All language subtitles for Joanna Lumleys Home Sweet Home S01E03 1080p_[English] (SUBRIP)

JOANNA LUMLEY: 'This country
has been my home for over 65 years.

'But although I'm lucky enough to
have seen a great deal of the world,

'there are still new places
on my own doorstep for me to visit.'

What a place.
Wow!

Oh, what a joy to see
these beautiful birds up close.

'I'm on a voyage of discovery
around our great country.'

This is Kashmiri spinach.

I'm a Kashmiri, you know,
I'm a Kashmiri. Yeah.

'Finding out
what makes Britain tick.'

Yeah.

'And revisiting
some familiar old haunts.'

LAUGHTER

'I'll be covering
all points of the compass.'

We're known as

the Game Of Thrones territory.

'Meeting the people
who makes us unique.'

Do you think
somebody's looking at you

and thinking, "Sandy's had a dram"?

So many people have said,
"You'll make the 100."

I think you will.
And so far, I'm 95 now.

Don't tell nobody!
LAUGHTER

'Exploring amazing traditions.'

Isn't that fantastic?

Look at this,
it's a mass of colours.

'And revealing some
breath-taking sights along the way.

'This time, I'm travelling west,
through Devon and Cornwall.'

This looks like something
from a legend or a fairy tale.

'Sampling the delights of Somerset.'

Cheers, babe.

'And raising a toast
to a musical hero.'

# Ain't that a shame. #

Adore it, one of my favourites.
Lovely.

'But I'm starting my journey
in North Wales,

'in the mountains of Snowdonia.'

Wow.

'For over 200 years,

'this was the centre of a powerful
industry that shaped modern Wales.'

Look at this landscape, honestly.

It feels like the side of the moon
or something,

it doesn't feel like
the British Isles at all here.

Gosh, look, look, look.

'This astonishing landscape was
created by Victorian slate miners,

'who extracted the precious material
from underground,

'and then dumped the rocky waste
on the mountainsides.

'At the height of slate production
in the 18905,

'the mountains of North Wales

'were home to dozens
of mines and quarries,

'employing around 17,000 men.'

'The town of Blaenau Ffestiniog

'became known as
the town that roofed the world.'

Look at that
on the hillside over there,

it looks like
a kind of giants' graveyard.

'Former mine worker Brian Jones

'is taking me to a Victorian
mining settlement in Llechwedd,

'abandoned for decades.'

Oh, look at this.

Brian, where are we up here?

I can see it's a sort of settlement
of some kind.

This is a mill,
this is the processing mill,

built in 1861.
Wow.

Up to 100 men
would be working here.

So, these big lumps of slate...
Yeah.

...would be dragged up
from the hole down there with this.

This extraordinary machine here.
Yes.

That would be the winch,
the winch house.

This big lump, up to three tonnes,

would be dragged across by a truck
over to the mill. Yeah.

The men would be waiting
here for it, they process it.

And that means chisels splitting it,
what, into slates? Yes, yes.

'Until well into the 20th century,

'slate mining remained
an extremely dangerous profession.

'To reach the slate deposits,
miners would dangle from ropes.

'The slate was slippery,
and there were frequent rock falls.'

This is the extraordinary thing.

You actually worked these quarries,
didn't you? Yes, I did.

How did everybody get up here?
They would walk up.

That... How long did that take you?
It took about an hour and a quarter.

No! 50, you would walk up here,
in all weathers.

And if you were a few minutes late,

then the timekeeper
would be waiting for you

and he would send you home.
"Try again tomorrow."

Look, down here,
there's something going on.

That's still a mine, is it?

Yes, this is where they do
the recycling.

Notice the way they're eating away
into this tip. Yes.

There would have been three
local mines tipping here. Yeah.

This is nothing but slate waste.
Solid waste.

The Victorians seem to have thrown
masses away.

They wasted 90% of the rock that
was brought up from underground.

Huge quarries made,
men going dangerously deep down.

Yes.
How deep are they?

This mine here is the largest
slate mine in the world.

That goes down to sea level,
26 levels.

1,400 feet.

50-odd miles of tunnels in there.

It's so extraordinary, isn't it?

We don't really think of things.

We look at our pretty houses
and we take pictures of things,

and say, "Doesn't that look fine?"

We haven't any idea.
No.

The hardship,
and the toil and the struggle.

Oh, Brian, I'm so thrilled
to have been here with you,

up on your mountain.

Yes.
These are your mountains.

Yes.
LAUGHTER

I feel they are, anyway.
They surely are.

LAUGHTER

'The Welsh slate industry
declined in the 20th century,

'but this region is tremendously
proud of its heritage.'

STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS

'The old steam engines
that transported slate

'from the quarries to the port
have been lovingly restored.'

This is the Ffestiniog Railway.

It was opened in 1836,
and it's still going.

And I'm gonna have a ride on it!

Aled, Emily.
Hello!

You're volunteers, aren't you?
We are, yes, yeah.

And she's in such
beautiful condition.

Yep, very old.
Absolutely, yeah.

How old is she?
150 years old.

N0, is she?
Mm.

Used to work in the quarries.

How fast does she go?
20 miles an hour is her land speed.

OK, I won't delay you, how lovely.

Thank you.
BOTH:

STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS

Thank you.

This is just absolutely gorgeous.

'Today, there are luxury carriages,

'but when the railway
was first built,

'these were open wagons,
piled high with slate.'

Travelling at this speed,
you have time to take in everything.

Look at that waterfall.

The railway line now is turning,
a huge curve to the left.

The slate is so close to us,

it's practically
scraping the carriage windows.

It's absolutely amazing.

They built this little,
narrow gate railway

just to skim along
the side of the mountain.

It's a feat of engineering.

TRAIN WHISTLE

'The railway runs entirely downhill.

'When it was first opened,
there were no steam engines.

'The drivers had to control
the speed using only the brakes.'

It's such a journey.

I think it's about 14 miles
from station to station,

from Blaenau down to Porthmadog.

Here we are,
passing a little graveyard.

There are new graves, but all
the old graves are made of slate.

And why not?
Beautiful, lovely to write on.

And we're just coming to the sea
in Porthmadog.

The end of a sensational
little railway journey.

And we're here.

'It's a new day,
and this is Carmarthenshire.'

I'm quite picky about the music
I listen to in the car.

But there's nothing I love more
than a male tenor voice.

Preferably Welsh.

# Go compare

# If money's tight
We'll see you right... #

'Wynne Evans is the breakout
opera star

'of those catchy
price comparison commercials.

'The tune is actually based on
a World War I recruitment song.

'And although it's twice been voted
the most irritating out of the year,

'it's made Wynne one of Wales's
most recognisable faces.

'In the centre of Carmarthen
stands a special little theatre.'

WJo!
ynne!

Croeso i Gaerfyrddin,
welcome to Carmarthen.

Thank you so much.

What an enchanting theatre.

My mum and my dad saved it from
demolition, back in the '805. Yes.

It was gonna be a shopping centre.

So I literally kind of grew up
in this building.

Come and have a look,
it's beautiful.

700-seater.
Oh, Wynne!

What a darling place.

When we first moved in,
the ceiling was on the floor. Oh!

My dad used to run around
on the roof,

moving buckets around,
so that the audience didn't get wet.

LAUGHTER

But apart from that,
it was all good. Oh, my gosh.

'Since starting out
here in Carmarthen,

'Wynne has gone on to perform

'with many of the world's
leading opera companies.'

This is the land of song, isn't it?

Tell me why Wales
is the land of song.

I think it's actually
just opportunity.

There's a lot of male voice choirs.

You know, get four people
on the corner, you've got a choir.

There's a lot
of amateur dramatics here,

there's a lot of opportunity
for people to sing,

and so singing isn't weird.

Singing is the norm.

Yes. Tell me, when did Go Compario
come and knock on your door?

OK, so, that was in 2009.

The brief had been,

"Find a bloke who is the same singer
as the actor in the ads.

"It would be great if he was Welsh,
and fantastic if he was a bit fat."

And they thought,
"This bloke doesn't exist."

And I walked in
and the people that wrote the ad,

they looked at me,
looked at each other.

They said, "Would you like
to come for lunch?"

LAUGHTER

And that was it?
And that was it, yeah.

You're dressed up
when you're Gio Compario.

Do people recognise you
in the street now, as Wynne?

I think so now, because
you could be in a public toilet

and somebody would all of a sudden
sing it to you,

which was more embarrassing
than you like to remember.

But I was presenting
a BBC programme,

and this woman came up to me
and she said, "Excuse me.

"It's you, innit?
From, erm, from that advert?"

And she said, "Oh,
I was looking for you, actually,

"because my daughter's
just turned 17,

"we're thinking about
buying her a little car

"and we wondered what
the insurance might be." Right?

So, I heard myself. It was like
an out-of-body experience.

I said, "I dunno,
it'll be about £3,000."

JOANNA LAUGHS
Making a number up.

And she said, "That's ridiculous,
It's only £2,400 with Direct Line."

And she walked off
and left me standing there thinking,

"What am I doing?
What has my life become?"

LAUGHTER

Will you sing me something?
Of course I will, I'd love to.

