04/08/2011 The One Show

Hello, welcome to The One Show. Tonight we are joined by a man who

in his 20s wrote to TV executives saying that they should hire him

because he was the face of the 1970s. We found a friend of his he

said that he still is. It's Chris Nice to see you. You are looking

well, very tanned? I been all over the world, I've been to Sierra

Leone. I've been to Majorca. A bit of fishing? Fearnley are not --

funnily enough, no. But I am going fishing in Russia. We know you are

crazy about it. What do you make of this whopper? Its huge, isn't it?

If you are going to ask if I've ever caught anything like that, of

course I haven't. It's the biggest Al-Qaeda of cat fish ever caught

with a rod and line. You could make loads of fish fingers out of that.

It is a 14 stone, 18 ft-long beast, reeled in by Chris Grimmer on

Faith it looks like an inflatable fish. That's a serious fish. Very

rare. You like fishing, we know this. Later on you were going to go

head-to-head with a junior angler extraordinare, called Nathan Butler.

He's outside. Practising already. Is it going to be proper? It's not

going to be silly? There is a big title involved, one of you will be

God of the Rod. I think I've seen that film. It's a fishing film!

let's have another look at that. We want to see your big catch of the

summer. Big fish, small fish, crabs, minnows, it's all good. Get your

pictures in to us. Now, something you always hear when you see a

headline about tearaway teenagers is bring back National Service,

that will bring them out -- sought Denmark. Thousands of people are

going to boot camp right now to learn new skills which will make

them better citizens. Tony Livesey is heading to the latest at to see

how today's recruits compared to the 1950s.

National Service, men like these same an emotional farewell before

being sent off to prepare for the possibility of war. It's often

argued that more of this sort of stuff would help keep today's kids

on the straight and narrow. The national service of the 40s and 50s

was all about preparing youngsters for conflict. Today, Britain faces

a different battle against teenage apathy and antisocial behaviour. So,

once more young people have been But this voluntary national service

bears little resemblance to the National Service many young men

were made to do after World War II. Stern sergeants have been replaced

by smiling youth workers. Although it still means being away from home,

there seems a distinct lack of British grit. It was part of David

Cameron's election campaign that has become a reality. Young people,

when they finish school, have the chance if they want to do three

weeks of what they are calling national citizenship service. They

spend a week in the country, pitting their weeks -- wits against

nature. They have warned me that it could get a bit wild. And it could

get a bit wet. Well, the only way to find out what this is about is

to take part. This sort of stuff is designed to get them working as a

team and improve confidence. I thought I was brave getting my

socks wet! But I did get the chance to fully submerge myself in the

experience. So, what would this lot to be doing if they were not

jumping into rivers? Sitting on the street. It's boring at home. Would

anyone, out of the whole group, be doing something now at home are

that's more interesting than what you have been doing today?

Jeremy Kyle! Although it is keeping them away from daytime television,

it all feels a bit more field trip than boot camp. But while they

might not be going to war, the big idea is that they will be serving

on the front line of their communities. This lot were some of

the first one's ever to take part. They've done the outdoors stuff and

now the emphasis is on skills training and looking at ways they

can help their community. So, your monthly food bill will be one of

these... You are in the middle of nowhere, you've got no phone signal

so you couldn't just ring home. But it's been fun, I enjoyed it.

week three, these kids will do the full Big Society bit, working in

their area to make a positive difference. But with youth services

been one of the many things up for the chop, some think that the

scheme misses the mark. Are we better off spending this money on

piloting new schemes, which are very expensive, or into sustaining

the good stuff that we have got already? The stuff that is going to

go. After a week working on the Big Society stuff, in this case with a

children's group, do the kids think it's done its job and made them

better citizens? I think it has helped my group be better citizens.

It teaches you how to going to the real world. We are not in school,

we don't have to follow loads of rules and regulations, it is

helping us find our own way, really. The idea is that all kids will get

a chance to go through this scheme at a cost of hundreds of millions

of it is a lot of money, in times like these. Although I've seen

enough to convince me it is a decent modern-day version of

national service. Perhaps the final say should go to someone who did

the original ball, notably tougher, version. How does this compare with

what you had to do? Totally different, the kids are a lot

happier than we were. Not as disciplined, not kept down. What

could we bring form your national service? What could they use?

of discipline would do them any harm. It's hard to take, but once

You are a father to six children, you are highly qualified to talk

about this? I think it's good. His David Cameron baking that all kids

will do it? I think he's giving the option. You get more from it than

watching mindless television, YouTube, Facebook. Nature is great

for them. It looks quite tough. That guy was saying it's not as

tough as national service, but it's something. And life is different?

