08/07/2016 The One Show

# It's a kind of magic # It's a kind of magic... #

Time for The One Show with Alex Jones and tonight's guest presenter.

You know what? With the magic of television, we got away with that.

We did, yeah. You will have to push! You looked in pain. Hello and

welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Craig Charles! Lovely to

see you, Craig. So, on the way to work, I saw Craig

outside and was very shocked to see him in a wheelchair. What's

happened? I was hosting Steve Wright's Show on BBC Radio Two last

week. I did the Monday and Tuesday fine. On the Wednesday, I slipped in

the bathroom... On what? On the floor and lacerated myself on a

piece of glass. Severed all the tendons. Had a four-hour operation.

I still made the show for Friday! Is it painful? A bit. It is a scratch!

It's not. I saw the picture. Lovely to have you here. Cheers! Tonight,

we will be joined by Ben Hart, illusionist, who has been warming up

outside. This is amazing. How did he do that? If only I could fold the

laundry that quickly! Inside keeping our sofa warm, we have the host of

BBC's latest live extravaganza, Peter Snow and Hannah Fry. Nice to

see you. They are hosting Trainspotting Live. When I think of

trainspotting, I think of a certain film or men with a flask of tea and

fish-paste sandwiches on a train station writing things down in a

book. Which one is it? Those guys writing things down in the book,

they are the front-line, they are the trainspotters.

Us raise enthusiasts, we will watch the programme. It is about the

railway network. What we are trying to do is get people excited about it

and report to us - we will be going all over the country with cameras

watching the trains flying past. We will talk about the history of the

trains. And have them telling us what they see as they watch at their

various places. Send us in the picture and we will talk about it.

You have sold it already! We will talk more about it later on. You

want people to get involved. We will let them know how. Are you ready to

become glamorous assistants? Ben pinpointed you out and said you were

perfect. OK. Andy Murray is through to the final at Wimbledon. You have

probably just seen it! And what a journey Wales have had this month

after reaching a first major tournament since 1958 and making it

to the semi-finals. It is some story. We were close to becoming the

first British side to reach a final in half a century. Now the

tournament may be over for them. Their moment in the sun still goes

on. Today, they arrived home to a much-deserved hero's welcome.

So, they flew in to Cardiff Airport, then they went to the castle, a

brilliant place to get married, 100,000 people came out to support

them. The atmosphere was fantastic. From lunch time, the crowds were

four or five-deep. They make the journey all the way through the city

centre and as the Manic Street Preachers said, it is like a

beautiful dream. They were waiting for them at the stadium. This is

what's been happening there in the last half an hour.

# Come on and set the world alight # So come on Wales

# So come on Wales... # It is quite emotional watching those

pictures. It would be fantastic to be in Cardiff today. We have all

been Welsh this week! You were all welcoming. Did you watch the match?

My wife was born in Wales so I had no choice whatever. I did indeed. I

thought Wales were going to win. They had possession all through the

first half. Portugal played so badly throughout the tournament I thought

Wales were in with a chance. I thought the games they were going to

lose, they won. Did you do any probabilities on it, Hannah? I tried

to. It is best to ignore the betting odds and go with your gut. It has

been like a dream. They played so well. The pride in all of us, the

fire in our bellies has been incredible. Thank you. What is

Cardiff going to be like tonight? There will be some messy people!

Peter, we trust that, as an esteemed broadcaster, you would never be an

embarrassing dad, not even when you donned a loincloth for Children In

Need and sang King of the Swingers. What were you doing here? Did you

see that picture? Was that for Children In Need? It was. Not one of

the best moments of my life. You made a good Tarzan! It was great

fun. It made people laugh. We called Dan and he said, you have done many

things as an embarrassing dad, especially when he bought you a pair

of boxer shorts and you thought they were outdoor shorts and wore them

outside. No? Oh dear. Naughty Dan. Peter, it is safe to say, you don't

come close to the man in our next film. We think we have found

Britain's most embarrassing dad. We have sent Larry Lamb to expose him.

My kids accuse me of being an embarrassing dad for dancing in

public. I wonder what they would say if I did that. The guy in the

picture, Mark Roberts, has appeared in all his glory at more than 500

events around the world. One of the cheekiest was the Wimbledon men's

finals in 2002. I was a bit ashamed. My dad was running around with no

clothes on. I can't think of anybody else that would make me laugh as

much as Mark does. He asked me, could I do The X Factor and I said

no, because all my friends would have been watching and they would

have been talking in school. So I said no. Mark makes money from

part-time work as a painter and decorator and from firms that

sponsor him. I am surprised to see you with your clothes on. Don't some

people find it eccentric doing the streaking business? Some people like

to sit at home and watch the telly with their slippers and a pipe. I

like to live on the edge. I have paid more fines than anything else.

