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Hello and welcome to the The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
We are going to be following David Walliams as he begins his 140 mile | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
swim along the Thames as part of the Big Splash initiative. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
It has been a tough start, but if he makes it to the finish line, | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
well you will be the first to hear. Joining is one of Britain's best | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
loved actors who returned to our screens last night, it is Inspector | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
George Gently, Martin Shaw. You have got to admire David, | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
haven't you, taking on such a gruelling challenge? It is awesome, | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
140 miles? Yes, in eight days. He is doing, what's that a day? | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
is about 22 miles a day. It is quite a few laps of a | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
swimming pool put it that way. One woman who has been waving David | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
on from the river bank is Angela Rippon. Angela, is there any sign | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
of David yet? Any ripples? Not yet. Ripples, yes, but they are being | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
made by swimmers who are not David Walliams. He slipped into the cold | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
waters of the Thames at 8am this morning at Lechlade. If everything | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
goes well a week from today he will have finish the 140 mile marathon | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
swim and be ending up at Westminster Bridge, but let's look | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
at the latest pictures that we have got of him. These were taken | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
earlier today and I have to tell you it looks as if he is swimming | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
really strongly. A great technique, but we know he is at least an hour | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
behind schedule. He is in trouble. He is having difficulties on his | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
first day. I will tell you more about that later. Look at the | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
reception committee, he does love to make an entrance! | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
They will be spurring him on, those Morris dancers. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Let's hope he makes it. Has raised �71,000. | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
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We know you are a technology fob... Fob... Who told you that? Can you | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
have a stab at telling us what an app is? Those nice people called my | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
children tell me I shouldn't bother with it because I wouldn't | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
understand. A good effort. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
I have seen the apps my kids have on their phone. They look wonderful. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
My phone doesn't accept them. are computer programmes on your | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
mobile phones that allow you to do things like play games, orderer | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
your groceries. Some claim to monitor everything | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
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from high blood pressure to 13 million of us have got one of | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
these, a smartphone, music, movies and television, an app for | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
everything and the latest are designed to keep our health in | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
check, but are they good enough to keep the doctor from the door? | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
As our lives get busier and busier, we seem to have less and less time | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
to do the things that keep us well like exercise and take regular | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
health checks, health apps offer instant readings for just about | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
everything from blood pressure to detecting cancerous moles, but how | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
effective are they and are they really safe? We decided to stage | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
our own road test of the three of the most reviewed health apps, a | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
blood pressure monitor, a blood alcohol monitor and and an app to | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
test for cancerous moles. We took took a GP and tested Howard's blood | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
pressure with standard equipment and the new blood pressure app. Are | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
you nice and relaxed? Yes. As much as I can be in your presence. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
140 over 99. How is that? Probably a bit on the high side. | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
In both tests Howard registered a similar elevated reading. Stuck in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the back of the cab with two young ladies could be stressful! | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
What's your verdict? For usage at home and getting an idea of what | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
your blood pressure is doing over a period of time, it is not a bad | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
idea and it is straightforward to use. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
The app is free, but the blood pressure cuff that goes with it | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
costs under �200. The manufacturers advice users to consult a doctor if | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
they have they have concerns about blood pressure. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
After a day at work, there is nothing nicer than a drink to help | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
you relax, but doctors are always telling us to limit the amount we | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
consume. How about an app app that plays the part of the cautionary | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
voice telling you how much alcohol there is in your blood stream. You | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
can download the blood alcohol content reader for free. It uses a | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
simple questionnaire to calculate your blood alcohol levels as | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
opposed to a chemically based police standard standard breath | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
test. The number of drinks you have consumed? Two two shots of vodka. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Two glasses of rose. Hours spent drinking? Two hours. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
It is saying find a taxi. Oh right. I wouldn't be comfortable with | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
driving. I am going to breathalyze you. Keep | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
going and stop. OK. Let's see just how drunk you | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
are. 83. You are well over the limit. The legal limit for a breath | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
test is 35 micro grams. People would use this in the wrong | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
way and use it as a guidance as to whether they should drink and drive. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
It has a disclaimer, I think it might get misused. | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
We contacted the developer and they said it is for entertainment | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
purposes only. It is one thing to use technology as a way to monitor | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
your drinking, but some medical professionals are growing concerned | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
about apps that offer self diagnosis like SpotMole, a product | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
that claims to detect cancerous melanoma. Let's see because this we | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
know is a harmless mole and let's see what it says about a known | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
harmless mole. We try the app seven times and only once did it give the | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
correct diagnosis as being harmless. The rest stated the mole as | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
problematic. This is per perting to make a | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
diagnosis. The dangerous form of skin cancer called the melanoma can | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
