0:00:02 > 0:00:06'1911. The year of revolution in China
0:00:06 > 0:00:08'and trigger-happy anarchists in London.
0:00:08 > 0:00:12'The year the aeroplane changed history with the first airmail delivery
0:00:12 > 0:00:15'and the world's first aerial bombing.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18'And a year of discovery. In Marie Curie's laboratory in Paris
0:00:18 > 0:00:21'and the blizzard-torn wastes of the South Pole.
0:00:22 > 0:00:27'Today, we hear from the people who lived through history.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30'They bear witness to an extraordinary year
0:00:30 > 0:00:33'that shaped the modern world.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46'As the year turns, the US cavalry
0:00:46 > 0:00:50'are sent to secure the Rio Grande in the Mexican Revolution.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53'America needs stability on her borders
0:00:53 > 0:00:54'and she's determined to get it.'
0:01:21 > 0:01:24There was a banging on the window.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25We sleep on the ground floor.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30And Sammy, my husband Samuel, he thought it was the milkman.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34So he was shouting, "Not today! Not today!"
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And then they kept on knocking. So I pushed open the window.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40And there were all these coppers standing there in the dark.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57This copper, he asked us who lives in the house.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00It's our house. Sammy has his own tailor's workshop in the attic
0:02:00 > 0:02:04and we let rooms out to the Clemers, the Shermans and Mrs Goujon.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07He wanted me to go in Mrs Goujon's room and see if there was men there.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I said it was none of my business and none of his.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12The coppers turned nasty.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16"How long have you been in England? You could be aiding or abetting."
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I was furious! Blackening our name!
0:02:19 > 0:02:22The Fleishmans are well respected around here.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39That's when I found out what was going on.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43He said the men that killed those coppers were in my house upstairs.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46The coppers had guns.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48I didn't say anything.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50I just got my children out of there as quick as I could.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I couldn't see much from next door, but I could hear the shots
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and then I saw the copper go down.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I could see blood all over the cobbles.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21I kept on hoping it would stop, but the gunmen kept on firing back.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33There was a load of people gawping. Toffs, too.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39I could see a man standing on the corner with a contraption.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Someone said it was a movie camera.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46I could even hear a barrel organ with someone hawking hot chestnuts.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I thought the soldiers might finish it.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03But I didn't see them make much difference.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07This big, black car drives up. The coppers push the crowd aside and let it through.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And a man in a top hat gets out.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21I didn't recognise him. Would you?
0:04:30 > 0:04:36I never saw the coppers talk to the gunmen. They didn't have a megaphone.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41They never shouted, "Give yourselves up or wave your white flag". Nothing.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49It was about midday when Samuel saw the smoke.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Our house was on fire.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05The police came in, said the fire was spreading and we needed to make a dash for it.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08I've never run so fast in my life.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Then they pushed us into this crowd and they just left us there.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25My home was in flames
0:05:25 > 0:05:28and everyone just stood watching.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Wicked.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Our life was in that house.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41The only photograph I had of my father.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Rachel's first pair of baby shoes.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46All destroyed. And the coppers did nothing.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Nothing about it.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15I thought it started to rain.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18But they'd put the hoses on.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22I saw Churchill.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25He was as close to me as you are now.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29He seemed to me like he was having a fine old time.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Then the firemen started to clear the house.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42They just threw things onto the pavement.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Our bed, Rachel's cradle, our tin bath.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48We lost Samuel's business, too.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51And £900 worth of damage.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54I've got it all itemised here.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01That's all we're asking for.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Just some compensation.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17I can't believe it.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I still can't believe it.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41'These horses have an important job to do.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44'And the Army make sure they're in tip-top condition.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47'Men and horses have to be battle-ready.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50'Watch out, Dobbin, that bank takes a bit of muscle power!
0:07:50 > 0:07:54'And he's over. And ready to fight another day.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04'After ten years of recession and falling wages,
0:08:04 > 0:08:06'workers across Britain have had enough.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11'In Glasgow, a strike threatens the mighty Singer factory.'
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I've worked in this factory nearly all my life.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22But I've never seen inside that room.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25I've seen people come out of it, though.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26They look smaller.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29It's my turn now.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Look at this.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38It takes 41 pairs of hands just to make one.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44You know, these things can go twice the speed of the best seamstress.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Nice, straight lines they make, too.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57But the best stories are hand-stitched.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02'I remember when this place was nothing but grass.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04'Mammy took me here.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07'There was no black dust then. No noise.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14'Now the whole town comes this way.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16'Cramming in before the 7:00am bell.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22'The foreman, we call him Crippen,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25'he's always on the lookout for stragglers.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30'I work on the needles.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33'Just one cog in a machine of 12,000.
