19/04/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker

Tonight we help raise the curtain on the BBC's Shakespeare

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

Matthew, I shall bring you the search for the fairest

Bottoms in all the land, and how to change these tiny sprites

into most wondrous Shakespearean prose.

Shall we hear more, or shall we move on from this?

Our guest tonight is a stand-up whose latest show hopefully

isn't a comedy of errors, it's Marcus Brigstocke!

You are getting in on the act. Welcome. He went to drama school.

Did you do any Shakespeare? I played Macbeth.

The whole thing? I did the whole thing. We did not do the other one,

it may have been abandoned, but not my forte. We heard used to go to

drama school in a suit, is that true? -- fault. When I first went to

Bristol University I wore a green checked suit with a gold waistcoat.

White collar shirt. Folded cuffs. On day one, I walked up to somebody, I

asked the weight of the... And he went, "Drama department? " Yes, I

wore that. -- I asked the way to the.

CHUCKLES Our first film tonight

is about a subject that I know Alex Whilst I know Matt will think it's

of no importance whatsoever. A staggering 93% of us on a mobile

phone. And failing to get a signal can be a real headache. You might

expect problems in the middle of nowhere, but surely not here in the

heart of the big city like Liverpool? What sort of places you

find the signal drops out? Inside shops. Shopping centres. Cannot go

on any of the apps, receive text messages, whatever. In this day and

age it is surprising, isn't it? It is when you pay so much. You cannot

even get a proper signal. When Ofcom tested coverage in five cities,

including Liverpool, it found call is connected and website downloaded

up to 98% of the time. But it seems pesky urban blackspots are a

problem. A survey of 2000 mobile phone users found 40% of them

struggled with blackspots in cities. Liverpool had the most complaints.

Paul Carter runs the wireless company that carried out the survey.

Today he and his team are testing the service provided in Liverpool by

the Duke of's big four operators, and they are using some pretty nifty

kit. -- by the UK's big four. We are dating the data packages, access to

the Internet. Controlled by this tablet so we can see how many are

successful, how many failed, how many dropped, and so on. After 60%

of the time they found they were in areas of poor or no coverage. And

the worst blackspots were found at some of Liverpool's main train

stations, its most popular tourist spots, and inside some of its

shopping centres. The signal level has got it to. The last test we just

did was very poor coverage, because it wasn't able to set up the call.

-- the signal level has completely gone. He would not expect that in a

city centre? You are relying on a transmitter from a rooftop around

here. It is probable just the location here in a dead zone. The

furthest away from any sites. There are three Wi-Fi spots in the city.

But that means the hassle of looking on. Why can't we have consistent

mobile phone coverage? We invited all of the major players O2, three,

Vodafone, and EE to comment, but they did not take us up on the

offer. They say they are investing billions to improve the network and

services. They all agree on what is needed, more city centre phone masts

to improve coverage. That is where they want more help from the

government. The operators claim their plans are often blocked by red

tape and high land rents. But the government's track record is not

great. Five years ago they trumpeted plans to boost network coverage in

real areas, but Minister for the Digital economy, Ed Vaizey, has had

to met that did not deliver. You have had one bite of the cherry with

the ?150 million project. Why will it be different in the future? It is

important government admits when things have not gone as well as they

might have done. We found difficulties in planning permission.

Some communities did not want the masts. We learned from that project.

We will see improved mobile coverage over the next two years. Are you

surprised there are still blackspots in major cities like Liverpool? I

think we have good coverage in our cities. But we can and must do more.

That is why we want to make government buildings available so

mobile operators can put their masts on cheaply to increase coverage. You

are the man people need to contact quite readily. Do you find you

sometimes don't have any mobile phone signal? On the way to this

interview I dropped a phone call. The mobile operators have promised

to halve the number of blackspots within a year, so we will be giving

them a call to see if they delivered.

We know this is a sore point for you. It drives me mad. I live near

Clapham Junction. I think it is still one of the biggest rail

intersections in Europe. Cannot get a signal. Mostly it is people

lobbying against it saying Joshua's asthma got worse when we switched to

O2. Nonsense. CHUCKLES

Even on the train. They say there is Wi-Fi on the train, but it is

basically information about your delay. I got back from Vietnam, I

wrote 500 kilometres on a motorbike through the central islands,

coverage everywhere. Because there is the willingness. In fairness they

have a common this government so they can do what they want, more or

less. Ours has to consult people on some stuff. You don't care, do you?

