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Hello! Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Chris Evans. It is

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bank holiday weekend for most of us. Unless you are working or you are

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in Scotland! The last few days could be the last chance to get to

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the beach this summer. For those who do not want to get wet, how

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about we bring a sense of the seaside to your living room? Dom is

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here with change for the amusement machines, and why their time may be

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up. And Jay will be showing us how to give our fish and chips a bit of

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oomph. And Phil Tufnell goes down to Weymouth to check out the most

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sophisticated sandcastles you have ever seen. And our guest is a man

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who would work on any peer, time to leave the one-arm bandit alone,

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Any pier? I love it! How are we doing? Very good. I just came from

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the seaside yesterday, I was down at Eastbourne with my mother.

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were going to ask you that later! Are you winning? I have won about

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20p, which is good for me! B is the only one who has. What about a trip

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to the seaside without the guilty pleasure of the seaside arcade?

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Could it ever happen? We may be about to find out, as Carrie Grant

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Our love affair with the British seaside spans generations. For all

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of us, the smells, sounds, tastes and feel of the coast conjures up

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heart-warming memories are innocent family fun. What could be more

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innocent when you are young than spending a few pennies at a seaside

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arcade? Imagine your ten-year-old self in an arcade and the shock

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when you realise that it could be your two Ben Spies that puts this

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arcade out of business. -- two pence piece. If the government

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implement new tax laws, it may well happen. William owns this arcade in

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Weston-super-Mare. This little coin is the lifeblood of the seaside

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industry. This is the over 18 section. We pay a licence duty here.

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But on the floor, where the families come and play with these,

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that is where we are going to start getting hurt by the new taxation.

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He currently play a licence on these machines. Yes, I pay a

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licence on this machine and this one, and we pay VAT on the takings

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from the machine as well. But at the moment we are exempt outside.

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The new law says we will not have to pay a licence duty, we will have

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to pay a percentage and the takings are the machines. This will be not

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just for the adult area, but for at there where the teddy bears are. It

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is all being bundled together as gaining a. But not only will the

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centre of family fun of the arcade belonged in with the big players

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like casinos and bookies, part of the Government's plan will take

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away arcade business is' ability to reclaim VAT? How will it affect you

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if you lose that 20% sign that you are used to reclaiming? Well, it is

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going to mean a big difference. 20% extra on costs. We like to give

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these away, but it is going to end up with giving way smaller ones.

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had better stop this whole said here. Better get started! If he

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were to come to the seaside and the arcades were not here, would it

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make a difference? Yes, because there would not be as much to do.

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This is where they want to go, in the arcades. Did he win this? That

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is so sweet. If we lost the arcades, there would be less revenue, people

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would not come here, and it would be derelict. And even the bastion

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of the seasiders of cannot escape the government's plan. -- the

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seaside resort. Michelle, new owners pier, what would it mean for

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arcades here? Back in the government needs to exclude that

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sector of machines from this new tax. -- I think. A lot a seaside

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towns are already struggling. If you add this new tax, a lot of them

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will close. What you'll see in seaside towns that have not been

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regenerate it is a lot of boarded- up arcades. Traditionally they are

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next to an ice-cream parlours, fish-and-chip shops. They will also

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suffer. The football will drop, and you'll end unseen ghost towns and

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the seaside. People will not come. -- you will end up seeing. There

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are now only 500 arcades like this left in the UK, and in the past

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three years, 200 seafront arcades have shut down. That means by the

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end of the decade, we could see the end of the arcade.

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The Dom is here. What are the government saying about these

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changes? They gave as a response, and they said, we think the new

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system will make the taxing more fair and sustainable. We appreciate

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there will be winners and losers, but the change will help many

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amusement arcades. So they are still raising the taxes. They

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certainly are. He is helping with the amount of money he is putting

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in! How are the seaside towns doing this year? They are having quite a

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good time. A lot of us are worried about spending, so we are not going

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abroad. The euro is weak, the dollar is weak, and seaside towns

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are seeing more money this year compared to last year. And not just

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talking about arcades, cafes, bars, hotels, everything. 21% more people

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are going to the seaside and spending a night, not just going

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for the day. It is very fashionable. How is Eastbourne? The three

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fastest growing seaside resorts, Eastbourne, Whitstable and Penzance.

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They are all basically doing better. He is your mother still in business

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there? She has just retired down there, A F. As she noticed it has

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been busier? I was talking to the old man, and he said, yes,

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everybody has noticed, the coaches are really piling in, really busy.

