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Tonight we are celebrating 125 years of the motor car, everything

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from this glamorous Mercedes worth �2 million to the fastest most

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iconic vehicles ever, from the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu,

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welcome to National Treasures Live. APPLAUSE. Good evening, welcome to

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National Treasures Live from a beautiful setting in the heart of

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the New Forest. It's gorgeous. This is Palace House, it's it's family

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seat of the Montagus and Lord Montagu started what was to become

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one of our largest and most important motoring collections.

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This place is more than a petrolhead's dream. The cars give a

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snapshot of life throughout the last century. Look at this one,

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exclusive luxury of 1909 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, considered by

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many to be the the greatest car of its time and isn't it? Stunning.

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Arguably its modern equivalent, the Ferrari Enzo, I spotted a man here

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who would like to drive one. Absolutely, I would love one.

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wouldn't fit the kids in, that's the problem. No back seat. To this

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modest, no less exciting car of recent times, this is the Ford

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Anglia and what's so exciting about this car. Harry Potter flew in it.

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He did indeed. Well done, thank you guys. Tonight we will hear the

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human stories behind these rather beautiful cars. We will see Sir

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Malcolm Campbell's record-breaking Bluebird, his grandson himself a

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motoring record-breaker, will explain why this place is so

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special to his family. Also on the anniversary of his first murder, we

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get exclusive access to the original police files on Jack the

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Ripper and I have my work cut out trying to explain to Michael

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Douglas why the Romans came here in the first place.

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If you have any questions of your own for Dan about the Romans or

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anything else, then do get in touch with us. Here is our e-mail address.

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You can follow us on Twitter. We will put him on-the-spot later.

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least favourite part of the show. We start 150 years ago before cars

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even as old as this this one were a regular sight on our roads. Larry

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Lamb heads back that way to look at how people entertained themselves

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long before the days of the soap opera.

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What I love about it's East End of London is around every corner

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there's a hidden historical gem to discover. Just like here, near

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Whitechaple. Behind this facade of five Victorian terrace houses lies

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one of the city's best kept seek Ritz. Built -- secrets.

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It's now one of our most important This is Wilton's Musical, the

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oldest surviving musical in the world. It's a bit haunting coming

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in here, it's shraoeubg a time -- it's like a time capsule. Takes you

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back to what some would call the good old days.

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Evolving from pub sing-a-longs from the 1860s the music hall was the

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most popular entertainment of its day, a mixture of crowd-pleasing

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songs, comedy and speciality acts, its legacy has been celebrated on

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both film and television. Carol Zeidman is the chief tour guide at

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Wilton's. What was it like when it was open in the 1860s? Very lively.

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In John Wilton's day we have witness accounts there were 1300

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people in here with extra chairs put in. Must have been on each

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other's shoulders or something. must have been pretty packed.

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Structurally it was much as you see now. It was the decorations that

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were different. The walls were pale blue and salmon pink. The walls

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were covered with mirrors. The balcony fronts were made of papier

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mache reinforced with plaster. Of all the gas lights, the most

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spectacular was a great big sunburner lamp and the whole thing

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was covered in a solid mass of 27,000 pieces of richly polished

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glass and feathers, spangles and spires. Who was the most famous act

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ever billed here at Wilton's? was George Leybourne, Champagne

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Charlie. He would sing his song Ladies and gentlemen,... Michael is

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an author and chairman of ceremonies who believes that the

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pop song has its roots in music hall. How important was music, did

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it sort of achieve a style of its own? The songs themselves began to

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reflect the lives of the people who were coming to the halls. It was

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about the mother-in-law, and troubles with the wife. In the

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earlier days there wasn'tle much of a chorus as we understand it and

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the emphasis began to move from the verses to the choruses. Where

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everybody joined in. The rather more jolly style of song began to

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emerge. There were thousands of songs

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written to feed this thirst and hunger for this kind of song, which

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reflected work and family life. What would you say were the overall

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causes of the demise of the music hall? It all actually got a bit

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tedious after 30 or 40 years. It tended to be the same subjects time

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after time. The other thing was the influence of American music which

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was so much more sophisticated. Unfortunately, now the decline of

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the music hall era is mirrored in the decline of these buildings.

