0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains some strong language
0:00:04 > 0:00:07- COCK CROWS - That's one of the roosters.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Look at the surly way he's looking at us.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Looks like Napoleon.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- INTERVIEWER:- What will happen to him eventually?
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Soup.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Or cockerel korma.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Tucked away on the coast of North Norfolk
0:00:28 > 0:00:30lies Wiveton Hall Farm,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34a 17th-century manor house surrounded by fields of fruit,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36vegetables and barley.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40- HE WHISTLES - Come on.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44It is home to gentleman farmer Desmond MacCarthy...
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Kelly. Come on.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49..who lives here with his 99-year-old mother, Chloe...
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Nice shirt you've got on today. Where did you get that from?
0:00:53 > 0:00:55- I don't know. I think London. - London.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59..and children Isabel and Edmund.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03This is my home-made cannon that fires all sorts of fruit.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- POP! - Yay!
0:01:05 > 0:01:06LAUGHTER
0:01:06 > 0:01:09- INTERVIEWER:- When you look at the house from here, what do you think?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Well, I always think how beautiful it is.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15With the marshes behind, leading to the sea,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17it's a really special spot.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Throughout the spring and summer,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Desmond relies on his cafe, cottages and crops
0:01:25 > 0:01:29to generate enough income to keep the farm afloat.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32So overall, it's probably about 15,000 down.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36But with his fruit and vegetable farm underperforming,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Desmond is looking for new ways to make money...
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I mean, just like...
0:01:41 > 0:01:43how Glastonbury started.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45- GUNSHOT - Oh, my God.
0:01:45 > 0:01:46GUNSHOTS
0:01:46 > 0:01:49..while making the most of the start of the shooting season.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Edmund, well shot.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53I slowed him up.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- Watch out for the thistles. - Oh, look.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00I've lived here all my life.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04I've probably got arrested development because I've never...
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I've never grown up properly because I've never moved away.
0:02:09 > 0:02:16This programme contains some strong language
0:02:30 > 0:02:33It's late summer and the barley on Wiveton Hall Farm
0:02:33 > 0:02:36is ready for harvest.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Look at that.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39It's a hell of a cut.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Look, in one go,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45all this straw will be chopped and ploughed in.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48It's the beginning of the August bank holiday
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and the last chance for the cafe to take advantage
0:02:51 > 0:02:52of the Norfolk tourist trade.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57I mean, I suppose it's a fact of life -
0:02:57 > 0:02:58we're all after revenue.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Inland Revenue's after revenue, we're after revenue,
0:03:04 > 0:03:05you're after revenue.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10One wrap and an adult's pasta now coming.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13With the sun shining, the cafe is fully booked.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- 41?- Yeah, two seconds, Richie.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17I've got other stuff going with it, mate.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Business manager Kim is relying on the weather to hold out
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and provide a strong finish to the season.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26It's a crucial weekend because this is the time where
0:03:26 > 0:03:29we make the extra money.
0:03:29 > 0:03:30That's the cream on the top
0:03:30 > 0:03:33that gives us our extra profit at the end.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35So, yeah, it's quite crucial. And it quietens down.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Next week will be much quieter, children will be back at school.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42So after this weekend we're running out of time.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46I'm hoping that Bank Holiday Monday will be really busy
0:03:46 > 0:03:48but the forecast isn't great.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51It really is just the weather now that's our biggest enemy.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00Wiveton Hall Farm dates back to the 17th century.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Desmond's family has been working the land here since 1944.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05COCK CROWS
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Everything all right?- Yeah.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13The oldest living resident is Desmond's mother, Chloe,
0:04:13 > 0:04:15who will soon be turning 100.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- You've got a birthday coming up. - Yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24I mean, it's quite a special birthday, isn't it?
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I mean, Queen Victoria was practically on the throne.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Not quite.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33We've ordered a tent for it.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- We thought we'd better push the boat out.- Yes.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Chloe's centenary will be celebrated with a garden party
0:04:48 > 0:04:51with 120 friends and family attending.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55Who's that? Is that you? Granny, here, look.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- That is me.- Mm.
