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Hello. Tonight, Inside Out is at Uppingham in Rutland with | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
remarkable stories of extraordinary people. Coming up, the | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
inspirational Matt Hampson. inspirational all over the place. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
People ask me all the time, and it keeps me going and keeps me | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
positive and inspires me. Harry's helping others to walk again. Plus, | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
the chance meeting that led to a web sensation. Why do they want | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
your photograph? Because I look so silly. And, with �500,000 of our | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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money at stake, whose Olympic art Matt Hampson could have been a | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
sporting star. He was heading for a career as a top England rugby | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
international. Instead, he's making a name for himself off the pitch as | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
a fundraiser for young people who have been seriously injured playing | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
sport. And that's something that Matt knows all about, after he was | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
paralysed from the neck down. And, as Johnny Kinch discovered, the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Matt Hampson foundation is making a huge difference to young lives, not | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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just here in the UK but across the Matt Hampson lives with spectacular | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
views of the Leicestershire countryside. There's a clear | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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passion for rugby union around the place. There's also laughter. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
very lucky in a lot of ways. I've got a great family, I've got a | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
great support network through rugby. Leicester Tigers have been | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
absolutely amazing. On the wall at his home is a motto in Latin. | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
What happened to the promising young Leicester Tigers player in | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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A scrum collapsed in training while on England Under 21 duty and Matt's | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
life began a new chapter. He awoke paralysed from the neck down and | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
only able to breathe with a ventilator. It's been said it left | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
him even more determined from the neck up. After over a year in | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
hospital, Matt was able to come home and build a new life. Pause, | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
engage! He's taken on coaching duties at times at Oakham School, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
passing on his knowledge of the game he loves. Motivating students. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
The second rows, you're just looking out of it a little bit. I | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
don't class myself as a disabled person. I know people look at me | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
like that, but people who know me don't look at me like that. | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
launch of Matt's story in his and Journalist Paul Kimmage's words. | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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"Engage" is the last shout you hear when the ball comes into a scrum. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
When he first mentioned to me that he felt this all happened for a | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
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reason, I kind of let it go over my head. I wasn't sure about it. But | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
now, seeing the response that he's had to what he's written about his | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
life, reading some of the text messages and letters he's had, it's | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
obvious to me that yes, he can make a difference. Matt wanted to share | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
this day with other people injured playing sport. He wants to move the | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
story on. From him to others. expect to get the book out there | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
and tell people that, you know, you can live a life after a spinal | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
injury. Matt's started a foundation to raise money to help young people | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
whose lives have been changed for ever by a sporting accident. Claire | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Lomas, who lives down the road from Matt, near Melton Mowbray, is an | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
early beneficiary. A horse riding accident five years ago left her | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
paralysed from the waist down. Told she would never walk again, she's | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
now the first person in Britain to get to use a robotic suit, which | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
will show she can. You've to find a point to find a balance, and that's | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
really a big part of mastering it, because it's not like The Wrong | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Trousers, by Wallace and Gromit. I wish it was! It doesn't just, like, | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
go. It's quite a skill I've got to learn, to be able to walk in it. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Claire's one year old daughter Maisie is learning to walk. Her | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
mum's spending three days a week mastering the remarkable new | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
technology so she can do the same. Matt's out at every opportunity | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
raising money. The unbelievable bravery that Matt has shown and the | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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inspiration that he's shown to so many people. My family are my life. | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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They support me and enable me to get up every day and do what I do. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
There's always a draw to Welford Road for Matt, where support | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
remains massive for him, and now his foundation. Fans have been | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
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absolutely fantastic. I owe a lot to you guys, you good people. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
There's a lot of people get injured playing rugby and they do tend to | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
get forgotten. Maybe Matt has brought it to the forefront of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
everybody's remind, really. My boys play rugby. Is your worst nightmare | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
that something like that's going to happen. And all the work that he's | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
done and put into himself afterwards, it's an inspiration, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
really. It's unbelievable. I just think it's admirable that he can | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
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find the character to go on and do Marathon Day in Leicester. A big | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
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day for fundraising for so many good causes. There we go. See you | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
later. I'm taking part in a leg for the Matt Hampson Foundation. It is | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
uphill, butIt's a real honour to be running, especially the last bit, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
with Matt Hampson. It is a very successful charity, great cause, | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
and to help out with it is really good. It gives you a good buzz. | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
We believe in each other. Matt joins in the last part of the | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
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relay. Remarkably, another marathon is in the planning. These are the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
