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giant domino run. It snaked its way through the city and

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giant domino run. It snaked its way was there for us. This all happened

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at about 3pm today. I love how was there for us. This all happened

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fell off the windowsill to start with. We will be setting off our own

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domino run. Some are bits of wood and some of VHS tapes. It goes

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outside as well. These are all Alex's collection of DVDs. Our

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guests will be setting us off for us. He is a sharp-witted quizmaster

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and TV host who recently said he came close to death. Tonight he will

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talk about it for the very first time on television. Please welcome

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Chris Tarrant. It's nice to be here. It's nice to be anywhere! This is

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the point. I had a stroke. At 39,000 feet coming back from Bangkok, just

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about all the way home. That was the longest 12 hours of my life. Did you

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alert anyone on the plane. No, they all spoke Thai and not very good

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English. It sounds daft but once you've taken off, we were over

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places like Azerbaijan, Baghdad or Iran. I thought, I just wanted to

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get home. I know it sounds daft. At first, because the arm and leg were

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completely paralysed. Then it would start working again. So this

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happened whilst you were airborne? Did you feel unwell before you got

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on? Just a bit strange, I before I got on. I thought it was cramped.

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I'd been working stupid hours, filming in Burma and South America.

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It's been a long, silly life, really, and I was wrecked. When I

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got to Heathrow, and I must say the guys at Heathrow were fantastic,

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because I thought if I can just get up to passport and get through, I

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just keeled over. People came rushing up to me. I was lying there

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with all my bags. It was frightening. Were you on your own?

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Yeah, the crew were still in Bangkok. You look fantastic now.

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I've lost so much weight! It's not a great diet. I've lost tonnes. Have

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you reassessed your life, are you going to slow down a bit? Yes. I

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don't know how yet. At the moment I am publicising a book about my dad,

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so I'm doing that. Then I'm going to just think. There's lots of stuff

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around. I don't need to work this hard at all. I love it, I enjoy what

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I do and have always enjoyed it but A I've cut down some of the

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lifestyle has changed a lot. How are you feeling now? I'm doing lots of

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physio. I'm fit. I drink no whiskey. That was a bit of a breakthrough. I

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have the occasional glass of wine or beer. I haven't smoked for a long

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time. What did doctors tell you about why it happened? They couldn't

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believe I was in one piece. They were fantastic. This sounds daft, I

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remember, I was obviously really scared once I got off the plane, I'm

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having a stroke, I'm going to die. And you are supposed to get

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treatment really quickly. But I was lying in the ambulance thinking,

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this is so cool. The bell was ringing silly moment! But that night

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was really scary. I don't think I dead sleep. They pumped me full of

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all sorts of drugs but they were fantastic. Jane was there, she was

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there all night holding my hand. I was frightened. I. I thought I was

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going to die. The next day the arm lifted a bit and went down, the legs

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started to work. I was out within a fortnight. I'm very lucky. Someone

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like dear old Andrew Marr, he had it worse. It was a lottery, I was very

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lucky. Put your health first. You have been working on this book about

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your dad's wartime experience. It's taken two years, it's been a labour

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of love. My father was my best friend, my closest confidant. We

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talked about everything except the war. He would not talk about World

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War II at all. We will talk about it soon. You do look remarkably... I've

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got a picture of your dad, Bassil. We will have a little look at you.

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The likeness... He's got black hair. The family resemblance is

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incredible. Tonight, we want to see fathers and sons who look alike. It

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would be lovely if you could be around the same age when you send

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those photos. View in the photos, not when you the photos. Nigel

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Farage has been celebrating today after his party's wind in the

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European elections. One UKIP's policies is to reclaim power from

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Brussels over our national affairs, so I wonder what he will make of a

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new European ruling on beach pollution that Tony has been looking

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into. The sea at one in ten English beaches is on track to feel new EU

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standards when they come in next year. The new rules are twice as

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tough, having the current level of bacteria allowed in bathing water.

