17/06/2011 The One Show

Hi! Hello, friends, thank you for tuning into the One Show with Alex

Jones. And Chris Evans. We are going mad for the dance. Our guest

is the daddy of rock and roll. beer has felt stadiums were

screaming women and set Las Vegas tonight. He has drunk whisky into

the night with Frank Sinatra, I am not jealous! Can you keep up with

the Jones tonight? Let's have a go, How are you, Tom? Good to see you

again! Lovely to see you. Have a seat. OK! I have been telling Alex

this story all day. I don't believe him. He tells me that you carry a

humidity meter with you wherever you go. Yes. He is not lying? Why?

You have got to be... You have got to be moist in the throat. That is

one thing I learned a long time ago. The first time I lost my voice one-

iron was in Germany in 1967. -- when I was. I could not understand

it, I did not know why. So I saw and here, nose and throat

specialist, and he said, you are not used to dry whether, because

you are from Great Britain. It is always moist. Very much so tonight.

I had never thought about it. So he said, in Berlin, in winter, it

drops to about 6%. Singers need at least 60% humidity to function

correctly. So we told me about humidifiers, so I still carry them.

Not exactly the same one, but the same kind as he said to get, they

are made in Switzerland. And he told me about getting yourself a

metre. You go into a room and measure how humid it is. Yes, it is

like a little clock. You just put it on the sideboard of either side

of the bed, and it will tell you. Perfection for me is 70% humidity

and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. 70 and 70, and that is perfect. And if it

is not, you get your humidify out? Yes, if it is below that, I put the

human a fire on. Is it nice in here? Yes, it feels lovely! How is

it for you? Lovely! Do you have a spare one, Tom? Do they do them in

pain? We will move on! Stay tuned, Tom is a top man. Also tonight,

James Martin is here. He is dishing up some favourites for Father's Day.

Plus Angela Rippon will be bigging up Rippon's Britain. And we are

looking for brand new dance. If you are qualified for Father's Day for

the first time this year, send us a picture. The Mall as. We are

setting the bar high with his absolute belter. Jamie is that dad,

Bruce is the baby from Penarth. Penarth in Cardiff. Yeah. 50 years

ago, John F Kennedy made his historic speech promising that

America would reach the moon by the end of the 1960s, and he was right,

they did. But he will lead the next Space industry analysts have

recently ranked the top five nations most likely to get us back

to the moon. The United States. It may surprise you, but it does

not surprise me. As a proud Manx resident, I know we're the up for

front of innovation. During the Second World War, radar was

developed at 3G telephones were developed here, so it is no

surprise that we are a big player. Nestled among the islanders are 20

companies working in the space industry. Space tourism, or that of

filing, optics for spacecraft, International Space University, an

amazing collection. Is it just tax breaks? It is wider than that.

There are grants of up to 40% available. The government helps to

market the industry, it is a package. This company is the real

deal. They have already had great success with incredibly smooth

lenses for the Mars lander trip which helped the roving robot

capture stunning images of snowstorms on the red planet.

are used for four very precise metrology to evaluate what is going

on in the planet's atmosphere. If you look at this, it is made up of

four prisons. They are being held together not by magical white bloom

but surely by molecular force. -- By Magic or glue. I am on my way to

meet a real-life space man with big plans. He is a bona fide hero of

the Russian Federation and a cosmonaut. Welcome to the Isle of

Man! He has been around the earth 150 times. We are heading out into

the countryside, where he is going to show me something special.

in, welcome to the space station It is a real space station, and we

are planning to launch it. You plan to turn this into a space hotel?

might not exactly be a hotel, it is a living room, a working place, an

apartment. We are planning for six people to stay one month. Is it big

enough? It is not big enough on the planet, but in zero-gravity you

have the opportunity to fly everywhere. You can sleep there, up

here, on the roof! The space station is being stored at the

company's HQ while research continues, but the future of monde

site is likely to be in Russia. -- the launch. We are planning to

start space tourism in 2014. have lived in space, what is it

like to look down on the earth? is amazing. It is not possible to

say in a couple of words. You understand when you are. So this

really is a giant leap for mankind. -- Manx kind.

Very clever! We are welcoming a real space scientists and

government adviser, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. We were talking

about your name earlier, it is Welsh but you are Caribbean.

