28/11/2011 Inside Out South East

What's it like for the people living rough over the Channel,

desperate to get into Britain? desperate to get into Britain?

are hopeless. We hope nothing We go undercover.

And did Shakespeare have anything And did Shakespeare have anything

to do with a murder in Faversham? He threw a towel around his throat

to strangle him, pulled him down to the ground, and realising he was

not quite dead, stabbed him several times.

I'm Natalie Graham with the untold stories closer to home. From all

round Kent and Sussex, this is Hello, tonight I'm in the

delightful Kent village of Faversham. I'm back here later, but

first: They wait at Calais, desperate for the chance to get

over here to find a new life in the UK. Many people don't want them in

this country, and the French don't want them in theirs. But just 21

miles from their final destination in Dover, what are the conditions

like for the migrants living under French rule? We decided to

investigate. They live on the streets. They

They live on the streets. They They live on the streets. They

They live on the streets. They deported me from England to France.

They walk day and night to fill the long hours and they are given food

and clothing from charities. They and clothing from charities. They

sleep in derelict buildings. And they build tented areas known as

"jungles" around Calais and the Tonight, we investigate what it's

Journalist Hamza Mohamed used to be a refugee. He came to England ten

years ago from Somalia, alone and frightened. Now he travels to

Calais to walk in the shoes of a migrant to see what their day-to-

Migrants come in all disguises, from refugees to asylum seekers to

those simply escaping poverty. Under European laws, unauthorised

entrants to Europe have their fingerprints put on a Europe-wide

database. When discovered, they are supposed to be returned to the

first EU country they were registered in. Italy and Greece

have the largest number of unauthorised entrants. But many

want to make their way to the UK which they see as the promised land.

Their last stop before Dover is Calais in France. At this final

border, migrants often find they are caught in no man's land. The

French government provides accommodation for minors and

vulnerable migrants. The rest, regardless of their legal standing,

have to make formal applications to get an official status in France,

and it can often take many months, during which time they have to rely

on the help of charitable groups. Whatever you think about the debate

surrounding migrants, this investigation will give us a

glimpse into their world. Journalist Hamza Mohamed is delving

into this hidden world. He's got mixed emotions about what lies

ahead as he goes undercover for the first time. It will mean sleeping

rough and trying to get to know the local migrants. His biggest fear is

the CRS police who regularly check the identity documents of migrants.

His cover could be blown if they check his papers and see his

British passport. They have been known to handle people roughly.

Hamza has already had a run in with the CRS when they grabbed his

mobile phone in the street while our team were in Calais doing

That was two weeks ago. But today, it's Hamzas' first day as a migrant

in Calais. He makes friends with some fellow Somalis who show him

the ropes. They meet up at a feeding station that provides three

meals a day for all the migrants in Calais. It's run by three groups

with the help of volunteers. The food is not the best, but at least

it's hot and provides basic nutrition. Hamzas' new friends show

him the ropes and take him to their temporary home set up in an

This is where I sleep. This is what we put on when it starts raining to

not get our bedding wet. This is when it is freezing. Hamza is shown

another part of the derelict building complex which is used by

migrants to hide out. In this section, Arab migrants have also

set up a temporary home. Their feelings about their future

destination is plain for all to see. Around 300 migrants live on the

streets and squats in Calais. It's a miserable existence, but one that

Hamza now has first-hand experience of. There are no bathrooms or

toilets. You help yourself to the nearest tree you find. The food...

Oh, gosh! It is warm at least. There is no running water. I don't

know how I will brush my teeth or do my washing in the morning. It

stinks. I am glad you guys can't smell me. Unsure about who might be

around and spot us, reluctantly Hamza heads back to his new home,

hoping his luck has held out and his cover is still intact. Just

down the road from where Hamza is staying, we came across this group

of migrants who were stopped and searched by the CRS police. They

are held for over half an hour while their papers are checked.

Those without the right documents could be arrested and deported back

to the first European country they entered where their fingerprints

were taken. This group was finally released. Often migrants go to

extreme lengths to hide their identity. One way is to remove

their fingerprints if they have been taken in a country they do not

want to live in. This can be done simply by dipping their fingers in

acid or burning them off and then covering them with superglue. But

this doesn't always fool the authorities. Jean Francois Roger,

from Terre d'Asile, a French charity which assists refugees and

migrants, claims they need to be Clohe Lorieux, from Medecins Du

Monde, helps migrants from Calais The places migrants live in have

come to be called "jungles" by come to be called "jungles" by

everyone, whether they are tents or buildings. Working in the field

buildings. Working in the field means building up relationships

One step up from a tent is Africa House in Calais. It's the biggest

place where migrants seek shelter, and a place to sleep out of the

cold and wet. One of the migrants living there is a middle-aged Arab.

