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Hello from the Somerset Levels. We have been meeting people standing up | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
in the face of adversity. While the floodwaters shows no signs of | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
receding. Tonight, the army of volunteers helping to keep | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
communities going. I think the people of sunset are brilliant. Only | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
when you come down to these places and see the problems they have got | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
and how they are reacting to you helping, it is wonderful. Also, a | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Bristol teenager explores the illegal practice of female genital | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
mutilation, taking place in her community. I was wondering if you | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
provide Sunat two females? And listening to his master's voice the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
story of that famous dog. If you look up, you will see that little | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
statue. This is inside out West For the last two months, people | :00:58. | :01:13. | |
living and working here on the Somerset Levels have him inundated | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
with floodwater. And for the moment, there is little sign of improvement | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
on the horizon. Amid this disaster, stories have emerged of bravery | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
community spirit and genuine human kindness. | :01:29. | :01:42. | |
I've been reporting on the situation here on the Levels for the last | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
month, and as the rain has got heavier, and the floods have got | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
higher, the community spirit here has got even stronger. Since the | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
crisis began, Avon and Somerset Police have maintained a reassuring | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
presence in the worst hit areas And they've seen first`hand the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
resilience of the local people. The community spirit is amazing | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
actually, I mean as you can see yourself, we've just popped into the | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
pub, everybody's there making coffee, making sandwiches, you | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
couldn't wish for better community spirit. But at the same time people | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
are just getting down, because there's only so much they can do. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
The situation in Somerset has attracted the attention of people | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
across the country, and the efforts of local residents have been boosted | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
by volunteers from all over Britain, tackling important tasks such as | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
creating a safe walkway along the River Parrett here in Burrow Bridge. | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
This will enable police officers like Lynsey to check on houses that | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
have been cut off by floodwater and also provide a crucial access route | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
to the Saltmoor Pumping Station Everyone's mucking in. I got to work | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
but it was too wet to work, so I just thought I'd rather be wet here. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Save our pub! Whatever the motivation for getting involved the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
work is incredibly physical. Rescue workers are braving treacherous | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
conditions, and having to improvise with whatever transport they can lay | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
their hands on. We're on a pontoon trying to deliver | :03:11. | :03:25. | |
sandbags down the road, and we're being buffeted by the sort of waves | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
you'd normally see rolling in off the Atlantic. I've seen people | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
surfing on the coast with less waves than this. Somerset's inland ocean. | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
You guys are all local, you'd normally be at work, but you've | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
given up your time. So that we can do this. Not even your spare time, | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
is it? Definitely not, no. We've brought the bags out to this little | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
bungalow behind me. They are staying put, despite the advancing water. By | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
all accounts they're still dry, but there is so much water around here, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
and there is more due this afternoon. I'm not sure how much | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
longer they'll be able to stay. Aside from enthusiastic individuals, | :04:08. | :04:21. | |
organisations such as the Red Cross and Rotary have also been hard at | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
work. Robin Brown is the Rotary Community Resilience Officer for | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Somerset. His team has been assisting the emergency services and | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
offering help, advice and even accommodation to those worst | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
affected. We joined him for a journey into the village of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Moorland. How do Rotary get involved in these sorts of operations? Well, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Rotary, for quite a number of years now, have been involved in an | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
emergency voluntary agency group, that's administered by the local | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
authority here. So it's a great way for us to be directed to do targeted | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
work, so we're sent to the areas where people really need our help. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Are you surprised by the number of people who've given up their time to | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
come and join this operation, helping people? This sort of a | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
situation just seems to bring the best out of people, I think. And of | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
course Rotary and others, this is the sort of thing that we get into, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
giving our little bit back to the community, I think. And what better | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
opportunity to be out seen doing it now. As we move further into the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
