05/01/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.

And look who's danced her way back on the sofa

for a second day in a row, it's Anita Rani!

Now, if all the world really is a stage, then tonight's guest

is more than just a mere player, he's Shakespearean royalty.

And is a bit of a slot on the dance floor as well. -- hustler.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, it's Adrian Lester!

Goodness me! Adrian, having doubled in a bit myself, I can tell you,

that is not easy, how long did it take you to train? We were in

rehearsal for a while with Kenneth Branagh, we were in rehearsal for

about three weeks, and it took that long to get the routine together.

That move on the table... The splits, not in three weeks! You must

be remarkably flexible! A bit, I do martial arts to keep fit. I nearly

broke my leg in one take, my knee stayed on the table when my leg game

off, I won't go into detail, but it hurt. We will be hearing about your

latest project, Red Velvet, a little bit later. The images this child

used by the so-called Islamic State a recent propaganda video has

shocked the world. Lucy joins us now, because you have spent the

afternoon with a grandmother who has started to realise that the images

we are seeing good be her grandson. Yes indeed, so I spoke to the mother

of Grace Dare, now called to DJ, who left for Syria in 2012 to become a

so-called jihadi bride. -- could Giro. She has had a difficult few

years and does not really look at the media, so we were showing some

of the front pages for the first time, and this is how she responded.

I know you have not seen much media deliberately, you tend not to do

that, but I wanted you to look at a picture, the picture on the front of

many papers. Are you confident that is your grandson? It is a long time,

nearly three years, so he must have grown more than how I knew him. Tell

me what you are seeing that makes you think that is your grandson. The

eyeballs, the eyelashes, then the mouth, the lips. It looks like him.

You are confident the images are him. But he is my grandson. Because,

Victoria, it is the only way you can deal with the situation? I am not

looking at my grandson. Naturally, it is my grandson, but this is not

what God gave me. We cannot even begin to imagine what she must be

living through right now. You saw how conflicted she was, she can see

it is him, but you doesn't want to say it out loud. When you think

about it, Victoria dropped off her daughter and grandson at the airport

in 2012, thinking they were going to Egypt or Turkey for a short time,

and she has not seen them since. She is so passionate about living in the

UK, having moved from Nigeria, she has only had two holidays in the

interim, and she was putting money aside for her grandson, so you think

about how heartbreaking this is for her. I asked her about her daughter,

Grace, as she remembered her. She was born here, and she grew up here

until everything fell apart. Her name is Grace, I do not know where

they got all these names. She changed her name... She changed it

when she became Muslim, she changed it to Khadijah. Have you ever called

her Khadijah? Do you know her as? Khadijah I still call her Grace.

What is it like to miss your grandson? Is it a pain? I feel very

unhappy, because I miss them a lot. Isa brought me joy, and the joy has

been taken away from me, which is really devastating. I need my

grandchildren, my daughter, I need them back. So many emotions must be

rushing through her at the moment, did she give you any indication of

what her hopes are? She is very definite, she wants them back home,

and since Grace moved to Syria, she was married to a man who we think

has been killed, she has had another child, and obviously Victoria has

never met the other child, but she says, I want my grandchildren back.

But the reality is the daughter is classified as a terrorist, but

Victoria is clear she wants them back home.

As we have been covering this week, parts of Britain are still coping

with the devastation brought by the recent floods. What can you do to

protect your home? Marty has been to meet a man who came up with an

incredibly uplifting if rather expensive solution.

Record-breaking rainfall and the worst floods in a generation hit

Britain last winter. 5800 homes and businesses were ruined by the

devastating effects. Back in 2013, this man watched in horror as

Biblical floods poured into the island where he lives in Berkshire.

