:00:00. > :00:00.On tonight?s show, I?m on the red carpet to meet the stars
:00:00. > :00:12.It's about Birmingham, so it's great to be here.
:00:13. > :00:15.I dig deep to see why where we live is so appealing to filmmakers
:00:16. > :00:41.I?m Andy Akinwolere and this is Inside Out.
:00:42. > :00:44.First tonight, did you know we make over 327 million journeys a year
:00:45. > :00:49.on public transport around Birmingham and the Black Cotntry?
:00:50. > :00:52.Most people see it as a convenient way to get `round.
:00:53. > :00:54.Others see it as an opportunity to harass or,
:00:55. > :00:58.in the worst cases, sexuallx assault their fellow passengers
:00:59. > :01:01.Laura Bates went to find out what?s being done to tackle the problem.
:01:02. > :01:09.Be warned, some viewers might find parts of this film upsetting.
:01:10. > :01:12.For many passengers in the West Midlands, the routine daily
:01:13. > :01:22.commute is the last place they would expect to be the victim of ` crime,
:01:23. > :01:26.Anywhere that?s very busy lends itself to an environmdnt where
:01:27. > :01:27.you could be the victim
:01:28. > :01:32.The effects of sexual crimes can be devastating.
:01:33. > :01:35.I?m constantly on edge. I don't like getting the bus at all.
:01:36. > :01:40.I'm suspicious of any guy that gets on the bus now.
:01:41. > :01:44.But, alarmingly, most victils never go to the police.
:01:45. > :01:47.We know these offences are occurring on a regular basis
:01:48. > :01:50.on the public transport network and less than 5%, we believd,
:01:51. > :01:57.So the police are focusing their efforts on encouraging victims
:01:58. > :02:07.One young woman who underst`nds the reluctance to go to
:02:08. > :02:10.We?ve changed her name to protect her identity.
:02:11. > :02:18.I?d gone to see a friend, so it was just a normal to `nd
:02:19. > :02:27.Katy had been approached on the bus by a drunken man earlier in the day.
:02:28. > :02:29.When she boarded a bus to go home hours later
:02:30. > :02:35.So, I just stayed there and tried to be invisible.
:02:36. > :02:42.Recognising Katy from earlidr in the day, he sat next to her.
:02:43. > :02:45.There was just a centimetre in between us, so I had nowherd to
:02:46. > :02:51.Trapped by the window and with no way to escape,
:02:52. > :03:04.I kept trying to move my legs away, but he was a lot bigger than I am.
:03:05. > :03:08.He kept trying to put his arm around me.
:03:09. > :03:16.I was kind of moving away, then it was, ?Ah, give me a kiss?.
:03:17. > :03:19.Despite repeatedly saying no and moving away from him, the man
:03:20. > :03:27.At this point I just shut down ` if I pretend it?s not happening
:03:28. > :03:32.The man kissed her, before getting off the bus.
:03:33. > :03:36.I didn?t think it was the sort of thing you call the policd for.
:03:37. > :03:45.So many people don?t know if they should report what?s
:03:46. > :03:53.Most commonly reported are people masturbating.
:03:54. > :03:56.More personal incidents are predominantly
:03:57. > :04:02.Unfortunately, victims think that this can be quite
:04:03. > :04:04.normal and that?s a behaviotr, well, should I report it?
:04:05. > :04:11.But, last year, 129 people did report
:04:12. > :04:14.a sexual offence on public transport to West Midlands Police, with some
:04:15. > :04:27.There are methods of offendhng that come up regularly.
:04:28. > :04:37.Suspects choose to sit next to lone female passengers.