I'd love to sing you a Welsh song.

Mm-hm.
And they say

it is one of the greatest love songs
ever written,

and it's called Myfanwy.

I love that! Oh, I'm gonna cry.

I love that.

# Paham mae dicter

# O Myfanwy

# Yn llenwi'th lygaid duon di?

# A'th ruddiau tirion

# O Myfanwy

# Heb wrido wrth fy ngweled i? #

'The Brecon Beacons National Park
sweeps across South Wales,

'520 square miles of rolling hills
and lush river valleys.

'It's home to some of Wales's
most glorious wildlife.'

Gorgeous birds.
BIRDS CAW

There's so many up there.

Well, you should see
about 100 today.

JOANNA GASPS

Shall I watch from the hide?
OK, then.

'These red kites are native
to the Welsh countryside.'

Oh, look at these birds.

'This is a feeding station,
run by Peter Faulkner.

'Without the daily food he provides,

'the red kites' chicks would have
a lower survival rate.'

SOFTLY: Look how close they come.

They're just skimming down,
picking up a bit.

Oh, they're sensational.

'The red kite was common
in medieval Britain,

'but by the end of the 18705,

'it had been hunted
to near extinction.'

Look at those markings.
Beautiful, russet-coloured tail.

And their small,
beautiful heads and beaks.

So when you see them in the sky,

you'll always know that this
is a red kite, and not a buzzard.

'The kites here
in the Brecon Beacons

'are descended from just
a handful of breeding pairs

'that survived in remote areas.

'Over the past few decades,
the work of people like Peter

'means there are now over 1,800
breeding pairs in Britain.'

Oh, what a joy to see
these beautiful birds up close.

Aren't they magnificent?

It's fantastic. It's how quickly
nature can turn round.

If we give it a chance,
if we just give it a hand.

SOFTLY: Fantastic.

'Across the River Severn
lies Somerset.

'It's one of the West Country's
loveliest counties.

'From the mysterious Glastonbury -

'mythical burial place
of King Arthur -

'and the grandeur
of Wells Cathedral

'to the towering Cheddar Gorge.

'But I'm not here for the scenery.'

Every English county has
its own speciality food or drink.

But when you think of Somerset,
you think of only one thing.

Ah! Look at these apples.

'This is Barrow Hill Farm,

'where they've been making cider
for over 200 years.'

SONG: 'Up from Somerset'

# We'm come up from Somerset... #

Oh, Matilda, look at that!

'Matilda Temperley runs Barrow Hill
with her father, Julian.'

# An' how the world do go

# And when you're wantin' anyone

# If you'll kindly let us know... #

What apples are those?
This is Yarlington Mill.

Usually they fall on their own.

As you can see, sometimes
they need a little extra hand.

'There are over 40 varieties
of cider apple grown in Somerset.

'And here at Barrow Hill,

'they harvest around
1,000 tonnes a year.'

And some of them grow
bobble hats like this,

just a little sweet tree.

Shall I...?
They're not quite ready yet.

You can shake them,
this row will be picked.

They'll fall on my head.

JOANNA LAUGHS

Isn't that fantastic?

Little apple tree, keep the rest,
cos you're not quite ready yet.

How does that one taste?

Pretty challenging.
LAUGHTER

'Cider apples are traditionally
left on the ground

'to ripen fully before harvesting.'

It's like a Willy Wonka machine,
isn't it? It's extraordinary.

That way, cos he's blowing up!

Ooh!

The leaves have gone all over there
and apples remain, un-leafy.

Isn't that brilliant?

It brushes them up here,

and throws them up here,
and off they go.

How many tonnes of apples
go into the back there?

That trailer
is two and a half tonnes.

Two and a half tonnes? And then
they come back to your yard.

'Today, Brits are the biggest
consumers of cider in the world.

'And over 50% of the apples
we produce every year

'go to cider making.'

What a thunderous noise.
What's happening here?

The apples are coming in here,
they're getting washed,

they're going up to the mill.
And they get milled,

and they get pumped over here
to the belt press.

Oh, Matilda, barrel after barrel.

One of these barrels,
they're 100 gallons.

But one of those big vats,
the huge vat round the corner...

Yeah?
..that's 10,000 gallons.

And it would take one man
54 years to drink,

if he drunk eight pints a day.

So it's a lifetime of drinking,
really, isn't it?

Can I taste some?
Let's go.

Since we were talking
about it earlier

and since you tasted that,

you know, that tiny little apple
that... Yes! Yes, yes.

...made you maybe wince a little bit.

That apple was a Stoke Red apple,

and it makes a lovely
single variety...

