04/02/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.

Tonight find out why Gyles is holding his very own bed-in. It has

something to do with John Lennon, two pairs of socks and an orange

balloon. And our guest is a British actor whose about to star in the

BBC's new Stephen Poliakoff drama. But we think he secretly wants to

be a rock star. # I wish I could slay demons, but

now that time has passed # Wish I could stay here...

# I'm standing in the rain and... It's Anthony Head! You have

certainly got the voice for it to be a rock star. That was from Buffy.

You were in a band, weren't you? Back in the Eighties and I made a

sensible decision to leave that behind me, and just get on with

things. I get to sing every now and again. I love singing. But acting,

you can get on with acting and just sort of improved and work on it.

Your brother, Murray, he's a singer, isn't he? Yes, he is still

recording. You do play a 1930s Simon Cowell in his latest drama

which we will be talking about later. You don't sing in that?

don't but Angel Coulby does. will talk about that later. A

measles outbreak has just been declared in the North-East of

England, and it's not the only one. The problems are being put down to

the difficult choice parents, like Louise Minchin, had to make about

the MMR vaccination jab over a decade ago.

The vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella has been linked with autism.

15 years ago, research linked the MMR to autism. Judgment day for Dr

Andrew Wakefield to triggered one of the biggest health scares in a

generation. Within six years, the research had been discredited but

the doubt in many parents' minds meant by 2004, the take-up rate for

the vaccine had dropped 10% which may not sound like a lot but it's

now have any serious impact Nationwide. I remember the

confusion really well because my daughter was to fire her MMR and no

parent wants to put their child at risk. Eventually, after a lot of

discussion be decided against it, and she had a single jab for

measles, mumps and rubella. 15 years on, and confusion is having

serious health consequences with more and more cases of measles been

reported every week. On New year's Day this year, Jane became

concerned with her 12-year-old son, who started to get sick. We thought

he had tonsilitis, which he suffers worth. In the morning, his face and

shoulders were completely covered with a rash. That's when I started

to think there was something not right. He had measles, highly

infectious, a viral illness which can be fatal. He was hallucinating

that because of how high his temperature was. He couldn't open

his eyes and take sips of water. By a was scared. I slept in bed with

him for four days. Jane it was one of the people scared of the MMR

vaccine by the controversy. When Jack was born and it came up for

him to have his jabs, but was a lot going on in the papers and on TV

about the side-effects of autism. And they made the decision for Jack

not to have the immunisation. It's a decision I do regret now.

Wholeheartedly. Jack recovered after eight days but is part of an

outbreak of measles which has affected this area, with 40 cases

confirmed so far, more than the whole of Lancashire at both

previous year. It's a familiar story across England and Wales were

the biggest outbreak in Liverpool with over 600 cases and a

And because they are so concerned about this outbreak, the NHS and

health protection agency have organised a series of sessions in

schools like this one to immunise children who did not get the MMR

when they were younger. According to our records, you need to have

this done. The World Health Organisation target is for 95%

coverage of the MMR vaccine. This would help protect the whole

country against any measles outbreak as it would make it almost

impossible for it to spread. By 2004, uptake of the vaccine had

declined from 92% to below 80% meaning it's now much easier for

outbreaks to occur. Before we have the vaccine, we saw 100 deaths each

year. Because of vaccination, it's very rare. It's definitely not a

mild disease. People still ask whether MMR is safe. Is it? Very

safe. One of the most intensively researched vaccines we have,

probably, and study after study, children have shown this is safe

and effective. You seem to have pockets of outbreaks so why are you

targeting those areas particularly? Unfortunate, it can spread from a

teenage group into the young group, under one, who are too young to

have received their MMR are but are at risk of the worst complications

of measles. It's never too late to get the vaccine. They should visit

their GP. One of those getting vaccinated today is Jack, although

he's already had measles and couldn't catch it again, Jane is

anxious his cupboard for mumps and rubella. But he is covered. I can

understand why parents decide against the MMR at the time but the

focus now is to contain this outbreak and stop measles becoming

a nationwide problem again. wasn't that bad. It did not really

hurt. If I had got him immunised, this wouldn't have happened. I

would say, while its readily available now, if you haven't had

your children vaccinated before, get them done. Dr Mark Porter is

here. You would second that, would you? Yes, for people who are

probably 25 and below, who have not been exposed to the virus, I was, I

had all those disease as a child, don't just walk in the force of you

need to arrange beforehand. Yes, get the appointment. They spoke

about the north-west but where else are these outbreaks happening?

