:00:18. > :00:29.APPLAUSE. Thank you very much indeed! Thank you for coming as
:00:30. > :00:33.well, Unsprung! And welcome back on Monday, our third week at the
:00:34. > :00:38.National Trust Sherborne Park estate in Gloucester. We are never half
:00:39. > :00:44.baked and we have a fully fledged show with a drizzle of wildlife and
:00:45. > :00:52.a -- of excited guests. And I have the pleasure of introducing Michael
:00:53. > :00:54.Caines! 'S Road. You run a farm and farms are about producing food and
:00:55. > :01:03.he puts fresh fruit to very good use, joining him tonight is Darren
:01:04. > :01:06.Wood had. He has been with us before painting in the field, but tonight,
:01:07. > :01:09.he is painting in a rather challenging location and we will
:01:10. > :01:15.catch up with that later. Lindsey. Good evening, how are you? Very
:01:16. > :01:22.well, very busy weekend. So many people got in touch, lotsa people
:01:23. > :01:26.doing 30 days, we enjoy looking at the pictures. I really thought this
:01:27. > :01:33.was fantastic. This is from Fiona, she says, wonderful Hertfordshire
:01:34. > :01:39.meadow, what a view! It is great. We also challenged you to get in touch
:01:40. > :01:42.if you are looking for wild flowers. Along with plants live. Many of you
:01:43. > :01:48.did and we particularly like this. We ran an Instagram challenge and
:01:49. > :01:53.this was the winner, what you think that? I like the contrast between
:01:54. > :01:57.the yellow and the blue. The grass on the left-hand side and that
:01:58. > :02:03.striking piece in the middle of the frame compromises the photographic
:02:04. > :02:10.integrity! I will carry right in! It was really good! That is what
:02:11. > :02:12.Instagram is about, not perfect composition, but communicating
:02:13. > :02:17.through photography. I'd give it three points. That is high! Chris
:02:18. > :02:23.committee remember on Friday I showed you this picture? It was a
:02:24. > :02:30.bug sent him, it was bright yellow and we did not know what it was. It
:02:31. > :02:34.sparked off a chat on Twitter, a lot of people talking about it. They
:02:35. > :02:40.think possibly it is a newly emerged Ladybird. And you did your own
:02:41. > :02:46.investigation. Yes, we did miss something, in the photograph, you
:02:47. > :02:51.could see the Ladybird la vie, the Shell in the corner of the frame.
:02:52. > :02:56.And I spoke to a guy in the new Forest and he explained quite simply
:02:57. > :03:00.it is a freshly emerged Ladybird and when they emerge, they do not have a
:03:01. > :03:07.colour in place. And we have a picture here. And you can see
:03:08. > :03:12.clearly what remains of the larvae at the bottom of the life. It is
:03:13. > :03:18.pumping up its colour. We see this in animals like Wasps and bees. We
:03:19. > :03:22.call it a callow. That turned into this. This is the same species a
:03:23. > :03:31.couple of hours later, mystery solved! A great question, thank you
:03:32. > :03:35.so much. The quiz now. Tonight, we have got, I think this is quite hard
:03:36. > :03:40.to note. This is an object. Can you give any clues?
:03:41. > :03:47.It is symmetrical. We could say it was a jawbone, most people would
:03:48. > :03:54.recognise that. That is the root of the draw here. Look at the teeth on
:03:55. > :04:00.the top. They are very unusual. And I will give a clue as well. Will you
:04:01. > :04:05.be more generous? No, it is hard, I will leave it with you. So easy to
:04:06. > :04:09.get in touch, this is how. It has never been easier to get in
:04:10. > :04:14.touch with us in Unsprung, wherever you are and where the use a phone,
:04:15. > :04:19.laptop, tablet. The easiest way is to go online and be our friend in
:04:20. > :04:24.social media. So alike us on Facebook and post comments and
:04:25. > :04:35.pictures to our wall. Follow us on Instagram and tag us into your
:04:36. > :04:40.photographs or tweet... And it is explained in our website.
:04:41. > :04:46.We would like you to be species specific and get in touch now, all
:04:47. > :04:52.the best! That is tough, give them another clear later. OK, later. Our
:04:53. > :05:00.first guest of the evening, Michael Caines, welcome. Thank you so much.
