:00:16. > :00:35.And it's lovely to say welcome back, Matt. Successful lambing? It was
:00:36. > :00:41.wonderful. There we are, two lambs. They are born black and as they grow
:00:42. > :00:44.up they turn white. Get off! Get off! I feel a long way from the
:00:45. > :00:47.Durham Dales right now. Coming up, find out how Dan's been
:00:48. > :00:50.making waves on both sides of the Atlantic with his latest
:00:51. > :00:52.discovery about Vikings. But first let's introduce
:00:53. > :00:54.tonight's guest. Like a Viking, he's brave,
:00:55. > :01:22.he's fearless, and he's settled How are you doing? Wonderful, thank
:01:23. > :01:30.you. Looking great there. This is alarming -- a lambing hat.
:01:31. > :01:48.I have a helmet which is a bit more Johnny's Viking hat?!
:01:49. > :01:50.I have a helmet which is a bit more accurate so you can
:01:51. > :02:04.I have a helmet which is a bit more instead. This is the equivalent...
:02:05. > :02:13.There is a bit of a technique for getting your nose in. Just a bit.
:02:14. > :02:21.Ideal. Is that better? Much better. Very happy now. We cannot really see
:02:22. > :02:29.much of you now. My agent said, on, it is good exposure. Who is he? Keep
:02:30. > :02:31.that on for as long as you want. They weren't angry, they were just
:02:32. > :02:34.bumping into a lot of stuff. Later we'll find out
:02:35. > :02:37.what the Vikings did for us, and all about Johnny's
:02:38. > :02:44.new driving series too. I'm guessing you had to wear a
:02:45. > :02:47.helmet for that but not quite as elaborate. No, this is a good look
:02:48. > :03:05.for me, this. With the lambing, do you have
:03:06. > :03:11.nightmares about the crying? You don't really get to sleep to be
:03:12. > :03:15.honest. Share with the group. I will fill you in in a minute. Go on.
:03:16. > :03:17.It's a story that we touched upon on Friday -
:03:18. > :03:20.the ongoing fight to save the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot.
:03:21. > :03:22.Today union leaders attended an emergency meeting to discuss how
:03:23. > :03:26.When the Business Minister visited the steelworks on Friday,
:03:27. > :03:29.it was those union leaders that he needed to reassure.
:03:30. > :03:34.Nick Wallis went to see if he managed it.
:03:35. > :03:44.A minister under pressure and a town in crisis. We will do everything we
:03:45. > :03:52.can. Will these people keep their jobs? Port Tolbert in south Wales as
:03:53. > :03:57.a town built around jobs? Port Tolbert in south Wales as
:03:58. > :03:59.and it is reeling from the news that Tata, the conglomerate that owns
:04:00. > :04:03.these works, wants to sell its UK Tata, the conglomerate that owns
:04:04. > :04:15.businesses. We have come to Cardiff to meet the union leader, but when
:04:16. > :04:20.we arrive it has all changed with the union mobilising its members and
:04:21. > :04:24.returning to Port Talbot. They have heard the Business Secretary is on
:04:25. > :04:29.his way from London. What have you got planned? We are
:04:30. > :04:33.going to Port Talbot, the Business Minister is coming here. We are
:04:34. > :04:38.going to put these flags out, we want him to get the idea we think
:04:39. > :04:42.this is a crisis situation. Rob tells me how he thinks Port Talbot
:04:43. > :04:48.is in danger of falling victim to a global crisis in the industry. It is
:04:49. > :04:52.a situation that has come about over the last five years. The plan is to
:04:53. > :05:00.come from the Business Secretary with a demonstration, a show of
:05:01. > :05:08.unity. When the Business Minister comes up that road, he gets impact
:05:09. > :05:13.straightaway. There should be about a thousand people here. What was it
:05:14. > :05:19.like when you heard Tata had put the business up for sale? Total shock.
