06/06/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the The One Show. Here is the thing, tonight's

guest is called Clarkson. Yes, but it is not that one!

It is this one. # Because of you

# I never stay too far from the sidewalk #

She has sold over 20 million albums. And has eight UK top tens and two

Grammy Awards. It is Kelly Clarkson.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING I was embarrassed. I realised I'm

singing along to Kelly Clarkson and she is sitting right there! That's

awesome. You can't help it, Alex.

So you have just landed in the UK. Yes.

But were you here in time to see the jubilee celebrations? We came

yesterday later. I was asleep in the car. I only got four hours

sleep on the plane. We had four planes, we had a rough travel day

so it was funny, but it wasn't really bad. Are you a movie

watcher? Yeah. I was trying to watch Hugo. That's not a movie to

watch while you are tired. It is a slow movie. I was like this, like

nodding. It is a good movie, but I was just

tired. You look nice and awake now.

We will be talking to Kelly about what it was like to win one of the

biggest talent shows in the world. And we will be meeting another

extraordinary musician. It is Nicholas McCarthy, who

despite being born with only one hand has gone on to become a piano

maestro. How about that, Kelly? You will see him in a moment. Yeah, you

will meet him later. Kelly shot to fame when she won American Idol

after years of work to go get her talent recognised. Sometimes those

who don't want the spotlight get it anyway. Larry Lamb has the story of

four girls from Bristol who were famous from the very moment they

were born. To become a mother is one of

nature's most wonderful gift. On 12th June 1948, Margaret Good

Good had a special delivery, four beautiful girls and the they

survived Caesarean section. News agencies scrambled to the scene,

but it was the Picture Post that captured the moment.

Picture Post says, "Before June, they were an unknown couple." But

within 24 hours of giving birth at Bristol's Southmead Hospital, Mrs

Good has been photographed for the papers and the news reels.

It was a sign of things to come. The Good girls would grow up under

the watch watchful eye of the media. The authorities would have the

family under the microscope too. In 40s Britain, doctor knew best and

they ruled that the quads should be isolated from their mother for

three months for fear of infection. With father Charles, supporting a

family of now seven, on his poor wage as a farm labourer, the

council ordered the family to be re-housed near Bristol. The council

turned two homes into one to make room for their famous tenants, mum,

dad, older sister, Susan and the four celebrity babies. They even

changed the name of this street to the scwap street scwap scwadrangle.

Today, the sisters are back, but without one of their four, Brigitte,

who died when they were 36. The One Show brought the girls home for the

first time in six decades. There used to be a doorway here and

mime mother and father and Susan lived in number one at the other

side and the nannies and us lived in this house, number two.

The sisters continued to make the front pages, but behind the scenes,

the authorities took control. Under doctors orders, two full-time

nurses were put in charge of the quads' care.

I suppose we were just living separate lives. My mother didn't

hold us or bring us home from the hospital until we were three months

old so she never really had a bond with us. We found her diaries. She

mentioned in there that she felt that she had been a bad mother

which is really, really hard for us to accept. We didn't want the

nannies attention and the media attention.

You wanted your parents attention? Yes.

But the girls wouldn't escape the attention of the world's media. The

Good brand would sell everything from washing machines, trikes and

baby milk. But the sponsorship deals often came at a price.

Other people were trying to make money out of us. We went to a

holiday camp when we were small. They put us in a room with a glass

window and they were charging a penny a time for people to have a

look through the window. The council wanted to do the same.

Sort of exhibit you? Yes, exactly. My mother said there is no way is

that happening to us. As the quads grew older, the media

frenzy started to wane. Even the death of sister, Brigitte, in 1984

didn't create much column space, but it was felt by the remaining

three. We have always done things together,

born together, played together, eaten together and then all of a

sudden, one quarter has gone. lose part of you. It is really,

really hard. But life goes on for the remaining

three. No longer the property of the newspapers, marketing men,

council or doctors, they are happy What a lovely time you had with

them, Larry? It is so lovely the jobs I get to do for The One Show.

You can laugh. These extraordinary situations, I mean to meet these

three remaining sisters, of this obviously such a close, close

relationship, these girls have and had, you know, and there was a

sister that was born before them so she, I think she was about three,

had four four quad sisters and because the way they were brought

up, the council was trying to deal with this extraordinary media event,

even then in 1948, they knocked two council houses together and put

them in the one house, but what they did, they had nurses and

guardians on one side and them in the other and so, I had a letter

from the lady, one of the sisters, after then and she sent me a letter

saying we had a lovely time and we talked about it afterwards and we

didn't really know our parents until we were three.

