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GOOD EVENING.
TONIGHT , DEATH AND
AZA. MORE
THAN 100 PEOPLE
TRYING TO
CONVOY ARE KILLED.
>> PRESIDENT
BIDEN AND FORMER
HOLD DUELING
, NG
WOMEN
WHO STRUGGLE
TO GET PREGNANT
SHARE THEIR PERSONAL ENCES AND
VIEWS ON
THE LING
JEOPARDIZES IN VITRO IZATION.
WHAT IS AN EMBRYO?
IS IT A PERSON?
DOES IT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR
LIFE? ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE STILL
UNDECIDED.♪
>>
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FOR 16
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AND
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INSTITUTIONS. ♪
THIS
PROGRAM WAS
MADE POSSIBLE TION FOR PUBLIC
BROADCASTING AND BY
R PBS STATION BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU.
THANK
YOU. >>
WELCOME. 30,000 IS THE NUMBER
OF GAZANS
THE
HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS HAS ED.
THAT A GRIM THRESHOLD WAS
ONE OF THE DEADLIEST SINGLE
INCIDENTS OF
THAN 100 PEOPLE REPORTEDLY KILLED
TRYING DESPERATELY TO GET
>> THE
NEED IS HIGHER
AND THE
ACUTE. MORE
THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE IN
GAZA ARE ONE STEP AWAY FROM
NE. THE WHITE HOUSE
TODAY CALLED THE NORTHERN
GAZA TRAGIC
AND ALARMING.
AID IT COULD NEGOTIATIONS
BECAUSE RELEASE
ISRAELI
THE FOLLOWING REPORT INCLUDES
ARE DISTURBING. REPORTER:
THEY WENT TO
RETRIEVE THEY RETURNED
INSTEAD WITH THE
THE FOOD THEY
DESPERATELY WANTED R
FAMILIES IS COVERED IN BLOOD.
IT HAPPENED AT
4:00 A.M. AS
EGYPTIAN AID TRUCKS ARRIVED IN GAZA CITY.
THE SOUND OF
GUNFIRE AS
PEOPLE HER
A BEGAN FLEE
-- AID
BEGAN TO FLEE.
RESIDENTS WALK AWAY WITH BAGS OF
FOOD SURROUNDED
B Y THE INJURED.
SED THIS FOOTAGE OF
CROWDS AND
TANKS. THAT IS
WHEN GAZANS
BEGAN >>
THAT TANKS THAT
WERE THERE TO CONVOY
CAUTIOUSLY TRIED TO
DISPERSE THE MOB WITH A
TS. WHEN THE HUNDREDS BECAME
THOUSANDS AND THINGS GOT OUT OF
HAND , THE TANK COMMANDER DECIDED
TO RETREAT.NO
IDF STRIKE WAS CONDUCTED
THE AID
CONVOY. AT
THIS HOSPITAL WHERE THE
WERE RUSHED
, ISRAEL.
WE WERE
SURPRISED BY THE NKS THAT CAME OUT AND
OPENED FIRE ON PEOPLE RANDOMLY
DIRECTLY. THIS IS MY BROTHER,
WHO BROUGHT
IF AID
IS TO COME
TO US IN
THIS
WAY, WE DO NOT
WANT IT. WE DO
NOT WANT TO LIVE ON THE BLOOD OF OUR
CHILDREN.
BUT THE AID
IS DESPERATELY
CHILDREN ARE ACUTELY RISHED.
ONE SAID
THIS BABY
DIED OF TION.
A HELPLESS MOTHER LEFT TO IEVE.
TO A MAN
WITH AN
EMPTY STOMACH, .
SALVATION COMES FROM A PLANT
THAT ,
LIKE THEM, CAN SURVEY THE HARSHEST CONDITIONS.
A THORNY, PRICKLY TAXES.
-- CACTUS.
TODAY WE ARE
LIVING IN
NOTHING LEFT TO EAT.
WE EAT CACTUS, EVEN WITH ITS
. IN
SOUTHERN GAZA, VOLUNTEERS
HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION
REN''S NUTRITION
THERE IS
AN ALARMING TRUTH.
FAMINE IN GAZA IS
HUNGER IS A MAJOR ISSUE RIGHT
THE
SEVERE MALNUTRITION OF DREN IS ALARMING.
HE VOLUNTEERED IN
SEVERAL LS IN
TH. WHEN
WE WERE THERE, THERE WAS FOOD.
NO CHICKEN AND NO EGGS AND NO MILK.
NO FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
FOOD WAS
VERY EXPENSIVE. E
ADULT EATS ONE MEAL
ISRAEL SAYS THERE ARE NO
STRICTIONS ON AID.
OF AID ON THE
U.N.
SAYS ISRAEL TARGETS
FIGHTERS
THAT WOULD BE AID.
MANY GAZANS FLOCKED TO THE BEACH
JORDAN AIRDROPPED AID INTO
SEA.
OFFICIALS
ARE PLANNING FOR THE
Y OF U.S. AIRDROPPED. THIS IS
NOT HAPPENED BECAUSE
DYING OF LACK OF FOOD
THIS SHOULD NOT
HAPPEN IN THE CENTURY.
>> FOR
MORE ON THE HUMANITARIAN TUATION IN
GAZA , WE TURN
TO S
PREVIOUSLY SERVED IN THE
BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION ON A COVID TASK
FORCE. THIS INCIDENT IN GAZA
CITY ,
FORCES FIRING ON
A CROWD
G FOR AID
, IS NOT
CLEAR HOW MANY PEOPLE
OM GUNFIRE OR IN
ANIC. WHAT MORE CAN
YOU TELL
US ABOUT D WHAT
IT? ONE THING REALLY NOTABLE HERE
IAN
ORGANIZATIONS SEEM
NOT TO HAVE
. CERTAIN U.N. BODIES
PATTERN --
THIS SEEMS TO BE HAVE
BEEN
I IT WAS SECURED BY ISRAELI TANKS.
THAT
IS NOT TYPICAL.
THIS SUGGESTS IT IS ISRAEL
NG TO FIND
OTHER WAYS TO
SOMETHING
WITHOUT ACTUALLY
WORKING WITH THE HUMANITARIAN CAPACITY THAT EXISTS.
THE U.N. SAYS
A QUARTER OF OPULATION IS ONE STEP
ROM FAMINE.
YOUR TEAM WAS
JUST ON THE
THEY ENCOUNTER?
>> THEY
HEARD SHOCKING
STORIES HE WAR.
THEY TALKED TO ONE MAN
WHO IS A
OPEAN
HOSPITAL WHO
TOLD THE
STORY OF EPHEW.
BROTHER
HAD A FIVE-YEAR-OLD TH CEREBRAL
PALSY WHO HE
DID NOT
WANT TO EVACUATE.
DID NOT DO WELL
OUSE. THEIR HOUSE WAS RAIDED BY THE
IDF
. BOTH PARENTS
WERE KILLED AND THE BROTHER
HAD TO
DRAG THE
TO THE
SHRAPNEL HE
LOSES HIS EYE.
ALL
OF THESE
STORIES OF VATION AND HARM
. AS W
E SAW WITH
THE REPORT
TODAY, DISCRIMINANT
IDF.
THE WHITE HOUSE IS ING AIR
DROPPING AID GAZA.
YOU
COULD ARGUE
THAT IS ONE THE
BEST SOLUTION.
HOW DO YOU GET
AID TO 2.5
OTHER OTHER VIABLE WAYS TO GET AID
IN AND
MAKE SURE IT IS IN A
FAIR AND LOGICAL >>
I SERVED PREVIOUSLY IN THE
NISTRATION. I COORDINATED
DROPS LIKE THIS.
THEM WHEN WE HAD NO
. THEY
COST A LOT OF MONEY. RE
DIFFICULT TO MOUNT.
THEY GET VERY LITTLE VOLUME IN.
TO
SEE THE OPENING UP OF CROSSINGS.
ISRAEL DOING MUCH MORE TO CILITATE HUMANITARIAN ACTION.
THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY
BLOCKING
TING GAZA
AND UTHERN
WE ARE
ONLY RESORTING TO AIR S OF THESE BLOCKAGES.
THE OTHER SIDE OF
THAT IS,
IDF
FIGHTING 20,000 HAMAS
NDERGROUND WITH
WHO ARE
ENGAGED IN THESE SITY COMBAT?
THEY ARE ENGAGED
IN A PRETTY PERATION.
THEY HAS ALSO CONDUCTED THAT IN
INARILY INDISCRIMINATE
THE WAY THEY HAVE CONDUCTED THE
WAR
, THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID IT
INDISCRIMINATE AND -TOP.
IF THEY HAD
CONDUCTED THIS WAR
OULD BE A LOT
FOR HUMANITARIANS
TO OPERATE
THE WAY
ISRAEL HAS
CONDUCTED THE
BECAUSE
THEY HAVE NOT DONE
IT IN
A
S WE REPORTED
EARLIER, THE HEALTH MINISTRY
IS
PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED
START OF THE
THAT FIGURE, EVEN THOUGH IT COMES FROM THE GAZA
HEALTH WIDELY
VIEWED A
S
WHAT DOES THAT SAY
ABOUT THE WAY UCTING THE WAR?
IT UNDERSCORES
THE WHAT
TO GO FIVE MONTHS, TO HAVE
MADE Y
MADE IN OBJECTIVES
, WHILE
OF DAMAGE, IT IS THE
DEFINITION OF
DISPROPORTIONATE CRIMINATE MILITARY
ER INTERNATIONAL LAW. THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS YET TO
CE ON THAT. THEY WILL NEED TO.
THE RAFA
OFFENSIVE WOULD
HAT HAS K TO DATE.
EVERY OFFENSIVE
SO FAR, PEOPLE
VE OUT OF
WITH RAFAH, THERE IS NOWHERE
TO GO.
WOULD BE HAPPENING AGAINST A CIVILIAN POPULATION.
>> THANK
YOU SO MUCH
FOR YOUR GHTS.
♪
>> FIRE CREWS IN
TEXAS FOUGHT TO GROUND
ON THE LARGEST THE
STATE''S HISTORY. IT
HAS ALREADY BURNED ACROSS A
ACRES IN AN
AREA LARGER OF RHODE ISLAND.
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
, HEAPS OF
ALL THAT
IS LEFT OF
R LIVES. IT WAS HEARTBREAKING.
>>
THIS FIRE CLAIMED HIS HOUSE.
HE WAS AWAY.
WHAT SHE >>
A LOT OF SENTIMENTAL THINGS.
BLANKETS, PICTURES, TOYS.
OTHER THAN THAT, THAT IS IT. ABOUT
ALL SHE COULD FIT IN THE R.
THIS IS THE
LARGEST FIRE
IN A
E
BY THIS MORNING, IT
HAD BURNED
E MILES
AND
CONTAINED. EARLIER
THIS WEEK, UNSEASONABLY
PERATURES AND HIGH WINDS
ACROSS
AND
THROUGH TOWNS,
AND >>
YOU HAVE TO GO NOW.
HUNDREDS WERE ORDERED TO ACUATE.
TIONS PUSHED FIRE
ACROSS HIGHWAYS, N ESCAPE.
AND 83-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS FOUND
OME.
SCORES OF
HOUSES HAS BEEN
THOUSANDS CATTLE
COULD BE LYING
DEAD IN
SCORCHED FIELDS. AGES
SHOW A TOWN
AFTER
A FIRE REDUCED
I KNOW
THERE ARE A LOT OF TILL WAITING TO GET IN.
SHE WARNED
RESIDENTS TO BRACE ES FOR THE DAMAGE.
THE EASIEST WAY
TO PUT THIS IS
I DON''T THINK A LOT OF THE
O LIVE IN THIS AREA
ARE GOING TO BE PREPARED
O SEE AS
OFFICIALS
ALSO PREDICT THE ULD PICK UP AGAIN THIS
D. I
DID NOT
WANT THE COMMUNITY
LSE SENSE OF SECURITY
THAT ALL OF THESE FIRES
GROW ANYMORE. FOR NOW, COOLER TEMPERATURES
AND LIGHTER WINDS HAVE OPENED UP A
CRUCIAL WINDOW FOR TERS TO TAME THE BLAZES.
ON TUESDAY, ANOTHER
FIRE BURNED IN NUCLEAR
WEAPONS ASSEMBLY PLANT. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
TODAY APPEALED A RULING THAT
BARS HIM FROM THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY BALLOT.
TH E JUDGE FOUND HE INCITED
INSURRECTION. MR. TRUMP''S LAWYER ARGUED
THAT
THE JUDGMENT
UNTIL THE
APPELLATE COURTS CIDE THIS CASE WOULD
THE GREAT RISK OF VOTER
U.S. SUPREME
COURT IS CONSIDERING A SIMILAR
ROM COLORADO. CO
NGRESS IS MOVING TO
HEAD OFF A
TDOWN THIS TH
E HOUSE
PASSED A
SHORT-TERM DAY AND SENT IT
E. FUNDS
ONE SET OF
FEDERAL AGENCY THROUGH MARCH 8
GROUP THROUGH MARCH IN
RUSSIA, VLADIMIR
PUTIN HAS
WARNING TO THE
WEST NUCLEAR
WAR
UKRAINE. RENCH
MCARON SAID SENDING
TROOPS TO
UKRAINE SHOULD OUT.
PUTIN RESPONDED TODAY
IN MOSCOW
AND HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS
TO TERN
>> WE ALSO HAVE
WEAPONS THAT CAN ON THEIR TERRITORY.
NOW
TRY TO SCARE
THE WHOLE WORLD,
IT RISKS
PONS.
THAT MEANS THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATION.
HIS?
THE
U.S. AND OTHER NATO
READY SAID THEY ND FORCES TO
BACK IN THIS COUNTRY, LLOYD
AUSTIN GOT
GRILLED AT
A HOUSE
HE DAYS
HOSPITALIZED LAST MONTH.
HE
SAID THERE
WAS NO
LAPSE IN
STRUCTURE WHILE HE WAS
COMPLICATIONS FROM CANCER SURGERY.
AT THE SAME TIME, HE
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
TRANSPARENCY T ALL LEVELS.
IF A SERVICE MEMBER
WAS IN
HOSPITAL, I THINK THE CHAIN
WOULD BE CONCERNED
WERE IN THE
AND MAKE SURE
THAT THEY ARE T THING TO
MAKE --
EIR THOUGH
YOU THINK IT IS
THEIR FY THE
THE ANSWER IS
YES.
IN MY CASE
, I WOULD
EXPECT N WOULD DO
THINGS TO NOTIFY
IF
I AM THE PATIENT IN THE ITAL.
A PENTAGON
REVIEW HAS WAS NO
ANY
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL
INVESTIGATE SMART
CARS MADE IN
R DATA ON AND TRACK THEIR
LOCATIONS. U.S.
OFFICIALS WARNED THEY POSE A RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY.
THE PRESIDENT SAID
CHINA''S FLOOD OUR MARKET
WITH VEHICLES.
I WILL NOT THAT THAT HAPPEN ON MY WATCH.
ON WALL STREET,
STOCKS FINISH
STRAIGHT WINNING
E
THE NASDAQ
ROSE 144
POINTS TO AN
26 AND ALSO
FOR THE MONTH,
THE DOW
GAINED
NASDAQ 6%, AND THE S&P
COME
, A IST
CANCELED
MAS
WAR. A
COMMUNITY PARKS ADVOCATE GIVES
TAKE ON
PLUS MUCH
MORE. >>
THIS IS THE PBS NEWSHOUR FROM
R STUDIOS IN
WASHINGTON AND IN
THE WEST,
FROM THE WALTER CRONKITE
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT
ATE UNIVERSITY.
TODAY THE PRESIDENT AND ER PRESIDENT
TRUMP MADE
BORDER AS
SSUE
WE
HAVE BEEN REPORTING FROM
VILLE, TEXAS, ON THE
TRIP. IN HIS SECOND VISIT TO
THE
BORDER , PRESIDENT
MET WITH BORDER
PATROL OFFICIALS IN BROWNSVILLE, TO
DETERMINE THE TABLES
O N HIS
RUMP. .
