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3.00pm now. By tonight's show these three vans will be works of art. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Your canvasses await. Hello and welcome to The One Show | :00:20. | :00:34. | |
with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Since then the vans have been | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
finished. Joining us tonight, someone who appreciates art on the | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
road, as well as antiques, it's Fiona Bruce. Nice to see you, Fiona. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Let us talk about the Antiques Roadshow quickly. There is a priest | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
sat out there, he is watching right now. Faipter Jamie. Delighted that | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
you know your Van Dycks? Well, listen, I've no Van Dyck expert, | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
that is for sure. You had a hunch? I was standing at the roadshow, I was | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
waiting to leave. I had finished working at the end of the day, he | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
came up for a chat. I asked him what he had on this big kind of thing | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
wrapped up in paper. The I was making a programme about Van Dycks | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
and doing nothing butting at Van Dycks. I thought - it looks like the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
paintings I have been looking at for the last few months. Let's see. You | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
made a few calls there was a bit of investigation. I did investigation | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
it was restored. An independent expert came and looked at it, a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
renowned expert on Van Dyck whoed said, yes, it is by Van Dyck. He | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
bought it with his own money? He did. Yet, if and when it is sold for | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
?400,000? He bought it for ?400. It's worth about ?400,000, possibly | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
more actually. He's going to use the money to buy new bells for his | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
church. He wants them to ring out for the centenary of the First World | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
War. You couldn't get a nicer end. He looks delighted. He was. Let us | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
look at these. From the perspective of an art appreciator what do you | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
make of the money the MPs have made on portraits of themselves. Diane | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Abbott there, ?11,750. When I saw that, when I first saw it was a | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
crease in the middle of my newspaper. I thought it wasn't a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
good look. Having spent a bit of time looking at it I've warmed | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
warmed to that picture of Diane. I can see why that was done, first | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
woman black MP. Photograph cheaper A photograph would be cheaper. Paul | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
O'Grady won't buy it. A well-known artist. When everyone is tightening | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
their belts it's controversial. It is. Also coming up tonight, lots of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
stuff. They are all for one, and one for all, we will be joined by the | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
stars of The Musketeers. Now conditioning our art theme, Tuffers | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
has been given special access to a series of paintings that were the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
last things Charles I saw on the way to the scaffold. There is a scaffold | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
involved, a very different one, isn't that right, Phil? Yes. I'm | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
here at Banqueting House in Whitehall. Have I got a special | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
little treat for you. Later on I'm going to be coming up close and | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
personal with the last remaining painted ceiling done by Rubens. I | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
said we will get close, we are. We will be going up there! I don't | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
really like heights. That's going to be a little bit tricky. It's going | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
to be fantastic. I will get my climbing gear on. We will be up | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
there in 20 minutes. Tuffers will get up and close with Rubens in half | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
an hour. One of the best ways to see the great British countryside in all | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
of its glory is of course on foochlt which path to take is proving to be | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
a contentious issue as Joe Crowley discovers. In some of the most | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
picturesque parts of the country a bitter power struggle is taking | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
place between those who own private land and those who want the right to | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
walk or ride over it. David has a 400 acre farm which has been in his | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
family for over 70 years. 18 months ago he suddenly discovered that | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
seven applications had been made for public horse paths or bridal ways | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
over his land. This is my farm. This is where our property starts, when | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
you come off the public highway. Yes. This is where I found the | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
notice stuck on a fence. Rather than just walk through and knock-on our | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
door. How did you feel? Really angry. It's our private property. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
They are taking away your privacy. It Duval -- Duval use your home by | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
40%. Running your business, security. Everything. That train is | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
why you don't think this would be a suitable bridal way? If you stood | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
underneath there, the rumble in there is tremendous. The application | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
was made by the south Somerset bridal ways association. Under the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
1981 Wildlife and Country Colonel Gaddafi side Act anyone can register | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
for a path through someone's land if it existed before on historical | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
documents or if there has been access for 20 years or more. How do | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
you feel about the people who put in the applications? Fanatical on the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