His house suffered ?125,000 worth of damage. Left with an an insurable

and unsellable house on a prime bit of real estate right next to the

River Thames, he hit upon a plan to save his family home and raise it

above the flood waters. Effectively, putting his house on stilts. Tell

me, what happened when the floods came in? During these two weeks, I

was trying to protect the house by pumping water out, silicone, by

doing all kinds of things to stop the water coming in. And once the

waters had receded, what options did you have? After evaluating a few

options, I decided to jack up the house. Is thinking was entirely

logical - jacking up the house would make it safe and insurable again,

but where do you start lifting something as heavy as a house? The

answer lies in hydraulics. At the heart of hydraulics is Pascal's law

that says that if you have a closed liquid system, the pressure inside

it is the same no matter where, so if I push on this piston here, it

makes this piston go up. And not only that, but you get hydraulic

multiplication, which is what I have got here supporting my house, four

pistons and attached to one piston. As I push this one down, I begin to

lift the entire house. And whilst it is not the most even of lifts, up

she goes! You will notice that my piston system did not go up very

evenly, which is fine with a wooden house, but if you have got a brick

and mortar house, it could be catastrophic. So he listed the help

of an engineer to achieve the seemingly impossible. When he came

to you and ask you to lift up his house for him, presumably you had to

put in some framework first. Yes, we used a steel grid, small holes

through the building to slide them in and bolt them together. Once that

was achieved, we went around and cut the brickwork away from the

foundation. He filmed the remarkable procedure so we can see the team

insert the steel base and cut the house from its foundations. But how

do you jack up a whole brick house? Each of these hydraulic jacks can

support an impressive 50 tonnes, the equivalent of ten full-grown African

bull elephants balancing on just one of them. But the house ways a lot

more than that and requires 28 jacks, or lifting the huge weight at

exactly the same rate. The team used a computerised pump system to

synchronise the jacks - just a few millimetres difference could crack

the whole house. And here it is, the extraordinary image of the house

being lifted 1.4 metres in the air. It must have been a fairly her

raising thing to watch your house being lifted off the ground. I was

very anxious, I did not know if the house would crack beyond repair, but

we have done it in three weeks successfully. Now that they have

lifted it up, they are putting the brickwork back, are you happy with

the result? I know the property is safe, I know that I rescued the

value of the property, and I can ensure it as well. With the house

now just awaiting some much-needed stairs and decking, the family are

back in their home, and the redevelopment appears to have worked

a treat. People are at their most ingenious when given by a basic

human need, and you do not get much more basic than a shelter from the

elements. This determination combined with excellent engineering

has given everyone around here a bit of a lift.

It is just remarkable, isn't it? The mind boggles! He has definitely got

steps now, hasn't he? It does not come cheap, ?80,000, but he has been

in touch today, there are steps, he can get up. And he did say, if

anyone wants any information, get in contact through us. Great story!

Adrian, at the end of the month, you will be appearing in Red Velvet, a

play about an actor who plays Othello, but it is a remarkable

story. Yes, it is about Ira Aldridge, the first black actor to

play Othello in Britain in the legitimate theatres, two legitimate

theatres, Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal Drury lane. He took

over playing Othello at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1833. 1833!

Put this into context, what else was happening at the time? Why was it

remarkable that a black man was playing Othello? In 1833, the

abolition of slavery movement was pushing its petitions and laws

through Parliament, and the debates were going on, people were speaking,

there was unrest, people were wondering about properties abroad,

wondering if they would have a workforce. All of this was happening

at the same time, quite a turbulent period. And this has been written by

your wife, that must have been an interesting process, were you part

of the writing process? I like to think I was! She will correct me and

tell me that I really wasn't. Was she writing it with you in mind? She

was writing a... I was interested, she thought I would be perfect for

the part, but in our industry who get jobs at the last minute, who

knew when it was going to go on and who would be best to play the part?

Happily, a theatre except that the play, and I was free to do it. And

here you are playing Othello as Ira Aldridge played Othello, but you are

played at the lower yourself. There is a tradition of white actors

playing Othello, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, what do you think

about that? When I was thinking about going into acting, when I was

14 or 15, seeing the images of white actors blacked up to play Othello,

it is a strange feeling, really, it is a profession I loved, but it gave

me a sense that, actually, this is not for you, this is ours, not

yours. If your services are required in a classical form, we will do it

ourselves. I am very glad by the time I go to drama school, that was

a contentious point, wearing make-up, and by the time I started

working, people were not really doing that. I think it has given us

the opportunity to have a very different people playing characters,

it has given drama a lift. Concentrating on the words, I was

reading that Shakespeare was quite a challenge for you as a young lad, so

what changed? What gave you the direction, one of our finest

classical actors? Thanks. I kind of... It is a piece of advice I give

to drama students, I thought it was best to work on your weaknesses,

because your strengths will take care of themselves. And as I left on

a school, I knew that I have been classically trained, but I really

wasn't happy with my abilities with Shakespeare's work, and so I kind of

tried to accept the jobs that came along that were in his plays,

Hamlet, Henry V... What did you find in the text that made you love it?

