Sunday: November 20

Published: 1:50PM Thursday November 17, 2011 Source: Sunday

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    James Blake, Sarah Jane Blake and Lady Pippa Blake sit together at Sir Peter Blake's memorial service. - Source: Getty Images
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Memories and secrets

A brand new pair of red socks lie by a headstone at a small seaside cemetery on the south Coast of England.

It is Sir Peter Blake grave and it is a shrine for many itinerant kiwis.

The grave is also just up the road from the home of Lady Pippa Blake.

Ten years after Sir Peter was cut down by river pirates in the Amazon Lady Pippa Blake talks warmly and sadly about her life and times with the yachtsman adventurer, how he saved her from anorexia, how she accidentally toasted herself under a sun lamp while trying to win his attention and how her life has moved on professionally and romantically.

We also hear from the Blake children, how James Blake "lost a hero that day" and how daughter Sarah-Jane still thinks dad is "just away on another adventure".

'Feeding the beast'

He has had us in stitches for nearly half a century, and now he claims to have fallen on hard times.

Seventy-two-year-old John Cleese has just been through a costly and acrimonious divorce - $20 million worth - so he's been forced back to the boards to make some money to "feed the beast", he says.

He even shows us pictures of his ex removing money from a London ATM, his money, he complains.

Cleese sits down with Ross Coulthard to discuss love, life, the ex and the real stories behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers.

'The punisher'

One minute Casey Heynes was a schoolyard victim, the target of constant harassment and bullying.

Next he was a You Tube sensation and pin-up for anyone who had ever been bullied.

One day Casey snapped and turned on his tormentor, picked him up and slammed him body into the concrete.

It earned him the title "punisher".

But that was nine months ago and these days Casey, the victim, has a message and a story to tell about the bullied and bullying.

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