:00:24. > :00:28.Hello. Welcome to The One Show. Many detectives swear by the
:00:29. > :00:36.softly-softly approach. For one copper, gently gently works every
:00:36. > :00:40.time. Welcome to Martin Shaw. Good to see you. Nice to have you
:00:40. > :00:45.back. You have played a policeman and a judge of course, Judge John
:00:45. > :00:51.Deed. What do you make then of this real-life judge in the north east
:00:51. > :01:00.saying that it takes courage to be a burglar? There has been an awful
:01:00. > :01:06.lot of dreary journalise around this. No-one knows what the judge
:01:06. > :01:10.said. A judge's judgment takes a long time to write and consider. We
:01:10. > :01:16.have no idea whether he was quoting a defence barrister. We don't know
:01:16. > :01:21.what the context was. David Cameron said the same. David Cameron is the
:01:21. > :01:25.Prime Minister and rightly he has to condemn the sound bite, but asen
:01:25. > :01:29.intelligent man he must know in his mind there would have been a lot
:01:29. > :01:35.more said than that. We can't assume that a judge who spent half
:01:35. > :01:40.a lifetime learning the law and how to punish or administer
:01:40. > :01:44.minuteishment to people, we have to assume he knows what he is doing.
:01:44. > :01:50.We are sure the judge will have his chance to put his side of the story
:01:50. > :01:54.across. Tonight, we want to add to Inspector George Gently's team. So
:01:54. > :01:58.if you or somebody close to you was in the force, anywhere in the UK,
:01:58. > :02:03.back in the '60s, then please do send us a picture and we will bring
:02:03. > :02:09.some of you out of retirement later on. You are looking forward to that.
:02:09. > :02:14.I shall long for it. Selling stolen property is a crime.
:02:14. > :02:19.Unless it is the police that are doing the selling.
:02:19. > :02:24.Top of the range DVD players, a set of golf clubs, expensive watches
:02:24. > :02:29.and seen this off-road motorbike, all available at bargain prices
:02:29. > :02:39.that seem almost a steal. This may look like every other auction but
:02:39. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:46.it's not. The items being sold here have a shady history.
:02:46. > :02:51.These are all items that have been seized by the police during his
:02:51. > :02:56.investigations. Some of them will have sentimental value. Others less
:02:56. > :02:59.so. These auction owners visit police stations of West Yorkshire
:02:59. > :03:03.picking up goods that have been stolen from homes and businesses
:03:03. > :03:07.across the county. Police say their efforts to track down owners don't
:03:07. > :03:13.always work and as storage space is limited, the only option is to sell
:03:13. > :03:22.them at auction. This is one of our typical stores What kind of stuff
:03:22. > :03:26.do you have in here? Power tools, pedal cycles. Electrical goods, TVs,
:03:26. > :03:29.video players, things people can move on quickly and easily.
:03:29. > :03:33.stuff you you can take to auction. Yes. What is it that the police can
:03:33. > :03:39.do and are doing to get that back to its rightful owner. When it is
:03:39. > :03:44.brought in we search the computer system. Try and reunite it that way.
:03:44. > :03:48.The chances of giving that back to the people who own it? Very, very
:03:48. > :03:53.slim. But actually, there's a very simple way of helping to get your
:03:53. > :03:57.stolen goods back. We have ultraviolet pens. Take your
:03:57. > :04:03.electrical goods, you put your house postcode on there and house
:04:03. > :04:08.number. So you can see there's nothing that stands out there. Put
:04:08. > :04:14.whatever you want on there and you will see it shows up under
:04:14. > :04:18.ultraviolet light. How many people do this? Not many do it. If the
:04:18. > :04:22.police can't reunite you with your property, it will be sold on.
:04:22. > :04:25.Across the UK a freedom of information request for The One
:04:26. > :04:30.Show found over three years more than 1.5 million pounds has been
:04:30. > :04:34.raised from sales like these. That keeps auction houses like this
:04:34. > :04:39.busling with business. Do you have any bad feeling about selling
:04:39. > :04:45.things that were taken in a burglary from someone's home?
:04:45. > :04:50.don't let it bother me. It doesn't enter into my mind. Not at all.
