19/09/2011 The One Show

Welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. There is

sorcery in the studio at this evening as one of the stars of

mileage is here. I have got a brilliant trick. If you said the

magic words, the guest will appear. I do not believe Ed. Well done, it

is Richard Wilson. Good to see you. Merlin is a massive hit. There are

events action figures. Would you have thought in Europe more mature

years you would be an action figure? No, I never thought I would

be an action figures. Have you got action figures? No, we have not.

be fair, it is not a great likeness. Let's have a look at the close-up.

Oh, goodness. What do you mean it is not a great lightless, it looks

nothing like me. If I looked like that, I would shoot myself. You do

not, thank goodness. It is not just Matt and I asking the questions. We

have got some big fans of Merlin in the studio. One little fellow at

the back is John Sergeant. He will be celebrating a very special 75th

birthday. And Christine Walkden takes to the skies to see the most

colourful field in Britain. High a pity is that? Do not attempt to

resuscitate or a DNAR is the ominous note nobody wants to read

above a loved one's hospital bed. It is what doctors used to indicate

a patient should not be resuscitated if their heart stops.

Simon Boazman explores why doctors come to this decision. A starts by

meeting a woman who has taken the power out of the doctor's hands.

Few of us are prepared to be so candid about how we would like to

meet our mater -- maker. Joy Tomkins has taken the extraordinary

step of having these words tattooed across her chest. Some people might

think you are a bit crazy having this tattooed. Yes, I agree, I

probably am, but I am crazy for a good reason. What is the reason?

The reason is I do not want to be half-dead. I am worried about lying

down opening my eyes gazing at nothing and my children come and

look at me as a vegetable. But the tattoo is extreme step? No, it is

immediate. If I am able to speak, I can speak for myself, but this is

speaking to meet -- for me when I cannot speak. If you want to refuse

medical treatment, you should let relatives know through an advanced

decision notice. It is easy enough to make a decision. It does not

have to be on a form. It can be on a Post-it note. The doctors have to

legally abide by that? A few have the legal right to refuse medical

treatment and you can refuse it in advance as long as you have made

the advanced decision and you are an adult and are mentally competent.

But what about those who want their doctors to try everything they can

to resuscitate them? What rights do they have? The family of Janet's

Tracey recently began legal action against Cambridge NHS Trust. They

led medical staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital enter its a DNAR decision

into her medical notes despite a clear wish that they tried to

revive her. However, the hospital disputes the family's accounts. It

is a fact of life that most of us are going to die in a hospital and

of those it is thought around 80% will have a DNAR decision on them.

These things are not rare. Making tough calls on the front line is

Professor Gavin Perkins. There are three reasons why we would not

resuscitate. The first is the person has expressed the wish that

they do not wish to receive resuscitation. The second is that

where the judgment of the treating is that the act of the

resuscitation would be unsuccessful. The third scenario is where one has

to balance the potential benefits of the resuscitation attempts

against the burdens of somebody going through an attempt and what

that might mean in terms of quality of life. Do you think the public

have realistic expectations of what can be achieved by resuscitation?

If you watch TV programmes, they tend to be relatively short lived.

Eight out of 10 times their results in a successful outcome and that is

far from reality. It is a traumatic, invasive events that can last 20 or

30 minutes on occasion. Only one or two times out of 10 is that

successful. You might think a decision as important whether or

not to attempt resuscitation would at least be discussed with you.

Sadly, it is not always the case. When this 90 year-old man died in

hospital in August his daughter was upset. Her grief was compounded

when she only learnt afterwards that ADN are decision was place in

her dad's medical notes. I asked specific questions like, what

happened? I said, did you do CPR? They kept avoiding the question,

but eventually adopt a had to admit he had had orders not to

resuscitate. How did you feel when you found that out? I was angry, I

was upset. I just could not believe it. Letting her dad died without

trying to revive him might have been the correct clinical decision,

but Maddy is still upset she was not consulted. The hospital have

since apologised. But what right do we have its doctors refuse to

attempt to resuscitate? You have the legal right to refuse medical

treatment, but you do not have the right to request it. If you

disagree with the doctor, the doctor should have an open and

sensitive discussion with you about why they think treatment is futile.

But for the patient it would be best to ask for a second opinion.

