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Tonight our Causeway Crawl has come to a spectacular end. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
We're literally walking in the footsteps of giants. | :00:10. | :00:31. | |
We have made it to the end of the road. What a finish it is. | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
It's a World Heritage Site alongside Machu Picchu and Victoria Falls. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
We are surrounded by 40,000 interconnecting basalt columns that | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
have stood here for millions of years, famously laid down | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
I think I can hear our guest, David O'Doherty. There he is! Are you all | :00:54. | :01:16. | |
right, David? Oh! Yeah... Be careful. We are going to be talking | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
about your new book shortly which is aptly named Danger Is Everywhere. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Absolutely. It is extreme this place. Very extreme. We have this | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
fantastic photo of Al Mennie. Our first guest here. This is Al here. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
You have pioneered many places to surf in this area. Lots of people | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
are put off because of the water temperature because it's so cold. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
For you, it's actually one of the best places in the world. Yeah, it's | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
a little bit cold, colder than Cornwall or Devon, but we have great | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
waves here, winds are good here. Some of the biggest waves in the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
world in the winter. It's really good. You are the only person are | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
you not to swim off this particular point. We get big waves here. How | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
big is big? 30 foot waves here. You managed to name that. I called it | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
after the giant, Finn McCool. It's incredible. Those shots are | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
incredible. On that theme of giants here is Ruth Goodman with a story of | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
why this place might be the land of the giants, literally. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
It seems giants are everywhere in Northern Ireland. From the most | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
famous Causeway in the world named after the legendary giant Finn | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
McCool, to the iconic cranes of the shipyard. To the Belfast giants ice | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
hockey team. But giants are not confined to the legendary tales of | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Irish mythology. Recent DNA research shows that Northern Ireland is a hot | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
spot for real-life giants. In 2013, DNA samples were taken from almost | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
1,000 volunteers in Mid Ulster. The results show that the people of this | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
area are 13 times more likely than elsewhere in the UK to carry a | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
genetic mutation that can lead to gigantism. To find out what effect | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
the gene can have, I am meeting with the author of the study. This gene | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
predisposes to develop a little lesion in a gland called the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
pituitary gland, and this little tumour makes too much growth | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
hormone. If left untreated at an early age this tumour will lead to | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
gigantism, often causing a growth in height well in excess of 7ft. If you | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
are talking about a child having this disease, which is typical with | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
this particular mutation, then if the child is left untreated they may | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
grow to be a giant. Original ancestor, the one who started this | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
clan of giants lived about 100 generations ago. The people | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
descended from that one person still live here. Yes, that's amazing | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
social history. And carry this particular gene. Yes. And the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
photographic evidence bear this is out. Giants all across the region. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
With families passing down the gene from generation to generation. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
And it continues to the present day. Brendan. Welcome, welcome to the | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
roaring hills, Ruth. I am meeting 6'10" Mid Ulster native Brendan | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Holland. When I first noticed it I was around 16 years old, my brother | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
came home from England and he hadn't seen me for probably a few months | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
and he realised I had grown a bit. He was 6ft tall and he started | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
looking up at me. Brendan had already grown to almost 7ft by the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
time he received radiotherapy treatment for the condition when he | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
was 20. How much would you say it has impacted on your life, in | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
general? There are positives and negatives. The negative being the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
health aspect. I find in the last ten years my mobility is reduced. I | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
find it difficult to breathe. The positive has been at the age of 30 I | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
decided to go into business on my own. I found that standing out from | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the crowd is a positive. When people meet you, they never forget you. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
That might have something to do with my brilliant personality, but I | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
doubt that! But being noticed isn't everyone's cup of tea. This is | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
Brendan's cousin. When I was a teenager I looked at all my friends | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
and they were so petite, going to discos they would wear short skirts | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and I would are to wear jeans. Is it difficult to get clothes Especially | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
shoes, I am size 13. People still look at me like children and all of | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
that, but you have to get used to it. How do you feel about this idea | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
that you are all descended from one single common ancestor? I think it's | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