There were 1,400 cases, the North West, 700. The south-east, another

spot. That was 330 in London. And then the north-east, 50 cases up

there and North Wales, 30 cases. Not a huge figures, but they are

still there for some in the bad old days, there were 8,000 cases a year.

Why are we seeing some areas more effective than others? It were ever

a virus gets a foothold. There is a group of people who are not

immunised, like Jack, and it's a hangover from the autism scare. A

group of children, often older, in their early teens were not

immunised and has enough for the virus to spread. 95% of the

population was covered, the virus can spread. It is a two jab course.

A Yes, the first four community and the second is to pick up a 10% who

don't respond to the first. Children who does Tad one jab are

there OK? We can't guarantee it. What about rubella and mumps?

is the most common of them all. We had 50,000 cases in at 2005.

Rubella is very rare. My sister and mother had it in their pregnancy.

Caroline was born profoundly deaf. Measles, it's normally a self-

limiting childhood illness. 1,500 cases in 2000, 100 children were

admitted and of three died. Bear in mind, it's not always a minor

disease. Thanks, Mark. With the space shuttle era over, the race is

on to find the spacecraft of the future. And Britain has a chance of

winning. Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock meets the Oxfordshire team who

5, 4, 3, 2, one... Zero. Lift off! Up until now, this is what blasting

But, in the future, blast-off may look a lot more like taking off.

This is a space programme dreamt up by British engineers have. Hoping

to revolutionise the way we get into orbit. This project has lofty

ambitions. The idea behind it is to build a reusable spacecraft which

can take off and land at a conventional runway. But to make

this a reality, depends on the success of its engines. Most

shuttles and rockets used a different fuel for commercial

aircraft. It gives them the thrust to get into space. Rocket engines

are usually fuelled by burning two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. They

help rockets take-off with a bang. Hydrogen in the balloon is ignited

with oxygen. This explosive combination make a thrust. The fuel

required is heavy. Liquid oxygen makes up 80% of the weight of a

spacecraft. If it was to take off from a runway, it needs to lighten

the load. This engineer's solution is to design a space engine which

can use oxygen from the atmosphere, just like a jet engine. The thing

which is unique about this going into space, this engine, like a jet

engine, breeds air. It uses the atmosphere to get to up to about

five times the speed of sound. big complication over commercial

jet is the spacecraft will be travelling much faster. There will

enter the engine at enormous speed and needs to be slowed down. That

Things in motion had energy -- heat. All that energy turns into heat and

the temperature goes up to 1,000 degrees centigrade. It would get so

hot it would melt the components. The key to making this work is to

cool down the air. Absolutely. on earth do you do that from 1,000

degrees? You use what is called a heat exchanger. I can show you the

principle of how it works with this contraption. My hair dryer is

blowing hot air at 70 degrees. To cool it down I'm passing it through

a motorbike radiator filled with ice-cold water. As the air passes

through the radiator, heat energy is transferred to the cold water.

The cold water heats up and the air cools down. And it has worked. The

radiator has cooled down the air from 17 to 20 degrees. Simple. The

engine used to cool the air from 1,000 degrees Celsius to -140

degrees, in 100ths of a second. It calls for a revolutionary heat

exchanger. They don't want their competitors to know what they're

doing, so they are running tests behind closed doors. Alan is

letting us in on a few secrets. There's a huge amount of technology

in a very, very small space. The it is forced over thousands of tiny

tubes filled with a very cold gas. The mortar tubes, the greater the

surface area created and it's all incredibly lightweight. This

technology has the potential to radically change the space industry.

