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Hello, friends, and welcome to your Friday One Show, with Alex and | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Chris. Tonight, a brand new double- act on our sofa, hoping that | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
opposites attract. One of them is a grisly grumpy guts. The other is a | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
fizzy fancy pants. It is Alan Davies and John Barrowman. Good | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
evening, gentleman. We said that opposites attract, but if we look | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
at this picture of a ten-year-old, I am not sure you can tell if this | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
is Alan Lord John. What do you think? -- alone, or John. What do | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
the audience thinks? Alan, what do you think? That is me. It is | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
actually John. What a haircut! Thank you for not mentioning it, | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
but I am wearing my pyjamas today. There is a reason for this. It did | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
not deserve a round of applause, but thanks. It is down to little | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
Oliver from Huddersfield. Oliver, why am I wearing pyjamas? Because I | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
was fund-raising, so you must have to do it because I did it, so you | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
must do it. That is right. He came on the radio show and told us what | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
he had done and he said, you have to do it as well, Christopher. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
to check, he has come in. What? I thought you said he was coming. He | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
is already here. So now we know why Chris is dressed like that, but if | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
you are in your pyjamas, what is your excuse? Send a picture of you | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
in your pyjamas and the reasons why to the usual address. Would you | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
like to see Alex in her pyjamas before the end of the show? Yes. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
would I, but I don't think it is going to happen. What about John? | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Alan does not wear pyjamas, we have been told. Would you like to see | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
him like that? It is a new double act, everybody. They are the real | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
bananas in pyjamas! All night tonight we are joined by one of the | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
world's greatest illusionists. Hans Klok is here with us. You can tell | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
he means business. His assistants in the past have included Pamela | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Anderson, but who needs a star of Baywatch when you have a double act | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
like Alan and John. Will you help him later? Happy to. As long as we | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
do not get cut in half or anything! We are not saying anything. You | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
have probably noticed it is pretty cold everywhere at the moment and | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
there is snow forecast for the weekend. But as of yet, no sign of | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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Very good. The delusions later, huge illusions. We sent Alison | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Craig to a breathtaking part of the country where snow is the star | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
attraction. Four of the highest mountains in | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
the country, 52 summits over 3000 ft and snow almost as far as the | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
eye can see. What an amazing view. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Dolomites? No, it is my home stamping ground, the Cairngorm | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
mountains in Scotland. It is tremendous on a good day. It is | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
challenging at my level. Cold but amazing. You do not want to go back | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
down. You make the most of what you have got. Whilst some of the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
earliest Scottish skiing pioneers, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, headed | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
abroad for their first foray on to the pistes, the Scottish slopes | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
have been attracting a hardier band of outdoor enthusiasts since the | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
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1930s. But before railways, ski- lifts, etc, you had to climb up | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
before you could come down. It has been 50 years since I started to | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
ski here. That was walking from the bottom, of course, just a few of us. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
At the end of the day, we had to carry all have our gear up to this | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
level and find a spot to ski on. These days, it is busier. Last | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
season saw more than 120,000 skiers on these slopes. Some more graceful | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
than others. The turning point for this mountain came 50 years ago. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Prince Philip open Scotland's first mechanised ski-lift right here, | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
called the White Lady. For the last 10 years, Bob, his daughter and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
grandchildren have had the luxury of hopping on board Britain's hires | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
funicular railway that replaced the chairlift in 2001. -- highest. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
comfortable we are going to the top. It used to be sitting on an old | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
fashioned chair, quite cold and frozen solid at the top probably. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Now we will be ready to ski. You go up in seven minutes instead of half | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
an hour. The trains can operate in winds of up to 80 mph, under the | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
watchful eye of the Controller. The first female controller. That's me. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Tell me the number of people you are getting up the hill every day. | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