brilliant that there is other people like me out there. I am not the only | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
person. Yet they could be amongst the last of the giants, with | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
advances in DNA testing and medication to manage the condition. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Which f left untreated, can lead to premature death. The number one | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
treatment is surgery. The surgeon goes in and tries to remove as much | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
as possible from the tumour. Medical treatment, in terms of tablets or | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
injections. And we can also give radiotherapy. So if you know it's | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
there, and you catch it early, you can sort it out? Yes, we could avoid | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
having giants and actually that is one of the one of the things of our | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
studies, no more giants. Both Niamh and Brendan have been successfully | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
treated for their gigantism and perhaps one day giants will only | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
ever be found within the great Irish myths. | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
Well, David O'Doherty has managed to get down safely. | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING He is all right. It was touch and go | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
but he is all right. Welcome to the sofa. We also have Brendan with us, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
nice to see you. Thank you for making that film. As we heard there, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
thanks to medical research your condition can now be treated. If you | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
were born these days, would you like that as an option, looking back at | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
your life would you not have changed a thing? Well, it's not something | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
really that I have given a lot of thought to. But I suppose really in | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
an ideal world you would think like that but you have to play the hand | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
of cards that life deals you. Absolutely. You have to let your | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
condition be managed by you, not it manage you. Yeah. Brendan, I am sure | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
people sitting at home listening to you talking here and thinking about | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
that life you are talking about, what has been the trickiest part as | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
far as practical things are concerned, beds, cars, all of that | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
stuff. ? Yeah, those are surmountable problems. The trickiest | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
part is you grow older, you become less mobile and less sure-footed. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Moving around isn't as easy as it used to be. That's the biggest | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
probable I have right now. I have breathing problems, as well. It's | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
all part of the condition, if you like. It comes with the territory. | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Thank you so much for making that film for us. No problem. You are | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
doing a gig around the coast. We heard there is a mix-up actually. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Tell us about that quickly. It's a rock Festival. I play a three-foot | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
plastic keyboard and I am playing on the main stage before Ash. Northern | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Ireland's greatest ever... Yeah, a band in the last 20 years, I will | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
give it a go. I think those people may not be able to dance as much as | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
maybe they'll dance more to the bands. But, you know, it's fine. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Talking of you and the keyboard, we have a clip of you here. Here is | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
what the people of Limavady can expect. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
This song is called Life. # Life, life. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
# Life, life, life. # Life, lifey, life, life. | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
# Life, life, life. # Life... | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
# Oh, no, actually it's OK. # Oh, no, it's not. # No! | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
# And then you die. We are delighted that you have | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
brought the keyboard all the way to the Giant's Causeway. First time | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
live on the Giant's Causeway. I think it will be a great name for an | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
album actually. You have been here before on a school trip. Yeah, I was | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
here, our school trips were so boring. We once went to a butter | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
museum, those sort of school trips. I remember those well. What you | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
really want from a school - I like the fact it looks photoshopped. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
People are watching this at home and they're going, it's probably like | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Game of Thrones, they've drawn this in. This is actually here. I can | :10:10. | :10:21. | |
imagine Enya living here. Yes. And Enya lives behind that. To be fair, | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
it's a major technical feat doing a live broadcast right on the edge | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
here. Is the keyboard working, is it plugged in? There it is! The problem | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
with this keyboard is this, I came back from a tour in Australia, you | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
guys. I am on a - the baggage appears and I go to take it, I don't | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
realise this button has been disappeared and this sound is coming | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
from my baggage, it's a demo and I pick it up and I am walking and the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Australian border security are running after me. That's what Ash | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
will be having on before them tomorrow. As well as comedy, you are | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
also writing books for children. You are on your third. It's a strange | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
sort of double life. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. This is Danger Is | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Everywhere. Yeah, Danger Is Everywhere, it's a guide book to | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
spotting danger wherever, awful things that only kids know about. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
You know, when you are sitting on the loo and sometimes a shark can | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
