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00:00This is not a game. This is a 12-week job interview. Never, ever, ever, underestimate me.
00:1414 people came to London in search of a job.
00:18I don't like liars. I don't like cheats. I don't like bullshitters. I don't like schmoozers. I don't like arse lickers.
00:34They've come to battle it out for a job with Sir Alan Sugar.
00:37I would have told you to piss off.
00:39Tough and uncompromising, Sir Alan is at the top of his game with a global empire worth £700 million.
00:48He's offering one job with a six-figure salary.
00:52I'm going to fucking win this night if it kills me.
00:55To get it, they'll have to work and live together and face a weekly business task.
01:01You can't fucking fire me. Do you feel the pressure is building?
01:04This is the ultimate job interview.
01:06You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.
01:18Last week on The Apprentice...
01:20Now, what can I do for you?
01:23Sir Alan turned the candidate's attention to charity.
01:28I've lined up ten celebrities.
01:31You're going to have to use your negotiating and persuasive powers to get something good out of them that we're going to auction.
01:39James' team studied badly, with Sebastian forgetting the name of the charity.
01:43Ben's team negotiated hard from the start.
01:49I will give you a table for four people at London's most difficult restaurant to get here.
01:53Is that the Ivy?
01:54Namely the Ivy.
01:55On the night, the auctions went head to head.
01:58That's sold! 2,600.
02:00Thank you very much.
02:01James' team were confident.
02:04Wow.
02:05But they weren't prepared for their rival's final item.
02:09In the boardroom, the losers had to face Sir Alan.
02:19Perhaps we were a little bit naive in some of the choices that we made on some of the celebrities.
02:25You made a poor choice. Is that what you're saying?
02:27Sebastian, I mean, I've got the feeling you kind of spend too much time on the sidelines.
02:32I find I learn a lot more by listening than I do by talking.
02:34There comes a time when you have to kind of come in for the kill.
02:37James chose Raj and Sebastian to join him in the firing line.
02:42People are perfectly blunt about it.
02:44You're all as bad as each other in this task.
02:46Sebastian, you're the one that's worried me most today.
02:49It's with regret that I'm going to tell you that you're fired.
02:53Sebastian became the seventh casualty of the boardroom.
02:57Now only seven remain to fight for the chance to become the apprentice.
03:02At the house, the candidates wait for the survivors to return.
03:11All right.
03:14As a joke, they've planned a low-key reception.
03:16I've never got round here.
03:18I've never done it for us.
03:19Seriously underwhelmed, everybody, yeah?
03:21Yeah, underwhelmed.
03:22God, that's really hard for me.
03:23I know, it's really hard for me.
03:25That sounded like the door, guys.
03:29All right, thanks.
03:30All right.
03:31How's it going, Raj?
03:32Hello, guys.
03:34Yay!
03:35We've had to have the house under reception.
03:38I mean, I've only had a fucking crack at Raj.
03:41Did he?
03:41Oh, that was the most heated out of the three.
03:45I think he is quite right in our assessments of what we're doing and how we're performing.
03:49He looks like he's just a gruff kind of bang on table, but he's properly telling you can't underestimate him.
03:54This week, Sir Alan has a plan to get the candidates out of the city.
04:01He's come up with a task which takes them back to grassroots.
04:11Over three hectic days, they'll become food manufacturers, buying raw ingredients and transforming them into wholesome produce to sell at a farmer's market.
04:23These markets are springing up all over the country, giving the public the chance to meet the people who make their food.
04:31But for now, the candidates have no idea what the task will be.
04:35They're awaiting instructions from Sir Alan.
04:38Who's getting it, Tim?
04:51Hello?
04:51Francis here from Sir Alan's office.
04:53Hello, Francis.
04:54The cars will be coming to pick you up in ten minutes.
04:57Do you want the good news or the good news?
04:59What?
05:00The cars will be coming up in ten minutes.
05:01Fucking hell!
05:03To keep the candidates guessing, Sir Alan instructs them to meet at his computer assembly line.
05:12Good afternoon.
05:18Good afternoon.
05:19Now, you see these bits and pieces here?
05:23This, for example, is a microprocessor with a fan, a hard drive, a power supply.
05:29They've all got a value in their own right, but they don't have any functionality in their own right.
05:34And what we have to do is put them all together, and what we get is one of these.
05:44And this is a classic example of adding value and making it into a product which is then saleable so we can realize the value of these parts here.
05:54The task today is, eventually, you having two sales positions in a farmer's market.
06:01You're going to have to negotiate with the farmers for raw produce, and then you're going to have to add value to that raw produce and put it into a format so that it's saleable.
06:13The team that makes the most profit and adds the most value will win.
06:18And the team that doesn't, one of you, is going to get fired.
06:24The candidates are back at the house and have divided into teams.
06:32Last week's winning team, Impact, has an extra person.
06:37The first decision everyone must agree on is who the leaders will be.
06:42Do we want to get the project manager out of the way?
06:45Any burning desires?
06:46Happy as always, but...
06:48I'm happy for Ben to do it, if he is happy to do it.
06:54Because, to tell you the truth, the only task we've done was the last task, and it just went absolutely spot on.
07:00I think you'd be brilliant.
07:02Yeah.
07:02Professional headhunter Ben gets hunted.
07:05He will be the boss.
07:07I'll do it. It's OK.
07:08Great.
07:09You sure?
07:09Last week's losing team, First Forte, don't have to decide on a leader.
07:16Raj has put himself forward.
07:18Before the task was actually given to us, I decided that I'll be project manager.
07:22And when I heard the brief, I thought, bloody ill.
07:25This is not something that I would enjoy being project manager for.
07:28And basically, autumn, to me, means soup.
07:31It means jams and chutneys.
07:33I mean, this is where we've got to start thinking very analytically.
07:36Yes.
07:37Let's think ballpoint.
07:38Let's start putting figures down against this.
07:40Let me tell you, handmade jams, they go for three, four pounds.
07:43That's in Sainsbury's.
07:45So if you're looking at handmade jam, you know, you could be talking that kind of money.
07:50Let's keep thinking ideas.
07:51It's got to be fairly simple and quick to prepare.
07:54It's got to be fairly easy to transport and to store.
07:57To everything you've just said, I would say soup.
08:01I think we're talking vegetables.
08:03I really think we're talking vegetables.
08:05And I think we're talking vegetables in terms of a chutney.
08:08Peppers, onions, tomatoes, apples, sugar.
08:11The question for us will be, you know, what's going to be value added?
08:15I don't know why we're skirting around the subject.
08:17This is where we've got to be aggressive.
08:19Chutney, let's do it and let's go on with it.
08:22The decision's been made for Raj.
08:25But Ben's team has come to more of a consensus.
08:28I like the soup I do as well.
08:30Yeah.
08:30Because, you know, we're going to be able to sell soups in the day.
08:32We could probably do breads.
08:33Do cold soups and hot soups.
08:34We could then sell package soups as well.
08:39In nice, attractive, plastic package things.
08:43I think this is going to be a good task for us.
08:46Because we know what we're doing as a team.
08:49We are a man up.
08:51We beat them comprehensively, last task.
08:54They are going to feel dejected, notwithstanding also that every single task that we've had up till now, the team with the most people has won.
09:04Cheerio, gang.
09:06I'm going to miss you.
09:07The teams will be based in kitchens in rural Barkshir, so they'll stay in the country for the next two days.
09:15Each kitchen will effectively become their factory.
09:20Ben's soup-producing team is based at a game suppliers near the village of Pangborn.
09:25Before you go in, Tim, when I was young, me and a mate of mine had a brilliant idea that we were going to make sandwiches, go to building sites and flog them.
09:36We didn't make fuck all money.
09:37By the time we bought our bread and our filling and our this and our that, it was gone.
