16/03/2017 The One Show

Hello? Hello? Oh, hello and welcome to the One Show with Angela Scanlon.

And Matt Baker. Tonight, we have a spooky castle to celebrate an

eagerly anticipated film. It's a tale as old as time involving a

rose, a beautiful woman and a terrifying beast. We've got the

rose, you are the beauty... So you are? The person doing the

introductions. He's welcome the star of Beauty And The Beast, Dan

Stevens! For now, you are fine. Wow! Thank

you very much. This is your rose. Thank you. I should be bringing you

roses. We went to see it today. We have been singing all of the songs.

They are catchy, aren't they? I have had Be Our Guest in my head all day

and I was hoping somebody would play it. I would hoping edge I was hoping

you would sound like that in real life. Well, I can do. We were quite

taken by your voice. It is obviously very resonant. How did that happen?

Was there a lot of effect put on there? There is a thing that happens

to a young man around age 11... Well, the Beast is big, there is a

lot of resonance there. I was looking at different voices for him,

like that, and it didn't work. They gave me some incredible fangs. It

looked like I was born with them. I have my day once in at the moment.

But these were big and they fitted perfectly. I didn't end up wearing

them, but I had them to explore and take home and I got to freak the

kids out and are used them on Halloween. I was trying to think how

a posh, grumpy guy who was very vain who had been cursed with these

hideous teeth would try and hide them, and I'd try and have

conversations with my kids without giving away. My daughter knew

something was up. She said, show me your teeth. I said, not going to do

that. It started to stretch my larynx into this beastly voice. That

is where it came from. Teeth. It's good. It has a big effect on the way

you talk. And so you are singing in the same way. Exactly. And he has a

lovely mournful ballad in this. It's a lovely song. It's written by the

man who wrote the original score. We will talk more about that

afterwards. Since we are on the subject of beauties and beasts, we

are looking for pictures of the relationships in your life which

represent the fairy tale of Beauty And The Beast. Ruck this could be

awkward! Whether it is your partner or you and your pet, e-mail us a

picture. Tell us which is which, because we could get it wrong. Are

we supposed to judge or is that dangerous? Sam Cyr with litigation!

Exactly. Over the years, Disney have gone to great lengths to entertain

generations of children. Now it is the children's turn. He is Joe with

a story guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

A Monday morning in Bristol and two very different start to the day.

These two worlds are about to collide. Is everybody strapped in

and comfortable? Yes! These kids are off on a special trip to see some

old friends. They have been making this journey to Osborne caught care

home once a fortnight for the last four months. The idea here is

simple, to bring generations together, and to give the young

children a sense of community from an early age. Some of the kids are

not quite sure how old the residents are. Four. 50 million thousandth.

That's a bit old! First up, a bit of intergenerational pancake tossing.

And afterwards it's time to get messy with arts and crafts. What a

pretty drawing! What did you draw? Pancake. What colour is it? Green.

Do they come out with some funny things? Yes, they do. Wood why do

you like Frank? He's funny! Having a whale of a time. Frank is funny. We

all like Frank, do we? I love children. The thing that seems to

work so well is how relaxed it is. These little four-year-old

chatterboxes have no fear, they have no formalities, they are willing to

talk to everyone, and it works both ways. The residents want to listen

and understand them, and that leads to quite a special closeness

actually, and it's lovely to observe. The visits are the idea of

nursery manager Lindsay, who saw a video online of a university -- a

nursery in Seattle built into a residential home. I thought, why

don't we see how it works, see if the children liked it, if it works

for the residents, and we went out and tried to find a setting willing

to take us and we found it here. Were there any unforeseen problems

that you could have predicted? Absolutely. We had a child ask why

somebody's skin was melting because their skin was different.

Conversations like that can be awkward! Lindsay says the benefits

are clear to see. Sometimes, residents are quiet, but today,

Doris is holding hands with one of the children and talking really

openly, and I think that's the first time that I have ever heard Doris

speaking unless you ask her a direct question. The mulberry bush... I was

very impressed with your singing. Thank you very much. I can remember

doing that sort of thing way back in 1946, rather a long time ago! The

kids are already discussing their activities for the next visit, and

it looks like dressing up is popular. Can I take mine? Of course

you can. We got some here. Chantal is the deputy manager of Osborne

called. We tell the residents a couple of days before that they are

coming and the mood changes. The morning before, everybody wants to

be up at 6am. Cupcake! Do you want a cup? Say thank you. Research has

shown at least 40,000 elderly people in care homes in England are living

in social isolation, with more than a quarter of those without any

family or friends to visit. Not everybody has family all visitors.

