:00:20. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to the Monday one Show with Mat Baker and Alex Jones.
:00:26. > :00:30.With more bad weather on the way, we giving a flood victim may birds eye
:00:31. > :00:36.view of the situation by taking him up in a helicopter. We will also
:00:37. > :00:39.meet the teenager who woke up yesterday to discover her car had
:00:40. > :00:45.been swallowed by her driveway. She will be telling us the whole story.
:00:46. > :00:49.It is remarkable. Zoe Smith is with us tonight, and we are joined in the
:00:50. > :00:53.studio by an actor who used to be Brassed Off and Wild At Heart, but
:00:54. > :01:03.now he has cheered up and calmed down. It is Stephen Tompkinson. Very
:01:04. > :01:10.nice to see you. So, DCI Banks, back on the telly this evening. Come on,
:01:11. > :01:15.get to the question you want to ask. Last time we saw you win Truckers,
:01:16. > :01:30.and we did see a bit more Stephen Tompkinson than we were used to.
:01:31. > :01:34.Indeed. None will defeat me! Ecce homo!
:01:35. > :01:44.Yes, we are joining in with the applause as well. Was that quite
:01:45. > :01:48.liberating experience? It's all behind me now. We did film it in the
:01:49. > :01:54.main square in Nottingham, on a Sunday. It was Father's Day. From
:01:55. > :02:00.3pm until 6pm, I had to do that eight times in front of about 2000
:02:01. > :02:05.people, most of them who had just come out of the pub. How do you
:02:06. > :02:10.prepare yourself for a scene like that? You stand on top of a truck
:02:11. > :02:17.and take your clothes off. It's all you can do. You are probably glad it
:02:18. > :02:22.was in January. Absolutely. I wouldn't God have around applause
:02:23. > :02:29.then. -- got a round of applause. On that point, our friends in the
:02:30. > :02:33.weather centre tell us we are about to be battered by more rain and
:02:34. > :02:35.gales over the next few days. That those communities who have suffered
:02:36. > :02:42.weeks of flooding, this is looking like a never ending nightmare. Mike
:02:43. > :02:47.Dilger has given one flood victim a new perspective on his plight -- for
:02:48. > :02:51.those communities. It's been like this here for nearly a month,
:02:52. > :02:55.pouring with rain by never before and these beautiful green plains are
:02:56. > :03:00.under three feet of water. The Somerset Levels by nature is a wet
:03:01. > :03:04.place and areas of flooding in winter are not unusual. But now
:03:05. > :03:08.climate change is occurring, with wetter winters and springs, there
:03:09. > :03:11.might be trouble ahead. I am spending the weekend here to see
:03:12. > :03:15.what it is really like and how the people here can begin to get out of
:03:16. > :03:22.this mess. I've been talking to a lot of them, and one word keeps
:03:23. > :03:25.cropping up, why? The environmental people are supposed to look after
:03:26. > :03:32.the environment. The floods have been here now for four weeks. It's
:03:33. > :03:36.not just water, it is septic tanks flowing into the fields. That
:03:37. > :03:42.sewage, that effluent is poisoning the land. The purpose of the wetter
:03:43. > :03:49.lands is to store water. Not to affect the community. On the ground,
:03:50. > :03:53.everyday life is pretty bleak and dismal at the moment, but I want to
:03:54. > :03:56.get a view of the bigger picture. This is Doctor Chris Parker from the
:03:57. > :04:00.University of the West of England who studies how rivers flow and
:04:01. > :04:08.connect with the sea. Together we are taking to the skies. Here we go!
:04:09. > :04:15.You suddenly can see a whole lot more water appear. Look at that!