:05:01. > :05:02.Before we get onto food, were you an early clock, were you cooking
:05:03. > :05:07.alongside your mother or was it a late epiphany wished Mark know,
:05:08. > :05:10.cooking at home with the family, I was the youngest of six children and
:05:11. > :05:17.my mother did the cooking in our garden and we grew things. She good
:05:18. > :05:24.clock? No, she's not with us any more bless her but her legacy like
:05:25. > :05:27.this on. Humble food, everything and we had seasonality and freshness and
:05:28. > :05:32.that was the connection we had and that is the thing about food and
:05:33. > :05:35.hospitality, cooking around a table and enjoying fresh food and I took
:05:36. > :05:38.it for granted and I thought everybody did that. But you realise
:05:39. > :05:43.that is quite a luxury to have the time to do that. To grow your own
:05:44. > :05:48.food at home. And to take the time around the family table and is to
:05:49. > :05:55.break things, and these days people are so busy that it is something
:05:56. > :05:58.they do not enjoy so much. I grew up as a large family having meals
:05:59. > :06:04.around the table and that inspired me. Where did you grow up? Exeter
:06:05. > :06:12.was my hometown. Small-town until the age of eight and I grew up in
:06:13. > :06:17.Exeter. On the moors? Yes, live on the edge of Dartmoor and I love the
:06:18. > :06:22.children campaign and I trail run on Dartmoor. It is a beautiful area and
:06:23. > :06:27.we are very lucky to have the chance to live in such a wonderful place.
:06:28. > :06:34.And you go out foraging. We have a clip of you in action. Here we are
:06:35. > :06:42.looking for field mushrooms. These are some here. I am going to cook
:06:43. > :06:54.the stock more steak with our foraged field mushrooms. Here we go.
:06:55. > :07:01.I am cooking for two, look at that! These are in the field, they were
:07:02. > :07:04.picked a couple of hours ago and we made this lovely steak, that for me,
:07:05. > :07:14.I feel connected to the landscape and the land and the produce I use.
:07:15. > :07:22.Stunning. APPLAUSE. Presumably an unusual
:07:23. > :07:27.guest at your table! Yes, very good. A very big surprise to have a fox
:07:28. > :07:32.training is and it shows out in the wild, you can almost expect anything
:07:33. > :07:37.and I cooked him his best meal he has ever had! I have a question, do
:07:38. > :07:42.you have to be careful foraging in the countryside? Definitely, if you
:07:43. > :07:46.are picking mushrooms, you have to know what to pick and you can die
:07:47. > :07:52.from picking the wrong mushroom. And do not over forage. People ravish
:07:53. > :07:56.the land and it is important people do not overdo it. You can pick these
:07:57. > :08:03.items and you can grow it at home to do more. Just leave stuff behind and
:08:04. > :08:07.be careful. We have a problem in the new Forest and Epping Forest with
:08:08. > :08:12.people over collecting mushrooms. I do not collect for themselves but to
:08:13. > :08:17.sell them and it is filled, their car, that is not good and we have to
:08:18. > :08:20.be reasonable. Yes, food is an important part of the countryside
:08:21. > :08:26.and we need to make sure we preserve it for generations in the future and
:08:27. > :08:30.these areas sustain an environmental system which relies on that. Over
:08:31. > :08:37.foraging can be an issue and greed is an issue in society. No point in
:08:38. > :08:40.just taking it all. What about food in general? We spend less on our
:08:41. > :08:43.food in the UK than any other country in Western Europe. I
:08:44. > :08:49.sometimes think we are not paying enough because we do not put our
:08:50. > :08:53.money in the pocket of the farmers. I agree, it is important to look to
:08:54. > :08:58.improve the average spend and put more back into our local economy and
:08:59. > :09:03.farming and that is why we buy and support local farmers and the larder
:09:04. > :09:06.of south-western Devon is fantastic. You are about to display that, you
:09:07. > :09:16.are opening a new hotel. It looks splendid. Have named the bedrooms
:09:17. > :09:22.after birds. That is heron. Egret. Oystercatcher. Rachel Tull, a
:09:23. > :09:27.wonderful artist, did wonderful scenes of the street digitised in
:09:28. > :09:34.wallpaper connecting the downstairs to the bedrooms upstairs. The
:09:35. > :09:39.colours of the birds, the plumage, that is the colour of the bedroom.
