:00:29. > :00:34.The One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. With us tonight, an
:00:35. > :00:41.actress who has described the most memorable character she has played
:00:41. > :00:46.as in chanting but very strange. And she can still make men go weak at
:00:46. > :00:56.the knees with the very mention of compost! We can only be talking
:00:56. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:58.about Felicity Kendal. Welcome back, Felicity. You are starring in an
:00:58. > :01:06.Alan ACPO and play at the moment called Relatively Speaking. In 1967,
:01:06. > :01:13.that very same play helped launch the career of a certain young actor
:01:13. > :01:16.that you know very well. Richard Briers. He played the young man. He
:01:16. > :01:22.played the very young, awkward, brilliant part of the young man.
:01:22. > :01:29.It's sort of launched both of them. I think Richard was already a big
:01:29. > :01:35.star, but it was the beginning. It is full circle. I am playing the
:01:35. > :01:40.mother now, but it is still the same play. It is a lovely link with him.
:01:40. > :01:47.When did you find out you were going to be playing the part. We toured a
:01:47. > :01:53.little bit, but we couldn't find the theatre we wanted. We had a bit of a
:01:53. > :01:58.break, went to Bath last week, and we are coming very soon. Also
:01:58. > :02:03.tonight, you have heard of the Military Wives. Now meet the
:02:03. > :02:08.Fishwives. We were there for their first ever rehearsal this weekend to
:02:08. > :02:14.find out what brought them all together. If you are in a choir that
:02:14. > :02:23.needs something singers, send us a photo of you all in action and send
:02:23. > :02:27.us which voices you need to make your sound complete. I got a bit
:02:27. > :02:32.nervous at the last minute! Northamptonshire police force has
:02:32. > :02:37.become the first to appoint its own Victims Commissioner to look at how
:02:37. > :02:39.people at the receiving end of the crime are treated. We went to see a
:02:39. > :02:47.family who have been through more than most but still haven't given up
:02:47. > :02:53.hope. This is Leon Adams at his sister's
:02:53. > :02:57.wedding. Young, carefree, happy. Just seven months after this footage
:02:57. > :03:01.was taken, he was brutally attacked as he walked home from his job in a
:03:01. > :03:06.Cardiff pub. Leon was left in a coma. His family told he would
:03:06. > :03:13.probably be paralysed and severely rain damaged for the rest of his
:03:13. > :03:19.life. We weren't sure he was going to survive initially. It was very
:03:19. > :03:25.difficult to have hope when you are told that there is no hope. Leon did
:03:25. > :03:29.wake up from that coma two years after the attack. 11 years on, he
:03:29. > :03:35.has been left with severe disabilities, but he has also made
:03:35. > :03:39.some remarkable progress. This is Leon now, at home with his mum. Take
:03:39. > :03:49.us back to what it was like when you heard the news that Leon had been
:03:49. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :04:02.hurt. That is just too hard. That is really just too hard. Leon's
:04:02. > :04:09.recovery has been hard, even more so because no one has ever been charged
:04:09. > :04:14.in the case remains unsolved. really miss him. It's very hard.
:04:14. > :04:19.Around five years ago, Leon started communicating by typing on an
:04:19. > :04:25.adapted computer. Five months ago, he revealed what has been on his
:04:25. > :04:34.mind all this time. He asked his mum if his attackers had been caught.
:04:34. > :04:44.is very hard to answer him. I feel I have failed because they haven't
:04:44. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:13.caught them. Is there anything you up court because I can't remember
:05:13. > :05:19.anything. It must be very, very difficult. Yes, it is.Have you
:05:19. > :05:25.noticed a change in him lately, that there is more focus on desperately
:05:25. > :05:32.trying to find who did it? Yes, definitely. Until we find out who
:05:32. > :05:36.did it, there's never going to be an end. What do we know about what
:05:36. > :05:41.happened to Leon that night? On the 13th of February 2002, these streets
:05:41. > :05:49.were full of football fans who had been watching a match between Wales
:05:49. > :05:54.and Argentina. Leon had been working here at the Cottage pub in the
:05:54. > :06:02.centre of Cardiff. This is the Crimewatch reconstruction of the
:06:02. > :06:07.night. Leon was spotted on CCTV on -- at 2am, after he had finished his
:06:07. > :06:14.shift. He wasn't seen again until two hours later. He was found beaten
:06:14. > :06:18.and unconscious at a train station both to the town centre. His wages
:06:18. > :06:24.were missing. As Leon's condition continues to improve, his family
:06:24. > :06:28.believe he will remember more, maybe even who carried out the attack.
