03/03/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show, with the smashing Matt Baker.

I wonder what the theme of the show it.

Well, a film she wrote and starred in, smashed...

Movie box office records and became the most successful rom-com

It was "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and this is the moment

when her husband to be, took her breath away.

Hi. Hi. Did you want to see some brochures? Please welcome Nia

Vardalos. Have you seen the plates? It was good fun. It relieves any

hostility or tension in your body. Smash a plate. We have to talk of

smashing, we have to talk about the clip. How many times did you have to

do that? Was there a crash mat under? Yes, my mum had just come to

the set that night and she didn't know they had put a mattress behind

me. She was like, she was going to get hurt.

Well tonight, as we have the star of a big Greek wedding,

we want to find the biggest wedding picture we can,

and by that we mean, the most amount of guests

Importantly, let us know - roughly - how many guests are in the picture

to save us counting each one, and send them via the usual methods

And we'll talk about Nia's eagerly awaited sequel,

'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' later in the show.

Now, Nia's character Toula has a father, Gus,

who is adamant that every word we use today hails

Take the word "medeoron", meaning phenomenon in the sky.

Highland skies earlier this week. for a "meteoron" that lit up

The peace and quiet of the Highlands was shattered by a series of loud

sonic booms and bright lights. This event was caught on car cameras and

CCTV. It left motorists struggling to make sense of it. To find out

what went on, I have come to Mills observatory in Dundee. What happened

the other night? We had a big meteor comes from space, travelling at

thousands of miles an hour. You saw it and then it exploded about 20

mile up. Are they trackable. If two people observed it at a distance

they could do sums and pin point to a certain degree. But it is

difficult. How likely it is that it will be found? It is very difficult.

It might be found or not. It depends, it could have come down in

the sea. I don't know. Meteorites are difficult to track down, but I'm

told a local man knowles where to find -- knows where to find them.

Rob makes it living from searching out meet teorites and selling them.

How do you track one down? Once I see reports on the news and a big

fireball, I will make a decision, will I go or will I wait until a

member of the public finds something. Sometimes I will offer a

reward and get people out looking for me. I ups this one has --

understand this has an international flavour. Yes that is a piece of a

Russian meteorite that fell and shattered window and people were

injured. How much are meteorites worth. A pristine one could be $150

a gram. I sell to the researchers and the public. They all want a

piece of space. For this piece, how much is that worth? If somebody

offered me $30,000, ?20,000. For the right person. Have you managed to

earn a living from this? Yes. As for the latest meteorite, Rob is biding

his time until he has more information. So I can see him in

action, he has agreed to take me to one search location. What do we need

1234? We have metal detector and a meteor cane. That look like an old

golf club. It is. The meteorite will stick to it. This lodge got hit in

1917. A meteorite came through roof. So it is a good starting point.

They're falling all the time and it is a question of finding them. Just

there. Oh, yeah. I can feel the pull. It is a power cable. I think

we had better leave that alone. How long do we have do this? The day is

young. We have only started. We have a surprise. When we spoke to you,

you said your head would explode if you could touch a meteorite. I would

be very excited. You can't unscrew this. It is krypton iet. This is

from mars and it is over a billion years old. Like some Hollywood

actresses! The thing is experts know it is from Mars, you can see the

glass crystals there. The gas ma makes up the crystals is the same

one that comes from the Viking mission on Mars. This is is

incredible. You can't take that home. We will see. That is

incredible. I'm fascinated by that. Was there damage when there was the

meetior shower. Not that we know of. He just scoops up rocks and charges

$30,000. It is worth it. Can I just hold it for the rest of the show?

