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0:00:09 > 0:00:11My name's Ade Adepitan.

0:00:11 > 0:00:14I kind of see myself as the kid who never gave up.

0:00:16 > 0:00:20Until the age of three, I lived in Lagos, Nigeria,

0:00:20 > 0:00:21and I contracted polio at six months.

0:00:21 > 0:00:25And polio affected me in a way that it meant

0:00:25 > 0:00:28I was unable to walk without the use of callipers,

0:00:28 > 0:00:32which were like iron rods which

0:00:32 > 0:00:37the doctors put on my leg and connected to my shoe.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39And on my first day of school,

0:00:39 > 0:00:42I remember walking into the playground

0:00:42 > 0:00:47and seeing a group of kids playing football and wanting to join in.

0:00:47 > 0:00:49And I know when they looked at me and they saw me

0:00:49 > 0:00:51walking in on my calliper,

0:00:51 > 0:00:54and I was sort of, like, limping and I looked weird,

0:00:54 > 0:00:56I had this crazy shirt that my mum made we wear.

0:00:56 > 0:00:58The guys looked at me and they thought,

0:00:58 > 0:01:01"There's no way he could play sport!"

0:01:01 > 0:01:04And I moaned and nagged at them all day,

0:01:04 > 0:01:08and in the final playtime, they allowed me to play football

0:01:08 > 0:01:09and they told me to go in goal.

0:01:09 > 0:01:13And I remember within the first couple of minutes,

0:01:13 > 0:01:16the best footballer in our school blasted this ball,

0:01:16 > 0:01:22and I managed to jump to one side and save what was going to be a goal.

0:01:22 > 0:01:25And the playground went quiet after I saved it, and I went from

0:01:25 > 0:01:30this crazy-looking, weird kind of kid

0:01:30 > 0:01:35to this sporting hero in one afternoon just because of that save.

0:01:35 > 0:01:38And that moment changed my life.

0:01:38 > 0:01:40'The Britons are in the right place there.'

0:01:40 > 0:01:44Inspirational people are really important in your life.

0:01:46 > 0:01:49When I first watched the Olympic Games,

0:01:49 > 0:01:52I wanted to be like them so much that I would be

0:01:52 > 0:01:55on my sofa in my living room,

0:01:55 > 0:01:59and when the 100m would start for the Olympic Games,

0:01:59 > 0:02:02I'd have my eyes shut and I'd start pumping my arms,

0:02:02 > 0:02:05imagining that I was there as part of the Games.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08My mum would look through the door, thinking I was crazy,

0:02:08 > 0:02:14but it was by seeing these people who were achieving great things,

0:02:14 > 0:02:15it inspired me.

0:02:15 > 0:02:18And I think it's so important that you have those type of people.

0:02:23 > 0:02:26I got into wheelchair basketball by total luck.

0:02:28 > 0:02:31I saw some guys from the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Team,

0:02:31 > 0:02:35and they were training and they were amazing.

0:02:35 > 0:02:39They totally changed my ideas, my perceptions,

0:02:39 > 0:02:44because they were in these funky, amazing wheelchairs.

0:02:44 > 0:02:46The wheels were angled like that, they were doing wheelies,

0:02:46 > 0:02:49they were spinning round, they were shooting three-point shots,

0:02:49 > 0:02:51they had massive muscles and they were doing things

0:02:51 > 0:02:54that my friends at school would only dream of doing.

0:02:54 > 0:02:57And that moment is when I looked at them and I thought,

0:02:57 > 0:03:00"This is what I want to do. This is where I want to be."

0:03:00 > 0:03:03I trained six days a week

0:03:03 > 0:03:06and I trained six hours a day,

0:03:06 > 0:03:10and I was shooting up to 800-900 shots a day.

0:03:10 > 0:03:13I was pushing about six miles a day

0:03:13 > 0:03:15and I was spending two hours in the gym.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17And I did this every day,

0:03:17 > 0:03:20and when I finally got selected for the team, it was

0:03:20 > 0:03:22just one of the best moments of my life.

0:03:22 > 0:03:23SCREAMS

0:03:23 > 0:03:25Yeeees!

0:03:25 > 0:03:28Yeeees! Come on!

0:03:28 > 0:03:31My dream started when I was probably about nine years old,

0:03:31 > 0:03:35and I didn't make it into the Great Britain wheelchair basketball team

0:03:35 > 0:03:36until I was 27.

0:03:39 > 0:03:42'Yes! He's got it! He's got it!

0:03:42 > 0:03:46And Great Britain are through to the semi-final. 62 to 59.'

0:03:47 > 0:03:50What it was like, getting on that rostrum

0:03:50 > 0:03:53and having the medal put round my neck and looking at all my other

0:03:53 > 0:03:56team-mates and seeing that we'd done it together,

0:03:56 > 0:03:58that's also something that's really special.

0:03:58 > 0:04:01Winning a medal and winning it for yourself is great,

0:04:01 > 0:04:04but knowing that you've gone through all of this

0:04:04 > 0:04:06and you've gone through all of that heartache

0:04:06 > 0:04:08with another group of people is just special.

0:04:08 > 0:04:10It was the best moment!

0:04:14 > 0:04:18If you can believe in yourself, if you can go for something,

0:04:18 > 0:04:21go for everything, then other people will look at you and think,

0:04:21 > 0:04:26"Wow! Look at that person! Look how hard they're trying."

0:04:26 > 0:04:29And you will start being an inspiration for other people.

0:04:29 > 0:04:31It doesn't matter what you look like.

0:04:31 > 0:04:33It doesn't matter whether you have a disability.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.

0:04:44 > 0:04:47My name is Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

0:04:47 > 0:04:50and I'm a space scientist and a science communicator,

0:04:50 > 0:04:52and that means I put things into space.

0:04:55 > 0:04:58When I first went to school, I didn't enjoy it very much

0:04:58 > 0:05:02cos when you're young, it's all about reading and writing.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05And I suffer from dyslexia, which means that my spelling,

0:05:05 > 0:05:07and when I try and put words together,

0:05:07 > 0:05:08it didn't really work for me.

0:05:08 > 0:05:11But I think there was actually a turning point in my life,

0:05:11 > 0:05:13and it happened to me when I was eight years old.

0:05:16 > 0:05:19I was in the library at school and I saw a book.

0:05:19 > 0:05:23And the book had an astronaut on the cover, and I thought, "Wow!"

0:05:23 > 0:05:26"That's what I want to do. I want to go into space!"

0:05:27 > 0:05:29As a child, I was one of those really annoying kids

0:05:29 > 0:05:32that asked "why" all the time. "Why this?" and "Why that?"

0:05:32 > 0:05:36And that's what it is to be a scientist, is to be inquisitive.

0:05:36 > 0:05:39If you want to be a space scientist,

0:05:39 > 0:05:41there are many different ways of getting in there.

0:05:41 > 0:05:44For instance, I went to university.

0:05:44 > 0:05:47I did a degree in Physics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering,

0:05:47 > 0:05:49so I was at university for seven years.

0:05:49 > 0:05:52But you don't have to study that long.

0:05:52 > 0:05:56I know many people who leave school and then take up an apprenticeship.

0:05:56 > 0:05:58So, they come and work in the space industry straight away

0:05:58 > 0:06:01and start building things and putting them into space.

0:06:03 > 0:06:05Sometimes, when I meet people for the first time

0:06:05 > 0:06:08and tell them I'm a space scientist, they look really surprised

0:06:08 > 0:06:10because I'm not quite what they expect

0:06:10 > 0:06:12a space scientist to look like.

0:06:12 > 0:06:14They expect someone who looks very serious,

0:06:14 > 0:06:16and is usually white and male.

0:06:16 > 0:06:18And you can tell that that's just not me.

0:06:18 > 0:06:21But being a scientist isn't about being white and male

0:06:21 > 0:06:23or being serious. It's about

0:06:23 > 0:06:26having a passion for something, a passion for understanding.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28As a space scientist, I'll specialise my work

0:06:28 > 0:06:31into certain areas. Optical instrumentation.

0:06:31 > 0:06:33So, that is building machines that look at things

0:06:33 > 0:06:37and give us an understanding of things by taking images.

0:06:37 > 0:06:40Some of the projects I work on are making a real difference

0:06:40 > 0:06:41to us here on Earth.

0:06:41 > 0:06:43For instance, I was building a satellite

0:06:43 > 0:06:45which told us more about climate change.

0:06:45 > 0:06:48Climate change is probably the biggest challenge

0:06:48 > 0:06:49we're facing in our lives,

0:06:49 > 0:06:52and satellites are really helping us to understand it.

0:06:52 > 0:06:55So, space isn't just about out there,

0:06:55 > 0:06:57it's also about looking in and understanding our own planet.

0:07:01 > 0:07:05If I could travel back in time and go and see little Maggie

0:07:05 > 0:07:09growing up, I'd tell her to believe in herself

0:07:09 > 0:07:12because when you believe in yourself, you can achieve so much.

0:07:12 > 0:07:14And it's worked for me.

0:07:14 > 0:07:17So, if I can do that, what can you do?

