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Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Inside Out. Tonight we're | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
at the Midland railway centre in Butterley to ask - where will we | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
build the trains of the future? What next for Bombardier - | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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Britain's last train-builder? impact will be phenomenal. It | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
affects so many people in the area. Cutting services to cut the deficit | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
- why it spawned a summer of discontent. CHANTING. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
And who's sending Paul Smith these mysterious presents? They always | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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come as objects with stamps on them and the address on the item. This | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
is one of the earliest trains built in Derby in 1865. Times have never | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
been tougher for the city's industry. This week, new research | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
into the decision to award a lucrative train-building contract | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
to a German firm has found it could end up costing British taxpayers | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
millions. Simon Hare has been investigating the real cost of the | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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They've just been told almost half the workforce is going and the | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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long-term future of Bombardier in Derby is under review. Devastated. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
3,000 workers in the City... Weeks before, a major train-building | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
contract was awarded by the UK government, to Bombardier's German | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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competitor, Siemens. Look after your own first, is all I said. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
a deal which was said to offer the best value for money. But for the | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
first time, Inside Out has discovered the real potential | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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economic cost. Jobs of that quality are not easy to backfill when lost. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
The government are guilty of economic genocide. It was | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
appropriate that the Queen and Prince Philip should arrive at | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Derby, the centre of railway technology, and the Royal Train... | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
The day Derby was granted city status... Without trains, it would | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
probably have remained a market town. It's been building trains for | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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over 170 years. MUSIC. Trained making is in the DNA | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
of this city and everybody in Derby Adair knows someone, is related to | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
someone or is married to someone in the Korean making industry. This | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
was supposed to be the future - the Aventra - Bombardier's newest train. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
But it won't be running on the Thameslink line to Brighton. And | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
will it ever be built in Britain? Kevin Owen has been here his whole | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
working life. His grandfather worked on the railways and he | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
followed his uncle into train- building. You can see their history. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
They are still the buildings from the 1800s. It is a great place to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
work, it is a community within a community and a great place to be. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Kevin's a welder with 24 years' experience. He's also now a blogger | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
with 24,000 hits. I want to pick myself as someone who was involved | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
from the building -- beginning. I think the government gave the order | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
to Siemens because there was no upfront money because of the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
economy and it seemed like a good deal for them so they could get | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
trains built about spending money up front. -- without spending. He's | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
become a key part of the campaign to urge the government to do a U- | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
turn on Thameslink. Today, that campaign has got up early to meet | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
in the world's oldest railway roundhouse, where steam locomotives | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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were once serviced. They're off to London on a special train. We don't | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
want this a real way to be a showcase for foreign trains. -- | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
this real life. We have to keep the pressure on and hope the government | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
will reverse the decision. They can if that is what they want to do. | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
The impact on Derby is going to be phenomenal. We are all being put at | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
risk and we are all going for the assessment process, which is a | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
weight on our shoulders. There is also the weight of the UK review. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
As well as the Bombardier workers, the great and the good from Derby | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
have come to lend their support. am here today because I am angry. I | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
work as an ambassador for Derby. I care about my home city. This | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
decision is absolutely disgraceful. It makes an absolute nonsense and | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
David Cameron bringing his cabinet to Derby earlier this year, in the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
spring, saying it was a vibrant and dynamic city and it is a role model. | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
It makes a nonsense of that. 1971 was a defining moment in Derby with | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Rolls-Royce. 2011 is a defining moment with Bombardier. I believe | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
there is a chance for the government to review that decision. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
I think they've got it would go away and that the summer recess | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
would kill of protest. It has not. The protest is as strong as ever | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
and Derby remains as committed as ever to fight the decision. As the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
protest went on outside, inside Westminster, one expert called to | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
give evidence delivered a damning indictment of the government's | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
decision. The first mistake they made was the bundling of the | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
building up the trains with leasing. The other was that I made the wrong | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
