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Hello. Coming up on the programme tonight - the questions being faced | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
by the durable leather manufacturer Pittards over the water coming out | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
of its Ethiopian factory. Also tonight, elected police and | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
crime commissioners, are they or one American import we can do | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
without? I personally have a lot of reservations about police and crime | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
commissioners, but it is going to happen, so I need to find out more | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
about it. And I retrace the tyre tracks of | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the factory worker who a century ago immortalised rural life in | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
Wiltshire. Horrible! With surprising stories from close | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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Pittards of Yeovil is proud of its manufacturing relationship with | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Ethiopia. But now, the company's high environmental standards are | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
being brought into question. Our reporter investigate concerns about | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
the water coming out of Pittards's Ethiopian plant. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Africa is just one of the regions where Pittards has expanded its | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
Paris business, but it links with a Yeovil date back to 1826. This is a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
highly prized business asset in this part of Somerset. And despite | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
the economic downturn, the company is doing reasonably well, part of | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
the reason for that is because Pittards, like many Western | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
manufacturers, have moved much of their operations away from the | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
traditional home base to overseas. Inside the Yeovil factory, we | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
joined Pittards chief executive Reg Hankey. He is no stranger to the | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
global market. What is stacked up here, thousands of hides and skins? | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
This is the stuff we have here, it comes from many countries, the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
largest source of supply is Ethiopia, and effectively, we have | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
pandered the material and brought it in as Christ, this is the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
starting base for the factory we have here. Why Ethiopia? What is so | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
good about it? The simple reason is that Ethiopia has the largest flock | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
of this particular animal. It is hair she'd, which is a sheep as you | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
know it, but Herr rather than a wall. What will happen eventually? | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
It will end up as leather. The clothing market, while it is small | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
in the lead the world, very important to us. -- in the leather | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
world. A their Yeovil plant employs around 200 staff. These are jobs | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
which haven't changed for decades, accept that many are now done by | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
Pittards employees in Ethiopia. 700 of them, processing 16,000 goat and | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
sheepskins every day. The man in charge considers it used you appear | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
very much part of the Yeovil family. -- considers Ethiopia very much | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
part of the Yeovil family. We have the same machines, the same | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
equipment, we have replicated or what we do here in Ethiopia, we | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
have to make it a standard. there a temptation to cut corners | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
out there? It is a long way away, out of sight, out of mind? Not for | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
me or for the people here, I'm out there several times a year. We are | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
as embedded in Ethiopia as we are here. The employees, we have 700 at | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
the tannery, another 300 in Addis Ababa, they are all our staff. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Ethiopia, as far as we are concerned, is the same company on a | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
different site. Ethiopia has more than pointed tanneries, processing | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
skins and hides left over from the country's abundant meat industry. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
Pittards took over this plant in 2009, it is the largest in Ethiopia, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
and is in the Oromia region, which has witnessed a huge industrial | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
growth in recent years. Concerns have been raised about pollution in | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
the area. We learnt of concerns about a fluent discharge from | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
Pittards factory. -- effluent. We sent a researcher to investigate. | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
Just to give you an idea, that is the factory there, and it is black, | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
the water is black. It smells a very potent, very strong, not quite | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
like rotten eggs, but not dissimilar. Our researcher of | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
followed a stream back to the family -- a factory. Pittards have | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
told us they outflow has primary, secondary and tertiary treatment, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
and they also own the land here, allowing farmers to use it.-1 to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
the complaint we research, they produced this letter, written by | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
the local farmers' association after we had filmed at the factory. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
They state that no land is spoiled by the tannery, and they are always | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
happy and appreciate the good activities of the Tenerife. But our | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
research has break to a farmer with a different view. TRANSLATION: The | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
factory discharge has been polluting the water for some time. | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
We cannot use it now to water the fields. Pittards dispute that claim, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
saying that weekly checks show the effluent is within acceptable | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
limits. We showed our footage of the stream towards expert from | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
Greenpeace. They are based at Exeter University. It is hard to | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
say whether that affluent has had any treatment at all. Certainly, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
primary treatment may have been used to settle out some of the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
heavier particles, but clearly, there is a lot of suspended | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
material in the discharge as standard practice. It would not be | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
considered to be a safe practice to be releasing effluent of that | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
quality, even that visual quality, to the environment. Doesn't matter | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
whether the land on to which it is being released is owned by the same | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
company or not. At the point in which it is exiting from the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
factory, the responsibility is being given over by the company to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
the environment to clean up its waste, and that is totally | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
unacceptable. Pittards told us that letting affluent water discharged | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
to land in this way is a treatment process used globally in the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
