17/03/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.

Something about having tonight's guest looking at me

He was part of my morning routine for the last 15 years,

Outrageous breach of studio discipline, we always used to hide

the porridge under the desk before we went on. And the toothbrush. You

more than deserve a sleep in. I'm really enjoying lie ins, I'm waking

up fairly early but it's such a joy to go Faure, is it really? I'll just

go back to sleep, fantastic. -- to go, 4am. Until you left nobody

realised the man always sits on the right-hand side of the woman. No one

had ever realised until I left. What a stir. We flipped yesterday for

fun. I flipped when I read the story. The responses that came in,

there was a lot of response. This one came in

from Hazel Chadwick. We have this evening. Geoff Jones

wasn't happy either. You see, I can hear better from here

actually. A final word on the matter, we have John.

That's what John things, what do you think? I was baffled because in all

the years I've been presenting, 18 in all, I started on News 24, we sat

on the other side. It has never cropped up, I've never had this

notion it implies seniority at all. It's all about partnership.

Definitely. You put something is down to experience, knowing more,

but you work together. There is no senior partner except in terms of

age. I'm presuming fatties you. -- I am presuming that is you. Are you

going to read on, Alex? John Sergeant might not be anyone's

idea of a boy racer, but with new 20mph speed limits

cropping up all over the country, you don't have to be going very fast

at all to be a rule breaker. We sent John for drive around

Edinburgh, a place that's fast I've been driving over 50 years and

while I generally stick to the rules I've never considered myself a

slowcoach. We're seeing more and more of these popping up on our

roads, they are aimed at slowing us all down to improve safety. But in

my experience many people don't slow down to 20. For those of us who do,

like myself, our law-abiding public spirited approach isn't always

appreciated. Well, really! And now Scotland is getting the 20 is

plenty. Edinburgh is set to become the first Scottish city to become

almost entirely 20 miles an hour. Our drivers here taking any notice?

I've got my hands on a speed gun to see how many drivers are sticking to

the limit. 30. That's not good. 26. 19, well

done, old boy. The over 70s, you can always trust them. People are

supposed to be driving at 20 or less on this road, 50% of the streets

here have this limit. In three years' time 80% will be limited to

20. 32! White van man. We'll find out just how many drivers I found

breaking the limit a bit later. In the meantime I'm catching a ride

with cabbie Paul Quinn who has been driving taxis around Edinburgh for

the last 13 years. What do you think about this plan for a 20 mile per

hour limit across the whole city? They plan to do it for 24 hours. 5am

there isn't a lot of traffic, even less people. 20 miles an hour is far

too slow. We've now got a tailback six or seven cars behind us because

we're driving 20 mph. It's like being in a funeral procession, isn't

it? Joking aside, I mean, you could save lives, couldn't you, if you had

a 20 mile limit across the city? No doubt about it, especially around

schools. Over the whole of the city I think is too much. Reducing your

speed to 20 does cut down on conditions and casualties,

Portsmouth, Newcastle and Birmingham have all seen fewer accidents in

areas that have a 20 mile limit. Gary McGough takes a taxi to the

train station twice a week. From July his journey will be entirely a

20 mph one. How will you be affected by this 20 mile an hour limit? It'll

add time to the day, we all live busy lives as it is. Will you be

charging more because it takes longer? It will, because we are

going slower, the meter still ticks, so Gary's fair will be more

expensive. You will be going slower, paying more. And not being so happy.

Possibly missing the train as well. For a lot of people in the city, the

inconvenience of slowing down is far outweighed by the importance of

safety. The city is white congested, there might be small children, it is

getting busier and busier, you never know what all walked out in front of

you. I've seen a lot of near misses, forcing people to slow down will

make a difference. The difference between 20 and 30 mph compared to

the difference in not killing someone, for me it's a no-brainer.

One group of locals all for the lower limit are the city cyclists.

Jean-Claude heads a local campaign group. This is a 30 mph zone at the

moment, it will be 20 mph, will it make a big difference? It will,

traffic at the moment is trying to get to 30 mph but they are

struggling to do that because it's really quite busy. They are

accelerating, then breaking to get down so they don't hit the car in

front, by making the speed 20, it calms the whole atmosphere. In

London, Islington was the first borough to implement 20 mph

restrictions. A recent survey found drivers were averaging 27 miles an

hour. So how fast are they going here in Edinburgh? 24, a taxi.

