Over the next 30 minutes we will bring you some exclusive interviews and original reports that we have broadcast over the last 12 months. Earlier this year we reported on how police Risk Assessment forms were used against predominantly black music artists. Form 696 was used as a Risk Assessment for certain concerts but, as explained, the events targeted seem to attract similar audiences. We dont question it any longer. We just know they try to shut us down. There should be a review of the whole 696 process. So would you say that form 696 is racist . Yes. It is a big tidal wave of. Positive things. Thats why im not complaining. It is all great, its all blessings. Stormzy hit number one with his debut album gang signs and prayers a few weeks back and broke records, including racking up the most first week streams for a number one album in chart history. Attention is so strong on grime right now that when he freestyles about the brits failing to acknowledge any one from it in 2016, the brits bosses called him in and changed their voting structure. Grime has exploded. It has absolutely exploded. Theres been a massive explosion in consumption and the retention rate of people coming across the grime shutdown platform and people searching for grime artists. Someone like skepta or stormzy, they get several million streams per month. I would say grime is like a musical representation of london street culture. So fast tempo, high energy, theres attitude, there is culture, its fashion and the way we speak. All rolled into that 140 bpm electronic dancehall inspired fusion. You have got to listen to it. You need to experience it before you fully understand what it is. One way to experience grime, like all genres of music, is by going to a gig. But people in the industry say that this form, used in london and known as the metropolitan polices Promotion EventRisk Assessment form 696 is stopping those experiences and targeting music like grime. Because djs and mcs performing to a backing track have to fill out this form and that can be things like garage, r b, grime. Predominantly music enjoyed and performed by black people. Other genres like pop or rock do not have to fill out a special Risk Assessment form and even though it is voluntary in theory, those who do have the fill it out, feel obliged. There was an idea that you could identify in advance potential issues. Would you say that form 696 is racist . If an artist seems to have a following where there are a lot of incidents. Or if an artist is seen as proclaiming. Encouraging a certain kind of dynamic with different groups or gangs coming together, they are seen as a problem and are then identified. I think that is a way that people see the 696 form can work to prevent those things. People get into habits and they start hearing certain things and then they think that this music means that there will be more problems because it will mean these types of people. The form is not racist, the form is a form. Sad to say, but i do feel it is. In my experience, when it is predominantly black people, without fail, the 696 form comes out and we have to do it. Ive done shows that are not predominantly black people and i dont have to do the form, when i am performing in 0ceana, it is mainly middle class or upper class white kids. Certain unis, certain cities, certain areas dont have to do the form at all. That is a form of racism to me. Its the wording of the form. It is implicitly explicit, if that makes sense. Your genre is targeted because you know a certain demographic will be listening. You have not written anything about any other type of demographic. They can say it is not racist but it is definitely targeted and that is the equivalent. Lets be clear on how form 696 is supposed to work. You want to put on a gig featuring stormzy. He is an artist that would emcee spit bars rap to a backing track, as specified by the form. We need details venue, promoter, name of event, his real name, date of birth and address. That is then sent to the metropolitan polices Central Licensing Team and the met told us they do research with the information received. They would not go into detail but it is likely to include criminal background checks. The met then grade that event. Those gradings can go from low to medium to high risk. Again, police would not tell us what constitutes a high, medium or low event. Medium or low risk event. That grade is then sent to the venue and to the local Licensing Police unit and according to the metropolitan police it is thenup to the venue or a promoter or the local Licensing Police unit whether to cancel the event. Last year, a club in croydon london hit the headlines after it was revealed that through form 696, police had told the owner to ban bashment, a form ofjamaican music. I received this letter from them and it said that bashment is an unacceptable form of music and if we continue to play it we would literally risk losing our business. We were told that bashment may attract the wrong type of people. I dont think they wanted to see too many black people coming into the town centre. At the time, police disputed that was the case and the club has remained open after many local people protested. Since our report on the controversial form, the met police have announced they will scrap it. If you have a story you think we should cover, get in touch. You can e mail our programme victoria bbc. Co. Uk. Next, we head to a place that has effectively decided to ban muslims and gay people. In february we travelled to southern hungary where the mayor of the village there speaks openly about his plans to create a utopia for white people. We exclusively revealed how