0:02:47 > 0:02:49The soft, green countryside of Kent
0:02:49 > 0:02:50with its apple orchards...
0:02:53 > 0:02:54..and its hop farms.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Picking hops, that's the purpose of THIS outing.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15The visitors live in corrugated iron sheds, which have to be made as much like home as possible.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18So they've brought the spare-room lino
0:03:18 > 0:03:20and a spot of fancy wallpaper.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Settled in - well, almost - with old friends from home.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37And you remember the people who were here last year.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45It's not long before supper's cooking.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Scrumptious!
0:03:47 > 0:03:51The bigger families have their own kitchen where they cook...
0:03:51 > 0:03:53and eat
0:03:53 > 0:03:55and sit around listening to the wireless.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58The hops grow like runner beans, climbing up strings.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01You pull one down, and everyone sets too
0:04:01 > 0:04:04to nip off the green flowers and toss them into the family bin.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Many of the hoppers are old.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12But there are young ones too.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19"Look what you're doing, can't you!"
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Mm-hm, another hop garden romance on the way.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27There's not been a specially large crop of hops,
0:04:27 > 0:04:28but it's good-quality stuff.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32In the three-week season, nearly 15,000 tons of hops
0:04:32 > 0:04:36have been picked, and that's enough for 800 million pints of beer.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Before the hops go to the brewery,
0:04:43 > 0:04:46they must be dried in the oast house.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Soon the hop gardens will be bare.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11And the last trailer on its way to the oast house.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Then comes payday!
0:05:13 > 0:05:17The head of the family presents the tally card to the farmer and receives the cash.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18A happy time.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Yes, the time for celebration.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33And, having picked so many hops, who can resist tasting a few?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Holidays with play...
0:06:07 > 0:06:10The subject is always news.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15Millions of us, all over Britain, start planning our holidays soon after Christmas.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17We save up for them all of the year round. We take them in the summer
0:06:17 > 0:06:21and then we're ready to talk about them for the rest of the year.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Can you wonder that the water's becoming more and more
0:06:38 > 0:06:40part of the national way of life.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Just a quiet deckchair on the beach,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48and there's plenty to do and, er...
0:06:48 > 0:06:49plenty to look at!
0:06:52 > 0:06:57Steady now! A chap gets short of breath watching all this exercise.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01By the time the season's over,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05about eight million people will have sat on Blackpool sands.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10Many of them day-trippers, many of them from the town's 5,000 hotels and boarding houses.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13If you're in the mood, you can do the shows,
0:07:13 > 0:07:16which range from West End films and spectaculars,
0:07:16 > 0:07:17to Punch and Judy.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19THEY LAUGH
0:07:28 > 0:07:30The Golden Mile and the funfairs
0:07:30 > 0:07:33are Blackpool's own answer to the competition of the holiday camps,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and other resorts are meeting the challenge too.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38If it's been a hard year's work you can unwind
0:07:38 > 0:07:42and forget all about it among the sideshows. There's always something to do.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Today, in this restless world,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59most of us have more money in our pockets than ever before
0:07:59 > 0:08:02and there are a wider and wider choice of holiday to choose from.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Every year about 1.5 million people in Britain go to holiday camps.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Today there are camps to suit all tastes.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26In the last ten years, the number of holiday campers has trebled.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34The big attraction of holiday camps is undoubtedly the fact
0:08:34 > 0:08:37that everything is laid on in one place. You can join in, or not, as you wish.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Most camps are near the sea, or a river.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45And, even in a self-catering camp,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48there are restaurants if you want a change from doing your own cooking.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54The holiday camp is one place where you'll never see the sign
0:08:54 > 0:08:56"no children allowed".
