:00:07. > :00:11.Hello. Tonight, we are at the occupied Bristol protest camp right
:00:11. > :00:16.next to the city's Anglican cathedral. The protesters are into
:00:16. > :00:20.their fourth week of living in tents now. So, how long are they
:00:20. > :00:24.planning to stay? What do they hope to achieve?
:00:24. > :00:28.are not here to pack up and go home. We are here for the long haul and
:00:28. > :00:32.until we effect a change. Also, we meet the new homeowners near
:00:32. > :00:37.Swindon who say they're living in what amounts to a ghost town.
:00:37. > :00:42.Sometimes you feel a bit deserted, as though you're out in a field
:00:42. > :00:48.somewhere. I would like there to be a shop here now and a doctors.
:00:48. > :00:58.Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts uncovers the moving story
:00:58. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:11.behind a wartime recruitment song. # And when the seas are free again-
:01:11. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:16.# I'm Alastair McKey and this is Inside Out West.
:01:16. > :01:19.It started in New York. Now there are protests camps springing up
:01:19. > :01:23.across the world. Here in Bristol, they've been here since about mid-
:01:23. > :01:33.October. Protesters insist they won't be moving on any time soon.
:01:33. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.So what is it all about? And what can they really hope to achieve?
:01:38. > :01:47.It's breakfast time on College Green. I'm hoping I might be
:01:47. > :01:57.offered a cup of tea. But I'm in for a real treat. Smells very good.
:01:57. > :02:07.Gorgeous. I'll be honest. It's not bad. What is it? Eggs, tomatoes,
:02:07. > :02:15.
:02:15. > :02:19.garlic, chives. Does it have a # I'm not giving in
:02:19. > :02:23.# Today... # I've come here to see myself what the occupy movement
:02:23. > :02:26.looks like up close. I want to find out why they're here, what they
:02:26. > :02:31.hope to achieve and how long they plan to stay.
:02:31. > :02:36.But first, back to that breakfast. How do you decide who does the
:02:36. > :02:42.cooking and the cleaning? We have a cooking rota up over there. I'm on
:02:42. > :02:45.with one of the young ones on site at the moment exme and her's doing
:02:45. > :02:50.dinner tonight. What would you be doing if you weren't here? Probably
:02:50. > :02:53.chilling out at home watching TV. I would be now because one of my
:02:53. > :02:57.programmes are probably on about now. Are you recording them? Not at
:02:57. > :03:02.the moment. You weren't expecting to be here for quite so long?
:03:02. > :03:07.honest, no, it was more a case of find out what's going on and just
:03:07. > :03:11.ended up being here ever since. I'm just basically staying.
:03:11. > :03:17.It's been nearly two months since the occupy movement started in New
:03:17. > :03:21.York. Their message, we are 99%, refers to the proportion of people
:03:21. > :03:26.who aren't wealthy. The first protest in this country outside St
:03:26. > :03:31.Paul's Cathedral ignited a row within the Church of England.
:03:31. > :03:37.Bristol pitched its first tent on College Green on the 15th October
:03:37. > :03:41.and has been growing ever since. After breakfast, the mammoth job of
:03:41. > :03:46.washing up. Not easy when your work top is a snooker table and the
:03:46. > :03:49.nearest tap is 100 metres away. Why are you here, in your mind?
:03:49. > :03:52.There are signs up around the camp, but if there's an element of
:03:52. > :03:56.protest to it, what are you protesting against and what's the
:03:56. > :04:02.message that you are trying to tell? The thing is, it's not even
:04:02. > :04:08.about having to spread a message, it's unlocking people's heads, they
:04:08. > :04:13.know the message, they know it's a fundamental message. The Oxford
:04:13. > :04:17.figure of 13 billion to feed the entire world for a year was what
:04:17. > :04:19.was spent on military spending in eight days. There's something
:04:19. > :04:24.fundamentally backward about this system. Sitting around the camp
:04:24. > :04:27.fire, I meet the camp's youngest member, nine-year-old Tala. What
:04:27. > :04:32.would be your advice to your friends? What will you tell them
:04:32. > :04:36.when you go back to school on Tuesday about Occupy Bristol?