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There is a great tea shop on Eastbourne promenade with a piano

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player. There are some fabulous fish-and-chip shops. We are going

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to get on to fish and chips later, hold that thought! Thank you very

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much. My pleasure. We have done the arcades, it is time to talk

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sandcastles. We want to showcase the best sandcastles you have ever

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been involved in with your family, send them to this address. If you

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have not made one this summer, for some inspiration, have a look at

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what this man created in Weymouth Sandcastles, I think all children

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love them, and an awful lot of mums and dads do, too. That is why sand

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sculpture has such an instant appeal for most of us. Mark

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Anderson has been creating sand sculptures here in Weymouth since

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It all starts with a compacted block of sand and water. And he is

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Well, how is it getting on, then? What are you doing? I'm just giving

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you a bit more lip. A bit of leg! And what is it? Just sand and

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water? This is Weymouth beach sand, which is probably the best beach

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sand in their world for sandcastles. Why is that? Very fine grains. It

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is probably the finest sand I have ever walked on, and I have been

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around the world doing sculptures. It is thought sound sculptures

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might go back as far as the time of the ancient Egyptians. They might

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have turned their hands to sculpting models of the pyramids.

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Sadly, the full story is lost in the sands of time, but the story of

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how it all started in Weymouth is not. Teller's a little bit about

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the history of sand sculpting in Weymouth. -- Tell as. It started

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back in the late Victorian age, my grandfather started in the mid-

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1920s, San sculpting until 1995. He was aged 85. I started working with

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him in about 1987. This is my 23rd year. How old were you when you

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started working with him? Originally, I was 11, it was my

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school job. I collected water, picked up the pennies, making tea,

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that kind of thing. It was something that I really took to.

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One day I turned up, and there was a sign saying, sand sculpture, with

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grandson Mark, so he finally accepted me as his assistant.

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you were in the firm. Indeed, yes. What is the biggest sculpture you

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have done? We did the world's first sand hotel about two years ago.

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That was about 1,000 tons of sand, massive! Mark has started a new

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venture this year by inviting a number of internationals and

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masters to Weymouth. This splendid piece is from an Irish artist. The

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other sculptors have come from as far afield as Texas and the Czech

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Republic to make sculptures based on the theme of the town's

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connection with the sea. The work spans everything from dinosaurs to

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mermaids to pirate ships, vessels that took part in the D-Day

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landings in the Second World War. I fancy having a go at this! What

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should I be doing here? Bringing your shoulder down to match with

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the jacket, a nice jacket. Nice and smart. Fantastic. Any particular

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make? I could do with a posh one, I can tell you. Nice to see that you

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have not given me a bald patch. I had better put it in there. Perhaps

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we need a few more wrinkles as well. There is a fine one. A few more

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wrinkles. Do you think it takes a certain type of person to be a

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sound sculptor? Most of the people that high note played in the sand,

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they have all got childlike qualities to them. There is a chart

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like element in getting your hands dirty and building sandcastles. --

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Child Life. I think people go back to a special place, it takes you

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back to being a kid and playing in Prop art, so temporary as well.

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Phil Tufnell has never looked at her. All right, we have Larry Lamb

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here with us this evening. You are the latest subject of Who Do You

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Think You Are? It is going to be on next week. It was a battle of wits,

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you have been telling me. It is fascinating, the way that they do

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it. They want to make sure you do not have to repeat any real shock

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or surprise, so everything is real. Everything is kept a secret fund

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you all the way through, they have planned the whole programme out

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like an amazing game. They bring you in and take you through,

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exposing you little by little to what they want you to know next. At

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the end of each day, you think, we have got that far, then they will

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let you know where you are going tomorrow. It is a roadshow,

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travelling on. Is it every day? was on the road for two wigs.

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he ended up in Los Angeles. They got annoyed about that, because

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normally you go to the airport with your passport, and then they say,

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we are going here, but going to America they have to get me a visa.

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They said, you have got to get an American visa! Oh, so we are going

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to America? In the middle of winter, they said, yes, but we need to talk

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to you about clothes. I said, oh, are we going where it is sunny?

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They did not want me to know. In the end I knew we were going to

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California. I thought I got a little bit ahead of the game, but

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what I was exposed to in California, I had no idea. It is all women

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playing games, you can't do that! The whole show is an emotional

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roller-coaster in the truest sense of the word. Yes, it is. I found

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that all the way through it, you just have to accept that bad things

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happen in other people's lives, it is no control, there is nothing

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that you can control. Your past his of view, and I think that is what

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makes the show so poignant and popular. Everybody has got a past

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as to well, it is the one thing we have all got in common. For me, it

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was summing up the whole thing, the whole experience, finding out about

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this whole side of me that was so relevant that I had no idea about.

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What were the bigger revelations? His revelation that in actual fact,

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for me, as somebody who has thought himself as being of the war,

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Johnny-come-lately, gatecrashing the business, I am genetically

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programmed. All along. And two of my great uncles was serious big-

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time lion-tamer us. A No way! on, I wouldn't go near them. The no

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Of course, this was shared, this emotional roller-coaster, between

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you and your mum. We have a clip with you and your mum, a very

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poignant piece of the film. I have to show you this. What is that?

