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Avast me hearties, and welcome to ye Old Friday One Show with the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
fairest maiden on the high seas, except for Alex, if that is OK. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
is OK. And this war the seadog, Chris Evans. Tonight, move over the | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
meerkat, there is a new cute animal in town. Up we host a pirate dinner | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
party in the studio. We snoop around Florence Nightingale's house. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
And kitchen tips that might be a waste of time. But first, a man | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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whose latest film makes sense of I always go for two kisses. Of | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
course, you are not a pirate in the new film. I am not. I am a | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
scientist. Surrounded by pirates. Are you not a seafarer? I and | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Charles Darwin, although not the version that the history books | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
would have us believe in. -- I am Charles Darwin. In real life, do | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
you take to the sea? Not very long time. We used to go sailing when I | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
was a kid. But only very occasionally. But that is fine for | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
my character. He does not have particularly sturdy sea legs. The | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Lots of people have been seeing you dressed as a bottle of tomato | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
ketchup. That is a lovely look. is comic relief. You have to make | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
the effort. Will you be running a mile? I guess I will have to. I | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
cannot tell everyone to do it and not do it myself. Other people are | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
rowing the Channel and running marathons. Just the one mile for | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
you? I have dressed up as a ketchup bottle. What are you doing? Good | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
question! We are going to be talking about your Charles Darwin | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
character in a brilliant new film that I saw a couple of weeks ago. | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
We will also be joined by the BBC F1 team who will tell us... That | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
was not part of the pirate theme, that is just then you look! They | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
will say whether a British champion can happen this year. We are | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
getting back behind the British rhythmic gymnasts -- rhythmic | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
gymnastics ladies who have amazingly won their appeal and will | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
be going to be Games. Do you have trouble sleeping? Oh, yes. Well, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Alex Riley suggests the solution might involve waking up for hours | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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It is estimated that a quarter of us in the UK experience some type | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
of sleeping disorder. Perhaps as much of 30% of the problems will | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
either be directly or indirectly related to sleep problems. The | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
medical profession has not really been taught about sleep. In a five- | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
year training, many medical students will have just one lecture | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
on sleep. Maybe it is time to rethink the idea of a good night's | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
sleep being eight uninterrupted hours. Until relatively recently, | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
sleep was premature game of two halves. -- it was very much a game | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
of two halves. Historical diaries and literature are full of clues | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
that suggest that our pre- industrial ancestors would often | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
break their sleep in the middle of the night. References described the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
first sleep, which began about two hours after dusk, followed by a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
waiting period of one or two hours. This was then followed by a second | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
sleep. While a segmented sleep may have been popular in the olden days, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
I am not sure it will catch on today. But I am going to meet a | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
woman who would not sleep any other way. Susie Phillips is a retired | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
teacher who lives in Wiltshire who, without even realising it, was | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
putting segmented sleep into practice. A few years ago, she | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
started waking in the middle of the night, feeling wide awake. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
think, I should be asleep, but you do not feel sleepy. That is why you | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
think it is not right. Instead of worrying about it, you have | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
embraced it. Yes, I used the time to educate myself. What time do you | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
wake up? I should be awake by 1:30am. By will pop round. It is | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the middle of the night and I am not sure what I'm doing a wake. I | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
am going to have to have a chat with someone who might be able to | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
convince me that segmented sleep is actually natural. Professor Roger | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
has done decades of research which reveals how and why people often | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
used to sleep in two segments. primary benefit to be drawn from | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
this knowledge is for those who wait in the middle of the night for | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
no reason. Their pattern of sleep, arguably, judge from the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
perspective of history, is more natural than this week that most of | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
us aspire to. -- the sleep most of us aspire to. Why did it die out? | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
It died out over the course of the 19th century during the Industrial | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
Revolution, for reasons rooted in culture and technology. As a | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Harvard scientist put it, every time we turn on a light switch we | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
are, in effect, ingesting a drug that affects our structure of sleep. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
I am going to have to have a word with Susie. What exactly do you do | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
in this period between your two sleeps? I listen to Maya iPod, or I | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
have started reading a couple of books. -- my iPod. At the moment, I | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
am working out shrouding a's equation. It is not easy. To be | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
honest, this quantum physics is not going in. I'm going to have to go | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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Sleep tight. Good night. Do you have problems with sleep? | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