It means peace and quiet to me am honestly. You are one of them. Let's

not even go there. It is too long. The last time we saw you were

preparing for Edinburgh. Yes. I came onto the show to plug a show I had

not written. That is exactly what happened. I got away with it. I went

to Edinburgh and by then it was about that, because I did write it,

and it was successful. It really was. I do lots of topical stuff. I

don't know if you have noticed, but there is this referendum thing... It

has been in some of the newspapers. CHUCKLES

And there is this guy in America who is really excited. He has blonde

hair. An angry faced Boris Johnson type figure. But with a handgun.

Always lots of topical stuff in my shows. I did why the long face? In

Edinburgh. I had a great time. Audiences loved it. A short run in

Edinburgh, then a national tour in the autumn. You told us why it is

called Why The Long Face? It is because you look like Beaker. It

isn't 1 million miles apart. Adam Bloom, brilliant comedic you must

see him, he told me I had a good head for comedy. I thought you meant

intellectually. He said it is really funny, long, thin, you look like

Beaker. I have a slightly elongated face. But, also, I am a straight,

white man. Mostly straight, I like musical theatre. The world is setup

for me. Everything is easy. I am a homeowner in London. I spend my time

moaning about mobile phone coverage, people who say things like PIN

number, when it is pin. If you say PIN number, you are saying personal

identification number number. So there is something wrong with you.

Some people say personal PIN number. That is personal personal

identification number number. It is too much.

CHUCKLES The show is about a gratitude check.

My life is charmed. I am so lucky. I have two beautiful, happy, healthy

children. I have cheese, vinyl, my favourite things. I have. My life is

easy compared to the vast majority of people. Yet I complain all the

time. The show is a reality check. Then asking, why is it that we are

not often happier than we -- than when we are. It is the trivial like

PIN number, which genuinely annoys me. All the way up to the macro

stuff when the government introduces legislation which I find upsetting

like the disability cuts. How can that be! That makes me feel justly

angry. The show is looking at all of those things that wind you up, then

talking about lots of things which do exist which we should be grateful

of. And there are other things which I would talk about, but I can't,

because of the time of this programme. I have done it. It is as

shocking for me as it is for the audience.

"Why the Long Face?" is on at the Soho Theatre in London

starting next Monday and then tours the country later this year.

400 years after his death, there are still many mysteries

Answers may lie in Will's will, which suggests today he'd probably

be a buy-to-let landlord equally at home in Shakespeare's Globe

In the absence of hard facts about Shakespeare's life, films like the

1998 romantic comedy Shakespeare In Love present a classic rags to

riches tale. I have wonderful news. So do I. I am good. But that

dramatic portrayal may not be accurate. Rather than some poverty

stricken young bumpkin, it seems William Shakespeare may well have

been seriously wealthy long before he first put pen to paper. One of

the few documents we have which tells us something certain about his

life is his will. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death,

Shakespeare's will is on show at Kings College London. And this is

it. The last will and testament of William Shakespeare. This document

was first drafted in January 1616, but it was not signed until two

months later. It is only three pages long. But you can see it is covered

in addition and crossings out because he kept changing his mind

and making amendments. -- additions. This is the mark, the hand, the

writing of William Shakespeare. The will confirmed that in cash and on

he left around ?350 to friends and family. That is around half ?1

million today. For a playwright, even one of his standing, that was

serious money. -- around half a million. One expert's radical view

is that he could have been worth millions in today's money. David

Fallow is a trained lawyer and banker who spent the last 15 years

studying hundreds of documents about Shakespeare's finances. He was an

actor. Played on the stage. He obviously wrote plays. At the rate

of around two per year. He has multiple sources of this revenue

coming to him. When you add all of those up, what you come up with is a

figure of around ?60 per year. That is a in today's money. Rich, but not

super rich but the figures show he spent much more than that investing

in his own theatre company, for example. -- that is about ?100,000

in today's money. Two years later he buys his rather palatial house in

Stratford. Today, a ten bedroom house in Stratford would set you

back more than ?2 million. David believes Shakespeare was in fact

wealthy before he started writing his place. It is coming from the

family business. Accumulated family wealth. As a former financial

trader, if you saw this, and you saw these expenditures, what would you

start to think us to mark I would think this was an astute,

sophisticated businessman. -- what would you start to think? He ensured

that his daughter Judith was taking care of in his will. Despite the

fact she was about to marry a scoundrel. He is eight have an

owner. He deals in tobacco. He has got a woman with child. -- he is a

tavern owner. The woman died in childbirth. But he is the father and

he confesses this. Everything a woman owned became her husband's

property in those days, so he amended his will twice to make sure

it was watertight Judith and that no money would ever reach him. It shows

a man who is cold, detached from his family... If he was cold and

detached from his family, he would have put a line through anything to

do with Judith. The only mention of his wife is his bequest of his

second-best bed. But David does not see this as an insult. The best one

would have been for guests. So it would have been the marital bed, and

the one he dies in? Probably. There is a real deal of sentimentality

about it. His will gives us a glamour and -- his will gives us a

rare glimpse into his character. He actually ended up the most famous

playwright the world has ever seen, not just an astute businessman.