0:04:58 > 0:05:0117-year-old granddaughter Isabel
0:05:01 > 0:05:04is putting together a photo board of Chloe's life.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07We can put them up in the tent so people can see what you
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- looked like when you were younger, for your birthday.- All right.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14That's rather a nice photograph.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- How old were you?- Probably 18.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20She's going to be 100.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25I mean, she's never smoked but she drunk in moderation.
0:05:25 > 0:05:31She hasn't had the most exciting life but it hasn't gone too badly.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35That was watching the coronation.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40It's amazing how... How long she...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43She's been there.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45In the early 1970s,
0:05:45 > 0:05:50Chloe unexpectedly found herself in charge of Wiveton Hall Farm.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51There's my husband.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Her mother, her father and her husband all died within two years
0:05:55 > 0:05:59of each other and it must have been very sad for her.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03And she could have easily sold this place but she didn't.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06You know, she knew I loved the place
0:06:06 > 0:06:09and it was a wonderful place for children to grow up in.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Probably why I've never done anything else,
0:06:12 > 0:06:14because it is a lovely, special place.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- INTERVIEWER:- Do you think your mother now has any idea what it
0:06:17 > 0:06:18takes for you to keep this place going?
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Yeah, I don't think she... She doesn't sort of measure things.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24I did talk to her about profitability.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25She said, "What's that?"
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Despite the promising start to the bank holiday,
0:06:33 > 0:06:37the weather has turned and the cafe has taken a big hit.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- Friday night was a beautiful evening.- Mm-hm.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Sunday lunch, breakfast and lunch, it rained
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and then yesterday was a complete wash-out.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- It rained all day. - It was a torrent.- Mm.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51And we're so exposed.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55If it could be August, you could go out, and a northerly wind straight
0:06:55 > 0:06:58off the marsh, you could be on the bridge of a trawler or something.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Mm.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04Salad blowing off your plate, on to the next bowl.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Overall, I think we are...
0:07:07 > 0:07:10We're £6,000 down on...
0:07:10 > 0:07:13bank holiday week last year, which was a week earlier.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- That's rather a lot of money.- Yeah.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- But it was a week earlier and better weather.- 6,000 down.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26And August in total is £19,000 down on last year...
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Oh, dear.- ..unfortunately.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- INTERVIEWER:- Are you disappointed, Desmond,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34cos everyone's working so hard?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Well, I mean, you can't be... I'm used to disappointment.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42You know, there's lots... Things don't... You know.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45You feel a bit foolish when you've worked quite as hard
0:07:45 > 0:07:48and at the end of the year if you don't make something worthwhile,
0:07:48 > 0:07:51and this is the year to be worthwhile.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53'Desmond's a typical entrepreneur.'
0:07:53 > 0:07:56He is trying very hard to diversify
0:07:56 > 0:08:00and keep a magnificent house going so, yeah,
0:08:00 > 0:08:04he's always looking for the next... Next plan to make some money.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07They are called The Corn Potato String Band and
0:08:07 > 0:08:11they are like bluegrass musicians
0:08:11 > 0:08:13and they come and tour in England.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14They're quite serious.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I mean, they're very good musicians
0:08:16 > 0:08:20and sing old traditional songs and we've got them playing in the barn
0:08:20 > 0:08:22- in ten days' time.- Mm.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- He looks the genuine article, that man in the middle.- He does.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Well, they all do, really, don't they?
0:08:26 > 0:08:30They sing proper songs about country people having fun,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32often using...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Involving dogs and...
0:08:36 > 0:08:40..chasing animals with curly tails.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48This weekend, over 100 friends and family will be
0:08:48 > 0:08:52descending on Wiveton Hall to celebrate Chloe's centenary.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Hello?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Good. Well done.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04Trying to create an artificial sense of tidiness in preparation
0:09:04 > 0:09:07for my mother's birthday party.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09And...
