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00:00Now it's time for the Shipping Forecast.
00:04Shannon, West Bearing.
00:06North West, 3 to 5.
00:08For over 100 years, sailors and fishermen have received daily, life-saving warnings from the Shipping Forecast.
00:16Occasional rain. Good. Occasionally poor.
00:19It's now a national institution, and its soothing tones have become a recognisable comfort to all.
00:26Good. Occasionally moderate.
00:28Dividing UK and surrounding waters into 31 areas, it predicts wind, weather and visibility for those venturing out to sea.
00:42With modern technology now providing 24-hour forecasting, the twice-daily Shipping Forecast is no longer the only safety guide for those at sea.
00:53Hello. I wish I was on yours.
00:58But for me, the Shipping Forecast is timeless.
01:01It's like almost a prayer.
01:03Yeah, it's comforting.
01:04Comforting.
01:05I'm going to make those poetic words.
01:07We're sort of on a collision course.
01:18Meeting the people on and offshore.
01:22This is amazing.
01:23This is beautiful, huh?
01:24Whose lives depend on the weather and the sea.
01:28Oh, my goodness. Look at that.
01:30I'll do one of my famous engine prayers, if you like.
01:33Brrrrrr.
01:35Cut some fish, yeah.
01:36With the most amazing views.
01:40May the force be with you.
01:41Rain and showers, perhaps thundery later.
01:54Moderate or good.
01:56Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea.
01:59Variable two or three, becoming southwest three or five later.
02:03Fog patches, moderate or good.
02:05The Lundy Sea area takes its name from a small granite island off the Devon coast.
02:15It's a triangle of roughly 7,000 square miles linking Ireland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall.
02:23It's an area of notoriously stormy seas where the Bristol Channel meets the Atlantic Ocean.
02:28These waters have long been important for shipping, fishing and trade.
02:36And today they're also home to coastal communities, holiday resorts and fishing villages.
02:45It's a place where daily life is shaped by the power of the weather and the sea.
02:50Where better to start than the Cornish coast, a thousand kilometres of spectacular scenery and ancient villages.
03:07It's 5.30 a.m. in Port Isaac and only local fisherman Callum seems to be awake.
03:15This village has earned its keep from fishing since the 14th century.
03:21And Callum has invited me aboard his cheetah catamaran, the Evan George.
03:26Stand on the front bit, get your leg over.
03:28Anything you say, boss.
03:30In the words of my favourite shark-themed film, you're going to need a bigger boat.
03:35And where's my stateroom?
03:39Wait till you see your en suite.
03:45Attention all shipping.
03:47The forecast for Port Isaac is fair, becoming good.
03:50Risk of engine trouble later.
03:57Why is it so bumpy here?
03:59Well, we're right on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.
04:01Right.
04:02If you look out, there's no land to America from here.
04:05So any large swell's got a long time to be better.
04:08For fishermen like Callum, predicting stormy weather can be a matter of life or death.
04:16And in this part of Lundy, which is so exposed to the elements, it's especially important.
04:22You wouldn't believe the number of forecasts I look at, paid, unpaid.
04:27And you're just looking at a general theme for a few days.
04:31Yeah.
04:31No one's really got much idea.
04:35A few generations before, what did sailors rely on, fishermen rely on?
04:40Well, they did use a shipping forecast.
04:42I sometimes think, for people who listen to it, it's like almost a prayer.
04:46It's a form of words that you get so used to.
04:49Yeah, it's comforting.
04:50Comforting.
04:50Yeah.
04:51I often hear it from going out early and have the radio on.
04:53It often comes on, and I do listen to it.
04:56What do you want to hear when you switch on the shipping forecast?
04:59What do you want Lundy to be doing?
05:01No gales, hopefully.
05:03Of course, there are some things even the shipping forecast can't predict.
05:12Just hit a bit of something.
05:15I think we've just caught a bit of seaweed laying on the surface.
05:19Just seem to have lost power there for a second.
05:21All right.
05:22Can I make myself useful?
05:23Uh, no.
05:24Not at the moment.
05:25Can you see the dolphins?
05:32Oh, my goodness.
05:33Look at that.
05:35Look at that.
05:36Beautiful.
05:36That's wonderful.
05:47Beautiful.
05:54Well, try a bit more oil.
05:56I'll do one of my famous engine prayers, if you like, Callum.
05:59That would be lovely.
05:59Well, if there were anything like my arsenal prayers, you wouldn't say that.
06:04As Callum wrestles with the engine, this unscheduled stop is making me realise how small this boat is,
06:11and how vast and choppy the sea.
06:14Quite close to being sick.
06:18Oh.
06:19Preferably go over here, would you?
06:22A nice little gap.
06:26And it'll be better once we're moving.
06:29As with every good journey, I'm already learning new things about myself.
06:34In this instance, I'm not a good sailor.
06:39You all right?
06:40I'm sorry.
