16/10/2013 The One Show

And I would walk 500 miles. # And I would walk 500 more.

# And I would walk 500 miles. # And I would walk 500 more.

# Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles.

# To fall down at your door. What a start! Welcome to the One

Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones, and a massive thank you to

the Proclaimers, special house band will be telling us about the movie

that celibate all their songs later. But forget 500 miles for now,

because our brand-new friends will be going 700 miles right around the

country for the brand-new rickshaw challenge which returns to the road

for Children in Need. And the first to cheer them on, a man who search

for love and romance has taken him away from these shores to America,

and apparently he has told them he is a big rap star over here.

# Yo, back up now and give a brother room. # The fuse is lit and I'm

about to go boom. # Mercy, mercy, mercy me.

# My life is a cage but on stage I'm free.

# Hyped up, psyched up, ready for wilin'.

# Standing in a crowd of girls like a island.

# I see the one I want, I said "Come here, cutie". # I flip her around

and then I work that That is fantastic! I heard he did

Single Ladies by Beyonce. Bordered on, we all enjoy it!

It is Stephen Merchant! Yes! We should have had you doing that on

the way in, Stephen. That was just identical to Beyonce. Some people

can barely tell the difference. One of the biggest shows in America, how

long did that take the reverse? I did not really realise it at all, it

is just in me, I can channel Beyonce. If Jay Z were here, he

wouldn't know the difference. Were you doing it in your aeroplane seat

on the way over? No, I did a film a while back with a rehearsal for a

dance scene, and the other one I had nonsense I was at college, TV magic!

We might just floated in at any point, so get ready. We will be

asking Stephen Merchant more about how he became a poster boy all over

Hollywood a little bit later. Last year, our young Children in Need

rickshaw riders struggled through the pain barrier despite many

personal challenges to complete their 411 mile journey. They have

all benefited from project supported by the charity, and they wanted to

do their bit. They just excelled themselves. They said we did, and

your response was amazing, raising ?1.5 million. And now the rickshaw

is back, but who is going to ride it this time? New

My name is Peter, I come from Cornwall. Six years ago, I was in a

car accident, in which I sadly lost my mum and sister, but I survived. I

was supported by a charity which is also supported by Children in Need,

and what they did was help media with my bereavement, and what better

way to give back then to have this opportunity to do the rich or

challenge? I am doing it with my dad. It is going to be good, father

and son doing it together. My dad is really competitive, and so am I. We

will push each other. I am Bethany, I have got down syndrome. This is my

mum Amanda, and she is brilliant. Me and mum are a team now, and my mum,

she will be good on the big yellow bike. And she is happy about doing

it. Let's do this! Yes, let's do it. My name is Eleanor, I am 16, and I

was born with a cleft lip, it cannot really knocks my confidence, because

I felt nobody understood. I am doing the challenge with my dad. She is

much more confidence now than she was, but it has been a difficult

half, let's say. I genuinely cannot wait.

I am Daniel, I had meningitis when I was 14 and a half. I was bedridden

for four months. This is my mum Carol, and she is like my guardian

angel. It means so much to Daniel, it is just the opportunity of a

lifetime, and I did think we would ever get there. Excited! My name is

Martin, I am missing both my hands and half of my left leg, and I am

doing the rickshaw challenge because I believe it is a great way to raise

money for Children in Need and will be an adventure for everyone

involved. I am doing the challenge with Alex. I think the hardest thing

is going to be the hills, so at those points I am going to sit on

the rickshaw, and Martin will push the rickshaw. Now that we are

actually doing the challenge, the excitement, I can't explain it.

Hopefully we're going to raise a lot of money.

As Alex is over there, I could get used to this, why don't you do her

job? Welcome Team Rickshaw! There we are! There is me joining in

with the Proclaimers, sorry! You walked over on the way, it is quite

a route, this. Yes, here we are, we have a map of our journey on the

team, we start at Giant's Causeway in more than Ireland, then we get on

a boat, still cycling on the boat across the sea into Scotland, to

Dumfries, then down to Kendall, Bolton, Birmingham, into

Abergavenny, over the Oxford, ending up in Elstree, in Hertfordshire. It

is a pretty long journey, 700 miles. You're ready? Let's do it!

