0:00:02 > 0:00:04Hello and welcome to another episode of Santer.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12On this week's programme, Captain Jim Moore allows us
0:00:12 > 0:00:16up into his attic to see his wonderful collection of model boats.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18How many have you in total, Jim?
0:00:18 > 0:00:21There's 130 altogether and I made about 100.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Willie Hill puts Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett through their paces
0:00:24 > 0:00:26on the fife and drum.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28- I know there's a week to go and I'll...- A week to go now, Bobby,
0:00:28 > 0:00:32- so you'll be two hours every night from now to next week.- Is that right?
0:00:32 > 0:00:37Mark Wilson crosses from Canada into the United States on his musical journey.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41And it's here that eventually the Cape Breton fiddle style, moving south,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43would meet with the bluegrass fiddle style, moving north,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47and mix with the Scots and Irish fiddle styles that were still arriving.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51And Wilson Burgess visits a World War II exhibition in Bushmills.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54A World War II jeep in a street in Bushmills?
0:00:54 > 0:00:56There must be a reason for that.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04But before all that, Diana Culbertson's back with us
0:01:04 > 0:01:08after the great reaction she got the last time she appeared on Santer.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12This time, she's singing the Dougie MacLean song, Caledonia.
0:01:22 > 0:01:29# I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me
0:01:29 > 0:01:32# In these last few days I've been afraid
0:01:32 > 0:01:37# That I might drift away
0:01:37 > 0:01:42# So I've been telling old stories, singing songs
0:01:42 > 0:01:46# That made me think about where I came from
0:01:46 > 0:01:49# That's the reason why I seem
0:01:49 > 0:01:55# So far away today
0:01:55 > 0:01:58# Oh and let me tell you that I love you
0:01:58 > 0:02:02# That I think about you all the time
0:02:02 > 0:02:09# Caledonia, you're calling me And now I'm going home
0:02:09 > 0:02:17# If I should become a stranger, know that it would make me more than sad
0:02:17 > 0:02:23# Caledonia's been everything I've ever had
0:02:25 > 0:02:28# Now I have moved And I've kept on moving
0:02:28 > 0:02:32# Proved the points that I needed proving
0:02:32 > 0:02:36# Lost the friends that I needed losing
0:02:36 > 0:02:40# Found others on the way
0:02:42 > 0:02:45# I have tried And I've kept on trying
0:02:45 > 0:02:49# Stalling dreams, there's no denying
0:02:49 > 0:02:53# I've travelled hard with my conscience flying
0:02:53 > 0:02:58# Somewhere in the wind
0:02:58 > 0:03:02# Oh and let me tell you that I love you
0:03:02 > 0:03:06# That I think about you all the time
0:03:06 > 0:03:14# Caledonia, you're calling me And now I'm going home.
0:03:14 > 0:03:21# If I should become a stranger, know that it would make me more than sad
0:03:21 > 0:03:27# Caledonia's been everything I've ever had
0:03:46 > 0:03:50# Well, instead of thinking my way is clear
0:03:50 > 0:03:53# And I know what I will do tomorrow
0:03:53 > 0:03:57# When the hands are shaking And the kisses flow
0:03:57 > 0:04:02# Then I will disappear
0:04:02 > 0:04:06# Oh and let me tell you that I love you
0:04:06 > 0:04:11# That I think about you all the time
0:04:11 > 0:04:17# Caledonia, you're calling me And now I'm going home
0:04:17 > 0:04:25# If I should become a stranger, know that it would make me more than sad
0:04:25 > 0:04:29# Caledonia's been everything
0:04:29 > 0:04:33# I've ever had
0:04:33 > 0:04:41# If I should become a stranger, know that it would make me more than sad
0:04:41 > 0:04:49# Caledonia's been everything I've ever had
0:04:49 > 0:04:55# Caledonia's been everything
0:04:55 > 0:05:01# I've ever had. #
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Andy Cornett's the drummer with the group, Stonewall,
0:05:08 > 0:05:13and up to very recently, he had never played a Lambeg drum.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Bobby Acheson plays the whistle in his group, The Grousebeaters,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19but he had never played the fife.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Music teacher and band conductor, Willie Hill, has taken up
0:05:23 > 0:05:27the challenge to prepare Andy and Bobby for a recording of Lillibolero
0:05:27 > 0:05:32with last year's World Champion Flute Band, Kellswater of Ballymena.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35The boys have been practising hard but the recording date is looming.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Right, boys? The pressure's on. A week to go before we start recording here.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Let's hear you.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58I was convinced when I turned up this afternoon,
0:05:58 > 0:05:59this is not going to work.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02We've never played together at all
0:06:02 > 0:06:05and I thought, "My goodness, what have we let ourselves in for?"
