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00:00:01I know, you couldn't tell them, could you? You know, you'd try.
00:00:04Morning. Yes, just casually hanging out with my llama friends.
00:00:09Meet Indigo and Barnaby, stars of the silver screen
00:00:13and recently seen taking centre stage
00:00:16in Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club.
00:00:18They'll be spilling the beans on their stardom later.
00:00:21It's time for Love Your Weekend.
00:00:24Come on, then. So, what was Pierce Brosnan really like?
00:00:39I don't care, I don't care.
00:00:42It's time for me.
00:00:43Don't talk to me.
00:00:43I feel right.
00:00:44I feel right.
00:00:49So, what's the thing?
00:00:51I don't know.
00:00:52I feel right.
00:00:53It's time for me.
00:00:55I feel right.
00:01:04Go on, breathe it in, that crisp, fresh spring air with a tang to it.
00:01:12The fields are stirring, the buds are bursting, and everywhere you look, the British countryside is waking up around you.
00:01:21However you measure it, spring has officially arrived.
00:01:24Thanks to the equinox on Friday, we now get more than 12 glorious hours of daylight a day.
00:01:31As the late, great Robin Williams once said, spring is nature's way of saying, let's party.
00:01:37And here on the farm, we know the way to celebrate.
00:01:41Coming up, she made Head's Turn in the hit drama Cutting It back in 2002, and she's been making Head's
00:01:47Turn ever since.
00:01:48Sarah Parrish on teaming up with Rupert Penry-Jones for her latest theatrical foray.
00:01:54And he's led a rock and roll life.
00:01:56Peter André, currently celebrating 30 years since his big breakout and back with a brand new album.
00:02:03And whether you're a houseplant addict or completely devoid of any green housemates,
00:02:08houseplant expert Claire Lowry returns to the farm with her top houseplant first aid tips for your indoor greenery.
00:02:16And they already have an abundance of humps, but now they're adding stripes into the mix.
00:02:23We visit friend of the show Daisy Fawcett in Warwickshire to see how some new arrivals at the family farm
00:02:29are overshadowing the camels.
00:02:36But first, the stage is set for today's guests.
00:02:40First lady of this parish, local Hampshireite and man-of-farm favourite, Sarah Parrish.
00:02:45And with her, a man who's been entertaining us for 30 years, unbelievably, with his genial personality and natural native
00:02:53charm.
00:02:53Welcome to Peter André.
00:02:56How do you find something in common between an Australian and someone who lives in Hampshire?
00:03:00And the answer is, unbelievably, Somerset.
00:03:02Yes.
00:03:03That's right.
00:03:04Australian, but Somerset now.
00:03:06Yeah, Somerset.
00:03:06So, I mean, my wife's family are all from Somerset, Taunton.
00:03:12And actually, my wife's father is a urologist and he operated on my kidney.
00:03:17And that's how I eventually met my wife.
00:03:20I thought we were getting to the realms of oversharing.
00:03:23You were.
00:03:23I see why now.
00:03:24You were, because actually, had he known then what he knows now, he might have done a different operation.
00:03:30I love Somerset.
00:03:32I love that whole area.
00:03:33Isn't it lovely?
00:03:34I love it so much.
00:03:35And whenever we want to escape, that's where we go.
00:03:38But, you know, it's becoming very popular now, Somerset.
00:03:41Yeah, for lots and lots of people moving there.
00:03:43I can't leave the fact that you said, so he did the operation and then you married his daughter.
00:03:49Yeah.
00:03:50You know when you wake up from the operating, in the operating theatre and they have that big bright light
00:03:54and he was standing in front of it, looking down to see if I was right.
00:03:57And I, honestly, I thought it was Jesus.
00:03:59I just, I just didn't know where I was.
00:04:02Because we became really good friends with his family for two years and two years later we were all together
00:04:08and I literally realised I had feelings and I thought, what do I do?
00:04:13What do I say?
00:04:14And I asked his permission if I could ask Emily for a date and we did and we went for
00:04:19a date and that was that.
00:04:20Oh, that's so romantic.
00:04:21We're married ten years now.
00:04:23Gosh.
00:04:23Goodness me.
00:04:24Yeah.
00:04:24What a lovely story.
00:04:26Yes, what a nice boy.
00:04:28Well, he's a good man and we're still best friends.
00:04:31Well, with the whole family, they're lovely.
00:04:32So, Sarah, which operation did you have to meet Jimmy?
00:04:36Yes, I didn't, unfortunately.
00:04:39But no, Somerset, it is a lovely, lovely place.
00:04:41I mean, I don't very often go down there now.
00:04:44Obviously, both my parents have passed.
00:04:47But when I do go down, it's that sort of very lovely nostalgia.
00:04:52There's a smell about Somerset.
00:04:54There's something about it that calls me back.
00:04:57How long were you there?
00:04:57I lived there for 18 years.
00:05:00Gosh, right.
00:05:00Yeah, and then moved up to London after that.
00:05:03But I've got such fond memories of Somerset.
00:05:05It's a beautiful place.
00:05:06But also, I'm delighted that you both at least show an interest in gardening.
00:05:10I mean, either got to take an interest in it or just, you know, get somebody else to do it.
00:05:15Also, mum and dad are from Cyprus originally and I bought land there maybe 20, 25 years ago
00:05:21and I built a house there and my gardens there are my pride and joy.
00:05:26And I only noticed it when dad first, dad designed it and he put all the trees in their place.
00:05:31And I used to say to dad, yeah, this is all great, but what do I know about this stuff?
00:05:35And he said, just wait.
00:05:36And now 20 years later, I go there and I can't wait to just, that's where my real pride and
00:05:42joy.
00:05:42Now, Sarah, I remember you having a veg patch.
00:05:44You were quite cute.
00:05:45I did when I lived not far from here, actually.
00:05:48I had a big veg patch.
00:05:50It was great.
00:05:50I loved it.
00:05:51And we grew all our own veg.
00:05:53We had chickens and, you know, they would, oh, it was just great.
00:05:57It was lovely.
00:05:58Now, Jim and I are too busy for the veg patch, unfortunately.
00:06:01So, we have brought a gardener in, which I feel very embarrassed in front of you to say.
00:06:05That's all right, no doubt about it, because it just supports the industry.
00:06:08Exactly, exactly.
00:06:08That's fine.
00:06:09But, no, I loved it.
00:06:10I love doing my veg patch and I love pottering about in the garden.
00:06:13It's just lovely.
00:06:14It's intriguing to have an actor and, you know, well, an actor but also a musician,
00:06:19because I've noticed when I've been sort of keeping an eye on what's going on,
00:06:22you've both actually done crossover, because Peter's done some acting,
00:06:25and you've done some singing.
00:06:28And in MacDonald and Dodds, there was an unforgettable moment
00:06:31where Sarah Parrish became Tina Turner.
00:06:35Oh.
00:06:36You're simply the best
00:06:41Better than all the best
00:06:45Better than anyone
00:06:50Anyone I ever met
00:06:55I'm talking to you
00:06:57So, what's singing Simply the Best on camera?
00:06:59Fun or absolutely mortifying?
00:07:02Mortifying!
00:07:03It was incredibly embarrassing having to do that, because I'm not a singer.
00:07:07And she's not supposed to be a singer.
00:07:09She isn't supposed to be a singer, but it was so much fun doing it.
00:07:13I loved it.
00:07:15But, no, you can see I won't be doing any musicals in the future.
00:07:19I bet you could absolutely do that.
00:07:21That was the character you were playing.
00:07:24Yeah, it was fun.
00:07:25It was really good fun to do.
00:07:26Do you fancy a new backing singer?
00:07:28Well, by the sounds of it, I'm going to have to be a backing singer.
00:07:32Well, I've done it to you, so I've really got to do it to Peter as well.
00:07:35So, shall we have a look at your acting place?
00:07:37Oh, yes, let's have a look.
00:07:37Well, this might have been my favourite, depending where you're going.
00:07:40We're going to Footballers Wives.
00:07:42That was, like you, that was the one I just wish had never seen the line of day.
00:07:47Oh, let's see.
00:07:47Let's have a look at it.
00:07:49Here we go.
00:07:51Peter, darling.
00:07:55How are you doing?
00:07:56You must be out.
00:07:57How are you going?
00:07:58Good.
00:07:59I'm a little confused, though, because my agent said something about Conrad,
00:08:02and you had a business proposition for me at some point.
00:08:05Conrad.
00:08:07Typical agent, say.
00:08:09No, it's just me, sweetheart.
00:08:10But why don't we talk shop over dinner?
00:08:13Right.
00:08:14Champagne?
00:08:15Yeah, all right.
00:08:17You see, the thing about a collaboration is there's got to be some sort of connection, you know?
00:08:24Spiritual.
00:08:25Well, that's why I think we could do it, because, well, I'm very spiritual, Peter.
00:08:32And I think Hal looks so complimentary.
00:08:34I could be your mysterious girl.
00:08:37Yeah, you could.
00:08:38A rather gruff and frustrated version of yourself, I feel there, Peter.
00:08:43Very much wondering what she was going to say next.
00:08:47Yes.
00:08:47Were you the footballer or the wife?
00:08:49Well, I don't know what I was, but I just...
00:08:52It was one of those where I...
00:08:54Because it was one of the first things I'd done, like, 20...
00:08:57That was, like, 20-something years ago.
00:08:58Yeah.
00:08:59And I remember sitting next to my cousin, and he said,
00:09:02Have you done acting before?
00:09:02I said, Well, I studied it as a kid, but I've been doing music for 20 years.
00:09:06Yeah.
00:09:06And he said, Yeah, just stick to music.
00:09:08I remember him saying that.
00:09:09And then, of course, since then, I've done film, but that was 20 years ago.
00:09:13I thought it was pretty good.
00:09:14No, that was shocking.
00:09:15Did you?
00:09:15Yeah.
00:09:16Thank you very much.
00:09:18Thanks for embarrassing us.
00:09:19That's all right.
00:09:20Well, I thought we had to do it both ways, really.
00:09:22That was great.
00:09:23The thing they always say, they always call the filming business hurry up and wait.
00:09:26In other words, you've got your...
00:09:28And then it's ages.
00:09:30Oh, yeah.
00:09:30What do you both do?
00:09:32Do you play games?
00:09:33Do you embroider?
00:09:34Or what?
00:09:35Sarah, what do you do to fill those borings out?
00:09:38All sorts, really.
00:09:39I mean, I always have a book on set so I can read.
00:09:42Obviously, I run a charity as well as acting, so if there's any emails to do, I've got my
00:09:46computer with me.
00:09:47I can, you know, shoot off some emails, things like that.
00:09:50But, yeah, generally, I try not to get on my phone all the time because all actors now,
00:09:55we've all got our phones and we just...
00:09:57And in the olden days, you'd all sit and chat to each other, which was great.
00:10:00You got to know the crew, you got to know everyone, and that doesn't happen so much
00:10:03now, so I try not to take my phone on set.
00:10:05Of course, you're instantly isolated, aren't you, at the moment you're doing it?
00:10:08Yeah, yeah.
00:10:09Peter, what do you do?
00:10:10Well, so I've been with the same manager for 30 years and I remember at the start when
00:10:16things were really going well on the music front, she said,
00:10:19oh, I'm going to get you into presenting.
00:10:20And I said, but why would I want to do presenting?
00:10:22I want to do music.
00:10:23And she said, because there'll come a time when the music will slow down and you need
00:10:26to have all these different avenues.
00:10:28So the benefit of that was I get to do loads of different things, but the downside of that
00:10:33is there's never downtime.
00:10:36Obviously, I'm very grateful for it, but it just...
00:10:39My brain's constantly going, I need to do something else.
00:10:41I can't sit still.
00:10:44So I don't really...
00:10:46The downtime is when we all, as a family, go somewhere.
00:10:50That's the only time.
00:10:51But apart from that, I'm just constantly thinking, what's next?
00:10:54What do I do next?
00:10:55What do I do?
00:10:56More coming up from Sarah and Pete a little bit later.
00:10:59Now, pull up a hay bale and grab yourself a caramel slice.
00:11:02Still ahead.
00:11:03Adequate light, sufficient water and a strong root system.
00:11:07It's a houseplants rescue.
