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Hello. Tonight, we are at the occupied Bristol protest camp right | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
next to the city's Anglican cathedral. The protesters are into | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
their fourth week of living in tents now. So, how long are they | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
planning to stay? What do they hope to achieve? | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
are not here to pack up and go home. We are here for the long haul and | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
until we effect a change. Also, we meet the new homeowners near | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Swindon who say they're living in what amounts to a ghost town. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Sometimes you feel a bit deserted, as though you're out in a field | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
somewhere. I would like there to be a shop here now and a doctors. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts uncovers the moving story | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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behind a wartime recruitment song. # And when the seas are free again- | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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# I'm Alastair McKey and this is Inside Out West. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
It started in New York. Now there are protests camps springing up | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
across the world. Here in Bristol, they've been here since about mid- | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
October. Protesters insist they won't be moving on any time soon. | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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So what is it all about? And what can they really hope to achieve? | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
It's breakfast time on College Green. I'm hoping I might be | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
offered a cup of tea. But I'm in for a real treat. Smells very good. | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
Gorgeous. I'll be honest. It's not bad. What is it? Eggs, tomatoes, | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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garlic, chives. Does it have a # I'm not giving in | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
# Today... # I've come here to see myself what the occupy movement | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
looks like up close. I want to find out why they're here, what they | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
hope to achieve and how long they plan to stay. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
But first, back to that breakfast. How do you decide who does the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
cooking and the cleaning? We have a cooking rota up over there. I'm on | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
with one of the young ones on site at the moment exme and her's doing | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
dinner tonight. What would you be doing if you weren't here? Probably | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
chilling out at home watching TV. I would be now because one of my | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
programmes are probably on about now. Are you recording them? Not at | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
the moment. You weren't expecting to be here for quite so long? | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
honest, no, it was more a case of find out what's going on and just | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
ended up being here ever since. I'm just basically staying. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
It's been nearly two months since the occupy movement started in New | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
York. Their message, we are 99%, refers to the proportion of people | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
who aren't wealthy. The first protest in this country outside St | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Paul's Cathedral ignited a row within the Church of England. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Bristol pitched its first tent on College Green on the 15th October | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
and has been growing ever since. After breakfast, the mammoth job of | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
washing up. Not easy when your work top is a snooker table and the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
nearest tap is 100 metres away. Why are you here, in your mind? | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
There are signs up around the camp, but if there's an element of | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
protest to it, what are you protesting against and what's the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
message that you are trying to tell? The thing is, it's not even | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
about having to spread a message, it's unlocking people's heads, they | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
know the message, they know it's a fundamental message. The Oxford | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
figure of 13 billion to feed the entire world for a year was what | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
was spent on military spending in eight days. There's something | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
fundamentally backward about this system. Sitting around the camp | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
fire, I meet the camp's youngest member, nine-year-old Tala. What | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
would be your advice to your friends? What will you tell them | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
when you go back to school on Tuesday about Occupy Bristol? | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
should go there. Come along too? Yes. If you had a chance to bring | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
your class along, for a class visit, would you go for that? Yes. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
would Tala's class mates really understand what this is all about? | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
I'm still struggling. One of the criticisms that I've heard is that | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
the message that you have doesn't have a clarity to it. It's a jumble | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of lots of different messages and that as a means to protest, it's | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
not the best starting point? argue it's not a protest, it's a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
democracy installation. Or a social experiment. OK, but people see this | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
occupation and it's a very visual thing and they look for a message | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
behind it. They look for something that you are communicating? People | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
are used to a protest being about like Trident, if you ban it we'll | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
be happy but that's not what this is, but it doesn't mean it's not | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
something interesting and real and useful. The situation about banking, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
corporate companies, government, people are fed up. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
While I'm on site, preparations are being made for an occupy Bristol | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
open day, a small marquee is being erected to host a public debate and | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
two truck loads of pal tlets have arrived in an effort to combat the | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
growing mud problem -- pallets. While all that's happening, I leave | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the camp and talk to some of those walking past it. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
They have made their point and they've don it quietly, but I think | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
it's time they moved on and let the Bristolians enjoy what belongs to | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
them. I've already seen the people and can understand why they're | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
fighting against capitalism because what really they should be doing is | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
getting right at the top, you know,, right at the top of the world, put | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
things in place here and help others be more civilised from | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
bottom. I've no idea what they are trying to achieve. I don't know | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
what their objectives are apart from making a mess and ruining a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
public space. Would you consider wandering in there and sitting down | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
by the fire? No, I don't think so. That in a way gives support to the | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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occupation and I wouldn't want to do that. I just don't have time to | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
go to hear their talks and things. I would quite like to have time to | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
go and sits in a field but I don't. At the heart of this protest is the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
very symbolic action of occupying land that isn't theirs. What do you | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
think about the movement, officer, tueng it's just? At the end of the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
day, you're in the service industry and you are being affected, won't | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