Attitudes have changed, otherwise it would be a boot camp, they would

come away fed up with the whole thing. How do you think it would

have affected you? I would have done might reap weeks, then the lot

and I would go on being the brat that I was. You haven't changed a

better. I've still got that blazer! I've got the trousers that match.

You are not sure if I am joking or not, are you? False stripes? My

word. You can overdo stripes, Chris. Well, you clearly have a. That is

where I was heard as a child, that's where I have my operation, I

can't believe you did that. Where are health and safety? Details are

on the website. Now for a desperately tale of crime

and deception with a doggedly determined detective on the case.

Who better than a Arthur Smith to sniff out the story?

Just after the war, dog tracks were enjoying an unprecedented

popularity, especially amongst the underworld. White City, December

8th, 1945. A retired colonel is persuaded to enter his dog in the

last race of the evening. What happened next would amaze the

colonel, enrage the 16,000 racegoers and cost the bookies of

Britain an estimated �100,000. In today's money, a huge �2.5 million.

A wave of anxiety swept down the rows of bookmakers. The rank

outsider had somehow dropped in price. Somebody was plunging money

on at the very last minute. As the brown bodies slowed to a pathetic

gallop, obviously doped, he swept past the winning post, 15 lengths

ahead. So wrote Robert Fabyan, known as England's greatest

detective. The inspiration for the first ever detective series, the

man charged with investigating this outrageous scam. Who could be

behind this dastardly crime? Well, we had a couple of likely

candidates. David Stuart Davies is a novelist and authority on the

criminal underworld of the 19 40s and 50s. How did our hero go about

finding out who might have been responsible? In this instance, one

of the camels -- camels was boarded up, one of the Cripps had gone over

the wall and hidden himself in this spare kennel. -- crooks. He pushed

himself into a gap, only an eight inch gap. He waited until it was

safe to come out and he drove at the four dogs that were due to fail.

Fabian had fouled and this hiding- place and discovered that there

were fragments of cloth on the wall behind. He realised that only a

very thin man could actually put himself there. There was only one

who fitted the description, a guy called London Johnny. Evidence

mounted against London Johnny, who was seen flashing the cash and

boasting about the scam around town. But he wasn't the only one. He was

an unlikely candidate to be the brains behind the scam. Fabian

would have heard rumours that Eddie Chapman also boasted about making a

killing. No coincidence that he was banned from all dog tracks

afterwards. But he was never formally questioned, perhaps

because to the powers that be he was better known as Agent zig-

zagged, a safe braking specialist in explosives turned spy. Fabian

would have known of his pre-war criminal conviction, but would not

have known of his alter ego. He was a double agent who had led the

Germans to believe he had blown up a British aircraft factory for them.

It's a trip that made him the only Briton ever to be awarded an Iron

Cross. What he did now is that Chapman was a known associate of

London Johnny and both were prominent in the murky underworld

that congregated at the track. How Today, random drug-testing is

standard procedure. In 1945, Fabian was a pioneer of forensics. It was

only once he had sent pieces of fish found in the kennel to the

labs that traces of drugs were found. It was the drug that had

made the four Brown dogs keel over, shortly after starting the race.

His use of forensics and his knowledge of the criminal

underworld had amassed plenty of circumstance will evidence. Yet

neither of them faced trial. We will never know why he never

brought this case to its conclusion. One very good reason would be to

protect national security, keeping out of the witness box a man who

had been pretty to both German and British secrets, Eddie Chapman,

agent zig-zagged. What we do know is that he retired, owning a health

spa. Quite a good use of �100,000. Today, in an industry that is much

more tightly regulated, it's a All of that happened right here on

our doorstep, at White City. Chris, Born to Shine? ITV1, Sunday night,

8pm. How can viewers get involved? Basically, watch it. �5 makes so

much difference to these kids. The studio side of it, it's basically

kids teaching grown-ups to do skills they never thought they'd be

able to do. What they are saying, overall, is there not so many kids

around the world with no chance at all of ever being able to do

anything nice. Just to survive at all beyond the age of five is

probably, for most of them, impossible. Unless you give some

money to Save the Children, who are doing extraordinary work. When I

went to see them, it was beyond my worst nightmares. I've been to

parts of India, whatever, I was shocked. We have a clip of you in

Sierra Leone. Let's have a look. Just getting around means wading

into a toxic river. It constantly carries a cocktail of killer

diseases, cholera, diarrhoea, typhoid. The worst thing of all is

that this is where the kids grow up and play every day of their lives.

