:00:22. > :00:22.Good evening and welcome to Inside officers come into
:00:23. > :00:29.Good evening and welcome to Inside Out, I'm Toby Foster and tonight, we
:00:30. > :00:32.are in the Yorkshire Dales. This week, with energy bills on the rise
:00:33. > :00:38.and wondering if the lights would go out, could we return to coal mining
:00:39. > :00:42.to bridge the gap? We speak to the energy producers trying to plan for
:00:43. > :00:46.an uncertain future. The energy policy that we do not have in the
:00:47. > :00:50.UK, that means the decision has been taken away from the UK and there is
:00:51. > :00:55.a lack of investment. Also tonight, I threat to our
:00:56. > :01:00.countryside ` we discover evidence that enforcement measures to combat
:01:01. > :01:06.bovine TB are not working. It took 174 days between our fun getting its
:01:07. > :01:11.first instance of TB and my neighbours having to be tested. That
:01:12. > :01:17.is a ridiculous timescale. And a war of words, why the
:01:18. > :01:24.broadcaster JB Priestley incurred the wrath of Winston Churchill.
:01:25. > :01:33.Yorkshire is home to one of only three deep coal mines left in the
:01:34. > :01:35.country at Kellingley. It seems that coal`mining might have been
:01:36. > :01:38.consigned to the history books but it still produces the biggest
:01:39. > :01:42.percentage of electricity we use so could a return to coal`mining be on
:01:43. > :01:48.the cards for Britain? And if not, do we risk the lights going out and
:01:49. > :01:51.even bigger energy bills? Most of us don't question where it comes from,
:01:52. > :01:53.only how much it's costing us. But as winter approaches, experts warn
:01:54. > :02:04.electricity supplies are at dangerously low levels and any surge
:02:05. > :02:08.in demand could lead to blackouts. It is not scaremongering, it is
:02:09. > :02:11.scary as a matter of fact. I personally believe there is a risk
:02:12. > :02:14.of lights going out in the next decade. The Government is searching
:02:15. > :02:15.for ways to produced low`cost renewable energy and these things
:02:16. > :02:21.aren't easy. In the last ten years, energy costs
:02:22. > :02:24.have spiralled amid the rising cost of fuel suppliers as they battle to
:02:25. > :02:32.meet emission targets, replacing dirty fuel with cleaner, greener
:02:33. > :02:37.energy like wind, wave and solar. For single dad Robin, it's made life
:02:38. > :02:40.harder. Like many families on low incomes, finances are balanced on a
:02:41. > :02:51.knife edge and price hikes or cold snaps hit him hard. As Orton has
:02:52. > :03:02.turned I have been loath to put the heating on `` as Orton has turned ``
:03:03. > :03:07.autumn. And I said to my children, shut the door, keep the heat in. The
:03:08. > :03:13.fact that energy prices are going up, that will make it hard. I have a
:03:14. > :03:22.token meters so I have to buy it as I go, I am trying to buy more than I
:03:23. > :03:28.need so that come winter time an the cold months, I have something there.
:03:29. > :03:33.Are you OK? Come on, sweetheart. Last winter it was appalling.
:03:34. > :03:37.His is a familiar story but what may surprise you is where the power he
:03:38. > :03:40.uses is actually coming from. Even on this Monday night in October,
:03:41. > :03:46.about 40% of our electricity is still coming from burning coal.
:03:47. > :03:52.I've come to Kellingley colliery on the edge of the old Selby coal
:03:53. > :03:54.field. 900 tonnes of coal hurtles upwards every hour, supplying nearby
:03:55. > :04:07.Drax power station and there's plenty more where that's come from.