first steps for Claire Lomas outside in mid February. I love | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
being outside. I love it. While we were filming, she went further than | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
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before. Are we just going to go back up there, then? Yeah. And on | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
the road, too. By April she wants to walk - walk the London marathon. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
She also insists on standing to be interviewed. I like a personal | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
challenge. It's a good way of learning, isn't it? Makes me have | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
to crack on and learn quickly. I want to raise as much as I can for | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
spinal research, which is one of the main reasons I'm doing it. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
reality of walking a marathon for an able-bodied person, is a | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
phenomenal task. And when Clare talked about it, having met her and | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
worked with her over this period, it's a genuine opportunity for | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
someone to set the standard with this system. I think It'll be | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
absolutely fantastic for the world to see somebody doing the marathon | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
with these robotic legs. It'll be an unbelievable feat if she does it, | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
and I'm sure she'll. -- she will. And I think It'll be one that opens | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
a lot of people's eyes up, as well. �10,000 from the Matt Hampson | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Foundation will help Claire afford her own bespoke kit from the | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Israeli manufacturers. Matt's been incredible, and it makes you | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
realise that, you know, I'm lucky, and he gets on with everything, and | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
he's worse off than me, but you never feel like that around him. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
He's amazing. I got his support through the foundation and then the | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
equestrian world has been really behind me. It's amazing how much | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
money they raised for me to buy this suit, because I wouldn't be | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
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Claire and Matt both have energy to achieve. He hopes one day to give | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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everyone he helps a chance to have what he's. -- he has. I want to | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
help as many people as possible. And, for the moment, we've got the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
funds and support to help people out worldwide, and that's so | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
important. Matt wants to give others a fulfilled life outside | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
four hospital walls. The amazing Matt Hampson. And good luck to | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
Clare with her marathon trek. Next, the story of an international | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
journey that had its beginnings in a small Nottingham office. Martin | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Poliakoff is a chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham. He | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
used to be best known as the brother of screenwriter and | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
director, Stephen, but after a chance meeting with Australian | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
video journalist Brady Haron, he's become a worldwide phenomenon, as | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
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This was the first time I pointed a camera at Professor Martyn | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Poliakoff, back in 2008. Put that there, under your jumper. It seems | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
I've been filming him ever since. For me, meeting someone so | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
passionate about his subject brought back memories. So, think | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
back to when you were at school. a schoolboy in Australia I'd been | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
fascinated by science. Meeting the professor led to a crazy idea - | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
let's make videos about every single chemical element all 118 of | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
them. I should look at you while you hold the camera. We called it | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the periodic table of videos. A few weeks later, we filmed our first | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
elements. A test of endurance rather than anything. Let's give it | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
a go. So, welcome to our periodic Hydrogen is the lightest element. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Number two, helium. Helium is probably the most unreactive of | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
these elements. Number three, lithium. Lithium is the lightest | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
metal. No script, just an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
chemistry. Potassium is very reactive. One of my colleagues who | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
used to work with it used to $$WHITE, Ah, wicked! Potassium is | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
very important. Our bodies contain a lot of potassium. It's in all | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
sorts of biological material. If you burn garden rubbish, in the ash | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
that you get at the end is potassium, which is presumably why | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
it's called potash. But, even professors have their limitations, | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
and Martin's seem to be at number 108. Hassium, I know nothing about | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Hassium. Should we make something up? We soon realised we had a | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
YouTube hit on our hands. Martin became something of a celebrity, in | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
demand for newspaper interviews, at home and further afield. Then, a | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
cameo on America's CBS News. all his celebrated work as a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
research chemist and a university professor, Martin Poliakoff didn't | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
become a celebrity until he got on the Internet. I know a lot of | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
people who aren't interested in science. And, as soon as he pops up | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
on the screen and starts talking, people just look and listen. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
really enjoy making the videos, because I enjoy talking to the | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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viewers, and also, finding simple ways of explaining things. I | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
suppose I have learnt a bit about how to present things. I'm much | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
more critical now when I see people on television. I get really cross | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
when I think they've spent too much money on a series, and think what | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
we could have done with similar funding. E-mails from fans were | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
flooding in. More and more teachers were using the films in schools. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
These youngsters in New York even quizzed their online hero. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Professor, my question is, is it aluminium or alumini-um, because I | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
don't know what to call my otheraluminium model. Hi, it's a | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
great model, and you should call it aluminium. But it was here in India | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
that I realised the professor had achieved cult status. To the | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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chemists, I'd like to give them my Everyone wanted my photograph. Even | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
the chef was photographed with me from the restaurant. Why did they | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
want your photograph? Because I look so silly! Of course, by now, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
