:00:28. > :00:33.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones
:00:33. > :00:37.and the actress who used to live At Home With The Braithwaitess, but
:00:37. > :00:42.now teaches old dogs new tricks in one of the most popular dramas on
:00:42. > :00:48.telly. It's Amanda Redman. Everybody is really excited about
:00:48. > :00:51.you coming back. You must be over the moon. Will. We love doing it.
:00:51. > :00:55.It's terrific the audience like it so much and do look forward to it.
:00:55. > :01:00.But it gets repeated so much, they often get confused if it is a new
:01:00. > :01:04.series. They think, is this a repeat? We'll tell them exactly
:01:04. > :01:08.when the new one starts later on. As well as the strikes, of course,
:01:08. > :01:12.the story in every paper today was this e-mail sent by a future
:01:12. > :01:15.mother-in-law to a son's fiancee giving her a real dressing-down
:01:15. > :01:20.about her manners. We have been chatting about it all day. Matt
:01:20. > :01:25.agrees with some of it. I agree with some. But it starts like this:
:01:25. > :01:30."It's high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours
:01:30. > :01:35.are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you." She does go on
:01:35. > :01:40.about meal time - she shouldn't start before everybody else. Fair
:01:40. > :01:45.enough. If you stay at somebody's house you, shouldn't get up at
:01:45. > :01:48.lunch time. Fair enough. But this is it, then. She goes on and gets a
:01:48. > :01:54.little bit more ridiculous. She says, "No-one gets married in a
:01:55. > :01:58.castle unless they own it. It is brash celebrity-style behaviour."
:01:58. > :02:03.There we are. That's a little bit harsh. Having said that, though,
:02:03. > :02:08.isn't the point that she's paying - that they're paying for it? Yes.
:02:08. > :02:13.think they're struggling. Castles are very expensive, it turns out. I
:02:13. > :02:18.suppose. It's a dodgy one, this, I think. The last time you were on
:02:18. > :02:22.the One Show, you announced you were going to get married. Yes. Yes.
:02:22. > :02:26.How is your mother-in-law? Seriously, I have the best mother
:02:26. > :02:31.and father-in-law in the world, and I love them very much. They're just
:02:31. > :02:35.great. They really are. I think we have a picture of you getting
:02:35. > :02:39.married. Here we are. Is that a castle?
:02:39. > :02:42.LAUGHTER No, it's not, no. OK. We'll be
:02:42. > :02:47.talking about the new series of New Tricks a little bit later on.
:02:47. > :02:52.are always coming one new tricks to make some money from their
:02:52. > :02:55.customers. Luckily, we've got our man Dom to keep an eye on them.
:02:55. > :03:00.There was a time when a current account was where you deposited
:03:00. > :03:04.your money and took it out when you needed it, but not anymore.
:03:04. > :03:07.Nowadays, more than seven million of us are paying extra for bank
:03:07. > :03:11.accounts with some added benefits such as travel insurance, mobile
:03:11. > :03:17.phone insurance, even breakdown cover. Now, a basic package starts
:03:17. > :03:22.about �60 a year, but some of the top-end ones go as high as 300. For
:03:22. > :03:25.that you'll get VIP access to airport lounges and sports events
:03:25. > :03:29.bookings, but are they really worth it? Well, the banks certainly think
:03:29. > :03:33.they're getting something out of it. All the big High Street banks offer
:03:33. > :03:37.them, and the number of us willing to fork outs has almost doubled in
:03:37. > :03:41.the past six years. Now, while the banks are keen to sell us these
:03:41. > :03:45.packages, how much are you actually benefiting from the goodies inside
:03:45. > :03:49.of them? That all depends on your situation. For these accounts
:03:49. > :03:52.people pay up to �25 per month. Obviously, if you use the benefits
:03:52. > :03:57.you're getting a good deal. If you don't, you're paying for nothing.
:03:57. > :04:01.This is just going towards the bank's profits. Profit isn't a
:04:01. > :04:05.dirty word but the banks are pushing them very hard. Why is
:04:05. > :04:09.that? The banks have been hit with a loss of revenue in a number of
:04:09. > :04:13.different areas. They're looking to make up for the revenue. There has
:04:14. > :04:18.been a significant rise in the last number of years. There have gone
:04:18. > :04:22.from 25 to 50 accounts on the market today. Let's take Lloyds TSB.
