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Hello and welcome to The One Show with me Matt Baker And me Nina | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Wadia... with me Matt Baker And me Nina | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
So, we didn't scare autocue skills are not very good! | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Tonight's guests have taken autocue skills are not very good! | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
a documentary which took eight autocue skills are not very good! | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
celebrities with a combined age of 426 and flew them to India. We have | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
132 years of them on our sofa so far. It is Wayne Sleep and Rosemary | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Shrager. That sounds awful! This series has taken the BBC by | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
storm. We have so much to talk to you about. I have a really important | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
question for you. Did the cows get in the way of any filming? Yes, of | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
course All the time. We could not touch them. I had to shove his bum | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
out of the way. That is already! A lot of stuff on the ground to be | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
avoided A joy for Countryfile, cows which don't move out of the way. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Masses of pigs. And they slept under your doorstep. That is where they | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
slept. Where did they take you? Everywhere! As we are discussing | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
adventures in later life, tonight we would like to see your pictures of | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
the most surprising thing that you have done since hitting retirement | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
age. Maybe you have been bungee jumping! Taken up an unusual hobby | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
Or got back from your first Justin Bieber concert. Send it to the usual | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
address. A survey shows talking to can help 60% of people with mental | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
health issues. It can sometimes be hard to open up | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
and discuss your feelings, especially if you are struggling. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
When I was a kid my dad used to take me to football matches: That was the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
only time I saw men let their feelings out. As soon as we left the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
stadium it was like the mask wept off and we were afraid to express | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
our emotions. My name is Jonny Benjamin. Like 25% | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
of the population, I have mental health issues. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Two years ago, The One Show was filming as I | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Two years ago, The One Show was man who saved my life. I was just | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
walking to work. I saw somebody man who saved my life. I was just | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
sitting over the side of Waterloo Bridge, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
sitting over the side of Waterloo thing which jumped to my | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
sitting over the side of Waterloo somebody who was going to jump. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
sitting over the side of Waterloo someone was me. Just having Neil | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
talk to me was enough to persuade me to step back from the edge. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Ever since, I have been determined to promote mental health awareness, | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
especially among men. We need to get rid of all of the shame and stigma | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
which comes with mental illness. At the moment in the UK more people die | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
by suicide than in road accidents. I myself almost became one of those | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
statistics. Mental health issues account for one in five visits to | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
GPs. When they are closed there is often nowhere to turn to except for | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
A But here in Aldershot they have | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
opened a cafe in the town centre where people can come for support. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
The most important thing of all is it is open every evening, 365 days a | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
year. There's no need to book an appointment. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Trish Crawford is a mental health practitioner at the centre. The idea | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
behind the cafe was originally to reduce the A admissions. There's | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
no waiting times like A or all that environment things which can be | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
daunting. We are a bit more relaxed, informal. If we need to step up into | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
clinical we can do that as well. It is a place where they can come and | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
just be themselves, really. If they need to talk to somebody, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
they can. And if they just want to sit quietly on their own, that is | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
absolutely fine, too. It is about being somewhere they feel safe and | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
supported. Set up by the Surrey and borders NHS | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Trust, two years ago, the cafe is open late into the evening and is | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
well used, with around 500 visitors every month. What difference does it | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
mean to you to have other people go through similar experiences that you | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
can talk to? It helps to know you are not alone in your struggle. I | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
started to come here a year ago. Before that I was in supported | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
housing and I felt alone. I was self-harming and felt suicidal. I | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
heard about this place, as soon as I walked in, it was calm, it was a | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
really nice atmosphere. Start to feel you are part of a family. You | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
get along with people and laugh. I guess this place is useful when | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
other places are closed. I used it for Christmas and New Year's Day | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
after I was kicked out of home and things. Having a first Christmas | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
without family and things it has been deaf time for me. How long have | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
you come here? Three weeks every night. Evening is the time I am most | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
disturbed with my illness. I have come here because it is a better | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
option than going to A or calling a crisis line. You can come here, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