:05:20. > :05:24.For Linden, much of his family history is tied up in the
:05:25. > :05:29.steelworks. There was my grandfather, my father, myself, and
:05:30. > :05:35.my son is in there. We want a fighting chance to keep a
:05:36. > :05:41.sustainable steel industry in the UK. It will wipe out port Talbot, it
:05:42. > :05:45.will wipe out South Wales. We leave for the plant. No one knows what is
:05:46. > :05:49.going on but they want to make the Business Minister at least aware of
:05:50. > :06:00.the strength of feeling about what has happened. We are allowed on to
:06:01. > :06:03.Tata's site to film. Allen Coombs is lead union rap for Port Talbot and
:06:04. > :06:10.he's taking part in the meeting. What do you want from the Minister?
:06:11. > :06:13.The important thing is we are allowed to go out into the market
:06:14. > :06:16.and get a buyer for this business and we need support from the
:06:17. > :06:21.Government to do that because we don't know the timescales set from
:06:22. > :06:25.India so we might need support in an interim period to get a buyer for
:06:26. > :06:27.this business. We are allowed to film where the demonstration will
:06:28. > :06:31.take place. Everyone here is film where the demonstration will
:06:32. > :06:37.the Business Secretary will commit to Port Talbot's future. He has got
:06:38. > :06:42.to face the truth, face angry people losing their job. I have three
:06:43. > :06:46.children to support, I pay all the bills in the house and I wanted my
:06:47. > :06:52.children to have apprenticeships here. It would be nice if he can
:06:53. > :07:00.have a chat, get things from our perspective. After three hours of
:07:01. > :07:06.crisis talks, Sajid Javid emerges and head straight over to Linden.
:07:07. > :07:09.Our commitment is that we will do everything we can. There's a lot of
:07:10. > :07:14.tools in the box, we will do everything we can to continue
:07:15. > :07:19.steel-making here in Port Talbot. I catch up with Port Talbot union
:07:20. > :07:24.leader after the talks. What did you make of the meeting? It is nice to
:07:25. > :07:27.look someone in the eye and hear them say they are committed to
:07:28. > :07:32.supporting the steel industry going forward. I believe him and I will go
:07:33. > :07:38.along with him. Did you get any guarantees? No, and you wouldn't
:07:39. > :07:41.expect them in all honesty, but the indications is they will do all they
:07:42. > :07:47.can to make sure there is a buyer for this business. Tremendous, he
:07:48. > :07:53.really had an impact, I just hope he comes through on those promises. The
:07:54. > :07:59.local union leadership seemed pleased with what he had to say.
:08:00. > :08:04.Linden is also feeling pleased after the visit. We walked over, shook
:08:05. > :08:10.hands and just happened to catch him and talk to him. We spoke to some of
:08:11. > :08:14.the union leaders who were present at the meeting, they were
:08:15. > :08:22.optimistic. Do you share their optimism? Yes, I feel as if they are
:08:23. > :08:28.thinking really we do need this industry. The whole of Port Talbot
:08:29. > :08:34.is hoping a buyer can be found, and soon.
:08:35. > :08:41.Nick is here now. A lot of optimism in that film. Has it lasted, post
:08:42. > :08:43.the weekend? There is cautious optimism. I was surprised by the
:08:44. > :08:47.reaction of the union leaders because they didn't get any
:08:48. > :08:52.guarantees, yet there was a spring in their step. They felt they had
:08:53. > :08:57.received some reassurances. Over the weekend there has been a period of
:08:58. > :09:01.reflection and now union leaders are saying Tata cannot let the plant
:09:02. > :09:05.close, it needs to find a buyer soon and the Government has a part to
:09:06. > :09:10.play as well. If the Government takes on certain liabilities within
:09:11. > :09:14.the steel plant itself, then they are confident they have not
:09:15. > :09:18.misplaced their optimism going forward. There is this emergency
