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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
We are joined by two guests who enjoy getting out and about. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
He spent the last years travelling across the great expanse of time | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
and space. She has spent years walking across | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the great British countryside. They are laughing already. It is | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
John Barrowman and Julia Bradbury. I think it was the look that we | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
gave each other. We were both like... Getting out and about. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
You two are going to be trouble. Good news, there is snow on the | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
hills? It is fantastic. You and I will be out there bracing the | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
weather and building snow men for Countryfile | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
Do you embrace the weather or sit inside? I like to sit inside with a | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
duvet, but I like to snowboard. Getting all wet and sledging and | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
everything, I'm driving up to Glasgow so I will be driving | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
through all of it. Be careful. | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Stay safe. This wintry weather will be be getting Sir Ranulph Fiennes | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
in the mood. He will attempt the most dangerous ever. He has a great | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
support team in place, but if he needs help, well we know just the | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
gang. They are hard-working, loyal, grumpy, and good at keep up morale. | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
Brilliant. That could only mean one, the panto season is nearly upon us | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
and Priscilla Presley will be telling us how she is she is | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
finding her panto experience. . It is estimated the average child | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
will receive �13 2 worth of presents this year with new figures | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
show over two million households are struggling to pay the bills, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
some children will receive none at all. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
There are charities making sure that doesn't happen and Lucy went | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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Hello Sophie. What are you doing? am putting tree tags on this tree. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
How does this work? Well, how it works. We as an organisation | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
collect the names and ages of children from across the north-east | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
who wouldn't get much of a gift at Christmas time. We put the names | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
and the ages of a child on a gift tag. Members of the public take a | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
gift tag and look at the name and the age of the child on the tag and | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
buy a gift. We make sure all the childrens names we have have at | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
least one gift to open on Christmas morning. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
I am guessing you want to take these? That's your challenge to | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
make sure you get enough gifts for I like a challenge so I will take | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
these as well. Have you heard of the giving tree? | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
I have. These are tickets for the giving | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
tree. This is a boy aged 13. He needs a gift. There is Jack, he | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
is seven and Natalie 12. It can be anything you think is appropriate. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
That was quick. Yes. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Oh my goodness, that's cute. I have written on the card, it is just | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
from me and my family. Lots of businesses across Aberdeen | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
have been collecting presents and there is a company with a huge pile | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
of gifts. Hello, excuse me. Health owe. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
-- hello. I'm Lucy. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
I'm Bob. I believe you have been doing some | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
collecting, some gift buying? Indeed, we have. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
I hear there is a big pile of presents somewhere here? Yeah, let | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
me show you. Had is what I like. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
-- this is what I like. This is very good Bob and they are | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
all beautifully wrapped as well. You can take that one and take that | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
that one as well. I know how the elves feel. I caught up with Donna | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
whose daughter has received a gift through this scheme for the past | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
six years. So Donna, tell me about the giving tree and what it means | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
to you? I am on a low income. I am a single parent so it gives me that | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
little bit of support. How does this take the pressure off | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
you a bit? It takes a lot of pressure off me because the build- | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
up to Christmas you start getting worried and have I got this and got | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
that and everything, it takes a little bit of work off me knowing | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
that I have got that little bit extra there if I haven't got enough. | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
Next, I took a short drive out of Aberdeen to meet more generous | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Scots where they have their own elves factory. I know where to find | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
some willing volume volunteers in the elves factory. Do you think | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
that you guys would be able to match some of these kids with a | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
gift and bring them along for me? think we could do that. Do you | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
think so guys? Yes. This is good. This is good. OK, I'm | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
going to hand these out. That was really good. I got rid of seven or | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
eight cards in there. That's brilliant. The people of Aberdeen | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
have been so generous. However, I still do have a lot of cards to get | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
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rid of and I can't rest until every How wonderful is it to be | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
surrounded by the Christmas spirit and Lucy is up in Aberdeen. Lucy, | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
how are things up there at the moment? Well, we don't need fake | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
snow because we have the real thing. It is proper wintry up here. We | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
have fake snow as well because we have created the giving grottoe. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
You may recognise the staff particularly the boss over there. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
Now, here we have Chris on loan from Drum Castle. Are you feeling | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the pressure? Yeah, the pressure is really on. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Yes, yes keep wrapping. We have been giving out the gift | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
