Skip to playerSkip to main content
Watch TV
  • 2 days ago

Category

📺
TV
Transcript
00:00Transcription by ESO. Translation by —
00:0721st April 2013.
00:09A Danone Air flight takes off from Oslo Airport,
00:12with 250 holidaymakers bound for Athens.
00:17Minutes after takeoff,
00:18air traffic control receives mayday calls from the captain.
00:21Both engines have failed, and the autopilot refuses to engage.
00:24This girl had to call her supervisor.
00:27This is the last contact anyone ever has with the stricken aircraft.
00:30The wreckage was found strewn across this farmer's field,
00:33here in the Austrian region, a fair to cut.
00:36Evidence still abounds everywhere.
00:38This bolt, smells of aviation fuel, was clearly used to secure the wing.
00:43I'll try and sell it later.
00:45But what caused the crash?
00:47In the following days, speculation mounted over what went wrong.
00:50Some think the co-pilot Grant Elliott misread altitude data,
00:54initiating a climb that caused catastrophic loss of thrust.
00:57Others that have fueled transfer valve malfunctioned,
01:00leaving the plane with catastrophic fatigue crack ice buildup on the wings
01:03due to a de-icing equipment,
01:05mal-plogged pitot tube and incorrect speed reading amid end thrust.
01:09Why was a woman flying a plane?
01:13Whatever happened on that fateful day,
01:15250 package holidaymakers never reached Athens.
01:21In fact, this fatal accident never happened.
01:24I made one up so I didn't get into trouble with a real airline.
01:27There is no Dan on air. That's the name of a yoghurt drink.
01:30Grant Elliott is the name of my physio.
01:32And even the Austrian region of Ferdikot translates as horse shit.
01:36This is actually Swatham,
01:38but it's the kind of all-too-plausible timeline
01:41that can reveal a very real truth.
01:43Just as an aircraft black box can learn as the fatal flaws
01:46that made a plane crash,
01:47perhaps it's time for me to look inside my own black box.
01:54This is just a painted cigarette case
01:56to reveal the flaws that made me malfunction.
01:59Time then to examine the black box that is my mind.
02:03Welcome to How Are You?
02:07It's Alan Partridge.
02:10How are you?
02:13I'm Alan Partridge.
02:15Six months ago, I passed out in a woman's lap
02:17at a product launch for Banroyd pig and cow feed.
02:20Like many experts,
02:21I suspected it was the result of a mental health concern,
02:24giving me sufficient grounds to embark on a journey
02:26into my own mental state and the mind of the nation.
02:29I forgot what Dill looks like!
02:31Along the way, I've helped dozens of people
02:33better understand their mental health
02:35and turn their lives around.
02:36I would love to live here.
02:38I really would.
02:39But I'm yet to solve the conundrum in my own mind.
02:42Recovered!
02:43What's at the root of my mental malaise?
02:45With time running out,
02:46will I ever find the answers I need?
02:49Substation.
02:59Substation.
03:00In 2022, as part of BBC4's History of Electricity season,
03:04I pitched a programme about electrical substations.
03:07Substation.
03:08And although it wasn't picked up for series,
03:10I've never lost my fascination with these most mysterious of buildings.
03:14Substation.
03:16I find myself drawn to them, just as I am,
03:19or at least have been in this series,
03:21to the human mind.
03:23The British Electricity substation.
03:25Familiar sights in these residential areas.
03:28These humming hives of activity seem strangely unknowable.
03:35Unlike the human mind.
03:37We, er...
03:38We know where they are.
03:39We can...
03:40hear them whirring.
03:42But can we ever truly know what goes on behind those walls?
03:45Or...
03:46Or on that roof?
03:48Well, when it comes to our mental health,
03:50I believe we can.
03:52Because while we will never know what is contained
03:54in or on a substation,
03:56I intend to get answers about my own mind.
04:02Will it be easy?
04:03No way.
