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If you have heard a rumour that things will get colder and sweet, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Imogen Sellers. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Our main story tonight. A cry for help from the Somerset Levels. The | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Council declares a Major Incident with the hope of securing aid from | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
the rest of the UK. The predictions are, more people | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
will be flooded this weekend, 2 0 ` 300 people will be further affected | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
this weekend. We need outside help. But what does the phrase Major | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Incident actually mean? What difference will it make to people | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
here? Our other stories tonight: The care | :00:39. | :00:51. | |
home worker who raped three residents, now it's revealed he d | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
been arrested in the past. The Last Temptation Of Christ, why a | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
film that many Christians find offensive is to be screened inside | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Wells Cathedral. The picture it portrays is distorted, incorrect and | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
glass from us. That is not something a cathedral should be showing. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
And no stopping her now, a World Cup for Bath's Lizzy Yarnold. Next, it's | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the Winter Olympics. Good evening. The floods on the | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Somerset Levels have been officially declared a Major Incident by the | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
local council, in the hope that the rest of the United Kingdom will now | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
come to their aid. Parts of the county have been underwater for | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
weeks and Somerset Council wants outside assistance to cope with the | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
scale of the emergency. But there's confusion about what the cry for | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
help actually means. Clinton Rogers in on the Levels tonight. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
You are right. There is a fusion. What does that mean? It depends on | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
who you ask. It is sending a government to `` to government and | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
anyone else that is listing that we have a problem that is not going | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
away, and a problem that is getting worse. Maybe the military can help, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
possibly. What ever form the help takes, it is desperately needed | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
The knock at the door that no`one wants. Good afternoon. This | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
afternoon, the fire service were going door to door, warning around | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
30 household owners that their homes were now at risk. Day and night the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Environment Agency is pumping water off of the Moore's. As the rain | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
continues to fall, so in places the water continues to rise. Declaring | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
this a Major Incident should open the door for more help coming in. We | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
are not getting on top of it and more water is on the way. We are | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
saying to the government, we need outside help, whether that is the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
military coming into assist, we have had too many roads blocked for far | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
too long. But those at risk cannot help `` wait for help from the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
outside. They are preparing for the worst. This man is making plans to | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
evacuate his home. We are getting ready to evacuate. My son and his | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
family are coming down to help us today to put things up on bricks and | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
do what we can do indoors to alleviate the problem. Amid | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
increasingly bitter rows about who is to blame for all of this, people | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
affected by the floods staged a protest of this afternoon outside | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the offices of the Environment Agency, the organisation they say | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
has turned the problem into a crisis. We have been hung out to | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
dry. They are not interested. It is the responsibility of the | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Environment Agency to stop this happening again and to dredge the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
rivers. The agency says they are doing everything they can in the | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
face of exceptional weather, but they say the floods will not be | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
going down anytime soon. The system is so full that it is not going to | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
go away in the next fortnight. It will be with us for at least a | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
month. Really, it is the long haul. Not a message that goes down well | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
here. With more heavy rain forecast for the weekend, anger is turning to | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
fear. Joining me now is an MP. Let me ask | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
you, people are asking what this means. What sort of help? Could we | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
actually the army boots on the ground here? It is quite likely I | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
have spoken to military people today. What could they do? We need | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
more capacity. We need more flood defenses brought in. We have not got | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
that sort of capacity and the military have. We need people coming | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
down from the Environment Agency to build up defenses. More importantly, | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
we need to start talking about the recovery phase. This will eventually | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
stop. We have to get the water out of here. Let's look at specifics. I | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
am hearing about the main road into Glastonbury. Maybe the army could | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
come in and build a bridge. I think that is realistic `` I do not think | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
that is realistic but I think the Army could do an awful lot. They | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
have enormous heavy lifting equipment and they could do that. It | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
is easy to put this together. I have written to be Prime Minister twice | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
today. We have asked for help and to see if he could come down and see | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