:04:08. > :04:10.Our coal industry has been allowed to decline because greener energy
:04:11. > :04:14.was supposed to take over, but it's not there yet. In fact, over the
:04:15. > :04:17.last seven days on average it accounted for less than 5% of the
:04:18. > :04:23.UK's electricity and the chief executive of UK Coal fears there are
:04:24. > :04:28.no easy answers. Decisions in this country are getting close to the
:04:29. > :04:32.edge, frighteningly so. About 80% of all ownership of all energy
:04:33. > :04:35.decisions in the UK are in some form of foreign ownership and frankly the
:04:36. > :04:39.energy policy that we do not have in the UK, that means that the decision
:04:40. > :04:43.is all too often are being taken away from the UK and there is a lack
:04:44. > :04:46.of investment and that is worrying, we should be worried about that.
:04:47. > :04:50.That uncertainty has seen two deep mines close this year alone
:04:51. > :04:54.including one owned by UK Coal. It's a far cry from the industry's heyday
:04:55. > :04:58.and there's no getting away from the fact that coal mining in the UK is
:04:59. > :05:01.on a precipice but here they say a commitment to coal's value, even in
:05:02. > :05:11.the short term, could allow for pits to reopen. For some other them that
:05:12. > :05:20.have closed, they have got to the end of their economic life but we
:05:21. > :05:23.have within UK Coal, Highworth colliery is capable of opening and
:05:24. > :05:28.we are not saying to reopen them all but we should not let it pass away
:05:29. > :05:31.quietly. But the brutal truth is it's cheaper
:05:32. > :05:34.to ship it in than harvest what's still plentiful beneath our feet,
:05:35. > :05:37.even if that means adding a carbon footprint to carbon itself. Today
:05:38. > :05:43.around 70% of the coal we use for our energy needs is imported. The
:05:44. > :05:48.vessels docked here at Immingham today have come from as far afield
:05:49. > :05:51.as Russia and Colombia. And why invest when many of the power
:05:52. > :05:55.stations here that burn the stuff are coming to the end of their
:05:56. > :05:58.lives? In fact the National Grid says today there is 20% less power
:05:59. > :06:03.available from coal`fired power stations than last winter. That's
:06:04. > :06:11.why there's the increased talk of blackouts and it's a situation some
:06:12. > :06:13.saw coming years ago. This government and previous governments
:06:14. > :06:22.have all been told that we would run into this sort of situation by 2014,
:06:23. > :06:27.2015 as various power stations, old ones which are 40 years old, close
:06:28. > :06:29.down for various reasons and they are not being replaced and the
:06:30. > :06:34.governments have sat on their hands and not done anything about it and
:06:35. > :06:37.now, surprise, surprise, they are worried about it all.
:06:38. > :06:40.Elsewhere in Europe ` in Germany and the Netherlands ` they've built new
:06:41. > :06:43.coal fired`power stations to bridge the gap while green energy plays
:06:44. > :06:45.catch up. Professor Fell's preference would have been nuclear
:06:46. > :06:53.but whatever fuel, power is needed now and he fears there is only one
:06:54. > :07:00.answer to the immediate crisis. Frankly, I think we will have to
:07:01. > :07:05.keep the coal`fired power stations going and in theory, if we do that
:07:06. > :07:09.and we break European rules we could be heavily fined for doing it.
