0:00:02 > 0:00:04Northern Ireland is one of the friendliest places in the UK.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06And that is official.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08But in this series, I'm going to be pushing that friendliness right
0:00:08 > 0:00:12to the very limit, to see if Northern Ireland can be friends
0:00:12 > 0:00:14with my old pal, Adrian Chiles.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18Let's just say, so far it's been a bit of a titanic challenge.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Whether it has been in the city...
0:00:22 > 0:00:25- This is Adrian Chiles, ladies. - Hi. How are you doing?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Oh, Adrian Chiles, the miserable one!
0:00:27 > 0:00:29LAUGHTER
0:00:29 > 0:00:30..or out in the countryside...
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Oh, caught it! You did catch it.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Oh!
0:00:37 > 0:00:40He even struggled on the coast.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43- Am I sticking out here or blending in?- No, you're blending in. Yeah.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Sure we're all different.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48LAUGHTER
0:00:48 > 0:00:52In many ways up to now, this has been a bit of a journey looking at
0:00:52 > 0:00:54contemporary and traditional friendships here
0:00:54 > 0:00:56in Northern Ireland.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59But today, we're going to go into the future.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02I just hope Adrian is ready.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Oh, my goodness.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09MUSIC: Back To The Future Theme
0:01:09 > 0:01:11- Come on, Christine. - HE COUGHS
0:01:13 > 0:01:15In you get. We're going for a drive.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34So, I have to ask you, why are we sitting in a DeLorean?
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'll tell you why. Because you said it was about the future.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39This goes Back To The Future, made in Northern Ireland.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- I thought it was a good idea.- There was a lot of thought went into that.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45But you're wrong. That's not what I meant. I was talking about the future of friendship,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49and how young people are now friends with people they've met online,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51through social media, that's the sort of thing I was getting at.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54OK, but I'm not sure I believe in all of that.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56I don't do social media, but, I don't know,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59I just think if you've got a friend who you know, you meet,
0:01:59 > 0:02:01you spend time with, that's one thing.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05A friend over social media that you don't meet strikes me as being a bit
0:02:05 > 0:02:09- different. But what do I do? I don't know it. Christine, educate me.- OK.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Tell me something else. How do you get out of a car like this?
0:02:12 > 0:02:13At my age, you just can't get out.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15What do you do?
0:02:16 > 0:02:17Let's try.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33It was patently obvious the only kind of posts Chiles had made
0:02:33 > 0:02:35involved a pen and paper.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39It was time to get him logged onto the benefits of social media.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44And as usual, Northern Ireland has a leading light in this very world.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Hey, guys. So today, I'm going to do a video for you guys,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50basically showing you my everyday make-up routine.
0:02:50 > 0:02:5416-year-old Sophie has amassed a substantial following on YouTube,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58where people can watch her beauty videos and interact with her.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Remember to like, comment and subscribe.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Tell me what you guys want to see
0:03:02 > 0:03:05and, yeah, I'll be back with more videos soon. Bye!
0:03:05 > 0:03:06My friend Adrian, unfortunately,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08just doesn't get the social media thing at all.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Doesn't get how people become friends, doesn't understand it, OK?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I've got some elementary knowledge. I know there are different things.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17I got a vague understanding of what Instagram is.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19How many Instagram thingies have you got?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23I have 727,000 Instagram followers.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Right. That's nearly three-quarters of a million. That's a lot.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31How many people watch your YouTube channel?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I've got over 300,000 actual subscribers on it,
0:03:34 > 0:03:39but some of my videos have got up to a million views. So...
0:03:39 > 0:03:40OK.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43What percentage of them might you describe as friends?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Do they feel like friends?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47I try and talk to them as much as possible,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49like private message them on Instagram.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54I try to take away that barrier so that the people who do follow me,
0:03:54 > 0:03:58I am quite friendly and I try and make more of a friendship thing.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00My best friend actually messaged me on Twitter saying,
0:04:00 > 0:04:03"Hey, where's your dress from, it's really nice?"