we had exhausted the 118 elements. But, the net was cast wider. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
didn't expect it to be quite so... Wow! After all, everything's made | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
of chemicals. There's 17.98 grams. So this is more than enough to make | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
more than 300 standard tablets of Viagra. Now, I'm not going to open | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
it, because, after that, none of my male colleagues will want to come | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
into my office. As the videos evolved the professor has opened up | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
more about his own life. Made films on personal subjects, such as the | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
sad passing of friends and colleagues. And, to drink a toast | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
He may look the stereotypical scientist, but Martin is anything | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
but a cold, analytical researcher. And just to say to all of you that | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
it's very important, Whoever you are, to remember the people that | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
helped you as a child. And made you what you are today. And last year, | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
a special accolade for the professor. He was appointed Foreign | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
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Secretary of the Royal Society. lead role in the society is making | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
sure that the Royal Society - and science in the UK - is recognised | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
internationally, and he is forging links and collaborations and | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
generally helping to promote collaboration between UK scientists | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
and other scientists around the world. It's a fantastic mark of | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
achievement for Martin. We're all incredibly proud of him, and we | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
wish him the best of luck in the position and hope that he can go | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
forward and make changes to science on a global scale. And now, the | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
YouTube viewing figures have soared into the millions. Let's try and | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
see what happens. Something we'd never drdreamed of in that first | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
day in June 2008. Nothing may happen because it's an old sample, | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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but let's have a look. Are you The periodic table of videos had | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
gone global. We're in Sydney Australia, so here we are on the | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
summit, and behind me is the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
We're in Germany, where they made six different heavy elements, and | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
I'm just going to show you how they did it. In a surreal twist, the | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
professor even appeared in the Guinness book of records. The | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
world's smallest periodic table, etched on one of his hairs. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
could get 1 million of these periodic tables onto one of these | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
post-it notes. There have been meetings with Nobel prizewinners. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
We've even one a few prizes ourselves. We've made a new | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
discovery. It's a new element. It's called Awardium! It's been a | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
wonderful exploration. I never would have done any of that without | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
the videos. But, for me, it really became personal when we both made a | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
trip to Australia. Between lectures and a bit of sightseeing, we made a | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
visit to my home town of Adelaide and dropped in on my old school, | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
where perhap, where perhaps the seeds were sown, crazy endeavour. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
This is the very periodic table that Brady sat looking at, and | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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they've still got the same periodic And amazingly, still here was my | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
teacher who inspired mealmost 20 years ago. Some may be out. They're | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
called donkey orchid. Look at this, what a stunning beauty. Two men | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
from opposite sides of the world, both igniting a passion for | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
chemistry. So, how do you actually inspire your students? What do you | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
do? I do nothing except what's in me already. I'm fascinated by | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
science. I've got a passion for young people and science and all | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
those things that make life possible. And maybe that has rubbed | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
off. I don't know what's next for the periodic videos, and I'm not | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
sure the professor does, either. Your mind, it is a bit like soup. | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
It has to be stirred up all the time. And then, interesting | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
vegetables float to the surface, and so on. But, from my side of the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
lens, it's already been an amazing journey. In a few months time, the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
sporting world will converge on London to compete in the Olympic | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Games. But, in the past two years, another recordbreaker has been | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
getting ready, and inside out has been there from the start. Half a | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
million pounds of public money has been spent on this piece of Olympic | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Art, but what did we get? We've been finding out. The 30th Olympiad | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
is awarded to the city of... The moment the Olympic bid was | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
secured. Ever since then, the Olympic Committee has been working | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
hard to deliver. And so have our athletes. But they're not the only | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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ones preparing for Olympic glory. Five artists have been competing | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
with each other for �500,000 of our money, money they want to use to | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
make a piece of public art for the games. This is a good chance for a | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
really talented artist to make a massive career move. It is going to | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
be two or three years of very hard graft for one big public moment. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
But, who's going to decide which one gets our money and how do they | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
decide? Michael Pinchbeck is a Nottingham artist. He wants to | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
spend the money installing 2012 park benches around the region. He | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
wants people to sit on them and think. I've decided that this is | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
more than an artwork, it's a state of mind. Petain Patel specialises | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
in performance art. He wants to build a gym in Nottingham city | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
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centre. Only this one is a bit different. If you imagine going | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
into Market Square and having loads of these exercise type machines in | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the square, as you operate one cycle one it might like up a | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
building at the same rate that you are peddling. Then, there is Joe | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Fairfax. He has chosen this field next to the M1 at Erewash in | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Derbyshire, for his piece. He wants to install 2012 hanging lights | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
