01/11/2011 The One Show

Welcome to the programme. We add joined by a Lord. A Lord Sugar of

Amstrad? Posher than that. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber? Love him but

no, posher than him. On our humble sofa. How did you know? It is the

creator of Downton Abbey, Lord Julian Fellowes. Everybody knows

you as Julian. You will get a thick ear from Andrew for that. Your

mother-in-law calls to a completely different name. I never know where

you get this stuff. It is true. My mother in law wanted my wife Emma

to marry a chap called Evelyn, not any one, there was a specific man.

It didn't happen and she married me so my mother in law's compensation

was to call me that name. Since this has been going on for 21 years

I have given them, and signed things like that now. You mustn't

fight beyond reasonable limits. with your mother-in-law. We will be

talking about Downton Abbey later. We have got an exclusive. Matthew

and Mary, will they? Figures out this week show in some parts of the

UK children ready to be adopted are taking longer to be placed in

families than other places. Jeanette Winterson's Burke Luke

Wiwatowski title published her adopted mother as apparent. -- A

title. Let me see her. God gave her to me. A you have nothing to do

with God, you have a heart of stone. I said he told you to come out

here? I am your real mother. She was just the carrying case that

I rated because I wanted to talk about what was like growing up as

an adopted child using some of my experiences -- I wrote it. 25 years

after I rated I discovered some new and disturbing facts about my own

Behind this front door I spent most of my child could with Mr and Mrs

Winterson. I never asked her if she loved me, at the she loved me on

those days when she could love me, there was the best she could do.

Locked out on this doorstep I knew there was no safe place outside of

myself so I had to find a safe place inside, and that is how I

found the books. When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she

said the devil will lead us to the wrong a crib. The image of Satan

taking time off the cold war and McCarthy is and to visit Manchester,

1960, purpose of visit, to deceive Mrs Winterson has a flamboyant

theatricality about it. She was a flamboyant depressive, a woman who

kept a revolver in the dusty drawer and the bullets in a tin of the

Pledge. It is places like this way you find me in all weathers. I came

up here to escape the rages and regret of my tease -- Mrs Winterson.

She had adopted me but I wasn't what she wanted. You think I am not

exactly the poster girl for adoption. But it was better for me

to be with her, then to be in a children's home. She was a monster.

After my dad died I found some old forms about my adoption. Mrs

Winterson had hidden them for nearly 50 years. I decided to try

and find out if my birth mother was still alive. Mrs Winterson had

always said she was dead. I had been damaged, and an important part

of me had been disallowed -- destroyed. That was my reality. On

the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And

as long as I had words for that, in Bee Gees, stories, I wasn't lost --

images. I found my biological mother and that has been a

wonderful thing and a difficult thing for both of us. There is no

Hollywood happy ending. But there is forgiveness. And there is love.

Her experience of adoption was not an altogether happy one but there

are so many positive stories out there. It is National Adoption Week

and if you are thinking about adoption or fostering there is a

lot of details on our website. Moving on to Sunday night

television. The nation has been gripped by the Mary and Matthew

story line. You can make a nation happy. What way? Not only am I not

going to tell you, but if I did tell you I would ruin it for

millions of people out there. They don't want me to tell you.

million people are very excited about what will happen. We have got

a little scene from Sunday's episode. Let's have a look at the

Cousin Violet came to me and told me to marry you. When was this?

a while ago. Classic granny. What did you say? I couldn't accept.

Sacrifice of her life, children, future. And then give her the brush

off when I was well again. I couldn't, could I? Of course not.

However much I might want to. we leave it there.

