:00:07. > :00:11.from Gujarat. For me, the UK meant London or Manchester or Birmingham.
:00:11. > :00:15.That is all I knew about Britain. I didn't know that something like
:00:15. > :00:18.Pontypool existed. On arrival they often found it was very difficult
:00:18. > :00:21.and pretty impossible to get posts in prestigious areas, and so would
:00:21. > :00:31.end up where the job vacancies were, which were often in general
:00:31. > :00:33.practice in deprived rural areas. It is a culture shock because
:00:33. > :00:35.things were totally different. People lived differently and talked
:00:35. > :00:39.differently. Were there any words that you particularly struggled
:00:39. > :00:43.with? There is a place near here that was very difficult for me to
:00:43. > :00:48.pronounce and even spell - Pontnewynydd. It was not unbearably
:00:48. > :00:51.cold, but what struck me first was how grey it was. There was no
:00:51. > :00:56.sunshine, as back in India everything has plenty of light and
:00:56. > :00:59.houses of all colours. I grew up as a vegetarian and the only
:00:59. > :01:04.vegetarian food I got in hospital was a couple of lettuce leaves,
:01:04. > :01:07.couple of tomatoes, and a little bit of cheese. But the differences
:01:07. > :01:10.went much deeper than the food and the weather. This heavily
:01:10. > :01:13.industrialised region had some of the poorest health in the country
:01:13. > :01:17.and the doctors were faced with a range of diseases they had rarely
:01:17. > :01:26.encountered before. When I worked in India, in those days it was
:01:26. > :01:30.mostly infectious diseases. Diseases from malnutrition. We came
:01:30. > :01:33.across smallpox, TB, typhoid, malaria. Here it was all chest
:01:33. > :01:38.diseases, heart disease and high blood pressure and even some
:01:38. > :01:44.cancers which were very rare back in India. I had to learn all those
:01:44. > :01:47.things all over again, and then start treating them as I went along.
:01:47. > :01:51.And some of the local people still remember their first encounter with
:01:51. > :01:55.an Indian doctor. Well, I suppose it was exciting in one way because
:01:55. > :02:01.it was somebody different. Everybody was a bit nosy and wanted
:02:01. > :02:05.to meet him. People started coming to see you, telling you of their
:02:05. > :02:11.dark secrets. Then you knew that they were treating you as someone
:02:11. > :02:18.whom they trusted. And who they felt would give them the right
:02:18. > :02:20.advice. That is when I felt that I had arrived. These doctors from
:02:20. > :02:25.India really contributed in a very significant way to the development
:02:25. > :02:29.of the NHS. I think it is quite fair to say that the NHS would not
:02:29. > :02:35.be what it is today without the contribution. Do you consider
:02:35. > :02:39.yourself to be Indian or Welsh? associate with my friends here, I
:02:39. > :02:44.am completely Welsh. I certainly don't consider myself Indian as
:02:44. > :02:54.such, though of course you never lose the feeling. When I am in
:02:54. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :02:58.India I am an Indian but when I am Surely this is the best way to
:02:58. > :03:04.travel? It is absolutely beautiful out here. I love it. 40 minutes
:03:05. > :03:08.west of Barry, and you know what? There is nobody else around. This
:03:08. > :03:13.must be one of Britain's best kept secrets. Not for long. We have
:03:13. > :03:16.blown it now. Yes, we have let the cat out of the bag. Very much so.
:03:16. > :03:22.Time to head north to a more crowded beach, Blackpool in fact,
:03:22. > :03:31.with the story of how thousands of airmen ended up there. Here is Dan
:03:31. > :03:36.This is Blackpool international airport. Our launching pad for
:03:36. > :03:40.holidaymakers but in the past a vital part of the nation's defences.
