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2014 is an extraordinary year for Scotland.

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So much is happening

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across the length and breadth of the country.

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And it's not all about politics and sport.

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We're here with a brand-new series,

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a journey to discover the events worth celebrating.

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And the stories behind them.

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Everything from theatre to comedy...

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..great music and festivals...

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...activities we can all get involved in.

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Birdie!

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We're exploring what's happening inside our buildings

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and what's going on on your street.

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We'll tell you about the quirky

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and the exciting.

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We'll delve into Scotland's tastiest food and drink.

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And meet the people creating these incredible experiences for all of us.

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So plan your summer with us.

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Join us as we head On The Road 2014.

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'Our route tonight...

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'I'm in the capital,

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'asking "What do you get the woman who has absolutely everything?"'

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I'd love to know what the queen thought of that one.

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DJ Ally McCrae is beating the rush to this year's T In The Park.

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Got my tent. All I need now is a place to pitch it.

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And Fred pays tribute to a remarkable war hero...

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DOG BARKS A St Bernard called Bamse.

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They are gorgeous, aren't they? How could you resist them?

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But first, this...

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When it was announced, after six years of waiting,

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that this year, Jack and Victor are making a comeback,

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the response was incredible.

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Oh!

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In fact, more than 200,000 people

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will have the chance to see Still Game

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make the transition from the small screen to the stage...

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..right here in Glasgow, at our brand-new 12,000-seat arena,

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the Hydro.

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Originally set to fill this arena four times,

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the Still Game cast now have a run of - count them - 21 separate shows.

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So I want to find out why we love Still Game so much

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and how something that was so successful on the small screen

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is going to translate into this giant live arena.

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Which is why I'm meeting the men who've created, written

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and played those beloved characters -

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Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan.

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'By the way, they're also big fans of yours truly.'

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-Aye, thanks very much.

-Good.

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-Thank you for wearing that.

-Thank you.

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Clearly, they have a thing for older men.

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And fair enough - Jack and Victor have inspired six series,

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won six BAFTAs

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and had audiences of around

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1.5 million in Scotland

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and almost double that across the UK.

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Pensioners, when they're with other pensioners,

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talk as if they're 18.

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-You are a

-BLEEP

-rancid tramp!

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They adopt this grandfatherly voice and attitude

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when there's youngsters about, they behave old.

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The fact it was young people, literally,

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inside old people's skins, it was the perfect metaphor for the show.

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THUD! BOTH: Ooh!

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Did you find guys to hang out with,

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some older guys you could pick up from?

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Well, Greg did me.

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THEY LAUGH

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Ford and Greg first wrote Still Game as a stage show,

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eventually taking those characters to Chewin' The Fat.

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But while in this series, they were little more than OAP delinquents...

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You were rubbish, son.

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You go bottled aff - that's how you got that scar on the nose.

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That's right. You know mine, Jack?

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That was me wi' a screw tap, you know?

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..on Still Game, Jack and Victor have become much more rounded -

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which could explain why they're gone on to become...

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..a cultural phenomenon.

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# Sunday morning... #

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Look at Jack and Victor!

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Mind you, we haven't actually seen a new episode

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since December 2007.

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We're talking to the BBC at the moment,

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we're hoping to do some more.

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In a lot of sitcoms, the actors get older and the characters get older.

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We can grow into the characters.

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And that's kind of the charm for us -

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we want to play these characters for a long time to come.

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And while there's no denying our love for Jack and Victor,

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I want to find out why demand for the live show has been so great,

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it's meant a further 17 performances.

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I think there's that sense of being part of

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a Scottish entertainment phenomenon, really -

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the fascination of seeing

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how something they've seen in their living room,

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how it's going to work in a big live arena.

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-Two pints.

-I don't know why I don't bar you two.

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What is it about Still Game that appeals to so many people?

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I think it's the familiarity and the sense that the characters...

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Everybody can recognise these characters.

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I was in a shop the other day -

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Isa was in front of me.