09:42And we thought, you know, it must cost like 10p to make a sandwich and flog it for two quid.
09:46It cost us like 80p to make a sandwich, not including petrol or anything.
09:49So we've got to bear in mind that these ingredients, you know, we're not going to be making tons of dosh.
09:54Exactly, we've got to...
09:55Well, that's why I said go for the frozen stuff that's cheap and the 45p.
09:59You don't have to put a lot of the meat in there.
10:01As long as the summer, when you get to sleep, you don't get big pieces of meat in it.
10:04You just get a taste of it.
10:05That's it.
10:06Each team has a float of £750 to spend as they wish.
10:11I'm just very conscious that we don't want to end up with waste because this whole thing's about profit.
10:16It's not about spending all our seed money.
10:18Because if we spend £500 and we only take £300, we've made a loss.
10:22But if we spend £200 and still make the same £300 without wasting anything, then we've made £100 profit.
10:27Sure.
10:27That's huge, too.
10:29And Sir Alan does not like waste.
10:31Absolutely.
10:32Sir Alan's observer, Nick Hewer, will follow Ben's team throughout the task.
10:37If we sell 150 pre-packed cartons at £1.95, because that's what Waitrose said.
10:45It's got to be more than that.
10:45So it's got to be more than £1.95?
10:47It's got to be more than £1.95.
10:48They can buy it from Waitrose at £1.95.
10:49This isn't Waitrose.
10:52Well, that much.
10:53It's not anywhere near as good as Waitrose.
10:56We don't know what the hell we're doing.
10:57But then what we're tapping into is that people are coming to a farmer's market and they're
11:01going for quality.
11:02Yeah.
11:02We're saying quality, British produce, it's got to be more than that.
11:08Raj's team arrives at their farm kitchen.
11:11They are.
11:12They're lovely.
11:13James is busy making new friends.
11:15Oh, look, they're all staring at me now.
11:16I love you.
11:28Thank you, donkeys.
11:29Oh, I love you guys.
11:31Brilliant.
11:32You can't stand there braying all day.
11:34There's work to be done.
11:35Oh, I'm loving this kitchen.
11:37Oh, fabulous.
11:38They found Nancy, a chef based at the kitchen, and decide to pick her brains.
11:43Right.
11:44Hello.
11:44Hi, I'm Raj.
11:45Hi.
11:46Hi, Nancy, I'm Syrah.
11:47Lovely to meet you.
11:48Hi.
11:48Good to meet you.
11:49Now, none of us have any clue, really, on chutney.
11:53I've eaten it.
11:54I really like it.
11:55When you've made it, most of them have to wait three months before they can be eaten.
11:59We do realise that.
12:00Okay.
12:01Three months.
12:02Or a month, three months, depending on what recipe you're using.
12:04Normally it's there as a recipe.
12:05We do realise that.
12:06Okay.
12:07However, at this stage then, do you think there is something else that we could do that's
12:14quick and easy that is not on this list and that we can buy for 5p and sell for four pounds?
12:20I do.
12:21You could do jellies.
12:22Right.
12:23We could do, um, we've just done elderberry jelly at a, you know, sheep-drink agaic farm.
12:28We've done crab apple jelly.
12:31Right.
12:32Are they, are they, are they, are these things in demand and popular?
12:34Are they sellable, basically?
12:35Mm.
12:36Yeah, definitely.
12:37Margaret Mountford, Sir Alan's other observer, is keeping track of Raj's team.
12:43They've been advised by Nancy to make a range of preserves, including onion marmalade, jelly
12:48and a fast-maturing chutney.
12:50The other thing is, we haven't asked you yet, is, um, we are not cooks.
12:55Right.
12:56So, would it be possible if we obviously ask you how much it's going to cost for you to
13:00help us do this tomorrow?
13:01Oh, right, okay.
13:02Is that all right?
13:03Yeah, that's fine.
13:03Would you be available?
13:05Yes.
13:06Brilliant.
13:06Can I ask how much you charge?
13:08It would be £50 an hour.
13:10Right.
13:11How negotiable are you on the £50?
13:13I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why, she's not.
13:16She's not at all?
13:17No.
13:17Nothing at all?
13:18No.
13:19Right.
13:19Are you happy with that, Raj?
13:20Yeah, I think so, because I don't think we've got time to look for a chef right now.
13:23Fine.
13:23Yeah, we'll, yeah, that's fine.
13:25Okay.
13:26Um, so basically...
13:27Sarah is overruling and becoming rather empowering and, quite frankly, just talking everybody down.
13:32And Raj isn't leading.
13:34So, are we going to go with the green tomato, was it jelly?
13:40No, it's green tomato chutney, but I think we'll be able to come up with another chutney.
13:43But what he has got loads of is plums, and there was a plum pot in there, which looks very good.
13:47So, I think we should go for the plum pot.
13:50Every time I come up with an idea, I just, you know, it just gets sort of shattered down or barged down.
13:55So, that's a bit tough.
13:59A hundred with leads, please, Peter, of those as well.
14:02Any idea how much...
14:02Ben's team are out buying containers for their soup.
14:05The bill's 41.71.
14:07Is that including that?
14:08Yeah, including that.
14:10How easy would it be to get it down to 30 quid?
14:12Very difficult.
14:13Right, let me start now, then.
14:15LAUGHTER
14:15Paul's also haggling with printers to get labels at a cut price.
14:23Dale at the printers.
14:24Yeah.
14:2442 pounds.
14:26Oh!
14:27I'm sorry, I'm just picking him up from the floor, Dale.
14:30Let me just revive him.
14:33He was thinking more like the 32-pound mark, if that's at all possible, Dale.
14:36As well as pumpkin soup, Ben's ambitious plan is to make four other varieties.
14:43Celery and stilton, tomato and vegetables, coccaliki and venison.
14:49All the squashes I'll do you at 140 a kilo.
14:52I need about, in all, about 18...
14:56Hmm?
14:57What are you thinking?
14:58I'm thinking the price is dear.
15:00140 a kilo is expensive.
15:02You know, once we've made the soup...
15:04That's £26 if we take all of them.
15:06That's dear.
15:12140 a kilo.
15:13If it helps you guys out, I'll do these at a pound a kilo.
15:15Would you?
15:16That would be brilliant.
15:17That would be absolutely brilliant.
15:19The pumpkins, we're normally 95p, but we normally promote that later in the season,
15:25so if we do those at 50...
15:26OK.
15:27In total, they've spent £80 on vegetables.
15:31He gave us a lot of stuff, and a lot of stuff at really good prices, so...
15:34I'm very chuffed about that.
15:35He would have taken the piss.
15:37He thought, all this lot are going to go back in the van and drive off unless I drop the price.
15:41And he did.
15:42And he did, so we're grateful for that.
15:43Yeah.
15:43Next on the shopping list is cheese.
15:49That's free.
15:50Great.
15:50OK.
15:51Well, I'm not a lot, then.
15:52£63.
15:54Top quality cheese doesn't come cheap.
15:56Last on the shopping list is meat.
16:01Ben phones through his order.
16:04We want 8 kilograms of venison meat.
16:088 kilos, yeah.
16:09Of venison meat and 16 kilos of bones and carcass, really.
16:13He arranges for £60 worth of meat to be delivered directly to the kitchen.
16:17I don't know if that's a good price or not.
16:21At the moment, it's looking like cost price is £1 a serving.
16:24I'm going to cut the chicken down to 18 chicken.
16:28Yeah, chicken stock's enough to give it the flavour of chicken.
16:30There's a little piece.
16:31That takes down to 27.
16:32We're not doing L.A. cart.
16:33I've said from day one.
16:35£27.90 instead of...
16:37Yeah, this does not have to be...
