19/10/2012 The One Show

They find. Hello, friends. Welcome to Friday's One Show with Alex

Jones. Tonight's guests make-up two sevens of the biggest-selling

British band of the 80s. When you need someone to play on the roof of

Buckingham Palace, and Brian May is saving badgers, who do you call?

Please welcome, from Madness, Suggs So, it has been a great year,

hasn't it? Not bird. One of the best? Probably. No one could have

expected the Queen would invite us to her party and the Olympics would

be in London and we were invited to both. And she let you play on the

roof. How did that happen. They needed somebody to replace the lead.

It happened because we were asked to play at the Jubilee and there

was a story of us being on the main stage. Maybe somebody did not want

us there, so they thought, stick them as far away as we can get them.

And it became the highlight of the night. It would seem that way. I do

not ever remember a reaction like that. Playing on the roof of

Buckingham Palace is one thing, but that video projection! There was an

audible gasp. I think people actually thought it had collapsed.

You have a problem with heights? You were pretty high up. I am not

mad on heights. When we rehearsed and there was nobody there, I found

it more difficult, because the adrenalin was going and you were

not thinking about where you were because you were in outer space at

that point. And is it true that you spoke to the Queen afterwards and

did a bit of a Tommy Cooper joke? Yes. She comes along and you do not

know what to save. Have you met her? What did you say to her?

said I was taking over from Terry Wogan full stock she said, I do not

have time to listen to the radio. asked if she was into football. She

said, not really. I said, can I have your cup final tickets?

you really? Did you witness this? It is a good story, a great moment.

Well, House of Fun is one of their biggest hits, so we are asking how

much fun you are having in your house right now. Send a picture and

we will show some of the silliest later. Plus, the premier of a

remake of the Baggy Trousers video. Also, Len Goodman quick steps back

to his childhood home. First, the incredible performances at the

Paralympics showed that is ability need not be a barrier to anything.

And there is one person who is the epitome of that sentiment and I met

him on Wednesday. Just look at this. I am at a place where disability is

not a hindrance. They are a charity that have taken over 1000 people

high into the skies. But some have pushed their flying experience even

further. After three years and over 130 flight hours of training, 32-

year-old Nathan Doidge gained his private pilot's licence, which now

means he can single-handedly operate an aeroplane and fly solo.

Good morning, Nathan. Hello. you ready? Yes. Tell us about your

disability. I have cerebral palsy. The aircraft has been adapted.

have the hand control here, instead of the pedals. But apart from that,

everything is standard. What is the weather like today? Very bumpy and

very windy. So it will be fun. will be on. -- it will be fun. The

charity director has put everyone from schoolchildren to wounded

service personnel up among the clouds. We work with all sorts of

physical disabilities. I have had people with spinal injuries,

multiple sclerosis, neurological disorders, mental health issues. We

have always found a way to get somebody in the air. Nathan is one

of those people that grabs every opportunity with both hands. It is

great for us to give him the facilities to be able to fulfil his

Nathan, flying, when did you first dream about it and how did you make

it a reality? I have wanted to fly since I was a kid. It is a big

confidence boost. And the best bit, for me, is challenging people's

perceptions of disabled people. other disabled people are watching

and they want to fly, give them some advice. Just do it. Just do it.

That is your motto for everything, isn't it? Just do it, baby. And how

fly up -- how far are you going to take the flying? I have always

loved aerobatics. Not just now! thought I would mention that now.

Currently, there are about 50 disabled solo pilots in Great

Britain and the numbers are growing every year, and with spirits and

souls like Nathan as inspiration, who knows how far they will go.

The sky literally is the limit. Nathan, we have made it down to the

ground. How was it for you? Great. Thank you for flying. I am happy to

go up with you any time. Are you happy to go up with me any time?

Yes. All right, cheers. Do you know what he wants to do

next? What? He wants to break the skydiving record for a tandem

skydive for a disabled person. He has already jumped 15,000 feet. I

asked how high you would go and he said, as high as they will take me.

So, sponsor that guy. Right. You are not supposed to say things like

that. For him, we can say anything we want. Having spoken about the

Jubilee and the closing ceremony, which one of those were you most

nervous about? I don't know if I was nervous. It was so so real it

was like a marshmallows dream. Both were different. Royal protocol is

very stiff and you have to be on your best behaviour. Which did you

find out about first? I think the Olympics was first. Yes. There was

some dispute about playing Our House at both. The Queen was going

to appear at both. The Olympics was more nerve-racking because we were

hanging around in a waiting hanger for a long time. We had the Pet

Shop Boys riding bicycles with traffic cones on their heads to the

left. It was getting overwhelming. I had to ask quickly, what is the

first line? I had forgotten. that the most nervous you had ever

been? Pretty much. And we were on the back of a truck with nothing to

hang on to, so there was every opportunity to fall off. But you

did not. You have a new album out. There has been a lot of talk about

the title of the album, which made up the design of the cover. There

were lots of ideas about what we should call it. We went to Peter

Blake, who said he would do a painting for us. Peter Blake of

Sergeant Pepper. The final title is Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da. That was

all of the titles that we went through. The management were saying,

do you want to show the indecision? Peter Blake said, do not tell me

you have changed your mind. He said, I am just going to write out all of

the titles and cross them out and we ended up with Oui Oui Si Si Ja

Ja Da Da. Which pretty much sums are sup, an affirmation of life.

