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Hello from South Bristol. Tonight, the dramatic personal journey of an | :00:04. | :00:13. | |
I will be pretty much on the alcohol from the moment I wake—up really. I | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
just want not to be thinking of drink all the time. I just want | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
just want not to be thinking of be respected again and liked again. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight, the modest man behind When you are standing at the bottom | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
of Park Street and you look up the hill and there is this tower. It is | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
I'm Alastair McKee and this is First, an extraordinary insight | :00:42. | :00:56. | |
I'm Alastair McKee and this is one man's fight to give up alcohol | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
before it kills him. Andy Farlow drinks up to 10 litres of cider | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
before it kills him. Andy Farlow day. We follow his painful journey | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
through detox. Matthew Hill has It is 5am in Hengrove in Bristol. | :01:05. | :01:19. | |
Andy Farlow has been awake for an hour. I tend to wake up very early | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
morning. I will have my cup of tea first and I will be on the alcohol | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
from the moment I wake up really from after that cup of tea. And | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
from the moment I wake up really I will find myself drinking until I | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
have not enjoyed it for ages, but it is a part of my life and since my | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
wife died ten years ago, I have is a part of my life and since my | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
drinking all the time and I need to do something. I'm 48 years of age | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
and if I don't do something, I will I haven't got my children with me | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
now and that's down to drink and Andy has two 14—year—old boys who | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
are being looked after by a family friend. I feel terribly guilty that | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
I'm not the one that's caring for them. I just want not to be thinking | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
of drink all the time. In a year respected again and liked again | :02:22. | :02:34. | |
As well as being an alcoholic, Andy suffers from schizophrenia, a mental | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
voices. He Dricks up —— I drinks up to ten litres of cider a day. This | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
is my downstairs. I have not been able to use it at all for a long | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
time due to drink. As you can see, suppose, no alcoholic's house is | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
pretty. It will be when I'm sober. He doesn't eat properly. These are | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
the remains of the last meal he He doesn't eat properly. These are | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
And that was two days ago. I feel Everywhere. Andy can't just stop | :03:26. | :03:46. | |
drinking. Doctors have told him Everywhere. Andy can't just stop | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
he does, he could die. He needs professional help. This unit in | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
Bristol is the only NHS funded hospital in the city which has an | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
inpatient facility for alcohol detox. We manage that by giving | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
people replacement drugs for the alcohol and then lowering them over | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
alcoholic every fortnight. Andy alcohol and then lowering them over | :04:13. | :04:27. | |
been on a waiting list for two months. Today, is the day he has | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
been waiting so long for. He is about to begin his detox. A new | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
start now. A new start now which I'm determined as hell not to wreck | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
anymore. So this is the best thing that's going to happen to me. It | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
really is. He has agreed to let that's going to happen to me. It | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
follow him through the process. that's going to happen to me. It | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
is the first time cameras have been allowed in. Andy has discussed how | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
much he was drinking and he was drinking approximately 40 to 50 | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
units a day. So that's equivalent to a bottle—and—a—half of spirits. | :05:06. | :05:22. | |
The staff book him in and take him to his room. He will spend the next | :05:22. | :05:39. | |
searched for alcohol and other breathalyzed so they can work out | :05:39. | :05:55. | |
long, slow breath. That's it. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. | :05:55. | :06:07. | |
It is 0.6. Right. OK. So we need it to be a little down and then we | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
It is 0.6. Right. OK. So we need it start your medication. Okey dokey. | :06:11. | :06:11. | |
Thank you. Here we go to detox. start your medication. Okey dokey. | :06:11. | :06:30. | |
the best man win and he is dying to. Room six. Where is that garden? | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
It has been 36 hours since he was admitted and Andy is starting to | :06:37. | :06:54. | |
sober up. It is making him feel anxious so he has come to see the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
REPORTER: You seem to be worried, what's the problem? I can't stop | :06:57. | :07:22. | |
little bit concerned about my home. It is empty at the moment because my | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
friends are looking after my dog. schizophrenia is becoming more | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
pronounced. My voices are getting stronger and louder, but they are | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
Andy is given alcohol replacement drugs, painkillers and a sedative to | :07:43. | :08:05. | |
help him through the night. Thank you. I have had my meds again and I | :08:05. | :08:16. | |
will calm down in 10 or 15 minutes. I'm just concerned about my voices | :08:16. | :08:36. | |
