10/02/2014 The One Show

fine. She is the first Lady of musical theatre, so you cannot

rush. Shall I give her a ring? Go on, then. Hello, the programme is

about to start, so are you ready? Do you know who I am? What did she say?

I could have played it differently. Is everything fine? Yes, it is fine.

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. She

has made it from her star dressing room, please welcome Elaine Paige.

Make yourself at home. That was very funny. It is a big day because you

are celebrating 50 years, but you are saying farewell to touring. I

have decided I am going to hang up my touring shoes. Today sky TV have

announced I am going to be doing this new TV series. I will change

one genre for another. From musical theatre to television and stop

living out of a suitcase. We have got some lovely tributes coming up.

Because one of your main roles was Grizzabella in Cats, we hope you

would appreciate this tribute from this little fellow. We could not

work out what he was trying to sing, but if you put Memories underneath

it becomes really emotive. CAT WAILING TO SONG. I want to take him

home. And he is called Opera. How apt. So his name is not

Grizzabella. Nowadays children learn how to use smartphones, laptops and

tablets before they tied their shoelaces. Tony Livesey has advice

on how to avoid getting tripped up by modern technology, but first he

has been to a school in Sale to ask the pupils there what they like

about their smartphones. This is Sale High School. 650 fun loving,

smartphone using 11 to 16-year-olds. They have agreed to open out about

what they are doing and seeing on their handsets. Some parents think

they are keeping an eye on what is going on. My mum can check my

messages. She trusts me, but she checks to make sure it is OK. Do you

have a smartphone? Yes I do. Do you show them? Yes, I do. Do they ask

you often? Yes, a lot. I delete some of my chats first. You get rid rid

of the evidence. The BV -- BBC asked their parents if they had been upset

about what they had seen on mobiles and a percent said yes. You saw

something that disturbed you. What was it? A game where a woman was

beaten up. Everyone thought it was funny. But it was quite horrific.

There was a video of a woman getting beaten up and it shocked me a lot

and I could not stop thinking about it. All the kids have smartphones

and several of them have said they have seen disturbing images such as

animal mutilation and violence towards women. None of the parents

put blocks on their phones, but if the kids had children they said they

would do. This school has a teacher offering help and advice about

keeping safe online. We asked older pupils to fill in a questionnaire

about their faux news that we will show to parents later. The BBC

survey spoke to more than 3500 parents and kids. While the majority

have filters and controls at home, it is a different story for young

people's phones. Fewer than half have safeguards. It is not just

about disturbing images. Former Met police Commander Jonathan Taylor is

showing me how quickly a child can be approached by a unsavoury

characters online. He is posing as a 13-year-old girl in a chat room,

also accessible on a smartphone. So a guy said, can we talk? What he

said next was entirely inappropriate. Do you ever were

really short skirts? Not only is it quick, it is very inappropriate chat

and quite sexual from the outset. Moments later our fake 13-year-old

girl is inundated with messages from men aged between 24 and 50. I feel

as if I need a wash after that exercise. You have to be naive not

to realise there are predators out there. But they are one click away

from our children and that is very scary. In an anonymous questionnaire

we asked almost 100 pupils if they had seen something upsetting using

their phone. The results are not scientific but one in five said yes.

Also, did they know how to remove parental controls? A lot of them

could. Had they had contact with a stranger, but did not tell a parent

or carer? One in three said yes. They will say they are the same age

and there is nobody 's saying, can you prove this? Is there no place on

site observing what comments are going on. It is an impersonal world

and do we know who is behind these personas? Is anyone going to

reconsider how they deal with their children and their phones? Apart

from locking it down and trying to prevent access, I do not know what I

can do. Today has been an eye-opener and it is touching to see just how

much our parents trust their kids. But in the era of smartphones when

the world of good or bad is just a click away 24 hours a day, I am not

sure if trust is enough. Tony is here to talk about it. So many

parents will be worried. What are the best ways of trying to protect

their children? There are things parents can do. Technical

intervention and cultural intervention. It is controls and

parents working together. In technical intervention there is a

website that has been set up by the European Union commission and there

is a link on our website. Parents can click on there and key in the

make of the smartphone and it will tell them some of the controls

available. You can limit the amount of time a child is on the phone and

you can stop the camera working if you are worried about them sending

images. I had a free services? Some can cost up to ?20, but parents may

think it is worthwhile. Also, the cultural intervention. Parents must

talk to their kids and load to understand what they are up to and

educate them and give them their values. You cannot let a child run

free about their smartphone. But they are so young using various apps

and websites. When I looked at my generation it is different. By the

age of nine most kids can use a laptop and use things on YouTube. I

was still playing hide and seek. By 11 they have posted videos of

themselves online and may have set up fake accounts to join Facebook

and they may have posted nasty comments. By the age of 13 they can

be going on chat rooms, they can also have tried sending explicit

images of yourself or text. By 16 day use everything. A lot of these

things, the parents do not understand them. This is the crucial

thing. Parents have to educate themselves. If you are going to buy

a child a phone, the least you can do is set up right. A bit like me. I

am only just able to text and e-mail and Twitter occasionally. The older

generation do not know how it works. If you are worried about anything we

have spoken about, there is loads of advice about how to keep your kids

safe on the website below. BBC Breakfast will be talking more about

this tomorrow. As the record-breaking wet weather

continues we will be bringing you a special show on Wednesday looking at

the storms and floods that have affected so many of you. We want you

to turn weather reporter for us, so get out your smartphone and record a

report for us. If you are up in arms or if you want to thank a rescue

worker, send your videos to this address. I went Thomas spent the

weekend on the south coast of Cornwall.

