:00:15. > :00:25.This week we investigate why some marriages are For Love, while
:00:25. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:33.We joined the the Borders agency and as they disrupt the weddings
:00:33. > :00:39.that they expect are simply to get into the UK.
:00:39. > :00:42.Also tonight, would you give up a kidney for a loved one? We meet the
:00:42. > :00:47.families donating their own organs because of a shortage of people on
:00:47. > :00:54.the register. I don't know how to say thank you, really. I just hope
:00:54. > :00:57.that you know. And, Shakespeare with the northern twang. We'd look
:00:57. > :01:05.back at 20 years of Northern Broadsides bringing Shakespeare to
:01:06. > :01:15.life. I think I was scared of Shakespeare as this construct for
:01:16. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:29.For most people getting married would be one of the most important
:01:29. > :01:38.days of their lives, but for others it is seen as an easy way of
:01:38. > :01:41.entering the country by the back door. A Sham marriages, where
:01:41. > :01:44.people tie the knot just to get residency in Britain, has become an
:01:44. > :01:47.increasing problem. We joined the UK Border Agency in their latest
:01:47. > :01:49.attempt to tackle the problem. The historic chapel of Hazlewood
:01:49. > :01:58.Castle in North Yorkshire and childhood sweethearts Amy McHale
:01:58. > :02:04.and Anthony Blasket are living the romantic dream. Would you take
:02:04. > :02:07.Anthony as your husband? I will. With all their family and friends
:02:07. > :02:13.sharing in the Big Day, their wedding is an experience they hope
:02:13. > :02:18.to treasure for the rest of their lives. Possibly the most exciting
:02:18. > :02:25.day. Nothing has topped it yet. not everyone sees life in such
:02:25. > :02:28.romantic terms. Others have a completely different agenda. Sham
:02:28. > :02:32.marriages are run by big international gangs who look at
:02:32. > :02:34.ways to hang trade exploiter West Yorkshire, a world away from
:02:34. > :02:38.Amy and Anthony's special day, preparations for an entirely
:02:38. > :02:41.different kind of wedding are taking place. I'm at the Border
:02:41. > :02:42.Agency HQ in Leeds city centre, where members of their specialist
:02:42. > :02:49.Criminal and Financial Investigations team are preparing
:02:49. > :02:53.to launch their latest operation on sham marriages. This operation will
:02:53. > :03:03.take place this afternoon. Inside, more than 30 officers from the
:03:03. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:07.agency are finalising their plan of action. Operation Polo involves an
:03:07. > :03:10.Indian national and a French bride. Today, two suspect weddings are
:03:10. > :03:16.scheduled in quick succession and the operation needs to be carefully
:03:16. > :03:20.choreographed. How can you be sure that these are a sham marriages are
:03:20. > :03:25.not normal ones? We have done an awful lot of work beforehand,
:03:25. > :03:30.intelligence work. We have got excellent co-operation with the
:03:31. > :03:34.registrars. It is the registrars to inform us of their suspicions. We
:03:34. > :03:38.do all the checks with the police and other intelligence systems
:03:38. > :03:44.dissatisfied herself the what we will be disrupting today is a sham
:03:44. > :03:46.marriage. Briefing over, the team are now on their way to Leeds city
:03:46. > :03:50.centre and the Registry Office where they believe the two sham
:03:50. > :03:52.weddings are booked in. From here we need to be very discreet. Some
:03:52. > :03:55.sham marriages are run by syndicates who employ spotters to
:03:55. > :03:58.alert bogus brides and grooms if they are suspicious the Border
:03:58. > :04:02.Agency are on their case. With plenty of time to go before the
:04:02. > :04:09.first wedding takes place, the team enter via a back door and begin to
:04:09. > :04:12.take up their position. We are all gathered in a room just down the
:04:12. > :04:20.hall from where the wedding will take place. Now it is a waiting
:04:20. > :04:25.game. The groom has turned up with another man. We have the bride as
:04:25. > :04:30.well and three bridesmaids or witnesses. We are just waiting now
:04:30. > :04:35.for confirmation that they have gone into the hall. A at what stage
:04:35. > :04:42.do you decide it is time to go in? When they're inside and prepared to
:04:42. > :04:50.be married. Two o'clock strikes. The first team are given the signal
:04:50. > :04:54.to move in. I am from the Border Agency. We believe a sham marriages
:04:55. > :04:57.about to take place and my officers will speak to you shortly. Sham
:04:58. > :05:00.weddings are big business, with figures of up to �10,000 a time
:05:00. > :05:04.changing hands. Typically, it's an Eastern European bride and a non-
:05:04. > :05:12.European groom who will often pay a fixer to try and seek a way of
:05:12. > :05:19.obtaining a marriage certificate to stay in this country. Just go with
:05:19. > :05:26.my officer. All the parties are being split up and talk to about
:05:26. > :05:31.the wedding. The groom has not objected at all. The key to this is
:05:31. > :05:37.quick questioning, finding out what part everyone has here, and
:05:37. > :05:41.deciding he is going to be arrested as part of a conspiracy. We will
:05:41. > :05:43.get them out if you straight away and be ready for the next one.
