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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And generals Jones. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
We are joined by a man who truly is gardening royalty. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Yes, he invites the nation into his home every week on Gardener's World. | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
It is the king of spades, Monty Don. Here he is. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
APPLAUSE Welcome back. It is nice to see you | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
again. Now it is a busy time in gardens. What's the last thing you | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
did in your garden before you came here tonight? Turned the tap on to | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
fill the pond. I have to say a tap from a rainwater butt and not from | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
the mains. We were filming yesterday in my garden and lining | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
and pilg up the pond -- filling up the pond. | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
. It is the best type you can have, isn't it? With the hosepipe ban, it | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
will make it hard for people, but you can collect rainwater and we | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
have got got this enormous tank in the garden and now it has been | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
diverted to a pondpm. Lots of people may not know that you are a | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
farmer as well as a gardener. We have a small farm. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
We have lovely shots of you feeding up. It is a busy time on farms at | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
the moment. Are you doing lambing? We have lambing, not a lamb, the | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
ram got in with our ewes at the wrong time last year and we did a | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
lot of lambing in August! If you have any questions for Monty | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
or maybe you have got a plant that you need identifying, send your | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
questions and take a picture of the plants to us at The One Show and we | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
will ask the man himself as many as we can later on. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
I like that you did the actions there! | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
We start tonight with gardening that for many reasons that wouldn't | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
make it on to Gardener's World. It is not done in a garden and not | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
something that you would invite the cameras to see and it is illegal. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Simon Boazman joins Merseyside Police on the trail of the cannabis | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
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farms that could be sprouting up at Body armour is mandatory today. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
7.30am and Merseyside police officers on the early shift are | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
briefed ready for the day's raids. Thank you very much. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Today they are off to rented homes they believe maybe being used to | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
grow cannabis. Increasingly the crops are | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
cultivated in ordinary homes, often without the landlord or neighbours | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
having a clue what is going on. And as they expected, in this | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
property, there is a bumper crop of cannabis. | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
How many plants is that there? Probably around 20 plants. When you | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
talk about money, how much is this worth. Probably between �400 or | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
�500 per plant. Quite a professional set-up. Lighting, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
heating, ventilation and water. All self-contained. In a child's | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
bedroom, in a terraced house, �8,000 of cannabis. It is the sort | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
of thing the police are seeing more In the past we saw a lot of large | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
commercial type growers but when the police police strike on those, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
we take the plants and remove the equipment and undermine the level | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
of criminality. We are seeing smaller set-ups in as you can see | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
here, one little bedroom, 20 plants grown and these will be dotted | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
around houses. Some raids turn up small scale | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
cannabis producers who are operating alone, but there are | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
growers who are tenant farmers who rent private properties to grow the | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
crops and often on an industrial scale. All this means is there | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
could be a cannabis farm come to go an an ordinary home in an an | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
ordinary neighbourhood near you. This landlord thought he found the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
perfect tenant. A Chinese chef and relatives who had references and | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
they even paid cash upfront. They were lovely and I just thought | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
to myself, great. This seems like a nice family. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Five weeks after they moved in, the police raided the house. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
This hole room was full of plants. The other bedroom was full of | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
plants and my loft was full of plants. This bed was suspended from | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
the ceiling and used as a trellis to grow the cannabis on. I was | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
shocked by the sheer scale of it. These people have come in and and | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
wrecked it. The tenants disappeared and he has | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
been left with a huge repair job. It will cost me several thousands | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
of pounds to bring the property back up to the standard it was in | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
before the tenants moved in. That's money that I would much rather | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
spend on my children. His story is increasingly common. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Landlords are vulnerable and the police warn them to be wary of | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
tenants who pay everything in cash and to inspect their properties | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
regularly. The number of plants seized by | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
police was up 12% last year. Confiscated cannabis is brought to | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
secure facilities like this one and the police have allowed us to come | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
in and record what they do with it. Once the cannabis arrives, it is | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
weighed and recorded by our computer systems. It is loaded into | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
the incinerator at around 150 degrees, where it is incinerated | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
for four four hours before turning to ash. And that's all that is left. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
We can't say where we are. This seizure was of 4,000 plants with a | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
street value of �1.5 million, but that was only one week's work for | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
this one force. In this one region alone, the north-west, the police | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
raided over 5,000 cannabis farms in the last three years and after the | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
raids, it is the landlords who are left with the bill for the clean-up. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
It is what I have waited for all my life. It is a home that my family | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
were born in and were raised in and you have put your blood, sweat and | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