0:07:25 > 0:07:28As a kid, I really loved sailing, and if you really love sailing,

0:07:28 > 0:07:29where's the furthest that you can sail?

0:07:29 > 0:07:32Well, had to be round the world, didn't it?

0:07:39 > 0:07:42I was trying to be the fastest person ever to sail solo

0:07:42 > 0:07:44non-stop round the world, and I achieved that,

0:07:44 > 0:07:47finishing in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes

0:07:47 > 0:07:49and 33 very important seconds.

0:08:00 > 0:08:02I remember like it was yesterday,

0:08:02 > 0:08:04the first time that I ever went down to the sea.

0:08:04 > 0:08:07And I went down with my grandma and my elder brother,

0:08:07 > 0:08:09and we were good to go sailing for four days.

0:08:09 > 0:08:12And I remember the excitement that I felt inside as we got closer

0:08:12 > 0:08:13to the water.

0:08:15 > 0:08:19The most amazing thing was stepping on the boat for the first time,

0:08:19 > 0:08:22this tiny little boat that we could only just squeeze onto.

0:08:22 > 0:08:25But when we hoisted those sails, it was the greatest sense of freedom

0:08:25 > 0:08:27that I could ever imagine.

0:08:34 > 0:08:35I returned to Derbyshire where I grew up,

0:08:35 > 0:08:38about as far away from the sea as you can possible get.

0:08:38 > 0:08:39And I dreamt about sailing,

0:08:39 > 0:08:43determined that, one day, I would sail around the world.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45One of the big challenges when you want to go sailing is, obviously,

0:08:45 > 0:08:47having a boat, and when I was four years old,

0:08:47 > 0:08:50I obviously didn't have one. But from the age of eight,

0:08:50 > 0:08:53I started saving my Christmas money and birthday money.

0:08:53 > 0:08:55I never had pocket money, so when I was aged 11,

0:08:55 > 0:08:57at secondary school, I started to have

0:08:57 > 0:09:01mashed potato and baked beans every single day, including free gravy.

0:09:01 > 0:09:02I got through a lot of free gravy in our school!

0:09:02 > 0:09:04And every day, I'd save the pennies.

0:09:04 > 0:09:07And when that little pile of pennies reached 100,

0:09:07 > 0:09:08I'd drop it into the money box.

0:09:08 > 0:09:11And I'd draw a little cross on the 100-square chart

0:09:11 > 0:09:13that I'd drawn on a piece of paper behind it.

0:09:13 > 0:09:16And once eventually that chart was full with £100,

0:09:16 > 0:09:18I'd go along to the building society.

0:09:18 > 0:09:21And it was like that that I bought my first, second and then third boat.

0:09:28 > 0:09:30At school, I thought if you wanted to be successful in life,

0:09:30 > 0:09:32you had to go to university, and I thought my way

0:09:32 > 0:09:35to sail around the world would be, one day, to save enough money

0:09:35 > 0:09:39to buy a boat to do that. But when I was 17 and doing my exam results,

0:09:39 > 0:09:42trying to get into university, I was struck down with glandular fever.

0:09:42 > 0:09:45And that changed my mind because I realised there was a different way

0:09:45 > 0:09:47to sail around the world through a TV programme

0:09:47 > 0:09:49on at three o'clock in the morning

0:09:49 > 0:09:50about the Whitbread Round the World Race.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52And I remember seeing the images

0:09:52 > 0:09:54of these people sailing around the world,

0:09:54 > 0:09:57the images of the action, the images of the sea,

0:09:57 > 0:09:59the music. And I watched all this,

0:09:59 > 0:10:02and I said, in that second, "That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to

0:10:02 > 0:10:05"find a sponsor, and I'm going to sail around the world."

0:10:05 > 0:10:08I feel really lucky to have known exactly what I was trying to do

0:10:08 > 0:10:11when I was a kid, and to know that every single step that I made

0:10:11 > 0:10:14in my life was trying to take me closer to that goal. And it was

0:10:14 > 0:10:16a massive goal, virtually impossible for a kid

0:10:16 > 0:10:18that grew up in Derbyshire to sail around the world.

0:10:18 > 0:10:20But I knew exactly where I was going,

0:10:20 > 0:10:23and it helped me make all the decisions to get to that point.

0:10:26 > 0:10:28Sailing round the world, you see different things every day.

0:10:28 > 0:10:31The sea's a different colour, the sky's different,

0:10:31 > 0:10:32the wildlife around you's different.

0:10:32 > 0:10:35You're basically watching the ocean, but it's ever changing.

0:10:35 > 0:10:38When you come round Cape Horn, this tiny gap between

0:10:38 > 0:10:40the tip of South America and Antarctica,

0:10:40 > 0:10:43you come out and you head north. And the first sunset, generally,

0:10:43 > 0:10:46is absolutely stunning with brighter colours than you can ever imagine.

0:10:46 > 0:10:48Or deep in the Southern Ocean,

0:10:48 > 0:10:50where the waves are 40, 50, 60 foot high,

0:10:50 > 0:10:52almost as high as the mast of the boat,

0:10:52 > 0:10:54and yet you're sailing down those waves.

0:10:54 > 0:10:57And sometimes, when the clouds move, you see the moon. You feel

0:10:57 > 0:11:00like you're sailing down these moonlit, sparkling mountains.

0:11:00 > 0:11:01It's absolutely beautiful.

0:11:05 > 0:11:08I was asked, when I finished sailing around the world,

0:11:08 > 0:11:11whether the day I finished in Falmouth was the biggest

0:11:11 > 0:11:13day of my life. It was asked by a journalist.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15And I turned round to him and I said,

0:11:15 > 0:11:18"I'm sure that's still to come, but it's not a bad one."

0:11:18 > 0:11:20And I really believe in that.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22The biggest thing, the most incredible thing

0:11:22 > 0:11:24that will ever happen to you is always in front of you.

0:11:24 > 0:11:27And the moment you think it's not, life gets a bit boring.

0:11:35 > 0:11:38Once upon a time, a little girl was born

0:11:38 > 0:11:41in the belly button of Britain in Birmingham.

0:11:41 > 0:11:45But she had a problem. Whenever she opened her mouth,

0:11:45 > 0:11:48words did not come out normally

0:11:48 > 0:11:51and people couldn't understand her.

0:11:51 > 0:11:53And that little girl, that was me.

0:11:53 > 0:11:55My name's Katrice.

0:11:59 > 0:12:01I had a problem with talking,

0:12:01 > 0:12:04and I became very scared to talk,

0:12:04 > 0:12:07even though I had gone to speech therapy lessons.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09And one of my main ways of dealing

0:12:09 > 0:12:13with that was to disappear into the land of story.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16I would imagine I was a princess locked in a tower,

0:12:16 > 0:12:20I would imagine that somebody was going to rescue me,

0:12:20 > 0:12:23and I would imagine a happy ever after for myself.

0:12:23 > 0:12:27And I really believe that that helped me survive

0:12:27 > 0:12:28a time that was very painful.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33So, perhaps that makes me a better storyteller.

0:12:33 > 0:12:35Something that could have been very negative

0:12:35 > 0:12:39has actually become something that I think is quite positive.

0:12:39 > 0:12:43I left school with no qualifications at all,

0:12:43 > 0:12:46went on to college and got a couple of qualifications.

0:12:46 > 0:12:49And when I was there, I started to work as a volunteer

0:12:49 > 0:12:52on the big adventure playground, 200 kids a day.

0:12:52 > 0:12:54It was brilliant, absolutely wild.

0:12:54 > 0:12:58And while there, I started to tell stories to the children

0:12:58 > 0:13:00and I found I had a bit of a knack for it.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03They really liked the stories, especially the scary ones.

0:13:08 > 0:13:12But it wasn't until I went to live in Ghana

0:13:12 > 0:13:15that I saw stories being used in a way

0:13:15 > 0:13:17that wasn't just about entertainment.

0:13:17 > 0:13:19In Ghana, they used storytelling

0:13:19 > 0:13:21to pass on messages about health education.

0:13:21 > 0:13:24And I saw that and I thought, "This is it.

0:13:24 > 0:13:28"This is what I want to do. This is what I was born to do,

0:13:28 > 0:13:31"to combine my passion for people and children

0:13:31 > 0:13:34"with my passion for stories and language."

0:13:34 > 0:13:36And I haven't looked back since. I really haven't.

0:13:36 > 0:13:39I absolutely love my job.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41I just love it!

0:13:41 > 0:13:44And they fell. Down, down, down,

0:13:44 > 0:13:46deeper and deeper and deeper.

0:13:46 > 0:13:47They opened their mouths to breathe.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49The water filled their lungs and...

0:13:57 > 0:13:58I don't know loads of stuff.

0:13:58 > 0:14:01But there's one thing I have learnt.

0:14:01 > 0:14:04You are your own storyteller.

0:14:04 > 0:14:08You need to start to question what people say about you.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10And it's only when you start to question

0:14:10 > 0:14:12that you find out who you are.

0:14:20 > 0:14:23My name is Ryan Neile, and I work as an animal behaviourist.

0:14:24 > 0:14:25Good boy!

