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S1 E1 – Sailing the Shipping Forecast with Rev Coles ⛵🌊
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00:00Now it's time for the shipping forecast. Shannon, West Bearing. North 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, pharaohs, white, Thames, Lundi, a blueprint for an epic journey around some of our beautiful coasts.
01:16We're sort of on a collision course.
01:18Meeting the people on and off shore.
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.
01:35Cut 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.
01:56Lundi, Fastnet, Irish Sea.
01:59Variable two or three, becoming southwest three or five later.
02:03Fog patches, moderate or good.
02:05The Lundi 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 5.30am 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.
03:36And 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.
03:51Risk 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 envelop.
04:08For fishermen like Callum, predicting stormy weather can be a matter of life or death.
04:16And in this part of Lundi, 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 the 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 Lundi to be doing?
05:01No gales, hopefully.
05:04Of 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?
05:24Uh, no.
05:24Not at the moment.
05:29Can you see the dolphins?
05:32Oh, my goodness.
05:34Look at that.
05:35Look at that.
05:36Beautiful.
05:45It's wonderful.
05:47Beautiful.
05:47Well, try a bit more oil.
05:56I'll do one of my famous engine prayers, if you like, Callum.
05:59That would be lovely.
06:00Well, if you're anything like my arsenal prayers, you wouldn't say that.
06:02As Callum wrestles with the engine, this unscheduled stop is making me realise how small this boat is and how vast and choppy the sea.
06:16Quite close to being sick.
06:18Oh.
06:19Preferably go over here, would you?
06:21A nice little gap.
06:23Thank you.
06:23And 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.
06:43All right.
06:44We're just going to give it a final try to see if we have to abandon ship on.
06:48Good news.
06:56Yeah, good news.
06:57Yeah, yeah.
06:58Your prayer must have worked.
07:01Check the football scores.
07:10Things are looking up.
07:11Now we're on the move.
07:12I'm finding my sea legs at last.
07:18I don't go that far out into deeper water anymore because that's where the crab was, but it's no longer there.
07:34Callum'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.
07:4618.5 the water temperature.
07:48That's the surface water temperature.
07:50That's amazing.
07:51It's madness, isn't it?
07:52It's utter madness.
07:53So that's the reason for the change.
07:56What should it be?
07:57Now, 16.
08:00And that's a big difference to degrees.
08:02Yeah.
08:03Half a degree is a massive difference on the fishing side of things.
08:08So 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.
08:19All the red and orange flags around here is me.
08:28So we're going to pick up some lobsters and bring them in.
08:31Right.
08:31So 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.
08:46Well, 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.
09:07The younger, smaller ones must be thrown back in the sea to breed and keep the population at a sustainable level.
09:15Well, she's just big enough.
09:17She?
09:17Yeah.
09:18Do you ever get nipped?
09:19I try and avoid it.
09:20It does hurt.
09:21It really hurts.
09:23Oh, and another one.
09:24Second pot, second lobster, but this one, I would have said, was small.
09:31Yeah, a bit smaller.
09:32Yeah, so this one's about, I don't know, four years old.
09:35Okay.
09:36So we'll put that one back and have that one again in a few years.
09:40It'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 the corner with that.
09:47No, no.
09:48It's a vocation.
09:50Yeah.
09:51It's not something you do for the money.
09:57And you say vocation, Callum, but family business as well, right?
10:00So Trace's dad and granddad were doing this.
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, 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's say, go fish.
10:27And I say, really, on my day off?
10:28But he's always been super keen.
10:32And 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 pot coming up now?
11:02Excellent.
11:03I'm feeling lucky.
11:05Feeling lucky?
11:05Good.
11:07Can you manage your prayer for this one as well?
11:09Okay, I'll do my best.
11:10After four hours at sea, we've caught just enough to head back to Port Isaac and offload the catch.
11:18It'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 a fishy or a little little dishy?
11:42Who shall have a lobster when that boat comes in?
11:45Hello, Tracy.
11:46I caught my first lobster, Tracy.
11:49Yeah, the first lobster caught.
11:51We've seen dolphins, minky whale, gannets.
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, serving 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.
12:18Yeah.
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.
12:28You too.
12:29Catch many more.
12:30Bye.
12:31Bye, thanks.
12:32So, Tracey, 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.
12:39Well, happily, just a regular lobster.
12:43The idea of pulling a lobster out of the sea, bringing it to you, prepping it, cooking it,
12:49eating it all in one go.
12:51I know.
12:52It's a good feeling.
12:53Yeah.