:06:29. > :06:35.sent me a message on Facebook recently. It was just amazing to
:06:35. > :06:41.have that normality. To have that for him after 11 years. It was
:06:41. > :06:49.absolutely incredible. We couldn't be prouder of him. I cannot
:06:49. > :06:54.understand how people can do what they do. It is horrific. We are live
:06:54. > :07:00.in the Crimewatch studio now. This is such a terribly tragic case. 11
:07:00. > :07:03.years have passed now. Is it realistic to think that the police
:07:03. > :07:08.can solve this crime so far down the line?
:07:08. > :07:15.Leon has made incredible progress, but the family are desperate to find
:07:15. > :07:20.out who did this to him. Sadly, there are no leads and no new
:07:20. > :07:24.information, but the police stressed that no case is ever closed. The
:07:24. > :07:29.reality is, they want a breakthrough for themselves and for the family.
:07:30. > :07:39.If you think you know anything that could help solve this case, please
:07:39. > :07:45.get in touch. Leon was attacked in 2002, and incorrigibly, in the last
:07:45. > :07:48.decade, violent crime has fallen in the UK. According to the Home Office
:07:48. > :07:54.and the office of National statistics, violent crime in England
:07:54. > :07:58.and Wales has dropped, and homicide rates by nearly 50%. Tonight,
:07:58. > :08:04.Crimewatch is on at 9pm on BBC One. What other cases you are looking at
:08:04. > :08:08.night? On the 20th anniversary of Stephen
:08:08. > :08:12.Lawrence's murder, we are looking for new witnesses. We will also have
:08:12. > :08:19.an exclusive on the French Alps murders that made headlines
:08:19. > :08:26.throughout the world. It can get very depressing, that is the only
:08:26. > :08:31.thing. Absolutely, but we need everybody out there with eyes on the
:08:31. > :08:37.ground, and if they know anything. Every generation gets told that life
:08:37. > :08:42.was tough in the old days, but Dan Snow has a story that might just
:08:42. > :08:48.prove it. From the mid-18 hundredths to the
:08:48. > :08:52.1920s, boys as young as 13 worked deep underground in the coalfields
:08:52. > :08:58.of South Wales. Even as the school leaving age increased and child
:08:58. > :09:05.labour declined, the sons of mine is still fared poorly above ground. In
:09:05. > :09:11.1925, in this Vale of Glamorgan, two men set up a ten acre subsidised
:09:11. > :09:15.holiday camp, a site of fun, learning and play for impoverished
:09:15. > :09:22.children. The boys were offered that most simple of delights, a proper
:09:23. > :09:29.holiday. Built within reach of the sea, the complex included a
:09:29. > :09:34.gymnasium, swimming pool, workshops and a church. Add in a full-sized
:09:34. > :09:39.cricket pitch, tennis courts, football and rugby grounds, and you
:09:39. > :09:45.have a blueprint for a boy's own adventure. Today, deserted and
:09:45. > :09:55.unloved, it is a long way from the idyllic holiday camp it once was. By
:09:55. > :09:56.