village, past the churchyard and village hall, and even a float from | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
the Bridgwater Carnival, the scale of the devastation really becomes | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
clear. Moorland was one of the villages that was watching while all | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the people around them were getting flooded, and then suddenly a great | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
surge of water brought the floodwater in here, and they've got | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
it up to their downstairs windows. Ron Lancaster is returning to his | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
house for the first time in ten days to salvage a few remaining | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
valuables. I am in the process of trying to upgrade a little bit. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Extraordinary. Walking through a house full of water, it's just not | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
something you ever expect to see. And it really brings it home to you | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the enormous damage it's causing. I mean, it's completely turned | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
people's lives upside down. There is some electrical things underneath. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
I'd already got most of the furniture out, but I'm concerned | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
about these two items here, which are my own craftsmanship ` I'm a | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
potter and furniture maker. This is your work? That's my own work, which | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
I'd like to get out of the water. Are we going to try to get these on | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
the back of the truck? Well, that would be very helpful, if you could | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
do that for me. I'd like to help, yeah. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Like many residents in Moorland Ron faces a long period of uncertainty | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
before he can move back into his house. But not everyone on the | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
Levels has such a positive outlook. I've never seen so many grown men | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
cry as what they have in the last month. And I admit I've been one of | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
them, and that be more than once. And I don't want to live the rest of | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
my life like this. Carroll and Christine Gray are racehorse | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
trainers, whose home and stables on the edge of Moorland are now | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
inaccessible. You cannot even get down there in a boat. It is too | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
dangerous to get down there in a boat. So all my pictures, all my | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
children's videos... Every treasured object except the necessary clothing | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
that we took is now underwater. We actually had to move out on January | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
third. Before it come into the village, it was with us a good month | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
before, and like even though that was the case, the water kept rising, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
nothing was done to help anyone else in the village. Nothing was done of | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
any significance until it's all too late. During his career as a jockey, | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Carroll overcame many injuries, including a broken neck, but the | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
fight to save his yard might be one that even he can't win. You suffer | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
with depression with riding injuries when you can't be doing what you | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
want and what you love, and basically this is the same thing but | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
it's worse because it's your house. If it wasn't for these horses, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
keeping us going, keeping us working, keeping us focused, we | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
would be both of us would be mental wrecks. For several weeks, the | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
situation on the Levels has been devastating for the local community. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Yet with the help and generosity of volunteer groups and emergency | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
response teams, the spirit of the residents remains generally strong. | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
The worst of the weather appears to be over, but even when it does | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
finally improve, a huge and time consuming clean`up operation will | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
begin. We had some experience with the flooding last year, we can put | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
little teams in to help families put their homes back together again and | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
of course there's a lot of this I would like to think, will be covered | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
by the insurance companies, and so on. It is a long road ahead. Not | :09:07. | :09:20. | |
everyone in this area is optimistic that they have a future on the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Levels. Will you try and move back in? Will you try and get the stables | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
up and running again? As we feel now, no. I hope we'll be able to | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
continue training, somewhere else. But I think it's a waste of time | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
trying to come back here and resume the business. This isn't the first | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
time we're going through this. This is the second time within 12 months. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
So, it happened last year and nothing was done. So what can you | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
tell me to reassure me that it's going to be different next year | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Nothing. For those who do choose to rebuild their lives here, you can be | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
sure that the wider community will come together to help them plot a | :09:58. | :10:13. | |
route out of the darkness. , no the dog that inspired the famous HMV | :10:14. | :10:28. | |
logo. Next, to an issue which has cast a shadow over many young | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
women's lives, and killed. Female genital mutilation is rarely talked | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
about. That is changing now. The teenager has been looking at the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
