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the Peak District is a landscape of contrasts - | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
And its timeless charm has been an inspiration to many. | :00:34. | :00:46. | |
I'll be discovering how this stunning place is now | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
turning back the clock for a drama set amongst these hills. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Helen's discovering the surprising connections between the Peak District | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
This couldn't be more different to the national parks in India, | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
but I'll be chatting to one lady who's found | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
some rather surprising links and she's using them | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
to encourage everybody into the great outdoors. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
A new report claims the shooting industry is worth more than | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
?2 billion to the British economy every year, | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
So, should we be doing more to recognise this rural tradition | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
that involves killing wildlife? I'll be investigating. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
I've got about 150 ewes in this field with their lambs. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
They're generally very healthy and doing quite well | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
apart from I've got a little bit of lameness in them. | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
In fact, it's a bit of a constant battle. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
But today I'm finding out about a programme | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
that could rid the sheep industry of this horrible problem. | :01:53. | :02:04. | |
From the limestone dales of the White Peak, to the wild moors | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
of the gritstone Dark Peak, the Peak District has drama at every turn. | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
A place where people fought for and won the right to walk freely | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
in our countryside. It was the first National Park in the UK. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It's a green oasis sandwiched between the urban sprawl of Manchester | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
and Sheffield, at the southern tip of the Pennines. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
The spectacular landscape of the Peak District has been the backdrop | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
for countless productions on both big and small screens, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
to Pride And Prejudice via The League Of Gentlemen. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
The latest is the brooding drama The Village. | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
as seen through the eyes of the Middleton family, | :02:50. | :03:04. | |
and played out within the confines of a single Derbyshire village. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
The first series was set during the time of the First World War. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
The second series, which starts on BBC One next month, | :03:17. | :03:42. | |
And shopkeepers are so taken with the transformation, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
they've kept things in a '20s time warp between filming. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Actors are seen walking into Hankins Drapers, | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Jess, I imagine the tea shop must come to a stop, does it, | :03:59. | :04:11. | |
Well, we're as busy as usual, really. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Everybody sort of stops while they're filming, | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
and we have to have the blinds down so nobody can see, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
but everyone's really interested, asking all the questions. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Because the blinds say it's the draper's shop, not the tearoom. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Well, people are a bit confused whether we're still open or not, | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
but once they get in the place is full | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
and everybody's asking about what's going on outside, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
who's been in, have we seen any of the actors. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Have you been in it yourself as an extra? Yes, I was. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
For the first series, I was an extra in it. But... | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
I had to stand in the cricket pitch and cheer on a wheelbarrow race. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
And I was like a face and a shadow but, apart from that, no... | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Were you actually there? Did you actually make the final edit? | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Yes, but I had to pause it on the TV, though. But it's quite funny. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
And for the costumes and corsets, it was a good couple of days, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
The Royal Hotel in Hayfield doubles as the exterior of the village pub | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
Like many around Hayfield, the landlord is feeling the benefit. | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
What kind of impact has The Village had on this village? | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
It's the second series that they're filming. | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
The whole village is a massive, great community. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Everyone has really, really come together. | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
And it's created a huge amount of excitement. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
So, I think it's creating a lot of buzz from outside as well | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
with people coming in to see where The Village is actually filmed. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Today, the cast of The Village are out in force. | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
But why would I want to claim it as my own? | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
Because your first instinct is to protect others. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
You knew it would incriminate Robin Lane. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Right now, they're filming a trial scene. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Now, originally, they had hoped to do this in a local village hall, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
but the Amateur Dramatic Society said they needed it for rehearsals | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
so the company had to rapidly switch their set to here. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
It's a good example of the way they've been trying | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
not to get into the way of the locals. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
One of the stars of the show is Maxine Peake, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Maxine, how well do you know this part of the world? | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
You know, I'm so ashamed to say, not as well as I should. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
my mum used to be a member of the Ramblers' Association. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
we did Kinder Scout and Jacob's Ladder, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
sort of...when I was about 10, 11, 12. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
it's a part of England that...not gets ignored, | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
but I think people, when they think of countryside in the North, | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
people think up towards the Lakes or further up towards Scotland. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
But it is extraordinary around here. It really is. | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
I'm so glad doing this job has reintroduced me | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
In the first series, your family, the Middletons, | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
had a pretty bleak, harsh time, didn't they? Yes. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Are things looking up a bit? Yes - the farm's taken a bit of a turn, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
It's not huge, but there's more hope | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
and there's more prospects for the farm, at the moment. | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
You could have told the constable whose it was, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
