07/08/2013 The One Show

Well, the One Nation show is on the beach and everyone is here. That is

apart from everyone except one special guest who is arriving on

this! Yes, hello, hello, we have pitched

our tents here at the seaside on the north Somerset coast. Thousands

of people have been coming to our very first One Show festival.

a hands-on One Show, so Larry Lamb has been headlining our history

tent, and singing sea shan'ties. And Shariah has a warm time beach

hero bringing a tear to your eye. Justin Rowlett is our white and

Redcoat, a camp compere this guy, look out for the nobbly knee

competition. Of course we are on the beach so we are building

sandcastles, not just any sandcastles, we are building giant

ones. We have ways of making your sandcastle extra special. Can you

hear something in the distance? can hear something sounding

remarkably like a hovercraft. joining us is a man whose days of

simply walking on the set are behind him. It is tonight's guest,

Mr Rhod Gilbert. Look at this. We have to say a very big thank you to

the Avon Fire and Rescue and the RNLI for getting Rhod here in

spectacular style. A few Rhod flags, he has a flaming battenberg tattoo

on his shoulder. He usually does his stand-up gigs in kaerm matter

than but not in front of his family. He suffers sea sickness, which is

ironic. Here he is, arriving very health and safety conscious. Good

to see you Rhod. He's almost there. Look at this, he's like a Welsh

James Bond coming up there. Hang about. Good to see you.

Welcome. How are you, lovely to have you

here. Looking very western! They told me I would look like James

Bond. That was the thing they persuaded me. You look like James

Bond, then they stick me in a high vis jacket and ear defenders,

looking like a budget milk tray man. Nothing can dissuade me from

wearing the hat, it is a mid-life crisis. It looks good?Don't

pretend. We have a bone to pick with you, you have been enjoying

the One Show festival, you were in the art tent and this is what Rhod

has created. You have made us chunky? I had a few minutes to kill.

It didn't have fine detail brushes. What is this waistline? That was

going back a couple of years ago. Let's not go too much into detail

on some of the bits you have put on there? Are those your pantsHow did

you get them so accurate! Are beach holidays your thing, are you going

to stay the night? I'm mildly traumatised by beach holidays. When

I was, one of my first memories of a beach holiday, I was in France

and my parents took me to France and dumped me with a French family,

they thought it would be good for me to learn French. But the more, I

was with a kid of my age, about 12, 13 years old. Early teens, but then

the mother was a newedist! And -- nudist, I didn't know that until we

went to a beach, and I was sat on a picnic blanket and she came stark

naked. There are understones?She came over with the "tu voudrais un

baguette"! I was like I have French fancies in front of me.

Everyone has been very, very friendly, especially the Rosser

family, we nominated them to become our festival family, then we

followed them around with a little camera.

Meet the Rossers, this is dad Steven, mum Julia and their kids

all fee and Charlie. Do you want to go out? The family were over the

moon when they found out that the One Nation Summer Festival was down

the road from -- the One Nation Summer Festival was down the road

from where they live. I want to see you being beaten at football.

like a challenge. Anybody fancy an ice-cream? Shall

we eat it, daddy make it and you eat it. As fast as you can. Not

quite. Probably three more big shakes for daddy. Nice, can I try

some? Wonderful idea, good for kids parties. The next party we will get

them makes ice-cream. I hope I can beat them! I nearly

missed! Fairly pleased with 50 mile an house I beat all fee, that was

good. How many did you get? miles per hour. Half my speed

almost! Yes!Finally! I want to go digging for skeletons. What you are

going to do is pretend you are real archaeologists, I want you to very

gently move your spade and the sand aside until you find something.

Number seven, I found the bones?! Hurray.

# One # One. Hello. We will be on stage

all day letting you know about the great things we have going on.

Charlie. I'm all fee. Welcome to The One Show Summer Festival.

The one thing I have been waiting to do all day that is to meet Larry

Lamb, I have to try not to giggle too much. I apologise now for

anything I may do. I'm Julia, can I give you a kiss. Of course.I wish

I could take him home with me. That was an amazing day, we're exhausted.

Lovely family the Rossers. We will meet them later on.

Lots to try out at the festival. That is the essence of this scene

and the series you have been doing. The fourth one your Work Experience

Series. It is going on for years. She came up off camera and said are

you still doing the jobs thing, the binman one was about five years ago.

I said that was series one and this is series four. We have had a ball

of fun so keep coming back. It must be hard to come back with more

jobs! It is hard coming up with jobs that will make half an hour of

fun TV. The first one is good with the wedding planner. We know how

hard it is to make half an hour of television, we see you struggle

every night. You are a wedding planner tomorrow. Did it come

naturally or a struggle? It was a struggle, like a lot of blokes I

couldn't give up -- I couldn't give a monkeys about weddings, for me it

is a total waste of �20,000 down the drain or whatever people spend.

