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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Joining us tonight is Haggis, as we celebrate man's best friend. He's a | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
law enforcer with a nose for trouble. What's he got? It looks | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
like a card. It is a card, and that's because we're also saying | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
congratulations to Alex on her first anniversary at The One Show. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
A year today. APPLAUSE | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Joining the celebrations is a man who was a famous woman, who is now | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
a famous man. We're all confused. It's Paul O'Grady! | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
APPLAUSE Good to see you. Looking very well. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure. You went to the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
hairdressers specially for us. thought I'd better come in. I | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
hadn't had my hair cut for nearly six weeks. I looked like Dusty | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Spinningfield. My hair grows up. On the plane coming up, the stewardess | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
I said "Look at my Barnet." She said "It looks like you've had | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
rollers in." While I was there I got threaded. It's painful. Do you | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
know what it is? I've got no idea. They take cotton or dental floss | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
and do your eyebrows. I said what's that you're doing. Oh, I'm | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
threading. Me, you know, I'll have to have a go. I've got eyebrows | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
like Dennis Heely, wild, out here. They've done a lovely job. That's a | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
nice shape there. That's the first time ever, I hated to say that I've | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
ever plucked or anything like that. Would you have it done again? | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
was a bit... It does hurt. She's going, it doesn't hurt, does it? No, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
I'm self-mutilated. My eyes were red raw. That's all on eyebrows for | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
now. Things are settling down here after last week's riots. Now people | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
are looking for things to blame, discipline, gang culture, policing | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
and even the hoodie. Dom Littlewood seemed like the perfect person to | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
find out why something designed to keep your head warm has acquired | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
such a bad reputation. The hoodie, a piece of clothing | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
that has become a symbol of teenage menace. It's that anonymous nature | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
of who's under the hood that has made the hoodie a desirable uniform | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
of gang culture. Hoodie up, head down, moody, swaingering, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
dominating the pavement. Think what has brought that child to that | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
moment. I've years later A hooded plague of hooded looters on the | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
City streets. Cameron's message now spells out awe clear need for | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
action. All-out war on gangs and gang culture. This isn't some side | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
issue. It is a major criminal disease that has ininfected streets | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
and estates across the country. Stamping out these gangs should be | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
a new national priority. The humble hoodie has come a long way since | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
being a religious or noble blem. First developed in the 1930s, it | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
became a symbol of the underdog by way of the film Rocky. Until taken | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
up by hip-hop artists who likened it to a cobra's hood and enjoyed | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the potential to intimidate. What do you think of the hoodie? I think | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
it should be banned. For me, I hate hoodies. My son cannot wear them. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
No, you can't ban an item of clothing. The ban members in | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Scotland club each other with golf clubs, what are you going to ban | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
them? Gavin Knight is author of the book hood rap. One gang member told | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
me they could commit a robbery by simply wearing a hoodie. They don't | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
even need a weapon. A lot of these estates you go on, one of the most | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
important things is to convey you are capable of extreme violence. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
you think we're too quick to pigeon hole anybody with a hoodie on? | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
the person under the hood. You can't criminalise someone through | :04:22. | :04:31. | |
an item of clothing. I've set up an experiment, what if the hoodie | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
wearer isn't a teenage sner I've chosen the most unlikely of rioters, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Dave from the props department. Let's see if they give him the time | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
of day. Can you tell me the time at all? Yes. Thank you very much. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Thank you. Dave is only wearing a T-shirt. He's very approachable. He | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
looks like anybody else in the street. It will be interesting to | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
see what happens when I send him out there to do the same thing, | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
wearing a hoodie. Have you got the time at all? Sorry. Excuse me. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Sorry. A lot of people are avoiding him. If they get close to him, | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
they're quick to get away. Excuse me, love. It's nice Dave. He's our | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
prop man. Everybody likes Dave. Excuse me. All right. Excuse me I'm | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
from The One Show. That gentleman came up to you and asked you for | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the time. What was your first reaction towards him? I was | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
concerned to see him wearing a hood. I don't like them. Excuse me, mate. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Hello, I'm from The One Show, describe to me what you thought as | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
haeproched me? I moved straight away, I thought he was going to | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
snatch my bag. What made you think it? The way he was dressed. Dave's | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
64 years old. Frayed so, yeah. lady thought you were going to grab | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
her handbag. Now I'm looking at you, you may not have. You have to be | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
careful. It's true we all make judgments on appearances. But the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
hoodie strengthens our fear of what we can't see. The question is, | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
should they be banned? You start banning items of clothing, where do | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
