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The One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. With us tonight, an

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actress who has described the most memorable character she has played

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as in chanting but very strange. And she can still make men go weak at

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the knees with the very mention of compost! We can only be talking

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about Felicity Kendal. Welcome back, Felicity. You are starring in an

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Alan ACPO and play at the moment called Relatively Speaking. In 1967,

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that very same play helped launch the career of a certain young actor

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that you know very well. Richard Briers. He played the young man. He

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played the very young, awkward, brilliant part of the young man.

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It's sort of launched both of them. I think Richard was already a big

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star, but it was the beginning. It is full circle. I am playing the

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mother now, but it is still the same play. It is a lovely link with him.

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When did you find out you were going to be playing the part. We toured a

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little bit, but we couldn't find the theatre we wanted. We had a bit of a

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break, went to Bath last week, and we are coming very soon. Also

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tonight, you have heard of the Military Wives. Now meet the

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Fishwives. We were there for their first ever rehearsal this weekend to

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find out what brought them all together. If you are in a choir that

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needs something singers, send us a photo of you all in action and send

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us which voices you need to make your sound complete. I got a bit

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nervous at the last minute! Northamptonshire police force has

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become the first to appoint its own Victims Commissioner to look at how

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people at the receiving end of the crime are treated. We went to see a

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family who have been through more than most but still haven't given up

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hope. This is Leon Adams at his sister's

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wedding. Young, carefree, happy. Just seven months after this footage

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was taken, he was brutally attacked as he walked home from his job in a

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Cardiff pub. Leon was left in a coma. His family told he would

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probably be paralysed and severely rain damaged for the rest of his

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life. We weren't sure he was going to survive initially. It was very

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difficult to have hope when you are told that there is no hope. Leon did

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wake up from that coma two years after the attack. 11 years on, he

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has been left with severe disabilities, but he has also made

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some remarkable progress. This is Leon now, at home with his mum. Take

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us back to what it was like when you heard the news that Leon had been

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hurt. That is just too hard. That is really just too hard. Leon's

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recovery has been hard, even more so because no one has ever been charged

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in the case remains unsolved. really miss him. It's very hard.

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Around five years ago, Leon started communicating by typing on an

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adapted computer. Five months ago, he revealed what has been on his

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mind all this time. He asked his mum if his attackers had been caught.

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is very hard to answer him. I feel I have failed because they haven't

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caught them. Is there anything you up court because I can't remember

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anything. It must be very, very difficult. Yes, it is.Have you

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noticed a change in him lately, that there is more focus on desperately

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trying to find who did it? Yes, definitely. Until we find out who

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did it, there's never going to be an end. What do we know about what

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happened to Leon that night? On the 13th of February 2002, these streets

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were full of football fans who had been watching a match between Wales

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and Argentina. Leon had been working here at the Cottage pub in the

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centre of Cardiff. This is the Crimewatch reconstruction of the

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night. Leon was spotted on CCTV on -- at 2am, after he had finished his

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shift. He wasn't seen again until two hours later. He was found beaten

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and unconscious at a train station both to the town centre. His wages

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were missing. As Leon's condition continues to improve, his family

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believe he will remember more, maybe even who carried out the attack.

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sent me a message on Facebook recently. It was just amazing to

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have that normality. To have that for him after 11 years. It was

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absolutely incredible. We couldn't be prouder of him. I cannot

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understand how people can do what they do. It is horrific. We are live

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in the Crimewatch studio now. This is such a terribly tragic case. 11

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years have passed now. Is it realistic to think that the police

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can solve this crime so far down the line?

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Leon has made incredible progress, but the family are desperate to find

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out who did this to him. Sadly, there are no leads and no new

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information, but the police stressed that no case is ever closed. The

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reality is, they want a breakthrough for themselves and for the family.

