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Hello, welcome to Inside Out from the Humber Bridge. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:05 | |
This week, we investigate the potentially lethal trade in illegal | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
alcohol. Five men died in an explosion while producing fake | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
vodka, but what are the dangers for those drinking this illegal booze? | 0:00:15 | 0:00:21 | |
My vision goes blurred, I have black blotches. Also tonight, the | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
birth of an icon. We celebrate the start of work on the Humber Bridge | 0:00:25 | 0:00:30 | |
40 years ago. Everybody would be looking a power that. A beautiful | 0:00:30 | 0:00:40 | |
day. The wind was howling through. And, a good listener. The man who | 0:00:40 | 0:00:46 | |
has trekked to the east -- the North Pole and South Pole to record | 0:00:46 | 0:00:56 | |
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An explosion which killed five men at an industrial unit in | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
Lincolnshire put bootleg booze firmly on the map. The men died | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
where fake vodka was being produced. So, what potentially lethal | 0:01:12 | 0:01:22 | |
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concoction could you be drinking? Sarah Sturdey investigates. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:33 | |
Five men have been killed in Boston... How does a lot today? | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
Police take prevents us from going around the corner... | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
The explosion revealed the secret world of bootleg booze. Inside the | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
charred unit, fake vodka was manufactured. It looked just like | 0:01:44 | 0:01:54 | |
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this, the genuine article. It opened to public's eyes to this | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
dangerous Gamp. It is often really hard to tell the difference between | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
a fake like this, seized at a Leicestershire bit like factory, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
and this, the real thing. Drinking the wrong one could prove fatal. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:15 | |
The fake brands disguise a lethal blend of chemicals. They do not | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
care for anybody, they only care about lining their pockets. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
criminal gangs cost the taxpayer �1 billion a year by failing to pay | 0:02:23 | 0:02:31 | |
alcohol duty. Walker is the easiest spirit to copy, you can make it on | 0:02:31 | 0:02:36 | |
a Monday and sell it on a Tuesday - - vodka. But it's the drinkers who | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
pay the highest price, sometimes with their eyesight. I feel lucky | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
to be alive, I did not think of would be able to get out of bed | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
ever again. Hidden in a remote corner of Leicestershire, one | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
organised gang of bootleggers went undetected until undercover customs | 0:02:51 | 0:02:58 | |
officers finally tracked them down to a rented unit. They were making | 0:02:58 | 0:03:08 | |
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fake vodka at a place already known as Moscow Farm. It was a wonderful | 0:03:15 | 0:03:22 | |
feeling to know we had cracked it. He is wearing a beige top and blue | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
jeans, messing around with the pilots. They are not paying any | 0:03:26 | 0:03:33 | |
attention to us. We are just going nice and steady, and when we have | 0:03:33 | 0:03:38 | |
completed, we will be on our way back. During the raid, 70 customs | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
officers found a makeshift factory producing illegal vodka on a | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
massive scale. The unit had the capacity to produce a bottle every | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
five seconds. There was enough methylated spirit to produce | 0:03:46 | 0:03:56 | |
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100,000 bottles of fake vodka. had a stainless-steel tank which | 0:03:56 | 0:04:01 | |
held the finished product, before dropping it on to the bottling line, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:08 | |
and then they have a commercial capping machine, to put the caps on | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
the bottles. Then it passed down the conveyor belt to a labelling | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
machine, which starred the labels on. I have visited thousands of | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
bottling plants, and I have never seen anything like this. It is | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
horrendous. It could have been a disaster in the making. Ed Binsted | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
is a spirits industry safety expert. His evidence in the trial of the | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
convicted bootleggers revealed how a simple spark could ignite alcohol | 0:04:33 | 0:04:43 | |
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vapours, triggering a major explosion. This was a time bomb. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
Look at what happened at Boston, and these places popping up all | 0:04:48 | 0:04:53 | |
over the place. If anybody had been walking along this footpath, with a | 0:04:53 | 0:04:59 | |
horse or anything, they would have been involved. I come past a few | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
