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Hello, and welcome to Inside Out from Doncaster. This week, we | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
investigate the dark side of the night-time economy in our towns and | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
cities. A You are going to be coming in. I have told you once. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
We find out how a Nottinghamshire town is trying to transform its | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
reputation. Also tonight, we visit the | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Doncaster race in the college training jockeys to use less of the | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
whip, but do the new rules go far enough? You can have races without | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the whip in Britain and still have all the fun that goes with it. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
And the polar explorer that no one has heard of. We go on the trail of | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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an Antartic pioneer who is our note Weekend binge-drinking can cause | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
massive problems for our town centres, so just as good beaches | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
can earn Blue Flags, new purple flags are being developed for the | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
town centres that offer better and safer night said. Stuart Woodman | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
has been to Mansfield, which is hoping to add its flag. | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
For many, the weekend is just about one thing, a big night out. But how | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
safe are our pubs, clubs, Penzance cities every Friday and Saturday | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
night? -- towns and cities. This town has had its problems, bar | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
brawls, street assaults and even a nightclub death have all marred the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
reputation of Mansfield's nightlife. A recent report highlighted this | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
town as having a drinking problem. The highest numbers of alcohol | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
related hospital admissions and the highest levels of alcohol linked to | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
crime in map -- Nottinghamshire. So we are out with the boys and the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
girls in blue on one of the busiest nights of the year and we are in | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
for a rough ride. You are going to be coming in, I have told you once, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
I were to tell you again. cannot walk around Mansfield | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
smoking cannabis. Before I spend an evening with the police, I want to | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
discover for myself this town's darkest hour. The Mid North Tees, a | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
time when serious incidents were happening most weekends and some | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
involved doorstep as well as customers -- the mid- 2000s. Sandra | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
lost her son Paul Stephens in a Mansfield club that has now closed | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
down. They said he had no brain activity and we had to turn up the | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
machine off. You have to make that decision, didn't you? The incident | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
happened as Paul was being evicted from the club. His death sparked a | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
major police investigation, but the arrest of two bouncers. But the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
evidence was inconclusive and no charges were ever brought. I got an | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
open verdict and I have been trying for three years to try and get | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
justice for Paul, and I just can't get enough evidence. People will | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
not talk about it and somebody must have seemed something that night. - | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
- seen something. Whatever happened, it ended in tragedy, and Paul | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Stephens isn't the only person to lose his life on a night out in | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Mansfield. Now the police and authorities are fighting back to | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
try and make the town's safer. know how busy it is on a Saturday | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
night, tonight will be busy. It is the Saturday before Christmas and | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
it is expected to be one of the busiest and most boisterous night | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
of the year. I am meeting the man in charge of policing tonight. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
It is pretty early on, 830, and it is quite quiet, but Mansfield Town | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
said there isn't a particularly pleasant place for families on a | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Saturday night, is it? -- town centre. There isn't much for | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
families. Most of the premises are deer that what we call vertical | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
drinking, so it is aimed more at the 18-35 age group. It is very | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
much beer as a party venue and for us, this is bad issue -- very much | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
targeted. Is sometimes quite -- get quite a few fights but that's as | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
normally sorted out. If you don't listen to me, you get direction to | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
leave and if you carry on, you get arrested. Let me out! What I used | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
wearing out before? I'm trying to speak to you. Do not kick the Van! | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Show was been pretty abusive, why didn't you arrest her -- she was? | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
We could have, but we have to look at the ways of disposal. She | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
started to calm down the bed, we gave her a section 27th direction | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
to leave -- dead a bit. We might need that sell later on for a more | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
violent prisoner. We will be back on the beat shortly. A day erection | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
to leave this simply means sending someone home -- a direction to | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
leave. If they are spoken to a game that night, they will be arrested. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
This is one method of dealing with problem drinkers affected it. A | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
more serious device is a drinking banning orders. After a number of | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
incidents, look price was named and shamed when he received the town's | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
first drinking banning orders. And the ironic thing is he lives in a | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
pub. The it was embarrassing for me and my family. It was big news, I | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
live in a pub and I am banned from pubs. So that is the worst thing | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
about it. Do you think those banning orders work? Yes, it is | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
always at the back of your mind that you don't want to be caught -- | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
and causing trouble, because if you get caught, say in Mansfield in my | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
case, you get to �2,500 fine or even a prison sentence. I don't | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
want to go back there and cause trouble, I want to change. I have | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
learned our lesson. Back in town, it is well after midnight and the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
police have their hands full. They are dealing with a possible assault | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
on a bus. We need to get a statement from you | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
about the assault. An incident involving -- has turned | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
nasty and it is while they were dealing with another incident that | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
around a cameraman took a random hit. -- our own cameraman. There | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
was a man in a pub being over boisterous, pushing into people, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
and outside, one of the guys he was pushing into has hit the other guy, | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