Maxine's character is the mother in a hard-pressed family | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
whose farm is set in beautiful Edale. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
So how did the series recreate the earlier 20th century right here? | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Adam, you're the art director and this is the track | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
that leads from the village to the Middletons' farmhouse, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
is this how the farmhouse was when you started filming? | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
No. The farmhouse, when we first found the location, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
We added windows in there, to match our studio. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
It's just an old barn, really, wasn't it? | :08:14. | :08:14. | |
It was - it was derelict when we first turned up. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
which helped to match in to the studio. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
It's derelict inside, so it's all matched to where we are. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
What about more modern intrusions into the landscape here? | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
they were taken out digitally in post-production. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
This time around, the village has moved on, | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
so we're allowed to see them, so in the landscape, | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
it's OK for them to be there this time. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
'The barn is on the land of real-life farmer, Roy Cooper...' | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
'..who's had to invest in some new technology | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
to watching The Village on television? | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Yes, I did. We bought a television specially for it. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Really? We've been without, we've been without. | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
I remember sitting in the house, watching - | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
the clock was on the mantelpiece, and, looking at the clock, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
I think it finished at nine o'clock, I'm not sure. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
And the second series of The Village will be on Roy's TV - and yours - | :09:11. | :09:20. | |
Now, while we've been watching them film The Village, | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Tom has been looking into the value of a very different kind of shooting. | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
For centuries, shooting in all its different forms | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
has been entwined with the traditions of the countryside. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
But its benefits are apparently very current - | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
shooting creates tens of thousands of jobs. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
It also contributes more than ?2 billion to the British economy | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
and furthermore it's claimed that a willingness to pull the trigger | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
So does shooting get enough recognition? | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
'from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation - | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
This one is made for gamekeepers. It's about 100 years old. | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
That actually gives it a kind of, almost, Wellington-era feel. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
It's got these hammers on it. That's right. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Richard's organisation is using the report, | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
put together by 17 pro shooting groups and released today, | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
to call for greater appreciation for the industry. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
How important is shooting to the economy today? | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
There are around about two million people | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
that actively participate in shooting | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
and they inject into the economy about ?2 billion each year. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
As I understand it, gun ownership in Britain is at record levels. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
It seems to be doing fine - what's your problem? | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
and by asking for recognition we become part of the solution, | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
rather than, as some people see us, some peripheral activity | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Are you looking for love from society? | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
We want people - we want policy makers - | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
to understand that shooting provides jobs, | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
shooting helps provide and shape the British countryside | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Given more support, Richard believes shooting can generate even more money | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
But what about its contribution to biodiversity? | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
Here on the Duke of Norfolk's estate near Arundel, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
they've dedicated part of this field for planting this - | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
a mixture of seeds which is good for the birds they want to shoot, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
but also lots of other wildlife really loves it. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Every year, this estate holds exclusive grey partridge shoots, | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
but game birds aren't being shot here today. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
I expect you gamekeepers' traditional view to be with a shotgun, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
all butch, not being balletic with a butterfly net. | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
We're just checking the conservation headland | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
'Head gamekeeper Charlie Mellor is checking | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
'there is plenty of bird food, and not just for the grey partridges.' | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
What we're really looking for is these plant bugs here. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
The green ones are very, very important plant bugs | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
So the things that you want to shoot love these, | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
but a lot of other things do, as well, is that the point? | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
The grey partridge are our main driver behind the project, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
but all the other red-listed species - corn buntings, | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
linnets, skylarks, yellowhammers - they all benefit, as well. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
And you happy with the idea of, you know, | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
killing wildlife in order to achieve that? | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
is for only a small part of the year, really. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
And you think all of the sort of collateral benefits | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
make that worthwhile? Oh, yeah, 100%. It really does. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
It's not just on the Arundel Estate where it's said | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
that game shooting helps biodiversity. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
It's claimed the industry supports wildlife and habitats | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
on nearly two million hectares of land in the UK - | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
But not everyone agrees it's always a good thing. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
That was the black cap singing, so they're still here, | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
but, of course, as they get quieter, they're so much harder to find. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
'The RSPB believes that shooting's environmental credentials | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Do you think the shooting industry does deserve greater recognition for | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
its environmental work and generating money for the economy? | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
I think we give the shooting industry a lot of recognition. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
