:00:17. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to the Thursday One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt
:00:21. > :00:27.Baker, and the night a woman who has One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt
:00:27. > :00:33.had as many lives as a cat. Lambing Live, Airport Live, Volcano Live.
:00:33. > :00:38.For some reason Springwatch and Autumnwatch do not have live in the
:00:38. > :00:48.title! It is the very lively Kate Humble! It can be the One Show Live
:00:49. > :00:53.just for tonight! The last time we saw you you were travelling all over
:00:53. > :00:58.the world in the series Shepherdess, what did you take from all the
:00:58. > :01:06.troubles? I would like to save fleas! Which I probably did. I took
:01:07. > :01:10.away, really, an astonishing insight into just what an incredible job
:01:10. > :01:16.farmers around the world do, and it does not really matter whether you
:01:16. > :01:22.are 4500 metres up a mountain in Afghanistan, or on a 1 million
:01:22. > :01:26.acres sheep station in Australia. The challenges may be different, but
:01:27. > :01:30.the life is absolutely as hard, and we really ought to be celebrating
:01:30. > :01:36.our farm is a little bit more, they do a grand job. Is there anything
:01:36. > :01:44.you have learned from them to put into your own place, then? Never to
:01:44. > :01:49.keep alpacas, they are so tricky! I am not an alpaca person. If it does
:01:49. > :01:55.not like you, they have this devil face. They kind of put their ears
:01:55. > :01:58.right back, googly eyes, and then they gather as much do from the
:01:58. > :02:06.deepest pits of their stomach as they possibly can. We have some
:02:06. > :02:09.here, they had a bit of an attitude, they were downstairs with David
:02:09. > :02:14.Cassidy. He was a tricky customer, to be fair. Your new series about
:02:14. > :02:22.man's best friend, and tonight we will be joined by the stars of the
:02:22. > :02:25.show. And we will have the latest technology to watch the creation of
:02:25. > :02:31.a butterfly inside a Caterpillar, this is just incredible. My
:02:31. > :02:36.favourite film in a long time. With wind turbines producing as much
:02:36. > :02:39.anger as power, the race is on to generate renewable energy without
:02:40. > :02:46.blighting the landscape. Could solar farms be the answer? Our guests
:02:46. > :02:52.tonight will be pleased to know that he took his dog Buster with him.
:02:52. > :02:56.The European Union has said the UK a target of 15% of the energy they
:02:56. > :03:02.consume to be generated by renewable sources, such as wind, tidal and
:03:02. > :03:05.solar energy, by 2020. So we had all better get used to seeing more and
:03:05. > :03:10.more wind turbines and other renewable schemes as we rush towards
:03:10. > :03:14.the end of the decade. Well, this racetrack, bizarrely, is slap bang
:03:14. > :03:18.in the middle of a spectacular example of the latest method for
:03:18. > :03:23.generating clean energy. Solar farms!
:03:23. > :03:27.Solar farms work by absorbing daylight into the panels, converting
:03:27. > :03:31.the daylight into energy, and then pumping it out onto the electrical
:03:31. > :03:35.grid. This huge installation has been built on a former airfield in
:03:35. > :03:38.Leicestershire. It cost 35 and pounds and its developers claim it
:03:38. > :03:49.is the largest of its type in the UK. -- 30 £5 million. There are 100
:03:49. > :03:52.and 20,000 panels here. -- 120,000. In a country that does not get a
:03:52. > :03:57.great deal of sunshine, this can't be a terribly efficient way of
:03:57. > :04:01.generating electricity, can it? First of all, we do not need direct
:04:01. > :04:05.sunlight. It is still producing energy today. The biggest market is
:04:05. > :04:10.Germany, and we have very similar sunlight hours to Germany. How does
:04:10. > :04:14.this compare to wind power? Generally, wind will supply more
:04:14. > :04:22.energy per area, but this is less obtrusive, it tends to attract...
:04:22. > :04:25.Less obtrusive?! 85 football pitches?! We did not receive one
:04:25. > :04:30.objection during planning. People know that it does not have a visual
:04:30. > :04:33.impact, it makes no noise, and therefore it is well supported.