04:04Where I come from,
04:05it's easy to lose yourself in the carousel of
04:07plus business lunches,
04:09private rackets clubs,
04:10back slaps,
04:11big laughs,
04:12two-handed handshakes.
04:13Here, mental health is as far down the agenda
04:16as your cleaner's surname.
04:18Mental health isn't what people like I do,
04:20and yet do it I am doing.
04:22Were there traumas in my past
04:24that had led to my mental health issues?
04:26It was time to find out.
04:28And so I set to work.
04:30With the help of a mindfulness CD
04:32that came free with the Daily Express,
04:34I began to take a look back at my life,
04:36running through past experiences,
04:38scurrying down buried memory lane,
04:41pounding the pavements of remembering road.
04:44And there amid memories of scout camp
04:46and my dead mum's landline number,
04:48lay an incident that doesn't bother me
04:50but has never truly been put to bed.
04:52Stop it!
04:53One that marks the end of a special relationship.
04:56From 2019 to 2021,
04:58I was lead co-host of the BBC's early evening magazine show,
05:02This Time,
05:03a role in which I thrived.
05:05And welcome to the show that covers the full spectrum of human life.
05:09From aqua aerobics to abortion,
05:11from zebras to Zionism.
05:12The show that promises to be all things.
05:14To all men.
05:15And all women.
05:16And everything in between.
05:17But behind the scenes,
05:19concerns were mounting over the BBC's editorial slant,
05:22which combined Oxford's clever cloggery
05:24with a constant dumbing down.
05:25When you're around them such a long time,
05:27it is hard not to get attached.
05:28Aw.
05:29Aw.
05:30I think I'm a bit in love.
05:31Aw.
05:32Aw.
05:33Aw.
05:34Concerns that came to a head,
05:36my head,
05:37one fateful summer's evening in 2021.
05:39I am hopping mad,
05:41and I want something in the middle.
05:43I don't like Julian Fellow.
05:45I just don't like it.
05:46Is it snowing where you are?
05:47Do you like fireworks?
05:48What's your favourite soup?
05:50Who gives a shit?
05:51But let me be clear,
05:52there was simply no excuse
05:53for expressing my views in such a strident way
05:56on a live television broadcast.
05:58OK, I received messages of support
06:00from the names you see at the bottom of your screen.
06:03And in an email,
06:04broadcaster Kevin MacLeod said,
06:06there was a schadenfreude at seeing a prima donna
06:09with a kamikaze chutzpah
06:10to parler faux pas into a coup de théâtre.
06:14And even though that contains almost no English words,
06:16it's cool to know he was on side.
06:18But let me be clear, again,
06:20I lost the run of myself,
06:22I went too far.
06:23They won't let me back in the BBC.
06:31The BBC can be criticised for many things,
06:34from making newsreaders stand
06:36to going on and on about BBC Sounds
06:39to Nicholas Whitchell.
06:40But removing me from their employment
06:42isn't one of them.
06:43I supported that decision.
06:45And it's time I told them so.
06:48Which is why, years after my departure,
06:50they've agreed to meet me.
06:51I'll be returning to BBC Broadcasting House
06:54and it feels right.
06:57The hulking structure that is the BBC.
07:00The old building where Charles de Gaulle rallied
07:03the French resistance to repel the Nazis
07:05and alongside Winston Churchill
07:07helped win the Second World War.
07:09And the new building,
07:10where they did a dance marathon for sport relief.
07:13For decades, this magnet-shaped building
07:16has attracted talented people
07:18and people who went to university
07:20with the talented people
07:21and the children of the talented people.
07:24And while some say the tonnes of glass and steel
07:27could have been used to make
07:28a billion hospital thermometers
07:30or ten Princess Diana memorials,
07:32there's one man who doesn't have an axe to grind.
07:35His name?
07:39Alan Partridge.
07:40Yeah, just writing my name with my face.
07:42Alan Partridge.
07:43You're after yourself, yeah?
07:44Verity Howard is the BBC Head of People
07:47and I'm hoping she'll provide an insight
07:49into the way the corporation thinks.
