10/10/2012 The One Show

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

Tonight a woman who sows, makes and bakes. And a man who can knit a

bunch of A-listers into a showbiz creation. It's Kirstie Allsopp!

Graham Norton. APPLAUSE

See what we did there? All afternoon to write that. Good. Time

well spent. Very good. As well, well we were rummaging around in

the archives as well because we want to show if you had ever met

before. We have once. Hold your tongue and have a look at this.

It's... Kirstie Allsopp off the television! We hired a video camera

to film. We made a topless upside down confession video. We overslept

the next day and didn't take the video camera back. Then I

remembered the video was in the cam ra. I rang her up and said please,

please don't watch that film... She's gone. At least you were

wearing tights. Yes. Good news we've made some alterations to our

sofa and it could flip at any time. Keep your legs together. Now our

history boy Dan and his history dad Peter are also in tonight. If you

saw last night's show, Dan, don't worry we're not going to get your

dad to do any dancing. We did Strictly dad dancing. It went on

and on into the early hours. Brilliant. The reputation of was

going on in our banks is still at rock bottom. Reports of money

laundering, rate rigging and rogue trading are some of the scandals

linger on -- lingering on. Not that we're blaming ordinary bank workers.

Please don't write in. My mum being one of this em. All that being said,

if you live in a rural community, the chances are you wouldn't want

them to disappear completely. Johnathan Maitland wept to find out.

-- went to find out. Criccieth a thriving seaside town

in North Wales with a butcher, Delly, grossers, everything you'd

expect for a town of nearly 2,000 people. What about banks? This

place was a bank once, now it's a curry house. This was a bank too

until it became a Chinese. This place, however, is still a bank.

But not for much longer. Glenys Owen's late husband used to work at

the HSBC but now it's going to go. She was paid a final visit and was

given a souvenir, his old pen holder. It's very, very sad and

very, very inconvenient and we're all going to miss it. You seem

quite emotional about it? Yes, I had a good cry this morning, yes.

The banks say, look, they're a business, can you bank on the

internet now. I don't have the internet sorry. Times have moved on.

I know, but we don't all have to move on, do we? The shop keepers

are unhappy too because they've relied on the bank's over the

counter services to bring people into their town and their shops.

They won't come to Criccieth any more and do their shopping here any

more. I don't know how it's going to go. Honestly, we don't know.

We're all worried that's the thing. We are worried. Customers wanting

those bank services will now have to travel to the neighbouring town

five miles away. But that's not all. Now when this place closes the 24-

hour free cashpoint will disappear as well. There will still be a

cashpoint in town, in a local pub, but it will charge a fee for every

withdrawal. Criccieth depends entirely on tourism for its living.

Tens of thousands of people come here on a daily basis in the summer

months. All these people will need access to money so they can spend

it in our shops. Banks say, the big banks, look, in this day and age,

you can bank online and it's cheaper, so that's better for the

customer. I do online banking myself. But there's no access to

your cash. You can't get change. Elderly people needing help with

filling in forms and pensions, electricity bills, all these things

are done in the bank here. I would like to have spoken to HSBC about

their closures. They declined an interview. They said they only

close branches as a last resort and only happened when customer numbers

had fallen off dramatically. They did say they were planning to close

ten more by the end of the year. Some banks have pledged not to

close a branch if it's the last one in a community. But not HSBC. In

the last year, HSBC alone has closed 47 of its branches across

the UK and 14 of those were the last bank in town. One of those was

in Nevin, 14 miles from Criccieth. The bank here close twod weeks ago.

-- closed two weeks ago. The local shop keeper sells his trade is down

already, even though he's had a cashpoint installed. He says costs

have gone up too. Now he has to employ extra staff while he drives

to another town to bank his takings. Now that means I've got to go seven

miles away. It takes three quarters of an hour there and back, plus

queuing in the bank. It adds up. UK campaign group sells the effects

of bank closures can devastate a community. Some retailers,

particularly the butcher, baker, the pharmacist and so on, can lose

up to 30% of turnover. Many of those do close as a result. That

has a devastating effect on the community as a whole, not just

those who will be using the bank that closed. Back in Criccieth,

workmen are stripping out the branch, signalling the end of local

banking in yet another small town. Dave Fishwick is here now. He's a

businessman who was so angry with the Big Four banks he decided to

set up a people's bank. It's being filmed for a documentary. Welcome.

First of all, you heard what HSBC said about being the last bank on

the High Street. Are the other banks holding their promise of not

closing if they're the last ones? No, that's speeded things up.