:07:10. > :07:12.And of course those fines, those low carbon targets have been set for a
:07:13. > :07:15.reason ` to encourage us to embrace green technology. The importance of
:07:16. > :07:17.renewables like this wind farm in North Yorkshire was highlighted by
:07:18. > :07:24.recent scientific evidence that man's reliance on fuels like coal
:07:25. > :07:32.have impacted on our climate. And moreover green energy, once it's up
:07:33. > :07:37.and running, is powered for free. If we have the right investment in the
:07:38. > :07:44.renewables we can keep the lights on with them. Some fossil fuels but
:07:45. > :07:49.mostly gas will enable us to have an affordable, secure and low carbon
:07:50. > :07:52.energy system. But in Germany and the Netherlands, they are building
:07:53. > :08:00.more coal`fired stations, are we missing a trick? The way you do not
:08:01. > :08:04.get cheap energy is by continuing depending on fossil fuels. The cost
:08:05. > :08:08.will go up, 50% on the cost of gas in real terms over the next ten
:08:09. > :08:11.years and that is what is really driving energy bills up at the
:08:12. > :08:15.moment. Investment in renewables will bring more stability to the
:08:16. > :08:21.energy market and provide cheaper affordable bills for energy
:08:22. > :08:27.consumers. What is clear is that there are no easy answers. But here
:08:28. > :08:31.at Drax, they are positive about the future. Not only have they switched
:08:32. > :08:34.one of their coal units over to burn biomass, they're also working with
:08:35. > :08:37.the Government and the National Grid to deliver a greener way to burn
:08:38. > :08:40.coal. If it gets the go`ahead, it will build a brand new coal`fired
:08:41. > :08:45.plant like this where carbon emissions would be captured and fed
:08:46. > :08:48.through a pipeline. The CO2 would zip through Yorkshire and out into
:08:49. > :08:56.the North Sea where it would be stored under the sea bed. We are
:08:57. > :09:00.very positive about the project and the Government are as well and
:09:01. > :09:04.nothing the Government can see the sense in using carbon capture and
:09:05. > :09:08.storage technology and particularly because it helps transition to a
:09:09. > :09:13.fully low carbon future so we can get the technology right and then it
:09:14. > :09:18.is cost`effective, renewable energy. Nobody from the Government were able
:09:19. > :09:23.to give us an interview that they provided a statement saying that the
:09:24. > :09:25.lights are not going out and that it intended to reopen mothballed gas
:09:26. > :09:31.power stations which would mitigate the risks in the middle of the
:09:32. > :09:34.decade. That may solve the issue of supply and gas does burn cleaner
:09:35. > :09:38.than coal but it does not address the real issue for consumers like
:09:39. > :09:44.Robin, that of price. The continued rise in the cost of whole sale gas
:09:45. > :09:51.is one reason why suppliers say they are having to put up prices right
:09:52. > :09:55.now. I have to buy in of electricity to last me a week and then food and
:09:56. > :10:02.then other things. Is the amount of money you have got left getting
:10:03. > :10:05.smaller? Yes, definitely. My daughter is starting to notice that
:10:06. > :10:10.the fridge is not as full as it used to be. They will eat and get what
:10:11. > :10:20.they need. The question comes to me. I may not have a hot meal. For
:10:21. > :10:23.Robin, like many people, cost is everything.
:10:24. > :10:31.If you have got a view on that story all know what a story we should be
:10:32. > :10:38.covering, you can contact us on Twitter or e`mail. Coming up `
:10:39. > :10:40.winning the war, why Churchill wanted JB Priestley taken off the
:10:41. > :10:53.airwaves in World War II. It is the biggest challenge to our
:10:54. > :10:56.farming industry, bovine TB is spreading fast across central
:10:57. > :10:58.England are now threatening the borders of Yorkshire and
:10:59. > :11:03.Lincolnshire. This month, measures were put in place to try to stop
:11:04. > :11:06.this happening but Inside Out has discovered alarming evidence of Miss
:11:07. > :11:14.testing and poor enforcement. We have been investigating.