0:09:39 > 0:09:44'They wanted us to work harder, longer, for less.'
0:09:44 > 0:09:47The women always catch it worse.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51They chucked three girls out of the polishing.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Told the rest to take the slack.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59It was all the same to them. But for us, that was the start.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Nancy shouted, "Polishers are out!"
0:10:03 > 0:10:07I rushed to the window, and right enough.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Only 12 of them.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Made me think of David and Goliath.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Except David never wore a pinny.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17That's when I felt the needle go right through.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Other folk felt it too.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24The men came down and stood next to us.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Strange to see them mix in with us,
0:10:26 > 0:10:30but we turned 12 into 10,000.
0:10:30 > 0:10:3510,000 workers side by side, you'd never seen anything like it.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46There were reporters down every day.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49They took our pictures for the paper.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51I put it next to Mammy's bed for her.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54The whole world was watching.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59He's in just now.
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Critten.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Spinning tales about me.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07The boss has been asking who he reckons are "fiery customers".
0:11:09 > 0:11:13In the park, I jumped on the lorry. Couldn't help myself.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Started leading the chants.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Me mammy always tells me off for shouting,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22says I've got a foghorn for a mouth.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25That's not a bad thing when you've got 1,000 faces staring at you.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Aye, see, on a bitter cold morning out there,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32it's a great thing to be fiery.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35We were like an army at dawn.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Maybe it was just a trick of the light, but I thought I saw a wee spark in us.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43A flame of hope, of unity.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48The bosses had to listen. They HAD to see us now.
0:11:48 > 0:11:54We felt like we had marched to America, to Singer himself.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Nothing.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Silence.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01They refused to talk to us.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05We couldn't work out if they were cowards or canny.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12On the 4th April, we got an answer.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Not everybody got one.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19"It would've been useless to send to everyone," they said.
0:12:19 > 0:12:25They were addressed to "The former employees of the Singer Manufacturing Company".
0:12:25 > 0:12:26"Former"
0:12:26 > 0:12:29This isn't a letter. It's a threat.
0:12:29 > 0:12:34To put you in your place, like the clocks and Crippen in that room.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39To rob your pride, make you foolish,
0:12:39 > 0:12:44"What are you going to do without work, an old spinster like you?" That's what this says.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Shame you don't have a man to look after you and your crippled mammy.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Sad, that.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Shame you'll be forced into sweatshops, the two of you,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56to earn a crust between you.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01We all thought about what we could lose.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05- The letter poisoned us. - BABIES CRY, CHILDREN LAUGH
0:13:16 > 0:13:22They needed 6,000 signatures to get the Singer machine going again.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Well, they weren't getting mine.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28But what about the others?
0:13:32 > 0:13:36See, if I'm a single thread, you can break me easy.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42But a thread with hundreds more, or thousands,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45all entwined together,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47then I'm as strong as old rope.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Course, you'd be daft if you thought they'd play fair.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Ballots started to turn up everywhere.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00People who hadn't worked at the factory for years.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Some for many more years than that.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05WIND BLOWS
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Others got more than one ballot, some got none at all.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13It was the first time I'd ever voted.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Like the rest of the women, we'd waited a long time.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20But, it was a fix.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22They'd stolen our voices -
0:14:22 > 0:14:266,527 of them.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34There were no words when the strike ended. Just blank faces.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40A big turnout, but all I could hear was the wind in the trees.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41Made me think of a funeral.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49You know that feeling, that gnawing at the pit of your stomach?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51That dryness in your mouth?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53That's failure.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57I thought I was a strong woman.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00I chose work over love.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Wages instead of family.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07To stand for myself.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10To stand for everyone.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13So, what did we end up with?
0:15:14 > 0:15:17A bad living made worse?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Working under bullies
0:15:19 > 0:15:21if you're lucky...
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Why tell this story?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30To show us how hope dies.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38But, no...
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Do you see it?
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Is it a trick of the light?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47We know now, what's been denied us.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52< Jane Rae?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02We'll remember.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21Pierre Prier is the first man to fly non-stop from London to Paris.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Just look at this beauty. It only took him three hours 56 minutes.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29So plenty of time to get to the Champs-Elysees for a spot of lunch.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Up and down the country, families struggle to fill in the census.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Except for the Suffragettes who boycott the form.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39"Why should the man always be head of the household?" They say.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43And when all the paperwork's complete, what do we learn?