00:11:08Claire Lowry and the houseplant hacks to help revive your leafy favourites, just in time
00:11:14for summer.
00:11:15Also coming up, long eyelashes, banana-shaped ears, upturned mouths and stocky bodies.
00:11:21We'll be catching up with our movie star llamas, currently taking the spotlight over in Paddock
00:11:272.
00:11:27I'll see you with our llamas and more, right after I've invited Peter to indulge himself
00:11:32with a fond and fancy overcoat.
00:11:34Sorry about that.
00:11:35Already?
00:11:36I should have waited for my cue.
00:11:38I should have waited for my cue.
00:11:40Look at that.
00:11:41That's a fond and fancy and a half, isn't it, really?
00:11:46Help yourself.
00:11:47Sarah, do you want to be the Battenberg?
00:11:48I will have a Battenberg, actually.
00:11:50Lovely.
00:11:50Look at that.
00:11:51Lovely.
00:11:53Lovely.
00:11:54Lovely.
00:11:54Lovely.
00:11:54Lovely.
00:11:55Lovely.
00:11:57Lovely.
00:12:06There's an old country saying, told to me by Percy Thrower, no less.
00:12:12March dust, worth a pound a peck, meaning that a dry spell and a good covering of blue sky
00:12:19right now can mean great things for the season ahead.
00:12:22After the wettest start to the year on record, a few days of settled weather isn't just a
00:12:28good omen for growers.
00:12:30It's a real spirit lifter, isn't it?
00:12:31You just feel a whole lot better.
00:12:32Your shoulders come down.
00:12:34And we've lots to lift the spirits and lower your shoulders on today's show, including a
00:12:38man who oozes natural charisma, likability, and boasts a large fan base.
00:12:45No one likes a show-off, Peter.
00:12:46Peter Andre, sharing the stories and the songs from the illustrious 30-year career.
00:12:53And forget the Cocteau Twins, remember them?
00:12:56Today we bring you the Cocktail Twins.
00:12:58They're not twins, but never let facts get in the way of a good title.
00:13:02Master mixologists Hannah and Siobhan make their Manor Farm debut with some citrusy sippers
00:13:08in this week's Master British.
00:13:11Now, we've welcomed a cacophony of animals to our paddocks in recent years.
00:13:15All enriching our understanding of the great British countryside.
00:13:20Today's visitors may be less recognisable than some we've met, but these herbivores certainly
00:13:26rival any when it comes to personality.
00:13:29A South American relative of the camel, llamas were first brought here in Victorian times as
00:13:36zoo attractions.
00:13:37Today, they're predominantly kept as pets, but some owners do specialise in breeding and
00:13:43offer llama experiences trekking through the English countryside.
00:13:48It's exactly what Sarah Brown from Katanga Llamas in Northampton she does.
00:13:53She joins me now with Indigo and Barnaby.
00:13:58It's very interesting.
00:13:59Normally, all animals present their bottom to camera.
00:14:03We've got half of tail here.
00:14:05Sarah, let's clear this up first of all.
00:14:07What's the difference between a llama and an alpaca?
00:14:09What is it?
00:14:10Alpacas are half the size.
00:14:12Yeah.
00:14:12They're slightly more timid.
00:14:14They're not as outgoing and, you know, confident as llamas.
00:14:18And they're predominantly a fibre and meat producer in South America, whereas the llama
00:14:22is the all-round utility animal.
00:14:24So, pack llama.
00:14:25They do use their fleece as well, and they use their dung for heating and cooking.
00:14:31They're just the all-rounder, basically.
00:14:33They've never ridden, are they?
00:14:34But they're beasts of burden.
00:14:35They carry stuff.
00:14:37Yeah.
00:14:37So, they can carry up to about 25 kilos.
00:14:39So, they trade with other communities around the Andes.
00:14:42I'm going to say, look.
00:14:43This is Indigo, who you met last time.
00:14:45Hello, Indigo.
00:14:46I met you before.
00:14:47Do you know they're beautifully soft?
00:14:48They are.
00:14:48And you stroke them gloriously.
00:14:50And I love this hum.
00:14:52You're very handsome, aren't you?
00:14:54He is.
00:14:57This is Indigo.
00:14:58That's Barnaby.
00:14:58Ages here, Sarah.
00:14:59Indigo is 17, and Barnaby is 16 this summer.
00:15:04And how long can they live?
00:15:05Late teens, early 20s.
00:15:07Yeah.
00:15:07I mean, we've got a 23-year-old at the minute, and his grandfather lived to be nearly 27.
00:15:11Graciously.
00:15:12Yeah, really.
00:15:13If you look after them, they can go into their 20s.
00:15:15But average is about 18, I'd say.
00:15:17And people come to you to go trekking.
00:15:19Yes.
00:15:20Long country walks with a llama carrying your bag.
00:15:22Yeah, so we do an on-farm trek and a half-day experience where we go cross-country, because
00:15:28we've got 20-acre woodland at the farm.
00:15:30And they're just really, you know, confident companions to trek with.
00:15:34They have a reputation.
00:15:35Even as all llamas, they spit, don't they?
00:15:37They do have a bad reputation for it, but it is just a bad reputation.
00:15:41They do spit, but they should never, ever spit at people.
00:15:44And it's because of a lot of petting zoos and places where they're prodded and poked all day
00:15:48and quite, you know, stressed.
00:15:51They have the most wonderful eyes and eyelashes that most women would kill for, you know.
00:15:56You're getting hungry.
00:15:56But they're a large, they're a broad animal, aren't they?
00:15:59It's just quite a broad back.
00:16:01Hence the beast of burden bit.
00:16:02They are, but actually, under all of that fibre, it's quite a small body, really.
00:16:07Yeah, they look bigger than they actually are.
00:16:09But they, yeah, you can carry...
00:16:10Excuse me while I do this, won't you?
00:16:12Yes.
00:16:13I'm just saying...
00:16:13It is very dense.
00:16:14It's up to there.
00:16:15Yeah.
00:16:16Yeah, look at that, really...
00:16:19There's loads of it there.
00:16:20Yeah.
00:16:21It's really, very extremely deep.
00:16:23Quite coarse.
00:16:24Is it coarser than alpaca?
00:16:26Yeah, so alpacas just have one coat, which is all down hair.
00:16:30Llamas have a double coat, so they have down hair next to their skin
00:16:33and then they have this outer layer of guard hair, which protects the down hair.
00:16:37The neck is particularly soft.
00:16:39Yes.
00:16:39How long have you been working with them?
00:16:4113 years now.
00:16:42Gosh.
00:16:43Yeah.
00:16:43And you'd rather be with them than pigs, sheep and cows?
00:16:46Well, I used to be a pig farmer.
00:16:47Did you?
00:16:48Yeah.
00:16:48What a difference.
00:16:49Yeah, yeah, so I have...
00:16:50I used to be a pig farmer and then I've gone to llamas.
00:16:52It's a lot less stressful.
00:16:54They have one baby.
00:16:55Yeah.
00:16:56Right, so they're one baby.
00:16:57Generally speaking, when?
00:16:59So we're coming up to the crea season now.
00:17:02The young are called creas.
00:17:04Yes, so we're due our first in April.
00:17:07So they're induced ovulators, so they don't have a season,
00:17:11so they can actually get pregnant any time of the year.
00:17:13So we breed them spring, summer, for a spring, summer baby the following year.
00:17:17So the climate's much better for them.
00:17:19Yeah, because it's an 11 and a half month gestation, so it's a long time.
00:17:22Wonderful.
00:17:23Now, they've got this ability, because they're
00:17:25from the Andes, to cope with high altitude.
00:17:28Yes.
00:17:29I gather.
00:17:30They're particularly adapted to that then, presumably.
00:17:32Yeah, their blood corpuscles are elongated, so they take in more oxygen, so they can be
00:17:36at such higher altitudes than us.
00:17:38They actually donated blood for cancer research years ago, because they were studying, you
00:17:44know, because they fight off viruses and infection a lot more than we can because of that.
00:17:48So they actually donated blood to cancer research because of that.
00:17:52So if somebody wants to keep llamas, as you say, more often it is alpacas, but what do they
00:17:57need in terms of accommodation?
00:17:59As long as they've got the right amount of grazing and field shelter or barn for them to come in.
00:18:04The right amount of grazing is what?
00:18:05Well, if you're having just a few llamas, you'd need at least an acre or two, and you'd need
00:18:10to be able to split the paddocks so that you can rest the fields.
00:18:15Wonderful.
00:18:16You're a sweetheart, aren't you, really?
00:18:18They're also television stars, aren't they?
00:18:20They are, yeah.
00:18:21Both of these are, actually.
00:18:22What have they been on?
00:18:22Come on, give us your CV.
00:18:25So, I mean, they've done lots, but more recently.
00:18:27Apart from Indigo being on Love Your Weekend, which of course is top of the list.
00:18:31They recently did the filming for the Thursday Murder Club on Netflix, which aired at the end
00:18:36of last year.
00:18:37So, Indigo and Barnaby went and did that, and then Barnaby has actually just done something
00:18:43else for Netflix, but we're not allowed to say yet, and that comes out at the end of
00:18:46this year.
00:18:47Right.
00:18:47But, yeah, that's quite a big one as well.
00:18:49When they come back, do you notice them being particularly starry?
00:18:52Oh, yeah, he's a terrible diva now.
00:18:55Look, I mean, I'm not standing still.
00:18:57I'm just going to strut me stuff.
00:18:59He's gone straight to his head.
00:19:00Are they always the same colour?
00:19:01We've got here really quite dark legs.
00:19:02No, these two are very similar.
00:19:04They have got the same dad, but different mums.
00:19:06But you could put two white llamas together and get a brown.
00:19:09It's very random.
00:19:10So, yeah, you have no idea.
00:19:13We've got spotty ones, pure white ones, brown and white.
00:19:16You know, it really varies in colour.
00:19:18How many are you looking after?
00:19:20I think we've got about 38 at the minute.
00:19:22We've got three babies due.
00:19:24Now, diet, I mean, clearly they graze.
00:19:26Do they browse as well?
00:19:27Yes, they're browsers rather than grazers, actually.
00:19:30Rather than grazers, yeah.
00:19:31So, obviously, if there's hedges and trees, they'd be straight in there.
00:19:34But they're continuous grazers and then they obviously ruminant, so they do have to eventually stop grazing and chew the
00:19:40cud.
00:19:41Right.
00:19:41But, yeah, grass and hay ad-lib, but they are grazers, so they do...
00:19:46And supplementary feeding during the winter?
00:19:48The older geriatrics we give extra feeding for and, obviously, the pregnant mummies and the youngsters.
00:19:57But these trekking boys are really hardy.
00:19:59So, in South America, they'd have really sparse vegetation.
00:20:02So, actually, they can get too fat in this country.
00:20:05So, you do have to watch their weight.
00:20:07They are really hardy because they're from the Andes.
00:20:10And presumably, winter cold means nothing to them with a coat this thick.
00:20:13Do you use them as sort of therapy animals as well?
00:20:17I mean, yeah, because a lot of animals now, horses, dogs particularly, are used for therapy.
00:20:21Yeah, we do have lots of groups come with various special needs.
00:20:25And we've had blind groups and, you know, all sorts.
00:20:28And I think also being head level with a calm animal that's not intimidating gives a lot of people confidence.
00:20:36We have a lot of children come as well.
00:20:38So, they're all around us.
00:20:39It is interesting because, as you say, when you're in close proximity with this glorious head and these glorious eyes
00:20:46and that little hum.
00:20:49They call it Lama Karma.
00:20:50It is Lama Karma.
00:20:52Certainly calming Lama.
00:20:54Yeah.
00:20:55They're lovely.
00:20:55Bless you.
00:20:56Thank you very much for bringing them in.
00:20:57You're welcome.
00:20:57Indigo, nice to have you back.
00:20:59Glad you've made such a fuss of me.
00:21:02And Barnaby, you too.
00:21:03And we look forward to your appearance on the top secret Netflix drama, whatever it is, come the end of
00:21:11the year.
00:21:12But lovely to be, I could just stand and gaze at these all day, you know.
00:21:16I love that.
00:21:17And you're very calm.
00:21:18I know.
00:21:19And you're very beautiful.
00:21:21And I think you know that.
00:21:23Oh, he is back.