cause. There is probably more bridal way applications in than there are | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
horses. Horse riders and walkers and cyclists need the routes to get off | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the local road network which are increasingly heavily trafficked and | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
the traffic on them is becoming faster. It's not always a safe | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
place. It costs nothing toic fake the application. If David wants to | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
fight it he will incur legal costs. Marlene Masters has spent 23 years | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
fighting against a right of way on her land. The bikers in this footage | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
have every right to ride straight through her dairy farm. You have | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
been fighting the public access to your land. How much has it cost you? | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
It has to be ?100,000 plus, definitely. You went all the way to | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
the Court of Appeal? Yes. In the end, you lost your case. This is a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
public right of way still. You are using that experience to help people | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
like David? Absolutely. I can point him to the correct case law. I can | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
show him how it should be correctly interpreted. I can suggest that he | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
gets legal professional advice if he wants to pay some money to give him | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
some satisfaction. Application can take years to resolve. Now the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Government wants to make things quicker. Under the new deregulation | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
bill proposals, local authorities will inform landowners directly as | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
soon as an application is made and give them a chance to negotiate. The | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
council will need to accept or reject the application within a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
certain time frame. All right, guys, we are going to look today at a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
footpath that runs along this field here and joins up by the river. For | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the rambling association this is not about creating new routes, it's | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
about opening up old ones. Some landowners are reluctant they don't | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
like new footpaths cropping up as they see it on their land? It's | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
human nature though. You can't please everybody. No. You are | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
obviously, all you guys are believers in people having access to | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the green spaces in our country? You think about it. This is part of our | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
heritage. It's... If we were looking at a historic building, and you are | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
proposing to just knock it down, there would be a huge outcry. We're | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
talking here of something which has been in existence for hundreds of | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
years. You know, why would we not treat it in exactly the same way as | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
one of those buildings? The ramblers say they have history on their side. | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
Landowners like David dis with opening long-forgotten routes. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Compromise won't be easy. Joe joins us now. He is taking the weight off | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
his feet, good lad. I witnessed many a dispute between ramblers and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
landowners, do you think this new bill will mean fewer disputes? I | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
don't think it will actually. It's a contentious area. People feel | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
strongly on both sides. What the bill will do is speed up the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
process. Is might bring things to a head a bit quicker. You might get to | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
the dispute quicker. It won't mean there are fewer disputes. In this | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
country we are trying to create a definive map of the whole of the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
British isles Webb want to show where the public rights of ways are. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
We haven't got there yet. Lots of people aric making applications. | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
There is a cutoff date by which all new applications for historic routes | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
have to be on this map. There is a rush at the moment as they can take | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
years to process, thus all the disputes. The new bill will include | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
more negotiations between the landowner and the people who want | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
the right of way. Do we think that can work. Going by what we saw | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
there, it will be tough, isn't it? Certainly, negotiation will happen | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
sooner. That is a really good thing. Landowners will be involved from the | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
start. David wasn't told about it for a while. He can get involved, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
which will help. Where whether people negotiate, I don't know. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
David the landowner and Mark who met the application never met. We | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
brought them together for the first time. It got a bit heated. It didn't | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
look like a great meeting of the minds, I have to say. Look at this. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Mark, applicant, meet David, farmer. No thank you. No shaking of hands. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
No, shaking of hands. No thank you. OK. Tell Mark what your problem is | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
with the applications? My problem is, first of all, you want to have | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
the decency to inform the land own. There are two ways the legislation | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
says you have to notify the landowner is serving notice on their | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
address. If you can't ascertain who a landowner is or occupier is the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
council can authorise you to put notices up. That happened here. I | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
