:00:08. > :00:13.Tonight, we are on Liverpool's famous waterfront and find it now
:00:13. > :00:17.plans for major developments. Those plans are by one of the north-
:00:17. > :00:22.west's most influential developers. They have developed the Mersey
:00:22. > :00:25.Docks, Salford Quays, the Trafford Centre, the airports centre, they
:00:26. > :00:32.are transformational. But they are also ruthless in the pursuit of
:00:32. > :00:38.their own goals. Also, we investigate the mysterious
:00:38. > :00:42.sightings in Windermere. You can see a dark object. This is four
:00:43. > :00:48.metres in length. The bit which is sticking up, that is estimated at
:00:48. > :00:55.one meeting in height. And at Lenny Henry on finally embracing
:00:55. > :01:05.Shakespeare's. I was scared of it, I thought it was a construct for
:01:05. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:21.Keep your eye on this area over the next 50 years and much of it should
:01:21. > :01:26.changed dramatically. The developer Peel wants to create a development
:01:26. > :01:30.called Liverpool Waters alongside Wirral Waters. Their plans expend -
:01:31. > :01:35.- extend all the weight of the Manchester is ship canal in a
:01:35. > :01:45.scheme called Ocean Gateway. As our political editor reports, some
:01:45. > :01:51.people living near to the projects think that Peel is pushing too hard.
:01:51. > :01:55.From the way we travelled to how we shop, to what we watch, Peel has
:01:55. > :02:01.already shaped the way we live. Now the property company has plans to
:02:01. > :02:05.transform it. Peel are one of the most impressive countries --
:02:05. > :02:09.companies in the property scene in Britain. They have developed the
:02:09. > :02:13.Mersey Docks, everything at Salford Quays, Trafford Centre, the airport
:02:13. > :02:20.centre, they are transformational. They are also extremely ruthless in
:02:20. > :02:26.the pursuit of their own goals. Take Salford Quays. It is now home
:02:26. > :02:34.to the BBC and Media City. Some remember it as a busy docks, part
:02:34. > :02:41.of the Manchester Ship Canal. used to have the Flying Angel.
:02:41. > :02:49.There was summer to get a bed for the night. It was a vibrant place.
:02:49. > :02:55.Dynamic. Cargo from the four corners of the world. There were
:02:55. > :03:02.loads of big families working on the docks. All of this was timber.
:03:02. > :03:07.Ships were lined up. It was busy in the 60s and early 70s by the 1980s,
:03:07. > :03:13.the canal was struggling to cope. It was ideal for the ships of the
:03:13. > :03:19.time, over 100 years ago. But since then, ships have got larger,
:03:19. > :03:24.containers have taken over. The big ships could not get down the canal.
:03:24. > :03:30.They were too wide and too long. After trade dried up, an
:03:30. > :03:34.entrepreneur called John Whittaker seized his opportunity. In 1988, he
:03:34. > :03:39.bought the Manchester Ship Canal, creating an artery through which
:03:39. > :03:43.Peel's future fortunes would flow. But opponents at lunched together
:03:43. > :03:50.afterwards, it was a stormy meeting with accusations of devious contact
:03:50. > :03:53.being levelled in all directions. John Whittaker, a man of few public
:03:53. > :04:00.words, said nothing during the meeting. Afterwards, he dismissed
:04:00. > :04:06.his critics fears. I think there is a certain amount of the old brigade
:04:06. > :04:11.or the old shareholders not accepting defeat like gentlemen.
:04:11. > :04:16.was privileged enough to interview him, one of only two people. He is
:04:16. > :04:19.an absolutely fascinating character, very intense, but also very driven.
