:00:03. > :00:06.leading to frost and a special risk of ice in the north and west were
:00:06. > :00:09.the showers will be wintry for the morning. Continuing through the day,
:00:09. > :00:14.we could see showers continuing along the western part of England
:00:14. > :00:22.with a stiff westerly breeze. They will gradually clear. Many central
:00:22. > :00:25.and eastern areas will dry through but in the West, further showers.
:00:25. > :00:35.It will feel quite chilly. The strength of the wind will not help
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:00:43. > :00:47.but the temperatures. A stormy You're watching BBC News. Here are
:00:47. > :00:50.the main headlines at half-past 10. The 20-year-old man has been
:00:50. > :00:54.charged with the murder of this Indian student Anuj Bidve in
:00:54. > :00:58.Salford. He was shot dead on Boxing Day while walking with friends.
:00:58. > :01:02.Kiaran Stapleton from the Ordsall district of Salford will appear
:01:02. > :01:06.before magistrates tomorrow. Celebrations have taken place today
:01:06. > :01:10.to mark the start of the Olympic year. The chairman of London 2012
:01:10. > :01:14.Lord Coe said the event would show that Britain was open for business
:01:14. > :01:18.but the Olympics minister has warned that spot fixing by betting
:01:18. > :01:22.syndicates is the biggest threat to the reputation of the Games.
:01:22. > :01:25.European leaders have given a sombre assessment of the financial
:01:26. > :01:29.prospects for the year ahead. President Sarkozy said the eurozone
:01:29. > :01:35.debt crisis was not yet resolved while the German Chancellor, Angela
:01:35. > :01:38.Merkel, said Europe was experiencing its most severe test
:01:38. > :01:42.in decades. Council tenants to sub-let their
:01:42. > :01:48.homes could face prison sentences or prosecutions under new proposals
:01:48. > :01:53.set out. High salary tenants may also have to pay market rates or
:01:53. > :02:00.face eviction. Now here on BBC News, it is time
:02:00. > :02:10.for a special programme of Five Minutes With..., timed interviews
:02:10. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:21.Five, four, three, two, one. How would you describe yourself in a
:02:21. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:28.sentence or two? Bald, good looking for my age! Always learning,
:02:28. > :02:33.continuously being surprised. And generously good of heart and spirit.
:02:33. > :02:40.What has it been like making a transition from acting to making
:02:40. > :02:49.documentaries on the front line? Not as difficult as you might think.
:02:49. > :02:53.The fact that people want to put people in boxes particularly in the
:02:53. > :02:58.UK but in my transition, I have got family who are journalists and
:02:58. > :03:03.friends were journalists, I spend a lot of time with journalists but
:03:03. > :03:10.not actors so the transition was not difficult. Moving into a made -
:03:10. > :03:18.- from a made up world into a real world. Would you do more acting?
:03:18. > :03:22.Not many people have asked me. you think you are seen in the
:03:22. > :03:29.public eye these days? -- how do you think. Depends who you are.
:03:29. > :03:34.Some people see me as some celebrity who has decided to go and
:03:34. > :03:39.make documentaries. Some people who have fully see me as informing them
:03:39. > :03:49.around the world. Other people see me as a barman in the east end in
:03:49. > :03:53.Walford. How do you see yourself? In the mirror! On TV. What have
:03:53. > :03:56.been the ideas behind York series? Are you trying to say things?
:03:56. > :04:01.original idea behind Afghanistan was to see what it was like for a
:04:01. > :04:09.young man fighting in the 21st century who grew up with a month
:04:09. > :04:12.making toast and having a duvet and a Nintendo, and all of a sudden he
:04:12. > :04:16.is having to watch his friends bleed out, having to kill people,
:04:16. > :04:26.watching incredible suffering and how he coped with that transition.
:04:26. > :04:27.