06:41I think I'm good.
06:42All right.
06:44We're just going to give it a final try to see if we have to abandon ship on them.
06:56Good news.
06:56Yeah, good news.
06:57Yeah, yeah.
06:58Your prayer must have worked.
07:01Check the football scores as well.
07:10Things are looking up.
07:11Now we're on the move.
07:12I'm finding my sea legs at last.
07:23I don't go that far out into deeper water anymore, because that's where the crab was, but it's no longer there.
07:32It's no longer there.
07:33It's no longer there.
07:33Callum's catch is being badly affected by climate change.
07:37It used to bring up a mixed haul of crabs and lobsters, but the crabs can't cope with the water warming up.
07:4418.5, the water temperature.
07:47That's the surface water temperature.
07:50That's amazing.
07:50It's madness, isn't it?
07:52It's utter madness.
07:53So, um, that's the reason for the change.
07:56What should it be?
07:57Now, 16.
07:59But that's a big difference, two degrees.
08:01Yeah.
08:02Yeah.
08:03Over a degree is a massive difference on the, on the, on the, on the fishing side of things.
08:09So, where are the crab going?
08:11They're off into deeper water and further north.
08:13So, the catcher, they're now catching crab, like in Denmark, where they've never caught it before.
08:24All the red and orange flags around here, uh, is me.
08:28So, uh, we're going to pick up some lobsters and bring them in.
08:31Right.
08:32So, everything's connected in one long line.
08:35Yeah.
08:36So, this is ten lobster pots all connected together.
08:39OK.
08:41And how far down are they?
08:4220 metres.
08:43So, this is 26, 27 metres here.
08:47Well, we've got our first lobster.
08:49Oh, there we go.
08:49Look at that.
08:54Quite lively.
08:56Yeah.
08:56Is that big enough?
08:57We're going to have to get the measure out and have a look.
09:00By law, Callum can only keep lobsters if they're at least 90 millimetres from their eye socket to the end of their back.
09:08The younger, smaller ones must be thrown back in the sea to breed and keep the population
09:12at a sustainable level.
09:15Well, she's just big enough.
09:16She?
09:17Yeah.
09:18Do you ever get nipped?
09:19I try and avoid it.
09:20It does hurt.
09:21It really hurts.
09:23Oh, I don't know otherwise.
09:24Second pot, second lobster, but this one, I would have said, was small.
09:31Yeah, a bit smaller.
09:32Yeah.
09:32So, this one's about, I don't know, four years old.
09:35OK.
09:36So, we'll put that one back and have that one again in a few years.
09:39It's hard work, Callum.
09:42It is very physical.
09:43I mean, you would need to be all right with that, wouldn't you?
09:45There's no way you can't really cut a corner with that.
09:47No.
09:48No, it's, um, it's a vocation.
09:50Yeah.
09:51It's not, um, yeah, it's not something you do for the money.
09:57And you say vocation, Callum, but family business as well, right?
10:01So, Tracey's dad and granddad were doing this.
10:03You've got...
10:03And great-granddad.
10:04And great-granddad.
10:05Yeah, my son's desperate to do it.
10:07He wants to fish.
10:08Yeah.
10:09But he's, um, the economics of it, he's struggling at the moment.
10:16Just to make it financially work?
10:18To make it financially work, yeah.
10:20And he's always come out with me from, well, since he could walk, really.
10:24And I say to him, what do you want to do today?
10:26And he say, go fish.
10:27And I say, really, on my day off?
10:29Just, ha!
10:30But he's always been super keen.
10:31And now he's still, he's a proper, fully qualified marine engineer.
10:36And he delivers, you know, like super yachts and things.
10:39So he's working on the sea?
10:40He's working on the sea, but he wants to come back fishing.
10:43But at the moment, because we've lost the crab, because of the global warming,
10:48the viability is not there.
10:50Okay.
10:51Hopefully we're not the last generation to go fishing from Port Isaac.
11:00This last part coming up now?
11:02Excellent.
11:03I'm feeling lucky.
11:04Feeling lucky?
11:05Good.
11:07Do you manage your prayer for this one as well?
11:09Okay, I'll do my best.
11:12After four hours at sea, we've caught just enough to head back to Port Isaac and offload the catch.
11:21It's now 9am, and Callum's wife, Tracy, is opening up their other business.
11:31A seafood cafe where some of our freshly caught lobsters might become dish of the day.
11:38Who shall have the fishy on a little dishy?
11:42Who shall have the lobster when that boat comes in?
11:45Hello, Tracy.
11:46Best catch ever.
11:47My first lobster, Tracy.
11:49Yeah, the first lobster caught, we've seen dolphins, minky whale, gannets.
11:53Wow, that's lovely.
11:54But not many lobsters.
11:56So is it lobster in as many ways as you can?
11:59Yeah, lobster, lots of different ways, yeah, to suit all tastes, hopefully.