:04:50. > :04:54.It's come from the police and that is how I see it. Has anyone ever
:04:54. > :04:59.said, hold on that belongs to me? Nobody. Because once the police
:04:59. > :05:06.give us it, it is our responsibility to get rid of it.
:05:06. > :05:10.is good news for Bargain Hunters. What are you looking for? Two or
:05:10. > :05:15.three bikes that I come and have a look at. You can get a bike for �10
:05:15. > :05:22.and then it is worth over �100. Or if it just needs a brake, you buy
:05:22. > :05:26.it and put it on. Not everyone is here to make a profit. 272-year-old
:05:26. > :05:33.John buys buys cheap tools which he gives to a charity that sends them
:05:33. > :05:39.on to after ka. I can -- Africa. I am looking for hand tools today. I
:05:39. > :05:43.give them to my favourite charity. If I gave this charity �10 notes,
:05:43. > :05:50.that is all they would get. But if I give them these, it is far more
:05:50. > :06:00.valuable to the charity. Are you planning on bidding for this?
:06:00. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:10.I hit the floor to see how the How did you get on? Two bikes.
:06:10. > :06:20.that a good result? It's more than I normally get. How much money did
:06:20. > :06:24.
:06:24. > :06:31.you spend? �38. I went to �38. set of golf clubs. Cuddly toy.
:06:31. > :06:41.bought a dinlingy box. -- digibox. Have you any mixed feelings about
:06:41. > :06:44.making money from what was at some point was someone's property.
:06:44. > :06:50.are the police suppose today do. They can't keep hold of these
:06:50. > :06:54.things forever. It wouldn't worry me if it's been someone else's. As
:06:54. > :06:57.long as it's been dealt with properly by the police. Any money
:06:57. > :07:05.the police raise from auctions has to be donate today charitable
:07:05. > :07:10.causes. At least a little good can come from your misfortune.
:07:10. > :07:17.As somebody who has been burgled I wouldn't feel comfortable at all
:07:17. > :07:20.buying those goods. Somebody who knows about this is BBC reporter
:07:20. > :07:26.Tom Symonds who found himself on the other end of crime. This guy
:07:26. > :07:34.appeared in front of me, mask, hood, knife and I saw the knife very soon.
:07:34. > :07:38.He took my wal et, my phone and it was a hell of a shock. But I handed
:07:38. > :07:42.everything over. The police came up, looked for him and didn't find him.
:07:43. > :07:46.They said have you set up the tracking device on your phone and I
:07:46. > :07:51.had. They had this computer and they are looking at it for a bit
:07:51. > :07:56.and my phone popped up on this housing estate three or four miles
:07:56. > :08:00.away. We went down from, full speed. Two guys stood there and they ran
:08:00. > :08:04.off in different directions and they did catch the guy who had
:08:04. > :08:09.taken my phone and he dropped it in a bush and they called the phone to
:08:10. > :08:14.find it. A lesson learnt, always enable
:08:14. > :08:18.these tracking devices. If you haven't got it, then download the
:08:18. > :08:22.app if you can do that. What other advice have the police given us
:08:22. > :08:29.about protecting property? The one thing I learned that night, don't
:08:29. > :08:33.wander around a dark dark street using an expensive mobile phone,
:08:33. > :08:37.that might cost �300. This guy followed me from the bus stop. The
:08:37. > :08:41.other thing is that you really can do a lot to protect yourself. You
:08:41. > :08:46.can register all your goods, anything that is expensive can be
:08:46. > :08:51.registered in advance, so if it is stolen it can be tracked on the
:08:51. > :08:57.police database. There is a website called Immobilise and you can
:08:57. > :09:00.register your valuables there. a crime reporter, it must have been
:09:00. > :09:03.extraordinary extraordinary to go through that?. I got to see what
:09:03. > :09:06.was like being a victim on the other side of the story, especially
:09:06. > :09:09.the court process, it was very interesting. The person who mugged
:09:09. > :09:14.me only pleaded guilty when I turned up at court to give evidence
:09:14. > :09:16.against him. He wouldn't have pleaded guilty if I hadn't been
:09:17. > :09:24.there. That is another important thing, stand up and say what
:09:24. > :09:28.happened. Did you get your wallet back?. Yes, I got the phone back. I
:09:29. > :09:33.didn't see the wallet again. What do you think, would you be
:09:33. > :09:39.comfortable buying from these police auctions? I don't think I
:09:40. > :09:43.would. That old hippie thing about the vibes, but also somebody else's
:09:43. > :09:48.property that's been taken from them, I think it would have the
:09:48. > :09:55.wrong feel about it. When you think about antiques, you don't know
:09:55. > :09:59.their past. That is true, it is a thought. I don't think I would be
:09:59. > :10:04.happy with one of those. It is good to see the money goes to good
:10:04. > :10:10.causes. Tom would be there in a flash? I am out of pocket now, so
:10:10. > :10:17.yes, I need to get something back. All this week John Sergeant has
:10:17. > :10:27.been finding his sea legs on some of Scotland's most stunning lochs.