Amanda, give us an idea of why you are involved. I am so excited to do

something with Bethany, to give back to such a wonderful charity, and

everything is so much fun for Children in Need, and this is going

to be great fun. It is the fact that you are riding by night as well. 22

hours, you are laughing now, Bethany! Are you doing it as well,

Alex? She is being Martin's adult! It is weird, I am being his mum! You

saw it, didn't you, last? That inspired you to take part.

Definitely, last year me and the family watched it, we got behind the

charity, and it was something I wanted to do. You did not think you

would be paired with me, did you? Sorry! How has the training been

going? Not too bad... Show as your arm, look at this, Stephen! I had a

bit of an accident on Monday. Did you fall off? I had a bit of a crash

with another bike and I came clean off, bruises everywhere. How are you

about this? Happy? I'm not so happy about the bruise, we will get over

that, but the challenge and everything else is going to be

amazing, I am really looking forward to it. How do you feel about going

through the night? I feel pretty comfortable with that, I am looking

forward to it. Are you a night owl? Sometimes! We will get you some

copy. Along the way you are going to be supported by Pudsey, and over the

last few nights he has been cropping up in some rather unusual places,

hasn't it you might he has, and apparently, we did not know, he was

over our shoulder, you know where the cleaner sometimes is? He was

doing a bit of hoovering, and some of you did notice, because we have

had e-mails in. Debbie Doyle on Facebook said, did I see Pudsey

hoovering in the background or am I going mad? Extends you are not, he

was there. Gemma says, why is Pudsey dancing in the cupboard? That made

me chuckle, but there we are. Sue Wilson also spotted him. The reason

why everybody is doing this is to raise as much money as we can for

Children in Need, and we are going to be following the rickshaw every

single mile of the weight on the show over the next month. So you

have not got long to get training, you lot! This is how you can do your

bit, please dig deep into your pockets again this year. To donate

?5 to Children in Need, text TEAM to 70705. Text messages will cost ?5

plus your standard network charge, and ?5 will go to Children in Need.

Go to the website for full terms and conditions. We will see you later,

but thanks for dropping in, and at this stage we wish you all the very

best! Team Rickshaw, everybody! That is it, there we are! Let's

catch up with the mums who have joined the workforce at Total Jobs.

They think they have got plenty to offer their children by way of

motherly advice and support, and they might just be right.

Website boss John has decided to mix home life with the office in an

effort to create a close and it family of workers. Diaz invited the

mums of three employees to come into work for a week, and so far they

have offered their children frank insight on how to do their jobs

better. Why haven't you done it before? The mums were worried that

breakfast had become a solitary ritual, it needed a mother's touch.

Surely a happy of his shares breakfast, like a family. Come on,

bunch in! But will be mothers go too far, spoiling them? I am doing

spreadsheets today. Yeah, all day long! I thought breakfast was

perfectly laid out, great service, very tasty. Good to have a bit of

time to relax and have food. It was nice to not be at my computer to eat

breakfast, it would be welcome to have an area where we can sit and

eat. So what is wrong with this, the perfect way to start the day? It

would be difficult to replicate for 350 people every morning, but maybe

we could have something where certain groups got together and had

breakfast once in awhile, I don't see why not. But for some people,

such as account manager Tori, a joint breakfast is a bad idea,

whatever mum Jackie thinks. You did not want to come for breakfast? I

prefer to keep myself to myself. To managing the last night, then?

Jackie has been informed by the boss that Tory's problems extend beyond

breakfast. She can be a bit disorganised sometimes, she likes to

do things at 100 miles per hour, doing five things instead of

concentrating on two or three. Today organisation is essential as Tori is

due to hold a very important client meeting. So you are busy this

morning, lots are? I have a meeting today at 3:30pm. I would like you to

come along. You would like me to come along to the meeting? I might

do. Taxi driving Jackie has never worked in an office before, but she

is convinced that she has got what it takes. I pick up lots of

different people, people with their shopping, disabled people, elderly

people. I think this is why I might be able to help Victoria with the

job she does, because I'm young used to dealing with lots of people at

all different levels. -- I am used to. Time to look at another mum.