what the situation is like. There are people saying about with | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
apologies to those who are affected, it is tens of people, not hundreds | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
of people. That is rubbish. You have a 60,000 population in Thompson We | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
are actually getting water rising still. This is not the case that | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
there is nothing here. We have a main railway line, we have a main | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
road into the West country on the other side. This is ridiculous. The | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
dormant except that, and that is `` the government except that. We know | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
that dredging is an issue. Thank you very much indeed. The rain continues | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
to fall and more is forecast for Sunday. People here are fearing the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
worst but hoping for the best. Please give our best wishes to those | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
affected their full up thank you. Well, heavy rain is forecast over | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
the weekend. Ian, just how bad is it looking? | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Regrettably, this truck behind me is just a snapshot. It looks like a map | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
of the Mediterranean. Not a pretty picture for those people in the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Somerset Levels. You will have more on that later in the programme. | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
A burst water main has been causing problems for drivers in the centre | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
of Portishead. The damage led to flooding on a section around the | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
high street. Some homes were left without water this afternoon. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Bristol Water says it's working to fix the problem. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Points West can reveal that a care worker who raped vulnerable women | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
from Gloucestershire had been arrested several years before over | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
an allegation of sexual assault Colin Stokes denied that allegation | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
pleaded guilty in court yesterday to attacks on three women, but now | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
questions are being asked about whether he'd abused before. Our | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Health Correspondent Matthew Hill has been talking to the mother of | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
one victim. She did this one last week. I asked | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
her this is a picture of `` I asked her who this is a picture of and she | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
said it was Colin, and it is disturbing that he is still on her | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
mind. This woman's daughter will never forget Colin Stokes. She was | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
in her early 30s when she was raped by him, but had the mental age of a | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
six`year`old. Though Stokes's conviction yesterday was for crimes | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
which happened since 2012, questions are now being asked about whether | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
there could be more victims. This woman's sister was at the care home | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
seven years ago, when Stokes was arrested by police. He sexually | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
assaulted another female resident, and my sister was witness as it | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
happened on the stairs. Because of the nature of the disability, I do | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
not think there was enough evidence. The manager at that time said that | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
particular person who made that I `` allegation is always making things | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
up will stop he came back to work, but alarm bells should have been | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
set. `` making things up. Stokes denied any wrongdoing and was never | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
charged. Obtaining credible evidence from vulnerable adults is | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
notoriously difficult. This former head of public protection for Avon | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
and Somerset Police says a lack of evidence means cases are often | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
dropped. Is such an allegation is made, and the burden of proof is not | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
reached for someone to be barred from working with vulnerable adults | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
but the allegation still retains credibility, in other words, it is | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
believable, I think at absolute minimum there should be a clear | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
action plan to manage the potential risk. Years ago, we had a situation | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
where these allegations would be collected and we could see a picture | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
built up about possible perpetrators. That has gotten lost | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
along the way. In this case it took a specialist | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
team to collect the evidence. It was the interview at the police | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
headquarters. There was a specialist woman who deals with symbols and | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
signs, and that is when she really indicated what happened to her. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
But none of this would have come to light without a whistle`blower who | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
today told the BBC what had happened. One resident told me that | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Colin comes into her room at night and abuses her. She was devastated | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
and I was absolutely gob smacked `` got smacked. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Today the owners of the home told the BBC they are cooperating fully | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
with the investigations. And the police said they have no plans to | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
reopen the investigation into Stokes unless more victims come forward. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
The University of the West of England is taking legal action after | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
an adult movie was filmed on its Frenchay campus. It was made last | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
summer but staff were made aware of the film recently after seeing it | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
mentioned on social media. The actors who took part were not | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
students and the University is keen to distance itself from the | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
production. Coming up in tonight's programme: | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
We've something to put a smile on your face. It's slapstick time, and | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