00:21:24Is that a good thing or not?
00:21:26I'm not sure about that.
00:21:27I'm backing off now.
00:21:28OK.
00:21:28You've got my number.
00:21:30Thank you, sir.
00:21:31Thank you, Indigo.
00:21:33Thank you, Barnaby.
00:21:34Coming up, ahead of their retirement, we catch up with the Zebras, currently residing at one Warwickshire farm.
00:21:41And it was the year they cloned Dolly the sheep.
00:21:44The Euros ended in disappointment.
00:21:46And the Macarena went viral.
00:21:49Oh, do you remember that?
00:21:50Oh, I don't know.
00:21:52Yes.
00:21:52Enough, fella.
00:21:53But to his adoring fans, the biggest revelation of 1996 was this.
00:21:58Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:22:00No, no.
00:22:01Peter Andre talks 30 years since the UK release of that song.
00:22:06And much more right after this.
00:22:09Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:22:13Mysterious girl.
00:22:14Move your body close to my...
00:22:23Welcome back to Love Your Weekend.
00:22:25Still aired, she's arguably the doyen of alpha female roles, having starred in hits like Bancroft, Broadchurch and my favourite
00:22:34W1A.
00:22:35Hampshire local Sarah Parrish on cornering the market in TV baddies.
00:22:39And she's so nice in real life.
00:22:42Also coming up, how your trash is nature's treasure.
00:22:45TV carpenter Wayne Perry brings us everything that's great about the green, brown and the beautiful world of compost bins.
00:22:53Oh, the glamour of telly.
00:22:54Now, my next guest is a bona fide household name, who for 30 years has toured his way around the
00:23:01world, and along the way, he's also picked up a rather successful TV career.
00:23:06But it's music that will always be his home, as he's about to release his most personal album yet, his
00:23:1211th studio album, to be precise.
00:23:15Before we say hello or g'day, let's take an astounding trip back to the 90s.
00:23:21If you're down, throw your hands up in the air, to match back with a flavor of the air.
00:23:26Here we go, there's a party over here.
00:23:29Oh, yeah, it's coming to the end.
00:23:30Slay me down, throw your hands up in the air, to match back with a flavor of the air.
00:23:35That's right, I'm kicking you a flavor.
00:23:37Slay me down, throw your hands up in the air.
00:23:44Slay me down, throw your hands up in the air.
00:23:58Oh, mysterious girl, I wanna get close to you.
00:24:11Oh, mysterious girl, move your body close to mine.
00:24:19Close to mine.
00:24:20I mean, be honest, Peter Andre, you never ate, did you?
00:24:23You just did not eat anything.
00:24:24You know, you just spent your life in the gym.
00:24:27Well, you do.
00:24:27You really think it's an interesting thing.
00:24:31Back then, I used to train to try and look a certain way.
00:24:34Now I train to feel a certain way, and there's a big difference in that.
00:24:37Well, your baggy trousers aren't quite...
00:24:39Well, I mean, who wears jeans in a waterfall?
00:24:43I still sometimes see that video and think,
00:24:45why didn't anyone say, can you take your jeans off?
00:24:48Probably better I didn't, actually, thinking about it.
00:24:51Yeah, they were good days.
00:24:53They were good days as much as I can remember.
00:24:55A lot of it's a bit of a blur now, but great times.
00:24:5811th album, Legacy, with old hits, new stuff,
00:25:03you write as well as perform.
00:25:05But you've had a chance to sort of revisit the old things,
00:25:08re-orchestrate them, you know, and use Friends on the album too.
00:25:11Yeah, so basically the first song I wrote, I was 13.
00:25:14I was riding my bike home from school, and I wrote it.
00:25:19The whole thing really quickly ran home, said to my brother Chris,
00:25:22who is an incredible musician,
00:25:24what song is this?
00:25:25And he said, well, it might be yours.
00:25:27And I said, what do you mean?
00:25:28He said, well, you've probably just written a song.
00:25:30And I didn't know I could do that back then.
00:25:32So that was it.
00:25:33The obsession started.
00:25:35And some of the songs on the first album,
00:25:38we're talking 11 albums ago,
00:25:39was songs that I'd written when I was that young,
00:25:42and I eventually got to record them.
00:25:43And it was this summer, 30 years ago,
00:25:45that Mysterious Girl became a worldwide hit.
00:25:47So I thought, why don't I do something to celebrate that,
00:25:51revisiting some of those old songs,
00:25:53and then writing some new songs,
00:25:55and that's what we did.
00:25:56Who are we heroes?
00:25:58Who are your heroes?
00:25:59I mean, looking back, and you've met a few of them, I guess.
00:26:01Yeah, well, I was six years old
00:26:03when I first heard Off the Wall album, Michael Jackson,
00:26:07and I remember it being this unbelievable sound,
00:26:10because it was all Quincy Jones production, wasn't it?
00:26:12And I remember playing it at home on a record player,
00:26:16and my dad walked in in his strong Greek accent,
00:26:18and he said, who is this woman singing?
00:26:22And I said, Dad, what do you mean?
00:26:23This is Michael Jackson.
00:26:25This is the greatest singer of all time.
00:26:26And he said, wait.
00:26:29And he went and he got this record of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin,
00:26:33and he said, this, listen to this.
00:26:35And back then, I didn't appreciate it,
00:26:37because I was into what I liked.
00:26:39And, you know, the songs were great, Michael Jackson,
00:26:41of course, music was incredible.
00:26:42But I grew up understanding what my father listened to
00:26:46and what my brothers listened to.
00:26:47So I had a lot of heroes.
00:26:49But you're also, you know, utilising now the music of Frankie Valli.
00:26:53Frankie Valli.
00:26:54Frankie Valli in the Four Seasons.
00:26:56I mean, my daughters, when we took them to see the Jersey Boys,
00:26:59you know, say, but we didn't know those songs came from that long ago.
00:27:02They knew the songs so well, you know, from discos and things like that.
00:27:05But Frankie Valli, you've also been enjoying that kind of thing.
00:27:07I am.
00:27:08And when I first got approached to do it,
00:27:09I remember saying to the producer, that's really kind of you,
00:27:13but I don't really know any Frankie Valli songs.
00:27:14And he said, yes, you do.
00:27:16Yes, you do.
00:27:17And I realised that when we were kids on the Gold Coast,
00:27:20that the speakers, they used to have speakers on the beaches
00:27:22and they used to play local radio stations, used to play music.
00:27:26I always thought it was the Beach Boys, and some of them were.
00:27:29But what I didn't realise was a lot of those songs
00:27:32embedded in our childhood were Frankie Valli.
00:27:34So it was a real honour to take that on.
00:27:37You've done various genres over the years.
00:27:40The people you've encompassed within your act
00:27:43also were encompassing people like Jack Sparrow.
00:27:47And I can never forget this scene...
00:27:50I know what you're talking about.
00:27:51..from Strictly Come Dancing,
00:27:53when Peter Andre suddenly descended.
00:28:25There you are.
00:28:26Oh, your best Jack Sparrow, your best Johnny Depp,
00:28:28with Janet Menrara there.
00:28:29I mean, that music.
00:28:31I mean, you only have to hear that, don't you?
00:28:33And you all feel you could dance like that.
00:28:34Well, it's such powerful music.
00:28:37That was, I have to be honest,
00:28:39of all the TVs I've ever done,
00:28:41Strictly was the scariest experience I've ever had in my life
00:28:44because you're being judged by real dancers.
00:28:47You're not being judged by, you know, celebrities.
00:28:50Or you are being judged by people who know their craft.
00:28:53And when they tell you your foot's wrong, your foot's wrong.
00:28:56So you try so hard to do it properly.
00:28:59And it's really scary.
00:29:01Really scary, but very rewarding as well.
00:29:04You get to do different things with different people
00:29:06and different skills.
00:29:07I mean, Jeanette, they're a brilliant dancer.
00:29:08But it's very intriguing.
00:29:10Watching Jill Scott with you.
00:29:13Jill.
00:29:13Doing Mysterious Girl in A League Of Their Own.
00:29:16Here we are.
00:29:18You know, I said earlier that we hadn't booked Peter Andre
00:29:20to come out and sing with you.
00:29:22I was lying.
00:29:23It wouldn't be A League Of Their Own
00:29:25without making dreams come true.
00:29:27It is time, Jill Scott, for your duet
00:29:29with Mr. Peter Andre!
00:29:37Good job!
00:29:40Come on, Jill.
00:29:41I want you to sing it with me.
00:29:43You promised me a word.
00:29:52Are you going to do the rap?
00:29:54Here we go.
00:29:55Well, I've been sitting by the board
00:29:58Hoping you call my time
00:29:59I hear your voice
00:30:00I feel 10 feet tall
00:30:02Body way
00:30:02You're a victim
00:30:03I'm a different ball
00:30:04When I trip full of a man
00:30:06My time in a long long long long
00:30:07You know, she covered about three different keys
00:30:09there but she just managed to do it perfectly was she got all the words
00:30:14right I can't get all those words right yeah she's such a lovely person I've
00:30:18met many times really lovely person isn't it wonderful to be able to bring joy into
00:30:23someone's laughter but she really had no idea that you were going to spring that
00:30:26and and this is the thing that I think is wonderful about the industry that
00:30:30we're in you know we get to do so many different things like you said and I
00:30:34feel very very blessed to be able to do that and we've met over the years a few
00:30:39times but it's it's amazing to think 30 years later I could sit here on the
00:30:43sofa with you and chat it's wonderful we're both very old now well that's
00:30:48probably why some of us are older than my dad said it's only the first hundred
00:30:51years that are tough he reckons it gets really easy after we're okay now he's 93
00:30:58okay not so great for him but it's great for us it's the variety the things that
00:31:04you go on and you're doing musicals as well and you don't very special you don't
00:31:07Greece now you had an acquaintanceship there with Olivia Newton-John I know she
00:31:13you were a great fan of hers well I mean I had the pleasure of working with
00:31:18Olivia Newton-John one night at the spine we did a spina bifida concert in
00:31:22Australia in aid of spina bifida and we all performed on stage together and she was
00:31:28exactly what you wish she would be like she just radiated from the second she'd
00:31:34walk in was kind to everybody and so you know I got to see her a few more times over
00:31:41the
00:31:41next few years after that and she was always just that lovely person I mean who didn't have
00:31:46a crush on Olivia Newton-John she was just agreed you know just and she's always been so lovely so
00:31:53well I can't bring you Olivia Newton-John from Greece I can give you Teen Angel but on Loose Women
00:31:59here we are brilliant
00:32:01baby you blew it
00:32:02baby you blew it
00:32:03baby you blew it
00:32:04you put out good and vice to shame
00:32:06how could you do it
00:32:08how could you do it
00:32:09bet you did Abby say the same
00:32:12cause there's no way to get through to you
00:32:15no matter how I try
00:32:22might as well look back to that more choppy mascara
00:32:38a pink curl pink wings I have to tell you this I'm so sorry four years before that five years
00:32:47before that I was offered the
00:32:48role of Danny Zuko and I couldn't do it how could I not do it I couldn't do it whatever
00:32:52the reason was it was a
00:32:55six or however many years later they came back and said would you do Greece and I said of course
00:33:00I told everybody I'm playing Danny Zuko I rang my in-laws I rang my parents in Australia I'm going
00:33:06to be Danny Zuko in Greece
00:33:08I said wow you know a little bit old but okay said no what are you talking about I can
00:33:13do it you know he's Italian he wasn't but anyway
00:33:16so I told everybody and what I didn't realize until the day of the photo shoot they sent a message
00:33:24saying can you please bring tight white jeans and a tight white vest top and I thought well Danny Zuko
00:33:29doesn't wear that
00:33:30so I turned up and they said well who told you were Danny Zuko I said I just presumed they
00:33:36said you're slightly too old for that so I was a
00:33:38teenager instead I still loved it but I didn't get to fulfill my Danny Zuko dream
00:33:44and tell me about working with Madonna I mean goodness me support up for Madonna and I bet you thought
00:33:49yeah I don't really does that one bite your hand off time yeah absolutely when I got the call to
00:33:56to open for
00:33:57for the girly tour it was all around Australia in stadiums now I'd never I mean most people don't start
00:34:03at
00:34:03stadiums they start at the bottom and eventually get there I started at the top there was only one way
00:34:08it
00:34:08was gonna go I was where do you go from that I mean that was Madonna and it was the
00:34:13most incredible experience
00:34:15she was lovely yeah we did a six-week tour I think together when you're working with something like that
00:34:20watching how they operate how they operate on stage and operate off stage it must be quite interesting seeing
00:34:26how they carry themselves how they relate to an audience can you learn from working with someone like Madonna
00:34:32well yeah of course I mean you learn from all the greats you see how it all works you know
00:34:39of course when
00:34:39you've got a budget you can put on the production that but you still need star quality you do and
00:34:45if you
00:34:45haven't got that yes all the bells and whistles don't really mean that's right well she's definitely
00:34:50got I mean the songs good to have you with this good luck with the album and Frankie Valli fabulous
00:34:56thank you Peter thank you delight now then a wonder through nature courtesy of you at home it's time
00:35:03the walk on the wild side
00:35:38you
00:36:45Oh, thank you for all your wonderful pictures there.