There is a new single, which is the sequel to a song you sang many

years ago, My Girl. Simon macro yes, it is written by the same person. I

am not sure whose My Girl 2 is, but there is obviously a second person

in his life. The that is the name # I have been wondering about you

and do things you do # I'm in love, but you drive me mad

# So sad to be losing you # Last night, when we had that

fight in your car in # I like the story about how you

try to raise the speed of your songs in the charts over the last

couple of decades. What does that mean? Beats per minute. We have

always tried to keep their energy. We write from the perspective of

old men, but we try to give the music lively. And you have a theory

that music is slowing down. Bid has gone down in the beats per minute.

It is so lively, but is it true that you created an earthquake?

That is true. One step beyond started 36,000 fans jumping. There

was a sofa that went across the room, windows cracked. Sums

seismologists rang the police and said it was asked. You're doing it

again, starting at Butlins and finishing with two at the 02 Arena.

Not bad. The effect of a brilliant year. 33 years, Madness. Did you

ever think the sentence would be so long? The batteries of nearly run

out. It is different now in that I can remember most of it. When I was

18 it was a blur. I heard you were really hard core. Some people would

be surprised by our drink rider. How many people have been in the

band. How many ex Magners people would be watching this evening? --

Madness people. We cannot tell you where the bodies are buried. Jay is

here and his breath smells fabulous. Why are you so fragrant? I have

been to meet the man intending to make a mint out of mint.

This is a crop that would have been a common sight in Britain until the

Second World War. It is black Mitcham peppermint, once grown in

volume, not to seasons birds but to produce aromatic oils, for

everything from food flavouring to decongestant. English peppermint

oil was once the envy of Europe. So when the owner of this farm in

Hampshire decided to grow that her then make his own high quality oil,

he never expected it would take 12 years to get it right. What is the

difference between this, which you might find in your back garden, and

the mint you are growing? Well, this will taste very nice with your

new potatoes. So you could eat it raw. What about yours? Well, that

is bred intensively to produce maximum oil in the leaf. If you

were to eat it, you would find it very powerful. And you would

probably be pretty frightened if you got a mouthful of it. It is

rather indigestible. Black Mitcham peppermint was originally developed

in Surrey and became famous for its quality. It disappear during the

Second World War when the fields were needed for essential food

crops. Since then, the confectionery trade has come to

rely on cheaper blended peppermint oil from a variety of international

sources. Sir Michael wanted to re- establish the crop and its

reputation in Britain. I did not do it for romantic reasons. I did it

for good business reasons. What I wanted to do was to offer pure

quality oil to the consumer, because you can taste the

difference. Like producing a fine wine or whisky, achieving the

perfect peppermint oil is a time- consuming and complicated process.

This is quite a difficult crop. Unlike spearmint, which will grow

like a weed, this crock is quite difficult. It is quite lazy and it

only roots in about three inches of soil. All of the roots go sideways,

not down, so it is prone to moisture loss. We want a wet spring

with gentle rain. And when we get to June, we want a lot of sun. What

we are after, the oil glands are in belief and they respond to sunlight,

and that is what we are after. is left to dry for 24 hours before

harvesting. The trailer full of peppermint leaves is sealed and

steam is fed into a pipe to cook the contents for several hours.

I extracting the oil by using steam. We put steam through the crop and

we boil it out and the vapour comes off and we distil that and condense

it, until the end up with separate essential oil and the water comes

off and runs to waste. I don't want to be insulting, but this little

dribble of oil, this is it. This dribble of oil is it. It is very

It is pure. It is the smell of every mint you have ever eaten or

condensed in one. It is. From each trailer, containing three-and-a-

half tonnes, around 17 litres of pure oil is extracted. Left to

mature for 18 months, the oil goes to flavour high quality

confectionary, tea and essential oils, selling at around �40 for a

small 100 mill letter bottle. Thank you. I am a fan of peppermint tea.

That is very good. Would you like one? I will offer you one of your

own sweets. They show the quality of the oil very well. The purest

form of delivering the peppermint you can get. There is something

good and old fashioned about these, isn't there? That is what I think.

I agree with you. Very hard to talk when you have one in your mouth

though! What do we like best, the mint or

the eyebrows? The eyebrows should be listed I think. For the sake of

the nation, so we can gather around them. They were fantastic.

drank peppermint tea when you were off ill? I was as sick as a dog

last week, which is why I was not here. It helped. I don't want to

live it again. It was not nice! What are we growing in Britain that

we have not grown for a while or at all? Those twigs are liquorice.

Pontefract had it. It died out. There is a farmer, Robert Copley.

He has planted the crop on his land. For the next couple of years, he

hopes to harvest a couple of tonnes of good liquorice root.