tags everywhere and we have been running over the city, but we can | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
take more presents, can't we Sophie? We can. And you are from | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the giving tree. Now you are really experienced at this. Why did you | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
come to us this year? We have an unprecedented number of children | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
coming to use this year. We had 6,000 on the list and we had | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
additional 200. We needed to get you the extra 00. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
-- 200. We want the gifts tonight because we want to get them ready | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
so this fellow can do his work? That's correct. We need to get them | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
back out in time for the kids to get them for Christmas. You do the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
gift tags and people bring the presents. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
They buy a gift, bring it back to us and we sort it out and ensure | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
every child has one. It is a simple thing and we have been out there | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
running around. There is a little queue, I am getting excited because | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
people are really responding to this. I know the weather is bad, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
please put your snowshoes on and come over to Union Square. We need | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
as many presents as possible. Everyone else, we will see you back | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
in the giving grottoe and you can fin out how we got on later on. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Stay warm, Lucy. Is it right we we couldn't get a director up there | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
because it has been so snowy? She can't hear. | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
LAUGHTER Good for you, girl. Keep smiling. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
LAUGHTER We saw there the giving tree, it is | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
a brilliant charity. And this weekend, you will be honouring some | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
other British charities who have done great stuff over the last | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
year? Yes, that's right, the Lottery awards are this Saturday, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
8.40pm on BBC One. If I am correct on the time? You are. | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
It is celebrating the orgz r the organisations have been nominated. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
�30 million per week are raised by people playing the Lottery and the | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
money goes into different funds that is given to all the winners to | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
help their causes and help their organisations. So it is money going | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
back into the community they win. Tas great cause. It is great to see | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
some of these organisations. There is a huge range. You have | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
everything from education, sport, you know, heritage stuff, there is | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
many more categories. But the thing that, there is places like for | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
instance, there is an organisation that helps homeless men in the New | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
Forest. There is also in Teesside, it is a... Getting Guys back into | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
fitness? A nature reserve. So it is, you have got a vast, a diverse | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
group of people that are being helped. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
And you are hosting? I'm going to bling it up and for the people who | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
have been nominated and will get the awards, they don't know they | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
are going to win yet, it is their night out. They will bling | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
themselves up. We have some great acts, we have McFly and Chris Hoy | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
and Leona Lewis will be singing. It will be a great night of | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
entertainment. Chris Hoy is one of the onesI went | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
to surprise. I don't know what he is doing | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
playing netball. I think he should stick to cycling. He is hopeless. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Only real men wear pink! I stood next to John at the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
National Lottery awards a couple of years ago, and he had more diamonds | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
on than I did! I kissed you and I leaned over and | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
went to shake Matt's hands and he leaned in and we ended up kissing | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
each other! LAUGHTER | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
It was a Baker special. It worked. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
You are a busy man. You have panto, but you are in a new drama called | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Arrow and you play a Well Dressed Man? Well, that's the name of the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
character because they didn't want to reveal who he was and they are | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
building him throughout the series. My name, I have been revealed on | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Monday night, it plays on another channel in the UK and it is, I'm | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
known as Malcolm merlin and I'm the villain of the group. | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
As far as the baddy is concern, you like that, you played a baddy in | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Desperate Housewives? I have got such diversity in my career. In | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Jack and the bean stalk, I am the hero and in Torchwood, I was the | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
hero and now I get get play the bad guy and do nasty things. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
Well, let's see how bad you get. And terminal laziness has lost its | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
humour. You are wondering why now? The | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
better question is why not sooner? It is my trust fund. Which is | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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comprised of my money. Oh, excuse me. Was come priced -- comprised. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
APPLAUSE I love that. I just said, "That's | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
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my son in the show." And Matt goes, "In real life?" Thank you very much. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
LAUGHTER That's filmed in Vancouver. You are | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
zipping around all over the place? Commuting between Vancouver and LA | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
and after I get the pantomime over, I will go back to the the States | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
and I will commute from Pam Springs. How does it compare to British | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
British television? In America they field you more. They have vast | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
amounts of food on the table and none of the actresses eat it. All | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
the boys are like, "Yeah, chicken wings." I keep putting on weight | :12:34. | :12:43. | |