members of the far right in britain appeared to have taken an interest in the place. Asotthalom, a village on the southern hungarian plains, just minutes from the serbian border where in 2015, 10,000 migrants a day crossed into hungary. The village population is declining. And homesteads stand vacant. The mayor here wants to attract Foreign Investors but not just any foreigner. Translation we primarily welcome people from western europe. People who would not like to live in a multicultural society. We would not like to attract muslim people in the village. And what if i was black or gay . How would you feel . Translation asotthalom has a bylaw that bans homosexual propaganda. We adopted it a few weeks ago. As for your other question, think about this. Europe is small. It can not take in billions of people from africa and south asia where there is a population boom. This will lead to a disappearance of europe. I would like europe to belong to europeans. Asia to belong to asians and africa to africans. As simple as that. He is so serious he has introduced local legislation banning public displays of affection by gay people, the wearing of islamic dress like the hijab, and he wants to ban the building of mosques. And his views are being pushed by a British Organisation called Knights Templar international. The former British NationalParty Leader Nick Griffin is a member, and the group is advertising smallholdings for sale in asotthalom. Hungary is already seen by more and more west europeans as a place of refuge, a place to get away from the hell that is about to break loose in western europe. There two muslims in asotthalom. One agreed to speak to us but at the last moment pulled out. They did not want to attract attention to themselves. They have spoken of their fears to hungarian media in the past but other villagers reject the laws are huge concern. However, they are the talk of the village pub. Translation important issues like this should be regulated by the national government, not local legislation. Translation if they take off their veil, i will accept them. It does not even matter if they are black. They should become hungarian citizens, even if they are muslims or whatever. Are you trying to create a white supremacist village . I dont use this word white but because we are white european christian population, we want to stay this, like this. If you want to watch all of our reports in full, you can do so on our website. Successive governments in the uk have all made similar promises about wanting to make britain more of a place where it is easier for people from disadvantaged backgrounds to get ahead. As our reporter who was taken into care as a boy and grew up in three different foster homes before his 18th birthday, explains, there is little support in britain for those with a less than fortunate start in life. I left care when i was 18 and i moved into a councilflat on this street. I am quite nervous because i have not returned here for five years. It brings back some emotion. This is the flat i moved into when i left care and had to fend for myself as an adult. I can see the flat. It is a little crazy. Gosh. I am wondering what the heck . I had to live independently, by myself, without a family as a care leaver. The most difficult weekend of my life was when i had 37p to live off for a weekend and all i could afford was an onion and i had a little tuna and i made pasta tuna and lived y myself. And i had a little tuna and i made pasta tuna and lived by myself. I know i was not alone in finding it difficult to leave care, especially when it comes to money. Research suggests that well over half of care leavers struggle to pay bills and avoid debt. That is why, as of this month, some councils have decided to stop charging Care Leavers Council tax until they are older. In reality, only a small number of care leavers will benefit. The councils who are doing this hope it will ease the sudden transition into adulthood. Do i get a handshake . Tiffany was taken into care on Christmas Eve when she was five. Growing up, she was moved 15 times all over the country. Tell me about when you left care. They officially went thats it, we no longer need to contact you. You have hit an age where you can live independently. Off you go into the world. There was not a lot of preparation for that. Oh, its my bank. Do you know what it says . We regret that you couldnt make payment. Could i read that . Do you mind . How much are you in debt . About £2000 across different companies. Council bill is the worst one. It goes out of control. Does it feel like home . Yeah, it is my little safe haven. This is my place that nobody can take away from me. Jodie was taken into care when she was eight and left when she was 20. She had a happy foster home. She was upset to leave but says she was also excited at the prospect of being independent. How did you cope with the pressure of being an adult rent, bills, council tax . Denial. A lot of denial. Every person has to deal with it. Some councils have decided to scrap council tax for young care leavers. Do you think this is a measure that will help . Yeah, ido. It gives them the chance to adjust. Some may say why should care leavers benefit from this but not other Vulnerable People in society . Other people who come from a normal family have their parents to borrow 20 quid from and other people dont. Often i have literally had nothing in the cupboard because i had no money left to purchase food. Next described as some of the most engaging coverage of the general election, we took two celebrities with opposing views out on a blind date, to put serious political debate in an everyday