value for money calculation. -- they made. You what reasonable | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
quality for the lowest price. That is eight reasonable approach to | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
about -- buying a toaster but it does not work for a contract for | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
1,200 carriages. They did not consider that every Derby worker | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
pays taxes. If you put that into the equation that means that the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
British bid has benefits which were outside their value for money | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
calculation. As well as lost tax revenues, Nottingham Business | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
School has worked out other economic impacts. It's calculated | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
the Derby economy will lose �150 million next year as a direct | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
result of the Bombardier job losses already announced. That would rise | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
to more than 300 million should the plant close. It would be the paper | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
on a Sunday, the sandwich at lunchtime, in addition to other | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
goods and services that they will be using their earnings to purchase. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
The estimates we produced our conservative estimates, they are a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
starting point. If we were to look in more detail at the supply chain | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
effect, I suspect we would see it significantly higher estimates | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
still. Bombardier may be Britain's last train-builder, but Derby is | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
still home to the world's greatest concentration of rail companies. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Just over the factory fence is a firm which would've made the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
plastic front ends for the new Aventra, but the loss of Thameslink | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
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has seen it lose 30 jobs. It is never nice having to let anybody go. | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
That had a very big impact on me. We had men close to tears and the | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
atmosphere was so bad, I shut the factory and said everybody home. -- | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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sent everybody home. Datum works for Siemens as well and has healthy | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
order books with other industries. But there's still anger. We would | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
normally be manufacturing up until 1 o'clock in the morning every day. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Now we are finishing my afternoon and that it. It is a strange place | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
to be at the moment. How does that make you feel? Annoyed that the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Paras that we can make such a massive capital investment decision | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
without considering the social economic impact. The Derby and | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Derbyshire Rail Forum says its members expect to cut 1,100 jobs in | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the next two years. Those are on top of the Bombardier losses | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
already announced and represent only a fraction of the UK supply | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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chain. If I were to make a similar decision in a private sector it | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
would prove to be catastrophically wrong and I would be fired into -- | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
instantly, and rightly so. Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Transport, insists the Government can't perform a U-turn on | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Thameslink, but will look at including other economic factors in | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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future contracts. He has tonight left the position. We just wanted | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
to go away but how can it? It is as in the firing line, it is as | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
fighting for our jobs and for survival of an industry. We can't | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
just roll over and die. We saw it happen with other industries. It is | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
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a future industry, not a dying industry. Kevin is still waiting | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
for news of his own position. A decision on whether Britain is to | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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retain its last train-builder will be announced in the next few weeks. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
It seems that every day the news about the economy gets bleaker and | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
we're told we've got to get to grips with the deficit. But with | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
cuts comes pain for those affected and a huge division of opinion on | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
where the axe should fall. It's also spawned a new kind of protest | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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movement, which Tony Roe has been filming throughout the year. | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
They call themselves UK Uncut. For a year now, they have been | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
arranging to meet through Twitter, Facebook and old fashioned word of | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
mouth. Their mission is to disrupt and protest to make a point about | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
the cuts being imposed. Their concern is the people who don't | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
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normally have a voice as loud as theirs. I feel like I'm a nothing, | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
that I don't count anywhere in this world. We are embarking on some | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
very bleak, sad times. You probably hadn't heard of UK Uncut until | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
these disturbances in London in March. The violence and vandalism | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
made the headlines at an anti-cuts protest involving half a million | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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people. Most of those arrested that day were the 145 who held a | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
peaceful sit-in at the luxury food store Fortnum and Mason, to protest | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
over alleged tax avoidance by the business's part-owners. So, we | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
decided to follow the activities of UK Uncut over the summer. We'd also | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
get the alternative view from those who believe in a policy of cuts. | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
Indeed, there are those who think the cuts should be deeper. It is | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
about time the government started to stand up for British tax payers. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
It looked like we were heading for a summer of discontent... April. A | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
warm day in Nottingham.UK Uncut supporters gather on a street | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
