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Hello and welcome to the One Show news taxpayers.

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job, I decided in the end... About news taxpayers.

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follow and you can do them in 15 or news taxpayers.

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the medical centre. The practice has news taxpayers.

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The vote ends at 7:35 sharp. Richard and Judy, you are here because you

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are searching for a bestseller. How does this work and what exactly are

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you looking for? Basically, we are looking for a debut author. Anybody

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can submit 10,000 words by January the 1st. This is a life changing

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deal, they will get a ?50,000 grant, and if the book does really well

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they will get royalties on top. They will get a publishing contract, PR

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representation, we will launch them as a proper author. They will get a

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lot of publicity when we find them. The entries are pouring in. How many

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have you had? Thousands. The publishers say they have some very

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promising ones already. The important thing is, it has to be a

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debut writer, you cannot be published before already have an

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agent or publisher. You must be somebody that has been sitting

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there, maybe working on something for a while or thinking, goodness, I

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could finish a novel and get it published. It is across all genres.

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We don't care what it is, a crime story, romantic novel, comedy,

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whatever. I was about to say! Go to the Richard and Judy website, and

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you can enter. What is the difference between a good book and a

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great book? Oh, my God, that is a big question. You know what, I don't

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know. I think a great book stands the test of time and does not date,

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becomes a classic. A good book, in its own right, does exactly what it

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should say on the tin. Transports you, entertains you, takes away,

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hope fully, in some way, transforms you. We are looking for good books,

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not great books, books that are really good reads. Very readable?

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That is the essence of The Richard And Judy Bookclub. Somebody said

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that we have the Midas touch, we put our hands on a book and it works. We

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are very lucky, we are sent the books by WH Smith, a send some out

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of the hundreds that they get. We get the cream of the crop. We pick

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the top eight that we think are the best. They will send the cream of

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the crop and you read them? Cut down to a short list, and those are our

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choices. We got confident with it, we've been doing it for ten years

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and we trust each other's judgement. Looking back over the last ten

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years, because it has been running for ten years, your favourites? The

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top three each? After you. The Time Traveler's Wife, I Absolutely loved.

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Your favourite one book has turned into three or four. Sorry! More

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recently, One Girl, which has swept the world. We have very similar

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tastes. I would add one more, Star Of The Sea, the first book that we

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picked. It put on 1000% sales. Marvellous, Dickensian book. It

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could have been written by Charles Dickens. People must continually,

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the TV with bits of paper and say, read this? It is a rod we have

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created for our own back. I read a minor script of a Cornish writer,

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which was unpublished. I wrote a review to the would-be publisher and

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said, you have got to print this. She took off. It got into the

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papers. Now we get nothing but manuscripts and books. I had to

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clear out our house in London. We had walls of books and manuscripts

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everywhere. We gave over 1000 books to the local community library. That

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is one of the reasons we have set this competition up. It is a way of

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annoying, because we cannot read them, we just cannot read books that

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are sent unsolicited. Send it to the competition. The world's biggest

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recycling bin! You are both successful novelist in your own

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right. Judy, Eloise, Richard, Someday I'll Find You. Michel Roux

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is going into a shop, they are the last two in the shop, which ones

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should he choose? Probably Richard's because a lot of it is set

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in the South of France. Whereas mine is set in Cornwall and probably a

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bit more mystical. Richard's is a real adventure thing. Plus you need

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to bump up the sales. Hayes came out in October, mine came out in July,

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give me a break! No, it is great. Had it flopped, and good books can

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flop, it would be so embarrassing. We are talking about the bookclub,

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you would have to say to us, what about yours? Richard and Judy's

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Search For A Bestseller runs until the 1st of January. Now, Gyles is

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here with a spooky story of an unlikely friendship between one of

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our most famous authors and a legendary escape artist.

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Sarah Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a

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superstar of the post-Edwardian era and have many well-known

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acquaintances. Among them, the American magician and escapologist

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Harry Houdini. Houdini arrived for a tour of Britain in early 1920.

