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'I've been lucky enough
to have visited

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'some incredible places
over the years.'

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Holy smoke.

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'Travel is my passion.
It's in my blood.

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'And I'm thrilled
that I've been able

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'to take you with me
on these journeys.'

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Hang on a second. Hang on, hang on.

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'What you eventually see
on your screen

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'takes weeks to shoot,
and months to edit.'

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Look at this!

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It's magic.

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'We didn't always have time
to show you everything we filmed.'

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Stark naked
and swimming like a fish.

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'But we kept
the unshown stories safe.'

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I sort of pretty much
love these, actually.

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'So I've gone back,
as far east as Japan,

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'all across the world,

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'to Cuba in the west.'

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Are you a pirate?
No.

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Phew.

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'And now I can reveal
this treasure trove.'

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On our way to...

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'And also show you a little about
how these programmes are made...'

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These rather grand
and beautiful houses are called -

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Oof.

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'..and why I love making them.'

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Here's my new granny.
Lovely, lovely.

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Welcome to my Unseen Adventures.

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Japan was a country that had
intrigued me for a long time.

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And I was very excited
about going there in 2016.

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It proved to be a fascinating place

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with a unique mixture
of ancient classical culture...

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..and razor-sharp
modern technologies.

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Welcome to the hotel.

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Yes. I will confirm
your check-in information.

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Thank you.

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We travelled right down the
full length of the archipelago,

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some 2,000 miles...

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Yes. So so so.

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Very good. Very good.

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..allowing us a glimpse
into the Japanese way of life.

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We covered so much that there were
lots of great sequences

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that we just couldn't squeeze in
the first time round.

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Starting...

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Start with the four great islands.

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One, two, three, four.

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'We travelled in February
to the north of the country.'

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After 36 hours, we arrived
absolutely worn out,

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jetlagged on the island of Hokkaido.

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Japan is really
four colossal islands.

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It's actually 4,000 islands,

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of which 400 are inhabited.

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But Hokkaido
is the northernmost island.

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Huge, very beautiful.

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And it was absolutely freezing.

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We jumped aboard
the icebreaker Garinko

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and headed out onto
the frozen sea of Okhotsk.

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My role here
is to introduce the series

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and welcome you to Japan.

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And clearly
the best place to do this

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was on the ice-encrusted
foredeck of the icebreaker.

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Come with me

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to the Land of the Rising Sun,

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Japan.

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Again?

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MAN: And then turn round.

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OK. I'm sorry about
nearly falling over.

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It's a little bit slippery here. OK.

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Come with me to
the Land of the Rising Sun,

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Japan!

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SHE CHUCKLES

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I practically knocked myself over.

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Behind me, Russia
and the Okhotsk Sea.

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Ahead of me, a journey

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of 2,000 miles,

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from this icy ocean
down to the tropical beaches

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of one of 4,000 islands.

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Come with me to
the Land of the Rising Sun,

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Japan!

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I'd heard great things
about Japanese roads and cars.

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So it was a pleasure to take
the wheel from time to time.

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Now, let's see.

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The great thing
about driving in Japan

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is that, like in the UK...

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..they drive on the left.

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Let's go. That's Will's, I'm afraid.

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No, because I plugged mine in.

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Well, what is she saying?
She just said hello.

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It's all good. It's OK.

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MAN SPEAKS JAPANESE

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Let's do it again.

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JAPANESE SATNAV ACTIVATES

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How lovely.
I don't know what she was saying,

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but I've got my safety belt on
and I've taken the brake off,

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so I think everything is OK.

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From the very start,
Japan made a big impression.

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It sort of sounds a strange thing
to appreciate so much,

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but the lavatories here...

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..they are absolutely fantastic.

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They seem to know
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they've got warmed seats.

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The one I've just been to

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has got 17 different kinds of papers

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and things
that you might need or want.

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Sometimes it flushes the loo
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you don't have to flush it.

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It's fabulous.

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You could live
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Before we go on
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I do a lot of research
and I look at photographs,

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and I study maps and things.

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But somehow a picture
begins to form in your mind,

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and for some reason,
maybe because of the news items

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we see about Japan,
it's practically always Tokyo.

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A place teeming with people,
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So to visit Hokkaido
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empty,

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was absolutely magical.

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This is strangely exciting,

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because I don't know what I imagined
Japan would be like in the winter,

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but not like this.

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It's like driving through Narnia.

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Not only was it naturally beautiful,

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it also gave me a glimpse
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and philosophy.

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In Japan,
the crane is a mystical creature

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and is believed to live
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Shinto is a religion

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that started in Japan 300 years BC.

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It worships supernatural deities

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that inhabit all things.

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Look at that.

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And just as we arrive here,
the sun comes out.

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Look at that beautiful thing.

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And I was delighted
to see a festival

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celebrating the fire god Kagutsuchi.

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But less keen on the health
and safety arrangements.

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I didn't... I didn't...

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I didn't quite know
what I was expecting.

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Not quite
such flamboyant sort of liberalism.

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with burning fire kind of twigs
on the end of a stick.

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It looks divine when they
actually are going around,

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but sometimes they fall off,
and fly into the crowd

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in great clumps.
I've seen a tiny child

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swinging something which is
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which was just sort of
banging around.

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there's a lot of sparks
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It's very exciting.

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And I've got to say, I do love fire.
I love the smell of fire.

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The sight of the sparks
going up into the sky.

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And this is
a kind of harvest festival.

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Within a few days,
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onto Japan's main island, Honshu,

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and were nearing a place
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In March 2011,

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Fukushima was hit by a tsunami.

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EXPLOSION

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And as a result,
the power station there

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suffered several
catastrophic nuclear meltdowns.

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By the time we arrived,

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the surrounding area had been an
exclusion zone for over five years.

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Mai, our fantastic fixer
and translator,

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took a front seat in Fukushima.

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So here we are, Mai,
this is the exclusion zone.

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It looks absolutely abandoned.

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Yes.

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This is five years later
and they are still boarded up.

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Oh, it's tragic.

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All these were people's homes here.

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But even after all this time,

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this area is still dangerous.

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The road is barred off here.

