0:00:02 > 0:00:03Hello.
0:00:03 > 0:00:08Did Nasa copy the invention of a scientist from Sussex?
0:00:08 > 0:00:10All the ideas, when you get them are so
0:00:10 > 0:00:12obvious that you wonder why you never thought of them
0:00:12 > 0:00:14before, but nobody had.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16We know of a certain companies that employ people
0:00:16 > 0:00:18simply to go through newly
0:00:18 > 0:00:21filed patents to see how they could get around it.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Also Paul Mayhew-Archer tries to find something funny to say about
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Parkinson's.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30My wife is no longer my wife, she is my carer and when I told
0:00:30 > 0:00:34my wife this, she said, "Well, I don't care for you, Paul."
0:00:34 > 0:00:37And we meet the inhabitants of one of the Dorset's
0:00:37 > 0:00:38untouched landscapes.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40It's a colourful patchwork of small pastures
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and a flower-rich hay meadow, which I think
0:00:43 > 0:00:44is pretty much unrivaled.
0:00:44 > 0:00:59First, you might not realise it, but the South of England is a big
0:00:59 > 0:01:01player when it comes to all things space.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04We have world leading companies, entrepreneurs and
0:01:04 > 0:01:08inventors all pushing technology to the absolute limit.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11So, if you do come up with the latest big idea, you'll get
0:01:11 > 0:01:15the credit for, right?
0:01:17 > 0:01:21JFK: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do
0:01:21 > 0:01:24other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Three, two, one, zero.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29Lift off.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33We have a liftoff.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Since the 1960s, the world's greatest minds have been
0:01:37 > 0:01:40racing to reach the stars and expand our horizons.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43This is the first orbital test satellite.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47It's the forerunner of all the comms spacecrafts that you have.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51This is the daddy of them all.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53While Nasa often grabs the headlines, an engineer
0:01:53 > 0:01:56from Sussex played a major role behind the scenes and
0:01:56 > 0:01:59believes the Americans have stolen his idea.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02They never gave me credit for anything.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06It's so bad and it's not normal.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Back in the '70s, engineer Alan Weinberg started
0:02:13 > 0:02:18work at the European Space Agency designing solar array power system.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22What's more, they are still in use today on almost spacecraft and
0:02:22 > 0:02:24satellites in orbit.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30When I arrived at the European Space Agency, we had more
0:02:30 > 0:02:37or less a clean sheet as far as the power system was confirmed.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Concerned.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41When you look at what the Americans were doing it was...
0:02:41 > 0:02:43And the Russians, it was pretty basic.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45He left the Space Agency in 1995, three years later,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Nasa launched the International Space Station powered by a massive
0:02:48 > 0:02:53array of solar panels and some of Alan's designs.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58But the power system had a major flaw, the original solar
0:02:58 > 0:03:01panels could only survive around 15 years in space.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07At the time of the launch, Alan was working as a
0:03:07 > 0:03:09self-employed engineer and came up with a solution.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14They are past their lifetime now.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18At the beginning of life, they've got excess power and
0:03:18 > 0:03:21my idea was let's use this excess power, let's not keep the solar
0:03:21 > 0:03:27array at constant voltage.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28But let's vary the solar array.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31I patented it because I felt that it was a smart idea and
0:03:31 > 0:03:34nobody had thought of that and having said that,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36it seems simple, but at the time when I put it to
0:03:36 > 0:03:41other people, it didn't seem simple to them.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Alan spent £35,000 securing his patent, but as he had
0:03:44 > 0:03:54never heard from Nasa, he assumed his idea to very
0:03:55 > 0:03:55Has
0:03:55 > 0:03:57--vary the voltage had been ignored.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02system should have started to fail is life
0:04:02 > 0:04:06continuing as normal?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08I'm absolutely certain that they are varying the voltage.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10And this is the basis of my patent.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12And they can do this easily because they have all
0:04:12 > 0:04:15the equipment to do that.
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Nasa insists the voltage is always kept
0:04:20 > 0:04:23at a set point of 160 volts, but data from the space station's
0:04:23 > 0:04:25power station is broadcast on ISS live.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28And that clearly shows the voltage changing.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Intellectual property rights like Alan's patent are a hot
0:04:34 > 0:04:37topic in the UK right now.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Especially here in the south where the space industry is booming.
