18/10/2013 The One Show

MUSIC: Drumbeat to "We Will Rock You" by Queen. Welcome to The One

Show! No more singing! Pretty good, though. Paul was excellent. More

from Paul Youngs later. Let's welcome a more legendary drummer,

Roger Taylor! APPLAUSE

Good evening, sir. I have not seen you for ages.

Welcome to the show. It is nice to be here. There are no drums in We

Will Rock You, are there? It is ironic. It is actually feet and

hands, and there is only one instrument on the whole record. That

is Brian's guitar. Apart from that, it is feet. You leaders, Roger.

Roger, this morning you on the radio, and I asked you about the

Queen movie, and I asked you who you had in mind. You said you did not

know. Our researcher told us you know who it is. You did not tell me!

I am not supposed to say. Go on, tell us. We are hoping for a guy

with the initials B W. OK, get your thinking caps on. More from Roger

later on. We have a film about little owls. They are treating

selfies. She has gone crazy! You get one rock star and she loses it! A

selfie is as follows... Thank you for confirming that. Those little

owls did have some help as did Chris's dog, with her selfie. We

want you to help your pets take a selfie. E-mail them to the usual

address. We will show you the best ones later is -- later. One of the

big news stories this week with the new appeal by The Met police into

the disappearance of Madeleine McCann six years ago. As please

through the many responses in the hope of a newly, we went to speak to

the families of other missing people for whom the trail has gone cold.

Every day and every night, I am constantly looking. I thought he

might come up here and sleep here. There are little benches here. There

are some toilets here. He is hardly going to be here now, is he? He

obviously does not want to be found. I am Hannah and my dad has been

missing since October ten. It is now Day eight and tomorrow will be day

nine. We think you might be local but then we think he might be in

Hampshire or even in Scotland. Anywhere. I come here and shout his

name. There is nothing. Every time I see someone, I think maybe they had

seen him. I'm sorry, I just saw that man there and every time I see

someone... We expected him to turn up there then it got darker and

colder and we worried. He felt a failure as a husband and a father.

We want to know he is said and OK. I know he would not leave me. He would

not leave me, he has just lost the plot. He went missing at Christmas.

I bought him a dressing down and I have unwrapped it and I wear it. I

don't buy gifts, I leave them on the tree, wrapped up, at Christmas. My

son Alex went missing. Five years and nine weeks. It was his birthday

coming up and he would have been 17 years old. He did not come home. For

the first three years, I would always ask for Alex. Then it went

quiet and I thought people had forgotten and nobody cared any more.

Old news, it is dead and buried. You want people to start asking me

again. My dreams were so real that I was hiding Alex. It was frightening

because it was so real, I could feel him. When I woke up, it was a

nightmare. His room is now my office. His clothes are still here.

It was horrible coming in here. It had to be done. I would love to

think that Alex is still out there and living his life, and he is

happy. I keep on thinking that he is in Los Angeles with his wife and

children. Why do you think that? I do not know.

Of course, let's hope there is a lead for the families soon. They are

just two of the 250,000 people that go missing in the UK each year. Most

of them do come home, of course. If you have any information about any

missing people, please contact the helpline. The details are on the

website. Roger Taylor is a! APPLAUSE

. Here in years. But here he is. Roger wrote all of these following

songs. APPLAUSE

You wrote all those songs. Yes, I did. When you wrote with

Freddie, what would be the ideal environment for you to write? Paint

a picture for us. We would snatch ideas out of the air. One person

would have an idea and then we would grab it and throw it around and work

on it. Where would you do it? In a studio. We never got there until 4pm

in the afternoon! That was early! Was there a prime time, a witching

hour? Yes, a couple of hours after dinner, towards midnight. I love

that so much. Bearing that in mind, Roger, can you tell me what is

happening in this picture? Is this a writing session? No, it was halfway

through a show in Mexico City, and it was a harrowing, dangerous show

with a lot of people who were crazy and had had a lot to drink. How

crazy did it get in Queen? It was fairly mad at times. There was the

boredom of being on the road. Lots of viewers would have seen Queen

live over the years, but which Giggs stands out for you? I suppose live

aid was a good show. That was a great day all round. The weather,

the whole thing, the music was doing something great in the world,

actually making a positive difference somewhere. The last gig

ever was at Knebworth, and is I remember that being good. The Queen

Extravaganza, which is this fantastic tribute band, you scoured

the Earth online looking for a lead vocalist. The question to the view

is is, how good can an online audition big question mark watch

this. Did anybody else come close? It was a foregone conclusion,

really. That guy is called Marc Martel, and that was his audition

that he sent in. He got 8.5 million hits on YouTube. He is just

extraordinary. It is uncanny, you close your eyes and you think

Freddie is singing in the room. He was in the band! We have a great

band, actually. I just wanted them to play our music brilliantly, not

to pretend to look like ass. A brand-new band? Brand-new. -- to

look like us. We have a bit of footage of them in action. Look at

this by the way. APPLAUSE

. Everybody will be wondering whether you can buy tickets to see

that? Absolutely. They are about to do a 15 day tour of England and

Scotland. They start in Bournemouth on the 27th, I think. You teased us

with what Queen got up to on the road, but did your rock 'n' roll

days ever stretch as far as this? This is the legendary Iceland party

platter. Oh, yes! It looks like a party to me! It's a brand-new

documentary about the frozen food retailer. Meet Malcolm Walker, chief

executive of Iceland supermarkets. How would you describe yourself as a

businessman? Cowboy! Smile, please. It is a place where the boss takes

his staff on luxury holidays. I always believe that having fun is a

big part of why we are so successful. There has been a

complaint about a ready meal. Obviously, not having enough chicken

in there is an issue so we will take a look at that. There has been a

Trading Standards complaint about there not being any chicken in

there. We can see there is chicken. Should we compare it to this one?

