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Hello and welcome to The One Show wth Matt Baker and Alex Jones. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Tonight's guest is a comedian who's hilarious whether he's alone on | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
stage with a microphone, appearing on panel shows or starring in | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
sitcoms. Basically, he's cracked stand-up comedy, sit-down comedy, | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
and walking around comedy. It's Lee Mack! | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
APPLAUSE Goodness me, Lee! What an enthusiastic crew you have. It's | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
not like you tell them to do that. Since we saw you last, you've had a | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
little girl. I have, yes. Little Milly. I can just about remember | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
her name, never mind household she is. Five-and-a-half months. Milly | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
is a lovely name. It was Milly or Lily. We couldn't decide what to | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
call her. On the deadline we went with Milly and only after that we | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
realised, because we are not very bright, is that her middle name is | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Savage, so she would have been called Lily scarfage. We went right | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
up to the deadline as well with our little boy. You've got three | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
children - two boys and Lily. Savage, Danny la review, and I'm | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
trying to think of another drag act. Your surname Mack runs in the | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
family. It is not my real name. Your great grandfather was Billie | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Mack. And here is the next drag act. That is my great-granddad. Either | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
that or my great-grandmother was ugly! Have you done any dag, Lee? | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
I've not done that. There's still time. It doesn't really work with a | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
northern accent. I think he was quite obviously a man dressed as a | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
woman. You have to be able to do that. I haven't got the man boobs. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
We'll find out why he is taking over Friday night telly. And | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Christine Walkden will be admiring the beautiful blossom and looking | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
at the amazing displace of magnolia. We want tow join in. If you have a | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
fabulous example of blossom, send a photo of you in your garden and | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
we'll show them later. To the great relief of her family, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Judith Tebbutt was released last month by Somali pirates after being | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
held for 192 days. In her case, a ransom was paid, but this has | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
opened up a debate about the rights and wrongs of paying up to secure a | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
release. It's a complex issue. 63% of people told a YouGov survey they | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
would pay a ransom for a loved one. But in the same survey, 51% said | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
paying ransoms to kidnappers was wrong. Here's Justin Rowlatt. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
shots fired out and then I realised that this was serious, by which | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
time our attackers were upon us. It is hard to imagine an ordeal | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
more terrifying than being held to rans nom a foreign land by a | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
violent gang. They hand covered me behind my back, blindfolded me, put | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
a gun to my head, pulled a trigger. There was a bang. I was thinking, | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
"I'm dead." The agony for friends and family watching the news and | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
fearing the worse It hadn't entered our heads we would be kidnapped and | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
held for a year and extortion was applied to our families. What would | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
you do? Your instinct would be to pay up. But is that the right thing | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
to do? If quid nappers are paid aren't -- kidnappers are paid, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
aren't they more likely to do the same to somebody else. Paul and | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Rachel Chandler were held for 258 days. At first the pirates were | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
holding out for millions of pounds. They said, "You big money, $4 | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
million. British people big money, British Government pay big money no | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
problem." Whenever we said this is ridiculous, our family will never | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
raise that sort of money, they poo- pooed it. They were so confident. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
How hard was it to persuade them that they were never going to get | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
that kind of money? For our family it was a matter of just refusing to | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
negotiate large sums, because they didn't have them to do so. | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
Eventually, they managed to negotiate �440 -- $440,000. Once | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
the ransom was paid it still took five months before they were | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
released. Peter Moore worked as an IT consultant in Iraqment until he | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
was kidnapped and held for two-and- a-half years. It was horrendous. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
They would put me in a secret room with a bathroom. They would | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
handcuff me behind my back and blindfold me. They would sit with a | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
gun to my head. It was made clear if I spoke or they tried to rescue | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
me, they would kill me straight away. In Peter's case the militants | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
refused all offers of a ransom. Peter was eventually released in a | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
prisoner exchange, four of his captured colleagues had already | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
been killed. He believes paying up is still it's safest way of | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
securing a release. Hostage taking works. In my case it works. In the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
case of Somalia you see it time and time again. They take hostages, a | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
ransom is paid and it works every time. I might not agree with it but | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
it's the payment of the ransom that gets them released. But most people | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
want professional help. This man has negotiated the release of a | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
number of hostages taken by Somali pirates. He understands better than | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
anyone what it takes to get people freed. We've agreed to keep his | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
identity hidden. In the majority of kidnappers are financially | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
motivated criminals. If they are professionals, then eventually we | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
can do a reasonable deal with them and it is run as a business. It is | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
much more dangerous when it is politically motivated kidnappers or | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
amateurs. How do you feel about giving ransoms to kidnappers? If | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
you pay a ransom, you are going to encourage the kidnappers to do it | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
again aren't you? To to suggest the payment of ransoms encourages host | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Taj taking is missing the points. There is no alternative. If you | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