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So we have to...
Turn round and go away.

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Go away.
Are they doing contaminated earth?

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What are they cleaning?

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They are cleaning up
all the contaminated soil.

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Just getting rid of
the surface of it.

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We had arranged to meet up
with Mr Naoto Matsumura,

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who had courageously stayed behind
in the exclusion zone

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to take care of all the animals
that were abandoned there.

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Oh, look.

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Cats, cats, cats.

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Dog.

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Naotosan, is this your house?

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My house.

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Hello, puppy.

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Of course, it's quite obvious

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that all the countries we go to,
I can't speak the language.

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So we always have
a translator with us

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doing the interviews with me.
I speak in English,

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so the camera can record me
doing it in English.

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You have to translate.
Yes, but...

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NAOTO SPEAKS JAPANESE

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She then translates it
to the person, who has no idea.

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They then answer in their
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'And I nod,

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'thinking I know
what they are saying.'

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Sometimes I don't.

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And the terror is that they are
going to say something quite sad,

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and you're going, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Thinking, imagining.
I've been tripped up once or twice

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by that, you know, or indeed they
are telling me a very funny joke

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and I've gone, "Oh."

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Because I haven't
quite understood yet.

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And the other important thing
you have to tell your contributor

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is don't look at the translator.
Look at me.

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As if you are telling me.

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And they go, "Sure, I understand."

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No, really, it's quite odd,
so do try to do that.

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They go, "Sure." Cameras roll,
and off they start,

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and the interpreter...
They spin their heads round.

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You go, please...

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Sometimes I'm going, "Me, me, me."
Not on camera, going...

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It's very difficult.

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HE SPEAKS JAPANESE

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Of course what makes it
even more difficult

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is that when you're talking
to somebody,

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and an enormous dog who adores you
comes leaping up,

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and you're trying to go,
"Oh, yes, and how long have you..."

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Woof.

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This quite a young dog?

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MAI TRANSLATES

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NAOTO SPEAKS JAPANESE

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Three years old.

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Kissing. Thank you. Thank you.

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And cats.

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NAOTO LAUGHS

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Naotosan, where were you
when the earthquake happened.

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MAI TRANSLATES

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NAOTO SPEAKS JAPANESE

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Down, down, down.
"I lived here.

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"I lived in this house."
In this house?

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Down, down, down.

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Down, down, down. Come on.

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Was it terrible when it happened,
the explosion?

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NAOTO SPEAKS JAPANESE

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This is... Here, it's about

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12 kilometres away
from the nuclear power station.

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And he could actually
hear the explosion.

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Coastal buildings around Fukushima
were devastated

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by the tsunami.

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But the explosion
and nuclear fallout that followed

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left a much more serious problem
to deal with.

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I hate to say this,
but it's going to happen again.

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This is the land of earthquakes,

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the land of tsunami.

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And it's on the four tectonic plates
all meeting.

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It's on the Pacific rim of fire.

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This seems
the most vulnerable position.

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Are they gonna rebuild here?

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Japan is rightly famous
for its onsen,

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or boiling-hot natural spa waters.

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We drove up into
the snowy hills of Nagano,

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and here it's not just
the humans that enjoy

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this stimulating phenomenon.

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It's extraordinary here,
because here we all are.

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Each time the monkey does something,
out come the cameras.

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"Come on, darling." Paparazzi.
We've turned into the paps.

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I've been papped often. Anyway, this
is my way back with the monkeys.

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The worst is
when you're getting out of the car

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and they try
to get under your skirt.

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It's unbelievable.

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It's unbelievable. They don't even
bother to look at you.

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They just jam the camera
against the car window.

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You can see their faces
looking at their watch,

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and just go far, far, far
as you sit in the car.

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AS A PAP: Lovely.

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Onsen are always taken in the buff.

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But I wasn't delighted

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at the idea of cavorting naked
in front of the very lecherous crew.

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But always the consummate
professional, there I go.

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Erica very kindly took a shot

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in which my knees were like this,

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and they looked like two huge,
escaped sagging tits.

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So what I'm trying to do,

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if I put them there,

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can you see my legs at all?

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This is as hot as a bath
I would run for myself at home.

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It's fantastic.
And to think it's full of minerals

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just gushing up naturally
from water.

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Because this is women-only,

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and obviously the crew are...
SHE MOUTHS

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..I'm wearing a towel.
A modesty towel.

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I didn't want you to think
this was my enormous body

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beginning
to flake off under the water.

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This is a beige towel I am wearing,
but normally,

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if I was here on my own

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I would be stark naked
and swimming like a fish.

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I loved Kyoto.

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It's simply one of the most
beautiful cities in the world.

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And it was made more magical

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by meeting
the fascinating maiko girl,

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who I had tea with
and explored the city.

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I hope that you have such success.

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We had planned our arrival there

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to coincide with the Sakura,

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or the much-heralded arrival
of the cherry blossom.

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'It's a huge deal in Japan.'

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We had managed
to secure an interview

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with the most revered gardener
in Japan.

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If you think of Alan Titchmarsh
crossed with Monty Don,

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and a bit of royalty thrown in,

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it doesn't even come close.

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However, when we arrived,

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Sanosan and his men

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were wrestling with
a colossal piece of granite.

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It looks quite perilous.

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Quite Heath Robinson. But they are
all working towards the same thing.

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I just can't quite see what it is.

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And now they're working
on some winch,

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which is doing something down there.

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I'm clammy with fear.

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Anyway, this is Sanosan,

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who is the great tree man,

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who is also, quite clearly,
the rock-moving man.

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So although I'd hoped
to be speaking to him by now

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about cherry trees and their
importance in Japanese culture,

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I, in fact, got a kind of lesson

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on how to build a garden.

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With rocks.

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I feel much better about
the way I do stuff at home now,

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because this is my way of doing it.
Put a bit of stuff in there,

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and put a Sellotaped thing on there
and hang that off there.

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But to see this going on here,
it's perilous.

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I mean,
they've got that great stone up.

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They are putting
their arms in underneath

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and putting an old twig
and a little bit of wood,

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and you think that wood will sink.

