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Ignore the editor, he has been out all afternoon. Anyway, welcome to | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
The One Show with Alex Jones and Chris Evans. We have the on-screen | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
pair who occupy a world of grisly American politics. You may say that, | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
I cannot possibly comment. That is good. I wish things were that | :00:47. | :01:04. | |
fictional. If I was Kevin Spacey I would be getting a lot of stuff | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
done. Please welcome two stars from the hit TV series, Kate Mara and | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
Kevin Spacey. How do you get Barack Obama to be part of your promotion | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for the House of Cards? I did not even know he watched the show until | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
I saw that clip. In some ways I feel a bit sorry for him because clearly | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
we are getting more done on our fictional show. You have got better | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
writers! We have heard a little rumour... That you are pregnant? No! | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
That you used the image of President Obama to try and make Kevin laugh in | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
a certain scene? Is it true can you explain the back story? We shot the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
on election day. I had to go topless which is always fun. And so I | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
thought to make Kevin laugh or try and make him laugh because it never | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
works, I would print out some pictures of Obama's face and use | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
those as... Let my telly this, she got both my votes. We will be | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
hearing more about their version of House of Cards later. But first, as | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Gordon Correra reveals, when it comes to intrigue and treachery, it | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
is often the case that fact can be as dramatic as fiction. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
He was a war hero and a top ranking MI6 officer, but he has been | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
described as the greatest traitor this country has ever had. This is | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
the extraordinary story of British spy George Blake. George Blake was | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
not an ordinary spy. He was a double agent passing secrets to the soviet | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
union, doing significant damage to Britain during the Cold War. He | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
would zip around London passing confidential files to his handlers. | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
George Blake betrayed hundreds of agents. He was a very damaging man | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
in the context of the Cold War. On the visible front line of the Cold | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
War which is how it was bought in those days. He was exposed by an | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Eastern European defector as a double agent. He was sentenced to a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
maximum of 14 years on each of three counts of spying, totalling a record | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
42 year sentence. Blake's British spying career ended here at Wormwood | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
Scrubs prison in London. Within five years he would scale these very | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
walls and make an incredible escape to the east. The escape was | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
orchestrated by a collection of fellow inmates. One of them was | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
antinuclear campaigner Michael Randle. Did you have a sense then | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
that he wanted to escape? I did not but my colleague was in at the same | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
time, they were at the Rhino is together and Pat said to him, did | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
you ever think of escaping and George said, I never think of | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
anything else. Blake established a collection of supportive fellow | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
inmates. After his release, Randle communicated with Blake via a fellow | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
inmate and the plan was hatched to lower him through a tiny window | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
frame. How did he get over this high wall? That was with a rope ladder | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
and the rungs were reinforced with knitting needles. That was the idea | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
of my wife. If it had just been rope, the uprights would have come | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
together. George got to the top of the wall and then jumped down. It is | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
a long way and he actually broke his wrist. While the alarm was raised at | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Wormwood Scrubs, Blake was on his way to a safe house just around the | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
corner. Once he was over, all hell was let loose. The whole country was | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
scoured. Ports, airfields, Special Branch were sent hither and thither. | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
But Blake remained elusive. He was moved around safe houses in the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
capital. Then having adapted his van to hide Blake under the seats, he | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
set off -- Michael set off to Berlin. We looked like a normal | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
family, my wife and myself and the children in the back. And George | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Blake and Denise. The camper van made it through countless | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
checkpoints across Europe and finally got to the board of | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
communist East Berlin. We could see the lights and he said, I will get | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
out here. That was the last use or of him? Blake travelled on to Moscow | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
where he was welcomed as a hero and still lives there today aged 90. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Randle was tried at the Old Bailey for aiding and abetting his escape. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
His defence was he was acting out of necessity believing Blake's 42 year | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
sentence was in human. The jury found him not guilty. No one found | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
it more surprising than Blake himself, seen on BBC news footage | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
congratulating Randle from Moscow. I never thought you would get off | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
altogether and I am absolutely flabbergasted and I cannot find | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
enough words. People might say you helped a traitor, a KGB spy escape | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
from the country? Not really because his usefulness as a spy had expired. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
The motivation was we felt it was an unjust and inhuman sentence and on | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
that basis, we were prepared to help. George Blake may have been our | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
