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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Tonight our new accent investigator Alistair McGowan continues his | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
journey around Britain, finding out why we sound the way we do. Where | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
are we off to tonight? Let's just say I end up in Frank Skinner's | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Birmingham and leave it at that. Looking forward to that. We are | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
also off to Swansea to a street with no lights since they were | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
turned off three months ago. Matt Allwright is here later to explain | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
why and how it could happen to you. Also coming up, you are going to | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
love this, this Terrier has an acting challenge for tonight's | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
guests. They are two of the country's best-loved acting talents. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
One is a Golden Globe winning actress who has starred with these | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
three handsome men - Brad Pitt, Jude Law and Martin Clunes. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
other is BAFTA winning actor who has starred with these three | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
glamorous women - Gwyneth Paltrow, Keeley Hawes and Brenda Blethyn. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Please welcome Brenda Blethyn and Martin Clunes. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
APPLAUSE Great to see you both. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Lovely to have you here. Of course, you two know each other because you | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
starred in Saving Grace together. We did. I forget what you played. I | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
was the doctor and I went on to great things. Hang on now, how did | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
Martin compare to Jude Law and Brad Pitt? Brad who? He made an | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
impression then? Oh, yes, not half. Brad Walsh. It was quite a relaxing | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
scenario for you, because you... Saving Grace? A lot of the time in | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the back of a car fast asleep, judging by this photo. Did I? | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
asleep on the sofya. Do you remember I had my puppy Mary. It | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
was my introduction to Cornwall really. Beautiful spaniel. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
character you played in that was called Doc Martin and that was the | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
beginning then. Yes, it wasn't the same character. It was quite a nice | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
man in that film, but yeah, that was the start of all that, yes. | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
Great things. I love that programme. It was fun doing that movie. It was | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
hillarious. Craig, who is now massive, he was fun. He does the | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
late, late show that's on in America after Letterman. And you | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
got him doing a Cockney monkey. It was all like "Here you are ..." | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
It's a Cockney monkey. Those skills could come in later. We're also | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
going to be finding out about your dock Autumnaries with horses and | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
dogs and -- documentaries with horses and dogs and Brenda, yours | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
as well. Yes it's a Disney animation. Now exciting news for | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
our One Show gardeners. We are giving you the chance to zoin a | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
garden that will be built at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Show. Christine Walkden will be on hand to give advice. We have three | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
viewers giving it a go right now. All the details are coming up for | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
you later on. Now it's time to meet Oscar. He's just six but he has | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
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I'm called Oscar and I'm six. whole diving experience started | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
with his older brother who desperately -- desperately wanted | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
to be a power ranger and diving was the way to learn to do twists and | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
turns etc. Oscar started when he was four. On his very first lesson | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
he went onto the 3m springboard and jumped off. I don't think Oscar has | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
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ever been scared of diving or I've been coaching Oscar for over a | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
year now. When I saw him for the first time, he catch my eye. I | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
thought, yeah this kid is quite good. Oscar does three sports. They | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
all interlink with each other. trampolining and gymnastics. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
takes a lot of work. It takes work in the gym, you do about an hour, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
an hour-and-a-half. And then in the pool about one hour. About eight to | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
ten hours a week. At the moment Oscar, because of his age, is doing | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
dives from the 1m, 3m and 5m boards. At the moment he's learning the | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
twists as well. And the back twist you're standing back on the board | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
and you twist and on the forward dive, you stand forward and you | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
don't twist. For such an age, it's quite hard to master. Diving Antic | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
extreme sport, physically and mentally, it is demanding. We have | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
Marines based in Plymouth, the 42 Commando and we often see these big, | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
burly, six-foot men refuse to jump off the 10m. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
It's quite unusual for a six-year- old to go up there and do a jump | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
and so a good jump, Notts just a jump. It's fun and you learn good | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
dives. You hit the water at about 33mph. It hurts if you get it wrong. | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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Can you actually break a bone. It makes us feel incredibly proud | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
when we see Oscar performing, not just as competitions but also just | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
in training. And in the evening, he goes to bed and think what's an | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
amazing day he's had. I feel the need to applaud. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
APPLAUSE What a lad! You have to have stood | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
up there to look out and know what he's going through. Would you ever | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
do that? No. Martin? Yeah, I've done a lot of it. My brother can | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
dive off the 10m. Dive, not jump? Dived, yeah. He tried to teach me | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
and I did a huge belly flot and I just had the image of it in my head | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
and started laughing under water. He had to pull me out. We better | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
leave that there. Goodness me. You've done it though. I have. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Let's watch out for him maybe in the next Olympics would be a bit | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
too close. Any way... When is his autobiography out? When is yours | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
out? Goodness me, you are a busy lad, doing the horses, the dogs. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
You have a dog documentary on tomorrow night. Yes, I just narrate | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
it. It's really interesting. I learned loads of stuff on it. | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
have a look then. We've trained them so that they'll | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
We've trained them so that they'll hunt for us Guard our homes, | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
retrieve on command and herd our livestock. | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
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But they also bring their own magic Dogs seem to understand our needs | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