be fatal if it is not diagnosed early enough and it would be tragic | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
if someone relied on a programme like this for something that is a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
potentially fatal condition. Health professionals think some of | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
the apps can be useful, but they express concern about those | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
involving self diagnosis because playing at doctors and nurses can | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
do us more harm than good. The company behind the Blood | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
Alcohol Content Calculator claims their app encourage responsible | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
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driving by giving numbers for local taxi drivers. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Dr Mark Porter is here. Dr Mark, do you think there is a place for | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
these apps? They are simply computer programmes. Just because | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
they are on your mobile doesn't make them magic. The blood pressure | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
app, the machine I use every day a proper NHS machine is half the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
price of that app. Why would you buy it other than to be a gadget? | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
This is my phone. I was looking at the apps and I have got something | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
for testing colour-blindness. You have a body mass app. The most | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
useful app is a first aid app. I have St John Ambulance's if someone | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
is choking, you press choking and it takes you through dig grams of | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
what to do, including telling you to to dial 999. I would urge | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
everybody, if you can have one medical app, it is what to do in a | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
crisis. The number of compressions? Tells | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
you what to do. We were talking about you | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
collapsing on stage last year, I don't suppose an app helped you | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
then? I was ill over the weekend. I had a bad chest infection, but we | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
have got this thing in the entertainment industry, you don't | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
stop. I know it is crazy, but I drove, we were on the tour at the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
the time. I drove to the tour venue. Felt lousy, did the show, did the | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
next one and my cue came and I collapsed. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
It was a slow and dignified bend forward and my son was in the wings | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
and he brought the curtain down as it happened. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Thank you. When David Walliams was on the show | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
last week, we spoke about the wildlife he might see along the | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Thames. It sounds like he has too much on his mind to take it in. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Jamie Crawford is devoting time to help you take better snaps. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
I am in the north Downs in Surrey on a mission to photograph one of | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
the most acrobatic animals in the UK, the grey squirrel. It is | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
thought these flexible rodents can jump ten times their own body | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
length, about three meters. It is that amazing leaping ability that I | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
want to photograph. Oh, missed it! Technically, I have got a | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
photograph of a leaping squirrel. Is it any good? No, it is rubbish! | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
That greyish brown blur is a squirrel, I promise! | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Jamie, hello. Kim Taylor has has taken truly | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
breath taking wildlife shots. He has devised a very clever way to | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
steer squirrels in my direction. A feeding station with only one route | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
on to it. So So actually this is an ingenious design, they can climb up | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
the pole, but can't reach the food. You have a prickly pile, therefore | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
the only route is a mid-air jump. From the launch to the glide, to | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
the touch down, I want a shot that reflects the squirrel's jumping | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
ability. Kim's system can capture three images of the squirrel's jump | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
in one photo, but to achieve it takes a lot of ingenuity. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
The camera shutter is is going to be open for the full-time of the | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
squirrel's jump. There will be three flashes which will give you | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
three images of the of the squirrel. The flashes are triggered by the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
camera shutter opening, but because the squirrels are fast, my | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
reactions won't be quick enough. Naturally Kim has thought of that, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
a squirrel launchpad. The the weight of the squirrel is | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
not enough to trigger it. When the squirrel jumps it kicks off and | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
triggers it. I just need to wait and prime the | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
camera when I see a squirrel on the pad, but will it work? | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Squirrels are most active at first light and I've let Kim stay in bed | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
rather bravely. When it comes to doing it I'm terrified. | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
I have seen my first squirrel. He is teasing me. He is not going near | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
the jump. Although the hide has been here for weeks, they know | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
something is up. Plenty of activity, but not just the kind I need. | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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Finally they start building up I wonder if they would be jumping | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
in I wasn't here? My my only hope is they can't resist the smell of | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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Wow. It works and it looks amazing. Now the confidence amongst the | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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I can't sit round here any longer. The first one is a classic jump. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
The second one you can see using his tail to balance midair. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
I have to say thank you so much for this, because it's your ingenious | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
flash system. It was you who pressed the button. There's too | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
much back patting going on here. Wow some shot that. You liked that, | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
dpbtdsnu I loved that. He was very chuffed with himself. We know | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
you're a big fan of wildlife. Is it a bear charity you're patron of? | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
it's not. Do you know why we say that? Because we found this picture. | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
Oh, my gosh. That was such fun. The bigger of the two bares was Daley. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
He was about 6'3". We got to know each other so well, he would take a | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
polo mints from my lips, with this enormous gob coming at you. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
have to have a huge amount of respect for animals like that. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
had a huge amount of respect for the trainer and he told us how to | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
behave around the bear. Had ewas a very gentle soul. It's still a wild | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