POP
..dry cider.

JOANNA LAUGHS

So this is as dry as it comes.

But they always say this is a cider
for cider connoisseurs.

It's made in the same way
that you'd make a champagne.

Cheers.
Cheers, babe.

It's gorgeous.

It's dry, it's delicious,
it's mouth-filling.

You'd be quite happy to drink that
instead of champagne any day.

Well, I'm glad you think so.
I love it.

'I'd love to stay for another glass,

'but I've received a rare invitation
to an ancient ceremony.'

'Devon has a landscape
that's full of contrasts.

'From rolling green hills
and picture perfect villages

'to the stark open splendour
of Dartmoor.'

'With its rare native ponies
and granite tors,

'Dartmoor is one of England's
last wildernesses.'

'It's home to some
of the largest concentrations

'of Bronze Age monuments
anywhere in Europe.

'Like here, at Maryvale.'

These are the most
extraordinary stones.

They're sort of standing stones,

some of them seem to have sunk
lower into the ground than others.

It's a great, long,
mysterious avenue,

stretching down there
for just hundreds of metres.

Did this lead
to a great chieftain's kingdom?

Or was it something to do
with worship of some kind?

Nobody knows.

'It's a landscape
that's been inspiring people

'for thousands of years.'

'Belinda Twigs and her grove
of Druids have kindly allowed me

'to witness their celebration
of an ancient Pagan feast.'

We have come from far and wide...

...to celebrate our Sauin together.

Let us take three breaths.

The first,
for the earth beneath our feet.

What is Sauin, tell me?

Sauin is the Celtic ending
of the old year

and the beginning of the new year.
Yeah.

The time when ancient mythology
tells us,

and ancient Druidic rituals tell us,

that the veil is thin
between the living and the dead.

And that that's the time
when we're most likely to be able

to contact deeply and strongly
with our loved ones who've gone on.

'Druidry was the spiritual practice
of ancient Britain

'which survived
until the 7th century,

'when it was replaced
by Christianity.'

'In the 18th century,

'it was revived
when Romantic writers and poets

'celebrated Britain's Celtic past,
reinventing ancient rituals.'

What is Druidry?

What are the beliefs?

It's, in the main, honour
and respect the land, the earth,

the mother where we come from.

And for me,
Druidry is about reconnecting,

remembering,
"Actually, this is the reality."

Whatever feast we share
with our loved ones here,

we will offer in spirit.

The real reality
is the air we breathe,

and the sun in the sky,
the clouds, the water.

And these stones remind me of this,

they're kind of the bones of human
and land interacting together.

I declare this ritual complete.

A blessing on the new year.

Whoo!

APPLAUSE

It was lovely.

I think a lot of people just now
are really lost, you know.

But I think it was such
a wonderfully peaceful ceremony.

It was so full of love
and blessings,

and celebration and kindness.

You know, there wasn't
a single cross word.

LAUGHTER
It was my pleasure.

Thank you so much for allowing us
to be... Thank you for coming.

To watch, to observe and also,
in a way, to be a small part of it.

'Cornwall is defined
by its spectacular coastline,

'its mining history,

'its distinctive language
and literary heritage.

'It's famous for pirates
and smugglers,

'secret caves
and mysterious shipwrecks.'

When I was young,
I loved reading Enid Blyton.

The Sea Of Adventure,
The Ship Of Adventure,

The Island Of Adventure.

And they went to distant shores,

and rocky castles
and remote islands.

Ancl nowhere encapsulates
their adventures more

than here, in Cornwall,
St Michael's Mount.

'Mike Greg is the head boatman
and harbour master.'

You literally ferry people
to and fro like this all day long?

Yeah, there's a fleet of nine.

Continuously,
as soon as the causeway covers,

we operate from one
of three landing stages. Yeah.

'St Michael's Mount
is a tidal island.

'At low tide, you can walk across
to it on a granite causeway.

'But at high tide,
the causeway is submerged

'and the only way
to reach the island is by boat.'

Look at this.

Honestly, you couldn't dream
of a lovelier place to come into.

A little harbour.

I think I'm gonna buy that house.

Think you'd get it for a good price,
today's market.

LAUGHTER
Except when the waves are high,

and they'd come dashing through
the front door. Yep.

No, you can certainly
experience a storm.

'Until the mid 19th century,

'before the expansion
of nearby Penzance,

'this little harbour was part
of a thriving fishing village,

'with its own chapel,
schools and even three pubs.'

Look at that,
you've done that before, Mike.

Once or twice in my day.
LAUGHTER

Many a time in one day.
HE LAUGHS

All right.
Thanks so much. Thank you.

