21/10/2011 The One Show

Hello and welcome to your Friday One Show with Alex Jones. And Chris

Evans. Our guest is a man who has taken the job interview to a new

level. He fires people before he has even hired them. I think we are

Yes? Can you please send Lord Sugar through. Chris and Alex will see

you know -- now. Thank you. It's Hello, Alan. Good evening. How are

you? Very good. Nice to see you. Thank you. First of all, we have to

ask you, why are you always parking your car and our spaces out the

back? I am working downstairs and I am going to bring out a new TV

system which we will hopefully see next year. I have been asked by the

BBC and the other television channels who are partners in it to

launch something called you view. Really? It will be very, very

interesting. But that is our space. It is my space, actually! It's not!

I get here earlier, you are still in bed. We don't really mind

because we make good use of your car while you were upstairs. Have a

M and then having a picnic. party central! Obviously that is

not really your car. It is! And I now know why it is scratched.

promise you that isn't your car. We need to borrow a Rolls-Royce

exactly like yours. Would you have minded? You could have used it.

took ages to get that car! could have used it easily. BBC paid

for my invisible repairing on my trousers the other day. A Lord

Sugar is here to talk about the 12 young apprentices hoping not to see

the Lord Sugar you're fired face. He is pretty good at it, but if you

think you can do a better you're fired face, send us a photo and we

will see what Allen makes a bit later. Also, find out what happened

when Jo Wheatley updating of this Jay Rayner to scone school. He can

cook, but he doesn't bake, until yesterday. But next we have one of

the most touching reunion sq ever. It concerns a family from Sheffield.

The fire man who risked his life trying to save there. Wendy Robbins

picks up the story. This is a very powerful film.

15 years ago a devastating house fire in Sheffield changed a number

of people's lives forever. How clear are the memories of that

night? 15 years on, I can remember On 28th February, 1996, a chip van

caught fire ensued's kitchen as she and seven month-old Sophie dozed in

the front room. Her other three children were asleep upstairs.

Within minutes the house was engulfed in flames and smoke. She

managed to pass Sophie through a window to safety, but her sons,

seven year-old Ricky and three year-old Cail, died in the fire.

Her other daughter was in a back bedroom and was saved by firemen.

can remember waking up the next morning in hospital, we had loads

of beds with children in. Straight in front of me there was a desk

with nurses and they came running over. I just screamed. Sadly I did

lose my sons. But I could have lost Nikita and my life as well. If it

wasn't for the fire officers. Describe your boys for me.

Mischievous, cheeky, laughing. was the cheeky one. He would stand

at the top of the stairs throwing down hairbrushes. Rikki was in

charge. If retreat said I am going to cut your hair, I would let him.

How how have you got through the last 15 years? Sundays are good,

some days are bad. Does it get Not really. What do you remember

about the fire officer that night? I know he couldn't save my boys and

I know they tried my best -- their best. If it wasn't for him, Nikita

would not be here either. Does he think about that night? My brothers

died and he rescued me. He saved Nikita and I often wonder what he

is doing now. Before I did wonder, every sure I'm I drove past the

fire station, does he still work there? I still do now. Darren is

still working there. He was the fire officer in charge that night

and is now head of training for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

Service. I have attended thousands of fires in my career, but that one

incident is one that stuck in my memory. The amount of children

involved, the tragedy of having children die in stays with you

forever. The house was gutted during the fire, but a few years

ago Sue made the tough decision to move back to the place where her

sons died. Now it is time, 15 years on, for Darren to go back and be

reunited with Sue and her daughters. I am nervous, apprehensive, but

ultimately looking forward to it because joining the fire service

you try to save people lives. To contribute to saving someone's life

makes it worthwhile. Do you know anything about Nikita? Nothing

whatsoever. It is 15 years. I think it will be very emotional. All of

the memories, good and bad. Hello! How you? I am all right, are you?

Are you all right? Don't cry. Another surprise is that Nikita,

the little girl he saved 15 years ago, is now married with two young

children of her own. You try to help people. To see someone you

have rescued he has turned out like you have, it is fantastic. When I

look at you, I look at you and I think, you were the last one to

hold my boys. I don't know how to put it into words. Thanks very much.

