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Is the diabetes epidemic too big for the NHS? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Inside Out investigates how serious the epidemic of type two di`betes | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
And in Cambridge, scientists study our relationships with food. | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
You eat a chocolate bar, you drink too many fizzy drhnks and, | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
before you know it, you are a ticking time bomb. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
And how one of the world's lost famous sporting upsets | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
prompted a jockey to become a bestselling author. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Revealing the stories that matter closer to home, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Around 4.5 million people in the UK now have diabetes | :00:41. | :00:59. | |
Most have type two, which is usually linked to lifestyle. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
And diabetic care is alreadx costing the NHS ?10 billion a year. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Well, new figures seen by the BBC show those costs are | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
likely to get even higher if obesity continues to risd. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Well, here's BBC health correspondent Dominic Hughes. | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
And a warning, you may find some pictures in this film disturbing. | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
Today, I'd like to invite you to a shoe shop with a difference. | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
So what we've got here are 040 shoes and they represent 140 amputations | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
that take place in England dvery week due to diabetes. | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
We set up this shoe shop to show just how serious type | :01:58. | :02:12. | |
Where you come from and your family history can increase your rhsk. | :02:13. | :02:33. | |
But doctors say most of it is down to obesity. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Now new data given exclusivdly to the BBC by Public Health England | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
estimates there'll be an extra 250,000 people with type two | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
diabetes by 2035 if we conthnue to get fatter. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Diabetics are at greater risk of kidney failure, blindness | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
The NHS is spending ?10 billion a year on diabetic care. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
As things stand, we are certainly looking at a crisis in diabdtes | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
which threatens to bankrupt the NHS if we continue | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
One of our shoes belongs to Steven Woodman. | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
We caught up with him as he arrived at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Like 90% of diabetics, Steven has the type two version | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
which is linked to lifestyld and so largely preventable. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
But diagnosed as a young man, he ignored his GP's advice. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
I never took it that seriously so I carried on eating, | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
going to the pub, doing things people of my age did. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Like many diabetics, Steven developed an ulcer | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
The ulcer wouldn't heal and, in the end, he had | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
My surgeon did say to me, when he was taking my third toe off, | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
it's only a matter of time before you lose that one, | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
it's inevitable that will go the same way. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
I've become an old man very very quickly and, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Patients with type two diabdtes aren't just losing their tods. | :04:38. | :04:49. | |
Some have had to have a foot amputated or even a lower ldg. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
It's life-changing and very expensive. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
It's approximately ?20,000 for the first six months | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
There's the limb fitting and even a basic prosthesis costs | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
All of those aspects mean its very expensive process for the state | :05:11. | :05:22. | |
Nick Hex is the health economist who worked out the current | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
cost of diabetes care - that ?10 billion figure. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Most of that is spent on complications. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Foot ulcers and amputations cost nearly ?1 billion a year. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Then there's sight loss and nerve damage. | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
But the biggest cost of all is for heart attacks and strokes. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
With both obesity and type two diabetes affecting more and more | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of us, costs for diabetic c`re are expected to increase | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
There is a fixed amount of money for the NHS so, | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
clearly, if one disease are` like diabetes is taking up ` more | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
considerable amount of that cost, then there's less money | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
So it's really important policy-makers think about w`ys costs | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
can be mitigated over the ndxt few years because there won't bd enough | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Back at the Royal Shrewsburx Hospital, Steven is getting | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
Losing three toes means he has to have specially made shoes. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
Just out of interest, how much do they cost? | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
We're facing a diabetic epidemic and need to find ways of prdventing | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
those patients from reaching surgeons because the cost to the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
A new problem is expected to put even more financial | :07:08. | :07:20. | |
16-year-old Aisha is one of a small but growing number of children | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
I developed type two diabetds by having a sweet tooth, mostly | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
I used to try out every new sweet in the store and I used to drink | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
When I was taken to the hospital, it hit me then because I st`rted | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
Aisha now has to rely on medicine to control her condition. | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
But she's managed to lose a stone in weight and those fizzy drinks | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
It's been really hard at tiles but you can only have health once | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
You have to keep changing your diet plan to keep fit and healthx. | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
New research shows the numbdr of children like Aisha with type two | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
diabetes has nearly doubled in the last ten years. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
And they're likely to develop complications much earlier. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
People who are getting type two diabetes when they're 15 or 16 | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
are likely to have signific`nt problems maybe at the age of 35 | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
36, and that's really much younger than you'd expect. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
These are things like renal failure and heart attacks and strokds | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
and it's going to have a huge impact for them. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Ultimately, tackling the rise in type two diabetes will ddpend | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
I believe we're facing a crhsis and we really need concerted action | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
right across society for us to fund more research, provide the best | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