and have a desire to help us out. and have a desire to help us out. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
APPLAUSE My goodness me, what a dog she | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
would be at lambing time. It's probably a messed up dog. The dog | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
really should eat the lamb. That's probably what it wants to do. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
There's a lot of retrieving instinct in that spaniel. If it's | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
holding the bottle. It's in the a sheepdog. It's more of a holder for | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the bottle. Are your three, you have three dogs. Yeah. Are they | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
that useful? No! Not at all. My Jack Russell opened up the throat | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
of one of my lambs. He got told off that day. He's a swine. He's | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
learned that lesson now we hope, please God. If they run very | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
quickly, Jack Russells are Jack Russells, aren't they? You uncover | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
incredible things in this documentary. Will you voice some | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
for us now? These facts, yes. I wasn't listening when I narrated it. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
They are, this is on about they have different barks to communicate | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
different emotions. Six different barks. I heard, there was a dog | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
psychologist who wrolt a book, I can't remember his name. He said | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
when a dog barks basically it's going, "Hey. Hey. Hey." There's | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
this thing that evolved from wolves that they do more howling. The | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
thought of the bark is that they are trying to communicate with | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
humans. That's one of them. Something about sight? They are | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
colour blind, but they don't see in black and white. They have two | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
colour sensors, we have two. They see mainly blue and yellow. They | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
process visual signals much quicker than we do. The other fact... | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
fascinating way they shake. they smell. No, the shaking is | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
amazing. They photograph today brilliantly. They shake through 180 | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
degrees. It actually corkscrews down and sends the water off in, | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
more efficiently than shaking side to side. That is good footage. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Brenda, you've moved straight on from dogs to monsters. Yes. Your | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
voice in a lovely character in a new Disney series called Henry | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Hugglemonster. Tell us about it. It's -- it hails from the brown bag | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
animation company in Dublin. Everyone thinks because it's Disney, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
it's come from America. But this has come from Dublin. They're twice | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
Oscar nominated for their animations. It's written by Nieve | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Sharky, the Children's Laureate in Dublin. It's about theess kapaids | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
of Henry Hugglemonster. He's a five-year-old. It's absolutely | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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delightful. I'm the next door neighbour. I play Ernestine, I | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
wonder why they chose me. My husband is played by Brian Blessed. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
Actually most people think we are one in the same person. How close | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
to the microphone can Brian stand? I missed his bit because he | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
recorded before me. I had the advantage of his voice when I was | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
in the studio. Absolutely great. There's been cameras in the | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
recording studio as well. We have some stuff of you here. | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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Thank you Henry. Come on in. Huglemonster toffee is worth | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
singing about. Try this one. It's just an old high chair. | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
It's very cosy animation. It's absolutely enchanting, I think. | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
Jerry Hall well voices in it. She plays a pop singer. Because | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Isabella wears a tutu all the time. It's really great. It starts | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
February 8. It must be lovely to bring those characters to life | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
juftd with your voice. Because you're not physically acting. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
You're just thinking about everything. It's a different | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
discipline. I love it. I love doing radio work as well. For that same | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
reason. Alistair McGowan is fast becoming The One Show's new expert | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
on accents. Last week he discovered the history of the Liverpudlian | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
accent. This week we sent him across the Midlands to find out | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
what the Vikings ever did for us. I love exploring accents and the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
differences I hear from one place to the next never ceases to amaze | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
me. Whether it's the Scouse accents, everybody's favourite Liverpudlian | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
comedian John Bishop. Or the Welsh accent of Robbie savage or the | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Cheshire tones of singer song writer Gary Barlow. Tell you what, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
do you know what, yeah. Today I'm starting my journey in the oldest | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
part of Nottingham city centre. I'm teaming up with accent expert | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Professor Clive Upton. This was the site of the original Anglo-Saxon | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
settlement. We're going back that far? That's right, back to the | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
sixth century. Then in vom the Vikings in the eighth century. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
These Anglo-Saxons become cut off from those in the west. It is my | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
favourite accent. Barbara is Nottingham born and bred. Believe | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
it or not, the way she speaks today is influenced by that Viking | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
occupation of the East Midlands over a thousand years ago. I always | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
say "You all right, me duck?" As soon as I say that, they'll say | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
"Nottingham" There's another sound which I think is particularly | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
endemic to this area. What does a bar ber do. Gives you an A-cut. | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
have a friend who said to me come over here to have a H after cut. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
It's really very special to this area. It locks this area into the | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
north of England as well. This is where those viekles come in. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Because the Vikings that occupied the East Midlands had strong links | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
with the north. That's why we're hearing from Barbara a lot of | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
sounds that are forms of what you also hear further north. When we go | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
further west, we'll find that a lot of the sounds there are linked into | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
the south of the country. Heading west is what we're doing. And less | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
than an hour from Nottingham the historic town of Tamworth. It is on | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
the line that used to divide the East Midlands from the Anglo-sexon | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
west. If this influences the way people speak today the accents here | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
