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Hello and welcome to
The One Show with Matt Baker. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
And for the first time in 2018,
she's back - it's Alex Jones! | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Thank you very much. All the the way
from New Zealand. We had to go see | 0:00:26 | 0:00:37 | |
Ted's grandparents. It was really
nice. What was his highlight. Going | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
in the sea. Three weeks with Ted was
brilliant. There was a point I | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
thought you weren't coming back. I
know. It's very far. We are back | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
together tonight. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:57 | |
We're joined by a pair
rarely seen apart. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
They first appeared on our
screens 18 years ago. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
They're so close they can finish
each other's sentences. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
So tonight we thought we'd let them
write each other's introductions. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
They're so close they can finish
each other's sentences. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:17 | |
So tonight we thought we'd let them
write each other's introductions. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:22 | |
Please welcome, Kirstie
Allsopp and Phil Spencer! | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:24 | 0:01:32 | |
Welcome. Lovely to be here. Nice to
have you both at the same time. We | 0:01:32 | 0:01:41 | |
have never been here at the same
time. It's a treat. Terrible snowy | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
conditions in Scotland. It left some
drivers stranded in their cars | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
overnight. More snow coming. Stay
safe everybody. A lot of kids off | 0:01:49 | 0:01:57 | |
school. Schools will be closed
tomorrow. Stay safe. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:04 | |
If you were stuck inside a car
together on a snowy road, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
who would be the first lose it
and jump out?! | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
We would be good. I'm a cautious
snow driver. When it's at all cold I | 0:02:11 | 0:02:17 | |
have the wellies the blank ket. All
the stuff you are advised, I really | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
do that. Jool we spend long enough
travelling together we would be all | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
right. Have you floral wellies? The
full range. Every welly and sock to | 0:02:26 | 0:02:33 | |
match. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:42 | |
In the same year Kirstie and Phil
first worked together, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Carillion was launched and went
on to become the UK's second | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
biggest construction firm,
X years on and the walls have come | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
crumbling down with the announcement
this week that they were | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
going into liquidation. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
The ripples of this are being felt
all over the UK, affecting thousands | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
of individuals as well as numerous
public projects, from | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
new hospitals to HS2. | 0:02:58 | 0:02:59 | |
Here's Iwan with the
far-reaching consequences | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
of Carillion's collapse. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
You probably know from yesterday
that we've had to let about ten | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
people either laid off or made
redundant in the business. Andy has | 0:03:09 | 0:03:14 | |
had to lay off ten stay and owned
£800,000 from Carillion? What about | 0:03:14 | 0:03:20 | |
our jobs are they safe. In the short
to medium term we have been told the | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
contracts will continue. I've worked
Andy for 28 years. 28 years. Did you | 0:03:24 | 0:03:31 | |
have a time like this in the company
where you have been fearful before? | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
Never before. This is the worst time
we've ever had. Are you conscious | 0:03:33 | 0:03:38 | |
this could be your last day or last
week at work? My wife is worried to | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
see what will happen, basically, we
have three kids at home. I keep | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
reassuring her we are fine sfwlchlt
how was that talking to the workers? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
It's quite difficult. You can see by
their reaction how concerned they | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
are. Do you expect to see any money
back? My experience in these matters | 0:03:55 | 0:04:01 | |
is we will be lucky to get 1p in the
£1. Should the Government step in | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
and subsidise that? Questions have
to be asked about whether Carillion | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
were fit for purpose. The Government
have thrown contract and contract at | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
them. They are safe to trade with.
That's the hes mage we were getting. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
If it's good enough for the
Government. They have done their do | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
you diligence we should be fine. I
think we've been let down. Behind me | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
is an empty building site. £165
million project sits in silence due | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
to the collapse of Carillion on
Monday putting tens of thousands of | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
jobs at risk. What do they do? Well,
they are not just a construction | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
company. They are a middle man
winning contracts but | 0:04:41 | 0:04:46 | |
sub-contracting other companies to
fulfil them. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:54 | |
fulfil them. A leader campaigner
joins me. What company are they? | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
They don't do any of the work
themselves. They existed by paying | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
late. They simply utilised their
supply chain to fund them. The | 0:05:02 | 0:05:08 | |
writing has been the wall for a long
time. They were selling off it is | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
head office to raise money and they
leased them back. Before they | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
collapsed they were the UK's second
largest construction company. Kevin | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
is one of many who are suffering
from the demolition of their | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
business. Six months ago they were
£1 billion company. Monday morning, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:30 | |
they went into liquidation.