So you don't really have any family visiting, is that right? They all

live too far away. A lot of our residents don't have many children,

and not everybody has ran errands, so it is nice to swap stories. --

not everybody has grandparents. Then it is time for goodbye. What

difference does it make having these children coming in? It makes the

world of difference. They are marvellous, lovely. I know it's late

but if any of those little people are up, thank you very much. Wasn't

it lovely! That was great. You have young kids. Would they be into that?

Anybody who wants to take my kids for a few hours... We were surprised

that your two-year-old was partly inspiring for you for this

particular character. He was certainly around when were making

this film. If anybody has ever met a two-year rolled or has won in their

vicinity, they might know something called the terrible twos, which is

as close as I have ever seen a human being be to truly animal. Totally

irrational behaviour, it is like a wild sort of weird thing. You get

through it and it gets better and he is a lovely lad now. When I was

prepping the Beast, I would come home every night and there would be

this beast in my living room. Demanding things, or just screaming

and howling. So I started to look at this and I thought, what an

interesting thing, what if this could go on for ever. Who would let

thy become if he was a prince? -- who would that guy become. You take

what is in your environment and in my environment was this irrational

beast. A lot of us grew up watching Beauty And The Beast and have

carried those messages through, and I guess it is a big responsibility

to be that person claimed that character, that's kind of defining

role in this fairy tale. It is a great responsibility to be a

torchbearer of a fairy tale. Every time you retell it, it's a

responsibility, a bit like those old people with the kids. It's about

what you pass down, the songs you teach them. There is no Abby

full-back, it is just an old person saying, it was a nice song. -- no

Abby for that. Every generation that comes with a fairy tale sees

something in it and bring something new out and I guess with our

version, what excites me with creating the Beast is we are using a

technology that has never been used before for this kind of Terry tell

-- fairy tale, where a human actor can play a six foot ten beast and

get some emotional connection and subtlety. It isn't just freaky

monsters that we are using this technology for. It is lead roles.

Let's have a look at you as the Beast, asking Belle to dinner in an

unconventional way. Join me for dinner. That's not a request.

Gently, master, the girl lost her father and freedom in one day. She

is probably scared to death. Exactly.

Just a minute! You see, there she is. Be gentle. Kind. Suite. And when

she opens the door give her a dashing smile. Come, come, give me

the smile. What a transformation! You watch that and you wonder, how

much of that is you and how much of it is CGI? Starting at the top and

working down. The point we have got to do with the technology, it is all

me now, so the body capture was done with traditional motion capture. I

was in a giant lycra muscle suit on ten inch stilts and all the

orientation was done on set and there was no further in mime mask,

-- no further, no latex mask. Every week, I would go into a facility

they set up and I would have my face sprayed with dots and I would sit in

a cage, with ultraviolet light, 27 cameras around me, and anything I

have been doing the previous week, eating, sleeping, singing, I would

do it again with my face. I took a lot with my hands but I couldn't use

them. They get in the way. They would take everything on my face,

they would morph it into the Beast and map it into the Beast's body. It

is a fusion of performances. So was your co-stars there, behind all the

gear? Emma wasn't forced up a lot of imagination! How did you waltz?

Quite an undertaking! It was a great way to get to know Emma Watson,

being thrown into dance rehearsals on day one. She doesn't really know

me and this guy could break her toes! Three months dance training

and I obviously learned on the ground first, because I always tell

my kids, if you think you can fly, tried to take off from the ground.

