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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones. We | 0:00:11 | 0:00:17 | |
have got a full crew on board tonight. The Cornish sea shanty | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
singers Fisherman's Friends are with us! They will be performing | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
later in the show and they will be joined by a brand new member. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
Attention on deck for Captain Stephen Fry. Are you in good voice | 0:00:31 | 0:00:38 | |
this evening? That is the question. I am never in good voice. I have | 0:00:38 | 0:00:46 | |
fun golf's ear for music. Sadly. I wish. Do be honest, I am not keen | 0:00:46 | 0:00:53 | |
either. Can we just do some mining? You have had a busy day today. You | 0:00:53 | 0:00:59 | |
had some dental work done. Yes, crown. The coronation. Are you | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
feeling OK? I forget with Twitter that everybody knows what I have | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
been doing. You probably know that I have been to the lavatory several | 0:01:07 | 0:01:12 | |
times as well! Many secrets come out. We will be talking to Stephen | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
later about a big return to a role he has not played in several years. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
Gyles Brandreth returns to one of his favourite roles, Detective | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
Inspector, on the trail of a father and son team behind the best | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
forgeries that the art world has ever seen. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:33 | |
In the autumn of 1989, an elderly man in Bolton claimed to have found | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
this priceless Anglo-Saxon artefact in apart in Preston. Inside it | 0:01:39 | 0:01:45 | |
contained a tiny piece of Christ's cross. But it was a fake. Forged by | 0:01:45 | 0:01:50 | |
his son Sean. This would be the start of the 17 year conspiracy | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
that became the biggest art and antiquities crime case in Britain. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
A couple in their eighties have admitted defrauding art galleries | 0:01:57 | 0:02:03 | |
and antique dealers. More than 100 forged works. If real, the works | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
would be worth some �4 million. This was their greatest trick. The | 0:02:07 | 0:02:12 | |
Amarna Princess. The fake Egyptian statue so convincing that it was | 0:02:12 | 0:02:20 | |
authenticated by the British Museum. For nearly two decades, their son | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
created the forgeries in their garden shed, while their father | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
George, and the most prestigious art galleries into buying them. -- | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
trip to the most prestigious art galleries. It changed the way that | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
the art world goes about spotting fakes and con-artists. What stunned | 0:02:38 | 0:02:45 | |
the experts was the range and variety of the cons, a particularly | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
because Sean had no formal training whatever. It is amazing that | 0:02:50 | 0:02:58 | |
somebody could do this in a garage. It is nothing short of genius. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:04 | |
is their last forgery, an ancient Assyrian relief. It ultimately led | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
to the undoing when Auctioneers finally noticed the staggering | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
quantity of items attached to the name George Greenhalgh. They came | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
in here with the big dossier of all the things which had been offered | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
to the auction house by George Greenhalgh. This was not that all | 0:03:20 | 0:03:26 | |
the picture that I had of this fairly homespun sort of chap up in | 0:03:26 | 0:03:32 | |
Bolton, who had inherited things from his grandfather. When John | 0:03:32 | 0:03:40 | |
took a closer look, he spotted a spelling error in the relief and | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
this mistake in a harness. The relief was a fake and the family | 0:03:44 | 0:03:50 | |
were rumbled. Sean was sentenced to four years in prison while his | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
father George received a suspended sentence on medical grounds. Over | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
100 forgeries were seized by police from museums across the country and | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
they are now stored as evidence here at the top secret fine art | 0:04:01 | 0:04:07 | |
lock-up. How did they get away with it for so long? They were going to | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
different departments. The Syrian department, the Roman department. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
They turned up one week with a stone, the next with silver, and | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
the two department did not talk to each other. Creating the pieces was | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
