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Hello and welcome. With us tonight is a woman who has been a stand-

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up... Rider, actress and even motivational speaker. We think we

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have found her calling in life. A celebrity agent. Joanna, get up,

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there's Michael Winner. Do you remember Joanna Lumley? She was a

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Bond girl a month ago and the original Purdey in the Avengers.

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I have not seen that since then. looks like you had great fun.

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is how we found Joanna Lumley and eventually turned her into Patsy

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because we knew a pretty woman who could be funny, usually impossible.

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You pay the agent. What is the worst advice your agent has given

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you? To drop a comedy and take a modelling. It was a disaster. -- at

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the Comedy and take up modelling. We have a summer holiday theme

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going on tonight. That is a You must have gone to great lengths

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to get a good deal on a holiday? Because of my religion? Because you

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are well travelled. This will be an interesting half-an-hour. I am a

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travel rider, that is my best deal of all, so the word free comes up a

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lot. Another change money at the airport, banks, hotels, they are

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rip-offs. You take your own money and borrow in the street. These

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babies are worth a lot of money. Give them teeth, why work with

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cash? If you don't want to part with your teeth... Also more

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children! We can help you find the best deal on your holiday. Our

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travel expert challenge triplets to do the legwork for him.

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excitement, anticipation, the sun, sea, it's time for your summer

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holiday! But wouldn't it be good if you could get a bit more of this

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for a bit less of this. We have set a challenge for triplets Stephen,

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Jo and Amanda. They are all experienced travellers and they

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each have �200 to change into euros. We are asking Stephen to look for

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the best deal on the High Street. Joe will change her money using an

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online service and a man duck will change hers when she gets abroad. -

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- Amanda. Stephen goes to the Post Office. How much is it to exchange

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�200 into euros? Post Offices the UK's biggest foreign-exchange

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provide a serving more than 6 million currency customers a year.

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240 euros for �200. That is commission-free. That is pretty

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good even though it is no commission. It does not necessarily

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mean it is the best deal. Some places it may offer a better rate

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commission. Good luck. Every year we change an estimated �10 billion

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into foreign cash for holidays. There is a huge variety of places

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to exchange currency. Only 15% of us use banks now with travel agents,

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department stores and even supermarkets getting in on the act.

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So how was your shopping around going? I have been around a few of

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the department stores, banks, Post Offices. Are you can save money if

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you shop around. There was an eight euro distance between the - --

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difference between the rates offered. Meanwhile, Jo is at an

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internet cafe looking at an increasingly popular way to buy

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currency. Order on line and get the cash delivered to your home. But

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you need to beware of extra charges. This comparison website takes into

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account the fact you are paying up to �5 for postage. How safe is it?

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That is with a non- FSA authorised exchange bureau. If you are selling

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foreign currency you don't need a licence, or regulations in the same

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way a bank has. If they go out of business you could be seriously out

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of pocket. Another way is to order online and collect the money from

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the airport. Then you can take advantage of better rates than if

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you change the cash over the counter. Amanda resisted the

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convenient option of changing money at Birmingham airport and could not

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find a place to exchange it at the airport in Spain, in fact, she

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struggled to find anywhere open for currently -- Currency Exchange. In

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the end she had to settle for a The time for me to call and find

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out how she got on. The most important thing is what is the

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weather like? It is really hot. We are on the beach now. Or what have

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you got? I am hoping I have beaten my siblings. I have got 216 euros.

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Oh dear, that means Amanda is in third place, out on the beach in

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Majorca with a pitiful 216 euros for her �200. Beating her easily,

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her sister got 243 euros from an online provider delivering to her

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house. The win is Steven, with a bit of leg work and research, he

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has got 246 euros for his �200 at the American Express office in

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Birmingham city centre. Braids change every day and dairy from

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place to place, of course -- rates. A what this challenge shows us how

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important it is to shop around and make the most of every one of your

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precious pounds. To be fair, Amanda was on the beach while she was

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doing it. She got the best deal! Those results were with euros, due

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expect the same results with different currencies? With the US

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dollar there is a strong competitive market. That is how you

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make money on holiday. Goodness me! Is that how you do it, the lap

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dancers. Outrageous! Dance for a baby! * Eddie on! I'm not going on

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holiday with you for it -- -- steady on. I'm not going on holiday

