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How unwelcome to the One Show. Tonight's guest has one of the most

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powerful voices in the business. He resonates, he reverberates in

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French, German, English, Russian Please welcome one of the world's

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greatest tenors, at the maestro, So very nice to have you here. You

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are full of cold, as well! Anybody who will hear my voice now will

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never guess that I have been making my living for over half a century

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singing opera. I have a cold! very resident tonight! You have

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ginger and honey? Ginger and honey, you guessed. They recommended it to

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me. And at a bit of whisky! You are a global star, you have houses all

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over the world, where are you spending Christmas? You have grown

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children here in Britain? Yes, I have three English granddaughters.

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They are the daughters of one of my sons, he also sings. I know that

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one day they will be singers. They have beautiful voices. I will see

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them tomorrow morning before leaving quickly, we will spend

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Christmas in Mexico, it is our tradition. We get all the family,

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on my sister's side, with the nephews, everybody, I never say I

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am dreaming of a white Christmas! I always have a warm Christmas!

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do you have for Christmas lunch? have a turkey. The evening of the

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24th. And the 25th, you need to same, you know. -- you eat the same.

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And lots of singing, no doubt. But it is expected that we will fork

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out a �13 billion before Christmas. But that bonanza will come too late

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for many shops and companies that have gone into administration this

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year. So why are so many of them still trading?

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Almost 2000 companies have gone into administration this year. One

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of the most recent big brand names to join them is the electrical

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chain, it. Famous retailers like Clinton's, the card shop, they have

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all gone in two administrations. But they have managed to survive

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and continue to trade on the High Street. How is it possible for a

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brand to survive if it is in administration? This London camply

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-- cab company has been making the iconic black taxi, it caught in the

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administrators in October. At the factory, Matthew Hammond from Price

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Waterhouse Coopers has the task of sorting out the mess. So what is

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administration? It is like when a person goes bankrupt, they cannot

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pay their debt, in this situation, it is for a company. My job as an

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administrator is to diagnose the problems and try and fix them, then

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ultimately sell the business on to a new investor. But it looks as if

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this place has been effectively closed down? And you have to make

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some choices. You cannot do everything abyss this would

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normally do. One of the first things the administrators did was

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to stop production and make over half the workforce reduction --

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redundant. These men all lost their jobs. They are out today, trying to

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drum up support for their campaign to keep the factory up and running.

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I worked there for 37 years. It is a hard time of year to be made

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redundant, and to fight for your rights, to get what you are due, it

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makes things worse. What do you want to achieve by your campaign?

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To put a bit of pressure on the administrators, to basically give

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us a fair chance to get our jobs back. Because the company went into

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administration, workers only received a statutory redundancy

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package from the government, receiving far less than they would

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have been paid otherwise. 156 people lost their jobs, more than

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half the workforce, but that many people really have to go? I think

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in the special circumstances we see here, that was the most difficult

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decision, but necessary to preserve what is left. Is this just a way of

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avoiding debt, writing them off, going into administration? At that

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is a myth, the debt is not avoided. I think it is difficult decision to

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go into administration for a lot of directors. It is the

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administrator's job to pay of company debt. Banks and secured

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creditors are always at the top of the list. They get paid first.

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Everyone else, including the customer, has to wait, as this man

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found out after he waited -- ordered a kitchen from MFI it

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shortly before the financial retailer went into administration.

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They said you had to pay everything up front? Everything, just a few

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pence short of 5200. A week later, we heard they had gone into

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administration. You paid them and within a week they had gone

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bankrupt? Yes. He never received his kitchen from MFI, and after

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three years of waiting for the administrators to pay creditors, he

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found that he wasn't going to get his money back either. Then he

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discovered something that really confused him. I got the shock of my

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life a few weeks ago, I just happened to go on to the website,

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and lo and behold, it looks like they are selling everything they

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used to sell. How do you feel seen a company with the same name as the

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one that owes you �5,200? Awful, absolutely awful.