They're bailing out faster now. They're not the last ones. I'm with

you. We're going to end up in a position where we won't have banks

left in the rural communities. We need them. They're the heart of the

community. You've come up with a solution. They could have a mobile

bank. I've gone round with a cash machine and it links to satellite

and we can give to these places and live to a bank. But I can't rescue

the country. The ultimate goal would be for people to do the same

thing across the country. That's Bob the driver! Does it feel quite

secure that? We have fun. There's good decent people left in the

country. Do any of the big banks have mobile bank? Have I seen a

NatWest one? I'm sure one or two tried it. You have set up shop

permanently in Burnley. What was the industry's response to that?

don't think they like it. Early '09 my customers were coming to me and

they couldn't get loans to buy the buses. So I lent them the money and

they paid me back. I thought I'd have a go. We have 97% repayment.

It's incredible. Give us an idea of how it works. Say you've just sold

a television company or whatever... LAUGHTER

If that was me, hypothetically and I came to you, what would you do

with the money? Yeah what would you do? I'm waiting for the lever and

going back. The thing to do is I help people achieve 5% on their

save ings. I lend that money to local people who can't borrow

through a High Street bank through no fault of their home. We're

rescuing businesses helping local people as well. We take the profit

from that, pay the tiny overheads and this is the big one, we give

the profits to charity. You don't make anything at all? Enough to pay

the overheads, the difference we give away. That's how it works.

I'm not getting 5%. This must be very popular? That's the problem.

Me and David who run this thing, we've actually got a two-year

waiting list to put money in till 2014. You know the big banks have

queued -- queues outside to take their money out. How do you do?

have a self-perpetuating business. My minibus business is capable of

carrying that money at any one time. Any money out of the businesses we

put it into the banks. It can't keep growing? It can if we want to

put more businesses into it. But the ultimate goal to this is to

have a community bank in every town and city across the country

benefiting the community run bit community. You've put that to the

Tory conference. This morning. There's a guy there called Steve

Bakewell, one of the MPs. He's head -- Steve baker, he's one of the MPs.

He said get everybody that can do write in to their local MP, he'll

get loads of MPs into a meeting and we'll try to change banking in

Britain forever. That's powerful stuff. You had a bit after a jibe

about mortgages. The thing is a lot of problems were caused by

irresponsible lending, but the majority of that lending wasn't to

your average British householder. Now, they're saying oh, we're being

more careful, but they're being much more careful with people who

just want mortgages and anecdotally and Dave knows more than I do about

the figures, but I'm finding that people are putting in these

mortgage applications and it's eight to ten weeks before it's

coming through, which is holding up sales, causing chains to collapse.

It doesn't help anybody. You don't need to know your grandmother's

shoe size before you lend someone money. That's a very good point.

Thank you, Dave, all the very best. Thank you very much. Alex is with

some of our guests who have tried to reverse the decline in rural

businesses by simply starting up on their own.

I'm here with Paul. You and your community have opened a local store

completely from scratch. Why and how did you manage to do that?

Right, well the last shop in the village had closed 25 years before.

It's an 18-mile round trip to the nearest supermarket. There was

strong support for a community-led shop which would also act as an

output for local food and products. And how due manage to get funding?

We got funding from a variety of sources, from grants, from local

activities, from shares in the shop itself. And as Alison was telling

us, anybody can gets funding like this, so you can be an inspiration.

You have 53 volunteers in total and Paul, you're at the top of the tree,

Ed I'm sorry, you're the manager and having the post in this local

store actually changed your life completely. Yes, it did. In 2009 I

had a brain tumour and I lost my job. I couldn't work. I couldn't

find a job. It was the first job I actually found. It took two years

and it was in retail and ideal for me. It's just saved my life really.

It's a fantastic shop. We do a massive range, 40% is local. We do

bread, cakes, jams, preserves, meats. It's really good. Including

this lovely cake here. Gorgeous! Over here is Julie. You re-opened

the Post Office in your village. You wrote in lots and -- roped in

lots of volunteers to help you. That's right. Yes, we did. We

managed to raise a lot of money to do it. We also sold shares at �10

each to raise money. To date, we've got 536 shares. It's provided a

much needed facility in the village, which everybody supports.

Especially if there's no doubt. Precisely. Here we've got Paul and

Debbie. You've re-opened the Norton pub in coals Norton. How important

for the community has that been? It's been really important. I mean,

it's not just important that we sell alcohol because pubs just

can't survive on selling alcohol. You have to be a social centre

really. We arrange entertainment for the villagers. We do walks to

encourage fitness. We did a takeaway service of food so that

you don't just include people who come into the pub. We try to reach

everybody in the village. The best thing is they've actually named it

after one of our guests, because Paul you have it on your T-shirt

there. It's called the Norton. Perfect! Soon to be renamed the

Graham Norton. I'll be there. found a great organisation called

The Plunkett Foundation who have helped these projects get off the

ground. If you want more information go to our website. All

the info is there for you. Now it was a month ago that the

Paralympic flame was extinguished. It lit a spark that is still

burning. The iconic images of Ellie Simmonds, David Weir and Johnny

Peacock winning gold have made a lasting impression on many of us.