you -- do you think It's not really my place to have an opinion is it. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
It is because you are a person. while in uniform. Does it trouble | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
you? I can speak for myself on that, it doesn't trouble me. It doesn't | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
trouble me in the slightest, you know. We have issues that we need | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
to deal with and we need to get those issues out to the public as | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
quickly and as best as we can. If that means occupying, it means | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
occupying. As things stand, the church has politely asked the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
protesters to leave, but is not planning any action to enforce this. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
I'm interested to know what the tipping point would be. I'm clear | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
in my own mind that peaceful protest is very important. I'm | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
clear that there would be certain events that would trigger a | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
different response. It's been a peaceful protest, I'm sure it will | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
stay that way. If it ceases to be that, we'd have to take a different | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
view. Where would it lead? How far would you go? What action would you | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
be prepared to take? Hard to answer that because it's a rather | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
hypothetical case. We are not talking about eviction at the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
moment. If they damaged what is a stunningly beautiful and important | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
building, if they threatened the cathedral staff, if they were at | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
risk themselves or were putting the public at risk in Bristol, then we | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
would have to think differently. They have said they don't want you | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
to stay, they have said they want you to leave. They have, yes. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Through the council they've asked us to leave. We've politely | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
declined that offer, you know. Like I said, we are not here to pack up | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and go home, we are here for the long haul, until we effect a change. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
If they do come in heavy handed and move us on, we'll just move | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
somewhere else, simple as that. the afternoon draws on, new faces | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
appear on site, perhaps attracted by the warm fire and hot stew. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
are going to start the General Assembly over there under the arch | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the other side of the fountains right now basically. To round up | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
the day's events, a small meeting takes place under the arches of the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
council building next door. Whatever you think about the rights | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
or wrongs of this protest, it's clearly provoking a debate about | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
social inequality and injustice. What's less clear is when the | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
occupation will end. If you've got views on the protest camp, why not | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
join the conversation on Twitter. Later in the programme: The men who | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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never came home. Paul Potts remembers Bristol's own. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Next, the homeowners who say they're living in what amounts to a | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
ghost town. When developers published their glossy brochure, it | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
promised to be a brand-new community with lots of facilities. | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
But it didn't quite turn out that way. This is WitchEllestow on the | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
edge of Swindon. By now, it was supposed to be a thriving new | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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community. -- Wichel Stow. Things haven't gone to plan. There are | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
roads, signs and street furniture, but none of it seems to go anywhere. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
It feels very strange here. It kind of seems like it's all just been | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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abandoned. Today, less than a tenth of the 4,500 homes planned for this | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
massive site have been built. generally quite quiet. Sometimes | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
you feel a bit deserted, it's probably the only way you can say, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
you feel as though you are out in a field somewhere really. Sarah watts | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
lives here with her children in east Witchell, the only part of the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
development which has houses. Hello, I'm Alastair. Come in. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Thank you. So, two-and-a-half years after you've moved here, how normal | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
is life here? It's normal as in it's a normal home, it's a lovely | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
home to live in, probably if I could pick the home up and put it | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
somewhere where there was more to do, you just feel, you know, it's | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
normal within the house, but when you go out, there isn't anything | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
for them to do because there's no play areas, no park, nothing where | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
they can just burn energy. story of Sarah's home began back in | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
2005 when planning permission was granted. The vision included | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
schools, shops, bars and restaurants, all up and running by | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
2015. It was all going so well, then Swindon, along with the rest | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
of the West felt the bite of the recession. If people struggle to | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
get mortgages, they are struggling to buy houses. How do you get | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
things moving? We need to notice things have changed and the | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
developers, the landowners, the borough council, it's all about | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
people coming together and saying, if we can't do what we originally | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
planned and if we can't extend things the way we wanted to, what | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
can we do and working together is the way that people find solutions. | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds | :12:58. | :15:22. | |
Today, only 500 homes are complete Who is to blame for stagnation? To | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
residents the water appears muddied. Who do you understand should be | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
finding solutions? I wish I knew. It would be nice if the information | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
was given to us in the first place. I am worried that the nice new town | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
is going to be ruined before it is done. The original partners were | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
Swindon council and the housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. In 2008 | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
the recession bit and the partnership faltered. Taylor Wimpey | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
had to pay compensation to pull out of the deal. It agreed to continue | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
building. Swindon council faced a decision. What should it do with | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
the rest of the town and the pay- off. It is using the cash to pay | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
interest on a loan for roads and drainage. It argues that this will | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
make middle and West which will more attractive to buyers. None of | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
this eases the concerns of the families now. You get a sense that | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
some of them feel a bit stranded and forgotten. It is a question for | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
the developers and the landowners. The council is neither of those. I | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
cannot speak on their behalf. It is not the developers fault. You have | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
to realise that because of the state of the economy and the | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
downturn in the housing market, not as many houses are being sold. It | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
is up to the developers and the landowners to provide the | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
