20/02/2014 The One Show

back on the BBC. We have the world's longest bunting. It's over three

kilometers long. Dave, down bunting. You've run out of time, my friend,

the show's on. All day he has been at it. All day.

There we are. Hello and welcome to the One Show with Fearne Cotton And

Matt Baker of course. We decorated our studio by covering the outside

and inside in as much bunting as humanly possible. Tonight's guest is

worth going the extra mile for. It's The Great British Sewing Bee host,

Claudia Winkleman. Yeah! Do you like it all? I love it. It's very, very

fancy. I just knocked it up. It's good. Oh, I was like - is somebody

getting married? All for you. I can't believe it. I have to wrap

myself in it. Every Wednesday night this studio turns into the set of

Film 2014, this is your second home? Quite. I got into trouble once, Alex

Jones keeps a sweetie area of chocolates. I haven't found it. I

will show you where it is. No worries, stick with me. I thought

they were mine. I would eat... Then she would come in on Thursday

morning and be go - who has stolen my chocolate. Claudia Winkleman. She

is in the Philippines and won't know anything about it. Don't tell he

her. Keep going. Being the award season, we had the BRITS last night

and the BAFTAs. We can see you in your dress. My eye makeup went

weird. BAFTA films. There have been brilliant ones this year. If The One

Show viewers could watch one, what would you recommend? OK. This is

going to come left field. This is the Best Film of the year. Best

Films I have seen called The Act of Killing. It won Best Foreign, Best

Documentary. It's an extraordinary film. It's quite a hard watch. It's

the best... It's knockout. Top tip. The last time you were on you said

how sorry you felt for your children because you didn't allow them to

have pets in the house. Yes. We have been looking at your social

petworking site. Can you explain this little girl. I'm in love. She

is so cute. We want to keep her small, we are not feeding her. I'm

kidding! My little girl is seven. She is adorable, she has two

brothers. They leave her out. For Christmas she did, I shouldn't say

this, she is not watching, she is fast asleep. I hope! She does her

sealed note to Father Christmas. My son, who is almost 11 was like - I'd

like trainers, I'd like this and that" the two-year-old was like,

"I'd like a jigsaw puzzle, dinosaur and baby donkey." She doesn't talk

like that. My daughter wrote, "dear Father Christmas, I suppose you are

busy. I would like pens with lids on." The that is all she asked for.

My husband is a genius double bluff. She got a cat. She had no idea. I

would love a cat like that. When you give a pet to a child. You never

know what they will call. It I asked her the week before. If you

magically got something new, what would you call it. She went - "mummy

that is no problem, I would call it Angel, angel Energy Bar." The she

went. No, she will be called Biscuit." I have become a cat lady.

I stroke her. I'm fully-fledged. How many do you have? Three. What are

you talking about. Talking pets today. Sewing as well. We thought we

would knit the two together. Come on. Ask for your knitted pets. Maybe

you have knitted a pet a jumper or sewn them a scarf. This is dreamy.