Inquiries to Paralympic sports clubs have gone through the roof.

I'm Kevin Fox and watching the Paralympics has inspired me to take

up some throwing events like discus, shot putt and javelin. It is one of

the first times I'd seen anyone like me with disabilities doing

things that you wouldn't expect them to be able to do. Guys running

100m with no legs, it's crazy things. My accident occurred in

March 2008. I was driving a motorbike. I crashed straight into

the back of a HGV. I lost my left arm. I suffered some terrible head

injuries. To make all this happen I rang Milton Keynes athletics club.

They spurred me on to train and see what I can do. When I'm throwing

it's good. It feels like I've got all my strength back. When you let

the ball go and you turn around and see how far it's gone, it's

fantastic. Sport will help me get out of the house. I don't just want

to sit in the house watching life go by any more. I want to make my

kids proud of me. Hopefully I'll be The Paralympics inspired me to take

up sport. They were good at what they were doing. I am hearing and

visually impaired. I wear two hearing aids all the time and I use

a cane and wear glasses. I have never really done any sport because

I don't think I had an interest and I never thought it would be

accessible to me because of my hearing and vision loss. When I

started to think about the Paralympicsks I wanted to start

something new and I e-mailed Hannah at Nottingham University asking

about it and went along to one of the training sessions and had a go.

I think it is a sport that I can take part in and it is a sport that

I enjoy. I never had the chance to work as a team in that way way

before. I think we have got some kind of vision loss and we're

trying. Watching the Paralympics inspired

me to take up wheel care basketball. I had been accident 17 years ago

and I can walk a little, but yes, I have to use a wheelchair. Since my

injury, I have not done no sport, I have been sitting around doing

cross word puzzles. I phoned up my local basketball team and for the

past four weeks, they took me in. We were welcomed straightaway.

People came over and introduced themselves and said, "Here is a

wheelchair, come and join us." There is a lot of people out there

with disabilities and they won't do anything because they don't feel

they are welcome into a group or a team, but they should go out

because they would be welcomed. It doesn't matter if it is basketball,

tennis, there is something out there for everybody.

Graham, you will telling us throughout the Paralympics you just

wept? It was all so inspiring. And that closing ceremony was just

brilliant. Were you sporty at school then? No. It is inspiring

now! LAUGHTER

Yes. Yes. We have a great picture here here

that we found. What's all that about? Me and my medal. They made

me dress up for the Radio Times. Fancy dress, not actual sport! And

were your kids inspired, Kirstie because you have got four boys?

saw David David Weir win the 1500 meters and what was extraordinary,

when he was coming down the track, it was like Batman was coming down

the trackment they were screaming, the hole stadium was -- whole

stadium was screaming, the energy in the stadium alone must have

pushed them across the finishing line.

It was Graham crying. You hope that spirit can continue.

Shall we talk crafts then? You want to get your own back, don't you, on

Graham? The thing is, do you know what this is, Graham?

LAUGHTER I can guess!

LAUGHTER It is a napkin rose.

When would you use that? I see. They are pretty for weddings and

things. It is nice table decorations. And

Graham is going to make one. Can I use that one? No, that's cheating.

There it is, rose napkin in the book. Did you make that bookmark

yourself? LAUGHTER

That's gorgeous. There it is. You can just busy yourself. Do I have a

napkin? That's a ghost napkin. The book accompanies a new series

you have got coming to Channel 4, it is called Kirstie's Vintage

Homes. It is four years now since I have been doing the craft shows and

the first one was about the house I bought and filling it with things

that were made and second-hand and revamped and up cycled and it has

gone on and on and it is extraordinary because we have done

a lot of research which shows a lot of people are unhappy with the way

their homes are, but they don't feel they have the confidence to do

it, at the moment they don't have the money and one of the brilliant

things is you can look around your home and for a tenner or twenty

pounds you can revamp something that you actually have and make it

look completely different. Chairs, sideboards, tables, one of the

things we did was screen printing, a sideboard. It is wire wool and

then you design your whatever you want to do, a pattern, you can do

lovely things with children's pictures which work very well, you

know, into reproduce so you do the screen printing and pop it on and

dot pain and you varnish it with a water based varnish and that's it a

new piece of furniture. In the first episode you helped

Colin and Amber. Here you are. You don't hear people talking about

their sideboards much these days, but for generations the sideboard

has been a big piece of furniture in the house which said a lot about

you and how you led your life. This 1960s sideboard bought by Amber is

going to do the same for their house.