0:14:26 > 0:14:27Feet!

0:14:27 > 0:14:29Good boy! Good boy!

0:14:29 > 0:14:33An animal behaviourist works closely with animals,

0:14:33 > 0:14:36attempting to resolve behaviour problems.

0:14:36 > 0:14:37Oz!

0:14:37 > 0:14:38CLICKS

0:14:38 > 0:14:39Oz! Sit.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42Yes!

0:14:45 > 0:14:48As a ten or eleven-year-old, I remember being very shy.

0:14:50 > 0:14:53I would always be very quiet.

0:14:53 > 0:14:57I used to actually pretend that I was a dog! I would crawl around

0:14:57 > 0:15:01on all fours, and I would go to sleep under the coffee table.

0:15:01 > 0:15:03And I used to really worry my mum

0:15:03 > 0:15:07because I think she thought that maybe I wouldn't stop being a dog.

0:15:07 > 0:15:11I wasn't learning in the same way as my friends.

0:15:13 > 0:15:15I wasn't able to remember things.

0:15:15 > 0:15:18I had problems learning in classrooms.

0:15:20 > 0:15:23I noticed that I was

0:15:23 > 0:15:25slightly different to everybody else.

0:15:25 > 0:15:28I think that that had a big knock-on effect

0:15:28 > 0:15:31in terms of my confidence and my self-esteem.

0:15:34 > 0:15:39As a teenager, I'm feeling pretty useless,

0:15:39 > 0:15:41hadn't decided, really, what I wanted to do with my life,

0:15:41 > 0:15:44failing miserably at school.

0:15:44 > 0:15:47And it was round about then that I was reluctantly sent

0:15:47 > 0:15:50on a behaviour course with dogs. Didn't really want to go,

0:15:50 > 0:15:55and when I went, I had this most amazing experience.

0:15:55 > 0:15:59Suddenly, it was like my brain was lit up like a Christmas tree

0:15:59 > 0:16:04because, suddenly, I was able to really learn

0:16:04 > 0:16:06and take on this information.

0:16:06 > 0:16:10And I recognised that a lot of the qualities that I had,

0:16:10 > 0:16:13about being patient and listening,

0:16:13 > 0:16:16were a real strength in this particular area.

0:16:16 > 0:16:18The best bits about my job

0:16:18 > 0:16:21is that I get to spend lots of time with animals.

0:16:22 > 0:16:27And animals, in so many ways, are just as interesting as people.

0:16:27 > 0:16:29They have their own complex personalities,

0:16:29 > 0:16:34they have a sense of humour, and they're just great to be around.

0:16:34 > 0:16:37And over the years, I've learnt so much from them.

0:16:37 > 0:16:39Did you know that when dogs yawn,

0:16:39 > 0:16:43they might not always be tired when they do this?

0:16:43 > 0:16:45Sometimes, they will do it when they are feeling stressed

0:16:45 > 0:16:47or worried about something.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49Hey! What are you doing? What are you doing?

0:16:52 > 0:16:57I really wish that when I was younger,

0:16:57 > 0:17:01I wasn't compared to everybody else,

0:17:01 > 0:17:05because everyone else was doing really well at school,

0:17:05 > 0:17:07that I was, in some way, not as clever as them.

0:17:07 > 0:17:09The reality was I was just as clever

0:17:09 > 0:17:12as all of my friends.

0:17:12 > 0:17:14I just learned in a very different way to them.

0:17:22 > 0:17:25Everywhere I go, when I open a door,

0:17:25 > 0:17:29whether I'm on the train, on the tube, going on holiday,

0:17:29 > 0:17:32we're surrounded by smell. And this is what I do for a living.

0:17:32 > 0:17:35I'm recreating smells for people to enjoy.

0:17:39 > 0:17:41I never set out to become a perfumer.

0:17:41 > 0:17:44It all happened just because of this lovely bottle of perfume.

0:17:44 > 0:17:47My mother gave it to me when I was 12 years old,

0:17:47 > 0:17:49and for me, this was like

0:17:49 > 0:17:51a bottle of perfume treasure. It sat on my dressing table.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53It looked absolutely wonderful.

0:17:53 > 0:17:55It took pride of place in my bedroom.

0:17:55 > 0:17:58Shortly afterwards, I said to my mother, you know,

0:17:58 > 0:18:01"Could I just collect all the perfume bottles that you've got

0:18:01 > 0:18:03"when you've finished with them?" And gradually,

0:18:03 > 0:18:06over a number of years, I just had absolutely loads of perfume bottles.

0:18:06 > 0:18:09And people used to come in and say, "Wow! This looks amazing!"

0:18:09 > 0:18:11"Are you going to become a perfumer?"

0:18:14 > 0:18:17And do you know what? I never gave it much thought until that moment

0:18:17 > 0:18:20and realising this was something I'd really love to do.

0:18:22 > 0:18:26What really got my business going was the chance meeting

0:18:26 > 0:18:28with an old friend who remembered all the things I used to make

0:18:28 > 0:18:30as a little girl and he said, "You know, Linda,

0:18:30 > 0:18:33"do you think you could make a fantastic scented candle

0:18:33 > 0:18:34"for my shop?"

0:18:34 > 0:18:36And that was the moment that gave me the opportunity

0:18:36 > 0:18:38to get my business off the ground.

0:18:38 > 0:18:41Most people think perfumes are made from flowers and trees and grasses,

0:18:41 > 0:18:45but I can tell you there are some very, very unusual ingredients.

0:18:45 > 0:18:49Perhaps the most unusual one is called ambergris,

0:18:49 > 0:18:52whale vomit! Now, you might ask yourself, "Whale vomit?!

0:18:52 > 0:18:55"That must be crazy! Why would you use such a thing?"

0:18:55 > 0:19:00But the whale has one natural enemy, the giant squid.

0:19:00 > 0:19:03And when they fight in the water, usually, the whale wins.

0:19:03 > 0:19:07And he gobbles up the giant squid. When he swallows the squid,

0:19:07 > 0:19:12the whale doesn't feel very well,

0:19:12 > 0:19:14and then he vomits it out onto the sea.

0:19:14 > 0:19:18And believe it or not, a great big lump of fatty whale vomit

0:19:18 > 0:19:21is worth over 1 million!

0:19:21 > 0:19:23And there are people in this world

0:19:23 > 0:19:27whose sole job is to hunt down the ambergris.

0:19:27 > 0:19:31Now, after several years in the perfume industry,

0:19:31 > 0:19:33I've been working very, very hard.

0:19:33 > 0:19:35I've got a few shops in London,

0:19:35 > 0:19:38and people are selling my perfume all over the world.

0:19:38 > 0:19:42And it just shows you that if you have a real passion for something,

0:19:42 > 0:19:44and you work really, really hard,

0:19:44 > 0:19:47and you truly believe you can do this, that's half the battle won.

0:19:50 > 0:19:53Even if you don't have a passion at the moment

0:19:53 > 0:19:56or any particular focus on any particular hobby, it doesn't matter

0:19:56 > 0:19:59because you never know when it's going to happen. It might be now,

0:19:59 > 0:20:02it might be when you're a young teenager, or an adult.

0:20:02 > 0:20:05Just recognise it when it comes along.

0:20:05 > 0:20:08If it really switches you on, then just go for it.

0:20:16 > 0:20:20My name's Ho-Yin and I'm an architect and I design buildings.

0:20:23 > 0:20:27When I was at school, I found it sometimes a bit of a struggle.

0:20:27 > 0:20:29I wasn't really enjoying my lessons

0:20:29 > 0:20:31and I was struggling a bit academically.

0:20:31 > 0:20:33I never thought that I excelled in anything.

0:20:33 > 0:20:37I enjoyed doing art, but I never thought I was the best.

0:20:37 > 0:20:39I always thought, looking around,

0:20:39 > 0:20:42there were people making better clay models,

0:20:42 > 0:20:45drawing better pencil drawings than me,

0:20:45 > 0:20:48I never really thought that I was the best at it.

0:20:51 > 0:20:55I was given the opportunity to do some work experience

0:20:55 > 0:20:57and this really enabled me

0:20:57 > 0:21:00to understand what an architect really did.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02It was not only drawing that you were doing,

0:21:02 > 0:21:05but also the creative thinking behind it as well.

0:21:05 > 0:21:07The first thing I did was, quite simply,

0:21:07 > 0:21:09just to take a piece of tracing paper

0:21:09 > 0:21:12and to actually copy a couple of their drawings they'd done

0:21:12 > 0:21:17of this residential apartment block in central London.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19They could see I was really enjoying it.

0:21:19 > 0:21:22I was learning how to use these special pens they had,

0:21:22 > 0:21:24using what they call a slide rule,

0:21:24 > 0:21:26moving up and down and drawing all these lines

0:21:26 > 0:21:29and I was really enjoying it and being enthusiastic.

0:21:29 > 0:21:32I started drawing my own house where we were living

0:21:32 > 0:21:35and sort of re-planning my bedroom and things like this.

0:21:35 > 0:21:37It completely opened up the world to me.

0:21:37 > 0:21:39I saw architecture in a completely different sense.

