01/03/2012 The One Show

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There we go, we are get gething into the spirit of things, of

course it is David David! They look lovely.

And of course, Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus to everyone in Wales.

I couldn't have stayed better myself.

-- Saint David's Day. Now, from Brookside to Brassed Off, to Waking

The Dead, and of course a certain family with a great taste in

television. Gary Barlow on show show next.

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the number One show. APPLAUSE Oh! Sue Johnston! You have

to love that. That was tremendous! We understand there were a few

complications when filming that? couldn't get in tune. We had to

keep listening to it. Ricky and I were the worst. We

could not get it. It took us forever. Of course, we found it

hilariously funny each time we did it. So it took a lot of takes.

You didn't attempt the high note in the end? Didn't we go up there?

you miss The Royle Family? When we are not doing it, yes, I do. It is

nice now that we seem to do a special regularly.

You do. We missed out last year, but I hope

to do one next year. Are you sensing another special?

think so, yes. If you are a family who watch The

One Show all together, slumped on the sofa like the Royals, we want

to peer through the screen to see you. We can't see you, so the next

best thing is for you to get the camera, pop it on top of the telly,

press the timer and press the picture and send it into us. Show

us your favourites later on. In 2006, former bricklayer turned

writer, Benjamin Mee did something rash. He sold up everything his

family had and bought a zue. Now the story has been turned into a

big screen block buster. Matt Allwright has been to see how he is

hand ing -- handling the Hollywood treatment.

It has all of the ingredients you expect for a family Hollywood block

buster. A newly widowed parent, played by MattDamon. Sells up and

buys 50 zue in cute sunny California. We bought a zoo! Which

is all very well, but the real Benjamin Mee story happened in

Devon, not thousands of miles away in the west coast of America. If

they have messed with this bit, what else have they changed? With

his wife terminally ill, Benjamin bought the zoo in order to secure a

future for his family. What did you find when you arrived

here? It was rotting infrastructure. The enclosures had not been cleaned

out for many months. What amazed me when we opened to the public for

the first time was how the animals perked up and basked in theed a

ration of it. These are the South American

racoons. That is incredible. So, Matt Damon as you, is that

something that you can get used to? No, I still haven't gotten used to

that. They asked me two years ago to come up with a list of people. I

thought I liked Matt Damon. He is good. Then I got a call from

Hollywood, he had said "yes". I wake up in the morning, I think

that I wrote a book that's been made into a Hollywood film and Matt

Damon is playing me and it is very difficult to get used to. Is it

something that you hope will keep this place running? I hope so. The

book went into the infrastructure, the ground, the running of this. I

hope that the film brings attention to the fact that the zoo is here.

You can't have a zoo without visitors.

In the film, Benjamin's son struggles with the move to the zoo,

but in real life, it seems that the children have taken to real life

work in the zoo better than their dad.

I like scrubbing him with a toothbrush and it makes him shiny.

When you go to school and tell the kids that you live in a zoo, what

are the questions that come out? What is the favourite animal? Do

you live there? Do you have tigers? Right, so all of the questions I'm

asking? Yeah. Living here, with all of the different creatures and the

lovely people that I work with, it is a great balance.

What a great, great story. No doubt they had made it into a movey.

can see you buying a zoo. We Bought A Zoo is in the cinemas

from March 16th. So, if Hollywood were to do a

version of your memoirs, tell tell, who would play yourself? Apart from

yourself, Sue? I think it would have to be, gosh, I have forgotten

her name... Barbara Streisand. Barbara Streisand? She is the only

person with such a big nose. You have not got a big nose? Well,

I think so. Who would you have gone for?

would have gone for Meryl Streep. So, your book, an interesting title.

It delve noose the world. You had a few communication difficulties with

your mum, why was that? I think, I didn't when I was young, at all. My

mum and I had a great relationship when I was little. Even when I was

in my early teenage years, but then... I think it is a generation

thing. Fear? Yes, very much. I realise

that more from the book. What my mother's generation, coming from

Victorian parents, she was the third daughter, the fourth child

was a boy. They went through the war. They had nothing. They didn't

get educated. In the main, families like working-class families didn't.

Suddenly we had it all. We came out of the war. My generation, they

were the generation that women suddenly got educated. They could

forge a career. She used to say, bitterly, "I wish you had never

been educated." She saw that as driving a wedge between us. I think

that she felt it gave her an inferiority complex.

