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Hello and welcome to the One Show. The Best of Britain. With Angellica | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Bell and Phil Tufnell. With another chance to see some of our favourite | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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We are at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, one of the largest | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
houses in Britain and birthplace of one of the greatest leaders the | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
country has ever seen, Sir Winston Churchill. Blenheim Palace was | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
completed in 1733. It was a gift for Queen and John Churchill, | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
following the famous victories during the wars Spanish succession. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Sir Winston Churchill was a descendant and did not come along | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
until much later. He was born in this room but it was slightly | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
unexpected. His parents were only staying as gifts of the family when | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
little Winston took everyone by surprise and a right two weeks | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
early. Churchill grew up to be a man both respected and feared so it | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
might surprise you to clear he was involved in a fairy-tale romance | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
that unfolded under this very roof. It jewel of the Cotteswold. The | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
magnificent of Blenheim Palace is matched only by its 2100 acres of | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
sweeping parkland and romantic gardens -- the jaw of the Cotswolds. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
100 years ago, a young man shows these gardens as the location to | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
pop the question to his sweetheart, Clementine Hozier. Her fiance was | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
none other than Winston Churchill. In summer 1904, a 29-year-old | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Winston had been smitten by the beautiful 19-year-old Clementine | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
when he spotted her at a society ball but it would be another four | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
years before he finally asked for her hand, in 19 a weight. On a | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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rainy August afternoon, they tipped Clementine accepted his proposal. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Over the next few days, the couple exchanged love letters. This | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
remarkable correspondence would span nearly 60 years. Today, the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
thousands of letters, telegrams and no space sent each other are kept | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
at the Churchill Archives Centre. They have lent a selection to the | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Blenheim Palace's archivist. This is the very first letter to | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
Clementine. I will read a bit: What a pressure it was to meet a girl | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
with their much intellectual quality and such strong reserves | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
and noble sentiment. I hope we shall meet again and come to know | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
each other better. From such formal beginnings, how does the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
relationship developed in the letters? From the first letter, | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
when he signs himself "your sincerely, Winston Churchill", | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
within four months, he moves to Darling and dearest, and signing | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
himself eventually wins done. September they were married. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Winston. After the honeymoon, Winston plunged himself into | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
politics. Sometimes in the letters, you see he's huge confidence, one | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
of his feet is the leadership, for example: He writes at the beginning | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
of the first order war and he says "everything tends towards | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
it not horrible to be built like that?". His questioning his | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
appetite about the war. Conversely, we have one from Clementine, where | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
you see their playfulness. They had pet names. He caught her Kitten and | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
she caught him Peak and when she is writing, she adds little | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
illustrations. The nature of the tale is her excitement, her thrill | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
at been in touch with him. Surely he would have been mortified if | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
this had fallen into public hands! It is interesting, he stored them | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
and they are in the archives for everyone to see. Churchill was | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
appointed First Lord of the at malty and within a year, he had | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
moved to Number Ten. -- First Lord of the Admiralty. How does | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Clementine react when he becomes Prime Minister? There are occasions | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
when she speaks to him very firmly. "I hope you will forgive me if I | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
tell you something I feel you should know". This is June, 1914. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
"one of the men in your entourage has been to me and told me there is | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
a danger of you being generally disliked by your colleagues because | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
of your wrath and sarcastic and overbearing manner". A direct | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
criticism of him there. It speaks volumes the fact that one of the | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
men in her entourage, they have been to her, there is almost | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
telling of tales. Yes and that is a measure. This person, out of | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
concern for Churchill, maybe for the country, has come up to warn | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Lady Churchill about what is happening. The correspondence | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
continued into their old age and only stopped with Winston's death, | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
at 90, in 1965. We all know Churchill the great operator, the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
wartime leader, the iconic statesman, but his letters to his | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
wife let us see a completely different side. The family man, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
full of tenderness, warmth and love, and unquestioning devotion to his | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
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What a beautiful story! Just goes to show that love can sweep you off | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
your feet. Angellica, did you know Blenheim Palace is not of the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
birthplace of Winston Churchill, it is also a playground for ghosts? | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
didn't know that. This house is supposed to be haunted. Dean | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Griffiths was the chaplain of the first Duke of the palace. The wife | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
of the 9th Duke wrote in her memoirs about being woken up by a | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
ghastly man standing over the edge of the bed. It is supposed to be | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