0:06:05 > 0:06:08And to be fair to Andy and Bobby, both of them,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10they've obviously worked hard.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18I've been practising away on my own, obviously, what I've got to learn.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21I know Bobby's been practising away on his own with his fife.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Hopefully, we'll be able to pull it off.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29I haven't been practising much.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Willie left the fife down to me a few weeks ago and, as you know,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Willie was sort of helping me with the tuition there.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38And it's been lying on the kitchen table there every week
0:06:38 > 0:06:40and I've been passing by and passing by
0:06:40 > 0:06:42and I said, "Goodness, I better pick that fife up."
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I haven't been doing really a great job,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51but I'll have to pick up a bit and start practising, hopefully.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01She's ropey. That would be the best way of saying it.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03The only bit we need to watch, Bobby, is just in there.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I really haven't been trying this, as you know.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- I know there's a week to go and I'll...- A week to go now, Bobby,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11so you'll be at two hours every night from now to next week.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Is that right? - Oh, at least, at least.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16And you have to work at this bit here. All right, Andy?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Will we give her one more go? We'll cross our fingers and hope for the best.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21See if you get faster, too, Bobby? There's going to be a row!
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Will you step on my toe, Willie?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Or I'll hit you a dig in the gub, as they say.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Bobby is panicking me.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39He likes when I play along with him, but once I sort of stop playing,
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Bobby sort of draws back into himself
0:07:41 > 0:07:44and you're saying, "Bobby, come on, you can do this, you can do this."
0:07:44 > 0:07:46In the normal fifing tradition anyway,
0:07:46 > 0:07:49you'd always have two or three fifers playing together.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Andy's made a right good shape at that now.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06The only thing is, try to get rid of the "jig-time" feel to it.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Yeah. Basically I'm doing a bit of syncopation, just like I would
0:08:09 > 0:08:11with the pipe band drumming, and it's just trying to get
0:08:11 > 0:08:14that out of my head and doing it more of a straight...
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Just think of the straight quavers, you know - deedle-ee-dum, dum, dum, dum, dum-dum, dum-dum.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Andy's found the rhythm - I mean he's worked at it.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24But as soon as the fifes started and we had a wee go earlier on,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26he sort of lost the plot a wee bit.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34This will be a major achievement for both of them.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37They won't have played with that sort of standard of a band ever before.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42The Kellswater will be expecting us to be playing at their standard.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47I think they'll be grand. There may be a couple of wee wrong notes or missed beats,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49but we're not professionals, we're just doing it for a bit of craic.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I wonder how Andy and Bobby will fare
0:08:52 > 0:08:55when they meet up with Kellswater to record the track.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Join us next week to find out.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Oh, it's the Ulster Orchestra ringing Bobby here!
0:08:59 > 0:09:01LAUGHTER
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Portavogie has had a proud association with the sea,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11and fishing in particular, down through the years.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16One of the most well-known retired seamen from the area is Captain Jim Moore,
0:09:16 > 0:09:21and I was privileged enough to get to see his fabulous collection of model boats.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Right, follow me!
0:09:25 > 0:09:26Oh, my goodness, Jim!
0:09:34 > 0:09:40This covers my Merchant Navy days, all these boats.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44I never saw as many boats - how many have you in total, Jim?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47There's 130 altogether and I made about 100.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- You have built every one of these? - Every one that you're looking at.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55I love this here.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58These are steam-boats - they're like emitting so much smoke.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02When I started building, we used to have a poodle
0:10:02 > 0:10:06and when we washed it, then I had to get its hair brushed and all.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- And we started and made it into smoke.- Good idea.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Jim, whenever we came up here, you were telling me
0:10:19 > 0:10:24that back in your day, every wee fellow really was a fisherman.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25There was no other job, like.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29No such a thing as working in Belfast or Newtownards or anything like that.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34It was the fishing - so I started on 26th July, 1947
0:10:34 > 0:10:37and then I joined the Merchant Navy in early '51.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40So, then, of course, you became Captain Moore,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43and that must have been a very proud moment for you.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46I sat for my first certificate in 1956.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51I've been a crew of 52 ships in my time.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55I was nearly 70 years at sea.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04One of the nicest ports I've been to was the Italian ports.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Now when I hear Italian music, it takes me back again
0:11:06 > 0:11:09to the days when I was young and I walked the streets
0:11:09 > 0:11:14and you saw the beautiful senoritas with their long black hair.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Jim, you have been all round the world in all these different ports -
0:11:19 > 0:11:24how do they compare to Portavogie, or is Portavogie the best?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Well, Portavogie's home.
