16/01/2013 The One Show

Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We're

iness teemed company tonight. We are Lording it up with a down ton

peer of the realm and a Walford Lady in Waiting. We booked a real-

life butler. Colin, would you dot honours, please. Please welcome,

Lord Fellowes of West Stafford and Miss Nina Wadia off the telly.

APPLAUSE Ho do we get ourselves into these

things? It would be nice if we had canapes. Julian, you've clearly met

Colin before. He's a -- an important part of Highclere. It's a

very big job. I have come across him before. As we'll be talking

about, you've left or leaving EastEnders now? Would a period

drama suit? What do you reckon? Have you brought your CV? I have!

In just a few minutes, we've also got an exclusive look behind-the-

scenes of the real Downton Abbey, Highclere castle, with their butler

Colin, secret doors and all. With somebody else special who we will

meet shortly. Winterwatch continues on BBC Two later. Through the power

of this very special remote control, we can access - you're going to

love this. I can't wait. We can love this. I can't wait. We can

access their live cameras. There we go. Now these are two very young

beavers. These are known as kits. We think that yes there you go,

they may wake up. You can see one is actually, well, showing him in

all his glory. You could always kick the box. That would wake them

up. You're not a big fan of animals are you? Anything with more than

two legs. Not even baby beavers. That is a little bit cute. Though I

am in favour of shaking the box as well, I'm afraid. You'll be pleased

to know we'll keep an eye on them throughout the night, then.

can't wait never, can you? We'll see what else turns up.

whatever you're having for tea tonight, we are guessing, if you've

seen the news, that it's not burgers. Our very own food

inspector, Matt Allright went to see what people thought. If you

found out you had eaten a burger with horse meat in it, what would

your reaction be to that? Would it be revulsion? Initial shock, and

then I would wonder how it tasted. If it's horse meat, they were

saying that some of the products which were beefburgers had pork as

well. I'm not a pork eater. They muff tell the customers what is on

the shelf. I have eaten, well, not a whole horse, I have eaten horse

meat. Why did you find that acceptable? The same reason I find

eating cows, lambs and all the other animals acceptable. It's a

great source of protein. They're quite nice animals. People have a

connection with horses like with dogs. Whether it's a cow, you don't

have a connection with a cow. was to eat a horse, I might as well

eat a dog. And a dog has a personality and I don't know what

it is, it's just something I wouldn't do. The reason why you

wouldn't eat the dog is the psychological connection with

whatever the meat is. Recently been to Christmas market and had things

like wild boar, spring bok, canning ree, how different is horse.

there was horse meat in the supermarket, would you give it a

go? 100%. We eat beef, lamb, pork, why not horses? Gosh. Matt, were

you surprised by the public's reaction? I was surprised bit range

of opinions. There was a chap there quite happy to give horse meat a go

and then there were people who were disgusted. The common thread there,

whether people were prepared to give horse meat a go or not was

that they were disappointed to find out that there were things in their

food that they didn't expect. They weren't clearly labelled. With all

the guidelines and restrictions about the way we handle our food,

this somehow has found its way onto the shelves. That's the worrying

thing. That's the core question. It's not whether or not it's good

to eat horse meat but that you should think you're buying beef and

the fact is it's not pure. Absolutely. There are nations that

eat horses. I'm not particularly anxious to do so myself. Clearly,

it is a meat. Even with the distinction of companyed meat or

whatever they call it, we eat rabbit. We have pet rabbits. It

depends on the country. You can't tell people they're buying one

thing and give them another. Exactly. We have to cover all bases

here. It's not all beefburg thaerz we're talking about. There's a lot

of British farmers worried about reputation. You even had burgers

for your tea last night. Yes, we do. How do you feel if you found out

there was horse in those burgers. Oh, my. I was taken by surprise. I

would not be happy. I would not be happy. Going back to that point. It

is just certain burgers. There are certain burgers from certain

outlets which have proved a problem. And there is a widely available

list of where they're coming from. If you have them, I mean it's your

choice, you can take them back to the shop. They will give you a

refund for those. That system is in place. How do you get your refund.

You just test on them and discover they're horse meat. You don't have

to test them yourself. There are specific brands which are affected.

The shops have cleared the shelves of those items. Anything that comes

back they'll give you your money. We mustn't be too provincial. The

whole of the French nation eats horse meat and they all look pretty

fit to me. But it's false advertising. You want to buy what

it says on the packet. You've been doing the series Food Inspectors,

are you surprised that a fast quantity of horse meat managed to

get into the food chain? Again, we have to be clear, this is not a

food hygiene risk as far as they tell us. This is not a problem to

our health, but it is just raises questions. I've been to abattoirs.