0:04:03 > 0:04:07And for something to kind of start off with just like a little message,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10and she's been my best friend now for like three years.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12- And where is she?- In Sydenham. It's not that far.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17So it gains you friends, or you have online relationships with people.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21- Does it lose you friends as well? - A lot of the people that I even like thought were friends,
0:04:21 > 0:04:24as soon as I started doing this, it was like,
0:04:24 > 0:04:28they didn't want nothing to do with me while I was kind of doing the
0:04:28 > 0:04:29online thing. It was crazy in school.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Like, I got bullied in school for what I was doing.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35People just didn't like the idea of someone doing something different.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38So, I definitely lost what I thought were friends,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41but then gained friends who really do support me in what I'm doing.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44What about if somebody in San Diego says, "Your hair looks rubbish,"
0:04:44 > 0:04:46or something, does that upset you?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48For me, not really.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Maybe in the beginning when it was
0:04:51 > 0:04:54less people. Now it's kind of like...
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- You know.- If that happens, just get me their address
0:04:57 > 0:05:01and I'll Facetime them.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Isn't it interesting, when I think back to school days,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06and I'm sure you are the same, where you had one, two, three, four,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08five maybe close mates.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Young people are now looking at their followers on social media,
0:05:12 > 0:05:16and that therefore allows people to see how popular you are.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18You are used to having one or two friends.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21It's now like friendship groups, you call them.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23I'm in the popular friendship group.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28But just about! I'm like the least important one from that group.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32- That's kind of the way it works now. - We'd love to see what you do.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33I have no idea how you put this all together.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36So can I be a little bystander?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Yeah, I do most of my stuff in my room,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42so if you want to come up to my room, we can see what I get up to.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43OK. Very exciting.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Excellent. I suggest you sit here.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- I'm not invited? - I don't think you should be.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49How am I going to know what's happening?
0:05:49 > 0:05:52There's an iPad, you can watch it like the millions of others.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- Do you know how to work the iPad? - CHRISTINE LAUGHS
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Yes, I do know to work an iPad!
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Can I just say? See how much of a star she is.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02- She's got an iPad to match her jumper.- Thank you.- That's class.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04SHE LAUGHS Take it away.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06I'll follow you, my dear. Very exciting, yes.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08I'll sit here in a stranger's house with a yellow iPad.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10This is 21st century.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12It was showtime.
0:06:12 > 0:06:18So Sophia, I and our crew relocated to Sophia's studio, or bedroom,
0:06:18 > 0:06:19as it's commonly known.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Adrian, meanwhile, watched the show go out online
0:06:22 > 0:06:24after a slight hiccup.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26What do I do about that?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Yeah, so this is like Instagram live.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32So, basically, you just go live and people can like ask you questions.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36And I can see people logging on already there.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Already we have 954 people in here.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- Just already.- That's incredible.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Look at all these. Look.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45I've been on about 30 seconds.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49"You're gorg"? Oh, gorge.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52It's such a great way of interacting straightaway to everyone that's
0:06:52 > 0:06:54really intrigued by what you do, and your life.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57"Love Latino women, like the one in the yellow top."
0:06:57 > 0:06:59She's from flipping Newtownards!
0:06:59 > 0:07:01I like to try to be as close as possible to the people
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- that follow me.- I thought there'd be more questions on here.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07It's just saying how much they love her and how beautiful she is.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10I have got a few questions for you, my dear.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12This is our quickfire round, everybody.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15What quality do you most admire in a friend?
0:07:15 > 0:07:19I feel as if there are a lot of qualities you're going to want in a friend...
0:07:19 > 0:07:24Somebody called carollajnkisskiss - "Have you ever been to Poland?"
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Well, I have. Can I join in?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30I've been to Poland. "Hi, you don't know me..."