:05:44. > :05:46.are lead away, to be taken to separate police cells in West
:05:46. > :05:49.Yorkshire. In operations over two separate fortnights in Leeds last
:05:49. > :05:59.year Border Agency staff estimate they prevented 70 sham marriages
:05:59. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:05.from going ahead. This second group has arrived so we are ready to go
:06:05. > :06:08.on disrupt the second sham marriage of the day. Like the first
:06:08. > :06:14.operation, there is a feeling of stunned silence as the officers go
:06:14. > :06:20.about their work. It is a big deal to interrupt the wedding day.
:06:20. > :06:23.It is not something we take lightly. With today's arrests coming to a
:06:23. > :06:26.close, officers will continue their investigations into how the couples
:06:26. > :06:29.came to this point. Charges vary from perjury to conspiring to
:06:29. > :06:39.breach immigration law, with those convicted facing a maximum jail
:06:39. > :06:42.
:06:42. > :06:47.sentence of 14 years. How has the operation gone? Both operations
:06:47. > :06:52.were a success. How easy is it to disrupt these marriages? Certainly
:06:52. > :06:56.since we have started doing this since March there has been an
:06:56. > :07:00.increase and they have been brought to our attention on a more regular
:07:00. > :07:03.basis, probably because the registrars are more aware of the
:07:03. > :07:07.problem. Less than a mile from the Registry Office, the Parish Church
:07:07. > :07:12.are also having to be more rigorous about who walks down the aisle.
:07:12. > :07:16.Because of some of the abuses that did take place, we are now required
:07:16. > :07:22.to check that the address that they have given us is a genuine address
:07:22. > :07:26.by going to visit them, going to both houses of the bride and groom,
:07:26. > :07:30.and we are required to check their identity by a series of documentary
:07:30. > :07:33.evidence that proves they are who they say they are. Canon Bundock
:07:33. > :07:39.says as a society we have a duty to ensure people seeking genuine
:07:40. > :07:43.refuge in this country are given a chance. We have a sympathy for
:07:43. > :07:52.everybody because you want to help people as Christians, especially
:07:52. > :07:57.people in need. We are required to help strangers. We don't like
:07:57. > :08:00.having to say no in any circumstance, but we can help
:08:00. > :08:03.people to be dishonest and break the law. With 300 people arrested
:08:03. > :08:10.for offences related to sham marriages in the past year, they
:08:10. > :08:14.have become an increasing priority for the Government. The operations
:08:14. > :08:20.that we went on, they were probably 30 officers to disrupt to sham
:08:20. > :08:23.marriages. It seems to come expensive way to tackle the problem.
:08:23. > :08:27.Disrupting an individual sham marriage, you obviously stop that
:08:27. > :08:31.one and might arrest the facilitator, but it does send a
:08:31. > :08:34.signal around the World's so it acts as a deterrent. A should more
:08:34. > :08:40.Paras be given to register as to try and stop this process before it
:08:40. > :08:44.even gets going? It is possible in the long run we might need to have
:08:44. > :08:48.new legislation. Registrars are obliged to marry people who appear
:08:48. > :08:52.legally to have the right to be married. That is something we are
:08:52. > :08:57.looking at. For Amy and Anthony, marriage should mean a commitment
:08:57. > :09:03.for life. It means different things for different people, but we have
:09:03. > :09:06.been together a long time so it meant a long -- meant a lot to us.