Oh, Mike, this island
is more beautiful

than I could ever have imagined.
It's an incredible place.

There used to be over 200 people
on the island, once upon a time.

As many as that.
Now we're down to 24.

Yeah, so all the green areas...

25. 25.
25. Forgot about our new resident.

'The mount was originally
a Benedictine monastery,

'named in honour of St Michael,
patron saint of fishermen.

'Until the early 15th century,

'it was owned by the monks
of Mont-Saint-Michel,

'its sister island in Normandy,
on the north coast of France.'

'On the cliffs below the castle
lies an extraordinary garden.'

Darren?
Nice to meet you.

Darren, I can't believe this garden,
it is just spectacular.

'Darren Little
is the head gardener.'

Look, it's just growing up.
Terraces, terraces, terraces.

It's kind of part rock garden,
part garden garden.

It is, it is sort of gardening
on the edge, if you like.

This just looks like South Africa.

Yeah, we've got Aloe polyphylla
from the Drakensberg mountains.

We're one of the fewer places...

Is that the round one
with the spirally...?

Yeah, we call it the spiral aloe,
is its common name.

What likes growing here best of all?
Cos this is quite exposed, isn't it?

Everything is kept really low to
the ground for that reason, right.

But if you have a look,
we also grow a lot of succulents.

Succulents are actually grown
in the granite itself

cos granite absorbs the heat
and radiates the heat out.

So it's its own
little microclimate.

Darren, I don't think I've ever
fallen in love with anywhere

quite so quickly.

'The mount's crowning glory
is the castle,

'now the home
of the St Aubyn family.

'It can only be reached on foot,
up an astonishingly steep path.'

'There are no shortcuts,
not even for royal visitors.'

This side feels
much more like a castle.

It's got these great
gun emplacements, and...

buttresses and things.

Wow, in the mist,

this looks like something
from a legend or fairy tale.

Hi, Joanna.
Oh, Duncan. Welcome.

'Duncan, the castle steward,

'is like a charming,
walking guidebook.'

So, what was this?

It was originally built
as the monks' refectory,

so probably one of the oldest parts
of the building.

Look at these windows!

So, we're just moving through
to the Blue Drawing Room.

This is where Queen Victoria and
Queen Elizabeth have been received.

Oh, isn't that beautiful?

And the fire would have been lit,

and they might
have had tea at a table.

Do you think?
I expect so.

HE LAUGHS
Yes.

And look now, a great big courtyard.
That's the north terrace.

Oh, I want to go on
the north terrace. Into the mist.

'The heart of the castle

'is the ancient chapel
dedicated to St Michael.'

Isn't it enchanting?

'At the head of the St Aubyn family
are Lord and Lady St Levan.'

This is old, isn't it?
It is.

This goes back to when?
12th century.

In 1658, my ancestor
bought it for £1,900.

And in your family ever since?
Yeah.

Is this still used as a church?

It is. We have services
at Christmas and Easter

and Sundays, from middle of May
to the end of September.

Do you have christenings here,
and things like that?

F

Very soon?

Exciting!
LAUGHTER

How exciting.

What's this? That's our bells,
rings our bells.

Stop, you don't have bells
that ring do you? We do.

Yeah, do you want to ring them?
Yes!

You just press the switch.

Will the island think
something's happened?

Just press that, I think.

BELLS CHIME

BELLS RING

LAUGHTER

Will you ring the bells
at the wedding?

Oh, yes. Surely, yeah, yeah.
For sure.

Well, I think that was...
LAUGHTER

...fantastically exciting.

LAUGHTER

'From the far west of Cornwall,
I'm travelling east along the coast,

'to a gorgeous Devon bay
famed for its temperate climate

'and a certain je ne sais quoi.

'The English Riviera.'

NEWSREEL:

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'French it may feel,

'but the accommodation Torquay
is famous for

'is quintessentially British.

'The bed and breakfast,

'immortalised in Fawlty Towers
by Basil, Sybil, Polly and Manuel.

'In the heart of modern Torquay

'is the latest incarnation
of the B&B.'

Hello.
Welcome to The 25!

I'm Andy.
This is Julian, and this is Patsy.

Andy, Julian. No, stop it!
LAUGHTER

Absolutely is.
Patsy, meet Patsy.

Little Patsy. Oh, how fantastic.

I bet you're dying.
Come on through.

Come on, Patsy.
Come on, Pats.

Come on, Pats.
Oh, is that me or her?

LAUGHTER

'Andy and Julian have just
six rooms and no other staff,

'so they can control every detail
of their guests' experience.

'Andy designs all the bedrooms.

'And Julian is the chef.