and the girls get thinner. still look good. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Now, this year, we have been on a mission to help The One Show | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
viewers find people they have been searching For Non Stop years. | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
So far, we have renited an 81-year- old woman with a sister she never | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
met. Tonight, we are searching for a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
long lost friend. The 1960s and in the clubs of the | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
West Midlands, a band band called Silver Jade were trying to hit the | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
big time. They answered an ad in the Coventry Telegraph. All that | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
remains of Silver Jade now is one photograph. The band split up and | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
the band members went their separate ways. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Tony was the guitarist and he has fond memories of his time with | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Silver Jade. Were you any good? Yeah, we were | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
brilliant. So if you were to go and see Silver Jade you were out for a | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
proper night? Yeah, a good night.. Some laughs? And the bingo in | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
between. The bingo in between! | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
LAUGHTER Tony has asked The One Show for | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
help. He would love to be reunited with one of his band mates, Diane. | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
She was a great friend. She really was. She was closer than a sister. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
I hope she carried on singing because she was brilliant. She had | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
a lovely voice and it would be nice to catch up. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Despite his efforts, Tony had no luck tracking Diane down, but we | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
love a challenge so to find the long lost Diane, I have enlisted | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
the help of Kat. If they have moved house or changed | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
their surname and moved away, that's what I do. I track them down. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
So, we have got Diane's name, a few details from Tony and that rather | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
bad photograph. It looks like Kat has her work cut out. | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
. We not certain how to spell Diane's surname. But we do know | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
that she had parents and we also know that she had a brother called | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
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Her first job is to look at the online birth index, but she cannot | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
find a Diane, because of the unknown spelling of her surname. | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
But any address, however old, is always useful. Tony remembers a | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
house in Coventry. So the next stop is the 1972 electoral roll. Then | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
some we go. That's why we can't find them, it is spelt differently. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
So that's them. She then goes to the current electoral roll to try | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
to find where she lives now. But she cannot find her there. But she | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
does find her mother. When we get in touch with her, she tells us | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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that Dyer and is working in Malta. So, Cat by jumps on a plane to | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
track her down. Catt is getting ready for a big night out. In the | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
town's main square, the tribute band ABBA UK is on stage, but we | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
have spotted Tony's long-lost band member. The singer is now on other | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
than Diane. We have found her! Backstage, and Diane is delighted | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
to hear that Tony is looking for her. Tony was not only did it a | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
miss in the band, he actually became part of the family. -- not | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
only the guitarist in the band. He became like an older brother to me.. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
Would you like to see a photograph of him? I would love to. That Tony! | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
A little bit more podgy! He will not mind you saying that. Would you | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
like to rekindle your friendship? That would be lovely. I wonder how | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
we will get on now, after so long. The second part of that is coming | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
up at the end of the show.. It is certainly worth watching. We were | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
just talking about long-lost friends. Yes, we had a really good | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
group of friends in Sheffield, where I went to school. My best | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
friend lived next door. I lost touch with all of the group. They | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
are all out there. Hello, guys. is so easily don't. Yes, and even | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
when you reconnect with people, you lose the number, or something | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
happens. Life gets in the way. People change, people are different, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
people grow closer, or they grow apart. I left Glasgow when I was | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
eight. There was one person and I never knew what happened to him. | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
His name was Scot Donald. I wonder where he is. There were few others, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
but I have not kept in touch with most of the kids I grew up with, | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
because I was only eight. I remember Scott, he was younger than | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
me, but I remember him as being blonde, with curly hair. We will | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
see what happens by the end of the show. Across the country, there are | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
people all in final rehearsals for the opening night of panto. Alex | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
managed to get behind the scenes of Snow White in Wimbledon, to see how | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
the panto is put together. It is important not to forget the real | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
meaning of Christmas - panto! Now, where is this the it to? It is | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
behind you! All right, we're not having any of that. Panto is a huge | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
theatrical undertaking. Filling 1,600 seats like these takes a crew | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
of at least the team working about the clock. With a cast of 20, | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
delivering 67 performances over the next five weeks, they have got | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
their work cut out. Essential to any pantomime is the making and | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
setting of the many bold and outlandish props. You are in charge | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
of the props - what are the challenges? Just keeping them | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
together, making sure every cars number has got what they need at | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the right time. One the production is going on, you have got people | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