:04:27. > :04:30.Now, the film's have changed and have grown and our present in
:04:30. > :04:35.Afghanistan have changed. The gangs programme came about because they
:04:35. > :04:44.met a man who had been shot several times in Compton in Los Angeles and
:04:44. > :04:49.I saw him and asked him, if he had been born elsewhere, would you have
:04:49. > :04:59.had a different life? He was very intelligent, he had self taught
:04:59. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:07.himself to quite a high level. The only thing he was a victim of the
:05:07. > :05:13.circumcised and someone. Did you feel under threat in Afghanistan
:05:13. > :05:20.yes. Do you think you have ever got in the way of the soldiers? I have
:05:20. > :05:24.never jumped in front of somebody else's bullet, that is for sure.
:05:24. > :05:29.The main thing for me before we went out there in Afghanistan was
:05:29. > :05:36.that we would never, ever in danger anybody's life while we were out
:05:36. > :05:39.there. Particularly a soldier's life. That would not make a
:05:39. > :05:44.training film for the enemies. you see yourself as brave?
:05:44. > :05:48.really. I see myself as a man who goes into what is considered to be
:05:48. > :05:53.dangerous situations. We do not have personal security. If we do,
:05:53. > :05:57.it has only ever been on Kabul. Never had it on the front line or
:05:57. > :06:06.in the gangs programme. Having security around two draws its own
:06:06. > :06:11.specific problems but I am not particularly brave. If I have to --
:06:11. > :06:15.too difficult to enter, I did enter. How much to get involved in the
:06:15. > :06:21.editing process? Much to the annoyance of the director. What was
:06:21. > :06:26.it like growing up as Ross Kemp? Quite enjoyable, I think. I had a
:06:26. > :06:31.furtive imagination. I liked going out in the small street I grew up
:06:31. > :06:35.in and we played everything from knights of the round Table two
:06:35. > :06:41.soldiers in Stalingrad, believe it or not. I was heavily influenced by
:06:41. > :06:48.what was on television in the 60s and 70s. Television was really
:06:48. > :06:52.coming into its own. It was the main focus of most living rooms in
:06:52. > :06:56.the seventies be in particular. Television had a great quality them.
:06:56. > :07:01.What did you want to be when you're growing up? I wanted to be an actor
:07:01. > :07:05.but I never really accomplished that! Quickly tell me what your
:07:05. > :07:15.interests are outside of work. Five seconds. Out of work, I have not
:07:15. > :07:17.
:07:17. > :07:24.got any, it is all work at the 5, four, three, two, one. Can you
:07:24. > :07:29.remember when you are first called multi-? Yes, it was in Suffolk my
:07:29. > :07:32.father sent me to a Methodist school, my name quickly got
:07:32. > :07:38.abbreviated and I have been called that for ages and I will probably
:07:38. > :07:46.be called it for the rest of my life. Who is the best Blair you
:07:46. > :07:49.have ever commented -- commentated? Eric Cantona would be a leading
:07:49. > :07:55.candidate but Thierry Henry for his performance it in Arsenal would
:07:55. > :08:00.what run in very close. Is there a most memorable moment? Yes, there
:08:00. > :08:03.is. When David Beckham took his free-kick against Greece in Old
:08:03. > :08:08.Trafford in 2001 which effectively put us through to the World Cup
:08:08. > :08:11.finals in the 94th minute, Trevor Brooking and I lost our cool.