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should be a meeting place of Hours is a mongrel accent, a bit of | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Leicestershire, a bit of Derbyshire, and quite a lot of Birmingham. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
hearing these different sounds in your accent, no is quite soft, but | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
it is also quite West Midlands. it? There is a bit of everything in | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
the accent. I do not think I have got an accent! Everybody else has | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
got an accent. Well, of course! So the Tamworth accent is as I | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
expected it, a middle ground, but when we cross the Ancient border | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
into the Anglo-Saxon territory of the West Midlands, well, there is | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
no question about which accent dominates here! And we are going to | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
find it in Birmingham's historic jewellery quarter. Do people know | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
where you are from? Immediately! It is the bane of my life, really, | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
people referred to the fact that I come from Birmingham or starve a | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
good example of the difference between the East Midlands and the | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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West Midlands would be the word And we can also link the Birmingham | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
accent to the Anglo-Saxons and their strong connections with the | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
South. You have got the eye sound, which goes right down to the south | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
coast. Absolutely. Nobody in the Midlands actually sounds like a | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Viking or an Anglo-Saxon any more, but it is clear to me that the way | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
this region was divided up over 1,000 years ago explains the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
incredible variety of accents it boasts today. It is too easy to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
forget our history, but our accents do not forget, they are living and | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
breeding time capsules, a vital and surprising record of our cultural | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
and social past. Brilliant series of films, I love, | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
everyone you go up to, you instantly go into their accent, | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
nobody seems to mind. No, they don't, everybody I meet, I have to | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
do it! Is that your favourite, the north-east? I do like the north- | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
east, but the one I like most from that area, you heard a lot of | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
enduring the Olympic Games, and when I was doing a gig up their... | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
It is Brendan Foster! Accents must be really central to you creating | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
your impressions. Yeah, absolutely, if you're doing someone like Dara O | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Briain, the Southern accent, that is the steading point. Obviously, | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
if you are doing the southern Irish accent, you have to be able to do | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Northern Ireland, like Colin Murray from Match of the Day 2, you have | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
to know the difference, and there are loads of accents and Ireland. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
But I used accents for jokes, and one of the first jokes I did, there | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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was a big title, how do people in Leeds pronounce the name of the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
band That There? Are there any accents that you struggle with? | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
am not very good, I am from Worcestershire, everybody talks | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
like this around to me, where my family is from, but when you get to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
Newbury and Swindon, Bristol, and on towards Devon and Cornwall, I | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
really struggle, because I hear Worcestershire so strong. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Fortunately, I am going up on tour in April and May, and a lot of the | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
daytime Tiverton, Exeter, places down there, Newbury, so I will be | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
able to hear the access. I will go to that diving centre in Plymouth! | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Was it an accent that way that you had problems with? The director | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
said don't even... Are I go walkabout with accents, I cannot | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
hold on to them for long before they start to wonder. I get | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
hamstrung by them. I had to revoice a job I did last year because I | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
started to go like that. You have to learn it way in advance of the | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
job, otherwise all you are thinking about is the accent. Didn't you | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
have some trouble with Geordie? You can help him with this! It is | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
very... You did not have a trouble with it? No. I did! It is very hard. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Spend a lot of time talking to the local people, I am still learning. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
If you ever want to do an accent, it is the shape of the mouth, that | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
is as important as the sound. Nottingham that we were talking | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
about today, it is a very loose jaw. If you are from Liverpool, it is | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
really tight around there, put your mouth in the right shape, you | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
cannot help but talk like people from that area. Yes, the way the | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
placement of the tone is enough. I brought along this book, oh, I do | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
not know if you can see that. Back in the 1930s, you would not have | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
got a job on the BBC because of the way you speak. Mike Dilger is | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
amazing, but even Gyles Brandreth would not have been allowed to | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
broadcast. You are kidding! would not have been posh enough, I | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
know it is hard to believe. The Manual Of Broadcast English, they | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
wanted all the presenters and newsreaders to speak in the same | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
way, you had to stay off correctly, because, that, and that went on | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
until the 1960s. One of my favourite broadcasters was Norris | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
McWhirter, and if you remember him, with Roy Castle, he absolutely had | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
that way of talking which rent right back to the 1930s. But that | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
all changed later, and now we can speak more less how we want. This | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
shows some very interesting words, how they should be pronounced by | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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We all say issue, very lazily. But that is how words were | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
pronounced, they told people how to pronounce it. I think I have heard | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Gyles say housewifery! He also brought a recording of the first | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
regional accent on television. was during the Second World War, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
and the Germans, for their propaganda, used to copy BBC | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
English, and they could copy Received pronunciation BBC English, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
so the British decided to change the way the news presenters spoke | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
to make it harder for the Germans. They employed a man called Wilfred | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Pickles, an actor, from Leeds, or Yorkshire at least, and he read the | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
news to try to confuse the Germans so that they cannot copy his | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
