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Britain's great outdoors

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Breathtakingly beautiful

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It's just absolutely incredible.

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Dazzling in it's diversity.

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It really is a beautiful part of the world.

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There's no better way

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to explore it then on foot.

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Come Milo

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With a faithful four legged friend.

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Come on!

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(laughs) You don't want to get your paws wet.

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What are the dogs seeing?

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Can we get a dog's eye view.

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Go in the water, go in there.

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Yeah!

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From stunning mountain treks

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Look at that view, it's just extraordinary here.

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To meandering country walks

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Are you enjoying your day in Sussex Billy?

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It's nice isn't it, lovely.

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And rugged cliff top rambles.

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Oh boy look at that.

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Join us and our best canine pals

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as we experience some incredible

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and unique walks with our dogs.

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I find this place surreal but incredibly beautiful.

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This is as near to heaven as I'm likely to be.

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Stella, come on, come on, come on, come on,

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and go, go, go, go, go.

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I'm rediscovering a childhood favorite,

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The Isle of Arran with my Labrador, Stella.

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Stella don't leave the ball in there, bring the ball out.

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Bring it out

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Our walk today is through a landscape of wild beauty.

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A place I visit to wind down and relax.

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If you live life in 5th gear and 6th gear,

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I would say this is about 2nd or 3rd gear

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and that is just perfect.

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Wait for me.

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At the other end of the isles,

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Julian Clary steps lightly through the stunning South Downs.

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Hello boys, try a bit of pasta.

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Here Albert, my Jack Russell and I,

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indulge our taste for unusual food in unusual places.

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Bit like a strange sort of date night, isn't it?

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Don't look so worried.

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And delight in some fruity language at an old queen's house.

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The French name for it is called des chiens

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which translates as dogs bottom.

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But before all that, my fellow comedian, Bill Bailey, is

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getting all nostalgic in one of his favorite wild places.

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There's a timeless beauty about the richly

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patterned landscape of the west of England.

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Come on

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I grew up here so it's a place especially dear to my heart.

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Today it's my dog Louie's chance to see it at it's very best

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and as a pup who didn't have the best start in life

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I'm hoping she'll love it as much as I do.

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Come on

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This is Louie, she's about three years old

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and she's a rescue dog.

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She was abandoned at the side of the road

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in a plastic bag as a puppy in Indonesia.

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She was in a bad way, had all sorts of health problems

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and at one stage we didn't think she's actually make it

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but, you know, three years on she's grown into this

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fantastic little dog but she's pretty feisty,

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she's pretty tough and she loves these country walks.

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Today, Louie and I are on a five mile circular walk

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in Exmoor National Park.

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Exploring just a small part of it's epic 267 square miles.

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We're setting off by a bizarre and ancient monument.

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From there we'll head up into the wilds of Exmoor

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stopping off at the village of Liscombe

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for a well earned treat

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before ending up near where we started.

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I'm really looking forward to this walk today because

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some of my fondest childhood memories

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were spent growing up around here.

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You have these wonderful wooded valleys, meadows

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and not least of all the glories of Exmoor.

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The woods on the first section of our walk

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are typical of Exmoor's natural beauty.

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But it's a man made structure that I've come to see.

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One that has origins clouded by the mist of time.

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As the grandson of a stone mason, I'm pretty impressed.

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Hi you must be Rob.

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Hi Bill, good to me you.

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Good to meet you.

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In fact it's so remarkable, it even excites archeologists

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like Rob Wilson North who's seen plenty of ancient wonders.

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What a stunning place this is.

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It's amazing isn't it.

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Tell me the story of Tarr Steps.

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cuz Tarr means noisy or loud so this is a really

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noisy part of the river body to be in.

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And of course we're here looking at Tarr Steps

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which is this extraordinary, unique really clapper bridge.

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What's a clapper bridge?

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Clapper bridge is the simplest form of bridge,

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you just layer stone across the river

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but in this case we've got a number of stones,

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17 spans and it's about 40 meters long.

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So heavy stones.

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And how old is it?

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We think it was built sometime

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in the 1600's or just before that.

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there was a corn mill just on the side of the river.

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That's great and it's a great theory

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and it fits all the facts but still

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why build a bridge like this

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when you could've built a proper bridge as it were.

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This is a bridge that requires a lot of maintenance.

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It gets washed away regularly and has to be put back

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and even today that is a huge under taking but two, three,

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four hundred years ago it would have been an enormous

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amount of work for most of the population in a tiny village.

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So it's still a mystery I think.

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I know the dog so excited.

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There's a sort of practical pleasure about walking

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up and down on stepping stones across a river.

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That's probably drawn people to it for hundreds of years.

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You're so right, I mean people have really good memories,

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childhood memories often of this place

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for it to be put back because they have such

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a strong sentimental attachment with the place.

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And it does the job you know, I'd live over there, the pubs

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over there and it still does the job, I can get there.

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Thanks Rob.

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It's a pleasure, good to meet you.

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Thanks so much.

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Thankfully today's walk is a circular one

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so we will end up at that pub.

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Way up north Kirsty Wark is swapping the

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intrigues of Westminster for a far simpler place.

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If there's one location,

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one highland or island that captures Scotland

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and all it's glory, I think it has to be Arran.

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It's just two hours away from my home in Glasgow

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but a world away from the pace of city life.

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I've loved Arran since my parents brought me here as a child

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and now I have a chance to share it with

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the newest member of our family.

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I brought Stella with me, 20 months old, small,

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reasonably well behaved Labrador but loves a good walk

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so we're off to start our adventures on the island

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and we've got a lot of walking to do.

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Come on

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We're tackling a seven mile walk

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based on a section of the Arran coastal way.

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Starting at Brodick Bay going up to more than 500 feet

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above sea level for spectacular views

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before finishing in the village of Lamlash.

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We will be venturing into the wilds

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but first at the manicured magnificence of Brodick Castle.

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In the 19th century the Hamilton family transformed a

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fortress into this, one of Scotland's most beautiful houses.

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We're wondering through the wonderful gardens laid out

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by the Duchess of Montrose a century ago and now pristinely

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maintained by the National Trust for Scotland.

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A walk here is enthralling partly thanks to Sarah Earny

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who revels in the title of First Gardener.

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Sarah, I absolutely love these gardens

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because they're always beautiful

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and there's always things I know absolutely nothing about.

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It's very mild, we get very few frosts

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and quite high rainfall.