think maybe communications and relationships break down here if | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
things are seen to be under hand. Could it not have been face-to-face | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
note vie caution? The communication was not under hand. It complied with | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
the legislation. We are quite happy to discuss with David the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
applications. Haven't you got enough places to ride your horses? More | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
rights of way are needed, there aren't the places to walk, cycle and | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
ride. As for the footpaths one 50 yards outside of the river, one 100 | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
yards that side. Now you one want one up through the middle soo. Horse | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
riders aren't allowed footpaths. People are furious with what you are | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
doing. For you not to recognise it is seen worse. I think it's sheer | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
arrogance. Sheer arrogance. Do you feel for people like David, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
landowners, who suffer stress through this process. It seems tough | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
on them? I understand that some people can feel stressed about. It I | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
don't think there is any need. It's... They have valid | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
applications. You can sit there and smirk about it because you know that | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
it costs you nothing, and it's draining my finances all the time. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
It's very simple to say, oh, the farmers shouldn't worry. You're on | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
another planet. That is the way out, the quicker you | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
(BLEEP) off of my property, the better. All | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
right. I spoke to Mark after that, he was unapologetic, didn't feel | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
they he had done anything wrong. Abided by the law and did everything | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
he had to legally. You understand why David is upset. He think it is | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
has come out of nowhere. They exist on a historic map. He feels put | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
upon. You can't ride a horse on a footpath. You are a keen walker? The | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
chap in the red jacket not shaking hands is not doing any favours... | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Farmer wouldn't shake his head. You just saw that and thought, ah... | :12:39. | :13:14. | |
through the open field so you can see what is coming? They said, yes | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
and the footpath was diverted. You can say, how about if you go round | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
it? That is the negotiation we are talking about it. In this case it | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
doesn't work. David, the landowner, that is too excessive to have seven | :13:28. | :13:40. | |
rights of way. The landowner locks the gate even though it's my right | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
to walk down it. That is absolutely wrong. Styles and gates are | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
responsibility of landowners. Local authority should keep other parts of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
the path way open. Don't lock the gate. Tuffers has been a busy boy. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Yesterday we asked him to check out a problem that has been causing a | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
bit of a stink at a national monument. He set off promising to | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
leave no stone unturned. 5000 -year-old Stonehenge is one of | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
the most puzzling prehistoric monuments in the world. Just how did | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
these stones get here? Well, actually, there has been a much more | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
burning question on the lips of recent visitors, just how do we get | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
to see the stones from the new visitor centre a mile and a half of | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
there? The visitors centre is a mixture of old and new, mixing | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
bronze or Neolithic age objects with a 360 degrees virtual experience. | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
But when the ?27 million centre was opened, it was beset by problems. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
The system of transporting people to Stonehenge is extremely inefficient. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
There were car park use, ticketing Jews, and people were exposed to the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
weather. Too few buses meant that they had to risk life and limb to | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
walk down to the site. We spend exactly seven minutes out of an hour | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
and a half on the site at Stonehenge. I am going to do the | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
journey with centre manager Kate and put some more questions to her as we | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
go. First up, I have got my pass, Mike wants to know why millions was | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
spent on the cafe but visitors were left queueing out in the elements, | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
in the cold and rain. Well, we had a very busy few weeks when we opened | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
and at busy times we did have queues of people waiting longer than we | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
would have liked. But we have put more ticket machines in place, and | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
from February people will be able to book in advance and print their | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
ticket out at home before they arrive, so hopefully that will | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
reduce queues. And if you are coming in the winter time, it is an outdoor | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
attraction. We have plenty of indoor space, but Stonehenge is outdoors, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
so we hope that people dress up warm and ready for the weather. OK, let's | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
get a ticket. Two tickets for the stones, please. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
While we are at the ticket booth, Jenny McGowan wants to know if you | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
would consider lowering the cost, because it is expensive. Well, we | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
researched what prices other attractions in the same sector | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
charge, and we think we are competitively priced. We have so | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