It four or five trains an hour, 120 tops. Talk us through this red | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
button. The most important thing on the mountain. A place this item | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
over the baton to remind me to do things. I do not know what it | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
reminds me to do but I have to do something. I gather this actually | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
as a bend in it, which is very rare. It is the only one in the world. It | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
has a bend because it has to follow the Contador of the hill. I am | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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desperate to press something. It has never been faster or easier | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
to get to the top of this mountain range. But now comes the fun part, | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
get into the bottom. -- getting to the bottom. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Very nice. John, you lived in Scotland until you were eight. Did | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
you go careering down the Cairngorms? No, but I have driven | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
that way and I have seen the lifts. It would be nice to try it. Who | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
knows, this weekend they might be able to do it. This is a picture of | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
John on the way to the studio tonight. Speaking of Scotland, you | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
are heading to Edinburgh for a different reason. Yes, I am doing | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
stand-up, going to the Edinburgh Festival and then touring the | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
country. I love the Edinburgh Festival. It is the first time in a | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
while. I have not gone on tour for 13 years, since 99. I have not | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
taught this century. But now you are 45. You have a lovely wife and | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
a lovely family. You are content. Is that good for comedy? Being 45 | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
is good because there is more to talk about. However, you cannot | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
remember any of your act. I have it taped up in the wings. I cannot | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
remember it. I keep going over, pretending that I need a drink. And | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
then I am looking at it and I think, I have to go back and do something. | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
Have you been practising, doing dummy runs? I did a tour in | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Australia with the show, called Life is pain, a semi- ironic title. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
I loved it. Australia is a fantastic place to visit. The show | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
went well, so I thought I would do it at home. I think 20 years ago, I | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
saw you at a pub in Tufnell Park doing 20 minutes. It was free to | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
get in and you were trying out new staff. Do you still get nervous? Do | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
you feel different to when you started off? When I went to | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Australia on the first night at his big theatre in Melbourne I was | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
really nervous, but then people started laughing and it felt | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
exciting again. You need to feel that you want to get hold of the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
microphone. I had lost the love of it a bit. When I started in comedy | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
clubs with other comedians, it was a great way to make a living in | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
your twenties when you do not think of anything ahead. For then I | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
started touring and there was less enamoured of it, with the motorways | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
and the hotels, but now I love it. And now you fancy a motorway and a | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
hotel. Yes, because I have two children and they are exhausting. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
You say that, but you have been doing a live tour with QEII, so you | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
have been a wave. We went there to do it live, in theatres in | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Stephen and I went and we had | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Australian comedians on the panel. It is very popular there, shown on | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
ABC. They loved Stephen and they tolerate me. The Australians were | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
very good about pitching in. I stuck around for a few weeks and | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
did stand up after that. It was good. When you do that Show Live, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
do you play music, guitars, what happens? Steve and has an | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
interesting opening monologue. I eat chocolate and then I come out | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
and steal the show. -- Stephen. John, have you ever tried stand-up | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
comedy, naked comedy? Faith in my tour that I do, my entertainment | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
show, I actually do stories of comedy in between. But it is not | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
stand up. I am totally impressed with stand-up comedians at how you | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
rattle it off. Everything has to be funny. For me, between songs it is | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
funny and that is done. But everything has to be funny. Well, I | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
do funny songs as well. We will be talking about acting later. Did you | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
audition for the Hobbit? Yes, very dwarf. I was too tall. What was the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
height restriction? You have to be a dwarf. It was a very quick | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
audition because I hit my head on the door on the way in. You have a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
head start over John if you want to be the assistant to Hans, because | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
