:00:19. > :00:22.Hello, welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones... And Matt Baker. I'm
:00:22. > :00:27.not sure we have had a more decorated guest. We are going to
:00:27. > :00:34.take a moment or two to embarrass her. She has broken 30 world
:00:34. > :00:40.records. She has won 11 Paralympic cold medals. She holds that record
:00:40. > :00:44.for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and 800 metres. She has won
:00:44. > :00:51.the wheelchair marathon a record six times. She is a dame and
:00:51. > :00:56.Baroness. With at secret love of 80s soft-rock. A big round of
:00:56. > :01:00.applause for the Dane Tanni Grey- Thompson! We cannot go on without
:01:00. > :01:03.asking its. You have been at the House of Lords today. There has
:01:03. > :01:08.been to-ing and fro-ing in Parliament. What is the atmosphere
:01:08. > :01:11.like? Yesterday was really exciting. A lot of people were running up and
:01:11. > :01:17.down the corridors, watching what is going on. Today has been a bit
:01:17. > :01:22.more subdued. The vote did not take place. Most people want reform, the
:01:22. > :01:26.huge argument is about what the reform will be. Time will tell!
:01:26. > :01:31.Later we are going to be finding out what Tanni makes of this man,
:01:31. > :01:36.Oscar Pistorius, who has qualified to run in the London Olympics and
:01:36. > :01:40.the Paralympics. We also be seeing what Pat Butcher has been up to
:01:40. > :01:45.since she left EastEnders. First, a young people are unwilling to work.
:01:45. > :01:49.Not my words, what businesswoman Deborah Meaden things. But is it
:01:49. > :01:54.their fault or their schools? To find out, wheat sent the dragon on
:01:54. > :01:58.a quest to a school a stone's throw away from the Olympic Park.
:01:59. > :02:04.Today, I enjoyed the trappings of success. But I started early and I
:02:04. > :02:08.worked hard. By the time I had left school at 16, I had a job every
:02:08. > :02:11.summer holiday. I was keen to start my own business. I have been heard
:02:11. > :02:18.to say in the past that I am very worried that young people are
:02:18. > :02:22.leaving school, not ready, not prepared, not willing to work. When
:02:22. > :02:25.I talk to other employers and even in my own experience I find it very
:02:25. > :02:30.difficult to attract apprentices into really good roles. I've been
:02:30. > :02:34.asked by The One Show to look into this. I'm here at Cardinal Pole
:02:34. > :02:39.School in Hackney. I am going to talk to some of the school-leavers
:02:39. > :02:43.and find out if they are actually prepared to enter the workplace.
:02:43. > :02:48.And they will need to be prepared. Youth unemployment is very high in
:02:48. > :02:53.Hackney. 7% of the population is on jobseeker's Allowance, nearly twice
:02:53. > :02:57.the national average. So, will these pupils be able to convince me
:02:57. > :03:02.that they are good enough to get a job in such a challenging market?
:03:02. > :03:06.want to do an apprenticeship in IT Engineering. I'll be studying ICT
:03:06. > :03:11.and travel and tourism. I'd like to be a social worker. Recent figures
:03:11. > :03:16.show that the number of teenagers leaving school at 16 has risen. So,
:03:16. > :03:23.are they ready? Who feels that school has prepared them well for
:03:23. > :03:29.the next step? You do? You do? Two people out of 13. Not encouraging.
:03:29. > :03:36.How many of you have already done work, part-time jobs, summer
:03:36. > :03:39.holiday jobs? Only two of them have had a Saturday job. I'm astounded!
:03:39. > :03:44.Getting back to basics, how well can they fill out an application
:03:44. > :03:47.form? Can I look at your application form? You told me
:03:47. > :03:51.really interesting stuff, but in a slightly disorganised way. Let's
:03:52. > :03:57.have a look at another one, pass it over here. Do you know, what you
:03:57. > :04:01.have just done his classic. Being able to say I have had experienced,
:04:01. > :04:04.I have learned about it, it doesn't tell me if you are good at it.