much more on offer now at the visitor centre and our fantastic | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
exhibition. There you go. Nice and warm! | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
I have got another question, this is from Maureen, and she asks, why is | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
there no separate pathway for pedestrians who want to walk to the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
stones? We plan to have a laying down the road so that people can | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
walk from the visitor centre. Why is it a mile and a half away? We are | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
working to remove the modern intrusions and clutter found at | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Stonehenge, reconnected with the landscape so that people can | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
understand the wider context of Stonehenge and the area in which it | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
is based. We thought it was important to remove the visitor | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
centre and put it away. You will be putting on more buses, so it will be | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
quicker. Right, we had better get off! Are you going to be doing any | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
work up this end of the site? We have closed the road and got rid of | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
this, and our next priority is to get rid of all the old visitor | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
facilities. Will this be ready for the spring-summer onslaught? We will | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
be finished by July, we will be ready for the business summer | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
period. -- busy summer period. However you get there, don't bother | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
taking Eric Shaw, it is rock-hard! We are joined by Philip Mould, | :18:10. | :18:21. | |
Wellcome. It is the third series of Fake Or Fortune, why is it so | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
popular? It brings the work of the art detective to the high-stakes, | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
glamorous art world. Risks can be very expensive. We throw everything | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
at it, forensics, problems, history, looking at the brushstrokes, it is | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
like a crime scene. And it is massive stakes, a painting could be | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
worth millions or nothing! You always say, this potentially could | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
be half a million. We don't know. No idea. Even if we are both convinced | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
it is the work of a great artist, the powers that be, you know, might | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
have food poisoning that morning and say no. You go on this incredible | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
journey with the owner of a painting, and in the first programme | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
we need Keith, who I think has invested a lot of money already, but | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
in a beautiful painting. Give us his back story. Keep is a great fan of a | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
postimpressionist artist called Vuillard, and he saw a painting at | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
an auction, was it in Norfolk? I think it was. It said Vuillard on | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
the frame, but there was no proof that it was by him. He saved up and | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
managed to get this painting and set about trying to prove that it was by | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
this painter that he loves so much. But he kind of got stuck and | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
couldn't take it any further, and that is where we took it on. It is | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
part of a series of paintings, and this is the key to you working out | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
whether or not it is a fake or a fortune. It is such a joy, the | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
process of trying to work it out, when you have got something else you | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
can exactly compare it to, and in the case of 's picture, Keithwe have | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
this wonderful painting from a basement in Geneva. If it is by | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Vuillard, we can actually match everything we see in that picture. | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
It is a gift in television terms. And you do go to extraordinary | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
lengths to prove and authenticate the painting, let's have a look from | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Sunday's programme. In order to find out exactly how | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
this was made, she is removing tiny flecks of paint which contain a vast | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
amount of information about the materials the artist used. She can | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
compared these samples with Keith's picture to see if the mixture is the | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
same. The back of the canvas can also provide vital clues in our | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
quest to prove that Keith's painting is genuine. So we are looking at the | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
original canvas, are you able to relate it to Keith's canvas? That | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
would be an interesting and useful thing to do. I can try to measure | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
the density of the Reds that was used to weave this canvas. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
So you are analysing, in minute detail, even though you have come up | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
with all this evidence, you have to go to a group of folk who may say, | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
yeah one no! The Roman Emperor moment. With this painting, it had | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
to be approved by an August body in Paris, we have dealt with them | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
before, and in our first series we came across a lovely man who owned | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
what he believed was a painting by Monet... It was a Monet! Absolutely | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
convinced, absolutely gorgeous, and all sorts of people around the world | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
were convinced. The institute, in their wisdom, decided it was not. I | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
have to say, every time I see that painting and think about the man who | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
owned it, a little bit of me wants to cry. I was so shocked, all I | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
could do was swept in response, words failed me. They never fail | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
you! We have to take 's painting Keith'sto the Institute they | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