you draw the line? Dave has binned his hoodie after all that. He never | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
-- he would never grab a handbag. What do you think of all this talk | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
of banning the hoodie? I think it's ridiculous. It's a teenage fashion. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
You look at fashion through the ages from the late 17th century, | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
with the dandies. I wasn't around, I hasten to add. Then teddy boys, | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
mods and rockers. I was a suede head in my youth. You cut your hair | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
really close and shaved a part down the side. You had your Ben Sherman | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
shirt on, your army grey coat. My mother used to say "You look | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
terrifying". You were quite smart. My only objection to the hoodie is | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
you can't see anyone's face. That's intimidating, especially for a | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
grown man in a hoodie. It looks ridiculous. People don't put the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
hoodie on very often, do they. you put it up, you think what's | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
going on. It's a bit scruffy looking as well. That's the fashion | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
today. I think it's daft, it's punitive to say we're going to ban | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
all these hoodies. What will they have them out dressed as Eton | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
schoolboys. Ridiculous. When you got a bit older, you were scary as | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
well. I was well scary. Let's have a look. What's going on there. Have | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
you got rollers in? We had a pram race when I worked for Camden | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
Council. Her name is Lynn in the pram. We took a gang of kids to a | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
holiday camp outside Great Yarmouth. We had this pram. I had about nine | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
kids. All they talked about was food. I would feed them in the | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
morning, "What's for dinner? "I cooked constantly. St was great. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
That was the pram race. Because I had hair like, out here, just | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
shoved a few soup cans in and there you goment The second instalment of | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
your autobiography is out, The Devil Rides Out: The Second Coming, | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
this is from 18 onwards. Through the start of the book, you had some | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
jobs! Court clerk, what's this one? Physiotherapist aide. Yeah. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
Abattoir administer. I hated it. This was all before you got famous. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
You did have a brush with showbiz and a cheesecake, what happened? | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
used to do catering. I'd ring them from the phone box in old Brompton | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Road, I only had one recipe that I'd learned along the way. She said | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
yes. I would give them the soup and the main meal and then the dessert. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
That's all I could do. They thought I was marvellous. Gene Wilder was a | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
guess at this one. I had this cheesecake, which hadn't set. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
flavour was it? I can't remember. Black forest. It was a big sloppy | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
cheesecake. I slap today on the plate and he went "Paul, I thought | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
you were a class act." You got that wrong, mate. I really enjoyed it. | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
It was like Upstairs Downstairs. Do you remember the original oxo | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Casey? No. I used to do stuff for her as well. She was lovely. I got | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
to see all these beautiful houses in Sloane Square and things. There | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
was no envy. I didn't want to live in them because they were too big. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
How would you clean it? I'm like that now. I look at jumpers and say | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
to them "Can you wash this ?" They look at you like you're mad. I'm | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
filthy. I'd have no clothes. As a writer, you have a wonderful turn | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
of phrase. Cheers. Even the most tragic situations, there's a | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
sparkle there. You have to, don't you. At the time, when you're going | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
through these dark times in your past, do you Find the Funny side of | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
this then, or is it only looking back that you can find it? When I | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
was working for Camden Council, you would find yourself living in a | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
house for say six months, looking after five unruly kids. I was a | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
very strange Mary poppins. You'd have to see the humorous side to it, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
otherwise you'd have gone mad. of revelations in the book. Who'd | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
have thought you didn't get divorced until 2005. The happiest | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
marriage in showbiz. We never spoke. I never saw her for 25 years. I | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
used to work in a bar she was lovely, Theresa. She was a very | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Catholic family who were on her, when are you getting married? Come | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
on, I'll marry you. So we did. We got married in marrow Road registry | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
office and we had the buffet in our flat. By the time we got back, it | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
was rock hard. There's no buffet. We went to work in the club that | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
night. She was a good mate. It was nice to be able to do her that | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
favour. There was no money or anything involved. It was purely a | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
favour. The thing I loved about the book, the way you write you can | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
visualise the characters. You feel like you know your relatives and | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
the neighbours. How much did they influence the character of Lily. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Not physically. Not in the way Lily acted. They were as honest as the | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
day was long. They could never shoplift and they didn't drink or | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
smoke. My Aunty Chrissie smoked. My mum never did. That side totally | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
different. I don't know where all that came from. But it was sort of | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the mouth, my Aunty Chrissie had a bit of a mouth on her, you know if | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
you crossed her, you'd get it full force. She was very, very funny. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
know, as the rest of the nation does, that you're a dog lover | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