0:09:09 > 0:09:11people will think it's always this tidy.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18Oh, look. Mm. That's why they're amateurs. Look.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20No wonder we can't find the hedge clippers -
0:09:20 > 0:09:22they've been left on top of the hedge.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29This is one of my least favourite plants, the burr.
0:09:29 > 0:09:35It sticks on your clothes, on your tweed jacket, and never comes out.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41Despite that, it's rather beautiful at this time of year. Oh, my God.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44This is a naturalistic phenomenon.
0:09:44 > 0:09:50This is a long-eared bat that has flown into the burrs
0:09:50 > 0:09:51and got caught.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53What a way to go.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Do you see his ears?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57That is nature.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04We should play a tune by blowing down gun barrels.
0:10:04 > 0:10:09The next day, and Chloe is 100 years old.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13There has been a communication from the Palace.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15It really is.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18It's genuine, the 100th birthday.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21(I think if you look through there, you can see it.)
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- INTERVIEWER:- Could you show it to us?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Well, I mean, you can creep up on it.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Look at that. Look.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34"I send you my congratulations and best wishes to you
0:10:34 > 0:10:36"on such a special occasion."
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Isn't that nice?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40What's on the front?
0:10:40 > 0:10:41Picture of the Queen.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46If you see anyone looking as though they need
0:10:46 > 0:10:50- what's nowadays called a comfort break...- Yeah?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52..men can just go in the bushes...
0:10:52 > 0:10:54LAUGHTER
0:10:54 > 0:10:55There's nothing wrong with that.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Just up there.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03I can't remember when,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06if her birthday's today or yesterday,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09and she didn't either so...
0:11:09 > 0:11:10that was quite funny.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Yes, yes, yes. She's never slumped to histrionics.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16As the final preparations are made,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Desmond is putting the finishing touches
0:11:18 > 0:11:21to a speech honouring his mother.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26I've to say a few words so I must pay a little bit of attention and...
0:11:26 > 0:11:30attention and concentration is not one of my strong points,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34when there are a lot of more fun things to do, like scurry around.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39It's quite a celebration while she's living.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42It's awfully sad when you celebrate things when people are dead.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Well, we could do that as well.
0:11:44 > 0:11:50But she is actually living and firing on most cylinders...
0:11:51 > 0:11:52..despite being ancient.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Hello, how are you?
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Roberta used to be on the stage.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Nice to see you.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07- I claim to actually be the person who's known her longest.- Yes.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11She was a very sophisticated, beautiful young women
0:12:11 > 0:12:16and I was an awkward, unconfident, rather fat child.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Ah, I know.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- She was so nice to me.- Yes.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22There's Mikey. This is Mikey, Jeremy's son.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- INTERVIEWER:- Is everyone having a good time, do you think?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- I think so, yes. - Is your mother having a good time?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Ah. Oh, we mustn't forget about her.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Could you show my mother where she is sitting?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Yes. Pride of place.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- INTERVIEWER:- 100 is quite remarkable, isn't it?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Very old.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Not many people make it to that age.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Can you imagine living here with Desmond at 100?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50I don't think Dad will make it to 100, to be honest.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52He's a bit porky.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Thank you all for coming to celebrate
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Chloe's very special birthday.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09It's lovely looking out across what is normally sort of empty lawn
0:13:09 > 0:13:12with moles on it, and see you all here.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18For anyone who wants to live so long and so healthily,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Chloe has a lot to teach them.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25She seems to know exactly what she thinks about situations and people
0:13:25 > 0:13:27and keeps most of it to herself.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28LAUGHTER
0:13:30 > 0:13:35After her mother, then her father, and then my father Michael
0:13:35 > 0:13:39all died within three years of each other in the early 1970s,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42it would have been a very normal thing to sell Wiveton
0:13:42 > 0:13:45and move to some sensible house and get rid of any problems.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Chloe never considered it.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50She persevered with selfless determination,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53for which I'm very grateful.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54APPLAUSE
0:13:55 > 0:14:00# Happy birthday, dear Chloe
0:14:00 > 0:14:05# Happy birthday to you. #
0:14:06 > 0:14:09CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Very good speech.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18After a disappointing summer for the farm cafe,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Desmond is banking on the barn dance to bring in some extra revenue
0:14:22 > 0:14:24before the season is done.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- Hello, Alexandra.- Hello, Desmond.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32This must be the office with the best view in the East of England.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33It is indeed.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Now, two days, we've got the band coming.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Have we sold any tickets?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- We've sold 33 tickets. - Have we?- Yeah.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- We want to say 150 tickets, don't we?- Yeah.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47We will sell more tickets.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- 150, do you think?- 120, definitely.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54- 150, 200.- 150.- All right.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Because I'm wearing... I mean, getting into the...
