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Hello, and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.

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Tonight, we're joined by a musical legend, in his first television

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interview since announcing he's representing the UK at Eurovision.

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The last waltz with you. I can't wait a moment more.

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A man, whose name strikes fear into the heart of spell checkers

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everywhere. It's Engelbert Humperdinck!

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Hi, Engelbert. Or should we be calling you something else? You

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have various nicknames. Enge. Engel. Bert. Humpy. And did and

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Elvis Presley having its name for you? No, he didn't, actually. I had

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a nickname for him. I used to call him El. In your honour, we've

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filled the studio with some of your biggest fans.

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We're all celebrating the fact that you've been chosen as the UK's

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entry in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

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It's day five of the One Show 1000. And we're almost halfway through

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our 1,000 mile relay race across the British Isles. Last night, when

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we caught up with Lucy, she was with the runners of Cairyan, in

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Scotland. Let's see how far the relay has got in the last 24 hours.

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Lucy, where are you? We are in a Northumberland now. Underneath

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Hadrian's Wall. Alice, hello. very excited. We are waiting for

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your stint, because they are a little bit late, so we are warming

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up. You are from a sports club. Newcastle University basketball

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club. I am holding you back already. She is a proper athlete, good luck.

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We have brilliant local support. We will meet a few of them in a moment.

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And some exciting news. It's just two months until Eurovision.

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And this year's contest is being held in Azerbaijan, who are

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relative newcomers to Eurovision, only joining in 2008. Have you been

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there? I have been all over Europe but I have never been there. Before

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you go, you'll want learn a bit about the place. To save you buying

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the guidebook, we sent Alex Riley to get the lowdown on the country's

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capital, Baku. And drum up a bit of local support for the Humperdinck.

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After two flights, four time zones, 3,000 miles, I am in Abba's I shone.

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20 years after Abba's I shone gained independence, another

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seismic events hit the country. The shock win at the Eurovision means

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Baku can for the first time I look forward to this. And maybe a bit of

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that. I am here... They do you want to buy a carpet, your wife would

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like it? I am in Baku to find out what the City has to offer the

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Eurovision visitor. Because a country cannot vote for itself, I

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want to persuade the people of Baku to get behind Engelbert!

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Engelbert is hoping to follow up in the footsteps of last year's winner.

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What advice would you give to the UK entry as he approaches this

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year's competition? The same thing as he has done all these years, be

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sincere with the public. Not pretending to be anyone else. That

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is the secret. I have enlisted a massive Engelbert Humperdinck fan

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to show me around. I have pictures here and even here, I adore him.

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Her what are your favourite songs from Engelbert? Please, release me,

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let me go. Will you take me on a tour of Baku's best bits? Let us go.

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We have the second tallest flagpole in the world.

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We have the best hot tea in the world. It is absolutely boiling!

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We have the best carpets in the world. Hello, again.

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Alex, here, the best massage. In this club, this is the most

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prestigious music venue, what better place to start our campaign.

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Do you know who this man is? Engelbert Humperdinck. A Uefa and?

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No This is Engelbert, will you vote for him? Personally, yes, I will

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vote for him. Now, to head to the Parliament and one of the up and

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coming politicians. Will you get behind the British entry? Engelbert

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Humperdinck? My colleagues support him as well. Maybe, in the

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Parliament, you could be drinking from that? Yes, I love Engelbert.

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If I am going to persuade the millions of voters in this country

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to vote for Engelbert, I will have to appeal to them directly. I have

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managed to get myself on one of the You are welcome, I greet you.

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I would like to convince the people of -- that Engelbert is worthy of

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your vote in the Eurovision Song contest. Now, all I have to do is

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to get the show's popular presenter If it will help Engelbert, I will

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Release me, my darling. Let me go. This went below the official

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Eurovision Song Contest entry. Check it out. Engelbert Humperdinck

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will be representing the United I have done anything I can, it is

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up to Engelbert to secured that victory for Britain. I might go and

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buy a carpet now, I wonder where I That was wonderful. I want to give

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him a hug. He went to all that trouble. It is amazing what he went

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through, so that Q. When you go over there, you will sound even

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better than him. We even have these in the studio. We caught up with

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your biggest fan, Toonzala Gakhraman, the tour guide who

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recorded a special message for you. I am your number one fan here.

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Please, come and sing, Please Release Me, let me go.

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Lovely, thank you. Engelbert, were you initially

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surprised when you are contacted? was very surprised. My son, who

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manages May, he told me the BBC had approached him to ask if I would

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represent the country in the Song contest. I thought it was a great

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honour and thanked them for their confidence in me. I will do the

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best I can with what I have got. It really is a great song. Great

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lyrics and a great melody. Actually, it has such a strong melody it can

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be played with just strings. Shall # If you love someone, follow your

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heart. Cos love comes once, if you're lucky enough.

