:00:18. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:23. > :00:26.Joining us tonight is Haggis, as we celebrate man's best friend. He's a
:00:26. > :00:31.law enforcer with a nose for trouble. What's he got? It looks
:00:31. > :00:34.like a card. It is a card, and that's because we're also saying
:00:34. > :00:38.congratulations to Alex on her first anniversary at The One Show.
:00:38. > :00:42.A year today. APPLAUSE
:00:43. > :00:45.Joining the celebrations is a man who was a famous woman, who is now
:00:45. > :00:49.a famous man. We're all confused. It's Paul O'Grady!
:00:49. > :00:53.APPLAUSE Good to see you. Looking very well.
:00:53. > :00:57.Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure. You went to the
:00:57. > :01:02.hairdressers specially for us. thought I'd better come in. I
:01:02. > :01:09.hadn't had my hair cut for nearly six weeks. I looked like Dusty
:01:09. > :01:15.Spinningfield. My hair grows up. On the plane coming up, the stewardess
:01:15. > :01:21.I said "Look at my Barnet." She said "It looks like you've had
:01:21. > :01:26.rollers in." While I was there I got threaded. It's painful. Do you
:01:26. > :01:30.know what it is? I've got no idea. They take cotton or dental floss
:01:30. > :01:34.and do your eyebrows. I said what's that you're doing. Oh, I'm
:01:34. > :01:39.threading. Me, you know, I'll have to have a go. I've got eyebrows
:01:39. > :01:43.like Dennis Heely, wild, out here. They've done a lovely job. That's a
:01:43. > :01:48.nice shape there. That's the first time ever, I hated to say that I've
:01:48. > :01:57.ever plucked or anything like that. Would you have it done again?
:01:57. > :02:02.was a bit... It does hurt. She's going, it doesn't hurt, does it? No,
:02:02. > :02:06.I'm self-mutilated. My eyes were red raw. That's all on eyebrows for
:02:06. > :02:09.now. Things are settling down here after last week's riots. Now people
:02:10. > :02:13.are looking for things to blame, discipline, gang culture, policing
:02:13. > :02:17.and even the hoodie. Dom Littlewood seemed like the perfect person to
:02:17. > :02:21.find out why something designed to keep your head warm has acquired
:02:21. > :02:27.such a bad reputation. The hoodie, a piece of clothing
:02:27. > :02:32.that has become a symbol of teenage menace. It's that anonymous nature
:02:32. > :02:39.of who's under the hood that has made the hoodie a desirable uniform
:02:39. > :02:42.of gang culture. Hoodie up, head down, moody, swaingering,
:02:42. > :02:50.dominating the pavement. Think what has brought that child to that
:02:51. > :02:54.moment. I've years later A hooded plague of hooded looters on the
:02:54. > :02:59.City streets. Cameron's message now spells out awe clear need for
:02:59. > :03:05.action. All-out war on gangs and gang culture. This isn't some side
:03:05. > :03:08.issue. It is a major criminal disease that has ininfected streets
:03:08. > :03:14.and estates across the country. Stamping out these gangs should be
:03:14. > :03:20.a new national priority. The humble hoodie has come a long way since
:03:20. > :03:25.being a religious or noble blem. First developed in the 1930s, it
:03:25. > :03:31.became a symbol of the underdog by way of the film Rocky. Until taken
:03:31. > :03:34.up by hip-hop artists who likened it to a cobra's hood and enjoyed
:03:34. > :03:41.the potential to intimidate. What do you think of the hoodie? I think
:03:41. > :03:45.it should be banned. For me, I hate hoodies. My son cannot wear them.
:03:45. > :03:48.No, you can't ban an item of clothing. The ban members in
:03:48. > :03:58.Scotland club each other with golf clubs, what are you going to ban
:03:58. > :04:05.them? Gavin Knight is author of the book hood rap. One gang member told
:04:05. > :04:09.me they could commit a robbery by simply wearing a hoodie. They don't
:04:09. > :04:14.even need a weapon. A lot of these estates you go on, one of the most
:04:14. > :04:18.important things is to convey you are capable of extreme violence.
:04:19. > :04:22.you think we're too quick to pigeon hole anybody with a hoodie on?