am persuaded by this argument. I was reading about it the other day. | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
I think I sleep in four our chunks. There is nothing worse than being | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
awake and thinking, I have to get back to sleep. That engenders panic | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
and then you are properly awake. If you can get up and do something... | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
There is no sleeping through your new film. Quite right. I could not | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
think of anything else to say. Smooth as silk. I should not draw | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
attention to it. It is an animation and you are in it, but you are not | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
in it. You do the voice. It has a different title in America. It does. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Here, it is called pirates, An Adventure With Scientists. In | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
America it is called pirates - band of misfits. Why? Don't ask me. Some | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
publicist can tell you. I had seen it and it is brilliant. One of the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
reasons it is brilliant, Aardman are brilliant and you are pretty | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
good. I feel guilty taking any credit for it. We will not let you! | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
The script is really good, isn't it? How do the pirates meet the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
scientists? The pirate captain, who is on the table, played by Hugh | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Grant, he is desperate to win the pilot of the year. He is a pretty | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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He has to get his booty collection up, increasing his hit rate. He | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
goes to plunder whatever ships that he can find. It all goes wrong. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
Every ship he comes across as no treasure. Finally, he comes across | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
Charles Darwin's boat on its way back from the Galapagos Islands. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Only to discover there is no booty on that, but there are some kidneys | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
from baboons and stuffed animals. Let's cut to that moment. Home, | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
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Sweet Home. You don't get many women back here, do you, Charles? | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
Sweet Neptune on a bike! Don't mind him, just an old project of mind. I | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
have this theory. I thought, if you took a monkey, gave him a monocle | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
and covered up his unsightly bottom, he would cease to be a monkey and | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
would become more of a man monkey, if you will. It is such a brilliant | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
movies. That was the bit in the movie where they made the ship look | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
like a house in London. That is a different bit to the bit you | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
thought was coming but equally good. I apologise profusely. Did you get | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
to meet the other actors? Presumably you do it separately. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
They would try to get us together when possible. But you had said in | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
the past you would rather be on your own. I do not like eye contact | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
with any human being! It is nice to do some bouncing off each other, | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
obviously, but that is dependent on schedules. Hugh Grant and I had a | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
session together, Martin Freeman and I had a session together, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Imelda Staunton. There are loads of brilliant people. Would you | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
describe yourself as over acting when you are in the clip room? | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
don't know what you're suggesting. Shall we have a look? This explain | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
what is going on. We have been told that you have to do more than you | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
would normally because you are not being seen. All you have is your | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
voice, so you have to pump it up, yes. Also, I was told by our | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
director to not shy away from that because the animators like as much | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
animation in the vocal performance as possible. We have an example of | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
that. I have remembered what we are doing now. Try to guess what is | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
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happening when he is doing this. I think that is brilliant. I saw | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
that and I said, that is the bit when he is made to walk the plank. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
Is that right? I could not tell you. There is a lot of falling over. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
think you're being pushed to the end of the plank. Possibly. There | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
is a lot of balancing and falling out of things. It is a very good | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
film. I feel I can say that because I'm only a voice in it. It does not | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
feel boastful to say it. It's talk to somebody who can boast about it. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Mrs Jay Grace, one of the chief animators at Aardman Studios. Tell | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
us about your job. My job is animation director, so I worked | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
with the animators to get the best performance based on what David and | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
Sue and the other actors have done. -- hue. We would take the voices | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
and set up a video camera and act it out. Everybody who works Aardman | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
has an Oscar. Obviously you have. Unfortunately not. They brought us | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
the only one who has not got an Oscar. How many Oscars has Nick | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
Park got? He has four and Aardman has been nominated for nine. Where | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
does he keep them? Just around the house. I don't think he has ever | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
animated them. What happens when you go to the Oscars? Do you have a | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
big party? Yes, any excuse for a party. When he is there, we cannot | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
all go a long but in Bristol we celebrate. We think these are small, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
but you say they are big for animated films. Generally speaking, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Wallace and Gromit would be up to the captain's shoulder. He is a | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
very small man in real life. they like stone-age compared to | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
these two? Stone Age is probably a bit harsh. The original Wallace and | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Gromit designs that were done by Nick Park, he made them himself and | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the design has pretty much kept faithful to that throughout. But | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
