16/01/2012 Inside Out East Midlands

If hello. Tonight, Inside Out is in Leicester to ask what it is like

when you are over 50 and you lose your job.

It is not pleasant and not what I want. The trickiest part is not

knowing when the job, because there will be one, is knowing when it is

going to come. Also, inside the head of a suicide

bomber. The book attempting to imagine the unimaginable.

If what they did was unforgivable, but I do not think it was wrong

that this book was written. As the artist who said no to the

Nazis. The story of a giant jigsaw puzzle and a incredible escape.

I am married Ashby had this is inside -- Inside Out for the East

Unemployment has now passed the 2.5 million mark, with fears of worse

potato his youth unemployment, a huge number of those out of work

are over 50 and back on the jobs market for the first time in years.

With prospects bleak, more over- fifties than ever are setting up

businesses themselves. It has been in a year where workers

have united in protest. Over tough public sector cuts, and over big

firms making huge redundancies. It has left more people out of work or

chase -- all chasing fewer and fewer jobs. And if you are over 50,

your prospects are not good. What we are seeing is that in some

areas you have probably more chance of dying than getting another job

if you are over 50. It is frightening.

Britain has a growing army of middle-aged unemployed, facing

money worries and rejection letters after a lifetime of work.

In my job, I had been earning �30,000 a year, and then to go

virtually overnight on to jobseeker's allowance, which is �65

a week, that was a big shock. The over-fifties are less likely

than any other age group to find a job. But flying in the face of the

harsh statistics Arie new breed of olderpreneurs.

I went from nothing, with no future and no job too literally flying

high. Val Charman are from Coalville in

Leicestershire worked in telemarketing for 20 years before

being made redundant. At the age of 56, she found herself job hunting

again. I even applied for factory worker.

Anything that was local, that I thought I could do. I will work

nights, I do not care what the hours are or what the workers.

There was a job in a meat factory, I am vegan, so it was not ideal!

But I thought I would try. But I did not get anything.

What does that do for your self- esteem when you are going for jobs

and not getting them? It totally destroys your self-

esteem. You feel demoralised and are not good enough. You keep

beating yourself up about it. It is hard to get back to being confident

and feeling good about yourself. And staying confident is the recipe

for eventual success, according to Jonathan Clark. The 54-year-old

from Nottingham is an interim finance director. He is used to

chopping and changing jobs, but he has that been out a job for more

than a year. -- out of work for more than a year.

It is perhaps not a shock. It is not what I expected and want. The

trickiest part is not knowing when the job, when it will come.

A third of people over 50 are not in paid work. In the East Midlands,

some 16,000 are claiming jobseeker's allowance. That has

risen 11% in the last year. 40% of those, like Jonathan, are classed

as long term unemployed. The ups and downs of job hunting can be a

stressful occupation in itself. Jonathan spent hours every single

day scanning of vacancies, applying for jobs and networking that

contact. It is so time-consuming, it is like

a full-time job. People say you should try and get a

new job by doing it as a job. While the jobless figures are

soaring, many over-fifties are taking control of their own future.

The number of businesses started up by the over-fifties is really

taking off. David Buck from Bolsover in Derbyshire is 57. He

was a fitness instructor for 13 years, until his knees gave out.

Overnight, he found himself out of work and disabled. You honestly

thought you had no chance. If you did not think you would get a job.

Or does it was a lifetime on benefit. -- or I could see was a

life on benefit. Rather than accept handouts,

they've decided to set up a microlight Flying School at

Sheffield Aero Club in north Nottinghamshire. One-fifth of

working people over 50 are self- employed. Surprisingly, this is

where they have the advantage over their younger rivals.

People who set up businesses in their fifties are much more likely

to succeed than people who set up your younger. Why do you think this

We do not take risks. We know what pitfalls there could be. Being a

above 50, we have the experience behind us. We were not throw money

away, will be very frugal where we put it so we get back the

investment. I think that is where we have the edge over younger

people. At an all the rage, we have got to take it carefully. We only

have a finite amount of money left. After Val Charman up's soul-

destroying experience searching for a job, she decided to take the

plunge. She set up three small businesses, marketing, and raw

fruit recipes and making coats and beds for greyhounds.