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No, this has all been here
for 1,000 years,

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for goodness sake.

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And he's been here for 88 years.

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I don't think we're going
to get to talk to him about trees.

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This is gonna take all morning.
He's not gonna leave it.

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Of course, he turned out
to be a real character

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and extremely wise.

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Sanosan, what is the best way
to look after a tree?

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Do you just put it in the ground
and put water?

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Or must you do more than that?

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SPEAKS JAPANESE

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You love them? You sing to them?

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Whenever I see cherry trees

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in the UK,

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I shall think of you, Sanosan.

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Arigato.

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I'll take my cherry blossom with me.

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We have to go
all the way back to 2014

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for the vertiginous opening

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planned for
the Trans-Siberian series.

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Overlooking Hong Kong harbour,

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camera and sound are in position.

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And it's my job
to usher in the series

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by gesturing towards
the two enormous countries

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that we'd soon be visiting.

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And believe me, it's not easy.

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I'm on the peak of the world

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and over there, to the north,

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are two of the most
colossal empires on earth.

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TROMBONE PLAYS

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A trombonist.

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Yes. We'll do that once more.

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I'm here on the peak of the world...

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DRILLING
Chunter, chunter, chunter.

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A little bit.

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Don't care about it?

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Just over here
is some building work. OK.

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I'm on the peak of the world.
Just over there,

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to the north, are two of the
most colossal empires on earth.

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I lived in Hong Kong for a couple
of years in the late 1940s.

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My father's regiment
was posted to Hong Kong

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in, I think, about

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1947 or '48.

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Anyway, I was tiny.
I was either one or two.

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And we stayed there until
I was about three and a half.

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We spent about two years there.

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And, of course, everything
I remember about Hong Kong

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was from knee-high.
I was a tiny, tiny little person.

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So I can remember
our big, dark, cool kitchen there.

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We had a couple of guinea pigs
which we kept on the little veranda.

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Their names were Sammy and Michael.

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They could whistle,
they whistled at the sailors.

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The sailors thought there were

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lovely ladies up there,
whistling back.

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But everything I remember
was so small, and so little,

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and I think most of my memories
may come from photographs,

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which were taken at the time.
Bathing in the sea

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and being with Mummy.
Not with Daddy much,

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because, of course, he was on duty,
with the Gurkhas.

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It's a strange experience
going back anywhere.

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Perhaps it's because,
at that young age,

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you form such vivid memories.

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I couldn't believe in 2014

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that Hong Kong was the same place.

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And now, in 2020,

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unfortunately,
it appears to be changing again.

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When I was here as a child,

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I think the tallest building
was about six storeys high.

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So you can imagine what
a shock it is to come back

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and see the skyline so changed.

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00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,080
And, of course, when I was young,

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this was completely filled
with junks,

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little, tiny Chinese junks.
This was alive with tiny watercraft.

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When the Peninsula Hotel
opened its doors in 1928,

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it was set on becoming
the finest hotel

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east of Suez.

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Now I can at last
take you for afternoon tea

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at the Peninsula.

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It's one of Hong Kong's
great traditions.

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Here we are.

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I think I can almost remember
being here

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when I was about three and a half.

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Oh, my goodness.
Obviously, from this high,

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a tiny little person...

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That's not very long ago.

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But this huge, extraordinary lobby,
it hasn't changed.

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No, it hasn't. We are
the oldest hotel in Hong Kong.

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And obviously
the lobby is so iconic,

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00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,680
starting with the tea dance
and now the afternoon tea.

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And all the history
that surrounds the lobby.

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This place has seen it all.

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It was here that in 1941

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00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,080
the British surrendered
to the Japanese,

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who had established their
headquarters on the third floor

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of the hotel.

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The Japanese had surprised
the British colony

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with an attack on the same day
as Pearl Harbour,

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the 7th of December 1941.

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So, this hotel was only

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six storeys tall.

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And you can see how close we were
to the railway station.

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At the time,
the Kowloon-Canton railway station

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was just across from us.

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00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,360
Where was the train
coming from and going to?

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Actually, in 1910,

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we were already able
to go to London.

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No? From here?
Yes, from Hong Kong.

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00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,920
I believe it took only ten days

440
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,560
on the train,
versus five weeks on the boat.

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00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,560
So you would say,
"London Victoria, please?"

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Yes. Yes.

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It came as such a shock

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00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,160
to hear that you could go by train

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00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,240
from Hong Kong back to Britain

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in the 1950s.
We didn't know about that.

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00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,360
Because we were army families.

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00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,640
Army families always travelled
on troop ships,

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which took from Hong Kong,
I think it was about five weeks.

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00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,040
Anyway, it was thrilling to know

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that I was going to go
from Hong Kong on a train

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up into mainland China,
up into Beijing,

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and start the beginning

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00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,400
of the great Trans-Siberian
Railway adventure.

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It was an epic journey
I was longing to start.

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Beijing was phenomenal.

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I believe 22 million people
live there now.

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And you get a sense of the
sophistication and strength

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of the ancient
Chinese civilisations,

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when you visit Beijing's immense
and imposing Forbidden City.

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00:23:21,730 --> 00:23:23,970
Three Chinese characters,

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the top one is Tai.

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00:23:25,890 --> 00:23:27,450
Tai means "supreme".

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00:23:27,450 --> 00:23:29,930
We persuaded my very patient guide,
Don Mai,

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out into the midday heat.

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00:23:33,090 --> 00:23:35,690
We have a saying, mad dogs and
Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

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Mad...
Mad dogs...

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00:23:39,010 --> 00:23:41,010
Mad dogs...
And Englishmen...

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00:23:41,010 --> 00:23:43,050
And Englishmen...

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00:23:43,050 --> 00:23:44,970
Mad dogs and Englishmen, why?

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00:23:44,970 --> 00:23:47,090
Go out in the midday sun.

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Built in the 14th century,

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this was the imperial palace

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and state residence
of the emperor of China

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from the Ming to Ching dynasties.

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And it exudes unchallenged
power and wealth.

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00:24:16,850 --> 00:24:20,770
If any clarification of China's
present-day status were needed,

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00:24:20,770 --> 00:24:24,210
Beijing's Rolls-Royce showroom
certainly provided it.