It means a lot. It means a helluva lot to me. Give us a hard! I can't

believe it. I can never thank him enough. He saved our lives and my

remaining two children. What can you say to somebody that has done

that? There are no words that can express how thankful you what to

them. If there's one thing we know Sue would like us to say at the end

of that film, it is if you haven't this weekend, please check your

smoke alarm. Definitely. Lord Sugar, you are currently interviewing for

the second Young Apprentice. Are the kids better than the adults?

Yes, in some ways they are. They are very... I won't say naive, they

are very focused. In the case of the adults, there is a lot of

jockeying for position, a lot of testosterone being thrown around,

I'm in charge. These kids just get down to it. No diplomacy! None

whatsoever, just get on with it. What do they win? �25,000. It is a

trust of some kind that I control. That's nice! The winner of last

year, I told them on that programme that if they had visions of going

out and buying a second-hand Porsche or something, forget it.

Last year's winner, I drip feed him a little bit of money when he has

to justify it to me what he needs it for. He is starting up his own

little Business so he bought a load of computer kit. How much has he

got left? It is confidential. I would say he has only used 20% of

it. Have you refuse to money? Definitely. On what grounds? He is

not going out of a nightclub. a proper uncle! Yes. It is there

for him to better his future. It is not for education because I am not

paying for education, the government is doing that. Well,

maybe. Let's see how they get on. This is a fiery clip. He right now

we are on the way to a meeting of but there's no way possible for

us... Can I speak? It is impossible for us to go to a market and buy

fruit. Can you please let me speak? Your late and clearly you are in a

rush. If you are persistent on getting more through, may be two of

you can leave the kitchen and go to buy fruit. We can't get fruit.

Please listen to me. Watch those viewing figures! That looks

fantastic. I think Haley in the kitchen should just go and get the

fruit. I definitely would. You had better watch on Monday night and

see the outcome of that sequence. Do you have to cuddle the kids?

Will go after them very, very well. -- we look after them. Being the

BBC, and quite rightly, there are certain guidelines when dealing

with youngsters. One of the things we can never be accused of is

abusing them in any way off form, or exploiting them and making them

work too hard. They are looked after very, very well. How has last

year's winner got on? He is the bloke I have been feeding the money

to. He hates -- he has been developing his ideas. That is why

he is smiling, he got some money. He needs money for a haircut! It is

no bad thing for these kids to have Lord Sugar as a reference on a CV.

When was the last time you had to justify yourself on a CV? I never

had to because I have never worked for anyone. About 25 years ago, I

was in Florida. I bought a new place. A very posh country club.

You know what the Americans are like, they don't know anything

outside their country. They say any Englishman and they say have you

got references. I say I am English, I don't know anybody here. You must

have references or we won't let you in the community. I turned up to

the committee meeting, where they had this committee of people to let

me in, and I presented two references, one from Bill Gates and

one from Rupert Murdoch. That should do it. Is that good enough?

They didn't blink an eyelid. They just went fine, thank you very much.

Did it work? Of course it did. They knew I was taking the mickey by

doing that. The Young Apprentice begins on Monday at 9pm on BBC One.

But there is another show in town at the moment. Inventors from all

over the world are in Britain showing off their latest ideas at

the uninventively named British Invention Show. That didn't stop

Anita Rani having a look. They say necessity is the mother of all

invention, but whether it is practical or born out of lunacy, if

you have invented something, where do you go with it? The British

Invention Show. Imagine a plant pot It protects your book from sunlight.

These dog biscuits make dog pool blow -- glow-in-the-dark. Some

things I get straight away. It is a biometric wallet that also has

stores your PIN numbers. No one can get into it. It is operated by

fingerprint recognition technology. But some things take longer to get

your head around. You have a laser beam going in a zig-zag fashion and

then you have a separate sensing system. Those two in combination...

I'm impressed! Alexander has come up with an invention that will feed

the world. It can produce over 100,000 tomato plants in a week.

Wow! You could going to countries that are suffering from famine.

That's right, everything you need to grow grasps -- crops is in the

system. We have saltwater dissemination so the system can one

on salt water. Inventors have come from all corners of the globe and

of all ages. This plugs into your CD player and you can stick

anything on it. Now we are talking These ten-year-olds have come up

with a play to demonstrate their invention. I think this has

definitely saved your life. Are you the youngest inventor's here?