indeed. Indeed. You dedicated your book to Buster. I saw a dog in | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Shanghai, who is the ringer of Buster. I thought if she chains him | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
up outside the shop, I'm going to nick it. I thought what am I going | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
to do, I wouldn't advise it folks. How am I going to get this dog | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
through customs. All of a sudden I missed him so much, even two years | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
down the line. He was like, he went everywhere with me, all the tours I | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
did. He was always in the dressing room under the sink. You know what | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
it's like, you get so - I said goodbye to my Meg just two months | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
ago. Isn't it heart breaking. know that you're going to | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
appreciate this series of films about man's best friend. John | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Ingles investigates how dog breeds have played an important part in | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
our own history. Tonight it's the turn of the spaniel.?. They're the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
sniffer dog of choice for police forces around the country. In fact | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
spaniels have been serving us in fascinating ways for sefrplg Riz. | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Spaniels are amongst the oldest breeds in Britain with a long and | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
colourful history. It's likely that the Romans first brought spaniels | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
to Britain and their name comes from the fact they were from Spain. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
And that's also probably the reason there are so many spaniel breeds | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
today. From the compact cocker over here to the largest Clumber spaniel, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
they were all spaniel and therefore spaniels to the Romans. They may | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
have come from Spain originally, by the 14th century they were firmly | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
established in British life. Chaucer referred to them in the | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Canterbury tales and they got a mention in Shakespeare. From early | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
on, spaniels played an important role in our lives. One of the first | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
spaniels to make it big in British history was one of the smallest. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Today pet owners try all sorts of treatment to keep their dogs free | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
of fleas. But in Tudor England, these toy spaniels were actually | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
bred for the opposite reason, to keep fleas off their dirty owners. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Ladies would put the dog on their lap and hope that all their fleas | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
would jump onto the dog. Poor dogs! As personal hygiene improved, their | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
dogs were increasingly kept as pets. Their fame was secured when they | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
were embraced by royalty. These toy spaniels were given the name | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Cavalier King Charles after King Charles II. Charles grew up with | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
toy spaniels and when he became king, he decreed that these little | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
spaniels should be allowed to roam all the royal palaces and | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Parliament. And it's thought Charles was the first person to use | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
a beware of the dog sign. Not because his dogs were dangerous, | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
but to warn visitors to avoid treading on his small spaniels. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Charles treated his dogs as pets, but other spaniels continued to | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
develop their useful skills working as hunting dogs. This is an English | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
springer spaniel. Even before Charles II's time, its role was to | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
flush out game during a hunt. They would spring the birds out of the | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
bushes, which gave the breed its name. Tony Price trains springer | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
spaniels as gun dogs for hunting game. A lot of the job involves | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
modifying the hunting instinct so they follow command and do exactly | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
what's required on the shood. is a MoD rn day working day | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
springer, he goes out on shoots hunting and flushing. He's | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
descended from a hunting dog. They've never been bred as pets, | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
just for hunting. Doing the same job as they've always done. What | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
are the skill that's make the spaniel so suited for that work? | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Enthusiasm. He's happy doing his job and he's very trainable. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
springer's ability to learn quickly, to distinguish smells and its | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
seemingly boundless energy makes it suited for another kind of work. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
This is police dog Haggis. He works for Surrey Police as a search dog. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
What kind of skills do they bring to this kind of work that makes | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
them particularly suited? Their energy and their will to search. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
They can search for a very long time without a break. Whereas lab | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
ra dorz, their noses very much, very similar to the spaniel, but | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
they can't work for quite such a long time. Has Haggis had a good | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
career? He's brought me a great deal of success. He searches for | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
firearms. He does cash and also drugs as well. For �10,000 worth of | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
cash, a load of drugs, he's been a great asset to the police. From | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
attracting fleas to fighting crime, few other dogs have made such a | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
colourful and varied contribution to British life as the spaniel. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Haggis is here now, joined by John Best, head of dog training for | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Surrey police and PC Angie Goudie. There he is. John, how many | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
spaniels do you have in the force then? Across the UK, over 500 that | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
are all trained to search for drugs, explosives, victim recovery and the | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
like. It's not just spaniels in the force. We saw German shepherds | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
during the riots. What are they trained to do? Across the UK, | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
there's over 1100 general purpose dogs. Some of them have been | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
trained to take part in riot control, assisting the police | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