Talked it through the emotions that you go through when you set your

own business up. Fear, but also excitement. It is

really exciting. You are doing what you laugh. You have got lots of

opportunities. It is so nice to have the freedom to do what I want

when I want. She is one of a growing number of

so-called Silver starters. Today she is talking through her business

plans would be chief executive of the Prince's Trust for Mature

Enterprise. The charity is the only national organisation dedicated to

promoting self- employment for people above the age of 50.

We are seeing more people over 50 seeing self-employment as an option,

because of the employment market being what it is today. What be a

scene is someone has then they start their business, creating a

supply chain and a network of people. So there has also added

value. It created role models for other people.

Today, Jonathan Clark, who has been job-hunting for every year, is

meeting recruitment consultant Simon Gray.

The level he is that in terms of his career, he is a very

experienced finance director. At the moment, there is not very many

jobs for these people. I would summarise the businesses you have

worked in by sector and size. The real message is to stay active

and continued to network. But I remain optimistic that at some

point, I will secure the proper full-time job which will set be off

again for another few months. So what should Jonathan and others

like him be doing to get back into work?

Stay positive. Get proactive and get out there. Get the best advice

in terms of your CV, and also interview technique.

There will be obstacles, and there is not everything out there that

you need, but with your own success and willpower you will succeed.

Add prefer that comes from Dave and Duvall, who have turned to their

lives around. A difference a year makes is

amazing. The world is my oyster. How would you describe this

business experience? From having absolutely nothing to

this now, I can see myself doing this for the next 10 years. What

more can I ask for? Best thing you have ever done? Oh, yes.

So maybe life can begin after 50. We have been hearing a lot lately

about the safety of our borders, and the ever-present risk of

terrorism. But what about the threat from within? What turns up

one in two ways to read by -- suicide bomber? A Derbyshire author

has made that the subject of his debut novel.

Terrorist have launched attacks at targets in central London.

The bombings in London killed 52 people and injured over 700. But

what led them to do it? It was a question that injury to Sunjeev

Sahota, and led him to writing a book. Ours Are The Streets is a

fictional account of one man's journey from everyday Yorkshire lad

to a radical suicide bomber. Both the farewell videos posted by a

terrorist were the starting point That sent me wandering that there

is something of there, a man of sense of compassion. How does that

set alongside this... This idea we have of these bombers as being

quite... Heartless and chilling and without any moral convictions.

Sunjeev Sahota was born and raised in Chesterfield. With his

upbringing in the town with a crooked spire, he got to know what

it was like to be an outsider. think I was the only non-white

person in my year, perhaps along with my brother, the only non-white

people in our school, which was different compared to a lot of my

cousins, who grew up in diverse areas. He got through school

without picking up a single novel and at the age of 18, the reading

bug bit hard. I think it was a bit like a dam bursting through this

whole world, a whole world of storytelling that makes you help

make sense of things I wasn't as aware of as I could have been.

wrote and said his first novel here in Sheffield. The main character, a

young Muslim man, very Yorkshire, I guess knowing you are going to

die a makes you want to talk. Right now, I can hear the voices of the

angels in my ears and they are The death of his father triggers a

journey back home to Pakistan. Then, Afghanistan. And that is when he

CHANTS. I didn't want him brainwashed by a

radicalised preacher, and driven by geopolitics, in any strong way. In

his mind, he is doing the right thing to try to protect people.

What they are going through, he feels he is somewhat responsible

for. For Sunjeev Sahota, this is a story about one man's search for

his roots. And back in Sheffield, he turns terrorist because he feels

personally guilty for what has happened to his people. I want to

leave something behind for you all. Rebecca, Amin, all of you...

Terrorism expert, Dr Rod Thornton from Nottingham University, has

been reading the book. It is a wonderful first person narrative

that takes us into the mind of a suicide bomber. He has a lack of

identity, cannot situate himself and that is what you find with a

lot of suicide bombers, they feel alienation, from their family, from

their particular culture, there community, but they have a sense of

hatred as well. He told BAE would have to do a few things on a day.