INSTEAD OF
TELLING MEMBERS
OF TO BLOCK
THIS OR I WILL
YOU , AND TELLING
CONGRESS TISAN SECURITY
WE
CAN DO IT
TOGETHER. S THE
TOUGHEST, EFFICIENT, MOST EFFECTIVE
BORDER SECURITY BILL THIS
300 MILES WEST ALONG THE RIO
GRANDE
IN THE TOWN OF EAGLE TRUMP
ATTACKED BIDEN AND MONIZED MIGRANTS.
THE U.S. IS BEING OVERRUN BY
BIDEN MIGRANT CRIME.
IS A
NEW FORM OF VICIOUS
OUR COUNTRY. MIGRANT
CRIME. WE CALL IT THE
BIDEN MIGRANT >>
THE SHOWDOWN HERE AT THE
DEFINING THE BATTLE.
A
FIGHT GUARANTEED WHEN
KILLED A BIPARTISAN DEAL T
O STEM THE FLOW OF
AND FUNNEL MILLIONS TO
ECURITY.
DO YOU HOPE THE PRESIDENT''S
TRIP ACCOMPLISHES? HOPEFULLY WHEN HE MEETS WITH
THE BORDER PATROL AGENTS, THEY
N IDEA OF WHAT YOU CAN
ROM.
ANYTIME YOU
WANT SOMETHING DONE
ON THE FRONT LINE, YOU NEED
TO NTLINE.
HE IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF
E NATIONAL
BORDER CONTROL COUNCIL, A
UNION REPRESENTING ASIANS
NATIONWIDE --
AGENTS NATIONWIDE.
THE WANT THE BILL TO STILL PASS? >>
THAT IS THE HOPE.
ANYTHING WILL HELP.
I KNOW THERE IS THE POWER OF THE PEN.
THERE IS
EXECUTIVE ACTION HE HAS IN THE
PAST WITH OTHER HE
HAS THE POWER
TO PUT A STOP AY.
CONGRESS DOES HAVE SOME FAULT IN THIS.
BEEN KICKING THE
CAN A FEW
ON BOTH SIDES.
IF THEY ARE NOT
GOING TO
DO IT,
SOMEBODY IN THERE
EDS
>> WITH THE
SENATE DEAL ALL
THE US THAT
CONSIDERING IVE
AUTHORITY TO
S FROM
WHILE STATED FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
CLASH IN EAGLE PASS
, HERE IN TES
SAY EXHIBIT.
WE OFTEN HEAR THE BORDER IS
AOTIC.
IT IS ORDERLY.
IT IS NOT CHAOS.
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF A GROUP THAT HELPS WELCOME
ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN BROWNSVILLE.
WHAT WOULD THE IMPACT BE FOR
MIGRANTS IF THE
U.S. WERE TO
PUT LUM
>> SEEKING ASYLUM IS A
RIGHT. WE
WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS A
TRY, WE ARE
LOOKING AT
ALLOW THEM TO ASYLUM
IN A SAFE WAY AND G THEM IN DANGER.
DESPITE THE DANGER, SOME ARE
STILL MAKING THE LONG JOURNEY
SHE JUST ARRIVED FROM CUBA.
IT WAS DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE HAD TO TRAVEL WITH
COYOTES AND
I CRIED A LOT.
FYING.
I AM 22 YEARS
OLD.
LEASE. IT I
S SOMETHING I DON''T KNOW HOW
I DID IT. BUT
I ACCOMPLISHED IT.
WE ARE HERE.
TANT FLEEING
VENEZUELA , SHE WAS
ROBBED TWICE BEFORE ARRIVING FOR
HER APPOINTMENT WITH CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.
I WANT A BETTER LIFE
, A S.
I WANT TO START A NEW
LIFE. >>
THOSE MIGRANTS ARE ARRIVING
TMENT SEE
--
APP THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS URGED
THEM TO USE. OVERALL, CROSSINGS ARE
LOW HERE .
>> LET''S RETURN TO
WHAT WE
HEARD TODAY FROM THE FORMER AND
RRENT PRESIDENT. DONALD TRUMP HAD
HIS
CRITICISMS. HOW
DID A SQUARE UP WITH THE
YOU ARE REPORTING? I WAS
TOLD THERE
WERE ONLY
OVERALL ACROSS TAXES
, OTHER
E SLIGHTLY HIGHER
APPREHENSIONS. TO FACT
CHECK ONE OF E FORMER SAID
HE WAS
CLAIMING THERE
WAS A CURRING.
THE DATA JUST DOES NOT
MATCH UP
A STANFORD STUDY SHOWS THAT
MIGRANTS ARE
60% LESS
LIKELY ICANS TO BE
AND
IN SANCTUARY CITIES EACH
INCREASED ACTUALLY
DECREASE IN
>> PRESIDENT
BIDEN CALLED ON LICANS TO
CALL --
BORDER DEAL. HE SAID HE MIGHT ACT
ALONE WITH ER.
IT COULD COME IN A MATTER OF
WHAT IS BEING
CONSIDERED WOULD
IT WOULD NARROW WHO CAN
CLAIM
ALKING TO
IMMIGRATION TO HAVE BEEN IN
THE WHITE HOUSE AND
CONVINCE BIDEN
TO ESSENTIALLY GO
A AN
EXECUTIVE ORDER. MERGENCY DECLARATION
AND SEND MORE
RESOURCES TO THE HER THAN RESTRICT
IT
IS IMPORTANT TO
NOTE THAT NT U.S. LAW IS
RIGHT FOR MIGRANTS TO
CLAIM
WHETHER THEY ARE PRESENTING AT A
ENTRY OR BETWEEN PORTS NTRY.
IN THE MEANTIME, THERE''S THIS
CONTINUING DISPUTE BETWEEN TEXAS
OVER
WHERE DOES THAT
STAND? A FEDERAL JUDGE TODAY
BLOCKED LAW
THAT WOULD GIVE
TO ARREST
MIGRANTS THAT
THEY SUSPECT MAY
O THE U.S.
I WAS
SPEAKING WITH AN
EARLIER TODAY
T AXES WILL
TEXAS WILL
ASK A STAY
AS THEY TRY TO AT LAW
AS LEGAL ORWARD.
THEY WILL BE BATTLING WITH
IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES AND
WYERS WHO ARE TRYING TO BLOCK THIS TAKING EFFECT.
ONE THING
IMPORTANT TO
NOTE IS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE CANNOT
PRESENT AT
A PORT OF
E TRYING TO .S..
THERE
IS A LOT OF REASONS WHY
Y PRESENT
BETWEEN EY ARE
E. I SPOKE WITH A
LIFELONG TEXAN
EAGLE PASS.
HE IS A BUSINESS OWNER WHO
HAS BY
THE OPERATION SAYING
THAT
UT NOW
HE IS
NOT REALLY
HAPPY WITH WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON
BECAUSE
UCH LAND
AND PUBLIC PROPERTY PASS.
THANK YOU.
♪
>> LAWMAKERS
IN ALABAMA HAVE
BILLS TO PROTECT IVF
CLINICS AND PROVIDERS SO
CAN RESUME IN THE
A STATE SUPREME COURT DECISION
RULED THAT AN EMBRYO
UGH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION SHOULD BE
IDERED A PERSON.
SINCE THEN, THREE PROVIDERS IN
ABAMA HAVE PAUSED
SOME E
ALABAMA AT
HOSPITAL, THE BIGGEST AL SYSTEM IN THE STATE.
THE DECISION IS RIPPLING ACROSS
THE STATE AND SPARKING FEARS IN
WE SPOKE WITH A FEW WOMEN WHO
WERE AFFECTED. I AM LOCATED IN
BIRMINGHAM. I AM 38.
WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS
ABOUT MY CLINIC, I
CRIED AT
MY
I COULD NOT HOLD BACK THE TEARS.
MY BLOOD PRESSURE HAS BEEN UP
DAY SINCE THE
HIT. I AM JUST PLEATING AND
HOPING LAWMAKERS WILL
LISTEN. I AM
36 AND I LIVE IN .
I AM IN BETWEEN TREATMENTS.
I AM CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH IVF
JUST
FINISHED MY SECOND
ARY 31.
WE
WERE HOPING THAT OVER THE COND
RETRIEVAL WE WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE
FORWARD BEGINNING IN
MARCH AND SCHEDULE OUR FIRST
. THIS RULING HAS NOW
PUT OUR TIMELINE
AND ALL OF OUR HOPES IN ARDY.
I LIVE
IN NASHVILLE,
''M 32. I
THINK IT
IS ABSOLUTELY
CKING THAT
THIS WORLD WE
AS SOMEONE
WHO IS
CURRENTLY 15 WITH MY MIRACLE
IVF BABY
, I CANNOT IMAGINE THAT
BE LOOKED AT AS UT A
GIFT FOR
PEOPLE EIR FAMILY
GOALS AND NAVIGATE
THE WORLD OF
IS DRAMATIC >>
UNFORTUNATELY I HAD
MULTIPLE PREGNANCIES THAT WERE
ALLY DIAGNOSED. IVF
WAS THE IDEAL CHOICE FOR US.
TO BE HONEST
, IT MIGHT BE THE N.
I DISAGREE WITH THE COURT''S
RULING THAT AN EMBRYO
SHOULD BE AS A CHILD.
THIS EMBRYO CANNOT THRIVE OR
GROW WITHOUT
BEING IN CRYOGENIC .
IT CAN ONLY THRIVE OR
GROW IF IT A
UTERUS AND TO BE BORN.
SOMETIMES SOME OF THESE
VE A DOMINO
WHILE THERE ARE STILL
TENNESSEE WHO
HAVE SAID IVF
, THEY D
O NOT NESSEE.
DAY, YOU
DON''T WHO WILL
REALLY STAND UP
DO THE RIGHT THING WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE.
I AM VERY WORRIED THAT WOMEN
O ARE FACING
THE FIGHT
OF ER
DIAGNOSIS NOW WILL HAVE
TO
FURTHER MAKE TOUGH
DECISIONS IN
ARE GOING TO HAT THE COURTS
DO
IN ORDER TO POTENTIALLY PRESERVE
OR
IF THEY
WILL
RT TREATMENTS
AND LOSE THE
LIES IN >>
WE HAVE THREE EMBRYOS THAT
EN RIGHT NOW. I AM
JUST HOPING, EVEN IF IT IS JUST
ONE, JUST THAT
ONE ,
MY HUSBAND AND I
WILL BE HAPPY IF THAT ONE.
I HOPE
AT LEAST TO HAVE THE
Y TO TRY. SUPPORTERS OF THE LEGISLATION
TO PROTECT IVF
TREATMENTS GATHERED AT THE ALABAMA STATE
HOUSE YESTERDAY TO SPEAK WITH LAWMAKERS.
SH E HELPED ORGANIZE THIS EFFORT.
SHE IS
THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF
NATIONAL FERTILITY
WE HAVE SEEN LAWMAKERS IN
MOVE QUICKLY TO
PASS NTS TO
THE GOVERNOR IS
EXPECTED TO SIGN
THAT INTO LAW.
THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS
ILL NOT PROSECUTE CLINICS OR
NG IVF
THIS EASIER
CONCERNS --
EAS !
E YOUR
CO NCERNS?
>> THANK YOU
SO MUCH
FOR HAVING I AM
LISTENING TO THE
PROVIDERS LABAMA.
THEY BELIEVE THIS
BILL, IF
SIGNED INTO LAW, WILL
ORTUNITY TO
PATIENTS AGAIN.
I DO WANT TO SAY THAT THERE IS
ILL A LOT
TO BE DETERMINED
IN TOTALLY
ON.
FOR NOW
, THE
CLINICS ARE
BE ABLE REOPEN
AND BEGIN SEEING
AGAIN ONCE THIS IS NTO LAW.
WHAT IS NOT RESOLVED WITH THE LEGISLATION AS IT IS RIGHT NOW?
THE LAW
DOES NOT LIVE TALK
ATUS OF AN EMBRYO.
CRUX OF
THE
IS IT A PERSON?
IS A CLUMP OF CELLS?
DOES IT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE?
ALL OF THOSE
THINGS ARE STILL
THIS BILL PROTECTS THOSE
PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS
FROM ANY R
CIVIL IT
GIVES THEM IMMUNITY. QUITE
HONESTLY, THAT WAS
A BIG D.
WE HAVE A
LOT WORK
AHEAD OF US.
THE GOOD
NEWS IS
THESE CLINICS
THEY CAN >>
THAT IS
THE CASE IN
ALABAMA. FROM
SOMEONE IN TENNESSEE
WORRIED ABOUT WHAT
MINO EFFECT. THAT
OTHER STATES
COULD MOVE
FORWARD WITH SIMILAR RULINGS OR
GISLATION. DO
YOU SEE THAT CONCERN AS
ABSOLUTELY. FO
R MANY YEARS WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING EMBRYO
PERSONHOOD BILLS
STATES. FAR BEFORE ROE V.
WADE WAS
WHEN ROE V. WADE WAS
OVERTURNED ,
WE WERE
VERY CONCERNED BECAUSE
WE WOULD SEE
A LARGER
NUMBER OF
THESE KINDS
OF BILLS,
WE DID IN 2023
AND WE HAVE
HIS YEAR
. WE
DO NOT
HAVE THE
PROTECTION OR E V.
WADE IF ONE S.
WE KNOW LEGISLATORS WANT TO
IVF .
THEY WANT TO DEFINE WHEN LIFE BEGINS.
I WAS IN THE CAPITOL
BUILDING
WAS APPROACHED BY FOLKS WHO DO
NOT APPROVE OF
IVF WHO WANT TO
THEY HAVE A
VOICE AND THEIR
ARE BEING HEARD, NOT ONLY
MONTGOMERY BUT OTHER OUSES.
WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT THE BUT
AT THE FEDERAL
A EFFORT BY SENATOR
DUCKWORTH, WHO RELIED ON IVF TO CONCEIVE
HER FIRST
-- TWO DOLLARS, TO
ENSHRINE ABILITY TO
DO
YOU SEE SOME KIND OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION?
I THINK IT IS A NUMBER OF
IT I S A
N INCREDIBLE
STEP. THE
THERE ARE SOME
STATE WILL HAVE
FIXED , SIMILAR
TO WHAT
WE
THAT FEDERAL LEGISLATION HAS GAINED A LOT OF
GROUND. WE
ARE STRONGLY SUPPORTING IT.
WE NEED TO GET PAST.
WE MENTIONED A LOT OF WHAT WE
FALL OF ROE
WADE .
WHERE DO YOU SEE THIS
RULING IN TERMS OF THE TREND WE HAVE SEEN
SINCE THEN
WHEN IT COMES TO VE RIGHTS?
THIS IS BEEN ON THE RADAR ALL
IT HAS BEEN ON THE BACK
BURNER. THIS COURT RULING HAS BROUGHT IT
TO THE FOREFRONT. WE
HAVE SEEN SOME GOVERNORS SAY
PORT IVF. OTHERS HAVE SAID WE
NEED TO IT.
I CONCERNS ME GREATLY. I
THINK WE WILL HAVE
OUR WORK CUT
OUT FOR OURSELVES IN MANY ATES.
THAT IS
THE CEO OF THE
INFERTILITY
ANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
THANK YOU.
>> NOW
A STORY
ABOUT AN
CANNOT SEE.
BEEN
TENSIONS FROM
THE LE EAST.
HAS
UNFOLDED AT
ARTMAN CM OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY.
A PALESTINIAN ARTIST WAS
DULED TO
HAVE HER FIRST
TIVE THIS >> A
WORK OF ART
RETURNING FROM
UP THE STAIRS TO THE NEW
>>
BEING TREATED LIKE A
THIS
IS NO ROUTINE RETURN.
THE EXHIBITION WAS SCHEDULED TO BE
SHOWN AT A MUSEUM OF ART
AT
IT WAS CANCELED IN LATE
THE
ONLY THING THEY TOLD
ME A TWO SENTENCE LETTER.
SHOW WAS CANCELED
AND THE
D SHE
IS KNOWN FOR
LARGE AND
NGS, MAKING
FOR MORE
THAN 60 YEARS. SHE ALSO
CREATES SCULPTURES AND
TEXTILES
AND
WAS AN EARLY
PRACTITIONER OF AND
DIGITAL ART,
O WRITE PROGRAMS IN
THE 1980''S. SHE
IS ALSO
A PASSIONATE
ESTINIAN CULTURE
ADVOCATE FOR
PALESTINIAN SHE WAS BORN IN
JERUSALEM IN
UNDER
HER FAMILY EVENTUALLY CAME
TO
I WAS
INTELLECTUAL. AN ABSTRACTION IS.