:04:22. > :04:26.They were the first bank to introduce packaged accounts in 1997.
:04:26. > :04:31.They're now one of the biggest players in the market. Their most
:04:32. > :04:38.popular and cheapest package is the silver current account which costs
:04:38. > :04:42.�95.40 a year, and which they say is worth �249. Now, they do offer
:04:42. > :04:46.potentially useful benefits, but they're not necessarily as
:04:46. > :04:50.attractive as they might seem when you get down to the nitty-gritty.
:04:50. > :04:57.The breakdown cover is supposed to be worth �56, but you can buy that
:04:57. > :05:01.direct as a new customer for �28 from the AA. The holiday insurance
:05:01. > :05:06.offers good basic cover. However, that's if you're under 65 and
:05:06. > :05:14.you're travelling within Europe. If you're older or fancy a trip
:05:14. > :05:19.further afield, you're not covered. Then there is the mobile phone
:05:19. > :05:26.insurance, which they say is worth �83. Great. You can claim twice in
:05:26. > :05:30.a year, but you do have to pay an excess, �100 on a Smartphone and we
:05:30. > :05:33.did find cover cheaper elsewhere. If you can't be bothered to shop
:05:33. > :05:38.around and you're happy that what they're offering works for you,
:05:38. > :05:42.fine, but do bear in mind loads of you are paying for profits you're
:05:42. > :05:46.not using. My Grandad had one of these accounts, was paying up to
:05:46. > :05:50.�20 a month for it. He had the mobile phone insurance, didn't take
:05:50. > :05:53.it out of the cost. He was covered under his car insurance. I think
:05:53. > :05:57.most people who have these accounts don't use the benefits. They're
:05:57. > :06:01.paying money for nothing. If you're willing to shop around and even
:06:01. > :06:05.move banks for the deal, there are savings to be made. As well as
:06:05. > :06:09.basic benefits, you can get deals on your mortgage and favorable
:06:09. > :06:13.overdraft and loan rates. The Financial Services Authority who
:06:13. > :06:17.regulate financial products are clurnt looking at these fee-paying
:06:17. > :06:19.packaged accounts. While they say they can be positive, they don't
:06:19. > :06:23.necessarily suit everybody, so the advice is, if you're going to take
:06:23. > :06:25.one of these out, make sure it's right for you and that the banks
:06:25. > :06:30.aren't the only ones who are benefits.
:06:30. > :06:34.Dom is here. It has been a bad day for Lloyds TSB. It has, yes.
:06:34. > :06:38.cuts over the next two weeks. What have they said about the film?
:06:38. > :06:40.have given us a statement. They say Lloyds TSB packaged current
:06:40. > :06:42.accounts offer comprehensive levels of cover, which, they claim, in
:06:42. > :06:44.many cases are more extensive than stand-alone policies available in
:06:44. > :06:50.the market, and they add that their robust sales process is designed to
:06:50. > :06:53.identify and match customers' needs. Fair enough. You were in last
:06:54. > :06:57.Tuesday asking people to e-mail in their consumers queries. We got
:06:57. > :07:02.loads, as usual. What sort of problems were raising their ugly
:07:02. > :07:07.heads? One of the more obvious ones we expected to receive was the ones
:07:08. > :07:12.about the credit and debit card charges. We had one from Ron from
:07:12. > :07:22.Lancashire. He booked flights for nine people, him and eight of his
:07:22. > :07:27.buddies. He got charged �9 per ticket per flight both ways in
:07:27. > :07:33.addition to -- for using the credit card. That's not just one story.
:07:33. > :07:37.we had another one. The good news is two days ago the OFT have told
:07:37. > :07:41.these companies to be transparent with these charges. Put them up
:07:41. > :07:45.front. They're not going to disappear, but you're not going to
:07:45. > :07:49.find these nine pages down when you're putting in your information
:07:49. > :07:54.on the website. The next one? is a lovely story. Two years ago I
:07:54. > :07:57.reported on continuing health care. This is where people have -
:07:57. > :08:01.formerly elderly relatives in care, and they're paying for that. A lot
:08:01. > :08:07.of the cases, people should have had that funded by their Primary
:08:07. > :08:13.Care Trusts. A lovely story here. This one from One Show viewer Mike.
