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Hello, friends, and thanks for tuning in to your first Friday One

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Show of the year with Louise Minchin. And Chris Evans. Tonight

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we're celebrating a TV phenomenon that ran for over 30 years. It was

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the show that launched the careers of Les Dawson, Little and Large,

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Pam Ayers, and Frank Carson, to name a few. We're talking about

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Opportunity Knocks, folks, and tonight we'll be giving some of the

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show's winners the chance to remind the nation why we fell in love with

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them, all those years ago in what we're calling Opportunity Knocks

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Again. Have they still got it? We shall find out presently. Oh, my

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goodness made. It is Martin Freeman and Ray Winstone! How are you?

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evening, gentlemen. You have Louise this evening, is that OK? A bit

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more than OK! Big fan of Opportunity Knocks? I am old enough

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to remember the old ones! It is scary. So can I and I am not that

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old. You are that old. Did you ever those on the postcard? I was too

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young. Do you remember Bernie Flint? I remember, I know his hit.

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You are 40, and you? Never you mind, none of your business! You have the

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same birthday as Louise. September? Louise has 43! Thanks,

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Chris! Ray is 54! Our director is 63! I am 45. Are you?! You have

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done such a lot. You have worked together before. Yes, briefly.

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Breaking And Entering. Was it any good? I think it was really good.

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Shall we have a look? Why not? I'm just saying, fabulous building,

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I think it is brilliant. Thank you. Did you have these great with the

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villains? I would not say it was a scrape. I was running late for the

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first break in and was not prepared for the second. Did you play a

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villain? BELL RINGS, I was a policeman. The

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beards looked good! Was that a false beard? That was my own,

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three-man's own. I did not think you were able to grow one. I was

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able to from 32 onwards. These in the part all evening, we will be

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getting or Shylock with Martin and talking to Ray about some fantastic

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work he is doing with some men and women from the armed forces.

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Talking of those brethren, a Second World War pilot has hit the

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headlines after he tried and failed to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire

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for the first time in years after a mix-up at a museum. We couldn't

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allow Eric Carter, who survived battles with the enemy of the

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frozen skies of Russia, to fail in his latest mission. So we sent Wing

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Commander John Sergeant and gave him the Order To Get Carter back in

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Eric Carter was trained to fly these aircraft in Wales, and his

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first major assignment was to the northern Russian port of Murmansk,

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and that mission is still Why did you go to Russia? It was a

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hard time for Russia. We were sent to keep Murmansk Open at all costs.

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The port of Murmansk allowed a military supplies into Russia, so

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protecting it from germ attack was vital. When you were flying the

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Hurricane, were you frightened? I cannot say I was ever frightened,

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you were so busy looking for Germans on your tail. He did not

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have time to be frightened. And you were young, you thought you were

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immortal. I was 20, I did not know what frightened was. I do not want

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to show off, but these are my medals. Absolutely! What have we

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got here? These are Russian metals. And their work has not been

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forgotten in Russia. The heroic deeds of the British servicemen and

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the help that was delivered to the Red Army during World War II will

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always be remembered, and in our hearts and in our minds. Eric also

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managed to fit in time to sort out his private life. When you're

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training on these Hurricanes, you met your wife, didn't you? I did

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indeed, a very beautiful girl. We were married for 62 years. I gather

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your honeymoon was truncated. gave me 48 hours to get married. My

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honeymoon was at Swindon. The railway shunting yards. I had 24

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hours in a hotel there, that was my honeymoon. After the mission ended,

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Eric was sent back to the UK and was trained to fly a different

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fighter plane, the Spitfire. If you want to fight, I would prefer the

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Spitfire. It is faster, more manoeuvrable. It was a grand

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It is more than 60 years since Eric had to be ready to race across an

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airfield and jump into the cockpit of one of these marvellous machines.

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Now, finally, after all these years, he has got the chance to relive

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that moment. Well, there she is. What do I think, seeing the

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Spitfire? It is absolutely beautiful. Let me help. OK, now

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then, one foot up here. Well done! You are there. Start it up, I will

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be all right! It brings back good memories. It brings back sad

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memories, yes, it does. I lost a good many of my very close friends,

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but it also brings back happy memories when we got the chance to

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do a bit of dog fighting between ourselves. Do you reckon you could

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fly it if I started the engine? reckon it could, if a German was

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And Eric is back in our seat! Well done, Mr Eric Carter. Thank you to

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everyone who helped out with the film. Before we talk about your

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friends here, you like old planes, don't you? I do, I have been lucky

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enough to fly a Spitfire. I have got a great mate Bill is one of the

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top aerial photographers in the world. He knows people who know

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people, and that that is very close to where I live, so I got a chance

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to fly in a Spitfire and a Mustangs. Not literally fly them on my own!

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There You are in one. Triumphant on the wing! I just shot three then.

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You are ready for action. pilot! You are working with wounded

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and injured service personnel. have got involved with it, and from

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an a la time, going to Camp Bastion and Selly Oak Hospital, it is the

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mentality of the British hospital. You see these kids will have lost

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their arms and legs through bombs. The doctors always ask, do not ask

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how it happened. But it is the first thing that you want to know.