There is a lot of chicken there. These people are passionate enough

to take the time and write to us about something. Malcolm will be

surprising six stores up and down the country with a briefcase of

?10,000 in cash. He will be travelling from west to east, south

to north, to cover all of his empire. First stop, south Wales.

Port Talbot. The Port Talbot team will share the

money, taking home between ?200 and ?700 each. Despite the buoyant

Christmas results, and unexpected announcement is about to change the

New Year for Malcolm. Responsibility for finding out how horse DNA was

found in their beefburgers has fallen to this technical manager. It

was a very big shock for me, because horse is not included as an

ingredient in any of our burgers. I took a call from the supplier, who

said, the test results had illustrated that it was an

ingredient supplier of theirs from a Dutch firm which has been proven to

be the source of the equine DNA. I am not saying we used force, but I

am saying we used that supplier. There is a difference. Joining us

now, the star of the show, the man who brought us the King Prawn

Rings, Malcolm Walker, the chief executive of Iceland. We were

gripped by this we saw the first of these, we were almost late for

rehearsals, and yes, we do rehearse, by the way. But you were not happy

with the first edit of the show, why not? I was hoping it would encourage

you to leave Waitrose and shop with us, which was the idea of it. That

is not the BBC's idea of when they were making the film, they said, if

it is 50% good, and 50% bad, that is how we will have to show it. I said,

OK, but if it is 90% good, you have to show that as well, and not

Auchtermuchty or it. It was really bizarre that after the first hour,

the horse meat scandal broke, in the middle of making this

documentary... That was not planned. You could not make it up.

Is it true that you described the whole horse meat scandal as a storm

in a teacup, and do you believe that? Yes, it was a joke, the whole

thing. Apparently, horse meat has been in the UK food chain for 15

years, and the Government has known about it for two years, but nobody

told us. The supermarket gets the blame, because we are visible on the

high street. They said, why did you not test for it? We said, why would

we, if nobody thought it might be there in the first place. And no

horse meat was ever found in an Iceland product. You floated on the

stock market in the 1980s for hundreds of millions of pounds, you

bought it back for ?1.5 billion, having started it off many years ago

for just a few quid. What do you see on the horizon? Well, we have just

one online, which is going better than I ever imagined, and we are now

going overseas, opening stores in the Czech Republic, supplying frozen

food to South Africa, and, would you believe, Saudi Arabia. Next big

product, last Christmas, we have the King Prawn Rings, so what is this

Christmas? You can never tell. You better had, it is just around the

corner. You said the next product, well, we have got three bird

roasts, variations on that, venison rings... You love your rings, don't

you? Iceland Foods: Life In The Freezer Cabinet starts on Monday, on

BBC Two, at nine o'clock, and it is gripping. It is a good job our

resident food snob, Jay Rayner, is not here. He is just cunning to

terms with his recent assignment to examine a popular meat substitute. I

have to be honest, I am not a big fan of vegetarian meat free

proteins, I never have been. Whenever I expressed this opinion, I

get met with howls of derision, accusing me of being a bigoted

carnival. So here I am at this factory in North Yorkshire, the

biggest supplier of vegetarian meat substitutes in the UK. What exactly

is quorn? It is a member of the fungus family. It started off from

vegetarians, and their need for protein, but now, more of our

consumers are actually non-vegetarians. Why would people

want to eat a product which is not meat but tastes like it? You can eat

meals you are familiar with, but take out the saturated fats and the

meat, making it easier, as opposed to eating a completely different

dish. This year, the quorn factory will produce more than 20,000 tonnes

of the stuff. It is a process of fermentation, similar to producing

beer. It is a bit like making your home-brew. We put a raw Quorn in,

which grows for about five days. We have got the liquid out, and won the

raw Quorn, which has got the same texture as bread dough, it has got

that feel to it. This mess does not look appetising, but after it is

cooked with egg whites, yeast and flavourings, it is on to the

process. Freezing is essential for creating the meat texture and

character that we want. You might be converting me. Time to put it to the

test. At this pub in west London, the chef is making me three versions

of his trademark chilli con carne, one with beef, one with pork and one

with Quorn. But how many customers will be able to spot which is which?

