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:00:04. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to Inside Out Southwest. Stories and

:00:09. > :00:12.investigations from where you live. Tonight, inside the Southwest's

:00:12. > :00:17.controversial new free school, how the views of the man who inspired

:00:17. > :00:22.it have caused fierce debate. government shouldn't waste state

:00:23. > :00:26.funds on schools that teach nonsense, it's a waste of money.

:00:26. > :00:31.Rudolf Steiner was not a racist. And these schools do not promote

:00:31. > :00:36.anything like that. Also tonight, the council selling land from under

:00:36. > :00:40.the feet of south-west farmers. was devastated because we've put a

:00:40. > :00:43.hell of a lot into this. We think it's a shortsighted policy actually.

:00:43. > :00:50.And Mike is in Devon discovering one of autumn is greatest natural

:00:50. > :01:00.spectacles. He's strutting his stuff! Look at that! Such a

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:01:14. > :01:17.handsome animal. I'm Sam Smith and First tonight, for years private

:01:17. > :01:22.Steiner schools have been popular with parents prepared to pay the

:01:22. > :01:27.fees. But now, amid much debate, a state funded Steiner school have

:01:27. > :01:30.opened in the Southwest. It's the first time public money has been

:01:30. > :01:32.used to set one up and that's angered some critics who say

:01:32. > :01:39.parents aren't being told enough about the controversial philosophy

:01:40. > :01:49.that underpins them. I've been investigating.

:01:50. > :01:51.

:01:51. > :01:54.# Fire gnomes. Fire gnomes. Rowan and his mum Alice Irving are

:01:55. > :02:01.giving thanks for an afternoon snack.

:02:01. > :02:06.# Shine so bright. #. Their song to the fire gnomes is

:02:06. > :02:09.based on the writings of Rudolf Steiner. A man who said natural

:02:09. > :02:19.forces like fire and wind were animated by spirits like fire

:02:19. > :02:23.

:02:23. > :02:26.gnomes which can't be seen. Make our candle shine so bright.

:02:26. > :02:33.Steiner's spiritual insights have inspired some but been ridiculed by

:02:33. > :02:41.others. For Alice, the fire gnomes are no more harmful than the tooth

:02:41. > :02:44.fairy. It's all about bringing a sense of

:02:44. > :02:49.wonder about things, it's a lovely little story and we talk about the

:02:49. > :02:55.fire gnomes when we go out and have a fire outside. It brings another

:02:55. > :02:59.level of magic to it really. It is September and Rowan's first

:02:59. > :03:06.day at school. He's one of 130 pupils at the brand-new state

:03:06. > :03:09.funded Steiner Academy in the Somerset town of Froome. We started

:03:09. > :03:14.becoming aware of Steiner as you do when you are looking for

:03:14. > :03:17.alternatives when he was quite small. And I think that children

:03:17. > :03:21.need to learn how they fit into the world first and that's the most

:03:21. > :03:27.important thing. And learning, formal learning, follows on from

:03:27. > :03:33.that, I think. And I hope Rowan can take that level of learning and

:03:33. > :03:39.take that out into the world. passionate group of parents has

:03:39. > :03:41.managed to get the school to this point despite vociferous objections.

:03:41. > :03:47.The headteacher Trevor has been in Steiner education all his working

:03:47. > :03:56.life. So, good morning everybody! This is

:03:56. > :04:02.going to be very brief. There's a lot to do but firstly... That's a

:04:02. > :04:11.special moment. That's the moment when we have opened and woken up a

:04:11. > :04:15.new school, our school here. It's the first time public money

:04:15. > :04:19.has been used to set up a Steiner school. And that's angered sceptics

:04:20. > :04:22.who are questioning the philosophy behind it.

:04:22. > :04:27.The government shouldn't waste state funds on schools that teach

:04:27. > :04:30.nonsense. That's a waste of the public's money of taxpayers money

:04:30. > :04:36.and these schools are legitimised by the fact they are now gaining

:04:37. > :04:40.state funding. Not only should we study the cosmos

:04:40. > :04:50.and the stars, we should also look for the stars and the cosmos within

:04:50. > :04:55.

:04:55. > :04:58.Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher who died in 1925. He

:04:58. > :05:03.said he had a clairvoyant ability which gave him a direct insight

:05:03. > :05:13.into a spiritual world. And it's this spiritual science or

:05:13. > :05:15.