12:04So this is what they would call a kind of through business now.
12:07You've got Callum catching them, you're prepping them.
12:10Yes.
12:11Serving them.
12:12Yes.
12:12So you get more of the benefit of that whole process?
12:15Yeah, definitely.
12:16Yeah, rather than Callum just wholesaling it.
12:19And that's a way of making it work?
12:20Yes.
12:21Could we do some prep?
12:23Yes, yes.
12:24Excellent.
12:24Well, I'm not going to keep you from the sea.
12:25Are you hungry?
12:25No, no, I'm off.
12:26I'm always hungry.
12:27It's nice to meet you.
12:28Callum, you too.
12:29Catch many more.
12:30Bye, thanks.
12:32So Tracy, what are we going to do?
12:33What would you like to make?
12:35I would like to make the most elaborate lobster termidor you've ever seen.
12:40Well, happily just a regular lobster.
12:43The idea of pulling a lobster out of the sea, bringing it to you, prepping it, cooking it,
12:50eating it all in one go.
12:51I know.
12:52It's a good feeling.
12:53Yeah.
12:53The freshness you're going to get is fantastic.
12:56On reflection, perhaps simplicity seems best.
13:02So you're looking for a nice clean cut all the way down.
13:08Yeah.
13:09Yeah, just like that.
13:11So to make the most of its freshness and flavour, I'm opting for a simple but delicious sandwich.
13:18Look at that.
13:19Lovely.
13:20Put some salad leaves on.
13:21Again, as much as, you know, as much as you like.
13:23A little scatter of salad leaves.
13:26So do you listen to the shipping forecast?
13:27Is that what every fisher person does, is to kind of tune into the shipping forecast and see what's happening?
13:31When I was a child.
13:33Yeah.
13:33And my dad was fishing from Port Isaac.
13:35So if he wasn't at home, as children, we had to listen to the shipping forecast and we used to have to write it down for him.
13:42So if I were to say Viking Fortes, Cromartie Fortes, you know what I was talking about.
13:45Yeah, I know.
13:46Yeah, it's in there, right?
13:47Yeah, it's in there.
13:47And just that rhythm of it is so lovely, isn't it?
13:52Pop a little bit of lemon on top.
13:54Excuse me if you don't mind.
13:55Well, yeah, make it, you know, you've been on MasterChef, you can do this.
13:59Thank you very, very much indeed.
14:01No one is touching this sandwich apart from the presenter.
14:05I just want to be really clear about that.
14:06Lunchtime.
14:16What could be nicer?
14:19Lobster from the sea.
14:22Prep by my own fair hand.
14:24Squeeze a lemon.
14:24Bon appétit.
14:33Lovely.
14:34All worthwhile.
14:34It's been great to be here.
14:37I've really enjoyed it.
14:38What's most impressive is the way Callum and Tracy and everybody here has adapted to not the sort of timelessness of it, but the changing circumstances, right?
14:50Just like weather blowing in unpredictably from the Atlantic, you never know whether your business is going to be viable or not.
14:56There are all so many factors that come into play in that.
14:58And I love the way they've adapted with resourcefulness that's just typical of fishing communities everywhere.
15:04And my hope is that just as Tracy, you know, three generations of fishermen before her, I just hope there's a generation coming after their son, Will, who will keep that tradition going.
15:22Obviously adapting it, rejuvenating it, reimagining it, being creative.
15:27I'm back on board ship, exploring the Lundy Sea area on a beautiful vintage German ferry.
15:49You join us on the pitching deck of the lovely MS Oldenburg, making our way down the Bristol Channel to the point where it becomes the Atlantic Ocean.
15:59It's two hours by boat or ten choppy nautical miles from the coast of Devon to the tiny remote island that the Lundy Sea area is named after.
16:14Since reading Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe as a kid, I've always wanted to have that castaway experience.
16:26And celebrity jungle aside, I have a feeling Lundy might be the closest I'll get.
16:31This three mile long lump of rock is only accessible by ferry twice a week and only in summer in good weather.
16:45Look at that, beautiful.
16:47It is beautiful.
16:49Lucy is one of the few people who grew up there.
16:51It's a beautiful place to live, but you've got to be a certain sort of person to be able to live there, you know, miles away from everything.
16:59When the wind and the fog comes in, that island is quite a rough place to be.
17:06Also an isolated place to be if the ship can't get there.
17:09What do you do?
17:09So we get moments when the fog is bad, the helicopter can't come in.
17:13If there's an emergency, then the lifeboat might go.
17:16I think you love it, don't you?
17:18I can tell you do.
17:18I love it.
17:21We're sort of on a collision course like that, aren't we?
17:32I've been looking to see a little swing to pull.
17:34Yeah, we're going, we're going.
17:38Let's be around here.
17:39OK.
17:41I think we might have a seal on the beach, but it's really hard to see.
17:43Oh, yeah, yeah, great seal.