greatest traitor, but thanks to Michael Randle's van and some | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
knitting needles, he remains a free man today. What a brilliant story. | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Gordon is here now. George Blake gets 40 years, Randle smuggles him | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
out of prison, then smuggles him across many different countries to | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
East Berlin and does not get anything? It took 25 years to put | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Michael Randle on trial and by the time they put him on trial the Cold | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
War was over an times had changed. He managed to convince a jury he had | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
done it out of humanitarian reasons and he had not been helping a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
traitor. Even though the evidence was pretty clear, he got off and he | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
is still unrepentant at helping George Blake get out of prison. | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
E looks quite chipper in that film. They did not realise he was an MI6 | :08:22. | :08:33. | |
officer. And he said it was his wife's idea about the knitting | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
needles and the kids had a man underneath them in a van going to | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Berlin. The spy stories always have a mundane element. George Blake is | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
still alive in Moscow today thanks to Michael Randle. I tried to get in | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
touch with him. One day I had any mail from a KGB spy and he said, I | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
am afraid I do not want to talk to you. Even to this day, he does not | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
want to get into why he was a spy. He is in Moscow. Vladimir Putin, who | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
was an ex-KGB man himself, gave him a medal. Ex-KGB. George Blake is | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
still there in Moscow. And is his wife still knitting? That is the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
most important thing! Knitting but not helping spies escape from | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
prison. Kate and Kevin, in your best English | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
accents could you read the next bit for us please? Viewers please watch | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
this next film. Alistair McGowan has discovered it might be RIP for RP, | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
that is received pronunciation. Good evening, we are beginning this | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
evening by giving half an hour for what I might call you bigger | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
children. The cut glass accent. The sound of the aristocracy, talking | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
posh to you and me. But the most enduring sound and symbol of Britain | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
is changing. Prince Charles may sound like a member of the Royal | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
family but his son, Prince William, is very different altogether. The | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
monarchy helped create the posh accent. From the earliest 16th | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
century, the wealthy and privileged were encouraged to copy the speech | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
used in the Royal Court. This new copycat accent was spoken in country | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
houses and great estates all over the land. However, it was not | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
regional. It became accent purely of social class. Mrs Veronica Munster | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
was born and raised in Wales, but because it was expected of someone | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
of her social class, she's still developed a cut glass accent. And | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
accent which language experts call received pronunciation or RP for | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
short. I spent 15 years in Germany. Very cold winters. We can still hear | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
some very traditional RP sounds? The very is distinctive of RP. For | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
generations, traditional RP was protected from change because the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
social elite who spoke it pretty much kept themselves to themselves. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
When you grew up did you associate with people who spoke like you? I | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
had three older brothers and I spent my entire time in the stables. The | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
post-war period ushered in a new a rear -- era of social mobility, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
crossing class boundaries. Traditional RP speakers were being | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
exposed to some new and influential sounds. But the posh accent would | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
not give up without a jolly good fight. Despite social change in the | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
50s, broadcasters, politicians and the Royal family made sure posh was | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
still the sound of the British establishment. That is the end of | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
the announcement from Buckingham Palace. And it remained an | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
advantageous accent to have, even into the 1960s when Gigi Salamon was | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
targeted for a job because of the way she spoke. I was in the drama | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
department when the announcer came in and he heard my voice and said, | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
come and do a trial. If I can get in an eight hour day, eight hours, is | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
that what you do? I was hoping you would say ours. I was led up that | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
garden path. But now the posh accent is losing its grip. Broadcasters | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
have embraced regional accents. Having a traditional RP accent is no | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
longer seen as advantageous. Even the Chancellor George Osborne has | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
been accused of downgrading his natural accent by dropping his | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
teas. And the next generation of the upper class do not need to pretend, | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
their accents really have changed. Gigi's daughter, Bettina, has grown | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
up in London inspired by a number of different accents. I heard myself on | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
a voice now the other day and I did not realise I sounded posh. It is | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
interesting that she said posh but she sounds different to how her | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
mother and Mrs Munster speaks. There is using a got. At the back of the | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
throat. What would I be holding at the stumps? Cricket bat. Cricket | :13:55. | :14:06. | |
bat. The posh accent has been biting off allcomers for decades but it | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
seems it is now finally changing. Go on then. What? It is annoying | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
when sometimes Americans come here... Yes, they annoy us. I mean | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
