03/11/2015 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

In the next 30 minutes, you will see a real live Spider-Man climbing up

the BBC. There we are. And he will take -- we will take a trip to the

Hundred Acre Wood to find out how Winnie the Pooh and friends were

brought to light. And our guest will blow your mind.

He's had an amazing career, which has included:

Convincing a man he was in a zombie apocalypse.

And he even knew what Matt Becker was thinking! Welcome, Derren Brown!

APPLAUSE. Great to see you. The last time you

were here, you ask Matt to drop the shape and put it in an envelope and

you correctly predicted he had drawn a diamond? You are terribly clever

so we have been practising. We have made a prediction tonight based on

the colours of the cards down here in front of us and this is a

completely random picture. We have not... OK. Yes. What we're going to

do. You are sitting on the green sofa, we shall just dim the lights.

You have to pick one of these at random. And we wanted you to relax

so we shall just play some music. Just a bit of music. We are not

going to influence the! As soon as you are ready? You have got the

green light...! Which Calderwood you like? -- colour would? Read? Wow! We

actually knew you were going to say that. Yes!

APPLAUSE. , on! There we are. Thank you.

Amazing. It worked! He cannot believe that!

There is someone in the BBC who makes predictions for a living

and he's here to launch a brand new interactive weather website, which

Before we meet him, Marty Jopson has been to Peterborough to separate

The great Jewish weather. With rain one minute and sunshine the next. It

is notoriously difficult to predict. I use of weather forecasting a lot,

they travel all over the country, often working outside and generally,

I find it is pretty much spot on. But occasionally, the weather that

is forecast does not match the weather I am experiencing. Often,

the mismatch between the weather and the forecast has to do with very

local conditions. As Jon Hammond knows all too well. Nice to see you.

It is quite misty. More than I forecast last night! What types of

weather are difficult to forecast? Fog is classic. It is so local in

nature. One valley can be filled and at the top of the hill, it is clear

and pristine. So, the weather can vary a lot over small distances. To

find out why, I will measure the weather in different parts of

Peterborough. First, the centre centre. The temperature is... 14.9

degrees. 61% humility. And the wind speed is an editable, essentially

zero. I am then climb into the top of Peterborough Cathedral, still in

the city centre, but 43 metres higher. So, appear, we have got 12.6

degrees, 82% humility and the wind speed is 12mph. I am just 44 metres

up but it is when the and cooler. Height is one of the many factors

that can dramatically affect local conditions. Urban areas are often

warmer than surroundings because the human activity raises the

temperature. And trees can raise the temperature -- humidity are

releasing water. It is impossible to incorporate every local detail in

the weather forecasts so the BBC is lodging a new website. It will

gather local information from members of the public on what is

happening with the weather where they live. Weather Watchers is

interactive and members of the public can upload their observations

and photographs into the wider community to enhance the forecast so

it is not just the forecast, it is a now-cast. Paul Gallacher is one of

800 people who have been trialling the new website. He uses his weather

station to record conditions twice a day. I have always been addicted to

taking the weather forecast. I have been doing it since, I would say I

was in my 20s and I am just fascinated by the weather and

whenever there is an extreme iron in my element! Excuse the pun! Paul has

been sharing his data on the South and following reports from other

users. What we want is people everywhere to be putting in data? If

we had the British Isles saturated, it would be brilliant! You could

then follow the weather as it is coming across. If everybody gets

involved, or could be a weather report from every street in Britain,

creating a detailed snapshot of what is going on across the country right

Back from Peterborough. How easy is it to insert all of your data?

Incredibly easy. Go to the website. And in YouGov. Give yourself the

nickname, mine is Status Snow, because I love the band and the

snow! Just look out of the window, simple as that, if it is cloudy, you

can go into the website and just move the pointer down to cloudy or

Sunday or raining and you can move the thermometer to whatever and then

add some comments, as little or as much as you want. Just click that

and then... You can see your observation live and you can compare

that with others around your region and around the country as well. And

we have had those coming in over the last few minutes. Is this something

you would be interested in, Derren? No, I would rely on my nan's knees.

You would be surprised! You are also asking for pictures and some people

might see their pictures popping up during the weather bulletin? Yes,

that sort of granular detail is something we are sometimes lacking

in the business, we have satellite and radar and sophisticated

equipment but it is what is happening on a very local scale that

can make a very big impact on the forecast. We have some examples of

photographs taken at nine o'clock yesterday. This beautiful area of

Yorkshire, you can see the valley. And another one, showing the fog and

that was taken from Vauxhall and another one from Northern Ireland.

It is that high impact weather which is going to make a difference to the

forecast because it is that crowdsourcing of information. A

couple of days ago we had the warmest November day on record in

West Wales and we had the Met Office South recording that but who knows,

five miles to the east, it could have been even warmer? We will never

know, this audit information will be useful on a day-to-day basis. It is

a now-cast. We will not do away with the satellite and the radar, they

are indispensable but if I bounce into the weather studio on a winter

night and the rain is about to turn to snow, I will go on the Weather

Watchers website and I will see that it has just started to turn in, say,

Sheffield. So, thank you to Status Snow! You can also get the Weather

Watchers badge and they are going to local radio stations as we speak.

