09/07/2012 The One Show

Hello. Welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Tonight

is dedicated to the great wet weekend that we had. Lots of you

probably wore one of these, the fashionable poncho. Indeed, but

that is not what we are talking about right now so we can take it

off! Tonight's guests are an odd couple, but they have two things in

common, the love of tennis and the country of Moldova. It is Pat Cash

and Tony Hawks! Good to see you both. Pat Cash, straight in for the

question that lots of people are asking you, is that as close as

Murray is going to get to the Wimbledon trophy? I don't think so.

I think he will win at some stage. You must have tipped him. I tipped

Rafael Nadal and he went out! You know, the top four guys have been

winning all of the titles. Murray played a very good match. He is

getting closer all the time. It is hard to expect him to beat Roger

Federer. A few things worked against him yesterday. The roof?

really suits Roger Federer's style of play. He plays a risky type of

game. When the winds of blowing the ball around, he cannot play that

game quite so well. It was unlucky for Murray but he is getting closer

all the time. It is focus. It is all up there, just because. Emotion

and the release after the match, it was fantastic. Did you shed a tear?

I did. It was lovely that he showed that side to him and we have warmed

to him. I think the whole nation has. I was wiping tears away. We

were asking if you have had a Murray moment. When could you not

hold back those tears and if you have got a photo, all the better,

there is the address to send them in. We will read them out at the

end of the show. Empty beaches, muddy car parks, damp socks. 2012

photo albums are going to look pretty much the same! So what do

you do? Stake in or go out and make the best of it? Angela Bell met

those whose motto is to wrap up and carry on. -- Angellica Bell.

might think that organising outdoor summer event would be relatively

easy, but June has been one of the wettest on record. And so far July

has been absolutely... Bucketing down. Lashing it down. Horrible!

The East of England Show held outside Peterborough has been

running since the 1700's. Despite the forecast it has still attracted

a keen crowd today. The farming public has to work in all weathers

and keep going. I think in Britain we do it. It has not put a damper

on the day? I have enjoyed it. I would like to do the judging in my

kilt and worries but that might not be suitable! My parents have got

sheep and they came yesterday and slept in a tent. What? In the mad?

Yes! -- are they mad? It was very bad yesterday. The did not consider

not coming tomorrow? Of course not. Has the rain affected business?

Sort of. As soon as it rained, everybody disappeared. When the sun

came back out, everybody came back out and that was nice. You have

been in a country for 10 months. What do you think of the British

weather? Horrible! I was expecting sunshine. It is just rainfall. We

are going back to winter and they do not know what is happening.

we talk too much about the weather in this country? Yes, we talk about

it. I like it because you make us prepare. Maybe, as a wise man once

said, it is true that there is no such thing as the wrong weather,

just the wrong clothes. I always say that! You have told me

that twice before! Yes, get the message! Thank you very much for

that. Many people in the South West of England have had to deal with

real flooding this weekend. Some remarkable pictures on the news.

Anita Rani is in Lancashire with a community that has been helping

each other out. Hello. Hello. Don't be fooled by the blue skies. The

small town of Darwen was affected by the appalling weather that we

have had. The reason being that the river Darwen runs underneath and

behind this pub. It has happen not just once. And the last four weeks,

this pub has flooded three times. The landlord of the pub is Anthony.

How bad has it been? Horrendous, nearly catastrophic. The cellar is

totally flooded, 9 ft of water. We lost all of our stock and equipment.

That happened a couple of weeks ago and then this weekend you were down

there again bailing it out. Yes. After the first episode we put in

some emergency pumps so that we could deal with any problems and

luckily that has kept the water level down this weekend. Touch wood

it will carry on. Touch wood. In nine years of being the landlord,

have you seen anything like this? Nothing like this. It has been

catastrophic. We hope it stays dry. Businesses have also been affected.

Jonathan is a solicitor. Normally you sort out the flooding claims.

What happened to you? We had bad weather over the last week and then

on Friday the police told us to evacuate the building. That was

because the buildings could fall down? Yes, the flooding have caused

problems in the alleys behind and the buildings were going to fall

down. We hope it stays dry. Throughout all of this, the

community has pulled together so cheers to you all. Cheers!

weather that we have had has been so sporadic. From drought to this.