:04:22. > :04:31.the person under the hood. You can't criminalise someone through
:04:31. > :04:35.an item of clothing. I've set up an experiment, what if the hoodie
:04:35. > :04:38.wearer isn't a teenage sner I've chosen the most unlikely of rioters,
:04:38. > :04:46.Dave from the props department. Let's see if they give him the time
:04:46. > :04:50.of day. Can you tell me the time at all? Yes. Thank you very much.
:04:50. > :04:52.Thank you. Dave is only wearing a T-shirt. He's very approachable. He
:04:53. > :04:55.looks like anybody else in the street. It will be interesting to
:04:55. > :05:01.see what happens when I send him out there to do the same thing,
:05:01. > :05:07.wearing a hoodie. Have you got the time at all? Sorry. Excuse me.
:05:07. > :05:13.Sorry. A lot of people are avoiding him. If they get close to him,
:05:13. > :05:20.they're quick to get away. Excuse me, love. It's nice Dave. He's our
:05:20. > :05:24.prop man. Everybody likes Dave. Excuse me. All right. Excuse me I'm
:05:24. > :05:27.from The One Show. That gentleman came up to you and asked you for
:05:27. > :05:35.the time. What was your first reaction towards him? I was
:05:35. > :05:39.concerned to see him wearing a hood. I don't like them. Excuse me, mate.
:05:39. > :05:43.Hello, I'm from The One Show, describe to me what you thought as
:05:43. > :05:49.haeproched me? I moved straight away, I thought he was going to
:05:49. > :05:55.snatch my bag. What made you think it? The way he was dressed. Dave's
:05:55. > :05:58.64 years old. Frayed so, yeah. lady thought you were going to grab
:05:58. > :06:02.her handbag. Now I'm looking at you, you may not have. You have to be
:06:02. > :06:06.careful. It's true we all make judgments on appearances. But the
:06:06. > :06:10.hoodie strengthens our fear of what we can't see. The question is,
:06:11. > :06:19.should they be banned? You start banning items of clothing, where do
:06:19. > :06:22.you draw the line? Dave has binned his hoodie after all that. He never
:06:22. > :06:26.-- he would never grab a handbag. What do you think of all this talk
:06:27. > :06:30.of banning the hoodie? I think it's ridiculous. It's a teenage fashion.
:06:30. > :06:36.You look at fashion through the ages from the late 17th century,
:06:36. > :06:42.with the dandies. I wasn't around, I hasten to add. Then teddy boys,
:06:42. > :06:49.mods and rockers. I was a suede head in my youth. You cut your hair
:06:49. > :06:55.really close and shaved a part down the side. You had your Ben Sherman
:06:55. > :06:58.shirt on, your army grey coat. My mother used to say "You look
:06:58. > :07:02.terrifying". You were quite smart. My only objection to the hoodie is
:07:02. > :07:09.you can't see anyone's face. That's intimidating, especially for a
:07:09. > :07:13.grown man in a hoodie. It looks ridiculous. People don't put the
:07:13. > :07:17.hoodie on very often, do they. you put it up, you think what's
:07:17. > :07:21.going on. It's a bit scruffy looking as well. That's the fashion
:07:21. > :07:26.today. I think it's daft, it's punitive to say we're going to ban
:07:26. > :07:30.all these hoodies. What will they have them out dressed as Eton
:07:30. > :07:35.schoolboys. Ridiculous. When you got a bit older, you were scary as
:07:35. > :07:39.well. I was well scary. Let's have a look. What's going on there. Have
:07:40. > :07:47.you got rollers in? We had a pram race when I worked for Camden
:07:47. > :07:51.Council. Her name is Lynn in the pram. We took a gang of kids to a
:07:51. > :07:55.holiday camp outside Great Yarmouth. We had this pram. I had about nine
:07:55. > :08:01.kids. All they talked about was food. I would feed them in the
:08:01. > :08:06.morning, "What's for dinner? "I cooked constantly. St was great.
:08:06. > :08:11.That was the pram race. Because I had hair like, out here, just
:08:11. > :08:14.shoved a few soup cans in and there you goment The second instalment of
:08:14. > :08:17.your autobiography is out, The Devil Rides Out: The Second Coming,
:08:17. > :08:25.this is from 18 onwards. Through the start of the book, you had some
:08:25. > :08:30.jobs! Court clerk, what's this one? Physiotherapist aide. Yeah.
:08:30. > :08:35.Abattoir administer. I hated it. This was all before you got famous.
:08:35. > :08:42.You did have a brush with showbiz and a cheesecake, what happened?
