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3.00pm now. By tonight's show these three vans will be works of art.

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Your canvasses await. Hello and welcome to The One Show

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with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Since then the vans have been

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finished. Joining us tonight, someone who appreciates art on the

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road, as well as antiques, it's Fiona Bruce. Nice to see you, Fiona.

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Let us talk about the Antiques Roadshow quickly. There is a priest

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sat out there, he is watching right now. Faipter Jamie. Delighted that

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you know your Van Dycks? Well, listen, I've no Van Dyck expert,

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that is for sure. You had a hunch? I was standing at the roadshow, I was

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waiting to leave. I had finished working at the end of the day, he

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came up for a chat. I asked him what he had on this big kind of thing

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wrapped up in paper. The I was making a programme about Van Dycks

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and doing nothing butting at Van Dycks. I thought - it looks like the

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paintings I have been looking at for the last few months. Let's see. You

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made a few calls there was a bit of investigation. I did investigation

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it was restored. An independent expert came and looked at it, a

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renowned expert on Van Dyck whoed said, yes, it is by Van Dyck. He

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bought it with his own money? He did. Yet, if and when it is sold for

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?400,000? He bought it for ?400. It's worth about ?400,000, possibly

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more actually. He's going to use the money to buy new bells for his

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church. He wants them to ring out for the centenary of the First World

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War. You couldn't get a nicer end. He looks delighted. He was. Let us

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look at these. From the perspective of an art appreciator what do you

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make of the money the MPs have made on portraits of themselves. Diane

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Abbott there, ?11,750. When I saw that, when I first saw it was a

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crease in the middle of my newspaper. I thought it wasn't a

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good look. Having spent a bit of time looking at it I've warmed

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warmed to that picture of Diane. I can see why that was done, first

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woman black MP. Photograph cheaper A photograph would be cheaper. Paul

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O'Grady won't buy it. A well-known artist. When everyone is tightening

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their belts it's controversial. It is. Also coming up tonight, lots of

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stuff. They are all for one, and one for all, we will be joined by the

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stars of The Musketeers. Now conditioning our art theme, Tuffers

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has been given special access to a series of paintings that were the

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last things Charles I saw on the way to the scaffold. There is a scaffold

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involved, a very different one, isn't that right, Phil? Yes. I'm

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here at Banqueting House in Whitehall. Have I got a special

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little treat for you. Later on I'm going to be coming up close and

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personal with the last remaining painted ceiling done by Rubens. I

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said we will get close, we are. We will be going up there! I don't

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really like heights. That's going to be a little bit tricky. It's going

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to be fantastic. I will get my climbing gear on. We will be up

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there in 20 minutes. Tuffers will get up and close with Rubens in half

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an hour. One of the best ways to see the great British countryside in all

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of its glory is of course on foochlt which path to take is proving to be

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a contentious issue as Joe Crowley discovers. In some of the most

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picturesque parts of the country a bitter power struggle is taking

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place between those who own private land and those who want the right to

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walk or ride over it. David has a 400 acre farm which has been in his

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family for over 70 years. 18 months ago he suddenly discovered that

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seven applications had been made for public horse paths or bridal ways

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over his land. This is my farm. This is where our property starts, when

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you come off the public highway. Yes. This is where I found the

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notice stuck on a fence. Rather than just walk through and knock-on our

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door. How did you feel? Really angry. It's our private property.

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They are taking away your privacy. It Duval -- Duval use your home by

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40%. Running your business, security. Everything. That train is

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why you don't think this would be a suitable bridal way? If you stood

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underneath there, the rumble in there is tremendous. The application

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was made by the south Somerset bridal ways association. Under the

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1981 Wildlife and Country Colonel Gaddafi side Act anyone can register

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for a path through someone's land if it existed before on historical

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documents or if there has been access for 20 years or more. How do

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you feel about the people who put in the applications? Fanatical on the

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cause. There is probably more bridal way applications in than there are

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horses. Horse riders and walkers and cyclists need the routes to get off

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the local road network which are increasingly heavily trafficked and

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the traffic on them is becoming faster. It's not always a safe

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place. It costs nothing toic fake the application. If David wants to

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fight it he will incur legal costs. Marlene Masters has spent 23 years

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fighting against a right of way on her land. The bikers in this footage

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have every right to ride straight through her dairy farm. You have

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been fighting the public access to your land. How much has it cost you?