Sheila was left not exactly over the moon by daughter Jill's presentation

to her team. I cannot work out how to use my computer. I cannot

remember my password. An experienced public speaker in her own right,

Sheila told Jill how she should behave. If you do not know what to

do with your hands, just hold them together. It is time for her big

test. She has got to convince the bosses that she is good at

presentation. Morning, everybody. I feel a little bit nervous for her. I

have got a short presentation, it won't take too long. OK... I am

worried that she needs to stand up, so she has power over the audience.

So the project is about improving the job-seeker experience by

improving quality... Hopefully she will have done all the points that

we said. Success for us would be to implement a change in the red area

in order to increase the application rate and get the jobs in front of

the job-seekers that need them. May be Sheila should stay in the

background, but she cannot resist getting involved. I just wondered if

you could give me some feedback? It was nice that she talked about

engaging with people and ensuring that the content she was going to

deliver kept our attention. When I first started doing presentations, I

practised in front of a mirror, because then you appear how you look

to your audience. It has been really fun spending time with my mum. It

has been a long time since we have had any time together. She has

taught me a few things, particularly around organisation. I have enjoyed

having her around. The well done. Proud of you. Coming up, Tori is now

full of beans, ready to meet her client, but has mum's advice made

the difference? You have just got to blag it.

Another instalment will come later. Stephen, you have shaved. I have not

got anything to promote. On the theme, of taking your parents to

work, you have done that. My father has popped up here and there. He

popped up in The Office briefly as a caretaker. He brought those toilet

rolls himself. Is he interacting? -- into acting? Well, he occasionally

gets recognised. My mum got jealous because she was always too nervous

to do it, but eventually, in the new series, both of them were extras in

the background. We have got a picture. So I am on a date with this

girl, and then after filming, my parents ask, how will we? And I did

not know. They said they have a whole back story. The continuity was

excellent. So that is your new series called Hello Ladies. It is

based on a stand-up tour that you did a couple of years ago. But has

moved on, and you have taken your relationship problems in the story

to LA. How and why LA? I did the stand-up show in Los Angeles, and

HBO came to the show. They said, it would be fun to take this character

and put him in LA. I was very out of place even in the stand-up show. I

am always out of place because I am freakishly tall. If you put that in

LA, where the body is five foot five, I look even more out of place.

And they thought that clash would be fun, with me trying to access this

world of lamb and beautiful people. We watched it earlier and loved it.

Let's have a look. Use or Lindsay talking to Sean? Classic! Hey, guys.

You guys want another drink? I am buying the drinks tonight. Soda.

More drinks? He is buying. Yeah! It is so cringeworthy, in a good way.

But how much of it is based on your experience? I am surprised when

people say it is cringeworthy, because that is what my life is

like. I try and get into nightclubs in LA. Sometimes I am on the list,

and they will not let me in. One time, I tried to get into a club and

I said I, coming? And the guy went, no. We want people in here who will

provide glamour, not IT support. I just don't fit in that world. This

must have been full on, because you direct aid and wrote it. It is an

big channels in America. Did you feel under incredible pressure? Kind

of, but at the same time, it is exciting. Did nothing doing exciting

stuff is being on the red carpet, but the fun thing is the work. I

guess it is important to remember that. How does it feel to see your

face on these big billboards? I am furious, because my billboard is

everywhere in LA, and I am here. I should be taking girls to

restaurants where there was a billboard outside the window. The

whole thing has been poorly thought through. I was there for hours,

waiting for girls to pass by. You have obviously spent a lot of time

in LA. British or American girls? Any girls are fine. Dump, snog or

marry - Scottish, English, American? Do you think I am a maniac? Why

would I dismiss two thirds of womankind? That would be absurd.

