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Tickle my chin with a stick of rhubarb - The One Show is on. I | 0:00:04 | 0:00:10 | |
love that Alex Jones - she is a right songbird. Not as pretty as | 0:00:10 | 0:00:16 | |
you, saunt Sally! I hate this programme. The presenters are | 0:00:16 | 0:00:23 | |
always dressing up and that Matt Baker is so wooden. Woah! You are | 0:00:23 | 0:00:28 | |
the one that's made of wood. HOLLOW SOUND That's the last time I'm | 0:00:28 | 0:00:38 | |
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Hello. Welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:49 | |
Tonight's guest is the real Aunt Sally, Una Stubbs. APPLAUSE Lovely | 0:00:49 | 0:00:55 | |
to see you. That was good. Did you like that? I was about to apologise | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
for that! We had such a laugh this afternoon doing that. It must have | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
been difficult to keep a straight face? It was. Especially with Jon, | 0:01:04 | 0:01:12 | |
he was fantastic. I miss him a lot. Aunt Sally was horrible to Worzel? | 0:01:12 | 0:01:19 | |
Yes. It was quite a dark series? Yes. I remember thinking it was | 0:01:19 | 0:01:24 | |
quite scary. They spent so much money on it. It was filmed by film | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
directors and the weather was - we used to call it Worzel Weather - it | 0:01:29 | 0:01:35 | |
was always nice. We had a lovely time. Was it good fun playing a | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
villain? Yes, I like it. You do play a much nicer character in | 0:01:40 | 0:01:45 | |
Sherlock. We will be talking about that later. With the news Kodak is | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
close to bankruptcy, you can't help feeling nostalgic about those | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
yellow wallets that you have stuffed with photos. Yes. Kodak | 0:01:54 | 0:01:59 | |
here in the UK says it is not affected. Our love affair with old- | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
fashioned film is coming to an end. John Sergeant has been to meet | 0:02:03 | 0:02:09 | |
three people whose lives won't ever be the same again. Founded in | 0:02:09 | 0:02:14 | |
America in 1888 Kodak went on to become the name in photography in | 0:02:14 | 0:02:20 | |
the 20th Century. Kodak was always in the forefront of technical | 0:02:20 | 0:02:26 | |
developments. 35mm cameras, film cartridges and they were the first | 0:02:26 | 0:02:32 | |
to develop a digital camera. One of Kodak's most important factories | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
was in Harrow, west of London. It was built in 1891. In its heyday, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:46 | |
it employed more than 7,000 people. With film sales falling, do Kodak's | 0:02:46 | 0:02:53 | |
problems mean we are seeing the end of an era? This man worked for | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
Kodak for nearly 30 years. His whole life has been dominated by | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
his love of photography. This is a really important picture for me. It | 0:03:04 | 0:03:10 | |
is the very first picture of Mrs Kay. That is terrific. Very unusual | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
to take pictures at your own wedding. I had to because I was | 0:03:15 | 0:03:20 | |
leaving to go to work for Kodak in the States six days later. What do | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
you think about the possible demise of Kodak? I am very saddened. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
Digital is wonderful for ease of use but it doesn't have the romance | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
and the emotional attachment that some film pictures have. A misty | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
lake in January. That is the photograph I would have taken with | 0:03:41 | 0:03:47 | |
my first camera. People had to go to shops like these to have their | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
films developed. This man has run this family-owned business for 30 | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
years. He describes the time when film was king. From what we used to | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
experience on a Monday morning, the am of film - we would probably pick | 0:04:04 | 0:04:09 | |
up over 120 films. We hardly get any films these days. We are | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
averaging between four to six a week. The real skill was in | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
handling these negatives? Absolutely. With analogue machinery, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:22 | |
you had to be a skilled operator to read a negative. You had to be an | 0:04:22 | 0:04:28 | |
artist? Absolutely. Yes. Very much so. Now it is more like being a | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
technician? Pressing buttons! what do you feel about the | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
company's problems? Concerned, obviously. I am led to believe that | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
Kodak UK are going from strength to strength. We have all the | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
confidence in Kodak UK. Terry O'Neill is one of Britain's top | 0:04:47 | 0:04:53 | |
professional photographers. His range of subjects have been amazing | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
- from Mick Jagger to the Queen. can't tell you what makes a good | 0:04:58 | 0:05:04 | |
picture until I see the picture. I can see this shot of Bardot - that | 0:05:04 | 0:05:10 | |