12:53Yeah.
12:53The freshness you're going to get is fantastic.
12:57On reflection, perhaps simplicity seems best.
13:01So, you're looking for a nice, clean cut all the way down.
13:09Yeah.
13:09Yeah?
13:10I just like that.
13:11So, to make the most of its freshness and flavour, I'm opting for a simple but delicious
13:16sandwich.
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 for?
13:27Is that what every fisher person does, is to kind of tune into the shipping for?
13:31I'll see what's happening.
13:32When I was a child.
13:33Yeah.
13:33And my dad was fishing from Fort Isaac.
13:36So, if he wasn't at home, as children, we had to listen to the shipping forecast,
13:40and 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.
13:46Yeah, I know.
13:46Yeah, it's in there, right?
13:47Yeah, it's in there.
13:48And 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.
14:12Lunchtime.
14:16What could be nicer?
14:19Lobster from the sea.
14:22Prep by my own fair hand.
14:24Squeeze a lemon.
14:24Bon appétit.
14:25Lovely, all worthwhile.
14:36It'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
14:46sort of timelessness of it, but the changing circumstances, right?
14:49You know, just 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.
15:03And 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.
15:34Ferry ball two to four.
15:36Becoming northerly or northwesterly three to five.
15:39Occasionally six in north.
15:42Rain at times.
15:43Good.
15:44I'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.
16:05It'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.
16:19Since reading Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe as a kid, I've always wanted to have that castaway experience and, 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.
16:57Yeah.
16:58You 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 right now, aren't we?
17:32I've been looking to see a little swing to port.
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.
17:44Oh, yeah, yeah. Great seal.
17:45Oh, yeah, one's moving. Yeah, all great seals there.
17:48So we're just coming down the east side, and then we've got the jesse 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, me.
18:02No problem.
18:02I'm really looking forward to it.
18:03Have a super day. I 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. I'm the island warden.
18:32Joe, what a pleasure.
18:33How was your sailing today?
18:34It was great, great. It's a pleasure to be here. I've always wanted to come.
18:36Excellent. Let's show you the island.
18:37Great.
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, yeah. So 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.
19:30The Manx 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 seabirds.
19:54I would love to show you a chick, Richard. Come 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 burr.
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 burr.
20:33I seriously, I seriously love them, Mike.
20:35Sheawater.
20:35I never thought I would ever hold a chick.
20:37That's wonderful.
20:38Very special.
20:39That's beautiful.
20:40You've got the perfect grip.
20:42That is the most beautiful.
20:43Look at that, Bill.
20:44Long 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.
21:05There you go, buddy.
21:09I can't believe I just held a Manx Shearwater.
21:11Is there a distinctive call to the Manx Shearwater?
21:17I'll do my best for you, Richard.
21:19All right.
21:19You've got to imagine 25,000 birds going...
21:21Flying 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-pitched.
21:38Hey, we're kind of fluid.
21:41Ha-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:44Ha-ha, ha, ha.
21:45Ha-ha, ha, ha.
21:46Ha-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:48Ha-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:53With careful guardians like Joe around, Lundy has been nurtured by the Landmark Trust since the 1960s.
22:00Pero antes de eso, los ciudadanos, y más o menos, los ciudadanos,
22:04los ciudadanos, los ciudadanos, los ciudadanos, los ciudadanos,
22:06en los 1800s, la llamada Reverend Hudson Grossetheván,
22:15construyó la iglesia.
22:17En 1925, Martín Coles Harman boughtó el island,
22:21declaró himself king, y incluso introducía su propio currency.
22:24How 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
22:39of living in a highly technological, busy, crowded world
22:43that affect you, I can feel them going.
22:46Dissipate immediately.
22:47The Lundy effect.
22:48It is absolutely Lundy time out here.
22:51My time is spent out on the cliffs, watching birds, watching wildlife.
22:54I've got a question for you.
22:56Go for it.
22:56It may be an indelicate question.
22:58Yeah.
22:59Romance.
23:00Yes.
23:01Someone 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 Tee.
23:15It could, yeah, absolutely.
23:17The 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.
23:37Enjoy a pint in the pub.
23:38Talking about the terrible behaviour of tourists.
23:40Absolutely, yeah.
23:42What about everyday stuff?
23:43Say you've kind of run out of sugar or something.
23:45Bang your neighbour's door, is there something you can do?
23:47Well, 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.
23:53Absolutely.
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.
24:11Marigold's very important.
24:14That's very good.
24:16Blimey.
24:16Choice of Cabernet Sauvignon.
