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Tonight, how long should we have to wait | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to get the medical treatment we need? | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Plus, how do you get a giant wind turbine | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Tonight, we need the children who have to turn to charity | :00:08. | :00:27. | |
What upsets me is how many families have lost children | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
because they didn't have proton therapy. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Also tonight, are we getting | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
We speak to the people waiting months and years for treatment. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
The fact that I've had to pay for my treatment, it's criminal. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
And later in the programme, how do you fit a massive wind turbine blade | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Now, we all know that the NHS faces a crisis, but how do they make | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
heartbreaking decisions as to which children to treat who have | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Well, Jamie Colson met two teenage boys | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
who are only alive today because they received proton therapy | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
But only one of them was funded by the NHS. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
You wouldn't know it but they've been treated for cancer. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Both went to hospitals in the USA for treatment | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
But one was paid for by the NHS and the other wasn't. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
So who decides which ones are funded for life-saving therapy | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
and what of those whose parents can't find the money? | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
I wouldn't be here if I didn't have it. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
The funding's vital for children everywhere. | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
Without it, they're left with nothing. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Many people will have first learned about proton therapy | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
through the case of five-year-old Ashya King. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
His parents were refused funding for proton therapy | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
They fled the country with him rather than undergoing | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
His parents now say he is cancer free after having proton therapy | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
These amazing 360 degrees gantries deliver the proton therapy. | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
They're hugely complex, 100 tonne machines. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
This NHS promotional film shows off the future of cancer | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
But that vision is at least 18 months away. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
It will be 2018 at the earliest before this proton therapy centre | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
in Manchester is up and running giving hope of life-saving | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
And a year after that, this centre will open in London | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
making a ?250 million total investment in a treatment that's | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Alex Barnes looks like a typical 13 year old. | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
Three doctors walked in the room looking very... | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
They were very quiet and I thought, "Oh, God, this isn't good." | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
But never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
that they would have said, "Your three year old's got | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Doctors in the UK treated Alex for two years with | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
chemotherapy and surgery but the cancer was aggressive. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Alex started 14 months of chemotherapy. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
And then as soon as he stopped the chemotherapy, | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Ros was told Alex's only option now was surgery and radiotherapy | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
but using the internet she discovered proton | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
"Well, it's not tried and tested really. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
"You know, it's very expensive | :03:58. | :03:58. | |
"so they're probably only after your money." | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
And I said, well, you know, they can have my money. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
If it doesn't brain damage my little boy | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
and gives him a better chance, I don't care about the money. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Through public donations, Alex's parents raised ?130,000 | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
for the proton therapy in a matter of days. | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
But then they were then told he would need costly and complex | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Luckily, the hospital in Florida agreed to pay for Alex's operation. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
They said that they would be willing to | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
treat Alex as a charity case from a third world country for free. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
And he was the last patient of that year | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
After the successful surgery, Alex underwent months of proton therapy | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
which didn't stop him treating the life-saving trip as a holiday. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
If I'd have listened to the doctors in this country, | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
I think I wouldn't have Alex here today because his | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
prognosis was so bad and he was so young. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
He was too young to have radiotherapy so had he survived, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
his life would have been over anyway. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
With conventional radiotherapy, photons are fired at the tumour | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
causing damage to all the tissue they pass through, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
whereas proton therapy directs a sudden burst of energy directly | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
into the cancer, causing far less harm to healthy areas of the body. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
I feel really lucky because I could have been dead or if I wasn't dead, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
I could have been blind, deaf or in a wheelchair | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
Alex had his treatment at a time when the NHS didn't routinely fund | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
NHS England makes the difficult decisions about | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
which patients can go abroad for treatment. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
And since 2008, 950 have qualified at a cost of | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Over in Bridlington, Bradley Marshall | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
He received funding for proton therapy to a rare tumour | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
We actually knew that he had a tumour | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
And it was operated on and then we thought that would be | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
the end of it, but we found out it had grown back and it was crawling | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
And then we realised how serious things were. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Because Bradley was over ten years old by three months, | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
he didn't automatically qualify for NHS-funded proton | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
A panel of experts reviewed the case to decide whether they would fund | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
They said it would take about four weeks to come to a decision | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
and I think it actually took a very long six weeks. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
He leads a normal life which, you know, | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
is everything that you always hope for. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
He is continuing to have scans at the moment, | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
He's be happy young man that he should be and living the | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
I don't feel that it affected me at all, the way I am. | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
I won't be as tall as I was, but I don't really want | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