The medical profession believe doctors cannot be required to give

treatment against their judgment. Not that Choi is worried, she has

made her own choice. If I changed my mind, I would have a line

through it, saying changed my mind. I had to go to the library to find

out how to spell resuscitate. Mark Porter is here. In Maddy's

situation, what do the Government's say about it and not having their

conversation? The Department of Health pointed out that there had

been guidelines in place to say most cases discussions take place,

you should talk to the person you are considering putting a DNAR

order on, and all their family. If you do not, and there are reasons

why you might not want to, you should record the reason why you

have not done that in the notes. Most of these problems originate

from a communication problem. how can the family find out if they

do not know if there is a DNAR decision is the patient gets ill?

This is about the patient and if they are in a fit mental state, the

family do not have the right to know anything. Realistically you

can ask the relative themselves or you can approach the sister on the

ward or the doctor. But they might need your relative's permission to

talk to them. You would think going to hospital is to be resuscitated.

The default situation is everybody is resuscitated. There should be an

assessment of each individual case to decide whether or not that will

apply. If you go into hospital it is the norm, unless someone decides

the problems outweighed the benefits. If the family does not

agree, is there anything they can do? There is no legal right to

force a doctor to do something they do not think is right, but you can

lobby them. You can ask for a second opinion poll stop if you are

not happy, you must express it. What are your thoughts, Richard?

think I have got it in my will. can have an advance notice. I have

put an advance notice in my will not to be resuscitated. That is the

thing we find, a lot of people do that. There is not like a group of

society that is tagged with this? It is not an age thing, as certain

illness then, it is all nonsense. It all should be done on a case-by-

case basis, that is why you cannot legislate for it. We are always

looking for a unique angle on The One Show, which is why it is handy

to have our very own hot air balloon. On all week we will be

telling stories that are best stored from above and we start by

sending Christine Walkden up into the Norfolk sky to look down on a

field of rainbows. # Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?

This line of sheds is hiding the bare bulbs of a great British

spectacle. Forget the Notting Hill Carnival, this is the Spalding

tulip parade. It takes more than 100 and 1000 petals to decorate

each float and it all started back in the 1950s to celebrate the

booming, British tulip in the street. But this is a long way away

from the natural habitat of wild tulips which are native to cool,

mountainous regions, especially from Iran to north-west China.

Their name comes from a Persian word meaning turban and they were

first cultivated in the Turkish Ottoman Empire. But it was the

Dutch who became obsessed with breeding them and in the 16th 30s,

they succumbed to tulip mania. The value of bulbs soared and it is

believed at one time a single specimen could buy you an entire

town house. The British tulip industry only began in 1907 with

100 bulbs brought to Spalding from the Netherlands. Since the 1980s,

it has been in decline. The Dutch have developed a massive production

line to replied --. One nursery grows millions of tulips for

British supermarkets every year and they go too surprising lengths to

get their blooms right. He none of these will be picked for the flower.

We will take their heads off. All of the energy goes back down

into the bulb to produce a far better, stronger bulb to use in the

glass houses to produce a better flower. By blocking up the bobs out

doors, they can guarantee the consistent quality of flowers at

the supermarkets demand and his tulips will flower for years on end.

The other plus side of removing the flower heads is it is providing the

raw materials for the parade. The reason our very last commercial

grower is thriving is the scale they can grow on. To see that you

really have to be up in the air. You have been growing for 11 years.

What does it feel like to be up here seeing it from this angle?

is amazing to see the colours and to see them all intermingling

together. We get the RAF pilots and they come over and have a good look

as well. It looks like a giant deck chair. How do you get the stripes?

We use the latest equipment to get as much in the field as we can. We

want to utilise the field to its utmost and all the input of

fertilisers and everything else. have been to Holland hundreds of

times and this is enormous. The Dutch field are tiny. We are lucky

we have got lard, arable fields, and we are doing horticulture on

and arable scale, trying to do it the most economic way we can.

many flowers are down there? Millions. We will probably produce

20 million bulbs from these feels. Although Britain is down to his

very last commercially viable, outdoor tulip grower, with

production on this scale, its future should be secure for a few

years more. Incredible. The view from that

balloon was incredible. It looked like the studio from above.

