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Welcome to The One Show: The Best of Britain, with Angellica Bell.

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And Phil Tufnell, and another chance for you to see

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some of your favourite One Show films.

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Tonight, we're in an ancient seat of learning

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named after the river that runs through it,

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a magnet for visitors from all over the world - Cambridge.

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The university was formed in the early 13th century,

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when scholars taking refuge from hostile locals in Oxford

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migrated to Cambridge and settled here.

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Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon,

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David Attenborough and Stephen Fry

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are among the famous names who have studied here

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but you don't have to be an academic to achieve success.

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I took a trip to Scotland to talk to a top-selling artist

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who left school at 16.

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In 2004, 500 people queued up outside this stately home,

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Hopetoun House in Edinburgh.

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Those who made it inside would witness history being made.

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A picture entitled The Singing Butler

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was expected to sell for between £150,000 and £200,000 at auction

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but the hammer eventually went down on a whopping £744,800,

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a new world record for a Scottish painting sold at auction.

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It outsells the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Dali and Monet

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and has been reproduced on posters, cards, calendars and even umbrellas.

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The Singing Butler has sold over a million copies in Britain alone

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and it's easily one of the most recognisable pictures in the world,

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but its roots are firmly planted in Fife,

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the place where its painter, Jack Vettriano, began his career.

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How did The Singing Butler come about?

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It was inspired mainly by Leven beach, which is where I grew up,

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and there's a lovely part of it

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where the tide can go out for half a mile,

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sort of flat, with pools of water

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and you know, that's certainly what I tried to recreate.

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So what's actually going on in the picture?

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As I see it, here is this sort of eccentric guy

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and they've been out for dinner,

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he's got money, he's got a maid, he's got a butler,

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and he decides he just wants to go and dance on the beach.

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He realises, of course, too late, that there is no music,

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so he has to ask the butler to sing

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and so, they waltz while the butler sings

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and the two umbrellas shelter them.

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And it's just one of those paintings that I think,

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you know, on a rainy day, when life's not too good, you look at that

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and you think, "You know, life can get better than this."

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And have you ever danced on a beach yourself?

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Yeah, but not like that!

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PHIL LAUGHS

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Jack is the son of a miner.

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He took up painting at 21 and had no formal training.

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In 2005, it was revealed

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that Jack had used an artists' reference manual

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to form his figures.

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'At that time, I was relatively unknown.

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'I had no access to models'

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and I came across this manual in a bookshop and took it home

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and I thought, "This is great,"

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you know, "This is full of figures,"

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and of course, when that became known publicly,

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I did get a bit of flak for that

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but what I do know for a fact is that Francis Bacon used the very same book

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that I took The Singing Butler out of. Now,

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I don't think that's bad company to keep, you know?

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In actual fact, Jack prefers

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a different version of the famous picture

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where the woman's wearing a green dress instead of a red one

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and it hangs here in the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery.

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Well, The Dancer In Emerald was a study for the finished version,

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and I was playing around with colours

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because I was trying to get what I thought would be the right colour

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and I did the green, and then I did the red,

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and I looked back at the green and I think,

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"I actually like the green."

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Whilst the buying public have always embraced Jack's work,

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the art world has been less welcoming.

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I often get drawn into this debate

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about, you know, me and the establishment,

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and the truth is that it's completely out of my hands.

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There's nothing I can do, you know,

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if they don't like my work, they don't like my work.

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I would far rather be enjoyed by millions of people than a handful.

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It may not be critically acclaimed,

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but this painting has definitely captured the hearts and minds

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of the public more than any other contemporary painting.

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'How does it feel to have created a piece of work

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'that so many people love?'

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The overall feeling is one of immense pride

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that I was able to, from a manual, construct this painting

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and it's gone out there and been such a success.

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It's such a shame Jack doesn't get the credit he deserves for his work.

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As he said in the film, he doesn't worry about it.

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So long as the public love his work, which they do, he's happy.

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I found him a real inspiration, a real talent and a top bloke.

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-It's nice when you meet people like that.

-It is.

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Now, this is the River Cam and since the Middle Ages,

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barges have used it to bring heavy goods into Cambridge,

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including most of the stone used to build the colleges.