:09:06. > :09:12.Marriages are very precious thing that cement society together and
:09:12. > :09:17.love is the thing that most of all makes the world go round. We have
:09:17. > :09:20.seen to sham marriages here in Leeds. For many people are it
:09:20. > :09:24.should be happiest day of their lives, but there has not been much
:09:24. > :09:26.romance here. Following those nine arrests, the groom at the first
:09:27. > :09:29.sham wedding has been deported while the bride and witnesses have
:09:29. > :09:32.been released. The bridegroom and two witnesses at the second wedding
:09:32. > :09:42.have been charged with conspiracy to breach immigration rules. In
:09:42. > :09:48.
:09:48. > :09:53.addition, the bride and groom have Coming up: Shakespeare from the
:09:53. > :10:00.heart of Halifax. We celebrate 20 years of Northern Broadsides bring
:10:00. > :10:04.in the classics to live with them nor the and tone.
:10:04. > :10:08.How would you feel that their loved one was dying and the only way to
:10:08. > :10:12.save their life was to give up one of your own kidneys. It is a
:10:12. > :10:19.difficult choice and one that people are being increasingly
:10:19. > :10:22.forced to meet due to a lack of people being on the organ register.
:10:22. > :10:25.Keeley Donovan has been to meet some remarkable donors and the
:10:25. > :10:35.loved ones whose lives have been saved by their selfless acts of
:10:35. > :10:37.
:10:37. > :10:41.giving. Without a donor kidney, this man's future was bleak. He had
:10:41. > :10:49.tracked down his long-lost brother that he had not seen for 35 years.
:10:49. > :10:54.He wanted to meet the man before it was too late. It would turn out to
:10:54. > :10:58.be a life-saving reunion. He phoned the up out of the blue and offered
:10:58. > :11:03.be one of his kidneys. We were speaking on the telephone and I
:11:03. > :11:09.said to him, what about if I give you one of mine. The answer was
:11:09. > :11:13.complete silence. It was a reunion that led father and son here hands
:11:14. > :11:16.the story was picked up across the world. When he had his transplant
:11:16. > :11:20.originally there were very few transplants at that time that it
:11:20. > :11:25.happened. The gate that they give to the person who needs the
:11:25. > :11:31.transplant, people must see the benefits that that creates an altar
:11:31. > :11:36.doors to the person who has a successful transplant. 10 years on
:11:36. > :11:39.and two sisters from Sheffield are preparing for the same operation.
:11:39. > :11:49.Helen Thacker suffers from a rare genetic disorder that is destroying
:11:49. > :11:51.
:11:51. > :11:59.In 20th March 10 I was told my kidney function was down to 20%.
:11:59. > :12:02.They wanted to know if everybody would be able to be a living donor.
:12:02. > :12:06.Tomorrow she's due to receive a donor kidney from Claire, her older
:12:06. > :12:10.sister. It was hardly a decision. I knew I
:12:10. > :12:13.was going to do it a long time ago. It just happens to have come at
:12:13. > :12:16.this time. The operation to remove Claire's
:12:16. > :12:20.kidney is the first of the day. She knows it could change her sister's
:12:20. > :12:27.life but is aware it's not without risks for her. Helen faces an
:12:27. > :12:34.anxious wait for news of how the surgery has gone.
:12:35. > :12:41.This is a gift which I cannot describe personally in words,
:12:41. > :12:45.Clare's altruism, her willingness to offer a kidney to her sister is
:12:45. > :12:47.going to transform her life. Donor transplants are unique in
:12:47. > :12:55.requiring perfectly healthy patients to undergo serious surgery
:12:55. > :12:59.that cannot benefit them. It will be 20 minutes before the
:12:59. > :13:07.anaesthetic takes affect, and then it will be up to four hours to
:13:07. > :13:10.remove the Khedive. Meanwhile, Helen has a very anxious wait. --
:13:10. > :13:13.removed the kidney. It's now Helen's turn to be wheeled
:13:14. > :13:16.to the operating theatre. And she hears the news she's been waiting
:13:16. > :13:21.for. I have had the news that she is out
:13:21. > :13:25.and everything has gone well. I'm relieved about that. I just want to
:13:25. > :13:30.get to the theatre and get it all done.
:13:30. > :13:35.As Helen is being prepared for surgery, the organ is here in this
:13:35. > :13:38.box. In 2001, David had to leave his
:13:39. > :13:43.that family and friends in Australia and fly to England to
:13:43. > :13:49.give his life-saving gift. Everyone is praying he comes back
:13:49. > :13:54.safe and well. Everybody, give Dave a round of applause.
