9.00pm on BBC Two and continues | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
Wednesday and Thursday. Nicola Sturgeon has announced that every | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
property affected in Scotland will get a grant of ?1,500. Because of | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
the unprecedented scale of the flooding additional floods of ?12 | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
million have been allocated to local authorities. Sarah | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
Mack is in Aberdeenshire where the lion's share of that funding has | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
been sent. For large parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland 2015 | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
had a sting in its tail. It's name was Frank. On the last two-days of | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
the year there was so much rain, several rivers burst their banks | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
including the Dee here in Aberdeenshire. The waters here have | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
now receded and I've come to see the extent of the damage. This is all | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
that remains of the caravan park. This is where the vans used to be. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
This whole area was under six feet of water. The power of the water | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
pushed all the vans this way, leaving utter devastation. What | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
greeted you when you came out here? Disaster. Not to put too Tyne a | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
pound point on it, it looks like a sort of bomb site? Yes, it does. It | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
certainly does. The This is our one here. This one here? Yeah. Have you | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
counted the cost of this? It's a write-off. Caravans like this are | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
not cheap? No, ?50,000. A fair amount? Aye, it is, plus all the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
extras, you know, all the bits and pieces. So, I have come to the town | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
hall which is the main hub for the recovery plan. They are trying to | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
establish why it was that they were inundated by a large rush of water | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
in such a short period. You've got initial breach coming through here | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
which ran water down the back of the town. We have another breach that | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
came straight through the golf course and we had a wave and surge | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
coming off the river. When the town was beginning to be evacuated, the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
police have told us when they started here it was dry. 10 minutes | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
later they were knee deep. 15 minutes they were waist deep. Huge | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
peed speed of water coming through this town. It seems that half the | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
town was affected? Very much so. Everything from 400 people having | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
their electricity out because of the flood, through to people who have | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
had their houses completely We were lucky devastated. To get out, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
actually. We couldn't come out the front here. We had to come out the | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
back. A massive force of water. Talk about a tsunami. It rose so quickly. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
By the time we walked to here down the far end of that road it was up | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
to my waist. Were you worried? Not at the time, no. Looking back maybe? | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Looking back I thought, you know, I think we've been very lucky. You | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
definitely have. Yeah. Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
announced every home, business and charity that has been flooded in | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Aberdeenshire will be entitled to a grant of ?1,500. Here you get a real | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
sense of just how much people have lost. This whole area is just | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
littered with people's possessions. Although the clean-up operation is | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
underway, people have yet to start counting the cost of this | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
devastation. Looking at the beautiful river today it's hard to | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
imagine it caused so much damage. Thank you Sarah. So, tonight now | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
then, big story lines happening between Kat and Alfie. All the | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
secrets that we have been waiting to find out about are being revealed, | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
without giving it away, give us a flavour. I think tonight is where | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
Alfie finally reveals to Kat about his brain tumour. You have just done | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
it now! Remind. It's not live! Is it tonight? Listen, we know that since | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Charlie Slater died it has kicked off. All kicked off. Kat has been | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
through everything within a space of a day. In real-life Charlie is fine. | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
He's fine. He was so convincing. So good in those scenes. Brilliant. At | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
some point I had to step out I really thought... Did you? He was so | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
good. It was scary. Upsetting as well. It I've known him for years. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
He came in and then his character died. It was awful. It was horrible | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
to film. Thank you for bringing an exclusive clip with you tonight. Let | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
us have a look at what's going on in tonight's episode. Who do you think | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
you are, coming round here accusing me of killing dad? Well you did, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
didn't you? Nan phoned me. Told me all about it. You said I killed him? | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Of course not. You were shouting - It weren't my fault. Come on, nan, | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
get your stuff together. Where's the little girl's room. I'll show you. | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
You never change do you? You never accept responsibility for your | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
action If I throttled you I'd gladly take responsibility. He was my dad | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
and all you know! I tell you, she is such a great actress. I love working | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
with her. When she first came into it I was talking to her I kept | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
thinking - who do you remind me of? I can't think who it is. Shane, who | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
does she remind you off. I couldn't think. I thought, oh, it's me! It | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