for this movie, we had to move the technology on a little bit. You can | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
see that we have got an armature that goes inside the pirate captain. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
This is set inside him. The majority of this puppet is not even | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
Plasticine. The outfit is made out of rubber, the boots are silicon, | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
the beard is silicon and the only bit of Plasticine is his brow. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
look amazed. I think there are glorious. Look at that! What a | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
piece of engineering! That is me, Charles Darwin. Very quickly, as | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
far as the animation is concerned, it took three years. The actual | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
shoot was 18 months but the development period before that was | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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The film is out on Wednesday 28th March. Now, there are not many | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
native animals left in the UK which this man has not seen. So, when he | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
heard that there was a rare specimen living in a garden in | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
Cheshire, Mike Dilger could not get there fast enough. This animal had | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
been hunted to the point of extinction, but it has been showing | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
a remarkable recovery, the polecat is back. And it has been popping up | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
in some unusual places. There's a lady who lives on this housing | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
estate in Cheshire, of whom I am incredibly jealous. Not only has | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
she seen polecats, she actually has them living in her back garden. I | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
could not resist coming up to try and catch a glimpse myself. One | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
Show viewer Fiona is the lucky woman in question. So, you think | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
they have been under the decking? Definitely, yes. This is where you | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
tend to see them coming out. Having them under the garden decking is | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
certainly far from normal. Yet polecats, just like other wild | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
animals, have obviously realised there is a lot to be gained by | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
taking advantage of our home comforts. The pond did have some | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
fish, but they have all mysteriously disappeared. They are | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
supremely opportunistic. I have done a little bit of investigation, | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
ever since the first time when my partner thought he saw one. But I | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
was not sure until I saw them just two weeks ago. I have to say, I | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
make my living as a wildlife expert, and I have never, ever scene | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
polecat, you could make a middle- aged man very happy, you know that? | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
Surely not middle-aged! Just about, I suggest, go inside and sit and | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
wait, that's all you have to do with wildlife. Related to weasels, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
polecats are the wild ancestors of the domestic ferret. Over centuries, | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
they developed a bad reputation, and were hunted by farmers and | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
gamekeepers are like. As a result, they are now one of the rarest | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
mammals in the UK. Yet luckily for me, they have obviously taken a | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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fancy to city living. That is the first ever polecat I have seen. Not | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
in the wilds of Wales, but on a housing estate in Cheshire. Look at | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
that! And it is really close to Manchester airport as well. | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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Fantastic! Let's try and get a bit closer. The last time I saw a new | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
mammal to Britain was about three years ago. This is an exceptional | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
moment for me. There's myself and Fiona, a sound recordist, Cameron, | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
director, all in the back garden, and a rabbit jumping around, and he | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
is not first, he is coming out and taking bits of chicken. The only | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
worry that it could be which has cross-bred with a ferret, which is | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
effectively a domesticated polecat. But just looking at it, it has got | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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little tips on the ears, not much white it is streetwise, that's a | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
polecat. These animals are normally incredibly shy. It is just that | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Fiona provides the perfect environment for them - shelter, no | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
predators, oh, and plenty of chicken. In the 1950s, these | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
beautiful creatures were on the verge of extinction, and I | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
personally find it astonishing that not only are they making a comeback, | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
but they're also taking advantage of our Homes, cities and gardens - | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
that is a result. I am known for getting easily excited, but I was | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
very, very excited that day. What else is there for you to see? | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
much, it has to be said. I have still been looking for Scottish | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
wildcat, we have tried to film it twice, and failed twice, but apart | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
from that, not a lot. Maybe it is a bit self-conscious. You have got to | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
stop calling it ugly. Everything is relative. And you have brought a | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
beautiful parrot with you. We have indeed, this is a beautiful bird | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
called Snowy, from Birdworld in Hampshire. He was captive-bred, he | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
is 22 years of age. It is now illegal to take them from the wild. | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
He comes from Indonesia, originally. Indonesia has got many species | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
which are critically endangered, so if you do by a parrot, make sure it | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
is captive-bred. Do you believe that pirates really kept parrots? | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
In Treasure Island, of course, but in the Caribbean, traditionally | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
they have used them as commodities, for trading, they're hugely | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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desirable. David, in the movie, the parrot is also used as currency, | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
but it is not really a parrot. is not, no, the whole plot hinges | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