probably hate as now! We will not tell everyone what happens. But the | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
thing with Keith's painting, though, it is part of a pair, the lovely | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
oval shape. That is the thing, you saw the painting in Geneva, which is | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
by Vuillard, the interior of a cafe, put in a cafe in Paris in the Jazz | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
age, 1918, 1920, that kind of time. Two other ones were painted at the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
same time, Keith hopes one of them is his. We know there is another | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
oval out there by Vuillard, we are on the trail of it, but someone | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
somewhere has this oval, which would be worth a small fortune. For anyone | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
who might be out, is it all right if we put it up, if recognise this | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
painting, have a look? I think we should hold it back. We can't show | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
the picture! You hate me now! We thought we would give you the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
option. Thank you for coming in. The first episode of Fake Or Fortune is | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
on BBC One this Sunday at six o'clock. If you live in Scotland, it | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
is on at 4:30. If you are out on Sunday, you had better take that! | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
Earlier we showed you three muddy vans, so let's see how our resident | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
artist is getting on. Lucy has popped outside. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
I am here with Ruddy Muddy, how on earth did you begin doing this and | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
wide? I have always enjoyed drawing, and we have to pull over and have a | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
break when I work with a van. So to fill the time, I started drawing on | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
them. There is a world of difference between flicking through a paper and | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
having a cup of tea, and creating masterpieces on the side of a van, | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
isn't there? Yes, I suppose, when you put it like that. What do you | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
use? The first pictures I did, it was just my finger. Since then, I | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
have moved onto toothpicks, cotton wool buds and tissues. Just using | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
the dirt on the side of the van? Just the dirt. It is amazing. We are | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
going to have a look at some of the grandmasters that Ruddy Muddy has | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
been doing, we have got three vans. The owner, inevitably, there is a | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
quiz, are you ready? -- Fiona. First of all, the reveal, stand-by, this | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
is number one. You know what that is, obviously. That is Edvard | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
Munch's The Scream. For your point, Edvard Munch created four of these, | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
but how much did the privately owned oneself or when it was auctioned in | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
May 2012? You can tell me in dollars or sterling! This, actually, was a | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
really big story, because I remember this, we did it on the news, and | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
tell me if I am wrong, Philip, it was 70 or ?80 million, something | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
like that. I'm going to let you have it, it was ?74 million. Yes! Well | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
done, very impressive. Brilliant. More coming up later, you will be | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
delighted to hear! I am thrilled, very good, though! More art and more | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
questions. It is awards season, and tomorrow the Oscar nominations are | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
announced, and one legendary film producer says it is the most | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
competitive year ever. It is the first year when the biggest grossing | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
films have passed the Bechdel test, the what? Here is film critic | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
Antonia Quirke to explain all. Big roles for blokes equal big bucks | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
for box offices, a rule that Hollywood has followed religiously | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
for years. But with films like Blue Jasmine and Philomena and The Hunger | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Games proving to be huge with audiences, is its time for Hollywood | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
to revolutionise its gender policy? One way to gauge the active presence | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
of female characters in a film is the Bechdel test. It consists of | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
three simple questions. Our there two or more women in the film? Do | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
they talk to each other? Crucially, do they talk about something other | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
than a man? You would not believe how many movies fail that test. This | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
is the greatest company in the world! For example, The Wolf Of Wall | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Street, fail! A fun film, but women are portrayed very much as objects. | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Monsters university, there are not any women. Oblivion does have two | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
women, but they only chat about a man. Everything good between you | :27:27. | :27:38. | |
two? Of course. Fail! And the trend carries on throughout the years, but | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
this is the twist - this year, box office figures show that films which | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
features strong, feisty, creative female leads are grossing far higher | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
than the movies that fail the Bechdel test. Our audiences finally | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
voting with their purses? For bigger, better, braver roles for | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
women on the silver screen? Actress and writer Tracy and Olbermann has | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
played both damsels in distress and empowered women. Most of my friends | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
were actresses have the same complaint, the script arrives, and | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
you are reading the same character again and again and again. You have | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
