:00:56. > :01:01.Welcome to the one show, best of Britain with Carrie Grant and Dom
:01:01. > :01:11.Littlewood. We are giving you a chance to see more of our favourite
:01:11. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:20.Today, we are coming from the not quite so sunny Dorset, but it is
:01:20. > :01:26.still beautiful. I remember from my lessons at school, that a rock face
:01:26. > :01:30.over there, 150 million years old. There are 95 miles of Jurassic
:01:30. > :01:34.coastline here. There is something I didn't know about you. You are a
:01:34. > :01:40.keen sailor. Not half, I have sailed the British Virgin Islands,
:01:40. > :01:45.the Greek islands and even can be Islands. Was it on a pedalo? That
:01:45. > :01:50.hurts. We are going to see more on this coast line over the next year.
:01:50. > :01:55.We are. Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is hosting
:01:55. > :01:58.the Olympics on these very seas. We are going to see some of the best
:01:58. > :02:03.sailors in the world around here. It is all about the call of the
:02:03. > :02:13.ocean. Can you hear that? I can. Miranda Krestovnikoff made some
:02:13. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:21.We all love the sound of the seaside, crashing waves, boat horns
:02:21. > :02:25.and children playing with their buckets and spades. But one place
:02:25. > :02:34.where the sound is often unnoticed and unheard is right beneath our
:02:34. > :02:39.very feet. Forget lounging around, for me, the best thing to do is to
:02:39. > :02:44.go scouting around in rock pools in search of wildlife. What does it
:02:44. > :02:50.sound like inside a rock pool? We need sound recordist extraordinary
:02:50. > :02:56.Chris Watson, and his arsenal of underwater sound equipment. Hello.
:02:56. > :02:59.You have all of your bits and bobs. Loads of stuff, yeah. Excellent. I
:03:00. > :03:04.have found you a pretty rock pool. How are we going to record the
:03:04. > :03:08.sounds? I have some special underwater microphones which can
:03:08. > :03:18.explore all sorts of nooks and crannies, and maybe follow
:03:18. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:31.There is so much there. That is incredible. This is constant
:03:31. > :03:35.chattering, chirping, scraping. Almost like a little coffee morning
:03:35. > :03:40.going on, constantly chattering to each other. Did you hear that
:03:40. > :03:43.squeak? Yeah. I would love to know what that was. It must be the
:03:43. > :03:49.frustration, that you can't see the animal, you're just recording the
:03:49. > :03:54.noise. It is. I like that sense of exploration and investigation about
:03:54. > :04:02.it. You are right, what we can use to track individual animals is this
:04:02. > :04:06.much smaller hydrophones, mounted on this bit of wire. You can
:04:07. > :04:12.actually delve into some of these hidden spaces. We have some hermit
:04:12. > :04:18.crabs. If you can get the sound of them scuttling around. Yes, a sort
:04:18. > :04:28.of mechanical movement. It is brilliant. Some limpets or
:04:28. > :04:28.
:04:28. > :04:38.something? Excellent. There is a sort of... A raspy sound. Yeah, it
:04:38. > :04:43.
:04:43. > :04:46.Limpets might appear quite static, but this speeded-up film shows they
:04:46. > :04:56.are continuously on the move, scraping algae from the rocks with
:04:56. > :04:56.
:04:56. > :05:03.their tooth tongue, called a radula, and jostling for the best position.
:05:03. > :05:11.-- toothed tongue. Limpid snoring, I have never recorded that!
:05:11. > :05:15.have the best job! -- limpets snoring. Listening to animals doing
:05:15. > :05:25.weird and wonderful things. Not least, that mysterious squeaking
:05:25. > :05:27.
:05:27. > :05:34.sound from earlier. Wow. What was that? It is that squeak again.
