09/12/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the wonderful, wonderful one show with Alex Jones.

And this week's wonderful co-host, the man behind the Citizen Kane

beard, Adil Ray. Lovely to see you. Thank you, lovely to be here. It is

a triple bill this evening. Citizen Kane and then Have I Got News For

You. I might even do the weather after the news! I could not have

picked a better day to be here, Katie Melua will be back performing

with the hauntingly beautiful voices of the langur later in the show. --

this evening is the man who has once again managed to transfix an entire

nation by showing us the wonders of planet Earth. It's impossible not to

be impressed by the sheer grandeur and splendour of the natural world.

That footage is quite something. Please welcome, of course, Sir David

Attenborough. Lovely to see you, nice to have you back. Well, we have

lots to talk about because of the huge success of Planet Earth II but

of course, we haven't seen you since you celebrated your 90th birthday so

congratulations on that. Thank you. The same year, of course, as Her

Majesty The Queen and we have a lovely picture of you two, last

month, sharing a little joke. Do we know what the conversation was? I

wouldn't dare tell you! Come on! I can't remember. She is very nice and

charming. You must know that quite well by now. Well, I used to produce

the Christmas broadcast. This is it. I saw her regularly come every year,

but that was a long time ago. We heard that back in the day that one

year, you had to pick her outfit. It was the very first year, actually,

when we were trying to work out which room in Buckingham Palace we

were going to use. And actually, it was a room with green wallpaper. I

then said, "What will the Queen be wearing?" And I was told it was a

green outfit. It's never going to work is it? I said it wouldn't work

and they asked me to suggest what would work. So I suggested a rather

sort of rusty kind of red thing. Rusty? Not rusty! It was a kind

of... I don't know what you'd call it. Festive, red and green, lovely.

It was not so festive, it was sort of maroon. That's all right.

Oatmeal? That's a lovely colour. That kind of thing. You heard it

here first, Sir David Attenborough went through the Queen's draws. We

will be talking all about Planet Earth II in just a minute and if you

have seen the Diaries segment at the end of each episode, you know the

extraordinary lengths the team go to to film it. Sunday's episode is all

about cities so we have asked one of the team's cameraman to add some

Planet Earth Magic to one of Edinburgh's biggest spectacles.

I'm Rob Whitworth, a photographer and film-maker. I known for taking a

new visual approach making builds, many of which have gone viral. My

ambition is to tell the story in one amazing, single-shot. To achieve it,

I usually shoot with multiple cameras, simultaneously capturing

the same scene from different angles. After the shoot, I blend the

images together to create a seemingly impossible journey through

space and time. The final film incorporates a range of shots from

synapses to zoom in detail shots. -- from time lapses. On the BBC series

Planet Earth II I really tried to push the boundaries. In one

sequence, I film from every floor of a skyscraper to create this

impossible rising shot, as Knight becomes day. In this decade, the

urban environment is predicted to grow by nearly 30%.

Now The One Show has set me the challenge of capturing the Royal

Edinburgh military Tattoo as you have never seen it before, in one

single, flowing movement. The cameras are in place. Let's do

this. Job done!

Just like that, job done, but we spoke to rob the cameraman and he

said it took five cameras, three days rehearsal and the main thing

against him was the weather in Edinburgh. They had a huge storm but

then it clear and they managed it. Brilliant footage. Scottish weather,

though, isn't it? People say that about Wales. It is so annoying. It

is sometimes very sunny in Scotland and Wales, all right? Once a year.

Sunday's episode is all about cities. Why did you choose that for

this series? A very important environment, we all live there, of

course, well, over half the human race lives in towns these days. And

they occupy a very significant part of the earth's surface. And we have

to share them. Animals come in because there are lots of good

things to be had, like fish and chips and chicken dinners among

other things. Tasty things. There are wild animals in this city, of

course, not just rats necessarily but Fox is all over the place. --

foxes all over the place. Cities all over the world are being colonised

by different animals, monkeys in India for example, they live in

cities all the time and manipulate cities. They know where the markets

are, they know where there is good food. We have lovely footage of the

monkeys you are talking about, here they are, free running across

rooftops of jodhpur in India. He has chased off the bachelors away. But a

splinter group has looped back and is harassing his females.