24:18Ah, that's what I'm after.
24:21My favourite chocolate bar containing coconut.
24:25I'll say no more than that, but...
24:27Can I buy this, please?
24:28Certainly.
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.
24:36I've lived in a village where the village shop
24:38was 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.
24:47Yes, absolutely.
24:48Absolutely.
24:48See you later.
24:49See you.
24:50The area forecasts for the next 24 hours.
24:56Viking, Norfolk Sierra, South of Sierra,
24:59Southerly or Southeastern, four good,
25:02occasionally moderate.
25:03Lundy, Fast Met, Irish Sea,
25:07Northerly or Northwesterly, three to five.
25:09Occasionally six.
25:10I've been asking myself,
25:16could I live on Lundy?
25:17To be honest, although I wouldn't be short of aubergines
25:20or 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.
25:29But I can see that for the right sort of person,
25:31Lundy's isolation is charming
25:33and its unspoiled beauty makes it a slice of paradise.
25:38Before I reduce its population by one
25:45and jump back on the ferry,
25:47there's a final thing I must do
25:48to get the best view of all.
25:52I guess the dead centre of Lundy,
25:55the shipping forecast area,
25:56is here, the old lighthouse on the island itself.
26:00Over there is Cornwall
26:01and over there through the haze is Wales
26:04and that's where we're going next.
26:12Atlantic low, expected west Seoul,
26:151010 by midnight tonight.
26:17The next port of call is south-west Wales,
26:20where the Lundy Sea area borders a 200-mile strip
26:23of some of the most beautiful coast in Britain.
26:26The Gower Peninsula, west of Swansea,
26:35is an area of outstanding natural beauty,
26:38popular with walkers, surfers and bird watchers.
26:46Here they have unusually high tides,
26:50the second highest on earth, in fact.
26:56This farm, complete with historic Webley Castle,
27:04has belonged to Will's family since the 1950s.
27:09For over 70 years,
27:10their sheep have grazed on the unique marshland.
27:14That's amazing.
27:16Look at that.
27:19I've never seen anything quite like it,
27:21because you've got the flat marsh,
27:22you've got the estuary,
27:23you've got the beach,
27:24you'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,
27:33and when it recedes,
27:34leaves acres of almost unusable land.
27:39So, presumably, when the tide comes in,
27:41how far does it come?
27:42It can come in and cover everything you can see,
27:46particularly 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,
27:51if you've got animals out there.
27:52Yeah, we rely on tide times,
27:54we know when the tide's coming in,
27:55and we've always got to keep a guard for it,
27:58and then we've got to get out there and bring them in
27:59if 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.
28:04There's nothing like clinging to the back of a farmer's quad bike
28:12to make you feel like easy rider,
28:15though uneasy rider might be a better description.
28:19So, Will, how many acres of marsh, sir?
28:23Oh, several thousand acres, yeah.
28:26So, happy sheep with big marsh to graze on.
28:32They've got a lovely area to graze on.
28:33They can go to the beach if they wanted,
28:35and they can do it all, yeah.
28:40But the sheep seem quite happy grazing here.
28:43A salt marsh like this one,
28:44where the tide continually floods coastal grassland,
28:47is rare in the UK.
28:49It's characterised by gullies and drops
28:56created by silt deposits and water erosion.
29:01It'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 fill in.
29:07So, it's really important we go and get them in well in advance.
29:09So, looking at it in a sort of logistics point of view,
29:14wouldn't it be easier to graze your sheep on land
29:18which isn't covered by water?
29:20Yeah, yeah.
29:21It'd be a lot easier if they were safe and sound in a field,
29:24wouldn't it?
29:24But this is what we do.
29:25This is the farm.
29:26This is our fantastic product.
29:29This is a part of what makes it so great.
29:33And it is great.
29:35Lean like venison, because the sheep are exercised 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.
29:52The 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 notice it's 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 lamin.
30:12The 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
30:33that cover the six-mile area of Salt Marsh.
30:36With the help of Toby the dog, of course.
30:38And what can you get the dog to do to kind of steer the moon?
30:45Um, you can shout commands.
30:48Come on!
30:49No.
30:50Perfect.
30:50Come on!
30:51I'd whistle if I could.
30:53You've done this before.
30:54Yeah, I 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?
31:06Yeah.
31:06This is time-consuming, labour-intensive work.
31:11They're flying it now.
31:12Especially for sheep, which are normally such low-maintenance animals.
31:17Power!
31:17Man over nature!
31:19Come on!
