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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

debut writer, you cannot be published before already have an

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

recycling bin! You are both successful novelist in your own

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

our most famous authors and a legendary escape artist.

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

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

acquaintances. Among them, the American magician and escapologist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lunch. They believe implicitly in spiritualism. Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

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

been a miracle of the Society for psychological research, and

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

away, Conan Doyle became a complete advocate for spiritualism.

Spiritualists believe that they could communicate with the dead

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

always had his doubts. Having performed spiritual affects early in

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

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

mission to really challenge mediums. While Houdini to the world

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

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

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

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

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

Houdini wanted to prove that the spiritual phenomena that Conan Doyle

was convinced he was experiencing could be explained by tricks and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a state of trance and began scribbling words she claimed had

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

resolute in their own beliefs. A close and extraordinary friendship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

began to expose these people who were conducting seances, simple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

white aberration that is rumoured to live deep underground.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

one to get through. -- she was me.

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

passages have been carved out by and underground river flowing through

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

elaborate street game called 2.8 Hours Later, combining Tiger and

dramatic performances. The first event happened in Bristol but has

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

back? I have been infected! I have been

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

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

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

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

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

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

zombies. You have got four microseconds to get underneath the

fence. I was the first under the fence. All

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

empty. Flambe! Is this meant to happen?

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

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

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

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

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

not bonfire night. Is it going to happen?

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

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

Cerys Matthews continues her journey around Britain, visiting the

landscapes that inspired our greatest novels.

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

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

most popular British writers of the last century. His autobiographical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

chef look and he says he wants to win this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

becoming the next Masterchef Professional. A brilliant way for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kitchen cookbook and with Masterchef the Professionals. Thanks again to

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

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

second update. Murdered on his last shift. Police

are hunting for the killer of a pizza delivery