I AM A
PALESTINIAN AND
I BELIEVE
HAVE
THE RIGHT OF SELF
DETERMINATION SE.
I LOVE PALESTINIAN
CULTURE.
HER TIED TO INDIANA
S STRONG. SHE RECEIVED HER MASTER OF FINE
ARTS
DEGREE THERE
IN 1960 THREE
BEFORE MOVING YALE.
HER WORK IS IN
THE COLLECTIONS OF
MAJOR U.S.
MUSEUMS, INCLUDING ONAL GALLERY OF ART
WASHINGTON AND THE GUGGENHEIM
IN YORK.
SHE RECENTLY HAD A LARGE
RETROSPECTIVE
IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
SHE WAS EXPRESSING OUTRAGE AT
THE BOMBING OF GAZA. SHE CALLED
ISRAEL''S RETALIATION
GENOCIDE AND COMPARED GAZA TO
AUSCHWITZ. SHE
SAYS THE
CANCELLATION WAS A .
I THOUGHT
I WAS
IMMUNE ALUMNI.
IT CAME
AS A
SURPRISE. MY FIRST REACTION WAS TO BE
UPSET BECAUSE THIS IS MY SECOND
HOME. SOMEONE
IS NOW
STEALING MY ME.
BUT THEN
I GOT OVER THAT
I
THOUGHT THE
COMMUNITY WAS BOUT IT.
IT HAS BEEN
QUITE A BIG
DEAL. COMING.
HE HAS
BEEN COVERING CAMPUS ON IN
INDIANA. >>
WE ARE SEEING A LOT
OF ANIZING
A VENUE
IN TOWN IS
PUTTING ON A
RETROSPECTIVE IN PLACE OF THE
TH E RESPONSE HERE HAS BEEN
QUITE THE UNIVERSITY HAS SAID LITTLE
IN RESPONSE
TO OUR REQUEST FOR
H UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
, WE WERE
REFERRED TO
HORT THE
EXHIBIT WAS
CANCELED OVER
THE THE
EXHIBIT FOR ITS
LAST MONTH, THE UNIVERSITY PRE-BOAST
-- PROVOST ALSO
CITED
>> W
E HAD AN EXCITING DEBUT BIT.
IT WAS THREE YEARS
IN THE WE ALSO
HAD A
POTENTIAL COULD
DRAW SIGNIFICANT PROTESTS.
>> HE SAMPLED RESPONSES ACROSS
THE CAMPUS. I
HAVE NOT SPOKEN
WITH ANYONE
LIKE THIS IS
A COMPELLING ENOUGH REASON TO
CANCEL THE EXHIBITION. I
HAVE SPOKEN TO
FACULTY MEMBERS WHO
SAY, IF THERE IS A SECURITY RISK
, THAT
IS WHY WE
HAVE THE
OFFER
I DON''T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE BUYING IT. HE HAD WORKED ON
THE
EXHIBITION FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
IN LIEU OF
AN INTERVIEW, SHE
GH STATEMENT
SAYING
I AM IMMENSELY PROUD OF THE
WORK
HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED ER.
ANYONE WHO HAS
THE PRIVILEGE TO R ARTWORK IN
PERSON
UNDERSTAND SOME SMALL PIECE
THE BEAUTY AND JOY WE HAVE
WORKING TOGETHER AST SEVERAL YEARS.
THE CONTROVERSY IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE
. A CULTURAL CENTER IN NEW
YORK
CANCELED IN OCTOBER EVENT WITH A
NOVELIST WHO
SIGNED A PUBLIC
ISRAEL. SEVERAL
STAFF MEMBERS RESIGNED
. THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AT ART
FORM THE
MAGAZINE LETTER
FROM ARTISTS CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE
IN GAZA. AT ANOTHER
MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY
THEY
DECIDED TO
KEEP AN STINIAN
ARTIST THAT IT OPENED PRIOR
TO BUT IT
CANCELED EIGHT PUBLIC
PANEL SHE WAS SCHEDULED TO TAKE
RT IN. WE
ASKED IF
THE UNIVERSITY WAS
SPECIFIC RISK.
IF IT HAD RECEIVED PRESSURE TO
CANCEL THE EXHIBITION FROM
ANS OR DONORS. WE
WERE ONCE AGAIN
REFERRED TO STATEMENT.
SHE BELIEVES SHE
KNOWS WHY THE
D. IT
IS OBVIOUSLY
AN EXTENSION
WHAT IS HAPPENING.
WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO
SPEAK OR
PROVIDE
A ROLE MODEL TO
WHAT INTELLECTUAL
E LIKE. >>
WHEN A MUSEUM
OR UNIVERSITY
GHT TO DECIDE
XHIBIT. THEY DECIDED TO TAKE
ME OVER
THEY
CHANGED WHEN THE GENOCIDE GAN.
WHAT GIVES?
YOU HAVE NO REGRET ABOUT
THAT LANGUAGE? I LIKE TO EXPRESS MY
GS. MY FEELINGS ARE I AM
HORRIFIED. I AM EQUALLY
HORRIFIED WHEN
I .
I AM EQUALLY HORRIFIED AT THE
I''M EQUALLY HORRIFIED ABOUT
HIROSHIMA AND
NAGASAKI. I
AM HORRIFIED BY WHAT HAPPENED
RICANS. WHEN
I READ ABOUT
ALL OF
THESE EY BRING ME GREAT SADNESS.
>> MEANWHILE ON CAMPUS, A
TION TO REINSTATE THE
EXHIBITION IS CIRCULATING.
IS HEARING
FEARS OF ANOTHER
A LOT OF
FACULTY I
HAVE SPOKEN
WITH ARE
WORRIED THAT
E SENDING
THAT THEY
ARE NOT STANDING STRONGLY
GH BY THEIR RESEARCHERS
, IT
PEOPLE
WHO MIGHT APPLY
AS STUDENTS,
FACULTY. THAT INDIANA IS
NOT A PLACE
TO
UNDISTURBED.
HER WORK WILL NEXT BE SHOWN
AT A VENICE EXHIBITION.
HER CANCEL
-- CANCELED
RETROSPECTIVE IS
SO FAR SET TO AT
ITS NEXT VENUE IN
>>
TAKE A
MOMENT TO HEAR
FROM .
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US HAS
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WHY DON'T YOU
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? >>
MADISON. WE
SHOT IT
IS IN
SEPTEMBER. >> IT'S
GOING TO B
E GREAT. I
WATCHED THE
EPISODE EARLIER
ON VIDEO.
IT'S A TERRIFIC EPISODE.
IT CAPTURES
THE VIBRANCY
AND UNIQUENESS
OF THIS
CITY. >> WE
DO 13 A
YEAR. WE'RE
I N THE
MIDDLE OF
SEASON 3
AND WE'RE
THRILLED THAT
-- I'M
THRILLED TO BE
BACK IN
STUDIO WI YOU.>>
WELL, THRILLED TO
HAVE YOU
IN E
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YOU ON THE AIR.
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WELL RECEIVED
BY OUR
VIEWERS ALL OVER THE STATE.
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B E GOING
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SO AFTER THE "NEWSHOUR."
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AFTER ERIC
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>> A WASHINGTON NATIVE IS
THE
HE ANACOSTIA PARK.
IT AIMS
TO IMPROVE THE
LIVES OF
BRIEF
BUT POWER OF
>> NATURE WILL
FAR OUTLIVE US.
TO SAY, BUT THAT IS THE
WHEN I AM
IN THE PARK, I FEEL
I HEAR CHILDREN LAUGHING.
ICE MELTS COOKOUTS. IT I
S LOCATED ALONG THE
RIVER. IT IS A
DIFFERENT KIND OF PARK.
IT IS
MAINLY A RECREATIONAL
IT IS FLAT.
THERE ARE NO MONUMENTS.
IS
A SKATING PAVILION, A
IL. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE USE IT EVERY
YEAR. THE MAJORITY ARE
ICANS. THE PARK GETS A LOT OF USE
IN A
THIS
HELPS GOALS
TO KEEP THE
WHEN I
WAS TASKED
WITH BUILDING
THE FRIENDS GROUP, I KNEW
I DID
TO BE IN AN
NG FUNDS. WE
HAD A LOT OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN
CAPITAL THAT WE NEEDED JUST AS
THE DOLLARS. THE PREMISES
ON MEMBERSHIP
WHERE HAVE
NO MONEY AND
YOU CAN E.
UP
WE ALSO NEED
GRANDMAS TO SIT AT
PLAYGROUND TO MAKE SURE LE ARE SAFE.
I WOULD
ULTIMATELY LIKE TO
AS A TRAUMA
INFORMED PARK THAT HAS MODELS
SYSTEMS THAT CAN
B E SHARED
SO IT
CAN REALLY BE SEEN AS A
YOU
ARE USING THE SPACE FOR
IVE JUSTICE
OR HAVING NTAL HEALTH
RM OF A HIKE
INSTEAD OF
BEING IN A
ROOM AND
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO USE
THE PATH WHO HAVE GOTTEN OFF
EIR BLOOD PRESSURE
OR DIABETES I HAVE MET PEOPLE
WHO ARE TRYING
GET CLEAN
FROM DRUGS.
PARK. THERE ARE
PEOPLE THEY
CAN TALK AT IS
WHAT WE ARE
ABOUT. UT THE
THAT PARK FEELS LIKE
THAT IS
MY ELDERS FEEL LIKE MY
'S. HAVING
OUR STAFF HERE AND
SEEING PEOPLE WORKING
AND BRINGING
ELS LIKE A IF
YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED
THE JUST
. THERE
ARE BIRDS IN THE
SKY, WE JUST
DON''T LOOK UP.
ECTACULAR TAKE
O N THE POWER OF NATURE.
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isconsin
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- This is Madison, the capital of
our great state of Wisconsin.
Oh, by the way, an isthmus is a
strip of land
between two bodies of water,
and the other major American c
ity
built on an isthmus: Seattle, W
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Madison is in southcentral Wiscon
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in the center of Dane County.
And it's between the shores of L
ake Mendota and Lake Monona.
And for this episode,
we're focusing on the area arou
nd State Street,
which connects the State Capitol
and the campus of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emmy, I don't understand why Mil
waukee
is not the capital of our great st
ate of Wisconsin
because it's the largest city
in our state.
- Emmy Fink: Here's where the st
ory began with Madison.
We're going back to 1829,
when former federal judge James
Doty
purchased over a thousand acres
of swamp and forest land
on this isthmus.
I mean, he had big ideas.
So at the time, the Wisconsin
Territory
was just getting created.
The legislature was meeting all
the way out,
like, 65 miles southwest of here
in Belmont.
Well, their whole goal was to t
ry
to find a permanent location for
the capital.
So for those undecided voters,
Doty said, "You know, it's col
d here.
"Let me get you a buffalo robe
to keep you warm." - John: A fu
r coat for you.
- Emmy: And you wanna build a
nice house here in Madison?
Here's a discounted lot.
- John: It's a great deal. - It
is; it's a great deal.
- But I don't understand
why they named the city Madiso
n then.
- So in 1836, James Madison di
ed.
So Doty said, "You know what,
in his honor,
we're gonna name the city Madison
."
Which, I gotta say, is a better
choice than, like, Dotyville.
- John: And we're covering in thi
s episode,
the area around State Street,
which really shows the energy
of this city.
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er.
- John: But from the Capitol to
Bascom Hill.
- Emmy: Yeah. - John: Twelve-m
inute walk.
- You're a super fast walker.
- Yeah, I'm a fast walker.
- Everybody else is gonna be 14.
You can bike it in four.
- And get an episode of televis
ion in 28.
- Well, then, tick-tock, let's go.
- John: Let's go!
[light uplifting music]
I'm very excited to be back in
our state capitol.
What a beautiful building.
The visitors here, they're not
just Wisconsin people.
They're people from all over the
world, I'm sure.
- Chris Wagner: We have the pl
easure
to meet people internationally.
It would assist if I knew foreig
n languages.
- The three that you know are en
ough, Chris.
[Chris chuckling]
A badger.
Are there a few of these in the bui
lding?
- A few. - How many?
- 1,800 is what somebody has c
ounted.
On each door, there are two.
750 doors, carry the one, 1,500 ri
ght there, yeah.
There is a 1,200-pound badger
outside of the governor's offic
e.
And every day, our fourth grade
rs come
and they rub its nose for good
luck.
- And is there anything you say
when you rub the nose?
- Go, Pack. - Go, Pack, go! [l
aughing]
Go, Pack.
- Our first Capitol at a differen
t site
down near Belmont.
- Looks like a grocery store to
me.
- Correct, and it lasted only 42
days.
So they built this, and we outgr
ew this one.
And they built this wonderful
second Capitol until 1904,
when fire did take place, and th
is is where we are today.
People go, "Oh, my gosh."
And you're as safe as could be.
Look, one can see two of the f
our mosaics.
And each of these four mosaics,
100,000 pieces of tile.
- John: Observation deck this way.
Only 11 steps more.
- That's right. - I'm counting
them.
- Please do. - Okay.
Eleven. [Chris chuckling]
- It's Madison's best-kept secret.
It really is.
People come up and go, "I've li
ved here for 40 years.
And I've never been up here."
- John: They've never been.
The size of the dome.
- Chris: The volume makes us t
he third
or fourth largest dome in the w
orld.
On the top, our Lady Wisconsin,
she is in all her magnificence
at 284 feet.
This exquisite building has on
e flaw.
- What am I looking at?
- To the right side of the win
dow,
this one is missing an ornament.
- They forgot to put it in? -
They purposely--
- Purposely did not? - To show
that nothing is perfect. - Yeah.
Can we get it done though?
I'd like to see that done before
I leave.
- Yes.
Two o'clock this afternoon, it
'll be done.
- John: Thank you so much. - Ch
ris: Yes, yeah.
- John: Yeah.
- Do you see this building behi
nd me?
It has been through so many ma
keovers.
It opened as the Capitol Theater
back in 1928,
and it opened as a silent movie
house,
complete with a Grand Barton th
eater organ.
And it's one of the only Grand
Bartons
that still works, and it's stil
l in its original location.
Of course, silent movies were prett
y short-lived.
So it turned into a concert hal
l,
and they welcomed acts like The
Beach Boys
and Lawrence Welk.
Well, then came the '70s,
and the city redesigned this co
rner,
and they turned it into the Mad
ison Civic Center.
Well, fast forward to the 1990s,
and this building really needed
a lot of repairs.
Well, thankfully, one Madison re
sident stepped forward
in a big way with over $200 mil
lion.
At the time, it was the single
largest donation
to the arts in American history,
right here on State Street.
- Let's talk about the importan
ce
of public art in any community,
let alone Madison.
- Meri Rose Ekberg: Public art
is really,
it brings people together.
It encourages critical thinking.
It's something that, it's more
than just beautifying space.
- John: And really encourages
discussion, doesn't it?
- Absolutely, yeah.
A lot of discussion, which is w
hat we love about it.
- John: You have a high respect
for local artists, don't you?
- Meri: We've worked with a ton
of local artists on projects,
but we also like to keep it open
to international artists to apply.
- John: Can we talk about your m
ore recent installations?
- Meri: One of our newest pieces
is at the Confluence at Library M
all,
which is this meeting of the St
ate Street Pedestrian Mall
and the University of Wisconsin
-Madison's
Library Mall.
On the one side, we have this na
tural Wisconsin granite
that's very rough and rugged,
and it's sort of acting upon
this stainless steel laser-cut
form
that is very sleek and modern.
I don't know that a lot of peo
ple realize this,
but there's this orange circle
at the top.
The Sun shines through on the E
quinox,
which is kind of a cool, fun thin
g to know.
- And the total number of pieces in
the public art
in the city of Madison?
- We have a little over 80 outd
oor public artworks
in the city, not including our
utility boxes.
Of those, we have a little over a
hundred.
- John: A utility box?
- The City of Madison in 2016
did a pilot program
to start wrapping utility boxes,
which control all the functions
for the traffic signals.