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We get about 1900 mm of rain

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In the early 1900s the doctors sponsored

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expeditions across the empire and beyond

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to collect new specimens of flora

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turning a Caledonian corner into a global garden.

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They brought back seeds and plants

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from the Himalaya, China, India, Nepal.

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There's Echium Candicans in the royal garden with tons of

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big blue flower spikes that's from the Canary Islands.

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I'm going somewhere to see the palm trees they go

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don't be ridiculous and yet there's palms everywhere.

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There are in fact if you talk to the gardeners

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they find them a bit of a pain because they drop their

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leaves everywhere, you spend a lot time picking them up.

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Thank you very much, it was lovely to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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The castle and it's gardens

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are a stunning start to our walk.

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The passion the duchess showed for her plants shines on

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through the generations and the result is something truly

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amazing for us all to enjoy from aristocrat to commoner.

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And it's clear she didn't just love her garden,

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she's got a headstone for remembrance

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many good friends, May, Quito, Patsy, Sammy,

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Tramp, Meg all much loved dogs.

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Come on Stella.

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So far Stella's had to stay on her lead

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We're headed for the beach next,

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a place where I used to run free as a child

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and where Stella will have the chance to do the same.

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Oh this is lovely.

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Next, Julian Clary and his dog Albert

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get familiar with an old queen in the South Downs.

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To cut to the chase, on the wedding night

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he wasn't pleased.

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And Bill Bailey's walk takes him to meet

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Exmoor's most famous four legged friends.

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Here we have it, it's more ponies.

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It's more ponies.

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We're roaming Britain's coast

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and country side with our canine companions.

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While I revisit my childhood with my Labrador,

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Stella, on Arron

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[Bill] Louie and I are returning

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to my west country roots on Exmoor

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and Julian Clary is adding color

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to Britain's newest national park.

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I've come to have a poke around somewhere

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delightful, the quintessentially English, South Downs.

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It's a wonderful place for a mince and a cheery chat.

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And sure fire way to get tongues and tails wagging

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is to bring a dog.

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This is Albert who I took home

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from the poor low grady tea times chair on the understanding

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that he was a Jack Russell.

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Yet there's something gone over the fence,

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there's a bit of stuffy involved here but as far as

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I'm concerned he's a thoroughbred Jack Russell

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and I won't hear anything else.

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We're starting our walk at the historic town of Lewes

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before a wander across the lush rolling heals

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of the national park ending up with a restorative stiff one

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at England's answer to ebony.

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As a chap named after a monk of my mother's acquaintance

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a stroll through Lewes' magnificent priory

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which has been ruined since the 16th century is a must.

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Albert come here.

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But there's no time to linger

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because just ahead on my route

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there's an ancient home that was once fit for a queen.

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This is Ann of Cleves house.

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Ann was the fourth of Henry VIII six wives

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and she was one of the lucky ones, she kept her head.

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Hello

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You must be Martin

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Yes

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I'm hoping Martin Pet can fill me in.

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You're the visitors services assistant.

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That is my official job title.

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I'm a visitor and I would like you to service me.

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Alright, okay I can do that.

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The questions we normally get when

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people come into the house is what number was she,

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well she number four and was she the ugly one

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She was

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That sounds a bit, that's opinion

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She was big boned.

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Yes

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Apparently he agreed to marry her

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just from seeing the painting.

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That's right

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On the wedding night, he wasn't pleased.

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On that night he said well

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I'd like to not to start with her, I like her even less now

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Oh really

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So this wasn't a marriage made in heaven.

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No, no but by this time he's

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got his eyes on Catherine Howard so

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It's best to move on isn't it

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So they got divorced

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Yes and this house was one of nine manors

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in Sussex that she got as part of the divorce settlement.

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She did very well.

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And it's great that it survived all this time.

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The house is really rather gorgeous.

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But if we're being honest,

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it's a bit of a come down from a palace.

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And although the gardens are exquisite,

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there's something risque lurking amidst the shrubbery.

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Something that's particularly interest

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is this tree here which is a Medlar Tree.

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It's a fruit that was popular in Tudor times.

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The French name for it is called des chiens which translates

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as dogs bottom the English name for it is openarse.

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You're emersed in the whole Tudor world

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aren't you

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Yeah, absolutely

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Well they didn't have fleeces in those days.

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No no they didn't

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Keeps the chill out

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It does and you need that here in the winter

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it ges a big cold

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Well I've been absolutely gripped, Martin,

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thank you, you can have your bottom back.

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It's nice to meet you

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And you

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Come on

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Bye Albert

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There's plenty of titillation still to come

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over the next four miles as Albert and I head

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into the glorious Sussex country side.

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But first on Arran, Kirsty and Stella

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are on the next leg of their island expedition.

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We're leaving the Brodick estate

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and putting our best foot and best paw forward

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as we stroll to the sea a mile into our walk.

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I'm very used to seeing Arran from my perspective

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but I'd quite like to see it from Stella's perspective.

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So this is your turn Stella, ladies and gentlemen

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presenting Stella vision, here we go,

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let's go come on Stella let's go to the beach,

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come on, come on

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Time to have some fun and all with a dog's eye view

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thanks to the camera on Stella's back.

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Stella, come on, come on, come on, come on,

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and go, go, go, go, go

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For Stella this is a new experience

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and she certainly seems to like it.

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Stella don't leave the ball in there,

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bring the ball out, bring it out.

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But I first came here with my parents when I was just two.

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I have very very happy memories of being

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on this beach in all weathers.

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I've been on this beach with raincoats and wellingtons on

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but I've been in this beach swimming

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so it's just a very very special place for me

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and look a friendly oystercatcher

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look Stella friendly oystercatcher

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no your not interested.

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You don't need to have a dog to enjoy this beautiful spot

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but it's a great excuse to come down here.

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Oh hello, your lovely.

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Looks like Stella has a new friend, meet Layla.

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Great beach walk isn't it.

377
00:18:40,831 --> 00:18:42,467
Fantastic, we're down here all the time.

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Are you?

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Yeah and I love it here,

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absolutely love it we stay here and let him frolic.

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If I throw this and they both go for it,

382
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is that a problem?

383
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Let's see what happens, she's bossy.

384
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Well let's see what happens.

385
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Oh Stella,

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Is she still a working Collie?

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No, she doesn't like sheep

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She doesn't like sheep

389
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No, doesn't like them, not at all.

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Come on it was straight to you, got it

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Come on Layla.

