:00:22. > :00:32.This week we investigate why some marriages are For Love, while
:00:32. > :00:32.
:00:32. > :00:40.We joined the the Borders agency and as they disrupt the weddings
:00:40. > :00:45.that they expect are simply to get into the UK.
:00:46. > :00:49.Also tonight, would you give up a kidney for a loved one? We meet the
:00:49. > :00:54.families donating their own organs because of a shortage of people on
:00:54. > :01:01.the register. I don't know how to say thank you, really. I just hope
:01:01. > :01:04.that you know. And, Shakespeare with the northern twang. We'd look
:01:04. > :01:12.back at 20 years of Northern Broadsides bringing Shakespeare to
:01:13. > :01:22.life. I think I was scared of Shakespeare as this construct for
:01:23. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:36.For most people getting married would be one of the most important
:01:36. > :01:45.days of their lives, but for others it is seen as an easy way of
:01:45. > :01:48.entering the country by the back door. A Sham marriages, where
:01:48. > :01:51.people tie the knot just to get residency in Britain, has become an
:01:51. > :01:54.increasing problem. We joined the UK Border Agency in their latest
:01:54. > :01:56.attempt to tackle the problem. The historic chapel of Hazlewood
:01:56. > :02:05.Castle in North Yorkshire and childhood sweethearts Amy McHale
:02:05. > :02:11.and Anthony Blasket are living the romantic dream. Would you take
:02:11. > :02:14.Anthony as your husband? I will. With all their family and friends
:02:14. > :02:20.sharing in the Big Day, their wedding is an experience they hope
:02:20. > :02:25.to treasure for the rest of their lives. Possibly the most exciting
:02:25. > :02:32.day. Nothing has topped it yet. not everyone sees life in such
:02:32. > :02:35.romantic terms. Others have a completely different agenda. Sham
:02:35. > :02:39.marriages are run by big international gangs who look at
:02:39. > :02:41.ways to hang trade exploiter West Yorkshire, a world away from
:02:41. > :02:45.Amy and Anthony's special day, preparations for an entirely
:02:45. > :02:48.different kind of wedding are taking place. I'm at the Border
:02:48. > :02:49.Agency HQ in Leeds city centre, where members of their specialist
:02:49. > :02:56.Criminal and Financial Investigations team are preparing
:02:56. > :03:00.to launch their latest operation on sham marriages. This operation will
:03:00. > :03:10.take place this afternoon. Inside, more than 30 officers from the
:03:10. > :03:11.
:03:11. > :03:14.agency are finalising their plan of action. Operation Polo involves an
:03:14. > :03:17.Indian national and a French bride. Today, two suspect weddings are
:03:17. > :03:23.scheduled in quick succession and the operation needs to be carefully
:03:23. > :03:27.choreographed. How can you be sure that these are a sham marriages are
:03:27. > :03:32.not normal ones? We have done an awful lot of work beforehand,
:03:32. > :03:38.intelligence work. We have got excellent co-operation with the
:03:38. > :03:41.registrars. It is the registrars to inform us of their suspicions. We
:03:41. > :03:45.do all the checks with the police and other intelligence systems
:03:45. > :03:51.dissatisfied herself the what we will be disrupting today is a sham
:03:51. > :03:53.marriage. Briefing over, the team are now on their way to Leeds city
:03:53. > :03:57.centre and the Registry Office where they believe the two sham
:03:57. > :03:59.weddings are booked in. From here we need to be very discreet. Some
:03:59. > :04:02.sham marriages are run by syndicates who employ spotters to
:04:02. > :04:05.alert bogus brides and grooms if they are suspicious the Border
:04:05. > :04:09.Agency are on their case. With plenty of time to go before the
:04:09. > :04:16.first wedding takes place, the team enter via a back door and begin to
:04:16. > :04:19.take up their position. We are all gathered in a room just down the
:04:19. > :04:27.hall from where the wedding will take place. Now it is a waiting
:04:27. > :04:32.game. The groom has turned up with another man. We have the bride as
:04:32. > :04:37.well and three bridesmaids or witnesses. We are just waiting now
:04:37. > :04:42.for confirmation that they have gone into the hall. A at what stage
:04:42. > :04:49.do you decide it is time to go in? When they're inside and prepared to
:04:49. > :04:57.be married. Two o'clock strikes. The first team are given the signal
:04:57. > :05:01.to move in. I am from the Border Agency. We believe a sham marriages
:05:02. > :05:04.about to take place and my officers will speak to you shortly. Sham
:05:05. > :05:07.weddings are big business, with figures of up to �10,000 a time
:05:07. > :05:11.changing hands. Typically, it's an Eastern European bride and a non-
:05:11. > :05:19.European groom who will often pay a fixer to try and seek a way of
:05:19. > :05:26.obtaining a marriage certificate to stay in this country. Just go with
:05:26. > :05:33.my officer. All the parties are being split up and talk to about
:05:33. > :05:38.the wedding. The groom has not objected at all. The key to this is
:05:38. > :05:44.quick questioning, finding out what part everyone has here, and
:05:44. > :05:48.deciding he is going to be arrested as part of a conspiracy. We will
:05:48. > :05:51.get them out if you straight away and be ready for the next one.