:08:13. > :08:16.He put in a claim to his Primary Care Trust in north Somerset. For
:08:17. > :08:20.two years he has been back and forth with e-mails and letters. In
:08:21. > :08:27.one instance he got a 90-page document. He struggled through.
:08:27. > :08:32.This month he got awarded �20,000 back. What a result! Is it too late
:08:32. > :08:36.to get a refund? No, but you can't put a claim in on anything that
:08:36. > :08:40.goes back prior to April 2004. We have a lady from Southampton who
:08:40. > :08:45.wrote and asked if she could put in an appeal for her father's case.
:08:45. > :08:49.Yes, you can. What you need to do is appeal to a PCT first, go to an
:08:49. > :08:53.ombudsman. If that doesn't work, you can engage a specialist
:08:53. > :08:57.solicitor. That might cost you money, but you can still appeal.
:08:58. > :09:06.Worth it for �20,000. The last one? This is concert tickets. This is
:09:06. > :09:10.sparked off a lot by Take That. We got contacted by Sarah Beeston from
:09:10. > :09:15.Alfrisston. She paid �700 for tickets that didn't arrive. People
:09:16. > :09:18.are preying on people's desperation to get tickets. I couldn't even get
:09:18. > :09:22.these tickets - they're like Willie Wonka's tickets, aren't they?
:09:22. > :09:27.Generally, what you've got to do is use common sense. If you smell a
:09:27. > :09:30.rat, you're probably dealing with one. Make sure the agent you buy
:09:30. > :09:34.them from has a land line phone number and a physical address in
:09:34. > :09:39.this country. When you get that post code, go on to the search
:09:39. > :09:44.engines, put that in there. Use Streetview and you can go straight
:09:44. > :09:48.there to see whether it's a bedsit or a proper business address. Pay
:09:48. > :09:54.by credit card where you can. It's protected. You should be able to
:09:54. > :09:57.get your money back. Don't buy from anybody who only gives you a mobile
:09:57. > :10:03.phone number or from anybody who says they have tickets before they
:10:03. > :10:09.have been released. Doesn't happen. If somebody is genuinely selling a
:10:09. > :10:14.pair of tickets, you speak to them on a land line number, say, "I hope
:10:14. > :10:20.you're not offended, but would you mind taking a photo of those
:10:20. > :10:24.tickets next to a current newspaper?" Thanks. My pleasure.
:10:24. > :10:27.Dom will be back next week with some more of your consumer case
:10:27. > :10:31.files. If you have any questions, go to our website.
:10:31. > :10:33.Now, with our prisons currently filled to capacity, it's no
:10:33. > :10:38.surprise the Government is looking into any way possible to reduce
:10:38. > :10:47.costs and overcrowding. 200 years ago the powers that be were having
:10:47. > :10:51.similar problems. Tragically, as Ruth Goodman explains, the solution
:10:51. > :10:56.was to put prisoners between the devil and the deep blue sea. These
:10:56. > :11:00.days prisons are purpose built. If you end up inside you lose your
:11:00. > :11:03.freedom, but you're guaranteed human rights. Doing time in the
:11:03. > :11:10.1700s, however, was a different experience. There was a good chance
:11:10. > :11:13.you wouldn't make it to the end of your sentence alive. Whilst we were
:11:13. > :11:16.fighting Napoleon and the American revolutionary war, thousands of
:11:16. > :11:21.captured soldiers were shipped back to Britain, but our prisons
:11:21. > :11:29.couldn't cope. The quick fix was to use hulks, decaying warships
:11:29. > :11:36.converted into jails. Here in Chatham, between 1793 and 1815, 23
:11:36. > :11:40.hulks were lined up here along the Medway, each one containing more
:11:40. > :11:47.than 700 prisoners and the smells of misery must have come wafting
:11:47. > :11:51.ashore. For the prisoners onboard, hulk life was violent and squalid.
:11:51. > :11:55.They would cram as many prisoners as possible down there - I mean
:11:55. > :11:59.hundreds on one deck. There was so little air down below, they
:12:00. > :12:03.couldn't even get a candle to burn properly. Really? They were
:12:03. > :12:06.actually short of oxygen? Yeah. We know they were kept mannicaled 24
:12:06. > :12:11.hours a day, and there was no proper sanitation, so you know
:12:11. > :12:17.you've got a chance of catching something ghastly. But it wasn't
:12:17. > :12:22.only prisoners of war who were condemned to a floating hell.