Little teas at the end. There is a Christmas Day special. The areas. A

two hour movie to get you through the end of Christmas. Does it snow

at the wedding? You really had me there. Very good. It is not going

to work. It has been incredibly successful. What is the magic

ingredient? You are always being wise after the

event. The truth is you do not know. You make any show, like we all do,

you hope it has got the right ingredients, find an audience. But

with this tidal wave, obviously we have got something right. My only

theory is, for what it's worth, say is that we did take a line on the

groups of characters in it. If it had been made in the 50s, the

family would have been very gracious, all the servants would

have been funny. If it had been made in the 90s the servants would

have been gallant and the family would have been horrible. But we

haven't done either of those. We have a group of people who live and

work under this roof, and we treat them exactly the same in terms of

narrative important. The romance between Matthew and Mary, there

isn't one that is more important than the other, they are equally

important. And all the characters are equally important. That gives

it a tub of maternity, but for a lot of people, -- a type of

modernity. You have got the family of the characters, everybody else

is subsidiary, there is a limit to who you can identify with. Whereas

we have a broad range of people you can identify with in terms of age,

Tiger, background. That is one of the things we did get right. --

type of background. A lot of it is based on true fact and things that

happened in history and your own family's experience. We have got

this little picture of your father. The reason I was asked to bring

that is because I used that moment when Robert Grantham comes out and

says we are at war with Germany. That was my father's memory. He was

at a garden party in Hampshire with his nurse and mother and it was his

first memory. He was about two years old, the same age as there. I

said, why do you think is stuck in your mind? He said, I can only

suppose that the atmosphere changed so extraordinarily with all the men

and women and the guests and the people serving them, it must have

been so electric that even for a child you thought, that lodged in

his brain. World War I, but also the Spanish flu pandemic gets to

Downton Abbey on Sunday. I am not sure I am prepared to comment about

that. You must be at have trained in a very soft school. One question

and it all comes out? Will we need a funeral costume? Nothing. Will

there be a third series? We all hope so. We hope it with a man took

a degree of confidence. ITV plays its cards very close to his chest,

as does the BBC. We will keep our fingers crossed.

We will not pressure you any more. During her time on the programme

Marina has got -- Miranda has got close to some amazing wildlife.

in candour she has recently had off the coast of Cornwall has even left

her speechless -- one encounter. Earlier this year I went to

Falmouth to make a film about the sea life living on a sunken wreck.

It is an area I have damp -- dived countless times but on this

occasion something very unexpected happened. While I was talking to

the camera crew it suddenly became aware we were not alone in the

water. Dolphin. Where? There it is. He is so big. That is something I

never expected to see. I hope you rot on the boat can hear what we

are talking about because it is amazing -- you lot of. The boat

team could here might excitement using the underwater communication

system for top they had their That is the friendliest dolphin I

have seen. I cannot stress how unusual this is. Dolphins generally

do not like the bubbles from Skeeby divers. It hung around even as we

were beginning hour a cent. I was starting to question why he was so

interested. -- beginning hour a cent. Bottlenose dolphins are

common all over the world living in large groups called iPods. The

closest they normally get a to humans is when they write alongside

a boat. They often sustained severe injuries. You can see the not taken

out of its Fine, that could be boat damage. -- you can see the notched

taken out of its finish. Such a friendly dolphins are virtually

unheard of in British waters. The encounter was magical but left me

with the question, why was he alone? A representative of marine

corrections -- connections is an expert on solitary dolphins. It was

amazing haven't it interact but why would a dolphin like that be on its

own? Obviously it is a young male. They

could be it has reached sexual maturity. It has left the group for

breeding purposes. It could have become separated during bad weather.

Really? If there it is extremely bad weather young animals can be

separated. If you look at it it has got very distinct markings. They

Iraq a lot of lines on it. Could that be signs of aggression --

There are a lot of lines on it. is not necessarily always

aggression. They tend to play fight, just like children. The thing that

struck him meet is the big line that runs almost down one flank.

They could be met lines. More evidence that the dolphin is too

familiar with people and straying too close to boats. Worryingly

since my encounter he has been spending more time with other

divers in the area. What about the future? That is the million dollar

question. Since Ewshot this footage it has been seen with other

dolphins. -- since it you shot at this footage. It could be his

mother, sister. It has been seen at socialising with another dolphin.

It is great to hear he has found the company of another dolphin.