0:07:30 > 0:07:34If one pop star could be your best friend, who would it be?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36If I could have a best friend, dead or living,
0:07:36 > 0:07:38my best friend would be Kurt Cobain.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42- Really?- I would bring him back and he would be my best like boyfriend.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Definitely.- That is very interesting.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Right, OK, finally, what advice
0:07:48 > 0:07:53would you give to this man to make more friends?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56And please check out the tie, everybody.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Oh, God! I can't watch this. I didn't know about this.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01No. Switch it off.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Maybe just look a bit more friendly!
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Oh, God, it's stressful.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Social media frightens me.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22The sight of his younger, happier-looking self may
0:08:22 > 0:08:26have scared him, but had my Luddite pal become even slightly switched
0:08:26 > 0:08:29on to the benefits of social media?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32So, Adrian, what did you think of Sophia?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35I thought Sophia was just remarkably intelligent
0:08:35 > 0:08:38and nice and seemed quite centred.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40I suppose my worry would be, somebody that young,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42a million followers, great.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44But, you know, things can go the other way.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46You can stop being flavour of the month.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48I must say, I'm not quite sure
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I understood the point of the Instagram broadcast,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53in terms of the stuff coming in was sort of content...
0:08:53 > 0:08:56It was either, "You're beautiful, I love you,"
0:08:56 > 0:08:58"Who's the other woman?"
0:08:58 > 0:08:59And then some stuff in Spanish.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01And then some obscenities.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04I didn't see what it added to the sum of human knowledge.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07It allows people at home to feel like they get to know her.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09That she is their friend, actually,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12because she's talking directly on their level, that's all.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14- Right, OK.- Yeah.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17I'm slightly bewildered. But generally impressed.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Good.- Let's sum it up like that. Where is next?- OK.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- You know what, don't you worry about it!- OK.- Yeah.- I'll just follow you.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23It's easier like that.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33After his brief foray into the virtual world of social media,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I sensed Adrian needed some reassurance about friendships' future.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40So I'd arranged to get the thoughts of the next generation on the matter
0:09:40 > 0:09:44at a rather appropriately named location.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Friends' School in Lisburn, where a special class of mates,
0:09:47 > 0:09:51chums and pals had been assembled to meet us.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Hello, everybody. How are we all?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54All good? Yes.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Look at those big, happy, smiley faces.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Right now, boys and girls,
0:09:58 > 0:10:02I am here today because I want to talk about friendship.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Who has got a best friend in here?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- MANY CHILDREN:- Me! - Ooh, that's lovely.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08All the hands go up. Very, very nice.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Well, I've come along today with a very best mate...
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Well, I wouldn't really say best mate.
0:10:14 > 0:10:19- His name is Adrian. ALL:- Hello, Adrian.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Oh, that's such a lovely feeling. I want to be a teacher.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Now he can be a little bit grumpy.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29LAUGHTER I'm not going to lie.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Can you do a little grumpy face for me? Oh, you must admit Adrian before.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33That looked very, very like him.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36That's brilliant down at the back there, look!
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Well anyway, I want to prove to Adrian today, boys and girls,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44just how friendly we all are, just how friendly you all are.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Is that OK? Can I get a big cheer for being friends?
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- Yes? ALL:- Yeah! - Right, what I wanted to do,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54when I go, "Go", go and find your best friend.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56OK? One, two...
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Hang on, hang on, hang on!
0:10:58 > 0:11:00You two can't wait to hug each other.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Just wait a second. One, two, three, friends, go!
0:11:08 > 0:11:10After partnering up with their pals,
0:11:10 > 0:11:14it was time to get our classmates' views on friendship.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Why is she your friend?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Because we both laugh together.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21What sort of things do you look for in a friend?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Friendly, kind and helpful.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25And how long have you been friends?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29- Four years.- Four?! You're only six!
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Seven!
0:11:30 > 0:11:34When you're really old ladies, like Christine,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- do you think you'll still be friends?- Yeah.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40When you three are as old as me and your hair is my colour...
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- Yeah...- We can dye it!
0:11:43 > 0:11:45You'd dye it?!