I've been here for the past hour, very few of these cars are sticking

to the 20 mile limit, so how is it the council can enforce a 20 mile

limit across most of Edinburgh? Edinburgh City Council say they

won't put up fixed speed cameras, but police will do spot checks and

issue fines to speeding motorists. The estimate since introducing the

limit casualties have dropped 20% in the new 20 zones. As I've

discovered, getting drivers to slow down is not going to be easy.

A whopping 79% of the cars John recorded, broke the speed limit -

it's clearly not easy sticking to 20mph.

I don't think you'll be moving to Edinburgh any time soon, will you?

Maybe not. You've retired from BBC breakfast. Only from the sofa, I'm

still doing lots of other things. One of the things you are doing is

this quiz, how did that all happen? Where did the idea come from? I've

been wanting to do one for ages, it's called Think Tank, starts on

BBC One at 2:15pm next Monday. It involves three contestants all

competing for a modest cash prize, being a BBC show. Aided and abetted

by the Think Tank, from a pool of 12, eight people from all over

Britain, not experts by any means. They may have a bit of specialist

knowledge, all great characters. Their job is to help contestants get

the right answer. Sadly, sometimes they don't do that. It's all part of

the fun. That's have a look, let's see the

Think Tank giving interesting answers to a hairy question. Which

politician won his sixth parliamentary beard of the year

award in 2015? Scratch your chin if you want to for a moment while we

see what the Think Tank came up with. Jeremy Corbyn. John Prescott.

Diane Abbott. Intriguing answers. I will go with

Jeremy Corbyn. Let's see if you are right. Of course you are! Jackie!

LAUGHTER To be fair to Jackie, what they have

to do is they see the questions beforehand, the Think Tank, they

have to sit an exam. Hundreds of questions they have to answer

quickly, she would have thought, I'll put... Diane Abbott, think of

anybody from Parliament, I'll come back and change it later, she didn't

get the opportunity. She is a whiz other questions. The think tank is

full of characters. -- the Think Tank is full of characters. They are

more integral to the show. We hope people watching if not identifying

with them will see them as friends. Which I'm sure you did by the time

he finished filming. It was lovely, very sad to say goodbye, we hope to

get together very soon, they are a great bunch of people. We were sad

when you said goodbye to BBC breakfast, but I love the reason you

said you were doing it, to spend more time with your bees. You have

grand plans, don't you? Moving to Suffolk, the past few years I've

been in the Peak District and it's too high and windy for the bees.

I've left them on a farm in Buckinghamshire. There are whole new

generation is now. We are going to renew our acquaintance. They've been

happy on their own, I've gone over and checked them a little bit,

giving them something to each to keep going through winter, but it'll

be really good to get back to proper beekeeping again. Beekeeping has

become quite trendy. You've started something. What mistakes do new

beekeepers make? As a beekeeper, when you are starting, it's easy to

be too keen to go in and disrupt the bees too often, you want to check

them. For the bees it is like having the roof ripped off your house,

somebody takes the furniture out and put it back together. They need to

be left alone more, the first lesson of beekeeping is, you will get

stung. In my case, a lot, you tend to be clumsy, moved to quickly, you

have to go slowly and learn to work with the bees, rather than on them.

Always make sure your zips are closed. Pull your zips closed! As

you are the newest BBC quiz host, it's time to play a quick quiz of

our own. When you left BBC breakfast, your co-host, Steph

McGovern, said, Bill, who will correct my grammar now? We've got a

quiz on one of your favourite objects, not bees, we're going to

talk grammar. They used to call me the grammar hammer. Now I'm on the

spot. The land join us on the set of Grammar Bee! -- come and join us on

the set. There we are. We have a theme tune

and everything. I absolutely adore the theme tune. Matt made up the

theme tune especially for the segment this afternoon. A pleasure,

very nice. You've got some honey and the breakfast table. We've got a

team here in a traditional setting. We have, this team is called Stormin

Norman, a pub quiz team, but you have been banned from the pub

because you are so good. You've got your very own Think Tank to go up

against a night. Three of them and one of me. Mix, Graham and Norman.