There you go. Lovely! In breaking news now, it turns

out that Spider-Man does exist. His name is Alain Robert

and he's climbed pretty much every From the Sydney Opera House,

to the Empire State Building But he's turned his attention to

his biggest challenge yet. Our home, in fact. I must be honest,

I have a terrible head for heights! It is a very long way down! I am not

exactly Spider-Man but I do know someone who is. Frenchman and then

there is one of the greatest solo climb as ever, he has scaled more

than 145 of the world's tallest endings, including the golden gate

bridge, the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur and the tallest building on

earth in to buy. But the building that Alain monster climb is the

shard in London. But there is a court order banning him from coming

within 20 metres of the place. I cannot offer him the Shard but I can

offer a BC broadcasting house, which is not small. Can you get up to that

part? Do you think? The problem is that there is some interruption.

Right. As you can see, it is absolutely smooth. Smooth stone is a

no-no. Any possibility of that class? The silicone, it is not

possible to climate. And class is looking tricky also. I am thinking

that there is an option. This one. That little gap? You could get your

hands and your feet into that? Really? Allen, why do you claim

these buildings? Just because it is my passion. I have been climbing for

42 years. Nine out of ten, I do not use any safety device. What I like

is the fact that I am climbing that we and this is the idea about life

and death. You had quite a nasty accident in 1982. What happened and

what effect has not had? I fell headfirst from 50 metres and all of

my joints were destroyed. And then fell into a coma. My desire to climb

back was even stronger than the pain. Have you had any scary moments

when you have been halfway up any building? There are plenty of scary

moments. Nearly falling, then you are dealing with your most precious

asset, your life, I guarantee that you will be good at concentrating.

This is the BBC, you can just start climbing. You must have all the

safety equipment. Yes, that is more like it! Just to clarify, the

harness and drop is only for Alain's safety if he should fall. He

will be free climbing with no assistance during this attempt.

APPLAUSE. Congratulations. I was amazed how

quickly you got up there. No more than seven minutes. That was easier

than some of the claims you have done so where next? Who knows?

APPLAUSE It took me back to that mountain.

Alain isn't just here to climb, he's also giving a series

Alain isn't just here to climb, of talks about his life.

For more information, have a look at our Facebook page.

Derren, you have had a busy day rehearsing your new show Miracle.

Yes I had to make sure I knew all the words. It is about to start in

London and there has been a gap and you worry you have forgotten the

words. Some people will have seen you? Yes, I toured with it around

the country and then I have got ten weeks in London and then I'm touring

with it again next year. We know lots of secrecy is involved in your

shows. But obviously you want to sell the tickets, what can you tell

people to entice them to see the show? I do ask people to keep the

show secret. But it is a show, there is a lot more philosophy in this

one, it came from things I wanted to say, more than the previous shows. I

throw out things and people join in. There is a through line that doesn't

give much away about happiness. I have been writing a book on

happiness for years and a lot of the ideas about how to be happy about

setting goals and believing yourself are not terribly helpful and can

lead to more anxiety. The things I find interesting about happiness are

often the opposite of trying to control things. Like not trying to

control things that are out of your control. You're in control of your

thoughts and actions and if you stop trying to control things that are

you're not in control of, nothing happens and you remove anxiety and

frustration. It is a different way of approaching happiness. A lot of

that runs through the show. But the big surprises I can't give away.

Only because I love that feeling of people seeing it for the first time

and having a real sense of wonder I hope. It has been in the news that

you have been involved in designing this rollercoaster. It is not a

rollercoaster. It is an attraction for Thorpe Park. They said would you

do something for us. It is 13 minutes long. So sift is an

experience. -- so it is an experience. Yes. People go into a...

Thing And come out feeling happy. They're being secretive about it as

well. It is their biggest investment to date and it is the first thing of

its kind in the world. And I understand it is likely to be the

future of theme parks. So for me, I want amazing, a great thing to be

able to do, come up with your own attraction. So you manipulate

people's minds on this ride? There is a psychological element to it.

But it is a physical thing. Are you thrown about? I wouldn't say... Well

who knows? Will the queue be massive. No. We have all this worked

ot. So it is brilliant from the moment you walk in. I'm so excited

about it. I think I'm more excited about this than anything. You must

be under pressure to keep producing the next amazing thing. Do you feel

that or do you got back to your Athenian philosophy? In a sense I

do, you can fix ate on what the biggest and best thing will be or

trying to conquer America or doing the things in the future, or worry

about what you have done in the past, but I have been about in the

moment. Which is a very Athenian thing. I have come from a sense of

what feels important and worthwhile and I never worry about bigger and

better. Your new show starts in London on 11th November. If you need

anybody to try it, we are happy to do it. I could do that. We know

you're a keen artist. Derren, we know you're

a keen artist so hopefully you'll We have heard th Snoopy has been

inducted into the Hall of Fame here is not of our favourites. Here he

looked for honey a had endless games of Pooh sticks. The imagery of

Winnie the Pooh is instantly recognisable thanks to the drawings

of AH Shepard. Shepard made his name with his charming depictions of

Milne's childhood classic. But before that he illustrated a darker

subject - the artist served in the First World War and took his sketch

pad with him. Many of his drawings of the front line have never been

seen by the public. But now they have been brought together for a new

exhibition in London. James Campbell is author of the book Shepard's War.

