0:00:23 > 0:00:28I'm off now in search of a denizen of darkness.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33CAT MIAOWS
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Being a night watchman,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41it's amazing the thoughts that pass through your mind.
0:00:49 > 0:00:56It is dark and gloomy out at night. It is dull and black and scary.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Upstairs and downstairs, in his night gown.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Tapping at the window, crying through the lock.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Are the children in their beds? It's 7 o'clock.
0:01:34 > 0:01:39Wee Willie Winkie in this rhyme hadn't heard of our summer time,
0:01:39 > 0:01:45but really thoughtful parents know, children must sleep a lot to grow.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Although there's daylight till eleven,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49they should be in their beds by seven.
0:01:49 > 0:01:54Sleepy eyes and dragging feet spoil the finish of a treat.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57So parents kind, remember do,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01your children's health depends on you.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05When Wee Willie Winkie calls on you at night,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Have the children in their beds, and tucked up tight.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15Every night when I go to sleep I have cheese for supper,
0:02:15 > 0:02:19and then it makes me dream because it lies on my chest.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22How do you know it's the cheese that does it?
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Because that's the only time I get nightmares.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27How do you think cheese can make you dream?
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Don't know.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- Do you stop eating cheese?- No.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Why not?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Because my mum doesn't cook anything else,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42except cheese on toast at night.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48It's the latest answer to insomnia,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51invented by three electronics engineers at Ruislip, Middlesex.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53An electronic teddy bear.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56From a box of electronic tricks still on the secrets list,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59air is pumped into it at the normal breathing rate of a human being,
0:02:59 > 0:03:01ten to 12 breaths a minute.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03The effect is to provide a cuddlesome toy
0:03:03 > 0:03:05whose rhythmically rising and falling chest
0:03:05 > 0:03:08helps slow your breathing rate down
0:03:08 > 0:03:10to the relaxed and steady rate of sleep.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Three-year-old Russell Fairbrass, son of one of the three inventors,
0:03:13 > 0:03:16finds it easier than counting sheep
0:03:16 > 0:03:19after a hectic session in the playpen.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Only air is pumped in, so there's no danger of electric shocks.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29In fact, members of the medical profession
0:03:29 > 0:03:31predict a great future for the idea
0:03:31 > 0:03:34with invalids and elderly people as well as children.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Not only sheep-counting, but drug-taking may on the way out now,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41thanks to the electronic teddy bear.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46BELLS RING
0:03:55 > 0:04:00Our night is their day, the time when they feed and fight and mate,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04and live out lives which we never see.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07High in the belfry, the first night animals start to stir.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11By human standards, bats are upside-down creatures.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Not only do they hang by their feet,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17they are active solely during the hours of darkness.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21They monitor their world with ears, not eyes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23As dusk falls, they take to the wing.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51They're flying now all around my head.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54This cave, this particular part of it...
0:04:55 > 0:04:57make -
0:04:57 > 0:05:01the ammonia is really quite choking -
0:05:01 > 0:05:03makes a very perfect place for a home.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13This great dune is not a dune of sand.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21It's a dune of guano, of animal droppings of one kind and another.
0:05:21 > 0:05:22The entire surface of it
0:05:22 > 0:05:27is covered with a glistening, moving carpet of cockroaches.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32It's an extraordinary example of how prolific
0:05:32 > 0:05:35this part of Borneo can be,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39that it can support all this enormous colony of bats,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42and a huge demonstration, as impressive as I could imagine,
0:05:42 > 0:05:44of what a marvellous place
0:05:44 > 0:05:48some animals think a cave is in which to live.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52We found a colony of a different sort of bats.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55The giant fruit bat or flying fox.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02And here is one of these fruit bats, and with him is Mr Dolby,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04from the London Zoo, who looks after him.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Come on. How long have you had this one, Mr Dolby?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10This particular one we've had for the last nine year.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14- So they obviously do very well. - Very well indeed in captivity.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Shall we just hang him up? Flop over.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19That's fine!
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Now we'll turn him round so that people can see his face.
0:06:23 > 0:06:29Because a very foxy-looking face. So, just by a bit of... Whoops!
0:06:29 > 0:06:32..television trickery, to show you how foxy he is,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34we will turn him upside down.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38And now you can see what he looks like
0:06:38 > 0:06:44if he were the right way up, like any normal mammal.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Well, I think he's very nice, although actually,
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- I wouldn't keep him as a pet.- Why?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51He's got a bit of a smell on him.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54A lot of people say so, but I think that really applies to
0:06:54 > 0:06:57only the animal that's really run down.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- Yes, it certainly...- It's pretty, really.- Well, yes, I suppose so.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Every man to his taste. I'll let you keep him, I think.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Step in and see how, for the last quarter of a century,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32your coal was won.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35And how it is still won
0:07:35 > 0:07:37at two-thirds of the coal faces of Britain,
0:07:37 > 0:07:3924 hours round the clock.
0:07:49 > 0:07:54There's a comradeship there which I can't really define, you know.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57But it's there, you can feel it. You know.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00You feel a confidence in your fellow workers.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- Hell, what a driver.- I bet you a dollar it's Albert.- I bet it is.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19What's it like?