bear. Lars Halvor Jensen came back to the screens last night -- | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Inspector George Gently came back to our screens last night. Lots of | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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detective daum yaz on screen at the moment. What makes Gently so like | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
likeable? If I knew, I would be a rich and successful producer. I'm | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
just grateful they do like it. We have an award-winning writer. We | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
have the beautiful city of Durham, your home down. Yes! That really | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
adds a tremendous amount to the programme. To me, in particular, | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
you have got this wonderful cathedral looking down over | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
everything. It's a presence that's always there for you. There's a | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
lovely moment in the second film where you say, this is slowly | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
becoming my favourite view, as you're stood on the steps. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
totally understand that. We get hardly any time off when we're | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
filming. We do two one-and-a-half hour movies in eight weeks. Those | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
times I did have off I head for the cathedral. There's something | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
extraordinary about a place known 900 years of continuous worship. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
It's interesting that it's shot there. The books were written in | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Norfolk. I could have walked to work. That would have been quite | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
nice! I can see why they cholz Durham. It's, forgive me East | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Anglia, it's a more interesting landscape. You know all the right | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
things to say when you're sat next to Matt. The films are set in the | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
1960s. We talked about you being a bit of a technophobe. Here you are | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
with your side kick, grappling with another new innovation. | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
Look at this, tea, milk, no sugar. Tea, sugar, no milk. Tea, no milk, | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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What's it taste like? Warm water, cold milk, no tea. | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
I have to disagree, those machines are the best 15p you can spend. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Interesting your relationship with Sergeant Bacchus has developed into | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
a father/son. Absolutely. It started almost instantly. He's not | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
only a very, very good actor. He's the nicest person you can work with. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
He's very funny and mischievious. Did you take inspiration from any | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
other kind of df detectives? Because we've created what we think | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
is the ultimate detective. You have to guess who this is made up from. | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
If you can get four, I'll be amazed. Top down. Miss Marple. Then John | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
Thaw. Doing well. I can see my old mate David Suchet in there as | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Poirot. What about the chin or nose? If you get the nose I'll be | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
amazed. It's not a male, that nose is not male. It's female. OK. | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
have to rush you. Shall we reveal all. Go on. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Helen Mirren and luether of course. The next episode is on Sunday night, | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
looking forward to that. Next film I should say actually. You're in | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
pretty good shape, what are you a 34 waste? No, actually 32! I feel | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
terrible now. Now that's back fired! You came out earlier and | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
said "I think he's a 36". Only kidding. It makes buying jeans very | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
easy, 32, 32. I'm the same. On we go. It seems men are telling | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
porkies about expanding bellies and some shops haven't helped by | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
labelling trousers, can you believe, this a size smaller than they | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
actually are. We decided to arm Gyles Brandreth with tracky bottoms | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
and a tape measure. In Britain we're all getting bigger. It's | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
official. Even the statues are putting on weight. We fool | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
ourselves that we're slimmer than we actually are. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
What size is your waste? 34 I think. If I'm being generous, 37.5 Sir. | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
You would be pleased if in the shop you saw 34. | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Why say you're a 38, I can get into a 36. Even though it's crushing you | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
to death. What am I measuring? on with it. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Shop woz say they're trying to make people feel more comfortable about | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
themselves. No, they're trying to sell stuff. The point is you would | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
like to see 34. Do you think it's pandering to the vanity of people? | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
He's very vain, aren't you? No! the old Dales I looked up to men | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
because they were men, they had a certain ah... Manlyness. What I do | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
is wear elastic waist band, that's the trick. I loved that. That's | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
great. More measuring on The One Show. Gyles Brandreth 34 inch, if | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
you're wondering. We've heard of people changing their name. I've | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
always like Nelly myself. Have you? No. But it's not just people. One | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
village decided to change what it called itself as a thank you to | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Egypt. Michael Douglas has the story and that is his real name, by | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
the way. This Hampshire village has two very | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
proud claims to fame. The first one is its name, which sounds more | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
Sahara desert than thatched cottage and the second is the story behind | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
the name. Enham Alamein was created aiz a unique home for war heroes | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
over 90 years ago. In the First World War, two million | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
British servicemen were injured. Three quarters of a million were | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
permanently disabled. Many, mentally and physically | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
traumatised, were brautd to Enham to help them recover. Small | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
military pensions meant they couldn't look after themselves. | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
They were given homes and their children grew up here. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Doug was born in Enham. His father Walter came here in 1919, suffering | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
from shell shock. Walter and his wife and children were only the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
second family to move in. Doug is the one in white. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
What was it like growing up here? It was different, because it was | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
only the latter years you realised how different it was. You were so | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
used to men walking about with one arm, one leg, nearly everybody had | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
a walking stick. You just thought that was the thing until you got a | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
bit older. Enham gave work to all of them. Walter became a cobler and | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
they provided a home to his family. A lot of men would have been on the | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
scrap heap, if it hadn't been for a like like Enham. My dad, it made | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