going backwards and forwards - how do you keep a sense of order? | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
speak to people in rehearsal, we had a two-week rehearsal period, | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
getting everything put in the right place. This is the apple. I would | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
not bite it. Is it deadly poisonous? It is. Every panto | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
character must stand out from the crowd. Nicola, you of a wardrobe | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
assistant - how many costumes have you got? It must be about 80, | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
probably more than that, actually. Which ones are the most difficult | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
to get on and off? Probably the ensemble ones, because they have | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
the quickest changes, and they have a lot of accessories. Some of the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
biggest names in film and television have given panto ago. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
This includes Sir Ian McKellen, David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
and Sue Pollard. Joining this list are two more big screen stars. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Priscilla, how much did you know about pantomime before you agreed | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
to do this may then I honestly did not know anything about it. It is | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
new to me. I am a new kid on the block. It is a lot of work. I have | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
been having a really good time. 67 performances! I know, it is going | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
to be gruelling. Also, Warwick Davies. Doing films and TV all year | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
is fantastic, but you cannot beat standing up in front of the crowd. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
The adrenalin and the discipline, because there is no chance of doing | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
it again. You have to get it right first time. If you are not on song, | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
you know about it, because the audience let you know. Are you | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
ready for the booing and hissing? Well, I do not know if I am. I know | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
it is a part of it. I think the challenge for me to Finney to keep | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
in the scene without getting thrown out of character. Because you want | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
to ban tobacco. I know that you're going to go curtain-up on Friday. | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
Priscilla banter back. Do you think I could get a part? Just looking at | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
you, I think you could play a simpleton of some sort. I am | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
surrounded by a group of people who know exactly what they're going | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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through, it is cast members from panto in Epsom, Tunbridge Wells and | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
Southsea. What is it like to play the baddie? It is so much fun, you | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
get to be mean to everyone. A baddy with great false eyelashes! We are | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
going to have a cackle competition. Would you like to go first? I do | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
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not want to do mine now. That's awful. John? I think Leanne was the | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
best. We have also got Jenny and Charlotte, Snow Whites in Epsom and | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
Tunbridge Wells. The question is, well, it is awkward, actually, | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
because I was going to say, how hot is your Prince Charming, but he is | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
standing behind you. He is a pretty good catch, isn't he? He is all | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
right. Is he a good kisser? We do not know yet, we have not got to | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
that part. The key thing for your character is the ability to swoon, | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
of course. So we're going to have a little competition, with Julia. | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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Starting with Charlotte... Oh, lovely. Jenny? Julia, some stiff | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
:23:53. | :23:57. | ||
competition, go for it... Darling, I can't! Over here, we have got | :23:57. | :24:06. | |
Karen and Max. You play the dwarves, in Portsmouth, and the Evil Queen | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
in your panto is Lisa Riley. How have rehearsals been? It is pretty | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
crazy, but we are managing it. Hopefully, she will be returning | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
soon from Strictly. We were Cheryl the best. She is amazing. What we | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
want to know is, will she bring her dancing skills to the panto? | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
don't know if we can give that away. I think there will be a bit of | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
dancing in there somewhere. John is also in panto, but is it in | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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Glasgow? Yes, it is. I do all of it, baby. I even do a little rumba! | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
would love to see that! You are jack in Jack And The Beanstalk. | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
Correct. We have I think the biggest Binstock in the country. -- | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Beanstalk. Put it this way, it has all been done for the theatre, | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
which seats 3,000 people. It is a vast theatre, so it has to be big. | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
How are you rehearsals going? going really well. I am rehearsing | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
at the moment with The Krankies. We have two weeks of rehearsal, and | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
that's it. Ours is not so much the traditional pantomime, more of a | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
big musical spectacle. Is it hard to get everybody together, is that | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
why it is just two weeks? Basically, that is all the time you want to | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
spend in rehearsals to get it going. It evolves, doesn't it? It starts | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
off at about two hours, and by the end of the run, it is about two | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
hours, 45. It is so much on. It is the best tonic over Christmas, and | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
with everything that is going on with the recession, if you have got | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
a local pantomime, try to save the pennies if you can and go and see | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
it. It is a great night. Maybe that could be your Christmas present. | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
is a really good introduction for kids to the theatre as well. Ours | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
is 16 months, we will take him next year. I would love to be a wicked | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Queen. Why not get down and support your local theatre production? | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Jamie has been trying to take a photograph worthy of a One Show | :26:45. | :26:54. | |
Christmas card. Whether it is mist, snow or hit the rain, water has | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
great potential for photography, and him in the Pennines, I am | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
starting my quest to take a watery One Show Christmas card. A rushing | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
river like these can make for really dramatic photographs. If you | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
