:00:21. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to the One Show news taxpayers.
:00:21. > :01:51.job, I decided in the end... About news taxpayers.
:01:52. > :10:48.follow and you can do them in 15 or news taxpayers.
:10:49. > :13:08.the medical centre. The practice has news taxpayers.
:13:09. > :18:49.The vote ends at 7:35 sharp. Richard and Judy, you are here because you
:18:50. > :18:56.are searching for a bestseller. How does this work and what exactly are
:18:57. > :19:03.you looking for? Basically, we are looking for a debut author. Anybody
:19:04. > :19:08.can submit 10,000 words by January the 1st. This is a life changing
:19:09. > :19:12.deal, they will get a ?50,000 grant, and if the book does really well
:19:13. > :19:15.they will get royalties on top. They will get a publishing contract, PR
:19:16. > :19:21.representation, we will launch them as a proper author. They will get a
:19:22. > :19:26.lot of publicity when we find them. The entries are pouring in. How many
:19:27. > :19:31.have you had? Thousands. The publishers say they have some very
:19:32. > :19:35.promising ones already. The important thing is, it has to be a
:19:36. > :19:37.debut writer, you cannot be published before already have an
:19:38. > :19:41.agent or publisher. You must be somebody that has been sitting
:19:42. > :19:44.there, maybe working on something for a while or thinking, goodness, I
:19:45. > :19:49.could finish a novel and get it published. It is across all genres.
:19:50. > :20:01.We don't care what it is, a crime story, romantic novel, comedy,
:20:02. > :20:06.whatever. I was about to say! Go to the Richard and Judy website, and
:20:07. > :20:10.you can enter. What is the difference between a good book and a
:20:11. > :20:15.great book? Oh, my God, that is a big question. You know what, I don't
:20:16. > :20:19.know. I think a great book stands the test of time and does not date,
:20:20. > :20:27.becomes a classic. A good book, in its own right, does exactly what it
:20:28. > :20:32.should say on the tin. Transports you, entertains you, takes away,
:20:33. > :20:35.hope fully, in some way, transforms you. We are looking for good books,
:20:36. > :20:41.not great books, books that are really good reads. Very readable?
:20:42. > :20:47.That is the essence of The Richard And Judy Bookclub. Somebody said
:20:48. > :20:51.that we have the Midas touch, we put our hands on a book and it works. We
:20:52. > :20:58.are very lucky, we are sent the books by WH Smith, a send some out
:20:59. > :21:01.of the hundreds that they get. We get the cream of the crop. We pick
:21:02. > :21:06.the top eight that we think are the best. They will send the cream of
:21:07. > :21:11.the crop and you read them? Cut down to a short list, and those are our
:21:12. > :21:16.choices. We got confident with it, we've been doing it for ten years
:21:17. > :21:19.and we trust each other's judgement. Looking back over the last ten
:21:20. > :21:26.years, because it has been running for ten years, your favourites? The
:21:27. > :21:34.top three each? After you. The Time Traveler's Wife, I Absolutely loved.
:21:35. > :21:45.Your favourite one book has turned into three or four. Sorry! More
:21:46. > :21:55.recently, One Girl, which has swept the world. We have very similar
:21:56. > :22:01.tastes. I would add one more, Star Of The Sea, the first book that we
:22:02. > :22:04.picked. It put on 1000% sales. Marvellous, Dickensian book. It
:22:05. > :22:10.could have been written by Charles Dickens. People must continually,
:22:11. > :22:15.the TV with bits of paper and say, read this? It is a rod we have
:22:16. > :22:20.created for our own back. I read a minor script of a Cornish writer,
:22:21. > :22:24.which was unpublished. I wrote a review to the would-be publisher and
:22:25. > :22:29.said, you have got to print this. She took off. It got into the
:22:30. > :22:33.papers. Now we get nothing but manuscripts and books. I had to
:22:34. > :22:36.clear out our house in London. We had walls of books and manuscripts
:22:37. > :22:41.everywhere. We gave over 1000 books to the local community library. That
:22:42. > :22:45.is one of the reasons we have set this competition up. It is a way of
:22:46. > :22:49.annoying, because we cannot read them, we just cannot read books that
:22:50. > :22:54.are sent unsolicited. Send it to the competition. The world's biggest
:22:55. > :23:00.recycling bin! You are both successful novelist in your own
:23:01. > :23:08.right. Judy, Eloise, Richard, Someday I'll Find You. Michel Roux
:23:09. > :23:13.is going into a shop, they are the last two in the shop, which ones
:23:14. > :23:16.should he choose? Probably Richard's because a lot of it is set
:23:17. > :23:22.in the South of France. Whereas mine is set in Cornwall and probably a
:23:23. > :23:31.bit more mystical. Richard's is a real adventure thing. Plus you need
:23:32. > :23:38.to bump up the sales. Hayes came out in October, mine came out in July,
:23:39. > :23:42.give me a break! No, it is great. Had it flopped, and good books can
:23:43. > :23:46.flop, it would be so embarrassing. We are talking about the bookclub,
:23:47. > :23:56.you would have to say to us, what about yours? Richard and Judy's
:23:57. > :24:01.Search For A Bestseller runs until the 1st of January. Now, Gyles is
:24:02. > :24:04.here with a spooky story of an unlikely friendship between one of
:24:05. > :24:11.our most famous authors and a legendary escape artist.