:04:33. > :04:39.Hundreds of thousands of people have it on their homes. Just as the
:04:39. > :04:42.attitudes to wind farms seems to divide the nation, you can bet that
:04:43. > :04:47.before too long everyone is going to have an opinion about these. It is
:04:47. > :04:55.certainly dramatic and impressive to be among them on this scale. And
:04:55. > :04:59.oddly Serena as well. The Government's ambition is to produce
:04:59. > :05:05.20 gigawatts of energy per year from also all installations by 2020. That
:05:05. > :05:09.will be enough to power many homes, but it is estimated we will need to
:05:09. > :05:12.cover up to 100,000 acres with panels, more than the combined areas
:05:12. > :05:17.of the cities of Manchester and Birmingham. The Government has
:05:17. > :05:20.of the cities of Manchester and developers an incentive to invest
:05:20. > :05:25.heavily in solar technology by creating subsidies. They will,
:05:26. > :05:32.inevitably, be passed on to us through our electricity bills. John
:05:32. > :05:37.Constable from the renewable energy foundation has studied the figures.
:05:37. > :05:40.It is hard to be certain quite how much this 20 gigawatts of solar
:05:40. > :05:44.would cost in 2020, because we do not know how much will be built on
:05:44. > :05:48.green field and brown field sites, which gets different rates of
:05:48. > :05:52.subsidy. We can be clear about the order of magnitude, it will be
:05:52. > :05:55.billions every year for decades. Subsidies have to come from
:05:55. > :05:59.somewhere, it has to come from consumers. So is it worth spending
:05:59. > :06:03.billions of pounds every year subsidising solar? Or will it turn
:06:03. > :06:08.out to be just another green elephant? Call me a cynic, but we
:06:08. > :06:12.have heard many times before about sources of renewable energy that are
:06:12. > :06:18.going to save the planet. Is it a gimmick? No, no, it is enormous and
:06:18. > :06:24.takes a great deal of land but it is but using a lot of electricity. What
:06:24. > :06:27.are the drawbacks? The hardware is more expensive, so the electricity
:06:27. > :06:31.must cost more than if we generated using coal. The second thing is,
:06:31. > :06:34.must cost more than if we generated this will produce a lot of
:06:34. > :06:38.electricity in June and July, but come December you will barely be
:06:38. > :06:47.able to boil a kettle. So that is the problem. When we need
:06:47. > :06:55.electricity in this country... On a cold December evening. No source of
:06:55. > :06:59.renewable energy gives us energy all year round reliably. Why can't we
:06:59. > :07:04.store the NX city that is generated? That is the next problem
:07:04. > :07:08.for the next ten years. We have not found a way of doing it economic
:07:08. > :07:13.league. My sense is that we will converted back into natural gas and
:07:13. > :07:17.store that in the winter. But that is a very complicated technology. It
:07:17. > :07:22.is a league is full solar farms like this one, but they are promising.
:07:22. > :07:26.While there are doubts about their ability to generate electricity when
:07:26. > :07:30.we needed most, the number of them needed, the storage is due and
:07:30. > :07:33.subsidies, critics say that for the moment they are just a way for
:07:33. > :07:40.developers to make hay while the sun shines. Come on, Buster!