:05:15. > :05:19.anthroposophy that forms the basis Children aren't taught to write

:05:19. > :05:23.until they are seven. Research has suggested that a delayed start

:05:23. > :05:33.reading does improve exam results. But Steiner was concerned reading

:05:33. > :05:36.too early might damage a child's path towards reincarnation. He did

:05:36. > :05:39.have some ideas on reincarnation, I wouldn't say he believed in it but

:05:39. > :05:44.he put those ideas out there as indications, questions and as areas

:05:44. > :05:49.of research for people to explore themselves. He's not the first

:05:49. > :05:52.person to have done this. He's not the only person. It's a fairly

:05:52. > :05:58.broadly held notion all over the world that the concept of

:05:58. > :06:01.reincarnation. Do you believe in reincarnation? I am open to it as a

:06:01. > :06:08.possibility, yes. One of the most controversial aspects of Steiner's

:06:08. > :06:10.philosophy is he said reincarnation was related to race. He said skin

:06:10. > :06:13.colour was an indication of a person's stage of personal

:06:13. > :06:21.development with black - schwarz people - being the least developed

:06:21. > :06:29.and white - weiss - people the most. For some local people, a school

:06:29. > :06:32.inspired by the ideas of a man who held such views is unacceptable.

:06:32. > :06:35.Steiner basically believes that the highest level of human evolution is

:06:35. > :06:38.the white Aryan and within that group it is those of Nordic and

:06:38. > :06:48.German descent which is exactly the sort of idea the Nazis were pushing

:06:48. > :06:50.

:06:50. > :06:56.It's only a tiny part of Steiner's work but it is one which concerns

:06:56. > :06:59.newly qualified Steiner teacher Daisy Powell. Steiner didn't

:06:59. > :07:02.actually write very much about race but there is a fraction of his work

:07:02. > :07:12.that could be construed as promoting the idea of hierarchical

:07:12. > :07:15.

:07:15. > :07:24.evolution through the races. Which is obviously a very controversial

:07:24. > :07:29.and deplorable idea. I do acknowledge that some of the things

:07:29. > :07:35.that were said in the 1920s do not sound quite right today. They might

:07:35. > :07:38.not have sounded right in the 1920s either. And what I am saying is

:07:38. > :07:44.fundamentally Rudolf Steiner was not a racist and these schools do

:07:44. > :07:49.not promote anything like that. you accept some of his views could

:07:49. > :07:55.be interpreted as racist? I think I would accept some of his views in

:07:55. > :07:58.today's climate, using today's language, could be viewed as that.

:07:58. > :08:00.Daisy Powell is positive about the benefits of Steiner education but

:08:00. > :08:06.she's worried about the potential for anthroposophy to become a

:08:06. > :08:09.belief system. I think what can happen with

:08:09. > :08:13.Steiner practitioners is that they might put some of his ideas into

:08:13. > :08:16.practice, find that they work very well and prove to be true and then

:08:16. > :08:26.you come to accept everything that Steiner says as being infallible

:08:26. > :08:28.

:08:28. > :08:34.which is a dangerous way to Steiner schools insist they don't

:08:34. > :08:36.represent a particular philosophy but critics are sceptical. They say

:08:36. > :08:43.parents often don't realise teachers may believe wholeheartedly

:08:43. > :08:46.in Steiner's reincarnation theory. Be sceptical of what they tell you

:08:46. > :08:49.because the Steiner groups are very good at saying we don't teach

:08:49. > :08:56.anthroposophy but that's a complete misunderstanding of what the issues

:08:56. > :09:01.around anthroposophy are. The issue is the teachers are nurtured in

:09:01. > :09:04.these beliefs and things like karma and reincarnation.

:09:04. > :09:10.On its website, the Steiner Academy, Froome, says it will neither

:09:10. > :09:13.promote nor teach anthroposophy. And yet as a member of the Steiner

:09:13. > :09:19.Schools Fellowship, it is required to have what's called an

:09:19. > :09:22.anthroposophical impulse at its heart. You are required, are you

:09:22. > :09:25.not, to have anthroposophy at the heart of everything you do?