don't want to pay ransoms you have to tackle the problem at the core. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
And stop the hostage taking in the first place. The Government advice | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
is don't pay ransoms because it encourages kidnappers. That has to | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
be right doesn't it? If my daughter or son was kidnapped I would pay a | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
ransom Jurisdiction where is the police are corrupt or non-existent | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
it is still the lowest-risk method of getting the safe return of the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
hostage. Are you going to be the person who tells someone else they | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
can't pay a ransom to get their loved one back? I don't think you | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
are. That's a position nobody would like to find themselves in. Justin, | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
surely people whose relatives are being held at ransom will do | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
anything? That's what they do, do, but that's why the Government takes | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
a tough stand. Because people pay ransoms is why the pirates kidnap | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
in the first place. The Government say try not to do it, because it | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
will encourage people. It increases the problem. | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Rachel Chandler says that to avoid ransoms you need to deal with | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
piracy at its source. How widespread is the problem? What is | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
being done to reduce it? There's a massive naval presence in the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Indian Ocean. What's extraordinary is that it is like a world | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
coalition getting together to try to tackle the problem of piercery. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
You've got the Americans out there, European nations have ships out | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
there. India, Japan, China, Russia, all working together to try to | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
solve the problem of piracy. It is beginning to work. We've got a live | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
map here from the International Maritime Bureau. This shows just | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
from 2012, look at all those incidents. The yellow are attempted | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
and the red are successful. This is still a big international problem. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Looking just at the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa, where | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the Somali pirates operate. It's a vast area, the size of Western | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Europe. The number of attacks has gone up slightly but the number of | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
successful attacks has gone down. From 48 in 2010 to 28 last year. It | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
does seem to be beginning to work. Starting to work. What about the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Chandlers? Surely they are not planning another sailing trip? | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
theth that's what I thought. I said, what next to you, I thought they | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
would say gardening. They say no, the Navy got the boat back. They | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
are fixing it up. Will it be ready in June and they are going to sail | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
in July to the Caribbean. They are saying it is a lot of our lives. We | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
love sailing and we are not going to let a bunch of Somali pirates | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
stop us. Safe styling the Chandlers. One of the most famous artworks in | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
the world is being displayed in the UK today before being auctioned | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
next month. Anita Rani has been to see why it strikes a chord with so | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
many people. And if you don't know which painting we mean, here's a | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
clue. It is powerful, disturbing and ubiquitous. You can see it | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
hanging on the walls of students and in art galleries around the | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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world. The Scream is waiting to be auctioned for an estimated �50 | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
million. The Scream is in fact a series of paintings and a | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
lithograph by a nor weedge expressionist artist. He pruensed | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
them over a 13-year period. They show a distraught and terrified | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
figure set among a red sky. His inspiration: I was walking along a | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
path with two friends. The sun was setting. I paused, feeling exhasted. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
The Scheme has made its mark in pop culture. And notoriously two | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
versions were stolen ten years apart by audacious thieves. This | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
art historian explains the background to the Scream. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
sister had been certified insane, put into the mad house. It was | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
close to the slaughterhouse and apparently the stkpreems the mad | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
people and from the animals were terrible to hear. Personal anguish | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
and torture and the anguish and torture of his generation were lost. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
When we look at the Scream, what are we seeing? We are seeing a | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
desperate, sexless everyman screaming against a sky of blood. | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
Why did he produce four of them? said Cezanne painted lots of apples, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Monet water lilies, it can't be finished in one painting. The value | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
is clear. I don't think there's a single museum in the world that | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
wouldn't want to have this picture in this collection. Whether they | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
could afford it is another matter. Will it be a small number of | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
potential buyers. Will it be competed for with great passion, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
I'm sure. Away from the auction houses, what do ordinary people | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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really think of it? What's that? I couldn't, could I? I can and I am! | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
Roll up, get your free ice cream. A famous painting, did you recognise | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
it? Yes. What does it say to new Somebody who is desperate. He is in | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
despair. This is the end. All I can do is scream and run. It is | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
dramatic. The colour. It expresses how you feel at times. Do you think | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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you could give me pain, despair and anguish? | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
Give mow your Scream. Brilliant. The things you will do | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
for an ice cream. He was the one who was most similar, that little | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
boy. It is not a great look is it? I wonder what you would look like | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
as the Scream. There we are. That is what you look like on a Saturday | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
morning. That's a nice look. I might take that with me. You can | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
have it. I don't really want it. I sieve what you've done and it is | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
