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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We

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have got our stetsons on to welcome the ultimate bad boy oil baron who

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gripped the road in the '80s. It is JR Ewing himself, Larry Hagman.

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Larry, so good to see you. Before we came on air, Larry shaped our

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hats for us so that we were looking right. They were a mess. And you

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have even got cowboy boots on. Don't joke, they are not fun. They

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are made for riding on horses, not walking around London. But you do

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feel at home around here. I lived in St John's Wood for five years.

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1961 till 1966. It was wonderful. Very different back then. Well, I

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don't know. The smell of London is here. It has just got more people.

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We also read that you are partial to hat. You are wearing a lovely

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Stenson, but you have a collection of them? I collect hats. My friends

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send me hands from everywhere in the world, so I have a few thousand.

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We do you keep them? I don't know, my wife hides them. I am not

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kidding. I must have a thousand hats. I have not the faintest idea

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where most of them are. But some are really expensive, aren't they?

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This one was $5,000. That is a hell of a hat. What material is that?

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is beaver. The other one is some kind of flannel. Made in Australia?

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Then I had better say nice things. That is a good hat. But is it

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really a working man's hat? I will lay it down that way. Because if

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you don't, your luck runs out. know lots of people at home have

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cowboy hats and they never have the excuse to put them on, so tonight

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is the night for all of you out there with a cowboy hat. If you

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have one, get it on and come back to the telly and take a picture of

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yourself, and we will show some later. People who have been on hen

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nights will have loads. I have a fight. Now, Larry, Dallas was

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constantly in the headlines back in the day. Later, we will meet a mum

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and daughter who made the papers in Texas for their special connection

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with your show back in the 1980s. Eighties, '90s? Long time ago. Now,

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everyone remembers that JR Ewing was shot, but can you remember who

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did it? Our very own cowgirl Lucy Siegle launches her own debts and-

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style investigation. A JR Ewing epitomised the money,

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oil and glamour that made Dallas and '80s soap smash hit. It -- in

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scenes where alpha males regularly locked horns... Somehow, the

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ruthless businessman always won. am going to nail you. You have to

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be a man. The show spawned probably the most famous whodunnit in

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television history, gripping an estimated 350 million viewers

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across the globe, with one infamous storyline. Stealing into the office

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of the mean old Texan oil baron, an unknown assailant fires two 38

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calibre slugs into JR Ewing, leaving him for dead. A nail-biting

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end to its third season. The sound that followed was of millions of

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viewers in the UK falling off their seats. One question was on their

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lips - who shot JR? It seemed everyone wanted to know whodunnit,

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from the Queen Mother to US President Jimmy Carter. I came to

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Dallas to find out confidentially who shot JR. Possibly the most bet

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upon showing TV history, the series even spark some odd tributes.

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Speculation over the shooter's identity was rife, but now we all

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know who did it, don't we? Who shot JR? Oh, um... That was a long time

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ago. Your man Cliff? I thought it was so Welland. It was a dream.

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can't say. I will not say. I don't remember who shot JR. Gerard was a

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man with a long list of enemies, from bamboozled oil barons to his

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wife Sue Allen, Cliff Barnes and what about Miceli? Actually, she

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was his mum. When the heavily guarded first episode of Dallas

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series four arrived in the UK, it even made the 9 o'clock News.

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secret of whodunit is contained in videotape brought into Heathrow

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Airport by an American security guard. And a long eight months

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after the shots were fired, the nation held its collective breath,

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waiting for the cliffhanger to be resolved. Even after 30 years, you

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want to know who did it. Ready? Dramatically, the camera tilts up

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to reveal of JR's sister-in-law and mistress Kristin Shepard had pulled

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the trigger. I thought it was so well and! De twas Kristin all along.