Nigerian. Does it mean bird? Tom will know that. Do you have any

Welsh in you at all? Not as far as I know. It is a Nigerian bird as

well, that must be what it is. seriously do you take what they are

doing in the Isle of Man? They are really going for it, getting new

equipment. They are going for the X Prize, so I think in future it

should be very exciting. The most famous one is the Virgin One.

Virgin Galactic. But there is space tourism all over the place. People

see it as the next step. Lots of people want to get out into space,

I am one of them. You are desperate! You want to go beyond,

you are like Buzz Lightyear. I want to go to Mars. She wants to go

straight to Mars! Why is that your dream destination? Well, I am a

space scientist, so I ran into a sort of thing, and to have a whole

planets to explore, you could potentially live on Mars. It has an

atmosphere and it has water. You could potentially grow plants and

live on Mars. That is my retirement plan. But we are being dealt out as

human beings, aren't we? The focus is on robotics, and we spend a lot

in the UK. We contribute about �7.5 billion to the UK economy. It is

growing very rapidly. It is recession-proof, because it is an

up and coming thing. The emphasis is on robots because getting humans

into space is dangerous and expensive. You have to protect them

and feed them. It is nasty and Ben. You can pay to be a space traveller.

Oh, yes. If you want to spend a week on the International Space

Station, that costs $20 million. What you get for $20 million?!

Dehydrated food! Our people paid to do that? A number of people have.

Are you interested, Tom? You have got to have quite a bit of money.

Do you fancy it, Tom? No! I'm frightened I would not get back.

think you go as a group, don't you? You can still get lost in a groove!

It has happened before. There are short of flights you can take,

which probably lasts about three hours. You go some or all. If you

go above 100 kilometres, that makes you an astronaut, and you are

weightless for about five minutes, then you come back down to earth.

Over the last couple of days, it has been good for space spectating,

if you like. We have at the lunar eclipse and then we had the space

station going over after midnight, a very good view of that. What

other highlights? There is plenty to say, but unfortunately not

tonight. I can barely see you, to be honest. There are lots of

planets, Jupiter, Saturn. Just before sunset, you can see been as

beautifully. Also, coming up in a couple of months there is a meteor

shower. That is lots of shooting stars in a nice guy. Glass of wine,

beautiful. You see them anyway, don't you? I see that most nights.

Thank you for being on the show. You can see those with the naked

eye, apparently. Take That are on tour and will enclose to 2 million

women around the country as we speak. If you do not believe us, we

sent Paraic O'Brien down to Cardiff to take a look, and he just about

made it back in one piece. Welcome to Cardiff, and the feeling here is

of the world's biggest hen party On a scale of 1 to 10, how drunk I

going to get tonight? 10! 25? Is that a two pints plus you have

got? What is the atmosphere like? You are a fan, I gather. I love

them, Gary in particular. What kind of night are you expecting? Lots of

fun, a great show, lots of 40-year- old women. Hello! I love you, Chris

Evans! Well, Paraic O'Brien has not been the same since, but he did

tell us... Tom, you have been there and done that, you are still doing

that, and you are friends with Robbie, he is in LA. Yes, we live

in LA, he lives just up the street from the. Do you hang? I have not

seen him for a while. I like, I have been power walking, because I

had to lose some weight. I put on a lot of weight over Christmas.

put on two stone over Christmas! That is what you told me. Yes, I

couldn't believe it. I thought, this has got to come off. I started

power walking, because where we live, Robbie and myself, there is

three hills on this estate. So I was out power walking, and Robbie

was running with his dog. So he said, what? I said, I am losing

some weight. He said, me too, so we have both been trying to lose

weight. He is younger than me, he was running, I was walking. You are

still looking good, my friend. Did you leave the vanguard of Brits in

Los Angeles? He went out there before it was de rigueur? I went

out there in 1976. Was it a brave thing to do? Financially, because

the Labour government got in at the time, and Harold Wilson, so my

accountant said, if you want to keep any of the money you have made

this year, do not come back to Britain. I was doing this American

tour in 1974, and he said, if you step forward there, they will take

its, 84% on earnings, and 98% on Was there an exodus of British

stars? Yes. My manager came with me, Gordon Mills, and Engelbert

Humperdinck, because we were friends then. Andrew Rod Stewart. I

think Elton John was the only one that did not. You are aware that

Harold Wilson is no longer in power and you can come back now? Yes. 10

years I was away. Well, a little bird says that your wife would like

to come back and spend more time here. Yes. Would you be looking for

a flat? It is up to her. There would be ideal, to get a flat in

London and keep the house in LA. sister is selling quite a damp flat

in Cardiff. I have done that one. You are doing a lot of outdoor gigs

this summer, and he kicked off the Isle of Wight Festival last week.