pronunciation. There is only one sound in it that sounds different, | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
but this was brought Yorkshire at the time. It caused an outcry. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
morning's news is of successful counter-measures against the | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
invasion of Malaya. President Roosevelt has spoken of casualties | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
in the earlier Japanese air raids on the Pacific naval bases. The | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Japanese are reported to have lost an aircraft carrier and some of | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
their bombers and submarines. could not understand it! The only | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
word there was aircraft. That was about it. It caused an outcry. | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
Thank you very much. Banks, Wilfred, Top man! Now our gardening | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
competition, time to showcase a garden you have designed at the RHS | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
Campden Court Palace Flower Show. - - Hampton Court. He if you have | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
been desperate to get pruning and planting again, this is just the | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
:23:26. | :23:33. | ||
You might well be wondering what I am doing on a cold, snowy January | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
morning. Well, I am at Hampton Court in south-west London, | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
measuring out a space eight metres by eight metres. It may not look | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
very much now, but we want one of you to turn this plot into | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
something very special. Today we are launching a competition in | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. The prize is | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
the chance to turn this patch of land into a family garden for the | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
Hampton Court Flower Show. For one week in July every year, 34 acres | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
of this tranquil parkland play host to a Stanning for a spectacle. -- | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
to a stunning floral spectacle. They celebrate the best of | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
contemporary design. It is hard to imagine that they have been built | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
in just 21 days. We want you to send us your design, and one of you | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
will win the chance to build your garden with the help of a | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
professional mentor. That mentor is designer Adam frost. Adam already | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
holds four RHS gold medals for show gardens he has created at the | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
Chelsea Flower Show. Now, we are asking the One Show duet to design | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
a plot here at Hampton Court as a family garden. Now, do you have to | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
be experienced to be able to do that? Anybody can do it. What are | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
gardens about? They are about people, yeah, space and plants. So | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
what you have done, I think, is brilliant. If somebody has got | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
enough room, they can pay the site out, you can start to imagine what | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
you could do. So visualise it, feel it. Yeah, we are in the garden now! | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
Draw some shapes on a page. We will do that inside where it is a bit | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
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Let's get you warm! We want to know what kind of family | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
friendly guarding you would create, cutting-edge, full of flowers, | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
packed with vegetables? What would be your ideal? So this is an eight | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
by eight plot, have you drawn it to scale? Exactly to scale, so I am | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
working 50-1, two centimetres on the roulette=1 metre on the page. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
The next thing is some tracing paper. All the time, you have got a | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
scale underneath, and we can play with our shapes. Just as soon as | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
you start doing this, it is a garden, a terrace, a lawn. | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
understand the space, play with the shapes, make it individual and for | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
a family. Exactly. Quite simple, really. That is why we are here! | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
The design can be done on computer or by hand. The key thing is that | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
your ideas are clear to the judge, and the main criteria is that it | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
works as a family garden. We will need your entries by March 1st, and | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
after that the three most promising designers will compete against each | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
other for the Grand Prize, an opportunity to be here in July, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
building your show garden alongside the professionals! So now it is | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
over to you. You can find all of the details, the terms and | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
conditions on the website. Good luck and get Designing! What an | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
opportunity! Christine and Adam are here with our three amateur but | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
very keen gardeners. This is not part of the competition, but can | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
anyone enter this? Anybody over 18 who has not got a horticultural or | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
design qualification, or earns an appreciable amount of money in | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
those industries. We want someone who was really keen, enthusiastic, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
passionate about gardening to whack it on paper! It is that simple, you | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
don't need to know about plants. many ways, the less you know, the | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
more creative you can be. The RHS will be providing a list available | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
on the website that the candidates will be using. Do not make obvious | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
mistakes, to not put a wetland plants next is something that needs | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
a dry. If it is a children's garden, you do not want thorny thing is, | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
poisonous plants. You want bold colours, bold flowers that kids | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
will get involved with, plans that will attract insects. Lots of ideas | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
there. He even though you are whacking it down on paper, there | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
are a few things banned. You cannot have a gnome! They are going to | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
have to stay at home. When does a Nome become a garden ornament? | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
when it is out of home, away from home. There is no way we can have | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
one. You cannot have things like mirrors, banners, obviously you | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
need to think about height restrictions, or those details are | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
on the website. OK, great. OK, I am out, what about you? This year at | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
Chelsea you are allowed gnomes, the centenary year. We are talking | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
Hampton Court! At least they are allowed back in a little bit. | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
have been helping them all afternoon. What should these three | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
and the people at home keep in mind when they are designing a family | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
garden? To not be put off by the fact that you have got Christine as | :29:02. | :29:11. | |
a mentor. I had a scary day! I have got used to end now. Anyway, keep | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
it simple, do not over-complicated, build a really good story in your | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
head. Or three of them have created stories, and they know who they are | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
developing the garden for. When you get to the show, you have got to | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
