WEBVTT 01:00.000 --> 01:26.080 Now my favourite memory I think about the smugglers was the fact that I should be playing 01:26.080 --> 01:32.400 a pirate on a pirate ship because I am the world's worst sailor. I turn pale green, I've 01:32.400 --> 01:39.520 only got to see a boat and I'm feeling a bit ucky. Anyway we set off in our pirate ship 01:39.520 --> 01:45.360 and the real skipper of the fishing boat, which was now disguised as a pirate ship, 01:45.360 --> 01:52.980 said he knew a nice quiet bay where we could do all the shooting. So off we set and unfortunately 01:52.980 --> 01:59.000 the water was not smooth, it was decidedly rough. I'd already got myself prostrate because 01:59.000 --> 02:07.200 I know I'm safe. If I keep flat I'm okay on the boat. But the other people who were less 02:07.200 --> 02:13.600 fortunate, Julia, the director, was being sick. The costume man, I thought he was going 02:13.600 --> 02:19.620 to throw himself overboard, he was so violent. And so she said, look let's just give up all 02:19.620 --> 02:25.720 this hope of shooting outside, let's go back to the harbour. Which we did. We could have 02:25.720 --> 02:31.240 shot it on any fish pond in the United Kingdom really and truly. But even then, I mean I'm 02:31.240 --> 02:37.160 so sensitive to that movement of the boat that even in the harbour I could just feel 02:37.160 --> 02:42.960 that gentle sort of up and down motion of the ship. But I managed to control myself 02:42.960 --> 02:51.000 and not spew all over my fellow artistes etc. Another little memory about the smugglers. 02:51.000 --> 02:58.840 When we did the studio filming at Riverside Studios, but it wasn't refrigerated the studio 02:58.840 --> 03:05.040 and I began to feel decidedly unwell sort of thing, you know, with the pressure of the 03:05.040 --> 03:11.300 job and all the rest of it. So they called a doctor. When the doctor arrived and my fellow 03:11.300 --> 03:16.560 artistes realised that she was a very attractive young lady, half the company decided I think 03:16.560 --> 03:22.600 that they were feeling unwell. But anyway she got me down onto a couch and proceeded 03:22.600 --> 03:26.920 to examine me and thought, oh dear yes you have got problems haven't you. Because she 03:26.920 --> 03:33.120 saw these terrible sweat strains in my armpits. I had to tell her of course it was the make-up 03:33.120 --> 03:38.480 department that had put them on, just to sort of give my character that real sort of unpleasant 03:38.480 --> 03:47.720 atmosphere. So that was my memory of the Riverside Studios. Another little memory, which again 03:47.720 --> 03:55.360 might seem trivial, was the fact that they smothered me in what looked like orange aid, 03:55.360 --> 04:02.520 which meant I had to have an exceedingly close bath every night. And that rather got on my 04:02.520 --> 04:08.600 wick rather, I didn't want to be smeared all over. But you will have seen no doubt the photograph 04:08.600 --> 04:16.000 of my having my tattoo being put on by the lovely BBC make-up department. That was quite 04:16.000 --> 04:24.140 enjoyable but not the washing. Just a little story about Derek Ware, who was responsible 04:24.140 --> 04:31.460 for all the fight arranging etc etc. And he at one time used to do a lot of private investigation 04:31.460 --> 04:37.840 into divorce cases etc. And he was commissioned by some wife to follow her husband, who she 04:37.840 --> 04:42.920 suspected was having an affair. So Derek got on the job, followed this man, the man went 04:42.920 --> 04:47.440 round the corner and Derek followed on sort of thing. Unfortunately the man was waiting 04:47.440 --> 04:56.480 for him round the corner and smacked him in the chops. 04:56.480 --> 05:02.120 Although smuggling was common in many coastal regions of England during the 17th to 19th 05:02.120 --> 05:08.120 centuries, it was most widespread in Cornwall, especially in the small towns and villages 05:08.120 --> 05:14.840 scattered along the south coast, where fishing and smuggling were the main activities. The 05:14.840 --> 05:20.640 Rocket coastline in this area has hundreds of small inlets and secluded beaches, capable 05:20.640 --> 05:27.060 of landing and if necessary storing contraband. The local workers' need to supplement their 05:27.060 --> 05:34.120 poor incomes meant smuggling was inevitable. There was a constant demand for cheap goods, 05:34.120 --> 05:42.600 especially tea, brandy, gin, rum, silks and tobacco. The tax levied on certain goods was 05:42.600 --> 05:51.120 so great that at one point tea could be bought in Europe for one sixth of the price in Britain, 05:51.120 --> 05:57.400 while French brandy was only one fifth of the price. Some sources say half a million 05:57.400 --> 06:04.360 gallons of French brandy per year was smuggled into Cornwall. The smugglers called themselves 06:04.360 --> 06:11.080 free traders and took a pride in their ability to outsmart the preventative or revenue men 06:11.080 --> 06:18.040 employed to catch them. Initially smuggling took place fairly openly, with cargoes landed 06:18.040 --> 06:24.760 on shore and transported inland by eager helpers. This was made possible by the involvement 06:24.760 --> 06:31.080 of all sections of the community, from the local landowner to the poorest peasant. The 06:31.080 --> 06:37.080 involvement of high ranking members of society would range from turning a blind eye to full 06:37.080 --> 06:44.880 scale involvement. The phrase, the coast is clear, dates back to the days of smuggling, 06:44.880 --> 06:50.880 when locals would signal to the approaching boats that there were no revenue men around 06:50.880 --> 06:58.420 by walking a white pony along the cliff top or some other pre-defined signal. The revenue 06:58.420 --> 07:04.160 men were under-resourced and could not patrol the huge expanse of coast. Often they were 07:04.160 --> 07:11.080 so poorly paid that they either joined the smugglers or took bribes. However, from around 07:11.080 --> 07:18.400 1800 the revenue men became more organised and proactive. The smugglers had to adopt 07:18.400 --> 07:24.160 a more clandestine approach, dropping cargoes at sea or in sheltered coves to be picked 07:24.160 --> 07:30.980 up later when the coast was clear. This period saw the increased use of tunnels and passages 07:30.980 --> 07:37.120 dug out of the rocks, from which contraband was transferred to south coast towns such 07:37.120 --> 07:44.160 as Loo, Palparo and Covarec. For all of the legends and stories, most smugglers were said 07:44.160 --> 07:50.360 to have been more concerned with feeding their families than making fortunes. The risks, 07:50.360 --> 07:57.160 however, were high. Smuggling activities led to a minimum penalty of transportation to 07:57.160 --> 08:05.640 colonies such as Australia, though often the penalties were much more severe. Robert Lang, 08:05.640 --> 08:11.760 a smuggler from very young, is recorded as being hung at the crossroads at St Mawes as 08:11.760 --> 08:17.320 an example to others. 08:17.320 --> 08:22.120 Having overcome the threat from Wotan and the war machines, the Doctor has returned 08:22.120 --> 08:27.960 to the TARDIS in Fitzroy Square in London, after saying goodbye to his new friends Ben 08:27.960 --> 08:52.960 and Polly. The Doctor sets the TARDIS controls to dematerialise just as Ben and Polly enter.