00:36:48Please do keep sending them in.
00:36:50It's a very special part of this programme.
00:36:52Still ahead?
00:36:53If you think your houseplants need some CPR,
00:36:56that's care, pruning and refreshing,
00:36:58houseplant guru Claire Lowry has it covered.
00:37:00How to repot, rescue and revive your plants.
00:37:04Coming up...
00:37:19There really is no season like spring,
00:37:23and as our gardens wake from their winter sleep,
00:37:26it's no wonder that displays of our early risers
00:37:30can put a smile on anyone's face,
00:37:32as we hope we will today.
00:37:34Coming up, spoilt, psychopathic, salt of the earth.
00:37:38She's led a variety of characters,
00:37:40Sarah Parrish, on mixing it up
00:37:42when it comes to choosing her roles.
00:37:44But first, it's time for your voice of nature.
00:37:47Today, it's the turn of Patience stars,
00:37:50Ella Mae Purvis and Nathan Welsh,
00:37:52with Hope by Edith Nesbitt.
00:38:04Oh, thrush, is it true?
00:38:06Your song tells of a world born anew,
00:38:09of fields gold with buttercups,
00:38:12woodlands all blue with hyacinth bells,
00:38:14of primroses deep in the moss of the lane,
00:38:17of a princess asleep and dear magic to do.
00:38:21Will the sun wake the princess?
00:38:22Oh, thrush, is it true?
00:38:24Will spring come again?
00:38:26Will spring come again?
00:38:28Now at last, with soft shine and rain,
00:38:31will the violet be sweet
00:38:33where the dead leaves have lain?
00:38:35Will winter be passed?
00:38:36In the brown of the copse
00:38:38will white-wind flowers star through
00:38:40where the last oak leaf drops
00:38:43and the daisies come too.
00:38:45And the May and the lilac,
00:38:47will spring come again?
00:38:48Oh, thrush, is it true?
00:38:58Thank you, Ella and Nathan.
00:39:00Lovely words capturing that anticipation
00:39:03of spring renewal that we all feel
00:39:06when the sun comes out.
00:39:07Now, they've filled our shelves
00:39:09and populated porches for decades,
00:39:12from the exotic specimens
00:39:14in grand Victorian glasshouses
00:39:16to the humble spider plants
00:39:18on 1970s windowsills.
00:39:20Our love affair with houseplants
00:39:22shows no signs of fizzling out.
00:39:25But after a long and dusty winter,
00:39:26it's time to give your leafy friends
00:39:28some TLC.
00:39:29Thankfully, we have just the woman.
00:39:31Welcome back, houseplant expert,
00:39:34Clare Lowry,
00:39:35here with her rejuvenation masterclass
00:39:37to get your houseplants prepped,
00:39:39primed and positively thriving.
00:39:42Welcome, Clare.
00:39:44Thank you for having me back.
00:39:45It is, isn't it?
00:39:46Because there they sit,
00:39:47like bits of furniture,
00:39:48the occasional flick over
00:39:49with a feather duster,
00:39:50lobs of water.
00:39:52I know.
00:39:52But now they're a bit weary,
00:39:53aren't they?
00:39:54They are.
00:39:55I mean, you actually,
00:39:55you just mentioned about
00:39:56the flick over with the feather duster
00:39:58and one of the first things
00:39:59I was actually going to touch on
00:40:00is plants that don't get
00:40:01a dusting enough.
00:40:03Ah.
00:40:03And I think especially
00:40:04as the days kind of start to pick up
00:40:06and the light is beautiful,
00:40:08you really want to be
00:40:08kind of optimising that
00:40:10as much as possible
00:40:11so the plant can photosynthesise.
00:40:13And so I've got a very dusty plant here.
00:40:16I mean, I typically don't let it get this bad,
00:40:18but when it starts to kind of get quite dusty,
00:40:20because I think a lot of the time
00:40:21people kind of think,
00:40:22oh, no, my plants aren't dusty.
00:40:23They look absolutely fine.
00:40:24But you don't realise,
00:40:25in the same way as your skirting boards
00:40:27build up dust,
00:40:28your plants build up dust as well.
00:40:30Besides the fact that obviously
00:40:32you can't kind of allow them
00:40:34all the light that they need.
00:40:35It's kind of like having
00:40:36a sheer curtain over them.
00:40:37They can't absorb the light.
00:40:39They also are far more susceptible to pests.
00:40:42Right.
00:40:43So, yeah.
00:40:43So clean them.
00:40:44Yeah, so I'm just using
00:40:46literally just some lukewarm water.
00:40:48Look at that.
00:40:49Oh, yeah.
00:40:50Hey, as Larry Grayson used to say,
00:40:52hey, the muck in here.
00:40:54But it looks totally different.
00:40:57It literally shines.
00:40:57And you don't need anything
00:40:58other than water.
00:40:59I know.
00:40:59I know.
00:41:00It's amazing.
00:41:01They used to say in the elders,
00:41:02do them with milk.
00:41:03And you think, well, actually,
00:41:04it then starts to smell a bit cheesy
00:41:06after a while.
00:41:07I've heard all of these.
00:41:08But hairy plants, of course,
00:41:10you wouldn't do that with.
00:41:11You have to be a bit careful
00:41:12with hairy plants
00:41:12because obviously they're much more susceptible
00:41:14to mould, mildew.
00:41:16If you are going to wipe them down,
00:41:17I personally would recommend just dusting.
00:41:19Yeah.
00:41:20But if you do need to wipe them down
00:41:21if you are dealing with pests
00:41:22or something like that,
00:41:23I would just make sure
00:41:23you've got really good airflow
00:41:25to allow the leaves to kind of dry off
00:41:27so that they don't start...
00:41:28Isn't that gorgeous?
00:41:30It's beautiful, isn't it?
00:41:31Fresh and...
00:41:31It's sort of...
00:41:32Oh, Claire, thank you so much.
00:41:34Listen carefully and you can hear it.
00:41:36Yeah, it's like a whole new plant.
00:41:37It is.
00:41:38It is.
00:41:38The other thing that I was going to mention,
00:41:40this is a very...
00:41:41You actually mentioned spider plants
00:41:42at the beginning.
00:41:43The spider plant is obviously
00:41:45a very common house plant
00:41:46and this one has been throwing out
00:41:48plantlets for months.
00:41:50This is great to start with this,
00:41:52isn't it?
00:41:52Start children off too
00:41:53because each one of these
00:41:54make a separate plant.
00:41:55It's fantastic.
00:41:56I think the reason
00:41:57that this one is probably doing it
00:41:59is because the plant
00:42:00is actually stressed
00:42:01because this one hasn't had a repot
00:42:03in quite a while
00:42:04and if I just...
00:42:06Oh, yes, there's a lot in there.
00:42:07There's a lot in there.
00:42:08Now, if you've got that plant
00:42:09looking that healthy
00:42:10in that size pot,
00:42:11you obviously feed it really well
00:42:12because it's still glowing with health.
00:42:14I mean, it's...
00:42:14The amount of water
00:42:15this plant's requiring
00:42:16at the moment is ridiculous
00:42:18because just look...
00:42:20...at those roots.
00:42:21They are crazy.
00:42:23Yeah.
00:42:24So, before I pot it up,
00:42:26I'll show you the soil mix
00:42:27that I quite like to use.
00:42:30This is, for me,
00:42:31just kind of like
00:42:31a generic soil mix
00:42:32that I'll use
00:42:33for most of my house plants,
00:42:36terrestrial house plants
00:42:36that grow from the ground.
00:42:37No, you can buy it in bags
00:42:38or any mix it.
00:42:39You mix your own.
00:42:40To be honest,
00:42:41I do a bit of both
00:42:42but I do quite...
00:42:43There's something quite therapeutic
00:42:44and I don't know,
00:42:45just quite nice
00:42:46about getting your hands
00:42:47in the soil
00:42:47and mixing everything up yourself.
00:42:49So, what have you got for?
00:42:50So, this is just
00:42:51a peat-free soil mix
00:42:53and I'm going to put
00:42:54all of that in the bowl
00:42:55and then I've got
00:42:56two different types
00:42:57of orchid bark.
00:42:58This is orchid bark
00:42:59with tree fern fibre
00:43:00so it's really, really nice
00:43:02at adding aeration
00:43:03into the soil.
00:43:04So, that's the orchid
00:43:05but what about
00:43:05the bigger chips?
00:43:07Yeah, this is just
00:43:08much chunkier
00:43:09and typically
00:43:10if I'm working
00:43:10with an epiphytic plant,
00:43:12so a plant
00:43:13that naturally
00:43:13doesn't grow
00:43:14out of the ground
00:43:15and it grows...
00:43:16On a tree.
00:43:16Yeah.
00:43:16It's not a parasite
00:43:17but an epiphytic
00:43:18just clings on.
00:43:19Exactly.
00:43:20So, I would typically
00:43:21add a lot more
00:43:22kind of chunky
00:43:23things like
00:43:23sustainably sourced
00:43:24sphagnum moss
00:43:25and stuff like that
00:43:26as well
00:43:26to really kind of
00:43:27replicate its natural
00:43:28growing conditions.
00:43:29For this plant,
00:43:30I think I'm just
00:43:31going to stick with
00:43:32the fine stuff
00:43:34and then this is
00:43:34perlite
00:43:35and when you're
00:43:37using perlite
00:43:37indoors,
00:43:38it's really important
00:43:39to make sure
00:43:39that you hydrate it first.
00:43:41Because it's very dry
00:43:41and fluffy,
00:43:42it almost blows away.
00:43:43It's almost like
00:43:43polystyrene granules.
00:43:44It feels different
00:43:46but it's as light
00:43:47and fluffy,
00:43:47isn't it, really?
00:43:48Yeah, completely
00:43:49but also the dust
00:43:50is really bad
00:43:51for you to breathe in.
00:43:52I mean, you can actually
00:43:53see just from
00:43:54how I've hydrated it already
00:43:55how it's kind of
00:43:56holding the moisture
00:43:57and this just means
00:43:58that I'm creating
00:43:59a really nice airy mix
00:44:01that also is very
00:44:02moisture retaining
00:44:03so I'm not hopefully
00:44:05going to need to
00:44:05have to be watering
00:44:06this plant quite so much.
00:44:07It's that seeming
00:44:08contradiction with compost.
00:44:10They need to be
00:44:11moisture retentive
00:44:12but free draining.
00:44:13Yes.
00:44:14And that means
00:44:14they're holding on
00:44:15to enough moisture
00:44:16but not too much
00:44:17to get soggy.
00:44:18I can tell
00:44:18from the way you're
00:44:19handling it
00:44:19that has got
00:44:20a lovely feel to it now.
00:44:21It is lovely.
00:44:22It's really nice.
00:44:24It is.
00:44:24And I love the smell
00:44:25of it as well.
00:44:26I know that's weird
00:44:26but I just...
00:44:28I'm trying to be a gardener
00:44:29it's not weird at all.
00:44:30Well, I don't think
00:44:31it's weird.
00:44:31It's quite normal.
00:44:32I'm sure no one at home
00:44:33also thinks it's weird.
00:44:35But yes,
00:44:37so I'm just going to
00:44:38kind of get my hands
00:44:39in there
00:44:39and just try and work
00:44:40as many of the plants
00:44:42out as I can.