They are so strict about the way they handle meat. They have to be -

there's so much paperwork associated with handling livestock.

To -- for this to reach this stage, in one case a large proportion of

horse meat in one product. Like nearly 30%. Yes. Matt, thank you

very much. Food Inspectors is on later. Now down ton fans will know

that head-buttler car ton for -- head butler carson has no time for

any riff RAF. We got an exclusive insight to Highclere castle.

I'd like to ipbtd deuce you to the biggest TV star in the world right

now, yes it's Downton Abbey from hitd TV show, Downton Abbey. It

turns out it's called Highclere Highclere castle near Newbury in

Berkshire, it isn't just a film set. It is a real house, with a real

family living here. Just like in Downton Abbey, they have a real

butler called Colin Edwards. He's not called that in Downton Abbey.

So the dining room. This is the state dining room. Before you eat,

you have to polish the cutlery? it has been polished but we

repolish it to take off all the fingerprints. Is this one of a few

jobs that you do or, because it seems, when we watch Downton Abbey

of course, there's a huge staff and they all have quite specific jobs.

We tend to multitask. In the olden days there was a person to do every

small job. One person would polish the cutlery. One person would wash

it. But now, we have to do everything. There are two sides to

Highclere, there's the very private side with the family. Then there's

the very public side. It's the focus of attention around the globe

now. The Americans are the main visitors. They're just over the

moon. They're screaming when they come in. They just can't believe

that they're going to see the actual inside of the house. The one

thing I would like in my house is a system of bell pulls. Are they

still working here? They're still here, they don't work. Just imagine

you're down stairs and then you get ding, ding, ding and you've got to

go. You get back and ding, ding, ding, the ladyship wants you. Then

the Earl wants you. It's a long way. This is the modern bell pull. I'm a

little bit disappointed. Just a little bit. But I know it's

practical. There's been a house on this site since the 18th century.

But in 1838 the home was transformed by Sir Charles Barry

into the grand mansion you see today. Diana Mitchell has the job

of explaining to ministers just what is fact and what is fiction.

Are there places where there are eerie similarities between the

history of Highclere and the fictional history of down ton?

the second series of Downton Abbey, we're in the wartime now, in

Downton Abbey this was a convalescent home. In real life in

the First World War we were an operating theatre for officers.

you have genuine points where the scenes being re-enacted here are

earily similar to what was happening here at the same time.

Absolutely, which makes it very interesting because you can relate

to Downton Abbey because so much of it is following some of the lines

of the life here in Highclere. Some of our visitors think we are

Downton Abbey. Of course, meanwhile I'm wondering which bedroom it is

here that all the saucy nonsense with the Turkish gentleman took

place? It's down this side, this corridor. The far corridor is where

Daisy peeped out and could see them dragging the body along the

corridor. Has Highclere kaftdle aka Downton Abbey. It turned out it has

a real butler and a real hiftdery all its own.

-- history all its own. It does have a real butler who has a night

off. Jim Carter who plays Carson, has he asked you for any tips?

Unfortunately, no. Not at all? he had a chat wu, surely! We've had

a talk, but he's never asked my advice on how he should play his

part. What do you think of his performance then? Very good. Do you

all sit round and watch Downton Abbey? Of course. Are you saying

that because Julian is sitting here. I was going to say that was an

unfair question. I thought he'd be working. Lord and lady Caernarfon

insist we watch it. Let's go back to the Christmas special. I've got

a bone to pick with you. I bet I know what that is. We were having a

lovely time, the chocolates were out, there was sherry. Next thing

Matthew leaves the hospital, everybody is in a great mood. He's

dead. Life's full of surprises. was obviously because Dan Stevens

was leaving. What was the moment when he said he had to leave.

issue was really that he wanted to leave cleanly. He wanted to go into

the next part of his career. If he'd been playing a servant that

wouldn't have been an issue, they would have got another job and gone

off. But because it's a member of the family and Mary has a baby, how

believable is it that we would literally never set eyes on him

again. You couldn't -- he couldn't go off on a polar expedition and

never return. Once he wasn't prepared to come back and do, you

know, a couple of episodes or something in a series, that would

have been fine, then he could have gone off on some Government thing.

Once he wasn't going to come back at all, I don't want to sound - I

mean, he's a young man. He's got his way to make and his career.

Running an acting career, you know, it's a gut thing. Nina has just

left EastEnders for exactly the same reason. You weren't killed off,

were you? No, I did ask. I wanted a huge explosion or I wanted to jump

out of a plane. But, no, I got huge respect and they've left me and

left the door open. I think I understand where he's coming from.