take control of the shutter speed and really slow it down, it gives a | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
fantastic sense of movement in the photograph. But to do that, you | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
will need a tripod. This photograph was exposed for five seconds, and | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
although it is not bad, I think my Christmas card should be altogether | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
:27:38. | :27:38. | ||
more frosty. To do that, I will need some help. This climatologist | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
can make all sorts of refects on demand. And he knows the truth | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
about how, why and when water freezes. Tap water freezes at zero | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
degrees, but pure water only freezes at minus 36. Tap water has | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
got moats of minerals and chemicals in it. The reason tap water freezes | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
at a warmer temperature is because it sticks to the impurities, | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
allowing the first ice crystal to form. And when one goes, the others | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
follow, like dominoes. We can demonstrate this freezing domino | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
effect by taking this bottle of water. This is just some pure water. | :28:19. | :28:28. | |
We have called it down below Fredy -- below zero, and you can simulate | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
the equivalent effect of impurities in the side it by giving it a shake. | :28:33. | :28:43. | |
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It should freeze. But then you go. That is amazing. That's the domino | :28:45. | :28:55. | |
:28:55. | :28:56. | ||
effect. Wow! So, each one just knocks the next one on. This is | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
pure H 2 O, which has been made under laboratory conditions. But | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
what about the frost former One Show Christmas card? What I am | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
after is war frost, the most common one we see in the garden. So, how | :29:10. | :29:19. | |
was it formed? This is a very cold metal bar, minus 80. All the water | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
molecules in the environment have deposited directly onto the surface. | :29:24. | :29:32. | |
You can see them growing. Yes, the frost is starting to develop. | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
makes the really is, crunchy frost? You need two things, Brittney | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
increased amount of water vapour, and also, the longer you leave it. | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
The longer we leave this, the frost gets much quicker. Sped up, it is | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
easy to see the frost grow. For my card, I want to create an all-over | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
dusting of frost on some first of objects. In these minus 80 degree | :29:57. | :30:04. | |
freezer, I have put some festive props. The thing to remember is | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
that once you'd take it out of the freezer, these objects will melt | :30:11. | :30:20. | |
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quite quickly. So, you have got to be fast. And frost is actually | :30:22. | :30:32. | |
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The snowflake is not bad. But the sign is a bit disappointing. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
Clearly, choosing the right objects is key. | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
Ah, but the berries, now that's more like it. Frosting as I look at | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
them. This will work with a home freezer though as it is not so cold, | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
the frost will be thinner, but it is worth a a go. | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
Now that one is a winner, happy Nice, but it might have been easier | :30:58. | :31:07. | |
to wait for a frosty morning. Have you made home-made Christmas | :31:07. | :31:16. | |
made cards? We are going to try and make cards with myself and Scott | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
and the dog. You told me a story about printing | :31:20. | :31:27. | |
the cards? My mum got one and went, "John, what's this? A printed | :31:27. | :31:36. | |
Christmas card. I'm your mother." I mother." I said, "You're lucky you | :31:36. | :31:45. | |
got one.". This family built a Lego statue. That's out of Lego. That's | :31:45. | :31:52. | |
a lot of time on your hands! Exactly. But it is really good. | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
If you ever posed for a family Christmas card, we would love to | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
know. We will show some of the best later. Have you seen Matt or Julia? | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
They always go off somewhere and walk about. What are they doing? | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
yeah, we are just taking a little walk through Julia's new book. This | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
is lovely. Where are we at the moment? Right there, is the very | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
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beautiful picturesque Crassle C -- castle Cragg. A baby gem of a walk. | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
Well, Alfred, he came up with 214 walks? Well, he didn't come up with | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
them, they existed already. Alfred Wainwright was a fan who was | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
in love with the Lake District. He fell in love and orchestrated his | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
whole life to end up living in the Lake District and dedicated 13 | :32:52. | :33:01. | |
years of his life to writing these books, the wane Wright Walks -- the | :33:01. | :33:07. | |
the Wainwright Walks. We are so high up, we have probably escaped | :33:07. | :33:16. | |
the snow. Oh, another puddle! you have chosen ten. A beautiful | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
mountain range. A big, wide mountain edge. A proper challenge. | :33:22. | :33:30. | |
A real proper walk. I'm pleased I put the layers on. | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
Me too. It is coming up to Christmas, why | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
would you not go out and get Wainwright's? I thought you would | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
ask that question. Obviously, you are going to buy mine. If you are a | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
proper Wainwright fan, you have already got Wainwright's because | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
Alfred Wainwright has been around for a long time. This is a new | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
fresh approach and I tell you about making television programmes and | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
all the tricks of the trade. And all the good places to stop off. | :34:00. | :34:08. | |
Which places have jukeboxes? not jukeboxes, it is not that kind | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
of a guide. People come up to you and say, do | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
you do the walks? Do you go all the way up to the top? They think that | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
you and are on different parts of the country. We can reveal this is | :34:23. | :34:33. | |
:34:33. | :34:33. | ||
how your series is shot. This is how we do so much these | :34:33. | :34:40. | |
days. Can we stop then? We can stop. Where is Grumpy? Stay where you are, | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
because the pair of you travel around the British countryside, we | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
thought we would test your knowledge in a game that we like to | :34:47. | :34:57. | |
call... Ah, great. It is called what? Where Am I? | :34:57. | :35:03. | |
Now, basically you will have 45 seconds each to guess what landmark | :35:03. | :35:09. | |
you are walking in front of. Right. John and I will give you clues and | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
the winner will win a beautiful golden flask as modelled by Josh. | :35:15. | :35:22. | |
