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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.

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Let's paint a picture of our guest tonight.

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He's an Oscar nominated, Emmy-award winning actor who's

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starred in The Devil Wears Prada, The Lovely Bones

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And in his latest film he's recreated the true story of renowned

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artist Giacometti painstakingly painting his final portrait...

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Actually, Dave, that's not too bad for a first go!

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Welcome, Stanley. And good job, Dave. Sit down.

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Welcome, Stanley - have you ever actually sat

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Yes, a long time ago. My dad was an artist and I sat with the friend of

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his when I was seven. Did you sit still for all that I'm? As far as I

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know, but he was a fast painter! We will talk about your latest project,

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obviously a passion of yours if you dad was an artist.

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Your new film Final Portrait which looks

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at the relationship between a portrait artist

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Which got us thinking, we'd like to see

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If someone in your family - maybe your children -

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have drawn portraits of you and your loved ones,

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Maybe they're stuck on your fridge, maybe they're in their schoolbooks,

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take a photo of them and send them to the usual address and we'll show

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Over the weekend Barack Obama said that, "People must learn to hate,

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and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."

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That was of course in response to the awful events which unfolded

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at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,

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Well, here are two people in the UK who are living proof that such

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There is always an anti-British anti-forces sentiment from the

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Muslims. Sharia law cutting people's Hans off, abominable. I joined them

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and they gave me a chance to make a difference. The EDL. Father of six

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from Suffolk was recruited by the far right group that includes

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defence league back in 2009. I shared a video on Facebook... The

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video prompted Ivan to post an angry message online and within minutes

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the EDL contacted him and asked him to join. What was the feeling like

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at your first EDL meeting? It was amazing, really, I had found a place

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I belong. It also gave him the opportunity to confront Muslims who

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he saw as the enemy, people like this man. I was seen as the pioneer

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of recruiting people to fight for Islamic State in the UK. Manwar

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attended training camps and even fought in the front line. I thought

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myself and I wanted others to die fighting for the cause of God. When

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Manwar was rumoured to be setting up a new mosque in Ipswich, Ivan

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decided to challenge him face-to-face. Things can't go on as

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they are. Britain is becoming more and more divided. I'm not going to

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stand for this any more. But when Ivan finally met Manwar their two

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worlds collided in an unexpected way. There is only one way to deal

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with our Muslim brothers. Hello, you made it. Great. And that is with

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respect. It came to meet them both, firstly to find out how they became

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best friends, and how their friendship is helping in the fight

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against extremism. This is the reason I met Manwar, this church, it

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was to become a mask... It turned out he wasn't setting up a mosque

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but a community centre for everyone. He turned his back on his extremist

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views in 2000 and was now determined to engage with the far right. -- in

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2000 and he was now determined. I wanted to understand that, and a lot

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is through ignorance, not understanding and mixing with other

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people, so I wanted to mix with so-called problematic people like

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the EDL. I have met Manwar and other Muslims who challenged my views, and

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I was able to challenge my misguided hate. Ivan was inspired by Manwar

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and soon left the EDL and now the two men are working with others to

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help them change their behaviour as well, through the Government

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strategy Prevent. Introduced in 2003, Prevent has two main aims. To

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get the public to report any extremist behaviour, and to educate

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people about the dangers of radicalisation. Today, Manwar and

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Ivan are talking to a group of young people in Watford. Yes, there is a

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problem. There are people out there who feed on your prejudices and a

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lack of knowledge. Now I am working for the police and the provision to

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stop people being terrorists. If you don't talk to anybody there will

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always be a problem. But can this really work and has it made a

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difference? Since 2012 the strategy has intervened in 1000 cases

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involving people at high risk of radicalisation. During the period of

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the Manchester, London Bridge and Finsbury Park attacks, the number of

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tip-offs made by the public has doubled. However in a society

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already full of mistrust, encouraging people to report on each

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other has been branded toxic by some opponents. Will people feel like

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they are just being spied on? How can you avoid that? It is all about

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trying to protect people from being exploited, because they are

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vulnerable. Being a recruiter myself, I know very well how these

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things work in terms of getting people radicalised. Had Manwar not

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stepped in, Ivan may never have seen the opposite view. That is why they

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believe this kind of early intervention and education can make

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a difference. Five years ago I would never have thought that, do you know

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what I mean? It has been amazing. And really it has just started.