and then I think the same what has hit the cameraman. Who knows | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
exactly? We were out with the police until dawn. Over the last | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
few years, the crime statistics claimed to show things have | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
improved, but there is clearly some way to go. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Before we end the night, I am meeting at cancer LAT Nick Barton, | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
who fought hard to cause -- close one chaotic club -- cancer laugh. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
This place has a sad history, it is where Paul Stephens lost his life, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
and then reopened as another club and problems continued. What was | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
going on here? It was brought to our attention by the police, there | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
would last things, by LED behaviour, assault, drugs, headed -- heavy | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
handed doorstep, violent behaviour. They wanted to take action and | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
withdraw the licence. Did it send a message? Yes, that we won't | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
tolerate any misgivings with licences. Mansfield is safer than | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
it has ever been. Despite the crackdowns, initiatives and | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
goodwill, tackling binge-drinking at weekends remains a challenge in | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Magherfelt. You are going to be coming in, I have told you once -- | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
a challenge in Mansfield. The most violent incident of the | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
night happens when our man is assaulted on his way home. -- A man. | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
You are obviously in shock. really am. It is a sad end to the | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
night. Yes. So that is Christmas, Saturday night in Mansfield. With | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
no CCTV and no witnesses willing to make a statement, the bus are sold | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
claimant dropped her charges. The man who randomly hit our cameraman | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
was caught and cautioned for, the assault. And the most serious | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
assault of the night led to three men being arrested and bailed | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
pending further investigation. But this town is serious about fighting | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
for it purple Black, an indication of a more family-friendly night out | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
and discouraging binge drinking -- purple flags. Police incidents have | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
halved from the same Christmas Saturday last year and the man in | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
charge is optimistic young drinkers shouldn't be the only people making | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
the most of Mansfield's Night Live. The future is very positive. It is | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
going to have its challenges, but with all of the agencies and all of | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the partners working with the police and the council, before too | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
long, hopefully families can come out into Mansfield as well. But not | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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tonight. Not tonight, no. Coming up, the unknown Explorer. | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
The miner's son who did ground- breaking work at the South Pole. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
The crisis in the horse racing industry over the amount of times a | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
jockey can use a whip has thrown the spotlight on what's acceptable | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
when racing for the line. Insiders hope new rules will go | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
some way to silent the cricket. We sent Johnny Nelson to meet the | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
latest batch of young jockeys carrying out their training in | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Doncaster. It's early morning at the Northern | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Racing College near Doncaster and some of the latest raw recruits are | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
getting ready for their first taste of life in the saddle. The horses | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
they're about to try and control are all ex-racing veterans, and for | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
18-year-old Keiron Scofield and 17- year-old Christie Northall, the | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
next few weeks could make or break them. If you fill the bouncer the | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
saddle? That is it, good. That balance. It is what we like to do. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
Hopefully I can be a jockey. These are the chosen few. There are only | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
two racing colleges in the country which can grant licences to jockeys. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Jumper, excellent. And although not all will go on to ride | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
professionally, Keiron and Christie are among those who see this as | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
their ticket to fame and fortune. But for these youngsters, they are | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
riding into an uncertain future. First, they begin their trading and | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the new measures have been introduced about how many times a | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
professional jockey can join a whip. -- used. The training starts with | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
an introduction into how to look after a horse, combining practical | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
experience with theory and lectures. What other health and safety | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
requirements you need to remember... Kieron is among the 30% of students | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
who have never ridden before coming here, while Christie has wanted to | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
work with horses since she was three. By friends were rarely | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
behind me on it. -- my friends. They said we used to joke about you | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
being the right size to be a jockey, you should go into the racing | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
industry. And I said I was, and they were asking if I were sure, | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
could I control them? I said I would be fine with it and they are | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
really happy for me. For May, it is not about money, it is a passion | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
for horses and the thrill of it. The money is a bonus. When you | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
watch it on the television and you are saying all of the horses | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
together going at full pelt, you But they know that a huge part of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
their job will be learning how to keep whatever horse they are riding | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
under control. The use of the whip has become a flashpoint at the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
sharp end of racing. A people leave it is a cruel and unjust way of | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
exerting control. If you're planning to head to the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
races at Windsor next treaty, you could miss out. Several jockeys are | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
threatening to withdraw at -- in protest at new rules over using the | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
whip. At the end of last year, the sport was thrown in to turmoil. A | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
row erupted over the excessive use of the whip by the winner of the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Grand National. Then, in October, rules were changed which meant the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
maximum amount of times a jockey could use the whip were reduced to | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
eight. There are some people who want to cede their whip ban from | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
racing altogether. Oh what we would like to see is a ban on the whip as | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
in Norway, the band the whip in 1982. British jockeys can quite | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
happily Rideout in Norway and still win races. We're saying he could do | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
that in Britain and still have all the fund that goes with it. It is | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