The nature of farming awards we've been run for several years | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
have included farmers who run shoots, | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
but I think if you're going to recognise the benefits, | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
you've also got to acknowledge the costs. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
It's in the uplands, particularly in areas of grouse moorland, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
It feels the traditional management of these landscapes damages | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
biodiversity and claims some in the shooting industry are willing | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
to break the law to stop birds of prey killing game. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
At the moment, it is a force for populations generally going down. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
There are some exceptions to that, but, while the illegal persecution | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
of birds of prey is tolerated when the uplands are being drained | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
when burning on deep peat is still going on and is intensifying, | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
then the overall net impact on the wildlife of this country | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
among some of the landscapes we love is almost certainly negative. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
But the BASC argues grouse shooting provides both the incentive | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
It says draining is a legacy of the past now being phased out | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
and it also strongly condemns the illegal killing of birds of prey. | :15:03. | :15:25. | |
They just believe that shooting animals for entertainment is wrong. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
But Richard Ali believes there is a fundamental | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
misunderstanding of what game shooting really is. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
It's not an enjoyment based on killing. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Shooting is about not just the history of Britain, | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Whatever Richard thinks, though, for some, killing for sport, | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
even if we eat the birds afterwards, is unacceptable. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
so what role does the less controversial side of shooting play? | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
Home to some of Britain's most celebrated scenery, | :16:10. | :16:25. | |
these picturesque peaks have inspired artists for centuries, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
and abundant wildlife has appeared in galleries around the world. | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
To tie in with this year's Countryfile photo competition, | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
I have come to Derbyshire to meet an artist who is truly | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
He has 13,000 followers on the internet | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
and some pictures have been shared more than ten million times. | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
But, like the Banksy of the photographic world, | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
he is known only by the mysterious alias Villager Jim. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Today, he has agreed to reveal his identity to me | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
Jim, nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you, too. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
I can imagine living in a place like this, it is quite easy to | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
get into photography. How did it all start? | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Yeah, well, I started getting into photography | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
when I moved to the Peak District, simply because | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
I noticed coming from a city there is so much wildlife. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
It's not about sitting there with a camouflaged tent for me. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
and seeing what is out there that particular morning. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
I am a complete novice, although I invested in an OK camera. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Can you take good pictures on an average camera, | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
You can take amazing photos nowadays, so people shouldn't be thinking | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
you've got to have the world's best camera to take a good photo. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
It's really, mostly, all about composition | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
and anticipation of what is going to happen in a shot. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
One of the best ways of having good composition | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
is to imagine a noughts and crosses on your screen | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
and try not to put the subject in the centre square. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Is there anything else I should be thinking about? | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
and you will suddenly realise that taking that ear | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
or taking the nose is quite enjoyable, the shot comes out well. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Where is a good place to start when you are looking for a subject? | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Simple things, really, any garden bird is fantastic | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
if you get the right picture of it, just taking off or just landing. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
The thing to do is to help them by feeding them. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Never mind Villager Jim, I think he is more like Dr Doolittle! Come on. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
So far, so good, but Jim has sent me on a solo mission | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
to put his tips into practice by photographing | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
the pedigree cattle just down the road at the Chatsworth Estate. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
If that wasn't pressure enough, the Duke of Devonshire himself | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
is also a fan of Jim's work, so my photos better be up to standard. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Chatsworth farm manager David Howlett is going to tell me | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
a bit more about these beautiful beasts. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
David, you've gathered some brilliant subject for me, | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Tell me who we have got here, then. | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
The estate has got 135 pedigree Limousins, | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
and you have got here last year's young stock. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Gorgeous-looking cows, great colours, very inquisitive. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Yes, yes, our cattle are well handled. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
I know you have a lot of cattle to manage, David, but are there any | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
characters in there in particular it is worth me training my lens on? | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
All of these ones are what we would deem representative of the breed. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
You've selected my models for me, thank you, David! | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
I'm going to snap away, if that is OK. Yeah, fine. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Well, they seem quite... Quite... Oh, good. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
That's what happens when you work in this environment, isn't it! | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
It was a nice crusty one, as well, that's been there a while. Hello. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
OK, Jim said I don't have to get you in the centre. I think... | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
all of my models are in the middle of my noughts and crosses grid. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
something that's not going to happen. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
I've definitely got quantity, if not quality. | :20:34. | :20:46. | |
time to see what the maestro has to say. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Jim, be brutal, be honest. OK. Right. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Well, the very first one I click on is actually pretty good. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