:07:40. > :07:47.Thanks, Andy, a great performance from Buster. Isn't a brilliant? You
:07:47. > :07:52.have turned your attention to the wonder of dogs, a very scientific
:07:52. > :07:59.and his Doric and programme. It is, it unravels the most wonderful story
:07:59. > :08:03.of this enduring relationship between human and dogs, but it also
:08:03. > :08:07.uncovers just what astonishing creatures they are. You filmed in an
:08:07. > :08:08.uncovers just what astonishing interesting place. We went to a
:08:08. > :08:12.uncovers just what astonishing village called Brightwell in
:08:12. > :08:17.Oxfordshire, they were incredibly welcoming and patient, because we
:08:17. > :08:24.made parking a nightmare! But really we wanted to see a village as a
:08:24. > :08:26.microcosm of Britain, so of the entire population of that village,
:08:26. > :08:31.we had about 100 dogs, and about entire population of that village,
:08:31. > :08:37.of them were crossbreeds, which is actually roughly about the same as
:08:37. > :08:42.if you took it nationwide. OK. We put them to the test, we made them
:08:42. > :08:48.work for television stardom. You did indeed, this is what happened when
:08:48. > :08:51.they went swimming. The local veterinary hydra therapist
:08:51. > :08:57.encourages dogs to swim for exorcism and recuperation. Although dogs like
:08:57. > :09:03.these do not need much encouragement. When they go to
:09:03. > :09:07.retrieve a toy, that is when they engage their back legs. She is using
:09:07. > :09:20.her feet like paddles. I am just getting Buster into
:09:20. > :09:25.position, do you want to sit there? Sorry, Boris, that is why he is not
:09:25. > :09:30.listening! We are joined by two of the stars of the show, Dudley is
:09:30. > :09:33.better behaved. Very different in size, obviously, and that is
:09:33. > :09:35.illustrated in the first episode, which is about how the breeds vary
:09:36. > :09:42.illustrated in the first episode, so much. The astonishing thing, and
:09:42. > :09:46.these guys really show it clearer than anything else, you know, you
:09:46. > :09:51.would think that these two dogs, this little scrap and this one, who
:09:51. > :09:58.is 95 kilograms, about twice you, Alex, they are actually... They have
:09:58. > :10:02.one common ancestor, the wolf, and that is the same with every breed of
:10:03. > :10:05.dog. And what is astonishing is that this little chap has got the same
:10:05. > :10:12.dog. And what is astonishing is that number of bones as him. It is just
:10:12. > :10:16.that obviously he is not 95 kilos. And the thing is, what I found
:10:16. > :10:20.fascinating as well, I did not know this, the labelling, that is the
:10:20. > :10:26.story of one gene, as is the height of the dog, just one gene. -- the
:10:26. > :10:31.leg length. This is the astonishing thing, and what I loved about doing
:10:31. > :10:34.this series is that it became very obvious that, actually, dogs really
:10:34. > :10:41.mirror human history and human evolution. So what we have done is
:10:41. > :10:45.kind of created dogs through selective breeding. We have created
:10:45. > :10:51.these breeds to suit ourselves, depending on where we were in our
:10:51. > :10:53.history. So very early on, when we first made this extraordinary leap
:10:53. > :10:59.history. So very early on, when we from turning a wolf, a wild animal
:10:59. > :11:01.into a domesticated animal, we think that happened about 30,000 years
:11:01. > :11:05.ago... We have a perfect example of that happened about 30,000 years
:11:05. > :11:13.this minute relation here. Bring these in. Bring in the poodle.
:11:13. > :11:18.Breeze looks like, well, like a Crufts winner with that fantastic
:11:18. > :11:23.hairstyle. It is amazing, the styling. You would think that was a
:11:23. > :11:27.modern frivolity, but actually poodles are wonderful swimmers, and
:11:27. > :11:33.this was something that human beings, you know, basically bred
:11:33. > :11:36.these animals to take that trade and exacerbated so that they could use
:11:36. > :11:40.it for their own purposes. They could get these animals in the water
:11:40. > :11:43.to take water prey, and they would shave them so that the dogs would
:11:43. > :11:47.survive better in the water, they would not have that heavy hair on
:11:47. > :11:53.their hind ends dragging them down. They would keep their vital organs
:11:53. > :11:56.warmed by keeping the pom-poms, if you like, and the topknot was
:11:56. > :12:00.actually really important, a little bit like the dog having its own name
:12:00. > :12:05.on the top so that they could identify it. And let's have a little
:12:05. > :12:10.look at Penny, we have not got much time. Isn't she beautiful?
