:00:17. > :00:24.# Sleigh bells ring, are you listening
:00:24. > :00:30.# In the lane, snow is glistening # A beautiful sight
:00:30. > :00:34.# We're happy tonight # Walking in a winter wonderland
:00:34. > :00:44.# Walking in a winter won deferred, oh, yeah
:00:44. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:03.Hello welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:01:03. > :01:08.Tonight's guests are two of sapbtda's finest Christmas helpers.
:01:08. > :01:11.-- Santa. One will help you in the kitchen. The other will entertain
:01:11. > :01:18.you in the lounge. Welcome Mary Berry and Jenny Agutter!
:01:18. > :01:21.APPLAUSE How good were the Kaos Kigning
:01:21. > :01:27.Chior for Deaf and Hearing Children and the orchestra. A lovely start.
:01:28. > :01:32.A double whammy. I'm not sure the children were signing. Some of them
:01:32. > :01:39.were. Jennie, audience at home will be excited because we have an
:01:39. > :01:43.exclusive clip of Call the Midwif later. You did do that? Yes,
:01:43. > :01:46.Christmas Day, my son was due on January 28. I woke up feeling a
:01:46. > :01:53.little uncomfortable on Christmas morning. I called the obstetrician.
:01:53. > :01:59.He asked if I was in labour. I said, "I don't know. I don't feel right."
:01:59. > :02:05.So call the midwife we did. That could have been your mum. I was
:02:05. > :02:09.born on the 23 rd. I'm not sure when I was due. More from that
:02:09. > :02:13.wonderful choir and the Paraorchestra later on. There they
:02:13. > :02:16.are, look, yes! Making their presence felt. They're in reception
:02:16. > :02:23.and we can hear them from here, which is marvellous. It's not just
:02:23. > :02:27.that. Also, we have Mary Berry's Christmas Cake Clinic coming up. If
:02:27. > :02:32.you have a question for Mary about your Christmas cake, don't be shy
:02:32. > :02:40.and e-mail it to us. Jennie, you have a question already.
:02:40. > :02:44.I do. Lots of questions. As we look forward to the holidays, very easy
:02:44. > :02:48.to forget that just a few weeks ago vast swathes of the UK were under
:02:48. > :02:53.water after a deluge of rain and apparently there's more on the rain.
:02:53. > :03:00.Malmesbury in Wiltshire walgz one of the -- was one of the worst hit
:03:00. > :03:07.towns. The community of Malmesbury holds
:03:07. > :03:11.the title of the oldest borough in Britain, created in 880AD by Alfred
:03:11. > :03:15.the great. Recently this town has become famous for a less desirable
:03:15. > :03:22.reason. After days of rain, the river Avon burst its banks and
:03:22. > :03:25.caused the worst flooding this area has seen in 70 years. I'm now off
:03:25. > :03:30.to meet Jennie, whose house was the most affected by the floods. She's
:03:30. > :03:33.going to show me around and show me what devastation happened to her
:03:33. > :03:39.home. It actually reached the top of the big and. It started then
:03:39. > :03:43.coming over the wall. It's ruined everything out here. This is the
:03:43. > :03:48.line on the wall where the water got to, here. We come in this door
:03:48. > :03:52.and we have our dining room here. This is where we all sit at
:03:52. > :03:56.Christmas. We decorate this and my children like it decorated in the
:03:56. > :04:00.same fashion, so we hang things from the beams. They always want it
:04:00. > :04:06.the same. We put the tree in the same place and make it really
:04:06. > :04:10.Christmasy. It's absolutely ruined. Yes, it is. It has caused chaos in
:04:10. > :04:13.our lives. Jennie is not the only one who had Christmas plans
:04:13. > :04:17.disrupted. The local amateur dramatic society had a battle to
:04:17. > :04:22.save this year's panto, an important event in the community.
:04:22. > :04:28.Tell me a bit about what happened. It came so quickly, that was the
:04:28. > :04:32.thing. And in the mid. Night. could see it was a torrent. I held
:04:32. > :04:36.onto the rails along the side here and came through. It came up to top
:04:36. > :04:40.of my thigh level. You don't know what you're stepping in. We didn't
:04:40. > :04:45.know whether the man hole out there was a man hole. You could have gone
:04:45. > :04:49.down the hole. I knew we had to get everything out of here, the set,
:04:49. > :04:52.costumes, everything. Other-wise we'd have lost it and we wouldn't
:04:52. > :04:58.have done pantomime. How much impact would that have had on the
:04:58. > :05:01.community? It's part of the run up to Christmas. It would have been, I
:05:01. > :05:05.think it would have been devastating. Just next door, the
:05:05. > :05:10.local football club have not been so lucky. Phill and Julie, who run
:05:10. > :05:15.it voluntarily were already struggling to keep it afloat.
:05:15. > :05:19.the worst stage it was virtually up to your waist in the middle of the
:05:19. > :05:22.pitch. The club hasn't got a lot of finances behind it. We just
:05:22. > :05:28.couldn't afford to be shut. Tell us a bit about the damage that was
:05:28. > :05:31.caused here. The doors are damaged. The walls are damaged. Will the
:05:31. > :05:36.insurance cover it? No, there's no insurance, not for flooding. We
:05:36. > :05:41.have to find the money for it. I don't know how. What does that
:05:41. > :05:49.imply? The first team playing has to have showers working or else you
:05:49. > :05:54.can't play the game. So we will not be open then. That means no money
:05:54. > :05:58.coming in. I'm really worried. While the football club are left
:05:58. > :06:02.saving themselves, Tom and Carol, who run the nearest pub to the
:06:02. > :06:06.flooding, were helping save others. It came up to our front door. It
:06:06. > :06:12.was coming across the road and it was coming out in waves and going
:06:12. > :06:16.into the houses. They waded through the water and it was freezing. It's
:06:16. > :06:19.not surprising that people were a bit shocked. We gave people teas
:06:19. > :06:23.and coffee and anything they wanted to warm people up, put the heating
:06:23. > :06:26.on. Do you think the floods coming so close to Christmas has affected
:06:26. > :06:30.the mood in the town? It hasn't helped the people because they had
:06:30. > :06:32.to move out of their homes. It's probably not a very good Christmas
:06:32. > :06:42.for them. They've lost some property. At least they've still
:06:42. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:48.got their health, I suppose. Each other. And each other. That's
:06:48. > :06:55.terrible isn't it. Jennie you were saying that you had problems in
:06:55. > :07:00.Cornwall recently. Yes, I feel for them. There was water in a utility
:07:00. > :07:04.room and started to move it up and I was thinking no it's getting more
:07:04. > :07:08.and more. There was an open pipe had come into the room from outside,
:07:08. > :07:13.which is a higher level. It was just pouring through. I looked at
:07:13. > :07:17.it behind the boiler and then had to do like the little girl in the
:07:17. > :07:21.dyke put the thumb in and stop it. When you're trying to fight nature
:07:21. > :07:24.it's very scary. That's right. Fortunately it did stop the hole.