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Everybody's the same, down the pit.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31You work with just a certain few men,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35and you work with them all the while, probably, for years in my case.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38You get to know these men, you talk about your home life
0:08:38 > 0:08:42and your social lives and that.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44And you're in a little world on your own.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48It's a dirty job. We all know that.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52I mean, you can't sit and eat your snap in the canteen or anything,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55you've got to sit and eat it where you are with dirty hands
0:08:55 > 0:08:56and all that sort of thing.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58No toilets, nothing like that.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02So I think myself, it's a pretty dirty job.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05You've got to make a seat out of anything that's lying around.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08You haven't got chairs or anything to sit on.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11You just pick a piece of wood up and put it down,
0:09:11 > 0:09:15you just sit there, everyone just sits around while they're eating,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18having a bit of chat, and carrying on and joking.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Right, chaps, knock off!
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Don McCullin is one of the world's most celebrated photographers.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58For the last 20 years,
0:09:58 > 0:10:03his photo essays have been a regular feature of our Sunday newspapers.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15I like to shoot pictures at night times and dusk
0:10:15 > 0:10:18because I think they have much more impact.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23And I feel that the whole thing is much more fiery and exciting,
0:10:23 > 0:10:25as opposed to sunshine, which I hate to shoot in.
0:10:28 > 0:10:34I do my own printing, because I can keep control of the whole thing.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39And I started off thinking my prints were like nobody else's prints.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41And I waste a lot of paper, I know,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44but when I'm printing in the darkroom, I just...
0:10:44 > 0:10:48my hand reaches out for paper and I expect it to be there.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51I'm just like a kind of glutton of a schoolboy with sweets,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I don't care until the last one is gone
0:10:53 > 0:10:55and then I realise the last one is gone.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58There's no more paper, I've got to stop printing.
0:10:58 > 0:11:03But I think I can say that nobody can squeeze any more
0:11:03 > 0:11:08from a negative than what I've done, by the time I print it.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11And then sometimes I finish when it's dawn,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13and my hands are numb with the freezing cold water
0:11:13 > 0:11:15that you have to keep using.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18I know there's no turning back,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22I know there's no other occupation that I could settle down in.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26If I had to stop photography, for some reason or other,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I just don't know what the hell I'd do with myself.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33I'm just no good at anything else in the world but taking pictures.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Mr Edison's best-known invention is, of course, the gramophone,
0:11:41 > 0:11:43but his discovery of the electric light bulb
0:11:43 > 0:11:46literally revolutionised the illumination of the world.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55The electrons bump the atoms, and make the filament first red hot
0:11:55 > 0:11:57and then white hot.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Now let's see how these bulbs are manufactured.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16This central stem is now complete and moves on to the next stage.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Here, the bulbs are introduced.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25And they are placed over the filament stems.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Later on, the bulbs are sealed off and after testing,
0:12:55 > 0:12:57they'll be ready for use.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Gerry Holmes prefers 40 watts.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05He finds 60 is a bit too sharp for his palate.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Our cameraman in Sydney accepted his invitation to dinner,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12but declined to share the meal.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22The mole.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Surprisingly common, yet hardly ever seen.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35In a private system of tunnels, the mole follows a secret life,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39spent in total darkness under the ground.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Under this beech canopy,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48there are several families of badgers
0:13:48 > 0:13:50living in a complex of setts.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52We sat well away from the sett in a caravan.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55In the knowledge that we might see a complete family
0:13:55 > 0:13:58emerging from their sett to go about their nightly business.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Or that we might see nothing at all.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03What we're doing out there
0:14:03 > 0:14:06is throwing infrared light onto our badger sett.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09You can see the light just up there in the top left-hand corner.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Our cameras react to it and give us these pictures in the dark,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15and there is a badger.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18That is the first television picture, live, of a badger,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21ever seen on television through this unique system.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26And doing the watching and waiting with me are Phil Drabble,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29who a lot of you will know, and Chris Cheeseman,
0:14:29 > 0:14:31who's a zoologist with us.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33- Marvellous, isn't it, Phil? - Absolutely marvellous.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37I'd rather have a night's badger watching than a week's holiday.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40You can come for hours and hours and see nothing at all,
0:14:40 > 0:14:42and suddenly out of the blue,
0:14:42 > 0:14:45you get a badger come out like this, completely at ease.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51The wild red fox. Nocturnal and elusive.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55After a thousand night-long vigils,
0:14:55 > 0:14:59stalking with infrared binoculars in pursuit of a quarry
0:14:59 > 0:15:02of such legendary cunning, tonight, I'm in luck.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05I've trapped a fox and I've got to move fast.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Hello, Jenny. Yeah, I've got one.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16'My wife Jenny is used to being got out of bed at three in the morning.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20'She has a touch of flu but, even so, the fox must come first.'
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Come on, son.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Hold the sack open.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28There we are, lovely boy.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30'I have to take care for, understandably,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34'the fox attaches low priority to the wellbeing of my fingers.'
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Yeah, get him in.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Have you got his mouth?
0:15:40 > 0:15:42- Have you got him?- Yeah, I've got him.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46'Fortunately, the rather crude but effective anaesthetic
0:15:46 > 0:15:49'will blur any memory of the incident.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53'Attached to this collar is a miniature radio
0:15:53 > 0:15:55'weighing only a few ounces.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57'It transmits continuous signals
0:15:57 > 0:16:01'that I can follow around the countryside.'
0:16:01 > 0:16:03There we go, son. It's all over.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07There we are. Come on. There we are.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Shrews.
0:16:17 > 0:16:22The young have their own particular way of ensuring they don't get lost.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09There are still 2,000 gas lamps in the London area
0:17:09 > 0:17:12but the 102 here in the Temple are the only ones
0:17:12 > 0:17:15turned on by the paraffin torch of a lamplighter.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18It adds a touch of old world elegance
0:17:18 > 0:17:20to an area already full of tradition.