:04:38. > :04:45.They describe almost being pinned against the window, then having
:04:46. > :04:47.their legs stroked, not being able to move and just feeling generally
:04:48. > :04:50.really uncomfortable. Often when they get up to
:04:51. > :04:57.move they?re assaulted again. This man at Coventry Bus St`tion
:04:58. > :05:06.grabs and touches several women The police are concerned th`t this
:05:07. > :05:09.sort of behaviour is becoming all too common, so I?m keen to hear
:05:10. > :05:26.the views of some young womdn who Do you think that most people of
:05:27. > :05:30.your age with feel able to go to the police about something like that
:05:31. > :05:34.happening? If somebody grabbed their home or group them, would they
:05:35. > :05:40.reported to the police? I don't think they would. Why not? H think
:05:41. > :05:44.they would rather keep it to themselves and do something about it
:05:45. > :05:50.because it would make it bigger than it is, although it is big anyway, it
:05:51. > :05:54.would almost come back to them, almost classified as their fault.
:05:55. > :05:57.Especially our age of peopld would not trouble to go to the police
:05:58. > :06:03.about it. Because it happendd so often. I think people think because
:06:04. > :06:05.of this happened so many tiles, they just rush it.
:06:06. > :06:08.But there is another reason they won?t go to the police.
:06:09. > :06:11.I also think if you report to the police nothing would be dond, just
:06:12. > :06:22.I think he would be scared that the person would remember it was you
:06:23. > :06:25.that reported to the police. So, that was very typical
:06:26. > :06:28.of a session talking to teenage There?s an instant recognithon
:06:29. > :06:31.of the problem. But there?s a real sense
:06:32. > :06:35.of confusion about whether ht?s serious enough to report,
:06:36. > :06:37.about what constitutes a crhme and none of them have ever reported
:06:38. > :06:44.something like this to the police. The police recognise they h`ve
:06:45. > :06:47.a lot to do to get victims to come The reality is,
:06:48. > :06:51.we don?t have the full picttre. We can only get that if we have
:06:52. > :06:55.the intelligence from peopld who So, Project Empower has been
:06:56. > :07:00.launched ` a permanent team of officers dedicated to tackling
:07:01. > :07:03.sexual crimes on the transport It was felt we needed to make
:07:04. > :07:12.a stand now to target suspects, but also to empower
:07:13. > :07:16.the victims to come report. The police tell me they are so
:07:17. > :07:19.committed to Project Empower that We?re encouraging the reporting
:07:20. > :07:26.of any kind of unwanted beh`viour If you are on a bus, train or tram
:07:27. > :07:35.and somebody does something that makes you feel uncomfortabld,
:07:36. > :07:42.then you need to report it to us. Out on the buses, and the police
:07:43. > :07:46.are keen to spread the word about The message they?re sharing is
:07:47. > :07:54.simple ` if you are the victim of And if someone does experience
:07:55. > :08:01.groping or verbal harassment and rings 999, the police whll be
:08:02. > :08:05.taking that seriously? It will be prioritised
:08:06. > :08:07.and we would never say that we would get an officer there in 30 seconds,
:08:08. > :08:10.but, yeah, absolutely it?s no As we leave the bus to take
:08:11. > :08:18.a break from filming, She tells me that she was
:08:19. > :08:36.assaulted the previous week. Like so many victims,
:08:37. > :08:38.she hadn?t reported the inchdent, but thanks to Project Empowdr these
:08:39. > :08:42.officers know exactly how to help. With thousands of cameras
:08:43. > :08:45.across the bus and rail network CCTV can be retrieved days
:08:46. > :08:47.and even weeks after the incident, The woman who approached us when
:08:48. > :09:01.we were filming made a statdment. The CCTV of the incident has
:09:02. > :09:03.been located and retrieved. In Katy?s case,
:09:04. > :09:21.her report led to the suspect being It didn't seem that the polhce would
:09:22. > :09:26.do anything, that they have. It is better that you tell someond, don't
:09:27. > :09:28.stay quiet at all because it doesn't do you any good.
:09:29. > :09:31.If you?ve been a victim of ` crime like the ones featured in L`ura s
:09:32. > :09:35.film and want details of whdre to go for help, then please go to
:09:36. > :09:45.Next on Inside Out West Midlands, with Scotland voting ?No?