:09:56. > :09:58.the late 1980s, the decline of the coal industry and the increase in
:09:58. > :10:01.cheap foreign travel, meant that this place had ceased to have a
:10:01. > :10:05.purpose. In the early 90s it was sold to developers, and has remained
:10:05. > :10:10.derelict ever since. With some imagination, it's not difficult to
:10:10. > :10:13.see what an incredible place it would have been. The two men behind
:10:13. > :10:19.this impressive scheme were David Davis and John McGlynn Jones. They
:10:19. > :10:26.had become friends after meeting in the trenches of World War One. They
:10:26. > :10:32.set up the ocean mining group, and came under pressure to improve their
:10:32. > :10:41.employees' lot. They look for a way to improve the lives of their child
:10:41. > :10:45.employees. Coal owners were strong armed into it, providing these
:10:45. > :10:49.facilities. They didn't necessarily want to provide them. There is no
:10:49. > :10:54.doubt they had a philanthropic feeling about what they were doing,
:10:54. > :11:01.but this was a way of saying to the communities, looks, we are good
:11:01. > :11:08.people really. You can stop striking and demanding higher wages! It was
:11:08. > :11:11.kind of a bribe. A good bribe, at a bribe nonetheless. In 1946,
:11:12. > :11:18.following the nationalisation of the coalfields, it passed into the care
:11:18. > :11:26.of the boys club of Wales. Alan Herbert and Jim Davis were among the
:11:26. > :11:31.thousands of boys whose lives were changed by the St Athan camp.
:11:31. > :11:36.was the first time we arrived here. There was a sports festival, and
:11:36. > :11:41.there were lads from all over the country coming. We never went on
:11:41. > :11:48.holidays at all in the valleys then, so this was the biggest highlight
:11:48. > :11:53.you'd ever done. What did they do while they were here? They went down
:11:53. > :12:02.to the sea, they played on the beach, beautiful fresh air. Allen
:12:02. > :12:08.became a youth leader, and Jim the very last manager of the site.
:12:08. > :12:14.thought I'd never work again. My son and said, you would love it. I was
:12:14. > :12:23.chosen out of about 60 people to run the village. I ran it for 13 years.
:12:23. > :12:28.It is in a state now. What is it like seeing it? It is heartbreaking.
:12:28. > :12:33.Some people didn't know what to do with their lives. They worked,
:12:33. > :12:41.painted, gardened. It put them in the right stead of life. So they got
:12:41. > :12:45.on in life to become somebody. if this village is completely
:12:45. > :12:54.transformed by nature, vandals or property developers, its legacy will
:12:54. > :13:02.endure through the lives of those it helped.
:13:02. > :13:06.Some holidays! There's lots of camps like that. We used to go as kids, so
:13:06. > :13:13.maybe it was the first prototype. Were your holidays like that? Did
:13:13. > :13:19.you do all those things they were doing? Not all those things.So you
:13:19. > :13:26.are back in Relatively Speaking. The play is quite hard to sum up.
:13:26. > :13:30.a hard play to talk about because there is no moment in itself that is
:13:30. > :13:35.funny, but collectively, it gets more and more hysterical, because it
:13:35. > :13:43.is all to do with mistaken identities. It accelerates. It
:13:43. > :13:53.starts quite dark, in a way. camera crew came to film you and
:13:53. > :13:59.your co-star, Kara Tointon. Yes!I bet you were thrilled. Can you
:13:59. > :14:04.describe the scene? There are two couples, a young couple and an old
:14:04. > :14:10.couple. The old couple are married. He is having an affair with the
:14:10. > :14:15.younger girl, and she wants to get married to the young man. He wants
:14:15. > :14:21.to get married to her. She is there because she wants to break it off
:14:21. > :14:24.with the older man she is having an affair with. She also was his
:14:24. > :14:30.secretary. The young man thinks these are her parents. The girl
:14:30. > :14:35.thinks this is a problem because the young boy has turned up. She knows
:14:36. > :14:45.she has had an affair with Sheila's... Are you with me? Let's
:14:46. > :14:58.
:14:58. > :15:02.Hang on, are we not supposed to be going out? The Coopers want us to
:15:02. > :15:07.go round for tea. I thought they were in Italy. They only went on
:15:07. > :15:14.Wednesday. Current stream restrictions, they changed their
:15:14. > :15:20.plans of. Oh, what bad luck! The Coopers do not actually feature
:15:20. > :15:24.very much, but it so happens, he is trying to get out of the situation.
