:00:20. > :00:24.Hello, and welcome to One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones.
:00:24. > :00:34.Tonight we're joined by the man who has been described as Britain's
:00:34. > :00:37.
:00:37. > :00:43.most admired man. Have a look at Instantly, I feel my heart rate
:00:43. > :00:48.just goes straight through the roof. I admire him because of all the
:00:48. > :00:54.things he puts himself through. I admire him for a whole different
:00:54. > :00:58.reason. It's Bear Grylls. Good to see him there - wow. That looked
:00:58. > :01:01.pretty horrific, in all seriousness. Why do you put yourself through
:01:01. > :01:06.this? I don't know. I love all of that stuff. I always feel like I
:01:06. > :01:10.have done Born Survivor since I was about seven years old but just
:01:10. > :01:13.never filmed before. I love all of that stuff, and it's the one thing
:01:13. > :01:18.in my life I have confidence at, and it's a huge privilege to be
:01:18. > :01:22.able to do it. Where was that? Northern Canada in minus 20. I was
:01:22. > :01:26.trying to show how a lot of people die falling into ice, it freezes
:01:26. > :01:31.around them, and if you're trapped in ie, this is how you get out. It
:01:31. > :01:36.became a long swim. Every time I tried to open my eyes to see where
:01:36. > :01:41.the ice was above me, my eyes were stinging like crazy, trying to open
:01:41. > :01:47.one at a time. Gosh! Another day filming... Another day, another
:01:47. > :01:51.dollar. Is it right to say you have three little boys? Yes, eight, five
:01:51. > :01:59.and two, Jessie, Duke and Huckleberry. They love all of this
:01:59. > :02:06.stuff. Do they? They're bored of Born Survivor. They're now on to
:02:06. > :02:10.Mythbusters. I am not a hero. you go to antenatal classes? I went
:02:10. > :02:15.to one, but kept missing them and getting into trouble. There was a
:02:15. > :02:22.big thing about dads being present in the births. I was present, but
:02:22. > :02:26.being a good dad is about what you do after the birth. We had a home
:02:26. > :02:30.birth, which was pretty harey, and I was there with the tool box at
:02:30. > :02:35.the ready. She was in so much pain. I was like, honey, you have to have
:02:35. > :02:43.an aspirin. This is getting out of hand. She goes, "I can't because it
:02:43. > :02:46.thins the blood." I am like, "right. I am having the aspirin". It was
:02:46. > :02:50.incredible - a thing to witness going through. There is antenatal
:02:51. > :02:59.just for blokes. It's true. Who better than to find out than the
:02:59. > :03:04.host of Men's Hour. More so than ever a man's place is right next to
:03:04. > :03:09.his partner during labour. Would you like me to hold your hand,
:03:10. > :03:13.Betty? Closer. She won't bite you. With more than 4,000 babies popping
:03:13. > :03:16.out each year at Peter boar are Hospital, the mid wives know all
:03:16. > :03:25.too well what can become of men at maternity wards.
:03:25. > :03:30.LAUGHTER I can't see what's going on. Let go
:03:30. > :03:34.of my arm! You get dads keen to massage a lady's back when they're
:03:35. > :03:38.having a contraction. You normally get the woman saying, "No, don't do
:03:38. > :03:43.that. That hurts". Then the men feel they're vulnerable because
:03:43. > :03:46.then they feel they don't know what to do. I've got daughter! It seems
:03:46. > :03:50.new dads are still in the dark about their role. I did feel a
:03:50. > :03:55.little bit going into it that I was just going to be a spare part,
:03:55. > :03:59.really. Would it have helped to have a bit of antenatal training
:03:59. > :04:04.before? I think it's very much to do with the woman still. One man is
:04:04. > :04:09.trying to do this. This is Daddy Natal, Britain's first antenatal
:04:09. > :04:13.course for men. Hello. You are Britain's first male
:04:13. > :04:16.fully qualified antenatal educator. I am indeed. What did it take to
:04:17. > :04:21.get that? It comes from my own experience of the birth of my son
:04:21. > :04:25.and how I felt out of control. Many men are involved in family life,
:04:25. > :04:31.but nobody prepares us for that role - not as an expectant father
:04:31. > :04:35.or a new father, not until now. the birth class is being held here
:04:35. > :04:39.today, fittingly or not, right by a bar. Has anybody got a fear they
:04:39. > :04:43.may be having? I am quite ratty when I am tired. I am fearful it's
:04:43. > :04:46.going to cause a lot of tension between myself and my wife. This
:04:46. > :04:51.one is quite sickly in the picture. Most people will get a bit
:04:51. > :04:55.concerned. They want healthy baby. It's a good chance you'll see the
:04:55. > :04:58.baby covered in this. There is nothing wrong with that at all.