'Their personal touch

'has helped them achieve
an astonishing accolade.'

When you heard for the first time

that you were the first
in the world, how did you hear?

It was a cold, wet wintery day
in January. Yeah?

And we were just having a nightmare.

We'd had a bad day stripping walls,
everything was going wrong.

And then the phone rang and it's,

"Can I speak to the manager,
please?"

And then suddenly,
Andy goes, "Oh, I need to sit down."

LAUGHTER

Some people might think
that going to a B&B

is kind of an old-fashioned way
of doing things.

Do you think
you've changed the perception?

Torquay is famous, of course,
for Basil Fawlty and Fawlty Towers,

but things have moved on
so much since then.

Right, Joanna, just this way.
You're in one of our suites.

Here it is. Look at that,
starry, starry night behind the bed.

Oh, my heavens.
You've got a TV there in the shower.

A TV in the shower?
You'll never get out of the shower.

'Well, unless there's
a greater temptation.'

If I put that back there,
only I will know it's gone.

That is... unbelievable.

SHE LAUGHS

I don't know if you mind
having a naked man...

No, I pretty much love that.
..In your room. Wonderful.

Andy did a spray job on him, and
I put the lamp on his head, so...

Does he have a name?
He's called Manuel, actually.

Oh.
We are in Torquay after all.

'After a blissful night,

'I'm back on the road
and nearing the home straight.

'But first, I'm visiting one
of Britain's oldest communities.'

I sometimes think that actors
are a bit like nomads,

travelling all over the place,
living out of suitcases,

going from job to job,
maybe film locations, theatres.

But at the end of our tour of duty,
we go back home.

But there's one very special group
of people for whom the road is home.

'They're the travelling showmen,

'the families who run funfairs
up and down the country.'

I love it.

This is a place of dreams.

'The Coles are one of the travelling
show families on the south coast,

'part of a historic community
with a unique way of life.'

I just can't tell you,

the thought of coming down
to a travelling showman's yard

and YOURS, Charles Coles.

We're pleased to see you here.
Look at this.

This is where I actually live in
the winter, it's my winter quarters.

That's the storage area
down the bottom.

That's where we store
and maintain the rides.

It's like the backstage
of a theatre. Yes.

You're a showman, aren't you?
Well, that's what we do.

We are a completely
different way of life. Mm.

You know, we are verified showmen,
we're show people.

'Charles and his family are part
of a distinct cultural community.

'They even have their own
professional guild.'

It gets in your blood.

One of my grannies was on the stage.

And she picked up with my grandad,

and then they went
into the fairground business.

Another one of my grannies,
they were scrap metal people,

the same as my great grandad.
Yeah.

And the show started, we'll say,
in the late 18005.

And they decided, "Well, we're gonna
be fairground people."

And how many generations?
Five.

And my daughters are coming
along now to make it six.

Charles, this is the bit that
dazzles me most about the yard,

this fabulous wagon.

It's what I live in.

I've got one daughter
over that side. Yeah.

And my other three daughters
are this side.

Oh, my gosh. And another one here.
Yeah.

That's my mum, actually.
Your mum?

Yeah, we've had to move her
over with us

to keep an eye on her,
cos she's in her late 805.

I shouldn't say that,

I should say that she's maturing
gracefully. She's maturing.

She's maturing gracefully,
that's what I should say.

'Charles's wife
and all four of his daughters

'work with him in the funfair.

'There are roughly 24,000
travelling show people in Britain.'

MUSIC: 'Let's Twist Again'
by Chubby Checker

F

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This is a cheap family day out.

It's quite cool,

I had my 21st birthday party
at the Battersea Park Funfair.

Did you?
SHE LAUGHS

Battersea Park. Yeah. And I was 21,
so I should have known better.

F

We've still got the favourite,
the dodgems.

Would you like to come in and meet
my daughter Taylor? Yes, please.

Hello, Taylor.

Oh, this is the hub
of where it all happens.

She's been working since
she could walk, like me.

See this plate on there?
Look, this one?

That's nearly 200 years old.

That's my original
great, great grandad.

N0?!
That is, yeah.

Come off of one of our very,
very first steam engines. Oh!

And then it was down
to my great grandad.

Yeah.
And that's my dad there.

We've come down to Perspex now,

we can't afford
brass plates any more.

And then me, and now my girls.

You know, we're not
fly-by-night people. No.

We're in for the long haul.
Yeah.

How old are you, Taylor?
24. 24.

Do you think you're gonna
go on with it? I hope so.

I like it, so...
Yeah. How lovely.

Come and meet my wife.

She comes from a travelling family
from Newmarket.

Does she?
Yep.