How was that? Great, I loved it. You followed Van Morrison. That was

in Glastonbury in 1992. I am just 19 years out with that! What are

you looking forward to? As long as I am on stage and there are people,

it can be indoors, outdoors. T In The Park is going to be quite a big

one. I have my own sound and lighting and everything, so it is a

self-contained, and then it is up to the audience. Without them, it

is not worth showing up. And you start the rest of your tour

tomorrow. Haydock, Merseyside. And you are going to Europe. Where are

you going, Poland? Scandinavia, we are going. France and Spain. So,

yeah, there are a lot of festivals. One of the things we like to do is

to take stars back to where they were born, and we are going to do

that now. Tonight, it is the turn of 60s wild child Marianne

Faithfull, who returns to a house she always felt was too small for

her. I am Marianne Faithfull and I am

going back to Millman Road, which IMF 47 years ago when I was 17. --

which I left 47 years ago. I was lucky to come here. Even to go to

the little school over the road was a great experience but it is a long

time ago now, and now I am going back in and I feel very odd about

God! It is very, very small. So this was really the playroom for me

and my friends. And we played records, and I was very happy, very,

very happy in this house, but it's My parents'' marriage was not a

success. And my father bought this little house for my mother and me

to live then. -- to live in. It was tricky. They did not like each

other. I think my father put her here to his humiliate her. This was

the meanest, smallest house he could find. It was in Reading

because Reading was near the community started in Oxfordshire,

which was called Braziers Park. That was where I had lived until we

moved here. And this was my first experience of a close little house,

a Home relationship with my mother. No, it is very different. We used

to have a lawn and little flower beds. She used to send me out to

comb the flowers. I remember it was one of the first pointless things

she asked me to do. I was always dying to play in the allotments but

I wasn't allowed to. When I was about seven, I invited a little

playmate round to my house, and she went back and told my school

friends, Marianne Faithfull lived in a slum in a backstreet. I was

very hurt. I didn't think this was a slum in a backstreet. I thought

it was a lovely house. But I began to notice these kind of things as I

grew up. I wanted to be successful, wanted to be famous, wanted to do

all these things. And now when I am here, I think, what was the rush,

why? I had lots of friends. Lots of boyfriends, lots of both. I was

very beautiful, too beautiful for my own good. And I felt weird about

it. I really wasn't quite sure how to react to it. I wasn't prepared

for that devastating effect. But, hey! I was so emotionally dependent

on my mother. I was not allowed to stay out late. She had to know

where I was going, what I was doing. So I had no room for sort of

underhand things, you know. She was strict. She saw me as an extension

of herself, like a third hand. She brought me up like a dog, to obey

and to absolutely follow her, and questioning. -- without questioning.

Only when I became a teenager, I started to question. I realised we

had a very different idea of my future. She did believe that she

could control people, and this made me more and more determined. I

wanted to be in control of what I Do you ever wake up and think, I am

too beautiful? Yes, but people will just have to cope with it. So, her

relationship with her mother was a bit strange. How was your

relationship with your dad? Well, my father passed away, you know, a

long time ago. But we were very close. I could not wait to go

drinking with him, when I was a kid, because he had two brothers and

they all used to go to this club on a Sunday morning. And my cousins,

my older cousins, they all went with them. I was still a kid. So I

thought, one day I'm going to be going with them, so I couldn't wait.

Did you think there was a mystery to where they were going. What goes

on behind the smoked glass? Well, it was a manly thing, to stand

there with these fellows that could drink. The thing was, when you

first went through the doors, you thought, they just stand around and

don't talk to each other! Not in Wales, they were talking. Was your

dad a hard man, tough but fair? but he was lovely. He was a

coalminer. He was as gentle as you could become as opposed. We can

have a look at your dad, we have some lovely footage from 1964 when

# Down the road I look, and their runs Mary

Where was that in your career? was at the beginning, I think. It

might have been 66, when I had the green, green grass of home, and I

went back and all the family got together. We had pictures taken in

the House that I used to living. You earn your stripes in working

men's clubs. Were those tough gigs? Not really, not for me. Some people

thought it was, but thank God I could sing and I was Louth. You

learn that in Wales. -- I was loud. You had to, because when I started

singing in the pubs there were no microphones, so you had to project.