17:45Oh, yeah, one's moving.
17:47Yeah, all three seals there.
17:48So we're just coming down the east side, and then we've got the jessie just ahead of us.
17:55So the boat's going to war up, and you'll be able to get up on top of the island and have a look.
18:00Well, thanks so much for the introduction.
18:02No problem.
18:02I'm really looking forward to it.
18:04Have a stupid day.
18:04I hope you get the magic.
18:05Inhabited since the Iron Age, Lundy was colonised by marauding Vikings, and in the 15th and 16th centuries even became an independent pirate kingdom.
18:17Now the only marauders are tourists, catered for by National Trust's staff and volunteers.
18:29Hello, Richard.
18:31My name's Joe.
18:31I'm the island warden.
18:32Joe, what a pleasure.
18:33How was your sailing today?
18:34It was great.
18:34Great.
18:34It's a pleasure to be here.
18:35I've always wanted to come.
18:36Excellent.
18:36Let's show you the island.
18:37Great.
18:41Joe has lived on the island for two years.
18:43His job is to make sure the bird population here is thriving.
18:50So for someone who's interested in birds, well, then this is great because it's a sort of very distinctive environment and protected environment.
18:56It is, yes.
18:57So we're a site of special scientific interest.
19:00We've recently become a bird observatory.
19:02The water's behind us, a marine protected area.
19:05Some of the highest marine protections in the country.
19:07I'm an avid bird watcher, so Joe's offered to take me for a closer look at the cliffs, where there's a huge colony of rare seabirds, including the Manx shearwater.
19:21A slim, black-winged bird the size of a small gull that winters in South America, but breeds on islands around the UK.
19:29Manx shearwaters, they're burrow-nesting seabirds.
19:36They need predator-free environments.
19:39You're not going to get that on the mainland.
19:40You need an island that's free of rats.
19:42And Lundy here, for the last 20 years, has been a safe haven for these seabirds.
19:47Numbers have increased exponentially.
19:49We've now got over 40,000, 50,000 seabirds breeding on the island.
19:53Take me to your seabird.
19:54I would love to show you a chick, Richard.
19:56Come on, this way.
19:57OK.
19:57Manx shearwaters often occupy pre-made burrows dug by rabbits or other birds.
20:05But Joe's made a few, too, to help the colony along, and covered this one to protect the chick while we're filming.
20:15And this chick...
20:16Oh, my goodness, look at that.
20:18My goodness, look, that's a chick.
20:20Really?
20:21Absolutely, Richard.
20:22So this is being handled under a ringing licence, which I hold, so I'm happy for you to hold the bird.
20:27I just don't want to stress her.
20:28Let's hold that wing.
20:29That's perfect.
20:30You're doing really well, Richard.
20:32I love these, but I seriously, I seriously love them making shearwaters.
20:35I never thought I would ever hold a chick.
20:37It's wonderful.
20:38Very special.
20:39It's beautiful.
20:40You've got the perfect grip.
20:42That is the most beautiful.
20:43Look at that, Bill.
20:45Long hook tip.
20:46Quite bitey.
20:47Quite bitey.
20:48They're perfectly evolved for catching squid, small fish.
20:52It's the most beautiful thing, isn't it?
20:55So downy and just...
20:57Absolutely.
20:58What's it about?
20:59Yeah, absolutely.
21:00We're going to reduce the amount of time this bird has got out in the environment.
21:05In you go, buddy.
21:06I can't believe I just held a Manx Shearwater.
21:12Um, is there a distinctive call to the Manx Shearwater?
21:17I'll do my best for you, Richard.
21:19All right.
21:19Um, you've got to imagine 25,000 birds going, flying all over the island, coming into the slopes.
21:28Just again, please.
21:29I'd like to hear yours.
21:32Bit coarser, bit coarser.
21:34Yes, perfect.
21:35You sound like a female.
21:37The male, slightly high pitch.
21:38Hey, we're kind of fluid.
21:40With careful guardians like Joe around, Lundy has been nurtured by the Landmark Trust since the 1960s.
22:01But before then, wealthy and often eccentric owners made their own mark on the place.
22:10In the 1800s, the appropriately named Reverend Hudson Grosset Heaven built the church.
22:17In 1925, Martin Coles Harman bought the island, declared himself king, and even introduced his own currency.
22:28How could you ever move from here?
22:31Seriously.
22:32It's just pinch yourself a lot of the time.
22:34I can feel already, Joe, that the sort of stresses of living in a highly technological, busy, crowded world that affect you.
22:43I can feel them going.
22:46Dissipate immediately.
22:47The Lundy effect.
22:48It is absolutely Lundy time out here.
22:50My time is spent out on the cliffs, watching birds, watching wildlife.
22:55I've got a question for you.
22:56Go for it.
22:56It may be an indelicate question.
22:58Yeah.
22:59Romance.
23:00Yes.