I have paid thousands. It is not about money. It is about having an

idea, seeing it through and accomplishing that end goal. I have

a tattoo. That is your philosophy? If you can think it, you can do it!

As I grow older, I realised I am used to the fact he does what he

does. He's known all over the world. He's been on the news so many times.

You look like you are in good shape. I suppose you have to? Not as good

as I used to be! The only keep-fit part is, when I'm running away from

the police and security. You have to be quick. The most important part is

timing. I can get my clothes off in 2.8 seconds. Show us. My pants, they

are all velcro. All the way down? And down the back... Did you make

them yourself? I have a seamstress to do them. Mark remembers worrying

at Wimbledon that he wouldn't get on to the court. When he did, he said

the crowd went wild. The whole stadium was in uproar. What about

the finalists? I have found that it relaxes the players. They just

laugh. Yes, they chill out and they can think more calmly. I'm not so

sure. Right, I have brought you to a place that was made for you, Mark.

Looks rather anonymous from the outside. Inside, it is different.

Customers and staff all go naked. You are having a giraffe! It is a

new concept, when you arrive you go to a changing room and you put on a

gown. Then when you get to your table, if you want, you can take the

gown off. Well, nobody's taken the plunge? Don't get your kit off, dad.

You are joking. On the beach, he keeps the towel around his waist.

Have you been around when your dad has been streaking? No, definitely

not! So, when was the first time you went off with Mark on a streaking

adventure? It was a play in Liverpool called the Ale House,

which was set in a pub with lots of characters, so, of course, Mark,

being the character he is, decided to jump on. What Mark is doing is

illegal. Time and again he's hauled away and ends up in court. His

verdict? The law is an ass! I get charged with causing distress to the

public. I have 56,000 people cheering every time I have done it.

Not a lot of cheering here at the Tate. A German artist asked him to

streak to test how a cultured audience reacted. I group of women

said, are you an exhibit? I said I am what you want me to be, my love.

What next? Should they worry at the Rio Olympics? Mark says he has

ripped open the velcro for the last time!

He is not here. Let's hope not. What Mark used to do is illegal, as well

as embarrassing. It is not to be recommended. Was your dad an

embarrassment? He has been pretty good. Back in the day, when we were

in an Indian restaurant, they brought the flannels round. Dad had

had a few and went to eat the flannel because he thought it was

the first appetiser. We should put him on the end of the platform at

Doncaster and the trains would come to a complete stop. My dad used to

pass wind at will. He could press there and go pffrrt! Amazing(!) He

would walk up the stairs like that - pffrrtt! Let's talk about your show.

The trainspotters on the platforms, you are the anchor, Dick Strawbridge

is the engineer and Hannah, you will be providing the maths. How does

maths fit in? There is a surprising amount of mathematics that goes into

running the railway, designing it, keeping it going. The timetables,

when you see the timetables across the entire country, the amount of

maths that is required and just how crowded the network is, it is eye

watering, the complexity of things that people are dealing with. You

imagine, when you are on your commute to work, can't they add an

extra train in? They are dealing with fast trains, slow trains, local

trains, Intercity trains, freight trains, the Queen's trains. It is

like spinning plates... Is it right that say if somebody jams a bag in

the door, that can affect a train hundreds of miles away? Absolutely.

It doesn't occur to you, really, in your normal train journeys, but

things are run so tightly and to such precision that one train being

late, you can't possibly have two trains on the same place, on the

same track in the same time. If something is running late, that has

a knock-on effect on another train, on another train, and it can have an

impact that runs the entire length of the country.

And your love of trains, Peter, stemmed from a very young age, tell

us about your dream attic. It's a dream attic, that came later. My

parents said the first word I ever said was choo-choo. I had a great

big yellow train when I was a kid. Now we have an attic at home and the

great thing is if you have an attic with stairs going up in the middle,

you must put a train round it. Their riches. You can see pictures of our

train. Is it right that the train used to come into the bathroom in

the last house with a bottle of shampoo on it? Who told you that?