:12:10. > :12:19.Beautifully adapted for being a hunting dog in tunnels. Boris has
:12:19. > :12:28.travelled all over my leg! You can see more of Dudley, Boris and Breeze
:12:28. > :12:33.on the Wonder Of Dogs, tonight on BBC Two. You would not want to lose
:12:33. > :12:39.control of him, would you? With the new school term well under way, the
:12:39. > :12:44.big news for pupils is that you are no longer allowed to leave school at
:12:44. > :12:49.16, which will supposedly give young people a better start in life. I am
:12:49. > :12:54.sure there are no to do not agree as well! But is staying in school the
:12:54. > :13:01.best idea? We left some viewers -- we spoke to some viewers who left at
:13:01. > :13:05.16. I was the typical teenager, I went to school with good intentions
:13:05. > :13:10.but I was easily led, I was bored, I did not know why I was there. I
:13:10. > :13:16.didn't know what I was going to do. On the last day, I had no plan. I
:13:16. > :13:19.grew up in a very traditional household, my father went out to
:13:19. > :13:23.work and provided for us all, my mother stayed at home, and the
:13:23. > :13:30.prevailing attitude was that girls leave school at 16, get a job, then
:13:30. > :13:34.get married and have a family. I do not think I ever started education,
:13:34. > :13:38.to be honest! I was not that bad at school, but I never engaged. My
:13:38. > :13:42.great passion was always football, so up to the age of 15 I was always
:13:42. > :13:49.going to be a professional football, so I did not need maths lessons at
:13:49. > :13:53.school! University? No way, not interest. My dad said, right, what
:13:53. > :13:58.are you going to do? So the next morning I got up, got a job, and I
:13:58. > :14:02.was in full-time employment as a factory cleaner, I had a brush in my
:14:03. > :14:08.hands, but I had a scooter, I had money. Initially, I was quite cross
:14:08. > :14:12.about not being able to go on and do higher education, and certainly when
:14:12. > :14:13.I started to work I was conscious that other people were better
:14:13. > :14:18.qualified than me. I think that other people were better
:14:18. > :14:23.expectation was that when I have a family I would not work, but once
:14:23. > :14:29.they would do is cool, I got bored. A pool builders said, if you will
:14:29. > :14:35.sign for our team, you can, and lay before us. I suddenly became very
:14:35. > :14:39.focused on the brickwork, and I got a certificate to say I could lay
:14:39. > :14:47.bricks, so I wanted to get out into the big world and in some or money.
:14:47. > :14:50.The next stage was progressing. I ended up making competition can use
:14:50. > :14:57.as a laminator. I ended up selling canoes. At 23, I decided I was going
:14:57. > :15:04.to start my own business. I never looks back. My company is a £5.5
:15:04. > :15:08.million business and we employ 85 people. We supply for Formula one.
:15:08. > :15:15.We make beautiful parts that go racing every fortnight. When I was
:15:15. > :15:19.approached by somebody I had been working with about doing a PHD, I
:15:19. > :15:25.didn't automatically think it would never happen. I have just finished
:15:25. > :15:32.and hopefully I will work as an engineer. It is really exciting. I
:15:32. > :15:37.had a fancy car and I took it into the garage and swapped it for £2000
:15:37. > :15:42.and a van. We started off as a two-man operation, and we have now
:15:42. > :15:49.celebrated our 25th year in business. We have 200 vans. Thank
:15:49. > :15:52.you to Graham, Steve and Sarah. For all you butterfly fans, this is the
:15:52. > :15:58.moment. If you are making tea, comeback.
:15:58. > :16:01.Come back from the kitchen. For If you are making tea, comeback.