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(music)

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I think why I love Arran so much

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apart from the landscape and the weather is because

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when you get off that boat you've dropped about two gears.

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If you live life in 5th gear and 6th gear, I would say this

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is about 2nd or 3rd gear and that is just perfect.

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Let's go, let's go, let's get the ball,

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let's get the ball, let's go come on.

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(music)

401
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Good girl!

402
00:20:02,821 --> 00:20:04,938
In Somerset, Louie and I are winding our way

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through the ancient woodland of the Barle Valley.

404
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It's beautiful and full of wildlife.

405
00:20:12,232 --> 00:20:14,232
Oh there's a Dipper, huh

406
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You can see his little white breast singing away.

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This is perfect Dipper country,

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this fast flowing shallow rivers

409
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That's what I love about the countryside,

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never lets you down.

411
00:20:42,728 --> 00:20:46,410
Just walking up this path, I'm just struck by this woodland.

412
00:20:46,410 --> 00:20:49,078
It's so beautiful, so peaceful.

413
00:20:49,078 --> 00:20:52,373
Exmoor, it's such an old part of Britain.

414
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I mean it's ancient and when you walk these paths

415
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paths that so many other people have walked

416
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throughout the centuries, I don't know,

417
00:21:01,464 --> 00:21:05,797
you get a real since of being connected to the past.

418
00:21:10,176 --> 00:21:12,688
As a west country lad, I love the transformation here

419
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:16,855
from calming woodland to a wild exposed landscape.

420
00:21:18,951 --> 00:21:21,926
Because it's such a huge area and it's pretty much untamed,

421
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Exmoor is a fantastic haven for wildlife.

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With everything from red deer,

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which is the largest of the native species,

424
00:21:29,528 --> 00:21:33,242
to all kinds of rare plants and butterflies

425
00:21:33,242 --> 00:21:35,887
but I'm on the trail of one particular animal

426
00:21:35,887 --> 00:21:40,054
you can only find here and that's the Exmoor pony.

427
00:21:48,862 --> 00:21:52,907
These ponies are much loved feature of Exmoor.

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But they might be extinct if it weren't for the efforts of

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00:21:55,242 --> 00:22:00,242
the Exmoor Pony Society that's people like Dr. Sue McGeever.

430
00:22:02,511 --> 00:22:03,671
And so we don't spook the horses,

431
00:22:03,671 --> 00:22:07,169
Louie's staying firmly on her lead.

432
00:22:07,169 --> 00:22:09,119
They're like an icon of Exmoor.

433
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:09,952
They are

434
00:22:09,952 --> 00:22:12,140
I imagine it's one of the big draws

435
00:22:12,140 --> 00:22:13,945
for people coming here.

436
00:22:13,945 --> 00:22:14,810
Oh it is yeah

437
00:22:14,810 --> 00:22:15,884
Is to come and see these

438
00:22:15,884 --> 00:22:17,292
Is to come and see the ponies,

439
00:22:17,292 --> 00:22:19,176
I mean they're absolutely fantastic.

440
00:22:19,176 --> 00:22:21,964
Are they endangered at all?

441
00:22:21,964 --> 00:22:23,016
The numbers went down

442
00:22:23,016 --> 00:22:25,853
to about 50 at the end of the second world war,

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there's now about 600 on Exmoor itself.

444
00:22:30,313 --> 00:22:32,291
So some quite good numbers really.

445
00:22:32,291 --> 00:22:33,396
They've quite good numbers now

446
00:22:33,396 --> 00:22:36,866
but obviously because we went down to such a small number

447
00:22:36,866 --> 00:22:39,960
it's very important that farmers keep breeding

448
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,928
and they breed from different blood lines all the time.

449
00:22:43,928 --> 00:22:45,411
Because they'd be vulnerable to disease

450
00:22:45,411 --> 00:22:49,761
Yeah vulnerable to disease.

451
00:22:49,761 --> 00:22:53,090
I love the fact that there's still space in Britain

452
00:22:53,090 --> 00:22:55,391
which is so overcrowded really,

453
00:22:55,391 --> 00:22:57,457
you know, we have a large population,

454
00:22:57,457 --> 00:23:00,131
there's dwindling amounts of wild spaces, the fact that we

455
00:23:00,131 --> 00:23:03,563
do still have this wild space and wild ponies is wonderful

456
00:23:03,563 --> 00:23:05,583
It's terrific.

457
00:23:05,583 --> 00:23:07,746
Thank you, thanks very much.

458
00:23:07,746 --> 00:23:10,354
Good to meet you, cheers.

459
00:23:10,354 --> 00:23:11,187
Thanks

460
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There's lots more to come as Louie and I

461
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continue a journey in which you never know

462
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what splendors lay around the corner.

463
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And then you come over a rise and suddenly you see this.

464
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Spectacular isn't it.

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And Kirsty enjoys the high life

466
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and Arran's most sensational views.

467
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Wait for me

468
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While I meet two men for a forage in the long grass.

469
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Gonna kinda try a bit, see what you think.

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Quite tough, oh

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The apple peel taste you get from it.

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(music)

473
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I'm walking with my 20 month old Labrador,

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Stella in a place that never fails to sooth me

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the glorious Isle of Arran.

476
00:24:09,258 --> 00:24:12,232
While Bill Bailey is revisiting his old stomping ground,

477
00:24:12,232 --> 00:24:14,649
Exmoor with rescue dog Louie.

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And Albert and I are rambling in the

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chalk hills of the South Downs National Park.

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Good boy

481
00:24:31,982 --> 00:24:33,772
I've had Albert for seven years.

482
00:24:33,772 --> 00:24:35,860
He is a lovely dog, he's a very laid back dog

483
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and very bright and very good company.

484
00:24:39,450 --> 00:24:44,450
And very happy to do whatever I want to do, aren't you.

485
00:24:44,709 --> 00:24:46,617
We put up with each other.

486
00:24:46,617 --> 00:24:49,403
There, are you meditating.

487
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(music)

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00:24:53,372 --> 00:24:55,073
The South Downs National Park is

489
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Britain's newest dating from 2011.

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This is fertile farming country

491
00:25:01,445 --> 00:25:04,408
and along with golden fields of ripening corn,

492
00:25:04,408 --> 00:25:08,729
the meadows and hedge rows have a felicitous fecundity too

493
00:25:08,729 --> 00:25:11,007
as Steven Fry would put it.