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Drumming up publicity, he sent copies of his latest book to 200

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leading figures of the time. Arthur Conan Doyle was one of them. He read

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it and wrote back saying he had enjoyed it. He went to see

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Houdini's show at the London Palladium. To show his appreciation,

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he invited Houdini for lunch, here at the manner in Sussex. Houdini

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went to the lunch and noted in his diary, 14th of April, 1920, had

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lunch. They believe implicitly in spiritualism. Arthur Conan Doyle

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told me he had spoken six times to his son. Houdini was taken aback,

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because he knew that his son had died two years earlier from wounds

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sustained in the trenches of the First World War. The loss had

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devastated Conan Doyle, who came to spiritualism for support. He had

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been a miracle of the Society for psychological research, and

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initially it seemed to be a passing interest. Now his son had passed

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away, Conan Doyle became a complete advocate for spiritualism.

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Spiritualists believe that they could communicate with the dead

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through seances and mediums, but Houdini was having none of it. He

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always had his doubts. Having performed spiritual affects early in

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his career, he considered everything he encountered to be a parlour

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trick. He felt people were being preyed on. Houdini made it his

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mission to really challenge mediums. While Houdini to the world

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with his act, Conan Doyle was attending up to six seances a week

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here at the Manor. Often it was with his wife acting as the medium. In

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the spring of 1922, Conan Doyle went on to himself, giving a series of

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lectures on spiritualism. One date was in Houdini's hometown of New

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York. Houdini invited his friend for lunch at his house in Harlem.

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Houdini wanted to prove that the spiritual phenomena that Conan Doyle

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was convinced he was experiencing could be explained by tricks and

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simple allusions. So he played a trick? He played a trick on Conan

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Doyle. Houdini produced a piece of suspended slate, a cork ball and

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some white paint. Conan Doyle left the room and wrote a phrase on a

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scrap of paper before returning to the room with it in his pocket.

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Supposedly without any intervention, but cork ball started forming words.

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Sure enough, they matched the words written by Conan Doyle on the paper

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in his pocket. Unfortunately, it completely backfired. Conan Doyle

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completely refuse to believe it was a fake, even when Houdini told him

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it was magic. It was now Conan Doyle's turn for a demonstration of

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his own. He arranged a seance with his wife to be the medium. She

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claimed to be very good at automatic writing. They sat Houdini down and

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said they would get in touch with his dead mother. Lady Doyle entered

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a state of trance and began scribbling words she claimed had

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been written from beyond the grave. Now it was Conan Doyle's ten to feel

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triumphant, until the note was seen by Houdini. It was written in

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English. Houdini's late mother was Hungarian, and scarcely spoke

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English. Conan Doyle had failed to convince Houdini. After a few

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months, Houdini decides to publishes findings and says he has no evidence

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to support spiritualism, including the seance with lady Doyle. Word

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gets back to Sarah Arthur Conan Doyle, who naturally takes a bit of

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offence that he is dismissing the seances, and it ultimately leads to

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the demise of the French. They had honestly attempted to convince each

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other. But both misfired. They parted, bloodied but unbowed, still

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resolute in their own beliefs. A close and extraordinary friendship

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was at an end. Gyles is here to tell us more but,

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Richard, you are related to Arthur Conan Doyle's Secretary? This is a

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story that has been our family, purely anecdotally, but as you say,

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he left all these signs and symbols for people to pick up after his

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death nothing happened. This woman was his BA, we would call today, and

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a few days after his death, she was in his chambers, going through his

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papers, upset that the boss had died, and she heard creaking noises

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coming from the four above, where he had a billiards table. There was no

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won else in the building, so she thought there was an intruder. She

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could hear the sound of balls hitting the cushions, the clicking

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of the balls and everything, and very unafraid, she went in, pushed

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the door open, and there was nobody there. But she could still see the

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white cube or bouncing around the question, coming to a rest. She went

