20/06/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to a rare glimpse of The One Show with Matt Baker.

referendum coverage we've found it hard to get a look in recently.

Awkward because when Dave opened up this morning he found one

of the world's leading a capella groups outside.

They'd flown in specially but the schedulers wouldn't be moved.

Then we told them someone had brought in an amazing machine that

But when we explained who was hammering at the door

demanding to sit on the sofa tonight they finally they gave in.

And great line-up to. This machine that makes breakfast. Do not call it

today Teasmade, what ever you do. -- do not call it a Teasmade, whatever

you do. Not that there's anything wrong with

a Teasmade. If you could invent an all in one

machine what would it do? Maybe a robot butler. They could

maybe get a machine that would dress you. Could they do that? We will

ask. This morning I went to interview

Britain's greatest ever She was the first British female

gymnast to win European, World and Olympic medals and in 2010

she was given an MBE. But earlier this year her life

was turned upside down after agreeing to take part

in a celebrity TV challenge show. It involved a ski jump. For Beth

Tweddle it all started at the age of seven. In a career that spanned 13

years, Beth won numerous titles. She was world champion three times and

after winning her Olympic medal she retired as the most successful

British gymnast in the history of the sport. Then, on the 7th of

February this year, tragedy struck. The Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle has

had surgery on two fractured vertebrae in her neck. The gymnast

to won bronze in the London 2012 Olympics crashed into a barrier. Her

parents say early indications have been positive. She has been able to

move her hands and feet. Five months on and I am meeting up with Beth to

find out how her recovery is going. Beth, how you doing? Good, thanks.

Come and have a seat over here. Let's go back to the start. What was

it about The Jump that made you want to do it in the first place? For me,

it was another way to try new challenges. I was learning from some

of the best coaches in the world. Read you think about the possibility

of getting injured? I think you always think about that. -- did you

think. There is always a risk. What happened with that jump? The short

is, I did a jump, and I collided with a barrier. I fractured and

dislocated my neck. They took a small piece of bone from my hip, put

it between the two vertebrae, and I have a bolt and four screws in there

now and it is fusing back together. You have coped with a lot of

physical injury in your time, but this is a very different thing for

you all stop for me, it is still quite a hard thing to talk about. --

different thing for you. That is why I am using a sports psychologist.

That is why I am processing the details. Your family have always

been by your side throughout your gymnastics career, all over the

world, where they with you at the time? They had flown out to watch me

that weekend. When I was given that information, you have broken your

neck, I had them by my side. My brother walked into the room, I just

started sobbing, I was just so happy to see him. The amount of support I

was getting from the general public, sending the messages, saying, we

have had the same injury as you, we know you will begin a dark place

right now, but we are now running marathons. That put a smile on my

face, thinking I am not the only one who has gone through this. As far as

regret is concerned, how do you feel about it on that front? If you could

take the accident out of it, of course I don't regret it, but it has

been a very hard road. I have been lucky to have say mini people to

support me on that road. -- so many people. Throughout this five months,

have you ever doubted the fight you had in yourself? I've been upset. I

kept saying to my parents, why am I doing this? This is so unfair. When

I was a gymnast, I don't remember that aspect. Where do you want to go

from here? I want to be able to go out there and do what I normally do.

Love working with children. Inspiring them to achieve their

dreams. I'm glad to say I pushed through it. You can tell it is still

really raw. She is an inspiration. Even just

hearing her talk. All of the physical injury she has had as a

gymnast, she's never had to cope with psychological issues like this.

She is fighting it and she will. How did she appear to you

off-camera? Unsettled. In a way that she's

coping with things she's never had to cope with before. But she's

getting through it. She will beat it.

Bill, you always said you will never take any part in any reality TV show

like this, and I imagine this hasn't changed your mind. Absolutely. There

are risks involved in everything. But that particular one was

particularly risky. A friend of mine, Marcus Brigstocke, he was

injured, as well. Of course. That extreme sport stuff is always risky.

I'm not going with it. Stick with your tour.

Stick with your stand-up. And we are going to talk about Limboland. It is

the longest or you've ever done. You have extended the dates. What have

you hit upon that people love so much? The jokes, they are always

handy. It is a traditional stand-up show. Shows I have done in the

recent past have been technical. I have had a lot of screens, films,

animation, projection, and it all got out of hand. At one stage I was

thinking, this is starting to look like some sort of gigantic

multimedia spectacle, not stand-up. I made a conscious effort to make

this might a cabaret show, the stand-up I started out doing.