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Dating back to the 13th century,

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the university is one of the oldest in the world.

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Cambridge is now made up of 31 colleges and 150 departments

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and is at the forefront of scientific research.

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It's a far cry from the city's roots as a trading centre

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and route to Europe via the Cam.

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Nowadays, it's the famous punts

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which create most of the river traffic

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and the river has become one of the city's main attractions

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-and also a fantastic place for all types of wildlife.

-Found anything?

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-No, not yet, but I'll keep looking.

-You do that.

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Now, one species you'd be very hard to find a glimpse of

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is the small and elusive vole.

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Here's One Show wildlife expert Miranda Krestovnikoff.

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One of my biggest wildlife inspirations as a child

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was Wind In The Willows, with the adventures of Toad, Mole and Ratty.

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But the biggest revelation as an adult

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was the fact that Ratty wasn't actually a rat.

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He was, in fact, a water vole.

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There used to be millions of water voles in the UK, but now

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they have the unenviable title of our fastest-declining mammal.

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In the last 45 years, the population has decreased by more than 95%.

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Because while stoats and weasels

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are the villains in The Wind In The Willows,

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in the real wild wood, Ratty has a much more deadly predator.

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The mink is a non-native species to Britain

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and it's the only predator

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that can fit into the water vole's underground tunnels,

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so for the poor water vole, there's no escape.

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But here in Seaton in East Devon, Ratty is making a comeback.

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The Environment Agency has been working for the last ten years

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to get water voles back in rivers.

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So far, a couple of thousand have been reintroduced around the country

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and on this part of the River Axe,

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150 are due to be released.

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But it's taken years to get the habitat just right.

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This is such a beautiful and tranquil spot. Was it always like this?

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No. Ten years ago, this was a steep-sided, boring borrow pit

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but the East Devon District Council and other partners locally

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have transformed it into this wonderful wildlife haven.

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You can see all these fantastic reed beds around the side,

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lots of tree growth. It's a great site for all sorts of wildlife.

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And also, a great place for the water voles.

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Well, that's the key thing, you see.

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We need to be creating these kind of habitats

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to enable water voles to survive and to spread out.

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OK, we've got one coming out now, right on cue.

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Fabulous! Look at that!

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I will let you, cos I know they bite. I've handled them before,

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and I know they could take a chunk out of your hand.

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-You have to be a bit careful with them.

-That's Ratty.

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There's this urge, I just want to stroke it.

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-You want to stroke it, don't you?

-But I know it'll take my finger off

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-if I do that. They are so cute.

-They're a smashing-looking animal,

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got to admit. Very different to a rat.

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-You notice the nose is quite snubby, rather than pointy.

-Yes.

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The tail is furry, dark,

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rather than sort of pink and fleshy, which a rat's tail is like,

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so they're quite a handsome-looking animal, I think.

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Look at those teeth as well! They're ready for food.

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Most of this vegetation you see around here, they will eat,

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even the bark and leaves of trees,

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they'll climb up in winter months for nourishment,

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so they're not too fussy.

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But before the water voles can be released,

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it's essential that the neighbourhood is cleared of mink.

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Dotted around the area are 80 of these rafts.

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Any animal setting foot on them

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will leave evidence of their presence in the soft clay.

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We've got some very convincing footprints on these ones.

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Can you talk me through what we've got?

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Well, the large ones appear to be otter

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and to help, we made this tracks overlay.

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That makes it so much clearer, because it's quite hard,

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when you're looking at just this bit of clay with a print in it

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to identify exactly what it is, but that's definite confirmation.

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And have you got anything else on that one?

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A bit less clear is what I think is a mink track here.

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-That's a pretty good match for the mink.

-For the mink there.

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The mink print there.

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The rafts are checked regularly

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and, fortunately, these mink prints were found miles away,

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so the coast is clear for the water voles to be rehoused,

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firstly in temporary accommodation.

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Now, inside is a bit of straw

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and bits of carrot and apple,

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just to keep them fed for the first couple of days,

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and after that, they will actually gnaw through the bottom of the box,

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which is just cardboard, and then work their way

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through the mud of the riverbank and then just out into the water

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but after that, they're on their own.