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Walking up the street to come here,

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there's a wee man selling fruit that could've been Winston.

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They cut completely across the board.

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'Though being loved by the nation

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'only adds to the pressure Ford and Greg are under

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'to translate Still Game onto the stage.'

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Started in the theatre, onto TV, and now back to...well, it's live,

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but it's an arena, isn't it?

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-When you start thinking like that, you would get scared.

-Hm.

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But no, it's theatre, it's proper theatre,

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because there's a big narrative.

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But it's not like the format of a sitcom like Still Game,

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cos it's a couple of hours, so...we've done it that way.

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We're going to be as excited as the audience on that first night.

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That's what's so cool about it.

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Still, performing for 10,000 die-hard fans

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at each of the 21 shows is a daunting prospect...

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..especially for Sanjeev Kohli,

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as, despite his alter ego being something of a cynic...

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Every morning, I think,

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"Will I get up and open the shop?

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"Or will I cut my wrists?"

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..in reality, he's a wee bit nervous

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about performing in such a big venue.

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I've never done theatre or panto in my life.

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I did one production at the Festival

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and that was, like, to ten people.

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That's the only, sort of, actual, live stage thing I've done.

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So I'm basically going from zero to Hydro.

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But it's been so gratifying how Scotland's reacted to it.

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We can but hope that series seven will soon be a reality,

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though for now, you can always see the full and original cast,

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live at the Hydro, for 21 performances

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from September 19th through to October 10th.

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You'll need to elbow your way past me to get tickets.

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It's going to be a long summer

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between now and the Hydro opening for Still Game.

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Till then, the Clansman's shut.

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-Aye, so it is.

-Aye.

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-Two pints, ya p...

-Whoa! It's the back of seven.

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Oh, aye, so it is. All right, Cheers.

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Question - what do the following items have in common?

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Sunglasses, a pair of sandals, pineapples, eggs,

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a dozen tins of tuna

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7kgs of prawns and a lacrosse stick.

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What do you think that list is for?

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Fathers' Day?

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SHE LAUGHS

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Holiday.

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I think a sort of holiday, cos of the sunglasses.

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Yeah - eggs, a bit weird, and tuna, to take on holiday.

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Is it something to do with the countries in the Commonwealth?

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Oh!

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'He's close - the answer?'

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They're all gifts that have been given to the queen

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from countries around the world.

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No other monarch has travelled the globe as much as our queen,

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with 261 official overseas visits -

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over 200 of them to Commonwealth countries.

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And on every single occasion, she received a gift,

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offered as a gesture of goodwill and friendship

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between the visiting and host nations.

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And with just over two weeks to go until the Commonwealth Games,

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one aspect of planning is being kept under wraps -

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the gift that the host nation, Scotland, will give the queen.

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So to get an idea of what kind of thing we can expect,

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I've come here to Edinburgh and the palace of Holyroodhouse.

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On display is a remarkable selection of gifts

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presented to Her Majesty over the last 61 years,

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reflecting the diverse traditions, craftsmanship and creativity

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of the 2 billion inhabitants of the Commonwealth,

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everywhere from Antigua to Tanzania.

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Curating this collection of the eclectic and the exotic

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is Deborah Clarke.

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How do you go about choosing what goes into the exhibition?

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Well, we've got a limited amount of space,

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so that determines it in one way,

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but also, we wanted very much to represent all the different areas

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of the Commonwealth and as many countries as possible.

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They're not all very grand, are they?

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No, exactly, and I think that's what's so nice about these gifts -

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they very much represent

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the country that they come from.

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From extravagant gifts to the hand-crafted,

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out of the 70 on display, here are my top five favourites.

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Scotland, take note.

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Making a splash at number five,

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a porcelain turtle from The Bahamas.

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Overtaking at number four,

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a decorated model bus from Pakistan.

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A tapestry from Botswana weaves its way in to the number three spot.

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At two, this smoking-hot peace pipe,

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courtesy of a Native American tribe in Canada.