0:11:45 > 0:11:47It's so bad, is it, I should dye it?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50- Will you three still be friends, do you think?- ALL:- Yeah.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Friends forever.- Friends forever.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Everyone was keen to stay friends for life,
0:11:54 > 0:11:55and in one case, beyond.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Are you going to be friends for all your life?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- BOTH:- Yeah.- Even when I die, I'm going to be buried with...
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Oh, that's a dark note.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04And that wasn't the only theme on which they were united.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Do you think boys can be friends with girls?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09- No.- No.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11You see, you say that now.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- BOTH:- No.- They fart all the time.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16They fart all the time?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Well, Lily and Rory are friends.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23No, she likes me, I do not like her.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Controversial!- No.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30- Why is that? KID SHOUTS:- Because they stink.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- They stink?- Yeah. Even you.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35LAUGHTER
0:12:35 > 0:12:37I thought we were friends.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41My dog is my best friend, I have to say.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- What about your dog - is your dog one of your best friends?- Yeah. - Why?- Then them.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- Do you give it lots of cuddles? - Yeah.- Do you walk him?- Yeah.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51It's a girl, is it? You see, you can be friends with girls.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Only a dog! - LAUGHTER
0:12:54 > 0:12:56It was all heart-warming stuff,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00but Adrian couldn't help but bring up the subject of disagreements.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Evie, do you two ever have arguments?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- Sometimes.- Hang on, I wasn't talking to you. Wait a second.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Tilly, just pipe down a little bit.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- Evie?- Sometimes.- Do you? What do you have arguments about?
0:13:13 > 0:13:18For who's being the mum in mums and dads.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Who wants to be a dad?
0:13:20 > 0:13:23And he even felt it necessary to try and start one.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Even though you're best friends, I bet I can make you have an argument.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28- No.- Are you ready?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30OK, who's the best footballer of the three of you?
0:13:30 > 0:13:33- We're all the same.- No, you can't... That's a copout.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Who's the best?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Oh, you think you're... He's saying he's the best.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- Me second, he's third. - No, I'm not!
0:13:42 > 0:13:44You see, told you. Argument. I've got something important to ask you.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46What?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49I would like to be your friend.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50OK.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54What is your answer? I can't bear to listen to this.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55- Yes.- Yeah!
0:13:55 > 0:13:57And with that... BELL DINGS
0:13:57 > 0:13:59..the bell for break time went.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02The children headed out to play one of their favourite games and we
0:14:02 > 0:14:04decided to join in.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08You can cross the Red Sea if...
0:14:08 > 0:14:10..you wear glasses.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18You're mine, you're mine, you're mine!
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Until it all got a bit much for Adrian and he tried to escape.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Sometimes you can have too many friends, I guess.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45THEY SPEAK INAUDIBLY
0:14:55 > 0:14:58It was time to blind the usually bewildered child, sorry,
0:14:58 > 0:15:04Chiles with an disputable scientific proof of our friendliness.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06I need you to pay attention now, you see, OK?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09I brought you to the psychology department of Queens University.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Right, looks good. - Very nice place, yes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Apparently, there is a science behind friendship.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Never!- Yeah.- And do they know what it is here?- Well, yeah, I think they do.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I'm going to prove it to you. But I need you to look the part.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- Thank you very much.- What are we channelling here, some 1970s university?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25That's...that is the one. I know you can do this well.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27You take charge of that.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28- Very good.- We'll whip the tie on.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30And I think you might be good to go.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Get walking, that's it.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Dr Gary McKeown's areas of expertise include how we communicate
0:15:40 > 0:15:42and interact socially.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47And he's developed an experiment that can tell how close two friends
0:15:47 > 0:15:51really are by revealing the secret signals they give off.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54In this experimental set-up, we essentially,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57we get people in and get them to just have natural interactions
0:15:57 > 0:16:00with one another so that we can measure what's going on.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04And we use these machines at the bottom here to measure the facial
0:16:04 > 0:16:07expressions and then that informs us about the relationship between the
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- two people.- That's interesting. - Let's go and give it a try,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- let's have a sit through. - OK, right, yeah.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14There we go. Can you see us?
