19/09/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show Matt Baker And Alex Jones. Tonight,

a man who has had the daunting task of weighing up the achievements of

the leading figures from the past 70,000 years. Then deciding who is

in and who is out. We are about to his History of the World on our

screens. It's promising to be controversial. Please welcome

writer and broadcaster, Andrew Marr. APPLAUSE

Andrew, you have had 15 months on the road. Have you been deciding

who is in and out. You have left out Henry VIII and the Battle of

Britain? Yes. Very interesting guy. Historically a fat sprat. Not a

world historical figure. The Battle of Britain, most people who watch

British television have heard of Battle of Britain I'm trying to

give them stories they haven't heard about. You have clocked up 80

flights. Travel something great. What did you do? You get bored of

airports. I used to run. My knees have gone. I have done sketching.

To calm down and enjoy myself I have done drawings. I draw on the

iPad much I don't have to carry around ink, pencils and all that

stuff. Do it all on this. How very now, Andrew? Exactly. Here is a

thing for you. Don't often say that. Not about me. Will you do a sketch

throughout the programme? I will do my best. Later we will meet the man

behind one of the most distinctive guitar sounds in pop. It's Level

42's Mark King. APPLAUSE

With will meet doctors, nurses and health workers from a hospital who

have been scrubed up by Gareth Malone for his new series on

workplace choirs. Shall we have a burst of something relevant? It has

to be relevant. Let's go. # Don't let your self-go

# Cos everybody cries # Ooh, and everybody hurts

# Sometimes # And everybody hurts... #

APPLAUSE What about that. Everybody hurts.

REM. We have a game like that coming up later. They have the

Gareth Malone shine on them, haven't they? Very good. The

posture and everything. If you have done something special with your

work colleagues, singing, putting a theatre group together, send us a

picture to: We will read out as many as we can throughout the

programme. Yesterday, we heard from one show viewers about small acts

of kindness that had inspired them to spread the love. Lucy meets a

remarkable man with a very, very big heart, Oscar Brogden who has

been havinglet same effect on the people of Gorton in Manchester.

haven't got much money. Why wouldn't I want to help people out

by putting money in their purse. Oscar Brogden, a security guard

here has co-ordinated a city-wide scheme to reunite people with their

lost and stolen wallets and purses. Oscar makes sure they don't go back

empty. At last count, Oscar had returned �1,780--1,780 wallets to

their owners. Joan had her handbag and purse snatched while she was

out shopping. I felt sick. I felt really violated. I wanted to have a

good cry. I did hold it back. About a week later, Oscar rang. When I

got my purse back, there was a lovely hand written letter in there

from Oscar and also �5. I thought, how kind of him to do that. That is

lovely. It really did bring a tear to my eyes. It really did. Oscar

earns �17,000 a year, which hardly puts him in the same League as a

City or United player, he regularly digs deep into his own pockets to

compensate the people who have had their purses lost or stolen. Oscar,

how much money, over the years, do you think you have given away?

�5,000. Where has that money come from? My pocket. It's your money?

Yes. Female students are the biggest victims. I'll send them �5

and pensioners. Really, really emotional when they get on the

phone and they have had their Christmas money taken. A few years

ago I put �80 in. I was going to buy a jumper. I thought, I have a

jumper, why do I want another one. I put the �80 in. She came back

here and I have a friend for life. How do you feel when people try to

give you a reward. I send a letter saying "please do not send me a

reward." Someone sent me �500, I had no hesitation giving it back to

him. What do you tkpwhet return? try to do my little bit for the

community with the help of the people who work here. His kindness

doesn't stop with returning lost and stolen wallets and purses. He

has saved thousands of old and rusty bikes that would end up on

the scrap heap, repairing them and handing them over to the community,

free of charge. We give four away a week to kids, member of staff. To

people who don't have transport or somebody who had their bike taken.

All these bikes end up on the tip. They are going back into the

community. I put �100 a month out of my own money. We make sure when

the bikes go from here they have got good tyres and good brakes and

good seats. Some of these children have never had a bike before.

has repaired and given away a stagger 3,5 81 bikes. The next four

are for a new life with local children. Liam. Thank you, Oscar.

Callum. Thank you, Oscar. Brandon. Thank you, Oscar. And victor.

you, Oscar. Who knows the big names like Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy,

one of these young people from around here might emulate that.