Does the series have a happy ending? Well, the guy is a bit selfish. Over

the course of the series, he mature is a bit and grows as a human. Maybe

one day, there will be a happy ending. You can see Stephen in Hello

Ladies on Sky Atlantic from tonight at ten o'clock. And because Stephen

is looking for love and The Proclaimers are on later, we want

your romantic pictures tonight. If you have recently found love or you

want to celebrate love that has lasted, send a picture of the two of

you and we will do something special at the end. Back in 1914, the First

World War recruitment arrives extended into sport. The British

government believed that the bonds formed on the football pitch will

transfer to the battlefield. Clapton orient embraced the recruitment

drive. Whenever Britain has something to

say, chances are, it will say it in Trafalgar Square. After the outbreak

of the First World War, Trafalgar Square spoke four words loud and

clear. Your country needs you. The British government believed the key

to victory was overwhelming manpower, a huge volunteer army

drawn from all classes of society. To boost numbers, men were

encouraged to sign up with members of their own community with work

colleagues. On the front line, they would build on the strong bonds

formed at home. It was a clarion call to all walks of life, even

football. This is then club, Leyton Orient, led from the front. Act

them, they were known as Clapton orient, fighting in -- fighting for

glory in England's top division. Clapton Orient became the first

English football club to volunteer en masse. 41 of the players and

staff signed up to fight. The orient captain, Fred Parker, spider to his

team-mates, was one of the first to volunteer. He was joined by the

club's top scorer, Richard McFadden, and Willie Jonas, a dashing

right-winger notorious for the letters he received from female

fans. Richard and Willie were in their early 20. Like many orient

players, they had grown up together and been friends most of their

lives. Eager to serve King and country, Clapton orient had licked

the blue touch paper. Hundreds of layers from other clubs followed

their lead. The footballs' battalion was born. All volunteers, the 1600

strong footballers' battalion had to pass recruitment test is. Having

that height recorded, their chests measured and their personal details

noted. Before they were given their first day's wages. That is what you

would get paid. ?15 a day, the King's shilling. The Clapton players

had signed up to fight, but first they had to finish the 1915 season.

Their final home game is known as the khaki cup final. 20,000 fans

cheered them on to a 2-0 win. As the crowd said goodbye to their heroes,

Millfield Stadium turned into a war rally. In August 1916, the first

taste of action for spider, Richard, Willie and the rest of the

footballers' battalion was the war's bloodiest encounter, the

battle of the Somme. Imagine how it would have felt play the last game

of the and then head off to war. We have got each other's back on the

football field, but if they said, let's go to war together, it is a

completely different thing. Hard to get your head around. We have to be

close as 18. We have to be good friends. In the trenches, Clapton

and Willie Jonas faced the ultimate horror together. In late summer

1916, the club received a letter from Richard. Both Willie and I were

trapped in a trench near the front in the Somme in France. William

turned to me and said, good buy, best of luck. Special love to my

sweetheart and best regards to the lads. Before I could reply to him,

he was up and over. No sooner had he jumped up out of the trench, my best

friend of nearly 20 years was killed before my eyes. We have got a strong

bond between us as a team, but that takes it to another level. That they

could all fight for one another. Willie, Richard and another Orient

player, George Scott, had lost their lives. 38 of the 41 orient players

and staff did survive the war, but many of them were so badly injured

that they never played again. Dan Snow is here, because it has

been a big day for you. Relaunching four years of programming with the

director-general. Yes, thousands of hours of footage across the radio,

TV and online. Here, we have some highlights of the BBC's coverage of

World War I. How does an army of several million men defeat another

army of several million men? We have all got to fight in a war because of

that? Yes. We might get filled! But for a good cause. Nothing that might

provoke masculine attention. Whatever woman you were, you are no

longer that woman. What if the British decided not to intervene in

1914 and to leave the French and Russians to fight the Germans on

their own? With there have even one world war, never mind two? All this

to mark the centenary of the First World War. This is not celebratory,

it is about remembrance is. It is about remembering the enormous

sacrifice, millions of lives destroyed across the world. If we

pay respect to those who sacrificed, hopefully, we might not make those

mistakes again. In those clips, you were watching 37 days, a drama, also

Horrible Histories, and the pity of War, the argument about whether we

should have one to war in the first place. Also is of stuff, and there

are other programmes commemorating the role of people played across

China, Asia, thousands of people enrolled in the armies to fight

either in Europe or other theatres. The role of women in World War I,

how that changed society. It will be an extraordinary commemoration. And

you are doing something? We are asking for people's archives. We are

going to museums around the world. People hope Lee might have stuff

from their ancestors. We are going to gather it all together and stick

together the experience of World War I in people's words. We will make it

a searchable database which will be accessible until the end of time.

2500 hours, Stephen. I am excited by this. World War I is interesting. It

tends to get forgotten because there is so much about World War II. And

yet it is not long ago. As well as the moving footage that will be

shown across the BBC, there are lots of photography exhibitions to mark

the centenary as well. Every museum, every town council. There

will be exhibitions all over the place. We have got one here called

fields of Apple. -- fields of Apple. This was a trench at the Battle of

the Somme, 1916. And this is a hauntingly beautiful aerial shot.