:07:24. > :07:27.Then we found out where it was coming in the back of the house. If
:07:27. > :07:31.we hadn't been there it would have been through the house, carpets,
:07:31. > :07:38.everything. Poor people have been suffering a lot. As we saw there,
:07:38. > :07:42.it has not been the best of build ups to Christmas in Malmesbury.
:07:42. > :07:45.Angellica is there now. I'm here at Malmesbury Town Hall
:07:45. > :07:49.where there's fun and excitement in the air, because through those
:07:49. > :07:53.doors there, the good and great of Malmesbury community have come
:07:53. > :07:58.together to get into the festive spirit. They've had three hard
:07:58. > :08:01.weeks, but they felt it important that they come together. That's
:08:01. > :08:06.correct. The community have been fantastic over the last three weeks.
:08:06. > :08:10.The victims have been rehoused. Everybody has pulled together.
:08:10. > :08:14.Through the help of the community, organisations and yourselves, we've
:08:14. > :08:19.thrown a party for them this evening. Everybody is in great
:08:19. > :08:22.festive cheer. Go and have a pince pie and save me one. Heather
:08:22. > :08:26.Shepherd is here from the national flood forum. Some of the issues
:08:26. > :08:29.that were faced here aren't unique. What can other communities do who
:08:29. > :08:32.are at risk in the future? Best thing to do is form a flood action
:08:32. > :08:35.group to work in partnership with agencies and authorities to reduce
:08:36. > :08:39.your risk and the national flood forum can help support you do this.
:08:39. > :08:44.If you're watching at home now and you think you live in an area at
:08:44. > :08:48.high risk, what can you do? Look on the Environment Agency's website.
:08:48. > :08:54.Check out if you have flood warnings directly available. Sign
:08:54. > :08:59.up for them to get warnings on your mobile and your text. How can you
:08:59. > :09:04.come up with a comprehensive flood plan? By the community getting
:09:04. > :09:07.together. They can think about what volunteers there are in the
:09:07. > :09:12.community, how sandbags could be stored... So there's lots of ways
:09:12. > :09:16.that can be helped. Yes. Excellent. Thanks guys. Come back to us where
:09:16. > :09:19.the party will be in full swing. We have a special guest who Mary might
:09:19. > :09:24.recognise who has brought in a lovely cake.
:09:24. > :09:29.Somebody Mary might recognise. exciting. Talking of lovely cakes,
:09:29. > :09:33.Mary you've brought cake. I can't go anywhere without it. I had the
:09:33. > :09:39.messages. It's lovely. What's this one? This is my mother's. It's a
:09:39. > :09:44.treacle spiced sponge. It's a traybake, which is so easy to do.
:09:44. > :09:49.It's easy to cut up and you're dying to taste. We are dying to
:09:49. > :09:57.taste it. Shall I chop it. Mum used to make a lot of traybakes from
:09:57. > :10:01.your book. Are you all right kneeling down there? I'm quite
:10:02. > :10:05.happy. What other recipes that were your mother's are in the book?
:10:05. > :10:10.slipped in her bread and butter pudding because I love it. It's not
:10:10. > :10:14.one of the fancy chef ones you know lots of cream and brioche, it's as
:10:14. > :10:21.it should be, just bread and enormous amount - don't mind my
:10:21. > :10:25.fingers. This is like a Christmas party this. Perfect. And Matt has
:10:25. > :10:28.actually been baking himself this morning. This is the thing, I got
:10:28. > :10:33.lost in your baking Bible. That's where all these recipes are fro
:10:33. > :10:35.from. I had a go this morning with my three-year-old daughter at
:10:35. > :10:40.making the chocolate and vanilla making the chocolate and vanilla
:10:40. > :10:45.marble cake. I wanted that moment on the Bake
:10:45. > :10:50.Off when you cut it open. Doesn't that look professional. My wife
:10:50. > :10:57.said to me, make sure you cut it into slices so Mary doesn't see how
:10:57. > :11:02.much of a mess you've made of it. Shall I do a real Bake Off thing. I
:11:02. > :11:07.must cut it across. I'm intrigued. It's cutting through. Will there be
:11:07. > :11:13.a marble effect? Look at the top, the zig zagging. And he hasn't only
:11:13. > :11:17.done it with milk chocolate, but plain chocolate. Then we look and...
:11:17. > :11:24.I don't believe it. Is that ments to look like that? Skhactly. --
:11:24. > :11:30.skhractly. APPLAUSE
:11:30. > :11:40.-- exactly. You managed it very well. That's very good. It's
:11:40. > :11:43.beautifully baked. Shall I look underneath? No soggy bottom. Look
:11:44. > :11:47.at. That brilliant. Your mum must have been relieved that you went
:11:47. > :11:52.into baking because you were a bit of a naughty girl at school.
:11:52. > :11:58.think she was very relieved because you know, Latin and maths weren't
:11:58. > :12:05.very good. In fact they were non- existent. So when it came to, at
:12:05. > :12:10.school you were divided, you either did Latin and maths or the dimmest
:12:10. > :12:16.did domestic science. Then when I went to class, we had this
:12:16. > :12:21.wonderful teacher, a little, short lady Miss Date. Instead of people,
:12:21. > :12:29.you know my teachers always saying "You can do better. That was no
:12:29. > :12:36.good." She was saying, "That was good. "I -- you took the things
:12:36. > :12:40.home. Dad, when I brought treacle pudding home, he said "This is as
:12:40. > :12:45.good as mum's." It all started like. That it's all to do with the
:12:45. > :12:48.teacher. It is. You started in -- starred in your first film at 11
:12:48. > :12:54.years old. Did you ever think of doing anything else or was the
:12:54. > :12:58.career path that you chose? then. I enjoyed it. By the time I
:12:58. > :13:03.was 15, 16, I was having to make decisions because I couldn't really
:13:03. > :13:06.study and do it, so I carried on with the career. Which is a stupid
:13:06. > :13:10.move to make really. Because you don't know what's going to happen.
:13:10. > :13:15.But it worked out. After school you did your exams and those
:13:15. > :13:20.qualifications, but then you wents to people's houses and teached them
:13:20. > :13:24.how to make Victoria sponges working for the electric board?
:13:24. > :13:27.first job was with the electricity board. We were called home service
:13:27. > :13:33.advisors. If you bought a cooker, you had the option of having
:13:33. > :13:37.somebody like me come to your house in a little Ford Popular, that was
:13:37. > :13:40.fun because I didn't have a car, you sat up and begged to drive. It
:13:40. > :13:44.I would take the ingredients for the cake and I would make it in
:13:44. > :13:49.front of them and tell them how to do it. It was a good thing.
:13:49. > :13:53.long did you do that for? I was there three years. Then I made this,
:13:53. > :13:58.I wasn't allowed to go to London until I was 21. I was dying to get
:13:58. > :14:05.there. Then I moved on to a job in London.