16:38Yeah, but at the same time, we're following recipes.
16:40I mean, recipes are there for a reason.
16:41It's off to Bristol time.
16:43We're going to unit one...
16:44Raj sends James off to buy jars.
16:47The Bristol Bottle Company.
16:49On the way, he's got time to do some simple maths.
16:53We've got to pay £50 an hour for our cook,
16:57which is a huge, huge, huge sum of money.
17:02The chance of us making back, even the seed fund,
17:07I don't understand our strategy.
17:11James calls Raj.
17:14He wants to know how much they're shelling out
17:16on ingredients and labour costs.
17:18I think you're panicking a bit.
17:21OK.
17:22I said last night that I was extremely concerned
17:24that we were not going to make a profit.
17:26So, I'm not...
17:26I'm not really bothered if I've got to take the can for it.
17:29I'll put my hands up and take the can for it.
17:31I'm just trying to get a bit of respect, you know what I mean?
17:33Like, I don't want to fucking be a complete failure in that respect.
17:36I mean, I'm getting quite close to this place.
17:38If you want to pull it, that's fine,
17:39but I've got to tell these people.
17:42Raj, you need to make a decision.
17:44Because they're closing.
17:47Get the onions.
17:48Just get the products.
17:50So, do you want me to buy these things?
17:52You need to clarify, you're just panicking.
17:54Yeah, but hang on.
17:55Look, one jar costs 16p, OK?
17:59A local cost of whatever,
18:00and the products we're going to break down.
18:02So, you might as well...
18:03Right, James, just go for it.
18:04Just get it.
18:06James, just go and get the jars.
18:08OK, well, I'm getting the jars,
18:10and then I think we should definitely have another chat.
18:12And if we have to...
18:13I need to get off the phone, James,
18:14because we're in the shop and they're about to close.
18:16I'm looking for myself.
18:17All right, OK, bye.
18:17Raj and Saira plough on,
18:28keeping a close eye on what they spend.
18:30You need to write these prices down, Raj,
18:33and get on top of the prices,
18:35because otherwise...
18:35I think that's it, then.
18:38If we can negotiate a price,
18:40just because we are just absolutely hogged otherwise.
18:46That comes to £14.7.
18:49With costs mounting,
18:51that £50-an-hour chef is worrying Saira.
18:54Thank you so much.
18:55You're an absolute star.
18:57Can I also ask you,
18:59do you make chutneys?
19:00No.
19:01Well, if it does,
19:02you can help us make it tomorrow.
19:03I honestly don't.
19:05Oh.
19:07OK, that's fine.
19:08I thought I'd ask.
19:11James is on his way back from Bristol
19:13with 180 glass jars.
19:20Raj leaves James a message
19:22with his next set of instructions.
19:25I've used all the possible phrases I can use
19:27to describe how much of a fuck-up
19:29this is all turning into.
19:30However,
19:32I have received clear instructions
19:33from the team leader
19:34and I will follow.
19:377.30 in the evening.
19:40Raj has told James
19:41to fill three bin liners
19:42with freshly picked elderberries.
19:44I thought this was a slightly
19:45richer scene
19:46than perhaps it is.
19:50In the middle of some wet...
19:54300-acre...
19:57Ah, fuck!
19:57Oh, there's a huge animal there!
20:04I don't like this foot anymore.
20:07I'm going somewhere else.
20:09There was only a snail.
20:10It was just about the size of my hand.
20:13Thank goodness for my gloves.
20:17I've got terrible nettle stings as well.
20:20Unable to see,
20:23James gives up
20:24with only half a bag full.
20:30Back at the cottage
20:31where the teams are staying,
20:33a chance to talk face-to-face
20:35about money worries.
20:36I never had a problem
20:38with the cost of the product itself.
20:41What I had a problem was
20:42was nobody had taken
20:43into consideration
20:44the fact that we were
20:44about to hire this woman
20:46for however many quid an hour.
20:48It looks like,
20:49bearing on the labour cost
20:50and all the rest of it,
20:51we are going to spend
20:51near 750 pounds.
20:52And the labour cost
20:53is still a major issue for us.
20:54It is,
20:55but we can address that
20:56tomorrow.
20:57I said to you,
20:58Raj,
20:58we need to start looking
20:59at the figures here
21:00because it looks like
21:02it's going to be really expensive.
21:03And you were the one
21:04that said,
21:04I don't need to look at it.
21:05Leave it to me.
21:06Leave it to me.
21:07You did.
21:07Yeah, that's right.
21:08But the thing is,
21:08it was quite easy
21:09to work out then.
21:10I tell you why I said
21:11leave it to me
21:11because we were
21:12fucking pushing for time.
21:13And if you look at it,
21:14we were late.
21:15We need to go in there
21:16and we need to
21:17have a crack at them
21:18like you had a crack
21:19at various others.
21:20If we can do something
21:21about it,
21:21then we need to...
21:22We've got to do something
21:23about it because otherwise,
21:23like you say,
21:24it's 50 quid an hour.
21:27Tomorrow,
21:27the only thing
21:28we've got to do
21:28is just make sure
21:30that we get this cook
21:31free of charge.
21:32And there's none of this
21:33we'll give you 10 pound
21:34an hour.
21:34It's fuck it.
21:35We've got to go for zero.
21:396.30 a.m.,
21:40the day before
21:41the farmer's market.
21:44Raj's team is already out
21:45picking the essential
21:46elderberries
21:47for the apple
21:48and elderberry jelly.
21:52It's a hell of a lot better
21:54than trying to pick them
21:56in the dark
21:57when it's raining
21:58and you're on your own
21:59and it was miserable.
22:06At Ben's team kitchen,
22:08the soup production
22:09is underway.
22:11Miriam has taken on
22:12the role of head chef,
22:13leaving Ben
22:14to think about
22:14the bigger picture.
22:15Food's a substance
22:21where you can make
22:22very high
22:23profit margins on,
22:25typically anything
22:26over 60%.
22:27So that's what
22:29you've got to aim for.
22:33That looks so good.
22:37We've got picked
22:38a lot of elderberries.
22:39Nine o'clock.
22:41With bags of wild berries
22:42from the hedgerows,
22:44Raj's team still needs
22:45to get something else
22:46free of charge.
22:49So what I'm saying to you
22:50is we can't afford 50 quid.
22:52How much can you afford?
22:53We can't afford
22:54any money on this at all.
22:56We are quite happy
22:57in any way possible
22:59to help promote
23:00cheap drove
23:01when we're going to go
23:03and do this thing
23:04on Sunday.
23:05And I'm looking forward
23:05to shouting,
23:06yes, chef!
23:07Sarah persuades the chef
23:09to work unpaid
23:10in return for promotion
23:11of the farm's meat
23:12at the market.
23:13Basically we were begging
23:15and asking for a favour
23:16and eventually they agreed.
23:18So it was a strong tack
23:20to take quite a ballsy one
23:21but we had to do it
23:23in order to make
23:23the product viable.
23:25We are not prepared
23:25to give money away
23:26for nothing.
23:27If there is something here
23:28that we can get for free
23:30we were quite happy
23:31to do that
23:31and that was our approach.
23:34All you want to do
23:34is cut the apples
23:35and shove them in there.
23:37Take the car off?
23:38No.
23:39OK.
23:41So as the apples cook down
23:42we can put more in.
23:43Oh, OK.
23:44The problem is
23:44our saucepans aren't big enough
23:46for the amount you've picked.
23:48All right.
23:50And this recipe is...
23:53Who originated this recipe?
23:54This is from a farmhouse cookbook
23:58written by the British
23:59tourist board
24:00in 1950-something.
24:01Oh, OK.
24:02Oh, God, these are so pretty
24:03I need to remember
24:04if I tell you.
