02/10/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome. They tried to ban them in France but not over here. We

are asking why some British parents think it's OK to enter children as

young as three or four years old into beauty pageants. You can say

whether you agree or not. Also, we'll be finding out what British

wrestling legend Big Daddy was we'll be finding out what British

as a real father. And we we'll be finding out what British

nervous, as both mine and Matt's mums are here. Hello, mums! Whose

mum is whose? And a big shout out to all the dads who are at home holding

the fort. Joining us are two of the nation's favourite performers. It's

Emma Thompson and Sandi Toksvig. Nice to see you both. A lovely,

theatrical entrance. And lovely outfits. We've gone for the boot

thing today. I've gone for the farm look. We've got a mums theme

tonight. We were wondering what type of mums you are, are you Tiger mums?

That is a pushy mother. No. All my children are taller than me, so it's

impossible to tell them what to do. What age did they overtake you?

About four. I don't know if you've heard about this very difficult

parenting situation. The Burgesses are a rugby mad family. They are out

in Australia, four brothers playing rugby league out there. Three of the

lads have been selected to play for England, so mum, Julie, how on earth

does she console the brother who hasn't been selected? That

does she console the brother who going to have a lot more sex. That's

the only thing I can think of. And probably keep more of his own

cartilage than his brothers. You've always got to look for the positive.

Sex and cartilage, what more could always got to look for the positive.

you want? ! Will be talking about Emma's new book later and Sandi's

new tour. Now a question for you. They've changed your nappy, kissed

your knee when you fell over and make sure you studied hard for your

exams, but what would happen if your make sure you studied hard for your

mum came to work with you for a week? One British businesses finding

out. Its boss admits the office doesn't run as smoothly as it could,

so we suggested he gets some help and test out if really does best. --

if mum really does know best. This is one of Britain's most

successful online job site. This is John Sold, the director. He is

always there when the staff need him, and sometimes when they don't.

We have about 350 people working here, the core of which are

salespeople. We have the ad agency, the international sales department.

Online recruitment is hugely competitive, and John is always

looking for that little something to stay ahead. We have the graduate

team here, future talent teams. John feels that total jobs runs like a

slightly dysfunctional family. And he's got the analogy to prove it.

When you look at a group of salespeople like this, it's bit like

a barrel of broken biscuit -- 's kids. They've all got some kind of

floor in them. They are all slightly damaged goods. At the end of the

day, a good biscuit is still a good biscuit. This office of broken

biscuits are about to get the dumping of their lives. John! John

is setting aside expensive consultants and instead is inviting

in three of his staff's mums, along with his very own mother-in-law, to

see if mums can make business sense. We've had to learn to live with each

other. At times it has been fantastic and at times it has been

quite stressful. Sheila in three words? Never wrong, ever. We have

fought bitterly and at times emotionally, write to the end of the

path and then come all the way back to the beginning again. So could

this be the worst managerial decision John has ever made? I'd be

lying if I said I wasn't nervous. People might not get her very unique

sense of humour. But that is something this New Age businessman

can live with for the sake of the company. If it makes our people

happier, I think other customers will want to do more business with

us. Happy people equals happy customers equals profit. John has

chosen three key personalities in the office who he thinks would

profit from a dose of their own mums. I'm really excited to see if

mum is really know best. Ryan is one of the online sales team leaders. My

team would describe me as a bit of a slave driver. Quite sharp in the

things I say. I tend to take the make up of people. When Ryan was

growing up, he was a complete and utter nightmare because he'd be

running all over the place, climbing walls, throwing himself off things.

Taking him out was quite stressful. If my mum was in the office, she

would be perhaps a much better people person than me. She's just

very nice. I really enjoy having Ryan around. It's nice to still have

him at home, even at 27. Jill is customer services director. I can't

wait for her to come and see where I work, the people I work with. The

office is quite messy, I would imagine. She can be a messy child.

