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Hello, welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones... And Matt Baker.

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Today's guest is airing their hopefully clean laundry on The One

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Show washing line. Unless they are yours? I quite like that

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Show washing line. Unless they are There are some bloomers, a penny. Is

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that a tea towel? Keep going, keep going. A wig. Who is underneath

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there? It is Brendan O'Carroll, otherwise known as Mrs Brown!

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Hello, how are you? Good to see you. It is actually strange seeing

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you there, when you see somebody coming out of somebody else's face?

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It seems weird being an TV like this. A lot of people will not know

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that Mrs Brown's family is actually your family. Well, many of them. You

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brought the Klan with you. We have a cardigan and an apron.

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You do love a cardigan. You are a good boy. That is nice. It is so

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weird to see you in men's clothes. The one place we have never seen

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weird to see you in men's clothes. Mrs Brown is Church.

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But even if you don't go to church, in some parishes, you could still

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be charged for its repairs. Tony Livesey has been to meet the

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homeowners who have been told they are legally obliged to contribute

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if the church chancel needs fixing. The next time you pass your local

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church, take a good look at it. The next time you pass your local

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There is a chance that you might have to stump up some cash. It is

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called chancer repair liability. Thanks to a 500-year-old law it

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could be inextricably linked to your property. The law dates back

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could be inextricably linked to to the Middle Ages when people who

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own land near churches were responsible for funding the upkeep

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of the chancel. Over the years, as that land has been bought, sold and

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divided, it has become harder to define who has that responsibility.

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The only way to check is to cross reference old maps and documents

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against me ones. That is not straightforward. -- new ones. The

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Government has set a deadline of this coming Sunday for churches to

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register formally any property they believe is affected by this law.

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Two of those properties belong to a couple from Yorkshire. They have

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been assured there are no immediate plans for repairs was a bit could

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mean trouble if they want to sell their properties. -- repairs. This

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letter, as far as you are concerned, has come out of the blade.

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Absolutely. I was not aware of this. -- out of the blue. I want to pass

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my property down to my children. In this instance, in this village, not

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everyone has been opposed, have they? There are another 32 houses

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that are potentially liable. They they? There are another 32 houses

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have only said it on four of us. Engine rules say not everyone is

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equal. -- ancient rules. We asked the Church when it was up

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registering all the houses. They said the amount the others would be

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liable to bear the be so miniscule they're not worth pursuing. --

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liable to pay would be so miniscule. Many parish councils feel they have

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no choice but to enforce the law. There have been cases where they

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have applied to charitable There have been cases where they

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organisations for funding only to be told they must explore all

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avenues. They must enforce this. In reality, they may never have to put

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their hands in their pockets. You cannot completely rule it out. Tell

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us what happened to you? In 1990, we received a letter asking for

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help repairing the chancel. They were looking at the window repairs.

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I think they were talking about £2,000 a window. We said we would

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be cleared to help provided you can be sure as it is not a legal

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obligation. They claimed it was a legal obligation. After 20 years,

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the courts ruled against Andrew ENG bail. The repair bill had risen at

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a bit. I have never really dead to editor. Something like 250,004

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repairs to the chancel. -- dared to add it up. Not all churches want to

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enforce liability. This Reverend has successfully argued that his

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parish should not have to impose it on local landowners. The principal

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basis of my argument was reputational damage to the church.

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Now you are free to apply to other charities for money, as opposed to

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other landowners. We will be free. There will be no obligation for us

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to pursue it. That, for you, is a satisfactory solution? It is

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satisfactory for us. As for Mick and Cindy, unless they can reach

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agreement with the Church, this is liable to remain on their deeds for

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ever. I have not even been into the grounds. It upsets me. To think

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that it could ruin us. There are going to be a lot of worried people

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out there. Tony Livesey joins us now. What has

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the Church of England got to say about all this? I should put some

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context on this. A lot of churches do not want to pursue this but kind

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of feel they have to. The Church of England has financial

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responsibility for 45% of the nation's Grade 1 listed buildings.

