16/05/2014 The One Show

Onto like's The One Show, we are counting down to the Commonwealth

Games. But can you guess where we are? I have some clues. The cats

have no tales, the flycast three legs and our guest is wearing this

T-shirt. Say what you see. Since launching The One Show, the

Queens's baton has visited 66 Nations and territories around the

world. It has gone to the Seychelles. It has gone to South

Africa. Tonight, it is on the Isle of Man, and so are we!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Wonderful people. Let me try this.

Fasty My, Mon Jevegi. Why are you speaking Welsh? It is Manx, hello,

little people. We say thank you to Bond, our house band. A round of

applause for Bond. This is a very special One Show, because it starts

our countdown to the Commonwealth Games. We will be following the

Queen's baton all the way to Glasgow for the Games themselves. I think we

wandered very well. It was a good wonder. We meandered. Locals who

know what they are doing, first, PC Roger Lewis, the local bobby is

here. He has been on the beat for 12 years. What is coming up on the

show? In World War I, the Isle of Man was an internment camp and

fitness was invented by up prisoner. This has swept the world. Joe

Crowley has visited to explain what the crazies. Thank you, Rob. Jeff

North is in charge of the Manx Electric can way. Cyclists from the

Isle of Man have won Olympic gold medals, Tour de France stages, not

bad for a population of less than 85,000. Victoria Pendleton came here

to find out why we are so good at cycling. All coming up on the show.

Now, a Manx radio access show presenter, Chris Williams. We are

famous for the TT at -- the TT motorcycle race, first held in 1907.

Your guest this evening has completed a lap of the course with a

camera strapped to him. That is true, a comedian who can start off

on one topic and talk about something else. We are talking about

Ross Noble. Here he is. Hello. Hello. Hello, how are you? It is

nice to have you. There is nothing I like more than watching shivering

classical musicians. A violinist just huddled around for warmth, as

they are dressed in inappropriate weather. It is freezing! Have they

booked some smirks? They have blue faces, look at them! We have put

them into the coldest position. We are hearing it is not possible. Get

them a small stove, burn your instruments. You have had a

fantastic day on the Isle because we sent you onto the TT

course on a motorbike. A nightmare! We have got some footage, talk

course on a motorbike. A nightmare! through what we are seeing and tell

us which one you are. I went round with a man whose job, there is the

man who trains the newcomers who wants to do the races. He knew -- he

knows every bit of inch of every bit of tarmac. That was not a wheelie,

that there was an otter at the side of the road. I love that, the fact

there are races flying around and just out of the bushes of cheeky

otter... It was lovely. Marvellous day. As if that was not enough, we

have one of your heroes, Steve Colley is here. The trials rider.

What does he do? This is a trials bike, I do some trials riding. They

have no seat on them. People ask, where is your seat? They are used

for going over crazy obstacles. He is going to do something later which

is really hot, not just riding over a car but riding over a moving car.

And shutting the door on the way and going over the roof and hopefully

not into the gathering strong here. And his wife is driving. Is that his

wife? I wondered who she was! Calm down! He was looking at the car. Of

course he was. Have you got your special thing in the corner? I have,

let's see if this works. That is incredible. We love to start a

countdown with 68 days to go, perfect. Starting on the countdown

down to the Commonwealth Games, we sent Iwan Thomas to see of Glasgow

have plans, they contract? -- are they on track?

I have been here for The One Show for a couple of times over the last

couple of years and the atmosphere is building. In 68 days' time, the

Games come to the city and what an event it promises to be. Being an ex

400 metre runner I am dedicated to one lap, so as long as my tired

400 metre runner I am dedicated to will allow it, I will run

400 metre runner I am dedicated to city to get a sneak

400 metre runner I am dedicated to events. Some of the

400 metre runner I am dedicated to athletes from 71 countries will

compete for the coveted Commonwealth medals. Since securing the event in

2007, the city has been preparing for their arrival. Hampden Park, the

iconic Scottish national football stadium. And this is where it

happens for the track and field athletes. Can you imagine? 44,000

spectators in here, the noise, the buzz, the atmosphere! We will see

the likes of Mo Farah and perhaps even Usain Bolt going for gold right

here in this stadium. Surface has been raised by nearly two metres and

stands on 6000 steel stilts, transforming it into a world-class

track and field arena. It is the Commonwealth 400 metre final, on

your marks! Today, -- it is a day you will never forget. Competing

alongside those stars of track and field will be those who like their

competition a little bit, well, wetter. ?14 million has been spent

here to make this a truly world-class facility.

The great thing about these games are that just about all the venues

are no more than a hop, skip and jump away. The state-of-the-art

velodrome, named after thunder thighs himself, respect, Sir Chris

Hoy. Come on, how hard can this sport be? ! The velodrome is part of

the Emirates arena, where the public have been using the facilities

alongside the competing athletes. A first for any major sports event. In

terms of legacy, it is slightly different for Glasgow, isn't it?

There are over 225,000 local people using this facility already. It is

important to note we built these facilities for the people of

Glasgow, so after the games we take them back and the people of Glasgow

continue to use them. We want many visitors to come here because we are

going to be having huge party in July and August this year. Before

that party can begin, there is the small matter of getting the Queen's

Baton Relay through the last legs of the journey that has taken 288 days

across 53 countries and covered an astonishing 190,000 kilometres.

Proudly, today, I am helping it. The excitement is definitely

building and there is some breaking ticket news. A lot of the press

today. Great news, 45,000 tickets are available from Wednesday. You

can go online and get those. They were available last week but there

was a glitch on the computer, because the demand has been so

great. 2.3 million people applied straightaway, so luckily 100,000

were made available, the computer crashed but good news, from

Wednesday lap -- next week you can hopefully get tickets. During the

Olympics, the coverage was tremendous, you could see it in all

sorts of ways. Is it the same? The same situation, there is a big

demand for the sports, we have athletes here tonight. That is

Bernice, doing lawn bowls. The BBC will cover it. There will be live

streaming, so from Tuesday next week they will allow -- announce what

platforms you can watch that on. Glasgow has got big screens, so get

down to the city and the atmosphere will be great, loads of big screens.

The Commonwealth Games are something special, brilliant. Bond have

started up again, which means the Queen's baton is on the way. Here we

go! It is being carried by Mark and Anna Christian, sibling hopefuls for

the Isle of Man. There has been a bat on at every Commonwealth Games

since Cardiff, 1958, when Roger Bannister was one of the first

bearers. This one carries a message from the Queen, which will be read

at the opening ceremony in 68 days' time. Let's welcome Mark and Anna.

Take a seat. The Queen's messages in there. You have done this before,

you were in the last Commonwealth Games. Tell us how you did? It went

really well, I came away with a medal. I was 19, it was a really big

experience. I was over the moon to come away with a bronze medal. Anna,

brother and sister. What else is going on in your life other than

cycling? I am taking my A levels, I will get them out of the way and

focus on the cycling. A big day today? I finished school! A big

day! Are you nervous about the Games? Yes! I am really nervous. I

am nervous for him as well, it is a good experience. You said you are

not as nervous about the Games as you want as bout coming on The One

Show. Now you know how we feel every day. Good luck to you both. A very

special person came to this cycling club to tell us all wide the Manx

are so good and fast on two wheels. Here's Victoria Pendleton. While!

When you think of the Isle of Man the first thing that springs to mind

on two wheels on motorcycles and the Manx TT. With their roaring engines

and incredible speeds. But the other two wheeled mode of transport is all

/dash-macro also hugely popular, with this island producing many

medals and titles. How does this place produce so many cycling

legends? Legends such as the Manx missile, Mark Cavendish. Marie

Morgan, not to mention this clan, Tom, Peter senior and now Peter --

Peter Kennaugh junior. Why does the Isle of Man have such a reach

cycling heritage? Maybe it is just island mentality. People want to

prove themselves. It is a hard place to ride your bike, so if you want to

be a cyclist you will have to enjoy it when it is hard, not when it is

just easy. The competitive nature that comes with that, you have a

couple of guys in the same age group and you want to beat them and I am

thinking I want to be where Mark Cavendish is. I can see first hand

it is possible to turn professional. Every successful Manx cyclists

started here at the National sports Centre in Douglas. Hundreds of

cyclists come here every week, the reason being it is the best place to

go raising. -- racing. It is as competitive as you can get. What is

good about coming down here for racing? We can train for when we are

older and it is a bit of fun. We can meet with our friends. If you have

to put the success of cycling -- cyclists from the Isle of Man down

to one key thing, what would it be? There is a community thing about

cycling on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is like a rock machine, you

pile of rocks in and every now and again you get a gem that comes out

of the bottom. More champions. You have probably seen on the island,

the facilities we have got, everything is on your doorstep. The

support that local sports people get from the business community is is

second to none. Another one. Is there something in

the Manx mentality that makes you champions? I think we are all a bit

mad. Children have so many idols to picture when the racing. It is

really inspiring for everybody. Does it feel like you are following in

the footsteps of Mark and Peter Kennaugh? Yes, I do, because they

started here so I might become like them. Do you think you have what it

takes? Yes, I do. The level of competitiveness and dead easy as I

have seen here today is unlike anything I've ever seen a junior

level. I am sure it will not be long before one of these guys becomes the

next cycling champion from the Isle of Man.

next cycling champion from the Isle Thank you so

next cycling champion from the Isle Thank much, Victoria. We have all

the youth cyclists with us here tonight.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE They are about 30 miles away.

We mention the film, here he is, the gold winning Manx man from London

2012, Peter Kennaugh is with us this evening! Hello, Peter. Welcome to

the programme. How are you doing tonight? Very good. You can't see

this enough, can you? The world record, the gold metal -- the gold

medal is Great Britain's! Look at the time! Three point 51.69, a new

world record! You can't get sick of seeing that clip, can you? It is

incredible. That was Team GB. The Commonwealth Games, it is not like

that. You get to race against some of those guys. It will be great.

that. You get to race against some Whose scalp are you looking forward

to taking most? A few of the Welsh guys, Geriant Thomas. I'd like to

until that point! The Welsh are losers! We can have a chat after the

show! Any advice for our guys here? You have cycled together for a long

time, haven't you? Well over ten years. Why is he better value? He

has bad days. He gives me a hard time. Thanks for being here this

evening. Ross loves it when people dressed the same. When you are

wearing the same outfit! dressed the same. When you are

ironing another shirt! Not like anybody is going to see us or

anything! anybody is going to see us or

another shirt, is that anybody is going to see us or

late? And you have got a brand-new tour, called Tangentleman. Yes, I am

a gentleman who goes on Tangents. Unfortunately, it sounds a bit

weird. Like I am going to have a spray tan! Do not turn up and expect

some kind of tanned figure. No, in fact, that is what I will do, I will

get fully tanned, like David Kinson, and I'm going to give away free

antiques! It is me talking nonsense for a couple of hours. Title first,

or content? Very much title first, there is no topic or theme, just

whatever is in my head. See what happens, it is more fun. You talk to

people in the orgies. Like last time I was here, you have got people

waving at the bridge. -- in the audience. What about the TV show?

That is called Freewheeling. What is it about? You know how you normally

make television where you plan it and you work out what is going to

happen? No! That is a good point, well made. Basically, people tweet

me, I have got my bike, and people treat me and say, this thing here, I

ended up with this, it was a dog that I got off an old man in an

antiques shop. And I went, what should I do with this?! The next

thing I know, somebody had a spray booth, and I made it luminous. So,

it is a show on the go? Yes, basically making it up as I go

along. You all so ended up in Paul Daniels' shared? It was all above

board! Paul Daniels treated me and said, I have got an illusion which I

need to lift down from the top of my shed, can you help me? The next

thing I know, I am in his shed, and he lifted it down, and I went, is

there any chance you could do it? Yes, hang on. Debbie! And the lovely

Debbie came down and they performed the illusion. What I love about

this, there must be some decision-making process in where you

are going to start, what is the best place to start. When Paul Daniels

comes up in your Twitter feed, you'd go for it! But when you decide where

to land at the beginning of the day? No, it all happens at breakfast.

Literally, I go through the tweets... From home? No, we stay out

on the road. I flick through, and somebody will go, I have got a three

kilograms bag of custard powder. That is a show. I do not know if you

have done anything with Pilates. Did you know it was invented down the

road? Was it?! Apparently. Across Britain, gyms are offering classes

in an exercise discipline which was unheard of just a few years ago.

Pilates, with its accent on stretching and strength, is an

American import, but its roots go back to the Isle of Man during the

First World War. The founder of the system was a German visionary Joseph

Pilates, who believed he could change the world of exercise with

his system. He came to Britain in 1912 to earn a living as a self

defence expert and circus performer. When war began two years

later, he was one of thousands of Germans trapped in Britain. Huge

rallies and protests against these Germans put pressure on the

government. Professor Lloyd is from Kingston University. Suddenly, there

is this fear that we have are melodies -- that we have enemies

within. It was very much stoked by the press, and the government

decided to go down the route of mass internment. As well as prisoners of

war, eventually, all German males of military age living in Britain were

rounded up and put into camps until the end of by far the largest was on

the Isle of Man, housing 23,000 potentially fed up and restless

inmates. Physical exercise was very important. Both keeping

stimulation, and because of its relationship to mental state of

mind. Pilates had already come up with the foundations of his new

exercise system, based on precision movement, control and breathing

correctly. The camp quite literally gave him a captive audience to

perfect it. His Manx experience was fundamental to Pilates' subsequent

development of the system which bears his name. The core concepts

remain unchanged - exercising the whole body with precision, control

and focus. It is believed even the sophisticated modern Pilates

machines, using springs to create resistance, may have their roots in

the beds at the Isle of Man camp. He had utility beds, those

old-fashioned hospital beds, so you can imagine, it was very like a bed

spring. He realised that you could use the resistance both backwards

and forwards, the spring was mimicking what a muscle could do.

So, you could use that to come up and come down, to help people who

may well be bed ridden to exercise and get strength again. So, you are

able to move away from your centre and come back to your centre,

without even standing up. Joseph Pilates died in the 1960s, well

before his exercise system spread worldwide. It was actually

popularised by students who trained under him, people like Mary Bowen.

The fact that he was incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp for four or

five years, he would have had to get on with something? He was probably

the most singularly focused man on one subject of anybody I have ever

known. He organised everybody to exercise. I never heard anything

about him suffering, I think he made use of his time. Pilates is now

everywhere. Even here in Britain, the country which imprisoned its

founder, Pilates is carried out in sports centres, gyms and village

halls right across the nation. Joseph Pilates took years to perfect

a system he first developed on the Isle of Man. It took much longer for

it to spread worldwide, but it is true that his years in the

internment camp played a vital role in it seven lotion.

Here we are live on the Isle of Man, in the sunshine! -- in its

evolution. Counting down to the Commonwealth Games, the Queen's

baton has travelled this far this evening so far. There is one more

journey to make before the night is over. It needs to be taken to the

royal hall, just over the way there. There is going to be a huge gala

dinner. But who is going to take it in? We are going to play the Wheel

of Man to find out. So, we have here a Ross, and Adam. If Ross wins, Adam

will take in the baton. Let's play Wheel of Man, are we ready? It is a

high-quality wheel, if I let go of it, it blows away in the wind! First

question, which famous siblings were born Alney Island man, Iwan? The Bee

Gees, unless or The Chuckle Brothers? It is definitely not

unless. The Bee Gees. That is the correct answer. The second question,

this one is for Ross. It is the picture round. Manx cats have no

tail, which of these is a real Manx cat? You are local, what do you

reckon? The last one. You are going for Morris. Morris is the wrong

answer! Spin the Wheel of Man! Could not be more exciting. I cannot

believe that! It is another question for you. Here we go with your

question. If you stand on the top of the Isle of Man's Snaefell mountain,

what can you see? Every bend in the TT course? Every room

what can you see? Every bend in the house? All of the UK? We will go for

all of the UK. All of the UK is the right answer. We are out of time.

Just answer this question, the tie-breaker. The Commonwealth Games

was first known as the British Empire Games, but when did it

start, Iwan? The exact year? No, just come up with a guess I will go

lower, around 1928. And wheel is the winner. That was the worst game I

have ever done! We have just about got time now for one of Ross's trial

bike heroes. It is over Good luck with your tour in

September, Tangentleman. And thanks to the Isle of Man for having us!

The one Show will be back with the baton as it those into Wales. You

will be there for that. I will, but