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infant welfare centre. I hereby agreed to give up all claim to

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Jessie Dorothy Day, and to have her adopted by Mrs White. And it is

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signed by Mrs Catherine Day. I find it so sad. Someone must have told

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her what to put. That must have been an incredible moment.

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sister got very upset. My mum has been around a long time and has

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dealt with the fact that she was adopted. She is more sanguine about

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it. But she was moved. But she plays things quietly, my mum.

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can go online and track your family. That has been the other revelation

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for me. I was a late, when it comes to computers. I have a young family

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and they were encouraging me to do it. In the end, I discovered that

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at the end of the programme you can press the red button and click on

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to the BBC's system, whereby you can phone, a freephone number, to

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find out how to get access to different bits of information. And

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then you can use the system, find out about where to go on a course

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how to use the computer. But if you watch the film, they have me as a

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guinea pig, making you understand, by following bits of everybody's

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stories that are covered in the programme, the different aspects of

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people's genealogy, but you can find out about readily online and

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just, really, as I have found out, how simple it is. Watching the show

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makes you want to do it. It is part of the First Click campaign and you

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can find out about it on the red button right now.

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We have had a go in the arcade, played on the beach, and now time

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for some seaside fish and chips. Pass the salt. Yes, but what salt?

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These days, there are more kinds then you can shake a cellar at.

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There was a time when the only choice was whether or not to put

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salt on your chips. Now, there are an increasing number of gourmet

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versions coming from as far afield as Hawaii and the Himalayas. In

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supermarkets, the likes of Oak smoked, Cyprus flake, Atlantic and

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Cornish salt have seen sales rise this year. But they are not cheap.

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A small bag of Cyprus C salt costs �1.89, whereas a bag of table salt

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is just 20 3PV. It could be dismissed as a silly food fad, but

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could gourmet salt be worth its salt? All of these salts are the

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same chemical, sodium chloride, so it is hard to imagine how they can

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taste any different. And when dissolved in water, most salts

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taste the same. But chef Stephen Harris is so passionate about the

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importance of salt, he even harvests his own from the senior

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his restaurant. I thought it would be a romantic notion. I have to

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make my own salt. There are some people who thinks salt is just salt.

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There is something about the crystals of certain types of salt

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where you are eating something that you get a burst of salt which is

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different from drenching it with a thin running table salt, which also

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has chemicals to make it free- flowing. What have people said

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about the way yours tastes? They all say that it is sweet.

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harvests his salt by taking sea water back to the restaurant for

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straining and boiling down. It is left to evaporate until the salt

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crystals form at the top, but will it be worth the effort? Outside the

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local chip shop, the jury is split on the merits of gourmet salt.

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Right. It tastes quite salty, obviously. Do you think the crunch

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is important? Yes, I much prefer that. To be honest, there is not a

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difference in taste, more the texture. Was that the -- was that

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the Hawaiian one? That is the closest I am going to get to Hawaii.

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Back to my own taste test. We have four pieces of fish without

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seasoning. No surprises with the table salt. It is definitely salt.

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And this is your salt, which has come from the sea just behind. Much

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bigger crystals. You get the crunch. Actually, there is less bitterness.

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I do not know if I would say it is sweet, but it is less bitter. This

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one is from the Essex coast. I should be able to tell you that I

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can see a great difference between that and Stephen's but I can't,

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really. Both have chunky crystals, which give a burst when you bite.

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The exotic Hawaiian pink salt. Very, very salty. And I think that might

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partly be down to the way it is finely ground. I think I preferred

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yours. Yes. I may just be being nice. You are just romantic. With

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some pots of salt costing �5, what about the price tag? I am not a

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food snob and will not judge an ingredient on whether it is

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fashionable or expensive. Whether you decide to spend money on

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gourmet salt is up to you, but for me the experience is distinct from

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normal table salt. For those concerned about their salt intake,

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a little bit of the expensive stuff is perhaps better than lots of the

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cheap. Your mum and dad owned a fish and chip shop and you work in

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it. As an expert, can you tell the difference between these two

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portions of chips? One of these has this on it, one of the world's most

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expensive salts, may be the most expensive. Taste the chips. You are

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looking for the most expensive taste. The point is in the crystals

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and the way that they crunch. The crystals deliver the taste in a

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different way. It is hard to do it taste test, because one is like the

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other. It might be that you get a little bit on here and a little bit

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on there. You are thinking something. Which one? No pressure.

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Of -- that certainly has a stronger taste, that one. Does it taste more

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exotic, more expensive? Knowing the way that I am normally, I would say

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that is the gold one. This man is a God. Follow your instincts!