which turn on every time a train passes. You will see them against | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
the sky, so they will be magical, just suspended against the clouds | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
and the nighttime sky. And when the lights come on it will be really | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
beautiful. Clary Salandy has been making carnival costumes for | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
decades. Her work is well known. She wants different communities of | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
the East Midlands to perform together in costumes reflecting | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
their regional heritage. This project should give those people | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
hope, aspiration, pride, and raise their self esteem. And finally | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
there's Shauna Richardson. I refer to myself as a Crochetdermist. I | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
take inspiration from Victorian taxidermy and use the endangered | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
craft of crochet to make life size animal sculptures. She wants to | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
create the world's largest crocheted lions. Yes, I did say | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
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crochet. Five artists with five very different visions. Who'll get | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
the money and will it be worth it? Today's crunch time. Each of the | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
artists has come to De Montfort University in Leicester. They're | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
meeting a panel of judges who'll decide which, in their mind, is | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
worthy of the money. And here they come. They're a mixture of writers, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
painters, poets and publishers from the region. What're they looking | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
for? It's not the X factor. We won't base it on a public vote. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
We'll base it on what we think is the best idea. That's always been | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
the crucial thing in terms of making the decision. Maybe that's | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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Clary Salandy with her costumes. She's first to pitch. It was OK. I | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
was very nervous apart from being really excited before when I got in | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
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there I was shaking like a leaf. And then there's Michael's benches. | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
I would remember one day, sitting here, with someone I love. And one | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
by one the others pitch their ideas. It's left to the judges to make | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
It's been two weeks and it's the official launch party in London. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
The great and the good have turned out. Coffee and pastries are on tap. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
So which of our artists will be carrying the torch for the East | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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For the East Midlands, Lionheart So the crocheted lions get the half | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
million. The judges picked her idea because, they say, it best reflects | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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the region's textile heritage. But also it'll cause a stir. The ladies | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
who taught me how to crochet will be very proud of me. I am not sure | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
she would have expected me to going this direction, but she will be | :24:28. | :24:38. | |
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quite proud. For Shauna it is going to be two or three years of really | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
hard graft. That's very similar to sport, for one big public moment | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
when they are unveiled to the public. I know what most people are | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
thinking. Half a million pounds for some crocheted lions? Nice work if | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
you can get it. So what do we get for our money? We're going to | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
follow her from start to finish to find out. It's day one and Shauna's | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
taking her first delivery. This is the first one and it's been | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
sculpted out of polystyrene and then it's got an armature inside it | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
so the whole thing will slot together. She hopes. But with a bit | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
of filleting with some hot cheese wire, the first sculpted lion is | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
ready for its woollen coat. And what better wool than the finest | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Swaledale from Derbyshire? It's weighed and washed before being | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
spun and dyed in the woollen mills of Bradford. But is it what she | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
wanted? Lots of bits of black in it but that's the nature of it. I'm | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
very happy with it. Now here comes the technical bit. Unlike knitting, | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
which uses two needles Shauna's using crochet which has one needle | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
with a hook on it. There's nothing to do but let her get on with it. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
And get on with it she does. And single handedly, day in and day out, | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
she crochets and crochets and crochets. Four months later she's | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
finished her first lion. Even I didn't really realise quite how big | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
they are. If I'd realised at the beginning I probably would have | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
been a bit daunted. It's time to get some feedback. A group of | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
ramblers from Stoughton in Leicestershire have stopped by to | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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take a look. Crochet. I thought it was knitted. It's very clever the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
way the pattern brings out the musculature. Shauna's got another | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
two years to finish the others. If she manages it they'll be the | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
largest crocheted sculptures in the world. They'll be famous, and so | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
will she. It's relentless work - but there's time for the odd | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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strange party in between. Well, she Today the panel of judges who | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
commissioned the work are paying her a visit. It's the first time | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
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they'll see them. What will they Really joyous aren't they and | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
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beautifully done. It's not a conceptual piece where we're paying | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
half a million pounds for someone to switch a lightbulb on and switch | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
it off whatever that signifies. This is real craft and endeavour. | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
It's a mamoth task. Money well spent. Well he would say that | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
wouldn't he? He commissioned the piece. Some of the money has been | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
spent on community projects designed to get people interested | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
in crochet. It took two years for Shauna to finish all three. They're | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
now under wraps in a secret lock-up in Nottinghamshire. They won't be | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
revealed to the public until Spring. And it'll be the public who are the | :28:30. | :28:40. | |
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judge about whether or not they're worth the money. Those lovely lions | :28:41. | :28:46. |