:05:51. > :05:53.are lead away, to be taken to separate police cells in West
:05:53. > :05:56.Yorkshire. In operations over two separate fortnights in Leeds last
:05:56. > :06:06.year Border Agency staff estimate they prevented 70 sham marriages
:06:06. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:12.from going ahead. This second group has arrived so we are ready to go
:06:12. > :06:15.on disrupt the second sham marriage of the day. Like the first
:06:15. > :06:21.operation, there is a feeling of stunned silence as the officers go
:06:21. > :06:27.about their work. It is a big deal to interrupt the wedding day.
:06:27. > :06:30.It is not something we take lightly. With today's arrests coming to a
:06:30. > :06:33.close, officers will continue their investigations into how the couples
:06:33. > :06:36.came to this point. Charges vary from perjury to conspiring to
:06:36. > :06:46.breach immigration law, with those convicted facing a maximum jail
:06:46. > :06:49.
:06:49. > :06:54.sentence of 14 years. How has the operation gone? Both operations
:06:54. > :06:59.were a success. How easy is it to disrupt these marriages? Certainly
:06:59. > :07:03.since we have started doing this since March there has been an
:07:03. > :07:06.increase and they have been brought to our attention on a more regular
:07:07. > :07:10.basis, probably because the registrars are more aware of the
:07:10. > :07:14.problem. Less than a mile from the Registry Office, the Parish Church
:07:14. > :07:19.are also having to be more rigorous about who walks down the aisle.
:07:19. > :07:23.Because of some of the abuses that did take place, we are now required
:07:23. > :07:29.to check that the address that they have given us is a genuine address
:07:29. > :07:33.by going to visit them, going to both houses of the bride and groom,
:07:33. > :07:37.and we are required to check their identity by a series of documentary
:07:37. > :07:40.evidence that proves they are who they say they are. Canon Bundock
:07:40. > :07:47.says as a society we have a duty to ensure people seeking genuine
:07:47. > :07:50.refuge in this country are given a chance. We have a sympathy for
:07:50. > :07:59.everybody because you want to help people as Christians, especially
:07:59. > :08:04.people in need. We are required to help strangers. We don't like
:08:04. > :08:07.having to say no in any circumstance, but we can help
:08:07. > :08:10.people to be dishonest and break the law. With 300 people arrested
:08:10. > :08:17.for offences related to sham marriages in the past year, they
:08:17. > :08:21.have become an increasing priority for the Government. The operations
:08:21. > :08:27.that we went on, they were probably 30 officers to disrupt to sham
:08:27. > :08:30.marriages. It seems to come expensive way to tackle the problem.
:08:30. > :08:34.Disrupting an individual sham marriage, you obviously stop that
:08:34. > :08:38.one and might arrest the facilitator, but it does send a
:08:38. > :08:41.signal around the World's so it acts as a deterrent. A should more
:08:41. > :08:47.Paras be given to register as to try and stop this process before it
:08:47. > :08:51.even gets going? It is possible in the long run we might need to have
:08:51. > :08:55.new legislation. Registrars are obliged to marry people who appear
:08:55. > :08:59.legally to have the right to be married. That is something we are
:08:59. > :09:04.looking at. For Amy and Anthony, marriage should mean a commitment
:09:04. > :09:10.for life. It means different things for different people, but we have
:09:10. > :09:13.been together a long time so it meant a long -- meant a lot to us.