Very nice, Josh. Nicely done. Julia, you are up first. John, take it | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
away? Dame ver lin sang about they are during World War II. They are | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
made up of billions of crushed shells of tiny sea creatures. | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
They are white. They are white. The white hills. | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
Some people are hoping for some of this at Christmas... Snow. | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
Yes, snow... Snowdonia, Wales. This Is described as the eighth | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
wonderful world. Scientists say it is formed by cooling malt and lava. | :35:55. | :36:04. | |
It is on an island. It is big. Giant's cause causeway. | :36:04. | :36:14. | |
These can be found on chalk slopes... Time's up. | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
Stonehenge. Well Well done, Julia. | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
Matt's turn. Are you ready? . I need a drink. | :36:22. | :36:29. | |
Matt, this castle was once owned by madam tu sards? A raging fire swept | :36:29. | :36:35. | |
through the castle castle it is a tourist attraction. | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
Warwick Castle You can lull by the shores of this | :36:40. | :36:50. | |
:36:50. | :36:51. | ||
natural wonder formed 10,000 years ago? Is it... Your baby. It It | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
rhymes with... Pass. It is Lulworth Cove. | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
It is a Welsh name. It is the fallest waterfall in in Wales. It | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
:37:11. | :37:13. | ||
is known as the Brewed Druid's Bowl... Ah, that's given half of | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
the answer. And the score is? Julia three, | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
would you please deliver the golden flask? | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
Sorry, it is a bit tacky. It has just been painted. Is that safe for | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
us to use on Thursday and Friday? When it dries. | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
It smells a bit gold. It might smell, but it is lovely. | :37:41. | :37:49. | |
They will be trying to melt it down. Most of us are generating a huge | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
amount of data just by going about our daily business. Tim Harford | :37:53. | :38:03. | |
:38:03. | :38:04. | ||
tries to work out if the numbers Astronomy is at the cutting edge of | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
the biggest information revolution in the history of mankind. | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
The next generation radio telescopes will generate about 20 | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
terabytes of data every second. To give you an idea of the scale, | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
that's like filling up the university library in Oxford twice | :38:23. | :38:31. | |
every second. It is called Big Da to to -- data | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
to ke to describe the the information we harvest. | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
Today, we can use the electronic devices to capture, store and | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
analyse for data about the way we live than ever before. | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
Sadie is professor of scibber security -- cyber security at | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
Oxford University. Any device device you that use, for | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
buying stuff, for work work purposes from your home, the | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
surfing of your internet television, from your phone, all of these | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
devices are capturing information about what you are doing. There are | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
even wheelie bins that will track inside what is inside your thrash. | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
We are talk being smart grids monitoring your power consumption, | :39:21. | :39:28. | |
billing you more intelligently, but knowing what you are doing, what | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
you are using, are you using your kettle? How many people are in your | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
house at any one time? Big data, big brother, that's the worry. On | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
the positive side, big data is information that can transform our | :39:40. | :39:50. | |
:39:50. | :39:51. | ||
lives. IBM is working with a city Government, local councils, a whole | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
bunch of areas are helping improve the efficiency of the city. | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
It might be sensors in the road that detect where the traffic is | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
and in the morning and at rush hour in the evenings, they can optimise | :40:04. | :40:09. | |
the traffic light sequencing so traffic can keep flowing. | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
In healthcare, the amount of data, it is huge, doctors can't keep up | :40:14. | :40:20. | |
with it, but by using computers to find out if something he is seeing | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
with a patient is something which has been hinted at by other people | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
and starting to become an epidemic or a problem which nobody has seen | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
before. What about personally, how is it | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
going to help me? One example in my house, I have a lot of sensors to | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
know how much power different appliances are using and and if the | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
windows and the doors have been left open. I have got this | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
application on my phone which allows me to see what is happening | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
in the house. We can turn on the outside light. If I click that and | :40:54. | :41:01. | |
turn it on, it sends a signal from my phone to my house and we can see | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
the outside lights are on. Andy talks to his house and his house | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
tweets back to him. He invented a barcode that let's his dinner | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
decide how to cook itself. It is a temperature sensitive | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
barcode. This is for a microwave of the future which doesn't have | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
buttons to programme it, you just barcode and scan the thing you want | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
to cook. It goes to the internet and looks up the cooking | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
instructions and programmes itself. The clever bit there, if the pizza | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
is frozen, you get a different barcode scanned and if it is | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
defrosted so the cooking times will be differentful your dinner will be | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
cooked and ready for you. It is exciting, but scary. Do we really | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
want our personal information stored on a distant computer we | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
can't access? It is about understanding the risks to which | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
you are exposed. In physical space, you lock your front door, you lock | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
your car door, we need to understand how to do that in | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
cyberspace and it is not easy m when it comes to personal data, you | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
need to make sure you are sharing it with people that you fully | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
understand who they are and I would recommend you only ever share it | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
with people knowingly and consciously, don't tick the little | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