You do, as an actor, you reach a point where you go, I've done

service to this show and I fell like I want to be creative again

and do something fresh and new. was interest in him in America. He

was offered a show on Broadway and We are devastated but there is a

new series of Downton, how are we going to cheer everybody up? I am

not sure I do cheering up? beautiful Indian woman arrives,

right? Yes, it is perfect! The truth of the matter is nothing is

harder to dramatise than happiness. That is why in a great Hollywood

movie, they kiss at the end and get married, they don't do it in the

middle, because once people are happy, they are kind of done and

dusted in terms of narrative. Now we have Paul widowed Mary, she has

the baby, she has the estate, how can she find happiness? We are off

to the races! And Julian, we know one of your other passions is the

big houses. You class them as almost a character themselves, and

this is the basis for your new series. It is. I think the whole

sort of art form, one can really say, the English country house,

which fascinates many people all over the world, it is because of

its kind of complete this, it is like a world, it has every layer of

society and every activity, and a real working estate, like Highclere,

farming, racing, it is all going on, all of these different skills and

lives being lived. And the opportunity came in for this

programme to have a look not just that the families who built these

great palaces, but the men and women who worked there. A you are

presenting this, it is not a drama. Yes, it is me, blathering on.

have a look catch you blathering on. He built this house to show a great

dynasty and to entertain his queen from a Elizabeth the first, the

greatest of the Judas. -- Tudors. But Elizabeth never stayed here.

News of smallpox in the house kept her away. Life was fragile then.

It kind of flip-flop between the stories of the upstairs and the

downstairs, and they are dramas in themselves. There is one particular

story that we deal with about an undercooked called Thomas, who was

killed, I am quite sure accidentally, while he was in

service by a guest of the Lord's. And when you follow the story, I am

sure it was terrible and everyone was very sorry, it isn't that, it

is the way it was covered up, the way he does it is so roofless, and

yet he was also a fantastically brave man -- roofless. In pursuing

the Queen of Scots, although she is a romantic heroine, but the fact is

he was putting the interests of the country above his so that could

have lost his head, so you have got this rootlessness, plus bravery,

which I suppose are the key elements of a Tudor or statesmen.

We found a book in Camden library which has got a brilliant story in

it which could be turned into an historical series, but we can't get

hold of the author. I don't know if you can help us. Where is it? There

we are. Very limited film potential in this one! Just and light and us.

I can do it. -- enlighten. The author's interests include writing,

gardening and Phil Yates and she helped to run a children's campaign

and lives in Surrey with her dogs. In the second book, she had opened

a care home for dogs. Who is this? I am afraid, I have to come clean,

that is me. Let's read a little bed. There is

no limit to the amount of ridicule -- ridicule.

"she could hardly get the words said. It has happened! I and his

mistress! He seemed to revive physically. The king loves me".

king loves Me! There you are. of that has rather drifted away

from my writing style. It is a bit 50 Shades. And the four people who

got it out of the library all agreed it is a good read. All right

then you can see Julian's Great Houses on ITV next Tuesday at 9pm.

We are keeping an eye on the beavers that this sort earlier on

with the Winterwatch cameras. Shall we have another look? -- that we

saw. There is only one left. This could be either Timber for...

in a further. That burgers. There are nine of them. Mom and dad are

there, they are about nine months old. This is just like Big Brother.

I would stay in there, it is minus five. Poor little beavers. Nina?

Aww! We are going to be talking to the Winterwatch people later on in

the show. Two things you need to know about the next film, the

hippocampus is located in the media temporal lobe of the brain. Clearly.

And secondly, apparently taxi drivers have in large ones. Michael

Mossley explains why we should help the modest cabbies.

Look around you on a typical high street. How can you spot people

with bigger brains than yours? Here in London, they are easier to find

that you might imagine. Or you have to do is stick your hand out and

hail one. London cabbies famously have fantastic memories. They have

all passed the test, the Knowledge, and they need to know the location

of all of London's Street, around 25,000. Even more impressively,

they have to know the shortest distance between any two points.

Researchers believe that cabbies are no more naturally gifted than

you or me, so does their remarkable ability to memorise the streets of

London make them geniuses? OK, King's Cross station to Hyde

Park Corner. Euston Road, cut through Grafton Way, left on

Fitzroy Street, through Charlotte Street.