practice which 30 years after it was outlawed is still a part of some | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
teenage lives. It's half term at Bristol Airport and hundreds of | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
families are on the move. The first time I went to the airport I was | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
kind of excited, I guess. Everything was just bright and dazzling and | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
big. My name is Nasiim Ahmed. My ethnic background is Somali. As a | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
kid I loved going on holiday, but for some girls in my community, it's | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
more like a living hell. They're going to be cut. That's what people | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
call FGM or female genital mutilation. It's not talked about | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
much, especially in communities like mine where it still goes on. But | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
that's exactly why I want to talk about it. I think with a big topic | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
like FGM it's always good to just say how it is and tell it as you see | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
it kind of thing. I guess I should tell you what it is first. It | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
involves removing a girl's external genitals or part of them, yeah, not | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
nice, but what's that like? I'm on my way to meet someone who knows. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
I'm feeling pretty nervous about meeting someone who's actually had | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
it done but I'm kind of eager to find out what they went through and | :12:09. | :12:21. | |
what they actually felt. Hello, Safia, I'm Nasiim. Safia was born in | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Somalia but now lives in Bristol and was put through the terrifying | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
experience at the age of ten. The guy came in the house and my mum was | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
there and another two aunties and then they just... I don't know how | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
to explain, they just put me on the bed, not the bed, the table. I | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
remember my mum and another auntie holding me, my legs and putting me | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
down. And then the guy came and do that thing?.cut it off. Safia's | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
injuries made giving birth to her own babies more difficult. She | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
thinks she was lucky. My cousin she had FGM at the same time as me and | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
my sister, she just passed away because she was bleeding a lot. How | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
old was she? Nine years old. What happened to Safia's cousin isn't | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
just horrible, it's against the law in Britain. It has been for almost | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
thirty years. So what's going on? Why hasn't somebody stopped it? Most | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
girls are taken abroad to get it done, but when they come back at his | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
midwives like Alison who have to deal with it. When a girl is asked | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
in pregnancy, it might be the first time somebody remembers it. It can | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
bring back very unfortunate memories. It can bring psychological | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
issues. It is midwives who then have to deal with it. Education is really | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
important. It's a paramount part of being able to tackle this issue both | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
for communities and professionals. If education is what it is all | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
about, how come most schools don't teach it? He NSPCC says some | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
teachers don't even know what it is. But Sarah does. She used to be a | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
teacher. Now she helps them on the charity's FGM helpline. All my calls | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
have been from teachers who are concerned, not sure whether it's | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
something to be worried about and need to talk it through with | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
someone. And as with all forms of abuse, the message is don't wait | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
until you're certain. So if the teachers need teaching, who's | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
teaching them? I'm on my way to one Bristol school where people my age | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
are doing the teaching and teachers like Hazel are doing the listening. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Yep, that's me joining in on the stage. So, guys, how do you think | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
today went? Amazing, we had a good discussion. We should be talking | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
about it more often in schools in assemblies. What people my own age | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
are saying seems to make sense. That's why Hazel, who runs a school, | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
came to listen ` because she's got worries of her own. We've been | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
having some concerns around the time that some children are having out of | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
school, particularly the younger children aged six, seven, eight and | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
talking to social services and more particularly the police, we began to | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
gather some information that children were having time out not | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
just for holidays, that maybe something was happening in their | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
lives that gave us great cause for concern. What Hazel has just told me | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
isn't just shocking, it's suddenly made FGM seem much more real. But if | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
girls from her school are having it done, where are they going? In | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Singapore, a type of FGM called Sunat still goes on. Are British | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
kids ending up there? I'm going to ring them to find out, pretending | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
I've got my own daughter. Hello I'm calling from the UK, I was wondering | :15:59. | :16:12. | |