some of the country's top comedians are coming to town. | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
A film which has been offending some churchgoers for a quarter of a | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
century is being screened at Wells Cathedral this weekend. Martin | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ includes scenes of Jesus | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
which some believe are blasphemous. So why show it in these sacred | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
surroundings? Scott Ellis has been finding out. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Jesus, portrayed as human rather than divine. On release in 1988 it | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
grabbed headlines worldwide. Director Martin Scorese, | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
unapologetic. It deals with the spiritual struggle that Jesus goes | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
through, between the spirit and the flash, just the way we go through | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
it. `` the flash. On Saturday night, it's screened here at Wells | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Cathedral. And, like Scorese, the Dean isn't about to apologise. It | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
was the director's intent, not to mock Jesus I'm a `` Jesus, he wanted | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
to work in the church when he was younger. The Dean says the Cathedral | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
is a space for everyone and has been throughout the centuries. But some | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
have complained. The cathedral is a place for Jesus is glorified. That | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
is the job of the Dean, to ensure that Jesus gets spoken of as the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
person of the Bible, as the Hope, the Redeemer, the saviour, the | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
truth. That is what the cathedral should be proclaiming. Here, it | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
seems, they are doing quite the opposite. That is really quite | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
serious. Concerns surround scenes in the film where Jesus has | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
hallucinations in which he marries and has children. It's being shown | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
as part of this year's Bath Film Festival. If people want to show it | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
in the cinema they can, but from my point of view, it is taking a | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
spiritual film and putting it in a spiritual setting. It's unlikely | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Saturday's screening will cause the protests of old. This churchgoer | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
summing up the views on the city's streets. If non`Christians are going | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
into the cathedral to watch a film, that is good. Good to get them in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
there. Bums on seats, that is what it is all about. I am sorry I cannot | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
be there to share the experience with you. Martin Scorcese's even | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
recorded this introduction for tomorrow night's viewing. If you're | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
going, listen out for the film's soundtrack. It was recorded by Peter | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Gabriel and stars the cathedral s choristers. | :13:42. | :13:56. | |
A scientist in Bristol has come up with a way of mass producing | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
drinking water that could one day help in disaster zones or even | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
floods. The technology sucks contaminated water in and can make | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
hundreds of litres clean each hour. Andrew Plant has more. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
This pond is full of all sorts of bacteria. We take the water out of | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
this pond through this pipe, and it goes into the shed, and that is | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
where we do the treatment. In the grounds of the University of the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
West of England, the beginnings of a new technology that could one day | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
change the way we make drinkable water from the waste water around | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
us. That is really, really, really smelly. Chlorine is commonly used | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
across the world to purify large quantities of water which must then | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
be filtered, but the chemical attacks the filtration system. | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
Disinfected water is very expensive, and it requires chlorine. For | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
producing thousands of litres in a short space of time, it is not | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
possible. The hope here is that this new disinfectant, made from just | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
salt and water, will mean easier and more abundant supplies. These were | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
the scenes in Gloucestershire in 2007, when water supplies became | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
contaminated by floods and overflowing sewage. Professor | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Reynolds hopes this early technology could transform humanitarian | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
disasters abroad and those that happen much closer to home. Not too | :15:18. | :15:34. | |
bad. The weekend has just begun. We are | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
going to move on to the sport. A sportswoman who trains in Bath has | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
become a World Cup winner today Alistair Durden is here with | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
tonight's sport. Ali, this is in the Skeleton event | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
isn't it? Yes, this is Lizzy Yarnold who's become the third British woman | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
to wind the World Cup series. You can see she was pretty delighted. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
The final race was this morning in Germany. Let's take a look at how | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
she got on. The conditions in Konigsee were tricky to say the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
least. She had such a big lead in the table that she only needed to | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
finish her run to take the title. As it was the snow came down so hard | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
after the first heat that they abandoned the second heat and she | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
was crowned World Cup champion. It is amazing to say I and a World Cup | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
champion. It is such an achievement. To be consistent with the seven | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
podium finishes on a it is a record and such an achievement, and then to | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
have this crystal globe for life, it is the best thing about my whole | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
career, and hopefully the Olympics oh well as well. Fantastic news for | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