:04:16. > :04:19.Basically the river is full, the banks are out of the water, but
:04:20. > :04:26.everything else is inundated. The roads are just the same level as all
:04:27. > :04:29.of the fields. Work could be done to raise the level of the roads, so
:04:30. > :04:35.people could get in and out, which would reduce the impact. The locals
:04:36. > :04:40.were want to know how the problem will be solved for them. There are
:04:41. > :04:44.three ways. There is the hydrology, how much is coming in, and then the
:04:45. > :04:47.river channel, how much is going through. Finally, there are the
:04:48. > :04:52.consequences of the damages associated. Last week we met Peter
:04:53. > :04:59.and Liz Nightingale whose home farm affected. Peter is coming up for
:05:00. > :05:05.view of the. His village, much only, has been cut off and we had to fly
:05:06. > :05:12.into Bill -- pick him up -- much only -- Muchelney. You have lived in
:05:13. > :05:17.Muchelney for 30 years. Tell me what you feel, seeing this? We are used
:05:18. > :05:26.to a bit of flooding every winter, but this is far worse than it has
:05:27. > :05:30.ever been in 90 years. The 2000 years it has been a managed
:05:31. > :05:34.landscape, and that needs to carry on. This degree of flooding needs to
:05:35. > :05:40.be controlled. It just needs dredging. What you are doing in
:05:41. > :05:44.dredging is you try to increase the amount of water going through, that
:05:45. > :05:49.there is nowhere on the Somerset Levels for it to drain to stop
:05:50. > :05:56.people who have lived here all their lives work on their river will stop
:05:57. > :06:00.-- on the river. It used to be drenched adequately but not any
:06:01. > :06:06.more. You can't consign this to a watery grave. This country can't
:06:07. > :06:09.afford to give up land. We look at a time when you say enough is enough,
:06:10. > :06:16.I am moving to the Mendips, or the high lands. I might have to move
:06:17. > :06:20.upstairs. Time to get our feet on the ground again. Peter takes me to
:06:21. > :06:23.meet the locals back in the village, who have all gathered for lunch in
:06:24. > :06:29.the church. But how are they bearing up? They are tired and weary but
:06:30. > :06:35.they have decided that they will make the best of a bad job. If only
:06:36. > :06:39.people would take note of the old voices that have been here four
:06:40. > :06:46.years and know exactly how the river flows and how the fields flood, that
:06:47. > :06:52.would help. There seems a strong spirit, lots of laughter and
:06:53. > :06:58.chattering. People are not beaten. No, of course not. Slightly more
:06:59. > :07:03.miserable than usual. From what I have seen and heard the arguments
:07:04. > :07:08.about how to prevent this from happening again complex, and
:07:09. > :07:16.opinions are divided. Irrespective of when the water comes and goes,
:07:17. > :07:25.they will be staying put. Now, where is my helicopter? Good community
:07:26. > :07:28.spirit there. My hopes and thoughts are with them over the next few days
:07:29. > :07:32.with all the bad weather coming. It does seem the bad weather is causing
:07:33. > :07:38.all sorts of quirks. Imagine this, waking up and finding this is where
:07:39. > :07:41.your car used to be. That is exactly what happened to Zoe Smith
:07:42. > :07:47.yesterday, and she is here with us now. Nice to see you have a smile on
:07:48. > :07:52.your face. Tell us, what on earth happened? What did you see when you
:07:53. > :07:59.went outside? I didn't see anything, that was the problem. I woke up, I
:08:00. > :08:03.got dressed, open the door, and I thought, I swore I bought -- parked
:08:04. > :08:10.there. I walked round to the window and thought, the ground is a bit
:08:11. > :08:14.dark. Then I realised that the ground was 30 feet down. Yes, my car