But patients like Bradley might not have to fly abroad from next year. | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
will open its own proton centre next August. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
This huge and complex project will result in a system that treats | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
So, the proton beam, which is the treatment beam, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
will actually be directed down this line into each of | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
three separate treatment rooms where the patients will be treated. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
A powerful particle accelerator called a cyclotron strips protons | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
from hydrogen atoms and beams them out at two thirds | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
In six months' time the cyclotron, which is the size of a family car | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
but weighs the same as a jumbo jet will be lowered in through the roof | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
And in some places, the walls are 18 feet thick to prevent | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
The technology has been around for decades. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Several European countries have proton centres | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
I think it's actually a very good time to be | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
getting involved with proton beam therapy | :08:34. | :08:34. | |
because I've seen, over the last ten years, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
a real evolution in the technological capability | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Where we have equipment delivered here in the summer, | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
it will be state-of-the-art technology. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
It could be argued that the NHS has made a rather modest and | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
prudent investment in just two treatment facilities in the first | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
place, because this is the developing treatment, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
so it needs to be evaluated by those two centres. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Is there a danger with this that it could be seen | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
as a magic bullet and everyone will want this treatment? | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
I think it's a real challenge to manage that expectation because | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
I think when you have a new technology, patients want the new | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
technology for their particular cancers. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Obviously, the NHS has a finite pot and | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
undoubtedly, I think we have to prioritise patients. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
And those must be difficult decisions. | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
Those are difficult decisions because I think | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
in time it may well be that the indication for proton | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
We may not initially have sufficient capacity to meet that demand. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
So until England has its own proton beam therapy services, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
difficult decisions about who qualifies and who doesn't will | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
I was told that in 2013-14, our new proton centres | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
would be open in this country and I was absolutely thrilled, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
What upsets me is how many families have lost | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
children because they didn't have proton therapy. | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
And if you've got any comments about tonight's programme | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
or you've got a story you think we might like to cover, | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
you can get in touch on Twitter or on Facebook. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
We'll be telling you the story about how this huge turbine | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
blade was installed into the middle of Hull. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
Now, there are many stories of people waiting months to get a | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
So are you getting the same access to care as | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Well, Chris Jackson's been travelling the country to find out. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
The NHS is facing the most significant financial | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
There are fears the service we have grown up with | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Absolutely, there is a postcode lottery. | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
So, is the NHS in danger of ceasing to be a sational service were | :11:01. | :11:14. | |
everyone is entitled to the same care? | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
It is treating more patients, but is it becoming a postcode | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
lottery where access can depend on where you live? | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
It feels like my bones are actually screaming at me at times. | :11:25. | :11:40. | |
33-year-old Ben Franklin has Hepatitis C. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
The virus can cause life-threatening liver damage. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
I haven't been at work since April, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
And I could possibly lose the flat over my head. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
There are new drugs that could potentially cure Ben's Hepatitis. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Basically because my liver wasn't bad enough. | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
And that made me want to go out and just get | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
absolutely wasted and ruin my liver just so that they would treat me. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
I wouldn't do that, but I wouldn't be | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
The money is there for just over 10,000 treatments. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
It's claimed that means there are no queues in parts | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
of the North and long waits in places like London. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Two people with exactly the same state of liver damage could present | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
themselves in different parts of the country and in one they'll be | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
able to walk in and get hepatitis C treatment immediately, get cured. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
In another part of the country, they may go there and be told, | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
"Sorry, you're going to have to wait." | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
NHS England told us it was regularly reallocating unused Hepatitis C | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
treatments to places with waiting lists. | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
The number of patients treated will increase by 25% next year. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Ben is taking the risk, of treating himself with cheaper | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Yeah, ?1300 that I don't really have. | :13:10. | :13:21. | |
The fact that I've had to pay for my treatment... | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Ben is hoping the generic drugs will cure him | :13:27. | :13:46. | |
within a matter of weeks, and he's not alone. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
The Hepatitis C Trust estimates that around a thousand people in Britain | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
If you go outside, there's halos around the lights. | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
Lights and shadows, it's often hard to see things. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Gloria McShane has cataracts in both eyes. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Go up or down stairs with any kind of confidence. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
Cataracts are supposed to be treated within four | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
Gloria, who lives in the North East, says she's been waiting seven. | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
It's too long, because there is such potential for accidents. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
And there is such a change in a person's mood. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
If Gloria had lived in Luton her wait could have been | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Absolutely, there is a postcode lottery. | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
It's not about clinical need, it's about some places in England | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
having poor systems, having budgetary pressures and | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