:09:46. > :09:47.for independence and David Cameron saying he wants
:09:48. > :09:49.the English regions to hold more power locally, it got us thhnking.
:09:50. > :09:52.Could we, here in the West Lidlands, go it alone and look
:09:53. > :10:11.It has been the news story of the year. The Scottish referendtm.
:10:12. > :10:17.Although the vote is cast. Ht doesn't mean that the story has
:10:18. > :10:19.ended. It has ignited a deb`te about local and regional government and
:10:20. > :10:26.the devolution of power frol Westminster. Could the West Midlands
:10:27. > :10:31.hack it alone and did it evdr really happen? I have enlisted the help of
:10:32. > :10:36.historian Robert Shaw. He s`ys that the Midlands has the potenthal to be
:10:37. > :10:40.a major player if powers ard devolved, but we need more
:10:41. > :10:45.confidence. Broadly when we talk about talk about the North `nd the
:10:46. > :10:52.South. Really, for a lot of people who do not live here, this bit in
:10:53. > :11:02.the middle is here be monstdrs! Or here be a lot of service st`tions
:11:03. > :11:07.would you stop off. Here be Midlanders! We need to try to define
:11:08. > :11:13.what that means. What is thd Midlands? It is very import`nt to
:11:14. > :11:17.try to give a firm picked jtror of who we are, what we have bedn in the
:11:18. > :11:23.past and what we are becoming in the future. We need to rediscovdr
:11:24. > :11:26.ourselves, find that inner Lidlander and Robert believes we should look
:11:27. > :11:34.to the past because when it comes to politics and power we have pedigree.
:11:35. > :11:38.This was a local economist. Most people would say that this hs the
:11:39. > :11:42.mild who delivered the great reform Bill of 1832, one of the most
:11:43. > :11:49.significant political events in the history of the country that give us
:11:50. > :11:56.a modern electoral system. The 9th century is still known as the age of
:11:57. > :12:01.the provinces, when a chillx Birmingham, the West Midlands and
:12:02. > :12:07.particular was agenda setting in terms of showing us where the idea
:12:08. > :12:12.of progress is, and if was defined here. We used to set the political
:12:13. > :12:23.agenda, but that is the past, what about now question might do we want
:12:24. > :12:27.more power? We may not give an 4% turnout, but the kids get clues
:12:28. > :12:32.about weather people give a dam about revolution? Do you thhnk the
:12:33. > :12:40.West Midlands should have greater independence? Nil. Why not? Because
:12:41. > :12:50.I believe we are stronger together. I think in our global world that we
:12:51. > :12:57.live in, raking off into sm`ller units, maybe for some things, but I
:12:58. > :13:04.think for some things, not others. It would be nice to have thd greater
:13:05. > :13:10.independence to challenge otr own destiny. Regionalisation is quite
:13:11. > :13:19.good, I think. Every region is different. You need to keep that
:13:20. > :13:25.identity. The account will come later, but what about our identity?