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What fuels your sort of enthusiasm for preserving halls like this?

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Well, there isn't another hall like this and it's also the music hall

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that had the first performance of the can-can, which is a good enough

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reason to preserve it. Old time music halls were like the careers

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of the stars in them, brilliant but brief. They're now a part of our

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entertainment heritage, not just historical monuments and some of

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them like Wilton's are working museums so we should cherish them

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while we can because that is show show business.

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Certainly is, isn't it. Good old days. A great show, ran for 30

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years. It was and a treat for me because I was a boy who never

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really had been to the theatre, so to see the audience watching that

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stuff that my Gran grew up on, the songs she taught me, it was a treat.

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You remember the good old days? Yeah? You see, long memories and

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your granny was a huge fan? She was a Marie Lloyd fan, she was her

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favourite. I am going to take you to your own good old days if you

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don't mind, because this is a huge collection of cars, we know you

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like your cars and we found this. 1938 Morris 8. Why do you know this

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in particular? Because this was actually my first car, not this

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model, I have to say, but this was the first car I ever owned. Was it

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really? My key to freedom, yeah. How much was it, can you remember?

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I do, pfs -- it was �29. -- �39 but it represented a lot of money to me,

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it was all the money I used to earn the weekends working on a market

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stall but I had to have a car. I passed my driving licence as soon

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as I could. I went out and almost lost it immediately. You are happy

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in it now. Don't go anywhere but you can sit there. The smell is

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wonderful. From Larry's first car to one of the earliest surviving

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vehicles to drive on the roads of Britain now.

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I am in Heaven. Look at this. This is the Grenville steam carriage. It

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looks like a steam locomotive engine and smells like it, trust me

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on this one, and sounds like one. Instead of running on tracks, it

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runs on wheels, on the road. Revolutionary. Victorian roads were

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full of horses and carts and bicycles and everything so

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parliament in a bout of health and safety enthusiasm insisted a law

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was passed where you had to wave a red flag and a maximum speed limit

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was 4mph in the countryside, twomph in the city. That's pointless,

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isn't it. We are going slowly. pretty slow. In having this car,

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the British motoring industry it didn't really take off. In Germany,

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though, no such health and safety laws and a man called Karl Benz

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came up with this, this is really the father of all modern cars. It's

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got a engine, runs on gas gasoline. Not for the last time, German cars

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dominating the British market. Not this one, though. This British

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car, I think, outshone them all, a beautiful Rolls Royce. While cars

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were still a rare sight on the streets of London in the 1880s

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something more sinister was grabbing the headlines. It's 123

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years to the very day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim.

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Forensic anthropologist Zanthey Mallet has been given exclusive

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access to the original files. He emerged from the shadows in 1888,

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watch watching stalking, the autumn of terror had begun. Over the neck

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three months Jack the Ripper murdered five women in Whitechaple,

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slitting their throats and mutilating their bodies. Then

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Britain's most famous serial killer melted back into the shadows, his

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real identity never revealed. But now, more than a century on, with

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the help of a top murder detective I hope to unveil his true face.

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Despite the intervening 123 years, this case is very much alive. In

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that time over 200 suspects have been named, from royalty and

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artists to Queen Victoria's own surgeon Sir William Gull. This list

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of suspects continues to lengthen because of the incredible trerb

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trove of original documents and it's some of these that the London

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Metropolitan archives have given me privileged access to. As a forensic

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anthropologist I have looked at cold cases before but to get a

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chance to review the most famous cold case ever is very exciting. At

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the time the police and newspapers received many letters supposedly

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from the killer. OK, this one is a postcode and it's made out to the

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city of London police and it's actually stamped with the 4th

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February 1889 and it says: Dear boss, be on the look out as I am

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coming to visit. It's signed Jack the Ripper. I am actually allowed

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to take this one out: Dear boss, the police will not get me. They

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think they will. I hope they do. I will rip some more up soon. Jack

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the Ripper. I am hopeful the clues to unlocking

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his identity are lurking somewhere inside these very documents. I have

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asked ex-murder squad detective Trevor Maret, an expert on the

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archives, to explain his latest theories. What can we pull out of

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these letters that may be relevant to this investigation? I think one

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thing you should look at is one letter that refers to the removal

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of organs. I like to find them nice parts. What is the relevance of

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body parts? For a time the police believed that the killer could have

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possibly been a surgeon because these organs that were removed from

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the victims were apparently removed by someone with some anatomical

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knowledge. Trevor believes this isn't necessarily the case.