on that fact. Should we not say? don't think so. We have got a call | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
from a lovely lady who is mad about McCaws. She knows exactly why you | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
should not keep parrots and less you know what you're doing. Because | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
people may not be sure about what you're doing, you have ended up | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
with 13 of them. Yes, some of them have come and stayed, some I have | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
bred, but most of them have been given up because people cannot look | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
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after them any longer. This one is Marchella. On the rehearsal she | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
climbed right on to permit, she absolutely adores me. You have to | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
know what you're doing, they live a very long time, it is not like | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
having a dog for 10 years, it is like having a dog for 40 years. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
runs into tens of thousands of pounds as well. It could do, | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
especially with the vet fees. is absolutely fascinated with | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
Marchella here. Tell us about other birds as well, we have got | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
something really special here. have indeed, this is from the | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
Oxford museum of Natural History, it is the only known example of the | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
flesh remains of a dodo. It is fantastic, because of course, they | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
were around way before Victorian times, first round in 59 th on | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Mauritius. But within a century, they were made extinct. The Dutch | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
sailors were banging them on the head and roasting them. Within 100 | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
years, they had completely gone. must explain, the reason we have | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
jumped to dodos is because there is a dodo in the movie. Yes, the | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
pirate Captain thinks he has got one of these, but actually, it is a | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
dodo. Thank you so much. This weekend marks one years since the | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
deadly earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. It was the biggest | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
in that country since records began, which we know because of a very | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
clever British scientist. In March 2011, Japan was hit by a | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
devastating earthquake, which killed more than 18,000 people, and | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
countless more lost their homes. Ancient Japanese philosophers used | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
to believe that catastrophic events like these were caused by the tales | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
of giant cat fish thrashing around underground. Our understanding is | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
much more scientific now because of an Englishman called John Milne, | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
who, in 1880, invented the world's first seismograph. But how was it | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
that a man from a country which hardly had any earthquakes would | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
end up pioneering the science of seismology? He graduated as a | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
mining engineer, left home and travelled the globe looking for | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
coal seams. But in 1875, aged just 25, he was offered the position of | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
Professor of geology at Tokyo University. Shortly after his | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
arrival in Japan, he experienced an earthquake. He was keen to | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
understand one of nature's most powerful phenomenon. But he quickly | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
discovered that the tools available to him were simply not up to the | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
job. What surprised him was how long the earthquake lasted, and the | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
number of aftershocks. Previous methods had always recorded an | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
earthquake as a single event. But Millmoor realised that we needed | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
something to continuously monitor the movements of the er, and this | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
was his Eureka moment. He invented the seismograph, a machine which, | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
for the first time, could accurately record movement in the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Earth's crust, non-stop. It could measure the full extent of an | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
earthquake's magnitude over time, and it is these measurements which | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
led the way in our understanding of earthquakes today. Using some | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
simple components, I can demonstrate the principle. What we | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
demonstrate the principle. What we have made here is essentially a | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
horizontal pendulum. We have got a heavy weight attached to a long | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
stick, and a wire which goes up and over the top. The whole thing is | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
sat on this, my earthquake simulator. It is just a tea-tray | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
with some tennis balls underneath. I'm going to create a massive | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
earthquake by just moving it slightly, like this. All you need | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
to do to turn this into a seismograph is to attach a pen at | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
that end and a rotating drum to record it. That is how it works. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
The invention revolutionised how earthquakes were understood, and it | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
began to be used all over the globe. Paul from the British Geological | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
Survey is an expert on the impact Survey is an expert on the impact | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
of seismograph so on the scientific world. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
What he managed to do was to set up a global network of seismic | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
measuring stations in British colonies around the world, which | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
all used essentially the same instrument, and all sent their | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
results back to him. It was the first attempt at having a | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
comprehensive, global seismic network. One thing this new network | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
recorded was the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Traces like this | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
made it possible to determine how far away an earthquake was, and by | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
how looking -- and by looking at how big the waves were, an estimate | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
of the size of the earthquake could be worked out. It was with this | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