Majid, who injured his legs when he fell from a lorry trying to get to

the UK. He has been there for seven months, and he showed us around

when everyone else was at the feeding station. We tried to film

there with the permission of other migrants, but they would not let us

in, fearing they would be identified. Anywhere up to 150

people spend cold nights in the derelict buildings and warehouse

that make up the complex. There is no heating and there is no light,

but at least there is some shelter but at least there is some shelter

Back undercover, Hamza wanders the streets with other migrants. They

fill their hours walking around and going to the feeding station which

dishes out food for breakfast, dishes out food for breakfast,

dishes out food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of them fill

the night hours in the parks drinking and taking drugs. Some try

to find a means of getting to the UK. Others crash out in their

It is really sad to see people who did not used to drink because

alcohol knocks them out. You don't understand what they are saying,

they don't make sense, but you can see how sad and desperate they are

in their eyes. Some of them are It's early morning, and more than a

dozen CRS vans raid Africa House and turf out all the occupants.

Dozens of people will be out on the streets with nowhere to sleep

Two angry migrants come over and Two angry migrants come over and

There are 20 migrant on this side, and 22 others in the other two in

the other houses. There will be an offer of accommodation for those

migrant to have proof of asylum. A migrant will be able to recover all

their personal belongings, so I must emphasise this operation is to

evict people who illegally occupied the building. So there you are.

There has not been any incident at Hamza is coming near to the end of

his time undercover. While most migrants will be walking the cold

streets tonight, he heads back to his temporary home. This is a

really not a home. You wouldn't put Morning brings another trip to the

feeding station for Hamza to get his last hot meal undercover. He is

told of someone who has made it They want to come to England

because they have seen us as a to a soft touch, and we have been. This

need to stop, and we meet -- need to make sure our borders are

properly secured. People should be stopped from breaking into the

country, and I think come up and down the land, if you look at

opinion polls, the British people as a whole Arkley we need proper

border security, and need to make a stop to illegal migrants coming in.

With his time undercover coming to an end, Hamza heads back to the

warmth of a hotel. He has walked in the footsteps of migrants and it

has been hard. I have finally has been hard. I have finally

finished doing my undercover work. I am happy I am going back tomorrow

to my normal life, but part of me is sad because I know these guys,

day-in day out, it will not be easy for them. It is freezing cold. Back

in the hotel for the first time in four days, I will be having a

proper sleep hope fully, a shower as well. I am so tired. I wish I

could kind of makes sense of what I'm saying, but I am really

Now, 460 years ago a murder took place here in Faversham. The crime

was solved and the perpetrators were caught, but one question

remains unanswered. Did William Shakespeare have something to do

If tabloid newspapers had existed in 1551, the murder of Thomas Arden

would have been front page stuff. Arden was a hugely successful self-

made man and he mixed with the great and good in the highest

social circles. So his horrific and shocking death was big news.

Thomas Arden had made a fortune from property. But his main role in

Faversham was Head of Customs. The town was a busy, bustling port,

providing corn and other foods for the rapidly expanding city of

London. Arden was Faversham's Mr Big.

Although he was great at business, Arden was not so great at marriage.

His wife Alice was feeling neglected and unloved. So she

embarked on a passionate affair. And she and her lover Thomas Mosby

decided they could only find true happiness together if they killed

Thomas Arden. They hired two assassins, Black

Will and Loosebag, and after several failed attempts, Arden was

beaten and stabbed to death on the 15th of February 1551. 40 years

later, the story of the murder was turned into a play called Arden Of

Faversham. And wind is mutable for both so words and words are wind

and wind is mutable. The first English play based on a

real crime in a real English town. His time is but short but if they

will be used as a resolute as I we will have been murdered as he walks

the streets. This is a new kind of play and it

develops into a new kind of mini- genre called domestic tragedy.

London, many alehouse ruffians will murder men for gold.

Publishers fought to publish. Publishers fought to publish this

play. There is something sexy and radical about it. You can play the

play in all sorts of ways and I like to see it played as comedy as

well as tragedy. It is also a thriller incidentally.

