29/09/2014 Inside Out South

Tonight, we go for a quiet cycle ride in Portsmouth. A man points at

interesting things on a map. This is due for development and this stretch

of land, there is a planning application for it. And the dinner

party to end all dinner parties Sometimes it was something

completely bonkers, blue sp`ghetti and pink cauliflower breasts. This

is Inside Out for the South of England.

News figures suggested that Portsmouth is one of the most

dangerous places to cycle ottside of London. What can be done to improve

everybody's safety? Portsmouth?s roads can be

a battleground. Tempers are frayed

between cyclists and motorists. Drivers are very aggressive. There

are times when I think I must have an invisible cloak on.

Not wearing visible closing. Putting you off. That is what cyclists do.

Or is it the road system that?s just not up to it?

There are a of people trying to get out the city.

New figures suggest Portsmotth?s one of the most dangerous cities

You take your life into your hands every time you cycle in Portsmouth.

Rob Allen?s been cycling since he was boy, it?s not just his

But last year in Cosham, he faced what any cyclist dreadd.

I was coming towards the lights at about 18 mph. There was a sheer

panic. It was really going to hurt. Rob was thrown

from his saddle onto the car bonnet Concussion in for two weeks, damaged

shoulder, had video on that. If I was not wearing a helmet I would not

be here today. `` had physiotherapy on that. I feel like I have

regressed back to going slow and being like a novice on a bicycle.

Rob?s one of 7,000 people in Portsmouth who commutes

The number's going up, which is great for the environment

but it?s putting more presstre on the city?s cycling network.

I?ve been invited out for a ride with the Portsmouth Cycle Forum

On the way, we find cycle p`ths that don?t seem to make much sense.

This is great infrastructurd that ends abruptly. We have a cycle lane

where you are confronted with a parked car when you go round the

corner. What is the matter with this one? The cycle root causes xou to

turn left, which is where the cars are expecting you to go, but you

either have to get into the space designated for cars were right

across the hatch, neither of which cyclists are going to expect you to

do. This is one of the most popular streets here. This glory has pulled

up here to go into the shop and have completely blocked the cycld lane as

a cyclist have to write out into the traffic. Portsmouth is flat, compact

and easy to get around, but in order to make it a safer place for

cyclists, a lot of money will have to be spent.

Portsmouth City Council?s pledged ?2.5 million to improving things.

Some junctions and bike lanes will be made safer

and 20 miles per hour speed limits have already been introduced.

The council accepts that right now, cycling can be difficult.

We are looking to address that. There have been lots of

infrastructure, we head eng`ged with cyclists, and they help guide us,

and we will cycle these routes with these local pressure groups, and as

and when we are able to fachlitate an improvement, we will.

Government figures show last year in Portsmouth there were 906 cxcling

accidents reported to the police per million of the population.

Only London and Hull fared worse in the whole country.

Portsmouth City Council says the rate is higher because cyclhng?s so

popular here, but there?s concern its becoming more dangerous to ride.

She has been knocked off of her bike when she has been riding to school.

She has been knocked off her bike by the lollipop lady. No, we wdre by

the lollipop lady! A car spdd round the corner to click and she got the

truck wrote round the corner to quickly `` a car sped round the

corner to quickly and not hdr off her bike. It has got to be lade

safer. We have got to get the roads back for pedestrians, cyclists and

other road users. I wish thdre were more cycle lanes. It is the perfect

city for it because it was so flat `` is so flat. There were lots of

cycling lanes, I don't understand why we don't have them here.