:09:40. > :09:48.That ecosystem, buying local, we have glamour, we have beef, and we
:09:49. > :09:52.are buying chickens from a farm, and we know we are putting money back
:09:53. > :09:55.into the local economy and keeping the farming community strong in
:09:56. > :09:59.terms of the economic cycle and the land and landscape is kept and
:10:00. > :10:07.preserved for generations. Fabulous stuff, it is fabulous.
:10:08. > :10:11.APPLAUSE. Birds in every room, it is about
:10:12. > :10:14.joining those things together. Top work. We will be back with you in a
:10:15. > :10:20.moment to catch up, thank you very much. From stunning art to stunning
:10:21. > :10:24.art with me. I have been joined by Katherine, who is from the Wellcome
:10:25. > :10:29.Collection and you have been working on a project connecting art with the
:10:30. > :10:35.natural world? Yes, I am from the youth programme from Wellcome
:10:36. > :10:39.Collection, a museum in London. We have been working on a production
:10:40. > :10:42.with Central Foundation Boys' School school and Verity-Jane Keefe to
:10:43. > :10:46.exploit the relationship of the children with our natural world to
:10:47. > :10:50.go into our exhibition of modern nature. Sounds like a fantastic
:10:51. > :10:54.project and you are the artist. What have you been up to? We have done
:10:55. > :11:00.four or five months worth of intensive workshops involving lots
:11:01. > :11:03.of different making and in doing what we might think nature is and
:11:04. > :11:08.what it could be looking at the future. We have gone on some trips.
:11:09. > :11:15.Resulting in the 7.5 metre by 2.5 metre very large 3-D diorama. It is
:11:16. > :11:20.stunning! I think everybody is quite happy with it. It is called natural
:11:21. > :11:24.habitat and it is supposed to represent the version of London of
:11:25. > :11:28.the boys and everybody's, the experience of being in the city and
:11:29. > :11:32.what nature could be in the city. So pleased we have a couple of the boys
:11:33. > :11:36.here today. You have been part of the project. What has been the best
:11:37. > :11:42.thing about taking part in this? It has been really good to go on a trip
:11:43. > :11:45.and to go around to see loads of good stuff, especially our trip to
:11:46. > :11:48.Rainham Marshes. And it is good working with a professional artist.
:11:49. > :11:55.One of the best thing is having our work exhibited in a professional
:11:56. > :11:59.museum, a really famous museum. What an opportunity! I think this is the
:12:00. > :12:03.first time you have seen this art work and is there anything you can
:12:04. > :12:09.save your own? I noticed a Church near my house and the buildings from
:12:10. > :12:13.our route to school. Every day. Has it connected you with the natural
:12:14. > :12:17.world? It gives me a deeper understanding of it and I can see it
:12:18. > :12:21.in everyday life now. Teacher Rob, you are very proud, what a great
:12:22. > :12:27.project and you can see it in London from June 22. Art is something I am
:12:28. > :12:32.crazy about, and I am also crazy about something else, it is Unsprung
:12:33. > :12:36.and dressed. There are hundreds of stories and
:12:37. > :12:42.they all start with one thing in Springwatch, an idea. We're big as a
:12:43. > :12:47.family and if you find a story, you go to them and they really run with
:12:48. > :12:51.it. Gary and bat enthusiast Lily want to make a film using the latest
:12:52. > :12:56.in bat detection technology. The first step is to check out a known
:12:57. > :13:05.wrist with a local expert Mike. The question is, will the technology
:13:06. > :13:11.perform? We have identified it, it is a horseshoe. We have never heard
:13:12. > :13:13.it. Gary's detector is delivering on its promise, quickly identifying
:13:14. > :13:18.species by their unique ultrasound calls.
:13:19. > :13:32.Got an item. It is a success. All that is needed now is a crew and
:13:33. > :13:38.Chris. And it will not make... No match found. Your finger is not a
:13:39. > :13:45.bat, your bat impersonation with your thumb is pathetic. Yes. Chris
:13:46. > :13:52.can be hard to impress, what will he be thinking of the new gear in
:13:53. > :13:59.action? Look at that, you can see The Voice of the bat! Fantastic!