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It keeps you interested when you meet the families, the bravery of

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the families being confronted with this. Then you go down to where

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they are rehabilitating, someone came up with the idea of putting on

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a show. It is that mentality... There's not a lot of difference

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between discipline in the army and the discipline in the theatre. It

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is more or less the same thing. you have sort of Done It Ain't half

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Hot mum for therapy, haven't you? turned up and saw the skies when we

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were recruiting, to do a play. You can imagine, these hairy asked

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soldiers coming into the theatre. I kind of went along and said, the

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equivalent in a way, working-class boy... Device where? Sorry! We will

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allow it, it is for a good cause. The fear in their eyes. If you have

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been on patrol in Helmand province, I do not think anything else is

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going to scare you as much as that. Ask them about it. You SED change

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in and now, it is fantastic. -- you can see. You play the lead in the

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play, what is it called? It is called The Two Worlds Of Charlie F.

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It is about military service? about injuries, realising you have

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been injured, and then carrying on from there. What happens to you?

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was too close to something which went bang. It took this leg clear

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off, and I have a couple of really good scars which women are

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attracted to! I am impressed because you make it sound like it

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is nothing, but to the rest of us it is a lot more than nothing.

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were in the Royal Marines, of course. Where were you? I was

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winded in Afghanistan as well, which was good fun. And you like to

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chat. It comes from my surname... My mum... You have been through

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enough! I went through enough with my name let alone getting blown up.

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As working with Ray been therapeutic? Absolutely. Well,

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everybody here is in the same boat. You know, you can talk to any of

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them, and it doesn't matter. We have gone through, from the very

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beginning, all the way through two things that we have not told anyone,

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and this is with the writer, Owen Sheers, and we have gone through

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everything, and it is good to get it out. It is good to get it out.

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This is the first time the MoD has used it. Did they call you? Yes,

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they got in touch with me along with the Royal British Legion. They

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explained what their ideas were, and I was only too pleased to get

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involved. But are they any good? can't tell you! Are they through to

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the next round? If I can do it, anyone can! Beyond that, we were

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talking about the therapy of it, the change that to see in these

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boys, the confidence to walk into a room now. When you are hit with

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something like that, I guess your confidence goes off, is that the

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first thing that goes? Getting that back, if you can do that through

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theatre or anything like it, it should be done more. It is going to

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be on in the West End. Can you speak for everybody? Will you be

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nervous? There are a couple of words I was taught not to use to

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describe... On this show! I am scared. I would rather be storming

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compounds! Getting on stage in front of a huge audience and like

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that... Let's hope you storm the West End. A round of applause,

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please. It is on the Haymarket Theatre stage, tickets are

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available, please go along, support the boys, you will have a great

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night, uplifting for all the right reasons. We are going to kick off

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Opportunity Knocks Again. If have we still got it? It sounds like

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they might have! Gyles will be telling us why the programme was

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such a phenomenon. But first Carrie Grant conjures up memories of 1971

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with an act which about the entire country. Neil Reid was only 12...

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Record always need a bit of luck to become hits, but the story of this

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song involved a very fortunate combination of time, television and

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talent. This is your Opportunity Knocks winners show! Long before

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the X-Factor came along, one of the first talent shows in the UK to use

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the power of the audience vote was Opportunity Knocks. You voted for

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him, from Bonnie Scotland, Neil Reid! Aged 12, Neil Reid was only a

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Vettel star, singing in northern clubs, when opportunity knocked was

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every act's ambition. I wrote away and waited for two and a half years

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before I got an answer. I did the audition, and on the audition they

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said, you on the show, this is the date. Neil won the vote to return

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on a show week after week. He was a phenomenon, but his biggest

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opportunity came out of the blue thanks to Bill Parkinson, the

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guitarist for Tom Jones. He sang a song, do you know it? Afterwards,

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it struck me that if I wrote a song about my mother, maybe Tom Woods in

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that. It said everything I want to do about my mother. Mother of mine,

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you gave to me all of my life to do as I please. I'll everything to you.

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Fantastic song. I cannot mean fantastic for me, but fantastic for

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me to be able to say that to mother. His mother love the song and she

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was not alone. It also reached the ears of Neil Reid's manager,

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perfect for the little boy on I sang it in week four and the

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single was released that week. shot up the charts, selling 2.5

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million copies worldwide. Describe life after Opportunity Knocks.

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could not go out in public because people knew, instantly, who I was.

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And after the hit single came an album which made him the youngest

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artist ever to top the UK album charts. What I hated was people

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trying to keep me 12. That is what I hated. When I was 20 it did not

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work. I remember at one point I was doing the summer season and I

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thought, this is nuts. I don't want to do this. I am going to get out

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before it throws me out. He is now a business consultant. Mother of

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mind composer, Bill, is still writing and composing music. And

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this is the first time that two of them have met since the song was a

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hit. # Mother of mind, you gave to make

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# Wall of my life # To do as I pleased

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It took me under one hour to write it. It took me four minutes to sing

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it, OK. Because we did it in one take. That first one was what went

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out. Absolutely great. That is why it has that genuine, authentic feel,

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because it is sung from the heart. Looking back, it was just perfect

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for the moment. It was just right, the voice, the song, it was a

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Christmas and thumb. I also think it was something to last. Even the

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hardest of hard men loved their Let's hear it for Neil Reid.