but with Chatsworth at the back that looks fantastic. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
And you've actually... going on the knots and crosses, | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
you've used the bottom three squares as the main subject. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Yes, again, it makes a fabulous photo because they look so gentle, | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
don't they? But it's just ever so slightly out of focus. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Even if I put my glasses on. No, take the glasses off, Jim! | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
With that one, I was going for the anticipation thing. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
I was trying to get it to stick its tongue out. Right, OK. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
So you failed. I did, yes! You've still got a great shot, though. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
For me, it's just the way that the cow tilts her head. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
It just gives a bit of character to it. | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
Yes, I would. I'm going to take that. Thank you. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
I may have taken about 800 pictures today, | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
but that nod of approval will do, thank you, Jim. It's a pleasure. | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
Well, sadly, Helen won't be able to enter this year's Countryfile | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
but if you think you've got what it takes, why not give it a go? | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
The theme is animal magic, and it's wide open to interpretation, | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
but entries must include either farm or wild animals, | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
We can't accept photos of domestic pets or zoo animals. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
Any images of British wildlife in captivity must be declared as such. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
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Beneath the soaring crags and green valleys of the southern tip of | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the Peak District, the soft limestone is riddled with caverns and tunnels. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
These caves have a history of human habitation that goes back many | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
thousands of years, and the past is still being unearthed here. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
carved out over millions of years by the River Dove. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
And, as Countryfile can exclusively reveal today, it is | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
also the site of one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
In spring last year, totally by accident, | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
a 2,000-year-old treasure trove was discovered. | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
It's forced archaeologists to reconsider their views | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
of the Iron Age in this part of the world. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
National Trust archaeologist Rachael Hall is going to tell me more. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Well, it looks to be a bit of a scramble to me. | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
It's incredible, isn't it? Amazing. Quite monumental. Yeah. | :25:05. | :25:16. | |
Not the easiest cave to get to, is it? So, what was found here? | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
About a year ago, a climber was sheltering in a cave whilst | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
it was raining and he made a discovery of four coins. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Three of those were Iron Age coins and one was a Roman coin, | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
We undertook an excavation, because it's really, | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
really unusual to find Iron Age coins in a cave, | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
so we wanted to see if we could understand more about the find, | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
see if we could work out why the coins might have ended up here, | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
and also we needed to protect the site. Did you find more coins, then? | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
We did, we made a really exciting discovery. | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
There is actually a coin hoard within the cave. | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
It's an incredible find, it's really, really exciting, | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
it is one of those once-in-a-lifetime discoveries. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
to be examined by a specialist conservation team. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
This is the first time they have been back in the Peak District | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
Stephanie Vasiliou, from University College London, | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
is one of the experts working on board. | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
And here are the coins. What metals do we have here? | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
We've got some gold down there, and then we have some silver | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
sort of spread out around, then we have copper alloy there at the top. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
This gold coin, does anything need doing to it now? | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
What we would do with something like that is we'll give them | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
If you just give it a little push on the top there, | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
and dip your swab in and sort of dab it off on the surface. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Yes, and just sort of give it a little swab over. | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
What about the silver one? The silver we would carry out a polish. | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
Good old silver polish? We can do, yes. Just dip into the water. | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
just so we don't have any excess water going on the object. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
In small circular motions, where you can, and you will notice after | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
a little bit of time that the swab will be coming away sort of black. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
It's a fascinating job you've got, isn't it? It is, yes. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
What appeals to you most about it? This exciting material. | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
It's treasure. When you talk about it with people, they get excited | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
Yes, there is a special magic, isn't there, | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
This landscape may have been unchanged for millennia | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
but life in Iron Age Dovedale was certainly very different. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
and Britain was on the brink of invasion by the Romans. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
But who would want to bury such vast wealth, and why? | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
That's what archaeologists are keen to discover. | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Dr Julia Farley from the University of Leicester may be able to | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
So does it surprise you that Roman coins were up here in | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
the Peak District before the Romans actually got here? | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
It is surprising, and it's unusual in this area to find mixed hoards of | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
Iron Age and Roman coins, and it's really unusual to find | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
coin hoards from this period at all, which is right around the time of | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
the Roman invasion in the South East of England. | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
It's telling us, I think, that people who lived in this area, | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
who we would think of as living in a more traditional Iron Age way, | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
than we maybe suspected before we found this hoard. | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
And how much would these coins be worth? | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
Well, in the Iron Age, these were hugely valuable objects. | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
Gold coins could have been used as a month's pay, or a season's pay, | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