0:04:46 > 0:04:52Here at the UK's Space Agency's research
0:04:52 > 0:04:56base in Oxfordshire, Catherine is the director of growth.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Space is a bit of a quiet success story for the UK.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Making a big contribution to many different sectors in the UK,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04about 250 billion's worth.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08When people want to do something innovative in space, they often come
0:05:08 > 0:05:11here to the UK and you know, we are a nation of inventors and that's
0:05:11 > 0:05:13what people like to work with.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16So we're building...
0:05:16 > 0:05:18One of our brightest up-and-coming stars in the
0:05:18 > 0:05:21business is Oxford space systems.
0:05:21 > 0:05:22The space race is on.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24We're seeing this transition from space being
0:05:24 > 0:05:29dominated by countries and large agencies and flipping into
0:05:29 > 0:05:31commercial space so, there is great opportunities there for
0:05:31 > 0:05:35entrepreneurs.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38For CEO Mike, ideas are the firm's lifeblood, but
0:05:38 > 0:05:41keeping hold of them can be tricky.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45It's that delicate balance between disclosing your intellectual
0:05:45 > 0:05:48property to achieve sales, but without giving away the crown
0:05:48 > 0:05:50jewels of how you make your product or how
0:05:50 > 0:05:52you formulate a material.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Because a patent in the process of trying to
0:05:56 > 0:05:59protect also almost shows your hands of cards to the people who are
0:05:59 > 0:06:00interested in your idea.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Absolutely.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07In fact we know of certain companies that employ people simply to go
0:06:07 > 0:06:10through newly filed patents to work at how that can be replicated or how
0:06:10 > 0:06:11they can get around it.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16And there is another problem because if a
0:06:16 > 0:06:18government agency wants to use your patented idea, legally,
0:06:18 > 0:06:19you can't stop them.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Though, they are supposed to pay you for it.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24There is an argument to be made if the
0:06:24 > 0:06:27technology is so great, than it is probably right
0:06:27 > 0:06:30for a government to want access to it and ownership of it.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32And most governments generally would look to strike a deal
0:06:32 > 0:06:35with the inventor because clearly, you are the guy who
0:06:35 > 0:06:36invented the technology,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39you are the real smart person that knows how to exploit this.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41It is better to have you on side rather
0:06:41 > 0:06:42than shut you out.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44But, of course, there are horror stories where
0:06:44 > 0:06:46inventors do get shut out.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49And shut out was exactly how Alan was feeling
0:06:49 > 0:06:50about Nasa.
0:06:50 > 0:06:58So, he'd lawyered up.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00I did eventually find a no-win, no fee lawyer.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03They invited me to come over and I spent the week with them
0:07:03 > 0:07:06and we went through everything and they started to dig for information
0:07:06 > 0:07:08using the Freedom of Information Act.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Alan thought he had finally got the proof he needed when this report
0:07:13 > 0:07:17from Nasa landed on his desk.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21But they still weren't giving anything away.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Redacted page after redacted page, all of it labelled classified
0:07:24 > 0:07:27under the US arms export control act.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35It's an International Space Station, you can't claim an arms
0:07:35 > 0:07:43agreement as a reason for not giving information.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45So eventually they came back with some sort of information,
0:07:45 > 0:07:46but it wasn't sufficient.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Alan's lawyers sought compensation from
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Nasa, but Nasa said no.
0:07:50 > 0:07:56They maintained they had it copied his
0:07:56 > 0:07:57patent and weren't varying the voltage.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00The live data from this space station seems to show it does
0:08:00 > 0:08:04vary and we have seen e-mails to Alan from Nasa's employees
0:08:04 > 0:08:07confirming they can vary the voltage from back here on earth.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09But that still doesn't prove they are using
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Alan's idea.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19If Alan wants to take his claim to court, he could be in
0:08:19 > 0:08:21for a drawn out and expensive ordeal.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23In 2009, Nasa was ordered to pay Boeing
0:08:23 > 0:08:32$28 million for using one of their patented ideas.