I had to turn that round and learn to care. We have to say you do look

quite at home in the wedding fair! The smell of icing sugar and

diminishing freedom took me to a wedding fair.

This is where it gets real, I don't think I have ever felt as out of

place in my life. I knew less about perfect romantic environments than

Ross Kemp's toilet brush, but I had to learn fast. How much for that?

�450? What! Asda do them for �3. The thing is, obviously you are

doing a funny take on these things, but you do it for real, you have a

proper go at these jobs, obviously that is somebody's wedding you are

doing? I'm always trying to do two things, I'm trying to do the job,

but I'm also trying to make a TV show and muck about and have a

laugh and be a bit sarcastic, and be me. Equally you are right it is

a TV show for me, but it is their wedding. But the bride had been

thinking about that, as she said, for 25 years, not the groom so much.

Why they let me get involved in the first place I have no idea. I would

never have depil Gilbert organise my wedding. Are you going to

organise your own now? Of course not. I'm not an idiot. Let's talk

about when you tried to be a male model. You weren't accepted were

you by Julian McDonald? I wasn't accepted by anyone. Why not?The

series teaches me that I'm lucky in the job I do. Anything else is

pretty hard work. The male model seems to be largely about rejection,

you just, it was for me, maybe it is just me. Had you not been voted

Wales's sexiest man or something? Leave it, leave it, you are getting

me back! Julian McDonald sat me down and said, even if you sorted

your hair out, got a nutritionist, went to the gym, lost 20 years,

went back 20 years in time, he said you still wouldn't have a chance of

being a male model. He pretty much told me I was physically repulsive.

You have pretty eyes? He didn't even say that. That hat is really

good though? That is what it is all about. Can you give us a male model

pose? I can't, I'm very shy and self-conscious. That is why it was

such a challenge for me. He told me I had no chance, so I went and

tried to do the catwalk, he gave me one go at a fashion show in Merthyr

Tydfil. If they don't take you there they won't take you anywhere?

They didn't take me there. You are very shy, it is amazing for a lot

of people that you do the job you do? I'm an inspiration for a lot of

kids man! Believe it or not, it sounds daft, but a lot of

performers, a lot of stand-up comedians are shy and laterally

self-conscious people. I found being on a catwalk as a model being

incredibly self-conscious. All I could do was put my head down and

run for it. Then I tried to be a character MoD, they told me I was

too bland, I didn't have an interesting enough face. Life

modelling I tried, I tried to take all my clothes off in front of a

group of art students. People can watch you doing all this work

experience on BBC Two, 10.00 tomorrow. Going for five years,

still good. Must be doing something right. Speaking of modelling

something snazzy, it is time to go to Justin who made himself a jacket

for the leftover material from the sof FA it is our white and Redcoat.

Is everyone getting into the spirit of things

Of course, I have classic beach competitions tonight, starting with

everybody's favourite. Nobbly knees, what a collection we have here.

Isn't it good and great. So come on Phil, why do you think the best

knees are nobbly. People should take a look for themselves.

have lovely knees there, tell us about the history? I acquired these

through my mother who used to be a scrubber in a work house. Directly

from your mother? Hereditary.Let's have another little look at the

knees, we have to judge them now? Do you know what, I don't think

there is much question at all about this, there is an absolutely stand-

out winner and I think it is it's you Dan! Step forward, show us the

knees? It is a big moment isn't it? Oh yes. You can come out and show

us the knees, give us a spin. Look at those knees, nobbly as you like!

The winner, Dan here. And later I have got another competition, more

classic beach games, and this is one that you can all take part in.

I want you to send in your picture of your Bonnie beach babes, we will

show them on the programme later. We also have an attempt to break a

world record. Bonny beach babies we are looking for and an attempt to

break a world record with a teaspoon. They were lovely, very

good, great knees. I didn't get the chance to go over there. Come on

Rhod where are yours? I have legs like a chicken whose meat has been

mechanically recovered. It is the cowboy hat? Stop going on about my

hat. Rhod Gilbert is not the only one on work experience, our

festival family, the Rossers are giving TV a bit of a go. Come on

family, this is the moment, straight down camera four. As I dad

I know the importance of a good sandcastle, I didn't know how much

science there is behind making them. So here is Marty to explain the

science of sandcastles. Run VT. When we're on the beach we love to

build things with buckets and spades. Most of us make sandcastles

that look something like this. But some people set their sites a whole

lot higher. -- sights a whole lot higher. This

was build by sand sculpture Jamie Ward low and his team to celebrate

the 100th anniversary of Edinburgh Zoo.