The best preserved section of a trench. Those wiggly lines. You can

see the shell holes are still there. Over 80% of people attacked on the

first day in that section were killed or wounded. Shocking

casualties figures. Extraordinary place to go. This is Messines Ridge,

you can see the devastation, and this was the biggest, I think it is

the biggest man-made explosion before nuclear, the biggest

deliberate explosion, 600 tonnes of high explosive. They dug them under

German lines for a few months, they killed 10,000 Germans in a split

second, one of the most appalling moments in military history. And to

see it today, you would never believe it, would you? In a way, it

makes you feel happy, because the land and the scenery can repair

itself, but then you think some of the human scars run deeper. That is

it today, you would not know, would you? So tranquil, thank you very

much, and in a moment we will be talking to the Proclaimers, whose

music inspired a film about two lads who returned from war, but in this

case Afghanistan. Have you thought about what you are

going to do? Come here!

Craig and Charlie will be here shortly, but first campaigners are

celebrating the fact that the first-ever wind farm in Britain has

been removed from the Yorkshire Dales near elderly after 20 years.

However, applications for wind farms have risen sharply in other parts of

the country, and in Scotland alone there are seven planning

applications per day. Meanwhile, a scheme to households cut energy

bills has had slow start. Here is Lucy.

In January, the Government launched a scheme called the Green deal. The

idea was to help people pay for energy-saving improvements by

offering them long-term loans of up to ?10,000. The repayments would be

covered by the savings on energy bills. To find out if you are

eligible for the Green Deal, you have to get a survey done by a

certified Green Deal assessor, and that is what is happening here.

Helen and her family live in an Edwardian terraced houses in London.

She has paid ?132 for an assessment to find out what changes are needed

at her home to make it more energy-efficient and if she is

eligible for Green Deal finance. This is one of more than 71,000

assessments that have already been done on homes across Britain. But

despite all those assessments, eight months into the scheme, just 12

people have signed on the dotted line for Green Deal finance and have

the work completed. That is far fewer than government Mr

Greg Barker was hoping for. Back in January, this is what he told BBC

Radio 4. I would not be sleeping if we did not have 10,000 by the end of

the year. Why have so few of us signed up to the Green Deal? Well,

one factor could be the interest rate on the loans, which are

sometimes as high as 10.3%. The Federation of Master builders think

that could be putting people off Mac. It is turning into a no deal

for us at the moment, you would be better off going to your local bank

or building society and taking out a loan, it does not stack up

financially. The loan is attached to the property, not the person - is

that a good thing or a bad thing? For many people, that is a good

thing because they can get a loan attached to their property, but for

others it is an attractive. The new owner would have to take on the

debt, maybe up to 25 years, as long as your mortgage. People are not

going to undertake a Green Deal if it does not stack up financially.

The roll-out of the Green Deal has so far cost more than ?16 million,

so how does climate change minister Greg Barker feel it has gone? You

famously said, when this started, that if you did not have 10,000

people signed up by the end of the year, he would not be sleeping well.

Given you have got 12, how are you sleeping? Well, not too bad, but

we're close to 1000 people now who have got into the Green Deal finance

pipeline, so it is a lot more than 12. It is nowhere near 10,000 yet,

but the good news is something like 80,000 people have had an

assessment, and of those over 80% of them have said that they have had

measures or are likely to install measures in their homes as a result

of the Green Deal assessment. It is just that not all of them are using

the Green Deal finance. Hardly any of them! But that is not a bad thing

in itself. The benchmark of success is the Green Deal, are people

getting an assessment and then putting in Green Deal measures?

Bottle people we have spoken to say they are put off because of the

interest rate on the loan, which can be above 10%. The average interest

rate is about 6.9%, and that is not bad. You have got to remember that

is for 25 years potentially, and there is no other product on the

market, even a mortgage, where you can get an interest rate fixed for

that period of time. Back in West Dulwich, the assessment has been

finished on the home. The assessor is recommending she has a range of

work done, including double glazing and solar panels. It could cost up

to ?36,000 and could save her ?900 per year on her Energy Bill. So what

do you think? Are you going to go for it? Yes, in terms of the energy

efficiency, not in terms of the finance. I think the rates of the

loans are quite high, so I am trying to understand why I do not adjust

the mortgage or take out a loan. Putting some insulation in the

floor, the assessment says we will make a saving of ?90 per year. You

know, I have to take up floorboards, skirting boards,

paintwork, Dado rails - do you want to go through that for ?90 per year?