come up underneath. It's something you have to be aware of, obviously | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
you grab the shampoo. If your teach certificate a vampire, these are | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
important things, you know how you tell that, obviously if they laugh | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
like this... Like a regular laugh is ha-ha. A vampire laugh. And then | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
normal farts. Are these observations you had when you were younger, what | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
was the inspiration behind this, David? I don't write them, my next | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
door neighbour is the world's leading dangerologist. He writes | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
them. It would be crazy if a 41-year-old man were to write a book | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
like that. So I help him. These are things he has observed. Technically | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
it's not me. Obviously, with your neighbour you have done a risk | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
assessment here because this is super dangerous. So much danger. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Look at it. It could not, I mean, all the coastal danger you have | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
there. Obviously, the threat of... Will this help? The illustrator | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Chris has drawn this. Here is the main dangers today. Obviously the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
threat of Vikings. Ireland has a bad history with Viking. Pirates | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
possibly, as well. And then shark attack, of course. Picked up by | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
seagulls, you could get 30 or 40 seagulls that could easily pick one | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
of us up. This is a volcano that created this, it's somewhere under | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
there. That could erupt at any moment. It's incredibly dangerous. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
That was bad, sorry. I have undone all the danger talk that I... We | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
have another one here. This is the doctor here. Is is he the next door | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
neighbour? He is worried about sharks and puddles. It's a lot of | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
shark-based danger with Dr Noel. He looks back at history and sees | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
dangerous times, like jousting. Super dangerous. He sees Game of | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Thrones as a documentary. That's the sort of world he is in. You have | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
taken the books to audiences, younger audiences. Yes. Are they a | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
tough crowd? I mean, I do gigs for grown-ups in the evenings and for | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
kids in the day. The toughest heckles, the two toughest heckles I | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
have had to deal with, both came from under-10s. One was a | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
seven-year-old and said what is the point of you? It's not the worst | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
heckle I have received. A six-year-old boy in a public library | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
in Athlone, he said, excuse me, does this get good soon? That's the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
toughest heckle there has ever been, I think. It's a good job you are | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
wearing your waterproof now. Cover up the keyboard. Unplug it! Perfect. | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
Hopefully Angela and Joe will be here. Hopefully we will speak to | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
them in a second. That's if we can find them. There is a bit of | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
jeopardy. It looks like they've been driven to drink. | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
All week we have been travelling along the Causeway coastal route, | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
from Belfast to Carrickfergus. But now it was time for the final leg of | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
our journey, to the Giant's Causeway. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Have you seen Giant's Causeway before? Only as a kid a million | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
years ago. I can't wait to see it. It hasn't changed much. But Giant's | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Causeway is like one of the biggest tourist attractions in Northern | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Ireland. Also hard to wrap your head around the fact it's natural. No, it | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
was built by a giant I think you will find called Finn McCool. This | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
idea of it being natural I am not at home with. But you believe what you | :15:22. | :15:22. | |
want. I don't know if miss is the right | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
word. Oops. The steering is hardcore. I know. I know. I have to | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
say I've been very impressed by the way you handled it. Well, thank you. | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
With time ticking on and the road running out, there was time for one | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
last very welcome stop at Ireland's oldest working distillery. Triple | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
distilled malt whisky has been made in Bushmills for over 400 years. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
With hundreds of thousands of whisky casks slowly maturing in the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
warehouses, it is the job of Cooper, Alistair Kane to keep them in | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
tip-top condition. Alistair. I'm Joe. Nice to meet you. Hello, | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
Angela. This is incredible craft Mansship. How long have you been | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
doing this? 40 years. What's the job of a cooper You're replacing staves | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
or sometimes rehooping a barrel. The tools used his by his father and | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
grandfather have been passed down the line. That's a sharp edge on | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
that side and the face on it for hitting bungs and different things | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
on it and the head and knife is the one that's hanging on the wall. Some | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
places call it a draw knife and that's if you're doing staves, you | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
pull it and cut the wood off by hand. That's sharp. Oaks are the one | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
thing that they discovered is the best thing for whisky. It breathes | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
as well as holding the actual liquid in and plus the tannin that's in the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