:03:41. > :03:43.70 years ago this would have been a very different scene. Runways and
:03:43. > :03:46.hangers would have been teeming with military aircraft because this
:03:46. > :03:52.was an RAF base, and one that played a crucial role in World War
:03:52. > :03:57.II. In fact, the whole town was transformed by war. Holidaymakers
:03:57. > :04:00.still came, but shared the beach with thousands of trainee aircrew.
:04:00. > :04:05.This famous resort was turned into RAF Blackpool, a vital centre for
:04:05. > :04:07.training the airmen that were taking the war to Hitler. Russell
:04:07. > :04:14.Brown is an aircraft archaeologist with a particular fascination for
:04:14. > :04:17.Blackpool's largely forgotten role in the war. Blackpool turned out to
:04:17. > :04:20.be the biggest RAF train station throughout the Second World War.
:04:20. > :04:26.Three quarters of a million blokes do their basic training in
:04:26. > :04:29.Blackpool. What would Blackpool have looked and sounded like in
:04:29. > :04:31.those years? It would have been absolutely heaving with airmen.
:04:31. > :04:35.Where would they have stayed during their training? Boarding houses,
:04:35. > :04:38.guest houses, hotels all over Blackpool. Wartime planners chose
:04:38. > :04:45.Blackpool to be the biggest RAF training centre because there was
:04:45. > :04:48.plenty of comfortable accommodation. But there were still dangers. These
:04:48. > :04:50.archives contain the story of a terrible accident when two RAF
:04:50. > :04:56.aeroplanes collided directly over the heads of thousands of
:04:56. > :05:01.holidaymakers, on one of the busiest days of the year. The best
:05:01. > :05:05.way to get a clear picture of what actually happened is from the air.
:05:05. > :05:07.We need to head straight to Blackpool's busiest area. The
:05:07. > :05:13.aeroplanes collided close to the seafront and some of its main
:05:13. > :05:16.attractions, then as now, the central pier and the tower. What
:05:16. > :05:19.happened in August 1941, three fighter trainers flying in close
:05:19. > :05:24.formation and at the end of the exercise they broke up to head back
:05:24. > :05:29.to base. Unfortunately, a reconnaissance aeroplane was flying
:05:29. > :05:39.underneath them. What happened next was captured by a seafront
:05:39. > :05:40.
:05:40. > :05:42.photographer. As one of the fighters went into a dive, it hit
:05:42. > :05:45.the reconnaissance plane and both aircraft crashed to the ground. The
:05:45. > :05:48.fighter demolished a house in the centre of Blackpool. The crew were
:05:48. > :05:51.killed, but the occupants were lucky and survived. One of the
:05:51. > :05:56.training aircraft smashed the tail off the buffer, and the tail
:05:56. > :05:59.crashed into the sea here. The main part of the aircraft hurtled to
:05:59. > :06:03.earth and plunged into the ground right there, where that car park is,
:06:03. > :06:06.next to the tower. The problem is that back then it was not a car
:06:06. > :06:09.park, it was Blackpool station and it was crowded with thousands of
:06:09. > :06:13.people, many of them holidaymakers coming to escape the horrors of war
:06:13. > :06:18.in the rest of the UK. Eight-year- old Percy Featherstone was one of
:06:18. > :06:23.those holidaymakers. He was in the station ticket hall with his mother
:06:23. > :06:25.when the aeroplane crashed into it. The sound was horrendous. As it
:06:25. > :06:33.ripped through the roof, the metal tearing, it hits the ground,
:06:33. > :06:43.exploded, and blasted aviation fuel all over the place. That ignited
:06:43. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:48.and there was a sheet of flame all round us. I couldn't feel the blast.