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And she had a very famous dad. and Crosby was her father, and my

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mother worked for him -- with him for two and a half years on his

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radio show in the '40s. Did you meet him as a younger lad? I never

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did, but I went to school with his sons. Small world. Actor who shot

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JR. Did you know the outcome, or is it true that only Sue Allen, from

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the cast, or Linda Gray, knew who it was? I didn't know and I don't

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think anybody else did. But she says, it was you, Christin, who

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shot JR. She had to do that in a voice-over, and that was how she

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found out. Barras is back, 21 years on, it will be on in September on

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Channel 5 -- Dallas. We know the background. It was about two

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families. I was a big fan. Before we see the new version, let's

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remind ourselves of summed up as just relationships between yourself

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and Solent. There were some great scenes. They wanted to see if you

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could make it through the ceremony without passing out. I admit, I

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fell off the wagon. I had a few drinks, but that is over now. I

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will stop drinking. So Llewellyn, don't bother with that story on my

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account, honey. We both know if you are a lush. Was it hard keeping a

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straight face during that scene? didn't, I was laughing inside.

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did have great chemistry with Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, so much so

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that you were great friends. still are. We have lunch or dinner

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a few times a month. What was it about you three? Were just struck a

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chord and worked with each other for 13 years, happily. How often do

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people do that? Are you friends? course. But when the phone call

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came and they said, we are thinking of bringing Barras back, was it an

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easy decision for the three of you that that would be a great thing?

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Will heard about it for two years, and finally, someone sent us a

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script. And they read it, and I waited to see what they thought

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before I bothered. Usually, it is dreadful. But it was quite good, or

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doable. So I said, you want to do it? And they said yeah, let's do it.

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Linda Gray said, you will do it. what do we need to know about J are

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in the last 21 years? What has happened to him? I don't really

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know. You haven't seen any of this? For not the new series. I don't

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know how much I can tell you, because there is a secret. If you

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have a cousin in America, they will tell you. We will show people a

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clip now what you with your son, John Ross junior. Bobby was always

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a fool. Stubborn as a mule. And particularly hare-brained about

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Christopher. He was not even a Ewing. On what grounds are you

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contesting my mother's will? Mental incompetence. That is the great

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thing about the new Dallas, there is a new generation of Ewings

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coming in, including Jesse Metcalfe from Desperate Housewives playing

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Bobby's son. It must have been overwhelming for them to do the

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first read-through of the first day on set. Did they seem nervous?

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They say they work, but I don't think so. I never give advice. You

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can't give a kid advice. These are seasoned actors, they are not just

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coming in off the street. They have done this for a living for a long

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time. They have proved themselves. Did you snap straight back into

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that character? Of course. It was like coming home. Is there any part

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of you that thinks it was such a big success, maybe it was a mistake

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to bring it back? At my age, darling, it is worth the gamble.

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What have I got to lose? You can see Dallas on Channel 5 from early

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September. The now, time for some real-life drama as Mike Dilger

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investigates a dangerous beast that is popping up in parts of the

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country and causing havoc. Not as toxic as JR, but pretty troublesome

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nonetheless. In 2006, here in the leafy suburbs

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of west London, a mysterious alien outbreak had government agencies on

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high alert. 30 people from one estate near Kew began to suffer

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from a mysterious, itchy rash on exposed parts of their body,

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bloodshot eyes and some even had difficulty breathing. Richmond

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environmental health was immediately called in to

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investigate. At first, it was suspected to be biting mosquitoes,

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attractive to a nearby water plant. But this theory was quickly

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eliminated. Whilst looking for further clues in the surrounding

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environment, they discovered a strange coincidence. Damaged oak

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trees in the area were found to bear similarities to these photos

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taken in southern Europe, along with strange, nest-like are

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structures on the bark of the affected trees which were made by

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an unidentified organism. Local experts were stumped. The answer

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finally came when photos were sent to leading entomologist Martin

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Townsend, who identified the creatures as the non-native and

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highly toxic caterpillars of the Coke recessionary moth. The moth

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themselves are harmless, it is only the caterpillars that cause

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problems. It has a black band along the back. There are minute hairs a

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long but backbend which are like little barbs. They become detached

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and float in the air, causing a nasty rash, which can be persistent.

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Very rarely, it can cause a life- threatening condition. The moths

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were introduced to Britain absently with imported foreign oak trees,

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and since their discovery in west London, more nests have been found

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in Pangbourne, Sheffield and Leeds. One expert tried to stop the spread,

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Dr Mark Townshend. Can it be contained? I at the moment, with

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the level of resources being devoted to it, it will be hard to

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contain her. They are covering an area of 100 square kilometres now.

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It can be done, but it will be hard work. To remove the species from

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Britain entirely may prove impossible, but just as they do in

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Europe, UK councils are now eradicating nested trees as soon as

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they are spotted near populated areas. I am going to see how they

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do that here in healing. I can see the oak tree, but not the

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caterpillars. The fuel to the second branch across, follow it

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down. Underneath, you see the little ball? I can see it.

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Presumably, the caterpillars are abundant inside? To which the nest,

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we need a cherry picker, but first, I need to get dressed for the job.

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These suits are standard practice on the Continent, because exposures

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to the caterpillar's toxic hares can result in life-threatening

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anaphylactic shock, and the camera crew are not taking any chances

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either. In 2007, several soldiers were rushed to hospital after

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refusing to wear such protection. Thus clearing nests in southern

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Europe. This is the secret weapon, an industrial vacuum cleaner, used

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to remove asbestos fibres from old buildings. This will suck up not

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only the caterpillars and the nest, but any extra hairs flying around

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in the air. This must be the most unusual place I have ever used a

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vacuum cleaner. But vacuuming them up is not the end of the story. The

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only way to completely destroy the caterpillar's harmful toxins is to

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incinerate the contents of these vacuum cleaners, along with the

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suits we are wearing at over 600 degrees centigrade. Thankfully,

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there are now much stricter regulations on imported oak trees.

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Hopefully, no more caterpillars will be brought into Britain.

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Personally, I never like to see a species eradicated at the hands of

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man, but it is a health and safety You looked a bit like Ghost Busters.

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I was suited and booted. Those tiny hairs are serious business. As of

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recently, a new infestation has been found in Bromley and the nests

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are so numerous that they are trying to contain them. It is an

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ongoing problem. We about scaring the living daylights out of the

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people, they can approach caterpillars but these once you

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have got to watch out for them. the moment the youngsters are in

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the gregarious nests so if you see a lot of gregarious caterpillars in

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oak trees, let the environmental health know. Do they sting you?

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they have little tiny hairs that can fly off and get into your

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throat. Really? They are not the only thing giving the Forestry

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Commission a headache at the minute. The Asian longhorn beetle as of

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20th March 12 they recently found in Tunbridge Wells. It doesn't

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cause harm to humans. They were found coming from China in packing

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crates. They live in here for several years. It takes them a long

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time to turn into adults. This is the thing that causes the damage to

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the trees. Where is the mouth? chomps through the wood amount they

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caused so much damage that whole trees had to be chopped down within

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100 metres radius. They ended up with 65 trees which were found and

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they could end up, colonising Britain. Potentially they are still

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here. We don't want you to feel left out so we did get you a

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stetson as well. Larry might want to shape it. I met him before we

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came on and he put his hand out for a fist pomp and I shook it. I am so

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pathetic. The only one today! of people at home have got their

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stetsons out. This is Chris, and she went to the

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trouble of taking a photo of you and went upstairs wearing this top,

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rodeo queen 1978, unbelievable. This is Emily from Horsham. You are

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at an icon, Larry. Time now to celebrate the work of an inventor

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from Derby who went to extraordinary lengths to save lives.

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Over to Marty Jopson. Edgar Pask was called the bravest man in the

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RAF never to have flown an aeroplane. During World War Two he

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put his life on the line many times but his research led to the

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development of the modern life jacket and that has saved countless

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lives around the world. In the 1940s, Edgar Pask was investigating

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ways of improving the survival chances of aircrew who had baled

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out of their aeroplanes. This included coming into the sea to

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watch people being rescued. He was presented with a disturbing sight -

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men wearing life jackets, but face down in the water, dead. The fear

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was that they died not from injuries sustained in battle but

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because the life jackets they were wearing didn't keep their heads

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above water if they blacked out. Circumstances surrounding these

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deaths have to be handled carefully. He began his research, but there

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was a problem. Nobody had found an accurate way of testing how to do

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this in the 1940s. The reason being that imitating an unconscious

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person in water is impossible because the body will always

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automatically protect itself, giving on realistic results. He

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realised there was only one way to test how an unconscious body reacts

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when it is wearing a lifejacket, and that was to test it on an

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unconscious human being, and who better than himself? That was his

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Eureka moment. He became the guinea-pig for his own experiment,

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which these remarkable photographs show. He got dressed up in the full