All of a sudden it will be no more typical getting into orbit than it

would be going to New York, for example, so that's really where the

big change comes. Of course, if you can get into all but Wrigley,

cheaply, reliably, that's the stepping-stone to go into the

universe. I can't wait. The wait may not take long. The aim is to

2020 does not seem that far away, does it? I was worried about the

monkey that was sent up a little while back. He looked petrified,

the little thing. Do we have to send monkeys up? But, Bruce willies

is coming out? He is coming on the show on Monday night.$$NEWLINE,

big night coming up, Dancing On The Edge, Anthony.

We are all singing it. All aboard. So, give us an idea of

what it is all about? It is a drama by Stephen Poliakoff. Set in the

1930s, at a time of great excitement when they come out of

the First World War, there was new entertainment, new writing, new

music. Everything was exciting. Then they went into the Second

World War. It is an extraordinary tumult yues -- tumult us time in

our history it is about a black band leader. About his rise to fame

it is based on Duke Eling tonne playing at the London Palladium. He

was feted by high society. The British ar stock rasy and monarchy

loved him. He was taken to great heights. This was the idea of what

would happen if something went wrong and then how does society

treat the person that they have made a star of. My character,

Donaldson is like Simon Cowell in as much as he loves discovering new

talent, raw talent, young talent. He helps the band. He help's

Matthew's Good's character. He is a music writer. He discovered the

band. He helps to introduce him to the right people and then gets his

name in lights. It is all very polished. It is so well shot. Let's

have a look. It is stunning.

Six. That is out of the question. Three months or I find another band

to take your place. Six months. will not do business like this.

Come here to meet you, as I have. Something I rarely do. Three months

is a.final offer. It is a very good offer. My advice is it consider it.

Six months or we go to the Savoy. They will not take you, I tell you

that now! How wonderful to see Mel Smith there? It is a great cast.

They have John Goodman, they have Matthew Good and Angel Coulby.

Yes, Guinevere. Who knew she could sing like that? I say to the band

to get a singer, they got Angel. She has a beautiful voice.

And Jack lien Bisset. A star cast. -- Jaqueline. Where are you

watching this? I am going back to my hotel, but actually, my youngest

daughter, Daisy is here. So she can come with me to watch it.

Have you seen it? Well, a little. It can be an unnerving experience,

but it is such a good watch. The first show is tonight for 90

minutes, the second show is on tomorrow night for an hour. Then

every Monday night, but it is a page-Turner, as they say.

A super job. Right, we will watch it. Now, in the.winter of 1969 a

very strange thing happened in a Suffolk village.

It did. A very talked about councille arrived and it was a

flying visit in many more ways than one.

Here you may expect a Morris dancer in this traditional village. So

imagine the surprise, when one of the world's most famous pop stars

and his new Japanese wife pitched up here n on a cold day in December,

1969. That pop star was John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. At the time

of the visit, the The Beatles had recorded their final tracks

together. # Come together... # The released

album, Abbey Road was at the top of the album charts, but John was

entering a new era in his life. He had married Yoko Ono nine months

earlier. Together they were embarking on an exciting journey of

artistic experimentation. As two of the most famous people on

the planet, their every move was documented. In this case by the BBC.

In was on December the 5th, 1969 that the couple took to the snowy

roads in a white Rolls-Royce. Eight months before, John and yokow had

been involved in the infamous Amsterdam bed in for peace.

In this very hotel room they stayed. They were filmed, once again,

together in bed! Fortunately, I'm in love with you! Unfortunately,

I'm in love with you, too! But in the end, I think you will agree.

John and Yoko were in the area to make a short film, but few of the

surprised villagers did not know what to make of their arrival,

especially when they started to inflate a large balloon in the

market square. There was a gas balloon taking off

in the square over there. Then I noticed a limousine car

coming into the square. People started getting out. One other

person turned around and came towards me.

I thought, he looks like John Lennon.

Did you meet him? He happened to be Saturday Kitchen astic, so I did

not speak to him. Then he walked to this window and then came out of a

shop with two pairs of socks. He greeted me then walked back to

the car. Then, I was talking to the local

journalist. I was planning John what they were

planning to be doing. He said not very much, but that they managed to

flood the bathroom recently in the hotel it was like something from

another planet when they were here and about it take off and disappear

into the air. They were making a film featuring

and directed by the couple. The film, and its message, were the

details that have stuck in the minds of the local.