:08:42. > :08:47.used to do catering. I'd ring them from the phone box in old Brompton
:08:47. > :08:51.Road, I only had one recipe that I'd learned along the way. She said
:08:51. > :08:55.yes. I would give them the soup and the main meal and then the dessert.
:08:55. > :08:59.That's all I could do. They thought I was marvellous. Gene Wilder was a
:08:59. > :09:05.guess at this one. I had this cheesecake, which hadn't set.
:09:05. > :09:11.flavour was it? I can't remember. Black forest. It was a big sloppy
:09:11. > :09:16.cheesecake. I slap today on the plate and he went "Paul, I thought
:09:16. > :09:23.you were a class act." You got that wrong, mate. I really enjoyed it.
:09:23. > :09:28.It was like Upstairs Downstairs. Do you remember the original oxo
:09:28. > :09:32.Casey? No. I used to do stuff for her as well. She was lovely. I got
:09:32. > :09:36.to see all these beautiful houses in Sloane Square and things. There
:09:36. > :09:40.was no envy. I didn't want to live in them because they were too big.
:09:40. > :09:47.How would you clean it? I'm like that now. I look at jumpers and say
:09:47. > :09:51.to them "Can you wash this ?" They look at you like you're mad. I'm
:09:51. > :09:55.filthy. I'd have no clothes. As a writer, you have a wonderful turn
:09:55. > :09:58.of phrase. Cheers. Even the most tragic situations, there's a
:09:58. > :10:02.sparkle there. You have to, don't you. At the time, when you're going
:10:02. > :10:10.through these dark times in your past, do you Find the Funny side of
:10:10. > :10:14.this then, or is it only looking back that you can find it? When I
:10:14. > :10:21.was working for Camden Council, you would find yourself living in a
:10:21. > :10:25.house for say six months, looking after five unruly kids. I was a
:10:25. > :10:29.very strange Mary poppins. You'd have to see the humorous side to it,
:10:29. > :10:33.otherwise you'd have gone mad. of revelations in the book. Who'd
:10:33. > :10:36.have thought you didn't get divorced until 2005. The happiest
:10:36. > :10:43.marriage in showbiz. We never spoke. I never saw her for 25 years. I
:10:43. > :10:47.used to work in a bar she was lovely, Theresa. She was a very
:10:47. > :10:53.Catholic family who were on her, when are you getting married? Come
:10:53. > :10:58.on, I'll marry you. So we did. We got married in marrow Road registry
:10:58. > :11:03.office and we had the buffet in our flat. By the time we got back, it
:11:03. > :11:06.was rock hard. There's no buffet. We went to work in the club that
:11:06. > :11:09.night. She was a good mate. It was nice to be able to do her that
:11:09. > :11:16.favour. There was no money or anything involved. It was purely a
:11:16. > :11:20.favour. The thing I loved about the book, the way you write you can
:11:20. > :11:24.visualise the characters. You feel like you know your relatives and
:11:24. > :11:29.the neighbours. How much did they influence the character of Lily.
:11:29. > :11:33.Not physically. Not in the way Lily acted. They were as honest as the
:11:33. > :11:37.day was long. They could never shoplift and they didn't drink or
:11:37. > :11:41.smoke. My Aunty Chrissie smoked. My mum never did. That side totally
:11:41. > :11:44.different. I don't know where all that came from. But it was sort of
:11:44. > :11:48.the mouth, my Aunty Chrissie had a bit of a mouth on her, you know if
:11:48. > :11:52.you crossed her, you'd get it full force. She was very, very funny.
:11:52. > :11:57.know, as the rest of the nation does, that you're a dog lover
:11:57. > :12:02.indeed. Indeed. You dedicated your book to Buster. I saw a dog in
:12:02. > :12:06.Shanghai, who is the ringer of Buster. I thought if she chains him
:12:06. > :12:09.up outside the shop, I'm going to nick it. I thought what am I going
:12:10. > :12:13.to do, I wouldn't advise it folks. How am I going to get this dog
:12:13. > :12:17.through customs. All of a sudden I missed him so much, even two years
:12:17. > :12:21.down the line. He was like, he went everywhere with me, all the tours I
:12:21. > :12:27.did. He was always in the dressing room under the sink. You know what
:12:27. > :12:30.it's like, you get so - I said goodbye to my Meg just two months
:12:30. > :12:35.ago. Isn't it heart breaking. know that you're going to
:12:35. > :12:39.appreciate this series of films about man's best friend. John
:12:39. > :12:43.Ingles investigates how dog breeds have played an important part in
:12:43. > :12:47.our own history. Tonight it's the turn of the spaniel.?. They're the
:12:47. > :12:51.sniffer dog of choice for police forces around the country. In fact
:12:51. > :12:57.spaniels have been serving us in fascinating ways for sefrplg Riz.