corner dressed as nurses and hospital workers. It's a busy | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Saturday morning. They have a list of targets, but the police don't | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
know what they are. All of a sudden, there's a quick march to a bank. | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
Lloyds TSB - a bailed out bank which is 41% owned by taxpayers. | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
The government his privatising the NHS. They go in to protest at news | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the bank's made 2 billion profit and paid no tax and spent 200 | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
million on staff bonuses. They claim Boots is avoiding tax by | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
moving its HQ from Nottingham to Switzlerand, where corporation tax | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
is almost half the rate of Britain. Alliance Boots say the change is | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
because they're now part of a Europe-wide pharmacy group. They | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
march on. And it has to be said, people march by, trying not to pay | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
attention. They go to more banks and businesses they say are | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
avoiding paying their fair share of tax. The argument being if the tax | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
were collected, fewer cuts would need to be made. We wanted to know | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
what motivates someone to get involved in action like this. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
mammy help you? Sam Dixon has lost her job because of the cuts, but | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
says that's not why she has decided to give up part of her weekend to | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
protest. I am outraged for people who are losing services and | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
people's lives are going to be put at risk. I will be able to find | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
another job and move on. These are the people Sam means - those helped | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
by a programme called Supporting People. It has upset me, regarding | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
what is happening to frontline services, because these people are | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
either going to end up dying or needing some severe statutory | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
intervention, which I find is a false economy. In Nottingham, | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Supporting People services are facing massive cuts. The charity | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Framework, which provides a safety net by tackling homelessness and | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
its causes, has had a big hole cut in that net - half its funding. A | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
ring fence to stop that happening was removed by the last Labour | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Government and the City Council has decided to cut. Back in February, a | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
film maker from a charity gave those affected a chance to talk | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
about their fears of an uncertain future. I have spent 25 years on | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
the streets. There came a point of crisis in my life when I needed a | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
lot more help and I came in here. am just going to be last. I'm not | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
going to have that medal support that I actually need. I'm going to | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
have nobody to fill my mind with love. I'm just going to have the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
devil on my back and I can't face going back into that situation | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
again. May. A rainy day in Lincoln. Sam and the UK Uncut protestors | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
from Nottingham are on a day trip gathering new supporters. This time | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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they're dressed as bankers. first time I came across this, but | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
it is very worthwhile. Hopefully some people will listen and | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
sampling will change. Once more, it is a peaceful march around the city. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
The police keep a watchful eye, but not everyone is happy with the | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
demonstrations. They are wasting taxpayers' money and wasting police | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
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time as well. If they pay taxes, they were have an argument. Idiots. | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
They are all students. I can tell. It's a week later, on a sunny | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Saturday morning in Loughborough. Jago Pearson is up early for a | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
student. He's off to London to a demonstration in favour of cuts. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
It's organised by the Taxpayers Alliance. There are people here who | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
believe the cuts don't go far enough What they want are deeper | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. We are not | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
going to start paying us back until five years time. The interest | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
payment is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. They want deeper | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. It is time | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
for us to get real. Let's face up to the truth, our public finances | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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are in a total shambles. Britain is skint. I am state educated. We have | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
got to accept that everybody is going to get ahead in different | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
ways by cuts that are happening or further cuts that we are calling | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
for. The fact is, we cannot let our vested interests get in the way of | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
what is good for the country and for our grandchildren in 50 or 60 | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
years time. June. Nottingham and around the country. The teachers | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
are on strike over pensions and UK Uncut are supporting them on a | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
march. This is another example of the mess and the bankers have left | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
us in and the government are expecting a tax payer to fit the | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
bill. -- the taxpayer to foot the bill. But a decision has been taken | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
to save money on the public sector pension bill. And for people like | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Jago Pearson, that's the right thing to do. There are people out | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
there who believe the cuts are right and that we could go further. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Take away the bureaucracy and the European Union. We spend billions | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
of pounds on the European Union and it is just about time that spot -- | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
stops. August .Riots in London. Disturbances and arrests in | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
Nottingham too. It is worrying that people are getting to that point | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
and those sorts of behaviours have been displayed. September sunshine | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