:11:15. > :11:24.From a few isolated cases in the 1980s, bovine tuberculosis now
:11:25. > :11:31.affects large areas of England. And it's been steadily moving north and
:11:32. > :11:38.east. The number of herds affected by the disease in North Yorkshire
:11:39. > :11:43.more than doubled in the year to this June. In Lincolnshire, it
:11:44. > :11:50.trebled. How to tackle the disease is controversial. But what is agreed
:11:51. > :11:56.is it must be stamped out in an area known as the Edge. An area between
:11:57. > :12:01.high`risk counties where there's an epidemic and low`risk counties where
:12:02. > :12:06.cases are rare, an area where the disease is steadily spreading. I'm
:12:07. > :12:11.standing in Cheshire on the Edge which also includes counties like
:12:12. > :12:16.Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. If the disease can't be controlled
:12:17. > :12:21.here, it could reach Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lincolnshire
:12:22. > :12:25.and Yorkshire by 2022. DEFRA is so concerned about the Edge, it
:12:26. > :12:30.introduced measure like tougher cattle tests here this month. But is
:12:31. > :12:38.that enough? Phil Latham farms on the Edge and in a high risk TB area
:12:39. > :12:44.in Cheshire. Until a year and a half ago, he'd never had a case of bovine
:12:45. > :12:49.TB. This year 89 cows were slaughtered. Emotionally and
:12:50. > :12:56.financially, pretty tough. We are clear now but we have not adapted
:12:57. > :13:01.the business. We have decided to go down to 300 cows, making people
:13:02. > :13:07.redundant. A chap is leaving today, actually. Phil hasn't bought in a
:13:08. > :13:11.cow in 16 years. He's certain badgers infected his cattle and
:13:12. > :13:17.welcomes the cull, but believes farmers are also at risk because of
:13:18. > :13:23.problems with the AHVLA, the body which manages cattle testing. It
:13:24. > :13:28.took 174 days between our farm getting TB and our neighbours being
:13:29. > :13:34.tested. A ridiculous timescale. Their paper systems seem to be out
:13:35. > :13:39.of control. We were told to get our cattle tested after they had been
:13:40. > :13:45.shot. I have one neighbour who wasn't tested for 20 years because
:13:46. > :13:52.the AHVLA forgot to allocate him the test and in order to do his test, it
:13:53. > :13:56.took 40 visits. It's a ridiculous waste of resources and way to
:13:57. > :14:02.control a disease. When bovine TB was discovered in Phil's herd, his
:14:03. > :14:08.farm was closed down. No cattle could be moved on or off it.
:14:09. > :14:14.Restrictions crucial to stop the disease spreading. But some farmers
:14:15. > :14:21.are breaking them. Anthony Kirkham is a cattle dealer who farms a few
:14:22. > :14:27.miles away. He's been prosecuted twice for moving cattle illegally,
:14:28. > :14:33.while his farm was shut down with TB. Nearly 200 offences. We asked Mr
:14:34. > :14:40.Kirkham why he repeatedly broke the law, but he hasn't replied. Despite
:14:41. > :14:44.those convictions he has a licence to transport cattle around the
:14:45. > :14:50.country. Issued by the AHVLA again, the same body that put TB
:14:51. > :14:55.restrictions on his farm. But it doesn't refuse a licence for
:14:56. > :15:00.breaking TB rules. Its interest is in making sure transported animals
:15:01. > :15:06.are well treated. What's happening in Cheshire and the Edge is alarming
:15:07. > :15:11.farmers further afield. It's about 40 miles. It's creeping closer all
:15:12. > :15:15.of the time. Mark Goodall has 200 cows in the Tong Village in
:15:16. > :15:23.Bradford, a low`risk area. His herd's free of the disease but he
:15:24. > :15:27.fears that could soon change. It's a major concern. It is getting so
:15:28. > :15:31.close. We have had isolated incidentplu`mac about five miles
:15:32. > :15:37.away. It is getting closer and closer. Most farmers, like Mark,
:15:38. > :15:42.farm within the rules and do all they can to prevent TB spreading.