tannery industry. Greenpeace say they would like to know more. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Whether there is a problem which is limited in time, some think they | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
are aware of and are trying to sort out, I think they are questions to | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
be put to Pittards, and I would find it hard to understand if | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Pittards, as a responsible company, would be happy with seen this kind | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
of evidence coming from one of their factories. Pittards studied | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the footage as well. The Co op reassured us that they discharge is | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
thoroughly protest. -- processed. We have a major effluent treatment | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
plant in the Ethiopia tannery, it is probably the largest in Ethiopia, | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
and probably the best in Ethiopia, we have a lot of commendations for | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
it. We have primary, secondary and third level treatment, a biological | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
treatment plant, so it is a very serious piece of work, our | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
treatment. The standards to which we work in Ethiopia are actually | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
more stringent than in Yeovil. The discharge averages that we have in | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
Ethiopia are much tighter. Hankey went on to say there are | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
planned for a huge reed bed here, with the plant helping with the | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
final clean-up of the affluent water. All part of a drive towards | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
becoming a zero waste factory. They are keen also to highlight other | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
benefits they have brought to the area. They run a clinic on site for | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
employees and their family, and help a local school. Perhaps in | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
buying the plant in 2009, they inherited problems which preceded | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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their ownership of the factory. TRANSLATION: I am happy the factory | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
created jobs for some farmers. But at the same time, the factory has | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
to improve the water that is being discharged. Ensuring the highest | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
environmental standards isn't just about appealing a few locals -- | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
appeasing a few locals around the Ethiopian factory. It is also vital | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
for consumers who question ever harder where, and under what | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
conditions, could have been made. Consumers in this day and age, me | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
or you or anybody else, we are concerned about supply chains. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Globalisation has brought issues, and I think the old values come | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
from the old companies such as ours, we have been on the back foot as | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
manufacturer to for a long time now, but actually, when you re-examine | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
the week -- old values, they are still valleys in this day and age. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
-- still valid. It is time we stepped up and applied those old | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
values of responsibility to the supply chain. We are totally | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
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Later in the programme, the life of a great Swindon poet, set to music | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
at the Uffington White Horse. How would you like to be | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
responsible for your local police force? The job is open to anyone | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
who can win enough votes in December of -- November. But do we | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
need enough -- elected police and Crown Commissioners, or could it be | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
an expensive mistake? From air-conditioning to tabard | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
computers, we are quite used to the odd American idea over here. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Obviously, some fitting better than others. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
So what about police commissioners? A senior politician who holds the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
purse-strings and tells the police what to do. They have had been in | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
the US for years, but will they work in this country? One person | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
keen to find out is Jeff Osborn. He used to be the chief constable of | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Gloucestershire police, now he's considering being the country's -- | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
county's first elected police and crime commissioner. I I have a lot | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
of reservations, but it is going to happen, so I need to find out a lot | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
more about it. We are sending him on a fact-finding mission over the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
border into Wiltshire, which boasts one of the lowest crime rate in the | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
country, and we have even provided him with wheels. He had better get | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
comfortable. It is going to be a long journey. His first meeting is | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
with Inspector Kate Pain. She is the chair of Wiltshire Police | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Federation, which has been representing rank and file officers | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
for nearly 100 years. I think in terms of operation -- operational | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
policing, they will not be any impact, but the question around to | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
morale is interesting. In Wiltshire, we are reducing officer numbers as | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
is common around the country, and we are willing to spend �125 | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
million on electing a police commissioner at a time when | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
policing budgets are under such pressure, I think it is difficult. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
These commissioners are going to be given a huge amount of power, power | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
vested in one person. Do you think it is a good idea it they are | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
elected? It is about accountability, so there should be elected | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
accountability, yes, they are made up of independent councillors as | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
well as members, so I would argue that accountability is in place and | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
She has made two very important point, the first one was about | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
costs, �120 million when we're losing police officers, and that | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
will be spent on party political elections. And, she is dressed, the | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
police are already accountable. There is a lot of stress on police | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
and accountability. Next, he goes to Trowbridge where | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Welsh a council is based. At the moment, councils have a way in | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
which the police is run, but with this new elected representative, it | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
would be the end of this. He is meeting Councillor Jeff Osborne, a | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
member with an interest in community development and local | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
residents' groups. What you think of the qualities that unelected | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
crime commissioner will have to have and will they not be a party | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
politician? If not, he will have to be when he gets there any way! He | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
