:00:01. > :00:08.What's it like for the people living rough over the Channel,
:00:08. > :00:15.desperate to get into Britain? desperate to get into Britain?
:00:15. > :00:17.are hopeless. We hope nothing We go undercover.
:00:17. > :00:27.And did Shakespeare have anything And did Shakespeare have anything
:00:27. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:34.to do with a murder in Faversham? He threw a towel around his throat
:00:34. > :00:39.to strangle him, pulled him down to the ground, and realising he was
:00:40. > :00:44.not quite dead, stabbed him several times.
:00:44. > :00:54.I'm Natalie Graham with the untold stories closer to home. From all
:00:54. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:10.round Kent and Sussex, this is Hello, tonight I'm in the
:01:10. > :01:14.delightful Kent village of Faversham. I'm back here later, but
:01:14. > :01:18.first: They wait at Calais, desperate for the chance to get
:01:18. > :01:23.over here to find a new life in the UK. Many people don't want them in
:01:24. > :01:26.this country, and the French don't want them in theirs. But just 21
:01:26. > :01:30.miles from their final destination in Dover, what are the conditions
:01:30. > :01:40.like for the migrants living under French rule? We decided to
:01:40. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:48.investigate. They live on the streets. They
:01:48. > :01:50.They live on the streets. They They live on the streets. They
:01:50. > :01:54.They live on the streets. They deported me from England to France.
:01:54. > :02:04.They walk day and night to fill the long hours and they are given food
:02:04. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:12.and clothing from charities. They and clothing from charities. They
:02:12. > :02:22.sleep in derelict buildings. And they build tented areas known as
:02:22. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:38."jungles" around Calais and the Tonight, we investigate what it's
:02:38. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:45.Journalist Hamza Mohamed used to be a refugee. He came to England ten
:02:45. > :02:49.years ago from Somalia, alone and frightened. Now he travels to
:02:49. > :02:59.Calais to walk in the shoes of a migrant to see what their day-to-
:02:59. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:12.Migrants come in all disguises, from refugees to asylum seekers to
:03:12. > :03:15.those simply escaping poverty. Under European laws, unauthorised
:03:15. > :03:21.entrants to Europe have their fingerprints put on a Europe-wide
:03:21. > :03:26.database. When discovered, they are supposed to be returned to the
:03:26. > :03:30.first EU country they were registered in. Italy and Greece
:03:30. > :03:36.have the largest number of unauthorised entrants. But many
:03:36. > :03:40.want to make their way to the UK which they see as the promised land.
:03:41. > :03:46.Their last stop before Dover is Calais in France. At this final
:03:46. > :03:48.border, migrants often find they are caught in no man's land. The
:03:48. > :03:53.French government provides accommodation for minors and
:03:53. > :03:56.vulnerable migrants. The rest, regardless of their legal standing,
:03:56. > :03:59.have to make formal applications to get an official status in France,
:03:59. > :04:08.and it can often take many months, during which time they have to rely
:04:08. > :04:10.on the help of charitable groups. Whatever you think about the debate
:04:10. > :04:16.surrounding migrants, this investigation will give us a
:04:17. > :04:23.glimpse into their world. Journalist Hamza Mohamed is delving
:04:23. > :04:33.into this hidden world. He's got mixed emotions about what lies
:04:33. > :04:35.
:04:35. > :04:38.ahead as he goes undercover for the first time. It will mean sleeping
:04:38. > :04:44.rough and trying to get to know the local migrants. His biggest fear is
:04:45. > :04:48.the CRS police who regularly check the identity documents of migrants.
:04:48. > :04:56.His cover could be blown if they check his papers and see his
:04:56. > :04:59.British passport. They have been known to handle people roughly.
:04:59. > :05:02.Hamza has already had a run in with the CRS when they grabbed his
:05:02. > :05:12.mobile phone in the street while our team were in Calais doing
:05:12. > :05:27.
:05:27. > :05:32.That was two weeks ago. But today, it's Hamzas' first day as a migrant
:05:32. > :05:37.in Calais. He makes friends with some fellow Somalis who show him
:05:37. > :05:40.the ropes. They meet up at a feeding station that provides three
:05:40. > :05:46.meals a day for all the migrants in Calais. It's run by three groups
:05:46. > :05:54.with the help of volunteers. The food is not the best, but at least
:05:54. > :05:57.it's hot and provides basic nutrition. Hamzas' new friends show
:05:57. > :06:07.him the ropes and take him to their temporary home set up in an
:06:07. > :06:22.