That doesn't feel too national to me. | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Gloria expects to get her operation later this month. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
It really makes me angry because I think that it's | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
almost like the survival of the fittest. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Clinical Commissioning Groups, or CCGs, control health budgets. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
It's claimed some are delaying treatments like cataract surgery, | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Others are requiring patients to lose weight before getting | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Postponing an operation in these circumstances | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
can save money in the short term, and whilst | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
the CCGs say this can be clinically justified, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
the Royal College of Surgeons say it can't. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
There is very good evidence that people are now | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
not getting elective operations which they desperately sometimes | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
require simply because of financial restrictions. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
It is up to the clinicians to decide who should have | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
what treatments and therefore a bureaucratic | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
system which produces a blanket ban | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
It's also claimed new systems for vetting appointments | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
with specialists are another form of rationing. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Why are they treating their patients with such contempt? | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Last month, MPs complained about a private company | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
being paid ?10 for every GP referral they stopped. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
This is rationing by the back door and has | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
The same private company oversees referrals in North Tyneside. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
We've spoken to doctors who say the system is | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
The GPs - who fear speaking out - have told us that cancer diagnoses | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
I try to get a patient referred to a dermatologist. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
it was a skin lesion and rejected it. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
It was a nasty, invasive skin cancer. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
They're putting up barriers, they're using delaying tactics. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
It's getting between the doctor and the specialist. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
In a statement, North Tyneside CCG said | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
there was no evidence the system caused additional risk or delay. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Cancel referrals do not go through the system and are made | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
The number of referrals knocked back to GPs in England has risen | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
You can see the details of our research online. | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
Shortage and regional difference have always been part of the NHS. | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Today, the differences could get much worse. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
The NHS is under an unprecedented level of pressure at the moment. | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
If it doesn't get more funding, waiting times are going to | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
get longer and the quality of patient care is going to suffer, | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
so we will see different decisions taken in different parts of the | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
country and different services being available to patients. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
So, is the NHS still a national service? | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
One of our most prominent medics is clear. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
I think it matters because it leads to inequality in health care. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
So some people will get health care for free | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
In a statement, the Department of Health | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
told us far from rationing, more people than ever | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
3,261 more cancer patients are being seen every day and | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
We asked the Health Secretary and NHS | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
The people actually paying for NHS services, the clinical | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
It's a national service with local variation based | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Demographically, populations vary quite significantly | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
from town to rural, from county to county. | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
It's really important that we commission and respond to the | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
needs of that population on a local basis. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
We have limited resources, so it's really important that we spend | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
them most effectively to get the best value for our population. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
For those forced to take their own action rationing | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Well, in case you hadn't already noticed, Hull is the UK's city of | :19:08. | :19:19. | |
culture and the celebrations began with a huge bang if you weeks ago | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Just a few days ago, this huge turbine blade was installed | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
here in Queen Victoria Square, but how did it get here? | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
75 metres long but only weighing 28 tonnes. | :19:34. | :19:46. | |
You'd normally find it on top of a wind turbine in the North Sea. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
But for ten weeks, this monumental structure, hand built | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
at the Siemens factory in Hull, is the biggest work of art | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
But not only that, its move has been one of Hull's biggest secrets | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
which is why its journey began under the cover of darkness | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Transporting such an enormous structure is a logistical headache. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
It's so big, no normal lorry can carry it, so a specialist haulage | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
team is using remote controlled vehicles. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
It's quarter to two and the blade has just started its journey | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
from the Siemens factory into Hull city centre. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Crawling along at a walking pace, it's going | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
to take around six hours to get there. | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
It's going to be slow, but it's going to be spectacular. | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
The idea is that the installation of the blade will be a surprise | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
The blade needs to be in place before the city wakes up. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
But just feet from the gate, there's a snag. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
The communications cable connecting the two trailers carrying the blade | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Without a replacement, the blade isn't going anywhere. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
With the clock ticking, it's a delay nobody wanted. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Moving the blade is a massive undertaking and making it | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
The Siemens turbine factory is one of Hull's biggest employers. | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
It only opened last September, making the world's largest handmade | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
It takes weeks and hundreds of workers | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
to make each blade, with dozens of individual processes. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
We have numbered sheets that we bring along, | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
keeping them as clean and uncontaminated as possible. | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
But the transformation from an engineering work | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
to artwork is so secret, most of Siemens' own staff | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Vicky Arnold is among only a handful who know the full story. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