Being the girl, there was pressure on you? Very much. They had great

expectations as I passed my 11 plus. Especially my dad. We would have

loved to have gone to university, he did not get that opportunity.

They thought that I was throwing it away as I warn the -- wanted to be

an actor. It was like being involved in prostitution.

In my dad's terms. Coming to London, they only ever come here once a

year. Obviously your career went from

strength-to-strength. In the final moments, what did your mum think of

what you had achieved? She never would tell me. She would say to the

family she didn't want me to get above herself, but when she died

and I cleared her house I found scrap books of all of my career.

Programmes, cuttings that she had been keeping. Quietly squirreling

away all of these articles. I found that incredibly moving, really.

You were speaking in the make-up room before the show, the only

thing you were saying that she would comment on was the costumes?

Much like my mother! But there are lots of revelations in your book,

one of them is the way that you are responsible for this hit, really.

Let's have a listen. # For goodness sake

# I have the hippy shakes # Yeah, I got the shakes

# I got the hippy, hippy shakes # Oh, I can't sit still. # So, what

is the story? I was out there! I used to go to the Cavern.

You went a lot? Yes, every lunch time, every evening, the Tax Office

that I worked on was on the corner of the street of where I worked and

where the Cavern was. I still have my membership card. I could go for

a shilling at lunch time and watch Beatle, The Big Three. All of the

swinging clubs, all of them. Then I would be back there in the even. I

loved it. It was such an exciting time to be in the club.

And then, sorry Norman if you are looking, I'm so sorry about, this I

would drag my boyfriend out again, he was my first really serious

boyfriend. And... I tell you what happened, I

worked in Brian Epstien's shop. We got in lots of American imports. I

said to, I took it back to my boyfriend and said listen to this,

it would be great if you covered this. He did.

And your book has all of the stories.

Yes, and many more. Didn't your mother used to call

Paul the Dirty Beatle? Yes. She met him. Somebody took a photograph of

me, her and Paul. I took her really to meet the Queen. Paul was there.

She said, "Remember me, I used to call you the dirty Beatle." She was

more thrilled with him, I have to say, than she was with the dear

Queen. Well, it is all in the book. The

book is out today. Now, we are moving on to gold. For

some Asian families in the UK, gold does not just have a high financial

value, it has traditional and personal circumstances. Sadly, it

is these families that are being targeted by thieves.

At this Asian wedding fair, brides and grooms are preparing for the

big day. A vital ingredient in most Asian

weddings is gold. It can often form part of a dowry where the bride's

family give gold to the happy couple instead of money.

It is a gift it is symbolic. I have gold from my mother's side that

belongs to my mum, now she has given it to me. The value is always

there, it cab -- can be taken anywhere in the world.

Gold is a good investment. It can be easily turned into cash. The

problem is that the thieves know this too. That is why the Asian

community and their gold is increasingly becoming a prime

target. The gold given at weddings is passed down through generations.

The purer the better. It is not unusual for the dowry to be 22

carats or more. At the moment that costs about �30 a gram. Mr And Mrs

Mahill received gold on their wedding day. For 16 years they kept

it at home, until the thieves broke They came into the bedroom.

Everything was scattered everywhere. In the cupboard was the gold boxes.

Everything was taken. How much gold are we talking about?

Well, the fact is that the gold that was there has been passed down

from generations. The cost of it was probably �30,000, but the value

with the gold going up in this time it is probably worth about �200,000.

The thieves were only after the gold. They left �300 in cash behind.

We have spoken to Police Forces across the UK. They are concerned

about the rise in the theft of Asian gold. This couple have only a

few things left, including a wedding ring and bangle. The rest

is damaged pieces of jewellery. These are sweet. Those were my

son's. That is me on my wedding day.

This is your necklace? My nan had this made for me. They are memories.

His dad had said to his grandson that you are going to wear that

when you grow up. All of the gold, was it insured?

Why keep so much gold in the house? A lot of it was sentimental value.