Christine said whatever you do, do not plant your tulips and on

November. After the first frost. Speaking of fire, Merlin is back

for a fourth season next month. By the looks of this, things are not

well in Camelot. Somewhere in the books there must

be something? I'm asking for something to fight them? If I am

right, the worlds are torn, there is only one path open to us. To

travel to the Isle of the Blest and repair it.

How-do I do that? I'm not sure, but it may require a blood sack ifies

since it used one to seal it. My word! How long did it take you

to grow the hair for that?! I just shaved it off on Saturday!

course! What can we expect from the new series? Well, I'm not allowed

to tell you, really. The one thing that I can tell you is it is in 35

ml now. So it will look even better. But you can't tell us anything

about the plot? Just the format? Yes.

Is there drama? Romance? Oh, yes, there is lots of romance.

You really can't tell us anything?! Well, I could get in trouble. This

is going to spoil it for the fans here.

We have lovely shots it does look like a Hollywood block buster,

comparing it to some of the things you have done in the past. What is

it like to work on? It is very different from One Foot In The

Grave! It is much longer, the shooting time. We do 13 episodes at

a time. That is a long time. Are you aware of how epic it is

going to look when you do it? Obviously there are lots of special

effects? That is the reason for the success of Merlin. The post

production is brilliant. They put in a lot of CGI, the music, all of

that is very special. As you say it is incredibly

successful, there are big fans of Merlin with us to ask some

questions. Here is Kip, aged six. Who do you like to make disappear?

Oh, dear! That is difficult. It is difficult! I tell you who I

would like to make disappear, the person who is in charge of the

railway ticketing system! I thought we had gotten away with One Foot In

The Grave! I did a Dispatches about railways. The ticketing system is

crazy. You cannot go to the station to buy a ticket. You have to book

weeks in advance, unless you want to pay a fortune. It is crazy.

Now, moving on to Jamie Allen, aged six.

If you wanted to be somebody for a day, who would it be? Somebody who

does not work on trains! Oh, dear, gosh. That is difficult. I would

like to be somebody who own as beautiful yacht in the

Mediterranean. Good answer. All of these people

over there are in the audience, they have asked questions. Now we

have a different question, have a look at this.

Why did Uther destroy all of the dragons and only leave one? Well, I

think he was thinking in terms that maybe one day there would abtheme

park, so they had to keep one dragon to show what they were like.

He has imprisoned this dragon. I can't think of a better answer.

Raffie does that answer your question? Yes! I thought they would

be easy questions! They were tough! A hard audience. Thankfullys to the

children of Stephenson School for all of their questions. You look

fantastic! Well done. The new series of Merlin begins on BBC One

in October. Now, it is a symbol of victory in the Second World War. It

holds a special place in our memory. This year it celebrates its 75th

anniversary. A new BBC documentary with John Sergeant plays tribute to

the Spitfire and her pilots. I have come -- here to meet a

legend, a British dream machine, built by a golden generation. It's

the Spitfire. It is 75 years since the first one flew. Surely the most

beautiful British plane ever built? First you hear it, then you feel it.

It is so exciting! Its top speed was over 400 miles an hour. It's

two 20 mill metres canons were fierce enough to bring down the

Luftwaffe. The pilots flew several missions a day. During the darkest

days in the war one in five of them did not make it back.

The most important Spitfire factory in the country was here at

CastleBromwich. When ML407 was built in August, 19 543 it was one

of three built that month. What was it like when you saw the

first one. It went through the hanger doors,

we all cheered and patted ourselves on the book -- back, we had gotten

one off It was such a delicate thing to put the bits together to

see what comes at the end of it. We were very proud.

The pilots who fly them say that there is nothing better.

You've got to love it. You went into combat daily with it, together.

You and that plane. It saved the country in the Battle of Britain. I

was allowed to fly it I don't think that I could do anything that would

make me prouder than that. It's time for former cadet,

sergeant, sergeant, to have a go. We had the best planes in the world.

It's time for Cadet Flight Sergeant Sergeant to have a go.

We had the best planes in the world. You can't expect a chap to fly a

Spitfire rand forget about it, it is imprinted in your mind forever.

And Cadet Flight Sergeant Sergeant is in the studio.

You don't salute a sergeant, you should know that.

I know that. Were you honestly known as Sergeant

Sergeant. As a cadet. It was impressive.