:05:34. > :05:40.you think that is shrimp? There is a shrimp very close by. It is
:05:41. > :05:48.almost investigating the hydrophones. It is an amazing sound,
:05:48. > :05:54.have never heard that. A little squeal. It has got a birdsong
:05:54. > :05:58.quality to it. I am fascinated by that. It is thought that these
:05:58. > :06:03.clicks and squeaks are made when the troops are feeding, possibly by
:06:03. > :06:07.their incredibly long antennae, a bit like a violin. Why they do it
:06:07. > :06:14.is not so clear. The weird and wonderful sounds picked up in the
:06:14. > :06:20.rock pool are still a bit of a mystery. One thing, however, is
:06:20. > :06:30.certain. All these noises will be drowned out on a daily basis by the
:06:30. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:36.That is a sound you will not be finding in north London. What?
:06:36. > :06:40.waves crashing on the beach, the wind in your hair. Yeah. I want the
:06:40. > :06:46.sound of the coffee machine, the aroma of coffee, I want a latte.
:06:46. > :06:51.am with you on that, I could kill a blueberry muffin. The one show cent
:06:51. > :06:55.asked to thaw set. It is stunning, it is gorgeous. Let's make the most
:06:55. > :07:03.of it. We are doing what every schoolboy and schoolgirl does when
:07:03. > :07:09.we go to the beach, we are going crabbing. That is a cockle. No, it
:07:10. > :07:13.is a periwinkle. They call that bit a toenail. When it gets scared, it
:07:13. > :07:20.closes it down and retains the water. So when the tide goes out,
:07:20. > :07:25.it always has a bit to drink from four to I have this one. That is
:07:25. > :07:30.eight shore crab. If you flip this over, you see that triangle, it
:07:30. > :07:35.Shoji it is a male. If you get one of the lighter, smaller ones, that
:07:35. > :07:38.is a female. Underneath, there is no triangle. That is where she
:07:38. > :07:43.carries her eggs and protects them, like every good mother would.
:07:43. > :07:47.do you know this stuff? This morning, when you were doing your
:07:48. > :07:53.hair for an hour or so... A bit longer than yours! I found this
:07:53. > :07:57.book. And there you have it. just read it. It says, they are
:07:57. > :08:02.tough little blighters. They have to be, the tide brings them up in
:08:02. > :08:12.the morning, and takes them back out to safety at night. The vast
:08:12. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:18.expanse of the ocean really does It has been called one of the most
:08:18. > :08:23.audacious achievements of the Second World War. An engineering
:08:23. > :08:27.solution that would be the backbone of allied operations after D-Day. I
:08:27. > :08:32.am in the English Channel, just off the coast of Dungeness in Kent.
:08:32. > :08:36.This is where Operation Pluto took place. It stands for pipeline under
:08:37. > :08:42.the ocean. It was a way of getting fuel from England to the armies in
:08:42. > :08:47.France. It was our secret weapon and hugely important of winning
:08:47. > :08:53.World War II. The Normandy landings put thousands of allied vehicles
:08:53. > :08:57.into France. Without fuel, they would be useless. Lord Mountbatten,
:08:57. > :09:02.chief of combined operations, commissioned the audacious plan.
:09:03. > :09:08.Four pipelines to run from the Isle of Wight to share Bourke, and 17
:09:08. > :09:13.more from Dungeness to Boulogne. Is this the remnants of one of the
:09:14. > :09:18.pipes? This is the remnants of part of Pluto. It was a feeder pipe
:09:18. > :09:22.which would have run from the fuel supply over there, and connected to
:09:22. > :09:27.Pluto proper over there. Certainly pointing in the right direction.
:09:27. > :09:34.But it is. Were they are two different systems? There were. We
:09:34. > :09:39.had this chap, the Hayes cable. It is essentially a three Ince led the
:09:39. > :09:47.sheath, heavily armoured with a variety of things. The other thing
:09:47. > :09:52.was equally ingenious, the flexible steel pipe. It was round around
:09:52. > :09:56.these massive cotton reels, the conundrums towed across the Channel.