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The water voles due for release today were all bred in captivity.

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There's a mix of family groups,

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brothers and sisters, old and young,

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but each water vole is micro-chipped so their movements can be monitored.

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So I'm just going to let him go now.

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There you go, chap. And they're gone.

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Now that the threat from the mink has begun to subside

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and the habitat has been restored to suit the water voles,

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numbers are increasing across the country.

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And I'm sure Toad and Mole will be very happy

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to have Ratty back on the riverbank again.

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Well, after seeing the teeth on them voles, I'm glad we didn't catch any.

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But they are cute, you have to admit that, Tuffers.

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Religion has always played a part in the story of Cambridge.

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The university originally was a cluster of monasteries

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and there are over 13 churches within the city boundaries.

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And behind us is Great St Mary's

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and it's been part of Cambridge for over 800 years.

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Cambridge legend has it that during the Black Death,

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there weren't enough priests to bury the dead,

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so one of the reasons they founded a new college was to boost numbers

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and they called it Corpus Christi, which means "the body of Christ",

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and it still exists today.

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You're a fountain of knowledge.

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But Britain hasn't always welcomed priests with open arms.

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Here's Dan Snow.

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Today, Britain is home to hundreds of faiths.

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In the last census, done in 2001,

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they recorded more than 170 religions

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rubbing shoulders on our little island.

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Excuse me, madam, can I ask you a quick question? What's your religion?

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-Church of England.

-Church of England?

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-We're Sikh.

-Pentecostal Church.

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-Um, Jewish.

-I'm Catholic.

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-Muslim.

-I'm Buddhist.

-Hindu.

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Nowadays, we take it for granted

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that we're free to worship whichever religion we please,

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but it hasn't always been that way.

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During the reign of Elizabeth I,

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being a Catholic priest was a treasonable offence

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and even hiding one was a risky business.

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The penalty if you were caught was the most grisly death -

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you were hanged, drawn and quartered.

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Defiant priests had to keep on the move to evade capture.

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They'd travel from safe house to safe house around the country

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with the Queen's priest hunters hot on their tail.

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The Catholic families that gave them shelter

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had to think of more and more ingenious ways to keep them hidden.

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I'm off to Baddesley Clinton, a stately home in Warwickshire.

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In the late 1500s, two Catholic sisters lived here.

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They turned it into a secret meeting place for priests,

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complete with its own collection of priest hiding places

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or priest holes.

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-Hello.

-Dan.

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'Alice Hogge, an expert on the period, is going to show me around.'

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-Excellent moat.

-Oh, I love a moat.

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'One of the priest holes is in the attic.'

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Why go to such extraordinary lengths?

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Why not hide in a cupboard or under the bed or something?

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We know the lengths the searchers themselves went to find priest.

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They'd come in with carpenters and builders,

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go through the house and measure it

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and work out if a space seemed to be false, and if so,

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they'd just break the wall through, so you really need a safe place.

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-We've got one up here that you might want to have a look at.

-Oh, yeah.

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-If you just want to get up the ladder up there.

-Look at this.

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-It's right up in the roof of the house.

-Absolutely.

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'In the 1500s, this hole would have been completely sealed up

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'and only accessible from another part of the eaves.'

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Who would have built somewhere like this?

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We think these ones were built by a carpenter called Nicholas Owen.

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By day, he'd come into your house and he'd, I don't know,

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build you a new staircase or put in a bathroom or something,

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and then by night, he'd be building places like this.

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There's another one you might want to come and see,

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which is actually right down in the kitchen of the house.

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OK, so this is the most famous hiding place within this house.

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On the 19th October 1591, so that's 14 years before the Gunpowder Plot,

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the house was raided

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and seven priests had to go down there and hide.

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'One of them, Father Gerard, wrote an account of the experience.'

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Late mediaeval autobiography.

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-That'll keep me from getting bored down there.

-Good luck.

-Thank you.

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It's quite narrow.

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I'm going holing, priest holing.

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Yeah.

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So here I am, squashed in here.

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It's about two foot high.

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The floor is pretty wet and minging.

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OK, here's the passage from the book.