How does it compare to your sandcastles? Nothing like them.

doesn't. Mine is rubbish and that isn't. Jamie's creation is miles

apart from the sort of thing you and I make down the beach. What is

the secret of making the perfect sandcastle? To find out we need to

make our own. Jamie when I build my sandcastles I build them nice and

tall, an hour later it all just falls apart, what am I doing wrong?

You are using the wrong sandment when I build a sandcastle in the

professional world we use construction sand. Wrong sand.

Silly me! So see why the type of sand matters we need to take a

closer look at the individual grains. This is construction sand,

if you look these grains areage later, triangular with sharp edges.

Angular grains stick together. Beach sand has been rolled for

centuries and they are round. grains will never interlook, it is

like building with snucker balls. There are clever tips to ensure

sandcastle success, they are all to do with water. Water is key because

of the way it sticks sand together. It has remarkable glue-properties,

we have all seen this when you have a glass sitting on a coaster. The

molecules in water are attracted to each other and to other solids they

come into contact with. Exactly the same thing happens when you put

your finger in some water. The water molecules stick to your

fingertip first. If I pull my finger out slowly, I pull up a

chain of water molecules, all stuck to each other, that makes a bridge

of water between my finger step and the main body of water. Inside

sandcastles the warlter forms bridges between the -- water forms

bridges between the sand grains pushing them together. Jamie last a

special method to make sure the water gets between the grains.

you pour water straight on to it goes to the side. We have made a

flat top and edge. Now the water will go through the sand. Jamie's

next tip is all about compacting the sand. We are going to vibrate

it as though we are playing the piano. Tapping the surface

encourages the grains to move closer together. This simple and

clever technique works because dense sand is far less likely to

collapse. To make the castle taller Jamie uses cylinders, they hold the

sand in place while he pours plenty of water through it. The water

forms those important bridges and any excess drains away through the

bottom. Beautiful. Our sandcastle is coming

along nicely. It's already bigger than my usual sandcastles, but it's

child's play compared to the cullpure at the zoo. How did they

make that one -- sculpture at the zoo, how did they make that one?

the first day of the week-long adventure the team compacted 60

tonnes of sand, they used wooden blocks to hold it into place. When

the sand was dense they started to carve. Jamie's other secret for

sandcastle success is work from the top down, so as not to disturb the

work already done. To guard it against the British weather he

sprays on a layer of PVA glue. This sculpture was made from

construction sand, but with Jamie's techniques it is easy to make great

sandcastles here. A ruler cuts the sand and lolipop stick for the

details. After some hard graft our castle is finished. I'm dead

chuffed with this, it has to be the best sandcastle I have ever made,

without a shadow of a doubt. Jamie is here with his bucket and

spade, what a talented bucket and spade they are indeed. This is a

phenomenal sandcastle here, except that you have chosen to call it The

Baker Manor, as soon as the programme is over I will jump on it.

I don't think so! I'm joking, we will set a competition in a bit,

before that we need tips from you. This sand is particularly good in

Weston-super-Mare? It is very good, it is esturial sand, it is young

and comes out so the grains are angular and not rounded by the sea.

They stick together like bricks. On other beaches the sand rolls for

centuries and they are round and the grains of sand roll off each

other and the castles fall down. much science. If there are people

out there who love making a good sandcastle, are there specific

beaches that have good sand like here? I would say Scarborough in

lovely Yorkshire is fantastic. Blackpool is all right, Down in

Cornwall beautiful beaches too. tips for building the masterpiece,

what about a good wall? Here you have a main feature, if you pull

out a few walls it makes this castle look massive straight away.

That is fantastic. Asymmetry is good a wonky castle is a good

castle? Symmetry is great if you can do it, if something falls down

it is ruined. Go for asymmetry, bits here and there it will look

more creative I think. You have even small cottages in the ground

here. You can have the cottage there. The ideal kit then for a

good sandcastle maker? We discussed some things already, but a little

one is just have a little sprayer. What do you do with that? It keeps

the sand nice and wet, if the sand is dry it doesn't work. Happy sand

is wet sand. OK, there is a competition between the Rosser

family and The One Show family. So we will start with the Rosser

family. Hello guys, how are you. We want you to build a sandcastle to

represent where you live which is here in Weston-super-Mare, we would

like you to recreate the pier. We have a picture to help you. Oh my

goodness, look at that. How do you feel about that? We will have a

good go. Try our best. What do you reckon all fee? We're gonna win!

will give you a hand. We will leave you with the picture with

inspiration, and if you give that to them. You can crack on with that.

And then we will go over to the One Show family here. Girlies,

Angellica and carry, we want you to build the Sage Gateshead. Look at

all those beautiful windows. That will take a lot of work. You have

half an hour I think. Our next roadshow will come from Gateshead.