:09:56. > :10:04.The 40 ft conundrums became one of the most extraordinary images of
:10:04. > :10:14.the war, as they are unwound the pipes across the Channel. In June
:10:14. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:20.1944, tugboat stroked the trial -- Fred Gilleard was on board but
:10:20. > :10:25.he had no idea of the significance of this operation. Nobody told us a
:10:25. > :10:29.thing. We had to tow it across and leave it. What did you know what's
:10:29. > :10:34.going on? We knew the second front was starting but we didn't know it
:10:34. > :10:41.was getting petrol across. Did the enemy tried to stop you? Not going,
:10:41. > :10:45.but when we were in port, they were bombing all night. I was thinking,
:10:45. > :10:54.let's get the hell out of here. We couldn't go until the captain was
:10:54. > :10:59.ready. Vital to the operation were 21 pumping stations, disguised as
:10:59. > :11:03.everything from houses to ice-cream parlours, to avoid attack. Secrecy
:11:04. > :11:07.was a key part of Operation Pluto, which is why this looks like a
:11:07. > :11:11.normal house but was in fact one of the pumping stations used to get
:11:11. > :11:16.the fuel under the Channel. Was this house purpose-built to look
:11:16. > :11:21.like a house but was a pumping station? It is a typical Art Deco
:11:21. > :11:26.house that was built in the 1930s. My original deeds showed as a
:11:26. > :11:29.completely private house until 1943, when the MoD took it over,
:11:29. > :11:35.commandeered the three houses. is when they were built or being
:11:35. > :11:41.renovated? When they have been taken over in about 42 off 43.
:11:41. > :11:46.signs are there that showed what it was used for? There are a few hints.
:11:46. > :11:51.All of the windowsills are roughly two ft thick. The walls are between
:11:51. > :11:58.24 or 25 inches, reinforced with concrete, steel. Glass prove top,
:11:58. > :12:03.glass prove all round. Four months after D-Day, when the pipelines
:12:03. > :12:07.were finally ready, these remarkable pumping stations would
:12:07. > :12:12.deliver a million gallons of fuel a day across the channel through 500
:12:12. > :12:18.miles of pipeline, fuelling the allied forces as they pushed into
:12:18. > :12:22.Germany. Once it had come on stream, it was extremely effective.
:12:22. > :12:27.underpinned the Allied advance through Hitler's Fortress Europe.
:12:27. > :12:32.shan't forget it in a hurry. I am pretty proud but plenty of others
:12:32. > :12:38.would have done it, I suppose. Winston Churchill said operation p
:12:38. > :12:43.to float its -- operation Pluto was distinguished by originality, and
:12:43. > :12:53.crowned with complete success. He said that creative energy help to
:12:53. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:00.What a great film, but Pluto wasn't the only amazing operational feet
:13:00. > :13:05.of the Second World War. We have come to the Bovington Tank Museum.
:13:05. > :13:09.They have loads of military practice across this coast. In 1943,
:13:09. > :13:19.there was a new piece of equipment they needed to test, the Sherman
:13:19. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:24.That tank had a huge effect on a tiny village down the coast. The
:13:24. > :13:27.MoD turned to the villagers and said, for your safety, we are
:13:27. > :13:31.firing these tanks and we recommend evacuating the whole village. But
:13:32. > :13:37.don't worry, at the end of the war, we will give you back your house is.
:13:37. > :13:44.But the war finished and they didn't give their house is back.
:13:44. > :13:48.What happened to the village? still there, it is still evacuated.
:13:48. > :13:55.You can even see the kids' names above the clothes pegs. It is
:13:55. > :13:59.spooky. It is spooky. The best way to see it would be from the air.