It is just depressing. For you Dickens fans, you will have great

expectations of this next film. author's favourite holiday home was

in Broadstairs in Kent. Arthur Smith went for bed and breakfast at

Bleak House. In 1851, novelist Charles Dickens

wrote a fond portrait of an English seaside resort with its semi-circle

sweep of houses and we're all food and beer. -- strange old wooden

pier. He was describing Broadstairs in Kent. He was renting that house

on the cliff at the time and that is where I am spending tonight.

There are a lot of houses in Broadstairs that lay claim to

hosting Charles Dickens. And some that do not! He came to Broadstairs

for many years, the first time in 1837 when he was writing the

Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. Very soon he latched on to lodgings

on top of the cliff. Fort House, as it was known there. The name was

changed by an entrepreneurial owner after Dickens died in two Bleak

House to make the connection complete, but that is why he spent

his summers. He wrote there? wrote wherever he was, he couldn't

not right. He rode David Copperfield here. The great scene

at the end of the novel, the massive ship work and the body

washed up on the beach, that was written at Bleak House. -- the

massive shipwreck. It was a great inspiration. Watery walls came

rolling in, threatening to engulf the town. It was fear from this

view that he got the inspiration for the famous storm scene. -- it

was here. David Copperfield was Dickens's most autobiographical

novel, and much around Broadstairs inspired him. What is now the

Dickens Museum was the fictional home of David Potters -- David

Copperfield's aunt. Bleak House itself does not feature in the book.

Amazingly, its current owners were not attracted by its literary past.

When you came here, you did not really know much about the Murray -

- Dickens connection? Not at all. We thought it was a lovely place

but I now realise more. I have never been such a than that I have

read the books. But now that I have read a couple and I think they are

brilliant. Do you ever think as you are sitting in your rooms that this

is where Charles Dickens was? I have done that a few times. If

anybody wants to sit in the chair at Charles Dickens's death can take

pictures, I do not mind. The children write notes and put them

inside the desk. Has anybody ever suggested that you are Dickensian

character yourself? I get that all the time. All the time! I wonder

what he would have called you. Don't say A Bumble. He was much

fatter than me! This is where I am spending the night tonight, said to

be the very bedroom where Charles Dickens slept. I wonder how he

would have spent the evening after the children had been put to bed

and all of the words were gone from his bed. Maybe you would have had a

drink in the Albion Hotel, or at the frigate, which he described as

the cosiest sailors in. Maybe he would have stood on this terrace

and watch the light training from the sky. Half-awake and half asleep,

this idle morning in our sunny window on the edge of a chalk cliff.

That is how Charles Dickens described Broadstairs and this

House, 160 years ago. Skies, C, beach and village, lying still

before us as if they were sitting for the picture. It is still quite

a scintillating view. I can imagine sitting here and writing all summer

myself. If I was not so lazy! Broadstairs heritage is celebrated

every year with a week-long festival. Millions of people have

been inspired to visit this town. It is sad to think that after the

publication, the tourists arrived and Charles Dickens laughed. It was

no longer the quietest little place in the world. -- Charles Dickens

left. It was never quite the same for Charles Dickens.

So beautiful. You would love that. We have to thank Arthur Smith for

this whole world of playing the Moldavians at tennis. This is now a

film and it was a book. Give us some idea of how it started. I was

watching England play Moldova in the World Cup qualifiers with

Arthur Smith. I had been playing tennis and he said he did not think

I was very good. I said that I was number two in Sussex as a junior.

He said that I was not good enough to beat those footballers. I said

but I was because but callers are not so good at tennis. --

footballers are not so good. I said the England team would never let me

play them and so I had to play the Moldova team and the loser of the

bat had to strip naked and sink the Moldova national anthem. -- the bet.

Then I set off on that adventure, it made the book and then the film.

What is your part in that? Tony is an old friend of mine. We have a

passion for tennis and we have a charity which tries to get free

coaching for children on public courts. We feel that is very

necessary in the UK. Plus, starred in the movie! I did not, just three

words of commentary! It is a fantastic movie. Travelling around

the world to play tennis you have some amazing Adventures but it was

nothing like this one that he had travelling around Moldova and

everywhere else, trying to play these people. It was fantastic.

Let's have a little look. You start talking them off one after another.