24:05Rumble.
24:06Oh.
24:07I hope you will.
24:08Loads.
24:09That's a lot of hedges.
24:11Oh!
24:12At the soup kitchen
24:13Ben's tomatoes
24:14and vegetables
24:15are roasted
24:16and ready to be pulped
24:17into soup.
24:18Oh!
24:19Roasted peppers.
24:20In Raj's kitchen
24:22the first batch of jelly
24:24is coming off
24:24the production line.
24:28But will anyone
24:29want to buy it?
24:33What are you doing?
24:38We're going to Woolies
24:39in Swindon.
24:40OK.
24:41Sarah's off
24:41to get boxes.
24:43I've really pulled
24:44my weight on this.
24:44I've been...
24:45I've really negotiated.
24:47I've really been hands-on.
24:49I've also been
24:50making quite a few decisions
24:51I think on behalf
24:52of Raj and directing him.
24:54I think Sarah's
24:54performed quite well
24:55in terms of what
24:57she's negotiated.
24:58But the problem with her
25:00is she is a bit
25:00of a disruptive force.
25:03If you actually
25:03look at what she says
25:0495% of it
25:06will have been
25:06something that was
25:07raised earlier
25:08and was not her idea
25:09but it comes across
25:09as if it was her idea.
25:10So I think she's
25:11playing a very cute game.
25:13But you know what?
25:14I can't bother with it.
25:15I think at the end of the day
25:15we're here to do a task.
25:17If the judges
25:18or whatever
25:19can't see through her
25:20then let them hire her.
25:22I've been a bit stressed.
25:23I've raised my voice.
25:24I've given my opinion straight.
25:26I don't think
25:27they're like that all the time.
25:28I know James doesn't
25:29but I do feel
25:30and I will say this
25:31I feel sometimes
25:32he's a dithering old fool.
25:39All the flavours
25:39will mature together.
25:40It'll taste a lot better.
25:42You can see the spices
25:43are coming through.
25:43It's like tasting
25:45a sort of like
25:45a young wine
25:46in the sense
25:47that you know
25:47that it's going to
25:48improve.
25:51OK.
25:52I'm going to leave
25:52my squash in there
25:53until your venet is ready
25:53then it's coming out
25:54wherever.
25:55In the soup kitchen
25:56they've nearly finished
25:57cooking
25:58but Miriam's worried.
25:59We've bought too much stuff.
26:01I think we've bought
26:01ingredients
26:01that we're not going to be able
26:02to use
26:03but better
26:03that we have
26:04too much
26:05than nothing.
26:10The preserves
26:11are finished
26:12but for James
26:13there's more
26:14donkey work.
26:16They've decided
26:17to dress their stall
26:18with hay.
26:19People do this
26:20for a living.
26:21I think they normally
26:22use machines to do it
26:23but I feel a bit
26:25like a machine
26:25I'll just say.
26:27Well done.
26:28Well done.
26:33Don't know about you guys
26:34but I'm very happy.
26:36Is that how we did?
26:36I'm very happy.
26:37Are you happy with Miss Raj?
26:38Yeah.
26:39Just a lot of tomorrow
26:39to think about.
26:40I'll be fine tomorrow
26:41tomorrow as a easy day.
26:43I guess we've just
26:44got to decide
26:44about pricing
26:45and all that sort of stuff.
26:47But I think
26:48some of that stuff
26:49is just delicious.
26:54Sunday morning
26:55the day of the market.
26:58Make sure you're
26:59all washing hands.
27:01But Ben's team
27:02is back in the kitchen.
27:05Which one's that?
27:06Coppoliti.
27:07Their product
27:08needs some
27:08last minute refinements.
27:11And there's packaging
27:12to be done.
27:15Then it's off to market
27:16with nearly 100 litres
27:18of soup to shift.
27:20We really want to be
27:21above 60% profit
27:23and we have concluded
27:24that we have
27:25two prices
27:27within our soups.
27:28We've got the
27:28more expensive soups
27:30we've got the
27:30slightly cheaper soups
27:31and we're going to sell
27:32the cups for either
27:32£1.75 or £1.99
27:34and we're going to sell
27:34our tubs of soup
27:35for either £2.75
27:36or £3.25.
27:43Now it's a two-hour drive
27:44to North London
27:45to sell the finished products.
27:51The countryside
27:52has come to town.
27:54Alexandra Palace
27:54is being transformed
27:55into a rural market.
27:57The regular stallholders
28:01are almost set up.
28:04Both teams arrive late,
28:07just minutes before
28:07the market opens.
28:11Raj and his team
28:12concentrate on getting
28:13their presentation
28:14just right.
28:17Brilliant!
28:17That won't work!
28:28Their late start
28:29doesn't impress
28:30the market manager.
28:33Arriving late
28:34does make it
28:34very, very difficult
28:35for them.
28:36We couldn't allow
28:37the vehicles on site
28:38so we had to
28:39get them to unload
28:40their vans manually
28:41and carry it all down.
28:44Tim, whatever I put here
28:45on this edge
28:46is ready to go
28:47onto the stall.
28:48This could turn
28:48into a complete disaster.
28:52This hay bale
28:53is disintegrating
28:55as we speak.
28:56Just give me those
28:57jars and I'll do it.
28:58No dear.
28:59I think that's right.
29:01We just probably
29:01need a few more bits here.
29:02We've got all the varieties out.
29:04Apple chutney,
29:05onion, marmalade,
29:05spiced apple.
29:06We need some elderberry.
29:1010am.
29:11The trendy residents
29:12of North London
29:13arrive in search
29:14of the rural Idyll.
29:21Obviously to go
29:22with sort of
29:22nice meats
29:23and cheeses
29:23and stuff
29:24but you're just
29:24getting a bit
29:25of a flavour.
29:26Yeah?
29:27You like that?
29:28Oh yeah.
29:29It's floated.
29:30Yeah, it's pretty good.
29:31You like it?
29:31Would you like to buy some?
29:33I would buy one pot, yeah.
29:34You would?
29:34Yeah.
29:35Which one?
29:36The apple one.
29:36The apple one,
29:37no problem.
29:40One, two,
29:41that's lovely,
29:4120, 40, 60, 80,
29:42there you go.
29:43And do you eat meat?
29:44Yes, we do.
29:45Just to let you know,
29:46this is the place
29:47that we've made it.
29:47We're promoting them basically
29:49and just letting people
29:50know about their good work.
29:51They actually do meat boxes.
29:53They do great meats.
29:53All the prices and stuff
29:54are in there.
29:55With a small
29:56but expensive
29:57cheese mountain
29:58on her hands,
29:59Miriam wants to dump
30:00some of it
30:00in the hot soups.
30:02Difficult
30:03when you've forgotten
30:03the knife.
30:07Can we tempt you
30:08with some of our
30:09wonderful apple chutney
30:10or spiced apple jelly,
30:12elderberry jelly
30:13on the way back.
30:15We're only here for a day.
30:16Beautiful product,
30:18fresh ingredients,
30:19all English products.
30:20Mm, that's delicious.
30:21Four pounds for that
30:22and three pounds for that.
30:24Yeah, it's quite tangy.
30:25All right then.
30:26Do you like chutney?
30:27You like that?
30:28Mm, that's good.
30:29Is it?
30:29One of the things
30:31that I always find
30:32is fundamental
30:33in selling
30:34is if you've got
30:35an audience,
30:36talk to them.
30:37And what we're saying
30:38is please try some
30:39and then if you like it,
30:40please buy some.
30:41I can give you
30:42a whole history
30:42about it if you want.
30:43Otherwise,
30:44I can shut up.
30:45Shut up.
30:45No, it's not me.
30:46Don't mean that.
30:48It's not bad, is it?