you can talk to a professional and you make friends and meet people. We | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
don't really talk about our illness. We just chat. It is relaxed. You | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
know? You don't need to talk. You don't need to open your mouth. It is | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
knowing these people have been in the same situation as you. It is | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
like walking into a safety bubble. It is a simple idea. The Safe Haven | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Cafe has made a real difference. Psychiatric admissions to local | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
hospital feel by one-sixth in the first few months. Five more cafes | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
like this are opening across Surrey this year. I don't know what I would | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
have done on Christmas Day without this place. It is phenomenal. I | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
would be dead without this place right now. I have been moved by the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
people I have spoken to. It shows that sometimes what you need is a | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
safe place to go and people you can talk to, and those who will listen | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
and understand. Personally, I don't know if I would have got to the | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
point I would have eight years ago when I went to the bridge if there | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
had been a place like. This I hope this might be the start of something | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
new. A different way that we help and support people who have mental | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
health issues. Great work that has been done there. We have put links | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
on our website if you want more information On anything in that | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
film. Maybe you would like to talk to somebody. We will talk about | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
mental health in a couple of weeks' time during the In The MInd Season | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
on the BBC. A national statistics survey was revealed this week, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
revealing the age we are happiest in our lives. Our neuroscientist, Tali | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
Sharot is here. Welcome. Talk us through this graph. It shows that | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
happiness is high in kids and slowly, slowly goes down as we age, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
hitting mid-bottom in your mid-life, 45-59. The good news is it starts to | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
go up again. It peaks around 65-79. If you are mid-life, that is good | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
news for you. There is hope! | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
What causes that the dip in the mid-life crisis? We don't know. One | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
possibility is stress. So, at mid-life we have a lot of stress. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
There are a lot of things on our plate - raising kids and a hectic | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
work life, taking care of elderly parents. As we age, stress starts to | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
decrease - kids leave the house, our work life is calmer. It has a large | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
effect on our happiness. It is not just the negative feeling of stress. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
It changes the way you think, process information. In my lab at | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
UCL we stress people out. How do you do that? | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Come and live with me for a week! There are different ways... So, and | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
when you stress people out, what you see is they start to be very | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
vigilant to any bad news. They take it on and it creates a very | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
pessimistic view. And what the elderly tend to do, they take on the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
good news and it creates an optimistic view. We found the | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
elderly are more optimistic than a mid-life individual. Is it all about | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
lifestyle and the amount of stress you take on. Things change as you | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
get older. Does that help in my way? It is not only that. This U shape of | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
happiness, you find It is not only that. This U shape of | :09:27. | :09:26. | |
well. We cannot -- It is not only that. This U shape of | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
apes as well. We cannot ask apes how happy they are. The care givers | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
assessed their happiness and the same thing, in mid-life crisis. What | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
it suggests is it cannot all be social and economic factors, it has | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
to be a deep biological root. Maybe it is hormonal changes throughout | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
the life. Maybe it is the way our brain changes, the structure of our | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
brain. Is there a way to make ourselves feel happier? We can... | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Plastic surgery! LAUGHTER I found in that 45-year-old | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
Plastic surgery! period I had done everything I | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
wanted to do in my career, I had nothing coming up any more. I was | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
not ambitious, I had done it all. I was alone at that period and I sunk | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
to rock bottom, actually. It is something everyone can do - plan | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
ahead because the pure act of anticipation makes people happy. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Even if your life now is a bit dire... No, I am well past that age! | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
I was not talking to you... dire... No, I am well past that age! | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
If in the general years dire... No, I am well past that age! | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
not so great... I am in full-time work, I have a business, I get on | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
with it. For me, I am very stressed, but actually I am very happy n the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
sense when it is good and goes really well, this is the best | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
happiness. I am finding as we get older our friends, | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
happiness. I am finding as we get and some are passing away, the thing | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
to do is, I cultivate young friends... | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
I have got that and when they have all dropped off I am all right. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
There are things which happen which do make you look at things in a | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
different way. But it is being interested in the young and other | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
people, was they have so much to teach us. One thing we know which | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