00:44:44And it's surprising.
00:44:45I don't think
00:44:45there's a decent lump
00:44:46of root on them.
00:44:47You'll be okay.
00:44:48Yeah.
00:44:49They're all so knotted
00:44:50together.
00:44:50That's your problem,
00:44:51isn't it really?
00:44:51I'm afraid this is
00:44:52an incense clay
00:44:53where I would go in
00:44:54with a knife.
00:44:55Would you?
00:44:55As long as there's a
00:44:56big enough lump
00:44:56with each.
00:44:57Oh, we're almost there.
00:44:58Yeah, you're almost there.
00:45:00The bits that do get
00:45:01cut off and broken off
00:45:02doesn't matter.
00:45:03There'll be enough
00:45:04remaining.
00:45:05It's like when you get
00:45:05particularly between
00:45:07November and March
00:45:08you get things like
00:45:08bare root roses
00:45:09and they'll be dug up
00:45:10from the ground
00:45:11and the nursery rose
00:45:12and they'll come to you
00:45:13with the top growth
00:45:13like that
00:45:14and roots going down here
00:45:15and you can take
00:45:16half of them off
00:45:17because they're all
00:45:18going to die
00:45:18the bottom ends anyway
00:45:19and new roots
00:45:21are going to come
00:45:21from the top half
00:45:22so if you're planting
00:45:23bare root stuff
00:45:23don't be frightened
00:45:24of shortening
00:45:25by a good half
00:45:26the root that's on there.
00:45:28Would you put that
00:45:28back in the same pot?
00:45:29You know what?
00:45:30I probably would.
00:45:30I brought some other pots
00:45:31but it is about
00:45:32the right size.
00:45:34Yeah, and I'll
00:45:36propagate that
00:45:36in a second probably.
00:45:38So yeah, I'm just
00:45:38going to take a little
00:45:39bit of the soil mix
00:45:42and pop that
00:45:43in the bottom.
00:45:46There's a lovely line
00:45:47in Wind in the Willows
00:45:48where it says
00:45:48one of the things
00:45:49about having holidays
00:45:50it's not just
00:45:51that you've got
00:45:52time off yourself
00:45:52it's watching
00:45:53the other fellas
00:45:54still working.
00:45:55It's very nice
00:45:56when I lean here
00:45:57as a gardener
00:45:58watching another gardener
00:45:59and then feeding it
00:46:01around the edge.
00:46:03Yeah, that's right.
00:46:04I mean you can always
00:46:05feel that plant
00:46:06being grateful
00:46:06can't you?
00:46:08Well I really
00:46:08I hope now
00:46:09I mean obviously
00:46:10it's a lovely
00:46:11healthy section
00:46:12we've got here
00:46:12but I hope the roots
00:46:13will just kind of
00:46:14expand and fill that pot
00:46:15and then the little
00:46:16plantlets here
00:46:17there's a few different
00:46:18ways you can propagate
00:46:18them but my favourite
00:46:20and the easiest way
00:46:21we just chop
00:46:23the thing off
00:46:24that's attaching them
00:46:25I just pop them
00:46:26in a little bit of water
00:46:27and I've just got
00:46:27a little pot of water
00:46:28here
00:46:30and I personally
00:46:31just really like
00:46:32watching the roots grow
00:46:34drop it in there
00:46:35so you can literally
00:46:35pop it in like that
00:46:37keep it on your
00:46:37windowsill
00:46:37yeah exactly
00:46:39absolutely fab
00:46:40yeah
00:46:40no it's great
00:46:41thank Claire
00:46:41not at all
00:46:42learn from you
00:46:43every time you come
00:46:44and it's wonderful
00:46:45to see all these things
00:46:46which can go together
00:46:47to make the compost
00:46:48you know
00:46:48and making your own compost
00:46:50great fun
00:46:51it is
00:46:52thank Claire
00:46:53not at all
00:46:59now Joseph's amazing
00:47:01camels
00:47:02is no ordinary farm
00:47:04they're the leading
00:47:05specialists in humped animals
00:47:08the kind you'd expect to see
00:47:09strutting across the sands of North Africa
00:47:11rather than grazing politely
00:47:13in Warwickshire
00:47:14but just when you thought a camel
00:47:17in the Midlands was peak eccentricity
00:47:19things took an even wilder turn
00:47:22enter the stripes
00:47:23yes the farmers welcomed
00:47:25three eye-catching new arrivals
00:47:27Aled
00:47:28Maasai
00:47:29and Chad
00:47:30and let's just say
00:47:31they didn't get the memo
00:47:33about blending in
00:47:34to tell us more
00:47:36friend of the show
00:47:37and young farmer
00:47:38Daisy Fawcett
00:47:47camels are a usual
00:47:49on my parents camel farm
00:47:51here in Warwickshire
00:47:52I've been involved
00:47:53with this business
00:47:54since I was little
00:47:55my parents started the company
00:47:56in 2000
00:47:57so I've grown up with camels
00:47:59we have the largest herd
00:48:00of camels in the UK
00:48:01so we have 13 camels
00:48:04on the farm
00:48:04at the moment
00:48:05for events like racing
00:48:06and Christmas parades
00:48:07and obviously film and TV
00:48:10I've got Mr. Baxter
00:48:11with me today
00:48:12he is one of our film star camels
00:48:14you might recognise him
00:48:15from Aladdin for example
00:48:18we also have some very special guests
00:48:20staying with us
00:48:20these are my stripy new friends
00:48:23they are Chapman zebras
00:48:25so we've got Aled
00:48:26Maasai
00:48:27and Chad
00:48:29Aled is a little bit aloof
00:48:31he's not too keen on people
00:48:33I think he thinks we're giant carrots
00:48:36Maasai is a real sweet
00:48:38the coolest thing about Maasai
00:48:40the coolest thing about Maasai
00:48:41is his beautiful tear drop
00:48:43just underneath his left eye
00:48:46and then Chad is like a giant dog
00:48:48I just love Chad
00:48:49he's probably my favourite
00:48:50don't tell the others
00:48:51he's a little bit aloof
00:48:53a little bit standoffish
00:48:54but if you've got a carrot
00:48:56you're his best friend for life
00:48:58with their previous owners
00:48:59they were actually film stars
00:49:01and they've been around people
00:49:03their entire lives
00:49:04doing animal experiences
00:49:05they've been on the set of Bridgerton
00:49:07they're very very cool
00:49:09they are now retired
00:49:10so we are a temporary home for them
00:49:13before they go to live their absolute life of luxury
00:49:16in a retirement home
00:49:21no squabbling
00:49:23make sure it's all nice for you
00:49:24there you go
00:49:25look at that
00:49:26from afar
00:49:27Aled, Chad and Maasai
00:49:29look exactly the same
00:49:30but actually their stripes
00:49:32are completely different
00:49:33like our fingerprints
00:49:34each one is unique
00:49:35now these guys are Chapman zebras
00:49:37they're a subspecies of plain zebras
00:49:40they're found in southern Africa
00:49:42Botswana, Namibia, Zambia
00:49:44and they've got some really distinctive patterns
00:49:46that make them Chapmans
00:49:48their stripes go all the way down
00:49:51to their feet
00:49:52which some zebras don't
00:49:54but the biggest one is that
00:49:56they have something called a shadow stripe
00:49:57it's a brown stripe between their white stripe
00:49:59and this is a really distinctive feature
00:50:01that only the Chapman zebras have
00:50:05zebra stripes are actually a self-defense mechanism
00:50:08which is so interesting
00:50:09a herd of zebras is called a dazzle
00:50:11and it's supposedly because they dazzle predators
00:50:14so a predator can't pick one individual zebra
00:50:17out of a group
00:50:19even though I've grown up around camels
00:50:22zebras are a completely different ball game
00:50:25our zebras are very tame
00:50:27but they really are wild animals
00:50:29and they have that real prey instinct in them
00:50:31whereas camels are domesticated animals
00:50:33so they're a lot easier to handle in a lot of ways
00:50:36these guys can be far more unpredictable
00:50:39they are not pets
00:50:41any training with animals
00:50:43whether it be a zebra, a camel or a dog
00:50:45it's always important to give them a positive reward
00:50:50Alid, one of the three zebras
00:50:52has been trained differently to Chad and Masai
00:50:55Chad and Masai have been trained traditionally
00:50:57almost like you would a horse
00:50:58Alid has been clicker trained
00:51:02so when Alid touches the ball with his nose
00:51:05like that
00:51:06he knows he gets a treat
00:51:09it's a way of positive reinforcement
00:51:12he won't let you put the head collar on
00:51:14unless you give him the tennis ball first
00:51:16oh good boy
00:51:18there we go
00:51:20when they're on a film set
00:51:22this cone and tennis ball trick
00:51:24really helped the previous owners
00:51:26get them into position
00:51:27because he will stand wherever that tennis ball is
00:51:30one of the most common questions I have had on social media
00:51:33about the zebras is
00:51:34can you ride them
00:51:35the answer absolutely not
00:51:38their backs are not made for it
00:51:39because they're wild animals
00:51:41they haven't been bred to be able to ride
00:51:43backs are on the other hand
00:51:44very comfortable
00:51:45I would ride him all day long
00:51:49it's going to be really emotional
00:51:51letting these zebras go
00:51:53they've really become a part of our family
00:51:56like any animal that comes here does
00:52:00thank you daisy
00:52:02and good luck to Alid
00:52:04Masai and Chad
00:52:05in their new home
00:52:07coming up
00:52:07when life gives you lemons
00:52:09make a gin and tonic
00:52:11so the proverb says
00:52:12well I can't promise
00:52:14a gin and tea
00:52:14but I can promise
00:52:15some rather refreshingly zesty
00:52:17libations
00:52:18cocktail twins
00:52:20Hannah and Siobhan
00:52:21make their Manor Farm debut
00:52:23with a round of fruity botanicals
00:52:25and
00:52:26it's a loss about compost
00:52:28so many people are
00:52:30Wayne Perry
00:52:30is here with his guide
00:52:32to what's hot
00:52:33and what's not
00:52:34in the world of compost bins
00:52:36it's all here you know
00:52:37I'll see you with the TV carpenter himself
00:52:40that afternoon
00:52:55the sale of compost in the UK
00:52:58produces roughly 100 million plastic bags every year
00:53:02in a world where we're all trying to have less of an impact on the environment
00:53:06one way of scaling back your plastic consumption
00:53:09is by producing your own compost at home
00:53:12here to show us how to turn pallets into compost bins
00:53:15TV carpenter Wayne Perry
00:53:18we're talking about compost to enrich garden soil rather than potting compost
00:53:22which you're still going to have to buy
00:53:24unless you've got a way of making your own
00:53:25but I don't think anyone should buy it
00:53:27we can all make our own
00:53:29the stuff to enrich the soil outside
00:53:30absolutely
00:53:31so we've just got a few things here that you need to make perfect compost
00:53:35I love the orange theme here
00:53:36your jumper my jumper on the cabbage
00:53:38it's like we planned it
00:53:39it is really
00:53:40so what goes in
00:53:42so you've got the brown and green
00:53:44so brown is obviously your twigs
00:53:46it's your hard barks
00:53:47it's things that are you know
00:53:48going to take a little bit more time to break down
00:53:50one of the best things I ever bought was a shredder
00:53:52to shred those and it all then goes in
00:53:54it all goes in
00:53:55but also your cardboards your egg boxes
00:53:57we did have
00:53:58I've got a shredder at the front of my door for my
00:54:00paper and things that I'm
00:54:03letters that I don't want
00:54:04they get shredded
00:54:05we were going to put them here it's a bit windy
00:54:06blown away
00:54:06we didn't want it
00:54:07so it's a good idea to get you some of that stuff as well
00:54:09but then you've got the green stuff
00:54:11which is obviously your vegetable peelings
00:54:13your old flowers
00:54:14and once they're all mixing together and turned in
00:54:17you know and keep layering them like lasagna
00:54:19and mixing
00:54:20mixing is the big thing
00:54:21not to put in thick perennial weed roots
00:54:24or any food like potato you know processed food
00:54:28yeah any processed food
00:54:28chickens or anything like that
00:54:30and also just bear in mind any diseased plants
00:54:32you don't want to put those in there either
00:54:34you know you want to
00:54:34it's got to be gorgeous stuff for your plants
00:54:36so mixing keep it moist and firm
00:54:38and once you've collated all of those
00:54:41and you've got them together
00:54:42we then need to put them into a compost bin
00:54:44so this is your entry-level compost bin
00:54:47it's you can get from b&q
00:54:4932 pounds standard it's recycled plastic
00:54:52the lid comes off
00:54:53lid comes off
00:54:54throw your rubbish inside
00:54:55little flap at the bottom there
00:54:57that you can lift up if you want to access it
00:54:59so you can see how it's going
00:55:01but what's great about it is on the ground
00:55:03you can't you this the worms and microorganisms
00:55:06are coming through
00:55:07they're working their way up
00:55:08so that's 32 pounds from most of your diy stores