:04:36. > :04:43.should go there. Come along too? Yes. If you had a chance to bring
:04:43. > :04:47.your class along, for a class visit, would you go for that? Yes.
:04:47. > :04:52.would Tala's class mates really understand what this is all about?
:04:52. > :04:58.I'm still struggling. One of the criticisms that I've heard is that
:04:58. > :05:02.the message that you have doesn't have a clarity to it. It's a jumble
:05:03. > :05:09.of lots of different messages and that as a means to protest, it's
:05:09. > :05:13.not the best starting point? argue it's not a protest, it's a
:05:13. > :05:16.democracy installation. Or a social experiment. OK, but people see this
:05:16. > :05:20.occupation and it's a very visual thing and they look for a message
:05:20. > :05:25.behind it. They look for something that you are communicating? People
:05:25. > :05:30.are used to a protest being about like Trident, if you ban it we'll
:05:30. > :05:35.be happy but that's not what this is, but it doesn't mean it's not
:05:35. > :05:38.something interesting and real and useful. The situation about banking,
:05:38. > :05:43.corporate companies, government, people are fed up.
:05:44. > :05:49.While I'm on site, preparations are being made for an occupy Bristol
:05:49. > :05:53.open day, a small marquee is being erected to host a public debate and
:05:53. > :05:58.two truck loads of pal tlets have arrived in an effort to combat the
:05:59. > :06:02.growing mud problem -- pallets. While all that's happening, I leave
:06:02. > :06:06.the camp and talk to some of those walking past it.
:06:06. > :06:12.They have made their point and they've don it quietly, but I think
:06:12. > :06:15.it's time they moved on and let the Bristolians enjoy what belongs to
:06:15. > :06:18.them. I've already seen the people and can understand why they're
:06:18. > :06:24.fighting against capitalism because what really they should be doing is
:06:24. > :06:28.getting right at the top, you know,, right at the top of the world, put
:06:28. > :06:32.things in place here and help others be more civilised from
:06:32. > :06:36.bottom. I've no idea what they are trying to achieve. I don't know
:06:36. > :06:39.what their objectives are apart from making a mess and ruining a
:06:39. > :06:46.public space. Would you consider wandering in there and sitting down
:06:46. > :06:56.by the fire? No, I don't think so. That in a way gives support to the
:06:56. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :07:02.occupation and I wouldn't want to do that. I just don't have time to
:07:02. > :07:06.go to hear their talks and things. I would quite like to have time to
:07:06. > :07:11.go and sits in a field but I don't. At the heart of this protest is the
:07:11. > :07:17.very symbolic action of occupying land that isn't theirs. What do you
:07:17. > :07:21.think about the movement, officer, tueng it's just? At the end of the
:07:21. > :07:25.day, you're in the service industry and you are being affected, won't
:07:25. > :07:30.you -- do you think It's not really my place to have an opinion is it.
:07:30. > :07:34.It is because you are a person. while in uniform. Does it trouble
:07:34. > :07:39.you? I can speak for myself on that, it doesn't trouble me. It doesn't
:07:39. > :07:43.trouble me in the slightest, you know. We have issues that we need
:07:44. > :07:48.to deal with and we need to get those issues out to the public as
:07:48. > :07:52.quickly and as best as we can. If that means occupying, it means
:07:52. > :07:56.occupying. As things stand, the church has politely asked the
:07:56. > :08:01.protesters to leave, but is not planning any action to enforce this.
:08:01. > :08:05.I'm interested to know what the tipping point would be. I'm clear
:08:05. > :08:08.in my own mind that peaceful protest is very important. I'm
:08:08. > :08:11.clear that there would be certain events that would trigger a
:08:11. > :08:14.different response. It's been a peaceful protest, I'm sure it will
:08:14. > :08:19.stay that way. If it ceases to be that, we'd have to take a different
:08:19. > :08:25.view. Where would it lead? How far would you go? What action would you
:08:25. > :08:28.be prepared to take? Hard to answer that because it's a rather
:08:28. > :08:32.hypothetical case. We are not talking about eviction at the
:08:32. > :08:35.moment. If they damaged what is a stunningly beautiful and important
:08:35. > :08:39.building, if they threatened the cathedral staff, if they were at
:08:39. > :08:44.risk themselves or were putting the public at risk in Bristol, then we
:08:44. > :08:48.would have to think differently. They have said they don't want you
:08:48. > :08:54.to stay, they have said they want you to leave. They have, yes.