:04:04. > :04:09.There is a difference between doing something and having the aptitude
:04:09. > :04:14.for it. These students need guidance to build the basic skills
:04:15. > :04:18.for applying for jobs. That falls to their head of it here. Out of 10,
:04:18. > :04:24.how ready are they to go into the workplace? That really hard. Some
:04:24. > :04:27.of them are 10 out of 10. Some of them are less ready. What more
:04:27. > :04:32.could you do to get them more ready? One of the things I would
:04:32. > :04:35.like to see is more work experience. One thing that all schools need to
:04:35. > :04:38.start doing more of his to make sure that the same support is given
:04:38. > :04:42.to children that are looking for jobs, instead of university places.
:04:42. > :04:46.One of the obvious ways to get into the workplace is through an
:04:46. > :04:50.apprenticeship scheme. But I get the impression that this route is
:04:50. > :04:54.not encouraged or valued that highly. Do you think you are
:04:54. > :04:58.offered academia rather than a condition? Do you think it is
:04:58. > :05:03.considered a better thing to do, to stay on at school? Yes. And what
:05:03. > :05:08.about those of you that have chosen the apprenticeship route? Do you
:05:08. > :05:12.think it was offered as a genuine option? No. I find this quite
:05:12. > :05:15.shocking. With no work experience under their belt, at least an
:05:15. > :05:19.apprenticeship would get them out working and gathering the skills I
:05:19. > :05:23.would be looking for. They seemed badly prepared for the big wide
:05:23. > :05:28.world ahead of them. In a situation where schools are rewarded for
:05:28. > :05:33.academic results, these students are often left to forage for
:05:33. > :05:38.themselves. They look for a BTEC course, Level 1, some of them
:05:38. > :05:43.actually find apprenticeships which are meaningful. But many others end
:05:43. > :05:46.up on meaningless courses that keep them off the dole for a few years
:05:46. > :05:52.but did not lead to the sort of jobs you want them to have. Have
:05:52. > :05:56.you got a careers adviser? We have somebody visiting, 1.5 days a week.
:05:56. > :06:06.How many young people today have to see? They will have to see the
:06:06. > :06:11.whole of your 11. 160. Quite a tall You have to lose those inhibitions.
:06:11. > :06:15.You have to say, this is what I am good at. There are times in life
:06:15. > :06:19.when you have got to do that. Some of the pupils I met are good at
:06:19. > :06:23.what they do. They awry even one or two I would offer a chance to. But
:06:23. > :06:28.there are plenty who do not appear to have made any attempt to get
:06:28. > :06:31.work experience. Just as it was in my day, I fear that schools are
:06:31. > :06:36.concentrating on preparing kids for more education, not getting into
:06:36. > :06:40.the workplace. Thank you very much for their
:06:40. > :06:44.honest opinions and thanks to Deborah. She's great, very
:06:44. > :06:51.inspiring. Soon, you will be commentating on over 4000
:06:51. > :06:54.Paralympic events. Its on Radio 5 Live. Before we talk about the
:06:54. > :07:02.Paralympics, let's have a look at you in one of your big races.
:07:02. > :07:08.have plenty to choose from. We went for Atlanta in 1996. The break, on
:07:08. > :07:13.the bend. Here comes Tanni Grey- Thompson. Classic 800 metre racing.
:07:13. > :07:17.Shannon is not finished yet. But look at this, she is going to come
:07:17. > :07:21.away and win the gold medal for Great Britain. That was judged
:07:21. > :07:25.absolutely perfectly. The time is very fast as well. Tanni Grey-
:07:25. > :07:29.Thompson wins, in a new world record time. How does it make you
:07:29. > :07:33.feel, looking back to 96? The worst thing is when you see the clock in
:07:33. > :07:38.the bottom of the screen, how old it looks. Some of it feels like
:07:38. > :07:43.yesterday. I'm glad I don't do it any more. I'm glad I get to sit and
:07:43. > :07:47.talk about it instead. Do you ever get out onto the track? Yes, it's
:07:47. > :07:54.miserable. I no longer fit in my racing chair because my bottom is a
:07:54. > :07:57.bigger than it used to be. It is miserable, so horrible going slow.