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out of the door, locked it and never returned. But Houdini did not

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believe in any of this, did he? No, but he was intrigued by it. He

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became obsessed with the possibility of life after death and he went to

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seances because he loved his mother. And there he is, giving his mother a

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case. When she died, he was very distressed, he wanted to get in

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touch and said, can I communicate with the other side? People were

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into the supernatural, could you communicate with the dead? He began

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going to them, and he was a magician, he could see how it was

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being done, and he thought people were taking advantage of the

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vulnerability of people like himself, who were in mourning. He

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began to expose these people who were conducting seances, simple

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things, put your hand on the wooden table if you are there, ring a

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bell, and a bell sounds. He would reveal that what the person was

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doing, under the table, there was a little bell that the person was

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ringing. Normally, there would be someone under the table. You began

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to expose this. It is not rocket science, is it? It became his second

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career, he would go around the country exposing local mystics and

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showing what had happened. That is how he came to feel he had to rescue

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Conan Doyle from being taken advantage of, but he didn't really

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want to believe it himself. So when he died, before he died, he told his

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wife, Bess, just in case it is true, here is a little secret

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message. And if I wake up on the other side, I will communicate that

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with you on the day of my death. So just tune in every anniversary of my

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death. So for ten years, she would light a candle, by a photograph and

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say, Harry, are you there? Give me the message, Harry. For ten years,

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she went to this ritual, always on the anniversary of his death,

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Halloween, the 31st of October. After ten years, having heard

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nothing, she snuffed out the candle and said, ten years is long enough

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to wait for any man! She looks like that! He is still trying to prove

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that the we! Tomorrow in Halifax in the United States there will be

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people gathered around, candles lit, saying, Mr Houdini, come on

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through, tonight is the night. How do they know the message he gave to

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his wife? I have been trying to find a out, nobody knows! They were

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really huge in Victorian days, and mediums used to pretend to have

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extra pleasant coming out of their mouth. He exposed how they did that

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as well, how there were hidden wires across the room, he really did

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expose how they did it. Now Mike has been trying to get in contact with

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the unknown himself for the past year. He is searching for an elusive

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white aberration that is rumoured to live deep underground.

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The Brecon Beacons are famous for rugged rolling hills, but there is a

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magnificent dark side to this landscape, too. Many of the hills

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are told with caves with hundreds of miles of passages. It is one of the

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most extreme environments in the UK, and remarkably there are still

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some animals that can survive down there. Gary has been exploring these

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caves for around three decades. He made an amazing discovery. A

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population of very unusual fish. So we are taking a trip underground to

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try and find them. That is where we go in, down there. Down that tiny

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dark coal? Will my shoulders fit? We will have to find out! There are

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several entrances to the cave, and Gary issues me this is the easiest

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one to get through. -- she was me.

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It has been lovely working with you! The caves are lines come and these

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passages have been carved out by and underground river flowing through

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them over houses of years. -- limestone. Gary found the fish here.

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These are brown trout, but they have turned white. It is a waste of time

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for them to create pigment. It is even pitch dark, and it is debatable

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whether they can see any more. These trout might not be able to see, but

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they can pick up vibrations from us, so we need to move as quietly as

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possible. We cannot afford to scare them off. That is a tight squeeze!

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Good job I had a light lunch! Takes the meters in is the area

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where Gary has been finding them on and off for the last ten years. --

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60 metres. Justineo is where we are likely to see fish, so we need to

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move quietly. -- just in here. The fish are probably surviving on small

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crustaceans with the river helping to watch in a few morsels, too. No

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sign of them yet. And after four hours of searching,

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the trout are still nowhere to be seen. It could be they heard us

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coming up the river and have gone to hide somewhere. It could be that

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they are just not here today, it is 50-50 whether you see them or not.