only half the battle. To authenticate an item you need proof | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
of its history, provenance. This was one of the items that they used | 0:04:27 | 0:04:33 | |
as provenance. This looks old. is. The are faking the catalogue as | 0:04:33 | 0:04:39 | |
well? They catalogue is genuine. It is dated back to 1892. It is a sale | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
at Silverton Park in Devon. They purchased this in 1999 for a few | 0:04:45 | 0:04:51 | |
pounds. There are descriptions of numerous items within it. It might | 0:04:51 | 0:04:56 | |
say one Egyptian statue, one stone relief. What they did his they | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
created an item based on that description. Then they take it to | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
an expert and say it has been in the family since 1892, purchased by | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
the great grandfather, and this is the catalogue to prove it and this | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
is the item. Since this case, police are keen to encourage art | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
experts that the ultimate provenance is forensic testing. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:27 | |
identified the Assyrian relief. That is T which makes it look | 0:05:27 | 0:05:34 | |
coloured like that. -- a cup of tea. It is thought that there could be | 0:05:34 | 0:05:44 | |
numerous of fakes -- numerous fakes made by this family still out there. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Police and experts have now learned to share their concerns about | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
potential forgeries. Thanks to this case, lessons have been learned | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
that have changed the nature of fraud detection. Bolton's amazing | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
fake factory is finally closed for business. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
Thank you. Sean could have been such a good artist in his own right. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
Extraordinary. It seems amazing that with such talent in so many | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
directions in painting and sculpture that he put it to | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
criminal use and not original use. And it all came up of that garden | 0:06:20 | 0:06:30 | |
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shed. That is real art over there. The BAFTA mask. It is probably the | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
best-known British award. After the Oscar, which was designed by Cedric | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
Gibbons, as you probably know, the great art director. Supposedly it | 0:06:41 | 0:06:49 | |
looked like his uncle Oscar. That is the theory. And you are | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
returning to the role of host. on Sunday at the Royal Opera House. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
It is six years since you have done it and we were reading that you | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
said you were so nervous before every performance. How are you | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
feeling with three nights to go? am stuttering a little. You just | 0:07:07 | 0:07:14 | |
don't want the thing to be Eddie or cheesy. Right! Nothing like a | 0:07:14 | 0:07:22 | |
sandwich that you can buy in a shop, egg, cheese, hammy. You want it to | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
glide. People think of award ceremonies as ego massaging, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
putting people on the back, but they are run important part of a | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
business that brings in billions to this country and around the world. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
We are celebrating 50 years of James Bond, which is an amazing | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
thing. The longest film franchise that there has ever been. We are | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
celebrating the end of the most successful film franchise that has | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
ever been, which is British, Harry Potter. And an incredible variety | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
of films that keeps thousands of people in work. I know it does look | 0:07:53 | 0:08:00 | |
like a love fest, but I think of it is done well it can be enjoyable | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
television and people enjoy movies. I can give you this information | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
because it is in the public domain, because this year was the first | 0:08:08 | 0:08:13 | |
year that over �1 billion was taken in cinema receipts. For all the | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
internet and all the illegal downloading, people still love | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
going to the cinema. What a year for due to be doing it. It is a | 0:08:21 | 0:08:26 | |
great year and we have a fantastic collection of stars, from across | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
the Atlantic and home-grown. You stand on stage, and your eye has | 0:08:30 | 0:08:36 | |
got to arrest someone. We can see what you will be seeing. -- rest | 0:08:36 | 0:08:46 | |