:09:13. > :09:19.Marriages are very precious thing that cement society together and
:09:19. > :09:24.love is the thing that most of all makes the world go round. We have
:09:24. > :09:27.seen to sham marriages here in Leeds. For many people are it
:09:27. > :09:31.should be happiest day of their lives, but there has not been much
:09:31. > :09:33.romance here. Following those nine arrests, the groom at the first
:09:34. > :09:36.sham wedding has been deported while the bride and witnesses have
:09:36. > :09:39.been released. The bridegroom and two witnesses at the second wedding
:09:39. > :09:49.have been charged with conspiracy to breach immigration rules. In
:09:49. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :10:00.addition, the bride and groom have Coming up: Shakespeare from the
:10:00. > :10:07.heart of Halifax. We celebrate 20 years of Northern Broadsides bring
:10:07. > :10:11.in the classics to live with them nor the and tone.
:10:11. > :10:15.How would you feel that their loved one was dying and the only way to
:10:15. > :10:19.save their life was to give up one of your own kidneys. It is a
:10:19. > :10:26.difficult choice and one that people are being increasingly
:10:26. > :10:29.forced to meet due to a lack of people being on the organ register.
:10:29. > :10:32.Keeley Donovan has been to meet some remarkable donors and the
:10:32. > :10:42.loved ones whose lives have been saved by their selfless acts of
:10:42. > :10:44.
:10:44. > :10:48.giving. Without a donor kidney, this man's future was bleak. He had
:10:48. > :10:56.tracked down his long-lost brother that he had not seen for 35 years.
:10:56. > :11:01.He wanted to meet the man before it was too late. It would turn out to
:11:01. > :11:05.be a life-saving reunion. He phoned the up out of the blue and offered
:11:05. > :11:10.be one of his kidneys. We were speaking on the telephone and I
:11:10. > :11:16.said to him, what about if I give you one of mine. The answer was
:11:16. > :11:20.complete silence. It was a reunion that led father and son here hands
:11:21. > :11:23.the story was picked up across the world. When he had his transplant
:11:23. > :11:27.originally there were very few transplants at that time that it
:11:27. > :11:32.happened. The gate that they give to the person who needs the
:11:32. > :11:38.transplant, people must see the benefits that that creates an altar
:11:38. > :11:43.doors to the person who has a successful transplant. 10 years on
:11:43. > :11:46.and two sisters from Sheffield are preparing for the same operation.
:11:46. > :11:56.Helen Thacker suffers from a rare genetic disorder that is destroying
:11:56. > :11:58.
:11:58. > :12:06.In 20th March 10 I was told my kidney function was down to 20%.
:12:06. > :12:09.They wanted to know if everybody would be able to be a living donor.
:12:09. > :12:13.Tomorrow she's due to receive a donor kidney from Claire, her older
:12:13. > :12:17.sister. It was hardly a decision. I knew I
:12:17. > :12:20.was going to do it a long time ago. It just happens to have come at
:12:20. > :12:23.this time. The operation to remove Claire's
:12:23. > :12:27.kidney is the first of the day. She knows it could change her sister's
:12:27. > :12:34.life but is aware it's not without risks for her. Helen faces an
:12:34. > :12:41.anxious wait for news of how the surgery has gone.
:12:42. > :12:48.This is a gift which I cannot describe personally in words,
:12:48. > :12:52.Clare's altruism, her willingness to offer a kidney to her sister is
:12:52. > :12:54.going to transform her life. Donor transplants are unique in
:12:54. > :13:02.requiring perfectly healthy patients to undergo serious surgery
:13:02. > :13:06.that cannot benefit them. It will be 20 minutes before the
:13:06. > :13:14.anaesthetic takes affect, and then it will be up to four hours to
:13:14. > :13:17.remove the Khedive. Meanwhile, Helen has a very anxious wait. --
:13:17. > :13:20.removed the kidney. It's now Helen's turn to be wheeled
:13:20. > :13:23.to the operating theatre. And she hears the news she's been waiting
:13:23. > :13:28.for. I have had the news that she is out
:13:28. > :13:32.and everything has gone well. I'm relieved about that. I just want to
:13:32. > :13:37.get to the theatre and get it all done.
:13:37. > :13:42.As Helen is being prepared for surgery, the organ is here in this
:13:42. > :13:45.box. In 2001, David had to leave his
:13:45. > :13:50.that family and friends in Australia and fly to England to
:13:50. > :13:56.give his life-saving gift. Everyone is praying he comes back
:13:56. > :14:01.safe and well. Everybody, give Dave a round of applause.