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On that note, let's hope that's the start of us hearing many

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It is very hopeful, that film. Stanley, when you see the country

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you grew up on the news, what do you think when you see those images? I

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am very saddened, sad and there is an administration that is not

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stepping up to the plate immediately. And saying, what is

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wrong with this? And also in some ways, well, and lots of ways,

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allowing it to happen, and in some ways encouraging it to happen. It is

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unfortunate. That conversation we saw there is the key. Communication,

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isn't it? Stanley, let's talk about your new

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film which you wrote and directed - it's the story of the final portrait

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of Swiss-Italian painter Giacometti. It's based on the memoirs

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of his final subject, You've taken a snapshot of a time

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in Giacometti's life, You are a big fan of him as an

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artist. So what was the idea, why choose that format? The film is

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based on a book by Lord Brittan in 1964 which was just a couple of

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years before Giacometti died. -- a book by Lord written in 1964. I

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called it Final Portrait to make it more dramatic, the title. But the

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idea is he documents 18 days of sitting for Giacometti and their

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conversations. To me it is the greatest book ever written about the

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creative process. I have carried it around with me since I was in my

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early 20s and finally got up... Really? Right? 67 years ago.

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LAUGHTER He wasn't sure for a minute. I was

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just thinking, carrying it around for that amount of time, wide and is

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only come to fruition now? It took something to get the rights of it

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from Lord, then it took a couple of years to write it, then a decade to

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get the money for it. So you have gotten to know Lord. How did all

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that but? Is saved all the correspondence, the old airmail

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letters, those crispy pieces of paper -- how did it all come about?

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He was a bit of a curmudgeon but after a while I got him to give me

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the rights. You were pen pals and eventually he gave? Yes, then we

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would have dinner together. Is he still around? He died in 2009, so it

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has been a long time. We will have a little look at the film now.

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Let's take a look at the moment James Lord sits for Giacometti

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You have the head of the brute. Gee, thanks. You look like a real thug.

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Thank you. If I was to paint you as I see you now and a policeman was to

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see this painting, they would be crawling jail like that. Perhaps we

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shouldn't continue. No, it is all right. As long as I can paint you as

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I see you. Are you sure? Of course. It is impossible.

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APPLAUSE There we are. Geoffrey Rush is such

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a fantastic actor and the resemblance between him and

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Giacometti is uncanny. That must have been part of the reason he was

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cast in the role. Without question, without question. And then Geoffrey

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is just a great actor. He's brilliant! This is the first film,

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or the first time you have directed a film you're not actually in? Why

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did you not put yourself in this? Is it a taste of things to come for

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you? I hope so. I felt the film would suffer in some way. I really

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wanted to focus on the film as a whole and really look at the picture

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as a whole and not have to worry about getting back into Maycock, is

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my beard or moustache following off, that of thing -- back into make-up.

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Was it a relief, just doing one job as opposed to all of them? Yes, and

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you get to pick up a little later. It was great. It is based in Paris

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but it was filmed in London, not Paris, and that was handy for you?

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LAUGHTER Yes, we filmed here not to make it

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convenient for me, but because we couldn't really afford to film in

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Paris. So we had a week and a half of locations. Whereabouts were you?

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All over this is the Royal Navy Academy College in Greenwich. We

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shot in Bermondsey, north London, all over the place. You would never

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know. No, and a lot of it is CGI and it is actually cheaper for a small

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film these days to do some CGI than actually go to the place. Stanley,

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you have carried this around for so long and now is out there. How much

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of a relief, how pleased you? It is very much a relief, and sometimes I

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am pleased with it. LAUGHTER

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Well, everybody can decide because it is out on Friday in cinemas. As a

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Hollywood actor and director, we would be very interested to know

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what you think about this next film. It has been here all day long and

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now came for you to cross your legs for the next four minutes and do

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your best to stay with us. Here we go. I knew I should have crossed my

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legs. I have missed the ending now. What happens? Does the hero succeed?