:09:25. > :09:32.In the name of the schools we follow a certain approach, we

:09:32. > :09:36.follow certain ideas. Anthroposophical? We carry certain

:09:36. > :09:43.questions. Founded in anthroposophy? Well, anthroposophy

:09:43. > :09:46.is a generic term for Steiner's work. But you are required to put

:09:46. > :09:49.it at the heart of what you. No, we are required to teach education

:09:49. > :09:59.that the government has funded us to teach and that is Steiner

:09:59. > :10:02.

:10:02. > :10:08.The free schools policy has offered a lifeline to the Steiner movement

:10:08. > :10:11.and a second Steiner free school is due to open in Exeter next year.

:10:11. > :10:15.Rowan is settled in his new school and his mum Alice remains

:10:15. > :10:18.optimistic about the Steiner approach.

:10:18. > :10:24.I don't know very much of the ins and outs of anthroposophy so at

:10:24. > :10:28.this stage I can't say whether it's a problem or not. I think, what I

:10:28. > :10:31.already see in Steiner education is a strong spiritual background. A

:10:31. > :10:37.sort of connecting to something wider, a sense of connection with

:10:37. > :10:39.nature and there being something bigger than asked. And that's

:10:39. > :10:43.something, a paradigm that underlines lots of different

:10:43. > :10:46.philosophies and different religions. For me, I think that's

:10:46. > :10:54.quite a helpful way of approaching learning, a helpful way of

:10:54. > :11:00.The school is already oversubscribed and has ambitions to

:11:00. > :11:04.become the largest Steiner in the country. To do that, it will have

:11:04. > :11:08.to move to a bigger site and its critics are already trying to block

:11:08. > :11:18.those plans. How will it all turn out? Well, only the clairvoyant

:11:18. > :11:19.

:11:19. > :11:22.Next tonight, the budget cuts faced by many Southwest councils are

:11:22. > :11:26.rarely out of the news at the moment that one solution is proving

:11:26. > :11:29.particularly controversial. As Alistair has been finding out, it

:11:29. > :11:38.involves selling off council owned farms and putting some tenant

:11:38. > :11:44.David Crabb is one of Somerset's farmers set to lose his farm,

:11:44. > :11:47.business and home. How did you feel when you first heard they were

:11:47. > :11:51.selling your farm? Well, we were devastated because we have put a

:11:51. > :11:54.hell of a lot into this. Somerset county council is not in

:11:54. > :11:58.the business of running farms, it is not a core business. But in

:11:58. > :12:03.Dorset the council takes a totally different approach.

:12:03. > :12:06.We are supporting young entrants into agriculture. We need young

:12:06. > :12:15.people who are actively involved in producing the food that we, as a

:12:15. > :12:20.nation, need. The County Farm service dates back

:12:20. > :12:22.to 1908. In a bid to combat rural depopulation councils bought farms

:12:22. > :12:31.and offered them for rent, providing opportunities for people

:12:31. > :12:41.who wanted to farm but who couldn't afford a farm of their own. And so

:12:41. > :12:42.

:12:42. > :12:45.it has remained for a century right County Farm vacancies are rare but

:12:45. > :12:48.there's an opportunity in Devon at Lower Farm in High Bickington, one

:12:48. > :12:57.of 75 farms that the county council owns, with the current farm

:12:57. > :13:01.retiring, there's a chance for somebody new. So today, they are

:13:01. > :13:08.showing around new potential tenants. I have the particulars

:13:08. > :13:14.here. Let's go and have a look around. Lower Farm is advertised as

:13:14. > :13:20.a starter farm, ideal for someone new to farming. I guess I qualify

:13:20. > :13:23.there. But what does a serious contender think? It's a nice little

:13:23. > :13:29.shed for feeding cattle in the winter. How many would you get in

:13:29. > :13:32.here? Probably feed 30 and a few on the other side. Why do you want to

:13:32. > :13:39.run a County Farm? It's a stepping stone, the idea of these little

:13:39. > :13:44.farms is to get you up and running into farming. Without the stepping

:13:44. > :13:47.stone of county farms, getting your own farm can cost a fortune. Is it

:13:47. > :13:52.possible to put a figure on how much this farm costs to rent, as

:13:52. > :13:57.opposed to the value of the farm to buy privately? In round terms,

:13:57. > :14:04.10,000 a year to rent this farm. To buy, current land values around

:14:04. > :14:08.10,000 an acre. Three quarters of a million. Three quarters of a

:14:08. > :14:11.million? Wow. Why county farms? provide an opportunity for people

:14:12. > :14:17.wanting to join the farming ladder and we need more people in farming,

:14:17. > :14:24.we are told. I think we do a service for the county of Devon and

:14:24. > :14:33.I am heading across the border into Somerset where the Council takes a

:14:33. > :14:38.very different view of its county farm estate.