:24:12. > :24:14.Sarah Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a
:24:15. > :24:18.superstar of the post-Edwardian era and have many well-known
:24:19. > :24:26.acquaintances. Among them, the American magician and escapologist
:24:27. > :24:30.Harry Houdini. Houdini arrived for a tour of Britain in early 1920.
:24:31. > :24:34.Drumming up publicity, he sent copies of his latest book to 200
:24:35. > :24:38.leading figures of the time. Arthur Conan Doyle was one of them. He read
:24:39. > :24:42.it and wrote back saying he had enjoyed it. He went to see
:24:43. > :24:51.Houdini's show at the London Palladium. To show his appreciation,
:24:52. > :24:55.he invited Houdini for lunch, here at the manner in Sussex. Houdini
:24:56. > :25:01.went to the lunch and noted in his diary, 14th of April, 1920, had
:25:02. > :25:07.lunch. They believe implicitly in spiritualism. Arthur Conan Doyle
:25:08. > :25:11.told me he had spoken six times to his son. Houdini was taken aback,
:25:12. > :25:15.because he knew that his son had died two years earlier from wounds
:25:16. > :25:20.sustained in the trenches of the First World War. The loss had
:25:21. > :25:25.devastated Conan Doyle, who came to spiritualism for support. He had
:25:26. > :25:30.been a miracle of the Society for psychological research, and
:25:31. > :25:36.initially it seemed to be a passing interest. Now his son had passed
:25:37. > :25:41.away, Conan Doyle became a complete advocate for spiritualism.
:25:42. > :25:45.Spiritualists believe that they could communicate with the dead
:25:46. > :25:50.through seances and mediums, but Houdini was having none of it. He
:25:51. > :25:54.always had his doubts. Having performed spiritual affects early in
:25:55. > :25:57.his career, he considered everything he encountered to be a parlour
:25:58. > :26:03.trick. He felt people were being preyed on. Houdini made it his
:26:04. > :26:08.mission to really challenge mediums. While Houdini to the world
:26:09. > :26:13.with his act, Conan Doyle was attending up to six seances a week
:26:14. > :26:20.here at the Manor. Often it was with his wife acting as the medium. In
:26:21. > :26:25.the spring of 1922, Conan Doyle went on to himself, giving a series of
:26:26. > :26:29.lectures on spiritualism. One date was in Houdini's hometown of New
:26:30. > :26:35.York. Houdini invited his friend for lunch at his house in Harlem.
:26:36. > :26:41.Houdini wanted to prove that the spiritual phenomena that Conan Doyle
:26:42. > :26:45.was convinced he was experiencing could be explained by tricks and
:26:46. > :26:52.simple allusions. So he played a trick? He played a trick on Conan
:26:53. > :26:56.Doyle. Houdini produced a piece of suspended slate, a cork ball and
:26:57. > :26:59.some white paint. Conan Doyle left the room and wrote a phrase on a
:27:00. > :27:05.scrap of paper before returning to the room with it in his pocket.
:27:06. > :27:11.Supposedly without any intervention, but cork ball started forming words.