:12:22. > :12:27.British prisoners were also sent, some at a tender age. We're looking
:12:28. > :12:34.at digitised prison hulk registers, and we can scroll down for a list
:12:34. > :12:40.of boys in the hulk. We have Donald from Edinburgh, aged 13. He was
:12:40. > :12:44.given 14 years. A nine-year-old, John Edwards from Staffordshire.
:12:44. > :12:47.iron chains, a nine-year-old. Soloman Edwards - he's sentenced to
:12:47. > :12:52.seven year, but doesn't make anything like that. What happened?
:12:52. > :12:58.Died 7th of April. Three years later. He's an 11-year-old. So in
:12:58. > :13:00.effect, that is a death sentence - dying on the hulk. Jeepers. It's
:13:00. > :13:05.horrible to think what those children must have been going
:13:05. > :13:09.through. With an incredible 30% mortality rate, the chance of
:13:09. > :13:13.survival was low. You could buy yourself better conditions, but
:13:13. > :13:17.only if you had a way of making money. So these were all things
:13:17. > :13:23.that were actually made by prisoners on hulks? Yes, there was
:13:23. > :13:28.quite a market for prisoner of war work. At either end here we've got
:13:28. > :13:32.some straw work boxes. They're made of wood, but they're decorated with
:13:32. > :13:36.very finely cut and dyed bits of straw. It's quite amazing that
:13:36. > :13:40.something as fine and delicate could come out of one of these hell
:13:40. > :13:44.holes. It's remarkable, isn't it? The dark, the smell, the filth, and
:13:44. > :13:49.out comes this beautiful thing. And this incredible thing - I
:13:49. > :13:53.mean... Yep. This is bone work. Bone, of course, was extremely
:13:53. > :13:59.plentiful and very chee. This woman is spinning, and if I turn the
:13:59. > :14:03.handle, you can see that the wheel will turn itself. Oh, yes. Sort of
:14:03. > :14:08.how much was something like this going for? Is I don't know of any
:14:08. > :14:13.record, but I can be sure whatever it sold for, that was not the sum
:14:13. > :14:16.the prisoner saw by the time it got down to him because all the guards
:14:16. > :14:20.would have taken a little bit for carrying the thing to the customer,
:14:20. > :14:23.providing the work space and so on. But hopefully, it would have
:14:24. > :14:28.allowed them to live in slightly better comfort for at least a few
:14:28. > :14:36.months. But whatever convicts did to
:14:36. > :14:42.survive, avoiding epidemics was virtually impossible. In 1814, 361
:14:42. > :14:48.American prisoners of war were taken aboard the Rochester hulk The
:14:48. > :14:53.Bahama. Only three months later, 84 of them were dead. Buried
:14:53. > :14:56.anonymously, the bodies lay in marshland for years until the river
:14:56. > :15:00.eroded their mass graves. The remains were exhumed and brought
:15:00. > :15:03.here to this memorial garden as their final resting place, a
:15:03. > :15:12.reminder of a rather shameful episode in the history of Britain's
:15:12. > :15:17.By the 1850s, things were changing. Reformers campaigned against the
:15:17. > :15:24.inhuman treatment of prisoners. 19 new prisons were built. The
:15:24. > :15:28.nightmare of the hulks was over. Incredible story for those children.
:15:28. > :15:34.Unbelievable. Amanda, you were explaining, you have a connection,
:15:34. > :15:38.you studied the ships before? a play called Our Country's Good.
:15:38. > :15:43.It was about the prisoners taken to Australia. Before they left they
:15:43. > :15:50.spent a lot of time on the hulks, the conditions were appalling.
:15:50. > :15:54.Speaking of prisoners, the eighthth series of New Tricks is back on BBC
:15:54. > :15:58.One on Monday atpm. Before we have a chat let's have a look at the
:15:58. > :16:04.first episode where you are sent to investigate the death of a
:16:04. > :16:07.palaeontologist? So, shall we have a look at the scene, then? Oh, the
:16:07. > :16:13.Natural History Museum, great, I have not been there for years.