07:51The word Verity means truth,
07:53so here's hoping she lives up to her name.
07:55Then again,
07:56the woman who used to work in compliance
07:57was called Joy.
07:58Oh, my God, talk about a bum steer.
08:03Yeah, so hugely impressed
08:05what you guys have been up to recently.
08:07I've been watching your outputs to the left
08:09and I've got to say, some good shows.
08:11Thank you, that's always nice to hear.
08:12Yeah, Inside the Factory, Casualty, Vigil.
08:14Who would have thought murder
08:15on a submarine would work?
08:16And yet so very nearly did.
08:17I thought Waterloo Road Series 13
08:19was a stonking return to form.
08:21Doctor Who is on as well with David Tennant
08:25who I actually think is good.
08:27Thank you, David was actually that poor doctor's again.
08:29Yeah, as I say, I don't really watch children's TV.
08:31But it's great to be back.
08:32I bet it brings back some memories.
08:33Oh, it does, yeah.
08:34There was a rather disheveled chap
08:35who used to sleep in his office.
08:36I don't think he was a workaholic.
08:38I think his wife just didn't love him anymore.
08:40That's him.
08:41You've got to be very careful about who you mention on television these days.
08:44But he's called Alan Douglas and lives in Kensal Rise.
08:47And as I say, his wife doesn't love him anymore.
08:50I just wanted to say upfront, I have no beef with the Beeb.
08:56I'm not anti-auntie.
08:58I'm simply here to open the windows, clear the air and just say friends.
09:02Well, I hope we are friends.
09:03And if there's anything I can do to provide more clarity, I am happy to do so.
09:07Well, from where I'm sitting, you are absolutely right to terminate my contract.
09:11We declined to renew your contract.
09:13I mean, if I were you, I wouldn't employ that guy.
09:15I don't even recognise him, you know.
09:17I mean, he had a moment of madness.
09:18You pulled the trigger, bang, dead.
09:20He went down.
09:21Well, if it's any comfort, it wasn't just one moment.
09:24Generally, an isolated incident would be, first and foremost, a welfare issue.
09:28When Nick Knowles thumped Pudsey.
09:30Whereas an ongoing situation invokes different protocols.
09:34No need for an explanation.
09:35Sometimes you have to make a decision on a whim. I get it.
09:37But obviously, we don't make these decisions on a whim.
09:40It was very much made in the round.
09:41And in this case, based on audience research.
09:44And it might not be in-depth research, but it's still research, isn't it?
09:47As you can see, this is an audience appreciation survey.
09:51Broken down into different segments of our audience.
09:54Showing, I'm sorry to say, very low appreciation amongst millennials.
09:58Good.
09:59And diverse audiences.
10:01Who've never liked me.
10:02So I'd have to push back a little and say it's actually quite detailed.
10:05Mm-hmm.
10:06You brought a copy with you, which is very thoughtful.
10:07And it is, as you say, quite detailed.
10:10As opposed to, I don't know, very detailed.
10:12That's interesting.
10:13Where does it lack detail, would you say?
10:15I'm not seeing any scores among the...
10:17And it's a demographic I score quite highly with.
10:19White dads over 40.
10:21What I like to call the WD40s.
10:23Our research also shows that viewers are less likely to tune in,
10:27and far less likely to stay with the channel when you're on.
10:30So we've got to take that into account.
10:31Thanks for hinting that.
10:32I've got a few data points of my own I'd like to share.
10:35Um, these are the audience attendance figures
10:38for the North Norfolk Digital Summer Roadshow.
10:40And as you can see, sharp rise in audience attendance
10:43over the fortnight where I hosted,
10:45ignored this day where there's a dip, a cow escaped.
10:47He was captured quite soon, but a boy was trampled.
10:50We also sourced testimonials from our internal stakeholders.
10:53And a similar picture emerges.
10:55Right. Interesting list of personnel.