That would be absolutely sensational. I'm in Oscar's

workshop. Have you just seen it. He has his bits of pedals and bike.he

is not the tidest, as he freely admits. He uses everything he is

given to fix up these bikes and get them out to the local community.

Helen is here from the local community. You have worked with him

a few times? I have. My auntie works with Oscar. She let's me know

what he needs for the local people. People bring me food, bikes and all

sorts. Whatever he needs? Yes. me about the Christmas hampers he

does? I helped him wrap the hampers last year. The hampers that that

huge you can't lift them. Is there any limits to his generosity?

doesn't know the word "limit." Thank you. Helen is from the local

community along with lots of people who Oscar has helped, we have

persuaded them to come down here tonight to say thank you to Oscar.

He is such a modest man. We have one man who is liing in wait for

him, as we speak. Iwan Thomas, where are you? Well, thank you. I'm

hiding around here because today has Allardyce been about secrecy.

Oscar is such a lovely man. He doesn't like the limelight or a

fuss. Tough, Oscar, tonight we will make a small fuss. The people who

love you of this local community are turning out to thank you. You

know, I may have pulled a few strings. Stay tuned. As you saw on

the show earlier, on the little clip he loves Jason Kenny. I called

him up. Stay tuned. We will catch up with you later. He will be

distraught that people are filming in his workshop without him nothing.

You will unleash on the world, Andrew Marr's History of the World.

This is extraordinary. You have been reading for 30 or 40 years.

You feel ready in your life to say this is Watt I think about the

History of the World? Exactly. It has been a long, long time in the

making. I have spent three years stuck in libraries, as you say, 25

years before that just reading history. I have read a lot of

history over my life. OK, what are the really important moments, what

are the crucial turning points? It's not just, it's not our history,

not just European history, I brought in China, India and South

America. What was happening over there when stuff was happening here.

Linking it altogether. That is the hard thing. There is so much going

on at the same time? Absolutely. know what you left out, heny VIII

and the Battle of Britain. How did you decide where to start? I could

have done 13.5 billion years ago in the Big Bang. I thought, leave the

science to the scientists. Leave evolution to the byologists. Start

with the story of us. Mankind as we start to move out around the world

and change it. That is 70,000 years ago when, it's now thought, one

tribe breaks out of Africa and spreads around the world. All of us

not from sub-Saharan Africa are related to that one tribe. One

woman in that tribe is our nearly universal mother. I find it

absolutely extraordinary and quite hard to believe almost. Yes, it is.

To help you tell your historical tales you have lots of reenactments.

Let's have a look. None of us can hope to know all of the human story,

but it does help to have the big picture because it's really the

story of who we are now. Our own ancestors long walk, the tiny

things that changed the world. Nature biting back. Old glories,

winners and losers. Truth seekers and astonishing discoveries.

Revolutions in blood and in iron. Modern madness and the wonders of

the digital age. APPLAUSE

Modern madness, Andrew. That looks like it's a modern equivalent of

picture books that Andrew Marr marr as a child nel love with. If you

remember Ladybird books, all sorts of books. You are drawn in by the

pictures. With television, those kind of reenactments are the bright,

colour pictures which draw us in. The people who were down and filmed

all of those did a fantastic job. Speaking of the people who filmed

them. The cameraman rang up and said, ask Andrew about leaving the

woman in the desert?? That is a terrible story. OK, really shameful

story. A wonderful woman, who was part of a museum, we were filming

the story of the Nazkar who have extraordinary priests with long

heads, look like they are out of science fiction. Bound together in

childbirth. She brought a skull down for us. She was going to her

own town to vote. We all went back in the next day. We were all

exhausted. We were heading back, about 200 miles north of where we

had been filming somebody said, "What about the woman?" We had left

her behind! She was standing outside... It was just the most

terrible thing. We were all on our way for a last, sort of, lunch then

we were going... We left her behind. Did you go back? Tell us you went

back? If we went back we would have lost the flights. We arranged a

luxury taxi to pick her up. Very good. It was the most shameful Alan

Partridge moment of the entire thing. Awful. I'm going to kill

Neil Harvey for telling you. That he is a dead man! We have our

sources. There are eight of these programmes. You are going up

against Downton Abbey as well. know. It's a great honour. Charge

the machine guns, mate with Downton Abbey. You are following

Countryfile. You will be all right. The programme starts this Sunday on

BBC One at 9.00pm. There is also a book to accompany the series which

People living in many care homes across the UK will be able to rate

how good or bad they think they are. The cost of paying the home's fees

can result in many families struggling financially and in some

cases unnecessarily. Across the UK, there are 400,000

adults who live in nursing and care homes.