494
00:25:11,007 --> 00:25:12,298
Wait for me

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Three miles into our walk I have a rendezvous

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00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:19,484
with two men promising an oral treat and all for free.

497
00:25:19,484 --> 00:25:22,321
Hello boys, hello must be a couple of foragers.

498
00:25:22,321 --> 00:25:24,029
It's a lovely field but I can't believe

499
00:25:24,029 --> 00:25:25,504
there's anything to eat here.

500
00:25:25,504 --> 00:25:27,438
My new chums are wild food experts,

501
00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:30,642
Eric Begain and Marlow Renton

502
00:25:30,642 --> 00:25:33,593
and hopefully Albert will learn how to sniff out a few

503
00:25:33,593 --> 00:25:36,499
hidden gems from Marlow's collie, Alfie.

504
00:25:36,499 --> 00:25:37,332
There's plenty of lovely

505
00:25:37,332 --> 00:25:39,142
tasty things around here.

506
00:25:39,142 --> 00:25:40,955
Surprise me then.

507
00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:42,315
Start you off with a salad leaf.

508
00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:45,856
It's a really common plant, it's just common sorrow.

509
00:25:45,856 --> 00:25:47,671
It's got a very sharp taste to it

510
00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:51,257
so gonna kinda try a bit, see what you think.

511
00:25:51,257 --> 00:25:53,240
Quite tough, oh

512
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,682
Apple peel taste you get from it.

513
00:25:56,682 --> 00:25:58,045
How'd you get into all this,

514
00:25:58,045 --> 00:26:00,693
are you a sort of pagan naturist type?

515
00:26:00,693 --> 00:26:01,877
Not at all, no,

516
00:26:01,877 --> 00:26:04,048
my grandparents were very into foraging,

517
00:26:04,048 --> 00:26:05,722
it's just something I picked up

518
00:26:05,722 --> 00:26:07,189
from going for walks with my grandad.

519
00:26:07,189 --> 00:26:08,022
I see

520
00:26:08,022 --> 00:26:09,716
Some of it is really really tasty you know.

521
00:26:09,716 --> 00:26:11,778
We don't go foraging to survive.

522
00:26:11,778 --> 00:26:13,198
That's not what we do, we're foodie foragers.

523
00:26:13,198 --> 00:26:15,778
We like picking plants that taste good.

524
00:26:15,778 --> 00:26:17,937
So what else do we have?

525
00:26:17,937 --> 00:26:19,736
We've got this lovely little flower here.

526
00:26:19,736 --> 00:26:20,820
You might recognize it.

527
00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:22,736
I have it growing on my lawn at home.

528
00:26:22,736 --> 00:26:25,450
Well most people do because it's a clover flower.

529
00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:26,283
Yes

530
00:26:26,283 --> 00:26:28,042
Right, now this is a pink clover flower

531
00:26:28,042 --> 00:26:31,378
and what foraging is, you know, it's knowing when the plants

532
00:26:31,378 --> 00:26:33,804
are tasty and which ones are tasty.

533
00:26:33,804 --> 00:26:35,015
That ones nice

534
00:26:35,015 --> 00:26:36,661
Yeah they do actually,

535
00:26:36,661 --> 00:26:38,025
some of them are sweeter than others

536
00:26:38,025 --> 00:26:39,725
because you've got to get to them before the bees do.

537
00:26:39,725 --> 00:26:41,326
The sweetness comes from the nectar

538
00:26:41,326 --> 00:26:42,625
at the bottom of the flower

539
00:26:42,625 --> 00:26:45,517
and if a bee gets there first he takes all the sweetness.

540
00:26:45,517 --> 00:26:48,622
Well I'm still peckish what else can we eat?

541
00:26:48,622 --> 00:26:49,980
Still a little bit further down

542
00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:52,424
is a mushroom that I'd really like to tell you about,

543
00:26:52,424 --> 00:26:54,090
If you like mushroom
<v Julian>Now we're talking.

544
00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:54,990
Have you seen the mushroom?

545
00:26:54,990 --> 00:26:55,859
I have, yeah.

546
00:26:55,859 --> 00:26:57,179
Have you seen his mushroom?

547
00:26:57,179 --> 00:26:58,114
(laughs)

548
00:26:58,114 --> 00:27:01,281
That'd be telling I'm afraid.

549
00:27:03,677 --> 00:27:08,427
Of course munching on a mushroom can be fatal.

550
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:11,349
So I'd hope the boys were paying attention

551
00:27:11,349 --> 00:27:14,349
when they prepared our midday snack.

552
00:27:18,472 --> 00:27:22,262
Oh isn't this lovely and where do we start.

553
00:27:22,262 --> 00:27:26,067
Well I think most meals start with a good drink

554
00:27:26,067 --> 00:27:26,900
so shall we start there?

555
00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:27,733
Okay

556
00:27:27,733 --> 00:27:28,987
And with a flower champagne.

557
00:27:28,987 --> 00:27:30,350
Oh I say you spoil me.

558
00:27:30,350 --> 00:27:33,479
It's a bit like a strange sort of date night isn't it?

559
00:27:33,479 --> 00:27:34,312
(laughs)

560
00:27:34,312 --> 00:27:36,253
I wasn't planning on a date night tonight,

561
00:27:36,253 --> 00:27:37,589
Julian, I've got to say.

562
00:27:37,589 --> 00:27:41,339
Couple of glasses of this, cheers.

563
00:27:42,230 --> 00:27:45,156
I've had a nice time foraging with you two.

564
00:27:45,156 --> 00:27:48,563
You never know what the day's going to throw up do you?

565
00:27:48,563 --> 00:27:50,723
You don't, no.

566
00:27:50,723 --> 00:27:52,990
So, I'm quite peckish.

567
00:27:52,990 --> 00:27:55,361
Well the main course, Eric's prepared.

568
00:27:55,361 --> 00:27:57,947
It's wild mushrooms, these lovely

569
00:27:57,947 --> 00:28:00,108
chanterelle wild mushrooms.

570
00:28:00,108 --> 00:28:01,254
Chanterelle

571
00:28:01,254 --> 00:28:02,629
All that's actually in here is chanterelles,

572
00:28:02,629 --> 00:28:06,645
butter, tad of olive oil and then pasta thrown through it.

573
00:28:06,645 --> 00:28:08,222
It's the simple life, isn't it.

574
00:28:08,222 --> 00:28:09,144
It is yeah.