Into Piccadilly. And up to Hyde Park Corner. It seems we have

feasibly court improved special memory. Tests show that parts are

the taxi driver's brain, the hippocampus, is noticeably bigger

than normal. I have come to London Hammersmith Hospital, where our can

be Paul has agreed to have a brain scan. He is under they supervision

of Dr Jennie wild. So what is the physical evidence

that taxi drivers have different brains? University College London

conducted a ground-breaking study where they looked at the size of

the hippocampus in London taxi drivers, and they compare that to

people who are not a taxi drivers, men who are not taxi-drivers, and

they found that the taxi drivers had a significantly larger memory

centre in their brains, which led them to conclude that being able to

navigate very well and learning the Knowledge through London led to the

paper camp has been wider. -- the hippocampus been wider. Sir Paul is

in the machine, and they are scanning his brain. That is to

measure if the hippocampus is larger than average.

Let's see if all of that training has made any difference?

They hit the canvas being larger can improve recall and navigation.

Looking at this image of Paul's brain, the hippocampus is 28%

larger than in an average man. To see what difference this makes

beyond their taxi cabs, we are going to conduct an experiment,

here at the Maze in Leeds Castle in Kent. On one team, taxi drivers.

And on my team, a couple of really smart cookies. Two senior lecturers

from Canterbury Christchurch University. We are confident.

Around the maze, we have positioned portraits of five famous geniuses.

Both teams will have 30 minutes to navigate the maze, search for the

portraits and memorise their locations. Then one by one, they

will be asked to go from Beethoven to Stephen Hawking, to Isaac Newton

to Socrates and finally Einstein, in the right order. The quickest

route should take just 13 turns, but that means getting everything

right first time. The lecturer's seemed confident, but what about

the cabbies? We had just gone round in a circle. It is the wrong way.

With 30 minutes are up, it is now their chance to beat the clock. If

like him, Paul's fellow taxi drivers have of the hippocampus

that is larger, they should beat mighty D handstand.

I have the result and it is very clear. The fastest by a long way

was Adam. The slowest well long way was me.

-- by a long way. All of the other competitors took

roughly four minutes. Although roughly unscientific, it does show

that paper qualifications are not enough to get around the maze and

when it comes to finding your way from place to place, the brains of

the cabbies come out on top. So, Michael, did you find your way

to the studio tonight? I had been here before! A you were supposed to

be here at the start! Earlier in the week, we saw the Radio Times

had featured the top 50 greatest British inventions and in your new

series, you get the chance to express your favourite. Yes, I love

inventions and inventors. I think we are in in difficult times and we

need to recapture that spirit of 100, 200 years ago when they went

out and did stuff and sold it to the world. What was your favourite?

My favourite was the steam car, the first one, which went off down the

road before the Battle of Trafalgar. Isn't that fascinating? I love that

sort of thing. Here he is, going full steam ahead.

An inventor driven by economic beat to get around a costly patterned

ended up achieving something other inventors have been trying to do

for centuries. It was more powerful than the engine of James Watt and a

fraction of the size. And so he could put it on wheels, the age of

steam locomotion had begun. And to be fair, we wouldn't be

where we are today. No, it was the first time high-pressure steam was

captured. Why did we have a steam car now? We do. Why can't I have

one? The price of water is rather more acceptable than petrol. Yes,

that would Sorcha lead. There are steam cars that go at incredible

speed, it is making a comeback. would be thrilled by that. You have

learned something. Besides giving us entertained, there is civil

mission behind this. Absolutely, we should celebrate inventors, they

make things and sell things that we are fantastically good in Britain,

coming up with scientific things, theories and things like that, but

it is the stuff that people want to buy and that transforms the economy.

We want to celebrate it. Americans are better at recognising

what they have come up with, so all of our great adventure does go

across the Atlantic. Delightful was not Thomas Edison, it was Joseph

Swan and the first place was the Savoy Theatre -- the light ball.

And the good old BBC, we have a whole season about this. Absolutely,

it is a celebration of that what Britain has done in the past and

what we are capable of now. You are going to love it, Julian. I love

all of this stuff, but it does annoy me how so many things that

were invented here but only developed... I am not attacking the

Americans, good luck to them because they see the potential and

I went to a medical science convention last year and they had

come up with plastic glasses filled with water and if you take a little,

it suggests it -- it just said so they can get their glasses out

cheaply. All of today, we have been saying "That is a good idea".

Inventiveness is alive and well and we have three young inventors with

us, Emily, Jake and Dan. Let's go to them. I had a little go at

Emily's invention and the arm. The proof is in the pudding and I found

this absolutely brilliant. -- earlier on. They have a project on

the front of the handlebars of your bike which projects this image

around five metres ahead. Yes, it gives them a presence outside of

your normal food print which alerts drivers ahead of you who can't see

the bike. -- footprint. My normal bike light is on there, it is the

whole thing. It is a bike light There it is. Are you ready? There

you go, look. Stop, there's a cyclist. That is the point. I felt

a lot safer having it on there, knowing that those ahead of me

would know I was coming before I arrived. Anything to make you more

visible as a cyclist and increase at wairpbs of the bike on the road.