:13:54. > :13:58.With as much to lose as his son had to gain, the day of the operation
:13:58. > :14:06.arrived. I was scared. I'm pretty sure he
:14:06. > :14:14.was. We held hands. He was in his bed and I was in mind. I just said
:14:14. > :14:19.a few words to him of encouragement, and Mark squeezed my hand, and for
:14:19. > :14:25.me, that was it, that was the moment. And we had not done it yet.
:14:25. > :14:32.What would life have been like without the transplant? I think I
:14:32. > :14:42.would not have had a life. It was going downhill that fast. On the
:14:42. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:48.10th anniversary of the transplant, Mike and -- Mark has a normal life.
:14:48. > :14:51.He can see his daughter grow up, which is something... I did not
:14:51. > :14:57.know I had a granddaughter when I did this.
:14:58. > :15:02.It was a life saving gift. I'm just grateful that my dad was there at
:15:02. > :15:12.the time. I never dreamed of a day when I
:15:12. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:27.would be called Dad because of a kidney.
:15:27. > :15:30.Back at Northern General Hospital, Helen's transplant is well under
:15:30. > :15:33.way. An opening is made in her side, into which the kidney will be
:15:33. > :15:35.inserted. The organ is taken out of its protective wrapping and
:15:35. > :15:38.prepared for transplantation. The blood vessels which once supplied
:15:38. > :15:45.Claire's kidney are prepared to make the organ work inside her
:15:45. > :15:50.sister. Less than one. Are -- 1.5 hours
:15:50. > :15:53.after the initial surgery, the doctors are almost finished. The
:15:53. > :15:55.delicate job of stitching the tiny vessels into place to connect the
:15:56. > :16:01.kidney is a painstaking process. The renal artery, vein and
:16:01. > :16:03.connection to the bladder must all be secured before it can function.
:16:03. > :16:07.Finally, the moment Claire's kidney becomes part of her sister's
:16:07. > :16:17.anatomy. The change of colour shows it is successfully plumbed into
:16:17. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:25.Helen's abdomen. We can see the colour is now read.
:16:25. > :16:28.I do not expect the kidney to work straight away. It will take a
:16:28. > :16:30.little while. With the kidney successfully
:16:30. > :16:37.connected, it's time to stitch Helen's side up, having closed the
:16:37. > :16:43.deep wound. I think it took three hours, which
:16:43. > :16:49.is good. I am pleased. In transplantation, you can tell the
:16:49. > :16:52.difference. The patient has not been feeling well before the
:16:52. > :16:56.transplantation. After transplantation, they are a
:16:56. > :16:58.different person. But Helen is one of the fortunate
:16:59. > :17:04.few. Most transplant organs are made available because of untimely
:17:04. > :17:09.deaths. If you ask people in the street in
:17:09. > :17:13.the UK, about 90% of people would support organ donation and
:17:13. > :17:16.transportation, but only about a third are signed up and on the
:17:16. > :17:19.register. If Mark or Helen wonder about how
:17:19. > :17:22.long their kidneys could last, they could do worse than come here for
:17:22. > :17:25.inspiration. This is the home of a woman who received her kidney
:17:25. > :17:28.nearly 36 years ago. Jennifer Oxby was five months
:17:28. > :17:32.pregnant with her second child when she suffered a double kidney
:17:32. > :17:39.failure. She lost her baby, but after years of dialysis her brother
:17:39. > :17:42.David offered her a kidney. She went on to have three daughters
:17:42. > :17:49.after the operation. It's believed hers is the longest surviving
:17:49. > :17:53.transplant kidney in the UK. So, all these years later, how do
:17:53. > :17:59.you feel about what your brother did? Without his beard, I would not
:17:59. > :18:04.be here and have my three daughters. -- his gift.
:18:04. > :18:07.It is marvellous what he has done for us.
:18:07. > :18:13.It's 12 days on from Helen's transplant, and she and her sister
:18:13. > :18:17.Claire are recovering from their surgery.