:06:49. > :06:51.It is amazing how vividly you seem to remember it. It is something I
:06:52. > :06:58.could never forget. I can bring back the feelings, the smells, in
:06:58. > :07:03.my own mind, any time at all. Some things fade away, but things like
:07:03. > :07:09.that, they just stay with you for ever. Altogether, 18 people were
:07:09. > :07:11.killed including the aircrew and 39 were injured. There is very little
:07:11. > :07:16.left to reveal that this accident ever happened, and where once there
:07:16. > :07:21.were platforms is now car park. Where the ticket office once stood,
:07:21. > :07:28.is an amusement arcade. Blackpool's vital role in the war, and the toll
:07:28. > :07:32.it took, are now largely forgotten. Thank you, Dan. If you are thinking
:07:32. > :07:35.to yourself, I am having a terrible sense of deja vu, that is because
:07:35. > :07:45.this is Marco's cafe. Yes, Marco's cafe where Stacey Shipman worked in
:07:45. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:51.Gavin And Stacey. Have I mentioned Yes, sir, can I help you? I'd like
:07:51. > :07:57.some drinks, please. Lots of cans, and a smooch, full smooch and a
:07:57. > :08:03.cuddle. She doesn't work here any more, but Marco from Marco's cafe
:08:03. > :08:06.does. And he is here. This is the actual market. What was it like
:08:06. > :08:11.when the spaceship that is Gavin And Stacey descended on you here in
:08:11. > :08:14.Barry Island? It was bizarre. It was absolutely bizarre. When they
:08:14. > :08:18.arrived on Barry Island, I knew this would be big. I knew it would
:08:18. > :08:22.be big for Barry Island, and Barry, and put Barry Island on the global
:08:22. > :08:30.map. Everybody knows where Barry Island is now. Were you prepared to
:08:30. > :08:36.become known as Marco all over the world? No. I wasn't. You quite like
:08:36. > :08:40.it? I love it, actually! Being modest! Where do you come from?
:08:40. > :08:43.Where is your family from? Marco was not a typically Welsh name.
:08:43. > :08:50.family originate in a little market town in Italy in the province of
:08:50. > :08:54.Parma, famous for Parmesan cheese and prosciutto. There is a massive,
:08:54. > :08:58.massive Italian Welsh community from that area of Italy. Yes, there
:08:58. > :09:02.is. Could you imagine, God forbid, if the Italians had never come to
:09:02. > :09:05.Wales? What would it be like? would be an ice cream desert here.
:09:05. > :09:13.You have to have an talian involved in manufacturing ice cream in my
:09:13. > :09:19.opinion. You do. We have some of your cakes here. Only one set of
:09:19. > :09:24.cakes is a Welsh cake. I would like you to work out which one it is.
:09:24. > :09:34.it the one with the strawberry on it? I am afraid you have got it
:09:34. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:37.wrong. If I am not mistaken, this is a Welsh cake. That is. While we
:09:37. > :09:43.enjoy these, please enjoy the film I made about a secret cake club,
:09:43. > :09:47.which starts now. Somewhere near Leeds, Mike Wallace is not just
:09:47. > :09:51.baking a cake. He is getting ready for the latest meeting of the
:09:51. > :09:56.secret society. We'll make cakes and we try not to make the same one
:09:56. > :10:03.as other people. But to find out where the event is being held is
:10:03. > :10:07.quite cool. It is that secretive, planned as an aspect of it. -- clan
:10:07. > :10:12.this time. This mild-mannered systems administrator is an
:10:12. > :10:20.unlikely candidate for a double life. But I have followed in to the
:10:20. > :10:26.latest secret cake Club gathering. Location? Upstairs, art gallery,
:10:27. > :10:31.restaurant area. And there they are. It is a simple idea. You bake a
:10:31. > :10:35.cake, you bring it along, you eat other people's cakes, and then you
:10:36. > :10:41.take some home. It is spreading like butter cream on a warm night.
:10:41. > :10:45.There is even a branch in Barcelona. And as if cake is not exciting
:10:45. > :10:53.enough, there is the added attraction of secret locations.
:10:53. > :11:02.This has got an element of hidden secret things. It makes it just
:11:02. > :11:07.that little bit more edgy. Lynn Hill founded the first cake club a
:11:07. > :11:11.year ago and has changed is the venue each time to keep the club
:11:11. > :11:16.from going stale. I like to have the mystique from hidden places,
:11:16. > :11:25.and I usually tell the guests and bakers read the event is just a few
:11:25. > :11:30.hours beforehand. It could be a few days beforehand. It are about fun.