facilities, not the local authority. As I pressed the council over the | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
role in helping residents, he asked for the interview to be halted by a | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
be carried on filming. Do you know what councils do? I am not a | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
councillor and I do not run councils. Why are you asking dumb | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
ask questions? Queue. You are starting to offend me. You are | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
banging on about something you know nothing about and which has nothing | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
to do with the council. We did not stuff up the economy. Get it right. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
What I am doing is repeating some of the concerns that some of the | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
people we have spoken to have about the estate there they moved into. | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
Have you put that to Taylor Wimpey? What is their response? It is not | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
the council's job to provide shops and doctors' surgeries. Get that | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
into your head. The counsellor later risk -- apologised to his | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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reaction. Taylor Wimpey later Development is now on hold. There | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
are no dates for any building work. A supermarket has apparently shown | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
interest. For residents, the progress cannot come soon enough. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
You could be in for a long wait. seems that way. The children will | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
probably have left home by the time it is finished. Council leaders are | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
convinced that the town will be a success. Even this road will | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
eventually lead somewhere, even if that somewhere takes another | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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If there is something you would like us to investigate then send us | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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Do you remember the moment when Paul pops up 1 at the TV show, | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
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His performance turned him into an international superstar. Tonight he | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
is back in his home city of Bristol to tell us the amazing story of a | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
recently discovered piece of music. I am on my way to have a look at a | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
remarkable discovery. Hidden away in the archives of the Bristol | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Record Office, they found a piece of music were there really are | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
moving story behind it. I am meeting an author and social | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
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historian who stumbled across the music. It is a piece of sheet music | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
written in 1914. It was written for fund raising and for recruiting a | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
song for the new Bristol Battalion. The music was by Ivor Novello and | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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Up to Fred Weatherly, the prolific son -- songwriter from Porter 8th - | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
- Portishead. But here were Bristol's own? I want to find out | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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more. Of course I want to know what How many were there in Bristol's | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
own? How many people did it managed to recruit? It was formed in early | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
September 1914, just a month after the war broke out. There were | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
around 1,300 and the Italian. -- in the battalion. I am almost too | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
scared to ask this question because I am aware that so many lives were | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
lost in the First World War, but how many in the end returned? | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Regrettably very few. By the end of the war, Bristol's own had lost 800 | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
of its original members. What I find really poignant is that these | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
men have stepped forward of their own free will. I decide to visit | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
the spot near by. The recruits of Bristol's own were put through | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
their paces here. Walking here along the banks of the River Avon, | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
it is hard to imagine how nearly 100 years ago, more than 1000 young | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
volunteers came here to Ashton Meadows in order to train before | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
being sent to France to surf king and country. Brothers, cousins, | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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friends and workmates -- surf king and country. They had all come here | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
to form a special friend battalion. They spent eight months preparing | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
for battle and the Western Front. They were physical drills, musket | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
practice, trench digging. Then they moved up from a Temple Meads | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
station, never to return again. The unit was disbanded just two weeks | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
before the end of the war. I find it really sad that Bristol's own | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
had no proper will come home and that their bravery and sacrifice | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
appeared to have largely gone unsung. The song which spurred them | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
into action has been surprisingly overlooked, especially considering | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
it is by Ivor Novello. We team up on our next quest to find out about | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
what could have been the last big public performance of the song. It | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
was just after the war at a special ceremony held at Colston Hall to | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
recognise Bristols its soldiers who had been recognised for gallantry. | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
The performance starts at 2:30pm. You are requested to take your feet | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
at 2:15pm. I had the privilege of performing here if you times, but | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
it must have been quite an event all those years ago. This would | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
have been absolutely packed. It would have been full of the great | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
and good of Bristol. And there were all of the flags of the Allies. As | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
far as we know, it was the last time Bravo Bristol was ever son to | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
an audience of this size. To mark the end of the war, Fred Weatherly | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
rewrote the words of the last chorus to one-all the Bristol men | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
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who had fought for their country. - - to honour all. Colston Hall could | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
well have been when the revised Bravo Bristol was finely performed. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Amazingly, it appears there are no recordings of Bardo -- Bravo | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
Bristol, but we were about to put that right. In the area wearer was | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
born, 50 members of St George sinners are ready to revise the | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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song -- singers. We will remember Ladies and gentlemen, it is a real | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
pleasure to welcome to Mike Paul Potts, who has been sat listening | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
to a rehearsal and he has very kindly said he will sing this song | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
with us. Paul Potts. Thank you very much indeed. Can we make a way | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds | :26:32. | :27:30. | |
PAUL SINGS. It is great that Bravo Bristol have been performed again. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
It is a fitting tribute to those brave men, and I can't help feeling | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
a little emotional about it. I hope it goes some way to short -- | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
towards showing that the sacrifices of the boys of Bristol's own have | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
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That is where we end tonight's programme. If you'd like to see the | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
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