:15:24. > :15:31.People will have to see it to understand. Bracket is all about
:15:31. > :15:35.infidelity and young love, and marriages and everything. It is
:15:35. > :15:39.totally modern, even though it is set in those times. But because it
:15:39. > :15:45.is all about the stupid things we get up to as people. The situation
:15:45. > :15:52.could be today, except there are no mobile phones. How much have you
:15:52. > :15:58.enjoyed going back to Alan Ayckbourn's work? A long time ago,
:15:58. > :16:01.I did three of his plays, a trilogy, it was at the start of my career,
:16:01. > :16:06.and actors always have to say they enjoy what they do, but in this
:16:06. > :16:12.case, it is true. It is easy, it is wonderful dialogue, the character I
:16:12. > :16:16.play is as daft as a brash, and I love it. There is no heavy drama,
:16:16. > :16:21.but it is totally real. It is a joy, because Alan Ayckbourn takes the
:16:21. > :16:28.audience along with him. And nice to be in the 1960s costumes, no
:16:28. > :16:38.doubt. Talking of costumes, big news... Dungarees are making a
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:45.comeback. Not for me.I am not even going to go there. But you would
:16:45. > :16:55.agree, on an allotment, they are perfect. If you are digging a pond
:16:55. > :16:56.
:16:56. > :17:06.at the weekend, it would be perfect! But even the real thing!
:17:06. > :17:08.
:17:08. > :17:15.Relatively Speaking opens on 14th May at the Wyndham's Theatre. Next,
:17:15. > :17:19.Carrie has been finding out if a group of Fishermen's Wives and
:17:19. > :17:25.families could do the same thing as the Military Wives. It is the most
:17:25. > :17:31.dangerous job in the UK. Each year, around 25 fishing vessels never
:17:31. > :17:34.make it back to shore, and an average of 68 fishermen are killed
:17:34. > :17:39.or seriously injured. That means that the fishermen who caught this
:17:39. > :17:45.for me to eat today has a one in 20 chance of being killed at sea
:17:45. > :17:49.during his working life. In 2009, Colin went to walk, but a freak
:17:49. > :17:55.storm sprang up just after lunchtime, and his little trawler
:17:55. > :18:00.sank, and he was drowned. Jane Dolby's husband was not found until
:18:00. > :18:03.eight months after he went missing. Without the body, she was not able
:18:03. > :18:08.to get a death certificate and could not get the financial support
:18:08. > :18:14.she was entitled to. We would have lost everything, and we would have
:18:14. > :18:20.been homeless, had it not been for incredible people, who came along
:18:20. > :18:26.to help us. I actually felt very loved and supported by my community.
:18:26. > :18:32.So, I had this idea of recording a song, within a short amount of time,
:18:32. > :18:36.and tons of people made contact, and I said yes to everybody. Today,
:18:36. > :18:40.she is in Hastings, to get together all of those people for the first
:18:40. > :18:43.time. How many of them would consider themselves to be sinners?
:18:43. > :18:49.They have less than 48 hours to rehearse before going into the
:18:49. > :18:59.recording studio. Today, I am going to give them a tiny bit of coaching.
:18:59. > :19:01.
:19:01. > :19:05.-- to be singers. It is not -- not just about the singing, it is the
:19:05. > :19:10.companionship, sharing a very common story. We were married for
:19:11. > :19:18.four days before he went back to see, and four days after that, I
:19:18. > :19:22.got the knock on the door to say that he had passed away. My dad was
:19:22. > :19:27.lost at sea when I was five years old. His body was never recovered.
