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Alex, stop reading the Newbridge and John Burke -- Newbridge Jones book | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
that only you have a copy of. You are not going to believe how it | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
ends. Forget that, how does our Sure | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Start? Welcome to the one show with Chris | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Evans and Alex Jones. Tonight, a Scouse comedian with more lookalikes | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
than any other celebrity. There he is, waiting to come on. But look how | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
much he looks like Frank Spencer. No way! It's a spit! | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
And look a much more they looks like Bez from Happy Mondays. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
And is there any difference at all between him and Bee Gee Barry Gibb? | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
You've got to admit that one. That is a winner, I'll give you that. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Here is, the man himself, John Bishop. -- here he is. | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
Barry Gebhart will go with. He looks exactly like you. -- Harry Gibb, I | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
will go with. It is a national sports, the lookalike thing. You | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
must have lookalikes. But it is easy, red hair and glasses. You are | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
more subtle. There is a little kid, have a look, out with his mate. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
There you are. He has sent that to me. I think what happens is that | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
anyone with big teeth seems to look like me. It is more than the teeth. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
We have moving footage of this guide. Here's bus driver. Look at | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
that. There he is. Does anybody in Britain not to look like you? My | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
kids. But they look a lot like that other fellow. The weird thing, the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
only person doesn't like you is you. -- look like you. That is you | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
in your new book. Yes, when the teeth first made their public | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
appearance. And there you are, your teeth are waiting for the rest of | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
your face to catch up. Isn't it gorgeous, everyone? That was the | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
point, that age, islet in that generation where your mum cut your | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
hair. If you look at the hair, it was not the best of days. It was a | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
little bit wobbly. We will talk about your book and your tour | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
shortly but first, we have a Friday house ensemble led by Nicola | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Benedetti. She won the Best Female Artist for the second year running | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
this week. You won't believe how many other people look like our. No! | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
She is going to be performing at the end of the show. Well worth sticking | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
around for. But first, in July we met Sean | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Conway as he journeyed from Lands End to John O'Groats in a way that | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
no one else has done before. Any ideas how? I was going to say | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
running or something but I have just seen a picture there. It gave it | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
away, to be honest. You mean this one? OK. You are right, he was | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
swimming. He was running and he was running anti-felon. -- and he fell | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
in. When ice report about a man swimming from Lands End to John | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Brooks, at 40 had no hope. But he has proven me wrong. -- John | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
O'Groats. The Scottish Highlands. To reach here, he has braced schools | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
jellyfish, rough seas and cold water. Right now, he is facing | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
dangerous times in the rivers. Mainland Scotland is here and this | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
is the Isle of Skye. We are travelling down the channel in | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
between. Sean Conway as to the north, three miles that way. We have | :04:13. | :04:25. | |
found him, just ahead. Are you all right? How you? Are you called? It | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
is not too bad today. Nice to meet you. Your beard was not so big when | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
you started. I was clean-shaven. Why the earplugs? To stop the water | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
going in. It is called swimmers here. It is just blue tack. It is | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
probably not recommended by doctors, but it is the only thing that | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
sticks? -- ear. When water gets in your ear, you have bacteria. How do | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
you keep yourself mentally focused? You have bad days? Loads of bad | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
days. When the wind is up and the You have bad days? Loads of bad | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
support group cannot get near me, there big waves. You cannot actually | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
properly swim. Your arms are just going all over the place. Well, get | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
this hotpot to new. I'm going to swim with you if you do not mind. -- | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
this hotpot to new. I'm going to donor you. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
My goodness. It is not warm at all. Sean spends anywhere between five | :05:31. | :05:48. | |
and ten hours a day swimming. I've swam for just 20 minutes and that | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
was more than enough for the called to bite. It was fine to seek -- it | :05:52. | :06:10. | |
was time to say goodbye. I am a bit emotional, leaving him behind. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Because that is a man of steel in every sense. As a clean and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
mentally. Respect to him. Absolutely. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
And Sean will arrive at John O'Groats in approximately three | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
weeks time. Incredible. You were genuinely gobsmacked. I've | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
done a few things but I have never known anyone to take a challenge | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
like that. And to do that on your own, it is so lonely. That takes a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
lot of willpower. And nobody to cheer you on. Not unless they are | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
swimming with you, like dolphins. OK, in the city that John was born, | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
two favourite birds are set to protect their patch. Few people have | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