0:14:58 > 0:15:00rock promotion mood.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04- OK.- I mean, it's...just like...
0:15:04 > 0:15:06how Glastonbury started.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12- INTERVIEWER:- Do you think this is a good venue?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16I think so. Lovely floor. Beautifully smooth floor.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19He's got the barn but before anyone can dance,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22seven tonnes of barley needs to be shifted.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34This is worth £200 a tonne.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36That's why we're being so
0:15:36 > 0:15:37penny-pinching.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41- INTERVIEWER:- So what will they do with this?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43They'll turn it into a bar.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47So they'll put some lighting in and then serve drinks from it.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50What do you think of all these little enterprises
0:15:50 > 0:15:51that Desmond does?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I think they're good. It brings people here.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57It'd be a bit boring if we didn't do things like this.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- Oh, hello.- Open.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Edmund and Isabel have been sent to the local village
0:16:01 > 0:16:03to drum up some interest.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07OK, cool. The Corn Potato String Band. They sound quite interesting.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Yeah, they're a bluegrass band from America.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12They're on a tour at the moment.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13- Great, yeah. Fantastic.- OK, cool.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- Thank you.- Good luck, guys.- Bye.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19- Let's go home. - INTERVIEWER:- Have you had enough?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Yes.- Well, you want people to come to this thing.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23I'm bored of leafleting.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I think round Norfolk it's hard to get a band
0:16:26 > 0:16:28and get loads of people to come, really.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31It's never going to make a fortune. I mean, £10 a ticket.
0:16:31 > 0:16:36Not that many people are really going to come.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38What would you do?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Is there anything you would do differently?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- Erm...- The fruit needs to be... - I think we should do more music.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45And we should have a festival.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48I think we should get rid of fruit and everything
0:16:48 > 0:16:49and just make it all nice fields.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Turn it to grass and have a festival.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54And then have a festival and call it Wivetonia
0:16:54 > 0:16:56and everyone would love it.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59That's what is going to happen in the future.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01No, I don't know, but I'll make it happen.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09September brings the end of the holiday season at Wiveton Hall
0:17:09 > 0:17:13but it also marks the beginning of the duck shooting season.
0:17:13 > 0:17:18- That's a very big spoon, Desmond. - Very big. Very useful.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22In the marshes, Desmond and Edmund
0:17:22 > 0:17:25are preparing for their first shoot of the year.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Go on. Jump in. - You want to see me stuck in there.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Just jump. Just jump, Dad. Jump in the hole.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- I don't need to.- Go on, dad.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35STRIMMER WHIRS
0:17:37 > 0:17:41This is a hide for when you're shooting the ducks.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43You get in the barrel
0:17:43 > 0:17:45and so you just have your head just poking,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47just able to see over the top of the reeds
0:17:47 > 0:17:51when the duck is swirling around, you crouch down,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and, as they think about landing, you try and shoot them.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01A sportsman doesn't want to get into a wet butt so you put a lid on top.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08And that's a lead for the disobedient dog.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15For Desmond, the duck pond is more than just a commercial venture.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17I love coming here,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21but I'm not as bloodthirsty as I was.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24What do you think has changed for you?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Well, I mean, I do enjoy being out in the country.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29I like meeting country people,
0:18:29 > 0:18:30I like being with friends,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33whether they're from the country or not,
0:18:33 > 0:18:38and a lot of people share that participation.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40That hasn't changed at all.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41That's grown.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46When I used to go fishing with my grandfather...