Traditional elements such as stories, music, lots of audience

participation. It is a very family friendly show, as well, people can

bring the kids. Three generations can come to the show. We have a clip

of you on the Michael McIntyre shown. British happiness is

basically knowing that things could have been a lot worse. That is

British happiness. British happiness is, what was your weekend like? Not

too bad. We thought it was going to be really bad, but we have dialled

it down to not as bad as we thought. We are measuring out our lives in

diminishing increments of diminishing expectation. Not too

bad. LAUGHTER

So true. You reflect on random decisions you

have made in your life. Looking back, which ones would have had the

most Matic effect on your life had he gone with them, because you

delivered cakes for a while, didn't you? I did. Dream job.

For many. Had I stuck with that things would have been very

different. Strange job. Sometimes the recipients were no longer there.

I would turn up, they would tell me they do not work here any more, I

would ask, what shall I do with the cake? They would say, you keep it.

So I lived off cake for a while. Music, maybe, I have been in music

bands... Review nearly became a music professor at one point, didn't

you? -- you nearly became. I did a diploma. The next step was a

teaching diploma. That is where I was headed. You have to have a lot

of patients to be a teacher. My attention span is too short. --

patience. I love spoken word, as well, I love... You know... There,

the language, the English language, it is a rich language. I would have

been very frustrated if I was a teacher. Do you remember the first

time you made somebody laugh? Yes... It was... When I was a kid. It was

at a funeral, actually, for an elderly aunt who has passed away.

There was tea and sandwiches at the house. I was copying an old Les

Dawson routine. I grew up watching him. He was fantastic. He did this

routine where he played Tchaikovsky's piano concerto and got

it slightly wrong. I practised this routine. I was playing this while

people were commiserating. My dad was talking to an elderly relative,

jinking tea, then he just spat it out all over this tiny woman's hair.

Then my mother swore. She never swore. She dropped a piece of cake.

I call it a chaos bomb had gone off. That was the power of comedy. At an

early age I just thought there was an enormous power in comedy.

You can see Bill in "Limboland" until 10th July.

Love it or loath it - modern art certainly divides opinion.

I kind of like it, yeah, I do. Quite funny, some of it.

With the new Switch building at Tate Modern opening

last Friday in London - we sent the people behind its

construction to give their opinion on some of the art exhibits.

And let's just say their reactions are mixed!

And Sarah, I'm an electrician, I worked at the new Tate modern

extension. To be honest, I'm not sure what I think about modern art.

I'm John, I was a project manager on the external scaffolding. My

experience of modern Art is very little. I sometimes feel it is like

the Emperor's new clothes. The critics call it art, and maybe

nobody else sees it. My name is Claire. My job here at the Tate was

an assistant construction manager. As far as art goes, some is decent,

I like it, I keep an open mind, some of it, I'm not too fussed about.

CHUCKLES My name is Jason. I was a brickwork

Foreman. For me, brickwork is art. I like the name of the new building,

it is called the switch house after the old electricity power station

that used to be here. But I would say that because I am a sparky. When

I was last here, the galleries were empty. The artwork was not in place.

I would be interested to see what the artwork looks like.

I like it, but I don't know if I liked being this close to it. I

don't like spiders. No, not at all. I don't mind some sculptures. My

normal taste would be into painting, things like that, straightforward

stuff, to be honest with you. What was the artist trying to convey?

CHUCKLES waste management, reuse, recycle,

put products to some sort of use. I wouldn't have it in my house, if I

had a big enough house, no. That building is the most difficult job I

have ever built and I will ever build. No doubt. Construction

started in 2010. First they had to construct a huge steel skeleton.

Concrete panels were bolted onto those pieces of steel. We were the

last ones to clad all of it with brickwork. The main thing about

those bricks is they all look very similar, but they are not. It is

just like one huge jigsaw puzzle in the sky. When I stand here and look

at it now, it makes me feel really proud I built that. I'm not too sure

what is on the inside, but I am looking forward to having a look at

it. It is a raw material. Once that raw

material is used, I believe that becomes art. I'm not so sure I can

see that as art. That, that is a stack of bricks. If I could get my

Netherlands to do it like that I would be well happy.

CHUCKLES -- levellers. This is fairly simple.