times a week, and when we found out, it was unbelievable. You cannot | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
understand how that could go on in a place like this. It is quite | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
frightening and shocking. The gang of six has been sentenced to a | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
total of more than 20 years in jail. The mastermind, who was never seen | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
at Moscow Farm, was Kevin Eddishaw. His right-hand man was John | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
Humphries. Counterfeit alcohol is now being seized across the country | 0:05:22 | 0:05:32 | |
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daily. The chemist was this man, from Poland. The counterfeiters | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
have done a very good job of forging the bottles and the labels. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:45 | |
The bottles were sourced from the buyer, and the labels were sourced | 0:05:45 | 0:05:55 | |
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from Poland. The product look like the real thing. The finished | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
product was stored near East Bridgford, 5000 litres was seized | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
in Blackpool. It was found on sale in small independent off-licences | 0:06:07 | 0:06:17 | |
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across the country. John Humphrys left the client in the car-park | 0:06:20 | 0:06:30 | |
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while he went away to get the vodka from a store nearby. Counterfeit | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
alcohol is now being seized across the country daily. It's a top | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
priority for Trading Standards. have seized these from all parts of | 0:06:42 | 0:06:47 | |
the county. These are the products you want to keep out of harm's way, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
cleaning fluids, paint strippers, methylated spirits, not something | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
you would want to be drinking. We are aware that somebody in Scotland | 0:06:56 | 0:07:03 | |
died from drinking counterfeit alcohol. The person running this | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
off-licence has just been convicted of having four different fake | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
brands. Mostly containing the chemical used for industrial | 0:07:11 | 0:07:21 | |
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cleaning. One contained Paul reform. -- chloroform. Students are on the | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
lookout for cheap vodka. Lauren Platts from Derbyshire bought what | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
she now knows to be a bogus brand for �5.99. The man in the off- | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
licence near her Sheffield digs joked it would blind her. Two | 0:07:32 | 0:07:40 | |
months on, he wasn't far wrong. was throwing up for two days. There | 0:07:40 | 0:07:47 | |
could not get out of bed. -- I could not. On the second day, I | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
thought, am I ever going to feel better? Could not see very well, my | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
vision goes blurred, I have black blotches, I lose my peripheral | 0:07:56 | 0:08:01 | |
vision quite a lot. Even cross the road, it can be difficult. It is | 0:08:01 | 0:08:07 | |
really scary. When you cannot see anything, if you are driving, even | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
walking down the street, trying to cross the road. Casualty | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
departments are starting to see more patients who think they've | 0:08:13 | 0:08:20 | |
drunk vodka, but it's really industrial alcohol. They are | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
drinking the same amount of alcohol as normal, but they are getting | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
more intense symptoms, they think they might have had their drink | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
spiked. Their symptoms are more severe abdominal pain, staggering, | 0:08:33 | 0:08:40 | |
feeling tortious, intense vomiting, and visual problems, which you do | 0:08:40 | 0:08:46 | |
not see what ordinary alcohol. The methanol attacks the optic nerve, | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
de-nerved that runs from behind the eye, and if that gets Swarland, it | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
can cause permanent blindness. at Great Dalby, near Moscow Farm, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
the pub landlady is shocked at the ticking time bomb which was on | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
their doorstep. But can she tell the difference between a fake from | 0:09:01 | 0:09:09 | |
the factory and the real bottle? everything is exactly the same. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:15 | |
you amazed? I am shocked! There's one simple error - the forgers got | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
the bottle's units wrong. Much of the Moscow Farm fake could still be | 0:09:20 | 0:09:25 | |
out there, along with thousands of other dangerous bogus brands. The | 0:09:25 | 0:09:34 | |
vodka distillers are well aware of the threat the bootleggers pose. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:39 | |
The experience industry has to stay ahead of the bootleggers, not just | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
to protect their brand, but to protect the public. But it's | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
customs officers who face the challenge of seeking out these | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
