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with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. It is lovely to be back. Isn't it? | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Did you have a nice break? I have been in Durham. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Did you go abroad? I was there for the birth of a baby | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
donkey. How about you? | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
I went to the States on a ranch in holiday. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And on the day that the first lap Ron Berger has been eaten, we have | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the perfect guest, man with a burger restaurant in his family named after | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
him. And he happens to be a Hollywood | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
actor in the biggest film in America right now. Please welcome Mark | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
Wahlberg. It is super to have you with us. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Thank you. I am happy to be here. What is it about this burger? Wall | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
burger -- Wahlburger is the name of this burger. What they have done is | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
they have grown meat without farming the capital. As a farmer, you know, | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
I don't know. The downside, it costs �215,000 per | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
burger. What would that mark-up be? We have beautiful grass fed beef, a | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
little combination of herbs and sirloin. My brother loved fast-food. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
It was his dream. We opened our first restaurant, Italian French | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
fusion, and it was his dream to have a burger place. Why would never put | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
my name on something because it sounds hokey but he is such a | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
talented guy and businesses doing so well, we are actually doing our | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
documentary about building the business and the pros and cons. | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
you producing that? That is part of the deal. We think that you have | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
created almost everything possible in Hollywood but now we think we | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
have got the ultimate. Listen to this. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Our nature guy is called Mike and he is in a sidecar with some chickens | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
strapped to his head and a Peregrine Falcon in hot pursuit. Wow, that is | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
risky. How did you talk him into doing that? He's up for anything. | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
He is a daredevil. If he's going to get attacked by the hot, I think it | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
is a hit. We might have to find a replacement for the second episode. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
We will find out what happens later. Before that, UK figures released | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
today suggest that 1 million British people are on contracts that allow | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the employers to hire staff with no guarantee of work. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
In some cases, these 0-hour contracts seem ideal at overall, is | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
it fear? Simon Boazman finds out. -- but overall, is it fear. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Imagine having your working life in limbo. You could work today but not | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
tomorrow and maybe for just a few hours the day after that. This is | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
what it is like for what is estimated to be over 1 million | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
people. They are on 0-hour contracts, meaning there is no | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
guarantee of the amount of work they will get from week to week. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Sports Direct and even Buckingham Palace I just some of the wide range | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
of employers who use these contracts. What is in it for them? | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Well, they can be queued to do as much or as little as necessary based | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
on the amount of work that needs doing. But if you are the employee, | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
it is hard to plan your life. Justin is a care worker. She has been | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
working on a 0-hour contract for five years. She has invited me on | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
the road to see how she juggles work with family commitments. I have to | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
wait by the telephone, to get that phone call. You cannot plan your | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
life. You cannot plan childcare. do you budget? You do not know what | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
is coming in. You do not really budget. You just keep your money and | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
hope that you have enough to pay the bills. What happens if you are sick? | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
You do not get to work and you do not get paid. If you do not know | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
when your next pay check will arrive or how much it is going to be, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
organising finances and your life can be tough. These people work for | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
different companies on 0-hour contracts. They want to have their | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
identity concealed in case they lose their jobs for speaking out. How was | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
it explained to you? It was not until I started the job that I've | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
realised that something was not right. What was your reaction when | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
you were told they were only going to be working certain hours? I rang | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the office and asked if this was the routine, the normal practice. I was | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
told that yes, this is how it works. Did you feel that you had no | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
choice? You have not got a choice. You find yourself in a situation | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
where you cannot turn down work because if you do, you get pushed to | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
the bottom of the pile. And they can drop you just as easy as picking | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
them up. You might start with eight hours, but by the end, you only have | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
three. I feel like I am on the poverty line. Vince Cable has | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
ordered a review into these contracts. A document from a | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Parliamentary website suggest that technically, if you are on one of | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
these contracts, and you are regularly offered work which you | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
take regularly, then it is possible that the contract could be classed | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
as employment and therefore, by law, you may have more rights than you | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
realise. Why do you think more people don't speak out and say that | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
this is not right? Because people want a job, they want to get paid. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
They do not know that they have rights. So if the people knew they | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
had rights, I think they would speak out more. Just in a secured a | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
full-time job but is also doing other work on 0-hour contracts to | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
top up the wages. She occasionally works for this home care firm. -- | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Justine. The owner has 20 people working for him, 16 of whom are on | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
these contracts. Some people say that this is returning to the bad | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
old days of doctors turning up to the shipyards and not knowing | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
whether there would be any work. That is a valid point. But it is | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