0:18:48 > 0:18:51..I would say, "Thank you for taking me."
0:18:51 > 0:18:54And something like, "Pity we didn't catch anything."
0:18:54 > 0:18:57He said, "Never mind. Always nice to be by a river."
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Who is this totty?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14- It's completely wrong. - Completely wrong.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Desmond's close friend Willie has arrived,
0:19:17 > 0:19:19ready to put the duck pond to the test.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Look at her.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Rather early in the year but it's a perfect evening.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28A perfect evening and a perfect evening's good wind blowing.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Don't like going when it's too still.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32The sound of the guns then booms out across the marsh,
0:19:32 > 0:19:35everything jumps up, everything's frightened.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38In a lot of wind, your guns don't sound a lot.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41- We are...- We're only... We're not trying to get a sackful.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44No, just getting enough to have a feed.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Sit. Wait. Don't misbehave.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Among the four-legged helpers are shoot veteran Teddy
0:19:50 > 0:19:56and Desmond's novice gundog Roly, who is starting his first season.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- INTERVIEWER: - How do you think he'll do?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01We'll find out.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03See if Dad's training paid off.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05He's quite disobedient with Dad.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10He's good with other people, just not Dad.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Come in here. Roly! Roly! Come here.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15WHISTLING
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Come in here, will you?
0:20:16 > 0:20:18That wasn't very good.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Roly. Heel. Roly, come here.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Really badly behaved.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25See, this one is so well-behaved.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Come on. I can see it. Come on.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30WHISTLING
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Here.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Here. Heel.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38I'm not a natural dog handler.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41He's just young. He's just young.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47Full of beans. Look up over what's going on over here.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Godwits.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Let's get into position and then we'll shoot, OK?
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Come on. Up.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Roly. Up, here. Here.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Oh, you stupid fucking dog.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Here. Here. Come on.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Up. Up.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05Come on. Up.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Sit. Sit.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Sit and just don't make a noise, all right? Stay down.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- ROLY WHINES - Stay there. Stay there.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18With the three men positioned in their separate hides,
0:21:18 > 0:21:22they must wait for the ducks to come to the pond for the evening.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Edmund, let them come in.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Edmund's got his mask on. He's all prepared.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30He's very serious. He's young.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35He's the sort of sort one would want in the Army, defending your realm.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Very, very keen. Willie as well, he's mad-keen.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43It's quite exciting. I just like coming out here.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46It's not considered shooting etiquette
0:21:46 > 0:21:47to take aim at a sitting duck.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51The sport comes with trying to hit the birds mid-flight.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53They like coming to this pond
0:21:53 > 0:21:57and so we choose a time of day when they might come and feed.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Look, look, look. A big bunch of...
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Sit, please, Roly. Please, just sit.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Oh, my Lord.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Sit. Sit. OK?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- ROLY WHINES - Sh! Sit. Sit, Roly.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Over here. It's a mallard. No. Or pigeons.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21I can't tell the difference now.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Eyesight's not what it was.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Keep down, keep down, keep down.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Keep down. Might be a shot. Might be a shot. Sh, sh.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33ROLY WHINES
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Sh!
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Just fuck off!
0:22:39 > 0:22:40- GUNSHOT - Oh, my God.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43GUNSHOTS
0:22:48 > 0:22:49GUNSHOT
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Look at that shot of his! Edmund, he's a bloody good shot.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56GUNSHOTS
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Edmund, well shot.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01I slowed him up.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04How many have you got to pick?