:14:00. > :14:04.Like any idea, it can snowball and Chris wants to step it up a notch.
:14:05. > :14:09.Take your gadgets are where we can see bats and we do not know what
:14:10. > :14:16.they are. To the lake, Batman! Look at that! Look at that, look at that!
:14:17. > :14:21.This is the future of bats. After three hours of filming, the portage
:14:22. > :14:25.is rushed to the edit for the next morning where Dan turns it into four
:14:26. > :14:33.minutes of television. This is the final showdown.
:14:34. > :14:37.And you can see the future of bats in Springwatch tomorrow. Now we are
:14:38. > :14:41.welcoming Darren Woodhead back again, ladies and gentlemen. Artist
:14:42. > :14:44.extraordinaire. You have been here before and we cannot keep you out of
:14:45. > :14:50.the field. You have been out this morning of course. I have. I found
:14:51. > :14:55.an amazing poppy field on the road. I have been sat amongst the poppies
:14:56. > :15:02.painting the skyline. What has been going on here, eatable poppy field?
:15:03. > :15:06.That is the palate, I need to point out, the mixing palette. You are
:15:07. > :15:08.busy at work and we have got the finished... It looks good to me,
:15:09. > :15:19.how'd do you do it so quickly? You put a lot of paint in the right
:15:20. > :15:25.place very quickly. That is the beauty of watercolour,
:15:26. > :15:28.so quick, you can capture so much. It is amazing how much you can
:15:29. > :15:36.capture. I like the competition. Howick Arch
:15:37. > :15:39.is up, with the skylarks. It is terrestrial, you have gone Saab
:15:40. > :15:44.aquatic. I have done something slightly
:15:45. > :15:47.different. I am all for pushing boundaries.
:15:48. > :15:55.Let us have a look, you have brought along a gadget.
:15:56. > :15:59.Yes. I won an award last year, a bursary from the wildlife trust
:16:00. > :16:05.which funds artists to learn to dive and produce a body of work to
:16:06. > :16:13.celebrate the wealth of vegetation and marine life below the surface.
:16:14. > :16:17.I did not really want to draw underwater but take watercolours
:16:18. > :16:24.under water. I have developed a mini diving Bell which holds bug it
:16:25. > :16:29.stands upright. It holds my materials. I have a
:16:30. > :16:36.buoyancy aid so it doesn't get wet. What I did not know would happen, as
:16:37. > :16:40.I went underwater, the air would compress and when I come up it
:16:41. > :16:47.expands so it creates a vacuum. As well as the paper getting damp,
:16:48. > :16:50.changing the texture, it pulls on the paper surface giving an amazing
:16:51. > :16:54.effect. We have a couple of pictures of you
:16:55. > :16:59.in action. Yes.
:17:00. > :17:07.There we are, on your weight in, snorkelling. Painting underwater.
:17:08. > :17:15.These are the results. This is one where it imploded!
:17:16. > :17:22.The very first one. What happened is, the texture... I am using sea
:17:23. > :17:26.water with a chopped off brush which gives incredible textures. I could
:17:27. > :17:30.not predict what would happen. I am a fan of abstract
:17:31. > :17:36.Impressionism, this is scoring points.
:17:37. > :17:42.This is slightly more finished. Yes. Again, what you find is the
:17:43. > :17:47.bottom bird is purely the swell from moving around the water, because it
:17:48. > :17:55.is getting wet. So the top is more defined. The textures, this is what
:17:56. > :17:59.my work is about. This is on almost a different level which is gorgeous
:18:00. > :18:04.for me. The premise is you can create
:18:05. > :18:09.something underwater in that environment. And you transferred
:18:10. > :18:13.that experience on to the paper which is more complete.
:18:14. > :18:21.In a totally different way. So many things affect it, the swell, the way
:18:22. > :18:25.the paint is behaving. I don't think we have time for your
:18:26. > :18:29.sparrowhawk but I will overrule them.
:18:30. > :18:36.It looks fantastic. I was painting kingfishers. You get totally in the
:18:37. > :18:42.zone, look up and within a Turner the sparrowhawk appeared.