to find ways as an actor and a performer to flesh those characters | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
out. Very few lines and often not much thought behind them. Doesn't | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
that make you angry? We used to stories that are told to us from a | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
little age being very male lead, male heroes, the females often | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
playing a very passive part in those stories, and the more writers and | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
directors and producers we get to women, that will hopefully change | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
that, because we have experience is that never seen on screen. Is the | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
director behind box office is favourite such as Calendar Girls and | :28:47. | :28:58. | |
Made In Dagenham. I do not think it is just meant choosing to do this, | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
it is society, it is a reflection of the way that women are marginalised | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
generally in society. What is a shame is that if you want to make | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
films with lots of women in them, you have to make them about female | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
empowerment, like Made In Dagenham, or coming to terms with your body, | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
like Calendar Girls. It is a shame we cannot just take great stories | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
that happened to have women. Has it ever crossed your mind that there | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
are far fewer good roles for women than men? If it is an action film, | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
you presume it is more men based than strong female roles. Wood you | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
like to see stronger women roles in movies? Not particularly! That | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
wouldn't get you through the door? No! It is more what the movie is | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
about, the storyline and the plot. Would you go and see a movie because | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
it featured a strong female character in the lead? Would you go | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
for that? Probably not. Really? I think I would. | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
Films for younger people are much more for females, Hunger Games, | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
Twilight, films like that are about young girls, strong girls who push | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
the story forward, who make decisions, who change things. I | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
think there is a see change. I think it will happen too slow for many | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
people. You know, we'll have a go. We will go and make some more movies | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
featuring women. You had better have a go! I will put every film I see | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
now through this Bechdel Test. It will drive you crazy when do you | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
that. You three failed the Bechdel Test as soon as the Three Musketeers | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
walks in Ah! Matt, you have let the side... Totally. That is to remain | :30:57. | :31:06. | |
private. That's it. We will talk amongst yourselves. -- ourselves. | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
This be the year, Antonia, that everything changes? Box office | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
talks. People are going to see these movies. Talks louder than anything | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
else in Hollywood is the money. Meryl Streep last week got exercised | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
about Walt Disney. He clearly didn't like women. He never liked women, | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
wasn't Cats as well, didn't like women in Cats. No mercy at all. The | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
spotlight is on this issue right now, more than ever before. You said | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
you enjoyed Gravity, one of the big films at the moment. Strong lead for | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
Sandra Bullock. She was fabulous. I loved it. My heart slightly sank | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
when she sort of stripped off inside the capsule and in amazing hotpants. | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
I just thought... You look amazing, it's so obvious why they are there. | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
She had been a real astronaut she would have been wearing a nappy. Not | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
even Sandra Bullock could carry off that look. A female astronaut to | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
say, I have never worn pants like that in space before. She looked | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
amacing. When she took the helmet off there wasn't that lore e moment | :32:17. | :32:24. | |
that we could have been subject to. We will see Meryl Streep, Dame Judi | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
Dench, Emma Thompson. It reminds me of the 1940s, the great era of the | :32:32. | :32:40. | |
actress. This was Hepburn and Joan Crawford, definitive strong women. | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
The reason those parts happened at that time was that studio bosses at | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
that time understood clearly that many more women went to the movies | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
than men. They went to triple bills. Would serve tea and biscuits and | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
take their kids. They had to give them varied female parts. It tailed | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
off over the years. In the 1980s it was all totty and nothing else, | :33:04. | :33:10. | |
apart from Thelma and Louise. Who do you think will get take Best Actress | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
on the night? Cate Blanchett will probably walk away with it. The part | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
she is playing, they said it wasn't inspired by Street Car Named Desire. | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
Isn't it interesting this magnificent performance nods again | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
to the great black-and-white era of those actresses. Good luck to all of | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
them. Thank you so much. We can't get through the next thing without | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
mefrjing someone pumped with testosterone we go back to Tuffers. | :33:45. | :33:53. | |
Luckily, he has a head for heights as well as artment We have made -- | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
art. We have made it up here. 50 feet up in the air, it is swaying a | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
little bit. Great to be up here. I have Kate here to hold my hand. What | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
is your involvement with the project? I'm head of the | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
conservation team of | :34:11. | :34:14. |