:10:27. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:39.Tonight he journeys from Little In the far north-west, the wild
:10:39. > :10:44.rugged mountains of wester Ross frame some of the most beautiful
:10:44. > :10:50.Scottish sea lochs. I am sailing the spirit of June, to
:10:50. > :10:53.one of the most remote and unusual communities in Britain. On the
:10:53. > :10:59.shore of Little Loch Broom. I am going to see how people live in the
:10:59. > :11:04.small village here and we are going by boat because that is the only
:11:04. > :11:09.way the normal traveller can get there. It is one of just two
:11:09. > :11:13.villages on mainland Britain which are only accessed by boat. Cathy
:11:13. > :11:16.has lived here for most of her adult life. I came here for the
:11:16. > :11:21.winter and then I thought I will move on in the spring and that was
:11:21. > :11:26.32 years ago. You just think it is wonderful Not always, no, but it is
:11:26. > :11:31.home. Love it or hate it, I couldn't think of living anywhere
:11:31. > :11:36.else. It isn't just off the beaten track, it is off the electricity
:11:36. > :11:43.grid. The res gents -- residents generate their own power. It is
:11:43. > :11:48.hard here to keep a secret. Is that good or bad? Good. I think so.
:11:48. > :11:54.means that everyone knows your business. Can't sneeze without
:11:54. > :12:00.somebody two miles away saying you have a cold. Everything going on or
:12:00. > :12:05.off does so across the loch, which means the boat taxi a vital link.
:12:05. > :12:15.This is the Friday afternoon trip across the loch to pick up the
:12:15. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:20.school kids. What life is it for the kids? It is great to run around
:12:20. > :12:24.after school, you know you are going to be safe, you don't have to
:12:24. > :12:32.worry about cars. For primary school age children it is an
:12:32. > :12:36.excellent place to grow up. It is not paradise. It is hard work. You
:12:36. > :12:43.are an hour-and-a-half from your car to your front door. Everything
:12:43. > :12:50.has to come on to the boat and across the loch. If you have
:12:50. > :12:55.forgotten something, disaster. Bill's daughter loves coming home.
:12:55. > :12:59.What do you like about living here? It is unique. It is a big family
:12:59. > :13:04.really. There must be times when you just think it is a bit boring.
:13:04. > :13:08.It can get very boring. community has to accept that it's
:13:08. > :13:11.teenagers want to fly the nest. Do you think you will leave here when
:13:12. > :13:19.you grow up? Probably. That is probably just because I want to see
:13:19. > :13:23.the world and experience different things. I could come back. I am
:13:23. > :13:30.leaving this loch for the open waters of the North Atlantic. With
:13:30. > :13:33.20 knots of winds, you need your wits about your. Why do I like
:13:33. > :13:37.sailing? You are in a different world, you have to think about so
:13:37. > :13:41.many things, think about, have you enough water under you, what about
:13:42. > :13:45.the sails, what about the wind. Are you going in the right direction.