:04:58. > :05:02.It's totally normal. Have any of you thought about a labouring
:05:02. > :05:06.partner, how you'll get her in the car? I have a van.
:05:06. > :05:09.LAUGHTER Amongst the blokey banter, the
:05:09. > :05:13.take-home knowledge starting to sink in. Has it been useful for you
:05:13. > :05:16.to have the experience with the other blokes? Very, the worry of
:05:16. > :05:21.looking an idiot, basically, because you should know, but you
:05:21. > :05:25.don't. Dean's course is the equivalent of a Hanes' Car Manual
:05:25. > :05:28.telling you a little bit of each of the things you need to know. In
:05:28. > :05:34.reality, do as you're told is the number one rule.
:05:34. > :05:38.It's done in metaphors men understand.
:05:38. > :05:42.Coach, Sven. I don't want any Alex Fergusons, none at all.
:05:42. > :05:46.The theory is great, but now up to the practical. I am going to show
:05:46. > :05:50.you how to squad albaby. Get your first corner. Bring it down across.
:05:50. > :05:56.What you're doing is generating a V. Tightly bring the wrap around and
:05:56. > :06:02.tuck it in, OK? You're replicating that wound, right, then you want
:06:02. > :06:08.your white noise element - shh! Your shh has to be louder than the
:06:08. > :06:14.baby's cry. I'll give that a shot. Football comes easy, but dolls put
:06:14. > :06:20.us men out of our comfort zone. Um, meant to support the head,
:06:20. > :06:23.yeah? Lost it. Come on. Last let's have a look.
:06:23. > :06:28.Dean is making labour and birth less daunting giving bloke chance
:06:28. > :06:38.to be useful. The era of nipping to the pub during labour - that's long
:06:38. > :06:38.
:06:38. > :06:42.gone. Shh. Is that something you would
:06:42. > :06:46.have attended? No, no, no. It was chaos when we had ours. You don't
:06:46. > :06:50.know what the hell to do with this thing. That's part of the adventure.
:06:50. > :06:54.Of course it is. I like the way it looks like they're doing their
:06:54. > :06:58.training in a bar. They are. They are.
:06:58. > :07:02.For me, it's that you're in it together. It's a bonding experience.
:07:02. > :07:05.There you go. Today the UK is revelling in the achievement of our
:07:05. > :07:09.new sporting hero, the US Open champion Rory McIlroy. And these
:07:10. > :07:16.are the scenes last night at Rory's local club. Just watch this moment.
:07:16. > :07:21.Here we go. Yes! Look at if joy there. Joining us there is Rory's
:07:21. > :07:24.uncle and the junior coordinator from Hollywood Golf Club. Good
:07:24. > :07:28.evening, gentlemen. Good evening. Now, then, he's achieved this
:07:28. > :07:36.massive, massive win last night. How do you think Rory is feeling
:07:36. > :07:40.today? He's going - going to be feeling pretty good. I am sure he
:07:40. > :07:45.had a good night last night, and he'll have time to reflect on it
:07:45. > :07:48.the next couple of days. What do you think this means to the whole
:07:48. > :07:55.of County Down? The world is watching him. The world is in awe
:07:56. > :08:04.of him. Yeah, everybody's delighted for him, and he's so good. He's
:08:04. > :08:07.made everybody so proud, and once you get over the first Major, it's
:08:07. > :08:16.onwards and upwards bay,ically. That's the thing. He's 22 thousand,
:08:16. > :08:20.and the world are saying -- 22 now. And the world is saying he has this
:08:20. > :08:24.fantastic swing. Is he one of these heroes to look up to in the years
:08:24. > :08:31.to come? I definitely think so. There is definitely several Majors
:08:31. > :08:35.there. As a family, what have you got planned when he eventually
:08:36. > :08:39.arrives home? We're not sure yet. It's obviously going to be a big
:08:39. > :08:43.event, and we're hoping his management company will organise it.