Yes. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a meteoric success. The long awaited

sequel is in cinemas from 25th March. For those who haven't seen

the first one. Your character Toula, 30, still living at home with her

Greek family. Her father, Gus, wanted her to find a Greek husband

to have children. She meets the man of her dreams and after a clash of

culture, they have their My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This time around,

where do we find the characters? I decided to write from the point of

view of ten years later. So ten years from the time you see them

with their six-year-old daughter and then their daughter is in t same

position, she wants to form her own identity and get away from the

family and she is a teenager and I'm struggling with not wanting to be my

dad and not wanting to let her go. So let's have a look at the very

large Greek family. If she goes to north western. She will stay in

Chicago. Let's go over. No did you invite the family. I told my ma.

APPLAUSE. So this, the fist film broke box office records with the

highest grossing rom-com. Isn't it strange, I wrote the movie in an

attempt to get a job. I worked well. All the producers would be knocking

your door down saying write another one and here we are 14 years later.

The wait is my fault. I said no, because I had written that Toula was

a mom at if end of the movie and I think it was wishful thinking,

because I was in a very private struggle to become a mother. I said

no, I can't do it. And then happy ending, guess what, I became a mom!

And on my daughter's first day of kindergarten, I was crying so loud,

it was ethnic sobs and people were like, don't look at that. And

another woman in an ef to tort calm me down, said, come on, in 13 years

they will go off to college and leave us. My throat closed and I

realised in that moment I had Morphed into my own suffocating

Greek parents. That is the moment I decided that what is the sequel is

about and I started writing. Tom Hanks has a connection with this

film. Explain the relationship and how that came about. When I was

first in Hollywood, I'm from Canada and moved to loss Ang lease and I

was told I was not attractive enough to be a leading lady. I said, you

know, I'm going to write my own movie and perhaps play a bridesmaid.

I didn't have an agent, so couldn't get the screen play read by a

studio. So I jumped up on stain and started -- stage and started doing

it as a one person show and thinking the agents will come. But the agents

never came. But Rita Wilson came. She is of Greek descent and sent her

husband, Tom Hanks, to the show. All I saw at that show, was I was like,

oh my god, Tom Hanks. All I saw was ears. Everyone was looking at him.

They said, you had better get married and Tom Hanks laughed and I

saw the rest of the audience say, let's watch the girl. The ears

turned into faces and then Tom Hanks called and said, we read your screen

play and we are going to makure movie and I meant to say, I would

like to play a bridesmaid and I don't know what it was in me that

said it. But I said, I would like to play the bride. He said, yes, we

have talk about it you're going to play the bride. My husband was like,

he said, you should have asked for a pony too! I love it. I love your

husband. A huge success and fingers crossed the next one will be as big

and you can see My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 from March 25th.

If you saw yesterday's show you'll know Alex and her shipmates

are about to navigate their way around Britain's coastline on a 65

foot racing yacht, all for Sport Relief.

Weather permitting, we may travel past Dover.

Here's Joe Crowley with one historic site, we're hoping,

When you look at this building, it is easy to see why we would want to

preserve it. But what if a piece of history was out there under water?

There are 37 and a half thousand wrecks in English waters from Roman

remain 20s warships. Only 49 are protected. There is a wreck of a

German U-boat, believed to be the first sunk in British waters and a

hundred years later it is to be surveyed to see if it merits protect

status. Research has revealed how significant U8 was. In 1915, Germany

was sending submarines to wards the Kent coast. U8 was about to show how

deadly they could be. In one case she is said to have attacked but not

sunk a hospital ship. Everything was fair game? More or less. That was

seen as a shocking thing from the British perspective. A hundred years

ago submarine defences were primitive. Adapted fishing nets were

used and ships patrolled looking for periscopes and U8 was trapped. It

was a huge propaganda coup for the British. The work has established

U8's importance, but they need evidence of submarine's condition.