:12:57. > :13:01.Spaniels are amongst the oldest breeds in Britain with a long and
:13:01. > :13:04.colourful history. It's likely that the Romans first brought spaniels
:13:04. > :13:09.to Britain and their name comes from the fact they were from Spain.
:13:09. > :13:14.And that's also probably the reason there are so many spaniel breeds
:13:14. > :13:18.today. From the compact cocker over here to the largest Clumber spaniel,
:13:18. > :13:24.they were all spaniel and therefore spaniels to the Romans. They may
:13:24. > :13:28.have come from Spain originally, by the 14th century they were firmly
:13:28. > :13:33.established in British life. Chaucer referred to them in the
:13:33. > :13:36.Canterbury tales and they got a mention in Shakespeare. From early
:13:36. > :13:41.on, spaniels played an important role in our lives. One of the first
:13:41. > :13:45.spaniels to make it big in British history was one of the smallest.
:13:45. > :13:50.Today pet owners try all sorts of treatment to keep their dogs free
:13:50. > :13:54.of fleas. But in Tudor England, these toy spaniels were actually
:13:54. > :13:58.bred for the opposite reason, to keep fleas off their dirty owners.
:13:58. > :14:04.Ladies would put the dog on their lap and hope that all their fleas
:14:04. > :14:08.would jump onto the dog. Poor dogs! As personal hygiene improved, their
:14:08. > :14:14.dogs were increasingly kept as pets. Their fame was secured when they
:14:14. > :14:18.were embraced by royalty. These toy spaniels were given the name
:14:18. > :14:22.Cavalier King Charles after King Charles II. Charles grew up with
:14:22. > :14:27.toy spaniels and when he became king, he decreed that these little
:14:27. > :14:31.spaniels should be allowed to roam all the royal palaces and
:14:31. > :14:35.Parliament. And it's thought Charles was the first person to use
:14:35. > :14:41.a beware of the dog sign. Not because his dogs were dangerous,
:14:41. > :14:45.but to warn visitors to avoid treading on his small spaniels.
:14:45. > :14:52.Charles treated his dogs as pets, but other spaniels continued to
:14:52. > :14:56.develop their useful skills working as hunting dogs. This is an English
:14:56. > :15:00.springer spaniel. Even before Charles II's time, its role was to
:15:00. > :15:07.flush out game during a hunt. They would spring the birds out of the
:15:07. > :15:14.bushes, which gave the breed its name. Tony Price trains springer
:15:14. > :15:17.spaniels as gun dogs for hunting game. A lot of the job involves
:15:17. > :15:22.modifying the hunting instinct so they follow command and do exactly
:15:22. > :15:25.what's required on the shood. is a MoD rn day working day
:15:25. > :15:29.springer, he goes out on shoots hunting and flushing. He's
:15:29. > :15:34.descended from a hunting dog. They've never been bred as pets,
:15:34. > :15:38.just for hunting. Doing the same job as they've always done. What
:15:38. > :15:43.are the skill that's make the spaniel so suited for that work?
:15:43. > :15:49.Enthusiasm. He's happy doing his job and he's very trainable.
:15:49. > :15:52.springer's ability to learn quickly, to distinguish smells and its
:15:52. > :15:57.seemingly boundless energy makes it suited for another kind of work.
:15:57. > :16:01.This is police dog Haggis. He works for Surrey Police as a search dog.
:16:01. > :16:04.What kind of skills do they bring to this kind of work that makes
:16:04. > :16:08.them particularly suited? Their energy and their will to search.
:16:08. > :16:13.They can search for a very long time without a break. Whereas lab
:16:13. > :16:18.ra dorz, their noses very much, very similar to the spaniel, but
:16:19. > :16:22.they can't work for quite such a long time. Has Haggis had a good
:16:22. > :16:30.career? He's brought me a great deal of success. He searches for
:16:30. > :16:36.firearms. He does cash and also drugs as well. For �10,000 worth of
:16:36. > :16:40.cash, a load of drugs, he's been a great asset to the police. From
:16:40. > :16:45.attracting fleas to fighting crime, few other dogs have made such a
:16:45. > :16:50.colourful and varied contribution to British life as the spaniel.