oak, it colours the whisky and the better condition the barrel is in, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the better the whisky. It's the quality you see. Can you smell it? I | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
can't smell it. Unfortunately the demand for these craftsmen is in | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
decline? When I started in here in the late 70s there was ten. For a | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
few years, I was the only one left. Alistair's son has just qualified. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
The first cooper in Ireland for three decades. This is my son Chris. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
How is it working with your dad? Not too bad! You're able to share a | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
drink at the end of the day. That's it. While we're still friends. Any | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
chance we can have a taste? I think we can work something out for you. | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
There is a waft of whisky coming from that barrel. There is only one | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
problem and there is only one glass and it's for you. That's not a | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
problem for me. More of an issue for me. You're driving. Fill it up. I | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
handed over the car keys to Joe the designated driver which turned out | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
to be a mistake. I didn't want to say in front of the lads, I didn't | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
want to burst your bubble, but I don't drive. You're joking. At all? | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Some people are born to drive, others are born driven. How are we | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
going to get to the Giant's Causeway? Where we're going, we | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
don't need roads. Thank you for letting us | :18:40. | :19:04. | |
bring our sofas on to the Causeway. It is a charity, it is the kind of | :19:05. | :19:28. | |
thing. Angela and Joe have queries that they would like clarifying. Can | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
you give us a run down of why this place looks the way it does? It is | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
fascinating? Well, it was formed 60 million years ago and it is | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
something to do with the tectonic plates as they've moved. It formed | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
into the columns just as it cooled down. These have been forming for | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
millions and millions of years and they are what you see today. It is | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
one of those freaks of nature, hexagons and honey shells, it is the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
most efficient use of space. As Matt said, you have got queries because | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
there is stories about this place. Some are true, some are not true. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Heather, you know it all. A cosmic question for you. Is it true that | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
there is a Giant's Causeway-style structure on Mars? It is, but I | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
don't think it has as many visitors as we do! Not yet! Is it true that | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
before the National Trust took this over, people used to take lumps of | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the rock and leave them in their back garden? There are some columns | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
in different places all over the world. However, we believe it is bad | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
luck to do that. Yeah, we have stories of people who have taken a | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
bit of the column, taken it home, felt really guilty about it, and | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
realised that they have had a really bad luck for a number of time. And | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
they brought it back and their luck has improved from then. So do not | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
take any of the stones. That's bad luck, but good luck if you shimmy to | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
the right on one of these special stones. Is it true that's it's good | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
luck? Well, apparently so. If you sit, there is a special stone called | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
the wishing chair... Where it, Heather? It's over there. If you | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
were able to write and go three times, don't tell anybody what your | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
wish is then it will come true. We'll try that later! There is a | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
place you can put money over in the corner there which is our | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
alternative to a wishing well. But it has been going on for years. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
People leave that and hopefully they will get good luck. That's going to | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
guarantee your wish. We're sitting on rock history. This place has a | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
bit of musical rock history namely zed Zeppelin. They used as the front | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
cover of their album and we have had some really interesting visitors | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
here. We had a group of girls from New Zealand who decided they would | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
re-enact the front cover. I don't know if you know it, but it has some | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
ladies in a state of undress! They came down here... That's brave in | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
this weather. Well, exactly. Came down and re-enacted and one of our | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
rangers doing safety checks said maybe you should cover up and sent | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
them back to the cafe and they went up there and came down and did it | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
all over again. That was the best day's work for that guy! Thank you, | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Heather. Heather was telling us about the | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
honeycomb foundation and that's a clue to what our next film is all | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
about. Gatwick, the sickle busiest runway | :22:35. | :22:49. | |
in the world. Last year alone nearly 70,000 flights came through here. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Just one untracked flight could spell disaster. But for years that's | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
what has been happening. We discovered that there are hundreds | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
of unscheduled short haul flights. You must have one of the best radar | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
systems on the planet? Yeah, we do, but even it couldn't detect them. At | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
only 16 millimetres long no radar could detect the flight of a lorn | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
born bee, one of the rarest and most distinct insects in the country. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