My mum has her own career. She's 67 imagine. She can be a messy child.

but she's working past her retirement. I don't think she's ever

worked in an office environment before. I like messing with

computers, that is one of the things I'm really looking forward to. I'm a

bit of an IT geek. Victoria Works in the future talent team. I don't

really know what to expect. She gets really stressed with me. If I try to

give her any advice I usually get, mum, you just don't know! I did say

to her, I'm entitled to my opinion, I'm your mother. Victoria would

say, if mum's way or the highway. With the mothers waiting, it's time

for Mother's Day for Total Jobs. I've got your mother-in-law at

reception. Coming up... Embarrassing interrogation. I needed to be honest

and tell the truth. And boss, John, has the tables turned on him in the

boardroom. Do another one weakness, what you think that is? Erm...

Sheila and John fought bitterly what you think that is? Erm...

the end of the path out of work. Later, we'll be seeing what happens

when they were let loose in the office. And they'll be here later.

Emma, you've taken your mum, Phyllida Law, to work on many

occasion. You more productive when she's around or do you feel more

stressed? We didn't really act in scenes together. Because you are

sort of on the same level. We are both working for someone. Do you

find that you practice out of work? We do. We did one film together, we

did the whole script in the car on the way to work every morning. She

hated me so much by the end of it. You live across the road from each

other. That's handy. We open the front door and we can see into each

other's Kitchens. I'm not sure how healthy it is. I'm beginning to

think now that I possibly might have to leave home at some point. Maybe

not. She just lifted finger, she drags herself over the road. Sandi,

what about your mum? You told us about your dad last time, but what

about your mum? Reed she is astonishing. She is like a gazelle.

She's incredible. She has done three separate university degrees. In art

will stop and in English. She's incredible. I never take her to work

because mostly I'm sitting writing or doing one-woman shows on stage.

It would be boring for her. She'd be on a chair beside me. Do you bring

up a lot and ask for advice? She's always there for me. She's my steady

rock. We showed you our mums earlier on. Later, we will ask to see

rock. We showed you our mums earlier whether you can guess which is

Matt's mum and which is my mum. Have a good look. Any hunch at this

stage? No, I think you've got a netball team in from the under 21s!

Last weekend in Bali, Miss Philippines, Megan Young, one the

most famous beauty contest on the planet, Miss World. She was

reluctant to receive the crown. She said, it's not about me, it's about

making a difference to my country and the world. Nice sentiment. At

the same time, kids as young as nine weeks old were getting ready for a

much smaller, home-grown competition in Chester. Many feel uneasy about

beauty pageants were under 16s, and the French government are trying to

ban them. We sent young mum Haley to find out what it takes to become a

junior beauty queen. Preparations are under way to address this hotel

conference room in time for a stampede of excited children.

Today, little girls and even some boys are going to be competing

against each other and strutting their stuff on this very catwalk, in

the hope of being crowned a winner. Pageants have been huge in the

States and are now increasingly popular here. The organisers told us

that at this event alone, there are over 100 people. There are also

multiple categories, so that every child gets a prize. I've come to

meet the Adlington family from Liverpool and their five children,

who are going to be competing today to see who is the cutest. We've done

who are going to be competing today around ten or 11 pageants so far.

who are going to be competing today About one a month. Is that a lot of

trouble and expense? It's been quite expensive. We probably spent around

£5,000 so far this year. That was expensive. We probably spent around

our savings, but it's the kind of thing we would save up for a

holiday. There's lots of criticism about putting make-up on children's

putt faces, dressing them up, what do you say to those people? If

children take part in ballet board do you say to those people? If

disco dancing, any of those things, children will wear make-up. It's no

different than any dance competition. And the confidence that

it's given our children... Willow has always been painfully shy. Since

we've done pageants, she's really come out of her shell. Jasmin has

had issues about her weight. Since she's been doing pageants, she's

really come into her own. You are being judged by the judges but they

don't judge you on what you look like. At the last pageant I came

first. I was most definitely the biggest girl in the group. So maybe

it can be good for their self-esteem. These children will be

schooled on their stage presence, personal appearance and overall

impression, by a panel of reigning beauty queens, who will also take

account of their age. I've never been to one of these before, so I'm

not sure what to expect. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it,

we'll have to wait and see. I think they are quite young to be

dancing the way they are doing. They don't realise it but I do, it makes

me feel a bit uncomfortable. The majority of their outfits are pretty

clean cut, but I have seen a Pamela Anderson, a Dolly Parton and a

clean cut, but I have seen a Pamela Madonna. I'm keen to know if these

parents have concerns about putting their kids on the catwalk at such an

early age. They are not hurting anyone. It is something that most of

the children enjoy, I can't say all of them. She got spray tanned

yesterday, she likes it. The mum of this little girl thinks her daughter

likes a spray tan, and maybe she does, but is that the point? I

couldn't help wondering if kids so young should be getting this kind of

beauty treatment. This is about looks. Do you see that as a problem?