0:23:04 > 0:23:08One by the reeds, one in here which we shared.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11I might go and retrieve him.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Sit.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Stay there.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Every bird that is shot down must be retrieved,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18which is when the dogs get to work.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Roly. Here, here, here.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Roly. Here. Roly!
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Roly, come on.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Come on, get back. Get back.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34It's about this, the nature.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38You're so, sort of, completely surrounded by the nature.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41That's pretty wonderful, isn't it?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44And then the duck whirling in, swirling in,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47the great rattle of musketry
0:23:47 > 0:23:49and we've got dinner.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54We're shooting the things we love.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56That's a conundrum, isn't it?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58That's an odd thing.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00It's sort of contradictory but...
0:24:02 > 0:24:05..they're also terribly good with potatoes.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08They'll be delicious. They'll be delicious.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11This. A farmyard duck.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14What was he doing there?
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Trying to breed with the wild ones.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Understandable, but there we are. He'll eat well.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Now, this is a mallard.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- We'll put these away. - Keep them cool.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Put them in the fridge.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30And that's a teal.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Also very delicious.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Another mallard. - Another mallard.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37That's it.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48It's Friday and bluegrass music is on its way to Wiveton Hall
0:24:48 > 0:24:53as Desmond tries to make amends for poor bank holiday takings.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55We've got a lovely band from Detroit.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58That's the stage.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01You've got to start somewhere.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Beautiful floor, very good floor for dancing.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08It's all looking very good.
0:25:08 > 0:25:14I mean, if it's shoulder to shoulder in here in a couple of hours,
0:25:14 > 0:25:15we will be very happy.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I'm just going off to find my band.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23My goodness!
0:25:23 > 0:25:24How are you?
0:25:24 > 0:25:28All the way from the United States, The Corn Potato String Band
0:25:28 > 0:25:31are expected to get the barn stomping.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Have you been in England long?
0:25:32 > 0:25:34No, just a few days.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37- And everything is all right in Detroit?- Mm-hm.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39That's good. And are you from Detroit as well?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- No, I live in New Hampshire. - Oh, that's interesting.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45That's one of the few bits of the States I've been to
0:25:45 > 0:25:48and I went hunting, actually, with a man called Homer.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Oh, right.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Homer, I didn't think was a normal name, until I went there.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56There, of course, everyone knows a Homer.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I'm sure it will go well, it's a nice evening,
0:26:01 > 0:26:02so I think lots will come.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04BAND TUNES UP
0:26:04 > 0:26:06You've got the whole, kind of, country theme going on?
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Oh, it's country, yes.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11I always say, "If it ain't country, it ain't music."
0:26:14 > 0:26:17FIDDLE PLAYS UPBEAT INTRODUCTION
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Advanced bookings may have been slow,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30but the weather has been kind to Desmond
0:26:30 > 0:26:32and nearly 120 tickets have been sold.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Get yourself a partner and get on the floor!
0:26:36 > 0:26:38We're going to do a little dancing.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Circle right.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Farmers have been encouraged to diversify for quite a long time now
0:26:49 > 0:26:54and it's this diversification, the Wiveton way.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Round and round we go.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04THEY SING
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Left to the opposite one, once around...
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Are you enjoying yourself?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Yes, I have enjoyed it, yes.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17I think it's been a success and the band are marvellous.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21But it's quite clear that the Norfolk inhabitants
0:27:21 > 0:27:24need to improve their American dancing techniques.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26All the way down, all the way down!
0:27:28 > 0:27:30But I think they've got the hang of it by the end
0:27:30 > 0:27:33and so nice so many people are here.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34I don't know who they are.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39So it's all been good.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42CHEERING
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Rather a pretty girl coming.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Oh, yes?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Look at that. That's astonishing!
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Dad is obsessed, he's verging on pyromaniac.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Wow!
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Look, that's nice.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08Hey!
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Oh, my God!
0:28:11 > 0:28:13That is very keen.
0:28:13 > 0:28:14Oh, so is Edmund.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Ooh!