seen them close-up. So we sent in the camera-copter. Look at that! The | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
Royal Liver Building has dominated Liverpool's waterfront since its | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
completion in 1911. Standing guard, 300 feet up, the two Liver birds, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
made of copper. They are taller than a double-decker bus. But the story | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
of how they came to be there is as intriguing as the birds themselves. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
For 100 years, the creator of these enormous birds was written out of | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Liverpool's history. It was only recently that he was remembered and | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
honoured by the city. It is especially strange given that the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Liver birds that he created symbolise the spirit of Liverpool. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
The Royal Liver Building is the tallest office building in Britain. | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
The first skyscraper. It is really unique. There is nothing quite like | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
it. He wanted this to be a focal point for people visiting the city. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
It was the tallest building of its time. In fact, it was the tallest | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
building in Europe for 20 years. Tell me about the Liver birds. They | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
are mythical creatures, representing the city for many centuries. They | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
originally started off as something like an eagle. But the ones that we | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
have today are more like a cormorant. An eagle was first used | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
on Liverpool's city charter in 1207. But over the centuries, it evolved | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
into a unique bird of presenting the city and its people. -- | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
representing. The owners wanted this symbol to adorn the top of the new | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
building. Not one, but two Liver birds. Want to face out to sea, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
guarding those the parting, and the other guarding the city itself. But | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
how could they get the best possible designer for the Liver birds? They | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
decided to hold a competition and a German craftsmen to part. -- took | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
part. He enjoyed UK so much on honeymoon here, he settled in London | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
in 1887. Tim is his great-grandson. He was a sculpture by -- sculptor by | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
trade. He entered a wooden carving, very similar to this. He made that | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
himself. And it was decided that he won. And so it was that a German | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
born sculptor completed one of Liverpool's most famous landmarks. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
But he would not enjoy the affection of the public for long. When the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
First World War broke out, Germans living in the UK became a target. | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
They were welcomed. -- they were not welcome. The German records were | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
wiped out and businesses work looted. It wasn't xenophobia. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Despite having a wife and British children, Carl was forcibly | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
separated with his family in 1913. He was imprisoned on the Isle of Man | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
in an internment camp. He died in 1955 with no official record | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
remaining of his connection to the famous Liver birds. | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
There were no records. We question is, why? You were determined that | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
people would know that he was your great-grandfather and that he made | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
of the models. Absolutely. Eventually, in 2011, on the Saint | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Ellery of the Liver birds, my great-grandfather was given a | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
citizen of honour award by the Lord Mayor. Together with a plaque that | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
sits in the back of the Liver Building. Tim has never seen his | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
great-grandfather's work up close so we have been given special | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
permission to launch this, a camera which can fly right up and literally | :10:47. | :11:01. | |
get a birds eye view. What a way to see the birds eye | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
view. Finally, he has got the recognition he deserves. | :11:08. | :11:28. | |
Ah, the old town. That was lovely. recognition he deserves. | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
Very clever, that camera. Anyway, your book. | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
And we're back. There are loads of revelations in | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
your book but the biggest as this. Everyone thinks that John Bishop has | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
spent his whole life living Liverpool and we can't elated that | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
you have only lived there for 1.4% of your life. And that gets less the | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
older I'd get. -- we calculated. So you are just putting on the accent? | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
What happens, where we lived in Liverpool was knocked down. It was | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
declared a slum. It annoyed my dad because he had just decorated. The | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
council came and said they were going to knock it down and you would | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
have to move. So we had the choice of going to Kirby on Liverpool, | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Winsford. So we went to Winsford. It was like a refugee camp. The | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
Wallabies Scousers picked up and placed in a little town. -- they | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
were all these Scousers. It was like a Scouse en clava. They were trying | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
to keep their identity by a Scouse en clava. They were trying | :12:40. | :12:53. | |
exaggerating their accent, by out-scousing each other. When I went | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
to Liverpool, no one could understand a word I said! I grew up | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
in these council estates outside Liverpool. And this happened a lot | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
in Liverpool. Scousers always got the blame wherever they went. You | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
lived in Warrington. Yes. Around there. But this is all in your book. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
You talk about your dad going to prison for the first time, going to | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