:18:43. > :18:48.The head of the sparrowhawk, its wings, folded down. Isn't that
:18:49. > :18:56.beautiful, that cameo. Sensational. APPLAUSE Thank you.
:18:57. > :19:01.I love that. If you are a regular viewer, you know I like to ensconced
:19:02. > :19:06.myself in a small tent with a celebrity to sea birds, who will it
:19:07. > :19:25.be this time? This year, we have gone mobile.
:19:26. > :19:38.It can pop up anywhere. And anyone could be hiding inside.
:19:39. > :19:42.So, who is next? I am about to wait one of our favourite children's
:19:43. > :19:46.authors, he has written more than 100 books many featuring animals and
:19:47. > :19:49.the countryside, perhaps the most famous detailing the remarkable
:19:50. > :19:57.history of A force in the First World War. Yes, we are talking about
:19:58. > :20:02.War Horse, of course. I am on Springwatch's home turf
:20:03. > :20:05.with... Michael Morpurgo. At large in the
:20:06. > :20:12.countryside. Yes. Quite a scene here on the
:20:13. > :20:14.Sherborne estate, this lovely little lake, the sheep.
:20:15. > :20:20.And the flight of swallows, wonderful.
:20:21. > :20:23.I have two favourite birds, the first is a swallow, they are
:20:24. > :20:31.unbelievably beautiful. The other would S1. Having ballets
:20:32. > :20:35.and operas making their stories. You mentioned stories and you have
:20:36. > :20:42.written hundreds. Far too many, I can't stop.
:20:43. > :20:47.It is a bad habit! Loads of mayfly at the moment, the place is alive
:20:48. > :20:54.with these insects emerging from the water.
:20:55. > :20:59.They are a real nuisance. I have got them.
:21:00. > :21:05.Yes. Jackdaws over there on the lawn.
:21:06. > :21:10.I like a jackdaw. We are full of crows and magpies in Devon which are
:21:11. > :21:14.bound, not particularly good for the small birds in the garden.
:21:15. > :21:20.Hold on, I will stick up for the magpie.
:21:21. > :21:26.How do you stick up for them, the Ainsty Robin's nests all the time.
:21:27. > :21:30.Basically, all predator populations are regulated by the abundance of
:21:31. > :21:34.their prey. What we have found when we have investigated large numbers
:21:35. > :21:37.of magpies is you only get those large numbers where there are large
:21:38. > :21:41.numbers of small birds enough to support them.
:21:42. > :21:46.No comfort to the robins in my gardens.
:21:47. > :21:50.You have written stories about this. Yes, fox attacking a swan's nest,
:21:51. > :21:57.taking the mother swan. It is uncomfortable. I have learned
:21:58. > :22:01.that to tell a story that way is a way of introducing kids to something
:22:02. > :22:06.that are difficult. If you are going to write a story about the war on
:22:07. > :22:11.long time ago, the First World War, it seems antique and not relevant,
:22:12. > :22:15.if you tell it with a horse connected to a young person, it
:22:16. > :22:20.takes them into that time and engages them with a subject which is
:22:21. > :22:26.deeply serious. One thing where we have a mutual
:22:27. > :22:32.concern is young people engaging with the rural environment. A few
:22:33. > :22:39.years ago you started farms for city children, tell me the origins?
:22:40. > :22:43.1976, 40 years ago. We did a lot of research and everyone said the most
:22:44. > :22:47.important thing for young children now are really positive experiences.
:22:48. > :22:51.Usually something they had never seen or done before, they should be
:22:52. > :22:57.able to contribute to feel connected. All these things you took
:22:58. > :23:02.to heart. My wife set up a charity, bought a big house in Devon. Kids
:23:03. > :23:07.would come down from primary schools in the cities and work on the farm
:23:08. > :23:13.to get to know where their food came from, how it was to be in the
:23:14. > :23:19.countryside. No one leaves without remembering something extraordinary.