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Danish salt, this is about to just over �20 per kilo from a little

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Danish island. There are lots of others here, all of them available

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in high and supermarkets. Saffron flavoured, rose flavoured. The

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important thing is that because it preserves food, it has always been

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held as very valuable, and that is where the word salary comes from,

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because people believe that people were paid in salt. The phrase, is

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he worth his salt, comes from that. Tell us about these. This is a

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Welsh Sorpe with vanilla. Would you like to try it? -- it is a Welsh

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salt. We associate salt with savoury food, but if you put it on

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sweet things, it opens them up. gives a contrast. You can put it in

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a lot of sweet things. We have some high-end chocolate. And they all

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have salt in them? They have. The most basic use of salt in a sweet

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thing is apple crumble. If you make apple crumble, always put a pinch

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of salt in it. Alongside this, salt caramel ice cream, made by a man

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who I know in Brixton. I get the salt thing with sweet stuff. It

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really does work. That is great. Part of the taste coming out is

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because the salt helps it to. opens it up, builds it up. Thank

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you. Are you having fun, Larry? It is great here, isn't it? Time for

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the final journey of our week exploring the history of our canals.

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Today, the Shannon to Erne canal in Northern Ireland. All of our

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reporters have had a good time, but Matt got the worst of the weather.

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Canals, the arteries of the empire. Carrying everything from iron and

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coal to everything else that they carried. What have canals not done

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for us? Well, if you are talking about this one, the Shannon to Erne

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canal, until recently, it had not done anything at all. While Irish

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canal makers were digging their way into history books with momentous

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achievements in England, on this side of the water the much vaunted

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Shannon to Erne was falling in on itself. It was hailed as the final

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piece in the canal's jigsaw, a 65 kilometres stretch of water way

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which linked booming Belfast and emerging Newry with Limerick and

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Dublin, taking the raw material us like flax and cold in, and shipping

:25:12.:25:18.

out the products which were of rope and linen. I mean, it was a

:25:18.:25:25.

brilliant idea, on paper! What the gorgeous Georgians had in fact

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discovered was a great drain down which they relentlessly poured a

:25:28.:25:34.

torrent of public money. Why, in this time of famine in Ireland, did

:25:34.:25:39.

they not see that this was one great financial folly? The building

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of canals in Ireland was the English man's solution to an Irish

:25:43.:25:50.

problem. It was built to create employment, to service the farming

:25:50.:25:54.

community, something that would bring wealth back into the

:25:54.:25:58.

countryside. Suddenly, with this canal, you have a chance to get all

:25:58.:26:03.

of those goods from one end of Ireland to the other. From Belfast

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to Limerick, right through to Dublin, using the grand and Royal

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canals. A fantastic idea. Amazing achievement. Nearly 7000 men worked

:26:14.:26:19.

on it at one time. But the Shannon to Erne canal was a failure of epic

:26:20.:26:26.

proportions. Here are the figures. It cost �750,000 to build. It took

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14 years to complete but was abandoned after nine years. Why

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have I not written anything yet? Because there is only one figure

:26:35.:26:43.

that matters. Eight. That is how many boats travelled on it.

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Somebody had not done their homework, because it turns out

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Ireland is an island. It is much easier to get things here by sea

:26:52.:26:56.

than it is by a canal. So the better quality of coal that was

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coming out of the pits of Wales and Scotland was a much better option.

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The Shannon to Erne Canal was practically obsolete before a look

:27:05.:27:10.

was opened. Less than a decade later it was closed, we did up,

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with its locks crumbling. People pretty much forgot about it. To be

:27:17.:27:21.

honest, because there was not that much to remember. All across the UK,

:27:21.:27:24.

other people were working out that canals can actually be fun places

:27:24.:27:30.

to go on holidays. So if those canals were getting ready for their

:27:30.:27:35.

second life, why couldn't the Shannon to Erne habits first? And

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more than a century later, a success story has emerged from the

:27:39.:27:44.

silt. The decision to open the canal in 1988 was a leap of faith,

:27:44.:27:47.

because it was in the middle of the Troubles and �30 million was

:27:47.:27:55.

invested. It opened in 1994, which was the year of the IRA ceasefire.

:27:55.:28:00.

And the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 set up waterways Ireland as a

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unifying body to link the waterways in northern and southern Ireland.

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They fixed the locks, installed electric pumps, scrubbed up the

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water away, and hey presto, the Shannon to Erne canal is open for

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visitors. In a way that it never has been before. The other good

:28:17.:28:23.

news, I don't think they're going to run out of water!

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Lovely to see that back on stream. These are your sandcastles.

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:28:38.:28:40.

Brilliant. Well done, girls. This one from Swindon is a mermaid.

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Thank you to Larry Lamb. If you are going to the seaside tomorrow,

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