575
00:28:09,144 --> 00:28:10,866
They're one of our favorite mushrooms

576
00:28:10,866 --> 00:28:13,451
and it's just coming into they're season right now.

577
00:28:13,451 --> 00:28:15,044
Albert try a bit of pasta.

578
00:28:15,044 --> 00:28:15,946
Marlow

579
00:28:15,946 --> 00:28:18,529
Thank you very much.

580
00:28:21,248 --> 00:28:24,067
Well do know, I think I'm going to go foraging

581
00:28:24,067 --> 00:28:26,174
from now and I'm going to see what I can find

582
00:28:26,174 --> 00:28:27,256
in my back garden.

583
00:28:27,256 --> 00:28:29,131
It's best place to start.

584
00:28:29,131 --> 00:28:31,277
Or if I can't find anything out in the back,

585
00:28:31,277 --> 00:28:34,002
I'll come and stay here with you two.

586
00:28:34,002 --> 00:28:35,564
You'd be welcome.

587
00:28:35,564 --> 00:28:36,487
Don't look so worried.

588
00:28:36,487 --> 00:28:38,570
(laughs)

589
00:28:42,271 --> 00:28:44,271
(music)

590
00:28:51,296 --> 00:28:53,209
One thing about having a 20 month old pup

591
00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:55,959
is that they have lots of energy.

592
00:28:57,145 --> 00:28:59,705
And Stella will need it on this, the next section of our

593
00:28:59,705 --> 00:29:02,474
hike on the beautiful Island of Arran.

594
00:29:02,474 --> 00:29:04,724
Oh Stella, come on darling.

595
00:29:07,940 --> 00:29:09,761
We are now three miles into our walk

596
00:29:09,761 --> 00:29:11,331
and have left the seashore behind

597
00:29:11,331 --> 00:29:14,053
and are climbing Dontheon, a steep hill

598
00:29:14,053 --> 00:29:17,555
with some major views across the north Arran hills

599
00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:21,555
some of which are known as the sleeping warrior.

600
00:29:26,910 --> 00:29:29,219
That was quite a climb

601
00:29:29,219 --> 00:29:31,558
but it was worth it.

602
00:29:31,558 --> 00:29:33,088
Goatfell looks fantastic and beyond Goatfell

603
00:29:33,088 --> 00:29:36,983
you can see the sleeping warrior with it's mouth wide open.

604
00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:39,178
And the bend looks so perfect

605
00:29:39,178 --> 00:29:41,428
but there's better to come.

606
00:29:42,727 --> 00:29:44,727
(music)

607
00:29:52,241 --> 00:29:53,158
Good Stella

608
00:29:57,166 --> 00:29:57,999
Good girl

609
00:30:03,277 --> 00:30:06,702
This is a good work out for me, there we go.

610
00:30:06,702 --> 00:30:08,851
Look we're the trig, come on.

611
00:30:08,851 --> 00:30:12,268
We're there Stella, come on, we're there.

612
00:30:19,795 --> 00:30:21,437
We're over 500 feet up and it's hard

613
00:30:21,437 --> 00:30:24,437
not to feel on the top of the world.

614
00:30:32,366 --> 00:30:33,457
All the way up there,

615
00:30:33,457 --> 00:30:36,915
I can just see in the distance Ben Lomond

616
00:30:36,915 --> 00:30:39,302
and all the way down there I can see the Galloway hills.

617
00:30:39,302 --> 00:30:42,955
Just the faintest outline of the Galloway hills.

618
00:30:42,955 --> 00:30:45,788
And sitting right here, Holy Isle.

619
00:30:46,951 --> 00:30:49,378
Isn't that just fantastic it just kinda

620
00:30:49,378 --> 00:30:51,616
comes right up out of the water.

621
00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:52,699
It's magical.

622
00:30:58,567 --> 00:31:01,650
Arran feels like it's part of my DNA.

623
00:31:04,506 --> 00:31:07,006
This is a breath taking place.

624
00:31:08,315 --> 00:31:10,645
You can see why iron age inhabitants of Arran

625
00:31:10,645 --> 00:31:12,728
built a hill for it here.

626
00:31:15,518 --> 00:31:17,518
(music)

627
00:31:20,062 --> 00:31:21,907
But our next stop recalls a tale

628
00:31:21,907 --> 00:31:25,074
from the island's more recent history.

629
00:31:34,837 --> 00:31:36,837
(music)

630
00:31:41,145 --> 00:31:43,703
Together with my dog Louie, I'm turning back time

631
00:31:43,703 --> 00:31:47,286
in the magnificent National Park of Exmoor.

632
00:31:50,972 --> 00:31:53,337
So far we've walked two and half miles on a route that

633
00:31:53,337 --> 00:31:57,837
includes some of the west country's finest landscapes.

634
00:31:59,362 --> 00:32:02,364
Another one of the great things about Exmoor is

635
00:32:02,364 --> 00:32:06,531
the surprise that the terrain sometimes throws up.

636
00:32:08,163 --> 00:32:12,830
And then you come over a rise and suddenly you see this.

637
00:32:13,913 --> 00:32:16,267
Spectacular isn't it.

638
00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,267
(music)

639
00:32:21,217 --> 00:32:22,964
This is the Devil's Punch Bowl

640
00:32:22,964 --> 00:32:25,084
and so called because of the legend

641
00:32:25,084 --> 00:32:28,741
that the devil was thirsty, needed a drink of water and he

642
00:32:28,741 --> 00:32:33,574
scooped out a well and chunked the soil over his shoulder.

643
00:32:37,237 --> 00:32:39,432
I don't know why it ended up being called the punch bowl

644
00:32:39,432 --> 00:32:43,824
it seems like the devil was quite middle class.

645
00:32:43,824 --> 00:32:47,077
But to me this looks more like the effects

646
00:32:47,077 --> 00:32:50,393
of glaciation from the ice age.

647
00:32:50,393 --> 00:32:54,202
And if my geography teacher is watching,

648
00:32:54,202 --> 00:32:55,869
yes I was listening.

649
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,400
(music)

650
00:33:03,736 --> 00:33:04,926
For a west country lad like me,

651
00:33:04,926 --> 00:33:07,593
this is a journey into the past.

652
00:33:10,016 --> 00:33:12,668
And now we're heading off the moor towards Lipscomb

653
00:33:12,668 --> 00:33:14,314
and a chance to sample something

654
00:33:14,314 --> 00:33:17,154
that smacks of hot summers and childhood.