It is Gateshead versus Weston. There is your picture. Jamie will

be on hand to help both. 3-2-1, off you go. If you are wondering where

dad is he's over there with Matt. Surely your family get loads of

practice with this? Loads of practice, it should be good. It is

great you live so close to where we are broadcasting today, and doing

all the filming. This particular area has rather romantic

conotations for you and Julia. This is the place where Steven showed

off his skill and effectively won Julia's heart. This is quite

remarkable, on the teddy bear grabber, how many teddies did you

win? About 30, we didn't keep count. What is the secret? Lots of

practice. We have graded that game up. Start your engine, this is the

Western SuperClaw. What we will try to do for Steven is get him to win

Julia the biggest teddy she has ever seen by lifting it up and

dropping it there, what are your thoughts? Simple, we will have a go.

Have you had a go on a mini-digger? No. Good luck, turn your engine off

and give him the practice he will need, we will find out what happens

in a few minutes? Any good at the grabber Rhod? I have learned not to

grab things that aren't yours, it gets you into trouble. Larry Lamb

has been headlining the history stage at the Summer Festival, here

he is with the son of a remarkable war hero, keeping the memory of his

dad very much alive. D-Day the 6th June 1944. More than

6,000 vessels crossed the channel to France, over 158,000 soldiers

landed on the beaches of Normanity. -- Normandy. Some 4,400 allied

servicemen lost their lives that day. Amongst the bloodshed and

chaos, one man typified the determination and spirit to stand

up against the Nazis. Private Bill Mline, private in the commandos.

This rare photograph captures the moment he went ashore, clutching

his bagpipes for the deadliest performance of his life. Here on

the beach he played his pipes for a huge barrage of shell urging his

comrades on in their fight for freedom.

Born in 1922 Bill joined the TA aged just 17. He then played the

pipes for several Scottish battalions before joining the

commandos. His son John remembers a unique man. My father was

essentially two different people, he was my dad, and he was a D-Day

bagpipeer. My father was a fairly quiet, modest, even self-effacing

man, but when asked to play the bagpipes he became this animated

man. Bill joined a long tradition of pipers in the British Army,

their role was to inspire advancing troops with tunes from historic

battles. They presented an easy target for the enemy, so many were

killed in World War I they were banned from the frontline. But

commanding officers refused the military ruling and told Bill to

strike up his pipes in the face of enemy fire. That is the English war

office, you and I are both Scots, I would like you to play the pipes

when we land in France. My father was 21 in June 1944, he was

frightened, but he had a job to do. As the commemorative photographs

show he piped them through the hail of gunfire, the only man in a kilt

and playing music while around him hundreds fell. He marched up and

down the beach urging them forward with the sound of his pipes. Every

year he could Bill returned to Normandy to join in the remembrance

of those who fought and fell that day. This year he was to attend a

special ceremony to commemorate the role he played. He hoped to be

there to see a statue of himself unveiled at the beach side. Dad had

an idea that he wouldn't not get to see the unveiling of the statue. He

asked would there be pipers there. I said of course hundreds of them.

There won't be a Milne piper there will there. As he feared Bill

didn't live to make the return visit for his special ceremony,

leaving it to John to fulfil a promise he had made to his father.

I will learn at least one tune, one of your favourite, I will learn

that for the day. When Bill Milne came ashore that day playing his

pipes he helped his comrades get through one of the bloodiest

battles of the Second World War. Today on that same stretch of beach,

in memory of his dad, John will be playing in public for the first

time. I have tried to wear and carry as much of my father's

possessions as I possibly can today. In some way he's here.

Just as they do every year, the pipers join the parade. But this

year there is a new member in the ranks, John Milne, son of the man

whose heroic story they all know so well. Now hundreds of pipers from

21 different countries are represented in that parade. They

are playing for him and in remembrance of my dad.

overlooking the beach, the statue to Bill Milne, the brave lone piper

is unveiled. APPLAUSE A permanent reminder of his courage

and bravery that has come to symbolise the spirit of all who

fought and fell in the D-Day landings. Major James Scott from

the Royal Signals. It is a remarkable story, how was John

feeling, he was nervous about the unveiling because of what he had to

do. When it all died down, what was it like for him? When it all died

down finally, the whole thing had been terribly moving for him and

his family after all this wait for it. The real problem was the

following day he went back to look at it and when he left it was as

though, he said, he was leaving his father behind. That was the real

problem. You can't think of the bravery that it must have took for

Bill to do. Imagine where we are now, standing on a beach similar to

the one in Normandy, and flying through the air, thousands of

tonnes of projectiles, red hot, and this guy is marching up and down in

his kilt playing the bagpipes trying to encourage everybody to

come ashore. He didn't want a statue? No, he was a very modest

man. In the end they managed to persuade him. They said we want to

commemorate what went on and you represent the bravery of these

people. And he said as long as the detail is right and as long as the

statue is dressed in detail the same way I was, in the right kilt,

in the right fittings, the right belts, everything else, right down

to the final detail that is fine. It was very much the right kilt,

that kilt itself had some incredible history, family history.