:27:12. > :27:17.Sure enough, they matched the words written by Conan Doyle on the paper
:27:18. > :27:20.in his pocket. Unfortunately, it completely backfired. Conan Doyle
:27:21. > :27:25.completely refuse to believe it was a fake, even when Houdini told him
:27:26. > :27:30.it was magic. It was now Conan Doyle's turn for a demonstration of
:27:31. > :27:34.his own. He arranged a seance with his wife to be the medium. She
:27:35. > :27:38.claimed to be very good at automatic writing. They sat Houdini down and
:27:39. > :27:45.said they would get in touch with his dead mother. Lady Doyle entered
:27:46. > :27:49.a state of trance and began scribbling words she claimed had
:27:50. > :27:54.been written from beyond the grave. Now it was Conan Doyle's ten to feel
:27:55. > :28:00.triumphant, until the note was seen by Houdini. It was written in
:28:01. > :28:04.English. Houdini's late mother was Hungarian, and scarcely spoke
:28:05. > :28:10.English. Conan Doyle had failed to convince Houdini. After a few
:28:11. > :28:13.months, Houdini decides to publishes findings and says he has no evidence
:28:14. > :28:19.to support spiritualism, including the seance with lady Doyle. Word
:28:20. > :28:23.gets back to Sarah Arthur Conan Doyle, who naturally takes a bit of
:28:24. > :28:28.offence that he is dismissing the seances, and it ultimately leads to
:28:29. > :28:33.the demise of the French. They had honestly attempted to convince each
:28:34. > :28:38.other. But both misfired. They parted, bloodied but unbowed, still
:28:39. > :28:39.resolute in their own beliefs. A close and extraordinary friendship
:28:40. > :28:50.was at an end. Gyles is here to tell us more but,
:28:51. > :28:56.Richard, you are related to Arthur Conan Doyle's Secretary? This is a
:28:57. > :29:00.story that has been our family, purely anecdotally, but as you say,
:29:01. > :29:03.he left all these signs and symbols for people to pick up after his
:29:04. > :29:10.death nothing happened. This woman was his BA, we would call today, and
:29:11. > :29:14.a few days after his death, she was in his chambers, going through his
:29:15. > :29:18.papers, upset that the boss had died, and she heard creaking noises
:29:19. > :29:22.coming from the four above, where he had a billiards table. There was no
:29:23. > :29:27.won else in the building, so she thought there was an intruder. She
:29:28. > :29:31.could hear the sound of balls hitting the cushions, the clicking
:29:32. > :29:35.of the balls and everything, and very unafraid, she went in, pushed
:29:36. > :29:39.the door open, and there was nobody there. But she could still see the
:29:40. > :29:45.white cube or bouncing around the question, coming to a rest. She went
:29:46. > :29:52.out of the door, locked it and never returned. But Houdini did not
:29:53. > :29:56.believe in any of this, did he? No, but he was intrigued by it. He
:29:57. > :29:59.became obsessed with the possibility of life after death and he went to
:30:00. > :30:04.seances because he loved his mother. And there he is, giving his mother a
:30:05. > :30:09.case. When she died, he was very distressed, he wanted to get in
:30:10. > :30:13.touch and said, can I communicate with the other side? People were
:30:14. > :30:17.into the supernatural, could you communicate with the dead? He began
:30:18. > :30:23.going to them, and he was a magician, he could see how it was
:30:24. > :30:25.being done, and he thought people were taking advantage of the
:30:26. > :30:28.vulnerability of people like himself, who were in mourning. He
:30:29. > :30:32.began to expose these people who were conducting seances, simple
:30:33. > :30:36.things, put your hand on the wooden table if you are there, ring a
:30:37. > :30:40.bell, and a bell sounds. He would reveal that what the person was
:30:41. > :30:44.doing, under the table, there was a little bell that the person was
:30:45. > :30:49.ringing. Normally, there would be someone under the table. You began
:30:50. > :30:55.to expose this. It is not rocket science, is it? It became his second
:30:56. > :30:59.career, he would go around the country exposing local mystics and
:31:00. > :31:02.showing what had happened. That is how he came to feel he had to rescue
:31:03. > :31:07.Conan Doyle from being taken advantage of, but he didn't really
:31:08. > :31:11.want to believe it himself. So when he died, before he died, he told his
:31:12. > :31:18.wife, Bess, just in case it is true, here is a little secret
:31:19. > :31:22.message. And if I wake up on the other side, I will communicate that
:31:23. > :31:28.with you on the day of my death. So just tune in every anniversary of my
:31:29. > :31:33.death. So for ten years, she would light a candle, by a photograph and
:31:34. > :31:38.say, Harry, are you there? Give me the message, Harry. For ten years,
:31:39. > :31:43.she went to this ritual, always on the anniversary of his death,
:31:44. > :31:46.Halloween, the 31st of October. After ten years, having heard
:31:47. > :31:52.nothing, she snuffed out the candle and said, ten years is long enough
:31:53. > :32:02.to wait for any man! She looks like that! He is still trying to prove
:32:03. > :32:06.that the we! Tomorrow in Halifax in the United States there will be
:32:07. > :32:10.people gathered around, candles lit, saying, Mr Houdini, come on
:32:11. > :32:15.through, tonight is the night. How do they know the message he gave to
:32:16. > :32:22.his wife? I have been trying to find a out, nobody knows! They were
:32:23. > :32:24.really huge in Victorian days, and mediums used to pretend to have
:32:25. > :32:30.extra pleasant coming out of their mouth. He exposed how they did that
:32:31. > :32:34.as well, how there were hidden wires across the room, he really did
:32:35. > :32:38.expose how they did it. Now Mike has been trying to get in contact with
:32:39. > :32:43.the unknown himself for the past year. He is searching for an elusive
:32:44. > :32:50.white aberration that is rumoured to live deep underground.