And Abyu invented the best thing here? Yes. Tell me what you have

invented. We have invented a health band. He put it on, and if you do

not feel well, you press this button. This tells the ambulance

where you are and then they come to you and there is a USP stick in it.

They put it in the computer and it shows up your medical history.

is a brilliant idea. Who wants to be an inventor after all of this?

Lovely inventions. Your favourite invention? It is not a favourite,

it is the thing that I always feel sad about. You see this, sunshine,

this was the original PDSA. You write on it and to the usual stuff.

That is from 1993. It is about 28 years old. This is a business

message for any aspiring business person. When you get as successful

as I was in the 1980s, you think you can walk on water. Every

product that I produced, we sold a million. I brought this out in 1993,

and we did not sell a million. It is sticky because of the plastic.

We did not sell a million, so I'd ditched it because it did not sell

fast enough. I'd ditched it, and then Palm Pilot came along and they

sold about 17 million. And then Apple and everybody else came along.

The point I am making is that you cannot walk on water, you have to

sit down and count to 10 sometimes and make sure that you are not

infallible. I came too early to the market and I should have waited.

You still hold a torch in your heart for this. It is a double

whammy. It is a lesson for people to listen to and a lesson for me. I

sit there watching 75 million pieces of someone else's product

afterwards. It is a bit of a lesson, isn't it? You could have written a

book on it. I could have. Your new book is not an autobiography.

it is about ranting and raving. I sat there in America for a couple

of months and I sat there writing all of the things that wind me up

and annoy me, including American restaurant serves and the way that

they mess up Italian food. There are no Italians working in Italian

restaurants in America. None of them speak Italian, for example.

is his book and it is out now. He owns a restaurant himself. We want

to come along. Can I clear this up once and for all? I do not own a

restaurant, I owe in the real estate upon which the restaurant is

rented from me. I can do your reservation. It sounds good. It is

Turkish, isn't it? It is a bit like that will stop Is it any good? It

is very good. Foody Friday. Jay Rayner is being put through his

paces by Jo Wheatley. A decent cup of tea and a home-made

piece of cake. What could be better, especially if the cake has been

made for you by somebody else? Afternoon tea has traditionally

been a luxury, a throwback to an elegant era. According to our food

historian, it was about cucumber sandwiches, cream cakes and the

finest bone china. This is an inflated version of the Victorian

afternoon tea. The idea is that you had something dainty, sweet,

ladylike. It fills the gap but it is more about the occasion. What

about the Duchess of Bedford, credited with having invented it?

The Duchess of Bedford who in 1842, in July, suffered a pang of hunger

as her husband was out hunting. On the spur of the moment, she

invented afternoon tea. Is that true? Unfortunately not. Afternoon

tea does not appear until much later than that. Many people having

afternoon tea are middle class, so to them have an aristocratic

inventor gives it a certain appeal that it would not have had

otherwise. Today, afternoon tea at a top hotel can set you back around

�14 each, but forking out for luxury is not always an option, so

only one thing for it. More and more of us are baking at home. At

one leading department store, sales of cake stands are up 48%. Britain

has gone baking mad. I am the odd one out. I like to think of myself

as a good cook but I do not break because that is chemistry. I Bray's

things, makes soups, build salads, I do not follow recipes. Baking,

that is all about the recipe. So who better to release my inner

Baker than Joe weekly, who was watched by 4.5 million viewers

winning the Great British Bakerloo. -- Joe weekly. Surely she could

rise to the challenge of teaching me to make scums. -- scums. What

makes a good one? They should be nice and light. How is that? Feel

mind. I go by the feeling. Mind feels slightly wet. And my failing

at the first hurdle? I hope not. need to need it. You are looking

nervous. You have a nice consistency to it. You could go to

the shop and buy them. You could, but do you know what, I think that

home-made is so much nicer and it is such a lovely sense of

achievement that you have made something yourself. Fingers crossed.

Yours on this side, mind on this side. How do you think I have done?

Fantastic. A lovely colour and they look amazing. You're not just being

kind. Let's try it a bit. Lovely and light with a lovely, crunchy

crust as well. You are not bad at teaching baiting. Not too bad.

you thought of entering a competition? Maybe next year.