655
00:33:17,154 --> 00:33:19,154
(music)

656
00:33:22,424 --> 00:33:23,824
Fed up with plummeting milk prices,

657
00:33:23,824 --> 00:33:27,683
farmer's wife, Zoe Rose, has diversified the couples dairy

658
00:33:27,683 --> 00:33:32,133
heard to become the queen of ice cream round here.

659
00:33:32,133 --> 00:33:34,902
But this is not your average sugar rush parlor.

660
00:33:34,902 --> 00:33:36,819
Come on Louie, come on.

661
00:33:38,143 --> 00:33:39,338
Ah, hello, you must be Zoe.

662
00:33:39,338 --> 00:33:40,367
Hello I am.

663
00:33:40,367 --> 00:33:41,200
Hello, Bill

664
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,033
Hi Bill

665
00:33:42,033 --> 00:33:42,866
Nice to meet you

666
00:33:42,866 --> 00:33:43,699
And you

667
00:33:43,699 --> 00:33:44,532
So I was slightly distracted

668
00:33:44,532 --> 00:33:46,627
you know there's a cow through that window.

669
00:33:46,627 --> 00:33:49,404
There is (laughs) right there.

670
00:33:49,404 --> 00:33:51,284
And it looks like it's being milked

671
00:33:51,284 --> 00:33:53,986
by some extraordinary contraption.

672
00:33:53,986 --> 00:33:56,491
By the robot, 24 hours a day it's on.

673
00:33:56,491 --> 00:33:58,650
The cows come and go as they please.

674
00:33:58,650 --> 00:34:00,822
If there's a problem, the robot phones the house

675
00:34:00,822 --> 00:34:01,772
and tells us.

676
00:34:01,772 --> 00:34:02,613
Wow

677
00:34:02,613 --> 00:34:03,729
So we just go in and sort it out.

678
00:34:03,729 --> 00:34:04,562
Pretty high tech operation.

679
00:34:04,562 --> 00:34:06,990
It's a long way from a milking stall.

680
00:34:06,990 --> 00:34:09,236
Yeah (laughs)

681
00:34:09,236 --> 00:34:10,069
That's brilliant.

682
00:34:10,069 --> 00:34:10,930
Straight cow to cone.

683
00:34:10,930 --> 00:34:12,680
Cow to cone.

684
00:34:14,132 --> 00:34:14,965
While Zoe's husband, Oliver,

685
00:34:14,965 --> 00:34:16,869
looks after their 70 brown Swiss

686
00:34:16,869 --> 00:34:20,733
and three Holstein cows, she's responsible for dreaming up

687
00:34:20,733 --> 00:34:25,150
over 30 flavors made to a traditional Italian recipe.

688
00:34:28,315 --> 00:34:30,415
Salted caramel, I think.

689
00:34:30,415 --> 00:34:32,415
(music)

690
00:34:35,106 --> 00:34:37,601
That's wonderful, thank you very much.

691
00:34:37,601 --> 00:34:38,434
Enjoy

692
00:34:38,434 --> 00:34:39,267
Thank you so much, cheers.

693
00:34:39,267 --> 00:34:40,100
Thank you

694
00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:40,933
Nice to meet you, bye.

695
00:34:40,933 --> 00:34:41,850
Bye

696
00:34:44,251 --> 00:34:47,217
This is going down great.

697
00:34:47,217 --> 00:34:49,505
Now Louie, I would share it with you

698
00:34:49,505 --> 00:34:52,869
but unfortunately it's no good for dogs,

699
00:34:52,869 --> 00:34:54,952
I'm sorry so more for me.

700
00:34:58,045 --> 00:34:58,878
Hey come on

701
00:34:58,878 --> 00:35:00,257
But as we continue our walk,

702
00:35:00,257 --> 00:35:03,007
Louise gets her own bait, oh God.

703
00:35:05,936 --> 00:35:07,174
Meanwhile, Kirsty recounts a

704
00:35:07,174 --> 00:35:10,617
little known story from World War II.

705
00:35:10,617 --> 00:35:11,450
I wanted to ask you

706
00:35:11,450 --> 00:35:15,754
what it was like that night the plane came down.

707
00:35:15,754 --> 00:35:17,638
And in a sumptuous Sussex vineyard,

708
00:35:17,638 --> 00:35:21,388
Julian's dog Albert gets a hostile reception.

709
00:35:23,203 --> 00:35:25,703
(cat hissing)

710
00:35:33,061 --> 00:35:34,281
Stella and I are on the

711
00:35:34,281 --> 00:35:36,698
final leg of our island tour.

712
00:35:37,621 --> 00:35:39,898
Come on, go, go, go, go

713
00:35:39,898 --> 00:35:42,077
We're headed towards the cemetery in Lamlash

714
00:35:42,077 --> 00:35:45,327
for something of a personal pilgrimage.

715
00:35:46,265 --> 00:35:47,699
Arran is so close to my heart,

716
00:35:47,699 --> 00:35:49,436
I wrote a novel set on the island

717
00:35:49,436 --> 00:35:53,769
and in it I retell a tragic story from World War II.

718
00:35:57,789 --> 00:36:02,361
In August 1941, a plane carrying 22 allied airmen

719
00:36:02,361 --> 00:36:06,194
crashed into the Arran hills, no one survived.

720
00:36:14,030 --> 00:36:17,020
These war graves are now the only tangible evidence of the

721
00:36:17,020 --> 00:36:22,020
crash but for one man memories of the disaster remain vivid.

722
00:36:22,622 --> 00:36:23,837
Dr. Buchanan hello.

723
00:36:23,837 --> 00:36:25,139
Hello

724
00:36:25,139 --> 00:36:25,972
Hello there.

725
00:36:25,972 --> 00:36:30,740
Now 92, Dr. Robert Buchanan was just a teenager at the time.

726
00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:33,700
I wanted to ask you, what it was like that night

727
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:35,758
the plane came down, what happened?

728
00:36:35,758 --> 00:36:38,815
It was complete shambles.

729
00:36:38,815 --> 00:36:41,565
It was engines lying, guns lying,

730
00:36:43,297 --> 00:36:45,130
the oxygen masks lying

731
00:36:46,829 --> 00:36:49,246
all sorts of bits and pieces.

732
00:36:55,083 --> 00:36:59,707
I was actually very sad because when it the hill

733
00:36:59,707 --> 00:37:03,163
if it'd just been 20-30 feet higher

734
00:37:03,163 --> 00:37:06,080
it would've managed to get over it.