setting. The series showed that, in an increasingly polarised world, where debate is often black and white, there can be nuance and even consensus amongst people on opposite sides of the spectrum. We shined the silverware, polished glasses and invited them to lunch. An election blind date. I interpret feminism of saying quite simply women can do what they want to do and not be told not to do by a man. That is simplistically. So if they want to take their clothes off. They can do anything. It is not a matter ofjust being beautiful, theyve got to be smart. And what they do is entirely up to them, within the scope of the law. Then even gone on from this wonderful career start to make money at your level. No, no, of course, they dont, but they make their money and then they go into their own businesses. These people are young entrepreneurs themselves and they are going forward, they come from all round europe. This is one of the reasons, of course, im a remainer, of course. So you can get girls to take. Peter, this is wonderful. Can ijust slightly parody you and say im a remainer because i want all those nice Eastern European girls to come and take their clothes off in my club. No, i like all those european people to come and earn money in my club. The english are more than welcome, too. I have no reason to think that you are anything other than sincere. What i would challenge is your kind of what i would say was a simplistic notion that feminism is about what women want to do, because the whole point, it seems to me, about womens choices is that they are deeply determined by a whole range of sexist structures. What youre saying to me is. That do not have a free choice. Its what women want, provided you agree with it. No, no. Thats what youre saying. No, im not. It would be very interesting to talk to some of your girls and perhaps one day i will get a chance. Can i ask you something now . Isnt it just that they are too old . Why do you think they would talk to you . Why, because you feel theyve got to . No, no. Would you go up to somebody in the street and go, excuse me, id like to know why are you cleaning the streets, why are you painting, why are you driving the truck . Maybe this bbc thing can set it up. Let me just tell you something off camera here, you are quite a pretty lady. Get that on camera get in on camera. Call me inconsistent. Maybe you are not photogenic but here to here, you have a great smile, youve got lovely sparkly eyes. I am what i am. I have had a lot of major run ins with people who are really saying to me, look, darling, you are grey haired, why dont you dye it . Cant you do something about your teeth . Please make yourself look prettier for us, if you are going to invade our living rooms. Its another world to me, mary. I dont know that world. I dont know the world of people who would say that to you. I dont know those kind of people. But dont you think, in a way, that you underpinned it . It is a very different world for a man with grey hair than for a woman with grey hair. What are you saying now . You look kind of gloriously distinguished. Hit me with it. Slightly hunky. Im good looking. Fantastic. Of course, everybody is, in a way. If you are a woman with grey hair, you are constantly told that you should do something about yourself. Now, you might say that has nothing to do with your business but i would say that you have to look to what underpins and justifies that particular way ofjudging women. And one of the things that underpins it is in your girls in your clubs, who actually really embed or represent, if you like, a normative view of female beauty. No. In which i dont fit. Ive got to say no, mary. Ill answer it for me and men in general as best i can. Sadly, you have bumped into some weird people. The men i know will judge young women oh, shes beautiful, i like red hair, white hair, blonde hair, small boobs, big boobs you name it for a little while, but the women do the same to men. I like a guy with tattoos, i like a guy with no hair, i like a guy with hair. Look at me, im 76, im coming up to 77 shortly, ive got two young babies three and a half, one and a half a gorgeous, ex ballerina, beautiful wife at 35. 3a i hope i got that right and i get judged. Oh, my god, shes only with him for the money. Rubbish. Do i care . Does my wife care . No. Im not. We are not talking about a world in which nobodyjudges anybody else but you cant stop there. You tend to stop your analysis too quick. How does power, influence, money, aspiration, relate to those ideas of judgement. Someone like me has grown up. I look at you and i dont get that at all. Grown up looking at the tele, at wrinkly old guys. Im taking this personal. At wrinkly old guys, just like you i quite like wrinkly old guys but im looking at wrinkly old guys and im looking at young women with blonde hair. Women over 50, one of the commonest things that they say is i feel invisible now. We judge. Everything, we judge cars, we judge everybody. We judge shoes, we judge clothes. It is no good saying that. Dont tell me you havent judged my outfits. I bet. Where in the hell did he get that from . Yes. Ijust want to say. I would love to teach you, peter, and i would love you to take you in my study and id like to set you an essay to write and id like to have a good, real barney about it. Im older than you, arent i . Yes. A lot older. Yes. And therefore i know more than you. I have lived longer, i have had more experience than you. Your experience is quite limited. Mine is massive. You have no idea how limited my experience is. I talk about extending my experience. When i say, id be quite interested to talk to some of the women who work