-- the awareness of the bike on the road. I have raised funds for it

and we're having conversations with the big retailers. It's all steam

ahead. Jake, I love yours. This is a vacuum cleaner with a difference.

Definitely. It still performs scablgtly the same as every other

vacuum on the market, but the outer shell is made out of cardboard and

cardboard has taken such a big rise in recent years. It's being used in

furniture, lielgting and construction. Why not a -- lighting

and construction. Why not make a light. You repair it yourself, you

can doodle over it. The box is the bag essentially. Yes. Pimp your

vacuum cleaner. Dan, your invention is brilliant. There's enormous

problems with catching fish that aren't ready to be caught yet and

wastage. Talk us through it. This is the escape ring part of a safety

net larger system. The money I've received from the James Dyson

foundation has allowed me to prototype this further. This fits

into the net and allows smaller fish to escape to freedom. It's

like an emergency exit. How many of those would you have on the net?

Ten to 15. Good luck. All of you, good luck to you. Hugh Fearnley-

Whittingstall is going to love you. He will. As will so many fish.

Michael's series The Genius Of Invention starts next Thursday at

9pm on BBC Two. One invention that's celebrating its 150th

birthday is the London underground. Over the years it's had a big

effect on some of you. I'm Tom. I've been a London Underground

busker for six or seven years. I love it because I like to brighten

up people's days. One day I was busk -- busking for two hours in

Waterloo and got a -- an apple from a lady. I got a Canadian girl's

number that day too. I think the underground is an important part of

London's cultural identity. It's something I'm really proud to be

part of. I'm Michael. This is Rufus. He's a Pyrenean mountain dog. He's

72 kilos in weight. He comes with me every day because we go to work

together. He is the big celebrity of the underground. As far as dogs

go, he's been photographed in sces of 50,000 times by members of the

public. Whenever we travel with Rufus you have to allow half an

hour, 45 minutes longer. We always miss at least two trains. People

get on the train, going the -- go in the wrong way to sit with him

and make a fuss of him. They get off at the next station and travel

back. He's the best friend I have. People love him. They say the only

good thing in rush hour on the underground is if you get a spot

next to Rufus. I've been here for 13 years. I am the man that wakes

people up at the end of the night and gets them off the train, out

and home, hopefully. I've grown up with the underground most of my

life. My aunt used to own a confectionary come tobacco stall at

the old Trafalgar Square underground station. My granddad

used to have storeys about during the bombings in London in the

Second World War and going into the underground as an air raid shelter.

I've always been brought up with that. 18 years I work for London

Underground. I enjoy every minute of it. It was a cold November day

1965, somebody told me that there was something left in the ladies

toilet. When I went in there, I find this little new baby, so I

took it up, tried to do what I could to see that I baby was warm

and comfortable. Then I get my station master to come and take

over. Then I make inquiry and they told me that the baby was adopted.

After 30 years I was reunited with this young man that was one thing,

one moment that will never leave me, as long as I live. I will always

remember that baby. One, two, three. You put the passenger in, in, out,

you shake them all about. Open doors, close doors, mind the gap.

That's what it's all about. When we retired we had to have something to

do. We decided to travel on the Northern line and get off at every

station and write about it. # All up the Northern line

# Morden, Edgware, high Barnett # You were singing along? I was.

That's being taught at the nursery. "Yous off that EastEnders, aren't

you? Yes I am. Where is Walford east? There is no Walford east.

Yeah, it is. I seen it on the telly. I went, it's not real. I gave up

and I thought I'll join the loon. That's what he will have seen. It's

very considering. It's between Stratford east and Bow. And I left

him. It looks convincing. It does. You've left EastEnders. How did

your cast members take the news. You're a very tight-knight cast --

tight-knit cast. Yes, quite sad if I'm honest. How does it work. Do

they tell you and they tell them? came to the decision in January of

last year. I thought about the decision for about three months.

Then it was time for my contract to be renewed and I said thank you,

but I think I'd like to make a move instead. A big decision. Very big

decision. I didn't make it lightly. It took me a few months to think

about it. I feel, a lot happened to me also last year. I lost some very

dear friends around my age. I thought life's too short and I want

to do something else. At least they didn't kill you in a sports car.

Yes. They obviously were kinder than we were. Yes. That sounds

really exciting. You are supposed to be getting married to Masood on

Valentine's Day. Is there going to be a duff, duff moment that messes

that up before then? You can't ask that? I'll ruin it for so many

people. So many millions. We can say that you were a fiery character.