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# Though I'll miss you forever, the hurt will run deep.

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Brilliant. I love selling ballads. It is all in the performance. On

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the night, I shall perform it the best. Matt does love it, he has

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been singing along. Have you heard that you are first

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to sing? Is that a good thing? am singing first? It did worry me

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at the beginning. It is like a horse race. You have to stay in

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front. I will try to do that as much as I possibly can. I think it

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is a good thing. The last time we went first, Brotherhood of Man won.

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It could be a good omen. And all of your fans are behind you.

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Engelbert's deep voice has been serenading us three years. Having

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spared a thought for the sides that goes behind those dulcet tones?

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Carrie Grant explains why there is more to sink deeper than hitting

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the loan notes. -- singing. Music is very subjective. Some

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people might like that. That was lovely.

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But what I sometimes yearn for is a rich deep singing voice, it could

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be melancholic, playful or moving. # The needle tears a hole.

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So how do we make that Boyce? There is quite a lot to it so I will need

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some sides have to explain. What a lovely rich sound. It is

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about the tone and sound of the boys. Where does that tone come

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from? That is where the signs comes in. Paul is professor here at the

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University of Southampton. He recorded an identical note, using a

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guitar. Using a trombone. And using a sinner. -- singer. Each of the

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three has a distinctive character. How can the same note sound so

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different? The clever computer software can give us a picture of

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the sounds to show us what is going The trombone, guitar and voice, all

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playing the same note. But they look completely different. You can

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see them playing the same note because they are at the same pitch.

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Then you get this harmonic which is generated by each instrument. Some

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Ambler fly -- amplified certain frequencies. In some they are

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missing completely. When someone is hitting a note, they are actually

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hitting a lot of notes? A lot of frequencies, yes, and some more

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than others. Take out the weaker harmonics, there are three

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different spheres -- the three sound the same. That is the

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It is the harmonics that make them sound like a guitar, a trombone,

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and a voice. It is Barry White's harmonics that gave him his deep

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characteristic voice, even when he was singing quite high. This

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bizarre looking exercise helps music student helped her own and

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range when it comes to singing. He knows what was going on inside

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Barry White's head when he made that sound. Genetically, he is

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naturally endowed with vocal apparatus that allows him to have a

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deep, rich sound. The body and the head act as a case to amplify that

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sound. On top of that, the facial postures work together to shape

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these cavities to makes sounds. That suggests we can learn how to

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do this. We it is possible for anyone to resonate widely and

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create a large rich sound across whatever register they have got.

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Most of us can find parts of our voice that they did know was there.

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Whilst these singers are all hitting the same note, they are all

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individual because their anatomy and techniques are slightly

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different. Sometimes, hitting the loan note is not always about

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singing low, it is about using a different tone. Sometimes it is

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just an illusion. Low note saw something you really

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indulge in, Engelbert? Yes, when I go down low, petards a sexy turn to

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your voice. And you were saying you have never had a singing lesson.

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have never had a lesson, are they have chosen someone for this

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contest who has never had a singing lesson. I am sure that is the same

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for previous contestants. I have played all over the world. If I

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play in Russia, and people don't speak the language very much, they

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sing along with me. How do they know the song? You have sold over

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150 million records which is incredible, but it was quite tough

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at the beginning, wasn't it? Yes, it took a long time to get there. I

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worked clubs and places around the country, gaining experience. It is

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a wonderful apprenticeship and I hope it will show during this

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performance. During those tough times, did you think it was time to

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get the singing lesson? No, the funny thing is I went to a lot of

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auditions and I had a lot of "thank you, we will call you" and I never

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gave up because I thought the first condition of communication is the

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willingness to take rejection. I have taken a lot of rejection in my

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life but I kept knocking on the door until it opened. A lot of your

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success is due to the fact you changed your name to Engelbert

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Humperdinck. It was down to my manager, who had great foresight

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about making you a big star. He did change my name. When he first told

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me, I thought it was a group, it was so long. Did you think it would

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work? Listen, when you are starving singer, they will give you any name

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and you will take it. It proved to be worthwhile, they called me

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pumpernickel and Humpty dump tee. Even when I use this name, Dean

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Martin, I used to have dinner with him and he never called me Engel

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Birt. He called me Humpy Bumpy. What do you call him? When you

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first became famous, did you meet anyone who left you star-struck?