:14:01. > :14:05.With as much to lose as his son had to gain, the day of the operation
:14:05. > :14:13.arrived. I was scared. I'm pretty sure he
:14:13. > :14:21.was. We held hands. He was in his bed and I was in mind. I just said
:14:21. > :14:26.a few words to him of encouragement, and Mark squeezed my hand, and for
:14:26. > :14:32.me, that was it, that was the moment. And we had not done it yet.
:14:32. > :14:39.What would life have been like without the transplant? I think I
:14:39. > :14:49.would not have had a life. It was going downhill that fast. On the
:14:49. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:55.10th anniversary of the transplant, Mike and -- Mark has a normal life.
:14:55. > :14:58.He can see his daughter grow up, which is something... I did not
:14:58. > :15:04.know I had a granddaughter when I did this.
:15:05. > :15:09.It was a life saving gift. I'm just grateful that my dad was there at
:15:09. > :15:19.the time. I never dreamed of a day when I
:15:19. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:34.would be called Dad because of a kidney.
:15:34. > :15:37.Back at Northern General Hospital, Helen's transplant is well under
:15:37. > :15:40.way. An opening is made in her side, into which the kidney will be
:15:40. > :15:42.inserted. The organ is taken out of its protective wrapping and
:15:42. > :15:45.prepared for transplantation. The blood vessels which once supplied
:15:45. > :15:52.Claire's kidney are prepared to make the organ work inside her
:15:52. > :15:57.sister. Less than one. Are -- 1.5 hours
:15:57. > :16:00.after the initial surgery, the doctors are almost finished. The
:16:00. > :16:02.delicate job of stitching the tiny vessels into place to connect the
:16:03. > :16:08.kidney is a painstaking process. The renal artery, vein and
:16:08. > :16:10.connection to the bladder must all be secured before it can function.
:16:10. > :16:14.Finally, the moment Claire's kidney becomes part of her sister's
:16:14. > :16:24.anatomy. The change of colour shows it is successfully plumbed into
:16:24. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:32.Helen's abdomen. We can see the colour is now read.
:16:32. > :16:35.I do not expect the kidney to work straight away. It will take a
:16:35. > :16:37.little while. With the kidney successfully
:16:37. > :16:44.connected, it's time to stitch Helen's side up, having closed the
:16:44. > :16:50.deep wound. I think it took three hours, which
:16:50. > :16:56.is good. I am pleased. In transplantation, you can tell the
:16:56. > :16:59.difference. The patient has not been feeling well before the
:16:59. > :17:03.transplantation. After transplantation, they are a
:17:03. > :17:05.different person. But Helen is one of the fortunate
:17:06. > :17:11.few. Most transplant organs are made available because of untimely
:17:11. > :17:16.deaths. If you ask people in the street in
:17:16. > :17:20.the UK, about 90% of people would support organ donation and
:17:20. > :17:23.transportation, but only about a third are signed up and on the
:17:23. > :17:26.register. If Mark or Helen wonder about how
:17:26. > :17:29.long their kidneys could last, they could do worse than come here for
:17:29. > :17:32.inspiration. This is the home of a woman who received her kidney
:17:32. > :17:35.nearly 36 years ago. Jennifer Oxby was five months
:17:35. > :17:39.pregnant with her second child when she suffered a double kidney
:17:39. > :17:46.failure. She lost her baby, but after years of dialysis her brother
:17:46. > :17:49.David offered her a kidney. She went on to have three daughters
:17:49. > :17:56.after the operation. It's believed hers is the longest surviving
:17:56. > :18:00.transplant kidney in the UK. So, all these years later, how do
:18:00. > :18:06.you feel about what your brother did? Without his beard, I would not
:18:06. > :18:11.be here and have my three daughters. -- his gift.
:18:11. > :18:14.It is marvellous what he has done for us.
:18:14. > :18:20.It's 12 days on from Helen's transplant, and she and her sister
:18:20. > :18:24.Claire are recovering from their surgery.
:18:24. > :18:31.Even if it had not worked, I would be happy we had tried. But for it
:18:31. > :18:36.to work is just the best thing. That is what you do it for. I think
:18:36. > :18:41.she has been very selfless, and I don't know whether I could have
:18:42. > :18:48.done it. I am sure I would have done in the circumstances. I like
:18:48. > :18:52.to think I would have done that. I don't know how to say thank you,
:18:52. > :19:02.really, I just hope that you know. To add your name to the register,
:19:02. > :19:05.