Here she is dising out a bit of relationship advice. You don't want

to appear too keen. But then you don't want to appear too cold

either. The really important thing is that you must get what you want

from the man before he gets what he wants. That is the golden rule. It

lays the foundation for a lifetime of female dominance. You took your

Now that you're off the East Ender tread mill, what has that enabled

you to do then? My husband and myself have our own production

company. We made a movie called Four. And we're starting the next

movie, which we will start in March or April with Stephen Lord. It's

change Strangeways Here We Come. You were in the Keith Lemon thing.

We can't show that. I'm not surprised you can't show anything

from that movie. Tune back in four hours' time. Are you hoping for

more comedy roles? Yeah. I think it got a bit heavy for me for a while.

I am looking forward to doing that. I'm looking forward to writing

again. There's a world of opportunities out there. We've

picked up somehow during the show that you're not too keen on animals.

I don't mind animals. Having said that, we're hoping to convert you

now. Last time you were on the show, you named a baby gore illa. That's

different. You settled on kukenga, different. You settled on kukenga,

which means "love". Here he is now. The big one? No, the little one.

my goodness me. He's lovely. He's almost as adventurous as you are.

He's like the main attraction there. Was it the little one you named?

The little one. The big one looks as if he'd name you. He'd own me.

We put it out to the viewers and you chose it. That was the nicest

name that came through, you're right. It was something about love.

Yeah it means "to love". It is time to join some animal lovers in

invernnessshire. It's the Winterwatch team. We heard earlier

on, it's minus five up there. How is the wildlife coping, obviously,

snugled up? Yeah and we're a bit snugged up. We have loads of layers

on. We look a bit like Tellytubbies. Some of the wildlife hibernates,

some migrate and some of it, like the beavers that we've been

privileged to watch on our live cameras over the last few days, is

perfectly adapted. You wouldn't think it, watching that one. But

that is a kit, first Time Out on the ice. As you can see struggling

a little bit. Skraiting on thin -- skating on thin ice. One of the

contestants from Dancing On Ice, I think. We've had a question from a

One Show viewer, asking why are birds singing through the night at

the moment? Do you have the answer? Well, if they're in towns, the most

likely animal that's going to be is the Robin. They sing all year round,

particularly under street lights. In our cities at this time of year,

when robins are beginning to argue about their territories with spring

in mind, there's a lot of Robin singing going on, occasionally a

few blackbirds as well. After a busy night on Christmas eve, Martin,

you're showing some reindeer action tonight. I am. It's a great story,

this, because a Laplander came over here to Scotland, looked around and

thought "there's something missing." so he brought some of his

herd over here. That's the origin of these reindeer. Tonight I'm

lucky enough to get hands on with these lovely creatures. It would be

good if a Brazilian came over here and got them to import football as

well. LAUGHTER

Chris, you're looking for One Show viewers' help. Well, down south

we've had a lot of hard, heavy weather at the moment, lots of snow

and ice. We'd like any interesting sightings of things that have come

into people's gardens, birds and mammals, anything like that.

Contact us via our website bbc.co.uk/Winterwatch. Pictures,

comments, anything. Thank you guys. Winterwatch is on BBC Two tonight

straight after us. When did he bring the reindeer in, when did

that happen? I'm not sure. We can't go back to them now. That's

disappointing. I can tell you an interesting fact. What reindeer do,

they have this incredible coat on them, they stand into the wind. So

if you see a reindeer, it closes its eyes and puts its ears back.

The reason is so that the wind flattens down its coat, which keeps

it warmer. If you're cold, stand into the wind. It wouldn't work for

me. But after that, Julian, how can some people out there want to

gratuitously harm some of our country's wildlife. Here's a story

of how one brave walker turned prosecution witness in a wildlife

crime. For hundreds of years, badger

baiting, where people set dogs on badgers for entertainment, was one

of Britain's most gruesome blood sports. But despite being outlawed

badger baitding is still going -- baiting is still going on today.

This is the story of an artist who stumbled across this medieval sport

and then risked his life to bring the badger baiters to justice. For

25 years wildlife painter Robert Fuller has been finding inspiration

for his work by taking photos of his subjects. In January, 2011, he

was doing this with a friend along the river Derwent in Yorkshire,

when the normally serene sounds of running water and bird song were

interrupted. I could hear a lot of dogs barking, very anxious dogs,

out here on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. It was quite an unusual

event. As we got closer, I could hear a badger squealing and

chitering and wailing. It became obvious that something was

definitely wrong there. The two men wanted to investigate

where the commotion was coming from. From behind some branches Robert

I concede two dogs attacking a badger and a group of men were

watching -- I could see. There were several other dogs and a call to my

friends straight away to call the police and when I ran back through,

I grabbed my camera. Robert started taking photographs to document what

was happening, just 70 yards in front of him. At times, he could

clearly see the legs of the badger being flung around by the dogs.