even, for a mercenary who had gone to fight overseas. | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
So, each one of the coins individually would have been | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
worth an awful lot at the time. Why do you think they were never claimed? | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
Maybe the person who left them didn't survive. | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
They might have been left as an offering, maybe for the gods. | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
but at some other sites we find evidence | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
they have been buried on ritual sites, maybe as offerings, | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
and as ways of showing off your wealth, as well. | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
Well, we'll probably never know why the Dovedale treasure hoard | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
was buried, but after 2,000 years underground | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
it is going to stay in the Peak District. | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
it will go on permanent display at the Buxton Museum. | :29:20. | :29:34. | |
Earlier, we heard claims that the value of the British shooting | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
industry goes largely unrecognised, and, as Tom has been finding out, | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
that concern goes far beyond traditional game shooting. | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
These days, shooting is often more, well, stag do than stag hunting. | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
Blasting away at clay pigeons or keeping your eye on the target | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
is a lot less controversial than shooting at live birds. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
And according to new industry figures it is also now more popular. | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
a range like this simply provides an enjoyable afternoon. | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
A chance to try a new activity with a little bit of a kick to it. | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
There are an estimated 600,000 people in the UK who shoot clays, but | :30:21. | :30:29. | |
according to the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
the BASC, there is still not enough support | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
for those who want to take up the sport more seriously. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
The one area where we think government could usefully put | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
some money is into Olympic and Commonwealth sport. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
we are very good at winning gold medals in shooting. | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
So, what does the current Olympic champion make of that? | :30:56. | :31:04. | |
'And he does it! Peter Wilson has done it! | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
'He has won gold for Great Britain. He held his nerve brilliantly.' | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
and the man with the golden gun was Peter Wilson. | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
Today, he is helping me to aim straight and true. | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
There really are no excuses for me with you as a quality coach! | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
If you let me take the weight of the gun. Sure. | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
I am going to place it. That's where I want you to hold the gun. | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
I may need a bit more support, but what about our Olympic hopefuls? | :31:35. | :31:48. | |
Well, the amount of money being pumped into shooting via UK Sport | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
As a result, we have new talent ID programmes being put into place, | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
shooting has never been in such a healthy state. | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
This is a very exciting time for shooting. | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
So Peter doesn't feel the sport needs more support. | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
But he does share the BASC's frustrations about red tape. | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
I myself have had problems in the past | :32:14. | :32:14. | |
I hear horror stories all round the country of people | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
struggling to get their certificate back in time. | :32:20. | :32:21. | |
you can't afford to not have your shotgun certificate with you. | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
The UK's stringent laws on firearms also mean that our Olympic | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
pistol shooters have to go abroad for training. | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
But according to the BASC red tape isn't just impacting on our athletes. | :32:35. | :32:42. | |
It's a problem for the country's unsung heroes, | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
the farmers who keep the countryside running. | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
who has a problem with foxes attacking his sheep. | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
Ah, so there are young lambs? There we go. This is the one-eared sheep. | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
I suspect the fox had hold of it, managed to get the ear, | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
bit it off, the Lamb got away but minus the year. | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
This year, we have probably lost about ten lambs. | :33:09. | :33:10. | |
If we have problems with foxes, we shoot them. | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
So, for you, shooting some wildlife is a key part of farming? | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
Yes. It goes hand-in-hand with it, it has done ever | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
since man first domesticated sheep like this. Yes. | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
So you still need to be a shepherd watching his flock by night. | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
It's not just fox attacks that keep him awake. | :33:27. | :33:35. | |
Hugh says, left to their own devices, birds, too, would destroy his crops. | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
So, what would happen if you did not control the pigeons? | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
The last time we grew peas on this farm, about 25 years ago, | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
there wasn't much in the way of pigeon control. | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
The sky was black with pigeons and within two or three weeks they | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
had eaten 16 acres of them and the whole crop was a complete write-off. | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
So does Hugh agree with the BASC that red tape is making his job harder? | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
So guns are important for your business, | :34:04. | :34:05. | |
do you have problems getting a licence? Personally, myself, no. | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
We have no problems getting firearms licences or shotgun licences. | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
People say there is too much red tape. | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
Personally, I think there is the right amount of regulation | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
for the job in hand. It has never changed for 20 years. | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
And it is adequate, given the risk involved in handing out gun licences | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
These things need to be managed and governed properly. | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
I have never heard anyone complain or moan | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
Opinion over regulation is clearly divided. | :34:33. | :34:43. | |
But with the UK's stringent gun laws in place to protect public safety | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
any relaxation would be highly controversial. | :34:49. | :34:56. | |
and encourages landowners to farm in a more environmentally friendly way | :34:57. | :35:06. | |
in a manner that isn't solely motivated by subsidy. | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
Now, whether you think that should be celebrated, | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
will depend on your view of using these things to kill wildlife. | :35:15. | :35:26. | |
Farmers have been working these lands for centuries, | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
overcoming the many challenges that are thrown at them. | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
This week, Adam has invited a vet to his farm who is | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
an age-old problem with sheep - lameness. | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