:16:50. > :16:54.Haggis is here now, joined by John Best, head of dog training for
:16:54. > :16:58.Surrey police and PC Angie Goudie. There he is. John, how many
:16:58. > :17:03.spaniels do you have in the force then? Across the UK, over 500 that
:17:03. > :17:06.are all trained to search for drugs, explosives, victim recovery and the
:17:06. > :17:11.like. It's not just spaniels in the force. We saw German shepherds
:17:11. > :17:14.during the riots. What are they trained to do? Across the UK,
:17:14. > :17:18.there's over 1100 general purpose dogs. Some of them have been
:17:18. > :17:22.trained to take part in riot control, assisting the police
:17:22. > :17:27.support units or trying to keep the crowd away from the police officers.
:17:27. > :17:32.We talked a bit about it in the film, but Haggis has had amazing
:17:32. > :17:36.drug busts. Yes, he has. He's had fantastic finds. Some have been
:17:36. > :17:41.cannabis factories, Class A, over �10,000 worth of cash in Class B
:17:41. > :17:45.drugs as well. These finds, it's great to get the big finds, but the
:17:45. > :17:52.things that stand out to me are the smaller finds, that you think how
:17:52. > :17:55.on earth did that dog manage that. Pineapple, steering wheels.
:17:55. > :17:59.Absolutely. We have a sniffer test for you in a little while. You can
:17:59. > :18:03.smell them already. On that point, despite many of our best known High
:18:04. > :18:08.Street shops going to the wall, one industry is literally making loads
:18:08. > :18:14.of dough. Even with the dip, Greggs are still making huge profits.
:18:14. > :18:19.There's a knew baker in town, Pound Bakery. It's turning into a battle
:18:19. > :18:23.for flour power. It's a familiar High Street scene, rows of empty
:18:23. > :18:27.fronts with the odd bank and charity shop dominating. Where many
:18:27. > :18:37.big names have struggled, one retailer is doing very tastily,
:18:37. > :18:37.
:18:38. > :18:45.thank you very much. From humble beginnings in the 30s,
:18:45. > :18:48.selling products from the back of a van, Greggs now has an incredible
:18:48. > :18:52.1500 outlets. Their strategy of low prices delivers big profits. More
:18:52. > :18:55.than �50 million last year. challenge over the last three years
:18:55. > :19:00.has really been trying to help customers to make their money go as
:19:00. > :19:03.far as possible. We've been able to do that, at the same time growing
:19:03. > :19:09.profitably. Already Britain's biggest bakery chain, Greggs plan
:19:09. > :19:14.to add another 600 stores. That means company mascot Sid the
:19:14. > :19:19.sausage roll will have his work cut out.
:19:19. > :19:25.# Let's make lots of... Money # Especially as there's now a rival
:19:25. > :19:29.on the High Street. Greggs plan to swalle an even bigger bite of the
:19:29. > :19:39.baked goods market is being undercut by a cheaper rival. You've
:19:39. > :19:41.
:19:42. > :19:45.heard of pound shops, welcome Pound It's a bakery shop that sells
:19:46. > :19:50.everything for a pound. Your first shop was opened 12 months ago. How
:19:50. > :19:55.many shops have you got now? we've opened since then. 36 shops
:19:55. > :20:02.in one year. That's phenomenal. know. Those shops never seem to be
:20:02. > :20:05.that far away from Greggs. Recession busting prices... It's
:20:05. > :20:08.quite aggressive marketing techniques here. We like to be
:20:08. > :20:13.quirky. That's what you've got to do. It is tough on the High Street.