23:00Someone in your life.
23:02Do you have to have that ready made before you come here?
23:04Can it bloom here?
23:05It's a small pool of people, right?
23:06That would help.
23:08You meet like-minded people out here.
23:10So it actually becomes a bit of a love island in itself.
23:13So it could be Lunder instead of T.
23:15It could, yeah, absolutely.
23:16The hub is the important thing, isn't it?
23:27We're in the middle of the island now.
23:29Tavern just down here.
23:31Five o'clock today.
23:32Once we wave the ship off, everyone's going to gather in there.
23:35In the pub.
23:35De-compress.
23:36Enjoy a pint in the pub.
23:38Talking about the terrible behaviour of touring.
23:40Absolutely, yeah.
23:42What about everyday stuff?
23:43Say you've kind of run out of sugar or something.
23:45Bang on a neighbour's door.
23:46Or is there something you can do?
23:47Oh, I do have to knock on my neighbour's door
23:49and get the key to the shop.
23:50Just here.
23:51The Harrods of Lundy.
23:52Absolutely.
23:53Go check it out.
24:00Wow.
24:01Well, it has got a bit of everything.
24:03Look, savoy and cabbage, very important.
24:06Hello.
24:06Sorry I've been interrupting your shopping.
24:09Oh, look, coconut milk.
24:12Marigold's very important.
24:14That's very good.
24:15Blimey, choice of Cabernet Sauvignon.
24:18Ah, that's what I'm after.
24:21My favourite chocolate bar containing coconuts.
24:25I'll say no more than that, but can I buy this, please?
24:28Yes, certainly.
24:29Thank you very much.
24:29Is money all right?
24:30Yes, we can take card or cash is fine.
24:33So that's 90 pence, please.
24:34Thank you very much.
24:35I've lived in a village where the village shop was really this sort of comm centre as well.
24:41You'd know everything, right?
24:42Oh, yes, definitely.
24:43We know all the gossip.
24:45I shall come back off camera and continue this conversation.
24:47Absolutely, absolutely.
24:48See you later.
24:49See you.
24:49I've been asking myself, could I live on Lundy?
25:17To be honest, although I wouldn't be short of aubergines or my favourite bottle of Sauvignon,
25:22I'm not sure I have the temperament for it.
25:25I miss my friends too much and meeting new people.
25:28But I can see that for the right sort of person, Lundy's isolation is charming and its unspoiled beauty makes it a slice of paradise.
25:38Before I reduce its population by one and jump back on the ferry, there's a final thing I must do to get the best view of all.
25:52I guess the dead centre of Lundy, the shipping forecast area, is here, the old lighthouse on the island itself.
26:00Over there is Cornwall and over there through the haze is Wales.
26:04And that's where we're going next.
26:12Atlantic low, expected west Seoul, 1010 by midnight.
26:17The next port of call is southwest Wales, where the Lundy Sea area borders a 200-mile strip of some of the most beautiful coast in Britain.
26:26The Gower Peninsula, west of Swansea, is an area of outstanding natural beauty, popular with walkers, surfers and bird watchers.
26:41Here they have unusually high tides.
26:49The second highest on earth, in fact.
26:57Hi Richard.
26:58Hey Will.
26:58Great to meet you too.
26:59Yeah, nice to meet you too.
27:00This farm, complete with historic Webley Castle, has belonged to Will's family since the 1950s.
27:09For over 70 years, their sheep have grazed on the unique marshland.
27:14That's amazing.
27:16Look at that.
27:16I've never seen anything quite like it, because you've got the flat marsh, you've got the estuary, you've got the beach, you've got, well, like mountains and hills beyond.
27:27It's something, isn't it?
27:29The sea beyond the farm rises 10 metres at high tide, and when it recedes, leaves acres of almost unusable land.
27:37So, presumably when the tide comes in, how far does it come?
27:42It can come in and cover everything you can see, particularly if there's a high wind as well at the same time.
27:48So, well, I'm thinking that's a logistical issue for you, if you've got animals out there.
27:52Yeah, we rely on tide times, we know when the tide's coming in, and we've always got to keep a guard for it, and then we've got to get out there and bring them in if we know there's got a tide coming.
28:01They look happy from here, but can we see them closer?
28:03Yeah, we'll have to go and have a look at them, yeah.
28:07There's nothing like clinging to the back of a father's quad bike to make you feel like easy rider, though uneasy rider might be a better description.
28:19So, Will, how many acres of marsh are there?
28:22Oh, several thousand acres, yeah.
28:28So, happy sheep with big marsh to graze on.
28:31They've got a lovely area to graze on.
28:33They can go to the beach if they wanted, and they can do it all, yeah.
28:37But the sheep seem quite happy grazing here.
28:43A salt marsh like this one, where the tide continually floods coastal grassland, is rare in the UK.
28:50Watch this a bit.
28:51How are your boots, Richard? You OK, come through?