And then I graduated to the stilts, and that was it and I was away and I

never trod on her toes. I am proud of that. Good work! Would I be more

proud if I had trodden on her toes? I don't think so. It opens tomorrow

in cinemas. Back in the real world, away

from the Beast's opulent palace, The Bank of England has 400,000

of these gold bars safely tucked away in its vaults,

worth more than ?100 billion. Good job! Nice props. These ones are

safely enabled. But during World War Two Churchill

feared our gold could have fallen into the hands of the Nazis

and decided to hide it. When a crack team make

off with a fortune. And if they find gold,

it's even better. This is only a small bar of gold

but it's worth a cool ?35,000. In 1940, as Britain faced

Germany's military might, an audacious secret mission

was put into action. Bars of gold worth an estimated

?23 billion in today's money were to be moved from Britain's

vaults right under Hitler's nose. And the man behind the plan wasn't

some criminal mastermind but the Prime Minister,

Winston Churchill. And it proved to be the largest

transportation of wealth Most of the gold was shipped

from here on the Clyde. Dr Peter Catterall is

an economic historian. The great fear was that Hitler

would get his hands on the British gold so they had to get it out

of the country so he couldn't use So it was a gold heist

on a grand scale? And the getaway vehicle

was equally super scaled. Samay Cronin's father,

Eric, was an engineer It wasn't until my father

handed me his memoirs when he was 76 years old and I was reading it

and discovered that he played a role There was a huge amount of activity

with the ship being unloaded of all the ammunition,

ready for the mystery cargo. And the ship's crew were issued

with tropical uniforms and they were then sent off at 30

knots out into the Atlantic But it soon became apparent to Eric

and all aboard the ship that the tropical uniforms

were a deliberate subterfuge. Nine days later, Eric

and the Emerald berthed at the top secret location of Halifax,

Nova Scotia. The heist had been successful

but this was just the beginning. All the gold had to be shipped

across the Atlantic. The risks got bigger

and so did the cargoes. Belgium had already fallen

to the Germans, Holland had already And Britain is looking like it

might be the next victim. Anything that the British

could sell in North America. Shares, bonds, those

kinds of things. It showed Churchill's

very real concerns about But also his determination to have a

Plan B if the unthinkable happened. By the end of that summer,

almost all of Britain's gold reserves and securities were shipped

to the safety of Canada. Aboard the Emerald, Eric Coleman

completed the mission to hide When you look back on that,

you must be enormously proud of him? We are incredibly

proud of my father. But also his modesty in not talking

about such an important And in 1945 the British gold

and securities were returned. But how did they know that none

of the bullion was missing? The answer is on a simple

piece of paper. All the bars were accounted

for and here is a copy of a receit. Carrie's here now and you've got

some more tales of grand plans to transport gold -

but these ones didn't go so well. Hitler is thought to have amassed

a hoard of ?100 million in gold and art during WWII,

but it has never been found. Last year a British diver called

Phil Sayers said he believes it is in a shipwreck

at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The vessel is the MV

Wilhelm Gustloff which was sunk by the Soviets

in January 1945 killing Wilhelm Gustloff now has

international war grave status, meaning diving is forbidden

within 500 metres of the ship. So nobody knows if the gold is there

or not. Yes, it could be buried. And now to another story.

When four men stole gold worth nearly ?1 million in today's money

from three boxes on board a train travelling from

They get to Paris and they open the boxes but inside is lead shot. How

they did it, it was very clever. He watched how gold

was transported for a long time. He involved a train guard

and a station master to help him and managed to make copies

of the keys to the safes. On one occasion sending some gold

to himself so he could see where the keys were kept

in the station at Folkestone. Once he had the keys, all they had

to do was board the train, open the safes and replace the gold

with lead shot they'd been hiding in London Bridge

in a series of carpet bags. Did they get away with it? He asked

the co-conspirator to give some money to his wife, but the

co-conspirator didn't do that. But not much of the money, was ever

recovered, only ?200,000. I have one which happened last year, in New

York. What an opportunity. He is not even trying to hide. He grabs what

he can see and the delivery guy is delivering something and one of the

cards is at the front of the van. This guy takes a bucket, it weighs a

tonne. He is running, struggling with the weight. He puts it down. It

weighs so much, it has golden flakes which are worth ?1.2 million, in a

bucket. He was arrested in Ecuador, he is now awaiting trial. The gold

has never been found. He got as far as Ecuador with that bucket?

LAUGHTER If you can get that far with that

bucket, you are welcome to it. Keep your eyes peeled.