Around 40% of people in care homes in England have to pay for some or

all of their care costs. The thing is, some of them shouldn't have to

pay anything whatsoever. David from Watford was 65 years old

when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. By April 2010,

his condition was so bad that he had to be moved into a nursing home.

Before he was ill, David was a very friend friendly, outgoing, social,

chatterbox. He loved life and he loved living. I was devastated when

I found out it was probably at zilers because I knew --

Alzheimer's because I knew what was going to happen. We had plans for

our future and our retirement and there wasn't going to be a pleasant

future, it was going to be upsetting and very sad.

In England and Wales, before someone goes into residential care

care an assessment can be made of their needs. If they are judged to

be medical then the NHS can pick up the costs, however if their primary

needs are not seen to be medical then the local authority will do a

means-test before it decides how much if anything it will contribute.

The NHS assessment also takes into account ongoing care requirements,

but despite David's Alzheimer's and the care he needed, the NHS decided

they wouldn't cover the fees. I was horrified. I had hoped that

with all David's problems that he would have been covered by the NHS.

His primary needs got worse and worse. He started having seizures,

he had to be hoisted. He just went from bad to worse.

How much were you having to pay? was paying �1,100 a week.

And how did you afford that? From our savings. From when we retired.

We were using it up very quickly. David would have been horrified.

In December 2010, David passed away. By that time, the couple had paid

around �30,000 in fees for the nursing home. Susan still believed

her husband's needs had been wrongly assessed. So she went to a

solicitor. Two years later, the NHS have now

said that their assessment was wrong and they will now be

refunding all the care fees that she has paid. Do you think people

understand that they can go through this appeal process? No, it is a

complicated area and people aren't aware that potentially the NHS

could pay the full cost of their care.

Is it worth it? My firm represent 3,000 people and we have been

successful in recovering over �25 million in wrongly paid care fees

for 350 clients. The process is long. It is complex and it does

take sometime and sadly, families are waiting two to three years for

right decisions to be made. For Susan, the refund helped to

give her peace of mind that she will be comfortable in her

retirement. David would be over the moon. He

was a fighter. He was a terrier as he called himself! He wouldn't have

given up. If the boot had been on the other foot and it would have

been me, he would have fought. It has been the most stressful thing

that happened to me and I'm just so If you want to claim back care home

fees, there is a deadline at end of the month. This deadline only

applies to England. If you need more information on how

people living in the rest of the UK are affected, have a look at

website. It is all there. Anita has more news about the care homes

I have. This week the Your Care Rating initiative was introduced

which aims to rate care homes. Jane Ashcroft is from one of the care

providers who developed the scheme. Jane, how is this going to work?

Well, at this stage, there is 13 providers involved. 850 care homes

and the 50,000 people living there have an opportunity to fill in a

survey and say what they think about the care that they receive in

the place that they live in. So you are getting a snapshot in

time? That's right. Really importantly, the survey has been

developed by MORI and it is confidential and it will give us

that picture of what think people think are great and the things that

people need to improve. Even though it is care providers

who are behind it? It is independent. It is confidential.

All the results go to MORI and it is straightforward.

But what if my relative can't fill out that form? What then? Families

will be helping people and other friends will be helping people so

we want to encourage as many responses as possible.

How can we be sure that whatever their rating, whatever they are

telling us about that care home will be listened to and action

taken? A commitment from everybody involved. That's why we're asking

the question. There is lots of good things going on and we want to know

what residents really value so we can keep doing the good and improve

on the things that need to be improved on.

If a care home gets a negative rating, will we be able to see

that? We want all homes to be involved. We are the pilot group.

We want other homes to get involved as well. We're being to publicise

the information and then everybody will be able to look and say, "OK,

this is the quality of this home.". Often you hear stories about

neglect in care homes. But there are lots of brilliant care workers

like Karl Martin. You got an award. So what makes a good care worker?

think it is a genuine interest in people and what makes people tick.