What else? Well, there are some interesting things. For example,

saffron. It suezr used to be a very important -- it used to be a very

important spice. Still worth more weight for weight than gold. It had

stopped being grown in such a number. It is now being grown in

Wales and has been since 1985. Something extraordinary. There are

melons being grown in Kent and Staffordshire. It can only be

Madness! # Madness

# They call it Madness # Let me give you another one. Stand

by! Since 2006 they have been growing tea in Cornwall. They are

about to start growing coffee and bananas in Cornwall. It's Madness.

This is up for an award this one! How far can we go. All right,

wasabi. A root, we eat a lot of it. Most that we get here tends to be

wasabi, some horseradish. This is fresh wasabi and it is grown in

Dorset by a farmer. Wasabi - grown didn't get to dance. It's madness.

Got to give the kids what they want!

Just lick it clean. It is really powerful stuff. It knocks you out.

Don't give it to our guests. I have wanted to do this to a guest....

Where's the peppermint tea? Now it is starting to be grown here. The

fact all these things are being grown here is a tes meant to all

that we are growing. Your happy house - you have written your own

theme "I am watching you. I am nine weeks' old." Great handwriting,

baby Danny. This is Fraya, hanging around watching The One Show.

about swinging in your kitchen. Who doesn't want a swing in their

kitchen? This is Fraser. He is ten months

old from Shetland, getting a bath while we are on. Well, those are

your houses. Would you like to see Len Goodman's house. The one where

we grew up. I'm Len Goodman. I am going back to

the street where I used to live. It's Blackfen Road, sip cup, Kent.

This is it -- Sidcup, Kent. This is it. It has not changed, as far as I

can see. This is where I lived from about four until I was about ten.

No blue plaque on the wall - Len Goodman lived here. As for the

garden... My dad would be turning in his grave. Honestly, he loved

his gardening. Just down the bottom here he planted a special plant. I

remember him saying to me, Lenny, that plant will grow like you grow.

Every year it will get an inch taller. Any way I cocked my leg

over that fence one time, I knocked about four years off of it. I got

such a wall lop, you can't believe it. Any way, it has gone now. What

It's the same. My mum used to sit in that kitchen.

We used to play cowboys and Indians. I would hide around here. Then I

would hide. My mum would shoot an arrow at me. I would be Roy

rodgeers, with Trigger. -- Rodgers, with Trigger. This is the front

room. There used to be a record player thing there. My dad would

put me on his feet and hold my hands and he would dance about. My

dad was a dancer. Oh, yes, a North London champion. He would dance

around with me on his feet. 1950- odd, the Queen's coronation, we had

the first television in Blackfen. My family had gone up in the world

and this room was packed. We started off here with humble

beginnings. My granddad started off with a barrow and gradually we got

a green grouseers and then two shops: We went from a little house

and here we were, semi detached. My mum was the hardest working,

kindest and most generous woman I ever knew. She earnt lots of money

and gave it all away to relatives and different people. She spoilt me.

She spoilt me rotten. When I was about nine, my dad and

mum split up, which was not a bad thing really, because they were

arguing all the time and so they split up. In those days, it didn't

happen. I was glad that my dad was able to say, "Look, this is not

healthy. This is not right." So, it was me and my old mum sitting in

This is different! I remember my mum cooking a stuffed marrow and

put it in the oven, three hours later it blew up. It knocked the

oven door off. There was minced meat and marrow everywhere. It was

a blood balt. -- bloodbath. Len Goodman lived here. This is my

bedroom. When my dad left, he left a little note for me - "don't think

I don't love you. I love you just the same. Me and your mum can't get

along." It all turned out for the best really. My dad found his wife.

My mum found my stepfather. They all lived happily ever after. So

sometimes a little bit of sadness can turn into a lot of joy.

Not only am I a war baby from a broken home, spoilt rotten, but

look how I have turned out - fabulous. I've been a lucky devil

you know. All my live. Living here The more you know about Len Goodman,

the more you like him. There is a lot to like to start off with. Love

you, Len. That was Len's house, but Our House,

the musical is back, isn't it? is the tenth anniversary of the

musical. It is on at The Savoy theatre. November 11th. I am

staring in it. It is all in aid for help of heroes. Most of that was

right, wasn't it? What about your house? What about Spiderman,

infiltrating this house here? He is saving the world before bed time

and in front of the TV. I have these three having a sleepover

during the show. No central heating - that is sad, isn't it? Here is

Laura, surrounded by balloons, as happy as can be. "This is our

Friday night," they say, fighting. Suggs, do you remember Baggy

Trousers, do you remember where you shot the video? It was in Ken tish

town. -- Kentish Town. That is now

Kentish Town C of E Primary School. That is them over there. Have you

had a good time? ALL: Yes! They have remade Baggy Trousers. We

cannot show it on the TV. Of course we can and we will, kids.

We will. That is all for tonight. Thanks to

Suggs and Chas. Good luck with Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da. Next week,

on this programme, Sir David Attenborough, Dawn French, Al

Murray and Danny Baker will be with us. As promised here are the kids

of Kentish Town C of E Primary School with their version of Baggy

# Naughty boys # Headmasters breaking all the

rules # Smashing up the wood work tools

# Trying not to think when the lunch time bell will ring again