kind of measurement that Charles F Richter was able to develop the | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Richter scale. It was the foundation of seismology as we know | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
it today. It shaped our understanding of the planet. The | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
design of the seismograph was so successful that it was only | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
superseded by a digital version in the 1980s, but the principle is | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
still the same. Perhaps one day, thanks to this early work, we may | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
discover what he set out to find, the holy grail of seismology, | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
:27:16. | :27:17. | ||
predicting earthquakes before they happen. Joining us now, we have | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard, from the BBC's Formula 1 team. It | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
must have been poignant when you went back to Japan. Yes, it was, it | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
was towards the back end of 2011, it was a big moment for the sport, | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
and a big moment for Japan. Motor sport has got a long history in | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
:27:45. | :27:45. | ||
Japan. The Moto GP had been there a few months before, and everywhere | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
we went were huge signs, thank you for supporting Japan. The Japanese | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
people were so happy to have as there. And Jenson Button, who has a | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
Japanese girl friend, won the race. We were proud to be there. It was | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
really emotional, on the grid beforehand. And it all begins again | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
next weekend. You're back. So, you are the expert, apparently, DC. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
Does Britain have any chance at all of having a world champion at the | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
end of the season? Yes, absolutely. You will have either Lewis Hamilton | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
or Jenson Button. The guys are so evenly matched, and McLaren | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
definitely are in better form, according to the winter testing. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
They could win the whole thing? of course, absolutely. And they of | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
course think they could do so, otherwise they would not be taking | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
part. But Red Bull will be the favourite. Yes, no question. By how | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
much blankets Sebastian Vettel, youngest-ever world champion, he | :28:49. | :28:59. | |
:28:59. | :29:00. | ||
has been testing well. We spent the whole of the winter trying to teach | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
him how to say the name of the world champion. We do things | :29:04. | :29:12. | |
differently in Scotland. Actually, my reasoning to justify my | :29:12. | :29:22. | |
:29:22. | :29:24. | ||
pronunciation is that nobody ever pronounces my name correctly. | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
of changes this season as well. Lots of people concerned about the | :29:27. | :29:37. | |
:29:37. | :29:40. | ||
Sky Sports have got involved and are taking every race live of | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
Formula One. But the good news is that the BBC still have every race. | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
Half of those will be live, as they always have been, with myself, | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, walking up and down the pit line | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
making a nuisance of ourselves. The other half are highlights | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
programmes. Louise was saying since she had kids she cannot watch, but | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
now the lunchtime races are prime time, 5:30pm to 7pm every Sunday. I | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
look forward to lots of messages from you about Formula One. One of | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
the exciting things was Martin Brundle's grid walk, which he will | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
be doing on Sky. Come on, pirates! But you are going cheek to cheek | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
with him, because you will carry on the grid walk for the BBC. | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
three of us will be there and we will do something different. Martin | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
is fantastic and he has made a good walk his own, but we will do | :30:35. | :30:43. | |
something different. We will try to not get in the way of... It will be | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
like a stand-off. It will be squaring up in the car park, | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
pistols at dawn in the pit lanes. The ratings will be through the | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
roof. Of the drivers will be wondering what is going on with | :30:57. | :31:05. | |
everybody bumping into each other. And so will you say, I am here | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
first? It will be a eyeballs. Wibble did on race victories. | :31:10. | :31:17. | |
Whoever has the most. Is it true that some drivers pay to race? | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
It is something that very few people understand about Formula One. | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
If you took Wayne Rooney from Manchester United and played | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
somebody who was giving Manchester United �10 million for the | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
privilege, people might find that a difficult concept. It has always | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
been the case in Formula One. It is an incredibly expensive sport and | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
certain drivers, perhaps they have a sponsor. There is one who has a | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
lot of Venezuelan money and he gives some of it to the team. He | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
keeps some of it for himself for the salary and gives some to the | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
team, so although he may not be as quick as somebody who is talented | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
but does not have much money, he can make the car quicker. | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
understand this. I don't understand anything. You like cars, and you | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
pay for the privilege of having a nice car. You would if you could, | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
but where does it start? What about if you fancy becoming a Formula One | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
driver? Is it within your reach? Are you younger than any of us? | :32:15. | :32:23. | |
Angellica Bell has been to find out how you might go about it. | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
0-60 in 4.5 seconds. Your backside an inch off the ground. And did I | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
mention 20 other drivers and their families, all of them willing you | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
to fail? If you thought karting was a bit of holiday fun, you were | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
wrong. This is a serious business. For the last 50 years, if you | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
wanted a career in motor sport you had to start racing karts at places | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
like Strathclyde, just like world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
Button. And a certain chiselled Scottish driver cut his teeth on a | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
circuit like this in the 1980s, and he wasn't too bad either. Of course, | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
it is raw talent that is the foundation for all of this, and | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