lovely. Friday night is all about Lee Mack. Not Going Out at 8.30P | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
Not Going Out at 9.30pm, but you say you would look different. | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
the sitcom at half 8 I had to do a couple of naked scenes, I wrote it! | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
I had put on a bit of weight, so I lost about two stone in a few | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
months. How did you do that? I did a certain diet that I won't | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
recommend which involves lots of meat. Okay. I lost about two stone | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
and put it all back on straight away. When it is on tomorrow I will | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
be fat at half eight, half an hour off, it will look like during have | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
have I've gone out and eaten First of all, Would I Lie To You? | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Is the game where celebrities play off the troops of their lives. In | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
this club, you claim that your ex- girlfriend's names to the name | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
Bermuda. Please give me the names, as quickly as possible. | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
Brenda... Brenda. Superb. Still as popular a name as ever. And helping | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
you, what is next? Is it Ethel? is not our fault. Have another | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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guest. Elizabeth? Don't do a a a me what it was because if I don't know, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
it will show that I was telling a lie. But it could be a truth. It is | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
not like it is on tomorrow night. Let us Test you're lying skills. | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
Really quickly. Are you ready? Which team captain appeals more to | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
female the rich, you or David? Definitely me. People like David | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Moore. I get a lot of women coming up to me and talking about David. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
Does winning matter to you? Winning does not matter at all. I like this | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
game. Miranda Hart is -- used to be on your sitcom before going out. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Who is funnier, harass or yours? Without a shadow of the doubt, hers | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
is funnier than ours. There is Gardener's World, Come Dine With Me | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
and William Roache's Life Story on at the same time as Would I Lie To | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
You?, which should people watch? And glad we are against Peter -- | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Piers Morgan. Bake am, small organ. I love what is on the other side. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
You get some exciting people. Ken Barlow's life story. Goal for | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Gardener's World. There is one on BBC Two about building a chip shop | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
in a museum. It should be an interesting night. I would watch | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
the million -- million pounds drop. Arthur Smith is also best -- a bit | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
of a homebody. It is usually someone else's home he puts his | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
body in. One of the 20th century's greatest | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
British writers drowned herself in this reverse 71 years ago. On 20th | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
March 1941, Virginia Woolf placed a large heavy stone in the pocket of | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
her over- coat and walked into the water. She was 59. To find out more | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
about her life and death, I have come to stay at her country home | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
around the corner. Monk's House in East Sussex. When Virginia and her | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
husband bought it in 1919, she said this would be their house for ever | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
and ever. And for them, it was. She had been brought up in London in a | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
large wealthy family. Many of her novels centre on the banalities and | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
obsessions of the rich middle- classes and the role of women. She | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
was particularly close to her sister, Vanessa. She was an artist | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
who designed many of the furnishings in Monk's House. Life | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
here has record in minute detail. Virginia wrote hundreds of letters | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
and a diary. Leonard recorded more less everything, even noting every | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
single record that they played. -- more or less everything. Life here | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
was a familiar routine. Mornings were spent in the garden room, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
writing or correcting work. Lunch at 1pm and tea at 4:00pm, the cream | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
of the day. Afternoons were for reading, writing letters, going for | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
a walk. She was a bit Walker. Her sister lived a few miles away | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
across the hill and she would record of a walkover and return | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
just to see her sister. For Jenny and her sister were founding | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
members of the Bloomsbury Group, and many would come here to visit. | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
E M Forster, TS Eliot, Maynard Keynes. Probably the earlier 20 -- | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
earlier twentieth-century is greatest artistic and literary | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
minds talking about the great matches of the day. And many play | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
some balls before bedtime. -- maybe play. This was where Virginia Woolf | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
slept, although it is not the original bed. It feels almost | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
springy. She kept a pen and paper by the side of the bed in case she | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
was struck by inspiration during the night. I have no doubt I will | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
also be struck by inspiration so watch out for my long novel | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
published tomorrow lunchtime. "The fat moon was luscious with | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
promise as Arthur snored in the Sussex night. | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
" She was woken by the birds. "How they sang, attacking the dawn like | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
so many choirboys attacking an iced cake." Virginia Woolf's words, not | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
mine, but they describe perfectly my early morning wakening. Virginia | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Woolf, how could she right such beautiful prose? Living in such an | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
exquisite place, beloved by friends and family, and yet she took her | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
own life that early String morning. -- spring morning. Many years after | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
her death, her has been talked about the depression she had had | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
about the depression she had had since childhood. She was very | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
excited, exhilarated. In a completely irrational way. Followed | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
by depression. Her sort of genius by depression. Her sort of genius | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
was connected with her sort of madness. The day she died, Virginia | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
left suicide notes for Leonard. Marie Bartholomew's father was the | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
gardener here. She remembers the day that bergenia died, vividly. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Suddenly the front door opened and Leonard rush in. It was quite | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