Unfortunately, there will be people | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
who will lose their job. We've lost
the actual money of £230,000. Half a | 0:05:33 | 0:05:39 | |
million worth of contracts. They
have been cancelled. Carillion are | 0:05:39 | 0:05:45 | |
notorious for extended payment
terms. The banks pay you, not | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
Carillion. The big major companies
are good at competing with each | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
other - how cheap can we do it? They
are left with a situation where | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
people lose money on jobs, or they
lose money. We then have a situation | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
like this. We have the doctors being
paid vast amounts of money up until | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
the end of the year. It looks like
their bonuses have been protected | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
yet when you compare that to the
small firm who is going to now go | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
down I think people should now
really listen and watch this space | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
and decide - OK, we will take
measures to avoid these problems in | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
the future. It's in the hands of the
administrators who will try and sort | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
this mess out. Like the downfall of
BHS before the good people to lose | 0:06:27 | 0:06:33 | |
out are the good people, the loyal
workers who are now jobless. That is | 0:06:33 | 0:06:38 | |
exactly right. Our thoughts are with
those loyal workers at the moment. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:43 | |
The story will keep developing so
many repercussions. 18 years since | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
you worked together we did digging
into the Channel 4 archives. We did. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
We found the first ever episode of
Location, Location, Location from | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
2000. Here it is. Phil we love the
way that you just... Keep appearing! | 0:06:57 | 0:07:07 | |
London, one of the most lucrative
property market in the entire world. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:15 | |
This house, for example, in two
years it doubled in value. It hes | 0:07:15 | 0:07:22 | |
was worth £120,000, now worth
£240,000 which is a nightmare for | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
first-time How do you buyers. Get on
the property ladder if you have less | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
money to spend than the average
London house price? That's the | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
challenge to find someone a home
here in the city for £100,000. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:39 | |
APPLAUSE
There you go. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
You never change the pair of you.
That's lovely. Lovely to see that. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:49 | |
Kate, I remember her name in East We
knew nothing London. About | 0:07:49 | 0:07:54 | |
television presenting. We knew a
little bit about property. That is | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
why you got the gig. No, we were
approached as a result of an article | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
that was in the papers about our
property searching. Looking at it | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
I'm like... How did they point a
camera at us and let us get on with | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
it? It survived those years. It's
still brilliant my top three Homes | 0:08:13 | 0:08:20 | |
under the Hammer and that. I can't
name the other one... Countryfile. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:26 | |
Of course. Now the third series of
Love It or List It. You advice think | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
couple, one wants to stay at home
and the other wants to move on find | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
a new property you are on the
respective people's teams. Phil you | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
are on the moving side. Correct.
Kirstie you encourage them to stay | 0:08:39 | 0:08:46 | |
and renovate. Yes. How did you
decide? You stick to those sides? | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
Never in any doubt. Absolutely not.
It plays to our strengths to be | 0:08:51 | 0:08:56 | |
perfectly honest. It's a natural
debate that people have. Yeah. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:01 | |
Everyone at some point who owns a
property - shall we move? Shall we | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
do it up? Shall we stay? It's a
fascinating process to be involved | 0:09:05 | 0:09:10 | |
in. I'm obsessed with how people use
their space. A lot of us have space | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
we don't use effectively and that
flow and in and out of family life. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
Your home is supposed to be the
thing which enables you to lead a | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
happy life. To go to work, to go to
school, to entertain to be with | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
family and friends. Yes. It's a
vessel. It's not supposed to control | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
you. So often we get into a
situation where it's making us | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
unhappy. I think that can be fixed
very often. Although sometimes, I | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
have on one or two of the shows. A
show tonight I walked in and I said | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
- move. Really? What was so awful
about the house? It's not an awful | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
house at all. I didn't think it was
suitable for them or could be fixed. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:58 | |
Can you come round to my house
directly after this show. Any time. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:05 | |
It's life-changing for the couples.