Lovely! Absolutely brilliant. That bet worked out well, a book and a

film. What you need is another challenge, really. Maybe but it is

enough of a challenge getting a film out and about. We are a small,

independent film, let's face it. think it is time to set up

challenge number two. We have a certain Arthur Smith on the

telephone right now. What is next? This is what I propose. You have

done the Irish, you have done Moldova and it is time for the

Welsh. Wales became the first country recently to have a public

right of way around the coast. You have got to walk round it, starting

with nothing. You cannot advertise it in advance. You have got to turn

up wearing only what you are wearing, and find places to stay,

some way of eating, for the whole thing. I bet you cannot do it

because you are not man enough. If you lose the bet, you have to stand

in a tars and costume in Caernarvon Castle and sing the Welsh national

anthem. And what will he do if he does do it? This is the thing. He

gets me doing things and he just sits on a sofa and watches

television! OK, I might take you on. I will have a think about that.

have cut him off! He is gone. The see you later. Wherever he is

staying has not got very good reception. Playing The Moldovans At

Tennis is out now in cinemas. we are giving all the money to this

care centre for children with Now, it is just 18 days to go until

the Olympic counting down finally stops. Over the last few weeks, Ade

Adepitan has been introducing some of the 1948 London Olympians to

their morpbt counterparts. Tonight he takes a look at hockey. A

dangerous game, that. At the last London Olympics in 1948,

the British male hockey team won a silver medal.

John Peak, who is now 87, was Britain's youngest player at 23.

64 years later, and Olympic hockey is back in London. 19-year-old

Harry Martin is the youngest member of the team, trying to build on

John's legacy. It is so much quicker. I'm glad I'm

not playing now. The One Show has brought John and

Harry together here. The sport has changed since John

was playing? We did not have a training base at all. We did not

get together until a few months before the Olympics, we did not

know we had been chosen. How long have you been together? Overall we

train about three years. I would not say we were not fit,

but nothing like the athletic stage with all of the doctors, the food

and the training schedule. I work in the gym on month Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, two pit sessions, Thursday, and Friday, two pit

sessions and then running and Saturday.

Amazing. John, what was it like being the

youngest member of the team? suppose that they looked after me.

How old are you Harry? 19. You get a bit of stick, but it is usually

deserve. But they look after me. What is it like being 19 years old

and in a high-performance team? Sometimes I get a call from my

friends as I just started university, but none of that, it is

all worth it. Iefpl not jealous at all! In 1948 food was rationed in

Britain, but athletes were permitted the occasional treat.

We probably had a few sausages that we should not have done. When I was

at the Naval College at Greenwich, I do remember there was a special

breakfast, I got eggs for breakfast. Other did not.

We are given individual programmes depending on what you need.

Pies, burgers? Not that anyone is fat, but some are told to stay off

the carbs! Not fat, but told to stay off the carbs?! That means you

are fat! Sport science has made today's players stronger, fitter

and faster. Hockey is now so fast that at London 2012, the pitches

will be blue with a pink surround. That and the yellow balls, help the

spectators and the cameras to keep track of the action. There are a

few reasons why the game is so much quicker, the most obvious is the

surface it is Astro turf, that is very different from the green,

green grass of Wembley that John played on in the 1948 Games. The

ball has even changed. The ball that John used looked like a

cricket ball. Soft leather, even with a seam. It would absorb

Moysure and get dirty and have to be replaced erten minutes or so,

slowing the game down. Now the ball is a hard plastic and reaches

speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. Another reason that the game is so

quick is because of the stick that the players use. This is the 1948

stick, but even then, some nations were ahead of the game.

This is the British stick, that was the stick that the Indians were

using. When we played in the final, they were able with their sticks to

move it about much more quickly and carefully than we were. They were

very good at it. They were more effective than we were on the grass,

which we thought would be better for us. Today as sticks are made

from advance materials, like carbon firebrand and Kevlar. The sticks

that Harry use are very strong and the smaller heads means that they

move the sticks quicker, results in faster dribbling, faster swings and

seriously vicious hits. There is a good chance with the home support

that both men and women teams can win the medals this year. I know

that one person will be watching this extremely fast sport closely!

I just said that Australia are going to win! On that hockey stick,

another fact for you. It is connected to farming.

Hockey gets its name from the French word for shep hard's crook.

There you go. It has been a fascinating series. Ade Adepitan,

what have been the main differences looking back to' 48? Obviously the

equipment, but what struck me was rationing. The fresh food produce

was a luxury back then. The athletes now we could not train

the same way as we do now with their food. Bradley Wiggins is

doing the tour do France, he southerns -- burns up 6,000

calories a day, that would have been impossible then.

