:00:00. > :00:12.You just felt as though you had to go along with what he said to get
:00:13. > :00:18.Should we bother saving a half finished painting?
:00:19. > :00:24.And who threw Kenny Everett a lifeline when his
:00:25. > :00:28.Tomorrow I have got to go and do a press reception
:00:29. > :00:47.Police forces across the country have been investigating allegations
:00:48. > :00:53.A number of top clubs had been named, including Southampton,
:00:54. > :00:56.whose youth development coach also ran a football academy
:00:57. > :01:03.Jeff Twentyman and has been speaking to some former players scarred
:01:04. > :01:10.by their experience of training under Bob Higgins.
:01:11. > :01:14.I have been involved in football all my life.
:01:15. > :01:17.As a schoolboy I played for Liverpool reserves.
:01:18. > :01:26.As an adult I played for Bristol Rovers for seven years.
:01:27. > :01:32.In my time playing the game I never experienced anything untoward.
:01:33. > :01:35.But an increasing number of men who as boys were coached
:01:36. > :01:39.by Bob Higgins in an academy near Bath say they did.
:01:40. > :01:43.We have heard of naked, soapy massages.
:01:44. > :01:45.They would massage your groins, all in your groin area.
:01:46. > :01:47.There was the odd touch on your private parts,
:01:48. > :01:50.your genitals, and it wasn't uncommon for a young lad to be sat
:01:51. > :01:58.Driving along, and he got my head and put my head down on his lap.
:01:59. > :02:01.And do you know what, I can actually still smell the urine
:02:02. > :02:12.So how could this have happened in the sport that I love so much?
:02:13. > :02:15.In the 1980s, Bob Higgins was the youth development officer
:02:16. > :02:27.He brought on future England stars Matt Le Tissier and Alan Shearer.
:02:28. > :02:30.He also ran the Bob Higgins soccer Academy, which had a training centre
:02:31. > :02:37.He coached young boys between the ages of 12 and 16 here.
:02:38. > :02:42.It is now the site of Bath Spa University.
:02:43. > :02:45.Jason Upshaw from Street in Somerset trained at the Academy here every
:02:46. > :02:54.It is his first time back and it is a bit raw.
:02:55. > :02:56.How does it feel, then, Jason, back here this morning and there
:02:57. > :03:03.Meant to be an enjoyable time for you, but it is not.
:03:04. > :03:06.It happened all those years ago, but obviously it has still got
:03:07. > :03:10.Yeah, I think you try and bottle it up.
:03:11. > :03:25.Jason was often invited to stay over the night at Higgins's
:03:26. > :03:27.house in Southampton, along with other lads before
:03:28. > :03:35.I was asked to go down to his house in terms of, this
:03:36. > :03:37.was developing for homesickness, you know, for when we become
:03:38. > :03:43.Because I never did that, there was times and occasions that
:03:44. > :03:52.Basically I had to go through another coach for stuff.
:03:53. > :03:55.What, he didn't speak to you for six months?
:03:56. > :04:00.Jason travelled to Sweden with Southampton's youth team to compete
:04:01. > :04:08.He says he was ordered to take part in soap and water massages there.
:04:09. > :04:12.We were told, naked, get your towels, go up.
:04:13. > :04:15.One of your fellow would do one leg, and one of your fellow...
:04:16. > :04:17.Yeah, team-mates, would do the other.
:04:18. > :04:26.He followed me down and said this is about team-building,
:04:27. > :04:33.He really forcefully told me to get back up there and do it.
:04:34. > :04:40.Someone else who was on that tour is Nick Good from Yate.
:04:41. > :04:44.He was destined to be a football star from a very early age.
:04:45. > :04:47.Even at the age of 11, he has competed in tournaments in France,
:04:48. > :04:53.30 years later, and he has agreed to meet me near his home.
:04:54. > :04:58.Like Jason, Nick also experienced soap and water massages.
:04:59. > :05:04.And I have heard there was the odd, sort of,
:05:05. > :05:05.touch on your private parts, your genitals.
