30/01/2012 Inside Out North East and Cumbria

Wendy next half hour: as Darlington Football Club battles for survival

we have an account of the last 10 a roller-coaster of days.

These people want their children to be able to follow their team. Last

week, that possibility was gone. The story of a fascination with a

sound which took one man to the ends of the planet.

A beautiful, haunting voice. They live in a world of Sound and

vibration. And learn how to make campsite

cooking a gourmet experience. I want people to experience

something a little bit different. It has been an extraordinary 10

days. Just over one we could call it looks as if Darlington Football

Club had suffered at fatal blow. -- one a week ago. But the fans have

These are men about to pull Darlington Football Club are back

from the brink. �50,000 has purchased a short stay of execution

to prevent oblivion. They carry the hopes of the town, and the future

of its club. When your community needs you, you

have an obligation. We will be rallying the town and

the supporters to get behind the club.

I am proud that the people have a chance to get the team out on the

pitch. A retired businessman and local

shopkeeper are the public face of the Save Darlington rescue team.

They have less than a fortnight, and three games, to keep the club

alive. They need money and public support.

By creating this wonderful moment in history of the club but we have

captured the hearts and minds of the world of sport. So hopes are

high. Once you garner a certain amount of

energy amongst the people, and interested parties, you can appeal

for their support. That energy is very good at the moment.

The club nor all about hard times. They languish in the Conference and

Arc �2 million in the red. Their average crowd is 2000, and a

stadium built for 20,000. The team were taken off the payroll last

week and now they are preparing for a game which would never have

happened when it not for an army of volunteers. -- where it not.

The football club means Lords to the town. It brings in money. At

town like ours should not be without a football team. I would be

heartbroken. It is in my blood. I have been

coming here for 20 years. So I had to come down and help.

Everything from the ticket office to the kitchen is a run by

volunteers. Food is provided free by local farms. And there is a

Dunkirk spirit. As a Winston Churchill said, this

On balance, it is a fantastic result in the circumstances. The

rescue group a gallop alongside local MP, Jenny Chapman, who had a

buyout plan. But money is tight. The idea was to volunteer for

preparing the pitch. For of them did that work. -- Four. He said to

me, this is my last pint of the week, and we are saving petrol

money to get together and Tuesday. These people want their children to

follow the team. Last week, that possibility was gone. They are

concerned about ancestry and heritage. Being able to continue,

the family bloodline, supporting Darlington Football Club.

It could be our last away game but we have until January 31st to keep

fighting. If we go down, we will go down fighting.

It would be my life. I would be heartbroken. I wouldn't follow

football as much. We are showing what the club needs

to us and hoping to pull through. I am getting on a bit now and would

You can touch it if you like. Now you know he is not a Chelsea fan!

We have a strong support. Not just in Darlington but also some

southern fans. Darlington paid my wages before

Fulham picked me up. I cannot thank them enough for that.

250 support does make the long journey home. Another busy day is

in store. a hotel tomorrow to see how things

are moving forward. We think we have a buyer for the

club. We are about to find out. There may be a marriage!

The reason I got in contact last week is the fantastic stadium the

club currently occupy and the prospect of making that stadium

work as an asset. Paul is a multi- millionaire who

offers �300,000 to help keep the club afloat.

making the stadium work as an asset as opposed to a liability as a

challenge I think I have the tools to do. I also have the passion to

make it work. The last thing that supporters want

is to get screwed over. I am not suggesting you would do that, but

it seems to happen a lot. The community and the supporters

together will mean that the failings of the past become a thing

of the past. Everything is confirmed. Let

welcome him aboard. Can I backed this? I need a bit more detail.

That detail includes asking whether debt can be wiped out also -- and

also details of potential rival You are a star! Thank you!

He should be at Hartlepool, but he Football clubs are for life, not

just for business. Three days later and the stay of

execution expires. This could be the club's last game.

We will go out with one last half. Their story is not unique, and

other clubs face similar challenges. But the club has raised a tens of

thousands of pounds. It has reconnected the club with

the community. The change has to be permanent.