continues because there is a whole new drama coming out. This is really | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
exciting. You go off the Irish Sea? We were brought back to EastEnders | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
by the producer to tell a story about why we leave. It's kind of | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
based around Kat finding out that she's got - she gave birth to twins. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
We start filming in Ireland straight after the play. We are out there for | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
three-and-a-half four months. We are so excited. To be honest, I'd love | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
to sit here - we know the story. Alfie has brain tumour and Kat is | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
finding her son. We don't know where it will be filmed. Tomorrow we have | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
a meeting and we will look at scripts. We haven't a title at the | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
moment. It will be massive. It's never been done before. When is it | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
on the telly? October-November. This year. End of the year. Looking | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
forward to that. You can see Kat and Alfie ace revelations straight after | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
us on BBC One. Their very own drama series will air at the end of the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
year We heard about hopefully. This new play of yours, The Perfect | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Murder. Gyles has been to investigate an alternative approach | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
to catching criminals. A major art theft has taken place in North | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
London. Last night the Dutch masterpiece The Guitar Player was | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
stolen from here in North London. During the evening of 23rd February | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
1974, a museum guard heard the crash of metal against metal followed by | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
the sound of breaking glass. By the time the guard arrived at the scene, | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
the 17th century masterpiece The Guitar Player had vanished. With few | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
clues the police would turn to an unexpected source to help locate the | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
painting and return it to its home at Kenwood House. This couldn't | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
happened today because of the security system, 40 years | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
agricultural the theft of The Guitar Player caused panic. Two ransom | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
notes were sent. One threatened to destroy the painting. The other, | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
demanded money. Police couldn't confirm the are littlety of either. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
It was the Meted of its recovery Raith rather than the theft itself | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
that was intriguing. It marked the beginning of a 20 year relationship | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
between the police and a psychic. The self-styled romany gypsy. Nella | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Jones. A news report on the theft appeared on her screen while she was | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
ironing. The images began to give her visions of the painting's | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
whereabouts. She gave the police a map marked with an X and with a few | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
other leads the police decided to follow her tip-off. The map would | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
lead them straight to the discarded frame of the painting on ham stead | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Heath. The police first considered her not a psychic but a suspect. She | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
was quickly ruled out of the investigation. Nella would have one | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
more premonition, believing the painting would be found in a | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
graveyard. The two months later, the police located The Guitar Player in | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
a graveyard in south London. Her involvement made newspaper | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
headlines. I was perfectly satisfied to believe that what she told me was | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
perfectly true and sincere on her part. Over the next 20 years Nella | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
would come to the police with apparent information on a number of | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
cases. None than a higher profile than the investigation into the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper. Paul Adams, who was has written a | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
book about police collaboration with psychics, believed she showed a | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
knack for accuracy in the Ripper case. She came up with the killer's | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
name began with Peter. The initials of the last victim, Jacqueline Hill | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
and the date 17th November, the date that Jacqueline was murdered on. Of | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
all the psychics that were involved with that she did seem to come up | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
with credible information. This time, Nella revealed the detail of | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
main of her predictions after the Ripper had been caught. Some details | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
proved inaccurate. Critics said others could be lucky guesses. The | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
arrest of cut cliff in 1981 had nothing to do with any of the | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
psychic trails. The Metropolitan Police did her information | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
seriously. Arnie Cook is a former senior detective officers who knew | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Nella. There are sceptics and people who have an open mind. I'm one much | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
those who has an open mind. Do police today still use psychics | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
where relevant? I know of cases where they do, but they don't | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
broadcast it. Obviously, if the evidence is there and they can use | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
it, they will use it, but, yes, I think it would be very poor | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
investigator who didn't consider all the evidenced from what ever source | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
it came from. Nella received no payment for any of the work she did | :28:22. | :28:37. | |
with the police. Yard wrote to Nella Jones that somes officers were | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
sceptical. I would liked to have seen Nella. Back in the room. Thank | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
you very much to Shaned and Jessie. The Perfect Murder begins in | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
Cheltenham on 2nd February. Tomorrow perched on our sofa will be two | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
birds of a feather. Goodbye. | :29:00. | :29:02. |