Any decay threatens its chances of protected status. Today the wreck

will be surveyed for the first time. In charge are Wessex archaeology

with a hi-tech piece of kit. We have a torpedo to find a sub. This is an

underwater vehicle. It has a an array of sensors and we hope to get

clear images. Is this cutting edge? We think it is one of the first

times it has been used for archaeology in the UK. So we are

combieted to see what what -- excited to see what the results will

be. The skipper is one of the view who has dived submarine wreck and

was the first to discover U8. It's a wonderful feeling when you

see it laid out in its glory, you could be the first person seeing at

400 years. It is all intact, like the day it went down. But wrecks are

vulnerable to looting and U8 has ordered being looted. When we dived

at a couple of ears ago, the propellers were missing. Dave's

knowledge helps prove a case for protection, but diving is perilous

and visibility Limited. It is hoped sonar will show the whole vessel for

the first time allowing the whole vessel to be mapped. The team ended

up with so much data it has taken a while to analyse but historic

England now have the results. I am meeting with the Project manager to

see if U8's place in history is finally secure. This is our first

look at the 3-D scans we collected several weeks ago. We can see the

whole thing in it since I wrote it. As if the sea water has been taken

away. This is a single beam image, in the middle, the tower. It has

three periscopes, showing us this submarine is in incredibly unique

condition having been on the sea bed for 100 years. The final decision to

protect U8 will be made by the government, but this evidence means

there is a very strong case. If it is protected in the future, what

will it mean for U8? It means it becomes a criminal offence to

deliberately damage it. Would there ever be a scenario where you would

have to raise it from the sea bed? I don't think that is wholly

practical. The best thing is to manage it in situ. Alex is about to

take on a wet, windy and wild challenge which will take a lot of

skill, a lot of determination and a whole lot of teamwork. All to raise

money for Sport Relief. Tell us the plan. The plan is we are leaving

from Belfast on Monday morning and either going this way, have a look,

up the top and around Scotland and down the east coast, before coming

back into London. All the other way, landing something near Newcastle. It

is weather dependent and we will be back on the 11th of March. Tonight

we thought we would offer you a bit of extra for on the seasickness

front in the form of Doctor Spike Briggs. He is a doctor and a marine

medicine expert and a seasoned sailor. And also my new best friend.

You will be part of the medical team. Yes. Let's talk a bit about

seasickness because even some of the most famous sailors have suffered

badly? They have. Ever since humans have been going to see they have

been sick. Ancient Greek times, people like Hippocrates and Cicero.

Go on! Actually nausea comes from the Greek word Naus, for ocean. They

told me! LAUGHTER Great researchers working on the

show. Also people like Columbus and his crew had problems with

seasickness. Lord Nelson was famously seasick a lot of the time

and Charles Stalin. But it is very debilitating. That is what they have

been telling us on the training courses. But it is caused by an

imbalance in the inner ear? Yes, you have conflicted information coming

to your brain. Your motion sensors, your eyes and all the nerves in your

joints and around your body. You have this conflict, basically these

signals go to an area of your brain called the vomiting centre, quite

nicely! Very aptly named. When the signals get to great they send a

signal to your stomach to empty itself. Right. Perfect. That is when

you have the feeling of nausea and are Bencic. Is there anything you

can do to be at one with the rhythm of the sea? A good point. Some

people are good at certain types of motion but not others. A lot of

people are sick on cross-channel ferries, that gentle rolling thing

sometimes makes people very sick. Other people are sick on normal

yachts. People in life rafts and rowing boats, that can make them...

Because of the randomness of the motion. What can we do? We know

about keep looking at the horizon if you can, but you have to go below

deck at some point. This is true of people going on overnight crossings

on ferries. What are the top tips? There are some behavioural things

you can do. Staying on deck and giving people to do something. So

helming, looking at the horizon, resolve that conflict in your brain.

Stay on the deck and take up knitting! That's it, you will be

fine. Thank you so much, thank you very much.

The reason I am doing all of this to raise money for Sport Relief.

