:00:12. > :00:17.Welcome to The One Show: The Best of Britain, with our resident
:00:17. > :00:27.farmer Kate Beavan... And Matt Allwright, with another chance to
:00:27. > :00:32.
:00:32. > :00:36.see some of our favourite One Show We are in Scotland at one of the
:00:36. > :00:43.country's most important and largest castles, Stirling Castle.
:00:43. > :00:47.There has been bloody battles here, Kings ground, Segers on 15 separate
:00:47. > :00:53.occasions. Within sight of here, one of the most important battles
:00:53. > :00:58.and the country, Bannockburn, was fought in 1314. Robert the Bruce's
:00:58. > :01:03.army defeated the English. result is still being celebrated in
:01:03. > :01:07.some parts because it freed them from 10 years of English rule. Even
:01:07. > :01:16.when they were not fighting for power and glory, they were fighting
:01:16. > :01:22.for fun, as Dan Snow found out. 600 years ago, Justin was the
:01:22. > :01:27.greatest spectator sport. One of the top jousting venues was at
:01:27. > :01:32.Cheapside. Behind St Paul's Cathedral in London. Nowadays, this
:01:32. > :01:38.area is full of City traders, but back then people would buy gold,
:01:38. > :01:42.silver, milk, poultry and honey. And they would watch their sporting
:01:42. > :01:48.heroes. The jousting happened at the top of Cheapside. It was just
:01:48. > :01:53.open fields them. There just was not just for show. Knights were
:01:53. > :02:00.soldiers and jousting was a chance to practise battle skills.
:02:00. > :02:03.In Wiltshire, one man knows all about it. Alan teaches people how
:02:03. > :02:10.to just four events all over the country and will try to teach me
:02:10. > :02:14.now. The these are your weapons. This is a late 15th century sword
:02:14. > :02:20.which can be used on horseback to try to find the gap in your
:02:20. > :02:25.opponent's armour. But the primary weapon was the lance. If one of
:02:25. > :02:30.these hits you full in the chest... You would really know about it.
:02:30. > :02:35.Let's go and meet your most important weapon.
:02:35. > :02:41.This horse is the most experienced of jousting horses, he will look
:02:41. > :02:48.out for you but he will really come alive out there. He is one aim in
:02:48. > :02:52.life is to just, the Red Rum of the jousting circuit. Medieval Unites
:02:52. > :02:56.fought on horseback. They were elite warriors selected from noble
:02:56. > :03:02.families. They started training at about seven years old and it would
:03:02. > :03:06.take about 10 years to master the skills. I have got two days!
:03:06. > :03:14.The first thing I will learn is how to use the thought, and this is my
:03:14. > :03:24.enemy. -- how to use the thought. I have to hit both cabbages - time to
:03:24. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:31.make coleslaw! First cabbage, thoroughly eradicated.
:03:31. > :03:37.Good! The got them! Now time to move onto the next step, trying to
:03:37. > :03:42.hit my target. If you don't get through there quickly, you are
:03:42. > :03:52.likely to where that bag of rocks on the back of your head.
:03:52. > :03:55.
:03:55. > :04:01.appreciate the back of rocks! It is tough to control.
:04:01. > :04:08.I am shattered, but it is not over yet. Nine we move onto the next
:04:08. > :04:14.stage, you being hit with a lance. -- now we move onto the next stage.
:04:14. > :04:20.I need a full suit of armour first. This barrier dividing the jousting
:04:20. > :04:25.area in half is called the tilt rail, and it is to stop Allah and I
:04:25. > :04:31.crashing into each other. But he will have a lance and he will hit
:04:31. > :04:41.me right there. -- it is to stop Allah hitting the. Our speed will
:04:41. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :05:03.You can really feel that. The armour gives you a lot of
:05:03. > :05:08.protection. This is the ultimate individual sport. You can see a
:05:08. > :05:14.crazy guy charging at you, screaming. I hope you are enjoying
:05:14. > :05:19.yourself. When I am good enough, I will break some lances on you!
