Episode 7 Britain's City of Culture

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7-11dC. At ten o'clock, Fiona Bruce

will be here with a full round-up of

the news but first, a special

programme, UK city of culture.

the news but first, a special

programme, UK city of culture.

Welcome to Hull, Britain's city of

culture as we review 12 months of

cracking events. It has been a

phenomenal year with so many photos

to look back on. Across four

seasons, Hull took at out of

galleries and theatres and into the

streets. 365 days of events change

the way the city has been seen by

the rest of the world.

The year has gone by so quick, I

cannot believe it is almost over. I

hope these guys get to stay. This is

the latest installation for 2017

cold weather we go from here? This

is to do with dancing. It's sort of

mirrors back to the very start of

the year in January when the whole

of the city centre was filled with

lights and sound. That was amazing.

That was how we started the season

in Hull.

2017 really did start with a bang

with 3.5 tonnes of fireworks and

made in Hull, a spectacular light

show, telling the story of the city

and its people. Or do you think of

the unbelievable display?

IPod it

was amazing.

Absolutely fab

Mirallas. I have got family watching

it live now.

I am in London. If this

was in London, the reaction we would

get would be fantastic.

It is

amazing!

Fantastic.

Really moving,

very emotional. I am from Ozil. This

is the same quality as Kirkup at

cabana.

It is amazing. I think it is

meant to really positive year.

And

the centrepiece of the season called

made in Hull, something that was a

huge wind turbine blades handmade in

the city's Siemens factory. It is an

incredible 75 metres long and put

that into perspective, Annabelle is

six foot. So why would that the

longest 41 times. Getting in was a

big job. 50 lamp posts, traffic

lights and barriers were taken down

that four hour journey from factory

to city centre. And it joined the

crowds. One in five people who came

to see it were from outside Hull in

East Yorkshire. Caroline Quentin and

Mark starred in the world premiere

of the hypocrite.

I spent the last

two days going round in a cardboard

box which represents commode. For

reasons that are too complicated to

go into!

The plane was by Richard

Bean and told the story of how's

role in the start of the English

Civil War, shutting the city's gates

on the King.

I'm really looking forward to the

people of Hull seeing this play.

There's so much great stuff in it,

some of the jokes, they're so deeply

entrenched in the culture here, they

are just going to love it, they're

going to love it.

The show at the

theatre's biggest cast, its biggest

threat, and spectacular special

effects. And it won a new audience,

a third of whom had never been to

the theatre before.

February brought another world

premiere. 6000 pipes, written by

Britain the most popular living

composer, Sir Karl Jenkins.

# There's a star man waiting in the

sky #.

Weeks later the orchestra made way

for one of David Bowie's old

bandmates, the spider from Mars,

woody woodlands. The last surviving

member of the banned from Hull

performed the rise and fall of Ziggy

Stardust album live and in full for

the first time ever.

Somewhere but

we wanted to play himself because he

knew we were from Hull so to come

back now, Hull the city of culture

is amazing.

Made in Hull also celebrated

pioneering women from the city of

culture. From the first woman

conductor, Ethel, to the world's

first women's boxing champion,

Barbara Buttrick.

I think all this

talk about girls not boxing is

old-fashioned. Girls aren't the

delicate flowers they used to be.

Anyhow, my boyfriend doesn't mind.

There was the original bad girl of

art, from a performance collective.

And one of Hull's most famous

daughters, Maureen Lipman, an

inspiring the next generation.

If

there's one kid out there watching

things, but if that white-haired

with spectacles can be on telly, so

can I.

Even if you weren't famous

and from Hull you could pretend to

be as photography show Hollywood

icons let people take on their

favourite film roles. There were

other ways to get involved. People

choosing coloured filters for their

flats as part of this community

project called "I wish to

communicate with you".

I think it's

brilliant, makes you feel really

good you are part of the city of

culture.

By March nine out of ten

people in Hull had been to a city of

culture event and with 60 community

products in 2017 many were even

taking part. That was one of the

community project put together by

people from Hull for people from

Hull and really was a great way to

get everybody involved. The woman

who masterminded it was Sharon

Darley. For 2017 started people

might have thought it's not for me,

it's just for the cultural elite, as

this project change that?

Yes.

In

what way?

That project, we were

involved with, definitely helped oil

the wheels.

Definitely. What changes

have you seen on the estate? Explain

to people watching who don't know

Hull the kind of problems there are

in the estate where you started the

work.

Lots of usual inner-city

challenges. Lack of employment, lack

of prospects. Lack of aspiration

sometimes. Though I like to say I

work with a really creative,

innovative, funny community.

Do you

think 2017 has drawn it out of them?

I think it has and it doesn't take a

lot.

How do you think we keep these

things going for people who might

not have the time and money to

always go to the theatre or an art

gallery?

I will say the L Word now,

P. -- legacy. What I've seen this

year is a wonderful, beautiful

launch pad. It's up to us lot now to

keep it going and going and going

and going. And make it, if it's

around for a long time, the more

chance you've got of seeing stuff,

you know.