box that says, "Yes, you can share this with any third party that we | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
want to share it with." I am not suggesting we don't engage with | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
this, I think we do, but we have to do so responsibly. | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
We can't reverse the information revolution, but if we want it to | :42:28. | :42:38. | |
:42:38. | :42:42. | ||
make our lives better, we need to Six months, 2,000 miles, minus 90 | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
centigrade, that's the winter journey across Antarctica a team of | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
British explorers are about to endure, and the team are here. | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
Thanks for joining us on the eve of this big expedition. Can you | :42:59. | :43:08. | |
explain sir Ranulph what the expedition entails? The Antarctic | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
con Antarctic Antarctic couldn't nant is huge. Nobody has cross it | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
had during the polar winner. The Russians -- winter. You do not get | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
permission to go down there at all from your Foreign Office whatever | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
country you come come from. There are no rescue facilities. | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
Why are you doing it? Because nobody has done it before and if we | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
don't it, some people will do and our Captain Scott died in 1912, we | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
reckon we can raise over $10 million for Seeing Is Believing | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
which will treat avoidable blindness over the world and that | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
will buy a lot of �9 spectacles and change people's lives from cataract | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
operations. It is an easier way than having a jumble sale to raise | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
large sums of money. Is that what persuaded them to | :44:00. | :44:10. | |
It has taken me four years to persuade the Foreign Office. You | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
cannot be rescued, because there are no rescue facilities, down | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
there. No aeroplanes for 10,000 miles. If you run into trouble, you | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
become embarrassing, because you are dead, to your government, and | :44:24. | :44:31. | |
so, sensibly, they will not give permits. Ian, you're the man in | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
charge of keeping this expedition on track - what are the unique | :44:36. | :44:44. | |
challenges? We do not actually know how the equipment is going to | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
handle minus 90 degrees Centigrade. There is no cold chamber which we | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
can test the stuff in. It is just a case of making sure we are doing | :44:53. | :45:00. | |
everything right every day, trying to get our vehicles and land | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
drains... How are you getting there? We will have a vehicle land | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
train behind us, telling the equipment. And we have got a living | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
container, which has a kitchen, toilet and shower. It is not | :45:16. | :45:23. | |
roughing it too bad. We have got some of the kit here. A absolutely | :45:23. | :45:31. | |
huge pair of boots. Yes, these are some of the lightweight expeditions | :45:31. | :45:41. | |
:45:41. | :45:43. | ||
boots, rated down to about minus 100 Centigrade. You can have a look. | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
Put them on and get on the treadmill! This is a skiddier | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
helmet, it has got a heated visor. We will have a battery pack system, | :45:54. | :46:01. | |
which we can link to heated gloves, heated insoles, visor, and also | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
power our torch as well. It is going to be pitch black, so we will | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
be able to see where we are going. Can you give us a run-down, when we | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
look at this map, of what you will look at this map, of what you will | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
be doing. Basically, we will be arriving at the point at the top in | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
the middle of January, to set up and test the equipment. 21st March | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
is the official start date, the official start of winter in | :46:29. | :46:36. | |
Antarctica, because it has got to be a winter crossing. Sir Ranulph | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
will be skiing every day, and one of us will take turns skiing with | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
Sir Ranulph to cross the continent. And Tim, you're staying right here | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
in the UK. You will be analysing the readings and the findings. What | :46:52. | :47:01. | |
is it that you expect to find? very happy that I will be staying | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
in the UK. It is a golden opportunity for scientists to go on | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
this 2000 mile trek to gain data from an area in which there is not | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
much data in existence. It is getting them on board, and making | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
sure they get the data analysed at the end of it. We have got several | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
projects. For example, we will have a GPS travelling over with the | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
train, the expedition, to go all over the continent. And then, we | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
will be collecting samples of bacteria, because this might be of | :47:36. | :47:44. | |
interest for conservation, that sort of thing. Sir Ranulph, 68 | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
years old, you're going to be skiing every day - mentally, how do | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
you prepare for this, knowing that nobody has ever done this before? | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
Yes, but we have been doing what nobody has done before for about 40 | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
years. Nobody has ever paid a penny, and what comes out of it is the | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
charity. We have got a website for 20,000 state schools. They will be | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
able to speak to us in Antarctica. We have got the science, the | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
charity, many different aims of the expedition. But also, there is the | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
competition with certain other groups who might want to do it | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
first. It seems like an understatement to say that we wish | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
you all the very best. Stay safe. You will be able to follow the | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
progress of the expedition on the progress of the expedition on the | :48:37. | :48:47. | |
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Internet. Details can be found on our website. You have been sending | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
in your family Christmas cards, and in your family Christmas cards, and | :48:53. | :49:03. | |
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we have had quite a few in already. This one is from Steve and Julie, | :49:15. | :49:25. | |
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in Shropshire. And this one, from Surrey. Just keep them coming in. | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
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We will show some more later on if we have got time. Earlier, Anita | :49:40. | :49:48. | |
Rani was trying to reunite two long-lost friends. The couple were | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
long-lost friends. The couple were in a band together in the 1960s. | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