:19:27. > :19:37.The story of fishing is like an untold war, because many men go to
:19:37. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:45.sea, but not all of them come back again. So, now, let's add... You
:19:45. > :19:49.famously worked with Military Wives - How does this lot compare? It is
:19:49. > :19:55.one thing doing the rehearsal, but once you get into the recording
:19:55. > :19:57.process, then we really get to see what they are like. You get to see
:19:57. > :20:04.the individual voices, the individual characters, coming
:20:04. > :20:08.through. My favourite line so far is, we cry to the for those in
:20:08. > :20:12.peril on the sea... You have the added advantage, you have all got
:20:12. > :20:19.stories and their history to tell, you are so connected to this song
:20:19. > :20:22.in a way which people who do not have that connection do not have.
:20:22. > :20:31.When you saying that line, it has got to mean something to you. It
:20:31. > :20:41.has got to cost you. # When we cry to feed, for those in
:20:41. > :20:41.
:20:41. > :20:45.peril on the sea... Now, you are singing! Sounding beautiful there.
:20:45. > :20:52.It is an emotional one tonight. Felicity, we were just saying that
:20:52. > :20:57.your uncle used to have a shipping business. Yes, in India. He was in
:20:57. > :21:02.the Navy, as was my dad, they fell in love with India, and he shafted
:21:02. > :21:07.-- started a shipping fleet. He used to take be sailing with my dad.
:21:07. > :21:12.I was taught very early on that however glorious the sea is, it is
:21:12. > :21:17.a dangerous beast, and you have to respect it. It is not just lovely,
:21:17. > :21:26.you have to have deep respect, and it is dangerous. And that story was
:21:26. > :21:29.heartbreaking. Many of these women had a tragic stories, and you say
:21:29. > :21:34.in the film about singing from the heart - what difference does that
:21:34. > :21:40.make? Huge. There are proven health benefits for singing, anyway, but
:21:40. > :21:44.for some people, when they are grieving, it can be let -- like
:21:44. > :21:49.letting things out, it can be incredibly healing. It must have
:21:49. > :21:54.been an emotional weekend, but how did the recording go? I think it
:21:54. > :21:58.went really well. The producer was a brilliant guy. I had a bit of a
:21:58. > :22:03.chat with the main lady, Jane, today, and she said it was the best
:22:03. > :22:07.she has felt since Colin passed away. She has had a real break
:22:07. > :22:12.through. Hopefully it will make them feel a lot better, but how
:22:12. > :22:16.will they get on in the charts, do you think? There have not been that
:22:16. > :22:22.many choirs that have released singles. You have to have the heart,
:22:22. > :22:27.the great song. Last year, we had Military Wives, but to get the last
:22:27. > :22:37.number one, you would have to go all the way back to 1980, with the
:22:37. > :22:44.choir of St Winnifred's, with There's No-One Quite Like Grandma.
:22:44. > :22:54.# Grande marque, we love you... It reminds me of The Good Life, we
:22:54. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:05.were just saying that. Pink Floyd, Madonna, Abba, we had, and then
:23:05. > :23:13.there was this... # You cannot always get what you
:23:13. > :23:17.want... One of my favourites goes back to 1997, and it was Ladysmith
:23:17. > :23:20.Black Mambazo, who did that amazing album with Paul Simon, Graceland,
:23:20. > :23:27.but it was when they did a catch-up advert that their own single really
:23:27. > :23:37.took off. They got to Number Two and they sold one million copies.
:23:37. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:52.Who would have thought it? They had That is singing from the heart.
:23:52. > :23:55.Thank you so much, Carrie. Next, Marty Jopson has been looking at
:23:55. > :24:00.the shape-shifting, mind-bending materials which are creeping into
:24:00. > :24:05.our everyday lives. We know the building materials which build our
:24:05. > :24:09.homes and cities, stuff like brick, metal and glass. But cutting-edge
:24:09. > :24:13.research has led to the creation of an amazing array of dry materials,
:24:13. > :24:17.many of which are in this room around me, and they have the
:24:18. > :24:24.potential to change our lives for the better. 1,500 of these weird
:24:24. > :24:30.and wonderful materials have been gathered together at the Institute
:24:30. > :24:33.of Making in London, by the curator. Over the last 50 years or so, some
:24:33. > :24:37.extraordinary materials have been developed, and it is vital that
:24:37. > :24:40.there is a physical place where engineers and scientists can get
:24:40. > :24:44.their hands on them. Many of these materials were created for one
:24:44. > :24:50.specific purpose, but have turned out to have unexpected advantages
:24:50. > :24:55.for all of us. The moon landings helped us sleep better. NASA
:24:55. > :25:04.developed this stuff, memory foam, to protect the astronauts on the
:25:04. > :25:10.Apollo missions, during landings. They also came up with this stuff...