visit him. He did not want you to visit him. Well, my dad defended | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
himself and ended up in prison. You would not want your kids to go, but | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
because he missed us, we went. When you write a book like this, you have | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
to say, what made me the person that I am in. And that is one of the | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
things. You go through that process where you remember something like | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
that and you come out of it stronger. Certainly, writing it in | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
the book, there is no shame. There stronger. Certainly, writing it in | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
is a sense of pride. My dad to want I think he should do in those | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
situations, he stood up for himself. What was it like to see him in | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
prison? It was not the best experience. I've remember as a | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
child, when we were there, we got given a chocolate bar, a Texan, | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
which you probably will not remember. They are illegal now. They | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
will take out all your teeth. In one fell swoop! It is unbelievable. It | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
is poison covered in chocolate. You are all right, though. I've remember | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
my dad gave me a Texan. It was a shame the time was in prison, but I | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
got a chocolate bar. It was not the best thing, and in the book, it is | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
at a point, the book is about my life up until last year, so it is | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
about that and how I'd got into comedy, and the stuff I did before. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
There are a lot of things in there that people do not know. And the | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
other defining moment was how you got into comedy. And you were about | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
33, quite late. 35. And you put that got into comedy. And you were about | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
down to saving your marriage. That, and buying your wife a new wardrobe. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
And I thought, lovely, really sweet, he bought all these lovely | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
clothes. But what happened? You have been really selective in your | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
picture. Your dad going to prison, and the wardrobe. Tell the story. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
That is the point of the book. It is like an IKEA advert. The reality was | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
that we were poor, and we got back together and did not know how to ask | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
her to move back in with me. -- the reality was that we split up. I've | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
bought a wardrobe, and she said, reality was that we split up. I've | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
that is massive, you do not have a close with at. So I said, why don't | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
you come and put your clothes in it. Around the country, all the country, | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
although women have gone, aw, and all the men have gone, idiot. Did | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
you get the idea from sex and the city 2? To be fair, have some other | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
ideas from that movie, but that was not one of them. You know what I am | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
loving, people are seeing this without sound and they are thinking, | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
I wrote that. John's autobiography, How Did This | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
All Happen?, if you want to know the answer, it is out next week. Coming | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
up next, this is what Friday night television was made for! How about a | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
car horn concerto? Genius! It is the kind of noise that can | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
drive you up the wall, but even this is quite musical. My car one as two | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
pitches, but are all the same? Or can I turn this racket into | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
something a little more pleasing to the year? I need to find somewhere | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
with lots of porn is where I can explore their musical potential. | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
This scrap yard is home to lots of cars which do not work, but I bet | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
the forums do. -- horns. The two is happy for me to have a honk on some | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
the forums do. -- horns. The two is of his horns. | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
I want to arrange a piece of music performed entirely on car horns, a | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
car horn concerto, but I'm going to need eight different pitches, and to | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
find them I am going to need to uncover the discordant history of | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
the car horn. In the 19th century, gloriously recreated here, horseless | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
carriages and early cars used a man with a red flag walking in front of | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
the vehicle to warn pedestrians. In 1896, long before even these boy | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
racers, it became a legal requirement to carry a bell or want | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
to warn of a car's approach. The car horn was born, and roads would never | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
sound same again. Simon is from Vauxhall, the oldest surviving car | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
manufacturer in the UK. He is taking me for a spin in an original Prince | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
Henry. Tell me about these early horns. Not very effective, as you | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
can see. How did we progress to a horns. Not very effective, as you | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
more modern horn? The modern motor and environment was changing, | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
volumes of traffic were getting a lot bigger, so for pedestrians the | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
noise needed to penetrate all that noise of traffic. But of course that | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
horn is not the classic sound we associate with these cars. You are | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
referring to the klaxon. It's just so happens... I have one here, or at | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
least this is Vauxhall's version of it. Klaxon is a trademark name. It | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
is brilliant, we have definitely got to have that in the orchestra. In | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
the 1970s, the musical horn became popular following the US TV show The | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