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It has to be ?100,000 plus, definitely. You went all the way to

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the Court of Appeal? Yes. In the end, you lost your case. This is a

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public right of way still. You are using that experience to help people

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like David? Absolutely. I can point him to the correct case law. I can

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show him how it should be correctly interpreted. I can suggest that he

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gets legal professional advice if he wants to pay some money to give him

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some satisfaction. Application can take years to resolve. Now the

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Government wants to make things quicker. Under the new deregulation

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bill proposals, local authorities will inform landowners directly as

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soon as an application is made and give them a chance to negotiate. The

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council will need to accept or reject the application within a

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certain time frame. All right, guys, we are going to look today at a

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footpath that runs along this field here and joins up by the river. For

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the rambling association this is not about creating new routes, it's

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about opening up old ones. Some landowners are reluctant they don't

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like new footpaths cropping up as they see it on their land? It's

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human nature though. You can't please everybody. No. You are

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obviously, all you guys are believers in people having access to

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the green spaces in our country? You think about it. This is part of our

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heritage. It's... If we were looking at a historic building, and you are

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proposing to just knock it down, there would be a huge outcry. We're

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talking here of something which has been in existence for hundreds of

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years. You know, why would we not treat it in exactly the same way as

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one of those buildings? The ramblers say they have history on their side.

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Landowners like David dis with opening long-forgotten routes.

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Compromise won't be easy. Joe joins us now. He is taking the weight off

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his feet, good lad. I witnessed many a dispute between ramblers and

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landowners, do you think this new bill will mean fewer disputes? I

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don't think it will actually. It's a contentious area. People feel

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strongly on both sides. What the bill will do is speed up the

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process. Is might bring things to a head a bit quicker. You might get to

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the dispute quicker. It won't mean there are fewer disputes. In this

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country we are trying to create a definive map of the whole of the

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British isles Webb want to show where the public rights of ways are.

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We haven't got there yet. Lots of people aric making applications.

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There is a cutoff date by which all new applications for historic routes

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have to be on this map. There is a rush at the moment as they can take

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years to process, thus all the disputes. The new bill will include

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more negotiations between the landowner and the people who want

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the right of way. Do we think that can work. Going by what we saw

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there, it will be tough, isn't it? Certainly, negotiation will happen

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sooner. That is a really good thing. Landowners will be involved from the

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start. David wasn't told about it for a while. He can get involved,

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which will help. Where whether people negotiate, I don't know.

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David the landowner and Mark who met the application never met. We

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brought them together for the first time. It got a bit heated. It didn't

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look like a great meeting of the minds, I have to say. Look at this.

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Mark, applicant, meet David, farmer. No thank you. No shaking of hands.

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No, shaking of hands. No thank you. OK. Tell Mark what your problem is

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with the applications? My problem is, first of all, you want to have

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the decency to inform the land own. There are two ways the legislation

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says you have to notify the landowner is serving notice on their

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address. If you can't ascertain who a landowner is or occupier is the

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council can authorise you to put notices up. That happened here. I

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think maybe communications and relationships break down here if

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things are seen to be under hand. Could it not have been face-to-face

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note vie caution? The communication was not under hand. It complied with

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the legislation. We are quite happy to discuss with David the

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applications. Haven't you got enough places to ride your horses? More

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rights of way are needed, there aren't the places to walk, cycle and

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ride. As for the footpaths one 50 yards outside of the river, one 100

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yards that side. Now you one want one up through the middle soo. Horse

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riders aren't allowed footpaths. People are furious with what you are

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doing. For you not to recognise it is seen worse. I think it's sheer

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arrogance. Sheer arrogance. Do you feel for people like David,

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landowners, who suffer stress through this process. It seems tough

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on them? I understand that some people can feel stressed about. It I

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don't think there is any need. It's... They have valid

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applications. You can sit there and smirk about it because you know that

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it costs you nothing, and it's draining my finances all the time.

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It's very simple to say, oh, the farmers shouldn't worry. You're on

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another planet. That is the way out, the quicker you

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(BLEEP) off of my property, the better. All

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right. I spoke to Mark after that, he was unapologetic, didn't feel

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they he had done anything wrong. Abided by the law and did everything

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he had to legally. You understand why David is upset. He think it is

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has come out of nowhere. They exist on a historic map. He feels put

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upon. You can't ride a horse on a footpath. You are a keen walker? The

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chap in the red jacket not shaking hands is not doing any favours...

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Farmer wouldn't shake his head. You just saw that and thought, ah...