0:16:43 > 0:16:48Well, among other things, that there are 45,307,530 of us in these islands -
0:16:48 > 0:16:51give or take the odd Suffragette.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54And one in seven of us is a domestic servant.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06At 26,000 tonnes, this ship is the biggest object ever moved by man
0:17:06 > 0:17:09and a triumph of modern technology.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11It takes 22 tonnes of tallow and soap
0:17:11 > 0:17:14just to smooth her passage down the slipway in Belfast.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16They name her the Titanic.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29The country comes together in a day of national celebration.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33George V is crowned in Westminster Abbey,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37with all the pomp and ceremony such an occasion demands.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Temperatures soar to 92 degrees
0:17:47 > 0:17:51as Britain faces the warmest summer on record.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53These city children know how to keep cool.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57But for the rest of us, it's just too hot for comfort.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Unrest among the workers continues through the long, hot summer,
0:18:09 > 0:18:11exploding into violence in Liverpool
0:18:11 > 0:18:15as Police and Army are sent to break a transport strike.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Across the Channel, the Mona Lisa goes missing
0:18:20 > 0:18:23and the whole of Paris plays cherchez la femme.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32I arrived early, ahead of the public who are not admitted until nine.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38You see, as a professional artist. I have an official dispensation.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43I made my way to my usual spot in the salon and greeted Frederick.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46But SHE wasn't there.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49We stared at the empty space on the wall.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52This was a nuisance.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Fred was supposed to be working on an engraving and I had my painting,
0:18:56 > 0:18:58but without our subject...
0:19:00 > 0:19:04I left my materials and went to find that buffoon of a guard.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08He said, he thought she was probably in the photography studio, as was often the case.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11But after an hour, she still wasn't back.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13And I was getting more and more impatient.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17The guard sent someone to find out what had happened.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21And shortly afterwards, people started rushing about,
0:19:21 > 0:19:23backwards and forwards.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26The normal hush of the museum was replaced
0:19:26 > 0:19:28with a great deal of calamity.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32And I knew then something really strange had happened.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Ready?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38SHUTTER CLICKS
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Most people thought that somebody had taken the painting
0:19:41 > 0:19:43to be photographed. This was the early days of photography.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Or taken it for conservation work.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Or perhaps they were just cleaning the room.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51So everybody thought somebody else had taken it,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54which is why they were so blind to this missing painting.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57The Undersecretary for Fine Arts in France,
0:19:57 > 0:20:02just before leaving Paris on holiday
0:20:02 > 0:20:06had said, "Don't call me unless the Louvre burns down
0:20:06 > 0:20:08"or the Mona Lisa gets stolen."
0:20:12 > 0:20:17Of course, when he heard the news, he thought it was a joke.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22When the Mona Lisa went missing, it was like a person had disappeared.
0:20:24 > 0:20:31And the Police's instinct, rather amazingly, a mug-shot - a photograph of the Mona Lisa.
0:20:31 > 0:20:366,500 copies were released to the streets of Paris.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37It was glued on walls and so on.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40And it went right across the world.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Her photograph appeared on the front pages.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46She had centrefolds. She was in every nation.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51And since arriving from France,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54they were afraid that the painting was already taken abroad.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58She was in Russia, Australia, Canada, America - everywhere.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03And that is how she came to be so familiar to us now.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05She was a global edition.
0:21:05 > 0:21:12When the news of the disappearance of the Mona Lisa broke out,
0:21:12 > 0:21:17the world realised how poor was the security inside the Louvre Museum.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23A few years ago, a man hid overnight in an Egyptian sarcophagus.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28You know what, not one person noticed.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29No-one.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34The guards here are appointed by the Ministry of War,
0:21:34 > 0:21:38you'd think they know something about security.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40What a joke.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Those decrepit old soldiers couldn't catch a cold, never mind a thief.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51A week after the Mona Lisa disappeared, the museum reopened,
0:21:51 > 0:21:55after the boss had been fired and everyone had been given a reprimand
0:21:55 > 0:21:58and after the police had piled in and piled out.
0:21:58 > 0:22:03They opened again and they opened now, with a gap.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07It was a very strange thing to see all these people
0:22:07 > 0:22:11staring at a black space with the four nails!
0:22:16 > 0:22:21To me, it seems like the first example of conceptual art.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25The exhibition of the absence of the masterpiece.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31We also know that Kafka, for example, visited the museum
0:22:31 > 0:22:37and was quite amused by this craze for the famous four nails of the Mona Lisa.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Before the Mona Lisa was stolen,
0:22:39 > 0:22:43she was not the global image, by any means, that she is now.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47There were a few photographs, but they were in black and white.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49People didn't even know what colour she was.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52That strange, murky sub-aqueous glow that she has.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54People didn't know about that.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58When she was stolen, however, he face became this very famous...
0:22:58 > 0:23:01She's a poster, almost, and everybody knew what she looked like.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06So, she started having a new life as a cartoon.