Roger diabetican worked in a local barn.

We had some scaffold up. John and Yoko was lifted in and out.

But John and Yoko were not to take to the air. Although they were keen

to make a film from a hot-air balloon. It seems that the

experimental couple were not so keen to enjoy the flight.

There were fire engines and police and a tanker full of hydrogen which

we thought could blow up the village, but we did think that they

were going up but they did not. The film received a limited release.

It was a permanent record in a very unusual day in a very traditional

English village, Lav, nham. -- Lavenham.

We cannot convince you to come out of there, can we? No, I have been

here at least a week. Loving it. John and Yoko were huge stars.

Before the age of Twitter and Facebook, wherever they went this

did not need to send messages out. People came to them. They were

peaceniks, they believed in peace. John said if he had to abclone for

peace he would be. -- be a clown.

They planted acorns at Coventry Cathedral for peace. They planted

the acorns and left a bench there. The acorns were stolen so John sent

the shuefr around to collect the bench. -- choufr.

They were into this. At -- the acorns were a big thing for them.

They sent acorns to world leaders. Buckingham Palace replied. The

Prime Minister of Canada, invited them to Ottawa to Canada for peace

talks. The Prime Minister is the one

without the hair. Speaking of hair, they shaved their

hair off? The rumour was that they wanted a few days of peace to be

themselves, unrecognisable, therefore unmolested, but what they

did was to swap it with the bloodied shorts of Mohammed Ali,

the world-famous boxer. He gave them their shorts, they gave him

their hair it was all to be auctioned for peace. What were they

going to do with it? It was to be auctioned for peace. As I am

myself! That's four minutes you have been lying there like that but

that is good? This is what Lennon did to huge effect. Of course, he

had Yoko Ono at his side. Anthony seems to have abandoned me. What

can you do?! OK. You can relax. It is very comfortable.

Go and have a lie down, Anthony. Well the salmon fishing season is

in full swing on the River Tay in Scotland, but as Martell Maxwell

finds out, some of them may as well give up now trying to fish there.

Angling is one of the UK's most popular past-times, but what may

surprise you, some of the biggest salmon ever caught were caught by

women. So I have come to one of the world's famous fishing vifrs in the

-- rivers in the world. I have my rod and wellies.

Today I have come to the official opening of the River Tay for the

official opening of the salmon fishing season. There is where

Georgina Ballentine landed the largest line-caught salmon in 1932.

Women hold the records for catching the biggest salmon, why do you

think that is? I think that women have the certain level of patience.

Men exexpect to be good straight away. Women are willing to be

taught and I think that they have great in due -- ininstitution.

Wright is an ang er -- angler awarded an MBE for her services to

fishing. Who better to get a tip from? Most big salmon caught are

male or cock fish. Some stay is the smell of a woman's pheromones that

attract them. This theory about the pheromones it was not made up by a

fisherman making excuses for women being good it was by a scientist?

It was, a professor much neurology in Glasgow.

Have you heard the tales of men tying the flies with hair wife's

hair? I have heard of it. I believe it works. I believe that ginger

ones work best. We're in luck! I love it. Believe

me, when that theory came out, people were trying everything.

I have tried peing in rivers. That does not work.

You have tried peing in rivers? have no idea what they have tried.

So, clearly men are going to be doing this seriously if they are

willing to tie a woman's hair to the end of their rod? They would.

Maybe my fen mowns were having an off day but one person has had a

good time today. I have not caught a fish but I am

hooked! How many fishermen will take their wives fishing after that

film? Look at this, 64 was the biggest salmon ever caught. This

was the equivalent in weight in potatoes. Try to pick that up. This

lady had that fish on there for nearly two hours.

I should have had spinach for breakfast. I can just pick it up.

Any way, how are the donkeys? donkeys are fine. I muck them out

every morning. Good lad.

We will leave it there. Anthony Head, thank you very much. Dancing

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