You did learn to fly as a cadet? did. It was a great moment. I

didn't think that I would. The nice pilot who was supervising me said

that this was it, to take it over. How did it feel? I thought it was

fantastic, but I was nervous, I have known flown a plane for 50

years. So to suddenly start flying in a pit fire, you have to be

careful one slip and the Spitfire goes down. Tricky.

The other Spitfire we saw in the film has had a colourful past?

it did. This made the series soing from. We saw it being built. We met

one of the people that built it we met a woman who delivered the

Spitfire. Then, an extraordinary scene, we

met the son of the man who flew it and with him we went through all of

his equipment. So we see him sitting there with his father's

uniform on. It was so emotional. There was his log book, the whole

thing. Is it right that the father did not

speak much to his son when he way alive? That's right. They had not

had those sort of conversations. He was just 14 when the father died.

It is only now that Martin, the son, that in this year that Martin

realises what an amazing man his father was. The fact that we tell

that story and all of the various people... It is not just about the

plane, but about all of the people's lives affected by

Spitfires, with the amazingly dramatic stories.

How do you deliver a Spitfire? you were a woman, the women did it.

They had teams of pilots they would fly it from Castlebomb which, that

is where it would be, and that is how they delivered it.

You were right to pick up on that. Well, the spit fire -- well, The

Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past is on BBC Two.

Over the next month Miranda Krestovnikov is looking at why the

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is needed, starting with a case

that led to its creation. Britain's wildlife has been

protected by law for more than 50 years. Yet it was only in 2006 that

a dedicated national unit was formed to investigate wildlife

crime. Before then, many prosecutions came

through individual Police Forces, often working with conservation

bodies. Especially the RSPB, the threat to British bird life is very

real. There are criminals that trade in rare birds, dead or alive.

Michael Bartley is the millionaire owner of Hamworth Hall in Norfolk.

He was imprisoned for buying eggs and stuffed birds, but he was

supplied by John Metcalfe, a taxidermist and a former magistrate.

We had had some tip-offs, but in May 2004, the police got a search

warrant and we paid a visit to Mr Barclay's impressive country

mansion. What did you find there? It was an

Aladdin's cave of taxidermy and animals.

Most of this collection had been legally akier -- acquired, but not

all of it. It was clear that many of the eggs

and birds were illegal taken from the wild. He himself had taken

6,000 birds out. Did you find the 6,000 in the

house? No, just 300 of his own egg, but we went back on a second raid.

It was like a scene from Narnia. We went into a secret hidden room,

full of egg cabinets. But unfortunately many were not

there. What about some of the wildlife

caught? There were nesting seabirds that had been collected and removed

from their nests that we think were then used for taxidermy.

The legality of the tax determiney was key to the case. Specimens

dated before 1947, back then, many birds were deliberately killed, but

modern taxidermist should deal with birds from lawful sources such as

natural or accidental death. Taxidermist Kim McDonald was called

in to help to determine if any birds had been sourced illegal.

This is a modern mount. We found chipping in the wing feathers and

the prime Aries. Something of high velocity has gone through the wing.

We found a piece of led shot in the ball of the foot. Obviously it was

not trodden on, so it got there somehow. That was taken for X-ray.

And even more led shot showed up. Alan Roberts is now an investigator

for the National Wildlife Crime Unit. Back in 2004, he was serving

with the Norfolk Police when this landmark case turned up on his

patch. What can you tell from the X-rays

about Metcalfe himself? If the bird has got shot in it, he should be

saying he should not taxi determine it as it has been killed illegal.

What we found with John Metcalfe, there was shot in the birds and

there were broken wings. He should have noticed that.

It became clear that this was one of the most serious wildlife crimes

in 20 years it was said in sentencing that the legislation was

designed to protect endangered species, as these were serious

offences that it would worpbt that Barclay and Metcalfe were dealt

with. Barclay was sentenced to four

months in prison and Metcalfe two months and suspended for a year.

October, 2006 was an important landmark in wildlife crime. Not

only were the men convicted in one of the most significant cases in

trading in endangered species, but also that month, a single national

while life crime unit was launched for the whole of the UK. Alan

Roberts became one of its first investigators. Extraordinary story.

Richard, there is no taxidermy in the new film you are directing?

a new play. I am directing a play called Lungs it is about pregnancy.