We're going to give it some creative TLC with the help of Zoe

Murphy, the princess of screen printing. She specialises in

transforming unloved possessions into furniture and she has her eye

on one of Amber's cheeky online purchases.

It looks great. I wasn't that bothered. That's quite a nice

napkin, I would say that. Do that and put a knife and fork on it.

That's Entertaining. When you get married, you will want

the table to look decorative. OK. There will be some flowers.

LAUGHTER There are loads of craft in the

book for people to do and it is split into two sections because it

is about how to buy great vintage furniture and how to make stuff.

how to get furniture off the side of the pavement. People are

chucking stuff away all over the country. Local authority dumps, if

someone is doing work, often people chuck stuff out. If anyone has died,

people go around to a House of A relative and they look at the stuff

and they think it is worthless and it is not.

It is having the vision of knowing what to do with it. You look at the

shape of something and you go, "Put a few little bits on there and it

will look perfect. It is the first time you take a chair and you strip

the paint off and repain, it is the same feeling you get when you bring

something home from school, "I made this.". Are you into anything like

this? Do you prefer the clean lines? I will buy junk. There is a

lot of of crap in my house. You like to surround yourself with

a lot of stuff? Are you minimal? That sounds like I decorated it, it

is just mess. It is piles of magazines and dog hair really. It

is not - people would be surprised just how dirty my house is.

No, don't. You are my idol and if I discovered

you had a dirty home, that would disappoint me.

Let's say it is grubby. My whole house is distressed.

She may want to come around to tidy He hasn't any rose-shaped serve

yets. You can catch Kirstie's TV series

on Channel 4 next month. We We challenge our One Show family.

Last week Carrie was in Liverpool. She got harassed by Ricky Tomlinson.

Thanks to everybody who took part. I am in the beautiful market town

of of town town Shaftbury, it is all about bread. Maybe a bakery

challenge. No, Pam is the person in the know. Hi, Pam. Tell me about

the challenge. Well, as part of our jubilee

celebration we are planting 60,000 snowdrops in the grounds of the

Trinity Centre and they are to create a public snowdrop walk for

everybody to remember the jub the jubilee.

We need you to get the word out. Anything else? We need to get

dibbers. No problem. Man power and dibbers.

I'm on it! With the challenge set, we hit the

streets to drum up interest the old-fashioned way.

We hope to make this historic town a snowdrop town.

You look like a man who would help a damson in distress.

It is your lucky day because I am a gardener anyway. Look at state of

me, does it not tell? You look like a tidy gardener. Because I bet you

are brilliant planting stuff? you're on.

Exactly. I knew you would be up for it. Things were ticking along

nicely, so I take a moment to find out more about this little flower.

Ray is chairman of Shaftsbury In Bloom.

It is the common British single snowdrop. It is nice to have

something that's common throughout the UK.

Dairy employs hundreds of people and it should prove a happy hunting

ground. Check out these two. I need to get volunteers and I have got my

leaflet. Let's do it! Have you got green fingers? I have,

yes. Would you mind coming to help us on

the One Show To The Rescue? Do I need my gardening gloves? Gardening

gloves and tools. She planted snowdrops in her garden already.

Are you going to be there? Promise? Don't let me down.

OK, lads, down tools. Down tools. I am the boss now. 60,000 snowdrop

bulbs need to be planted. Are you in? We're in.

And make sure you bring your tools. I I wonder if I could borrow a

moment of your time, lads. Are you off duty tomorrow? We are. What do

you need us to do? Just come, plant and be happy. We can do that.

I had forgotten to get the dippers sorted, but with a tip-off and a

lift from the lads we got some. We just made it. I have come to get

dibbers. Thank you. I just made it in time and got some dibbers so

hopefully tomorrow everyone will will turn out and help with The One

Show To The Rescue. How are you getting on? It is

heaving. Hello, Matt and Alex. I am down

here. Welcome and good evening. Now, we have had a successful day today.

Such a successful day which exceeded my expectations. Earlier

there, morning I thought maybe one or two people might come up to help,

but I was surprised when I saw an army of volunteers come up to the

Trinity Centre where we are standing now to plant 60,000

snowdrop bulbs and they have been here since 10am, we have had

everyone from estate agents, schoolchildren and schoolteachers

and the Fire Brigade and the person who made it happen is Pam. You must

be so happy at the way the community has come together? I am

athrilled to pieces. -- I'm thrilled to pieces. We have had so

many people come out and we are grateful to The One Show. It has

been a pleasure, but 60,000 was significant, wasn't it? This is our

Diamond Jubilee tribute to the Queen. This will be something that

we will have as part of our heritage going forward. 60,000

snowdrop bulbs for 60 years. We have got 500 bulbs left to

plantment make sure you come back and join us to see if we finished

They all just waved silently at the beginning, like they were next door

it a hospital and they didn't want to wake anyone.

LAUGHTER Very well behaved. Angellica had

briefed them. I like the idea of eating candy flas. Someone's got to

get hold of that. So Graham, the 12th series. Yes, that's on BBC.

There was all the one with Channel 4. But it's a lot of people and a

lot of shows. It's back next Friday. The line up for Friday is brilliant.

You've got Arnie. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Miranda Hart and

little Ronnie Corbett. Don't forget Usher. And usher. That is great.

Did you start with Ronnie Corbett or Arnold Schwarzenegger and then

go to the opposite end? I think Arnie came on board first. The

thing is, the couch, you want to put lots of thought into the couch.

So you want to go who would go with who. But you know what it's like,

often, come Wednesday night, you're like anyone, anyone, chuck them on!

This is what we have tonight. dud lot tonight. Ronnie's not going

to sit on Arnie's knee is he? That's what I thought. I don't

think Ronnie does size jokes. not sure that would be right. In

fact, the temptation would be to put Ronnie in the middle I think,

which would be visually funny. But one of our rules is we should put

the lady in the middle so it's boy girl boy, so Ronnie will probably

be at the end. You never really know what's going to happen. They

just sit down here, similar to what we do, I guess. It is, but except

we can cut some bits out. Yeah, yeah. But you didn't cut out the

bit where there was interesting mating behaviour between Cameron

Diaz and Sir David Attenborough. Let's have a look. Studying human

animals, as an actor that's what I do, I study lots of human behaviour.

Lots of discoverries? Yes. Big Sur prizes? I have so many more

surprises when I watch your shows. You should see the outtakes. I

would love to see the outtakes. Maybe we can arrange a viewing. Any

time! Brilliant. What were you think whing that was

going on? Life under duvet. I like Kathy Burke at the end going "get a

room". If Graham invited you onto the show say... We have You have

not. I say that to everyone. I'm sure we v. I would run so fast to

be on Graham's show. I love Graham's show. I miss it...

would you like to be on with? That's a tricky one. I don't know.

At the moment I'm so on a kind of down ton Homeland thing, it would

probably be damian Lewis Dan Stevens. Nice you could be in the

middle. I could see that. That is quite a posh sofya. -- sofa. That's

a lot of nice talking. understand that this is a nightmare

line up for you. We have this picture here. Is this correct?

You've got Harvey Kitel. fairness Janice I didn't mind, but

it was an awkward interview but we were told we weren't allowed to

talk about her brother. It seemed rude frankly, since he had just

died. It seemed really odd that his name wouldn't come up. The other

two not my favourite guests of all time. Who is the one in the middle?

The butter man. John Lyden. That's his legacy. He came on here, Johnny

rotten. Did you enjoy it. It was interesting. You don't know what to

expect. You go for it and it was good. We've had David Cassidy, I

just said that outloud and he's quite tricky. How do you deal with

it? He was such a hero of mine, I worshipped him growing up. And then

I met him. Oh, it was disappointing. Did he have the same hair. He

looked like a dog that had rolled in paint. He didn't stop talking.

We had this alpaca on and we had more sense from that by the end.

Shall we move on now? Who have you tried toe get that you would really

like? This question used to be easy, because it was always Madonna. Now

we've had Madonna. I've had to think again. The only kind of big

Hollywood ones we haven't had is George Clooney. We haven't had Brad

and Angelina. That would be nice. That would be an event. That's a

waste to have them all on One Show. We should spread them out. Is that

true that we have George next week? Yeah. They're playing with us!

am, I will be calling my booker "The One Show have George!"

Graham Norton Show is back Friday the 19th October on BBC One at

10.35pm. Well it would be very bold of a TV executive to put one man on

his own on stage for 30 minutes straight down the barrel just

talking about history. Nothing else. It's a very long way from the BBC's

current blockbuster series Andrew Marr's History of the World which

has drawn criticism for its reliance on expensive drama

reconstructions and CGI effects. But it did happen. Over to Dan and

his dad. In the early days of TV, in the

1950s, technology was basic and so too were the television shows. When

it came to history, the biggest name was Oxford don AJP Taylor.

Good evening. The whole Russian empire, you can see this on the map,

depended on railways. He simply gave straight half-hour lectures to

the cam ra. He hooked the viewers in their millions. In today's

multimedia world, a visual feast is just as important as a dry resital

of the facts. TV has made history come alive. Hang on, 60 years ago

in the days of Taylor, my early days too, history didn't have the

benefit of virtual reality. There were no fancy graphics and ear

pieces and autocue. Britain's first TV historian just talked live to

camera for 30 minutes non-stop. And the viewers were no less Spelbound.