these guys have buckets of it. The hope of each of these young drivers | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
is to catch the eye of a sponsor or a scout from a professional team. | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
But the reality for the parents is that this is one of the most | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
expensive sports to participate in. Many people think go-karting is for | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
rich kids. What would you say to that? We work very long hours to | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
try to fund his racing. We have not had a holiday since 2001 because | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
everything, and I mean everything, goes into his racing. To complete | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
in seven rounds of the British championship would cost �10,000, | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
and that is just for starters. We know there are huge costs in go- | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
karting. What do you spend the money on? It generally just running | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
the kart - tyres, engine tuning, going from A to B, the price of | :33:54. | :34:04. | |
:34:04. | :34:05. | ||
fuel. We enjoy it. He loves it more, you or him? Is the goal to get to | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
Formula One? Definitely. And you can get some of the money back that | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
you have put in. Hopefully, it would be good to get some money | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
back. We have spent enough. With these financial pressures, | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
motorsport careers can be over before drivers get out of the pit | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
lane. But if everything clicks at the right time, something special | :34:23. | :34:31. | |
can happen. Local boy Paul HIP that big time in 2009 when he became a | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
Formula One driver, and he owes it all to karting. I believe it is the | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
most important thing of any racing driver's career. You build your | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
foundations there, your race craft. It is really a big family | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
orientated sport. There are a lot of parents spending serious money. | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
They think you can buy it, but it cannot be bought. Skills cannot be | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
bought. It is about hard work and determination. It is about family | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
support and enjoying the family -- enjoying the hobby as a family. | :35:04. | :35:14. | |
:35:14. | :35:22. | ||
have seen the kids do it so it is David Coulthard, eat your heart out. | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
Do you remember those days? Absolutely. Fantastic times. You | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
can see the talent there immediately. If you can drive karts, | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
you know they have talent. But for heaven's sake, look at this clip of | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
:35:46. | :36:00. | ||
That is painful, painful! I thought you were really good. Not at | :36:00. | :36:10. | |
football, but acting. I am very bad at football. You did not like that, | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
did you? I thought that had disappeared into the mists of time. | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
Last year somebody showed it to me on YouTube. Nowadays, nothing will | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
disappear again. It is from an anti-smoking film that Glasgow | :36:22. | :36:29. | |
council made in 1987 or something. My first ever paid acting job. I | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
:36:39. | :36:41. | ||
think I was 15. We have a picture of you here, DC. Can you see my | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
steely focus? I think I was 12 years old. That was in the village | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
in Scotland where I grew up, in my father's yard. I used to practise | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
around the yard. Look at Jake, looking forlorn. We could not have | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
one of you, could we? Yes, because your wife is friends with the | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
:37:11. | :37:12. | ||
producer. Look at little Jake. Superman. A look about as old as | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
Sebastian Vettel. You are doing Spiderman in a Superman costume. | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
could only afford one costume, so he had to improvise. It is the same | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
colours. Do you fancy a pirate banquet? Jay Rayner has been | :37:28. | :37:36. | |
preparing a feast for feisty pirates, but first, how about Jay | :37:36. | :37:44. | |
debunking some food meths. This is For centuries, we believe the Earth | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
was at the centre of the universe, that the world was flat and that | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
eating crusts make your hair curly. But there are some scientists who | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
say there are long-held beliefs in the kitchen which are long past | :37:55. | :38:03. | |
their sell-by date. Why do you sift flour? To get some air into it. | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
do you sift flour? To get the lumps out. What if I told you you did not | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
need to sift it? I would probably still go on sifting it, habit of a | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
lifetime. Cooking tips are often passed down from generation to | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
generation without question. Professor Peter Barham from the | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
University of Bristol specialises in the science of cooking. He's as | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
some of the age-old tips, such as sieving flour, are completely | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
pointless. You are going to mix other things in there and the lumps | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
will go. You're saying you do not need to sift it? It just wastes | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
time. Where did it come from? mum used to go shopping to the | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
grocer's when I was a child and there was an open top of flour. | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
Think what else might be in there. Some wildlife? Exactly. You do not | :38:56. | :39:04. | |
want mouse droppings in your cake. He wants to convince me, starting | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
with a state, searing the Jews in, as the cookbook says. It does not | :39:09. | :39:18. | |
happen. So you want to Brown mistake, but you're not sealing the | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
Jews in there. -- Brown at the stake. But you're not ceiling in | :39:24. | :39:34. | |
:39:34. | :39:35. | ||
A couple of minutes each side and the evidence is clear. The moment | :39:35. | :39:45. | |
of truth. If it has been sealed, it should still weigh the same. 271.1 | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
grams. And falling, as even more of the juices evaporate into the air. | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
It is not doing a good job of sealing it. They will carry on | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
coming out for a while. He wants to bust another myth. We habitually | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
add salt to boiled greens, but can we taste it? Call me when you are | :40:10. | :40:18. | |
ready. Only he knows which plagues of beans have been boiled in salted | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
water. -- which plates. I think that one, that one and that one are | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