:14:05. > :14:10.That was good practice to do demos. We have to talk about the Bake Off.
:14:10. > :14:17.It's a phenomenal success since it started in 2010. You and Paul have
:14:17. > :14:22.distinctive styles when it comes to Just don't. Isn't he unkind.
:14:22. > :14:26.That ginger cake is over baked. least there is no soggy bottoms. We
:14:26. > :14:29.have lost the wine. Are you sure you didn't have a little tipple
:14:29. > :14:32.before you started? I don't like that at all.
:14:32. > :14:42.I think you have made something that looks wonderful and tempting
:14:42. > :14:44.to eat... But taste disgusting. The taste is not very appealing.
:14:44. > :14:48.APPLAUSE It seems you are never off the
:14:48. > :14:54.telly. You have got a series of your own coming up next year I will
:14:55. > :14:58.have. I am doing 2-1 off programmes on my life and then I am going to
:14:58. > :15:03.do real cooking, the sort that I do for my family and that will be six
:15:03. > :15:07.programmes and it will be Mary Berry Cooks so I can cook and bake.
:15:07. > :15:13.And when can we expect to see that? I am not too sure. I think it will
:15:13. > :15:21.be after the Bake Off, I hope. Indeed, something to look forward
:15:21. > :15:27.to. You have to try my cake. Mary'sbible is out now.
:15:27. > :15:31.Some people buy mince pies and party food. I mean I condition
:15:32. > :15:36.believe it. I -- I can't believe it. I mean, I was shocked to hear the
:15:36. > :15:39.news. Out of interest, if you did want to go out and try some of
:15:39. > :15:44.those off-the-shelf Christmas goodies, how do you go about
:15:44. > :15:49.knowing which ones to choose? Well, you could open the box in the
:15:49. > :15:54.you could open the box in the supermarket and try one!
:15:54. > :15:59.Ah, Christmas, all those delicious goodies waiting to be devoured. Of
:15:59. > :16:06.course, Christmas can be expensive and times are tough, I want to find
:16:06. > :16:10.out are the luxury ranges always best? I am setting out my own The
:16:10. > :16:15.One Show stall with the help of the visitors here I am going to find
:16:15. > :16:18.the best mince pie, the most glorious mulled wine and the
:16:18. > :16:22.tastiest canape. There is a lot of mince pies here.
:16:22. > :16:27.Only the best will make it on to my stall. So I have already
:16:27. > :16:30.shortlisted what I think is the topic in three supermarket priced
:16:30. > :16:34.categories, that's budget, mid- range and luxury.
:16:34. > :16:38.I am not going to be giving the game away, we are going to be
:16:38. > :16:42.asking people to judge things on taste and appearance. We We won't
:16:42. > :16:52.tell them which is which and we will keep the score and by the end
:16:52. > :16:52.
:16:52. > :16:57.of the za, we might have -- day we might have winners.
:16:57. > :17:05.I prefer the first one. You chose the Morrison value range.
:17:05. > :17:08.You are a cheap date, mate! You went for the Lidl. There we go.
:17:08. > :17:12.And it is German. It is probably more authentic.
:17:12. > :17:16.This one. I suspect it is the cheaper one, is it? No, it is the
:17:16. > :17:23.most expensive. A party is not a party without a
:17:23. > :17:30.canape, so we have got posh M&S, mid-range Sainsbury's, and our
:17:30. > :17:33.cheapest, Morrisons smoked salmon bites. Would you like a canape?
:17:33. > :17:39.Nice but not as nice as the other ones.
:17:39. > :17:44.So you have gone for the ones in the middle? Yes.
:17:44. > :17:48.The mid-range, Sainsbury's. Bring on the mince pies, Britain's
:17:48. > :17:53.biggest supermarket, Tesco expects to sell 39 million of them over the
:17:53. > :17:58.festive period. My top three are going down well in Winchester. The
:17:58. > :18:06.upper upper cust option is M&S, from Waitrose it is the cheaper
:18:06. > :18:14.Christmas all butter mince pies and the least expensive, Aldi's.
:18:14. > :18:24.You have gone for the luxury M&S mince pies and you have gone for
:18:24. > :18:25.
:18:25. > :18:30.the Aldi own brand. You went for the M&S luxury range.
:18:30. > :18:35.Of course. I could see by your shopping bag,
:18:35. > :18:39.you are that kind of woman. So to the moment of truth, which
:18:39. > :18:47.will be crowned Winchester's favourites?
:18:47. > :18:51.The winning mince pie was M&S's ultimate all butter. Winchester's
:18:51. > :18:57.favourite mulled wine was Tesco Premium.
:18:57. > :19:00.And our canape choice was M&S, Salmon and asparagus blanket. It
:19:01. > :19:04.was close, but all three winners were from the premium ranges, so
:19:04. > :19:12.for most people here today, you do get what you pay for. Merry
:19:12. > :19:17.There we are, yes and we will pick up on that point that you finished
:19:17. > :19:21.on Jake, because it was close almost disappointed that the
:19:21. > :19:25.premium ranges did win out, but there was a strong showing for all
:19:25. > :19:28.the products particularly for the value ranges and the med ranges,
:19:28. > :19:32.more people chose the premium, but it was across-the-board.
:19:32. > :19:36.And we have one more taste test. We are eat ago lot on this show, but
:19:36. > :19:41.it is Christmas. Which Christmas cake is the best now. We have three
:19:41. > :19:51.different Christmas cakes. We have three different Christmas
:19:51. > :19:58.cakes from different price points. There is one at �6.99 and one at
:19:58. > :20:03.�13.50 per per 2lbs. I don't want to say which is which. So we have
:20:03. > :20:08.to pick the favourite? If you are shopping in cheaper places, does
:20:08. > :20:13.that mean you will get a lower quality in ingredients? What you
:20:13. > :20:18.are paying for is a range. When you go into one of the big supermarkets,
:20:18. > :20:21.tell have 10 or 15 Christmas cakes and if you go go into the
:20:21. > :20:25.discounters, there will be one. Less of the branding and the
:20:25. > :20:29.marketing. A lot of what you pay for in supermarkets is branding and
:20:29. > :20:35.marketing. Ladies, have you tried all three cakes.
:20:35. > :20:41.I'm going for that one. Mary? going to agree with you.
:20:41. > :20:48.That one. There will not be much left for me.
:20:48. > :20:52.All four of you have gone for that one? I like the nuts.
:20:52. > :20:57.As you cut through, there are proper big pieces of nut in there
:20:57. > :21:01.which I enjoy and they will be be soft and big pieces of cherry. I am
:21:01. > :21:06.interested in the hole in the middle. Perhaps it went down.
:21:06. > :21:09.I think it is a design feature. We will get to which one that is.
:21:09. > :21:18.You have got the sign nearest to you, Matt.