So Adam is getting up close to his flock. | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
And this is not for the faint-heated. | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
These are some of our commercial sheep, producing lamb for the table. | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
We put them to a Texel ram to produce a good meat lamb. | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
We are trying to get these lambs to about 40 kilos live weight | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
and that one is getting there. He's nearly there. | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
We have got a bit of a dilemma on our hands. This lamb is 37 kilos. | :36:05. | :36:30. | |
At this time of year, there are not very many lambs coming to | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
the marketplace across the country and the price is high. | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
We get paid in pence per kilo. So we have this dilemma, a bit of a gamble. | :36:40. | :36:50. | |
and get more kilos on them, but then the pence per kilo might have dropped | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
because more lambs are coming onto the marketplace across the country? | :36:56. | :37:10. | |
a great opportunity to check on their health. | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
It also means we can treat them for problems we may find. | :37:13. | :37:23. | |
At this time of year you get blowflies, | :37:24. | :37:26. | |
which lay maggots on the sheep if they are dirty. | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
And that is what Dave is protecting the lambs against. | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
We are shearing the ewes soon, so we shouldn't have to do them, | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
but this one has already been struck, as it's known in farming, | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
when the flies have laid their eggs into a wet bit of fleece, the maggots | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
have hatched out and they are starting to eat away at the sheep. | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
And you can see it is sore and bloody on the surface of her skin here | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
and as the maggots eat away at the sheep they secrete juices | :37:50. | :37:57. | |
which attract more flies, that lay more eggs and create more maggots. | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
Where the maggots have worked down her body there, | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
they have been nibbling away at her flesh. And that is very sore. | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
We will treat that with some antibiotic spray | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
and then put some fly spray on to kill any other maggots. | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
Because if it gets worse the maggots can eat the sheep alive. | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
But thankfully, in this case, she will be absolutely fine. | :38:20. | :38:28. | |
Thankfully, it is not too common, so it is easy to keep on top of. | :38:29. | :38:35. | |
It is a fact of life which most farmers just learn to live with. | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
We accept a certain percentage will be lame. | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
with a brand-new approach to dealing with lameness. | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
And, with a flock of more than 1,000 ewes, she is no stranger to it. | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
We estimate about 8% to 10% of the national flock | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
are lame at any one time. So that is a lot of animals involved. | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
How many millions of sheep would that be? | :39:00. | :39:00. | |
We reckon about three million lame sheep. Goodness! | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
And not only causing pain to the animal, | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
Yes, we're talking probably about ?23 million to the industry | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
every year. And why is it like that? Why can't we sort it out? | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
A huge concerted effort to deal with lameness, | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
And I think we've had a lack of a practical solution | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
And where does it come from? What is the cause? | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
About 90% of lameness is due to a bacterial foot condition. | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
We know it as foot rot, or scald. Right. Well, I've got a few here. | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
Shall we take them up to the pens? Yes, let's go and have a look. | :39:36. | :39:49. | |
With my sheep safely in the pen, we can check to see how many | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
animals are affected by this crippling disease. | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
The hoof is overgrown and I can smell it from here. Is that foot rot? | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
Yes, that is foot rot for sure. Yes. That is pretty nasty, isn't it? | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
So, what is it? It's a bacterium? Yes. | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
Foot rot and scald, this is a bacterial condition of the foot. | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
And, as you see, it causes this eating away at the foot. | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
And it can start in-between the toes? | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
Yes, it starts in-between the digits there | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
and then eventually, as in this case, it tracks up the hoof wall. | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
'This is where Ruth's ground-breaking approach to treating lameness | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
'She came up with a five-point plan of action to combat the disease. | :40:28. | :40:34. | |
What I would do now is grab some foot trimmers and trim off the dead horn. | :40:35. | :40:51. | |
Very tempting. And it is what a lot of farmers would do | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
and it's not to say that removing a bit of this | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
but actually trimming it right back will be harmful. | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
You will delay the healing of the foot. | :41:02. | :41:02. | |
Better to put your foot trimmers away. Goodness me. | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
I have been foot trimming lame sheep for ever, really. | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
We used to routinely foot trim our sheep twice a year. | :41:09. | :41:11. | |
We've now gone down to trimming just the lame ones. | :41:12. | :41:13. | |
But you are saying, put the foot trimmers away, don't use them? Yes. | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
You're not going to help the sheep to heal. | :41:17. | :41:18. | |
You need to treat this particular foot with antibiotics. | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
That is the only way it's going to heal up. | :41:22. | :41:23. | |
So that's an antibiotic antiseptic spray that should help kill it. | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
'Not trimming is a new approach but I'm happy to give it a go. | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
'Once we've treated an animal, we mark it. | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
'That way, we can see if the problem comes back. | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
'If it does, then we need to adopt the second point | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
So I mark them, take the tag number | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
Does that sound sensible? Yeah, no, you need to do that | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
but the other reason for marking her up at this stage is that | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
you'll be able to see if she suffers from this disease again. | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
And really what you need to be doing at weaning time is pulling out | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
any ewes that are repeat offenders of foot rot and scald | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
and culling them out. Get rid of them out of the flock? | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
But these are the girls that are costing you money. | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
We need to do as much as we can to avoid the disease being transmitted. | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
Basically what you're seeing here is the sheep spreading the bacteria. | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
And you can see the lambs walking behind her, | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
And they could potentially be picking up the bacteria. | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