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Does the girl get the boy? Bursting for at pee in the middle of a

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gripping movie can really ruin your entertainment, and when things start

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to get uncomfortable decision has to be made, do you go for a comfort

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break and risk missing that all-important plotline, or do you

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just hang on? Well, luckily, there is a new app to help relieve you of

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that, and it is called run-pee, and when you want to go you just pop it

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in your pocket, so when it vibrates during the movie you can safely go

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for a break without messing an essential part of the film. What

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happens if you get a quarter halfway through and you need to go to the

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toilet? What is your strategy? We wait. We don't want to miss

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anything. I hold it. I wait until there is a part that doesn't seem to

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dramatic and then I go to the toilet and comeback. The app is part of

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many such apps that could help cinemagoers have stress-free

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experience. I would like to find out more about your app? It came when I

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was watching Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong and I really wished I

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had it back then, more than three hours long. How does the app know

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the best time to run out for pee? We have a time and we try to find the

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best pee times we can for each movie. Let the user know if this is

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a good pee time, which pee time is the best in the movie, in case they

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have a chance to decide. Often times your bladder chooses which pee time

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you use. Thing to put it to test... This will allow you to go at the

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opportune moment and not lose any sleep about missing the rest of the

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film. Sound good? Sounds good. It works a bit like a film review.

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There are cue-mac pee times in Atomic Blonde, but it advises

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against going in the second break because there are so many

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characters. I wouldn't have left, it was that good. Suit you had no need

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to use the app? Let's take Dunkirk. One hour and 48 minutes long. It

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says here it is one long battle scene with only a brief moment of

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dialogue. The two pee times during four minutes of frantic fighting

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with no dialogue. I came to my weeing, which I don't think I have

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ever done! Vibrated and I thought, good, I can go to the toilet now.

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I'm allowed! All in all it seems like a pretty good app, you can go

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to the toilet and not miss any key content, it is not causing a

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distraction in your pocket, and it is freezer you don't even have to

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spend a penny. And dangerous territory, ladies and gentlemen!

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Stanley and I are not up for this. It is a terrible idea. Nothing could

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be worse for cinema. Nothing. Just hold it excite go before the film.

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It is part of the routine, isn't it? Have a very small drink, nu go.

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LAUGHTER -- in you go. Let's go back to safer

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territory. Stanley, you are obviously into art, because of the

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film, but not all art is as good as a Giacometti masterpiece. I don't

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know if you have seen this on the news recently, this courtroom sketch

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of Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift? Attracting a lot of attention over

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the last few days, saying it looks nothing like. But it was under...

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Anyway. Under duress? LAUGHTER

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There are lots of examples where the picture does not look like the

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person, so we have some portraits that fans have drawn of different

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celebrities. We wondered if you could guess who

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they are. Here is the first. That is Meryl Streep. But she needs to go to

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a dentist. It is Meryl! It is not horrendous. Not the most flattering.

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This is more difficult. That looks like Daniel Craig in drag. This

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person is 27 years old. The Hunger Games. Is that Jennifer? It's

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supposed to be. It is Jennifer Lawrence. We are going to be looking

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at some of your portraits later. Are you an artist yourself? I sketch and

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stuff. And do you have your own work up at home? Some of it. You have

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gone a bit shy. It is that thing of actually showing people and saying,

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that's mine. It is scary sometimes. Before the summer break, we revealed

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that according to statistics provided to us by Deloitte, 15.5

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million of us think that we use mobile phones too much. So using

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your suggestions on how to achieve a better phone-life balance, we have

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put together The One Show phone plan, and we asked the family from

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Bolton to put it to the test. Here is how they got on. Like many

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families up and down the country, the Farnworth family from Bolton in

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Lancashire were worried that their phone use was getting out of hand. I

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just don't know where it's going. And when we asked them to monitor

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their mobile use over one weekend, the results were shocking. You spent

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32 hours on your phone. So to help us all achieve a better phone-life

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balance, we asked you viewers to come up with suggestions on what to

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do. The first person to use their phone does family chores for a week.

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The Farnworths agreed to be our guinea pigs and test out The One

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Show plan for a week, but not everyone in the family was looking

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forward to giving it a go. And like last time, we gave them a video

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camera so they could capture their experiences. It is the Farnworth

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family's turned to see if we can reduce our mobile phone usage by

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sticking to Alex Riley and the BBC's One Show viewerss' phone plan.

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Mealtimes used to be like this. So viewers suggested banning the phone

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from the dinner table. Guys, lunchtime. Phone, please. Thank you.