- John: Yeah. - Meri: And the pu
blic loved it.
And each year, we'll do more an
d more.
- John: What is this called?
- Meri: This is called Four L
akes.
And it represents the four lakes
of Madison:
Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, and Ke
gonsa Lakes.
And in the middle is a water fe
ature representing the river.
And at the end, there's a badger
.
And obviously, the badger is UW-
Madison's mascot.
- John: Yeah.
What are these guys?
- So these arePhilosophers'
Stonesby Jill Sebastian.
- John: And they're multipurpo
se, aren't they?
- Yeah, so they're really encoura
ged people
to, you know, sit.
Yeah, see, they're very comfort
able seats.
- John: And you'll find these up
and down State Street?
- Meri: Yeah, absolutely.
- This is a plaza, sort of? -
Yeah.
We're in Peace Park, and we hav
e lots of festivals
that use it all the time.
- Meri Rose is the expert, and
I saw a sign that said,
"Please step on green circle to
activate fountain."
She was like, "No."
[laughing] Right?
- I'm impressed.
- So how long have you known--
- I'm excited.
- Not known that these work? -
Eight years.
I had no idea that this functione
d.
- Isn't it crazy? - Every day, y
ou learn.
- From where I'm standing,
I can see one, two, three museu
ms.
Within a mile from where I'm stan
ding,
can you guess how many museums
there are?
[quirky music]
- Within just one mile of the S
tate Capitol,
you will find, count 'em, seven di
fferent museums.
So right on the Capitol Square
we have the Madison Children's
Museum,
the Wisconsin Historical Museum,
and the Wisconsin Veterans Mus
eum.
Just down State Street is MMoCA,
the Madison Museum of Contempor
ary Art.
And then on campus, well, we ha
ve the Chazen Museum of Art,
the Geology Museum, and the Ph
ysics Museum.
And I feel smarter just having r
ead you the list.
- The food selection on State S
treet is no joke.
There are concepts from all over
the world.
We're talking Greek and Medite
rranean,
Venezuelan, Hawaiian,
Mexican, Chinese, Russian, Italia
n, Japanese, and Nepalese.
If you come to State Street
and you can't find something to e
at,
you're not hungry!
[bright upbeat music]
We're on State Street.
We're at a place called Justveggi
ez.
How did you open up a vegan re
staurant
in Madison, Wisconsin?
- James Bloodsaw: My father had
a whole lot of health issues,
and he told me, don't end up l
ike him.
I went vegan.
So I made a Reuben slider.
- Okay, you made a vegan Reuben s
lider?
- Yeah. - Shut up.
[both laughing]
Can you tell I'm not a vegan?
- I see that. [both laughing]
- John: It's nice to have your own
place, isn't it?
- James: Yes.
- John: It's a lot of responsib
ility.
- It's a lot of hats. - It's a
lot of hats.
- A lot of hats.
'Cause you know, I'm the prep coo
k, dishwasher, the HR.
- John: So does your wife work h
ere as well?
- James: Yeah. - John: She does?
- James: Yeah. - John: It's the
whole family.
- James: The whole family.
I have nine kids. - Excuse me?
- Nine.
And I-- [both laughing]
I see why 'cause he know I needed s
ome employees.
- You need help. - Right?
- This is Mercy and Grace.
Is that right? - Yeah.
- So is everybody in the family
vegan?
- No, just our dad.
- Just your dad? - Yep, we're veget
arian.
- Oh, you're vegetarian.
That's the vegan chicken.
And in truth, what is it?
- James: Just wheat and spices.
- John: Wheat and spices.
Oh, and they're gonna go into
the fryer.
- James: Yeah.
- Do people turn vegan to lose
weight?
- Sometimes it's about health iss
ues.
Then sometimes it's about anim
als too.
- Cruelty to animals is one iss
ue around it as well.
Orange sauce.
[food sizzling] Oh, here we go
.
Right on top.
Take a look; how gorgeous is th
is?
But does it taste like chicken?
Do not lie to me. [both laughing
]
Now, that's stupid. [all laugh
ing]
It tastes just like chicken.
Then they'll be like,
"And then McGivern left Madison
a vegan!"
[all laughing]
This is delicious.
Some places change a lot.
State Street is one of those p
laces.
And some places stay the same.
State Street is one of those pla
ces as well.
The Orpheum Theater, been here
since 1927.
Goodman's Jewelers since 1933.
Badger Liquor and Triangle Mar
ket,
both established in 1935.
Nick's Restaurant began servin
g food in 1959.
And Paul's Bookstore and Stop &
Shop
have been here since 1962.
That's the best thing about St
ate Street.
There's always something new
and there's always something fa
miliar.
[groovy music]
%
>>
WELL, STATE
STREET
IN
MADISON, A PLACE THAT
CHANGES AND
STAYS THE
SAME ALL THE
TIME. WE'RE IN
THE STUDIOS
OF PBS WISCONSIN.
JOINING US. WE'RE
TAKING A SHORT
BREAK IN
THIS GREAT
SHOW TO
ASK YOU TO
SUPPORT PBS WISCONSIN AND
TO HELP
US ENCOURAGE
YOU IS
THE SHOW'S
PRODUCER AND STAR, JOHN
MCGIVERN. GREAT TO HAVE
YOU. >> GREAT TO BE
HERE. >> YOU'RE A
LIFELONG WISCONSINITE.
AM. >>
THIS IS
THE FIRST TIME
YOU'VE DONE
IN-DEPTH WITH
MADISON. >> MY
RELATIONSHIP WITH
MADISON IS
LIMITED. WE
SHOT IS
FOR THE
FIRST SHOW AND THEN
WE CAME
BACK. I
KNOW MADISON
BECAUSE OF THE TV
WORK THAT I DO.
AND STATE STREET,
WE THOUGHT
WE WILL
DO STATE STREET
FROM TOP TO
BOTTOM AND
WE COVERED IT
ALL IN
THIS EPISODE. >>
AND REALLY
WELL, AS WE CAN
SEE, WITH MORE
COMING UP. >>
THANKS. >> SO
PEOPLE WANT
TO KNOW,
JOHN, HAVE YOU A
VEGAN NOW?
>> NO.
IT DID TASTE
LIKE CHICKEN,
THOUGH.
I LOVE IT.
EVERYTHING KIND OF
TASTES LIK
E CHICKEN.
AND THE
T HINGS
YOU CAN
FIND ON STATE STREET IF
YOU ONLY
LOOK. RIGHT. >>
THAT'S THE
GREAT THING
ABOUT "MAIN STREETS."
HAVING A GUIDE
LIKE JOHN MCGIVERN
IS A GREAT
WAY TO
LOOK AND
SEE ALL
OF WISCONSIN. >>
I LOVE THAT
PEOPLE WILL
COME UP TO ME
AND SAY
I HAD
NEVER BEEN
TO THAT
COMMUNITY BEFORE,
BUT BECAUSE
WE WATCHED
YOUR SHOW
ON PBS,
WE EITHER
WENT OR
WE PLAN ON
GOING OR THIS
IS GOING TO
BE A WEEKEND
FOR US
AND THAT'S
KIND OF THE
PURPOSE, I BELIEVE.
GREAT WAY
TO EDUCATE
AND STIMULATE PEOPLE'S
INTEREST. >> YES. >>
WE'LL BE BACK
TO TALK
TO J
OHN A LITTLE
BIT MORE.
BUT FIRST WITH
WAY S
TO SAY THANK
YOU, HERE'S
ERIC. >> I'M ERIC
GREILING. I'M DIRECTOR OF
FRIENDS OF PBS
WISCONSIN. IF YOU WANT
TO SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT
FOR PROGRAMS LIKE
THIS, SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT
FOR PROGRAMS
THAT FIND
NEW THINGS
IN FAMILIAR
PLACES OR TAKE
YOU PLACES
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN
BEFORE, IT'S A GREAT TIME
TO CALL.
WE HAVE
SOME GREAT
WAYS TO
SAY THANK YOU TO YOU.
WITH YOUR
GIFT OF
$10 A MONTH,
WE'D LIKE
TO SAY THANK
YOU WITH
THE BOOK "1,000
PLACES TO SEE
IN THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADA
BEFORE YOU
DIE," A GUIDE
TO GREAT
PLACES ALL
ACROSS NORTH AMERICA.
FOR $12 A
MONTH WE'VE
GOT THE "JOHN MCGIVERN'S MAIN STREETS"
MUG AND THE
COFFEE FEATURED
IN THE
DE PERE EPISODE,
BOTH OF
THOSE TOGETHER FOR
YOUR SUSTAINING GIFT
OF $12 A
MONTH. FOR
$20 A MONTH,
THE BOOK,
THE COFFEE
AND THE
MUG ALL
TOGETHER, GREAT WAYS FOR
US TO
SAY THANK YOU, A GREAT CHANCE
FOR YOU
TO SAY
I LIKE
PROGRAMS LIKE THIS, I
WANT TO SEE
MORE PROGRAMS
LIKE THIS
ON PBS WISCONSIN.
GIVE US A
CALL, PLEASE,
1-800-236-3636 .
>> HI.
I'M MICHELE GOOD
FROM WISCONSIN PUBLIC
RADIO ,
AND PBS WISCONSIN
INVESTS IN "MAIN
STREETS" BECAUSE WE HEAR
FROM PEOPLE
LIK E
YOU HOW MUCH YOU
LOVE THIS
PROGRAM, THROUGH
SURVEYS AND
COMMENTS AND THROUGH
YOUR DONATIONS.
SO SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT
RIGHT NOW
BY DONATING
AT 1-800-236-3636
OR GOING
ONLINE TO
pbswisconsin.org. AND WHEN
YOU MAKE
THAT DONATION,
ONE OF THE
B EST
WAYS YOU
CAN SHOW YOUR
SUPPORT IS
BY BECOMING A
SUSTAINER. WELL, WHAT IS
THAT? IT'S
ONGOING MONTHLY DONATIONS
FROM YOUR BANK
ACCOUNT, YOUR
CREDIT CARD. IT'S EASY
FOR YOU
BECAUSE YOU
ARE A MEMBER. IT'S
ONGOING UNTIL
YOU TELL
US TO
STOP. IT'S BETTER
FOR US
BECAUSE WE
CAN BUDGET AROUND THE
MONEY COMING IN.
IT'S A WIN/WIN
FOR BOTH.
SO WHEN YOU
MAKE THAT
DONATION, ASK TO
BECOME A SUSTAINER AT
1-800-236-3636. >>
JOHN, AS
YOU POINTED
OUT WITH STATE STREET, IT
STAYS THE
SAME AND IT
CHANGES. "MAIN STREETS"
STAYS THE
SAME, INTRODUCING
PEOPLE TO
AMAZING PLACES,
FABULOUS PEOPLE,
BUT IT
CHANGES TO BECAUSE YOU'RE
GOING TO
PLACES YOU
HAVEN'T BEEN
BEFORE. THE
HIGHWAYS AND
BYWAYS CROSS
STATE LINES NOW. >>
WE DID
TWO EPISODES
IN MINNESOTA,
TWO IN
IOWA, TWO
IN INDIANA,
TWO IN
MICHIGAN AND
THEN WE
DO THREE
IN WISCONSIN.
THIS YEAR WE
DID TWO
IN WISCONSIN
AND OUR
FINAL EPISODE
IS WE'RE
GOING TO A
PLACE CALLED
CLIPSVILLE. THERE'S NO
SUCH PLACE.
IT'S AN IN-STUDIO
SHOW SHOWING
BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF MOST EVERYTHING.
SO WE
SHOT THAT
NOT TOO
LONG AGO.
IT'S A GREAT
EPISODE, THE
FINAL EPISODE
OF OUR
SEASON. >> GREAT.
I IMAGINE SOME
PLACES OUT OF
ATE ARE
SIMILAR, BUT
I'M SURE
YOU'RE FINDING
THINGS THAT ARE A
LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. >>
THERE'S A REAL KINDNESS
AROUND MIDWEST. THERE'S A
MIDWEST SENSIBILITY.
THERE'S A MIDWEST LIKE
OPENNESS. I'VE LIVED
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
I'VE LIVED
IN LOS ANGELES,
SAN FRANCISCO,
CHICAGO, D.C.,
MIDWEST, THERE'S A
KINDNESS THAT'S ALWAYS THERE
AND I
LOVE IT.
IS A
KINDNESS. THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT
THE MIDWEST.
THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT
WISCONSIN AND PBS
WISCONSIN. AND
THE MOS
T SPECIAL
THING IS
THE KINDNESS
YOU CAN
SHOW BY
BECOMING A MEMBER RIGHT
NOW BY
CALLING THE
NUMBER ON
YOU R
SCREEN. ERIC?
IF YOU'VE
BEEN ENJOYING JOHN
MCGIVERN ON "MAIN
STREETS" FOR
YEARS, WATCHING
"JOHN MCGIVERN'S MAIN STREETS" NOW
IS A GREAT
TIME TO CALL,
SHOW YOUR
SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS
LIKE THIS,
PROGRAMS THAT TAKE YOU
INTO WISCONSIN,
NOW TAKE YOU
TO FIVE
OTHER STATES AS WELL.
IT'S A GREAT TIME
TO CALL.
GO AHEAD
AND USE
YOUR PHONE
OR YOUR
TABLET TO
CAPTURE THAT
QR CODE
THAT'S ON THE
SCREEN. GO
ONLINE TO PBS WISCONSIN.
GIVE US A
CALL AT
1-800-236-3636 AND LET US
SAY THANK YOU TO
YOU. FOR
YOUR GIFT
OF $10 A
MONTH WE'D
LIKE TO SAY THANK
YOU WITH
"1,000 PLACES TO SEE
IN THE
UNITED STATES AND
CANADA BEFORE
YOU DIE."
THERE'S A FEW
WHERE JOHN HASN'T
LIVED. WE'D ALSO
LIKE TO
SAY THANK YOU
WITH YOUR GIFT
AT $12 A MONTH
WITH THE "MAIN
STREETS" WITH JOHN
MCGIVERN MUG AS WELL
AS THE
HOME-ROASTED COFFEE THAT
WAS FEATURED
IN AN
EARLIER EPISODE.
FOR $20 A
MONTH YOU
CAN SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT
FOR "JOHN MCGIVERN'S MAIN STREETS"
AND WE'D
SAY THANK YOU
WITH THE
BOOK, COFFEE
AND MUG
TOGETHER. IT'S
SO EASY.
QR CODE,
GO ONLINE,
CALL 1-800-236-3636.
AT ANY
OF THOSE
LEVELS THAT
ERIC IS
TALKING ABOUT WHEN
YOU MAKE A
DONATION, YOU
GET THREE OTHER
BENEFITS. ONE OF
THEM IS
"AIRWAVES," OUR
MONTHLY PROGRAM
GUIDE THAT
HAS ALL
OF OUR
FLAGSHIP STATIONS
AND OF COURSE A
GRID. YOU C
AN WRITE
DOWN WHAT
PROGRAMS YOU WANT TO
WATCH. THERE'S
ALSO BEHIND-THE-SCENES
INFORMATION, INTERVIEWS WITH SOME
OF OUR
STAFF, AS WELL AS THE
LATEST RELEASES.
ANOTHER BENEFIT YOU
GET IS
PASSPORT, WHICH
IS AN ONLINE
STREAMING LIBRARY
OF MOST
EVERYTHING THAT'S OUT
THERE ON
PBS. IT'S YOURS.
YOU CAN SEE
SOME OF THE
THINGS WE'VE HAD
IN THE
PAST, MARY BERRY,
"ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL," DOC MARTIN,
SOME OF THE
GREAT PROGRAMS WE HAVE HERE
ON PBS.
THE THIRD BENEFIT YOU
GET IS
THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING THAT
YOU MAKE
THESE PROGRAMS
POSSIBLE. IT
REALLY DOES
CHANGE YOUR
WAY OF
VIEWING KNOWING THAT
YOU ARE A PART
OF IT.
SHOW YOUR
SUPPORT NOW.
BECOME A PART OF IT.
1-800-236-3636 .