The strain which broke down Russia was the strain of sending fodder to

the millions of army horses. son of hard line socialist parents,

he learned the power of debate at home around the dinner table. But

it was at Oxford where he honed his skills as a public Speaker and

lecturer in 1938. Most lectures didn't start till ten. But Taylor

had them at 9am. He was such a pool that students, it wasn't unknown

for students to show up in their pajamas so they didn't miss the

lectures. What was the secret of his success? He knew his history.

He knew how to do it straightforwardly. He was

charismatic. He was self-kofd and also very good. The fact this he

didn't use notes, of course, he's famous for this. He was a thing of

wonder. At the star lecturer set his sights beyond Oxford. In 1950

he became a regular on radio and TV depait shows. Often fiery, he once

refused to speak during a whole live programme. He was dubbed the

sulky don and dropped by the BBC. ATV presents an experiment.

resurrected his career on the first commercial TV channel. Huge

audyebss -- audiences tuned into his lectures. Alan Taylor...

camera in 1961, AJP would once again court controversy with a

radical new interpretation of the Nazis. Most of us have always

believed that Hitler planned the Second World War as part of a

general scheme of world conquest. This view has been challenged in a

most provocative way in a recently published book the origins of the

Second World War. AJP said that Hitler hadn't bb the only person

who caused the war. This caused a moral fire storm. He was attacked,

many places, and not least in Oxford. He was a special lecturer,

which was supposed to be for five years. It could have been renewed

he thought. It wasn't. He took this as being against him and against

his politics and he more or less stomped out of Oxford. AJP soon

disappeared off our screens, but in 1977, after ten years in the

wilderness, producer Eddie Murzov wooed him back to the BBC for a new

series. He was delightfully enigmatic po work with. He would

not tell you anything other than a one-word description of what he was

going to say. As a producer one would sit there tearing one's hair.

In fact, you knew he was going to do it. Churchill said after the

battle of almain in October 1942, "This may not be the beginning of

the end, but it is the end of the beginning." One man, one studio and

one camera and a stop watch to keep him to the 30 minutes for the

viewers. TV programmes evolved, but AJP Taylor's brand of history

faithfully remained the same. He died in 1990, but AJP has etched

his own name in history and to this day, he's still one of the most

talked about British historians. Dan and Peter are with us now. It

sends a shiver down our spines thinking about staring at the

camera for 30 minutes delivering a lecture. Peter, would you be up for

that? Thrilled to do it, yes. you?! Nothing like communicating

your enthusiasm for history and the lessons of history to a viewer. But

I will just say this. Good for AJP Taylor, how on earth he did it,

brilliant, but this is television. I remember the old days working

with at least I worked with graphics. We had cardboard graphics.

But now we have these magical things, these computer graphics,

maps and all the wonderful things in film and reenactment and so on.

That's what one should be doing. A mix is essential. It is television

that's the key. Dan, last year on BBC Two they had a series called

the Normans and that completely really went back to basics. Do you

think that worked? It was a great series. They still had Viking ships

in it and re-enactment. They showed pictures of castles when talking

about castles. That Taylor, it was extraordinarily and a black studio

for half an hour. Talking of making things work, you have incredible

archive coming in a series. imperial war museum has a copy of

one of the biggest movies of all time in Britain, 20 million people

went to watch it in Britain and Ireland in 1917. They've restored

it beautifully. It's one of the first documentaries in history. You

see the faces of the men from the bat. Some. You see people being

killed in the battle. Everybody's using Twitter and you can have a

conversation with everybody watching it. Do you think, Peter,

with social media, that our history now will be told in much more of an

accurate way maybe because of everything that's online? I've been

writing about the Duke of Wellington and the crucial thing is

to have these letters and diaries and eyewitness material that you

can use, primary sources to tell the story. Now we have this great

wellth of stuff. I love reading Dan's tweets, and blogs and

goodness knows what else. That is a wealth of material. The only worry

is is it going to be preserved. How is a historian going to get hold of

those tweets. I don't know. Don't ask me. I don't know. None of us

know. We'll make a film about it maybe. Are you planning on doing

anything else together? It's lovely to see you both on screen?

Unfortunately Andrew Marr has pinched the History of the World

hist in five minutes. Dad and I did this together, it was great fun.

That marked 50 years of television for dad.

APPLAUSE What about that! That's great. It

started a while back, the connection, the love of history

from your dad. A great picture of you there, young Dan. The old bowl

cut. It's a beauty. It's a bit like Boris Johnson. That's the par they

none in Greece. All my friends were going to football clubs, we went to

see ancient Greece. Wild stuff. were a wonderful listener. Graham,

we have a lovely picture of you and your dad. You dedicated your first

BAFTA to your dad. I did. It's weird that thing that you would do

that with your dad. If my dad had suggested that on principle I

wouldn't have gone because he wanted me to go. Good son. That was

before my rebellious phase. great to be working to the and sat

here. It's a treat. Thank you both for coming on. It's inspired a game.