you were a magician's assistant in Jonathan's Creek. We come in, to | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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find the table. And... On the night, we can but hope you will be smiling. | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
Are you kidding? After that, we are not entirely sure you will be | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
replacing Hans Assistance, the Divas of Magic. There they are. | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
That is not going to work. He might let you switch on his wind machine. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
If he lets you do that, he has let you into his life. Before we see | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
him in action, Angellica Bell looks at a magic trick that back in the | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
day was cutting edge. This film is In a building just over there on a | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
winter's day, 91 years ago, people were horrified. They watched a man | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
cut a woman in half. Buckets of blood were emptied into the gutter. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Onlookers passed out. What a terrible claim to fame for Finsbury | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
Park in north London. But it was all fake. One of the goriest stumps | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
ever by one of Britain's favourite stunt magicians. It is said he was | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
the first person in the world to dream up this extraordinary idea of | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
soaring a woman in half. His glamour as a system, Betty, emerged | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
serene and unscathed. The audience could not believe what they were | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
seeing. He wanted to scare the audience, so when the stage hands | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
came out before the start of each show with buckets of pretend blood, | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
they told people, don't worry, it is just a rehearsal. Ambulances had | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
been waiting outside, and he even hired stooges to sit in the stalls | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
and faint. Finsbury Park Empire has long since been demolished, but all | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
is not lost. This is the oldest surviving music-hall in the world. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
I have come here to meet Scott Penrose from the Inner Magic Circle. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
We will tire her by the wrists and ankles. He created many tricks, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
walking through a brick wall, and a trip where a lady travels from one | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
barrel to another through a metal plate. He created so many tricks, | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
and this was the one. He did something scandalous. Magicians | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
always used men as assistance, but he was using a woman. In the year | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of the suffragettes, that was very mischievous. In fact, he went | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
further. He cheekily invited Christabel Pankhurst to be his | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
victim, with an offer of �20 per week. She saw this as silly | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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Selbitt made the trip last ages. 40 minutes. -- the trick. He took his | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
time, milking the fact that he was going through the body and the | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
spine, and of course the lady comes out at the end completely unscathed. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
But how did he do it? I can't tell you, no, it is against the rules of | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
the Magic Circle's. I would get thrown out. One man with a special | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
interest in Percy sell it is his second cousin. He came from a long | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
line of dairy meant and he was an apprentice to a silversmiths. They | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
had rented out their basement to a magician and the person used to go | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
down during their lunch times and watched the conjuror and learn | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
tricks from him. When Percy decided to become a magician, he thought | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
his real name did not sound good enough so he reversed the letters | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
of his surname. He was very important in a timeline of magic. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
We are still performing the trick 90 years later. He created this | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
trick and hit jackpot. He was so celebrated. Even George V came to | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
watch him saw a lady in half, but there was a setback. He took that | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Act to America, where he discovered to his horror that another magician | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
had worked out his own version. Percy suited, lost, and had to come | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
home, but for audiences, the illusion still remains a mystery. | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
You can't quite see it. I can see exactly how the audience would have | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
found that astonishing and it is an incredible thing, that this is my | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
cousin. I am very happy about this. He died at the age of 57. Twice | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
married with four children and a single legacy: A wooden box that | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
continues to mystify audiences around the world. A claim to fame | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
for Finsbury Park that really is a piece of magic. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Great film but more importantly, that the tie-up would be great for | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
you. I am looking for somewhere to live. She is always flat hunting! | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Hans has got something pretty special for us and remember this is | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | :17:52. | :19:05. | |
an illusion, not anything scary. # You only see what your eyes want | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | :19:15. | :21:00. | |