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through the open field so you can see what is coming? They said, yes

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and the footpath was diverted. You can say, how about if you go round

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it? That is the negotiation we are talking about it. In this case it

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doesn't work. David, the landowner, that is too excessive to have seven

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rights of way. The landowner locks the gate even though it's my right

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to walk down it. That is absolutely wrong. Styles and gates are

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responsibility of landowners. Local authority should keep other parts of

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the path way open. Don't lock the gate. Tuffers has been a busy boy.

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Yesterday we asked him to check out a problem that has been causing a

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bit of a stink at a national monument. He set off promising to

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leave no stone unturned. 5000 -year-old Stonehenge is one of

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the most puzzling prehistoric monuments in the world. Just how did

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these stones get here? Well, actually, there has been a much more

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burning question on the lips of recent visitors, just how do we get

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to see the stones from the new visitor centre a mile and a half of

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there? The visitors centre is a mixture of old and new, mixing

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bronze or Neolithic age objects with a 360 degrees virtual experience.

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But when the ?27 million centre was opened, it was beset by problems.

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The system of transporting people to Stonehenge is extremely inefficient.

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There were car park use, ticketing Jews, and people were exposed to the

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weather. Too few buses meant that they had to risk life and limb to

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walk down to the site. We spend exactly seven minutes out of an hour

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and a half on the site at Stonehenge. I am going to do the

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journey with centre manager Kate and put some more questions to her as we

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go. First up, I have got my pass, Mike wants to know why millions was

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spent on the cafe but visitors were left queueing out in the elements,

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in the cold and rain. Well, we had a very busy few weeks when we opened

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and at busy times we did have queues of people waiting longer than we

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would have liked. But we have put more ticket machines in place, and

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from February people will be able to book in advance and print their

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ticket out at home before they arrive, so hopefully that will

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reduce queues. And if you are coming in the winter time, it is an outdoor

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attraction. We have plenty of indoor space, but Stonehenge is outdoors,

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so we hope that people dress up warm and ready for the weather. OK, let's

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get a ticket. Two tickets for the stones, please.

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While we are at the ticket booth, Jenny McGowan wants to know if you

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would consider lowering the cost, because it is expensive. Well, we

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researched what prices other attractions in the same sector

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charge, and we think we are competitively priced. We have so

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much more on offer now at the visitor centre and our fantastic

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exhibition. There you go. Nice and warm!

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I have got another question, this is from Maureen, and she asks, why is

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there no separate pathway for pedestrians who want to walk to the

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stones? We plan to have a laying down the road so that people can

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walk from the visitor centre. Why is it a mile and a half away? We are

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working to remove the modern intrusions and clutter found at

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Stonehenge, reconnected with the landscape so that people can

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understand the wider context of Stonehenge and the area in which it

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is based. We thought it was important to remove the visitor

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centre and put it away. You will be putting on more buses, so it will be

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quicker. Right, we had better get off! Are you going to be doing any

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work up this end of the site? We have closed the road and got rid of

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this, and our next priority is to get rid of all the old visitor

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facilities. Will this be ready for the spring-summer onslaught? We will

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be finished by July, we will be ready for the business summer

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period. -- busy summer period. However you get there, don't bother

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taking Eric Shaw, it is rock-hard! We are joined by Philip Mould,

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Wellcome. It is the third series of Fake Or Fortune, why is it so

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popular? It brings the work of the art detective to the high-stakes,

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glamorous art world. Risks can be very expensive. We throw everything

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at it, forensics, problems, history, looking at the brushstrokes, it is

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like a crime scene. And it is massive stakes, a painting could be

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worth millions or nothing! You always say, this potentially could

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be half a million. We don't know. No idea. Even if we are both convinced

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it is the work of a great artist, the powers that be, you know, might

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have food poisoning that morning and say no. You go on this incredible

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journey with the owner of a painting, and in the first programme

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we need Keith, who I think has invested a lot of money already, but

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in a beautiful painting. Give us his back story. Keep is a great fan of a

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postimpressionist artist called Vuillard, and he saw a painting at

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an auction, was it in Norfolk? I think it was. It said Vuillard on

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the frame, but there was no proof that it was by him. He saved up and

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managed to get this painting and set about trying to prove that it was by

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this painter that he loves so much. But he kind of got stuck and

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couldn't take it any further, and that is where we took it on. It is

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part of a series of paintings, and this is the key to you working out

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whether or not it is a fake or a fortune. It is such a joy, the

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process of trying to work it out, when you have got something else you

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can exactly compare it to, and in the case of 's picture, Keithwe have

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this wonderful painting from a basement in Geneva. If it is by

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Vuillard, we can actually match everything we see in that picture.