735
00:37:09,057 --> 00:37:10,081
Dr. Buchanan do you come here

736
00:37:10,081 --> 00:37:11,904
to look at these graves sometimes?

737
00:37:11,904 --> 00:37:13,257
Yes

738
00:37:13,257 --> 00:37:15,077
Does it mean quite a lot to you.

739
00:37:15,077 --> 00:37:17,476
Well I'm very sorry that it is proof

740
00:37:17,476 --> 00:37:20,226
that our allies tried to help us.

741
00:37:23,469 --> 00:37:25,609
All those captain's radio officers

742
00:37:25,609 --> 00:37:26,548
Yep

743
00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:28,215
Very sad.

744
00:37:29,679 --> 00:37:31,938
Well thank you very much for telling us about it.

745
00:37:31,938 --> 00:37:32,786
Not at all

746
00:37:32,786 --> 00:37:34,444
Very nice to meet you.

747
00:37:34,444 --> 00:37:36,527
I'll get away with my dog

748
00:37:37,377 --> 00:37:38,250
Well I'll get away with my dog

749
00:37:38,250 --> 00:37:40,529
but I don't think she's interested in going.

750
00:37:40,529 --> 00:37:42,534
She's going to have get in a long walk today.

751
00:37:42,534 --> 00:37:44,030
We've covered a lot of territory

752
00:37:44,030 --> 00:37:46,816
and it looks like I've worn Stella out.

753
00:37:46,816 --> 00:37:48,149
Come on let's go

754
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,520
(music)

755
00:37:57,656 --> 00:38:01,564
Our final port of call is Lamlash itself.

756
00:38:01,564 --> 00:38:02,922
With it's stunning location,

757
00:38:02,922 --> 00:38:07,422
the village is the perfect end to our seven mile trek.

758
00:38:12,430 --> 00:38:16,696
It's beautiful but there are echos of past hardships here.

759
00:38:16,696 --> 00:38:19,373
This is where crofters expelled and the clearances made

760
00:38:19,373 --> 00:38:23,206
their heartbreaking departure from the island.

761
00:38:25,741 --> 00:38:27,801
So here we are in the pier in Lamlash

762
00:38:27,801 --> 00:38:32,438
from this very pier, generations of scotts immigrated

763
00:38:32,438 --> 00:38:35,938
to Canada, to Australia, to South America.

764
00:38:37,658 --> 00:38:40,133
So this is a place which has had amazing different lives

765
00:38:40,133 --> 00:38:44,350
century by century but for me I've always come here

766
00:38:44,350 --> 00:38:46,885
when I just wanted a bit of peace and quite

767
00:38:46,885 --> 00:38:48,894
and some partying too and it's a place

768
00:38:48,894 --> 00:38:51,165
I'll always return to because for me

769
00:38:51,165 --> 00:38:55,438
it's one of the most magical places on earth.

770
00:38:55,438 --> 00:38:57,438
(music)

771
00:39:01,939 --> 00:39:03,939
Come on Stella, let's go

772
00:39:06,366 --> 00:39:08,366
(music)

773
00:39:28,784 --> 00:39:30,251
Albert and I are also finishing off

774
00:39:30,251 --> 00:39:34,584
our four mile enjoyable romp across the South Downs.

775
00:39:36,461 --> 00:39:38,224
It's a beautiful corner of England

776
00:39:38,224 --> 00:39:41,141
with an unexpectedly Gaelic flavor.

777
00:39:49,688 --> 00:39:52,574
Because after years in the shadow of our French cousins,

778
00:39:52,574 --> 00:39:55,016
Sussex vineyards are now producing

779
00:39:55,016 --> 00:39:57,849
prized vintages of their very own.

780
00:39:59,271 --> 00:40:01,087
I'm heading now to see one of the vineyards

781
00:40:01,087 --> 00:40:03,881
that's led the way in this new trend and it's called,

782
00:40:03,881 --> 00:40:06,798
rather delightfully, Breaky Bottom.

783
00:40:11,806 --> 00:40:15,814
Peter Hall planted his first vines in 1974

784
00:40:15,814 --> 00:40:20,564
and his grapes have now become the toast of English wine.

785
00:40:22,210 --> 00:40:23,634
So how long have you been here?

786
00:40:23,634 --> 00:40:25,541
I've been here for 49 years,

787
00:40:25,541 --> 00:40:27,724
I planted the vineyard 42 years ago.

788
00:40:27,724 --> 00:40:28,557
But there were only a

789
00:40:28,557 --> 00:40:30,397
handful of vineyards in those days.

790
00:40:30,397 --> 00:40:31,825
For bit of a joke for awhile wasn't it,

791
00:40:31,825 --> 00:40:32,728
English wine?

792
00:40:32,728 --> 00:40:35,740
Yeah, but there are a lot of very good wines

793
00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:37,815
made in the UK both still and sparkling

794
00:40:37,815 --> 00:40:40,478
but the if you like the graph which has shot up

795
00:40:40,478 --> 00:40:45,386
in the last 15 years or so is for sparkling wine.

796
00:40:45,386 --> 00:40:46,219
Is this a good year?

797
00:40:46,219 --> 00:40:47,631
It's a difficult year

798
00:40:47,631 --> 00:40:50,832
because the weather this summer has been very difficult.

799
00:40:50,832 --> 00:40:53,068
Did you have whole years where it's just no good?

800
00:40:53,068 --> 00:40:56,707
I've done zero, not a parcel, not a bottle.

801
00:40:56,707 --> 00:41:00,224
On the other hand, a good year would be 20,000 bottles.

802
00:41:00,224 --> 00:41:01,057
Really

803
00:41:01,057 --> 00:41:03,020
These are shaldanew vines

804
00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:06,783
and it will be carefully plucked off these basal leaves

805
00:41:06,783 --> 00:41:10,482
So that the air can circulate and the sun can get in.

806
00:41:10,482 --> 00:41:12,995
So an Indian summer is just the thing for you.

807
00:41:12,995 --> 00:41:13,828
Just the thing.

808
00:41:13,828 --> 00:41:14,661
Yeah

809
00:41:17,486 --> 00:41:20,728
As well as poor weather, mice can play havoc with vineyards

810
00:41:20,728 --> 00:41:24,385
too gnawing at the bark and roots and Albert's introduction

811
00:41:24,385 --> 00:41:28,016
to the resident terminator comes as a nasty shock.