Chris: Is there more? Where did He is the best! He is the best! Big | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
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No! No! No! That was amazing! That was amazing! That was amazing! | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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No way! He gets the girl again! APPLAUSE. Do you want more Hans | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
later? Yes! Yes! More later. The Harry Potter books have become the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
biggest selling series in history. They encouraged a generation to | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
read and even inspired a few to have a go at writing. And that is | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
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It is a bitterly cold afternoon. I let my dog off the lead but now I | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
cannot see the direction he went in. I look ahead and step closer and | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
see a motionless two headed creature. Am I shaking with fear or | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the cold? Out of 30,000 children who entered the 500 words short- | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
story competition last year, "winter woodland monster" made it | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
into the top five. Alex, where did you get the inspiration? Well, | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
normally I quite like writing about animals and the adventures of the | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
animals, and I quite like having a twist in a story. The boy sees the | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
monster and then what happens? comes closer and closer and | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
realises that it is actually just an old man in a chair with a cat | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
asleep around his shoulders. What was it like having your story read | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
out on stage at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival? Incredible! | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
Especially because it was read by the man from Horrible Histories, my | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
favourite programme! Has he always written stories? Yes, since he was | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
small, but the creative writing has been in the last three years. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
you planning to write a story this year? Yes. This time from the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
animal perspective rather than a human perspective. This year's | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
judges are a collection of our finest children's authors, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
including a lady who has written for every age group, Dame | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
Jacqueline Wilson. Children are brilliant at bringing emotion into | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
their strawberries. I remember Alexander's story, I thought it was | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
wonderful. -- their stories. What tips would you give to children | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
thinking of entering the competition? It is fun so relax and | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
enjoy yourself. Write the sort of story you would like to read. Try | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
very hard not to copy anyone at all. We are interested in your original | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
idea. Charlie Higson agrees. best ideas come to you when you are | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
not trying, when you are not expecting it. You might be talking | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
to someone and they face something or you see something on the TV or | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
you are playing with your friends and something will come to you. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Your friend is your magic wand and you can just make up anything. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
Today I am off to my three sisters busy creating their own imaginary | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
worlds in 500 words or last. Is it a bomb? Did you ever wonder why | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
bats have such big ears? Hallowed. Can you explain to me what you like | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
the most about writing stories? like letting my imagination go wild. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
You can write about things that would never happen in real life, | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
like magical things. Is there a way that I could perhaps appear in your | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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story? Could I be a character? could be a prince. Sophie, have you | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
got a character I could be? could be the naughty that and you | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
could keep listening in to other people's conversations. Rosie? | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
really fat and spotty and smelly, ugly troll. I think handsome prince | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
is more of my street. Please yourself. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Thanks. The competition was launched on my breakfast show on | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Radio 2 this week and the prize is my height in books. If you come | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
second, it is Alex is's height in books, and if you come third, it is | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
your height in books! -- Alex's height. For more details, go to the | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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Click on 500 words of stock John's sister Carole is here. Apparently | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
you have written a book together. We have, it is called Hollow Earth. | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
It was out yesterday and today it was our first big thing for kids at | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
Thomas Becket's school and we talked about the book and the | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
history of it and the characters to get them interested in reading. | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
they by any? Yes, they bought 300! It is very like lords of the Rings. | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
-- Lord Of the Rings. That is wonderful to say that. I was not a | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
big fan of JRR Tolkien. I preferred the Lion, the Witch And the | :27:23. | :27:31. | |