Mirrors with holes in. When you look through it it is infinite. You can

see a number of holes going on forever. A lot of people will enjoy

this one as soon as they see it. It is more like it. Nice and big, nice

and bold, colourful, bit of fun. Not really bothered about trying to

understand what the artist is trying to say, it is just pleasing. I would

have that one on my wall at home, but it would need to be a bit

smaller. CHUCKLES

She has brought country life into the future, I think that is what

that one is. I think the artist is trying to show how communication has

evolved. Very interesting. I love radios, I listen to them all the

time. There are some fantastic pieces of art in here, but for me it

is the building, that is the work of art, that is modern art for me.

That little bees got a lot of people talking. She is talking! -- little

piece. A Mannus joins us now -- MA Mannus. You saw what the constructor

is said and it had quite a reaction. Certainly, as cultural events go,

this is a big deal. 143,000 people have visited since it opened, so a

lot of contemporary art lovers out there. What makes it different to

the Boilerhouse is that there is 60% more space, going global, they

believe that great contemporary art comes from all over the world, they

will have more women artists, I think Devon team percent when the

Tate first opened -- 17%. Really exciting. The first museum to have

dedicated space for performance art and digital. If you like things like

Matisse's Smale, there is something for you. Give yourself a day to get

around it. Saying that, there are many people who are not huge fans of

modern Art and trying it for the first time. Is there a section that

they should try the first time? They have the start room which is really

an introduction but if you want to go to a room that epitomises what

they are about, go to the Sheila Goudie room, she has a piece called

Behold, it is car bumpers suspended on four kilometres of human hair.

What? Human hair! It is like being at a hairdresser. She would love

you, Bill? It epitomises the celebration of global art and women.

It is exciting, you will walk around thinking, what is this? In one room,

the start room, there is a Sainsbury's shopping list behind the

Perspex glass and I thought... But you realise what the art is. That's

what's fun, you don't have to connect with everything. Stay with

us because we are going to have a test for you both. If you want to

see Brenda's programme, it is an iPlayer now. Bill, it is time for

you to get some breakfast now. Finally I get something! If you've

just started watching, we have a machine, that is in the corner, it

will do toast can boil an egg, make a cup of tea, and then it will clear

up after you, in one go. That is the star prize. Pete Browne and Murphy

get are standing by with their invention now. --

there are strings attached. You may have heard the story of the young

boy who put a pair of glasses into an art medium in San Francisco and

people started taking photos of it. We're going to test you, four

pictures and you have two Guess which ones are real art exhibits and

which ones are fake. We have four, let's have a closer look. This is

the first one called Clean Sweep. OK, some of them you have mocked up?

Yes, the question is whether Swan Bifocal is real? This glass on a

shelf is called An Oak Tree. And we have this one called Memories. They

all look real to me, is it a trick question? Would you have gone to be

trouble to put out those brooms? No. Look at the bricks that were laid

out. The swan, maybe. The glass looks real, that is real. We like

that and then, what do you think, the dustpan and brush or the brooms?

I'd go for the brooms. Real or fake? You are saying two and four. Number

one, you are right, it is real art, A Clean Sweep by Lucien Smith,

inspired by the changing streets of his home City of New York. The

second one was created by our props department! The third one which you

said it was real, you are right, it is An Oak Tree by the conceptual

artist Michael Craig-Martin. Meaning that Memories was a prop, and here

is the proof! You mentioned the boiled egg earlier on. Would you

like to win it? It is all to play for, Bill. The question is this,

which landscape photo was sold for ?2.7 million in 2011? Which one is

it? Was it this one? OK, that's just somebody out in their car. Or this

one Weston these are just iPhone photos! 2.7 million, surely not.

Which one? Are we looking for the real one? I think the first one.

Correct, it is by Andreas Gursky. Put the egg on, it's going to

happen! Listening to Bill, quite a reminder of how important our voices

are to our identity. There was a clip of Bill talking on the radio

and you would recognise who he was, but our science man has been to meet

somebody facing the reality of losing his voice. Thanks to

technology, he will still be heard. The sound of your voice is unique.

