0:00:01 > 0:00:06Ladies and gentlemen, live from the 19th-century,
0:00:06 > 0:00:09at the heart of Her Majesty's empire in the city of London
0:00:09 > 0:00:12it's the Charles Dickens Show.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Please will you welcome your host,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17he-e-e-ere's Dickens!
0:00:17 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Thank you, thank you, thank you. Good to have you with us.
0:00:25 > 0:00:29Thanks for stopping by. Hello and welcome to Queen Victoria's England.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32What about this weather we've had recently,
0:00:32 > 0:00:33ladies and gentlemen? Brrr!
0:00:33 > 0:00:37It's so cold, even the flames of our studio fire...
0:00:37 > 0:00:39have frozen!
0:00:39 > 0:00:40LAUGHTER
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Now, tonight's show is all about life in the workhouse,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48and when our researchers did the maths on this thing,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51they came up with some very shocking facts.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55126,000 people living in these places,
0:00:55 > 0:00:57which were originally designed to punish people.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00The people being sent there today haven't broken any laws.
0:01:00 > 0:01:06No, the only crime these people have committed is being poor.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Now, 35,000 of these unfortunates
0:01:09 > 0:01:11are under the age of 12.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14If that many children were laid end to end,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16they'd be 26 miles long.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19If you stood them on each other's shoulders,
0:01:19 > 0:01:24they would be 140,000 feet up in the stratosphere. You'd suffocate.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28So, kids, don't try that at home.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29And now, we're joined
0:01:29 > 0:01:33by our fearless investigative reporter, Nelly Trent.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37- Hello, Nelly, what have you been up to?- Hello, Charles.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I have a shocking undercover expose from a workhouse in Nottinghamshire.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45- It'll chill you and the viewers to the bone.- Oh!
0:01:45 > 0:01:49And we have a report from a London workhouse kitchen.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Mrs Burble, the chief cook there, has agreed to share with us
0:01:53 > 0:01:55what she feeds these poor children.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I'm betting it's not pease pudding and saveloy.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01And we'll be rounding off our show
0:02:01 > 0:02:06with our very special guest, he's a man who's working tirelessly
0:02:06 > 0:02:08to keep these poor, unfortunate children
0:02:08 > 0:02:11out of the workhouses and off the streets,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15will you please give a huge welcome to Dr Thomas Barnardo, everybody.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16CHEERING
0:02:16 > 0:02:18We'll be catching up with him in a moment
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and talking to him about his work.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Warm enough over there, Tom? - Not too bad.- Good.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Now, just to put us in the zone,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29here is a film from one of my most famous books,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31The Adventures of Oliver Twist.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34I wonder if the viewers at home
0:02:34 > 0:02:37can spot the horrible historical mistake
0:02:37 > 0:02:40made by the film-makers in the following clip.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Please, Sir, I want some more.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46What?!
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Please, Sir...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52..I want some...
0:02:52 > 0:02:54more?
0:02:55 > 0:02:56More?!
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Shoot that designer!
0:03:00 > 0:03:04The costumes, the sets completely the wrong era!
0:03:04 > 0:03:07You see, I originally wrote Oliver Twist as a serial,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09in monthly instalments.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12The first appeared in February 1837.
0:03:12 > 0:03:18King William IV died four months later, in June 1837.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22- Did you know that, Tom?- No. I always thought it was Victorian.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Ah, yes! Actually, it's a common mistake.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Now, let's take a look at Nelly's special undercover report.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Roll the thing.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33I've travelled to the Greet workhouse in Nottinghamshire,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36which is the model for the many hundreds of workhouses
0:03:36 > 0:03:38that now exist all across the country.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Other parishes thought Greet was so great
0:03:41 > 0:03:44that they borrowed their ideas for their own workhouses.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Children who live here work from morning till night,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50and their masters are often brutal and unkind.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53One of the young orphans has agreed to secretly film
0:03:53 > 0:03:55a day in his life for the Charles Dickens Show.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04It's half past four in the morning and this is the dormitory.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11We sleep at least two of us to a bed.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Sometimes that can be a good thing, mind it can get fearful cold.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24I'm 11 now, but I came to this workhouse when I was nine.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26It was just me and Father.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28MAN COUGHS
0:04:28 > 0:04:30After Father lost his job as a farmhand,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33he brought us here to give us a roof over our heads,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36but he always said he was ashamed to bring us to this.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Children and parents is only allowed half an hour visiting
0:04:39 > 0:04:42on Sundays, though, so I hardly saw him before he died.