:20:13. > :20:16.That's why we came up with Pound Bakery. Currently based in the
:20:16. > :20:22.North West, Pound Bakery plan to open another 50 stores in the next
:20:22. > :20:26.12 months. Enjoy your sausage rolls. People our age, you've got to watch
:20:26. > :20:33.the pennies. They're very nice. Nice and fresh. The muffins are
:20:33. > :20:37.very good. I used to go to Greggs and I noticed - no, I shouldn't say
:20:37. > :20:44.that. I think they put the prices down a bit. Here in Hyde, that
:20:44. > :20:48.seems to be the case. In Manchester, a Greggs meat and potato pie is
:20:48. > :20:53.�1.20, here they're 99p for two. think what's very interesting about
:20:53. > :20:56.the bakery world as a whole is if you were to look in Greggs today,
:20:56. > :20:59.more than a third of the products are already less than a pound. It's
:20:59. > :21:02.important for customers it's not just about the price, they also
:21:02. > :21:06.want to know they've got great quality and that the ingredients
:21:06. > :21:11.that go into the food they can really trust. It's a really good
:21:11. > :21:15.quality product. We all-a barringin and everyone's tightening their
:21:15. > :21:18.belts. We will have to loosen our belts because of the pasties we're
:21:18. > :21:22.consuming. Should the health issue be the bakery's responsibility.
:21:22. > :21:25.More important is doing what the customers want. They want a great
:21:25. > :21:28.tasting pasty. They want comfort food. That's what we do. The
:21:28. > :21:32.customer is making that choice. The information is there for them if
:21:32. > :21:36.they want it. I'm always a bit dubious about what's in a pasty.
:21:36. > :21:40.You're salivating at that. That's made me hungry. It has. It's the
:21:40. > :21:44.smell of these. You may be wondering, why do they have pies in
:21:44. > :21:50.front of them. What's your favourite filling Paul? You've
:21:50. > :21:55.triggered my memory. I love it when I go to South Wales, corned beef
:21:55. > :22:01.pie. I went for corned beef, you chose that. I went for steak and
:22:01. > :22:05.ale. This is mince and potatoes and carrot. I don't like gristle. Oh,
:22:05. > :22:08.Sweeney Todd. We have been having a debate about who has the tastiest
:22:08. > :22:18.pie. We couldn't make the decision. We have Haggis here to make the
:22:18. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:29.decision for us. Let's release Haggis. Come on. Come here. Haggis.
:22:29. > :22:35.It's the corned beef. He's a Welsh enthusiast as well. He hasn't gone
:22:35. > :22:39.near mine. That's good. I can take it home to eat it. I'm the same
:22:40. > :22:43.with steak and ale. He's committed to the corned beef. Don't eat it,
:22:43. > :22:50.because I'm taking it home for me tea. He's lick today. Blow it, it
:22:50. > :22:54.will be fine. Now it's time for Ruth Goodman to sniff out a
:22:54. > :22:59.settlement that's six centuries older than Stonehenge.
:22:59. > :23:03.The idea of lost civilisations conjures up images of abandoned
:23:03. > :23:07.ruins like the Valley of the Kings or Pompey. What many people don't
:23:07. > :23:14.realise is we have one of our own to rival anything in the world here
:23:14. > :23:18.off the tip of mainland Britain. Hidden on the Orkney islands for
:23:18. > :23:24.almost 5,000 years, it was dramatically brought to light
:23:24. > :23:28.during a violent storm in 1850, which ripped open the hill it had
:23:28. > :23:35.lain buried in. Very little is known about the people who built it,
:23:35. > :23:40.six centuries before Stonehenge was erected. We know Skara Brae is
:23:40. > :23:43.Europe's most intact village. Because of the lack of timber on
:23:43. > :23:50.the islands everything had to be built from stone, which is why so
:23:50. > :23:53.much survives today. But Stone Age certainly does not mean cave man.
:23:53. > :23:57.This was a sophisticated society, with the village built over a
:23:57. > :24:00.system of drains, more than 3,000 years before the Romans were
:24:00. > :24:05.supposed to have brought plumbing to Britain. And all the houses are
:24:05. > :24:10.built to the same plan. The focus of the house is the hearth that
:24:10. > :24:13.sits in the centre. There's the dresser, which is the most
:24:13. > :24:16.prominent feature, that you see when you come in the door. Then
:24:16. > :24:20.these beds, possibly? That's right. You could get quite a lot of people
:24:21. > :24:24.in this space. You could. This sort of space is actually much better
:24:24. > :24:28.than many of the Victorian working- class houses I've been in. How many
:24:28. > :24:34.of these houses were there in the village? About half a dozen
:24:34. > :24:38.contemporary in the vimage that we have excavated. The Skara Brae
:24:38. > :24:43.village is bigger out to the back. We don't know how much we've lost
:24:43. > :24:47.to the sea at the front. House seven is the most in tact. It's
:24:47. > :24:50.normally off limits to the public, but we've been granted special
:24:50. > :24:58.permission by historic Scotland to film inside. This is no ordinary
:24:58. > :25:02.house. There is a burial of two ladies under that bed. Not only
:25:02. > :25:07.that, but the door here can be controlled from the outside. So you
:25:07. > :25:12.could be closed in this house. We've no real idea what this house
:25:12. > :25:17.was used for. This might be some form of cult house or a place where
:25:17. > :25:21.dangerous things happen. Perhaps it's a house for men struewaigs or
:25:21. > :25:25.for women to come off child birth. This is a complicated culture.
