0:00:00 > 0:00:01but mild with it, highest values 7-11dC. At ten o'clock, Fiona Bruce
0:00:01 > 0:00:07will be here with a full round-up of the news but first, a special
0:00:07 > 0:00:13programme, UK city of culture.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16the news but first, a special programme, UK city of culture.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20Welcome to Hull, Britain's city of culture as we review 12 months of
0:00:20 > 0:00:24cracking events. It has been a phenomenal year with so many photos
0:00:24 > 0:00:31to look back on. Across four seasons, Hull took at out of
0:00:31 > 0:00:37galleries and theatres and into the streets. 365 days of events change
0:00:37 > 0:00:49the way the city has been seen by the rest of the world.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09The year has gone by so quick, I cannot believe it is almost over. I
0:01:09 > 0:01:13hope these guys get to stay. This is the latest installation for 2017
0:01:13 > 0:01:20cold weather we go from here? This is to do with dancing. It's sort of
0:01:20 > 0:01:24mirrors back to the very start of the year in January when the whole
0:01:24 > 0:01:28of the city centre was filled with lights and sound. That was amazing.
0:01:28 > 0:01:40That was how we started the season in Hull.
0:01:52 > 0:02:002017 really did start with a bang with 3.5 tonnes of fireworks and
0:02:00 > 0:02:04made in Hull, a spectacular light show, telling the story of the city
0:02:04 > 0:02:11and its people. Or do you think of the unbelievable display?IPod it
0:02:11 > 0:02:14was amazing.Absolutely fab Mirallas. I have got family watching
0:02:14 > 0:02:21it live now.I am in London. If this was in London, the reaction we would
0:02:21 > 0:02:28get would be fantastic.It is amazing!Fantastic.Really moving,
0:02:28 > 0:02:36very emotional. I am from Ozil. This is the same quality as Kirkup at
0:02:36 > 0:02:48cabana.It is amazing. I think it is meant to really positive year.And
0:02:48 > 0:02:54the centrepiece of the season called made in Hull, something that was a
0:02:54 > 0:03:00huge wind turbine blades handmade in the city's Siemens factory. It is an
0:03:00 > 0:03:04incredible 75 metres long and put that into perspective, Annabelle is
0:03:04 > 0:03:15six foot. So why would that the longest 41 times. Getting in was a
0:03:15 > 0:03:19big job. 50 lamp posts, traffic lights and barriers were taken down
0:03:19 > 0:03:24that four hour journey from factory to city centre. And it joined the
0:03:24 > 0:03:29crowds. One in five people who came to see it were from outside Hull in
0:03:29 > 0:03:35East Yorkshire. Caroline Quentin and Mark starred in the world premiere
0:03:35 > 0:03:44of the hypocrite.I spent the last two days going round in a cardboard
0:03:44 > 0:03:52box which represents commode. For reasons that are too complicated to
0:03:52 > 0:03:58go into!The plane was by Richard Bean and told the story of how's
0:03:58 > 0:04:03role in the start of the English Civil War, shutting the city's gates
0:04:03 > 0:04:07on the King.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12I'm really looking forward to the people of Hull seeing this play.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17There's so much great stuff in it, some of the jokes, they're so deeply
0:04:17 > 0:04:20entrenched in the culture here, they are just going to love it, they're
0:04:20 > 0:04:27going to love it.The show at the theatre's biggest cast, its biggest
0:04:27 > 0:04:30threat, and spectacular special effects. And it won a new audience,
0:04:30 > 0:04:34a third of whom had never been to the theatre before.