:08:43. > :08:49.And just a quick word there as well - you know, obviously, there is all
:08:49. > :08:55.of these young golfers watching it. You're juniors coach there. It's
:08:55. > :09:00.amazing when you get a figurehead on the world stage, what the
:09:00. > :09:04.momentum can bring. Absolutely. Rory has long since achieved iconic
:09:04. > :09:10.status around Hollywood here. He's well appreciated by the members and
:09:10. > :09:15.particularly so by the juvenile members that he helps coach and
:09:15. > :09:20.manage, and it's fantastic for the junior members to be able to rub
:09:20. > :09:25.shoulders with the number four golfer in the world and swap banter
:09:25. > :09:29.and nicknames with him. It's all done very casually. Rory is so
:09:29. > :09:30.generous with his time and his efforts to repay some of the
:09:31. > :09:34.development opportunities he's received here at Hollywood.
:09:34. > :09:36.Wonderful stuff. I am sure you're going to be celebrating like you
:09:36. > :09:43.wouldn't believe, so congratulations. Yeah. Thank you
:09:43. > :09:48.very much, gentlemen. Cheers. Bye! Bye! Gosh. Well... What about - as
:09:48. > :09:52.a former SAS man, yool you'll probably know the regiment is
:09:52. > :09:58.celebrating 70 three years year. Will you be going to the party?
:09:58. > :10:02.I'm not. I am away, but it's amazing. It's a proud time, and I
:10:02. > :10:07.think the SAS has stayed for 70 years at the forefront of Special
:10:07. > :10:11.Forces, and it's a testament to their hard work, professionalism
:10:11. > :10:16.and the ethos of the regiment will stay the same. I admire the guys
:10:16. > :10:18.and the work they're doing at the moment. The Special Air Service has
:10:19. > :10:28.always required extraordinary soldiers. Tonight Dan Snow
:10:29. > :10:32.
:10:32. > :10:36.remembers one of its founding members, the irrepressible Blair
:10:36. > :10:43.Mayne. I thought he was immortal. He was
:10:43. > :10:46.the best warrior I ever served with. But in his hometown in County Down,
:10:46. > :10:51.all 6'4" of him became the most decorated soldier of World War Two,
:10:51. > :10:56.but there was another side to him. I mean, you couldn't turn around
:10:56. > :11:01.and call him Paddy. You always called him "sir". I think if you
:11:01. > :11:04.called him that, he'd deck you. was a rebellious boozer and a
:11:04. > :11:08.brawler with a hair-trigger temper. He could start a fight in an empty
:11:08. > :11:11.room. He didn't have any respect for authority, although authority
:11:11. > :11:17.came to have respect for him, and became one of the founder members
:11:17. > :11:22.of the SAS. Before 1939, he had been a champion
:11:22. > :11:25.boxer and rugby star, but it was when he joined the Royal Ulster
:11:25. > :11:30.Rifles at the start of the Second World War that he found the
:11:30. > :11:33.discipline of Army life wasn't for him, so he transferred to the
:11:33. > :11:39.Commandos. Their specialities were unarmed combat, covert operations
:11:39. > :11:44.and explosives. He'd found his place in the world,
:11:45. > :11:47.though his famous temper nearly blew it for him. Paddy wasn't one
:11:47. > :11:52.for fighting. If somebody really upset him, he'd just deck somebody.
:11:52. > :11:57.That was the end of it. He's said to have done just that to a
:11:57. > :12:02.commanding officer. He was put under house arrest in 1941. The
:12:02. > :12:06.British forces in North Africa were getting pummelled by the tanks of
:12:06. > :12:10.German commander Rommel. Drastic action was called for. Lieutenant
:12:10. > :12:14.David Sterling from the Commandos was asked to come up with a
:12:14. > :12:20.solution. He needed a real warrior to get it off the ground. Blair
:12:20. > :12:26.Mayne became his second in command. His idea was simple - he'd
:12:26. > :12:29.parachute small groups of men highly trained in explosives behind
:12:30. > :12:33.enemy lines where they'd carry out guerrilla-style attacks. He
:12:33. > :12:39.believed who dares wins. The SAS was born and it was made for the
:12:39. > :12:45.likes of a Paddy. He would be the man at the front,
:12:45. > :12:52.always. Never, "Go on, lads." It was always, "Come on, lads."