So those dots is where the bacteria could be? Exactly, yes. | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
Point three on Ruth's plan involves killing bacteria on the ground. | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
You can't treat the whole of the farm, | :42:45. | :42:46. | |
but by spreading lime across the high-risk zones, like gates | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
and water troughs, there's a good chance of controlling the spread. | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
Isolate new stock until you're sure they're free of lameness. | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
Ideally, you'll be wanting to vaccinate twice a year | :43:01. | :43:08. | |
and to correlate with the times of peak disease. | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
So around this time of year would probably be ideal. | :43:13. | :43:14. | |
These girls are probably about to be shorn, I would guess? Yes. | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
So, off the shears would be ideal to correlate now | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
and then also at winter housing time. | :43:21. | :43:22. | |
So vaccination and all these other measures | :43:23. | :43:24. | |
can be quite costly, time-consuming. Is that a problem? | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
Well, I guess it seems like a big job. | :43:30. | :43:31. | |
The important point to get across is that this is | :43:32. | :43:33. | |
The endgame is going to be a lot less work | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
and a lot less loss and waste for you. | :43:37. | :43:38. | |
So if I can concentrate on those five points then, | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
treating lame ones as quickly as I can with antibiotics, not trimming... | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
Yes. Getting down lime around areas where there's concentrated feet. | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
Isolating animals that can bring them onto the farm. Yes, yes. | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
Vaccination... Yes. What was the last one? | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
Culling out your worst offenders. Culling out | :43:57. | :43:58. | |
And then how soon do you think we might see a major reduction | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
Well, on our own farm we have about 1,000 ewes | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
and we saw a pretty steep improvement within the first | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
six months, down to less than 2%. And for the last three years | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
we have been down to less than 1%. Goodness me! So it is significant. | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
This could be a thing of the past for you. Wonderful. | :44:16. | :44:27. | |
This beautiful landscape provides quiet sanctuary | :44:28. | :44:29. | |
from the hustle and bustle of the towns and cities that flank it. | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
One third of Sheffield is actually in the Peak District, which makes it | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
the only UK city to have a national park within its boundaries. | :44:38. | :44:46. | |
I do a walk called Elephant in the Park walk. Right. | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
This year, it's on the 2nd of August. | :44:50. | :44:51. | |
When Chamu Kuppuswamy first moved to Sheffield, she began looking for | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
connections between the Peak District and the country of her birth - India. | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
What were your first impressions of the Peak District? | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
And I thought it was very, very quiet | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
compared to the cities I have lived in in India, of course. | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
And what about you in terms of your friends and your family and your | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
culture, why did you think it was so important to find links with India? | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
In some of these places, my memory was jogged about having read | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
something, about India, about this place. | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
That kind of said, well, there must be a lot of different links | :45:27. | :45:29. | |
that would be really interesting to find out. | :45:30. | :45:31. | |
I can have my own global interpretation of the National Park. | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
And that really sparked the whole thing off. | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
One of the most exciting links Chamu found was here in Millthorpe. | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
Edward Carpenter was one of the village's former residents. | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
Socialist, poet and philosopher, he had a fascination for Hinduism | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
that led him on a life-changing journey to India. | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
So, he was sort of a pioneer in that he went to India, he liked what | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
he found about Hinduism and he brought it back here? Absolutely. | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
He went to India because of all that he had heard about India | :46:07. | :46:09. | |
and he also visited a guru over there. | :46:10. | :46:11. | |
So he really strengthened his knowledge of Hinduism. | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
This is Carpenter's former home in Millthorpe, where I'm meeting | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
Fascinated by the life of Edward Carpenter, also known as the | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
Saint in Sandals, she's researched his life extensively for her PhD. | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
Helen, these look intriguing. Tell me about these. | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
They are. I think people would have been very surprised | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
when these appeared in this area in the 1890s. | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
The sandals actually represent Edward Carpenter's relationship | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
to India and the things that he liked about India | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
and the things he brought back from India. | :46:50. | :46:51. | |
These sandals represented something that was freedom for him. | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
Freedom in terms of dress, and also the freedom of understanding | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
that he found in India and brought back over to the Peaks with him. | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
And this is something that people wanted him to spread the word about? | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
Yes, absolutely. I believe this is a letter from Gandhi? It is, yes. | :47:09. | :47:11. | |
So a little later on, Carpenter had been working into the early | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
20th century, trying to spread these ideas. | :47:16. | :47:17. | |
That brought him to the attention of Gandhi and Gandhi's circle. | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
And Gandhi was very keen to write to Carpenter | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
to ask him to take his ideas out into Gandhi's wider circle | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
thinking about the Indian independence movement as well. | :47:28. | :47:36. | |
Carpenter's connection to India flourished on his return home. | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
His walks in the Peak District were now further inspired | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
by ideas of Hinduism and soon influenced his writing. | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
"You are not to differentiate yourself from nature. | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
"It is only under such conditions that the little mortal creature | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
"gradually becomes aware of what he is." | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
But there's an even more colourful local character who brought | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
From 5,000 miles away in the Peak District, | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
the livelihoods of Indian silk dyers, bringing new vibrancy to previously | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
The fabric, when it first came to him, was unusable. | :48:17. | :48:29. | |
When the silk is woven, it goes through gum so it doesn't break. | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
they would put that on to strengthen it? | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
To strengthen it, so they could weave. | :48:38. | :48:39. | |
But he found a way to get that gum off and treat it | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