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some place. That is an artist's impression! Meryl Streep, Martin | 0:08:48 | 0:08:54 | |
Scorsese. That is quite something. John Hurt is getting a special | 0:08:54 | 0:08:59 | |
award. And quite rightly, too. He has spent decades being one of our | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
finest actors. He goes under the radar because people forget how | 0:09:02 | 0:09:09 | |
marvellous he is. If I had only done two films, one with an alien | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
bursting out of my chest and another as the Elephant man, that | 0:09:11 | 0:09:19 | |
would be a proud career on its own. Another great star is Miss Piggy | 0:09:19 | 0:09:27 | |
and she will be on the red carpet with you. I know how. She has | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
battered her eyelashes at me. I think you can see love in her eyes. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
It is marvellous to have the Muppets back. I don't know if you | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
have seen the film. It is a wonderful idea behind that film. I | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
will not spoil it but it is well worth seeing it. It is directed by | 0:09:44 | 0:09:52 | |
a British man, who created flight of the Concordes and helped and -- | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
other people, too. An unknown British talent, probably because he | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
works behind the scenes, but a brilliant talent. What will your | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
tack it be? Jonathan Ross has hosted and Ricky Gervais did the | 0:10:06 | 0:10:13 | |
Golden Globes. -- your tactic. Will there be controversy? Will it be | 0:10:13 | 0:10:20 | |
polite? Would it be controversial to do it naked? Some people might | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
find that controversial. Completely acceptable! I think it is | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
reasonable. There is Elek turned so that is above nipple height. -- | 0:10:29 | 0:10:39 | |
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Elek luck turned. Well, you may get some awards later but we will not | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
give anything away. The winner of Best Sound could go to a concrete | 0:10:46 | 0:10:54 | |
wall in Kent. Marty Jopson learnt sounds off about the amazing sound | 0:10:54 | 0:11:00 | |
mirrors of Denge. In Kent stand these concrete structures, looking | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
more like abstract sculpture. At one time they were the top secret | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
front line of Britain's defence. In World War One, all our military had | 0:11:08 | 0:11:17 | |
to anticipate an enemy attack worthies. -- was this. Then the | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
sound Trumpet extended the range of human hearing on the battlefield. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
The listener could hear the sound of guns from far away and using | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
some clever calculations they could work out exactly how far away and | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
what direction. Vital information when you need to strike your enemy | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
before they strike you. Between the First and Second World Wars, the | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
distant aircraft that fly increased and British shores were no longer | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
so. Could someone develop the equivalent of the sound trumpet to | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
detect incoming aircraft? These are the sound mirrors of Denge and they | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
are enormous. The largest one is 200 ft long. As the name suggests, | 0:11:55 | 0:12:03 | |
they do not reflect light, but sound. Instructed by Major William | 0:12:03 | 0:12:10 | |
Tucker between 1928 and 1930, the secret is in their curved shape. It | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
concentrates and amplifies the sand, reflecting it on to a series of | 0:12:14 | 0:12:20 | |
microphones. -- the sound. The listener can tell if an aircraft is | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
coming and crucially what direction it is coming from. Let me show you | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
how it works. This is a mirror and I can use it to focus, just like | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
the sound era focuses sound, but this time I will focus the heat of | 0:12:34 | 0:12:44 | |
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There we go. Look at that. That is what happens if you focus the heat | 0:12:49 | 0:12:55 | |
of the Sun. Of course this is exactly what the sound mirrors are | 0:12:55 | 0:13:01 | |
doing. How effective were they? Each one had a range of 20 miles. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:06 | |
How much notice did that give you? That gave the guys about a three- | 0:13:06 | 0:13:14 | |
minute warning. We are going to but is nearer to the test. Our invader | 0:13:14 | 0:13:22 | |
over -- we are going to put the mirror to the test. Our invader is | 0:13:22 | 0:13:27 | |
over the channel and we are going to detect them using our ears, but | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
