03/12/2012 The One Show

A low and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Tonight's guest has spent the last 11 years burping at the nation, but

tonight, he has promised to act with a little bit more decorum. It

is Harry Hill! Harry, you join us on a momentous day of wonderful

news. Some of us had our suspicions, but it has been announced today,

that Harry has been nominated for three British Comedy awards! There

is some of the news as well, of course. Yes, congratulations also

go out to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Isn't it lovely? It is

wonderful news for both of them, and it is perfectly legal, they are

married. A perfect time to get your bunting out. As a father of three,

have you got any advance for William? -- any advice for William?

If it is a girl, just treat her like a princess. Oh, very good!

Catherine is not the only one with babies on her mind. My name is

Sophie Morgan, and I have been in a wheelchair for almost 10 years,

after I was paralysed in a car accident. But I have never let it

hold me back. I recently bought a house, and I am in a long-term

relationship. Things could not be better. But one subject which has

cropped up is weather with you have children. My friends are having

kids, and I have never let my disability hold me back before, so

why not? There are more than one million disabled parents in the UK.

Assistance from the NHS and the local authority is supposed to be

available before and after giving birth, with things like specialist

antenatal classes, and help at home, like getting children ready for

school. 10 months ago, Laura, also wheelchair user, like me, became a

mother. As a first-time mother, she knew she would need extra help

managing her new role. She now employers are part-time nanny.

Before giving birth, she had asked her local health authority and

council if any help was available. That simple request ended with

social workers asking whether she and her able-bodied husband could

cope with parenthood. I would love to say that it was all positive,

but actually, it was quite daunting. What were people like with you when

you were pregnant? In general, people were fantastic, but when you

come across professionals saying things like, have you even thought

about how you're going to look after this baby? I found that

absolutely devastating. Some of the ways we were spoken to, and

treated... As soon as Jonathan was born, they told me that they had to

come and see me. They totally took away that day from me, of coming

home, and having Jonathan with me. I had never been so frightened, but

I had never been so angry in my whole life, because it was obvious

that we were doing absolutely fine. If you're disabled parent and you

need help, it is going to be tough. Local authorities only have a

discretion to help you, it is not a mandatory requirement. It is

different across the country. We get calls from people who have been

refused help, and we also get a number of calls every week from

people who have been threatened with because the authorities think

they cannot bring them up properly. What happened with social services?

I asked to get someone to come and help me, when I found out I was

pregnant with my third child. Two weeks before I was due to give

birth, they said to me that if I was not coping, would it not be

better to take the kids into temporary foster care? The only

reason I ask for help was that I could have helped to be a mother,

not for someone to take over my role as mother. Her local council

did help, but she was understandably scarred by the

experience. She has been allocated two hours of help each day, but now,

she only gets 30 minutes. Despite this, her local council insists the

well-being of children is of paramount importance, keeping them

safe and well at home. Has it all been worth it? I have got three

wonderful girls, I would never change it for anything. I am a

fantastic mother, I am great at what I do, and the biggest

difference between me and another parent is this - they do it

standing up, I parent sitting down. That's it. Being a parent is really

hard work, and being a disabled parent is going to be even harder,

especially if you do not get the support that you need. But it is

clearly worth it. And I definitely want to be a mum one day. All the

very best to Sophie. How typical of those cases Sophie? Clearly, it

varies enormously. I have heard of cases where people get 90 hours per

week. But anybody is entitled to an assessment. It should not be about

taking your child away. Obviously, in extreme circumstances, the

child's welfare has got to come first, but it should be about

helping them to become a really good parent. Normally, because you

have got a social worker, because you have had a social care

assessment, because you have got disabilities, they should come

round before the baby is born, so that hopefully everything is in

place. We have heard from Laura's local council, what do they say?

They said they carried out an assessment, and Laura would have

been fully aware at the time of the assessment of the implications in

terms of referral for child care. But they then did a follow up, and

they said they are confident that the baby will be well looked after,

and they have been able to put a package of care in place, including

a local care provider. That is great news. We spoke earlier on

about the Duchess of Cambridge. She is suffering from morning sickness

- is there anything anybody can do to help on this topic? First of all,

if you have not gone through this yourself, it is actually morning,

noon and night sickness! About one in 50 women get this really extreme

version, can be really quite dangerous, because you cannot keep

anything down, and you can get really dehydrated. For most people,

a lot of people swear by Ginger. What about an acupuncture bracelet?