Parking is the bane of many a motorists' life -

and you won't be surprised to hear that according to a recent survey

drivers spend the equivalent of four days a year looking for a space.

But as Matt's been finding out, even when you've found a space -

there may not actually be enough of it!

There are 1800 car park prangs everyday in Britain. And where there

is one of those, there is often an insurance claim, ?1.4 billion of

them every year according to a leading insurance company. The way

people park is never central and it would be good if everyone could park

central to the bay, but they don't, and so you are always short on one

side. You inevitably banged the car next door with your door? I try not

to, but sometimes it is hard not to. If you have one vehicle which is

parking too close to one side and goes over the white line, you have

the concertina effect where everyone else has two park in a different

way. We did a survey of 19,000 lives, 51% said their car had been

damaged in some way in a car park and the most common place was the

supermarket. This is all good news for Karen who runs this coach works

place in Surrey. How many are here because of damage in car parks?

Every day we receive 4-5 telephone enquiries from customers who have

had cars damaged in car parks. Much of this is not concentrating after a

long day at work, we see this where they parked the car at the train

station and then get off the train, and then get back in the car, it is

dark, and then they reverse into something. Many drivers say the

spaces are to blame, the standard size is just too small. What is a

standard car park in space? Is there such a thing? Since 1994 a

standardised car parking space in the UK is 4.8 metres long by 2.4

metres wide. About the width of an average garden shed. However, cars

and not remained a standard size, and on average they have grown by

25% in the past 25 years, often to comply with strict EU safety rules.

This is a Fiat 500, one of the smallest cars, compare this to its

1970s alternative. Cars are too big and spaces need to

be made bigger. But some drivers think the simple solution is for

everyone to be more careful and considerate. You are on the end

space here, and that means you are able to access your car easily. That

is something you have thought about? It is, yes, especially with the

kids. I don't want them to bank the other cars. What is the answer?

People should not be allowed to buy those big Chelsea cars. That is to

Coney on. You want to get rid of everything unless you are an

agricultural worker? -- that is to Coney on. Absolutely. In Dallas,

Texas the average width of a car park space is 2.6 metres. Imagine

that. 2.6, wow. 5000 miles is a long way to go to find a space. STUDIO:

Thanks, Matt. As we know, Beauty and the Beast is famous for the

inanimate objects in the castle coming to life, like the teapots,

clocks, the candelabra. What is this? I'm pleased you are sitting on

me tonight, you are lovely, unlike some of the people wearing out my

springs. Tom Hanks trousers didn't half chafe and do not get me started

on Cameron Diaz. Those man-made fibres played havoc with my sinuses.

At least you can say you have the best seat in the house. APPLAUSE

And that was all live. It worked quite well. Is he there every night?

Apparently. He is actually there every single night. We are going to

move on. Thanks for the Beauty and the Beast pictures you have been

sending in. This is Lisa in Bristol and her gorgeous beast. This is

Kayleigh, and her -based Marilyn. Jenny's beauty. Her two-year-old

daughter. This is Amy Yang her father Jimmy. They can't decide

which is the beauty and which is the beast -- and her father Jimmy. So,

Beauty and the Beast is out tomorrow, very exciting. Looking

ahead, it is had a controversial launch. This is the first Disney

film with a character which is struggling a bit with sexuality. I

don't know about that, have you watched Disney films closely?

LAUGHTER It's had an amazing reaction all

over the world. I've been right around the planet and people are mad

for this film, amazing. Also, we had Hugh Bonneville. Stalking us. He was

out there. I'm going to go and find him in a minute. It brings us onto

the Downton Abbey film, which are potentially be making an appearance

as a CGI ghost? I could play the furniture. No, I haven't heard about

it. Apparently it is happening. I will go and ask Hugh Bonneville.

Would you? Would you, could you, it depends if they have a role for me.

It would be you as a ghost. Presumably. Some sort of reanimated

corpse, it could get very sci-fi. Yes. The last time we were talking

about the decision to leave, but it has been the right decision, you

have five films coming out. Over the next couple of years. Anyway, thanks

for coming in. That's all we've got

time for tonight. APPLAUSE

CHEERING Beauty and the Beast opens

in cinemas tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow

with Michael Ball They're calling it an

entertainment extravaganza