I am going to use the sound wall. That will focus the sand on to the | 0:13:31 | 0:13:36 | |
microphone. Hopefully I will be able to detect the aeroplane first. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:46 | |
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And it is not long before the mirror comes up trumps. I can hear | 0:13:48 | 0:13:58 | |
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it. It fades in and out but I can hear it. That is really clear. With | 0:13:59 | 0:14:09 | |
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the Mirror picking up the sound, though in his left waiting. -- he | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
is left waiting. Only now does he hear it. That worked a treat. I | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
could hear the oncoming aeroplane two-and-a-half minutes before him. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:30 | |
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That is all thanks to this amazing By the mid30s, new technology and | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
everyincreasing aircraft speeds meant that Major William Tucker's | 0:14:41 | 0:14:47 | |
sound mirrors became less effective. Radar spelled the end of the | 0:14:47 | 0:14:52 | |
usefulness of sound mirrors, but after 80 years, they stand as a | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
monument to Major William Tucker and British ingenuity. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
Brilliant technology, but it begs the question, how good is Owen's | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
hearing! Stephen, to ensure you don't feel out of place for the | 0:15:05 | 0:15:12 | |
awards, we have entered your own categories in the Stephen Awards. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
Fingers crossed, you will win some of these. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
Alex Jones, the first category? first category is... Most | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
Persistent Attempt To Remake a Film. The winner is... It's Stephen Fry! | 0:15:27 | 0:15:36 | |
Of course, it is Fry, now, here we are. This alludes to the re-make of | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
Dam Busters. Yes, it is. It is a loaning time | 0:15:40 | 0:15:45 | |
ago, but that was with Peter Jackson, who I am currently making | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
the Hobbit with. There is so much more that we know | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
now that we could not show in the 1954 film, we would not take | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
anything away from it, but Peter is passionate about it. So am I. Thank | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
you for that. Congratulations for the first award. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
Let's move on to the second category. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
This could get repetitive, by the way. It is Best Celebrity Airplane | 0:16:12 | 0:16:18 | |
Pilot. The winner is... Have you guessed it? Yes, it's Stephen Fry! | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
Congratulations. On the topic of by-planes? I have not kept in the | 0:16:23 | 0:16:32 | |
hours to get a pilot licence. We know that Ewan McGregor's | 0:16:32 | 0:16:38 | |
brother is a fine pilot, but I have had two planes in my time, a Tiger | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
Moth and an Eagle. They are tail draggers with the tails at the back, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:49 | |
rather than in the front. Which is rather sexy, I think. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:56 | |
Indeed. Well, let's go on to the third and the final award. OK, the | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
final award is Best Spotter of New Musical Talent. Now, I have no idea | 0:16:59 | 0:17:06 | |
who the winner could be. Feel the tension. Here we go. It is... | 0:17:06 | 0:17:12 | |
Stephen Fry! Congratulations, sir! Thank you! Thank you! This is for | 0:17:12 | 0:17:20 | |
the review you gave Leeds singer Jon Gomm. It was a short critic? | 0:17:20 | 0:17:25 | |
was it is three letters, wow! I saw this guy playing a guitar in the | 0:17:25 | 0:17:30 | |
way I had never seen it before. He is an all-round genius. I thought | 0:17:30 | 0:17:36 | |
that people should share the talent. He using the guitar in a really | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
interesting way? It is wonderful to watch. Over 2 million people have | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
watched it now. I am proud and happy. One the advantages much | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
Twitter, to promote talent if you see it. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
Well, congratulations. Thank you. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:56 | |
They will go on my award's shelf, or wing! They are a bit flimsy. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
No, and they do look a little bit like Michael Caine. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
Thank you! Well, there are many stars hoping for success as Stephen | 0:18:06 | 0:18:12 | |
has had. You can see on BBC One on Sunday at 9.00pm. Now, Welsh | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
composer Paul Mealor had great success at the last Christmas with | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