This is 20 minutes. You could knock something up for Biscuit. Send your

pictures to the below address. We will show a few of the best ones at

the end. Depending on how many we get. Maybe a hat. A hat for a

spider. Don't say the word spider, I will openingly weep. A taxi journey

from Nottingham Railway Station to Trent Bridge Cricket Ground usually

costs ?3.50. When we called to book a cab for our reporter, Sophie

Morgan, the cost rose to ?15. Four times the original amount. We have

been looking into whether this sort of discrimination is more common

than than you might think. Here is a question, should people in

wheelchairs have to pay more for their journeys able able-bodied

passengers? We discovered that some taxi firms are charging extra if you

are in a wheelchair. Many other companies refuse to take people like

me altogether. Researchers from The One Show tried to book

wheelchair-friendly taxis with 50 different companies from across the

UK. We recorded the calls. I don't have wheelchair accessible taxis,

I'm' afraid. Wouldn't do wheelchair, sorry. We haven't got wheelchair

access. Only 18 of the 50 companies that we called said that they could

cope with a passenger in a wheelchair. Even then, some of their

fares were shocking. One company quoted a maximum of ?3.50 for an

able-bodied passenger. It was a different story when our researcher

asked if there was a taxi that could make the same journey for someone in

a wheelchair. We do have one available. It would be ?15 for the

journey. ?15. More than four times the price for an able-bodied

passenger. They weren't the only ones. Half the companies who would

take us were charging more for a wheelchair passenger. Sarah Clifford

is from the Disabilities Trust. We get a significant number of

complaints about taxi companies, either people are being exploited

and really badly overcharged. Or people won't pick them up at all. A

little bit of higher fare to take account of expenses or longer time

to help people in and out of the Tam taxis is one thing. Real

exploitation is another thing entirely. Are the private hire cabs

breaking the law? Is the Equality Act applies to all cab companies.le

it means that reasonable adjustments have to be made for disabled

passengers. What is "reasonable"? Is it seems to be open to

interpretation. V cars is one of the biggest private hire cab firms in

Bristol. They operate 380 vehicles and only five are adapted for

wheelchairs. Is that reasonable? Drivers aren't legally bound to have

a wheelchair accessible vehicle. It's also down to the cost of buying

one. Is it very expensive to buy an accessible vehicle? In the region of

?25,000 to ?30,000. How much is a normal taxi? Is You can pick one up

for ?7,000. Is do you not think it's unfair that you don't offer me, a

wheelchair user, the same service that you offer everybody else? Is

It's slightly unfair. I agree. But we are working within the law. It

prurl comes down to money. V Cars are aware of the problem and offer

some wheelchair adapted vehicles. Some companies are shirking their

responsibilities. Why aren't local councils doing more to improve

standards. Nick Carter is licensing manager here in Bristol. There is a

real issue with the private hire companies. I wish there was an easy

solution. I understand completely the issues you are facing. It's

fantastic the council is trying to understand why it's not happening.

What are you actually going to do about improving it? We need to

change the behaviours of some parts of the private hire trade to make

sure the situation doesn't continue. We're very happy to hear from people

who have suffered this injustice. If they will work with us, we'll work

with them to see if we can actually take some some drivers to court.

It's encouraging that Bristol Council has promised to tackle this

issue head on. Our research shows this is a problem wheelchair users

are forced to deal with on a daily basis. It's pretty clear. More needs

to be done across the whole of the UK to make taxis much more

accessible for everyone. Sophie is with us. After having that

conversation, how did it leave you feeling, shocked, angry? Yeah, both.

The I mean, it is frustrating. It's frustrating on so many levels. It's

unfair across the board that people have to deal with this. The fact is,

disabled people rely on taxis an enormous amount because public

transport is difficult to access at times. To be charging extra is one

thing. To refuse a passenger altogether is another. It was

frustrating. It was great to talk to someone and say - what will you do

about it 1234? You spoke to people in that film on the charging side,

you can understand from the small taxi firm's point of view, ?25,000

to ?30,000 is a lot of money? Yeah. It felt hard sitting there saying,

why aren't you doing this. I can see it's not something everyone wants to

do. They want to cater for everybody. The answer, in your eyes?

The answer really, in an ideal world, the Government would step in

and say, we can hand out grants and support people and help them to be

able to access things... It's human right. We should be able to do the

same as everybody else. It is hard for small businesses. It's not just

taxis, this happens all the time. All over the place. Hotels,

restaurants, bars. It just happens all the time. You will take this

further, right? I would love to. I would love to be able to. I'm a

small person, one person to do all this. So much to tackle. So many

problems. It's across the board. I think if all of us, if all disabled

people, I would really encourage anyone watching to be able to say

that we actually, when we encounter this kind of discrimination, it is

discrimination, we don't always know our rights. To be able to go and do

things like call the Equality Commission has an advice line you

can ring. You can get help and support. Don't let it happen. It's

not about suing people. I'm not saying that. Go out there and say, I

don't want to stand for this any more. Sure. Claudia, anybody who saw

Sowing Bee, one of the contestants, Lynda is deaf, has it been hard to

adjust things. He she doesn't seem to be bothered at all No the at all.