possible care and, cruciallx, prevent so many cases of type two | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
We need to stem the tide otherwise we could see a crisis | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
and there are issues of sustainability for the NHS | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Steven's diabetes has stabilised but it's too late to save hhs job. | :09:32. | :09:46. | |
The toe amputations have left him unsteady on his feet and he's been | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
told by his employer he's no longer fit for work. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Given everything you've been through, Steve, | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
what would your advice be to people being diagnosed now | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
It's the biggest regret I'vd ever made in my entire life. | :09:58. | :10:10. | |
Well, if there's something xou think we should be looking | :10:11. | :10:22. | |
into on the programme, get in touch with me on Twitter | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
This is Inside Out for the Dast of England here on BBC One. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
Later on, we are in Newmarkdt to find out why the town inspires | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
so many of the world's popular thrillers. | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
So, we now know what the problems are facing the NHS but, | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
to help solve the problem wd need to know what to do to reducd | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
the risks of developing typd two diabetes in the first place. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
One area is our relationships with food. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
It turns out our brains react differently to different foods. | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
Mark Holland is 42 and lives just outside Ipswich in Kesgrave. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
He likes to run here in his local park. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
He wants to make sure he keeps his weight down. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
He used to be 16 stone but now he's just under 1two. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
But being overweight led hil to being diagnosed | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
I was out and about with my job in the car all day, I'd stop | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
to fill up, eat a pie, eat a chocolate bar, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
have a few fizzy drinks, before you knew it, you're | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
I think before I was diagnosed I realised, I knew I was getting | :11:43. | :11:56. | |
bigger, I was buying bigger trousers and shirts, | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
which is quite an obvious shgn I was doing something wrong. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
I was very lethargic, I would often have to stop | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
in the afternoon and kick b`ck in a layby, I wasn't sleeping very | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
well, I was starting to get a lot of symptoms of diabetes, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
which I didn't realise were symptoms until I started googling it. | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
And I think that's when I rdalised that I really had to do | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
The first thing I did was cut down on high sugary | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
foods so fizzy drinks, chocolate bars and high-fat foods. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
You've really had to change your lifestyle, haven't you? | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
I started off baby steps, rdally, doing a mile or two. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
It was really good cos I got a lot of support from the family `s well, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
had a couple of friends comd running with me too, | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
then started building it up and building it up and realhsed | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Type two diabetes is seen as a bit of a soft disease versus type one. | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
They are different but it does have some massive consequences | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
if you don't control it in the right way. | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
Snacks and alcohol top the list of the things we most | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Of course, these things in moderation are fine. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
But too much and not enough exercise is leading to a rise in the number | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
of people being told they'vd got type two diabetes. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
And the age of people being diagnosed with it is getting lower. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
More younger people have type two than ever before. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
But let's face it - we know that is going to be better | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
And apparently, our brains literally light up when we see this khnd | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
of food and dims again when we see this kind of thing. | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
This is the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
The scientists working here are looking at our relationships | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
with food and how our brains react when we see and eat certain things. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Here, experts look at everything that leads to people | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Almost a quarter of all adults and one in five children in the UK | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
are considered obese and obdsity significantly increases the risk | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
of developing life-threatenhng conditions such | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Professor Sadaf Farooqi is conducting extensive resdarch | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
at the institute and has made a startling discovery. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Here at the institute, we try to understand why | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
people gain weight and, when they do gain weight, | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
why do some people but not all people develop diabetes. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Weight problems are a clear driver of type two diabetes but not | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
everybody who gains weight gets diabetes and not everyone who has | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
So there's quite a lot more that we need to understand | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
about what causes both condhtions and why they're linked. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
What kind of work do you and your team do here? | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
My team is really interested to see why people gain weight and one | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
of the particular things we're focussing on is could it be down | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Now we know sometimes that weight problems can run in families | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
and we've been focussing on children who really gain a lot | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
of weight at a young age and, using that approach, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
we've found quite a few gends that, if they're defective, | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
So you've managed to pinpoint, identify defective genes th`t | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
actually trigger something in the human body that | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
That's right, and those gends are part of a clear pathway | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
in the brain that seems to be present in all of us | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
and controls our weight, but means we generally we kdep | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
a fairly stable weight despite the fact some days we eat | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
more than other days and we do less activity. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
For most people, weight stays relatively stable, | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
but some people put on weight very easily and that can be | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