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Welcome to Opportunity Knocks again. Have they still got it? Bringing

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back the stars who found fame on the show to prove to Martin and Ray

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Winstone that they still have what it takes to be a star. Louise is

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backstage getting them ready, but first, Gyles Brandreth. Why was

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this show is so huge? This was Britain's got talent, 1956 style.

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20 million people a week tuned in, hosted for 22 years on ITV by

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Hughie Green. He was Canadian and he came to this country and

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conquered the entertainment industry and he had this show. It

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then moved to the BBC in the late 1980s when it was first hosted by

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Bob Monkhouse and then finally by Les Dawson, who had been one of the

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great Opportunity Knocks discoveries. What happened was this

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- he went along and you had a sponsor. I sponsored somebody in

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1972. She is not appearing here tonight. You sponsored somebody and

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then the Act came on. If the audience liked it, they clapped.

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There was a clapometer. No judges. Just real people clapping and a man

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in the background fiddling with the knob. You mean it was not real?

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was like the Wizard of Oz behind a curtain. But what was for real,

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because Hughie Green always said the clapometer is just for fun,

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what was for real was that they had to send in a postcard in their own

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handwriting. You could not get anybody else to do it. You sent in

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a postcard and the person who got the most votes came back the next

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week. Some of these people became huge stars. Sit down and be another

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bad guests of honour, Gyles Brandreth. OK, it is time to meet

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our first contender, an impressionist from Manchester,

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Maxton Beesley, now 66. Let's look at him in 1971. The other day I

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opened the door to the Northman and out popped Richard Burton. -- to

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the milkman. Two pipes, or not two pints, that is the question.

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Fantastic hair back then. It was great. I got to tour the world all

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over the place, including Australia. I used to be very big Down Under!

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Also America, I did Vegas. Not on stage, at Pizza Hut! It was

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exciting and I am just back from LA. We are going to ask you to perform,

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but you look a lot like Max Beesley. Do you know him? I do know him and

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I am working with him in Cape Town. He is your actual son. He is my son.

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We are ready. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, Opportunity Knocks Again

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for Maxton G Beesley, but does he still have it? Thank you very much.

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Max, you have 45 seconds to do your impressions. First, in six words,

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Tony Curtis. Marilyn and I, we love this show. In five words, Jimmy

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Stewart. Now just hold on, Mr Potter. Four words, Burt Lancaster.

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I swear to you. Thank you. We have to keep moving. His best friend,

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Kirk Douglas, in three words. I'm Spartacus. In two words, Charles

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Bronson. Hey, you. And the last one, Richard Burton in one word.

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Elizabeth. And you can't go away without doing this one. Maxton

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Beesley. Does he still have it? he still has it. He still has it,

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Lady Zenden Common. Time for our second contender, an opera singer,

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Rozi Morris from Monmouth, now 64. Here she is back in 1989.

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# Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the You were on twice. Yes, I think I

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was the only person who was on twice. 1972 was the first time and

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then in 1990 with Bob Monkhouse. The best thing? The flowers.

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have to give you a note. Good luck. This is on, excellent. Tonight,

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Opportunity Knocks Again for Rozi # And I will hear you soft tread

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above me # For you will bend and tell me

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that you love me # And I will sleep in peace until

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Gentlemen, does she still have it? She has got it in bundles. More

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later. But now, Louise is back on the sofa with a story. This is a

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story that Dr Watson might find interesting. A real life crime that

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could have come out of Sherlock Holmes's' casebook. Ruth Goodman

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has been delving into the dastardly deeds of an infamous Victorian

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poison a. Victorian Britain had an unhealthy

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obsession with murder. In the mid- 1800s the newspapers were full of

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tales about women murdering their husbands. But ironically, the

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impetus for this murderous killing spree was a financial service. Life

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insurance policies were becoming widespread and for the first time,

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death could mean a big payout. They were designed to keep middle class

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families secured if the wage earner died. This historian has studied

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the effects the new policies had. Life insurance is considered to be

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one of the crowning achievements of Victorian civilisation. There is an

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aggressive expansion of the market. As far as life insurance is

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concerned, the typical payout would be thousands, even tens of

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thousands. The financial incentive for a husband's death proved too

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tempting to women who became known as Black Widows. Committing the

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perfect murder in Victorian Britain was not that difficult. Deadly

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poisons like arsenic were easily available. It was in the curtains,

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the candles in the home, the toys that children played with. There

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was an estimation that there were 100 million square miles of arsenic

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green wallpaper covering the nation's walls. It was everywhere

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and very easy to buy it. Also, its symptoms mimic some of the classic

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filth disease's symptoms which were commonplace, gastric conditions,