You can play the play all sorts of ways, and I like to see it played

as comedy as well as tragedy. So who wrote this ground-breaking

work? This milestone in the history of English drama? Well, it was none

other than the great... Unknown. The name of the author is a mystery,

but there are clues which many believe point to William

Shakespeare. So I've come to Faversham to look

at the evidence. And I'm starting at Standard Quay, with local

historian, Arthur Percival. One display first appeared, it was

significant. Yes, it is now what is thought has docu-drama. It was a

major innovation at the time. It was the first time that a recent

crime had been the theme of a play. The play is full of details about

Faversham. So if Shakespeare had a hand in it, he would have to have

known the town well, which he did, because he came here many times as

an actor. He was a player as well as a dramatist and his group of

players visited Caversham quite frequently. Husband, what has made

you get up so early? So Shakespeare was here at a time

when he was becoming a major writer, putting him in the right place at

the right time to write the play. But Dr Andy Kesson, of the

University of Kent, says if Shakespeare did write Arden Of

Faversham, he didn't do it alone. Plays at this time were written by

a selection of people, by groups of people and that is the hardest

thing for a modern reader audience member to understand. We think of

plays written by Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe but it is much

like a film in Hollywood where you go up to a movie and you do not

know who rotate particular script. I heard the hollow Mosby in your

sleep. And that seems to come across in

the script. The language and style of the play changes from one scene

to the next. And Dr Catherine Richardson says

this is the main clue to it being written by several different people.

It is all over the place in terms of genre. They are trying to define

a new genre. They are not sure how to do it and they are big speeches

which are very poetic and then there is very normal talking,

everyday dialogue, which is very different in tone. But it works.

Another fan of the play is the owner of this house. The house that

used to belong to Thomas Arden. And this house was the scene of the

crime! Norma Pleasance has agreed to show

me the very spot where Arden met his gruesome end, in real life and

in the play. It was in this room, just before guests arrived for a

dinner party. And Arden was playing backgammon with his wife's lover

Mosby. They were playing away and then at a certain sentence, which I

think was, I take the. As they moved in backgammon? Yes, Black

Will was hiding in the counting house and he emerged and ran up to

Thomas Arden and through a towel around his throat to strangle him

and he pulled him down to the ground. He suffocated and strangled

him and Mosby, who was a tailor, had a great heavy iron with him. He

bashed him over their head to kill him and there was blood everywhere

and poor old Thomas Arden was lying on the ground groaning and then

Alice, realising he was not quite dead, stabbed in several times with

a bodkin. So three people had a go.

At killing him off, yes poor Arden. Once the dinner party was over and

the guests had gone, the killers tried to Thomas Arden's body

through the doors and into the garden. They left tell-tale signs

in the snow. They weren't exactly clever at

covering their tracks. The murder weapon was found in the well in the

garden. And they were found guilty. Mosby was hanged, Alice burnt at

the stake in Canterbury, and all the gory details were reported in

Hollinshed's Chronicles, a kind of 16th century news magazine that was

a source for many of Shakespeare's plays.

So we know Shakespeare knew Faversham and, along with the rest

of the world, he would surely have heard about the famous murder, but

where's the evidence he wrote the play?

Retired school teacher Michael Frohnsdorff thinks it's in the

script. He's gone through the play line-by-line looking for unusual

words and phrases and then comparing them with words and

phrases found in other plays and poems from the same period. There

is a good word here, I like this one, a botcher. Underneath Marlow

it's as... Nothing is there. There is no example of that in Marlow.

But in Shakespeare... Yes there is an example.

Michael is convinced that there are at least three writers at work here.

Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. There is more

that appears in Shakespeare but does not appear in Christopher

Marlowe or Thomas Kyd that suggests that Shakespeare underlies the play.

It will be published to the world to both of our shames.

We asked the actors we hired, who'd never seen the play before, what

they made of it. When we came to looking at the peace, we all

thought it could not be Shakespeare because we have not heard of the

play and the more we looked at it, especially seen eight, there were

certain phrases that are getting Romeo and Juliet and there are

comparisons with Macbeth and I think we have all come away

thinking there is a strong possibility that, certainly seen

eight could be Shakespeare. So how come no one put their name

to this groundbreaking play? If Shakespeare wrote it, or at least

some of it, why didn't he make it easy for us and put his name below

the title? They published the playwright did not matter, that is

why they were anonymous when they published. Waugh was important was

how to sell the play to the audience.

Even if we can't be 100% certain who wrote it, surely Arden Of

Faversham deserves more recognition than it gets, after all this was a

play that took English drama in a whole new direction. If you look at

it it is just like a TV docu-drama because it follows the sources

pretty closely and elaborates them only a little bit. Mosby, he has

rifled be of that and made the slanderous tall white skin...

used to seeing things on the television and in the theatre that

are about the domestic world, from Harold Pinter to EastEnders but at

this time it is peculiar and exciting to see people that the

audience members would have recognised. It just needs his name

above the title and I think everyone would race to read this

play because it is fantastic. shall pay him home.

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