:08:54. > :08:58.Through the council they've asked us to leave. We've politely
:08:58. > :09:01.declined that offer, you know. Like I said, we are not here to pack up
:09:01. > :09:05.and go home, we are here for the long haul, until we effect a change.
:09:05. > :09:10.If they do come in heavy handed and move us on, we'll just move
:09:10. > :09:17.somewhere else, simple as that. the afternoon draws on, new faces
:09:17. > :09:20.appear on site, perhaps attracted by the warm fire and hot stew.
:09:20. > :09:23.are going to start the General Assembly over there under the arch
:09:23. > :09:28.the other side of the fountains right now basically. To round up
:09:28. > :09:31.the day's events, a small meeting takes place under the arches of the
:09:31. > :09:36.council building next door. Whatever you think about the rights
:09:36. > :09:40.or wrongs of this protest, it's clearly provoking a debate about
:09:41. > :09:48.social inequality and injustice. What's less clear is when the
:09:48. > :09:56.occupation will end. If you've got views on the protest camp, why not
:09:56. > :10:06.join the conversation on Twitter. Later in the programme: The men who
:10:06. > :10:06.
:10:06. > :10:10.never came home. Paul Potts remembers Bristol's own.
:10:10. > :10:15.Next, the homeowners who say they're living in what amounts to a
:10:15. > :10:18.ghost town. When developers published their glossy brochure, it
:10:18. > :10:28.promised to be a brand-new community with lots of facilities.
:10:28. > :10:33.But it didn't quite turn out that way. This is WitchEllestow on the
:10:33. > :10:43.edge of Swindon. By now, it was supposed to be a thriving new
:10:43. > :10:44.
:10:44. > :10:52.community. -- Wichel Stow. Things haven't gone to plan. There are
:10:52. > :10:57.roads, signs and street furniture, but none of it seems to go anywhere.
:10:57. > :11:07.It feels very strange here. It kind of seems like it's all just been
:11:07. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:12.abandoned. Today, less than a tenth of the 4,500 homes planned for this
:11:12. > :11:18.massive site have been built. generally quite quiet. Sometimes
:11:18. > :11:23.you feel a bit deserted, it's probably the only way you can say,
:11:23. > :11:28.you feel as though you are out in a field somewhere really. Sarah watts
:11:28. > :11:33.lives here with her children in east Witchell, the only part of the
:11:33. > :11:38.development which has houses. Hello, I'm Alastair. Come in.
:11:38. > :11:43.Thank you. So, two-and-a-half years after you've moved here, how normal
:11:43. > :11:47.is life here? It's normal as in it's a normal home, it's a lovely
:11:47. > :11:52.home to live in, probably if I could pick the home up and put it
:11:52. > :11:54.somewhere where there was more to do, you just feel, you know, it's
:11:54. > :11:59.normal within the house, but when you go out, there isn't anything
:11:59. > :12:03.for them to do because there's no play areas, no park, nothing where
:12:03. > :12:08.they can just burn energy. story of Sarah's home began back in
:12:08. > :12:13.2005 when planning permission was granted. The vision included
:12:13. > :12:21.schools, shops, bars and restaurants, all up and running by
:12:21. > :12:26.2015. It was all going so well, then Swindon, along with the rest
:12:26. > :12:29.of the West felt the bite of the recession. If people struggle to
:12:29. > :12:32.get mortgages, they are struggling to buy houses. How do you get
:12:32. > :12:35.things moving? We need to notice things have changed and the
:12:35. > :12:39.developers, the landowners, the borough council, it's all about
:12:39. > :12:43.people coming together and saying, if we can't do what we originally
:12:43. > :12:48.planned and if we can't extend things the way we wanted to, what
:12:48. > :12:58.can we do and working together is the way that people find solutions.
