14/08/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show. Tonight we have a One Show take on

the modern pentathlon on. We have dancing from Rio. Only have got a

special tribute from Team GB medalists. There they are! Fabulous

security from the servicemen and women. We have gardening from John

Humphrys. And finally swashbuckling from the film star Sean Bean. We

have five things to get our teeth into. Talking of the modern

pentathlon, you would have been good at that because we understand

you got medals for fencing at Rada. Yes, two medals a long time ago. It

was good. One is that sabre? Do you remember? I got a bit technical.

They called it dagger and small sword. All so the horse riding as

well. Not at the same time. Away from fencing, what about the

Olympics - did you get a seat any of the events? I watched it on

television and I was quite gripped by it. I went to see some of the

boxing, I am quite a big fan of boxing. We went down there and saw

13 fights, a lot of fighting to see in one night. It was brilliant,

packed full, a great atmosphere. When it is in your back garden, it

is good to have the opportunity. And plenty to shout about from a

Yorkshire perspective. If it was a country, it would have been 12.

at one point it was in fifth place. Do you think the Olympics has made

people prouder to be British? Yes, it is a very good thing. These

young people have been working for years and years just for these few

minutes of time where they have to perform, and it has been a

magnificent effort. It has brought a tear to everyone sighs. Did you

cry when the flame went out? not really. Alec kept going on

about it. I did like Jessica Ennis. He you know the struggle they have

gone through and the back stories, it is great to see them there.

see what they have been through and there personal problems, getting to

that point is incredible and admirable. For we are a joined by

the armed forces who served at the Olympics, so if you at home were

snapped with any of them at the Olympic Games, send them in and we

will show them later. When the think some of our amazing

Olympians hadn't even taken up their sport four years ago, it

makes their achievements even more remarkable.

Alex Riley has been to meet the people who decide if you at home

have what it takes. That is a called prowess of our athletes has

made us a new superpower in the sporting arena, but it was Heather

Stanning and Helen Glover who really embody Britons can do sports

ideology. Both were plucked from relative

obscurity and the fact that just over four years ago, Helen hadn't

even set foot in a rowing boat, begs the question can we all the

Olympic champions? They owe their success to the Team GB Start

programme, Steve Redgrave's sporting giant has helped to

broaden the talent base. criteria was to be tall. It

suggested having a go at three different sports and trying to make

it to the Olympics. I had experienced hockey to quite a high

level so I have an idea of what it takes to get to the top. What is it

about your physique that makes you good at rowing? Because I am quite

tall, every stroke I take I can go further distance in the water.

terms of my physique, do you think I have what it takes to beat a

rower? He you at all enough but your legs might need some work.

limpet gold might remain a dream for me. Maybe I can find someone

who does measure up to the dream of winning gold. When it comes to the

Octon and physique for swimming, look at Michael Phelps - his dance

fan is two metres and his feet are a size 14. I senior citizens are

allowed to compete? If they are fast enough. A do you want to see

my body in speedos? Clearly scouting for talent is not a simple

as that. Someone who knows more about maximising every day people's

ability is talent-spotter and coach for Team GB rowing, Paul Stannard.

We go out and we attend centres around the country looking for new

talent. This is a good example of someone who has come through the

programme after being spotted in his local school. I played cricket

and all sorts. For someone to come along and hand-pick may, to say

this is what you can do was what I needed and wanted. Her how do you

assess if somebody is naturally predisposed to being a good rower?

We do a power test and an endurance test, and we know what sort of

scores we are looking for. So there is no reason why somebody from an

ordinary background can't do it? absolutely. To maintain Team GB's

competitive advantage, Paul does not want to give away the exact

scores he is looking for. If we compare your score to Sam's, you

are about 15 descent of what he's got as a 16 year-old. Am I in or

not? On fortunately not,. someone at home thinks they have

what it takes? They should go to the Team GB website. I need to go

and lie down. Why didn't he go to see a high jump

coach because he would have been signed up for real by now. Sean,

the BBC had a thing on the website where you could put in your vital

statistics and it would come up with a sport you are suitable for.