:04:19. > :04:23.He is a devout Catholic. He is passionate about the North of
:04:23. > :04:27.England. He could have done what he has done had made more money by
:04:27. > :04:32.doing this in the south of England. He could have sold out at various
:04:32. > :04:36.points. He is absolutely committed. That commitment led to one of the
:04:36. > :04:43.longest planning battles of all time and ultimately the Trafford's
:04:43. > :04:47.shopping centre. Now Peel is planning something bigger. The
:04:47. > :04:49.Ocean Gateway. It is a series of developments starting at the River
:04:49. > :04:54.Mersey and stretching down the Manchester Ship Canal to the centre
:04:54. > :05:01.of Manchester itself. It is hugely ambitious, 50 projects over 50
:05:01. > :05:04.years, costing �50 billion. Transport is key. It involves the
:05:04. > :05:08.modernisation of the docks at Liverpool and Birkenhead,
:05:08. > :05:17.developing ports in Warrington and Salford and the expansion of Barton
:05:17. > :05:22.Aerodrome. Green energy is another priority. He wants a wind farm in
:05:22. > :05:25.bull -- in Frodsham and biomass energy plants. There are also plans
:05:26. > :05:29.for massive regeneration in Liverpool and Wirral. The scale of
:05:29. > :05:39.the development is so vast that there is only one way to see it
:05:39. > :05:48.
:05:49. > :05:55.We are now flying over Birkenhead. This is going to be redeveloped as
:05:55. > :05:58.Wirral Waters. On the other side of the River Mersey, the plan is to
:05:58. > :06:04.develop Liverpool Waters. You can see the huge scale of the project.
:06:04. > :06:08.Remember, this is only the start of the Ocean Gateway. For Birkenhead,
:06:08. > :06:13.it is an opportunity to catch up. Liverpool Waters already has
:06:13. > :06:19.planning permission. As you can see, hearing Birkenhead, we have got
:06:19. > :06:24.fairly desolate at the moment. Anything that happens here will be
:06:24. > :06:27.seen as a bonus. Will it look really different? Yes, it will look
:06:27. > :06:35.radically different. It will probably give people in Liverpool
:06:35. > :06:38.the same sort of pleasant iconic you. -- pleasant iconic view.
:06:38. > :06:42.of the best use is reserved for customers at Woodside Ferry
:06:42. > :06:48.Terminal. The cafe owner is excited at the potential business
:06:48. > :06:51.opportunity. You get on the ferry and look back at Wirral and
:06:51. > :06:56.Birkenhead and the skyline is near enough exactly the same as it was
:06:57. > :07:02.10 years ago. People lacked confidence. They think, there is
:07:02. > :07:09.our big cities. Let us be part of what is going on. The plan is not
:07:09. > :07:13.just to develop Liverpool Waters but also -- Wirral Waters but also
:07:13. > :07:16.live Mark and Patrick. It is also a Unesco World Heritage Site. But
:07:16. > :07:22.does not just cover the famous Three Graces. It stretches all the
:07:22. > :07:26.way up the river. The docks are historic you recognise, even though
:07:26. > :07:29.they are now derelict and redundant. You have got to look to other
:07:29. > :07:32.cities for inspiration, like Amsterdam. They can build
:07:32. > :07:39.sustainable developments in a modern way around the historic
:07:39. > :07:45.waterways. It is a conversation with the locality. Here we seem to
:07:45. > :07:50.have got a set of plans which bills Shanghai on Mersey. The city
:07:50. > :07:54.council says Peel has already compromised enough. Let us not
:07:54. > :07:58.water down the scheme too much. Let us look at what it has to offer
:07:58. > :08:01.because this is about attracting business to the city. It is not
:08:01. > :08:06.just building the infrastructure. It is about making sure we can
:08:06. > :08:14.attract business. We have got to say, look at what is on offer.
:08:14. > :08:20.it came to it, you would rather have the regeneration, the business,
:08:20. > :08:23.Thant the Unesco heritage site badge? If it came to it, I would
:08:23. > :08:32.prefer the regeneration and investment rather than keeping a
:08:32. > :08:37.certificate. We have moved from Liverpool and Birkenhead, the start
:08:37. > :08:42.of the Ocean Gateway project, and we are travelling over the
:08:42. > :08:49.Manchester Ship Canal. This entire area is part of the corridor which
:08:49. > :08:53.was an be regenerated. It goes or the way over to Manchester itself.
:08:53. > :08:59.-- it does all the way over. Communities in the way can feel
:08:59. > :09:02.pushed around. Peel wants to build a biomass energy part in Trafford.