:08:11. > :08:15.Microphones were pulled out and tables were not over, commentators
:08:15. > :08:23.ran down the gantry which I must say, I have never allowed myself to
:08:23. > :08:28.do before or sense! A most memorable match? Germany 1, England
:08:28. > :08:36.5 in Munich in 2000 went Sven-Goran Eriksson had just taken over --
:08:36. > :08:43.2001. Michael Owen had scored a hat-trick and I was delighted to
:08:43. > :08:47.see us beat our closest rival and I saw as getting better and better
:08:47. > :08:51.and a voice came up behind me and a voice whispered, it is getting
:08:51. > :08:56.better and better and better, and it was then Goran Eriksson. He had
:08:56. > :09:01.just watched the video. A amazing! The you know how many matches you
:09:01. > :09:04.have commentated on? I have done it for 40 years and I have normally
:09:05. > :09:08.average between 40 and 50 games a season so it would be some way
:09:08. > :09:12.short of 2000. Which do you prefer, commentating on radio or
:09:12. > :09:16.television? The most difficult question you have asked me. I get a
:09:16. > :09:23.great deal of pleasure out of both. I do everything exactly the same
:09:23. > :09:26.thing for each. I have quite a lot of enjoyment about the flexibility
:09:26. > :09:29.of radio. You do not have to be governed by the picture people are
:09:29. > :09:32.watching the television is very challenging and where people can
:09:32. > :09:36.see everything going on on the pitch, the commentator as to find a
:09:36. > :09:40.way of avoiding obvious description and going into more interpretation.
:09:40. > :09:44.A tell me a little bit more about your preparation, how do you do it?
:09:44. > :09:48.My wife keeps a meticulous record book season after season, week
:09:48. > :09:53.after week. She notes all the Games and results and scorers,
:09:53. > :09:57.appearances, newspaper cuttings. I have got a great start there. On a
:09:57. > :10:01.Thursday afternoon and Friday, I draw up a chart with felt-tip pens.
:10:01. > :10:04.I am very non computer trained, I am afraid. I have the players'
:10:04. > :10:09.names on one side of the chart in different colours with biographical
:10:09. > :10:13.notes alongside each of them and on the back of the piece of card, I
:10:13. > :10:17.have my statistics and sequences for what each team has been doing
:10:17. > :10:21.in recent weeks, how much they have gone unbeaten, when they last lost
:10:21. > :10:24.at home, that sort of stuff. When I have done that chart, I like to
:10:24. > :10:28.think I have committed most of it to memory so although I have it in
:10:28. > :10:33.front of me while I am doing a game, hopefully I don't have to refer to
:10:33. > :10:39.it too often. Are there nerves before a game? There used to be
:10:39. > :10:42.when I started. I used to get very wound up if I made a mistake. I
:10:42. > :10:46.have learned to be calmer. I am still apprehensive in that I need
:10:46. > :10:49.to convince myself that I need to know all the players, the numbers
:10:49. > :10:55.and subsidies and I will not be caught out by something of beers.
:10:56. > :11:00.But if things do not go quite perfectly, -- something obvious, I
:11:00. > :11:03.do not get quite upset about it now. Do do want to be a commentator
:11:03. > :11:07.growing up? Not directly. I wanted to be a football reporter which is
:11:07. > :11:13.what I was when I left school, I joined a local newspaper in Barnet
:11:13. > :11:16.and did the written word. I moved to the Sheffield Telegraph and one
:11:16. > :11:20.afternoon, I had written a piece of copy and the sub-editor on the
:11:20. > :11:26.other side of the desk said, not some, if I were you, I would stick
:11:26. > :11:28.to broadcasting and forget writing. I had been doing some freelance
:11:28. > :11:34.radio work so I think they knew where my strengths and weaknesses
:11:34. > :11:37.lay. How was football changed since you started commentating? Immensely.
:11:37. > :11:44.No sponsors when I started, not much advertising, the corporate
:11:44. > :11:51.side had not blossomed. The money was a lot less. The players were
:11:51. > :11:56.all 1-11. Not as much glamour around the Games as well. People
:11:56. > :11:59.did not come on the pitch like it is theatre now. It is
:11:59. > :12:03.unrecognisable from then. Is there one thing you would like to change
:12:03. > :12:07.about football as it is today? would like to give the forwards
:12:07. > :12:10.more advantage when it comes to offside. We are giving the benefit
:12:10. > :12:20.of the doubt to the defender too often. In just outside football,
:12:20. > :12:20.
:12:20. > :12:30.quickly? Theatre, running, popular music, reading. And that... BELL
:12:30. > :12:33.