:16:13. > :16:18.will fix up a meeting with the head of the palaeontology. What do they
:16:18. > :16:25.do? He is responsible for a word- class collection of fossils. Just
:16:25. > :16:28.like me! APPLAUSE. As Alun Armstrong said there, you
:16:28. > :16:33.filmed that episode in the Natural History Museum, but had to wait for
:16:33. > :16:39.everyone to leave. Was it done at night-time? It was, until about
:16:39. > :16:46.3.00am or 4.00am in the morning. Was it scary? It was, but they were
:16:46. > :16:51.not precious, they let us wander all over the museum and so we had a
:16:51. > :16:55.fantastic time. It is like the film by Ben Stiller,
:16:55. > :17:01.the Night in the Museum. It was.
:17:01. > :17:05.There is a dinosaur that roars, Dennis started singing necessary
:17:05. > :17:09.yun dorma. Somebody put it on the camera and put it on YouTube it is
:17:09. > :17:13.funny. So, you are the only woman, the
:17:13. > :17:18.rest of men, do you think it could have worked the other way around,
:17:18. > :17:23.three women and a young man? Yes, I do. A lot of my friends say it is
:17:23. > :17:28.not fair, that it would not happen, but why can't it be the other way
:17:28. > :17:36.around. I think it would work. It seems very cosy, like a family
:17:36. > :17:40.affair. There was Hannah Waterman, James
:17:40. > :17:45.Dennis Waterman's dad and Alun Armstrong and his wife.
:17:46. > :17:52.And now your daughter has come into it in the eighth series.
:17:52. > :17:56.Right. In the first episode, she is unjuryed, she has her face slashed,
:17:56. > :18:02.was it difficult to see her like this as mother? It was horrible. I
:18:02. > :18:06.walked on to the set. She was lying there unconscious with the gash and
:18:06. > :18:09.the flesh hanging open it made me feel really odd it was very
:18:09. > :18:15.upsetting. Did you do a lot of teaching with
:18:15. > :18:20.her when she was younger to get her into the profession? Yeah. She went
:18:20. > :18:25.to the drama school that I have, but it was not me featurer her, she
:18:26. > :18:29.would not listen to me, really! Right! She would listen to the
:18:29. > :18:33.others. You do look similar. There is a
:18:33. > :18:39.lovely picture of both of you. Thank you.
:18:39. > :18:44.Once upon a time every major city had a tram systems by the early 60s,
:18:44. > :18:51.all but one has been dismantled. Edinburgh has tried to bring theirs
:18:51. > :18:56.back, but Des McClaine explain it is has all gone horrible wrong.
:18:56. > :19:02.Did you hear the one about the �160 million quid that Edinburgh spent
:19:02. > :19:09.on a new tram system? They don't have one single tram to show for it.
:19:09. > :19:14.It not funny is it? The locals don't like it either.
:19:14. > :19:20.They were meant to have trams around the city, but the council
:19:20. > :19:29.blew the budget preparing to lay the tracks.
:19:29. > :19:34.Has anybody seen a tram?! Has anyone seen a tram?! No? Maybe they
:19:34. > :19:39.are invisible. Maybe that is why they are so expensive. The roads
:19:39. > :19:43.were dug up for years to make way for utilities, angry businessmen
:19:43. > :19:47.have said it caused the loss of jobs and trade.
:19:47. > :19:51.I had to close a major store. There was no passing trade. If you think
:19:51. > :19:56.about it, no-one is coming in if there are more holes in the road
:19:56. > :20:00.than a sieve. It was like that for weeks and months and year.
:20:00. > :20:05.Two miles of tracks were laid. Business leaders are more phrased
:20:05. > :20:08.by what is on the way. Our businesses are concerned that
:20:08. > :20:11.their business will fail left, right and centre. Continuing is to
:20:11. > :20:17.write a blank cheque and it will brunt the city.
:20:17. > :20:22.He is not kidding. If the route was bit it would work out at �81
:20:22. > :20:30.million a mile. So, to get from here to just here,
:20:30. > :20:34.two metres of track, costs �100 thaws ?! What?! Madness! So that is
:20:34. > :20:40.out for now. The council will have to decide if they are to go ahead
:20:40. > :20:45.and build a shorter route that will cost an estimated �773 million!