That's my wife Lorraine.
Oh, Lorraine, it looks so beautiful.

Is that common, that travelling
showmen marry into each other?

Yeah, because it's the circles
we move in.

Thank you so much.

I love it. Would you like to come in
and meet my daughter Lydia?

This is beautiful,
this is called a Sizzler.

Yeah, this is the Sizzler.

Oh, Lydia. This is your baby.

This ride, similar to this,

has been about
since just after the war. Yeah.

Ancl, Lydia, as the future
goes forward, what do you see?

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And if we didn't have you,
there'd be no joy in the world.

That's the truth of it.

Ancl, Lydia, one last question.

May I go on a ride?

Ancl, Lydia, may I go quite slowly?
LYDIA LAUGHS

Ancl, Charles, will you come with me?

Do I have to?
LAUGHTER

This is my ideal speed.

So here we go, then, Joanna.
So, here we go, then.

Move back and hold tight.
I know, lean in and hold tight.

I've always loved fairgrounds.

I'm gonna come
and be a bearded lady for you.

Don't let yourself go,
don't do that.

'West Sussex is home to some
classic English countryside,

'from the windswept
freedom of the downs

'to the splendour
of historic Arundel.

'But just 44 miles from London,
near the busy town of Horsham,

'a different landscape
has taken hold.'

Oh, look at that.

'One that looks more like
the African Savannah

'than our green and pleasant land.'

Hello, pig-wee.

Look at those long snouts
and tall, long legs.

'This is the Knepp Castle Estate -

'until 20 years ago,
a traditional commercial farm.

'Now it's an ambitious experiment
in rewilding,

'where nature has been allowed
to run its course.'

Oh, look at the cattle.

You never see cows under trees.
No.

We only ever see cows
in big, open meadows.

It's gonna be a very hot day,
so they might hang out here all day.

'It's owned by Isabella Tree
and Charlie Burrell.'

When you first started this,
Charlie,

did something immediately,
like nettles or thistles,

rush to the fore?
It was torture because, you know,

we'd been taught to be
neat and tidy in farming.

And by the end of 2009,

we had 10% of the park covered
in creeping thistle. Yeah.

And I was just thinking,

"Well, what are...?
We can't let this happen."

Outraged!
LAUGHTER

That was the first major lesson.
Wasn't it, Izzie?

Yeah. Where we got just...
The hands-off thing,

we've just gotta keep
waiting and waiting.

We'd made this kind of pledge

that nature was gonna be
allowed to do its own thing.

'Charlie and Izzie
started their experiment

'in response to a huge decline
in the UK's biodiversity.

'Since the war,

'97% of our wildflower meadows
has disappeared

'and thousands of miles
of hedgerows have been ripped up.'

'The rewilding project
has helped the Knepp Estate

'become a haven for bird life.

'It now has one of the highest
concentrations of songbirds

'in the south of England,

'including rare nightingales
and turtle cloves.

'But there's a larger bird that's
making a spectacular comeback.'

Oh, I can see one!

Look at that stork.

Oh, look at them all.

CLACKING

That's an amazing bill clattering
they do, it's kind of a display.

It's partly territorial,

and they also communicate
with each other like that.

So they put their beaks back
and they've got this pocket,

which resonates the sound
of the clacking of the beaks.

CLACKING

They used to live here, didn't they?
In England?

The last white storks
to breed in Britain,

that we've got a written record of,
were in 1416.

And so, these successfully
fledged chicks this year here,

for the first time
in over 600 years in Britain.

So, here, where do they nest?

They love it in the tops
of these oak trees.

There were some really big storms
that came through

in January and February.

And we thought, "My God,
those nests will never survive."

And absolutely fine.

This is perfect habitat for them
because it's heaving

with grasshoppers,
with all sorts of insects.

Just can't be happier
seeing these creatures here.

Aren't they fine?

What is this?

Just a little bit of height
in this flat country.

Oh, I love this.
Treehouse, a treehouse.

Could there be anything
more desirable,

probably in the world,
than a tree house?

JOANNA GASPS

Look at this.
What are we looking at?

What you're looking at here
is ex-arable land,

ex-dairy land,
that is now being used

for a different purpose
and a different future.

In my head, I'm seeing corridors
of rewilded areas like this,

snaking through the landscape,

allowing nature
to spread and to move.

Everything you're talking about
is rewilding our brains...

Exactly what it is.
..as much as the land.

Got to suddenly
think differently about things.

We've got to remember
that we are moving,

in terms of climate heating,
five kilometres north a year.

Five kilometres!

So how is life gonna cope
with that move?

You know,
the plants and the insects,

everything has got to be able
to move with it.