31:20But it's obviously worth it to turn the marsh into useful grazing
31:23and the lamb into an unusual delicacy.
31:28Don't ignore me over there.
31:30Yeah!
31:30Will's farm is a brilliant example of finding a way to work with the challenges of the weather
31:42and the sea, as many in Lundi have to do.
31:44But after that hair-raising dash to higher ground, we're starving, Sir Will's offered me a dinner of, what else?
31:53His saltmarsh lamb.
31:54So, as they say here, yakida.
31:59Oh, I'm going to go with this one.
32:05Mmm.
32:05I don't know if this is me just thinking it, but 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, I guess, the salt water.
32:20Oh, yes.
32:20It almost is, I sometimes say it's almost like seasoned ready.
32:24You don't need to season it sometimes.
32:26I wonder if that tastes really, really good.
32:28I'm going to have to have another pizza to check.
32:30Keep on going.
32:31I've really enjoyed my day in Lundi, and what a Lundi sort of day it's been,
32:43because it's all been about the weather.
32:45It's been about the rain, of course, and 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.
33:05This is Radio 4, and now it's time for the shipping forecast,
33:08issued by the Met Office on the behalf of the Maritime Pest Line.
33:12Seoul, Lundi, Fontenet, Irish Sea.
33:17Westerly or southwesterly, three to five, occasionally six at first in East Lundi,
33:22and later in West Seoul, becoming variable...
33:25Next, in my whistle-stop tour of the shipping forecast,
33:28I'm heading for some Lundi seaside.
33:4250 miles southeast of Will's Farm, at the mouth of the Bristol Channel,
33:46is Barry Island, the 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.
34:02It'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 choc 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,
34:43there 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.
35:05We 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 off of the beach
35:19and 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.
35:50Now 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, I need to find some litter.
35:59Yes.
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?
36:19Barry 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.
36:28And 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 of
36:39the bargain.
36:40What?
36:48Ta-da!
36:49Wow.
36:50I'm ready to go.
36:51Yeah.
36:51Sadly, I've got some bad news.
36:53Oh, ¿qué ha pasado?
36:54El wind es un poco frisky y se puede ver que es un poco chompe ahí.
36:59Es un malo porque yo estaba esperando cuidar de la pared con mi fuerte cuerpo.
37:04Sí, claro, y yo estaba esperando que ver eso también, Richard.
37:06Si has escuchado la forecasta de enviar este mañana,
37:09podríamos ver esto.
37:10Sí, sí.
37:11Gracias por poner la seguridad de la seguridad de la seguridad.
37:14No problemo.
37:15No todo el mundo lo hace.
37:16Take care, look after yourself.
37:17Sí, tú también.
37:18Bye.
37:23I might not have been able to kayak in that,
37:30but a lot of people are taking their chances,
37:33so I've come to spend some time with some lifeguards
37:35and see if I too could express yet more of my natural innate heroism.
37:42The RNLI are best known for saving lives out at sea,
37:45but they also have trained professional lifeguards
37:48at over 230 of the UK and Ireland's beaches,
37:51including Whitmore Bay here in Barrie,
37:54which has four full-time lifeguards.
37:59Most are young, highly trained and super fit like Beth,
38:03so I think I might fit in nicely.
38:07I'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 it 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,
38:26the 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
38:31and before they realise it,
38:32they're out of their depth or they're sort of,
38:34they've moved really far down the beach
38:36and they just don't even realise it.
38:38And it's really important for you guys then
38:39to 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
38:44and we don't have a radio on us,
38:46we do have, as a last minute rule,
38:48sort of hand signals,
38:50which we use to communicate with other lifeguards.
38:54So we have...
38:54It could be me, right?
38:55Yeah, it could be you.
38:55Beth has roped in another lifeguard, Joe,
39:01to pretend to be a swimmer in trouble.
39:03And I've got to direct her to find him
39:06before it's too late.
39:10Time to save a life.
39:12Hoping my signals are less disco and more hero,
39:27it's time to put them to the test.
39:32Out a bit further.
39:35Out for the...
39:36Right.
39:37Right.
39:39Right.
39:39Pick up casualty.
39:46Yes.
39:48Joe,
39:49when you want to name your first kid after me,
39:52it's Richard.
39:53Right.
39:53I'll keep it in mind.
39:55Keep it in mind.
39:55I'm finishing my tour of Lundi
40:09back in the beautiful village of Port Isaac
40:12on the Cornish coast.
40:13The stunning scenery, warm weather
40:18and historic buildings
40:20make this place a popular destination.