Or are you just good at it? I do like it, but it is a sort of

concentrated form of speaking, you can find in three or four sentences

about five or six different meanings, so every time you play

those lines, every night you are trying to dance between the meanings

and make sure you do not leave anything unclear. It is quite tricky

technically, and the emotions are huge. So as and my tractor, it is

like a work-out every night. -- as an actor. How would you encourage

kids in the 400 anniversary of Shakespeare's death? As one of the

country's finest Shakespearean actors, how would you encourage

young kids today? Getting the plays out and reading it

around the classroom is the worst thing you can do. The kids don't

understand what they are reading. I would say look at the words.

Understand the words that Shakespeare uses that we don't use

today. Find out what they are so they don't seem weird to you. Talk

about why there's verse and prose. Romeo and Juliet is a great one to

start with. Othello is a great one. Stories in Shakespeare's day had

contemporary themes to us. Young lovers running away. Red Velvet

would be a great one. You are bouncing in and out of it. That must

be quite a challenge anyway. It is a challenge, because Ira Aldridge was

a fantastic actor and I have to act him acting fantastically. Was he a

good actor? He was brilliant. The reviews in Russia are amazing of his

performances. An actress who played opposite him... An actress in Russia

noted while playing with him, she was playing opposite him in the play

Othello, and it got to the point where he was supposed to go mad and

get in a jealous rage and kill her. She got so worried because his

acting was so realistic that she forgot her lines. He was acting in

English and whispered to her in Russian, it's OK. She calmed down,

because she realised he hadn't gone crazy and imagine that today, how

good you would have to be. It is OK, because I play him!

LAUGHTER. It opens in the Garrick Theatre in London on 23rd January.

What do you do if you love wildlife but you can't go out in the daylight

to see us? Call us and we send in our very own One Team. What a

vehicle! Here's Miranda Krestovnikoff with all the details.

Lucy is a ten-year-old who absolutely loves wildlife. This is

an octopus. I have a chicken because chickens are fun and I like showing

snails to my granny, because she hates snails. The side of my wall is

nocturnal animals and this side is daytime animals. I look at this

every night and I end up dreaming about nature, owls and things. But

going outside the explore nature is much harder for Lucy than for other

people. That's because she has a rare skin condition, EPP. Her skin

is super sensitive to light and can become itchy, sore and swollen.

Sometimes you can have it and it is not very bad but it still hurts.

Whereas if you are out there and it happens but you are still out

exposed for even longer, then it really, really hurts. It doesn't

feel very nice. It is the complete opposite of niceness. There is no

cure, so Lucy has learnt to live with the condition. If it's a really

bright, sunny day, I have special cream. It doesn't have a name, so I

call it Dundee cream, because that's where we get it from. On my hands I

wear gloves and I wear a hat. Lucy loves wildlife but exposure to

sunlight is a constant worry, so The One Show is on a mission to take

this young enthusiast on an unforgettable British safari. Hi!

Nice to meet you. You are wrapped up? Yes. Adventure time. Just up the

road from Lucy's house Keith and Karen have devised the first ever

nocturnal wildlife tour. The tour is usually open to the public but

tonight is a special trip for Lucy. And as it is a night-time adventure

it means she won't be expose to do so the light that would usually make

her feel anxious and unwell. So this is the beast we are going out in? It

has a thermal camera and drop down screens. Shall we head off? Yes.

Outside it is completely dark but the nocturnal cameras reveal the

landscape and the animals roaming there. Is that a couple of deer?

Look at that. It has a really warm bottom. There's another one! Then

just a short way up the track Lucy sees something she has never seen

before. There it is. Look at it go! It is definitely a fox. There is the

roof of the vehicle. He is only in the field ten yards away. Isn't that

great how you can pick out the silhouette of him and you can see

how warm his face and paws are? I've never seen a fox before. So you've

just seen a fox. How does it feel? It feels good. This is already

feeling like our lucky night, so it is time to leave the comfort of the

truck and try out some more night vision gizmos. Can you see me? Yep.

Excellent. Armed with our hand-held devices we head into the darkness.

What is that? To the left is something in the middle of the

field. We'll go around and might be able to get a closer look. As we

carefully make our way across the field, we soon find the source of

the heat we saw on the camera. Just here. There he is. Oh, bless him.

Without these cameras we would have no idea he was there. Another one to

put on our list. We are doing really well tonight aren't we? We don't

want to disturb the head Hodge for long, so we quietly leave him to his

night-time foraging. Bye-bye hedgy? Goodbye hedgehog. Lucy has now had a

rare glimpse into the secret world of nocturnal wildlife. Just to see

the joy on her face, it is wonderful. You don't need to see the

comfort of your own home to see this nature. There are wildlife cameras

galore. On the plasma we have a field in Lichfield. There was a fox

literally like 20 seconds ago I saw its nose, so it might be back. Did

you see an eye! Did! This is live. And Slimbridge in Gloucestershire,

lots of wildfowl there bobbing about on the water. And here we've got

hedgehog buffet bar in Rushmere St Andrew. Not much happening there.

This is the kind of thing that would grip you Adrian. If you are having a

stressful day in the office perhaps. Yes, go and sit and watch a buffet

not being eaten. No disrespect, it is a bit like paint drying, at the

moment. There is the possibility of seeing a fox. Let's keep going. If a

fox does appear we'll cut to it quickly. And now the window into the

world of a taxi driver. This is the tale of Stuart Bluman who in his

first week picked up one passenger and yet found himself dropping off

two. I'm married to Matt and this is our son Theo door, who we call

Teddy. Matt had to bring Teddy to my sister's mum in law and had to book

me a cab to get me to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. I'm Stuart

Bluman. It was my first full week as a qualified private hire taxi

driver. I pulled up outside the house and a man came out. He said, I

would like you to take my wife to the hospital. She's in labour. I

said, are you going to be coming with us? Us? He said no, I have to

take my son to childcare, I will meet you at the hospital. He came

out with a very heavily pregnant wife. She got into the car. I think

the process of actually stepping into the vehicle caused her waters

to break. She said, my waters have broken! And that got the panic bells

ringing for Matt and Stuart. We had a small intense debate about whether

to get an ambulance or stay in the taxi. We thought in the end we would

stay in the taxi, let's go. It was onliable two miles to the Chelsea

and Westminster Hospital. I was predicting nine minutes to get

there. We got going. He offered me a bottle of water. I said no, don't

need water, just need to... I don't know what I need to do, I don't need

water. That's all I know. My own experience from going to NCT classes

you will know you are in full labour when you start mooing. She was in

full-on moo, and then bang, we hit traffic. The stress was on Stuart.

What am I going to do if we are completely stuck in traffic. I said,

what's the latest? She said, the baby's coming, the baby's coming! I

threw then it was action stations. My dream was I would go to the

hospital, everyone was pack me on the back and here are some drugs and

out comes the baby. But I was caught by surprise. I couldn't believe it

was going to happen here. I grabbed the wheelchair, opened the back door

and she said, the head is out, the head is out! At that point I

thought, this baby is coming in the car. What I had not realised is I

had driven straight past an ambulance parked behind me. He

arrived to we arrived to transfer a baby, and we had a knock on the door

to say a baby was being delivered in a taxi. I opened the door of the cab

and a lady said, give me some pain relief. I had to say, sorry, there

is no pain relief here. I felt comforted that there was someone

there who knew what she was doing. She had a wonderful, gentle warm,

sweet manner, and said, we are going to do it. Nearly there. I heard

Rafael cry out. I looked to my left and I saw the dashboard clock and it

said 6.50. I said guys, bunch together for a little picture. It is

a special picture. Josie is smiling in the front and Peter is holding

Raffy, and Stuart looking as white as a sheet. If it hadn't been for

Stuart our quick thinking taxi driver and Peter, I don't know what

would happen. I can't wait too meet them. Josie, hello! I'm so happy to

meet you! It is amazing to get the chance to meet Rafael for the first

time since he was born. I am privileged to have been there at the

time and bring him into the world. It is nice to meet mum and baby

after such a traumatic event for mum in the back of a taxi. I'm really

proud of what I did that day. Any decent human being would do the same

thing. These people really are very special to myself, of course, in my

hour of need, but to Rafael. They helped him come safely into the

world. They are his Guardian Angels after all. I just love Stuart. What

a man! What a man! Adrian, you had a close call with one of yours in a

taxi? Our second child, Jasmine, was close. Lolita was very close to

giving birth and the cab driver was worried. We made it just in time. I

I have to ask, any chance of any more Hustle? I very much doubt it.

Not as far as I'm concerned. But the next James Bond, yes? If they would

ask me? No more Hustle at all? No, no. It was brilliant. Apart from

that. We'd some good news today, because The One Show has been

short-list ford a National Television Award, which are now

decided by the public. So if you would like to share your support,

you can find all the details online. That's all we've got

time for tonight. Red Velvet opens at the Garrick

Theatre in London on 23rd January. I'll be back tomorrow

with a newly wedded Alex.