0:23:06 > 0:23:11Very early cartoons would show her smirking or winking.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15In Montmartre cabarets in Paris,
0:23:15 > 0:23:21there were routines telling the story of the abduction of Mona Lisa.
0:23:29 > 0:23:36I mean, from the beginning of its disappearance,
0:23:36 > 0:23:40the painting became part of popular culture.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49What is very strange, and yet persuasive, I think,
0:23:49 > 0:23:53is that the early theories about who might've taken Mona Lisa
0:23:53 > 0:23:58were that it must've been taken by someone who really appreciated painting.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01And one of the very first suspects was Pablo Picasso -
0:24:01 > 0:24:02already very famous, of course.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06They went to his house and knocked on the door,
0:24:06 > 0:24:08and tried to arrest him.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15He happened to have in his flat, unbeknownst to the police at the time,
0:24:15 > 0:24:20some works of art which actually HAD been stolen from the Louvre.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22These were sculptures.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24By night, stealthily, he thinks to himself,
0:24:24 > 0:24:28"I've got to get rid of this evidence of the theft!"
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Picasso had decided to throw the two statues into the Seine!
0:24:37 > 0:24:40And that, after hesitating for a while, decided not to.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49The Mona Lisa was found in Florence in the winter of 1913,
0:24:49 > 0:24:56because the thieves had written to an antique dealer of the town.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00telling him that he had a famous painting for sale.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05And he was very easily arrested.
0:25:06 > 0:25:12The experts have many different ways in which they can tell whether a painting is genuine or not.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16They felt the need to look, to see if the exact pattern of cracks,
0:25:16 > 0:25:20which you can still see on her face were there.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25She, effectively, was identified by her wrinkles, if you like.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian thief who stole the painting,
0:25:29 > 0:25:31claimed that he was trying to return the Mona Lisa
0:25:31 > 0:25:36to the motherland, back to Italy, where she came from.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40He had actually worked in the Louvre Museum.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43He was the man responsible
0:25:43 > 0:25:47for fixing the glass pane on the painting in 1910.
0:25:49 > 0:25:57And for two years, the painting was hidden in Vincenzo Peruggia's room in Paris.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01There was one comic feature about this,
0:26:01 > 0:26:05which is that he must have been rather proud of his secret.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Because he had a postcard of the Mona Lisa
0:26:10 > 0:26:14which he kept on the mantelpiece in his flat all the time.
0:26:15 > 0:26:20It seems, from his own testimony that what Peruggia did
0:26:20 > 0:26:23was he had hidden in a cupboard between two galleries.
0:26:26 > 0:26:31He stayed there all night in the dark, with his heart racing, wondering if he'd be found.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34And in the morning, very early,
0:26:34 > 0:26:39when just cleaners were in, he listened and waited until there was a silence
0:26:39 > 0:26:43and then he just quietly got himself out of this cupboard,
0:26:43 > 0:26:50and very quietly walked up to the painting, took her and hid her under his smock.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54He went from the cupboard, to the painting, to the street,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57I would guess, probably, in about 21 minutes. All over.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10The whole thing was a complete fiasco from start to finish.
0:27:10 > 0:27:17You know, the police found the left thumbprint of the thief on the glass frame.
0:27:17 > 0:27:23It was no good, because back then, they only kept right hands on file.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Not left.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Still, she's back now.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32We can be thankful for that at least.
0:27:55 > 0:28:00Today, for the first time ever, the mail arrives by air.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02This truly is a modern age.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05One day, we may all receive our letters like this.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14This autumn, the world is at war.
0:28:14 > 0:28:20In China, there is bloody rebellion as the people lose patience with the centuries-old Qing dynasty.
0:28:20 > 0:28:26Italy is at war with Turkey. The quarrel - sovereignty over a little-known corner of Africa.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34MAN LAUGHS
0:28:34 > 0:28:37Si, nessun problema!
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Arrivederci!
0:28:41 > 0:28:44HE GRUNTS
0:28:46 > 0:28:47HE SIGHS
0:28:47 > 0:28:49It's done,
0:28:49 > 0:28:52for the first time in history.
0:28:52 > 0:28:57The first time and it was me that did it!
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Me, Giulio Gavotti!
0:29:00 > 0:29:05HE LAUGHS
0:29:05 > 0:29:09A couple of weeks ago, we sailed from Napoli.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11The whole Servicio Aeronautico.
0:29:11 > 0:29:1530 men, 9 planes, 11 pilots.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19Piazzo and Luizzo had been up a few times.