support units or trying to keep the crowd away from the police officers. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
We talked a bit about it in the film, but Haggis has had amazing | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
drug busts. Yes, he has. He's had fantastic finds. Some have been | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
cannabis factories, Class A, over �10,000 worth of cash in Class B | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
drugs as well. These finds, it's great to get the big finds, but the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
things that stand out to me are the smaller finds, that you think how | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
on earth did that dog manage that. Pineapple, steering wheels. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Absolutely. We have a sniffer test for you in a little while. You can | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
smell them already. On that point, despite many of our best known High | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Street shops going to the wall, one industry is literally making loads | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
of dough. Even with the dip, Greggs are still making huge profits. | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
There's a knew baker in town, Pound Bakery. It's turning into a battle | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
for flour power. It's a familiar High Street scene, rows of empty | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
fronts with the odd bank and charity shop dominating. Where many | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
big names have struggled, one retailer is doing very tastily, | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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thank you very much. From humble beginnings in the 30s, | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
selling products from the back of a van, Greggs now has an incredible | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
1500 outlets. Their strategy of low prices delivers big profits. More | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
than �50 million last year. challenge over the last three years | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
has really been trying to help customers to make their money go as | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
far as possible. We've been able to do that, at the same time growing | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
profitably. Already Britain's biggest bakery chain, Greggs plan | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
to add another 600 stores. That means company mascot Sid the | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
sausage roll will have his work cut out. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
# Let's make lots of... Money # Especially as there's now a rival | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
on the High Street. Greggs plan to swalle an even bigger bite of the | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
baked goods market is being undercut by a cheaper rival. You've | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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heard of pound shops, welcome Pound It's a bakery shop that sells | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
everything for a pound. Your first shop was opened 12 months ago. How | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
many shops have you got now? we've opened since then. 36 shops | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
in one year. That's phenomenal. know. Those shops never seem to be | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
that far away from Greggs. Recession busting prices... It's | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
quite aggressive marketing techniques here. We like to be | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
quirky. That's what you've got to do. It is tough on the High Street. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
That's why we came up with Pound Bakery. Currently based in the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
North West, Pound Bakery plan to open another 50 stores in the next | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
12 months. Enjoy your sausage rolls. People our age, you've got to watch | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
the pennies. They're very nice. Nice and fresh. The muffins are | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
very good. I used to go to Greggs and I noticed - no, I shouldn't say | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
that. I think they put the prices down a bit. Here in Hyde, that | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
seems to be the case. In Manchester, a Greggs meat and potato pie is | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
�1.20, here they're 99p for two. think what's very interesting about | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
the bakery world as a whole is if you were to look in Greggs today, | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
more than a third of the products are already less than a pound. It's | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
important for customers it's not just about the price, they also | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
want to know they've got great quality and that the ingredients | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
that go into the food they can really trust. It's a really good | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
quality product. We all-a barringin and everyone's tightening their | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
belts. We will have to loosen our belts because of the pasties we're | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
consuming. Should the health issue be the bakery's responsibility. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
More important is doing what the customers want. They want a great | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
tasting pasty. They want comfort food. That's what we do. The | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
customer is making that choice. The information is there for them if | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
they want it. I'm always a bit dubious about what's in a pasty. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
You're salivating at that. That's made me hungry. It has. It's the | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
smell of these. You may be wondering, why do they have pies in | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
front of them. What's your favourite filling Paul? You've | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
triggered my memory. I love it when I go to South Wales, corned beef | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
pie. I went for corned beef, you chose that. I went for steak and | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
ale. This is mince and potatoes and carrot. I don't like gristle. Oh, | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Sweeney Todd. We have been having a debate about who has the tastiest | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
pie. We couldn't make the decision. We have Haggis here to make the | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
:22:18. | :22:24. | ||
decision for us. Let's release Haggis. Come on. Come here. Haggis. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
It's the corned beef. He's a Welsh enthusiast as well. He hasn't gone | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
near mine. That's good. I can take it home to eat it. I'm the same | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
with steak and ale. He's committed to the corned beef. Don't eat it, | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
because I'm taking it home for me tea. He's lick today. Blow it, it | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
will be fine. Now it's time for Ruth Goodman to sniff out a | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
settlement that's six centuries older than Stonehenge. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
The idea of lost civilisations conjures up images of abandoned | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
ruins like the Valley of the Kings or Pompey. What many people don't | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