Hopefully he will break his bad habit of spending time with humans

What a wonderful surprise, down to film a shipwreck and a dolphin

turns up. I did think, when the dolphin was in the water that the

camera men were joking, but then the Dolphin did appear halfway

through the diving. I was struggling to know if we were meant

to film the ship record a dolphin, but luckily we got both. It was

amazing. Is it right you can't see Dolphins in captivity in the UK

anywhere now? It is widely accepted that keeping an animal like this in

the UK is crawl. They are intelligent and they range out for

thousands of miles and they are very social, so to keep them in

isolation is like keeping them in a prison cell. Although that is not

the same worldwide. There are some countries that have Dolphins in

captivity. Has the Dolphin been spotted in France? He has been

spotted in Brittany is well as the Cornish coast. He has now got

friends. He has been seen interacting with other Dolphins,

but not with a whole lot. somebody said there was a dolphin

behind me and I saw the fame -- of the dorsal fin, I would have to get

my Marine knowledge up to the top of my brain. I would be the same as

you, Julian. That is definitely a possible scene for Series 3. This

captivity thing, and I am sure you are right, but there are two sides

to it. Most children would know nothing of the wildlife. When I

take my children to the zoo, I think they have a massive role in

conservation and education book with an animal like a dolphin which

swims for thousands of miles, you cannot put it on its own in a box.

I am much happier with things born in captivity anyway so at least

they have not had to adjust the circumstance. But I think it is

marvellous that they are more humane. But nevertheless I think

they have a role to play. My kids would not know anything about a lot

of animals if I did not take them to the zoo. Thank you, brander, and

we will look forward to what she saw down their necks by -- thank

you, Miranda. Today he's All Saints Day. All day! An opportunity for

Sister Wendy to test the artistic knowledge of Phil Tufnell of the

The Saints have always been a special source of inspiration.

These are people who buy their own efforts have moved closer to the

divine. So it's not surprising that they feature so strongly in the

works of art here. Sister Wendy showing the three favourites.

Lovely to see you again. Who is that chap there? These is St

Christopher, the patron Saint of travellers. He was an imagined St,

as travellers needed protectors -- needed protection and a manager and

St Christopher. Sir he didn't exist? Is that true of all the

Saints? Now, that is the exception. St Christopher was a giant and he

felt that with his enormous stature he should have a job commensurate

with that, so he travelled the world looking for a great keen to

serve and could not find one. Then, when he was despairing, he met a

hermit who said to him, instead of trying to find a keen to sell for

your own glory, serve other people. -- aching to serve. He took a job

ferrying people across the river. One-day he was asked to cross the

waters, and Christopher thought that that was child's play, and as

he walked the child grew up the beer and heavier. He felt as if he

was carrying the world on his shoulders. The child said, yes, you

are, because I am Jesus and I am carrying the world on my shoulders.

And then he blessed St Christopher. And so St Christopher became a

Saint. From our most painted it took most imaginary St, to another

well-loved one, St Francis of Assisi. There are many paintings in

here. Which one of we talking about? It is confusing because they

are all of St Francis, but it is that one we are talking about.

one with the birds in? Yes, but if you look lower, there will, that is

the story of him talking to the birds and the fish, but this is how

he dealt with the wall. That is the town it there. And those are the

people who are in great distress. Because a wharf has turned up and

be stealing their babies -- off. They send a message of despair to

St Francis. Can you come and kill this big bad wolf? St Francis said

he would not and he would have a talk to him. He summons the wolf

and St Francis gives him a lecture and says he is a very bad wolf.

This cannot go on. And St Francis says, listen, bad wolf, if you

behave yourself, the people will feed you and you just have to be a

good will. We will shake hands on that, and you could see him putting

out his poor and you see it he says there will be no more trouble with

the will, and there never was. the moral is, do as you would be

done by. That he's exactly it. Sister Wendy's last joint, -- last

choice, St Peter meet Christ. you have a St Peter and Jesus

outside Rome. There was a persecution in Rome and Peter ran

away. As he was heading out, he met Jesus coming in and Peter said to

Jesus, where are you going? And Jesus said, I am going to Rome. I

will be crucified again. They want their head of the Church to crucify

me and I am stepping in and St Peter will be covered with shame.

And he is sent back to Rome in time to be crucified. Looking at a

painting like that, I realise how faithful one must be to what one is

called to do, not run away when it's difficult. Without the

painting, I might not think of that. Sister Wendy, it is always a joy to

meet you and listen to you talk Always a joy, and Sister Wendy will

be back in a few weeks with the story of the Nativity. Julian, as

when as writing Downton Abbey, Young Victoria, Gosford Park, you

have a new one on the horizon, a bigger epic, the Titanic. Exciting!