the ghost of Griffiths. I don't like ghost stories. Another Dutch | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
is used to walk around the palace that night slamming doors. BANGING. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
This is not funny. It reminds me of the time the One Show has sent me | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
ghost hunting one Hallowe'en. If I have been persuaded to spend | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the night in one of Britain's strangest, spookiest and scariest | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
place for that. Woodchester Manor in deepest Gloucestershire has a | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
long history of strange and unexplained events. We want to see | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
how spending time in this place affects me and give the ghosts are | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
all in my head. Woodchester Manor could be from | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
central casting for a horror movie. Abandoned in the 1870s because its | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
owner could not afford to complete it, it has remained in this estate | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
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It is the perfect setting for our experiment. To find out whether the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
fear of ghosts is out there or all in the mind. After all, why should | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
I be afraid of something I have never had any experience of or even | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
senior? I have always grown up believing there are forces, good | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
verses evil, but coming here knowing I was filming, I was | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
nervous, I will be honest. The thought that I am going to be in | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
this mansion when it will be really dark makes me feel quite vulnerable. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
I can't believe I am actually saying that because I like to think | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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Woodchester Manor stands on the foundations of a much older | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
building, spring Park, which the owner did wallop -- demolished to | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
make way for the new house. Dr Peter Forster is senior lecturer of | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
psychology at the University of Gloucestershire. How do places like | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
this bring about fear if you don't know that ghosts exist? If that is | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
an interesting question. If you don't know, if you don't believe in | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
ghosts, it is probably not going to evoke much fear that if you believe | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
in ghosts, then you will feel really quite afraid because this | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
plays have the reputation of being haunted, there are people who take | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
that very, very seriously and believe there are ghostly presences | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
here. Some people's beliefs about ghosts are not benign. They could | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
harm us. That can evoke real genuine fear. If I am not sure if I | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
believe in ghosts but I am coming to a place, like you said, where | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
people have felt a presence, so it is never in what those people think | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
going to make me scared? -- so is knowing what they think? If you | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
take them seriously, yes. Do you believe in ghosts? Probably not. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Even Dr Vorster cannot be certain that there is nothing here that I | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
should be scared of. The Gloucestershire paranormal research | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
group has been visiting the mansion for the last four years and some of | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
the events they have sailed raised more questions than answers. -- | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
they have filmed. What are you doing? We have put up some | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
recording equipment on the Archway. And some cameras? Yes. We caught a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
strange light in this part before. What do you mean, a strange light | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
anomaly? Well... It was on a camera. It looks like the outline of a | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
hooded figure that walks across that doorway. We tried to recreate | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
it. We thought it was a straight torchlight coming into the windows. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
But we could not get anywhere near it. So you saw a hooded figure? | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
What looks like a hooded figure. Absolutely. I am not sure who to | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
believe. Dr Forster and assignments or experiences recorded by Dave and | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Chris and most of all, I don't know how I am going to feel being here, | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
alone at night. It is 6:30pm. The sun is setting | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
and it is getting quite dark. It is getting a bit chilly. The eeriness | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
of the mansion is becoming more apparent. Also there are bats | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
flying around. There is something about them that makes me think of | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
ghosts, a -- of vampires and spooky things. Not good? | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Are we ready? Before a change my mind? | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
We are going to attempt to draw out any paranormal activity at what | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Chris calls hot spots, areas of the house where he has recorded | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
mysterious events. Sorry, it is the bats. | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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I had something in there? Are you OK? -- I heard something in there! | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
It was rustling. It could be mice. I feel like I am going crazy! I | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
think something is here with the me. It has rarely unsettled me but I am | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
determined that some rustling is not going to stop me. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
There is only one thing for it. I am going to have to go up into the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
attic, known for strange things getting on, alone, without the | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
camera crew. Dan there is pitch black. -- Dalol | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
there is pitch black and it is pitch black down there. And really, | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
I don't want to go any further... I am a little bit scared of ghosts. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Right, I am up here and I am bricking it! Have I gone the right | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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way? I have gone a long wait... Great... I have gone down that long | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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corridor! I think they are down Oh my God! I went down the wrong | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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corridor! I did it!! APPLAUSE. That was so scary! | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
This is better! Blenheim's gardens are open to the public and are | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