:19:05. > :19:08.Back in 1992, if you went to see a Shakespeare play, you expected all
:19:08. > :19:11.the actors to speak in a very particular way. But 20 years ago
:19:11. > :19:17.all that changed when Barrie Rutter set out to shake things up with a
:19:17. > :19:23.new theatre company which spoke the Bard's words with a northern accent.
:19:23. > :19:26.Lucy Hester has been to meet the man who created Northern Broadsides.
:19:26. > :19:32.Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of
:19:32. > :19:37.York. And all the clouds that lowered upon our House in the deep
:19:37. > :19:41.bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious
:19:41. > :19:43.wreath, our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Our stern alarums
:19:43. > :19:53.turned to merry meetings, our desperate marches to delightful
:19:53. > :19:56.measures. I think I'd been scared of
:19:56. > :19:59.Shakespeare as a construct for posh people who wear tights and have a
:19:59. > :20:05.cabbage down their front and speak with a lisp. "My lord, my liege,"
:20:05. > :20:09.etc. I didn't imagine for a second that Shakespeare was for people
:20:09. > :20:14.like me, who talked a bit like this. What was great was he said, "Let's
:20:14. > :20:20.approach it like work. My dad was a trawlerman, your dad was a
:20:20. > :20:23.foundryman. Let's go to work." And that's what we did.
:20:23. > :20:28.Barrie Rutter is the artistic director and founder of the
:20:28. > :20:31.Northern Broadsides theatre company. Richard III was the first play ever
:20:31. > :20:39.to be produced by Northern Broadsides, here in a boatyard in
:20:39. > :20:43.Hull. Fellow actors thought I was mad. It
:20:43. > :20:45.was a sort of revolutionary thing to do in 1992 - classic plays in a
:20:45. > :20:55.non-theatrical setting with a bunch of Northern actors all genuinely
:20:55. > :21:05.using their Northern cadences. A newspaper had printed "Mah kingdumm
:21:05. > :21:09.
:21:09. > :21:12.for an hoss!" Of course I didn't do the line like that. It was: "A
:21:12. > :21:21.horse, boom, boom, a horse, boom, boom, my kingdom for a horse, boom
:21:21. > :21:26.boom!" Fast forward 20 years and Northern
:21:26. > :21:31.Broadsides is about to embark on a five-month tour. We catch up with
:21:31. > :21:34.Barrie again in Stoke rehearsing Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
:21:34. > :21:37.It's a real box of fireworks, verbal fireworks and you can't hope
:21:37. > :21:47.to get every witty conceit in it, but it's delightful to play and I
:21:47. > :21:49.
:21:49. > :21:54.hope it's going to be delightful to Barrie is playing the part of the
:21:54. > :21:59.schoolmaster, but he's also directing a company of 17 actors.
:22:00. > :22:02.I play Don Adriano de Amado. To congratulate the princess in her
:22:03. > :22:12.pavilion in the posteriors of the day which the rude multitude call
:22:13. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:20.the afternoon. He is a fantastical Spaniard and he
:22:20. > :22:30.is full of himself, but possibly not as intelligent as he things.
:22:30. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:47.I'm Sophia and I play the princess. She's a bit bolshy. She's not one
:22:47. > :22:54.of the fainting, falling in love, running after men kind of girls.
:22:54. > :22:57.She's got an old head on her shoulders.
:22:58. > :23:00.One thing everyone seems to be struggling with is a musical number
:23:00. > :23:03.featuring a rather unusual instrument.
:23:03. > :23:06.You've got to practise the bottle. If a day goes by without you
:23:06. > :23:16.practising the bottle or plucking a string, it's too long, it's too
:23:16. > :23:19.
:23:19. > :23:23.Everybody who's not playing a main instrument has a bottle that's
:23:23. > :23:27.filled up to a point, and when you blow in it, it doesn't workWhen you
:23:28. > :23:37.blow in it, it makes a certain note. When it's fine-tuned, it'll sound
:23:38. > :23:42.
:23:42. > :23:50.And there's a bit of extra pressure today as the rehearsal will be
:23:50. > :23:54.watched by a small audience. We always had a day when we invite
:23:54. > :23:59.our friends to come and observed. It doesn't matter what state we are
:23:59. > :24:05.in. In fact, the less polished the better. This afternoon, we will see
:24:05. > :24:08.the beach events before this messenger comes in with the news.