:21:18. > :21:23.This is Aldi's holly veil, their own range, and it is �6.99 and
:21:23. > :21:30.that's a good bit of cake. It is good value.
:21:30. > :21:37.This is dear old Betty's and it is �13 for 2lbs. There is a lot of
:21:37. > :21:43.marzipan and icing on that one. All of you went for the mid-range which
:21:43. > :21:47.is Sainsbury's rich iced fruit cake. So what it has shown us, I tried
:21:47. > :21:53.cakes from across the range, these were my favourites at all the price
:21:53. > :21:58.points. You have gone for the the mid-range which shows what I know!
:21:58. > :22:03.Jay, thank you. Have a very nice Christmas lunch. I am sure you will.
:22:03. > :22:06.We have got Mary's Christmas Cake Clinic. The questions are coming in
:22:07. > :22:11.thick and fast. The One Show has been behind the
:22:11. > :22:15.scenes at one of the most important events taking place in year in the
:22:15. > :22:19.build-up to Christmas. We are not talking about
:22:19. > :22:26.preparation for the Queen's Christmas speech. This is even
:22:26. > :22:29.bigger. We are talking - the school nativity play!
:22:29. > :22:36.# It is beginning to look like Christmas #
:22:36. > :22:41.We have selected a nativity play which is called It's A Baby. We are
:22:41. > :22:43.excited to be doing that in Battlefield. Good afternoon, boys
:22:43. > :22:50.and girls. Good afternoon.
:22:50. > :22:57.Boys and girls, do you all know why we are here today? Yes.
:22:57. > :23:00.We are here as the big first casting for our school nativity. I
:23:00. > :23:05.wanted to be Mary when I was younger and never quite made the
:23:05. > :23:11.part. I was too competitive. Which characters do we need to have
:23:11. > :23:18.in our nativity play? The inn keeper.
:23:18. > :23:23.We need an inn keeper. I could pick many of them to be Mary and Joseph
:23:23. > :23:31.or the inn keeper King Herod.
:23:31. > :23:38.Is he a nice man, Stella? No. he is not a nice man at all. It is
:23:38. > :23:45.the first year that we have had the choir involved in it and I am
:23:45. > :23:47.hoping they will get as much out of it being P6 and and P7 this year.
:23:47. > :23:51.I want to show people that I can sing.
:23:51. > :23:55.It will be brilliant to be able to be part of it. I would like to play
:23:55. > :24:05.the nar rator. The last time I didn't get a good
:24:05. > :24:08.role. I was a shepherd and I got to say, "Ba.". Most people know we are
:24:08. > :24:12.brother and sister because we are talkative.
:24:12. > :24:21.If I get to be a narrator, that would be cool.
:24:21. > :24:25.The song choices are really, really hard.
:24:25. > :24:31.All the children call me auntie, I'm Hazel's auntie and of course,
:24:31. > :24:37.auntie has stuck ever since. When an angel came before, as she bowed
:24:37. > :24:47.her head he said... I bring you good news. You are to have a baby
:24:47. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:57.boy. In your job as a teacher, you are a character and often you have
:24:57. > :24:59.
:24:59. > :25:03.to keep this character going within your teaching as well. We are going
:25:03. > :25:07.to do the casting for the nativity. Ladies, who do we choose for the
:25:07. > :25:12.inn keeper? We have decided on a few from each of the classes that
:25:12. > :25:15.would be strong personalities and confident. I see Louis as the per
:25:15. > :25:19.effect inn keeper. He is so confident and he would sing his
:25:19. > :25:23.heart out for it and learn the lines. Absolutely.
:25:23. > :25:33.Louis, would you like to stand up, please?
:25:33. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:39.Louis, we would like you to be our inn keeper.
:25:39. > :25:42.APPLAUSE Mary and Joseph, we have got Louis
:25:42. > :25:45.who is from my class for inn keeper. Ella in your class is really
:25:45. > :25:50.confident and she would remember her lines and things like that,
:25:50. > :25:54.wouldn't she? Mary needs to know what to do and when to do it.
:25:54. > :26:01.I think Ella would be good. My mum knows about things because
:26:01. > :26:11.she goes around the world a lot. Ella, would you like to be Mary? Up
:26:11. > :26:14.
:26:14. > :26:17.you stand then. APPLAUSE
:26:17. > :26:20.Joseph, that's a big - well, I know Vicky can't be with us now, she
:26:20. > :26:24.suggested from her class, Michael? I think I might be somebody that I
:26:25. > :26:34.want to be. Joseph. Right, so the next thing we need to do is
:26:34. > :26:37.organise our narrators and our soloists. The brother and sister, I
:26:37. > :26:41.think there is a really nice bond and it would be really nice to see
:26:41. > :26:43.them up there narrating. I just hope it is a huge success and the
:26:44. > :26:48.children get up on stage and have a ball.
:26:48. > :26:50.Ah, it is exciting stuff. It is a three parter this. We have
:26:50. > :26:52.rehearsals tomorrow and the performance is Friday. I'm so
:26:52. > :26:59.pleased. They are so excited.
:26:59. > :27:06.I am chuffed for that lad with the long hair as he was the shepherd
:27:06. > :27:11.last year and he got to say ba. Do you remember your first
:27:11. > :27:21.nativity? We used to have the same nativity every year P. Did you have
:27:21. > :27:23.to work your way up its roles? Everybody Wanted to be the angel
:27:23. > :27:27.Gabriel. So you had to express through
:27:27. > :27:34.movement. There was no speaking? Not too much flapping either, but
:27:34. > :27:37.there was a lot of Allah lay lieuia. Now, if you were in a nativity play
:27:37. > :27:43.back in the day, we want to see your photo and we would like to
:27:43. > :27:50.though what your best line was or maybe your best dance or whatever.
:27:50. > :27:55.My line was beguile, beguile, which means shepherd, shepherd.
:27:55. > :28:00.Sen them in -- send them in. Millions Jenny, will be tuning in,
:28:00. > :28:04.of course, Christmas night to see Call the Midwife the Christmas
:28:04. > :28:09.Christmas Special and the birthing scenes are realistic so how then do
:28:09. > :28:13.you go about filming them? How do you get babies that look brand-new?
:28:13. > :28:17.It takes a day and you have lots of rehearsals before and for the
:28:17. > :28:23.babies they have to book them in advance because you want them days
:28:23. > :28:26.old... There is a booking service for mums Yes. Then they don't
:28:26. > :28:28.arrive on time so you have got to book more than one and they might
:28:28. > :28:33.arrive early and the baby is a month old.
:28:33. > :28:38.I am guessing they are second babies. First time mums would they
:28:38. > :28:42.be up for a day's filming? Some are first time mums, they must have
:28:42. > :28:46.some association with the show or people on it so they feel relaxed
:28:46. > :28:49.and twins, it is good if you can find twins because, of course, they
:28:49. > :28:51.are smaller and plus the fact that you can actually exchange the
:28:51. > :29:00.twins... LAUGHTER
:29:00. > :29:04.Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Of course, you work with Miranda. She was saying
:29:04. > :29:09.how nice it is for her to do something serious, I bet she is a
:29:09. > :29:12.bit joky on the set set? You know what she is like. She is great fun
:29:12. > :29:16.to be around. She has a nativity play in the special.