Recently I visited Bangladesh for a series of films we'll be

Here's when I met two boys called Sho-hag and Belal,

It is that salute you shocking, it is like the dirtiest place in the

world. All these flies, and these poor children are having to make a

living by climbing on top of all this. -- absolutely shocking. It is

terrible. You can see the rest of that next

week. So you can see how important

your donations are. If you would like to support Alex

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time you have sailed around! Another big theme in Nia's new movie is

going to university. As Lucy knows, if you have dreams of a top-class

education, never say never. In Cambridge students make up a

fifth of the population, the city is dominated by the University and its

31 colleges, seen by many as a Bastian of tradition and privilege.

Obviously not all students here are posh public school blokes, but the

facts are clear, applicants from fee-paying schools are five times

more likely to get a place here or at Oxford than applicants from a

state school. While nearly half of Cambridge

students are women, almost five out of six professors here are men.

Something Ph.D. Student and former equality and diversity Officer here

would like to see change. I have conversation with friends where they

say, it looks like a really nice place to go and visit but I would

never go to study there. Is patriarchal, the great-grandfather

figures of learning and excellence. Yes, a white old man with a big

beard, pontificating, sitting on his armchair, probably drinking sherry.

It still has those people, which is not necessarily bad in itself but I

think they are missing out on getting people from diverse

backgrounds while sending out that imagery of that team upon a person

they are looking for. With the university says it is making

progress. Just two years ago women were significantly less likely to

get a first than men but figures now show they are getting more first Raw

than men. One of the less known Cambridge

colleges want to change that. This is an all-female college and only

accepts students 21 or over, not the typical Cambridge stereotype.

This 53 you old political and social science student is in her first

year. Hello. Come in, come into my home. I have a library. This is my

luxury bathroom with Dulux facilities. People would say they

get to an age in life when they didn't expect to be sleeping in a

single bed against a spare wall. Yes!

I'm from a working class family, I knew no one who had gone to

university when I was at school. I went to work at 17. It never

featured in my mind as something that was for people like me. How did

this happen? I was made redundant from my last

job as a teaching assistant, as the same time my youngest child were

going to university. My kids looked at this empty house behind the NZ,

what are you going to do? You have no one to look after and no job to

do. What you should do is go off to university.

The college still harks to some traditions, like the weekly formal

dinner, where students, former students and their teachers eat

together. Back tonight is recent graduate and mum of four Nicky.

This time seven years ago I had no real career prospects at all. I was

a single mother to four children and now I am a doctor and an officer in

the RAF. I do owe that to the college, I think. They just gave me

a chance and that not only changed my life, but the lives of my

children as well. Also at the dinner is Marcia, a

former keyboard player in the band the Fall. She graduated 19 years ago

with a degree in medicine. You have to have some real safe belief or be

facing life as a petrol station attendant to motivate you to get you

through that process. There has to be some fire in you, particularly if

you're not from that background. Marcia is now a senior lecturer.

Giving women from across society educational opportunity at the right

time for them is what Lucy Cavendish is all about, according to its

president. Can you really change anything from

a woman's college? I think you can. I think it is far too slow, I would

like to see more women in top positions in the university. I would

like to see more people from underprivileged backgrounds coming

to Oxford and Cambridge. I would like to see an end to this idea it

is a very elitist place, because actually it isn't. If you have the

brains to come and do the work, it is for everybody, there is no social

segregation. Don't be fooled by the council and formality of the dinner

taking place behind me because the women who study here are from all

walks of life. This might not be the richest or the most famous of the

Cambridge colleges, but for my money it is the one doing the most to

challenge elitism head on. Thank you, Lucy.

Earlier on in a hot marched to My Big Fat Greek Wedding we asked you

for big wedding group shots. This is one from Antonio. And now this,

Laura's big fat Stanstead wedding with 310 guests. But we think the

winner is... With 500 guests, Naomi's big fat Cumbrian wedding.

Thank you, it has been lovely to have you. Tomorrow Vernon Kay will

join me along with Nigel Havers and I will be getting some much-needed

tips from sailing legend Sir Ben Ainslie. Good night!