:05:19. > :05:24.I was told the Health and Safety form for the BBC Four that was 34
:05:24. > :05:30.pages. Amazing, but not surprising. It has got it all, high-speed horse
:05:30. > :05:36.riding, pointy sticks, but luckily Dan Snow is invincible. What do you
:05:36. > :05:40.think of this place? Amazing. great hall, where they had all the
:05:40. > :05:46.parties, banquets and feasts. On the menu was always lots of wine
:05:46. > :05:52.and lots of meat. Wild boar in particular was so popular that by
:05:52. > :05:59.the 1600s it had been hunted to extinction. Now boar are back, and
:05:59. > :06:03.The One Show sent me to see if I could find any wild boar.
:06:03. > :06:09.Another busy day on the farm in Wales. There are many mouths to
:06:09. > :06:14.feed. Of all the animals on the farm, it is the pigs that on my
:06:14. > :06:17.absolute favourite. It is said that pigs are one of the
:06:17. > :06:22.top 10 most intelligent animals on the planet, and I can vouch for
:06:22. > :06:27.that. They are some of the most interesting and comical characters.
:06:27. > :06:31.At the moment, our pigs have the run of the sheep shed while we were,
:06:31. > :06:38.outdoor enclosure, which we want it just right. What I would like to do
:06:38. > :06:43.is get out there and see how pigs live in the wild.
:06:43. > :06:50.All our domestic pigs originate from a common ancestor. The wild
:06:50. > :06:53.boar. Once widespread throughout Britain, they were hunted so
:06:53. > :06:59.furiously for their meat that by the 13th century they became
:06:59. > :07:04.extinct. But now they are back. Some years
:07:04. > :07:10.ago, a few wild boar escaped from captivity and established healthy
:07:10. > :07:13.populations in forests around the country.
:07:13. > :07:19.Here in Cumbria, Peter manages a herd of wild boar with in the
:07:19. > :07:24.woodland of his farm. You have had your wild boar for about 20 years.
:07:24. > :07:29.Legend has it they can be quite ferocious. Have you had problems?
:07:29. > :07:33.The male is particularly aggressive. If he is cornered, and also when
:07:34. > :07:38.looking after his Hurd and his territory.
:07:38. > :07:44.With daily checks on his boar, Peter has a rough idea of where
:07:44. > :07:47.they may be foraging. Here we go. Finding a couple of fresh
:07:47. > :07:55.footprints is always a good sign, and there is something even more
:07:55. > :08:01.exciting further on. This is a typical wild boar NEST.
:08:01. > :08:04.She will hollow this out, this is where she has her babies. Amazing.
:08:04. > :08:09.It is the same at home, because before they have the piglets the
:08:09. > :08:15.females will gather around and make a nest. The instinct is still
:08:15. > :08:25.baffled stop it is nature's way of looking after them. They are so
:08:25. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:31.clever. -- the instinct is so -- is still there. They are so clever.
:08:31. > :08:37.This has to be a wallow. I would even be tempted myself! They
:08:37. > :08:42.literally dig out water, roll, clean themselves and then move on,
:08:42. > :08:47.they rub off on the trees. Pigs can overheat very easily and they can't
:08:47. > :08:52.sweat, they don't have sweat glands. There is no such thing as sweating
:08:52. > :08:58.like a pig! That is a silly saying, you can't sweat like a pig.
:08:58. > :09:08.As if to prove the point, a huge male boar comes into the wallow for
:09:08. > :09:22.
:09:22. > :09:25.a much-needed cool down. They are grunting.
:09:25. > :09:29.Although the males are very territorial, the females seemed
:09:29. > :09:34.fairly relaxed in our company. We just have to be careful not to come
:09:34. > :09:38.between them and their babies. They are absolutely gorgeous.