in your club and you say, why do they want to speak to you . I didnt say that. You sort of said that. No i didnt. I didnt say that at all. You can watch the full blind date between Peter Stringfellow and mary beard and others, including toff and jack monroe, on our website. Finally, we had a number of a listersjoin us on the programme through the year. From the world of sports, politics and showbiz. Including kim catrall, best known for playing samantha in sex and the city. She is campaigning for better roles for older women, saying ageism is rife in the acting world. It is such a diverse range of roles you have played but you say, actually now, the best roles for you are in europe, working in europe. Why is that . Well, i think that europe knows what to do with women of a certain age. More than america does. And part of it i think isjust because america is a younger country, its youth oriented. So i have been lucky enough to have been born here. My family is all here so when i come over and work, i feel there is a support there. I now have a lot of friends in the uk so it has been really my second home for the past almost 20 years now and im so happy to be here. I love doing theatre. It is just part of peoples lives here, its not like an occasion or a spectacle like it is for a lot of people in america. It is a special occasion. Here, its. You know, you go to the theatre, thats just what you do. I do not do musicals. I do straight theatre and mostly classical theatre and theres a huge audience for that there and also the directors and the set designers and the companies, the theatre companies. They are really the best in the world. It does not make sense that a whole continent can find roles for older women and a whole other continent cant. Part of it is there are just fewer roles. Im not ready to play someone who is grotesque, either from being thought of as just a very, very older woman at 60, 61, this year, which i am not, and i do not feel that way. I just feel that theres very few roles to begin with and those roles are either in two categories of someone wanting to be young in a desperate way or someone who has given up. That is why i do not depend on hollywood forjobs any more, that is why i became an executive producer. I found a property almost ten years ago and i thought, this is a character i have never seen on screen. Its a woman who is not a victim, she is not dying of cancer, but she is at a point in her life where shes saying, what now . You know, my roles as a mother are changing, my son has left and my husband and i are sort of disconnected at this point in my life, but i have 30, a0 more years of life ahead of me, who am i now . Those are questions that women my age which is a huge audience out there which i rally want to say to networks, you are missing a big opportunity. The baby boomers are the biggest generation and we need entertainment. We really do and i want to provide that. Thanks so much for watching. We are back live onjanuary 8th. In the meantime you can watch all ourfilms again, all our interviews on our programme page. If you are out and about early this thursday morning, bear in mind that conditions could be slippery out there. Frost and ice to contend with where we had wintry weather during wednesday and that clears away. Then the sky cleared overhead and thursday starts off with the risk of ice. There are still wintry showers exacerbating the risk across some northern and western areas. Freezing fog developing across parts of Northern Ireland as well perhaps, and if that fog develops it could linger through the day. For most of us, thursday is a cracking day. Plenty of sparkling winter sunshine. A closer look at three oclock in the afternoon. Despite the sunshine through the midlands, central southern england, temperatures will only reach three degrees, possibly hitting five in london. Kent into east anglia, a much drier day with a lot of sunshine. Fine for the bulk of Northern England. A few showers drifting across north west england, fading as the day goes on. Sunshine across much of scotland butjust a couple of degrees. Wintry showers still in the far north. Any fog that develops early across Northern Ireland could stick through to the end of the day. Sunny skies for the most part. Fine for much of wales and for the bristol area. Somerset and dorset into devon. But for cornwall a change. Cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain. It will not amount to much as we go on into thursday evening. Thursday night will be another cold and frosty one for the majority. The odd fog patch as well. But then things begin to change from the west. Rain flooding in from the atlantic, running into that cold air and that could temporarily give snow to Northern Ireland, wales, the midlands and during friday proper, Northern England and southern scotland could see some snow, even to fairly low levels. Still a lot to play for with the details on that and we will keep you posted and up to date. To the north of the weather system is still cold and to the south is much milder. 10 degrees there in the far south west. As we go on into the weekend, that mild weather will increasingly make its presence felt. The frontal system bringing rain and perhaps some hill snow in the north through the early part of saturday and then once it leaves we are left with fairly brisk and mild south westerly wind. Some showery rain, spells of sunshine as well. Mild in the south but still cold air holding on further north. That mild airedging northwards as we enter sunday. Still some showery rain and spells of sunshine as well. That is all from me. 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