0:16:14 > 0:16:18I'm assuming that you need two aligned minds, friends for years,
0:16:18 > 0:16:20that's what makes this experiment really interesting.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Friends of many years' standing.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24The longer, the better.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29I've got the very thing for you.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Adrian knew the perfect pair to call on.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35Friends of more than 40 years who he had met way back in show one.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Let's hug it out. Fantastic.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39I've found some friends. Proper friends,
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Nan and Betty, they're the bee's knees.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44OK, ladies, make your way into my laboratory.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Nan, I'd like you in the seat to the right.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Betty, to the left.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Don't be afraid, it's not an interrogation.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56OK? All you've got to do is look at each other...
0:16:56 > 0:16:58..and just chat.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03# Ready or not, here comes science
0:17:03 > 0:17:06# Ooh-wee. #
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Remember the time travelling?
0:17:08 > 0:17:12Lucille fell through the bed, you fell down the stairs
0:17:12 > 0:17:15and I fell through the chair?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- That was a good holiday, wasn't it? - Lucy broke the bed.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Yeah, I remember jumping over and I took the blame of it.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25So here, you're measuring...
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Stuff around there, the size and intensity of the smile.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Along here, we're really interested in the relationship between
0:17:32 > 0:17:35what's going on in this face and what's going on in this face over here.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I think he wanted to get rid of us, so he did.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39- That's right.- Didn't blame him.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41How significant
0:17:41 > 0:17:46is the smile and just how much someone smiles at one another?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Smiling is hugely significant,
0:17:48 > 0:17:52and the level of intensity that goes on within the smiles.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Actually, these two over here are the smile-ometer.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00Have you seen this? Brow lowerer, upper lip raiser, dimp dimpler.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Man, look at his face doing the dimple.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08You see, I truly believe we smile more in Northern Ireland than anywhere else.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Certainly anywhere else in the UK.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Yeah, and there are definitely cultural differences
0:18:14 > 0:18:17whenever we do that, and it probably is the case.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18We've done research...
0:18:20 > 0:18:24..looking at differences between Serbia and Peru and Guatemala
0:18:24 > 0:18:28and Northern Ireland, so I couldn't say for sure within the UK context,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31but for sure in Northern Ireland, we smile a lot more.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- We're up there.- Yeah. - There's plenty of smiling going on. - Yes, yes, for sure.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- That was a good holiday, wasn't it? - Lucy broke her bed.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Yeah, remember jumping over. - And I took the blame of it.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44I honestly think
0:18:44 > 0:18:47we could just all walk out quietly here and come back
0:18:47 > 0:18:51tomorrow morning, in 18 hours' time, and they'd be still be...
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Come on, let's go. Let's just leave.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- They'll be looked after.- No.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Used to come up every Tuesday and get soda bread.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01- Out at Jordan's?- Jordan's.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04And the apple tart...
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Half for now and half for...
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Oh, Nan, things we do.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14- I think it's been great but hasn't it?- Yeah.- Great.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16After letting Gary crunch and consider all the
0:19:16 > 0:19:19data from Nan and Betty's conversation,
0:19:19 > 0:19:22it was time for the results of our experiment.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Would they have proved the theory right and displayed the secret signals
0:19:25 > 0:19:28only real friends show?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Nan and Betty are claiming they're friends,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32but we need a scientific analysis.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Are they really scientifically friends?
0:19:34 > 0:19:40Certainly they do everything that would show them to be very strong
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- friends.- When you look at the film of them,
0:19:43 > 0:19:45what does the body language tell you?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48We have an example here when one of them leans back,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51the other one leans back very shortly afterwards.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57And that's a sort of classic kind of mirroring technique.
0:19:57 > 0:19:58- Oh, yeah!- You've treated this, haven't you?