Yes, that did happen, it went around the top floor. I'd say, send me some

shampoo, my wife would put the shampoo... A drink of beer... In the

little truck, it would come through into the bathroom. Amazing. For

those of us who haven't taken up the hobby, that CU telling us where we

should start. Traditional camera spot as tools. Only spot from public

land, no trespassing, never though one of the tracks. Note flash

photography. Stations are privately owned, so if you spot from one, let

the staff know you are there. Anorak isn't obligatory but make sure you

dress for the weather. APPLAUSE When you talk about Trainspotting,

what are you actually spotting? Trainspotting, that kind of

Trainspotting is really serious spotting with a notebook, making a

note of the numbers, we hope people will do a bit of that, at the real

thing is the enthusiasm for the railways, the fun of watching these

marvellous vehicles, incredible contraptions, steam, diesel,

electric. Taking people all over the country, in huge comfort, the power,

the speed of them, it's so exciting. We want to get people involved in

the next week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, telling us what they've

seen, what they are enjoying seeing, we'll talk to train spotters on the

platform. If you want to get involved please can they get hold of

us on BBC .co .uk, the website,/ Trainspotting Live. I assume you

haven't done loads with trains before, what have you learned about

trains, what has captured your imagination? There's an awful lot.

Ultimately the thing I like the most about the railway in Britain is how

much it connects us to our history, our shared cultural history.

Probably my favourite thing so far is that it was the railway that gave

us the same time across the entire country, so before the railway came

in we were all running two different times. You'd have the sundial, the

local church clock, exactly... You would set your clock spy. As soon as

you had the railway, trains running up and down the country, you

couldn't have them crossing time zones every 20 minutes. It was the

railway that forced the need to create Greenwich mean Time, which is

an approximation of solar time, an equation that averages out the way

the solar time works the course of the year. That was the thing that

went across Britain and gave us all exactly the same time. We look

forward to seeing it, Trainspotting Live starts Monday night on BBC

Four. We'll bring you some amazing magic with a man from west end show

that features women and men doing magic. Angelica Bauer has been

finding out more about women doing magic. -- Angellica Bell. Harry

, Paul Daniels and dynamo easily come to mind. But it's almost

impossible to can drop any females. One woman bucking this trend is

23-year-old Megan Knowles bacon, who last year became the first female

secretary of the Magic Circle. She combines the two great loves in her

life, magic and ballet dancing. Magic was really created with women

in mind, generally men have performed in tail suit in the past,

these have lots of pockets and long sleeves which is really good for

magic. Women's clothes don't have this. A man's hand are slightly

larger, so there are quite a few tricks that might be easier to do

with larger hands, but it's not to say you can't do them. You have to

be clever, adapt things more. Like you do in your act. I perform in a

tutu, not something many men would perform in, but it works for me.

What does this lot make of Megan's style of magic? It's great to see a

female magician who has managed to own the tricks without the need for

a top hat or jacket. I love the combination of ballet and magic,

it's amazing. Megan represents a new generation of female magicians

stepping into the spotlight, each one having a debt of gratitude to

the bullet catching Adelaide Herrmann. Known as the Queen of

magic, Adelaide Herrmann became one of the great first female magicians

in history. I've come deep into the magic circle to meet an avid

Adelaide fan. Its president, Scott Penrose. Adelaide was born 1853

London by Belgian parents. She was a dancer by trade. She met Alexander

Herman, this great magician, fell in love, got married, then she became

part of the great Herrmann show. She passed away in 1986. It was an

obvious progression for her to take on the magic show. -- he passed away

in 1886. She took over the week after he died, it's cemented her

success. Adelaide had to keep her act fresh, she wowed audiences with

canned drink tricks where animals seemed to appear and disappear. She

pulled off levitation stunts and even tried her hand at summoning the

spirits of the dead. If Adelaide was here what sort of tricks would she

have done? One particular trick she was noted for was a box suspended

above the stage with a child in it, there would be a puff of smoke and

the child would disappear. If she could pull it off then she must have

been pretty good. One of Adelaide's biggest stunts is something Scott is

going to perform... On me. This is a re-creation of one of her big crowd

pleaser is, a very famous trick named the marvellous decapitation

mystery. I guess you'll be needing my help. Ladies and gentlemen, boys

and girls, I give you Adelaide's most ghastly and ghoulish illusion,

the marvellous decapitation mystery. Scott, where are you taking me? Can

I have my body back, please? She's had her head back since then,

we are all white. We are joined by Ben Hart, star of the magical stage

show Impossible which opens tonight at the Noel Coward Theatre in

London. I believe everyone in the theatre is watching right now. Hello

in the theatre. Megan was saying how there is a lack of female magicians.