30:49It's good.
30:51Yep.
30:52I'll have a jar of it, please.
30:54Excellent.
30:54There we go.
30:56Brilliant.
30:56Thank you very much indeed.
30:57Everybody tries the stuff
30:58and they love it.
30:59You know,
31:00they're going wild about
31:01our spiced apple jelly
31:02and the chutney
31:03and the onion marmalade
31:04just flew off the hay
31:06and we got rid of all 28
31:07very quickly.
31:08So,
31:09I don't know,
31:09we were thinking
31:10maybe we should have been
31:11more aggressive
31:11with our pricing.
31:12Oh,
31:12they do.
31:14Mm, mm.
31:15$2.75 for these
31:17three over here.
31:18$3.25 for these ones
31:20over here.
31:21Have you just been chilled?
31:22One of these.
31:23One of these.
31:24Oh, perfect.
31:25Thank you very much.
31:26Enjoy your soup.
31:27Hello, sir.
31:28How are you?
31:28Good.
31:29Before all this kicked off,
31:30I thought it was going to be too expensive.
31:32I thought people aren't going to pay
31:33two quid for a small cup of soup.
31:34Maybe because I'm from the north.
31:36In the north,
31:36and especially blooming Yorkshire,
31:38you people would think
31:38two pounds,
31:39most of your shopping
31:40are two pounds,
31:41not one little ton of soup.
31:42It's $2.75 for these, thank you.
31:45Our store's going surprisingly well.
31:47It would have been really easy
31:48to make something fairly mediocre,
31:49but just to sell.
31:51And actually,
31:51people have been so complimentary
31:52about the soup
31:54that that kind of adds
31:55a huge amount
31:56to the whole task.
31:58Would you like a little taste of one?
31:59Can I,
32:00can I try the tomato and pepper?
32:03Not everyone wants soup for lunch.
32:05Hello, sir.
32:23Are you in a hurry?
32:24Would you like to buy some chutneys?
32:26Saira has spotted a captive market,
32:29the other storeholders,
32:30and they won't escape.
32:31I'm going to give you some to this gentleman here.
32:33Would you like to buy some apple chutney?
32:35Go on,
32:36I'll have a jar of apple chutney.
32:37How much do you want?
32:38It's three pounds, love.
32:40Oh, here's a lady
32:41that would like to buy some.
32:43Hello, my darling.
32:44Thank you, darling.
32:45Bye-bye.
32:45Bye-bye.
32:46We've been selling some homemade chutney
32:49and jelly
32:49because you're doing meat.
32:51We'd like you to buy one off us.
32:53We're selling them for three pounds.
32:55Go on, then.
32:55A lady came and sold me
32:56the spiced apple jelly
32:58and I picked it up.
32:59It isn't actually set
33:00but there is a spider floating
33:01in it quite clearly.
33:04So she's off to find Sarah
33:06who's in mid-flow
33:07with another customer.
33:09Lovely with sausage
33:10and cheese
33:11and stuff like that.
33:12Quite sweet
33:13and that's quite tangy.
33:16Hello.
33:16I have a full plane.
33:17Do you?
33:18I do.
33:18What is it?
33:19I have a spider in mine.
33:21Oh, no!
33:24This lady's just about to buy one.
33:26It's so good.
33:27Don't shout it out loud.
33:28Can I swap it for one
33:30that hasn't got one in?
33:31There you go.
33:31Honestly.
33:32Thank you very much.
33:34Oh, you didn't hear that.
33:35This is more of a thick sauce, actually.
33:38She took it very well, really.
33:39I mean, she was actually
33:40dealing with a customer
33:41and she was already
33:42selling one to her
33:43so I think she handled it very well.
33:46But Ben is not handling
33:48the selling so well.
33:49And this is pumpkin and squash.
33:52I mean, I don't like pumpkins.
33:54I mean, it's all prepared.
33:55The market manager's
33:56had words with him.
33:57She's worried
33:58he's driving customers away.
34:00Ben, it just looks
34:02so damn miserable.
34:03I've told Ben
34:04on several occasions
34:05to smile.
34:06It actually helps the public
34:10to step forward.
34:11He may be like that
34:12a lot of the time.
34:13I don't know.
34:14But it is important
34:15to smile in front of the public
34:17and look like you're actually
34:17enjoying, you know,
34:19selling to them.
34:20And the soup team
34:25has another problem.
34:26The thing that isn't selling
34:27as much is the venison.
34:29It's a very definite taste
34:30and you either like it
34:31or you don't.
34:32I mean, it is so meaty
34:33that it's like a casserole,
34:35the venison.
34:36So in here
34:37we've got carrots,
34:38leeks, bacon, celery.
34:41Unfortunately for us,
34:42the majority of people
34:43coming to a farmer's market
34:44seem to be vegetarians.
34:46But we've got a little trick
34:46up our sleeve later on
34:47where we're having a discount
34:48on the venison soup.
34:50So hopefully we can shift it
34:51to those who do eat meat
34:52and have never tried it
34:53to pick it up for half the price.
34:55Ben orders his team
34:57to cut prices
34:58for the last hour.
35:01Hi there.
35:02Half price soups
35:03just up there on your left.
35:04Everything going for half price.
35:05Half price?
35:06Yeah.
35:06It's a real bargain.
35:09Now guys.
35:12We've got hot soup
35:13and we've got soup to take away.
35:15Raj's team have fewer
35:16than 20 jars left
35:18and they're also
35:19slashing prices dramatically.
35:20Don't worry.
35:21Excuse me, sir.
35:22Would you like to buy
35:22some ardubri jelly for a pound?
35:24We're going to sell them
35:25and one pound each.
35:26Done.
35:27Yes?
35:28We're selling that for a pound.
35:30Would you be interested
35:30in buying a jar?
35:31How much is it normally?
35:32Three pounds we were selling
35:33for this morning.
35:33Is it just ardubri?
35:34Yes, it is.
35:35I don't know what ardubri jelly is like.
35:37Ardubri apples,
35:37oranges and cinnamon sticks.
35:39It's only a pound.
35:40Yeah, okay.
35:40I got that bit.
35:42I'm done.
35:43Everything's sold.
35:44Gone.
35:44Finished.
35:45Finished.
35:49Hello.
35:49Good afternoon.
35:50Everything half price.
35:51Everything half price.
35:52Hello.
35:53All our sins are half price.
35:55Shall we say five pounds for a lot?
35:56That was three pounds.
35:57It was three seventy five, yeah.
35:59The markets closed.
36:01The venison soup
36:03never really took off.
36:05Slop.
36:06Oh.
36:09That looks like dog meat.
36:11That's about this.
36:13Any more twenties in there?
36:14No.
36:14The candidates must balance their books
36:17before they face Sir Alan
36:18in the boardroom tomorrow.
36:34Everyone's desperate to find out
36:36who's cleared the biggest profit.
36:38Afternoon.
37:02Afternoon.
37:02Do you think you've done well then, Raj,
37:10your lot?
37:10I think we were a bit...
37:12Team leader.
37:13We were a bit tense on Friday,
37:14but I think we pulled it together.
37:15Why was it tense on Friday?
37:16We went out to make chutney.
37:18We realised we couldn't make it
37:19and sell it as quickly.
37:20Good project manager?
37:22Yes, he was actually.
37:23Very good.
37:23Yeah.
37:25How was your project manager?
37:26Good also?
37:27Very good.
37:27Yeah, led the team well?
37:29Yeah.
37:29Yeah.
37:30Well, let's get down to the real brass tax then,
37:32is who made the most profit.
37:35Margaret, first forte?
37:38£364.35.
37:41Impact?
37:42Less, £149.69.
37:46Right.
37:48Got your arse kicked there, didn't you?
37:50They've done well.