:25:25. > :25:30.get the feeling that you wouldn't be wanting to step out of line in
:25:30. > :25:34.this society. The Orkney islands may seem remote to southerners. In
:25:34. > :25:38.neolithic times this was a major hub for sea traffic. Also the soil
:25:38. > :25:46.here is very fertile and is still highly valued for its lush cattle
:25:46. > :25:50.grazing today. Rising sea levels and increased coastal erosion is
:25:50. > :25:54.threatening Orkney's ark logical treasures. When it was first built
:25:54. > :25:59.Skara Brae was over a mile from the sea and all this we can see in
:25:59. > :26:04.front of us was fields and then reed beds and marshes going out to
:26:04. > :26:09.the loch. In the 1920s half of this house here fell into the sea and
:26:09. > :26:14.this sea wall had to be put up to protect the rest of the village.
:26:14. > :26:18.But erosion beyond the wall continues unabated. Every site is
:26:18. > :26:21.unique. It's a permanent loss. You can't recreate it. Quarter of the
:26:21. > :26:26.tourists that come here say they come here because of the orkology.
:26:26. > :26:32.This is the support for a rural economy. We have to look after it.
:26:32. > :26:36.There's a saying if you scratch Orkney it bleeds archaeology. On a
:26:36. > :26:40.nearby island Steve and his team are desperately recording what's
:26:40. > :26:47.left of another recently revealed settlement. It dates to the Iron
:26:48. > :26:52.Age. We know from the sample we took, it's a date from zero to
:26:53. > :26:57.100AD. On the other side we've got the remains of a Norse hull. That
:26:57. > :27:02.gives us a date of 1100. We have about a thousand years of history
:27:02. > :27:06.all sort of stacked up. The sea presumably is taking it aI wai.
:27:06. > :27:11.sea has taken an enormous amount of the site away. Wobbly next year
:27:11. > :27:14.this may not be here. The Orkney islands are home to some of the
:27:14. > :27:19.world's greatest ancient monuments. Yets every year more and more is
:27:19. > :27:23.being lost to the sea. Much of it without ever being
:27:23. > :27:27.officially recorded and should it carry on unchecked, for more
:27:27. > :27:32.reasons than one, this will be a price the Orcadians can't afford to
:27:32. > :27:36.pay. Absolutely beautiful. Talking of
:27:36. > :27:41.settlements, you have a new addition to your farm. He's a big
:27:41. > :27:46.lad now Winston. He was the lamb who got thrown in the wheelie bin
:27:46. > :27:50.in Manchester. I said I'll have him. You've adopted him. He's huge. He's
:27:50. > :27:55.on the bottle. He comes up screaming. I better give him a
:27:55. > :28:00.bottle, shut him up. How does he get on with the owl? He doesn't go
:28:00. > :28:04.near him or the other sheep. They're like concubines in the sun.
:28:04. > :28:09.He hasn't twiged he's a sheep yet. He loves human company. He's like a
:28:09. > :28:18.dog, follows me everywhere. Brilliant. Now one more thing, do
:28:18. > :28:24.you recognise this theme tune. Cagney & Lacey. It is. You're a
:28:24. > :28:27.fan? I know them quite well, Sharon and Tyne. What's the connection?
:28:27. > :28:33.They came on the show for my birthday. We got paly and we went
:28:33. > :28:38.out. I have to say Sharon is lovely. Give her my love tomorrow. And tell
:28:38. > :28:42.her, if she wants another dinner, she's on. You could stay here until
:28:42. > :28:46.tomorrow. I was going to say. It's a bit of a trek for me. There's a
:28:46. > :28:51.nice bed there, do you mind? sit down there. We have Sharon