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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
Tonight, the emergency services and Armed Forces saved the historic city | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
of Winchester over the weekend. And the vicar determined to tend to his | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
flock undefeated by the flooded Thames. We have a couple of firsts. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
We have the first-ever Reduced Height Theatre Company. And the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
first ever Briton to win an Olympic medal on snow. It is Warwick Davis. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
And Jenny Jones! Warwick is getting all the Olympic applause! | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Congratulations, Jenny. It is lovely you have coming to see us. How long | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
have you been back? I got back at the weekend from Sochi. You have | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
still got a cold head! I am just used to wearing it. And you have | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
brought some friends and, Warwick? They are members of the Reduced | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Height Theatre Company. We will be touring with See How They Run which | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
is a brilliant farce. I have very excited because they are very | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
talented group of individuals. We will find out more later and you | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
have a challenge on your hands to reduce the play into 60 seconds. The | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has given the Royal Engineers the task | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
of helping with the country's flood defences. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
It is a job which would take two years to complete but they have got | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
only five weeks. At the weekend there was a more urgent task | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
requiring the Army's help as Simon Boazman found out. | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
It is Saturday morning. The clock is ticking. 30 Army personnel have been | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
drafted in to help the fire brigade build barriers to protect the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
historic city of Winchester. It is under threat from being flooded and | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the local authorities are desperately trying to find a way of | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
protecting its 41,000 residents. And this is where the decisions are | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
made. The emergency coordination hub where the Environment Agency, the | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
fire service, military and council officials have all come together to | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
come up with a plan. Andrew Gill is the flood risk manager for the | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Environment Agency. What we are doing today is coming up with | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
detailed tactical plans that we can implement on the ground, whether | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
that is building flood defences or sandbags. One of the problems is | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
because the rivers are so high the drains cannot drain water away so | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
some temporary barriers have been erected and sandbag walls have been | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
built. I head down to where it is all happening and join up with the | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Army and Fire Brigade. The idea of putting all this stuff on is the | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
river is breaking its banks so we have to build up the flood defences. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
It is cold and wet so this is the only way to get in there and work | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
for any period of time. In the centre of Winchester is the River | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Itchen. Park Avenue is where the barriers need to be erected if they | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
are going to stop the flow of water reaching hundreds of homes in the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
city centre. Once we have got these filled up, the Army boys will take | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
them around to reinforce the bank to stop it coming any further into the | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
town. Alex Rhodes is the fire station commander here in | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Winchester. Talk us through the geography of where we are. This is a | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
kids' playground. The problem we have got is the flow is so great. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
That pinch point is making the water stack up further upstream. If we can | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
get that back into the main river path we will alleviate the problem | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
here. An extra 2000 sandbags are needed to secure the barrier and | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
control the water. What they are trying to do is force the barrier | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
down into the ground by putting the sandbags on top of it. The water is | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
rising at such a rate that the authorities have built two of these | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
barriers, won by the base of the river and the other at the other end | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
of the street. Those things are really heavy under the water. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Because you cannot see what you are doing, you have to feel your way in. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
It is cold. One barrier is outside Jackie and Andy's home. What is it | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
like to have this on your doorstep? If it was not there our house would | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
be at risk of flooding, as well as all the properties going towards the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
city centre. You have got to be happy? Very happy. Especially when | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
you see what is happening around the rest of the country, all that pain | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
people are going through. We have been very lucky. The Army have | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
arrived with more sandbags and this lot are being used to help a local | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
primary school. We have the school behind us. We are building a defence | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
so once the water has seeped out, no more water will get inside the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
school. The playground was flooded a week ago. Ever since, the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
authorities have been battling to save inside the school itself. The | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
level of the water is very high. It has not been far of coming into the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
school. As long as the school does not flood, we can keep our year five | :05:52. | :06:06. | |
and year six children here. That is 120 children. But the rest of the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