:14:38. > :14:43.Since I was about eight I used to go down to the farm. I am not from

:14:43. > :14:51.a farming family. I used to go and watch and help and it really grew

:14:51. > :14:56.from there. It's one of those jobs you have to want to do. And it's

:14:56. > :14:59.what I always wanted to do. David's days here are numbered.

:14:59. > :15:06.Somerset county council has decided to sell over half its county farms

:15:06. > :15:09.and David's is on the list. How did you feel when you found out you

:15:09. > :15:13.were losing the farm? Well, we were devastated because

:15:13. > :15:22.we've put a hell of a lot into this. And I think it's a shortsighted

:15:22. > :15:25.policy. Go on, out you go. If they are selling the farm, that's the

:15:25. > :15:29.end of your livelihood as a farmer. That's right, when the land is gone

:15:29. > :15:34.the house will be gone, everything. That will be it as a dairy farmer.

:15:34. > :15:42.Yes. What's to stop you buying it? Nothing to stop us, only the price.

:15:42. > :15:46.We have been offered it. How much? They want �1,000,085,000.

:15:46. > :15:53.that's not an option for you. had �1,000,085,000, I wouldn't be a

:15:53. > :15:55.tenant farmer! So, why is Somerset selling off so many of its farms?

:15:56. > :16:02.I've come to Dillington House, where the councillor who instigated

:16:02. > :16:11.the selloff is attending a budget meeting. The Council currently has

:16:11. > :16:14.a debt of �354 million. The farmers in some ways were the first victims

:16:14. > :16:17.of the financial crisis in Somerset because they were the first ones to

:16:17. > :16:23.see their livelihood might be under threat because of the financial

:16:23. > :16:27.pressures we are under. We cannot borrow any more money, we have to

:16:27. > :16:30.sell assets. The majority of the assets we are selling currently are

:16:31. > :16:37.the county farms and I have said before if we need to build a new

:16:37. > :16:40.school, we need to raise money to do that, I need to sell something.

:16:40. > :16:45.We are very lucky, we have the most beautiful county and working farms

:16:45. > :16:50.make it tick. Selling assets is also part of Dorset county

:16:50. > :16:53.council's approach but with a difference. Here at Yardsgrove Farm

:16:53. > :17:01.near Sturminster Newton, as they've done across the county, the Council

:17:01. > :17:04.is selling this large farmhouse but keeping the land. With the profit

:17:04. > :17:11.from the sale, half goes into Council coffers and half goes into

:17:11. > :17:15.a modern house for the farmer and improving the farms. If you are a

:17:15. > :17:20.young couple starting out on a farm, you don't need a hulking great

:17:20. > :17:23.farmhouse. What you need are good facilities, you need the best

:17:23. > :17:31.facilities to give you the best opportunity of making your business

:17:31. > :17:33.which is farming succeed. We have managed to contribute the better

:17:33. > :17:42.part of 7 million into general capital projects and we've spent

:17:42. > :17:46.about the same amount actually on our farm buildings. And improving

:17:46. > :17:56.the facilities for our tenants. this is you actually investing in

:17:56. > :17:56.

:17:56. > :17:59.the farms themselves? Oh, yes. Very I wonder what Dorset tenants think.

:17:59. > :18:06.Having proved themselves on a small start-up farm, Louise and Luke and

:18:06. > :18:09.family moved Provost Farm, near Shaftesbury, three years ago.

:18:09. > :18:16.There's no manor-sized farmhouse but they do have some spanking new

:18:16. > :18:20.sheds. This is an impressive new shed, did you build this? Half of

:18:20. > :18:24.it was here and we put on the other half. The council have helped us

:18:24. > :18:27.with the structural work, we put in a lot of labour. So, they haven't

:18:27. > :18:31.matched pound for pound but they have invested a lot to get this

:18:31. > :18:35.barn up and running to help us milk more cows, basically, is what it's

:18:35. > :18:40.all about. People do generally think it's subsidised by the

:18:40. > :18:43.council like a council house but it's a completely different estate.