00:55:11i love this one
00:55:12the beehive
00:55:13the beehive
00:55:14so the idea of this is
00:55:16if your if your compost bin needs to be on display
00:55:19it could be in a border
00:55:20it could look pretty you could paint it
00:55:22this is from bloom
00:55:23so we um they they're a small independent company
00:55:26who make them bespoke
00:55:28they started off doing um bins
00:55:30and your storage bins for your front of your house
00:55:31to look pretty
00:55:32but this one
00:55:33it's a stained wood
00:55:34it's pressure treated wood
00:55:35um 195 pounds
00:55:38but you could put a liner inside of that
00:55:40so the wood didn't rot
00:55:41so it didn't rot
00:55:42it can keep
00:55:42but what we've seen done with these before
00:55:44is because they look so pretty
00:55:45sometimes once all your compost is in there
00:55:47you can plant that up and just leave it
00:55:49use it as a planter as well
00:55:51yeah
00:55:51so it's a nice way of creating something
00:55:53you know compared to that one which is you know black but this one painted looks lovely
00:55:57like a wbc hive
00:55:59within your cottage garden
00:56:01now this one is all singing all dancing
00:56:03this is your hot bin
00:56:04so the hot bin is uh insulated
00:56:07so it gets hot inside there
00:56:09um it's a bit pricey
00:56:11it's 215 pounds
00:56:13this is the smallest they can go
00:56:14this is 100 liter
00:56:15it can go up to 700 liters
00:56:17so you can go go big with it
00:56:18but the beauty of this one is
00:56:20these take about a year to turn
00:56:23once you've turned them every two months
00:56:24a year to get some good compost
00:56:26this one can take between 60 to 90 days
00:56:29for you to get some compost
00:56:30and you don't need to turn it
00:56:31so that's two or three months
00:56:32two or three months
00:56:33it's fairly hot
00:56:34there's a little um thermostat
00:56:35there's one on the top
00:56:36you've got a
00:56:36it's like your meat thermometer
00:56:37and it literally
00:56:38it's the joint done here
00:56:39i don't know where the compost is
00:56:41but when you say meat thermometer
00:56:42what's great is once it gets to the temperature
00:56:44that you see there between 40 and 60
00:56:46when it's green
00:56:47when it's green
00:56:47it means you can throw in your meat waste
00:56:49whereas before you can't throw in your chicken bones
00:56:52once they're cut down
00:56:53you can throw in anything in there
00:56:54and it'll heat it down
00:56:55and it'll go
00:56:56and it'll work its way through
00:56:57again you don't need to turn it
00:56:59it's worth putting the layers in
00:57:00as you're adding stuff
00:57:01having all the different layers
00:57:02if life's too short to stuff a mushroom
00:57:04i don't turn compost
00:57:06if it's mixed and kept moist
00:57:08and firmed
00:57:09a bit of old carpet or on the top
00:57:11i mean enough to do with that
00:57:12turning it every two months
00:57:13i mean some people do
00:57:14it's just a matter of opinion
00:57:15you don't have to turn it
00:57:16it's more important to turn it in tiny bins
00:57:18i think than in bigger ones
00:57:19mine's about two meters
00:57:20and also you can access this
00:57:22there's normally like a strap that goes around
00:57:23you'll take the strap off
00:57:24you can access it
00:57:25and the little blue tap at the bottom
00:57:27collects all those juices
00:57:28liquid manure liquid manure liquid fertilizer
00:57:31so you know it's a great product
00:57:34because it means it can turn it quickly
00:57:35fast yeah fast
00:57:36but of course knowing you
00:57:39yes
00:57:39you don't necessarily want to buy
00:57:41one that somebody else has made
00:57:42you want to make one yourself
00:57:43but free
00:57:44okay have a look
00:57:46the ubiquitous pallet
00:57:48the pallet the pallet
00:57:50our world is held together by pallets
00:57:52you either love them or hate them
00:57:53and i've got a varied relationship with them
00:57:55but pallets are free
00:57:57they're amazing
00:57:58if you find um four pallets that are the same
00:58:01joyful you can make you can make one of these
00:58:03one thing to look out for
00:58:04you'll see a little stamp here
00:58:05there's a two letters ht there
00:58:08that means heat treated
00:58:09so they've been heat treated so they won't rot
00:58:11but they used to be covered in loads of chemicals
00:58:14and different things
00:58:15so check that it's heat treated
00:58:16because you don't want anything that's covered in chemicals
00:58:18it's just going to leach into your gorgeous compost
00:58:20so we've got three equally sized pallets here
00:58:24and we've literally just screwed them
00:58:26spiked them through into into place
00:58:28we hold them into place
00:58:29the next thing you need to do is get yourself some chicken wire
00:58:32and what i love about chicken wire
00:58:33you can literally just cut it with some strong scissors
00:58:36you don't need any pliers or anything like that
00:58:37and the reason we have chicken wire is we're going to line the inside edge with it
00:58:42so by yeah just by lining the inside edge
00:58:46do you don't stop with my fingers
00:58:48i haven't got your fingers
00:58:50there's a deer
00:58:51and this will go all the way around
00:58:53and what this does
00:58:55it allows the air circulation to go through
00:58:58but it stops the soil or any debris falling out
00:59:01falling out
00:59:01are you doing another layer of that then
00:59:03you would do another layer
00:59:04i would do another layer higher
00:59:06yeah across that way
00:59:07so the idea then is anything's collecting there
00:59:10again it's on the floor
00:59:11we want those worms to come through
00:59:12we want all of the that nutrients to come through the floor
00:59:15and the next one you could put a full pallet here
00:59:18but i like to cut mine down
00:59:20so i pre-cut this one down
00:59:22and we offer
00:59:25this one into place
00:59:26you can put hinges on there
00:59:28you can put latches so it opens like a barn door
00:59:31but i think if you can just
00:59:32if you can use a drill
00:59:35yeah
00:59:35you can unscrew something
00:59:37that's within my capabilities
00:59:38yeah so i'm literally just going to hold this one in place for now
00:59:41so a diagonal bit of a nail down there
00:59:46and the idea that we've cut it down lower is
00:59:48if you're coming along with your wheelbarrow
00:59:50you can hook it up and throw it over
00:59:52but having this one
00:59:56having this one in place so that you can unscrew it
00:59:59means that when you get in there you can turn it
01:00:00and then once that's done
01:00:03put on i've just got some an old throw here
01:00:06if you've got a piece of carpet or something
01:00:08lay that on top and then put some plastic on top
01:00:12just to stop too much moisture going in
01:00:14yeah
01:00:14you don't need to get too sodden
01:00:15you want you want the air going through
01:00:16you know more than me but you want
01:00:18it's the three m's isn't it really
01:00:20mix it moisten it and mash it
01:00:23keep it seems to be kept firm
01:00:24and with those three m's mix everything
01:00:27rather than having a concentration of grass clippings in one place
01:00:29just because brown and slimy
01:00:30mix that with everything else and grass is great because it heats it
01:00:34and so with all the things mixed up with your your browns as you say
01:00:37and your greens and if you hire a shredder it's really useful
01:00:40it speeds up the the moving of it
01:00:42and then if you if you make sure there's three m's there
01:00:44the mixing the moistening and the mashing
01:00:46you'll find it rots down i always give it a year anyway yeah it's safe
01:00:49and how many of these bins would you normally have
01:00:51i've got well as many as you
01:00:53depends on the size of your garden
01:00:54but i always have a couple at least because then
01:00:57one is full and rotting and the other's being filled
01:01:00and you've got this system then about a year on you're using that one
01:01:04and the following year you'll be using that one while this one's filling up
01:01:06i love the idea though of using the compost that you've created
01:01:10for your garden and knowing it hasn't cost you anything to get rid of it
01:01:14you've just re-put it back and purposed it
01:01:15it's the natural cycle when trees lose their leaves they fall on the ground
01:01:19they rot the worms take them in
01:01:20and that's nature and you've given a nice part of nature yeah
01:01:24and look for the ht heat treated just heat treated
01:01:27wayne perry thanks way
01:01:35now many legendary thinkers and creators kept famous diaries leonardo da vinci
01:01:41whose notebooks contain sketches of inventions and anatomical studies
01:01:46charles darwin who documented his geological and biological observations
01:01:51alexander graham bell who detailed his telephone experiments albert einstein
01:01:57who filled his diary with calculations and leslie joseph is no different as she takes a leaf out of all
01:02:04their books with the first of her nature diaries chapter one the march hare
01:02:14hampshire sunday the 22nd of march 2026
01:02:18dear diary
01:02:20it's been a week since my last diary entry
01:02:23but i am feeling quite rejuvenated the weather is most agreeable as spring grabs hold of us
01:02:29and winter seems so very far away
01:02:31enter master hare
01:02:34dashing
01:02:35and deliciously naughty with his large long powerful hind legs
01:02:41oh dear diary
01:02:43i itch in anticipation
01:02:44i have been meaning to see the apothecarist about that actually
01:02:48sorry
01:02:49back to my diary
01:02:51as i perch by the open window
01:02:53absorbing the gentle spring breeze
01:02:56the brown hare
01:02:58parades itself around
01:03:00with a bouncy ease
01:03:02along the heath and hidden in the grasses
01:03:04running across fields and hiding in the marshes
01:03:07the brown hare plays
01:03:09and strays
01:03:10whilst having the occasional
01:03:11vegetational greys
01:03:13glistening in the warm sun
01:03:15embracing
01:03:16the hazy days
01:03:19with long black tipped ears
01:03:21worthy of a sonnet
01:03:22no doubt having to poke two holes
01:03:24through a celebratory bonnet
01:03:27with a super speedy
01:03:29and slick fast pace
01:03:30the brown hare can certainly take on a race
01:03:34i have a ball this evening
01:03:36and word is spreading
01:03:37that lord biggins will be in attendance
01:03:40oh
01:03:41i do hope he selects me to be part of his walls
01:03:44i hear he is quite the maverick on the dance floor
01:03:48now i must dash enough hair related do-gooding
01:03:51if i don't put down the quill
01:03:53who will make today's plum pudding
01:03:55oh
01:03:56fare thee well brown hare
01:03:58it's been a treat
01:04:00thank you for continually making my heart beat
01:04:04yours affectionately as ever
01:04:06leslie
01:04:09thank you leslie
01:04:10well up to einstein standards
01:04:12did you know the expression
01:04:14mad as a march hare
01:04:15stems from their frantic mating behaviour
01:04:17including high speed chases
01:04:19leaping and boxing
01:04:20that peak in early spring
01:04:23fancy it's amazing sight when you watch boxing airs
01:04:26coming up
01:04:27sarah parish
01:04:28back on stage
01:04:29in the bittersweet family drama eclipse
01:04:32i'll see you with sarah
01:04:33right after this
01:04:46welcome back to love your weekend
01:04:48now coming up
01:04:49drinks duo hannah and sioborn
01:04:51see us out in style
01:04:53with zesty botanicals
01:04:55including a burnt lemon spritz
01:04:57and a chilled martini
01:04:58with an orange twist
01:05:00can't wait
01:05:01but first
01:05:02saucy storylines
01:05:04and devious divas
01:05:05scandalous
01:05:06sexy
01:05:07and seductive
01:05:07it was the hit series
01:05:09following the lives and loves
01:05:11of a group of 30-something girlfriends
01:05:13and featuring my next guest
01:05:15yes lovers may come and go
01:05:18but friends last forever
01:05:20or do they
01:05:21katie multiple choice
01:05:22sex lover kids
01:05:24what can i only have one
01:05:26um
01:05:30love
01:05:34i think
01:05:35someone asked me out today
01:05:36were you
01:05:37oh yeah
01:05:38hello
01:05:39well he's a new dad at school
01:05:41and i think he just got divorced
01:05:43and we got chatting at the supermarket
01:05:45and he said that we should go for a coffee
01:05:48and i went
01:05:49um
01:05:50hang on a minute
01:05:51he asked you out for a coffee
01:05:52in sainsbury's
01:05:53no in tesco's actually
01:05:55and
01:05:57well i'm not really sure he was asking me out
01:05:58well what did he say
01:06:00um
01:06:00exact words
01:06:03do you fancy going for a coffee
01:06:04he said fancy