40:25But an additional draw for tourists
40:27is that it's the home
40:28of one of the last decade's musical sensations.
40:31The first of the day.
40:34Ginger in the air.
40:36It's just cold tea with a fluffy head on.
40:42The Fisherman's Friends are a phenomenon.
40:46A group of ex-fishermen who sing sea shanties,
40:48they've played Glastonbury
40:49and the Albert Hall toured the world
40:51and recorded ten albums.
40:55They've had two feature films made about them,
40:58a musical and several books.
41:00They're folk music royalty
41:02and I've always wanted to meet them.
41:04It occurs to me that Port Isaac,
41:07this part of the world,
41:08is like Nashville for shanties singing.
41:10That's nice.
41:11And you're Dolly Park.
41:12Well, I'm not going to say that.
41:13But this is absolutely the sort of place
41:15where shanties would have come from
41:16and is still sun today.
41:18Yeah, definitely, yeah.
41:19When I first went fishing,
41:21we used to bring the moorings up
41:21with a block and tackle.
41:22And I found they used to keep time
41:24just going like one, two and hey, hop
41:26and that sort of thing in a rhythm
41:27to get all three of us leaning back
41:29at the same time.
41:30And that is a shant.
41:31It's just a chant.
41:32Well, it's a bit like marching soldiers then,
41:33using so many keepers.
41:34Keeping step, yeah.
41:36Call and response to keep the rhythm going
41:38so that a group of men can act together
41:40almost as a machine.
41:41Like herding cats, but easier.
41:43Yeah.
41:44So it kind of almost anticipates
41:47the machine age, doesn't it?
41:48You're doing so many keep people together
41:49and in rhythm.
41:50Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
41:51And it sort of began to die out
41:53come the 1860s
41:54when there was a lot of mechanization
41:57came in with steamships and everything.
41:59And so the era of shanties
42:02sort of finished, I guess,
42:04around about 1870s.
42:06So like the last time
42:07Arsenal won silverware.
42:09That might be a typical one.
42:12In fact, the only reason
42:13many shanties have survived
42:15is thanks to a Cornish fisherman
42:16from the late 19th century
42:18called Yankee Jack.
42:20He found himself sailing ships
42:21during the American Civil War,
42:23hence the nickname.
42:25But travelled the world,
42:26collecting sea shanties
42:28which he passed on
42:29to a famous folk song collector,
42:31ensuring they were preserved.
42:36It's interesting, isn't it?
42:37Because I was thinking,
42:37where do you hear men sing now?
42:39Well, maybe at the football, perhaps,
42:41if you call that singing.
42:42But it's quite unusual
42:43for adult men to come together and sing.
42:45It's not down in Cornwall.
42:47Like I say, Cornwall and Wales as well.
42:49I mean, they've got tremendous...
42:50The male voice choir
42:51has never died out here or Wales, you know.
42:53That's really interesting
42:54because I wonder if it has an origin
42:55in a bit of male camaraderie, solidariety.
42:58Sure.
42:59Mining is no walk in the park.
43:00Fishing also has its heralds.
43:02I think in this day and age as well,
43:04there's a lot said about men's mental health
43:06and, you know, unashamedly,
43:09we'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...
43:19Because they're not...
43:20By 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 easy to join in with.
43:31Within a couple of verses,
43:32people 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
43:37and tapping their feet, you know?
43:38If they weren't simple,
43:39we couldn't do them, to be honest.
43:40No, they didn't.
43:41I'm glad they're simple
43:42because if you've set an accordion hanging about,
43:45I 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,
43:54that's half the battle, isn't it?
43:55Phew.
43:56Well, let's do it.
43:58Luckily for me,
43:59it wasn't too hard to twist a few arms
44:01and rustle up the rest of the band
44:03for a last hurrah from Lundy.
44:07Hello, everyone.
44:08What a nasty surprise for you.
44:10We are the saucy,
44:11the fruity,
44:12the bawdy,
44:12the jolly rogering fisherman's friends
44:14today and today only,
44:16featuring the Reverend Richard Gould.
44:18Big round of applause, please.
44:20CHEERING
44:20We're going to do a song you'll all know,
44:24which is a drunken sailor.
44:26Please join in,
44:26but not too loud.
44:27We don't want you to spoil it.
44:28Thank you very much.
44:29Here we go.
44:30Three, four.
44:31What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:33What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:36What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:38What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:39What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:40What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:41What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:42What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:43What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:44What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:45What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:46What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:47What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:48What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:49What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:50What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:51What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:52What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:53What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
44:54What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
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