tears into something, you know, when you see people just destroy t | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
you're gutted. Simon, thank you. On to plant growing of a different | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
type. We were talking about the the hosepipe and your book comes out at | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
a time when some regions are seeing the hosepipe ban? Here in London | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
and the South East and the east, there is a drought going on and | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
even if it poured rain for a week, there would be a hosepipe ban. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Where Longmeadow is, it is a wet place along the Welsh border and we | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
have lovely lush grass and the water streams in from the Welsh | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
mountains. But for those people saying, "I | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
can't turn the hosepipe on this week." What tips have you got for | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
them? Be water wise. If you go to South Africa, Australia, use your | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
water carefully. Value it. Rainwater butts, collect your | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
rainwater. Don't waste it. Don't water too much. Water once a week | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
is enough for one plant. Give things a good soak and the roots | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
will go down and they will cope. Plants tend not to die of drought. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
They look sorry and they look sad, but they cope. They will be all | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
right? Most. The third thing is grow plants that come from dry | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
regions, you know, it is no coincidence that you know, you see | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
rosemary or lavender growing in dry areas. They have got narrow leaves | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
that are adapted and there are wonderful plants for dry areas. It | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
is not a problem. It is a difference. It is a change. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
You say in your book that having a drought in March can be a good | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
thing. For me. The book is about | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Longmeadow and about how I garden there. It is not about necessarily | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
everyone. The thing about drought in March we can get on the land. We | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
can work the soil. We can walk around. If it is raining, it is mud | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
and then we get rain in April, so dry and March and wet in April. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Your garden has been a private sanctuary for many years and you | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
decided to open it up to the viewers of Gardener's World? Yes. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
So how do you feel about it? Do you regret it? I don't. Clearly for 20 | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
years, you make a garden, your kids grow up there, it is your retreat | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
and if you do television, you are never truly private except behind | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
locked doors really. It is your home. It is where you go to. So to | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
change that is a big decision, but it was, it just felt, there was no | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
rational behind it, it felt like the right thing. My children are | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
grown up and the garden needed to change and it is just a challenge, | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
you know. Has it brought another element to it then? The garden has | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
changed. You have to start thinking about other people. There is a | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
pressure. It has got to look good all the time. I was very clear when | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
I I spoke to the BBC, if we do it at home it has to be a private | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
garden. It has to be its its warts and flaws. We show that and other | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
people can think, "If he can screw it up." I wasn't going to say screw | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
it up, but that's fine. It probably keeps you on your toes. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Yes, there is an element of that. In your book you talk about what | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
you should be doing month by month. How many people stick to it and how | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
many people look at the pictures and think, "I Should be doing it." | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
I am one of the latter. I don't like gardening to be seen as a | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
series of exams and hurdles that you have to jump. That's not the | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
way I garden. I garden for pleasure. There is all sorts of reasons and | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
being good at it is really low on the list. It doesn't matter how you | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
grow plants or how you prune plants. What matters is the end result good. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Does it look beautiful? Does the food taste good? Is it fulfilling | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
the things you want from it and it is a British flaw that somehow | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
there is a one-upmanship about gardening., ""you don't know the | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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name of that plant or you are not holding your secateurs right." Good | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
gardening is about enjoying it.. Gardening At Longmeadow is out now. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Accordening to boffins at the University of Manchester, gardening | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
isn't just a nice way to spend a sunny afternoon. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
They are working to solve a riddle by growing thousands of sunflowers | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
and they need your help. Justin Rowlatt went to see what | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
gardening and maths add up to! Alan was one of the most pioneering | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
scientists Britain has produced. He was a crucial figure in breaking | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
the enigma code and he also played a key role in the creation of the | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
modern day computer. But the master code breaker left | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
one unsolved riddle before his death and the solution may just lie | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
in these - sunflower seeds. He spent the last few years of his | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
life working in Manchester where he was fascinated by the existence of | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
a mathematical code that exists in nature and which he thought could | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
help unlock the secrets of life itself. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
So halfs this kind -- what was this kind of mystery that preoccupied | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
him? If you look at a pine cone, you can find spirals and there are | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
13 or 21. If you look at the spirals of seed heads in a | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
sunflower, you find 34 or 55. saw the patterns of numbers in | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
plants? That's right. That is amazing. Those aren't just numbers | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
plucked from the air. Those are numbers that mathematicians know | :13:18. | :13:27. | |
about and have got a sequence.. You start with a 0 and a 1. 13 which is | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
the pine cone you talked about. 34, the sunflower. | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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If you get a really big sunflower you could get 14. -- 134. He | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
thought we could understand. He thought it might understand this | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
might help him decide how plants grow? That's right. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Once you become aware of the number patterns, you start to see them | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