No microphones? Not in the pubs. None at all? No. And even if there

were, there was a big rugby player there, and he would get on the

stage and he had this big, booming voice. They had a microphone in the

local club, but he would make it his business to take it on the

stand and put it as far away from him as possible. And he would sing

my mother's eyes. We used to say, go on. By the time this feller

ended the song, we were all crying, because he sang it so well. We want

to show you a bit of film. See what you think.

# My granddaddy and me # Over the seven seas we did Romao

A couple of things, there didn't seem to be any other men on the

boat, just you. That's right. Quite right. You were very brave to go

out there in very small trunks. Was that your idea? Yes. Here is the

question. There was a point when your voice was everything and that

why you were discovered and that was why people loved you and you

became successful. There was another point when the image

overtook the voice. And then the voice won again. When did that

happen? Add that you were so relieved. It started with Kiss, the

Art of noise, when a record of that. And I was wearing a black suit, to

try to tone it down and just let the record speak for itself. And it

did. So that was the beginning of it. And was that a sigh of relief?

Yes. As you say, my image overpowered my talent. I didn't

really mean that to happen. Well, then again I shouldn't have worn

such a tight trunks! You just said it was your choice. Makoni have

myself to blame. You need the ammunition to make them tight in

the first place. This week's Foodie Friday film has a twist. Jay is not

here! He is off tasting food somewhere else. But James Martin is

here. He will be telling us why calories do not count on Father's

Day. But Jay left behind a film that will have us yearning for the

sweet taste of summer, we hope. If you take a few of these, add a

large number of these, and mix it all together with loads of water

and sugar, you get this. A long, refreshing drink that tastes of

summer. In fact, the elderflower is believed to heralds the start of

the summer, and its berries the end. The elder is a very traditional

English plant. You will find it in hedgerows, woodlands and scrubland.

It grows very easily. The name comes from a Saxon word for fire,

kindling, and it is very good for starting fires with in winter.

it have other uses? He has been used in herbal medicines and

organic gardeners use the lead to makes brave to deal with aphids.

And at this time of year we have the flowers with the beautiful

perfume. Later in the year we have the beautiful berries, which give a

distinctive flavour to any wine or pies that you put them in. Until

recently, elderflower cordial or wine may have seemed an old-

fashioned thing your aunt might have made, but this is the year of

the elderflower. It is free and easy to make, so my wife tells me.

But here in the Beaver Valley, a small family business has taken the

ancient hedgerow plant and has grown it commercially, building up

a thriving enterprise, making the cordial from an old handed down

recipe. It went out of fashion for a while. Why was that? If you went

back to the 19th century, more drink was home-made, lemonade,

ginger beer. In the 20th century, we had Coca-Cola, let's be modern.

And now there is a move back to some of the older drinks made from

real, wholesome ingredients. All of the elder flowers are hand-picked.

It is reflective. These cultivated fields are used for the organic

cordial but the ordinary stuff can be made from any elderflower that

grows along the road, and it is. People pick up on their farms, pony

paddocks, industrial estates. It is all good. Families go out picking

and then they send it up to us, and we send them cash on the nail for a

farm gate purchase. Down the lane, we found Robert, who picks flowers

in his spare time. Have you been doing this for long? About two or

three years. It was in the Grantham Journal - money does grow on trees.

Someone who never stops working throughout the artist is Phyllis,

who has been making the cordial to the original family recipe for a

quarter of a century. What is the secret to a really good elderflower

cordial? It is quite a simple recipe, there is only four

ingredients other than elderflowers. Water, citric acid, lemons and

sugar. Very simple indeed. It is the pollen that gives it the

flavour, a good fresh, clean smell when it is brought in is essential,

and a bit of tender loving care. The cordial is all very well, but

what I want to try is the alcoholic version. Tell me how hard it is to

make booms out of elderflower. is very simple. Bubbly is the

easiest of all. All you need is three of the flower heads, some

sugar, white wine vinegar and lemons. Mix them with a gallon of

water, it is delicious and refreshing. What is this? This is

elderflower wine, slightly more complicated, you need to get the

paddles off the stalks. It ferments There was something leave

wonderfully British about the aroma and the taste of elderflower, and

exploiting them is using them as something you might find at the end

of your garden or a country lane. So Father's Day, we had elderflower,

but some more of your photographs if you qualified for a Father's Day

treat for the first time ever. This is Michael and Teddy. We have got

another one here, Julian and Alexander here. The new best dad

ever, apparently. This has been taken by his six-week-old son! That

is from Morley in Leeds. Sammy is their dad,... Wrong way up! Back in

space there. James Martin is here. Calories don't count, it is all

right when James's year. You're going to deep-fry elderflowers.