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with you! For example, with Egyptian pounds, you will not get

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nearly as good a rate in Britain as soon as you step off the plane in

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Egypt. The same applies for Turkish lira, don't bother changing them

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here, change them there. And Croatian money will also be much

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better if you buy it there than here. Instead of taking cash is it

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a good idea to take those cards that you can put credit on before

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you go? I have a selection of them. They have all sorts of currencies

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on. They are a bit like a 21st century version of travellers'

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cheques which means if they get lost or stolen you get your money

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back and you load money on to them at a set rate so you know what you

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are spending. Unlike your credit and debit card, where who knows

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what the rate will be until you get your statement when you get home.

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Nasty shock when you get home. think you owe me a dollar! Fewer

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teenagers are doing Saturday jobs these days. I look back fondly on

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my time that David Evans in Swansea. What did you do? The milk round.

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Lucy Siegle has been to Met -- made one girl exploring the myth of

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teenagers being lazy. -- meat. The I Love sky is magical and every

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year it a track millions of visitors. The biggest tourist route

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onto the island is by the road bridge to the north. But for

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centuries communities to the south of the island have made the short

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crossing on rather than over the water. The car ferry is the last

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manually operated turned table type in the UK, it makes the crossing to

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the island up to 40 times a day between May and October. Since to

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them as an and six the Feri has been owned and run by the local

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community and among the volunteers is a special recruit... In 1997

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there were nearly twice as many teenagers would Saturday jobs than

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there are now. But 114 year-old bucking the trend is Isabel. How

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did you get into this? My mum wanted me to get something so I

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went over on the boat and I just carried on going backwards and

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forwards. You were hooked? You see. What do you like about it? I get to

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see people and talk to them about their lives. People from all over

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the world. A what is your ambition? I want to be the skipper of the

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boat. What sort of plan had you work out? When I and 16 I can start

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on the boat and then when I and 18 I can get riskier's ticket and be

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the skipper. Under the watchful eye of the rest of the crew were Isabel

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has become an invaluable member of the team. When she first came here

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we thought she would stay a couple of days, maybe a week. But every

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day rain, snow... She does not warrant. Do you think she will be

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the skipper one day? I think so. She remembers everything. A lot

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more than I remember. She remembers how much we have charged cars,

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where we have been, she is very good. In too dazzled by the boat

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nearly stop running altogether. It was then that the community group

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stepped into resurrected -- in 2005. On felt there was a strong

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possibility that the community here would be impacted upon culturally,

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socially, economically. I felt it would begin to die. With a rich

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history, passionate locals and a beautiful setting the future for

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this boat is bright and for one brilliant little girl that means

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That trip is beautiful. Very nice. What did you do for a Saturday job?

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I sold girl scout cookies but for a higher rate. To the older ladies. I

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They were probably $3 more than they really were. But I did get a

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badge for the scam. You wore it with pride? Yes. I obeyed the Girl

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Scout law. Led talk about your new documentary. Ruby Wax's Mad

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Confessions. You are continuing this plight to expel the myths of

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mental illnesses. But this documentary takes a bit of a twist.

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This is the last taboo, the documentary on Monday it is where

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right go into businesses because no one in business will speak up and

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say they have any type of mental illness because 20% of the work

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force, if anybody finds that you have mental illness, you will find

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yourself out of a job. If you worry managing director you will not have

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a job at all. Imagine one in four people have it, so imagine the

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horror of trying to keep something about secret. That is why I think

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they spend 100 billion a year in absenteeism in the workplace. It

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was saved a lot of cash if people could say I am not always like this

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and probably cleverer than most people are so why am I being

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discriminated against? You did encouraged the business people in

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the documentary to speak out. Let's have a look at Berwick from Durham.