And what he did was he prepared the fabric with salt, alkali, | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
so then you could get the range of shades you wanted to get, | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
like your pinks, your lighter shades of blue and so on. | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
If it wasn't prepared you would be looking at dark greys | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
So, initially, people were looking at Indian Tussar silk | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
and saying, that is useless, that is no good to me. | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
And Thomas Wardle said, we can make this work? | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
Well, what he did was pretty remarkable, really. | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
So Thomas Wardle has left a legacy among silk dyers. | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
Has he left a legacy in India? I think he absolutely has. | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
It gave the Indian silk industry a new market because there were | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
more and more people who were interested in Tussar silk. | :49:28. | :49:35. | |
And Wardle found another use for Tussar silk - producing | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
which became a huge success when used to make waterproofs. | :49:39. | :49:46. | |
And where would the Peak District be without them! | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
Absolutely no need for waterproofs today | :49:51. | :49:52. | |
Here is the Countryfile forecast for the week ahead. | :49:53. | :50:10. | |
Thank you, Helen. Will we need waterproofs this week? Yes and no, | :50:11. | :50:24. | |
and yes and no! A mix of sunny spells and a scattering of showers, | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
some of those showers on the heavy side. The second half of the week | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
has quite a different look to it. In the short term, on Monday we are | :50:37. | :50:44. | |
between weather systems. The air is still unstable enough that the cloud | :50:45. | :50:53. | |
will build up enough to make some showers, but there will be gaps | :50:54. | :50:54. | |
between them. Monday afternoon, I think we could | :50:55. | :51:09. | |
see a line of showers running up through south-west England to north | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
of London. Temperatures could reach the low 20s. A fairly brisk breeze | :51:17. | :51:31. | |
blowing across parts of Scotland, so could feel cooler. Most places | :51:32. | :51:41. | |
holding in double figures over Monday night. High pressure trying | :51:42. | :51:52. | |
to build in from the west on Tuesday. A fairly quiet day, light | :51:53. | :52:10. | |
winds, sunny spells. Watch out for some showers down the East Coast. | :52:11. | :52:17. | |
Going through Tuesday night and into Wednesday, this area of low pressure | :52:18. | :52:27. | |
is developing. But there is also a weather system trying to push in | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
from the west. It is a question of which one is going to win. It looks | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
as though one Wednesday we will did clear the rain. But Wednesday night | :52:38. | :52:47. | |
into Thursday, the risk increases of seeing more persistent rain edging | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
in from the North Sea. The computer models are all giving different | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
answers. Potentially heavy rain in eastern areas, but less of a chance | :53:02. | :53:12. | |
in the West. We could well see some reasonably high temperatures under | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
the warm air, but the detail for Friday is elusive. I think what | :53:16. | :53:24. | |
perhaps we can say is that looking beyond that and into the next | :53:25. | :53:27. | |
weekend, these weather systems out in the Atlantic look as though they | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
might start to win, so we The Peak District was Britain's | :53:31. | :53:40. | |
first national park Around 20 million people live within | :53:41. | :53:50. | |
just one hour's drive. Ten million people visit | :53:51. | :54:00. | |
the Peak District every year and it is surrounded by diverse | :54:01. | :54:02. | |
Northern towns and cities. But only 1% of the people that come | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
here are from ethnic minorities. She has discovered some surprising | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
connections between the Peaks In an area synonymous with the right | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
to roam movement back in the 1930s, Chamu is at the forefront of a new | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
kind of campaign, encouraging people from ethnic minorities to get out and | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
enjoy what the area has to offer. This place is just amazing in terms | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
of being able to walk in it and being able to get anywhere you | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
want. With the help of a map you are able to explore so much | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
of the countryside, which for me So walking and rambling isn't | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
something that you would have done I mean, we do a lot of walking, | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
but in cities. Nothing like in the countryside. The | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
countryside is really off-limits. And also there isn't a map | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
that you can actually use. So therefore it's not somewhere | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
where you would naturally What you think is stopping people | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
from ethnic minorities coming out and enjoying the Peak District? | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
A number of different factors. Information about the fact | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
that there is access and there is the right to roam | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
in this area is one of the least known | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
bits of information, I think. National parks are looked at as | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
conservation areas where people don't inhabit - that is the kind of | :55:25. | :55:27. | |
parks people encounter in India. But why do you think it is important | :55:28. | :55:30. | |
for people to come out here? into the countryside | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
is really great. First of all, they asked me, | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
"Is it safe? "If you go, do you actually | :55:43. | :55:58. | |
patrol on your own?!" Chamu's regular walks | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
reveal the links with her Indian heritage | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
and are a great way of getting more people from ethnic | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
minorities into the Peak District. I love cities, | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
but on a nice day like this My principle is, the world | :56:15. | :56:17. | |
is my school and nature is my book. You learn a lot of things | :56:18. | :56:24. | |
from nature, read a lot of things. A lot of understanding | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
through nature. I guess I like everything | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
about the Peak District. it's calm and I'm, like, pretty | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
much interested in the flora so every time I come here | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
I find something new to look at. Researching links with India, | :56:41. | :56:48. | |
becoming a ranger, Just walking on the grass | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
and feeling the stone over there, being in a classroom where the | :56:52. | :57:31. | |
surface is very, very different. But I'm pretty sure that this is | :57:32. | :57:39. | |
the first time that we have ever done Bharatanatyam, Indian dancing, | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
in a national park on Countryfile! With moves like this, it is no wonder | :57:46. | :57:57. | |
word seems to have got around. From the John Craven school of dance. | :57:58. | :58:14. | |
That was impressive. Thank you, | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
what a fantastic way to end the show. will be exploring | :58:19. | :58:20. | |
breathtaking Gower in South Wales Will they have sunshine as good | :58:21. | :58:29. | |
as this? I doubt it. From us, in the stunning scenery | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
of the Peak District, it's goodbye. If your friend was taken away... | :58:33. | :58:34. | |
# Not giving in... # I'm afraid | :58:35. | :59:08. | |
there's not much we can do. ..how would you fight | :59:09. | :59:11. | |
to get her back? This is wrong. I'm not going to | :59:12. | :59:13. | |
carry on as if nothing has happened. | :59:14. | :59:17. |