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It is absolutely terrible, how did that happen? He it does seem

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extraordinary, but the job of the administrator is to raise as much

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money for the failing company it can. So they look at all the assets,

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and the brand name is an asset, such a separate company bought by a

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brand name, and started selling furniture again. Because the debt

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have been written off, they don't owe anything to Dennis. Christmas

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hasn't come soon enough for businesses, but others are relying

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on this time of year. This is a time of a lot of bankruptcies in

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retail businesses, it seems extraordinary. This is the time

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everybody goes out and spends money, but if you get the calculations

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wrong, you do the maths, people will have problems. That is what

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seems to be happening, retailers are facing a really tough times at

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the moment. A lot of people are shopping online, the bargains of

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there are harder to get, it means businesses are making less money,

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so it is difficult. If you want to have a high street, you have got to

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spend money in it otherwise the shops will go bankrupt. But as well

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as a lack of customers, there are the reasons these companies are

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going into administration. There are all sorts of pressures on

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businesses, one of which is rented. We have been looking around the

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country, and in Whitstable, some shops have been facing 80%

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increases in rent. You can see it is very hard as a business to go on

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operating if you see them going up like that. So businesses have to

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adapt. Even in opera! So cinemas are showing operas lives a. That is

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right. A 25 years ago, or 30, in London this started, I was singing

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at the Covent garden Square, it was opera live. The people came and

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enjoyed the performance. That was on the big screen. And that, for

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years, it was in other places. And since then, since about six or

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seven years, the Metropolitan Opera started with high divot -- high

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definition, directly to the Meavy houses. Are you doing another one

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in April? I am yes. So every theatre is bringing out the

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possibility to a new public. It is not the same. But you get the

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opportunity. Live opera is live opera, but it is as close as can be.

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We look forward to that! But in any case, it is a hard time by

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everybody, especially when I think about Christmas gifts and children,

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you know. Many people, never mind the extra parties that you do, but

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the toys for the children... I hope that everybody thinks. Could and

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agree more. Is yours up, mine is! There are tears. Mine is, doesn't

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look as good, though. I got this for a tenner on the way here. There

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you are! It is Ali decorated on one side. -- only decorative. We have

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to save money these days! Alex Reilly has been divided everything

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you need to know when it comes to buying a Christmas tree. -- to find

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out. It is the most wonderful time of

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the year, when Britain goes bonkers the Christmas, but doesn't really

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get going until you buy your Christmas tree. This furry friend

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lives in our home until Twelfth Night, but how do we make sure we

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choose the right one? Kluft is a master of the Christmas tree trade.

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-- Cliff. Where do they come from? In the main, from Denmark. The once

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and Scotland that we have, the weather has not been so good, it

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has been too warm, in fact. So will they be more expensive? Not really,

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because the transport from Scotland is expensive, people are price-

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conscious, they are looking for a bit of a bargain. What advice would

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you give somebody looking to buy a Christmas tree? The Normans are the

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best ones, but the best smelling ones are the Norway spruce, but

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they do tend to drop their needles. You should look out for a nice,

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uniform tree, plenty of branches, and that is the best way to look

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for a Christmas tree. Also make sure they are nice and green.

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year, 8 million Christmas trees will be sold around the UK. The One

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Show did some research and found that the average price for a six

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but Norman is around �40, but the most expensive we could find was in

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an exclusive part of London, where the same dream would set you back

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�70. I am off to Lewisham to help Harry flog some of his. This is the

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second year you have been selling them, how his business? Busier than

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last year. We sold about 300, we did better than that already this

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year. These ones are 35. Week by it and sat at one price. Other quality

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the same as you would buy in a department store? Nine times out of

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10 they are getting it from the same supplier. It will be the same

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tree. We know how to look after them! Can I have a look at your

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stall? We will get you write out of the front, in front of everybody.

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Get your lovely trees, everybody! �35! All day long. What are you

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doing? That is not right! That was my sale! Do we do delivery? We can

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put a stamp on it, it might not get She will be back, she will buy one.

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Francs for the tutorial. Best of So expensive these days! And you

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were just saying, you were in New York buying a Christmas tree.