tell a story. You have got one child at university, a daughter who | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
is 12 living at home, so what kind of things have you kept in mind in | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
your garden this afternoon? Well, I wanted to create three different | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
zones for the three different people in the family, so the adult | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
zone here with the patio, the barbecue area, and then moving into | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
a covered area which my daughter went to stage productions in, and | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
then a chill-out zone for my son with a fire pit perhaps. When we | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
are entertaining, all the children can be together, we all in one area | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
but in different zones. It sounds great, doesn't it? What is really | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
lovely about that, just this afternoon the shapes have developed, | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
and they are really simple overlapping shapes. That would look | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
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Is this a pond here? I have layers. Yes, what are you doing here? | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
have a two-and-a-half-year-old and ultimately I don't want him scared | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
of spiders or bees. It's a lot about getting all the creatures | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
into the garden. Getting him used to nature in general, I suppose. | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Wouldn't you be worried with a pond with a two-year-old? Never let him | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
out there on his own, no. I fell in many ponds when I was young and I | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
survived. It's the way that this one really engages young people | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
with their garden. He's done visuals and all sorts of things. He | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
has got a fine art degree, so he's a bit of a ringer. He told me that | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
when he got here. Wendy's is looking good. Yes, Wendy's started | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
off, go on darling, you tell them. It's inspired by having a central | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
building in the middle so even if it's tipping down you could go into | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
the garden and enjoy. It Good call. I have the central idea and then a | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
journey thaw can go on with a path that goes through this lovely | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
fragrant area and then out the other side with a lawn round the | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
back. There Would any of you compete in the | :31:35. | :31:44. | |
real thing? I would love to. Don't be shy, get in there. | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
sense of movement through that one is fantastic. This did start off as | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
a telephone box. A little bit. think so many people think you have | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
to be something quite spectacular to be a garden designer. No. | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
your heart you have an idea. Bang it on paper. And that is how it | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
will work. Be true to yourself and your story. You will get to Hampton | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
Court. There you are. I have to go six months with this lady! | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
Christine was saying, it's purely for amateurs this. If you love | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
gardening and you've never done anything like it before, don't | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
worry, get in there. There's a budget to get it up and running. | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
These guys will be with you every step of the way. We will help them | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
on a fantastic journey. You will need to go to our website to enter. | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
The terms and conditions and the everyone triforms are there. The | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
closing date is March 1. We will be back to see how these three get on | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
later on in the show. Get colouring in. First, last night, | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
we saw Ironbridge in Shropshire get their flood defences in place after | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
two weeks' worth of rain fell in a single day. This week it's the 60th | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
anniversary of the 1953 floods that destroyed over 20,000 homes, a | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
perfect storm had been brewing at sea and it led to the worst | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
peacetime disaster the country had ever known. | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
On the 31 January, 1953, a terrifying storm was brewing out | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
there. It was due to a combination of a massive European wind and a | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
very high tide. It was heading in One Direction - en route it claimed | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
over 200 lives at sea. That was just the beginning. In some places | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
those waves got over 5.5 metres high and the sea defences never | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
stood a chance. The mammoth wave went on to claim another 307 lives. | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
80 people were killed on the North West coast of Norfolk. In 1953, | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
local radio stations didn't broadcast at night. Many weather | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
stations only operated during the day. People simply didn't know what | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
was coming. In the this town, many families lost a loved one. Neil's | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
family, however, would all survive. It was my eldest daughter's | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
birthday party was being arranged. My wife had decided to cancel it | :34:13. | :34:21. | |
because the gales that day was anything up to 100mph. Had they not | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
come, a tremendous amount of those little children that was drowned on | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
the road, would have been at the party. All of them would have been | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
saved had they come to your party? Oh, yeah and probably some of the | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
mothers as well. Have you ever been able to come to terms with that? | :34:38. | :34:47. | |
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Not really. On a daily basis, I'm talking about now, 60 years after, | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
it's indescribable what happened on that night. | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
John Madden was 15 at the time and luckily out of town. When he | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
returned it was to a scene of carnage. I was just amazed at the | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
devastation, but even more so by the fact that some of those who | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
drowned were my former class mates at the primary school here. It was | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
a very poignant moment walking around that area where the floods | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
hit and remembering the people who had drowned. We know now that it | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
was a set of circumstances, extreme low pressure that raised the level | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
of water. Hurricane-force winds and all of this channelling down the | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
North Sea, which is a funnel shape and so the water got higher as it | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
came down. The waves down here were over 5.5 metres high? Absolutely. | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
It wasn't just waves, it was a wall of water. They were totally | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
unprepared for the 11 feet of water that went in one side of the | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
bungalow and out the other, taking the people with it. Whenever we | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
have these memorials of the floods, people come together and share | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
their memories. But the sadness is still there, when we stand tomorrow | :36:02. | :36:10. | |
at the flood memorial, it will be How is your farm faring in this | :36:10. | :36:16. | |
terrible weather then? Muddy. It's been muddy, you know the land slide | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