:07:57. > :08:03.You can still remember what it feels like to push quickly. I hate
:08:03. > :08:08.it. Would you rather be commentating or competing? That's a
:08:08. > :08:12.hard one! At this stage in your life, I suppose... If I could have
:08:12. > :08:18.competed in London, eight years younger, it would have been amazing.
:08:18. > :08:22.Actually, as an athlete, you get to see nothing. You train and compete.
:08:22. > :08:26.Actually, working for Five Live, I will be able to watch loads of
:08:26. > :08:30.athletics. That's fantastic. I'll be there from first thing in the
:08:30. > :08:33.morning, right and the last thing at night. Two weeks to go, a lot of
:08:33. > :08:37.talk is about the Olympics. For some people that have not
:08:37. > :08:41.experienced the Paralympics, what do they have to look forward to?
:08:41. > :08:46.It's amazing. It is elite sport. One person winning and everybody
:08:46. > :08:52.else not. If you look at the sports, we are going to have medal winners.
:08:52. > :08:56.It means such a lot to compete on home soil. You know, rugby is
:08:56. > :09:04.amazing, basketball is incredible. Athletics, I'm a bit biased about
:09:04. > :09:08.that. Incredible danger as well, in some of these sports. The
:09:08. > :09:12.basketball, they don't pull punches? You get a few smashed
:09:12. > :09:17.fingers. It depends what the referee sees. Those sports are
:09:17. > :09:22.really dynamic. Wheelchair racing, there are often crashes. Luckily,
:09:22. > :09:25.nobody is ever hurt too badly. That is the drama of sport. You go to
:09:25. > :09:29.the Velodrome to see if there is going to be a crash and you see
:09:29. > :09:33.that in wheelchair racing as well. The Paralympics starts on 26th
:09:33. > :09:38.August. Is there an argument for having it before the Olympics?
:09:38. > :09:44.quite like being after. We tease the Olympic guys and say that they
:09:44. > :09:47.are the warm-up for us. It worked out pretty well. More people come
:09:47. > :09:51.to watch the Olympics, although that is changing hugely. There are
:09:51. > :09:55.more tickets sold for these games than ever before. 1.6 million have
:09:55. > :09:59.been sold for the Paralympics, there has never happened before. It
:09:59. > :10:04.works really well, we built the excitement through the Olympics and
:10:04. > :10:08.Bennett kicks off again. With Five Live, you can listen 24 hours a day.
:10:08. > :10:13.It will be wall-to-wall. You're not going to get much sleep!
:10:13. > :10:17.This week, the Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years of rock and roll
:10:17. > :10:27.and ridiculous backstage demands. Demands that DJ Andy Kershaw
:10:27. > :10:30.
:10:30. > :10:35.It was July 25th, 1982. 30 summers ago. The Rolling Stones set Leeds
:10:35. > :10:40.alight with a ground-breaking concert. It transformed the live
:10:40. > :10:50.music industry. It changed the way we saw and heard mega dance. And it
:10:50. > :10:53.
:10:53. > :10:58.The Rolling Stones were the biggest rock and roll band in the world.
:10:58. > :11:04.The Leeds concert was their final date at the end of a two year world
:11:04. > :11:07.tour. They wanted to go out with a spectacular, and they did, in front
:11:07. > :11:13.of 120,000 fans on the stage the size of an aircraft carrier. I was
:11:13. > :11:19.right at the heart of it, 22 years old. I looked about 15. I was
:11:19. > :11:24.grandly titled backstage Labour, ordinator. Because outside concerts
:11:24. > :11:33.on this scale were unprecedented, we will, necessarily, making it up
:11:33. > :11:39.Look at me, back then. Would you have trusted me with a world-famous
:11:39. > :11:42.Music Act? The scary truth was, many people already had. I had been
:11:42. > :11:48.entertainment secretary at Leeds University for two and-a-half years,
:11:48. > :11:54.booking the bands and organising and running their gigs. I booked a
:11:54. > :12:03.more, from dire Straits to do clash. I inherited a fantastic legacy. It
:12:03. > :12:07.was well before my time, in 1971, when even the mighty Storms
:12:07. > :12:11.considered Leeds University to be a bigger venue. But more than a
:12:11. > :12:16.decade on you were not going to find them queuing on a dirty
:12:16. > :12:21.basement staircase. The live music industry had grown up and put on
:12:21. > :12:25.muscle. The Rolling Stones had become a Corporation. My beloved
:12:25. > :12:28.Leeds University refectory could not hold any more. I was at the
:12:28. > :12:33.university when I got a call from Harvey Goldsmith, the leading
:12:33. > :12:39.concert promoter. Did I want to work for The Stones this summer?