It is clear the Green Deal has not fired the imagination of the public

so far. The target of 10,000 people signing up by the end of the year

now looks wildly optimistic. Time will tell, we will see what

happens. Welcome to the Proclaimers! Yes! It has all gone a bit weird,

because I do not think we have three guests that look so similar .Mac the

DNA results are in! I am the third Proclaimers. We have got Stephen,

Charlie and Craig. On that theme, on wind farms in Scotland, what are

your opinions? Everybody talks about the subsidy from wind farms, how

much it costs, but in Private I today, they said that EDF have a

huge subsidy for nuclear, so whoever is building more, we will have a

mixture of a lot of sources of power. Everybody seems to be getting

subsidies. As regards how they look, you get used to them maybe. People

are torn, and they? Let's talk about the new film, it is out in cinemas

now, Sunshine On Leith, it has had rave reviews. How did it start off

as a musical and then it was adapted into a film? Yes, it started in 2007

as a stage musical, I think they did one run, and then a couple of years

later they did it again bigger and better, and then a third run, and by

that time they knew it would be a film, it was just a matter of

finance. But the original stage musical, I think, was two hours 20,

and they got the film down to one hour 40, so there is a lot you can

do with film, but we did not want it to feel rushed. They did a fantastic

job. Were you happy with your music being made into a musical? It is a

short hop from musical to film than it is to getting a musical off the

ground. We were sceptical, we did not think it work, but the writer

really got inside the lyrics and used that to grow a story out of. So

it was a beautiful marriage between the things, but the writer really

got inside the lyrics and used that to grow a story out of. So it was a

beautiful marriage between the thing is, between the songs and the

script. We kind of felt that it would work as a film. One of your

most well-known songs, 500 Miles, it takes on a romantic feel in the

film, let's have a look. # And I would walk 500 miles.

And# And I would walk 500 more. # Just to be the man who walks a

thousand miles. # To fall down at your door.

That is beautiful. Were used studied behind the cameras when those young

people were singing? For a long time, we had a rehearsal room in

Haymarket, and I passed on a bus when they were filming, I kept

looking over, but I didn't want to get out and be looking over

anybody's shoulder. Some of your music is political, there are like

stories, it is about your life's experience, I suppose, so what was

your reaction when you saw the film? They have taken the songs and a

different direction. They did, it was not as extreme as seen the stage

musical for the first time, which was one of the most surreal moment

of my life, having an actress singing our words was really

strange. Because you put so much into it. They change lines, he too

chic or what ever, a couple of words, and they did the same for the

film. I have seen the film five times, and it is still a bit

strange. The arrangements in the film, the performances are great. It

has had a fantastic reactions from people who have seen it, but you

must be delighted that your favourite football club has taken on

Sunshine On Leith as their anthem. How does that compare to the film? I

think it is better! It is better. They do not win many, they sang it

at the Scottish Cup Final against Celtic this year beautifully before

the game, I did not care about the result.

We have got it! Of all the songs, which you find the

most emotional? I think Sunshine On Leith, it is the most complete song

we have written. For people who come to multiple shows, that is the

central part. Do you write together? We used to, on the first album, and

there are quite a few songs in the film that are from the first album,

but the last few years we have lived in different places. We see enough

of each other, and when we see each other every day to rehearse... And

you still live very close. Just a couple of miles apart, and we are on

the road with the rest of the guys all the time. It is an interesting

point, because Stephen is doing this series about trying to find love,

you are tall lad is, glasses... Have you got any tips for the allowed to

settle down? To be a rock star would help! What do you think, tips? I

would not give tips to anybody, I have got no idea. I am just looking

forward to being on the road with you guys again. We did kind of

mark-up and album of what you would look like if you were altogether,

feast your eyes on this. Hello, ladies! They have got the

best pictures of all of us there. Well, Sunshine On Leith is out in

cinemas now, well worth a watch. Goodness me! Fans can be quite

persistent and trying to get the attention of their favourite stars,

and speaking of that, you have got a letter there. I had a lovely letter,

dear Alex, I do so enjoy your programme, bless you and the One

Show. It is from Jean, who was 98. But she does go on to say, PS, I am

doing it now, no lady crosses her legs, not even the Queen. I will

write back to you, I will work on the whole crossing the legs thing.