0:04:38 > 0:04:44February brought another world premiere. 6000 pipes, written by
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Britain the most popular living composer, Sir Karl Jenkins.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55# There's a star man waiting in the sky #.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Weeks later the orchestra made way for one of David Bowie's old
0:04:58 > 0:05:05bandmates, the spider from Mars, woody woodlands. The last surviving
0:05:05 > 0:05:09member of the banned from Hull performed the rise and fall of Ziggy
0:05:09 > 0:05:17Stardust album live and in full for the first time ever.Somewhere but
0:05:17 > 0:05:22we wanted to play himself because he knew we were from Hull so to come
0:05:22 > 0:05:27back now, Hull the city of culture is amazing.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Made in Hull also celebrated pioneering women from the city of
0:05:34 > 0:05:38culture. From the first woman conductor, Ethel, to the world's
0:05:38 > 0:05:43first women's boxing champion, Barbara Buttrick.I think all this
0:05:43 > 0:05:47talk about girls not boxing is old-fashioned. Girls aren't the
0:05:47 > 0:05:53delicate flowers they used to be. Anyhow, my boyfriend doesn't mind.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58There was the original bad girl of art, from a performance collective.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02And one of Hull's most famous daughters, Maureen Lipman, an
0:06:02 > 0:06:07inspiring the next generation.If there's one kid out there watching
0:06:07 > 0:06:12things, but if that white-haired with spectacles can be on telly, so
0:06:12 > 0:06:17can I.Even if you weren't famous and from Hull you could pretend to
0:06:17 > 0:06:21be as photography show Hollywood icons let people take on their
0:06:21 > 0:06:25favourite film roles. There were other ways to get involved. People
0:06:25 > 0:06:30choosing coloured filters for their flats as part of this community
0:06:30 > 0:06:34project called "I wish to communicate with you".I think it's
0:06:34 > 0:06:37brilliant, makes you feel really good you are part of the city of
0:06:37 > 0:06:42culture.By March nine out of ten people in Hull had been to a city of
0:06:42 > 0:06:46culture event and with 60 community products in 2017 many were even
0:06:46 > 0:06:54taking part. That was one of the community project put together by
0:06:54 > 0:06:58people from Hull for people from Hull and really was a great way to
0:06:58 > 0:07:03get everybody involved. The woman who masterminded it was Sharon
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Darley. For 2017 started people might have thought it's not for me,
0:07:07 > 0:07:12it's just for the cultural elite, as this project change that?Yes.In
0:07:12 > 0:07:20what way?That project, we were involved with, definitely helped oil
0:07:20 > 0:07:24the wheels.Definitely. What changes have you seen on the estate? Explain
0:07:24 > 0:07:29to people watching who don't know Hull the kind of problems there are
0:07:29 > 0:07:32in the estate where you started the work.Lots of usual inner-city
0:07:32 > 0:07:41challenges. Lack of employment, lack of prospects. Lack of aspiration
0:07:41 > 0:07:45sometimes. Though I like to say I work with a really creative,
0:07:45 > 0:07:50innovative, funny community.Do you think 2017 has drawn it out of them?
0:07:50 > 0:07:54I think it has and it doesn't take a lot.How do you think we keep these
0:07:54 > 0:07:57things going for people who might not have the time and money to
0:07:57 > 0:08:01always go to the theatre or an art gallery?I will say the L Word now,
0:08:01 > 0:08:08P. -- legacy. What I've seen this year is a wonderful, beautiful
0:08:08 > 0:08:13launch pad. It's up to us lot now to keep it going and going and going
0:08:13 > 0:08:19and going. And make it, if it's around for a long time, the more
0:08:19 > 0:08:23chance you've got of seeing stuff, you know.Thank you so much. There
0:08:23 > 0:08:26were so many more community events stretching into season two called
0:08:26 > 0:08:31roots and roots. My favourite was to see Katie Perry at big weekend, she
0:08:31 > 0:08:35was one of the highlights of season two.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Season two looked to Hull's place in the world and you don't get much
0:08:52 > 0:08:58more global ban Katie Perry. -- global brand.
0:09:07 > 0:09:14Dozens of stellar pop acts came to Burton Constable near Hull for radio
0:09:14 > 0:09:16one's big weekend.Being in a festival environment just outside of
0:09:16 > 0:09:22Hull.It's crazy. In are printing, so cool. We keep running into people
0:09:22 > 0:09:32we know. All of our city just in a big part, it's great, lovely.Just
0:09:32 > 0:09:35from the crowd you can always tell what type of energy is out there and
0:09:35 > 0:09:39so far it seems it sounds like people really appreciate the music
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and there seems like a real freedom here. Music should be somewhere
0:09:42 > 0:09:46where people can come together no matter what background you're from
0:09:46 > 0:09:49and music is just, we need it to connect. I don't think it should
0:09:49 > 0:09:52ever be something people are afraid to come together for.
0:09:55 > 0:10:03I saw Stormzy earlier.Are you a big grime fan?I'm interested in the
0:10:03 > 0:10:10crime scene and he's one of the best out there. Service grime. I saw
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Little Mix earlier, they are trained, they were in the dressing
0:10:13 > 0:10:17room next to mine, the vocal warm-ups were quite impressive, I
0:10:17 > 0:10:19don't think I can nail that. They were going quite high. I'm going to
0:10:19 > 0:10:24stay at the French level. Below that.