a batter made out of body odour, tonic and eased. Tom's eyes have

leapt out! You can make it in 45 minutes. It smells like bread, you

get this lovely thing. It has got vodka which will literally burst as

you put the elderflowers in there. So you can have vodka chips?

could deep-fry fish, chips, whatever you want. The bard Go will

burn away. It wants to go in the fryer for a good 30 seconds or

something like that. Vic off the tree, not the one on the ground. --

fig. It is very important, if you are going to do these, be careful

when you wash them. Water and hot oil do not match. I have got a

selection of great puddings for you to try while those of brine. --

frying. There are about 80,000 calories honest. One of the

puddings is 3,000 calories per portion! Tom has been power walking.

This is white chocolate and whisky butter pudding. We have had this

before. A little bit, OK. You have got sticky toffee pudding, which is

that one. That is all right, isn't it? Sweet, isn't it? You have got

sticky toffee pudding, vanilla and raspberry pavlova, because

raspberry is in season at the moment. And to help you with this

seasonal food, this is summer pudding, it is very quick, the

recipe is on the website. You can make it with clotted cream. Inside

there is a big mass of clotted cream. Can we have a look? Can I

lean over, Mr Director? Don't lean over! How am I supposed to get to

the food?! The only one suit for himself! Oh, Tom, there are no

calories in this, pal! I can see that. These are fritters now, the

elder flowers. A good dusting of icing sugar over the top. That will

sweeten them up. Do you fancy one of those? They are quite hot.

normally charges 75 quid for that. That is a 75 quid starter! 60! Give

As one tip for could bat up. Ganz tonic does work really well.

You could use Jian, but as the batter hits the fry-up, it

evaporates. It works really well with that. You can deep-fried fish

with the same battle. What you think, Tom? Nice. Why don't you

just married James? I would, wouldn't you?! What is the

downside? Can we have a round of applause for James Martin? Bill is

on Saturday Kitchen tomorrow? have got Jodie Kidd. She is tall.

Make sure you get her in shot. Thank you for being here. Every

week, Gyles Brandreth delves into the archive for a look at

programmes from yesteryear. He has dug out another classic for the

Annes once dreamed of getting the It is 1967, and the BBC's

celebrated series Whicker's World has exclusive access to the making

of the Fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, starring the

devilishly handsome Sean Connery. And as ever, the legendary Alan For

Your eyes Only... The world's most famous hero assumes a natural

position. Darling, I give you very Sir James Bond has been shot where

it hurts most, in bed. The first ingredient in this entertaining

formula converge on London for a screen test. Bond's birds seldom

last more than 10 minutes before something frightful happens to them.

What exactly does it take to become a bombed bird? It has to be

something like a superwoman. Very sexy, I suppose. She must be tough.

Eager to surrender their cinematic war, they are still not exposed to

the real James Bond. They have to make love to his substitute. What

is a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? Cut! The women

provided for this space-age Valentino must be vetted by Lewis

Gilbert, directing this latest James Bond. We are trying to do

something different, we would like to find somebody who can act.

is a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? The man

responsible for writing those steamy lines was favoured

children's or the year-old Dahl, who could turn his pen to sterner

stuff. -- children's author. He is not a very loyal fellow. He does

not stick to one woman. Because of James Bond, Sean Connery is a

millionaire and that the best-known face in the world. How has been

James Bond affected your life? get some real head cases that come

round with the most absurd requests, like, it would be marvellous to

have tea, can we take photographs? Excuse me, there is a film to be

made, and your mission is to find a missing spacecraft indeed in a

volcano in Japan. I am sure it will be a breeze! A temperature of 100

degrees, sapping humidity and 12 hour days flat out. Certainly, it

is no picnic. At least, not always. Anybody want a custard cream?

thank you! Meanwhile, things are hotting up back at Pinewood's man-

made volcano, where the director is steering a stiff cocktail of

abseiling injures and space-age Gubbins, all set to be blown up.