And you can find out more about researching all sorts of wills

There is also its coming up for you in Shakespeare's big 400 so we are

going to hand over to Lucy Siegle. What can people expect out there?

This weekend surrounding Shakespeare's Globe Theatre along

the Thames are screenings for each of his plays. They will feature big

names like Happy Valley's James Norton as Richard III in Westminster

Hall, Jimmy Artut and as Love's Labour's Lost, and Dominic West as

Coriolanus shot in Rome. On Saturday his birthplace of

Stratford-upon-Avon there will be the biggest ever Shakespeare

Birthday Parade. Thousands will gather to celebrate his life and if

you turn up your get a free Shakespeare mask like this one. And

some rosemary because of Ophelia in Hamlet said that's for remembrance.

And right now the Royal Shakespeare Company are on tour around the

country after a search for Britain's Best Bottoms.

RSC actors will tread the boards with specially selected local

amateur dramatic Society is in a Midsummer Night's Dream. On country

file we are doing a Shakespeare's personal on Sunday evening but what

else is on offer for people who want to watch Shakespeare on television

and have a night in? Great Shakespeare coming up on television

starting Saturday at 8:30pm with Shakespeare Live with David Tennant

presenting a night of live Shakespeare and music, including

appearances by Sir Ian McKellan and Dame Judi Dench.

Later this year we will see a lavish new version of a Midsummer Night's

Dream starring Matt Lucas, and Dame Judi Dench meat is alongside

Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the

Roses based around Shakespeare's history plays. Like one that stands

on a promontory and spies are far offshore, so do I wish for the

Crown. What discord follows. That looks good, but what about the

youngsters? I have a handy emojis to Shakespeare translator.

You go to the website and choose the emojis that best

You get the perfect Shakespeare passage back.

confusion, humiliation and fear, and you get the perfect

Shakespeare passage back - for me it's

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out.

Can I come down now please? APPLAUSE

Well done, Lucy. Thank you. Brilliant. That was good. We all

know the type, don't we? Vinyl true believers who insist record sound

better than CDs or downloads. Marcus mentioned vinyl already this evening

but can vinyl fans tell the difference or is it all just a bit

of spin? Vinyl is back. Well, actually it's

never really gone away but the resurgent in popularity of the

analogue medium has seen record sales in the UK soared to a 21 year

high. It's not just classic albums and artists driving this but current

stars such as Taylor Swift and Adel bringing the old school format to a

host of new fans. I've come to the home of vinyl in London's Berwick

Street on record store data where a new competition is being launched to

celebrate this revival. He has seen the fall of vinyl since the 1980s

and the rise. We never stopped selling vinyl, 2007, 70 5000 new

albums were sold in the UK, vinyl records, last year in the UK, 2.2

million. Would either that down to? Days like this, record store Day,

people who bought CDs and MP3s and streaming stuff but at the end of

the day the vinyl format is the classic format. Put me through the

competition? Berwick Street calling is looking for good new artists to

come to us and we will pick the best one and they will get their record

made. Vinyl enthusiast and bass player from Primal Scream is one of

the judges for the competition. If new artists are recording digitally,

what is the advantage of putting that on vinyl? Even if an artist

recordist everything digitally and releases it on vinyl, what you hear

when you put something on a turntable, you are going to get

overtones and frequencies you might not even get on a CD or an MP3. We

don't want music to become this sort of invisible transaction back

happens in the ether. Every thing being downloaded and digital, people

want to come back to it. With hundreds of record collectors here

today I want to find out if they can really tell the difference between

digital audio and old school vinyl. We will play you a song on MP3 and

vinyl. To keep them on their toes we have mixed up the order. I would say

the second one is vinyl. And you are correct. I would say the first one

is vinyl. The first one is vinyl, you are absolutely right. I think

the first one is vinyl. It was the second one. The first one was

flatter, the second one had a lot more sort of space around it. The

digital is Chris Burke, but it doesn't necessarily take it more

enjoyable. -- Chris Burke. I'd say the first one was vinyl. It was

actually the second one. I'm going to go for the first. You are right

when you say the first. People so vinyl is better but as long it is

recorded mostly it doesn't matter. I would say the second one. Correct.