APPLAUSE Fantastic. Great. One of the many

scenes that captured the nation's imagination, really, and became a

real talking point was the baby iguana running away from the race

are snakes. It was footage the crew stumbled upon white mistake by all

accounts. -- by the racer snakes. I've been on the Galapagos half a

dozen times over the years, I think but I had never heard of these

snakes waiting for the emergence of the baby turtles, marine iguanas, I

mean. It is how they all come out, it is just amazing. Yes, and when

they do, this is what happens. I was on the edge of my seat like

everybody else, I think. I'm not that scare. Snakes but when I watch

this, I had to put my feet up, it was so scary! Why do you think it

captured everyone's imagination? What was it about this footage? To

start with, only happens for a very short period in the year and I don't

know any other Galapagos cameraman who has ever captured it before but

isn't it intensely dramatic? And if I may say so, it is beautifully

edited by the editors of the series. And given to refit music. --

terrific music. All of the factors, all of the skills which you could

have in film-making have been focused on that and produce an

effect which absolutely gripped the nation. It certainly gripped me when

I first saw it. You mention the music and you listen to it and at

times it is like watching a Hollywood blockbuster. It is written

by a Hollywood composer, Hans Zimmer. Heeded Pearl Harbor,

gladiator. What difference does the music make? What impact does it

have? Good music can add greatly to the drama of the film. Not everyone

enjoys it. I get some letters from people who say they don't like the

music. Really? Yes. You don't have to like it but I think the

overwhelming majority of people find that it adds hugely to the drama.

Hugely, yeah. You were saying about the first time you see the footage

because of course you write and narrate the series. When does it

come to you? When it is very raw or when it has been edited? In the old

days, I used to go out with one cameraman and we would try to make a

series, back in the 1950s, I'm talking about. These days, there are

over 20 cameramen working on a series like this so the stuff comes

in. There is a masterplan which has evolved as to what the sequences

are, and then it comes in and it is edited and it is a big team effort.

I don't come in until right at the end when I write the commentary and

record it. But you are the icing on the cake! LAUGHTER

We have a little girl who is two and has had a go at putting her own

commentary on some of the series. Let's have a look at this. It is a

buzzy bee! A polar bear. It is a goat. What is that? A square role.

Oh, a scroll. I can see more squirrels. It is a bear. -- a

squirrel. I can see two bears. She is only two! Do you think Juno has

potential? You might have to retire. It is remarkable, aged two, she

cannot have seen any of these creatures except on TV and perhaps

not even then. But she has been such a hit on social media, we thought we

would get her in and she has had a look at the episode that goes out on

Sunday to see what she thought. This was her reaction. Oh, look, that's a

monkey. He's jumping over the wall. Oh, look, he's eating. A crisp!

Look, he's going like this. Oh, look, there's a baby one. APPLAUSE

Amazing. She is only two? And she recognised that that was a baby

monkey. That's extraordinary. I mean, that is really very clever and

perceptive. Very much so and she would have loved to have stayed and

met tube but it was well past their bedtime so unfortunately, dad Adam,

thanks for bringing her in but he had to take home. And she has a

meeting with her agent to discuss her next TV deal! Planet Earth II is

out on DVD and you can see the final episode of the series on Sunday at

8pm on BBC One. He is one of 2016's unlikeliest

stars but Ted McDermott has become one of the unlikeliest stars. We

sent Lucy to make peace on a minute man.

L is for the way you look at me... Millions of people have enjoyed

watching videos of Ted and his son after videos of them singing in the

car went viral online. But sadly Ted doesn't know of his fame as he was

diagnosed with outsiders in 2013. # My darling, tell me when...

They call him the song a minute man and I'm here to meet him.

# How much I love you... Ted has been an entertainer all his

life. He was a Butlins redcoat and then travelled the country singing

in the bars and clubs. I met him in Blackpool in 1974 and I went to the

national at Blackpool and he was singing there. What did you think? I

thought his voice was absolutely amazing. Did you think, that is the

man for me? Not initially! I was just dumbstruck by his voice! When I

was a kid I was quite embarrassed about it because he was an

entertainer and I was like... But he has got a gift and when he started

for debt -- forgetting those songs, I thought, my dad is going to

disappear and disappear into obscurity, and we would never hear

his voice again, and I didn't want that to happen. There are days when

he doesn't know me or my mum at all. He can get quite aggressive. I don't

think people realise with Alzheimer's how difficult it can be

if you are in with that confusion and the confusion often has anger.

As soon as he is happy and singing, the darkness is cleared for a bit

and he is more joyful, really. So your dad was a tenor. I use the

same? -- are you the same? # In my heart! As well as singing

every day, Ted has already recorded a single.

# You make me feel so young... Simon is now crowdfunding to release an

album of Ted's songs, with some of the proceeds going to the

Alzheimer's Society. # Such a happy individual

# I want to go play hide-and-seek... I get a buzz out of the fact that he

knows there's something going on. What does music mean to you? I don't

know. It brings you joy. If you don't bring joy to people there

something wrong with you. # I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

# Just like the ones I used to know...

# Tree tops glistened... If you are watching and you are

available on Boxing Day I would love to but you! He's from the city of

the stars, my city, Birmingham! Katie Melua has joined us in the

studio. Hello. Your album is finally out but it's been a while coming. It

has been, but can I say, before we get onto that, this is such an

honour to meet you and sit with you. So, guessed, it seems a bit crazy to

just chat about my album now! -- so, yeah. But my album is out. My record

is out. This is just lovely! It took a while to make it because it was

made in quite a different way to the other records I made. How? I parted

ways with my previous collaborator. I have a great creative partner but

as I neared my 30s, our creative goals drifted and I also discovered

a choir from my home country of Georgia, and they are called the

Gori Women's Choir. They are here with me and we will be performing at

the end of the show. It is a very unique sound, this, Katie, isn't it?