0:08:32 > 0:08:42And a legal battle with an aircraft
0:08:43 > 0:08:45company went on for -- an aircraft company over
0:08:45 > 0:08:46another patent went on
0:08:46 > 0:08:47for 20 years.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50In the end, my patent lawyers said to me, look, we can't
0:08:50 > 0:08:51continue with this.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Nasa aren't admitting anything and it means we
0:08:53 > 0:08:55have to take them to court and that is going to
0:08:56 > 0:08:57cost us a lot of money.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00We contacted Nasa to ask how they keep the power set at 160 volts
0:09:00 > 0:09:02when their own data shows that it varies
0:09:02 > 0:09:06and how they have managed to extend the life span of the power system
0:09:06 > 0:09:07without using Alan's idea.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09After asking for more time, not once, but
0:09:09 > 0:09:11three times, Nasa eventually told us what they told Alan five years
0:09:11 > 0:09:14ago, that they don't change the voltage.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18The greater our knowledge increases, the greater
0:09:18 > 0:09:20our ignorance.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Back in Sussex, Alan's still inventing.
0:09:25 > 0:09:31He is currently working on two improved power systems.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32He reckons they are ground-breaking.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34But his fight with Nasa has left its mark.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36The eyes of the world now look to space.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40I'll be very careful the next time and make
0:09:40 > 0:09:43sure that I am fully protected or try to be fully
0:09:43 > 0:09:44protected if that's possible.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49Is it possible?
0:09:49 > 0:09:50No, currently not.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Sad, isn't it?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Now, don't forget, as ever, if you want
0:10:00 > 0:10:03to get in touch with the show, then drop me an e-mail at...
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Still to come...
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Punch lines and Parkinson's.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14My view is just make them think something funny is about to happen
0:10:14 > 0:10:16and then just when they realise it isn't used left them.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Next, what happened next?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Time for an update on some of our stories.
0:10:26 > 0:10:34In September, we brought you the story of Stevie,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37the Southampton scaffolder whose online alter ego is trapped.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38I've caught two.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40One just on the corner there and then another one over
0:10:40 > 0:10:45there.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Stevie's a so-called paedophile hunter.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48The police say paedophile hunters are vigilantes.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52They pose as children online to catch predators
0:10:52 > 0:10:55who arrange to meet them.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Following a recent sting, a man he caught killed himself after
0:10:57 > 0:11:00he was released from police custody, pending further investigation.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03On our programme, we showed you a man who groomed
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Stevie in just two days.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07You arranged to meet a 14-year-old
0:11:07 > 0:11:08boy here today.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09For sex.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10No.
0:11:10 > 0:11:11Yes you have, mate.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Robert, the man being stung, is a serial paedophile.
0:11:14 > 0:11:24He pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a child following
0:11:24 > 0:11:26sexual grooming in Southampton Crown Court last month.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28And was sentenced to seven years in prison.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Speechless.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Remember the locksmith company overcharging customers
0:11:30 > 0:11:33across the South?
0:11:35 > 0:11:41This company charged a man from Swindon £730.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43It's not what I asked for, it is not like
0:11:43 > 0:11:44for like.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Appalling.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49When we caught up with the owner Gary, he promised
0:11:49 > 0:11:50to put things right.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52The ones in your report, we will refund them
0:11:52 > 0:11:53immediately.
0:11:53 > 0:11:54A full refund?
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Yes.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58And good news.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Ann got her refund and a bunch of flowers.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04We called Gary up to give him a nudge because the
0:12:04 > 0:12:07other two people in our report had not been refunded.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10They have now got their money back.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13And finally, there is also good news for the tower
0:12:13 > 0:12:16block residents who were fed up with being back of the queue for upgrades
0:12:16 > 0:12:18and repairs.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19My kitchen sink exploded.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22It is just a nightmare.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Southampton City Council told us that it has brought forward the pipe
0:12:25 > 0:12:27replacement for this block of towers.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30We don't feel safe because how can that be a fire door when the
0:12:30 > 0:12:31other door is swinging open?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Residents were concerned about the fire doors that don't
0:12:34 > 0:12:35close in high winds.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Experts told us they were unsafe.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Heaven forbid, but if there was a disaster here, this is
0:12:42 > 0:12:43on record.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45The Council has told us that replacement door
0:12:45 > 0:12:46sets for the fire doors
0:12:46 > 0:12:50to the lift, lobby and staircase have been ordered and as an interim
0:12:50 > 0:12:55measure, stronger door closers have been fitted to a number of doors.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Next, Paul Mayhew-Archer is a comedy writer.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05He also has Parkinson's.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Nothing funny about that unless you decide to turn your hand
0:13:07 > 0:13:08to stand up comedy.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10And that is exactly what he did.