highly-organised criminals. It is crucial that we find these places | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
and we dismantle them, so they cannot be used ever again. The UK's | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
consumption of real vodka has risen considerably over the past ten | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
years. As drinkers seek out cheap booze, the bootleggers are leaving | 0:10:01 | 0:10:10 | |
a lethal legacy. It is shocking, really, that somebody is sullied | 0:10:10 | 0:10:18 | |
that two people. They do not care. If it is still happening now, the | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
problems with my fishing, I assume it is here for good, and this is | 0:10:22 | 0:10:28 | |
all from just one might -- problems with my vision. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:36 | |
Coming up, the sound of nature. The man who travels to the ends of the | 0:10:36 | 0:10:46 | |
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earth in search of a most As the bridge enters its middle-age, | 0:10:57 | 0:11:07 | |
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our reporter has been taking a look. It was the moment many people | 0:11:09 | 0:11:19 | |
thought they'd never see and plenty hoped they wouldn't. Heavy | 0:11:19 | 0:11:26 | |
machinery begins to assemble. newly discovered images of work on | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
both banks of the Humber capture a unique moment in our history - the | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
birth and growing pains of one of the most expensive and | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
controversial civic projects in Modern Britain. The building of the | 0:11:35 | 0:11:40 | |
Humber Bridge. As one of the world's longest suspension bridges, | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
the Humber Bridge has become one of the region's most photogenic | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
tourist attractions. But 40 years ago, the landscape both physical | 0:11:47 | 0:11:53 | |
and cultural was completely different. One man determined to | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
capture this sea change in relations between North and South | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
bank was amateur filmmaker William Prestell. He spent every spare hour | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
over a decade painstakingly recording each stage of its | 0:12:03 | 0:12:13 | |
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construction. Brady thing he cut the passion for it? He was a man | 0:12:13 | 0:12:20 | |
they liked a challenge. -- Where do you think he got the passion. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
don't see many bridges built on your doorstep. He used to get in | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
contact up with the contractors, especially the project manager, and | 0:12:31 | 0:12:37 | |
he used to ask them to film him when certain things were going on. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
Then he would go down there at 8pm with his sandwiches and drinks and | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
he would stay all day. He just wanted to get the film that he | 0:12:47 | 0:12:56 | |
wanted. That's what he used to do. On 21st February 1977, if five | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
millimetre diameter of steel rope was laid between the two banks. The | 0:13:02 | 0:13:07 | |
north and south banks of the River Humber were finally linked. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:17 | |
admire him for going down there. The only means of transport and | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
equipment is by this cable car. Working at this height is extremely | 0:13:22 | 0:13:31 | |
difficult. It is the unique thing, the building of the Humber Bridge. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:38 | |
It is history in the making and is therefore to see in the future. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
while watching the bridge take shape was an entertaining hobby for | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
some, for those who actually built it, it was arguably the hardest job | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
of their careers. For the men who helped design and build it, even 40 | 0:13:48 | 0:13:55 | |
years on, the bridge still provokes bittersweet memories. I have bought | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
a cake to help celebrate. It must bring back a lot of them is for you. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
This occasion does bring back a lot of memories, no doubt about it. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:10 | |
Some good, some bad. The most satisfying day was when the first | 0:14:10 | 0:14:20 | |
box was lifted. People couldn't really seem much progress for many | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
months, and then suddenly the box was there. The bridge were starting | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
to take shape. The multi-million pound project became infamous for | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
slipped deadlines and spiralling costs, and today some of the key | 0:14:31 | 0:14:39 | |
staff are back to lay a few ghosts to rest. What with the unique | 0:14:39 | 0:14:45 | |
problems in building the bridge? There was the weather, inflation | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
and industrial climate in the country. All these three things | 0:14:49 | 0:14:54 | |
reflected the eventual costs of the structure. There was a time of road | 0:14:54 | 0:15:00 | |
rubble, the three-day week and all the other aspects which influenced | 0:15:00 | 0:15:08 | |
the climate here. Work was hampered by some bitterly cold winters. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:13 | |