his life. The village was just called Enham in those days. Then | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
came the Second World War and the crucial battle of Alamein in Egypt, | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
when the alies repelled Rommel's forces. Hundreds more disabled | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
soldiers were brought here. As a gesture of thanks for Britain's | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
role Egypt raised more than �200,000 as a gift. And this is how | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
the village responded. With their new name, Enham Alamein | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
thrived. Today it's still going strongly. What's it like round here, | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
it strikes me as a very friendly place, is that right? Yes, it is. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
There are lovely people here, very young, community minded. I'm told | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
there's something rather amusing back here. Wow! A barber's shop. My | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
spiritual home. How are you doing? Fine, thanks. For what it's worth, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
you're doing an excellent job. kind of you. Thank you very much. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
In peacetime, the demand from ex- servicemen diminished, so Enham | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
headquarters opened its doors to civilians. It's become one of | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Britain's leading disability charities, helping 3,000 people a | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
year with learning, physical or mental disabilities. Brilliant. It | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
feels like part of the village here. It doesn't feel like an instuegs at | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
all. There's a philosophy, that you are the boss, you're an individual. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Can you achieve whatever you wants. -- want. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
So what's Enham brought to you here? Fplgts it's brought whole new | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
life for me and opened up a new load of doors and opportunities for | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
me. Enham has always provided employment to give disabled | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
servicemen a new start. Today, it's as busy as ever. Here they're | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
packing up products for well known companies. We look at cape yablgts, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
not the disabilities, that's how I like to put it. We give everybody | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
encouragement, a purpose and value here. What do you feel that working | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
here has brought you? Confidence, self-esteem, despite my disability. | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
It's given me a good looking life It's given me a good looking life | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
now. In the early days horticulture was one of the favourite jobs. For | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
the men who came here from the horrors of war, the tranquillity | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
must have been like paradise. As productive now as ever, veg and | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
flowers are growing right through the year. It's very good therapy. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
You get everything from seed to plate. Everyone benefits enormously | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
from the therapeutic side of things. Can I take some home with me? | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
you can indeed. 25,000 -- 250,000 people have come to find help here | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
over the years. The charity has been helping the services again | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
recently, servicemen from Afghanistan and Iraq to get jobs on | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
civvy street. Enham Alamein, now if that isn't a name to -- with a | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
claim to fame, I'll eat my hair brush. Nice to see Michael without | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
the clippers for a change. He did mention them twice. Time now to | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
return to the Thames to see how David Walliams is doing. Angela, | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
any sign of him yet? Absolutely no sign at all, I'm afraid, so far. In | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
fact, where you've joined me is at Bablock Hythe in Oxfordshire. This | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
is where David is hoping to come ashore at the end of his first day | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
of this eight-day marathon, which started at 8am, when he slipped | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
into the icy cold waters of the Thames at Lechlade. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Feeling quite nervous, because it's very cold this morning. We were | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
hoping that the temperature was going to be 20 degrees in the water. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
But it's 15. It's nice though, loads of people have come out to | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
see me this morning, which is fantastic. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
APPLAUSE I got that thing where I really | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
want to get started now. I feel like, come on let's get on with it. | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
I keep on saying I'm going to do it, but I haven't done it yet. Ahead of | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
him he's got 140 miles swimming for an average of eight hours a day for | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
eight days. But only 15 minutes in and David had to negotiate the | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
first of 46 locks. Then it was straight back in the water and it's | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
great to see that David is being cheered on by public support. | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
You saw there that David went into the water in his swimming trunks. I | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
can tell you he hadn't been in the water very long when he hit trouble. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Look at the latest film. He looks as if he's swimming really strongly, | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
but now he's in a wetsuit. His trainer, who was swim ago longside | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
him in the film noticed that he was going blue around the neck. That | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
was an indication that he was beginning to suffer from | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
hypothermia. Now that is really very serious this early in his swim. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Instead of being able to complete the 21 miles today, which is what | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
he was hoping for, what I can tell everybody here now, because I've | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
just heard, he's actually only made 17 miles. He's at Northmoor lock | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
and they're taking him out of the water because he is beginning to | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
struggle and they don't want him to get into any more difficulties. But | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
they're going to put him in a boat, bring him down here, so that all of | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
you will be able to see him. CHEERING | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
So David, come on down, because there's a great reception committee | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
for you. We can't start the party without you. Incredible. I think | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
it's important to note, that it doesn't matter how long it takes | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
him to do. He has to keep going. Thank you very much. We catch up | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
with David on the next leg of his swim tomorrow. Don't be tempted to | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
jump into the Thames because of course it is dangerous. If you have | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
been inspired by David, don't forget he's doing this swim to | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
raise money for Sport Relief. To support David make a donation to | :28:28. | :28:38. | |
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go to bbc.co.uk/theone.show. Donate in you can. Thanks very much | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
Martin. Inspector George Gently continues next Sunday at 8.30pm. On | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
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