He had a tough war and served on the front line and saw a lot of his

colleagues killed, injured, his only brother was killed on the Somme. We

think when he came home he packed everything up, all the drawings, the

sketch books and illustrations and there it has been undies tushd. Ever

-- undisturbed. You will see sheets from sketch pads and books. Can you

see the connection between his work in the war and what we would know of

him in later years? I think that the First World War art work did

ininfluence what went after. He has to do things quickly and we know

that he just pulls out the note book and sketches with a very short time

span. If you think to Winnie the Pooh, some of the drawings, if you

can imagine Eeyore and you see four paws upside down in the water and

you know what it is, but it is just a few lines. I think he got that

speed from his experiences on the front line in the First World War.

When the war ended, Shepard found work as a cartoonist for Punch. It

was while there he began collaborating with AA Milne, who

would go on to write Winnie the Pooh. Helen Walasek is the artist

for the magazine where Pooh first appeared. Tell me about the

development of Winnie the Pooh. It is said the character appears as

earlive as 1913 in one of Shepard's cartoons for Punch and the bear was

based on his son Graham's bear, who was known as Growler. He growled

when he laid down. He was a superior bear and I have have never seen a

bear like him. But Growler's transformation to Winnie the Pooh

wouldn't start until 1924 when they started to collaborate on pictures

for Punch. One poem was Edward Bear. Teddy bear was the name of the poem

and the feature of the bear you can see it Winnie the Pooh. There was a

phenomenal success and it was a new partnership and eventually the new

partnership of Milne and Shepard went on to publish win yes the Pooh.

What happened when AA Milne realised the reaction was so positive he

envieded Shepard here? Yes it is 500 acre woods that Milne called hundred

acre woods. You can still feel them being here? Yes it is the still the

same place he recorded in his drawings. Shepard captured the

child-like spirit of the world. In the war he found light in the dark

of trenches, but it was here in the five hundred acre wood that he

created the illustrations that have delighted people since. They have

the most beautiful tone. Now Friday team rickshaw set off on their

challenge. Here is rider No 5. It is Elliott. I'm Elliott and I'm 16 and

live at home with my mum and dad in Essex. Give it a roll. I was cheeky

when I was younger and I was a bit like misbehave a bit in school. He

was always wanting to do something new, whether it was cycling or

kicking a ball. We have had a lot of laughs with Elliott. He has always

been fun. We always eat out. We hardly eat in if everyone's in.

Sorry mum. Thou chat not lie, I think. ? 2013 I noticed red marks on

my body and leg and then saw a lump on my leg. I asked my mum. I took

him to the doctor's he gave me a let forethe appointment and alooked at

the clinic -- he gave me the letter and I didn't didn't recognise the

clinic. It came up as cancer. I was only four or five week and I was

fold I had Hodgkins lymphoma. It was a shock. I held his hand. I put my

hand on his shoulder. He said fair enough, what do we do from here?

And... I don't know where he got that from. I thought I have got to

try and look strong and be stong for my family and get through it. He

woke up a normal average 14-year-old boy. At 20 past 2 that afternoon he

was one of seven teenager that day to be told they had cancer. It

turned our world upside down. I know the chemotherapy did make me feel

ill. I would wash my hair and clumps would be in my hand. I would have my

head in a bowl and wouldn't want to open the curtains and see sun light.

It was a horrible feeling. It was in December I was told I was in

remission and I was so elated, it was a brilliant feeling. But my

doctor told me the tumours are still in my pelvis and stomach and there

is no way to monitor how they're doing, now it is OK, so I'm living

life, each day as it comes. I got told about the rickshaw challenge

through teams unite, a charity that supports teenagers with cancer and

other illnesses. We bring them together through workshops and

activities where they can meet other people their age in a similar

situation. To see Elliott taking part in the rickshaw challenge was

amazing, not only for him, but for raising awareness for the work that

we are doing as well. I look forward to finishing. Only thinking there is

only a certain amount of miles to go and not thinking of it as an entire

challenge. Elliott's got a can-do attitude and if it is possible, he

will do it. I think he is inspirational, brave, a loving boy.

Please donate to he Children in Need rickshaw challenge. It will be hard

and I need all the support I can get. APPLAUSE This year we have the

most strong-willed group of young stergs. Sters. Derren how can they

support. Donate ?5 Tex text the word team to:

Text cost your donation and your standard network charge. You must be

16 or other and ask for the bill payer's permission. For more

information go to the web-site. You can also donate online. The lines

are open now. So please start texting. Thank you to Derren for

joining us, miracle starts in who London on 11th November. Tomorrow we

are joined by Rod Stewart and Jimmy Carr. See you tomorrow. Good night.