These were found here in a beautiful wild flower meadow a stone's throw | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
from the runway. Rachel Bicker, biodiversity consultant at Gatwick | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
was the first to come across them. How did she come to find this | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
elusive creature in an unusual habitat? I was walking along the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
river and I saw one on its own and what on earth was that? I swept it | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
with my butterfly net and it was only afterwards I realised this is | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
something so different. That's the most distinctive... They really are. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Bee in Britain, isn't it? I think so. Male long horns don't have | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
stings and holding them briefly means that harm won't come to either | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
us or the bees. Look at it, it's gorgeous. Look at that face and the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
an tenia is just massive. And that's a male, of course. That is a male. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Only the males have the long antennae. These unusual looking | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
creatures are one of the UK's largest solitary beesment unlike | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
honeybees, they spend most of their lives alone. The males usually | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
appear weeks before the females, but what do they do in this time? The | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
males will emerge around May and then a few weeks later after the | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
males have been flying around doing not a lot, it is about who hangs on | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
the longest and who sticks it out gets to mate with the females and | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the females are emerging now. Early June we're starting to see the first | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
females. Why is it so rare now in the UK? Yes, so there is lots of | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
things which could be impacting, but the main one would be habitat loss. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
So loss of their favourite food plants, but these plants are really | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
declining now so it's the habitat loss, the food loss and the nesting | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
sites that are really impacting the species. The bees manage to thrive | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
here however, thanks to the creation of this habitat back in 1999 when | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
the river was diverted and wild flower seed was sown in the area. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
The clay that was dug up to divert the river was used to create | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
embankments which have turned out to be an excellent nesting spot for the | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
female bees as well. And this is where the female bees are now. | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Although they're solitary bees they will nest together wherever there is | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
a good place to make a burrow and there is one right here. Here she | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
comes. Here she comes. And she is pushing the spoil out of the burrow | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
with her back legs and making this little pile. Ah, it's wonderful. | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
It's great to see her as she comes out backwards. Fantastic. Thanks to | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
these man-made embankments this landscape is a safe habitat for one | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
of Britain's rarest and most intriguing bees. As long as this | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
area remains undisturbed, these beautiful long horned bees should | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
continue to thrive under the radar for many years to come. | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Thank you, George. We will be at the airport soon. Indeed. | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
All week we have been giving gifts to our guests. We've got a good one | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
tonight. See if you can guess what it is. It is from one David to | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
another. Here it is. The coastal slate provides me inspiration and | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
foundation for my pieces of art. The actual sculptures begin by cutting | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
strips from sheet metal. I weld the pieces together and arrange them | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
into their final shape. In order for it to look its best I have to polish | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
it to a perfect finish. And I fix it to a slate bottom. A piece from the | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
coast in more ways than one. Beautifully crafted by David | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
Rosborough. And here he is, thank you, David. Look at that, David. | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
It's like the episode of Blockbusters I never won! | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
LAUGHTER The golden run. Thanks, David. We | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
just need a little person at the top of it shouting, "Help. Help." To | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
mark the start of our programme. David, thank you for your company | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
tonight. And that's almost it. Thank you to everybody that has turned out | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
and all of our guests for the whole week. What a time we've had Al. We | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
have seen sun and brilliant scenery and these are our memories of our | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
week in Northern Ireland which we've thoroughly enjoyed. We have to say | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
to our new Northern Irish viewers, keep'er light! | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Good night and goodbye. Carrickfergus castle. We will be | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
travelling 85 miles along the Causeway coast. Do you need three | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
new back-up singers? Martine ma kuchen. You can come out! You can | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
come out. Sorry. A poke is an ice cream. We have been on some road | :28:50. | :29:00. | |
trip, I tell you. Ballycastle... And that's where we're heading now. Full | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
steam ahead. Hang on. We're going north-west up to the seaside town of | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
Portrush. Well, he's not bothered. Sort it out. Earlier on in rehearsal | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
you were fully clothed, now this is a shock. We have some very special | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
guests. We are almost there. | :29:24. | :29:27. |