Everyone in a care home has a history. They have lives they've

lived. They had joys and disasters, loves, every single person is

different. It is all ensuring that we treat people as individuals as

they deserve to be. You got your awards for activities.

Yes. What activities do you get your

residents to do? We try to lead on life story so it is very important

that I know as much about a resident as possible. We had a

wonderful example last year where one of our ladies had loved

swimming as a child, but when she had a husband and her family, she

had to stop. We took her to the swimming pools at her request and

for the first time in 60 years she got into that pool at the age of 92

and out swam the activities co- ordinator!

That's brilliant. For example, one of our gentlemen

flew a mosquito. We were able to unite him. He went to see that.

It is about being joyful. So what do you think about Your Care Rating,

do you think it is a good idea? is a wonderful idea. Up and doub

down the country -- up and down the country, there are people who work

hard in care homes and this is a real opportunity for people to see

some of the great work that goes on in care homes.

Thank you very much indeed. Does all this make you think about

your old age, Andrew? I they we all have to face the fact that many of

us, perhaps if we're lucky are going to end up in care homes

because we'll have lived for longer and there are some great ones and

we know there are poor ones indeed. And the costs are just awesome and

phenomenal and most of us, I mean I'm as guilty as anyone, we tend to

think about tomorrow. We tend to think about next year, that holiday,

that car, we should be salting money away for the serious stuff.

Too much looking at the history. And not looking forward!

Earlier we met Oscar Brogden. does all sorts of amazing things

from fixing up old bikes and repairing them for children to go

and enjoy. To reuniting people with their lost property. He is a hero

in many people's eyes and Lucy is up to something!

Somehow, we've got Oscar here without him knowing what's going on.

Ewan is going to get him out of the car now and we're going to bring

him in. Everybody, nice and quiet. Hello, Oscar. I will take your hand.

Step out of the car. You are probably wondering why you're

blindfolded on this dark, cold and quiet night. If you walk with me

this way, all will be revealed in a minute.

Are you all right? I'm good, thanks. You are not too cold.

Well, you are live on The One Show. Mind your Manchester language! You

are going to see why you are here. Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Oscar, all these people are here

for you because you are such a lovely man and I know you don't

like a fuss. Thank you very much. You can put it

in a few words, top people. You never expect anything like this, do

you? Top people. That's all I can. Thank you very much. Well, you are

the top person. It is not just about the people here, we have got

a few other surprises, one of which is with Lucy now.

Hello Luy. We wanted to make it official. On

behalf of the One Show, and the people from the community, I would

like to unveil this. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Every time you come to your den, that is for recognition and to

remind you of what you mean to this community. You might not realise,

you have touched so many people here. Everything you have done, we

have got another surprise. Well all these bikes have been

donated by Manchester Police Force. Unfortunately they can't be here

because of yesterday's tragic events, but they wanted to say

thank you and give you more bikes to work on to help the youngsters.

Brandon, what does Oscar mean to you? He is one of the best guys in

the world. Oscar, can I have another bike? Of course, you can,

son, yes. How about you? What has Oscar done?

He got me a brilliant bike. What colour? Pink.

What does it mean? These are top people. I am an old bloke, I am

getting emotional. You are just brilliant, I can't fault you.

What do you think of Oscar? Just a walking angel.

What a lovely thing. We have got a special surprise, haven't we?

local community love you. I know you don't like a fuss, but there is

someone special who wants to show his appreciation, you are a fan of

British cycling. We have got double Olympic champion, Jason Kenny.

APPLAUSE Look at that!

What a top man! Fancy meeting you in person. Wow. What a diamond. My

heart goes out to you. Well done, tremendous guy.

Jason, what do you think? Amazing, thanks a lot, mate. Thank you to

British cycling for getting all these kids out on bikes. Good work.

A lot of these people here were watching you on the telly and you

came and you did us proud. He is a very big fan.

We are very proud of you tonight. We could talk all night. You guys

live local, but me and luc have to get back to London.

We better make a move, Ewan. Oscar, see you later.

Lucy, wait! APPLAUSE

There is so many people going on about a legacy and that guy there,

giving those little bikes and that young lad summed it up brilliant,

"He is one of the best guys in the world.". The Military Wives Choir

were led to the top of the charts by Gareth Malone. Bagging the

Christmas number one spot. He has turned his attention to this group

of workers from the Lewisham Healthcare Trust. They teased us at

the top of the show. But here they are, the newly discovered stars of

Gareth Malone's new telly series. If you want want blood, brackets

you got it! LAUGHTER

Who is in favour of that? I've had a good idea.