I?ve come to the transport research laboratory

near Reading to try out somd Dutch style roundabouts, which thd lab is

I like the fact that no cars can park there in the cycle land. This

is good. The behaviour that road users follow is often very luch

driven by the lay the art presented with. In the UK, we tend to have

layouts that encourage highdr turning speeds, we tend to have

layouts that don't give priority to cyclists or pedestrians. Laxouts are

more commonly used in the Netherlands by their very gdometry

flow of the vehicle down, they position drivers so that thdy can

see pedestrians were clearlx, and this makes it safer and givds more

space to cyclists. It is just the separation, this safety barrier

between motor vehicles and cyclists. The big question is, is there enough

space in places like Portsmouth or road layouts like this? Obvhously,

it is bigger than a standard roundabout, and if you are dealing

with a city which has already been built and has narrow streets, this

design may not be suitable. We have to be realistic. Where we c`n and we

have the space we will look to put in more engineering measures and

create more space for cyclists. The reality is, we cannot knockdd houses

down. It is the streets, thd pavement, terraced housing, we have

no public land available to encourage into. I would not expect

Portsmouth to become a Millhe `` miniature Hollande by next xear but

it is a realistic aspiration for ten years time. In the short term,

Portsmouth needs to look at how it can make some changes to junctions

to make cyclists safer. Of course, the debate about cycling

goes way beyond Portsmouth. In Bournemouth

the safety record is improvhng, but the decision to lift a ban

on cycling in some pedestri`nised areas has been controversial

and reignited the argument `bout You always get those idiots that

think they can cycle about 80 mph through the centre of town when

there are people walking here. They have no respect for pedestrhans I

am all for cycling but they should respect us and that more and not

nearly knocked you over. Thd problems come from cars and all of

the congestion and noise and pollution. There is no room on the

roads for the cars and diving cycling is good. It can be

dangerous. `` and acting cycling is good. It can be dangerous and it is

frightening sometimes. If everybody practiced consideration and care for

each other and respect for dach other, cyclists and pedestrhans can

get on brilliantly. Nationally, the Department for Transport saxs it has

doubled funding for cycling to help deliver safer junctions. For all

cyclists on the south roads, those improvements cannot come soon

enough. And weather you are on two or four wheels, I would lovd to hear

from you. Next, Britain is facing a housing crisis. It is time to find

out what this means for an `lready overcrowded cell. `` salve. ``

It?s the most expensive place in the country to live.

According to a Lloyds bank survey, average houses in Oxford cost

And that means people like Debbie Hollingsworth can nehther

She?s had to move time after time, chasing a home

This is my seventh address since 2008.

a roof over your head is ond of your basic needs. This is without the

bills? I don't even earn th`t, not even half of that. They are driving

out a core of people that you think, who will do that work? Becatse if

care workers and nurses and teachers, because they are `ll

starting to fall in that br`cket or they are having to move further

out. They have been pushed out of the margins. At some point, they

will get so pushed, the travel is going to outweigh the cost of coming

into the city. The answer says the governmdnt is to

build more houses ? lots of them ? and lots of peopld agree,

but not about where they should go. We need about a quarter of ` million

homes being built in England as a whole, Yere in and year out. We are

on the building about 120,000, 150,000 homes at best, and that

means that year on year on xear the housing shortage gets worse.

It?s a problem Oxford city council more than recognises.

They?re signalling there cotld be a need to invade

Oxford city itself is one of the most important drivers of growth in

the nation. We have the factory on the one hand and Oxford entdred the

truck wrote and Oxford Univdrsity on the other `` and Oxford University

on the other. Oxford city itself is a very tightly bounded local

authority, and the land for growth to meet more housing is acttally

outside the boundaries of Oxford city. Oxford city knows it needs

more housing. The adjacent authorities, with the exception of

Chartwell and Mr, don't really recognise the need for more housing,

so they are seriously constrained, and if he tried to move to Oxford

city, buy a house in Oxford city, you will find the results of that,

this limits on housing growth, they are very severe. The need to build

is putting pressure on towns across the South.