the Military Wives Choir, but he has set himself a difficult project. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
He needs a voice with the almost impossible low E. Britain's low E | 0:18:27 | 0:18:32 | |
cupboard is pretty bare. So we have sent Alex Riley to Aberdeen to see | 0:18:32 | 0:18:41 | |
if he can help. # One... One! # When it comes to | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
singing I think that I like to take it to the limit. One of Britain's | 0:18:46 | 0:18:50 | |
most successful composers is looking out for singing that pushes | 0:18:50 | 0:19:00 | |
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the boundaries of what is humanly attainable! Better-known for | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
composing the choral music for last year's Royal Wedding and the | 0:19:06 | 0:19:11 | |
Military Wives Choir smash hit Christmas number one, composer Paul | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
Mealor is now on a global hunt for a singer, capable of hitting a note | 0:19:15 | 0:19:21 | |
so low, that it is thought never to have been sung before. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
At the top of the vocal range is the soprano who sings from C down | 0:19:26 | 0:19:36 | |
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to middle C. Somewhere in the middle is the alto, | 0:19:36 | 0:19:46 | |
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who takes us down to the E below middle C. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:54 | |
And the bass has the lowest vocal range of all. Going down as low as | 0:19:54 | 0:20:04 | |
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two OK saves below middle C. Low, but still some way off what | 0:20:06 | 0:20:11 | |
Paul has in mind. Paul, what is this incredibly low note that you | 0:20:11 | 0:20:17 | |
want somebody to be able to sing? Well, it is the very low E, down | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
here... That is low. Is it physically possible for somebody to | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
actually sing that note? I think it is beyond the capabilities of the | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
majority, but I think there are many out there, after a party and a | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
couple of pints can get down there, Barry White style. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:43 | |
I'm sure with a bit of training I could hit the elusive low E myself. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:50 | |
Sing that one. No, an octave lower. Not quite! | 0:20:50 | 0:20:56 | |
With the deepest bass singers in the country auditioning with little | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
success, perhaps it is time to go out on the streets, to find out if | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
there is undiscovered vocal talent out there. How low can people go. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:15 | |
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That was quite low. LAUGHTER Low! They were low, but | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
nowhere near low enough. The search continues. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:36 | |
No luck in Aberdeen. Stephen, could you be Paul's save your? | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
I think there is something there, I really do! To be honest, you were | 0:21:41 | 0:21:51 | |
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better a time 20 years ago. Here we Oh, hello! | 0:21:52 | 0:22:02 | |
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Hey Jude. The terrors of the modern world. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:26 | |
Now, it is time for some singing sea shanty style. Whilst we | 0:22:26 | 0:22:31 | |
procedure for song from the Fisher. Carrie Grant has been to the other | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
end of the British Isles to meet one of the last remaining voices of | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
the her her. I'm as near to John O'Groats in the top of mainland | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
Britain as I have ever been. This is Fraserburgh. It is in North East | 0:22:44 | 0:22:49 | |
Scotland. It is one of the last fishing ports left in Britain. It | 0:22:49 | 0:22:54 | |
is also one of the ports visited by an amazing group of women, known as | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
the her her. At their peak there were over 6,000 of them. They were | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
experts at gutting and curing fish. While they worked, they loved to | 0:23:03 | 0:23:11 | |
sing. # In Stornoway and shields... # | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
From the 1800s up to 1940, the Herring Lassies followed the North | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
Sea fishing boats down Britain's east coastment while the men | 0:23:20 | 0:23:27 | |
trawled and landed the fish, the women processed them. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:32 | |
Historian Rosemary Sanderson is the author of a book on Herring Lassies. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
How many fish would a Herring Lassies gut within a minute? About | 0:23:36 | 0:23:43 | |
60! Time was money it was peace work, they had to be fast it looks | 0:23:43 | 0:23:51 | |
yet it is all done. What do you know about the songs? They had a | 0:23:51 | 0:23:56 | |