So what was it like taking the girls back to that house? It was a

funny farming hamlet in the middle of nowhere in a part of the country

I know a little bit about. In part of the West Country, these little

farming centres and there was a couple of houses and it just felt

bizarre to walk in these places with these sisters.

They weren't the first to hit the headlines? No, but it seems the

multiple births is something that catches the public's imagination

because everyone is into having kids and they think, "How am I

going to to deal with them?". everyone is into having kids!

That's what I used to say. This is a great shot. This is five

of them lined up. That's a lovely picture. And they were the first

ones to survive and they were born in Canada in 194 and there was a

problem -- 1934 and there was a problem with the parents not being

considered suitable to raise them. They were raised by a doctor and

nurses and then they found out they were starting to make money out of

them and they were sort of paraded. I mean this is the house. Look at

the advertising and all sorts and people paid money to see that.

Were they taken away from their parents? Yes.

Forever? I didn't meet them, but they weren't, they were put under a

form of guardianship, they were made wards of the court by the

Province of Ontario and they were raised by a doctor and nurses and

the doctors and the nurses were getting in on the acand were

starting to rent them out. They built a stand, 6,000 people a day

were coming on an observation platform to look at them.

Kelly, we were explaining how diverse this show was. I'm so sad

for these kids. They have to be really messed up to take their

children away. We are moving on to farming now.

Our dairy farmers... That's a quick emotional change.

Texas is not the only weird place! This topic will get you going

because our dairy farmers are being paid less and less for their milk

so they are having to turn to any means possible to survive.

Simon Boazman has been to meet a man with a secret weapon.

It is aam and it is milking time for Somerset's 150,000 dairy cows,

but for most farmers that means an early start and hours of work, for

some, the day starts in a more leisurely fashion. This looks like

an ordinary cow shed, but it has a secret weapon that will help the

farmer here succeed in the highly competitive world of milk. It is

milking time, but there is not a soul about, because on this farm,

the cows are milked by robots! It will pick up the teet co-

ordinate. It is a laser guided milking

system? Yes. The cows milk themselves.

Electronic tags in their collars tell the robot if the cow has been

mill milked and will allow access through the gate. A robotic arm

swings into action, before lasers guide the suction cups on to the

teets. How much more efficient is it? Now we milk three times a day

without getting involved with the milking. We are producing more milk

from each cow than before. Which is good news, as the price

paid to farmers for milk has been cut by around a penny a pint.

Whilst it may not sound like a lot, to the average dairy farmer

producing a couple of million pints a year, that's �20,000 off their

bottom line. Now the price farmers are paid for milk is determined by

international markets and currently farmers in other countries are

producing way too much. The average price paid for a pint of milk in

the UK shops is 32 pence. 11 pence which is a third, about say around

that much, goes to the retailer. Sixpence, about that much, goes to

the processor and the rest, 15 pence, that goes to the farmer.

Dr Jane Guise runs England's largest agricultural show.

Do you think the retailers are paying a fair price for the milk?

Retailers will only pay a global market price and the global market

price is low. It is not fair as far as the primary producer is

concerned. Do we need to pay more? It seems

weird that people will pay as much for a bottle of water than milk.

This is full of protein and calcium. This is just water. Is there a

danger that we will lose small farms because of the pressure on

dairy farmers? There is that danger, yes and that would be a tragedy.

Gorge is one of those -- George is one of the smaller dairy farmers

with a herd of 80 milk cows. George gets up at 4am every morning and

spends three hours milking his 80 Friesian cows.

Simon, this is our mobile milk unit. Do you stroke her first? I will

always be gentle with a lady. He is finding it harder and harder

to make a living. The feed prices are increasing.