28:53What?
28:53It's characterised by gullies and drops created by silt deposits and water erosion.
28:58It's really important we've got to get the sheep in.
29:03The sheep won't notice the water coming in.
29:04They won't notice the little pills filling.
29:07So, it's really important we go and get them in well in advance.
29:09Looking at it in a sort of logistics point of view,
29:14wouldn't it be easier to graze your sheep on land which isn't covered by water?
29:19Yeah, yeah, it'd be a lot easier if they were safe and sound in a field, wouldn't it?
29:24But this is what we do.
29:25This is the farm.
29:26This is our fantastic product.
29:28This is a part and parcel of what makes it so great.
29:33And it is great.
29:35Lean like venison, because the sheep are exercise so much,
29:38and with unusual floral notes because of the unique grazing.
29:41This lamb is a delicacy served in some of the best restaurants in the UK.
29:48Where we're standing now, it's so different.
29:51The grass and all the herbs that grow here, which only grow here.
29:55Grass looks like grass to me, but it's obviously not regular grass.
29:58This grass, what we're on now, thrives in this environment.
30:02And if you're obviously standing on it, it's actually firm and dry, isn't it?
30:04Even though it gets covered by salt water.
30:07Yeah.
30:07The sheep and the lambs will have a nibble on that,
30:09and that all adds to the profile of the lambs.
30:22The tide's about to come in, and when that happens, there's no messing around.
30:28Will and his dad and brother all work together
30:31to bring in the thousand or so sheep that cover the six-mile area of Salt Marsh,
30:36with the help of Toby the dog, of course.
30:39And what can you get the dog to do to kind of steer the moon?
30:45Um, you can shout commands.
30:48Come on!
30:48No.
30:49Perfect.
30:50Come on!
30:51I'd whistle if I could.
30:53You've done this before.
30:54Yeah.
30:54I am.
30:56To be fair, it's a different sort of flock from the usual Sunday crowd.
31:01I've seen them have natural command, natural authority.
31:03And as you can see, they're on their way.
31:05They're on their way, aren't they, yeah.
31:07This is time-consuming, labour-intensive work.
31:11They're flying now.
31:12Especially for sheep, which are normally such low-maintenance animals.
31:17Power!
31:17Man over nature!
31:18Come on!
31:20But it's obviously worth it to turn the marsh into useful grazing
31:23and the lamb into an unusual delicacy.
31:28They're ignoring me over there.
31:29Yeah!
31:30Will's farm is a brilliant example of finding a way to work with the challenges
31:41of the weather and the sea, as many in Lundy have to do.
31:47But after that hair-raising dash to higher ground, we're starving,
31:50so Will's offered me a dinner of, what else?
31:53His saltmarsh lamb.
31:56So, as they say here, yachida.
31:59Ooh.
31:59I'm going to go with this one.
32:05Mmm.
32:08I don't know if this is me just thinking it,
32:11but I think there's a slight salt-backed taste to it.
32:14Yeah, yeah.
32:15Could that come off?
32:16It could come because you've got the grass down there,
32:18I guess, the salt water.
32:20So, yes, it almost is, I sometimes say it's almost like seasoned ready.
32:24You don't need to season it sometimes.
32:26I wonder if, yeah, that tastes really, really good.
32:28I'm going to have to have another piece just to check.
32:30Keep on going.
32:31Keep on going.
32:31I've really enjoyed my day in Lundy, and what a Lundy sort of day it's been,
32:43because it's all been about the weather, been about the rain, of course,
32:46and also that extraordinary landscape of the saltmarsh.
32:50Sea coming in, nourishing it, and in turn nourishing those sheep that give us that delicious lamb
32:56that seems to sort of distill something of the place into something on the plate.
33:01Next, in my whistle-stop tour of the shipping forecast, I'm heading for some Lundy seaside.
33:3050 miles south-east of Wills Farm, at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, is Barry Island,
33:47the iconic seaside town of Gavin and Stacey fame.
33:51So I'm off to see what's occurring.
33:56It's one of those places that kind of conjures summer of excitement and holiday and refreshment.
34:01It's the sort of more kind of Margate-y, I guess, Mablethorpe end of the spectrum.
34:07But a traditional seaside resort is one of my favourites.
34:11Some of my best childhood memories are of endless summers spent on Hunstanton Beach,
34:20running round in trunks, shrimping and eating chock ices.
34:25It probably wasn't unlike Barry, which by the early 20th century
34:29was a seaside mecca for miners and their families from the valleys.
34:33In fact, Barry was so popular that in 1934, on a hot August bank holiday,
34:42there were 440,000 visitors.
34:47That's a long queue for the dodgems.
34:49Like many seaside towns, Barry isn't quite as busy as it used to be.
35:00But I do get the sense that one thing it's bursting with is civic pride.
35:06We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all visitors to Barry Island today,
35:11and we hope you appreciate how clean and tidy it was when you arrived.