Thank you so much. There

were so many more community events

stretching into season two called

roots and roots. My favourite was to

see Katie Perry at big weekend, she

was one of the highlights of season

two.

Season two looked to Hull's place in

the world and you don't get much

more global ban Katie Perry. --

global brand.

Dozens of stellar pop acts came to

Burton Constable near Hull for radio

one's big weekend.

Being in a

festival environment just outside of

Hull.

It's crazy. In are printing,

so cool. We keep running into people

we know. All of our city just in a

big part, it's great, lovely.

Just

from the crowd you can always tell

what type of energy is out there and

so far it seems it sounds like

people really appreciate the music

and there seems like a real freedom

here. Music should be somewhere

where people can come together no

matter what background you're from

and music is just, we need it to

connect. I don't think it should

ever be something people are afraid

to come together for.

I saw Stormzy earlier.

Are you a big

grime fan?

I'm interested in the

crime scene and he's one of the best

out there. Service grime. I saw

Little Mix earlier, they are

trained, they were in the dressing

room next to mine, the vocal

warm-ups were quite impressive, I

don't think I can nail that. They

were going quite high. I'm going to

stay at the French level. Below

that.

That wasn't the only festival in

town. North Atlantic fluxes

celebrated Hull's historic ties to

Scandinavia and was curated by

musician John Grant.

Hull is a place

that has been on my radar for a long

time. Several of the artist

Diekmeier have deep connections to

Hull. You will see a good mixture of

what Hull has to offer but also

things from the North Atlantic. It's

quite Scandinavian.

Another event with sound at its

heart, height of the reeds was a

sonic journey across the iconic

Humber Bridge. The Swans bend their

necks backwards to see God. They

know the magnetism of the blue

space. Listening to headphones, they

hear a piece of work that combines

music with poetry and sounds of the

bridge as it quicksand sways in the

wind. Opera North's chorus and

orchestra married with sound

recordings of the bridge itself.

Look up.

And a Hull schoolgirl who

guided the audience.

I feel weird

hearing myself but it's going to be

pretty cool.

Australian company

brought stands, circus and sound to

a Hull graveyard.

My kingdom for a

horse!

More world-class theatre with

Matt Fraser in Shakespeare's Richard

III.

I'm a deformed actor playing a

deformed character for the first

time in Britain, which is

extraordinary that it should be the

first, but exciting that I get to do

it.

Thousands came to see the

weeping window poppies on tour from

the tower of London. And revealed in

more ways than one more than 3000

people from around the world who

took part in sea of Hull. In April

they saw the final artwork by

Spencer tunic unveiled in the

gallery.

I'm about there. You've

only one life, just live it. I don't

care whether anybody sees me or not.

Big weekend was a highlight of

season two. The perfect warm up for

a sum of festivals in the city of

culture.

We're halfway through the year and

it's clear Hull is getting pretty

good at putting an unexpected,

innovative and exciting events like

this installation. And that is

changing perceptions of the city. It

wasn't that long ago when Hull was

voted Britain's's Tim Ferri town.

It's no longer the case. With a

summer packed full of events still

to come, things got better and

better. -- voted Britain's's

crappest town.

So I was a seasonal festivals. More

than 100 local bands at the Humber

Street session.

We are sitting on an

amazing wealth of talent in this

region. I think it's about time the

rest of the country was aware of it.

The tenth annual Freedom Festival

with a lecture from former UN

Secretary General Kofi Anand.

Art

and culture is very much part of

life. It brings people together.

They may not understand what the

artist is saying, but they stop and

look at it and questions on within

themselves.

The city's first-ever

children's literature Festival, the

big malarkey.

They all live at 41

Fairfield Rd and then extra labour

is Mr Nigel McNulty, who is a

grizzly bear.

Hull was even on show

at the world's largest arts

festival, the Edinburgh fringe.

We're here representing Hull, the UK

city of culture this year.

The Proms

came here outside London in the

first time in more than 80 years.

And Hull hosted the first ever UK

pride Parade, marking 50 years since

the partial decriminalisation of,

sexuality.

Bused to bust. That's us.

After all these years.

As part of

LGBT 50, Radio 2 brought the Love

concert to town.

Today I feel really

reflective and feel like I can stand

on the shoulders of great people if

done, you know like Mark arm and is

here, that's like he's an amazing

artist. -- Marc Almond. Amazing

advocate for LGBT. Alison Boyet,

amazing. Why would I say no to being

in the company of those people.

Hull

took over the waves again in

September with contain strong

language, a festival celebrating

poetry and spoken word.

What's

exciting is to see the Hull accent

and language taking place on a

global stage.

Here Jones and statues

must buyers and cranes cluster.

You

mentioned before about Philip Larkin

and Andrew Marr vowel. Reading both

of them today who is the best from

Hull?

... I never compare, I never

compare lovers, I never compare

poets. I never compare music. It's

just different. I'm glad we don't

have Oscars for poets. It's

ridiculous enough for actors.

Then

there was the weird and wonderful.