Milk prices are decreasing. Where does it stop? George is

thinking about get agro botic system in-- robotic system

installed. How will it make you more efficient? It will make us

more labour efficient. Allow us to be more feed efficient and reduce

vets bills and that combined will allow us to make a profitable

living. The processors that buy the milk

say they are react to go market conditions and the low prices in

the shops mean they are also taking losses. Last month, the Government

introduced plans to bring in a watchdog to stop retailers having

too much power in setting low prices. It will cost �500,000 with

the robots and the sheds. After capital outlay, any profit we might

make, the supermarkets and retailers will take it from you and

My brother-in-law is a dairy farmer and I don't know anybody that works

harder. And are you lactose intolerant, Kelly? I was wondering

how you transition and that was nice! Let's talk about American

idol, which you won in 2002, the most successful winner of a talent

show. Was your experience all good? I don't think any experience is all

good because then you do not learn anything. It was great for me to

start off that way, for my career, because I will never do anything

like that. That schedule was hard core. We were the first season, so

we did not really know. They have been so many reality shows since

then. And there are so many artists. In America there are four or 5.

Shows on TV? Artists in the charts that have come off the back of

these. Do you think it has diluted what you managed to achieve from

that first show? No, I think everyone is different. It is supply

and demand. People love to watch those shows and people love

investing in the artist and getting to know them before the music. It

is kind of genius in the sense that you get famous before you even have

an album. There are so many winners and you only hear from so many of

them, so it is really what you take with that 15 minutes and how hard

you are willing to work for it. is interesting to get the fan base

first. It is genius. You have had some blinding albums since. Let's

have a listen to your new single. # Everybody's got a dark side.

# Do you love me? # Can you love mine?

# Nobody's a picture perfect. # But we're worth it.

# You know that we're worth it. Another belter. Dark Side, your

brand new single. I love it. They did not write that song, but as

soon as it was pitched to me I was like, I am going to need that for

my album! I love it. You have got the style of this modern power

ballad that comes from deep within. Where does that come from in you?

like a lot of powerhouse, Annie Lennox, all those girls that do

that kind of stuff. I probably exceeded it because I am slightly

in a way imitating it. You are not that old. I am 30, told to some and

young to others depending on who you ask. We have describe yourself

as the Queen of break-up, which you are, let me tell you. Everybody

describe me as that for years. I was like, well, I guess. That album

was stuck in my car because I listened to it so much and I went

through many break-ups. Every time somebody tells me they love my

record I am sorry because they must be going through something! It is

fine. It is therapeutic for me to get it out like that. Now you are

happier in your relationship. What is going to happen? Everything is

happy that is coming out of May. I either have to go get someone else

to write my music, or I have to start singing Happy stuff for you

all. Try it! Think of your favourite songs, they are probably

not happy ones. You are probably right. I think we gravitate towards

that. We are glad you are happy and Dark Side is amazing. In the run-up

to the Olympics, British athletes are doing everything they can to

improve their chances. Some are even changing the very air that

they breed. Michael Mosley explains. -- that they breathe. For decades,

runners from East Africa have been taking home gold from the Olympics.

They have dominated middle and long-distance running. So what is

the secret of their success? Dedication, training, natural

ability. But some people believe it is also down to the air that they

breathe. That the successful runners from East Africa all hail

from around the famous Rift Valley. They never over 2000 metres above

sea level. At such altitude there is less oxygen in every gulp of air.

So what advantages could athletes get from living at such heights?

Helen Clitheroe from Preston is the European 3000 metres champion, and

a medal hopeful this summer. Like many UK athletes, she has been

training in the Kenyan Highlands as part of her Olympic preparations.

Why do you do it? When you come back home after being at altitude,

the thing you notice the most is that you can suddenly chip along at

a decent pace without breathing so hard. Our bodies respond to high

altitude in an ingenious way. No oxygen triggers the production of

more red blood cells. That allows us to carries a limited oxygen

around the body better. The theory goes that at sea level the increase

in red blood cells carries oxygen to your working muscles more

efficiently. I have noticed a massive difference. I have had

personal bests at the 3000 metres and I have won my first major

championships, at the age of 37. That is quite something! Many

athletes and sports scientists swear by altitude training. To

experience what it is like I have come to Manchester Metropolitan

University. This chamber has the same oxygen levels as you would

find at 2700 metres. 25% less than at sea level. I am feeling it now

in the chest. I am feeling what I imagine it must be like to be

asthmatic. Rye at altitude before you are acclimatised is really hard.

-- running at altitude. Gosh! That was painful, very difficult in fact.

Completely different to going for a normal run when you feel it in your

legs. It was burning in my lungs. And it is not just me. Until they

have adjusted, top athletes cannot train so intensively at altitude.

When they return to sea level, their fitness can suffer. I can

feel my breakfast! Helen Clitheroe has turned to technology for help.