chanting lyrics, that went well with fiscal labour. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:02 | |
The her her were usually unmarried, they followed the fleet, staying in | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
seaside boarding houses, carrying a trunk with all of their possessions. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:11 | |
If they were lucky, they would persuade the fishermen to take it | 0:24:11 | 0:24:16 | |
by boat. Fraserburgh fisherman, William | 0:24:16 | 0:24:21 | |
White's mum was a her her. What was life like for the Herring Lassies? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:28 | |
I could hear mum saying it was very, very hard. Stood in oil skins with | 0:24:28 | 0:24:34 | |
the fingers wrapped in twine, but it was a very, very hard day. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:41 | |
But they kept singing. Bunty Davidson is one of the few | 0:24:41 | 0:24:46 | |
remaining her her. It is a forgotten time, a forgotten | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
skill. You just gut the herring and take | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
it out over there. This is disgusting, they did this | 0:24:55 | 0:25:02 | |
all day? All day. From 6.00am to 1.00pm in the afternoon. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
The songs kept the spirit up, for heaven's sake. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:13 | |
Your time as a Herring Lassies, do you look back at that fondly? | 0:25:13 | 0:25:21 | |
It was awfy dirty. Well, I learn the how to get fish | 0:25:21 | 0:25:27 | |
Bunty. Now I want to know more about the music. I have come to | 0:25:27 | 0:25:35 | |
meet Irene Watt. IRA yeen collects and preserves the | 0:25:35 | 0:25:42 | |
songs of the her her. That is beautiful. These songs seem to have | 0:25:43 | 0:25:49 | |
a Cornish feel to them? Yes, they That song is four, four, time. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:57 | |
You pick up the herring, you slit it and throw it. So it is | 0:25:57 | 0:26:03 | |
# Fiddle Dee with the herring today. # So it works with the herring work. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
Can you teach me? Absolutely. OK, we don't need the harp. Let's | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
do outside. Let's try the whole thing. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:23 | |
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With actions? Why not?! # Fiddle Dee with a herring's eyes | 0:26:24 | 0:26:31 | |
# Herrings eyes, and all sorts of things | 0:26:32 | 0:26:41 | |
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# Sing fiddle Dee oops lie there! # We rock it. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
John, do you think that Carrie has potential? I think so. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:58 | |
Does that make you homesick? little bit. We like to see the sea. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:05 | |
We own left it three hours ago! this is all about the sea and fish | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
shanty songs. Obviously these are taken to the boats and to the sea. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:17 | |
Why did you do this? The shanties were designed to help the Saylors | 0:27:17 | 0:27:27 | |
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with their work. # Heavow way... # They would all | 0:27:27 | 0:27:36 | |
sing together and do the work together. It made it more efficient. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
You guys, by the way, I'm glad I wore a stripe. You are going on | 0:27:40 | 0:27:46 | |
tour, starting in Cambridge? Yes, Cambridge, St Albans, York, Burnley | 0:27:46 | 0:27:51 | |
and Liverpool. Do you have plenty of shanties to | 0:27:51 | 0:27:57 | |
fill? Yes, 60 or 70-odd. You are doing indoor as well as | 0:27:57 | 0:28:04 | |
docks? Yeah, all indoor this week. Well, we are in good voice. Give us | 0:28:04 | 0:28:11 | |
an idea of what we are singing? are singing A Drop of Nelson's | 0:28:11 | 0:28:16 | |
Blood. When Nelson was shot at Trafalgar, they put his body, | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
ironically into a barrel of French brandy to preserve it. When they | 0:28:19 | 0:28:26 | |
took the body out, the marines that escorted the body, took a drop of | 0:28:26 | 0:28:32 | |
the brandy. Known as Nelson's blood. We are putting the words on the | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
screen. Take it away. # Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
wouldn't do us any harm. # Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
wouldn't do us any harm. # Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
wouldn't do us any harm. # And we'll all hang on behind. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
# So we'll roll the old chariot along. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:48 | |
# An' we'll roll the golden chariot along. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:55 | |
# So we'll roll the old chariot along. | 0:28:55 | 0:29:05 | |
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# An' we'll all hang on behind! This is a good look with the | 0:29:06 | 0:29:11 | |
Fisherman's Friends and of course, Stephen Fry, good luck for hosting | 0:29:11 | 0:29:16 | |
the BAFTAs. Tomorrow, Keeley Hawes is here. We will see you at 7.00pm. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:23 | |
Shall we give it another go? Let's # Oh, a plate of Irish stew | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 |