# Keep, bleeding, keep, keep bleeding #

Any others? APPLAUSE

So Gareth Malone, he lands in the Lewisham health trust and he gets

you all involved. How did he rope you? There was auditions and we

went ang long and he managed to -- along and he managed to get the

talent down to 30 of us. I don't know how I did t but he did it.

Joe, you are an anaesthetist, when you are putting people to sleep,

are you singing to them? I don't use drugs anymore. I'm using song

based an theseia. Fame could come calling. Are you

ready to change the uniform for something spankly? I have resigned.

I am available for supermarket openingings.

You are a neo-natal nurse, surely you sing nursery rhymes? Yes, I

sing other songs to the little babies.

How did you get involved? I heard about the audition. I heard about

the audition and my son said "mummy go for it. Since you are singing in

the house, you might as well go for it." I went for it and I was chosen.

Sarah, you did a concert in A&E? Yes, part of the process, we

performed opened the new A&E department and it was brilliant.

All our friends and family came. It was so funny. It was the first time

we performed to anybody. It was excellent. We were on such highs

afterwards. Well, you are a physiotherapist and

you are going to sing Lean On Me. # Sometimes in our life we all have

pain, we all have sorrow # But if we are wise, we know that

there's always tomorrow # Just call on me brother when you

need a hand # We all need somebody to lean on

# I just might have a problem that you'd understand

# We all need somebody to lean on # Lean on me

# When you're not strong, and I'll be your friend

# I'll help you carry on # Oh, for

# It won't be long # Until I'm going to need

# Ooh, somebody to lean on # Lean on me. #

APPLAUSE Beautiful! Very, very big thank you

to the staff from Lewisham Health Care Trust and the Choir starts

tomorrow night at 9.00pm on BBC Two. Most musicians are waiting for that

big break, that killer hit. When it happened to one 0's band it tore

them apart. Carrie picks up the pieces and learns some lessons.

Isle of Wight, laid back and relaxed. A young group of musicians

used to play the pubs and clubs much. You could get to see them for

the price of a drink. By the 0's they became Level 42 playing

stadium gigs with Madonna and selling 30 million records. It was

a track called Lessons In Love that brought international superstar

status. It all began back on the island. The brothers and I met at a

party. I got the chance to join the band that they were in. The Isle of

Wight is a largely tourist based place. There were hotels you could

play in and pubs and holiday camps. There was loads of opportunity to

work as a working musician. Really learning your trade. Leaving the

island behind, the band started to take shape in London. Moving from

playing instrumental jazz funk to commercial pop. In 1986, following

their first Top 10 suck sets ses in America they were asked to produce

a hit single in advance of the next album. It had to be big. For me, I

just thought, OK. Let's do it then. Let's try and do that. We had

already sat down and made a decision, if we wanted to carry on

in the business. It was well doing 60,000 units of an album and stuff,

if we wanted to go to 600,000 every And that sequence, I'm sat there

and I hated playing that because I thought "I'm 15 and I shouldn't be

doing that." I couldn't get that idea out of my idea. The truth is

# We'll meet again # Don't know where, don't know

when... # # I'm not proud

# I was wrong... # The base featured really heavily on

that record? It's still one of the hardest lines to play. I have

played some hard lines. Holding that going, because it's relentless.

It never stops. # I've been trying to reach your

shore... # The band wrote a hit to order. It

worked. Selling many more than the desired 600,000 units, it was a

huge global success. Not everyone was happy. The Gould brothers felt

the track took the band in the wrong direction. Were they

struggling with the record and the sound of the record itself or with

success? A bit of both. I didn't know at the time that that was

going to be the highest point for the band but what would be the

architect of the band's downfall. It was so successful. Yet everybody

that was involved in making it happen really wanted to be...