:05:06. > :05:13.It wasn't uncommon for young lads to be sat there with erections.
:05:14. > :05:15.It was deemed acceptable and a bit of fun.
:05:16. > :05:24.Unlike Jason, Nick was part of the inner circle and often stayed
:05:25. > :05:31.When I first went down there, went into the front room, Bob was there.
:05:32. > :05:33.The really bizarre thing, he has got two young boys
:05:34. > :05:42.He has got one lead across his front and the other one sort
:05:43. > :05:46.Again, my age, 12, 13 at the time, just accepted that for being
:05:47. > :05:49.that is what you do, sort of thing, and I went and sat
:05:50. > :05:52.down on the floor and sort of just cuddled into his legs,
:05:53. > :05:57.He did ask me to sit on his lap, which, it is not normal,
:05:58. > :06:03.Another former academy player is Dean Radford.
:06:04. > :06:07.His schoolboy dream was to play for Southampton football club,
:06:08. > :06:16.He has brought me to Hanham in Bristol, where it all began for him.
:06:17. > :06:18.And there is your own, like, personal football pitch.
:06:19. > :06:22.And that is where all the dreams and aspirations of being
:06:23. > :06:24.a footballer playing for Southampton, your
:06:25. > :06:29.I think they even used to call it the Dell.
:06:30. > :06:32.I used to come out and have my own little crowd in my head.
:06:33. > :06:41.That dream did come true when he made it into Southampton's
:06:42. > :06:44.first-team, coming up through the ranks with Alan Shearer,
:06:45. > :06:50.There is no suggestion that Alan Shearer was
:06:51. > :06:55.Bob Higgins, the man in charge of all of this at that age,
:06:56. > :07:01.He was the guy that made the decision whether I would become
:07:02. > :07:04.You had to go along with what he said to get
:07:05. > :07:12.At the time they don't realise there is an inner circle.
:07:13. > :07:15.All you want to be is one of Bob's favourite.
:07:16. > :07:18.You could call it a favourite, one of his favourites.
:07:19. > :07:21.If you were out of favour with him because he hadn't said the right
:07:22. > :07:25.thing to him or maybe I had declined staying at his house that weekend,
:07:26. > :07:28.He would grunt at you and not be affectionate towards
:07:29. > :07:35.So he would build you up to make you feel the most
:07:36. > :07:38.special thing, and then that is when the control started.
:07:39. > :07:49.I remember one day, driving along and he got my head and put my head
:07:50. > :07:52.down in his lap for an hour and a half, drove
:07:53. > :08:02.It sounds gross, but I can actually still smell urine
:08:03. > :08:10.A graphic thing to say, but it is just disgusting.
:08:11. > :08:13.Soapy massages, just tell me about your experience
:08:14. > :08:19.At the time you don't question it, and it is embarrassing to say this,
:08:20. > :08:23.but he manipulated me so much that he would be gutted
:08:24. > :08:31.if he spent 30 seconds longer on the player in front of you,
:08:32. > :08:34.because you felt he doesn't love me as much as what he
:08:35. > :08:40.Dean's most harrowing experience happened after he bruised his lower
:08:41. > :08:43.He said I am going to massage the bruise.
:08:44. > :08:49.He pulled my shorts and pants down and he basically got his fingers
:08:50. > :08:54.And that went on for about 30 seconds, half a minute.
:08:55. > :08:57.He then got up, didn't say a word, washed his hands and said,
:08:58. > :09:00.just said to me then, "That should sort it for you.
:09:01. > :09:04.Did you ever seek help from anyone on this?
:09:05. > :09:14.Because I was so afraid that I would come out of the,
:09:15. > :09:17.you just called it inner circle, but that is what it is.
:09:18. > :09:20.I wanted to be part of what I needed to do...
:09:21. > :09:35.Dean's case against Higgins went to court in 1991,
:09:36. > :09:38.but the trial collapsed because of a lack of evidence.
:09:39. > :09:41.We approached Bob Higgins for comment, but he hasn't responded.