0:21:39 > 0:21:45And when I left, they gave me a present - a set of drawing pens.

0:21:46 > 0:21:48This is one of them

0:21:48 > 0:21:52and this was, I guess, really to encourage me,

0:21:52 > 0:21:56because outside of my parents, no-one had ever really given me a gift.

0:21:56 > 0:22:00I used these since I left and I used them through university

0:22:00 > 0:22:02and I've still got them now

0:22:02 > 0:22:05so these really, I guess, started my career.

0:22:09 > 0:22:10Don't be afraid.

0:22:10 > 0:22:13Don't be afraid to explore, to explore your passions,

0:22:13 > 0:22:15no matter what they might be.

0:22:15 > 0:22:18If you're really passionate about them

0:22:18 > 0:22:20and you really explore the opportunities,

0:22:20 > 0:22:23something will always come because of it.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33I'm going to tell you what life is like as an adventurer.

0:22:42 > 0:22:45My first big adventure was when I cycled all the way around the world.

0:22:45 > 0:22:48I did it on this bike, which I named Beryl.

0:22:50 > 0:22:55When I was at school, I wasn't the strongest or the fastest

0:22:55 > 0:22:57or the cleverest boy in my class.

0:22:57 > 0:23:01I liked games and being out in the woods, I liked riding my bike,

0:23:01 > 0:23:05but I wasn't particularly good at any of those.

0:23:05 > 0:23:07The only difficult thing that, really, I've ever done

0:23:07 > 0:23:10was coming up with these ideas, thinking,

0:23:10 > 0:23:11"I want to go do this adventure."

0:23:15 > 0:23:18When I got on my bike outside my mum and dad's house on the first day

0:23:18 > 0:23:22and I had to say goodbye to all of my friends and my family,

0:23:22 > 0:23:26it was one of the most frightening, lonely moments of my life.

0:23:26 > 0:23:29And as I pedalled down the road away from my house,

0:23:29 > 0:23:34I had no idea then that it was going to take me more than four years

0:23:34 > 0:23:37to get all the way around the world

0:23:37 > 0:23:39and that I would cycle over 46,000 miles

0:23:39 > 0:23:41through 60 countries.

0:23:41 > 0:23:44I didn't have very much money for this trip

0:23:44 > 0:23:47so everything had to be as cheap as possible, so I slept in my tent.

0:23:47 > 0:23:50I'd always make sure to try the foods

0:23:50 > 0:23:52in all of the different countries, but there were a few places

0:23:52 > 0:23:55where the food was not quite what I was used to -

0:23:55 > 0:23:58barbecued guinea pigs in Ecuador,

0:23:58 > 0:24:00and boiled mice on a stick.

0:24:00 > 0:24:02If you imagine the world,

0:24:02 > 0:24:05I set off from my mum and dad's house in the north of England

0:24:05 > 0:24:08and then cycled all the way across Europe

0:24:08 > 0:24:10and through the Middle East to Africa,

0:24:10 > 0:24:13before crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a sailing boat

0:24:13 > 0:24:16- and then cycling right from the bottom of South America...- Whee!

0:24:16 > 0:24:18..all the way to Alaska.

0:24:18 > 0:24:21Finally, I crossed the Pacific Ocean on a boat

0:24:21 > 0:24:25and cycled through China back home to England,

0:24:25 > 0:24:28back to my front door and the end of the adventure.

0:24:29 > 0:24:32I met so many people along the way

0:24:32 > 0:24:33and people helped me out

0:24:33 > 0:24:36in all sorts of strange places around the world.

0:24:36 > 0:24:38And the further I went,

0:24:38 > 0:24:42the more the kindness of strangers became important to me.

0:24:42 > 0:24:45Rich people, poor people, all different religions,

0:24:45 > 0:24:47different countries.

0:24:47 > 0:24:50People would stop their cars, give me food,

0:24:50 > 0:24:53invite me to stay in their homes for the night

0:24:53 > 0:24:55and it was just amazing how kind people were

0:24:55 > 0:24:57and that really helped me around the world

0:24:57 > 0:25:01and was definitely one of the best things about the whole experience.

0:25:04 > 0:25:06What adventures would interest you?

0:25:06 > 0:25:10Why don't you have a think about things you would really love to do

0:25:10 > 0:25:12and how you're going to go about starting them,

0:25:12 > 0:25:16because adventures can be such a wonderful part of your life

0:25:16 > 0:25:19and you'll never know unless you try them.

0:25:28 > 0:25:30My name is Akram Khan

0:25:30 > 0:25:32and I'm a dancer and choreographer.

0:25:32 > 0:25:36And a choreographer, in the most simplest terms,

0:25:36 > 0:25:41is someone who captures images of the body

0:25:41 > 0:25:45and literally puts it together to create patterns.

0:25:45 > 0:25:48STRING MUSIC PLAYS

0:25:50 > 0:25:54FAST DRUMMING

0:25:58 > 0:26:01I realised that I wanted to move physically

0:26:01 > 0:26:04since I was a child, really. When I was in a classroom

0:26:04 > 0:26:08and there was a desk, and I really didn't like desks

0:26:08 > 0:26:12and I didn't like chairs cos it felt confined, so I couldn't focus at all.

0:26:13 > 0:26:18And I was shy because I had a lot of boys my age

0:26:18 > 0:26:21that were very good with words.

0:26:21 > 0:26:23I realised at a certain point

0:26:23 > 0:26:26that my way of talking is through my body,

0:26:26 > 0:26:28and I was good at it.

0:26:31 > 0:26:34I remember this one moment

0:26:34 > 0:26:40where Thriller, Michael Jackson's video...pop video, came on

0:26:40 > 0:26:43and that kind of literally changed my life

0:26:43 > 0:26:46and I started to immediately imitate.

0:26:46 > 0:26:49And so a few years later, in a school competition,

0:26:49 > 0:26:53suddenly, overnight, the whole school knew me.

0:26:53 > 0:26:56MUSIC: "Thriller" by Michael Jackson

0:27:00 > 0:27:02And they knew me by name.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05So it wasn't this little skinny Bengali boy,

0:27:05 > 0:27:08suddenly it was, "Little skinny Bengali boy called Akram Khan."

0:27:08 > 0:27:10And that was quite a revelation for me.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12# It's close to midnight

0:27:12 > 0:27:16# And something evil's lurking in the dark... #

0:27:16 > 0:27:18The thing that sparked the body was music.

0:27:18 > 0:27:21MUSIC FROM "SACRED MONSTERS"

0:27:21 > 0:27:23Everything around us has a rhythm

0:27:23 > 0:27:25and that means it has life.

0:27:25 > 0:27:29And so, in a sense, whenever the rhythm came on in the music,

0:27:29 > 0:27:32my body would rhythmically respond to that.

0:27:41 > 0:27:44If I was talking to the child version of me...

0:27:44 > 0:27:47"Trust what you like,

0:27:47 > 0:27:50"don't fear it, no matter what anybody says."

0:27:50 > 0:27:55"If you somehow naturally believe

0:27:55 > 0:27:58"or just feel good doing what you do,

0:27:58 > 0:28:00"then usually, that's the right thing."

0:28:17 > 0:28:21'My name is Ayishat Akanbi and I work as a freelance stylist.'

0:28:22 > 0:28:25MUSIC: "Express Yourself" by Labrinth

0:28:25 > 0:28:29# I say the same thing twice I'm awkward when I speak

0:28:29 > 0:28:34# Ain't got the perfect smile Don't turn heads on my street... #

0:28:34 > 0:28:39Fashion and styling were something that I always kind of had in me.

0:28:39 > 0:28:41Even since I was a kid,

0:28:41 > 0:28:43I always kind of wanted my own way of doing things.

0:28:43 > 0:28:48My mum stopped choosing what clothes I wore when I was about five.

0:28:48 > 0:28:50I just had an opinion from then.

0:28:50 > 0:28:54I was like, "Nah, I don't feel that, Mummy. Nah, I'm not wearing that."

0:28:54 > 0:28:56I just got talking to a lot of people

0:28:56 > 0:29:00and started telling people I wanted to be a stylist and stuff like that

0:29:00 > 0:29:03and people seemed to really believe in me,

0:29:03 > 0:29:05even before I'd fully believed in myself.

0:29:05 > 0:29:07People were like, "Yeah, you can do it,"

0:29:07 > 0:29:10and giving me little opportunities here and there.

0:29:10 > 0:29:12I've always had my own sort of style,

0:29:12 > 0:29:15I never really looked like most people

0:29:15 > 0:29:18and I spent so long when I was young trying to fit in

0:29:18 > 0:29:22and then realising, "I don't think that's going to work, it's not me."

0:29:22 > 0:29:25And when I tried to dress how other people dressed,

0:29:25 > 0:29:26I just felt really silly

0:29:26 > 0:29:29and I just felt, it just wasn't comfortable.

0:29:29 > 0:29:33Then I thought, "You know what? I'm just going to be totally who I am."

0:29:33 > 0:29:35Hello, you all right?

0:29:35 > 0:29:36Yeah, how are you?

