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

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

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

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

National Treasures Live from a beautiful setting in the heart of

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

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

one of our largest and most important motoring collections.

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

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

exclusive luxury of 1909 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, considered by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

get exclusive access to the original police files on Jack the

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

Douglas why the Romans came here in the first place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

long before the days of the soap opera.

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

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

Whitechaple. Behind this facade of five Victorian terrace houses lies

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

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

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

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

back to what some would call the good old days.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

spectacular was a great big sunburner lamp and the whole thing

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

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

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

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

an author and chairman of ceremonies who believes that the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

emerge. There were thousands of songs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

entertainment heritage, not just historical monuments and some of

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

while we can because that is show show business.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

vehicles to drive on the roads of Britain now.

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

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

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

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

full of horses and carts and bicycles and everything so

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forensic anthropologist Zanthey Mallet has been given exclusive

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

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

three months Jack the Ripper murdered five women in Whitechaple,

slitting their throats and mutilating their bodies. Then

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

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

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

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

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

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

of suspects continues to lengthen because of the incredible trerb

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

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

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

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

the time the police and newspapers received many letters supposedly

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

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

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

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

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

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

the Ripper. I am hopeful the clues to unlocking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

possibly been a surgeon because these organs that were removed from

the victims were apparently removed by someone with some anatomical

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

anatomy kwrabgt abelieved doctors and medical students to go to

mortuaries and freely take organs for research purposes. The idea

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

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

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

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

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

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

estimatation, that's not sufficiently long enough for

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

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

Trevor began to focus on the records of travellers.

investigation turned towards the a German seaman employed by a German

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

most incredible collections anywhere. We have everything from

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is something my grandfather started and this thr is this

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

exciting about history. These buildings change, the landscapes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

effective. But it was about stationing troops that could attack

over the wall and they were aggressive themselves. They did

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

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

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