>> SO,
JOHN, THE
THING THAT
ALWAYS STANDS OUT
ON THESE
SHOWS ARE THE
PEOPLE, THE
PLACES AND
THE STORIES. >>
YEAH. >> IS
THERE ONE
THAT COMES
TO MIND
FROM THIS
SEASON THAT
REALLY STANDS OUT FOR
YOU, WHETHER
IN WISCONSIN
OR BEYOND
OUR STATE'S
BORDERS? >>
WE'VE GOT AN EPISODE
COMING UP
OF WAUKESHA,
WISCONSIN. AND
WE'VE TALKED
ABOUT WHAT'S
MY FAVORITE THING DOING
IN THE
SHOW. IT'S GOING
INTO FACTORIES, IT'S
MANUFACTURING, IT'S GETTING
INTO A PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE
ARE MAKING
THINGS THAT
I TOUCHED
IN MY
LIFE. AND
THERE'S A GUY
IN WAUKESHA
WHO MAKES
BASEBALL BASES.
HE MAKES ALL
THE BASEBALL
BASES FOR
ALL THE
AMATEUR LIKE
HIGH SCHOOLS AND
AMATEUR BASEBALL
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
AND IT'S OUT
OF WAUKESHA.
IT'S A STAFF OF
FIVE PEOPLE. AND WE
HAD A CHANCE
TO SPEND
AN HOUR.
AND I MADE
MY OWN
BASE. HE WAS
LIKE DO
YOU NEED
IT? I
WAS LIKE
I WANT A
SET. COME
ON, JUST
THE FACT
THAT IT'S
MANUFACTURING IN OUR
STATE AND IT
ENDS U P
ALL OVER THE
WORLD, REALLY.
AND I
LOVE THAT. >>
YOU'RE NEVER OFF
BASE. >> NO. >>
WHEN YOU'RE ON
THE MAIN
STREETS IN WISCONSIN. >>
HE'S THE
COMEDIAN. VERY
GOOD. >> RUBBING
OFF ON
ME A LITTLE
BIT. GOOD. >>
WE'RE GOING TO
GO BACK
IN A FEW
MINUTES TO
THE REST
OF THIS
GREAT SHOW ABOUT
MADISON, BUT
BEFORE WE DO
IT'S REALLY
IMPORTANT THAT YOU SUPPORT
YOUR PBS WISCONSIN,
BECAUSE THAT'S
HOW WE
GO OUT
AND MAK
E THESE
SHOWS LIKE THE
ONE YOU'RE
ENJOYING TONIGHT. THEY
COST A LITTLE
MONEY TO
MAKE, BUT IT'S
SO WORTH IT.
THEY REACH SO
MANY PEOPLE
AND THEY LAST
SO LONG
AND YOUR
GIFT WILL
HAVE SO MUCH
IMPACT. ERIC?
GOING BACK TO
THE PROGRAM IN
JUST A
FEW MINUTES
SO IT'S A GREAT
TIME FOR
YOU TO
CALL RIGHT
NOW AT
1-800-236-3636. SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT
FOR THIS
PROGRAM. HAVE
SOME FUN
ALONG WITH
US. AND ENJOY
THE GREAT
WAYS THAT WE
HAVE TO
SAY THANK YOU
DURING THIS
PLEDGE BREAK.
USE THAT QR
CODE THAT'S
ON YOUR
SCREEN OR GO
ONLINE. WHICHEVER WAY
YOU WANT
TO CHOOSE
TO GIVE,
IT' S
EASY FOR YOU.
AT THE
$10 A MONTH
WE'D LIKE
TO
Y THANK YOU
WITH "1,000
PLACES TO SEE IN THE UNITED
STATES AND
CANADA
BEFORE YOU
DIE ."
THERE'S A LOT OF
GREAT PLACES
TO VISIT HERE AND
LOTS OF
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS FOR
EVERY PLACE
THAT'S IN HERE.
AT $12 A
MONTH WE'D
LIKE TO
SAY THANK
YOU WITH "JOHN MCGIVERN'S MAIN
STREETS" CUSTOM
MUG ALONG
WITH
COFFEE FROM
THE DE PERE
EPISODE OF "MAIN
STREETS" MADE
BY COFFEE
IN DE PERE.
REALLY GOOD
COFFEE. $20 A
MONTH WE CAN
SAY THANK YOU
WITH THE BOOK,
WITH THE
COFFEE, WITH THE
MUG ALL
TOGETHER IN
ONE BIG PACKAGE.
GIVE US A
CALL RIGHT
NOW, PLEASE,
1-800-236-3636. >> AND
THERE'S SO MANY
POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN
THE WORLD
RIGHT NOW
AND IT
FEELS LIKE WE'RE
CONSTANTLY BASHING
HEADS WITH
PEOPLE EVERY
TIME WE
SAY SOMETHING.
ONE OF THE THINGS
I LOVE
ABOUT THIS
PROGRAM IS
I'LL LAUGH.
THE INTERACTION WITH
PEOPLE WAS
JUST CHARMING.
I KEPT
THINKING THIS IS
HOW LIFE SHOULD BE.
LIFE SHOULD BE THE
WAY IT IS
DEPICTED IN "MAIN
STREETS" WITH JOHN
MCGIVERN. DO
YOU FEEL
THAT WAY
WHEN YOU
WATCH THE SHOW?
IS IT A SENSE
OF RELIE
F FROM
THE NEWS THAT
YOU HEAR
EVERY DAY?
SHOW YOUR
SUPPORT. AND
IF YOU'RE
ALREADY A SUSTAINER, THIS IS A
GREAT TIME
TO INCREASE
YOUR SUPPORT.
YOU CAN DO IT BY
JUST $2
IF YOU
LIKE. $2,
$5. OUR
VOLUNTEERS ARE
HAPPY TO
SHOW YOU
HOW. JUST ASK.
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>> JOHN, THIS I
S AN
EPISODE ABOUT
MADISON AND
FOCUSES A LOT
ON STATE STREET.
PLACE WHERE
I'VE LIVED
CLOSE TO
MOST OF MY
LIFE. >> YEAH. >> YOU
HAVE NOT
BEEN HERE MOST
OF YOUR LIFE. >>
NO. >> WHAT
SURPRISED YOU MOST
ABOUT STATE STREET IN
MADISON? >>
JUST HOW IT
WAS -- I
WAS TELLING
YOU BEFORE
OUR CAMERA
ROLL THAT IT WAS
DIFFICULT TO
SHOOT THERE
BECAUSE IT'S
SO BUSY
AND SO VARIED.
FROM ONE END TO
THE OTHER, FROM
THE STATE
CAPITAL TO
THE UNIVERSITY
THERE'S SOMETHING
GOING ON
EVERY BLOCK.
IT'S A VERY
BUSY STREET, STATE STREET IS.
AND GREAT.
YOU CAN
FIND ANYTHING. >>
CAN FIND
ANYTHING ON STATE
STREET. YEAH. >>
WE'VE GOT A
LITTLE LESS
THAN A MINUTE
BEFORE WE
GO BACK TO THE
SHOW, BUT
I KNOW
YOU DO A
LOT MORE THINGS
THAN JUST
-- DON'T WANT
TO SAY
JUST. YOU DO A
LOT MORE
THINGS. WHAT
ELSE DO YOU HAVE COMING
UP? >> B
ECAUSE OF
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH
THE SHOW AND
PBS, I'M
GOING TO BE
IN REEDSBURG
IN APRIL.
I TALK
ABOUT MY
LIFE AND
MY STORIES.
I'M GOING TO BE
IN ASH WHAT
IN GREEN BAY
IN APRIL. I
DO AN EVENING
WITH JOHN MCGIVERN.
PEOPLE ARE LIKE
I KNOW
YOU FROM
PBS. NOW
I'VE GOT SOME
STORIES OF
GROWING UP IN
THIS GREAT
STATE AND
PEOPLE RELATE.
>> I
CAN UNDERSTAND. >> HE I
CAN'T. >>
IT'S A WONDERFUL
STATE, WONDERFUL
SHOW, WONDERFUL SERVICE AND
YOU MAKE
IT POSSIBLE WITH YOUR
GIFT. g called Mad Lit.
- Rob "DZ" Franklin: Mad Lit is
an eight-week event series
that usually happens right here
at the top of State Street.
The idea is to make a more inclu
sive
and engaging downtown.
We do that through music, we do
it through visual arts,
and we do it through small busi
ness vendors, all of color.
- How did this come to your min
d?
- Funny story, I used to live
in this building right here
for about eight years.
And during between the pandemic
and civil unrest,
I saw that State Street kind of
lost some of its luster.
And I was figuring, you know,
what ways
can we try to get that experienc
e
to get people to come back and
help revitalize this area?
- So you don't live here anymor
e?
- I don't live here anymore.
- Well, now look, it would've been
perfect.
- It would've been.
I'm still a downtown guy. - Yeah
, yeah.
You can walk here. - I can still
walk here.
When the civil unrest happened,
there was a lot of visual art
that happened out here.
And that's kind of what inspired
the idea
of making sure that we had vis
ual artists
that were representing a series a
s well.
- John: Food-wise, what do they d
o?
- Food-wise, we get different ve
ndors
from throughout the city, of color
.
- John: So we're at the top of S
tate Street.
Is there anything specific
about as you make your way towa
rds campus?
- So, like, on this end,
it's more of the traditional busi
ness idea.
Once you get past Johnson,
then that kind of becomes the camp
us area.
- John: Look at the kids!
- Rob: But hey, let 'em have t
heir fun.
So if you get 150, 200 college
kids that come up the block
and then you mix that in
with the 100 or 200 community
folks that are coming out,
that's the hope is that we put
to practice
the idea of being inclusive.
Reach out to someone that you don'
t know, you know,
and take that chance to have th
at conversation.
- I'm sure the community thanks y
ou for doing this,
but thank you for doing this.
- That's cool, man; thank you.
- Did you know that Madison ha
s its own official city bird?
And it's not the same as our s
tate bird, the robin.
It's much taller and much more co
lorful.
Okay, that was your hint.
[quirky music]
- As farfetched as this may
sound, I promise it is true.
The official city bird of Madis
on
is the plastic pink flamingo.
That's right; it dates back to
1979,
when two students literally fi
lled Bascom Hill here
with over 1,000 flamingos.
I mean, it started as a huge pran
k.
It has turned into a yearly tr
adition
that is a awesome fundraiser fo
r UW.
It's so cool.
They were so popular,
it officially became the city b
ird back in 2015.
Good, I just need a thousand more.
- You know where I'm at?
I'm at the Terrace at the Memor
ial Union.
Do you know what this is?
Sunburst.
Sunburst chair.
The back of this chair is the t
rademark design
of the Wisconsin Union.
That's what all students have in
common,
they've all sat in one of thes
e chairs
some time in their student care
er here in Madison.
These colors, they're supposed t
o evoke
summer, spring, fall.
And they're supposed to pay tri
bute
to the history of Wisconsin far
ming.
Do you know, you can buy these ch
airs,
but you buy 'em in red and white
.
And if you own one that is gre
en, orange, or yellow,
you're a thief.
- If you have never tried standu
p paddleboarding,
give it a shot. - Dan Dunne: I
t seems scarier
'cause it's like, "Oh, this is
gonna be tippy," but--
- John: It's not. - Dan: It's not.
- John: I've done it. - Dan: The
y're super fun.
- John: But the first moment on
it is like,
"This isn't gonna work."
And then 20 minutes later, it's l
ike, "Look at me!"
- Dan: Yeah, it's super easy.
It's getting you out there and tr
ying something new.
- Talk about this program.
- Yeah, so Outdoor UW has been
in operation
for the last four or five years,
and it's kind of a newer component
of the student-run clubs, which
is the Hoofer Clubs.
- Emmy: Where did the Hoofers
name come from?
- Sam Hagedorn: There was a sayi
ng called hoofing it.
Basically just meant getting some
where
on the power of your own two fe
et.
- So Sam, how many clubs are there
within the Hoofers organization?
- Yeah, so there's six clubs, th
e Outing Club,
Mountaineering Club, Riding Cl
ub, Sailing Club, Scuba Club,
and Ski & Snowboard Club.
- Emmy: This has been a UW thin
g since what, the '30s?
- Yeah, it stood the test of time
, definitely.
I think it's just, the outdoors
doesn't go outta style.
- Dan: Our goal here at Outdoor
UW
is to get folks to learn more
about the outside, to recreate.
So we have all sorts of rentals,
like kayak rentals,
standup paddleboard rentals, ca
mping gear rentals.
In the winter, we just started
a program last year,
ice skating.
- John: This isn't just student
s?
- Dan: Part of it is students,
but a bigger part of it is com
munity education
and getting people out.
- And if you think these adventur
es
are just here in Madison, oh, that
's not the case.
- No, Outing Club is super cool.
They do a ton of, like, week-lon
g trips.
I know they went to New Mexico,
they've gone to the Everglades.
Mountaineering Club went to Spai
n last year.
- You guys provide the access
to all of these great experien
ces.
I mean, you can show up with no
knowledge, no experience,
and they're not gonna laugh at
you.
Right? - Right, exactly, yeah.
I'm a great example.
I had no idea how to sail a year
and a half ago.
I'm like, "It's right here.
Might as well try it." - Emmy:
Right?
- Sam: Now I do it all the time,
and I love it.
- With all the things you've be
en able to experience
being the president of this cl
ub,
what has filled your soul the most
?
- Sam: This is gonna be kind of
a cheesy answer,
but I love the people.
The experiences, the activities a
re awesome.
But if you can't do it with peopl
e you love, why do it?
- It sounds like a great gig.
- It's great. - Congratulation
s.
- Yeah. - Thanks for talking t
o me.
- Thanks, John. - Thanks.
- UW-Madison has been around
for 175 years,
but the Ho-Chunk people have l
ived here
for thousands of years, and th
ey called this area Dejope,
which means "Four Lakes."
Now we know this for two reasons.
This university has more Native b
urial mounds
than any other campus in the e
ntire world.
And this is pretty neat.
Back in 2022,
the oldest canoe ever found in
the Great Lakes region,
they pulled out of Lake Mendota.
It was over 3,000 years old.
Now that's a well-made boat.
- We're at PBS Wisconsin.
I am talking to a host of a PB
S series, Angela Fitzgerald,
who has a show called Wisconsi
n Life.
It's great to be at PBS Wisconsin.
- Angela: I'm excited to have yo
u back.
- Thank you.
You don't work in here though m
uch, do you?
- I don't, no.
We do all of our shoots out on l
ocation.
- Out in the field? - Yes.
So you do kind of exactly what I
do.
- Yes. - So we're out there
talking to people. - Out there
talking to people.
Managing the elements, the sun,
all of that.
- John: Who do you talk to and
what do you want to happen?
- Angela: WithWisconsin Life,
our whole goal is to elevate di
verse stories
and experiences from across ou
r state.
- John: How many episodes a seas
on do you do?
- We do, ooh, six, eight? - Six?
- Producer: Eight. - Eight.
- Oh, good, I love that your prod
ucer is behind here,
because so is mine.
- Angela: That helps!
- John: If people only knew--
- Angela: The information.
Other people's concept of TV is l
ike, "Oh, you have a trailer
and you have a makeup and ward
robe," and I'm like,
"We have a van with some bug sp
ray.
That's as glamorous as it gets."
[John laughing]
And it's great to be able to sha
re with someone
who was born and raised in the
state,
something that they didn't even
know existed here.
- That's what we love.
We love that people are like,
"I had no idea that that was in
my hometown."
And I don't know if you have this.
These are the people I travel w
ith every shoot.
[all laughing]
- Angela: This is your entourage
?
- John: Yes, this is my entoura
ge.
- Who are they? - They're with
theJohn McGivern Main Stree
tsbus tour.
And they're going where I went.
- Wow! - Which is great.
Did you have a good time, you guys
?
- Group: Yeah! - Yeah, wow.
No one said no. [all laughing]
- Good. - Thank you.
Kelly, you are the producer
ofWisconsin Life.
- Kelly Saran: Yes, I am.
We're in UW, part of UW-Madison.
- Yeah. - And it really
takes a whole station to move
a show forward.
- What's challenging for you?
- Challenging is going
to a place that you haven't be
en, John.
- That's what's challenging. [b
oth laughing]
That's what's challenging. - Is t
hat right?
McGivern was here. - I'll see t
he sticker
and I'm like, "Ah, McGivern was
here."