Wanted it to be that way. Wan wanted to follow that route. You

either go with it or you don't go with it. I wanted to go with it. I

think it was the beginning of the end for the original line-up of

Level 42. The Gould brothers both left the band. Despite a change in

line-up Level 42 went on to have another dozen Top 40 hits. Now,

preparing for a new tour, Mark is reworking some of those hits

including Lessons In Love. If you you would have said it me when I

was nine or ten years old, do you want to be successful? I did. I

wanted to be in a band an be successful. I wanted to be on telly

and do all of those things. Here with a the perfect vehicle for. It

I'm really grateful to the song. Mark is with us now. You said that

was the beginning of the end, that song for the group. The orpbl line-

up? For the original line-up, for sure. We had been together a number

of years. We had been enormously successful. The success and the

hard work you put into doing that it take as toll. You are back on

tour now with Mike? Yes. We have been working together for ten years.

He is such a great musician to play with anyway. Having more fun now

than back then, less pressure? There is no pressure. I don't need

to compete. I can swan about and keep my chickens on the island and

go back on the road. The young ones didn't develop the slap base a

combination of drumming and base playing? Yes, it is. It's... I

began as a drummer. For me the idea of using two hands to do something

as opposed to the usual (plays guitar) Oh, yeah! Yeah. Yeah!

good. Peel one of those off for you. As you brought your guitar we will

play this game. We have Carrie and Joe. We will place Ace of Base.

The whole idea is that Mark will play a little bit of the baa line

and you have to guess. I will look stupid here. It's like Name That

Tune. Grab a card and pen. You write down what song it is. That is

Joe looks confused, bless him! is too young. Before his time!

is too young. See this. Get Around. No. Joy Division. YES! It was Love

Will Tear Us Apart. Let's move on to the second one. Good luck with

# Dadada... # # Oh, baby give me one more chance

# Won't you be there # Be back in my heart... #

It's there. What is it called? Jackson Five - I Want You Back.

has Stevie Wonder. No. I've led a sheltered life. Jackson Five - I

Want You Back. We have run out of time. Before this week who would

have thought that our correspondents would have got so

competitive over giant veg and homemade jam. When the title of

Best in Show is at stake the gloves are off. Matt joins in the battle.

This is Caddington where they take their annual village show very

seriously. For one year only we have been challenged to enter the

cauldron-like atmosphere of the Best in Show. There are 62 contests

ranging from cookery to horticulture. I have been entered

into the Best Cupcake competition. I think they have done this because

I know I ride a motorcycle and listen to ACDC and therefore I will

be rubbish and it will be funny. What they don't know is that I

absolutely love cake. I'm certainly not alone. We ate 65 million

cupcakes in the UK last year. They have their own week. It's safe to

say they're popular. It means the competition will be ferocious at

the Village Show. To win I need help. Step up cupcake Queen,

Jennifer Boulds. She will give me a few winning tips. I intend to win

with a carrot cupcake. I have never made one before. I have a recipe

here. It says "easy." That is good. I have the ingredients put into

bowls, like on telly. And, you know, how difficult can it be? Because

the cakes will partly be judged on taste, my recipe has orange zest

and mixed spices in to give it a bit of a kick. Time for a

masterclass and some encouraging words from Jennifer. This requires

all of my concentration. For you, you can do it blindfold. I could

make a monkey do it. But not me? It helps to someone who believes in

you. With the basic cake ingredients in, I am already

struggling. It's disturbing when you have only put your dry goods

together and you already have lumps. You can save cake at most stages.

The key is not to panic. Yes. Don't panic. I keep calm and crack on,

with the eggs! Look at. That what a beautiful mixture. Mix quicker.

Pour in quicker too. To my basic mixture of brown sugar, whole male

flower and eggs I add the carrot and a lot of. It I want my cakes to

look perfect. Jennifer has a top tip. I have to destride equaly.

Just for that. Like an ice-cream scoop. You get a perfect portion

every time. An ice-cream scoop for your cupcakes. Put them in the oven.

That is only half the challenge. Next is the topping. It should be

thick and creamy. I'm going for a mix of icing sugar, soft cheese and

butter. Oh, my God! No... No-one... Just stay where you are. My

cupcakes have already been in the oven for 25 minutes. No-one was

going to tell me. You weren't going to tell me. They are not that bad.