:13:26. > :13:32.What defines the modern Midlands? For Robert it is a tasty at spicy
:13:33. > :13:37.aromatic dish. I would suggdst this is an ideal symbol of the Wdst
:13:38. > :13:43.Midlands and its ability to come up with things that the rest of the
:13:44. > :13:44.world want. It begins here hn the West Midlands and gets adopted by
:13:45. > :13:51.the rest of the globe. Absolutely, West Midlands is very
:13:52. > :13:54.distinctive for the way that actually different populations have
:13:55. > :13:57.come together and created vdry exciting things and you see that
:13:58. > :14:01.in music, and this is reallx the So we do have an identity that sets
:14:02. > :14:12.us apart and we have the heritage but does that mean we should stand
:14:13. > :14:17.up for ourselves and go it `lone? Realistically,
:14:18. > :14:22.this part of the country is always driven and until recent timds, it
:14:23. > :14:28.has driven the identity of the UK. So I think in that sense, it can
:14:29. > :14:34.have a lot of confidence about what it can do and also, it will make it
:14:35. > :14:39.difficult for anybody to tr`vel around the rest of the country if we
:14:40. > :14:43.do go for independence becatse they need to come through here
:14:44. > :14:46.so that puts us in We may not be putting up ro`d blocks
:14:47. > :14:54.any time soon but devolution in England is certainly high
:14:55. > :14:57.on the political agenda. We've had 100 years plus
:14:58. > :15:04.of centralising government hn which they have taken more
:15:05. > :15:08.and more control the purse strings If this happens,
:15:09. > :15:13.it would represent a signal departure in the way we do our
:15:14. > :15:18.politics in this country but I think Scotland has delivered such a trauma
:15:19. > :15:22.to the body politic that we could There's also the issue
:15:23. > :15:28.of what works with the city doesn't I think you have to look very
:15:29. > :15:34.carefully about regionalisation City in North Staffordshire,
:15:35. > :15:39.we are much closer to Greater Manchester and Derbx
:15:40. > :15:43.and Nottingham and Birmingh`m so you have to have the right level of
:15:44. > :15:46.local decision`making and I think going down a big regionalis`tion
:15:47. > :15:50.rate can be dangerous. You could end up being forgotten
:15:51. > :15:57.and that is a very dangerous thing. So it's big news
:15:58. > :16:00.in big`time politics but wh`t about That's it,
:16:01. > :16:05.the votes have been counted in our small and unscientifhc poll
:16:06. > :16:10.and it seems the majority of our voters would like grdater
:16:11. > :16:13.independence for the Midlands and we could do it, we've got the heritage
:16:14. > :16:18.and arguably our own identity. Whether it will ever happen
:16:19. > :16:21.and what it would look like, the So what do you think ` is Robert
:16:22. > :16:30.right, could we hack it alone? Let me know your thoughts or if
:16:31. > :16:34.you?ve got a story to tell, email I?m at the Birmingham premidre
:16:35. > :16:43.of the new series of BBC dr`ma, All the stars from the latest show
:16:44. > :16:53.have turned out to celebratd in the We've nothing to fear
:16:54. > :16:57.from the proposed expansion After the first few weeks,
:16:58. > :17:07.what we do in London will bd legal, the other tenth is in good hands,
:17:08. > :17:10.isn't that right, either? Here?s one of the stars of the show,
:17:11. > :17:14.actor Cillian Murphy who pl`ys Thomas Selby,
:17:15. > :17:16.the Brummie bad boy and leader What do you think it means
:17:17. > :17:22.for the people of Birminghal to have I think it's fantastic that show
:17:23. > :17:26.like this with a writer like ours demonstrates how
:17:27. > :17:35.important Birmingham is as ` city. How unique its culture and heritage
:17:36. > :17:38.is, so it's great to be makhng drama that is about the Midlands
:17:39. > :17:40.and Birmingham The story is close to your heart,
:17:41. > :17:45.tell us more? It is stories that have been
:17:46. > :17:49.told to me by my parents. My mum was a bookies runner and my
:17:50. > :17:56.dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers and it's just a whole world that has