in Nottingham. This time UK Uncut are only targeting one shop - | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Vodafone. The shutters are already down when they get there. People | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
walk by. This time there is no police presence. It's all over very | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
quickly. Another filming session for those not normally heard from | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
and they have a lot to say... lost my job because of the funding | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
cuts and I have been looking for work for six months. I feel | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
unsettled in myself. I feel like I don't belong anywhere. Is that | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
anything to do with this play's closing down? You yeah. While that | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
there are justices and on equalities taking place on that | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
scale, I will take action wherever I can get to it. Westminster Bridge, | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
last Sunday. UK Uncut from Nottingham join with protestors | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
from around the country to demonstrate against the NHS Bill. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
It's a sign that it's a movement which is not going away. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
And now a surprising story of mystery and intrigue that's got one | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
of our most famous fashion designers puzzled. For 20 years now, | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Nottingham designer Paul Smith has been getting gifts from a mystery | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
sender. Tonight, we're showcasing the work of a new Nottingham | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
director, Ben Wigley, who made this film about Mr Smith's rather | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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special deliveries... I think it was the early 80s. I was | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
on a train going to Nottingham and daydreaming and looking out the | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
window. I was with an American guy. He said what are you looking for? I | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
said if I see a rabbit, it is good. For my next fashion show and it | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
will be successful and later, this papier-mache rabbit arrived. Now we | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
get dozens and dozens of rabbits arrive constantly. I have to be | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
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careful what I say. The amazing thing about the things | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
that were sent is that they are completely random. There is no | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
message, here they come from. The absolute key point is that they | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
never, ever are in a box. They always come as objects with stamps | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
on them and the address written actually on the item. What amazes | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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everybody, including me, is how they ever get here. Whoever is | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
sending them really thinks carefully about the colour of the | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
stamps. They might be water related, like a surfboard, and then the | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
stamps will be all surf related. Sometimes I am tempted to use the | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
things. A sledge arrived and I thought I could use it. They like | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
but it is a shame to spoil it because it has the stands and | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
everything on it. These are some of the latest objects to arrive. A | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
bird box, which happens to be a galleon as well. These rather nice | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
stamps. These are water skis but it is not a pair, just two different | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
ones. The joy of these things is that they are not a special design, | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
they are just things. For many years I have been just collecting | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
things that inspire me in some way or another. Then, when I had my | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
first little shop which was literally three metres square, | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
which was tiny with no windows, the objects became a really nice thing | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
for when people came in. They were quite shy and suddenly, they were | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
confronted with me, the manager and owner. The fact that I could go, | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
have you seen this, it's so scary, or something, it was a real ice- | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
breaker. The objects were a useful tool for me to make people feel | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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more comfortable and more relaxed. This is a joyous thing ransom the | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
semi- last week, which is my room, in every detail. It is amazing. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
They have got the bicycle, but television, the bunny rabbit over | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
there. This came from Poland. It is at very nice letter, which I'm not | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
showing you, which is too embarrassing, but it is nice | :26:29. | :26:38. | |
things! I have had a reputation for being interested in toys, object, | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
beautiful things. What I'd do is the things I collect, I actually | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
using might work, abstracting it. You start with one thing, then it | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
goes in another. If you look through my old notebooks it says | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
things like butterfly wings. To me that means something. Butterfly | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
wings would mean iridescent colours, the way you put to deluge -- | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
colours together. It could end up being a piece of knitwear or | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
something. It is just using Your eyes and your imagination to | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
develop ideas. What is so amazing about this is that it is a | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
completely unsung hero. It is someone who is massively creative | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
but nobody knows about it. The object, taking on this iconic, | :27:41. | :27:51. | |
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artistic presence, even though there are still a traffic cone. It | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
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is more art than masses of the art that is out there. I am not really | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
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sure what it is, to be honest! But somebody knows. It is just a joy to | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
have mystery.. Goodness for that. - - thank goodness for that. | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
The surreal world of Paul Smith. And thanks to independent director | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Ben Wigley, who made that film. That's it from us for now. We'll | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
see you at the same time next Monday. | :28:32. | :28:35. |