Robert was potentially putting himself in harm's way, as the men

were carrying shotguns. You must have been incredibly

scared? Yes, it was quite a tense moment. Robert collected as much

evidence as possible and he even managed to capture the moment of

the badger's death, with the smoke from a shotgun hanging in the air.

This was also the instant when he knew he had to get out of there. It

appeared one man had spotted him. Robert beat a hasty retreat,

holding his own close to his chest to avoid raising further suspicion.

He gave the emergency operator their exact location. 15 minutes

later, the police arrived. The men were still close by and all of them

were arrested. This was the first step in getting a conviction but it

would take the expertise of the RSPCA to bring the men should test

-- to justice. A lot of the time we don't have the evidence there. In

2011, we had 192 big -- incidents of badger-baiting reported, and

seven of them have resulted in prosecutions going to court.

this case would turn out to have no lack of incriminating evidence.

Along with Robert Fuller's photographs, the police found part

of a locator collar carried by the men. A tour of modern badger-

baiting, they offer to around a terrier's neck, before it is set to

find the badger. They then use the locator to dig at both of them up.

Once out, the larger dogs are released on the badger. It would be

easy to think that this case was closed, but to get a definite

conviction, the team needed proof that badgers had been killed. They

had to find the bodies. A police sniffer dog found one badger dead

in a marshy area, ripped to bits and shot. And the second dead

badger was found when they dug down. This was the conclusive proof of

the officers needed. In January 2012, Paul Tindall, Alan Alexander,

William Anderson and Richard Simpson were each jailed for 16

weeks. Two other men, Christopher Holmes and Malcolm Warner, were

given 12 weeks suspended sentences. And a teenager who stood on the

sidelines was placed in a youth rehabilitation programme. And none

of this would have been possible without Robert's bravery in taking

the photos in the first prize. Every year, it is thought that

thousands of badgers are tortured and killed by badger-baiting as in

the UK, but as the public become more aware of this gruesome and

horrific crime, hopefully it will become consigned to the history

books. Hopefully. Miranda, Robert showed

incredibly -- incredible bravery. Yes, he was a total hero, he has an

award from the RSPCA to acknowledge his bravery. Here he is receiving

it. We need more people like him out there. What can you do if you

do see always best a wildlife crime? You need to do what he did,

he Brown 999 because he was that the scene of the crime. If you are

not there, and you want reported later on, go to your local police

station or you can go to your RSPCA offers, because they have the power

to prosecute. You cannot condone killing like that, it is barbaric,

but there are people who believe that badgers spread tuberculosis,

we have covered the item many times, and the proposed cull was postponed.

Yes, there was a big U-turn. The Government announced the cull in

September and there was a U-turn in October, to postpone it until at

least the summer. That is just in England. In Scotland, there are not

any cases of TB. The Welsh Assembly have decided to go down the

vaccination route and in Northern Ireland, they are looking at the

eradication programme providing vaccination with a possible cull --

combining. One has to remember that for farmers, it is their livelihood.

It isn't enough to just have one's eyes welling with tears. This stuff

is horrible and as long as it tense, that is great but if there is a TV

risk, we have to take it seriously, like grown-ups -- TV. We do but

more research is to be done and scientists say that even if you do

have a cull, it is not necessarily going to reduce the risk of

tuberculosis. More work needs to be done, more money and research,

before they announce something like that. It will be a trial cull when

it goes ahead. Very controversial. There are so many sides to this,

you can go on and on. Sorry... general, there has been an increase

in wildlife crime. Wildlife crime Serran the increase. You look at

them and you think it is something that happened he hundreds of years

ago -- are on the increase. Badger- baiting, hare-coursing. I did a

piece recently on cock fighting. And there is a blood sport caught

Lam Ping, which is very popular in the winter months, long and dark

nights, where people that with very bright lights and dogs and try and

bring down foxes and deer and badgers. It is Justice Board, there

is no financial gain and it is on the increase -- just a sport.

Potentially, there is so bad news for the Wildlife Crime Unit. As if

there wasn't enough, the national Wildlife Crime Unit are at risk of

losing their funding in March this year. This is a very small number

of incredibly dedicated people, people who are committed to

eradicating rhino horn theft and trade, and trade of reptiles and

persecution of birds of prey, and they may lose this funding in March

of the Home Office do not renew it. There have been a lot of cuts in

police funding and they are one of the people who may suffer. We will

see what happens. Miranda, thank you very much. Julian, the reindeer

we saw earlier on, that was for 1952. I thought it was 19th century.