37:51Congratulations.
37:52£15.
37:53Very good.
37:54And what a margin.
37:55You can all come and work for me
37:57by that margin, I can tell you.
37:59And that's why I'm going to send you to Monaco.
38:03Oh, my God.
38:04You're going business class.
38:05You're going to spend the night there
38:07in the Hotel de Paris,
38:09the famous hotel.
38:11And on top of that,
38:12there's £364 profit.
38:14So you can have a little dabble
38:16in the casino there.
38:17It's the greatest casino.
38:19Don't get too excited, though.
38:21Have a good time.
38:22You have a good time.
38:23Now, you lot,
38:23you'll be coming back to see me
38:25in this boardroom
38:26because one of you
38:27will get fired.
38:40It's raining in Monaco.
38:42While the winners pack for Monaco,
38:45the losers slip into a cafe
38:46to contemplate defeat.
38:48I think they've done a good job.
38:53It's just that they did slightly better
38:54with a less prestigious project.
38:58They kept it very, very simple, didn't they?
39:00Yeah.
39:00Tim is now starting to show cracks.
39:05He's 26, and he doesn't have an experience.
39:08And what he reads about in books,
39:10I've already done.
39:12In my opinion,
39:13the only person I can see
39:14he can clearly take in
39:15who has admitted to a mistake
39:17would be Miriam.
39:18Miriam said that she made a mistake
39:19by buying too much stuff.
39:21I'm here to win this whole thing,
39:22so of course I'm going to fight.
39:23I believe that I have more to contribute
39:25to the team
39:26than some of the other team members,
39:27and I think that I have
39:28a right to my place here,
39:30and I'm definitely going to fight
39:31to keep that.
39:34But everyone's been in the boardroom
39:35at least once.
39:36They know what to expect,
39:37they know how to defend themselves,
39:38and you just do your best.
39:41There is no way
39:43on God's earth
39:44that I would be picked to go in.
39:46I'm pretty sure
39:49and confident
39:50that Paul will attack me
39:51to defend his position.
39:53Like I said,
39:53I'm not bothered about the tree,
39:55I'm just bothered about losing.
39:56No, I'm not bothered.
39:58So what?
39:59Yeah.
40:02I haven't flown
40:03to business class before
40:04and I am very, very excited.
40:06This is great.
40:12Oh my God!
40:14Oh, that's fabulous.
40:17Oh my God!
40:19That's enormous!
40:20This is better
40:21than where I live at home!
40:23My God!
40:24That's enormous!
40:26That's fantastic!
40:27That'll be my Christmas present
40:28for someone.
40:29Oh my God!
40:32Oh my God!
40:33Yay!
40:34Fucking hell, it's cute!
40:35Look at this!
40:37That is fantastic!
40:39Do you know what?
40:40This makes me want
40:41to so win
40:42the very next task.
40:44We are so winning.
40:44Because they're going to get
40:45better and better and better.
41:01I've lost
41:02every single penny.
41:03Now this is nice.
41:12See, this is quite sexy.
41:14On a scale of 1 to 10
41:23as to how great
41:24these couple of days
41:25has been
41:25367?
41:31It's very nice.
41:32Very relaxing.
41:34It's absolutely
41:35just blown me away.
41:37We've just had
41:38the most amazing time.
41:39I'm glad for all the hours
41:42that I spent
41:42picking those
41:43bloody elderberries.
41:44It was worth it.
41:45The losing team is called back
42:03for a grilling.
42:04Hi, Francis.
42:21Can you send
42:22them in, please?
42:24OK, guys.
42:25So, why did the team lose,
42:42do you think?
42:43Our costs
42:44didn't exactly
42:45go out of control
42:46but they were high.
42:48In hindsight,
42:49in retrospect,
42:49it looks like
42:50we got the product wrong
42:51or the price wrong.
42:52We could have got
42:52even dearer, I think.
42:54And that's probably...
42:55Tim,
42:55in order for you
42:56to generate the margin
42:57that the other team
42:58generated,
42:59you'd have had to charge
43:00six quid
43:01for that cup of soup.
43:02That is not right.
43:03Anybody knows
43:03that's not right.
43:04We spent a lot
43:06on the making
43:07the product.
43:08The product cost us,
43:09basically.
43:09It was a quality product
43:10but we put
43:11too much money in there.
43:12You know,
43:12at the end of the day,
43:14you spent
43:15£274 on ingredients
43:19and your total sales price
43:20was £546.
43:22The other team
43:23spent £78.
43:25Therein lies the story.
43:29Now, Ben,
43:298% of the seed money
43:31was spent
43:32on a lump of cheese.
43:335%,
43:34you know,
43:35was spent on venison.
43:36I mean,
43:36the success
43:37of the other team
43:39was simple.
43:39It was very simple.
43:41They made stuff
43:41that was very simple.
43:43I think that's something
43:43that we lost focus
43:44on a little bit.
43:45You know,
43:45we've said
43:46right from the beginning.
43:47We or you?
43:49We as a team
43:50started down
43:52a very good track
43:53which was to produce
43:53something very simple.
43:54You know what,
43:55if I look back
43:55in hindsight,
43:56I think that
43:56the big mistake
43:57was having
43:59too many lines of soup
44:00because we were left
44:01with a lot of venison.
44:03as an example,
44:04if we'd have just
44:05picked tomatoes
44:06and squashes
44:08or pumpkins,
44:09it would have been
44:10a lot cheaper
44:10and it would have been...
44:12I had a bowl
44:12of your venison soup
44:14last night.
44:15It was a meal.
44:16It was like
44:17an Irish stew.
44:18I mean,
44:18it was just
44:19too good for the money.
44:22From my point of view,
44:24I'm not getting
44:24a clear indication
44:25at the moment
44:26of whether this thing
44:27was thought out.
44:27first you think up
44:29what you want to sell.
44:30The minute you've done that,
44:32you could have established
44:33a selling price.
44:35Now,
44:35when I wake up
44:36on a Monday morning
44:37and decide I'm going to
44:38sell this phone,
44:39for example,
44:40I do exactly the same as you.
44:41I think I'll sell phones,
44:43fine,
44:44and I think that phone
44:45needs to sell
44:45at a certain price.
44:46The next thing I do
44:47is go and see
44:48if I can make it
44:49for that price
44:50and go and see
44:50if there's any margin
44:51in it for that price.
44:52Go and see
44:53whether £100
44:54for three days' work,
44:56which is effectively
44:57what you made,
44:58is good enough
44:59to pay four people's wages.
45:02No.
45:03Not really.
45:04Not really.
45:05So,
45:05you saw your plan
45:06was flawed
45:07unless
45:07you would have said
45:09to her over there,
45:11you're in charge
45:12of buying the raw materials,
45:13you have a budget
45:14of no more
45:16than £100.
45:16Don't care what you're
45:17going to buy,
45:18you are not spending
45:18more than £100.
45:20And that's where
45:21you went wrong.
45:22That's where
45:23you went wrong.
45:24Was you given a budget?
45:26Or were you just told
45:27go out and do
45:27as you fancy?
45:29No, we weren't given
45:29a budget for,
45:30well, I wasn't given
45:31a budget for our food.
45:33So, did the project
45:34leader do a good job
45:35in that sense then?
45:36Do you think he should
45:36have given you
45:37your budget?
45:37Yes.
45:39Do you think
45:39the team leader
45:40did a good job
45:41in the sense
45:41that you ended up losing?
45:45Ben did the best job
45:46that he could.
45:47He could have done
45:48certain things better,
45:49yes.
45:49What about you,
45:52Tim?
45:52What do you think?
45:53We did a good job.
45:54The fact is,
45:55the other team
45:55bought a cheaper
45:56amount of product
45:56and they beat us
45:58in their product selection.