0:11:25 > 0:11:31The nicest port I've been in is St Petersburg in Russia.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34I read a lot, so I'm well versed on Russian history,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37but also Norway and Italy are really beautiful countries.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41- But what makes them more special than Portavogie?- Nothing.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- It's nice to see... It's nice to see them.- It's nice to be somewhere else.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- It's nicer to come home. - That's right.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09My musical journey, which started in Donegal,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12brought me across the Atlantic and into Nova Scotia,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16but I've left Canada now and I'm heading south
0:12:16 > 0:12:17through the United States.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20I'm just about to enter the port city of Boston.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Between 1714 and 1720,
0:12:31 > 0:12:3554 ships carrying Ulster-Scots settlers from towns like Londonderry,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Coleraine, Aghadowey and Macosquin, would arrive into Boston harbour.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43And they would establish a flourishing
0:12:43 > 0:12:47and influential Scots-Irish community in both Massachusetts and Maine.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51And it's here that eventually, the Cape Breton fiddle style, moving south,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54would meet with the bluegrass fiddle style, moving north,
0:12:54 > 0:12:59and mix with the Scots and Irish fiddle styles that were still arriving.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04Boston became a melting-pot for lots of different styles of music,
0:13:04 > 0:13:05and that's still the case today.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Kimberley Fraser plays in the Cape Breton style -
0:13:08 > 0:13:10which, of course, originated in Scotland -
0:13:10 > 0:13:13but she regularly plays with musicians from other genres.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21We have a Cape Breton musician, an Irish musician,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25a bluegrass musician and an Ulster-Scot musician -
0:13:25 > 0:13:29so that's probably not the first time that has happened in Boston, either?
0:13:29 > 0:13:34No. Well, of course, the city is such a melting pot of music.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Oisin McAuley is from the band, Danu, well-known band,
0:13:46 > 0:13:51and Mark Simos, in addition to being a great Irish accompanist,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54he's a great fiddle player as well, playing old-time music.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08And what was it like, adding somebody else in
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- from across the other side of the Atlantic?- Absolutely great.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Percussion is not something that I'm quite used to playing with
0:14:15 > 0:14:17in Cape Breton - it's primarily the piano -
0:14:17 > 0:14:22so to have that element of the percussion is always great.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Kimberley, you're a modern-day Cape Bretoner that has
0:14:33 > 0:14:39moved down into Boston, but you're not the first one to do that?
0:14:39 > 0:14:43For sure. In the 50s and the 60s, there were lots of Cape Breton fiddlers living here.
0:14:43 > 0:14:49Then, of course, there were always Cape Bretoners passing through to play dances.
0:14:49 > 0:14:54There was a huge network and the Canadian-American Club in Watertown,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57that was, I think, the hub and it still is, actually.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00There's still monthly Cape Breton dances that go on there,
0:15:00 > 0:15:05so there is a really big Cape Breton scene here.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17I initially moved to Boston to go to Berklee College of Music
0:15:17 > 0:15:21to start just kind of looking at some different styles
0:15:21 > 0:15:22of fiddle-playing.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24And now I teach a lot in the Boston area,
0:15:24 > 0:15:26primarily in the Cape Breton fiddle style.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29What age did you start playing?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32I was six years old playing the fiddle, yeah.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34So you've only been playing for a few years, then?
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Oh, you're very kind!
0:15:43 > 0:15:47So for you, as a Cape Breton fiddler, you have now moved south
0:15:47 > 0:15:51and you've met up with different styles of fiddle-playing.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54There's a lot of Irish music in Boston,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57so I'm definitely influenced by the repertoire.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01I love Irish music - not so much the style.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04I think I'm pretty entrenched in my own Cape Breton style.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08I don't know if I could ever be any other type of fiddle player.