:32:51. > :32:53.The Brecon Beacons are famous for rugged rolling hills, but there is a
:32:54. > :32:59.magnificent dark side to this landscape, too. Many of the hills
:33:00. > :33:03.are told with caves with hundreds of miles of passages. It is one of the
:33:04. > :33:06.most extreme environments in the UK, and remarkably there are still
:33:07. > :33:14.some animals that can survive down there. Gary has been exploring these
:33:15. > :33:22.caves for around three decades. He made an amazing discovery. A
:33:23. > :33:29.population of very unusual fish. So we are taking a trip underground to
:33:30. > :33:34.try and find them. That is where we go in, down there. Down that tiny
:33:35. > :33:40.dark coal? Will my shoulders fit? We will have to find out! There are
:33:41. > :33:47.several entrances to the cave, and Gary issues me this is the easiest
:33:48. > :33:51.one to get through. -- she was me.
:33:52. > :33:57.It has been lovely working with you! The caves are lines come and these
:33:58. > :34:01.passages have been carved out by and underground river flowing through
:34:02. > :34:10.them over houses of years. -- limestone. Gary found the fish here.
:34:11. > :34:17.These are brown trout, but they have turned white. It is a waste of time
:34:18. > :34:21.for them to create pigment. It is even pitch dark, and it is debatable
:34:22. > :34:26.whether they can see any more. These trout might not be able to see, but
:34:27. > :34:31.they can pick up vibrations from us, so we need to move as quietly as
:34:32. > :34:37.possible. We cannot afford to scare them off. That is a tight squeeze!
:34:38. > :34:40.Good job I had a light lunch! Takes the meters in is the area
:34:41. > :34:46.where Gary has been finding them on and off for the last ten years. --
:34:47. > :34:54.60 metres. Justineo is where we are likely to see fish, so we need to
:34:55. > :34:57.move quietly. -- just in here. The fish are probably surviving on small
:34:58. > :35:01.crustaceans with the river helping to watch in a few morsels, too. No
:35:02. > :35:12.sign of them yet. And after four hours of searching,
:35:13. > :35:17.the trout are still nowhere to be seen. It could be they heard us
:35:18. > :35:21.coming up the river and have gone to hide somewhere. It could be that
:35:22. > :35:27.they are just not here today, it is 50-50 whether you see them or not.
:35:28. > :35:32.We decide to call it a day, but I am far too intrigued to give up that
:35:33. > :35:39.easily. So ten months later, on a tip-off from Gary, we try again. I
:35:40. > :35:46.have got a camera, Gary has got a powerful torch, this is the moment
:35:47. > :35:51.of truth. Let's go for it. And at exactly the same spot as last
:35:52. > :35:58.time, we finally get a glimpse. He is there! Swimming! I have just had
:35:59. > :36:05.my first view of a completely white fish. He is quick, though, isn't
:36:06. > :36:09.it? It has been a long wait, but it is incredible to finally see these
:36:10. > :36:16.bizarre fish surviving in this top environment. There it is, there it
:36:17. > :36:25.is! The problem is, the stones in the bottom, it is hidden. There we
:36:26. > :36:32.go. I have kind of got a view of his tail and is backend. I cannot see
:36:33. > :36:37.his head. Brown trout normally have dark spots on their belly, but these
:36:38. > :36:43.ones seem to be reddish. How did he get in here and how long has he been
:36:44. > :36:48.down here? Good question, did he get washed in, did he swim in? Is a part
:36:49. > :36:53.of a group that has bred in here? These are things we do not know.
:36:54. > :36:57.Gary managed to film footage days before of a different, larger fish,
:36:58. > :37:02.so there is definitely more than one here and clearly more to discover.
:37:03. > :37:06.We keep seeing the same photographs in books, I have never seen film
:37:07. > :37:10.footage. I do not think it has been studied at all, which is not
:37:11. > :37:13.surprising in this environment! I have a sneaking admiration for this
:37:14. > :37:22.really tough survivor, rather him than me! Where is the exit?