10:56I'd start by saying he's an alcoholic,
10:58so you can scratch his name off.
10:59Oh, well, let's not get it off.
11:00Alcoholic, alcoholic, toilet cocaine,
11:03Chin Tuck and Love Child.
11:05Um, interesting name for a detective series, isn't it?
11:08Chin Tuck and Love Child, starring...
11:10Felicity Kendall, Trevor Reeve, Sanjay Baska...
11:14I don't know, you figure it out.
11:16Sticking out on Sunday night for idiots to watch.
11:18Sorry.
11:19These are highly experienced commissioners and programme makers.
11:21Yeah, I also have a list of testimonials
11:23from producers I've worked with,
11:24none of whom have love children or substance issues.
11:27Uh, this one guy did have a Chin Tuck that went wrong.
11:30There's a picture of him.
11:32And bigger...
11:36Uh, I'm sorry, who's Pete Gabbatas?
11:38Oh, Pete Gabbatas. Oh, where to start?
11:40Um, Pete used to run, uh, Blue Barn Media in Norfolk.
11:45Yeah, he's the genius behind Foot and Mouth, Fire in the Farmyard.
11:48Which one are NAFTA.
11:49And of course, you can forget Welcome to Ryman's.
11:51I'll send you his showreel. It's on VHS.
11:53Yes, that's fine.
11:54Well, thank you for bringing all that in.
11:56And thank you for thanking me.
11:57And thank you.
11:59And don't make a series called Chin Fuck and Love Child without my permission.
12:03Thanks.
12:04I thought long and hard about whether to say this in a documentary, but say it I will.
12:10I did not like that woman.
12:12And was proud to have come out of the exchange on top.
12:15Even though she recognised my laptop as BBC property and I had to give it back.
12:19One word, Lynne.
12:20Catharsis.
12:21Know what it means?
12:22It's a feeling of being cleansed after an emotional release.
12:24Nice try.
12:25Not too wide of the mark.
12:26It's feeling chipper after putting someone in the place and moving on.
12:30I suppose they already feel chipper because they moved on ages ago.
12:32No, not them, Lynne.
12:33Me.
12:34I feel, I feel chipper.
12:35Why would they feel...
12:36Why would the BBC feel chipper?
12:38Because they've managed to bring in new people so things don't go wrong.
12:45I mean, it's not a foul, but I didn't want to do anything.
12:48It's a foul, isn't it?
12:49It's just a foul, isn't it?
12:51It's a foul, isn't it?
12:52It's a foul foul, isn't it?
12:53It's a foul foul, isn't it?
12:54I mean, it's a foul foul, isn't it?
12:55It's a foul foul.
12:56It's a foul foul.
12:57I mean, it's a foul foul foul.
12:58so things don't go stale.
13:02Lynne, I know bread goes stale,
13:05and I'm pretty sure croissants go stale,
13:08but I've never heard of a seasoned broadcaster going stale.
13:12But, um, maybe you're right, you know,
13:15maybe employees do go stale.
13:18Maybe I should put my own staff under review.
13:20Let's see who else is out there.
13:22Fine by me.
13:24OK, dig out your CV, we'll get you re-interviewed.
13:26How about Friday?
13:27Nine a.m.?
13:28Perfect.
13:29Great.
13:32Cathartic it may have been,
13:33but looking back at this footage,
13:35I realised I'd over-criticised a woman
13:37who deserved less criticism,
13:39and I couldn't back down.
13:40The piece I'd been seeking continued to elude me.
13:43It says here that in 1990 you worked for Lung Polly as a travel agent.
14:02Sorry, travel assistant.
14:04I mean, you know all this.
14:05So, it's all great.
14:07A few questions.
14:09Can you tell me the exchange rate from the dollar to the pound, please?
14:13Oh, er, I don't know.
14:15I'd have to call into the bureau de change.
14:17Will I need a coat when I'm opening the garden centre tomorrow?
14:21You'd have to see how it feels.