0:04:44 > 0:04:51It's just me now. I get sad about it sometimes, especially at night time.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Though we're not allowed to cry, or we might get the stick!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56'The children live apart from the adults.'
0:04:56 > 0:04:59The men and women are kept apart and all,
0:04:59 > 0:05:00so families are all split up.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Children together, men together, women together.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05They wash us all over when we come in here.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09After that, we wash our faces and neck at the pump in the yard.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13They give us these clothes so we all dress the same.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Mine's too big, so I tie them up with string, like this, see?
0:05:16 > 0:05:17To make them fit.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20When we go to bed, we get locked in here,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23and we can't get out until morning, even if we're really desperate.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28That's why they put the pail in the corner.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34They don't like us larking around or playing, because they like us quiet.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37They reckon we'll eat more if we get exercised.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39I don't know if I'll ever get out of here.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42There's no sense in trying to run away, they'll only catch you.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43One fella tried it last month
0:05:43 > 0:05:46and they dragged him back in here and whipped him.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48WHIP CRACKS
0:05:48 > 0:05:50We all had to watch.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52WHIP CRACKS
0:05:58 > 0:06:00They paint the walls in these light colours
0:06:00 > 0:06:02so every bit of daylight gets used.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Candles cost money. BELL RINGS
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Cripes! Better get a rattle on.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10If you get late for bread, they put you on bread and water for 24 hours!
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Living in here don't come for free. You has to work for your keep.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I'll show you what you have to do.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21This is the job they give us when we come in here.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24It's called picking oakum. What you do,
0:06:24 > 0:06:27is they give you an old piece of rope from a ship's rigging,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30and you have to unwind it and pull it apart so it's like cotton wool.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I only wish it were as soft as cotton wool.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34It's full of tar and salt and grit and water,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37and it gives you blisters something awful.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40You end up with a pile of oakum, which the workhouse sells.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42They use it for building ships,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44filling in the gaps between the planks.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48It makes mattresses, too. Money for old rope, it is!
0:06:48 > 0:06:50HE CHORTLES Though I don't see any of it.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55If you're under 16, you have to pick one and a half pounds every day.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57That's the same as six juicy red apples,
0:06:57 > 0:07:01or 24 fat, shiny conkers, which is ever so hard to do.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05They even use it as a punishment for convicts what done wicked things.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09All we've done is be poor, and we shouldn't be punished for that.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10I think that's really wrong.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13METAL CLANKS Here comes the master.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15That's your lot, Nelly!
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Thank you, Billy.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21"Oliver Twist and his companions
0:07:21 > 0:07:26"suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30"At last, they got so wild with hunger, that one boy hinted darkly
0:07:30 > 0:07:34"that unless he had another basin of gruel, he was afraid
0:07:34 > 0:07:38"he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next to him."
0:07:38 > 0:07:42So, what exactly do these workhouse children
0:07:42 > 0:07:45like our young friend there get to eat?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Something nutritious, delicious, to help them put up with
0:07:48 > 0:07:51the endless hours of oakum picking?
0:07:51 > 0:07:56Here's a woman who knows the answer. She cooks for paupers every day.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59What's in your pot, Mrs Burble?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01CAULDRON BUBBLES
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Thank you, Mr Dickens.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07Hello, everybody, and welcome to my lovely kitchen.
0:08:07 > 0:08:13As you can see, I like to keep things clean, tidy and shipshape.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17That's because my first husband was a sailor.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Captain's steward, he was.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Well, he taught me lots of tasty recipes -
0:08:23 > 0:08:31roast turtle, melange of narwhal, drowned dog dumplings. Ooh!
0:08:31 > 0:08:32SHE SMACKS HER LIPS
0:08:34 > 0:08:40Here we have the total amount of food one of the boys would eat in a week.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Four pints of gruel, one pint of broth
0:08:43 > 0:08:46that's boiled-up animal bones.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51A whole half-loaf of bread, three spuds.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55I tell you, it's a wonder they don't go off pop, some of them!
0:08:55 > 0:08:58And some... What's this?
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Ah. Rice pudding.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Some cheese. That is to have with the bread.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Some... Some...
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Well, it's meat.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Stickings, I suppose.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Now, that don't look right, do it? Oh, I know!
0:09:17 > 0:09:19A turnip.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Well, half of one.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Now, for breakfast, we're going to give them some gruel.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays they gets gruel.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36All the other days of the week, they gets...
0:09:36 > 0:09:39gruel. SHE GIGGLES
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Oh, I am a one! It always makes me laugh!