:25:10. > :25:14.In the 1960s, NASA gave us this very special fluid. It is a liquid
:25:14. > :25:20.which is controllable in zero gravity, because it has attracted
:25:20. > :25:26.to a magnet. This oil has tea in the particles of iron oxide inside,
:25:26. > :25:32.rust, to you and me. Those are attracted to the Magnet, and they
:25:32. > :25:35.pull the liquid with it. This special liquid is now used to
:25:35. > :25:40.protect supercomputers. Its magnetic properties allow it to
:25:40. > :25:49.form an airtight seal, and it can float to fill any gaps or crevices
:25:49. > :25:56.perfectly. From the beautiful to the downright weird, this is
:25:56. > :26:00.aerogel. They call it solid smoke. It looks like you should be able to
:26:00. > :26:05.push your finger into it. It feels fragile and incredibly light, but
:26:05. > :26:12.it is surprisingly powerful. To prove it, I am going to need some
:26:12. > :26:16.chocolate and a blowtorch. I am going to fire the substance with
:26:16. > :26:21.heat at 1,000 degrees C. It is amazing. The chocolate is not
:26:21. > :26:28.melting, the special gel is acting as a barrier, completely stopping
:26:28. > :26:32.the heat. It is the best in show later in the world. It is made up
:26:32. > :26:37.of and 98% air, bound with silica. Both air and silica are poor
:26:37. > :26:40.conductors of heat, giving this substance it's fantastic insulating
:26:40. > :26:46.properties. Because it is such a good insulator, people are looking
:26:46. > :26:52.at using it in buildings. I could get this in my cavity walls? At the
:26:52. > :26:57.moment, it is very expensive, but in 10 years' time, who knows?
:26:57. > :27:05.me, this stuff is the most wonderful, a sticky tape which does
:27:05. > :27:08.not feel sticky. It has no added adhesive substance at all. I am
:27:08. > :27:13.being reliably informed that this stuff will allow me to dangle from
:27:13. > :27:23.the ceiling like an insect. The inspiration for this tape comes
:27:23. > :27:33.from nature. They beetle's ability to cling to a smooth surface.
:27:33. > :27:33.
:27:33. > :27:38.at that! It is amazing. It takes my weight. Incredibly, just two strips
:27:38. > :27:43.of this tape can dangle an 80 kilogram man from the ceiling. But
:27:43. > :27:47.how does it do it without any adhesive substance? This was a
:27:47. > :27:54.photograph of the foot of a beetle. It is covered in hundreds of
:27:54. > :27:58.microscopic house. Each one ends in this little patch. These pads let
:27:58. > :28:08.there be to make good contact with the surface. Close contact is vital
:28:08. > :28:10.
:28:10. > :28:15.for adhesion. -- let the beetle. The tape is covered in tiny silicon
:28:15. > :28:20.hares, which stick fast to flat, shiny surfaces. Scientists plan to
:28:20. > :28:23.use it as an adhesive for bandages, because it can be peeled off the
:28:23. > :28:27.skin without leaving a residue behind. So, as you go about your
:28:27. > :28:31.modern life, spare a thought for these extraordinary materials,
:28:31. > :28:38.which are transforming our electronics, homes and even our
:28:38. > :28:43.medicine. The mind boggles. Anyway, earlier, we asked you if you needed
:28:43. > :28:49.help beefing up your choir. You have not disappointed. The Scottish