was absolutely freezing up there in the wintertime. They had runners | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
coming up and down the bridge to bring coffee. And the howling North | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
Sea wind also helped blow things off course. We were completely | 0:15:23 | 0:15:30 | |
exposed. 30 miles per hour, absolute top speed that we could | 0:15:30 | 0:15:37 | |
cope with, you just wouldn't be conscious of it. It was quite a bad | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
press because everybody would be looking up saying, why are they not | 0:15:40 | 0:15:47 | |
working? Beautiful day, and the wind was just howling. To put | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
things in reality, a �is not the way to measure the value of the | 0:15:51 | 0:16:01 | |
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bridge, it have the benefit for the community. -- a �1 fee. The bridge | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
meant a new dawn for many. For others, it heralded the end of an | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
era. Arthur Harvey is thought to be one of the last surviving Humber | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Ferry captains. He worked on crossings for 25 years before the | 0:16:16 | 0:16:23 | |
bridge put him and his colleagues out of business. I did miss the | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
daily contact I had with passengers. You need a lot of people in | 0:16:28 | 0:16:33 | |
different professions. Some of them became good friends of mine. During | 0:16:33 | 0:16:42 | |
this are, we used to do this trip down to Grimsby down -- brims be | 0:16:42 | 0:16:52 | |
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dance night. In eight years, it was something about 5 million people. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:04 | |
And amid all those millions of passengers, one truly stood out. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
certain lady would not get out of the car, as per instructions. I | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
went down there and I said, I will not shift Until you get out of that | 0:17:12 | 0:17:20 | |
car. By then, one of our local passengers put pressure on them, | 0:17:20 | 0:17:30 | |
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saying, get out! That culminated in our marriage eventually! Today, the | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
bridge acts as a vital lifeline for thousands of families, who rely on | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
it for work or it regularly to keep in touch. Annette Hutchinson and | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
her family from Scunthorpe have a special reason for being able to | 0:17:42 | 0:17:52 | |
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get across quickly by car. It is awe-inspiring, when you approach it. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:59 | |
It is very important to keep in touch with family and to access the | 0:17:59 | 0:18:04 | |
east coast. Without the bridge, a family crisis involving her brother, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
who lives on the opposite bank in Hull, might have been a whole lot | 0:18:07 | 0:18:16 | |
worse. About two years ago, I had a stroke at work, and it was in | 0:18:16 | 0:18:21 | |
hospital for seven or eight days. With the bridge being open, and it | 0:18:21 | 0:18:31 | |
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was able to get over and see me. They came regularly to see that a | 0:18:31 | 0:18:41 | |
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was all right. Was it -- it was a relief. It is �6 for a round trip. | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
Plans which could see that hole cut in half by yet to be resolved. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:10 | |
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bridges much more convenient for crossing the Humber. It took a good | 0:19:13 | 0:19:23 | |
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bridge to put us out of work. Growing up, you never know what | 0:19:25 | 0:19:35 | |
path your life will take. For one man, he was led to the corners of | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
the Earth recording the sounds of nature. Wherever you find David | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
Attenborough in the world, there is a good chance you will find Chris | 0:19:44 | 0:19:53 | |
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Watson there as well. To my ears, it is full of sound. It is amazing, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:27 | |
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what I heard. The insect life inside this oak tree. I have been | 0:20:34 | 0:20:40 | |
passionate about working with sound for a long time. There are lots of | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
devices and equipment, such as this, for getting sound on location. What | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
will really interests me is getting microphones into places where we | 0:20:49 | 0:20:59 | |
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wouldn't normally want to put our ears. It sounds great. You really | 0:21:04 | 0:21:14 | |
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get that sense of power of the ocean. A lot of my work on Frozen | 0:21:19 | 0:21:28 | |
Planet was to investigate the sounds. The songs of the seals can | 0:21:28 | 0:21:37 | |
be heard over 15 miles away. This beautiful, haunting voice, which | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
reflected the reality of their lives. There's very little | 0:21:40 | 0:21:50 | |
visibility below the surface so they will deliver the sound. Chris | 0:21:50 | 0:21:56 | |