You did a series yesterday and that | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
moment when they are sitting and
deciding. Do you know which way it's | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
going to go? Not at all. Sometimes I
don't think they know right up until | 0:10:13 | 0:10:19 | |
the fine al moment. Yesterday the
couple had only just moved back into | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
their house having finished with the
builders. They were - does it work, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
doesn't it work? Recently I'd shown
them nice houses they could have | 0:10:28 | 0:10:35 | |
moved to. It was fresh. They were
having the debate there and then. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:41 | |
Let us see a Phil and Kirstie
moment. This is an ingenious use of | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
space. Do you want to come up? I
know I'm going to come round a | 0:10:46 | 0:10:52 | |
corner and see you sitting on a loo.
I know you so well. I'm not looking. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:58 | |
I'm close hes my eyes. One set of
doors there. Are you sitting on a | 0:10:58 | 0:11:04 | |
loo? Surprise! Honestly, it's sad
how predictable you are. It's really | 0:11:04 | 0:11:10 | |
sad. We've been doing this too long!
APPLAUSE | 0:11:10 | 0:11:17 | |
That was before the renovation,
wasn't it? There is a sweet story | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
about that. Her mum sent a hes mage
saying her daughter who had some | 0:11:22 | 0:11:28 | |
learning disabilities watched that
and thought it was absolutely | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
hysterical and has watched it again
and again and was having a difficult | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
day, didn't want to go to school.
Her mum showeded | 0:11:34 | 0:11:42 | |
Her mum showeded - showed it to her
and it stopped her crying and she | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
went to school. If you want to feel
as good as that Love It or List It | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
continues at 8.00pm tonight on
Channel 4. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
As Phil and Kirstie know,
finding the right home is always | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
a challenge for a family,
but so too is finding | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
the right school. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:01 | |
This has certainly been
the case for Carrie | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
and her adopted son Nathan. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:04 | |
We asked them to explore a recent
survey that suggests many adopted | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
children in the UK are struggling
to integrate into | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
mainstream education. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
There you go Master Grant. Yummy,
yummy. Today marks an new adventure | 0:12:13 | 0:12:20 | |
for our eight-year-old son, Nathan.
He is starting his first full day at | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
school. I can't send Nathan to
school if I can't see him. Nait arch | 0:12:24 | 0:12:30 | |
was two years old when we adopted
him. We were never under an illusion | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
things would be easy. Who was made
in my heart? I love you. You were | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
made in my heart. You were made in
my heart. You don't take a child | 0:12:37 | 0:12:43 | |
away from their parents unless will
are good reasons. Often they are | 0:12:43 | 0:12:48 | |
abused, neglected and traumatised.
That trauma then later begins to | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
make for behavioural issues. Trying
to fit into mainstream education can | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
be really difficult for adoptive
children. Sadly, that's what | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
happened with Nathan at his previous
school. Look at me, I'm not doing my | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
job. In Nathan's case if someone
knocks his building tower over he | 0:13:04 | 0:13:10 | |
will punch him. It was those
situation that is meant he was | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
constantly being taken out of class.
The parents started a WhatsApp group | 0:13:15 | 0:13:22 | |
to speak about Nathan. Someone
advised them the way to get the best | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
result was to get a petition to have
Nathan excluded from the school. So | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
it was decided that he would have to
go to a different school, a | 0:13:30 | 0:13:36 | |
specialist school, and that wasn't
our choice. I want you to have the | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
best day ever. Each adopted child
has their own story. While many | 0:13:41 | 0:13:47 | |
won't struggle with behavioural
issues and sail through their | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
education a recent survey suggests
adopted kids are 2 o 0 times more | 0:13:50 | 0:13:56 | |
likely to be permanently excluded
from school than their classmates -- | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
20. I have come to chemical weapon
beachlodge School which specialises | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
in supporting adopted children. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:12 | |
It was founded by Daniela Shankly
after her 14-year-old son was | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
excluded from three schools. What
was it like at school for him? Full | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
of anxiety. He was dis- regulated.