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00:24:24,210 --> 00:24:27,650
Wow, look, we've got stars
on the ceiling.

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00:24:34,210 --> 00:24:37,450
I never thought I'd see Beijing
from the heart of a Rolls-Royce.

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00:24:40,530 --> 00:24:43,650
China's economic miracle
claims to have lifted

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00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:45,330
800 million people out of poverty.

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00:24:45,330 --> 00:24:48,890
And this new middle class
has money to spend.

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00:24:50,050 --> 00:24:53,010
Over the last decade,
fashion sales have tripled

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00:24:53,010 --> 00:24:56,250
to a staggering
$200 billion per annum.

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00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:58,290
And this year,
China's fashion industry

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00:24:58,290 --> 00:25:01,690
will become the second biggest
in the world.

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00:25:01,690 --> 00:25:04,050
This takes me back
to my modelling days.

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00:25:04,050 --> 00:25:06,130
Going to see the editor of Vogue.

490
00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,690
I mean I obviously didn't always
see the editor of Vogue, but...

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00:25:10,330 --> 00:25:12,450
Little bit nervous.

492
00:25:13,770 --> 00:25:15,850
Hello.

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00:25:15,850 --> 00:25:18,930
I've come to see Angelica Cheung,
please. Just wait one second.

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'The editor of Chinese Vogue

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00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:23,930
'has become one of the most
influential roles in world fashion.'

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00:25:23,930 --> 00:25:25,850
How lovely to meet you.

497
00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:27,890
Yes, great to see you.
Welcome to Beijing.

498
00:25:27,890 --> 00:25:30,130
I'm Joanna, how lovely to see you.
Thank you so much.

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00:25:30,130 --> 00:25:32,850
It's exciting. Look.
We are in Vogue. This is just great.

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00:25:32,850 --> 00:25:34,930
This is my little world.

501
00:25:34,930 --> 00:25:36,970
Oh, it's wonderful.
This is where you work from?

502
00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:39,130
Make all the decisions from here?
Well, sometimes.

503
00:25:39,130 --> 00:25:41,090
Sometimes on the plane.

504
00:25:41,090 --> 00:25:44,210
Sometimes on the train.
Very often in the car.

505
00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,490
Can I come and see
what your people are doing?

506
00:25:46,490 --> 00:25:48,970
Yeah, maybe you know better now.
Let's go have a see.

507
00:25:48,970 --> 00:25:51,210
This is the art department.

508
00:25:51,210 --> 00:25:53,450
Stefan is the creative director.

509
00:25:53,450 --> 00:25:55,930
Candy, our fashion director.
Hello, Candy.

510
00:25:55,930 --> 00:25:58,690
This is, I think, what Patsy was.
Lovely to meet you.

511
00:25:58,690 --> 00:26:01,530
Patsy called herself
a fashion director.

512
00:26:01,530 --> 00:26:03,330
I don't think
she'd ever been in an office.

513
00:26:03,330 --> 00:26:05,850
Look at all that champagne
over there. That's what they do.

514
00:26:05,850 --> 00:26:08,010
They don't actually work.
They just drink...

515
00:26:08,010 --> 00:26:09,610
champagne.

516
00:26:09,610 --> 00:26:11,890
And just being in
the office of Vogue

517
00:26:11,890 --> 00:26:13,850
takes me back to the '60s.

518
00:26:15,930 --> 00:26:19,130
Before I became an actress,
before I became a presenter,

519
00:26:19,130 --> 00:26:20,770
I was a model.

520
00:26:20,770 --> 00:26:23,810
And actually the world of fashion
has always held me in its thrall.

521
00:26:23,810 --> 00:26:26,690
It was the first real main job I did
when I grow up,

522
00:26:26,690 --> 00:26:29,690
left home, came up to London.
And it has remained with me always.

523
00:26:29,690 --> 00:26:32,210
There's nothing more thrilling
than going to this country

524
00:26:32,210 --> 00:26:34,210
or other countries
to the great fashion houses.

525
00:26:34,210 --> 00:26:36,290
To the great fashion magazines.

526
00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:39,010
And seeing what is going on
in the world.

527
00:26:39,010 --> 00:26:41,050
Then, I have this secret room.

528
00:26:41,050 --> 00:26:42,970
Secret room!

529
00:26:42,970 --> 00:26:45,170
They are having a shoot tomorrow.
This is beautiful.

530
00:26:45,170 --> 00:26:47,850
So I just look at the clothes.
Do you want to try it on?

531
00:26:47,850 --> 00:26:51,090
I think it will look good, no?
It looks beautiful.

532
00:26:51,090 --> 00:26:52,770
Let's see.

533
00:26:52,770 --> 00:26:54,450
Oh, it's sensational, isn't it?

534
00:26:54,450 --> 00:26:56,490
Wow, look at that.
Wowee.

535
00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:59,410
This year is all about long coats.
Long, long, long.

536
00:26:59,410 --> 00:27:01,770
And with boots and things like that.
Nice.

537
00:27:01,770 --> 00:27:03,530
That feels really good.
Yes.

538
00:27:03,530 --> 00:27:05,810
What are the new styles?
Sometimes you go,

539
00:27:05,810 --> 00:27:07,810
"Oh, my gosh, I was wearing that
about 35 years ago.

540
00:27:07,810 --> 00:27:10,010
"This looks slightly different."

541
00:27:10,010 --> 00:27:12,610
But it's just a thrilling language,
let's put it like that,

542
00:27:12,610 --> 00:27:15,250
a language I learned
when I was very young.

543
00:27:15,250 --> 00:27:17,290
And I can't quite shake off
the feeling

544
00:27:17,290 --> 00:27:19,330
of putting on
a beautifully tailored coat

545
00:27:19,330 --> 00:27:22,130
or putting on what my mother called
a "hat face" for a photograph.

546
00:27:22,130 --> 00:27:24,890
So you looked rather gorgeous.
I kind of love it.

547
00:27:24,890 --> 00:27:26,930
I know I'm past it now,

548
00:27:26,930 --> 00:27:28,970
but I do adore it.