Twitch -- Nick, Graham and Norman. Is

grammar a strong point? I'm OK, should be all right.

Stormin Norman, first question, in 2008, Tesco was criticised for its

ten items or less signs, why? Ten items or fewer. Correct answer, it

should be ten items or fewer. Well done, one point. I knew that one.

Watch the start of this Justin Bieber music video and tell us what

grammatical mistake he makes in the first opening line of the song.

# If I was your boyfriend I'd never let you go #. If I was your

boyfriend I'd never you go. If I was your boyfriend... If I were, I

think. Correct, very good. Let's look at that sentence, it is bad

grammar because it is a one on sentence, a sentence that goes on

too long. What novel is this sentence taken from? We will have to

hurry you. Charles Dickens, a tale of two cities. Correct answer, well

done. Back to you, Bill. According to a new directive from the

government, what kind of punctuation should primary school children be

discovered from overusing? ! Exclamation marks. Correct. Grammar

schools were set up in the 16th century. According to the late to

let macro latest figures, how many state grammar schools are there in

the UK today? -- according to the latest figures. 120. 59. Stormin

Norman wins, it was 232. Good game, good game. Thank you, Stormin

Norman, thank you, Bill. We'll give it to you, you can celebrate with

your meat. It's a lovely Grammar Bee Trophy. APPLAUSE

George Osborne set aside ?150 million to -- ?115 to tackle rising

homelessness. We asked three homeless people who regularly sleep

on the streets not far from where we are sat right now to tell us their

stories. Here's Race, Tristan and Tina.

I have been on and off the streets for 24 years. What can I do? I am

fighting a losing battle. When you are sleeping rough, the

earth is your met interests and the -- mattress and the sky is your

blanket, which is pretty cool. I would say one in every 500 people -

sometimes they look like they will catch something off us or something.

I became homeless first when I was about 16.

That was back home in Ireland. Then I met a guy, came to England with

him. Had kids. Things went sour with him. The kids got taken into care

and I have been homeless ever since. OK. I am kind of the oldest woman

that's sleeping rough at the moment around Westminster. So everybody

knows me. If they don't, it will not be long until they know me. I help

all the young people coming out on the streets and they know absolutely

nothing on how to survive, where to go to get their clothes washed.

Where to go to get something choo cheap to eat. Things like this are

really important when you are homeless. If you spent 48 hours in

my shoes and see how it is and then come and tell me.

I changed my name to Ian to Race Calmer by deed poll. I moved to

London last year. I have been on the streets since. When I first came

here I came off the coach and I literally got lost everywhere. I

must have walked about 30 miles. Through that I have got used to

London. I come alive with people here. Smile. Oh, it's such a perfect

day... Morning. Awe issome. I generally try to make -- awesome. I

generally try to make people happy. Smile because you are you and you

are awesome. The difference between people today, they give me coffee, a

muffin and a few pound, which is quite nice. I have never begged.

They always seem to give me money. If you have nothing, and you start

off with nothing, you appreciate it more. It must be me eyes.

Last March I was out on the streets and I've been out here ever since. I

sit on Haymarket, begging there, generally day-to-day. I find it

better there on my own than in a crowd of people. It is a dull,

lonely day here sometimes. Reading helps you get through the day a lot

quicker. Have you got any family? A

three-year-old daughter. I get to see her, thanks to my ex-partner,

who is willing to let her be part of my life. I like to see her. I like

to get off the streets. I am an electrician. A lovely job. I love

being in that job. Being out here all day I don't know what to do. The

majority of people, when they walk past me don't acknowledge me. They

try and take a big step out of the way to get away from you, like they

are catch something from you. They have a view of you. You get the one

person who stops and takes the time out of the day to ask you how you

are and that makes everything different - everything better. We

are all human, at the end of the day. I don't think I will be here

that long now. I think a few more months and if nothing else occurs I

will move on. If something extraordinary were to happen,

work-wise or maybe a girlfriend... I have idea what the future holds. I

know my five children are in care and when they are old enough I want

them to come and see me. I want to be able to tell them the truth of

what happened. And thank you to Race, Tristan and

Tina. Now The One Show will not be on

tomorrow because Sport Relief will start at 7pm here on BBC One. While

Alex has enjoyed being back on dry land after your sailing challenge,

there is one man who has had enough of dry land by now. There is Eddie

Izzard standing by in South Africa, ready to chat to us. First here is

our recap of his challenge so far. There is a second for every marathon

he's run. And we can have a quick chat with

him now. A huge congratulations to you. We understand you have run your

him now. A huge congratulations to special one, isn't it? Yes. It was

on Robben Island. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there of the time he was