Nope. I think it's a good thing. I know she's beautiful and she knows

she's beautiful. She might as well be competing. Do you ever feel, oh,

my little girl is growing up? I think it's the opposite. I think it

keeps them young, they are dressing up as princesses. More than pop

stars who look older than they are. I didn't realise just how young some

of the princesses could be. You must be Jessica. Who is this? Ella is one

of the youngest pageant agents. She's weeks old. You entered her

even before she was born. Why did you do that? Because there was a

even before she was born. Why did category, I thought I'd see how she

got on with it. How does it work with the babies? I believe it is

judged on cuteness. There is definitely a little girl

inside of me who would have loved to have had her hair done, where those

frocks and some of the kids in their were really happy. But there's also

a parent inside of me now. So is it tasteless or harmless fun? I don't

think it's my thing. But I can't deny that both the parents and the

think it's my thing. But I can't children here have had a pretty good

time. Some interesting vibes coming from the mothers in the studio.

Angellica is here. The French government have said they are trying

to ban these contests. Strange feelings going through me seeing

that film but what is their argument? They wanted to get rid of

pageants for under 16-year-olds in France and that came about in 2010,

following a report on hyper sexualisation of children. The

French Senate voted on a law not sexualisation of children. The

only to ban those pageants but also adult style clothing for youngsters.

That has gone through, it has been approved but it has not been passed

by the National Assembly. Hopefully that will be done this year. In the

pageant we saw, there was lots of emphasis on the make up and the Hare

and the false lashes, are they all like that? All pageants are not like

the one we have seen, they all differ. We have spoken to

organisations who say they do not allow make up on the children at

all, they say it does not add anything. They also say that they

marked down children if they are wearing make up. It is a

case-by-case thing. No one would deny that kids like to dress up. But

I think the thing that is uncomfortable with me is the

competitive element. You have a statement on that. It is difficult

when you have your own children. We have spoken to the organiser of Mr

and Miss Natural Sparkle who say these conditions are no different to

cheerleading competitions. They are different, dancing and cheerleading

is after you have put the make up on, there is a point to learning how

to dance or cheerlead. Having make up on and being told you are being

judged on how you look, really, it seems to me a curious idea of how to

value themselves. They say the pageant is about talent and not

about how the child looks, it is about the full package. The

organisers are not here to defend themselves. I wouldn't be where I am

today if it wasn't for the beauty pageant. That is why we have got you

on as a guest. Another argument is that it does build confidence and

the children will have something to aim for. I am not crazy about rating

children on attractiveness, I think all children have some beauty in

them and I don't care for it. I remember doing ballet competitions,

displays, and I do remember wearing make up. I used to put it on

myself, it was alarming. That was all right.

We want to know what you think about this in our One Show vote. Remember,

it is not in any way scientific, it is more like a flavour of what you

are thinking at home. As the French government are in the process of

banning beauty pageants for children, we are asking this simple

question. Should we ban beauty pageants fundus extremes? -- beauty

pageants for under 16 's? Although tonight's show has more

month than you can shake a stick at, we still made room for one important

daddy. A lot of room for a very big one.

My stepdad was Shirley Crabtree, Big Daddy the wrestler, he was a Big

Daddy to everybody. He was loving, caring, cuddly, incredibly handsome.

He did get vote -- voted sex symbol for the over 80s and he was howling

at that! To me, he just looks like this huge giant when I was growing

up. I used to put my arms around him like this and eventually, one day, I

think because I was getting older, I eventually touched and we were like,

yes! I was about two-year 's old when my mum and dad got together. We

grew up in Millbank. Uncle Max was a promoter, uncle Brian was a referee.