everywhere you go? Have you seen patterns in the flowers you sell? | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Different flowers have different features. The sunflowers have the | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
spiral centres. You get it in lots of different types of flowers. | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
He tried to prove his theories using sunflowers, but never | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
gathered quite enough and died tragically before finishing his | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
work, but now a mass experiment is being organised as part of | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
Manchester's Science Festival which is going to change the city. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Imagine a a city full of yellow sunflowers. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
What is the project all about? is an opportunity to get enough | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
data set that we can tell more of the mathematical story behind the | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
patterns in the sunflower heads. The other thing, of course, is | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
bringing communities together across Manchester to celebrate | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Churring's contribution to Manchester and the world. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
If this works, Manchester reckons it will have pulled off a first. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
The first time a city has come together to solve a scientific | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
The researchers want you to grow sunflowers and to take a photo and | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
send it to them so they can count the spirals. Find out how all the | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
So we have decided to do our bit and grow sunflowers. When is the | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
best time of year to plant sunflower seeds? If you are growing | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
them under cover and any cover will do, window sill will do, now is | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
great. But you don't want to plant them outside. They are not frost | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
hardy. If you are growing them under cover, you plant them outside | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
middle of Aprilish and if you are planting them direct, now. | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
Make a hole, yeah yeah. Not too deep. I would plant two per | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
pot. You only want to end up with one, you could put in five, but you | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
will only end up with one. Rather than pushing them in too | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
deep and cover them over lightly. Just cover it. And soak it. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Would you give them a little water? How much? It is going to go | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
everywhere. Water from your water butt. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
And then put them in a warm place. That's the key thing. So a sunny | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
window sill, a greenhouse if you have got it, keep them warm. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
will pop those in. Chris looks concerned! | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Here on The One Show we like to cater for all members of the family. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Here is a film that will speak to the to the dogs watching at home. | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Well, it will sing to them anyway. Carrie Grant is hitting some high | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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notes. From opera divas to pop singers,, | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
skilled vocalists have the ability to sound amazing and there is | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
nothing like a high note to take the breath away. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
The usual opera soprano range goes up to a C 6, that's here. But there | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
is a lesser known Mozart calling for a G six. The Queen of the high | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
notes has to be Mariah Carey. She can sing in something called | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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whistle tone. It means she can soar to an almost unbelievable F seven. | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
Earlier, Mozart's G six was down here. That sounds low. Mariah has | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
gone to here. Now you have to be born with that stuff. Do not try | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
this at home! What's going on in the voice boxes of singers who can | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
hit those highs? The best way to find out is to see the vocal chords | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
in action. Which is awkward because they are | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
at the top of your windpipe. We are going to look at your voice | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
box with a little camera. This is a Harley Street ear nose | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
and throat surgeon. It is not easy singing with a camera up your nose, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
but in the name of science, our our young singer had a go. | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
How does the voice produce sounds? Breathe out and the vocal folds are | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
two very delicate structures. They come together and si and vibrate | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
that way up and down and back and forth. It is a complex vibration. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
That creates a sound which you wouldn't recognise as your voice. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
That sound is changed by the tongue. Just surfaces that you are going to | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
aim the air towards. Yes. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
When people are singing low notes and they go up to a high note, what | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
changes do we see in the vocal folds? What you will see is | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
thinning out of the vocal folds and stretching as they go from low to | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
high there. It is not just the edges that look | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
finer, but the length as well, isn't it? That's right, the muscle | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
is less bulky. It will vibrate more quickly. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Are people born with a high voice? The sort of voice you have is | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
something that's genetically determined, but you can train it as | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
well. The vocal folds are muscles and you can work on it by | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
exercising and that can help you to sing higher. Amanda is the course | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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course leader at the University of Whin Winchester. One of her | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
exercises is the siren. It is imitating the siren on the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
police car. But just seeing how high you can go with that. There is | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
a certainly amount of effort that is needed. So there are lots of | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
exercises we do to get that feeling of strength and frame and support | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
under the voice. Leaning your back against the wall and putting | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
pressure and experimenting with the top notes. It gives you a safer | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
place to work work from when you are trying to get up to those notes. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
So much of singing is psychological though, isn't it? You have to | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
believe in yourself. It is like anything. If you think you are | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
going to do it, you are more likely to do it and you are more likely to | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
let your voice vibrate freely and that's what it is designed to do. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Singing is an art form, not a sport. Taking your voice really high is | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