:09:42. > :09:50.In the past he has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
:09:51. > :09:52.Bob Higgins left Southampton football club in 1989 under a cloud.
:09:53. > :09:59.The reason he left is not entirely clear.
:10:00. > :10:02.But he went on to coach other teams around the country right up
:10:03. > :10:09.The lads I have met, the men I have met, their lives
:10:10. > :10:12.so profoundly affected in such a bad way from the great
:10:13. > :10:19.The other thing that I find really difficult is that no one challenged
:10:20. > :10:21.Bob Higgins and said to him, what you are doing
:10:22. > :10:29.Jason, Nick and Dean have all reported their allegations
:10:30. > :10:34.Nationally over 1000 allegations of historic abuse in football have
:10:35. > :10:44.It is clear that what Bob Higgins is alleged to have done may be part
:10:45. > :10:53.A problem we are only just starting to tackle.
:10:54. > :10:55.If you have been affected by any issues in this film,
:10:56. > :10:57.there is a BBC Action Line you can contact.
:10:58. > :11:10.The National that but the painting is Portrait Gallery in London
:11:11. > :11:12.wants to buy a painting by a Bristol born artist.
:11:13. > :11:14.Nothing unusual in that, but the painting is unfinished,
:11:15. > :11:17.there are dozens of portraits of the same person and they want
:11:18. > :11:30.If you like a nice portrait, you will love
:11:31. > :11:40.They have got thousands of pictures of the great and the good.
:11:41. > :11:56.This is a portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
:11:57. > :11:59.It is over 180 years old, just one of dozens painted of the Duke,
:12:00. > :12:05.and the gallery wants to buy it for ?1.3 million.
:12:06. > :12:14.So why does the National Portrait Gallery want to raise all that money
:12:15. > :12:17.for another portrait of another dead white guy?
:12:18. > :12:20.We do not, in the collection as it currently stands,
:12:21. > :12:23.have a portrait that can do Wellington justice, and he is one
:12:24. > :12:27.of the most major heroes and historical figures
:12:28. > :12:31.The painting is owned by an anonymous collector
:12:32. > :12:34.and it is only on loan until the end of March.
:12:35. > :12:36.To keep it forever the gallery is asking the public
:12:37. > :12:45.It was painted by one of the greatest artists of the age,
:12:46. > :12:55.Today Bristol is probably better known for street artists
:12:56. > :13:05.But this is where Sir Thomas Lawrence was born
:13:06. > :13:19.His father ran a pub, but the business failed.
:13:20. > :13:21.So he tried again in divisors, running this in catering
:13:22. > :13:23.for the travelling between London and Bath.
:13:24. > :13:26.It turned out that Thomas Lawrence was a child genius.
:13:27. > :13:29.He painted portraits of the paying guests who flocked
:13:30. > :13:34.Which was fortunate, because this business also failed.
:13:35. > :13:38.The family then followed the money to Bath, where from the age of ten
:13:39. > :13:41.Lawrence supported them by selling his portraits.
:13:42. > :13:49.So just how good was this child prodigy?
:13:50. > :13:52.To find out I am having my portrait drawn by Bill, who teaches
:13:53. > :14:02.So, Lawrence's portraits when he was 14, what are your views on those?
:14:03. > :14:06.They are incredible for a 14-year-old, aren't they?
:14:07. > :14:11.I would guess he had a wig at home which he copied,
:14:12. > :14:15.because I don't think a sitter could have stayed there long enough
:14:16. > :14:22.I think he has taken them home and polished them and worked on them
:14:23. > :14:25.and he was well tuned in to the standard ideals
:14:26. > :14:30.So it is almost like he Photoshopped them in the 18th century?
:14:31. > :14:39.If you can bring out their individuality and their quirks
:14:40. > :14:41.and still please them, that is the idea, isn't it,
:14:42. > :14:46.But if you're not being commissioned, you can
:14:47. > :15:02.Lawrence's teenage line drawings belonged to Bath's Holborn Museum.
:15:03. > :15:05.They own another unfinished oil painting, done when he was 22.