He would throw things, spit, and be | 0:14:23 | 0:14:33 | |
violent to other children. His
teacher said it was not the right | 0:14:33 | 0:14:40 | |
school for him and there was not a
right school. So that is why I set | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
up the school. Tell me some of the
different things from mainstream? We | 0:14:45 | 0:14:57 | |
group children in cohorts according
to emotional age, rather than | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
chronological. Most classrooms are
low stimulation. We have a speech | 0:15:01 | 0:15:07 | |
and language therapist to help them
develop relationships. I want to | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
hear from the children what
difference they think this approach | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
makes? I would keep things inside me
and it would make me angry and | 0:15:14 | 0:15:21 | |
worked up. What is it like in this
school? If I am upset I can talk to | 0:15:21 | 0:15:26 | |
the teacher and they understand. It
is easy to make friends. People do | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
not judge as much. The teachers
understand you more and you feel | 0:15:31 | 0:15:37 | |
more free, you do not feel trapped.
We do not know how separating | 0:15:37 | 0:15:43 | |
children from their peers now will
affect their future but these | 0:15:43 | 0:15:47 | |
adoptive mums think it is the best
option. My son would not cope in a | 0:15:47 | 0:15:53 | |
mainstream school. What do you do?
Here he can cope. Those social | 0:15:53 | 0:15:59 | |
skills, they are coming. I try to
mix it up out of school, taking | 0:15:59 | 0:16:05 | |
George to different groups, doing
swimming and things with other | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
children. Our schools under pressure
to meet the needs of | 0:16:09 | 0:16:18 | |
to meet the needs of these children?
Yes, how can one teacher be an | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
expert in different children's
needs. Colebourne Primary School in | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Birmingham is trying to tackle the
issue. Headteacher Stuart Guest has | 0:16:24 | 0:16:32 | |
been teaching his staff on
attachment and trauma. We have | 0:16:32 | 0:16:37 | |
introduced attachment friendly
approaches such as having not having | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
behaviour charts which can induce
shame and having a homework approach | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
to enable children to succeed, not
berating them if they do not bring | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
it in and since we have introduced
the approaches we have noticed | 0:16:49 | 0:16:55 | |
improvement in behaviour and a
reduction in exclusions. I am keen | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
to find out how Nathan's day went at
the new school. How was it? Good. 18 | 0:16:58 | 0:17:07 | |
children in Nathan's School, 30
children in the school I went to see | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
today. What about the thousands of
others? Thanks, Carrie and Nathan. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:19 | |
Good news, Nathan has settled in
well and made lots of friends. It is | 0:17:19 | 0:17:23 | |
going well. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:24 | |
We're joined now by
Becky White, the schools development | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
officer from Adoption UK. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
The results from the survey are
shocking. Is there a key point when | 0:17:30 | 0:17:37 | |
you start to look for a solution?
Three quarters of children who are | 0:17:37 | 0:17:45 | |
adopted have experienced abuse and
neglect in the early part of their | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
life and at Adoption UK we are
concerned to raise awareness of this | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
and the fact the early experiences
of children change how they develop | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
so that many years later their
foundations are different from | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
children who had a secure childhood
and in school it might come out of | 0:18:02 | 0:18:08 | |
surprising behaviours you cannot
explain but if you have an | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
understanding of attachment and
trauma, it becomes clear why the | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
behaviour is happening and there are
strategies to be more supportive and | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
help the child to increase their
tolerance and unable themselves to | 0:18:19 | 0:18:25 | |
manage their own emotions. Awareness
in education and across society that | 0:18:25 | 0:18:32 | |
it is an invisible disability. It
was said in the film it is hard for | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
one teacher to deal with all the
needs of the different children, but | 0:18:37 | 0:18:42 | |
how can mainstream schools ensure
they are as equipped as possible? | 0:18:42 | 0:18:47 | |
There is a lot of training available
on attachment and trauma and we | 0:18:47 | 0:18:52 | |
found the techniques that will help
children who have experienced early | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
trauma and neglect will do no harm
to any child will be beneficial to a | 0:18:56 | 0:19:03 | |
lot of children. Many children in
care will have experienced abuse and | 0:19:03 | 0:19:09 | |
neglect will benefit. So seek out