0:17:20 > 0:17:26# He made the night a little brighter
0:17:26 > 0:17:30# Wherever he would go
0:17:30 > 0:17:36# The old lamplighter
0:17:36 > 0:17:40# Of long, long ago
0:17:40 > 0:17:46# His snowy hair was so much whiter
0:17:46 > 0:17:51# Beneath the candle glow
0:17:51 > 0:17:56# The old lamplighter
0:17:56 > 0:17:59# Of long, long ago. #
0:17:59 > 0:18:02'But the traditional image of the lamplighter -
0:18:02 > 0:18:04'a little old man with snowy hair -
0:18:04 > 0:18:06'doesn't exactly fit Ivan Ramnoth.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09'He was an insurance underwriter in Guyana
0:18:09 > 0:18:13'and had never seen a gas lamp until he emigrated to England.'
0:18:13 > 0:18:17- And how long have you been doing it? - 16 years now.- Every day for 16 years?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Every day of the year, yes, unless I'm ill.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- How do you manage holidays? - Someone else has to do it then.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Are you going to do this until you're old enough to retire?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Yes, I'm accustomed to the job, I like the job
0:18:28 > 0:18:30and I shall continue until it's time to retire.
0:18:30 > 0:18:35# The old lamplighter
0:18:35 > 0:18:41- # Of long, long ago.- #
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Halloween, the bewitching eve,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01when any hobgoblin worth his salt
0:19:01 > 0:19:04is up to all sorts of magical mischief.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09When people a long time dead, they say, return to their old haunts.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11She's a Halloween witch.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I wonder if you can guess what she's made out of.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Her face is, in fact, a plastic lemon
0:19:16 > 0:19:21and this very witch-like looking hair is the top of a mop.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23You need a plastic lemon.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28Make a small hole big enough to push through the end of a dish mop.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Tiny little bits of sticky-backed plastic.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Yes, I've just about got them in the right place.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Draw the shape of the arms and the skirt.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48And the hands are made with felt again.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Put a little bit of glue round here and just inside the dress.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58And there you are, you've got your witch.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02And you can make a wizard as well. You make it exactly the same way.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Instead of a broomstick, you've got a wand. There you are.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10"Hello, cast a spell again. Ha-ha! I won! I won!"
0:20:19 > 0:20:24- Tell us how long you sleep every day.- An average of an hour a night.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27What do you do with your spare time?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30I'm always writing or reading or painting or sewing
0:20:30 > 0:20:33or knitting or crocheting.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- Do you not feel tired? - No, I never feel tired.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I have been sleeping for 15 minutes a night maximum
0:20:40 > 0:20:42since I was about 16 years old.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Over 30 years now.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51I don't need sleep. I don't like sleeping.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55And even the 15 minutes I sleep now I rather begrudge.
0:20:55 > 0:21:01If you take into account my inability to sleep,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04and most people would call that a horrifying thought,
0:21:04 > 0:21:06to me it's a wonderful thought.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09It means I get two whole lives to everybody's one.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14This has had a tremendous affect on my life, this non-sleeping.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18I mean, I was operating during the war. I was flying.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21I was always able to wake the crews up in my squadron,
0:21:21 > 0:21:24any time they needed to be woken up.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Two, three, four in the morning, it didn't matter.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Would you like to sleep like other people for eight hours a day?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Well, it would...
0:21:34 > 0:21:40..it would be cheaper because I have to burn electricity during the night.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45That's the only reason. No, I don't see any reason to want to sleep.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I think it's a frightful waste of time.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:21:56 > 0:22:00London's rhythm enthusiasts of all ages put on their zoot suits
0:22:00 > 0:22:01and go to town.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03To be precise, Oxford Street.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06A normally sedate restaurant surrenders its dignity
0:22:06 > 0:22:10to the excitement of the dancers and the music of Humphrey Lyttelton.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:22:44 > 0:22:47It's good fun and good exercise.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Rhythm is the only stimulus as drinks are strictly non-alcoholic.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Mid evening, and the known world of the youth club and the pub
0:22:55 > 0:22:58and the cafe and the cinema is in full swing.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04# Me and my brother was going to town
0:23:04 > 0:23:06# Sing away ladies, sing away
0:23:06 > 0:23:08# Riding a billy goat and leading a hound
0:23:08 > 0:23:10# Sing away ladies, sing away
0:23:10 > 0:23:14# Hound dog bark, billy goat jump... #
0:23:18 > 0:23:22# Don't you rock me, daddy-o, don't you rock me, daddy-o
0:23:22 > 0:23:27# Don't you rock me, daddy-o, don't you rock me, daddy-o. #
0:23:29 > 0:23:32LOUD KNOCKS
0:23:34 > 0:23:36DOG BARKS
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Nearly morning. It's gone colder.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Already the knocker-up is moving briskly down the streets,
0:23:49 > 0:23:53rattling on the windows of his sleeping customers.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56I asked him why the knocker-up still flourished.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59After all, I said, there are plenty of alarm clocks.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Oh, there's plenty of alarm clocks,
0:24:01 > 0:24:03but they don't trust them, that's all.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07An alarm clock is not a human being. An alarm clock can break down.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11- But you can break down too.- Ah, but if I break down, I have my brother.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11The night of the harvest moon.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15The fat silver moon that shines on the golden fields of September
0:25:15 > 0:25:17and illuminates the mysterious activities
0:25:17 > 0:25:20of people who move in the night.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24People like this, setting out on some dark business
0:25:24 > 0:25:27which has led them to the banks of a West Country chalk stream.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29We're keeping up an old country tradition
0:25:29 > 0:25:31by going out on the night of the harvest moon
0:25:31 > 0:25:34in search of fresh water crayfish.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37The nets are swung into the water on a forked stick
0:25:37 > 0:25:41and left there lying on the bottom, long enough, so it's said,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44for a man to drink a pint of beer in comfort.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Then it's only a matter of filling the bucket.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Having caught your crayfish,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53the country custom on the night of the harvest moon is to have a feast.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Crayfish with the traditional accompaniments of hot parsley sauce,
0:25:58 > 0:26:02home-made bread, farmed butter and kegs of cider
0:26:02 > 0:26:05are followed by creamy Cheddar cheese.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07And that's the proper way to cook them -
0:26:07 > 0:26:11in an iron fish kettle of salted water over a camp fire in the open.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16I believe that this nation should commit itself
0:26:16 > 0:26:20to achieving the goal, before this decade is out,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30I think that each one of us carries his own impression
0:26:30 > 0:26:32of what he's seen today.