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We decide to call it a day, but I am far too intrigued to give up that

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easily. So ten months later, on a tip-off from Gary, we try again. I

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have got a camera, Gary has got a powerful torch, this is the moment

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of truth. Let's go for it. And at exactly the same spot as last

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time, we finally get a glimpse. He is there! Swimming! I have just had

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my first view of a completely white fish. He is quick, though, isn't

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it? It has been a long wait, but it is incredible to finally see these

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bizarre fish surviving in this top environment. There it is, there it

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is! The problem is, the stones in the bottom, it is hidden. There we

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go. I have kind of got a view of his tail and is backend. I cannot see

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his head. Brown trout normally have dark spots on their belly, but these

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ones seem to be reddish. How did he get in here and how long has he been

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down here? Good question, did he get washed in, did he swim in? Is a part

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of a group that has bred in here? These are things we do not know.

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Gary managed to film footage days before of a different, larger fish,

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so there is definitely more than one here and clearly more to discover.

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We keep seeing the same photographs in books, I have never seen film

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footage. I do not think it has been studied at all, which is not

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surprising in this environment! I have a sneaking admiration for this

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really tough survivor, rather him than me! Where is the exit?

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Assistance pays off every time. The vote has now closed, so please do

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not vote because it will not count but you will still be charged.

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You are dedicated if nothing else, you went there twice to almost see a

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fish, we do not know what his face looks like. It is pitch black, the

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blackest black you can ever imagine, add water and the squeezes, Gary

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went down six times to try to find the fish. That is the worst shot of

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the hardest animal I have ever filmed. Good effort! Year as a more

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examples of creatures that have kind of involvement. -- here are. We are

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starting with predatory glow-worms from a cave in New Zealand. These

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worms live, these predatory worms live on the ceiling of the cave, and

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they create chemical light in their tail. It is a light shining out of

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their backside. There are long as dreams of globules hanging down,

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insects are attracted, they get stuck, and then the parasitic worms

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reel them in and eat them. It is horrific. Beautiful, they play

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Phantom Of The Opera, but he won a boat and take you into the caves.

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Onto the next one, talking of things that dangle, if you are having your

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tea, look away now! These are called snottites, they are from caves in

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Mexico, huge colonies of bacteria, and they actually make a living by

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digesting hydrogen sulphide, which is the gas that makes the bad eggs

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smell. Need I go further?! Because they eat this hydrogen sulphide,

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they can grow incredibly quickly, about one centimetre per day. They

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are producing sulphuric acid as a by-product of the slime, so the

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liquid dripping off would actually burn your hand. Another reports of

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cave dwelling creature! Tell us about the climbing fish. We are

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finishing on a nice one, the blind cave angelfish, one of the most

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specialised animals in the world, they only exist in two caves in

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Thailand in fast flowing water, and they stick to the rock with tiny

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little microscopic works under their pectoral fins. They kind of wonder

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around on their belly, not much of a diet, Michel. They did look good!

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What would you do with that? A little bit of flour, lots of butter,

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lemon juice and garlic. That is an exceptionally rare creature, you

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should not be eating it! Sorry! Let's talk snails, tonight under the

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expert eye of Michel you will be cooking them, how does that feel? We

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were having a nice chat beforehand, but being a harsh judge is another

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thing. I am slightly nervous. You are good at cooking, you have told

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us before. I am half days and! Look at Richard and Judy, they are ready

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to go! Are you all said? No! It is time for you to US cargo! Point him

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in the right direction. This time tomorrow night people up and down

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the country will be running around dressed up as monsters and zombies.

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But near the Olympic Stadium, it could be happening for real.

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Not really! It is just a film! Here we go.

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I am here on the streets of East London, where there have been

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sightings of zombies. Now, I have come down to investigate, I just

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hope I make it through the night. The undead are actually part of an

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elaborate street game called 2.8 Hours Later, combining Tiger and

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dramatic performances. The first event happened in Bristol but has

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been run in ten cities across the UK. Thankfully, I will not be alone.