her. It must set her up well for the Winter Olympics? | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
I think she is a clear favourite are the gold medal. She finished on the | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
podium in seven of the eight World Cup races, winning four of them She | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
heads to Sochi as favourite for the gold medal. | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
But don't discount Pewsey's Shelley Rudman. She finished the World Cup | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
season in third place after another strong performance in Germany this | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
morning. And her previous Olympic experience makes her a real force. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
Either way, it's great we have two genuinely good chances at winning | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
medals next month. Very exciting as far as the gelatin | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
is concerned. Let's have a week at `` look at the weekend football | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Yeovil Town have the chance to add to their growing list of FA Cup | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
upsets when they travel to Premier League Southampton. In their | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
non`league days, the Glovers beat over 20 league clubs in the | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
competition. They even made their mascot a giant in recognition of | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
those achievements. So who better, ahead of their biggest cup tie in a | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
decade, to guide us through a potted history of their achievements? | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
As non`league minnows, Yeovil Town were famous for punching above their | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
weight in the FA Cup. Their most famous wind was in 1949 when they | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
beat top`flight Sunderland. Down the years, many others perished at their | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
hands, the likes of Brentford, Northampton and Blackpool. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
He has certainly had his moments down the years. Southampton, there | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
is a tie to rekindle that old cup magic. The budgets of the two teams | :18:17. | :18:28. | |
are astronomically apart. I cannot think of a bigger word. We respect | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
how good they are, but of course there have been bigger upsets than | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
this in the FA Cup, and if we can cause an upset or bring them back to | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the park, that is like getting through to the next round against | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
another Premier League club, financially. Yeovil are rightly | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
proud of their giant`killing past, it put the club on the map. Now as | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
a Championship team, they're facing famous names every week. But the cup | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
still retains its magic for supporters. They are one of the best | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
44 clubs in the country now, whereas back then, there were 100 above us, | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
so we are not the little old team anymore. We still get excited about | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
the FA Cup. It is the anniversary of us beating Sunderland. If we beat | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
Southampton on Saturday, I think that will be a fantastic | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
achievement, amongst the best big club has ever done. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
That's why the club sold out its allocation of 3,500 tickets in one | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
morning. And why everyone's keen to catch the manager's eye, as Yeovil | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
try to make it into the fifth round for only the second time in their | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
history. I think I would play them up front, | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
to be honest! Tomorrow marks the 20 year | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
anniversary of one of Bristol City's great cup moments against Liverpool. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
Last night, the team of 1994 were reunited at a dinner, including | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
goal`scorer Brian Tinnion, whose strike knocked the Premier League | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
team out 1`0 in the replay at Anfield. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
The team played really well. Some fantastic performances. I was lucky | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
enough to get the goal and take some plaudits for that, but it was a | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
great team effort. And it was fantastic for all of the people who | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
were there last night. On paper we could not match them that we put in | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
such great determination for the fans. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
No FA Cup game for City tomorrow, they're away to Wolves in the | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
league. Swindon and Bristol Rovers have home games, while Cheltenham | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
head to Plymouth. All the goals in our Sunday evening bulletin. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
And in rugby, Gloucester are away to Scarlets in the LV Cup tonight. Bath | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
at home to Cardiff Blues tomorrow. And Bristol play Plymouth Albion in | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
the Championship on Sunday. Going to be busy over the weekend! I | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
will be here with all of the gold on Sunday evening. `` goals. | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
If you're thinking that January is a bleak month, we have something that | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
might cheer you up. Yes, it's the time of year when comedy stars | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
descend on Bristol for the annual Slapstick Festival. This year, | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
regulars such as Barry Cryer and the members of The Goodies are joined by | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
the likes of Harry Hill and Omid Djalili. Sally Challoner is at the | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
Colston Hall where it's all about to kick off. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
I am right by the stage actually. There are just doing their | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
last`minute rehearsals. That is the Bristol ensemble who is going to be | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
playing later. Yes, we really are lucky in this part of the world with | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
our festivals, and this one is world class. It's been going for ten years | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
now, attracting the biggest names in comedy, and reviving interest in the | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
silent greats, like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and my own personal | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
