Episode 29 Inside Out

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time for Inside Out.

Hello and welcome to inside out.

Tonight, could the emergency

services have acted any faster on

the night of the Manchester Arena

bomb?

I said we need paramedics, we

need paramedics now.

How life after

top-level sport can be traumatic.

When you are part of the team it is

brilliant, and going away from that

had a massive impact on me.

And why

Liverpool is the start of a new

Hollywood movie.

I just want to go

back to Liverpool.

Say it again.

Liverpool.

Wow.

In May, a suicide bomber killed 22

people at Manchester Arena. Hundreds

more were injured. Inside out has

learned that some of the most

seriously wounded victims had to

wait over an hour before receiving

expert medical treatment. One of the

first reporters on the scene that

might also explores why are

firefighters were held back the

nearly two hours. -- for nearly two

hours. On the 22nd of May, Salman

Abedi made his way to the Manchester

Arena, waiting for the Ariana Grande

concert to finish. As fans streamed

out he detonated a suicide device.

There was rubble and smoke

everywhere, and there was just

screaming.

It was too much for two

or three paramedics to deal with.

That night the emergency services

treated hundreds of people, many

with life changing injuries. But

what we have learnt is that some of

the most seriously wounded had to

wait for more than an hour before

receiving any expert medical

treatment. 12 months before the

bomb, a training exercise was staged

at the Trafford Centre on the

outskirts of Manchester. Authorities

were pleased with how it had gone.

We are delighted, I mean the aim of

the exercise was to really stress

test all of the organisations that

would respond to a terror attack.

But what happened on May 22, when a

real terror attack took place?

Salman Abedi triggered his bomb at

10:31 p.m.. On the night I was here

right in the centre of Manchester,

and in the aftermath I was

interviewing people on Radio 5 live

trying to piece together what had

happened.

Everybody started running

as much as we could.

The whole

building shook, and there were

bodies everywhere.

How long were you

lying there for?

Probably an hour.

So on the night, people were telling

me that some of the injured were

waiting an hour to treatment.

Shortly after 11pm, added half an

hour after the bomb went off, those

who had been in the foyer, injured

but able to walk, were evacuated to

hear, and this is Victoria Station,

approach. Ambulance crews from

across England treated the injured

who had been able to escape the

scene. But for those in the foyer,

expert help was still very limited.

Before the police court was made

secure, only one north-west

ambulance service paramedic made it

the foyer. Over the next hour, he

was joined by two more paramedics.

Eyewitnesses we have spoken to say

more medical help was desperately

needed. Kim and Phil Dick from

Bradford were in the foyer to

collect their daughter and

granddaughter.

Keep going, keep

going.

Second after the explosion, a

victim with serious injuries

collapsed in front of Kim.

She could

hardly walk, she was stumbling,

bleeding from her arm and her mouth

and her leg and how was burned, and

I grabbed her because I thought she

was going to fall.

How long was

this?

Just over an hour, I kept

saying, be brave, but it is kept

coming.

As time passed, concern grew

about the lack paramedics in the

foyer.

There were police, there were

armed police, I just kept shouting,

we need paramedics, we need

paramedics now. And they were making

sure there was no more bombs.

An

hour after the explosion, the

wounded in the foyer were only

receiving basic first aid rather

than expert paramedic help.

The

longer it went on the more silent it

became, and it was absolutely, it

was really eerie, and people who I

had seen a little earlier who are

severely injured, when our dead.

They made a decision at some point,

about an hour in ten minutes after

the explosion that... The medical

staff were coming up to the foyer,

but they were going to evacuate the

casualties.

The girl they looked

after did survive. Security fears

may explain why only three

paramedics could enter the so-called

hot zone, where the bomb had gone

off. But

it's hard to understand the delay in

the arrival of Fire and Rescue

staff, commanders on the night held

Fire and Rescue staff back at their

stations until 12:18 a.m., fully one

hour and 47 minutes after the blast.

The fire service made a decision to

go to a rendezvous point which is

normal practice for the ambulance

service, the ambulance service was

called forward and at this stage I

am unsure as to why the fire service

was delayed for so long.