:13:45. > :13:51.All that makes you think about these things and not about the
:13:51. > :14:01.problems at home or about traffic or about work. That's why although
:14:01. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:21.Loch Ewe, where a belt of tall pines conceals a surprisingly
:14:21. > :14:31.xrotic landscape. The warm waters of the Gulf Stream keep conditions
:14:31. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:42.mild enough for unusual plants from all over the world. Kevin is taking
:14:43. > :14:48.me to see something quite extraordinary. These pines were
:14:48. > :14:53.were known only through fossils and were thought to have become extinct
:14:53. > :14:59.two million years ago until some were found in an isolated
:14:59. > :15:05.Australian ravine. These specimens were donated here in 2007. It is
:15:05. > :15:10.the equivalent of find ago dinosaur alive. They are prehistoric looking.
:15:10. > :15:19.We are so lucky to have a group of nine growing this far north. They
:15:19. > :15:28.really look unusual. Loch Ewe, unusual gardens, unusual
:15:28. > :15:34.trees, and an unusually beautiful place.
:15:34. > :15:41.A part of the country you know very, very well. Off bolt hole up there.
:15:41. > :15:46.I have, in gallow way. I was on a loch just last weekend. I keep a
:15:46. > :15:52.canoe in the barn and so we were out on the loch giving it that.
:15:52. > :15:58.it important for you to have that remoteness? It is vital. There's no
:15:58. > :16:07.internet, scarcely any mobile phone signal. The land line is only
:16:07. > :16:14.intermittent. That's Matt's dream. I try and create that at home. You
:16:14. > :16:17.are back with a brand new series of Inspector George Gently. These
:16:17. > :16:22.detective dramas on a Sunday night tend to be nice cosy viewing but
:16:22. > :16:27.yours tackles darker grittier issues, like racism and class. Why
:16:27. > :16:35.do you think it took that route? Because that is what police work is
:16:35. > :16:41.about. You can't really romanticise racism or child kidnapping. I think
:16:41. > :16:46.police work does involve darkness. You have this interesting paradox,
:16:46. > :16:51.certainly for me as an actor, as a man who is living a double life.
:16:51. > :16:55.He's got his internal life of grief and being alone and missing his
:16:55. > :17:00.wife, but at the same time having to be a leader and somebody who
:17:00. > :17:04.enforces the law. There's so much going on, not only the social
:17:05. > :17:09.history but with Sergeant Bacchus as well in his 30s, you have older
:17:09. > :17:15.viewers seeing things from your perspective and younger ones seeing
:17:15. > :17:22.it from his. It is cleverly putting together. It is. It is a joy to do.
:17:22. > :17:27.It's going to work with your mates. Lee is an absolute delight. From
:17:27. > :17:31.day one we got on so well together. It helps with the chemistry of the
:17:31. > :17:36.show and helps when we ad lib and make things up as we go along. Is
:17:36. > :17:46.there quite a bit of that? There is a little bit. There was one last
:17:46. > :17:52.week when he got the car wrong, and he said something and we just keep
:17:52. > :17:57.it in. It adds realism to it. is the pair of you in episode four
:17:57. > :18:01.when, shock horror, Gently is facing corruption charges.
:18:01. > :18:07.There's no evidence. Allegations had been made at the time of the
:18:07. > :18:14.trial had been re-examined. Which ones? That you had a corrupt
:18:14. > :18:17.relationship with him. That you framed him to cover your own crimes.
:18:17. > :18:27.Well I would like to see the evidence for that because there
:18:27. > :18:30.
:18:30. > :18:37.isn't any. There is, sir. They have uncovered bank accounts in your
:18:37. > :18:41.name with regular payments all from rat began. -- Rattigan.
:18:41. > :18:46.We were watching Sunday night's episode earlier in the office and
:18:46. > :18:50.we were both saying how much attention to detail there is as far
:18:50. > :18:56.as keeping it authentic to the '60s. You are hands on. You are very
:18:56. > :19:01.fussy. Very fussy. I I I am one of the few people in the series who
:19:01. > :19:05.was alive at the time. We have got one of the finest designers in the
:19:05. > :19:09.world, Morris Cane, whose attention to detail is spectacular. He will
:19:10. > :19:14.create a complete world that you won't necessarily see. On the first
:19:14. > :19:21.day, the murdered wife was called Isabella and on the first day I got
:19:21. > :19:26.into my office, picked up a period Ronson lighter and engraved on it,
:19:26. > :19:29.it says to George love always Isabella. Nobody is going to see
:19:29. > :19:34.that except me, but it means so much to you as an actor, that that
:19:34. > :19:37.is there. It is always there in my pocket or on my disc. Nobody will
:19:37. > :19:44.know that, they will now, but that is the kind of designer that we've
:19:44. > :19:48.got. That is why it looks so authentic. You can see Martin in
:19:48. > :19:52.Inspector George Gently this Sunday night on BBC One at 8.30. If a
:19:52. > :19:54.stranger offered you a bundle of cash, would you take it and run or
:19:54. > :19:59.refuse, fearing you were being scammed?