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It is a gift in television terms. And you do go to extraordinary

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lengths to prove and authenticate the painting, let's have a look from

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Sunday's programme. In order to find out exactly how

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this was made, she is removing tiny flecks of paint which contain a vast

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amount of information about the materials the artist used. She can

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compared these samples with Keith's picture to see if the mixture is the

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same. The back of the canvas can also provide vital clues in our

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quest to prove that Keith's painting is genuine. So we are looking at the

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original canvas, are you able to relate it to Keith's canvas? That

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would be an interesting and useful thing to do. I can try to measure

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the density of the Reds that was used to weave this canvas.

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So you are analysing, in minute detail, even though you have come up

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with all this evidence, you have to go to a group of folk who may say,

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yeah one no! The Roman Emperor moment. With this painting, it had

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to be approved by an August body in Paris, we have dealt with them

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before, and in our first series we came across a lovely man who owned

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what he believed was a painting by Monet... It was a Monet! Absolutely

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convinced, absolutely gorgeous, and all sorts of people around the world

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were convinced. The institute, in their wisdom, decided it was not. I

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have to say, every time I see that painting and think about the man who

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owned it, a little bit of me wants to cry. I was so shocked, all I

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could do was swept in response, words failed me. They never fail

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you! We have to take 's painting Keith'sto the Institute they

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probably hate as now! We will not tell everyone what happens. But the

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thing with Keith's painting, though, it is part of a pair, the lovely

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oval shape. That is the thing, you saw the painting in Geneva, which is

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by Vuillard, the interior of a cafe, put in a cafe in Paris in the Jazz

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age, 1918, 1920, that kind of time. Two other ones were painted at the

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same time, Keith hopes one of them is his. We know there is another

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oval out there by Vuillard, we are on the trail of it, but someone

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somewhere has this oval, which would be worth a small fortune. For anyone

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who might be out, is it all right if we put it up, if recognise this

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painting, have a look? I think we should hold it back. We can't show

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the picture! You hate me now! We thought we would give you the

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option. Thank you for coming in. The first episode of Fake Or Fortune is

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on BBC One this Sunday at six o'clock. If you live in Scotland, it

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is on at 4:30. If you are out on Sunday, you had better take that!

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Earlier we showed you three muddy vans, so let's see how our resident

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artist is getting on. Lucy has popped outside.

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I am here with Ruddy Muddy, how on earth did you begin doing this and

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wide? I have always enjoyed drawing, and we have to pull over and have a

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break when I work with a van. So to fill the time, I started drawing on

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them. There is a world of difference between flicking through a paper and

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having a cup of tea, and creating masterpieces on the side of a van,

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isn't there? Yes, I suppose, when you put it like that. What do you

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use? The first pictures I did, it was just my finger. Since then, I

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have moved onto toothpicks, cotton wool buds and tissues. Just using

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the dirt on the side of the van? Just the dirt. It is amazing. We are

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going to have a look at some of the grandmasters that Ruddy Muddy has

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been doing, we have got three vans. The owner, inevitably, there is a

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quiz, are you ready? -- Fiona. First of all, the reveal, stand-by, this

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is number one. You know what that is, obviously. That is Edvard

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Munch's The Scream. For your point, Edvard Munch created four of these,

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but how much did the privately owned oneself or when it was auctioned in

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May 2012? You can tell me in dollars or sterling! This, actually, was a

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really big story, because I remember this, we did it on the news, and

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tell me if I am wrong, Philip, it was 70 or ?80 million, something

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like that. I'm going to let you have it, it was ?74 million. Yes! Well

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done, very impressive. Brilliant. More coming up later, you will be

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delighted to hear! I am thrilled, very good, though! More art and more

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questions. It is awards season, and tomorrow the Oscar nominations are

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announced, and one legendary film producer says it is the most

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competitive year ever. It is the first year when the biggest grossing

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films have passed the Bechdel test, the what? Here is film critic

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Antonia Quirke to explain all. Big roles for blokes equal big bucks

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for box offices, a rule that Hollywood has followed religiously

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for years. But with films like Blue Jasmine and Philomena and The Hunger

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Games proving to be huge with audiences, is its time for Hollywood

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to revolutionise its gender policy? One way to gauge the active presence

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of female characters in a film is the Bechdel test. It consists of

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three simple questions. Our there two or more women in the film? Do

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they talk to each other? Crucially, do they talk about something other

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than a man? You would not believe how many movies fail that test. This

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is the greatest company in the world! For example, The Wolf Of Wall

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Street, fail! A fun film, but women are portrayed very much as objects.