This one, it just tasted generally strange, compared with the other

two. I am going for this one as the substitute. Are you really? Yes. I

am genuinely baffled, but if I had to guess, I would say this one is

the substitute. You think that one? You think that is a meat

substitute? This is the substitute. But it there. Our little test has

not been exhaustive, but almost three quarters of the people we

asked today could not identify the meat substitute. But there is no

doubt that the quality of vegetarian meat substitutes really has

improved. If it is a choice between the cheap processed meat and these

vegetarian alternatives, I am really not surprised that some meat eaters

are going for this stuff. You have had it, and you cannot tell the

difference? I honestly think it is lovely, spaghetti Bolognese, chilli

con carne. Thumbs up. You are about to release your fifth solo album,

and it is called Fun On Earth, which is a pretty big promise. Yes, but I

had one an awful long time ago called Fun In Space, so I thought I

would come back down to earth. It has got all sorts of stuff on it, it

is eclectic, it is a labour of love. It took five years to write,

didn't it? About that, yes. How does that affect the narrative of the

album, if it takes so long? I guess that is part of the reason why there

is so much different stuff on it, you go through different moods, your

taste changes a little bit. You get a good summer, and what happens

next? Sunny Day comes out! Right on cue, for heaven 's sake!

# So, for your disguise... # So beautiful...

It is an absolutely lovely song, so nice, but some people, and if you do

close your eyes, it does sound quite similar to Rod Stewart, doesn't it?

I guess so, certainly not intentional. I have known him for

many years. I have never tried to sound like him. I guess it is a

certain sound in the voice. Probably due to all sorts of... Often, sons

seek approval from their dad, so are you seeking approval from your son

on this occasion? Yes, I bounce stuff off from my children, one of

whom is here. I am really interested in what they think. Do they think,

this poor old sod, still doing it? But my daughter is over there, and I

know that she has got her own particular taste. There she is. Now,

if you are sick of seeing Ri Ri's, Cara D's and all of those other

celebrities, with their selfies, or if you have no idea what a selfie

is, have a watch of this next film. In this day and age, if celebrities

are not being photographed by others, they are busy taking

pictures of themselves and posting them online. Which got me thinking,

could a real tweeter snap a photo of himself and then post it on the

internet which are not an easy task. But at this old airfield in Essex,

there is a family of little owls who might have what it takes. Russell is

a car mechanic, who works here. He is also a keen wildlife

photographer. An aerodrome housing high-performance cars is not the

first place I would expect to find a wildlife enthusiast. We have got the

habitat, untouched for 90 years, each is why we have got the owls.

And particularly, you like owls? I do, I can spend up to 40 hours a

week doing it, photographing them. This was our first view -- their

first view of the outside world, as it were. This was shortly

afterwards, as they all popped outside together. That is the beauty

of the little owl, they are really great characters. The young little

owls will be leaving to find their own territory very soon, but before

they do, we are setting them a photographic challenge. Russell's

camera will be attached to a mechanism so that they can

photograph themselves. It will begin acted to the internet by 3G, and

automatic software will enable it all to happen. Here we go.

automatic software will enable it all to happen. Here we It is working

perfectly. I get the feeling the little owl will be slightly more

attractive. All we need now is some little owls. It is seven in the

morning, and we are encouraging them to come onto the pressure pad with

some tasty worms, but they cannot just feed, they must actually stand

on the pad to get the shot. Which way do you think they will approach

from? Some of them fly back to the original nest site, on the roof.

Others come straight from the trees, on top of that rock, flying directly

down from there. It is not long before our camera attracts some

attention. Our first visitor is not a little owl, it is a pheasant, with

a knife or the worms. While that is around, the little owls will stay

away. Luckily, he does not stay too long, and we soon get our first bit

of owl activity. There is one, just coming in. There you go. At that.

Here he comes. Oh, Russell, this is amazing. Right on top of the camera.

How funny is that? That is brilliant. Look at this. Amazing!

This is the way little owls check for change, and investigate their

surroundings. -- check for danger. Luckily, this one decides we are OK

and starts getting braver. Come on, go on the pressure plate. That

way... If the little owl is going to tweak a self-portrait, it has got to

jump on the pressure pad, but it is giving us the runaround. Honestly,

Russell, it is teasing us. Not this time. Come on. We do not want to put

him off. He is now within inches here he goes. Yes! I heard the

camera shoot. Yes, it has done it, it has got it. They are such

beautiful birds. With the owls due to leave any day, this could be our

last chance, so have they done it? Added the moment of truth. I have to

say, that is a fine portrait. He is such a little poser, and you wanted

a close-up. We brought the technology to post it online. It is

a fabulous photograph to remember him by. That is a job done. Thank

you very much. Earlier, we asked for your own pet selfies. This one has a

message - it says, he cannot get the hang of it. And Sophie and Alan in

Southampton have sent this one in. This one is from Kim, and her dog.

Joey, sticking his tongue out at the selfie. And Brownie, 26 years old,

and loves posing. We thought we might have guessed the actor in the

new Queen film. Should we say it? You gave us the initials. Is it Ben

Wishaw? Well, we hope so. Roger's Albom, Fun On Earth, will be

released on November 11. And The Queen Extravaganza tour starts in

December. To see us out, our Young Drummer of the Year, Paul Youngs. It

is!