:06:22. > :06:31.This is where I sleep. This is what we put on when it starts raining to
:06:31. > :06:34.not get our bedding wet. This is when it is freezing. Hamza is shown
:06:34. > :06:37.another part of the derelict building complex which is used by
:06:37. > :06:41.migrants to hide out. In this section, Arab migrants have also
:06:41. > :06:51.set up a temporary home. Their feelings about their future
:06:51. > :06:51.
:06:51. > :06:56.destination is plain for all to see. Around 300 migrants live on the
:06:56. > :07:06.streets and squats in Calais. It's a miserable existence, but one that
:07:06. > :07:10.
:07:10. > :07:15.Hamza now has first-hand experience of. There are no bathrooms or
:07:15. > :07:25.toilets. You help yourself to the nearest tree you find. The food...
:07:25. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :07:32.Oh, gosh! It is warm at least. There is no running water. I don't
:07:32. > :07:38.know how I will brush my teeth or do my washing in the morning. It
:07:38. > :07:41.stinks. I am glad you guys can't smell me. Unsure about who might be
:07:41. > :07:44.around and spot us, reluctantly Hamza heads back to his new home,
:07:44. > :07:47.hoping his luck has held out and his cover is still intact. Just
:07:47. > :07:54.down the road from where Hamza is staying, we came across this group
:07:54. > :07:59.of migrants who were stopped and searched by the CRS police. They
:08:00. > :08:02.are held for over half an hour while their papers are checked.
:08:02. > :08:05.Those without the right documents could be arrested and deported back
:08:05. > :08:15.to the first European country they entered where their fingerprints
:08:15. > :08:18.were taken. This group was finally released. Often migrants go to
:08:18. > :08:21.extreme lengths to hide their identity. One way is to remove
:08:21. > :08:25.their fingerprints if they have been taken in a country they do not
:08:25. > :08:30.want to live in. This can be done simply by dipping their fingers in
:08:30. > :08:36.acid or burning them off and then covering them with superglue. But
:08:36. > :08:38.this doesn't always fool the authorities. Jean Francois Roger,
:08:38. > :08:48.from Terre d'Asile, a French charity which assists refugees and
:08:48. > :09:08.
:09:08. > :09:18.migrants, claims they need to be Clohe Lorieux, from Medecins Du
:09:18. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:43.Monde, helps migrants from Calais The places migrants live in have
:09:43. > :09:44.come to be called "jungles" by come to be called "jungles" by
:09:44. > :09:45.everyone, whether they are tents or buildings. Working in the field
:09:45. > :09:55.buildings. Working in the field means building up relationships
:09:55. > :10:24.
:10:24. > :10:27.One step up from a tent is Africa House in Calais. It's the biggest
:10:27. > :10:37.place where migrants seek shelter, and a place to sleep out of the
:10:37. > :10:40.
:10:40. > :10:43.cold and wet. One of the migrants living there is a middle-aged Arab.
:10:43. > :10:47.Majid, who injured his legs when he fell from a lorry trying to get to
:10:47. > :10:50.the UK. He has been there for seven months, and he showed us around
:10:50. > :10:53.when everyone else was at the feeding station. We tried to film
:10:53. > :10:56.there with the permission of other migrants, but they would not let us
:10:56. > :10:58.in, fearing they would be identified. Anywhere up to 150
:10:58. > :11:03.people spend cold nights in the derelict buildings and warehouse
:11:03. > :11:10.that make up the complex. There is no heating and there is no light,
:11:10. > :11:20.but at least there is some shelter but at least there is some shelter
:11:20. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:51.Back undercover, Hamza wanders the streets with other migrants. They
:11:51. > :11:58.fill their hours walking around and going to the feeding station which
:11:58. > :12:00.dishes out food for breakfast, dishes out food for breakfast,
:12:00. > :12:04.dishes out food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of them fill
:12:05. > :12:08.the night hours in the parks drinking and taking drugs. Some try
:12:08. > :12:18.to find a means of getting to the UK. Others crash out in their
:12:18. > :12:33.
:12:33. > :12:39.It is really sad to see people who did not used to drink because
:12:39. > :12:43.alcohol knocks them out. You don't understand what they are saying,
:12:43. > :12:53.they don't make sense, but you can see how sad and desperate they are
:12:53. > :13:13.
:13:13. > :13:19.in their eyes. Some of them are It's early morning, and more than a
:13:19. > :13:22.dozen CRS vans raid Africa House and turf out all the occupants.