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70% of repair bills are met by local fund raising, with only a

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minority coming from English Heritage, Lottery funds and other

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non-church sources. They say they cannot be expected to forgo sources

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of funding, which is what is called tonsil repair liability. Our

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solicitor told us about this problem when we bought our house. A

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round of applause for your solicitor. What do people say it

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was appointed. It dates back to the aid age of Hennig VII. It was not

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expected to be put back on the Land Registry. -- to the age of Henry

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the eighth. Parish councils are having such difficulty finding out

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who is responsible. The National Archive - if you go to the website

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- viewers can have a look on that. Archive - if you go to the website

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It is about the land to house is on. You do not have to be near a church.

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If you do not get a letter by tomorrow or the day after, does

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that mean everything is all right? Not really. You are not registered

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at the moment. If you decide to sell your house in the future, the

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Church can come and register liability. It is an interesting

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thing to call it - a source of income. It is really blackmail.

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Lots of funding bodies so they will not give taxpayers' money because

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they can get money from other sources. You have to feel sorry for

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the couples in the film. What happens if you cannot afford it?

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You need to get into dialogues with the church council. Many of them

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say, nothing might happen. It might be 100, 200 years before we need to

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put a new roof on the chancel. You can buy your way out of these

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things. You can offer a son, but added together with everyone else

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in the village who is responsible, could buy you out of the whole

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liability. If you own a house on these lads, is there any legal

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obligation to tell the future buyers? -- these lands. This is

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where everybody stops drinking their cups of tea. If you own a

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property, you imagine you own everything it stands on. You own

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the surface and somebody else can only everything underneath. How far

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the surface and somebody else can do you dig damage your planting?

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The Church of England owns a lot of this type of land Foster they are

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registering their interest in us. If someone owns everything under my

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house, they might frack nearby. Do not let her read it! Thank you for

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coming in. He is trouble. This is the thing

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was that he is looking very well dressed, well groomed, well spoken.

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Almost unrecognisable to you know who.

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Some petits fours? Yes, please. It took grandad a whole day to suck

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the chocolate up of berm. We are very lucky to have that clip. --

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the chocolate off them. Was that all right? It looked great. These

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two Christmas specials I think of the best episodes we have done yet.

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Last year, 15 million people watched it across all platforms.

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There is nothing on the television. Mrs Brown's boys has become an

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astonishing hit. It started when he just made up the character on the

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spot. I was having a cup of coffee with a radio presenter. I was

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invited in to do a couple of comedy pieces on the radio. It was like an

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Irish version of Steve Wright in the afternoon. They were having a

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cup of coffee and Rory, my agent, was having a cup of coffee with me.

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We were having a cup of coffee. The DJs said, I am looking for

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something quirky for the afternoon. I said, I am writing something

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quirky. He said, what is it? I said, Mrs Brown's boys. Louise Brown, the

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first test-tube baby. It was the 21st anniversary of her birth and

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that name stuck in my mind. He said, I would love to see it. Rory said,

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so would I! I wrote the first five episodes and gave them to him. I

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got everyone I knew to put in the voices. I could not afford to pay

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anybody. That is have a family ended up in it? Pepsi, who played

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Mark, was my ready. The person who played grandad, he did a bit on my

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Stand Up Show. I booked an actress to play Mrs Brown and she did not

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turn up. I read her lines. I said, when she is well, I will dub them

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over. I just did the boys. Hello, it is nice to see you. That is

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incredible. When I got to the end, he said, who was the actress

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playing Mrs Brand? He said, do not lose that boys and that was it.

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Do you know what it is like to live with a man that is a complete bore

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and has no personality? Tell them! Maybe this could do with a lick of

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paint. It needs more than a lick of paint, it needs a face-lift. It was

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made to last. What is that, it wouldn't be my new kitchen, would

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it? No. Mrs Brown's family are actually Brendan's family. Just for

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everybody at home, introduce yourselves and let us know what your

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real relationship to Brendan is and what your relationship is to Mrs

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Brown. I am Fiona, Brendan's daughter in real life. I play the

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part of Agnes's daughter-in-law. Danny, I play Brendan's Sun. I am

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married to Brendan in real life and I am Mrs Brown's daughter. That must

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be so weird? You have no idea. You want to see what it is like when we

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get home. Who is your mammy? You are playing your husband's daughter,

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dressed as a woman? She is married to Trevor, who plays the priest.