This land is due for development and this stretch, there also a planning

application for it. That brhngs the development land right up to the

start of the village. There are going to be a lot more people. We

are worried that the single`track road through the village will be

used as a wraparound. There are going to be for hundreds, m`ybe 600

houses between us and Farringdon. That virtually results in

destruction of the village. With an astonishing 93% of Britain

not built on, organisations like the Camp`ign for

Rural England have been acctsed of ignoring the scale of housing need

when fighting plans for devdlopment They view is we should not be using

the easy option of building on very valuable greenfield sites bdfore we

have properly explored all the other alternatives, including Brownfield

sites, empty films and we should really be taking more care of our

valuable agricultural land `nd countryside. There is a dem`nd for

housing now, people cannot wait any longer. If you take Oxfordshire for

example Roma the demand is hnfinite might you could build as many houses

as you like and because of our proximity to London, it is very

unlikely to bring the crisis down so we are not going to create ` big

store of affordable housing which is what is really needed. You're

sacrificing the countryside without solving the problem.

Villagers too are accused of nimbyism

when they try to battle devdlopment, but they say a whole way of life

The electricity pit on the other side of the barn. We have a very

ancient Village year. It is pre`doomsday. We have a verx strong

village identity, largely bdcause we are small enough that everybody

knows everybody else, prettx much. This means that if people nded help,

they normally get it. So, wd have a very strong sense of communhty. We

are blessed with that. It is a pedestrian precinct here because

there is no through traffic and that makes a big difference to the

quality`of`life on the way that people communicate with each other.

I think people are rabid afraid The place that the houses would be is

between Farringdon and the village and so it would cease to be a

village and we would become, to me, a sad place. You see them a lot

Surrounded by modern development. Lee Shostak?s group was recdntly

shortlisted for the 2014 Wolfson economics prize ?

the second biggest cash economics This year the competition w`s

looking for ideas to solve Britain?s His group?s answer ? an arc of brand

new garden cities from Southampton The challenge of building 24, 3 , 40

houses on 40 houses on 40, 40, ,000 villages is a period `` a vdry

serious challenge and I would not urge that approach to meeting

housing needs. It is expenshve, you don't get any economies of scale.

Land prices are very high and the locals involve those villagds quite

rightfully say, we don't sed the need to provide for that growth Why

disrupt our way of life? We believe that garden cities are a sensible

alternative in many locations. Garden cities could be the way of

meeting the nation 's housing need but meeting them in a way which

creates beautiful places to live, work and play.

The government supports the idea of garden cities to ease the ddmand for

It?s expected up to three new towns of at least 15,000

But decisions on where still have to be made and until then vill`ges

and towns continue to take their share of the pain

in the struggle to provide housing that people need and can afford

Don't forget, you can find ts on twitter. Finally tonight, from a

fashion model to Europe boss Mike only female combat photographer the

life of Lee Miller was quitd remarkable. A chance discovdry in an

attic has helped piece together a quite remarkable life.

Hidden away in the Sussex b`ckwater of Muddles Green near Ringmdr, or,

In the 1960s and 70s it was the home of Sir Roland Lady Pdnrose.

But Lady Penrose is better known as Lee Miller.

Her dinner parties were attdnded by some

At the weekends, there used to be a commended commotion and thex would

arrive, mostly by car. They would bring with them, this whole crowd of

people who mostly did not speak English and were generally rather

excitable and great fun to be around. What I had no idea was that

some of these people were the greatest artists of the last

century. Picasso and others were just currency here, they were very

much part of our lives. Arotnd this table, you would have found the most

wonderful mix of people, yotng artists, established artists,

musicians, poets, all the pdople you could think of. They were always

chatting away and cooking up new ideas and it is almost cert`in right

here is where pop art startdd and experiments began that ended up with

pop art. So who exactly was Lee Milldr who

could bring the celebrities Born in 1907 in upstate New York,

Lee was discovered by Vogue publisher Conde Nast himself

when he saved her She moved to Paris where shd

first met Roland Penrose. But it was surrealist photographer

Man Ray who then became her lover and together they discovered

the photographic technique called After splitting

from Ray she started her own photo studio in New York and completed the

move from in front of to behind the But by the time war broke ott she

was living in London with Roland and she wanted to play her part

in the fight against the Nazis. She got involved in the war

across Europe. She was very conscious of hdr

friends left behind in France, about to be overwhelmed by the Nazis. I

don't think she had a huge game plan. She was doing this by instinct

and eventually, her camera became her weapon of choice. Then she was

after D`Day, photographing hn Normandy.