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I have a group of horror fans to help me along the way. We have to

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reach the end of the course without becoming infected. The first task is

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to find some medical help in the multistorey car park. This is quite

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scary now, we know that there are zombies on the next floor, so this

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is our first contact with potential contamination. In the panic, I am

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separated from my team-mates. Luckily, Adam keeps his head and

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grabs the medical supplies we needed. What did you do?

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Well, first task complete with no casualties, this is easy! Maybe not!

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There are definitely zombies down there, quite a lot. Shall we go

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back? I have been infected! I have been

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infected. There were so many of them. I could not see where to run.

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Imagine if the zombies were not bad enough, the police have stopped us

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from entering a restricted area. I do not know if you are infected or

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not, I making myself clear?! Move it! Face the wall.

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He is very cross, that policeman. The only way to safety is the route

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the danger zone which, yes, you have guessed it, involves yet more

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zombies. You have got four microseconds to get underneath the

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fence. I was the first under the fence. All

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of a sudden there was loads of zombies waiting to get me. I got

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passed every single one apart from the last one and he infected me

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again. To date, 50,000 people have taken part in this game in the UK.

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But what is so appealing about being scared? Are you actually enjoying

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this? Yeah! Why is it so measurable? The challenge, it's a

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game, you got to try and win. Were you actually scared? Did you feel

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frightened as Mark I did, and I don't scare that easily because I

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watch horror films. But one was almost getting me. It's something

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you don't get from the film. We finally made it to the end, all that

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is left now is decontamination. Guys, didn't we make a fantastic

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team? We went to the whole thing and not of us got infected...

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What a horrendous end. We are now ready for the cook off. Look at

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Gyles, poised and ready. You have the ingredients in front of you and

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you have a little card telling you how to do it. Get cooking!

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I can't read it either. This is the snails, basically, with Chartreuse

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liqueur. Coincidently, it actually smells a little bit like snails,

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because they teach the herbs that go into the Chartreuse. They are using

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tinned snails, but you can't go outside and pick your own? I did as

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a child, as soon as it was raining, my father would take me out. My

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neighbours would say, look at those crazy foreigners. You can, but it is

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long and the boreal is, so you can buy them tinned. Would you put them

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in the pan alive, or drown them first? You have to purge them, so

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they empty their stomachs, without going into too much detail... Let's

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talk about the hazelnuts! So, how have you split your cooking

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duties? I am sous chef, Gyles is creating. Doing it like a great

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artist. Just throwing my ingredients onto the palate and hoping for the

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best. Your chopping is horrendous. It seems like Judy is still on

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strike. I'm watching. I haven't got my reading glasses. Garlic... It is

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a mystery to me. I can't cook and talk at the same time. How are we

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looking so far, Michel? Let's put it this way, thank goodness moniker is

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not here. That's true, we will talk about her later. I think we are

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almost ready for some snails. You are liking bind. They cooked very

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slowly. We asked you at home to send in your ten word stories. We have

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had loads of them. This is Eileen. She said, she looked in the mirror

:47:09.:47:15.

with eyes that weren't hers. It is like we are back to that seance

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thing. Aged eight, the cat enjoyed its meal, the Goldfish bowl was

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empty. Flambe! Is this meant to happen?

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You could have warned us beforehand. You have also set some photographs

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on fire. Margaret says, water broken, contractions started, it's a

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boy. This one is good, Sue Galway from Cheshire, hysterical acne

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plagued the village, she died on the spot. Mike, would you put your

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Chartreuse in, so we can see the flambe? Be careful, it is Halloween,

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not bonfire night. Is it going to happen?

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I almost lost my hair. Health and safety are having kittens. There we

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are, everybody. Now, from your short stories to a much longer classic.

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Cerys Matthews continues her journey around Britain, visiting the

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landscapes that inspired our greatest novels.

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In the 1960s, this corner of the Cotswolds earned a place on the

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literary map of Britain. It was all thanks to a local lad. One of the

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most popular British writers of the last century. His autobiographical

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novels sold in their millions. His first book, Cider With Rosie was set

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here, and it's all about growing up in the 1930s. The stories about

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helping out with haymaking or skating on the village pond, are

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interwoven with stories about family drama like the death of his sister.