training and come to organisations | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
like Adoption UK. We would want to
call for this to be included as part | 0:19:14 | 0:19:19 | |
of teacher training so when teachers
begin their first year of teaching | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
they know this, because it affects a
significant number. And it would | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
help generally with teaching. We
know teachers are good at holding | 0:19:28 | 0:19:34 | |
these things in mind. They manage a
lot of different needs and we | 0:19:34 | 0:19:39 | |
believe this could be a key for many
children. What do you say to | 0:19:39 | 0:19:45 | |
adoptive parents. It must be
heartbreaking for them. They are | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
turning up at the school and hoping
their child will get through the | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
day. And undergoing the walk of
shame to the Headteacher's office. | 0:19:54 | 0:20:01 | |
Many children adopted, the average
ages three and a half. And then | 0:20:01 | 0:20:06 | |
almost immediately they have to take
them to school make the choice of | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
which school would be the best. We
recommend broadening your horizons | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
to what you think the ideal school
is. A small village school might be | 0:20:14 | 0:20:20 | |
good but a bigger school might have
more resources and experience to | 0:20:20 | 0:20:28 | |
deal with unusual behaviour. We
suggest you visit the school, get a | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
feel for it and talk to staff and
tell them your child is adopted and | 0:20:32 | 0:20:37 | |
might need extra help. If they say,
I am sure it will be fine, you might | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
want to look elsewhere. If they say
we have had training and understand | 0:20:42 | 0:20:48 | |
something about attachment, you can
have a conversation with the school. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
You are an adoptive mum of two. It
should not put people | 0:20:52 | 0:21:03 | |
should not put people off, it is
tricky but there are ways around the | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
school? We have wonderful stories of
Adoption UK members who have found a | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
great school and their children are
thriving. There are challenges when | 0:21:07 | 0:21:13 | |
adopting but if you cant you can
seek in the initial stages to seek | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
out support from organisations like
Adoption UK. You have your eyes open | 0:21:17 | 0:21:23 | |
to what is out there and then
adoptive families can thrive and | 0:21:23 | 0:21:28 | |
adopted children can do well. Thank
you. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
Now, wouldn't it be great to make
a name for yourself by saying | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
something profound that gets quoted
by millions of people | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
and is remembered for generations? | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
There's some great
quotes we all know. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Churchill, "We shall fight
them on the beaches." | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
Martin Luther King,
"I have a dream." | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
A personal favourite. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
"Let's see what happened
when it went... | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
under the hammer!" | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
Arthur's been finding
out about someone whose | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
wonderful words we know,
although the author | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
is now largely forgotten. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:04 | |
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? | 0:22:04 | 0:22:12 | |
Surely the familiar lines of poetry.
Their Victorian author WH Davies has | 0:22:14 | 0:22:25 | |
slipped off the literary radar along
with the rest of his famous poem | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
written at the height of his
popularity in 1911 and recorded | 0:22:28 | 0:22:33 | |
three years before his death. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:39 | |
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
No time to see, when woods we pass, | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
Where squirrels hide
their nuts in grass. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
Today I am travelling to his
birthplace in South Wales to find | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
out about this maverick soul. By
turns a petty thief and hobo who | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
became one of the most established
poets of his day. I have always had | 0:22:56 | 0:23:02 | |
a romantic vision of where WH Davies
might have been born, but, true to | 0:23:02 | 0:23:07 | |
form, it is a pub in Newport. The
poet himself unveiled this in 1937. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:15 | |
It is very impressive, although he
was not actually born here. It seems | 0:23:15 | 0:23:21 | |
he got his dates wrong. A local
historian has been doing detective | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
work. If you look at this document,
his birth certificate, you can see | 0:23:26 | 0:23:33 | |