:29:17. > :29:20.We showed that clip last week. There is some wonderful photographs
:29:20. > :29:23.from it in the book that we have got as well which are really
:29:23. > :29:27.terrific. There is lots of Christmas Christmas stuff in it.
:29:27. > :29:30.We have got an early Christmas present for all the Call the
:29:30. > :29:34.Midwife fans out there, this is a clip that hasn't been seen ever
:29:34. > :29:40.before. Here it is. It is a hard time of year to spend
:29:40. > :29:48.too much time alone. Can you tell me where you live? We can send
:29:48. > :29:54.someone to look in on you to make sure you are you are being properly
:29:54. > :30:02.taken care of. Shoe doesn't look well. Old age,
:30:02. > :30:04.poverty. APPLAUSE
:30:04. > :30:06.Many people are really excited about the episode on Christmas Day.
:30:06. > :30:11.There was a familiar face there. Yes, Sheila Reid.
:30:11. > :30:18.I am sure she loves that line. "she doesn't look well. She is very
:30:18. > :30:22.old." She looks cleaner in Benidorm!
:30:22. > :30:25.The new series is back in the New Year. Does it start in January?
:30:25. > :30:27.Towards the end of January and there is eight of them this time
:30:27. > :30:31.and there will be all sorts of issues.
:30:31. > :30:37.Well, if you haven't already made a note, Call the Midwife is on BBC
:30:37. > :30:42.One at 7.30pm on Christmas Day. Alex, you know what we need to do
:30:42. > :30:51.now - Call the Midwife! In you come. It is the Big welcome
:30:51. > :30:55.to Rebecca and Alice who are dressed in 50s midwifery gear. You
:30:55. > :31:02.look modern even though it was 1950s. We don't usually dress like
:31:02. > :31:06.this. We are both student midwives. You would see us in a set of scrubs
:31:06. > :31:11.or our own clothes. Why are you are you dressed in
:31:11. > :31:17.this? This is the second time we got to wore this. We organised a
:31:17. > :31:21.big bike ride through Central London which was part of the RCM's
:31:21. > :31:26.protect maternity services campaign. Midwifery has become a popular
:31:26. > :31:30.subject for applicants to apply for at university and since Call the
:31:30. > :31:39.Midwife aired we have seen a 17% increase in the number of
:31:39. > :31:44.applicants to midwifery places. It is wonderful. We were told that
:31:44. > :31:47.midwives weren't celebrated. Aalso, you were inspired by the series,
:31:47. > :31:53.weren't you? It was so magical reading the book and really nice
:31:53. > :31:59.seeing it brought to life on the screen. How does real life
:31:59. > :32:03.midwifery compare? Less cycling, but just as magical. It has been
:32:03. > :32:07.really, really good. Have you had the chance... Each
:32:07. > :32:11.birth is very important. Sud Suddenly it happens to you and you
:32:11. > :32:17.never had the experience. I really remembered that. I got to
:32:17. > :32:20.see a breach birth a few months ago and watching the breach birth on
:32:21. > :32:26.Call the Midwife really was very present in my head as I was
:32:26. > :32:30.watching it. Wow, that's incredible.
:32:30. > :32:34.So there is a shortage of midwives? It is around relationship between
:32:34. > :32:38.the two. There is a baby boom happening at the moment. More
:32:38. > :32:41.babies were born last year than in any year since 1971, but the
:32:41. > :32:46.trouble is that is not the number of babies being born reason being
:32:46. > :32:51.matched by the number of midwives who need to really safely deliver
:32:51. > :32:56.them and provide the support and really care and advice that mothers
:32:56. > :33:02.need during pregnancy and childbirth. We had a loss -- we
:33:02. > :33:08.have a loss of 5,000 pid wid mifs. -- midwives.
:33:08. > :33:13.When When will you qualify? Not until September 2014.
:33:13. > :33:17.It is a wonderful career. Jenny, you will know this, going in and
:33:17. > :33:21.out of maternity wards, the place is littered with thank you cards
:33:21. > :33:25.and people are appreciative of the work that you do. You can see that
:33:25. > :33:28.from the programme what a fantastic celebration of a profession that
:33:28. > :33:32.has an important role in UK society and services that are provided for
:33:32. > :33:38.women in the NHS. It is brilliant. Are you a fan, Mary of Call the
:33:38. > :33:44.Midwife? I am. I know what I will be doing at 7.30pm on Christmas Day.
:33:44. > :33:48.After the washing up! I'm del delegating it!
:33:48. > :33:54.Thank you. Now it had a long glittering
:33:54. > :34:03.history and at this time of year we go mad for it.
:34:03. > :34:06.No, it is not Cliff Richard, it is tinsel!
:34:06. > :34:11.There are six days left until Christmas, but if you are anything
:34:11. > :34:17.like me there are a few things left on your festive to do list, not
:34:17. > :34:25.least decorating your home with a little bit of seasonal bling.
:34:25. > :34:29.From the Nordic style to 50s retro and winter wonderland. No scheme is
:34:29. > :34:33.complete without this stuff. I am going to be taking you inside
:34:33. > :34:38.a secret world of tinsel, revealing everything you ever wanted to know
:34:38. > :34:42.about this glittering industry, but hadn't thought to ask!
:34:42. > :34:46.Let's start at the beginning, tinsel has been around since the
:34:46. > :34:53.17th century and that means to sparkle.
:34:53. > :35:01.Fast forward a few hundred years and I am in Tinseltown, UK, also
:35:01. > :35:06.known as South Wales at an unlikely looking Christmas grottoe. Festive
:35:07. > :35:16.Productions limited is Britain's only only tinsel factory. They made
:35:17. > :35:17.
:35:17. > :35:21.enough of the stuff in 2012 to wrap First off, a lot of tinsel here.
:35:21. > :35:26.Only a few days left to sell it. No-one's going to buy this stuff,
:35:26. > :35:30.mate. We're manufacturing for 2013. We have gone into production.
:35:30. > :35:34.You're living next Christmas. You are going to tell me, how does
:35:34. > :35:37.it work, how do you make tinsel? You take the shiny material and
:35:37. > :35:42.pass it through. It shreds the material, through the rollers,
:35:42. > :35:48.where we add wires. We pass it down into the bin. The way I would
:35:48. > :35:54.describe it then, if you think of a Kandy Floss machine, then it mixed
:35:54. > :35:58.prot duct which gives you the -- the product which gives you the end
:35:58. > :36:02.result. What colours go well together? Red and gold. Red and
:36:02. > :36:08.green. A lot of colours don't work well, if you mix black-and-blue
:36:08. > :36:13.together on a tree, it looks drab. I've gone for the most garish I can
:36:13. > :36:19.think of. This is not bad. That is actually nicer than I thought.