You only live twice grossed $100 million at the box-office, and

Whicker's World continued to be a television blockbuster, bringing

the exotic and eccentric to our Your favourite James Bond? Sean

Connery. I was Sean Connery and elastic, then I'm Roger Moore.

was good, too, different. You sang a theme tune. I did Thunderball.

You only did one? I think Shirley Bassey was the only one who did

more than one. How did you get the call for that? What happened?

asked me to do it, because what Shirley Bassey doing gold finger,

Thunderball came right after that, so they wanted another big boys, a

male, as opposed to a female. -- Boys. They asked me to do it.

have a look, did this bring back memories? Did you go to the

premiere? Yes. How was it? It was great. I had a red Jaguar at the

time, and everyone was pulling up in black limousines. Was a date

mark to? It was a 3.8 Jaguar S-type. Mr Cool! I crashed it later. That

night?! Not that night. What were premiers like in those days? Were

they more genuine? I just went and sat in the back row of the theatre,

the cinema, and that was it, really. I do not know what they did

afterwards, but I ended up in some pub somewhere. With someone! He is

there any truth in the rumours that you were considered for a James

Bond role? So they told me, but the director said that I was too well-

known, you know, as Tom Jones. People would not take me seriously

as James Bond. No! For the James Bond role?! We heard you might be

in a film but not as James Bond. Yes, I tried the bowler hat and

everything. Would you have liked to do it? Yes! The world has missed

out, you could have been the best James Bond! We have got a treat for

you. We have got a real live James Bond girl in the audience. Can you

Welcome, Shirley Eaton, she was covered in gold by Goldfinger.

Welcome to the programme, how are you? In gold this evening as well.

A little bit. Do you know Shirley? We met just now, but I know of her,

of course. I did not recognise her without the gold paint. How did you

come to become a bond Bill? Well, I made 21 films before, and Harry

Salzmann and cut the broccoli were looking for a gorgeous blonde lady

who could act. And was vivacious and had a lovely figure! So I went

to see Harry. I did not have an audition, but all he was concerned

about was, did I mind being painted gold? It is a funny old thing.

remember that scene very well. was a seminal scene, it was one of

the most famous scenes ever. It is iconic, so I have been told. When I

am not here, that will still be around. Getting the pained off was

a nightmare, apparently. Yes, terribly difficult. Many scrubbers?

Two! Two Ladies, the hairdresser and the make-up lady came and

scrubbed me down. I bet it was quite relaxing to have that done.

Yes, it was very nice. He was a lovely French make-up man, it took

about an hour, and I was painted with his gorgeous big brush that

was very soft. It tickled, did it? Yes! Was it made of horse hair?

was the finest paintbrush you can use. It was strange, you know, I

had a little G-string on, and before Madonna I had gold cones on

my boobs. I stood there and he painted me, it was fun. Well,

you're still looking radiant and beautiful and shiny this evening!

Time now for a Father's Day special Rippon's Britain style with our

very own Ms Moneypenny. What's new, These are the Father's Day

headlines. Young man saved by his old man on the old man. New dad

wanted in reception. And father makes ultimate sacrifice and gives

Drama in the Lake District when they climb has slipped on the

mountain the Old Man of Coniston and began to slide over the edge.

22-year-old Andrew Durrant from Newcastle under Lyme e-mailed to

say that if his dad had not managed to grab him he might not have lived

to see another Father's Day. I hope he gets more than a pair of socks

this year! New dads Jamie Green was driving

his heavily pregnant wife to hospital when the baby decided that

he could not wait any longer. Jamie managed to quickly pullover the car

in front of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and a little Jamie

just popped out in reception. A breathless Jamie caught him in his

arms. Three months on, father and baby are doing well, and mum, Vicki,

as well. A little Father's Day present. Hasn't he behaved well?

Teenager Darren Stride from Scratby was so obsessed with the TV show

Dad's Army that he begged his dad to let him have his shed to

indulging his passion for World War II memorabilia. His dad obliged and

now he has three sheds, full of gas masks, ration books and uniform. He

is in the running for the share of the year prize. Well done, Darren.

Captain Mainwaring would be proud. -- the shared of the year.