:13:22. > :13:32.Dozens of people will be out on the streets with nowhere to sleep
:13:32. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:52.Two angry migrants come over and Two angry migrants come over and
:13:52. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:11.There are 20 migrant on this side, and 22 others in the other two in
:14:11. > :14:16.the other houses. There will be an offer of accommodation for those
:14:16. > :14:21.migrant to have proof of asylum. A migrant will be able to recover all
:14:21. > :14:29.their personal belongings, so I must emphasise this operation is to
:14:29. > :14:39.evict people who illegally occupied the building. So there you are.
:14:39. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:52.There has not been any incident at Hamza is coming near to the end of
:14:52. > :15:02.his time undercover. While most migrants will be walking the cold
:15:02. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:16.streets tonight, he heads back to his temporary home. This is a
:15:16. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:28.really not a home. You wouldn't put Morning brings another trip to the
:15:28. > :15:38.feeding station for Hamza to get his last hot meal undercover. He is
:15:38. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :16:00.told of someone who has made it They want to come to England
:16:00. > :16:04.because they have seen us as a to a soft touch, and we have been. This
:16:04. > :16:09.need to stop, and we meet -- need to make sure our borders are
:16:09. > :16:13.properly secured. People should be stopped from breaking into the
:16:13. > :16:18.country, and I think come up and down the land, if you look at
:16:18. > :16:28.opinion polls, the British people as a whole Arkley we need proper
:16:28. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:39.border security, and need to make a stop to illegal migrants coming in.
:16:39. > :16:43.With his time undercover coming to an end, Hamza heads back to the
:16:43. > :16:48.warmth of a hotel. He has walked in the footsteps of migrants and it
:16:48. > :16:54.has been hard. I have finally has been hard. I have finally
:16:54. > :17:00.finished doing my undercover work. I am happy I am going back tomorrow
:17:00. > :17:10.to my normal life, but part of me is sad because I know these guys,
:17:10. > :17:11.
:17:11. > :17:15.day-in day out, it will not be easy for them. It is freezing cold. Back
:17:15. > :17:23.in the hotel for the first time in four days, I will be having a
:17:23. > :17:30.proper sleep hope fully, a shower as well. I am so tired. I wish I
:17:30. > :17:40.could kind of makes sense of what I'm saying, but I am really
:17:40. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:52.Now, 460 years ago a murder took place here in Faversham. The crime
:17:52. > :17:56.was solved and the perpetrators were caught, but one question
:17:57. > :18:06.remains unanswered. Did William Shakespeare have something to do
:18:07. > :18:10.
:18:10. > :18:16.If tabloid newspapers had existed in 1551, the murder of Thomas Arden
:18:16. > :18:19.would have been front page stuff. Arden was a hugely successful self-
:18:19. > :18:26.made man and he mixed with the great and good in the highest
:18:26. > :18:32.social circles. So his horrific and shocking death was big news.
:18:32. > :18:37.Thomas Arden had made a fortune from property. But his main role in
:18:37. > :18:39.Faversham was Head of Customs. The town was a busy, bustling port,
:18:39. > :18:43.providing corn and other foods for the rapidly expanding city of
:18:43. > :18:49.London. Arden was Faversham's Mr Big.
:18:49. > :18:53.Although he was great at business, Arden was not so great at marriage.
:18:53. > :18:57.His wife Alice was feeling neglected and unloved. So she
:18:57. > :19:00.embarked on a passionate affair. And she and her lover Thomas Mosby
:19:00. > :19:04.decided they could only find true happiness together if they killed
:19:04. > :19:06.Thomas Arden. They hired two assassins, Black
:19:06. > :19:15.Will and Loosebag, and after several failed attempts, Arden was
:19:15. > :19:19.beaten and stabbed to death on the 15th of February 1551. 40 years
:19:19. > :19:29.later, the story of the murder was turned into a play called Arden Of
:19:29. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:38.Faversham. And wind is mutable for both so words and words are wind
:19:38. > :19:44.and wind is mutable. The first English play based on a
:19:44. > :19:47.real crime in a real English town. His time is but short but if they
:19:47. > :19:51.will be used as a resolute as I we will have been murdered as he walks
:19:51. > :19:55.the streets. This is a new kind of play and it
:19:55. > :20:01.develops into a new kind of mini- genre called domestic tragedy.
:20:01. > :20:10.London, many alehouse ruffians will murder men for gold.