will have to have a profile so people know who he actually is. It | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
has to be someone that has a high position in some public authority | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
are even a private authority and understands how such large | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
organisations work. Is there not a danger that extreme parties can get | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
elected from the far-right, the BNP, for example? I may be naive, but I | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
believe in the common sense of the British people and when you say | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
that parlty cannot stand and this party cannot stand, this is a | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
slippery slope. I do not think we should start saying that we can | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
have any body but the BNP or anybody but the Socialist Workers' | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Party, I didn't think you can say that. I think what he has | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
emphasised their his it is likely to be a party politician that is | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
elected, but there is a slight chance that an extremist candidate, | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
maybe from something like the BNP, could get through. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
As it stands, no candidate of any party has put their names forward | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
in Wiltshire. Perhaps they don't know what the job holds for them. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Time to look at how things work in America where Inside Out has been | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
to seek a serving police commissioner in action. In | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
Springfield Massachusetts, there were 19 murders last year. Drugs | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
very big problems. Things are improving. In a list of America's | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
most crime-ridden cities, Springfield Massachusetts has | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
plummeted from 18th in 2003 to 51st today. Many in the City put this | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
down to one man. But Police Commissioner position, as it exists | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
in Springfield, is the chief executive of the police department | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
and that is in all phases. Administrator of, budget, | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
employment faces, it is all a composing. -- and cumbersome. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
have the strategies for combating crime has been introducing a | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
network of microphones that covers three square miles of the City | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
centre with computers in every patrol car. This is how long it | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
takes for every cop on the street to know there has been a shooting. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
It tells you exactly where it happened. Tactics like this have | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
come about thanks to the commissioners the public profile, | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
communicating his policy to be community and listening to their | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
needs. Exactly what the Government wants to happen here. The footage | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
from North America is really interesting, but the question is, | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
will it work in Wiltshire? Crime is coming down here, people feel safe, | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
the police are happy with the system. Sure, the current system | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
could work better, but you have to ask the question, is the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
commissioner the right to fix for To get answers for this question | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
and others raised by this fact- finding mission, we go to meet one | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
of the architects of the new policy. Blair Gibbs is head of crime and | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
justice at the Conservative think- tank policy exchanged and they are | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
advising the Government on how to put this system into practice. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Policing is one of the most important public services but the | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
police cannot choose their police force, so we took the view that | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
what the public need is greater clarity. They need one person that | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
is responsible for crime and public safety in their neighbourhood, not | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
a committee of were the people that spent a long time on the police are | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
authority and er maybe quite experienced, but do not know the | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
public. A single person has that advantage and having to be elected | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
means they will have to going public and meet the public and win | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
their support and deliver. What about the costs, the current | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
estimate is up to �120 million. This is the first time that the | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
public will get a say, and elections cost money. The important | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
thing is this is that coming from the police budget, so it is not a | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
question of losing money in the police, the benefit is, you have a | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
clear mandate for the person that is responsible for the police and | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
you can hold them to account. commissioner will be well paid, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
they will almost certainly come from the mainstream political | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
parties with very little room for an independence to get elected, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
isn't this really jobs for the boys? We need to hope that we have | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
some good people waiting to stand. It is an important office and an | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
important role and hopefully we will get people from outside | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
politics. So, as strong defence, predictably, from the organisation | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
that came up with the commissioner post. With campaigning getting | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
started and the public still largely in the dark about the whole | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
thing, how do we think it will pan out? There is a danger that many | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
people will get elected by putting party politics before police saying. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Policing works best when it is independent of party politics and | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
people put local policing issues first. For that to continue, we | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
really need strong, independent candidates. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Finally tonight, the working-class man from Wiltshire who were in 1912 | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
got on his bike to record the legends and landmarks in the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
villages he loved. Offered Williams was so worried about rural | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
traditions dying out that he wrote the book, Villages of the White | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Horse. -- Alfred Williams. 100 years later, I am retracing his | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
tracks. I am in South Marston in Swindon, | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
the home of one of the areas forgotten heroes, Alfred Williams. | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
By day, he worked for the Great Western Railway works and by night | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
he wrote about his life. 100 years ago he was nationally famous as a | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
Hammerman poet. I was in my song triumphantly and I will finish my | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
race. I will work my task. He was also a travel writer, touring | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