0:26:32 > 0:26:38I know my own impression is that it's a vast, lonely,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40forbidding expanse of nothing.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44- Well, Patrick Moore, what did you think of that?- Quite incredible.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48One thing we've got to bear in mind, they were magnificent pictures.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I'm not going to say they show more detail than the orbiters,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54but people were seeing them direct for the first time,
0:26:54 > 0:26:56this was bound to add to our knowledge.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- 'OK, engines stopped. We've had shut down.- We copy you down, Eagle.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05'Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'
0:27:05 > 0:27:07THEY CHEER
0:27:08 > 0:27:12# I was strolling on the moon one day
0:27:12 > 0:27:16# In the merry, merry month of December. #
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- No, May.- May, that's right.
0:27:22 > 0:27:27This is perfect with the rover and you and the old flag.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Oh, this is going to be some kind of different ride.
0:27:54 > 0:28:00# Night clubbing, night clubbing
0:28:00 > 0:28:05# We're what's happening. #
0:28:05 > 0:28:09- There's a tiny one around here somewhere.- A tiny one?
0:28:09 > 0:28:14- Is that an official name?- A micro. - Oh, a micro. I've heard of them.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- They're unidentifiable. - That's right, yes.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20- Troublesome one. - That's a Powdered Quaker.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23A Powdered Quaker, get that for a name.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27A lot of these names, Victorian clergy named these moths
0:28:27 > 0:28:30and, of course, some of the names are absolutely gorgeous.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- Lots of Quakers.- Lots of Quakers.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35And things like the Hebrew Character.
0:28:35 > 0:28:40- There's even a True Lover's Knot. - True Lover's Knot?
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Was that a vicar's? I don't think a vicar named that one. Surely not.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49- Ooh, what's this?- This is one called a Great Prominent. It's very worn.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52- You see the edges of the wings? - Yes, I do.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- Does that mean it's old or what? - Been out quite a long time, yeah.
0:28:55 > 0:28:59- And what would be old for a moth? - One of these, a matter of weeks.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Not more than five weeks.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04- Some overwinter, as adults, they actually hibernate.- Yeah.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06So they last several months,
0:29:06 > 0:29:09but the majority of them it's just a matter of a few weeks.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11Really? That's sad, that, isn't it?
0:29:29 > 0:29:32For more than two million people in this country,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35night work is a matter of necessity.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37In steel towns like Sheffield and Rotherham,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40there is a century-old tradition of working round the clock.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43Men and their families have accepted for generations
0:29:43 > 0:29:46that this is the way wages are earned here.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49That it's night work that pays the rent
0:29:49 > 0:29:51and leaves a bit over for the HP on the television.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55Now more and more industries demand continuous working,
0:29:55 > 0:29:57need round-the-clock production.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02Machinery is too expensive to lie idle while men lie in bed.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05The answer - more night people.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08The problem - how to turn your life upside down without ill effect.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19I start at ten o'clock at night and finish at seven in the morning.
0:30:19 > 0:30:24Seven days on and seven off. There's floor polishing,
0:30:24 > 0:30:29damp dusting, mopping, vaccing, sinks.
0:30:29 > 0:30:34Besides cleaning vomit and blood and whatever else falls there
0:30:34 > 0:30:36on the floor!
0:30:37 > 0:30:40A woollen mill,
0:30:40 > 0:30:43and these men working through the night are rat-catchers.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58He's here. Skiddle-up!
0:31:01 > 0:31:06Grab him, grab him. That's it. Finish him off, you lot.
0:31:06 > 0:31:07Aye, she's done him.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12I don't think I am supposed to really, in my contract, mop it up.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14I think nursing staff's supposed to clean it,
0:31:14 > 0:31:19but the simple reason, a domestic's on there to clean,
0:31:19 > 0:31:22so, if I aren't there to clean blood up,
0:31:22 > 0:31:26it's a waste of time me being there anyway.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28So we all work as a team on there.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32Nothing goes without one another so I automatically do it.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47You've got to do all your shunting on a night time,
0:31:47 > 0:31:51when your long haul's on a night time with the flight times,
0:31:51 > 0:31:52to get them through, you see.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58On its own, 12.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12You know, being a night watchman,
0:32:12 > 0:32:15it's amazing the thoughts that pass through your mind
0:32:15 > 0:32:18here alone in the factory at night.