:18:17. > :18:24.Even if it had not worked, I would be happy we had tried. But for it
:18:24. > :18:29.to work is just the best thing. That is what you do it for. I think
:18:29. > :18:34.she has been very selfless, and I don't know whether I could have
:18:35. > :18:41.done it. I am sure I would have done in the circumstances. I like
:18:41. > :18:45.to think I would have done that. I don't know how to say thank you,
:18:45. > :18:55.really, I just hope that you know. To add your name to the register,
:18:55. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:01.Back in 1992, if you went to see a Shakespeare play, you expected all
:19:01. > :19:04.the actors to speak in a very particular way. But 20 years ago
:19:04. > :19:10.all that changed when Barrie Rutter set out to shake things up with a
:19:10. > :19:16.new theatre company which spoke the Bard's words with a northern accent.
:19:16. > :19:19.Lucy Hester has been to meet the man who created Northern Broadsides.
:19:19. > :19:25.Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of
:19:25. > :19:30.York. And all the clouds that lowered upon our House in the deep
:19:30. > :19:34.bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious
:19:34. > :19:36.wreath, our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Our stern alarums
:19:36. > :19:46.turned to merry meetings, our desperate marches to delightful
:19:46. > :19:49.measures. I think I'd been scared of
:19:49. > :19:52.Shakespeare as a construct for posh people who wear tights and have a
:19:52. > :19:58.cabbage down their front and speak with a lisp. "My lord, my liege,"
:19:58. > :20:02.etc. I didn't imagine for a second that Shakespeare was for people
:20:02. > :20:07.like me, who talked a bit like this. What was great was he said, "Let's
:20:07. > :20:13.approach it like work. My dad was a trawlerman, your dad was a
:20:13. > :20:16.foundryman. Let's go to work." And that's what we did.
:20:16. > :20:21.Barrie Rutter is the artistic director and founder of the
:20:21. > :20:24.Northern Broadsides theatre company. Richard III was the first play ever
:20:24. > :20:32.to be produced by Northern Broadsides, here in a boatyard in
:20:32. > :20:36.Hull. Fellow actors thought I was mad. It
:20:36. > :20:38.was a sort of revolutionary thing to do in 1992 - classic plays in a
:20:38. > :20:48.non-theatrical setting with a bunch of Northern actors all genuinely
:20:48. > :20:58.using their Northern cadences. A newspaper had printed "Mah kingdumm
:20:58. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:05.for an hoss!" Of course I didn't do the line like that. It was: "A
:21:05. > :21:14.horse, boom, boom, a horse, boom, boom, my kingdom for a horse, boom
:21:14. > :21:19.boom!" Fast forward 20 years and Northern
:21:19. > :21:24.Broadsides is about to embark on a five-month tour. We catch up with
:21:24. > :21:27.Barrie again in Stoke rehearsing Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
:21:27. > :21:30.It's a real box of fireworks, verbal fireworks and you can't hope
:21:30. > :21:40.to get every witty conceit in it, but it's delightful to play and I
:21:40. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:47.hope it's going to be delightful to Barrie is playing the part of the
:21:47. > :21:52.schoolmaster, but he's also directing a company of 17 actors.
:21:53. > :21:55.I play Don Adriano de Amado. To congratulate the princess in her
:21:56. > :22:05.pavilion in the posteriors of the day which the rude multitude call
:22:06. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:13.the afternoon. He is a fantastical Spaniard and he
:22:13. > :22:23.is full of himself, but possibly not as intelligent as he things.
:22:23. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:40.I'm Sophia and I play the princess. She's a bit bolshy. She's not one
:22:40. > :22:47.of the fainting, falling in love, running after men kind of girls.
:22:47. > :22:50.She's got an old head on her shoulders.
:22:51. > :22:53.One thing everyone seems to be struggling with is a musical number
:22:53. > :22:56.featuring a rather unusual instrument.
:22:56. > :22:59.You've got to practise the bottle. If a day goes by without you
:22:59. > :23:09.practising the bottle or plucking a string, it's too long, it's too
:23:09. > :23:12.
:23:12. > :23:16.Everybody who's not playing a main instrument has a bottle that's
:23:16. > :23:20.filled up to a point, and when you blow in it, it doesn't workWhen you
:23:21. > :23:30.blow in it, it makes a certain note. When it's fine-tuned, it'll sound
:23:31. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:43.And there's a bit of extra pressure today as the rehearsal will be
:23:43. > :23:47.watched by a small audience. We always had a day when we invite
:23:47. > :23:52.our friends to come and observed. It doesn't matter what state we are
:23:52. > :23:58.in. In fact, the less polished the better. This afternoon, we will see
:23:58. > :24:01.the beach events before this messenger comes in with the news.