Now, the training camps, they are not just in London? This is what I

love. We bring it home, we are spreading it around the country. In

Aberdeen, the Cameroon team are staying up there. I know you are

laughing! But a little bit of rain and cold. In Antrim there are three

teams staying there, Egypt is one of them. Stop laughing, dudes! In

Cardiff there is also another three teams, Trinidad and Tobago, so Alex,

you can welcome them. Orpls Ormskirk, this is a test of

geography. The Federated States of Micronesia are one of the countries

staying there. And in lovely East Anglia, Bury St

Edmunds, we have Rwanda staying there.

You are getting the torch very soon? I will be. On the 26th of

July. I will be carrying the torch through London. I will be keeping

my hair back so it does not go up in flames! Any way, coal mines were

once the backbone of British industry. Now there is a major

concern for two -- million homeowners, whose houses are built

on top of them. Mortgage lenders are so reluctant to lend on these

properties, many are finding it difficult to move.

The housing of the 60s, transformed the British landscape, creating

modern housing etaits like this one, but 50 years on, the area's past is

badly affecting its future. You would not think it to look at it,

but this house is unsellable, or unbuyable, the reason? It was built

on top of a former coal mine. As a result, the only person who did put

in an offer last year was refused a mortgage.

And that's because until 1949 this whole area was a colliery, dotted

with mine shafts. Vertical holes drilled up to 1 80m into the

grounds. After the coal shaft closed, the shafts were corped, the

estate built, and hundreds of families moved into the new homes.

We moved in August of 1975, the problem came when we tried to sell

the property in 2009. The person buying the house could not get a

mortgage because of the coal mining report.

The house is close to four former mine shafts, long since covered by

homes and gardens, but this was not a problem when Lawrence bought the

house. It say in the letter that there are no active workings to

affect the property? That is correct. That is one of the reasons

why the mortgage company gave us the mortgage in 1975.

But now that has changed. The chance that damage could occur in

the future has made the lenders cautious. He they are saying that

the property is in the likely zone of influence.

That is fine, unless you bought the place in 19 79.

The coal mines are have offered to reassure buyers and mortgage

companies that should something go wrong that they will not have to

pay out, but this has not worked. Caroline Gripton is the estate

agent whose job it was to sell Lawrence's house in 2009. Have you

had problems selling houses in this area because of the mine shafts?

the 11 years I have been an estate agent locally, we have had four

properties deemed unmortgagable. A couple here, specifically, number

30, across the road, there and another couple further up the

street. Mine shafts only pose a problem for buildings within 20

metres, but this was not the case when many residents bought their

homes. In 1991, the goalposts moved. You could mortgage a property

providing there were no mines within five metres. Then at the

beginning of the 1990s, that became 20 metres. Because a lot of the

people have lived here for many years it has never been an issue

because they bought at a time when that restriction was not in place.

There are more than 2 million homes at risk of damage by being built

near former coal mines. In the current economic climate, mortgage

companies are risk-averse. We asked an independent surveyor to check

out how the mine affects the value of Lawrence's house.

We can see on the map that in the vicinity we have four main shafts.

We are here and there are two in the opposite property's garden and

two behind the property. And two in front. So this is the house we are

standing outside of now. What about a house for example up here that

does not have any mine shafts around it at all? This house would

probably be worth in the region of up to �150,000.

And this one? Because of the close proximity of the four mine shafts,

the current value base on that would be about �90,000.

What a difference! Absolutely. this house has had no con

structural problems, does that not come into it? Unfortunately not,

even though there are no cracks or signs of movement caused by a mine

shaft, the fact that there are four within this area is what the

problem is and there is a risk. Off the back of that, solicitors and

surveyors have to advise their clients on the risks.

After a full assessment, Sophie told us that she would be reluctant

to recommend a mortgage company lends on the house at all.

Lawrence's only hope now is to find a cash buyer or to sell at a

significant loss. Who is going to buy a property with

mines in the vicinity? It would help me if the property fell down

and nobody got hurt. Now, earlier on we asked for your

stories and photos of the Andy Murray moments we have loads. We

have this one from Ross, whether his beautiful wife walked down the

aisle, he could not hold the tears back.

Bless you. And this one, the mum and dad

turned up to their daughter's 21st birthday in Uganda. Daughter Cora

having a moment, when she put a bow in her hair. This is a nice one,

the husband giving a speech about how much he loved his wife. Pat

said, he was crying because he was gutted! Now, before we go, it is

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