0:13:11 > 0:13:1618 months ago, I stumbled in front of a television camera to make
0:13:16 > 0:13:18a little documentary called Parkinson's: The Funny Side.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23And now I've stumbled back in front of the
0:13:23 > 0:13:26same camera to make a little follow-up, so follow me.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29The groom is already married.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32It was the funny side because I am a comedy writer
0:13:32 > 0:13:35who used to write something set in a village called Dibley.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Oh, sorry.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Wrong church.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42And it was Parkinson's the funny side because well, because
0:13:42 > 0:13:43I've got it.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Maybe she can cure.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Yes, it is gone, you see?
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Isn't that amazing?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50My brain was producing jokes, but it wasn't producing
0:13:50 > 0:13:53dopamine.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Which is the chemical it uses to send messages to the rest of
0:13:56 > 0:13:57the body.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59No one knows why, but in the programme,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02we looked at some of the amazing therapies now possible.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Absolutely astonishing.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07I also took a ballet because music and dance
0:14:07 > 0:14:10help to control the symptoms.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18And I was experimenting heavily with chocolate as a possible cure.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Since I saw you last, somethings have
0:14:21 > 0:14:23stayed the same, the chocolate addiction, but other things have
0:14:24 > 0:14:27changed.
0:14:29 > 0:14:34So one of the things I noticed is that I'd take some pills
0:14:34 > 0:14:37first thing in the morning and as it is coming up to lunchtime,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39I'm having to take some more pills because I am...
0:14:39 > 0:14:41They are sort of wearing off.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44And my footsteps which are normally quite normal have
0:14:44 > 0:14:50turned in to sort of David Suchet's Hercule Poirot.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52What a pity Hercule never used his little brain
0:14:52 > 0:14:55cells to solve the mystery of Parkinson's.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Anyway, walking is something I have done since...
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Well, since I could walk, but it is good
0:15:00 > 0:15:04to try new things because back in light of new bits in the brain.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06So I've decided to have a go at standup
0:15:06 > 0:15:09comedy.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16But first, sit down comedy or to give it its proper name, my
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Parkinson's ballet class.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25So, any tips on doing standup comedy from my
0:15:25 > 0:15:28ballet buddies?
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Just don't freeze. Just don't freeze.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36One of the symptoms of Parkinson's is freezing
0:15:36 > 0:15:40where you just stop moving for a couple of minutes or even longer.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44I heard of someone who got stuck on the Circle
0:15:44 > 0:15:45to go all the way around.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Again and again and again.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Because they couldn't manage to get off the train.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57And if I use comedy to keep my spirits up, what
0:15:57 > 0:16:01do others do?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03These exercises, these various types of physical movements
0:16:03 > 0:16:13are giving us an aid against this...
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Sorry.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Oh.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Sorry.
0:16:29 > 0:16:36Some of these people are keeping going and
0:16:36 > 0:16:37keeping generally cheerful.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40I mean, we are generally cheerful people.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45LAUGHTER.
0:16:45 > 0:16:55honestly.We are.My wife has noticed the changes.He did go to
0:16:55 > 0:17:00the fridge the other day and he got me something and I was cooking it.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05He opened the fridge and then went... And I think I said something
0:17:05 > 0:17:13like, take all day! I just thought, oh, I shouldn't have said that. So
0:17:13 > 0:17:20it is that sort of thing he wasn't used to doing.Feeling pretty smug
0:17:20 > 0:17:24that I got off the soaker line and hoping that I don't freeze, I
0:17:24 > 0:17:31shuffled to London's West End for my first ever go at standup. Here I am
0:17:31 > 0:17:38outside the renowned comedy store and I think I will just go home.And
0:17:38 > 0:17:41if you think we don't care more about dogs and humans, I will sum it
0:17:41 > 0:17:49up, I went to get a use dog...Good evening.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56The comedy store has launched the careers of some comedy great since
0:17:56 > 0:18:09it started 38 years ago. The club founder has some amazing stories.