:36:19. > :36:25.That's quite tasteful. I've got enough tinsel now to last me a life
:36:25. > :36:30.time. So the question is - how to hang it.
:36:30. > :36:35.I've come to meet Maxine, a woman who has dedicated the last decade
:36:35. > :36:39.of her life to making our Christmas windows sparkle. What are your top
:36:39. > :36:47.tips for tinselling? Try and steer clear of more than two colours on
:36:47. > :36:53.your tree. Always start at the back. Then you just lovely swags that you
:36:53. > :36:56.can get. Swags? Get this lovely effect if you go up and down.
:36:56. > :37:01.much would be too much tinsel? would say you wouldn't want more
:37:01. > :37:05.than three layers. You'd want to finish around about this level.
:37:05. > :37:08.last question - should tinsel stay on the tree? What about over the
:37:08. > :37:12.picture frames, window frames, that kind of thing? You get the best
:37:12. > :37:18.effect when you have it with lights. Wherever you have lights you could
:37:18. > :37:23.put sin tell and I would say that should always be the tree.
:37:23. > :37:28.We have a few picture frames with tinsel frame. You can do sin tell
:37:28. > :37:38.overkill you know. Last time Justin was here, he was talking about the
:37:38. > :37:44.
:37:44. > :37:51.Leveson Inquiry. Tonight welcome Justin Tinsel Rowlatt. We have made
:37:51. > :38:01.lovely tinsel broaches leaving the very fashionable ginghamment --
:38:01. > :38:01.
:38:01. > :38:09.gang ham. I like that. Put it on the table if you like. That's
:38:09. > :38:14.lovely. I made this myself. This is The One Show tinsel. Have a look.
:38:14. > :38:18.You made this in couple Brawn. can't buy this in the shops. What
:38:18. > :38:25.do you mean you make it sni, you choose the colours and you weave
:38:25. > :38:30.them together. You can produce 25 metres every six minutes. I can't
:38:30. > :38:35.wait to get home and get swagging. What did you find out then, are we
:38:35. > :38:39.still a nation of tinsel lovers? put a crack investigative team on
:38:39. > :38:44.this, spent two days. I'm not joking. He's trying too make it
:38:44. > :38:50.serious. I'm serious. We looked at all the statistics we could find.
:38:50. > :38:55.They reckon we spend �2 billion on decorations. We couldn't break it
:38:55. > :39:02.down to tinsel. There's still a big market for it. There's a lot of
:39:02. > :39:10.mystery surrounding it. You want the cliter. That's the origins of -
:39:10. > :39:17.- Glitter. That's the origins of tinsel. Apparently, it was Germany
:39:17. > :39:21.in about the 17th century they started hanging glittering metal to
:39:21. > :39:29.reflect the candle light. There's speculation, we spoke to an expert
:39:29. > :39:33.on 17th century, and she imagined it would come over then. Britain
:39:33. > :39:37.was interested in German traditions. No evidence of it. We spoke to a
:39:38. > :39:43.guy who knew about the Victorian Christmas at Windsor Castle. No
:39:43. > :39:50.tinsel on the tree. I'm pleased we did this item. I know it's
:39:50. > :39:54.fascinating. An expert on a 19th century home, he looked at hundreds
:39:54. > :39:57.of Christmas cards. Speculation amongst scholars is that German
:39:57. > :40:01.immigrants to America brought the tradition of hanging twinkling
:40:01. > :40:09.stuff. Americans made it into ice kulz around the turn of the last
:40:09. > :40:13.century and we imported that in 1930. So tinsel is very new.
:40:13. > :40:16.intrigued. Mary is an expert at decorating a cake, but what is your
:40:16. > :40:23.tree like? My tree is a real tree. We have them in the bottom field
:40:23. > :40:30.and cut our own. It is, I'm afraid, in red and silver and my tinsel is
:40:30. > :40:40.just silver. Just the thin strands? You'd love a bit of this wouldn't
:40:40. > :40:40.
:40:40. > :40:45.you? No, I wouldn't. I hate it. you want to take it home? It will
:40:45. > :40:48.go on the mantelpiece and with the cards. My husband is Swedish and we
:40:48. > :40:57.celebrate a Swedish Christmas. We have the straw decorations and they
:40:57. > :41:02.do have little gingham dresses on, angels and made of straw. Tip is,
:41:02. > :41:08.gingham for 2013 actually. That's the inside tip. The only concrete
:41:08. > :41:13.faggot you've brought with you. fact you've brought with you.
:41:13. > :41:19.Fashion forward. We'll see you the next time next year. With more
:41:19. > :41:22.answers. For the people of Malmesbury, 2012 will be remembered
:41:22. > :41:30.for the worst floods in 70 years, tonight, hopefully there's reason
:41:30. > :41:33.to be a bit more cheerful. There's loads of reasons to be happy
:41:33. > :41:38.tonight. Welcome back to the Town Hall. For the past month this has
:41:38. > :41:40.been the headquarters of the flood rescue operation. Give us a kiss.
:41:40. > :41:48.Right now, this is where the community Christmas party is being
:41:48. > :41:52.held. We love party poppers. Now Jennie,
:41:52. > :41:55.your home was worst hit and worst flooded here. Has this been good
:41:55. > :41:58.for you tonight? It's been nice for everybody to get together and talk
:41:58. > :42:02.about everything and see each other and see how we're getting on.
:42:02. > :42:06.haven't had a chance to think about Christmas, have you? Not really.
:42:06. > :42:11.We've only thought about sorting ourselves out, finding somewhere to
:42:11. > :42:15.live and sortding things out in our new homes. Phill and Julie from the
:42:15. > :42:18.football club, take a deep breath. You've been very stressed. It's
:42:18. > :42:21.been good tonight. It's been great and it's nice to see the community
:42:21. > :42:24.together. We've had the news that the mayor is going to give us
:42:24. > :42:29.something from the flood appeal to help with the damages. That's great.
:42:29. > :42:33.The football club lives on. Then Tom and Carol, it must be great to
:42:33. > :42:38.be here. So many people have said you have been amazing. It's good to
:42:38. > :42:44.hear. We open the doors early in the morning, tea and coffee and a
:42:44. > :42:48.place to keep people warm. might recognise this fellow here,
:42:48. > :42:55.it's Ryan from the Great British Bake Off. You've made a cake.
:42:55. > :43:01.Mary. Today I made fruit berry genoise for the good people of
:43:01. > :43:05.Malmesbury. Excellent. We have got the Fire & Rescue Service here who
:43:05. > :43:09.did Stirling work. The Atherstone players too. The panto will go on.
:43:09. > :43:12.And also, the Malmesbury school choir have said they will sing us
:43:12. > :43:22.out tonight. That's all from us. Take care.
:43:22. > :43:24.