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diarrhoea and the like. Victorian graveyards began to fill with

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victims of the black widows and arsenic earned the nickname -

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inheritance powder. One woman in County Durham was the poster child

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for this lethal cocktail of money and murder. Her name was Mary Ann

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Cotton. For over 100 years she has been the Tories as the ultimate

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black widow life-insurance killer. She claimed payouts on the deaths

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of hunt -- husbands and children. This church was where her murderous

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trail finally came unstuck. In early 1872, her stepson, Charles,

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was exhumed from this graveyard. Five days before his death he had

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been turned away from the workhouse, seemingly fit and healthy. And in

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frustration, Mary-Ann Cotton had said to the overseer, he won't be

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troubling me long, he will go the way of all the others. Charles was

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the 12th of her children to die, as well as three husbands, a lover and

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her mother. Before even making burial arrangements, her first port

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of call was the insurance office. Like at least 11 of her dead

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relatives, Charles' death was insured. Dr Price is from Durham

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University and knows the story. How did she get caught? One of the

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doctors thought it was gastric fever but saved some of the

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internal organs to test. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that

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Charles had been poisoned by arsenic. This prompted the

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exhumation of some of the other bodies and they found evidence of

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arsenic poisoning. Mary Ann Cotton was put on trial, found guilty and

0:27:330:27:38

hanged at Durham jail in 1873. After her death, parishioners

0:27:380:27:41

raised the money for his stained glass window to recognise the

0:27:410:27:45

doctor whose diligence ended her murderous career. How did she get

0:27:450:27:51

away with it for so long? Infant mortality rates were high. It also

0:27:510:27:54

helped that she moved around so there was no history of suspicion.

0:27:540:28:00

She also did a lot of nursing and who would suspect a nurse? Life

0:28:000:28:05

insurance was designed to protect bereaved families. In many cases,

0:28:050:28:08

however, and spectacularly in this one, it achieved the opposite.

0:28:080:28:14

Instead of protecting families, they were destroyed.

0:28:140:28:18

We were all gripped by that. Ray Winstone particularly. You are

0:28:180:28:23

aware of that lady. I saw that on the Discovery Channel, there was a

0:28:230:28:31

story about it. Nasty woman! If you think she's nasty, she must be.

0:28:310:28:38

am a saint. Martin, Sherlock, brilliant, back on the BBC. How

0:28:380:28:48
0:28:480:28:52

would you describe their relationship? Their relationship,

0:28:520:28:57

as has been said a lot, it is kind of a love story. It is two men who

0:28:570:29:01

love each other and need each other and don't even necessarily want to

0:29:010:29:04

need each other. They drive each other up a wall sometimes but they

0:29:040:29:10

are absolutely two halves. Sunday, it took him a while, but he

0:29:100:29:16

declared you were his only friend. He is a -- he is a lonely man. John

0:29:160:29:20

Watson is back from Afghanistan, as in the original books. He comes

0:29:200:29:25

back and finds himself with nothing and nobody. And Sherlock is a loner.

0:29:250:29:29

They find each other in the middle of this city and they complement

0:29:290:29:33

each other very well. They each bring something to the relationship.

0:29:330:29:38

How do you get on with Benedict Cumberbatch? What is that

0:29:380:29:45

relationship like? It is not great! No, it is good, thank God. Very

0:29:450:29:49

good. It was clear from the moment we met and started reading together.

0:29:490:29:54

It was good, easy. It is good luck. It is luck whether you have a

0:29:540:29:59

chemistry with someone. You can work at it, but it will never be

0:29:590:30:04

the way that it is if you have chemistry. Last week was the Hound

0:30:040:30:11

Of the Baskervilles. This week? Reichenbach Fall. Moriarty comes

0:30:110:30:21
0:30:210:30:22

back into the story. Their peers. - - there he is. He is even more

0:30:220:30:27

brilliant in this episode than he has been so far. We are going to

0:30:270:30:37
0:30:370:30:37

show a clip. Is this the bit where they have an argument? OK. You give

0:30:370:30:47
0:30:470:30:48

This is not a deerstalker, this is a Sherlock Holmes hat. You are is

0:30:480:30:52

far from famous! The press will turn, they always turn. They will

0:30:520:30:59

turn on you. It really bothers you, what people say about me. Why was

0:30:590:31:06

that upset you? Just try to keep a low profile, find yourself a little

0:31:060:31:16
0:31:160:31:16

case this week. Stay out of the Will there be a third series? They

0:31:160:31:20

have only been three. There was three last time and three this time.

0:31:200:31:24

At the moment, I don't know. We will have to wait and see what

0:31:240:31:28

happens. The hope for me was that there would be, but as you will see,

0:31:280:31:33

it is not so clear cut. Would you like somebody to tell you as soon

0:31:330:31:39

as they know? Yes. They should be. It is a class these. How would you

0:31:390:31:47

play Watson? I couldn't! Not like that. To me, that was fantastic. It

0:31:470:31:50

has actually come alive, this show. When it started, it took me a while

0:31:500:31:56

to get into it. But I am really into it now. Double acts are great

0:31:560:32:01

fun. Two great actors. You are about to be in the Sweeney. I

0:32:010:32:05

finished that just before Christmas. So you are the Sherlock in a way.