For the kids here, it's a deadly playground. There are razor blades,

so Rangers, literally faeces. Everything. This shouldn't happen.

There should not be going on in any environment, certainly not with

Chris that was actually a town? That's the town. That river, that

stinking, disgusting river, full of every conceivable disease. It is

literally a toilet. The whole town come down and defecate in the river.

I have never seen anything like it. The kids are playing, the parents

doing their washing. They live in cramped, cramped little hovels.

When I saw the cell where Nelson Mandela lived, the kids here are

living in half the size of that. What they did, save the children,

set up a clinic about three or four years ago. The kids were dying of

diarrhoea! At one point 40 children a week were dying of diarrhoea. �5

solves that. There were no deaths last year at all.

About there were so many other problems. The clinic were saving

lives daily. The women there, the nurses, the helpers, they are all

saints. One of their problems was convincing the populous it was a

good place to go to. It is still very much beware of the white man's

medicine. Stick with the elders of the village, but the kids were

dying. When I flew out one in five children in Sierra Leone were dying

under the age of five. A mother having a child had a one in eight

or one in nine chance of dying dure childbirth, but when you have been

there, seen that, the kids are picking out anything that they can

sell. Anything. Razor blades, needles, but when you have been

there, one in five seems small, you think how come is it not four out

of five? I know we have problems in our country, but these kids, the

life expectation, save the children have done a huge amount to turn it

around, but there is so much more to do. That is the point of this

show, the kids, most of them die, they never have the opportunity.

I was horrified. It was far worse than dared to

dream. It is such a great cause. It really

I was invigorated at the end. You can read extracts of Chris's

diary by visiting our website. Right, Chris, the last time you

were on the show it is exactly a year ago! How spooky is that. I

come here every year whether I want to or not! It is National Tarrant

Day. You threw a bucket of water every

us! Of course I did! Look at all of the buckets that you threw it was

20! We have decided to make it an August the 4th tradition.

Good plan! This time, thanks to Matt's camera, it is in full slo-mo

glory. Hey, Matt, happy August the 4 to

the! Thank you! -- Autograph the to the.

-- August the 4th. That looks brilliant.

How are what we going to top that next August? Get a 3D camera! Maybe

we can do it live from the high board at the Olympics diving venue.

Now you are talking, I can push you off. Holding a railway sleeper!

Yes! It is St Tarrant's Day. If you are jetting off on holiday, and you

wanted to start a piece of fiction, get yourself down to Heathrow

Airport and there Tony Parsons is meeting people that he can write

his book about there. For many of us, the idea of

spending a week at the airport is an experience that not even a

flight to a tropical paradise was not worthwhile. One of our best-

known authors is doing just that and not even getting on a plane at

the end of it. Tony, what make as good character

for a novel? What make as great character is recognition. If you

look at Dickens, you recognise skp Scrooge. Even if they are made up,

they ring true. What characters are you looking for

this week? If you are going to have seven stories about Heathrow

Airport, there should abclassic love story, one great Casablanca,

Gone with the Wind, even if is about the baggage handlers.

What are the characters, who are they going to be? We are talking

both, it could be the workers and the travellers, the passengers. The

travellers I will meet them in a bar, a coffee shop, a waiting area.

Here we are now at the airport, I am looking for good stories. Laura

have you got a good story? council of years ago, we went

camping, I was in charge of the tent. I forgot the tent poles!

went to a banking card, itate the card.

They said go around the back, they would push the card out! How did

you sleep? We did it ourselves with sticks. I was homeless in Los

Angeles for five days. I slept on the beach and the bus station.

went around the back, no-one was there, then I heard a voice, saying

here is your card, thank you very much. When I turned around people

saw me speaking to a cash machine! Tony has met Simon who helps out on

the runway. Delighted to have such a knowledgeable source Tony jumped

at the chance of spending Simon shadowing him at work.

Let's test your aircraft recognition? That looks like a 747?