:20:10. > :20:18.Publishers fought to publish. Publishers fought to publish this
:20:18. > :20:21.play. There is something sexy and radical about it. You can play the
:20:21. > :20:25.play in all sorts of ways and I like to see it played as comedy as
:20:25. > :20:29.well as tragedy. It is also a thriller incidentally.
:20:29. > :20:32.You can play the play all sorts of ways, and I like to see it played
:20:32. > :20:36.as comedy as well as tragedy. So who wrote this ground-breaking
:20:36. > :20:39.work? This milestone in the history of English drama? Well, it was none
:20:39. > :20:42.other than the great... Unknown. The name of the author is a mystery,
:20:42. > :20:44.but there are clues which many believe point to William
:20:44. > :20:46.Shakespeare. So I've come to Faversham to look
:20:46. > :20:56.at the evidence. And I'm starting at Standard Quay, with local
:20:56. > :21:01.historian, Arthur Percival. One display first appeared, it was
:21:01. > :21:07.significant. Yes, it is now what is thought has docu-drama. It was a
:21:07. > :21:12.major innovation at the time. It was the first time that a recent
:21:12. > :21:15.crime had been the theme of a play. The play is full of details about
:21:15. > :21:19.Faversham. So if Shakespeare had a hand in it, he would have to have
:21:19. > :21:26.known the town well, which he did, because he came here many times as
:21:26. > :21:34.an actor. He was a player as well as a dramatist and his group of
:21:34. > :21:39.players visited Caversham quite frequently. Husband, what has made
:21:39. > :21:43.you get up so early? So Shakespeare was here at a time
:21:43. > :21:47.when he was becoming a major writer, putting him in the right place at
:21:47. > :21:49.the right time to write the play. But Dr Andy Kesson, of the
:21:49. > :21:57.University of Kent, says if Shakespeare did write Arden Of
:21:57. > :22:02.Faversham, he didn't do it alone. Plays at this time were written by
:22:02. > :22:06.a selection of people, by groups of people and that is the hardest
:22:06. > :22:09.thing for a modern reader audience member to understand. We think of
:22:09. > :22:15.plays written by Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe but it is much
:22:15. > :22:22.like a film in Hollywood where you go up to a movie and you do not
:22:22. > :22:24.know who rotate particular script. I heard the hollow Mosby in your
:22:24. > :22:28.sleep. And that seems to come across in
:22:28. > :22:30.the script. The language and style of the play changes from one scene
:22:30. > :22:37.to the next. And Dr Catherine Richardson says
:22:37. > :22:41.this is the main clue to it being written by several different people.
:22:41. > :22:46.It is all over the place in terms of genre. They are trying to define
:22:46. > :22:50.a new genre. They are not sure how to do it and they are big speeches
:22:50. > :22:56.which are very poetic and then there is very normal talking,
:22:56. > :23:00.everyday dialogue, which is very different in tone. But it works.
:23:00. > :23:03.Another fan of the play is the owner of this house. The house that
:23:03. > :23:06.used to belong to Thomas Arden. And this house was the scene of the
:23:06. > :23:10.crime! Norma Pleasance has agreed to show
:23:10. > :23:15.me the very spot where Arden met his gruesome end, in real life and
:23:15. > :23:19.in the play. It was in this room, just before guests arrived for a
:23:19. > :23:29.dinner party. And Arden was playing backgammon with his wife's lover
:23:29. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:40.Mosby. They were playing away and then at a certain sentence, which I
:23:40. > :23:46.think was, I take the. As they moved in backgammon? Yes, Black
:23:46. > :23:49.Will was hiding in the counting house and he emerged and ran up to
:23:49. > :23:54.Thomas Arden and through a towel around his throat to strangle him
:23:54. > :24:00.and he pulled him down to the ground. He suffocated and strangled
:24:00. > :24:07.him and Mosby, who was a tailor, had a great heavy iron with him. He
:24:07. > :24:11.bashed him over their head to kill him and there was blood everywhere
:24:11. > :24:15.and poor old Thomas Arden was lying on the ground groaning and then
:24:15. > :24:21.Alice, realising he was not quite dead, stabbed in several times with
:24:21. > :24:30.a bodkin. So three people had a go.