549
00:27:28,970 --> 00:27:30,850
And Patsy had been a model.

550
00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:33,930
I made sure that Patsy had been
a model in the old days, too.

551
00:27:33,930 --> 00:27:35,930
She was not as good as I was.

552
00:27:37,210 --> 00:27:39,370
So, in a funny way,

553
00:27:39,370 --> 00:27:42,370
you're in charge of shaping

554
00:27:42,370 --> 00:27:45,010
how Chinese women of the future
are thinking.

555
00:27:45,010 --> 00:27:47,610
I think we belong to
a generation in China

556
00:27:47,610 --> 00:27:49,650
where you grew very quickly.

557
00:27:49,650 --> 00:27:51,690
You absorbed a lot of things

558
00:27:51,690 --> 00:27:53,730
from China, from overseas.

559
00:27:53,730 --> 00:27:55,770
But it's also a generation

560
00:27:55,770 --> 00:27:57,850
who like to think.

561
00:27:57,850 --> 00:27:59,850
You know,
think that you have a value.

562
00:27:59,850 --> 00:28:02,090
It's not just about
the craftsmanship

563
00:28:02,090 --> 00:28:03,770
you introduce in the designs.

564
00:28:03,770 --> 00:28:06,610
It's not just about
the artistic value, the creativity

565
00:28:06,610 --> 00:28:08,370
in the fashion.

566
00:28:08,370 --> 00:28:10,770
It's also about the kind of person

567
00:28:10,770 --> 00:28:12,970
we want our reader to become.

568
00:28:12,970 --> 00:28:16,090
Can people buy these?
Are they rich enough to buy them?

569
00:28:16,090 --> 00:28:18,410
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
These are actually more affordable

570
00:28:18,410 --> 00:28:21,090
because they are
by young Chinese designers.

571
00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:23,450
Later on today,
all the Chanel, the Dior,

572
00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:25,970
the Max Mara, they will come in.

573
00:28:25,970 --> 00:28:28,130
So we mix them together.

574
00:28:28,130 --> 00:28:30,130
So you have the high end,

575
00:28:30,130 --> 00:28:32,690
and you also have
relatively affordable.

576
00:28:32,690 --> 00:28:34,770
On the one hand, you have people

577
00:28:34,770 --> 00:28:38,090
who can spend a couple of million
yuan on clothes.

578
00:28:38,090 --> 00:28:40,850
And on the other hand, you have the
secretary who is still saving up

579
00:28:40,850 --> 00:28:43,050
for their first designer handbag.

580
00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:45,450
So you need to have stuff
for the more beginners

581
00:28:45,450 --> 00:28:47,610
and then you have stuff
for the very sophisticated.

582
00:28:47,610 --> 00:28:50,130
Coolio. It's a coat without a back.

583
00:28:50,130 --> 00:28:52,730
I'm going to have to put that on.
Do you want to try?

584
00:28:52,730 --> 00:28:55,410
Because this is my life really.
It's a symbol of my life.

585
00:28:55,410 --> 00:28:57,690
From the front,
she appears to be something.

586
00:28:57,690 --> 00:29:00,010
And surprised when you turn around.

587
00:29:00,010 --> 00:29:02,490
And then when you turn around,
there's nothing there at all.

588
00:29:02,490 --> 00:29:04,010
JOANNA LAUGHS

589
00:29:04,010 --> 00:29:06,330
You are brilliant.
MAN: Brilliant. Thank you!

590
00:29:06,330 --> 00:29:08,330
LAUGHTER

591
00:29:10,890 --> 00:29:15,690
# He's a dedicated
Follower of fashion... #

592
00:29:22,410 --> 00:29:24,810
No journey to China is complete

593
00:29:24,810 --> 00:29:26,810
without seeing the Great Wall.

594
00:29:29,250 --> 00:29:31,210
We travelled far into
the countryside,

595
00:29:31,210 --> 00:29:33,250
where this massive structure

596
00:29:33,250 --> 00:29:35,410
is overgrown and remote,

597
00:29:35,410 --> 00:29:37,330
and witnessed a glorious sunrise.

598
00:29:39,290 --> 00:29:42,610
And for a moment away from
the busy, crowded cities,

599
00:29:42,610 --> 00:29:44,650
it was wonderful
to feel the serenity

600
00:29:44,650 --> 00:29:48,090
and expense of this beautiful,
but bewildering, country.

601
00:29:59,650 --> 00:30:02,610
But very soon
we were travelling north again.

602
00:30:02,610 --> 00:30:04,130
And back to business.

603
00:30:04,130 --> 00:30:06,650
So the sound
will not be on the camera.

604
00:30:06,650 --> 00:30:08,650
Joanna is wearing a mini recorder.

605
00:30:10,290 --> 00:30:12,250
Patrick,
we've only got three minutes.

606
00:30:12,250 --> 00:30:14,730
You join us frantically boarding
the Mongolia-bound

607
00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:17,290
Trans-Siberian express.

608
00:30:17,290 --> 00:30:19,290
Go, go, go.

609
00:30:21,290 --> 00:30:23,930
I just get in a panic about
getting so much stuff onto trains

610
00:30:23,930 --> 00:30:25,690
in such a tiny amount of time.

611
00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:28,570
This is how people
have sudden cardiac arrests.

612
00:30:29,810 --> 00:30:31,290
There we are.

613
00:30:31,290 --> 00:30:33,890
I've got for this trip, because
they've got a hot-water tap,

614
00:30:33,890 --> 00:30:35,690
pot noodles.

615
00:30:35,690 --> 00:30:37,570
Look at that.

616
00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:41,130
We're off.

617
00:30:44,490 --> 00:30:46,930
I'd never been
to mainland China before.

618
00:30:46,930 --> 00:30:49,570
And we'd just spent
the last two weeks travelling

619
00:30:49,570 --> 00:30:51,570
right across this immense country.

620
00:30:52,890 --> 00:30:54,930
A snippet of China,

621
00:30:54,930 --> 00:30:57,370
but enough to get some idea.