0:19:58 > 0:20:03In this clip, they're talking about cooking together an awful lot and
0:20:03 > 0:20:07there's just this huge amount of shared laughter between them and you
0:20:07 > 0:20:09wouldn't find that in a situation
0:20:09 > 0:20:13where you had a stranger talking with a friend.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14You just wouldn't find that laughter.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16They are acting out a play.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21They've been there many, many times before and reassuring each other,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24you're there, you're a rock in my life.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28We needed some scientific bottom and you've given me some scientific
0:20:28 > 0:20:29bottom to all this, hasn't he?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Yes, yes. Very friendly bottom.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Very friendly bottom. Yes.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37Gary, you are undoubtedly my favourite psychologist anywhere
0:20:37 > 0:20:39in the world now. You're the man.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Of course, he's from Northern Ireland!
0:20:41 > 0:20:44- He's the friendliest. - He's the friendliest anywhere!
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Our friendship journey was nearly at an end.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I'd shown Adrian the very best of Northern Ireland.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03However, there was an elephant in the room.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04A big one!
0:21:04 > 0:21:06OK, I give in.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10It is probably the friendliest place I have ever been.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13However, there is one thing you can't deliver.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- What's that, then?- Politicians,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18two politicians from either side of the divide,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21not just civil to each other but actually friends.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Actually bosom buddies. If you can deliver that, well.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- No, it can be difficult, obviously. - You can't deliver that.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31- It can be difficult. Obviously, there's been a bit of history. - No. You're never going to do it.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- However...- No.- ..I think...- No.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36..I think I can, I think I can.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38If I do, does that confirm everything for you?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- No, no. Yes.- And OK, then. - Right, OK.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Adrian was clearly in disbelief at this point,
0:21:48 > 0:21:52as you probably are at home, but I'd been given a tip-off that
0:21:52 > 0:21:54two councillors in Downpatrick,
0:21:54 > 0:21:57one from the DUP and the other from the SDLP,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00weren't only chums but besties.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Of course, it could all have been just a rumour,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06so we'd need to hunt high and low.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14First, we checked in the council chamber,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16but everyone was out to lunch.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21We scoured the town centre with no success.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24We even scoped out funky monkeys,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26but things just started going downhill.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32In fact, we were about to give up when suddenly,
0:22:32 > 0:22:33we heard a friendly warning.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35- SHOUTS:- Fore!
0:22:42 > 0:22:46And that's when we spotted them, strolling down the fairway.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Meet Terry and Billy,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51whose friendship is anything but par for the course.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- Oh, don't tell me we find them. Unbelievable.- There they are.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Gentlemen, nice to see you. Hello, Terry.- Nice to see you.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01- Nice to see you, yeah. - Elusive, elusive.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- Nice to meet you, yeah.- Hello, Billy.- You're very welcome.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Thank you. Enjoying a round of golf, then?- Yes, on a good blustery day.
0:23:08 > 0:23:13But you are hard-working local politicians. You don't just play golf and enjoy ourselves all day.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Well, as the old saying goes, we work hard and play hard!
0:23:15 > 0:23:19How do you two know each other? Where does the friendship start from?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Well, it started about 20 years ago
0:23:21 > 0:23:26when myself got into community work
0:23:26 > 0:23:29within my local area of Killyleagh.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Terry was an activist in the Crossgar
0:23:33 > 0:23:37and we'd worked closely on a lot of social issues.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42Basically, that's when we first sort of met and struck up a friendship.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47What, did it start with an argument? Look, I mean, SDLP, DUP.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50I don't know if you've heard, but there's been the odd conflict and
0:23:50 > 0:23:51exchange of words over the years.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55Well, the way I look at it, it's democracy in action.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58There's no point you at the debating table sitting mute and sitting quiet.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01As they say over here, it's no harm having a good old barney now and again.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04We do have a lot of arguments on issues that we don't agree on
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and it can get hot and heavy at times but whenever we come out,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11we sit over a cup of tea and a sandwich and talk through it.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13What about the party high command?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16They know we work very well and I think the winners here are our
0:24:16 > 0:24:20constituents. We do it for the love of our constituency and our
0:24:20 > 0:24:23constituents and it seems to be paying off, paying dividends.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25And for the love of each other.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Well, I wouldn't say that!