:37:23. > :37:27.Assistance pays off every time. The vote has now closed, so please do
:37:28. > :37:33.not vote because it will not count but you will still be charged.
:37:34. > :37:38.You are dedicated if nothing else, you went there twice to almost see a
:37:39. > :37:43.fish, we do not know what his face looks like. It is pitch black, the
:37:44. > :37:48.blackest black you can ever imagine, add water and the squeezes, Gary
:37:49. > :37:53.went down six times to try to find the fish. That is the worst shot of
:37:54. > :37:58.the hardest animal I have ever filmed. Good effort! Year as a more
:37:59. > :38:07.examples of creatures that have kind of involvement. -- here are. We are
:38:08. > :38:15.starting with predatory glow-worms from a cave in New Zealand. These
:38:16. > :38:18.worms live, these predatory worms live on the ceiling of the cave, and
:38:19. > :38:26.they create chemical light in their tail. It is a light shining out of
:38:27. > :38:29.their backside. There are long as dreams of globules hanging down,
:38:30. > :38:33.insects are attracted, they get stuck, and then the parasitic worms
:38:34. > :38:43.reel them in and eat them. It is horrific. Beautiful, they play
:38:44. > :38:49.Phantom Of The Opera, but he won a boat and take you into the caves.
:38:50. > :38:54.Onto the next one, talking of things that dangle, if you are having your
:38:55. > :38:59.tea, look away now! These are called snottites, they are from caves in
:39:00. > :39:03.Mexico, huge colonies of bacteria, and they actually make a living by
:39:04. > :39:08.digesting hydrogen sulphide, which is the gas that makes the bad eggs
:39:09. > :39:11.smell. Need I go further?! Because they eat this hydrogen sulphide,
:39:12. > :39:17.they can grow incredibly quickly, about one centimetre per day. They
:39:18. > :39:20.are producing sulphuric acid as a by-product of the slime, so the
:39:21. > :39:26.liquid dripping off would actually burn your hand. Another reports of
:39:27. > :39:32.cave dwelling creature! Tell us about the climbing fish. We are
:39:33. > :39:35.finishing on a nice one, the blind cave angelfish, one of the most
:39:36. > :39:39.specialised animals in the world, they only exist in two caves in
:39:40. > :39:44.Thailand in fast flowing water, and they stick to the rock with tiny
:39:45. > :39:49.little microscopic works under their pectoral fins. They kind of wonder
:39:50. > :39:55.around on their belly, not much of a diet, Michel. They did look good!
:39:56. > :40:01.What would you do with that? A little bit of flour, lots of butter,
:40:02. > :40:06.lemon juice and garlic. That is an exceptionally rare creature, you
:40:07. > :40:12.should not be eating it! Sorry! Let's talk snails, tonight under the
:40:13. > :40:17.expert eye of Michel you will be cooking them, how does that feel? We
:40:18. > :40:22.were having a nice chat beforehand, but being a harsh judge is another
:40:23. > :40:28.thing. I am slightly nervous. You are good at cooking, you have told
:40:29. > :40:39.us before. I am half days and! Look at Richard and Judy, they are ready
:40:40. > :40:44.to go! Are you all said? No! It is time for you to US cargo! Point him
:40:45. > :40:47.in the right direction. This time tomorrow night people up and down
:40:48. > :40:51.the country will be running around dressed up as monsters and zombies.
:40:52. > :40:57.But near the Olympic Stadium, it could be happening for real.
:40:58. > :41:07.Not really! It is just a film! Here we go.
:41:08. > :41:13.I am here on the streets of East London, where there have been
:41:14. > :41:15.sightings of zombies. Now, I have come down to investigate, I just
:41:16. > :41:29.hope I make it through the night. The undead are actually part of an
:41:30. > :41:32.elaborate street game called 2.8 Hours Later, combining Tiger and
:41:33. > :41:37.dramatic performances. The first event happened in Bristol but has
:41:38. > :41:44.been run in ten cities across the UK. Thankfully, I will not be alone.
:41:45. > :41:49.I have a group of horror fans to help me along the way. We have to
:41:50. > :41:55.reach the end of the course without becoming infected. The first task is
:41:56. > :41:59.to find some medical help in the multistorey car park. This is quite
:42:00. > :42:03.scary now, we know that there are zombies on the next floor, so this
:42:04. > :42:08.is our first contact with potential contamination. In the panic, I am
:42:09. > :42:12.separated from my team-mates. Luckily, Adam keeps his head and
:42:13. > :42:19.grabs the medical supplies we needed. What did you do?
:42:20. > :42:25.Well, first task complete with no casualties, this is easy! Maybe not!