:24:08. > :24:11.Messenger? For those of you who've never seen Love's Labour's
:24:11. > :24:14.Lost,here's what's happens. Turn the sound down if you don't want to
:24:14. > :24:17.know how it ends. Me and Adam, who plays Costard,
:24:17. > :24:26.have a bit of a set-to. We have a fight that turns into a Morris
:24:26. > :24:28.dance - as all good fights do. I bet you didn't know that happened
:24:28. > :24:33.in Shakespeare, did you? They've got me dancing, fighting with
:24:33. > :24:38.sticks, throwing knives - all sorts of stuff.
:24:38. > :24:41.So where does the messenger fit into all this merriment?
:24:41. > :24:44.There's a famous interruption near the end of the play where the
:24:44. > :24:54.princess gets the news of her dad's death and they all say, "But we're
:24:54. > :24:58.in love with you" And that's the "lost" of the title.
:24:58. > :25:01.Northern Broadsides has worked with many actors over the years. But one
:25:01. > :25:06.in particular launched his career in a very different direction after
:25:06. > :25:09.playing a famous Shakespearean lead. Comedian Lenny Henry surprised
:25:09. > :25:13.everyone back in 2009 when he took the role of Othello for Northern
:25:13. > :25:17.Broadsides. Othello launched my career as a
:25:17. > :25:22.serious actor. It was fantastic because for the first time people
:25:22. > :25:26.saw me in a different light. I love being a comedian because it's my
:25:26. > :25:34.job, but I love movies and drama. I'm always the one crying and
:25:34. > :25:37.saying "I'm really moved." And I wanted a chance to move people.
:25:37. > :25:42.Barrie gave me that chance and I'll always be grateful for that.
:25:42. > :25:45.What was it like to work with Barrie?
:25:46. > :25:48.Barrie is very hands-on. He'll stop you and move your hands and push
:25:48. > :25:58.your bum in. Suddenly you're standing taller and he says, "Stop
:25:58. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:21.crying! Stop shuffling!" He directs It's now the day before opening
:26:21. > :26:25.night in Stoke and everyone's busy getting ready for the dress
:26:25. > :26:28.rehearsal. This is the last chance to put
:26:29. > :26:37.things right. If you haven't learnt it by now, it's your own stupid
:26:37. > :26:40.fault, really. I'm feeling surprisingly calm. For
:26:40. > :26:43.a couple of weeks I've been pretending to be a glamorous
:26:43. > :26:46.princess, but now the hair and make-up team have swooped in and
:26:46. > :26:54.made me into one. There's a general sense of But I
:26:54. > :26:57.want the actors to be comfortable, know what they're doing. And
:26:57. > :27:07.through the next 36 hours you get the inspiration of an audience and
:27:07. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:20.the extra sparkle and twinkle that The moment when everything comes
:27:20. > :27:22.together it's like, "Ahh, it's landed." It's quite delightful when
:27:23. > :27:28.that happens, whether you're doing Othello or whether you're doing
:27:28. > :27:31.this play. The fact that Northern Broadsides
:27:31. > :27:36.allows people from all parts of the country to participate meant that
:27:36. > :27:39.my resistance was broken down. They're part of the landscape now
:27:39. > :27:41.and we're to be thankful to them because they've opened the door to
:27:41. > :27:46.people who don't necessarily speak with a Received Pronunciation
:27:47. > :27:49.accent. And Love's Labours Lost will soon
:27:50. > :27:58.be on tour, returning to perform here in Halifax, its spiritual home,
:27:58. > :28:08.They've come a long way since that first performance of Richard III
:28:08. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:15.back in 1992. It was not all plain sailing. There
:28:15. > :28:18.were problems and cynicism. But the Arts one out in the end, as they
:28:18. > :28:21.should. Our strong arms be our conscience,
:28:21. > :28:31.swords our law! March on, join bravely. Let us to it, Pellmell. If
:28:31. > :28:34.
:28:34. > :28:38.not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell!" If you want to contact us
:28:38. > :28:42.about any of tonight's stories, you can do so through Facebook or
:28:42. > :28:49.Twitter. That is all from Halifax, but make
:28:49. > :28:54.sure you join us for next week's programme.