17/01/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

It's cold. Freezing. Wrap up warm, huddle up on the sofa and settle in.

With us and our wonderful guests. They are the most wonderful brother

and sister act. The sister is country and the brother is

rock'n'roll! Please welcome Donny Osmond.

Nice to see you. Nice to see you again. You were early. That's

enough! Where's Marie now? We are always

waiting on Marie. I guarantee the show at the 02 will start on time,

she's probably putting on her make- up or something like that. She's

here. Everybody's battening down the hatches. Freezing here but not

as cold as Utah. How cold? It was zero when I left this morning.

nues17? Way down there, yes. -- minus 17? Way down there, yes.

You will be red hot here, yes. We have some advice on surviving

the cold from this man, he's polar explorer Dr Ian Davies, a GP from

the Cotswolds who's been to the North Pole five times and the South

Pole twice. It's fair to say he knows how to stay warm.

Look at his clothes, I mean hello! He's probably boiling. In the

meantime, what would be your advice for keeping warm? My wife's not

here so I don't... LAUGHTER You said at the beginning

of the show cuddle up on the sofa with the one you love, that's the

way to do it baby. This is a what, a shrunket. -- slunket. I'm going

to try this if I can figure it out in time. We want to see you at home

put on as many layers as you can while watching the show tonight.

can't figure this out. It's a bit like a dressing gown. But if you

are wrapped up do send us a picture. Where's the hole... Nice and warm

now! While you are at it, send us your

tips for keeping warm as well. You are probably already mentally

counting the pennies use crank up the heating another notch. For a

new estate in Glasgow, the old mines that lie under the city are

providing a clever and cheap way of heating homes. Here is Marty Jopson.

Britain has a rich mining heritage. We have drawn resources from the

ground beneath our feet to fuel our country for generations. Most

underground industries have gone. Disused mines like this one at

Bowness near Falkirk have a new role to play.

The miners dug deep into the earth looking for coal and iron and this

stuff used for making bricks. But they left behind something that

engineers found useful. What's left behind is water, and

that water can do something amazing. Now, this dirty mine water can be

used to provide piping hot water for homes hundreds of feet above.

All it takes is some simple engineer ing and very clever

physics -- physics. This mine water some heat in the water and we can

use that. So how on earth do you turn water

that's 9.5 degrees into water that's over 50 degrees, hot enough

for a bath? You need a contraption like this.

In goes my mine water and over here is my bath water.

Let's turn her on. These copper pipes contain a

special liquid called a refrigerant that boils at a very low

temperature, turning it from a liquid to a gas.

And this water is completely hot enough to boil the refrigerant

liquid. The gas travels down to something called a compressor. The

compressor is a really important part to this. It squashes the

refrigerant gas together so that all the refrigerant gas molecules

start to bash into each other, creating more heat, compressing the

heat that's there. The hot gas travels to my bath water, heating

it up. A thermal imaging camera shows how

the temperature changes. My mine water's dropped from 10 degrees to

freezing. But my bath water has leapt from 10 degrees to 50 degrees,

five times hotter. That's really warmed up. 52.5 degrees now, which

is ouch, way too hot for a bath. It's brilliant.

This contraption is known as a ground source heat pump. You need

electricity to power the compressor, but overall, it only uses about a

third of the energy of a conventional boiler.

The benefit of mine water is thait always stays at a constant

temperature -- that it always stays at a constant temperature. Glasgow

is starting to take advantage of this technology. Underneath the

modern city is a warren of disused shafts and tunnels. The British

Geological Survey believes this is a resource that could provide 40%

of the city's hot water. One housing complex in Shettleston

in the East End of Glasgow is already benefitting. These 16 homes

are all heated by mine water, sucked up from below.

Joe is in charge of the building's heat pump.

I'm guessing because it's written on it, that this is the heat pump.

Where's the hot water tank? It's here. This thing? Yes. It's huge!

It is. How big is it? 10,000 litres capacity. What is the benefit of

this sort of system? It's very economical for tenants. We estimate

that we get about 60% of the heat output from this free to us.

Mary Thomas has lived here since the flats opened. So tell me, what

about the bills? They are a lot better than where I lived before,

they're half. Half the price? What do you spend all the money you

save on? The bowling club. And thanks to the UK's industrial

heritage, there are disused mines all over the country. It's hoped

they could be used as a major source of Britain's heat in the

future. I know a lot of people in the

north-east with all the mines there will be thinking exact think same.