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Monsters university, there are not any women. Oblivion does have two

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women, but they only chat about a man. Everything good between you

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two? Of course. Fail! And the trend carries on throughout the years, but

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this is the twist - this year, box office figures show that films which

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features strong, feisty, creative female leads are grossing far higher

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than the movies that fail the Bechdel test. Our audiences finally

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voting with their purses? For bigger, better, braver roles for

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women on the silver screen? Actress and writer Tracy and Olbermann has

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played both damsels in distress and empowered women. Most of my friends

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were actresses have the same complaint, the script arrives, and

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you are reading the same character again and again and again. You have

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to find ways as an actor and a performer to flesh those characters

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out. Very few lines and often not much thought behind them. Doesn't

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that make you angry? We used to stories that are told to us from a

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little age being very male lead, male heroes, the females often

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playing a very passive part in those stories, and the more writers and

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directors and producers we get to women, that will hopefully change

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that, because we have experience is that never seen on screen. Is the

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director behind box office is favourite such as Calendar Girls and

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Made In Dagenham. I do not think it is just meant choosing to do this,

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it is society, it is a reflection of the way that women are marginalised

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generally in society. What is a shame is that if you want to make

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films with lots of women in them, you have to make them about female

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empowerment, like Made In Dagenham, or coming to terms with your body,

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like Calendar Girls. It is a shame we cannot just take great stories

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that happened to have women. Has it ever crossed your mind that there

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are far fewer good roles for women than men? If it is an action film,

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you presume it is more men based than strong female roles. Wood you

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like to see stronger women roles in movies? Not particularly! That

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wouldn't get you through the door? No! It is more what the movie is

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about, the storyline and the plot. Would you go and see a movie because

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it featured a strong female character in the lead? Would you go

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for that? Probably not. Really? I think I would.

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Films for younger people are much more for females, Hunger Games,

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Twilight, films like that are about young girls, strong girls who push

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the story forward, who make decisions, who change things. I

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think there is a see change. I think it will happen too slow for many

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people. You know, we'll have a go. We will go and make some more movies

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featuring women. You had better have a go! I will put every film I see

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now through this Bechdel Test. It will drive you crazy when do you

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that. You three failed the Bechdel Test as soon as the Three Musketeers

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walks in Ah! Matt, you have let the side... Totally. That is to remain

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private. That's it. We will talk amongst yourselves. -- ourselves.

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This be the year, Antonia, that everything changes? Box office

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talks. People are going to see these movies. Talks louder than anything

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else in Hollywood is the money. Meryl Streep last week got exercised

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about Walt Disney. He clearly didn't like women. He never liked women,

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wasn't Cats as well, didn't like women in Cats. No mercy at all. The

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spotlight is on this issue right now, more than ever before. You said

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you enjoyed Gravity, one of the big films at the moment. Strong lead for

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Sandra Bullock. She was fabulous. I loved it. My heart slightly sank

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when she sort of stripped off inside the capsule and in amazing hotpants.

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I just thought... You look amazing, it's so obvious why they are there.

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She had been a real astronaut she would have been wearing a nappy. Not

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even Sandra Bullock could carry off that look. A female astronaut to

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say, I have never worn pants like that in space before. She looked

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amacing. When she took the helmet off there wasn't that lore e moment

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that we could have been subject to. We will see Meryl Streep, Dame Judi

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Dench, Emma Thompson. It reminds me of the 1940s, the great era of the

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actress. This was Hepburn and Joan Crawford, definitive strong women.

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The reason those parts happened at that time was that studio bosses at

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that time understood clearly that many more women went to the movies

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than men. They went to triple bills. Would serve tea and biscuits and

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take their kids. They had to give them varied female parts. It tailed

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off over the years. In the 1980s it was all totty and nothing else,

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apart from Thelma and Louise. Who do you think will get take Best Actress

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on the night? Cate Blanchett will probably walk away with it. The part

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she is playing, they said it wasn't inspired by Street Car Named Desire.

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Isn't it interesting this magnificent performance nods again

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to the great black-and-white era of those actresses. Good luck to all of

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them. Thank you so much. We can't get through the next thing without

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mefrjing someone pumped with testosterone we go back to Tuffers.

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Luckily, he has a head for heights as well as artment We have made --

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art. We have made it up here. 50 feet up in the air, it is swaying a

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little bit. Great to be up here. I have Kate here to hold my hand. What

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is your involvement with the project? I'm head of the

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conservation team of

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