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They would speak out anyway. He was Derek opening up to friends and

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family for the first time about his depression. I don't know if anybody

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has noticed a change in the sense - - in the last year. If you have it

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is because I have found out I had depression and I have been lucky

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I had never had any inkling, because he is very good at hiding

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it. I would like to say, I am really proud. He says in the

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documentary, that he probably would not have known that he had

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depression, if it was not for somebody else speaking out and

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opening up. But this is a really big thing, how much it can change

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your life, speaking out. Well, how brave was he? I saw him last night,

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and he was radiant, because nobody fired him, and he is now going up

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to everybody. Because, if it is not you, it is somebody you know. The

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company is not going to fire him, which is the good news, so, the

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stigma is being broken. And also those three extraordinary MPs in

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the House of Commons, have fantastic was that? And they are

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not feeling anything. In a way, you are kind of doing the same thing

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with the documentary, you are being incredibly open as well. It is

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important, this is not a celebrity illness. People can start smoking

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and thinking, should I go to the Bahamas, should I be

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institutionalised? No, this is a physical disease. You would not

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knock anybody with diabetes. The brain is physical, it is not in

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your imagination. It is the most important organ. How can you

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discriminate, in 2012, if somebody has something which is just

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happening in their brain? If we can knock down those walls, there are

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no more taboos, this is the last one. You have certainly gone a long

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way towards that. Thank you. Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions is on Rafa.

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If you need advice about mental health, there is a link on our

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website. Now, Gyles has been to Coventry to tell the uplifting

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story about the role of art at some of the most difficult times in our

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history. In November 1940, Coventry had to suffer a notorious bombing

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raid, which devastated the city centre. More than 500 people died

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and at least 1,000 were injured. The historic cathedral was

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virtually razed to the ground. During the Second World War, the

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enemy was attacking both our industrial bases and our heritage.

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But remarkably, British artists at the time were doing their bit to

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remind us what we were fighting for. The director of the national

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gallery encouraged the Government to establish a Rafa war artists

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Advisory Committee. In the midst of war, why it is art considered

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important? In contrast with film and photographs, the vision was

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that art would somehow interpret it in a visual way, and show that

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British culture was alive and well during wartime. One of the artists

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commissioned was the leading abstract painter John Piper. The

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morning after the Blitz, he was asked to go to Coventry to capture

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the devastation. He chose as his subject the burnt-out remains of

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the cathedral. And here is the image he created. It was begun on

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the morning after the bombing. You would expect to see a scene of

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carnage, after all, 500 people died. And yet, there are no bodies.

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surprisingly, it is completely empty of people.. Why? I think

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because this was not about morale, it was a statement of defiance and

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survival. The cathedral was at the heart of Coventry's medieval centre.

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So, for the residents of the city, its destruction was a cruel blow.

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During the Blitz, this man was a 15-year-old stretcher bearer based

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at a local hospital. You could hear the whistle and of the bombs as

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they were coming down, and you could hear the explosion, naturally.

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The following morning, he was sent into the city to deliver a telegram.

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Once you got near the town centre, I had a job to realise where I was,

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the devastation was so bad. When I saw the cathedral, for example, you

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could see the devastation from the outside, and the smoke was rising

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from within the ruins. It was a really horrible sight. With the

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city in ruins, its population bereft, he had to decide from

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whence he could best capture this terrible event. It seems a bit odd

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that in the midst of the devastation, he chose to come here

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to the cathedral. I think he found it quite disturbing to go and

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intrude on people's personal despair and anguish. He wanted to

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find a place that he could come and paint without feeling that

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discomfort, but something which would mean something to the people

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of the city at the same time, as well as to the people of Britain.

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During the war, some 400 artists created more than 6,000 works, at a

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cost to the taxpayer of around �3 million in today's money. Clarke

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wanted this art to reach ordinary people, and he organised

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expeditions to towns and villages across the nation. Paintings like

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these have an important role to play. There was a slogan that was

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used at the time, we can take it, Britain can take it. So this is

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propaganda as well as art? Absolutely, it is saying, this is

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happening, but we can stand up to it. Having got over the initial

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shock, people set about trying to get their lives back to normal..

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there was resilience? There certainly was. The day after the

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Blitz, the Dean of the cathedral vowed to create a brand new

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building. 50 years ago this year, the Queen attended the consecration.

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The work of artists would play a huge part in the new cathedral,

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including this magnificent window, designed by the same artist who had

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painted the ruins of the first cathedral, John Piper. 72 years

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after the devastation of Coventry, we still have John Piper's

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remarkable painting, a beautiful work of art, commemorating a

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terrible act of war. As promised, Gyles is with us now. It is a

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stunning painting. But the legacy of war artists lives on today.