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anatomy kwrabgt abelieved doctors and medical students to go to

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mortuaries and freely take organs for research purposes. The idea

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that someone else had taken the body parts seems to be borne out by

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documents relating to the fourth victim, Catherine Edows. If you

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look at the inquest report and the time of the PC who found the body,

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he went into the square at about 1.30 and then says at about 1.44 he

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came back and found the body of Catherine in darkest part of the

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square. That leaves less than 14 minutes and clearly, in my

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estimatation, that's not sufficiently long enough for

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someone to kill somebody, to mutilate their body, to then remove

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a uterus and kidney in almost total darkness with what was described as

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Trevor began to focus on the records of travellers.

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investigation turned towards the a German seaman employed by a German

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fleet. They had vessels in London on all the dates of the murders bar

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one. Why is he your top suspect? was arrested and executed in New

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York for a ripper-like murder and he suffered from a diseasey so

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often manifested itself and forced him to kill and mutilate women. So

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putting together with all the other things in connection with the man,

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must make him one of the top suspects. No picture of him exists.

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So Trevor has put together an e-fit. We may be looking at the face of

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Jack the Ripper? Yes it is a possibility. At the moment, it is

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just a theory. But it is chilling to think we could finally be

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looking at the word's most infamous serial killer. It is amazing we are

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still talking about this almost 125 years later. Now, have a look at

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these cars. There is a bit of history in each one. This is the

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car that started it all. A 1903 deDion Boutin. You like it. It is a

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beauty. You with tpwhro horn if you want. Promise? Yes. It does have

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history. It has been in the Montagu family for 100 years and it was the

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car that started the collection F I take you inside and tell you more

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about it. Nearly 60 years ago, the current Lord Montagu opened the

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doors of this house to the public and invited them to see his car

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collection. And the collection was housed in the museum. And this is

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the start of the museum. Here? Interesting place for a museum.

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might think so. A beautiful hall. It is the front hall. It was a bill

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yard room. There were five cars in here. And if we look at it in 1952

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it was a squash to be honest. There were five cars here and then Lord

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Montagu decided hef going to expand the collection. He was doing it for

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his father. His father was a motoring pioneer. It is in the

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family? Yes. He moved the cars. Hello! To the pantry and the

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kitchen. And it smelled so badly of oil, the women said it is us or the

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cars. Come and clean this up again. So he took the cars outside and

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that is how it started. 250 cars later. Kept the cars and kept the

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wife. Yes. Well done. Now Dan is with a personal with a connection

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to the cars. We have come into the main collection. This is one of the

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most incredible collections anywhere. We have everything from

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the model. The Ford and the thing I'm most excited about are some of

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the fastest British cars produced. This was christened the Bluebird.

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What is the story behind this name? My grandfather had a series of nick

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names for the cars mp one day he was a play called the Bluebird of

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happiness and bought tin of blue paint and painted the car blue and

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christened it Bluebird and won his first race. It became his Bluebird

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of happy ps. Here is footage of it breaking the record. In those days

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he did 125mph. All these cars followed it, break records. We have

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the Sunbeam and these are not your family vehicles? No, but my

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grandfather had a great British battle in the 20s and 30s to be the

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fastest man in the world. It is a shame that sea grave was killed.

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Your uncle Don cap bell got the record in this beast. Another

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Bluebird. What is the difference in horsepower? This is a massive 4,100

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horsepower, the other was 350. You needed to get that speed. That was

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the record, in 1964. This is quicker than the McLaren F1 there?

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Yes it is the fastest car built by a Briton. It is more powerful.

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have set records with electric cars. What is going on with your family?

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It is something my grandfather started and this thr is this

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wanting to go fast and we have got it. Good luck. I expect to come

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back in a few years and see Morecambe bell cars lined up.