35:14Could you please help us keep it that way by bringing your litter and rubbish
35:18off of the beach and putting it in the bins provided?
35:26Now I'm hoping to do some kayaking with a Barry bigwig called Brian.
35:32Hello.
35:33Hi there.
35:33You are Fob.
35:35Yes, friends of Barry beaches.
35:36Richard.
35:37Brian.
35:38Hello, Brian.
35:39But we've entered into an agreement where if I help him do a bit of litter picking first,
35:43then he'll take me out on the water.
35:46Tool me up.
35:47Bill.
35:48So you've got yourself a litter picker.
35:50Thank you very much.
35:51Now what's the technique?
35:52Ah, right.
35:53So it's a highly skilled job, as you can see.
35:56You've done such a good job.
35:57I need to find some litter.
35:58Yes.
35:59Oh, hang on.
36:00Ah.
36:01A detector shard.
36:02Right.
36:04Oh, excellent technique.
36:06There you go.
36:06Look at that.
36:07Not on my watch.
36:08Do you think there's something special about Barry, Brian, that makes people want to come
36:14out and join with you and do this and take care of the place and make it nice.
36:18Barry is a special place.
36:20It's such a beautiful beach.
36:21And, you know, people are interested and they care and they want to show and protect where
36:27they live.
36:27And I think you can see that by the numbers that we have.
36:30They come out on our activity days.
36:33With not a stray contact lens left on the beach, it's time for Brian to make good his end
36:39of the bargain.
36:48Ta-da.
36:49Wow.
36:50I'm ready to go.
36:51Yeah, sadly.
36:52I've got some bad news.
36:53Oh, what's happened?
36:54The wind is a bit too frisky and you can see it's a bit choppy out there.
36:59It's a shame because I was looking forward to cleaving the waves with my mighty upper
37:03body strength.
37:03Oh, of course.
37:04And I was expecting to see that as well, Richard.
37:06If you've been listening to the shipping forecast this morning, we might have seen this coming.
37:10Indeed.
37:11Thank you for putting presenter safety first.
37:14No problem.
37:15Not everybody does.
37:16Take care.
37:17Look after yourself.
37:17See you.
37:17You too.
37:18Bye.
37:18I might not have been able to kayak in that, but a lot of people are taking their chances.
37:33So I've come spend some time with some lifeguards and see if I too could express yet more of
37:37my natural innate heroism.
37:39The RNLI are best known for saving lives out at sea, but they also have trained professional
37:47lifeguards at over 230 of the UK and Ireland's beaches, including Whitmore Bay here in Barrie,
37:54which has four full-time lifeguards.
37:59Most are young, highly trained and super fit like Beth, so I think I might fit in nicely.
38:05I'm sort of from this area, and I just, I love it.
38:09I love being by the beach.
38:11It's something that I've been around my whole life.
38:13We're all quite good on the board and swimming.
38:15We know the sea.
38:17We're aware of the dangers.
38:18So the best thing is to stop anyone getting into trouble.
38:22Yeah.
38:22We're sort of trying to keep people into the safest areas, the red and yellow flags.
38:27That's our sort of safe swimming zone.
38:29So people will just sort of think they're having fun, and before they realise it, they're out of their depth,
38:33or they're sort of, they've moved really far down the beach, and they just don't even realise it.
38:38And it's really important for you guys, then, to know what's going on.
38:41Yeah.
38:41And comps is a big thing.
38:42Yeah.
38:43If we've ended up having to swim out, and we don't have a radio on us, we do have, as a last-minute rule,
38:48sort of hand signals, which we use to communicate with other lifeguards.
38:54It could be me, right?
38:55Yeah, it could be you.
38:55I could make loads of interviews.
38:56And I've got to direct her to find him before it's too late.
39:10Time to save a life.
39:12Hoping my signals are less disco and more hero, it's time to put them to the test.
39:32A little bit further.
39:35And for the...
39:36Right.
39:37Right.
39:39Right.
39:39I'll keep it in mind, I'll keep it in mind.
39:55I'm finishing my tour of Lundi.
40:09Back in the beautiful village of Port Isaac, on the Cornish coast.
40:16The stunning scenery, warm weather, and historic buildings make this place a popular destination.
40:25But an additional draw for tourists is that it's the home of one of the last decade's musical sensations.
40:33First of the day.
40:34Ginger, dear.
40:36It's just cold tea with a fluffy head on.
40:37The fishermen's friends are a phenomenon.
40:44A group of ex-fishermen who sing sea shanties, they've played Glastonbury, and the Albert Hall toured the world and recorded ten albums.
40:53They've had two feature films made about them, a musical and several books.
41:00They're folk music royalty, and I've always wanted to meet them.
41:04It occurs to me that Port Isaac, this part of the world, is like Nashville for shanties singing, right?
41:10Oh, that's nice.