Collector -- connect the green wire to the brown wire... This ban in

Bradford, he is using commercial explosives to make his suicidal

waist coat. I think that it is a book, a novel, but it is not going

to get everything right. The book offers an insight into the mind of

the terrorist. How do those who nursed and comforted the victims of

a real bombing, like 77, read this account? Dr Peter Holden, a Matlock

GP was in Tavistock Square in London when a bomb ripped apart a

double-decker bus, killing 13 people, leaving many more with

horrific injuries. Everything went salmon-pink. I was sitting with my

colleagues from the rest of the GP negotiating team, and we said, that

is a bomb. Move away from this road! When I looked down at the bus,

at the time, my immediate reaction was not, oh my God there are 13

dead. It was, this is a multiple blast injury scenario. It became

quite scientific. He took charge and organised his colleagues into a

makeshift Yard team. I watched colleagues book drips on they

hadn't done for 20 years, as if they had done it yesterday. This

was first -- this was first of all simple first-aid. We were using

collapsible table tops as structures, that is how we got

people from the bus inside. Given his experience, you might expect

him to have little time for a book like Ours Are The Streets, but you

would be wrong. What they did was unforgivable, but it is not wrong

this book has been written. It has been written sensitively and it is

important that people analyse motives because if you do that, you

have a small chance to understand what went on. The backlash of the

7/7 bombings was felt in communities all over the country.

None more so than in Leicester, where Sunjeev Sahota attends a book

promotion at the local library. don't automatically feel sympathy

for somebody who is becoming a bomber, any sort of bomber, and you

are trying to think, what makes somebody take that road? It is the

truth. Even if it is commercial, it paints a true picture. It opens a

dialogue. It is a subject everybody has an opinion about.

The terror target in the book is the Meadowhall shopping centre in

Sheffield. It ends with the man taken to the very edge of the

mission. I started mouthing out the final prayer, testing myself, how

well I have memorised it. The most commonly asked question, I suppose,

is does he or does he not go through with it? I think by the end

he was definitely capable of it. And willing. At the same time, he

was also reaching out for help as well. The book ends where it ends.

I have done my bit. The rest is up to the reader.

Finally tonight: He was the man who dared to say no

to Adolf Hitler... An artist who secretly created a giant anti-war

painting then cut it into pieces and risked his life to hide it from

the Nazis. Now Matthaeus Koelz's masterpiece is reaching a new

audience here at the New Walk Museum in Leicester. Tonight for

the first time since 1937, Inside Out can reveal what the painting

may have looked like in full colour. Could this be the breakthrough

which reunites the pieces of a 75- It is 17 feet wide and almost eight

feet tall. An anti-war work of art that would have infuriated Adolf

Hitler. But he never saw it. To keep it hidden from the Nazis, the

artist had it sawn into more than 20 pieces. We know that pieces of

the triptych were handed over to very trusted friends and family to

look after. Because my father knew it would be destroyed if it were

not hidden away. Many of the panels remain scattered throughout Europe.

But now, 75 years on, can Matthaeus Koelz's jigsaw finally be completed

Because this work was such a sacrifice, it deserves to be seen

Gathering dust in the vaults of New Walk Museum are pieces of Matthaeus

Koelz's masterpiece. After he died 40 years ago, his daughter Ava

noticed that a familiar painting in her father's house fitted neatly

into this black and white photograph. It showed a triptych,

or painting in three parts. Since then, she's been hunting for the

missing pieces. So far, she's found six. Might eldest half-sister had

one piece. I think she was interested in finding homes for the

other pieces. But it is very difficult at this distance of time

to be positive about anything. happened to the other missing

pieces remains a mystery. Curator Simon Lake has blown up the black

and white photograph to recreate the triptych and put it on

exhibition in Leicester and in Germany in the hope that people

will realise they have one of the missing panels. He says every

picture will tell its own story but each will relate to the centre

panel. Well, this centre fragment effectively represents everything

that Koelz was against. The death and destruction of war, the

futility of the soldiers going to fight, with the dead soldier being

represented by the size of the skull, the worm, the Iron Cross,

the highest award for bravery but useless in the face of death. A

water bottle with a bullet Hall. The precious water, leaking away to

nothing, so everything you see here shows the futility of war and,

ultimately, death. The colour is matched as closely as I can get it

and a little bit of light put across it so it doesn't look flat.