:09:19. > :09:23.meeting today, so who was there and what has come out of it? A
:09:24. > :09:27.representative from every single steelworks in the UK went along to
:09:28. > :09:32.London today as part of their campaign, and they came up with
:09:33. > :09:44.three key demands they want from the Government. They say the Government
:09:45. > :09:48.has two commit to the ongoing steelworks in Port Talbot, and they
:09:49. > :09:55.say they wanted to be bought as a whole. There are people talking
:09:56. > :09:59.about cherry picking the lucrative aspects, but they say the future of
:10:00. > :10:03.Port Talbot is caught up in the and Tyra to have the operation. They say
:10:04. > :10:12.they don't need tariffs, they need green energy investment, they need
:10:13. > :10:17.investment from R and better skills training. Then it will be
:10:18. > :10:21.viable for a buyer. We heard in the film there are rumours of potential
:10:22. > :10:27.buyers, nothing concrete but did you get a sense what type of buyer the
:10:28. > :10:31.workers would prefer? They are very clear they do not want
:10:32. > :10:36.nationalisation. Some workers might, but every worker I spoke to seems to
:10:37. > :10:41.see the future of the plant in the hands of a private buyer. There are
:10:42. > :10:49.some names floating around at the moment, there is Greybull, an
:10:50. > :10:58.American company, and also the operation called Liberty Steel, and
:10:59. > :11:05.could well be a buyer for Port Talbot but hasn't made the right
:11:06. > :11:09.noises about buying the whole thing. Johnny, you are from an industrial
:11:10. > :11:13.area that has seen a lot of people laid off over the years. When you
:11:14. > :11:17.see people talking like that, generations that have worked in the
:11:18. > :11:25.same place and potentially another place going under, how does it make
:11:26. > :11:31.you feel? Incredibly sad. We heard the union wrap talking about his
:11:32. > :11:37.father, grandfather. Now you are seeing a second generation, kids
:11:38. > :11:42.seeing their father 's signing on, no skills handed down. We cut the
:11:43. > :11:47.apprenticeships years ago, when I left school that wasn't an option
:11:48. > :11:52.for me. I was almost forced into further education because the jobs
:11:53. > :11:58.were not there. And the communities. This idea of not being
:11:59. > :12:02.cost-effective, it runs far deeper. It is a legacy that we are handing
:12:03. > :12:06.on, and you cannot hand over nothing. Once they are gone, they
:12:07. > :12:11.are gone for good. If they are not saved now, it is another community
:12:12. > :12:16.gone and another industry that we can kiss goodbye to. Thank you. Now
:12:17. > :12:19.to a subject very close to my heart. One big concern to any sheep farmer
:12:20. > :12:23.is if a dog gets into the flock, it starts worrying the sheep
:12:24. > :12:25.and can't be called back. As I know well, the consequences can
:12:26. > :12:28.be disastrous and it's something we recently did a report
:12:29. > :12:30.about on Countryfile. Just days after that report one
:12:31. > :12:33.of the worst cases of sheep worrying in living memory, devastasted
:12:34. > :12:49.a flock in West Sussex. We could see a large pile of what
:12:50. > :12:52.looked like wool, and we later realised it was dead sheep. When it
:12:53. > :12:59.came to clearing away the bodies I didn't want to face it. The attacker
:13:00. > :13:03.left few clues, so how did 116 sheep die? Take a look at this, the sort
:13:04. > :13:15.of open space that dog owners like me love. But also take a look at the
:13:16. > :13:20.sheep in the corner here. This dog is clearly used to working with
:13:21. > :13:23.sheep, and the sheep know the dog, but put your family dog in this
:13:24. > :13:29.situation, no matter how lovable it is, you could see a very different
:13:30. > :13:36.side to that animal. It is second nature for a dog to chase, but this
:13:37. > :13:40.can cause stress. Some sheep can even miscarry and dog bites can
:13:41. > :13:47.prove to be fatal. It is called sheep worrying, and it is on the