You don't look at it as a financial value of it. No-one expects this to

happen to them. In hindsight, yes. . L We did inquire about different

things to do, but it was costly for In Birmingham, this jeweller buys

up to �18,000 of gold each week. Half of it is Asian. Here, we have

a mixture of Asian gold. What is the difference? Here it is 75%,

this is 90%. How do you test it? Years of experience. Also, we have

technology so we can text it with an X-ray. Because Asian gold is so

pure, it is easy to see why thieves want to steal it. It is very

valuable. Any person who does a simple burglary, they get one piece

of jewellery and that is worth �1,000. Has there ever been a

moment when somebody has Khamenei and you have thought, I do not

believe that is yours? Not in the last hour. But unfortunately it is

a daily occurrence. Here, they try to ensure that the gold they buy is

legitimate. They asked for supporting paperwork and

identification. They also use CCTV and pass information on any one may

suspect is in possession of stolen gold on to the police. It is a very

weighty. How much is this worth? About �130,000. Police here and in

other parts of the country have been offering the Asian community

advice on how to keep gold safe. They say wherever possible keeper

blocked somewhere secure, preferably away from your home.

That is cold comfort to this family. For them, it is already too late.

It's really upsetting to know that we have kept it for so long and it

Karen Lee is from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Before we find out why she is here, we come to you, Sue. You had

experience of gold theft, didn't you? One summer they were taking my

mother's rings and watch, and my great grandmother's ring. No sign

of them? No. I do not know if they were as valuable as the things in

that film. But they were very valuable to me. This is very

valuable, incredibly valuable. It is one of the most valuable 33

grams of gold in the world. We have security guards, it has been locked

believe it sister was sold for $7.6 million? Why is it so special?

is a vox Dei an-hour collection for many reasons. Look at her, she is

gorgeous. The design was meant to tell anyone who looked at her, this

is a powerful, evocative, provocative Lady Liberty. She is

also a special because she survived the massive meltdown of gold coins

in the United States in 1933, when the President took the country off

the gold standard. More than 500,000 coins were made in 1933.

But they were all melted down when we left gold as our standard

backing of our monetary currency. That is the 33 Double Eagle. How

many of these coins are existence? Originally we thought there were

three. The two that this may Estonian had and the one that came

from report. Recently we have discovered that 10 more exist.

There are a total of 13. Unlucky for some! If he would like to

salivate over it yourself, it is on display at Goldsmiths' Hall this

weekend. She is actually holding it. We were not allowed to. I moved in,

close. There was tragic news today about the death of PC David Rough

Band, the policeman shot and blinded by Raoul Moat in July 2010.

-- David Rathband. We followed his story closely. He visited the

studio and Victoria Derbyshire went to meet him as he tried to adapt to

his new life. On a day-to-day basis, what are the

practical, everyday things that you find difficult? Everything. From

getting into the shower, to finding the soap, shampoo, my shaver. It is

only because I am determined that I go out of a house. To pick up a

white stick and walk out of a house with no vision at all... It's

extremely hard. I had the challenge of getting well. And then I had the

challenge of setting up the charity, which took over me being ill. Then

you get to the point way you think, what is next? I picked the London

Marathon. When I ran, I do not feel connected to anything. I am free,

really. Victoria is here now. You have met him quite a few times,

from The One Show and Radio 5 Live. We saw incredible strength, but

what was your experience? He is the bravest man I have ever met. He was

sitting in the driver's seat of his patrol car when Raoul Moat came up

and shot him through the passenger window at point-blank range. He

survived and I interviewed him three or four days after that. He

was still in his hospital bed. He was so composed, stoical and

philosophical about what had happened. Three days afterwards?

The listeners, none of us could believe how strong he sounded, the

word that kept coming up over and over again to describe him was

inspirational. David Cameron described him as being

extraordinarily brave. Did you sense any anger or bitterness at

all? Not towards Raoul Moat, extraordinarily enough. I remember

David telling me once that he was angry with himself because he

hadn't been able to do more to protect himself from this gunman.

He hadn't been able to stop this man taking his sight from him. That

obviously had a huge effect on him and the rest of his family. He did

not want to waste any negative energy on this man. He wanted to

concentrate on trying to recover, getting used to using the stick,

adapting his home, a lot of which he found frustrating. He was a very

independent and, obviously. Fund- raising as well, he has the Blue

Lamp Foundation as a lasting legacy? What would like to hope so.

When this act of violence was perpetrated against him, he was

taken aback that he could not work, there was no financial help for him

to pay the bills and keep the family going. He set up the Blue

Lamp Foundation to give help anybody from the emergency services

in this country that were injured in the line of duty, to give them

cash immediately. And he very much. Our thoughts are with his family

and friends. We talked about gold earlier wrong.