realise is we have one of our own to rival anything in the world here | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
off the tip of mainland Britain. Hidden on the Orkney islands for | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
almost 5,000 years, it was dramatically brought to light | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
during a violent storm in 1850, which ripped open the hill it had | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
lain buried in. Very little is known about the people who built it, | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
six centuries before Stonehenge was erected. We know Skara Brae is | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
Europe's most intact village. Because of the lack of timber on | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the islands everything had to be built from stone, which is why so | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
much survives today. But Stone Age certainly does not mean cave man. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
This was a sophisticated society, with the village built over a | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
system of drains, more than 3,000 years before the Romans were | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
supposed to have brought plumbing to Britain. And all the houses are | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
built to the same plan. The focus of the house is the hearth that | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
sits in the centre. There's the dresser, which is the most | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
prominent feature, that you see when you come in the door. Then | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
these beds, possibly? That's right. You could get quite a lot of people | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
in this space. You could. This sort of space is actually much better | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
than many of the Victorian working- class houses I've been in. How many | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
of these houses were there in the village? About half a dozen | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
contemporary in the vimage that we have excavated. The Skara Brae | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
village is bigger out to the back. We don't know how much we've lost | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
to the sea at the front. House seven is the most in tact. It's | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
normally off limits to the public, but we've been granted special | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
permission by historic Scotland to film inside. This is no ordinary | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
house. There is a burial of two ladies under that bed. Not only | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
that, but the door here can be controlled from the outside. So you | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
could be closed in this house. We've no real idea what this house | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
was used for. This might be some form of cult house or a place where | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
dangerous things happen. Perhaps it's a house for men struewaigs or | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
for women to come off child birth. This is a complicated culture. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
get the feeling that you wouldn't be wanting to step out of line in | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
this society. The Orkney islands may seem remote to southerners. In | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
neolithic times this was a major hub for sea traffic. Also the soil | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
here is very fertile and is still highly valued for its lush cattle | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
grazing today. Rising sea levels and increased coastal erosion is | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
threatening Orkney's ark logical treasures. When it was first built | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Skara Brae was over a mile from the sea and all this we can see in | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
front of us was fields and then reed beds and marshes going out to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the loch. In the 1920s half of this house here fell into the sea and | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
this sea wall had to be put up to protect the rest of the village. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
But erosion beyond the wall continues unabated. Every site is | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
unique. It's a permanent loss. You can't recreate it. Quarter of the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
tourists that come here say they come here because of the orkology. | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
This is the support for a rural economy. We have to look after it. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
There's a saying if you scratch Orkney it bleeds archaeology. On a | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
nearby island Steve and his team are desperately recording what's | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
left of another recently revealed settlement. It dates to the Iron | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
Age. We know from the sample we took, it's a date from zero to | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
100AD. On the other side we've got the remains of a Norse hull. That | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
gives us a date of 1100. We have about a thousand years of history | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
all sort of stacked up. The sea presumably is taking it aI wai. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
sea has taken an enormous amount of the site away. Wobbly next year | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
this may not be here. The Orkney islands are home to some of the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
world's greatest ancient monuments. Yets every year more and more is | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
being lost to the sea. Much of it without ever being | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
officially recorded and should it carry on unchecked, for more | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
reasons than one, this will be a price the Orcadians can't afford to | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
pay. Absolutely beautiful. Talking of | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
settlements, you have a new addition to your farm. He's a big | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
lad now Winston. He was the lamb who got thrown in the wheelie bin | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
in Manchester. I said I'll have him. You've adopted him. He's huge. He's | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
on the bottle. He comes up screaming. I better give him a | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
bottle, shut him up. How does he get on with the owl? He doesn't go | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
near him or the other sheep. They're like concubines in the sun. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
He hasn't twiged he's a sheep yet. He loves human company. He's like a | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
dog, follows me everywhere. Brilliant. Now one more thing, do | :28:09. | :28:18. | |
you recognise this theme tune. Cagney & Lacey. It is. You're a | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
fan? I know them quite well, Sharon and Tyne. What's the connection? | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
They came on the show for my birthday. We got paly and we went | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
out. I have to say Sharon is lovely. Give her my love tomorrow. And tell | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
her, if she wants another dinner, she's on. You could stay here until | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
tomorrow. I was going to say. It's a bit of a trek for me. There's a | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
nice bed there, do you mind? sit down there. We have Sharon | :28:46. | :28:51. |