:12:58. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :15:22.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds
:15:23. > :15:27.Today, only 500 homes are complete Who is to blame for stagnation? To
:15:27. > :15:32.residents the water appears muddied. Who do you understand should be
:15:32. > :15:40.finding solutions? I wish I knew. It would be nice if the information
:15:40. > :15:45.was given to us in the first place. I am worried that the nice new town
:15:45. > :15:51.is going to be ruined before it is done. The original partners were
:15:51. > :15:57.Swindon council and the housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. In 2008
:15:57. > :16:03.the recession bit and the partnership faltered. Taylor Wimpey
:16:04. > :16:08.had to pay compensation to pull out of the deal. It agreed to continue
:16:08. > :16:13.building. Swindon council faced a decision. What should it do with
:16:13. > :16:19.the rest of the town and the pay- off. It is using the cash to pay
:16:19. > :16:26.interest on a loan for roads and drainage. It argues that this will
:16:26. > :16:32.make middle and West which will more attractive to buyers. None of
:16:33. > :16:37.this eases the concerns of the families now. You get a sense that
:16:37. > :16:44.some of them feel a bit stranded and forgotten. It is a question for
:16:44. > :16:50.the developers and the landowners. The council is neither of those. I
:16:50. > :16:53.cannot speak on their behalf. It is not the developers fault. You have
:16:53. > :16:59.to realise that because of the state of the economy and the
:16:59. > :17:03.downturn in the housing market, not as many houses are being sold. It
:17:03. > :17:08.is up to the developers and the landowners to provide the
:17:09. > :17:13.facilities, not the local authority. As I pressed the council over the
:17:13. > :17:19.role in helping residents, he asked for the interview to be halted by a
:17:19. > :17:23.be carried on filming. Do you know what councils do? I am not a
:17:24. > :17:28.councillor and I do not run councils. Why are you asking dumb
:17:28. > :17:31.ask questions? Queue. You are starting to offend me. You are
:17:31. > :17:38.banging on about something you know nothing about and which has nothing
:17:38. > :17:41.to do with the council. We did not stuff up the economy. Get it right.
:17:42. > :17:46.What I am doing is repeating some of the concerns that some of the
:17:46. > :17:53.people we have spoken to have about the estate there they moved into.
:17:53. > :17:59.Have you put that to Taylor Wimpey? What is their response? It is not
:17:59. > :18:06.the council's job to provide shops and doctors' surgeries. Get that
:18:06. > :18:16.into your head. The counsellor later risk -- apologised to his
:18:16. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:35.reaction. Taylor Wimpey later Development is now on hold. There
:18:35. > :18:43.are no dates for any building work. A supermarket has apparently shown
:18:43. > :18:48.interest. For residents, the progress cannot come soon enough.
:18:48. > :18:53.You could be in for a long wait. seems that way. The children will
:18:53. > :18:58.probably have left home by the time it is finished. Council leaders are
:18:58. > :19:02.convinced that the town will be a success. Even this road will
:19:02. > :19:12.eventually lead somewhere, even if that somewhere takes another
:19:12. > :19:16.
:19:16. > :19:26.If there is something you would like us to investigate then send us
:19:26. > :19:32.
:19:33. > :19:42.Do you remember the moment when Paul pops up 1 at the TV show,
:19:43. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:51.His performance turned him into an international superstar. Tonight he
:19:51. > :19:59.is back in his home city of Bristol to tell us the amazing story of a
:19:59. > :20:04.recently discovered piece of music. I am on my way to have a look at a
:20:04. > :20:07.remarkable discovery. Hidden away in the archives of the Bristol
:20:07. > :20:16.Record Office, they found a piece of music were there really are
:20:16. > :20:26.moving story behind it. I am meeting an author and social
:20:26. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:33.historian who stumbled across the music. It is a piece of sheet music
:20:33. > :20:40.written in 1914. It was written for fund raising and for recruiting a
:20:40. > :20:50.song for the new Bristol Battalion. The music was by Ivor Novello and
:20:50. > :21:01.
:21:01. > :21:04.Up to Fred Weatherly, the prolific son -- songwriter from Porter 8th -
:21:04. > :21:14.- Portishead. But here were Bristol's own? I want to find out
:21:14. > :21:24.