he was born in number six Portland
St and the plaque is on number 12, | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
the church house pub in Newport. He
went to live there when he was young | 0:23:37 | 0:23:44 | |
and lived with his grandfather and
assumed that is where he was born. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
He was a naughty boy, he was caught
stealing. He was dealt six strokes | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
off the birch. He spent his 20s
hitching rides on transatlantic | 0:23:53 | 0:23:59 | |
cattle boats but still writing
nature poetry. Poetry was pouring | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
out of him but he could not find
anybody interested and then he heard | 0:24:03 | 0:24:09 | |
about the gold rush and joined it in
Canada and while he jumped trains | 0:24:09 | 0:24:16 | |
with a | 0:24:16 | 0:24:22 | |
with a friend, Three Fingered Jack,
he fell onto the train and his leg | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
was severed. Disabled and penniless,
WH Davies returned to London to try | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
to sell his poetry. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:33 | |
No time | 0:24:37 | 0:24:38 | |
to see, in broad daylight, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:39 | |
Streams full of stars,
like skies at night. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:44 | |
Tree surgeon Matthew is on a mission
to reintroduced under which Davies | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
to the British public. How did a man
who live in DOS houses become a | 0:24:49 | 0:24:56 | |
pillar of society? Even in his
wildest days, WH stayed true to his | 0:24:56 | 0:25:01 | |
roots as a poet and freethinking
poet. He used Who's Who and centre | 0:25:01 | 0:25:15 | |
mailshots to everybody, it in this
scene, and George Bernard Shaw | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
picked up his writing put him in the
spheres he needed to get his work | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
out there. Why is his poetry less
red now than others? There is an | 0:25:23 | 0:25:29 | |
argument that some of his verse is
so simple, it is almost doggerel | 0:25:29 | 0:25:34 | |
verse. That is a shame and I see
through it to see the ethos life is | 0:25:34 | 0:25:41 | |
tough, let's celebrated and live as
happily as we can. This provocative | 0:25:41 | 0:25:48 | |
sculpture was commissioned for
Newport on the 50th anniversary of | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
the poet's death. It is called Stand
And Stare but the figure has a | 0:25:51 | 0:25:59 | |
blanket. It is not a blanket, it is
a tree form that has pushed up into | 0:25:59 | 0:26:07 | |
the skin of a man like form. I
wanted to say something about the | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
seriousness of the poet, a great man
who wrote simple things and as you | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
know simple things are not that
simple. I do not think Davies would | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
have minded the sculpture. He was an
unconventional man who lived a life | 0:26:21 | 0:26:27 | |
like no other poet. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:36 | |
Thank you. Gyles, the man who knows
everything there is to know about | 0:26:36 | 0:26:42 | |
quotes is here now. I love messing
about in quotes and I have a quote | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
from my two other favourite
presenters. The top four in the UK. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:55 | |
Location, location, location. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
Who said it first? Probably us. It
was a long time ago. It was. Often | 0:26:59 | 0:27:08 | |
attributed to Lord Samuel, a
property developer from the 1970s | 0:27:08 | 0:27:14 | |
but not, he liked to attributed it
to himself. It goes back to at least | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
the 20s, in the Chicago Tribune in
1926. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:25 | |
Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
Who said it first? Muhammad Ali. No,
it is part of a poem. Float like a | 0:27:29 | 0:27:39 | |
butterfly, sting like a bee, the
hands cannot hit what they cannot | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
see. A phrase invented by Drew
Brown, one of Muhammad Ali's | 0:27:43 | 0:27:50 | |
trainers. He heard it and thought, I
will take that and because he had a | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
bigger system than the trainer he
got away with it. Survival of the | 0:27:54 | 0:27:59 | |
fittest. Darwin. You think? Writer
of the great origin of species. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:06 | |
Rhondda. A friend -- that is wrong.
A friend of his Herbert Spencer said | 0:28:06 | 0:28:14 | |
it would be a better title than the
title he gave the book. So we should | 0:28:14 | 0:28:20 | |
give credit to Herbert Spencer. I am
not answering any more. Have we | 0:28:20 | 0:28:29 | |
time? For one more. No, I am sorry.
Thanks, Gyles. Always good to see | 0:28:29 | 0:28:37 | |
you. It is always good to be seen. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:42 | |
Thank you Gyles. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:43 | |
Thanks to Kirstie and Phil. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
We'll be back tomorrow
with Monty Don. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
See you then. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:53 |