Greater

Manchester Fire and Rescue Service

has a technical response unit, these

are people trained specifically to

deal with terrorist situations. That

unit took part in the Trafford

Centre exercise last year, it is

still uncertain who on the night

made the decision not to deploy that

units. Save the UK firefighting

service is the major online platform

for firefighters in the UK. But on

the night of the Manchester bomb

those who were on duty use this page

as the event was unfolding to vent

their frustrations they were not

being sent to the arena.

I have been

a firefighter in Manchester for

nearly ten years and I had never

felt so much guilt in my life.

We

were only half a mile away from

helping, half a mile from

potentially saving lives and that

will always stick with me forever.

Paramedic when he came to us, --

lady came to us, pleading with us to

help, because they needed.

One

firefighter who was on duty that

night has come forward to tell us

how it felt.

We sat there waiting,

waiting for the get go. You are

kicking yourself what you could have

done, it might have changed

anything, but we could have been at

a help. -- might not have changed

anything. But we could have been

there to help. They were homeless

people helping, members of the

public helping, I am a paid public

service and I wanted to help, I just

wasn't allowed to help.

Those who

were trapped in the foyer that night

remain grateful that so many put

their lives at risk to help save

others. But almost six months on,

some remain concerned that emergency

medical help was so slow to arrive.

They wanted to minimise the risks to

as many people as a possible, I

understand that. But they employed

tens if not hundreds of -- police

officers into the arena, and if some

of those had been medically trained

they could have... You can't say for

certain, at some peoples injuries

could have been dealt with quicker

and perhaps, just perhaps, some

lives could have been saved.

But one

man who collected his son from the

arena leaves the authorities did the

absolute best they could.

You would

like everybody to get help

straightaway, you would like every

single medic, every doctor who was

in Manchester should have been out.

And you would have liked them to

have been there and everyone would

have been in their helping, nobody

would have died, and that would be

it. It couldn't happen.

The mayor of

greater Manchester has now set up an

independent review to learn lessons

from the event in May. It is due to

report next year.

There was a

feeling out the time that the wrong

call was made in those moments. It

seems to me there is some substance

to that, and it was one of the

reasons why the independent review

was set up. But it's not about

feelings is it, that's the point, it

is about what is the evidence and

that evidence is being looked at by

the review.

Those in charge of the

emergency services that night had a

truly terrible decision to make.

Should they deploy as quickly as

possible, trying to save lives,

while there was still the threat of

a second explosion? Or should they

wait until the area happened -- had

been declared safe, there for

delaying treatment to victims of the

bomb as a result. We contacted all

the emergency services, the

north-west ambulance service told us

they were proud of their response to

the Manchester Arena attack. Rated

Manchester Fire and Rescue said they

have conducted their own internal

debriefing to the organisation's

response to the Manchester Arena

attack, and are fully cooperating

with the review. Greater Manchester

Police told us that they contacted

the north-west ambulance service

within three minutes of the incident

being declared, and they followed

their major incident plan. None of

these organisations wanted to appear

in this film while the review is

ongoing.

The life of a professional sportsman

or woman can be incredibly

glamorous. The fame, the financial

rewards, the adulation. But what

happens to those things when they

stop competing? Ara Porter -- our

reporter is the former Olympic

athlete, known as Diane Edwards.

Diane Edwards in lane three.

Those

were the days. I have always thought

that a sporting career is like

running a long-distance rates.

They

can now, is it fast enough...

Occasionally there will be barriers

along the way, and maybe falls, but

they will also be fantastic highs.

The Australians are coming out, they

are into the wind...

So what

actually happens when you reach the

finishing line? Sometimes, I think

that can be the hardest part of all.

Danny Sculthorpe was a successful

proper would with Wigan and England.

For him, rugby league was

everything, especially when it was a

big game.

There has back of your

neck are on end, the adrenaline is

going through your body that is

absolutely unbelievable, I can't

explain how good it was, it was

brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

But

towards the end of his career, Danny

had serious injury problems, and

when his final club Radford Bulls

tore up his contract in 2010, he was

devastated. A shack Radford. He was

just 31. -- Bradford.