:20:45. > :20:54.However, if they decide to do a U- turn and scrap the whole thing, it
:20:54. > :20:58.will still cost Edinburgh, �740 million! That's pure crazy! Instead
:20:58. > :21:02.of paying �700 million, they could have paid for the buses that were
:21:02. > :21:07.already in place, perfect! Public transport. It could have paid for
:21:08. > :21:12.it for ten years. It is another Edinburgh's disgrace. They didn't
:21:12. > :21:17.come to the public to ask if we wanted it. We don't. The survey was
:21:17. > :21:20.done. It is a fiasco. This local newspaper man knows who
:21:20. > :21:24.is to blame. This is meant to be a tram stall,
:21:24. > :21:29.who is to blame? The politicians. They rushed ahead with it. The
:21:29. > :21:35.contracts done in a way that allowed the contractors to quibble
:21:35. > :21:38.and mess around. The end result is more expense, cost, we don't have
:21:38. > :21:43.trams, and Edinburgh is a laughing stock.
:21:43. > :21:49.So, where are the council going to find the cash? I'm going in to put
:21:49. > :21:52.them to the sword. How did it end up such a sorry mess? We will have
:21:52. > :21:56.to have an investigation. Everybody is agreeing with that
:21:57. > :22:01.You are saying that the problem can be fixed, but we are talking
:22:01. > :22:05.hundreds of millions, where is the money coming from? We would pay it
:22:05. > :22:08.out like a mortgage. If we cancel it we have to pay the money upfront.
:22:08. > :22:11.We can't do anything about what has happened in the past. Unfortunately
:22:11. > :22:19.the money has gone, that damage is done.
:22:19. > :22:27.OK. I have done the sums, all we are short of is... �300 million!
:22:27. > :22:32.That's alright, that means �600 a punter. I can do that! �600 a quid
:22:32. > :22:37.-- quid a punter, come on, for the Edinburgh tram system. I think we
:22:37. > :22:41.will need a bigger bucket. That's one way to do it. The
:22:41. > :22:45.councillors are voting to decide what to do with the trams. Talking
:22:45. > :22:51.about raising money, Amanda Redman you are a patron of the Children's
:22:51. > :22:55.Burns Trust which you have a close connection with? Yes, I have.
:22:55. > :22:58.I was badly burnt as a child. I have been their patron now for
:22:58. > :23:04.about ten years. What kind of help can they offer?
:23:04. > :23:09.It is fantastic. It is all about rehabilitation, it is often hard
:23:09. > :23:13.for the families, so it is about giving the families a break, taking
:23:13. > :23:17.the siblings away and explaining what their brother or sister is
:23:17. > :23:21.going through. It is just fantastically support I have.
:23:21. > :23:28.It is a very, very difficult time for a younger children, do you
:23:28. > :23:32.remember the incident when it happened? I don't remember, it was
:23:32. > :23:37.18 months, but my earliest memories were of being in hospital. I was in
:23:37. > :23:43.hospital until I was five. That is when you start having memories. So
:23:43. > :23:49.I do remember that bit! Well we are now going to move on to wildlife.
:23:49. > :23:53.We love to celebrate British wildlife and we are not able to do
:23:53. > :23:58.it without the British wide life lovers.
:23:58. > :24:04.Mike Dilger has met Frank Field, in the Forest of Dean. In the economic
:24:04. > :24:09.books and the Hollywood block buster movies, the superheroes come
:24:09. > :24:16.in lots of different shapes and sizes, but in reality, the real
:24:16. > :24:20.heroes are plain clothed mod -- modest souls who walk among us
:24:20. > :24:24.every day. Frank Landner is one of them. Until recently a full-time
:24:24. > :24:28.bank manager, but for the last 30 years, he has clocked up to 40
:24:28. > :24:31.hours a week, every spring, volunteering in the Forest of Dean.
:24:31. > :24:34.This unpaid work has benefited both sides.
:24:34. > :24:40.You get away from customers who have something to complain about
:24:40. > :24:46.and shirky phone calls. You come here, it is peace and quiet, no
:24:46. > :24:52.telephones, absolutely nothing, superb! Frank's year has been
:24:52. > :24:57.devoted to flied pie catchers. They are rarely seen and this population
:24:57. > :25:03.is fragile. But frank has fall no-one love with
:25:03. > :25:11.them -- but Frankenstein has fallen in love with them.