0:18:09 > 0:18:15Never heard of Robbie Williams. Never heard of them. Robbie went on
0:18:15 > 0:18:18to do five minutes and he a 45 minutes later.And I am worried
0:18:18 > 0:18:26about doing ten minutes mind you, I have Parkinson's. Mind you, rumour
0:18:26 > 0:18:36has it so did he. My first. Time to get some tips. Starting with quick
0:18:36 > 0:18:44fire comedian Tim Vine.This is what I do sometimes if I forget my act, I
0:18:44 > 0:18:51go left leg, right leg, left leg, it is a running order.The RSPCA can
0:18:51 > 0:18:54come around legally and check to see if your house is big enough for the
0:18:54 > 0:19:02dog and if it isn't they take the dog away. But they leave you there.
0:19:02 > 0:19:09Some very useful advice from John Maloney.Yes, phase forward and...
0:19:09 > 0:19:18Get out there. That will do. Generally works for me.And Lucy
0:19:18 > 0:19:23Porter tries to reassure me.It is your first gig, it is sold out.Is
0:19:23 > 0:19:31good going. No pressure. Tonight's event is the brainchild of this man.
0:19:31 > 0:19:37Whose father was diagnosed with Parkinson's 17 years ago.He is 75
0:19:37 > 0:19:43now. It was quite early, early than some people we know.That is about
0:19:43 > 0:19:52my age.It is important to talk about things. Doesn't matter what it
0:19:52 > 0:19:55is, if you see something that is difficult and challenging or even
0:19:55 > 0:19:58just something people don't normally talk about, you should talk about
0:19:58 > 0:20:09it. Comedy store is cathartic. Isn't it? I get a laugh. They are both
0:20:09 > 0:20:14medicinal. Yeah, that is working fine.
0:20:19 > 0:20:25You're very kind. It is nice of you. Unfortunately my medicine from
0:20:25 > 0:20:30earlier are wearing off and I'm not feeling freight. I'm a little bit
0:20:30 > 0:20:34off at the moment. It hasn't kicked in yet. I'm sort of slow and
0:20:34 > 0:20:44perhaps... My hand so move very well.You've just taken some pills.
0:20:44 > 0:20:52I was feeling very dopey.Hey, I am on the front page everyone. Look.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I'll!
0:21:07 > 0:21:17I'm going to sit down again. That is lovely.Ladies and gentlemen please
0:21:17 > 0:21:28give a huge welcome for Mr...Our next act has Parkinson's. So are you
0:21:28 > 0:21:37ready to see? Please welcome to the states, the fantastic Paul.
0:21:40 > 0:21:47Thank you very much. Thank you. According to the Parkinson's UK
0:21:47 > 0:21:51website, every hour someone in this country is told they have
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Parkinson's. That is pretty serious. That means some of us are being told
0:21:54 > 0:22:01that the rear cog in the morning. -- are being told at three o'clock in
0:22:01 > 0:22:06the morning. Wake up. What is a? You've got Parkinson's. Go back to
0:22:06 > 0:22:12sleep. I was diagnosed at 11 o'clock in the morning by a friend. I went
0:22:12 > 0:22:17to see him. I told him that I had an arm that didn't swing very well. And
0:22:17 > 0:22:24he said, I don't want to worry you, but you either have Parkinson's. I
0:22:24 > 0:22:30don't know what he would say if he did want to worry me. I've always
0:22:30 > 0:22:36seen my life as a bit of a sitcom. I come from a sitcom kind of family.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Two years after my wife and I got married, my father married my wife's
0:22:40 > 0:22:47mother, which means I am married to my stepson start.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49mother, which means I am married to my stepson And then when we had our
0:22:49 > 0:22:57son he is my stepson. I've always regarded Parkinson's as a new
0:22:57 > 0:23:01episode in my sitcom life. Sometimes the funny things that people says.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06There was another neurologist he had a delivery. My wife asked him does
0:23:06 > 0:23:11Parkinson's expect life expectancy. He said, well be used to think it
0:23:11 > 0:23:14did, but then about six years ago as we decided that it did not. But now