was the last frame on a roll of 35 and the wind blew and I hit it. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
you imagine a time when you simply say, "I'm not going to bother with | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
film any more"? Me? I will never say that. People of course don't | 0:05:19 | 0:05:25 | |
keep photographs like they used to? Digital pictures, unless you are so | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
disciplined, in 30 or 40 years, you may have lost those. If you have | 0:05:28 | 0:05:35 | |
got a print, the print is virtually forever. Yes. The joys of film can | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
easily be exaggerated, but I would like to see one old habit revived - | 0:05:40 | 0:05:46 | |
we used to put all our Best Pictures into an album. It was a | 0:05:46 | 0:05:52 | |
great storehouse of memories. Indeed. Worzel Gummidge was shot on | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
film and as technology moves on, that film was shot on that memory | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
card. Incredible. We are talking about those wonderful Kodak moments. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:08 | |
I have a beautiful one here. This is a six-year-old Alex Jones trying | 0:06:08 | 0:06:18 | |
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on her first-ever tutu. I can raise you, Baker! Hang on. Who is this | 0:06:18 | 0:06:24 | |
Incredible Hulk? LAUGHTER This is a four-year-old Matt. Nice make-up! | 0:06:24 | 0:06:30 | |
At his village fete. That's it. have calmed down a bit since then! | 0:06:30 | 0:06:36 | |
We are asking you to send us your favourite pictures, captured on | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
film. We will show as many as we can later on. We have this | 0:06:41 | 0:06:49 | |
beautiful one of you, Una. Where is it? There it is. That is a lovely | 0:06:49 | 0:06:57 | |
picture. Let's move on. In the '60s? Yes. I knew that they were in | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
trouble with film because I don't have a digital camera. The last | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
time I had to get some film, I had to go all over London to find | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
somewhere that was selling it. Everybody skips through pictures on | 0:07:11 | 0:07:17 | |
computers these days. I stick them in an album! Sherlock. You have had | 0:07:17 | 0:07:23 | |
a career spanning 50 years. This is your latest role, playing Mrs | 0:07:23 | 0:07:29 | |
Hudson, the landlady to Sherlock and Watson. You did enjoy looking | 0:07:29 | 0:07:36 | |
after the boys? Yes. They really treat me sweetly, disgusting | 0:07:36 | 0:07:41 | |
sometimes! LAUGHTER They really tease me but they are a fantastic | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
gang. Andrew, Mark, what a crew. Interestingly, you knew Benedict | 0:07:46 | 0:07:53 | |
when he was a little boy? Yes. I worked with his mother who used to | 0:07:53 | 0:07:58 | |
do masses of films years ago and we worked together. Then we lived near | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
each other so I would be walking up the High Street with my pram and | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
she had this boy with her. This little boy, Benedict, would be | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
standing there bored, waiting for us to finish. Wow. He is a great | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
boy. I am so thrilled for the success they are having. Clearly, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:23 | |
the boys did have a lot of respect for you, as we will see here. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
disgrace sending your little brother into danger like that. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:36 | |
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Family is all we have in the end. Shut up! Apologies. Thank you. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
Though do in fact shut up! Brilliant. Wonderful. Interestingly, | 0:08:44 | 0:08:51 | |
your career started as a dancer? Yes. In the chorus when I was 16 at | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
the Palladium. And I was a dancer for years on television, a | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
programme called Cool For Cats. When did that transition come from | 0:09:01 | 0:09:09 | |
dancing to acting? How? They did films here, Summer Holiday, A | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Wonderful Life. Then I auditioned to be in the chorus and then they | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
gave me a screen test and that is how that came about and then Til | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
Death Do Us Part after that. I don't know how they thought I could | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
act after Summer Holiday. You speak about Til Death Do Us Part, Summer | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
Holiday, Worzel Gummidge. Which is your proudest piece of work? | 0:09:32 | 0:09:38 | |
enjoying Sherlock and I am proud to be involved in the thing. Of course. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:48 | |
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I did a play called Don Carlos - I was proud. Yes. You would clean up | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
on Strictly! I'm a trained dancer. I am too old now. We will have a go | 0:09:53 | 0:09:59 | |
before you leave. He is still obsessed! It would be lovely. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:06 | |
loved you two in it! Sherlock is available on DVD. Even with recent | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
price drops in the last 12 months, energy prices have risen by a | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