:09:38. > :09:45.are about three or four weeks old, some of them down there were only
:09:45. > :09:52.bone a week ago. And their stripes. The humbug! They are like little
:09:52. > :09:56.humbugs, they are absolutely beautiful.
:09:56. > :10:00.Like the piglets back home, they will be settling for the first few
:10:00. > :10:05.weeks until their snouts are strong enough to dig up the roots and
:10:05. > :10:10.acorns which wild pigs love. This has made my day, it has been
:10:10. > :10:15.brilliant. For me, personally, when I go home to the enclosure, I can
:10:15. > :10:20.look at it. I know I am on the right lines, it has reassured me.
:10:20. > :10:25.Pigs need company, scratching posts, a wallow, all these needs we have
:10:25. > :10:35.actually got outside for them on the farm and it has been such a
:10:35. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:42.You are a legend, you are one of the few people to have seen a wild
:10:42. > :10:45.boar in the UK and not be over 400 years old. I am not 400 years old,
:10:45. > :10:50.but 400 years ago in these woods, they would have been full of wild
:10:50. > :10:55.boar. You could have picked off a couple with a crossbow, lunch,
:10:55. > :11:01.brilliant! But they would have made a mess of these beautiful gardens.
:11:01. > :11:11.Are there any interesting fact you can tell me? For any you should say
:11:11. > :11:14.
:11:14. > :11:19.Watching entertainments, and playing games such as bowls...
:11:19. > :11:29.certainly seemed to lead a grand life, but they did not have John
:11:29. > :11:35.
:11:35. > :11:43.Sergeant honour or Mo! This is the Harley Davidson of
:11:43. > :11:47.lawnmowers. 22 horsepower, maximum speed eight miles an hour, nor to
:11:47. > :11:53.28... Well, to be honest, about 10 minutes if I include the time spent
:11:53. > :11:58.looking for the key. But on these wheels of fury I am going to be
:11:58. > :12:04.going across Britain, finding out why we are so passionate about
:12:04. > :12:09.lawns. The journey of 1000 MOTs begins
:12:09. > :12:15.with a single step, and I am going to Wigan to see some of the best
:12:15. > :12:19.kept grass in the country. Bill Seddon is the kind of man with two
:12:19. > :12:27.identical lawnmowers just in case one breaks down, and while his wife
:12:27. > :12:34.takes care of the flowers, he cuts the grass almost every day.
:12:34. > :12:39.Hello. These are fantastic lawns. like them. And I think a lot of
:12:39. > :12:46.other people do as well. When you see a week on the lawn, what is
:12:46. > :12:52.your feeling? -- a week on the lawn. It does not last long, I dig them
:12:52. > :12:58.out. Really? Can we see one? don't think there are many around
:12:58. > :13:05.here at the moment. What are you looking for? Daisies? You won't
:13:05. > :13:09.find many. Here we are, this is a bit, I think. If it was on my lawn,
:13:09. > :13:15.I would let it go, what is wrong with leaving it? It spreads
:13:15. > :13:22.everywhere. I think it is OK. Because most of it has been taken
:13:22. > :13:29.out. Aren't you being picky? It is the way I am. It is an obsession?
:13:29. > :13:39.Yes. Bill's lawn is so lush that coach
:13:39. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.Hello, Barbara. What about Bill and his obsession? What does that will
:13:49. > :13:55.mean? It means he spends an awful lot of time on his lawn, probably
:13:55. > :14:00.more care for that than me, but he gets the results! Have you ever
:14:00. > :14:03.thought you ought to mow the lawn? I retired earlier than Bill, I cut
:14:03. > :14:10.the grass to a try to help him but he always did it again afterwards.
:14:10. > :14:20.I gave up. Bill has got grass to cut, so I
:14:20. > :14:22.
:14:22. > :14:26.fired up the lawn mower and headed for Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
:14:26. > :14:33.I have come to a lawn heaven. This fantastic setting was created more
:14:33. > :14:36.than 200 years ago by the great landscape gardener Capability Brown.