0:09:08 > 0:09:11In these camps, children are catered for
0:09:11 > 0:09:13probably better than in any other form of organised holiday.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15From the moment they get up, bright and early,
0:09:15 > 0:09:19until it's time to go to bed and leave their parents to spend
0:09:19 > 0:09:20the sort of evening THEY want.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24At the modern holiday camp, of this size,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26there's every kind of entertainment,
0:09:26 > 0:09:29from organised sports, to film shows.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33There's dancing for as many hours as anybody could possibly want.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Events like mother and child contests
0:09:36 > 0:09:38help while away a wet afternoon.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41One of the big problems of British holiday camps is the weather
0:09:41 > 0:09:43and alternative indoor programmes
0:09:43 > 0:09:46are ready to be brought into operation whenever they're needed.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48For those with a little more money to spend,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51and who want to be sure of the sunshine,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55there are now holiday camps around the Mediterranean.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Some of the new ones are British.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00These holidaymakers are on their way to a camp, south of Naples -
0:10:00 > 0:10:04one of 14 along the Mediterranean coast run by a French organisation.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25This, of course, is a holiday camp with a difference,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28with blue skies and golden beaches and a South Sea Island welcome.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39At this kind of holiday camp, the accent is always on sunbathing,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41despite all the other diversions.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02And when the sun has set,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05the evenings are warm enough to dance in the open air.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12When you arrive at the camp, you buy yourself a necklace
0:11:12 > 0:11:16and you pay for your drinks, and anything else you want, with a bead or two.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20All this may seem a far cry from holiday camps in Britain,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23though it's really the same mixture with a continental flavour.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Down the coast towards Rome, we come to Pisa,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06with its famous leaning tower.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10It really does lean,
0:12:10 > 0:12:11more than 16 feet out of the perpendicular
0:12:11 > 0:12:14but it's been leaning for 800 years,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17so it's no good hanging around for it to fall.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Even if you don't understand the language, shopping is easy.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22So easy, it's hard to say no.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27The flower of Italy is Florence.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30So full of art treasures it would take weeks to see them all.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Here's the Ponte Vecchio, one of the loveliest bridges in the word.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38But we're bound for Rome
0:12:38 > 0:12:42and we pass along the Assisi road, reminding us of St Francis,
0:12:42 > 0:12:44the founder of the Franciscan Order of monks.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50The warm Mediterranean at last.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54And time for a paddle.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56There's no doubt about it, it's warmer than Blackpool.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09The great romantic Byron wrote,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12"While stands the Colosseum, Rome shall stand.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15"When falls the Colosseum, Rome shall fall.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18"And when Rome falls, the world."
0:13:58 > 0:14:00And so to the air ferry,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04the fastest method of transplanting the motorist and his car
0:14:04 > 0:14:06furthest away from it all.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Having booked several months in advance,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13you drive to Southend, Lydd, or Bournemouth,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15according to where you want to go.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Onto the ramp goes your medium-sized car,
0:14:17 > 0:14:19up and into the plane's nose
0:14:19 > 0:14:24to the Channel Islands, France, Switzerland or Holland.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26At this moment, you, your partner and your car
0:14:26 > 0:14:28are 50 minutes away from Le Touquet,
0:14:28 > 0:14:33a trip that'll cost you, altogether, about £25 return.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35You are also 75 minutes away from Rotterdam
0:14:35 > 0:14:37for roughly double that cost,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41and 2 hours 35 minutes from Geneva, at double the cost again.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06You don't have to be a motorist trying to pass it
0:15:06 > 0:15:09to realise this has become a familiar sight on Britain's roads.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14In less than 20 years, caravanning has established itself
0:15:14 > 0:15:17as one of the most popular ways of spending a holiday in this country.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21Today there are nearly 75,000 touring trailer caravans,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23about 10,000 motor caravans
0:15:23 > 0:15:27and around 250,000 caravans which are permanently on sites.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39This camp in Dorset is one of 4,200 up and down the country.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41It's also one of the biggest.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43There are more than 1,000 caravans here
0:15:43 > 0:15:47and all kinds of amenities for all ages.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50There are shops of one kind and another.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03There's plenty of space for games...
0:16:03 > 0:16:06and bicycles made for two.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09There's even a miniature railway.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17This kind of caravan accommodates the whole family comfortably.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19You can buy a caravan today
0:16:19 > 0:16:23for anything from £250 to more than £3,000.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27Of course, you don't have to buy a caravan to put up for the night by the roadside.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29You could, for instance, do this...
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Up in the Highlands of Scotland,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23they're saying, "There's no business like snow business."
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Right across the Cairngorm mountains, the spine of Scotland,
0:17:26 > 0:17:28towering more than 4,000 feet high,
0:17:28 > 0:17:32the icy vastnesses are being turned into a skiers' playground
0:17:32 > 0:17:34from the middle of December to April
0:17:34 > 0:17:37and even into May on the higher ground.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40It all adds up to a revolution,
0:17:40 > 0:17:43to a business worth £500,000 a season.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46It has all been created in the last few years.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Every weekend some 10,000 Scots make for the main skiing centres
0:17:51 > 0:17:54to join tourists from all over Britain in some 70 hotels,
0:17:54 > 0:17:58many of which used to close down for the winter.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Ski schools like this have been set up,
0:18:01 > 0:18:04with experienced instructors from Norway, Austrian and Switzerland.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09But not all learners make as successful a run as this.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19And not many expert skiers, with their novice days long behind them,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22can mamba like these aces.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26This deep, crisp snow has brought new life to the Highlands
0:18:26 > 0:18:29and a new light on the age-old problem
0:18:29 > 0:18:33of how to make the most of this far north of Britain.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36In a changing world, the people of the Highlands
0:18:36 > 0:18:39are moving fast with the times.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43They're out to make skiing as Scottish as haggis and whisky.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45They're leaping into a prosperous future.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05There's one golden rule for keeping fit nowadays - enjoy it.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08It doesn't matter, say the experts, what exercise you do,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11so long as you WANT to, then you'll get results.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15This tough, muscle-pulling stuff, for instance,
0:19:15 > 0:19:19is all very well, but for the likes of you and me,
0:19:19 > 0:19:22perhaps it's better to try something that comes more naturally.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30That's what the Central Council Of Physical Recreation says
0:19:30 > 0:19:34and that's what they encourage at evening classes throughout the country
0:19:34 > 0:19:37and at their three centres where, yearly,
0:19:37 > 0:19:40more than 15,000 people spend a week's sporting holiday.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Experts are on hand to teach and encourage.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48Maybe it's archery.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Weightlifters from all over the country
0:19:54 > 0:19:57come to Bisham Abbey for instruction from Al Murray,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Britain's national and Olympic coach.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Remember - nothing to stop you trying so long as you want to.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11What's this? A family of weight lifters?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Looks like it.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Hey! Take it easy, son.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Timber yard manager Jack Edmonds, of Mortlake, Surrey,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21says it's the best exercise of all.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26So he has his three sons out in the back garden every morning.
