Ye Olde Sat Nav
Ye Olde Sat Nav is an historical series. Each film looks at a different map from previous centuries, from a different producer across various parts of the UK.
Our reporter Joe Crowely finds outs whether he can still use these ancient maps to navigate his way around Britain today and discover if any of the landmarks on these old documents still exist.
The first episode features the first ever Ordnance Survey map of Kent produced in 1801.
Other maps in the series are firstly Emmanuel Owen’s and John Bowen’s ‘Ribbon Map’ created in 1720 which chart the journey from Bristol to Sommerton. Secondly ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’, created in 1611 by John Speed, which looks at the county of Northumberland, focusing on the city of Newcastle as it was.
Reunited
Reunited is a 3 part series where we reunite (for the first time) someone who was saved in a dramatic situation, with the stranger who rescued them. We focus on three very different stories where heroes and victims meet again.
Part One - Fire Story
Darren Staniland has been a serving fire officer for nearly two decades. He has attended hundreds of fires and witnessed many deaths. But one incident in particular has played on his mind for nearly 15 years.
He was the lead fire officer at a fire in 1996. The fire resulted in the death of two young boys. Miraculously Darren's team managed to rescue the boys’ mother and two sisters aged 6 and, just 7 months.
Darren often wondered what happened to those two girls – now he finds out as we reunite Darren with Nakita (now aged 21) and Sophie Willis (now aged 16) and their ever grateful mother.
Part Two - Derrick Bird Shooting
Harry Berger was shot twice in the arm by Derrick Bird who went on a shooting rampage in the Cumbria area in June last year. Harry was one of the few lucky people to survive. We reunite him with Dr Simon Le Clerc, the doctor on duty that day in the Air Ambulance sent in to deal with Harry at the scene. Harry believes that Simon - who is also a specialist army medic used to dealing with battle wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan saved both his arm and his life.
Part Three - Mountain Rescue
We talk to 75 year old Howard Glennester – who was stranded, unconscious in the Cumbrian mountains.
Howard had been on a walking holiday with his young grandson The weather had taken a turn for the worse when Howard slipped and fell into a deep ditch. He could not continue walking. Grandfather and grandson became separated after ten year old Ben went off to try and get help. We reunite Howard with Andrew Graham, the Search and Rescue officer who was part of the team who helped find Howard and Ben that night after a dramatic search.
Garden Dating Agency
Around Britain's cities the demand for allotments is greater than the amount of space available. Residents in Camden have a 40 year waiting list.In Islington it can take 21 years. At the same time many gardens can no longer be maintained by their elderly owners.
The One Show's Christine Walkden has found a solution. Age Concern Wandsworth has established The Garden Partners' Scheme which matches up those who are desperate for a garden with gardeners.
Christine meets 88 year old Ken. No longer able to care for his own garden, Ken has agreed to share his plot with young Jono Douglas. Over the summer, Ken and Jono share more than fresh veg crops. They share friendship and companionship.
My Big Decision
Part One - April Ashley
Way back in 1960 George Jamieson made the ‘Big Decision’ and risked his life to undergo pioneering surgery to become April Ashley, a woman. Fifty years on, we revisit April’s momentous choice to become one of the first UK men to change sex in a world in which the word ‘transsexual’ was yet to be invented.
April Ashley has lived an extraordinary life. She’s the boy who became a woman and was one of the first people in the world to have a sex change operation. She was raised in a poor area of Liverpool and at one time was a merchant seaman. She married a Lord and became one of London’s most desirable ladies. She was discriminated against and bullied, but she fought the law and, eventually, won.
Part Two - Joe Glenton
"I made a choice to leave. You have to ask yourself if what's happening is right. Because ‘just following orders' stopped being an excuse in 1949".
In 2007 Lance Corporal Joe Glenton made the big decision to flee the country days before his unit was redeployed to Afghanistan. Traumatised by his experiences on the front line and no longer able to participate in a war he believed to be wrong, Joe decided to speak out publicly about his experiences and convictions. In May 2010 he was sentenced to nine months in a military jail for going AWOL.
"The choice I made will continue to define my life long after I leave jail. I have a duty to speak out and make my voice heard. A duty to the Afghan people, to my colleagues and to myself."
Part Three - Michael Seery
The day was like every other day. Sixty nine year old pensioner Michael Seery, was waiting for his three friends to turn up and join him for their regular game of cards at the betting shop across the road from his house. But this day, an armed robber entered the betting shop causing Michael to make his Big Decision to step in and tackle the robber, a choice that put his own life in danger and resulted in injuries he still suffers from to this day.
Michael says 'It's instinctive. I felt duty bound to protect those girls in the shop. You do what you have to do because it's right. If people are in danger, you can't ignore, it's built into the Human DNA'.
Michael was recognised at the National Police Public Bravery Awards in Manchester and also won a Pride of Britain Award in 2009 for Outstanding Bravery.
Part Four - Jasvinder Sanghera
When Jasvinder Sanghera was just 16 she ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage and she lived in hiding for eight years, sleeping rough and fearing reprisals from her family. Her parents had alerted the police who did find her but she was so scared that the police agreed they would not take her back home as long as she rang to say she was safe. When she did so her parents told her she was dead to them unless she returned home to marry. She attempted suicide twice.
She did have secret contact with her younger sister and her next eldest sister Robina, whom she knew was unhappy in her arranged marriage. Two years after Robina set herself alight and committed suicide to escape her abusive marriage, Jasvinder returned to her home town determined to help others suffering in silence.
She set up the charity Karma Nirvana in 1994 and has dedicated her life to helping men and women fleeing forced marriages, domestic violence and threats of honour killings. Despite receiving death threats, Jasvinder campaigns tirelessly, telling her own story to encourage others to break their silence.
Giving it all Away
Giving it all Away follows Brian Burnie as as he sells his multi million pound Georgian home and donates all the money to charity. His wife Shirley is not so enthusiastic about becoming a pauper.
As they argue over where they will live and just how frugal their new lives will be – we get a unique insight into the reality of living the philanthropic dream.