:17:57. > :18:03.never been done and never bden told and the English are very reticent
:18:04. > :18:08.about apologising of our history and it's time we looked at some of these
:18:09. > :18:12.things and made the drama of it I'm not sure about the last season
:18:13. > :18:23.but when I heard they were going to have the Premier here, I just
:18:24. > :18:28.thought, I've got to be herd. When Peaky Blinders hit the small
:18:29. > :18:35.screen last year, few knew ht would have quite the success it dhd ` the
:18:36. > :18:40.viewing figures here in the West I wanted to know why do we `ll love
:18:41. > :18:46.seeing where we live My journey starts at one
:18:47. > :18:53.of the Peaky Blinder filming location, the Black Country Living
:18:54. > :18:58.Museum in Dudley. Stephen Badham works on fill
:18:59. > :19:02.projects right across the country. If filming is happening,
:19:03. > :19:05.chances are he?ll know about it Stephen, when I watch a fill,
:19:06. > :19:10.what is it about me that gets really sentimental when I sde
:19:11. > :19:14.a location that I recognise? I think it?s just the familharity of
:19:15. > :19:18.the places that you?re familiar with on screen, being shown in completely
:19:19. > :19:21.different and surprising waxs. For example, the place we?rd
:19:22. > :19:24.at today, the Black Country Living Museum was shown in Peaky Blinders,
:19:25. > :19:28.both first and second series and I think that when people recognise
:19:29. > :19:31.locations like that, they don?t just see the place they recognisd,
:19:32. > :19:34.they see the newly interpreted way How big a player are we herd
:19:35. > :19:38.in the Midlands in terms I think we punch our weight, we ve
:19:39. > :19:44.got lots of productions going on across the Midlands ` it?s closeness
:19:45. > :19:47.to London which helps, obviously people can be here within an hour
:19:48. > :19:50.and a half, and also its got such a great range of locations so
:19:51. > :19:53.from the city centre of Birlingham which can be Birmingham itsdlf or it
:19:54. > :19:56.could double as lots of othdr cities, but also the countrxside and
:19:57. > :19:59.all of the great historic locations So Peaky Blinders has put Bhrmingham
:20:00. > :20:07.firmly back on the TV map and I m off to see someone who has been
:20:08. > :20:09.championing film and TV production here in the
:20:10. > :20:15.West Midlands in a major wax. Nativity was filmed almost
:20:16. > :20:29.entirely in Coventry, something that local writer and director
:20:30. > :20:32.Debbie Isitt was very keen on. Well it?s my home town and ht?s got
:20:33. > :20:37.such talented children here and it?s just got such a lot to offer and it
:20:38. > :20:43.hadn?t really been on the chnematic map before and I thought whx not,
:20:44. > :20:47.really most UK films are set in London and I just thought,
:20:48. > :20:57.come on Coventry, let?s do ht! Every film I make, I always try
:20:58. > :21:02.to set it at least partly hdre. With Nativity 3, the latest film,
:21:03. > :21:05.it starts in Coventry and ends up There?s another film that I?ve got
:21:06. > :21:14.in the planning that?s set hn Turkey but some of it will be shot here
:21:15. > :21:18.because I don?t want to resort to We?ve got too much talent,
:21:19. > :21:24.there?s too many great opportunities here ` everyone should make their
:21:25. > :21:27.films in Coventry and the rdgion. So filming locally is big
:21:28. > :21:30.on Debbie?s agenda and that got me thinking `
:21:31. > :21:36.what else has been filmed hdre? I?ve been doing a little bit
:21:37. > :21:39.of research to find out what kind of films have been made herd
:21:40. > :21:42.in the Midlands We all know this, The Itali`n Job,
:21:43. > :21:50.that world famous car scene as they?re being chased through
:21:51. > :21:52.the tunnel. It?s not Turin in Italy,
:21:53. > :21:56.this is actually Stoke Aldermoor which is in Coventry,
:21:57. > :21:59.would you believe it, starrhng this Next, the 1984 classic,
:22:00. > :22:05.A Christmas Carol ` now this was set in Shrewsbtry and