0:29:36 > 0:29:38Yeah, not too bad.

0:29:38 > 0:29:41A stylist is in control of the overall image of an artist

0:29:41 > 0:29:44or even a regular person.

0:29:44 > 0:29:48'So I basically, I tell them what to wear, basically.'

0:29:48 > 0:29:51With celebrities, generally speaking,

0:29:51 > 0:29:54when you see them on TV, in magazines, in papers,

0:29:54 > 0:29:56they have been styled by someone,

0:29:56 > 0:29:59which is something I never knew until I got into it.

0:29:59 > 0:30:01# Labrinth. Come in. #

0:30:01 > 0:30:03MUSIC: "Earthquake" by Labrinth

0:30:03 > 0:30:04So in case you don't know,

0:30:04 > 0:30:08Labrinth is a super-talented singer-songwriter-producer.

0:30:08 > 0:30:11He's got a few gigs coming up, so I'm going to get him some pieces.

0:30:11 > 0:30:12What we're doing at the moment,

0:30:12 > 0:30:15I've got my lovely work experience girl Nicole

0:30:15 > 0:30:18helping me out with the mood board. She's kind of referencing the images

0:30:18 > 0:30:20of what we need to go out and get today.

0:30:20 > 0:30:24It's just basically cuttings out from magazines, catalogues,

0:30:24 > 0:30:26could be pieces of fabric.

0:30:26 > 0:30:29And then this is what I use to show to the person I'm styling

0:30:29 > 0:30:32and as a reference point for myself

0:30:32 > 0:30:34just to refer back to every now and then

0:30:34 > 0:30:36and make sure everything's consistent.

0:30:38 > 0:30:41So now we're off to the West End, we're going to Oxford Street

0:30:41 > 0:30:44where we're going to hit a high street store, one of my favourites,

0:30:44 > 0:30:46for Labrinth, and see what they've got today.

0:30:56 > 0:30:59The great thing about fashion is that it's all around us,

0:30:59 > 0:31:03so you can learn from people, so whenever I saw an outfit I liked,

0:31:03 > 0:31:06I would question myself as to why I liked it. "What was it?

0:31:06 > 0:31:08"What's drawn you to this?"

0:31:08 > 0:31:10'And then I would kind of note that down in my head'

0:31:10 > 0:31:13and start applying the same principles

0:31:13 > 0:31:14to the way I dressed myself.

0:31:14 > 0:31:18So yeah, this is definitely a Labrinth-esque piece.

0:31:18 > 0:31:21So now we're heading back to the office, where

0:31:21 > 0:31:23I'm going to try it on a friend of mine, James.

0:31:23 > 0:31:26Yeah, thank you again for standing in, for being my Labrinth.

0:31:26 > 0:31:28You can put this on.

0:31:28 > 0:31:31And these shoes. See you in a sec.

0:31:31 > 0:31:33I get to try on clothes on him

0:31:33 > 0:31:37and just make sure everything's working, as they're a similar build.

0:31:37 > 0:31:39SHE LAUGHS

0:31:41 > 0:31:45MUSIC: "Ooh Wee" by Ghostface Killah, Nate Dogg and Mark Ronson

0:31:48 > 0:31:51This is something that Labrinth would wear,

0:31:51 > 0:31:53like, at a festival, on stage.

0:31:53 > 0:31:56It's kind of got that sort of Woodstock vibe about it,

0:31:56 > 0:31:58you know, looks a little earthy,

0:31:58 > 0:32:00which is good for festivals.

0:32:00 > 0:32:02My favourite piece is definitely the shoes.

0:32:02 > 0:32:06I love the white gum sole, the colour,

0:32:06 > 0:32:07I think it just really...

0:32:07 > 0:32:12The green, sort of bottle green and burgundy really work nicely together

0:32:12 > 0:32:14and they kind of pull in what's going on here.

0:32:14 > 0:32:16I have an idea for something.

0:32:18 > 0:32:21'This would be a good outfit for festivals'

0:32:21 > 0:32:22in terms of colour.

0:32:22 > 0:32:26Keeping it quite casual, like a lounge sort of suit, you know?

0:32:26 > 0:32:28And shorts, you know, deck shoes.

0:32:30 > 0:32:33# Oo-ooh wee... #

0:32:33 > 0:32:36Now that this has kind of worked out for me,

0:32:36 > 0:32:38'it was a dream that I had, I wanted to style,

0:32:38 > 0:32:40'and it's worked out.

0:32:40 > 0:32:45'Now, I feel like there's nothing I can't do if I put my mind to it.'

0:32:45 > 0:32:49I think if your will is strong enough

0:32:49 > 0:32:51and you stay motivated,

0:32:51 > 0:32:54even when you have setbacks, even when you fail sometimes,

0:32:54 > 0:32:56you fail again and you fail better

0:32:56 > 0:32:59and you will eventually get to your goal, I think.

0:33:09 > 0:33:15'I'm Fraser Doherty and I run a jam company called SuperJam.

0:33:16 > 0:33:17'I guess some people would imagine

0:33:17 > 0:33:20'running your own business means you go into a big office

0:33:20 > 0:33:22'and wear a suit and sit behind a desk

0:33:22 > 0:33:24'and you're answering the phone all day.'

0:33:24 > 0:33:26But for me, running my own business is a lifestyle

0:33:26 > 0:33:29that allows me to work from home

0:33:29 > 0:33:31and I can spend my time doing things that I enjoy,

0:33:31 > 0:33:34as well as working really hard on trying to grow my business.

0:33:34 > 0:33:38Today, I'm going to be working on some new flavours of jam -

0:33:38 > 0:33:41some strawberry jam and some raspberry jam

0:33:41 > 0:33:43and I want to try and come up with

0:33:43 > 0:33:46some recipes that particularly appeal to kids

0:33:46 > 0:33:49'and it's going to be called SuperJam Junior.'

0:33:49 > 0:33:50Thank you.

0:33:54 > 0:33:57I've got some strawberries, I'm going to chop them up

0:33:57 > 0:34:00and then boil them up and then add grape juice.

0:34:00 > 0:34:01That's all that goes in it.

0:34:01 > 0:34:04So it's all just 100% fruit,

0:34:04 > 0:34:07there's no sugar or any additives or anything like that.

0:34:07 > 0:34:11You have to make sure your idea is something people want to buy

0:34:11 > 0:34:14and when I asked people at farmer's markets what they wanted,

0:34:14 > 0:34:16they told me they wanted jam without sugar,

0:34:16 > 0:34:18so I knew I was onto a good idea.

0:34:20 > 0:34:24One afternoon when I was 14, I was visiting my grandmother

0:34:24 > 0:34:26and she was making jam in her kitchen

0:34:26 > 0:34:29just in the same way as she had for as long as I can remember

0:34:29 > 0:34:31and I got really excited about it

0:34:31 > 0:34:33and asked her to teach me how to make jam.

0:34:33 > 0:34:35Soon, I was making my own jars

0:34:35 > 0:34:39and selling them at farmers' markets and little shops.

0:34:39 > 0:34:42I was making 1,000 jars of jam a week in my parents' kitchen,

0:34:42 > 0:34:44which was about as much as was possible.

0:34:44 > 0:34:48When you start a business, there will be moments where things don't work.

0:34:48 > 0:34:52At one point, Waitrose said no to my idea

0:34:52 > 0:34:55and although I was sad that they said no,

0:34:55 > 0:34:58I was grateful that they gave me honest advice

0:34:58 > 0:35:01and looking back, I'm glad that we changed the labels

0:35:01 > 0:35:04and I'm glad that we moved to a different factory.

0:35:04 > 0:35:06Now we make more than a million jars in a year.

0:35:12 > 0:35:16We run hundreds of tea parties for elderly people all over the country.

0:35:16 > 0:35:18Today, I'm meeting a few people

0:35:18 > 0:35:22'who can hopefully help us start having big tea parties in London.'

0:35:22 > 0:35:25This place would be great for a tea party. Hopefully, they're up for it.

0:35:25 > 0:35:26- Hi!- Hey, how are you?

0:35:27 > 0:35:30'When I was about 16, I had my first big meeting.

0:35:30 > 0:35:32'I went along wearing my dad's suit.

0:35:32 > 0:35:34'It was probably two sizes too big for me

0:35:34 > 0:35:38'and I was pretty frightened at this meeting because it was something new,

0:35:38 > 0:35:42'there was a lot of pressure and I really wanted it to work.

0:35:42 > 0:35:45'But now, when I meet people, I don't feel frightened by it.

0:35:45 > 0:35:48'I've learned that people are usually more than happy to help you

0:35:48 > 0:35:51'and, in fact, there's nothing to be scared of.'

0:35:51 > 0:35:53Thanks very much, everyone.

0:35:53 > 0:35:56'Today, I'm going to take along recipes

0:35:56 > 0:35:59'to a taste test this afternoon with some kids.'

0:35:59 > 0:36:01The kids might like it, they might not like it,

0:36:01 > 0:36:02and if they don't,

0:36:02 > 0:36:05it will be really useful to know what they would do to change it.

0:36:05 > 0:36:07Try and find out how we can make the product

0:36:07 > 0:36:10even better than it already is.