Dukes Of Hazard. Their Dodge Charger sounded like this... But in 1984, | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
honking your horn became less fun as legislation came in to make them | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
continuous and uniform with a range of 93 to 112 decibel is. With only a | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
small range of notes for modern-day car horns, I don't know how I'll | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
find enough to perform my concerto. I need some help. This man runs a | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
classic car parts business. This is a 1930s reproduction. I am hoping | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
his classic collection of horns might broaden my musical range. Wood | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
July to listen to them? Yes, fantastic. | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
That is E flat! Can I take all of these with me? This is going to be | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
perfect for my car horn concerto. Thank you very much. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
I have managed to assemble another car horn notes from across the year | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
is to celebrate the history of car horns with an automotive classic. To | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
help me out, I have invited some musicians, and appropriately enough, | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
Vito has found black and white cars for my keyboard. Vito! One, two, | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
three, four! Can we have a round of applause? | :20:48. | :21:24. | |
That was absolutely brilliant! That was fantastic. Alex is not here, so | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
I can stretch out, this is the future! The reason she is not will | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
become apparent in a moment. Chapter two of your book is called my dad | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
and cars, and we are going to be seeing three of them, a Mach one | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
Ford Escort van. Thies. And a Moscovitch. Yes, the Russian car. | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
The Escort van was the first people carrier ever, because my dad cut the | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
sides out and put windows in and made the kids sit in the back. The | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Hillman Imp, we went on holiday, four kids on the back, a dog, my mum | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
and dad in four kids on the back, a dog, my mum | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
we could not get up the hill. The kids had to get out to walk up the | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
hill. Sometimes we went faster than my dad and met him at the top and | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
went down like a toboggan. The mighty Hillman Imp. The Moscovitch | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
was a Russian car, everyone thought we were spies. That was in Runcorn. | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
Alex is outside with the cars, what is going on next? We have got the | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Moscovitch year, the lovely turquoise Hillman Imp and the first | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
people carrier, let's play the game! What are we going to do, she is | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
going to climb in an car, without looking down at the corner of your | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
eye, she is going to start one of the cars up, revved up and Tom | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Thorne. From those sounds, if you can identify which one she is in, | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
you can give us a fact about your forthcoming tedium. From the horn?! | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
you can give us a fact about your We did not use them in the 1970s, if | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
you were in the road, it was your We did not use them in the 1970s, if | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
own fault! Moscovitch. No, it is the Hillman | :23:20. | :23:36. | |
Imp! We would you be the third one for free. This is for an additional | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
bonus fact about your tedium. Car for free. This is for an additional | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
number two. She is climbing in now. She is on fire tonight, the girl. | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
That sounds like the man, that. That is the Ford Escort van. It is the | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
people carrier! Dell as a fact about your tour. I will be on tour next | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
year, it will be properly announced next month. Climb into the | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Moscovitch now. Give us another fact. And it will be very funny! I | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
have not written a word of it yet. No, I have, I have started it. Give | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
us the Moscovitch. That is not a horn, that is an | :24:23. | :24:34. | |
invasion! That is a proper Russian horn, we are coming! That was | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
chapter two, John's dad and his cars. Come back in now, Alex! Never | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
take the first of, by the way! The 2013 is on Sunday night, going head | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
to head with Match Of The Day 2, a big decision, but this is the best | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
female artist of the year, it is official! | :25:00. | :25:24. | |
Pretty impressive! Nicola Benedetti joins us now, hopefully Alex Reid | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
joins us now, hopefully Alex rejoins us any moment. Good evening. Go... | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
Were their drinks after the classic risk was the mark is it as raucous | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
as the Brits? This is the second time you have won | :25:44. | :26:03. | |
best female artist, and you won best Young Musician of the Year. How did | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
you start? The fiddle sounds terrible at the beginning of the | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
year. I cried all the way through my first lesson, I am left handed, so I | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
wanted to pick it up the wrong way round. Second lesson, I started | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
making a reasonable noise. Can you not play left-handed? You can, but | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
it is not very sociable in an orchestra, if you are going the | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
opposite way to everybody else. Poking them! It was not always like | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
that, not so long ago... There you are! We will be able to | :26:36. | :26:55. | |
see you on the classical Brits at ten o'clock on Sunday, but John | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
loves classical music, so you are playing for us tonight. Great. John | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
Bishop's book is out next week. Thank you, John. Tickets for his | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
tour go on sale in a couple of weeks. We will leave you with Nicola | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Benedetti, we will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend, | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
bye-bye! | :27:17. | :27:19. |