Well, it does seem to help. We use it for seasickness, so why not? It

is completely harmless. And pear drops, for some reason. When you

are feeling sick, you might have a nasty taste in your mouth, and pear

drops seen to be very good at taking that away. My wife used to

find a dry biscuit very helpful. Just one, it lasted nine months. It

was about that big. If you know of any other weird and wonderful

Rameses for morning sickness, then let us know. -- remedies. Thank you

very much for being with us. Happy birthday to Sarah! We are now just

three weeks away from Christmas, and if your other half said, "I'm

just popping down the shop to pick up the turkey" and then did not

come home chilly month, you would be forgiven for being a bit short

on festive cheer. That is exactly what happened to one woman. Mind

you, she did have a pretty good excuse. Angellica Bell reports.

Cape Wrath is the most north- westerly point on mainland Britain.

It is nearer to the Arctic Circle than it is to Land's End. The only

people who live here are John Ure and his wife, Kay. A couple of

years ago, when Kay left home to go to the shops to pick up the

Christmas turkey, it resulted in a month-long round trip, due to snow,

gale force winds and ice. For the first time in 35 years of marriage,

they were forced to spend Christmas apart, and they are lonely plight

captured the headlines. But this year they will not be missing out

on Christmas dinner. The One Show is bringing it to them early, with

a little help from a local chef and some carol singers. Are you in good

voice? Yes! Come on! All we have to do is get there, but already, the

wind is picking up. The only practical way of visiting the

couple is by taking a ferry across the Kyle of Durness. But the

schedule only runs from May to September, and I am here on the

very last day of the season. I have been told it is touch and go as to

whether we can get across and back safely. If the weather gets worse

while Lamb on the peninsula, I could be in trouble. The ferry man

has been battling this kind of weather for the past 30 years.

have to warn people in the morning for the possibility of getting

stuck on the other side. It can be quite dangerous? Oh, yes, in a

small boat, you know. Even for you, and you know the water? Yes.

Conditions are so bad, that only a few people can be taken across at a

time. As I wake, the weather continues to close in, but a sudden

break in the clouds finally allows me to get across. Made it! That's

great. There is still a 45 minute drive through a Ministry of Defence

bombing range. Cape Wrath is so desolate, it is the only place in

Europe where 1,000lb bombs are allowed to be dropped along the

coast. Fortunately not on the day we are here! It must take a very

special couple to live alone in a place like this. It must be John!

Nice to meet you. Kay, thank you very much for having us. Where they

live in is not for the faint- hearted. There is no water supply

in Cape Wrath, it has to be delivered by a van, along with

their gas. All their electricity comes from a generator. But John

would not swap this hard living for anything. I like a bit of isolation.

The environment is nice, there is a lot of wildlife. It is nice to be

sitting inside and observing the weather. It can get quite lonely in

the winter. You might not see anybody for three or four weeks.

When Kay went to get her Christmas turkey, John was snowed in for a

month. Even out of fresh food and had to eat emergency rations,

whilst Kay's Christmas dinner came out of the can. I had a tin of

tomatoes soap and a chicken sandwich. I was on emergency

rations, so I had lamb curry. have you done to make sure this

does not happen again this Christmas? I am keeping Kay in this

Christmas. Will you be ordering the turkey early? We will not have

Turkey. So, this year, it is Turkey with all the trimmings. Make sure

you enjoy it. This is to make up for the Christmas Day you do not

have together. -- you did not have together. I cannot help feeling

that this caring couple might just want to be on their own again. That

one will be just as memorable as the one last year. It is brilliant

sitting here with you, Harry, seeing your mind going round,

thinking of sketches. I cannot stop it. You finished eight months ago?

Yes, finished broadcasting it, we still make it, it just does not go

out. But Will you be able to enjoy Christmas television, without

thinking, that would be brilliant? I still do that. I am looking at

that light house thinking, they could have put a lick of paint on

that outbuilding. And so, I watch it... For instance, I would be

watching X factor, with the family, and saying, look at that pattern on

her coat. They laugh, and that is I don't need the applause anymore!

You must miss it, though. It gets to the point you are think,

obviously it is stressful, but after you forget that, don't you?

did it for a long time. We did five years of TV Burp, no-one watched it.