has made you happy is this trip to India, which we will talk about very | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
shortly. Before that we are going on to a subject which Nina is very | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
excited - the Six Nations rugby tournament. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
For many north of the border Saturday's match between Scotland | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
and England is the most important. Yes, as a little precursor to the | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
match we sent Iwan the chance for Scottish fans to | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
match we sent Iwan the chance for team, but only if they were willing | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
to take on the icy plunge. What is extra special about playing | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
to take on the icy plunge. fierce? It will always | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
to take on the icy plunge. is upbringing. Go on Scotland! | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
to take on the icy plunge. it to them! | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
It is obvious how passionate fans are. How far would they go to | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
support their team? I have got an ice bath challenge - it involves a | :12:41. | :12:49. | |
paddling pool, a lot of ice and after a hard rugby match player vas | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
to have an ice bath to aid their recovery. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Can I persuade fans to help their team's recovery by stripping off and | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
getting into the ice bath to cheer on the men in blue? Probably not. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Not a chance. Not in weather like this. I would stick my feet in. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
Would you do it? # I'm proud of Scotland | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
# Oh, when we see... Come on Scotland, let's see you winning at | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
the weekend. You would stand it in there and give it some? Yes. | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
Come on then! You have got your socks on still. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
She's wearing tartan socks and she's left them on. | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
# When we will see # The likes again | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
# Come on Scotland! Come on Scotland! How important | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
would it be to beat England this weekend? So important. Is it | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
important to beat England? Massive. I think we are do it. We had a good | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
performance at the World Cup. We have someone barefoot and a lady in | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
tartan socks. Can we find someone passionate enough about Scotland and | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
prove it by going into there just in shorts? Scotland are going to win on | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Saturday, for definite? England will not handle the pressure. Come on | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Scotland! More women than men, it has to be | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
said. The game is on Saturday, on BBC One and coverage of Ireland | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
verses Wales is on Sunday. I am looking because he's in the bath. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
I mean, this is extraordinary. He's a true supporter. You have been | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
to India. I want to test your Indian... Chow! | :14:50. | :15:01. | |
You had a bit of a Hindi lesson. I fell asleep. MIR yap did as Wellham | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
we were very tired by that time. But. But what a trip. So many people | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
will be envious of what you have just been through. The experiences | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
that you had, but, Rosemary, why did you want do this? First I had never | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
been to India. Secondly, my father, my grandparents lived in India, they | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
lived in Bombay, and they, they had lots of stories about it. My father | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
had an Indian passport until he was 21, when he came to school here. He | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
was brought up by two maiden aunt, but I wanted to go. And the thing | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
is, I never got to go there. So as soon as they asked me, I said yes, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
no problem. I didn't have to think about it. As a chef, I am sure you | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
must have done some cooking there. ? It was so surprising, it was | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
unbelievably wonderful. The food was out of this world. I couldn't fault | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
it. Seriously. Every night we had a feast. You count fault it. You | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
joined in in cooking a lot of it. We have a clip from next weir. Don't | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
help me. I am going to do this. Despite having a house full of | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
staff. Chef roe Rosemary has been keen to get involved? The kitchen | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
during their stay. Have I got it? More or less. My | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
problem is I can't afford to slow down. I have to keep going. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
I can never see me giving up work completely, whether I just write or | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
whatever I do, I will always work, until the day I die. I will work. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
You are supposed to keep it like this. Sorry. That is the weirdest | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
looking chapati I have seen. I was terrible! I need to have more | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
lessons. The whole point of this wane, was for you to experience what | :16:55. | :16:55. | |
life is like. The older generation, wane, was for you to experience what | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
life is like. The older generation, retirement age and what have you, in | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
India. What conclusion did you come away with? I came away with the | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
conclusion it didn't disappoint me. I had always wanted to go there. It | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
was on my list of one of the places I want to visit in the world before | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
I die. I started to retire more now and contemplate things and life and | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
what better place to go. You can live there for ?200 a month with two | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
servant, and so it would be easy to go over there for three or four | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
months of the year. I would have to come back for my cultural fix. It | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
was a spiritual expense for you. Yes, I had that when I was a child, | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
and I wanted to experience going to a treat and start meditation, and | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
yoga, and what better place to go and find out if it is there, and if | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
you really want to do it. I mean they have a temple on every corner | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
and people go in for five minutes in and they just, it is part of their | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
life. Here, I find some people find and they just, it is part of their | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
religion a hobby, there it a way of life. That is what keeps them happy. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Did you find they treated older people differently there to this | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
country? That was the one mainly significant thing, that overall, | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
that was obvious. The... They look after their elders. The hierarchy | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
was respected. They ask permission from the elders, they treated them | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
with such respect. They were looked after, no matter whether you had no | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
money or you had money, it was all the same across the board. With | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
great dignity. And humbling to watch, there was no question of it. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
It was a morale duty without thinking about it. -- moral. We have | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
nothing in this country, when our old get old, they actually dismiss | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
them and think they have nothing to offer any more, so, and that is the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
awful thing about it. So over there, they feel they have everything to | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
offer, and to learn, so you find the very young, with the very old a lot. | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
That makes me feel so good to hear that, about back home. It does. Can | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
I thank you for being so honest. It is extraordinary what you do. If you | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
haven't seen it The Real Marigold Hotel concludes on Tuesday at 9.00 | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
on BBC Two, and like I say, watch the previous episodes if you | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
haven't. Absolutely. If it wasn't for one pioneering man wane might | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
have had to hang up his dances shoes FIA years ago. Here is Michael | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Mosley with the story of an extraordinary unsung hero. | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
Mosley with the story of an painful arthritis in his help and | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
needs treatment. With over 95,000 hip replacements | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
needs treatment. With over 95,000 year is one | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
needs treatment. With over 95,000 hip into the patient. Although this | :19:52. | :19:51. | |
setting hip into the patient. Although this | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
on pioneering work carried out hip into the patient. Although this | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
during the 60s by a hip into the patient. Although this | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
orthopaedic department at a hospital near Wigan. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
orthopaedic department at a hospital invasive and dangerous operation. | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
orthopaedic department at a hospital As a surgeon he was well aware that | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
hip replacement operations often failed. The new hips sometimes | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
break, they come loose, or they simply wear out. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
break, they come loose, or they itself in a rather bizarre way, as | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
his wife explains. He had a patient who came to him, it was causing a | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
marital problem between himself and his wife, because every time he | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
leaned forward when they were having a meal to | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
leaned forward when they were having the hip would squeak, and it made | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
her feel sick. So this started him thinking, about why that was | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
happening. And that was the start of how he came to really redesign | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
happening. And that was the start of was caused by too much friction | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
happening. And that was the start of it was not only producing noise but | :21:10. | :21:09. | |
wearing the part out. So what he needed to do was somehow find way to | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
reduce that friction. Charnley decided to | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
reduce that friction. than medical. If oil kept an | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
could be done in the body. He coated the replacement | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
could be done in the body. the new wonder stuff of the era. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Non-stick low friction Teflon. The stuff that stops bacon sticking to | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
your pan, but was it safe? He decided to test it on himself. He | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
inserted some Teflon into his own thy. There was a bit of local | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
information but he decided it was probably not toxic. He began | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
information but he decided it was implanting these into his patients | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
but after only a couple of year, a disturbing problem emerged. He found | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
when he was reviewing the cases there was a degree of wear. And his | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
knew that as time went on, this was going to be a big problem, and the | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
cup would actually wear through. I used to wake up at night, and find | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
him sitting up in bed, with his head a big problem, and the cup would | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
actually wear through. I used to wake up at night, and find him | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
sitting up in bed, with his head in his hands, saying "I don't know what | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
I am going to do." It was a nightmare. | :22:28. | :22:28. | |
Charnley saw the removal of the worn Teflon hips and swapped them for a | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
tougher plastic. But this wasn't enough. Then he realised to reduce | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
the Africaion he needed to make the ball head smaller. As Dr Chris Fox | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
explains Believed a smaller head would give less friction and he set | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
about proving this by building a couple of machines to show the | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
non-believes this was the case. The smaller one on the right-hand side, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
and the larger one on the left-hand side which was the sort of standard | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
head, that was being used at that time. So he put them on the a | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