So it was nearly there. Anyway, we are polite bunch of The One Show,

and that is not being a economical with the truth, if you understand

what I'm saying. Gyles Brandreth is no exception and he has had a look

at the British obsession with euphemisms.

Euphemism. Euphemism. I am looking for an alternative and I can't find

one. But perhaps I don't need one, because a euphemism is the

alternative, and when the 18th century lexicographer Dr Johnson

was compiling his first comprehensive English dictionary,

he actually left the word out. He was a man who liked straight

talking. If you go back to the Greek, the origin of the turbines

to speak fair, which is what you can listen does. There is a

wonderful definition by Quentin Crisp, he said that euphemisms are

run pleasantries wearing diplomatic Cologne. I think that one defeat

describes how we sidestep something unpalatable. It is there to make

something sweeter, gentler. exactly, to add a bitter foe.

Rees rota book on euphemisms, helped by his better half -- wrote

a book. My wife has a good definition, which is when you don't

call a spade a spade. You call it an agricultural lifting instrument,

to avoid using the D-word, spade. Of course, the subject that we

think we need change according to the times we live in.

Victorians for fat childbirth, bankruptcy, prostitution -- avoided.

They used to cover up the legs of chairs. It may not be true, but

linguistically they referred to chair legs as "Limbs". Similarly

with chicken, we were not allowed to talk about "Chicken breast", it

had to be "White meat closed with - - white meat". Winston Churchill

was asked and he said he would like rest and was told in no uncertain

terms they were not allowed to use the word and he asked what to say

and they said "White meat". And the next day, legend has it, he sent

the woman who said that to him a course large saying "but this on

your white meat". Some of them have been constant for centuries, like

getting drunk, procreating and going to the lavatory, a euphemism

in itself. The most charming euphemism for going to the lavatory

was from a woman in Norfolk tennis club, who broke off playing and

said I'm just going to "Turned a My uncle said"I'm just going to

make a telephone call to Henry". Death, of course, remains something

we are all squeamish about and a lot of the accepted words we use

about it today actually started out as euphemisms themselves. We talk

about undertakers, which began as simply anybody who would undertake

a task. We talk about funeral parlours, memorial centres. Even

the lead coffin began as a euphemism because it means a little

basket. There is a whole soft focus surrounding all of these subjects

and they have been many wonderful sketches that have played on that,

including the dead parrot sketch. It was used by Margaret Thatcher --

Margaret Thatcher. She quoted Monty Python to refer to Liberal-Democrat

and the legendary dead Python sketch. This is an ex parrot. It is

not merely stunned, it has ceased to be, Expired, and gone to meet

his maker. Everybody got the joke that she did ask if Mr Patten was

one of us? Politics is an area rich in euphemism, it is all lies, damn

lies and euphemism. So, to you for advice or not to you for mice?

euphemise. I suppose people uses to cannot be direct, to avoid it,

which they should. You can use it to deliver irony, kindness, humour,

almost anything and as long as we are social animals, we will always

needed. If you would excuse me, I have got to see a man Got to turn

the vicar's bike around. I have got a wring out my socks.

Wring out my socks? Julian, you are writing a 4th series of Downton

Abbey, you have to get that phrase about turning the bike around.

is rather a big task, I think we could do it by just having the

vicar in. Gyles Brandreth is the only man I have and I had a bath

with. We were both three years old. We tried to get hold of that

photograph, but basically he told us it is in one of his mother's

family albums. Now, we are going to put your knowledge of stately home

salacious stories to the test. It is time for this.

We will read out stately home shenanigans stories and you have to

guess which stately home they happened in. Very easy. Colin has

got a plate of fresh scones, with some jam and cream on them, which

are up for grabs, but you have to get three correct. Are you ready?

We shall start. In which house did the infamous

Emma Hamilton Lady -- later become mistress to Lord Nelson, and she

danced on the dining table that Let's find out from the map. That

is correct. Very good. You are at a slight disadvantage. A slightly!

The Lady of this house was considered slightly eccentric. She

continued to hunt until she was in continued to hunt until she was in

her 80s and had to be strapped to your cause, despite being almost

blind and been told where to jump. -- her horse. She nearly burned

down the west wing of her house when her feathers caught fire.

Hatfield House. That is correct. Yes!

Here we go. In which ousted the gardeners insert a tap into the

pipe carrying beer from the brothers' house to the seller so

they could have a cheeky find? -- brewer's? Chatsworth House. That is

correct. Yes! correct. Yes!

Very quickly, on Friday's show, we will be talking about confessions,

so if you had anything you want to get off your chest, e-mail us at

The One Show. That is all we have time for, thank