0:32:23 > 0:32:29Sometimes I think the factory is like a huge ship.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33A great golden ship rushing through the night,
0:32:33 > 0:32:36and I, inside in safety.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42I like coming. I like nights. It's quieter, for me.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48I see more of the kids than what I did when I worked days.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52You're your own boss. You've got to work on your own initiative.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54I like that.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59OWL HOOTS
0:33:20 > 0:33:23CHILD: The wind is whistling through the tree tops.
0:33:27 > 0:33:33I hear the hooting of an owl high up in the tree tops.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39It is dark and gloomy out at night.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44It is dull and black and scary.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43A very ordinary-looking council house, but don't be deceived.
0:34:43 > 0:34:48When night falls and the moon is bright, it takes on an evil air.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51It's inhabited by a lady in white, a nun,
0:34:51 > 0:34:55and a tall man in a black cape with a gold choker.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57The householder, Mrs Joyce Bowles,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00gets so nervy that she sleeps with her friend Bridget
0:35:00 > 0:35:05when her husband is away working nights on the railway.
0:35:05 > 0:35:09Bridget's willingly demonstrated some of the ghosts' antics.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12This thing starts creaking.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16I didn't know what it was in the beginning, but I worked out
0:35:16 > 0:35:21it's the door trying to open, which it eventually does, like this.
0:35:21 > 0:35:26And then it starts moving like this,
0:35:26 > 0:35:27and these things fly out.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33It must be very frightening?
0:35:33 > 0:35:36Well, it was in the beginning but I got used to it.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39After a while, they take off.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44I mean, I can be laying in bed and I'm touched.
0:35:44 > 0:35:48Something just comes up and touches me with their hands.
0:35:48 > 0:35:52- Touches you?- It touches me as though they're trying to wake me up.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56So then one night, or several nights running it happened,
0:35:56 > 0:36:00that Joyce says, "Bridget!"
0:36:00 > 0:36:03And I look across and this mattress lifts itself up
0:36:03 > 0:36:07and tilts Joyce towards me which is rather alarming.
0:36:07 > 0:36:11I have slung my leg and one arm across trying to hold it down,
0:36:11 > 0:36:13which is quite a job.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15After that, we hear seven knocks.
0:36:15 > 0:36:16SHE KNOCKS
0:36:16 > 0:36:20- Seven knocks?- Always seven, which means it's the end of it.
0:36:20 > 0:36:25One night I got out of bed and got back in, and all of a sudden
0:36:25 > 0:36:27this heavy breathing started and it sort of went...
0:36:27 > 0:36:30SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:36:30 > 0:36:31You see?
0:36:31 > 0:36:35And the next thing I noticed was a rustling,
0:36:35 > 0:36:37something settling on my head.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41And Joyce must have looked up and she said, "Oh, my dolly!"
0:36:41 > 0:36:47And this one had flown from here and settled on my head.
0:36:47 > 0:36:48Does it frighten you?
0:36:48 > 0:36:51How do you feel about all these guests in your house?
0:36:51 > 0:36:56Well, I'm not going to say I'm never afraid, because I am.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00But I have been told that wherever I move, it can move with me.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02- So there's no point getting out of the house?- No.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06Where the nun fits into the picture nobody seems to know.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08And why the ghost should wish to interfere with
0:37:08 > 0:37:13Mrs Bowles' bedside cabinet in her 1919 council house
0:37:13 > 0:37:14is anybody's guess.
0:37:24 > 0:37:31I'm off now in search of a denizen of darkness.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Somewhere underneath the bushes,
0:37:33 > 0:37:37the old slug hunter is lurking.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43'The hedgehog is still very much a creature of the night
0:37:43 > 0:37:45'but it's too big to hide in the leaf litter.
0:37:45 > 0:37:50'That makes it vulnerable to attack from animals like foxes.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54'To make up for this, its hairs have become a cloak of prickles.'
0:37:58 > 0:38:03And if it thinks it's in real danger, it's got a special trick.
0:38:09 > 0:38:14'The hedgehog will stay an impregnable spiny ball like this
0:38:14 > 0:38:17'until it decides that danger has passed.'
0:38:26 > 0:38:29How many prickles does a hedgehog have?
0:38:29 > 0:38:33That's not a riddle. I mean it. How many?
0:38:33 > 0:38:406,000. I mean, not exactly, but about 6,000.
0:38:40 > 0:38:45And they change them over a period of 18 months. Not all at once of course.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49You can't have bald hedgehogs running around, can you?
0:38:49 > 0:38:53'But one thing is guaranteed to make a male hedgehog drop his guard.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56'The promise of an amorous liaison.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01'If you're outside on a spring evening,
0:39:01 > 0:39:05'you may be lucky enough to witness an extraordinary sight.'
0:39:21 > 0:39:25You might think that having a coat of spines on your back
0:39:25 > 0:39:27would be something of a handicap
0:39:27 > 0:39:31when it comes to the intimacies of courtship, and indeed,
0:39:31 > 0:39:36classical naturalists thought that hedgehogs actually mated
0:39:36 > 0:39:38belly to belly.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41'But it does seem that the old joke that asks,
0:39:41 > 0:39:44'"How do hedgehogs mate?" was right all along.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47'The answer is, of course, with great care.'