pendulum, and then let them go, together, same weight on both sides, | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
and everybody was amazed to see that the little head went on swinging | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
much longer than the big head. Friction is slowing the one with the | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
big head down over here, whereas the one little head keeps on powering | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
along. With this low friction smaller head and stronger plastic | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
cup they produced this. The Charnley hip replacement. By the mid-sixties | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
the Charnley hip replacement has become well established and today, | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
over 50 years later, it is still being used worldwide. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Sandra's operation went well, after our four hours she is able to take | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
her first steps on her new hip. All thanks to Charnley's pioneering work | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
in the 1960s. Just remarkable. We have to have a cheer for Sir John! | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
If you are a fan of grateful birds of prey. You ho love this film. If | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
you are a pigeon, please look away now. Who writes this? ! | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Over the last few years in cities all over the country, birds have | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
been falling prey to a mysterious hunter, uncover of darkness. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Incriminating evidence has pinned the blame on a surprising predator. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
The fastest animal on the planet. The peregrine falcon. They have | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
recently moved into our British cities. Nesting on tall buildings | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
which mimic the cliffs of their natural habitat. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
The remains of nocturnal migrant birds have been found near urban | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
peregrine nests and cameras from buildings like this church in Bath | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
have captured the predators red handed. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
These shots prove that the Falcons are hunting at night, but this is | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
surprising as peregrines are specialist daytime hunter, their | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
eyes have a high proportion of cells call cones which detect colour. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Specialist night hunters like owls have a high proportion of cells | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
called rods which only see in black-and-white but are very good in | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
low light. So just how good is the peregrine's night vision? For the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
first time ever, we have set up an experiment to find out. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
And helping me is bird of prey expert Lloyd Buck. | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
So, Lloyd, flying in the dark is unprecedented. Yes, it is something | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
I have never done with him. He is three, usually I am flying him in | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
the daytime, so he is usually at roost now. Firstly we need to get | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Moses used to flying in this usual environment. Lloyd is going to at | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
tract him with a lure, and we are setting the light intensity for his | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
flight path to the level he is used to flying in. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
This is a light meter. It is roughly the equivalent to day time. Lloyd, | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
are you ready? Yes, all set here. He is off. Whoa! Absolutely whacked | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
it. Moses was easily able to target the lure with the bright lights. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Next we are going to drop the light levels to mimic urban street light. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Round 1,000 times darker than daylight. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Round 1,000 times darker than Can I just about see the lure but it | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
is still pretty dark. Let us see how gets on. OK Moses? Best of luck. Is | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
he going to go? Whoa. That was amazing. I thought he would sit | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
there for age, really ensure, but he left the fist straightaway. For a | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
daytime specialist, that is very impressive. But what happens if we | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
reduce the light levels even further? Our light meter is measures | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
less than one lux which is close to moonlight. The sort of light level | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
olds hunt in. The cameras can just about pick out Lloyd and the lure | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
but I can't see a thing. Let us see how Moses gets on. -- owls hunt in. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
He is looking. Well, he you can see Moses is not that happy to fly. He | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
just can't see enough to make that leap of faith. | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
So our experiment suggests that peregrines really need street lights | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
to hunt at night and recent research indicates they might need prey that | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
reflects light, just like our lure. Naturalist Ed has been studying | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
peregrines for 17 years. We know the peregrines are taking | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
birds like water rail, we have some for example, why they migrate at | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
night, normally they would be in the dark or they wouldn't be spotted but | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
they have something in common. They have pale bellies, so when they fly | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
over the street lights are lighting up the bellies and the peregrines | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
can see them and catch them to eat. As always wonderful pictures and | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
talking of winged wonders this is Malcolm, aged 70. This is his | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
birthday present from his wife. We asked for pictures o from you. Well | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
done you Malcolm I have Hilary aged 66 who can met One Direction. I have | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
Ken up Kilimanjaro. I have Marian, 61, skydiving. Goodness me! Well, | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
will that is all we have got time for for today. Thanks to Wayne and | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
Rosemary. Don't forget The Real Marigold Hotel concludes on | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Wednesday on BBC Two. We are back tomorrow with Jeremy Vine and two | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
stars from the War and Peace programme. Than you -- thank you | :28:55. | :28:55. | |
both. | :28:56. | :28:58. |