01:06:05i think so
01:06:06if he said that he was asking you out
01:06:07oh no maybe he said want
01:06:08well that's
01:06:10no
01:06:10that's different
01:06:11that's more tricky to interpret
01:06:12you see this is exactly why i switched from english
01:06:14to modern languages
01:06:17mistresses
01:06:17the deep bond and connection between the four
01:06:20of your characters with your shared sarcasm
01:06:23and ease with each other
01:06:24was it like that on set
01:06:26you did seem
01:06:26there seemed to be some kind of chemistry going on there
01:06:28oh we had such a good time on that show
01:06:30we were out in bristol
01:06:31the four of us
01:06:33and we all shared a big house
01:06:34which was great
01:06:35so we were together the whole time
01:06:37um yeah
01:06:38and we we really bonded on that show
01:06:41it was a terrific show
01:06:41and you know i get asked often
01:06:43it's the one show
01:06:45that i get asked about
01:06:46all the time
01:06:47i get stopped in the street
01:06:48with women saying
01:06:49oh when are you going to bring back mistresses
01:06:50we'd love to see something like that
01:06:52why do you think
01:06:53i think it's
01:06:55a bit like sex in the city isn't it
01:06:57i think women want to see themselves on television
01:07:00so something like mistresses
01:07:01obviously was very successful
01:07:03and now they want to see
01:07:05where those women are
01:07:06at the age that they would be
01:07:08which is in their 50s
01:07:09but shot through with humour too
01:07:11you've got to have humour
01:07:12yeah
01:07:12you've got to have humour
01:07:14um you're splitting as ever
01:07:16screen work
01:07:17both you know large and small
01:07:19with uh theatre work
01:07:20because you're now
01:07:21going into a play
01:07:23at chichester festival theatre
01:07:24eclipse
01:07:25which is written
01:07:26by the guy who wrote w1a
01:07:28to which my wife and i were glued
01:07:30and hilarious
01:07:31thinking how on earth
01:07:32could the bbc do this
01:07:33about themselves
01:07:33i know
01:07:34because it's so accurate
01:07:35you know good for them
01:07:36uh but so tell us about it
01:07:38eclipse
01:07:39well yes uh
01:07:40john morton has written a play
01:07:41it's the only play he's ever written
01:07:43and he wrote it
01:07:4420 years ago
01:07:45so he's been sat on this play now
01:07:47for 20 years
01:07:48um
01:07:49and he
01:07:50he wrote me a letter actually
01:07:51and said look i've written this play
01:07:52and i'd really love you to be in it
01:07:53and i immediately thought
01:07:55oh it's going to be hilarious
01:07:56you know
01:07:56it'll be really fast and funny
01:07:58and probably set in an office
01:07:59you know
01:08:00anyway this play came through
01:08:02and it's
01:08:02it's
01:08:03i mean it just shows
01:08:04what a brilliant versatile writer he is
01:08:07it's a very
01:08:09minimalistic play
01:08:10that happens over 24 hours
01:08:12the last 24 hours
01:08:13of somebody's life
01:08:15and it's about the brother and sister
01:08:17uh the son and the daughter
01:08:18of this guy who's dying
01:08:19in the kitchen
01:08:21and just their relationship
01:08:22over this 24 hours
01:08:24how they are with each other
01:08:26while their father is dying
01:08:27so nothing happens
01:08:29and everything happens
01:08:30it's one of those plays
01:08:32and of course it's beautifully written
01:08:34he's got such a
01:08:35wonderful way of writing
01:08:37it's so naturalistic
01:08:38um it reads brilliantly
01:08:41i'm surprised he's only ever written one play really
01:08:43so yes we're doing it the minerva in chichester
01:08:46so the smaller theatre
01:08:47uh rupert penner jones
01:08:49he's playing
01:08:50well my wife will be there
01:08:51i know he's not ugly
01:08:53it's rupert penner jones
01:08:54he's in it
01:08:55it's sarah
01:08:56so uh yeah
01:08:58the two of us
01:08:59are brother and sister
01:09:00so it'll be
01:09:00it will be
01:09:01a really lovely experience
01:09:03you've got
01:09:03you know
01:09:04other tv things
01:09:05yes
01:09:06yeah yeah
01:09:06there's all sorts going on
01:09:08um
01:09:08what was on
01:09:09piglets has been on
01:09:10again this year
01:09:11which was um
01:09:12a series that i do
01:09:14with mark heap
01:09:15about a police academy
01:09:16which is quite funny
01:09:17um
01:09:18it's not my most attractive part
01:09:21no
01:09:21now tell me about this
01:09:23this makeup for piglets
01:09:24we're going to have a look at it in a second
01:09:26it's very funny
01:09:27that well
01:09:27when we were sort of
01:09:28trying to work out
01:09:29what julie spry would look like
01:09:31they brought out a bag of wigs
01:09:32and i was sort of trying on these wigs
01:09:34and literally it was like
01:09:36cinderella's slipper
01:09:37one wig came
01:09:38i put it on
01:09:38i went there she is
01:09:39that's it
01:09:40and the makeup lady said
01:09:41i think we could probably
01:09:42push her a bit further
01:09:43and maybe
01:09:44maybe have some teeth
01:09:45as well
01:09:45so we went for these comedy teeth
01:09:48and then julie spry was born
01:09:50yeah
01:09:50i love playing her
01:09:51she's so much fun
01:09:52here is
01:09:53julie spry in piglets
01:09:56let's start with the
01:09:57traditional good cop
01:09:58bad cop scenario
01:09:59so which one do you want me to be
01:10:13i can do
01:10:15i don't know how you did that
01:10:28i don't know
01:10:29i'm doing it now
01:10:31do you know what
01:10:32it's mark heave
01:10:33it's so easy to work with an actor like that
01:10:36he is a born clown
01:10:37some people have just got funny bones
01:10:39haven't they
01:10:39and he can't
01:10:41he can't do anything without being funny
01:10:43i mean literally
01:10:44i can't sit opposite
01:10:45i remember him being the postman
01:10:46in like rice to candlestick
01:10:47it was brilliant
01:10:48and you just look at his face there
01:10:49he's just funny
01:10:50he was funny in friday night
01:10:52you know
01:10:52jim in friday night dinner
01:10:53he was
01:10:54he's just a funny person
01:10:55and we
01:10:57it's such a fun show to do
01:10:59because
01:10:59we do get quite a lot of freedom
01:11:01and lots of
01:11:02you know
01:11:02that was all
01:11:03sort of
01:11:03not all improvised
01:11:05but a lot of it was improvised
01:11:06and we've got time to sort of muck about
01:11:09and try things out
01:11:10and it's lovely
01:11:10looking at those four younger
01:11:13who's looking at you
01:11:15how they kept a straight face
01:11:17that must have been hard
01:11:19it was
01:11:19it was
01:11:20they did
01:11:20there's a lot of corpsing in that show
01:11:22it's good fun
01:11:23you did
01:11:24we heard you sing earlier on
01:11:25i want to show a bit of your singing now
01:11:27because you sang in blackpool
01:11:28yes i did
01:11:30in blackpool
01:11:31it was called
01:11:32in blackpool
01:11:33with david tennant
01:11:34yes
01:11:35great cast
01:11:36gosh that was
01:11:36that was a lovely show
01:11:38you know
01:11:39it's not
01:11:40it's not often
01:11:41that you get a musical on tv
01:11:43and i remember the read through
01:11:45i remember it was me and david morrissey
01:11:47and david tennant
01:11:47and we all met outside
01:11:48before the read through
01:11:49so i said
01:11:50do you think they're actually
01:11:51going to make us sing the songs
01:11:52in the read through
01:11:53and i was like
01:11:54no of course they won't
01:11:55they wouldn't do that
01:11:56they did
01:11:57they had a tape recorder
01:11:59and we all had to sing
01:12:00the actual songs
01:12:01at the read through
01:12:02we didn't know each other
01:12:03we'd never met each other
01:12:04you know it was hard work
01:12:05but um
01:12:06it was brilliant
01:12:07it was so much fun
01:12:08peter bowker wrote it
01:12:09he's a fabulous writer
01:12:11um
01:12:12we were up in blackpool
01:12:13for about five or six months
01:12:15it was just a lot of fun
01:12:17it was a lot of fun
01:12:18being able to
01:12:18getting up every day
01:12:19going to work
01:12:20and dancing and singing
01:12:21it doesn't get any better than that
01:12:23it doesn't get any better than this does it
01:12:51staring into each other
01:12:54there's something quite it's quite difficult doing that you think you know
01:12:59and you've got to do take after take after take so it was it was a tough job
01:13:04but it was really enjoyable when you're not cavorting on the stage just or
01:13:09anywhere or doing your TV your original Murray Parish charity in memory of your
01:13:16daughter Ella Jane is gone from strength to strength I mean Ella died tragically
01:13:21young 2009 you the charity go and you've changed your the name of it now to why
01:13:26this is very much space in Southampton so we last year it was our 10 year
01:13:33anniversary as the Murray Parish Trust and we we figured that we'd kind of done as
01:13:38much as we could down in the south we predominantly worked at Southampton
01:13:42Children's Hospital and we kept noticing there was a real lack of help for the
01:13:48mental health of seriously ill children so we kind of thought maybe now is the
01:13:52time with all our experience to expand and go national and maybe have a rebrand and
01:13:57change our name so it's not just about Jim and I it's something a little bit
01:14:00bigger and and and just purely concentrate on the mental health of seriously ill
01:14:06children and their families as well because you often find that the cha you
01:14:10know the child gets looked after but the fallback and then the fallout for the
01:14:15family is terrible talking working it seems to me the roles you choose have
01:14:20always got some kind of central spark to them they're either completely bonkers as
01:14:27in the character in w1a you know where you're listening I mean I can see you you
01:14:32don't seem to want to play what you might call ordinary people no I don't get
01:14:36ordinary people I mean whatever ordinary people it I don't know what but no I mean
01:14:41also as an actor you pick you pick what you want to do you know you and then
01:14:44there are certain parts that I'm drawn to I did I did go through a phase of
01:14:49paying quite a lot of psychopaths which I bizarrely enjoyed a bit too much I'm
01:14:54hoping to go into a nicer sort of you know time of my life and maybe more
01:14:58gentle characters now who knows there are so many outlets as well now not just
01:15:01BBC ITV but Netflix I mean geek girl this is on is on Netflix and that gives you in a
01:15:08way a longer life yeah geek girl was great I mean geek girl looks fantastic and
01:15:12the kids in it were wonderful and it was a very funny Jude was a great part but I
01:15:16couldn't turn Jude so tell us about you Jude is the head of a model agency she's a
01:15:22bit of a monster but she's great fun she had all that you know she had a lot of
01:15:31great lines she's just a funny character and yeah I read it and went oh I'd love to be
01:15:35part of this and it was also the first series came out just when my daughter
01:15:39Nell was at the perfect age for it you know she was 14 I said you're gonna love
01:15:44this and she did she was absolutely glued to it so it's a lovely series for that
01:15:49age range you know and older as well I've had a lot of older people that have loved
01:15:52watching it I should be looking it up now geek go let me do that one more time at
01:15:59this angle just a case okay right right just hold it there just hold it there you
01:16:05have you ever worn glasses no I don't I don't need glasses I have 20 20 vision
01:16:13it's actually get rid of the feathers get rid of the feathers
01:16:31right just hold it there Ray just hold it one minute
01:16:53and see what you mean by no expense spared you know quite a lot but you like
01:16:58being cruel don't you I do I'm good at cruel aren't I I'm good at cruel yes she's a
01:17:03really good fun character I've always wanted to play somebody in the fashion
01:17:06industry and those lovely clothes as well it was a real treat look always lovely to
01:17:10talk to you thank you so much for coming good luck with the charity which is now
01:17:14called imagine this imagine this I've got to get that in my head now rather than
01:17:17Murray Price let me see you let me have Jim on last week we'll take you in
01:17:20rotation yes do his turn next great let me see you time to pause reflect and take a
01:17:26moment to enjoy some wonderful footage set to some equally wonderful music it's
01:17:31today's Ode to Joy
01:18:02you
01:18:09you
01:18:11you
01:18:11you
01:18:11you
01:18:12you
01:18:31ORGAN PLAYS
01:18:58ORGAN PLAYS
01:19:29Absolutely stunning pictures there of the Cairngorms,
01:19:32courtesy of Sam Hales and set to the Symphony No. 4 by Felix Mendelsohn.