:22:06. > :22:09.if you head to St Chad?s Chtrch you?ll be able to find Scrooge?s
:22:10. > :22:13.headstone in the graveyard. Atonement, based on the novdl by Ian
:22:14. > :23:00.McEwan starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, and it was mostly shot
:23:01. > :23:06.here, at Stokesay Court, Shropshire. This place has now become world
:23:07. > :23:14.famous because of a certain film, Atonement `
:23:15. > :23:16.how did they get in contact? How did they know this was
:23:17. > :23:19.the place they wanted to usd? I think they were going through old
:23:20. > :23:25.copies of Country Life and they rang me up
:23:26. > :23:29.and said we?ve found this house is it by any chance available, could
:23:30. > :23:33.we come and have a look at ht? Do you know what I love abott this,
:23:34. > :23:37.by luck, you have a huge Hollywood film team here with some
:23:38. > :23:41.of the greatest actors in this country filming in your own home,
:23:42. > :23:45.this must just be a dream for you? I was incredibly lucky I thhnk `
:23:46. > :23:51.yes, absolutely a dream. I loved just having
:23:52. > :23:55.the opportunity to see Just a whistle`stop tour
:23:56. > :24:27.of a living film set. The thing
:24:28. > :24:29.about these films is that so much Kudos to the production
:24:30. > :24:35.teams behind`the`scenes. And they?re the reason
:24:36. > :24:38.for my next stop. The picturesque village of Snowshill
:24:39. > :24:41.in Worcestershire ` which wdlcomed a This Christmas scene in
:24:42. > :24:54.Bridget Jones Dairy was shot back How do you film an idyllic winter?s
:24:55. > :25:01.scene right in the middle of summer? Well, you?re going to need lots of
:25:02. > :25:07.snow ` fake snow and loads of it! It?s like a blizzard out here `
:25:08. > :25:12.absolutely freezing, so much snow. Lads, come on honestly, can we
:25:13. > :25:21.stop ` you?re messing up my hair! But this couldn?t be possible
:25:22. > :25:24.without an incredible firm Tucked away in a quiet corndr
:25:25. > :25:33.of Stroud, I appear to have stumbled upon the
:25:34. > :25:39.Midlands? very own snow factory You guys have worked
:25:40. > :25:43.on some pretty big movies, Hundreds of movies, things like
:25:44. > :25:50.Day After Tomorrow, Vertical Limit, Gladiator, Benjamin Button, you
:25:51. > :25:55.name it, it?s got our snow hn it. In fact the odds are that
:25:56. > :25:59.if you see a movie with snow, it?s Let?s talk about
:26:00. > :26:04.Bridget Jones? Diary and thd area of Snowshill, what were the
:26:05. > :26:08.challenges of an area like that The main challenge
:26:09. > :26:11.of Snowshill was the churchxard because it featured very he`vily
:26:12. > :26:15.in every background that yot saw. The first thing you do is rdcord
:26:16. > :26:18.where any flowers are and you remove the flowers then you
:26:19. > :26:22.cover everything with a membrane Can you show us anything to
:26:23. > :26:27.demonstrate the kind One basic staple of snow is this
:26:28. > :26:35.product, this is made of recycled paper and it?s a bulking snow so
:26:36. > :26:40.it?s quite grainy but it allows us And this is snow essence
:26:41. > :26:46.and it?s sent to us in small bags and then we add water and that
:26:47. > :26:51.really small bag of snow turns into a much larger bag and then we
:26:52. > :26:55.can spread it on a movie set. Oh my goodness, that is absolutely
:26:56. > :27:00.magical, that is brilliant ` this is one of those things that
:27:01. > :27:05.fairy tales are made of. And the magic doesn?t stop there,
:27:06. > :27:09.forget the fake stuff, here, they even have a machine
:27:10. > :27:14.which makes real snow. This is ridiculous, I mean ht is
:27:15. > :27:18.sunny right now and I?m abott to walk into what I can only ddscribe
:27:19. > :27:29.as a bit of a winter wonderland This is actually snow and it?s
:27:30. > :28:02.really cold, my fingers are frozen. So everybody?s settled in for the
:28:03. > :28:08.premier ` we?ve been told wd?ll have to wait till October when the series
:28:09. > :28:15.returns on BBC Two But that?s it from me ` I?ll be back next Monday,
:28:16. > :28:23.until then, thanks for watching