Silver Jade covered the chart- topping hits of the 1960s every | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
weekend in clubs like this one, but sadly, Tony has just one a faded | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
photograph of the band performing. Great days? Oh, yes, that's Diane, | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
and that's me. She was a good laugh. There is certain friends in life | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
that you wish you kept in contact with, and she was one of them. | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
not going to keep him in the dark any longer. Guess what, I'm going | :50:22. | :50:32. | |
to show you some footage. Do you recognise either of those ladies? | :50:32. | :50:42. | |
Yes, I do, that one. Who is it? looks like Diane. Don't tell me it | :50:42. | :50:49. | |
is. Did she know a was looking for her? I want you to turn around. | :50:49. | :50:58. | |
Don't tell me she is behind me! That's wonderful! Absolutely | :50:58. | :51:08. | |
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wonderful! All these years! haven't changed. Don't say that. | :51:11. | :51:18. | |
You haven't! The two friends are back together, after 40 years. They | :51:18. | :51:23. | |
have got a lot of catching up to do. You were not believe what you have | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
just done for me, really. I could not believe it. Are you going to | :51:27. | :51:37. | |
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stay in touch? Oh, yes, definitely. Tony had no idea whatsoever. That | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
was a brilliant way union. I don't think they will stop talking for | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
another 40 years, and who knows, maybe Silver Jade will get back on | :51:47. | :51:57. | |
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the road again. # All I have to do is dream... | :52:07. | :52:15. | |
A cash and look who is here! That was brilliant. Lovely to see you. | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
We are so pleased that you found each other again. Tony, a lot of | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
people will be thinking the same as me, I'm sure - did you hold a torch | :52:26. | :52:35. | |
for Diane, back in the day? really, no. To tell you the truth, | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
yes, I did. But it was a long time ago. But we were like brother and | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
sister. We had a great time playing together. Are you still back in the | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
old routine? I still play, but mainly at home now. Diane still | :52:52. | :53:02. | |
sings, which is brilliant. Any ABBA songs? No, I do a few Beatles. | :53:02. | :53:10. | |
you lost a bit of weight? certainly have. Not bad for 69. | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
Diane, what have you been doing since you got reunited? Have you | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
been hanging out? Yes, we have been for a meal together. We have been | :53:19. | :53:29. | |
keeping in touch. Is it the same? Oh, yes, it never changes. We are | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
still the same. It is lovely. come you lost touch in the first | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
place? Basically, the last time we met was when I was in Wales, | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
working in a hospital there, in theatres, and Diane and her mother | :53:46. | :53:51. | |
came around, they were going to see a show, and Diane did not want to | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
do the solo on her own, so she asked me, would I do it, and I said | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
yes. It was 2.5 years after the band broke up. What about the other | :54:01. | :54:09. | |
members? We have not seen them. can find them! We are trying to | :54:09. | :54:16. | |
unite more people like these two, so if you need our help, get in | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
touch with us. We are happy to help! Now, throughout the show, | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
Lucy has been working hard with Father Christmas to get as many | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
prisons as possible for the young people of Aberdeen. How many have | :54:30. | :54:39. | |
you got I think we are doing really well. Welcome back to Aberdeen, and | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
welcome back to the grotto. Santa is over there. These are people | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
queuing up to give good tonight. This looks fantastic, Sophie - have | :54:50. | :54:55. | |
you been eating something blue? Yes, you have. You can pass that to our | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
elves. I just want a quick word with you - you spent your own | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
pocket money to buy this - why did you do that? I felt that everyone | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
should have a gift at Christmas. And what a lovely gift you have | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
brought. You should be very proud of him. Mary, why is it so | :55:14. | :55:20. | |
important? It is a charity very close to my heart. I was looked | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
after in foster care, and I feel that every child deserves a present | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
at Christmas. That's for somebody who is four, they will love that. I | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
interrupted your lunch the other day, and they gave you this ticket | :55:34. | :55:44. | |
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- who was it for? It is a boy, aged 14. Amazing. That's the kind of | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
Christmas cheer we have got in Aberdeen tonight. And look at this. | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
Father Christmas and the elves. Look at that. This is just some of | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
the gifts that have come in for this charity. And charities up and | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
down the country are doing the same thing, collecting gifts for | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
children who live below the poverty line. It is amazing. Sophie, go | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
into the grotto, please, because you got us into this in the first | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
place. Elves, could you start giving Sophie some of the gifts? | :56:20. | :56:29. | |
Lovely. Do you think you have achieved your target? What was it? | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
6,000 gifts, and I have no doubt that we have achieved the target. | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
Under we have done our part as well. Thank you so much to everybody from | :56:39. | :56:45. | |
Aberdeen for being so generous. It is a lovely day here at the grotto. | :56:45. | :56:54. | |
Back to you. That's wonderful. Christmas presents that you always | :56:54. | :57:01. | |
wanted... I always wanted a puppy. My godmother, aunty Vanessa, | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
definitely would have got me one, but my parents were, no way. But I | :57:06. | :57:13. | |
did get a stuffed dog, who I still have to this day. An aeroplane, and | :57:13. | :57:20. | |
I never got one as a kid, but I did buy one for myself as an adult. It | :57:20. | :57:29. | |
was a model aeroplane, and it crashed! A one Tidd something from | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
the a team, and my parents did not get it for me, but would you | :57:34. | :57:44. | |
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believe it, Father Christmas brought one for me! I think dogs | :57:45. | :57:55. | |
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are always good value. This one is from Christine in Somerset. Santa | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
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and his reindeer, and this one This one looks cosy, doesn't it? | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
And a little Lyon, ready for his first Christmas, he is only four | :58:23. | :58:33. | |
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months old. And this family all have personalised Christmas jumpers. | :58:34. | :58:43. | |
That's from Kent. And this one, finally, from Stockton-on-Tees. | :58:43. | :58:49. | |
Thanks our Snow Whites. John will be hosting the National Lottery | :58:49. | :58:54. |