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can't hear her. Did you meet anyone who left you star-struck? Frankie

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Vaughan was one of the greatest human beings I have ever come

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across in my life. I think I talk a lot of lessons from watching him

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work. He was a great professional man. I think the other person whom

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I learned a great deal from was Elvis, watching him work, because

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he had charm, he was charismatic. There you are. Lucy would have the

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same effect on you, where are you? We are right behind the runners

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here. He has just finished his smile. Thank you so much. Since we

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met last night, they have got us to where we are now. Here is what they

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have been up to over the last 24 hours. The runners have been

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completing the final stages of the 357 mile trek across Scotland but

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the final trek is proving to be crawling with steep hills. I am not

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looking forward to the final hill down the road. And busy roads.

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triathlon run it is taking the mile in his stride, but his daughter

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Rachel is really worried about hers. I am not a runner, that is why my

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dad is going to have to run with me. Come on, you are doing well.

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wasn't going to get up the big hill at the end. She has not done much

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training so that was good. final stretch is now in sight. With

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Nigel crossing the border into England. Fish -- a big thank you to

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all of our runners, and to everyone here tonight. We have Trinity

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School, and we have got, ladies and gentlemen, the sun shines steel

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band. It is not just Sport Relief runners we have here tonight, we

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have some incredible news. We have both been chosen to carry the

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Olympic torch through Carlisle. fantastic, how excited will you be?

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I can't wait. They also have a chance of getting into the London

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Paralympic Games, fingers crossed. Two other ladies doing their bit -

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May I remove your head? How are you doing underneath murk? I am very

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hot. How will it be on Sunday it in this outfit? We will start by

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trotting, and end up galloping. I speak to your back end? Are you

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OK? I am very well. I will be fine, it is hard work, but it is for a

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good cause. That is all from us today. We are going to have cut,

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and fingers crossed in 24 hours' time we will see you in Yorkshire.

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Excellent, thank you. Good luck to all of the runners. Get your

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donations in. If you want to get up-to-date with

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the latest runners, go to the BBC website. To make a donation now,

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The text will cost �5, plus your standard network charge. The whole

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�5 goes to Sport Relief. For more information, go to the BBC website.

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Time to go back to school now. This is a boarding-school with the

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difference in Norfolk. Boarding school used to be seen as

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a place where posh children were sent by their wealthy parents, but

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these days the state sector is getting in on the act. State

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schools are witnessing a surge in popularity, with 88 across the UK

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and several more due to open soon. They have been called education's

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best kept secret, so why are a growing number of parents choosing

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to send their children here? Founded over 60 years ago, Wyndham

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College is one of the UK's state boarding schools. It may be a state

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school, but that does not necessarily mean it is a cheap

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option. The education is free, but the average fees for boarding can

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be up to �12,000 a year, so do these children think it is money

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well spent? It gives us a lot of opportunities. You name it, they

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have got it. You have to do your own washing and ironing and it is

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good skills for future life. I do miss my parents, but when you have

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your friends around you don't think about it. I call my mother every

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night because she misses me a lot. This 12 year-old is one of the

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newest pupils at the school. It has been really good because I have had

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my friends here to comfort me when I am upset. Is that when you have

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been used to being here? Yes. what do you miss most about your

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home? My bed. This bed is not that bad. No, but my bed at home was

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really good. Her parents both work full-time and her mother was

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concerned about the impact this was having on family life. Gymnastic,

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piano lessons, trying to fit that in around work. My husband works

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all over the county, so it was a nightmare. As juggling work and

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home life became more difficult, the family decided weekly boarding

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would be a good solution. One of the things we considered when we

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made the choice was actually how much quality time were we spending

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with the children in the week? Because a lot of it was all real,

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on to the next thing, we will be late for school. For us, it was the

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right choice. Experts believe the numbers growing because of

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increased working hours and the rise in families where both parents

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work. Any concern or guilt about how the child is looked after is

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much alleviated at a state boarding school when you know there will be

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activities, friends, and that makes it much easier for a working woman

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to give the commitment that employers expect. Hundreds of

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pupils here stay during the week and go home at weekends.

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Traditionally it was about sending your child away to boarding school

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for three months at a time, and that is definitely not the way it

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is seen now. It is an idea of complementing family life, often

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during the week. We don't pretend we are doing the same job as

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parents, but what we do do is provide them with a strong

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community feel. We are still talking about fees, so does that

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mean you're excluding children from poorer families? �8,500 see it is

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good value but it is a lot of money to find, and we know that. We work

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with charitable trust to make it available to poorer families.

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mother feels it makes a difference to the family's weekends. Less

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pressured at home because mostly homework is done so we can

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concentrate on enjoying ourselves. The children come home happy and go

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back to school happy. She hoped her other daughter will also go to

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state boarding school. It is a good all-round situation for working

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families and I think 11 is a good age to go. It is the way forward

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for a lot of parents. On that note, how will you school yourself for

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the next two months before Eurovision? I have eight concerts

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so I am going to put the song in my show, and learn it like the back of

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