0:39:51 > 0:39:55Something we see almost every day yet rarely notice until it's dark.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57So small, we pass over it without a thought.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Percy Shaw invented the cat's eye.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09Who'd have thought of putting glass in the road to run over,
0:40:09 > 0:40:13- 40 years ago? Eh? - Well, you did, didn't you?
0:40:13 > 0:40:16Well, I gave them plenty of protection.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19One night, driving back in the dark and fog,
0:40:19 > 0:40:21after he'd had a few, let's be honest,
0:40:21 > 0:40:24he noticed two little points of light in the road
0:40:24 > 0:40:27and he stopped to see what they were.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30He quickly realised it must have just been a cat,
0:40:30 > 0:40:33but he also realised that, if he hadn't stopped,
0:40:33 > 0:40:36he'd have driven off the edge and into a valley.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38That was his eureka moment.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44And this was the result.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47And it's genius, frankly.
0:41:02 > 0:41:07Not only does it light the road ahead, it also maintains itself.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09This base bit, that's a piece of cast iron,
0:41:09 > 0:41:11that will essentially last forever.
0:41:11 > 0:41:16The eyes themselves are fitted into this easily replaced rubber bit
0:41:16 > 0:41:18and every time a vehicle drives over it,
0:41:18 > 0:41:20the cat's eyes get a little wipe.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22It's brilliant.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57The starling, probably not most people's favourite bird.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01A bit of a bully on the bird table,
0:42:01 > 0:42:06and yet I reckon starlings are responsible
0:42:06 > 0:42:12for one of the most mesmerising spectacles in the whole of nature.
0:42:18 > 0:42:23I'd say there's at least 4,000 birds up there at the moment.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26And still they keep coming.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31I feel like I ought to be conducting them.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35All together...
0:42:36 > 0:42:38It's the shapes though.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41I know it's the obvious thing to say,
0:42:41 > 0:42:44but just watch how these shapes change.
0:43:05 > 0:43:10And down they go. Cascading down.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13The waterfall.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Who'd have thought it, eh?
0:43:37 > 0:43:40If somebody said to me,
0:43:40 > 0:43:43"What are the most memorable creatures you've seen?
0:43:43 > 0:43:47"Is it lions, or sharks, or elephants...?"
0:43:47 > 0:43:51And I'd say...starlings.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57Just one little mushroom left.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Like a parachute, nearly all down.
0:44:12 > 0:44:18The paraffin vaporises, goes up through into the burner head,
0:44:18 > 0:44:22and comes out at the mantle as a vapour.
0:44:22 > 0:44:27You simply light the vapour, and...
0:44:27 > 0:44:31up the light comes, one big white ball of light.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46I think to myself, hundreds of years ago,
0:44:46 > 0:44:48all ship's masters saw that very same light,
0:44:48 > 0:44:53from that very same lens, from those very same oil burners.
0:44:58 > 0:45:05- Roger, time to get up.- I don't mind. - I'm still searching for fog.- Yeah.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08Bring up some testing charges when you come up, all right?
0:45:08 > 0:45:11- OK, mate. On my way.- Cheers.
0:45:18 > 0:45:23Occasionally, when it's a wet and dirty, foggy night
0:45:23 > 0:45:25and you're operating the fog signal,
0:45:25 > 0:45:27this I do not like doing.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31You're up on the lantern, all the watch,
0:45:31 > 0:45:33especially of a middle watch.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36As I said, it's thick fog, or misty rain,
0:45:36 > 0:45:40you have to go round the gallery every ten minutes
0:45:40 > 0:45:42and hang up your charges,
0:45:42 > 0:45:46the rain running off the glazing, down the back of your neck,
0:45:46 > 0:45:50you're feeling thoroughly wet through, cold,
0:45:50 > 0:45:51this I do not enjoy doing.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54CLOCK DINGS
0:45:54 > 0:45:56LOUD BANG
0:45:57 > 0:46:00But it's got to be done.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03There again, I feel a slight sense of achievement.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05I think to myself,
0:46:05 > 0:46:08"Well, if I hadn't done this, a ship might come in pretty close,
0:46:08 > 0:46:10"and hit the rocks
0:46:10 > 0:46:14"if it hadn't been for me operating that signal and warning him
0:46:14 > 0:46:15- "that we're here." - CLOCK DINGS
0:46:15 > 0:46:18LOUD BANG
0:46:18 > 0:46:22My wife has often asked me what it's like at Bishop.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24I try to explain to her
0:46:24 > 0:46:26but somehow, she says, "I don't understand."
0:46:26 > 0:46:30I try to tell her that it's like home to me,
0:46:30 > 0:46:34but she says, "Your home is here, not on the Bishop."
0:46:34 > 0:46:35But it isn't really.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37My home is on the Bishop.
0:46:37 > 0:46:40After all, I spend two-thirds of the year here,
0:46:40 > 0:46:43so obviously the Bishop is my home. It's got to be.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Some of the big gang boys. Look at 'em!
0:47:00 > 0:47:02All done no good on last week's pools,
0:47:02 > 0:47:05so they're back to heaving dirty big rails about in the tunnels.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08Yes, while you're pressing the mattress
0:47:08 > 0:47:10there's me and 1,119 others like me
0:47:10 > 0:47:12hard at it, down the hole.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15There's a lot of that in London's underground.
0:47:15 > 0:47:16130 miles of hole.
0:47:16 > 0:47:18And this is me in it.