:16:01. > :16:05.years, scientists have wanted to see one of nature's most incredible
:16:05. > :16:08.transformations of until recently, it has remained a mystery. Mike
:16:08. > :16:16.Dilger uses the latest technology to get an inside look at the birth of a
:16:16. > :16:19.butterfly. There are more than 50 species of
:16:19. > :16:25.butterfly in Britain. From the familiar peacock to the less
:16:25. > :16:29.well-known orange tip. All of them start life as eggs before hatching
:16:29. > :16:34.into caterpillars. But now there is a new technique helping scientists
:16:34. > :16:42.to see how this turns into something like this. Caterpillars are eating
:16:42. > :16:47.machines. Once they have reached full size, something extraordinary
:16:47. > :16:52.happens. They find a quiet spot to hide away and they develop an outer
:16:52. > :16:58.layer called a chrysalis. Hidden in this plant, pretending to be a
:16:58. > :17:09.teapot, is the chrysalis of an orange tip butterfly. -- seed pod.
:17:09. > :17:12.It is crucial that it stays camouflaged over the winter so that
:17:12. > :17:15.it does and it gets spotted by a hungry blue tipped. Until recently,
:17:15. > :17:19.the only way to see the metamorphosis inside was to dissect
:17:19. > :17:25.the chrysalis. But at the University of Bath, Doctor Mark Greco is
:17:25. > :17:33.utilising a harmless technique. This CT scan x-rays chrysalis is,
:17:33. > :17:37.like this South American butterfly, and provides a 3D moving images --
:17:37. > :17:45.moving image of what is happening inside. On the left, we have a
:17:45. > :17:51.caterpillar in the late stages. It is about one day before it starts
:17:51. > :17:55.the metamorphosis. On the right, we have an early stage chrysalis, which
:17:55. > :18:03.has just started the metamorphosis. What are these? They are the chewing
:18:03. > :18:05.teeth of the caterpillar. Caterpillars need these teeth but
:18:05. > :18:10.butterflies do not so they break them down, reabsorbing them into the
:18:10. > :18:18.body. But for their life on the wing, they need a new lightweight
:18:18. > :18:23.breathing system. This structure is formed so that the insect is lighter
:18:23. > :18:27.when it flies. It acts as a bellows so the abdomen moves in and out.
:18:27. > :18:35.Effectively, it keeps the organism alive. Yes. The biggest revelation
:18:35. > :18:39.from the x-rays is how quickly these crucial changes take place. We
:18:39. > :18:43.understood what the changes were, but we did not actually realise how
:18:43. > :18:49.fast it happened. It happened within a 24-hour period. One theory is that
:18:49. > :18:56.it happens rapidly because it is when the insect is at its most
:18:56. > :19:00.honourable. -- vulnerable. Both of these changes cause the chrysalis to
:19:00. > :19:07.wriggle and attract predators. After that, it takes a week before the
:19:07. > :19:10.butterfly finally hatches. Here at the North Somerset butterfly house,
:19:10. > :19:16.I am hoping to see the final spectacle. To up our chances of
:19:16. > :19:22.seeing a butterfly emerge, we have lined up all of his chrysalis --
:19:22. > :19:26.these chrysalis is and we have been assured that they are almost ready
:19:26. > :19:30.to go. When they emerge, it happens quickly. We need to know which ones
:19:30. > :19:36.to keep an eye on. The chrysalis will start to show the colour of the
:19:36. > :19:41.butterfly wings. I think this one looks really hopeful. It is
:19:41. > :19:46.definitely one to watch. For the first two hours, there is barely a
:19:46. > :19:54.ripple. But then suddenly, there is some movement. Look, the chrysalis
:19:54. > :20:03.is just cracking and the butterfly is forcing its way out! I can just
:20:03. > :20:09.see the red, black and yellow of this butterfly's wings as it
:20:09. > :20:20.emerges. While! Forcing its way out. Here it comes. It is easing
:20:20. > :20:28.out. When it emerges, it will happen quickly. It has just split the
:20:29. > :20:35.chrysalis. There we go. And the wings just drop down, and the moment
:20:35. > :20:40.the wings are totally crinkled and unfurled, they will start to pump
:20:40. > :20:43.fluid into the wings, so they will get bigger and bigger. It will
:20:43. > :20:47.probably take an hour before the wings harden and the butterfly takes
:20:47. > :20:56.to the wing. For the very first time.