in prison on Robben Island. It is quite a bleak island. Wildlife has

now taken it over and it is a museum. I think the wildlife has

been there all the time. I was allowed into his cell. It is very

small. He had to sleep on a few mats on the concrete. So I ran my entire

marathon around Robben Island. I planned for a long time to do that -

a salute to the great man. When anyone goes for a run there is the

voice that tells them to keep going and the loud voice telling you to

stop. What is your secret in kind of overriding that voice that's telling

you to stop? How do you keep going? There's grim determination, is one

thing. You can bring a camera team with you that films everything and

it is so embarrassing to with you that films everything and

you keep going. That is the second thing. So, I use a combination of

those two things. I tell you what, Eddie, you've done

tremendous work. We would love to give you the total you have raised

so far. It's an enormous ?503,557.

You are way over half a million. Thank you very much. We want to get

that figure as high as we can. To support Eddie and donate ?5, text

RUn to 7005. Texts will cost ?5 plus your standard network message

charge. 100% will go to Sport Relief.

You must be 16 or over. Ask the bill payer's permission. For more

information go to bbc.co. Uk/sportrelief. And you can sign up

to the Sport Relief Games, which will happen across the country on

Sunday. Good luck, Eddie. We talk to you again on Sunday afternoon during

the Sport Relief sport mile. The news today that Paul Daniels has

died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour will sadden many

millions who watched him fill our screens with magic each week. Here

is our tribute to the man who was the greatest magician the country

has ever produced. You will like this.

# Going to like this # Not a lot, not a lot.

I became well known for you'll like it, not a lot, but you'll like it.

It came about in a nightclub. Somebody heckled me. It grew and

just stayed with me. And he got the ball and if on other

hand the ball and the cup together. You are not following this, are you?

I was very, very shy. I justed to read books all the time. There was a

book on Victorian magic. I read it and then I discovered something. You

can go to a party and say to somebody, have you seen this trick?

They will say to you, even if you have done it averagely well, they

will say to you, how do you do that? And you grow a little. You know.

Don't grow far. It came out of that one. You would

have thought it would have come out of that one!

Watch the ball... One, two... Is there: Maybe something is wrong with

the chair! A nice round of applause for Debbie McGee. She has been my

real rock. The songs are corny, aren't they? The wind beneath my

wings. I am telling you, she really is. She's been there for me all the

time. A fantastic woman. Watch the box... One, two... Right,

what is your name? The BBC phoned my primary school. I said, yes, all

right. My mum put me in my best dress and we went to the Television

Centre. Is there a hole in that ring? Yes.

I still to this day, I don't know why I said there's a hole in the

middle. Where's the hole? I have not seen it

I think in 15 years. And you pull them apart with confidence. You did

it! He is so good.

To do all of that so gently and keep me on side and do the trick, I

think, well he was a genius. I don't believe in camera trickery. I

promised you a camera trick. This is a trick with a camera.

Three, two, one... I thought it is time to take ahold

of magic, move it to now, today. The king then was Bruce. The credit card

you found inside that envelope, inside that envelope, which was up

in a balloon and came down on a parachute is yours. So I copied

Brucy really. His attack and I used it in magic.

Go back to your seat! Just a minute... !

I have got to go now. I am not afraid of death at all. I

am so like my father. He didn't want to die because he wanted to know

what was going to happen next. And you know, technically, with the

world. Of they will probably one day put me

in my box and... Make you disappear. No, I'll escape!

LAUGHTER And our thoughts go out to Debbie

and the family. When I was little I always wanted to be Debbie McGee.

Thank you to Bill for joining us today. Think Tank starts on Monday,

2.15pm on BBC One. Tomorrow we will make way for Sport Relief. We will

be back on Monday with David Harewood. See you then. Good night.

Bye.