:12:52. > :12:57.his first SAS mission in Libya ended in disaster. He was tasked
:12:57. > :13:02.with destroying Rommel's air force at tube ruk, but a cruel wind blew
:13:02. > :13:08.their parachutes off course. Out of 62 men, only 22 came back.
:13:08. > :13:13.Devastated, Paddy drank his grief away.
:13:13. > :13:17.But lessons have been learnt. Sterling came Up with another plan
:13:17. > :13:21.- this time to attack an airfield, not by aircraft, but by vehicle.
:13:22. > :13:29.Under cover of Dan,, they approached the airfield. Within
:13:29. > :13:39.minutes they were lei explosive charges and wreaking halfock. It's
:13:39. > :13:42.said Paddy even ripped controls out of cockpits with his bare hands.
:13:42. > :13:46.This one-man weapon of mass destruction had become a legend.
:13:46. > :13:53.You think of the size of that man and the times he's walked up in
:13:53. > :13:56.full view of Germans, he'd never been hit. Why? I think the sheer
:13:56. > :13:59.audacity of the man - they must have wondered what the hell was
:13:59. > :14:03.coming at them. LAUGHTER
:14:03. > :14:07.German high command admitted the SAS caused more damage than any
:14:07. > :14:13.other British unit even though they had the smallest number of men.
:14:13. > :14:20.After the war, when the SAS had been temporarily disbanded, Paddy
:14:20. > :14:23.found peacetime life a harder mission than risking it all in
:14:23. > :14:26.battle. He was probably psychopathic in that he was
:14:26. > :14:30.somebody who was wired for these situations, understood them like a
:14:30. > :14:34.flash of lightning, but the downside to that was it was very
:14:34. > :14:39.hard to put somebody like that back into society. The end of the war
:14:39. > :14:45.was the beginning of the end for Paddy. Tragically, ten years later,
:14:45. > :14:53.aged 40, drunk at the wheel, he crashed his car into a wall in his
:14:53. > :14:57.hometown. It was a fatal accident. I met an Irishman once who said he
:14:58. > :15:02.wasn't killed outright in that accident, but because he was Paddy
:15:02. > :15:06.and people were scared of him, they wouldn't go near him, and he died
:15:06. > :15:16.in the car. I didn't think anything would kill Paddy. He saved my life.
:15:16. > :15:17.
:15:18. > :15:23.An incredible story. He seems like an incredible loose cannon, someone
:15:23. > :15:27.that people look up to in the SAS? Definitely. I only serve for four
:15:27. > :15:32.years with the reserve SAS and I am not qualified to talk at all,
:15:32. > :15:35.except to say he was a legend and a figurehead, a wild man, a real
:15:35. > :15:40.character, but the regiment has always attracted that sort of
:15:40. > :15:44.person. He remains inspirational for a lot of soldiers. Your new
:15:44. > :15:48.book, you are a real character as well. Mud, Swear And Tears. When
:15:48. > :15:53.you read people's books, there are pictures of grandparents, the house
:15:53. > :16:00.that they grow up in, but this is what we found Ernie Els. This is
:16:00. > :16:04.you dropping from a hot-air balloon. This is you running across an
:16:04. > :16:10.erupting volcano! And then being buried in the Sahara by the French
:16:10. > :16:14.foreign legion. All by at ways to spend holidays. When you think
:16:14. > :16:18.about all the stuff that you have done in your life, if there was one
:16:18. > :16:23.thing he didn't have to do again, what would that be? What was the
:16:23. > :16:28.worst moment? I led an expedition to cross the Arctic in an
:16:28. > :16:32.inflatable boat, and we got caught in some horrendous hurricane-force
:16:32. > :16:38.winds and gales. It was about 500 miles off the coast of Greenland.