also an opportunity for some people. It can be a step into permanent | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
contracts. It can provide flexible D4 some people. Who wins out of | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
these contracts? -- flexibility for some people. It looks like a win for | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
the employer. It is a win for the employer and the employee. If these | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
contracts did not exist, this company would not be here. There are | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
people would not have permanent jobs and 16 people would not have | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
part-time jobs. They would be claiming the door. Just to be clear, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
the care workers' criticisms were not directed at their current | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
employers. Jasmine joins us now. You have been going through the e-mails. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
What is the general feel? A lot of people are very unhappy about this | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
situation but there are some positive comments. This one from | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Chris Hanson, he says, " I am in Clwyd on a casual basis working on | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
school transport. I have no guaranteed hours and it is an ideal | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
for working -- way for working for many people because for me, I work | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
around my wife's shifts. I can also say no to work without wrecking | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
fashions -- repercussions. I see it is beneficial". This is from | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
Lorraine, an employer who uses these contracts: My company does not have | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
a steady, guaranteed income. We used to employ ten full-time members of | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
staff but the business almost collapsed last year. We now have | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
just two embers of staff will stop I give the staff as many hours as I | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
can. I do not want to be in this position but have no choice. So it | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
works for her. But what about the employees who take these contracts? | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
What rights they have? -- do they have. They have the normal rights | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
like the right not to be disseminated against and the right | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
to a minimum wage. You also will get pro rata holiday pay. But you do not | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
have rights to maternity pay or sick pay unnecessarily. That is all | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
discretionary. And we have to say congratulations, and you look lovely | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
and blooming. You grew up with how many brothers | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
and sisters? I am the youngest of nine. Would that have worked in your | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
household? We would not have had any food to eat. I think it would have | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
kept us out of trouble because we were usually left to our own | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
devices. My parents worked all the times we were left to roam the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
streets and into trouble. But we had to be able to pay for food and rent | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
and all those things. So you have to have a consistent income. And you | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
are not on a contract like that yourself, because you have been | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
working like a dog. I'm shooting transformers in the states. A short | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
until 9pm last night, got on a plane landed here. I have worked here day | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
today and then I'd get that on the plane and thy will be on the set on | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Wednesday. Take a lot of vitamins C and you will be OK. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
How do you keep fit? I try to get as much rest as possible, eat healthy | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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and get exercise. The new film, 2 Guns, which we saw it topped the box | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
office last week. It is action packed. Let's have a look at you and | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
then Zell Washington. -- Denzel Washington. You're saying something. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
If you were saying it, I am hearing it. What are you saying? Think | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
you're playing me. Do you want to be played? I think maybe you were | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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playing me. Haha, I've got you.That was not a twitch. That was a wink. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
That's my move. There are some cheeky bits in there. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
It is incredible. It's like two films in one. You have your side of | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
things and then you have themselves -- Denzel's. You do not know who is | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
who. We are both set up to work with one another, to set one another up. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
And then we get duped by the agencies and were forced to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
reluctantly help each other. But I'm constantly trying to get him to | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
accept me as a partner and I'd just annoy him. It is his first comedy | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
and there is a lot of improvising. It is a nice change to the summer | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
there because there has been so many effects and superhero movies, so to | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
go back to some thing old-fashioned like 48 hours or a lethal weapon, | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
formidable opponents, it is a great payoff when we finally come | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
together. Because it is earned. Denzel does great. He comes from a | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
dramatic background. It is nerve wracking. If you do comedy and it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
does not turn out good, it can set you back. And you will never get a | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
chance to do it again. As you say, when you see the posters, you think | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
this is a boys film. The comedy really comes through. Who is the | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
funniest? Is it you are Denzel Washington? I would be more the | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
comedy guide because I am the wild guy, always riffing, and he is the | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
laid-back guy. But he does a lot of great comedy in the film. For his | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
first time, he was nervous but he felt comfortable with me and the | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
director watching his back. You have a guide, and view at lib around the | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
script? We had a road map and then we would rest on it. We had a lot of | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
great cast members who work on the top of their game. You said it looks | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
like a film for guys, but we opened at number one in the States and 41% | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
of the audience were women. And it is so nice to see him laugh in it. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
When he smiles, he writes up the screen. -- lights up the screen. In | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
this one, he was forced to have a good time. Remember the first day I | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
started insulting him and throwing him curveballs and he said, oh, this | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
is what we are doing! Is this your first movie bank job? It is not.The | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
thought of a bank job, it is the ultimate dream to do as our -- as an | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
actor. I have done it a couple of times. The one good remaking guy was | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the remake of the Italian job. We did the bank and then we did the | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