:08:15. > :08:20.has turned on its side and it is the other way up. And it is still in the
:08:21. > :08:27.hole at the moment? What are the thoughts, are you going to keep it
:08:28. > :08:36.there? It's a bit more difficult. We would like to try and get it out,
:08:37. > :08:41.but at the moment it is stuck. You gave your car a name, Bruce. Now
:08:42. > :08:48.he's buried alive. Maybe he is trying to get to Australia. How
:08:49. > :08:53.worried are your parents? The neighbours, everybody? Everybody is
:08:54. > :08:58.worried but it's one of those freak things. The sort of thing that would
:08:59. > :09:04.only happen to me, really. Are your family still in the house? We are in
:09:05. > :09:07.and out. We have very nice neighbours, Suzanne and Mark, who
:09:08. > :09:16.wanted a mention. They put us up last night and cooked dinner, and it
:09:17. > :09:22.was lovely. Toad in the hole? It is too early for jokes, Stephen. After
:09:23. > :09:29.that it is looking for places to stay. We might be able to shed some
:09:30. > :09:32.light on this. One man who knows all about the perils of a sinkhole is
:09:33. > :09:40.Professor Iain Stewart who joins us from Plymouth University. What on
:09:41. > :09:49.earth has caused this sinkhole? Can you explain? The whole of high
:09:50. > :09:53.Wycombe sits on a layer of clay that is ten feet thick. Underneath that
:09:54. > :09:58.is chalk. The trouble with chalk is that it dissolves, so if you get the
:09:59. > :10:06.rainfall trickling through and a little bit of acid, it eats away at
:10:07. > :10:10.the chalk. So you get sinkhole is -- a sinkhole all over England. The
:10:11. > :10:16.average whole is there, but then it sits there and it will collapse into
:10:17. > :10:22.the hole. It can happen really suddenly. Coincidentally you are
:10:23. > :10:28.presenting a Horizon programme on BBC Two about this. Remarkable it
:10:29. > :10:34.came around tonight. You are looking at this globally, what can people
:10:35. > :10:39.learn? One of the big things is it could have tragic consequences. In
:10:40. > :10:45.Florida, which is the sinkhole capital of the world, about a year
:10:46. > :10:53.ago, a sinkhole opened up under the bedroom of a guy called Jeff Bush
:10:54. > :10:58.and he disappeared down and there was a frantic effort. They just did
:10:59. > :11:04.not find him. The key thing is, what seems to be one of the triggers of
:11:05. > :11:10.these things is dramatic changes in the water table. Sometimes it can be
:11:11. > :11:16.too little water, but in a lot of places it is too much. Professor
:11:17. > :11:20.Iain Stewart, thank you for your time. If that footage is anything to
:11:21. > :11:28.go by, a lot of people will be watching. That woman, going down. I
:11:29. > :11:37.hope not, it clashes with DCI Banks! You've seen all the best bits
:11:38. > :11:43.now! Well, we can joke about it, but Zoe, thanks for coming in. And RIP
:11:44. > :11:47.Bruce. If it's any consolation, we had one develop, and we filled with
:11:48. > :11:53.rubble and the land is secure. I'm sure you will be all right. We have
:11:54. > :11:57.booked your car home. If you like your mysteries to be criminal rather
:11:58. > :12:03.than geological, tonight sees the return of Yorkshire's finest
:12:04. > :12:08.copper, DCI Banks. Coincidentally it is on just the same time as the
:12:09. > :12:13.Horizon special. Here is a look at how well his two female colleagues
:12:14. > :12:16.are getting along. If it's a false alarm we can be escalate, and if not
:12:17. > :12:21.we are looking at a suspected child abduction. With your circumstances,
:12:22. > :12:25.I understand if you don't want to be thrown in at the deep end. She is
:12:26. > :12:33.not the first police officer to have a baby in history, you know. DI
:12:34. > :12:42.Morton, we need the child abduction specialist. She is right. I am fine.