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"It was about five o'clock the following morning.

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"Suddenly, I heard a great uproar outside the main door.

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"It was the priest hunters.

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"With swords drawn, they were battering at the door

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"to force an entrance.

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"Father Southwell guessed what it was all about

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"and slipped off his vestments and stripped the altar bare.

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"Nothing was left to betray the presence of a priest.

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"Outside, the ruffians were bawling and yelling

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"but the servants held the door fast.

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"This gave us enough time to stow ourselves and all our belongings

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"into a very cleverly built sort of cave.

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"At last, these leopards were let in.

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"They tore madly through the whole house, searched everywhere.

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"They took four hours over the work,

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"but fortunately, they chanced on nothing.

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"So we were saved that day."

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DOOR SLAMS

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It's quite chilling reading that account written hundreds of years ago

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about their experiences hiding down in this exact tunnel here,

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in this priest hole here. It's extraordinary.

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Well, Cambridge knows all about the power of words.

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The university library holds

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one of the greatest collections of books and manuscripts in the world

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and some of the great literary figures, such as Tennyson

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and Wordsworth, have pored over them whilst studying here.

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But there's another city which rivals Cambridge's literary status

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and you have to whisper its name around these parts.

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The One Show's renaissance man, Gyles Brandreth,

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and Oxford graduate, explains all.

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This city has generated

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some exquisite examples of the English language.

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Welcome to Oxford, the City of Dreaming Spires.

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BUZZING

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That's my cliche alarm going off again! 23rd cliche of the day.

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Another turn-up for the books.

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BUZZING Oh, goodness!

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There are around half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary -

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enough, you'd have thought, for every single one of us

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to find original ways to express ourselves, but no.

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To be honest... BUZZ

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..at this point of time... BUZZ

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..we're all guilty of resorting to cliches,

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those infuriatingly irritating, overused turns of phrase

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that pollute our conversation like a rash.

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BUZZ Like wildfire.

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BUZZ Oh, kill the buzz!

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BEEPING

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So which cliches most get up Oxford's well-educated nose?

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"To be fair". I just hate it.

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-Touch base.

-Someone asking to go for a bite to eat.

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Dumb blondes.

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-Yeah.

-It's just not true.

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This is where the cliche was born,

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on the printing press.

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In the early 19th century,

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there was a new type of printing that came in which was much faster,

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much more efficient than the old style.

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The English called it "stereotype".

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The French called it "cliche" from the sound of the printing press

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producing these innumerable copies of newspapers and things.

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-So it made a sort of "cliche, cliche, cliche" sound?

-Yes.

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No-one keeps a closer eye on our language

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than the Oxford University Press.

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They patrol our verbal landscape 24 hours a day

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thanks to a mighty computer known as Corpus.

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The Oxford English Corpus is a huge electronic database

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of English from around the world.

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It contains more than two billion words

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and we can search that to find out how common a word or a phrase is.

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If there's one example of a particular expression on there,

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that's not terribly significant.

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If there's tens of thousands of examples of a phrase,

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maybe that phrase is a bit of a cliche.

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How do you decide when a useful phrase turns into a well-worn cliche?

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I think, really, that's something of a personal judgement.

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For example, the Dreaming Spires of Oxford,

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which I very much hope you're not going to use in this piece...

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We've already done so! We've already done so!

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Guilty, guilty! Oh, dearie me!

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BUZZING We opened with the Dreaming Spires of Oxford.

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This is a film full of cliches.

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Look! You're a dictionary man. You actually work on a computer

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but we've actually put out first editions of Dr Johnson on the table.

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-We can't escape cliches. That's what we're all about!

-That's right.

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So, pop pickers, we asked Corpus

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to compute this year's chart-topping cliches especially for The One Show.

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And here they are.

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MUSIC: "Pick Of The Pops" theme

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At five...

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"A level playing field."

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At four...

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"Few and far between."

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At three...

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"The fact of the matter."

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At two...

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"Back on track."

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And still at number one for the third year running...

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"At the end of the day."

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But with all due respect... BUZZ

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..and when all's said and done... BUZZ

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..some cliches do have an ancient and distinguished pedigree.