A signer in the room would help her if she couldn't see anybody. She is

a brilliant lip reader. That got us intoes trouble. I would say, "get me

a biscuit" she would be like, "are you having a biscuit, I didn't think

it was biscuit time yet" I was like, "Lynda you are supposed to be making

a skirt." Thank you. For further information on anything we have

spoken about head to the one show website. BBC security correspondent,

Gordon Corera, has made a series of spy films for The One Show. Tonight

his final installment links directly to Claudia Winkleman's TV career.

This is so sad. I would never call it a "career" it's things I do when

I'm not asleep. Soviet spies were rife on the UK shores in 1960s, Oleg

Lyalin took on a disguise. Was it, a, a professional ballroom dancer?

Was it b, a film director? Russian B movies. Is C, a knitwear Ied trade

delegate? Let's find out, shall we? This is fun! In the late '60s London

had a problem. The city was infested with unwelcome visitors. The capital

was home to a nest of spies. Soviet agents were everywhere in London in

the 1960s. A memo to the Prime Minister, Edward Heath, in 1971,

concluded there were at least 120 Soviet agents in the UK. Is one of

those was Oleg Lyalin, born in southern Russia. He was recruited to

the KGB in the 1950s. He was sents to London under the auspices of

being a knitwear trade delegate. He was actually a key member of the KGB

in London much he would go on to play a pivotal role in Cold War

Angelo Soviet relations. Jill Bennett is a a foer Foreign Office

historian. Who was he? He was a member of what Moscow centre called

"department B" a special department of spies working on sabotage and

subversion in foreign countries. He had a reputation for being a very

hard man, an expert in unarmed combat. Had been suspected in

various assassinations, but what he was here for really was to organise

the activities of department B for sabotage and subversion against the

British state. The task of monitoring him and his fellow spies

was running the British security service ragged. Tailing one agent

24-hours a day required vast resources. In 1968, the Labour

government had tried to reduce the number who could work at the Soviet

embassy in London. They got round it by appointing people to other jobs.

Such as in the Soviet trade delegation and having people'ses

wives carrying on espionage activities. The Oleg Lyalin might

have been a crack agent, he had an Achilles heal. He had fallen in love

with his secretary. He wanted a new life, free from the KGB. He

approached MI5 offering to defect, but while they were weighing things

up, matters came to a head here on this very street when he was driving

home drunk one night. His car was spotted driving erratically by the

police. As he and his secretary drove up Tottenham Court Road. He

was pulled over. His secretary ran off. A drunk Lyalin protested that

no-one could touch him as he was a KGB agent. He was alest rested and

taken to a safe house where MI5 questioned him. George was on the

Soviet desk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the time. He

was the first to see the file on Oleg Lyalin.