I lost my job,

lost my career, I get choked up

about it, I had two kids and a wife

that I couldn't support, and that's

when the depression started. For a

long time I did what most men do

when they have mental health issues,

I kept it to myself I didn't deal

with it, I am supposed to be this

6-foot four prop forward, I can't

have mental health issues, I found

myself in a cart with a bottle of

pills and I was going to take my own

life but I am just lucky that I

decided not to do it on that

occasion, I'd render coming home and

a day after that is when my mum and

dad and my wife sat me down and

called me out on it, and saved my

life.

Danny's experience is actually

not that unusual in the world of

professional sport, as neurologist

and professional footballer told me.

If they have not developed options

and opportunities to transition into

another career than their brain can

often go into a threat state, and

their thought process can be more

negative, and that can lead to many

issues such as clinical depression.

We are unaware of certain athletes

who have taken their life because of

that loss of identity that

retirement brings.

As an amateur boxer, Natasha Jonas

won a stack of titles, including

European Championship gold and World

Championship bronze. She made

history at London 20 when she became

the first British woman to box in

the Olympics.

Boxing is just a

skill. But you learn so much more

and you learn a lot of life skills.

There are a lot of milestones.

Obviously the Olympics was by far my

greatest boxing achievement.

But

then a foot injury led to defeat in

the Commonwealth Games and failure

to qualify for the real Olympics.

Natasha made the decision to retire.

I couldn't do it for another four

years. My time was done. I don't

think that I could have been that

athlete again. So I thought, now is

the time.

Natasha started to prepare

for life outside the ring. She found

work with outside associations and

broadcasters. And there was another

compelling reason for her to

reappraise her plans. She was

pregnant with her daughter.

I had a

whole new world and I can itself

busy with a baby, with new

companies.

For the first year or so

of her life you are trying to get

her into a routine, so I was off

doing what I needed to do -- I

wasn't off doing what I need to do,

because I was focusing on her.

Despite this, the pull of boxing

proved too powerful.

Working with

others was what I missed. I had left

boxing on a bit of a low. I got

beaten in the Commonwealth Games,

where should have won a medal. I had

unfinished business. Once I got over

the physical stuff, I thought, I've

still got it. And so earlier this

year she turned professional,

working with Manchester trainer Joe

Gallagher. She has already won her

first three fights.

I want your six

digit number to be as close as

possible to that.

Ben Burgess is

known to the students as their

favourite teacher. But to thousands

of football fans he is remembered as

a striker at nearby Bloomfield Road.

His 14 year career took him to no

fewer than ten clubs, including

Blackburn, Oldham and Stockport. But

after years of wear and tear and 21

operations on his knees, then

realised in 2012 that he wouldn't be

able to fulfil a new contract he had

just signed.

When your body can't do

what your mind wants to do it the

most frustrating thing in the world.

We wrote the two years of the

contract off and that was it. We

just sort of parted. I was really

emotional at the time and it was a

lot to take in. Driving home from

Liverpool, I had to stop the car and

gather my thoughts.

The key factor

which helped with his transition

into the real world was that unlike

most athletes, he had planned ahead.

I always had on the back of my mind

that I needed something. I managed

to get a journalism degree. I was

doing little bits of freelance while

I was still playing. As I knew my

career was coming to an end, it was

like, what can I do with my

qualifications? Someone mentioned

that if you have a degree you can

become a qualified school teacher.

You could say his transition from

footballer to school teacher is a

lesson for all.

While they are

competing it is important for them

to have interest outside of that

sport, which can then lead into

their transition when they come to

the end of their career.

Danny

Sculthorpe is in a good place now.

His failed suicide attempt proved to

be a turning point.

My family is

absolutely everything. I could have

done something stupid that they and

I could have ruined their lives. To

see them growing up healthy, you

know, just means the world to me.

Big smiles for dad.

He is now

working with State of Mind, a mental

health charity.

We've spoken to

27,000 people over the last six

years and 28 people have told us

that because of one of our sessions

they've changed the minds of taking

their life, which is unbelievable.

Family life is at the centre of

Natasha Jones's life as well and she

is a winner once again, but she

knows the day will come when

retirement will come.