absolutely magnificent. What gave you! There are over 2000 acres of | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
landscaped parkland, including lawns, gardens and a lake, all | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
described as being one of England's greatest gardens. Christine Walkden | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
tip to the skies to marvel at another of his grand designs. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
At Croom Court in Worcestershire, you can see one of the most | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
influential gardens in Britain. It was here in the mid- 18th century | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
that the traditional formal garden was transformed into a flowing | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
landscape that imitated nature on a grand scale. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
In these gardens, you would be putting in some roses and a pond. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
At Croom Court, it meant building an artificial lake and even Hills, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
and this great landscape revolution was down to one man: Capability | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
Brown. Born in 1716, lots are not Capability Brown started his career | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
as a simple gardener's boy and became Britain's most famous | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
landscape architect. His radical approach was pioneered here, at | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Croom Court, where the old geometric garden was ripped up in | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
favour of grassy meadows, leading right up to the front door. Clumps | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
of trees were cunningly positioned to tease the eye, hearth revealing | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
classical scholars. This lady has been researching the garden at | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
Croom Court for 25 years. What do you enjoy so much? What did | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
you enjoy working here? Look at it. The only things allowed in the line | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
of sight were these idyllic buildings arranged in exactly the | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
right position. To get those perfect sightlines, Capability | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Brown had a medieval church knocked down. Be built a new one because we | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
are standing in it. The trees hid unsightly farmland beyond. But | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
after World War II, much of the landscape was nearly lost when the | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
gardens were ploughed over for agriculture. In fact, in 1996, | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
there was a rape -- a rapeseed field here. Ten years ago I found | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
aboard with what looked like a map on it and this match was very | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
important because it shows Brown's planting and it is the map the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
National Trust are using today to reinstate the park because it even | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
tallies with a GPS survey today. Phenomenal! This so the surveying | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
techniques in 1796 were amazing! The best way to see how he changed | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
the groom court landscape is higher up in The One Show balloon. With me, | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
is Michael Smith, the estate manager. It is the first time I | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
have ever seen it from the air, and we can get an appreciation of the | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
scale of the landscape work here. We can see it as he imagined it. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Yes, yet they could never have imagined seeing it from here. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
love Capability Brown's greatest achievements was to turn this boggy | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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land into a long meandering plot of land in the shape of the serpent. | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
Look how the island forms the RI of the serpent's head. What is the | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
story of the serpent? They planted some trees to create a micro- | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
climate for Lebanese Cedars and we put them exactly where Capability | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Brown had them in the 18th century. They obviously worked. From up here, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
you can see how the 700 acre landscape contrast strongly with | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
the fields beyond. It is the enormity of the estate. Where are | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
the boundaries? There are boundaries of the design landscape | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
is the dark brown that circles this valley. They tease mind-boggling to | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
think just how many people must have been involved in shaping and | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
maintaining this giant garden. have one built in the archives | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
which describes 67 people employed just to take care of the lawn as a. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Any idea how much that cost? today's money, about �40 million. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
It is thanks to this financial investment there 250 years later we | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
are still able to marvel at this extraordinary landscape today. | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
would Capability Brown had given to be up here in this balloon?! | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
The years before Capability Brown got his hands on the garden of | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
learn them and before the palace was even build, this used to be a | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
deer park and was known as the Manor of Woodstock locally. There | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
were about 1000 deer back then. When Thomas Jefferson visited in | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
1786, he recorded over 2000 fallow deer roaming in the expansive | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
parkland, but 100 years on a smaller species has now become a | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
shy but familiar sight throughout the fields and woods. This animal | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
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has travelled a long way. These words in the heart of bed -- | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
Bedfordshire... An ancient beast lives here. In the 19th century, | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
John Reeves, A T inspector and a keen naturalist, visited China and | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
brought back some specimens of their native deer as a gift for the | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Duke of Bedford. They are called muntjac deer and to his estimated | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
that there are about 40,000 of them in southern Britain. They are the | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
oldest species of deer in the world and so is estimated they originated | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
some 35 million years ago. This has made them incredibly resilient, and | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
despite being thousands of miles away from south-east Asia, in just | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
80 years they have adapted to life in the UK. Martin Webber is a | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
wildlife ranger with the Forestry Commission. He told me more about | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
why these deer are so successful. The females are almost permanently | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