0:36:10 > 0:36:12'Sometimes it's difficult, because

0:36:12 > 0:36:15'I might come up with a kind of jam that I think tastes great

0:36:15 > 0:36:18'and we put it on the shelves, and people don't necessarily buy it.

0:36:18 > 0:36:21'We tried launching rhubarb and ginger jam, which was delicious

0:36:21 > 0:36:24'but unfortunately, didn't fly off the shelves

0:36:24 > 0:36:26'and we had to stop selling it.'

0:36:35 > 0:36:36Hi, my name's Fraser

0:36:36 > 0:36:39and I've made some very special jams for you today to try

0:36:39 > 0:36:42and I'd love to hear what you think. Help yourselves!

0:36:45 > 0:36:49- Mmm! Lovely.- Great.- Yeah.

0:36:49 > 0:36:51Which one do you think's got the best label?

0:36:51 > 0:36:52The teddy bear.

0:36:53 > 0:36:57I like the one without seeds

0:36:57 > 0:36:58because it's sweeter.

0:36:58 > 0:37:02- What do you think? Which one's your favourite?- The one with seeds

0:37:02 > 0:37:05- because it's sweeter. - Put your hands up if you think

0:37:05 > 0:37:09- jam for kids without any seeds in is a good idea.- It's a great idea.

0:37:09 > 0:37:13Well, thanks so much for taking part in my taste test.

0:37:13 > 0:37:15I'm really happy that you all liked the idea

0:37:15 > 0:37:17for making jam for kids without any seeds

0:37:17 > 0:37:20I think it's kind of amazing that you can come up with an idea

0:37:20 > 0:37:23and with a bit of hard work, it can change your life.

0:37:23 > 0:37:25It doesn't have to take a lot of money -

0:37:25 > 0:37:27I didn't have access to any money when I was 14.

0:37:27 > 0:37:30It just takes love, imagination and a lot of work.

0:37:55 > 0:37:58'My name is Vicky Jewson and I'm a film director.'

0:37:58 > 0:38:01We're here today at Hinton Skydiving Centre

0:38:01 > 0:38:05to film our stunt woman falling out of a plane 10,000 feet,

0:38:05 > 0:38:08which is a part of the film where she skydives secretly

0:38:08 > 0:38:11into the Middle East undercover, like a spy would.

0:38:11 > 0:38:13- Sorry, Fran, do you mind? - No, no, that's fine.

0:38:13 > 0:38:16Then we know we're definitely going to get that shot.

0:38:16 > 0:38:19I'm the stunt double, so I'm not actually an actress

0:38:19 > 0:38:21but I'm standing in for an actress,

0:38:21 > 0:38:23so I'm pretending to be her.

0:38:23 > 0:38:24'Fran is one of my friends'

0:38:24 > 0:38:28and we started making films together when I was about 12 years old.

0:38:28 > 0:38:31SWING MUSIC PLAYS

0:38:31 > 0:38:33You've got to hide me! I look dreadful!

0:38:33 > 0:38:35Billy can't see me like this, he just can't!

0:38:35 > 0:38:37Nice to see you, too, Nancy.

0:38:37 > 0:38:39Whoa!

0:38:39 > 0:38:42I met her at big school on the first day

0:38:42 > 0:38:45'and Fran and I went on to make about eight films together

0:38:45 > 0:38:46'while I was at school'

0:38:46 > 0:38:49and that kind of lit the torch under my passion for filmmaking.

0:38:59 > 0:39:01So, yeah. Big.

0:39:01 > 0:39:02'A big part of directing,

0:39:02 > 0:39:05'which a lot of people don't realise or understand -

0:39:05 > 0:39:07'it's not just being on set with the actors

0:39:07 > 0:39:09'and picking where your camera's going to go.

0:39:09 > 0:39:13'The real success of a director is when you get into the edit suite.

0:39:13 > 0:39:15If all those shots that you've done

0:39:15 > 0:39:18cut together to create a good story and to create a film,

0:39:18 > 0:39:21then that's really satisfying.

0:39:21 > 0:39:24With the right sound effect, that's going to be perfect.

0:39:24 > 0:39:27This is maybe one of the more wacky things I've done

0:39:27 > 0:39:29- in my time.- In your time.

0:39:29 > 0:39:33There is a lot of tricks to make you believe it's real.

0:39:33 > 0:39:36As you can see, she's looking at her arm there

0:39:36 > 0:39:38and we want to feel like we're now her,

0:39:38 > 0:39:41so we go to this angle where we feel we're looking down at her arm,

0:39:41 > 0:39:44which helps us believe that this bit of fake arm is actually an arm

0:39:44 > 0:39:47and not a bit of fakeness, because you feel connected to it

0:39:47 > 0:39:48because you feel you're her.

0:39:51 > 0:39:54Legs in, arms in,

0:39:54 > 0:39:55zip goes up the front,

0:39:55 > 0:39:56not up the back.

0:39:58 > 0:40:00- How do you feel, Fran?- Nervous.

0:40:00 > 0:40:02- Oh, sorry, Fran!- It's all right!

0:40:02 > 0:40:05Yeah, we need the camera, Malte!

0:40:05 > 0:40:06LAUGHTER

0:40:09 > 0:40:12Positive mental thinking now.

0:40:16 > 0:40:19I am excited about the shots we might get from the aircraft.

0:40:19 > 0:40:23It could be a really good link in the film. It's also quite risky.

0:40:23 > 0:40:27The shot's so important, you've got one chance to get it.

0:40:27 > 0:40:29Yeah, they're jumping. See them?

0:40:29 > 0:40:31There goes the other one, there's Fran.

0:40:31 > 0:40:33I can't wait to see the footage.

0:40:33 > 0:40:36There's Malte, that's Malte up there.

0:40:36 > 0:40:38- How do you know? - Because he's got red.

0:40:38 > 0:40:41Oh, we won't know until the plane lands if we've got our shot or not.

0:40:41 > 0:40:44- Is that one person?- Yeah.

0:40:44 > 0:40:46FRAN SHRIEKS

0:40:46 > 0:40:48Sorry, Fran!

0:40:48 > 0:40:50Wow.

0:40:51 > 0:40:52Shall we go greet them?

0:40:52 > 0:40:54I'm on the ground!

0:40:54 > 0:40:56- Awesome.- Yeah?

0:40:56 > 0:40:57That was actually quite fun.

0:41:00 > 0:41:02Oh, my God.

0:41:02 > 0:41:04Just...

0:41:04 > 0:41:07Ah, amazing. Ah, yes! That's awesome.

0:41:07 > 0:41:09- Great.- Gets it all quicker.

0:41:09 > 0:41:13It just gives you the feeling of being on top of the world

0:41:13 > 0:41:17when the shot that you've imagined for years finally comes out.

0:41:17 > 0:41:21If I was to go back and tell my nine or eleven-year-old self what to do,

0:41:21 > 0:41:23I think I would just say,

0:41:23 > 0:41:27"Never give up, and believe in yourself

0:41:27 > 0:41:30"because if you keep going and pursuing what you love,

0:41:30 > 0:41:32"it will work out for you."

0:41:32 > 0:41:34And doing it with people you care about,

0:41:34 > 0:41:37and to be able to do that for a job is amazing

0:41:37 > 0:41:39and to be reminded of that, sometimes, is really good.

0:41:49 > 0:41:51I usually cycle into work

0:41:51 > 0:41:54and when I'm getting nearer to the office,

0:41:54 > 0:41:57I'm kind of, in my mind, imagining what I have to do today

0:41:57 > 0:42:02and how I'm going to manage the time that I need to do it in.

0:42:03 > 0:42:05This is the office where we make games.

0:42:16 > 0:42:17We make football management games,

0:42:17 > 0:42:21which are games where, rather than controlling the action on the pitch,

0:42:21 > 0:42:23you're controlling everything off the pitch

0:42:23 > 0:42:25and the tactics and the transfers.

0:42:25 > 0:42:27It's effectively a role-playing game

0:42:27 > 0:42:30that allows you to be a football manager.

0:42:33 > 0:42:37I first started drawing when I was around five

0:42:37 > 0:42:39and the only reason I started drawing

0:42:39 > 0:42:42was cos my brother was really good at it

0:42:42 > 0:42:44and he got loads of attention from it

0:42:44 > 0:42:47and I wanted to be better than him, cos he was my brother.

0:42:49 > 0:42:53In school, I was...I was fairly quiet

0:42:53 > 0:42:56and I was always daydreaming

0:42:56 > 0:42:58and had my head in the clouds.

0:42:58 > 0:43:02I spent a lot of time as a child playing computer games.

0:43:03 > 0:43:04Way too much time.

0:43:04 > 0:43:09The only other times I didn't spend on it, I was playing football.

0:43:09 > 0:43:12It feels good now working in the video games industry,

0:43:12 > 0:43:16cos it was something that used to get me in trouble quite a lot.