an argument which the racing industry rejects, claiming the whip | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
is essential for safety. Is it cruel? Et can be. It has the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
potential to be cool, when it is used with excessive force or | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
excessive frequency. If it is used for at their purposes it is | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
designed, the safety of duck rider and horse, then it is not cruel. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Back at Doncaster, they know the future of the industry rests on | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
their shoulders. Before they are handed any whip, they have to learn | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
to control a horse using hands and heels and today, a month into their | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
course, comes a major test. It is their first time riding out on the | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
gallops. We what makes a good jockey? Horsemanship. It is not | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
about being a good rider, it is about horsemanship in general. The | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
been able to lead a horse into any situation. Especially in racing | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
conditions. You have to think on your feet. He detrain to control | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
horse? You have to have the confidence when you're riding. It | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
is not about strength. It is more technique on how to ride one, by | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
utilising your body weight. It gave him some rain. With the experience | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
on the gallops under their belts, Christie and Keiron are ready to | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
move on. Under the guidance of ex- champion jockey Kevin Darley, they | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
head for the simulator room and their first lesson on the using the | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
whip. I have come along to date to get you a little bit of inside | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
knowledge about how to use the whip, when to use it and out the use it | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
correctly. The simulator enables the youngsters to learn about | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
controlling the horse without any risk of falling off. If you hit it | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
without showing it at the whip, it is more inclined to duck away from | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
it. Always make sure you're showing it at first, then a quick | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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backhander. And then put it down. The emphasis it is on using it with | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
a restrained. It is not a magic tool. It will not make him find | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
something they cannot. If you use it and it is not appropriate and | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
you feel them backing off for not liking it, then put it back down. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
First in the saddle is Kieron, who gets his introduction from a | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
standing start. Slide your hand up an inch, change your hand over, a | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
flight down the shoulder. That is it. Do it again. That is correct. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Now pitted prettier left. That is it. Hands on the reins, a little | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
flick in the shoulder. At this stage, the juniors are learning | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
about using the whip on the shoulder and soon Christie is given | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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a chance to shine. I wanted to shorten your rein. Well, these two | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
appear to have got the basics right and pretty soon, I'm next on the | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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list. Are you ready to have walked? Yes. I'm lucky to have ridden I am | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
lucky enough to have ridden several times before. A but had never done | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
anything like this before. But you can imagine going 40 mph and doing | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
it again. My legs are killing me! It is not easy, and I am a fit | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
person. The experience has given our trainees plenty of food for | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
thought too. I did not realise it swapping it in a race would be so | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
difficult, but also hitting the horse in the right place because | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
you do not want to hurt a horse. what is not just used for making a | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
horse go faster. Hitting it on the shoulder is getting it back in line | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
to focus on what it is doing. I had no idea that was supposed to do | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
that. They will need plenty more practice on the simulator before | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
gaining their licence and it is this which Kevin sees as the key to | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
changing perceptions. It may in fact agreed a better kind of jockey, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
because they will have to be that little bit more fatter, they cannot | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
rely on this thing all the time. They will have to be restricted | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
when the use it. Long-term, it will be better for the sport. I know | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
some professionals that have watched races recently and said | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
looking at the sport now, it looks a lot better. The proof in the | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
pudding will be in the eating, Windows lads and lasses are out | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
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there riding horses. Whatever Dijon trainees decide to do within the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
industry, they know that the welfare of the horse is the main | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
priority. The horses come first. We come second. If the horses are not | :18:50. | :18:59. | |
fed, we should not be fed. We get up at 6:30am to feed the horses. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
We're in the industry for the horses, not for us. A at the end of | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
the day, the horse will be carrying you and if you do not treated with | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
respect, it will not treat you with respect. It knows that you will not | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
take care of it. Their three months here are nearly up and soon they | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
will be heading out to a racing stables to further develop their | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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In this country, we have a long history of Antarctic exploration | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
and we know at -- we know a great deal about the expertise -- | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
expeditions of Scott and Shackleton. But there is a Sanctus from here in | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Yorkshire who is less well known. Our reporter has been on the trail | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
of the Trevor Hatherton, a miner's It's the most dramatic and | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
unforgiving terrain on Earth, and one of the toughest places to | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
survive. What was it about growing up in Normanton that prepared | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
Trevor Hatherton for the Antarctic? His story is little known in his | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
home town, but tedious caught on camera with Sir Edmund Hillary, | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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planning a trip to the South Pole. Not bad for a minor's son. -- miner. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Trevor's story begins in Normanton. The kind of place where, if there | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
was anything out of the ordinary, you'd know about it. So Richard | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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here got a surprise when he started doing some family history. But when | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
he looked up one cousin, Trevor, he drew a blank. There's a record of | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