0:20:26 > 0:20:2860lbs for Jackie, aged 8.
0:20:32 > 0:20:3465lbs for Raymond, 11.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42And, for Keith, who's only a three-year-old,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44just 16lbs.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Here's more my idea of exercises,
0:20:48 > 0:20:51rhythmical movements to music by the Keep Fit Association.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05More movement to music -
0:21:05 > 0:21:08the Margaret Morris technique of self-expression.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Given a subject to represent, each person expresses it in her own way
0:21:11 > 0:21:14and gets plenty of exercise in the process.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17After being solids, they now imagine they're liquids -
0:21:17 > 0:21:20water, not beer - and weave all over the place.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40A favourite is to imagine they're tied up in plastic bags.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Then they've got to claw their way out.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00London businessman Albert Meltzer
0:22:00 > 0:22:03has solved his problem of exercise by stopping off every morning
0:22:03 > 0:22:05at Highgate Ponds.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08He's been doing it for 15 years now, summer and winter.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19He allows himself a ten-minute dip.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Then a good rub down and he's on his way to his King's Cross bookshop.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Cycling's another way.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Mr Murphy of Streatham rides for an hour every morning,
0:22:47 > 0:22:50whatever the weather.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Oh, well, at least he gets the exercise!
0:23:26 > 0:23:31Yoga exercises are practised today in homes up and down the country,
0:23:31 > 0:23:32or at classes at a yoga centre,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35where lectures are given on the meaning of the science.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Here, once or twice a week, students learn
0:23:38 > 0:23:41the two kinds of exercise that form Hatha yoga -
0:23:41 > 0:23:45the yoga of physical fitness and the control of mind and body.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50First they must learn to control their breathing and their minds.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Next come the pure exercises.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04There are 84 traditional postures in Hatha yoga
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and they are variations of seven basic postures.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Yoga, say its teachers, is not a religion,
0:24:10 > 0:24:14it's a way of life. The techniques taught at a yoga course
0:24:14 > 0:24:16are claimed to keep the students fit
0:24:16 > 0:24:19and to enable them to achieve perfect relaxation,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22to remove tension and to balance body and mind.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48For some people, relaxation means keeping perfectly still.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50For others, it means just the opposite.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And, if you're between 4 and 14,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55your idea of relaxing is never to relax for a minute,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58like these children in some of London's playgrounds,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01which have been specially designed for them to do just that.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09The Greater London Council
0:25:09 > 0:25:13began to think along adventure playground lines in 1959.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Now 28 parks all over the London area
0:25:16 > 0:25:19have special play parks in them, like this one in Battersea Park.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Play parks open during the spring and summer school holidays all day,
0:25:23 > 0:25:26and from 5:30pm to 8pm in term-time.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43No two play parks are exactly alike.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Each reflects the outlook of its leader.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Free play is encouraged,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50but it still needs unobtrusive leadership to be enjoyable.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Up and down the country, the idea of free, creative play
0:25:57 > 0:25:59is being developed.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02This playground, on the edge of a Birmingham housing estate,
0:26:02 > 0:26:05was laid out by the Landscape section of the city's architects' department.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09While this comprehensive playground was still being built
0:26:09 > 0:26:11by the Nuneaton local authority,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13it was invaded and occupied by the children.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19The mounds have been made with rubbish from the site
0:26:19 > 0:26:22and surfaced with concrete for bad-weather use.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Another new piece of equipment is the aerial ropeway,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28which became a firm favourite in no time.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Good fun and good exercise too.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Even with free, creative play,
0:26:42 > 0:26:44healthy competition can be stimulating.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Leader Murray Marks, of the Cumberland Play Centre in Camden,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51decided to organise a soapbox derby
0:26:51 > 0:26:53among the children in the area
0:26:53 > 0:26:56and everyone entered into the spirit of the thing with a will.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16The heats were run on a time basis
0:27:16 > 0:27:19and there was what could be called "a soft finish".
0:27:24 > 0:27:28This is the sort of contest in which it doesn't really matter who wins.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30It's the adventure that counts.
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