staggering 21% since the start of last winter. Fear not, Lucy Siegle | 0:10:15 | 0:10:25 | |
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has some cash-saving solutions. A lot of you may have been | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
rejoicing after recent 5% falls in the cost of gas or electricity. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
Let's have a reality check. The same energy companies hiked their | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
prices by as much as 27% in the previous year. A recent survey | 0:10:39 | 0:10:44 | |
showed just how concerned those bill-payers now are. 43% said they | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
were worried they wouldn't be able to afford their next Energy Bill. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
Two-thirds of those customers said that at some point this winter they | 0:10:52 | 0:10:59 | |
would be turning off their heating altogether to save money. Fuel | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
poverty has risen sharply over the last decade. 5.5 million households | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
are paying more than a tenth of their income on fuel. But despite | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
the size of the problem, just one out of six consumers switch | 0:11:11 | 0:11:17 | |
suppliers to make savings on their bills last year. So I'm in Cardiff | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
to see how we can cut those bills by shopping around for the best | 0:11:21 | 0:11:29 | |
deal. The One Show is here with Citizens' Advice and their Big | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
Energy Week to see how much cash we can save. People will stay with a | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
certain company for ten years and think, "I'm safe there. I won't | 0:11:39 | 0:11:45 | |
save any money." You can save up to 20% by checking for the best deals | 0:11:45 | 0:11:51 | |
at 13 price comparison sites. This man pays almost �1,400 a year for | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
gas and electricity. We have put his details into a price comparison | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
site which searches all of the current deals from the UK energy | 0:12:00 | 0:12:07 | |
companies. Let's hope we can find you a better tariff. Nearly �200. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
That is not to be sneezed at! it bother you signing up or | 0:12:14 | 0:12:22 | |
switching to one of these lesser- known companies? Not at all. Chris | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
Huhne vowed to get tough on energy companies. There are hundreds of | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
tariffs on offer. He demanded simpler tariffs and a requirement | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
to tell the consumer about the cheapest ones on offer. Big savings | 0:12:35 | 0:12:40 | |
can be made paying by direct debit, having an online-only account and | 0:12:40 | 0:12:49 | |
by going dual fuel. Making these simple changes could save this man | 0:12:49 | 0:12:59 | |
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a small fortune. �314. That is a lot. What if you still can't afford | 0:12:59 | 0:13:04 | |
the bills after you have shopped around? Some people even if they | 0:13:04 | 0:13:09 | |
switch their provider are still going to have real problems paying | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
those bills. What is very important that people understand that the | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
energy companies have an obligation to speak to people who are | 0:13:15 | 0:13:20 | |
struggling. They need to work out and speak to them how much they are | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
able to pay and the energy companies have to be fair to their | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
customers. Whatever you do, don't switch off the heating altogether | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
this winter. If your bills are getting on top of you, ask for help. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
As well as making sure you are on the right tariff, poorly-heated | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
homes can qualify for grants to pay for boiler repairs and central | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
heating. Thanks. The big six energy companies have told us they are | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
trying to keep prices down but that global wholesale prices have been | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
high. They have responded to the regulator's call for clearer | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
information and simpler tariffs. They have schemes in place to help | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
people who are struggling with their bills. There we are. That is | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
the news. You know we must talk about the final episode of Sherlock. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:13 | |
At the end, we made a shocking discovery, lots of people out there | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
will have their theories. I have looked at the evidence. I think I | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
have worked it out. Matt, can you set the scene? Sherlock is on the | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
top of the building. He has been told by Moriarty if he doesn't kill | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
himself, Una and his other friends will die. We watch him jump. But at | 0:14:30 | 0:14:38 | |