:12:33. > :12:41.If you could only play one more composer for the rest of your life,
:12:41. > :12:47.he would that be? I would say for 2011, I would say Franz Liszt.
:12:47. > :12:52.would you say is the hardest composer to play? For you? Probably
:12:52. > :12:58.Johann Sebastian Bach. How much scope is there for a pianist to
:12:58. > :13:05.interpreter? We always need to think about what we're trying to
:13:05. > :13:10.interpret and we need to know the background and we need to see
:13:10. > :13:18.through the note behind the bar. you try consciously to create your
:13:18. > :13:23.own personal musical style? Everybody, when they perform,
:13:24. > :13:29.automatically they are creating your own personal style. It is the
:13:29. > :13:33.music of your mind and even though it is the same music, everybody is
:13:33. > :13:38.sort of playing differently. Do you see yourself in any way as some
:13:38. > :13:47.sort of showman? Depends what piece I am going to do. If it is a
:13:47. > :13:51.showpiece, then IMA show man but if it is not a showpiece? I am not a
:13:51. > :13:58.showman. What do you feel before you go on stage? It is like a quick
:13:58. > :14:05.journey. When you walk out from the backstage entrance to the stage,
:14:05. > :14:10.the journey starts. And then when you sit down at the bench you are
:14:10. > :14:18.into the musical planet. Are you superstitious? Not really. Are you
:14:18. > :14:24.religious? Yes. Where do you get to inspiration from? When you start a
:14:24. > :14:32.new piece for the first time? Normally, I listen to music and
:14:32. > :14:39.then I have a kind of sense of whether this connect to me or not.
:14:39. > :14:43.When it connect to me, I love and learn the peace. But sometimes you
:14:43. > :14:48.do have a wrong impression of a certain pieces until you start to
:14:48. > :14:52.physically playing on the keys of. Do you listen to other pianists?
:14:52. > :14:56.Absolutely. From the great maestro has to the new generations,
:14:56. > :15:01.absolutely. What do you think is the difference between the sting to
:15:01. > :15:07.a piece of music as a recording and actually being at a concert and
:15:07. > :15:13.seeing and hearing it live? Live is more challenging, love is more fun.
:15:13. > :15:19.Because you know what the recording will be. But recordings can be
:15:20. > :15:25.great to because you spend so much time on every note over those ideas
:15:25. > :15:29.so it can beat a great thing to listen but if you really want
:15:29. > :15:39.actions, you must come to a live concert. Do you feel you have a
:15:39. > :15:42.
:15:43. > :15:46.When I perform, I don't focus on who is listening. But when you
:15:46. > :15:51.perform you need to give everything. From what you know, what you have
:15:51. > :15:55.learned and what you are trying to achieve. And to everyone who is
:15:55. > :15:58.listening to you. You need to bring complete love and passion to the
:15:58. > :16:08.people who are listening. De you feel like you develop a
:16:08. > :16:09.
:16:10. > :16:15.relationship with the composers? Yes, through their music. They just
:16:15. > :16:19.lead you into the musical world. you think you can equate to some of
:16:19. > :16:26.the great classical composers with some of the great pop or rock
:16:26. > :16:35.composers? It is not so easy but everything is possible when you
:16:35. > :16:45.have the right fit. I would say Michael Jackson, for example. He is
:16:45. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:54.probably equally as genius as Mozart, at 200 or 300 years ago.
:16:54. > :16:59.I'm sure that one day... I'm sure there will be a great synergy level.
:16:59. > :17:04.How old were you when you started to play the piano? I started when I
:17:04. > :17:07.was two. One was that like, did you feel pressure to succeed from an
:17:07. > :17:16.early age? Not really, but obviously my parents really had
:17:16. > :17:25.high hopes for me. But you never know whether you will make it or
:17:25. > :17:32.not until later. Quickly, what are your interests outside of music?