:15:43. > :15:49.But are the rules strict enough? They are trying to make the cattle
:15:50. > :15:57.worth more money. They are moving them from a dirty area to a clean
:15:58. > :16:04.area. I have come to meet a farmer who claims the law is being broken
:16:05. > :16:10.for profit. We have protected his identity. You often see wagons from
:16:11. > :16:17.down south pull up late at night. The next morning, they are loaded up
:16:18. > :16:22.by a different wagon and taken to auctions. On paper it never
:16:23. > :16:30.happened. How do you feel about that? It is disgusting. We are TB
:16:31. > :16:37.free. It is hard to sort it out. They are trying but they need to be
:16:38. > :16:42.more ruthless to stop it. Every week tens of thousands of animals are
:16:43. > :16:49.bought and sold at auctions. I've come to a new auction in Cumbria,
:16:50. > :16:53.used by farmers across the north. On the screens here, limited
:16:54. > :16:59.information about the animal you're buying. Auctions don't have room and
:17:00. > :17:06.aren't forced to provide more. So, how confident can a farmer be in
:17:07. > :17:12.what they're buying? There is not enough information. You could buy an
:17:13. > :17:17.animal which you think is of a Cumbrian farm, but it could be from
:17:18. > :17:23.a high`risk or anywhere. The government wants to introduce a new
:17:24. > :17:29.system. But it is only voluntary not under a tree. What do you think of
:17:30. > :17:37.that? We have played around with this disease for too long. We have
:17:38. > :17:43.got to do some thing about it. That is not the only bit of legislation
:17:44. > :17:49.Trevor wants to see changed. In low`risk areas, the neighbours of a
:17:50. > :17:55.farmer who comes down with TB have a 28`day window before they have to
:17:56. > :18:02.shut down their own farms. For the 28 days, they can move and Selby
:18:03. > :18:08.livestock. All of the rules have to be tightened up. So will that
:18:09. > :18:13.happen? The Government is reviewing how to tackle TB to stop it moving
:18:14. > :18:20.north. But it doesn't believe farmers should be made to provide a
:18:21. > :18:26.TB history for their animals at places like auctions. We do not
:18:27. > :18:36.believe it should because we need to get all of the information and let
:18:37. > :18:42.people think about what they are doing. It applies to other endemic
:18:43. > :18:48.diseases as well. And the 28`day window that Trevor wants to see
:18:49. > :19:02.removed? A low`risk area has very low risk of TB so the risk is
:19:03. > :19:03.minimal. And that farmers who do not record cattle correctly risk losing
:19:04. > :19:11.a subsidy. Back in Cheshire, Phil Latham hopes
:19:12. > :19:17.enough will be done to halt the spread of TB but he says he is yet
:19:18. > :19:20.to be convinced. The inexorable spread of TB across the country
:19:21. > :19:25.through all the couple areas will continue unless a better policy and
:19:26. > :19:29.properly resourced policy is implemented. There is an awful lot
:19:30. > :19:32.of work to do, otherwise we will have a situation in the country
:19:33. > :19:36.where a lot of the badgers throughout the country and a lot of
:19:37. > :19:38.the cattle and further north than here will have TB and that is an
:19:39. > :19:48.appalling vision of the future. The Bradford born writer and
:19:49. > :19:56.broadcaster JB Priestley is buried near here. He started broadcasting
:19:57. > :19:59.during World War II on Sunday nights in an attempt to raise spirits but
:20:00. > :20:02.there came a point when his message did not suit the powers that be and
:20:03. > :20:09.that was bound to lead to a clash with the man at the top.
:20:10. > :20:13.They are synonymous with winning the Second World War, the speeches of
:20:14. > :20:18.Winston Churchill. The British Empire and its Commonwealth will
:20:19. > :20:27.last through a thousand years, men will still say, this was their
:20:28. > :20:33.finest hour. But there was another voice, now almost forgotten which
:20:34. > :20:37.rallied the spirit of the country. After the evacuation from Dunkirk,
:20:38. > :20:40.the author and broadcaster JB Priestley was hired by the BBC to
:20:41. > :20:46.write and present the postscript programme broadcast every Sunday
:20:47. > :20:50.night. When they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of
:20:51. > :20:55.defeat and then swept on to victory, they may also learn how the
:20:56. > :21:02.little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back
:21:03. > :21:08.glorious. If Churchill was the voice of the nation, JB Priestley was the
:21:09. > :21:11.voice of the people. He was from Bradford and by the start of the
:21:12. > :21:16.Second World War, he was rightly regarded as the nation's favourite
:21:17. > :21:24.author. `` widely regarded. Who better to rally the national spirit?
