0:00:10 > 0:00:13Good afternoon and welcome to Points Of View.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17The odd programme has been broadcast this week in amongst the football
0:00:17 > 0:00:19and they seem to have shared a theme -
0:00:19 > 0:00:22that we are really terribly proud to be British.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24No stone on UK soil has been left unturned
0:00:24 > 0:00:26by programme-makers this week.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29We've had snatches from home videos across the country
0:00:29 > 0:00:33from a single 24 hours on BBC Two, called Britain In A Day.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18It's one of those simple, brilliant ideas where you think,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21"Why didn't we dream that up years ago?"
0:01:21 > 0:01:22A big hit.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Next, Griff Rhys Jones donned his walking boots -
0:01:25 > 0:01:28or should that be wellies - to bring us Britain's Lost Routes.
0:01:28 > 0:01:34There are runnels, but then there are miles and miles of sandbanks,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37and what the hovercraft does is come out to rescue people
0:01:37 > 0:01:39who've gone out for a walk, or chased their dog,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42then got caught by the tide.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Ah.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18That is a request to tone down Griff and the fancy effects
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and show more British by-ways, then.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22While we're zooming around the country, on Tuesday,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24The One Show leapt on the bandwagon
0:02:24 > 0:02:28and took the opportunity to draw our attention to the Best of Britain.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Hello and welcome to The One Show: Best Of Britain, with Lucy Siegel.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34And Matt Allwright,
0:02:34 > 0:02:38and another chance to see some of our favourite One Show films.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53The One Show editor Sandy Smith was responsible
0:02:53 > 0:02:57for pulling together this particular celebration of Britishness.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Well, The One Show has been on air for five years now
0:02:59 > 0:03:05and we've made something like 4,500 films, would you believe,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and this was a fantastic opportunity to bundle those up.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Even if you've seen a film
0:03:09 > 0:03:12about conger eels in Albert Docks in Liverpool
0:03:12 > 0:03:14or the very little-known story
0:03:14 > 0:03:22of Britain's most famous silent movie star, Eileen Percy, from Belfast,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26if you've 4,500 films of three, four, five minutes' duration
0:03:26 > 0:03:27and you only show them once,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31that's not a great use of licence-fee payers' money,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35and there'll be plenty more to choose from for highlights for next year.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36So, there may be more.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Meanwhile, over on BBC Four, they have decided that paying homage
0:03:40 > 0:03:43to the whole of the British Isles is a bit unnecessary,
0:03:43 > 0:03:45so they're just telling us about London,
0:03:45 > 0:03:47with a London season, no less.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Strype didn't see the Thames as a barrier to invasion.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55He saw it as the lifeblood of the city.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00A port that welcomed goods and people from all over the world.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05Like light itself, Turner believed it gave life to everything.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09With its tall buildings, its houses and shops,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12it was, in a sense, a city within the city.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46And talking of London, viewers Pepe and Marion Tomei,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49who lived through the changes to Canning Town,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52have been fascinated by BBC Two's new series
0:04:52 > 0:04:55looking into the development of our suburbs,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57called The Secret History of Our Streets.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00My name is Guiseppe Tomei,
0:05:00 > 0:05:05but well known to everybody around this area as "Pepe".
0:05:05 > 0:05:10I run a salon and I've been here 47 years.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13My wife insisted to watch the programme
0:05:13 > 0:05:16The Secret Of Our Streets.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19I couldn't believe my eyes, what I was seeing.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20So we're going back
0:05:20 > 0:05:24to one of the tens of thousands of streets Booth mapped.
0:05:26 > 0:05:31To tell the story of how, sacrificed to new ideas of urban planning,
0:05:31 > 0:05:35a 200-year-old community was bulldozed.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40For some unknown reason, they wanted to condemn Deptford.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45What we saw in the programme actually mirrored
0:05:45 > 0:05:51exactly what's happening to us today in London in 2012.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55The plan is for London to be destroyed and re-engineered.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Each neighbourhood given a single, defined purpose.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00In a few weeks' time,
0:06:00 > 0:06:06they want to knock all this down to build a skyscraper place again,
0:06:06 > 0:06:11because this is going to be the new city, that's what they want to do.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Watching the programme, it's making me feel all raging,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18because I've been suffering this here for the last three or four years.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21It's earmarked for widespread demolition
0:06:21 > 0:06:24and the creation of efficient new tower blocks.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29Watching that programme made me feel it was like my story.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32It's a busy, thriving high street,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35where traders live above their shops and prosper.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38I used to have a salon in the market
0:06:38 > 0:06:43and it used to be so big and so busy.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I had 12 people working for me,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49compared to now with two or three people.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53One character, the man who was a stallholder, I think,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56and he was cleaning vegetables.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57What will you do if the market closes?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04It was a funny moment, but really, really sad as well.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09I could see the community that was in the area, the community, the people.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Everybody I used to know, in the market,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13everybody used to know about me.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15And it just reminded us so much
0:07:15 > 0:07:19of when we were the last people in Rathbone Street market
0:07:19 > 0:07:23and we literally were the last people.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Yeah, it's me. It is me. Yeah.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30In the baskets would have been Jersey potatoes.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34I had to email Points Of View and just say to them
0:07:34 > 0:07:38well done on an absolutely fantastic programme.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44It mirrored exactly what's happening to us in 2012 and I just felt
0:07:44 > 0:07:47I needed to shout it, write it, whatever.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50I just needed to express my feelings.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52A window on the world of Canning Town.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55And Louis Theroux has this week given us a window
0:07:55 > 0:08:00on the even wilder world of the pornographic film industry in Los Angeles.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Now, he made a ground-breaking documentary
0:08:03 > 0:08:05on this twilight world in the 1990s.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Now Louis has revisited to catch up on changes.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09This is stuff...