0:16:08 > 0:16:13But the Irish repertoire for sure. I love to incorporate that.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16There's also, of course, a lot of American fiddle styles
0:16:16 > 0:16:21prevalent in Boston - old-time music, Bluegrass music.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23So would it be fair to say that Boston is a melting-pot
0:16:23 > 0:16:26- for lots of different styles? - Absolutely.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44On next week's Santer, Mark will be driving north out of Boston,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47heading for Londonderry, on the last leg of his musical journey.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01I'll tell you, did you ever hear of a thing called a rab-hog?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Well, I'll tell you what a rab-hog is.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07We had a person one time came up to the village
0:17:07 > 0:17:10and he married a lass from the village
0:17:10 > 0:17:14and he was telling us all about this strange animal that he encountered.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17We thought it was drink talking.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20So he and the brother went down to this person's farm.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21I'll not tell you where it is
0:17:21 > 0:17:25because he doesn't take kindly to people poking over his land.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29But this thing's called a rab-hog.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Now, it happened up round the top of Knocklayde
0:17:32 > 0:17:35and it was where a rabbit and a hedgehog mated.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38And this was a strange animal.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44It had two long legs on this side, two short legs on that side
0:17:44 > 0:17:47and, you see, that was for running round the mountain, you see.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Because the mountain was like that - and it had to run square.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54So it had the long legs and the short legs, so it was stable.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Well, it went all round the bar anyway
0:17:59 > 0:18:00till they had to catch one of these things.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02But they couldn't catch it.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07The old farmer said he caught one away after the war.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13But he said the way he did it was he went in front of it and he spun it.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18In other words, he turned it back to front and then, you see,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21the wee short legs were down and the big long legs were up.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24And it couped over and he dived on it.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27But he said that was the only way you could catch them.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30So if ever you're down round those glens at the back of Knocklayde,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33take a look. You see if you catch one?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Take it to the pub, because the bounty's still there
0:18:36 > 0:18:38and that's why you have to catch it.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You have to find it.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Aye, and I suppose you'll have to look for the pub, as well.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Though there are some of you will maybe know the path to it rightly.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Good luck to youse.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08I'm Sarah
0:19:08 > 0:19:11and this is Sam. He's 13, too.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15I've had him for about a year and a half.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19I'm not actually quite sure what breed he is.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22He's really good.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24He doesn't spook at anything.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28This is Roxy.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33Her and Sam aren't that very good friends.
0:19:33 > 0:19:39She leads Sam and he doesn't really like it!
0:19:41 > 0:19:46We're getting ready for a show in Coleraine - a Working Hunters' Show.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50I haven't done it before so this is the first time.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57The RDA Arena in Coleraine is the venue for a round of the Working
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Hunter League that young Sarah will be entering for the first time.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06But for another young rider, Wendy Anderson,
0:20:06 > 0:20:08these jumps are more familiar.
0:20:08 > 0:20:14You get to this jump here and then you would go out around...
0:20:14 > 0:20:19No! Around that way and then over this one.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Show jumping would be just like
0:20:21 > 0:20:23a normal straight pole.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26And then in Working Hunters, you would have
0:20:26 > 0:20:29some bushes, like the Bumblebees,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32the Chickens and the Trees and all that.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33It makes it more spookier.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36What have you basically jumped highest?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39The highest is a metre. What's your highest?
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Mine is a one metre, five and I haven't jumped it in a long time.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49I'm a wee bit excited, but nervous.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06'I'm very annoyed.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08'He never usually would do that.'
0:21:09 > 0:21:14I've been show-jumping but I've never did this before.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18He's never did it before.
0:21:18 > 0:21:25I've never worn a jacket or a net in my hair, so it's all new.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26It's different.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30TANNOY: 'Special prize to Sarah and Sam, her first day at a Working Hunter Show. Well done.'
0:21:30 > 0:21:33APPLAUSE
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Will you come back?- Yeah, hopefully.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Yeah, I was like, "No, no, I don't want to go back"
0:21:41 > 0:21:46because I was the same as you, I fell off at my first Working Hunter.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47And it is scary, isn't it?
0:21:47 > 0:21:52Sarah's day might be over, but Wendy has more rounds to jump,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55watched for the very first time by her great uncle John.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04- You've never seen me jump before? - No, I have not.- OK.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12You'd be nearly as handy getting round on that as a car or a tractor.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16We have been riding for about five and a half years.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21I call him Scooby but his name isn't Scooby Doom, it's Scooby Don't,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24because he always does things he doesn't want to do...
0:22:24 > 0:22:26No, no, no, no!
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Stop that!
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Well done, congratulations, and here's your rosette.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Congratulations.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Thank you.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Next time I'm back, you'll probably see me on a horse!