0:43:16 > 0:43:19It's really easy to end up the person that's playing the games

0:43:19 > 0:43:20rather than making the games,

0:43:20 > 0:43:23because you're going to come across a lot of obstacles

0:43:23 > 0:43:28and it's really easy to get discouraged by those obstacles,

0:43:28 > 0:43:30but you have to just keep trying

0:43:30 > 0:43:34and keep thinking that the next time round, you'll get it.

0:43:39 > 0:43:44So I'm actually now just taking pictures of players in their kits.

0:43:44 > 0:43:46I'm just going to use it as reference

0:43:46 > 0:43:50for basically, the creases on their shirts and making textures.

0:43:50 > 0:43:53And then later on, we'll take the pictures back to the office

0:43:53 > 0:43:55and create the player models.

0:44:00 > 0:44:02The strangest part of my job

0:44:02 > 0:44:06is that I go around taking pictures of random things

0:44:06 > 0:44:08and no-one other than me knows why.

0:44:10 > 0:44:14So I could look like I'm taking a picture of a brick wall

0:44:14 > 0:44:18or a piece of dirt and it just looks strange to other people

0:44:18 > 0:44:21but to me, it's really useful.

0:44:21 > 0:44:26The games look real because of observation.

0:44:26 > 0:44:30Things like light and shade and contrast are really important,

0:44:30 > 0:44:34because they give you an idea of the time of day

0:44:34 > 0:44:37and they also make the characters stick out

0:44:37 > 0:44:39or fade into the background if they need to be.

0:44:39 > 0:44:43If you're going to be an artist, you really need the natural flair

0:44:43 > 0:44:45of being able to look at things in the real world

0:44:45 > 0:44:49and work out how you can then computerise those

0:44:49 > 0:44:51so that it either looks realistic,

0:44:51 > 0:44:54if you're making a photo-realistic game,

0:44:54 > 0:44:58or it just fits in with the character inside the game

0:44:58 > 0:45:00and the characters of the world.

0:45:00 > 0:45:03Ronnie is incredibly laidback,

0:45:03 > 0:45:08which is an important thing, because you need to be incredibly patient,

0:45:08 > 0:45:12because you need every single pixel to be perfect.

0:45:12 > 0:45:15I never expected to have the job I've got - like, never.

0:45:15 > 0:45:20'I didn't think it was possible for, like, a young black kid'

0:45:20 > 0:45:23to be able to make it into the games industry.

0:45:23 > 0:45:27Just cos I always thought that the games industry was for

0:45:27 > 0:45:30kind of, like, geeky white nerds, basically.

0:45:30 > 0:45:35It's only just a perception, and you just basically have to work for it

0:45:35 > 0:45:37and you'll get there if you keep putting the work in.

0:45:45 > 0:45:48My name's Charlotte Harbottle and I'm a butcher.

0:45:53 > 0:45:55- Thanks so much.- Thank you.

0:45:55 > 0:45:58'I used to enjoy visiting the butcher's shop when I was little'

0:45:58 > 0:46:00and it was fun, I enjoyed it, but

0:46:00 > 0:46:02when you see this big rosy man behind the counter,

0:46:02 > 0:46:03you don't, as a little girl,

0:46:03 > 0:46:07imagine, "You know what? Some day I want to be like that." So...

0:46:07 > 0:46:10but then when I went to university, I ran out of money.

0:46:10 > 0:46:13You fall into a job and you fall in love with it,

0:46:13 > 0:46:15and that's how it works.

0:46:16 > 0:46:19'Safety is so important. It's very boring

0:46:19 > 0:46:21'but it's something that you have to take into account.

0:46:21 > 0:46:24You've got to make sure that your hair's tied back.

0:46:25 > 0:46:28'Wearing chainmail is something I didn't really anticipate

0:46:28 > 0:46:30'I'd have to wear. On top of everything else,

0:46:30 > 0:46:33'it weighs about the same as two house bricks.'

0:46:33 > 0:46:35It's kind of lots of little circles.

0:46:35 > 0:46:37It means the knife point can't actually touch your skin.

0:46:38 > 0:46:42'One of the biggest challenges for me with working with meat

0:46:42 > 0:46:43'is trying to remember everything,

0:46:43 > 0:46:46'because I'm the sort of person who can't learn by watching,

0:46:46 > 0:46:49'I need to learn by doing it, I need to get stuck in.'

0:46:49 > 0:46:50- You want to have a go?- Yeah, sure.

0:46:54 > 0:46:56So... OK, just so that I'm...

0:46:56 > 0:46:59- Cos I don't want to cut it, then... - No, no, listen, cut it.

0:46:59 > 0:47:00Get onto that bone.

0:47:00 > 0:47:04That's it, now go round. That's it.

0:47:04 > 0:47:07Beef is probably the hardest part to learn in butchery.

0:47:07 > 0:47:10They always say that if you perfect beef, you can do anything.

0:47:10 > 0:47:14Her first attempt at doing a top bit of beef today,

0:47:14 > 0:47:15which she's doing really well.

0:47:17 > 0:47:20What it's doing is giving her knife skills,

0:47:20 > 0:47:25because she's having to move her knife, find the bone, find seams,

0:47:25 > 0:47:27it's not easy.

0:47:27 > 0:47:30- Put your fingers in there cos that's going to fall.- It'll fall, I know.

0:47:30 > 0:47:32Just keep your knife to the bone, yeah?

0:47:33 > 0:47:35That's it, brilliant, well done.

0:47:35 > 0:47:38That'll keep me going for about a week.

0:47:38 > 0:47:40That is really good.

0:47:40 > 0:47:42That is really good.

0:47:42 > 0:47:45- Yeah.- You ain't going to get cleaner than that.

0:47:45 > 0:47:46It is a lot of money.

0:47:46 > 0:47:50That piece of beef would have cost over a couple of grand, easily.

0:47:50 > 0:47:51Anybody who eats meat,

0:47:51 > 0:47:54I don't really think they can be squeamish about it,

0:47:54 > 0:47:56because it has to have come from somewhere.

0:47:56 > 0:47:59You need to make sure that the product you get

0:47:59 > 0:48:01is as good as it can be

0:48:01 > 0:48:04and the way that it can be as good as it can be -

0:48:04 > 0:48:06basically, by ensuring it's happy

0:48:06 > 0:48:08and it's well fed while it's alive

0:48:08 > 0:48:11and just generally has a lot of fresh air.

0:48:11 > 0:48:14I could work in an office, I know I could work in an office,

0:48:14 > 0:48:16'but my mates couldn't come in here and do what I do,

0:48:16 > 0:48:19'even to this stage. And I'm still so...

0:48:19 > 0:48:21'I've got so much more to learn still.'

0:48:21 > 0:48:23'If you don't listen, you won't learn.

0:48:23 > 0:48:25'You've got to always be trying to get better.'

0:48:25 > 0:48:29When I started butchery, I started writing a blog

0:48:29 > 0:48:33'just to record different teaching and different methods of butchery.'

0:48:34 > 0:48:37'As a result, I am writing for different magazines,

0:48:37 > 0:48:39'writing for all sorts of different people.'

0:48:39 > 0:48:44You have to write your ideas down or else you forget. I certainly forget.

0:48:45 > 0:48:48But it's so important to kind of, you know,

0:48:48 > 0:48:51write down different things that I want to learn

0:48:51 > 0:48:54and different ways for me to remember.

0:48:54 > 0:48:56Many of my friends do more glamorous jobs,

0:48:56 > 0:48:59they work in an office, they get to wear nice clothes to work.

0:48:59 > 0:49:02'But I get so much more pleasure from doing my job

0:49:02 > 0:49:04'and I'm lucky at the moment,

0:49:04 > 0:49:06'because I'm given the opportunity to learn

0:49:06 > 0:49:08'in one of the best butcheries in the country.'

0:49:08 > 0:49:11If I was to go back to my younger self,

0:49:11 > 0:49:15I would probably say, just pursue

0:49:15 > 0:49:18and enjoy the things that I like doing.

0:49:18 > 0:49:22So no matter what it is, even if none of your friends are into it

0:49:22 > 0:49:24or it's not fashionable,

0:49:24 > 0:49:28or not cool or whatever, I think that you should just do it anyway.

0:49:47 > 0:49:50I didn't know what I wanted to do at school.

0:49:50 > 0:49:51I was quite good at maths

0:49:51 > 0:49:56and you need a certain amount of geometry skills to be a stonemason,

0:49:56 > 0:49:58understanding numbers.

0:49:58 > 0:50:01And it was in my last year at school,

0:50:01 > 0:50:04'I did work experience as a stonemason

0:50:04 > 0:50:07'so I did a whole week as a stonemason,'

0:50:07 > 0:50:09then they offered me a job at the end of it,

0:50:09 > 0:50:13'saying that I might have had some sort of natural skill,

0:50:13 > 0:50:15'so I finished school,

0:50:15 > 0:50:19finished my GCSEs, knuckled down with them and then came up

0:50:19 > 0:50:21and I've worked ever since.

0:50:27 > 0:50:31We're sat in the quarry of Ham Hill.

0:50:31 > 0:50:34These bits here have been pulled out of the floor.

0:50:34 > 0:50:37So what you can see there is millions

0:50:37 > 0:50:39and millions and millions of years of history.