We have got another turbulent spell of weather today. The weather

recently has been absolutely horrific. The south-west of the

country has seen some of the worst conditions in history, so I have

come to Cornwall to take a look myself. My first stop is where the

harbour has been emptied of all of its boats for the first time in over

100 years. It is certainly win day. Look how high the waves are. All

these windows are completely boarded up. I feel sorry for Cornwall. Look

at the sea wall. That is nearly one metre thick and the water has broken

it. For most of us the bad weather equals stay inside and keep warm,

but for some they embrace this. Do people want to come and see this?

Yes, we have seen an increasing number of people wanting to come in

the low season. But it is a double edged sword having to protect it

with all the traffic chaos. But it is good for business. People like to

come and see what Cornwall has to offer in the winter. You must see

how bad this is at home. I have never witnessed a storm like this,

but for the locals it is almost second nature. What makes you come

out in this weather? I have taken my dog out to look at the waves. Have

you ever seen waves that big before? These windsurfers travelled the

globe trying to find the biggest waves. You have come all the way

from France in search of the perfect storm. , yes that is basically the

aim of the contest to catch the biggest wave. It takes two years to

get to this final event and it is the strongest storm we have seen in

the last 50 years. It is amazing how big the waves are. I have seen them

in the newspaper. They are massive. You have brought the family out, is

this like normal weather? Kind of. They are brave like that. Brave or

stupid? A bit of both. Artist Paul Llwyn knows how to make the best out

of the bad weather. I specialised in painting the cliffs of Cornwall in

all weathers. This is about the most extreme weather I have ever painted.

But it is a passion of mine. I would not have it any other way. It is

real living, this. The windsurfing was impressive, but oil painting!

That should sell for thousands of pounds for him just being there in

that weather. Could not have been water colours. What's brought about

this epic decision? It's 50 years of being in the business. It's the

travelling really. That's the thing, it's not the performing, not the

singing, it's the travelling, living out of a suitcase that's why I

thought I would cut back on that. If it's not the singing and performing,

surely there will be another musical where we will see you? Never say

never. I always think that's the thing to say on that. I want to be

able to still sing and do concerts and so on but I don't want to have

to travel vast distances. You don't go to bed until very late at night,

you know you have to get up the following day to get on a flight to

somewhere or other, that's the thing that is taking its toll. Hang up the

shoes. You had your first experience in around the age of 16, is it right

you were on the verge of giving it up when you Pipped the likes of Liza

Minelli? It was prior to the likes of Evita. I always worked and did

lots of different things. I couldn't quite crack it with the right part.

Always got the big heave-ho, down to the last two or three. There is the

moment, 1978. You must have been elated. It was amazing. Everybody

wanted that part, obviously, because it was a most fantastic role. It was

the most coveted role probably since Vivien Leigh or something. You have

gone on to do brilliant roles, Grizzabella as we spoke about, Tell

Me On a Sunday... That wasn't me! I think it was Marti Webb. I have done

a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber shows and probably Sun set Boulevard was

one I loved. Chess, of course. And Piaf was another favourite of mine

because of the wonderful music and life story. You must be including

all of them in your farewell tour? It must be hard because it's more

than a connection you have with those songs, it was a time of your

life. That's the odd thing now because when I look back I think it

was all so long ago, it was almost like I was another person. Who was

that woman? The tour and the London date is going to be at the Royal

Albert Hall. It's the 20th October, I have the BBC orchestra backing me,

which is fantastic. I am going to have lots of surprise guests which I

don't want to tell you about, I want it to be a surprise. It's going to

be fantastic. It's going to be a sort of retrospecttive. The last

night will be emotional I think it will. We have a surprise for you

now. This is 50 years in 50 seconds. Here you are.

Hi, Elaine, Twiggy here. Wanted to congratulate you on this amazing

year. You still have the best pipes in the business. Sending you lots of

love. Bye. Gosh, 50 years is it since you have been in show

business? You are fantastic and I love you, congratulations. Hi, can

you believe it, it's 46 years, 1968 since we first appeared together in

a London production of Hair. I remember you very well. You were

young, blonde, Blue-eyed, come to think of it, so was I. You look

amazing, you still sing like a goddess. Don't kid me this is your

farewell tour, tell me you will be like Sinatra and it's the first of

several tours. Very nice. Well, Elaine's 50th anniversary farewell

tour starts on October 9th at Cardiff's St David's Hall. I am sure

Michael will be delighted to hear that you said never say never. We

think you will like this. Gyles has unearthed the story behind one of

Britain's most famous patriotic songs.

World War II, the Luftwaffe bombed London for 57 consecutive nights. A

million homes were reduced to rubble. The Government feared

Hitler's strategy could cause the collapse of society.

With death raining down, the once colourful city was blackened with

bomb sites. London's future hung in the balance.

But she still had one thing, her pride.

# London pride has been handed down to us.

Written by Noel Coward London Pride is one of the most patriotic songs

of the war. Dominic is a Coward specialist. It's