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Where was I?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Oh, gruel.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51In this pan I've got some oatmeal,
0:09:51 > 0:09:57which I've had soaking overnight in a solution of...water.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02There's about...well...this much oatmeal in there.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06We're going to bring it to the boil.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Don't let it boil over.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Now I'm going to add some suet, for meaty goodness.
0:10:14 > 0:10:20This is raw fat, and it's ever so healthy.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Now, for every three ounces of oatmeal,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25you want about half an ounce of suet.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29That'll be...well...
0:10:29 > 0:10:31about this much.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Don't forget your seasoning.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40We leave this to cook.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45And then we add treacle and milk once it's got going.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Now, how's this doing?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Ooh, lovely!
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Mmm.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Mmm! That is good.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01That's oaty, that's treacly,
0:11:01 > 0:11:02that's soapy...
0:11:04 > 0:11:06That's my laundry!
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Well, that's all the treacle there is for today,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13so the gruel will just have to go without.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Still, I expect they'll survive.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Ta-ta!
0:11:21 > 0:11:23AUDIENCE BOOS
0:11:23 > 0:11:24I'm shocked.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Truly shocked!
0:11:26 > 0:11:30I wonder what the Burbles are having for their dinner this evening.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Next up on my show is a man
0:11:32 > 0:11:35who is busier than a bee in a bed of roses.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37He's always asking people for money
0:11:37 > 0:11:41so that he can build homes for poor and destitute children.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44They say he sleeps just five hours a night,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47and he writes 500 letters a week.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Can that be true? Surely not.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54Let's find out. Will you please give a warm welcome to Dr Tom Barnardo?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - Tom, it seems
0:11:57 > 0:12:00we're lucky to have you, thank you greatly for coming on the show.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02I'm delighted to be here, Charles.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Now, Tom. These 500 letters a week.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10We worked out you must be going through a whole pint of ink a week.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Are you buying in bulk?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I've persuaded my supplier to do me a very good deal.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Maybe I could come in on that with you!
0:12:16 > 0:12:20I have been known to scribble the odd missive myself.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Tell me, Tom, are you a quill man,
0:12:23 > 0:12:25or do you fancy these new-fangled fountain pens
0:12:25 > 0:12:28we've been seeing in our stationery shops?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Well, they have been around for some years now, Charles.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33I like them very much. They're so portable!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35I find they have a tendency to clog.
0:12:35 > 0:12:40I like my thoughts to flow straight through the point of the pen.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43"It was the best of times, it was the wor..."
0:12:43 > 0:12:45LAUGHTER
0:12:45 > 0:12:47W... Ahh, you see?!
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Its gone all over my trousers.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Now, Tom. The name of Barnardo is on everyone's lips at the moment.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57We're all very excited about the work you're doing.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00You provide a wonderful alternative to the workhouse for poor children
0:13:00 > 0:13:04like that young boy we saw in the undercover report.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05But just explain to us,
0:13:05 > 0:13:09if you would, what makes your home so different from the workhouses?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Workhouses are cruel and desperately hard places to live.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Our aim is to care for the children,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20to keep them safe, warm and well fed.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Our children don't stay with us forever,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25usually just a few months until they're healthy and on their feet.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28So there's a very different picture there.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32What was it that inspired you to open your first home?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- Well, it's a long story. - I do the long stories, Tom!
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Just the headlines, if you would.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41I see we're going to have trouble this evening. Pray, continue.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I had just started a community school
0:13:43 > 0:13:45in some donkey stables near Limehouse.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48There weren't any donkeys living there at the time, were there?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51No, the donkeys were long gone.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53One of the boys, Jim Jarvis,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56took me out to the East End of London one night
0:13:56 > 0:13:58and showed me children of five, six years old,
0:13:58 > 0:14:00sleeping on roofs, in gutters.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02It affected me very deeply.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Can you imagine? It's getting dark.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09You've only had one piece of bread to eat all day.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Perhaps it's starting to rain, and you have nowhere to sleep.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Well, that's the reality for many children nowadays.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Night after night after night.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21And these disturbing images continue to haunt you?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Yes, very much so. Jim Jarvis had opened my eyes to something.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27My work was here, among the destitute children of London.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30"No destitute child ever refused admission."