14:22Can you tell me what day the 26th of January fell on last year?
14:30Oh.
14:30Yeah, it doesn't matter.
14:34Erm, I have to tell you,
14:35the other two candidates fared very well on this.
14:38Other two candidates?
14:39Oh, I've got the names here.
14:40Erm, yes, er, er, earlier I interviewed, er, Alexa and Siri.
14:47Well, they're not really personal assistants.
14:50Siri, can you cancel my meeting with John Bezell, please?
14:52Meeting cancelled. Send it.
14:54Yes.
14:56Alexa, can you add talcum powder to my shopping list, please?
14:59Talcum powder added to your shopping list.
15:01Thanks, love.
15:02You see my problem, don't you?
15:05Hm.
15:06She does everything you do, and attitude-wise, well...
15:10Do they fold your underwear?
15:13Well, no, she doesn't have...
15:14Do they loosen your shoelaces so they slip on when you next wear them?
15:17Again, she can't...
15:18Do they lie to Jeremy Vance?
15:20Again, she can't...
15:21Do they lie to Jeremy Vine and say you're not in when you are?
15:24Do they send birthday cards to your grandchildren?
15:27Do they Fabrizia Carty?
15:28Do they inspect the lawn after it's mown
15:30and tell the gardener you want it shorter?
15:32Do they look up your nose to see if your nasal hairs have grown sick?
15:35Do they phone ahead to tell restaurants you don't like chatty waiters?
15:38Do they pretend not to hear you tut and sigh and mutter and whine?
15:42I wasn't aware you did those things.
15:44Is that a police car coming here?
15:46That's an ambulance!
15:50It's going next door.
15:52Katrina!
15:52What's wrong?
15:53It's Daryl.
15:54Oh, thank God.
15:55I think it's a heart attack.
15:56How? Were you having sex with one another?
15:58Was it from having sex with one another?
16:00Daryl Leonard Flench was a visionary.
16:09Starting out with just one tanning salon, Brown Dreams.
16:12He would go on to become the largest operator of tanning salons in the whole of Norfolk.
16:17And look what it's become.
16:19You see a brown person in Norfolk today who wasn't originally brown.
16:25And you know exactly who made them be brown.
16:29These guys, Flench and Son tanning centres.
16:31Norfolk's premium tanning centres.
16:33The CEO, this fella, Daryl Flench.
16:38I don't think I've seen him in such a light shade of brown.
16:43And, of course, he used to wear a lot of gold.
16:46This is plastic, of course.
16:48In fact, long after Daryl and the wooden coffin have decomposed,
16:55the gold plastic handles will last for a thousand years.
17:04But what are the real Daryl?
17:06To me, Daryl was a humble young man from Dis,
17:09whose warmth I know we'll all miss.
17:11A life of great wealth and largely good health.
17:15It's such a shame that it ended like it unfortunately has done.
17:19Sorry, I almost slipped into a lyric there.
17:22Purely accidental.
17:23It's actually one of the few forms of poetry that Daryl enjoyed.
17:28Daryl had such a passion for life.
17:31He loved beef, red wine, Ted Baker suits and Tinder.
17:36Sure, he had his vices.
17:38It's often said he made his money in the UV light district
17:40and spent it in the red one.
17:42But I know he was trying to cut down.
17:45Was he perfect?
17:47Maybe not.
17:48I should know.
17:49He stole my girlfriend.
17:50But, uh, I don't mind because he's dead now.
17:57Katrina, worry not for Daryl.
18:01I'd put money on the fact that he's probably up there right now
18:04cavorting with a lovely brown, topless angel.
18:07And if you ever need a shoulder to cry on Katrina,
18:13just to let you know,
18:14I've got two of them.
18:17And they're both waterproof.
18:20He's survived by his ex-wife and his four, possibly 12, children.
18:33I see God, our brother Daryl,
18:35and we commit his body to the...
18:37Ironic that he wants to be buried,
18:39given that he spends his whole life slowly cremating himself.