:13:48. > :13:55.rise. Recently there have been reports on the devastating impact of
:13:56. > :14:01.dog attacks on sheep. Gordon's farm is the latest to experience an
:14:02. > :14:05.attack right here in West Sussex. The sheep have stampeded down the
:14:06. > :14:09.hill. Because it is quite steep and it funnels into this area, possibly
:14:10. > :14:14.a couple of dogs or something like that scared them and they had
:14:15. > :14:19.nowhere to go. Eventually the gate gave way and it was too late to save
:14:20. > :14:28.all these that were suffocated. What was it like to discover this
:14:29. > :14:32.horrific scene? My son Jack came up, and cleared them away. I had had
:14:33. > :14:37.enough to be honest. I have picked up a few dead sheep in my time but
:14:38. > :14:42.it gets to you after a while. This attack caused his business ?17,000
:14:43. > :14:47.in lost livestock, vet bills and the cost of disposing of the carcasses,
:14:48. > :14:51.money that the farm could ill afford. Sergeant Tom Carter of
:14:52. > :14:56.Sussex Police has seen an increase in farmers reporting attacks on
:14:57. > :15:01.their livestock. Is it like a theft? It is a catastrophic thing to
:15:02. > :15:05.happen, isn't it? Absolutely. Gordon and sheep farmers rely on the
:15:06. > :15:10.animals to make money but it's not just the financial loss, it is the
:15:11. > :15:21.emotional loss. A lot of the farmers keep close flocks and they have had
:15:22. > :15:25.a lot of these sheets' -- sheep's ancestors. Tony is offering courses
:15:26. > :15:37.to dogs around livestock. It is natural, their instinct is to
:15:38. > :15:46.chase a woolly thing across a field if it runs away. Is it possible to
:15:47. > :15:50.sheep proved all dogs? About 50% of them will go away and they will not
:15:51. > :15:54.look at another sheep again. The owners have got to reinforce it when
:15:55. > :15:59.they are at home with anything they might chase, and stop that to get
:16:00. > :16:04.them under control. If you keep your dog on a lead it is respectful for
:16:05. > :16:10.farmers and makes it safer for sheep. Where do you go from here?
:16:11. > :16:15.Just put the message out, keep telling people that dogs can do
:16:16. > :16:19.damage. Just put your dog on a lead when you go through a field of
:16:20. > :16:21.sheep, especially at this time of year. Please do.
:16:22. > :16:24.Johnny's turned a corner in his career, several corners
:16:25. > :16:27.in fact because he's starring in his first reality show and it's
:16:28. > :16:28.a celebrity driving challenge called Drive.
:16:29. > :16:48.All right? That has set the tone, hasn't it? He is the biggest
:16:49. > :16:55.liability, Johnny Vegas. I thought we were driving a Porsche. I love
:16:56. > :17:03.him to bits, not out there. This will not be an easy ride. The Greens
:17:04. > :17:10.are now second and after him. What was the outcome? I can't say
:17:11. > :17:15.anything, it has been the hardest show to promote because we do not
:17:16. > :17:18.have anything to wear. Racing is amazing. I thought I would be
:17:19. > :17:24.wrapped in cotton wool a bit more, but we were really pushed to go for
:17:25. > :17:30.it and there have been some crash wallop moments. Did you crash? Once
:17:31. > :17:35.in practice I took Angus Deayton out and I was so chuffed I did not
:17:36. > :17:41.bother checking there was a wall coming up. I hit it and I felt my
:17:42. > :17:45.rib cage move sideways sharply. In another race I went into the wall
:17:46. > :17:52.and we have had cars flipped and everything. It is not like stockcar
:17:53. > :17:57.racing, how does it work? It is a different race, but there is a
:17:58. > :18:06.knockout every week. There is stock car racing, there is mud buggy
:18:07. > :18:14.racing, there is 4x4s. Rallycross... What is it like? I can't tell you. I
:18:15. > :18:18.came out of Boot Camp and I did not know that people did not fancy my
:18:19. > :18:24.chances. We all had an instructor assigned to us and mine, J.D.