:42:26. > :42:27.There are definitely zombies down there, quite a lot. Shall we go
:42:28. > :42:37.back? I have been infected! I have been
:42:38. > :42:43.infected. There were so many of them. I could not see where to run.
:42:44. > :42:48.Imagine if the zombies were not bad enough, the police have stopped us
:42:49. > :42:55.from entering a restricted area. I do not know if you are infected or
:42:56. > :43:02.not, I making myself clear?! Move it! Face the wall.
:43:03. > :43:11.He is very cross, that policeman. The only way to safety is the route
:43:12. > :43:16.the danger zone which, yes, you have guessed it, involves yet more
:43:17. > :43:17.zombies. You have got four microseconds to get underneath the
:43:18. > :43:37.fence. I was the first under the fence. All
:43:38. > :43:40.of a sudden there was loads of zombies waiting to get me. I got
:43:41. > :43:45.passed every single one apart from the last one and he infected me
:43:46. > :43:50.again. To date, 50,000 people have taken part in this game in the UK.
:43:51. > :43:57.But what is so appealing about being scared? Are you actually enjoying
:43:58. > :44:05.this? Yeah! Why is it so measurable? The challenge, it's a
:44:06. > :44:08.game, you got to try and win. Were you actually scared? Did you feel
:44:09. > :44:12.frightened as Mark I did, and I don't scare that easily because I
:44:13. > :44:18.watch horror films. But one was almost getting me. It's something
:44:19. > :44:23.you don't get from the film. We finally made it to the end, all that
:44:24. > :44:27.is left now is decontamination. Guys, didn't we make a fantastic
:44:28. > :44:31.team? We went to the whole thing and not of us got infected...
:44:32. > :44:45.What a horrendous end. We are now ready for the cook off. Look at
:44:46. > :44:48.Gyles, poised and ready. You have the ingredients in front of you and
:44:49. > :44:55.you have a little card telling you how to do it. Get cooking!
:44:56. > :45:08.I can't read it either. This is the snails, basically, with Chartreuse
:45:09. > :45:13.liqueur. Coincidently, it actually smells a little bit like snails,
:45:14. > :45:21.because they teach the herbs that go into the Chartreuse. They are using
:45:22. > :45:26.tinned snails, but you can't go outside and pick your own? I did as
:45:27. > :45:29.a child, as soon as it was raining, my father would take me out. My
:45:30. > :45:35.neighbours would say, look at those crazy foreigners. You can, but it is
:45:36. > :45:40.long and the boreal is, so you can buy them tinned. Would you put them
:45:41. > :45:45.in the pan alive, or drown them first? You have to purge them, so
:45:46. > :45:47.they empty their stomachs, without going into too much detail... Let's
:45:48. > :45:58.talk about the hazelnuts! So, how have you split your cooking
:45:59. > :46:03.duties? I am sous chef, Gyles is creating. Doing it like a great
:46:04. > :46:16.artist. Just throwing my ingredients onto the palate and hoping for the
:46:17. > :46:22.best. Your chopping is horrendous. It seems like Judy is still on
:46:23. > :46:31.strike. I'm watching. I haven't got my reading glasses. Garlic... It is
:46:32. > :46:39.a mystery to me. I can't cook and talk at the same time. How are we
:46:40. > :46:43.looking so far, Michel? Let's put it this way, thank goodness moniker is
:46:44. > :46:50.not here. That's true, we will talk about her later. I think we are
:46:51. > :47:01.almost ready for some snails. You are liking bind. They cooked very
:47:02. > :47:08.slowly. We asked you at home to send in your ten word stories. We have
:47:09. > :47:15.had loads of them. This is Eileen. She said, she looked in the mirror
:47:16. > :47:20.with eyes that weren't hers. It is like we are back to that seance
:47:21. > :47:31.thing. Aged eight, the cat enjoyed its meal, the Goldfish bowl was
:47:32. > :47:35.empty. Flambe! Is this meant to happen?
:47:36. > :47:49.You could have warned us beforehand. You have also set some photographs
:47:50. > :47:57.on fire. Margaret says, water broken, contractions started, it's a
:47:58. > :48:03.boy. This one is good, Sue Galway from Cheshire, hysterical acne
:48:04. > :48:11.plagued the village, she died on the spot. Mike, would you put your
:48:12. > :48:19.Chartreuse in, so we can see the flambe? Be careful, it is Halloween,
:48:20. > :48:25.not bonfire night. Is it going to happen?
:48:26. > :48:41.I almost lost my hair. Health and safety are having kittens. There we
:48:42. > :48:45.are, everybody. Now, from your short stories to a much longer classic.