:09:02. > :09:07.Local campaigners fear that although it has been rejected by
:09:07. > :09:13.the council, it is not the end of the matter. Peel will probably
:09:13. > :09:17.appeal. There will be a public inquiry. They are pretty up-to-date
:09:17. > :09:24.with public inquiries. They have got the money to employ barristers
:09:24. > :09:28.and experts. We spoke to one of the directors on our sister programme,
:09:28. > :09:34.Sunday Politics. He accepted that these developments can accept --
:09:34. > :09:38.upset people. We take seriously the consultation and we contact as many
:09:38. > :09:42.people as we can do. It is not always easy for people to
:09:42. > :09:51.understand and accept change when it affects them locally.
:09:51. > :09:55.consult, but do you compromise? do compromise. We absolutely do.
:09:55. > :09:58.Peel has ever lost a planning battle. One council leader who is
:09:58. > :10:02.used to dealing with them supports the Ocean Gateway but says you have
:10:02. > :10:07.got to push them. They make good profit margins on developments and
:10:07. > :10:10.what they try to say is that they cannot afford to put the extra
:10:10. > :10:15.facilities in. That is where the robust discussions take place
:10:15. > :10:18.during the planning progress. Unless they engage with their
:10:18. > :10:23.communities in a way that is more positive than they have done in the
:10:23. > :10:28.past, in the future, they will not get much development. Peel has
:10:28. > :10:34.already left its mark on bits of the region. The only thing my
:10:34. > :10:40.father would recognise anywhere on the docks would be the Swimbridge
:10:40. > :10:46.behind me and the water. Whether he would approve of it, we would never
:10:46. > :10:51.know. I would dearly love to be able to walk him around here.
:10:51. > :10:56.of us will not get to see what Peel has planned either. The Ocean
:10:56. > :11:01.Gateway will not be completed for 50 years. If it succeeds, the
:11:01. > :11:11.region's fortunes will be more closely aligned to Peel's fortunes
:11:11. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:16.Coming up, Shakespeare with a Northern twist.
:11:16. > :11:21.It was a sort of revolutionary things to do in 1992 with a bunch
:11:21. > :11:25.of Northern actors using their Northern cadences.
:11:25. > :11:28.The Lake District has always attracted visitors to see its
:11:28. > :11:33.wildlife and natural beauty but more recently visitors have been
:11:33. > :11:36.drawn to help solve a mystery of the deep. We sent Jacey Normand to
:11:36. > :11:40.investigate. Some people would have you believe
:11:40. > :11:44.that the local waters of Windermere have something lurking in them.
:11:44. > :11:48.Sightings of a creature not dissimilar to the Loch Ness monster
:11:48. > :11:55.have caused a stir in the normally quiet waters of the Lake District.
:11:55. > :12:03.Tom Noblett, a local hotel owner, believes he is not alone in the
:12:03. > :12:13.water. That looks cold down their! Is at
:12:13. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:20.freezing? Very cold. You have been swimming once before, haven't you?
:12:20. > :12:26.One morning, before our Channel Swimming, and we almost had the
:12:26. > :12:36.lake to ourselves, about 5:30am, 6:00am, and we left to swim across
:12:36. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:44.the lake, knowing the leg would be ours. -- the lake. We got to an
:12:44. > :12:54.area here which is called the Deeps. You always get an eerie feeling
:12:54. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:00.when you cross here because the name gives it a mysterious feel.
:13:00. > :13:05.I felt something brushed past me which caused me to stop and in a
:13:05. > :13:09.split second something lifted me up and dropped me down. I turned to
:13:10. > :13:15.Andrew, who was on the swim with me and I asked, what the hell was
:13:15. > :13:20.that? What was it? It felt like a mysterious submarine or something
:13:20. > :13:27.that had gone past underneath. We did not know, we did not know
:13:27. > :13:31.anything about any monsters. This was not the first strange encounter
:13:31. > :13:34.at Windermere. Linden Adams was at the top of Gummer's How when
:13:34. > :13:40.something caught his eye. Fortunately for us, he is a
:13:40. > :13:45.professional photographer. This is pretty much the view.