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battle out for it and put whatever flotation device they were testing,

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then laid down at the side of the pool and was anaesthetised. Once

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out cold, he was set adrift in the pool. The only thing keeping him

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alive was the tune that fed him air and more anaesthetic to keep him

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knocked out. Sometimes he sank, sometimes flipped over, sometimes

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floated nicely. A very dangerous experiment to do. After every Test,

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Edgar Pask had to be hospitalised but this didn't put him off pushing

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things further. He in studios were already making propaganda films but

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he got them to contribute in a different way, by commandeering

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their wave tank. The model ships normally filmed being tossed around

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for high seas were replaced by a knocked out Edgar Pask. This is

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very rare footage of him in conditions you would find in the

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Channel. All of these experiments gave vital information about how

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life jacket of the altered so they always looked unconscious people on

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to their back. He had to play around with the buoyancy quite a

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lot, but one thing he found was the optimum place to put it allowed the

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body to rotate and float at about 45 degrees, allowing your airways

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to stay clear. By placing a crutch strap to keep the lifejacket in

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place actually allowed the lifejacket to rotate successfully.

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His pioneering work started the ball rolling for the life jackets

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we see all over the world today, including these ones worn by the

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RNLI. What better place to test it out than their centre in Poole.

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They can recreate a storm. Even in these high seas, I feel completely

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safe. This buoyancy device here keeps me off my back. If I turnover,

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it just pops me over again. It is all thanks to Edgar Pask. There is

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no doubt these experiments took their toll on his health, but by

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putting his life on the line for others, it allowed lifejackets

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today to save hundreds if not thousands of lives.

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That film was extraordinary. Next time you are on the aeroplane and

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watching them give the demonstration, think of Edgar Pask.

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We have mentioned how big Dallas was in 1980, so big that thousands

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of people entered a competition run by the BBC show Nationwide to send

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a family out to Southfork to meet the whole cast of Dallas. This is

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the story of how Nationwide followed her mother and daughter

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from Crewe and travelled them out to Texas. Leonora and Katie were

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stars from the moment they landed. Dallas, at last! Leonora was not

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just a secretary from an English town, she was a celebrity - they

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were fascinated by her. By the end of the first day, they could have

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been few of the citizens here who didn't know of the gun and trees

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from Crewe -- gallantries. Hello, it is charming to meet you. This is

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my daughter, Katie. Can I give you a little something, which is a very

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small token. It is a shilling, and English chilling. I hope you will

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keep that and sometimes remember me. I certainly will. It is something

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you don't dream will happen to you. We really are here, it is

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incredible. 32 years on, Leonora and daughter Katie are here! Nice

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to see you. There you are, old friends now. How good to see you.

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I'm bumping like that because I am strange. Or cool! That kind, did

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that go where the hats went? I hope not! For how did you feel seeing

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that because it was a long time ago? You yes, 32 years. Was a

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strange watching it back? Embarrassing. We will come back to

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that in a minute because the idea was to come up with a plot of what

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happened when JR got shot, so what was your idea? That nobody else did

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it, but in fact he was not really shot but he was wearing a bullet-

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proof vest and a corrupt policeman shot him, but of course he just

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fell down. He wasn't shot, he got better. That is pretty good. I was

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the only one... Everybody else said... For can they use that in

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the new series? You should be in the new series, you look great in

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that hat. Use four the competition, and then

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Katie you were dragged in to go with your mum. We still look a bit

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embarrassed by the whole thing. Was it traumatic? It was very

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overwhelming. People didn't get on aeroplanes and fly halfway across

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the world to meet stars and it was just a total shock. Were we

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everything you expected us to be? Be Go and better. Did you get

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sucked in with your whole life, Dallas, Leonora? It is a big place,

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Big Country, big people. Everything was so big for a midget like me.

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The must be over the moon it is coming back? Yes, we did know it

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was coming back. It is nice to have you both here. We have been asking

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people all night to send in pictures and we have had a lot. The

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most successful call out we have most successful call out we have

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ever done apparently. This is William from Norfolk.

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This is Samantha. This is Ali the sheriff from Twickenham. Owen from

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Liverpool, or is it Usain Bolt? For these were taken whilst watching

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the television. There is Robert in Glasgow. Nick from Crouch End in

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