Bill's father, John was the man who is the subject of the film. Bill

his father wore -- Bill's father wore the kilt in World War I, he

was a piper himself. That is in the museum at Dawlish. The remarkable

thing is you can see the bagpipes, although he came off unscathed the

pipes didn't? The pipes took a hit a little while later, they are in

the museum at Dawlish and then the replacement pipes that he had to

use after they were damaged were subsequently put back together and

they are now over in Normandy near to the site where the statue stands.

There is another project you have been casting your eye over involved

in this, and also Jamie who is our incredible sandcastle builder, Alex

is up there with him and has all the details. In another

commemoration to mark the D-Day landings our sand sculpture Jamie

needs 900 volunteers to make a sand silhouette for over life lost. We

have a link on the web page to find out how to get involved in The Fall

project. On a dwifrpb -- the Fallen project. Whatever you think about

seagulls they have a number one fan, that is Mr Mike Dilger, he couldn't

wait to spend his entire day surrounded by the gull, they live

on an island over there, to be honest, the best place for them.

There is nothing better than strolling along the prom at the

seaside with a bag of chips or ice- cream. Where there is food by the

seaside, there is usually one of nature's top scavangers, the

seagull. Although the town has many gulls it

doesn't get the incessant town at dawn and dusk during the seaside

months, many of the gulls are day visitors. These tourists don't

travel very far, they come across from their very own island, just

over there. It lies five miles off the coast of Weston, in the middle

of the Bristol Channel, which has the second highest tidal range in

the world. The tide comes in twice daily, with high times moving

forward an hour each day. There are few opportunities when boats can

safely get to the island and back in daylight hours. Today's tide

times mean I can travel out on the boat in the morning but I'm

marooned in the island for 12 hours until the tide turns and I can be

brought back to Weston. It is just three-quarters of a mile

long-and-a-quarter of a mile wide. It is a nature reserve open to the

public. Also a Site of Special Scientific Interest. I can feel

hundreds of pairs of beady eyes watching me! We are talking herring

gull, lesser black back gull, the black back gull, it is a gull fest.

The first thing you notice when you land on the island is not the gulls,

it is the guns. The position in the Bristol Channel made it an

important military outpost. Andrew Wilson is the island's historian.

Such a small island, it doesn't half have a lot of these things,

very large guns? These were brought over in 1869. The whole idea was to

counter the threat by the French but the threat receded soon after.

The island was decommissioned as a military base in 1901. The guns

were sold to a scrap metal dealer, they were so heavy he wasn't able

to get them off the island. island's top guns are the gulls,

with over 2,000 breeding pairs, who defend their patch so vigorously

that every visitor needs some unusual protection. Paul text ter

is one of the island's wardens. Everywhere you walk on the island

people have sticks or pieces of vegetation above their heads?

gulls this time of year are vicious, we will go for the highest point,

they do hurt if they hit you. Anyone with a gull-related injury?

I have seen people with blood running down their heads, I have

been hit a few times, it hurts. They will do anything to protect

those chicks? Anything, yes.Gulls are ground nesting birds and lay up

to three eggs. You have to be careful where you step on the

island because there are nests everywhere. This one is right by

the path. With a couple of chicks that could be no more than a day

old. The third one is just hatching out as we speak, I can even see the

tiny egg tooth on top of the bill which the bird used to break out of

the egg for its first view of the world. These island gulls come to

forage in Weston where there is an easily available food source, that

red spot on the break service a useful purpose when they -- on the

beak serves as a useful purpose. What kind of food are they bringing

back, historically it would have been fish and discards from the

sea? Now it is discards from fast food outlets. It is mainly chicken.

You can find bones with a saw cut on them. It is a discarded fast

food outlet meal. When it comes to Beveridges they can drink sea water,

they have a special gland that removes excess salt from their

bodies. Admittedly gulls can be pesky, but they are also one of the

few large wild birds that you can get really close up to in Britain.

You could say it is a wonderful Weston wildlife spectacle.

Thanks so much for the advice there. I am taking no chances, whatsoever!