Or knew it was on. I did it for ten years in the end. Probably it was

enough. Now I have to come up with a funny idea for another TV show.

Well, lots of people at home still miss it, for those people, here is

a reminder. What is the recipe this week, Hugh? I am ready to cover the

rabbit with the liquids to cook it in. They are cider, water, and

rather a lot of pork fat. Pork fat! That amount of fat?! Are you mad?

He has lost it! I have never seen such a crazy amount of pork fat.

I know this looks like a scary amount of pork fat, but don't panic.

Only a little bit of the fat will go in. I was going to say it did

seem a lot. Hence my panic! Brilliant. How do the presenters

and actors react to TV Burp? On the whole, we have not had trouble with

anyone. Well, you have been on TV Burp?

is mixed emotions. Obviously you are watching, which is great. Then

you think, in what capacity is you watching?! But, I have to say it is

great. It is part of an exclusive club. It is difficult going to the

National TV Award show, and we have been taking the micky out of them.

It is like, oh,... You have a DVD of the best of? Yes.

Now, here is the thing. Our insect investigator, George McGavin, well,

he likes butterflies... And moths, but which is better? There is only

one way to find out... Fight! derelict and a waste of space are

words associated with ex-industrial or brownfield sites, but how about

attractive wildlife haven? Well, these unloved occasions are a

massive part of the British landscape. Although we may dislike

them, nature has taken full advantage and moths in particular,

love these areas. This was once an oil refinery, but can by wick in

Essex has been derelict for the last 40 years. It is now the first

place in the UK to be protected specifically because of the moth

and ininvestigate life. A fellow creepy Crawley enthusiast, Dr

Henshaw, reckons that the ugly wasteland hides a beautiful secret.

A site like this is full of different habitats. Lots of wild

flowers. Lots of grasses, ground, it is a haven for the bugs and the

insects. It is really the evening that the

moths come out? Tonight will be great. I have a great feeling. We

are had a wet day. They are going to be out and hungry.

Here we set up a light, the moths drop into the box and they can't

escape. There is a sheet for the moths to land on.

I am looking forward to this, the anticipation.

Well, there is not a vast amount, but what there is really nice. Now

that is a pretty moth. I would say that it is a Small

Emerald. You can see why. Proof that moths are not just

boring brown things. And there is more to come. Sarah's

moth trap is really buzzing. We will leave it overnight and

check it in the morning. What do we have? Wow! It is looking

good. Look at that. It is an Eye ofed

high pressure hop Moth. She has fantastic hie spots. Look at the

wings, that is fantastic. Beautiful. That is a small one.

They can get bigger than that, but I think I can beat your moth. In

terms of the most beautiful moth. An Elephant Hot Moth. Look at that

wing. Look at that... The lesson here is that moths really do give

butterflies a run for their money. This apparently useless patch of

wasteland is a great habitat for them. There are 40 times as many

moths as there are butterflies. That is 2,400 different varieties.

We have a number of Hawk Moths. Look at that, a trio of Hot Moths.

That is the Lime Hot Moth. And the Eyed Hot Moth and the Elephant Hot

Moth has gone. Look, that is stunning. These

close-ups of the ones that we caught, allow to us see the

creature's true beauty. You can see what makes a moth a moth, they can

be chunky and really fury. There is really a lot of moths here.

My goodness. This is an aptly named Leopard Moth.

He is so soft I could almost cuddle him! Unlike the butterfly cousins,

the moths of the males have fantastic antennae. This chap has

another trick up his sleeve. Now, look closely, this is

pretending to be a dead leaf, but it is a Lappit Moth.

Well, it was a miserable night, but we have caught up to 08 species of

moth. So all you have to do is get a moth box and get out there and

learn to love your moths. Because they are spectacular.

There you have, get yourself a moth book.

Yes, and you can read stories to your moths.

Yes, about huggable species of moths.$$NEWLINE Do you believe he

found 80 in one night.$$NEWLINE and he would have been disappointed

with only 80s. Now, Harry, you are on the road

again with tour number nine? Yes, back on the stand-up. I was so

greedy with TV. I didn't have the time to do it.

Why did you do it? Well, people would ask would I give up stand-up.

Of course, there is a huge boom in stand-up. So I thought I would have

a go. Then when I got back to doing it, I realised what I can liked

about it in the first place. It is that great thing of a live audience.