:18:43. > :18:46.These are businesses. We employ local people, tradesmen that have

:18:46. > :18:53.built the barn are all from Dorset so it is a positive thing for the

:18:53. > :18:56.area. Would you have been able to grow this farm if it hadn't been

:18:56. > :19:06.for the opportunity of County Farms? No. No County Farms, no farm

:19:06. > :19:09.

:19:09. > :19:12.To date, Somerset has sold 16 farms and made �12.2 million. Through

:19:12. > :19:19.selling its old farmhouses, Dorset has raised �12.9 million and kept

:19:19. > :19:25.its estate. Each make an annual profit of around half a million

:19:25. > :19:28.from rent. I wonder why Somerset isn't following Dorset's approach?

:19:28. > :19:32.It all makes sound business sense but the county councils, Somerset

:19:32. > :19:39.county council, is not in the business of running farms. It is

:19:39. > :19:43.not a core business. But it makes you money. It makes us some money.

:19:43. > :19:48.I put the council's argument to farmer David Crabb. Surely selling

:19:48. > :19:52.off this valuable land is quite a good idea, really? Do you buy that?

:19:52. > :19:58.Why sell the only thing that makes you money? Once it's sold, it's

:19:58. > :20:01.sold. They can't... They can only sell it once. And they will be

:20:01. > :20:11.wanting money for something else then. Plus, if they sell off the

:20:11. > :20:13.

:20:13. > :20:16.farm, they lose the rent as well. I Rutting deer are one of the great

:20:16. > :20:19.autumn spectacles of the Southwest countryside so Mike put on his

:20:19. > :20:29.gumboots to chew over the science of this annual event in an unusual

:20:29. > :20:36.

:20:36. > :20:41.For the past five years naturalist David Dixon has been keeping a

:20:41. > :20:45.close eye on this herd of fallow deer. Their breeding behaviour has

:20:45. > :20:50.been somewhat of a mystery - most of it happens at night but David's

:20:51. > :20:54.found ways to uncover the secrets of the fallow deer rut.

:20:54. > :20:57.What I've done is using cameras which are able to see into the dark,

:20:57. > :21:00.I've been able to follow the whole thing 24 seven for much longer

:21:00. > :21:10.periods of time than would be physically possible to do just

:21:10. > :21:13.

:21:13. > :21:19.And he's made some brand new discoveries about their behaviour.

:21:19. > :21:22.So I've come to this herd's unlikely home to find out what. I

:21:22. > :21:28.have seen fallow deer in multitudes of parks all over the country but

:21:28. > :21:33.never in a location like this. Just over there is the Wrigley factory

:21:33. > :21:43.and I can smell Hubba Bubba in the air! To my right, is the most

:21:43. > :21:48.

:21:48. > :21:52.amazing herd of fallow deer. Do you Now Wrigley is a private site, not

:21:52. > :22:01.normally open to the public. So I'm really lucky they've let me in to

:22:01. > :22:05.have a look around. What we have got here, there is a mature buck

:22:05. > :22:12.lying over their by the tree on the ground. He's got white ear flaps

:22:12. > :22:14.and I have called him White Ear. He spent the last three weeks

:22:14. > :22:18.essentially driving other males away and patrolling around the

:22:18. > :22:28.females, checking to see which ones are fertile and if they are mating

:22:28. > :22:29.

:22:29. > :22:37.So, he is exhausted. Exhausting work, I was about to say! He is

:22:37. > :22:40.calling at the moment. He has the most enormous Adam's apple! He has,

:22:40. > :22:46.that is one of the characteristics of this type of deer. He is

:22:46. > :22:49.strutting his stuff, look at that! Yes. Such a handsome animal. He is,

:22:49. > :22:55.he's quite a beauty. At the moment, he is doing this, the girls

:22:55. > :22:58.meanwhile are quite happily feeding. He will keep patrolling around them

:22:58. > :23:05.and at some stage will find one that is ready and then he will mate

:23:05. > :23:14.Even though that mating behaviour is hard to see there are

:23:14. > :23:17.tantalising signs of the rut all Aha, David to the uninitiated

:23:17. > :23:23.there's a little shallow muddy hole but you know it's much more than

:23:23. > :23:33.that, don't you? It's a lot lot more. In deer world this is where

:23:33. > :23:36.it's all happening. This is a the classic rutting stand. What we've

:23:36. > :23:39.got is a pit about 1.5 metres in diameter by about 20 centimetres

:23:39. > :23:46.deep. You can see where the buck has scraped, recently you can see

:23:46. > :23:50.the scrape mark. When you look at this dark staining, this is urine.