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is right. I was interviewing a person that sold them and I said, I

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hope you don't get more than you are going to sell, because we do

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you do with all of them? It is just a pity you have to chuck that many.

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But that is what they are grown for. You can get them for a pound or a

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penny on the 23rd! That is my tip for you! Tomorrow, we will be

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turning on the BBC's Christmas lights. If you switch on your

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Christmas lights on your tree or inside your house, we would like to

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see them. Send us your photos. have a new album out, Songs, it is

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quite different from the opera we were talking about. 20 years!

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tears been even more, I did an album with John Denver. Now I have

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a new contract, so we are of course doing classical music, but I said,

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can I do an album with popular songs, and they said yes. So that

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is what has happened. One of the lovely people you'd duet with his

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Katherine Jenkins, we shall see you # Come what may

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# Come what may # I will love you

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# Until my darling -- dying days. # Placido, you are still hitting

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incredibly high notes. Will there come a time when you have to go

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into baritone range? Most of my repertory is a baritone range.

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After so much singing, I have done the tenor, but I still have so many

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beautiful operas. The voice is still there.

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I really love to do different voices. Especially now with my age,

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there are so many characters and heroes, lovers that the tenor

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always wins, all of those roles and I still love it and enjoy it.

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Well, it is a beautiful listen. Placido's CD of Songs is out now.

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Now, Placido, have a look at that big telly, can you guess what this

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is? Well, it is not a lady doing something with the eye larbs.

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Well, it is not far away. It could abfemale, but it really a large red

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damsel. Now, George McGavin has been out

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and about looking at Britain's insects.

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I've come armed with my collecting kit to my old stomping ground in

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Oxfordshire. Today I'm collecting insects for a man who promises to

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show me them under a different lens to this one. These amazing images

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are the work of Tomas Rach. The photographer, has been inspired by

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the form and the incredible detail of insects what he photographs them

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close-up. I would like to know hor about his techniques, -- more about

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his techniques, so I'm off to collect some insects.

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One of the best places to collect bugs is among the leaves and the

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litter of decaying wood. About a third of insects live in decayed

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wood. This is a beetle lava. It has three little pairs of jointed leg

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there is at the front. Here is a ground beetle. Now, look

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at that. That is beautiful. Now it is quite a big one. If he stays

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still like this, long enough, he will be perfect. I know that up

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close the back of those wing cases are covered in tiny pits. It even

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has tiny hairs on his head. I think that will look fantastic. After

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finding a ladybird a house fly and rather legy millipedes, it is time

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to take the whole lot back to Tomas. I have been raking about in the

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undergrowth for about an hour collecting lots of bugs and beesis.

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This looks amazing. How do you keep them still? The

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insects are always escaping! Well, for this occasion I am using water

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and lava in the water. The water is a restriction.

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What a great strik trick. Surrounding the bugs by water,

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stops them from running away it makes them easier to photograph and

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the orange flowers adds a perfect contrasting background. Leaving

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Tomas to concentrate on the images, I decided to find something

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different. Fantastic! Look at that, a water beetle it is smooth with

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lovely feet with hairs on. They help it to swim.

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Oops! Swim like that and escape! Never mind. Dragonfly lava galo

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rerbgs! -- galore! A back-swimmer. With a few more ready to add to the

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collection, I can't wait to see what Tomas thinks of them. Right, I

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have insects from a pond. Have you ever photographed them before?

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I have never seen these before. He uses a standard lens and

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powerful flash to high light the intrick asis of the insets. Anyone

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with access to these cameras can have a go too. After a full day's

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work it is time to see the final results.

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That is lovely. The jaws of this ground beetle make it the perfect

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predator. That is lovely. Look at all of the

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hair there, it looks silver. Incredibly, the hairs on this

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garden spider are used to sense wind direction and to taste and

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smell, even. The enormous compound eyes of the house fly are made up

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of about 4,000 lenses, allowing it to see almost a full 360 degrees. I

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am so impressed with the colours and the structures that we have

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been able to capture on screen. Perhaps photography is a great way

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of giving creepy crawlies the good press that they deserve.