0:10:35 > 0:10:43That wasn't the only festival in town. North Atlantic fluxes
0:10:43 > 0:10:48celebrated Hull's historic ties to Scandinavia and was curated by
0:10:48 > 0:10:52musician John Grant.Hull is a place that has been on my radar for a long
0:10:52 > 0:10:56time. Several of the artist Diekmeier have deep connections to
0:10:56 > 0:11:01Hull. You will see a good mixture of what Hull has to offer but also
0:11:01 > 0:11:07things from the North Atlantic. It's quite Scandinavian.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13Another event with sound at its heart, height of the reeds was a
0:11:13 > 0:11:17sonic journey across the iconic Humber Bridge. The Swans bend their
0:11:17 > 0:11:22necks backwards to see God. They know the magnetism of the blue
0:11:22 > 0:11:27space. Listening to headphones, they hear a piece of work that combines
0:11:27 > 0:11:31music with poetry and sounds of the bridge as it quicksand sways in the
0:11:31 > 0:11:37wind. Opera North's chorus and orchestra married with sound
0:11:37 > 0:11:43recordings of the bridge itself. Look up.And a Hull schoolgirl who
0:11:43 > 0:11:48guided the audience.I feel weird hearing myself but it's going to be
0:11:48 > 0:11:57pretty cool.Australian company brought stands, circus and sound to
0:11:57 > 0:12:08a Hull graveyard.My kingdom for a horse!More world-class theatre with
0:12:08 > 0:12:17Matt Fraser in Shakespeare's Richard III.I'm a deformed actor playing a
0:12:17 > 0:12:20deformed character for the first time in Britain, which is
0:12:20 > 0:12:23extraordinary that it should be the first, but exciting that I get to do
0:12:23 > 0:12:33it.Thousands came to see the weeping window poppies on tour from
0:12:33 > 0:12:40the tower of London. And revealed in more ways than one more than 3000
0:12:40 > 0:12:44people from around the world who took part in sea of Hull. In April
0:12:44 > 0:12:49they saw the final artwork by Spencer tunic unveiled in the
0:12:49 > 0:12:54gallery.I'm about there. You've only one life, just live it. I don't
0:12:54 > 0:12:58care whether anybody sees me or not.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Big weekend was a highlight of season two. The perfect warm up for
0:13:08 > 0:13:15a sum of festivals in the city of culture.
0:13:18 > 0:13:24We're halfway through the year and it's clear Hull is getting pretty
0:13:24 > 0:13:26good at putting an unexpected, innovative and exciting events like
0:13:26 > 0:13:31this installation. And that is changing perceptions of the city. It
0:13:31 > 0:13:38wasn't that long ago when Hull was voted Britain's's Tim Ferri town.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42It's no longer the case. With a summer packed full of events still
0:13:42 > 0:13:46to come, things got better and better. -- voted Britain's's
0:13:46 > 0:13:50crappest town.
0:14:00 > 0:14:08So I was a seasonal festivals. More than 100 local bands at the Humber
0:14:08 > 0:14:15Street session.We are sitting on an amazing wealth of talent in this
0:14:15 > 0:14:21region. I think it's about time the rest of the country was aware of it.
0:14:21 > 0:14:27The tenth annual Freedom Festival with a lecture from former UN
0:14:27 > 0:14:32Secretary General Kofi Anand.Art and culture is very much part of
0:14:32 > 0:14:37life. It brings people together. They may not understand what the
0:14:37 > 0:14:40artist is saying, but they stop and look at it and questions on within
0:14:40 > 0:14:48themselves.The city's first-ever children's literature Festival, the
0:14:48 > 0:14:56big malarkey.They all live at 41 Fairfield Rd and then extra labour
0:14:56 > 0:15:01is Mr Nigel McNulty, who is a grizzly bear.Hull was even on show
0:15:01 > 0:15:08at the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh fringe.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12We're here representing Hull, the UK city of culture this year.The Proms
0:15:12 > 0:15:17came here outside London in the first time in more than 80 years.
0:15:17 > 0:15:24And Hull hosted the first ever UK pride Parade, marking 50 years since
0:15:24 > 0:15:32the partial decriminalisation of, sexuality.Bused to bust. That's us.