:12:43. > :12:47.DCI Banks is back on ITV, 9pm this evening. And you are obviously
:12:48. > :12:52.caught between two very strong female colleagues. We have seen him
:12:53. > :12:56.working alongside them individually, but then Annie Cabot had to go away
:12:57. > :13:01.and have a baby, so now they are both back. And DCI Banks is stuck in
:13:02. > :13:11.the middle. Trying to keep a happy ship. He is very deadpan. Yes, he is
:13:12. > :13:19.quite dour, but it is a dour job he is doing. Is that what distinguishes
:13:20. > :13:22.him? Peter Robinson, who wrote the series of books, he did a lot of
:13:23. > :13:28.interviews with policemen and he said what makes DCI Banks is his
:13:29. > :13:31.ordinariness. His dogged determination. Peter said he keeps a
:13:32. > :13:40.quote with him, written by John Don mother poet. Any man's Minish is me,
:13:41. > :13:45.because I am involved in mankind -- John Donne. He is very married to
:13:46. > :13:51.the job, but he's the sort of policemen you want. As an actor, how
:13:52. > :13:54.hard is it to play somebody who has been previously bought to live in
:13:55. > :14:00.the books of Peter Robinson? Do you stick to it, or is it your own
:14:01. > :14:03.version of Alan Banks? It's sort of has to be. It is difficult
:14:04. > :14:08.truncating the novel into a two-hour episode and you will never be
:14:09. > :14:11.pleasing to the people who have read their books because they have their
:14:12. > :14:19.own character in their head and I always fail to meet up with. I am
:14:20. > :14:23.five inches taller than the DCI Banks that was created. The first
:14:24. > :14:29.thing I did when we did the pilot four years ago was flying out to
:14:30. > :14:32.meet Peter in Florida and assure him that I was going to get as near to
:14:33. > :14:40.the spirit of the character as possible. He keeps in touch
:14:41. > :14:46.regularly. I really enjoyed Wild at Heart which finished in 2012. Do you
:14:47. > :14:57.miss it? Very much. I dream about the animals. Could that comeback? It
:14:58. > :15:06.was a popular series. Absolutely. There were postcard visions of South
:15:07. > :15:12.Africa. I have never been anywhere where you are so aware of nature. It
:15:13. > :15:28.is nice to be part of the food chain! Very much! You love animals.
:15:29. > :15:33.He was petrified. He could not go near the animals! He was like the
:15:34. > :15:45.character Mark Williams played in the Fast Show. He was examining
:15:46. > :15:50.animals from 50 yards away! When he got there, he was petrified, bless
:15:51. > :15:57.him. Tree news, and after a three month consultation, Scotland finally
:15:58. > :16:06.has it's own national tree. Can we guess what it is? It's the Scots
:16:07. > :16:13.Pine. Of course it is! Miranda has been to meet those on the front line
:16:14. > :16:16.in saving our forests. Across the country, our native trees are
:16:17. > :16:26.suffering. The recent arrival of a fungus from Europe is causing
:16:27. > :16:34.disease. There is hope. Since it officially opened in 2000, Kew
:16:35. > :16:37.Gardens's millennium seed bank has collected seeds from 50 countries
:16:38. > :16:45.around the world, replanting forests from as far away as Madagascar. The
:16:46. > :16:53.recent spate of diseases has turned their attentions much closer to
:16:54. > :16:57.home. Most of continental Europe has 35% tree cover while Britain has
:16:58. > :17:02.15%. We cannot afford to lose more of this habitat. Claire is
:17:03. > :17:08.coordinating the project to help save our native trees. We need to
:17:09. > :17:12.make sure we have seed collections from right across the country, every
:17:13. > :17:19.part of the UK in which these species occur. Saving seeds for the
:17:20. > :17:29.future is complex. Ian Parkinson, the Woodlands manager here, it is
:17:30. > :17:35.collecting seeds. We throw one up into the canopy and it comes down
:17:36. > :17:46.the other side. We grabbed it and shaking vigorously. Seeds needs to
:17:47. > :17:54.be collected when the -- when they are ripe. Shaking the tree should
:17:55. > :17:57.guarantee prime seeds. We are looking for a little white seed in
:17:58. > :18:02.there and for it to be full. That is a seed and looking around, I think
:18:03. > :18:10.we have a pretty good collection. Different trees need different
:18:11. > :18:17.collection techniques. This large beech tree needs to be climbed. I
:18:18. > :18:28.have to say, it has been awhile since I climbed like this. It is
:18:29. > :18:33.hard work. Ian needs to collect 300 different seeds from the tree. You
:18:34. > :18:37.can see how different they are. They are individually placed on the
:18:38. > :18:40.branch and if I give it a poll, there is no amount of shaking that
:18:41. > :18:46.would have got that on the ground. -- April. The seeds are then taken
:18:47. > :18:53.to the laboratories. After they are dried and clean, they are x-rayed to
:18:54. > :19:02.reveal imperfections. Be healthy ones are the ones which are solid
:19:03. > :19:09.and white. -- the healthy ones... These look like they have been
:19:10. > :19:13.partially eaten. Before the seeds are put into final storage, they are
:19:14. > :19:18.packed into airtight glass containers to prepare them for a
:19:19. > :19:22.long stint in the big freeze. It is -20 degrees and I only have 20
:19:23. > :19:27.minutes. At this temperature, I would get hypothermia quite quickly
:19:28. > :19:32.but it preserves many of the seeds for hundreds of years. The coolest
:19:33. > :19:40.thing is that this is the most bio diverse place on the planet. There
:19:41. > :19:44.are 33,000 species kept here. There are challenges. They have discovered
:19:45. > :19:51.that some of our native seeds die if they are dried too much, so they
:19:52. > :19:58.need even colder solutions. We are starting some research now to look
:19:59. > :20:04.at conservation for acorns. We take at the embryo from the seeds, and
:20:05. > :20:10.the embryo is plunged into liquid nitrogen and we are carrying out
:20:11. > :20:14.various experiments to see the best procedure to use. It is really
:20:15. > :20:20.reassuring to know that we have the technology to ensure the survival of
:20:21. > :20:31.our native tree species, whatever the future throws at us. Christine
:20:32. > :20:40.Walkden is here. You used to work in the same place we saw Miranda.