Can I point something out. One of the guys in your film had that

above his head to ward over seagull attacks, he was absolutely covered

in bird dropings though. So this is no protection. They have other ways

these seagulls. They have other ways through. We did need somebody

to tell us more about sea gulls, but we thought long and hard, we

couldn't think of anybody. So we just settled for Lucy Seagull.

your surname really Seagull? It is not spelled as the bird but it is

dam close. We have been waiting a long time for this. One of your

ancestors get involved with a seagull in some way. I couldn't

possibly comment! That is what they do in Wales. No is isn't.

That's the thing, basically up and down Britain there has been quite a

lot of seagull incidents. Even the related injuries. There really have,

I have a map here, of course I have a seagull pointer which I will show

you, there has been a spate of attacks this summer. Starting we

have had them in Newquay, Bath, moving up to Hull, fleetwood,

Carlyle, reaching Fife. A lot of serious injuries. Somebody snapped

their Achilles tendon? They were running away, most has been caused

by running away not the seagull themselves. A big problem in Wales,

in Cardiff, if you look on Google Earth, there is a street in Cardiff

if you zone on it, it is me pretty much being attacked by a seagull.

Did you have food with you at the time? I'm joking.But you have been

attacked in the past though Rhod? I'm with Miss Seagull on this. I'm

glad that was a pointer I thought it was your hand. We have a picture

of somebody being attacked by a seagull on that street. I had a

model lesson delivered by a seagull. Let's have a look at this, this is

a young man in Newquay earlier in the month, on a road called Seagull

Alley. He was eating an ice-cream. The seagull decided to eat the ice

scream at the same time and they collided. Look at that. Also Mark,

in Tinmouth, he decided to take matters into his own hands, he

polices the outdoor bit of his calfify with water pistols.

Sometimes you just have to take a stand. He is focused. What are the

signs when a seagull is about to attack? This is important, because

you do get some warning signals. The first thing is that the gag

call, their call will become low and serious and repeated. They are

basically telling you to go away. After that they will start swooping

quite low, maybe a meeter away from your head, then things really

escalate. That doesn't make any sense. This is what happens.Why

would it tell you to go away, it is attacking you. I can't say go away

and then attack you. It escalated and then it vomits on you. Are you

threatening me. There is a slight threatening tone. You do get a

warning. If in doubt put up a brolly or wear a cowboy hat. That's

According to a survey by the British Psychological Society, a

trip to the seaside is supposed to have a more positive effect on you

than a walk in the countryside. they saying, but Justin Rowlett may

beg to differ. We're bored. To be fair it is the

summer holidays, but I have a plan. One where I can relax and the

children can have fun. My idea, head to the beach. This is my

daughter Zola, this is my daughter Elsa, and this is their friend

Gracie. And they are off school so we are going to the beach. This

should be one of the highlight of the summer, but a day out at the

beach can be more stressful than you imagined. Starting with getting

there on time. If you live far from the sea you have to leave early

because if you don't parking at the seaside can be very difficult.

Girls shall we go? You can't park here. Then, there is the cost of

parking, day in Brighton for example will set you back as much

as �15 for the day. Here at Broadstairs it is �7.50 for a day's

parking, but it has to be in coins. Guys have you change for the metre?

After 15 minutes success. So I got a ticket, now we can go to the

beach. Come on girls. But I wanted it to be perfect. Right girls,

first thing we need to find a nice spot on the beach, let's have a

look. What do you do to find the perfect spot. The best spot on the

beach down there, only a ten-minute walk. Take a long walk or make do

with sitting with the masses, however on a day like this, that is

not too much of a problem. I know it is raining but we have driven 60

miles to get here we will have a good time now. It is not far now

girls. It is always good to get a good spot. This spot isn't perfect,

still a few people around and I don't like the look of that green

seaweed stuff in the water. We want icecream. We want icecream. We have

only just sat down! We want icecream! We want icecream!

other question is do you take your own food and risk sand in the

sandwiches or do you go for local seaside grub, which can sometimes

be a bit trashy! Oh! The seagulls pinched our lunch. Really?Took it

out of your hand didn't he. Yeah. Was that quite frightening? Yeah.

Come down to the beach overall? Did you find it easy to park? We came

on the train. You planned really well. Finally it was time for a

snooze and I could relax in the knowledge that the children were

safeen joying themselves playing on the beach. Zola? Gracie? Elsa? Show

me parent who hasn't had anxiety about losing their child on the

beach. You have to be watching them all the time, you are on the go.

You can't sit down and put your feet up. One last headache that has

puzzled generations of dads, is how do you get the sand off your feet

before putting your shoes on. I have got sand on it again. There is

a tap right. To wash your feet? Yeah. Why didn't you say, come on

guys, let's go to the tap, come on. Gracie come on. The reluctance to

leave the sea, I know it all too well. Justin will try to break a

pointless world record in a moment with a teaspoon. With the help of

Rhod. You don't know that at the moment. We were talking that you

are in the process of writing a sitcom? I'm trying to write a

sitcom, yes. What's the story?I'm finding the "process" quite hard.