0:50:42 > 0:50:47A stonemason carves stone straight out from the floor

0:50:47 > 0:50:49into ornamental shapes,

0:50:49 > 0:50:54nice flowery patterns to go into buildings, really.

0:50:54 > 0:50:57'When you're doing any sort of trade,

0:50:57 > 0:51:02'measurements are key, and you're always taught

0:51:02 > 0:51:05'to check, check, check again before you work it

0:51:05 > 0:51:08'because once it's worked, it's sort of too late.'

0:51:09 > 0:51:12'Today, I'll be carving a base stone,'

0:51:12 > 0:51:15which a bronze lion's going to be standing on.

0:51:15 > 0:51:20Over here is the old pieces of plinth.

0:51:20 > 0:51:23It's about 150 years old

0:51:23 > 0:51:27and there were a couple of cracks in it and bits fallen off,

0:51:27 > 0:51:31so we're just carving a new one to restore the house.

0:51:31 > 0:51:35I'm drawing on a line that I'm going to cut to. It only has to be rough.

0:51:44 > 0:51:48They think that the stone we're replacing is 150 years old.

0:51:48 > 0:51:52We're hoping that this one will last the same, if not longer.

0:51:55 > 0:51:59My next job is to do some letter cutting.

0:51:59 > 0:52:02I've got to carve "Orchard End" on this stone here.

0:52:03 > 0:52:06We get stone out of the quarry.

0:52:06 > 0:52:10The large saw tends to cut two sides of the stone

0:52:10 > 0:52:14and then they can pass it on to the smaller saws,

0:52:14 > 0:52:17which will then cut it into a six-sided block,

0:52:17 > 0:52:22depending on the shape and size of what we need to carve it into.

0:52:22 > 0:52:26'It'll then come to the stonemason to be finished.'

0:52:27 > 0:52:29'I've just spun the stone

0:52:29 > 0:52:33'to get rid of any whip marks left from the saw when they cut it

0:52:33 > 0:52:36'and I've just washed it off to get rid of the dust.'

0:52:41 > 0:52:46'I'm quite laid back, which helps, being a stonemason,'

0:52:46 > 0:52:48to be laid back and relaxed about things.

0:52:48 > 0:52:51When I did work experience,

0:52:51 > 0:52:55I didn't really appreciate the patience and the work load in it

0:52:55 > 0:52:58but it didn't take long before I did.

0:52:58 > 0:53:00'Yeah, just be patient with it

0:53:00 > 0:53:04'and it will all come into its own in time.'

0:53:04 > 0:53:07My brother was always a lot better than me at everything we did

0:53:07 > 0:53:09so that always kind of put me off,

0:53:09 > 0:53:12but I found something that I was quite good at.

0:53:13 > 0:53:17Once you've finished cutting all the letters,

0:53:17 > 0:53:20you can just rub the surface of your stone

0:53:20 > 0:53:24with a diamond-encrusted hand rubbing pad.

0:53:26 > 0:53:31And that'll just take any more sort of whips out of the surface

0:53:31 > 0:53:34that you don't want, and then that's the job done.

0:53:36 > 0:53:39There's always something for everybody.

0:53:39 > 0:53:44You've got to be able to put in a bit of effort to find it,

0:53:44 > 0:53:47it won't always find you.

0:53:47 > 0:53:52And when you do find it, you've got to really go for it

0:53:52 > 0:53:55and don't let the opportunity go.

0:53:55 > 0:53:57Everyone gets opportunities in life

0:53:57 > 0:53:59but it's just whether they take them or not.

0:54:18 > 0:54:19'I'm Puja Varsani

0:54:19 > 0:54:23'and I do Product Design and Robotics at Middlesex University.'

0:54:24 > 0:54:27When I was in school, I had, like, big dreams.

0:54:27 > 0:54:31I wanted to be a lawyer, I wanted to be an architect,

0:54:31 > 0:54:33then I sort of went on this path

0:54:33 > 0:54:35cos I was really good at design technology

0:54:35 > 0:54:38and I'd found product design and I've not looked back, really.

0:54:39 > 0:54:43It's just one of those things that I've just sort of fallen into

0:54:43 > 0:54:45and I've just loved from day one.

0:54:45 > 0:54:50What I love about robotics is the fact that you can make something

0:54:50 > 0:54:52and you can give it life and you can give it movement.

0:54:52 > 0:54:56Straightaway, you can see the achievements you've made.

0:54:56 > 0:54:57In the future,

0:54:57 > 0:55:01there's the possibility of having a lot more robots in the household

0:55:01 > 0:55:05and they could be doing a number of things,

0:55:05 > 0:55:07from just being a companion

0:55:07 > 0:55:09to washing dishes

0:55:09 > 0:55:11or cleaning your room.

0:55:11 > 0:55:15But you'd want to be comfortable with it and you'd want to trust it

0:55:15 > 0:55:17to be able to live with it in your house

0:55:17 > 0:55:19and that's what my research is based on.

0:55:21 > 0:55:23'You have to be very practical, hands-on,

0:55:23 > 0:55:26'you want to want to get your hands dirty

0:55:26 > 0:55:29'and want to go into the workshop and create all these crazy things.'

0:55:29 > 0:55:32Even if it doesn't work just for fun,

0:55:32 > 0:55:35just go in there and just have fun, basically.

0:55:35 > 0:55:37Depending on what project I do,

0:55:37 > 0:55:39'I'd start off sketching.'

0:55:41 > 0:55:44As long as you've got the basics, the raw basics of sketching

0:55:44 > 0:55:48and you have the ability to quickly sketch out your idea

0:55:48 > 0:55:50so someone else can understand it.

0:55:50 > 0:55:53And then I begin to design it on the computer.

0:55:53 > 0:55:55So, first what you need to do

0:55:55 > 0:56:00is make sure that you know roughly what size you're working to

0:56:00 > 0:56:02and then the shapes that you need as well,

0:56:02 > 0:56:05and then put it all together,

0:56:05 > 0:56:09and then you get to see what exactly it'll look like as a whole.

0:56:09 > 0:56:10'Once I've done that,

0:56:10 > 0:56:14'I'd go into the workshops and start manufacturing it.'

0:56:16 > 0:56:20I'm going to hit play and it will cut out my template for me.

0:56:31 > 0:56:33And then assembling.

0:56:33 > 0:56:36You sit here and look at it for a good ten seconds

0:56:36 > 0:56:39before you figure out if it's this way or if it's this way.

0:56:41 > 0:56:43And it's this way.

0:56:43 > 0:56:46I got told by my mum that when I was a kid,

0:56:46 > 0:56:49I used to love playing with Lego

0:56:49 > 0:56:53and just making things with Lego and stuff like that.

0:56:53 > 0:56:55And I used to want to take things apart.

0:56:55 > 0:56:58Like, I used to take torches apart just to see what was inside it.

0:56:58 > 0:57:01I wouldn't take apart anything expensive,

0:57:01 > 0:57:02like a toaster or anything.

0:57:06 > 0:57:09'Tomorrow is the first day of my degree show

0:57:09 > 0:57:11'and that's a big thing,

0:57:11 > 0:57:13'because that's what we've been focused towards,

0:57:13 > 0:57:15'that's what we've been working towards.

0:57:15 > 0:57:19This is very cool. It's not what I expected it to be.

0:57:19 > 0:57:21I expected it to be like this, like as grand as this

0:57:21 > 0:57:23but just in a smaller scale.

0:57:23 > 0:57:26'It's a good chance to sort of mingle with industry people as well,

0:57:26 > 0:57:29'cos we can invite them to see what skills we have.

0:57:29 > 0:57:31'And it just showcases our work.'

0:57:34 > 0:57:36I'm a bit apprehensive about the show

0:57:36 > 0:57:38cos it's a very big space we have

0:57:38 > 0:57:42and loads of people are going to come see it.

0:57:42 > 0:57:46The feedback of people's reactions has been quite good.

0:57:46 > 0:57:48They're really engaging and talking to me

0:57:48 > 0:57:52and understanding exactly how I started off with my robots.

0:57:52 > 0:57:55So, yeah, it's positive feedback so far.

0:57:55 > 0:57:57'Explaining it to other people

0:57:57 > 0:58:02'and getting them to have the same passion as I do for what I am doing,

0:58:02 > 0:58:03'that's a bit scary.'

0:58:03 > 0:58:06So basically, what I'm doing is social robotics.

0:58:06 > 0:58:07If you look at how people react

0:58:07 > 0:58:10and their body language and stuff like that

0:58:10 > 0:58:12and convey it to robot language,

0:58:12 > 0:58:14it could be, you know, people could understand it.

0:58:14 > 0:58:18It's mind-blowing, thinking about people that are talking to me

0:58:18 > 0:58:21could potentially be like, "Oh, yeah, jot down your e-mail address,"

0:58:21 > 0:58:24and next week, I might get an e-mail saying, "We want you to do this

0:58:24 > 0:58:26"because we saw you at the degree show

0:58:26 > 0:58:30"and we found that you had such amazing skills."

0:58:30 > 0:58:31So yeah, a bit crazy.

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