The difference between the TV and doing a live thing, you don't have

to filter it through the producer, the director. If you think of a

joke in the morning, you can do it in the evening. It is immediate. It

has been fun. What is nice about the tour is that

you can take the whole family along. You cannot often do that when you

are going to see comedians? Well, I don't know! No, it is not offensive

in any way, so in that sense it is a family show. The finale of the

show is a 20-foot inflatable sausage and comes out. That is why

it is called Sausage Time. It makes sense. I tend to drink a

bucket of water. A pillow fight. If that is not entertainment, what is?

But this is amazing, you are writing a musical. You are in the

process of workshoping a musical, about X Factor? It sounds like a

dream, but I was watching the X Factor final a couple of years ago.

I thought it would be a great idea. I somehow managed to get hold of

Simon Cowell and found myself in a meeting with him. Pitching the idea.

Obviously we are taking the micky out of Simon Cowell to a great

degree, but he is on board. Good, but lots of the stuff you

write, you star in, but what about this one, which one of the judges

would you be? We have a picture of them. So, we start with Louis

Walsh... Maybe? What about Tulisa Contostavlos? This is a good one.

Here we are... I think my favourite has to be Gary Barlow...! And then

Nicole Scherzinger... Yeah! Yes, I think I would like to be Tulisa.

She has more hair! That is brilliant news.

Well, good luck with it Very exciting.

Now, then, how do you think that growing up with parents who are

leaders of a 60 revolutionary commune would affect you? Well,

Alison Craig has been to find out. You may think that a caravan sight

between the RAF air base and a rubbish dump in the far north-east

of Scotland would be a unusual place to start a commune.

The Findhorn Foundation is often either ignored or ridiculed, but

this alternative eco community now attracts thousands of visitors from

all over the world it generates millions of pounds for the local

economy. Not bad for a bunch of hippies.

The Findhorn Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In

the past, the main stream looked at it as a haven for wild and whacky

ideas, but it is becoming a beacon for their pioneering approach to

sustainable living. But what was it like to have grown

up in a community such as this, back in the '60s.

This is it! Is it. This is where it started.

Mr Caddy is the son of two of the founders of Findhorn Foundation.

He was a small boy when his parents moved with their three young

children to live in the caravan here. This led to the creation of a

small garden. That turned into the beginning of the Findhorn

Foundation. The community was guided by an inner voice, which

Eileen said came to her during meditation.

How did the other kids of your age react to the fact that you had this

unconventional lifestyle? I was aware that other people did things

differently, but it is only until you leave the family that you

realise, you were a little different from most people and

their lives. My mother resieving the guidance, well she did that in

most of our lives. We used to go down to the local public toilet,

that is where she would get peace and quiet as there was not a lot in

the caravan. That was not regarded as strange because your life is

your life. During the '70s, Findhorn

Foundation's population grew to 170, but today about 300 people live

here. There is a hub of activity in the

area. There are the benefits of being remote and the hub of the

activity and the warmth of the community it sounds cheesey, but

there is a lot of love and hugs and all of the good things like that

here. If there was a negative, what would it be? It is like it is the

same thing. Sometimes t that is too much! Today, the common doctrine,

is the belief that every aspect of life is interconnected and many of

the groups' early beliefs, like living with a sustainable footprint

have become main stream. It is home to 40 different businesses and has

become a training centre for the UN. The income comes from the guests

who visit each year, so why has Findhorn survived when so many

other communities died out? Foundation was good at its

international identity, but not so good at the local and national

contribution. So over the last ten years, we have started to develop

programmes that meet the needs of of the local community.

This place was more suited to the moon in the 1960s, rather than here

in the north-east of Scotland, thank but the world is certainly

open to more and more of what was going on here many decades ago.

As Harry was saying, we covered that on Harry Hill's TV Burp, but

something else that is alternative is your artwork it is fascinating

the paintings that you come up with. It is a hobby. I don't do it for

commercial gain. Well, you have Walnut Whips in it,

this is lovely. What is this Well, you can be a the judge of this.

Now, let's talk about alternative remedies.

Yes, the brilliant news, the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting.

Now, she has acute morning sickness. There is some remedies here. One

says ginger. Another says salt and vinegar crisps. The best way to

avoid extreme sickness. sherbert lemons and ice lollies.