:43:24. > :43:34.# Hark, the herald angels sing # Glory to the newborn king
:43:34. > :43:35.
:43:35. > :43:45.# Peace on earth and mercy mild # God and sinners reconciled
:43:45. > :43:49.
:43:49. > :43:53.# Joyful all ye nations rise... # They're having a great time. Ryan
:43:53. > :43:59.from the break off was there - break off? It's bake off. Mary
:43:59. > :44:02.people want tips because people are pickled with Christmas cake
:44:02. > :44:06.dilemmas. One thing we have always loved is
:44:06. > :44:12.your consistence with good quality, fresh ingredients. For chilli, you
:44:12. > :44:17.need a can of minced beef with onion. All the gravy is here. And a
:44:17. > :44:23.can of beans. This will go down very well with young people. They
:44:23. > :44:29.seem to like beans. So good grown up fathers, if he's my husband.
:44:29. > :44:37.What was going on there, do you remember that? I do. It was when
:44:37. > :44:41.there was a crisis and you had to do cheap meals. I was asked to use
:44:41. > :44:45.canned things. That was a bean pot. I've never use aid can of mince
:44:45. > :44:50.since. My dad uses those ingredients and the same saucepan
:44:50. > :44:55.even today. I remember that saucepan with all the brown and the
:44:56. > :45:05.stripes. I loved Judith's outfit, wasn't it nice. She's still lovely.
:45:06. > :45:11.
:45:11. > :45:19.Lots of people have E-mailed in asking for advice. It's time for...
:45:20. > :45:23.Mary's Christmas Cake Clinic. Surgery's open. Casualty music is
:45:23. > :45:28.slightly sin cull. First question from Jennie. I know a lot of people
:45:28. > :45:35.pick off the icing and marzipan because they don't like it. How
:45:35. > :45:41.else can you decorate a cake. don't like too dark a cake. Instead
:45:41. > :45:44.of the Marsy pan and royal icing, just brush over the top with a
:45:44. > :45:48.little apricot jam and you can little apricot jam and you can
:45:48. > :45:54.sieve it if you want to. That makes fruit stick. I will put all sorts
:45:54. > :45:59.of glace fruits. It's a quick finish. If you wanted a marzipan
:45:59. > :46:06.layer you could have one there. Then you put fruit across the top.
:46:06. > :46:11.While you're talking, let's have some questions. This is Denise from
:46:11. > :46:16.Derbyshire. They say, "Our cake is dry and I've been feeding it since
:46:16. > :46:20.October with brandy, how can I rescue it." How does she know it's
:46:20. > :46:27.dry if she hasn't eaten it? That's a good point. If it's going to be
:46:27. > :46:34.dry, you'll just have to go on feeding it. You can't start again.
:46:34. > :46:38.It might be fine then. Don't worry Denise and Matthew. Saina would
:46:38. > :46:42.like to know - how can you make a Christmas cake without alcohol, can
:46:42. > :46:47.you replace it with anything? soak my fruit normally with alcohol
:46:47. > :46:52.because everybody knows I do like a tipple. You can soak the fruit in
:46:52. > :46:55.orange juice. Particularly if the fruit is dry. Soak it for 24 hours
:46:55. > :47:00.in the same quantity as the recipe says for brandy or something and
:47:00. > :47:04.that will plump up the fruit and it will be delicious. This one might
:47:04. > :47:07.led on from that. It's from 13- year-old Ash. "I'm planning on
:47:07. > :47:14.making my first Christmas cake ever, is there enough time to start
:47:14. > :47:19.soaking my fruit? Absolutely. If you want to soak the fruit, if you
:47:19. > :47:24.warm the alcohol and just put it over a low heat it will absorb it.
:47:24. > :47:28.How late can do you it then? When is the last possible? I suppose two
:47:28. > :47:33.days before Christmas. Remember, when you actually cut it, it is
:47:33. > :47:43.going to crumble. The reason why we make it ahead is because it firms
:47:43. > :47:47.
:47:47. > :47:52.disaster, "I forgot to put my eggs in until it had been in the often
:47:52. > :47:57.for 20 minutes. I beat the eggs and the cake has not risen. Mary, shall
:47:57. > :48:00.I put it in the bin?" I wouldn't put it in the bin. It isn't the end
:48:00. > :48:07.of the world. Once it is cooked, pour a little bit of alcohol over
:48:07. > :48:11.the top, some brandy. Nobody will ever know!
:48:11. > :48:14.This one comes from Dawn from Bristol. Her fruit in her cake
:48:14. > :48:18.always sinks to the bottom every year, what can she do? The reason
:48:18. > :48:22.for the fruit going to the bottom is that the mixture is too slack so
:48:22. > :48:27.she needs a little more flour in it. You need the fruit to be supported
:48:27. > :48:33.and if it is the mixture is runny, it will not be so good.
:48:33. > :48:38.Look at that, Mary, you have done that incredibly well and then you
:48:38. > :48:43.just put a glaze over the top and it is delicious and it is different.
:48:43. > :48:47.You have one you made earlier under the kosh.
:48:47. > :48:57.-- cloth. I didn't know it was under there.
:48:57. > :48:57.
:48:57. > :49:00.You have finished it. This reminds me of the Bake Off.
:49:00. > :49:06.APPLAUSE That's perfect. Thank you very much,
:49:06. > :49:14.Mary. People at home will be grit. Home grateful.
:49:14. > :49:17.And Jenny, the next cake you eat is your birthday cake. We have a
:49:17. > :49:23.your birthday cake. We have a special message for your birthday.
:49:23. > :49:28.Happy birthday, Jenny Agutter, it is Chummy here.
:49:28. > :49:33.# Happy birthday to you high pressure psh happy birthday to you,
:49:33. > :49:37.Jenny Agutter # you don't look a day over 59.
:49:37. > :49:43.Oh, cheeky! That's where we will leave it.
:49:43. > :49:46.Anyway, many happy returns. Thank you Miranda. Wait until I see
:49:46. > :49:54.you! The body language and everything.
:49:54. > :49:58.We have sorted out Christmas cakes, now all we need is holly.
:49:58. > :50:01.Luckily Ruth know as place where they have been growing it for
:50:01. > :50:06.hundreds and hundreds of years. At Christmas we do love to bring
:50:06. > :50:10.the outside idoors, a bit of hanging mistletoe, a tree for
:50:10. > :50:14.decorating and there is one thing that really transforms a Christmas
:50:14. > :50:19.pudding into a real Christmas pudding, a sprig of holly on top.
:50:19. > :50:22.Traditionally used to symbolise the crown of thorns worn by Jesus.