They are all in the wrestling game together. A lot of people thought

rattling was a fix. At the end of the day it was entertainment. But

the more entertaining the wrestler, the more you remember them. When dad

had his first leotard made it was from is the Sethi covers and I can

still see that image -- the sofa covers. There was a time when I was

bullied at one point, you think you a hard because you are Big Daddy's

daughter. That was not the case. My cousin stepped in and made sure I

was OK. You're a member when we were mascots? We had the costumes

especially made. -- do you remember? Whenever there were family

interviews, dad like to have them at the farm. It goes back generations.

interviews, dad like to have them at You were a wrestler as well.

Unfortunately, yes. I had to keep it in the family but I didn't last too

long because it was too heavy work for me. This is where we lived in

the heart of the village. We didn't have the fields and the acres that

dad's brothers had but he was happy with his little backyard. He was

never bothered about material possessions, he was happy to walk

about in his tracksuit. He wasn't very money orientated so we rented

the house. One time we won holiday in Monte Carlo, he was offered to

buy an apartment for next door to Orson Welles for £8,000, imagine how

much that would be worth today. Dad used to come out of the house, go

into his gym, do his training with a 16 stone dummy. We always knew he

was up there because the whole house would shake. Part of his training

regime was going to the gym, coming down and sitting in a freezing cold

paddling pool. The more famous he got, his paddling pools got ago. My

dad had a very clean cut lifestyle -- paddling pools got bigger. It was

like a Bonnie and Clyde relationship. My mum was quite a

character in the village to say the least. I don't used always say to

me, are Jane, if we didn't have each other, we would have no sanity. I

always treasure that. One night when dad came home, he had

had a bang on the head in the ring. From that night on, you know your

own father 100% and I knew from that night, things went downhill from

there unfortunately. I got the phone call when I was at work saying that

he had had the biggest of all strokes and he had to be carried out

of the house by the fire brigade, because he was paralysed down one

side. I remember rushing to the hospital and there we were. His

first words were, it is my Powell. -- it is my friend. When he died a

lot of possessions were auctioned for charity. He had this wrestling

belt made to commemorate the thing he had achieved. One quote that sums

him up these people have given me more love than any human being is

entitled to and for that I am truly dreadful. That says it all about my

dad. Big Daddy... We are laughing, it is

amazing that his first outfit was made from the sofa cover. I just

floated the idea of a lime green mankini.

You were saying in the film that you met Big Daddy, was he a gentle

giant? People talk about larger-than-life and all those

expressions but he was just charming. He knew what he was doing,

it was part of show business. Let's talk about your father, Eric

Thompson, who we know from the medical runabout stories who -- The

Magic Roundabout stories which he narrated. Was it a big deal, growing

up in the world of children's literature? Not really, actually. We

were quite sniffy about it, oh, yeah, dad. He wrote the stories in

front of a little machine that he worked with his feet. They were made

by a Frenchman and dad was a complete Francophone, he hated the

French. They thought he had called Dougal after Charles de Gaulle.

There was antagonism about these puppet films that had been destroyed

by this route Englishman who did not write for children ever. He got

letters saying that my mother has told me off for calling my sister a

mollusc, and having to write back to say it is not a rude word. You have

written the Christmas tale of Peter Rabbit. It is so distressing when

the C word comes up in October. Is it right that this was inspired by a

trip to one of Beatrix Potter's Farms. Yes, she was so

extraordinary. We think of her Farms. Yes, she was so

perhaps only in relation to the books that she wrote but she was a

conservationist. She really was responsible for starting the

National trust. She used all the money from those books, she bought

these dutiful places. She never actually lived on that farm. She

lived at Hilltop. I went up there to do a bit of investigation and I met

a turkey. Of remarkable personality. Which you capture Berry well in this

book. -- very well in this book. Thank you. Larger-than-life

creature, very interesting, determines to be in show business,

clearly. It has taken two of us to even sniff at the coat-tails of this

genius, all our efforts and years of work to get anywhere near it. He

needs Benjamin and Peter -- he meets Benjamin and Peter. He is under the

false illusion that he has been asked to dinner as a guest rather

than the main course. It is lovely, how the tale of Peter Rabbit came

about in book form. It was letters that Beatrix Potter wrote. She had

tough, controlling parents. When she was 17, she was accorded a companion

called Annie Carter who married, left, probably breaking her heart.