:15:06. > :15:09.Last year the Museum raised ?400,000 to buy it.
:15:10. > :15:15.We were actually looking quite actively for a portrait by Lawrence,
:15:16. > :15:18.and when we saw this one we realised this was the one.
:15:19. > :15:22.It is a preliminary study for the finished work,
:15:23. > :15:29.so this is just getting the likeness of the sitter.
:15:30. > :15:31.And it is quite rare, because we rarely see oil
:15:32. > :15:35.He loved drawing, he collected drawings as well.
:15:36. > :15:43.But oil sketches that have a finished companion are quite rare.
:15:44. > :15:46.While in Bath, he first painted the famous actress Sarah Siddons,
:15:47. > :15:50.a meeting which led to a complicated and rather scandalous relationship
:15:51. > :15:55.with her two daughters, starting with Sally.
:15:56. > :16:02.How did his love life transpire through his life?
:16:03. > :16:05.He was in love with Sally, but he wasn't in a financial
:16:06. > :16:08.So understandably Sarah Siddons and her husband weren't going
:16:09. > :16:15.Later he decided he preferred her much more beautiful
:16:16. > :16:20.younger sister Maria, who sadly was dying of consumption.
:16:21. > :16:24.I don't think she was a very good patient, and she was petulant
:16:25. > :16:30.And her elder sister suddenly became much more attractive again,
:16:31. > :16:32.so Lawrence fell in love with the older sister
:16:33. > :16:37.But on her deathbed Maria made Sally promised she would
:16:38. > :16:43.Whether or not she felt bound by that promise, I don't know,
:16:44. > :16:49.In fact Lawrence never married at all, and poor Sally followed
:16:50. > :16:55.after her sister and only five years later she died in 1803.
:16:56. > :16:57.While his love life unravelled, Thomas Lawrence moved
:16:58. > :17:03.to London to study painting at the Royal Academy,
:17:04. > :17:09.becoming its president in 1820 at the age of 51.
:17:10. > :17:14.This flattering and polished style made him one of the most important
:17:15. > :17:26.He became the Prince Regent's go to image maker, always portraying
:17:27. > :17:39.Time for the slightly nerve wracking reveal of Bill's work.
:17:40. > :17:47.That was a unique experience for me, but back then of course it was how
:17:48. > :17:57.Lawrence always understood the importance of being expensive.
:17:58. > :18:03.So, you know, it is like a courtier now.
:18:04. > :18:06.You know, a fashion designer, you go and have an individual
:18:07. > :18:09.relationship and get the portrait that you and the artist sort of make
:18:10. > :18:13.But it would be reassuringly expensive.
:18:14. > :18:20.Not only was the Duke of Wellington a hugely important military figure,
:18:21. > :18:22.Lawrence's painting shows him in his later years when he
:18:23. > :18:27.Sadly Lawrence died before he could finish it.
:18:28. > :18:30.This unfinished moment, this moment sort of frozen in time,
:18:31. > :18:38.I think gives us the opportunity to engage with Wellington in a way
:18:39. > :18:40.that I think is less easy when you have a completely
:18:41. > :18:43.watertight finished historical portrait in front of you.
:18:44. > :18:49.?1.3 million as a lot of money for a piece of art.
:18:50. > :18:55.This work will be an incredibly well priced Lawrence,
:18:56. > :19:00.and it will sit on the walls of the gallery on permanent display
:19:01. > :19:06.in perpetuity to represent the achievements that Wellington
:19:07. > :19:10.and Lawrence both made to the history of British life and culture.
:19:11. > :19:12.To me, you can't actually put a price tag on that.
:19:13. > :19:15.Even if they raise the cash, there is no plan to bring
:19:16. > :19:17.the picture to Bristol, so perhaps we will just
:19:18. > :19:31.Kenny Everett was a legend in the world of broadcasting,
:19:32. > :19:33.but in 1970 he was sacked from Radio 1.
:19:34. > :19:39.He hit rock bottom, and his career seemed to be over.
:19:40. > :19:43.Until he was thrown an unlikely lifeline.