:23:50. > :23:55.You can probably smell the scent. If you look above, you have these

:23:55. > :23:59.damaged dead fronds on this conifer. They haven't been eaten, what the

:23:59. > :24:02.buck has done is been rubbing his antlers but also he's got glands

:24:02. > :24:12.just below the eyes and he's been anointing selected fronds with his

:24:12. > :24:16.

:24:16. > :24:19.scent. All of this becomes a big scent signpost in the landscape.

:24:19. > :24:25.It's noticeable as well, away from it we are looking at discrete piles

:24:25. > :24:30.of droppings. That's right. What's going on? Well, if you notice what

:24:30. > :24:36.I call an audience pattern. You can see there is a semicircle of

:24:36. > :24:41.droppings here so the girls are going by doing their shopping.

:24:41. > :24:46.thrashing away. And I am a female and I basically stand here and say,

:24:46. > :24:49.he is looking rather nice. What you think? And while they are making a

:24:49. > :24:56.decision whether to mate with you or not, they, being deer, drop some

:24:56. > :25:00.droppings. There's so much to interpret here. It's incredible.

:25:00. > :25:05.enormous amount. None of this has really been appreciated before.

:25:05. > :25:12.It's all new stuff. To attract females the bucks rely on their

:25:12. > :25:16.best asset and it's true what they say, size really does matter. David,

:25:16. > :25:21.that is a fine set of antlers. certainly is. Handsome, aren't

:25:21. > :25:26.they? They are gorgeous. You have this beautiful spread which is

:25:26. > :25:32.distinctive for the fallow deer. You get these points called

:25:32. > :25:37.spellers. Amazingly deer shed their antlers every year and regrow a new

:25:37. > :25:40.- and larger set in just a few months. In fact antlers are the

:25:40. > :25:48.fastest growing bone known to man, and as David's footage of the rut

:25:49. > :25:51.at Wrigley shows, their tough too - they need to be. When they are

:25:51. > :25:59.fighting, the combat is for territory because if you own the

:25:59. > :26:04.territory, you get the females. White Ear, the dominant stag. He is

:26:04. > :26:07.right at the top of his game. at the top of his game but he will

:26:07. > :26:15.only remain so for two or three seasons and then he goes downhill

:26:15. > :26:21.really fast. Meanwhile, the females can go on for 16 years. So, the

:26:21. > :26:24.stress is the testosterone charged male. I'd love to see some of this

:26:24. > :26:30.behaviour and with the night drawing in there's just enough time

:26:30. > :26:39.for one last safari trip. Now, let's see. This is one of their

:26:39. > :26:42.favoured fields. No, not there. So, onwards, onwards. I am starting to

:26:42. > :26:50.appreciate just how hard David has had to work. They can be elusive

:26:50. > :26:53.when they want to be. Keep your eyes peeled. But just as the lights

:26:53. > :26:56.almost gone the herd comes into view. Right next to the factory

:26:56. > :27:01.building - were even able to follow on foot, at a distance, without

:27:01. > :27:08.disturbing them. Dusk is just around the corner, David. Suddenly,

:27:08. > :27:17.it is like an activity switch has been flipped. It is. Just that.

:27:17. > :27:22.Here is the male. Yes. The female, one of those, is in season. And

:27:22. > :27:27.that's all it needed, plus the fall in light. He has left the main herd

:27:27. > :27:33.behind. And he is following the girls around. He will get one

:27:33. > :27:43.eventually. That call is so distinctive. Just really strange

:27:43. > :27:43.

:27:43. > :27:47.sound. Here he is. What a beautiful It is wonderful when you get to see

:27:47. > :27:51.proper behaviour just as the light was going. We saw some exciting

:27:51. > :27:56.stuff. We did, those last few minutes as the light goes they

:27:56. > :28:00.become completely animated. All the activity takes place at dark.

:28:00. > :28:03.That's right. But today we have been really lucky, the weather has

:28:03. > :28:09.been perfect, we have seen some action, a perfect finale for our

:28:09. > :28:15.day. David's dedicated research has shown me just how interesting an

:28:15. > :28:25.animal the fallow deer is. And it's great to know that, in this Wrigley

:28:25. > :28:29.