0:32:050:32:11

think it might be the other way around! He is class, is good.

0:32:110:32:16

play Jack Regan, don't you? It is difficult, because it is such an

0:32:160:32:20

iconic show. I had my reservations about doing it in the first place,

0:32:200:32:24

and it has taken a few years to get it together. We just have to start

0:32:240:32:30

again and make it our own. Hats off for Great Expectations, absolutely

0:32:300:32:35

fantastic. A class bit of work, the BBC does that better than anyone.

0:32:350:32:40

This man is already in the biggest film of Christmas 2012, the Hobbit.

0:32:400:32:47

Yes, I am! I am the hobbit. With Benedict again. Did you pull a few

0:32:470:32:55

strings? How did I get it?! How did he get it? Did he get you into the

0:32:550:33:01

hobbit? The idea that he got me in the Hobbit makes me want to kill

0:33:010:33:06

everybody in this room! I got me in the Hobbit, and he got himself in

0:33:060:33:11

the Hobbit because he is brilliant. You are Bilbo Baggins, we are all

0:33:110:33:15

going to go and see it. Happy Christmas, everyone! Is that the

0:33:150:33:21

little geezer? I am talking here! Shellac is back on Sunday, the last

0:33:210:33:26

one for a while, don't miss it. -- Sherlock. Many names spring to mind

0:33:260:33:30

from the 60s, the beetles, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King,

0:33:300:33:36

Edward Craven Walker. Who? He will have heard of the genie of the

0:33:360:33:43

lamp? He is the genie are the... Sorry! What is he? He is the genius

0:33:430:33:51

In the late 1940s, after serving as a pilot in the war, Edward Craven

0:33:510:33:55

Walker went on to have a colourful career, not because he was a

0:33:550:33:59

pioneering nudist, but because he invented an object which would

0:33:590:34:03

capture the imagination of millions. It came to symbolise one of

0:34:030:34:09

Britain's most colourful decades. So what was this object? The lava

0:34:090:34:15

lamp. This was the culmination of a 12 year obsession that first began

0:34:160:34:20

in 1948 following a chance visit to the Queen's Head in Poole in Dorset.

0:34:200:34:24

After he had been propped up the bar for a few minutes, he noticed a

0:34:240:34:29

curious contraption. It looked something like this, a clear flask

0:34:290:34:32

filled with two very different liquids. After he had been looking

0:34:320:34:36

at it for a while, the landlord walked past and 10 daylight on

0:34:360:34:41

underneath. As he drank his pint, he became mesmerised by the

0:34:410:34:44

swirling drops of liquid. The landlord explained that he got it

0:34:450:34:49

from an inventor called Alfred done it. It was supposed to be some kind

0:34:490:34:54

of egg-timer, but the landlord was just using it as a curiosity. All

0:34:540:34:59

it consisted of was two liquids, oil and water, and no matter how

0:34:590:35:03

much you stir them together, they do not mix, but you do get these

0:35:030:35:10

amazing blobs and swirls forming. This was still the 1940s, and

0:35:100:35:14

novelty lamps were all but unheard of, but Craven Walker realised that

0:35:140:35:18

a lamp did not need to simply be a source of light. It could also be a

0:35:180:35:22

source of art in its own right, something to stare at and be

0:35:220:35:30

admired. And that was his eureka His next problem was to make the

0:35:300:35:34

two liquids interact by themselves, and this would be the beginning of

0:35:340:35:39

a 12 year obsession. He immediately went home and began experimenting

0:35:390:35:44

with all sorts of liquids and bottles and oils and waxes to try

0:35:440:35:49

to work out what the perfect combination was. He died in the

0:35:490:35:52

year 2000, but I am meeting up with his wife Susan to try to find out

0:35:520:35:57

how he came to create such an iconic object. Was he a very

0:35:570:36:02

meticulous man? Most of his life he spent trying to perfect it, testing

0:36:020:36:10

it and re-testing it. It drove me nuts! And was it an immediate

0:36:100:36:16

success? It went straight to the top, straight to the West End. The

0:36:160:36:20

lady came in and said, take that beastly thing away, get it out of

0:36:200:36:26

here! Every step of the way, he was known to arcane against a brick

0:36:260:36:31

wall, but he kept going. -- he was snubbed or came up against a brick

0:36:310:36:36

wall. But he was years ahead of his time, and his invention was soon to

0:36:360:36:41

strike a chord with the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s. For him,

0:36:410:36:47

what was the perfect Al-Alam like? The perfect lava lamp was won with

0:36:470:36:53

a serpentine shape. Anyone can make that man, but the perfect shape was

0:36:530:37:02

Serpentine. -- glammed. 50 years on, its popularity still endures. They

0:37:020:37:04

are pattern Tidd and are still produced here in the UK at this

0:37:040:37:12

factory run by Cressida Granger. -- patented. As it rises, there is

0:37:120:37:18

less volume of liquid, so it cools more quickly. What is inside?