they play British roles and you cannot tell. We cannot tell because | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
we are British. I had to, when I played Richard II, I had to sound | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
like a British king. Can you tell when people put on American accents? | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Sometimes when it is not done well. I still prayed to the god of Danny | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Kaye for getting it wrong bit but you have to win Paltrow in Sliding | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
cat macro doors and she was perfect. Well done. I thank you for all of | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
us. House of cards now. -- House Of Cards 's. It used to be and -- a UK | :15:13. | :15:24. | |
programme. Kate, you play very, a young journalist. But you had to get | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
the nod from Kevin to get the role. The I did. This is it! I auditioned | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
with David Fincher, and then he said, we have to wait for Kevin to | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
have a look at your tape. So I waited a really long time, and then | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
I heard that you watched the tape and said, she seems really cold and | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
driven. In a negative way! But that's what you want it! This is a | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
great example of why you should never believe anything anyone tells | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
you. How close did Kate come to not getting the role? Not at all. First | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
of all, she is remarkable in the role, and we have had a really, | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
really great time working together. But also, there's so much about the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
story as it evolves, it's not about dialogue and what people say, but | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
about behaviour. The way we have worked together has been such a | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
pleasure. She's very intriguing. In the first series, Kate, you play | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
almost a super fan to Kevin's character. Stalker, another, then | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
would-be nemesis. What do you have in store for his character in the | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
second series? You bring champagne and some heels. You bring the most | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
expensive bottle of champagne, and you'll have to watch to see the | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
rest. You can see the second series starting on Friday, and you can see | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
how the dynamic between you has changed a bit. I am just asking | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
questions. You are connecting dots that don't exist. Should I just act | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
as if I don't know anything? Yes, I got Peter out, but beyond that, | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
there's nothing to know. Trust me or not, I'm about to be confirmed as | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
the Vice President, and our relationship extends to the oval | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
office now. Don't step out of the sunlight for no reason. Now that is | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
cold and driven! You are the same! For people who don't know about | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Netflix, tell them what it is and how it works, and also why this | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
series is so important for the future of how we watch TV | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
entertainment. Will Netflix is a streaming service. You can watch all | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
the movies and television series they are able to stream and show. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
This is one of the reasons that Breaking Bad became such a big hit. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
More people saw it on Netflix than on its original network. There's | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
great documentaries on it, incredible stuff, and you can watch | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
it as many times as you want. You can watch the season premiere, and | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
also every episode that night if you wanted, which some of us do. We are | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
the first television show in history that has released its entire first | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
season in one go. That shows that in the same way as people are in love | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
with box sets, and they used to stay home and watched the whole season | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
over the weekend, it is showing that we have learnt the lesson that the | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
music industry didn't learn - give people what they want, when they | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
want it, and they probably will not steal it. It also gives the audience | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
control of when they watch their entertainment. You can pick it up | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
when you want, and put it down when you one. It's definitely a trend | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
that has caught on. Why did you choose to do House Of Cards, because | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
as Chris said, this was massively pioneering, a big series for | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Netflix. Why choose one that was made by the BBC so many years ago? I | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
was in something that David Fincher directed, and we were talking about | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
working together again. He then heard that the rights to the | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
original House Of Cards were available. I had never heard of it. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
But then we looked at it and we thought it would translate to the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
US. From the beginning, I thought it was an incredible premise, it was | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
very successful here in the UK, and much beloved. For me, it was a | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
fantastic role, and it was the opportunity to do something that was | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
revolutionary, changing the paradigms of the show, in which | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Netflix did an incredible risk. 26 shows, right off the bat. And we | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
didn't have to do a pilot. Often, networks insist you do a pilot. So | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
we had to establish all of the characters and come up with | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
cliffhangers. We wanted to start the story when we wanted, and we have | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
just picked up the third season. Was working with Kevin as you imagined, | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Kate? He's a lot less serious than I imagined. And he's a lot more | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
immature. Sorry to call you out! The second series of House Of Cards is | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
available on Netflix from next Friday, and if you haven't seen the | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
first, it's there for you. After all the fuss about sugar being bad for | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