0:29:19 > 0:29:20They got right over the Turks
0:29:20 > 0:29:24and came back with details about the enemy positions,
0:29:24 > 0:29:26so our boys could get at them properly.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Piazzo said he just swooped down,
0:29:29 > 0:29:32said you could see their faces just looking up at them.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36I'm just amazed that they'd never seen anything like it before.
0:29:36 > 0:29:41One journalist said that the Turks are telling the Arabs that our machines are magical creatures.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45Monsters, genies with wings.
0:29:45 > 0:29:50Evidently, they've come all the way from Constantinople. Special orders from the Sultan himself.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Damn fools, they think we're on their side.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58- Well, not any more they don't. - HE LAUGHS
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Once upon a time...
0:30:05 > 0:30:07all this was Rome.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Tripolitania here in the west...
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Cyrenaica to the south...
0:30:13 > 0:30:15past Benghazi...
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Derna, Tobruk.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20All the way to Egypt.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22And now it's ours again.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25Nostra quarta sponda.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Our fourth shore. Just as it was in Roman times.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34From here, we can control the seas
0:30:34 > 0:30:37and stand head-to-head with Germany and France.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40They have their colonies and ours show the way.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43And the land is good, too. Well, at least at the coast.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47Nothing to the south. Just dirt and sand.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50No industry to speak of, but we can change that.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52Italians can do anything. Prego.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56HE CHUCKLES
0:30:56 > 0:30:58I was up most of the night.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02I was too keyed up to sleep. Buzzing!
0:31:02 > 0:31:04In the morning, it's overcast.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06But as soon as it clears, I'm on the beach.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09The lads are all ready. I'm flying the Taube.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Not as fast as the Newport, but nice and light.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17I dug out this case. Got it ready the night before.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20I make little pockets.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Then...!
0:31:24 > 0:31:28They're Italian. Invented by Cappelli.
0:31:28 > 0:31:29From the navy.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32A steel shell filled with some kind of explosive.
0:31:32 > 0:31:34There's a small iron ball in the centre
0:31:34 > 0:31:37which smacks against the detonator when the bomb hits the ground,
0:31:37 > 0:31:39setting the whole thing off.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40The ball's kept in place by a pin,
0:31:40 > 0:31:43which has to be pulled out before you throw it.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46There's a tiny lever which has to be held onto
0:31:46 > 0:31:48to stop the ball shifting
0:31:48 > 0:31:52in the moment between taking out the pin and chucking the grenade.
0:31:52 > 0:31:53They're not ideal.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Well, too heavy, for a start.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Plus they don't always explode on impact.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02- But when they do go off... - HE CHUCKLES
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Cappelli himself, the guy who invented them...
0:32:05 > 0:32:07BANG! Goes off in his hand.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09Adios, Fratello Cappelli.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13Plus you're doing all this with one hand
0:32:13 > 0:32:15cos you've got to fly the plane with the other one.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18I've got three in the case...and one in my jacket.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Then you've got to have detonators.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22They go in another pocket.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Be careful when you're throwing them over the side.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27You don't want to hit the wings. Not a good idea.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30Anyway, like I said,
0:32:30 > 0:32:33this is the first time anyone's done something like this.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36I'm sure they'll think of something better.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Right!
0:32:38 > 0:32:41I take off, I head out over the sea.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Below me, I can see our ships.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46The Sicily anchored west of the Tripoli Oasis.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49Brin, Saint Bon and Filiberto anchored in the harbour.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Sailors waving up at me. I'm still climbing.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56As soon as I get to 700 metres, I turn and head inland.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Our lads are tucked in in the outskirts of the city.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Beyond that is desert.
0:33:00 > 0:33:05I'm heading for Ain Zara, where we'd spotted the enemy the day before.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Soon I can see the dark shape of the oasis in front of me.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10I fly the plane with one hand
0:33:10 > 0:33:13and with the other, I take the strap off the box.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16I take a bomb out and I put it between my legs.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19I swap hands to get at the detonators.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22I grab one, I stick it in my mouth.
0:33:22 > 0:33:23I'm about a mile from the oasis.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26I can see it all perfectly.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29A small, square white house and two camps of tents.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33One must be about 200 men, the other about 50 or so. I'm right overhead.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36I can imagine them looking up at me. "What's all this then, eh?"
0:33:36 > 0:33:42Like I said, the plane's a Taube. It's German. It means dove.
0:33:42 > 0:33:47Up here, you can see the wires and pulleys, the whole control system that operates the plane.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51But from underneath, it just looks like a big, wide pair of wings.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55And the rudder at the back. Like feathers. Like a tail.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57It's a beautiful thing.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59I'm right over the camp now. I can hear firing.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01They must be shooting at me.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04I take the bomb in my right hand and I pull out the pin.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08Throw the bomb, making sure it's well clear of the wing.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12I watch it fall for a few seconds and then it disappears!