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If you think you know anything that could help solve this case, please

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get in touch. Leon was attacked in 2002, and incorrigibly, in the last

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decade, violent crime has fallen in the UK. According to the Home Office

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and the office of National statistics, violent crime in England

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and Wales has dropped, and homicide rates by nearly 50%. Tonight,

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Crimewatch is on at 9pm on BBC One. What other cases you are looking at

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night? On the 20th anniversary of Stephen

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Lawrence's murder, we are looking for new witnesses. We will also have

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an exclusive on the French Alps murders that made headlines

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throughout the world. It can get very depressing, that is the only

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thing. Absolutely, but we need everybody out there with eyes on the

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ground, and if they know anything. Every generation gets told that life

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was tough in the old days, but Dan Snow has a story that might just

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prove it. From the mid-18 hundredths to the

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1920s, boys as young as 13 worked deep underground in the coalfields

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of South Wales. Even as the school leaving age increased and child

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labour declined, the sons of mine is still fared poorly above ground. In

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1925, in this Vale of Glamorgan, two men set up a ten acre subsidised

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holiday camp, a site of fun, learning and play for impoverished

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children. The boys were offered that most simple of delights, a proper

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holiday. Built within reach of the sea, the complex included a

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gymnasium, swimming pool, workshops and a church. Add in a full-sized

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cricket pitch, tennis courts, football and rugby grounds, and you

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have a blueprint for a boy's own adventure. Today, deserted and

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unloved, it is a long way from the idyllic holiday camp it once was. By

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the late 1980s, the decline of the coal industry and the increase in

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cheap foreign travel, meant that this place had ceased to have a

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purpose. In the early 90s it was sold to developers, and has remained

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derelict ever since. With some imagination, it's not difficult to

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see what an incredible place it would have been. The two men behind

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this impressive scheme were David Davis and John McGlynn Jones. They

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had become friends after meeting in the trenches of World War One. They

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set up the ocean mining group, and came under pressure to improve their

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employees' lot. They look for a way to improve the lives of their child

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employees. Coal owners were strong armed into it, providing these

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facilities. They didn't necessarily want to provide them. There is no

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doubt they had a philanthropic feeling about what they were doing,

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but this was a way of saying to the communities, looks, we are good

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people really. You can stop striking and demanding higher wages! It was

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kind of a bribe. A good bribe, at a bribe nonetheless. In 1946,

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following the nationalisation of the coalfields, it passed into the care

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of the boys club of Wales. Alan Herbert and Jim Davis were among the

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thousands of boys whose lives were changed by the St Athan camp.

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was the first time we arrived here. There was a sports festival, and

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there were lads from all over the country coming. We never went on

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holidays at all in the valleys then, so this was the biggest highlight

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you'd ever done. What did they do while they were here? They went down

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to the sea, they played on the beach, beautiful fresh air. Allen

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became a youth leader, and Jim the very last manager of the site.

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thought I'd never work again. My son and said, you would love it. I was

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chosen out of about 60 people to run the village. I ran it for 13 years.

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It is in a state now. What is it like seeing it? It is heartbreaking.

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Some people didn't know what to do with their lives. They worked,

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painted, gardened. It put them in the right stead of life. So they got

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on in life to become somebody. if this village is completely

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transformed by nature, vandals or property developers, its legacy will

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endure through the lives of those it helped.

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Some holidays! There's lots of camps like that. We used to go as kids, so

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maybe it was the first prototype. Were your holidays like that? Did

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you do all those things they were doing? Not all those things.So you

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are back in Relatively Speaking. The play is quite hard to sum up.

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a hard play to talk about because there is no moment in itself that is

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funny, but collectively, it gets more and more hysterical, because it

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is all to do with mistaken identities. It accelerates. It

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starts quite dark, in a way. camera crew came to film you and

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your co-star, Kara Tointon. Yes!I bet you were thrilled. Can you

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describe the scene? There are two couples, a young couple and an old

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couple. The old couple are married. He is having an affair with the

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younger girl, and she wants to get married to the young man. He wants

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to get married to her. She is there because she wants to break it off

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with the older man she is having an affair with. She also was his

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secretary. The young man thinks these are her parents. The girl

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thinks this is a problem because the young boy has turned up. She knows

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she has had an affair with Sheila's... Are you with me? Let's

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Hang on, are we not supposed to be going out? The Coopers want us to

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go round for tea. I thought they were in Italy. They only went on

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Wednesday. Current stream restrictions, they changed their

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plans of. Oh, what bad luck! The Coopers do not actually feature

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very much, but it so happens, he is trying to get out of the situation.