:23:20. > :23:25.It may be how numb fingers are in winter, buzzards in the air, a
:23:26. > :23:31.skylark. It is a connection. That is the gulf we have fallen into in our
:23:32. > :23:36.post-industrial society. It is very important that the thread
:23:37. > :23:40.between the human species and the species they love and exploit is
:23:41. > :23:47.strengthened. Nature belongs to all of us so what we do is say to
:23:48. > :23:52.people, there is a story in every lake, every hillside, every tree, it
:23:53. > :23:58.is yours to look at and wonder at, it is not just for a few people, it
:23:59. > :24:06.is for all of us, look after it. Certainly right. APPLAUSE It is
:24:07. > :24:12.really lovely. War Horse made me cry more than that
:24:13. > :24:19.beauty, says this viewer. And a great book. That city farm
:24:20. > :24:23.project has engaged thousands of children over those years and is
:24:24. > :24:28.still going strong. Michael has been contributing to that. If you are
:24:29. > :24:35.cooking, I will come down. Who wants to join in!
:24:36. > :24:43.Quiz time. We set a hard quiz at the top of the show, it is this fabulous
:24:44. > :24:49.object here, incredible, so any suggestions. Stoat, fox, parrotfish,
:24:50. > :24:56.so many different guesses. They weren't right. I will name those who
:24:57. > :25:00.got it right. Matthew Pitkin, Tina Beck, jay Caldwell, Alfie Grant, Sue
:25:01. > :25:07.in the Lakes. They got it to species level. This
:25:08. > :25:11.is what it actually is, have a look. It is a guilt head bream. Goodness
:25:12. > :25:18.me, I didn't think anyone would get that.
:25:19. > :25:22.Amazing. Hats off to them. Extraordinary dentition, these pads
:25:23. > :25:29.for grinding food. Presumably a similar thing in the top part of the
:25:30. > :25:33.head as well. Fish have flaky bones, there heads are difficult to
:25:34. > :25:37.preserve. A brilliant find, thank you. It is
:25:38. > :25:45.about time for fantastical beasts. Have a look at this. This is from
:25:46. > :25:53.Charlie who is seven. Aquarabbit! Driven from his habitat
:25:54. > :26:00.because of roads and new houses, and has evolved to live in streams and
:26:01. > :26:04.eat algae and recycled bottles are nesting material.
:26:05. > :26:07.Marvellous imagination! APPLAUSE We love aquarabbit.
:26:08. > :26:21.It is time for fantastical beasts. Michael, the purpose of this is our
:26:22. > :26:27.guests had to come up with a relatively feasible animal of the
:26:28. > :26:31.future which has an ecology, a feasible morphology. At the rabbit
:26:32. > :26:38.was brilliant in concept. I have come up... I didn't, I gave
:26:39. > :26:48.it to my daughter who is five. Her class came up with magical backs. A
:26:49. > :27:01.giraffe necked with rabbit is, eagle wings. It can fly and scoop out
:27:02. > :27:05.trout from the river, a pouch, it says for babies but really it is the
:27:06. > :27:08.strawberries! And a neck that reaches to the top
:27:09. > :27:14.to take fruit. The kids did a great job. They are
:27:15. > :27:22.all five and have put together this. This is Saint Peters, actually, they
:27:23. > :27:30.are very young, in reception. Let us hear it for them!
:27:31. > :27:33.APPLAUSE India is my daughter. An extraordinary mash up of an
:27:34. > :27:38.animal, I am not sure what it would feed on. I would fear going out, I
:27:39. > :27:40.would stay indoors if this was on the loose.
:27:41. > :27:52.Top work. Darren? Mine, I think we share the
:27:53. > :28:04.same love for this bird. This has evolved to be big to take prey, this
:28:05. > :28:12.would use mobile phone masts which are in abundance.
:28:13. > :28:15.Catching invasive pests and impaling them on phone masts exhibition mark
:28:16. > :28:20.that is quite dark. The things I think about when I am
:28:21. > :28:26.out. We are running out of time.
:28:27. > :28:35.We have to be quick... I have a great prop. A pellet I made earlier.
:28:36. > :28:38.A shrike that produces a pellet the size of a coconut, who would
:28:39. > :28:47.straight into the fields in winter with one of those?
:28:48. > :28:52.I am loving it. We have ten seconds left. This one...
:28:53. > :28:54.I am sorry! Join us again for more Unsprung and for the main programme
:28:55. > :29:04.at 8pm tonight, thank you very much! In Japan, art and life are
:29:05. > :29:10.intrinsically connected. Understanding the principles
:29:11. > :29:14.behind the art