Bill Bailey invented tales about

strange items in his cabinet of

curiosities at Hull's Maritime

Museum. Do you think you are the

first comedian to have curated a

museum exhibition?

I don't know. I'm

going to say yes.

It seems like new

ground doesn't it?

In the spirit of

this exhibition, yes, I, Bill

Bailey, built of Bailey, and the

first comedian to cure an exhibition

of this kind anywhere in the world.

An immersive experience like no

other. For high-tech shopping,

captured by the police 1980s South

Korea in a performance called "One

day maybe".

If I don't make it out I

tell my mum, dad, sister 's

brothers, you can't touch my stuff.

Did you see that?

One of the season's highlights, a

special gala performance by the

world-famous Royal Ballet. Its

principles joined a handful of top

ballet dancers who had all taken

their first lessons at Skelton

Hooper School of dance in Hull. So

many wanted tickets 5000 people

watched on screens in a nearby park.

The gala showing off the great

dancers who started their journey to

the top in the city of culture. You

may have noticed in the bear some of

the Army of two and a half thousand

turquoise coated volunteers who are

working for the city of culture.

Joining us is three generations of

volunteers. Leanne, Sheila and

Karen. How many hours have you put

in between you?

1300 hrs of

volunteering.

Between three.

Incredible. But up been your

highlights?

Mine was one day maybe

which I absolutely adored, long

shifts, but certainly worth the

effort.

One of mine was the gay

parade, I really enjoyed that, there

were so many...

I was lucky enough

to be in the flood, on one of the

floating platforms. That was

fantastic.

We'll see some of that

late in the programme. You'll be

sticking at it next year as well?

Yes. And longer to come, yeah.

We've

really enjoyed it. Everybody, just

like one big family.

Thank you for

coming down. We're getting to the

end of our review. Season four is

called tell the world.

The final season of 2017 and the

world premiere kept coming. Maxine

Peake's play, the last Testament

told the story of four Hull women

who fought the government for better

fisherman 's safety and won. Payne

the winner of this year's Turner

prize is...

This year's Turner prize

was awarded in Hull to the oldest

winner in its history and the first

black woman to win the prize.

Thank

you panel, first of all, to the

people who stopped me in the streets

of Preston and Hull to wish me luck,

thank you, it worked.

The show

featuring the four short listed

artists as drawn huge crowds, more

than double the average it usually

gets in London and already the

second most visited Turner prize

show ever. Another treat for visual

art lovers was Hull: portrait of a

city. Every shot taken by

world-renowned photographers Martin

Parr and Bolivia are for. In the

city of culture. But the

contemporary art wasn't confined to

galleries, it took over the city

streets with huge installations like

Flow. And mythical, mystical beasts

roamed the streets for the land of

Green ginger unleashed parade. The

finale of a year of events that took

artistic spectacle out of the city's

communities.

It was fantastic! Well

worth the wait and I want to see it

again.

It was so good.

I didn't know

what to expect, I didn't think it

would be like that. It was kind of

scary when the people came up to

you.

What we needed, what the city

wanted, it shows the amount of

people who are here, we all want it,

long may it continue.

Are even found

its way into hospital. The footprint

of every baby born in Hull has been

taken during 2017 and along with the

midwife's handprint they have made a

huge mural reflecting every new life

in the city of culture.

It's lovely

he was born in 2017 and the little

footprints are a great idea, I think

it'll be a gorgeous tribute to him

and a lovely tribute to all the

staff as well.

1st of October all of

Hull's phone boxes rang and the

public took calls from the future.

The live experience was part of "We

made ourselves over 2097" and ran

along five sci-fi films and an

interactive app. Another glimpse of

a possible future came from theatre

company slung low with a year-long

performance called Flood.

Tell me

how I can save them, save the world.

The dystopic story imagines Europe

flooded, and its citizens as

refugees. Told online, TV and in a

series of live performances in one

of Hull's gold stocks. Its ambition

reflected that of Hull's whole year

as city of culture. That was some of

the fantastic moments from season

four tell the world. The man who May

2017 happen is Martin Green. The

director. When you move to Hull

three years ago did you ever imagine

2017 would be as successful?

Never

in a million years is the truthful

answer, I dumping anybody would have

that kind of ego, it's been the most

extraordinary year in the life of

this great city.

How would you sum

up the changes you've seen in that

time?

What we've seen is how art is

the life force of the city and quite

apart from the many events and

exhibitions and performances, what

you've seen is the finding the

city's voice, re-finding its pride

and the rediscovery of a city by

many people who aren't from the

city.

You hand over the reins to new

management, what would you like to

see carried on as a legacy?

I think

it's that ambition, what we've done

here this year is the unexpected,

really interesting cultural

experiences. The city has a great

ambition to be different and if Hull

can continue to be a city of the

extraordinary that would be one of

the many legacies that can come from

this year.

This year has been

incredible. Can you believe there

has been at least one event every

single day? And we've been to most

of them. If you want to take a look

back you can go to the website.

BBC

.co .uk/ Hull 2017.

There has been

so much going on. Here are a few

bits we haven't managed to squeeze

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