That's right. I'm impressed. This is an Airbus? No. Tony, let's

carry out one of the four routine daily runway inspections. We are

making sure it is safe for the aircraft to continuousing it.

What about that silver dot in the sky, that is the next plane to run,

to land on here? Yes, that is the time we have got to carry out our

spot inspection. What is that? That is concrete. It

is safe, but a good clamp of the type of object we may find. Take

that as a souvenir. The airport is an amazing microcosm

of life. For many it is the final front year before setting off on a

life adventure, for others it is where they return to, carrying

their disappointment. Then the people that work here to facilitate

the journeys. I can't think of a better place for Tony to people

watch, here in this cathedral of travel! I hope you find divine

inspiration! It will be interesting to see if anyone from the film make

it is into the novel. Indeed.

Earlier, we have asked you to send in your fishing exploits over the

summer. We have a good catch! that a joke? Yes! Hear we have a 75

lb catfish. Caught in south-west of France.

Here we have a three lb bass sent in which Josie.

And another one here. Now, a fishing challenge...

ready. First, we have more on Miranda

Krestovnikov's Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital.

The staff at Tiggywinkles have devised useful methods of treating

animals. Earlier in the week this heron was caught up in netting.

Less was worried about the treatment getting infected but

after haemorrhoid treatment he was well enough to fly off in a week.

So we let him go? We take him to the field. Hopefully he will walk

away, if not, fly away. But, will the haemorrhoid cream

have worked its magic. Hold him here and hold his beak.

Just let go. Get out of the way. 3, 2, 1, step back.

Wow! Go on a little hop and flutter. He's not going to fly, is he?

Normally, any wild animal at full health would not hesitate to go,

but our heron is struggling to take off.

I think he is stiff. He may need exercise.

What will you do? Try again in a couple of days? Yes.

This is good fun, isn't it? Jorbgs yes, he has had a taste of freedom.

-- oh, yes. 10% of the 10,000 animals that come

through Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital every year have been

involved in road accidents. Over at the surgery, the latest problem is

a hare. What happens is that they freeze

when they see a car coming towards them.

The concern here is that the impact of the car has done a lot of damage.

How do you assess what is going on? I'm looking for what he responds to.

That he tries to kick out or turn his head.

He is not responding? He is not doing that

I am concerned he is not moving the back leg. That is not a good sign.

We will take an X-ray to see if there is an obvious fracture.

If there is? We have to put him to she.

-- Sleep. You have the results of the X-ray,

what is the news? His back legs are never going to work again, so we

have to put him down. I will leave them to it, that poor

hare did not make it. It is always disappointing for the

staff to lose a patient and recognise that human intervention

cannot save every life, but outside Claire is hoping that a bit of

human cunning will save the day. These two ducklings don't have a

mum. This duck has recently hatched 14 ducklings and if Claire gets her

way, quite soon she will have two more. Without a mum, how would they

do? Well, they would last, they would not do too badly, but they

would not be able to go near water. The mother duck helps to tkheem

clean. Without her care the feathers -- to keep them clean.

Without her care, the feathers get water logged and they would drown.

Can you cause discorruption, we ill then wiggle nem about with the

others, and -- wiggle them about with the others and hopefully she

will not notice. She will attack them if she doesn't

think that they are hers, so we have to be sneengy and quick.

Come on, this glrb so we have to be sneaky and quick.

OK. They are in. That is fine.

Amazing. Part of the gang. Fantastic.

What a team! We couldn't have done better.

Would it work if the ducks were different sizes? As long as you

stick to the same age group that is fine.

Now they've been accepted by the mother these two will soon be clean

and waterproof enough to join their siblings for a swim. Within eight

weeks they will be released into the wild. Tomorrow I help out in

the busiest part of the hospital and give unusual physio to Kasper

the white fox. We find out how he gets on tomorrow.

Now it is time to find out who is God of the rod with World Fishing

Week. In boat number one we have

celebrity fisherman, Chris Tarrant. He is 64 years old.

Chris has been fishing for of a years. His largest catch was 200

pound. And this little boy has been

fishing since the age of nine and by the age of 13 was catching carp.

3, 2, 1 stop! Let's count them! 1, 2, 3, 4! God of the rod! There we

are. Isn't that absolutely beautiful! Nathan, how do you feel

to be the One Show God of the rod? Excellent.

One of the finest fishing moments of your career.