45:58They did that
45:59and I give all credit
46:00to the team.
46:00I asked you a point blank
46:01question.
46:03Did your team leader
46:04do a good job?
46:05Do you think
46:05he'd done a good job?
46:06I think he did a good job.
46:07There's things
46:07we could have done better.
46:08Did you, team leader,
46:10think he did a good job?
46:12I think I did a good job.
46:13I think I delegated.
46:14I think I gave people
46:16the opportunity
46:17to shine
46:18and to work hard.
46:19Everyone did work
46:20to the best
46:21of their abilities.
46:22But do you accept
46:23that it was
46:23the project manager's job
46:24to think of something
46:25like the budget?
46:26Um, yes.
46:29Ben, whose fault was it?
46:31Whose fault you lost?
46:32Um, if I was a manager
46:33in this situation,
46:34what I'd try and do
46:34in management
46:35is empower people
46:35and give people
46:36the opportunity
46:36to show their worth.
46:39Um, Tim stepped up,
46:41was the accounting
46:41and finance guy,
46:42which, you know,
46:43if you make a mistake
46:43in that situation,
46:45you're going to get
46:45lambasted.
46:46You're going to get
46:46shot down quite heavily.
46:48Um, Miriam stepped up
46:49to the base
46:50and she made the decision
46:51that she was going
46:52to be chef, head chef.
46:53And she did a fantastic
46:54job on the products,
46:55maybe overspent on
46:56on the purchasing.
46:57Um, I didn't see Paul
46:59step up to the base,
47:01um, apart from maybe
47:02in the printing area,
47:03which was already
47:04pretty much negotiated
47:05anyway.
47:05But I didn't see
47:06100% of Paul
47:08over the last four days.
47:08I worked my bloody nuts
47:10off in that flaming thing.
47:11You didn't see 100% of Paul.
47:13If it wasn't for me,
47:13our costs would have been
47:14700 quid,
47:15not bloody 200
47:16and whatever it was.
47:17It was me that got
47:18that bloke from
47:18£1.40 per kilo
47:19down to a flaming pound
47:21as you were handing out
47:21the dosh to him.
47:22And he dropped
47:23his flaming money.
47:23It was me that got
47:24the free this,
47:25the free that,
47:25the price is down
47:26on the printing,
47:26the price is down
47:27on the cups.
47:27You know,
47:28we spent 63 quid
47:29on bloody cheese.
47:30I bought a motor
47:31at 17 years old
47:32that was bloody
47:33cheaper than that
47:33and we had 63 quids
47:35worth of cheese.
47:36Down from like 80,
47:37so what?
47:37But you're so forceful,
47:39you're so forceful here today
47:40after the horse has bolted
47:42that why didn't you
47:43use this same aggression
47:44and force and say,
47:47I might get fired here today.
47:49You're spending too much money
47:50on stuff.
47:52You know,
47:52this is going wrong.
47:53Now you're telling me now.
47:54Why didn't you tell her then?
47:56I wasn't the project leader,
47:58but I'm becoming more aggressive.
47:59So project leader's fault
48:00or her fault?
48:02You know it's somebody's fault.
48:04It's up to you
48:05to decide whose fault it is,
48:06but it's not my bloody fault
48:07that people spent
48:07too much money on cheese
48:08and didn't sort themselves out.
48:10OK, Ben,
48:11you know what you've got to do?
48:13Two people
48:14are going to come back here
48:15with you in this boardroom
48:16and then
48:18out of the three of you,
48:20one of you
48:20is going to get fired.
48:22OK, so Ben,
48:22tell me who you're
48:23bringing back here with you.
48:25OK, um...
48:26It's a difficult decision
48:30because everyone did
48:31what they could
48:32with the best of their ability.
48:34Um,
48:34but I'm going to have to pick
48:35Paul
48:35and, uh, Miriam.
48:38OK.
48:39So,
48:39all four of you now,
48:41off you go.
48:52Well, I think Miriam
48:53has to take some responsibility
48:54for that as well
48:55because she,
48:56you know,
48:56she must have known
48:57she couldn't spend
48:58£650.
48:59project manager's role
49:05to keep the bloody thing
49:06under control
49:06and he didn't.
49:08What about Paul, though?
49:10He's very, very fiery.
49:13Some people might say
49:14that, uh,
49:15that's a good thing
49:16but, uh,
49:17you can't have a loose cannon
49:18like that running around
49:19too much, is it?
49:20I don't know whether
49:20he's going to ever learn
49:21to control that temper.
49:23Yes, Alan?
49:37Yeah, Francis,
49:38send the three of them in, please.
49:40He's ready for you now.
49:41Why shouldn't I fire you, Paul?
49:54I haven't done anything wrong.
49:55I work myself to the bone
49:57and every single day
49:58of this task
49:58I negotiated every price
50:00down to either nothing
50:01or next to nothing.
50:02I did what was expected of me.
50:04I towed the team line.
50:06Why should you fire me?
50:08Well,
50:09why shouldn't I fire?
50:10Because you worked hard,
50:11that's what you said, yeah?
50:12I did work hard.
50:12I made sure we didn't spend
50:13too much on the vegetables.
50:15I made sure that we got
50:16as much as we could for free.
50:17I made sure that the printing
50:18was cheap.
50:18You know, I did an awful lot.
50:20Maybe at the very last second
50:21I could have said,
50:22blimey, it's 400 quid.
50:23I didn't realise that.
50:24But that would have been too late.
50:25I mean, just...
50:28Ben,
50:29why shouldn't I fire you today?
50:31Um, the team operated
50:32to how I wanted them to operate.
50:35So, in terms of my team leadership,
50:37I don't see it as flawed.
50:38I feel that I've done
50:39a very good job
50:41in leading a team
50:42through three exceptionally tough days
50:45and exceptionally challenging days.
50:47Did you delegate?
50:48Do you think you delegated?
50:49Yeah, I believe I did delegate
50:51quite strongly asking people
50:52to look at certain areas.
50:53I delegated to Tim
50:55to become...
50:56to run finance.
50:57I thought that was very important.
50:58We had one person...
50:59You said he stepped up to the mark.
51:00Now you're saying
51:01you delegated to him.
51:03You said that I didn't
51:04step up to the mark.
51:04He stepped up to the mark.
51:06Yeah, you said you delegated to him.
51:07Did he step up to the mark
51:08or did you delegate it to him?
51:09He was happy to take on
51:10the responsibility
51:10of running finance.
51:12Right.
51:13In your idea of delegation
51:15is you have five people
51:16in front of you.
51:17You'll do this,
51:17you'll do that,
51:18you'll do this,
51:19you'll do that.
51:19And then what do you do?
51:20Sit back
51:21and expect all the troops
51:23to come home
51:23and it's all done.
51:25And Miriam,
51:26who was the least effective
51:27in the team?
51:28I, personally,
51:29on a personal level
51:30in terms of focus
51:31and I felt that Paul
51:33often works at cross purposes
51:35to the rest of the team.
51:36I felt that we lost focus
51:37in terms of wanting to
51:38sell bowls of soup
51:39at this great price
51:40whereas we should have just been...
51:41You just said Paul
51:41because Ben said Paul
51:42ten minutes.
51:43That's the only reason
51:44you've said Paul.
51:45I was the most effective.
51:46Forget about the most
51:47bloody ineffective.
51:49So who do you think
51:50was the least effective
51:50in your team?
51:52It's, you know,
51:53we all did well.
51:54I've got to say
51:55I'm a little bit pissed off,
51:56don't get me wrong
51:56because the finger of accusation
51:57always seems to be
51:58handed at me
51:58for no bloody reason
52:00even though I'm the one
52:01that works as hard
52:02if not harder
52:02than anyone else.