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Danny is married to Amanda, who plays Betty. What were you doing

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before this? You were in acting and what have you beforehand? I was in

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the film college when I got the call. I have filled in a couple of

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times. I love that, got the call? I filled in the odd couple of times

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when the actress could not do the show. Then when she decided to

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leave, did not want it to any more, he literally called me and said,

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well, you have done it before, you were very good, do you want to come

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onto? Did you have any experience? I did a bit of acting in movies when I

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was a kid, but I went straight from school to working backstage.

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Building the sets, doing the lights. Everybody has worked back on the

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set, they all understand. I'm very proud of them when we do shoots.

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Everybody knows what everybody else has to do to make us look good. It's

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not an easy job, it's a hard job. We are like a posh circus. Danny was

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diagnosed as dyslexic at a very late age, 16. I am dyslexic, he is

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dyslexic. When I went to school to try to get supplementary teaching,

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they said, we can't do that. He said, dad, I can't read a script and

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I want to be an actor. I said, I'm telling you now, I am going to get

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your head shot and send it to every casting agency I know. You are going

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to do auditions, see what it is like to be humiliated, be told, we want

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to see you being a washing machine and then be told no. That is what an

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actor's life is. And he got everything he went for. They are

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going to stay with us to help us with some of Mrs Brown's domestic

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advice. As we heard earlier, Brendan encouraged his family onto the

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stage. It turns out that pushy parents are not limited just to

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humans. Mike Dell Jazz got up close and personal to some incredible

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guillemots, whose mothers are giving them a shove in the right direction.

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Just a couple of miles off the Northumberland coast, shaped like a

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giant molars, the pinnacles rise Northumberland coast, shaped like a

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majestically out of the North Sea. Part of the Farne Islands, the cliff

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face offers the perfect opportunity to see our vast array of sea birds.

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From eight glance around, I can see a kittiwake in the air, puffins in

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the water, razorbills whizzing past and sharks whizzing past. -- shocks.

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It is at this time of the year that the guillemots chicks make a huge

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leap of faith. They are massed ranks now, but in the 70s the numbers were

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low, in part because people used to collect eggs for food. Thanks to

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protection, numbers have increased massively. David steel from The

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National Trust is the head warden. 30 years ago there was 1500, and

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then they skyrocketed. Every year we see record numbers coming back. How

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many birds are we talking about? We are looking at 50,000 individuals on

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the Farne Islands. They are so packed together, it must have tiny

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territory? They really do. They are the Penguins of the northern

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hemisphere. They lay one egg and keep it on their feet. To prevent

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the eggs falling, evolution has come up with an amazing design. Take a

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chicken egg. Quite rounded. If I put it on this slope, watch it go, all

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of the way down and into the water. If I take a guillemots egg, and this

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has come from a museum, see how pointed it is. Put it at the top of

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the slope and watch it roll around in a nice, tight circle. Preserved.

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Isn't that amazing? The eggs hatch at around 30 days.

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Once the chicks are three weeks old, they will have to leave the nest and

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learn to fish for themselves. As their wings are not fully formed,

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the only way is down. From below is the best place to get a view of this

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annual spectacle. It is getting close to dusk. That is the time the

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chicks will make their leap of faith. All they have known since

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they hatched is a tiny piece of rock and the love and attention of their

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parents. Their dance or already in the water and they will have a

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recognisable call, encouraging their own cheque to jump. -- check.

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Hopefully they will go to the edge and open their wings, bearing in

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mind they cannot yet fly. They will half flutter and even possibly

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bounce their way down to the water. I can't wait to see it. For the

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chicks, it is a daunting moment. For some, it is a jump of 20 metres.

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Away we go, there is one on the edge. It doesn't know if it wants to

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go or not. It is right on the edge. edge. It doesn't know if it wants to

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It's a way! If they don't jump, sometimes mum

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will give them a gentleman. -- gentle nudge. There are also hazards

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on the way down. I've just seen one hitting the rocks

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on the way in. Really, it doesn't matter. Their bones are still not

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fully formed and are quite soft. Really, they bounce. I think,

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actually, it looks fine. As soon as the chicks are reunited with their

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fathers, they are let out into the North Sea. For the next two months,

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dad will look after them and teach them to fish. It is such a beautiful

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evening. Such a phenomenal spectacle. It makes me feel quite

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emotional, seeing those chicks taking their first tiny steps. Let's

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hope they will come back for the next 25 or 30 years, and teach their

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kids how to make that amazing leap of faith.

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You couldn't believe what you were seeing, covering your eyes? A long

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way down. Get rid of the offspring. Today is Super Thursday. It is the

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day when 1500 authors released their books for Christmas. Your alter

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ego, Mrs Brown, has a family Handbook which has gems of domestic

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advice for all of us. It's brilliant. We will start with the

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tea bags, on the washing line. In the books, they will tell you there

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is a perfect cup of tea. It is just tea. Anything that says infused, it

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is not tea. If it has a flower on the box, not tea. If it says it is

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blueberry, not tea. The teapot is very important. You never wash the

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teapot. Mrs Brown says she has used it for 15 years and never washes it.

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She has rinsed it out. You see, the more you use it, the less you have

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to use tea bags because it builds up. You get a good elder's cup of

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tea. -- builder's. There is a great chapter on tea towels. But my

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mother, her tea towel was hurt tool box. It opened bottles, held doors

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open, she would flick it behind my box. It opened bottles, held doors

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ear. She could take a fully of the top of my ear. All the different

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things Mrs Brown can do with her tea towel, some of them are pretty

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outrageous, which I will not go into. A good tea towel should not

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show the light. Hold it up to the light, if it shines through, it is

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Mickey Mouse. I am surprised you have still got ears. If you would

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like similar housekeeping advice from the family book, it is Super

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Thursday, it is out today. And it is a superb book. The Commitments has

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been voted the best Irish film of all time. So far! The euphoria is

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back and this time it is on stage, in the West End.

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Back in 1991, the film The Commitments, a story of a group of

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working-class Dubliners who form a soul band became an overnight

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success. It is based on the bestselling novel. Now, some 25

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years after the author wrote the book, he is bringing it to the stage

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in a show that has been six years in the making. Tonight is opening

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night. The band's manager is played by

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22-year-old Dennis Grindle. Despite only just finishing drama school, he

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grabbed a lead role in what will be his West End debut. So, first job

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out of theatre school. Luck or talent? Definitely lucky. The

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opportunity came for this, they were still looking for the character. I

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opportunity came for this, they were thought it would be a great

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opportunity to be seen, I didn't think anything would come of it.

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Opening nights are notorious for being the make or break moment. Is

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the cast feeling the pressure of that? Definitely more so now. Me

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personally, on the opening night of previews, knowing that there will be

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a lot of critics and press, it has been building up, how good the show

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can be. 26 stagehands, 20 set changes and 39 actors on stage at

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any given moment. Its opening night and anything could go wrong. Fingers

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crossed it won't. With only hours to go, the team put the final touches

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in. For the script writer, Roddy Doyle, just how important are good

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in. For the script writer, Roddy reviews and a strong world premiere

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in. For the script writer, Roddy to the success? How different is the

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stage play from the film? It is very different. I have not seen the film

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for a long time. I deliberately stayed away while I was working. It

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is based on the novel. The stage presentation is very different. What

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kind of pressure you under to work? My work, I feel, is done. You are

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going to see what I have done, what you see is what you get. In a

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nutshell, can you tell me what it is about? It is about a young man in

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the north side of Dublin, who forms a soul band. It's about the band,

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and then the break-up of the band. Opening night, how do you feel? Very

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excited, a great buzz backstage. It's a young cast, you have that

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youthful enthusiasm that is really infectious. Is this make or break

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night? You can get bad reviews, but if the show is good it tends to find

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an audience. And this is a very good show. We would like the critics to

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like the show, it would make the job easier, but I think it is good

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anyway. The stage is set, the show is about to begin.

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# Freedom! #

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As a first night, absolutely brilliant. Everybody has come out

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with smiling faces. I haven't been to such a good show for ages. That

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was a very exciting premiere. These shows stand or fall by the

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all-important first night. It is a strong brand, it has a great

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storyteller behind it and it has some superb songs. If it is a

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success or not, we will have to wait and see.

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You were just saying, great story? When it came out as a movie, I was

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in America and they had subtitles on it. For the Irish accidents. Thank

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God we don't have that on Mrs Brown. I know you don't have long left, can

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I just say to Danny, that he is adopted. Anyway, that is all we have

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time for today. Thanks to Brendan, Danny and Fiona. We will be back

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tomorrow with Johnny Vegas. Goodbye.

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