0:47:18 > 0:47:22Jack Bedwell. Section ganger on routine inspection.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25Rails, cables, foreign bodies,
0:47:25 > 0:47:28lights, brackets... the last nut and bolt.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31- NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: - 'They are the fluffers.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34'The charladies of the underground.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37'Into the cavernous blackness of the twisting tunnels,
0:47:37 > 0:47:40'between the rails which link station to station,
0:47:40 > 0:47:43'office to home, the fluffers march each midnight.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50'While London dreams, knives and brush clean the lines
0:47:50 > 0:47:52'that will carry tomorrow's traffic.
0:47:52 > 0:47:53'Like glow worms,
0:47:53 > 0:47:57'night by night the fluffers wash behind the ears of
0:47:57 > 0:47:59'the 90 miles of London's tube track.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06'Yes, these are the fluffers.
0:48:06 > 0:48:07'People of another world
0:48:07 > 0:48:11'who see the sunshine only for a fleeting hour each day.
0:48:20 > 0:48:24Highgate Cemetery, officially opened in 1839,
0:48:24 > 0:48:28was once described as the most beautiful resting place in London.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29In the last few years,
0:48:29 > 0:48:33vandals stalking around the overgrown tombs
0:48:33 > 0:48:35have done over £9,000 worth of damage.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37But to general foreman of the gravediggers,
0:48:37 > 0:48:40William Law, who has worked here 23 years,
0:48:40 > 0:48:43it's worsened an already harrowing job.
0:48:43 > 0:48:44Down this part here,
0:48:44 > 0:48:46there's two tombs broken into.
0:48:46 > 0:48:48One on the left hand side here,
0:48:48 > 0:48:50the doors were broken open,
0:48:50 > 0:48:53the coffin was half pulled over, and a big iron stake
0:48:53 > 0:48:56was stuck through, into the coffin.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59These indications of a black ritualism at work
0:48:59 > 0:49:02aroused the curiosity of Sean Manchester,
0:49:02 > 0:49:0526-year-old president of the British Occult Society,
0:49:05 > 0:49:08an organisation that practises the art of white magic,
0:49:08 > 0:49:10the combat of evil.
0:49:11 > 0:49:16Our first report indicated that there may be a vampire
0:49:16 > 0:49:18in Highgate Cemetery.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22A spectre was seen at that gate there,
0:49:22 > 0:49:25appearing to come from here,
0:49:25 > 0:49:27which leads to the catacombs.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30A former associate of Mr Manchester,
0:49:30 > 0:49:33Alan Farront, who used to own this tobacconist's shop in Highgate,
0:49:33 > 0:49:36decided to pay a midnight visit to the cemetery
0:49:36 > 0:49:38to combat the vampire once and for all.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43He armed himself with a cross and stake
0:49:43 > 0:49:47and crouched between the tombstones, waiting.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50Have you ever seen this vampire?
0:49:50 > 0:49:52I have seen it, yes.
0:49:52 > 0:49:56I saw it last February, and I saw it on two occasions.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58What was it like?
0:49:58 > 0:50:01It took the form of a tall, grey figure,
0:50:01 > 0:50:02about eight feet tall,
0:50:02 > 0:50:06and it seemed to glide off the path without making any noise.
0:50:06 > 0:50:12The only certain way of destroying an undead...
0:50:14 > 0:50:18..is by driving a wooden stake, like the one I have here,
0:50:18 > 0:50:22straight through the heart with one blow.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26I think they're nutcases, actually. That's my opinion.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28I've worked here all night long.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30All day long, all night long - I've never seen nothing,
0:50:30 > 0:50:32so I don't see why they should.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35This time, when it started - this vampire business -
0:50:35 > 0:50:38in the evening time, there's 100-odd people outside the gates
0:50:38 > 0:50:41and they was all trying to climb over the walls
0:50:41 > 0:50:43and one person said they saw a horrible grey thing
0:50:43 > 0:50:46wriggling down the road. All this bloody nonsense.
0:50:46 > 0:50:47The best thing to do,
0:50:47 > 0:50:52if we could catch one of these people, to stop this nonsense, is to
0:50:52 > 0:50:54put him in one of these tombs and leave him there all night.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56See if in fact he can find a vampire.
0:50:57 > 0:51:02Satan, get ye behind me and be gone from this place forever.
0:51:03 > 0:51:07AIR RAID SIREN
0:51:07 > 0:51:11EXPLOSIONS
0:51:11 > 0:51:13Royal Air Force observers
0:51:13 > 0:51:16tell us that the blackout in Britain at night is pretty good,
0:51:16 > 0:51:18but in the morning it's not so good,
0:51:18 > 0:51:20although it's every bit as important.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24Take this house in the suburbs, the house of a well-known Mr Twerp.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26He switches on a lamp when he wakes up,
0:51:26 > 0:51:30forgetting that he removed the blackout before he went to sleep.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33When he gets up, he wanders from room to room, reading the paper
0:51:33 > 0:51:34and waking the butler
0:51:34 > 0:51:37and one thing and another, and the result outside is simply appalling.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39Mr and Mrs Twerp are particularly liable
0:51:39 > 0:51:41to forget the back of the house.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43A light from the kitchen can be seen in the sky
0:51:43 > 0:51:45just as easily as one in the front.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48Another point in the blackout occurs on the way to the office.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Mr Twerp decides to have a blackout on the old bike.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53He forgets that because he can see,
0:51:53 > 0:51:55he may not be visible to others until the last moment.
0:51:55 > 0:51:59It's a good job we're not all Twerps, isn't it?