:19:44. > :20:00.Yes, friends it's your very own Ken back on the BBC.
:20:01. > :20:08.Suddenly, a barrage of red tape came...
:20:09. > :20:11.It was an amazing coup at the time, but it wasn't altogether popular
:20:12. > :20:17.with the senior management of the BBC.
:20:18. > :20:20.Somebody like Ken was like a mad little imp causing great joy
:20:21. > :20:26.for the listeners and not a little worry for the men in suits.
:20:27. > :20:37.Kenny Everett was in the original line-up of DJs when Radio
:20:38. > :20:43.Then three years later he was sacked.
:20:44. > :20:48.A joke about the Transport Minister's wife was the last straw.
:20:49. > :20:56.Because the BBC, the Beeb, it was his idea of heaven.
:20:57. > :21:00.I think he would have liked to have been dead.
:21:01. > :21:03.He was so devastated, he was just on the floor.
:21:04. > :21:07.I was always good at picking him up, because he was quite,
:21:08. > :21:09.he was oversensitive anyway, but that was the worst thing that
:21:10. > :21:16.The following year here at the BBC in Bristol,
:21:17. > :21:19.the youngest local radio manager in the country was grappling
:21:20. > :21:27.How do you attract a bigger audience to a fledgling radio station?
:21:28. > :21:37.But he wanted to take four weeks off to go on holiday.
:21:38. > :21:43.I wasn't sure what to do, and then I suddenly thought,
:21:44. > :21:47.So I thought, let's have a go, so I rang him up.
:21:48. > :21:51.Was it a bit of a risky role of the dice taking on Kenny Everett?
:21:52. > :21:54.When you are 26 you don't think too deeply about such things.
:21:55. > :21:57.I just saw an opportunity to indulge in a nice piece of public relations
:21:58. > :22:01.with a performer who had been sacked by the BBC and was
:22:02. > :22:07.The news soon reached the corridors of power
:22:08. > :22:13.And David picked up the phone to hear the stern voice of the BBC's
:22:14. > :22:17.managing director of radio, Ian Trethowan.
:22:18. > :22:22.He said, "We have a file and it says on the file that he must not be
:22:23. > :22:24.taken on by anybody in the BBC without reference upwards.
:22:25. > :22:30.So I said, "Well, I didn't even know it was there."
:22:31. > :22:34.So what are you going to do about it?"
:22:35. > :22:38.He said, "If this goes wrong, be it on your own head."
:22:39. > :22:54.We had a young lady on our staff at Radio Bristol, who was a toughie.
:22:55. > :23:03.I was confident that she could say no to anybody, certainly
:23:04. > :23:08.to Kenny Everett, if he were to go off the rails.
:23:09. > :23:12.I remembered this terrible moment, David looked around at these
:23:13. > :23:18.aghast people and said, "Kate, you're the producer..."
:23:19. > :23:23.Although David's BBC career was already on the line,
:23:24. > :23:26.he invited the national papers and a TV crew to announce
:23:27. > :23:34.Tomorrow I have got to go and do a press reception
:23:35. > :23:39.They are putting me on Radio Bristol.
:23:40. > :23:53.Don't you think that you have been in some way browbeaten into coming
:23:54. > :23:56.back because this is the only outlet of radio in this country?
:23:57. > :23:59.No, I don't feel strange about my dismissal.
:24:00. > :24:04.I have never been in The Daily Mirror more in my life.
:24:05. > :24:08.No, I look upon Radio Bristol as a cuddly little radio station
:24:09. > :24:17.Now, from our newsroom, dear Ken, please come back to Radio 1.
:24:18. > :24:21.If you don't come back, I know I will have to do
:24:22. > :24:25.Like running into Woolworths and shouting, Marks and Spencers!
:24:26. > :24:30.So please come back, yours faithfully, Kenny Everett.
:24:31. > :24:33.He used to put in the most enormous amount of preparation
:24:34. > :24:44.And I had said to him, I am your producer.
:24:45. > :24:48.I lived off it for years saying I was Kenny Everett's producer.