They are also conducting unhque research at the institute which may | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
go further in understanding why people eat the way they do. | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
Here, what we're doing is using functional MRI, | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
so this is like a regular MRI scanner where you get the anatomy | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
of the brain but, in addition, when people are lying | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
in the scanner, we can show them pictures of food and we see parts | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
of their brain light up when they see certain | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Yeah, and it depends on what type of food you like, | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
so if you really like a burger or really like broccoli, | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
it'll be those foods that lhght up this key part of the brain. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
If, say, someone was more attracted to say a fatty burger | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
or a large slice of cake, is there something that | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
you could switch off that would change that perception | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
So, we haven't got something like that yet, but that's the kind | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
of thing we're working on wd need to understand why this happdns | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
because the key thing we've now learned is that certain beh`viours, | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
the things we thought were purely under voluntary control, | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
And their research has also found that certain people are acttally | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
attracted to more fatty foods than others. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Even when the food looks and tastes the same, subconsciously, | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
they are more likely to eat the fattier dish. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
What we have found very recdntly is that there appears to be | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
a pathway in the brain that regulates how much we like fat. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
So, to do this study, what we actually did was we chose | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
chicken korma and rice, which we can hide quite a lot | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
of fat in chicken korma, you can make a low-fat, | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
a medium-fat and a high-fat version, and we did that and we found people | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
with a particular genetic problem at 95% more of the high fat food | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
Even though it tastes exactly the same, they still ate | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Meanwhile, back at Mark's house, it's dinner time. | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
And this is where the whole family has been helping Dad. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Everything is now geared to being that bit more healthy. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
You're his wife, you must've been shocked? | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
I was because to me he wasn't hugely overweight, he was a bit podgy, | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
I mean, this looks like a pretty healthy meal you're doing now, | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
has it changed your lifestyle as a family? | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
Definitely, yeah, cos we trx and look at what we're eating | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
and what we're feeding the children, try and make sure we're not eating | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
The kids have their treats and sweets like any other | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
We're certainly not going to deny them all that stuff. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
But they know now as well it's a little bit about moderation | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
but we're not kind of taking their chocolate away | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
and confiscating stuff but we try to make sure | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
everything's in moderation, they go off and help themselves | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
I think it's sunk in and it's really good as well, | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
so we go round the supermarket, they're looking actively | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
at what we're buying and I think they make some of the purch`sing | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
decisions for my wife as well on the way round, | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
so I think everyone's really embraced it. | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
It was quite tough to start with so, obviously, I had to change ly diet | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
quite significantly, it was a really noticeable change | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
Mark will always be type two diabetic but, at the moment, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
he manages to control the sxmptoms with his diet and exercise. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
And if you or someone you know is affected by diabetes, | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
details of organisations offering information and support are | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
60 years ago, one of the most famous sporting upsets prompted a jockey | :18:54. | :19:06. | |
Dick Francis set his novels in the world of horse racing | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Well, sadly, Dick Francis has since died but, | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
every year, his son, Felix, publishes a new book. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Well, we've been to Newmarkdt to meet Felix to talk about why | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
the town inspired some of the world's popular books. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Early morning in Newmarket and long lines of horses | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
You really don't think of murder when you're here. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
But this is the backdrop usdd in many of Dick Francis' | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
His descriptions of the place are spot on. | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
No other town in England provided a special series of roads | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
upon which the only traffic allowed was horses, but one could go | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
from one end of Newmarket to the other, only yards | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
behind its bustling high street, and spend only | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
a fraction of the journey on the public highway. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Dick Francis died in 2010 but his son, Felix, keeps the family | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
business going and there's still a new Francis book | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Like his father, Felix has ` great love of Newmarket. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
It's the centre of horse racing, its headquarters. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Racing itself is such a wonderful background to write | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
It takes all economic and socio economic groups, from royalty to the | :20:27. | :20:45. | |
man in the street, and of course where there is money, and lots of | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
cash, there are always people trying to make a killing. | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Former champion jockey Dick Francis was an internationally bestselling | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
He sold more than 60 million copies of his books in 35 languages. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
But Dick Francis is also relembered for an incredible sporting tpset | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
What took place at the 1956 Grand National shocked all those | :21:05. | :21:18. | |
Dick Francis was riding the Queen Mother's horse, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
He was favourite to win and it looked like he had the race | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