622
00:30:57,370 --> 00:30:59,970
We came to Jining, which is where
we got onto the train today.

623
00:31:01,490 --> 00:31:03,730
And then we trundled
towards Mongolia.

624
00:31:03,730 --> 00:31:05,890
And here at the border,
we cross over,

625
00:31:05,890 --> 00:31:07,490
and that's where they'll change

626
00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:09,730
the railway
onto a different set of wheels,

627
00:31:09,730 --> 00:31:12,570
which are either closer
or further apart.

628
00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:14,650
I'll let you know about that later.

629
00:31:14,650 --> 00:31:16,810
My guess is that
they're going to be further apart.

630
00:31:16,810 --> 00:31:18,850
These look jolly close together.

631
00:31:18,850 --> 00:31:21,770
That's Russia all the way
round to there, to Vladivostok here.

632
00:31:21,770 --> 00:31:23,410
And here's China.

633
00:31:23,410 --> 00:31:25,970
Colossal. Right up to there
and right down to there.

634
00:31:25,970 --> 00:31:29,050
And in the middle, squashed between
these huge, great nations,

635
00:31:29,050 --> 00:31:32,890
post-Soviet Russia, communist China,
sits Mongolia.

636
00:31:32,890 --> 00:31:35,410
Travelling on trains
just makes me hungry,

637
00:31:35,410 --> 00:31:38,450
and by sundown I'm literally clawing

638
00:31:38,450 --> 00:31:40,690
to get at my fancy pot noodle.

639
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,770
What I'm hoping to do is to eat...

640
00:31:42,770 --> 00:31:45,170
I've selected
this "hot tingle" flavour.

641
00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:47,130
I bought two "hot tingle" flavour.

642
00:31:49,170 --> 00:31:51,210
Ah. Yes, please.

643
00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:53,250
Oh, oh, oh.

644
00:31:53,250 --> 00:31:55,290
Thank you. Thank you, my honey.

645
00:31:55,290 --> 00:31:57,330
Thank you so much.

646
00:31:57,330 --> 00:31:59,090
How much water does...

647
00:32:00,770 --> 00:32:02,890
It's like a kind of Brillo pad.

648
00:32:08,610 --> 00:32:10,330
This is the "hot".

649
00:32:10,330 --> 00:32:12,690
Yeah, that's more like it.

650
00:32:16,170 --> 00:32:18,250
I feel sometimes, you know,

651
00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:20,770
a bit of a fraud
about being in China

652
00:32:20,770 --> 00:32:22,850
and from the outside.

653
00:32:22,850 --> 00:32:25,530
Because I'm sort of predisposed
to liking stuff,

654
00:32:25,530 --> 00:32:27,610
and liking people

655
00:32:27,610 --> 00:32:29,810
and loving what I see
and not minding things.

656
00:32:29,810 --> 00:32:31,810
So when I go to places
and I just go,

657
00:32:31,810 --> 00:32:33,850
"This is lovely, no, this is great."

658
00:32:33,850 --> 00:32:35,930
And now suddenly we're leaving China

659
00:32:35,930 --> 00:32:37,690
and I think of all the things
that really...

660
00:32:39,090 --> 00:32:41,010
..hurt me about China.

661
00:32:41,010 --> 00:32:43,650
I haven't sort of touched on
any of that on this journey.

662
00:32:43,650 --> 00:32:46,250
Principally,
because the people I was talking to

663
00:32:46,250 --> 00:32:48,330
were not the right people.

664
00:32:48,330 --> 00:32:50,530
You've got to speak to officials
about that,

665
00:32:50,530 --> 00:32:52,170
not the darling people
in the streets.

666
00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:54,170
But they weigh on my mind, you know.

667
00:32:59,090 --> 00:33:02,410
I'm just going to attempt
this hot and spicy noodle dish.

668
00:33:06,170 --> 00:33:08,170
SPEAKS WITH HER MOUTH FULL

669
00:33:10,250 --> 00:33:12,250
Unfortunately...

670
00:33:14,650 --> 00:33:16,650
I'm...

671
00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:20,370
Maybe...

672
00:33:20,370 --> 00:33:22,970
Maybe there's a time limit.

673
00:33:22,970 --> 00:33:24,970
Maybe it's just...

674
00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:28,890
It's like...

675
00:33:28,890 --> 00:33:30,930
It's like cleaning an aquarium...

676
00:33:30,930 --> 00:33:32,770
with...

677
00:33:32,770 --> 00:33:34,770
There we are.

678
00:33:39,970 --> 00:33:42,010
Just before the Mongolian border,

679
00:33:42,010 --> 00:33:44,010
we are shunted into a huge shed.

680
00:33:46,610 --> 00:33:48,570
We have a bogey issue to deal with.

681
00:33:50,970 --> 00:33:52,970
CLANKING

682
00:33:57,170 --> 00:33:59,250
This is extraordinary.

683
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:02,090
We've got carriages
just lifted up in the air.

684
00:34:03,410 --> 00:34:05,450
Have we been lifted?

685
00:34:05,450 --> 00:34:07,050
We've just been going "dzh-dzh".

686
00:34:07,050 --> 00:34:09,130
And I still can't work out

687
00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:12,010
whether the gauge
is wider or narrower.

688
00:34:12,010 --> 00:34:14,890
Isn't it funny?
These things are called bogeys.

689
00:34:14,890 --> 00:34:16,930
And it strikes me
the English language,

690
00:34:16,930 --> 00:34:19,570
which is so rich in so many things,
has the same word for

691
00:34:19,570 --> 00:34:21,610
a nostril event,

692
00:34:21,610 --> 00:34:23,650
a golfing term,

693
00:34:23,650 --> 00:34:25,730
and the wheels on a carriage.

694
00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:28,450
Couldn't we have thought of
something else other than "bogey?"

695
00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:32,730
Anyway,
with the new bogeys in place,

696
00:34:32,730 --> 00:34:35,930
85mm wider, as you're asking,

697
00:34:35,930 --> 00:34:39,450
we have now become
the Mongolian train.

698
00:34:39,450 --> 00:34:41,970
And head through the night
across the steppes

699
00:34:41,970 --> 00:34:44,250
on our way to Ulaanbaatar.