And had 1 million children. The first child was called Noel, and he

got ill. It is basically the tale of Peter Rabbit. With all the pictures

and the writing. It is exquisite. Most of her books were written as

and the writing. It is exquisite. letters to children. I think because

she was ill when she was a young person as well, she had a real feel

for children who were ill, and the way in which she spoke to them

wasn't at all patronising. It was very direct and often quite dark. In

this case, nine years before the letters were turned into a book and

we have the most pitiful artwork. This is original -- the most

beautiful artwork. This is original artwork. It is her 111th birthday

today. These beautiful watercolours. You can sense the love and the story

works so well with the pictures. How are you work with the illustrator?

-- how do you work? I write the story and I send it to her. I know

-- how do you work? I write the she is such a good illustrator and

very good at the animals thinking. Beatrix Potter never has animals

doing smiley faces or sad faces, they always look like animals. They

are not quite normal because they are wearing clogs but that is the

are not quite normal because they only reason, she is very specific.

Eleanor does the same thing but I only reason, she is very specific.

write things that I know she will enjoy making pictures of because she

is such a wonderful illustrator. I wonder how long she would take to

paint these pictures. Presumably not long because she didn't know how

iconic they would become? All She said the ones that were quick and

spontaneous made her happiest. But she does complain later on, when the

books had become successful, because she was self published at first, but

when they did become successful she became quite, oh, I've got to do

another book. And the illustrations were the part that really took the

time and were quite hard for her. It changed as she got more successful.

The book is out tomorrow. You've got to get them sold. Indeed,

absolutely. I'm trying to get everyone in the mood! I want to see

what happens at the end. Worrying about the turkey. It's time to

return to our new series. One British business is finding out what

happens when you bring mothers into the workplace. Website boss John has

shunned business consultant in favour of bringing in the mums of

three staff members. Much to the amusement of their fellow workers.

This is my team and my desk. It's a giant leap forward for mums. The

This is my team and my desk. It's a first time they've seen their kids

at work. You hear about people bringing their kids into work, mums

are quite a different thing to do. This sums you up. Rune I'm only here

to look at what you are doing. It will be interesting to get their

perspective on things. And really impressed with how tidy your desk

is. The boss has appointed his own mother-in-law, Sheila, to spearhead

his workplace campaign. And they are both determined not to have a

crossword. Why have you never said you work in an area like this? It's

just an office. But it's huge. I always imagined you being very small

and compact. Sorry! Sheila seems to have abandoned the softly softly

approach. Are these all labelled as have abandoned the softly softly

Jamaat They probably could do with a clean out. You need to be better

organised. Are now on the prowl, protecting their young? Not a bit of

it. With clipboards at the ready, they want unsparing detail. I need

you to be honest. Does she speak nicely? Some certain phrases are

interesting. The majority is nice. That's nice, sort of. Is there

anything you could tell me about her antics? We always hear her hangover

stories about sleeping on the bathroom tiles. Isn't it great to

have friends? How does he let his hair down? He hasn't got any hair.

How punctual is Victoria in the morning? Come on, some dirt on her.

Now there's time for home truths. Do morning? Come on, some dirt on her.

you think Ryan is attractive? No. You can always trust your mother!

They do a sweep of the office to gather more information. I felt that

the staff looked as -- us as if we had ten heads, because they saw

nothing wrong. Sheila waste no time in calling a meeting. Kindly, she

invites John into his own boardroom. Your number one weakness on the shop

floor, what do you think that is? Well, I probably would have a it's

something to do with tidiness around the desks or something to do with

the kitchen. She and the other mums are serious about making the company

a better place to work. The first step of many relates to the overall

impression. The desks, food is just left around. A lot of untidiness.

There's a lot of medication. If everyone really poorly that works

here as Jamaat A couple of desks, hello? It needs a blitz. We are

going to change your habits of a lifetime. But it's only five minutes

before the office closes. Oh, my lord! The pool of people we did

approach, I felt for them. It's medication. You need to have your

headache pills, sorry. For the mums, a clean desk and tidy draws the

building blocks for a successful business. I've got tins of baked

beans I've had in here for about a year. Although the first policy is

universally popular. It's kind of like my mum cleaning my room again.

I know where everything is, don't touch it, don't move it. They are

going to up their game. Oh, dear, come on! I bought them and then

realised I didn't have a tin opener. Look! There's more beans. We have

initiated the tidy desk policy and are now going to issue drums of

whites. Victory. It might seem small but for the mums, this is their

Trafalgar... With wet wipes. Next week, they face up to the truth of

their kids' behaviour at work. Sheila's bid to transform the office

gathers pace. The thing that really comes home to me as I walk through

if the deportment. And will this unique team of consultants really

managed to bring some mum sense to this office?

There's a whole series there. Sheila and John are here now, they are

still speaking. They will be on next and John are here now, they are

Wednesday's show again. This has been trialled at Google in the US.

Having had a small experience of it, would it work over here? Should it

be rolled out across the country? I think so. I was a bit nervous about

having my mother-in-law at work, I see enough of her outside of work.

More than enough. I do think it helps when people go into somebody's

workplace, maybe like here today, they get a sense of what they do,

how they do it and who they do it with, so it makes communication

easier from that point of view. But having people come in with a lot of

life experience, giving us a different view on the office was

really refreshing. That's the point. There was a lot of focus on

tidying up, but lots of our viewers would agree there is at an enormous

amount of experience and wisdom there when you reach retirement age.

Even though you are still involved in business, Sheila, was that the

feeling amongst the mums there? His team are so young, the office is so

vibrant and it's great fun, a wonderful atmosphere. But the

serious business, obviously they are doing it daily and so used to it.

But for us coming in and looking at them, it was just... We were

shell-shocked. So how different is John at work to what you see at

home? Totally different. Did your estimation go up? Huge esteem, I've

had a quiet word with him. You simply don't know what they do.

These people invade your life, you have to put up with them, you have

to learn to love them. And then I had an opportunity, I really have

loved every minute of it. The opportunity to go and see what he

does. I've never really spoken to you about your work. I've never

really wanted you to. There's not just a quiet understanding. I love

the way you referred to your staff is broken biscuits, so we've got you

a little treaty, a barrel of broken biscuits. Thanks for coming in.

Earlier, we told you that our mums are in the audience. We'd like you

to try and guess who is Matt's mum and who is my mum. Which one do you

think is Matthew's mother? Can I go up and go over? She's a sheep

farmer. She keeps miniature donkeys. She breathes them. She must

farmer. She keeps miniature donkeys. wide hips!

Put Sandi out of her misery. Janice, step forward and put Sandi

out of her misery. Janice, we had lots of complaints

about your clothes and your elbow patches. Lots of complaints? What do

you think of his outfit this evening? I think it's OK. I don't

know whether lilac is my favourite colour. Even my mum is complaining

now! Do you want a quick guess at Alex's mum? I think I have a notion.

We are quite similar. Is it Barbara? It's not Barbara. It's you, Mary.

Mary, you've been in a few times, what would you say Alex is different

at work than she is at home? No, she's exactly the same but a lot

funnier. Please don't tell me she spends as long at home getting ready

she does here. Thanks to everyone for coming in.

I'm quite nervous with my mother here. I don't know why. You are

doing really well. Do you want her to sit with you, darling? Last week,

Waltham Forest Council in London was the first to prosecute two men for

spitting in public. Manners, be they good or bad, is subject close to

Sandi's heart. She has written a book about it. We went out on the

streets of Birmingham to see what he could get away with. I'm in a cafe,

I'm going to get some lunch. Robbery just soup and a copy. Soup and a

copy, please. I love soup. Hang on a minute. There are few things quite

so irritating is bad manners. But if we feel so strongly about it, then

why do so many others just suffer in silence? I know, it's mad, isn't it?