0:34:14 > 0:34:18A dark cloud appears above one of the smaller camps.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21I'd been aiming for the bigger camp, but still, a direct hit!
0:34:21 > 0:34:23I turn the plane, I head back.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26I drop two more bombs, then I head back for the beach.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29I've still got one bomb left. The one in my jacket.
0:34:29 > 0:34:33I take it out, I pull the pin and I throw it! I head back.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Coming in low over Tripoli.
0:34:35 > 0:34:39Perfect landing! All the lads are there!
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Captain Piazza shaking my hand.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Rossi and Mazzini laughing their heads off.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47I report to the division and to General Canever.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50The whole mission was a total success!
0:34:50 > 0:34:54Some reporters want to talk to me. "You are a hero", they tell me.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Everyone will read about you in Giornale d'Italia,
0:34:57 > 0:34:58the Corriere Della Sera!
0:34:58 > 0:35:01All of Italy will know your name!
0:35:01 > 0:35:04Me, Sottotenente Giulio Gavotti!
0:35:22 > 0:35:25FAINT CHANTING
0:35:31 > 0:35:33The wells are running dry.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39They're sending bullets from Napoli.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Some of the men have cholera.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45The fighting's messy.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49Civilians getting caught up in it.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55It'll be good to be done here.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56Get back home.
0:36:02 > 0:36:03What times we live in.
0:36:06 > 0:36:07How lucky we are.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12Only eight years since the Wright brothers.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14The first flight.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18Two years since Bleriot crossed the English Channel.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22And now us!
0:36:23 > 0:36:26We are the first! Huh!
0:36:26 > 0:36:29HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:36:29 > 0:36:32And every day, we make our own little piece of history.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Last week, Piazza flew the first ever reconnaissance mission.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Today, I threw the first bomb.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41Control the skies and you win the war.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Hit them first, then they'll submit.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51Get it over with, nice and quick.
0:36:58 > 0:36:59We need bigger planes.
0:37:01 > 0:37:0370, 80, 100 horsepower.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06And two people.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09A pilot and someone to throw the bombs.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Or a machine.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13Some kind of system.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18And different bombs. Bigger. More accurate.
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Poisoned gas, maybe.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25I'm sure they'll think of something.
0:37:26 > 0:37:30If there's one thing we know, it's that they will think of something.
0:37:32 > 0:37:33That's progress.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56'Thousands of women join a demonstration demanding the vote.
0:37:59 > 0:38:00'Then things turn ugly.'
0:38:37 > 0:38:39They just came out of nowhere!
0:38:42 > 0:38:44I could see they were going to be bottling us in,
0:38:44 > 0:38:48and so six of us broke rank and went down a side street
0:38:48 > 0:38:51away from the rest of them in Parliament Square.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55We turned a corner and there they were.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04I was on the ground again.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Curled up to protect you.
0:39:12 > 0:39:13You're doing fine.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16That horse never kicked my belly.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22Lying on the ground and for a moment...
0:39:22 > 0:39:24..I felt nothing.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28Sore now.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31And then I felt the stone in my hand.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36A stripy stone they brought off Ferry Beach.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40He told me, he gave it to me and he says,
0:39:40 > 0:39:44"Ma, can you take this to London so you don't forget me?"
0:39:44 > 0:39:49I said to him, "Tommy, I'm only going away for three days".
0:39:55 > 0:39:56Never been away.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25I nearly laughed out loud when I seen they fine London ladies
0:40:25 > 0:40:30getting out old rocks to smash windows with.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34My father's a window cleaner.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39Never broken a pane of glass in my life.
0:40:40 > 0:40:45Skelped my arse and nae mistake if I got up to any high jinks as a bairn.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52But this...this naen't a game.
0:40:55 > 0:40:59We need to make them pay attention.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05I took the biggest stones they had.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09I was full of what I could do.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15They were impressed, those fine London ladies.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28We marched down strong to the government offices.
0:41:30 > 0:41:35And then the first woman - I dinnae ken about her,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38she'd been on the platform at the Albert Hall...
0:41:40 > 0:41:45She hurls this rock - hard - and it smashes.
0:41:47 > 0:41:51And all I could think of as they look at us...run!
0:41:53 > 0:41:55RUN!
0:41:56 > 0:41:58And she just stands there...
0:42:00 > 0:42:02..calm...
0:42:02 > 0:42:05dignified, waiting.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08Wanting to be arrested.
0:42:10 > 0:42:11Then she is.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20I ken it sounds daft, but...
0:42:20 > 0:42:22That bit...
0:42:23 > 0:42:25..and what happens after...