:14:36. > :14:46.He did more than anyone else in history to promote the idea of the
:14:46. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:58.Now, this is a very special lawn. It is. It is the work originally of
:14:58. > :15:05.Capability Brown. That is right. How much do you mess around with
:15:05. > :15:09.it? We let it do its own thing. We let the weed and the mosque grow.
:15:09. > :15:14.We have everything growing on this lawn. When you see someone with a
:15:14. > :15:19.pair of scissors cutting the lawn and get it perfect, you think they
:15:19. > :15:24.are mad. Yes. I would like to ask a favour. What I would like to do is
:15:24. > :15:31.to use this lawn mower on this lawn. I want to mow one of the great
:15:31. > :15:41.lawns of England. You are welcome to give it a go. Can I really?
:15:41. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:53.The Salisbury lawn is said to be the oldest authentic lawn in
:15:53. > :15:57.Britain, originally trained by grazing deer. They gave way to the
:15:58. > :16:07.scythes, and now, over 100 years later, John Sergeant, the lawn
:16:08. > :16:11.
:16:11. > :16:14.It's wonderful, isn't it. It's an amazing way to look at a lawn. This
:16:14. > :16:19.is perfection, but not the manicured a special perfection.
:16:19. > :16:26.That is what you can learn from the upper classes. When it comes to
:16:26. > :16:29.lawns, relax. What I like about castles is that
:16:30. > :16:35.it all happens here. You have intrigue and treachery and
:16:35. > :16:39.beheading, but you also have love and multiple marriage. So romantic.
:16:39. > :16:43.Mary Queen of Scots fell in love here and nursed her cousin back to
:16:43. > :16:47.health and then they got married soon after. Most of the people who
:16:47. > :16:50.live too would have had no choice. They would have been earmarked for
:16:50. > :16:55.each other as infants and grown-up and married the person they were
:16:55. > :17:00.told to marry, because that was the way it was and they had no choice.
:17:00. > :17:03.Not very romantic. There was one famous royal who was having none of
:17:03. > :17:09.that and as Gyles Brandreth reports, he had an unusual approach to
:17:09. > :17:13.dating and mating. These days, searching for a
:17:13. > :17:19.soulmate can be easy. Simply log on to a dating agency and checkout
:17:19. > :17:23.thousands of photos worldwide. But back in the 16th century, long-
:17:23. > :17:27.distance love was a whole different ball-game. Photography had not been
:17:27. > :17:31.invented, travel was painfully slow, so sizing up international talent
:17:31. > :17:37.was quite a headache, especially if you were Henry the eighth and you
:17:37. > :17:41.had six wives to get through. In his search for wife number four,
:17:41. > :17:45.Henry got round the logistical problems by employing Hans Holbein,
:17:45. > :17:50.the brilliant German artist, who painted this classic of the King
:17:50. > :17:55.posing in a generous codpiece. Henry loved Holbein's work, and
:17:55. > :18:04.sent him around Europe to paint true-to-life portraits of eligible
:18:04. > :18:09.brides for him, dimples, warts and all. In 1538, Holbein visit to
:18:09. > :18:12.Brussels to draw Christina of Denmark. He had just three hours to
:18:12. > :18:19.capture the 16-year-old's likeness and was under strict instructions
:18:19. > :18:23.not to exaggerate her beauty. Described as one of the finest
:18:24. > :18:28.female portraits ever painted, the finished product now hangs in
:18:28. > :18:33.London's National Gallery. What, for you, is the essence of Holbein
:18:33. > :18:36.as a painter? I think his portraits particularly are so incredibly
:18:36. > :18:41.vivid you think the people could jump out of the portraits and they
:18:41. > :18:44.would be like people you see today and know very well. Here we
:18:44. > :18:49.recognise Christina of Denmark, also known as Christina of Milan.