has been working alongside David Attenborough for 15 years. This is | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
the most southerly nesting of all penguins. And like the polar bear, | 0:22:00 | 0:22:07 | |
are up in the north, their lives are dependent on the sea life. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
arrival in Antarctica, the Frozen Planet crew attracted a welcoming | 0:22:09 | 0:22:17 | |
party. About 200 penguins came out of the sea and ran across to our | 0:22:17 | 0:22:23 | |
helicopter and stood in a group. They set up this semi-circle and | 0:22:23 | 0:22:27 | |
just sat and stared at our helicopters. The wildlife came to | 0:22:27 | 0:22:35 | |
us. It's a career you can trace back to his childhood. My parents | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
bought my tape-recorder when I was 11. You could see the birds through | 0:22:40 | 0:22:45 | |
the kitchen window, but you couldn't hear them, so I took my | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
little tape-recorder outside, put the microphone on the bird table. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
What I really learned about recording in this way and that you | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
start to hear the world in quite a new and exciting way. One of the | 0:22:57 | 0:23:07 | |
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best ways to do that is to close And what works in your back garden | 0:23:16 | 0:23:26 | |
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This is the hugely scaled up version of a garden experiment. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:46 | |
These are vultures in Kenya. Chris was playing with sound in the heady | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
days of the experimental electronic music scene. He was a founder | 0:23:49 | 0:23:59 | |
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member of Sheffield's Cabaret There were three of us and I played | 0:24:03 | 0:24:08 | |
keyboards and tape-recorder, and synthesiser, and so we worked in | 0:24:09 | 0:24:14 | |
the studio creating music and we toured and troubled lot. It was | 0:24:14 | 0:24:22 | |
just great. -- travelled a lot. mix of art and sound still appeals. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
He was commissioned by the National Gallery to create a soundtrack to | 0:24:25 | 0:24:34 | |
one of its masterpieces to hold visitors' attention. The average | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
time people spend in front of one of those great paintings is four | 0:24:38 | 0:24:44 | |
seconds. I went and chose this painting, and it just created the | 0:24:44 | 0:24:54 | |
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sound of the few that John Constable had created. -- the view. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:11 | |
In the middle of the 19th century, Suffolk is not placed -- played by | 0:25:11 | 0:25:21 | |
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-- plagued by noise pollution. I'm on the Ross Island in Antarctica. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
The quietness is almost below the threshold of this equipment. Why | 0:25:32 | 0:25:40 | |
don't been there is any other place on earth as quiet as this, and | 0:25:40 | 0:25:46 | |
there is certainly no noise pollution here. I think the heart | 0:25:46 | 0:25:52 | |
down below, it is interesting to think this sounds they would have | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
heard were much the same as we can hear today. The sound of silence | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
above ground enables Chris to record the actual noise of the | 0:25:59 | 0:26:07 | |
planet itself. You really get the sense that this isn't some inert, | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
silent world. It is heaving with life, literally straining and | 0:26:12 | 0:26:17 | |
groaning to make this ferries slow journey across the rocks into the | 0:26:17 | 0:26:22 | |
sea. -- very slow. The sound is actually inaudible to the human ear, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
just as the movement of the glacier is invisible to the eye - but speed | 0:26:26 | 0:26:36 | |
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them both up, and they come alive. Nobody is prepared for what happens | 0:26:37 | 0:26:47 | |
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next. Three or four enormous or could just surfaced vertically to | 0:26:52 | 0:26:59 | |
breathe, carrying about -- towering above us. They made eye-contact | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
with us and slid below the surface. Quite been moving moment to get | 0:27:04 | 0:27:11 | |
that proximity to such wild animals. Frozen Planet took more than two | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
years to film, so the crew inevitably needed lots of stories | 0:27:13 | 0:27:21 | |
to keep each other entertained. Chris has extraordinarily | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
discriminating ears. For example, he maintains that he can tell the | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
difference between the sound of waves in the Pacific and waste in | 0:27:29 | 0:27:35 | |
the Atlantic. The factors that we don't know if he is joking or not. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 | |
-- the fact is. Like David Attenborough, Chris Watson has been | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
just about everywhere, and is one of the few people ever to have | 0:27:42 | 0:27:48 | |
stood at both poles. I'm very lucky and privileged to travel the world | 0:27:48 | 0:27:53 | |
making sound recordings, but it is a great leveller and relief and | 0:27:53 | 0:28:00 | |
sense of relaxation for me. Coming home to places like this and | 0:28:00 | 0:28:08 | |
walking out border collie, listening to the sounds that are | 0:28:08 | 0:28:18 | |
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