the end of the show, he appears to have survived. So, Sherlock Jones, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:46 | |
what happened? It is elementary, my dear Mattson! Sherlock didn't hit | 0:14:46 | 0:14:51 | |
the ground. Funnily enough, conveniently, there was a laundry | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
conveniently, there was a laundry truck parked outside the building. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
He landed in the laundry truck. he has gone off to the laundry, | 0:14:58 | 0:15:04 | |
whose body is lying on the ground? As I said, this body definitely is | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
not Sherlock's. Earlier in the episode, he met Molly Hooper. She | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
is a pathologist. She's got access to loads of dead bodies so she got | 0:15:14 | 0:15:20 | |
a spare one out, put a Sherlock mask on it and chucked him out of | 0:15:20 | 0:15:30 | |
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But surely Dr Watt and would know the body was not Sherlock? He did | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
not know what day of the wicket was. He was hit by a cyclist on the way | 0:15:36 | 0:15:43 | |
over, so he knows nothing. And that, my dear Matt-son, is how it worked | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
out. A very impressive, considering that at 4 o'clock this afternoon, | 0:15:48 | 0:15:53 | |
you didn't have a clue what was going on. I am sharp. Do you think | 0:15:53 | 0:16:01 | |
she has got it? And I have no idea. Was that your idea? It is our | 0:16:01 | 0:16:07 | |
theories. If you do want to find out for yourself, get the DVD. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
is out now. And the box set. Keep plugging away. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:20 | |
And now, time to conclude hour week off films based at Tiggywinkles | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
Wildlife Hospital. And the detective work is not finished, as | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
Mike Dilger response to an emergency call for. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:37 | |
It is all hands to the bomb, action stations. Someone has been attacked | 0:16:37 | 0:16:43 | |
by a dog. Hopefully, it is Tiggywinkles to the rescue. This | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
team are called out several times a week to rescue deer, either caught | 0:16:47 | 0:16:55 | |
in fences, hit by cars, or in this case attacked by another animal. We | 0:16:55 | 0:17:00 | |
think it has been attacked by a dog? De it looks like it. It has | 0:17:00 | 0:17:06 | |
open wounds on its rump. And it seemed to be in shock. It did not | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
look normal. As the deer is hiding, nets are placed in the garden in | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
case it is well enough to bolt. Then it is over to a senior nurse | 0:17:15 | 0:17:22 | |
Sharon Jacobs to lead the rescue attempt. Our job is to heard it | 0:17:22 | 0:17:29 | |
that way. It is classic pincer movement. We think it is in there. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:34 | |
Sharon is going to push it down. I am going to Koranic down to the | 0:17:34 | 0:17:39 | |
garden, where they are waiting with the net. I am going to corral it to | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
down to the garden. Sharon was right to head into the thicket, and | 0:17:43 | 0:17:53 | |
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it is worse than we feared. What would you like? This is not good. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
It has been really badly attacked. It is soon clear that the deer had | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
an existing injury to its leg, which made it more vulnerable to | 0:18:06 | 0:18:11 | |
the dog attacks. Sadly, Joe the vet is unable to save it. The deer died | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
on the way back to the vehicle before Jo Good even administer pain | 0:18:15 | 0:18:23 | |
relief. It is a sorry way to go. It was really seriously injured. At | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
this rescue centre, there is a constant flow of sick and injured | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
animals, but once recovered, individuals that are able to be | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
released will be. The number one aim is to get them back out into | 0:18:35 | 0:18:40 | |
the wild where they belong, like this house Martin, whose next stop | 0:18:40 | 0:18:50 | |
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will be tropical Africa. It flew right past us. But those that do | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
not fully recover can still have a good quality of life and are both | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
looked after and provided with a permanent home. This is a new | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
edition? Yes, this has only been here about three months. It is | 0:19:04 | 0:19:11 | |
polecat palace. They are running all over the place. Polecats are | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
native to Britain, but were nearly wiped out through persecution, and | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
kill for their fur. But since the '50s, numbers have increased. Now | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
one of their big threads is traffic. What kind of injuries have they | 0:19:25 | 0:19:30 | |
come in with? Most of the time, they have been hit by a car. So | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
they have eye injuries and trauma to the head. It is an exciting day | 0:19:34 | 0:19:40 | |