:25:11. > :25:21.They are enchanting -- Frank! you are right. They are going in
:25:21. > :25:26.happily now with -- without taking notice of us. Cracking birds.
:25:26. > :25:31.It flies across the Sahara, there and back, twice in a season. That
:25:31. > :25:36.says something, surely? He follows the birds so closely, that he's
:25:36. > :25:41.become an expert in all of their habits, behaviours and some might
:25:41. > :25:47.say misbehaviours! Of course, Frank, your favourite species is a touch
:25:47. > :25:57.promiscuous at times, shall we say? Yes, it has been known to occur.
:25:57. > :26:04.The male has two young ladies in turn. When I was in 1983, 1984, he
:26:04. > :26:10.a case of a male in three boxes, not even two! So, he had two bits
:26:10. > :26:14.on the side? Yes! Hard work. Absolutely.
:26:14. > :26:20.To find out which birds do come back and where they nest, Frank has
:26:20. > :26:24.to ring every fly-catcher bird on this RSPB reserve.
:26:24. > :26:31.Obviously we have to get in and out as quickly as possible. To let the
:26:31. > :26:39.parents come back to feed the birds. So we are going to be like the SAS!
:26:39. > :26:42.In all, Frank has monitored over 2,000 nests, he has rung over
:26:42. > :26:50.10,000 fly-catchers. The eye is open at seven days old.
:26:50. > :26:54.So that one is about eight days old. In recent years, the pied
:26:54. > :27:00.flycatcher population has suffered, but caterpillars, their favourite
:27:00. > :27:05.food is down. So he weighs each one. To your incredibly experienced eye,
:27:05. > :27:10.are these chicks looking healthy? These good, especially for this
:27:10. > :27:16.time of year. In some boxes, Frank is giving the parents and the
:27:16. > :27:23.chicks a helping hand to ensure that they survive. 104, what are
:27:23. > :27:27.you expecting in this one, Frank? Some belters! He has set up
:27:27. > :27:36.temporary foster homes, moving chicks from a large under fed brood
:27:36. > :27:41.to a less crowded nest with more experienced parents! He has my best
:27:41. > :27:46.foster parents. I removed a couple from a young nest which ate the
:27:46. > :27:51.young ones and transferred him to that nest. In ten minutes he was
:27:51. > :27:57.feeding like mad, in and out like a rocket. So, what you are trying to
:27:57. > :28:01.do is to get as many chicks fledged as possible to keep the population
:28:01. > :28:07.buoyant? Absolutely, why not, that's what it is all about?
:28:07. > :28:12.during this short period, does your wife see you at all? No! How does
:28:12. > :28:21.she feel about that? She accepts the fact that he is is a pied-fly
:28:21. > :28:26.catcher widow. Frank is one of the handful of pied
:28:27. > :28:31.flycatcher volunteers around the country. Had is the only one with
:28:31. > :28:38.30 years of experience under his belt. Many would argue that he has
:28:38. > :28:45.kept the population going in this wood. I agree. He is a wild life
:28:45. > :28:51.hero. Isn't he just? When I was a buy, -- boy, I used to think that
:28:51. > :28:56.those birds were called flying pie catchers! I was just a boy.
:28:56. > :29:00.At the beginning of the show we spoke about the mother-in-law who
:29:00. > :29:04.e-mailed her daughter-in-law to talk about her manners. Talking
:29:04. > :29:09.about the fact you can't get married in a castle as it is a bit
:29:09. > :29:15.chavvy, but we have had e-mails that say: We are getting married in
:29:15. > :29:19.a castle. It is not cheap, but all wedding venues are expensive.
:29:19. > :29:24.And Martin says: We are getting married in a castle, we paid for it,
:29:24. > :29:29.we are not celebrities! So if you have news, let us know. Angela
:29:29. > :29:32.Rippon is broadcasting your nation to the nation in Rippon's Britain.
:29:32. > :29:37.E-mail us at: Tune in tomorrow to see if you get
:29:37. > :29:40.a mention on the telly. Brilliant. That is all for tonight. Amanda