18:42Shhh!
18:44The Lord makes his face to shine upon him.
18:46Let that be gracious.
18:47Humans respond to grief in a myriad of different ways.
18:50The way we bereave is as individual as dental records.
18:54For every friend who erects a memorial rockery to a dead wife,
18:57another will lose thousands betting on cockfights in a Norfolk barn.
19:01Other reactions include sulking, hoarding, and buying a motorbike.
19:05So I refuse to judge anyone whose reaction doesn't conform to the norm.
19:10What are you grieving?
19:11Shut the fuck up.
19:13Sorry for your loss.
19:14So sorry for your loss.
19:15I'm sorry for your loss.
19:17The end, then, to a very sad day,
19:19a day of quiet reflection.
19:21My deepest condolences.
19:23I just hope now that Katrina will be given the space
19:26that she needs to mourn her loss,
19:28to reach a form of acceptance,
19:29and to move on in a hopeful way.
19:32It's funny.
19:33Daryl's death and burial in the ground
19:35kind of puts things in perspective.
19:37Somehow finding the precise cause of my mental woe
19:40doesn't feel that important anymore.
19:43It's called acceptance,
19:44and far from being a modern rebranding of the words giving up,
19:48it's actually the final step on the road to mental well-being.
19:51As my fat nana used to say,
19:53she'd sit in her armchair knitting mittens.
19:55Stop crying like a softie,
19:57pull your finger out and get on with it.
20:00Or as the Zen Chinese proverb puts it,
20:02before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
20:04After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
20:07I really like the Chinese.
20:09If you asked me to name my top five Chinese things,
20:12I would say Tai Chi,
20:14lifting almost a billion people out of poverty
20:16over the last 40 years,
20:17Kung Fu, prawn toast, and wisdom.
20:19They had this sussed a long time ago.
20:21They were talking about mental well-being,
20:23while people in Britain
20:24were still making houses out of shit.
20:28Acceptance has changed me.
20:30No longer so easily spun out
20:32by a dizzying array of anxieties,
20:34my ship has steadied.
20:35I feel as grounded and stable
20:37as a very squat man.
20:42So, Philip, what you're saying is
20:43when it comes to these girls,
20:46it's very much a case of,
20:47you know, put good stuff in,
20:48you get good stuff out.
20:49Exactly.
20:50It's all about ensuring
20:51the best possible quality
20:52from pig to plate.
20:54Always use nutritious feed
20:55because, in a sense,
20:57what they eat, we eat.
20:59Yeah, yeah.
20:59Although, wouldn't want to eat pellets.
21:01Um, now, that fat pig,
21:04she's going to keep a country pub
21:06in scratchings for, what, a decade?
21:08Oh, easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:10Sometimes you get a port scratching
21:11with a hair in.
21:12Doesn't bother me.
21:13I've spent weeks asking,
21:15how are you?
21:16But how am I?
21:17Well, in a sense, I've come home
21:18because nine months after collapsing
21:20on the groin of its chief executive,
21:22I'm pleased to say I'm manning the mic
21:24once again for Banroyd animal feed.
21:27Have I gone nowhere
21:27or come full circle?
21:29It's the second one.
21:30Now, this bacon, Bacon A,
21:33is from stock bred on low-quality feed
21:37without the added protein.
21:38OK.
21:42It's all right to eat bacon
21:44in front of a pig.
21:45I mean, ethically.
21:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:48Please don't eat my mother.
21:50Now, Bacon B
21:51is from a pig
21:52reared on Banroyd feed.
21:55Straight away, you'll notice
21:56it's got much, much more flavour
21:59and it's got that lovely colour
22:01along the back there.
22:01So, why don't you try it?
22:05I can't do it, Philip.
22:06This pink one keeps looking at me
22:08out of the corner of her eye.
22:09No one should have to hear someone say,
22:12I don't like the taste of your mum.
22:14You know, that's a private matter.
22:17I mean, if it helps,
22:18I mean, they'd eat this.