:17:32. > :17:39.Movies and foundation work, charity. That is five minutes. Did you enjoy
:17:39. > :17:45.it? Yes, it was called. I could feel the heartbeat! We are still
:17:45. > :17:55.recording. You feel the heartbeat and continuity of this atmosphere.
:17:55. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:09.It is kind of like a live concert. How did you get to become cold
:18:09. > :18:14.pixie, because it's not your real name, is it? It's not, but I was
:18:14. > :18:22.nicknamed that from birth, I was born six weeks premature. For can
:18:22. > :18:27.you describe yourself in a sentence or two? Pretty much just it pixie
:18:27. > :18:37.like person who is passionate about music and creative things, like
:18:37. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:43.film and fashion. I have a zest for life. Did you learn to sing and
:18:43. > :18:49.dance early on? I did. I did and Lerner, I just loved doing it. I
:18:49. > :18:54.was just doing it of my own accord from a young age. Mainly music and
:18:54. > :19:00.singing for family and staff. But when I turned 10 I started to go to
:19:00. > :19:05.dance class. So that I could get into a performing arts school. So I
:19:05. > :19:09.started doing that at about 10. you sort of living your dreams now?
:19:09. > :19:12.We put it like that, definitely doing what I love. I do feel very
:19:12. > :19:17.grateful and lucky because I love performing, I love writing music
:19:17. > :19:25.and being a part of it all. Described to me the moment just
:19:25. > :19:30.before you step on stage. I get really excited and kind of smile...
:19:30. > :19:35.Kind of like I am now. I jump around and do one of these things
:19:36. > :19:41.with the band. I just get really excited. If it's a big show I might
:19:41. > :19:46.jump around. Do you get involved in the writing of a lot of your music?
:19:46. > :19:50.Yes. I was writing my new album this year from about January. I was
:19:50. > :19:55.in the studio every day. With Britain about 70 songs, so it's
:19:55. > :19:59.hard to pick just 12 for the album. But we've got a deluxe as well
:19:59. > :20:03.which has an extra six songs. It's hard to pick because I get attached
:20:03. > :20:08.to all of the songs so easily and I do find it hard, but we have to
:20:08. > :20:13.make decisions. Were you writing songs quite early on? I did start
:20:13. > :20:18.writing early on. Just by myself. I used to get on my bike and ride
:20:18. > :20:23.round the little garden and saying things out loud. They weren't very
:20:23. > :20:27.good but I did enjoy doing it. would you describe the difference
:20:27. > :20:32.between this album and your first album? My first album, I started
:20:32. > :20:36.writing it when I was about 13 or 14. There are songs from that age
:20:37. > :20:41.and the vocal stuff from then. When it came to touring I was still
:20:41. > :20:45.singing songs I'd written when I was 14, 15, 16. I can still relate
:20:45. > :20:50.to them but I feel like I've moved on a bit. Now things are more
:20:50. > :20:55.relevant, it feels like how I am at the moment and it is more mature
:20:55. > :21:01.and soulful, just because I think I've moved on a little bit. What
:21:01. > :21:06.was touring like? Touring is the best thing that I've done, I've
:21:06. > :21:09.enjoyed it the most. The past two years at been in the public
:21:09. > :21:14.releasing my music. I wasn't a support act so I knew the audience
:21:14. > :21:18.had come to see the show. I got to do what I wanted, I had by dancers
:21:18. > :21:23.and my friends from school. I got to decide on the set myself and
:21:23. > :21:27.have a band. I loved it. I feel like I have to talk really fast
:21:27. > :21:32.because it's only five minutes long! How do you describe your
:21:32. > :21:38.genre of music? It is definitely pop, but it's got more of a soulful
:21:38. > :21:43.edge. Some of the songs are more feel-good and bouncy, which is fun.