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Here's the thing, here's the thing, Mr Thorax -
0:08:12 > 0:08:15where the business is going now
0:08:15 > 0:08:18is it's acceptable to watch pornography.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25It's acceptable to sit down with your girlfriend or your wife
0:08:25 > 0:08:26and introduce her to pornography.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02We did have to hunt quite carefully for a clip
0:09:02 > 0:09:03with no sex or violence there,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06and by the way - we have to under the rules.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09This is a pre-watershed show.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10Go past the watershed
0:09:10 > 0:09:14and you find a cavalcade of gritty documentaries and edgy dramas
0:09:14 > 0:09:18eager to cram themselves into those post-9pm slots.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20And young viewer Josh is taking issue
0:09:20 > 0:09:23with how this cut-off point is currently working.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30I think it's very prejudiced of the BBC schedulers to assume
0:09:30 > 0:09:33that all 13-year-olds, such as myself,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37are sitting inside playing video games or are out playing football
0:09:37 > 0:09:43or watching EastEnders, whereas the real situation is some of us,
0:09:43 > 0:09:45like myself, are wanting to sit inside,
0:09:45 > 0:09:48educate ourselves watching these entertaining documentaries
0:09:48 > 0:09:51which are on after nine o'clock on a school night,
0:09:51 > 0:09:52when I have to go to bed.
0:09:52 > 0:09:57The Indian Ocean. Home to the world's most exotic islands.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00DRUMBEAT FROM EASTENDERS THEME TUNE
0:10:00 > 0:10:04I can't understand why soap operas such as EastEnders
0:10:04 > 0:10:07are on before nine o'clock,
0:10:07 > 0:10:13when they have very strong language and very adult storylines.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16This stops now, yeah? You and your freak of a fiance.
0:10:16 > 0:10:21Whereas some of these documentaries, er, do not.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Today, when we think of ancient Rome, this is what we see.
0:10:28 > 0:10:35I would like the BBC schedulers to switch these documentaries
0:10:35 > 0:10:38with these soap operas, so that people like me
0:10:38 > 0:10:40do not feel they are missing out
0:10:40 > 0:10:43on these very interesting television programmes.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Josh quite rightly bemoaning the lack of history programmes
0:10:46 > 0:10:48for those with early bedtimes.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Well, that completes our review of offerings this week
0:10:51 > 0:10:52for those that DON'T like football,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55but the football-loving half of the nation spent the last seven days
0:10:55 > 0:10:59tuned into coverage from Poland and the Ukraine,
0:10:59 > 0:11:01and both camps have had plenty to say
0:11:01 > 0:11:05about the effect their opposing tastes have had on their week.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Now, we've not had many of these this series - the howler.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15These are the continuity mistakes
0:12:15 > 0:12:18that programme-makers hate us pointing out
0:12:18 > 0:12:20and we love drawing attention to.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24The latest casualty is Casualty, and a case of disappearing spectacles.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Missing glasses? Let's take a look.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54So what are the chances
0:12:54 > 0:12:57that his brother's completely sickle-cell free?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58One in four.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I am a doctor, too!
0:13:00 > 0:13:02You hide it so well.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Never mind Dr Hanna,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06perhaps the director and editor need to find their specs.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07In two weeks' time,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10we have the Controller of BBC Daytime, Liam Keelan,
0:13:10 > 0:13:11in the hotseat,
0:13:11 > 0:13:14so if you have complaints about the morning menu
0:13:14 > 0:13:16or advice for afternoons - or indeed, early evenings -
0:13:16 > 0:13:18do get in touch.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Here's the address, the old-fashioned one.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26You are also more than welcome to email, of course.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Or you can jump on the messageboard, crash helmet on...
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Or phone us.
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0:13:43 > 0:13:44Goodbye.
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