if you supply Sunat to girls? OK, and my daughter is British, is that | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
all right? Yes, that's all right. So after just one call I've found a | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
clinic that'll do it and it says it doesn't matter that I'm British | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Another one even tells me the price. That's just ?17. But a third clinic | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
makes me really angry. It says it can remove most of my daughter's | :16:34. | :16:34. | |
genitals. That really shocks me. I've called | :16:35. | :16:48. | |
six clinics. Three say they'll do it. The woman didn't seem like she | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
cared at all about where I'm from, where I was, what I wanted. But I'm | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
not the only one that's shocked by these calls. I think it's really | :17:03. | :17:15. | |
worrying. What I heard was a very serious child protection concern and | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
a very illegal activity. It's against the law for any child to be | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
taken out of the UK to have FGM That's information that we really | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
would want to share with the Met Police and to share with law | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
enforcement internationally. It s reckoned 20,000 British girls are at | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
risk every year, so how come no`one's been done for it? Alison | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Saunders is the right person to ask. She's the Director of Public | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Prosecutions. It is very difficult to prosecute because people don t | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
come forward. It normally happens to young girls. They don't want to get | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
the family into trouble, they don't know they can talk about it. It is | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
really difficult to get the evidence. People should report any | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
concerns I have. That will help those to get towards a prosecution. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
That makes me think what these Bristol teenagers are doing is even | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
more important and they want every school across the country to copy | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
their idea. Fahma is a mate of mine and part of the Bristol project Two | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
weeks ago, she set up a petition asking the man in charge of schools | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
` Michael Gove ` to teach all kids about it. Michael Gove cannot ignore | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
us any more. By seeing how many people care about this, he needs to | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
contact all schools. Teach FGM in all schools before the summer | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
holidays, before the cutting season starts. I'm glad people my age are | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
leading the fight, because I think our generation can help stop it The | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
future is in our hands and it's important that we start from the | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
bottom and build it up. Oh, and guess what? My mate Fahma's petition | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
has already got 200,000 signatures. Not bad in a fortnight. She hoped it | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
would get Michael Gove to listen. Now he wants to meet her. Result! | :19:03. | :19:18. | |
Now almost everyone knows the HMV logo. The dog listening to the old | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
gramophone must be one of the most recognised trademarks of all time. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
But did you know the image was inspired by a stray dog found | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
roaming the west country? BBC Radio Bristol's Steve Yabsley did and now | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
he's on Nipper's trail. The "His Master's Voice" logo is | :19:32. | :19:52. | |
recognised all over the world ` but its story begins right here in | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Bristol. Like me, these medical students are young and eager for | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
knowledge about the city's famous characters. Let's join their walking | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
tour of the city as they hear about a little dog that lived in a theatre | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
in 1884 and is immortalised to this day in the famous music industry | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
trademark. He was called Nipper as he used to bite the ankles of people | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
on stage and people behind the scenes. His master was a set | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
designer. When his master died, Nipper went to live with his | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
master's brother who was a painter in Liverpool. Years after Nipper | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
died, his brother painted this image which he could remember. He called | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
the painting His Master's Voice and sold it to the gramophone company | :20:36. | :20:48. | |
for ?100. HMV. And if you look up you will see this little statue ` | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
students walk past him every day and do not know who he was. It surprises | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
people they would've bought plastic every day and not known. Of course, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
everybody has heard of HMV. For someone so famous to come out of | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Bristol, everybody likes that. Nipper's statue sits on what was | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
once the old Coliseum cinema and now he stares longingly across the road | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
at the place where he was taken in as a stray, the Prince's Theatre. | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
With nearly 3,000 seats, it was one of Britain's largest venues for | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
drama, opera and musical comedy but it all came to an abrupt end when it | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
was bombed in the Second World War. Time to turn detective on the Nipper | :21:31. | :21:42. | |
trail. I've invited Bristol theatre writer Richard Hope Hawkins to take | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
the lead ` our first clue is on a garage forecourt. It was the most | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
lavish of theatres, the best provincial theatre in the country. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