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Billy and Terry are such good mates,
0:24:29 > 0:24:33they even go on holiday together and the pair's friendly sense of rivalry
0:24:33 > 0:24:36has all also benefited local charities.
0:24:36 > 0:24:43Almost three years ago, we were asked to get into the boxing ring
0:24:43 > 0:24:46to raise money for suicide awareness.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- And who won?- I'm claiming I won, but...
0:24:49 > 0:24:52The local community was teed up
0:24:52 > 0:24:57and people were stopping us in the street and saying, hope you knock the daylights out of that boy.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01And as I say, even on the night in question, we were dressed in our party colours -
0:25:01 > 0:25:05I was dressed in black and red boxing shorts for Down GAA, and a black vest.
0:25:05 > 0:25:10So any other challenges? I don't know, acrobatics and marathon running?
0:25:10 > 0:25:13We had an eating competition. Eating a sub roll,
0:25:13 > 0:25:14and I ate him under the table.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16We also had a cycle run there just before Christmas.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20- I won.- For the... He did. For the homeless.
0:25:20 > 0:25:26We have raised near £15,000 between us in the last two and a half years
0:25:26 > 0:25:27for a wee local charity.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30I think you do need to go straight to Stormont on sort everything out.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Yeah. Right, today!
0:25:31 > 0:25:35You know, a lot of hard work has to be done up there.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38But there needs to be a few friendships made, don't there?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40You two are obviously the absolute foundation.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43I think friendships are very important.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47It might have different points of view and difference of opinions on
0:25:47 > 0:25:51things but at the heels of the hunt, you have to say, look,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I mightn't like this or they mightn't like that,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56but you have to do what's right for the people that put you in.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00- Yeah.- Striking up friendships - I believe it's a big, big help.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05Reason being, I'm no less a unionist because I've got a working
0:26:05 > 0:26:09relationship with Terry in local issues and that.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Terry is no less a nationalist
0:26:12 > 0:26:16because he's working alongside me
0:26:16 > 0:26:18and if we all get down and do that,
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I think this wee country would be a better place for everyone.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Well, listen. Sorry to interrupt your round on such a beautiful day.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30- Play through, gentlemen. - Absolutely. Thank you very much.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Enjoy your day.- Good luck at your swings.- No problem!
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Well, Adrian. What do you think of that?
0:26:40 > 0:26:44I'm convinced. OK, you've worn me down.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45They prove it. Friendship is everywhere.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Friendship is like gorse bushes in Northern Ireland.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50They're just everywhere you can see.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- Fair enough, you win.- Well, Northern Ireland's made friends
0:26:53 > 0:26:56with you, too. And we all know that's a miracle.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00That absolutely is a miracle. And this only one way to round this off.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03I want friends to reunite. Come on.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06# You've got a friend in me
0:27:06 > 0:27:10# Yeah, you've got a friend in me. #
0:27:10 > 0:27:15And that's what we arranged at the place we started our journey,
0:27:15 > 0:27:16the spirit of Belfast,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20where some of the friends we'd made throughout the series came together
0:27:20 > 0:27:23to hear Adrian spread the good news.
0:27:25 > 0:27:30Friends, Belfast people, countryfolk, lend me your ears.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34I've seen the light right here in Northern Ireland.
0:27:34 > 0:27:39Yes, you've got a friend in me.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45So yes,
0:27:45 > 0:27:49I'll be there for you when the rain starts to fall.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I'll be there for you,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54like I've been there before.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04And finally, let me say, for the record,
0:28:04 > 0:28:09if you threw a party and invited everyone you knew,
0:28:09 > 0:28:13you would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached
0:28:13 > 0:28:15would say,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18thank you for being a friend.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34# And when we both get older
0:28:34 > 0:28:37# With walking canes and hair of grey
0:28:38 > 0:28:42# Have no fear even though it's hard to hear
0:28:42 > 0:28:45# I will stand real close and say
0:28:45 > 0:28:52# Thank you for being a friend. #