They should know by tomorrow if they have pulled off a deal for the

long-term survival of the club. Regardless of the outcome, they can

look back and say, we did that. They are the ones keeping this

football club alive. Hour next film as a real treat for

the years. You might want to switch off everything except the

television and listen carefully. Who would have thought that a

youngster playing around with a tape recorder would become one of

the few people alive to work -- walk on both poles of the planet.

But Chris Watson from Tyneside has done all that just by being a good

You've probably never heard of Chris Watson. But there's every

chance you've heard the world through his ears. More animals and

species inhabit an op treat than any other British treat. It is full

of life and full of sound. It is amazing what I heard. The insect

life inside this oak tree feeding off the wood and Bach. -- bark.

I've been passionate about working West Sound for a long time. There

are lots of devices like this for getting sound on location but what

really interests me is getting microphones into places where we

wouldn't normally put our ears. It is just thunderous. Sounds great.

You really get that sense of power from the ocean. A lot of my work on

Frozen Planet was to investigate the sounds at the North Pole and

South Pole. The sounds of the seals could be heard over 15 miles away.

This beautiful haunting voice which really reflected the reality of

their lives. There is very little visibility below the surface so the

live in a world of Sound and vibration. Chris has been working

alongside David Attenborough for 15 years. This is the most southerly

nesting Penguin of all penguins and like the polar bear up north their

lives are dependent on the sea ice. On arrival in Antarctica, the

Frozen Planet crew attracted a welcoming party. About 200 penguins

came out of the sea and ran across came out of the sea and ran across

to our helicopter and stood in a group, they set up this little

semi-circle and just stood and It's a career you can trace back to

his childhood. I took my little tape-recorder outside and picked

the microphone on the bird table. Using this close perspective you

start to hear the world in a very different way. The best way to do

that is just too close your eyes and listen. And what works in your

back garden in Newcastle works This recording is simply a hugely

scaled up version of the garden experiment. These are Bulger's

predating as zebra carcass in Kenya. Chris was playing with sound in the

heady days of the experimental electronic music scene. He was

founder member of Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire. -- vultures.

worked in the studio creating music and we could and travelled a lot.

It was just great. -- week tour and travelled. The mix of art and sound

still appeals. He was commissioned by the National Gallery to create a

soundtrack to one of its masterpieces to hold visitors

attention. The average time people spend in front of one of those

great paintings is four seconds. I chose a Constable and created the

sound of the view that he had created. BIRD SONG. In the middle

of the 19th century Suffolk was not played by noise pollution as it is

now. You see this village which must have been full of life and

sound. DISTANT CHURCH BELLS. would not only have been able to

see into the distance, he would have heard a sound. I am in

Antarctica. The actual sound or rather silence here is almost below

the threshold of this equipment. do not think there is anywhere else

on Earth as quiet as this and there is certainly no noise pollution

here. It is interesting to think the sounds that they would have

heard in Scott's hut 100 years ago would have been the same. The sound

of silence above ground enables Chris can record the actual noise

of the planet itself. Even the glazier is heaving with life making

its very slow journey. The sound is actually inaudible to the human ear,

just as the movement of the glacier is invisible the eye but speed them

both up and they come alive. No one is prepared for what happens next.