700
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Crossing the border
from China into Mongolia

701
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,080
did seem like entering
another dimension.

702
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,720
Mongolia is one of
the least densely populated

703
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,880
countries on earth.

704
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,000
It's five times the size of the UK,

705
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000
but with only three million people,
half of whom live in the capital.

706
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,000
Ulaanbaatar is not at all
how I imagined it.

707
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
I thought it'd be far more
kind of lethal grey,

708
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,160
brutalist Soviet buildings.

709
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,160
I can see some of them,

710
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,760
sort of stern tower blocks.

711
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,800
But it looks as though,
just a guess,

712
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,400
that since its secession
from the Soviet empire,

713
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
that the Mongolian spirit
has sort of bloomed

714
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,480
all over again,
and it's picking its own colours.

715
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,160
Look at these gorgeous
green and orange and white.

716
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,160
Quite a lot of them
are quite Buddhist colours.

717
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,480
Tawny golds, and orange and red.

718
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,520
Just gorgeous.

719
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,800
Look, look,
look at these old trains.

720
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,360
Beautiful condition,
all painted up and bright.

721
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
You can imagine
how important railways are

722
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,480
to this part of the world. You've
got no way of getting goods in

723
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,520
by sea, because there is no sea.

724
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,440
So it has to come overland.

725
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,240
Soon after independence
from the Soviet Union in 1990,

726
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,680
Mongolia enjoyed
a commodities and building boom.

727
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,040
And the capital is quite a contrast

728
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,800
to the rest
of this wide-open empty land.

729
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,960
In 2014, the country was just

730
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,040
finding its political feet,

731
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,000
and television was playing
a big part in wooing

732
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
its newly democratised people.

733
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,640
'At C1 Television,

734
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,000
'I was intrigued to be met
by a fellow countryman.'

735
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,920
Thank you so much seeing me.
Welcome.

736
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,680
Let me show you round.
Thank you so much.

737
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,640
So, is C1 your baby?
No, no, no.

738
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,480
Are you in charge of it?
I'm the CEO here.

739
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,120
It is owned by a group of guys,
some of them politicians.

740
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,000
And one of them said to me,
"If I get elected,

741
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
"I want to have my own TV station."

742
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,760
So he became an MP,
and he came to see me and said,

743
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,560
"Now I want my own TV station.
You can build it, Ben."

744
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,440
You've got auto-script. You've got
this lovely circular track.

745
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,720
That cool kind of
delivering-the-news thing.

746
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,600
With journalists in the background,
which is very au courant, lovely.

747
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,640
But TV has a ways been
a difficult industry in Mongolia.

748
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,480
There's over 90 TV stations
in Ulaanbaatar alone.

749
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,520
90?
90, yeah.

750
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,480
You amaze me.
So it's super competitive.

751
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,720
When do you broadcast again?
When will we hear the live news?

752
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,080
This is our news,
which is on air right now.

753
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,080
But Mongolia is quite
a small country. I know.

754
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,520
So it's quite hard to get...
"What shall we do news on?"

755
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,600
Generally, news in Mongolia

756
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,120
is based around two subjects.
In summer, it's all about roads.

757
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,320
They love talking about
their new roads.

758
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,240
And then in winter time,
the story always changes to

759
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:40,320
the air pollution.

760
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,360
Cos it's super polluted
in Ulaanbaatar.

761
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,880
It's the second
most polluted city in the world.

762
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,920
According to
the World Health Organisation.

763
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,840
It doesn't deserve to be that,
because this is a place of paradise.

764
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,320
Ben, it's been so good to talk
to you. Wonderful, great.

765
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,560
I hope you enjoy your time here.
We're loving it.

766
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,160
Mongolia is
the most extraordinary country,

767
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,480
and Ulaanbaatar
has always been sort of held out.

768
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,280
It's rather like Timbuktu,
it's kind of the end of the world.

769
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,280
Ulaanbaatar.
Of course, when you get there,

770
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,920
it's a sophisticated city,

771
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,360
filled with people
who are completely marvellous.

772
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,920
And some of them
are quite extraordinary.

773
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,360
You might remember
the last time I showed you

774
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,320
this enormous equestrian statue

775
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,560
to the Mongolians' national hero.

776
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,600
Images of Genghis Khan

777
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,640
were banned during the Soviet era,

778
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,440
but look at him now.

779
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,200
130 feet of glittering
stainless steel,

780
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,160
looking east to his birthplace.

781
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,520
I met up with the remarkable man
behind the project,

782
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,280
ex-world wrestling champion

783
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,320
turned businessman and politician,

784
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,400
Mr Battulga.

785
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,920
Also the owner of one
of those 90 television channels.

786
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,000
This is Mr Battulga.

787
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,320
Mr Battulga, how do you do?
It's so good of you to see me here.

788
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,400
Joanna Lumley.

789
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,680
Mr Battulga was the one who had made
the statue to Genghis Khan

790
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,680
on such a scale
that you literally fainted.

791
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,720
You saw it standing, glittering,

792
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:13,640
in the middle of these great plains.

793
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,560
Huge mounted horseman
looking fierce and so on.

794
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,440
Why did you think it was important

795
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,800
to have a statue of Genghis Khan?

796
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,000
SPEAKS MONGOLIAN

797
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,560
But what I didn't show you last time

798
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,960
was the even more ambitious scheme

799
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,440
Mr Battulga was dreaming up.

800
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,760
His plan was to build
a new eco-city,

801
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,160
radiating out from a centre,

802
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,400
where was going to be
the tallest Buddha ever made.

803
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,840
To spread his blessings
out over the eco-city

804
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,120
for 300,000 people.

805
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,800
I couldn't wait to see it.
I said, have you started?

806
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,280
Has this even started,
this crazy idea?

807
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,480
And he said, yes.
Well, we went out to see it.

808
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,400
And there, right out
in the middle of nowhere,

809
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,640
were the makings of one of
the largest Buddhas in the world.

810
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:18,560
And a site cleared
ready to start building

811
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,840
Mr Battulga's dream city.