:12:39. > :12:44.And could I bring my university stage crew? On that Sage Group,
:12:44. > :12:49.Neil Hunt and Dawn Collins were two of the team that's enough to follow
:12:49. > :12:53.me to Roundhay Park. A little quieter than last time we were
:12:53. > :12:59.standing here. What was your job? Blowing the balloons up, do you
:12:59. > :13:04.remember? Thousands and thousands! We had two frames that we had to
:13:04. > :13:10.fill with balloons. Did you get to see any of it? I saw some of the
:13:10. > :13:15.Stones. But I was put in fences up, as fast as the punters could tear
:13:15. > :13:21.it down. It was a lot to do with what colour it was. How many times
:13:21. > :13:24.did I have you painted? It was the recurring task. The site co-
:13:24. > :13:29.ordinated decided that it was not just the wrong colour, it was the
:13:29. > :13:34.wrong shade. He said if it is still the same shade of green come Sunday,
:13:34. > :13:40.Mick and the boys will walk off the stage! It was not just balloons and
:13:40. > :13:44.fences. The Rolling Stones, giving as two days notice, insisted on a
:13:44. > :13:47.Japanese water garden for the backstage area, complete with a coy
:13:47. > :13:52.carp. In an age before DIY superstores, we needed somewhere to
:13:52. > :13:56.get supplies. Believe it or not, this humble hardware shop came to
:13:56. > :14:00.the rescue. By the time the crowds were packed into Roundhay Park, it
:14:00. > :14:05.was nuts and bolts from Stanton's hardware that was held in giving
:14:05. > :14:11.together, including the stage itself. Were you aware that without
:14:11. > :14:17.this remarkable little hardware shop, the Rolling Stones gig at
:14:17. > :14:23.Roundhay Park could not have happened? There are all these
:14:23. > :14:28.places like B&Q, nothing like Stanton's. It was a huge relief
:14:28. > :14:32.when we finally got them on stage, just here, on the Sunday afternoon.
:14:32. > :14:42.I heard the boom of explosions and all of those balloons, thousands of
:14:42. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:47.them, were released into the sky. A wave of euphoria swept around. The
:14:47. > :14:55.Roundhay Park concert set the precedent and troop the blueprint.
:14:55. > :15:03.The mega gig is now the norm, because we were daft enough to try
:15:03. > :15:09.It said on the BBC website that they actually meeting up for
:15:09. > :15:12.rehearsals. Fingers crossed, they might do a tour next year. Anyway,
:15:12. > :15:16.on to dismantle stop Oscar Pistorius. He is the first Abbey to
:15:16. > :15:20.run it to qualify for but the Paralympics and the Olympics. Some
:15:20. > :15:29.say that his blades help. Others say there is a disadvantage. Where
:15:29. > :15:33.It is probably too different. He is definitely slower out of the box
:15:33. > :15:37.but he improves the speed as he goes along -- out of the blocks. He
:15:37. > :15:39.is amazing because he has done so much for the profile of the
:15:39. > :15:44.Paralympics. People are coming to watch the games because they want
:15:44. > :15:48.to see him run. As we go forward, we probably need to think about
:15:48. > :15:51.which events should be at the Olympics and the Paralympics.