Vinyl was the first one. But is absolutely right. You couldn't hear

any rumble, clicks and pops and that is why. How do most of your friends

listen to music? Most of them by MP3 but they also think it is quite cool

to have some vinyl. Most of the music aficionados could tell the

difference between vinyl and digital, but will records ever

recapture their previous mass appeal, or will they simply remain

an indulgence for music connoisseurs? You passed the test

with flying colours and you are a vinyl true believer. Yes, I came

back after leaving my kids with the baby-sitter and found a Jimi Hendrix

record on the record player and thought it was a bit cheeky of the

baby-sitter to play that and the following morning at breakfast my

daughter said, I hope you don't mind, the baby-sitter had never

heard any Jimi Hendrix so I put on some. She was nine Ex Machina

LAUGHTER -- she was nine!. One of the things

we miss about vinyl is the artwork. We have some brilliant ideas here.

We have this original artwork for take that. That is pretty good. I

like that. This is obviously Adele, 21. And this is Sarah Cook in

heaven! I would buy that record! Mike and Miranda have brought

us many animal tales, but there's one that stands out,

because it's taken Back in 2008 the Scottish Government

gave the go-ahead for a huge natural experiment. A trial to bring back

one of the animals that lived in the Caledonian Forest long ago. The

Beaver. It was an idea that took 20 years in the making, almost 50

square kilometres of land and the cooperation of 16 Norwegian beavers.

I came here in 2009 just a few months after the beavers were first

released and The One Show has been following the story ever since. On

my first visit I went kayaking with Philippa revel who was monitoring

the beavers. They are crepuscular animals meaning they are most active

at dawn and dusk, that we were lucky enough to see one in broad daylight.

Look at that Beaver. They are massive in the water as well. In

2010 we reported on the first babies that were born to the Scottish trial

beavers. A few years later Miranda went on a night-time paddle and

discovered that at least one of the original Scottish trial beavers, and

male called Frank, was still going strong. There he is moving in the

water. Wow. Towards the end of 2015 I discovered that the beavers are

still thriving when I met up with Ollie Hemmings of the Scottish

wildlife trust. We started with four family groups

in 2009 and obviously we've had so many deaths, so many births and so

many dispersals throughout the trial period and we have about the same

number of beavers we started with. Have you seen the beavers recently?

Yes I have we see them quite often and there is a loft over there where

I have had recent camera footage of a beaver family. Hurt shots of the

Beaver kits indicate the population here is a healthy one and her camera

traps have captured footage of the adults hard at work. They felled

trees with extraordinarily strong teeth for food and flooding

surrounding areas, allowing them to access more food while hiding from

predators. These changes can significantly impact the plants and

animals that share the wet woodlands and it's those effects that have

been monitored so closely during this trial. Karen Taylor is from

Scottish natural Heritage. What the beavers have done when they

have come in is they have felled some areas and that has opened up

the canopy and let light into the canopy floor and a new generation of

ground-floor and seeds dormant in the soil, and these patches and

different niche is that I really important for all of the other

things that rely on the woodlands, this habitat patchiness beavers have

created is really key. Flooding might be good for biodiversity but

many see it as a serious potential downside of a wider release. In

March 2015 The One Show spoke to a farmer with concerns about flood

damaged to his land. Adriane farms in Tayside, which is outside of the

Beaver trial area but home to a small number of beavers that are

thought to have escaped from private collections. We have cleared out

seven or eight dams here and if we left it these fields would become

unproductive and we couldn't use them because they would just be

bogs. That's thousands of pounds worth of damage. The Scottish Beaver

trial has been every comprehensive study that looked in real detail at

all of the impacts of the reintroduction of this animal. There

are many people with an interest in the outcome of this trial. From

those who value the Beaver's contribution to biodiversity and see

them as a natural part of the landscape, to others with very real

concerns about the impact on their livelihoods. That's why the decision

for the Scottish Government about the future of beavers in Scotland

has been so eagerly awaited. Mike Dilger then exited,

pursued by a bear. You must mean Beaver. No, it is a

bear. Shakespeare. Thanks to Marcus, you can see him

in Why The Long Face at the Soho Theatre in London

from next Monday. We will have to wait for a decision

from the Scottish Government later in the year.

Tomorrow, Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer

and the Fast Show's Charlie Higson will be here.