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It's a wonderful insight of coming of age in a bygone era. In my great

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grandfather's day, only a cart track late year. The author's earliest

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memory is age three, when his family moved into the village. Lee gets

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lost in a thicket of tall grass and begins to panic. I was lost, and

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didn't know where to move. Sharp odours of roots and nettles.

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Overhead, frenzied larks were screaming out of the sky was tearing

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apart. Soon enough, he was rescued and brought back to the new house.

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And this is it. It was a good place to be, rooks in the chimneys,

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mushrooms on the ceiling, all for three and 6p a week. He paints a

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wonderful picture of his chaotic, madcap family, his brothers,

:50:29.:50:32.

sisters, and scatty, larger-than-life mother. It follows

:50:33.:50:36.

his scrapes and adventures as he grows up. At the centre of village

:50:37.:50:44.

life, you have the local pub. Across the road, the holy Trinity Church.

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It was here, at the start of the book, that Lee describes herself as

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a scruffy choirboy, singing heartily but not always in June. By the end

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he's having his first taste of cider and about to become a young man when

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he encounters the Rosy in the book's title. Never to be forgotten,

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that first long, secret drink of golden fire. Juice of those valleys

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and of that time, wine of Russet summer, plump red apples and

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Rosie's burning cheeks. Adam grew up in the village and new Lee as a

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child. I asked him what he knew about Rosie. He never revealed in

:51:31.:51:35.

his lifetime who Rosie was. It could have been a distant cousin, it could

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have been a woman that lived in the Valley with no electricity and

:51:41.:51:43.

baby-sat me as a baby. There are some new people it could have been

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and I don't think he ever wanted to reveal it. He wanted her to be as

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archetypal as the value. He didn't write it here? He moved to London

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early on. I think the sense of nostalgia about the lost childhood,

:51:59.:52:02.

the way things changed after the Second World War, it started to come

:52:03.:52:05.

back. This lyrical, beautiful book came flooding out. He used to drink

:52:06.:52:13.

just around here? Yes, there is a story about a tourist that accosted

:52:14.:52:16.

him outside the pub, not knowing who he was. He said, can you tell me

:52:17.:52:25.

where Laurie Lee is buried? He said, going there and you will find him

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buried in a pint. With his royalties from Cider With Rosie, he lived his

:52:31.:52:40.

last years here. This year, the Woods opened as a protected nature

:52:41.:52:43.

reserve thanks to donations from fans of the book. We put out this

:52:44.:52:53.

public appeal and we were blown away by the response we had. Grannies

:52:54.:52:56.

that were giving part of their pension, right the way through to

:52:57.:52:59.

Americans that had read the book. It shows you the link between the

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landscape and the book is really powerful. Said his first location,

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CiderWith Rosie has never been out of print. He has made the magical

:53:08.:53:15.

valley famous, but he has also been instrumental in preserving the

:53:16.:53:23.

Valley for years to come. Two minutes before you plate up. Are

:53:24.:53:29.

you with us? We are finished. Finished? Put it on the hot plate

:53:30.:53:35.

and keep it warm. So, Michel, back with the sixth series of Masterchef

:53:36.:53:43.

Professionals. How is it working? 32 from the beginning, and whittle it

:53:44.:53:46.

down throughout the weeks. The first few weeks are just elimination

:53:47.:53:50.

test. That kind of thing, putting the pressure on. It's back next

:53:51.:54:01.

Monday. Let's have a look. Matt is portraying a very confident

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chef look and he says he wants to win this.

:54:05.:54:12.