0:52:08 > 0:52:12The lights blaze and dance. A city with her make-up on,
0:52:12 > 0:52:15and in the side streets that criss-cross their devious ways
0:52:15 > 0:52:17behind the arteries of light, and in the alleys
0:52:17 > 0:52:21where the lamps are low, the clubs and the easy-money joints,
0:52:21 > 0:52:25the fashionable nightspots, as proud of their respectability
0:52:25 > 0:52:27as a girl of her first mink.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30The all-night cafes and the nude shows.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Soho.
0:52:32 > 0:52:36Life after dark with an enamelled gloss and the cracks showing,
0:52:36 > 0:52:41garish, gay, avaricious and a little sleazy at the edges.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49Don't copy this technique, girls,
0:52:49 > 0:52:52unless you've got central heating in your bedroom.
0:52:54 > 0:52:58- Are you ever nude when you're stripped? Completely nude?- No, no.
0:52:58 > 0:53:02- Never?- No.- Would you ever be? - No, I don't think so, no.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04Midnight.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07Annette Wilson is 20 and a trained dancer,
0:53:07 > 0:53:11but at 20, dancing doesn't pay as much as stripping.
0:53:11 > 0:53:16She's married, works four clubs at once, does up to 50 shows a shift.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19To keep her schedule, she runs from club to club in Soho,
0:53:19 > 0:53:21dresses and undresses with the expediency
0:53:21 > 0:53:24of a fireman answering an alarm.
0:53:27 > 0:53:302:00am and home to husband Colin,
0:53:30 > 0:53:34a poet, painter and designer of Aztec jewellery.
0:53:34 > 0:53:38- So why does she work, and why as a stripper?- Um...
0:53:38 > 0:53:40The money. You know?
0:53:41 > 0:53:45Colin and I were broke and we were talking about it,
0:53:45 > 0:53:49and since I can dance and I have a bit of ballet,
0:53:49 > 0:53:52I just decided, well, you know, why not?
0:53:52 > 0:53:54- Do you enjoy it?- No.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57It's a job,
0:53:57 > 0:53:58and that's all. You know?
0:54:03 > 0:54:07Then we cut a line to the centre.
0:54:07 > 0:54:10And then bend it round, and that has to be stuck, then,
0:54:10 > 0:54:12and covered in material.
0:54:12 > 0:54:17Having done that, now we have an almost finished one.
0:54:17 > 0:54:21All that's left to do is to make it stick to me.
0:54:23 > 0:54:27Now, the way I usually do my tassels
0:54:27 > 0:54:30is to start with them both going to the right,
0:54:30 > 0:54:33so that way,
0:54:33 > 0:54:36and then one at a time,
0:54:36 > 0:54:37and then the other,
0:54:37 > 0:54:39outside,
0:54:39 > 0:54:41and then in reverse, with them both together.
0:54:41 > 0:54:45It's the initial shoulder movement that starts them off, I find,
0:54:45 > 0:54:48but it's rather difficult to explain. It just seems to happen.
0:54:51 > 0:54:52That way.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:54:55 > 0:54:56Hi!
0:54:56 > 0:54:58# Come on, come on!
0:54:58 > 0:55:00# Come on, come on!
0:55:00 > 0:55:04# Come on, come on, come on... #
0:55:04 > 0:55:06It's no good starting off too crude,
0:55:06 > 0:55:10because women certainly don't like it crude.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22CHEERING
0:55:29 > 0:55:33If you didn't do the strip at the end of the evening, there's no way
0:55:33 > 0:55:36you'd get out the door alive, and it's as easy as that.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39# Do you wanna touch? Yeah! #
0:55:39 > 0:55:42- SHE SQUEALS - # Yeah, yeah... #
0:55:42 > 0:55:44# Do you wanna touch? Yeah!
0:55:44 > 0:55:46# Do you wanna touch? Yeah!
0:55:46 > 0:55:49# Do you wanna touch... #
0:55:49 > 0:55:54- CHANTING:- Off! Off! Off! Off!
0:55:55 > 0:55:58POLICE SIREN
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Good morning, sir. Just a routine check.
0:56:12 > 0:56:16- Can you tell me where you're going? - The bakery. I'm going to work.
0:56:21 > 0:56:25The first one comes in, puts the lights on, of course,
0:56:25 > 0:56:27and puts the ovens on.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32And then he puts the first mixing on,
0:56:32 > 0:56:34which takes about 20 minutes to mix.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02And then puts it through the machine,
0:57:02 > 0:57:05in one-pound loaves and two-pound loaves.
0:57:05 > 0:57:10And then by the time he's done that, the oven is up to its temperature
0:57:10 > 0:57:12and then we can start baking.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24Most of our customers, now, are used to...
0:57:24 > 0:57:27When they buy it, it's still warm and fresh,
0:57:27 > 0:57:29and still steaming a little bit.
0:57:29 > 0:57:33People aren't so daft today, in that when they do buy things,
0:57:33 > 0:57:36they like to feel them, and if they're not fresh,
0:57:36 > 0:57:37they will complain about it,
0:57:37 > 0:57:41so that's why we make ours fresh every day.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09DOG BARKING
0:58:47 > 0:58:50CAT MIAOWING
0:58:50 > 0:58:52DOG BARKING
0:58:53 > 0:58:55CRICKETS CHIRRUPING
0:58:55 > 0:58:58FOOTSTEPS
0:58:59 > 0:59:02OWL HOOTING
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