So we know that we have
to reconnect our landscapes

just for the survival
of most of our species.

Can you see it,
a proper turnaround, coming?

Do you smell it in the air?

I think it could happen
very, very quickly,

a revolution like this could pick up
speed, and then just go bang.

This is fantastic here.

I love it, it's 44 miles from London
and it feels as though...

you're in the middle of Africa!

I think this is the future.

'My adventure is almost over and
I've returned to where I started.

'London, my home town.'

'When I began my journey
at Tilbury Docks,

'artist EVEWRIGHT showed me
a remarkable collection

'of photographs
of the Windrush generation.

'There was one face in particular
I wanted to find out more about.'

Allan Wilmot.

He was with The Southlanders,
wasn't he? That's right.

Yeah, yeah.
A great band.

Yeah, yeah.
Hugely popular over here.

'After a bit of searching,

'we've managed to track
Allan Wilmot down,

'and I can't resist the opportunity
to meet a musical hero.'

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# Ain't that a shame. #

Adore it, one of my favourites.
Lovely.

MUSIC: 'Ain't That A Shame'
by Fats Domino

'Mr Wilmot arrived in Britain
from Jamaica in December 1947.

'Seven years later,
he formed The Southlanders,

'touring alongside Shirley Bassey
and Tommy Steele.'

MUSIC: 'Earth Angel'
by The Southlanders

Angel

Angel

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How many in the group?
Four.

Four of you?
Four, four of us.

Ancl had you known each other before?

Yes, well, one is my brother.

And Ken, he's the one
that started it all, Ken Hunter.

And he had a friend, Frank.
Yeah.

And that was The Southlanders.
Wow.

'54 to, 74, that's a good run.
Yes, yes. 20 years.

Well, the funny part about it,
it looks like yesterday.

MUSIC: 'Alone'
by The Southlanders

# Why must I be alone?

'In 1941, aged just 16, Allan Wilmot
volunteered to join the Royal Navy,

'serving on a patrol ship
escorting minesweepers

'and picking up survivors
in the West Indies.

'Three years later, he joined
the RAF Air-Sea Rescue team.'

The funny part about it is,
for a good period,

I was a what you call
a suicide crowd, minesweeping.

Gosh.
You can just die like that.

Yeah.
Every day you... Every day,

so I thank God
I lived to see another day.

I've been through that.

You know? But you had
an honourable war record.

I mean, fantastic, Navy and RAF.
Yes.

And then I transferred now
to the RAF Marine section. Yeah.

That is, we're securing
the fliers who...

realised they can't make it
and they head for water, yeah.

And we'd got to go there
and pick them up

before they get froze to death.

We saved... Actually,
I think 17,000 lives we saved.

My gosh.
All different nations.

Gosh.
Yeah.

The country's changed a lot now,
hasn't it?

Since you first arrived here.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

I made up my mind a long time.

I said to myself,
"I've got to make it here." Mm.

You know, I'm not going to let
anything get me down.

You know? For instance, now,
people used to call us names

You... You go in and you hear,
"Hello, darkie!"

So, you say, "Hello, whitey!"
JOANNA LAUGHS

And they can't figure out.

They say,
"He call me whitey, it's not right."

You know? So I got over that.

But there again,
the whole world has changed.

First time, it was
all black versus white.

But now it's mostly white faces
supporting the black faces today.

Yes, thank goodness.
You know?

Thank goodness.
And I hope it goes on.

I am happy that I've lived
to see a change in this country.

Yes. You know, we British,
we are never in a hurry.

HE LAUGHS

We all get there eventually.

Eventually.
We get there.

Oh, gosh, it's been such
a pleasure talking to you.

Thank you so much, Mr Wilmot.
And it's a pleasure to be alive.

It is, isn't it?
HE LAUGHS

So many people said,
"Well, don't worry, Allan.

"You'll be around,
you'll make the 100."

I think you will.
I think you will.

And so far, I've made 95 now.
Oh!

Don't tell nobody.
LAUGHTER

MUSIC: 'Waterloo Sunset'
by The Kinks

# As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset

# I am in paradise

# Sha-la-la

# Every day I look at the world
From my window... #

What an extraordinary journey
this has been.

After a lifetime of travelling
all around the world,

I've discovered that the country

that has surprised
and dazzled me most

is the one I've taken for granted.

Come on!

'I've travelled the length
and breadth of this land.

'And what I've learned, above all,
is that...

'we are a community.
We are a sort of family,

'and our strength lies
in our differences.

'So no matter how far I travel,

'no matter what wonders I see,

'there's one thing
I always remember.'

There's no place like home.

# As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset

# I am in paradise... #

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