52:03I was the most...
52:04You're telling me that,
52:05you see, and I...
52:06But I'm the one
52:06that stays focused
52:07and see Sir Alan.
52:08Yeah, but excuse me,
52:09just as you're stating
52:10that everybody seems
52:11to point at you,
52:12all you ever do
52:12is sing the same song.
52:14You tell me about teams.
52:16You tell me about
52:16I don't want to say
52:17this one
52:18and I don't want to say that.
52:19So where am I supposed
52:20to judge the bloody thing then?
52:22Well, judge on
52:22what I'm telling you,
52:23Sir Alan.
52:24You're not telling me anything.
52:25I'm asking who
52:25was the least effective
52:26in your team.
52:29You've heard
52:29what everyone's said.
52:31It's all very well
52:32ranting on about
52:33team, team, team.
52:34I'm not going to
52:35employ a bloody team.
52:36I'm going to employ
52:37a person.
52:38This is not
52:38the bloody Whartons here,
52:40right?
52:41I have got to decide
52:42who's the least effective.
52:43You're not prepared
52:44to point the finger
52:45out and say...
52:45It's not me.
52:46Definitely, 100%.
52:47It's not me.
52:48Ben, who was the least
52:56effective in your team?
52:59Paul.
53:00Miriam?
53:03I have to agree
53:04simply in terms of
53:05I did struggle
53:06during the day
53:07with Paul
53:08in some issues.
53:11Was it me that spent
53:12a 70 quid
53:13on bloody cheese?
53:13You think Miriam
53:16should get fired then?
53:17You can say it
53:17if you want to.
53:18No, I'm not going to say it.
53:23You've got experience
53:24in catering.
53:25I don't actually, Paul.
53:26You said you did that
53:27before all this started.
53:28No, I didn't.
53:29What are you saying, Paul?
53:31What are you saying?
53:32You've heard
53:33what I've said, Sir Ron.
53:34So in your nice
53:35kind of way,
53:36you're saying that Miriam
53:36really is responsible,
53:38not you.
53:39Definitely not me.
53:41Definitely not you.
53:42But a person deserves
53:43to be fired when they've
53:43done something wrong.
53:44I've done nothing wrong.
53:47Well, two people
53:48here today
53:49definitely have done
53:50something wrong
53:51as far as I'm concerned.
53:52One, as a leader,
53:55should have worked out
53:56what one needed
53:57to spend on budget
53:59and could have won the day
54:03by giving his staff
54:05a budget and say,
54:06I don't care what you do,
54:08but sorry,
54:09that's all you've got to spend.
54:10Clear off and get on with it
54:11and don't argue.
54:13But that didn't happen.
54:16And Miriam,
54:17I really can't forgive
54:19the fact that you seem
54:21to go out spending.
54:22In my mind,
54:23I don't think you had
54:24the plot there.
54:25I have a vision
54:26if someone would have
54:26brought out a few pheasants
54:27or something like that,
54:28you would have bought them also.
54:29Can I say just one thing
54:30that it wasn't my decision
54:31which soups we made
54:33and I was responsible
54:35for buying the vegetables.
54:36I wasn't responsible
54:37for the venison
54:37and I was with all the others
54:38when we went to buy the cheese.
54:39I'm getting confused here.
54:41Who bought it then?
54:41Paul and Tim bought the venison.
54:42We never bought
54:43the bloody venison.
54:44We were out of the bloody printers.
54:46I thought you bought the meat
54:46the day before.
54:46Forget about what you thought.
54:48Put the bloody meat.
54:52Did you buy all the stuff
54:53or didn't you buy all the stuff?
54:54I didn't buy the meat.
54:55No.
54:55I don't like people
54:56trying to pull the wool
54:57over my eyes
54:58and talk their way out of things.
54:59You know,
55:00I don't buy it.
55:01You've got too much
55:02of a fiery temper over there
55:03and you need to contain it sometimes
55:06and, uh...
55:08If I've cocked up,
55:10Sir Alan,
55:10I've got broad shoulders
55:11but if I haven't,
55:11I don't expect to be picked on.
55:14Well, the others
55:15are picking on you all the time.
55:16You know,
55:16there's got to be
55:16a message there somewhere.
55:20Ben,
55:21the fatal error,
55:23in my opinion,
55:23that you made
55:24was that
55:25you didn't control the costs.
55:28I think you lost the plot.
55:29I think you sat back.
55:31I think you sent them off
55:32and just didn't get on with it.
55:34Generally, all round,
55:36you know,
55:36what with your miserable looks
55:38on your face,
55:39I still think,
55:40you know,
55:41you're perhaps sending me a message.
55:44A suicide message.
55:46You know,
55:46you say in your CV,
55:48in my career,
55:49I win all the time.
55:51Well, I'll tell you,
55:52this time,
55:52you haven't won
55:53because this time,
55:54you're fired.
56:01Okay,
56:02off you go.
56:02He looked the part.
56:23He looks the part.
56:24He looks the part,
56:24looks the part,
56:25talks the part,
56:26and I'm thinking to myself all along,
56:28come on, man,
56:29show me something,
56:30show me something,
56:31and he hasn't showed me anything,
56:33really.
56:34That's it.
56:34He had to go.
56:35He had to go in the end.
56:36It's almost as if,
56:49you know,
56:49by nominating me,
56:50to start with,
56:51Paul had a strategy
56:52to get rid of me,
56:55and, you know,
56:55if that was the case,
56:56then he's done well.
56:57It worked.
56:58The only point
56:59that they picked up on
57:00is that I hadn't managed
57:02the budget
57:02as successfully
57:03as I should have done.
57:05And maybe,
57:06you know,
57:07in my line of business,
57:09my margins are so high
57:11that I don't have to
57:14concentrate too much
57:15on budget.
57:16I've learnt that
57:19I don't like retail.
57:23And I don't like pumpkin soup.
57:26One job,
57:28now just six candidates.
57:30Sir Alan's search
57:31for his apprentice continues.
57:36Next week,
57:37Sir Alan invites the apprentices
57:38to his favourite football club.
57:41Tottenham, no!
57:42We couldn't be going Tottenham!
57:43This is a businessman's dream.
57:44Their task,
57:46to promote a mobile phone service
57:48providing team news to fans.
57:51What can we do
57:52to make 36,000 people
57:55text one number?
57:56It's just, you know,
57:57it's just too much.
57:59Why don't we get the linesman
58:00to write the number
58:00in the middle of the flaming pitch?
58:02This is war.
58:03Right, fuck the poster.
58:05They are the enemy.
58:07You're destroying our property.
58:09You cannot destroy it.
58:10Why not?
58:11Because that's wrong.
58:12I'm really sorry
58:13that I'm very,
58:14very loud
58:15but I was born with this gob
58:16and I've got to use it.
58:18There's only room
58:19in the organisation
58:20for one big mouth.
58:21Me.
58:25Next tonight,
58:26Blackadder attempts
58:27to keep his mouth shut.
58:28you're the mummy's boat,
58:30and I've got to let your
58:31down to the left.
58:32The nobody,
58:33I am.
58:33Libertyится.
58:33You have a seat here.
58:34Thanks for hanging out burada.
58:36I'm sorry.
58:37I am.
58:38You're about to have to
58:38go for a little bigger
58:39now.
58:39You're about the one huge
58:41and thequently
58:42of us.
58:43You're about to try
58:44a hand.
58:45I'll wait and bye.
58:46You're about to do this ourselves.
58:47Here you are.
58:47You're about to try
58:47the work from deputy
58:49because you're becoming
58:49now.
58:50You're about to try
58:50to shoot your 이야기.
58:53And I'll save too wide
58:53that you have to assist.
58:54You're gonna have to hope
58:55You