:18:25. > :18:32.Edwards, if you are watching, she was amazing. Why is it so different
:18:33. > :18:37.to normal? Forget everything about road driving when you get on a
:18:38. > :18:41.track, it is a completely different discipline. You think you are going
:18:42. > :18:46.fast around the bend, but anything sideways is slow. Learning racing
:18:47. > :18:51.lines and learning how to slow into a corner and get the car straight
:18:52. > :18:55.and straighten out, the stuff we have learnt is incredible. It gets
:18:56. > :19:02.into your mindset. As well as we all got on off the track, once you were
:19:03. > :19:07.sat in the car and the flag has gone they are enemies. You just want to
:19:08. > :19:16.beat them. You can see it in your eyes. Green was a lovely guy, but I
:19:17. > :19:26.wanted to hurt him. Are you now like that at traffic lights? As the
:19:27. > :19:32.lights are going, my mind slips, so I don't know what reading they got
:19:33. > :19:39.from me, but it is definitely not my heart racing. But in the practice
:19:40. > :19:43.you make your mistakes and learn, but when you were there I cannot
:19:44. > :19:50.tell you, the buzz of it, and it was so hard coming away when we finished
:19:51. > :19:53.the series. I drove home and in 40 minutes I had not checked my mirrors
:19:54. > :20:00.because you are trained to look forward and to focus. You don't know
:20:01. > :20:06.that you are hit until somebody takes you out. It is a great cure
:20:07. > :20:11.for driving in London. When you can actually drive into someone. With
:20:12. > :20:19.your first car you did not have a licence, this is it. It is a bobby
:20:20. > :20:24.dazzler. The outrageous colours. An ex-girlfriend brought a car from an
:20:25. > :20:30.auction and there was so much wrong for it that by the time I pay to fix
:20:31. > :20:35.it she gave me that old car. I asked my brother to look after it until I
:20:36. > :20:39.passed my test and it got vandalised and the cats studied using it as a
:20:40. > :20:46.maternity hospital. We had to scrap it. I have this image of you
:20:47. > :20:50.literally getting that person to drive it around in a trailer and you
:20:51. > :20:55.were sitting in the back of it. I had one go at it in the Park and I
:20:56. > :21:03.almost managed to end up in the boating lake because I could not
:21:04. > :21:09.find the brakes going down the hill. And my assistant put on a wig and
:21:10. > :21:15.she was my driving double. One of those Job Shop wigs and she did all
:21:16. > :21:20.the driving shots. I think you did well. I enjoyed it. I have not had
:21:21. > :21:28.as much fun on a show and I really think people will be surprised at
:21:29. > :21:32.how fire they let us push it. We will see tomorrow night, nine
:21:33. > :21:37.o'clock on ITV. I can't wait to see it as well to watch it back from
:21:38. > :21:42.another perspective. And all the effing! I also can't wait to see the
:21:43. > :21:45.I also can't wait to see the heart monitor.
:21:46. > :21:49.Us Brits are amongst the biggest drinkers in Europe and most of us
:21:50. > :21:51.agree that might not be such a great label to have.
:21:52. > :21:54.But did you know that our love of beer actually helped us win
:21:55. > :22:09.Any military strategist will tell you that half the battle of wartime
:22:10. > :22:13.is applying the front line and the men and equipment and munitions that
:22:14. > :22:18.I needed when and where it is needed and that is a lesson the British
:22:19. > :22:24.army led the hard way 100 years ago in the First World War. In early
:22:25. > :22:29.1915, the Allies decided victory lay in bombing the Germans out of their
:22:30. > :22:34.trenches, but there was a problem. By May, Britain's guns had only
:22:35. > :22:38.enough ammunition to fire four shelled a day and the Shell crisis
:22:39. > :22:42.left the country on the brink of defeat. The government turned to
:22:43. > :22:48.David Lloyd George. His radical solution would become known as total
:22:49. > :22:53.war, mobilising every single person in every single part of the nation's
:22:54. > :22:58.infrastructure. Lloyd George's plan put the entire country on a war
:22:59. > :23:02.footing, making millions of shells and transporting them to France.