0:23:14 > 0:23:28we think it does. My wife is no longer my wife, she is my care were.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29we think it does. My wife is no longer my wife, she is my care When
0:23:29 > 0:23:32I told my wife that she was my carer, she said why don't care for
0:23:32 > 0:23:40you Paul. I'm doing all right. I'm doing some comedy and doing a right.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45She said oh, Paul, it is good to laugh I still can. In fact I'm going
0:23:45 > 0:23:49to have a laugh tomorrow morning when I would wake someone up at
0:23:49 > 0:23:51three in the morning and tell them that they have Parkinson's. Good
0:23:51 > 0:24:07night!Come on, ready with a high five.Paul, brilliant. Tells people
0:24:07 > 0:24:12what it is really about. And tells people not to be afraid. Just face
0:24:12 > 0:24:23it. Love the man.I love that. I absolutely love that.I think Paul
0:24:23 > 0:24:26was absolutely amazing. I think he's started big Emmys and extra big. And
0:24:26 > 0:24:28he was even bigger in the middle.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39He'll be here every Friday and Saturday night.Leave something for
0:24:39 > 0:24:49the rest of us.I love him. He needs to come back again.Comedy. It may
0:24:49 > 0:24:52not work for everyone, but my goodness it works for me. Even
0:24:52 > 0:24:54better than chocolate.
0:25:01 > 0:25:06Nice one, Paul grey to have you on the show. Our final story is about
0:25:06 > 0:25:10an old-fashioned farmer who sat back and did not much. All around him
0:25:10 > 0:25:14grew the most wonderful landscape ablaze so beautiful that it has
0:25:14 > 0:25:20attracted a prince, a billionaire, birds, bees and butterflies aplenty.
0:25:20 > 0:25:30Nick Baker has been to the Meadows and are set. -- in Dorset. A
0:25:30 > 0:25:33throwback before times of pesticides and chemical fertilisers. In June it
0:25:33 > 0:25:38is buzzing with insect life. While these flowers draw in the bugs in
0:25:38 > 0:25:44their millions. 30 years ago, it was a very different story. This whole
0:25:44 > 0:25:56line scab -- landscape became very close to destruction.To a do I
0:25:56 > 0:26:03hear...By all accounts a lazy man. His lack of innovation was a boon
0:26:03 > 0:26:09for the wildlife here. The wildlife trust bought most of the estate and
0:26:09 > 0:26:16packages. Earlier this year, the Prince of Wales came here to mark
0:26:16 > 0:26:18its 30th anniversary.
0:26:21 > 0:26:27This really is a meadow fit for a prince. Check out the botanical
0:26:27 > 0:26:34royalty in these rather splendid orchids. There's loads of them here.
0:26:34 > 0:26:42Amongst the orchids these flowers are nectar for bugs. This is a real
0:26:42 > 0:26:46beauty. This blackbird has a mouthful of insects taken from here.
0:26:46 > 0:26:56Here is a mosque taking pollen. --
0:26:59 > 0:27:03we desperately need more places like this.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12In the trees around, you can pick up words like this one. This case it
0:27:12 > 0:27:21dives after a fly. It is heaven for sparrows as well. These wants, and
0:27:21 > 0:27:26birds have declined by 70%. They have not turned their back on
0:27:26 > 0:27:32farming. These cattle lightly graze the metal keeping the thicker grass
0:27:32 > 0:27:33under control.
0:27:36 > 0:27:42Running through the reserve a different habitat. This time of
0:27:42 > 0:27:54year, thousands of these flies hover over the rivers. This one is a male.
0:27:54 > 0:28:01When they slow down, you can see the wings moving independently. They
0:28:01 > 0:28:05powered these insects and give them their extraordinary mobility. What a
0:28:05 > 0:28:10place this is! I guess we have to thank the folks from 30 years of was
0:28:10 > 0:28:17for this vision of what it could become. And also those who helped
0:28:17 > 0:28:22out to secure its future. There are very few places like this left. Long
0:28:22 > 0:28:31may it prosper. Nick Baker there. That is it for now. And for this
0:28:31 > 0:28:35series. We will be back early in the new year with plenty more stories.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Until then, goodbye.