Three or four macro enormous or cannot just surfaced vertically out

of this which was something no bigger than a large garden pond to

be. Towering above us as they took breath. Then they slid below the

surface. Incredibly powerful. Such a moving moment. Frozen planet took

more than two years to film, so the crew inevitably needed lots of

stories to keep each other entertained. Chris has extra

ordinarily discriminating ears. He maintains he can tell the

difference between the sound of waves in the Pacific and waves in

the Atlantic. The fact is that we do not know whether he is talking

or not. -- joking. Like David Attenborough, Chris Watson has been

just about everywhere and is one of the few people ever to have stood

at both poles. I am very lucky to have travelled the world making

sound recordings. But it is a great relief to come home and come to

places like this and just walk and sew up the sounds that are all

around me. -- soak up. And if you want to immerse yourself in more or

Chris Watson pause macro bogof sound, head to my blog. In cash

strapped times you might be thinking of ditching the two weeks

in the sun at a plush hotel for a more frugal camping trip here in

the UK. But does sleeping under canvas in, say, the Yorkshire Dales

mean you can't still eat as though you're dining at the Ritz? We've

come to the campsite at Hook House Farm in Robin Hood's Bay, near

Whitby. I do quite a bit of camping, and why not, it's cheap, you're

closer to nature and it brings you to places like this. But

traditional camping food has always been bangers and beans from tens. I

have been eating that from years and I am fed up with it. Josh

spends as many weekends under canvas as possible and believes

that with just a little planning and organisation, gourmet food is

within easy reach. Over the next couple of days we're going to put

that theory to the test. I am trying to encourage people to try

things a little bit different. Some are simple salads, others more

complicated like a paella. Whitby prawns. What are you having? Simple

enough for now but tomorrow we will set him a challenge that will test

in to the limit. Camping is now very common but de cuisine has been

left behind. It is a blustery but bright day at Robin Hood's Bay.

After a breakfast of scrambled egg and smoked salmon it is time to get

down to business. Today they will put his theory to the test, we will

send him out to find some local ingredients and then knock up a

feast that is fit for a king. We have given him a limited budget and

stipulated everything must be bought within five miles of the

campsite. Are you happy with what you're doing? Very much so. Lunch

at 3 o'clock then? We have got lobster on the menu for tonight. We

are looking for a chap on the boat with fresh lobster caught overnight.

Morning, Sir. I am looking for a nice sized lobster being in mind

the pot I have got. That one is a contender. We have got a couple of

lobsters. We will pick these up with a little bit of linguini and

some tomato sauce. We will cover them in a damp cloth to keep them

comfortable for a couple of hours. We will griddle some can check up

on a skewer and griddle it over a hot flame for a few minutes. We are

going to a great little fish shop here. It has got an amazing window

display. Looked at the size of that, you would not want to get your leg

stuck India! I will have half-a- dozen scallops please. Meanwhile,

back at the campsite I am organising a little surprise for

Josh. I have decided to bring in a judge who is a little bit

discerning. Hello, I am the National seafood chef of the year.

I think food should be fresh, locally sourced and not messed

around with too much. I will be harsh but fair. Back at the

campsite Josh has started cooking but the weather has taken a turn

for the worse. It looks like the weather's going to let the heavens

open on us. These two lobsters, beautiful chaps, are going to feed

three of us. I would just like to say thanks to the lobsters for

giving up their lives and now I have to dispatch them. Then the

weather went from bad to ridiculous. Is that normal? No, that is not

normal! The wind is knocking the tent absolutely flat. Take a look

over there. You might be able to see a huge bank of rain. That is

coming straight for us. Will you be able to carry on cooking? I will

move inside the tent. That will stop the flames blowing out. Josh

only has 30 minutes until our judge is due to arrive. It is a case of

keep calm and carry on. That looks delicious. That is literally just

onions, garlic and tomatoes. These are just boiled in sea water for 15

minutes. At the o'clock our guest arrives at the campsite. Despite

the appalling conditions earlier, Josh is a ready to serve up.

have a starter of scallops wrapped in an check-up and a little

linguini, lobster in tomato sauce. I hope you enjoy it. Cooked to

perfection. Lovely. I'll try the lobster. I can still taste the

lobster it through the sauce. There is some real nice zingy lemon going

on there as well. A simple dish but absolutely Fabulous. If I was out

camping and I got serve his I would be over the moon. These are

restaurant quality dishes. Absolute genius. How do you feel, you have

been given the thumbs-up. Brilliant. I can't believe it. He said there

is a nice little lemon taste in here and I said yes, it was just a

little zest. It is just simple things. I feel like going for a

dance! The best news is there are only three hours until dinner! You

can keep up-to-date with the programme on my blog. That is of