that blocked the tunnel and killed those people, that was right by us. | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
We've been muddy since then. Then we got a snow topping for a while. | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
That made a change. That leave it's in a terrible state. The horses | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
have mud fever. The sheep are miserable. All the fun of the fair. | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
Other people have got it much worse than us. You talk about your horses, | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
two of them in particular, they're the basis of another documentary | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
you're doing. Yes. Bruce and Ronnie, isn't it? Yes, my babies. Introduce | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
these two then. That's Brucey on the right. That's Ronnie on the | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
left, my right, as it were. I bought them when they were eight | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
months. They're nearly three now. They've been loafing around until | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
this year. Then we put them into work in the programme and you see | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
them learning and see me learning. I go around the world and see some | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
other people who are still using horses to work rather than for | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
leisure. That's the basists documentaries. You send them to | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
hoof camp. How do they fare? biased. I'm really proud of them. I | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
don't want to give anything away, but they're home now and they did | :37:21. | :37:30. | |
really well. They were very, very good horses in the first place. | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
you ride? I don't ried those yet but they pull me in a cart. He's | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
probably better than in this clip then. This is Ronnie when he first | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
started training. Make me proud, Ronnie. | :37:45. | :37:53. | |
Right, Bruce, goodbye. Oh. The theory behind Ronnie | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
working with axel is because they're hitched together, he'll | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
have no choice but to go along with everything he does. | :38:01. | :38:09. | |
I've tried to put a clip on them. Whoa goodbye. I don't know what | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
that was, but... You see, never take your eye off them. | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
They're pulling well with the cart now at home? Yeah, they're at home | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
and fully functional. They're lovely. I was hanging out with them | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
yesterday. Very handy to have around if you've lost your driving | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
license. Yes, they sure are. years ago, did you ever imagine oud | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
have this farm and these animals? No I never saw any of it coming at | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
all, not a bit of it. How did it all start then? We wanted a field. | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
We lived down there for a long time. We wanted a field to put a pony in | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
for my daughter. Then a couple of acres would have been fine. Then we | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
ended up buying 130 and it sort of snowballed from there. You have to | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
keep the grass down. Yes, then the sheep and we have 15 horses now and | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
some rescues and stuff. But it's absolutely a dream come true for us. | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
Those boys, I just adore them. can see it. That comes across. | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
so proud of them. They're just going to get better and better and | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
better. The next thing we're doing is teaching them to sit like dogs. | :39:11. | :39:20. | |
them come up like a camel. You've been busy as well. As well as the | :39:20. | :39:27. | |
Disney series that we talked about, you've filmed this real tear jerker | :39:27. | :39:35. | |
called Mary and Martha with Hillary Swank. Yes it's a Richard Kurt is | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
script. It's two women with completely different backgrounds. | :39:38. | :39:48. | |
:39:48. | :39:49. | ||
Both lose their son to malaria in Africa. It's a well-made piece. | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
It's really just raising awareness, because it's a problem that could | :39:53. | :40:00. | |
be so easily solved so cheaply and simply. When you consider that a | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
child dies every minute from malaria, it's, yeah. I mean this | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
show is on for one hour, 60 children will have died. That's | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
right. I went to Africa at the beginning of the year to do a | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
similar film on malaria. It's just, they just need nets basically. It's | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
that simple. How is the experience for you then, you filmed a lot in | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
an orphanage in Africa, didn't you? Yeah, and the children there, I | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
mean, just wonderful. They're just so, they find things to smile about | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
and laugh about. It's kind of heart rending, it really is. It must be | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
hard for you to play a character and acting... That's a fiction. | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
acting like that. Yeah, it is. But the situation exists. You're | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
reminded of it all the time. Lots of the children were orphans who | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
had lost their parents for other reasons and one of the actresss in | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
it had lost her mother. Mainly it affects children, malaria. The | :41:03. | :41:12. | |
Comic Relief project in 2009, they sent 600,000 nets out there. That | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
supplied say a quarter of a million families. It's cut the deaths by | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
about 20%. APPLAUSE | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
Which is fantastic. It's marvellous. Before we move on. Let's have a | :41:25. | :41:35. | |
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look at you in that situation. Please don't be embarrassed. I need | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
to be useful. I don't have a job. Do you think I could be of any help | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
at the orphanage at all? Really? Yes, really! Of course. It's easy | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
to be useful here. I can cook quite well. Victoria sponge cake a | :41:57. | :42:06. | |
speciality. I'm a brilliant player, if somewhat violent. Like mother | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
like son. That looks great. Good luck with your trip to Africa. | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
Thank you. Now all of you cat owners will probably know by now | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
that your cat will always get his or her own way. Yeah and to prove | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
the point here's Hamish McHamish, a ginger moggy that has an entire | :42:25. | :42:35. | |
:42:35. | :42:36. | ||
town wrapped around his finger. St Andrews atracks thousands of | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
visitors a year to its splendid golfing greens, stunning scenery | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
and a world-renowned university with particularly famous alumni. | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
But there's one visitor in particular who's attracted the | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
attention of the locals. He turned up on its streets 13 years ago and | :42:54. | :43:03. | |
has been here ever since. May I introduce, Hamish McHamish. He's | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
somewhat of a celebrity in the old town, preferring to roam free he | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
chooses where he wants to sleep or eat each day. He even has his own | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
social media page with over 3,500 fans and is well known for popping | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
up in pretty unusual places. In my toilet. That's the most unusual | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
place I've found him. I like to see him sitting in the Town Hall steps. | :43:30. | :43:38. | |
There's a myth about him that if he crosses your doorstep that he's | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
looking shop. We give him a brush because sometimes he looks messy. | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