wardrobe. I love your voice? De you like it in American or Scottish? | :27:31. | :27:40. | |
she does Scottish, I will have to go Scottish! That is magic! You are | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
a professor of English. Yes! you do the work and he phoned you | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
up and said, have you finished yet? Carole does all the physical | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
writing. I am not gifted in that way. But when we are doing | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
characters am talking about it, wherever it happens, we get | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
everything together and when she rides a chapter she will send it to | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
me and say, is this what we had in mind? -- when she writes. I will | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
not claim I can write. When we came up with the idea, we were driving | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
from London to Cardiff and we had a lot of Percy pigs to eat. We | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
started to come up with ideas and the imagination was coming... Dot | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
dot! A amazing. He can't do that, of course. He could not go into | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
weird characters, of course. have never seen that from him at | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
all! Have you always got on well? He is a nightmare. Dish the dirt! | :28:49. | :28:57. | |
locked him in the closet one time. No! At least I didn't have hair | :28:57. | :29:07. | |
:29:07. | :29:07. | ||
like that! Or Pants like that! was the 70s! That was in the | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
extension that my dad built. would dress up like that. Can you | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
see the little shot glass? That was my microphone. That is very early | :29:18. | :29:25. | |
fake tan! Is it? When did you first realise you were into showbiz? Was | :29:25. | :29:31. | |
it when you wore this bikini? is us getting ready to move to | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
America. There he is! All I will say is that is my dad's fault! My | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
dad dressed me like that because we were on a cruise and he said, go | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
into this competition, and I dressed up in my sister's bikini. | :29:48. | :29:58. | |
:29:58. | :30:05. | ||
Put on the bikini, there is a cash prize! I won first place. All of | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
the women in bikinis were livid! course I won. It is usually sisters | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
who share clothes, not brother and sister. It was a sign of things to | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
come. Speaking of authors, Alan, your wife is a successful | :30:23. | :30:31. | |
children's author. Waterstones children's book of the year. She | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
has a new one out in the summer. John, you are busy acting, because | :30:37. | :30:45. | |
you are on TV tonight. Yes, I am in Hustle his evening playing a | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
:30:55. | :30:56. | ||
I had a gift, and it was my duty to share that gift and bring wellbeing, | :30:56. | :31:05. | |
healing and happiness to others. That is when you joined the CIA? | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
Enough of you. The guest is a busy man, so let's cut to the chase. | :31:11. | :31:18. | |
Hustle, tonight on BBC One at 9pm. And their book is out now. Time for | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
Alex to get to no one about guests better. Let's get in the mood. I | :31:24. | :31:34. | |
:31:34. | :31:51. | ||
will light the candle. Come and sit Stop right there. Surrey, it is not | :31:51. | :32:00. | |
Before Christmas, we asked you at home to send us your spag bog all | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
recipes, and you did not disappoint. All of York entries were gratefully | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
received and we have whittled it down to three finalists who are | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
battling it out for the title of Super spag Balfe. You cannot be to | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
bowl of spaghetti bolognese, lots of pasta in a rich, meaty sauce. | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
Done badly, it is the thing of nightmares, but done well it is | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
simply gorgeous. Bolognese is actually the British take on an | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
Italian dish, and on average we eat it once a week. We have sifted | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
through your applications looking for taste and originality and we | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
are down to three finalists. Meet Richard from Doncaster, Lynn from | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
Sussex and Stephen from Cheltenham. Now they have to convince me and my | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
fellow Judge Angela Gray. What are we looking for in a bolognese | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
sauce? Something full-bodied, rich and full-on meaty and gorgeous. | :33:00. | :33:07. | |
There is no agreed recipe for this, is there? No. It is one of those | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
dishes that are born out of Italian ingredients and the Brits have put | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
them together with our own interpretation. Let's get down to | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
it. Richard has been making his bolognese since his student days. | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
It takes 40 minutes to cook but it is full of surprises. Crushed | :33:26. | :33:35. | |
chillies. In a spaghetti bolognese. And it does not stop there. That is | :33:35. | :33:42. | |
mango chutney. OK! A bit of red tomato pesto. This is a complete | :33:43. | :33:50. | |
mongrel, isn't it? You could put it that way. This spag ball does not | :33:50. | :33:59. | |
have any mince. I am using cue-bid beef. Where did you get that? | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
its elite last year. What other interesting ingredients do you | :34:05. | :34:12. | |
have? The rind of Parmesan. Parmesan is a source of sodium | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
glutamate, all of that savoury flavour. So I can see the point of | :34:17. | :34:24. | |
throwing matin. With Stephen, it is mince all the way, and sausages. | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
Pork, beef and pork sausage. No herbs and garlic whatsoever. This | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
recipe belongs to my wife's grandmother. She is Italian. | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
have the recipe from a real old Italian grandmother. I do, yes. | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
are taking this on without using spaghetti. I am using rigatoni, the | :34:47. | :34:52. | |
Tube pastor. That is because you think a lot of the sauce gets stuck | :34:53. | :35:02. | |
down the middle. Yes. No spaghetti, but we did ask for originality. | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
Time is up on the challenge, and on to the best bit, the tasting. I | :35:07. | :35:14. | |
picked a bad week to give up eating pastor. Shall we start over here | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
with Richard's. That meet needs to be cooked quite a bit longer. If | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
you are using mins, it needs to be. But what is really hitting me is | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
that he may have said that Chile was only there for a bit of flavour, | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
but that is close to a chilli con Carny. There is mango chutney in | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
there. What do you think it has brought to the party? It is overly | :35:35. | :35:43. | |
sweet for me. If you serve that to some Italian mothers? Oh, dear. | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
quite like the texture of this one. It is a nice dish of pasta. It has | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
full flavour, and the meat is cooked beautifully. It is a good | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
all-round flavour. There is something compelling about the | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
lumps of beef. You are liking them. This is the rigatoni with the three | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
meet bolognese source. You are unlikely to use spaghetti with this | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
sort of sauce. For me, it has a nice complexity to it. Despite not | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
having any wine in it. It is a very simple construction, this. OK, | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
Angela, time to make a decision. Do you think you are up to it? I think | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
so. We sit you're a really difficult challenge. They are so | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
many recipes, twists and turns, that wars have been fought over | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
less. Getting you to complete his a gladiatorial battle, but there has | :36:38. | :36:48. | |
:36:48. | :36:54. | ||
to be a winner. And the winner of Congratulations. And he did not | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
even use spaghetti. But we agreed that the mix of pork, beef and | :36:58. | :37:05. | |
sausage was the superior bolognese. A big round of applause for Stephen. | :37:05. | :37:13. | |
Well done. We would like to reward you with a ginormous pepper mill. | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
Thrilled to bits, look at him! Stephen, no garlic, no herbs, no | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
red wine. Where does the taste come from? The cooking process. | :37:27. | :37:37. | |
let's get Claudia Bar back. He is How good does this taste, without | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
any of the things normally found in spaghetti bolognese? It was | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
fantastic. We would not have given its first prize if it had not been | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
deep and rich. He was cooking it for hours which gave it the flavour. | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
I was surprised there was no garlic, no herbs, no red wine, but there is | :37:54. | :38:02. | |
a lot going on. Secret recipe, from Britain or elsewhere? Really, it is | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
from Italy. Who is the influence? My wife's grandmother. Trying to | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
get recipes from grandmothers is so difficult. I was nagging her for | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
many years. By the way, Alan, we have some garlic bread because we | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
know you are vegetarian. One of the interesting things about this was, | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
you will have noticed, not spaghetti but rigatoni, which is | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
the way that it should be in Italy. They would never serve bolognese | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
with spaghetti because you want pastor that the sauce will cling to. | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
It became part of the history here, we think, because British | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
servicemen coming back from Italy wanted to drive a dish and the only | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
pasta we had here was spaghetti. -- they wanted to drive a dish. We | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
have your Italian wife, Jessica, here in the audience. We got a | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
message from your grandmother in law, which hilariously Alan is | :39:04. | :39:11. | |
going to read in Italian while John translates. | :39:11. | :39:21. | |
:39:21. | :39:22. | ||
TRANSLATION: I am very proud of you both. For the commitment that you | :39:22. | :39:31. | |
put into a projects, and you're beautiful son, Jamie. Well done. I | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
am extremely flattered to hear that I was welcomed to be on the One | :39:35. | :39:45. | |
:39:45. | :39:47. | ||
Show on Friday. And you are all invited to have dinner at my aim. - | :39:47. | :39:57. | |
:39:57. | :39:57. | ||
- at my house. To all Italians, I am very sorry. You had a go at | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
cooking vegetarian spaghetti bolognese for us and Jews sent a | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
photo. I did. It was delicious. Professional judge, Angela Gray, | :40:08. | :40:15. | |
she tasted it and gave you a bit of a judgment. Are you ready? I am | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
sorry, I am eating garlic bread. She said she was not sure about | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
that chunks of carrot and the bolognese and was worried the | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
amount of liquid would mean that you would need to wear a beard to | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
:40:36. | :40:36. | ||
eat it, but you got eight out of nine. If you cook it for so long, | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
how does the meat not get kind of funky tasting? Did you have a funky | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
tasting meat Ball? No, it was delicious but I thought it would be | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
overcooked. We have never had a guest finish anything. Listen, if | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
it is free, I am not passing it up. Was there something in the food | :40:59. | :41:09. | |
:41:09. | :41:10. | ||
department that your granny made? What did your grandmother make? | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
:41:20. | :41:23. | ||
Deep-fried Mars bars. Spam. Spam fritters. Those are still warm. | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
:41:33. | :41:33. | ||
Nothing beats that! He is a vegetarian! Does any one on the | :41:33. | :41:42. | |
crew want a deep-fried Spam fritter. You can find Stephen's recipe on | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
our website. I think in a few weeks we should have another competition, | :41:47. | :41:55. | |
and I think it should be shepherd's pie. The next item is right up your | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
street, because we know you are a huge fan of the Stranglers. In my | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
teenage years, very much so. I have all the records. I saw them in 1981 | :42:06. | :42:15. | |
and again in 2006. Can you play editor of the Stranglers? -- a bit | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
of. And now, Carrie Grant has the story behind another of the | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
Stranglers hits. The year was 1977, and what a | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
turbulent year it was. Britain bounced between street parties for | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
the Queen's silver jubilee and bitter strikes. Music fans would | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
mourn Elvis and would groove to old-style disco while being knocked | :42:46. | :42:55. | |
out by a completely new sound topping the charts. It was the age | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
of punk, and write out front were the Stranglers. Their first two | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
albums went top 10 and today they have sold over 20 million records | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
worldwide. But in 1977, their anthem, No More heroes, summed up | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
what punk was about, the rejection of the past, from politics and | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
people to fashion and pop. title of the song is a bit of a | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
slogan. I think there was a certain feeling that all of the new bands | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
were a kind of anti-heroes, and that if you're going to do anything | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
you were going to do it yourself, Be Your Own Hero, don't look up to | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
anyone else. It was a chance for people who were not hugely | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
proficient at music just to make a bit of noise. What was the | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
quintessential punk sound? As far as I'm concerned, the | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
quintessential punk sound did not exist. Some had keyboards, some had | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
a metal field to their guitar- playing. It was kind of anarchic. | :43:56. | :44:02. | |
People started using terms like New Wave, as well, punk, New Wave, | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
whatever. It just described something which happened | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
spontaneously all through the nation. It was just provocative. | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
Were you ever banned? Yes, all the time. We were banned from countries, | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
we were banned from London by what was then the Greater London Council, | :44:24. | :44:32. | |
for wearing a provocative T-shirt. What was it that you stood for that | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
was so offensive to people? tell me. I don't know. I suspect we | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
stood for freedom and something which was questioning the status | :44:40. | :44:50. | |
:44:50. | :44:58. | ||
quo at the time. It was not safe # Whatever happened to the heroes? | :44:59. | :45:07. | |
It was Co written by John Jack Burnell and Hugh Cornwell. Hugh | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
Cornwell wrote most of the lyrics and he sang it. Because it was | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
quite competitive, the riff at the beginning is me showing off, that | :45:17. | :45:27. | |
:45:27. | :45:35. | ||
In every way, The Stranglers refused to sit the stereotypical | :45:35. | :45:44. | |
# Whatever happened to dear old Lenny? | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
# The great Elmyra. # And Sancho Panza? What did those | :45:48. | :45:57. | |
people you were writing about mean to you? Sancho Pantsil is the real | :45:57. | :46:06. | |
hero in Don Quijote, but he is his sidekick, and the other one is an | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
art hero, like an anti-hero, and Trotsky as well. These were people | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
who would not be obvious he rose and we considered ourselves more to | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
be like that, we questioned everything -- would not be obvious | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
he wrotes. Intellectually that is the important part of being in a | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
democracy, isn't it? What do you think about when you hear the song | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
now? I enjoy playing it because I like the reaction to it. The great | :46:35. | :46:41. | |
thing about music is it is a medium to express yourself. It should not | :46:41. | :46:46. | |
be a bland and soporific wallpaper. There is so much to write about in | :46:46. | :46:53. | |
the world anyway. The Stranglers. Huge fan of The | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
Stranglers. You wrote a book about your heroes? Yes, and The | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
Stranglers with definitely a part of that time. You love one thing | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
one year and then another band and another band at that age, but The | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
Stranglers will always there, my number three favourite banned for | :47:12. | :47:21. | |
life. I had a big Christina Aguilera phrase! Really?! We were | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
looking through the archives and we found a clip of you and it is safe | :47:26. | :47:36. | |
:47:36. | :47:37. | ||
to say it is a million miles away # If you like it, then you should | :47:37. | :47:47. | |
:47:47. | :47:54. | ||
Explain! That was between takes on my show and I was mucking about. | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
Are you sure? I am positive! Aggregated that by me just being | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
silly one afternoon -- I created that. Honest! The trousers are part | :48:05. | :48:13. | |
of the suit. Do you wear it? No! you take it out for a walk? It is | :48:13. | :48:23. | |
:48:23. | :48:23. | ||
in my closet! I think it is plastic leather. No, it is silver satin. I | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
don't know what you call it! made it up! Speaking of trousers | :48:29. | :48:38. | |
and pyjamas, you have sent us lots I have got Claire and Maria from | :48:38. | :48:48. | |
:48:48. | :48:48. | ||
Belfast. I have Alison and her sister from Devon. Every Friday is | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
a fun Friday at their house. Clare week aged three from Ripley, | :48:53. | :49:01. | |
Derbyshire. Her mum said it is very cold and that the snow is coming. | :49:01. | :49:11. | |
:49:11. | :49:15. | ||
This is visible and Emily from This is Emily from Featherstone. | :49:15. | :49:23. | |
She is watching us. Nice! This 10- year-old is getting ready to go to | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
a pyjama party in Enfield. That is William and Ethan from Chester. | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
These are inspired by Oliver who said the challenge on the radio, | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
from Huddersfield. The ladies went Mad For Your hair on Jonathan Creek | :49:39. | :49:44. | |
and then you cut them off and the producers went even more mad! | :49:44. | :49:50. | |
I had to have extensions. Those are not extensions. OK, we were told | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
they were... Talking of dodgy hairpieces, we found another | :49:55. | :50:02. | |
picture of John. Are they extensions? I am wearing a week! I | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
am standing next to Robert de Niro. Maybe he liked it! I was doing the | :50:08. | :50:17. | |
musical Hair. He came backstage. He was very good friends with the | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
writers of the show and he came back and wanted to meet everybody. | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
I think he was more interested in my girls and he was in anything | :50:25. | :50:34. | |
else. You did your best. I am not interested in him! That would have | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
sent our street barber into a spin but he has been dealing with | :50:37. | :50:47. | |
:50:47. | :50:50. | ||
flyaway hair anyhow at an airbase Today I have come to RAF Marham, | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
one of the busiest and largest RAF bases in the country and it is home | :50:54. | :51:04. | |
:51:04. | :51:06. | ||
to three squadrons. Tornado. How ace was that! It must play havoc | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
with their hairstyles? Pilots on his serve all over the world. Keith | :51:12. | :51:22. | |
:51:22. | :51:25. | ||
is a flight lieutenant in 31 This is Keef. Woody to everyone | :51:25. | :51:32. | |
else. You have just come back from Afghanistan? A week ago. Have you | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
ever been sick into your mouthpiece? Thankfully, no. But I | :51:37. | :51:44. | |
can drop some names. How fast does it go? 420 mph, which is seven | :51:44. | :51:52. | |
miles a minute. I can push it up to 600 mph. To take a look! Good stuff. | :51:52. | :52:02. | |
:52:02. | :52:02. | ||
This is the shop. Not a tornado in sight. A teddy bear! With Woody | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
smartened up, I might try and find someone with a bit more head to | :52:07. | :52:17. | |
:52:17. | :52:21. | ||
This is the senior aircraft person at the RAF. Aircraft woman! What do | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
you do? I am a member of the tactical Wing. I analyse the | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
imagery when it comes back from the aircraft. I do not want a bop! | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
is my speciality, everybody knows that. It is all I can do. These go | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
past all the time? Yeah, especially when you are trying to watch | :52:43. | :52:50. | |
EastEnders. Have you been up in a fighter jet? Can I go up? If you do | :52:50. | :52:57. | |
a good job. It feels like a proper job you do. It is! Unlike the one I | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
am doing. In the grand scheme of things, my job is all fluff. Do you | :53:02. | :53:11. | |
know the pilot? Like Tom Cruise in Top Gun? Unfortunately not! Take a | :53:11. | :53:21. | |
:53:21. | :53:28. | ||
Hair Force! I wonder if I am qualified. What do you do? I am | :53:28. | :53:37. | |
eight traffic controller. -- a traffic controller. Matt and I did | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
you nothing to get that and we went on to win the British Championships | :53:40. | :53:47. | |
in the 90s. -- and did gymnastics together. I have never Moore felt | :53:47. | :53:55. | |
like the look Skywalker! I meet a cigar! Carey has been with the aria | :53:55. | :54:02. | |
for eight years. When did you last get a haircut? Two months ago. | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
Presumably you get to deal with weapons? Yes, small rifles, pistols, | :54:08. | :54:17. | |
machine guns. Sniper rifle, 0.5 calibre rifle. You enjoy your job? | :54:17. | :54:24. | |
Definitely. What were you doing previously? Pensions! My big | :54:24. | :54:31. | |
problem is the hair restriction! you go back in history... Would you | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
:54:41. | :54:45. | ||
not rather do something more This place is great but it is a bit | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
too far away from home. By my calculations, at 600 mph, one of | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
these will get me back home in 10 minutes. | :54:56. | :55:06. | |
:55:06. | :55:06. | ||
Do you get flyaway hair? I do now, thank God! We have lots of e-mails | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
asking about torch would. Russell T Davies has some personal issues and | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
we are taking a break so I do not have any news. But if they want it | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
back and want me back, I love it and I would do it at a drop of a | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
hat. I am captain Jack! Hans is about to perform some more magic. | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
He was brilliant earlier on. Apparently this one is even better. | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
A lot of magic on Jonathan Creek. We had an adviser. We tried to make | :55:39. | :55:45. | |
all of the tricks work. And then we found that some of them didn't work. | :55:45. | :55:53. | |
So we cheated. But because you are not a member of the Magic Circle, | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
were there the rules about how far you could go? The only trick I | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
learnt was the very first one, to go like that! We like that one! | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
Shall we have some more? Let's go to Hans for more magic. Remember, | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
this is an illusion, so don't try this at home. It is expensive so | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | :56:24. | :58:21. |