Do you show your displeasure? No, typical British. I just talked. Are

we really such a pushover? I couldn't just walk to the front of

this queue, could I? Can I get these? Not a word! If you are

this queue, could I? Can I get British you should know how to

queue. That was too easy. Litter is the biggest one, people just

dropping litter. I don't understand why, whether it is just being born

idle whether they just don't care about the environment or don't care

about other people. Attempt two. Still nothing! Nobody opens the door

for ladies. You have got your pram and trying to get through a door. A

lot of people ignore you. And when you are in the middle of prayers and

a mobile phone goes off, that is the height of bad manners. That is

a mobile phone goes off, that is the probably me, to be honest. This

short queue should be no problem. Hold on. No, I was standing there

and you walked in front of me. Sorry, OK. Do you always challenge

people who pushed in? Most of the time. What reaction do you get?

Usually apologise. Well done for confronting the queue jumping. I'd

get angry but wouldn't say anything. The boat has closed so please do not

text because you will still be charged. You've written the whole

book about this. It's very sad that it's come to this. I don't think the

world has gone to hell in a handcart. I think manners change.

When you are child you did not eat things with your fingers and now

lots of things are eaten with fingers. I thought it was good to

have a look at why we do things. Some of the earliest writing of all

time is about manners, the Egyptians wrote about table manners. They

wonderful eight-year-old friend of mine called Mary, I told her to take

her elbows off the table and she said, why? I thought, I had better

find out. It is interesting, things have not changed very much. The

thing about people spitting in the street, mostly we don't like other

people's moistness, that is the street, mostly we don't like other

truth of it. I am not going to go through the list, it is quite long.

For example, if I was to serve soup and I had bought a brand-new

lavatory brush, you still would not want me to stir the soup with the

lavatory brush. Because you don't want to think about the chain of

motion. It is sort of a history of manners. It is beautifully

structured as well. Matt was saying that it is brilliant because you can

check what situation you are going to be in, then you can see how you

should behave. There is a big chapter about Twitter and social

media and because they are quite new, people don't know where the

line is as far as manners are concerned. It is kind of the wild

West of manners and there have been some appalling bad manners. I am a

geek about computers but I think the easiest way to get rid of trolling

is to stop people being able to comment anonymously. You can say

what you like but say it as yourself. Don't hide behind some

name that is not your own. Be brave, stand up and say, I think we should

do this terrible thing, then we all know who said it. I think that is

coming, think it will change, we should not just be the ones to say

it is terrible. You are about to go on tour, My Valentine, you talk

about manners and all sorts of things. Starting in Chichester. What

is the flavour of the show? It is a two-hour show and my ambition is

that the audience feels better when they leave them when they arrive. We

laugh a lot, there is music. Both Emma and I are in our anecdotage, we

tell anecdotes. I spend a lot of time on the radio, it is a chance to

get out and do the live thing. It is where Emma and I started. It is a

nice thing to flex that muscle again. We found this lovely picture

of you both. Do you remember it? Have we got it? Oh, my word. Woman's

hour. My collar up does not look good. You or your collar up a lot

then! I look like Himmler! I thought that at the time! We did the first

and probably only all-female review. And you were reviewed for it, and we

have that as well. It said that both of you set out to prove that women

cannot only be funny but also write funny material. We are glad we

cleared that up! Sandi Toksvig was a little too much mocked Alan Whicker

all the way through. What an extraordinary comment! Was at the

moustache I wore? It obviously hasn't scarred you coming you don't

remember it. I don't, you should never read your reviews, good or

bad. We were the only revue to make money. I was bowled the second time

we did it. -- I was my flatmates said, you looked just

like Nefertiti with no hair. At which point they decided to pin me

down and shave my head. I spent the first night! BaldSandi, your tour

starts on the 5th of October in Chichester.

One tree's leaves have been turning brown for a very different reason.

The horse chestnut tree. Its fruit, conkers, have delighted children for

generation. The first recorded conquer game was played on the Isle

of Wight in 1848. These magnificent giants are as iconic as the game

they created. Now it seems the horse chestnut is falling out of favour

and that is because it is losing its looks. Popular in Victorian times,

the horse chestnut's white or red blooms, also known as candles, were

a regular feature of parks, gardens and newly built residential avenues.