unusual for him. He was shouting, "Percy, come quickly!" Dads dropped | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
his knife and fork and grabbed his jacket, and rushed out afterwards. | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
It was only later that we found out that she had committed suicide. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Leonard lived at Monk's House for another 20 years after Virginia's | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
death and their ashes are scattered here where two elm trees once stood. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
The on trees have gone but the spirit of Virginia Woolf's much- | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
loved home lives on. -- elm trees. You can visit Monk's House yourself. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
It is a National Trust property opened on afternoons between | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Wednesday and Friday. You write Not Going Out. Let's have | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
a look. # It has never yet prevented me... You think you can | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
win me over like a schoolgirl. Far too much for far too long... | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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Bathetic. # Wasn't it could? # Also did. # Wasn't it find? | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
# oh, so find it... Thanks for picking the clip that | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
was the most nerve-racking. I hate singing. Tim Vine can sing, and | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
that is the end of a week's work. You should have heard me on Monday. | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
It was a good song choice. The thing is, do you save all the funny | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
lines for yourself? I get help to with some of the episodes, I cannot | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
take the complete credit. I do not write lines for myself. I prefer | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
when other people say the lines because I can tell them how to say | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
it. It is hard to be a control freak about yourself. If you see | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
someone say the joke, you can tell them to say it in a different way. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Do it my way, or you're sacked. at the moment, Britain's streets | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
are carpeted with spring blossom. Before we see your photos, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Christine walked through the promenade of petals and pointed out | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
at her favourite front garden blooms. | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
Spring, it happens every year. But it never loses its order for me. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Suddenly, all of these plants, lying dormant for months, burst | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
forth and it transforms the place. Some trees and shrubs in spring are | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
so fantastic that they literally stop traffic. People travel miles | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
to see them. They are what I call front garden stars. I n in Bristol | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
and the suburbs are full of front garden stars. They are show-offs, | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
practically on every turn. Just look at this! The flowering | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
cherry, one of the absolute glories of spring. Voluptuous when it forms | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
this fantastic cloud of colour and then goes -- those pedals that -- | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
those petals that dropped to the ground. Spectacular. Let's see if | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
the owner is at home. These are such beautiful trees. How old are | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
they? I moved in 12 years ago. They were babies. Do you look after | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
them? Not really, no. They just grow. What a lovely sight to wake | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
up to. It is wonderful. People command when they're walking past, | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
look at the trees. It is spectacular. | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
Hardly any of these lovely shrubs are native to Britain. We have | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
brought them back from the Far East and the Americas. It is | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
horticultural urban regeneration. This is one of my favourite | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
magnolias. You do not have to have them in your garden -- ain't your | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
back garden, this will do well in a front garden and it is spectacular | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
in a container. Let's get the inside story. I wanted one so much | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
because my neighbour had won and I had tried them in different parts | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
of the garden. This is the only one that survived. What do you enjoy | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
about it? It is not there for long but while it is there, it is | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
gorgeous. Did you have any secrets, with the 4th try? Blind luck! | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
big was it? It was that they. has grown quickly? For the first | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
year or two, not much, but then off it went. They take time to settle | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
but when they do, wow. With good weather in late March | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
being brilliant for flowering, I would love to see a full grown | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Magnolia in all its glory. I have heard there is one around here, but | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
you have to be quick, because they do not flower for long. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
That is a belter! Let's have a look. Andrew Morgan Lycia and has known | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
this Magnolia tree since he was a lad. -- lives here. I had been | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
looking down on it all my life. I remember it always been this size, | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
actually. It can't have been! think it was always a large tree. | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
Clearly it has grown a lot. Is it important to you? It is very | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
important, particularly as we now live on the first floor. It is like | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
having a beacon at this time of year. Suddenly, after the dark | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
months, you have this white light, and the street light reflected in | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
two you're house. It is an offer that -- it is an uplifting thing. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
I've no a to go was probably planted when they built a house. I | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
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think it is probably 1816 or 1880. What a lovely tree. What does that | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
say? This is from Kate. It is a handwriting, not my inability to | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
read! This is from Kate, of her beautiful daughter, Balsam with | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
their blossoming tree. I did a similar technique with naming our | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
son. I called them Stumpy. I'm wasting my time here! This is | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
Morley and Theodore and their blossom tree. | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
And this is Abigail and Charlotte with azaleas in Aberdeen. | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
And this is a fear in Hemel Hempstead. | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
-- Sofia. Are you going back to the laptop to keep writing? I'm going | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
to go home and work all night through to the early hours. Will | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
you get into your her pyjamas? Pardon? You said you write in your | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
pyjamas. That is a virtual chat-up line for national television. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Picture the scene, I will be in my underpants. Thank you for joining | :28:30. | :28:34. |