Exactly. Thank you, Marty. We are joined by polar explorer Dr Ian

Davies. You are a GP who doesn't get out of bed unless it's minus

temperatures, but welcome to The One Show. I had to come here

because this is fascinating. Nice to meet you. Pleasure. Are these

temperatures coal for you at the moment? They feel cold to me

because it's also wet, whereas the north and South Poles that I've

been to where it's minus 45, minus 50, is very, very dry, so it

doesn't feel that cold, especially when you are wearing all the right

equipment. Of course. What happens to your body when you step off the

plane in the Arctic Circle? Some people call it Arctic shock,

similar to when you are a child and yew get off a plane for the first

time in Lanzarote, you feel the hot air blow in your face. When you

the wind is biting on your face like pins and needles all the time.

Obviously you can't stay down there a long time. How long can you stay

there before you have to get back to civilisation? The longest I

month. How do you survive there for have the right food. You don't have

few weeks? Loads of layers, but not too many. You see kids wrapped up

with every warm weather piece of kit they've got, which is like a

big fat sausage. They'll get hot and sweaty, the sweat goes into

their clothing and the clothing doesn't work as well because it's

starting to freeze so let them run around but don't be too afraid if

you want to take layers off them if they get too hot. I struggle with

circulation, fingers go white and toes hurt. Is there anything we can

do to help that and stop that from happening? The biggest mistake

people make is by wearing tight- fitting gloves and boots. It's

restricting the circulation to your hands and feet. So you must wear

nice gloves like this, loose- fitting ones, loose-fitting boots,

and you will be fiefn. If your wrist is constricted -- fine.

Eskimos in Canada taught me to shake my hands like this. This

keeps you warm. That's an eskimo tip and a half. Thanks for joining

us! Hi! So really shake your hands for the blood, what about your

feet? Don't stamp them, just shake them. Shake everything? So you

can't sing that song, if you're happy and you know it clap your

hands? You could sing it and shake it! The trick in the UK is to stay

dry. The snow will get slushy, your hands will get wet and if your

hands get wet you will get cold so try and stay dry. I have hot

flashes, does that matter? While cuddle in a minute as well, because

we are going into a film. I can cuddle you. Thanks. Get out of it!

Today and tomorrow, our very own GP, Dr Mark Porter, is following a man

who's being given a bionic eye. could give blind people their sight

back. The water's very still... Tim has

always loved the water. By 15, he was swimming for his county. By his

late 20s, he was coaching at Olympic level. The trees are all

around the banks. Every now and again you get a whirl pool off the

tree which is a droplet of water. Tim's chronic short sightedness

never interfered with his sporting life. Yet, he was going blind.

There are things that happened in my teens and early 0s that, at the

time, I just thought I was short sighted and clumsy. I'd walk into

lampposts, I'd miss kerbs and do the old Mr Bean thing and walk into

glass doors. Throughout his 30s, Tim's vision deteriorated. By his

40th birthday, he was completely blind. The condition specialists

believed it was incurable. It was like a tunnel vision, looking

through a Smartie tube, getting smaller and smaller to maybe

looking through the eye of a needle. The consultant sat me down and said,

you have pigmentosa, there is not a cure, it's hereditary, thank you

very much, there's not a lot we can do, goodbye. That was the most, I

would say, dreadful time of our life. Fortunately, Tim's two sons

are clear of the disease, but for nearly 20 years, he's lived in

almost total darkness. At the back of our eyes, we have photo

receptors similar to pixels in a camera. In pigmentosa, the cells

die off and so the eye is no longer able to sense light and eventually

the patient is completely blind. When Tim was diagnosed, there was

no hope of saving his vision. Specialists here have selected him

for a pioneering clinical trial Tim is a handful of patients to be

given a bionic retina. We are using a elek tonic device to replace the

resentors. Tim would have had these early in life. Like a computer

screen. They have lots of pixels, that are light sensitive. They have

gone, but with the implant we have one here, 15 electronic pixels are

to go in place underneath the retina. When the light falls on the

chip, it responds by sending a signal back to the retina in the

same way that the photonics would have done for Tim before he lost

his vision. I have a model here, what you are

feeling now is the power unit... The power supply is embedded in the

bone behind Tim's ear and cabled under the skin to the microchip in

his eye. The chip sends light signals directly to the brain.