:21:25. > :21:28.In the autumn of 1933 he did a tour of England and Wales will stop he
:21:29. > :21:30.had quite a strong point of view about the way in which the
:21:31. > :21:37.controlling forces in society had allowed big cities to become pretty
:21:38. > :21:43.rough places to live. I think he was seeing as being of the left. We
:21:44. > :21:47.could fight and fight these Nazis until we broke their black hearts.
:21:48. > :21:52.At first it seemed that Churchill and Priestley were doing the same
:21:53. > :21:56.thing ` using the power of language to stir hearts and unite the British
:21:57. > :21:59.people but after a while it became clear that the two men wanted very
:22:00. > :22:06.different kinds of written after the war. And that was bound to lead to a
:22:07. > :22:10.clash. The two men were on a collision course according to the
:22:11. > :22:16.avid historian, Doctor Richard North. He says that over 20
:22:17. > :22:20.programmes in 1940 and a further six in 1941, Priestley grew increasingly
:22:21. > :22:25.critical of Churchill's government until he was fired. The BBC and the
:22:26. > :22:30.information minister at the time blamed each other for the decision.
:22:31. > :22:37.But Doctor North believes Churchill himself approved. The question is,
:22:38. > :22:42.who fired him? Whether it was Mr Cooper or Churchill had his
:22:43. > :22:52.fingerprints on it. I think they thought he was rather leftish and he
:22:53. > :22:53.was quoted as saying that public opinion was a very fine instrument
:22:54. > :23:08.and he proposed to use it. It's pretty much fixed in the
:23:09. > :23:11.British psyche, the story that after the little ships brought the army
:23:12. > :23:14.home from Dunkirk, the country stood on the brink of invasion. German
:23:15. > :23:18.forces were massed on the other side of the Channel and the only thing
:23:19. > :23:22.that stopped them was Fighter Command winning mastery of the air.
:23:23. > :23:26.Dr North claims that Churchill's glorification of the few, in other
:23:27. > :23:29.words, Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain, excluded the massive
:23:30. > :23:35.contribution of the many to the war effort. He says it was this kind of
:23:36. > :23:44.language that led to a political standoff between Priestley and
:23:45. > :23:50.Churchill. The idea of an elite few rescuing the people was very much
:23:51. > :23:59.more in accordance with Churchill's political vision than it was of the
:24:00. > :24:05.Labour view which had turned the people's war into a campaign issue.
:24:06. > :24:08.But Dr North's view isn't shared by many other historians But on the
:24:09. > :24:13.question of Priestley, what do now ancient documents tell us? Do you
:24:14. > :24:19.think there is a danger that the book is actually going to do a
:24:20. > :24:25.disservice to Churchill and the men in fighter command? I believe he
:24:26. > :24:30.is. Definitely. I think in a way he is doing a disservice to the people
:24:31. > :24:34.who forgotten because they are not forgotten. On the question of
:24:35. > :24:40.Priestly, what do ancient documents tell us? I am at Bradford University
:24:41. > :24:47.to find out. Let us take a look at the evidence. This is an article
:24:48. > :24:52.from the Sunday cat litter express. You begin to suspect we are not in
:24:53. > :24:56.the same war. You find yourself day off today being obstructed instead
:24:57. > :25:04.of being encouraged. What about this one? This is 1941. A year later.
:25:05. > :25:08.This is a letter from Priestly to his American publisher. Apparently I
:25:09. > :25:14.offended too many influential reactionaries. What about this one?