- John: Sorry. [both laughing]
- Kelly: The control room.
We've got graphics, we've got ligh
ting back there.
We've got the directors, the prod
ucers, and the audio.
-John McGivern's Main Streets,
7:00 p.m., PBS Wisconsin.
- Kelly: So these are our edit
ing suites.
- John: This isWisconsin Life?
- Kelly: This isWisconsin Life.
- The editor's stamp on a show
really creates a show, does it
not?
- Inga Foley: You hope so. - Ye
ah.
Now what's all this? - This is
what's airing now.
So John, what we saw inside the
station,
we're also seeing here.
We have a light board.
- Director sitting over here. -
Director's sitting over there.
Nice. - So you don't ever
bring this out forWisconsin
Life?
- We don't, nope.
We're just a couple cameras in a
van
with me and two videographers.
- And bug spray. - And bug spray.
[chuckling]
- John: Is there a snack mach
ine on this bad boy?
- Kelly: No, you gotta bring yo
ur own snacks.
- John: You do?
- This building behind me has been
here since 1969,
and since that time, it has ga
ined quite the reputation
for being the most confusing bu
ilding on the UW campus,
especially for incoming freshme
n.
So there are myths that this bu
ilding was built upside down,
backwards, and as a maze.
I'm really not sure, the archit
ect,
he built it in the brutalist fa
shion.
AKA ugly, the real blocky concret
e,
small windows, straight lines.
But guess what? Good news.
In 2029, it is slated to be re
placed.
So if you have an interest in g
etting lost
in the humanities building for
old time's sake,
I don't know, do it before 2029.
But I sure hope they don't do any
thing
with these beautiful flowers.
[upbeat music]
We look so good!
We are at the dairy plant.
- Dairy plant. - Where all the
magic happens.
- Yeah, this is one of the old
est schools
that do research in dairy in the
entire country.
- Emmy: So this chemist, Stephen Ba
bcock,
he developed a test to measure
the amount of fat in milk.
'Cause before that, it was being
sold just purely by volume.
You didn't know how much milk fat
was in it.
- John: So Babcock was really imp
ortant.
Here we're at the School of Agri
culture.
- Right. - And in the 20th centur
y,
they developed a program
to put the stop to rickets, th
e softening of the bone.
And they had to make sure that th
ere was vitamin D in the milk.
- In unison: To strengthen bone
s.
- John: What's happening today?
- Emmy: There's about $8 million
that is being used here, at Ri
ver Falls and at Platteville.
Just in dairy research. - John:
Research.
- Because $45 billion is the Wis
consin dairy industry.
- John: I love that on this camp
us, they have a lovely herd.
- Emmy: Real cows.
- John: 84 cows on the campus
of UW.
So they use the milk to make th
e cheese,
to make the ice cream.
- Emmy: This is the Babcock da
iry plant.
- This is called the bird's eye v
iew.
We're kinda like the bosses lo
oking over our--
- Right.
- John: Yeah; do you know what th
ey're making?
- Emmy: No. - John: It's cherr
y ice cream
and then a swirl of fudge.
Look, it's full.
- Emmy: Wow! - John: Wow!
- Emmy: This is so cool!
- John: Can you hand us one of t
hose and two spoons, please?
Well, finally at the dairy sto
re.
- Finally, this is John's first
time here.
I have been here many times.
- You have? - Emmy: Since they
opened up
the dairy store in 1951,
how many flavors of ice cream
do you think?
- John: Forty. - Emmy: Over 270.
Oh, boy; he's gone there.
Now it's all over.
I might as well have brought my k
ids.
- What is your point?
- Producer: Have you not met be
fore?
- Well, did the last few days
here
make you wanna be a student again?
- No. - Or maybe a legislator?
- No, neither.
You know what it made me want to
do?
- What?
- It made me wanna visit this place
again.
- That's a good plan. - Yeah.
♪ There's nowhere else I'd ra
ther be ♪
♪ The heart and soul of commu
nity's right here ♪
%
>> WELL,
JOHN, I
N
THIS
EPISODE
VISITED ONE OF
MY FAVORITE
PLACES ON
CAMPUS, BABCOCK
ICE CREAM.
AND MY
OTHER FAVORITE
PLACE ON
CAMPUS, RIGHT HERE
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WHATEVER YOU WANT.
OKAY. CAN I
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IT'S GOOD ICE
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!
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YOU WERE
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WE WERE
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THING OF THE
EPISODE. WE
WERE BOTH KIND
OF NERVOUS.
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LIKE WHAT ARE
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I WAS
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THAT. >> I DON'T WANT
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P AWAY
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D THAT'S THE
ONE THA
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It's all Greek to me.
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Right, I'm like, "Wait a minute."
- This is my dad.
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- Inga Witscher: Back at Ken and
Jay's,
the weeds are under control, th
e pumpkins are thriving,
and we talked more about their jour
ney as farmers.
I know on my farm,
I'm so grateful to have my husb
and there
to help me and work side-by-si
de with me.
What is that like for you two?
You always get along, I imagine.
- We do. - Inga: Oh, good.
- I'll let you speak. [Inga la
ughs]
- Oh, I guess I don't even thi
nk about it.
We are a team, definitely.
We both have our things that we
're the best at, I guess.
I mean, Ken is really good at p
lanning.
I'm good at implementing.
He's good at directing, I'm go
od at following.
It is definitely a team effort.
- I think we need to plant.
- Well, let's just see.
We're always learning stuff.
I think that's part of the fun
too, and the interest.
It's always something different.
This way, this way.
- We're very, very good work pa
rtners,
and we work well together, and
it's been complementary.
And I'm sure as you know,
you couldn't do it alone. - No.
- You have to have a partner.
- Yeah.
- This, it's a lot. - Yeah.
- And we're just very fortunate.
It's easy for us.
- So you've started the transpla
nts then inside,
you've brought them out here t
o plant them,
laid the mulch down.
And now you just kick back with
a martini and just wait?
[laughing] - Oh, well, this yea
r,
so far, we've had drought.
So we've had to irrigate.
And usually, we look at irrigat
ion
as just something to bridge us
over to the inevitable rains,
but they haven't happened.
So we have irrigated three times
and we're just using a big 300-
gallon tank.
Drag it along, let gravity wate
r them.
[water splashing]
Also surprisingly, pumpkins, or
the plant itself,
it's really built to collect moi
sture.
- Inga: Really?
- Every morning, there's a lot of
dew.
They have these great big leaves
,
and you notice it all funnels
into the central, the petiole,
that takes it down to the stem.
So that dew will collect on the l
eaf,
flow down right to the center o
f the plant.
So it will gather some moisture
on its own.
- Inga: Nature is amazing.
) -In winter, the nort
h coast of Cornwall
is a pretty inhospitable
place,
battered by wind and rain
coming in off the Atlantic.
The villages and towns
that are so popular
with tourists in the
summer are quiet,
waiting for the weather to t
urn.
But every other year,
in one village,
a transformation takes p
lace.
The pub changes its name.
The fudge shop be
comes a chemist.
The fish market's name
is changed.
A restaurant returns
to what it once was -- a school.
One large holiday cottage
becomes a police station.
This place is Port Isaac,
but it becomes th
e world-renowned village
of Portwenn.
And here with his family
lives a certain doctor --
Dr. Martin Ellingham.
♪♪
I'm Caroline Catz, and I
play
Louisa Ellingham, who's
married to the Doc.
-Whoa! Whoa!
-Portwenn's been our home
for the past 18 years,
and so much has happened
here for all of us, as you can
see.
But there's also a lot about
the show that you might not know
.
I want to let you in
on some of our secrets
and take you behind the
scenes to meet the cast and crew
so you can see ju
st how we make "Doc Martin."
♪♪
It's February 2022
and the first day of the shoot.
We're back on the farm,
which is our production base.
The finishing touches
are being made to sets,
costumes, and even me.
It's been great to be ba
ck.
It's just like we
've never been away.
Yeah, it's been three ye
ars.
But I also have mixed fe
elings, as this 10th series,
which includes a Christm
as special, will be our last.
-Now that it's sort of
about to be complete,
I can approach it as a w
hole
and allow myself some pri
de in it,
which I don't know
why I haven't before,
but I've enjoyed its suc
cess
in the way it's caught on
in the different countries,
and the feedback we've h
ad has been really gratifying.
But the word "pride"
has only just
popped into my little br
ain, so...
[ Engines thrumming ]
-Let's go back 18 years,
to 2004,
to the very beginning
of our story.
♪♪
-You've got a problem.
-But the show's
not only about us.
-It has to work on 4 or 5
different levels simultaneously.
So you've got medical dr
ama. People are dying.
Martin has to get there
before they die.
-Mrs. Tishell?!
-I'm up here, Doc!
-Wonderful.
♪♪
-Doctor! -Don't move.
-You've got situations c
omedy, you know, with Bert and Al
and all those characters.
-Bodmin -- that's an end
earing local term for "barmy," ri
ght?
-Well, Daphne du Maurier
paints Bodmin Moor
as a gothic symbol
of murder and madness
or granite skies and
howling winds.
-You'll be going bodmin
yourself in a minute, boy.
-Dad, not that one!
No!
-Well, at the real heart
of it, on the top layer,
is this really fantastic
love story between Martin and Louis
a.
-She wasn't really a huge
part of the first series.
We didn't think she was
going to be a big love interest,
particularly.
We just put a possible
love interest in there.
Had no idea it was going
to become what it became.
-There was sort of an in
stant attraction-aversion
thing going on, wasn't t
here?
-Yes. -It was so
rt of --
But very interested.
They were both very inte
rested in one another.
-Yes. Yes. That's a g
ood way of putting it.
Yeah, they sort of piqued
each other's curiosity.
-What?
-Nothing.
-No, say it.
-I'm assuming you have a
...
regular dental hygiene r
outine.
-Pardon? Are you bein
g serious?
Well, you know, Louisa's
bad breath was diagnosed,
and then we sort of
walked away from that.
We decided her breath
was definitely sorted out.
Couldn't keep going on
about her appalling breath.
Would he have put up wit
h it? Probably not.
-I said no talking.
-That's rubbish, anyway.
Rubbish things people sa
y.
-Martin.
-You're so beautiful.
You're so very beautiful.
Do you know that?
♪♪
-Okay.
If that's what you're
going to say, I...
I don't mind you talking.
-Two people who unexpect
edly have found each other.
They're both very differ
ent.
But I think the reason
the show works
is that you really belie
ve they love each other.
-Right. Now they have
to live together,
and that's -- th
at's what we'll explore now.
-We just agreed to get a
dog. Do we still have to get a
dog?
-Is that relevant?
-I don't know.
-That's when we thought
we'd run its course,
when we got them together
and they got married.
And then we found all so
rts of ways to keep it fresh.
-And they kind of realiz
ed that they couldn't be together
because they just didn't
--
They just weren't made up
in that way.
And it was really, reall
y sad.
But they sort of made
this decision to be apart
and yet still sort of sh
are a child --
-Well, she wasn't th
inking straight.
She was pregnant.
-I need a break from
you, Martin.
♪♪
-What do you mean?
-I'm not happy?
♪♪
I'm not making you happy
, am I?
-Happy?
Why does everybody
have to be happy all the time?
-And it seemed that
once they'd decided to accept
each other's differences,
that they could probably go on.
-Go to your basket.
-Mary, go to your cot.
-James, that's no way to
speak to your little sister.
She's not a dog.
-Now we've got two child
ren...
-Yeah. -...and a
dog.
-They definitely are
the driving force of the show.
-Now, I know you told me not
to, but...
bought you a present.
-I may be married to Mar
tin in the series, but in real life,
he's married to
the show's producer, Philippa.
-I was developing things
, and then we had the office togethe
r,
and we thought, "Well, why d
on't we just work together?"
And I think if we had met
differently, socially,
and then decided to have
a company together,
it might not have wo
rked so well, but be
cause we already had a working re
lationship,
we could park it and jus
t --
And we do different jobs.
I can't act. -Me
neither.
-He can't produce.
-[ Laughs ]
-20 years ago, I
wrote and produced
a film called "Saving Gr
ace" and met Martin.
-Any idea who the father
is?
I think I know.
I looked at the test slide.
Some of the chromosomes
had little kilts on.
-[ Laughs ] Very
funny.
-I do have some bad news,
though.
-What?
-There's a slight risk of ginge
r hair.
-They do these test scre
enings,
and the character th
at came out the --
you know, was the most p
opular was the doctor.
-Look, don't mention
the baby yet, okay?
I just want to tell him
when the time is right.
-What baby? Have
a sweetie.
-Philippa and Martin were
very friendly with, uh...
-Nick Elliott. -N
ick Elliott,
who ran ITV at that poin
t.
-The drama -- Yeah.
-And he said, "Sure, I love it,
but -- you know, love eve
rything about it.
Keep everything the same.
But we want a di
fferent character."
-So, they set about
inventing a different doctor.
-It just sort of came out
of a --
trying to sort of wring
out of Dominic Minghella,
the first writer.
Said, "What car is he dr
iving?" He said, "An MG."
I said, "Mm, no." An
d then just struck
with the thing of being
wrong at every point.
It's wrong to wear
a suit in the sea.
[ Laughs ]
It's wrong to drive a car
that big in Cornwall.
-And I do remember
Nick Elliott calling me
after he saw the first r
ushes the first week,
and he said -- [
Inhales sharply ]
"I think he's too grumpy
."
-You -- get off the tele
phone and find the stopcock!
And you -- either
get back to Delabole,
wherever that may be,
and don't come back
or go and find a mop
and work out how to use it!
-And I said, "Nick, h
old your nerve."
-Yeah. -He went, "Oka
y."
[ Both laugh ]
-The set, every single doorway
is designed to end there.
And the one -- that s
lanty thing in the hallway
going up to the kitchen.
..
[ Thuds ] -Ohh! Ohh!
-...I can hit that angle
at any speed.
[ Chuckles ]
And it's all been sort of de
signed so that I'm wrong.
♪♪
-Then they needed an exp
ert for the medical stories.
-Dominic Minghella
approached me.
So we took an exercise b
ook and a biro,
and we wandered down
to Kensington Park Road
to Cafe Rouge, an
d we sat down one lunchtime
and we wrote six pages
of funny stories
that had -- real things
that had happened to me.
And the one that springs
to mind most of all
was the story of the man
who had grown little breasts.
-Wow.
-And this was a real eve
nt
that had happened in
my medical practice
where a man had been exp
osed to his wife's estrogens.
-Estrogen is a female ho
rmone, and used to excess,
it's possible that,
during intercourse,
some may have transferre
d, and, um...
-Dominic thought this
was marvelous.
And he said, "Have yo
u got any more stories?"
And so they rolled out. The
more you think about them,
the more odd stories
would come out.
And that was the foundat
ion of that first series.
-He's fantastic. Like
, reams of ideas.
And we'll go, "Y
eah, that's great."
"That one won't work."
"That's great."
And then we start in
tegrating his ideas
with the writers' ideas.
-The story always demands
the doctor's doing something
other than sitting at a
desk with a prescription pad.
-Our gifted makeup desig
ner, Alice,
has the daunting task
of making realistic prosthetics
for Martin's handiwork.
-I made a hand by
taking a life cast
of the actress's hand
and made a mold.
Made the hand from silic
one, painted it.
I put one layer in
and then build it up
so that you can get
the veins underneath the skin.
I put a hole through the
finger
and stuck this end
of a really tiny tube
onto the nail for the bl
ood to be able to come out.
-Ready? -Mm.
[ Sizzles ]
Oh!
-And we used it, and it w
orked very well.
-So that I can make
an oblique anastamosis
with a large enough diam
eter.
-Good. Very good.
-Taking out somebody's
gallbladder.
There was an outs
tanding prosthesis
that was created for tha
t.
And best of all, the
nurses involved
and the theater sister t
hat was handling the instruments acr
oss,
they were the genuine te
am from that operating theater.
And I think they probably
loved doing it,
and they made a real
ly good job of it.
-Pulse rate stabilized a
t 105. Blood pressure restored.
-There's a lovely story
here where Louisa's father has --
has been allowed out of
prison and turns up unexpectedly.
-Uh, hello, love.
-What are you doing here?