:48:46. > :48:49.Cerys Matthews continues her journey around Britain, visiting the
:48:50. > :48:56.landscapes that inspired our greatest novels.
:48:57. > :49:02.In the 1960s, this corner of the Cotswolds earned a place on the
:49:03. > :49:09.literary map of Britain. It was all thanks to a local lad. One of the
:49:10. > :49:14.most popular British writers of the last century. His autobiographical
:49:15. > :49:24.novels sold in their millions. His first book, Cider With Rosie was set
:49:25. > :49:28.here, and it's all about growing up in the 1930s. The stories about
:49:29. > :49:33.helping out with haymaking or skating on the village pond, are
:49:34. > :49:37.interwoven with stories about family drama like the death of his sister.
:49:38. > :49:43.It's a wonderful insight of coming of age in a bygone era. In my great
:49:44. > :49:51.grandfather's day, only a cart track late year. The author's earliest
:49:52. > :49:58.memory is age three, when his family moved into the village. Lee gets
:49:59. > :50:02.lost in a thicket of tall grass and begins to panic. I was lost, and
:50:03. > :50:08.didn't know where to move. Sharp odours of roots and nettles.
:50:09. > :50:13.Overhead, frenzied larks were screaming out of the sky was tearing
:50:14. > :50:17.apart. Soon enough, he was rescued and brought back to the new house.
:50:18. > :50:22.And this is it. It was a good place to be, rooks in the chimneys,
:50:23. > :50:28.mushrooms on the ceiling, all for three and 6p a week. He paints a
:50:29. > :50:32.wonderful picture of his chaotic, madcap family, his brothers,
:50:33. > :50:36.sisters, and scatty, larger-than-life mother. It follows
:50:37. > :50:44.his scrapes and adventures as he grows up. At the centre of village
:50:45. > :50:47.life, you have the local pub. Across the road, the holy Trinity Church.
:50:48. > :50:53.It was here, at the start of the book, that Lee describes herself as
:50:54. > :50:57.a scruffy choirboy, singing heartily but not always in June. By the end
:50:58. > :51:02.he's having his first taste of cider and about to become a young man when
:51:03. > :51:08.he encounters the Rosy in the book's title. Never to be forgotten,
:51:09. > :51:16.that first long, secret drink of golden fire. Juice of those valleys
:51:17. > :51:24.and of that time, wine of Russet summer, plump red apples and
:51:25. > :51:30.Rosie's burning cheeks. Adam grew up in the village and new Lee as a
:51:31. > :51:35.child. I asked him what he knew about Rosie. He never revealed in
:51:36. > :51:40.his lifetime who Rosie was. It could have been a distant cousin, it could
:51:41. > :51:43.have been a woman that lived in the Valley with no electricity and
:51:44. > :51:46.baby-sat me as a baby. There are some new people it could have been
:51:47. > :51:50.and I don't think he ever wanted to reveal it. He wanted her to be as
:51:51. > :51:58.archetypal as the value. He didn't write it here? He moved to London
:51:59. > :52:02.early on. I think the sense of nostalgia about the lost childhood,
:52:03. > :52:05.the way things changed after the Second World War, it started to come
:52:06. > :52:13.back. This lyrical, beautiful book came flooding out. He used to drink
:52:14. > :52:16.just around here? Yes, there is a story about a tourist that accosted
:52:17. > :52:25.him outside the pub, not knowing who he was. He said, can you tell me
:52:26. > :52:30.where Laurie Lee is buried? He said, going there and you will find him
:52:31. > :52:40.buried in a pint. With his royalties from Cider With Rosie, he lived his
:52:41. > :52:43.last years here. This year, the Woods opened as a protected nature
:52:44. > :52:53.reserve thanks to donations from fans of the book. We put out this
:52:54. > :52:56.public appeal and we were blown away by the response we had. Grannies
:52:57. > :52:59.that were giving part of their pension, right the way through to
:53:00. > :53:02.Americans that had read the book. It shows you the link between the
:53:03. > :53:07.landscape and the book is really powerful. Said his first location,
:53:08. > :53:15.CiderWith Rosie has never been out of print. He has made the magical
:53:16. > :53:23.valley famous, but he has also been instrumental in preserving the
:53:24. > :53:29.Valley for years to come. Two minutes before you plate up. Are
:53:30. > :53:35.you with us? We are finished. Finished? Put it on the hot plate
:53:36. > :53:43.and keep it warm. So, Michel, back with the sixth series of Masterchef
:53:44. > :53:46.Professionals. How is it working? 32 from the beginning, and whittle it
:53:47. > :53:50.down throughout the weeks. The first few weeks are just elimination
:53:51. > :54:01.test. That kind of thing, putting the pressure on. It's back next
:54:02. > :54:04.Monday. Let's have a look. Matt is portraying a very confident
:54:05. > :54:12.chef look and he says he wants to win this.