:24:30. > :24:33.At killing him off, yes poor Arden. Once the dinner party was over and
:24:33. > :24:38.the guests had gone, the killers tried to Thomas Arden's body
:24:38. > :24:40.through the doors and into the garden. They left tell-tale signs
:24:40. > :24:44.in the snow. They weren't exactly clever at
:24:44. > :24:46.covering their tracks. The murder weapon was found in the well in the
:24:47. > :24:49.garden. And they were found guilty. Mosby was hanged, Alice burnt at
:24:50. > :24:52.the stake in Canterbury, and all the gory details were reported in
:24:52. > :24:57.Hollinshed's Chronicles, a kind of 16th century news magazine that was
:24:57. > :25:00.a source for many of Shakespeare's plays.
:25:00. > :25:04.So we know Shakespeare knew Faversham and, along with the rest
:25:04. > :25:07.of the world, he would surely have heard about the famous murder, but
:25:07. > :25:10.where's the evidence he wrote the play?
:25:10. > :25:14.Retired school teacher Michael Frohnsdorff thinks it's in the
:25:14. > :25:17.script. He's gone through the play line-by-line looking for unusual
:25:17. > :25:26.words and phrases and then comparing them with words and
:25:26. > :25:33.phrases found in other plays and poems from the same period. There
:25:33. > :25:41.is a good word here, I like this one, a botcher. Underneath Marlow
:25:41. > :25:45.it's as... Nothing is there. There is no example of that in Marlow.
:25:45. > :25:49.But in Shakespeare... Yes there is an example.
:25:49. > :25:54.Michael is convinced that there are at least three writers at work here.
:25:54. > :25:59.Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. There is more
:25:59. > :26:07.that appears in Shakespeare but does not appear in Christopher
:26:07. > :26:12.Marlowe or Thomas Kyd that suggests that Shakespeare underlies the play.
:26:12. > :26:15.It will be published to the world to both of our shames.
:26:15. > :26:20.We asked the actors we hired, who'd never seen the play before, what
:26:20. > :26:24.they made of it. When we came to looking at the peace, we all
:26:24. > :26:28.thought it could not be Shakespeare because we have not heard of the
:26:28. > :26:31.play and the more we looked at it, especially seen eight, there were
:26:31. > :26:35.certain phrases that are getting Romeo and Juliet and there are
:26:35. > :26:39.comparisons with Macbeth and I think we have all come away
:26:39. > :26:43.thinking there is a strong possibility that, certainly seen
:26:43. > :26:46.eight could be Shakespeare. So how come no one put their name
:26:46. > :26:50.to this groundbreaking play? If Shakespeare wrote it, or at least
:26:50. > :27:00.some of it, why didn't he make it easy for us and put his name below
:27:00. > :27:03.the title? They published the playwright did not matter, that is
:27:03. > :27:05.why they were anonymous when they published. Waugh was important was
:27:05. > :27:08.how to sell the play to the audience.
:27:08. > :27:12.Even if we can't be 100% certain who wrote it, surely Arden Of
:27:12. > :27:17.Faversham deserves more recognition than it gets, after all this was a
:27:17. > :27:21.play that took English drama in a whole new direction. If you look at
:27:21. > :27:30.it it is just like a TV docu-drama because it follows the sources
:27:30. > :27:34.pretty closely and elaborates them only a little bit. Mosby, he has
:27:34. > :27:37.rifled be of that and made the slanderous tall white skin...
:27:37. > :27:41.used to seeing things on the television and in the theatre that
:27:41. > :27:45.are about the domestic world, from Harold Pinter to EastEnders but at
:27:45. > :27:49.this time it is peculiar and exciting to see people that the
:27:49. > :27:53.audience members would have recognised. It just needs his name
:27:53. > :28:03.above the title and I think everyone would race to read this
:28:03. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:07.play because it is fantastic. shall pay him home.
:28:08. > :28:11.Now, if you want any more information on tonight's show, you
:28:11. > :28:17.can visit our local Kent or Sussex websites, and even watch the whole
:28:17. > :28:19.show again by clicking on our iPlayer.
:28:19. > :28:29.Coming up next week: Was the South Eastern High-speed
:28:29. > :28:31.rail service such a good idea for Kent? I have to pay nearly �4,000
:28:31. > :28:34.for the privilege of a journey that takes 20 minutes longer than it
:28:34. > :28:40.used to. Amazing discoveries about the
:28:40. > :28:44.Romans in the South East. 1,800 years ago this would have been like
:28:44. > :28:47.Ironbridge with furnaces firing. This was the industrial heartland
:28:48. > :28:52.of England at the height of the in dust -- Roman Empire.
:28:52. > :28:57.And should we start culling badgers in Sussex? We are looking for an