It is scary. I

can't walk away from boxing. I don't

think I will 100% of the leaf

boxing. I'll always have something

to do with it.

Children are at the

heart of Ben Burgess's daily life

too. Football life in the past, he

is working on developing the

citizens of the future.

I don't want

their children to see that you are

the clever or you're not or talented

or not, it's about how hard you

work.

It's clear that some athletes

handled the move into retirement

much better than others. But for me

there's a duty care for everybody in

sport to ensure that our sports men

and women make that transition as

easily as possible.

There's a bit of an Oscar buzz about

a new movie called Film Stars Don't

Die in Liverpool. It tells the

remarkable true story of a man whose

life is turned upside down when he

met and fell in love with a

Hollywood superstar back in the

1970s.

I've been to meet him. If I

make you a drink will you come to my

room? I need a partner for my dance

class.

I mean, if you fix me a

drink, I'll come in...

A classic

young man meets older woman love

story, except in this case he was

just a young actor from Liverpool

and she was a former Hollywood

screen goddess. A bit far-fetched?

Maybe, but this is very much a true

story. It begins in the late 1970s.

She came to do a play in London and

came to rent this groundfloor

apartment in this house and I was at

the top of the house.

Were you aware

of who she was immediately?

No.

Gloria Graham -- Grahame? I hadn't

seen any of the films.

What he

didn't realise was 20 years ago

Gloria Grahame was at the top of her

tree, starring in various films and

playing femme fatale to lead by

comfrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas and Lee

Marvin. -- Humphrey Bogart. Around

the time she met Peter Gloria was

interviewed on the BBC.

I'm just a

girl who can't say no. I'm an

interminable fix. They asked if I

could sing and I said no. They said,

of course you sing, using in the

shower? I said, no, I couldn't carry

it in a bucket.

We just connected

and there was a big age gap and at

that time it was quite

controversial. She used to travel

around on the buses or the tube and

waiting queues and all things like

that.

For two years the couple lived

it up in LA, New York and London,

before splitting up in 1980. But

within a year the final dramatic

scenes would be played out in

Liverpool. Gloria would spend her

last days here, at Peter's family

home. It all followed a phone call

from the Duke's Theatre in

Lancaster. What did that phone call

CTU?

It was very brief. Gloria is

here, she's very ill. What? How ill?

They said, well, she is very, very

ill and would you come immediately?

She came to Liverpool when the chips

were down, a place where she felt

safe. She wanted to get better. It

was futile. I think she knew she was

going to die. She knew she had left

it late.

Eventually Peter wrote a

moving account of the difficult days

that followed and the fabulous years

which preceded them. The book was

published in 1986 and now has been

turned into a film starring Annette

Denning and Jamie Bell as Peter.

Not

that Gloria Grahame, in our kitchen,

making a bacon Sam Wyche!

It is the

relationship that has most affected

him. I would spend many hours of him

just sitting down and asking what

were to him the nine questions but

to me meant everything.

Has anyone

told you how you look when you

smoke?

Yeah, Humphrey Bogart and I

didn't like it then either.

This is

the backstage.

Fantastic. At the

time, Gloria was seriously ill in

the family home and Peter was

appearing in a play at the Liverpool

Playhouse. The theatre is the

location of one of the most moving

scenes in the film and Peter has a

small cameo.

It was so strange,

surreal, to be on stage with

Jamie...

Being you.

Playing that

part and with Annette Bening being

Gloria Grahame. It was like a time

capsule... Where am I? What's going

on?

Life is full of surprises. 31

years after writing his book and 36

years after he had last seen Gloria,

Peter Turner finally got to see the

film. He watched it in a private

screening with the producer.

At the

end of the screening I said, you

want to sit by any? Barbara came and

gave me a big hug.

It's such a

significant part of your life.

It is

big. The whole period, the whole

relationship, you know, kind of has

given me so much and too fine to

weigh an too, logic stands.

The film

is a heartfelt tribute to Peter

Turner's love affair with a

remarkable woman. A relationship

which took a young man on a journey

which changed his life.

And the film is released on the 17th

of November. Inside Out is back in

the new year. See you then.