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This is the tip of the top of Denmark... | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
..where two great bodies of water meet. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
Look at this! | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
Denmark is a country that actually comes to a point! | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
A few steps this way, I'll be in the North Sea, headed towards home. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
A few steps that way, and I'll be in the Baltic, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
headed towards Russia. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
Now, this is my kind of coast-to-coast walk. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
And I'm not the only one - | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
crowds of Danes come here to witness the eternal battle | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
between the twin seas. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:09 | |
It's captivating... | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
..to watch opposing currents collide as two waters wrestle for control. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
Heading away from the open sea is the Lim Fjord | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
which twists and turns as it carries the coastline | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
deep into the heart of Jutland. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
Carved out in the last Ice Age, the landscape around Lim Fjord | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
has had a surprisingly large impact on the British breakfast. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
On the banks of the fjord, Nick's making himself at home. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
For generations, Britons have been connected to this country | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
by what's written on the back of their bacon - | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Danish. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Mass marketing has always been a vital ingredient | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
in the Danish recipe for success. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
But what got them started on the business of selling us bacon, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
and why did we gobble it up? | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
'One name is enjoyed by more homes in this country | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
'for its consistent high quality than any other.' | 0:02:23 | 0:02:30 | |
# Oink! Oink! | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
# Oink Oink! | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
# Oink Oink! | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
It's British consumers who have helped to make the Danes | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
one of the biggest exporters of pig meat in the world. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
There are two porkers for every person in Denmark. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
That's over 12 million pigs. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
Surprisingly, this rich bacon business | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
was built on very poor coastal terrain, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
a landscape familiar to rural expert Flemming Just. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
# Oink! Oink! | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
Is this is beach or a field? | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
It's a field. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
And in fact, it is very typical of Jutland - sandy. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
It is just sand, isn't it? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
And there's not a lot of nutrients in sand. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
Until the middle of the 19th century, | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
it was totally covered by heather | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
and almost no forest. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
Once, this was a windswept wilderness, without a pig in sight. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
Its transformation to Bacon Central | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
began with a disastrous defeat of the Danes some 200 years ago. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:45 | |
In the Napoleonic Wars, Britain attacked Denmark | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
to capture its fleet. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
In the aftermath, the Danes lost control of Norway | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
as the map of Europe was redrawn. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Later, the Germans grabbed a chunk of Danish territory, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
their rich agricultural land in the south. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
To survive, the Danes had to make the most | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
of their fertile coastal plains in North Jutland. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
Denmark's bacon boom was about to begin. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
So from that time on, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:20 | |
they started to cultivate the heather land here in Jutland. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:25 | |
So a kind of agricultural revolution at the same time | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
as Britain had its Industrial Revolution. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Those two revolutions, they combined, | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
so Britain deliberately decided only to focus on industrialisation | 0:04:36 | 0:04:43 | |
and not care about farming. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
Britain couldn't feed itself, | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
whereas Denmark became the larder for the British industrialisation. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
These sandy fields weren't good for growing crops. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
But pigs aren't that fussy. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
So this coastal region became farmland to feed us bacon. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
As intensive rearing replaced this rural idyll, | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
pigs grew into big business. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
And 100 years later, | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Danish was one of the first foods advertised on British TV. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
KNOCKING | 0:05:17 | 0:05:18 | |
Hello, there! I'm the Danish Bacon Viking! | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
The majority of Jutland's pigs end up here in Esbjerg. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
Denmark's largest North Sea port was founded in 1868, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
especially for exports to us. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
140 countries now buy Danish, | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
but they claim the best cuts head our way. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
These are backs of bacon - 7,000 of them are going through here today. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
And they're all bound for Britain. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
It's staggering to think how from humble beginnings, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
shipping pig meat from this port really did save Denmark's bacon. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
FOGHORN HOOTS | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
Denmark's flat western coast | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
takes a constant battering from the North Sea. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
The winter storms throw up 20ft waves, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
so it's no wonder exposed towns like Thyboron are under threat. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
That's why the Danes are busy sucking up sand... | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
..only to pump it back onto the beach. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
A wee stroll along the shore suits me fine, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
but some people feel the need for speed. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
The North Sea beach marathon | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
is one of the few anywhere in the world run entirely on sand. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
Which makes this marathon especially tough. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
Taking up the challenge is 68-year-old | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
retired Methodist minister Malcolm Brookes from Hereford. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
I hear it's pretty tough, but the tougher a marathon is, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
the more attractive I find it. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
I'll be really in touch with human being's basic instincts - | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
muscle, body, the air, the sea, the sand, the landscape. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
Basic, primitive, fundamental things. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
Bring it on, bring it on, I'm just up for it. Great. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
I've got my shades to stop the glare from the sea, and the sun. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
I've got my energy gels. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
See you later! | 0:07:41 | 0:07:42 | |
With 26 and a bit miles of soft sand to negotiate, | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
in temperatures touching 30 degrees Celsius, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
Malcolm's got his work cut out. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:55 | |
It's tough. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:58 | |
It's hot. | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
It's much softer, much sandier. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
Quite slippy and slidy. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:05 | |
I've done 19.7 miles. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
CHEERING AND CLAPPING | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
The race has been on for almost seven hours, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
but you are still having runners struggling | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
to get to the finish line. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
And the last runner is Malcolm Brookes. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
Yeah, I'm running on my own. I'm right at the end. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
But I don't mind that. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
Malcolm's twice the age of most of the competitors, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
so there's no shame in coming 236th out of 236. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
With Malcolm in, they can all go home. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Very nice...! | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
The last bit was really, really tough. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
I came home pretty breathless. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 |