at polecat palace, because we have a new edition of. This young female | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
was found by the side of the road a couple of weeks ago. Probably | 0:19:44 | 0:19:50 | |
another victim of the motor car. She is quite feisty. The head | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
injury was severe, which means she will never be 100% fit, so she will | 0:19:54 | 0:19:59 | |
not be put back into the wild. At present to you the latest addition | 0:19:59 | 0:20:05 | |
to polecat palace, Patsy. Isn't she gorgeous? It is only in the last | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
two years that polecats have started being brought into the | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
centre. Although it is never good to see sick animals, it does prove | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
that the population is recovering in the wild. There is nothing too | 0:20:17 | 0:20:24 | |
dramatic there. No. Tomorrow, this little owl called City, rescued | 0:20:24 | 0:20:31 | |
from a chimney, is released. I love the way she has a constant frown. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:38 | |
And a fox gets a visit from the dentist. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
If that was not enough animal action, my kids here now with a | 0:20:42 | 0:20:50 | |
little friend. This is it easy. It is a polecat ferret hybrid. It | 0:20:50 | 0:20:56 | |
means the father is a polecat. And the mother is a ferret, which is UN | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
ancient domesticated polecats. She can't be released into the wild | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
because she is too tame and staff at Tiggywinkles don't want her | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
breeding with the native podcasts. So she will be a permanent resident. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:15 | |
She is one of their success stories. She is wriggling all over the place. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
Through persecution, they were found only in mid-Wales. After the | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
First World War, persecution drop. They didn't want the pelt. Now they | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
are spreading all over the UK. have another minute left on this | 0:21:31 | 0:21:38 | |
item. Can you keep holding her? More species that are doing well - | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
Butterfly Conservation have released a report saying a lot of | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
our butterflies are not doing well. But one that is doing well is the, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:53 | |
butterfly. In the 1970s, this was found no further north than | 0:21:53 | 0:22:02 | |
Liverpool. That was as a result of climate change. And here we have a | 0:22:02 | 0:22:09 | |
pool frog, which was extinct in 1999. This species has bitten me | 0:22:09 | 0:22:15 | |
again! Then it was released back into the UK in 2005 at a secret | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
site in Norfolk, and before this polecat goes for my drug dealer, we | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
have the European elk. This was -- before the Popat goes for my | 0:22:25 | 0:22:34 | |
jugular, we have the European elk. It was hunted to extinction, but in | 0:22:34 | 0:22:40 | |
2007, it was found that they were surviving and doing OK in captivity. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:49 | |
Well done for coping with that! Anyway, it is strange to think it | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
now, but until only 12 years ago, many of us pumped a potent poison | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
into an atmosphere. Lead in petrol damaged children. Scientists knew | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
it, but without the tireless campaigning of one academic, we | 0:23:01 | 0:23:09 | |
might still be doing it now. Old cars were gas-guzzling, eco | 0:23:09 | 0:23:15 | |
disasters. But they did not just pollute, they also poisoned. Lead | 0:23:15 | 0:23:21 | |
added to fuel was toxic, and it affected children worst of all. And | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
no one did anything about it until one lone Professor managed to swing | 0:23:25 | 0:23:31 | |
public opinion. So how did it happen? 90 years ago, as mass car | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
production started, American companies were seeking the answer | 0:23:34 | 0:23:43 | |
to a problem decor knocking. The engines of early cars made a noise | 0:23:43 | 0:23:49 | |
while running. To work out why this happens, we need to know how an | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
engine works. Classic car restorer Dave Matthews and has a cross | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
section of an engine so that we can see what is going on. An engine | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
that runs sweetly depends on the fuel and air mixture being ignited | 0:24:00 | 0:24:05 | |
at exactly the right moment. The explosions generating the power | 0:24:05 | 0:24:10 | |
drive the pistons up and down smoothly. But with early types of | 0:24:10 | 0:24:16 | |
fuel, the explosions would happen at the wrong time. The fuel in that | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
chamber would ignite prematurely, and there would be two forces. The | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
force of the explosion would be working against the piston as it | 0:24:23 | 0:24:27 | |
was trying to come up, and the components then start rattling. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:32 | |