It was a Victorian pastime to promenading down horse chestnut

walks and admire their beauty. Look around any parks today and you will

find Brown, unsightly leaves. Horse chestnuts are under attack and the

majority of the 2 million trees in the UK are infested. If you are

wondering what makes the horse chestnuts turn ugly, it is this. A

tiny caterpillar from an invasive moth called the horse chestnut leaf

miner. It arrived on British shores in 2002 and has been spreading

throughout the UK at about 25 miles a year ever since. This doctor is an

expert on the leaf miner and its cycle. The adults emerge, they lay

their eggs on the leaf and produce tiny caterpillars which burrow into

the leaf. They eat all the green tissue from the leaf and produce

these leaf minds. There are about 30 or 40 different caterpillars just on

this one leaf. How much damage does it cause the tree? Because the

caterpillars are eating all the green material, which is how the

caterpillars are eating all the plant photosynthesise is, it means

it can't photosynthesise as much. It means the conkers are smaller, only

half the size they would be. It seems like it weakens the trees and

makes them more susceptible to other diseases. Despite their ubiquity,

the leaf miner's progress through the leaves has never been filmed

before. The One Show has set up a time-lapse camera to capture the

microscopic invader in action. We have placed a young horse chestnut

tree infested with a moth in an isolated room. Our cameras are time

tree infested with a moth in an to activate every ten minutes and

they reveal the leaf miner's every move. Over the course of a month,

the small holes where the eggs have been laid develop into distinctive

bubble-like lines. The bubble gets bigger as it up you paid

aside from brown leaves, what does it mean for the tree's future?

Nobody is replanting horse chestnut trees because they look so scrappy.

The nursery sales of horse chestnut trees because they look so scrappy.

saplings has reduced by 97% in the last decade. It is a tree that is

disappearing fast. The prognosis is bleak. Horse chestnuts could be at

risk from vanishing altogether but there is a potential saviour. A

native hero defending British territory against attack. The blue

tipped. -- blue tipped. We remember how they passed on the

rewarding feeding baby to their young. A new bluetit eating habits

might save the horse chestnut. I am hoping to spot one in action. There

we go, bluetits. Of course, they are voracious eaters of caterpillars.

There are tens of thousands of caterpillars, if not more, on this

single tree. If you look at the leaf close-up you can see where the

bluetits have got their beaks in and peeled off the tops of the leaf

minds. If this feeding behaviour were passed on to future

generations, bluetits could yet be viable pest control and our beloved

conker game could be saved yet. The bluetits are the heroes of the

leaves and we hear that your father is a fan of conkers. He was

constantly lamenting the death of these games and the things he did

when they were young. He said, we used to use these and now we are on

Twitter! Matt has the people to give him a few good tips. Nobody knows

more about conkers than this gentleman, the current world

conquered champion -- world conker champion. And former ladies

champion, Jayne Coddington, welcome to you both. Were you both playing

conkers in the schoolyard? And you have played every year since? No.

When did you find the love again? 2008, when I won the world

Championships. At your first 2008, when I won the world

attempt, how is it possible? It is quite clever, really! It is about

how you hit them. And selecting the conquer itself? -- the conker

itself? You just get a string. The referee hands you a sack, you draw a

conker, if you are happy with it, you play with it. This one is the

2005 winning conker, it has just got a slight crack. How many

competitions do you have to go through? You get a new one each

round but that was the winning one in the final. This is all news to

me, it is compensated. Give us a World Championships Mac. That is a

stinker, it got me on the knuckle! -- a World Championship smack. That

is a stinger. This year, men and women compete together? For the

first time since 1965. O! You need to get you are in! -- your ie in.

That is it, we have lost Matt to the world of conkers. We asked you if

you think you should -- we should world of conkers. We asked you if

ban beauty pageants for children. This is not scientific in any shape

or form. Do you have the results? She was adamant and she loves

dancing. This has happened in all of the country in lots of different

sports and hobbies. Nick Warren says having worked with primary school

children, I can say that with personal conviction that beauty

school pageants and the light cause confusion and problems for these

children growing up, they are not bonsai adults. This one says, my

four-year-old is currently crawling about the floor pretending to be a

talking cat who has a favourite food of fish from the pond. This is what

talking cat who has a favourite food children should be doing, not being

plastered in make-up amp or in skimpy outfits. It will be

interesting to see what we can do and if we follow suit. Thank you to

all of The One Show mums for coming in! They all look so nice. I just

said thanks to my mum for journeying from Wales. You are not from Wales!