:50:22. > :50:27.Before the 18th century, holly trees were found in abundance
:50:27. > :50:32.throughout Britain, but as agriculture changed, they started
:50:32. > :50:40.to disappear. The one place that is truly the hollywood hills of
:50:40. > :50:44.Britain is here at in in Shropshire. On these hills, there are around
:50:44. > :50:48.500 ancient holly trees and most are thought to be three or four
:50:48. > :50:52.centuries old. For hundreds of years, these trees served a vital
:50:52. > :51:00.purpose for the people who worked and lived around the hills. John
:51:00. > :51:05.Hughes is from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. If you grab a holly
:51:05. > :51:09.leave, it prickles you. The reason holly is prickly is it is trying to
:51:09. > :51:14.protect itself from being eaten because it is so tasty and
:51:14. > :51:17.nutritious. You look at a holly tree and what you you find is the
:51:17. > :51:22.prickles start to disappear from about seven or eight feet up
:51:22. > :51:25.because they don't need them up there because we don't have
:51:25. > :51:32.giraffes to reach up and eat the leaves.
:51:32. > :51:37.It was the tasty top leaves that were used to feed livestock during
:51:37. > :51:40.the winter, but not all holly trees are the same. There is lovely red
:51:40. > :51:44.berries on this one and some of the trees are covered in berries and
:51:44. > :51:48.some don't seem to have any at all? That's one of the peculiar facts
:51:48. > :51:53.about holly trees, you have male and female trees. Here we are by a
:51:53. > :51:59.lady tree, a female tree, she has berries. If there aren't berries,
:51:59. > :52:04.it is a male. Although bleak and wind swept, this
:52:04. > :52:07.area had a hidden treasure in the 1800s that attracted people from
:52:07. > :52:11.far and wide. 24 place was a hive of industrial
:52:11. > :52:18.activity and people were drawn here for the led mining.
:52:19. > :52:23.It was said this area had one of the richest sources of Lead ore in
:52:23. > :52:28.Europe and a number of dwellings appeared. In the early 19th century,
:52:28. > :52:33.miners were moving into this air ya a trying -- area and trying to fin
:52:33. > :52:37.somewhere to -- find somewhere to live and little cottages started
:52:37. > :52:43.springing up all over the place. The cottages were occupied as late
:52:43. > :52:48.as the 1950s and over the past few years Simon from Natural England
:52:48. > :52:53.has been leading the way to restore some of them. This is a fantastic
:52:53. > :52:59.view, I should imagine it was bleak in the winter? It is it is bleak.
:52:59. > :53:07.There are memories of the snow here on some of the bad winters being up
:53:07. > :53:12.to the tor to the top floor windows. Yeah, people lived here because of
:53:12. > :53:16.the mines. It was the largest mine in Europe at one time so they
:53:16. > :53:18.spread up the hill where they could till a bit of land as well as
:53:18. > :53:22.working the mines. And that involves a few animals
:53:22. > :53:26.that you are trying to keep on next to nothing? Yes, it would have been
:53:26. > :53:31.a few cows and sheep on the hill. And all of these you have got to
:53:31. > :53:35.keep fed over the winter and and hence the need for the hollies?
:53:35. > :53:40.it was part of using halfs around you -- what was around you.
:53:40. > :53:47.Once other types of fodder were introduced the need for holly trees
:53:47. > :53:53.to feed animals started to diminish, but these holly trees have survived,
:53:53. > :53:58.thanks to being well looked after. A typical holly tree will live for
:53:58. > :54:02.100 years and if you carry on cutting them, that might carry on
:54:02. > :54:07.for 1,000 years and cutting the holly for Christmas is a way of
:54:07. > :54:12.keeping it healthy. Locals still benefit from the holly
:54:12. > :54:16.as it is sent to a nearby market to make wreaths and garlands and it
:54:16. > :54:26.provides the perfect finishing touch for our traditional Christmas
:54:26. > :54:28.
:54:28. > :54:34.Oh, it started snowing already. We asked you to send in photos if you
:54:34. > :54:39.were in your school nativity play. Louise Roberts proudly being an
:54:39. > :54:43.angle aged four back in 1975. Ah, cute. Jenny, would you like to
:54:43. > :54:47.go next? This is Richard as Joseph. It is over 20 years ago. He was
:54:47. > :54:56.thrilled to get the part, but it was a non-speaking role.
:54:56. > :55:02.Ah, you know how that feels. Mary? This is a junior school in
:55:02. > :55:06.Norwich and it has been sent by Anthony Watson, he is in the centre
:55:06. > :55:11.at the back. This is Claire as Mary and that was
:55:11. > :55:16.This is Claire as Mary and that was 30 years ago. Shall we finish off
:55:16. > :55:24.with Philippa? 1967. There she is in the school nativity and she is
:55:24. > :55:34.the one next to Gabriil. Well, it is the Kaos Signing Choir for Deaf
:55:34. > :55:36.
:55:36. > :55:40.and Hearing Children and the British Paraorchestra. Well, things
:55:40. > :55:45.have changed since we saw you last? They have. I was trying to get the
:55:45. > :55:54.idea going. Now I have I have got a wonderful orchestra.
:55:54. > :55:58.So you have played at the closing ceremony at the Paralympics? It was
:55:58. > :56:04.beyond belief. Then this large audience around the world.
:56:04. > :56:07.How did the collaboration with Coldplay come about? All credit to
:56:07. > :56:11.Chris martening, he saw some YouTube footage of the orchestra
:56:11. > :56:17.playing and he said, "We are playing in the choosing ceremony
:56:17. > :56:22.and -- closing ceremony and you should be with us.". You left
:56:22. > :56:28.Coldplay and you moved on to the choir. Hello. So you were in the
:56:28. > :56:31.opening ceremony of the Olympics. How did all all 84 of your members
:56:31. > :56:35.manage to keep that a surprise? Well, they did really, really well,
:56:35. > :56:40.didn't you? Yes. They told their mums and grandmas,
:56:40. > :56:44.but they kept it to themselves. You didn't realise that you were
:56:44. > :56:52.going to be featured artists? when we opened the programme, we
:56:52. > :56:56.were like wow, here we are in between Paul McCartney.
:56:56. > :57:00.And singing for The Queen? We sang and sign the National Anthem.
:57:00. > :57:04.Well, listen, you get yourself into position because you are about to
:57:04. > :57:12.sing True Colours for us. You can download it now.
:57:13. > :57:20.Thank you to our guests. Thanks to Mary. Thanks to Jenny. Mary's
:57:20. > :57:30.Baking Bible is out soon. Call the Midwife is on Christmas Day.
:57:30. > :57:46.
:57:46. > :57:56.# You with the sad face # Don't be discouraged
:57:56. > :57:56.
:57:56. > :58:01.# The darkness inside you makes you feel so small
:58:01. > :58:05.# Your colours and that's why I love you
:58:05. > :58:11.# # So don't be afraid # To let that show
:58:11. > :58:21.# Your true colours # True colours
:58:21. > :58:22.
:58:22. > :58:24.# Are are beautiful # I see your true colours shining
:58:25. > :58:30.through # I see your true colours and
:58:30. > :58:35.that's why I love you # So don't be afraid to let them
:58:35. > :58:43.show # Your true colours