:11:30. > :11:37.It is all about meeting people. Cake bakers across the UK soon
:11:37. > :11:46.wanted a slice of the action and the advice on how to set up their
:11:46. > :11:52.own clubs. There are now 30 clubs in the country and new members
:11:52. > :11:55.simply register on their website to hot up with their local branch.
:11:55. > :11:59.Cake people are friendly people. They go out of their way to spend
:11:59. > :12:08.hours making something to share with other people. Like any good
:12:08. > :12:13.spy ring, this cake rain has stricter rules. No tarts, Brownies,
:12:13. > :12:19.cupcakes, pies or muffins. Just proper, big, cake. What would you
:12:19. > :12:24.do if I walked in here with a tart? No. That is not allowed. It has to
:12:24. > :12:28.be all about cake. What about a repeat offender who carried on
:12:28. > :12:32.bringing in pies? If somebody did turn up with pies, because we are a
:12:32. > :12:42.friendly community, I would welcome them with open arms. We would have
:12:42. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:50.tasted, and we would convert them. Now, it's time for the slightly
:12:50. > :12:54.subversive baking circle to pack up and blend back in with the rest of
:12:54. > :12:57.the population. See, secret cake societies - if I hadn't brought
:12:57. > :13:07.them to your attention you'd never know. Don't worry, I'm monitoring
:13:07. > :13:10.the situation very closely. Great film. It had to happen sooner or
:13:10. > :13:16.later. Time for some vital statistics about Barry. Such as,
:13:16. > :13:21.did you know it has a tidal range of 15 metres, the second highest in
:13:21. > :13:25.the world? Whitmore Bay here has almost exactly the same dimensions
:13:26. > :13:30.as Bondi in Sydney Australia and the climate's virtually the same.
:13:30. > :13:37.Enough. Our competitive bird man, Mike, is bursting to tell you all
:13:37. > :13:45.about his bittern. It's the best of bittern. Spring - it's the time of
:13:45. > :13:52.year when the birds are at their noisiest. Which is the loudest bird
:13:52. > :13:56.of all? The reed beds here in Suffolk hold the answer. Just
:13:56. > :14:06.before dawn, the males begin their mating call, which sounds something
:14:06. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:13.like this. It's the bittern. Once you've heard one booming you'll
:14:13. > :14:23.never forget it. It's a bird so rare and secretive that people
:14:23. > :14:25.
:14:25. > :14:28.agonise to see it. That's why these shots are just so special. In a TV
:14:28. > :14:35.first we've caught something unique, something not even David
:14:35. > :14:42.Attenborough has seen. For that, you'll have to wait. The bittern
:14:42. > :14:49.became very close to being extinct in Britain recently? That's right.
:14:49. > :14:53.In the early 1990s only eleven here. What did you do to turn it around?
:14:53. > :14:58.There was a recognition that the reed beds were drying out and they
:14:58. > :15:02.were becoming less favourable, so there's been a lot of work to make
:15:02. > :15:08.reed beds wetter and the population's turned around as a
:15:08. > :15:18.consequence. There are now known to be 82 booming males nationally. Ten
:15:18. > :15:22.here at Minsmere. It's an elusive one? It is. It tends to skulk away
:15:22. > :15:28.and very hard to see. Basically, that plumage is designed to help
:15:28. > :15:31.camouflage them in the reed bed. it's difficult for us to see one,
:15:31. > :15:36.then it's likely other bitterns can't see it either and that's the
:15:36. > :15:44.reason for the boom. That's to let females far and wide know where it
:15:44. > :15:50.is. We had one deep, booming bird that was here for many years that
:15:50. > :15:54.got the nickname Barry White. He was king. Reed bed basically.