:13:59. > :14:09.Our one show a photographer is going to tell us all about aerial
:14:09. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:21.It was here at Shaw House in Newbury that an eccentric Victorian
:14:21. > :14:26.vicar took off on a pioneering balloon flight. But the Reverend
:14:26. > :14:31.John Mackenzie Bacon did more than just blessings and ballooning. He
:14:31. > :14:36.was an inventor, an academic, an astronomer, he experimented in
:14:36. > :14:46.acoustics, dabbled in the a cold and was an adventurous aeronaut,
:14:46. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:55.but what fascinates me most is that It seems he spent as much time with
:14:55. > :15:00.his scientific pursuits as with his parishioners, particularly
:15:00. > :15:03.photography and aeronautics. think he saw ballooning as an
:15:03. > :15:10.opportunity for making scientific measurements. He was an excellent
:15:10. > :15:13.photographer. He saw the advantages of the balloon as a way of
:15:13. > :15:18.gathering information for the military. Yeah. He also saw, for
:15:18. > :15:22.instance, the advantage of taking pictures of the seabed from a
:15:22. > :15:26.balloon. A remarkable man. A great man indeed. In order to get up into
:15:26. > :15:31.the air, he took advantage of another Victorian innovation. He
:15:32. > :15:38.used the local gas works to pump up his balloons. It really was
:15:38. > :15:44.classically Victorian that a man like Bacon should take a major
:15:44. > :15:49.technological invention like gas storage and put it to an eccement
:15:49. > :15:54.Rick use which explains why one of the first aerial photographs were
:15:54. > :15:58.of the Newbury gas works. In those days, there were no satellites so
:15:58. > :16:04.the best aerial view you could get was from the top of St Paul's or,
:16:04. > :16:13.well, a mountain. Thanks to another Bacon invention, the hot air burner,
:16:13. > :16:18.there is no need to tap the town gas anymore.
:16:18. > :16:28.And the One Show balloon is the perfect way to replicate his trail-
:16:28. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:39.blazing adventures over Newbury. It's amazing how quickly it feels
:16:40. > :16:43.much smaller than it looks! Oh, my God. It's essentially a picnic
:16:43. > :16:47.basket. I can't imagine anyone would have seen the world from this
:16:47. > :16:51.perspective before. Nobody has because in the 19th century,
:16:51. > :17:01.photography was in its infancy, so he was a real pioneer, and he was
:17:01. > :17:02.
:17:02. > :17:06.easily the first British aerial The old gasometer where Bacon used
:17:07. > :17:11.to pump up his balloons is still there, but much of the urban
:17:11. > :17:16.landscape has changed since the late 19th century. A hundred years
:17:16. > :17:19.ago pictures like these were giving people a new vision of the world.
:17:19. > :17:24.Bacon was a pioneer of aerial photography, but he was also
:17:24. > :17:29.establishing a really valuable historic record.
:17:29. > :17:33.So he would have had a few bumpy touchdowns. Oh, yes. Gas balloons
:17:33. > :17:37.are very much less controllable than hot air balloons. An example
:17:37. > :17:41.is this wonderful picture where he land having flown all night from
:17:41. > :17:48.Newbury Gasworks he ended up in Wales a mile from the sea. That's
:17:48. > :17:55.his daughter, Gertrude. A huge oak tree stopped them. She broke her
:17:55. > :17:59.arm. He cut his head. So hence the miserable look on his face - please
:17:59. > :18:03.make that my last balloon fight, but we're going to be fine. Yes.
:18:03. > :18:08.Touch down - you. Never know where you're going to land. Was this
:18:08. > :18:11.going to be one of those landings? The winds were forcing us on to the
:18:11. > :18:16.local driving range. It's coming down quite quickly,
:18:16. > :18:20.isn't it? It looks like we may hit that cross. That's a very big cross,
:18:20. > :18:27.very close to... I think we might just miss it.
:18:27. > :18:31.Oh, it's close! It's close! We're over. We're over. We're over. I
:18:31. > :18:41.think we're going to hit the ground fairly hard, though, so hold onto
:18:41. > :18:45.