around nearby towns and villages on his bike recording what he saw. In | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
1912 he researched his book, Villages of the White Horse, by | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
cycling in the shadow of the ancient monument. 100 years later, | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
I am getting on my bike to retrace some of his route and to find out | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
why there is an Alfred Williams renaissance in Wiltshire. First I | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
stop off at Rose Cottage where he grew wop. It belongs to a local man | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
called Rupert who is proud of its heritage. We have tried to keep as | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
many period features, or put its period features back for, because | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
when we brought it, there were none in head. He is impressed by what | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
Alfred achieved in his life. He had a hard, terrible, dreadful life. | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
There was their health and safety, nothing. What happened at work if | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
he lost a finger or lustre on, it was tough luck. He still found time | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
to come home and write some amazing work. Across the road is his old | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
school. Today, the children have been learning what their famous | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
former people said about it. village school stands in a field | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
near the road a short way down. There, the little children run off | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
each morning to acquire the rudiments of learning. The school | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
walls were adorned with pictures and we did not understand all of | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the subjects. They made a deep and lasting impression. We cannot force | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
the children to look at things through the eyes of sage experience. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
This is the time of glorious irresponsibility and carelessness. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
The any distinction I do make is in the case so the very poorest of | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
financial front. I think that I care for them most of all. I am | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
visiting just a few of the many places that he talked about. On | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
leaving South Marston, he headed to Wroughton and then on to Wanborough. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
He says that Wanborough is one of the most ancient settlements on | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
this island and goes on to say about even before the Romans | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
arrived in England, there were people living in Wanborough. It is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
here that one of his most enthusiastic fans lives. A local | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
surgeon, John Collymore, he has written a musical called the Common | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
man based on his life. It is being performed in Swindon later this | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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month. What is that most appeals to you about Alfred Williams? | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Complete Live story, really, and what he achieved. It is an | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
inspiring tale and a fascinating life story. I suppose, one | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
identified with him because he really started from nothing as a | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
farm boy that went into a factory, but then had this amazing passion | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
for self-education. Tell me about how he captures this part of the | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
West? The way he has done it is, I think, but probably one of the | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
first forms of travel writing that we have experience, because he | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
travels around and get to know the people, places and Customs and | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
knows the local history. He is a bit like a pre- cursor of Bill | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Bryson, really. His travel route pass through pretty villages | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
including Hinton Parva Andante Bishopstone, known for its water | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
gardens. I am taking a quick detour from Alfred's travel route to try | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
and unusual drink that he writes about in villages of the White | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
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Horse. Hello, Chris. Welcome. I'd pass either buys a cot. -- if I | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
pass to the bicycle. I wonder if Alfred had these problems! Chris | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
Parker is an enthusiast of Alfred Williams. One of the reasons I have | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
come over here is because you're a beekeeper and you know about this | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
extraordinary drink that Alfred Williams has mentioned, the name of | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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which I can barely say. Is it called Pittards? -- napthalgalum? | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
It is an alcoholic drink made from honey. Yes, that is right. There | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
was no time like the present. After a few drinks, he says he will | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
be intoxicated, so let's have a go. It's not pretty good. -- it smells | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
pretty good. It is a bit like alcoholics syrup. I am not sure I | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
am ready to give up beer for this, but it is quite good. Leaving | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Bishopston, not over the limit, I might add, I am now heading to | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Kingston Lyle. There is an unusual relic that he named King Alfred | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
Bugle. One of the things that he writes about in this book is the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
blowing Stone and if you can make a sound from it, it can be heard from | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the Uffington White Horse and would be king of England! Time for me to | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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That is horrible. A, dear, it is a commoners life for me! Never mind, | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
on we go. A short but very steep right away, it is the ancient White | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
Horse Hill, believed to be 3,000 years old. It was one of Alfred's | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
famous places. This is it, the last leg of the journey, but for this | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
bit, I am on foot. To end by a journey, members of the cast of | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
hammer man have braved the cold to me to meet. Among them, Alfred | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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himself. Very nice to meet you. It is a bit cold here today. So, you | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
play Alfred Williams, what is that like? It is a privilege. He is an | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
inspiration to a lot of people and it is certainly correct to bring | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
back the musical to this region and to talk about his life. What | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
appears you about this here? suppose his search about truth in | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
his life, he was an incredible writer and poet, and he always | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
tried to put on paper what, from nature, he could glean has been | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
part of life and his relationship with it. We're looking forward to | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
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hearing the music got, so take it That is said for this programme and | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
indeed for the series. We will be back in the autumn, in the meantime, | :28:38. | :28:41. |