12/12/2013 The One Show

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

Tonight's guest is a well-known face who has turned his hands to being a

children's author. What is he doing in a steam room? Let's ask him! It

is Frank Lampard. Yeah! # Blue is the colour... # Now, then,

Frank. Welcome. Have a seat. Thank you. So - yes! A lot of Chelsea fans

are in! Frank, we are trying to help you acclimatise. England's first

match in the World Cup is in the middle of the Brazilian jungle. How

are you going to cope? I don't know! Good question. Any plans? No, not

really. I was surprised to see how humid it is going to be. 80%?

Boiling. We played at altitude at the last World Cup, which didn't go

great. LAUGHTER We will take all the precautions. We are playing Italy,

which is a good thing. Loads of holidays in very hot places! It will

be tough(!) You will be interested to see how the England squad are

going to perform in those conditions. So, we put Alex Riley in

a humidity chamber to see how he would get on. You can join him

later. Frank is not here to talk football, we will be hearing about

his new series of books and finding out how you came up the name for the

hero as well. First, the Prime Minister held a summit for the

leaders of the world's largest economies to address the issue of

dementia. Fiona Phillips and dementia patient, Hilary Doxford,

were there to ask some questions of their own.

Dementia is a set of degenerative brain diseases that affects 800,000

people in the UK. The most common form is Alzheimer's. Both of my

parents have Alzheimer's which meant that very slowly over the years they

were robbed of their memory, their personality and the ability to do

every day things like getting dressed, cleaning your teeth,

washing, knowing when to go to bed, until, in the end, all that was left

were ill-functioning bodies with the life and the soul that made, for

them, well and truly gone. I have been invited to the first-ever G8

Dementia Summit. With me is Hilary Doxford. She is attending the summit

as an am bassador for the Alzheimer's Society and, at 54, has

early Alzheimer's. How is it affecting you now? My ability to

learn has gone, which is sad. My short-term memory is just not there.

I couldn't tell you what I did yesterday, or last week without

referring to something. My brain is much slower. Dementia research

received just 2.5% of the Government's medical research

funding. Yesterday, the Prime Minister pledged to double the

Government's annual research funding by 2025. Hilary, along with seven

other invited guests, has been given a rare opportunity to put her

concerns to the Prime Minister. Can I give a quote to you? Please. I

need to read it. We have to treat this like the national crisis it is.

Therefore, if you think it is a national crisis, if the lights were

to go out, you wouldn't be putting the amount of money you are putting

into this over a ten-year period. National crisis needs dealing with

now. I agree. Dementia is costing already a lot of money in the Health

Service and social care. I don't want to add up all the money we are

spending and say look what an enormous amount of money that is,

although it is. I want to say let's focus on the solution bit which is

the research. I felt he did say some positive things and he seems to be

passionate about doing something. Credit where credit is due. Don't

let it stop here today. Let's hope they deliver something. Nice to see

you. Now, it is my turn with the Prime Minister, who has agreed to

speak exclusively to The One Show. OK, a lot of talk today, a lot of

positive reaction, but what do you hope will come out of it? I think

the most important thing is to get the world together, to think about

cracking dementia in the same way the world has tried to crack cancer,

or crack malaria, or polio. Polio's almost been eradicated. We have

great university scientists and boffins, we want them working

together. Everybody I have spoken to today has said all of this is a drop

in the ocean unless you are properly funding research. That needs serious

money. Why wouldn't you commit serious money to it? The first thing

we are doing is we have taken the amount of money currently spent on

research, which is less than ?30 million, and we are increasing that

to ?66 million a year. That is still not good? I know. That is a start.

We will get masses of money from the pharmaceutical companies into

research into dementia. This, to me, is a passion, something that Britain

needs to lead on and I will make sure as Prime Minister that I dive

back into this issue and give it a push when ever it needs. Well, that

was very positive, very laudable aims, but if the Prime Minister

doesn't act on his promises, doesn't chase them up and make sure they

happen, like he told me he would, then I will be back banging on that

door very soon. Not just for Hilary, not just for the memory of my mum

and dad, but for all those who are still living with dementia every

single day. Well, Fiona is here. It certainly

felt like it was worth sitting down and talking to him. All this money

that is going in, what direction is that going in? Now, hopefully, they

will collate a lot of the information. There are all these

projects going on. We are about 30 years behind what we should be.

There are scientists frustrated that they kabt go on with their -- can't

go on with their projects because they haven't got enough funding.