:19:59. > :20:06.Well it appears that one anonymous benefactor is genuinely giving
:20:06. > :20:10.money to random people that he has only just met.
:20:10. > :20:14.As the saying goes there's no such thing as a free lunch, even if you
:20:14. > :20:18.find a tenner in an old pair of jeans that's not really luck,
:20:18. > :20:24.because it was yours in the first place. One man is busy reinventing
:20:24. > :20:26.the whole notion of luck. Through his scheme, we are lucky, this
:20:26. > :20:32.anonymous benefactor is giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds of
:20:32. > :20:39.his own money. Very simply I select people I come across, that I bump
:20:39. > :20:43.into or I find out about and I approach them and give them �1,000.
:20:43. > :20:47.And ask them to do something good with that money. How do you decide
:20:47. > :20:51.who to give the money to? It is always the result of some positive
:20:51. > :20:55.encounter, whether it is a smile on the tube train or something amazing
:20:55. > :21:02.someone has done or just someone being nice and doing a good deed.
:21:02. > :21:06.The thing is about me not choosing where the money goes, other people
:21:06. > :21:10.choose. It is as simple as that. Yes. There have been over 100
:21:10. > :21:14.recipients so far, from twitter treasure hunters to random
:21:14. > :21:18.encounters. I had been following we are lucky on twitter all day. Once
:21:18. > :21:23.I told him about my leaving my job the day before to work on projects
:21:23. > :21:26.in Africa, he decide today give me one of the envelopes. I knew it was
:21:26. > :21:30.would be massive boost for the charity if I got the money. That is
:21:30. > :21:35.why I decided to go. Mr Lucky has given other people the chance to
:21:35. > :21:39.hand out invitation toss claim the money, including cabbie Paul.
:21:39. > :21:43.out on my normal day and hadn't been out long and a woman hailed me
:21:43. > :21:50.down and I asked her if this was where she worked and she said no
:21:50. > :21:56.this is where my daughter goes to school but I work for a charity.
:21:56. > :22:01.She was really over the moon with it. Sadly, the lady didn't come
:22:01. > :22:06.forward. A bit of a shame. What was your inspiration for this?
:22:06. > :22:11.father who never had any money but was incredibly active in our
:22:11. > :22:15.community, he spent a lot of time time giving something back and
:22:15. > :22:19.putting something into the people around him. I always thought that
:22:19. > :22:24.was amazing and I aspired to be like that. If you trust people then
:22:24. > :22:28.people respond. Is it a marketing ploy? No tlrks has been an
:22:28. > :22:38.incredible interest in what has been put out so far and people seem
:22:38. > :22:42.to like it. It sets off a positive chain of feeling. Why is it
:22:42. > :22:47.important to be anonymous? Someone giving out money and saying look at
:22:47. > :22:51.me is pretty pretty horrible. Someone doing a similar thing
:22:52. > :22:56.anonymously retains some kind of charm. There are good people left
:22:56. > :22:59.in the world. If you have been on either end of a ran done act of
:22:59. > :23:04.kindness, we would like to know about it. Drop us a line and we
:23:04. > :23:09.will put the best on the show next week.
:23:09. > :23:19.Speaking from experience, a sewer is not a pleasant place to spend
:23:19. > :23:28.the afternoon. This is a build up of fat, sanitary items, coming into
:23:28. > :23:36.the sewerage system. I will never tire of seeing that.
:23:36. > :23:45.It was so hot in there. Modern sewers are less mucky and Marty
:23:45. > :23:49.Jopson has been in a cleaner version.
