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Hello and welcome to inside out North West. Tonight, how this region | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
is leading the way in dementia awareness. We have been married | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
nearly 50 years and I have gone back to having another child, really We | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
reveal Les Dawson's secret romantic side to comedian Johnny Vegas. There | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
was so much more to the surface with Wes. And by funeral videos are | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
becoming popular. This is a keepsake and offers a very special B and B do | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
not see a funeral as something that should be forgotten. | :00:47. | :00:58. | |
With the number of people receiving a dementia diagnosis expected to | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
exceed a million in the UK within the next six years there is a drive | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
to improve the quality of life for those with the condition and the | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
people who care for them. Sam Walker's been finding out more about | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
efforts to raise dementia awareness in the Northwest and Salford's bid | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
to become one of the first dementia friendly cities in Britain. Onwards | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
and upwards. No matter what happens. Les and Jenny Turner have been | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
married for 40 years. Jenny was diagnosed with Alzheimer's eight | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
years ago when she was 58. Les is her main carer. He is 70. Les, tell | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
me what you have to do for Jenny. Everything. And when I say | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
everything I mean everything. From bathing to toilet, everything. Any | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
movement about the house you have got to be with her because she can't | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
see things, obstacles, even coming downstairs you have got to put her | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
hands on the bannister and say 'right come downstairs' and it's a | :01:57. | :02:08. | |
slow process. It is as well. Jenny and Les have three grown`up children | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
and five grandchildren, the youngest born just two weeks ago. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Your family is really supportive. You are parents and you have got | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
three children. How has it impacted on family life? It was devastating, | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
wasn't it, because when you got the diagnosis Jenny said ,"Right, we | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
have got to tell the family." So we phoned them up and we arranged to | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
meet up at my daughter's house and we gave them the diagnosis, didn't | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
we? And they cried. When you first got the diagnosis, were you | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
frightened? No. No, you summed this up didn't you? You were glad that | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
there was something you could put a name to, wasn't it? It was a relief | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
that you... Yeah. ...and I think in a way it was a relief to all the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
family to know there was a reason why Jenny was like she is, or like | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
she was. How has it changed your life? Dramatically. But we knew we | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
knew didn't we? Les and Jenny were planning to move | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
out to Cyprus on retirement but had to abandon their dream after the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
diagnosis. As Jenny condition's deteriorated Les has become her | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
full`time carer. Tell me about a thing that so many | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
of us take for granted, going out shopping for example, what's it like | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
going to the shops? Err, very difficult. But when it comes to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
shopping for Jenny and if I need to take Jenny anywhere we always go to | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
Handforth Dean, Marks and Spencers. It's easy parking and not only that | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
if you forget your wheelchair they have always got wheelchairs there | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
and I can take Jenny around Marks and Spencers all day in a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
wheelchair, but if I take her out on her feet, walkin, after two minutes | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
there's too much going on and she wants to get out right away. What | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
about other people's reaction to you and Jen? It varies. I mean we have | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
had one or two episodes. Well as Jen can't handle escalators, you know, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
she can't get the timing right, to stand on it and be carried upstairs. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
So you use the lift, and there's quite a few people and there was a | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
young lad there with his wife and child in a pram and he goes, "You | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
could always use the escalator" I said, 'I am sorry, my wife has got | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Alzheimers and she can't see basically'. "Oh, I didn't know, and | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
I said "No you don't know because it's not imprinted on the forehead | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
"I have Alzheimers or Dementia. So you think that awareness is a | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
problem? It is a problem. When you're out and about what would make | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
your life easier? Oh, it's a very difficult answer, err question to | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
answer that. Living with dementia and knowing dementia like we do you | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
have got to live with it to understand it and strangers, if they | :05:24. | :05:35. | |
have... They don't know do they No if they have never been in contact | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
with anybody with dementia they will never understand it. Ssimple things | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
like taxis. If we order a taxi and it comes and it happens to be a | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
mini`bus that's no good for Jenny because there are steps which are | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
too high and she cannot get in, so you have got to insist on a normal | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
car where you can get Jenny in. It is the little things that most of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
us take for granted like going to the shops or using public transport | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
that can pose such a challenge for people with dementia. So how can | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
their lives be made easier? I've been to find out about efforts being | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
made here in Salford to make it the first dementia friendly city in the | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
UK. We hope that this may change the way that you react to a situation | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
and promote this for other people so we can do our best to make sure we | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
get rid of the negative connotations that we first heard when we heard | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
the word dementia. These taxi drivers are among the first in the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
city to take part in a dementia awareness session. It is all part of | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
an initiative to improve the quality of life for people in Salford with | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
the condition. The Salford Dementia Action Alliance | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
is basically aiming for Salford to become a dementia friendly city and | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