armoured car and stuff like that. remake I did. It is action packed | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
from start to finish. Did you get hurt at all? The only time we were | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
at risk of getting hurt, there was a scene where we were hung upside | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
down. We were in a bullring, with a very real bull. And you were in | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
there? The ball did not know we were making a movie. Two things do not | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
like to do in movies, do not like working with kids or animals. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
I said to you how risky it was. We wondered how it had been done. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
figured out a way of doing it so that we were safe. But the bull does | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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not know you were making a movie. talked about being an executive | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
producer beforehand. Is it tricky to be in that situation? Does part of | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
you want to take over? Or are you disciplined? Producer. Does part of | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
you want to take over? 2 Guns is in cinemas from the 16th of August. As | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
promised, we have a great challenge involving a piece of chicken, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
peregrine falcon and a high-speed chase. All we need now is a | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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daredevil reporter. What is going to happen? The Peregrine Falcon is one | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
of nature's most forbidden to hunters and is the fastest bird in | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
the world. When diving for prey, it can reach | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
speeds of 120 miles an hour. But a hunter that speed has evolved the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
most astonishing eyesight which allows it to spot a moving object | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
from well over a mile away. That is what I am going to witness and | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
experience today on the Somerset levels. Lloyd Buck has been training | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
birds of prey for over 20 years. His latest student is a peregrine from | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
North America called Moses, whose eyesight is going to be challenged. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
What is it about a peregrine's eyesight that makes it such a good | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
hunter? As humans, at the back of our eye, we have a collection of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
cells. We only have one of those. With peregrines and Falklands, they | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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have two. It helps us see in shop detail, and because peregrines have | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
two, it is believed they can see things clearly both nearby and | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
far-away. It is thought this gives them the ability to define moving | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
prey species at extreme distance. What kind of definition are we | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
talking? About eight times better than ours. Like having a pair of | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
binoculars stuck to your face. To put Moses' eyesight to the test, we | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
need the stance, movement and pray. Moses has been trained to go after a | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
fluorescent object with pieces of chicken attached to it. I am now a | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
moving target. Here is the challenge. Moses will be trying to | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
spot and catch us, about a mile away as we speed away at over 50 miles an | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
hour. The safety, we have had the road closed. The problem today is | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
that it is very windy, so Moses' judgement and control will really be | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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tested. But from the hilltop, he has seen his prey. Here we go. He has | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
seen you. I have no idea if he will attack us or not. He will come in at | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
speed, from an angle, from behind. He has gone. Go, go, go! As soon as | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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he sets off, he is hit either headwind, but peregrines the best | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
from side on, and he knows exactly where we are. He is going for us. He | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
is somewhere behind me. He is going to sweep behind in an arc, looking | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
for an angle. I should feel a dump on the back of the head. It is very | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
nerve wracking. There he is. Go on! For a bird in the wild, making a | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
calculation at this speed could mean a death, so he will only go for it | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
if he is confident he can snatch it. He is right above me. I can see his | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
shadow. Oh, just missed by a fraction. I can see him swinging | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
round again. But he will not give up. He will come back with another | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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tactic. I have no idea where he is. Still no strike. Hold on, there is | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
something behind him. He has gone low along the road to avoid the side | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
wind. He is clever. He has used his peripheral vision. He got it | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
straightaway! I can't believe that. All I heard was the scratch of his | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
talents. We know peregrines have the most amazing agility and speed, but | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
when combined with their incredible eyesight, this surely makes them | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
nature's ultimate hunter. Our hero. You were dealing to that, | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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Mark. It was crazy. I have seen bald eagles come and snatch salmon out of | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the river, and their talons are so sharp. How close were you?15, 20 | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
feet. Up in Vancouver, you are playing golf and they are there. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
Last summer, you famously played against a stuffed animal, Ted. Early | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
on to film. Lots of people who saw that will be wondering whether there | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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is a sick all? Can you confirm or deny? Absolutely, we are shooting | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
the sequel in May. Transformers will come out in June, and Ted will be | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
the following summer. He is very much an adult version of a teddy | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
bear. On the children's side of things, news is that ET has been | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
voted the children's favourite film. Was that a favourite of yours, or | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
did you like The Goonies? I liked both. The first movie I saw was hard | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
times, with Charles Bronson. Dan knuckle fighting. My dad would take | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
me to adult movies. So you were not a fan of Bambi? Not in particular. | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
At I liked ET and The Goonies mobot I watched the older films. You were | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
in the brilliant Entourage, and as a producer, you would like Justin | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Bieber to play one of the leads in a new film against you. Why him? | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
a great athlete. I saw him playing basketball and was pleasantly | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
surprised. I think we would have good chemistry on camera, as long as | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