Though I'm convinced other people do it as well. Some days he turns | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
up dapper. He's so famous he's had a book written about him. Why is he | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
so popular? I think because the good folk of St Andrews see it as | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
their collective responsibility to look out for him because he has no | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
fix add bode. He's really welcomed with open arms. Mapping Hamish | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
McHamish's seemingly random routes around St Andrews is the perfect | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
case for The One Show team to investigate. Yesterday we put a GPS | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
transmitter on a collar around his neck while at one of his favourite | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
places, the local estate agents. It sends a signal to a satellite pin | :44:20. | :44:26. | |
pointing his location. There are two further readings from | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
neighbouring Queens gardens. Then he disappears. So the last reading | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
we have locating Hamish McHamish's whereabouts was last night on this | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
very road. Now the GPS only works when he's outside or near a window. | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
And it's pretty cold outside. So I'm guessing he's curled up inside | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
somewhere warm. So, we're going to have to use good old fashioned | :44:46. | :44:56. | |
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techniques to find where he is. I'm I have enlisted Susan's not to try | :45:00. | :45:07. | |
to track him down. I have not seen him, so sorry. Everyone knows him! | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
After nearly two hours of searching and all but given up hope, there is | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
a message on his social media page. He is in a house just behind the | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
street, right between the hair salon and the estate agents. It is | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
the moment of truth, I finally get to meet the famous Hamish McHamish, | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
who has been here all the time! Hello, how long has he been here? | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
He has been here since about 4 o'clock yesterday. He comes once or | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
twice a week. I think he likes it because it is quiet. Hamish has | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
been master of his own destiny for so long, it may seem like he looks | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
after himself out of necessity, but he is just a free spirit who left | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
his owner's garden when he grew from make it into a very | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
adventurous young cat. Today his own neck can only be sure of seeing | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
him one C year, and only then after she has hunted him down, so she can | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
take him to the vet for his vaccinations. Did you try to find | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
him when he first wandered off? used to go out at night, we used to | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
go and look for him in neighbouring streets. If I found him, if he | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
wanted to come home, he would allow me to lift him up and carry him | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
home. Like a cat taxi service. If ever a cat was a free spirit, that | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
one is! Delight that the community have embraced him? I think it is | :46:35. | :46:44. | |
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delightful, yes, he is the St I want a Hamish, he is lovely, | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
huge! You have not got a cat officially, but you have your own | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
version of Hamish. There is one that comes in the window when I am | :46:55. | :47:05. | |
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not looking. Do you feed him? Their he is! Oh, yes! Look at the state | :47:07. | :47:15. | |
of that stair carpet! Earlier, Martin told us that dogs show six | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
different types of emotions through their barks, but we know a dog that | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
can do a lot more than that. Yes, he is Dodger, Martin Clunes' dog in | :47:26. | :47:33. | |
dark Martin. There he is, he is a genius! We apologise for this. | :47:33. | :47:42. | |
want to see if his emotional range is actually greater than yours! | :47:42. | :47:52. | |
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ladies and gentlemen, it is time This is how it works, we are going | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
to give you an emotion to convey into this camera here, Cameron four, | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
and our studio audience will vote on the most powerful of expressions. | :48:02. | :48:12. | |
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-- camera. Dig deep! One at a time. Your first emotion is embarrassed. | :48:15. | :48:23. | |
Brenda, you are first. Oh, that is very good! With silent-movie... | :48:23. | :48:33. | |
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Contestant number three, it is over He gets a round of applause, let's | :48:44. | :48:51. | |
go to the live audience, Dodger, Martin or Brenda? Hole! It is a | :48:51. | :48:59. | |
fix! Dodger! We have got three rounds, by the way. You have to | :48:59. | :49:09. | |
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pull it out of the bag. Your next And what about Dodger? Can he beat | :49:17. | :49:27. | |
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That is Neil! Sonia has been busy, I have not seen him do that before! | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
Audience, what do you reckon? Dodger! OK, you are going to have | :49:37. | :49:44. | |
to really up your game now. The last emotion... Cock our legs? | :49:44. | :49:54. | |
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More! More! Come on, Dodger, what That is rubbish! Dodger! Will it be | :50:12. | :50:22. | |
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a clean sweep? Let's find out, it is time to vote! Oh, look at that! | :50:23. | :50:30. | |
Not bad, blimey! It is good, but of course the overall winner out of | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
the three rounds was Dodger, who could not be here tonight, but he | :50:34. | :50:44. | |
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Brilliant! He is a genius, that dog. Wonderful, wonderful. Our consumer | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
reporter is in Swansea to visit an unadopted street. What exactly is | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
an unadopted street, and why have the residents been left in the dark | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
Britain's streets have been lit up for hundreds of years. Before | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
electricity, gas and oil lamps used to guide people along their way | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
after dark. But in this street just outside Swansea, there is a problem. | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
The streetlights have all been installed, but watch what happens | :51:19. | :51:29. | |
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Nothing! The street was plunged into darkness when the lights were | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
switched off, and they have not been back on since. OK, so the | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
residents have not quite have to resort to gas lamps and candles, | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
but they are having to take tortures wherever they go. | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
lights just suddenly went out. warning? No warning at all, and we | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
thought that it was some kind of fault on the line. But they have | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
not been a power cut, and this was not a cost-cutting measure by the | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
council leader. The lights had been disconnected on purpose by the | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
energy company Swalec. It was because the developers to build the | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
street, David McLean Homes Ltd, went into administration in 2008 | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
without paying their electricity bill. Sway they say they have been | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
painful delight ever since, and they are not copping up any more. - | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
- Swale X say they have been paying for the lights ever since. I will | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
turn this one off to start with. Kelly is a mother of two, and she | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
is extremely concerned about their children's safety. We have no | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