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One of the beaches that looks likely to fail this new test is ten, here

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in Devon. That, for this place, would be devastating. There are

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in Devon. That, for this place, standards when they come in next

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in Devon. That, for this place, tough, having the current level of

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bacteria allowed in Devon. That, for this place,

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would be devastating. There are If the council have to warn people not

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to swim, that goes against everything, doesn't it? It would be

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very seriously. The water sampled ghost to this lab in Exeter to be

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tested. Whilst the sample incubate overnight we can take a look at

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other samples from English beaches. overnight we can take a look at

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What have we got? Element we have got to match

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What have we got? Element we have bacteria we are looking for. We have

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got an intestinal bacteria here. And here we have E. Coli. E. Coli is

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found in intestine is. So we are talking excrement? Over ?2 billion

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has been invested to try to reduce pollution. But if beaches such as

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Hastings and three out of the four Blackpool beaches are declared no-go

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Zunes, how will it affect tourism? This beach is also at risk of

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failing. This lady runs a cafe which was devastated in the floods. We had

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sand in the sitting area. The inside of the cafe was two foot deep in

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water. Emotionally, how was it? It was devastating to seek ten years of

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our life washed away. Just was devastating to seek ten years of

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get back on your feet there is another but, isn't there? If the

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beach fails the bathing quality, people

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beach fails the bathing quality, down and using it for recreation.

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They will go to a beach which has been passed. Water companies have

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installed sensors been passed. Water companies have

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raise the alarm when sewage flows been passed. Water companies have

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into a river which begins been passed. Water companies have

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the beach. Is that enough? The been passed. Water companies have

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charity, Surfers Against Sewage have created an application to give

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real-time advice to bathers. What we have is a weekly sample which gives

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us an average view of what the water quality might be like. You can use

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us an average view of what the water it to decide where to go surfing. I

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can see which ones have no other, they have

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can see which ones have no other, they a green icon. But what about

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our sample? The results are in. E. Coli was present, but the levels

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were not significant for it Coli was present, but the levels

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the new EU test, for now. For Coli was present, but the levels

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had a sobering day full of distasteful

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can be an easy target but I guess in the long run it benefits us all if

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the seaside cleans up its act. We the long run it benefits us all if

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saw the app in that film there, but if we want to go to any beach

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saw the app in that film there, but sea, this is the sign?

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This needs to have information clearly visible

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This needs to have information water quality and any

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This needs to have information sources. Scotland also has a version

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This needs to have information which is updated digitally as well.

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We are looking at 30% of the seats going to what we call

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antiestablishment or anti-system parties. Will they all get together

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to form a block? That's very unlikely, they are highly disparate

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parties across Europe with different names and ideologies. They have a

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great deal of power to disrupt and get in there. You have access to the

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workings of it and for the vote. But the thing to remember is that 70% of

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the seats are still held by the pro-European mainstream, so that is

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the centre-right socialist parties. Can they defeat on the floor of the

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Parliament in Strasbourg Can they defeat on the floor of the

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Brussels, can they defeated the main votes? No. But what will

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Brussels, can they defeated the main happens in national politics because

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are the national government is going to be so wary

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are the national government is going anti-European sentiment that they

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will realign their policies? I anti-European sentiment that they

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people are just fed up with politics and politicians. We just

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people are just fed up with politics them. I don't think it's

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particularly about UKIP, them. I don't think it's

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sick and tired of the same old same old. I think it's that. It seems to

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happen right across Europe. In France they've got the National

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front. Shortly, we will be chatting to Chris about his father, Basil,

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who inspired him to write a book after he read his mum was from World

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War II. First, Arthur Smith has been spending the night

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War II. First, Arthur Smith has been purpose-built military hospital in

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War II. First, Arthur Smith has been Britain, the Royal Victoria

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Hospital. This is a nice walk in the park but if I had been here 50 years

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ago it would have been a walk in a park but if I had been here 50 years

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corridor a quarter of a mile end to end. This was the side of the

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corridor a quarter of a mile end to the instigation of Queen Victoria,

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it was Britain's the instigation of Queen Victoria,

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world. Now all that survives is the chapel and tower. Tonight I am

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sleeping in the chapel. Not with the ghost of one famous person,

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sleeping in the chapel. Not with the soldiers. It is huge. It was built

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to accommodate the whole of the soldiers. It is huge. It was built