Do not cross your legs, Stephen! One little boy sent a fan letter that

led to a lifelong friendship. Now I'm going to send you a little

song that was very popular a few months ago.

She pressed... She will always be best known for her legendary song

Sally. # Sally, Sally...

But while she was busy performing around the world, in a Kent

orphanage young boy was listening to his favourite Gracie Fields record.

The artist would have a profound effect on his life. Now 94, Michael

lives on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. We used to get every record

that she made. I think the first one was Follow Band. At the end, there

was a children 's chorus, sort of, and they all called auntie Gracie.

And I said one day, well I wish I could call her Auntie Gracie. I

don't know anyone, and this chap said, well, let's writes to her. And

that is just what he did. Gracie Fields wrote back, but the orphanage

intercepted the letter and kept it from Michael, insisting he write a

second node. Then I had to write a grovelling letter apologising for

bothering, and the sister in charge said that I had been a nuisance and

I was sorry. But, amazingly, a few weeks later, Gracie, true to her

down-to-earth roots, arrived at the orphanage unannounced, asking if she

could meet Michael. That caused a sensation. I mean, we had not met

anyone like that. She was Auntie Grace, she said. And she finished up

sitting on the floor surrounded by the boys singing songs.

She was a very caring person, very dated. -- family orientated. It was

the beginning of an extraordinary relationship. Gracie went on to

marry an Italian, Boris, and moved to the island of Capri, where she

had been true to her word and looked out for Michael, becoming a real

auntie to him. They kept in touch through letters and postcards and

met up on ever they could. He even visited her in Capri. Come up to

Capri, she said. I will show you Capri. Gracie Fields made a huge

contribution during the Second World War, by raising money and the morale

of the troops. When she died in 1979 aged 81, the nation had lost an

icon, and Lancashire had lost its much loved lass. At for Michael, he

had lost his auntie Gracie. I have met some nice people in my life, but

nothing like Gracie. I was lucky to know someone like that.

Carrie is here, who has been serenading us with that wonderful

Bracey warble throughout the VAT. But she made an enemy of Winston

Churchill? Tyre she did, and it was an interesting period of her career

because she had been a massive musical star will stop she then made

films in the 30s and was awarded a CBE. She then got ill at the end of

30s with cancer. Her mum was going blind and wanted her to get

married, and she married an Italian. So it was doing well, but of

course, Italy sides with Germany in the war. So if they were to live as

a married couple in Italy, he would have to fight. If they lived in

Britain, he would be imprisoned, so they fled to Canada, at which point

Churchill said, go and make money out of the Americans. But actually,

she was entertaining the troops, so she was still doing her work, news

of it did not get back to Britain for some time. She returns to

Britain in the late 40s and in 1948, she performs at the

Palladium. She does not tell anyone what she's going to sing, and she

sings, take me to your heart again. And the press and the public love

her again. That is the sound of my childhood, the sound of mine now. --

my Nan. Said, you run the official Gracie Fields Fanclub, the

appreciation Society. How is it that a 21-year-old boy has found himself

in this position? My interest in Gracie came when I was at high

school, doing a project on the Second World War. My friends were

looking into Vera Lynn, and I found a CD with a lady called Gracie

Fields on there. And I thought, that is an interesting voice. And I found

out she was from Rochdale, 12 miles from where I live. Then I became

friends with one of her good friends, called John Taylor, who has

a massive collection of Gracie Fields things, and I grew my own

collection from there. Then we set up the first official website, and I

am in the process of writing Gracie's authorised biography. On

the flip side of the appreciation, your dad was not a fan? No. There

was was a thing, whether it was true or not, it was perceived that she

had abandoned Britain at the start of the war. I think if you look at

the facts, that is not the case, but many people who lived through the

war, there was a slight resentment or distrust of Gracie Fields. As

great an entertainer as she was. This is the visa for her to go into

Canada. This was her immigration visa when she left the country. It

has her married name, professionally Italian, and it says she's moving to

America for the purpose of living. So if somebody had this document,

they could say yes, Gracie could have an desert in her country. At

bearing in mind the tours she did in Canada and America and eventually

the Pacific and south-east, she was making a lot of money for Britain.