It is as individual as your face or fingerprints. My voice is a very

important part of me, instantly recognisable to the people who know

me. So imagine having a disease where you are not only losing the

voice of your arms and legs, but your speech as well. Your ability to

communicate with the people you love. This is the dire prospect for

thousands of people with motor neurone disease. It is an Injera

ball, degenerative disorder that causes muscle wastage and often

leaves to -- leads to speech loss for the music teacher Malcolm Dowie

was diagnosed four years ago. Having music is my life, I have been a

singer, I have been on stage, a teacher, I need my voice to

communicate with people. I need my voice to cause trouble, it is me, it

is my identity. Can you imagine him without his voice? Not really! Is

not really. He has always been a very vocal person. Professor Stephen

Hawking has one of the most recognised computerised voices on

the planet. The accent is describable and everyone can

understand it. But in fact it is an off-the-shelf generic voice, one of

only a handful available to motor neurone sufferer 's. Scientists at

the Andy Raleigh clinic in Edinburgh are pioneering a way to give back

motor neurone sufferer is with the -- their voice. This speech

therapist is leading the study. So the voice bank project is aiming to

create personalised voices for people to use in communication aids

rather than the generic ones you might get pre-installed. Malcolm is

one of 100 people taking part in the voice banking trial. Today he's

going to record his voice before it is lost for ever. Here we go, when

the writing turns Reid, will you say that for me. Physicists have found

it is not reflection but refraction by the raindrops that causes

rainbows. Sorry. That's OK, we will try again. It would take too long to

record every word in the English language. To build a personalised

synthetic voice you need about ten hours of speech which was somebody

with a condition like motor neurone disease can be exhausting. Malcolm

will only need to record one hour of speech, which will then be

supplemented with recordings from a database. It will be matched and

blended with voices of a similar accent, tone and pitch. We all have

our egos and don't want to lose. The advantage of this system is that

they only need to take fragments of a voice, so even those patients

whose condition has deteriorated can be helped. In some ways, it is very

poignant, listening to him now. It is, yeah. To think that the

wonderful boys is going to go. Unfortunately that is the reality

for a lot of people, yes -- wonderful voice. It can take weeks

to build a complete synthetic voice but the team are giving Alchemy

preview of what is customised computer voice will sound like. --

giving Malcolm a preview. Now we will see what it sounds like, do you

want to type something in? OK. My new voice. Another wonderful way of

causing trouble. LAUGHTER What do you reckon? It is quite

emotional because it is part of him. It is quite reassuring and it gives

me that confidence. I think it is fantastic that this kind of

technology is going to mean I'm able to communicate, it gives me the

opportunity Kameni date -- to communicate using my own voice.

Outstanding. Wonderful. That's the most remarkable technology. Isn't

it? We have a bit of a technology theme this evening. Bill is waiting

for his breakfast. To bring you up to date, his tea has been brewed,

poured out and the livered as well. It is a beautiful colour. -- and the

livered. A beautiful colour, yes. -- and delivered. The verdict?

Delicious. We have the presenter of Britain's Most Spectacular Backyard

Builds, Piers Taylor with us. When you are looking for inventors, what

were you looking for? We were looking for projects that married

real artistry with invention but at the same time, were amateur in their

nature and all of these inventions are really set the breaking the

amateur. There we are! The amateur spirit that exists up and down the

country. Merv and Pete, it is mind-boggling. Tell us what is

happening. We didn't expect this, did we? Good save! Nobody saw that!

The egg is being delivered by the crane, as you can see, carefully

delivered. It will be the perfect egg delivered. There we go. It has

got a face on it. I'm going to grab it, there we go. Ooh!

APPLAUSE Well done. Where is it

APPLAUSE The whole thing is built around this

spoon, it started off in Peter's wife, Andrea's kitchen. We had the

idea of doing it, we wanted to hold the egg. How do you do that, eight

spoon. He took the silver one out of the draw, he bent it into that shape

and from that, the whole machine was built around it. Andrei didn't get

her spoon back. You are going to do the clearing away as we say goodbye?

That's remarkable, it is all we've got time for. Britain's Most

Spectacular Backyard Builds is on tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Two. And

thanks so much to Bill Bailey. Some more dates have been added to his

limb Colantuono, which goes until the 10th of July. We are off there

for the next two days because of the football but we will be back on

Thursday with Holly Willoughby. Not long until the EU referendum and

here is our last word on the subject from Gobsmacked! Chuck it away!

# And then you've got to slow it down

# Cos if you believe that a love can

# And soon you will find that there comes a time

# Don't let others change your mind

# If I stay there will be double

# Should I stay or should I go?

# You're happy when I'm on my knees

# One day is fine and next it's black

# Come on and let me know

# If I stay there will be double