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Never thought that bit through before.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37God, I'm standing with rocks,
0:42:37 > 0:42:40ready to smash up London on my very first visit and...
0:42:42 > 0:42:45..and that'll mean no going hame to Dundee.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51To Tommy, or...to my good man,
0:42:51 > 0:42:54who's waiting for me, proud as anything.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59That'll mean going to Holloway.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05The stories you hear of that place.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11Am I strong enough to do that?
0:43:11 > 0:43:12KNOCK AT DOOR
0:43:12 > 0:43:16Er... Two minutes, sorry - I'll be right with you.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27He's waiting for us outside the door.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30The policeman.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35He saved my life, I suppose.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Picked me up off the floor, any road.
0:43:38 > 0:43:43Let me come in here and sort myself out before we get into the back of the Black Maria.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52He's only young like me, maybe I cou...
0:43:54 > 0:43:57Maybe I could charm him into clemency.
0:43:58 > 0:44:03Leave my rocks in the sink, leave my sash on the floor...
0:44:03 > 0:44:08White for purity, green for fertility.
0:44:10 > 0:44:12Purple for dignity.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20Oh, I love they colours now.
0:44:28 > 0:44:32But they took them off - I'm just another innocent...
0:44:34 > 0:44:38I could say I just got caught up with all the hundreds of others,
0:44:38 > 0:44:40I had nae idea what was going on.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44If he'd let me go hame.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47Back to Dundee. Back to the jute mill...
0:44:50 > 0:44:52And back to being what, exactly?
0:44:56 > 0:44:59Someone who isn't worth counting on the Census.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05Someone who doesn't count at all.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20I've got four big brothers.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26And they've never fought a battle for me.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33Even in the playground, I fought my own corner.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37"Dinnae cross Maggie", the other bairns'd say.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40"You'll live to regret that".
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Well, Mr Prime Minister...
0:45:48 > 0:45:50..you crossed me.
0:45:51 > 0:45:58And if I had five minutes in your office, Mr Asquith,
0:45:58 > 0:46:00I'd give you a piece of my mind.
0:46:02 > 0:46:06I'd make you change your intentions, that's for sure.
0:46:06 > 0:46:07You've let me down.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09Ah!
0:46:14 > 0:46:19I will not have my bairns brought into a world
0:46:19 > 0:46:23where the boy is a person and the girl is a possession.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27Miss Pankhurst said it tonight.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31"Men alone getting the vote
0:46:31 > 0:46:38"only serves as one more rivet in the chains of half the human race."
0:46:45 > 0:46:48I'll take what's coming if it makes way for change.
0:46:48 > 0:46:49KNOCK AT DOOR
0:46:49 > 0:46:53- Miss! Do you want me to come and fetch you?- No, sir - that's me.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07Oh, please, God.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11Let there be one big window waiting out there for me
0:47:11 > 0:47:14before they take me away in the back of that Black Maria.
0:47:53 > 0:47:56Today, we celebrate a thoroughly modern woman,
0:47:56 > 0:48:00as Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03She developed her theory of radioactivity
0:48:03 > 0:48:07and discovered two new elements - Polonium and Radium.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10Our sincere congratulations, madam.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16But not all great discoveries happen down a microscope.
0:48:16 > 0:48:21As the year draws to a close, two fearless explorers,
0:48:21 > 0:48:23our own Captain Robert Falcon Scott
0:48:23 > 0:48:26and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, race for the South Pole.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33We set off today.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36I missed out on the North Pole by a few months -
0:48:36 > 0:48:40I will not let that damned Englishman take the South Pole from me.
0:48:46 > 0:48:50We have no idea what faces us between here and the Pole.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54This is the last uncharted wilderness.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05An hour in, I'd already thought about turning back.
0:49:07 > 0:49:12Three puppies followed us. If we went on, we'd have to shoot them.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19But they turned back so soon.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33Three days' good progress.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38Then the temperature dropped.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40It's minus 61 degrees out there.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47As we sat around the tent, Hanssen suddenly said,
0:49:47 > 0:49:50"Why, I think my foot's gone".
0:49:50 > 0:49:52Off came his stockings
0:49:52 > 0:49:56and there was this big, dead heel,
0:49:56 > 0:49:59like a lump of wax.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01I poked it...
0:50:02 > 0:50:03It was frostbite.
0:50:06 > 0:50:12If we are to win this game, every move must be made carefully.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18It'd be really easy to freeze to death out here.
0:50:19 > 0:50:25To risk the lives of the men and the dogs out of stubbornness...
0:50:30 > 0:50:32(Damn it.)
0:50:34 > 0:50:36We're heading back to base.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49The last sledge arrived back eight hours late.
0:50:49 > 0:50:53When they came in, I naturally asked Johansen what took him so long.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56He swore at me.