:24:01. > :24:04.Messenger? For those of you who've never seen Love's Labour's
:24:04. > :24:07.Lost,here's what's happens. Turn the sound down if you don't want to
:24:07. > :24:10.know how it ends. Me and Adam, who plays Costard,
:24:10. > :24:19.have a bit of a set-to. We have a fight that turns into a Morris
:24:19. > :24:21.dance - as all good fights do. I bet you didn't know that happened
:24:21. > :24:26.in Shakespeare, did you? They've got me dancing, fighting with
:24:26. > :24:31.sticks, throwing knives - all sorts of stuff.
:24:31. > :24:34.So where does the messenger fit into all this merriment?
:24:34. > :24:37.There's a famous interruption near the end of the play where the
:24:37. > :24:47.princess gets the news of her dad's death and they all say, "But we're
:24:47. > :24:51.in love with you" And that's the "lost" of the title.
:24:51. > :24:54.Northern Broadsides has worked with many actors over the years. But one
:24:54. > :24:59.in particular launched his career in a very different direction after
:24:59. > :25:02.playing a famous Shakespearean lead. Comedian Lenny Henry surprised
:25:02. > :25:06.everyone back in 2009 when he took the role of Othello for Northern
:25:06. > :25:10.Broadsides. Othello launched my career as a
:25:10. > :25:15.serious actor. It was fantastic because for the first time people
:25:15. > :25:19.saw me in a different light. I love being a comedian because it's my
:25:19. > :25:27.job, but I love movies and drama. I'm always the one crying and
:25:27. > :25:30.saying "I'm really moved." And I wanted a chance to move people.
:25:30. > :25:35.Barrie gave me that chance and I'll always be grateful for that.
:25:35. > :25:38.What was it like to work with Barrie?
:25:39. > :25:41.Barrie is very hands-on. He'll stop you and move your hands and push
:25:41. > :25:51.your bum in. Suddenly you're standing taller and he says, "Stop
:25:51. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:14.crying! Stop shuffling!" He directs It's now the day before opening
:26:14. > :26:18.night in Stoke and everyone's busy getting ready for the dress
:26:18. > :26:21.rehearsal. This is the last chance to put
:26:22. > :26:30.things right. If you haven't learnt it by now, it's your own stupid
:26:30. > :26:33.fault, really. I'm feeling surprisingly calm. For
:26:33. > :26:36.a couple of weeks I've been pretending to be a glamorous
:26:36. > :26:39.princess, but now the hair and make-up team have swooped in and
:26:39. > :26:47.made me into one. There's a general sense of But I
:26:47. > :26:50.want the actors to be comfortable, know what they're doing. And
:26:50. > :27:00.through the next 36 hours you get the inspiration of an audience and
:27:00. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:13.the extra sparkle and twinkle that The moment when everything comes
:27:13. > :27:15.together it's like, "Ahh, it's landed." It's quite delightful when
:27:16. > :27:21.that happens, whether you're doing Othello or whether you're doing
:27:21. > :27:24.this play. The fact that Northern Broadsides
:27:24. > :27:29.allows people from all parts of the country to participate meant that
:27:29. > :27:32.my resistance was broken down. They're part of the landscape now
:27:32. > :27:34.and we're to be thankful to them because they've opened the door to
:27:34. > :27:39.people who don't necessarily speak with a Received Pronunciation
:27:40. > :27:42.accent. And Love's Labours Lost will soon
:27:43. > :27:51.be on tour, returning to perform here in Halifax, its spiritual home,
:27:51. > :28:01.They've come a long way since that first performance of Richard III
:28:01. > :28:02.
:28:02. > :28:08.back in 1992. It was not all plain sailing. There
:28:08. > :28:11.were problems and cynicism. But the Arts one out in the end, as they
:28:11. > :28:14.should. Our strong arms be our conscience,
:28:14. > :28:24.swords our law! March on, join bravely. Let us to it, Pellmell. If
:28:24. > :28:27.
:28:27. > :28:31.not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell!" If you want to contact us
:28:31. > :28:35.about any of tonight's stories, you can do so through Facebook or
:28:35. > :28:42.Twitter. That is all from Halifax, but make
:28:42. > :28:47.sure you join us for next week's programme.