:15:51. > :15:55.you think there will ever be a point when disabled runners will be
:15:55. > :16:00.at an advantage? I think we are fairly close with the design of
:16:00. > :16:04.some of the prosthetics. Barath is to have competed at bows before,
:16:04. > :16:13.but Oscar is the first one with a huge global profile -- there are
:16:13. > :16:17.athletes who have competed at bows before. It just looks really call.
:16:17. > :16:24.The Paralympics start on 29th August, sorry about that. Who
:16:24. > :16:30.should we be watching out for? There are loads. The first one, J
:16:30. > :16:35.Jones, my husband coaches, she is great. She is 16 and doing quicker
:16:35. > :16:42.times than I was at the peak of my career. She has broken the 400
:16:42. > :16:45.metres record. Are you helping with the training? I dip in and out, my
:16:45. > :16:52.husband thinks I don't know anything about it. What does he
:16:52. > :16:57.know? Lea Pearson, he has won nine golds at the Paralympics. If he
:16:57. > :17:03.wins another three he will be the most decorated Paralympian. And
:17:03. > :17:10.Jonnie Peacock. He has just got the 100 watt record, could he beat
:17:10. > :17:14.Oscar Pistorius? It is going to be amazing. Oscar, in the 400, it is a
:17:14. > :17:18.case of how many he is going to win by. In the 100 it will be the most
:17:18. > :17:25.amazing race. There is also an American athlete called Duran
:17:25. > :17:29.Singleton. -- Jerome Singleton. He is an amazing guy, a triple
:17:29. > :17:33.graduate, he has worked at NASA, if he has worked in the Hadron
:17:33. > :17:38.collider and he is quite a good runner. That will be the one to
:17:38. > :17:43.watch. Thank you ever so much. To coincide with the Olympics, there
:17:43. > :17:48.have been some spectacular and some time rather strange events going on.
:17:48. > :17:53.From boats being made entirely from bits of donated wood, to an island
:17:53. > :17:58.being towed all the way from the a la tick -- the Arctic to Weymouth.
:17:58. > :18:02.Whatever next, setting fire to Stonehenge?
:18:02. > :18:06.The 2012 Olympic Games has inspired some oppressive -- impressive
:18:06. > :18:11.arenas, creating a new skyline across London. Head 100 miles west
:18:11. > :18:17.and you will find another structure that has been wowing us for 5,000
:18:17. > :18:22.years. Stonehenge needs little introduction. Even though its
:18:22. > :18:27.precise origins are still a mystery, its draw is global and enduring.
:18:27. > :18:33.Now, as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, it has been opened up to
:18:33. > :18:37.a group of extraordinary French performance artists. Compagnie
:18:37. > :18:42.Carabosse specialise in constructing elaborate fire gardens
:18:42. > :18:49.in iconic landscapes. Gerard is their artistic director. Can you
:18:49. > :18:54.explain what it is you are trying to create? It is to try to give the
:18:55. > :18:59.meaning of the stones. So we try to create atmosphere, pictures and a
:18:59. > :19:03.good feeling for people. They can walk into the fire, feel the heat
:19:03. > :19:09.and smell the wax which is burning. The idea was when we think about
:19:10. > :19:15.this place, sulphur is quite important. So we decided to make a
:19:15. > :19:23.sulphur installation. Where do you go after this? Milton Keynes. Which
:19:23. > :19:26.should be very different. It is 9 o'clock and the sun is starting to
:19:26. > :19:31.set over Stonehenge. Thousands of years ago, they could have been the
:19:31. > :19:41.cue for some sort of sun worship. Tonight, people are gathering to
:19:41. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:49.Ruth Mackenzie, director of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, explains
:19:50. > :19:55.the importance of events like this. How does an event like this fit
:19:55. > :19:58.into the Cultural Olympiad? One of the highlights of our finale, which
:19:59. > :20:02.is the London 2012 festival, has been a load of commissions to
:20:02. > :20:12.artists around the world to create special one-off spectaculars like
:20:12. > :20:15.this at Stonehenge. As you can see, thousands of people have come.