MI5 provided me with a wodge of paper and I opened the first pages

and it had a description of where it would need handy to land a submarine

on the shores of Britain. I thought, this is extraordinary. We were used

to Russian agents attempting to run spies in our country, that is what

they do, but here you have enough spare capacity for people to sort of

run around planning future wars. Part of Lyalin's testimony remains

classified, but rumours abound as to what he did. George and his

colleagues made the extraordinary suggestion to expel all 105 agents

that Lyalin had named. He was a trigger to a mood of irritation

which had been building up with Russian overconfidence, cockiness in

the intelligence community. Suddenly, no one had an answer to

the question, why don't we just throw them all out? The government

went with the plan and the agents were rounded up and taken to

Heathrow. Russia responded by expelling 18 British diplomats from

Moscow. Oleg Lyalin was given a new identity and continued to work for

MI5 until his death in 1995. The Metropolitan Police officer who

stopped a tipsy Russian for drink driving that night on Tottenham

Court Road probably did not think he would be changing diplomatic

relations forever, but that is exactly what the case Oleg Lyalin

did. All because he fell in love with his

secretary, like a movie. Now, the bunting gracing our studio this

evening is down to the readers of Woman's Weekly, who have

collectively sold, knitted and stitched a massive 3.3 kilometres of

it, making it world record-breaking. What better reason to hang event to

celebrate the second series of The Great British Sewing Bee, which

started on Tuesday. All of the candidates survived on Tuesday but

next week policeman David may have stitched himself up. How is it

going? I ignored the pattern because it did not work with the fabric. Did

you just tell me you ignore the pattern? Brave. This is one full

square. You wanted complete symmetry. Hold it up. Wow! That

would be nice for a goal. Super cute, but very small because he

changed the button. You have an eclectic mix of contestants. The

production company are so clever because they find people who do not

want to be on TV. It is not the usual, is this my best light,

because they find extraordinary people who are brilliant amateurs

from every walk of life. John Lewis has seen a 54% rise in sample

patterns being sold, probably down to your show. Have you had more

applicants this year? Many more. On the first one we were turning up,

and this year lots of people were also put forward by daughters,

husbands, and I think the policeman's White said, come on, you

are sewing all the time. How are your sewing skills now, because in

the first series you said you could not do it. I said to my daughter I

would make a summer dress. Three armholes. I don't know how I managed

that. She has options. I said, let's not tell anyone. It is all about

having a go. Sewing and knitting are on trend. People are knitting

backstage at the fashion shows. Do you want to take up knitting? I will

tell you, the coolest schoolmarm and my son's school, she always turns up

wearing a grey skirt, with stuff on it, and she buys everything from the

high Street and then she adds it. I have got very into that. A bit of

pink velvet. Customising. Last year's winner, 75 years of

experience. Can anybody be as good? Yes. Really! She was absolutely

amazing. But some of the contestants this year are amazing. Somebody can

be right at the top and then have a bad alteration challenge, my

favourite, and go right to the bottom. It is really exciting to

watch, I think. It would take me longer to go out and buy a top than

the amount of time you give them to make them. It is remarkable. The

Great British Sewing Bee continues on Tuesday at 8pm on BBC Two. Time

for some knitting news. We are not joking, this is all true. In China,

a devoted wife spent 11 years knitting her husband a cardigan and

hat out of her own hair. I am not OK with that. She pulled over 116,000

strands from her head. Her husband did not comment. On a Pembrokeshire

farm, an ostrich lost all her back feathers chewing a fight with

another ostrich and keepers are asking the public to knit her a

jumper to keep her warm and encourage feather growth. Over to

you. You are never getting these back. I always think glasses should

be sideways. People of Scottish heritage around the globe are busy

sewing stories together to create a giant tapestry. He is Lucy Siegle.

-- here is Lucy Siegle. Communities around the world have

Scottish roots going back centuries and many have amazing stories which

are now being told through a special Scottish tapestry for the Scottish

diaspora. The brainchild of an artist, he comes up with a picture

he thinks tells the best tales. How does it work? We tried to make

contact with lots of associations around the world, and through that

came a group of people around the world who were interested in telling

their stories. Through word-of-mouth we began to collect about 500 people

around the world who wanted to stitch a story. Volunteers stencil

the creation onto cloth before it is sent back to the communities that

came up with the story to be stitched, wherever that may be. When

finished, they are returned to Scotland to be stretched and

prepared for display. There is so much detail. Look at the shoes.

Amazing. Not all of the stitching is being done abroad. Leona, what are

you doing in Scotland? Why is your story part of this? This panel is to

commemorate the link between the Russians and the Arctic convoys who

left from Scotland. My father was on one which left in 1942 in September

and went to Archangel. This is his ship. This is as far as I have got,

and I am trying to interpret the etching lines with the same kind of

texture on the ship, but using dazzle colours. Dazzle was

introduced in 1942 to break up the outlines of the ships. When did your

dad died? In 2000. He was 88. It was when I started clearing out his

house but this came to light. What a lovely way to commemorate him. This

is amazing. There are so many stories in this tapestry, tales of

courage, adventure, exploration, and then there are the very personal

stories. This is a love story. Tell me about them. My aunt married a

prisoner of war, stationed at a local prisoner of war camp. So she

is your auntie and he is a prisoner of war. One was coming on a bus on

the other was going off. Their eyes met and they fell in love. How does

it feel to be stitching their story? Because it is personal, it means

more. It means a lot more. It is really emotional. Can I see how you

are getting on? Let's have a look. You are doing well. This is good.