pregnant. They have a seven-month breeding cycle and within 36 hours | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
of giving birth they are able to conceive again. And they are | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
spreading wider across the country, aren't they? It was worked out a | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
few years ago that the range can extend by about one kilometre or a | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
year. Martin is able to estimate both the population numbers and how | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
far the muntjac deer are spreading by looking out for tell-tale signs | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
in the wards. Given the large numbers, we should be able to spot | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
one of them. It was not long before we came across a sure sign of one. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
This is a rum leading across here. Yes, they have worn down the | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
vegetation. Let's see what they have done on the other side. This | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
is Hazel. As you can see, it has tried to grow. This is new growth. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Yes, it has tried to grow but you can see the end have been ripped | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
off. We knew the deer were closed but after another two hours of | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
trekking, we still have -- hadn't seen this elusive animal so I | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
decided to try something else. At dawn the next day, I made my way to | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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I sat there perfectly still and Finally, my patience paid off. I | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
can't believe I have finally seen one, I have been waiting so long | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
and they have been so elusive. Finally, my first muntjac deer! So | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
there you have it, an encounter with an oriental beast right in the | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
middle of an English woodland. But there is a twist in the Taylor this | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
story. In their native countries of south-east Asia, muntjac deer are a | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
delicacy. Not only are they being hunted, their habitat is also being | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
destroyed so numbers are on the decline. By contrast, their | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
population in the UK is now one of the largest and most successful. So, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
the muntjac deer here may find themselves one day back on a slow | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
boat to China to be the saviour of their species. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Luckily they no longer turn Diez heads into truth is here, they have | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
found a much grander way of adorning the walls. Inside the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
palace you can get an idea of how people lived. Christopher Wren was | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
responsible for much of the into -- interior design. Around every | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
corner there is opulence and grandiose. These rooms are filled | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
with treasures collected over 300 years. There are amazing tapestries | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
to commemorate victories of the first Duke. There is even some Van | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
Dyke paintings. It is all very nice, but how one decorates one's house | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
is a very personal thing. As I discovered, the 70s inspired wall | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
hanging is soaring in popularity once again. In the late 1930s, | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
anyone aspiring to set themselves apart from their neighbours would | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
proudly displayed desirable object like these flying ducks in their | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
homes. By the time Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden hung a set of | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
marks on her Muriel, they were considered by some to be the height | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
of good taste. The history of decorative dogs goes back further | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
than you think. Ivory carvings found in a German cave are thought | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
to be the oldest figurines ever found, proving their popularity | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
goes back to the cavemen. So why do they have such timeless appeal? I | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
have come to meet Antiques Roadshow's 20th century expert | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
William Farmer. Tell me about who designed them? Lots of firms made | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
them, but these bears which ones are considered the classics. They | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
were designed by a man called Mr Watkin. And it was not just | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
restricted to docks, was it? pheasants, partridges, and even a | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
flamingo. You will always find, as a new generation comes up to stamp | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
its identity, they will look back and say it is awful, bad taste, | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
let's throw them out. They were thrown out. If these were put in a | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
living room with your lava lamp and shag-pile carpet, they suddenly | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
look very wrong. Their vivid colours and animated style has | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
earned them a firm place in popular culture, and they have been copied | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
and parodied by designers and advertisers alike. Guinness had | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
their flying toucans, even Wallace and Gromit have a set. They now | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
enjoy pride Of place on the walls of retro enthusiasts and can fetch | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
thousands at auction. Carolyn is one of Britain's most dedicated | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
collectors. How did the fascination start? It started with my love of | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
the 50s. These are on iconic symbol of the 50s. How many do you have? | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
We lost count at about 300 and they are not all here. Some casualties | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
are in a box downstairs with broken wings because they used to fall off | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
the wall all the time. There are so many different varieties, aren't | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
they? Yes, there are some very rare birds including the blue tits, and | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
the hummingbirds especially can't really rare. What do you think the | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
appeal of the flying ducks is today? May appeal to people for | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
different reasons. There are serious collectors, and then people | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
who just see them R's are fantastic kitsch icon, as I think they should | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
be, and then there are people who just love wildlife and think having | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
them on your wall brings the outdoors indoors. Whether you | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
consider these little flying ducks the height of bad taste or the | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
epitome of style, there is no denying their appeal has endured | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
longer than any other mass-market masterpiece. For that alone, they | :28:08. | :28:17. |