41:11And you're Dolly Park, well, I'm not going to say that.
41:12But this is absolutely the sort of place where shanties would have come from, and there's still some today.
41:18Yeah, definitely, yeah.
41:19When I first went fishing, we used to bring the moorings up with a block and tackle.
41:22And our father used to keep time, just going like one, two, and hey, hop, and that sort of thing, in a rhythm, to get all three of us leaning back at the same time.
41:30And that is a shant, it's just a chant.
41:31Well, it's a bit like marching soldiers, then, using somebody to keep a rhythm.
41:34Keep in step, yeah.
41:35Call and response to keep the rhythm going so that a group of men can act together almost as a machine.
41:41Like herding cats, but easier.
41:43Yeah.
41:44So it kind of almost anticipates the machine age, doesn't it?
41:48You're doing somebody to keep people together and in rhythm.
41:50Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
41:51And it sort of began to die out come the 1860s when there was a lot of mechanization came in with steamships and everything.
41:59And so the era of shanties sort of finished, I guess, around about the 1870s.
42:06So like the last time Arsenal won silverware.
42:08It won't be a typical one.
42:12In fact, the only reason many shanties have survived is thanks to a Cornish fisherman from the late 19th century called Yankee Jack.
42:20He found himself sailing ships during the American Civil War, hence the nickname.
42:24But travelled the world, collecting sea shanties, which he passed on to a famous folk song collector, ensuring they were preserved.
42:36I was thinking, where do you hear men sing now?
42:39Well, maybe at the football, perhaps, if you call that singing.
42:42But it's quite unusual for adult men to come together and sing.
42:45It's not down in Cornwall.
42:47I was going to say, Cornwall and Wales as well.
42:48I mean, they've got tremendous, the male voice choir has never died out here or Wales, you know.
42:53That's really interesting because I wonder if it has an origin in a bit of male camaraderie, solidarity.
42:58Sure of it.
42:59Mining is no walk in the park.
43:00Fishing also has its heralds.
43:02I think in this day and age as well, there's a lot said about men's mental health and, you know, unashamedly, we're an all-male group.
43:11Yeah.
43:11Trying to make it a feel-good thing.
43:12And an engagement with people as well.
43:14Yeah, right.
43:15And not to take ourselves too seriously.
43:17Right.
43:17And also that the songs are, because they're not, by and large, they're not written songs.
43:23They're songs that have evolved.
43:24Right.
43:25And so they're quite accessible to people.
43:27They're not terribly complex.
43:29And so people find it easier to join in with.
43:31Within a couple of verses, people already know the chorus.
43:33Do you know what I mean?
43:34It's very simple to get into.
43:35Yeah.
43:35People just find themselves singing along and tapping their feet, you know.
43:38If they weren't simple, we couldn't do them, to be honest.
43:40No, it's not that they have to.
43:41I'm glad they're simple because if you've set a accordion hanging about, I might just join you.
43:46Oh, there you go.
43:47Oh, yeah.
43:47That would be nice.
43:48Yeah, we've got the accordion coming up in a bit.
43:50I can't make any promises about a feel-good factor.
43:53Well, if you make people laugh, that's half the battle.
43:55All right.
43:56Well, let's do it.
43:58Luckily for me, it wasn't too hard to twist a few arms and rustle up the rest of the band for a last hurrah from Lundy.
44:07Hello, everyone.
44:08What a nasty surprise for you.
44:10We are the saucy, the fruity, the bawdy, the jolly rogering fisherman's friends today and today only, featuring the Reverend Richard Gould.
44:18Big round of applause, please.
44:20We're going to do a song you'll all know, which is a drunken sailor.
44:26Please join in, but not too loud.
44:27We don't want you to spoil it.
44:28Thank you very much.
44:29Here we go.
44:30One, two, three, four.
44:31What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:38Her lie in the morning, hooray!
44:42Up she rises, hooray!
44:46Up she rises, her lie in the morning!
44:50Put them in the scum, with a lee rail under!
44:53Put them in the scum with a lee rail under!
44:57Her lie in the morning, hooray!
45:01Up she rises, hooray!
45:03Up she rises, hooray!
45:05Up she rises, her lie in the morning!
45:09Put them in the brig until he's sober!
45:12Put them in the brig until he's sober!
45:16Her lie in the morning, hooray!
45:20Up she rises, hooray!
45:22Up she rises, hooray!
45:24Blue ray up she rises, Her eye in the morning.
45:49In the morning...
45:56Well done, you are great.
46:08So Lundy, really the interaction of people and coastlines,
46:12sea, sky, weather, the variables,
46:15and also the unknowns of politics and economics.
46:17But what I come away with is actually something
46:19that really affirms that sense that
46:21it's through facing those challenges,
46:23the resourcefulness and the creativity that that produces.
46:26Well, that's what gives a community its pulse and its heartbeat
46:31and really makes it live.
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