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George, if only you had hung on to the water beetle, that would have

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been complete, that photo album. You have had a whale of a time

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working on this? I don't know what you have asked for Christmas, but I

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would want this instrument. It is 85,000 euros it can see 7,000 times

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better than the human eye. I have filmed things that I have never

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seen in the wild. Amazing. Let's have a look.

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Look at those little legs! Go in on that. That is tiny, absolutely tiny.

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This is for me, one of the most amazing eye-openers of the

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machinery. Here is a millipede clawinging through the fame. It is

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big, yet on its leg is a tiny mi terbgs there.

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It is sucking the blood there. If you looked at that there would be

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something else on that. It is a whole hidden world.

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You also loved the water bell. These things are everywhere. They

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have been around for 500 million years. When we have gone, water

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bears will still be around on Earth. Did you see anything you did not

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want to see? There is nothing that I don't want to see in the natural

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world if you are stuck about what to buy your kids for Christmas, buy

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them a hand lens. That will open up a whole new world that will blow

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them away. Very cheap! There you are, Placido,

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something for the grandkids. Just don't drop it.

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You can see George's George's Miniature Britain on BBC One at

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8.00pm and 9.00pm in Scotland. Now, here is Gyles Brandreth with a

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military tune that was almost more of a sprint than a march.

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The RAF March Past. The Royal Air Force's signature tune. With a

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barrage of melodies it is a dog fight in a musical form, but this

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dashing march had a surprisingly civilian start in life.

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Today, the RAF's a precision fighting force, but in the early

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day it is was a different story. Formed in 1918, the new RAF rose

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from the ashes of the army's Royal Flying Corp, but the force lacked

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pomp and ceremony. That is where an unknown musician, Henry Davis comes

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Well, he was walking through London, during the first week of the new

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air force and he met a old school chum. He remarked on the fact that

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they did not have a policy for making, managing and forming bands.

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He said, Walford, you are a musician, would you like to come

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and do it. Three days later he was major Walford Davis of the

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organising director of the new Royal Air Force.

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He had no military experience? No working his way up through the

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ranks? Overnight, a major, it is a scandal,

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isn't it? It would be these days. Propelled into musical battle, the

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major set to work composing his first ever ceremonial march.

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What is this? The first proof of the March Past. You can see that

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Walford has put in the corrections in his handwriting.

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What does this tell us about the composer? It tells me he was not

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versed in military writing. He put down a mark of 132.

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What is wrong with that? It is not easy to march at. 120 or slower is

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easier. It looks better on a parade. We can discover what 132 would

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sound like. Here is Guy, the Bobby Crusher of the RAF. I have the

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metronome set at 132, march away. It gets you going.

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It does, but it could also give you a heart attack. I will stop that.

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That is 132. That is too fast. They would be falling over.

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As organising director of music, should major Davis have known this?

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Undoubtedly! Against all odds, Davis' March Past was a hit with

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the middle section added by a colleague it became an intrinsic

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part of the RAF's identity. Here it is, performed by the Central Band

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of the RAF at a marchable 116 beats per minute.

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He's done it! It's magnificent! Absolutely. I have played and

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conducted it so many times but I never fail enjoying hearing it

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again. He may have been a civilian at heart, but he delivered the

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goods. It works That's it. There must be a good melody to start off

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with. That is what this is. But it is with the words heroic,

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and with the notes, it is uplifting, airborne.

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It is impressive. After one year, Major Davis

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resigned from the RAF with a -- for a less formal career with the BBC!

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Walford Davis may not have been cut out for military service, but he

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left behind him a musical monument of which the RAF takes great pride

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still today, at the right speed! And as soon as that tempo hit 116,

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Placido said, "Perfect."! Now, you have said if you rust, you rust,

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there are no traces of rust, but what will you do in 2013? Many,

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many different things, but to the end of the year I have a recording

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to finish. A Christmas concert in Moscow on the 19th of December and

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on the 22nd one in Prague and next year it is the Verdi and Wagner

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anniversary. So a lot of Verdi operas, it is the 200th anniversary

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of both composer's birthdays. So, keep sipping on the honey and

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the lemon. I will need it

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