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I would be the easiest rule on the phone plan to stick to is not having

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your phone at mealtimes. It's time to catch up with what everybody has

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been doing in the day. What are you doing? Reading the news. The

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Farnworth family is notorious for their nocturnal smartphone

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activities. To stop this, one suggestion was to have a central

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charging point, and to not take your phones to bed. The charter point has

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been a difficult one. Not taking them to bed, they have improved, but

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still a way to go. Jacob Farnworth is on his phone. When did this phone

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appear at the side of your bed? I don't know. Jacob's biggest vice was

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ignoring the world around him, including some important traffic

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laws. Jacob! But this seems to be one phone plan suggestion he has

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stuck by. He has his hands in his pockets, no sign of a phone. Have

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you got your phone? No. Fantastic! I have actually improved in not

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looking at it while walking. Grace is a social media addict, spending

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up to six hours a day on Snapchat alone. You feel like you are doing

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more on your phone than in reality. How did she get on when forced into

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some real-life FaceTime? Hello? I was wondering if you would like to

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meet up for a drink at about 11? All right, bye. How is the phone plan

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going? It's going all right, but parts are difficult. We have two

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lead our phones at night at the central charging point. It was nice

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to catch up with people in person, even though we generally use

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messaging most of the time. The other one I hate this Sunday, when

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I'm not allowed my phone at all. Which brings us to their final

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challenge, spending a whole day without using their phones. It is

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phone free Sunday. I have just taken the children's phone from their

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bedrooms. And as I picked one up, I noticed that somebody hasn't turned

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off their notifications, Jacob Farnworth. The hardest thing is

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Switch Off Sunday. It is the willpower not to use your phone,

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because it's still there. Do we need to lock it away? Yeah. But this

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time, after some arm-twisting, all the family rose to the occasion.

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It's brilliant when we get rid of them. We have had much better

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quality family time. Hopefully, we can take some of the points and

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embed them in. It will be better in the future. Well, the Farnworth

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family join us now in the studio, along with Alex, who has the

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all-important results. Let's give them applause for doing it. Good

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work, team. The applause could be premature. But for the effort, yes.

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The effort varied between family members. Grace and Jacob first.

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Grace went from five hours six minutes a day to around four hours

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and 17 minutes a day. That is not much. Where did it go wrong? I don't

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know. What about since we have finished the measuring? We went

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away, and that was when it really improved. Because you couldn't get

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the internet. You were on a ship, weren't you? Let's move on to Jacob.

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Jacob went from three hours 54 minutes a day to around three hours

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19 minutes a day. That is just a bad day, not an improvement. Shouldn't

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you have tried harder? Probably come but... Luckily for the Farnworths,

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the parents better. Mum and dad, Lindsay went from using the phone

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from 11 hours a week to six hours 22 minutes a week. Well done. Have you

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changed your life? Definitely. More time for shopping and ladies who

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lunch and watching telly. Very nice. John, the winner, went from 18 hours

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40 minutes a week to eight hours 43 minutes a week, a drop of ten hours.

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What was the secret? I followed the One Show phone plan, particularly

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the notifications and the central charging point. So you didn't have

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it in the bedroom. And you didn't get distracted and carry on looking

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at things. So in general, what worked and what are you going to

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stick with? I think unplugging the wi-fi in the evening. What time do

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you unplug that? 11 o'clock in the holiday. We need that when we go

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back to school. We will need to offer that when they go back to

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school. Having the central charge point has been good. Not having

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phones at mealtimes, particularly when you go out dining. You see

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people out on their phones and it's terrible. And lots more phone free

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date nights. Many elements of the plan are about trying to engage with

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the people in front of you. You said that you enjoyed mealtimes, because

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you all put the phones in a central place and you were able to talk and

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interact. It's bizarre that we have come to this, though, where you need

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to put the mobiles down in order to interact. Where do you stand,

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Stanley? You have come to this fresh tonight. Are you on board with the

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fact that people use their mobiles too much? Without a doubt. I would

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love to go back to the time when we didn't have them. Except for when

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you get lost. We don't allow them at the table in our house. I love your

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very expensive solution you were telling us about. Yes, my kids went

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to Namibia on a charity thing and they didn't have their phones and

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access to stuff for a month. That's the way to do it. Send your children

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to Namibia. And if you can't find the money to send your children to

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Namibia, keep mealtimes mobile free. Don't take phones to bed. That is