he stays out of trouble. He could have an interesting career in | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
transition from being a teen heart-throb to having a serious | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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adult career. Do you see yourself in him or the other way round? I was in | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
prison when I was 17. I don't think he has ever been in prison. But it | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
is one of those things where he is growing up in the limelight, which | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
is difficult. If you make bad choices, you don't want them | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
magnified by the media. Hopefully, he will stay focused and realised | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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that now is the time to be serious and then play later. I always look | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
at it like an athlete's career. When you are in your prime, you should be | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
working your hardest. You have had an incredible life. I have been | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
fortunate. Staying on the basketball team, your film pain game is out | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
next month? Has it not come out here yet? I do play a bit of basketball | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
in that movie. It is out on the 30th, and we can have a look. | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
are you doing on the ground? It hurts. It is called pen and gain, it | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
is supposed to hurt. Are you going to man up? What are you looking at | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
's that movie is absolutely insane. I did a movie called broken city | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
where I weighed 165 lbs, and I got up to 200 lbs the pain and game, and | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
then we started to guns, so I had to lose weight to do that. So I did | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
that by playing basketball and changing my diet. Just playing | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
basketball for two hours a day did it. The London lines basketball team | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
are downstairs now, and head coach Vince Macauley is challenging us | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
three. We thought it was only fair if he does it first, so we are | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
live, no pressure, Vince. Good luck with this. So, he is backwards. This | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
is the full length of the reception area. He has missed it. But he did | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
do it earlier. Give it one more go. Ooh, close! This was what he did | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
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earlier. Do you want a go? We will give it a shot. That is not an easy | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
thing to do. I will give it a go. This time last year, we watched your | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
fellow countrymen take Olympic gold on the basketball court. Few of us | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
play this sport outside school, so Lucy found some British kids and | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
gave them an Olympic opportunity. It has been an incredible 12 months | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
for British sport. Team GB was draped in gold at the Olympics and | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Paralympics. First Wiggins, then Froome hunkered the Tour de France. | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
And Marie won two grand slams and ended our weight for Wimbledon. -- | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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Marie macro. But what about that sport that many of us may have | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
played at school, but have not had much success with as a nation? I am | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
not talking about football, I am talking about basketball. In the | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
USA, basketball is a major sport, worth $5 billion a year, with top | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
teams such as the Boston Celtics paying layers millions of dollars. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Whereas in the UK, the average player's annual wage is a mere | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
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�7,000. Here we are at the Olympic Park, outside the copper box, now | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
home to the London lines basketball team. We know we have a world-class | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
venue, but can we also produce a world-class national team? It opens | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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on what you call success. If you are a country where basketball is not a | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
national sport, it is difficult to achieve success against countries | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
where basketball is their number one sport. Having said that, but Britain | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
has done in the last four years is the equivalent from going from | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
non-league football to the brilliant. A massive amount of work | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
has taken place at the grassroots. We need to link that to the | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
professional basketball league and give our youngsters a chance to | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
compete. Just a stone's throw away from the copper box, what is the | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
grassroots scene actually like? Here are the Hackney Jedis. Is it your | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
aspiration to turn professional? Yeah, I am going to university in | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
Chicago picked yeah, and then I want to turn pro. I think it is an | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
underrated sport. We don't watch it enough or play at enough in schools. | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
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Meet the Kennington generals. 12 years old. Are you quite tall for | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
12? People say so.What has basketball giving you? It teaches | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
you respect for others, and helps you become focused. I was just | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
hanging around the streets, not doing nothing, and now I have found | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
something I enjoy. One way to raise the game of these young players is | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
to get them to play in the new home of British basketball. OK, who would | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
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like to play in a match at the copper box today? Year! -- yeah!It | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
is game on between the generals and the Jedis. If they are not inspired | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
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by an Olympic venue, nothing will inspire them. With one minute ago | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
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the scores are tied. Amazingly, with the last shot of the game, the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
generals smacked a 12-10 victory. So, Mark, you are feeling at home in | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
our makeshift basketball court. You have got one in your garden? Yes, we | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
play all the time. My son is in a league on and it is a great way for | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
me to get in shape, because I don't like doing on a treadmill. So we get | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
up at five in the morning and play. So you are filling up for this? A | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
reverse throw from one side of the reception to another? Yeah, I have | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
never seen basketball in the UK, so I like that. How much practice did | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
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that take for you? It is just a bit of fun. Here we go. Mark Wahlberg | :28:23. | :28:32. | |
attempts a reverse throw. Keep your arms straight both arms together, | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
give it plenty of air. Ooh, it was close! That was lovely. Do it a bit | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
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