:13:45. > :13:49.are the pictures he took. What do you think it is? It remains a
:13:49. > :13:54.mystery. I took a series of photographs, eight photographs. It
:13:54. > :14:04.lasted for about 10 minutes. There is a dark object just cutting along
:14:04. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:10.the top of the water. On a block you can see this. -- a blow up. The
:14:10. > :14:17.bit that -- the bit that is sticking up has been estimated at
:14:17. > :14:23.one metre of height. Did you get home that night and tell everybody?
:14:23. > :14:27.Quite the opposite, really. It is quite strange, thinking am I go on
:14:27. > :14:35.to release the images to the general public? It was the last
:14:35. > :14:39.thing on my mind. What did you think you -- they would think?
:14:39. > :14:49.I was crazy. You start questioning what it could be and you Chekhov A-
:14:49. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:58.list in your mind, could it be a dear? -- what it could be and you
:14:58. > :15:04.start to Chekhov. I got on board with Dr Ian Winfield and his team
:15:04. > :15:08.for a scent -- scientific study. The computer does a lot of the work.
:15:08. > :15:15.It is just monitoring the fish populations in the lake, which we
:15:15. > :15:19.have been doing for many, many years. It is fair to say that if
:15:19. > :15:26.there was anything out he would have detected it by now. I think so.
:15:26. > :15:30.We have been doing it every month since 1990 during the day and the
:15:30. > :15:35.night. If anything large and unexplained is here, I think we
:15:35. > :15:39.would have picked it up. A number of people seem to think they have
:15:39. > :15:48.experienced something, so what do you think it is? I don't honestly
:15:48. > :15:58.know. If it is a fish, if it is a metre or so, it would be a large
:15:58. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:07.pike or something. Pike and salmon can really make the lake report. --
:16:07. > :16:13.ripple. Judging absolute size is very difficult. What do you think
:16:13. > :16:18.it is? I think the size of something has been misjudged. There
:16:18. > :16:22.are a lot of otters in the area and a couple of them swimming around on
:16:22. > :16:26.the lake on a calm day can look very big. Windermere does not give
:16:26. > :16:31.up its secrets easily and it is only when you come out here that
:16:31. > :16:37.you can appreciate the tricks the waves and play with light and shade,
:16:37. > :16:43.so is Bownessie and alive and well and looking down their, or is it a
:16:43. > :16:49.case of mistaken identity? -- lurking. Lisa Clarke is an expert
:16:49. > :16:55.in marine zoology. In the UK we get a lot of large fish in our rivers,
:16:55. > :17:00.we get the Atlantic salmon for example. They can grow to one metre
:17:00. > :17:06.in size. The ferox trout are very ferocious, they are very large and
:17:06. > :17:13.can grow up to a metre. Pike can grow up to considerable sizes in
:17:13. > :17:17.terms of freshwater fish and they grow up to one metre. It is quite
:17:17. > :17:24.reclusive, it tends to dwell at the bottom. Going further afield, out
:17:24. > :17:32.to the coastal waters, you have the basking shark, a marine species
:17:32. > :17:37.which can grow to considerable sizes, up to 26 ft and more.
:17:37. > :17:43.have looked at Linden's photographs. What do you think? In my opinion it
:17:43. > :17:47.is an animal. It could be a sturgeon. From not witness accounts
:17:47. > :17:54.I have looked at and descriptions, this could be one of the more
:17:54. > :18:02.likely fish. They are known to grow to a considerable size, in excess
:18:02. > :18:07.of 16 feet in length, and even up to 20. Linden's photographs are
:18:07. > :18:11.quite significant to you, aren't they? Yes, they are the best
:18:11. > :18:18.evidence at the moment of the sightings. There had been no
:18:18. > :18:22.photographs so far but these are quite clear, the clearest to date.
:18:22. > :18:28.It is an animal of some description in my opinion, an animal that was
:18:28. > :18:32.moving against the current of the lake and appears to be a quite
:18:32. > :18:36.considerable size. It needs more investigation and it needs a long-
:18:36. > :18:43.term investigation to give it the best possible chance of discovering
:18:43. > :18:47.what it is. I propose to do much more in-depth studies with a team
:18:47. > :18:52.of other professional researchers and a disciplinary team and we
:18:52. > :18:57.ought to do that over the summer. With Lisa convinced that his
:18:57. > :19:01.photographs are genuine, I went to see Daetech, for -- specialists in
:19:02. > :19:07.forensic visual computing, whose analysis is used by police forces
:19:07. > :19:13.all over the world. Do any of the four pictures make
:19:13. > :19:20.you think they could be something lurking? There is 1, which is this
:19:20. > :19:27.one. We can see quite clearly that something is quite long in length.
:19:27. > :19:36.It looks like ahead here, possibly. We are trying all kinds of four
:19:36. > :19:44.elements of analysis, trying to increase the size. What does it
:19:44. > :19:50.look like to you after doing that? It is certainly an object. We are
:19:50. > :19:54.not sure whether it is an object or an animal. There is certainly
:19:54. > :19:59.something in the water. Like most great mysteries, we found something
:19:59. > :20:03.but the results are inconclusive, which is not bad news for everybody.
:20:03. > :20:08.We asked Cumbria Tourism what they thought it was.
:20:08. > :20:18.There are so many theories. could be a giant pike or slim
:20:18. > :20:22.throwback to the ice age. -- some. Is it your interest in keeping it a
:20:22. > :20:29.mystery? They have done that very well in Scotland and I have kept
:20:29. > :20:37.visitors coming back year after year. -- they have. No sightings so
:20:37. > :20:45.far. I would love to. I will keep my eyes glued. We came looking for
:20:45. > :20:51.it with the family. You are admitting you don't really want to
:20:51. > :20:56.find out in case it is a big eel or pike? Whatever it is, I am sure the
:20:56. > :21:00.mystery will continue. 20 years ago, if you went to see a
:21:00. > :21:04.Shakespeare play, you would expect all the actors to speak in a
:21:04. > :21:09.particular way, but that changed in 1992, winner but -- a theatre
:21:09. > :21:19.company was set up to speak to the Bard's words in a Northern accent.
:21:19. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:26.We went along to meet the man who created Northern broadsides.
:21:26. > :21:30.Barrie Rutter is the creator of the Northern Broadsides Theatre Company.
:21:30. > :21:37.Richard III was the first play to be performed by them and they
:21:37. > :21:47.performed it here, in Hull. Fellow actors thought I was mad. It
:21:47. > :21:57.was a kind of revolutionary thing to do in 1992. Classic plays with a
:21:57. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:01.bunch of Northern actors, using their Northern cadences. A
:22:01. > :22:06.newspaper had printed "An hoss, an hoss, muh - spelt muh - kingdumm
:22:06. > :22:13.for an hoss!" Of course I didn't do the line like that. It was "A horse,
:22:13. > :22:17.boom, boom, a horse, boom, boom, my kingdom for a horse, boom boom!"
:22:17. > :22:22.Northern broadsides has worked with many actors over the years but one
:22:22. > :22:25.in particular lost his career in a very different director despite
:22:25. > :22:29.direction after playing a famous Shakespearean lead.
:22:29. > :22:34.Lenny Henry surprised everybody in 2009 when he took the role of
:22:34. > :22:38.Othello for Northern Broadsides. Othello launched me as a serious
:22:38. > :22:43.actor and it was fantastic. For the first time people saw me in another
:22:43. > :22:49.light. I love being a comedian because it is my job but I love
:22:50. > :22:58.movies and seen drama and I am always crying at the back. I wanted
:22:58. > :23:04.to be in a play where I make people cry and Barrie gave me the chance.
:23:04. > :23:08.What was it like to work with Barry? I had been scared of
:23:08. > :23:14.Shakespeare as something for posh people who wear tights and speak
:23:14. > :23:18.with a lisp. My league! I did not imagine for a second that it was
:23:18. > :23:24.that people like me who talked a bit like this. He said, let's
:23:24. > :23:27.approach it like this, your dad was a foundryman, mine was a trawlerman,
:23:27. > :23:33.let's go to work. The fact that Northern Broadsides allows people
:23:33. > :23:37.from all over the country to participate men's -- meant that my
:23:37. > :23:41.resistance was broken down. They are part of the landscape and we
:23:41. > :23:50.should be thankful to them because they make it welcome to people who
:23:50. > :23:54.don't necessarily speak with a Received pronunciation accent.