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such a big thing. I don't do that. But your husband takes it to the

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smallest room in the house and watches telly on that. We are still

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in debate about that. And meet people instead of messaging. Have an

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interaction in the real world instead of the virtual world. Across

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the whole week, 32 hours were on the phone before they did the plan. Now,

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it's been reduced to just under nine hours. Pretty impressive. And that

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is down to mobile free Sunday, of course. Even so, it is a significant

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improvement. Jacob and Grace, you get to do The One Show phone plan

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for another week! Not really. Thanks for being our guinea pigs. It's been

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lovely to meet you. Now, back in May, we revealed the school who won

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a garden direct from the Chelsea Flower Show. Now it's time to see

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whether it has successfully gone from grey to green.

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Earlier this year, The One Show asked you to nominate community

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spaces around the UK that could use greening up. With this garden from

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the royal horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show. This is the

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place it is about to transform, a primary school in Swansea. Since the

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school was built two years ago, staff and pupils have been desperate

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to transform this empty courtyard, almost entirely grey and with clear

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potential to benefit hundreds, the school was selected from a short

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list of suggestions in May by RHS chief horticulturalist Guy and

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garden designer Nigel Danek. Today, head teacher Alison Bastin is

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overseeing the final preparations for planting. We moved into this

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building two years ago with the hope that we would have lots of green

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spaces, but we were just left with a great piece of tarmac. So the hope

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was always for some kind of green space. The whole school revolves

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around this courtyard. Everybody can see it, so we were hoping to create

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a calm area where children can learn about plants and have a place to sit

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and reflect and read. This has been our vision and we can't believe the

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dream has become a reality. With the plans coming off the trucks and

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pupils and staff getting to work, I'm catching up with a guy, who has

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been tweaking the design of the garden to fit the school's

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courtyard. All the elements, we have carried over, except the water

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features. It is probably a question of safety for children. There is

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that. The courtyard also has tarmac underneath and we didn't want to dig

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into the tarmac in case we damaged essential services like the

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electricity and gas. So everything has to go on top. Show me the plan

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for the courtyard and tell me how you are overcoming the tarmac

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challenge. The first thing we did was to build raised beds. We have

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mass edges for children to sit on. One of the innovations at the

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Chelsea garden was an edible table, so we brought that along, but also

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these insect hotels. Well going to replicate those. Do you feel you

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have captured the spirit of this Chelsea garden and made it work here

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at Burlais primary school? Yes, I do. The space will only fit a

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quarter of the plans and there are loads left over for the rest of the

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school grounds, but for now, it's time to get plenty that courtyard,

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with a few pointers from Guy. What do you think of that? Make it a bit

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higher. Time to get stuck in. Max, tell me what you and your brother

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are doing. We are digging a hole to put the plant in. Do you do any

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gardening at home? I water the flowers. What will it feel like when

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you look out of the window and see? When I am sad, I will look out of

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the window and feel happy. Is by Spieth, the garden is taking root in

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Swansea. The garden is looking fantastic. Give me a big cheer if

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you are proud of your achievements. Yes! Our wonderful school has a

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beautiful garden and I think the children will thrive. How do you

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think this garden will make everyone at the school field? Happy.

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Delighted. Words can't describe it. It's a real transformation. And we

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met some of the pupils at the Chelsea Flower Show, so hello to you

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all if you are watching. There will be back at school seemed to enjoy

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the garden. We ask you for your portraits earlier and we have had

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loads. Let's start with one of yours, Stanley. This is my

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favourite. These are family portraits. It is by a

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three-year-old. They never draw a body, they just draw legs and a

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head. These are the arms, but they look like dumbbells. And whose work

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is that? This is mine. No. It is a portrait of Katie and her husband,

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drawn by their son Charlie. Digby 87 drew this picture of his damn

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parents, Mimi and pop are, in front of their favourite window. Jenny

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sent this one in. It is her five-year-old granddaughter who did

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it. She has given her supermodel legs. This one here is Ali's nephew

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Leo who drew this of his dad, who loves coffee. So the coffee cup is

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as big as the person! On that note, you can put the kettle on because

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that's all we've got time for. Stanley's film is out on Friday.

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Tomorrow, Gabby Logan and I will be joined by Ronnie Wood. See you then.

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Bye-bye.

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