This dress is going to be brilliant. I hope so.

As we could see, so much love and personal history going into this. It

is a global effort. The panels are so beautiful, 25 Nations stitching

for glory. There is a panel in Alabama in the States, depicting a

Scottish man who became a Cherokee Chief. I heard about one from New

Zealand which somebody's ancestor from Scotland invented frozen meat,

which you might think is hard to do with embroidery, but they have

managed it. Canada, on Tyrie, they have someone who founded a town who

was from Scotland. It is amazing and they are all coming into this place

in Scotland. We have many panels stitched by ladies in the

Netherlands at the Scottish House Museum. We have a live link with

them. They are in Veere. They have stitched six panels so far. Can you

explain your link with Scotland? Your queen of Mary. From that moment

on, Scottish workers were here, trading. You have your very own

tartan, looking lovely. They have done six beautiful panels. Thank

you, ladies. Enjoy the celebrations when the tapestry makes it.

Claudia, we hinted at spiders earlier and we had that reaction. Is

this the spider show? Are you OK with lizards? How many species are

native to the UK? 400. Sky and macro the answer is three. The slow worm

is a legless lizard. You have the common lizard as well. And the sand

lizard, the largest of them all. I don't know why we didn't just send

you! Hiding under the heathland heather,

the UK's largest and rarest lizard, the sand lizard. They are having a

really tough time. But a team of volunteers are giving the sand

lizard a helping hand, and it starts right here in an unassuming garden

in Surrey. Mike Preston has converted part of his garden and

some parts of his house into a breeding centre for this most

charismatic of reptiles. We are standing in one of your huge Viv

areas. How long have you been rearing this creature. We were

looking for snakes in the wild and we thought, all of these wild places

are going, being built on, dug up and forested, so we decided to do

something about it. Is it difficult to rear sand lizard is? Given the

right conditions, they do it themselves. They need somewhere to

hibernate, they need cover, bare sand to lay eggs, and a plentiful

supply of food. With all of that, they are fine. He rears over 250

every year. The eggs laid outside are carefully hatched in doors,

where he feeds the juveniles until they are ready for release. There

are a few key areas in the UK where sand lizard 's can still be found.

Their preferred habitat has disappeared, so the picky sand

lizard has gone into serious decline. Working closely with Mike

Preston, the amphibian and reptile trust have been overseeing the

release of the baby lizard in Surrey. Explain why this habitat is

perfect for this reintroduction? The most important thing is maintaining

the areas of their sand. This is where the females will lay eggs in

summer and animals will bask in the sunshine all your long. Heathland

requires constant management to maintain it for the species that

have evolved to live here. The first lizard. That looks like a good spot.

OK, over to you. Of course, this is BBC part, releasing them. A lot of

hard work has gone to getting them to this stage. Absolutely. It is

important to release them on a day like today so they have the best

chance of getting through the night in their new home. Hopefully they

will survive until winter and hibernate. When they emerge next

spring, it depends how well they have their wits about them. There

could be high mortality rates but that is what you would have in the

wild as well. This 30 year reintroduction scheme has been

amazingly successful. 80% of lizard releases have established a new

breeding population. Projects like this can only happen with the hard

work and dedication of people like Matt and Mike and an army of

behind-the-scenes volunteers. With their help, hopefully this

charismatic little lizard will be given a second chance of survival

and will pull away from extinction. The lengths that some people go to

as animal lovers. Earlier, we asked for your knitted outfits for

animals, and we have had thousands. You have made my day with these

chicken jumpers. This is a rescue lurcher and greyhound. Something to

rival Biscuit. These lurcher and greyhound. Something to

year. That is all we have time for. The Great British Sewing Bee

continues on BBC Two on Tuesday at 8pm. Tomorrow, Chris and I are

joined by Paloma Faith. Have a good evening.