REPORTER: What sorts of things are they saying? I don't discuss that. I | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
don't. I discussed it once and they sectioned me. I'm not being rude, | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
but they might. They are personal voices. I made a cup of tea and | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
but they might. They are personal going to go and drink that. I will | :08:54. | :08:54. | |
As well as the drugs, Andy has found another way of coping with his | :08:54. | :09:19. | |
worsening mental health. It helps me distract from my voices because | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
worsening mental health. It helps me have to concentrate fully on what | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
I'm playing. It is really good for Sometimes I rock it out without | :09:28. | :09:41. | |
It is midnight and lights out. It is time to try and get some sleep. | :09:41. | :10:09. | |
It is midnight and lights out. It is staff check on him hourly. But for | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Andy, the drugs seem to be working and he sleeps soundly through his | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
It has been five days and Andy has started to take an interest in the | :10:14. | :10:27. | |
garden. Part of the therapy here is for patients to grow their own | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
reintroducing them to food. I think I have got all my carbohydrates | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
reintroducing them to food. I think what have you fr alcohol. I am | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
eating three meals here. I am going to have to continue that when I | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
leave detox and go home. I can't afford to go back to how I was. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Have you thought about a drink? Do you know, I think about a drink | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
every day, several times a day. you know, I think about a drink | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
reasonably confident that I can carry it off and I can remain sober. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
More so because I want to build carry it off and I can remain sober. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
contact with my children, my lovely children. I miss them terribly. | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
next time they see me, I want them to see daddy well. I want them to | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
see me sober. I would like them to see daddy well. I want them to | :11:22. | :11:38. | |
It's been a week and Jan has come to Hi, how are you? You are towards the | :11:38. | :11:55. | |
tail end of the medication to help Not too sedated, but not to alert? | :11:55. | :12:13. | |
Alcohol detox, with appropriate care, goes smoothly. It is not a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
problem, people whether it. He has weathered it well. He is now trying | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
to move on and unpack all the issues that were there that the alcohol was | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Andy's body has been weaned off that were there that the alcohol was | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
chemical dependence on alcohol. that were there that the alcohol was | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
What we do first of all is look that were there that the alcohol was | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
what recovery is. Group therapy that were there that the alcohol was | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
other reformed addicts is a key that were there that the alcohol was | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Andy's not had a drink now for that were there that the alcohol was | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
days. It's something others in the I remember how difficult it was | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
days. It's something others in the to drink for one day. Through my own | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
willpower, I couldn't stop myself. For 12 days. Hats off to you, mate. | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
That's the end of today's workshop. Since I've been doing that, I've | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
been affecting me for years. It Since I've been doing that, I've | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
me even more determined to stay sober. I'm absolutely determined to | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
stay sober. I got three more nights totally safe. Then I go home to | :13:35. | :13:54. | |
stay sober. I got three more nights It's... It's a little bit daunting. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
The reality is, I don't know if It's... It's a little bit daunting. | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
going to be sober for the rest of my life, but that is my intention. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
It's been two weeks and today Andy's going home. He's finished the detox. | :14:05. | :14:18. | |
Take care. Like you very much. I was really nervous about leaving the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
ward but I'm optimistic now. I'm really excited about going home | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
ward but I'm optimistic now. I'm seeing my animals. And seeing my | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
kiddies soon and just to get back in to society. I've had a really good | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
detox all the staff have been great and the service users but I just | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
one of 26 alcoholics to get funding You can detoxify, that's easy. Most | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
people think if I detoxify I'm addicted, I've climbed the mountain | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
reality is here's the molehill of detox and then there's two to three | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
years of climbing up. Easy to fall back down. That two to three years | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
requires input and support. If they leave and there's no support for | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
them then the next time they have a crisis, the first thing they'll | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
think of is to reach for the bottle. But if they have the support from | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
services like the AA or drug and rehab services then that improves | :15:18. | :15:31. | |
their chances. Everything improves Andy's friends have been true to | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
their word. They've cleaned his house. This is different. This is | :15:41. | :16:00. | |
not how I left it, either. This house. This is different. This is | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
brilliant. I realise that I can house. This is different. This is | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
this, and I've got the support in the community. I will have support | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
from mental health stop under got somebody on the end of a phone | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
should I be tempted to drink, which It's been a month and Andy's still | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
dry. Today is the tenth anniversary of his wife's death. He's come to | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
Bedminster Down Cemetery with his This will be the first year since | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
your mummy died that I've not been a Make it a big change? As in, not | :16:44. | :17:21. | |
It's obviously a very sad day for us all. It's good to be sober. It means | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
more, I think. It means more respect to Mandy that I'm not drinking. | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
more, I think. It means more respect just a sad day. It is ten years | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
today. I keep thinking, ten years gone. Lots of respect for my mum and | :17:42. | :17:56. | |
my dad as well for, like, stopping I think it's a great improvement. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
illness, schizophrenia, the alcohol wasn't helping at all. Knowing he's | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
stopped that will make a great year's time, you'd see me as I am | :18:09. | :18:30. | |
now, but even better. And hopefully I'll have my children back. They | :18:30. | :18:41. | |
haven't got a mummy. In a year's time, I'll be one year sober. As | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
one—year—old. But it is just for today. You live just for today. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
one—year—old. But it is just for just for today, I'm not going to | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
And it's been 126 days for Andy since filming and he's not had a | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
drink. Well done to him. For more information and support relating to | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
the issues in Andy's film you can visit the BBC action line website — | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
that's bbc.co.uk/actionline or you can call for recorded information on | :19:17. | :19:30. | |
hours—a—day and are free from most landlines. Some networks and mobile | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
operators will charge for the calls. Next tonight, anyone who has visited | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Bristol will be familiar with its yet there was much less fanfare | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Bristol will be familiar with its the life of their architect Sir | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
George Oatley, as Mark Horton has architecture, but one building looms | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
large in every vista — the Wills Memorial Building. Yet the man who | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
created the so—called "Lantern of the West" was a private man who | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
loathed publicity, and his humble life was a stark contrast to the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
characterises much of his work in Even the building where I work — the | :20:09. | :20:21. | |
designed by George Oatley. Much Even the building where I work — the | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
Bristol's wealth was generated by the great non—conformist families | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
such as the Wills, the Robinsons and non—conformist himself, was able to | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
rely on them as the patrons for non—conformist himself, was able to | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
His parents were members of one non—conformist himself, was able to | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
the wealthiest and most influential the building and restoration of | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
churches was to play a key role the building and restoration of | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
Sir George Oatley's working life. The most important restoration that | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
Oatley believed he'd been entrusted was John Wesley's New Room. Built by | :20:59. | :21:13. | |
the movement's founder, this is was John Wesley's New Room. Built by | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
oldest Methodist chapel in the century, Oatley restored it to its | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
simple, yet beautiful original state, in which it seems that time | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
has stood still. But the decade leading up to this project, the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
1920s, was perhaps the most prolific I've come to the Physics laboratory | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
at the University of Bristol, one of the many Oatley—designed projects | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
funded by the Wills family. Brian Pollard is the department archivist. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
So Brian, why did the University think it needed such a grand Physics | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
I think Artur Tindall, the head think it needed such a grand Physics | :21:54. | :22:06. | |
appreciated that there would be think it needed such a grand Physics | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
rapid growth of physics. It would be a subject that would influence | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
industry and technology. Wills paid for Tindall and also orderly to | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
visit the United States where many of the new colleges and universities | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
were building buildings at the cutting edge. He brought back ideas | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
of how to build a state—of—the—art Is this actually fit for purpose of | :22:29. | :22:49. | |
The architect's brief was to be sympathetic to the design of the | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
original building. He asked if the interior walls could be moved to | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