:20:56. > :21:04.Did you get any more while you were there? We saw two or three. It is
:21:04. > :21:09.such a privilege. They come out crinkled, and then they flutter off
:21:09. > :21:15.when the wings are dry. We have been inundated with butterflies in our
:21:15. > :21:17.garden. It has been a bumper crop. It is the fourth annual count of
:21:17. > :21:24.butterflies by the conservation Society. They have had an amazing
:21:24. > :21:29.number of people taking parts. 46,000 people taking part, 837,000
:21:29. > :21:32.recovered. We know why we have had such a good year. It has been
:21:32. > :21:38.gorgeous with lots of sunshine and not too much rain. And when they are
:21:38. > :21:41.mating, some of the species have gone through the roof. We have had a
:21:41. > :21:48.bumper crop of brimstone butterflies, up by 80%. There is a
:21:48. > :21:53.lovely one that hibernate as an adult. For me, the tortoiseshell
:21:53. > :22:00.butterfly is exciting, up by 388%. 388%! Do think it is just because it
:22:00. > :22:04.butterfly is exciting, up by 388%. was sunny and people were out
:22:04. > :22:08.looking? Two years ago, we hardly saw a single tortoiseshell
:22:08. > :22:16.butterfly. They were being attacked by a tiny fly. But the peacock,
:22:16. > :22:20.3000% up. A wonderful result. Tell us about these, because these are
:22:20. > :22:25.really important. There is a student called Athena Martin, who is 17 and
:22:25. > :22:29.did work experience at the Museum of Natural History. She went in and
:22:29. > :22:33.they said there were 3000 draws over there and somewhere there were a
:22:33. > :22:38.collection of Russel Wallace's butterflies. And she went through
:22:38. > :22:43.every butterfly and found butterflies collected. Collected by
:22:43. > :22:52.the great man himself. The these. That was collected near Papa New
:22:52. > :23:00.Guinea. That is his writing, collected in the RTL -- Archipelago
:23:00. > :23:08.in 1899. Look at that one right by your finger. You can just imagine
:23:08. > :23:13.Wallace going after that, catching it, snaring it, and bringing it
:23:14. > :23:19.home. 150 years later, it is in pristine condition. Lets hope she
:23:19. > :23:23.got a job at the end of it. Amazing to see. Here's a fact for you.
:23:23. > :23:25.Modern aviation in Britain started with a wild west circus cowboy
:23:25. > :23:28.called Cody. Here's another fact. He has a
:23:28. > :23:34.great-grandson working right here at the BBC. Our World Affairs Editor,
:23:34. > :23:45.John Simpson, reports. Why are you holding a remote paper?
:23:45. > :23:48.--ream of. The first man to fly a plane in Britain was a flamboyant
:23:49. > :23:53.American, a cowboy, showman and the inventor of the tight. I have
:23:53. > :23:56.learned about Cody ever since I can member. But I am always interested
:23:56. > :23:59.to find how few other people know member. But I am always interested
:23:59. > :24:02.about him. To me, he is not just a pioneer of the air. I am proud to,
:24:02. > :24:07.Silver member of his family. He pioneer of the air. I am proud to,
:24:07. > :24:11.eloped with my great-grandmother. You can see them in this archive
:24:11. > :24:16.film shot in the early 1900s. They settled in Farnborough, which became
:24:16. > :24:23.the Centre for military aviation in Britain. His designs for kites
:24:23. > :24:28.capable of lifting a man 1000 feet into the air brought him to the
:24:28. > :24:33.attention of the army. He persuaded them to use kites for
:24:33. > :24:39.reconnaissance. A historian, Jean Roberts, now lives in his old house
:24:39. > :24:44.in Farnborough. He used to ride from here on his white horse over to
:24:44. > :24:49.Farnborough, and he would tie up his horse and teach the army had to fly
:24:49. > :24:55.kites. Man lifting kites have not been bettered. A carrier kite at the
:24:55. > :25:01.bottom, you can see, with a basket. Some intrepid person would sit
:25:01. > :25:05.there. Sometimes him and sometimes my great-grandmother. You must feel
:25:05. > :25:09.close to them. I wish the House was haunted, really dumb and he would
:25:09. > :25:15.come and tell me the answers to the questions I do not quite know the
:25:15. > :25:19.archers to! He started out as a cowboy in America and worked in a
:25:19. > :25:23.wild West Circus. In 1890, he brought his sharpshooting act to
:25:23. > :25:31.Britain. My great-grandmother ran off to join his show. Peter and John
:25:31. > :25:36.Cody are my second cousins. They are as fascinated as I am by Sam Cody,
:25:36. > :25:43.the colourful showman. He used to shoot cigarettes out of Leila's
:25:43. > :25:46.mouth. They said she roared -- she wore blood red tights so that it
:25:46. > :25:49.would not show if she got a little wore blood red tights so that it
:25:49. > :25:56.nick. He did anything he could to make money. The money from the plays
:25:56. > :26:02.he wrote actually give him the money to promote his kite idea. And that
:26:02. > :26:07.went onto aircraft. He was Britain's first test pilot. That is
:26:07. > :26:11.the thing. He designed and built the planes and tested them. One day, he
:26:11. > :26:18.flew past and put his hands in the air and said, it flies itself, look!