0:15:32 > 0:15:42After all these years.As part of LGBT 50, Radio 2 brought the Love
0:15:42 > 0:15:46concert to town.Today I feel really reflective and feel like I can stand
0:15:46 > 0:15:51on the shoulders of great people if done, you know like Mark arm and is
0:15:51 > 0:15:56here, that's like he's an amazing artist. -- Marc Almond. Amazing
0:15:56 > 0:16:01advocate for LGBT. Alison Boyet, amazing. Why would I say no to being
0:16:01 > 0:16:07in the company of those people.Hull took over the waves again in
0:16:07 > 0:16:13September with contain strong language, a festival celebrating
0:16:13 > 0:16:17poetry and spoken word.What's exciting is to see the Hull accent
0:16:17 > 0:16:24and language taking place on a global stage.Here Jones and statues
0:16:24 > 0:16:29must buyers and cranes cluster.You mentioned before about Philip Larkin
0:16:29 > 0:16:33and Andrew Marr vowel. Reading both of them today who is the best from
0:16:33 > 0:16:39Hull?... I never compare, I never compare lovers, I never compare
0:16:39 > 0:16:44poets. I never compare music. It's just different. I'm glad we don't
0:16:44 > 0:16:49have Oscars for poets. It's ridiculous enough for actors.Then
0:16:49 > 0:16:53there was the weird and wonderful. Bill Bailey invented tales about
0:16:53 > 0:16:56strange items in his cabinet of curiosities at Hull's Maritime
0:16:56 > 0:17:01Museum. Do you think you are the first comedian to have curated a
0:17:01 > 0:17:07museum exhibition?I don't know. I'm going to say yes.It seems like new
0:17:07 > 0:17:13ground doesn't it?In the spirit of this exhibition, yes, I, Bill
0:17:13 > 0:17:19Bailey, built of Bailey, and the first comedian to cure an exhibition
0:17:19 > 0:17:25of this kind anywhere in the world. An immersive experience like no
0:17:25 > 0:17:32other. For high-tech shopping, captured by the police 1980s South
0:17:32 > 0:17:37Korea in a performance called "One day maybe".If I don't make it out I
0:17:37 > 0:17:40tell my mum, dad, sister 's brothers, you can't touch my stuff.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Did you see that?
0:17:47 > 0:17:51One of the season's highlights, a special gala performance by the
0:17:51 > 0:17:59world-famous Royal Ballet. Its principles joined a handful of top
0:17:59 > 0:18:02ballet dancers who had all taken their first lessons at Skelton
0:18:02 > 0:18:08Hooper School of dance in Hull. So many wanted tickets 5000 people
0:18:08 > 0:18:15watched on screens in a nearby park. The gala showing off the great
0:18:15 > 0:18:26dancers who started their journey to the top in the city of culture. You
0:18:26 > 0:18:32may have noticed in the bear some of the Army of two and a half thousand
0:18:32 > 0:18:35turquoise coated volunteers who are working for the city of culture.
0:18:35 > 0:18:42Joining us is three generations of volunteers. Leanne, Sheila and
0:18:42 > 0:18:50Karen. How many hours have you put in between you?1300 hrs of
0:18:50 > 0:18:53volunteering.Between three. Incredible. But up been your
0:18:53 > 0:18:59highlights?Mine was one day maybe which I absolutely adored, long
0:18:59 > 0:19:03shifts, but certainly worth the effort.One of mine was the gay
0:19:03 > 0:19:08parade, I really enjoyed that, there were so many...I was lucky enough
0:19:08 > 0:19:11to be in the flood, on one of the floating platforms. That was
0:19:11 > 0:19:16fantastic.We'll see some of that late in the programme. You'll be
0:19:16 > 0:19:22sticking at it next year as well? Yes. And longer to come, yeah.We've
0:19:22 > 0:19:27really enjoyed it. Everybody, just like one big family.Thank you for
0:19:27 > 0:19:32coming down. We're getting to the end of our review. Season four is
0:19:32 > 0:19:35called tell the world.
0:19:45 > 0:19:50The final season of 2017 and the world premiere kept coming. Maxine
0:19:50 > 0:19:56Peake's play, the last Testament told the story of four Hull women
0:19:56 > 0:20:06who fought the government for better fisherman 's safety and won. Payne
0:20:06 > 0:20:14the winner of this year's Turner prize is...This year's Turner prize
0:20:14 > 0:20:19was awarded in Hull to the oldest winner in its history and the first
0:20:19 > 0:20:26black woman to win the prize.Thank you panel, first of all, to the
0:20:26 > 0:20:32people who stopped me in the streets of Preston and Hull to wish me luck,
0:20:32 > 0:20:37thank you, it worked.The show featuring the four short listed
0:20:37 > 0:20:40artists as drawn huge crowds, more than double the average it usually
0:20:40 > 0:20:44gets in London and already the second most visited Turner prize
0:20:44 > 0:20:52show ever. Another treat for visual art lovers was Hull: portrait of a
0:20:52 > 0:20:57city. Every shot taken by world-renowned photographers Martin
0:20:57 > 0:21:03Parr and Bolivia are for. In the city of culture. But the
0:21:03 > 0:21:07contemporary art wasn't confined to galleries, it took over the city
0:21:07 > 0:21:15streets with huge installations like Flow. And mythical, mystical beasts
0:21:15 > 0:21:21roamed the streets for the land of Green ginger unleashed parade. The
0:21:21 > 0:21:25finale of a year of events that took artistic spectacle out of the city's
0:21:25 > 0:21:32communities.It was fantastic! Well worth the wait and I want to see it
0:21:32 > 0:21:38again.It was so good.I didn't know what to expect, I didn't think it
0:21:38 > 0:21:41would be like that. It was kind of scary when the people came up to
0:21:41 > 0:21:46you.What we needed, what the city wanted, it shows the amount of
0:21:46 > 0:21:50people who are here, we all want it, long may it continue.Are even found
0:21:50 > 0:21:56its way into hospital. The footprint of every baby born in Hull has been
0:21:56 > 0:22:01taken during 2017 and along with the midwife's handprint they have made a
0:22:01 > 0:22:06huge mural reflecting every new life in the city of culture.It's lovely
0:22:06 > 0:22:11he was born in 2017 and the little footprints are a great idea, I think
0:22:11 > 0:22:15it'll be a gorgeous tribute to him and a lovely tribute to all the
0:22:15 > 0:22:25staff as well.1st of October all of Hull's phone boxes rang and the
0:22:25 > 0:22:30public took calls from the future. The live experience was part of "We
0:22:30 > 0:22:38made ourselves over 2097" and ran along five sci-fi films and an
0:22:38 > 0:22:44interactive app. Another glimpse of a possible future came from theatre
0:22:44 > 0:22:49company slung low with a year-long performance called Flood.Tell me
0:22:49 > 0:22:55how I can save them, save the world. The dystopic story imagines Europe
0:22:55 > 0:23:00flooded, and its citizens as refugees. Told online, TV and in a
0:23:00 > 0:23:06series of live performances in one of Hull's gold stocks. Its ambition
0:23:06 > 0:23:12reflected that of Hull's whole year as city of culture. That was some of
0:23:12 > 0:23:18the fantastic moments from season four tell the world. The man who May
0:23:18 > 0:23:222017 happen is Martin Green. The director. When you move to Hull
0:23:22 > 0:23:27three years ago did you ever imagine 2017 would be as successful?Never
0:23:27 > 0:23:31in a million years is the truthful answer, I dumping anybody would have
0:23:31 > 0:23:34that kind of ego, it's been the most extraordinary year in the life of
0:23:34 > 0:23:39this great city.How would you sum up the changes you've seen in that
0:23:39 > 0:23:44time?What we've seen is how art is the life force of the city and quite
0:23:44 > 0:23:46apart from the many events and exhibitions and performances, what
0:23:46 > 0:23:53you've seen is the finding the city's voice, re-finding its pride
0:23:53 > 0:23:56and the rediscovery of a city by many people who aren't from the
0:23:56 > 0:24:01city.You hand over the reins to new management, what would you like to
0:24:01 > 0:24:06see carried on as a legacy?I think it's that ambition, what we've done
0:24:06 > 0:24:10here this year is the unexpected, really interesting cultural
0:24:10 > 0:24:17experiences. The city has a great ambition to be different and if Hull
0:24:17 > 0:24:19can continue to be a city of the extraordinary that would be one of
0:24:19 > 0:24:26the many legacies that can come from this year.This year has been
0:24:26 > 0:24:29incredible. Can you believe there has been at least one event every
0:24:29 > 0:24:34single day? And we've been to most of them. If you want to take a look
0:24:34 > 0:24:41back you can go to the website.BBC .co .uk/ Hull 2017.There has been
0:24:41 > 0:24:45so much going on. Here are a few bits we haven't managed to squeeze
0:24:45 > 0:24:50in. Bye bye. See you!
0:24:53 > 0:25:05If you haven't heard of Buzzfeed, where have you been? -- Fuzzfeed.
0:25:16 > 0:25:22If you like your coffee hot, let me be your coffee pot.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I am a loose cannon...