It allows her to train at sea level, while still living the high life.

Around her bed, she has set up an oxygen tent that mimics the effect

of high altitude. I will close it to keep the nasty oxidant out. Air

containing low oxygen levels is pumped into the tent while she

sleeps. And it gives you a blast every so often? I can see that in

summer it would be nice. You need it because it gets sweaty in here.

What does your husband make of it? He wears earplugs but I have got

used to the noise. Helen seems to have found a combination that works

for her. She sleeps at a low oxygen level, which is good for her red

blood cells, but at the same time she trains during the day down here

in Preston, where she can really push herself hard. And like cannon,

many other UK athletes have adopted this trainer low sleep high

strategy, in the hope that it will need them up to Olympic glory. --

lead them to Olympic glory. You're completely bemused by that.

Bewildered would be the word! sure her husband last sleeping in a

plastic tent! From Olympic heroes to brave heroes on your estate.

Later this year the BBC will host the first ever 999 awards,

honouring members of the emergency services who put their lives at

risk to save others. And we have been given our very own 999 if you

know -- we have been given our very own 999 award. If you know somebody

that has done very well in their job, please nominate them. The

closing date is midnight on June 29th. After the Jubilee concert, it

is obvious how much music can unite people. If you need further proof,

Carrie Grant has got it. In the arena of classical music,

Charles Hazlewood is a world- renowned conductor. But recently,

he has been rehearsing with a different kind of orchestra, the

British para-orchestra. It is the world's first made up entirely of

disabled musicians. Today is the first time they have all come

together as an orchestra to play. Let's see how they are getting on.

How is it going? Excited beyond belief. I am loving it. Can I join

in? That depends how good you are. People look at the Paralympics, and

thinking what an incredible thing it is. I thought that sport was

universal but music is much more so, so where are the platforms were

musicians with a disability? When there are disabled projects, we

think it is nice and warm and fluffy, but that is not what this

is. This is world class music making. One of the first musicians

to come on board was Clarence, a hugely talented trumpet player. He

performed with Judge prodigy Courtney Pine. When he was that

paralysed in 1995, he did not know if he could perform again. But he

was introduced to an inventor. thought from a previous technical

experience that I could find a way so that he could play music again.

I did some research and I found I had said that uses ultrasound, with

which she can control a mouse on a computer screen. -- he can control.

And there is a little glow switch with which you can click the mouse.

It is like a software instrument with many different abilities.

can simulate an orchestra, a trumpet, trombone. Many things. It

just depends what, in this situation with this orchestra, what

they need from me as to what I contribute. I will play music and

the release that gives me and the joy and a passion and the emotions

from playing, that is an incredible joy for me. Lute player Matt

Wadsworth has been blind since birth. Do you think there is any

advantage in music not having your eyesight? I am so glad not to have

the distraction of having to look at the printed page or being

distracted by somebody reading their programme on the front row of

the audience. He has never let his disability hold him back. The funny

part of my life, I rode a motorcycle as a child, as obsessed

with that as I was as a child. But last year I trained to do a long-

distance motorcycle event and I did OK. I went 70 feet. Some people

would say that is just a little bit crazy. I think you have to push the

boundaries in life. I like living that way, why you do not let things

get in your way, but you see things as a challenge rather than an

obstacle. As extraordinary as this experience has been for me, Charles

Baynes it is only the beginning. And calling it the British

orchestra because I hope it will be the first of many. This has to be

the future. The software that Clarence had was

amazing. Thank you for joining us, Charles. Where did you get the

inspiration? The youngest of my children, my daughter, was born

with cerebral palsy. Aside from the fact that she is amazing to have

around, she has introduced me to the disabled community, which was

invisible to me before. As a musician conducting orchestra's,

how many disabled musicians do I find? Virtually none. It was time

to do something about it. When are you on the road? An orchestra only

ever has one debut and it is so exciting, and it is on the 1st July

in Somerset in a field in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey. We

want everyone to support us there. We heard you play earlier. How did

you learn to play with your left hand? I came to the piano really

late, actually, when I was 14. It was a friend of mine, an

accomplished pianist, and I heard her playing and I thought that was

what I had to do. Playing one- handed, do you have to play twice

the speed? It is more virtuoso because it is cleverly written. I

cannot really take all of the credit. You have to encompass the

whole piano. You are going to play for us in just a second. But

firstly, thank you for coming in. And thank you to Kelly as well.