:21:24. > :21:31.more. Of course I want to know what How many were there in Bristol's
:21:31. > :21:38.own? How many people did it managed to recruit? It was formed in early
:21:38. > :21:46.September 1914, just a month after the war broke out. There were
:21:46. > :21:52.around 1,300 and the Italian. -- in the battalion. I am almost too
:21:52. > :21:57.scared to ask this question because I am aware that so many lives were
:21:57. > :22:03.lost in the First World War, but how many in the end returned?
:22:03. > :22:10.Regrettably very few. By the end of the war, Bristol's own had lost 800
:22:10. > :22:16.of its original members. What I find really poignant is that these
:22:16. > :22:21.men have stepped forward of their own free will. I decide to visit
:22:21. > :22:27.the spot near by. The recruits of Bristol's own were put through
:22:27. > :22:34.their paces here. Walking here along the banks of the River Avon,
:22:34. > :22:41.it is hard to imagine how nearly 100 years ago, more than 1000 young
:22:41. > :22:48.volunteers came here to Ashton Meadows in order to train before
:22:48. > :22:58.being sent to France to surf king and country. Brothers, cousins,
:22:58. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:05.friends and workmates -- surf king and country. They had all come here
:23:05. > :23:11.to form a special friend battalion. They spent eight months preparing
:23:12. > :23:17.for battle and the Western Front. They were physical drills, musket
:23:17. > :23:24.practice, trench digging. Then they moved up from a Temple Meads
:23:24. > :23:29.station, never to return again. The unit was disbanded just two weeks
:23:29. > :23:35.before the end of the war. I find it really sad that Bristol's own
:23:35. > :23:43.had no proper will come home and that their bravery and sacrifice
:23:43. > :23:49.appeared to have largely gone unsung. The song which spurred them
:23:49. > :23:55.into action has been surprisingly overlooked, especially considering
:23:56. > :24:00.it is by Ivor Novello. We team up on our next quest to find out about
:24:01. > :24:08.what could have been the last big public performance of the song. It
:24:08. > :24:15.was just after the war at a special ceremony held at Colston Hall to
:24:15. > :24:21.recognise Bristols its soldiers who had been recognised for gallantry.
:24:21. > :24:25.The performance starts at 2:30pm. You are requested to take your feet
:24:25. > :24:31.at 2:15pm. I had the privilege of performing here if you times, but
:24:31. > :24:35.it must have been quite an event all those years ago. This would
:24:35. > :24:41.have been absolutely packed. It would have been full of the great
:24:41. > :24:46.and good of Bristol. And there were all of the flags of the Allies. As
:24:46. > :24:52.far as we know, it was the last time Bravo Bristol was ever son to
:24:52. > :24:55.an audience of this size. To mark the end of the war, Fred Weatherly
:24:55. > :25:05.rewrote the words of the last chorus to one-all the Bristol men
:25:05. > :25:06.
:25:06. > :25:12.who had fought for their country. - - to honour all. Colston Hall could
:25:12. > :25:16.well have been when the revised Bravo Bristol was finely performed.
:25:16. > :25:22.Amazingly, it appears there are no recordings of Bardo -- Bravo
:25:22. > :25:29.Bristol, but we were about to put that right. In the area wearer was
:25:29. > :25:39.born, 50 members of St George sinners are ready to revise the
:25:39. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:06.song -- singers. We will remember Ladies and gentlemen, it is a real
:26:06. > :26:13.pleasure to welcome to Mike Paul Potts, who has been sat listening
:26:13. > :26:22.to a rehearsal and he has very kindly said he will sing this song
:26:22. > :26:32.with us. Paul Potts. Thank you very much indeed. Can we make a way
:26:32. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :27:30.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds
:27:30. > :27:34.PAUL SINGS. It is great that Bravo Bristol have been performed again.
:27:34. > :27:39.It is a fitting tribute to those brave men, and I can't help feeling
:27:39. > :27:43.a little emotional about it. I hope it goes some way to short --
:27:43. > :27:53.towards showing that the sacrifices of the boys of Bristol's own have
:27:53. > :28:15.
:28:15. > :28:25.That is where we end tonight's programme. If you'd like to see the
:28:25. > :28:40.