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People will have to see it to understand. Bracket is all about

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infidelity and young love, and marriages and everything. It is

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totally modern, even though it is set in those times. But because it

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is all about the stupid things we get up to as people. The situation

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could be today, except there are no mobile phones. How much have you

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enjoyed going back to Alan Ayckbourn's work? A long time ago,

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I did three of his plays, a trilogy, it was at the start of my career,

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and actors always have to say they enjoy what they do, but in this

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case, it is true. It is easy, it is wonderful dialogue, the character I

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play is as daft as a brash, and I love it. There is no heavy drama,

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but it is totally real. It is a joy, because Alan Ayckbourn takes the

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audience along with him. And nice to be in the 1960s costumes, no

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doubt. Talking of costumes, big news... Dungarees are making a

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comeback. Not for me.I am not even going to go there. But you would

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agree, on an allotment, they are perfect. If you are digging a pond

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at the weekend, it would be perfect! But even the real thing!

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Relatively Speaking opens on 14th May at the Wyndham's Theatre. Next,

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Carrie has been finding out if a group of Fishermen's Wives and

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families could do the same thing as the Military Wives. It is the most

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dangerous job in the UK. Each year, around 25 fishing vessels never

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make it back to shore, and an average of 68 fishermen are killed

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or seriously injured. That means that the fishermen who caught this

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for me to eat today has a one in 20 chance of being killed at sea

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during his working life. In 2009, Colin went to walk, but a freak

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storm sprang up just after lunchtime, and his little trawler

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sank, and he was drowned. Jane Dolby's husband was not found until

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eight months after he went missing. Without the body, she was not able

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to get a death certificate and could not get the financial support

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she was entitled to. We would have lost everything, and we would have

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been homeless, had it not been for incredible people, who came along

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to help us. I actually felt very loved and supported by my community.

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So, I had this idea of recording a song, within a short amount of time,

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and tons of people made contact, and I said yes to everybody. Today,

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she is in Hastings, to get together all of those people for the first

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time. How many of them would consider themselves to be sinners?

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They have less than 48 hours to rehearse before going into the

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recording studio. Today, I am going to give them a tiny bit of coaching.

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-- to be singers. It is not -- not just about the singing, it is the

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companionship, sharing a very common story. We were married for

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four days before he went back to see, and four days after that, I

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got the knock on the door to say that he had passed away. My dad was

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lost at sea when I was five years old. His body was never recovered.

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The story of fishing is like an untold war, because many men go to

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sea, but not all of them come back again. So, now, let's add... You

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famously worked with Military Wives - How does this lot compare? It is

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one thing doing the rehearsal, but once you get into the recording

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process, then we really get to see what they are like. You get to see

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the individual voices, the individual characters, coming

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through. My favourite line so far is, we cry to the for those in

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peril on the sea... You have the added advantage, you have all got

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stories and their history to tell, you are so connected to this song

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in a way which people who do not have that connection do not have.

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When you saying that line, it has got to mean something to you. It

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has got to cost you. # When we cry to feed, for those in

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peril on the sea... Now, you are singing! Sounding beautiful there.

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It is an emotional one tonight. Felicity, we were just saying that

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your uncle used to have a shipping business. Yes, in India. He was in

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the Navy, as was my dad, they fell in love with India, and he shafted

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-- started a shipping fleet. He used to take be sailing with my dad.

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I was taught very early on that however glorious the sea is, it is

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a dangerous beast, and you have to respect it. It is not just lovely,

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you have to have deep respect, and it is dangerous. And that story was

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heartbreaking. Many of these women had a tragic stories, and you say

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in the film about singing from the heart - what difference does that

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make? Huge. There are proven health benefits for singing, anyway, but

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for some people, when they are grieving, it can be let -- like

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letting things out, it can be incredibly healing. It must have

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been an emotional weekend, but how did the recording go? I think it

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went really well. The producer was a brilliant guy. I had a bit of a

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chat with the main lady, Jane, today, and she said it was the best

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she has felt since Colin passed away. She has had a real break

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through. Hopefully it will make them feel a lot better, but how

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will they get on in the charts, do you think? There have not been that

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many choirs that have released singles. You have to have the heart,

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the great song. Last year, we had Military Wives, but to get the last

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number one, you would have to go all the way back to 1980, with the

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choir of St Winnifred's, with There's No-One Quite Like Grandma.