:25:15. > :25:18.This is a sort of autobiography which came out 20 years later. He'd
:25:19. > :25:22.been mulling over the sink for 20 years. What he says about the
:25:23. > :25:28.postscript is a little paragraph about why they stop. I received two
:25:29. > :25:32.letters, I kept them for years. One was from the Ministry of information
:25:33. > :25:36.telling me that the BBC was responsible for the decision to take
:25:37. > :25:39.me off the air and the other was from the BBC saying that a directive
:25:40. > :25:43.had come from the Ministry of information. Blaming each other, I
:25:44. > :25:49.think both of them were concealing the essential fact that the order to
:25:50. > :25:53.shut me up had come from elsewhere. That elsewhere should be in capital
:25:54. > :26:00.letters. Who do you think he is referring to? My feeling is that he
:26:01. > :26:09.is implying that Churchill is somewhere at the heart of this. And
:26:10. > :26:12.that's where the trail might have ended but for information we
:26:13. > :26:18.uncovered in Cambridge. The city is home to the Churchill College and
:26:19. > :26:21.Archives. It's here that Inside Out has discovered that, far from
:26:22. > :26:24.standing aloof, Churchill took a keen if not obsessive interest in
:26:25. > :26:31.Priestley's broadcasts and was eager for his removal. Some of the
:26:32. > :26:34.documents in here are astonishing. Look at this one. This is from
:26:35. > :26:38.Churchill himself to the information minister. He says, "I'm very sorry
:26:39. > :26:41.that you've got Mr Priestley back and that his first broadcast should
:26:42. > :26:45.have been an argument utterly contrary to my own views. How many
:26:46. > :26:49.more has he got to do? Have you any control over what he says? He's far
:26:50. > :26:53.from friendly to the government and I should not be too sure about him
:26:54. > :26:57.on larger issues." And then we have this written the same day from Duff
:26:58. > :27:00.Cooper, straight back to Churchill, obviously written with some urgency.
:27:01. > :27:05.Then we have this written the same day from the information minister
:27:06. > :27:15.straight back to Churchill. It says, "He is due to give five more talks.
:27:16. > :27:18.I will see the scripts and will suppress anything I think should not
:27:19. > :27:21.be said, but subject to your instructions, I would not propose to
:27:22. > :27:25.delete all criticism of His Majesty's government. It would be a
:27:26. > :27:28.pity if it were thought that the increased control which we're now
:27:29. > :27:30.assuming over the BBC was designed to suppress the free expression of
:27:31. > :27:34.opinion." This correspondence is extraordinarily revealing. While
:27:35. > :27:38.it's not a direct order to sack Priestley, Churchill's intentions
:27:39. > :27:44.are crystal clear. Within weeks, Priestley was history. Even so,
:27:45. > :27:46.Nicholas Hawkes is still not convinced Churchill sacked his
:27:47. > :27:55.stepfather, as Priestley himself suspected. I presume to know better
:27:56. > :28:02.than him because I have been through all the records in the BBC archive.
:28:03. > :28:06.I think that looking back on it he recognised that his contribution to
:28:07. > :28:11.Britain's morale and steadying of nerves had been very great and he
:28:12. > :28:14.could not understand why the BBC wanted to terminate. Arguably both
:28:15. > :28:18.Priestley and Churchill were vindicated by subsequent events and
:28:19. > :28:22.the writings of both men are now part of our national heritage. What
:28:23. > :28:26.remains is the mystery of what happened in those dark days of 1940
:28:27. > :28:40.and '41 and whether we shall even know the true history of that time.
:28:41. > :28:45.That is all for tonight from here in the Dales, make sure you join us
:28:46. > :28:49.next week. We will be finding out about the possibility of a new mini
:28:50. > :28:52.ice age. We will be following the officers trying to stop illegal
:28:53. > :28:55.cigarettes entering the country and hearing from an explorer who thinks
:28:56. > :28:58.children should get out more.