:20:16. > :20:20.do these cultural events fit in with the Olympic Games? In ancient
:20:20. > :20:24.Greece, the artists as well as athletes in the games and we wanted
:20:24. > :20:29.to put artists back at the heart of the Games. We have a celebration of
:20:29. > :20:34.the greatest artists from around the world, all over the UK, with 10
:20:34. > :20:39.million opportunities to take part. Just being this close to Stonehenge
:20:39. > :20:48.is a treat in itself. To see it lit up so beautifully is a truly
:20:48. > :20:55.unforgettable experience. I think it is absolutely fantastic. I like
:20:55. > :21:02.it when the guys are over there make it blow up. Fabulous,
:21:02. > :21:07.absolutely incredible. It is kind of mystical as well. It looks
:21:07. > :21:13.incredible. Unfortunately, tickets for Stonehenge have sold out for
:21:14. > :21:19.tonight. Lucy is here, so that is good. To compensate! There is not
:21:19. > :21:24.much money around for things like the arts at the minute. How much
:21:24. > :21:29.has this Cultural Olympiad cost? is going to come in at around �105
:21:29. > :21:34.million. A few eyebrows will be raised but split between three
:21:34. > :21:39.agencies, the Arts Council England, legacy Trust UK and the Olympic
:21:39. > :21:44.lottery distributor. The organisers say when you think about the effect
:21:44. > :21:50.this will have, lots of young people involved, or 60 million
:21:50. > :21:54.people in Tel two, and it is incredibly complex -- in total.
:21:54. > :22:00.Also the news stories it generates, far far away from the UK. It is
:22:00. > :22:06.hard to put a price on these things. It is not a new idea. It is kind of
:22:06. > :22:10.bang on the money when you think about what the originators of the
:22:10. > :22:15.modern Olympics had in mind. The Cultural Olympiad has been around
:22:15. > :22:21.properly since 1952 as we would recognise it. Beijing upped the
:22:21. > :22:26.ante. It culminated with 1500 young musicians playing on the Great Wall
:22:26. > :22:31.of China. So there is a lot to live up to, put it that way. What big
:22:31. > :22:36.events can we look forward to? will look for work -- we will live
:22:36. > :22:41.up to it, ours are none too shabby! In Coventry there will be a huge
:22:41. > :22:46.carnival, performance and festival on 28th of July to awaken Lady
:22:46. > :22:50.Godiva from her sleep of 1,000 years. They will awaken her with
:22:50. > :22:55.this massive performance, she will be in the former by gigantic carbon
:22:55. > :23:04.fibre puppet. We don't know what she will look like -- the form of a
:23:04. > :23:09.Foot a massive British cultural heroine, saviour of the poor.
:23:09. > :23:16.Famously rode through Coventry naked. What we know is that she
:23:16. > :23:20.will be wearing a coat. He does as well with the rain. Maybe that is
:23:20. > :23:30.it! Lots of pockets in the Tote filled with messages from young
:23:30. > :23:35.people of Coventry, then she will be peddled to London. This is
:23:36. > :23:41.important, in Gateshead on Sunday, a giant edible map of the UK, lots
:23:41. > :23:47.of landmarks in cake, Scarborough seafront, Blackpool Tower, the
:23:47. > :23:54.Olympic Stadium. Not too far from where you live, nip along for a
:23:54. > :24:00.slice. Thank you! Pat Butcher and Pam St Clement couldn't be less
:24:00. > :24:06.alike. It turns out that Pam is much more at home with a waxed
:24:06. > :24:11.jacket and a walk in the woods. For the last couple of decades, Pam
:24:11. > :24:17.St Clement has put most of her time and effort into the life of Pat
:24:17. > :24:22.But since their character's dramatic exit this year, she now
:24:22. > :24:26.has time to spend on a real passion, wildlife -- since her character.