I mean, look underneath it's still moist and lovely. You could just

take the top off. Fill over the top and no-one will know. Disaster

averted. Off comes the tops. On goes the icing. My confidence is

restored. No mention in the recipe of lime zest in my cream cheese

topping. It's how I'm feeling tonight. The icing creates a

moisture seal so my creations won't dry up. It needs a steady hand. I

think I've cleared the final hurdle. Which parts of my cupcake game do I

need to work on? You need to be more relaxed about. It stop being

so intense and pressurised. It's just cake. It's a start. What I

didn't realise until right now is that cupcake making is like

engineering with NASA-like quality control. Unless I brush up my act,

I'm going to end up looking like a The pressure was on there! Andrew,

we know you like a bit of cooking, rumour of a main course or a

desert? Main courses. Fish pie. Killer fish pie. People think they

have eaten fish pie, they haven't eaten my fish pie.

A little bird told us you put anchovy in it? Anchovy paste, lots

of parsley, deadly! Very nice. I don't like anchovies.

You think you don't like them. Bring some in in tupper ware and

I'll try it. Keep it to fish and potatoes. You

can see Matt making more cup cupcakes on Friday when, he and

Mike and John Sergeant fin out if they have won. Matt is live in the

in the Watchdog studio. Thanks for dropping cakes off on the way past.

Somehow, they went home and never came out again! But wait until

Friday, it will knock your socks off. Matt, last week Ann asked for

The One Show viewers help for a BMW story. This week you want their

help? We want to hear from anyone who had a problem with animals they

bought from Pets At Home, we discovered some of their animals

were kept in shocking conditions. You will see the results later, but

if any One Show viewers have worries about animals they bought

from Pets At Home get in touch. And are you on the hunt for more

rogue traders? We are on the streets of Surrey with a company

whose salesman tried to scare old ladies into buying their over

priced alarm systems and boy, oh boy, do they not like it if you

Yeah, we didn't take too kindly to the way he was treating our beryl

so we sided to have a word with the wheelspin doctor there. You just

had Mark King from Level 42 on the show. I am going to enlist my 80s

pop legend to teach that salesman a lesson. Find out who at 8pm.

Pop back for Ace of Base later on! Don't eat any of Andrew Marr's

anchovies. Dring cakes.

-- bring cakes. We are not sure about the fish pie.

Andrew, you have been drawing throughout the show.

I have. You have come up with something amazing. I haven't seen

You should be able to see it properly.

That's good. That is Matt and I.

APPLAUSE Yeah.

Your garish set behind you, it is tastefully garish. Yeah. So there

we go, I will give that to you later on.

We have got quite a few of the pictures up there. That looks good

up there. That was the caves, amazing caves in South Africa where

we started the whole show. I was talking about 70,000 years ago and

they are they are sculpted into the amazing shapes by the wind. The

cleverest man in the world, chess master against IBM's computer, who

wins, the computer. A really important moment in our story.

That's an interesting story, a cold filming. I was shivering and that's

my fur hat at the bottom of the picture. And that's Kiev.

How long do they take? Shouldn't you have been filming? Well, they

mess around so much, that guy Neil Harvey who was phoning in. He was

playing around with his batteries and his camera! You have got to do

something to fill the time in and that's what I do.

Where is the most unusual place you drew? Most unusual place, I guess

we were on the steps of Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, living in a tent,

what they call a ger, there is no electricity or plumbing and it is

very rough indeed. Mongolian cuisine, there is a lot of fairly

rancid cows. LAUGHTER

And sheep goo. Don't go for the cuisine.

They didn't have the anchovies. We have been asking for unusual

things you have been doing with your work colleagues. This is the

Bradford Chamber of Commerce on the Three Peaks Challenge. They raised

�7500. Well done to them.

This is the employees of scarp Scarp Of Thermo Fisher.

This is from Carol, it is an Andrew Marr self-portrait.

One more. Lorraine and her colleagues at EDF cycled from

London to Paris over the weekend. Well done to them.

Well, it is 50 years since the birth of one of Britain's favourite

cars cars. Here is Alexei Sayle on the Ford

Cortina. My parents were communists and

communists always distrusted cars. For them, the only good car was

painted dark green and had armour on the side!

So all through my childhood, I grew up thinking that cars were these

rare, beautiful, exotic jewel-like creations.

And there was one car that for working families was more exotic,

more jewel-like than anything else, the ultimate motor for a dad and

his his lad, the Mark I Ford Cortina.