:18:49. > :18:52.These were painted so that Henry could see if he fancied the subject.
:18:52. > :18:56.And Henry was very concerned that he could see as much of them as
:18:56. > :19:01.possible. He was trying to marry somebody who would give him a son,
:19:01. > :19:06.so he wanted somebody who was absolutely in the best of health.
:19:06. > :19:12.So the full length was quite important. Could we describe her as
:19:12. > :19:17.sexy? She looks so demure, but she has beautiful full lips. I think it
:19:17. > :19:22.is meant to be a seductive painting. Contrasting with the glimpses of
:19:22. > :19:26.flesh, Christina is clothed in black satin. But she was actually
:19:26. > :19:32.dressed in mourning because she had already been married, aged 11, to
:19:32. > :19:36.the Duke of Milan, who died before they had even met. Holbein was
:19:36. > :19:46.clearly impressed by Christine and left the background plane, to focus
:19:46. > :19:49.on her beauty. This looks so modern. Compared to those portraits over
:19:50. > :19:55.there, same period. They look virtually medieval, and this looks
:19:55. > :19:59.as if it could be a modern picture. Yes, I think Holbein was in many
:19:59. > :20:04.ways a precursor of modern art, in that he did not use the amount of
:20:04. > :20:08.gilding that you see on portraits like that. It doesn't have the flat
:20:08. > :20:15.effect, the stylised effect. He is trying to show you a real person in
:20:15. > :20:18.a real space. When Holbein brought his sketch back to court, it was
:20:18. > :20:22.love at first sight. Although he had only seen her picture, Henry
:20:23. > :20:28.proposed marriage and ordered celebratory music to be played all
:20:28. > :20:33.day. But, for some reason, Christina was not keen on the
:20:33. > :20:37.middle aged, obese, wife killing monarch. She rejected his kind
:20:37. > :20:43.offer with the wise words, "If I had two heads, I would be very
:20:43. > :20:47.happy to put one at the disposal of the King of England". Undeterred,
:20:47. > :20:51.Holbein continued his romantic mission, painting four more women,
:20:51. > :20:58.including Anne of Cleves, who Henry did marry, and divorce six months
:20:58. > :21:03.later. Holbein's legacy of lifelike portraits has earned him the title
:21:03. > :21:07.cameraman of Tudor history. And as for Christina, well, Henry kept her
:21:07. > :21:17.portrait on display for the rest of his life. It seems that even after
:21:17. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:31.six wives, he could never forget Christina was not the only woman to
:21:31. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:37.get away from Henry. Really? This is the bed chamber of Mary. Henry
:21:37. > :21:42.also proposed to her, but she quite wisely said no because she did not
:21:42. > :21:46.want her head chopped off. He also tried to hook up his son, Edward,
:21:46. > :21:54.with her daughter Mary Queen of Scots. What are they like, Tudor's?
:21:54. > :21:57.Filthy! Badgers. Yeah, badgers. They haven't actually given us a
:21:57. > :22:02.way to get into this next film about badgers. Can you think of
:22:02. > :22:12.anything? Look, can you see that, a badger walking past the window. I
:22:12. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:16.am sure of it. I think that was a They may be our biggest carnivores,
:22:16. > :22:19.but badgers can be tricky animals to watch. They are incredibly wary
:22:19. > :22:23.and they only venture out at night, so you will need plenty of patience
:22:23. > :22:27.if you want to see them in the wild. But it's absolutely worth it,
:22:27. > :22:32.because finding am watching badgers has given me some of my most
:22:32. > :22:39.amazing wildlife moment. -- finding and watching them. Just remember,
:22:39. > :22:46.if you are going on to private land, get permission first. This is
:22:46. > :22:50.classic badger country, full of soft banks and rolling woodland. As
:22:50. > :22:53.luck would have it, badgers don't tidy up after themselves, and they
:22:53. > :22:58.are really strong, so when they push through fences like this, they
:22:58. > :23:02.leave behind Classic tell-tale signs. There we have it, a course
:23:02. > :23:10.badger hair. That would suggest its path is somewhere around here,
:23:10. > :23:17.leading off just up there. Now that we are on the trail, the next thing
:23:17. > :23:22.I am looking for his prints. Badger pores are distinct, but that does
:23:22. > :23:25.not necessarily make them easy to find. They have five toes we just
:23:25. > :23:28.set up with a kidney-shaped at the bottom and four toes in a line at
:23:29. > :23:34.the top and a fifth at the side. But this is the tricky one. It is
:23:34. > :23:38.not always easy to spot the fifth tow. If you happen across a strange
:23:38. > :23:43.man from the local badger group like Mike, you have pretty much
:23:43. > :23:48.struck gold. He monitors all of the badger setts in this area. One way
:23:48. > :23:54.to check if a badger is at home or not is to lay sand across betrayal.