:21:43. > :21:47.But it is definitely soul for pop. What sort of music did you listen
:21:47. > :21:52.to growing up? I grew up listening to a lot of soul music was a Motown,
:21:52. > :21:58.I love Stevie wonder, I love big voices like Mariah Carey and
:21:58. > :22:02.Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding. Antyukh worked with Stevie
:22:02. > :22:07.Wonder for your second album. Luckily enough, yeah. I met him,
:22:07. > :22:12.being in the right place at the right time. I ended up writing a
:22:12. > :22:16.song what somebody and he heard it. He put the harmonica part in it. It
:22:16. > :22:20.sounds amazing. I don't think anyone can play the harmonica quite
:22:20. > :22:30.like Stevie wonder. I was overwhelmed. Quickly described to
:22:30. > :22:30.
:22:30. > :22:33.me what it is like having a number one single. It is just such... I
:22:33. > :22:36.didn't expect it at all when it first happened, so I was so happy
:22:37. > :22:40.and it was such a relief because it is such hard work leading up to it.
:22:40. > :22:45.Then it pays off and you are so pleased everyone has supported it.
:22:45. > :22:51.Just really lucky and happy that it's going accordingly. Has it been
:22:51. > :22:54.a challenge being in the public eye from a young age? Now, I don't
:22:54. > :23:00.think it has been a challenge because I don't get fazed by things
:23:00. > :23:10.at all. I'm not affected by things, it just feels like it's something I
:23:10. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:21.Do you think there is a key to writing good fiction? No, I don't.
:23:21. > :23:26.The formula you arrive that will be formulaic. Therefore in the end the
:23:26. > :23:31.writing will be weak. No, it should be magic. Are you a big reader
:23:31. > :23:35.yourself? No, and there should be. I never was as a child. I read
:23:35. > :23:39.biography, history and poetry but I don't read as much as I should.
:23:39. > :23:45.fast reader? No, quite so. I find it quite a laborious business,
:23:45. > :23:48.Reading. Do you re-read books sometimes? No, because my boredom
:23:48. > :23:55.threshold doesn't help me. If I read things once that is usually
:23:55. > :23:59.sufficient. How important do you think telling stories around -- out
:23:59. > :24:04.loud is? It is critical. Telling them out loud is wonderful because
:24:04. > :24:08.adding the boys to the written word seems to give power to the story
:24:08. > :24:12.that isn't there necessarily on the page. Why you told stories as a
:24:12. > :24:15.boy? My mum told me stories in bed, that was wonderful and gave me a
:24:15. > :24:19.taste for rich. I had a lecturer at college and a good English teacher
:24:19. > :24:23.at school who did read. What was good about all three of them is
:24:23. > :24:29.their red stuff they loved, I picked up on that. How important
:24:29. > :24:33.are illustrations for children's literature to go with the text?
:24:33. > :24:37.many children I think they are critical. But some doubt - that
:24:37. > :24:41.it's somehow breaks the text of for them. It allows them access to the
:24:41. > :24:47.story. It also adds something wonderful to a story. If you got a
:24:47. > :24:53.great illustrator it is simply not a matter of decoration, it's a
:24:53. > :24:58.matter of adding something. Do you target a particular readership when
:24:58. > :25:02.you are writing, children or adults? Not at all. I write about
:25:02. > :25:05.children, not for them. I think that is rather important because
:25:05. > :25:11.otherwise you can patronise children if you just write to them.
:25:11. > :25:16.How many books have you written? I'm told 127, which is far too many.
:25:16. > :25:19.How did you become a writer? accident. I was teaching primary
:25:19. > :25:23.school and discovered that the best way of communicating with them was
:25:23. > :25:27.to tell a story at the end of the day. It was the only way I could
:25:27. > :25:31.gather all 35 of them. We don't lose ourselves in the same story.