Based on what? Based on sort of based on a person called Rhod

Gilbert in a little imaginary village called Clanbobble in Wales,

which I talked about in my stand huff up over the years and DVDs, it

is going back to the world and trying to make a sitcom out of it.

It is the real Rhod Gilbert in an imaginary world? It is a sort of

imaginary Rhod Gilbert in an imaginary world. Will you play

yourself being Rhod Gilbert or get an actor to do it t you have not

acted before? I haven't, and I have a phobia of it, it comes back to

the self-conscious thing, even though I do stand-up. I don't know

how to act I'm hopeless at it. The people I'm developing with it are

saying you have to play you, and I'm saying I would rather have an

audition and try to find somebody else to play me. Matt you could?

will have a go. You could play me Alex? I have the accent.

You have this thing of facing your fears, you are going up Kilimanjaro

aren't you soon? I don't know how you went from one end to the other,

but yes I'm facing my fears, all I'm facing them in one minute. I'm

supposed to be climbing Kilimanjaro, I find the training very tough.

have been for two walks? I have been for two walks up the Brecon

Beacons last week, if you go walking anywhere you bump into

rambler, you have a ramble had-off, they are competitive with a lot of

oneupmanship, they were asking about the back pack and the water

bladder, I didn't know I had one. The guy said do you find the straps

are in the wrong place, I find them an inch too far back. I said to be

honest mine are full of jelly babies, that's all I had. Eat what

you like that is the key. Eat what you enjoy. If you can't have a

treat at the top of Kilimanjaro what can you do. We have dishes to

help you along the way. This apparently is a seaweed ban nof fee

pie. Why are you shoving that in my face. This is the weirdest

programme in the world. Are you going up in Kilimanjaro, have some

seaweed pie. This is live telly gone berserk, can't we talk about

one thing for a minute. A seaweed banoffi pie. It is time to

pointlessly break a world record with Justin. Are you confident?

Very. We haveen utterly pointless world record, the most -- we have

an utterly pointless world record moving the most amount of sand

using a teaspoon. It is 194mls the record, as with all these things

there are rules, Kirsty from the Guinness Book of Records, what are

the rules? They are that the measuring cylinder and the sand

needs to be 30cms apart, I have checked that, the sand needs to be

dry. That's all right too, Rhod has to do it with one hand behind his

back. I will do it with both hands behind my back. Not remotely

pointless? I haven't tried the banoffi pie here. Are you really

from the Guinness book of world records? Let's move on, this is the

special sand used Ford this record, we have a couple of record breakers

already, introduce me to them, tell me what they have done. Amy, today

she tried this record and she got 170mls, close to the ror, and

Justin was a little bit ahead with 173mls. They are the Weston record

breakers, now Rhod. What do I have to do. Scoop the sand in there in

30 seconds. Ready, steady go. Come on, it is a good technique.

it looks good he has a lot of spillage. 20 seconds to go.

Come on, we want precision here. That seaweed pie waiting for you.

Somebody shouting keep on going, like I will give up five seconds

from the end. How has he done? Really bad! Has he beaten the world

record, it was a good effort, fine for a first timeer. Fantastic

effort, but unfortunately it was only 120mls so not quite. Sorry

Rhod that leaves you Justin as the Weston record holder shifting sand

with a teaspoon! If only Rhod had beaten the bin nof fee with spinach

in it, he would have nailed it. Just off the beach there is a

derelict lido that used to be the pride of this area, some people

wanted to knock it down, there is a chance it could be making a

comeback. Long before the package holiday and

the Playstation this is what a proper summer holiday looked like,

the Tropicana, what name and what a pool. Now the sunshine and water

has gone and its fate hangs in the balance. Nobody has splashed,

bombed or petted in this pool for 13 years. Not a problem for north

Somerset council who say they have no choice but to flatten it.

Businessman Derek Mead who played in the pool as a child said he can

save it. Is he taking the council for a bit of a ride. What are your

memories of the Tropicana? We used to go after a hard day hey making

and go swimming. Is that enough for you to want to save it? I was

approached by the The Hoteliers association and the Chamber of

Commerce and asked is there any way to save it. And I said let's have a

look at it. We are in the tourist industry here, they should have

never closed it. This is what he wants to build, a �five million

entertainment and swimming -- �5 million entertainment and swimming

pool complix. You are confident that you -- complex. You are

confident you could make a commercial success of Tropicana?