lights in the morning or the evening. It is clearly a safety | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
hazard, walking around in the darkness. Obviously, visitors are | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
not aware of the situation, it is an accident waiting to happen. | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
looks like the darkest part of the street. Without the torch, that is | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
pretty dark! I will switch it back on! That really is a problem. | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
silly things like putting the rubbish out in the evening, you | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
need a torch to do something as simple as that. If you leave | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
something in the car and realise late at night, you think, no, I | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
will not go out when it is pitch black on my own at this time of | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
night. Why aren't the council paying for the lights? When a | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
development like this is built, the council does not take | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
responsibility for the maintenance of the roads or the street lamps | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
until they are satisfied that everything has been installed to a | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
good standard. Until that happens, it is known as an unadopted road, | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
and maintenance is the respondents at -- the responsibility of the | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
owner. The lights on the rest of the estate are still on because | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
they were built by other developers, who have not gone into | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
administration. But this street was still unadopted when the company | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
went bust, and when the residents of the 45 houses at the council to | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
take responsibility, they said no. Tony is one of the residents. What | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
is the council's relationship to this place? Well, their first | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
response was, as the street is not adopted and never was, it is our | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
problem. Did you know about this? No, when we bought our houses, we | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
knew that it was to be adopted, but we did not realise there would be a | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
problem. We just assumed it would happen sooner or later. Swansea | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
council said that lots of things need fixing before they will adopt | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
the street. The lights are in need of safety improvements, and the | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
roads are in poor condition with loose kerbs. The bill to get it all | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
fixed could come to more than �17,000. But who should pay? The | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
council has agreed to pay 20% of the cost as a goodwill gesture, but | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
they want the rest of the money to be paid by the residents, which | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
could work out at more than �300 for every household. They say they | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
have stepped in when no one else macro words. -- no-one else would. | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
We have all been paying council tax for nine years, so we believe the | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
council should be looking into this matter and switching the lights | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
back on for us. But whether the street is eventually adopted or not, | :55:05. | :55:12. | |
there is one thing at the forefront of everyone's minds. In the | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
meantime,... Matt Allwright is here. The thing to remember is that they | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
are paying council tax, so how come they are not having the same | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
service? They are paying their council tax, but this is the thing, | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
even if you have a private road, where you take responsibility for | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
the road and the electricity, you still pay the full council tax. | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
That is what Swansea Council are saying. If you look at this place, | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
we cannot budget for unadopted road because they are not our | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
responsibility yet. They are, however, they do not have to do | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
this, but they are offering to pay 20% of the repair costs that the | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
community are going to be faced with. They don't have to do that, | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
and they are trying to get some sort of resolution. Lots of people | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
do live without streetlights anyway, but how widespread is this problem, | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
for those on an unadopted street? Well, we have seen cases right | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
across the UK, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Northern Ireland, | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
there was a case of one dealer who has been without street lighting | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
for five years now because he is in an unadopted road. So what is | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
happening across the UK, and the worry is that you have got this 12 | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
month period before the street becomes adopted if a developer goes | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
bust or into administration. We are untroubled Times, we could be seen | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
more of these. What about the family's we saw in Swansea? What | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
can they do? Swansea are helping out, they are offering 20%, but the | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
reality is that at some point they are going to have to pay for the | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
repairs, stump up some money, about �300 each, to get these repairs so | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
the council will adopt the street and get things working again. | :56:54. | :57:00. | |
you live and an unadopted street, how worried should you be? Well, it | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
is fairly rare, we have got to say that. It is fairly rare that you | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
get this particular situation, but if you have got a developer and | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
they are going through this process of application, it is something you | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
should be aware of, work out how they are doing. It is not | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
impossible that it could happen, it is very difficult to do anything | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
about it. Well, we do have a link on our website that will give you | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
more information. If you head there, I hope that makes sense. Go to the | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
website if you are in a similar situation! Shall we go and see how | :57:34. | :57:42. | |
our gardens are getting on? You have run out of time, pencils down! | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
They are all beautifully coloured in, here we go, let's have a look. | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
Which of these three would you have picked? This is not the | :57:51. | :58:00. | |
competition... This one. OK, why, Adam? It is a lovely piece of | :58:00. | :58:06. | |
design. It has some level changes, which is really interesting in a | :58:06. | :58:12. | |
small space, and do not worry about strong shapes, because I like this, | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
it is a simple design, it works. They're all great, obviously. | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
and Wendy are looking a bit deflated now! They are awesome. | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
This is just more awesome! It is about designing a family garden, | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
but you do not need to have a sand pit, it can before any stages of | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
the family. Thank you both and thank you to three. All the | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
information for the competition will be on our website as well. | :58:39. | :58:45. | |
Christine, it is a dream for you, this one. It is! Thank you to our | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
guests, Brenda, Martin and Alastair Paul Stocker you can hear Brenda | :58:51. | :58:55. |