:18:45. > :18:51.thing for dear life. Wonderful. Landing, a hot air balloon is
:18:51. > :18:54.definitely the most exciting part of a flight, and it does make you
:18:54. > :18:57.appreciate the combination of British eccentricity and the
:18:57. > :19:03.pioneering spirit that gave us our first amazing views of Britain from
:19:03. > :19:08.the air. When I went on one of those hot air balloons, every time
:19:08. > :19:12.the guy put on the flames into the balloon, it burned my head. Don't
:19:12. > :19:16.laugh, Carrie! Here we are on the Lulworth estate. Look at these
:19:16. > :19:20.chalk hills. Aren't they amazing? On those are particular plants and
:19:20. > :19:27.grasss that attract butterflies. I remember as kids we used to see
:19:27. > :19:34.tonnes. These days, take my daughters out, don't see any.
:19:34. > :19:40.That's because of the decline and the conservation. This is my
:19:40. > :19:46.favourite one, the Chalkill Blue. What would be your favourite?
:19:46. > :19:51.would have to be one with red in it. Say no more. See that one? The
:19:51. > :19:58.Skipper, it was named after the place we're standing on. That is
:19:58. > :20:02.not the only butterfly under threat. Mike Dilger went to spot one of the
:20:02. > :20:12.creatures we love with a smile on his face. Mike Dilger with a smile
:20:12. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:18.on his face? No, you doughnut, the creature.
:20:18. > :20:22.Living along this remarkable landscape are amazing creatures, a
:20:22. > :20:29.pod of bottle-nosed dolphins. Since the oil boom began, there's always
:20:29. > :20:33.been the potential for conflict. Now there is a proposal to carry
:20:33. > :20:37.out new oil gands exploration underneath the sea in the Murray
:20:37. > :20:42.Firth. That's brought that relationship into sharp focus again.
:20:42. > :20:49.We're much wiser than we were about how underwater sounds can affect
:20:49. > :20:57.dolphins. So I am off with Sarah from the Whale and Dolphin
:20:57. > :21:01.Conservation Society to see and I thought I saw something splash
:21:01. > :21:07.out of the water. It might have been just a wave. Maybe I was being
:21:07. > :21:12.a bit overexcited. Oh, no, that was. Here we go. Oh, a blow hole blowing
:21:12. > :21:16.there - fantastic. That might be a mum and calf. Oh, this is so
:21:16. > :21:20.exciting. Hopefully, they'll come and see us rather than us going to
:21:20. > :21:30.see them, which would be the best thing of all. Oh, they're close!
:21:30. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:39.And they're coming this way. Look at that! Watching these
:21:39. > :21:47.dolphins showing off is truly breathtaking, but to learn more
:21:47. > :21:50.about them, we need to listen to them as well. Simon, our sound
:21:50. > :21:55.recorder, has put a hydraphone into the water because we're hoping to
:21:55. > :22:01.record some of the sounds the dolphins are making. Absolutely.
:22:01. > :22:06.They're incredible animals. They spend all of their life under the
:22:06. > :22:11.water, so their acoustic sense is important for them. To find out
:22:11. > :22:16.just how important these sounds are, it's back to base.
:22:16. > :22:20.Sounds like a baby crying. So presumably, they're using these
:22:20. > :22:24.bizarre calls just to chat to each other. It's a form of communication,
:22:24. > :22:30.so to keep in contact with each other maybe, just making sure they
:22:30. > :22:35.know where each other are. It's all speculation, of course.
:22:35. > :22:43.Communication is one thing. But I understand they also... Absolutely.
:22:43. > :22:48.What they're doing then is foraging for food.
:22:48. > :22:53.Clearly, the dolphin's world is dominated by sound, and anything
:22:53. > :23:00.that interferes with their ability to pick up sound waves could
:23:00. > :23:06.interfere with them. Oil and gas exploration is very noisy. Sarah
:23:06. > :23:12.place me the sound as the dolphins would hear it. It's very explosive.