We put yours in, we might have fought in a few extra pounds but we

were amazed at what it came up with. It is a Ukrainian female discus

thrower, Natalya Fokina Semenova. should be her. Apparently. You

would be good at the discus. That is my body type? Ladies discuss.

course, we are proud of Team GB and behind every one of our 65 medals

is a very personal story. We thought it would be fitting to give

some of those Olympians the opportunity to thank the people who

helped them through tough times so please welcome rower Heather

Stanning, and high jumper and Robbie Grabarz. However, whereas

your gold medal? Helen has it, she was in the video. It is very kind

of you to share your medal! Just described when you went over the

line. Has it sunk in? It is a big moment, you are trying to get your

feelings across, but now can you sum it up? We are so glad our dream

came true and we were able to share it with so many people. Having the

Olympics at home has been fantastic for that and it is nice to have

something to show for the effort you have put in for the last few

years. Your day job is captain of the Royal Artillery and we have

some lovely footage of your colleagues in Camp Bastion

celebrating. Look at that. The British flag! They gave you a

lovely message, they sent it straight down to the line and it

must have brought it all back. they have missed out on the

Olympics so I was so glad they got to watch it and they know someone

who has been there and done it. your thank you is to warn the guys?

Yes, I can't thank them enough. There we are. You have you for your

dreams of the bronze medal, Karina Bryant, but a very special couple

helped to - tell the story. I was struggling at the beginning

of the with transport and my car kept breaking down. The locks went

and I have to scramble through the vote, which make me look like I was

breaking into my own car. I was having a lot of problems with it

and they caught hold of the fact I was struggling with transport, and

they contacted me directly through e-mail and it took me about five

times to read through it and I couldn't believe it - they came

forward and help to me to secured temporary car to London. And this

is Heather and Roger? Yes, they have helped me out fantastically.

Some think a simple as a car, it sounds ridiculous, but then you can

go to training and get that medal. He was massive, it took a lot of

stress away from me before the Olympic Games. I didn't have to

worry about getting to training and it was fantastic. This is the

moment, the ippon. That term, what does it actually mean? It means you

have thrown someone flat on their back with impetus. I was unaware I

have scored that because my head ended up underneath her shoulder.

If the the ground were -- the crowd were going crazy. Robbie, you are

sitting there proudly with your medal round. You were outside the

top 40 last year, which made it impossible to get any funding, and

one man help you achieve your Olympic dream. Who was that? In it

was my coach who told me to pull my finger out. He said you are better

than this, we sat down and had a chat. He told me to take myself

away from the sport. I went to restore classic cars, which is mild

the dream, and to have that offer to say pick one, which one do you

really want to do? I came back with a vengeance to get my high jump

back on track. That was a lovely moment. It came back and I've

decided I should not be afraid to fail any more, commit 100% and see

what I was capable of. Are you still into cars? Karina, he might

be able to fix yours. All the best with what you have planned, and we

will keep everything crossed for you if you carry on to Rio. Most

would claim we are honest as the day is long, but Gyles Brandreth

was not quite so convinced so he set up an experiment. Camera traps

are normally used to catch a rare wildlife in some of the world's

most remote locations. The One Show is unleashing them on the British

public to reveal a whole hidden world of human behaviour. We are

going to look at honesty, how honest are we if we think we can

take something and get away with it? The One Show is putting this to

the test, and what better way to do that than by using the roadside

honesty box? The quintessential salute to integrity, where

customers are trusted to put the right amount of money in the box

and not just steal. We set up camera tracked at two honesty boxes,

where they have been thefts in the past. We left them there for one

month. These camera traps are dormant most of the time, only

waking up when they detect movement which triggers them to record the

Like this honest chaffinch going about his business. A Robin

guarding one of the cartons and a thiefing crow helping himself to

the eggs. We wanted to see if the mere

suspicion that we are being watched is enough to keep our behaviour in

check. Could a picture of someone's eyes affect the way people behave?

We will come back to our results later.

We will be seeing the results of that experiment later.

Let's take us back to the closing ceremony once more. You had just

cried when the flame went out. programme comes to an end and there

is a glimmer of hope because there is a trail for a new BBC drama and

there is Sean Bean in a dress. It's a brand new drama called The

Accused. It starts tonight. This is a departure, this role, for you?

Yeah, it is. Quite a big departure, actually. I suppose people are used

to seeing me as maybe a bit, kind of villain, psychotic, psychopath

character and it was something very different. It was a challenge. It

was a piece of work I thought was controversial and provocative and

that's the sort of thing that excites me. You say you were

excited there, were you surprised they had asked you and did it take

a lot of time to reply and say yes? Not really, no. You know, I was

asked about it and at first I was quite surprised, you know, because

I had never been asked to do anything like this before. The role

is a transvestite. Yeah and, obviously, it was a big departure,

as you can imagine. A different role. But, you know, I got it and

it was by Jimmy McGovern, extremely talented writer who has a fantastic

track record in The Street and The Accused and a wonderful script.

Fantastic dialogue and I knew as soon as I saw that and I thought,

well, this is something I have not done before. This is something that

I can really kind of step out of my comfort zone here. Then I found out

Steven Graham was in it who I have always admired. I think he is a

terrific actor. And he was my partner in it. We kind of went on

from there and the preparation began. That's when I started

panicking! No need at all, it's an hour of top-notch quality drama. We

saw it earlier. Here is a clip from tonight.

You look good. You get nothing here tonight, darling, glass of wine and

that's it. I am just saying you look good, that's all. Thank you.

I will make it up to you. A weekend away somewhere.

Just the Two of Us. Where do you fancy? The Lake

District. All right. As soon as I can I will sort it.

Promise. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING.

There you go, yeah. It's 9.00pm tonight. You said there,

just before we went to that clip, when the preparation began was the

moment you had that reality check. How did you start and what did you

do? After having read the script I thought well, how am I going to

approach this? And in a physical sense and psychological aspect and

emotional approach that I wanted to bring to it. It kind of started

from scratch, I did research, I read up, I watched programmes and I

talked, I went to Canal Street in Manchester, met a few people up

there, gay guys and talked about what it felt like, what reactions

do you get and tried to immerse myself in what it was all about.

The physical side was wearing the stilettos which was difficult at

first. Isn't it high maintenance being a girl? It is. A lot to do,

isn't there? There is a lot. Did you do the waxing and the rest of

it? I had a full body wax. Well, almost. It's changed your

perspective then? It certainly has. It's a story, it's a dark story,

it's about someone, I play a school teacher who is disaffected, he is a

hum-drum, ordinary guy, lonely guy. His alter ego is Tracey, loud,

colourful and loves life and it's about someone trying to find his

own identity. And Steven Graham's character, who plays Tony, who is

married, but not quite sure what he wants, where he wants to be, what

his life wants to be and the two of them meet together and it's a real

beautiful love story. It's a dark love story. It's very poignant.

It's humour, but it also has, you know, it makes you ask questions.

It is controversial and it deals with intolerance and deals with

aggression. It's on at 9.00pm tonight. Another famous role you

played is Mellor, Lady Chatterley's Lover and we wondered if John

Humphreys likes to garden in the same manner.

Sorry to interrupt you, you are still turning over... The tenacious

interviewing technique of John Humphreys, scourge of countless

politicians. What's been going on here is straightforward

corruption... And reportedly, scary enough to frighten off even the

most persistent of garden pests. Allotment holders were plagued with

deers eating their produce, so they took a radio to the allotment with

the Today programme on it. They used that to keep the deer away and

it worked. I just wish it would work for slugs in this garden.

That's unbelievable! It's not just digging up stories John's good at,

his love of gardening blossomed over half a century ago behind a

small ter aced house in Cardiff. There was a sort of patch at the

back where we threw ashes from the fire but it grew great mint, but I

used to flog for 2p a small bunch. I got the bug, I think, the

gardening bug and I got an allotment when - I think I was 13,

manage now a 13-year-old kid getting an allotment, they would

laugh at you. A 15-year waiting list, you know. These days John's

tending a grander, but equally tricky patch in London, a shady

north-facing garden packed with flowers and shrubs. Look, it's a

mess! Why is it a mess? Look at it. It's not a mess. It's all in the

eye of the holder and it's not a mess. This has died. No, it's not.

I am disappointed because the flower dies off very quickly.

gets better as she gets older, like a woman. Right. Next, we move on to

the King of the garden. And this is my famous tree. You are

lucky to have such a nice spesman. There are some of these trees in

Parliament Square and it's said there was a particular Prime

Minister who never sacked any of his cabinet Ministers until the

tree came into flower and that's because, as you know better than me

t comes into flower very late, all the MPs were going on holiday so

they weren't there to make trouble. But it soon becomes clear John gets

as frustrated with his plants as he does with awkward politicians.

all that for this? These have gone bonkers. What do I do about that?

Nothing. This is the bane of my life. It's about that big and I

brought it here and it's taken over the garden. I don't think I like

that. OK, take it out. But you do get glimpses of a gentler soul.

This transplanted from Wales, a cluster of delicate Japanese

flowers. They're here, played out in the garden and people say it's

just a garden. It's a theatre to life, is a garden. That's a lovely

expression. Absolutely right. And we are... Players. But mere players.

This is the first garden where John has grown more flowers than

vegetables, another reflection perhaps of the man these days. They

say a garden reflects the person, does this reflect you? Probably,

it's a sort of past its sell-by date, you know, everything - brief

flashes of colour and it becomes boring. Give over! Look at it,

there was a time, very briefly, about four hours, I think, this

summer when everything was great and lovely and now look at it, sort

of sad and tired. Is it heck! dread spirits really. He is

certainly not sentimental but in my view there's one childhood plant

missing from this garden. Now I want you to start growing

vegetables here because I want to take you back to the very beginning

when the bug got you and you started growing mint. The mint!

There you are. That's sweet of you, I will plant it, guaranteed.

There you are. OK, now yesterday we were saying

how wonderful the Games-makers were and a wonderful job they made in

greeting everybody from over the world. I have to say the troops

have been incredible, members of the armed forces, how you welcomed

everybody with a smile on your faces. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. It

was typical British, it was great. And made us all feel incredibly

safe, as well. That's the message lots of people said, that you did

make them feel safe? Yeah, being in Greenwich, loads of people have

come up to us and said how we made them feel so safe. Obviously we

have people coming over to watch the Games from different countries,

they've even said to us how happy they are about how safe we are

making them feel just being there. Even David Cameron went past you,

didn't he. I have spoken to David Cameron, yeah. How much warning did

you have that you would be working on the Games? We had a couple of

weeks mobilisation, so a couple of weeks to notify ourselves about

what we are doing and where we will be working. Alex, you had more

notice, you were based out at Northolt. Yeah, we had time,

because we are doing quick-reaction alert, we had been ready to go at a

moment's notice. It's something we are used to, we do that 365 days a

year in the UK and Falklands. APPLAUSE. You are all superb.

We have to move on, we are running out of time. Quickly, we would like

to thank the police force, we did the Games-makers and the armed

forces and the police force also. Earlier Giles sent us an experiment

to discover how honourable we are using honesty boxes. He meets one

academic who believes there are subtle ways of making people more

honest without them actually realising it.

We wanted to see if the mere suspicion that we are being watched

is enough to keep our behaviour in check. Could a picture of someone's

eyes affect the way people people behave? At the University of

Newcastle Professor Batesman is leading the way. Her studies began

with another British institutions, 11s. I used to be in charge of the

tea and coffee supplies and I had a problem because people weren't

putting enough money in the honesty box to cover my costs. Like any

behavioural biologist, she was intrigued to find out if people's

behaviour could be engineered. Could she draw on evolutionary

theory to make her workmates pay up? The idea was to see whether we

could use pictures of eyes to alter people's behaviour and eyes might

give people a subtle feeling of being watched by others and they

might give more money. For ten weeks I put up a picture of eyes in

one week and then I had a picture of flowers in other weeks.

Amazingly, we got nearly three times as much money in the weeks

where we had pictures of eyes on the wall compared with the weeks

when we had flowers up. It's thought that a primal instinct

might be the reason a photograph of a pair of eyes makes us more honest.

We are an inately social species and few of us want to risk being

cast out of the social group. So even a subconscious fear that we

are being watched is enough to keep our behaviour in check.

Back to our experiment, taking the honesty test into the countryside,

where customers shopping for eggs can come and go seemingly

unobserved. The results are in! Over the course

of 31 days there were nine thefts in all.

But did the Professor's eye signs make a difference? Where we placed

eyes next to the box three thefts occurred, where there was a picture

of flowers there were six thefts. So it appears there were half as

many thefts when people subconsciously felt they were being

watched. People are beginning to explore

whether this could have real world applications.

One of the first to jump on board was the security department at

Newcastle University where the research first began.

We identified three specific areas where the cycle thefts were quite

high. We put the eye signage in those areas. The eyes went up and

crime came down? That's correct. We gave it a try over six months and

at the end of the six months it's proved to be quite effective.

clearly worked. It seems the eyes have it.

It's not a complete substitute for common sense and a solid metal

delock but perhaps those eyes will help nudge us on to the right side

Well, it wouldn't be worth stealing that wallet, would it? Giles?!

asked for you to send pictures of you posing in with servicemen at

the Olympic Games. We did. This is Lauren Thompson at the ExCel, there

to watch the wrestling. What a lovely couple they make. Paloma

there with the torch. Thanks to everyone. You can see Sean in The