:24:26. > :24:31.For the last 25 years, you have been shouting and yelling at
:24:31. > :24:37.everybody in Albert Square. In many ways, you are more at home watching
:24:37. > :24:44.wildlife, aren't you? I am afraid I am. I think I know more about
:24:44. > :24:49.animals than Pat. I think the nearest pad would get to animals is
:24:49. > :24:54.wearing them. She would hate the fact that animals might mess up her
:24:54. > :24:59.home. I was brought up on a farm on Dartmoor. They were very much part
:24:59. > :25:03.of my everyday life. Now she has a keen interest in the wildlife
:25:03. > :25:07.around her home near the Chilterns. There is one bird that has been
:25:07. > :25:12.particularly intriguing her. She first saw it 20 years ago on her
:25:12. > :25:16.way back to Dartmoor, the red kite. The plumage is stunning and I
:25:16. > :25:22.thought I had to find out about bees. That is when I discovered
:25:22. > :25:28.they had been just newly introduced to the Chilterns. I thought, why?
:25:28. > :25:32.Why the Chilterns? Red kites were once common in Britain but by the
:25:32. > :25:35.end of the 19th century they were hunted to near extinction. From the
:25:36. > :25:40.late 80s they were reintroduced to a number of sites around the
:25:40. > :25:47.country. To appreciate why Pam's sees them so often in the Chilterns,
:25:47. > :25:53.we need to get up in the eye -- in the air. We are climbing up to 1500
:25:53. > :25:57.feet. We can appreciate why it is so perfect for red kites, lots of
:25:57. > :26:04.lovely mature trees for them to build their nest. You don't see it
:26:04. > :26:12.so well from the road, you don't realise how much would there is.
:26:12. > :26:16.suspect there is a red kite down there. The first red kite from the
:26:16. > :26:20.air. Red kites are primarily scavengers, feeding off dead
:26:20. > :26:25.animals. The Chiltern hills give them the updraft to reach the
:26:25. > :26:31.heights they need to spot their next meal. Their eyesight is so
:26:31. > :26:37.good, it is like having a pair of binoculars strapped to their face.
:26:37. > :26:42.Between 8 and 10 times better than ours. It is phenomenal. Off to the
:26:42. > :26:48.right, look at the speed it is moving. I hate to say it, they are
:26:48. > :26:53.more manoeuvrable than you are! I like most birds of prey, red kites
:26:54. > :26:59.are quite sociable -- are like. Like vultures they will watch where
:26:59. > :27:03.others find food and dive into the share the meat. There is a lot of
:27:03. > :27:08.food on offer as local people leave food out for them. I have seen red
:27:08. > :27:14.kite on a lot of occasions but never like this. Extraordinary, I
:27:14. > :27:19.have never seen so many together. There is obviously food down there,
:27:19. > :27:22.they are taking it on the wing. I didn't think I would see this, all
:27:22. > :27:29.these feeding together. One thing that worries me is having this
:27:29. > :27:32.amount, we have put a species back here, but have we have a balanced?
:27:32. > :27:37.The original intention was for the kites to spread out across the
:27:37. > :27:42.south. But because of the free handouts, they have hung around the
:27:42. > :27:47.Chilterns, and that is causing concern for conservation groups.
:27:47. > :27:51.How many pairs of red kites are there in the locality? In the
:27:51. > :27:55.Chilterns it is hard to tell because there are so many, it is
:27:55. > :28:00.hard to tell with certain sea. The best estimate with its -- with
:28:00. > :28:04.certainty. The best estimate is 600 pairs. It is an astonishingly high
:28:04. > :28:07.number for such a small area. The generous local residents have been
:28:07. > :28:14.living out food for the birds, which has encouraged them to stay
:28:14. > :28:17.put. The next stage in helping kites around here would be for the
:28:17. > :28:21.local people to start to think about withdrawing that feeding, and
:28:21. > :28:26.helping the kites to spread out into the wider countryside, and
:28:26. > :28:33.give more people the opportunity to see kites, as we have done today,
:28:33. > :28:38.in the wild. You see that red tail, isn't that beautiful? I think they
:28:38. > :28:43.are wonderful. They certainly are mesmerising.
:28:43. > :28:47.Thanks to our guests. Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, the Paralympics
:28:47. > :28:52.start on the 29th and they will be covered on Radio 5 live and 5 live