01:19:37Coming up, it's a juicy end to the show with this week's Best of British.
01:19:41Drinks experts Hannah and Siobhan prove that citrus tipples are the way to go.
01:19:47If you're having a springtime shindig, who am I to disagree?
01:19:51Zesty Botanicals, coming up right after this.
01:20:04Zesty Botanicals, coming up right after this week's Best of British time now.
01:20:12The days are longer, the soil's warmer, said the gardener,
01:20:15and the equinox has been and gone, which can only mean one thing,
01:20:19the unequivocal arrival of spring.
01:20:22And what better way to toast the new season
01:20:24than with an array of fresh and citrusy tipples
01:20:26sure to get you perked up and possibly even a little puckered.
01:20:30Behind the bar today, the double trouble,
01:20:33as we welcome for the first time not one but two master cocktail connoisseurs,
01:20:38Hannah Sharman-Cox and Siobhan Payne,
01:20:41founders of the London Cocktail Week.
01:20:44Why would you not have found that?
01:20:46And here they are with their rounds of Zesty Botanicals.
01:20:50What have we got today, then?
01:20:51Well, you gave us a brief of Zesty Botanicals,
01:20:55so we've stuck to theme.
01:20:56We're going to start with this,
01:20:59which is the burnt lemon spritz in your wine glass.
01:21:03Ooh, nice.
01:21:04And this is celebrating the lemon.
01:21:06So it's very, very lemony.
01:21:08Yeah, we're starting with, at the base of it,
01:21:11is a Cornish vermouth.
01:21:13It's made down on the south coast, near St. Austal.
01:21:17It's called Nitor.
01:21:19I just love the bottle of this one, actually.
01:21:20It's so gorgeous, isn't it?
01:21:21It looks like a sort of Liebfraun.
01:21:23Yes, it does.
01:21:24I was going to say that.
01:21:25It was probably blue, none in the formula.
01:21:27It's a working winery.
01:21:29You can actually get married there as well.
01:21:30They make all sorts of English wines.
01:21:33Their Blanc de Blanc English sparkling is very highly awarded.
01:21:36But this vermouth is really delicious.
01:21:38It's really, really grown up.
01:21:42It's really interesting.
01:21:43It's really, yeah, it's great.
01:21:45But we've paired it with...
01:21:46Yes, so this is Rapscallion Burnt Lemon.
01:21:49So it's designed to be a grown-up soft drink.
01:21:53And it's made in Glasgow.
01:21:55And they've called it Juicy Wee Tart, which I think is quite funny.
01:22:00But actually, it's designed...
01:22:02You can drink it by itself and it feels grown up.
01:22:05You usually think of vermouth as a mixer.
01:22:07You do, don't you?
01:22:08You know, a martini.
01:22:09So to have that as a base...
01:22:10Yeah, and it's a lovely summery drink, isn't it?
01:22:15And the good thing about vermouth as the base is that it means that the cocktail is lower ABV, so
01:22:21less alcoholics.
01:22:22It's quite a good lunchtime cocktail if you want to drink in the afternoon.
01:22:26You can drink more.
01:22:27That is one way of looking at it, Sarah.
01:22:30Do you taste this or...?
01:22:31Oh, it's lovely.
01:22:32This is delicious and fresh.
01:22:35Really lovely.
01:22:36Really lovely.
01:22:37Also, we thought we'd start with it because it opens your palate for what is to come.
01:22:41Oh, yes.
01:22:41This is a non-alcoholic cocktail and it is a twist on the Paloma.
01:22:46So classically, a Paloma is tequila with grapefruit and a bit of sugar.
01:22:50Oh, this is...
01:22:51But what we've done for this cocktail, because we wanted to do something not boozy, perhaps for breakfast,
01:22:58is mixed it with Bativo.
01:23:00Oh, that's lovely.
01:23:00So Bativo is made in Hertfordshire.
01:23:03That is lovely.
01:23:03And what it is, is apple cider vinegar, steeped in various herbs and spices and then sweetened with honey.
01:23:09So it's actually really good for you.
01:23:10This is a good food drink.
01:23:12It's unpasteurised ACV.
01:23:14Really nice.
01:23:15And then mixed with grapefruit.
01:23:17Wonderful.
01:23:18It really is a beautiful soft drink.
01:23:21Isn't it gorgeous?
01:23:22Two out of two.
01:23:23Oh, good.
01:23:25All right, more unusual citrus fruit for you.
01:23:29We're going to Yuzu.
01:23:30Some people call it a Japanese lemon,
01:23:33but it's more of a hybrid, actually.
01:23:34It's kind of closer to a Mandarin, probably.
01:23:37So we've gone all out.
01:23:39Yeah, we wanted to really celebrate the Yuzu,
01:23:41so we've gone double Yuzu today.
01:23:42We have.
01:23:43So the base of the product, like similar to how we did with the spritz,
01:23:47the base is a sake.
01:23:48So it's a rice wine.
01:23:50Oh.
01:23:51So Kampai, which means cheers in Japanese.
01:23:55Kampai.
01:23:55To you.
01:23:55They are, cheers.
01:23:56They are based down in the arches near London Bridge.
01:24:00Oh, all right.
01:24:00Yeah, it's lovely.
01:24:02That's nice too.
01:24:02Yeah, it's really, yeah.
01:24:03We've paired it with a Yuzu mixer.
01:24:06And this brand of mixers called Kazimo,
01:24:10it's made by a bartender,
01:24:13so you know it's going to be good.
01:24:14They use Yuzus from Japan,
01:24:16and they don't use any artificial coloring,
01:24:18so it's really, really good brand of mixers.
01:24:21It reminded me,
01:24:21because it just reminded me that I know a bit of Japanese.
01:24:24Oh, come on then.
01:24:33But the beautiful thing is that you can have that mixer just by itself,
01:24:37and it still gives you that real Yuzu flavor.
01:24:39Very nice.
01:24:40Yeah, very nice.
01:24:41Good to use that.
01:24:41That's really nice.
01:24:42Now we're moving on to celebration of Bergamot.
01:24:45Oh.
01:24:46And this is a non-alcoholic cocktail as well,
01:24:49and we're using Everleaf Marine.
01:24:52So Everleaf is such a nice brand,
01:24:54and this is also created by a bartender,
01:24:57but he's also a conservationist.
01:24:59What's that right now?
01:25:00And actually, when I said we were coming on,
01:25:03we know Paul very well, who's the founder.
01:25:06He said that his dad might have met you, Alan,
01:25:09because he's the famous botanist Brian Matthew.
01:25:13Brian Matthew?
01:25:14Yeah.
01:25:15This is Brian Matthew.
01:25:16Brian and I used to work together at Kew Gardens.
01:25:18He's a famous botanist, Brian Matthew.
01:25:19Yes, he is.
01:25:19Very accomplished.
01:25:20So he's head of botany for Everleaf.
01:25:22He taught his son well.
01:25:23Yeah.
01:25:25Well done, Brian.
01:25:27Yeah, it's a really nice product.
01:25:29They've also got forest and mountain.
01:25:31This is marine.
01:25:32So this is lots of Italian Bergamot,
01:25:35but mixed with things like kelp to give it that sort of marine feeling.
01:25:37Yeah, you see, this is nice.
01:25:38There's a seaside.
01:25:39Yeah, I can taste that.
01:25:41Yeah.
01:25:41And what we've done to give it the sort of mouthfeel,
01:25:44because obviously, because it's non-alcoholic,
01:25:45sometimes non-alcoholic cocktails feel a bit thin,
01:25:48so we've put some coconut water and some lime,
01:25:51and that gives it a little bit more body.
01:25:54Yeah, it's super nice.
01:25:55So clever.
01:25:56No, but I mean, obviously, I stopped drinking ten years ago,
01:26:00and to be able, never, ten years ago,
01:26:03would you go and ask for a non-alcoholic drink,
01:26:05and it would never taste nice.
01:26:07Yes.
01:26:07You'd be like, well, what's the point?
01:26:09Yeah.
01:26:09I mean, these are beautiful, like, really beautiful.
01:26:13These two are my absolute...
01:26:16Yeah, these two are my favourite.
01:26:17But this one's so...
01:26:19It's such an unusual taste, isn't it?
01:26:20They're all quite distinct.
01:26:22Yeah.
01:26:22So from not boozy to the most boozy...
01:26:25Oh.
01:26:26Here we go.
01:26:27It would be very rude for us not to...
01:26:28You've done it in the right order, haven't you?
01:26:29Exactly, exactly.
01:26:30It would be very rude for us not to bring our favourite drink,
01:26:32which is a martini.
01:26:34Oh.
01:26:34So we have gone with...
01:26:36This is such a lovely producer.
01:26:38It's called The Vault.
01:26:39Look at that.
01:26:41He's actually, much like everything else,
01:26:43he used to be a restaurateur and then he got into production.
01:26:45Cool.
01:26:46So it's a gin martini.
01:26:48It is...
01:26:49It's on the wet side, so it's not too strong.
01:26:52Blimey.
01:26:53And when she says wet, she means vermouth heavy.
01:26:56Vermouth heavy.
01:26:57Ooh.
01:26:58That is, yeah, very good.
01:27:01The gin has got citrus leaves and orange blossom within it,
01:27:06and then the vermouth is a vermouth they call meadow.
01:27:08Which is sweetened with Northumberland honey.
01:27:11Right.
01:27:12They also make...
01:27:13They make a coastal and a vodka, which is very chalky.
01:27:16So if you're into a vodka martini,
01:27:18like, that would be the combination of their products.
01:27:20But...
01:27:21Too much.
01:27:21No.
01:27:22It's got to be greater.
01:27:23Just about enough.
01:27:25Yeah, this is...
01:27:26It's so rich and round, despite it looking like a very clear drink.
01:27:31Like...
01:27:32But I can taste the honey in that.
01:27:33Yeah, can't you?
01:27:33There's a nice, sweet twist to that, which is...
01:27:37It is the perfect martini.
01:27:39Your eyes are watering.
01:27:40Well, there were just two of you when we started.
01:27:43I can see about four.
01:27:46It's delicious.
01:27:47It's really good.
01:27:48I mean, it's obviously very alcoholic.
01:27:51I don't think I can take two of those,
01:27:52but I'm very happy to take one.
01:27:55Well, it depends on the time of day,
01:27:57because I think if you were having one in the afternoon,
01:27:59maybe one's enough.
01:28:00But of an evening, after dinner, maybe.
01:28:03I mean, I tried this again.
01:28:04This is now becoming one of my favourites.
01:28:06It's really good, isn't it, that one?
01:28:08I really like that one, yeah.
01:28:09Thank you very much indeed.
01:28:10That's it for today.
01:28:11Thanks to all my guests,
01:28:13especially to the girls, to Hannah and Siobhan,
01:28:15and to Sarah and to Peter.
01:28:18They're not necessarily in that order after martini.
01:28:21Joining me next week, Phil Daniels,
01:28:23Adam Garcia, and Raquel herself, Tessa Peake-Jones.
01:28:27Fletcher's Family Farm is up next.
01:28:28Till then, I leave you with these words
01:28:30from American inventor Thomas A. Edison.
01:28:33Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
01:28:36The most certain way to succeed
01:28:39is always to try just one more time.
01:28:42So I think I'll try another sip of this,
01:28:45but only a sip.
01:28:46Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
01:28:48Cheers, all.
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01:29:14Amen.
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