school, 330 children, we have had to shift out. The authorities hope what | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
they are doing here today will be enough. For now, it looks like they | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
are winning. The city of Winchester is still safe. They are doing such a | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
good job. Even the princes at the weekend helped. Jenny, you have had | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
your mind on other things but were you aware of the situation when you | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
were in Sochi? We were aware that I did not realise how bad things had | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
got until I came back. When I arrived back, everyone was showing | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
me photographs. I saw the waves crashing over in Cornwall. You are | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
originally from Bristol. Seeing the guy's house over the moat. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Motorman! Fairplay for trying to save that. We featured him last | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
Thursday. We have not heard since. Now then, Warwick, the Reduced | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Height Theatre Company, the first of its kind ever. What were your main | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
reasons and objectives for forming this type of company in particular? | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
I have been very lucky as an actor and been offered a diverse range of | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
projects but the one thing I have never been offered is a play. I love | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
going to the theatre and seeing players. I thought the only way I | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
would be able to do a play is by producing it and casting myself in | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
it. I was also thinking about another family I had been doing a | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
documentary about. They used to entertain in Europe in the 1930s and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
40s. They had never relied on the fact that they were short, it was | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
about their performance abilities. They were singers, musicians, wrote | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
their own scripts and built their own sets. That struck a chord with | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
me. I thought, why don't I form the Reduced Height Theatre Company and | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
celebrate the talent of short actors and give them a chance to challenge | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
themselves instead of the usual typecast roles. It is not just from | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
ease of use that you have made everything in proportion. I have | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
reduced everything down. It is See How They Run which is a classic | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
farce. None of the jokes revolve around us being short. The idea of | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
reducing the set was to level the playing field. You come in and watch | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
nine actors giving brilliant performances and enjoyed a very | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
funny play. You will hopefully very quickly forget that we are short. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
And the agency you run, it is against short actors being typecast. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
I am not holding up a banner but it is a chance to give people | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
opportunities that I have had in the past to stretch myself and become a | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
better performer. That is what it does. When you get a challenge you | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
have to learn the craft and improve to take you on to the next thing. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
They are good, I know you are up -- I know you are biased. They have | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
given it 110%. The show is an absolute treat, it really is. It is | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
a very funny show, suitable for all the family. It just celebrate some | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
brilliant actors. Give us a wave! There they are. We have set you a | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
challenge to condense See How They Run into 60 seconds to give the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
viewers at home a taste of what the play is about. Do you reckon you can | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
do it? We will give it a go. We will try to give you a flavour of the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
story as well. Are you a big fan of the theatre, Jenny? I am excited to | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
see this. Aren't we all! Glen Campbell has been to visit people | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
who have fallen for a well-known scam. Well-known in Norway but it is | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
now spreading throughout the UK. One minute it is online, advertised | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
at an attractive price, the car robbed your dreams. The next, it | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
vanishes. A phantom car, which along with your hard earned cash goes up | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
in smoke. And if you are unlucky enough to fall victim to this | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Internet cask down, as we have discovered, you cannot rely on | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
justice from the police. Katie and Neil are schoolteachers from Dover. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
They are expecting their third child and went online looking for a bigger | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
car. Neil found it to begin with and sent me a link saying he had found a | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
car. Here is that car, a Honda, being sold by a man calling himself | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
Charlie Olivers based in Oslo in Norway. We checked everything online | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
and all the details were coming back as accurate so we felt confident in | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
moving forward. Mr Olivers was only too keen to help. He e-mails Katie | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
telling -- saying if she paid money into his account he would ship the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Honda over and they could release the money to him. The plan was the | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
car would be shipped on a particular date. Just as a precaution, Katie | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
checked out the secure account to see if it existed. It did. So she | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
wired ?4700 to the account specified by Mr Olivers. The next day he | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
e-mailed back to say the car was being shipped to Dover. But then | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Katie began to worry. Whenever she tried calling Mr Olivers she would | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
not get a reply. He would only correspond on e-mail. Something | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
started to niggle and we delved into it further. One quick call confirmed | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Katie's worst fears. The secure account operated did exist but the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
website had been hijacked by the fraudster. When it came to the day | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
the car was due to be delivered we realised it had been a scam. | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
Katie's ?4700 had gone straight into the mysterious Charlie Olivers' | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
account. The Honda was genuine but it was registered to an innocent | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
person. The photo had been ripped off the web. Katie and Neil were not | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
the only ones stung by the phantom fraudster. We found three other | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
victims with the same sorry story. You feel devastated. It sounds silly | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
but you feel stupid, used, like someone has robbed your house. When | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
the penny dropped, each of our three victims immediately rang their local | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
police but they were told, sorry, nothing we can do, contact the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
government's online fraud centre. Feeling helpless and with her | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
sister's help, Katie decided to do some of her own detective work. | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
Katie noticed the same car was being advertised back online. We selected | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
one to reply to. They took the bait and within hours, Yvonne had tracked | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
down Charlie Olivers in Norway. Here we are in downtown Oslo, Norway. We | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
have checked and double checked this address. There are no flats around | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
the back, no houses, this address is a hotel. I think it is time to have | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
a word with the police. Can you tell us what is going on? This is a | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
well-known scam in Norway, also the UK I believe. Who is behind it? | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
Where are they? We think they are mostly based in Nigeria but in the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
last few years we have seen competition from Eastern European | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
's. Katie, Colin and Tracy were all told by the police to report their | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
crimes to the government's online fraud centre but nothing came of it | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
for any of them. The scammers had vanished with the cash. Are you | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
happy that your organisation has got its act together? Clearly, it is | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
difficult. You are dealing with multi jurisdictional issues, | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
different policing. The suspect is abroad in a lot of these instances | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
so there are challenges. What I would say is what we absolutely must | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
do, if you have become a victim of this type of fraud, or any fraud for | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
that matter, please report it to us. The general public are completely | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
exposed on this type of scam. I just want justice. Good name for the head | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
of fraud, Stephen Prophet. -- Steve Proffitt. They do say the advice | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
is, touch the metal. And then you know. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
We mentioned at the start of the show, Jenny Jones, Britain's first | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
ever Olympic medal winner. She is here now. Brilliant, congratulations | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
once again. I have to say, my favourite Jenny Jones story is about | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
your lucky charm. Tell us what it is, where you keep it and why it is | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
lucky. This is going to sound ridiculous. Years ago, when I first | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
started snowboarding, I was a chalet maid. It was very difficult to get | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
hold of tea bags. Now it is easy, but it was really hard to get | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
British tea bags. One of my guests brought them out. They were in her | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
room, so I took one and I had nowhere to store it, so I just put | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
it in my bra. I went snowboarding and I learned a backlit, tricks, I | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
thought, this is bullying. I got home, I had forgotten all about | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
that. And I thought, it's the tea leaves! I brushed them up and | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
gathered them into a ten and kept them for years. You didn't even have | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
a cup of tea? I thought she was going to say she always competes | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
with the tea bag. Let's just remind ourselves, this is the second of the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
two runs that you did in the final. The incredible thing is with this | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
board, what you did with the first run was you laid down in this | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
benchmark that was as good as you could do it, perfection. Are we | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
going to see the pictures? Let's put them up. Is she going for the front | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
nine? She went for the seven! She has been doing this sport for such a | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
long time, and this is the biggest recognition, the biggest reward. It | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
is Britain's first on snow. So, this second run, because you had laid | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
down this perfect run, as far as you are concerned, and then people had | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
to do bigger tricks to try and improve? Kind of, it was trying to | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
work out what the judges wanted. I got a sense it was about clean | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
landings. I had bigger tricks, but I wasn't sure I could land clean. I | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
had to make a decision, it was quite nerve wracking. Do I play it safe | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
and clean, or harder and maybe drag my hand? What is it like to be back? | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
Seeing how proud everybody is? I was so shocked, it was so nice. | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
Everybody has been so supportive, people clapping. And you are still a | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
bit tearful, seeing that? I have only seen it once, and I've not seen | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
the podium bit. That made me remember. What a Winter Olympics it | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
has been so far, and you've made history. Huge congratulations and | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
thanks for coming in. Here is Ruth Goodman, with the story | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
of a Victorian doctor who was a pioneer in more ways than one. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
In 1865, after an eventful 40-year career, the celebrated British Army | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Surgeon Dr James Barry died. He had a reputation as a top-class medic | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
and a man who did not suffer fools. In the Crimea, he worked as a | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
surgeon in the same field hospital as Florence Nightingale, where he | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
questioned some of her techniques, leading her to describe him as the | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
most hardened man I've ever met. But a month after his death, in peaceful | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
retirement, the Manchester Guardian reported the most extraordinary | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
aspect of his life. Upon his death was discovered to be a woman. In | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Georgian society, it was simply unheard of for a woman to become a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
doctor. Rachel Holmes has written a biography of the secret life of | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
James Barry. James Barry started out as a young Irish girl called | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Margaret Arkley. Her parents were broke, so she had to take her | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
daughter, Margaret, leave her home and her family and throw herself on | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
the mercy of her brother, James Barry, the painter in London. As | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
well as giving the young girl money, her uncle opened doors with | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
influential society figures. These men would conspire in a plot to | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
parts of this young woman as a man to help her achieve her ambitions. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
These included exiled revolutionary is, a keen believer in the education | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
of women. It was his connections in Edinburgh that secured a place at | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
medical school for the young girl. In order to take up the place, young | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Margaret would have to present herself as a man. 1809, she set out | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
from Edinburgh to Wapping by sea. On the way, she patted her shoulders, | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
strapped down her bust, but rises in her shoes and covered her feminine | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
neck. Arriving as a young man, James Barry, ready to embark on his | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
medical journey. The student population were significantly | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
younger than they were now. His feminine appearance would not maybe | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
be quite as obvious. You can see how in number two on the list, the Latin | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
version of his name, signifying that the degree was awarded. He could | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
only do that as a man? Yes. In 1812, the newly qualified Dr Barry return | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
to London before embarking on a military career. He was stationed on | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
his first appointment to Cape Town, on a kitchen table, in the Cape, he | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
performs the first known successful Caesarean section in Western | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
medicine. But this was not his only achievement. He advanced the medical | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
treatment of slaves and other leprosy, and his work on battlefield | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
medicine induced to this day. Despite these successes, Barry was | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
not above suspicion. In one instance, a poster campaign was | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
launched in Cape Town, making lewd suggestions about his personal | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
relationships. There must have been people who knew the truth about | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Barry? I think that their word. The people that really knew the truth | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
had Barry's interests at heart, because there were his most intimate | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
friends and companions. By the time of his death, he had obtained the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
lofty postal inspector general hospitals. This ranks spared him the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
indignity of a medical examination in death. In fact it was a maid, | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
laying out his body, who revealed the ambiguous nature of his gender. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
But it may not have been as simple as a woman disguised as a man. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Rachel Holmes believes that Barry had a much rarer gender identity to | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
conceal. So, was James Barry a man or a woman? James Barry was | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
intersexual. In Barry's day, he would have been called a | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
hermaphrodite. A child might be born as a girl, and at puberty, the time | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
when the sexual characteristics developed, in fact the | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
characteristics which are clearly male. Dr James Barry rests in a | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
simple grave in north London. But his life was anything but. He | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
overcame prejudice, rumour and a hostile establishment and, in so | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
doing, made an outstanding contribution to medicine, saving | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
thousands of lives. Didn't you all take an intake of | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
breath when they said, he was a woman! Anyway... That is exactly | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
what happened. For it, you have been a busy boy. You've not just darted | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
this Reduced Height Theatre Company, you have been filming a brand-new | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
television show. We would like to know what you're doing to your poor | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
family in this clip. We are looking for a dangerous criminal who's | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
escaped. Has anybody seen this man? That's the man! Arrest him! | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
You won't get him back! Do something! | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Traumatised! Alison did get a bit stressed out. My kids love Pirates | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
of the Caribbean, will I thought it would be wonderful if I went to a | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
beach and thought it would be wonderful to get them to take me | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
hostage. He got stressed out about it. He's fine now. But he can't go | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
to the beach any more. What was that about? It is a new show called | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Weekend Escapes, were I championed the great British holiday and the | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
great British eccentric. Me and my family travel the length and breadth | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
of the UK finding interesting people and interesting things to do. There | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
are so much to do here. I travel the world with my job, and the last | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
thing I want to do is go on holiday abroad. I thought, let's find what | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
we can do here. Now, while you go and prepare for your cut down | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
version of your play, See How They Run, just 60 seconds, here is Alex | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Riley with a vicar on a mission to help his flooded flock. The sun has | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
been out and we may be forgiven for thinking the worst of the flooding | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
is over. But, in many areas, people are | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
trapped in their homes, marooned by stagnant water. This is Egham, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Surrey, which has been flooded for a week since the Thames burst its | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
banks. In this parish, vicar Jeff Whatley has a new way of checking on | :24:47. | :24:59. | |
his flock. He dug out his dinghy. Volunteers have gathered round and | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
unaided food supplies. Many, many streets are under water. Around | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
here, it's been a case of, if you haven't got a boat, you can't get | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
through. Also, it's a wonderful larder, a storehouse. It can carry a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
lot of provisions without having to go back to base. It's not just a | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Jeff helping people, neighbours are looking out for each other as well. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
You are walking in the streets carrying sandwiches, what for? There | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
is a road, and there are old people behind, and they can't get out | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
unless you have a boat. We went to Tesco's, went to get some ham, | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
cheese, had a production line in the kitchen. What sort of response have | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
you had? Really grateful. I had an old man crying. How do you deal with | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
that? When you stand in this area, it doesn't look that bad, but you | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
turn around and it's almost up to your waist. You can totally | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
understand how people cannot get out of their houses, can't get to the | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
shops, and they are desperate for any help they can get. Emergency | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
services are not going to bring a sandwich to your door. People like | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Jeff and local residents donating food, taking it to people's houses, | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
is a life-saver. It came up to the second step, we have been stuck | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
indoors since Monday. We are really privileged to finally come out of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
our many island and walk. The elderly people lived in a house | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
here, they were really stranded. The neighbours got together. We used | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Jeff's boat to evacuate our neighbours and belongings. Everybody | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
has been amazing. Another part of the community response that Jeff is | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
co-coordinating is a respite cafe, run by local churches. Why do you | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
think people appreciate this sort of thing? You are not pumping peoples | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
houses out, here is a piece of cake, a toasty and a cup of tea. Why do | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
you think is important? One or two people said, we felt abandoned, like | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
nobody care. Is addressing a basic need to know that you're not alone | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
and people really do care. Is there a job I can do to help out while I | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
am here? I am an able-bodied man. The thing about any crisis is that | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
it does tend to bring out the best in people. What we have seen today | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
has been living proof of that. Look at me! I'm doing some washing up. | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
And I hate washing up. A lot of this is news to Jenny, you | :27:29. | :27:40. | |
are watching this gobsmacked. I think the thing is it is the length | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
of time it is going on for, as well. You think it is going to stop and it | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
is on and on. Demoralise it on so many levels. Here we go, the Reduced | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Height Theatre Company with their 62nd version of See How They Run. | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
Stop the clock! Good evening. I am the reverend | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
Lionel Toop. Mr Toop! Miss Skillon, one of my oldest parishioners. Ah, | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Miss Skillon. My wife, Penelope, a former actress. Mrs Toop. How lovely | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
to see you. They don't get on! To the church, vicar! Certainly, Miss | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
Skillon. Penelope! Clive! Flight Sergeant Clive Winton. A former | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
actor. I toured with him years ago. My leading lady - a vicar's wife! | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
Let's go to the theatre, for old times sake. Sorry darling, theatre's | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
out of bounds whilst I'm in uniform. Hang on! Ida! That's the maid. Did | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
you call? Hello. Oh, hello! Bring down one of Mr Toop's other suits, | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
will you? You can't disguise me as a vicar! If anyone asks, say your name | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
is Humphrey. At your service. The reverend Arthur Humphrey. He's come | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
to take the service tomorrow. Nervous? I'll be fine, as long as | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
the Bishop doesn't turn up! Good evening. Uncle Dudley. The Bishop. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Take care everyone. A German POW has escaped from the internment camp. He | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
may be in disguise. Escaped? But how? Shut up! I'm in charge here! | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
Sergeant Towers! Military police. Have you seen anyone suspicious? No. | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
No. No. No. Nein. Oh, dear! You could do so much more than 60 | :28:55. | :29:13. | |
seconds. Thanks ever so much for joining us, we will see you tomorrow | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
with David Attenborough. See you then, goodbye. | :29:17. | :29:19. |