0:37:180:37:25

it is secret. Secret! You can tell me, there is no one watching.

0:37:250:37:30

mainly wax, water and other secret things. Every lava lamp produced

0:37:300:37:38

here in Britain is still made by Craven Walker's invention helped to

0:37:380:37:42

define one of Britain's most colourful decades, and today the

0:37:420:37:45

lava lamp is still as intriguing as ever.

0:37:450:37:52

Yes! Let's hear it for the lava lamp! Vote now for the lava lamp!

0:37:520:37:58

Here we are at Opportunity Knocks Again. Before we meet our next

0:37:580:38:03

contender, Sally Carr from Glasgow, aged 66, and Ken Andrew from

0:38:030:38:09

Edinburgh, 69, let's have a look at them back in 1971 with a song that

0:38:090:38:19
0:38:190:38:25

Oh, that is fantastic, you sold millions of those records, didn't

0:38:250:38:31

you? Millions and millions. that is not what you won

0:38:310:38:36

Opportunity Knocks with. It did not change our lives, but it changed

0:38:360:38:40

our name, as you can see, we went into pop-music, so we were nervous

0:38:400:38:45

about whether we could do this again. We are going to drive.

0:38:450:38:50

be nervous, I think they are ready for you! Tonight Opportunity Knocks

0:38:500:39:00
0:39:000:39:00

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds

0:39:000:39:47

Again for Sally Carr and Ken Andrew, Gentlemen of the jury, have they

0:39:470:39:52

still got it? They have still got it! Have they got it in bundles?

0:39:530:40:00

Bundles! Officially, it is another bundle! Time for our 4th contender,

0:40:000:40:05

comedian Frankie Allen from Liverpool. Here he is back in 1987.

0:40:050:40:10

Imagine having a bevvy with the incredible hulk and he knocked his

0:40:100:40:20
0:40:200:40:22

pint over. All right, keep your Looking fantastic, are you still

0:40:220:40:28

performing? Yeah, I am working all over the time, all over Europe, a

0:40:280:40:33

lot for the forces. Did it give you lots of opportunities?

0:40:330:40:37

Monkhouse gave me some great advice, it was fantastic, events in my life,

0:40:370:40:41

and I have not stopped, I have been working everywhere, busy, met some

0:40:410:40:46

marvellous people all over the world, great. You are here to work

0:40:460:40:51

tonight, I hear that they are ready for you. Yes, we are ready, tonight

0:40:510:41:01
0:41:010:41:03

Opportunity Knocks Again for I was driving through Liverpool. I

0:41:040:41:09

saw a house with balloons outside. Birthday cards on the door. He said

0:41:090:41:15

Happy birthday, Becky, 18 today. Underneath, it said the world's

0:41:150:41:25
0:41:250:41:28

Boughton advent calendar been Liverpool. All the windows were

0:41:280:41:35

boarded up. Thank you very much! Has he still got it? Still got it,

0:41:350:41:42

baby! He has still got it. So a fellow drinking... He was drinking

0:41:420:41:50

brake fluid. It will kill you. He said, Frank, I can start anytime I

0:41:500:41:58

want! Thank you very much, Frank! An encore, brilliant! It is time to

0:41:580:42:02

meet another contender, one-man- band Bruce Thompson from Newcastle.

0:42:020:42:08

This is him back in 1971. Fantastic! Look at that hair as

0:42:080:42:14

well. Thank you. I have still got it. How many instruments? At the

0:42:140:42:19

minute, five. And a voice! You have to practise this last night.

0:42:190:42:23

song that I did in 1971, I have not signed it since, and you will see

0:42:230:42:28

why in a minute. I had to download it last night and learned again.

0:42:280:42:34

You have, they are ready, good luck. All right, tonight Opportunity

0:42:340:42:44
0:42:440:43:12

Knocks Again for Bruce Thompson. All right, come on, let's hear it

0:43:120:43:19

for Bruce! Has he still got it? has got it, this is TV gold! Bruce

0:43:190:43:24

has still got it, thank you so much. Our next guest is a bit of a

0:43:240:43:32

special one. He is a beginner, it is Jay Rayner! Ladies and gentlemen,

0:43:320:43:40

tonight I give you a Lancashire Beautiful Lancashire, the perfect

0:43:400:43:44

place to come to celebrate the renaissance of a great traditional

0:43:440:43:48

British dish. When it is usually cold and damp outside, you need a

0:43:480:43:51

meal that is going to warn you to the tips of your toes, and that is

0:43:510:43:56

where Lancashire hot pot comes in, hot, steaming loveliness, layers of

0:43:560:44:04

lamb, potato, I could really do with something like that now!

0:44:040:44:07

Traditionally, it was a dish of necessity made it the cheapest and

0:44:070:44:11

most readily available ingredients. A few hundred years ago, workers

0:44:110:44:14

would leave the hot part in the baker's bread oven during the day,

0:44:140:44:18

and by the time they came home, the mutton would be beautifully tender.