salted and those ones are not. got one of each wrong. Oh, dear. I | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
did get four out of six right, but judging by previous experiments, he | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
said that was a random chance. take them out of the water and the | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
water drains off and takes the sort with it. By and large, nobody can | :40:44. | :40:52. | |
get this test right. I am not going to feel bad about this. Finally, a | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
meringue. Strictly egg whites, apparently not. That is the amount | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
of a joke that most home cooks would regard as a disaster in their | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
egg whites for a meringue. Here goes. The egg yolk contains fat. If | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
you get that into the egg whites, you have to beat harder. And the | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
old days, by hand, you would need a lot of energy to do it, but with an | :41:14. | :41:24. | |
:41:24. | :41:26. | ||
electric beater, no trouble. My pure egg whites are soon whipped | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
up to a peak. Peter's with the added egg-yolk, take a bit longer. | :41:33. | :41:43. | |
:41:43. | :41:51. | ||
It's hard work. Now, Peter, I can see that if we did this for long | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
enough it would go like that. I think the advice has to be, don't | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
put egg yolks in your egg whites. Good advice, because it does take | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
forever. Science may prove that a yokes do not ruin a meringue, but | :42:05. | :42:15. | |
when it is such hard work, in this We are sitting at Captain Rayner's | :42:15. | :42:24. | |
table. Before we tuck into this, any more myths about food? People | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
assume red wine with neat, white wine with fish. If you are buying | :42:28. | :42:34. | |
the wine, you can do what you like. There is red wine are you can do | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
with fish, as long as you avoid the tannins, the rough stuff that comes | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
with the appeal and the seats. Go for a light red wine and it will | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
work perfectly with fish. You can do what you like. They are eating | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
behind us. We did think addressing me as a pirate and we thought we | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
did not need to. -- thought of dressing me up as a pirate. If you | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
are red sea for a long time, there is a lot of sorting and pickling. | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
Those are great methods of preserving food for a long time. | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
Salt beef particularly is wonderful. If you put it in Brian Conley can | :43:11. | :43:21. | |
:43:21. | :43:25. | ||
You can eat. You might not want to, but please do. This is a stew, but | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
nobody is entirely sure what has to be in it. This one has chicken, | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
pickled vegetables, anchovies. You're not a huge fan of anchovies. | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
But I am liking this. It dates back a long wave. What is a ship's | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
biscuit. It looks like bread. pretty much his bread. You put the | :43:52. | :44:02. | |
:44:02. | :44:19. | ||
flour and water together. Should I Of course, there is this thing | :44:19. | :44:26. | |
about wickets, and people who worked on boats. It is true, if | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
you're out at sea, you're not going to get much in the way of fresh | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
vegetables. Once they realised that scurvy was caused by a lack of | :44:35. | :44:43. | |
vitamin C, they could do it with their rum punch. So, pirates were | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
amongst the healthiest people on the sea? I would not say that, they | :44:50. | :44:57. | |
had a very low life-expectancy, it is not a healthy lifestyle. | :44:57. | :45:07. | |
:45:07. | :45:35. | ||
David's new film, the pirates also We could not carry on without | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
talking to our pirates. You're from the Isle of Wight. We are indeed. | :45:40. | :45:45. | |
We are actually a pirate charity, we do performances all over the | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
place, and educate people about pirates. Why would you do that | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
Benstead people want to know about you, so you get to teach them about | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
what pirates are really like. They are not what you might think. Most | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
people think they're a bit too nice these days. That's thanks to | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
Hollywood. In fact, they were criminals. Exactly. So they were | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
not particularly nice people. But on the other hand, they were not | :46:12. | :46:20. | |
quite as nasty as people said at the time. These pirates, they still | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
had their wenches. So, what's your name? Marina. How come you got | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
involved with this lot? I was part of a medieval re-enactment group. I | :46:32. | :46:41. | |
got involved in this kind of thing, so I moved on into the pirate thing. | :46:41. | :46:51. | |
:46:51. | :47:15. | ||
I am Sue. Who is the best here at On the family grave in Hampshire, | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
two initials commemorate one of the most famous women in British | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
history, Florence Nightingale, widely regarded as the founder of | :47:23. | :47:28. | |
modern nursing, and legendary for tending wounded soldiers during the | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
Crimean War. She was born in Florence, hence the name. I knew | :47:34. | :47:41. | |
she came from a wealthy family, but I wasn't expecting this. This is | :47:41. | :47:48. | |
her family home in Romsey, Hampshire. Florence's father paid | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
�125,000 for it in 1825, when over �9 million in today's money. I am | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
spending the night here to find out how her childhood influenced the | :47:58. | :48:06. | |
woman she was to become. This grand house is no was cool, but there is | :48:06. | :48:15. | |
plenty Florence would recognise. I like this! The library was very | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
important to Florence, from her earliest years, when she arrived | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
here, aged five. She learned everything from her father, | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
including philosophy and history. She is recorded to have been a | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
superb mathematician, and a lot of that came from her father. | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
young Florence grow up at a time when a woman of her class was | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
expected to be a wife and mother, but she wanted something different. | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
These are just some of her writings, thousands of letters and essays, | :48:44. | :48:54. | |
:48:54. | :48:58. | ||
statistical studies. She also sang and played the piano and later | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
would recommend music as therapy for patients. The popular view of | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
Florence Nightingale is as a gentle figure, wafting around with her | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
lamp, but that was not necessarily the case. No, if she had been | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
gentle, she would not have got anywhere. By the standards of the | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