:23:12. > :23:19.It It could damage their hearing? At close range, it could. One of
:23:19. > :23:25.the other things we expect to see is stress and the separation of
:23:25. > :23:29.mother and calf. While we patently still need fuel, maintaining our
:23:29. > :23:33.relationship with these delicate dolphins is critical if we're to
:23:33. > :23:42.ensure their survival in this part of Scotland. In the meantime, I've
:23:42. > :23:47.got one more chance to enjoy a final spectacle. If you're really
:23:47. > :23:54.lucky, you might see - there's one now, in fact. Look at that! Ten, 20
:23:54. > :23:57.metres away, maybe. Here we go. Lovely. Oh, you have to wow!
:23:57. > :23:59.LAUGHTER It's all down to me. There we go.
:23:59. > :24:09.Look. That's absolutely brilliant. I love that!
:24:09. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:14.No, can't see any. I don't think you're going to get dolphins around
:24:14. > :24:24.here. No, I know but I tell you what, these coves could tell a tale
:24:24. > :24:28.or two. If you could come down here one night in the late 18th century
:24:28. > :24:37.you could find a smuggler with a bag of contraband rum or brandy.
:24:37. > :24:40.And they'd say to you -- you'd say to them, "I happen to believe you
:24:40. > :24:45.are carrying illicit loot in your sack and that you intend to sell it
:24:46. > :24:50.without a licence. What have you got to say to your customers?"
:24:50. > :24:55.sound like that? I have had enough of driving on
:24:55. > :25:00.motorways so I have turned off for a pootpoot -- pootle on the roads,
:25:00. > :25:05.but as usual I am on the lookout for buildings that cause a double-
:25:05. > :25:08.take. This one is a corker. It's just over there. Like most
:25:08. > :25:15.delievers drive past it I am wondering what on earth it is. It
:25:15. > :25:18.looks like a house, but it's floating above the tree tops. The
:25:18. > :25:25.building is in Suffolk. I have been told a clue to its strange
:25:25. > :25:35.appearance might be found in the village. Thorpeness was the
:25:35. > :25:41.personal visual of one man, Stuart Ogilvie. His grandson Glenn still
:25:41. > :25:44.lives here. To create the village was a huge project. He wanted to
:25:44. > :25:51.create a holiday village where there was something for everyone.
:25:51. > :25:55.Was it meant to be a fantasy village? Great father was an
:25:55. > :26:00.aspiring playwright. He became friends with Jan Barry. That is
:26:00. > :26:04.known as Barry's walk. You have the crocodile, Wendy's house, Peter
:26:04. > :26:08.Pan's property and everything else. There is a real Peter Pan feel to
:26:08. > :26:15.the scenes in his movies, showing a paradise for children on holiday
:26:15. > :26:18.here in the 1930s. The artificially-created lake was
:26:18. > :26:28.deliberately shallow so the children could have fun on the
:26:28. > :26:30.
:26:30. > :26:36.water without their parents Wow. Hello.
:26:36. > :26:43.The current owner of the building is Sylvia. It was a water tower. It
:26:43. > :26:48.supplied Thorpeness with water, and Glenn Stuart Ogilvie, who wanted
:26:48. > :26:51.something that fitted in with the fantasy feeling of Thorpeness - he
:26:52. > :26:56.didn't want some ugly water tank, so he decided to build a house
:26:56. > :27:00.around it, which he called his gazebo. I am desperate to have a
:27:00. > :27:04.look inside. Can we go and have a look? With pleasure. Welcome.
:27:04. > :27:10.When a mains water supply arrived in the village, the tank and the
:27:10. > :27:14.windmill, used as a pump, became redundant. The tank was used just
:27:14. > :27:19.for storage until Sylvia made the house a home with lots and lots of
:27:19. > :27:24.stairs. How many flights are there? Ten. So come on.
:27:24. > :27:30.You're nearly there, but it's worth the climb. Wow. What an amazing
:27:30. > :27:35.room. It is, isn't it? This is where the water tank was held?
:27:35. > :27:40.50,000 gallons of water. It was still here when we bought it in '76.
:27:40. > :27:43.Then we took it out in '79. In my garage I have the biggest bull