812
00:41:28,016 --> 00:41:29,603
(cat hisses)

813
00:41:29,603 --> 00:41:34,270
Clearly it's not just the wine that's go plenty of fizz.

814
00:41:37,306 --> 00:41:39,400
Tell me about the name Breaky Bottom.

815
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,838
Well there's lots of bottoms in Sussex,

816
00:41:41,838 --> 00:41:44,367
long bottom, dings bottom, cricket and bottom

817
00:41:44,367 --> 00:41:48,206
but I've now worked up "break" is old english for "scrub",

818
00:41:48,206 --> 00:41:49,173
so it's a scrubby bottom.

819
00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:50,506
Scrubby bottom

820
00:41:52,626 --> 00:41:54,833
I feel as if we're France working along here with you.

821
00:41:54,833 --> 00:41:55,666
Yeah

822
00:41:55,666 --> 00:41:56,904
Your wearing stripes

823
00:41:56,904 --> 00:41:57,737
Yeah

824
00:41:57,737 --> 00:41:59,926
You've got a bit of a French twang with certain words

825
00:41:59,926 --> 00:42:03,421
(speaks French)

826
00:42:03,421 --> 00:42:06,882
Of course the proof is always in the drinking

827
00:42:06,882 --> 00:42:11,564
and Peter's promised to dig out something special for me.

828
00:42:11,564 --> 00:42:14,100
And it's such a lovely day, I've been around South Downs

829
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:15,680
and now here I am with you.

830
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,513
Yeah

831
00:42:19,252 --> 00:42:22,607
I know nothing about these things but a lovely color

832
00:42:22,607 --> 00:42:23,789
Good

833
00:42:23,789 --> 00:42:25,868
Oh look how good it with the sun going through.

834
00:42:25,868 --> 00:42:27,380
Well you look first if it's cloudy

835
00:42:27,380 --> 00:42:29,373
and that's bright and then the color

836
00:42:29,373 --> 00:42:32,500
so there's pale gold and a little touch of green almost

837
00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:34,496
and then the quality of the bubble.

838
00:42:34,496 --> 00:42:38,746
Well my bubbles are very good quality, are yours?

839
00:42:41,887 --> 00:42:44,300
It tastes so marvelous but this is decades of hard work

840
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:48,028
gone into this delightful glass of bubbly so

841
00:42:48,028 --> 00:42:51,319
oh (laughs) watch out Albert,

842
00:42:51,319 --> 00:42:54,882
your friend, what do you think of that.

843
00:42:54,882 --> 00:42:58,294
Well cheers, here's to Breaky Bottom,

844
00:42:58,294 --> 00:42:59,127
(speaks French)

845
00:42:59,127 --> 00:43:01,660
I know where you live now, I'll be back.

846
00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:04,906
You can come back whenever you like.

847
00:43:04,906 --> 00:43:06,906
(music)

848
00:43:15,754 --> 00:43:18,003
On Exmoor, Louie and I have rejoined the river

849
00:43:18,003 --> 00:43:22,627
Baul as we approach the end of our five mile hike.

850
00:43:22,627 --> 00:43:23,843
Time to give Louie the chance

851
00:43:23,843 --> 00:43:25,964
to carry on some of this filming on her own

852
00:43:25,964 --> 00:43:28,641
and she's normally up for a bit of wild swimming.

853
00:43:28,641 --> 00:43:31,630
We've just attached this harness to her

854
00:43:31,630 --> 00:43:36,427
so we got the camera, let's get the camera working okay

855
00:43:36,427 --> 00:43:37,553
alright I think your up

856
00:43:37,553 --> 00:43:40,471
Go on Louie, off you go, your on.

857
00:43:40,471 --> 00:43:41,304
Go on

858
00:43:44,894 --> 00:43:46,221
Look what about a stick

859
00:43:46,221 --> 00:43:47,054
Come on

860
00:43:50,346 --> 00:43:51,402
Well don't just look at it,

861
00:43:51,402 --> 00:43:53,767
you're supposed to get it and bring it back.

862
00:43:53,767 --> 00:43:58,767
It's the whole point of the man and the dog relationship.

863
00:43:58,768 --> 00:44:01,862
I don't know why but it's always been like that.

864
00:44:01,862 --> 00:44:02,695
Go on

865
00:44:05,134 --> 00:44:06,689
I could do this, I could strap it to my leg

866
00:44:06,689 --> 00:44:09,829
and get the same shot, go on out there.

867
00:44:09,829 --> 00:44:12,710
By the way I'm not putting it on.

868
00:44:12,710 --> 00:44:15,614
That's plan B wasn't it, yeah Phil you put the harness on

869
00:44:15,614 --> 00:44:20,074
and crawl through the river if the dog doesn't do it.

870
00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:21,991
No, it's not happening.

871
00:44:24,904 --> 00:44:26,724
Just looking at the river, that's not what we want Louie,

872
00:44:26,724 --> 00:44:31,724
we want you to get in it or chase off after someone else.

873
00:44:31,865 --> 00:44:32,782
Hey come on

874
00:44:33,744 --> 00:44:36,583
(whistles)

875
00:44:36,583 --> 00:44:39,250
(laughs) Oh God

876
00:44:44,425 --> 00:44:45,258
Come on

877
00:44:56,051 --> 00:44:57,678
It's been a long day for both of us

878
00:44:57,678 --> 00:45:00,749
and I think the best place to sort this all out is the pub.

879
00:45:00,749 --> 00:45:01,832
Come on Louie

880
00:45:04,863 --> 00:45:06,863
Enjoy the end of the day

881
00:45:10,773 --> 00:45:13,690
Here, that's it, now you sit there.

882
00:45:15,257 --> 00:45:17,445
Exmoor has yet again proved itself

883
00:45:17,445 --> 00:45:20,204
to be one of the great places on earth.

884
00:45:20,204 --> 00:45:24,454
We've had a great day, Louie's had a well of a time

885
00:45:25,788 --> 00:45:29,396
and I'd like to thank the gradual process of planetary

886
00:45:29,396 --> 00:45:32,776
change which has brought about this natural wonder

887
00:45:32,776 --> 00:45:35,796
and whoever's responsible for this.

888
00:45:35,796 --> 00:45:40,296
Anyway I will now be lost in a moment of pure revelry.

889
00:45:45,747 --> 00:45:46,580
Cheers

890
00:45:47,717 --> 00:45:49,717
(music)