Yes, an extraordinary story and when I was asked if I wanted to do

this I knew that if I didn't do it then it wouldn't be me, so I had to

grab it. It is a moving tale. The more you know about it, the

extraordinary courage and, in many cases, human beings at their best.

And we have delved into this in these four episodes, one hour each,

and we take the ship down further every time. You don't have to wait

on our show! Because what we do is tell these people's story and they

got away all of the lifeboats and a couple of what were called collapse

of balls, the extra lifeboats and they managed to get them away and

with some they overturned, but were was not true on the Titanic. We go

to the last boat and only then do you find that they never the less

you have a mounting drama and a different perspective and how

people behave. We have a mixture of real people, fictional people, of

course, but what happens to the real people is what happened and

the fictional people is what we make happen. And that is how we

have sorted it out. Now, we are positive that matter's challenge

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-- full terms. All though it will be painful, it will be

straightforward to get from Edinburgh to London by road, but if

you wanted to walk all round hour curse like -- coastline, it is more

difficult. But now there are some Ever fancied a long walk, I mean,

really, really long walk? A new initiative to join up the coastal

paths around England will see you down to the ground, because it will

end up being 3,000 miles long -- Suji down to the ground. According

to natural England, the agency behind the scheme, a third of the

English coastline is an accessible. Work started here in Dorset with

the aim of getting this stretch up and running ahead of next year's

sailing Olympics off the coast of Weymouth. Although as the event is

out at sea, you will still need a ticket to view the action on giant

screens. All along the coast you have amazing stuff. Wherever you go

there will be things people hold dear to them and other people want

to visit them. When it was first announced, the scheme was predicted

to cost �50 million and take 10 years to complete, but natural

England now says the final bill will be considerably less than that,

although they cannot give an accurate figure. Scotland already

has the right to roam and Wales opens its coastal parts in 20th May

12. Although Northern Ireland has the Causeway Coast or root, they

have no plans for eight linked path. But many of the links are

businesses are not happy -- linked businesses. What are your

objections to opening up the coastal paths in this way? It is

about the fact we have so much access. It is not about joining

them up. We have over 90 % of the English coast already with access.

If they were looking at filling out the gaps, that would be something

we would be able to welcome, but they are not and it seems a waste

of resources in the present climate. The landowners don't object so much

to the idea of a path, but so called spreading room, the

surrounding area which allows walkers to rest, relax and admired

the fields, making it hard for landowners and farmers to use the

land for commercial purposes. a path and joining it up and giving

everyone access is a nice idea. It is not just about a path though, it

is about an area of land going with the path which takes up the

substantial area. If you look over their it takes in all that beat

Hill and goes half a mile inland. That is not coastal access, it is

different from that. It is not only landowners who have grievances.

Some businesses believe unrestricted access could put the

public in danger. Why don't you want people walking through here?

We are a busy commercial port with a lot of activity going on. We

don't want to bring people into that environment as keeping them

safe is extremely important. not everyone is up in arms. Not

surprisingly, ramblers and walkers positively welcome the project.

When you look at the fantastic coastline in Dorset, it inspires

you to get out. You can go out and Out of the 220 landowners, councils

and businesses directly contacted by Natural England, 13 objections

were raised. This means the Planning Inspectorate will now have

to decide if the scheme can go ahead. The proposal for the path in

Dorset could be something of a test case. Natural England says it has

taken on board criticism of the plan for a continuous coastal path,

but meanwhile the objectors have lodged their complaints and now it

is a waiting game to see if they are upheld. But whatever happens it

will be watched with keen interest, because what happens here in

Weymouth could make or break the We have had lots of e-mails on the

subject of adoption. Lynne Carey says they adopted two years ago and

it was a hard process that extremely worthwhile and we would

encourage anyone to give it a go. Milo, aged 12, said he was adopted

two years ago and although it was a long time to take the people --

find the right people it was not too long a time. Julie says I wish

I had been featured because I hit the jackpot when I found my mum and