:23:54. > :23:58.Northern Broadsides is about to embark on a five-month tour. We
:23:58. > :24:04.caught up with Barrie, in Stoke mack, rehearsing Love's Labour's
:24:04. > :24:09.Lost. It is a real boxer of verbal
:24:09. > :24:13.fireworks. You can't hope to get every single word or witty conceit
:24:13. > :24:18.within it, but it is delightful to play and I am hoping it will be
:24:18. > :24:25.delightful to watch. A Barrie is playing the part of the
:24:25. > :24:31.schoolmaster but he is also directing accompany a 17 actors.
:24:31. > :24:34.I play Don Adriano de Amado. To congratulate the princess in her
:24:34. > :24:39.pavilion in the posteriors of the day which the rude multitude call
:24:39. > :24:42.the afternoon. He is a fantastical Spaniard and a
:24:42. > :24:52.braggart and he is very full of himself that he is possibly not as
:24:52. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :25:00.intelligent as he thinks. I play Costard, the clown.
:25:00. > :25:08.There has been a degree that nobody should mess with women and he is
:25:08. > :25:12.caught in the park with one. I play the Princess. She is a bit
:25:12. > :25:21.bolshie, she is not one of the fainting, falling in love, running
:25:21. > :25:24.after men, she is a real woman with an old head on her shoulders.
:25:24. > :25:33.There is a bit of extra pressure because the rehearsal will be
:25:33. > :25:34.watched by a small audience. We have an open day where we invite
:25:34. > :25:40.friends to come and absurd, no matter what stage we are at. By
:25:40. > :25:44.less polished, the better. This afternoon they will see the big
:25:44. > :25:48.event before the messenger comes in with the news.
:25:48. > :25:54.For those of you who have never seen Love's Labour's Lost, here is
:25:54. > :26:02.what happens. At the end of it, myself and Adam,
:26:02. > :26:10.who plays Costard, have a bit of a fight, which ends up as a Morris
:26:10. > :26:15.dance, as all good fights do! They have me dancing in this,
:26:15. > :26:20.fighting with sticks, throwing knives and all sorts.
:26:20. > :26:23.Where does the messenger fit into this merriment?
:26:23. > :26:27.There is a famous interruption near the end of the play where the
:26:27. > :26:37.Princess gets the news of her dad's death and has to leave and they
:26:37. > :26:43.also, but we are in love with you. That is the last of the title. --
:26:43. > :26:47.the lost. It is the day before opening night
:26:47. > :26:52.in Stoke and everybody is getting ready for the dress rehearsal.
:26:52. > :26:56.This is the last chance to put anything right. If you have not
:26:57. > :27:01.learnt it by now it is your own stupid fault, really. I am feeling
:27:01. > :27:05.surprisingly calm. A couple of weeks ago on was pretending to be a
:27:05. > :27:13.glamourous Princess and now the make-up and hair people are turning
:27:13. > :27:18.me into one. I want actors to be comfortable, know what they are
:27:18. > :27:28.doing, and then through the next 36 hours they will get the inspiration
:27:28. > :27:30.of an audience and the extra sparkle and twinkle that naturally
:27:30. > :27:38.happens. The moment when everything comes
:27:38. > :27:42.together, it is just like, it took -- it has landed. A little pleasure
:27:42. > :27:50.bottom gets pressed. It is quite delightful when that happens,
:27:51. > :27:54.whether you're doing Othello all this bloke.
:27:54. > :27:58.They have come a long way since that first performance of Richard
:27:58. > :28:07.III in 1992. Up at it was not all plain sailing.
:28:07. > :28:10.There were problems and cynicism but we transcended it all.
:28:10. > :28:14."Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law! March on, join
:28:14. > :28:23.bravely. Let us to it pellmell. If not to heaven, then hand in hand to
:28:23. > :28:29.hell!" That is all for this week. If you have missed any of the
:28:29. > :28:37.programme you can watch again on the BBC iPlayer. You can follow us
:28:37. > :28:43.on Twitter. The address is on the screen now. I am back next Monday