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hope to have an electric car that can do 500mph. Good luck. Yes good

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luck to dorn. Now Dan and Michael have been raying around in their

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own special vehicle, -- racing around in their own vehicle. But it

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won't break any record. After last week's visit to Preston, Dan pushed

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it too far. It didn't like that hill. # If you leave me now # You

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take away the biggest part of me! Please don't go # I just want you

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to stay! It will take more Nan a broken van to keep those boys down.

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They're heading north in search of the Romans. Well the van's gone. It

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blew up. Michael's gone to get me another one. Here he is. Oh you

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have got to be kidding. Is this a joke? She is called Dougall. This

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is rubbish. You broke the other one with your massive feet. Where are

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we going? One of my fundamental periods of history. The Romans. The

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first people who came here and left any written record and left a lot

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of archaeology and this is an incredible site. Look at it. Yeah

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it is incredible. What will we find? We could find wood. That is

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treasure. Roman wood. No gold? Do we learn anything from these

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digs. Are they worth it. Or do you just find the same stuff? Possibly

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the highlight of the site is the tower. There is not much of it left.

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There is none of it left. There is the found weigh. If you were Italy,

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why would you come here? It is freezing! The weather's rubbish.

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Michael wants to know why they came here. It is a difficult question.

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It is one of the biggest questions in history, why do people invade

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other lands. If I show him some of the remains that has survived 2,000

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years, maybe he will get a sense of what Roman Britain was about.

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surprised they bit it so close to a met way. The old road was behind

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there. The amount of times I heard the Romans gave us the roads.

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Before then we didn't go anywhere. We couldn't get past a tree. What

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is the deal with Romans and roads? The Romans... Come on! They made

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incredible roads that survive to the present and for 2,000 years

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almost remained usable. Finding a bit of bone or a pebble. I want to

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find body, a man with an axe or gold. I'm not interested in every

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pebble, but I see family that have come to a hostile land and tried to

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survive and protect themselves. This is a human story. If you put

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it like that. Why didn't you say that at the beginning? Out of all

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of Britain this is the most Roman bit? Out of north of Britain it is

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the most important Roman place, yes. It is nothing to do with the Romans.

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But it was the site of power here. It could have been cool. This is

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the Roman Emperor Billy Connolly Constantine. He declared -- the

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Roman emp or the Constantine. He declared he was the efrpl erEmperor

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of all Rome. I still don't know why you could come here. We should head

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north and you may change your mind. How is this van faring? Better than

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you one you broke. There is Hadrian's wall. It is only two foot

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high. Look at it. You could jump over that. We're getting close to

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one of the great sites of the briel. This is called House Steads. That

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is an archaeology site. That is the best thing you have shown me.

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the wall was attacked, they could respond to any attack. You know I'm

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Scottish. Mad people like you. is this? You see this looks like a

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jumbled pile of rocks. But it is a hospital built to lack after the

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guys. Kitchen here obviously. Under floor heating. Central heating.

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Crystal Maze. Look at this, the highlight. Look at these what

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treens. -- lat Reens. Why did they come here? They came because of the

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age old reasons for prestige, to show they were the great e and to

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pillage the land, there were slaifrs here, good agricultural --

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slaves here and good agricultural land and for all these reasons. You

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think about our guys in Afghanistan today, they're in fortified camps

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serving miles from home in a hostile land. That is what is

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exciting about history. These buildings change, the landscapes

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change, but the human beings in them don't change. They're just the

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same? Yes. It is amazing. Nice new wheels. I like Dougall. It is the

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lesser of two evils. I know it is an interest to you, the romance.

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Are there any specific foods stuffs that the romance brought with them

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that have stayed on through the time? Larry. That is a difficult

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one. The Romans brought everything. It was the first era of

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globalization. And when they left, that trade got shut off. We went

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back to eating what we had here. So nothing. What about wines? Would

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wines have been here? Yes they brought wines. And planted vines.

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Yes. He knows a lot. Get a tweet in. How effective was the wall at

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keeping out the Scottish? effective enough! Terrible. It was

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effective. But it was about stationing troops that could attack

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over the wall and they were aggressive themselves. They did

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well. If you want to find out more, head to our web-site. There are

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activities you can do. You make a Roman Villa out of card board. And

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the web-site address I on screen. And later Larry is in who do you

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