0:44:180:44:23

The first time the hotpot got a literary mention is in the novel

0:44:230:44:27

north and south. Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell described how the

0:44:270:44:31

mill owner dined on hotpot with his workers, saying, I have never made

0:44:310:44:38

a better dinner in my life. Two Art Part, coming up! Nigel is

0:44:380:44:42

Lancashire born and bred. He says it deserves its place and the menu

0:44:420:44:52
0:44:520:44:52

You'll love Lancashire hotpot. is my favourite dish. We always had

0:44:520:44:58

it as a family. It is a very simple dish, slow-cooked, beautiful,

0:44:580:45:03

something a family can enjoy and celebrate together. Are there are

0:45:030:45:07

regional differences? There have been rumours of black pudding going

0:45:070:45:13

into a hot pot, and kidneys. For me, carrots, kidneys, black pudding,

0:45:130:45:16

that is a no-no. Time to start cooking and I am being allowed to

0:45:160:45:20

help. I feel an immense responsibility. It all depends on

0:45:200:45:25

me. Nigel is using traditional cheap cuts of lamb but sneaking in

0:45:250:45:31

some expensive ones. And there is a surprise ingredient. Oysters in a

0:45:310:45:35

hot pot? They are a natural thing in hot pot. In Lancashire, they

0:45:360:45:40

were a cheap commodity 100 years ago and used as protein. When meat

0:45:400:45:44

was out of season or expensive, they would use oysters. What does

0:45:440:45:50

it give to the dish? An extra bit of luxury and richness, and it is

0:45:500:45:56

just interesting and different. It is a form of surf and turf. Onions

0:45:560:46:00

next, with lamb chops adding drama to the dish. With the bone pointing

0:46:000:46:10

out? Yes, push them right down like that. Beautiful. OK, I have got the

0:46:100:46:15

potatoes. That is looking good. for the potatoey lid. No, we have

0:46:150:46:21

not forgotten the stock. Nigel's of court does not have any. You have

0:46:210:46:25

plenty of liquid in the potatoes and onions and the lamb releases

0:46:250:46:29

juices. You have the oysters as well. We are trying to get a hot

0:46:290:46:34

pot that is a hot pot, not a broth. It all comes together as one.

0:46:340:46:38

Poppet in the oven for three hours and you should have a beautiful,

0:46:380:46:48
0:46:480:46:57

It smells fantastic, but how does it taste? The bit of oyster. I have

0:46:570:47:01

had Lancashire hot pot before, but this has an added dimension. There

0:47:010:47:06

is a richness to the oyster. It is not fishy. It is sweet and dense.

0:47:060:47:13

It is lovely and it is all mine. But not for long. I have come to

0:47:130:47:18

see how modern-day Lancastrians feel about the oysters that their

0:47:180:47:26

forefathers loved. That is very good. I would not opt for that.

0:47:260:47:30

am going down to the seaside to get the oysters. Looking at the remains,

0:47:300:47:35

it is clear that this has been a hit. No real surprise, it is a

0:47:350:47:41

classic. But throw in some oysters and it is even better than that.

0:47:410:47:45

My favourite dish in the world, literally, in the world. I am not

0:47:450:47:49

sure my mum would approve of the oysters. Cornish pasty is have to

0:47:490:47:54

come from Cornwall. What about a hotpot and Lancashire. You cannot

0:47:540:48:01

put a product of designated origin on a recipe. Only products. We had

0:48:010:48:04

won their, cheese from Lancashire. We have loads of products from

0:48:040:48:09

Lancashire, because it is good stuff. You have to drive this. This

0:48:090:48:19
0:48:190:48:25

is called the Lancashire bomb. -- It is really powerful. Wow! It is a

0:48:250:48:30

sheep's cheese, made by the same family for four generations. Cy M

0:48:300:48:40

that is all right. I would have Then we have better pies. They came

0:48:400:48:44

about because the Catholics did not want to eat meat on Fridays. --

0:48:440:48:53

butter. Potato, Leek, butter, basically carbohydrates squared.

0:48:530:48:59

Very good for your festive figure. Can you feel your arteries

0:48:590:49:04

hardening? Yes, but I don't care because it is so nice. We have

0:49:040:49:09

Chorley cake, which is like Eccles cake but less sweet. There is lots

0:49:090:49:16

of very good stuff. How good is this? That is very good, I like

0:49:160:49:26

that. Shall I have some of that? The show is over! We are on the

0:49:260:49:29

hunt for the One Show spaghetti bolognese. We want special twists

0:49:290:49:35

and ingredients that make yours the best. Ray Winstone thinks the law

0:49:350:49:45
0:49:450:49:49

is the clue. -- he thinks you need Grated plain chocolate.

0:49:500:49:59
0:50:000:50:06

Controversial, but interesting. Beautiful. He is vegetarian. Lie-

0:50:060:50:10

detector tests have been in the news this week and Hertfordshire

0:50:100:50:14

police have been carrying out a trial to determine whether they are

0:50:140:50:20

a useful way of bringing about securing convictions. But is there

0:50:200:50:26

any truth in lie-detectors? Joe Crowley has been to find out.