favourite, Harold Lloyd. We'll talk to the organiser and tonight's | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
special guest in a moment, but first some shameless use of a black and | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
white film that's more than 100 years old. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
There's something about the old black and white silents that keep | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
people laughing, no matter how corny the plot, or how primitive the | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
effects. This is That Fatal Sneeze, a British film made back in 190 . | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
That affection for silent movies launched the Slapstick Festival ten | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
years ago. It's still going strong, attracting modern comedians from | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
across the genre. This year, TV favourite Harry Hill, lately | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
starring in this, his own film, is here, sharing his favourite comedy | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
moments and influences on stage on Sunday. How many times, no strippers | :22:30. | :22:45. | |
on a weeknight? But tonight, Charlie Chaplin's film | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
City Lights will launch the festival, accompanied by Chaplin's | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
own original score performed live by a 39 piece orchestra. They've been | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
rehearsing this week to achieve that perfect comic timing for which | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
Chaplin himself was rightly famous. And hosting the film tonight is the | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
comedian and actor Omid Djalili himself a big Chaplin fan. I | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
understand that in your very early career you had something of a | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Charlie Chaplin Lake moment. I owe my whole comedy career to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
slapstick. Someone spilled beer on me, and as I ran, I slipped on it, | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
and the audience laughed. I cannot get the microphone out of the stand | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and it ain't me in the head and I cut myself and they laughed all stop | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
`` it banged to me in the head and I cut myself and they laughed. I fell | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
off the stage and I asked someone to help me back up. I was wearing black | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
trousers and I ripped my trousers as I put one of my legs up. I waltzed | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
onto the stage with a beer and I asked if I could start again and I | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
got such a massive laugh that people said there was a new Charlie Chaplin | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
act and that I was a genius. It was a mistake! You probably cannot have | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
recreated that if you wanted to It takes real deal, and that is what we | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
are here. These people are extremely skilled at what they do. Slapstick | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
is the essence of humour, because it is absurd, and life is absurd. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Fantastic. Don't fall off the stage tonight, unless the cameras are | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
rolling. We can speak to the festival director. What have you got | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
this year? After the call of this evening, which will be fantastic, we | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
have another 12 events over the weekend. We have a speaker who will | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
talk about Benny Hill. It is going to be fantastic. Ten years of | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
slapstick. And it is sold out already tonight. Have a great | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
festival. I am looking forward to the film tonight. Thank you very | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
much. We can all certainly do with a laugh | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
due to the weather. As it is, here is even with the forecast. At least | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Saturday is going to bring some dry prospects. As we get into the | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
evening, there will be some showery rain which will be quite heavy. The | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
rain will be spreading in from the west fairly rapidly. A colder regime | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
will usher in to set up the coldest snap of the winter so far. A warning | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
for rain over the Somerset Levels. It will not be as light or | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
instrument and as it has been today. The band will clear away the. You're | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
the drier prospects for tomorrow. `` here are the drier prospects. This | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
ridge of high pressure will, everything down, but not for long. | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
The rest of this evening continues to clear these outbreaks of rain | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
there he radically to the east of us. `` and radically. A lot of Hill | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
fog around, right down to about 500 foot or less. A murky night, but it | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
will not be a particularly chilly one. A murky starts tomorrow with | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
some Hill fog around, but the wind will CERT to lift the cloud base and | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
brighten things up. `` but the wind will start to lift the cloud base. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Showery outbreaks for a wild into the evening, and some of them could | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
be happy. A chilly night towards Sunday. Temperatures will be mild. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Ten or 11 Celsius. Or Sunday, the rain starts to push him quite | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
readily through the course of the morning. Some heavier pulses of | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
rain. Ten, maybe 20 mm tops. We are not talking exceptional amounts but | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
we have got exceptional circumstances with the Somerset | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
Levels. By the afternoon, it is brighter and showery. We could have | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
some wintry showers around by Monday morning. Maybe some snow on the but | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
nothing too disruptive. Amateurs will drop away next week. `` | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
temperatures will drop away next week. That will come as a shock One | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
thing after another. That is it for this evening. We will be back after | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
the ten o'clock news to keep you updated. And Sunday politics is | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
worth a watch. Otherwise, the whole team will be with you on Monday | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
Have a nice weekend. Take care. | :27:47. | :27:49. |