The chip is just this bit in front here. That is sitting in the eye.

It is extremely complex surgery but it could transform Tim's life.

Patients see flashing, similar to how we saw the world when we

started to see, all of us, early in life.

Over time, Tim's brain should make sense of the electronic signals.

It may be possible to see the shape of a face, know where a door is.

Look at the table, reach down to see an object. To reach down and

pick it up, that would be a great achievement.

Tim has never let his blindness change his life. He still cycles

and skis but the decision to go ahead with the challenging

operation, has not been a easy one. It would be that in 20 years' time,

the clinical trial will develop so fast and quick, it will give them

easier opportunities than I have had in my life.

Tomorrow we follow Tim as the surgeons fit his bionic eye.

Donny way saying that you have spoken to Stevie Wonder about this

process? Yes it is amazing, but Stevie was very interested in

having the operation done. I have not spoken to him since that

conversation but can you imagine what it would be like for somebody

who has never been able to see before? Especially for Tim who lost

his sight at 40? And then to get it back? Come on.

Donny tell us what happened to your once? I am a thrill seeker. I had

to fuse two discs in my throat. They put in a metal plate. It is

still there, that is why I sing heavy metal music! We are waiting

for him to have a labotomy, then he will be fer Foreign Secretary!

are fit and well. Obviously you are sounding brilliant. You are touring

the UK with your Las Vegas tour, before we talk about it, let's have

a look at it. I am a little bit country... I'm a

little bit rock and roll. # Make it feel over

# Make feel it all over again. # # Crazy horses. # My word! It is

funny, lots of people say, Donny and a Marie show, what will that be

like? But it is pure variety from the beginning to the end. There is

dancing, singing, then Marie comes out... Oh! It's the favourite part

of the show! Now, it is very showbiz, are the Brits ready for

the Osmond onslought? We have so many Brits coming to Las Vegas,

that is why we decided to come here. They love the show. They come back

every single year. You know a lot of people can't fly over to the

States to see the show. I think that the Brits are ready

for the show. Even though the weather is cold, the O2 will be hot.

You warm them up! It has been hugely successful the show in Las

Vegas. You have won a wards. You have got Susan Boyle joining you?

She is a little special surprise. She asked me to be a part of her

new album, Standing Ovation. She is singing with Donny. She has done it

in Las Vegas. She is stunning. What are you singing? This Is The

Moment. Susan Boyle is hugely popular in

America? Huge. Why do you think that the Americans

have taken SuBo to their hearts? It is the perfect Cinderella story,

isn't it? She is Cinderella. Everyone was rooting for her. She

came there and blew them away. I don't know if you remember this on

YouTube. I started crying. I had to watch it over and over....

When she first sang? Yes. It will be fun to have her on stage.

You are off all over the UK? Yes, he is off! Well, one of the places

you are visiting is Belfast. That is a city on the up, however with

the recent violence affecting tourism and the economy now.

For a long time the housing market in Northern Ireland has been in

decline, more so than in the rest of the UK. Declan Lawn meets a

first time buyer who now owns �60,000 on a house that does not

even exist. Boom followed by bust. The recent

story of the housing market across many parts of Britain. Nowhere more

so, too, than here in Northern Ireland. Along Belfast's historic

waterfront in particular. At the gaining of the last century,

shipbuilding was the centre of the economy around here. In fact, they

used to build them here on this very spot, but by the beginning of

this one it was all about building apartments and houses. As fast as

they wen up, the people were Mr To buy them. In 2007, the housing

market was at its peak. These apartments went on sale off-plan.

There was no shortage of eager buyers at �190,000.

People were queuing up to buy. They were buying into a dream. It has

been realised brilliantly in this excellent development. They did not

have any notion of the troubles that lay ahead.

In 2007, the average house price in Northern Ireland rocketed to

�250,000, �30,000 higher than the average in the rest of the UK, but

the banking crisis led to a catastrophic fall in prices. Before

these apartments were completed they dropped in value to such an

extent that many were unable to get a mortgage to cover the cost. They

had no choice but to walk away, losing thousands of pounds in

deposits and facing the prospect of legal action.