And knowing you we're part of that with your team-mates, | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
When I'm driving in the car and I'm going down to the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
seaside and you see the offshore and you see the onshore ones, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
my kids look for them and, yeah, they all | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
say to me, "You built that, didn't you, Mum?" | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
And how does it feel to be an artist now? | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
When you saw through the media of the jobs coming | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
through, you don't expect to have a description as an artist. | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
it appears this work of art is going nowhere. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
The blade is stranded metres from the Siemens factory gates. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
A communication cable between the two trailers has snapped. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
But after half an hour, it's repaired and the blade | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
can continue its two mile journey into Hull. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
It's a major traffic hazard so the A63 into the city is closed. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
And while the people of Hull sleep, the engineers do their best | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
At almost 4am, the blade passes The Deep, but there's | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
cutting down an extra lamppost on top of the 50 pieces of street | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
But the biggest challenge is just around the corner. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
What's about to happen now will make the journey so far | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
All 75 metres of the blade have got to squeeze round this tight bend. | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
They've already taken out the streetlights, | :23:38. | :23:38. | |
but they still only have a few meters to spare | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
between the court building and King Billy up there. | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
With a collective sucking in of air, | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
the blade avoids knocking King Billy off his horse and trundles | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Really pleased, it's really going well. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
We've gone through some of the tightest | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
So, we're of the A63, which is the important | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
thing, so clear of the major highway an hour into Hull, so the | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
But this unusual cargo still has some way to go before | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
And while there's tension outside the factory, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
inside Siemens, there's excitement amongst those waiting | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
I'm going to take my daughter, who is eight years old, | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
and let her have a look at it because we're in the unique | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
position where we can see this blade up close and personal | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
As it did the first time I saw one in this factory. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
It's like being in a cave in here, isn't it? | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
I come from an art background and so when | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
I saw them in a sculpture-istic way, if you will. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
So, for me, it's brilliant to see one of these | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
it's now well past four in the morning and the blade is now | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
And there's a tricky a three-point turn. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
and Not easy when you're manouevering | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
the equivalent of eight buses end to end. | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
The haulage team now have one last sharp turn to negotiate, before | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
How does moving a 75 metre along a wind turbine blades | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
compare to the other jobs you've done? | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
It's a little bit tricky bringing it into the town, but it's... | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Nothing out of the ordinary really for us. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
What's been the most tricky part of this morning? | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
Probably bringing it down this last little | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
With the blade almost at the end of its journey, | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
the workers from Siemens can celebrate. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
But in the square, the hard work continues, | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
building the supports to hold the first in a series of art | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
commissions for Hull's city of culture year. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Cyan, yellow and then go back to the white. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
The artist behind it, Nayan Kulkarni, is best known | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
for lighting buildings, but for this project, he's trying | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
He's been visiting the factory for months, seeing how the blades | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
are manufactured and deciding how he'll display this one, | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
You won't be able to get this close to the | :26:23. | :26:35. | |
tip, but the root, you will be able to get right up to it. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
But when it's not even made by the artist himself, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
What were asking, by declaring it to be an art object is to challenge and | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
make people think about not only the values that it represents, but what | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
it means to place this kind of production and the Reed in the heart | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
of the city. It's after 8am, and as dawn breaks, | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
it seems Hull's biggest secret But there's still hours | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
of work left including the delicate process of lifting | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
the blade onto its two plinths It's now eight hours since the blade | :27:13. | :27:25. | |
left the factory. The stand is now built and the blade is making its | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
final manoeuvre into the square. Carefully hoisted and lowered, | :27:28. | :27:28. | |
it's almost there. But the tip just wont fit, | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
so after some fine tuning, it takes another six hours before | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
it drops into place. When you first had this idea, over a | :27:36. | :27:49. | |
year ago, did you think you'd ever be standing here and at least yet | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
happen? I was surprised at how easily people said yes and committed | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
risky. Very proud to be part of the risky. Very proud to be part of the | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
city of culture and part of Siemens having a hand in what's happening | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
here. I'll be bringing my wife and two boys down this afternoon to show | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
them what daddy does. It's quite daunting, seeing it sat out here | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
when you're used to seeing it in Selby factory. Bringing it out into | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
the daylight, it's even more impressive. As a local girl, I'm | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
quite thrilled. For me, this monument is quite iconic, but I'm | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
part of the next part of Hull's iconic structures, so I'm proud of | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
anything. Well, that's all from the UK's city of culture for now. There | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
will be plenty more to come from Hull in the coming weeks. In the | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
meantime, make sure you join us next week. When we will be meeting the | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
generation of black and Asian children who were bussed to schools | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
across Bradford and we call betrayal of red kites in the skies above | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
Leeds. -- we go on the Trail of red kites. | :29:01. | :29:04. |