:23:49. > :23:53.Unthe streets of London, networks of tunnels transport people and
:23:53. > :24:01.power around the city. But now there is something digging much
:24:01. > :24:05.deeper. This is the top of the Lee tunnel shaft that plummets 75
:24:05. > :24:14.metres straight down. It is one of the deepest tunnels ever dug in the
:24:14. > :24:20.UK. It is an incredible feat of engineering. As I descend into the
:24:20. > :24:30.tunnel, trim travelling down the equivalent height of a 25 storey
:24:30. > :24:35.building. Nick is the construction manager. It is a thing of beauty.
:24:35. > :24:40.like to think so. My wife doesn't agree. The tunnel will be part of a
:24:40. > :24:46.new super sewer for London. The current system can't cope with the
:24:46. > :24:49.volume of sewage London produces an average 39 million tonnes of it is
:24:49. > :24:54.discharged from overflow points into the Thames every year. The Lee
:24:54. > :24:58.tunnel will capture this overflow and hold it until a treatment
:24:58. > :25:04.treatment plant has the capacity to deal with it. This is like a
:25:04. > :25:10.reservoir then. Yes, it prevents the discharge happening. A poo
:25:10. > :25:14.reservoir. Yes. To hold all the sewage the tunnel needs to be big.
:25:14. > :25:19.The width of three London buses. It also needs to be deep, to avoid
:25:19. > :25:24.damaging other tunnels. But getting down so keep has thrown up a
:25:24. > :25:33.massive problem. They have got to tunnel through very challenging
:25:33. > :25:38.geology. Behind these walls is a thick player lr fr -- layer of
:25:38. > :25:43.chalk, which is peppered with great chunks of this. This is flint and
:25:43. > :25:49.it is one of the hardest rocks known to man. Beneath London is the
:25:49. > :25:53.same layer of chalk and flint that appears on the south coast. It was
:25:53. > :26:00.formed more than 65 million years ago under a sea which covered much
:26:00. > :26:05.of Britain. Inside flint, you often get these funny grey shapes like
:26:06. > :26:11.this. This is actually the fossil of a sea sponge. It is the
:26:11. > :26:15.skeletons of sea creatures like these that made the flint. They
:26:15. > :26:25.contain silica which has a crystaline structure. Over millions
:26:25. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:39.of years this silica has turned Flint Flint scratches steel that
:26:39. > :26:42.means flint is harder than steel. Imagine what would happen to the
:26:42. > :26:48.machine that tries to dig through this stuff. How are they finding a
:26:48. > :26:54.way to tunnel through it? Meet busy Lizzie, named after the Queen, it
:26:54. > :26:59.is a tunnel boring machine, designed specifically for the Lee
:26:59. > :27:03.tunnel job. Presumably the head is in that direction somewhere. Yes,
:27:03. > :27:07.we are about another ten metres further forward than that. It is
:27:07. > :27:14.quite a long machine. The head of the machine rotates slowly against
:27:14. > :27:18.the rock face. This is where busy Lizzie gets clever. Here you can
:27:18. > :27:23.see blue disc built into the wheel. There are 20, custom designed to
:27:23. > :27:28.grind through the flint. Up close I get a chance to see exactly how
:27:28. > :27:33.they do it. These are the boys that are doing all the work. How does
:27:33. > :27:37.that work?. If you pick up the flint and put it up to the edge
:27:37. > :27:43.here and what happens, this spins round and you have got the thrust
:27:43. > :27:48.of the machine as well, which is enough to crack that. Busy Lizzie
:27:48. > :27:56.is making short work of the flint here, moving forward 17 metres a
:27:56. > :28:02.day. That is 3,000 tonnes of rock every day being removed as part of
:28:02. > :28:06.London's new super sewer. The Lee tunnel will be completed in
:28:06. > :28:16.2015, helping prevent millions of tonnes of sewage flowing into the
:28:16. > :28:16.
:28:16. > :28:22.Thames. Earlier on as Martin is here we
:28:22. > :28:31.asked for pictures of you in the forces back in 1960. We have been
:28:31. > :28:35.inundated. This is Danny Grant. He was in the police force for 30
:28:35. > :28:45.years in Strathclyde as a superintendent. Now lives in Loch
:28:45. > :28:46.