22:20Well, because they don't know what it is.
22:21I'm saying, you can make pork scratchings
22:23out of my mother.
22:24Which is why...
22:24And I'd probably eat them,
22:25but if you told me what it was,
22:27I'd say, get that stuff away from me.
22:29I loved her.
22:29Which is why Banroyd feed
22:32is so good for the pigs
22:34because it's got...
22:35Banroyd, yeah, I know,
22:35it's about Banroyd.
22:36It's about Banroyd.
22:37Banroyd animal feed is fine.
22:40Some people mischievously
22:41regard corporate presenting
22:42as the elephant's graveyard
22:44for old white men.
22:46I see it for what it really is.
22:48A great way to boost income
22:50and foster a mutually beneficial
22:52brand association.
22:53For me, that has to be
22:55Banroyd animal feed.
22:57Trotters down the best in class.
22:59And a great way
23:00to bring home the bacon.
23:05Couldn't oik for a second.
23:10What a polo goal.
23:13What a polo goal.
23:15Yes, I'm pleased to say
23:16I've never been happier
23:17with a life, a home
23:18and a woman I genuinely love.
23:20Well done, Zach, Xander and Zav.
23:23Absolutely superb.
23:24A year ago, I'd have said polo
23:26was a tedious gaggle
23:27of Britain's most hateful
23:28and chinless people.
23:29But Katrina likes it
23:31and now I do too.
23:32Awesome chaka.
23:33Awesome chaka.
23:34With players hailing
23:35from the home counties,
23:36Argentina and increasingly
23:38the Gulf states,
23:39the horse and hammer
23:40based sport is a great
23:41opportunity to meet
23:42a real variety
23:43of people of wealth.
23:44And I'm still trying
23:45to get Spencer to get me
23:46and invite St. Bart's.
23:47But that man,
23:48he is all mouth
23:49up and no trousers.
23:52Love to go to St. Bart's.
23:54Alan thinks it's a hospital.
23:56It's true, I'm unbelievable.
23:57Indeed, a few quiet moments
23:59listening to my old radio station
24:01merely reminds me
24:02how much happier I am.
24:03This is Carl Branning
24:04and Simon Denton.
24:05Branning and Denton,
24:07B-A-D,
24:08bringing you B-A-D radio.
24:10You can say that.
24:11This is North Norfolk Digital.
24:15So, a content man
24:16with a content mind
24:18at the end of a journey
24:19that might not have provided
24:20all the answers
24:21to our mental health crisis.
24:22I never asked you out.
24:23But it has somehow
24:24come together
24:25to create a series
24:27that's both informative
24:28and accessible
24:29that would work
24:30for either terrestrial channels
24:31or streamers.
24:32I was told you
24:33threw a brick at a swan.
24:34With a style that feels
24:35genuinely fresh
24:36and easily returnable
24:37across multiple series.
24:39Yeah!
24:39And here in my hometown,
24:42freed from the chains
24:43of past trauma,
24:44I'm able to once again
24:45enjoy the simple pleasure
24:46that is Norwich.
24:48Today, my mental well-being
24:49comes from walking,
24:50afternoon, talking,
24:51and that word again,
24:53acceptance.
24:54Because sometimes,
24:55enlightenment comes
24:56when you stop looking for it.
24:58There's a ladder there.
24:59Oh my God.
25:09Sometimes you don't need therapy
25:29or a journey of self-discovery.
25:30You just need to get onto a roof
25:32full of lost footballs
25:34and hoof them off.
25:36To me,
25:37every football freed
25:38felt like a problem forgotten.
25:40Professional jealousy,
25:41distant grandkids,
25:43guns receding,
25:44miss my dog,
25:46bullied in bed,
25:47Issa underperforming,
25:49horrible mum.
25:52Each one of these bad boys
25:53was tossed off
25:54and it felt good.
25:55You're not allowed up there, mate.
26:22I'm coming down.
26:25I'm coming down.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment