14/11/2013 The One Show

Wellcome, Wellcome, to the penultimate day of the Rickshaw

Challenge and we are in Oxford. Do you know, I never thought this day

would come but Pudsey, what a place this is. This is Balliol College and

it is 750 years old. Three prime ministers have come out of here.

Boris Johnson and even our own Dan Snow commerce you stay there and do

your homework. With this being a studio city we have a geography

student wearing our map. This is France's Roberts. Is this the first

time you have worn a map? It is. I have a few on my bedroom wall but

this is a new level. This is the route down here, where Team Rickshaw

have come from. Cheltenham, Gloucester, on to Oxford. We have

also got some of the professors as well. We are going to be putting a

bit of an academic spin on the whole Rickshaw Challenge a bit later on.

To welcome them we have the UK's biggest selling classical artist, we

know him simply as the voice. It is of course Russell Watson.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Russell, it is good to see you, my

friend. Keep warm, it is freezing, nippy. Saying that, to keep yourself

warm you went out to sea Team Rickshaw a bit earlier on and you

did a bit of singing. Have a look at this.

What an image that paints a view out cycling! Do you do that all the

time? Yellow Robben Island like I was drunk in charge of a bike,

wobbling about. It is not easy singing and riding a bike. You have

faced your own challenges. What do you make of Team Rickshaw? They are

quite an inspiring bunch? It is fantastic. I was with them for a

brief period of time but it was that cold, the ends of my fingers by the

time I had finished were numb. I felt the blood starting to flow into

them about 20 minutes after I finished. Have a look at this, this

is everything that has been happening with Team Rickshaw so far

on the road. You long ago after falling of the rickshaw, Bethany's

confidences report -- repaired by the support she has been given and

she braves getting back on the salad bowl -- back on the saddle. Are you

ready to get back on the rickshaw? Yes. A don't worry, I will cycle

beside you. OK? It is good to be back. Have you got a song to sing?

# Don't stop me now #. Thank you, guys. Martin is back up

to speed having had his handlebars repaired but there is still time to

stop for a snack. ?22.61, please. Bear with me. You guys deserve it.

Taking over from Martin on the evening shift mother and son from

Derby, Carol and Daniel. Aged 14, Daniel suffered from meningitis and

spent a year in a wheelchair. I am coming, make! The memories of the

time that he was rushed to hospital are still upsetting for mum. His

temperature was right up and he was rushed into the crash ward. They

were all around him, sticking needles in him. They explained they

had put him to sleep to rest his brain. I am thinking, it is my son.

That was hard, when they put him to sleep. I never dreamt after how ill

he had been he would get the chance to do anything like this. I will not

be beat. It has been an honour, grand. You can be proud of yourself.

You bet I am because I love you and you love me. You are right, I do!

There have been many challenges for all the rickshaw riders but in the

last 24 hours Alex faced her biggest yet. My heart rate is too high.

20 metres. That was definitely the hardest part of the Rickshaw

Challenge for me so far. I have never been so glad to see a car

park, ever. The team, needing to make ground, had to pick up speed to

have any chance of reaching Oxford by dusk and what better way to do

that than by getting to an airport on a runway.

# Life in the fast lane #. It is a real privilege to be part of

Team Rickshaw and work with those five amazing youngsters. Nobody has

had a full night's sleep for the last six nights and we probably

won't for the next two days either. I think spending time with Martin

has been the most surprising thing. He is just incredible, very

together, very mature, very confident young man. He just landed

this bombshell that his mum is seriously ill with stomach cancer,

something that we had no idea about whatsoever. I literally had to stop

my chin from hitting the floor because I could not believe how much

bad luck this young lad has had at 19 years old.

He is just dealing with it in his stride. That would be enough to

break me but Martin, he just soldiers on.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Well, of course Children In Need

does not just help the children, it supports the whole family.

This is Paul and Bethany's family. You have the trophy for the biggest

turnout of family so far! Paul, we have had good chats with Bethany and

I know you are such a big part of her everyday life and she has missed

you every single second of the day. How has it been for you? To be

honest I missed her for the last seven days. She left me on Wednesday

last week and the house has been so quiet without, really, really quiet.

I have missed her. But you have shared your wonderful superstar with

the rest of Britain and they have fallen in love with her. I guess

that is no surprise. No surprise at all. She is just such a shining

light, such a shining light. I could not ask for a better daughter. How

do you think it will feel for you to feel -- to see all of this adoration

from people as she cycles in and brings Team Rickshaw to Oxford?

Marvellous, I am so thrilled for her. It is happening now. Here comes

your sister, here comes your wonderful little star. Bethany,

everybody! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Get ready, look at that! Bethany, my darling, come on up, Bethany. There

we are, my dear. A bit further. Look who is here, look who has come to

see you! This is such an incredible surprise for Bethany. As we have

been cycling along, you will know this Amanda, a few times Bethany

thought that she has seen dad. I know, on the side of the road if she

saw somebody with a moustache she said, this is my dad. Have a cuddle

with Amanda. We were saying the other night in the camper van, how

much Bethany has developed and come along in the last seven days.

Definitely. This is the biggest emotional journey I have been on in

my life. In her short life, all these new experiences, fireworks

overhead, people cheering. Let's get you off, Bethany. There you go, go

and see your dad. You have been waiting for so long. It has been

amazing, incredible. We are nearly there, Bethany. We have one day

left, can you believe it? I actually feel over the moon. So do I! We

talked about over the moon the other night. If you would like to donate

to Team Rickshaw and Children In Need, this is how you can do it.

Here we are, the middle of the night, it has been cold and wet and

windy. But it has all been worth it if you guys -- guys can just donate.

Please do so by text link team to 70705. That will donate ?5 to

Children In Need. For full terms and conditions, go online. There are the

numbers. That was after five and a half hour stint the middle of the

night on the rickshaw, so we need lots of people, Russell, to do to

donate. How do we get a tenor to make people give a fiver? The best

way is if they donate I will give them a blast of a song out here. Did

you hear that, everyone? If you donate, let me see those phones in

the air. Come on, no excuses. Russell, you do this. Lets see your

phone is first. The number. A number is 70705 and we will get a fiver. ?7

50, we are at at the moment. A bit more! The total is going up. We are

almost at a tenner now. Here he goes.

Keep text in, he might think some more.

The last time we saw you was at the Palace over the summer. It was a bit

warmer then. You are performing with Claude-Michel Shonberg, the composer

of Les Mis, and he is notorious for not writing music for anybody

whatsoever but you, he has written a whole album. He has written a new

record for me and also Charles, who wrote the lyrics for the Phantom Of

The Opera has written four of the songs on the record so it is quite

an exciting project. How did that come about, it will amaze, how did

you convince him? My manager rang me at the end of last year and said I

have had this idea, if we were to get Claude Michel Schomburg to write

you a new record and I said we could give President Obama arena and

asking to come around for a cup of tea while we were at it. -- give

President Obama ring. The next day he said he wants to see you

tomorrow. It started there. Brilliant. This is the first track

from the album, called Without You. # We will walk down the street on a

joyous rendezvous #. . Working with him was fantastic. We

are talking about an album. Is it autobiographical? It is, he likes my

story, the good times, the bad times, the illness I have been

through, the layers of who I was and he tailor-made songs that works for

me. 80% of the material has never been heard by the British public, so

it is brand-new. Why bobbin to be singing that song is knowing that

they are your story, that must be quite something?

I made a real association with the music because it was specifically

written for me. I have been singing cover songs for a long time so this

was a dream, to get the opportunity to sing something by two of the most

legendary composers in history. He you turn it into a big theatre

production. How will that work? Russell Watson my Life: The Musical?

It is not quite like that, we will take it on tour in March, almost

like a show. There will be a storyline but I will have banter

with the audience. He's also going to add four new songs to the tour.

You are lucky boy? It is exciting. Why bobbin it is incredible. As we

have been cycling in. As we have been cycling in the colleges are

mind blowing. There is Magdalen College and hanging on there is a

copy of one of the most famous pieces of artwork in the world. And

John Sergeant popped along to see why it may be better than the

original. Instantly recognisable, Leonardo da

Vinci's the Last Supper, is one of the most important religious

paintings in the world. It did pick a scene from the Gospel of Saint

John where Christ foretells of his betrayal. The original is in Milan

but what you might not know is that there is a magnificent copy of this

masterpiece right here in the UK. The Royal Academy in London owns

this brilliant but enormous paintings. It is one of their most

treasured possessions. Helen Valentine is one of the curators. Be

purchased it in 18 41. They had this incredible masterpiece. There was no

photography so the only way that people would know this work at the

time was through engravings. It would not have the same impact. What

has the Academy done with it over the years? Students could copy it

but they used to shut it behind a wall all roll it up because it was

very large and took up a lot of space. And so you have lent it to

Magdalen College, don't you want it back here? At the moment we do not

have anywhere to display it but we have plans for the new buildings so

we would like to have it back. That would be great. It is time for a

visit to my old stomping ground of Mac will College, Oxford, for a

closer look at this copy. My guide is the author Ross King. This is the

painting. It has been here in Magdalen College Oxford since 1992,

and placed 20 metres across elite macro above the floor, there is only

one way to see it properly. Who did it? The most likely person is a

student of Leonardo da Vinci in the 14 90s when he was working on the

Last Supper in Milan. It is a very different Last Supper painting than

anything that preceded it. Generally they were calm, meditative and

contemplative. People were eating bread and having quite discussion

together. It Leonardo's painting, what he has done is show the moment

just after Christ has made the announcement, one of you will betray

me. We see the table in uproar as the apostle 's turn to one another

and say, who is it of whom he speaks? All the frantic stipulation

we see in the painting is the fear and outrage caused by this statement

that Christ has made. It is difficult to think of a more

dramatic or intense moment in literature, and we have in the

gospels when Christ makes that announcement. What do we see in this

that we cannot see in the original? First and foremost, most obviously

what we can see is the feet of Christ. The Friars, in their wisdom,

decided to put a door into the wall and in doing so, they amputated the

feet of Christ. They also crashed away with pickaxes and hammers at

the wall and caused great damage to Leonardo's painting. This is not

just a story about the passion, it inspires passion. The appearance and

even the positioning of the Apostles has long fuelled debate. The

conspiracy theory, is that a man or a woman sitting next to Christ? Dan

Brown argues that Christ and Mary Magdalene were in a relationship

together, she bore a child and the child has a large line extended

through the kings of France. I would argue that that is not a woman.

Instead, it is St John, who was always painted in Last Suppers as

Young, effeminate and close to Christ. The original Last Supper in

Milan is slowly fading with time but thanks to the replica, we shall

always have a reminder of its former glory right here in the UK.

Thanks, John, fascinating. So, we have Team Rickshaw with us, ethnic,

Amanda, Martin and Russell is still here on the end. We have a surprise

for you, Martin. The other night, favourite comedian of yours, John

Bishop, popped out to the rickshaw. He was hoping to catch you but you

were on a scheduled rake back at the hotel having a little sleep. He did

leave this message for you. Martin, it is John Bishop, it is one o'clock

in the morning. I have come to wish you good luck in what you are doing.

It is a magnificent effort. A lot of people are proud of you and really

inspired by what you are doing. I am not one of them. I am sat here and

you are not here. I have an empty saddle in front of me, you lazy so

and so. Get your backside out here and start pedalling. Good luck! He

is so cheeky! He was very disappointed that you were not there

but he has promised to give you a call after the show tonight so you

can have a word with him in person. Bethany, we have been chatting for

hours. I know you love your comedians. The first time you came

to the studio Stephen Merchant was there. Now, he has become a big fan

of yours. He has been watching from his mum's house and he said this

message from his mum's back garden. Hello, it is Stephen Matt shouldn't

here. You told me about this crazy rickshaw challenge. I did not think

anybody would be able to do it. Well done and good luck getting to the

finishing line. Keep smiling, keep singing, keep pedalling and good

luck. Thank you! Wasn't that lovely? And that business of Russell

singing, you must have loved that. He is amazing. He has got a good

voice. Top of the world! Shall we get today's total? Yes, we should.

That is it, keep going, Bethany. We will get the total. Because we are

in Oxford we will have a rowing theme. Team, on your marks. And now

they are standing in a row. They are dressed in skimpy outfits! This is

apparently how they start a race. On your marks, attention, go! Look at

that! What a total it is, it really is. We

have to thank you for all of your generosity. People at the moment are

donating to the Philippines appeal as well so on the Philippines appeal

as well so on behalf of everybody who will benefit from this Children

in Need support, I want to say a big thank you. Everybody is talking

about the rickshaw challenge, it has even crept into the national

curriculum. We had a message from Rosie. She was asking for some help

for her homework. This is what happened. How many turns of the

front wheel of the Children in Need rickshaw will it take to complete

the whole journey from the Giants Causeway to London? You can have a

look at that to help you work it out.

What is the value of pi? 3.14. 572. 532.

We have got Professor Jon Chapman here, a professor of mathematics

here at Oxford. What is interesting is the number of times the pedals go

round will be different depending on what gear they are using. The riders

will push down with each leg about a quarter of a million times during

their ride. If you were to imagine them climbing a staircase, you think

every push of the pedal corresponds to going up six inches on a stair,

it is equivalent to climbing 47 miles which is 8.5 times the size of

Mount Everest. I am sensing a new degree here. We are also joined by

Doctor Sophie Allen, a lecture in philosophy. We would like you to

explain why it is good for the soul when people donate to charity. It

feels good to donate to charity because probably humans are a social

species and it is good for us. We have are more successful because we

cooperate and help each other and look after each other and giving to

charity is part of that. , there you are, you heard it here first.

Russell is enjoying wearing the mortarboard. Businesswoman Debra

Medon, we know she can turn a profit out -- Deborah Meaden. She turning

heard business skills to helping Pudsey.

Dancing on Strictly is one thing, but dancing in front of shoppers is

another. My partner Robin and I are going to dance for Children in Need.

An old friend of mine knows a thing or two about the retail industry and

he will help collect the donations. Hello! Thank you for joining us

today. We have a special live performance in aid of Children in

Need. Thank you very much. Thank you very

much, madam. A generous lot we have got here today. Thank you very much.

I don't think I made a fool of myself. Theo has done his bit. We

have done very well. That seemed to go well. I think we

raised stacks of cash. That was good for a warm up. A warm up? It seems

Pudsey reckons we can raise even more money. He has set up a dance in

front of the biggest live audience who I will ever have formed in front

of. There are a lot of people out there. We are going to dance in

front of them and I am terrified! Ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome, from strictly come dancing, raising money for Children in Need,

the one and only dragon herself, Deborah Meaden! And the hunky Robin

Windsor! CHEERING Our performance is over.

All that is left is for myself, Robin and Shane to work the audience

for donations. And the audience is in a generous mood. It is

overflowing, that is what we like to see. I got to dance at the Theatre

Royal for a fantastic horse and everybody in the audience got to do

something amazing for Children in Need. How amazing is that? -- I have

danced for a fantastic cause. They have raised over ?2000.

This is the route which will face Team Rickshaw tomorrow. They will

start in Oxford and both replace macro, Chesham, Amersham and there

is the finish line! -- they will go through Thame. Hopefully we will get

to Elstree in Hertfordshire by the main Children in Need show tomorrow

night. This is the Chilterns, there are some good hills in their will

stop thank you! I will be at the Queen Vic tomorrow to welcome you

all in with Ellie Goulding, Torvill and Dean and Shane Ritchie. But to

play us out, let's welcome the famous Oxford a cappella group, Out

Of The Blue, with an appropriate song to spur us on. Here they go. #

I'm gonna go, go, go. # There's no stopping me. # I'm burning through

the sky yeah! # Two hundred degrees. # That's why they call me Mr

Fahrenheit. #'m trav'ling at the speed of light.

# I wanna make a supersonic man out of you.

# Don't stop me now.