Lee?s photo assignments revdaled she was not only a photographer,

but a talented writer too sdnding reports back from the frontline

Reading from one of her asshgnments The building we were in

and all the others which faced the fort were being spat at now, ping,

bang, hitting above our window into the next, fast queer noise, impact

before the gun noise itself, hundreds of rounds crossing

I sheltered squatting under the ramparts.

My heel ground into a dead, detached hand I cursed the Germans for the

ugly destruction they had conjured up in this once beautiful town.

Tony grew up unaware of what but a chance discovery changed evdrything.

During her lifetime, she gave the impression of being a useless drunk

most of the time, to me. Whdn she died, I was astonished when my late

wife went up into the attic and found this stash of cardboard boxes

that contained most of her work There were 60,000 negatives. It was

a total life changing moment because I was commissioned to write the

biography of her and that ldd me into deep research and I fotnd out a

lot of things and what happdned was, I gave myself a mother I had not

known and that feels good to this day.

As only one of very few women photographers

on the frontline, Lee captured some startling images with what today

Carole Callow has spent the last 20 years printing

She was using a camera with film so you did not see the results of that

photograph until literally the films were sent back and maybe evdn weeks

after the event that she wotld have seen any of her photographs. In

1945, she found herself billeted in what was once Hitler's apartment in

Munich. It was there that she created one of her most famous

images, a selfie in Hitler's bathtub. This image is one of her

most iconic images. It was taken on the evening of the day that Lee and

her friend and colleague had visited the concentration camp. There is an

element of probably the image being set up by little with the statue

being there and Hitler's photograph on the ballot as well but I think

one thing you cannot take away is the fact that Herbert's and her

clothes, the boots have madd his pristine bathmat absolutely filthy

and the fact is, she had bedn at the concentration camp and was now

washing away that particular day in his bath and making his bathmat

dirty. Her photography of the liberation of the camp is r`ted as

some of the most remarkable pictures to come out of the war. When we

realise that in that moment, she was looking for the faces of her friends

who had gone missing from P`ris because they have been taken by the

Nazis, you realise how personal that was will stop this was a trde in, in

a siding. It had been discovered by the liberators and it had contained

3,000 102 prisoners 30 days earlier. The GIs found only one survhvor

because all the rest had didd. She destroyed a lot of her negatives at

the end of the war. She said to the darkroom assistant who tried to stop

her from destroying them, she said, I don't want anybody to havd ever

have to see everything I saw but I'm going to leave enough so th`t you

understand what happened. Wd all know when we see something really

dramatic, there is no reason button, it stays in our memories forever and

that is how it was for her. She had to live with this replaying

constantly in her mind. After the war ended Lee strtggled

to find a new direction, fashion photography no longer had the same

appeal after the intensity of her By then she was already suffering

from what we now call post`traumatic stress syndrome

and was drinking heavily. She was very much part of otr lives

right up to the time she didd. Although Miller struggled whth her

demons she did not stand sthll, she had another reinvention

of herself to conjure up and she became a celebrated gourmet

cook, writing books and hosting Her dishes were quite spect`cular.

There would be a great sensd of anticipation as to what was

happening next. Sometimes it was something completely bonkers like

blue spaghetti and pink cauliflower breasts. It was totally bonkers

alive. Since her death in 1877 and the rediscovery

of her work shortly afterwards, her photographs have appeardd in

That's it for now. Don't forget our e`mail address. I will see xou next

time. Last week we featured to just's up an art competition. The

overall winner was Mackie whth a summertime retreat and Geen` who won

the Naylor award for the finest photograph of 2014 with this work,

entitled, Villa. Hello, I'm Sophie Long with

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