:23:03. > :23:09.Manufacturing shells was an incredibly complex process. This is
:23:10. > :23:14.the cartridge case, it holds the propellant and it burns very quickly
:23:15. > :23:19.and turns into expanding Gas and pushes the projectile out of the
:23:20. > :23:23.barrel at a fast rate. When the nose hit the ground, it will set off the
:23:24. > :23:29.explosive filling in the Shell which causes it to explode. Germany had
:23:30. > :23:34.also twigged that manufacturing shells on an industrial scale was
:23:35. > :23:37.vital for victory. Britain faced a challenge that would define the
:23:38. > :23:45.Great War, doing whatever it took to win the arms race. She ingredients
:23:46. > :23:50.were the first priority and the secret to producing enough shell
:23:51. > :23:54.propellant lay in our love of beer. Just like alcohol, acetone, a
:23:55. > :23:59.phytochemical for the propellant, can be fermented from grain. Lloyd
:24:00. > :24:03.George commandeered the nation's breweries and build two huge
:24:04. > :24:10.factories to make 90,000 tonnes of acetone each year. Next up, who
:24:11. > :24:14.would make the shelves? With the men away fighting, an entirely new
:24:15. > :24:21.workforce for up Britain's arms factories. 1 million women became
:24:22. > :24:25.the workers. Finally, the task of moving the munitions to where they
:24:26. > :24:29.were needed. Arriving in France after a journey by rail and sea,
:24:30. > :24:33.they were carried to the guns by mules and donkeys. There were part
:24:34. > :24:38.of the 1 million strong animal backbone of the British Army. Slowly
:24:39. > :24:45.Lloyd George's ground-breaking policy began to pay dividends. From
:24:46. > :24:53.a paltry 500,000 shells in 1914, Britain increase production to
:24:54. > :24:58.6,000,019 15 and a whopping 1940 5,000,019 16 and in 1917 Britain
:24:59. > :25:06.finally overtook the Germans, making 76 million shells. Britain's victory
:25:07. > :25:13.in the Great War arms race redefined how Nations win wars and today that
:25:14. > :25:18.logistics masterclass is embedded in the DNA of our fighting forces. The
:25:19. > :25:23.First World War was the first industrial water, one with lethal
:25:24. > :25:29.new weapons supplied on a massive scale. By the end of 1918 nearly 1.5
:25:30. > :25:33.billion shells had been fired on both sides. Thanks to Lloyd George's
:25:34. > :25:39.brilliant plan to mobilise the might of the country, Britain survived one
:25:40. > :25:46.of the most daunting military challenges it had ever faced.
:25:47. > :25:51.We have seen some First World War history, but now it is time to go
:25:52. > :25:58.back tonight Dan has a programme on all about the Vikings on BBC One.
:25:59. > :26:04.And we have got some footage because you have changed what we believe
:26:05. > :26:09.about Viking history. Where are you? We are on the very western tip of
:26:10. > :26:15.Newfoundland, deep into North America, hundreds of miles beyond of
:26:16. > :26:18.where it people thought Vikings got to traditionally. We know they got
:26:19. > :26:24.to certain places, but this is beyond that. We are uncovering what
:26:25. > :26:27.could potentially be a turf war for a Viking settlement and it is very
:26:28. > :26:33.exciting because it is rewriting history. And the way you found the
:26:34. > :26:40.site is incredible with space archaeology. Sarah Parker looks 400
:26:41. > :26:45.miles above Earth and she gets these satellites and she treats them and
:26:46. > :26:50.look for patterns in the soil, shapes and circles that should not
:26:51. > :26:53.be there. It affects how the grass grows and that is where we go and
:26:54. > :27:00.dig and that took us to new found North America. It is mad that you
:27:01. > :27:06.are looking for a turf buildings in turf. We are looking for mud in mud.
:27:07. > :27:12.There is a British connection. You cover a lot. It is an hour and a
:27:13. > :27:17.half, so I hope you do not get too bored, but we covered the fact that
:27:18. > :27:21.the Vikings arrived in the British Isles and they settled here. There
:27:22. > :27:24.were some Scottish people on those expeditions and you can see them
:27:25. > :27:30.going to Iceland and Greenland and beyond. But ice land was not
:27:31. > :27:34.populated, there were no people living there and the Vikings settled
:27:35. > :27:40.there. Most of the women were from the British Isles. That is ice land
:27:41. > :27:43.now. They were enslaved and brought with them. Icelanders are almost as
:27:44. > :27:47.British as we are. Dan's programme The Vikings
:27:48. > :27:50.Uncovered is on tonight after And you can see Johnny in Drive
:27:51. > :27:55.tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV. We're here tomorrow, same time,
:27:56. > :27:58.with Don Cheadle talking