Tom and Emily Edwards are cheering on their 56-year-old father, Colin,

who is running more than 600 miles on the south-west coast, despite

having a prosthetic leg. They says, like Forrest Gump, he just keeps on

going, and he is due to finish on Father's Day this Sunday by

competing in the Torbay half- marathon. Good luck, Dad. We love

you. And do you recognise this dad from the Swansea Valley, who is

going to be hoping for a big present on Sunday? He is here with

his young daughter. I wonder if she has a message for him. Happy

Father's Day, Dad. And finally, hallowed to Sergeant LEA cutting of

the Royal Logistics Corps, who has just been reunited with his two-

year-old son, Charlie, after returning from Afghanistan. Don't

they look lovely together? And a Happy Father's Day to all the dance

out there. I am Angela Rippon and That was brilliant. I looked like

Elvis when I was a baby. I suppose so! But your dad is here, and your

mum. Hello, mum, we love you, too. They queued to all of the Rippon's

Britain people. Keep your stories coming. -- thank you to all the

Rippon's Britain people. Now to the girls. It was Ladies' Day at Royal

Ascot yesterday. Never mind the racing, you could not move for

feathers, fascinators and fancy headgear. Forget Paris and Milan,

Angellica Bell has been to the spiritual home of the hat.

I am in Luton, famous for its airport, and its football club. But

its real claim to fame simply goes to my head. Luton has been

headquarters for the British hat trade for centuries, and in this

building is the oldest family manufacturer in England. Philip

Wright is the fifth generation of a business that started in 1889. His

hats have graced the most elegant special occasions in the land.

should avoid any brim that casts a shadow over the face. This would

work because it is soft. clients include royals, the rich

and famous. But what matters is not who they are, but how they look in

a hat. I am only interested in if they are going to be photographed

and filmed. That is the job. You can wear a fantastic outfit and

look good. With a hat, you're going to be remembered. Downstairs, they

are making hats for men. Grenadier Guards men. Perhaps that the

Household Guards wear, the bearskin hats, this is the inner, made out

of felt and the bare skin goes on top. Kevin, Barry and four others

are the total workforce here. A century ago, the figure was 1000.

But the new emphasis on unique designs means business is booming.

There is so much variety and hats are great because it is a dressing

up party. The streets of Luton used to be jammed with hat businesses.

Cottage industry and hat factories. Today, with fewer people wearing

hats, and overseas competition, most of them have gone. This is one

success story. The traditional manufacturing about to celebrate

its centenary as a family business. The Luton boater, still seen on the

smartest heads. They make 4000 a year for clients ranging from the

Henley Regatta crowds to Morris men, even Elton John. Today's batch is

for Harrow School. It is fair to say that Luton and straw hats have

had a relationship for centuries. Yes, records of people in straw

houses making straw hats from the early industry. By 1800, you have

children going to school each day to make Platts to supply that

industry. So the hat industry provided an incredible amount of

jobs. It did. By 1870, you had 17,000 people officially recorded.

In reality there would have been a much higher number than that.

Platt is not made here any more, it is all imported from China. But

then the boaters and all of these other hats are exported from Luton

to worldwide market. They were every day where in the early days.

At this vocal protest, even the policemen were wearing straw

helmets, made in Luton. The trade was a heritage taken for granted.

So, the question is, have the people of Luton lost touch with the

industry that put their town on the map? We have come to this shopping

centre to show them what they are missing. Did you know that Luton

was famous for its hat trade? Wow! I want to wear it. You would

wear that Ascot? Yes, absolutely. Highlighted. Do you feel glamorous?

I do, except for the jogging bottoms. I like it. Do you like it?

Yes, it is cool. I personally would not wear it. Why? There are eight

manufacturers still busy in Luton, turning out tens of thousands of

hats, so it is certainly a living claim to fame. But the casual

visitor might never know that because there is not one hat shop

to be found. I have found a stall full of hats and caps, very

cheerful but definitely not made here. This message might come from

the heart of Luton, the home of the hat, but the head gear itself comes

from China. Gertrude Shilling was one of

Britain's most stylish wearers of hats, earning the nickname the

Ascot Mascot. They were mostly design by her son, David, who is

here. People thought your mum designed them, but it was you.

started when I was 12, so I have been shocking people with my hats

for a long time. This is your mother at Ascot. That is quite some

hat. You have to be an architect and a flower arranger at the same

time to do my job. It is like a coral reef! What else? Their Shias,

outside Ascot, and you in the background. With more hair, when I

was younger. I started when I was 12 and that was the 70s. You did

not train as a milliner. I never went to art college and my parents

were horrified that I wanted to design at all. Look how caul you

look. I think you look better than your mum. She looks wonderful.

has a very small hat. That is actually a jacket. She was famous

for these huge hats, so I wanted surprise people with a tiny one.

