14/05/2013 The One Show

points, do you think? He didn't get very many! Out of 380...

It is below 50. Below 15? It was 14. There we are. Andy, I am sorry,

I was close! For next film is about something whose success rate was

slightly higher, Marty Jopson has been finding out about how it goes

up and down. Since skyscrapers began dominating

the skyline is, we have been taking the lift, press the button, choose

your floor and weight. Most lifts are the same, but there is one where

you never have to wait. In Sheffield, there is Britain's

tallest university building and inside is Britain's longest

Paternoster lift, a passenger lift with no doors, no buttons and no

stopping, so how does it work? It continuously rotates with each cabin

suspended like the seats on a ferris wheel. As it moves up the lift

shaft, it is locked into side rails and detaches as it goes over the

top, swinging free, until it locks into the rails in the down shaft. It

is safe to travel over the top and down the bottom, but if shaken too

hard, it can get stuck. Its unique engineering has its devotees. Graham

lays claim to being the biggest fan in Britain. So where does the name

Paternoster come from? It is the first two words of the Lord's prayer

in Latin, which is what people say when they are holding a rosary,

which is arranged in a loop similar to the cabin is on a Paternoster.

They are a little bit of history. Today Graham has come to Sheffield

to write this one for the first time. You can go first. It is OK, it

I just want to stay on it. Invented by a London company in the 1880s,

the Paternoster did not really take off in Britain until the 1960s.

Elaine from English explained why. It is the great era of motorways,

escalators, faster lifts, and it is all part of the dynamism, speed and

mobility. Universities were the real cutting edge of design in the 1960s.

Architects experimented, installing Paternoster lips, and students

eagerly adopted them. The stud and surge in popularity was abruptly

halted when the 1974 health and safety act prevented any new ones

being built. Concerns about accidents and disability access

meant many remaining ones were shot down and stripped out. Despite this,

Sheffield University decided this one should be saved, adding

emergency stop buttons and laser sensors to prevent accidents.

are actually 140 ways of stopping it and only one way to start it.

Students often ride it over the top. They pretend to come down the other

side as if they have been upside down, but that is to be discouraged.

If we put it to the test against a regular lift, who would win? I hope

the Paternoster wins. We have gathered 100 students to travel from

the bottom to the top. Three, two, one, go! 50 will ride the

conventional lift and 50 on the Paternoster with engineer Brian

stream of passengers every 13 seconds. Meanwhile, only ten have

made it to the top so far in the conventional lift with the remainder

languishing at the bottom. Have we won? Have we ever! The Paternoster

took 50 students to the 18th floor in nine minutes and 20 seconds. In

the same time, the conventional lift only managed to transport ten people

to the top, so it is not simply a relic of the 60s but still a

practical way of moving people about. The Paternoster has got to be

the world's strangest passenger lift, a simple design, yet one that

requires a leap of faith by those that use it. I for one, though, have

found using the Paternoster and uplifting experience.

Brilliant! I could see you in one of those in your tower. It is bad

enough getting up the stairs when I get home from the pub, that is

terrifying. Health and safety would not allow that! Imagine it at

university, I think it is fraught with danger! So Millionaire is back,

and we were quite surprised to learn that there has not been a

Millionaire since 2006. Is that right? It has been a long time. I do

think that the economy has got a lot to do with it. People are really

frightened, understandably, of risking money. Things are hard. We

have noticed that in the last couple of weeks with members of the public,

they are really up for it, but at �20,000, they know the answer but

they don't want to risk losing 19 ground. Difficult for you and the

producers. You cannot say, go on, have a go! I think we all get lost

in the world of footballers' salaries, and most people in this

country earn something around �20,000 a year less tax. Millionaire

is tax-free money. If you suddenly got �20,000 in 2013, you are really

thinking, I don't want to lose 19,000. The other reason why, I love

doing it, but the reason we have not been giving away �1 million for a

while, it will happen, we have done so many celebrity shows. There is a

thirst for celebrity things, and celebrities will never risk that

sort of money, because it is charity money, you know? So you get Stephen

Fry, he says, I know the answer, but just in case I am wrong, I cannot

risk it, because I could lose children with leukaemia �150,000. So

that is why I love members of the public, it is proper, it is how we

started, and it is like changing money, but it is noticeably tough,

it has been these last few weeks. And now you have got this app, this

new device. Play along at home, you get annoyed with it, you stupid

woman, you must know the answer! A lifeline, oh, please! Now you can

play along at home. You play this a lot. If I am a long flight, I will

watch for 30 hours until I get to 1 million. 30 hours of me! She will

not give up until she gets to the million. It is important for you to

keep it fresh, we said at the top it has been going 15 years, in America

they saturated the market. They ran it for two years, every single

night. That is very American. It started like us, ten nights in a

series, but they milked it to death, it was a huge hit, but it was dead

within two years. I could not be working at the sort of rate we used

to do it. Every night of the week, that was when I was doing the

breakfast show. We do quite a few a year, all specials, with members of

the public also liberties, and it is much more manageable. And I still

love it. And it is on tonight. Again! Time now for another blast

from the Eurovision past, you need to guess the year and how many

points they got. I got quite close on the last one. Please step

forward, Jemini with a J. # cry to me, baby. # must Must have

been crazy. # Lied to me, baby.

I was still doing radio, they were about 2004. Oh! It was 2003! And the

points? I don't think they got very many, I think they got stitched up,

I think they got about 20 or something. Sorry, guys, I am

insulting you. How many did you get? We got a big fat zilch. You were

stitched up like Belarus. You were the only ones to get nul points, so

that is a claim to fame. What are you up to now? I work in retail

management. I have got my own business, but we still do the odd

gigs, twice a month, still singing. Did you have a lot of stick at the

Eurovision? Yeah, we did, it was expected. I will have it emblazoned

on my gravestone when I die. You are the only one, it is a kind of fame.

Scousers will take it on and get on with it. Thanks for coming in, we

thoroughly enjoyed it. Europe is proving a headache for David

Cameron, not only with UKIP snapping at his heels, but some of its top

teams say they would vote to leave. We have been to market still has the

big European question that no-one has been brave enough to ask.

It is these you that is dividing the country, they say we are putting

more into it than we get out, they say we are being slammed in the

never regions by tactical voting, they say it is time to ask whether

we are in or out. I think a lot of people would say no to Europe. But

yes to Eurovision. Every time I have watched it, we have missed. Pull

out. Out of Europe? But what about Eurovision Song Contest? It is

embarrassing for our country. in the worst state of our lives.

What about European Song contest? But the quantity of what Britain

has... Careful what you say!I am not impressed. What about a

referendum for Eurovision? To be honest, if we don't stay in Europe,

it wouldn't make much sense to stay in Eurovision. Some people would be

upset. It is rubbish! We need to stay in, otherwise other countries

will not be able to do it. We don't win a lot of things, but we still

carry on because that is our spirit. We can run our pop industry without

Eurovision. We can run our pop industry and our country. It is

fuddy-duddy business now. We always lose! So? It is the taking part that

counts! Is it? Justin Rowlatt is never afraid to

ask the right questions. Chris, it is time for some or Eurovision

classics! I have done quite well, it is not very good for my street cred.

# I do view my heart and my soul, baby, give me your love.

# Better the devil you know than the It is still there, whatever it was!

So, Chris, year and points. You were playing with one of my kids who is

now very big and growing up, it was about... 1990 something. Yes...It

was about 1993. Come on! And the points. I don't know, one! She came

second to Ireland, so she would have got 150 or something. 164, well

done. I have done extraordinarily well. How do you think Bonnie will

be feeling now? The pressure is mounting as we get towards Saturday.

The nerves will be creeping in, but she will be at a stage where she has

done that many rehearsals, you just want to get on and do it. You are so

excited, the butterflies in your stomach, you feel anxious and you

start to look at the other artists, thinking, she was good, he was good,

oh! She is very experienced, she has got a great gravel voice. With all

that experience, I am sure you will agree... She has been on a million

stages, it seems like she is having a ball. Good luck to Bonnie and

thank you for coming in, both of you. Thank you to the contestants,