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hospital's staff and patients, 1000 men. You had to be pretty much on

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your deathbed to be excused from men. You had to be pretty much on

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service. And Queen Victoria came here? Yes, it was because of her

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compassion but this hospital was built. From

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compassion but this hospital was chapel you get an impressive view of

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the site. water from Queen Victoria's summer

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home on the Isle of Wight. The water from Queen Victoria's summer

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Queen's surgeon was on his way to water from Queen Victoria's summer

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attend Her Majesty at water from Queen Victoria's summer

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and he spotted this and thought water from Queen Victoria's summer

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would be a good place to build water from Queen Victoria's summer

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military hospital. Was notable opposition? They showed the plans to

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Florence Nightingale, which was a opposition? They showed the plans to

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mistake. She hated it. The chorus had been built to create

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mistake. She hated it. The chorus facade but is cut off

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mistake. She hated it. The chorus the the effects of sea and sun.

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mistake. She hated it. The chorus Queen Victoria laid the foundation

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plan in 1856. Albert was always on the side putting in his thoughts.

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The Queen could see the hospital rising. Seven years later, at a

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total cost of ?350,000, the hospital rising. Seven years later, at a

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was finally treating patients. Those rising. Seven years later, at a

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who could get here, that is. The man who built Brighton Pier was

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commissioned and great expense to build on here

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commissioned and great expense to short and the ships full of troops

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ran aground. In short and the ships full of troops

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casualties arrived by train into the back of the hospital. Among them,

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with its padded cells and back of the hospital. Among them,

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horrors. So, with back of the hospital. Among them,

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going to spend tonight, on this original hospital

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going to spend tonight, on this caught short, I haven't got too far

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to go. I survived the night but I woke up

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at one point feeling small and lonely. I guess a lot of

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at one point feeling small and patients must have felt overawed by

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at one point feeling small and the almost absurd grandeur of this

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place. After the Second World War, the grandeur began to fade,

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place. After the Second World War, ?50,000 a year just to keep painted

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place. After the Second World War, it was finally demolished in 1956,

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unearthing Queen Victoria's foundation stone. Anita, the plans

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for the building and the first-ever Victoria come across. -- beneath it.

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It has been replaced by this beautiful park for

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It has been replaced by this beautiful park benefit of

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generations to come. The cemetery behind the park tells the story of

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young men from all over the Empire committed to home soil. It was the

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pioneer of a once famous men at goal metropolis. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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chose it as a training ground for Doctor Watson. In its heyday, it was

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known the world over. He sleeps in some remarkable places!

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And original hospital bed? I do not think I would sleep very much. I am

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sure he will have a sleepover somewhere else. Chris, we have

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touched on the book, dad swore, all somewhere else. Chris, we have

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about your dad's wartime experiences. -- Dad's War. But you

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would not have the material you need it if it was not for a burglary?

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They were devoted. When mum died, the family was devastated. Between

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her death and the funeral, somebody blessed them, burgled the house.

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They broke in, smashed the house, did not steal much of value and when

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they came in I was raging. growing up. It is the thing I am

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most proud of. Slowly we put the pattern together of what he did. You

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were surprised? Amazed. He was a funny guy, the kids all loved him,

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he was a brilliant grandfather. The stuff you started to read, before

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the D-day he was at Dunkirk. D-day was horrific, bodies floating in the

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tide before even landed. My dad with a bayonet, ripping into somebody's

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entrails, you can't actually comprehend that, but he would have

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had to have done. Dad would have killed a lot of people. The odds

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against him surviving were something like one in three for an infantry

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against him surviving were something officer. Dad lasted very nearly the

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whole of the war and he was blown up officer. Dad lasted very nearly the

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three weeks before the end. He was very lucky to be alive at the end,

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he saved his arm, he was blown up by a landmine. He got two medals, he

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was an extraordinary heroic guy who, at the end, said, oh well, I

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have still got my arm, I had better get a job now. It would be great,

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Chris, if you could read an extract from the book. This is bad writing

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some time after D-day. He says, the site I saw, I will never forget to

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my dying day. I will never see so many ships again. We were some anime

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isles off the coast that I knew must be Normandy and the sea was covered