age, she was extremely feisty. If you thought of Margaret Thatcher | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
with a lump, you would be much closer. Florence never got married, | :49:26. | :49:36. | |
:49:36. | :49:38. | ||
and often described herself as a man of action. -- with a lamp. By | :49:38. | :49:44. | |
the 1850s, she was running a small hospital in London. When she set | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
off in October 1854, she was just heading off an expedition of nurses, | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
but when she found that the situation in the Crimea was so bad, | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
and because her work was reported so favourably, immediately be she | :49:57. | :50:04. | |
became a media star. So, where and my sleeping tonight? They have put | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
me on the ground floor, where the butler slept. I know my place. | :50:09. | :50:17. | |
Clearly, I was not going to make a film about Florence Nightingale | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
without brandishing one of these. This is the type she used in the | :50:21. | :50:31. | |
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Crimea. Not the type seen so often I slept very benignly beneath the | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
lovely big picture of Florence Nightingale. I wonder what she felt | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
like being in this great big place, with these big gardens. I think she | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
might have got a bit bored. I am thinking she really wanted to get | :50:56. | :51:06. | |
out into the world. Another thing that struck me about this house is | :51:06. | :51:14. | |
the fact that the windows had wonderful views. Particularly here, | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
in the drawing room, which was added as an extension to the house | :51:17. | :51:24. | |
by the Nightingale family in the 1830s. She later wondered about | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
turning it into a hospital ward. She might have preferred this place | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
to have been a hospital, but I doubt she would have minded it | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
being a school, a place to inspire young people to get out into the | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
world and follow the example of Florence Nightingale, get things | :51:38. | :51:45. | |
done. Good advice. If you're worried about the pirates, things | :51:45. | :51:52. | |
have calmed down over there. It was always the way, apparently. | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations are on their way, and | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
you are all invited to the big street party. The man handing out | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
the invitations is the Eden Project's Tim Smit. We are hoping | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
to put together the biggest gathering of people on the streets | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
of our country since VE Day. It is happening on June 3rd. There's four | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
days of celebrations, the wonderful pageant on the River Thames in | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
London, the concert on the Monday, the beacons all over the country, | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
and the thing which takes place everywhere in Britain will be the | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
Big Lunch, where ordinary people get out and meet their neighbours. | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
You have done this before, you were not sure whether to do it again, | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
but you had all of this correspondence afterwards? Yes, we | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
had about a million people taking part, and then people said, it has | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
changed our neighbourhoods, we have set up babysitting circles, cycling | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
clubs, it has created a fabric in society. Last year we had four | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
million people taking part. You have Barbara Windsor on. Yes, live | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
on the show. Absolutely, but this year, already come on the website, | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
we have had more than five times the number of people who took part | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
last year have registered already. You have said that one of the most | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
difficult things is just knocking on the door and saying hello to | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
your neighbour for the first time, for some people? That's right. It | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
carries through right into your adulthood. The Big Lunch gives you | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
permission to knock on that door and say, a friend, let's have lunch | :53:33. | :53:42. | |
together. Do you know the names of your neighbours, Jake? Yes, and | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
didn't quite proud of that, because it does not always happen in London. | :53:45. | :53:55. | |
So, the names are...? We have flats next door to us, Peter and Maddie | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
in the top flat, Peter is a West End star, John and Gustav | :53:59. | :54:07. | |
downstairs. A couple of South African brothers. Barbara | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
downstairs, and above Barbara, they have just moved in. But I do not | :54:13. | :54:23. | |
know their names. What about you, David, you live in Monaco? Yes, so, | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
Prince Albert is my landlord, I guess. Can you get him involved | :54:28. | :54:36. | |
with the Big Lunch, please? Is bunting biggie in Monaco? I'm not | :54:36. | :54:44. | |
sure. I am in a racing block, for racing drivers. I have got Felipe | :54:44. | :54:49. | |
Massa as my neighbour. His little kid running up and down, or maybe | :54:49. | :54:55. | |
it is him. What about you, David Tennant? I am very well acquainted | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
with my neighbours, but I'm not going into it on national | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
television. Very diplomatic. Good luck with this, and thanks for | :55:02. | :55:11. | |
being here, Tim Smit. And we have got more about that on our website. | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
Here's a story, last month, Britain's rhythmic gymnastics team | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
were on the show, fearing that their Olympic dream was over, after | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
a misunderstanding on qualification. The last time they were here, they | :55:23. | :55:29. | |
could not have been more sad. But I bet they will be a lot happier now, | :55:29. | :55:36. | |
because they will be participating after all. Come in, Sarah, can you | :55:36. | :55:42. | |
hear us? Yes, we can hear you. us about the moment you realised | :55:42. | :55:49. | |
you were in the Games. Oh, it was just fantastic. We all gathered | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
together in a room, we were holding hands, and we got the news, we just | :55:53. | :56:00. | |
screamed.. Could you believe it at the time? Well, yes, because we | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
always knew we were right on the documents. But it was great that it | :56:04. | :56:11. | |
finally happened, and we were going to the Olympic Games. I know it was | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
really emotional, but what was the moment actually like? We had to | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
prepare ourselves for the worst, so we were hoping for good news, but | :56:23. | :56:32. | |
obviously, we were not so sure. you scream and shout? Screaming, | :56:32. | :56:38. | |
shouting, crying, everything. That's the way to do it, hope for | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
the best, prepare for the worst. are really looking forward to | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
seeing you perform in the Games. And they have done something | :56:45. | :56:49. |