us, new research is now saying that low-fat yoghurt can help counter | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
Type 2 diabetes. Wrote a discovery that isn't exactly bad news for an | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
already booming business. The market is worth ?1.4 billion every year. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
You'll get is an ancient food around the world, but until 50 years ago, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
many people in Britain hadn't even heard of it. Look at it today. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Low-fat, no fact, Greek, Swiss, fruity, bio, for drinking or | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
pouring. Here is the main ingredient being pumped into a family run dairy | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
in the Chilterns. You can make it at home, but on a smaller scale. You | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
ferment the milk, add a culture of bacteria that gets the process | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
going, and some dried milk powder, and leave it overnight. Simple. But | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
it took us a long time to find out. Before the Second World War, you | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
couldn't really get yoghurt in Britain. There was a chap who run a | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
dairy in north London, and he won a competition during the war to rescue | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
milk from bombed out trains. He discovered the milk had started to | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
go off, and he knew enough to realise this was the start of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
yoghurt. The clever man started to market it as this new wonder | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
ingredient, and before long, shops were taking yoghurt. It was the 60s | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
before Britain got a taste for it, and that was because it was | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
deliberately made sweeter and fruitier. It was given a huge | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
publicity drive. It has become what the food industry called a contrived | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
product. In other words, added ingredients made it more sellable, | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
and producers could increase the price. Food companies realise that | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
the Holy Grail was to add value to a product. You can put sugar in it, | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
fruit in it, package and market it in inventive ways, and then charge a | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
real premium. In the last ten years, sales of yoghurt and yoghurt style | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
products have gone up 30%. This company makes what they have to call | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Greek style yoghurt. It's made in the UK so cannot be called Greek. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
The irony is, the people who make it our Greek secrets. -- Greek | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Cypriots. How long to shift? 64,000 pots of yoghurt? Eight hours. It | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
isn't just sugar and fruit. Some brand leaders have jumped on the | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
health food bandwagon. They have been adding bacteria to their | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
yoghurt and saying that the so-called probiotics are good. You | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
need to take all these claims with some scepticism, because the | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
European Food Safety Authority, in charge of all food labelling in | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Britain, have checked out all of these claims, and hardly any have | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
stood up to proper scrutiny. Most yoghurt manufacturers are indeed not | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
allowed to advertise their products and claim that they do you tonnes of | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
good. In 50 years, yoghurt has gone from hippy health food to a family | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
staple in a business worth millions of pounds the year. But it is also a | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
great cooking ingredient! That was a yoghurt kind of thing. We | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
have been going Welsh while that film was on! We were discussing | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
whether you could have a Welsh cake with yoghurt. Because Kate was | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
saying that she likes Welsh cakes. But I don't like yoghurt. And then | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
my new friend Kevin said that you've actually got Welsh relatives. Spacey | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
is a Welsh name, but without the E. And I am told there is actually a | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
graveyard - where I am not going to end up, by the way! The Old Vic went | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
very well for you. Thank you so much for what you have done for it over | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
the last eight years. We know what you have given the Old Vic. What has | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
it given new? It's been the best decision I've ever made. To be able | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
to work on such an extraordinary stage, with the greatest luminaries | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
of the stage, really creating a company with a remarkable staff... I | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
have to say that my thanks really go out to the British public. They came | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
early, they came often, they told their friends, and they have really | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
helped us make the Old Vic a destination for theatre. In the next | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
18 months we have to raise a lot of money from the endowment and also | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
renovate the building from top to bottom. It has never been | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
renovated. The roof still leaks from World War Two. It is a historic | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
building. Some incredible institutions came out of the Old | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Vic, such as the National Symphony and the National Opera. It holds | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
quite a special place in the hearts of the British public. Kevin, you | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
don't want to run the BBC, do you, by any chance? Will I have to sign | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
that form that says no naughty words? We are going to go outside | :26:49. | :27:03. | |
now. Let's go. Thank you! We have some keen people outside. They are | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
performing in Fame - The Musical, and they are going to showcase some | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
songs for us. We hear that you do some singing on the side! When I was | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
younger, I was in musical theatre nerd, so I am excited about this. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Thank you to Kevin and Kate, and the new series of House Of Cards is | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
available on Netflix from next Friday. We leave you from -- we | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
leave you with the kids from Fame - The Musical. On tour from February | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
the 20th. Come on! | :27:38. | :27:49. |