A lot of people signed contracts off-plan. Of course in the

intervening couple of years between signing and them being built, the

world changed it went from excitement to crash of the property

prices coming back from what they had signed for N Belfast we refer

to apartment litigation. It is almost a little genre of litigation

of itself. It was not just plush apartments

where the prices plummeted. In 2007, the first time buyer, Joel paid

�152,000 for a two bedroomed terrace house in the village area

of Belfast. I was living in Belfast, I had just

left home. Rather than rent a property, I decided to get tonne

the property ladder. Buying the first house was a bit of

a negotiation, a bit of a battle with some other buyers but I got it

I was happy to be moving into it. Fast forward five years and this is

the site of Joel's house today. A regeneration scheme meant that

his property and many around it was purchased and knocked down to make

way for this new estate. Joel has been offered the current market

value of his house, significantly less than the �152,000 mortgage he

took out to pay for it in the first place.

The offer on the table at the minute is �91,000.

So, �60,000 less? It is a big amount, yeah. It is not really

worth thinking about, really. So, you owe about �60,000 on a

house that no longer exists? Exactly.

That must be very frustrating? they did was turn negative equity

to a debt. So instead of it being a notion of my house is not worth the

same amount of money they are taking the house away and giving me

in replacement, �60,000 worth of debt. I am not the own person hit

by the crash, everyone can ride the storm but I cannot.

Joel tried to claim compensation but lost his case. While property

prices in the UK have experienced a slight recovery, 35% of Northern

Irish homeowners, those who bought from 2005, remain in negative

equity. Donny, you have something in common

with that story? I have a property that was devalued to the point

where the value of the property was lower or less than the mortgage on

the property. Sometimes you have to hang in there and hope that it

comes back, but that story is heartbreaking flrbgs is nothing

there! -- heartbreaking, there is nothing there! Now, Robert

Redford's Sundance Film Festival is just down the road from where Donny

lives in Utah. In its 28 years, it has made a few Brits famous, hasn't

it? Hugh Grant for one. He became Hollywood royalty with

Four Weddings And A Funeral. Now it could be the dream story of dairy

farmer, Stephen Hook. Sundance Film Festival is one of

the biggest independent Film Festivals in the world. This year,

the 50,000-strong crowd will watch high quality films and documentarys

-- documentaries alongside the cream of Hollywood actors.

You would not expect to see a couple of dairy farmers from Sussex,

knocking about, then? I'm doing OK here! Oh, no! I spilled the milk!

There was a documentary, the The Moo Man, picked from hundreds of

entries to have its premiere screening at the Sundance Film

Festival. The film offer as charming insight into their organic

farm. This is one farmer who knows his herd by name.

I will test you now, who is this? That is Ruby. The daughter of her

mum carries the mother's name. She is a bidy, they tend to be bullies.

That is Clever Kate. # Love is a burning thing... # So,

what did you want to get from the film? The public when they see the

images of cows, you think moo, then think of them as units of

production. This film re-connects you with the character of the cow.

Maybe people will fall in love with cows all over again. She is on the

DVD cover. She is famous. Get used to that face! So, before the cows

go to milking, I have behind the scenes access. Can you tell me what

the moo-vaigs was in the scene? Do you think that the cow stars were

milking it?! And what about the critics, do you think that they

which say that some bits are cheesy?! This is one of the few

unique p farms that sells raw milk, it is unpasteurised and not

homogenised. We have milk. Can you leave the

milk behind? I know whatever happens at the Sundance Film

Festival, I will be back in two weeks' time milking the cows.

Back to the farmhouse and it is time for packing. The father and

son will soon be off. It is the first time to America.

Will you go happily? You have to go. What will you miss the most?

milk on my Corn Flakes in the morning! What about the cows?

shall miss the cows. Well, I have the perfect present

for you to take... Pictures of your cows! Oh, the cows having

breakfast! Lovely. How are you feeling? It is

something that you never dream of, it is happening. You pinch yourself

sometimes. You think that when we come back, will it all have been a

dream? I thought that I should give them a special send-off. They

better get used to this. It is all ready for you. What a fantastic

adventure. Whatever happens at the Sundance Film Festival, I think

that these two are over the mooon! I wish them all the luck in the

world. It looks utt erley exciting to me! I think we should move to

another subject. Stop milking it! Earlier I asked

for your pictures of you layering We have lots of pictures. There is

the proof that we are live. This is James Dean Dean from

Newbury. He has on snow boarding jacket and trousers and hat and

tkphrovs. There is Calvin, aged four from

Riesling. Well, thank you very much for joining us it is going to be a

first tour? Marie and I have never toured together. We are celebrating