But the caller is enormous. I am wearing a full-length mink coat.

The audience are glued to this item. We have some collectors items here.

The further one in the middle, there is a similar one in the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, and most of my work is collected and

ends up in museums, which I never intended. It is extraordinary. But

at the time I started, no British designer was even thought of and

respected internationally. When booming Dales bought my first

collection, it was a breakthrough for British fashion. Similarly, to

have a hat in the Louvre museum, they showed one between 2008-2010,

in a mammoth exhibition of design. That was unheard of for a British

designer to be in a French museum of art. Thank you. From hat

designers to the people who design fantasy worlds. Marty Jopson has

the story of a man who was determined to bring his futuristic

The death ray, a terrifying beam of light. From Archimedes to HG Wells,

it was once the stuff of legend. But in the 1920s, it stopped being

science fiction. The prospect of a real death race seemed

frighteningly close. Harry Grindle Matthews was an inventor from

Gloucestershire, renowned for dreaming up futuristic prototype,

including an early mobile phone, which he demonstrated at Buckingham

Palace. But his most infamous invention was a beam of light, said

to be capable of knocking enemy aeroplanes out of the sky. The

press called it his death ray. This remarkable footage has never been

seen on television before. It shows Matthews testing his death ray,

which he claimed could kill rats, detonate gunpowder and stop an

engine, all from 60 feet away. After the stalemate of World War

One, the press hoped that this sensational new weapon would give

Britain the edge. So, on 26th May, 1924, a delegation of academics,

people from the military and scientists all came to his

laboratory to see his death ray. That is right, yes. So, here it is.

This is my death ray, and it is pointing over there at that petrol

motor that we're going to knock out. Of course, this is just a mock up

of the experiment. And never thought a wastepaper basket could

look so sinister. So what have we made? At the bottom would have been

the electrical generator. In here, you have a source of ultraviolet

light. You get to be him. So I get to fire it. This fits. Three, two,

one. Fire. And it goes off, brilliant! The generals on that day

witnessed that. We are taking it but he insisted his result was

genera -- genuine, the theory that ultraviolet light could ionised the

air, creating a path of charged particles capable of conducting

electricity. But the War Office suspected he used a hidden table.

The military asked him to move the engine, didn't they? Yes, but he

said he was not going to move it. That would have made him look a bit

dodgy. Yes. Was he faking it? don't think so. It was new

technology and he had spent weeks getting the ultraviolet light

focused precisely onto this running engine, so any movement would have

undermined the demonstration. hype surrounding Matthews rocketed

with the release of a film suggesting that a huge death rate

could annihilate an entire city. But to the dismay of the public,

the War Office rejected it. I have come to Cardiff University to see

if they made the right decision. Richard, do you think it is

theoretically possible that Grindle Matthews' Death Ray could have

worked? Certainly, in principle it is possible to demonstrate. Here we

have a high voltage generator. We can show the air being ionised,

electrical current passing through the air. That aspect of the

experiment is possible. Excellent! You did not warn me about that! Yes,

I see your point. It is perfectly possible to create a big fat spark

of ionised air. Is it possible to ionised air with like? Because that

is the key to Grindle Matthews' machine. Absolutely, I will show

you. Fire a laser. There you go. That pinprick is ionised air, being

ionised by a laser somewhere. is right. For the machine to work,

it would have to go from the death ray all the way up to the aeroplane.

Absolutely, a long way, a heck of a lot of power. For about five litres

of air, you would need 1.4 million lasers of this size. To reach an

aeroplane, you would need a laser the size of a small town. The

notion of using light as a weapon was overtaken by other innovations

and the death ray never became a reality. Matthews died in 1941. His

insistence on secrecy means we will never know whether he was a master

show man or a visionary genius. Proper Boy's Own stuff. Father's

Day on Sunday. Earlier we asked for pictures of fathers who will be

fathers for the first time on this Father's Day. You have got one.

This was sent in from Northern Their hair and big beard and the

hair of the baby are coming together. This is a beautiful one,

sent in by Sally Williams. This is her husband and daughter. Finally,

we have had loads, so thank you for all of them. This was sent in by

Jenny. Good luck to Rory McIlroy, 10 shots ahead in the US Open