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And number one,

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this fabulous interpretation of the queen's face

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from Papua New Guinea.

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Mrs Quinn - or, as is translates, Mrs Queen -

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by the artist Mathais Kauage.

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And you can see, it's a very different type of portrait.

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I'd love to know what the queen thought of that one.

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But what I still don't know is

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what will Scotland be giving from this year's games?

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So I asked some of you what gift would be fit for a queen?

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-A kiss?

-Aw!

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Eh, a plant.

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HE LAUGHS

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A tuna pasta mayo that I'd made myself.

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-Are you good at that?

-Yeah.

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That could be tricky to wrap.

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But we'll finally find out what Glasgow's given

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after the Games officially open on 23rd July.

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Until then, you can see the Commonwealth gifts to the queen

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in Edinburgh until November 2nd.

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For more information, see our website...

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-Stay with us...

-Hiya.

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..as comedienne Susan Calman

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explores Scotland's Cold War secrets.

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"Dear The Nation, just to reassure you that I'm fine.

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"I hope you are, too."

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And Martel discovers size really does matter.

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-I could curl you with one arm.

-You could curl me with one arm?

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That's the best chat-up line ever!

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Though, right now...

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MUSIC: "Morning" by Edvard Grieg

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For one weekend every year, this tranquil, rural idyll...

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ROCK MUSIC PLAYS

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..turns into Scotland's biggest music festival -

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T In The Park.

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It's 21 this year and, for three days,

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85,000 people will descend on Balado, just outside Kinross,

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to transform it into Scotland's fifth-largest town.

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As a DJ and a massive music geek,

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T In The Park has become a really special place for me

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and the thousands of other music fans who flock here every year.

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This will be the 18th year these 600 acres of farmland

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turn into a sea of tents, stalls, bars and ten stages,

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as a crowd drawn from right across the country

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party to some of the biggest names in music.

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It's the biggest yet this summer and it's also the last time for Balado,

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as the festival moves on next year to a new site

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18 miles away at Auchterarder.

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So before the 2014 festival kicks off,

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I want to find out what T In The Park means

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to the people that actually live here.

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When the festival first rolled in to Kinross,

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locals didn't exactly know what to expect.

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First year, we were all a bit apprehensive, locally.

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Our worst fears weren't founded at all.

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The atmosphere with that show,

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people that come to the festival, is top notch.

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You must have had some bizarre requests over the years.

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One of the artists that year

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wanted to go onto the stage in his bare feet,

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so into the staff room, ripped up a red carpet off the floor...

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Off your own floor?

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..and out on site, walked onto the main stage

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-and laid it about five minutes before the band came on.

-Wow.

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Over the years, townsfolk have even gotten involved.

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Everything from providing a pampering tent...

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HE PLAYS BAGPIPES

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..to performing.

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So it must be amazing,

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getting to play in front of that many people.

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How does that feel?

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It's a little bit daunting, especially the first time -

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you feel your legs going a bit rubbery to begin with.

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But because you're standing there, you don't hear the feedback,

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then you suddenly hear this blast of 30,000 voices

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singing Flower Of Scotland back to you.

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I'm sure every festival goer remembers hearing

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the sound of the pipes.

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And this year,

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Nigel gets to rub shoulders with the likes of Biffy Clyro,

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Arctic Monkeys, Paul Weller, Paolo Nutini,

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Calvin Harris and Elbow

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along with 200 bands and performers.

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Ah, all this festival chat

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is getting me right back in the T In The Park spirit.

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Got my tent - all I need now is a place to pitch it.

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Though come July 11th,

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I'll be joined by 70,000 other people.

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Mind you, this pop-up town will need some serious infrastructure.

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Over 35,000 metres of fence and barriers and thousands of toilets,

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em...7,500 staff, by the time we get up and running over the weekend.

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7,500 staff?!

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Yeah - it's a phenomenal amount of work and effort.

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-But as you know, it pays its rewards in the end.