:16:38. > :16:41.It became a very scary experience, up the boat was being pounded and
:16:41. > :16:45.pummelled, being turned over, hailstones. The Navy were
:16:45. > :16:48.monitoring where we were. They saw this black hole of weather over
:16:48. > :16:53.where we had been, our communications went down, and they
:16:53. > :16:57.thought for two or three days that we had signed. They had to make a
:16:57. > :17:01.call to my wife that it was not looking good. Eventually, we got
:17:01. > :17:08.out, we got communications, I had a bit of explaining to do to Shara
:17:08. > :17:11.when we got back! It teaches you respect, I think, for the wiles and
:17:11. > :17:17.for the sea. That is a lesson that is hard to learn except for through
:17:17. > :17:21.experience. Hearing Blair's problems of readjusting to live
:17:21. > :17:27.after an intense experience in the forces, is this how you channel
:17:27. > :17:32.your elegy? On expeditions? I do try to separate work from home. You
:17:32. > :17:36.get back from different experiences, whether it is being in a jungle, up
:17:36. > :17:41.a mountain, or at sea, and suddenly you are back to life with three
:17:41. > :17:45.young kids. I do not talk to it a huge amount with my wife, I tell
:17:45. > :17:50.her it was OK. I like the separation, but it can be hard for
:17:50. > :17:55.people. When EC soldiers returning, post traumatic stuff that they go
:17:56. > :18:00.through, what matters is your friends, you share things with them.
:18:00. > :18:06.When I go home, I tried to separate it a little bit, but it is hard, it
:18:06. > :18:10.is a process. I found writing the book really cathartic. I was
:18:10. > :18:13.reliving the emotions and getting them out. There are loads of
:18:13. > :18:19.fantastic stories in the book. One thing we learnt is that you live on
:18:19. > :18:25.a houseboat. Is that right? It is fun, yeah. It is a little bit damp
:18:25. > :18:29.and rusty in winter, but we love it. My mum and Shara's mum are always
:18:29. > :18:33.saying, be careful, the boys will for off, but they are perfectly
:18:33. > :18:38.confident, they are not the ones to worry about. I bet you have not
:18:38. > :18:41.woken up to find a white-faced darter outside your window. It is a
:18:42. > :18:51.very rare dragonfly that is very particular about where it lives,
:18:51. > :18:54.and it has not adapted well to the destruction of its habitat.. Mike
:18:54. > :18:59.Dilger has been to Cumbria to see if he can do anything about it.
:18:59. > :19:02.Well before the dinosaurs, giant dragon floors for one of the top
:19:02. > :19:08.land-based predators. Today they are slightly smaller but they are
:19:08. > :19:14.still killer insects. But some of them need our help. A very rare
:19:14. > :19:18.white-faced darter dragonfly only lives in wetlands and because 94%
:19:18. > :19:24.of its habitat has been destroyed in the last century, the population
:19:24. > :19:29.is falling big time. Right now, it can only be found across a handful
:19:29. > :19:33.of sites in England. With luck, that is all about to change. One
:19:33. > :19:37.such site is in Cumbria, and David Clark from the British Dragonfly
:19:37. > :19:43.Society is helping to save the species by understanding their
:19:43. > :19:47.foibles. In this case, not wanting to fly too far. They are very
:19:47. > :19:51.strong fliers, as you know, some of them my great long-distance, but
:19:51. > :19:55.this PCS does not behave like that at all. It stays in its own little
:19:55. > :20:02.patch, it is very specialised. There is no way it will move out of
:20:02. > :20:09.here by itself. To save them, he is having to locate them himself. But
:20:09. > :20:15.first he has got to catch them. Dragonflies only spent 3% of their
:20:15. > :20:21.lives as blind adults. The rest, after two years, is bent under
:20:21. > :20:25.water as larvae. That is what we are after. Another one, brilliant!
:20:25. > :20:30.They are much easier to catch and do not seem to mind being moved. It
:20:30. > :20:36.looks like we have the perfect match. How long before the
:20:36. > :20:39.metamorphosis into adult bird? has already started, but you can
:20:39. > :20:44.say they are squirting water out of the back of the abdomen, which
:20:44. > :20:48.means they are not fully changed. When they are, they lose that
:20:48. > :20:52.capability. You can see the wing cases are getting quite swollen and
:20:52. > :20:57.big, which means they are transforming already. About another
:20:57. > :21:03.three weeks, I think. They will emerge into the air. For the first
:21:03. > :21:10.time in our lives, yes. With 30 larvae collected, it is time to
:21:10. > :21:16.relocate them 70 miles away. The Cumbrian Wildlife Trust has spent
:21:16. > :21:25.12 years returning Foulshaw Moss reserve to a pristine Bock, making
:21:25. > :21:30.It has taken as an hour to get here, but it is a journey the dragonflies
:21:30. > :21:35.would never have made on their own. Not in one million lifetimes, no.
:21:35. > :21:42.Do it gently, led some water in. They are shooting around, they like
:21:42. > :21:46.it. Very good. Wonderful, and hopefully, in a few weeks' time
:21:46. > :21:50.they will admit it almost into adults. They will be flying around
:21:50. > :21:55.the pond. Five weeks later, this is the bit we have been waiting for
:21:55. > :22:01.all staff in all, David has released 100 larvae here. If it has
:22:01. > :22:07.been a success, we may be lucky enough to see a white face data on
:22:07. > :22:10.the wing. Just 10 minutes in, we strike it lucky. It has just
:22:10. > :22:14.crawled up and it is starting to split its skin and emerge,
:22:14. > :22:21.transferred from what I liked him very alike. It is happening before
:22:21. > :22:28.our eyes. -- from what a life to aerial life. This is one of ours,
:22:28. > :22:34.isn't it? Definitely one of ours. It has made it. So it is very lucky.
:22:34. > :22:38.It is just coming out now. We are seeing metamorphosis... I have seen
:22:38. > :22:44.thousands of dragonfly, but not like this. To see the whole thing
:22:45. > :22:54.in front of us. Absolutely perfect view, S. This has spent two years
:22:54. > :22:59.waiting for this moment, and we just happened to be here of the 70
:22:59. > :23:02.minutes it takes to transform into an adult dragonfly. It squeezes out
:23:02. > :23:11.like a tube of toothpaste. It expands to three times its original
:23:11. > :23:14.size by redistributing fluids Well, seeing a dragonfly emerged is
:23:14. > :23:23.a wonderful thing, but seeing one of Britain's rarest dragonflies
:23:23. > :23:28.coming out just stops it all! There we go! How exciting is that? To see
:23:28. > :23:31.him emerge and go right the way through to find off. I have to say,
:23:31. > :23:38.it is the first time in 50 years that they have been flying over
:23:38. > :23:42.Foulshaw Moss. Guaranteed. Just the most extraordinary footage,
:23:42. > :23:49.was that unbelievable? Beautiful to look at, something that's would
:23:49. > :23:54.usually eat. Only when surviving! Next year's English university
:23:54. > :23:58.intake will be the first to pay up to �27,000 in fees, so the usual
:23:58. > :24:03.question about whether or not to go are more relevant than ever.