812
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,000
They had started building,
they had got a great crane up there,

813
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,640
but, ah, I couldn't believe it.

814
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,680
I wonder...

815
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,720
I wonder if it's built.

816
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:34,800
I wonder if it's going to be built.

817
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,800
I wonder if the plans
have been abandoned.

818
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,720
I'd love go back and see it.

819
00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:41,360
Mr Battulga, what became of him?

820
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,440
I knew he was impressive.

821
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,760
For a start,
he spoke in a very soft voice.

822
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,240
Quite often,
extremely powerful people

823
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,320
speak in a very soft voice.

824
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,520
He wasn't only politically powerful,
he was physically powerful.

825
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,160
Because he was a world
wrestling champion or something.

826
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,600
Extraordinary.

827
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,880
When you see him very quiet,
very modest. Very courteous.

828
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,040
Dandy, our fixer,
took me aside and said,

829
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,280
"Mr Battulga is going places."

830
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,800
Just how far, I had no idea.

831
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,120
The year
after we'd been filming there,

832
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,760
he became the president of Mongolia.

833
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,800
And he was photographed with Putin,

834
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,680
he was photographed with Trump.

835
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,720
Strong man.

836
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:22,960
Extraordinary man.

837
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,280
TRAIN HORN

838
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,600
The Trans-Siberian Railway

839
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,560
is so immense that we couldn't
do it all in one go.

840
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,920
By the time we had returned
for the second chunk,

841
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,960
two months had elapsed.

842
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,240
And venturing north into Russia,

843
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:41,480
we were confronted
with the biting chill

844
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,040
and beauty of a Siberian winter.

845
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,680
Lake Baikal is enormous.

846
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,000
And it contains a staggering 22%
of the Earth's fresh water.

847
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,640
That's more
than the combined volumes

848
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,000
of all the North American
Great Lakes put together.

849
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,320
We'd come here to film the only
freshwater seals in the world.

850
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,480
But our delay
made that almost impossible.

851
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,800
I wish I could see the seals,

852
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,560
the freshwater seals in the lake.

853
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,320
But I can't. It's very cold and
they are not coming up to the top.

854
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,360
So I've come
to this beautiful museum,

855
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,520
where I understand they've got
three in captivity.

856
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,560
Ones that have been rescued.

857
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,040
So I make my skiddy way up the path.

858
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,520
And here we are, Baikal Museum.

859
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,920
It's something of a mystery
how Baikal seals came to be here,

860
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,960
nearly 2,000 kilometres
from the sea.

861
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,400
They may have swum up rivers,

862
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,160
or possibly the lake was linked
to the ocean at some point

863
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,200
in ancient history.

864
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,280
However they got here,

865
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,240
they've been here
for over two million years.

866
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,000
You can see from their figures
that they have regular meals.

867
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,520
Do you throw for each seal?
Yeah.

868
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,800
So this only goes to Baikal?

869
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,840
This is only for Baikal.

870
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,920
This is for Yola.

871
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,720
And this is for Dot the seal.
OK.

872
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,160
'To give me
something constructive to do,

873
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,840
'we'd arranged our filming
around their breakfast.

874
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,800
'As presenters, we are always asked
to join in on something.

875
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,480
'You know, "Oh, you're making
something, a spindle out of wood.'

876
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,520
"Can I have a go
at trying to do it.

877
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,560
"Oh, you're making chapatis.
Let me have a go.

878
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,920
"Oh, you're doing brain surgery.
Do let me hold that."

879
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,880
No, but they don't do brain surgery.
But they like you to be involved.

880
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,080
And usually I kind of go,
do I really have to do that?

881
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,400
Do I have to do this Greek dancing
or whatever it is?

882
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,200
But one thing I never mind
is anything to do with animals.

883
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,240
And so it was pretty much thrilling
to help feed the seals,

884
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:48,320
except, to my horror,

885
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,880
the seals didn't know me,
so they were afraid of me.

886
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,560
Anna is saying that they won't come
if I'm looming over them.

887
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,880
They are afraid.

888
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,880
So even though
they are hungry for breakfast,

889
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,960
they are not going to come,

890
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,480
because at the moment, the fish
are just floating in the water.

891
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,160
'I suppose it's good
that they are not too tame.

892
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,480
'But it meant that I had
to retreat behind the glass,

893
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,640
'where they knew I was no threat.'

894
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,480
Come and eat... Eat this one.

895
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,200
Eat this one.

896
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,200
It's been done so beautifully,

897
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,280
the thoughtfulness

898
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,560
of making it clear,
lovely blue Baikal water

899
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,640
and a block of ice.

900
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,960
But you can't help thinking
that these clever animals

901
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,080
are pretty much caged.

902
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,120
I know it's for their own safety,
but...

903
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,800
We've got a pond in the garden
at home with fish in it.

904
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,880
We've got nine fish there.

905
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,080
Which have really been given to us
by people who say,

906
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,360
"We used to have a fish pond
and we're not having one any more,

907
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,440
"can you take the fish?"

908
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,200
And although we've got everything
that they could possibly want

909
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,760
and I feed them
and they've got reeds and rushes...

910
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,960
..I don't like
anything that's locked up.

911
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,480
But it's better than being dead.

912
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,800
Expression, darling.
Look at your face.

913
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,800
Look at your whiskers.

914
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,080
Head for me, Joanna.
Next time,

915
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,360
join me herding camels
in the far west of Uzbekistan.

916
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,600
Hang on a second,
hang on, hang on, hang on.

917
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,880
We couldn't stop them.
The crew got in the way.

918
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,400
They were getting quite cross.

919
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,440
I'll walk with them,
but I can't manage them

920
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,600
and talk to camera.

921
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,480
In Samarkand,

922
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,000
I'll tell you the grisly story
behind one of central Asia's

923
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,080
most magnificent mosques.

924
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,040
Timur saw that
there had been a dalliance

925
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,840
and he had the architect executed.

926
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,920
And in India I learn a lesson
the hard way on glorious Lake Dal.

927
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,680
Can I buy?

928
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,640
What was I thinking?
I don't think

929
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,800
I've ever felt so ill
in all my life.

930
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,760
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