Codenamed the archbishop, the Cortina was launched 50 years ago

in 1962. And was for for for most of the following three decades

everywhere you looked on Britain's roads. The advertising promised

more car for your money and it delivered. But more than that, it

was classy. It was exotic and it was even named after an Italian ski

resort. We are at Cortina Italy, driving

the Ford Cortina. With stunts like this, bringing an

air of glamour to the car. The roads are becoming a best seller

was more prosaic. Harry Colton was the Cortina's

press officer. If you looked at a new car in the

show room, you were looking six to nine months delivery before you

could have your new car. With Cortina, all the dealers in Britain

had a stock of 30 motorcars for the day it went on sale and they knew

there was a constant supply following it. Suddenly for the

first time, there was a car that you could see and you could buy it

and you could drive away in it. Simple supply and demand, you might

think, but sales exploded making it Britain's best selling car from

1982 to 1991 and keen to snap them up was another new breed, the

travelling salesman. The success of a man's career symbolised by the

model of Cortina he drove and why did he want one? Because Ford had

made had sexy. Coopers chasing crims were bursting

through our screens in the 70s. It was a macho testosterone fuelled

time when women were considered a pretty accessory to the lifestyle

offered by the car. She doesn't care that the seats

have been designed with extra legroom in the front. She just

knows she is comfortable. But at the Dagenham plant, the

women workers were far from comfortable. Being paid less than

their male counterparts. We are on strike.

REPORTER: All of you? All the machinists anyway.

So no car car seat covers for Ford? Not from us anyway.

Walking out in 1968 for three weeks, it was a struggle that was

instrumental of bringing about the Equal Pay Act of 1970, but for the

Cortina, it was an early warning of trouble to come.

And as the the mark II became the Mark III, Dagenham factory was

under threat. In 1982 this mark V was the last Cortina off the

production line. Phil Lewis remembers the Dagenham plant in its

heyday. I worked for ford for over 30 years

and this was a car manufacturing plant. Of course, you come back now

and it doesn't make motorcars. I wouldn't really know where I am now.

For these die hard Cortina fans, it is time to return to their

spiritual home. Tell me with you are heading to?

Cortina. Where are you off to? Cortina. Where are you off to?

Cortina. They are off to the Italian ski

resort that inspired the dream. Phil, start up the archbishop.

It might only be 600 miles. But for these guys, it is a trip back in

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Look at that. Arriving in style. Oh,

the brakes are a bit spongy, we're joined by loads of Cortina

enthusiasts. We have got Phil and Jenny.

General yip, can you let her -- Jenny, can you let her out? That

was all right, Andrew. Phil and Jenny, what a momentous

journey. It is quite a long way to go in a car of that comfort level?

Well, it is not too bad, you know. You get numb after the first few

miles and you are so worried about the car keeping going, you don't

worry about things like discomfort, but it was more of an adventure

than a journey. Is that the same for you Jenny?

When he said, "Shall we go on this trip?" I thought scwths thought "he

wants to go and I am not keen." But we did enjoy it.

How much time does he spend with his cars? Well, he is in the garage

a lot. It is essential to keep the

marriage going! LAUGHTER

And he is not down the pub. True enough.

It was Eventful. Rod and Viv, tell us what happened on the way? Just

before we got into Cortina, my brakes failed on the hairpin bends

on the way down. The fluid boiled and I had no pedal. Luckily I

managed to stop it on the handbrake and pull over to the side of the

road and we bled the brakes and carried on. But it was a bit hairy.

Viv, how were you feeling? It was a bit worrying. A few more grey hairs.

You have lovely memories in your lovely white Cortina. What's your

happiest memory? Going on camping holidays with the children, Spain

and Portugal. It was our family car. Isn't it time Rod bought you a

sporty number? Well, I have got another car at home. Well, you are

Have a look at Andrew Marr! LAUGHTER

Isn't that just fantastic. Lyn, well, you had a right time on

the way. Let us know what you did about half-way along the journey?

My husband asked me to get into the car and take it on to the grid at

the Hockenheim ring and we kept going around the circuit. It was

brilliant. I loved it. I want to do it again.

Lyn Got in before you? The first time my car is on a racetrack and

she is driving. But I am going to buy her a day's driving at Brand's

Hatch for her birthday. We're going to jump into your car.

Alex, are you driving or do you me me to? You better drive.

This is brilliant. Right... OK, here we go.

Don't forget, you can see Andrew's History of the World on Sunday