Armed with Simon Lake's reconstruction, and using the

latest technology, graphic artist Daryl Joyce has gone one stage

further. He's recreated the painting in full colour. It's the

first time since 1937 that we can see what the original may have

looked like. Because the images are not great quality, we have got a

few sections that are slightly clearer, but the blown-up version

is very out-of-focus and just to see it in colour does sort of bring

it all together. Ava is in her 77th year. She knows she doesn't have

long left to reassemble her father's masterpiece. I am not

going to be around forever, and I feel energetic enough to pursue it

now but I don't know there is anybody that would pursue it in the

way I have done after me. Hundreds of thousands of men actually gave

their lives in order, I suppose, for us now to be safe. But it is a

total statement which says more solves nothing. -- wall solves

nothing. The painting was inspired by the horrors of the First World

War and the suffering experienced by the young Matthaeus Koelz. He

was left distraught by the death of his brother. He salvaged an

epaulette from his brother's uniform and used it to powerful

effect in the painting. Koelz's philosophy was summed by the title

he gave the triptych: Du Sollst Nicht Toeten. Thou Shalt Not Kill.

It is an emotive painting, and for me, a course, the centre panel is

the part with the most impact, because you are looking at the

Western Front, you are looking at dead individuals. You are looking

at a German soldier crucified, and that is what he believed. He

believed soldiers, whatever nationality, were being crucified.

Koelz was awarded the Iron Cross, Germany's highest honour, after he

was buried alive and risked his life to rescue several comrades.

And decades later, that heroic act was to save his life. After the war,

Koelz became a pacifist. He knew the subject of his painting would

anger the Nazis, so he kept it hidden. Had it been exhibited, it

would have had an in century impact of the audience that would have

seen it, because people would have been able to read what he was

saying. As one of Germany's best known artists, Koelz was

commissioned to paint Adolf Hitler. He was asked to dress in the

uniform of the brownshirts during the sitting so that a propaganda

photograph could be taken of the two together. Koelz refused and was

taken at gunpoint to be interviewed by a member of the SS. But,

incredibly, his interrogator recognized him. He was one of

Koelz's First World War comrades. And the artist had saved his life.

Now it was time to repay the debt. Koelz wrote about the drama in his

diary. I chose flight. I had 48 hours' grace. Given to me by a man

who remembered the common suffering in the health the field and his

loyalty from -- to the old comrade from the trenches exceeded his

loyalty to his new masters. Koelz was able to carry only one panel in

his rucksack as he, his wife, Claire, his daughter, Ava, and son,

Siegfried, escaped through the mountains into Austria. They

eventually made their way to England. Ava is convinced most of

the painting, if not all of it, is out there in Germany and Poland.

could photograph it, measure it, but not necessarily... We don't

want it necessary here, but we want information from it, and it would

be fantastic to find out where it had been. Art historians say

reuniting the fragments would highlight not just the brilliance

of the painting but also the bravery and relevance of the artist.

We see it all about us, on our television screens, those heroic

people that go on the streets on Friday in Syria, the people

fighting in Libya, and people, like Koelz, who found they could no

longer live in a world where you have to say yes to the powers that

be. Cher Lloyd can be costly. -- saying no can be costly. The re-

colouring of the painting has given Ava's search a fresh impetus. She

is thrilled the world can at long last see the masterpiece which

almost cost her father his life. And she hopes that his vision will

now reach future generations. an image which cannot fail. That

cannot fail to make you feel quite deeply about what happened in those

years and it is important to remember it is all those things,

they are happening now. Amazing to think those missing

pieces are still out there. That's it from Leicester. Thanks for