-But this man arrives
with motor neuron disease,
which everyone knows has
an inevitably declining prognos
is,
sadly resulting in the d
eath of the patient.
And -- And so he's come
to say goodbye to the family.
-Is your hand all right?
-Fine.
-This man has so
me sensory symptoms.
He's got some numbness,
some tingling.
-You say you have tingli
ng and numbness in your hands and fee
t.
Well, I wouldn't expect
to find that with motor neuron d
isease.
-Doc Martin spots this,
and he does a nerve biopsy.
Called a serial nerve bi
opsy.
Takes a little pinch of
a nerve
using anesthetic from
down by the ankle,
and it gets sent off to the
lab, and we get the new diagnosis
--
chronic inflammatory
demyelinating polyneuropathy.
Another reason to send M
artin a voice file for how to sa
y it.
-According to the biopsy,
it's intense inflammation
of the endoneurium
which is causing demyelination.
It's CIDP -- chro
nic inflammatory
demyelinating Polynesia.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, I really struggled
with birdshot chorioretinopathy,
which is what Anne Reid
had.
Not only do you have
arcus senilis,
you also have bi
rdshot chorioretinopathy.
-Is that good or bad?
-And I couldn't get it o
ut on the day,
and she laughed at me,
which is unprofessional of her.
But then -- But now I can sa
y it at the drop of a hat.
-And how he does it,
I don't know,
because Martin is just --
doesn't even hesitate on them.
-And actually, quite charmin
gly, we had a letter
from the Birdshot Chorio
retinopathy Society
saying, "Thank you for
shining a light on our disease.
Nobody can --
Nobody's heard of us
or can pronounce us."
-Do people come up to Ma
rtin and ask him for medical advi
ce?
-He gives it. -[
Laughs ]
-Without even being aske
d.
If someone's been gi
ven antibiotics,
he's, "What have
you been given?"
It's like, "You'r
e not a doctor."
[ Laughter ]
-We haven't had your fat
her in yet.
-Yeah, we have.
Kevin Doyle.
-Oh. What was wrong w
ith him?
-No, it was my mum.
She had something in them.
It was something else.
[ Both laugh ]
It came from us.
-But I healed her.
-Oh, yeah. -That's
the main thing. -Yeah, you sorte
d it all out.
Don't you worry. -[ L
aughs ]
-You see, we remember it
all really crystal clear.
-We were in Paris,
and there was a whole load
of middle-aged women
who went past and --
on these huge Segways
in the center of Paris.
And we just heard this s
cream, and she went flying into a
wall
just really hurt herself,
covered in blood.
And Martin just
turned into Action Man.
Went flying over the roa
d. [ Laughs ]
It's like, "What are you doi
ng?"
Bent down. So she was so
rt of semi-conscious,
and she just looked up and w
ent, "It's Doc Martin."
[ Laughs ]
♪♪
-[ Exhales ]
-Yep, that's it. The hear
t's got a rhythm.
♪♪
-This is the last ev
er "Doc Martin" read-through,
traditionally held in
Port Isaac's village hall.
-Get down from there!
-Dr. Ellingham!
[ Laughter ]
-But getting the scripts
to this stage
can take two years of wo
rk.
-On "Doc Martin," we
kind of bounce ideas
backwards and forwards
for stories,
for the series,
for the characters.
-I'll put an idea in
for an episode
or an idea for a medical
story.
I wouldn't necessarily write
it.
It might go to a
nother writer,
but it's quite a coll
aborative process. -I
t's very, very hard finding writ
ers who can write comedy,
not that we're full-on c
omedy, but who can write with wit
.
There's just not many wr
iters who can do that.
-No other show written
like this on British television.
Would take an awful long
time to write it.
And I think that shows
in the end product, I think.
-Because the scripts are
good, and that's gold dust
in this business.
You know, it's easy to pla
y somebody
who's got such an
overriding impulse,
which is simply
love of the doctor.
-I could just eat him
with a spoon.
-What's happened to your
face?
-My face?
Nothing.
Oh, unless you mean
my new lipstick.
I thought I'd try a
different shade.
-Right. -She gen
uinely believes
that they were meant to
be together and one day they will
.
-It says Martin on it.
-Yes.
-Martin. -Oh.
Thank you.
-It was a pleasure.
♪♪
-We came up with the idea
that Mrs. Tishell,
who is obviously a pharm
acist, was stealing her own medicatio
n,
which made her go a
little bit loopy,
and her already predispo
sition towards Martin got out of
hand.
-So, basically, there's
a drugged-up lunatic
on the run with your bab
y.
-We wanted for Martin
to finally be able to de
clare to Louisa that he loved he
r.
-And Martin does this big sp
eech at the end to Louisa.
But it was a really great sc
ene. It was a really great speech
,
brilliantly delivered
and brilliantly written.
-And I do hate Portwenn.
I hate the people,
their pinched faces
and their ridiculous acc
ents and their unerring knack
of catching any virus that c
omes within a 5-mile radius.
They spread contagion
like a bushfire.
But it's where I want to
be.
Because you're here.
Because of you.
Because if I'm with you,
nothing else matters.
What I'm trying to say i
s...
I love you.
-Oh, my God.
[ Baby cries ]
♪♪
I love you, too.
-Give me one last chance.
Please.
-That poor, deranged wom
an will probably throw herself
out of the window now
as an expression of her love.
-And thanks to great scr
ipts,
I have the privilege to
work with some fabulous actors.
-I think she's coming do
wn.
-I said to my husband,
"They've asked me to be in this.
Just have a look at one o
f them."
We put one of them on,
and we both finished,
and we both looked
at each other and said,
"It's lovely, isn't it?
It's so charming."
So he said, "Let
's have another one on."
And we sat and we watched
three all in a row.
And he said, "Well, I th
ink you'd be terribly silly
not to do this."
-Kenneth Cranham play
s Louisa's dad,
and his name is Terry.
Terry Glasson. -Glass
on.
I don't believe that nam
e at all, do you, Glasson?
-Well, that's what his n
ame is.
-Okay, fine. Ther
e we are.
-Deal with it. [
Both laugh ]
We've had Caroline Quent
in as a vet.
-You still need a licens
e, so pack it up.
-Pig. -What?
-Give me the pig.
[ Toy pig oinks ]
-Claire Bloom as Marti
n's mother.
-You would see me homele
ss, destitute,
cast out in the streets?
-Of course not.
-Well, thank you.
-I wouldn't see you.
I'd have no further cont
act with you at all.
-Ben Miller has been
in three series.
-Oh, Ben Miller, yeah.
Yeah, we've had great gu
ests.
-He wouldn't be able
to live with himself!
How would he live wi
th himself?!
-Vincent Franklin is in
this last series
and has been in the show
from the start.
-Listen.
I backed you coming here.
And I get him in and inte
rview him
'cause I think he'd be g
reat for this job,
or at least we'r
e desperate for G.P.s,
and he's better than nob
ody because he is a bit of a weirdo.
-I've told you, go away!
-All right.
-And then, of course,
there's Sigourney Weaver.
-Yeah.
-Well, Sigourney and I
have known each other
for 40 years plus,
and we're very,
very close friends.
-And Selina said, "Can S
igourney be in it?"
so I laughed, walked awa
y.
-And then Martin rang, s
aid, "Sigourney said she wanted
to be in it?
Do you think she really m
eant it?" I said, "Yeah,
of course. What is this, both o
f you?
Yes, they do. Th
ey both --
You both want each other.
You make it work.
So, we wrote a part,
and then she wanted
to come back and do it a
gain, and she was just delightfu
l.
-Just go away, please.
-We particularly wanted
to have a physical fight
because we thought
that'd be very funny.
-He thinks you're nuts, as w
ell.
You know that, right?
-No, that's a lie.
No, that -- We have
a very special relationship,
the Doctor and I. -In yo
ur dreams.
-No! Take that ba
ck.
-It's the truth. -It'
s not the truth.
-Deal with it. -N
o.
-Let go with me, you psy
cho!
-[ Screams ]
-Aah!
-It was great. I mea
n, I really had to go with her.
I really took a slug at
her.
'Cause she's trying
to get the doctor, I think.
What's not to like? Lots.
[ Laughs ]
-Then there are other
four-legged stars.
-Taffy, stay there.
-They need a bit
of direction from Martin.
-I like animals,
so it's always fun
to put lots of animals in.
Of course, we've got Bud
dy. I mean, unfortunately,
I had the episode where
Martin almost put Buddy down, as
well.
So I seem to get all tho
se sort of things.
-Come through.
This way.
-It was a rubber dog
last series.
Rubber Dodger. And I
did operate on him.
And that was quite --
[ Laughs ]
It was seeing this --
They'd made the thing
so beautifully,
and I could actually lit
erally cut the little dog's tummy ope
n,
and it would open,
and it would bleed slightly.
It was such an amazing p
iece. And poor Sonia
, Dodger's owner, when she came in
and she saw the little t
hing, she started crying.
[ Laughs ]
And it was very, very te
nse.
And Dodger was so good
in that whole story.
[ Chuckles ]
-This is Taffy. He is th
e new dog that's taken over
from the very experienced
old guy here,
Dodger, who's retired.
They're all rescue dogs.
So here they are, in
their Winnebago.
-Have you come to
see your friends?
[ Dogs barking ] -Shut yo
ur face.
[ Both laugh ] Ho
w are you?
-I'm fine, thank you.
-Oh!
[ Dogs barking ]
[ Laughter ]
-It just struck me as fu
nny that somebody
who didn't like dogs,
if they really liked him,
they'll follow him regar
dless of his loathing for them.
Hello, old boy.
-Anybody who seems
to come to Port Isaac
to watch the filming
brings their dog with them.
-If I want to find Martin
in a busy day,
I'll just follow the dog
s.
Because I know that at t
he end of all these leads,
he's going to be there,
and he always is.
-Yeah. -[ Laughs
]
-You can't stop filming.
-[ Laughing ] We
've lost him for a --
for a half an hour while he
says hello to all the dogs.
-A collie -- a co
llie springer.
-Martin certainly ch
arms the dog owners.
-You are very welcome.
Thank you very much.
[ Laughter ]
-But what is he actually like
to work with?
-Quite unbearable at tim
es, but...
[ Laughs ]
-She has a massive crush on the
doctor,
and everybody knows it.
-We're telling people
about the subtt
that we put about.
%
>> WHAT'S HE
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BUT
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I'M THINKING
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DEATH SITUATIONS.
THERE ARE
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ADDITIONAL DOGS,
DOGS THAT
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US A ng outside the surgery always dra
ws a crowd, but having all these peo
ple around can cause problems.
-This is a public highwa
y, and we can't close it.
So every five minutes, 20 pe
ople have to walk through.
And the more it happens,
the more cross and grumpy
I get with him,
and it's not his fault.
-When we're in the villa
ge working you'll --
you'll find people from
all over the world come to see y
ou.
It's like a Mecca.
Big Americans, Australia
ns. -Big Americans.
-They all say the same t
hing.
"Do you realize I've come
all the way from Australia?
And then you say, But th
en it's funny because then somet
imes.
-You get people who say,
We've come from Somerset,
and you realize, you think,
"Well, they've come
from Texas, mate," so...
-Priscilla and Gary,
and we're from Virgin
ia Beach, Virginia.
-And they've found thems
elves at the sort of end of Corn
wall
in this tiny little vill
age.
And they're -- they're j
ust so happy to be here.
-But it's so cool. Th
is is all real.
Like, this is real place.
-Hi. I'm Gloria Guyer,
from Cincinnati, Ohio,
and about six years ago,
I started a club called
the Bert Large Lovers Group.
But now we're up to almos
t 5,000 members.
And every Thursday night,
we have a dinner,
which Bert attends,
and every Sunday afterno
on, we have tea party.
-I just want to s
how you this book.
Because inside it, it
's got all these people
in America who have got
pictures of me,
and they've place them
in all sorts of places,
like in gardens, sausages th
ere.
-I feel like with Bert,
he's a type of friend
everybody would want.
If you said, "Bert, I wa
nt you to meet me at 3:00 a.m.
on the Platt.
Bring dynamite and candy
," he'd show.
-Bert's not the only
one with his own fan club.
There's a rival club
appropriately named
The Clunatics.
-I watched a show fr
om the first series
to the ninth series seven ti
mes.
And each time you watch
it,
you find something th
at you missed.
-Anita Bush.
-Iona Castle. -I
ona Castle.
-Helen Highwater. I
mean, you just go on and on.
-Nick DaSilva. -Y
eah, Nick DaSilva.
Scott Chase. "Sco
tch eggs."
-Scotch egg. -Ani
ta Bush?
-No, Doc, this is my mum.
-Iona Castle?
Go through. Helen Hi
ghwater.
Albert Ross?
-About time.
-Mr. Gleebles is next.
-He can wait. Sit do
wn.
-Sorry, Dan. -I had n
ever been abroad
until 2018.
I took a step, you know, that
I probably would have never done
had it not been for
"Doc Martin," Martin Clunes.
-In all honesty, I'm sure
if Martin Clunes
emigrated to America,
they'd make him the president.
'Cause they absolutely
love him out there.
They really do, you know.
-2% of people come to
Cornwall just because of "Doc Mar
tin."
That's been worth way
in excess of £100 million.
But another 7% say that
it's actually a great in
fluence on them coming.
So you can see that,
over a decade,
this has really been wor
th hundreds of millions of pounds
to the economy of Cornwa
ll.
-People come from across
the globe to Port Isaac,
as the U.K. series is no
w shown in hundreds of countries.
But some even make their
own and often, shot for shot,
just copy ours.
-You've got a problem.
-[ Speaking French ]
-What is your problem?
-[ Speaking Spanish ]
-Back in Port Isaac, Ian
makes the most of the many visit
ors.
-Ian charges for photogr
aphs
and collects an a
wful lot of money
for local charities
and the lifeboat.
-Well, he's got
a little bucket there.
"Oh, can we take your pho
tograph?"
"Well, you can, but I would
like something put in there,
and paper would be prefe
rable."
-This lady has just give
n us £20 for the lifeboat.
I think that's fantastic.
Absolutely. Than
k you very much.
-Like all the fans,
there's one person in particular
who doesn't want the
series to end.
-You have to st-a-a-ay!
Please!
-Mrs. Tishell is despera
te.
Only she can stop Doc Ma
rtin leaving Portwenn, she thinks
.
Back in frosty February,
the crew started planning
a complicated sequence
for the end of episode o
ne.
-This is where...Abigail?
Is that her name? Yeah.
Her car goes off the edge
and ends up hanging over
this bit of the edge here.
Is it safe to put the ac
tress in the front seat of the c
ar?
-Oh, yeah, that's fine.
-Yeah, oh, yeah.
-Did you get that?
[ Laughter ]
It's safe.
-The actor is Fay Ripley.
Luckily for her, she
won't be doing the driving.
Here's her stunt double
making final adjustments
on the day of filming.
And, yes, that is a wig.
-Are you happy?
Do you want to do one more?
-No, I'm happy with that.
-You're happy with that?
-Yeah. -Same side
.
[ Tires screech ]
-I worry about that car
going over with a stunt woman in
when there's a drop.
I really worry about tha
t. -The deal is, if they
-- they make sure I'm all right,
and I'll buy them a
beer tonight,
and then that's -- that
-- it all kind of works out.
[ Chuckles ]
-I don't want it to go too far,
but I don't want it
not to go far enough.
I want it just right.
-I know you do.
-It hasn't quite traveled
as far as we'd like,
so Nigel would like
the front door, driver's side,
to be sort of teetering
with a bit more jeopardy
over the cliff,
and we didn't quite get that.
So we're going to
have another go,
extend the cable slightly
further,
and hopefully this time,
we'll achieve a bit more
jeopardy, so...
[ Tires screech ]
-Hydraulically now,
we can tilt the car
using a remote mechanism
to exact angle we want.
So when we're shooting in th
ere, it's going to look like
the car is moving and ti
lting on the edge.
Hopefully. Maybe
it won't.
But then I'll lose my jo
b.
-When I got asked to sor
t of hang over a cliff,
I did check that I ha
d a legal will.
I then got very blase.
I've been having a cu
p of tea in there.
-He needs to get the tube
up her nose,
nose and kind of sort of
wiggle it to get it into positi
on.