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# Grande marque, we love you... It reminds me of The Good Life, we

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were just saying that. Pink Floyd, Madonna, Abba, we had, and then

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there was this... # You cannot always get what you

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want... One of my favourites goes back to 1997, and it was Ladysmith

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Black Mambazo, who did that amazing album with Paul Simon, Graceland,

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but it was when they did a catch-up advert that their own single really

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took off. They got to Number Two and they sold one million copies.

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Who would have thought it? They had That is singing from the heart.

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Thank you so much, Carrie. Next, Marty Jopson has been looking at

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the shape-shifting, mind-bending materials which are creeping into

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our everyday lives. We know the building materials which build our

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homes and cities, stuff like brick, metal and glass. But cutting-edge

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research has led to the creation of an amazing array of dry materials,

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many of which are in this room around me, and they have the

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potential to change our lives for the better. 1,500 of these weird

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and wonderful materials have been gathered together at the Institute

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of Making in London, by the curator. Over the last 50 years or so, some

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extraordinary materials have been developed, and it is vital that

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there is a physical place where engineers and scientists can get

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their hands on them. Many of these materials were created for one

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specific purpose, but have turned out to have unexpected advantages

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for all of us. The moon landings helped us sleep better. NASA

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developed this stuff, memory foam, to protect the astronauts on the

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Apollo missions, during landings. They also came up with this stuff...

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In the 1960s, NASA gave us this very special fluid. It is a liquid

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which is controllable in zero gravity, because it has attracted

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to a magnet. This oil has tea in the particles of iron oxide inside,

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rust, to you and me. Those are attracted to the Magnet, and they

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pull the liquid with it. This special liquid is now used to

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protect supercomputers. Its magnetic properties allow it to

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form an airtight seal, and it can float to fill any gaps or crevices

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perfectly. From the beautiful to the downright weird, this is

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aerogel. They call it solid smoke. It looks like you should be able to

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push your finger into it. It feels fragile and incredibly light, but

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it is surprisingly powerful. To prove it, I am going to need some

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chocolate and a blowtorch. I am going to fire the substance with

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heat at 1,000 degrees C. It is amazing. The chocolate is not

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melting, the special gel is acting as a barrier, completely stopping

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the heat. It is the best in show later in the world. It is made up

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of and 98% air, bound with silica. Both air and silica are poor

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conductors of heat, giving this substance it's fantastic insulating

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properties. Because it is such a good insulator, people are looking

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at using it in buildings. I could get this in my cavity walls? At the

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moment, it is very expensive, but in 10 years' time, who knows?

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me, this stuff is the most wonderful, a sticky tape which does

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not feel sticky. It has no added adhesive substance at all. I am

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being reliably informed that this stuff will allow me to dangle from

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the ceiling like an insect. The inspiration for this tape comes

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from nature. They beetle's ability to cling to a smooth surface.

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at that! It is amazing. It takes my weight. Incredibly, just two strips

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of this tape can dangle an 80 kilogram man from the ceiling. But

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how does it do it without any adhesive substance? This was a

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photograph of the foot of a beetle. It is covered in hundreds of

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microscopic house. Each one ends in this little patch. These pads let

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there be to make good contact with the surface. Close contact is vital

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for adhesion. -- let the beetle. The tape is covered in tiny silicon

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hares, which stick fast to flat, shiny surfaces. Scientists plan to

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use it as an adhesive for bandages, because it can be peeled off the

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skin without leaving a residue behind. So, as you go about your

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modern life, spare a thought for these extraordinary materials,

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which are transforming our electronics, homes and even our

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medicine. The mind boggles. Anyway, earlier, we asked you if you needed

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help beefing up your choir. You have not disappointed. The Scottish

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