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tradition continues. Indeed, every six months, up to four artists

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fought each of the services is deployed to war zones. Every six

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months, there will be four artists going to Afghanistan, staying for

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between three and four weeks. There are rules, they cannot show the

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faces of people who are casualties, but basically, they can do what

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they want. Is there still a propaganda purpose? No. During the

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Second World War, there was a propaganda purpose, to lift the

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spirits. But now, they are there merely to represent what they see.

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They will not be affected by the cuts, by the way. The feeling is

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that we need artists to give their interpretation, what they see, how

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it affects them. They go into the war-zone, they are not trained for

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combat, they are trained for hostile environments, so they risk

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their lives to bring back images of what it is like in Afghanistan.

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we have got some examples of modern war art in the studio. Yes, the

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artists turned up this afternoon to drop their work off, but we could

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not let them leave without having a chat. How do you go about capturing

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a scene like this? I was very lucky with this particular scene. We had

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driven through the town in Afghanistan, we had dropped off our

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advisers, and we were there for about half-an-hour, so why was able

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to sketch the farmer and the lads in their vehicles. As we were

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driving away, I was catching them as we went away, we were the last

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vehicle. There's a lot of luck involved in finding a particular

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scene. You then took them back and made a painting from the sketches?

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Yes. We have now got this one, by Graham - were the locals pleased

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that she wanted to paint them? loved having their photographs

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taken, and they loved being sketched. These were village elders.

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The life expectancy is about 45, so they are not that old. We went to a

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place where the forces sat down to have a cuppa tea, and I sketched

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them during that time. You even had a little studio, didn't you? I did,

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near the helicopter landing zone. I had all of my pictures stuck up

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around the place. What about the troops themselves? Matt has

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captured this piece in ink. It is beautiful - were the troops happy

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to have you around? Yes, they get quite blase about it. There is a

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history of art in the officers' mess and places like that, so the

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idea of having an artist in theatre, they just take it as... Anything

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can happen out there, so... Thank you so much to all of you for

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bringing your work in. Now it is time for the third day of Mike and

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Miranda's Summer Holiday Watch. All this week, we are acting as

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wildlife guides for the Putman family. And today, it was decided

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that an issue be in charge of the there's a. -- that I should be in

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charge of steering. Whenever we are walking along the towpath, we keep

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hearing this... It is the sound of a water vole a escaping. The only

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way to catch a glimpse of such a shy and elusive mammal is to plant

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a stake-out. I can see loads of signs of a mammal down here. Can

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you see this? There is a hole. There's holes all the way down this

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bank. It is so difficult to see the mammals, the best think actually is

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to look for their poo. The animal I am looking for is a vegetarian, and

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it always nibbles off at 45 degrees, so that is a fabulous sign of their

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presence. Hopefully, we might just see him swimming across. What is it,

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a water vole? Yes! Have you done a stake out before? Never. The key to

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seeing water voles is just sitting and waiting. Did you bring the

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coffee? I am on a hunt for a real beauty, the damselfly. They are

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distinguished from dragonflies by the way they hold themselves when

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resting. This canal is a haven for one special resident, the Red Guide

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damselfly. This particular species loves this floating vegetation.

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That is where they come to rest. You can see a couple meeting. --

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meeting. They might do that for about 15 minutes. -- mating. The

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female will lay her eggs on the underside of this vegetation. The

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larvae will be there for a couple of weeks. The males and females are

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slightly different colours. These ones, the males are quite blue, and

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the females are a bit paler, yellow-green colour. Unfortunately,

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we have not had so much luck. Two hours later, and nothing has shown

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up. But... I am feeling good now, the sun is out. I hope the water

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vole is, too. Yes, it comes out for a dose of vitamin D, we hope!

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There's one! I spotted that! prove how well they are doing on

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this canal, another one shows up! Can you see how their nose sticks

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out, and their bottom sticks out? And then sent it goes into the

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vegetarian. Don't call it is like a little furry torpedo! That's

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exactly what they are like! I have never heard them called that

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before! I will tell you what, water voles on this canal are like buses,

:28:09.:28:19.
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all of a sudden, you see two! Aren't we lucky? Very lucky. More

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of that tomorrow. A question for you - have you had much luck with

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British holidays? I was once in Cornwall, because they all talk

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about buckets and cockles. It was blizzard conditions, I thought I

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was making a trip to the Arctic. Every season went past me, and I

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