-Absolutely, yeah.

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It's the final year for Balado to host T In The Park this weekend,

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from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th July.

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You can catch it on the BBC, or there are still tickets on sale.

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So come along for the day or camp for the weekend.

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I've got my pitch sorted.

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Only...four days to wait?

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# I'll take a dog's life

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# Just laying in the sun

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# A dog's life... #

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Next on this roadtrip, a tale of dogged determination.

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# A dog's life... #

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Now we're probably all familiar with the story of Greyfriars Bobby,

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but I bet you don't know the story about Bamse,

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the Norwegian St Bernard who went from a cuddly mascot on a ship

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to a WWII hero.

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of his death

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and it'll probably be the last time veterans and family

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will gather here in Montrose to pay their respects.

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But this tale begins in April 1940 with Hitler's invasion of Norway.

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At this point, Bamse - meaning "teddy bear" -

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was just a few months into his naval service.

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Though, when his ship was attacked, he stood stoically on deck,

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protected by his steel helmet,

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and provided a comforting presence for the terrified young sailors.

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Thousands of Norwegians came here to Britain

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to help with the Allied war effort

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and Bamse was one of them,

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arriving in Montrose with a fleet of about 400 naval seamen,

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stationed here and in Dundee,

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and they worked 24 hours a day to keep

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a corridor of sea between Shetland and Edinburgh free of mines.

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And according to historian Andrew Orr,

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it wasn't long before Bamse made himself at home.

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He just strutted around the place

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as if he owned it and he knew all the shops to visit.

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The butcher's, the baker,

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and the fish and chip shop, of course.

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What was his actual role on the ship?

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It's extraordinary, what he did.

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He had this role of looking after the crew.

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And one night, a drunk Norwegian sailor went clean over the far one

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and into the River Tay

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and Bamse was the only person who saw this sailor going overboard,

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so he jumped down from the deck of the ship -

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a drop of about 4m - into the water

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and swam over to the sailor, who clung to him like a life buoy.

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Bamse also saved the life of an officer

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who was the victim of a knife attack

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and eventually, he became a symbol of bravery and freedom,

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earning him a burial with full military honours

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and the PDSA Gold Medal - the animal equivalent of the George Cross.

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But as well as his contribution to the war effort,

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he also provided the community with a much-needed boost of morale,

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something Jessie Paton remembers fondly from her childhood.

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He went into the butcher's one day

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and the door was open and there was a string of sausages hanging up.

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And rather than wait for what he was getting,

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he ran off with the string of sausages.

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The whole string? The whole string of sausages.

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PIPE BAND PLAYS "SCOTLAND THE BRAVE"

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In fact, the locals were so fond of Bamse, in 2006,

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they erected a statue in his memory.

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And another statue in Norway faces this one.

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It's a real testament to the love that people have for Bamse,

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on both sides of the North Sea.

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A fitting tribute for a breed of dog

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more commonly associated with mountain rescue.

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They were originally bred

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by the monks to rescue in the Alps

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and partly because of the acute sense of smell,

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-which was more than most other dogs.

-But anything over and above that?

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It's hard to say - it's like a sixth sense, maybe a built-in DNA

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that they have this ability to source and find people.

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In Bamse's case, he's so revered, every decade since his death,

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the Norwegian navy has sent a ship to Montrose to pay tribute.

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Though, as fewer veterans are still with us,

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sadly, this year will probably be the Norwegians' last voyage.

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Which is why this celebration will be the biggest to date,

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complete with a huge parade

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featuring a pipe band and St Bernards.

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They are gorgeous, aren't they? How could you resist them?

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Only downside? Sometimes there's a wee bit of drool.

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HE SLURPS

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Sorry about that...

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If you want to get involved

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in celebrating Bamse's extraordinary life,

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the Norwegian ship will be open to the public on July 20th,

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while the main parade and commemoration

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takes place the following day.

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We couldn't showcase the best Scotland has to offer this summer

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without mentioning a Highland Games -

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one of the most majestic takes place this August in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.