It has. As we've established Dan and Peter are father and son,

Kirsty, your cousin is home furnishing Queen, Cath Kidston. On

that theme... Due know that? Amazing. Discounts? Your banking

sorted while year here and discounts. On that theme we're

playing The One Show's rellies on the telly.

In principle, it's quite a simple game. Basically all you have to do

is try to match up those along the bottom that are related to those at

the top. Someone's related to a clock. Well, yeah. It's actually

the speaking clock. Kirsty is on the speaking clock. Kirsty is on

the top and then Cath Kidston. You pair them on. Holly Valance or

. I would say Terry Thomas because I'm sure he toured Australia.

It is a good guess, Terry Thomas. Will you agree? I am looking for a

similarity. Let's try for Benny Hill.

Let's try for Benny Hill. Holly will love that! Holly on her

honeymoon going "just checking in.". Second cousin twice removed. Can we

move on. Skeleton that is is dug up in a car

park. That skeleton has scolarsis which

is what they thought he. The voice of the speaking clock.

Which is probably Chris Huhne's mum. Chris Huhne is the son of the

speaking clock. It explains so much!

Richard Briers is related to Terry Thomas. It is a great game. Very

good. I like the one, who is the new one in Down ton, do you know

who her brother is? Warren Beatty. And Gary Oldman and

Mo off EastEnders, that's who I couldn't believe! A change in

direction. Yes.

Changing a career can be a bold, but nerve-wracking experience.

new Government scheme is giving people to try out their dream job

before they take the plunge. Simon Boazman went back to school to find

Boazman went back to school to find out more.

23-year-old Joe and 42 plumber Damien are fed up with serving

pizzas and plumbing sinks. They have decided they want to change

change their careers and are considering becoming primary school

teachers. Working in a pizza restaurant is great, but I'm more

passionate about teaching. It is time for another career

change and I thought why not go back to what I wanted to do

originally which was teaching. My name is Mr Robson.

Male teachers are few and far between. Within primary schools in

England, only 13% of teachers are men and one in four primary schools

have no male teachers at all. Many people believe without positive

male role models, schoolchildren are missing out so the Government

have set-up a new scheme to encourage men into the profession.

And to show them that being a primary school teacher can be a

rewarding career. Joe and Damien are attending this

school in Nottingham to take part in the primary experience programme.

Today's lesson, we are going to be looking at different countries.

The scheme is aimed at men who declared an interest in a teaching

career. It gives graduates the chance to sample life in the

classroom before committing to teacher training.

I think it is really good if we can have positive male role models who

are making a difference in just the same way as their female teachers

are. Why do you think we have a

situation now where there are so few male teachers? Men didn't see

it as an exciting career option. More than anything, they are going

to see that schools are exciting places to be. That they can make a

difference. Joe and Damien will spend their

time at the school talking to children and teachers and observing

classes. It is not bad that. Not bad.

Before the week is up, they will be given the opportunity to take a

class on their own. We have asked them to record how they get on.

A bit frantic this morning, finding my way around, but I have settled

into it. I met a lot more of the children

today. I did a lot of activities and yeah, it is getting better as

the week goes on. Just a week ago, Damien was

plumbing in showers and Joe topping pizzas and today we have return to

see them take a class of primary school children for the first time.

You are about to go in, how do you feel? Pretty nervous.

Really? It will be OK, I have done plenty of prep work.

We are going to make a school calendar.

We filmed them teaching so the head can watch them at work and assess

their skills. So if you were to to give him tomorrow tips, what would

they be? Slow down. Give the kids more time to answer the questions

and use the chair that's there for you.

So what happens in January, weather wise? It snows. Brilliant, well

done. Confident. Lots of use of his hands.

This looks like a professional teacher. With a bit of training, he

could be a good lad. Draw on there what you think Frosty

needs to make him a finished snowman.

If you were going to give him marks out of ten, what would you give

him? Ten. Ten. Eight-and-a-half.

Do you think he has a bit to learn? He has got two more things to learn,

two-and-a-half. So an A minus for Damien, what

about Joe? There are two pyramids on the board. Choose whichever one

you want. When you are nervous, you tend to

repeat the same word over and over again and we have got an "OK"

coming out. That's a teaching stance, I am the teacher, you are

the class, I am at the board, he needs to move into the kids from

time to time. He is doing it now. Good. Good. Well done. Looking at

how they got on this week, do you think they are cut out for teaching

careers? Without a doubt. To want to take a

lesson and also have it filmed, it is a credit to them. More than

anything, they have just settled into school and been part of the

team. Well, Damien and Joe are here. That

looked brilliant. It looked like a positive experience. How was it?

loved it. The school was great. The staff were brilliant. The class

that I had were amazing and the teacher I was with, he was really

helpful. It was a really good experience.