0:14:30 > 0:14:34- That's the motto of your organisation, am I right?- Correct.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Those words are writ large over every doorway.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38How did that motto come about?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42A young lad came to one of our homes one night looking for a bed.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Unfortunately, the home was full and the boy was turned away.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Tragically, he was discovered in the streets two days later,
0:14:48 > 0:14:50dead from cold and hunger.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53From that day forth, we set up our ever-open-door policy
0:14:53 > 0:14:57so that no child should ever have to suffer such a terrible fate again.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- APPLAUSE - Well, that's wonderful.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Now, I hear you've brought along
0:15:03 > 0:15:06some photographs for us to look at of your work.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07That's delightful.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09We're all familiar, of course, with photographs,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12as family portraits and so forth, but I believe that you have
0:15:12 > 0:15:16been using them in your advertising campaign, is that correct?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18That's quite right, Charles.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20This is a before-and-after picture?
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Yes. We photograph the children when they arrive
0:15:23 > 0:15:26and then we photograph them again, several months later,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29after they've had a chance to recover from life on the streets.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32It's a very effective way of showing people the work that we're doing.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35And you're selling these pictures to the public, I believe?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37It's a good way of raising money for the charity,
0:15:37 > 0:15:40so we can help more of these children.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42They're proving very popular, too.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Only five shillings a pack, Charles, if I can tempt you?
0:15:45 > 0:15:49- LAUGHTER - How could I possibly refuse?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52On national television in front of millions.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Oh, Charles, I know that you're a very generous man.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I bet you'd give the coat off your back to help these poor children.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02I'd give them my trousers, Tom, but sadly they're covered in ink.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Now, Tom, your success has brought with it some criticism,
0:16:06 > 0:16:09and I read a suggestion somewhere that, "Dr Barnardo
0:16:09 > 0:16:12"is so desperate to rescue abused children
0:16:12 > 0:16:16"that he will think nothing of kidnapping them from their parents."
0:16:16 > 0:16:19That's nonsense. We don't kidnap them.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22We have on occasion removed children from violent or cruel parents.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27- So you are prepared to break the law?- Yes, because the law is wrong.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31We want to show people the dangers faced by these vulnerable children.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34If you could just look into the eyes of these poor waifs and strays
0:16:34 > 0:16:36who have been neglected and beaten...
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Yes, I am prepared to break the law.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Our dream, what we're fighting for, though, is a change to the law,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46which will see children protected rather than the parents.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- APPLAUSE - Well, we all say amen to that.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Now, finally, Tom,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55what would you say to our Victorian viewers watching at home
0:16:55 > 0:16:59who see poverty as shameful, a result of laziness and crime?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I would say that every child
0:17:01 > 0:17:03deserves the best possible start in life,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05regardless of their background.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09When parents feel the creeping cold of poverty envelop the home
0:17:09 > 0:17:12it is often the children who are frozen out first.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13We can't restore lost childhoods
0:17:13 > 0:17:17but we can give those children back their future.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Well, we certainly wish every child in your care good luck
0:17:21 > 0:17:22and Godspeed.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24During the course of the show we pass around my hat,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27and we've had a little bit of a collection on your behalf.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Let's see what we've achieved.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Oh, yes!
0:17:31 > 0:17:36It's a staggering £14, ladies and gentlemen!
0:17:37 > 0:17:40That is remarkably generous. Thank you, everybody.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43And, Charles, for you to say that you would double this amount
0:17:43 > 0:17:46out of your own pocket is just beyond kindness.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51Yes, of course. I'm no Ebenezer Scrooge. Where's my chequebook?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Has anybody got a basket or a bag or something
0:17:53 > 0:17:56that Tom could put that money into?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Don't worry, I'll just keep it in the hat.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00You're keeping my hat?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03I have a feeling that one of your fans will pay very good money
0:18:03 > 0:18:05for Mr Charles Dickens' hat and coat.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10- My coat?- Well, you did say earlier you'd give the coat off your back.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Yes, so I did, didn't I?
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Here you go. It's all yours. - APPLAUSE
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- So, make this out to...- Dr Tom Barnardo. That would be splendid.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Dr Tom...Bar...
0:18:26 > 0:18:29You see, these things are useless.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Gah! It's gone all over my trousers, ladies and gentlemen!
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Never mind, we'll clear all that up after the show. Thank you, Tom.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39It's been wonderful to have you here. You have a real talent.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43I ought to hire you to help with some of my other favourite causes.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46And now a big thank-you for all your wonderful work,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Dr Thomas Barnardo, everybody! - APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:18:49 > 0:18:52It's time to fan the sinking flame of hilarity
0:18:52 > 0:18:55with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59We'll be back to increase your stock of harmless cheerfulness next week
0:18:59 > 0:19:01but I leave you with this thought.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06No-one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Get to it! Good night and God bless you all.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
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