72 of the most lavish pantomimes ever. We're talking extravagance. | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Next stop is only a few steps away at the University of Bristol's | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Theatre Collection to have a look for any evidence of Nipper's showbiz | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
lifestyle. What is this? Apparently, this is a costume from the theatre | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
from a pantomime dated 1884. That is the year Nipper was born. He was a | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
stray dog, found outside the theatre. This is one of the only | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
known photos of Nipper who was a terrier cross ` or should that be a | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
cross terrier? Tell me a bit about the job that Nipper potted`macro | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
owner would have done. Lots of shows. He would have been employed | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
full`time. Some of the actors were top performers. They would have | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
probably patted Nipper. Yes, and I think they would have regretted it. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Now we know when Mark Barraud died, Nipper went to live for a short time | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
with his artist brother Francis Barraud, where the dog left a | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
lasting impression...on canvas. In fact, the painting His Master's | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Voice was so successful in the Gramophone Company's campaign that | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
in 1900 they registered it as a trademark. The image was also | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
recreated in thousands of different products and souvenirs ` many of | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
which have become collectors items. Nipper has cropped up all round the | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
world Some of the biggest examples are these stained glass windows in | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
New Jersey, and there's a 25 ft tall four`ton giant on top of the old RCA | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
Victor building in New York. Even Bristol's Banksy has painted his own | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
version on a wall in Shoreditch in East London. Of course, these days | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Nipper has a rival for the title of Bristol's most famous dog ` and once | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Gromit even took over the HMV role for a while. The real Nipper died a | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
few years before His Master's Voice was painted. But other dogs have | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
played the part over the years. One of the earliest was in this quaint | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
promotional film from 1900. This modern day lookalike appeared at the | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
civic unveiling ceremony at the Bristol statue in 2001 ` it turns | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
out he is a she called Nippey, who has had a star`studded career | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
spanning 12 years as the official HMV dog. Now she's retired and | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
living a happy life of leisure in Somerset. She obviously lives up to | :24:38. | :24:51. | |
her namesake! Thing is she still got it? Yes. She has got a lovely | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
temperament. How old is she now Nearly 17. What is that like in | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
human years? Something like 112 She's doing extremely well. A long | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
life, and the glamorous life. Very true. The chippy, a bit of a diva? | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
No, she was good. She kept her paws on the ground. It was a great | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
experience. There is and about Jack Russell is proposing would like `` | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
there is something about Jack Russell 's people seem to like. You | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
might think Nipper belongs to Bristol but I've come to another | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
place that also proudly claims him as theirs. Kingston`upon`Thames in | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
Surrey is where Nipper spent his last days ` my first stop for clues | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
is the local museum. Tell me about this model of Nipper. He would have | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
been in the shop. We think he dates from 1919. He is made of papier | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
mache. He's very popular. How well`known is Nipper in this area? | :26:08. | :26:19. | |
People know now because of Nipper Alley as. Ah, Nipper Alley ` it | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
turns out the man behind this is the cartoonist Patrick Blower. He and | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
fellow artists campaigned for the alley to be named after the HMV dog, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
which also conveniently helped put their gallery on the map. And guess | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
who opened it? This is Nipper Alley. We are proud we have a bit of | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
history here. It looks great. Follow me down the alley. There is probably | :26:50. | :27:01. | |
no gratia alley. Here is our sign. That is fantastic. It is a dog head | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
height. If you are shooting dogs can read. And guess who opened it? | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
That's right ` our very own Nippey from Somerset. This is a toilet | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
gallery. We produced a series of artwork. Sculptures, installations, | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
everything to do with Nipper, HMV, Anil record. What about the logo | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
itself? Why has it been so iconic? I think it is a weatherhead is ever so | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
slightly cocked in wondrous bafflement `` I think it is the way | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
the dog's head is ever so slightly cocked in wondrous bafflement. | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
Appropriately enough, Nipper is buried just over that while. So | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
Richard III and Nipper were both buried under car parks. This is | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Nipper's final resting place. You'll be pleased to know that, according | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
to Patrick, Nipper is still listening to the latest technology. | :28:13. | :28:24. | |
That is just about all we have got time for tonight. You can find out | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
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