:24:03. > :24:06.universities throw open their doors to persuade sixth-formers designer,
:24:06. > :24:16.18-year-old Stephanie Errington has to decide if debt and the degree is
:24:16. > :24:21.I thought as a student this would be me one day. My Name Is Stephanie,
:24:21. > :24:29.and like most A-level students, university and a degree seemed the
:24:29. > :24:32.natural next step for me. Now it is a bill of �27,000 just to attend a
:24:32. > :24:38.course, and it has made me think. My college mates are just as
:24:38. > :24:42.worried. The prospect of paying �9,000, the year above me is paying
:24:42. > :24:47.three times less. What is this extra money going to go to? How do
:24:47. > :24:51.we know they will not double it again? It puts bad things in your
:24:51. > :24:56.mind that you are unsure about. might not even get a job,
:24:56. > :25:00.especially with the economy as it is now. Wilder's brother went to
:25:00. > :25:05.university, but he decided it was not what he wanted to do. -- my
:25:05. > :25:09.oldest brother. He has still got a lot of debt. I have come to an open
:25:09. > :25:15.day at Cumbria University. I want to work in childcare, and a degree
:25:15. > :25:20.could help. I like the idea of the social life at university. But the
:25:20. > :25:24.costs are really scary. It is not just the course fees. You have to
:25:24. > :25:29.borrow money to live on, too. From next year, most English and Welsh
:25:29. > :25:35.universities will charge �9,000 per year. Here at Cumbria, it is only
:25:35. > :25:39.slightly cheaper at �8,400. It is my pleasure to welcome everyone
:25:39. > :25:42.this morning to the University of Cumbria. I am delighted you have
:25:42. > :25:46.come to join us and really pleased that you are thinking of coming
:25:46. > :25:50.here to do your studies. university are good at making it
:25:50. > :25:54.seem like the right choice to come here and study. But it all sounds
:25:54. > :26:00.very interesting, what about the nitty-gritty? Will a degree help me
:26:00. > :26:04.get a job? Not everyone works with children is a graduate. Is it worth
:26:04. > :26:09.it? Should I come here to get my degree? Absolutely, you should come
:26:09. > :26:12.here. Good university, a good degree programme, you would enjoy
:26:12. > :26:17.the experience, a rewarding experience, a challenging
:26:17. > :26:21.experience. That is what university is about, starting people on
:26:21. > :26:29.careers, giving you a choice in the future of jobs that are enjoyable
:26:29. > :26:34.and interesting. York University is charging �1,400, only �600 less
:26:34. > :26:38.than hot and Cambridge. -- your university is charging 8,000 for
:26:38. > :26:42.the pounds. What we are doing here is offering a hugely supportive
:26:42. > :26:46.environment for students. We put a lot of effort into support and
:26:46. > :26:50.learning and teaching to make sure that experience is really good.
:26:50. > :26:54.That may be so, but with one in five recent graduates looking for
:26:54. > :27:01.work, maybe I should think about going straight to work on getting
:27:01. > :27:04.an apprenticeship. Hi. I know it is not much, but according to the
:27:04. > :27:09.Connexions careers adviser, with an apprenticeship you get some money,
:27:09. > :27:13.rather than building up debt. may get paid a training allowance,
:27:13. > :27:17.or you may actually be paid at an hourly rate for the job. I was
:27:17. > :27:21.talking to one of these training providers this morning, and they
:27:21. > :27:27.were saying that for some of their placements, you would earn �2.50
:27:27. > :27:31.per hour. Dear think that is an important thing to consider? -- do
:27:31. > :27:36.you think? Yes, it is worth considering. You have to earn a
:27:36. > :27:40.living as well as do other stuff. If you look at the jobs you might
:27:40. > :27:45.get on an apprenticeship, and then you look to get a job in a creche
:27:46. > :27:50.or nursery, or even as a teaching assistant, that there is a fair bit,
:27:50. > :27:56.but it could be something like a minimum-wage job and pass around
:27:56. > :28:00.15,000 per year. Children are the most vulnerable people in society...
:28:00. > :28:03.At the university open day, I have learned that with a degree I could
:28:03. > :28:07.go in at a higher level and still might not advise massive repayments.
:28:07. > :28:13.In I end up in a low-paying job, I do not have to repay any of the
:28:13. > :28:20.loan. He is it worth the money? have enjoyed my course so much...
:28:20. > :28:24.If I had a job, the payments would cost me �18 of my monthly wage.
:28:24. > :28:27.What am I going to do? Am I going to go to university and get a
:28:27. > :28:31.degree? Or am I going to go straight to work and get an
:28:31. > :28:38.apprenticeship? Based on what I have heard, I'm going to take a
:28:38. > :28:43.year out and eventually head off to university.
:28:43. > :28:47.When faced with the decision, go travelling, that is my conclusion!
:28:48. > :28:54.You have adopted this little staff, because you are Chief Scout. We
:28:54. > :28:59.need to do this with three fingers. Absolutely! Jordan beside you, you
:28:59. > :29:04.awarded him with an Award for Meritorious Conduct, tell us your
:29:04. > :29:08.story. Well, my mum was screaming in the middle of the night, so I
:29:08. > :29:14.went downstairs, because Stephen wasn't breathing. I went to the
:29:15. > :29:21.neighbours to help them. When we came back, the neighbours look
:29:21. > :29:25.after him, and I look after my mum and crazy. Incredible. A scouting