:23:54. > :24:03.Good and bad news. What have we got? The bad news is a lot of fox
:24:03. > :24:07.activity. But those are diamond- shaped pause. Crucially, we have a
:24:07. > :24:12.badger print. You have a heel, and then four of the five toes in
:24:12. > :24:17.almost a straight line, absolutely typical of a badger print. They did
:24:17. > :24:21.not retract their claws, do they? No, they hold them up off the
:24:21. > :24:25.ground, except when they need them for digging or going over slippery
:24:25. > :24:29.banks. That is a fantastic signed and it means there is an active
:24:29. > :24:35.badger sett. We should come back later and try to see them. Badger
:24:35. > :24:39.setts can be enormous, with up to half a mile of Tunnels and two
:24:39. > :24:45.dozen entrances. But there is usually one preferred way in.
:24:46. > :24:50.Fantastic! This is the badger set here. It is a perfect example, and
:24:50. > :24:53.really established. This is just one hole in the complex. If we are
:24:54. > :25:00.hoping to see badgers tonight, we had better retire to a safe
:25:00. > :25:04.distance. Badgers have an incredibly powerful
:25:04. > :25:07.sense of smell. You must make sure you are sitting downwind from them.
:25:07. > :25:11.There are couple of ways of checking. You could light a match,
:25:11. > :25:15.or blow a puff of powder into the wind, to see which way it is
:25:15. > :25:19.blowing. We are all right because we are downwind from the badger
:25:19. > :25:29.sett. Another thing, make sure you have had a pee because you could be
:25:29. > :25:29.
:25:29. > :25:39.in for a very long wait. A very, very long wait. If you're really
:25:39. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:51.We have just seen two juveniles come out of the badger sett that
:25:51. > :26:01.takes some tentative steps into the night. They are pretty nervous so
:26:01. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:10.they will not stray too far from There is something almost too
:26:10. > :26:15.exotic about badgers to be British. They have black and white stripes
:26:15. > :26:21.so they do not blend with the muted colours of the British countryside.
:26:21. > :26:31.But actually they are British. They are in our gardens and our
:26:31. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:45.woodlands, and that does give you a I could have sworn I saw that
:26:45. > :26:51.badger out here. He must have gone. But we can stay here until we see
:26:51. > :26:55.another one. Yeah, sure we stay here? OK. Unfortunately they have
:26:55. > :27:00.to leave because the time is up. We will say goodbye to you from
:27:00. > :27:05.beautiful Stirling Castle. See you again. Goodbye.
:27:05. > :27:09.Next week on the One Show, best of Britain. Dom Littlewood and Carrie
:27:10. > :27:15.Grant set sail around the Jurassic Coast and stop off to be -- to meet
:27:15. > :27:20.some of the locals. What are we doing? What Every schoolboy and
:27:20. > :27:24.schoolgirl does, going crabbing. The wind In the Willows, Gyles
:27:24. > :27:32.Brandreth discovers the place that inspired the novel. We have found