him being born, and nothing more. Subsequently, I found some | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
passenger records from a couple of ships coming back into the country, | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
from New Zealand. Trevor appeared to be on these lists. So, I decided | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
to look a little further into it to see if it was the same person. A | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
looked him up on the computer and that threw him up as being a famous | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
scientist. And not just that. He had explored the Antarctic. Headed | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
the family not know what? I do not know. It was the 1950s when he | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
moved away to New Zealand. It might have been that nobody ever talked | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
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about it. Right, time to turn detective. Trevor was born here, | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
there must be someone around to tell us why he went to New Zealand | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
and are not down a pit. Have you heard of Trevor Hatherton? I have | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
not. Why has no one heard of them? I do not know. We are up against it | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
in Normanton. Nobody has heard of Trevor Hatherton. The pit where his | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
dad worked has gone now. The school when he went as all its records -- | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
College records were burnt in a fire. At last, there is someone | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
that remembers him. An old school friend. He must have been a year | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
above me. You can know what was only one year, he was very much an | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
adult and look up to. He was quite hall, as I remember. He has and | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
then as a cricketer, not a scientist. The very first entry as | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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him down as bowling 25. He was her undoing. We lost by one round. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
does not explain how and why he went the other end of the world. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
But, thanks to the magical technology, we have made contact | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
with Trevor's daughter in New Zealand. OK, the sound quality is a | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
bit ropey, but she is able to fill us in. As a young boy, he read | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
about Scott. He read about Shackleton. I think it fired his | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
imagination. He decided, I think, when he was quite young that he | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
would like to get to the Antarctic. Trevor wasn't the right place at | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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the right time. 1957. The IGY. greatest scientific effort to | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
record that fact of her world will commence tonight. The biggest | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
scientific project the world had ever seen, 10,000 scientists from | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
57 countries. And Trevor. A lot of it was it a global picture of the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Earth system. We take it for granted now that we had scientific | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
data that we know what is happening across the whole planet. At that | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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time there were Spurs measures, but to no global measures. - sparse. It | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
you may think that 22 bases in the Antarctic would make for cred, but | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
there are only 700 men there and are content half as big again as | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Europe. A Trevor was part of one of the biggest IGY projects, an | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
expedition across Antarctica led by Sir Ed Hillary and Dr Vivian Fuchs. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Tell me, what is the total distance across the Antarctic? Of the total | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
distance is around 2,000 miles but there was little diversion and we | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
have got -- we may have little more. That is rather a long way! So the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
British team will want to start from here and at the New Zealand | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
team there were to start from there. Richard has found some archive film | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
of Trevor's first trip. Some 95 miles long. There were sometimes | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
when it was quite a pleasure to pool these along. That is obviously | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
Trevor. With the Yorkshire accent. This time we stopped to take on | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
this for her water tanks. This is quite possibly a shot of him. It | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
made you feel cold just to watch it. It does. You get an idea of his | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
dark it must have been. I could get there these days, but then it was | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
new territory for most of people. It was almost like space. A Yes. | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
Whilst Hillary struck out for the Pole, Trevor's role was to lead a | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
team of scientists who would build a base in Antarctica and stay there | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
throughout the winter, making observations. It was a difficult | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
mission. Trevor and his colleagues are revered by modern day Polar | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
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scientists. The people aboard were very extraordinary. And in the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
1930s, they are less equipment, less a ship and aircraft support, | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
those men were absolutely brilliant. Across the bedding planes and huge | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
mountains, they had reached the South Pole. Staying at the base for | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
the winter 23 men. In the spring, all day will weigh more depots | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
across the poll. That summer, the walled City to reach the British | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
party on the other side of the Continent. Trevor stayed in the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Antarctic until 1958. He went on to edit what became the definitive | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
book about Antarctica, Antarctica. He got an OBE, and a Polar Medal, | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
and they named an Antarctic glacier after him. And all being well, he | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
is finally going to get his name known in his birthplace. Richard's | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
started a campaign to get a blue plaque put up for Trevor. He's | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
getting a lot of support. People who had Robin Whitfield, made their | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
name here, we tend to know that. But people who move away and but | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
further afield, it was a surprise and are delighted to find out about | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
him. Hillary and Fuchs made the headlines back in the day, but it | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
is the work done by Trevor and his mates that has lasted and is still | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
being used by scientists today. News LA people were so dedicated | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
and committed. All those winters in the Antarctic, remote and difficult. | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
Trevor was one of those men that without his work, will be would not | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
understand the planet that we do today. He it is important that this | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
community know about Trevor, somebody who is the son of a minor | :28:10. | :28:20. | |
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can get so far in life. -- miner. He it feels like a million miles | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
from the Antarctic. A long way. If you want to contact us about any | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
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That is all for now. Join us next week. We will investigate the | :28:43. | :28:48. |