:54:13. > :54:24.That's not really like you. You are usually quite nice to the
:54:25. > :54:29.contestants, quite constructive? Fair enough, yes, I am. But that
:54:30. > :54:34.really wound me up. That upset me. I love my pastry. The difference this
:54:35. > :54:38.year is that we give them the ingredients for the classic test,
:54:39. > :54:44.but we don't give them the weights and measures. If you are a
:54:45. > :54:48.professional chef, you should know the recipe off by heart. This guy
:54:49. > :54:57.did not. That upset me. If that was your reaction, what was Monica's?
:54:58. > :55:02.She is a very strict with the contestants? She is, but she is such
:55:03. > :55:05.a warm, lovely lady outside of the kitchen. At her in the kitchen and
:55:06. > :55:10.she is a true professional. That is why she is one of my staff, my
:55:11. > :55:17.Lieutenant, as it were. She is strict. They obviously have a career
:55:18. > :55:21.before they come on. For those that win it, I am talking about Steve
:55:22. > :55:28.Groves, he is now a head chef in your restaurant? Absolutely, he won
:55:29. > :55:32.series two. An unbelievable talent. I took him on and he is now head
:55:33. > :55:41.chef in one of my restaurants in London. Yes, he actually featured in
:55:42. > :55:45.the celebrity Masterchef as well. We cooked in his kitchen. He is tough
:55:46. > :55:52.as well, he calls it as is. Looking at the 32, do any of them show
:55:53. > :55:56.promise? Absolutely. It's become a bit of a cliche, every year gets
:55:57. > :56:03.better. This year, yet again. I think the reason why, because it
:56:04. > :56:06.gets better, proper, aspiring chefs see that and they see the quality of
:56:07. > :56:10.the competition. They say, we want to have a go at this. We aspire to
:56:11. > :56:20.becoming the next Masterchef Professional. A brilliant way for
:56:21. > :56:22.you to find your staff. Well, Masterchef the Professional starts
:56:23. > :56:29.next Monday on BBC Two. They have plated up. Bring over your dishes.
:56:30. > :56:34.If you have done this well, you might be in with a chance of being a
:56:35. > :56:37.head chef at a restaurant. This is one of the reasons I don't cook with
:56:38. > :56:45.Richard. He is so bad-tempered in the kitchen! It's true. Come on,
:56:46. > :56:55.Michel. Get in there. Let's have a look. I do like the presentation. A
:56:56. > :57:00.bit of chopped parsley. That is Mike and Gyles's effort.
:57:01. > :57:11.That was a shell? A hazelnut? That was very crunchy. We thought it was
:57:12. > :57:30.a Christmas pudding and put a 2p piece in. Try Richard and Judy's. A
:57:31. > :57:36.bit sweet? No? We haven't got any Jeopardy music. Who is the winner? I
:57:37. > :57:39.like the chopped parsley on top, but there is no seasoning, lacking in
:57:40. > :57:49.salt and pepper. Also, very roughly chopped. Nice skills, zero. This
:57:50. > :57:57.one, I like the lemon. Really nice. Brings out the flavour of the
:57:58. > :58:02.source. Well done, Richard and Judy. Earlier, we asked you to take part
:58:03. > :58:07.in our vote. It is by no means scientific, just a flavour of what
:58:08. > :58:11.you are thinking at home. We asked, should visitors from outside Europe
:58:12. > :58:16.have to pay an annual fee before they can see a GP? You have been
:58:17. > :58:18.voting. Matt will reveal the result. It is an absolute landslide, to be
:58:19. > :58:33.honest. I'm not surprised by that. Clearly,
:58:34. > :58:38.it represents the strength of feeling on the whole issue. That is
:58:39. > :58:41.all we have time for. Thank you to Richard and Judy. Good luck with
:58:42. > :58:48.your search for the bestselling author. Good luck with your French
:58:49. > :58:53.Kitchen cookbook and with Masterchef the Professionals. Thanks again to
:58:54. > :58:56.Mike and Gyles. Next week, Sanjeev Bhaskar joins us for a Halloween
:58:57. > :59:07.special. Get your make-up on! Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90
:59:08. > :59:16.second update. Murdered on his last shift. Police
:59:17. > :59:17.are hunting for the killer of a pizza delivery