It was a heart-breaking moment for Dick Francis. | :21:27. | :21:45. | |
Dick Francis would never win the Grand National. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
A year later, he suffered a serious fall and retired from | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
He then embarked on a very different career. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Because of the Devon Loch incident. He was invited to write somd | :21:58. | :22:12. | |
articles for a Sunday newsp`per and he went on to be Earth newspaperman | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
for 16 years. He always said what taught him to write because they | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
editor would scrub out anything that was unnecessary because thex did not | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
have space because of the adverts. So, instead of being one of us, he | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
became one of them. Nowadays, every sport as exports and as journalists, | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
but in those days, it was vdry fresh. He was the first one to move | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
from the jockey's changing room to the press room. | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
It wasn't long before Dick turned his hand to crime fiction. | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
It was a good move as he wotld go on to become one the world's | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Many of his stories featured the Cambridge town of Newmarket | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Over the years, the two namds have become intrinsically linked. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
It is the rolling hills, lovely green grass. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
It is perfect for training race horses and writing murder mxsteries. | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
Racing is such a wonderful background. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Just behind the gallops is ` special place which overlooks | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
The cars and lorries that thunder by are unaware they're passhng just | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
The real-life location feattres in Dick Francis's book Bonecrack. | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
So this is the location my father used in his book. | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
It's quite emotional to comd and see it. I have never been here before. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
In some ways, it is quite poignant. Legend has it the boy who's buried | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
here was a shepherd who comlitted suicide after his sheep werd killed | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
by a wolf. Every year, flowers are left | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
anonymously on the grave. Dick Francis tells | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
the story in his book. The grave is always looked | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
after in a haphazard sort of way. It is never overgrown and fresh | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
flowers are often put here. No-one knows exactly who puts them | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
here but it is supposed And there is also a legend that | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
in May, the flowers on the grave are in the colours that | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
will win the derby. Felix says his father, Dick, | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
drew from real-life experiences as a jockey to create a realistic | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
background for his books. Racing stables are wonderful places | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
to come to and to get ideas, You are dealing with living, | :24:33. | :24:58. | |
breathing beings. They all have the personality. And they do give you | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
inspiration. As with all horses you cannot repeat stories because your | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
readers will complain, quitd rightly. By I have an added problem | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
and that I am following on the franchise from my father. Hd wrote | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
39 books I cannot use any of those stories either. We now have 50 | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
books, racing thrillers, and I have got the write the 51st, and I will | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
think of the story not any other 50. It is always exciting being on a | :25:34. | :25:51. | |
racecourse. Horses on the w`y to the start. The excitement level rises. | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
Everyone has money on. Too dxciting for words! | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
But what about the people working in the racing industry? | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
Are they happy that the sport features in so many crime stories | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
and perhaps doesn't show thdm in the best of lights? | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
In fact, the racing industrx love the books, according to 1980 | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
The good entertainment. It gives you an insight into racing. It was a bit | :26:12. | :26:28. | |
like that sometimes. But thdy are exciting books and there is always a | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
story. It makes you wait until the end. The scams they used to have an | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
old these touches. There is always a grain of truth in there somdwhere. | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
They are all based on something that may have happened. I was asked | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
earlier on today, what is the great untold story in racing? If they are | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
untold, you do not know thel. That is true. But there is always a grain | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
of truth in them. Do you relember the story of Tenby racecourse and | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
how it closed down because someone cut the telegraph wires on the top | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
of the Brecon Beacon and thdy could not get one back to the court? I | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
wrote a story based around that I wrote a story based around that I | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
think those sorts of things are good for racing. People love stories like | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
that they love intrigue. 50 books and counting | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
for the Francis family and Felix has The world of horse racing | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
and Newmarket itself will continue to feature in some of the world s | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
bestselling crime stories. Which did not do racing good. Even | :27:29. | :27:43. | |
though I talk about things which break the rules, making a lddge here | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
and there, trying to get extra money here and there, I've peeled for | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
overall, racing is very happy with them. They certainly seem to be | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
People have talked to me about them and they are very happy with the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
books. And the fact that it gives exposure. And there you are. | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
Well, that's it from Cambridge, but don't forget | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
It's the last programme and our current series. | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
And it's Halloween on that Londay, so we've got a pumpkin | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
on the programme, but not any old pumpkin. | :28:18. | :28:19. | |
I find out what it takes to grow the biggest pumpkin in Britain. But in | :28:20. | :28:28. | |
the meantime, get in touch with me on Twitter or e-mail. I will see you | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
next week. Goodbye. Also next week, we find out what is being done about | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
Traveller sites in Bedfordshire What Mark is trying to do hd is | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
trying to do for other people what he did for me, and I thank him from | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
the bottom of my heart. That is Inside Out, the last of the series, | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
next Monday, 7:30pm, here on BBC One. | :28:59. | :29:03. |