That's not really like you. You are usually quite nice to the

:54:13.:54:24.

contestants, quite constructive? Fair enough, yes, I am. But that

:54:25.:54:29.

really wound me up. That upset me. I love my pastry. The difference this

:54:30.:54:34.

year is that we give them the ingredients for the classic test,

:54:35.:54:38.

but we don't give them the weights and measures. If you are a

:54:39.:54:44.

professional chef, you should know the recipe off by heart. This guy

:54:45.:54:48.

did not. That upset me. If that was your reaction, what was Monica's?

:54:49.:54:57.

She is a very strict with the contestants? She is, but she is such

:54:58.:55:02.

a warm, lovely lady outside of the kitchen. At her in the kitchen and

:55:03.:55:05.

she is a true professional. That is why she is one of my staff, my

:55:06.:55:10.

Lieutenant, as it were. She is strict. They obviously have a career

:55:11.:55:17.

before they come on. For those that win it, I am talking about Steve

:55:18.:55:21.

Groves, he is now a head chef in your restaurant? Absolutely, he won

:55:22.:55:28.

series two. An unbelievable talent. I took him on and he is now head

:55:29.:55:32.

chef in one of my restaurants in London. Yes, he actually featured in

:55:33.:55:41.

the celebrity Masterchef as well. We cooked in his kitchen. He is tough

:55:42.:55:45.

as well, he calls it as is. Looking at the 32, do any of them show

:55:46.:55:52.

promise? Absolutely. It's become a bit of a cliche, every year gets

:55:53.:55:56.

better. This year, yet again. I think the reason why, because it

:55:57.:56:03.

gets better, proper, aspiring chefs see that and they see the quality of

:56:04.:56:06.

the competition. They say, we want to have a go at this. We aspire to

:56:07.:56:10.

becoming the next Masterchef Professional. A brilliant way for

:56:11.:56:20.

you to find your staff. Well, Masterchef the Professional starts

:56:21.:56:22.

next Monday on BBC Two. They have plated up. Bring over your dishes.

:56:23.:56:29.

If you have done this well, you might be in with a chance of being a

:56:30.:56:34.

head chef at a restaurant. This is one of the reasons I don't cook with

:56:35.:56:37.

Richard. He is so bad-tempered in the kitchen! It's true. Come on,

:56:38.:56:45.

Michel. Get in there. Let's have a look. I do like the presentation. A

:56:46.:56:55.

bit of chopped parsley. That is Mike and Gyles's effort.

:56:56.:57:00.

That was a shell? A hazelnut? That was very crunchy. We thought it was

:57:01.:57:11.

a Christmas pudding and put a 2p piece in. Try Richard and Judy's. A

:57:12.:57:30.

bit sweet? No? We haven't got any Jeopardy music. Who is the winner? I

:57:31.:57:36.

like the chopped parsley on top, but there is no seasoning, lacking in

:57:37.:57:39.

salt and pepper. Also, very roughly chopped. Nice skills, zero. This

:57:40.:57:49.

one, I like the lemon. Really nice. Brings out the flavour of the

:57:50.:57:57.

source. Well done, Richard and Judy. Earlier, we asked you to take part

:57:58.:58:02.

in our vote. It is by no means scientific, just a flavour of what

:58:03.:58:07.

you are thinking at home. We asked, should visitors from outside Europe

:58:08.:58:11.

have to pay an annual fee before they can see a GP? You have been

:58:12.:58:16.

voting. Matt will reveal the result. It is an absolute landslide, to be

:58:17.:58:18.

honest. I'm not surprised by that. Clearly,

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it represents the strength of feeling on the whole issue. That is

:58:34.:58:38.

all we have time for. Thank you to Richard and Judy. Good luck with

:58:39.:58:41.

your search for the bestselling author. Good luck with your French

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Kitchen cookbook and with Masterchef the Professionals. Thanks again to

:58:49.:58:53.

Mike and Gyles. Next week, Sanjeev Bhaskar joins us for a Halloween

:58:54.:58:56.

special. Get your make-up on! Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90

:58:57.:59:07.

second update. Murdered on his last shift. Police

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are hunting for the killer of a pizza delivery

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