But you have them all in your show, you have seven different

illusionists. Give us a flavour of the different stuff the seven of you

do. We have Josephine Lee and Sabine, amazing female magicians who

do big, grand illusions. An escapologist called Jonathan

Goodman, a daredevil character. A mind reader called Chris Cole. I

love mind reader, is he good? Is excellent. We've got everything, our

whole wide range of magic, something in it for everybody. Let's have a

flavour of your magic, you have a trick lined up for us with the help

of our glamorous assistant Peter. Glamorous. Flattery will get you

nowhere. I thought I'd start by telling you about the dream I have

been having. It could I borrow a ?10 note from you? I've got one here,

there is a tenner. Can you sign it nice and big and bold across the

front. So we know there is only one of those in the universe. In this

dream I wake up and find myself metamorphosed into for or butterfly,

then I see a bright lights... Have you seen somebody about this? Then I

fly towards it, that is the moment I wake up. So we're happy there's only

one note in the universe that looks like that. No Peter Snow's signature

on. I'm going to do something really

extraordinary, watch. Origami. You see it starts to look like a

butterfly. I'm going to try and fill it with some life. Watch...

That's fantastic. Still your note, please don't ever take your eyes off

this. I want to tell you about this theory. In the complicated

mathematics of weather prediction there is a theory called the

Butterfly effect, the idea of butterfly could flap its wings and

create circulations in the air that would create a chain reaction

resulting in a hurricane, electrical storm somewhere else in the

universe. I folded this into a little cocoon, Alex don't take your

eyes off it, you might see the moment it starts to vanish. Watch.

See it start to feel away? -- fade away. And you've fused the lights as

well. Could it be some small action he has created a larger action up

there? Would you hold onto the bottom of the lampshade for me.

Inside here, is a piece of paper. No. It's not any old piece of paper,

it is in fact a ?10 note. The question is, Peter, is this the note

that you signed? I suppose it is, but I can't believe how you've got

it there. It's sealed within the vacuum of the light bulb, please

don't try this at home. The dangerous bit. Goodness me. I think

you'll find that... It really is the note that you gave me. Oh my

goodness me. It is. APPLAUSE I want to scale this up, try a

similar experiment with something much harder to manipulate Banna

note. I want to try it with living, breathing flesh. I've given out 25

T-shirts numbered 1-25. Hello everybody, hello number people. I've

also got some cards here. These cards all have the numbers 1-25

printed on the front, they are totally different, you can see.

Would you touch the back of anyone you would like for me? That one.

What number did you choose? Number 15, we're going to use number 15,

where are you? Come and join me. Nice to meet you, what your name?

Antonio. Confirmed to everybody you are happy to participate. Yes. This

is an auto conductive cage made of wood above the ground, connected

this electrical generator, in a moment I will pass electricity

through your body. You looked terrified. Look at that terrified

face. Would you step up here and step inside the cage and praised the

front? Whatever you do don't touch the sides of the cage. Stay

perfectly still. As long as you are inside the cage you're going to be

absolutely fine. As for the rest of us, that's a different story

altogether. Are you ready? If you're ready, I'm ready. Tell you what,

would you take hold of Peter's note? Hold on to that, stay perfectly

still. Ready? Now all they have to do is complete the circuit.

I asked you to stay still, now get ready to fly. Yes! Antonio, give us

a wave! That the butterfly effect. APPLAUSE

I'm actually speechless that number 15 is holding the note. Number 15

can we see the note. Antonio, hello, show us the note. Wow. Can I just

say, thank you so much, that was like nothing... Peter Hartley ever

seen anything like that? Never in my life. We'll be expecting that.

You're not allowed to tell us how you did it, you? You were totally

shocked. I'm still totally shocked. I think we should see it again to

make sure we saw what was going on. How did he do that? It's completely

mesmerising, thank you so much. What an honour for us all to see that,

brilliant, wasn't it? Thanks to Ben, Peter Wright Hannah for joining us.

Trainspotting Live starts 8pm on Monday night on BBC Four. Thanks for

having me again. It's been a pleasure. Get well soon. Thank you

so much. I'll be back on Monday with Queen of the American chat show

Ellen DeGeneres and maybe if Andy Murray wins we might get an

interview, I don't know. Have a great weekend whatever you do and

see you on Monday. Gregg and Chris are back to help us

slash the weekly food bill. They'll look at

the mistakes we make... I like my food,

but this is embarrassing. What is that?!

..and show us that cheaper food... Anybody can make this dish.

And it was less than ?2.50. ..might be easier,

healthier and tastier than we think. That's perfect rice.

I'm not surprised, I'm astounded. Marks out of ten for your mother?

Eleven. This is all about breaking habits

and learning something new.