Yes, I have had a lifetime of taking risks, and if there is a

will there is a way of sorting it out. There is more than a planners'

argument, Derek is trying to get round the objections by using the

Localism Act. That is designed to help communities in England and

Wales save precious local landmarks. How does Derek whose business

interests range from pubs to farming qualify as a community

group. One of the council's beefs is it is not really a community

group. You are not really a community group are you? I think

that is a complete misunderstanding, what is a community group? It is a

bunch of people getting together and want to do something for their

legal community. That is exactly what we are doing. Meanwhile back

up the N4 in the sweltering city I'm here to meet the only group so

far who have managed to use these powers to protect a much-loved and

cherished community asset, their local boozer.

The Ivy Pub in south London. This is the stage...has a history of

rock groups like Elvis Costello who have performed on the stage. Leo

and his buddies argued that the Ivy was an asset to the community and

prevented it being sold and converted into flats. Under the

localism powers they had six months to raise the cash to buy and run it

as a community benefit society. had �320 donations from �200 to

�10,000. We raised over �400,000, more than we were looking to raise.

It seemed reasonable that a pub this side could definitely do the

numbers they are talking about. So you never know for sure, but with

the sense of community there is here and the goodwill that does

exist to this project I'm expecting great things from this pub. Back in

Weston-super-Mare and a local poll found that 81% of people in the

town want to save the Tropicana. is such a shame, they are

demolishing everything now, this type of building needs to be kept.

I really think they should redevelop it. When my family were

younger I used to go every week, it has gone to rack and ruin, no good

to nobody. It should have been rebuilt. North Somerset council is

adamant the plans are not financially viable. The town wants

it back, why don't you? The reality is it is too expensive to run and

it is really not practical to rebuild in its present state. We

would love to resolve it. You would love to flatten it? Either by

someone coming along with a viable scheme and we don't think there is

one, or we do actually clear the site. What's the problem, if you

have a group of people saying we can do this, we know we have the

support, we know we can do this, surely that is a win-win situation

isn't it? The reality is and we have had the business plan gone

over with a fine tooth comb and the figures just don't stack up.

Nostalgia doesn't pay the bills. Nostalgia doesn't pay the bills,

but it is great in this weather them lidos. It is time to work out

who won the sandcastle competition, we had Gateshead versus Weston. The

One Show family versus the Rosser family. How were they? They are all

right, this one over here, the Gateshead one it has nice flags

claiplt claim --! I like the flags. But look at this, this is

beautiful? What the one you did!I didn't do it! This is all Julia and

her kid. Charlie I think jumped on their sand sculpture, I'm not sure

it is fair play. He didn't! I have the proiz in my hand, I have played

this stage the building in Gateshead, and it is like being

back there. It is that good. The size of it as well. It is very

good. What you are saying is the golden sandcastle goes to? Which

one did kids make. This one! Well done well done. To the Rosser

family, absolutely incredible. excited to even take the award.

Come and get the award. There you go, congratulations. I'm a sure dad

is a proud man indeed. He's saddled to go on this, the Weston SuperClaw.

Now then Steven, how is the very brief training session gone? We got

a bit of training, we will have a go. Thumb up from Glenn, are we

ready. We will stand back. Which one have you got your eye on?

one. Anything that comes. The big question is if you can start her up,

that is a very good start. Can he win Julia's heart once again. He's

going for the biggest teddy that Julia has seen. Come over here? Not

too close, let's give him room. He's opening it up. Stand back and

give daddy lots of room. I want that one. It is a good grab, he has

it, can he get it in into the container, this is good stuff

Steven. What do you make of your man at the moment. What a hero!

Takes me back 24 years it does. It was remarkable he managed to win

you 30 teddies I'm sure this one is 30 teddies big. Yes! It's there.

Well done Steven, and he has bust the box, shut her off and come down.

Let's get the family back. Let me run around and grab that big teddy.

There you go. Look at that, it is as big as you are. What a time we

have had on the beach, hasn't it been wonderful? Fabulous, thank you.

Can I say thank you for being our One Show family. One more time for

the Rossers. You could win a bear like that if you had a go at the

grabber? I know, but I told you earlier you can't grab what's not

yours you get into trouble. have enjoyed the competitions and

you have sent pictures of bonny babies. This is Harm Monday knee,

she is, as you can -- Harmony and she is falling over. This is Reuben

on the beach. This is Callum aged six months on the beach. We have to

decide. It is a weird beauty contest like in America. Rhod go

on? I think they are all first prize winners. All babies around

the world too, hurray! Are you going back to Wales on that

hovercraft, that is hazy Wales. always come back and forth on that.

Rhod Bond innit. Thank you very much to everyone today, a huge

thanks to Rhod Gilbert, Rhod's Work Experience is on tomorrow night at

10.00pm. The wedding planner is tomorrow. The next One Show Summer