-It's a trick that he --
only Doc Martin can do.
-Well, luckily,
that's who we have.
-But does it matter
if that's popping out my nose?
-Don't be difficult.
[ Both laugh ]
Use the other nostril.
[ Laughter ]
The other nostril's your
own. -[ Laughs ]
-I want my agent.
-[ Laughs ]
-And then he touches a b
ag to the other end of the tube,
which is helping her bre
athe. Because the myasthenia gra
vis
has stopped the muscles
of the diaphragm working.
-It means that all
the muscles associated
with breathing have stop
ped.
-And have you done this
in a car perched
on the edge of a cliff?
-Not often. -No.
-Have we mad
e this up?
-Yeah. [ Both lau
gh ]
-Because some of the dia
logue
doesn't really sort of w
ork with the...
with the physicality of
where we are and what we're doin
g.
-Am I getting notes on c
amera?
-[ Laughs ] It's
just not working,
what you're doing. -W
hat's going on?
-Really nearly -- -N
ow I got dead eyes.
-No, you can use --
[ Both laugh ]
Use the puffer bag.
-So we're just having
a little break for a lunch.
But of course, it's not a br
eak.
We're still working,
aren't we, Nigel?
-Are we? -We are. Wel
l, I am, anyway.
So, with a sequence like
this,
Nigel would have done
a shot list.
Nigel will also have
a storyboard that is done,
which is each shot that
we do.
-Caroline does all
this kind of paperwork,
so we know where the sho
t is so we can find things.
But most importantly,
everybody out there
is worrying about the li
ghting, worrying about the sound,
worrying about this
and that and the other.
She's my second pair of
eyes.
And somewhere in here,
in this extraordinary brain,
she's trying to keep
track of it.
In my opinion, we
have some of the funniest
and most creative actors
working today.
I mean, if you've got Se
lina, Mrs. Tishell,
you've got John Marquez,
or, you know, um --
-Martin Clunes.
-Martin -- Oh, is he in it?
-Yes. -Oh, God,
I keep forgetting.
And they're always
coming up with stuff.
-That's no good. Call
an ambulance.
-Martin's selling the fa
ct we're on a cliff edge here.
Just watch. So,
there's no cliff here.
But look, you kind of feel t
here is because he's selling it.
And, you know, that's wh
en you're really grateful
to the cast. -She's n
ot out of the woods yet.
-And if you think acting
is glamorous, if you think,
"Oh, I'll be an actor.
I get pampered.
It's all so easy." No
, you try spending a whole day
with a plastic tube
up your nose.
-Action.
-Another problem is that
when we shot Martin standing th
ere,
the sun was out.
When we shot this going,
the sun had gone in.
And we'll be able to
cut that car out
and place it within
that sunny shot of Martin,
and it'll be a seamless
car going over a cliff
on a sunny afternoon
in Cornwall
as opposed to a cloudy o
ne that we've ended up with.
-Once Nick and Nigel
have finished the edit,
it's over to Colin,
our composer.
[ Tense music plays ]
-When the car is hanging
over the cliff and they're insi
de
and trying to rescue the
lady to get her out,
you pointed out
quite rightly,
that I put a "Psycho" th
ing in there,
and it was quite "Psycho
."
-It was. -It was --
Because I was -- You can
imagine,
I'm trying to think, "Ho
w far do you push that drama?"
-On the count of 10
-10? -Right.
No. 5 would be b
etter.
It's much quicker.
Actually, now I think about it,
we could just do --
-Well, just do it now!
Ready? -Okay.
-Go!
-I know where we
're going with this.
And if I come off piste,
which I sometimes do --
I think, "Oh, I'll tr
y something" --
Philippa will say, "No,
come off.
You need to be over here
." So that's all good.
-A couple of moments I d
id where I was really pushing
too hard for a -- fo
r a comedy joke.
And, you know, I still c
ringe when I think about them.
So if an actor comes in
and starts doing
a big comedy performance,
I have to shut them down.
You know, just explain t
hat,
you know, "Watch Martin.
He can be incredibly funny,
but always you feel like
"He's the character."
-I think the thing about
Doctor Martin is,
he's terrible at small t
alk,
and he's fantastic at
the big talk.
But when you're in real
trouble and you ring him
because you are about to
drown,
he will drop everything
and come.
And we all need friends
like that, don't we?
You know? But what i
s, I think,
a real testament to this
show
is that most of this crew
I've worked with before,
and I don't mean last
time I was here,
but the time before that
and the time before that.
Because if you're happy,
if you're prepared to sp
end six months of your life
here, surrounded by t
his monstrosity of a place,
you sort of become
a little unit.
-It's not like some hide
ous showbiz family nightmare
where we're sort of g
oing to the Ivy.
It's like it's here.
You know what I mean?
We're at The Angry Ancho
vy for a good pizza
and a good bit of shouti
ng.
-Yeah, Wednesday
night quiz night.
-It's great because, you
know, we always win.
-Number 35.
What is P.C. Penhale's
police number that he wears
on his shoulder?
-No! -No!
-Come on, John! You
got to get this one.
[ Laughter ]
-I'll come to you in a m
inute.
[ Laughter ]
Number 31.
-How was it this village
became the right home
for "Doc Martin"?
-Well, Port Isaac we inherited
because of "Saving Grace."
But there was a time
when we went around Cornwall
looking for a new villag
e.
Came back to Port Isaac
and thought,
"It's just perfect
because it's the right size."
You get that amazing view
in the harbor.
-It has fantastic views,
fantastic light,
brilliant cliffs, and so
me fantastic architecture.
-When we write the scrip
ts,
think, "Well, yeah, it's
fine. It's good,"
and then you see the act
ors do it,
A, 'cause they're brilli
ant, so it always
brings the script to lif
e,
and then you see the bac
kdrop. Wow!
So we're very grateful
to this backdrop.
-But the village hasn't a
lways been happy
to be turned into a film
set.
-There was a couple of s
eries, it was a bit sticky, um...
But then I think once the
y got it realized
that it was a good setup,
it was --
it was kind of a two-way str
eet.
-There's always the smal
l -- a small contingent,
and there always will be
wherever you go filming.
You won't want film crews th
ere.
-So, Martin and Sandy
and one or two said,
"Well, look, tell
you what you do.
If the series makes mone
y, Port Isaac makes money."
-Buffalo set up a trust,
and they backdated it, as well.
They didn't have to do t
hat. You know, they showed willin
g
and an understanding, as
well.
-They stipulated when we
got it that it should be,
particularly for the old
and the young of the village.
-There'll always be
a fund in Port Isaac
to use for the children
for whatever they want to do.
-The show's unique look
is down to the skill
and artistry of o
ur production designers.
-Well, we're blessed
with Antony and Jane
because we just know
they are going to take care of
every detail.
I do tease them that the
re is a color called mouse back
that just tends to pop up
on every --
[ Both laugh ] Mo
use back.
-Well, we had to locate
our key characters' houses,
or in the case of the surger
ies, we looked at various places,
and we settled on the ho
use we've now used,
which is beautiful and h
as that view across the harbor.
-I rented it initially
off of a lovely couple,
and we did change their
lives.
They had to sell beca
use the amount of people
looking in the windows.
And I did feel feel guil
ty
for that because I did ca
use that.
-But, of course, it's
very small inside,
as most of the cottages
are in the village.
So we decided to build
a couple of the rooms,
and then over the years
and over the series,
we've increased it until we
built virtually the whole house
now upstairs, downstairs,
including the roof
for the Christmas special.
-All right, Leonard.
-We always have to work
with the village
and try and let
their normal life and working
flow as much as possible.
So there's many places
, particularly the chemist,
which in Port Isaac
is the fudge shop.
So we have to dress it
very quickly often,
and then redress it
and strike it
so it's always back
as fudge shop for the weekends.
-Because I know
we have changed the village.
I do know that.
And I do understand
that that's not
always a great thing,
but it won't go on forev
er.
I don't suppose that
it'll be that busy,
but I think it's --
it's been a good thing.
I think it's been a
good thing.
-Having local examples of pe
ople that have started as a runne
r
and worked through
to be juniors in a department
and work their way throu
gh is really,
really exciting for
those people.
-Yeah, my daughter
did a couple of years
work experience with
"Doc Martin."
-We're rolling!
-We're rolling! Quiet, please!
-And now she's a runner
in this series.
So, yeah, very happy.
-Certainly, it's
interesting as they know
we're going, real
feelings come out,
and the the warmth an
d the genero--
The people are being
so generous to us
and so appreciative of w
hat we've done for the village.
Now that we're going,
they can say it.
-So we leave. The vi
llage will miss us,
and I think we'll --
we'll miss the village.
Particularly the co-op.
[ Both laugh ]
It's a very good shop.
-For the finale of episo
de 3 in this series,
there are plans for Mart
in
to fall into a deep hole.
-So it's quite a complic
ated, layered operation
with stunts, special
effects,
us, actors, the whole ca
boodle.
-If he's super happy,
and he feels safe,
and he looks confident,
then Martin will do it.
-It's not a big fall.
It's just a matter of --
of landing safely.
-Should we look at one?
-Let's do it.
-Come on.
-You've got to take that
step as if you were just walkin
g
normally and selling tha
t, even though you know,
in the back of your mind,
you're gonna be falling.
-Yeah, yeah. -Now, if
you were to run,
you'd go in there.
-Can Martin -- -H
e won't be running.
-He'll be walking with i
ntent.
-I know, but that's
what I'm saying.
Just got to sort his intent
out. -He won't be running.
'Cause I know wh
at Martin's like.
-Jamie, how long does it
take to reset it each time?
-I reckon 30 minutes.
-Oh, wow.
-The guys will have to r
eplace the boxes if they get flattene
d,
and then we have to redr
ess the tarpaulin with the leave
s.
And we got three men in
the woods collecting bags of lea
ves
so we're ready to go.
-Man, if we get this don
e,
we can go down the beach
and have a swim.
-And then we can do the
hide while you're swimming.
We'll carry on working.
-Did you get that?
[ Both laugh ]
-And then this is the ne
t.
-This is -- -Yea
h. We changed one.
-Two, one.
-There you go. -W
hoa! That's great.
-Yeah, that's really goo
d. -Yeah.
And that's
just picking up.
Now you're on to
another rig.
-Right. -So, on
action,
it literally takes him u
p.
-Yeah. Just literally
...
-Stewart. -He's got
a knife.
I haven't!
Oh, hang on. Yes,
I have.
-[ Laughing ]
-Whoosh!
-I'm less concerned about
hurting myself
than making it look righ
t.
Do you know what I mean?
That's what --
But I suppose it's not l
ike a disposable kind of stunt
where we only get one go.
I can try and fall
in the hole better,
but it'd be a big setup.
You can do another take
while I'm in the ambulance.
[ Laughter ]
-We had some lovely weat
her the last few days,
but yesterday, it started
to get pretty dark,
and so it was very hard
for the focus pullers
to keep things sharp.
But Luke's doing a fine
job,
and I'm confident we
're going to get it.
-It's been a good week,
though.
We've got some great stu
ff, and, yeah, it should --
this sequence sh
ould just top it all off.
It's a nice way to finis
h.
Again, just as long as
the weather is kind to us.
-Raining. [ Chuckles
]
♪♪
-Stewart! -He's got
a knife!
-No, I haven't. -Oh,
sorry, yes, I have.
-Whoa! -Bloody he
ll!
-Oh, my God. -Doc
! Help!
[ Cracking, grunts ]
-Doc!
-I think I am the
least appearing regu
lar character
in the longest running T
V show.
-And the girls.
I mean, those girls are just
hanging out, gigg
ling all the time.
I mean, what is that abo
ut? -You're very perceptive.
-And you can see them
getting on really well,
and it's all going very
well until he says
that he's got his giant squi
rrel standing beside him.
-Antony, this is Doc Mar
tin. Remember, I was
telling you about him,
And then suddenly, of co
urse, he found himself
held prisoner.
Stewart is always ta
king people prisoner.
[ Gun cocks ]
[ Gunshot ]
♪♪
-Did you see that?!
The audacity!
-Some days, it feels like
I never left.
So it feels like sort of
time traveling 18 years.
Yeah.
-In the last week of
the shoot in each series,
we all get together
for a cast and crew photograph.
[ Cheering ]
This one is a special on
e.
We know it'll be our las
t.
[ Cheering ]
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We've had the weather,
as usual.
The difficulty of the lo
cation of getting all the gear
down there, Martin,
being such a difficult actor,
and, you know, su
ch a prima donna.
He didn't hear that, so.
.. -[ Laughs ]
We have the normal we
ather problems.
And in addition to that,
you have the tide.
We need to set certain
levels of...
[ Laughs ]
I've just been fired.
This is my P45.
-Feels very strange
for it to be finishing.
Um...
Particularly to be finishing be
cause I think my last scene
will be here, as well.
That's quite nice.
-It will be a sad moment.
It's Port Isaac, isn't i
t? Put it on the map -- worldwide
.
-And now we've reache
d the end.
-Late scene complete, gu
ys.
Caroline Catz and Eileen Atk
ins.
And Elliot. -See
n Pete?
-And Rupert and Taffy
and Willow and Betty
and all the kids. Gu
ys...
[ Applause ]
♪♪
-Little did I know when I wa
s on the interview panel
on the first scene,
and I said,
when we get to the end, I'd
like to be in the last seat.
So, this is it.
[ Both laugh ]
Yeah, 18, 19 years.
-I've been in every --
every episode,
every series, ex
cept the second one.
-Yeah. A shame that
it's coming to an end,
'cause -- 'cause it will
never happen again.
This will never happen a
gain. -No.
-Sad as we are, I wa
s thrilled to receive
an award from the sou
nd department.
And this is because
I rigged my own mic.
-Parts complete on
Ian McNeice, folks.
Angela, Buffy. -Liste
n up, guys.
-Imogen, Alice, and Rose
, guys.
That's some pretty
significant...
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We only live about 10 m
inutes
down the road from each
other, so...
-I'll never get
to see Robin again. -I'm
never gonna speak to her again.
[ Both laugh ]
♪♪
-I keep remembering it
every every 20 minutes.
I think, "It's the final
day."
But, yeah, it's quite --
quite significant.
-So now we're just waiti
ng for Monsieur Clunes
to do his Lexus work.
Other cars are available.
And then, we'll be --
I think the whole --
the whole team is wrapped.
The whole shoot is wrapp
ed. It's been a really --
-Forever and ever.
-Luckily, with a crack t
eam and the crew, as well,
we've managed to get it
done, I think,
and we're suitably and r
ightly ending with a shot of Mart
in
running butchly from his
car in a manner of an action her
o.
♪♪
-Drop out.
The end. Check it.
-Coming in, guys. Co
me in for a sec.
-Most of us aren't accep
ting this is the end.
We're waiting fo
r a Bert spin-off.
-Just want to thank ever
ybody for everything.
I'm gonna cry. I
couldn't think of
a better place to end ou
r very, very last scene.
And thank you all.
You're all fantastic.
We're going to miss you.
[ All shouting ]
-I'd like to do a bit
from "Riverdance," please.
[ Laughter ]
I can't add to that.
I know what each and
every one of you does,
and I really love the wa
y each and every one of you does
it.
So thank you from th
e bottom of my heart
for making this show suc
h a joy and a pleasure and a suc
cess.
Ta la!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, man. Man...
-Well, congratulations.
♪♪
-It's funny the things
that you, um...
-It's just, um -- it's --
it's emotional
walking through here
with it all...gone.
It makes me so emotional.
I think it's just because
everything that we built,
everything we started wa
s here, and it's all been taken
away.
It's really sad.
It's -- It's...
It really gets me. I
just...
-Oh.
-This is it. We'll ne
ver see it again.
-I'm okay with that.
-I know, you're fine.
-You cry at "Bri
tain's Got Talent,"
but you don't worry abou
t this. -[ Laughs ]
Because it's sort of exc
iting now.
It's exciting be
cause it's like --
Well, you have to tear
the circus down in order
to move it on to the nex
t town.
-But this circus has bee
n here for 18 years.
-I know. It's been a
long stay.
-It's just -- It
's very sad.
It's like taking your hou
se down.
That's what it feels lik
e. It feels like
demolishing your house.
It's all over.
%
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