This will help, but it is not enough. Other countries are

promising to have an effective treatment or a cure by 2025. This is

the thing, leaders from all over the place. Somebody somewhere hopefully

will come up with the cure? Interestingly enough, since the

summit, ?150 million extra has been pledged from various charities, so

that is brilliant. ?100 million from the Alzheimer's Society. There is a

collusion of the Alzheimer's Research UK and some other charities

that have put money in as well. Talking about it helps. It does.

Frank, Fiona mentioned that your parents suffered, but you can

empathise? My nan is suffering with Alzheimer's now. I didn't know much

about it. It was very sudden and all communication, your relationship

changes. It's hard for a family. There has been an announcement that

there will be a scan available on the NHS, Fiona? Yes, which is a

great announcement, but don't get excited yet. You can't march into

your GP and said, -- and say, "Can I have this scan?" It will pinpoint

whether you have these protein plaques in your brain, which are the

cause of Alzheimer's. If they attach to these plaques and they show up on

the scan - and if you have got them, your chances of developing

Alzheimer's or dementia is pretty strong. If you haven't, you are

clear for another five years, which they haven't been able to do so far.

Thank you ever so much indeed. We will watch the Prime Minister's

connection with this as it progresses. Now, although the good

old-fashioned paperback might not be as popular as tablet computers, at

least there are no confusing security settings to worry about.

With more children than ever expecting mobile devices for

Christmas, it is worrying that over 50% of parents don't install safety

settings. Here is Carrie with some important advice. 42% of kids use

tablets, a figure that has tripled in a year and this Christmas, that

amount is bound to grow even more. Do you feel safe when you go online?

Yeah. How do you keep safe? Is there anything that you do? Don't talk to

someone online because if they say their name, they might be lying.

Absolutely right. As a mum whose four kids love their gadgets, I want

to know tablets and online safety, what is the deal? How do I keep my

kids safe on these devices? What are the things as a parent that worry

you about your children being online? If she was going into

chatrooms, who would be talking to her. The next minute I knew through

PayPal there were things bought. He had bought lots of stuff? Yes. How

much did he spend? I have tried to forget! You said you had a

15-year-old son. How do you monitor him? I don't. He's 15, so I don't

really. Does that not worry you because kids meet up with strangers?

Yeah. I think he is wiser than that. If you have a tablet, it is very

likely to be linked up to either Apple's app store or the Google Play

store and your credit card details will be in there and that could be

at risk if you give your kids your password. So don't give your kids

your password. Rule two - restrictions that you can apply,

both to in-app purchases, which is where people spend a lot of money -

and also other areas of what they are looking at. I have gone into

settings. I'm looking for "restrictions". Here we go. Large

text, small text. It is not in there. We have both looked through

here and it is quite difficult. They are deeply buried and I won't

pretend it is easy. Hannah works for an organisation that helps make the

internet safer for children. I think parents do sometimes feel out of

their depth because children seem so savvy with technology. One key thing

parents can do before they give a child a tablet for Christmas is to

open it up, switch on the device and figure out the functions that the

device has. Does it connect to the internet? What communication routes

are there? We would recommend that you figure out what tools there are

that can help parents, for example you might be able to restrict access

to apps based on age ratings. It is worth contacting your home internet

provider because they provide filters for free which can help you

limit exposure to inappropriate content. Once they have opened it on

Christmas Day, you won't be seeing anymore of it! You are going to be

presented with a choice if you are with any of the major Internet

Service Providers. Do you or do you not want a filter? You will get a

screen popping up asking you that question. If you say yes you will

get a whole list of options as to the kind of content that you want

coming into your house. But, I think the main thing is to have a

conversation, ongoing conversations with your children, know what they

are doing on the internet, understand it and build a level of

trust between you about what the limits are. Thank you. Very useful

tips there. If you want more information, go to Childnet.com. Are

your girls users? They are. We made a decision last year. We police it

very much. I'll have another look at it, though. I do the basic policing.

You can. Your children read a lot because their dad's turned into an

author. You have three books out - Frankie's Magic Football. What are

they about? There's Frankie - as you joked about earlier. Is it you,

though? I have been asked that a million times. It is every kid. I

have used my own name. That isn't an ego thing. We have a girl in the

story as well. Yeah. Then you have Charlie as well. He is a goalie and

Max the pet dog, when they go off to these other worlds, he can talk. It

is a series of five. Yes, two more are coming out next year and three

have come out already and doing well. Of all the directions that you

could have gone in, why this one? Why is it important? I don't know.

It came to me, having two girls myself, watching TV, reading -

talking about tablets, all the computers they can play and it is

such a basic skill that we have lost in the modern-day, particularly with

boys. Boys don't read. There is an element of - I wanted to do

something that wasn't coaching, management, sitting and commentating

on matches. It is nice to give a peg. I know as a young lad, I wasn't

that keen on reading. You need that hook. I have seen my girls, not with

my books, but other books, they have caught their imagination. They want

to read. Most kids don't. So, I try to put a bit of pressure on. You

have your 20 minutes of reading a day. If kids can get that out of

that, I will be happy. Will you do a JK Rowling and write for adults? I

don't know. That is a step too far! I won't give a big announcement here

and now. You never know. We keep it simple. You have been quite keen to

say that after you retire, you have a while yet - but you don't want to

do anything that is associated with football? Not necessarily. I have

been a long time playing - I grew up in a football world. The idea of

doing different things, it does appeal to me. I might retire in a

few years and I want to be a manager. I do love the idea of going

down a different route. My little boy has got halfway through the

first one. To be fair, we do it in little sections, as you do. He goes

through and gets to a picture and there is some relief. When I started

doing this, and hearing that children enjoyed it, that was great.

The first three Frankie's Magic Football books are out now. And now

here's Gyles to tell us all about another children's book and it's a

perfect story at this time of year. Christmas is a time for Carol

singing, mince pies and festive stories. But you can forget the

Christmas carols because for me, the book that captures the magic of

Christmas best is Box Of Delights by John Masefield. Some may be old

enough to remember the television adaptation from 1984. It tells the

story of a young boy, an orphan, whose Christmas is in jeopardy, on a

train who is coming home for the holidays. He needs a Punch and Judy

man who issues him with a mysterious warning. The old man gives the boy

and magic rocks which has the power to make him as small as a mouse or

move at lightning speed. The author of this festive and the sea was a

celebrated poet Laureate. He wrote five books for children and the Box

Of Delights was his last. John Masefield wrote some memorable

lines. I must go down to the seas again to be lonely sky. He was

hugely popular, selling 200 thousand copies of his books in the 1930s.

Why did he write Trojans stories? This is the fifth of his children's

books. It comes before the Hobbit. It has got magic, it has gangsters,

it has cars that lie. It has everything you want in a magic story

for Christmas. -- cars that lie. I wish we could hear of a gang of

robbers in the neighbourhood. Christmas ought to be brought up to

date. It ought to have gangsters and automatic pistols. What inspired

this book? Where do the characters come from. They are

autobiographical. The billionaire 's is aunt Kate. He was a child who I

had the utmost contempt. She was a compulsive hag and rubbished his

idea of becoming a writer. The year that she died, John Masefield

created the character. White mounted there is a picture of her. She looks

rather stern. In the book, K overcomes the billions and Christmas

itself. One big fan of the book is one of the best children's writers,

Michael Rosen. He is the author of 140 children's books. You have been

a children's Laureate. Do you recommend this book? Yes. I

recommend it as a book to read out loud. What is special about it?

There is a dreamlike polity to it and a poetic style. Within the cabin

just below them, a big white owl was perched fast asleep. Peter dropped a

bit of bark onto it. This place is a bit bony and this is a graveyard of

my relations. It is lovely, is it not? Sinister, but lovely. It is a

Christmas pudding of a book. If you are prepared to give yourself up to

be dreamlike quality of it, I think it is extraordinary. If you are

looking for a dose of Christmas magic, look no further. Just don't

let your imagination carry you away. If you are a fan of those stories,

they are going to be playing all the greats over Christmas. I cannot

wait! Someone who has obviously been thinking about Christmas is Frank's

team-mate, John Terry, who looks like he's got the Chelsea secret

santa sewn up. Yes, there he is in Poundworld but shouldn't he have

been in Harrods now, Frank?! But Al, what would you give to the kind of

person that probably has everything they need - footballers and managers

for instance? No idea! But we went out and asked real fans what would

make the most appropriate gift for a few people with links to the

beautiful game. We have a bit of a game here. Frank, we want you to see

if you can guess what they chose. Two boxes, a red and a blue one.

Since blue is Chelsea's colour, let's have a look inside that one

first. It's Jose Mourinho. But what did Manchester United fans think

would be the most appropriate gift for him? We went to Old Trafford to

ask fans. A new trench coat, since he's donated his old one to the

Chelsea museum? A new mid-fielder? Or the third option... Is that you?

Or a full-length mirror? What do you think the Man United fans went for,

Frank? The mirror! Let's see what they said. The mirror! They went for

the mirror. APPLAUSE

Right, let's see who's in the red box. It's Wayne Rooney! Last night

we went to your home ground Stamford Bridge and asked Chelsea fans what

they thought would be the most appropriate gift for Wayne this

Christmas. The options we gave them were... A voucher for a cosmetic

procedure of his choice. A ticket for two for him and Sir Alex to see

the local panto. Or a copy of your children's book, Frankie vs The

Pirate Pillagers. What do you think? It is not going to be the book! If

you were at Chelsea, I would guess... The pantomime. Let's see

what they said. They picked the book. I have got them all train, you

see! Brilliant stuff. Frank's not the only member of his family to

have played football at an international level. His dad Frank

Senior played for England too. But way back before Frank Senior's

career really took off he used to have a kick around with a future

star...of the music world. My name is David Essex and I will take you

to the streets where I live. This is Canning town. We moved here when I

was four years old. This was my first real home. At the beginning,

it was tough for mum and dad. We had a prefab. The big thing was when we

got this flat because this was very special. This was a Palace. Wow!

Home, sweet home. There used to be a key here on a piece of screen so

when I came back from school I would put my hand in and grab the key. --

piece of string. I lived here for ten years from the age of four until

I was 14, and it was around that period that music became my focus,

as opposed to kicking a ball about. I started to learn the drums here.

This balcony, I remember this. There was an incident between dad and the

man downstairs. This was where my dad fought for his personal

freedom. The man downstairs reported us to the council. He came up and

was very high rate. It finished up in a proper fight here. Two men in

string vests! Dad, being a docker, floored him, and that was a blow for

personal freedom, and after that, I was able to practice the drums. Wow,

this has really changed. There used to be a playground here. This is

where I spent hours and hours kicking the ball around with rank

Lampard senior. He lived over the road. -- Frank Lampard senior. Mum

and dad were fantastic parents. That was one of 13 children, he was the

youngest. They were an East End family. Mum's family comes from a

line of Irish travellers. We would go strawberry picking and that is

when we saw mum's relations. It was a colourful childhood. I spend a lot

of time coming to the East End, I have a lot of mates here. It still

feels like home when I come here. This is the market. People would

come with just blankets and sell things. I had a job here and sold

Army and Navy stuff earning 9p a day! Then I got a job in a record

store, which was great. Rock 'n' roll worse being played. It was

quite an incredible place when it was up and running.

# I am coming home soon. These were my formative years and this is where

I made a decision to be a musician. This is where the blueprint for my

future was hatched. It is quite emotional to come back, actually.

They are so wonderful, those films, aren't they? You get an insight.

David and your dad grew up on the same street? It was acclaimed for

fame for dad when I was growing up. He used to tell me about them. -- a

claim for fame. My dad had a tough upbringing. It was a tough area so

fair play to him, it is lovely to see him going back there. What about

your upbringing, Frank? Was your dad strict? He was very strict with me

but my upbringing was much easier than that's. My dad worked hard to

give my family that upbringing. I grew up in Essex in very nice

surroundings. My dad was strict in a football way and in education. The

money that gets put into sports, your upbringing must have been very

different to your daughter's upbringing? It is different. Things

have moved on very quickly. When I was ten years old, my children are

getting those things at seven years old. I tried to give them the moral

is, the manners, the basics, really. Would it be different if you had

boys? Would you be inclined into pushing them into football? I would

perhaps nudged them! My dad was quite strong with me.

We were talking about the hot and humid conditons the England team are

likely to face in Brazil at next year's World Cup, and we sent our

reporter, Alex Riley, to experience the humidity himself. Let's see how

he got on. Heaven knows how the footballers can

do this! This is the best bit. A beats per minute now. I am sweating

a lot. I am wet through. I am thirsty and I have a headache. I do

not think I can do a football match with extra time and penalties, that

would be a disaster. Start your preparations now, Frank! Based on

that! That's all for this evening. Thanks to Frank. Chris and I are

back tomorrow with Hobbit star James Nesbitt, see you then. Have a great

Christmas, goodbye.