0:50:260:50:30

The added dimension of the polygraph focuses attention during

0:50:300:50:35

tense scenes in cop drama interrogations. But do we really

0:50:350:50:40

need the polygraph machine, the lie detector? I do not lie, but

0:50:400:50:45

sometimes not telling the truth is good. Would you consider yourself

0:50:450:50:54

an honest person? Yes. Do you ever lied to people? Yes. If you had to

0:50:540:50:57

go on a lie-detector test, a polygraph, do you think you would

0:50:580:51:03

pass? No. So how reliable is a polygraph at finding the truth?

0:51:040:51:09

This is my better half. Bruce is here so I cannot tell you her name.

0:51:090:51:12

I am going to try to conceal it from him and he is going to try to

0:51:120:51:17

find it out using a polygraph. would like you to write down eight

0:51:170:51:23

names and I will go through them and say, is this your girl from's

0:51:230:51:28

name for? I want you to sate No each time. -- your girlfriend. A

0:51:280:51:31

normal test would be to find out if you had committed a certain deed

0:51:310:51:35

but in this instance we are just going to get some information from

0:51:350:51:45
0:51:450:51:49

you. Is your girlfriend's name Emma? No. Hanna?

0:51:490:51:52

I am not sure how good I was at concealing the truth, but we will

0:51:520:51:58

find out later. The polygraph is not admissible in British courts,

0:51:580:52:02

but it is slightly different in the States. Sadly, the BBC budget does

0:52:020:52:06

not take me to America, but through the wonders of modern technology I

0:52:060:52:12

can speak to Professor Ronald Sullivan at Harvard Law School. So,

0:52:120:52:16

Professor, can you hear me? Thank you for joining me. How do

0:52:160:52:21

polygraphs work in American courts? Some states permit the use of

0:52:210:52:28

polygraph evidence. New Mexico is one interesting example. New Mexico

0:52:280:52:31

basically treats jurors as grown- ups and says, we are going to

0:52:320:52:35

present you with evidence and some of this evidence may be polygraph

0:52:350:52:40

evidence. You will hear both sides. You will hear the proponent of the

0:52:400:52:43

evidence says it is reliable. You will hear the opponent of the

0:52:430:52:48

evidence say it is unreliable. And you make the decision whether you

0:52:480:52:53

use it. But Professor Sullivan admits that large sections of the

0:52:530:52:58

US scientific community regarded as a pseudo-science. Back with Bruce,

0:52:580:53:02

the Test is over, he has analysed the data and it is time for the

0:53:020:53:11

results. The most likely name of your girlfriend would be heaven. Is

0:53:110:53:21
0:53:210:53:21

it? Yes. -- Helen. You can see this peak here. These are the other

0:53:210:53:25

names and he reacted to some of them, but when it came to Helen,

0:53:250:53:29

you get a nice reaction and it died away afterwards. I am still

0:53:290:53:32

sceptical about it but you can reassure my lovely other half that

0:53:330:53:38

she has nothing to fear from any of those other seven names. I don't

0:53:380:53:42

think she has anything to fear from the other seven names. Because you

0:53:420:53:46

reacted so strongly, it is probably something important with her.

0:53:460:53:50

Possibly you are going to dump her, or possibly you are very much in

0:53:500:53:55

love and looking forward to going home. I cannot tell that. And that

0:53:550:53:59

was all true, Ladies and Gentlemen. Time for another star from

0:53:590:54:07

Opportunity Knocks Again. Have they still got it? Accordion player

0:54:070:54:11

Steve originally appeared on Opportunity Knocks in 1978. Here he

0:54:110:54:21
0:54:210:54:27

Fantastic, Steve. I am loving the outfit. Can we have a look?

0:54:270:54:36

Gorgeous legs! I have had them for a long time. Did Opportunity Knocks

0:54:360:54:41

change your life? It did. I get lots of work on my website and

0:54:410:54:46

contracts everywhere. Your wife was in the audience then and she is

0:54:460:54:51

here tonight as well. She has always travelled with me. All the

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time. They are ready for you. I gather you have to put on your

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instrument. Yes. Good luck. So far, all that acts have got what it

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takes, but has Steve? He is ready? Standing ovation, look at that! The

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first standing ovation of the night. Now, our last performance, ladies

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and gentlemen. Make the most of it. Chris Morris from Bodmin, now 54.

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That was the Royal Variety Performance. We had a song which

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was number one after doing that programme, and then we did the

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Royal Variety performance as well. It was fantastic. You are still

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working. Yes, I have a recording studio and I record new artists.

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And I also work with a 70s band. don't want to make you nervous, but

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they are ready. Good luck. He has to still have it. Opportunity

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# Bells ring, birds sing # Sunday Shining

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# No more pining # Just be true

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# Shining through Chris is still a hero. Come on,

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welcome back all have our guests. Did they still have it? Come on,

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say goodbye to the viewers. Sherlock is back on the TV at 9

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