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It's been going on for over 140 years

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and this year, they're celebrating a local hero

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by recreating an unusual weightlifting challenge...

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..as one of the UK's strongest men attempts to become the first person

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in 154 years

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to match the achievement of legendary Scottish sportsman Donald Dinnie.

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This record-breaking strongman won over 11,000 prizes

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during his illustrious career,

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but his most famous feat took place in 1860,

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when he carried two stones weighing 351kgs in total,

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a distance of 17ft over the nearby Potarch Bridge.

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And while these stones might not look that big or indeed that heavy...

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..they really are!

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One man who knows all about what it takes is David Webster -

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former judge on the World's Strongest Man

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and THE Donald Dinnie enthusiast.

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'He's going to demonstrate with breeze blocks

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'what it means to life a mighty 351kg.'

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What have we got here?

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Well, we've got 14 bricks of 27 kilos each.

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It takes a whole huge truck to lift these stones.

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Now, Donald Dinnie did this by himself and carried them

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across the width of the bridge.

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On the day, one plucky challenger will attempt to carry these monsters

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with his bare hands across 17 feet marked out on the village green.

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It's not only taxing on the hands.

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You've got to have strong back muscles, leg muscles,

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and an awful lot of determination.

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Would you like to see someone beat Dinnie's record?

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It would prove to everybody it is humanly possible.

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And the brave contender who's going to try and prove it...

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is Mark Felix.

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One of Britain's strongest men

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and a finalist in the World's Strongest Man competition.

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What does your training involve?

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Going to the gym, like, six days a week...

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training two to two and a half hours a day.

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I think I'm ready for it. I'm ready to go for the challenge.

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But his preparations don't stop there.

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He also has to scoff over 7,000 calories

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and practice walking with heavy weights.

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So, Mark, these you're going to lift.

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-How heavy are they?

-95k.

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It's pretty light compared to what I'll be lifting.

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You say pretty light, but that's me plus more.

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I could curl you with one arm.

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You could curl me with one arm?

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-That's the best chat up line ever.

-Let's go.

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Together, these weigh 190 kilos - the same as a large motorbike.

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On the day, Mark will have to carry twice that.

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That's a fast walk. HE LAUGHS

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Mark's attempting to break Dinnie's record at the Aboyne Highland Games

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on Saturday, 2nd of August.

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And if anyone can do it, you know, I reckon he can.

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And if you want to see if he does, you can come along and cheer him on.

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Or why not visit one of the many other highland games yet to be

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held across the country this summer?

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With an event at Alva and Junior Games at Braemar this weekend.

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And finally tonight, comedian Susan Calman is taking us on

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-a surprising journey.

-Hiya.

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COW MOOS

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Her destination? St Andrew's...

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in order to uncover one of this country's best kept secrets.

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COW MOOS

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I'm all packed up for a fab weekend in Fife,

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heading to a quiet, secluded spot to celebrate

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a very special 20th anniversary.

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Because beneath this unassuming farm house lies Scotland's

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secret nuclear bunker.

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-MAN'S VOICE:

-No-one in this country of ours wants a war.

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Yes, this was a cold war command centre...

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..an attack by the Soviet Union.

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..100 feet below the ground...

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Democracy will triumph.

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..in a space the size of two football pitches,

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and surround by walls three metres thick.

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Britain is a nation prepared.

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We're about 50 miles north of Edinburgh,

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probably a bit far for a four-minute warning.

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But if an attack was imminent then senior ministers would have

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fled Auld Reekie and sought shelter here,

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where they would have been safe from a nuclear attack.

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Though with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late '80s,

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and the Cold War coming to an end, the bunker was eventually abandoned.

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That is until Peter Mitchell, a lifelong history buff,

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happened across it quite by accident.

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We saw this advertised as a country farm house for sale -

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no mention of a bunker.

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We looked around it and then the estate agent,

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holding up a big key, said, "I've got one more thing to show you."