0:22:50 > 0:22:52A World War Two jeep.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Boys, isn't this fabulous altogether?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56And this is of great interest to me
0:22:56 > 0:22:59because I have a great interest in World War Two or anything
0:22:59 > 0:23:03associated with it, because my own father was in the World War Two.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06But a World War Two jeep in a street in Bushmills?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08There must be a reason for that!
0:23:08 > 0:23:11And of course there is, because behind me here,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14in the Hamill Memorial Hall, there's an exhibition on
0:23:14 > 0:23:16called Bushmills At War.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22We started off five years ago
0:23:22 > 0:23:24and we only had a couple of tables of stuff.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28The local people came in and they thought it was brilliant.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31And they'd say, "Look I've got an old tin box out in my garden",
0:23:31 > 0:23:36or "I've got such and such in my shed. Would you like it for your exhibition?"
0:23:36 > 0:23:39- And that's how it started.- So you get a lot of community support?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41A lot of community support.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46People are very proud that their loved ones, who gave their lives in the war.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48This particular helmet belongs to the Bevin Boys
0:23:48 > 0:23:52and not a lot of people know about them,
0:23:52 > 0:23:55but it was people who joined the army.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57If your number ended in nine, you had to go down the pits
0:23:57 > 0:23:59and work down the mine.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Aye, well I'm old enough to remember something about that.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05I'm not well tuned into it but I mind something about the Bevin Boys.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06That's the explanation, is it?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Yes, and they stayed down the mine until the end of the war.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Glenda, you've told me something I didn't know before. Great.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21What fascinated you about this sort of stuff?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Well, whenever I was quite young, on a Sunday afternoon,
0:24:25 > 0:24:31I would go down and visit my great grandmother, Katy McAllister. She was from Rathlin Island.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33And she would take out an old battered suitcase
0:24:33 > 0:24:37and inside it she had photographs, letters, postcards.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40And she told me about her only son, Jim.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- This is Jim here - Jim McAllister. - So Jim was in the navy?
0:24:44 > 0:24:48He was in the navy and he joined the submarines and in 1941,
0:24:48 > 0:24:51while out on an exercise off Nova Scotia,
0:24:51 > 0:24:55the submarine he was in was rammed by a Canadian ship, by mistake.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58They thought it was a U-boat.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59So she would take out his photograph
0:24:59 > 0:25:02and the telegram that she'd received from the War Office
0:25:02 > 0:25:06to say that he had been killed in action and show me these photographs.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Glenda, there's a great World War Two jeep out there
0:25:14 > 0:25:16at the front of the door. Where did that come from?
0:25:16 > 0:25:20That belongs to a man, Vince Cooke from Staffordshire.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I met Vince in 2003.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25It was the 59th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28We have become good friends and he comes every year
0:25:28 > 0:25:32and brings the jeep with him - and he drives up and down the town with the siren going.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35SIREN WAILS
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Glenda's interest in World War Two grew so much
0:25:40 > 0:25:44she decided to look into the background of all the war dead
0:25:44 > 0:25:48from her area, starting with those named on the memorial in Bushmills.
0:25:48 > 0:25:53She has since visited the final resting place of them all.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56To me, the research is not just going to the graveyard,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58not just finding out how they died.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I like to get a photograph of the individual,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03find out what school he went to, what his hobbies were,
0:26:03 > 0:26:07you know, that type of thing. Find out about his previous life.
0:26:07 > 0:26:12But you travel, I mean, it's not just the Flanders Fields you go to?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14- No.- You travel further afield even than that?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Yes, I've been to the River Kwai
0:26:17 > 0:26:22and El Alamein, where I met a couple from the South of England
0:26:22 > 0:26:26and I went with them to Burma for the last three years,
0:26:26 > 0:26:30because we have a soldier there, James Andrew McCaughan,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34and I had the book all researched and about to go to press,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36but I hadn't been to his grave.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40And I really, really wanted to go, because I could say that
0:26:40 > 0:26:42I'd been to all their graves and placed a poppy cross.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46Fair play to you, Glenda. I think it's a wonderful job altogether.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48It's whenever you go to the family
0:26:48 > 0:26:52and they see their loved one commemorated,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54they're overjoyed with it.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Well, that's near enough it for this week's Santer.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01We're going to leave you now with a dance performance
0:27:01 > 0:27:02from the Michelle Johnston Dance School
0:27:02 > 0:27:07and music from some very talented young musicians. Cheerio.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12BAGPIPES PLAY
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd