0:00:01 > 0:00:03Hello and welcome to Inside Out North West
0:00:03 > 0:00:07with me Dianne Oxberry.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09Tonight: Could the emergency services have acted faster
0:00:09 > 0:00:13on the night of the Manchester Arena bomb?
0:00:13 > 0:00:14I just kept shouting "We need paramedics!
0:00:14 > 0:00:16We need paramedics now!"
0:00:16 > 0:00:21How life after top level sport can be traumatic.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23When you are part of the team.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25It's absolutely brilliant and that got pulled away from me and it
0:00:25 > 0:00:27had a massive impact on my mental health.
0:00:27 > 0:00:35And why Liverpool is the star of a new Hollywood movie.
0:00:35 > 0:00:41Are just want to go back to Liverpool. Say it again, Peter.
0:00:41 > 0:00:47Liverpool.Oh! Wow!
0:00:50 > 0:00:54In May a suicide bomber killed 22 people at Manchester Arena.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Hundreds more were injured.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Inside Out has learned that some of the most seriously wounded
0:01:00 > 0:01:02victims had to wait for over an hour before receiving expert
0:01:02 > 0:01:04medical treatment.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Colin Paterson, who was one of the first reporters on the scene,
0:01:07 > 0:01:17also investigates why firefighters were held back for nearly two hours.
0:01:20 > 0:01:25On May 22nd, Salman Abedi made his way to the Manchester Arena.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28He waited in the foyer of the Arena for the Ariana Grande
0:01:28 > 0:01:29concert to finish.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31As fans started streaming out, Abedi detonated a suicide device.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33There was rubble, dust, smoke everywhere and then
0:01:33 > 0:01:36there was just screaming.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38There was rubble, dust, smoke everywhere and then
0:01:38 > 0:01:40there was just screaming.
0:01:40 > 0:01:47There was just too much for just three paramedics to deal with.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50That night, emergency services treated hundreds of people,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53many of whom had suffered life changing injuries.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56But we have learned that some of the most seriously wounded had
0:01:56 > 0:02:01to wait for more than an hour for expert medical treatment.
0:02:01 > 0:02:0412 months before the bomb, a training exercise was staged
0:02:04 > 0:02:13at the Trafford Centre, on the outskirts of Manchester.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Authorities were pleased with how it had gone.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17We are delighted.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19The aim of the exercise was to really stress test
0:02:19 > 0:02:23all of the organisations that would respond to a terror attack.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27But what happened on May 22nd when a real terror attack took place?
0:02:27 > 0:02:33Abedi triggered his bomb at 10.31 pm.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37I was here in Manchester that night.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39In the immediate aftermath, I was here for BBC Five Live,
0:02:39 > 0:02:48trying to piece together what had happened.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53Everybody started running as fast as we could.The building shook. Bodies
0:02:53 > 0:02:56everywhere.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01How long were you there for?
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Probably an hour.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05So on the night, people were telling me, that some
0:03:05 > 0:03:07of the injured were waiting an hour for treatment.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Shortly after 11 o'clock, most walking wounded had been
0:03:10 > 0:03:20evacuated from the Arena foyer, here to Victoria Station approach.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Ambulance crews from across England treated the injured who'd been able
0:03:23 > 0:03:25to escape the scene.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29But for those in the foyer, expert help was still very limited.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Before the police cordon was made secure, only one
0:03:31 > 0:03:36North West Ambulance service paramedic made it into the foyer.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Over the next hour, two more paramedics were able to join him.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42But eye witnesses we've talked to say that far more help
0:03:42 > 0:03:44was desperately needed.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Kim and Phil Dick from Bradford were in the foyer to collect
0:03:47 > 0:03:53their daughter and granddaughter.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Seconds after the explosion a victim with serious injuries
0:03:55 > 0:04:00collapsed in front of Kim.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02She could hardly walk, she was stumbling, bleeding
0:04:02 > 0:04:05from her arm, and her mouth and her leg.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08And all her hair was burnt and I just grabbed her,
0:04:08 > 0:04:10because I thought she was going to fall.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11How long was this over?
0:04:11 > 0:04:14It's over an hour, just over an hour.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17And I just kept saying you've been really brave but we could hear
0:04:17 > 0:04:18the ambulances all the time.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20As time passed, concern grew about the lack
0:04:20 > 0:04:27of paramedics in the foyer.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30The armed police came running in, normal police, armed
0:04:30 > 0:04:31police and you know, I just kept shouting
0:04:31 > 0:04:32"We need paramedics!
0:04:32 > 0:04:33We need paramedics now!"
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And they just said, "We're just making sure
0:04:35 > 0:04:37there are no more bombs".
0:04:37 > 0:04:39An hour after the explosion, the wounded in the foyer
0:04:39 > 0:04:41were still only receiving basic first aid, rather than
0:04:41 > 0:04:46expert paramedic help.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49The longer it went on the more silent it became and it was,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52it was really eerie and people who I had seen a little
0:04:52 > 0:04:59earlier, who were severely injured, were now dead.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03They made a decision at some point, about an hour and ten minutes
0:05:03 > 0:05:05after the explosion, I think, that the medical staff
0:05:05 > 0:05:07weren't coming up to foyer but were going to evacuate
0:05:07 > 0:05:12all the casualties.
0:05:12 > 0:05:19The girl they looked after did survive.
0:05:19 > 0:05:26Security fears may explain why only three paramedics could enter
0:05:26 > 0:05:28the so-called "hot zone" where the bomb had gone off.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31But it's harder to understand the delay in the arrival
0:05:31 > 0:05:32of Fire and Rescue staff.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Commanders on the night held fire and rescue staff back
0:05:34 > 0:05:37at their stations until 12.18am.
0:05:37 > 0:05:43Fully one hour and 47 minutes after the blast.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46The fire service made a decision to go to a RV point
0:05:46 > 0:05:49which is what is normal practice as did the ambulance service.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52The ambulance service were called forward and at this stage I am
0:05:52 > 0:05:55unsure as to why the fire service were delayed so long.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service's has
0:05:56 > 0:05:59a Technical Response Unit These are people trained specifically
0:05:59 > 0:06:03to deal with terrorist situations.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07That Unit took part in the Trafford Centre exercise last year.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10It's still uncertain who on the night made the decision
0:06:10 > 0:06:16not to deploy that unit.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Save the UK Fire Service is the leading firefighters' online forum.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23On the evening of the bomb, Greater Manchester firemen
0:06:23 > 0:06:33vented their frustration on the pages of the site.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37They were frustrated that they were not being sent to the arena.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40I've been a firefighter in Manchester for nearly ten years.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43And I've never ever felt so much guilt in all my life.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45We were only half a mile away from helping.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Half a mile away from potentially saving lives.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49And that will always stick with me forever.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51A paramedic lady came to us, pleading with us to help.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56because they needed it.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59This firefighter, who is not based in Manchester, runs the site.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02If the firemen had been deployed, how much use could they have been?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Well every fire engine carries immediate emergency care medical
0:07:04 > 0:07:08packs and every firefighter is trained in the use of those.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10We're not a replacement for the ambulance service,
0:07:10 > 0:07:15but certainly we can relieve the pressure on an ambulance crew.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Those trapped in the foyer that night remain very grateful that
0:07:18 > 0:07:21so many people were willing to put their own lives at risk
0:07:21 > 0:07:24to help save lives of others.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26But almost six months on, some remain concerned that emergency
0:07:26 > 0:07:30medical help was so slow to arrive.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33They want to minimise the risk to as many people as possible,
0:07:33 > 0:07:34I perfectly understand that.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36But they deployed tens if not hundreds of police officers
0:07:36 > 0:07:40into that foyer and into the arena and if some of those had been
0:07:40 > 0:07:42medically trained, then, you can't say for certain,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44but some people's injuries could have been dealt
0:07:44 > 0:07:46with quicker and perhaps, just perhaps, some lives
0:07:46 > 0:07:56could have been saved.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59You've got this golden hour.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00In that hour they need to be treated...
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Immediate care needs to be given.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03That improves peoples' chances of survival.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06But one man who collected his son from the Arena, believes
0:08:06 > 0:08:15the authorities did the absolute best that they could.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17You'd like every single medic every doctor that was in Manchester should
0:08:17 > 0:08:20have been there and they would have liked to have been there.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23And everybody would have been in there helping everybody
0:08:23 > 0:08:24and nobody would have died.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28But it couldn't happen.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham has now set up
0:08:30 > 0:08:33an Independent Review under Lord Kerslake to learn lessons
0:08:33 > 0:08:35from the events in May.
0:08:35 > 0:08:40It's due to report next year.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43There was a feeling at the time that the wrong call
0:08:43 > 0:08:45was made in those moments.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Now it seems to me that there is some substance to that
0:08:48 > 0:08:52and it was one of the reasons why the independent review was set up.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57But it's not about feelings is it?
0:08:57 > 0:09:02That's the point, isn't it?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05It's about "what is the evidence?"
0:09:05 > 0:09:06It's about "what is the evidence?"
0:09:06 > 0:09:08and that evidence is being looked at by the review.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Those in charge of the emergency services after Abedi's bomb in May
0:09:11 > 0:09:12faced a horrific dilemma.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Save lives by deploying as quickly as possible
0:09:14 > 0:09:17but while there was still the risk of a second explosion.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Or wait until the scene could be declared safe,
0:09:19 > 0:09:22but accept that this would delay urgent treatment to the bomb
0:09:22 > 0:09:24victims as a result.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26We contacted all the emergency services and they gave us
0:09:26 > 0:09:30these written responses.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33North West Ambulance Service told us, its staff are fully insured to
0:09:33 > 0:09:35attend terrorist related incidents.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue said it has
0:09:37 > 0:09:39conducted its own debrief of the organisation's response
0:09:39 > 0:09:41to the Manchester Arena Attack and is cooperating fully
0:09:41 > 0:09:48with the Kerslake Review.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Greater Manchester Police told us that they contacted
0:09:50 > 0:09:52the North West Ambulance Service within three minutes of the incident
0:09:52 > 0:09:58being declared and they followed their major incident plan.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00None of these organisations wanted to appear in this
0:10:00 > 0:10:11film while the Kerslake review is ongoing.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13The life of a professional sportsman - or woman -
0:10:13 > 0:10:15can be incredibly glamorous: the fame, the financial
0:10:15 > 0:10:19rewards, the adulation.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23But what happens to all that when they've stopped competing?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Our reporter is former athlete Diane Modahl.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Or, as she was known when she was winning gold
0:10:27 > 0:10:31in the Commonwealth Games, Diane Edwards.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36Commentator: Diane Edwards, in Lane 3...
0:10:41 > 0:10:45Those were the days.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46I've always thought that a sporting career
0:10:46 > 0:10:53is like running a long distance race.
0:10:53 > 0:11:01Running wide of the Australians. They come up now. Is it fast enough?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Occasionally there will be barriers along the way ? there may
0:11:03 > 0:11:06be falls but there'll also be fantastic highs.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10The Australians are recovering now. They are into the wind...
0:11:10 > 0:11:13So what actually happens when you reach the finishing line ?
0:11:13 > 0:11:20sometimes I think that can be the hardest part of all.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Danny Sculthorpe was a successful prop forward
0:11:22 > 0:11:25with Wigan and England ? for him rugby league was everything ?
0:11:25 > 0:11:33especially when it was a big game.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36The hairs on the back of your neck are on end.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37The adrenaline that's going through your body
0:11:37 > 0:11:38is absolutely unbelievable.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41I can't explain how good it was.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43It was brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46But towards the end of his career Danny had serious injury problems
0:11:46 > 0:11:49and when his final club, Bradford Bulls tore up his contract
0:11:49 > 0:11:55in 2010, he was devastated.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56He was just 31.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57I lost my job.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59I lost my career.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I lost our family house and I had two young kids
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and a wife that I couldn't support.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08And that's when the depression started.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11I know for a long, long time I did what most men do when they struggle
0:12:11 > 0:12:13with mental health issues.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17I kept it to myself - I thought I will deal with it.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21I'm supposed to be this 6 feet 4, 17 and a half stone rugby league
0:12:21 > 0:12:23prop forward and I can't tell someone I am struggling
0:12:23 > 0:12:24with mental health issues.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26I found myself in the middle of Wigan
0:12:26 > 0:12:30in my car with a bottle of gin and a box full of pills that
0:12:30 > 0:12:34would have killed half of the town and I was going to take my own life
0:12:34 > 0:12:35- now for some reason I didn't.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39I was just lucky that you know I decided not to do it on that
0:12:39 > 0:12:40time, that occasion.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43I remember coming home and that's the day after that when my mum
0:12:43 > 0:12:47and dad and my wife sat me down and you know call me out on it
0:12:47 > 0:12:49and changed my life, saved my life.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Danny's experience is actually not that unusual in the world
0:12:51 > 0:12:53of professional sport, as neurologist and former footballer
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Tony Faulkner told me.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57If they haven't developed options and opportunities to transition
0:12:57 > 0:12:59into a further a career, then their brain can
0:12:59 > 0:13:02go into a threat state and their thought process can
0:13:02 > 0:13:05become more negative, can become more irrational and more
0:13:05 > 0:13:10impulsive and that can lead to many issues including
0:13:10 > 0:13:12clinical depression, we are aware of certain athletes
0:13:12 > 0:13:14who have taken their life because of their loss of identity
0:13:14 > 0:13:23that retirement brings.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26And
0:13:31 > 0:13:34As an amateur boxer, Natasha Jonas won a stack of titles,
0:13:34 > 0:13:36including European Championship Gold and World Championship Bronze.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38She made history at London 2012 when she became the first British
0:13:38 > 0:13:42woman to box in the Olympics.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Boxing is just a skill but you learn so much more.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48And you learn a lot of life skills being in the gym.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50There was loads of little milestones.
0:13:50 > 0:13:58Obviously, the Olympics was by far my greatest boxing achievement.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01But then a foot injury led to defeat in the Commonwealth games,
0:14:01 > 0:14:04and failure to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09Natasha made the decision to retire.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Can I do it for another four years?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14And I came to the conclusion that I couldn't.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17My time was done.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19I don't think I could've been that athlete again
0:14:19 > 0:14:22so I thought, now's the time.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Natasha started to prepare for life outside the ring.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29She found work with sports organisations and broadcasters.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31And there was another compelling reason for Natasha
0:14:31 > 0:14:35to re-appraise her future plans.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39She was pregnant with her daughter, Meela.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I had a whole new world and I kept myself busy with the baby
0:14:42 > 0:14:49kept myself busy with new companies, busy with work.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52For the first year of her life you're trying to get her
0:14:52 > 0:14:55into a routine just generally so my mind was off what I needed
0:14:55 > 0:14:59to do cos it was so focussed on her.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Despite the perception that she had it all, the pull
0:15:01 > 0:15:05of boxing proved too powerful.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07When I left boxing I realised that that routine
0:15:07 > 0:15:08was the thing I missed.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10The thing that I said I hated,
0:15:10 > 0:15:13I actually missed the most.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15I'd left boxing on a bit of a low.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I hadn't gone to Rio, I'd got beaten in the Commonwealth
0:15:18 > 0:15:22games and I should've won a medal.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27So my drive was that I had unfinished business with it.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30And once I'd got over the physical stuff I thought,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33no, I've still got it.
0:15:33 > 0:15:40And so earlier this year she turned professional.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Working with Manchester trainer Joe Gallagher, she's already
0:15:42 > 0:15:47won her first three fights.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48Ben Burgess is known to these schoolchildren
0:15:48 > 0:15:53at Hawes Side Academy in Blackpool as their favourite teacher.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54If the
0:15:54 > 0:16:00But to thousands of football fans he's remembered as a striker
0:16:00 > 0:16:03at nearby Bloomfield Road.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06His 14-year career took him to no fewer than ten clubs ?
0:16:06 > 0:16:13including Blackburn, Oldham and Stockport.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17But after years of wear and tear ? and 21 operations on his knees,
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Ben realised in 2012 that he wouldn't be able to fulfil
0:16:19 > 0:16:23a new contract he'd just signed with Tranmere.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27When your body can't do what your mind wants it to do it's
0:16:27 > 0:16:30the most frustrating thing in the world.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33We just wrote the two years of my contract off and that was it
0:16:33 > 0:16:36we just sort of parted.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39And I was pretty emotional at the time, it was a lot to take
0:16:39 > 0:16:43in and as I was driving home from Liverpool I had to stop the car
0:16:43 > 0:16:45and gather my thoughts.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47The key factor which helped with Ben's transition
0:16:47 > 0:16:50into the real world was that - unlike most athletes -
0:16:50 > 0:16:52he'd planned ahead.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55I always had in the back of my mind that I was
0:16:55 > 0:16:56going to need something.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00I managed to get a journalism degree.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03And was doing a bit of freelancing while I was still playing.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07As I knew my career was coming to an end it was "what can I do
0:17:07 > 0:17:08with my qualifications?"
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Someone mentioned if you've got a degree
0:17:10 > 0:17:14you can do a PGCE and become a qualified primary school teacher.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16You could say that Ben's transition from footballer to school
0:17:16 > 0:17:21teacher is a lesson for all.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Whilst they are competing, it's important
0:17:22 > 0:17:26for them to have other interests outside that sport.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31That allows them to switch off ? it's cathartic.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34What it also gives them is an insight into another world,
0:17:34 > 0:17:37another interest which can then lead into their transition when they come
0:17:37 > 0:17:42to the end of their career.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Danny Sculthorpe's in a good place now.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48His failed suicide attempt proved to be a turning point.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49My family mean everything to me.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Absolutely everything.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I could have done something stupid that day, and spoilt it -
0:17:54 > 0:17:57could have ruined their lives.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00So to see them growing up, healthy, just means the world to me.
0:18:00 > 0:18:10I absolutely love them to bits.
0:18:12 > 0:18:22He's now working with State of Mind ? a mental health charity.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24We have spoke to 27,000 people over the last 6 years.
0:18:24 > 0:18:2728 people have told us that because of one of our sessions
0:18:27 > 0:18:30they have changed their mind about taking their own life
0:18:30 > 0:18:32which is absolutely unbelievable.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Family life is at the centre of Natasha Jonas' world too ?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37and she's a winner once again.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40But she knows the day will come when retirement beckons once more.
0:18:40 > 0:18:49It is scary ? but I can't walk away from boxing.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54I don't think I'll 100% ever leave - I'll always have
0:18:54 > 0:18:55something to do with it.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Children are at the heart of Ben Burgess's daily life too.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Football's in the past ? he's concentrating on developing
0:19:00 > 0:19:01the citizens of the future.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I don't want the children to see that you're either
0:19:03 > 0:19:06clever or you're not, or you're talented or you're not.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10They've got to see how hard you work.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12It's clear that some athletes handle the move
0:19:12 > 0:19:17into retirement better than others.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20But for me, there is a duty of care for everybody involved in running
0:19:20 > 0:19:23sport to ensure that our athletes can make that transition
0:19:23 > 0:19:30as easily as possible.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34There's a bit of an Oscar buzz about a new movie called
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool which is out later this
0:19:37 > 0:19:39month and stars Annette Benning and Jamie Bell.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42It tells the remarkable true story of a man -
0:19:42 > 0:19:44whose life was turned upside down when he met and fell
0:19:44 > 0:19:48in love with a Hollywood superstar back in the 1970s.
0:19:48 > 0:19:57I've been to meet him.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00and drink, you can hustle with me, I need a banana for my dance class.
0:20:03 > 0:20:11If you fix me a drink I will come in and fix your bathroom.It is a
0:20:11 > 0:20:15classic man meets woman love story. She was a former Hollywood screen
0:20:15 > 0:20:21goddess and he was a local Liverpool lad. Far-fetched? Maybe, but this is
0:20:21 > 0:20:26a true story. It begins and the like 1970s.Gloria came to do a play in
0:20:26 > 0:20:31London. She came to rent this ground floor apartment in this house and I
0:20:31 > 0:20:35was at the top of the house.Where you are aware of who she was
0:20:35 > 0:20:46immediately?No. I knew... Gloria Grahame, I just didn't really know.
0:20:46 > 0:20:52I hadn't seen any of her films.What the young Peter Turner hadn't
0:20:52 > 0:20:56realised was that 20 years earlier Gloria Grahame was at the top of the
0:20:56 > 0:21:02Hollywood tree. She had starred in classics like It's A Wonderful Life,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Oklahoma, and played a femme fatale to Leeds like Humphrey Bogart and
0:21:05 > 0:21:13Lee Marvin. By the time she met Peter she was on a Saturday night TV
0:21:13 > 0:21:17show. She admitted she has been cast against type in one of her most
0:21:17 > 0:21:21famous roles. # I'm just a girl who can't say no,
0:21:21 > 0:21:27I'm in a terrible fix #. He asked if I could sing, I said no,
0:21:27 > 0:21:32he said of course you sing, I said I don't. He said, you sing in the
0:21:32 > 0:21:37shower? I said no, I couldn't carry a note in a bucket.We just
0:21:37 > 0:21:41connected. There was a big age difference in the relationship. At
0:21:41 > 0:21:45that time it was controversial. She didn't play the film star, movie
0:21:45 > 0:21:50star, Schuster travel around the bus, the Tube, weight in queues, or
0:21:50 > 0:22:00things like that. -- she used to travel around on the bus, the Tube,
0:22:00 > 0:22:03wait in queues.The final dramatic scenes would be played out in
0:22:03 > 0:22:09Liverpool. Gloria would spend her last days here, and Peter's family
0:22:09 > 0:22:12home near Sefton Park. It all followed a phone call from the Dukes
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Theatre in Lancaster. That phone call that came to this house, what
0:22:16 > 0:22:26did it say to you?What does it say? It was very brief. I was told she
0:22:26 > 0:22:36was very ill. I said how ill? They said very, and could I come
0:22:36 > 0:22:39immediately. She came to Liverpool when the chips were down. A place
0:22:39 > 0:22:47where she felt safe. She wanted to get better. It was futile. I think
0:22:47 > 0:22:51that really now she knew she was going to die. She knew she had left
0:22:51 > 0:22:57it late.Peter eventually wrote a moving account of the difficult days
0:22:57 > 0:23:02that followed, and the two fabulous years which preceded them. The book
0:23:02 > 0:23:06was published in 1986 and now it has been turned into a book starring --
0:23:06 > 0:23:14film starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell as Peter.We expected the
0:23:14 > 0:23:19Gloria Grahame from Birkenhead, not the one from the picture Palace, we
0:23:19 > 0:23:22never expected that one in our kitchen making a bacon sandwich
0:23:22 > 0:23:28asking for tomato sauce. CHUCKLES
0:23:28 > 0:23:33Mattress from Manchester, his many successes include the film Control,
0:23:33 > 0:23:39about Ian Curtis from Joy Division. He's very much at home with great
0:23:39 > 0:23:47Northern stories. -- Matt is from Manchester.I immediately felt
0:23:47 > 0:23:51warmth toward it. Especially his family, Bella, Joan, and that
0:23:51 > 0:23:56Northern set up, kind and loving and as soon as you have got that you
0:23:56 > 0:24:01have got more of Peter. I think this book was him letting a lot of stuff
0:24:01 > 0:24:05out. Therefore it was easy for me to get to the truth of what his
0:24:05 > 0:24:12character was.Once he had seen the script and read Peter's book, Jamie
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Bell was determined to get to know the real Peter Turner.It is the
0:24:15 > 0:24:22relationship that has meant the most him. It has affected him the most. I
0:24:22 > 0:24:26would spend many hours with him just sitting down, probably asking him
0:24:26 > 0:24:31the pointless questions, but to me they're meant everything. As he
0:24:31 > 0:24:34would recount these tales, you can see is reliving every moment.Has
0:24:34 > 0:24:42anyone ever told you you look like Lauren Bacall when you smile?Yes,
0:24:42 > 0:24:48Humphrey Bogart, I didn't like it then, either.This is it. This is
0:24:48 > 0:24:54the backstage at the Playhouse, fantastic, isn't it?When Gloria was
0:24:54 > 0:24:59seriously ill at his family home, Peter was appearing in a play at the
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Playhouse. The theatre is the location of one of the most moving
0:25:02 > 0:25:07scenes in the film and Peter has a small cameo.It was so strange, you
0:25:07 > 0:25:18know? Surreal today on a stage with Jamie.Being you.Being me. Playing
0:25:18 > 0:25:28that part. And with a -- and with Annette playing Gloria, it was like
0:25:28 > 0:25:35a kind of Time Capsule, really. Where am I? What's going on? Life is
0:25:35 > 0:25:42full of surprises.Another star of the film is Liverpool itself.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47Huskisson Street doubles up as a road in London. And the famous
0:25:47 > 0:25:51Philharmonic pub does a turn as a London bar. The Turner family home
0:25:51 > 0:25:53has moved to a terrorist
0:25:57 > 0:26:03-- the Turner family home has moved to a terraced stomach Street.They
0:26:03 > 0:26:14said would I to be able to lend my home to them? I said yes. They made
0:26:14 > 0:26:20it a lot more old-fashioned.They repainted?They repainted my door.
0:26:20 > 0:26:27How did you feel about it?It was OK, because they put it back again.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32Annette Bening films in the bedroom. And Jamie Bell needed a favour.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36There was a scene over the road where they had rain coming down.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40They had to come and get dried. He put all of his clothes in the tumble
0:26:40 > 0:26:46dryer.You've had Annette Bening in the bedroom and you have had Jamie
0:26:46 > 0:26:51Bell's clothes in your tumble dryer? Yes, it was lovely.We would
0:26:51 > 0:26:54basically take over streets, people's houses.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57CHUCKLES Playing football with the kids in
0:26:57 > 0:27:03the streets. Just lovely, lovely people. Very lucky to be able to get
0:27:03 > 0:27:08to shoot there.Then there was the crucial job of being able to do
0:27:08 > 0:27:13Liverpool accent.It's tricky accent. It's a melodic, sing song,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15very specific sound, there is a certain personality that goes with
0:27:15 > 0:27:25that. It was a bit of a test, yes, kind of tricky.31 years after
0:27:25 > 0:27:30writing his book, and 36 years after he'd last seen Gloria, Peter Turner
0:27:30 > 0:27:33finally got to see the film. He watched it at a private screening
0:27:33 > 0:27:39with the producer.At the end of the screening, Barbara had to be. I said
0:27:39 > 0:27:46I just wanted to sit by myself. Barbara left her seat. She gave me a
0:27:46 > 0:27:52big cuddle because I was in bits. Such a significant part of your
0:27:52 > 0:28:00life, isn't it?Yes. It will always be defining. The whole period, the
0:28:00 > 0:28:05whole relationship, you know, kind of, it has given me so much. To find
0:28:05 > 0:28:18who I am.The film is a heartfelt tribute to Peter Turner's love
0:28:18 > 0:28:22affair with a remarkable woman. A relationship which took a young man
0:28:22 > 0:28:27on a journey which changed his life.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30And the film is released on the 17th of November!
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Inside Out is back in the New Year ? see you then.