0:50:56 > 0:50:57In front of everyone.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02Said that we'd abandoned them, that they'd only just made it back.
0:51:02 > 0:51:06That we should have never started off this early in the season.
0:51:06 > 0:51:11That my obsession with Scott was making me a danger to them all.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14I can't talk to him when he's like that!
0:51:14 > 0:51:15I've written him a letter,
0:51:15 > 0:51:20explaining to him that he is no longer part of this expedition team.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26What else can I do?
0:51:27 > 0:51:30GRAMOPHONE PLAYS "Remember" by Irving Berlin
0:51:30 > 0:51:32# One little kiss, a moment of bliss
0:51:32 > 0:51:37# Then hours of deep regret
0:51:37 > 0:51:39# One little smile... #
0:51:39 > 0:51:41'Still waiting for better weather.'
0:51:41 > 0:51:47# After a while, a longing to forget
0:51:47 > 0:51:53# One little heartache left as a token
0:51:53 > 0:51:59# One little plaything carelessly broken
0:52:00 > 0:52:03# Remember the night
0:52:03 > 0:52:08# The night you said, "I love you"
0:52:08 > 0:52:11# Remember
0:52:11 > 0:52:14# Remember you vowed... #
0:52:14 > 0:52:17Bjaaland spotted a flight of petrels.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21Wonderful sight! We tumbled out of the hut to greet them.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25Spring has finally arrived.
0:52:31 > 0:52:3417 miles we covered yesterday.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37The dogs were fantastic, magnificent.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44And then, suddenly, Bjaaland's sledge started sinking.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49The sledge disappeared. Completely!
0:52:51 > 0:52:55The huskies dug their claws in and Bjaaland's shouting,
0:52:55 > 0:52:57"I cannot hold it".
0:52:57 > 0:53:02And inch by inch, the sledge is slipping into the abyss,
0:53:02 > 0:53:04taking the dogs with it,
0:53:04 > 0:53:07so I threw myself at him and grabbed him.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10They threw a rope around the sledge,
0:53:10 > 0:53:13but we could not haul the sledge up.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17Someone would have to go down.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19On a rope.
0:53:21 > 0:53:23So they all volunteered.
0:53:23 > 0:53:24All of them.
0:53:26 > 0:53:27I chose Wisting.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30He's dextrous.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32And light.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37He shouted up that the ice that we were standing on
0:53:37 > 0:53:38was only a few inches thick.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40We worked as fast as we could,
0:53:40 > 0:53:43but it took a long hour and a half before everything was up.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49That was a treat,
0:53:49 > 0:53:51to get back into the tent tonight.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55For the day has been a bitter one.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03Now we finally see what faces us.
0:54:03 > 0:54:07I have named one of the peaks Mount Betty, after my nursemaid.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09She would be proud.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11I think.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18A terrible climb.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20The hardest day we've had.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47The dogs worked so well today.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Tonight, 24 of them are dead.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55They did not deserve this.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01But we only need 18 of them for the final journey.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07We're calling this ridge the Butcher's Shop.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11Tomorrow we will skin them and eat fresh meat.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16Tonight, none of us can face it.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20We are grown so fond of these dogs.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36We'd left our crampons at the Butcher's Shop.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Without them, climbing on sheer ice is almost impossible.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48A thousand thoughts ran through my brain. How stupid, idiotic...
0:55:49 > 0:55:51This blunder may lose me the Pole.
0:56:00 > 0:56:01Everybody's tired.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07Hunger makes the dogs eat their own mess.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13Tonight I dreamed I'd reached the Pole
0:56:13 > 0:56:16and Scott was there,
0:56:16 > 0:56:22arms outstretched, smiling, waiting to greet me.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25I woke up, sweating...
0:56:25 > 0:56:27and shouting.
0:56:34 > 0:56:40Five miles to go. If Scott has been there, we'll see a British flag.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45No-one mentions this, but we're all looking.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53We have made it!
0:56:53 > 0:56:58The five of us together drive the Norwegian flag into the snow.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03The sun circles above our head day and night
0:57:03 > 0:57:05and we're the first to ever see it.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13Never has a man's goal been so opposite to his wishes.
0:57:13 > 0:57:17The NORTH Pole, devil take it!
0:57:17 > 0:57:19HE LAUGHS
0:57:20 > 0:57:25It fascinated me since childhood, now here I am -
0:57:25 > 0:57:27at the South.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33I'm writing a letter to Scott to leave here.
0:57:33 > 0:57:38He will be the next man to encounter this godforsaken spot.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41And if we have trouble on our journey home,
0:57:41 > 0:57:44he may well make it back before us.
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