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by grey ships of all shapes and sizes. Our British fleet was the

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closest. As they began to lower the landing craft the sea looked really

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choppy. Sporting mines would have been very difficult and a beach

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landing even tougher. We work given seasickness pills and most of the

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men were throwing up. Surprisingly I was not sick at all, nor even

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frightened. I would have been terrified. If you go to the

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graveyards, which I have done, row after row of crosses, 19, 18, 17,

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20. My son is 22. The sad thing of course is that you found all of this

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out after your dad had passed away. You were telling us that sometimes

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you go to the grave and talk to him because you don't have the

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opportunity to do it. His death suddenly is going to hit the family

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very hard but you get over it and there is so much I want to say, dad,

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what about that bit? Just give me more detail. I talked to him at the

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grave and I find him quite -- find it quite therapeutic. All of my kids

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are ringing me up saying, dad, thanks for this, I'm crying my eyes

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out, I have only got to page three. He was an extraordinary man, so much

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more of a guide than I ever realised. It is all in there, two

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years of Chris's work, out now. Across the country people have been

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getting up to some very strange things across the Bank Holiday,

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including a mass domino run. Angelica Bell was there to

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including a mass domino run. go along. We will watch the film

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first and then you can set that away. This is Coventry, the city

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once described as having a nondescript concrete Centre.

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Today the people of this city are out to prove there is more to this

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place than a mass of brickwork. With the aid of over 4000 breeze blocks

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weaving their way through the city, revealing some of the city's

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historical landmarks and not so well-known parts as well. The domino

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run is one of the events closing the convent in mysteries Festival, a

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three day programme of artistic events and experiences. What is the

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idea behind the domino run? Setup a line of domino blocks

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through the city and push them all over. This is quite a logistical

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operation. You have any worries? Hundreds! What is the weather going

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to do, are all of the props in place? A bit of wit in the wrong

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direction sets them off course. The dominoes are being set out on a 1.5

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kilometre course. The course is avoided into sections headed by

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section managers like James who have the task of keeping the blocks are

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bright until the last minute. Every 10th block down in case

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somebody knocks them over walking past.

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CHEERING they leap off the car park, go

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around a fountain, cut through the city centre, nipped down between the

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two cathedrals and the big finale ends up in Coventry Cathedral's

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ruins. And they have done it! Angelica, you have been doing a bit

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of reading on dominoes. The first Britain evidence was in the 13th

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century in China but there has been debate about objects found in

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tooting Cardiff -- Tutankhamen's two about whether they were early

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versions of the game. It was first seen in Europe in the 18th-century

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in Italy and since then it has spread. I found out about dominoes

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from my grandad, from Dominique Aegerter who came over in the 1950s

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and always made me sit there when he played. I used to go to a home when

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he was older and dominoes brought his energy at. Visiting my dad in

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the Caribbean, he would take me out with all of his mates, slamming on

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the table, drinking their run. It went to the Caribbean with the slave

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trade. The idea of toppling dominoes, I think, is as old as the

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game. On the Internet you can see Sony people setting up cascading

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dominoes and I think it is extraordinary. We have a clip of a

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Canadian on you Tube and this is the map of the world. It is made out of

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14,000 tiles and the patience and precision you would need for that is

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incredible. Mesmerising. We have another clip, tribute to Vincent van

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Gogh's Starry Night. It is like are falling in front of you, incredible.

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You need the patience of a saint. Or no life. We have all of my VHSs

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outside, we set them up. They are out in the pouring rain. Chris, this

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is hilarious, three times it has gone off at the wrong time. We were

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like tiptoeing in here. Chris, would you like to do the honours? Three,

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two, one, go for it. It is still going! Yes! It has gone outside, it

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is outside now, it is happening. That looks incredible. Look at that!

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You are a genius domino expert. Well done, lads. Look at the relief. It

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was worth coming for that! Earlier we asked for your pitchers of

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fathers and sons who looked like the spitting image of each other. Merely

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sent in pictures of her brother and her father, both at 19. Charlie sent

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in a photo of himself and his son. Lee and Jesse, both aged eight. Best

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of luck with your book, out in the shops now. Goodbye!

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