And even though your dad was not keen, lots of people in Scotland

loved her. We have this pic of her in the Glasgow shipyard. Do you

think they look a bit miserable? She is singing her heart out! There was

a rival shipyard on the same bad bank river, and they heard Gracie

and said, we want her as well. So she went down the road and performed

for them. Thank you very much, Carrie and Seb. Talking of epic

tours, earlier on, we met the nine riders taking part in this year's

epic 700 mile rickshaw challenge. Now we are asking you to donate to

Children In Need this year again. Hello, potential rickshaw drivers!

How are you? Are you well? Were you cycling? No, I was not cycling, but

we are all in training now. It is never too early to start donating.

Now, time to rejoin the mums at work.

At Total Jobs, mum Jackie has been passed by boss John to help her

daughter Tori get more focused on her work at the recruitment agency

full is top she can be disorganised. Prioritise and organise. Jackie is

hoping to use a bit of good old nonsense to improve her daughter's

work skills. I think bringing up a family makes you a good employee,

juggling home life with work life and keeping on top of your house

work. It is hard being a working mum. And it is about to get harder.

Tory has a client meeting, and as her manager explains, she needs some

help. This is one of the first meetings she will have gone to on

her own. The most important thing she needs to do is ask plenty of

questions and ask the right questions. I will take note of these

questions and make sure she knows all the answers full up Jackie is

now helping Tori, but it has not always been that way round. Tori

helped when Jackie was training to be a cabbie. When I did the taxi

licensing test, called the knowledge, it took me about five

times. I said to Victoria, I am going to give up. And she said, mum,

you have always said, keep trying until you succeed. And it was

because of her that I carried on. Now it is down to Jackie to see if

Tori can find her way through the problems at work, with a bit of

role-play. Lovely to meet you. It is not a joke, this is a serious as

this! What do you know about us as a business? I feel really nervous

doing this! I am aware that you build databases for companies. It is

fantastic employer branding. Nobody is doing it. It is new to the market

full is top now back to reality. Did you feel worse because it was me?

You should feel comfortable, I am your mother. It was a bit odd. You

need to feel comfortable. And love yourself. I think you are wonderful.

If the client feels the same way, that will show boss John's new mum

management scheme is working. She has been promoted to a more client

facing world, so getting organised, knowing what she wants out of

meetings, just having the maturity that comes with that different role,

her mum will be able to help her to stop time for Tori's first solo

client pitch. Having mum outside doesn't exactly help. I am a bit

nervous. When I went into the meeting, I had her in my head,

telling me, be confident, project your voice. When she was little, she

was quite a handful. She was not particularly motivated at school.

When she was 15, I had doubts about what her future would hold, but now

I am proud of the adult she is now. How did it go? Really well. I am

going to set out a proposal tomorrow, with different options for

her. Fingers crossed. I have seen a professional side of Victoria that I

would never have seen at home, and I am proud of her. She has taught me

that perhaps I need to be more prepared at work. Love you, ma'am.

-- mum. Next week, the final chapter of the great experiment. Does having

mum is at work really work? You have in telling her how to do things for

years. Will she take it on board? Told her, she will do it. And the

mums say goodbye to Total Jobs. That is almost it for tonight. Thanks to

do even. Now The Proclaimers are going to play us out with Sunshine

On Leith. Ill ah see you tomorrow. Take it away, boys.

# My heart was broken. # My heart was broken.

# Sorrow. # Sorrow.

# My heart was broken. # My heart was broken.

# You saw it. # You claimed it.

# You touched it. # You saved it.

# My tears are drying. # My tears are drying.

# Thank you. # Thank you.

# My tears are drying. # My tears are drying.

# Your beauty. # And kindness.

# Made tears clear. # My blindness.

# While I'm worth. # My room on this earth.

# I will be with you. # While the Chief.

# Puts Sunshine On Leith. # I'll thank him for his work.

# And your birth. # And my birth.

# Yeah, yeah, yeah.