:24:49. > :24:59.After nearly half a century, David is meeting up again
:25:00. > :25:04.Kenny and Lee were married for over ten years and lived
:25:05. > :25:13.Where Kenny would spend hours in his home recording studio making
:25:14. > :25:16.jingles and other creations for his radio shows.
:25:17. > :25:20.Which disc jockey would be complete without a music room?
:25:21. > :25:41.# I look high, I look, I looked everywhere I go...#
:25:42. > :25:45.They really warned him so many times, they said, you can't do that.
:25:46. > :25:48.I went to see the director-general the other day.
:25:49. > :25:58.I have often wondered, after 46 years, what happened
:25:59. > :26:02.I said, how do you fancy a few shows on BBC Radio Bristol?
:26:03. > :26:07.I think he was a bit shocked that he could be hired
:26:08. > :26:18.We had just got our first mortgage, so we were really in it up to there,
:26:19. > :26:26.and so you saved our life in a funny way.
:26:27. > :26:30.They had realised that she could syndicate the programmes
:26:31. > :26:34.and sell them to other BBC local radio stations.
:26:35. > :26:36.In the end we were just posting them out, you know,
:26:37. > :26:47.He used everything in my kitchen for sound effects.
:26:48. > :26:52.I had heard things in my studio and it was my tea towels.
:26:53. > :26:55.In the end I started locking things up.
:26:56. > :26:59.I should have locked him up actually, I would
:27:00. > :27:04.Eventually the couple split up and Kenny came out as gay,
:27:05. > :27:07.but they remained good friends and Kenny was best man
:27:08. > :27:12.at Lee's wedding to actor John Alkin from the Sweeney.
:27:13. > :27:16.All it takes is for a radio Bristol to take a little twiddly bit
:27:17. > :27:18.on their transmitter and you can get it in stereo.
:27:19. > :27:21.Mind you, you would have to walk about with two radios.
:27:22. > :27:25.Ken was clearly both wild and mad and sparky,
:27:26. > :27:31.You heard little edited bits of tape, bits of music,
:27:32. > :27:34.including classical music, what he used to call
:27:35. > :27:44.And he would meld them into this extraordinary
:27:45. > :27:51.continuous stream of fun, music, jokes, quirky remarks.
:27:52. > :28:03.Kenny went on to an enormous national success.
:28:04. > :28:07.In 1995 he died of an HIV-related illness.
:28:08. > :28:13.As for David, he went on to be a senior manager in the BBC.
:28:14. > :28:19.I am still very proud of my contact with Kenny Everett,
:28:20. > :28:23.and I still love the clips that come up on the television and the little
:28:24. > :28:29.The clearer rockers and the Rod Stewart sketch.
:28:30. > :28:34.It was all in the best possible taste!
:28:35. > :28:39.Don't forget there is more on Facebook and Twitter,
:28:40. > :29:06.There could be up to six people sleeping rough.
:29:07. > :29:09.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90 second update.
:29:10. > :29:12.The Government says national security means it won't confirm
:29:13. > :29:16.if an unarmed nuclear missile veered off course during testing.
:29:17. > :29:18.Theresa May now admits she knew about the test.
:29:19. > :29:23.She refused to answer the question yesterday.
:29:24. > :29:26.In his first day in the job as US President,
:29:27. > :29:27.Donald Trump met businesses
:29:28. > :29:29.and said he'll cut taxes and slash red tape,
:29:30. > :29:31.as long as they don't move jobs abroad.
:29:32. > :29:35.That's the message after nearly 8,000 drivers were caught
:29:36. > :29:39.in just one week during a police crackdown.
:29:40. > :29:42.Brothers Erwin and Krystian Markowski illegally
:29:43. > :29:44.recruited Poles to work at Sports Direct.
:29:45. > :29:47.But they threatened them, and kept most of their wages.
:29:48. > :29:56.A fond farewell to 'Allo 'Allo star Gordon Kaye
:29:57. > :30:03.He played cafe owner Renee in the series in the 1980s.