:26:18. > :26:23.On the six teams of it over, 1908, he made the first official flight in
:26:23. > :26:30.Britain in a heavier than a machine. It only lasted 27 seconds, but Cody
:26:30. > :26:33.had flown into the history books. Farnborough interscience trust
:26:33. > :26:42.Museum has a replica of his trailblazing plane. How important
:26:42. > :26:45.was Cody? Was he just a showman? He was a showman with sufficient drive
:26:45. > :26:50.to give effect to his ideas. He had the bravery and drive to get on with
:26:50. > :26:56.building an aircraft, developing it from kites, to build the first
:26:56. > :27:01.aircraft that flew in the UK. I suppose he must have irritated the
:27:01. > :27:05.establishment. He was not a conventional chap. He was a trained
:27:05. > :27:09.cowboy. Imagine a man of that disposition with a funny accent, in
:27:10. > :27:13.the officers met in Aldershot, he would not have been what they were
:27:13. > :27:20.used to. We should remember him as a pioneer. He was the first guy in the
:27:20. > :27:25.UK to fly a proper aeroplane. And that is never going to change.
:27:25. > :27:31.Sadly, his success did not last long. In August of 1913, who was
:27:31. > :27:38.flying near Farnborough when something catastrophic happened. His
:27:38. > :27:43.aircraft fell, and he and his passenger died instantly. His
:27:43. > :27:50.funeral was attended by 100,000 mourners. This statue was recently
:27:50. > :27:55.unveiled in Farnborough and I am pleased that the flying cowboy, my
:27:55. > :27:59.great-grandfather, as I like to think of them, has been commemorated
:27:59. > :28:07.like this. I just wish that more people knew about him, that's all.
:28:07. > :28:11.More people will know now. I quite fancy ago on one of those kites. And
:28:11. > :28:15.you can see more of John's story when his episode of Who Do You Think
:28:15. > :28:18.You Are? Airs next Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One. Next week the legendary
:28:18. > :28:22.Ronnie Corbett will be here, and we want to give him some One Show
:28:22. > :28:24.viewer stories to tell from his famous chair.
:28:24. > :28:31.He is famous for his shaggy dog stories, so we would like to hear
:28:31. > :28:35.yours. If you have a funny tale about our dog that is special to
:28:35. > :28:41.you, please send it in to us. I have to show you this. Have a look
:28:41. > :28:47.at the latest edition to the baker kennels. This is Bob, 12 weeks old.
:28:47. > :28:51.He will be in training very shortly. Thanks to Kate. The Wonder of Dogs
:28:51. > :28:54.starts tonight at 8pm on BBC Two. Tomorrow Chris and I will reveal who
:28:54. > :29:00.you voted into the National Portrait Gallery, and chef James Martin tells
:29:00. > :29:00.us why he took to the skies to find Britain's best food. See you