:15:54. > :15:57.are more Barry White than Bee Gee. Absolutely. There is the low
:15:57. > :16:03.frequency that helps the sound to cary through the beds, so you can
:16:03. > :16:05.hear it up to three miles away. You've been here for how long?
:16:05. > :16:12.Five-and-a-half years and I've not been unfortunate enough to witness
:16:12. > :16:22.one booming. All this talk of booming bitterns is making me
:16:22. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:38.hungry to hear one. The best time for that is at dawn. It's just one
:16:38. > :16:42.of the most amazing noises in the natural world. That's not hyperbole,
:16:42. > :16:46.is it? There's nothing quite like it. You won't hear a sound like
:16:46. > :16:52.that from another bird in Britain. We are so close, maybe 50 metres,
:16:52. > :16:59.you can hear it starting off. What is going on? We are not entirely
:16:59. > :17:04.sure in terms of how they boom, but it's always referred to as gulping
:17:04. > :17:07.to give out the deep sound. It's called infrasound and it's also
:17:07. > :17:15.used by lions and elephants to communicate across the African
:17:15. > :17:25.plains. Now, for our TV first. These are our cameraman's
:17:25. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:32.extraordinary images of how the bittern booms. Booming marvellous!
:17:32. > :17:39.That's worse than best of bittern. I think it's better. Watch your
:17:39. > :17:43.step. I am. The stones were supposedly laid because a love-
:17:43. > :17:47.stricken girl couldn't reach her paramour on this side. Lovely and
:17:47. > :17:51.Roman take, but if they were that keen on each other it's quite
:17:51. > :17:56.shallow. She could have waded across and got her feet wet.
:17:56. > :18:01.However, Gavin, now he lived in Essex and he had to get all the way
:18:01. > :18:09.around the M25, South Mimms can be murder. That is love. Yes. But that
:18:09. > :18:19.wasn't the 13th century, pre M4 corridor. Here's some more amazing
:18:19. > :18:20.
:18:20. > :18:23.sounds from the One Show Box. Wildlife sound recordist, Chris
:18:23. > :18:28.Watson, is a world leader in his field, providing extraordinary
:18:28. > :18:32.sounds for some of the best-loved nature programmes. It's tricky
:18:32. > :18:35.stuff and one of his more challenging tasks has been to find
:18:36. > :18:43.sounds to match the increasingly close shots captured by today's
:18:43. > :18:53.cameras. Just listen to Chris's recordings of these vul tours in
:18:53. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:04.Africa. -- vul tours in Africa. The way he works was pioneered in his
:19:04. > :19:08.garden here. What are you up to here? I have the carcass of a
:19:08. > :19:14.chicken. I am fixing two microphones in the hope it will
:19:14. > :19:24.attract down the birds. Our first customer to the carcass is a black
:19:24. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:35.bird. Blackbird. The sound as he's peeking at the carcass. Duff, Duff,
:19:35. > :19:38.that's on the bone. We all love the sound of the seaside crashing waves,
:19:38. > :19:45.boat horns and children playing with buckets and spades, but what
:19:45. > :19:50.does it sound like inside a rock pool? How will reregard the sounds?
:19:50. > :19:57.-- record the sounds? I have some special underwater microphones
:19:57. > :20:01.which can explore all the nooks and crannies and maybe follow something.
:20:01. > :20:08.There's so much there. Incredible. This is constant chattering and
:20:08. > :20:15.chirping and scraping. It's almost like it's a little coffee morning
:20:15. > :20:25.going on. There is a sort of a raspy sound. Limpets snoring, I've
:20:25. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:35.never recorded that. Oh, wow! was that? I think that's a shrimp.
:20:35. > :20:42.There is one very close by. It's got a birdsong call to it.
:20:42. > :20:45.Fascinated by that. It's a fantastic tree. It's like something
:20:45. > :20:50.out of Lord of the Rings. What are you hoping to get from this? It's
:20:50. > :20:55.an old oak and we can hear the birdsong in and around, but I'm
:20:55. > :21:01.interested in getting inside the tree and hear the secret sounds
:21:01. > :21:05.from within. How will we hear the insects? I can't hear anything.