We are skipping the cell and going straight to the bronze. The Bronze

Age, anyway. Here is Dan Snow on an archaeological find that could

rewrite the history books. The fenlands of East Anglia is now

a landscape sculpted by agriculture. 3000 years ago, this land looked

very different. It was criss- crossed with waterways. Today, very

few of those remain. This whole area used to be a mass of river

tributaries, Marsh and little islands. That landscape has

vanished, but archaeologists are uncovering the secrets of the

people that once lived here. The long-lost network of waterways made

it possible for Bronze Age communities to turn the area into a

centre of commerce. Archaeologists digging here 3000 years later are

discovering the ancient and incredible vessels that made it all

possible. Mark Knight is the lead archaeologist. What are you

expecting? We have always dreamt about the iconic find, to find a

log boat. We found six! You found six canoes? Each one is different

from the next. The number of canoes found here is extraordinary.

Ancient canoes rarely survive, because what of this age

disintegrates when it is exposed to the air. Deep in waterlogged soil,

it has been preserved. Many of them are almost complete. This is

incredible for 3000 years old. I was expecting to see a few bits of

sticks and stones. The best thing about this, barrage just one or two,

there is a canoe coming out of the ground now. How is it going? This

is a really long one, isn't it? This is the longest one we have,

nearly nine metres. The huge size of the canoe reveals the scale of

Bronze Age trade. They are too big to be used for just getting around.

Archaeologists believe that they were cargo canoes, built to

transport great quantities of goods. Other finds from the site show that

these bronze says -- Bronze Age Britons were not just trading

locally, they were importing goods from overseas. We have things

coming from north-western France, Central Europe, glass beads, a sort

that has an affinity with northern Spain. What?! That is incredible.

That is a late or Middle Bronze days she Rapier. Still shark?

Pristine. -- sharper. Someone is exporting them from Spain, they are

riding here? That is the feeling, that sense of a network of trade.

The Bronze Age world is a lot more international than I would have

imagined. It's incredible to think that the key to the distribution of

these valuable imports were these actual canoes. Historian Clinton

Chandler has made a replica. Do not be alarmed by the water. Has it

been coming in? A bit, yes. They all do that, don't worry. I'll push

off. Look at that, like a feather. This replica might be smaller than

the ones uncovered at the quarry. But it is still very difficult to

control. It shows how well practised these Bronze Age traders

must have been, transporting goods on boats like these would have been

part of everyday life for them. They are a complete beast to steer,

aren't they? Steering is not the strong point. But for long, steady

journeys, they will do the job. So they would be using the river

network like we use the roads? These are the highways? Things like

this would have been the lorries and buses. Finds like those canoes

completely changed our views of our Bronze Age ancestors. Rather than

living their lives in huts, struggling to survive, they had a

busy, networked existence, driven by trade and commerce. The more we

look at the Archaeology, it seems like our forebears are more like us

than we might think. Clinton was very brave, inviting a

6 foot 4, 15 stone man into a rickety canoe. Wearing a heavy

park! For Sport Relief this year we would like you to also get a bit

physical. But don't worry, you don't need to be able to roll a

canoe, you just need to be able to run one mile. It should take about

10 minutes. We are looking for a viewer has to form a relate train,

from the Isle of Mull to the Royal Mall in London. Listen up

Lancashire, the Peak District, the Midlands, Staffordshire and

Worcestershire. We are calling on you, it is your turn. If you live

anywhere near any of the locations you can see on your screen, or you

can easily get to those areas, we would love you to get involved. All

you need is a pair of trainers. can apply on the Sport Relief

website. What could be better than getting a bit of exercise while

raising money for a great cause? How about getting a very snazzy T-

shirt? As modelled by Dave, he is in the zone already. Very trendy!

You will find the details you need and details on other events as well.

Earlier on, in your honour, we asked viewers to send photos of

themselves in by setting the time and putting it on top of the

television. This is the Maynard family, at home and watching The

One Show. That is very like the The Royal Family. Every Thursday,

chicken dinner night. Four generations. They have the same

name as my maiden name, but but I do not know then, honestly. Ellen

and Alice watching The One Show, when they should be in bed! And the

Wright family. I think they have two televisions. Half of them are

looking that way. Anyway, that is all for tonight. Thank you very

much indeed. Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother is out today. Tomorrow,