:25:31. > :25:35.You were a Children's Laureate, did you feel a sense of responsibility
:25:35. > :25:39.then? Not just then but before as well. I think most children's
:25:39. > :25:42.writers do. It's very important to us that we spread his love of
:25:42. > :25:48.reading and the stories and poems in amongst children as much as
:25:48. > :25:52.possible, and amongst parents and teachers. It is an access to
:25:52. > :25:58.understanding. Understanding is so important for the rest of their
:25:58. > :26:02.lives. Do you think that literature today is in as good shape as it's
:26:03. > :26:07.ever been? I think so. I wasn't alive in another era. But it's
:26:07. > :26:12.spread widely now, as education spreads. It's not all doom and
:26:12. > :26:15.gloom, it is spreading. The reading of books is spreading like crazy.
:26:15. > :26:18.The one thing about children is a access stories in whatever form.
:26:18. > :26:22.They are brilliant with this technology and have many ways of
:26:22. > :26:26.accessing it. There are wonderful writers and illustrators out there.
:26:26. > :26:30.What sort of influence did Ted Hughes have on your career as a
:26:30. > :26:36.writer? Massive, not just as a writer. He lived on the road from
:26:36. > :26:41.us. He wasn't my mentor as a writer. He was a terrific support to me as
:26:41. > :26:46.a young writer when I was fumbling around. He also hugely supported
:26:46. > :26:50.the charity that myself and my wife set up. He was our first patron and
:26:50. > :26:54.has been a supporter of it, was a supporter of it all his life.
:26:54. > :26:59.is that project? It enables city children from all over the country
:26:59. > :27:03.to come and live and work on a farm in Devon. We have three farms now,
:27:03. > :27:08.thanks to Ted. 100,000 children now come down from their towns and
:27:08. > :27:12.cities to live and work on the farm. That is over the last 35 years.
:27:12. > :27:17.Tell me about War Horse. It's the book you wrote, it's been adapted
:27:17. > :27:22.for stage and has now been adapted for film. Yesterday you saw the
:27:22. > :27:25.film for the first time. What was it like? I'm still in a bit of a
:27:25. > :27:31.days after it. It is the most extraordinary epic that he has
:27:31. > :27:36.created. This is Steven Spielberg. Yes. He has done what he does best,
:27:36. > :27:40.which is to make a wonderful, epic movie that is both beautiful and
:27:40. > :27:44.horrifying. It takes us on this extraordinary journey of horse and
:27:44. > :27:47.young boy who loves this course and goes searching for it. But it comes
:27:47. > :27:53.after this wonderful production with the National Theatre, which I
:27:53. > :27:56.have also been involved with. It is now in America and his plane to
:27:56. > :27:59.Australia. It has had a wonderful journey. That horse has Trott did
:27:59. > :28:04.all over the world. There were others involved in the adaptation
:28:04. > :28:07.for film. Richard Curtis and Lee Hall. You were pretty good at rugby
:28:07. > :28:12.at school. Very good, but I never played for England which is really
:28:12. > :28:16.sad for me. And he did a year at Sandhurst. Yes, it was good
:28:16. > :28:26.training for a young and arrogant man. And also university elsewhere.
:28:26. > :28:27.
:28:27. > :28:33.A bit of a shock to the system coming over the next 24 hours. It
:28:33. > :28:37.is set to turn colder for many of us. That trend starts tonight. The
:28:37. > :28:41.rain we've seen across eastern England is clearing. It should
:28:41. > :28:45.remain largely drive for the rest of the night. Showers in the West
:28:45. > :28:50.but as the cold air sets in, North West England and Northern Ireland
:28:50. > :28:55.have rate and sleet showers. For all, temperatures only a few
:28:55. > :28:58.degrees above freezing, if not below. It leads to frost and the
:28:58. > :29:01.risk of ice in the north and west where the showers will be wintery
:29:01. > :29:04.in the morning. We could see some heavy showers running along
:29:05. > :29:08.southern counties of England on a stiff westerly breeze. They will
:29:08. > :29:11.gradually clear. Many central and eastern areas should be dry and
:29:11. > :29:15.bright through the day but in the west there are further showers.
:29:15. > :29:20.They remain went we in the north and west. But the breeze it will