one thing, but it is quite another to make the right sound, the right | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
tone of voice. Billy Holiday Had a 12 note range and no one told her | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
Come on, who at home is going, "This is high highest note?" All | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
the dogs have run a mile! Carrie, you can sing one of the | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
highest notes that you know of? Mozart opera goes up to a G six. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
That's my highest note. Most singers will go up to a top C which | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
is eight notes lower. Most non professionals will hit six notes | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
under that. It can get a bit much. You | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
mentioned Mariah Carey. Singing is not a sport. You are meant to be | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
moved by it. It is not an Olympic, you are not going to win a medal | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
for it. It is important to remember that! | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
I wouldn't win a medal for any singing. I cannot sing! | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
Do you not do a bit of singing in the garden? I can't do it. | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
Do you like Mariah Carey? I have never heard Mariah Carey. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Stick around for ten minutes of this show and Carey will do a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
masterclass. We have a Guinness world record: | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
This guy is in Australia hitting a C sharp eight. Now that's very high. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
That's two octaves above what I was hitting. | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
Let's have a listen. It is extraordinary. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
That's C sharp and it is off the piano. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
It is actually a dog whistle. It sounds like the tea is ready on | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
the kettle! Nigel will be running around | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
Longmeadow with his ears flapping wondering where I am. You can never | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
sing words. That is really awful to listen to. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Yes. You have got a female version. | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
singer from Brazil, her's is a G ten. Let's hear it. | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
This is a frequency rather than a note. This isn't her doing the | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
record, but this is her singing. That's enough of that! | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
You have to ask why? You do. We are going to stay with the vocal | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
region and time for a subject we can get our teeth in. Larry Lamb | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
says agh. Ivories, gnashers, pearly whites, | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
we know the value of a good set of teeth. Throughout history, teeth | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
played a more important role than eating. The quest for a Hollywood | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
smile goes back longer than you think. There are nine people in the | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
UK with dentures of some kind. Until recently most false teeth | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
were so useless you would have to take them out to eat. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Milly Farrell is the dental curator at the Royal College of Surgeons. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
The vaults here don't have the usual paperwork in them, they are | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
full of old dentures. It proves that a good set of teeth | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
have always mattered. They are kind of thought as a | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
symbol of your youth, your beauty, your health as well. People like to | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
keep a nice white smile as they do in today's world. This is an | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
example of what the earliest style of dentures looked like. They are | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
real human teeth, bound in gold wire. This technique was used by | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
the ancient Greeks as long ago as 700 BC. | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
It was used as a status symbol. When this lady smiled it would have | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
been a sight to see. It would have been a bit of bling. | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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Dentures as we recognise them them didn't come about until the 1600s. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Dentists used hippopotamus ivory. These were a display of wealth. But | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
they were useless as teeth. Users had to remove them at meal times. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
In the 1790, porcelain started to be used as false teeth attempted to | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
be passed off as genuine. Politicians were among those | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
exploiting the opportunities presented by brighter, whiter | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
smiles. What a surprise. Sir Winston Churchill was among the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
denture wearing politicians, but in his case, it was nothing to do with | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
his smile. Nigel's father was the technician who built Winston | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Churchill's teeth. They played a surprising role in the war effort. | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
During the war, Churchill's voice voice was so important because he | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
communicated through radio. The lisp he had was something he became | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
famous for. We shall fight in the fields and in | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Something like this would automatically change his voice if | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
it was not specially designed. The key to it turned out to be leaving | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
a gap between this denture and the roof of his mouth. | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
This preserved the famous lisp. Churchill would put his thumb | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
behind them and flick them across the room. My father knew how far | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
the -- my father now how the war was going by how far the dentures | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
travelled. Your father must have been an | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
important person in Churchill's life? When my father's call-up | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
papers came, Churchill ripped them up in front of him and said, "You | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
are not going anywhere.". technology of false false teeth is | :27:30. | :27:40. | |
moving fast. Teeth are often replaced with implants. Here at | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
King's College London, they are experimenting with stem cell | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
technology that will allow us to grow human teeth instead. | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
It is obvious everybody would prefer to have their own live tooth | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
rather than something that isn't alive in the mouth. The aim is to | :27:56. | :28:06. | |
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use stem cell bioengineering to form cells that can produce a tooth. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
We can get a tooth that's growing in a mouse. In order to translate | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
that into a clinical therapy, it will take 15 to 0 years. | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
-- 20 years. Art fishal dentures aren't resigned | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
to history yet, but we are going to extraordinary lengths to keep that | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
smile. We have been inundated with | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
questions for Monty. , "Dear Monty, why do my courgettes | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
rot off when they are half grown?" This is from Sally. | :28:49. | :28:53. |