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Shakespeare, our greatest ever English writer, he gave us cliches.

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We've got so many cliches that have come from Shakespeare.

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"In my mind's eye",

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"more things in heaven and earth",

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"the rest is history", you can just go on for ever.

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There's the old joke that Hamlet is just made up of quotations.

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What's your verdict on the cliche? Good, bad, or indifferent?

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Well, they're fine in the right place.

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In everyday speech, they're very useful.

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They add to the efficiency of communication.

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If you're on a beach with a tsunami rolling up the sand,

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you want to yell, "Run for your life".

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But if you put it in a film script, it's going to sound dreadful.

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Of course, not all cliches are verbal ones.

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If this is Oxford, then Brandreth had better be filmed in a punt.

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At the end of the day... BUZZ

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..don't cliches add something

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to the ebb and flow of our rich and complex language?

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Know what I mean?

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BUZZ Oh, there it goes again!

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All's well that ends well.

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-Does Gyles know everything, Angellica?

-Yes, everything.

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-Who told you?

-Gyles did!

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Anyway, he's not going to be very happy with us

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because we've used every cliche under the sun.

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No, I'm always riding me bike, wearing me boater,

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it's got nothing to do with being in Cambridge.

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When it comes to discovering great ideas,

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this city has generated more than its fair share.

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Crick and Watson discovered the secret of life

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by sketching out the structure of DNA in a local pub.

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Their double helix formation

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is arguably the most iconic scientific symbol of our time.

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Building on work by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins,

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their discovery in 1953

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enabled scientists to understand how DNA replicates

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and how hereditary information is coded on it.

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This set the stage for the rapid advances in molecular biology,

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which continue to this day.

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Along with Wilkins,

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Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962,

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a prize another Cambridge graduate surely deserves.

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Isaac Newton studied at Trinity College,

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where he discovered the fundamentals of light and gravity.

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And more importantly, on a common called Parker's Piece,

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a bunch of lads got together in 1848

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and laid down the set of rules

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which would later form the basis of a sport called football.

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Some of the best ideas, however, come from nature.

0:21:560:21:59

Mike Dilger went to see how scientists have been getting inspiration

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from some very clever birds.

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Owls - some of nature's greatest hunters.

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Their hearing is ten times more sensitive than ours,

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so they can hear a scuttling mouse from 30 feet away

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and they can catch it unawares in pitch darkness,

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all because of a very quiet weapon.

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And like the Harris hawk, the barn owl that Jimmy's holding

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is designed to fly as silently as possible

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so it can creep up on its prey,

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but to find out just how quiet,

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we're going to put them both to a flight test.

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Let's go, Jimmy.

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Jimmy promises he can fly a Harris hawk and a barn owl

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just inches above my head

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and I've got to guess which is which

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just from the sound of their wing beats.

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OK, Jimmy, ready for the first bird.

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OK, here we go.

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HE LAUGHS

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I definitely heard wings flying overhead.

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I reckon that's the Harris hawk

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and if I were a mouse or a vole, I'd be running for cover

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but I'm going to wait for the second bird to be absolutely sure.

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OK.

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-Has it gone yet?

-Yep.

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I didn't hear a flipping thing!

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I'm presuming it flew over my head.

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If it did, that's the barn owl.

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This silent flight got engineers thinking,

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"Could owl technology help aeroplanes fly more quietly too?"

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At the University of Southampton,

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Dr Kenji Takeda is part of an aeronautical team investigating this.

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The owl's amazing. Basically, it's the only animal that has evolved

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to be completely silent to its prey

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and it's looking at those aspects

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that allows us to see how we can apply that on an airliner.

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Apart from the engines, most of the noise aeroplanes make

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is caused by wind rushing over the wings.

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This is the speed a barn owl would fly through the air

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while it's quartering a field, looking for mice and voles.

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And look at the wind resistance it has to cope with whilst it's hunting!

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'Because planes fly much quicker,

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'there is even more wind and turbulence.'

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You're at 30 miles an hour now

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and an aeroplane's probably coming in at about four times that speed.

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You can see what effect the turbulence

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has at the back of the wings - the ribbons are totally snarled up.