Which causes the knocking. How does lead help? It reduces from the | 0:24:32 | 0:24:37 | |
stability of petrol, so you can control the ignition. The man who | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
discovered that led made engines run more smoothly was Thomas | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
Midgley junior, an engineer at America's General Motors. The | 0:24:45 | 0:24:51 | |
company immediately started mass- producing Tetra ethyl lead to add | 0:24:51 | 0:24:57 | |
to petrol around the world. But they did not call it led. This band | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
of anti-lock compound have helped the petroleum industry to bring out | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
better gasoline. Despite early bad press when workers at lead plants | 0:25:05 | 0:25:10 | |
started dying, for 50 years, the petrol companies downplayed the | 0:25:10 | 0:25:16 | |
risks from lead. Executives from British companies involved in the | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
manufacturing of the petroleum tried to reassure the public. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
believe that the risks have been grossly exaggerated. The medical | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
evidence available is certainly not conclusive. For years, few in | 0:25:27 | 0:25:31 | |
Britain challenged the oil companies'' word, at least publicly, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:37 | |
except one lone maverick from Reading University called Doris -- | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Derek Bryce Smith will stop it damages the nervous system, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
particularly the brain. Bryce Smith died last year, but Roger Radcliffe | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
met him several times in the late 1970s and '80s whilst working as | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
one of the country's very first environmental reporters at the | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
Yorkshire Post. Derek was the leading academic | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
involved in the campaign. He was the man who drew all the scientific | 0:26:00 | 0:26:05 | |
evidence together. He was a lone voice to begin with, arguing that | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
low-level lead pollution was a danger. He was ostracised by a lot | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
of people in the scientific community, because he was taking on | 0:26:13 | 0:26:18 | |
the might of the oil industry and the motor industry. A lot of the | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
scientific community did not want to side with him. He put his neck | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
on the block by taking the line he did. But he did not keep quiet, and | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
eventually his dissenting voice was joined by other scientists and | 0:26:30 | 0:26:38 | |
campaigners. Lead free petrol now! Of campaign groups like Clear | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
pointed out that the effects of lead were cumulative. The more lead | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
that children breathed in, the worse its effects became. The | 0:26:46 | 0:26:52 | |
scientists agreed. The science was very powerful. The rate of evidence | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
now indicated that lead was affecting children's intelligence. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
The higher the level of lead, the worse the children were. They had | 0:27:00 | 0:27:06 | |
lower IQ and attention deficits. They were unable to follow simple | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
instructions and had even more difficulty with complicated | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
instructions. They tended to daydream. Lead in petrol was | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
finally banned altogether on the first January, 2000. Nowadays, only | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
six countries in the world sell leaded petrol. Professor Bryce | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
Smith died knowing that his determination and doggedness | 0:27:26 | 0:27:32 | |
changed the world, and protected millions of children. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
A true unsung hero. Before we go, in reference to last night's report | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
on street lights, we need to make it clear that it was | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
Nottinghamshire county council which took the decision to turn off | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
the light overnight in Bingham, and not Bingham town council, which | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
supports the residents in raising their concerns about it. Sorry for | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
the confusion. Thank you for the Kodak moments you have been sending | 0:27:54 | 0:28:03 | |
him. This is Kelly Roach, with her cousin, Neil. As Sally in Worzel | 0:28:03 | 0:28:12 | |
Gummidge! De this is a photo of Zoe's parents with their first car. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:17 | |
Chantelle has sent this in. It is a photo of her dad, which she | 0:28:17 | 0:28:23 | |
absolutely loves. This is a great Kodak picture. It is Lizzie on a | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
family holiday in Wales in 1990. And how about James, with his | 0:28:28 | 0:28:35 | |
wonderful guide dog? Una, thank you for coming. Sherlock | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 |