Are you converted? It is a wonderful thing but I am not sure I

am good at it. It is good to be out of your comfort zone. This is what

we did to U2. We baked our own version of this gone. This is proof

that I did it. It is my son, last night. Where is your proof? I did

not take a picture. Did she really do them? Stop arguing. Whose recipe

did you use? I used Paul Hollywood's. I used Delia Smith's

recipe. Classic. Can you give us, as far as the look is concern,

marks? I have to say that yours, Chris, looks rather appetising. The

soft and appetising. These look a little bit... I don't know. I have

to say, Chris, yours look beautiful but they are a bit solid, whereas

Alex's crumbled a bit more. Hers tasted like salad! I want to taste

yours. I am spoiling you. It is fabulous. This weekend, people

should bake. If you have never had a go, don't be scared. They are

easier than I thought. We have recipes on the website. It is the

end of national baking week. If people want to have a go tonight,

what do we need? Flour, baking soda, sugar, butter, milk and it will be

fine. The recipe is on the website! We are on the hunt to find the

nation's favour at a trifle. We want secret ingredients, special

twists, we want your recipes. We are a nation of trifle makers and

we want to find the best. To enter, send us a picture of your trifle, a

description of what makes it special and the recipe. We will set

a challenge and the winner will be invited here to the One Show to go

head-to-head with a trifle made by one of the country's top turns.

mail us now. And don't forget to send a picture of yourself with the

trifle. You need a cup of tea, because these dry out your mouth,

which is not helpful on the television. All of the details are

on the website. We are off to the Orkney Isles, where Ruth Goodman is

putting on her very own fashion show, to prove that the hoodie has

been around for 2000 years. Ancient clothing offers a unique

insight into long-forgotten societies, but because of their

fragile nature you are lucky if anything but the tiniest fragments

survive more than a few hundred years. But the UK's oldest intact

garment was found in one of the country's most remote areas, the

Orkney Isles. And surprisingly it is not a royal down or a priest's

ceremonial robes, but this, a child's hood. Made to keep the

worst of the Orkney winters out nearly 2000 years ago. Amazing,

isn't it? Archaeologists get excited about the merest hint of a

fragment of textile, but look. It looks like you could wear it today,

doesn't it? The Orkney Hood, as it has become known, was discovered by

peat cutters in 1867. We do not know exactly where it was found but

it was somewhere in the parish of St Andrews in a peat bog like this.

It was recognised as being an ancient garment, but nobody knew

quite how old. The hood was almost pristine because the peat bog had

staff it of oxygen, meaning it could not rot. In fact, it looked

so good it fooled people into thinking it was from a much later

period. People thought it was fighting to start with. It has been

carbon dated, which has given the date of about 200 AD. Late Iron Age.

These results prove that it predated all intact clothing found

in the UK by hundreds of years. There was no written language on

Orkney at that time, so very little is known about what life was like,

but the hood was to offer a unique insight, as it gave up its secrets.

The Iron Age techniques used to create it were only closely

analysed in the 1950s and only put to the test in 2002, by Jackie Wood,

an experimental archaeologist who examines the past by recreating

ancient artifacts. Jackie had previously recruited issues and

cloak of a man frozen 4000 years ago in an Italian glacier. -- re

created the shoes. She and I have been given special access to the

real Hood, that looks as good today as it would have done nearly 2000

years ago. When trying to recreate this, it was not as straightforward

as she thought it would be. It was a detective story, to discover how

it was made. Ice on the wall, started doing it and it was not

working. -- I asked on the wall. There were different thicknesses of

yarn in the cross threads. found four different yarn

thicknesses, suggesting it was a team of per -- people making the

fabric. I had to spin the four thicknesses and do it again, and it

was perfect. So the person, or people, who made this the first

time round, it was not something they did in a hurry. It was serious

high-status. It must have been free Chief, a local king in the Iron Age.

Who would go to such trouble? was curious that a hood for a child

would have been made from such valuable material, but hidden at

the back was the answer. The Fringe goes around the hood twice except

for a gap at the back, which shows it was taken of something else and

it had been put round the back so you could not see it. The stitching

around the hood is very crude, very rough. So the person who compiled

the hood did not have the skills of the people making the fabric and

the Fringe. It shows a really good example of recycling in the Iron

Age. Somebody had found two fragments of high-status fabric and

had made them into a nice hood forehead child. -- for a child.

do not know a huge amount about the people who lived here. We have the

basis of their houses and a few objects but there remains something