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He said, "This place has got a rather large cellar with it."

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Well, that's the understatement of the year, isn't it?

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-HE LAUGHS

-Yes.

-Tell me about it.

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So he took us downstairs, switched the lights on,

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and lo and behold it was a bunker.

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I couldn't get the cheque book out quick enough.

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Though while Peter now had his very own museum,

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unfortunately it was empty,

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as the equipment used to be here belonged to the

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Ministry of Defence, so he tracked down the bunker's former CO.

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I said, "Well, we're turning it into a museum."

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I said, "Any change of getting it back?

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"Cos surely a lot of it must be obsolete?"

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So he said, "Leave it with me."

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Three days later, he phoned me up and he says, "Peter, I've got

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"good news for you - you can have it all back for nothing."

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This year, the bunker celebrates its 20th anniversary as a museum.

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And after closing for several months over the winter,

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it's now being completely refurbished.

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We've taken out some of the mannequins that were here

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because you didn't get the feel as if the people that worked

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here just up and gone five minutes ago,

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and that's what we wanted to create.

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MAN'S VOICE: If any member of the family should die

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whilst in the shelter, put them outside,

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but remember to tag them first for identification purposes.

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Not only could this facility house up to 300 people

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in the event of an attack, its radar room was also manned year-round

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by people like Douglas Lumsdaine,

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who did his national service here in the mid-'50s.

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We were coming up here on a daily basis, nine till five,

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five days a week...

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-Not before that, after that, or at the weekends?

-No. No, no.

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So if the Russians had wanted to attack,

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Saturday morning quite a good time?

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The Russian's weren't so clever after all,

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cos if they had only known the could have come in in the evening

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or over the weekend, it would have been no problem.

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But fear not. After 5pm, and on the weekends,

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monitoring for Soviet incursion was carried out by one of 36 other

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stations throughout Britain.

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Though, in the event of the bomb being dropped,

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this one could easily sustain its 300 residents

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for up to three months.

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In fact, according to Cold War historian Grant More,

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potentially, it still could.

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If it all goes pear-shaped up there, can we hide down here

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until the worst of it's over.

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You wouldn't even have to plug anything in.

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You could close the doors, turn on the air conditioning,

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and you would be good to go in here.

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But while this facility was designed to save lives,

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its bigger purpose was to maintain command and control,

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so, if need be, the nation could be governed from these very rooms.

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One of the key functions of the bunker was to communicate

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with the people that were surviving after the...

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bomb had gone off. So in the building here,

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we have a BBC studio, a broadcast studio,

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which is just immediately next door.

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I think we should have a look. Shall we try and broadcast to the nation?

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MUSIC: "The Bomb" by Pigeon John

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After all, if a nuclear war is what it takes for me to have my own show,

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hell, so be it.

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-IN A POSH ACCENT:

-Dear, the nation,

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this is Susan Calman speaking to you from the secure nuclear bunker that

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I've managed to get into somehow.

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Don't worry, I'm fine and I'm sure you are, too.

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And to play you out, and to relax you somewhat,

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please enjoy the musical stylings of Lulu and Shout.

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MUSIC: "Shout" by Lulu

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RECORD SLOWS DOWN

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If you'd like to discover Scotland's secret bunker and see the result of

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its 20th anniversary make-over,

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it's now open once again every day from ten to six.

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Though, in the event of nuclear fallout,

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please call ahead first.

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Join us, same time next Monday, when award-winning chef Tony Singh

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goes in search of culinary inspiration

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at Scotland's open garden scheme.

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How awesome would it be if your garden was like this?

0:27:460:27:50

And Martel discovers the challenges facing the musical

0:27:500:27:54

director of a star-studded live concert at Edinburgh Castle,

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which will screen on BBC One.

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It's exciting, but terrifying at the same time.

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The big names include the Kaiser Chiefs,

0:28:040:28:07

Katherine Jenkins, Jessie J and even yours truly.

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On how to get tickets, go to our website...

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