:21:05. > :21:08.It's full of activity and life and I've got the special contact
:21:08. > :21:18.microphones, which pick up sound in a different way by picking up the
:21:18. > :21:22.
:21:22. > :21:32.vibrations. That makes my skin crawl. It's like lots of insects
:21:32. > :21:36.walking all over you. You have some on the outside too? Yeah. From what
:21:36. > :21:40.we are hearing from within the dead wood, it would be interesting to
:21:40. > :21:47.put some on the bark of the tree, on the outside, just to see what's
:21:47. > :21:52.happening there. It sounds just like a raging torrent. If you
:21:52. > :22:01.listen very carefully through the am beeient noise of the tree,
:22:01. > :22:06.you'll here -- ambient noise of the tree, you'll here a popping sound.
:22:06. > :22:14.That is the sound of the sap It's been drawn out of the ground. It's
:22:14. > :22:23.the sound of the life of the tree. It's you, in here. Yes. You know
:22:23. > :22:33.what it is? It's Stacey's mate Nessa's change booth. What do you
:22:33. > :22:35.
:22:35. > :22:39.want? �5 worth of pennies Yes. -- pennies? Yes. What do you want that
:22:39. > :22:46.for? It's Giles, he's run out again. Oophs, you've caught me at it.
:22:46. > :22:52.Naughty, but nice! Where did the What The Butler Saw machine come
:22:52. > :23:02.from, and as if you didn't know, what was its appeal? This machine
:23:02. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:08.is called a muet scope. The technique was invected over -- mute
:23:08. > :23:16.scope. The technique was invented over 100 years ago. The business
:23:16. > :23:20.was almost killed off by the dawn of early cinema. What saved it?
:23:21. > :23:23.Sauce, of course. Some bright spark realised the public would go on
:23:24. > :23:32.paying if they can see something in the machine they didn't dare show
:23:32. > :23:39.in the cinema. The favourite was cheeky films of scantily dressed
:23:39. > :23:42.women. This fuelled such a boom in peep shows in the 1920s they become
:23:42. > :23:46.a regular end-of-the-pier attraction for the next 40 years.
:23:46. > :23:53.They were based on the simple idea of a butler peeking through a
:23:53. > :23:57.keyhole. If you want to see one today you'll have to come to a
:23:57. > :24:03.penny arcade museum, like this one on Brighton's seafront. It's owned
:24:03. > :24:09.by Gerry. He's a collector. This is a lovely looking machine. How old
:24:09. > :24:14.is it? About 110 years old. It would have been made somewhere
:24:14. > :24:17.between 1898 and 1901. How exactly does it work? It works on the flick
:24:17. > :24:25.book principle, where the pictures were arranged around a reel like
:24:25. > :24:29.this. When the reel is inside the machine, the player turns the
:24:29. > :24:34.handle and it will revolve like that. Wonderful. There are how many
:24:34. > :24:41.of these pictures here? About 850. Individual shots. Rather like the
:24:41. > :24:46.stills from a film. The early films are innocent. You have to remember,
:24:46. > :24:53.this was late Victorian era, so even the sight of an ankle would
:24:53. > :25:00.have been risque. Turn crank to the right. OK. Oh, this is quite
:25:00. > :25:06.exciting. Oh, oh,. This is a him and her one. Oh, oh, oh. The Dance
:25:06. > :25:15.of the Seven Veils. This is it. Well, actually it's about nine at
:25:15. > :25:23.the moment. And that's it? That's all you get? You only paid a penny!
:25:23. > :25:27.Maybe there's something better on the other side! In the 1960s
:25:27. > :25:35.newfangled fruit machines finally elbowed What The Butler Saw off the
:25:35. > :25:38.pier, but still they hold their fascination. Gentlemen, I have
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