He had enough foresight to build a space fit for the 21st—century full | :23:03. | :23:20. | |
Oatley's most important creation, building, is the Wills Memorial | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
million pounds to build over a building, is the Wills Memorial | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
year period interrupted by the First World War, there is much more to | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
this great edifice than the tower that dominates the view from the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
The glorious entrance hall is more befitting of a cathedral than a | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
enormous Founder's Window, and probably the last fan vault ceiling | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
built in Britain, 75 feet above probably the last fan vault ceiling | :23:40. | :23:54. | |
ground. At the top of the stairway, sits the bust of Sir George Oatley. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Sarah Whittingham, to find out more So Sarah, here we are in the Council | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
extraordinary structure this, is it Oh, I think so yes, in terms of | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
extraordinary structure this, is it scale of it, the monumentality of | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
it. When you're standing at the bottom of Park Street and you look | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
up the hill there is this soaring tower at the top of it, it lifts the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
spirits, it's a symbol of Bristol. To what extent do you feel that | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
spirits, it's a symbol of Bristol. incompatible with his much more | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
modest non—conformity background? His patrons shared his beliefs, | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
modest non—conformity background? he practised his profession as a | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
means of serving God, and if the Wills brothers wanted a grand, | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
prominent building on the top of Park Street that's what he would | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Do you think Oatley would have been comfortable with the grandeur of the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
He really had to go with it, because Bristol. The streets were full of | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
rooftops to see the King and Queen. Oatley said to someone that he | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
really didn't want to be there. Oatley said to someone that he | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
said that if your buildings were any themselves. If they aren't then | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
And would he have been happy with He didn't tell anyone about it. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
And would he have been happy with didn't tell his family. They read | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
about it in the papers. When he actually went to get the knighthood | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
at the Palace in London, he didn't take his wife. He was very much | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
at the Palace in London, he didn't Bristol architect serving his city | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
So perhaps in this anniversary year we should celebrate his memory. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
He may not have wanted us to, but I It wasn't just for young people | :25:35. | :25:44. | |
He may not have wanted us to, but I Oatley built grand buildings, but | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
here at St Monica's he constructed more of a mansion than a nursing | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
home for the old people of Bristol. Through the ornate entrance, bearing | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
the monograms of the project's benefactors, Henry Herbert and Mary | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Monica Wills, you enter a corridor which is an eighth of a mile long, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
with private rooms on one side, facing south into the vast gardens, | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Augustine's Chapel — the final part This was the chapel that Oatley | :26:09. | :26:23. | |
could never build in the secular university. Money was no object | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
could never build in the secular creating this magnificent Gothic | :26:29. | :26:42. | |
But the best bit is the garden front facing out over some 12 acres of | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
parkland. One of the wings is in this kind of Tudor, Arts and Crafty | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
style, but it doesn't prepare you Jacobethan style with all these | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
classical details and things, just like actually what he was building | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
at the same time in the University. But that's hardly surprising because | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
it's 1925. What I find extraordinary is that all these grand buildings | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
were going up at the same time, using the same craftsmen and the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Vehemently anti—publicity, Oatley continued to work steadily up to his | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
death in 1950, but never again on projects as iconic as those he | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
carried out in the 1920s, which earned him his Knighthood. He was | :27:22. | :27:35. | |
interest from the press and public — So here we are. George Herbert | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
Oatley, 1863 to 1950. What's so interesting about this tombstone is | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
simple, very plain. But actually did he need a grand tomb, because his | :27:53. | :28:17. | |
extraordinary buildings in Bristol. Well, that's just about it for this | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
week but if you'd like to keep in touch with what we're up to then you | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
can find us on Twitter. Or you can email us: But from all of us here in | :28:25. | :28:36. | |
Bristol thanks for watching and goodnight. Next week: food glorious | :28:36. | :28:45. | |
food — an Inside Out special asks do We are going to take a sample of | :28:45. | :28:48. |