Joe, you went in there not knowing whether you wanted to be a teacher

or not. What's the outcome? Are you leaving pizzas? I can't really say

that because my manager is watching!

LAUGHTER What could happen?

LAUGHTER It was lucky you did that scheme

now! If somebody like yourself was going to leave pizzaland and what

would you do? What's the process? signed up with the teaching agency.

You can do that online and they rang me. They got in touch with me

and put me on the primary experience programme, but to get

into a career in teaching, you have to do the GTP, it is the graduate

teaching programme which is where you get experience whilst you work

and there is another way into it called the PGCE which is a primary

post-grad watt certificate of education post-graduate certificate

of education. That involves doing an actual course and stuff.

What do you think Kirstie, because you have got two young boys who are

primary age? Do you think male teachers are a plus or would you be

happy for an all female staff? There is an amazing guy called Gary

Wilson who does talks on helping boys achieve and boys need

different things from girls and men are good at recognising what boys

need and helping them with that. And we have a real, real problem

with boys achievement. Girls are coming up and up and in all the

GCSE topics, bar one, girls do better than boys. As a mother of

boys, that can't do -- that can go Graham. There has always been more

female teachers. But it is getting worse.

What do you mean "getting worse?" There is no sisterhood when you

have boys. All you want is for the boys to do well.

Those women do an amazing job. All those age ranges in one room and a

great teacher, a bit like the historian we were looking at

earlier, that force of a personality can transform your

interest in a subject. Let's hear from one little pupil

that was in Damien's class. We can go live via Skype to Josh. Nice to

see you. Nice to see you. APPLAUSE

How was Mr Grant, Josh? You have a different name for him, don't you?

Yes, Mr Great. And what did you most like about

him then, Josh? Everything. Was there anything he didn't do

very well? No, he did everything perfect.

Do you think he should leave pizzas and come and work at your school?

Yes. No question about it. Josh, thank you very much indeed for

joining us. APPLAUSE

Can we have another little look at Josh's room there because there is

a lovely bit of disdressing on the door, Kirstie.

And floral wallpaper. I am a big fan.

If you would like more experience about the primary experience

programme, we have put a link up on our website.

Time now to see if Angellica succeeded in getting the last of

the 60,000 snowdrop bullks planted -- bulbs planted. They had 500

earlier, didn't they? How is the planting going in the dark? Have

you done it Angellica? Hello and welcome back. Yes, hello, Graham,

indeed. That was just for you Mr Norton! We have nearly planted the

last of the 60,000 snowdrop bulbs, before we do that, I want to have a

world with Ray Humphreys MBE, how do you think Her Majesty the Queen

will feel today? She would be overjoyed and it will be a picture

of colour. January to April next year, watch this space. 60,000

bulbs, carpets and carpets of white. Who would realise that people would

be sell blatting -- celebrating the Queen's jubilee in October? Down

here, Pam, how are we getting on? Wonderfully. I have one last fat

snowdrop bulb to pop in the ground and we're done. In it goes and

that's it. That's it, everyone. We've done it

It has been brilliant. There is one last thing we need to do. If you

could pass me that. Ray, if you you could do the honours. We have a

plaque here. This is from The One Show to the community of

Shaftesbury. That's it from us. Goodbye, everyone.

Planting and fertiliser. We have a present. This is

brilliant stuff. It is bat dung pert liser -- fertiliser. I have a

lot of this at home. It is in the ceiling above my bathroom. I have a

house in Ireland I time share with bats. I get there and I thought,

the bathroom really smells ammoniaish and I thought I really

must clean this, do you see, I'm filthy. I realised it it wasn't me.

I don't know what bats eat. It is all over the ceiling. You need to

get Kirstie over to do a bit of decorating. I have bats too. You

can't get rid of bats. Gosh. They go in your hair.

If you have bats doing stuff on the ceiling, don't leave the lights on

in your bathroom because that cooks it. As bad as it smelt before, it

smells a lot worse afterwards. Graham, you have got a big birthday

coming up. Can we mention that? have got bats. I'm 50.

Will you be with the bats in Cork? What you don't want to do is, "Save

the week." No one cares. It is your birthday, you get one day and it

should be near somewhere you live. People shouldn't have to travel to

your birthday party. It will be something in London.

That's nice. And Kirstie... How old are you,y?

- How old are you Kirstie? I am nowhere near 50!