:20:41. > :20:45.Absolutely, 37 years ago. You are the perfect person to talk us
:20:46. > :20:49.through what we have. This is one of the largest seeds in the world and
:20:50. > :20:57.can get up to 17 kilograms. You can model it. That is the biggest. That
:20:58. > :21:10.is not made of plastic, it is real. Absolutely, it is real. Let's look
:21:11. > :21:16.at it in its glory. It is a big tree and has a foot canopy. If that hit
:21:17. > :21:24.you on the head, it will cause a headache. It is the Coco De Mare
:21:25. > :21:29.plant. You would not believe if you sneeze, you would lose the seeds.
:21:30. > :21:41.They are begonias. They are the smallest seeds we deal with. Then
:21:42. > :22:01.you have unusual seeds like the banksias. DCI Banksia? Very good!
:22:02. > :22:09.How long can these seeds survive in this state? One of the oldest seeds
:22:10. > :22:21.to have germinated and produced a plant which is about two metres high
:22:22. > :22:31.is the Methuselah palm tree. Records to show that the Arctic Lupin have
:22:32. > :22:37.germinated after 32,000 years! They can grow. The seeds, if you keep
:22:38. > :22:45.them cool, dark and dry, they will last. It is not dry at the moment.
:22:46. > :22:48.We've just had the wettest January since records began - what one piece
:22:49. > :22:51.of advice would you give to anyone who's garden is underwater? Do
:22:52. > :22:57.absolutely nothing. Keep off the ground. The worst thing you can do
:22:58. > :23:01.is squeeze the soil. Let it rain and then you can talk about doing
:23:02. > :23:09.things. You will do more damage now if you go on it. We will have you
:23:10. > :23:12.back in a few weeks. Absolutely. Nowadays we expect to see news
:23:13. > :23:15.pictures from around the world within minutes. But early
:23:16. > :23:18.photographers had a far harder job getting their shots - especially on
:23:19. > :23:25.the battlefield. Here's a modern photojournalist's tribute to a
:23:26. > :23:28.pioneer of his trade. My name is Charles Dooley and I am a
:23:29. > :23:33.photographer. I have come to Lancashire to find out more about a
:23:34. > :23:39.man who lived in this village. This is a photograph that inspired me
:23:40. > :23:46.when I started my career. It was taken by Roger Fenton in the Crimean
:23:47. > :23:49.War a years ago. He was a pioneer of photography and one of the first on
:23:50. > :23:54.the battlefield. When I first saw this image, I was drawn to it,
:23:55. > :23:57.wondering how something so deceptively simple can create so
:23:58. > :24:05.much emotion and say so much about war. His work in the Crimea startled
:24:06. > :24:13.the public. Many had never even seen photographs before, let alone a
:24:14. > :24:17.war. It was devastating. 25,000 British people died, mostly from
:24:18. > :24:21.disease. Since I started working as a documentary photographer ten years
:24:22. > :24:26.ago, I have been to many conflict areas around the world. I am trying
:24:27. > :24:30.to tell the stories of those caught up in terrible circumstances. I was
:24:31. > :24:34.injured two years ago in Afghanistan and during my recovery, I realised
:24:35. > :24:43.the similarities between myself and Roger Fenton. What I tried to do was
:24:44. > :24:46.revealed the strength and resilience of people in overcoming adversity,
:24:47. > :24:52.rather than succumbing to it. Like the children in Afghanistan who have
:24:53. > :25:00.only known war. I think Roger Fenton offered the same ideals. It was a
:25:01. > :25:09.big, logistical exercise. He had to take several cameras, horses, a