How would you describe it? Well, the traditional polyphonic singing is on

the UNESCO intangible list because it is very unique and they have very

rich harmonies. This record In Winter we have teamed up with a

brilliant British composer and he did a fantastic job because I have

been back home and it's a very rich sound, but for the record, I'm a

British singer in a sense, and I moved over here when I was eight.

And the record's about my perspective of the two different

cultures. And how I view life in the West from the Georgian perspective

and vice versa, because it's really fascinating to have these dual

perspectives. And In Winter is the most beautiful record for this time

of year. And you will be performing with the choir, won't you? Yes, it

is a Ukrainian song we discovered. Many people know it as the famous

Carol Of The Bells, but its roots are Ukrainian. We look forward to

that very much. This weekend marks the 80th

anniversary of one of the most famous radio broadcasters, when King

Edward VIII announced his abdication from the throne, choosing love over

his royal duty. Wallis Simpson was described as the life of -- life and

soul of the party, but her later years tell a very different tale.

On the 24th of April 19 86, Wallis Simpson died here in how opulent

villa in Paris. She had married into the British Royal Family but by the

time she died, her closest companion was her lawyer. She was the

glamorous American divorcee whose love affair with King Edward VIII

caused a constitutional crisis in the 30s that inspired Hollywood for

years to come. You certainly know the name to a woman's heart.

In 1936, Edward chose to turn his back on all of this and abdicate

rather than give up the woman he loved. The story is well known. The

Royal Family shunned them, the nation was divided, but Edward was

obsessed with his exotic good time girl. She was so chic. There eat --

there's a reason why she earned the reputation for being one of the best

dressed women on Earth. She really was. When she married, she became

the Duchess of Windsor. She was never treated like a member of the

Royal Family in life but her will was classified as Royal. That means

the full contents might never be revealed. But there's plenty of

speculation about it. What we do know is that when she died, she left

behind a considerable fortune, mostly jewellery. It was auctioned

the following year and it fetched ?31 million, equivalent to ?100

million in today's money. That money was all given to a French research

charity with which she had no obvious connection.

Edward had died in 1972 and some have speculated that in her final

years, she was being manipulated by the lawyer who took care of her

affairs. Her gatekeeper and all prisoner, depending how you look at

it, was a French lawyer who stopped allowing Wallis Simpson's friends

from going to see her. She had absolute control over everything to

do with her. She was interviewed by the BBC in 1982. For seven years

now, she has been bedridden... Being only able to be taken to an armchair

in front of the windows to look at the trees. This woman is supposed to

be her lawyer and it was a great power trip, and I think a very sick

one, too. The journalist has written a biography of the Duchess of

Windsor. I think Suzanne was a bit in love with Wallis, wanted to

protect her and convey what she believed were her wishes. The jewels

of the Duchess of Windsor... Within a year of the Duchess' death, she

organised this amazing sale of the century of all of Wallis' jewellery,

but these were iconic pieces and raised ?31 million. Let's have a

look at some of the jewellery. Ah, that beautiful diamond and Onyx

Panther. I was inspired to try on this fabulous bracelet. It's

wonderfully liked and articulated and it moves as you move. It is a

stunning collection and it raised the equivalent today of ?100

million, and that then remarkably was given to this French charity.

What happened after that? We had Suzanne telling reporters this is

her version in her discussions of Wallis' wishes. Without a will it is

hard to know if these were her actual wishes or if Suzanne chose

the charity herself. There was no obvious connection. It is

mysterious. We just don't have a document which has Wallis'

signature. Once renowned of the life and soul of the party, at the end,

Wallis was a silent recluse. There is little doubt in my mind Wallis

wanted to be isolated. This was a woman who loved people. She was

buried in winter alongside her beloved Edward. -- in Windsor.

That dual array was absolutely beautiful, wasn't it? Speaking of

which, we are going to hear from Katie and acquire shortly. And look

at that coat! She has named it! On Wednesday's show, as you or somebody

you know still got a letter they wrote to Santa as a child? Get in

touch via the usual ways and send us a photo of the letter, and you could

appear on Wednesday's show. That is it for tonight. Thanks to Sir David

Attenborough. Planet Earth II is out now on DVD. Have a very Merry

Christmas, Adil. More great guests on the show next week, including

Liam Neeson and Jamie Oliver, talking all about Christmas food.

And don't forget, Citizen Khan is on tonight at 8pm! Thank you! Now it is

Katie Melua and the Gori Women's Choir. Have a fantastic weekend.

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