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'It's turbulent air that creates noise

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'and in a smaller wind tunnel Kenji and the team realise that

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'the shape of the plane's wing makes it even noisier.'

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As that noise crosses this sharp edge at the back,

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it gets louder and is radiated towards the ground.

0:24:510:24:55

OK, so how does that compare to a barn owl's wing,

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which we've got here?

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If we look at the trailing edge, it's subtly different.

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You can see these little fringes

0:25:030:25:05

where it's got these very fine feathers.

0:25:050:25:07

When the noise passes over that, it doesn't get radiated to the ground.

0:25:070:25:12

So the voles don't hear the barn owl coming?

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That's right, it's almost silent.

0:25:140:25:16

'So these frilly feathers are one of the secrets

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'to the owl's incredibly quiet flight

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'and, amazingly, by putting owl-like frills on model plane wings,

0:25:220:25:26

'the team have found they can significantly reduce landing noise,

0:25:260:25:29

'so in the next five years we should see similar

0:25:290:25:33

'bristles on commercial airlines.'

0:25:330:25:35

Hopefully people near airports

0:25:350:25:37

will sleep easier as a result of these bristles.

0:25:370:25:39

That's right, they'll appreciate the owl's technology.

0:25:390:25:42

'But owls have one more trick

0:25:420:25:44

'that could help reduce noise close to airports

0:25:440:25:47

'and Kenji and the team are testing this in a flight simulator.

0:25:470:25:50

'Owls land on their prey very steeply, at about 25 degrees,

0:25:500:25:55

'so the voles can't hear them until the very last second.'

0:25:550:25:59

It probably comes in a lot more smoothly than I'm doing right now!

0:25:590:26:02

-Er, yeah!

-I'm hopeless at this!

-The owls have had a bit more practice.

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'Planes, by comparison, come in to land at a very shallow three degrees,

0:26:060:26:10

'meaning they're very low and noisy when approaching the airport.'

0:26:100:26:13

The idea is if we could come in as steeply as an owl, we'd be further

0:26:130:26:17

away from the houses underneath us so we'd be a lot quieter.

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In fact, we'd almost be silent.

0:26:210:26:23

'But can Captain Dilger achieve a smooth owl-like landing?'

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That's it, so just aim for the runway, that's looking pretty good.

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TYRES SCREECH Boing!

0:26:330:26:35

-Now put the brakes on.

-Yeah, welcome to Heathrow.

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Thank you very much! God, that was hopeless!

0:26:380:26:41

THEY LAUGH

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-Well, I wouldn't have Mike Dilger fly me anywhere after that.

-I agree!

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That's the end of our Cambridge tour and I think it's been a hoot!

0:26:480:26:51

-Get it? Owls? Hoot?

-No!

-No?

-Bye.

-Bye.

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'Next week on The One Show Best Of Britain, I head to the stunning

0:26:560:26:59

'landscape of the Lake District for a picnic with John Sergeant.'

0:26:590:27:02

I love this spread you've put on, John!

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It's a very typical Lake District picnic and how do we know that?

0:27:050:27:08

We know that because it's raining. ANGELINA LAUGHS

0:27:080:27:11

'Miranda Krestovnikoff dives into the Northumberland seas

0:27:110:27:14

'to get up close and personal with our favourite underwater mammals.'

0:27:140:27:18

-Ooh, I can feel something tugging at my fins!

-SHE LAUGHS

0:27:180:27:22

'Phil and I take a tour around Blenheim Palace,

0:27:220:27:24

'birthplace of Winston Churchill, and you'll get another chance to see

0:27:240:27:28

'how The One Show put my senses to the test when they made me

0:27:280:27:31

'spend the night in a haunted mansion.'

0:27:310:27:33

-Are you OK?

-I heard something in there.

0:27:340:27:36

(I think something's here with me.)

0:27:360:27:38

Have I gone the right way?

0:27:380:27:41

I've gone the wrong way.

0:27:410:27:44

'And find out why Dan Snow stepped back in time

0:27:440:27:46

'and took to horseback to...

0:27:460:27:48

'slice a cabbage?! You'll have to watch to find out.

0:27:480:27:51

'Join us on Monday.'

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