:25:10. > :25:14.wagon, and lenses. The wagon is a converted wine merchant's one. I
:25:15. > :25:21.know, following my accident, I have restrictions. Was it similar with
:25:22. > :25:28.Roger Fenton? Absolutely right. It was a long process, photography. The
:25:29. > :25:30.war lasted more than two years. The British and French were fighting the
:25:31. > :25:39.Russians over who control the Ottoman Empire. It was the victims
:25:40. > :25:41.who went in front of the lens. I think their expressions and their
:25:42. > :25:46.faces are telling you what they have been through. It was a man who is
:25:47. > :25:52.deeply traumatised. I do not know what he lost but he is deeply
:25:53. > :26:00.exhausted. These portraits say more about war than any picture of a
:26:01. > :26:04.soldier firing a gun. I have come to Stonyhurst College because I wanted
:26:05. > :26:12.to see another side of Roger Fenton's work. There is an
:26:13. > :26:19.incredible archive of his work. The curator said the images of the local
:26:20. > :26:27.landscape are among some of her favourite images. This is where you
:26:28. > :26:33.live, this is his roots. It is after the trauma of the Crimean War when
:26:34. > :26:38.he returned home. When you look there is a lot of affection and
:26:39. > :26:41.emotion in some of these images. Even took his camera around the
:26:42. > :26:48.college. This was just down the corridor. An incredible photograph
:26:49. > :26:52.and I have not seen before. Although it is different, it reminds me of
:26:53. > :26:55.the photograph of the Crimea. The sense of space and the light
:26:56. > :27:02.streaming through, a beautiful image. It is very monumental. So
:27:03. > :27:08.much is being told. Would you like to see some more? Absolutely. What I
:27:09. > :27:13.find fascinating, looking at his work, is that his inspiration came
:27:14. > :27:21.from painting. There were no photographers before him. This is a
:27:22. > :27:29.classic example. It is an 18th-century landscape. It reminds
:27:30. > :27:35.me of the work from the Crimea. It is simple but tells a lot.
:27:36. > :27:47.Absolutely. At a time when technology made it easier to take
:27:48. > :27:52.photographs, the important thing we can take from Roger Fenton is the
:27:53. > :27:56.time and consideration before he took a photograph. It is that time
:27:57. > :28:04.and consideration that makes his photographs so powerful. You could
:28:05. > :28:08.stare at that for hours. Joe Crowley is here. Joe, Roger Fenton wasn't
:28:09. > :28:13.just a war and landscape photographer, was he? This is the
:28:14. > :28:19.sort of camera that he would have used. I have been learning how it
:28:20. > :28:25.works. You can see some of the pictures here. You put this liquid
:28:26. > :28:30.over a glass plate and drain it off to leave a sticky gum. You put it
:28:31. > :28:37.into a silver nitrate bath and when it comes out, there is no daylight.
:28:38. > :28:46.Remarkable to think he was doing that in a war zone. Incredible. It
:28:47. > :28:53.is technically difficult and I may have brushed your face out, Alex
:28:54. > :29:01.wrote I am so sorry. I am a headless person! This is the bit where you
:29:02. > :29:09.have ten seconds to get the development over the glass plate and
:29:10. > :29:12.I did not manage to do it. That's all for tonight. Thanks, Stephen.
:29:13. > :29:15.DCI Banks starts tonight 9pm on ITV1. Tomorrow - the undisputed
:29:16. > :29:17.ruler of the rom-com - Richard Curtis will be here. See you at
:29:18. > :29:18.seven, bye.