what that means is that the city enable peoples with dementia to feel | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
understood and respected and supported to lead happy and | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
fulfilled. `` happy and fulfilled lathes. So why is it so important? | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
It's important because a recent Alzheimer's Society survey found | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
that one in ten people with dementia go out just once a month, and one in | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
three go out just once a week and the reason being that they lacking | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
the confidence and feel that society doesn't know how to support them and | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
doesn't understand dementia. Loneliness and isolation can be a | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
big problem for people with dementia and their carers as well, which is | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
why projects like these are so important. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
The Open Doors Cafe meets every fortnight and is a chance for people | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
with dementia and their partners or carers to get out and meet others. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Tell me what does this cafe mean to you coming here? Oh I love it. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Absolutely love it. This one and the other one we go to, I know everybody | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
knows exactly what's going on and what it's about. I don't have to | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
explain anything to everybody if Brendan keeps getting up and doing | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
things, nobody has to explain to anybody because we all know we are | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
in the same boat the people here all fabulous, it's just great that you | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
don't have to explain to people why I am here, it's lovely. When was the | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
last time, Joan, that you relaxed? In your life? I don't know. I don't | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
know. I'm sorry I don't know. I just can't, 24`7 I have got to be | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
watching him because I am frightened he'll just go out the door on the | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
road and he doesn't understand anything like that. He would open | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
the door to anybody, so I have to be with him, he puts the kettle on the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
stove and it's an electric kettle, he'd leave the gas on, so you can't | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
relax, even at night when it's bedtime you can't, I've got to make | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
sure he's all right in bed. I just can't relax. So if we could make a | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
dementia friendly society in Salford how would your life change, if | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
people understood your life? Lovely. Lovely, because then everybody would | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
understand how I feel about it. How I have married nearly 50 years and I | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
am back to having another child really, that's it. | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
So, Jenny, you, I understand, used to be a model? Erm... For Marks and | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Spencer? Yep. And you had to go down to London? Yeah. So you love fashion | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
and clothes? Yeah, yes lovely. Tell me about Jenny and you first met her | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
Les? You were stunning. I will never forget the night I met her, you had | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
hot`pants on didn't you? Hot`pants. Very hot. LAUGHTER. I don't have | :09:45. | :09:59. | |
this problem myself. Tell me about your husband, Jenny. He's amazing, | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
he is, yes, yep. What does he do for you? Lots and lots and lot and I | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
just love him, yeah. Coming up, why it is not just the | :10:09. | :10:30. | |
funerals of the rich and famous that are now being filmed. When you see | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
it it is like being there. You get a lump in your throat, that is for | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
sure. Manchester has produced some of the nations favourite comedians | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
in the years, including Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan and Carolina | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Heron. One of the funniest of them all has got to be Les Dawson. He is | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
perhaps best remembered for the mother`in`law jokes and the sissy | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
and either routines. As Chris Hocking has been finding out there | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
was more to Les Dawson and comedy genius. I had a nightmare that I was | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
a sports car. My wife's mother had her foot on my throttle... Les | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Dawson's statue in Lytham St Anne's is a special place for his daughter | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Charlotte. Do you come here to the statute very often Charlotte? Yes I | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
do actually, I know it sounds a bit weird but when I'm upset but when | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
I'm upset or angry I just get in my car, sit there and just try and talk | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
to him and try and make everything better. Unless it's a summer's day, | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
I'll just get on my bike and bike down here and just give him a big | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
hug, a kiss and squeeze his cheeks. Charlotte was only eight months old | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
when Les Dawson died from a heart attack in Manchester on June the | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
10th 1993. He was just 62. She had to grow up without her dad, sharing | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
his memory with his adoring fans but never actually knowing him in | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
person. I remember being sat around the living room with my mum and my | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
family and just watching him on TV and thinking "Oh my God, my dad s on | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
TV." Did it make sense to you? No, not really. It did not make sense. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
As I got older I realised what a genius he was. We got into the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
bedroom and we started to undress. And my mother always said to me | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
whatever you do, when you're with a man, never take everything off. You | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
know, never be, bare. Leave something on as an air of mystery. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
So did you? I left my hat on. Over the years Charlotte has had to piece | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
together her father's story for herself from his TV shows and a | :12:37. | :12:52. | |
cherished home video. Oh, hi, this is for you, Charlotte. By the way, I | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
am your dad. He said "I'm your dad" to the camera. It's weird. Divya, | :13:02. | :13:15. | |
Charlotte. In the room. You read five lb. Six oz. . I've wrote this | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
card is just for you. The home`video Les Dawson made for her is | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Charlotte's most prized possession. But now aged 21 she wants to find | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
out more about the man he was, the story behind his rise to fame and a | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
talent he kept secret. To help Charlotte find out more about her | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
father's past I've brought her to a working men's club in Liverpool to | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
meet comedian Les Dennis. So Charlotte this is the Garston | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Woodcutters Club and it's the kind of club, I started here in the 0s, | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
but it's the kind of club your dad would have worked in the 60s and | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
70s, a real typical working men s club." I can't imagine what it would | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
have been like for you, I would be absolutely terrified if I had to do | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
that now. Well you know you were scared because audiences told you. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
With a singer they'd applaud politely but with a comic if you | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
don't get laughs then you die, you die a death, as we call it. So it | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
was a hard training ground but a very good training ground for comics | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
to move on and to become the likes of your dad to become, the national | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
treasure that he became. I came from a very profoundly. Though the age of | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
15 I thought maybe signed for fertility. What made him different | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
do you think? Well you see what had, he had the common touch. You know he | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
could entertain people in a room like this but he could also | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
entertain royalty. He could entertain. The Queen laughed at Les | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Dawson. That's why the Israel inspiration? ? For me he was | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
somebody who'd cut through from the working men's clubs and moved on. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Somebody like Les made you think it's possible, it's absolutely | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
possible. These days shows like the Voice, X`Factor and Britain's Got | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Talent are a passport to overnight success but those kind of shows | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
haven't always been around. However, there was Opportunity Knocks and | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
that's the TV talent show that gave Les Dawson the big break he'd being | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
searching for. The show turned him into a star overnight, although some | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
critics said his humour was too northern for a national audience. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
But Les proved the doubters wrong. Now in the north of England we have | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
what are called Gurners. Now the only way to illustrate how to pull a | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
face is to paraphrase the old joke. A couple who have got married in a | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
lonely part of Cumbria and said "I love you our Arthur","I really do | :15:46. | :15:58. | |
love you." And he said, "I love you too." But there was more to Les | :15:59. | :16:15. | |
Dawson than comedy genius. Charlotte's made an amazing | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
discovery about her father that he kept secret. It is incredible being | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
surrounded by this, the bike the blank cheque`book and some of these | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
books. But this, this is something very, very special. Yes, this is | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
extremely special. This is a novel, a romantic novel that I found when I | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
was moving house, moving from the house that I lived with my dad in | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Lytham.And he wrote it in a woman's name, Maria Brett Cooper, because he | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
was so scared about coming out as a serious writer, writing a romantic | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
novel, so he wrote it in someone else's name. So he hid behind a | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
pseudonym? So he actually typed this himself I assume? Yeah, he has. It's | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
called An Echo of Shadows. Can you read us a little section from it? It | :17:11. | :17:31. | |
was never published. I was going to finish writing it and hopefully | :17:32. | :17:44. | |
publish it. It's the last work of Les Dawson. His widow Tracy says he | :17:45. | :18:01. | |
was always writing. . He always had a notebook in his pocket, always | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
writing, all the time. If we were like we are here now he would be | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
writing another Cissy and Ada sketch, he was amazing really. And | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
that was his aspiration ultimately wasn't it? Very much so. To be | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
recognised as a writer. And he used to say that, if anything happens I | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
want to be remembered for my writing, because he was so proud of | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
it. He used to go and sit in the library when his books came out in | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Lytham St Anne's Library and just look at the books, and sit there | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
looking and going and saying how proud he was that he achieved that, | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
a Collyhurst lad had done well. I've taken Charlotte to meet her dad s | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
biggest fan, comedian Johnny Vegas. He played the part of Les in a play | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
he wrote about when Dawson took over from Terry Wogan on the quiz show | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Blankety Blank. Johnny you did a massive tribute to my dad when you | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
wrote that Radio 4 play, I thought it was amazing. Oh cheers, it was a | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
massive honour. It was special to me.To play your dad in the radio | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
play, which was a complete, apart from Les' lines and things we knew | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Les had said it was a fictional piece but the joke being that Les | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
got the presenter's job on Blankety Blank by accident. | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
It is a pleasure to be here. In front of a handsome, well`dressed | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
audience. I am always polite as well as tone deaf without trouble. | :19:26. | :19:42. | |
Him getting that job was such a surprise to everybody when you think | :19:43. | :19:54. | |
about the type of show that it was. Terry Wogan was the golden boy and | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
it felt like such a hit to give it to somebody like Les. Please don't | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
fiddle with your controls on the set. Just because Terry Wogan isn't | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
here, doesn't mean your television is broke. I shall do my best to keep | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
this show on a high level like you created. What can I say except. . | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
This is pretty can `` incredible. This is a manuscript that Charlotte | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
and her mum have found very recently. Just before he died, he | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
was going to publish this. That is there to treasure but what is really | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
sad is there was so much more below the surface with a less. How do you | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
feel about the fact that somebody like your dad who is a national | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
treasure, what it is like belonging to other people? Almost like | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
belonging to the public? When people talk to me, they talk as if they | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
know him more than me and I am always going to get that. I have sat | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
there for hours watching him on TV. I have read every book, I have had | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
to get to know him through all this but I am so lucky in a way because | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
he left me such an incredible legacy. But at the end of the day | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
all I want is my dad back. Wave to the camera. You won't remember this, | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
will you? These days most of us have one of | :21:49. | :22:05. | |
these and we are very used to recording video and taking pictures | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
of our everyday lives. We are taking footage of weddings, parties and any | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
pop concert we go to but what about our final journey? It was the | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
American statesman Benjamin Franklin who said, in this world, nothing can | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
be said to be certain except death and taxes. Death will come to us all | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
eventually but what is surprising is the increasing demand for funerals | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
to be captured for posterity. It's much like having a wedding or a | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
christening whereby that's a keepsake of a very special day and | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
they don't see a funeral as being something that should be forgotten. | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
Dennis Harding has been making wedding videos since 1979 but he was | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
surprised to get an enquiry about filming a funeral. Well about 1 | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
months ago we had a call from a photographer who said he'd had an | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
enquiry to take photos for a funeral and would we like to do the video? | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
And I thought Video of a funeral? I thought in for a penny in for a | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
pound, we'll try it. My initial thought was would we get emotionally | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
involved? Would we be sad with the mourners, how would we handle it but | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
when we got there it just didn't happen like that because we didn't | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
know anybody and we didn't get emotionally involved. Yvonne Sims | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
lost her 92`year`old father earlier this year. Her daughters live in | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
America but still wanted to be part of the service so she got Dennis to | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
film it. I don't think it would be for everyone but for me and the | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
girls because they've got televisions and you know the size of | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
American tellies are like and they'll sit and watch it as though | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
they were in the congregation, so they haven't mist it. `` missed it. | :24:02. | :24:14. | |
And the thing is, we can keep it like all the Royal films of all the | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
kings and prime ministers and goodness knows what they've got | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
recordings of. In a way we've got a recording of Dad not to play | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
continually and that sort of thing but the younger grandchildren can | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
probably play it in years to come and say that was my Granddad's | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
funeral. It was very nice and he had got that | :24:32. | :24:51. | |
bit of history. I'm pleased I've had it done now as on the day, close | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
relatives and with the organisation and everything you miss such a lot | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
and it's very emotional. I couldn't look at the curtains going round the | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
coffin but with having the video I can sit back as though I'm sitting | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
at the back of the congregation and I'm looking down at the pastor. I'm | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
hearing the music and I'm actually seeing the curtains going round | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
quite unemotional. Colin Bowes and Ronald Edwards or | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
Eddie had been best mates for more than 60 years when Eddie suddenly | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
died at his home in Australia. He was probably the closest of the old | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
friends that I had and once we heard he'd passed away so quickly my first | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
thoughts were I wonder should I book a flight? Should I go? And then it | :25:43. | :25:55. | |
was a question of I wonder when the funeral's going to be? And then of | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
course I was able to talk to his wife and she was quite dismissive of | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
any thoughts of going out there either me going out or his sisters | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
going out and we're going to do this DVD and we'll send it across. | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
Tenderly and reverently, we commit the body of Mr Ronald Edwards to the | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
elements and gently give his sole... When you see it, it's a bit | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
like being there. You get the lump in the throat, that's for sure. All | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
of a sudden you were there and it was all happening and you were part | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
of it. I treasure it now, I'm not saying it's something you'd want to | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
play every week or so but occasionally and I suppose I should | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
on the anniversary, I'd have another look. Every time I watch it, I see | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
something else or hear something else that I hadn't picked up on It | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
was the final curtain call for their world's most famous pop star. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Televised funerals were once the preserve of royalty and politicians | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
but with the cameras capturing funerals of celebrities like Michael | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Jackson and George Best it was only a matter of time before they caught | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
on among the general public. The opportunity to have the occasion | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
filmed is now becoming a common request to funeral directors. It is | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
increasing and I think over the years it will become even more so | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
and when you think about digital technology on the same day that the | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
funeral takes place we can send a copy of that video to anywhere in | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
the world. A family can actually be part almost of the service and feel | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
comforted and I think people find quite a solace in feeling that they | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
have been a part of it although physically they've not been able to | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
attend. And for Dennis whose job it is to capture the funeral, it's | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
certainly made him think more about his own send off. Having witnessed a | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
few funerals and listened to the sound of music that they have on for | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
my own funeral when it happens, I'd like something a bit more upbeat, a | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
bit more jolly so that everyone could go out with a smile on their | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
face. That's my idea of a funeral. I shall make it quite clear what I | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
need and what I want so everyone would have a jolly laugh and a smile | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
on their face from when they go out and they'd think that's him gone out | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
of the way. That is all from us for this week but you can catch us again | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
on the BBC I player and we are back next Monday at the same time. | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
Goodbye. Next week, why an English man's home is his castle. I am the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
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