22/01/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. On

these cold winter evenings, what could be better than the company of

a good storyteller? Tonight we have the best in the business. With 25

years of Jackanory under his belt, he is back on our screens. So, if

we are all sitting comfortably, please welcome Bernard Cribbins!

Bernard, we are on! I am sorry, I dropped off then. It is the warm

environment of the studio. How have you been finding it? I do not

really like Quinn to any more. you over the snow? I do not like it.

I have stopped a sledging and skiing. I never did skiing, what am

I talking about? Sledging used to be fun. When you get older it

becomes a bit of a pain. To be honest, with us as well. We have

had a few problems with guests. was surprised to see you here!

did have the idea of having a stand-in Bernard. We hope you don't

mind, no disrespect. This is Tia, a St Bernard. I see! She is with her

owner, Kathy. Let's bring her over. Hello, Tia, let's have a little

wonder. Come on over. Hello! goodness! She wants a drink of my

water, first. Sit down. We will remove the goods around her,.

that genuine in there? Yes, four star. Have we got the pliers, it is

a bit stiff. He you can have mine, I do not drink any more. I will

toast you in this. You would wait for a drink from that, with new?!

think that will be enough. A bit of a winter warmer. Yes, you are going

to be... It is still dripping. Later on, we are going to try and

prove whether dogs have a sixth sense and they know their own is

coming home. What do you think? think that is quite true. We have

had beagles and with our beagles we had three of them. They used to

know when people were coming. The best thing they did, it was not

really psychic, but if my wife was in the garden, at 4:30pm, when they

were normally fed and if she forgot, the dogs would go out and say, have

you seen the time? On the dot of 4:30pm. What about Tia? Certainly

dinner-time, as Bernard said. She always seems to know when my

husband is coming home from work. She is all is that the door. That

his habitual. But to be honest, you did not realise Bernard was

teetotal. He must have had a few, he collapsed then! It is a slippery

floor! Later on we will give you all the advice you need if you are

looking after pets in these conditions. If you have pictures of

your furry friends in the snow, send them into us. Later, Tia will

be awarded best in snow. I like it! When it comes to driving in the

snow, most of us, let's face it, should still have our L-plates on.

Armed with a flask of hot tea and driving gloves, Lucy headed to

snowbound County Durham for a less than.

Did you wake up this morning to something like this? I think it is

fair to say that many of us are not confident about driving in these

challenging conditions. I'm here to take the bull by the horns and

learn from an expert how to drive safely in the snow. Good luck,

everybody. Peter Atkinson of the Institute of Advanced motorists has

been advising drivers for over 20 years. Boots full of our emergency

kit and I am ready to go. Harsh winters are few and far between in

the UK so many drivers have never experienced conditions quite like

this. Would it help if we were all more advanced drivers? Visibility

is not brilliant. It is deteriorating, I am afraid. I am

not as confident in these conditions because I am not used to

them. That is true. Advanced driving is all about observation.

If you have never seen something you cannot act on it. We have to

watch the mirror. You do not want to be going any faster. Keep the

momentum going. I should not have slowed down. He is a four wheel

drive and he is going downhill so he should have given way to you,

which he did. A going up the hill I have to keep my speed up because I

do not want to stop. That is right. Nothing is routine. When Did You

Look in Your Mirror last? Probably about an hour ago! That is a while.

A situation like this, we can really do all the breaking with the

engine and almost forget about the brakes. There is a person very

close behind a. What is the speed limit? It is 30. Shall I give them

a piece of my mind? Well... I will not! We do not encourage road rage!

Under Peter's guidance I'd completed a circuit of local roads.

There were a few hairy moments but the emergency shovel stage in the

boot. I have always found snow magical. Driving it is about

experience, understand what you're doing, commonsense and building up

skills. There is no magic about it. It is terrifying driving in the

snow. Minnie Mouse is very good in the snow. Just a bit further north

from where you were filming your new series? Yes, indeed. We were 12

miles north of Whitby. I had never been to that part of Yorkshire

before and the North Yorkshire National Park is absolutely

stunning. It sweeps down to the sea. There is a 25 degree slope. I would

not want to try it in this weather! It is Old Jack's Boat that you are

back on TV with. It is a beautiful production. Thank you very much.

When it was being set-up, I was chatting with the producer, Dominic

McDonald, good evening! We were agreeing that the nice thing about

it is it harks back to Jackanory days where you talk to a child in

the lens. What age would you say this is aimed at? It is pre-school

children, 4-6, something like that. It reminds us of the programmes we

used to watch as children. How been said it is for children, I have had

four adults ring me this morning saying they enjoyed the first one

yesterday. Two of them have been written by Russell T Davies. When I

knew I was doing there were still stories to be written and I rang

Russell to ask him what he thought and he produced two beauties. They

are lovely. I am not sure which order they are being sent out in. I

am looking forward to them. Even though we enjoyed it, we are a bit

old to review it so it over breakfast... My children watch it

and this is what they had to save. Morley was a bit concerned about

the state of your boat. So are we. It is a Nessie inside the boat.

They need to tidy up. -- it is a bit messy inside the boat. On a

scale of 1 to 10, how Goodwood you say the programme is? Really good.

For fabulous! Massively good. The day will go by in a blink of an

I... Have you got a question for old Jack? Why is the dog called

Salty? A very good question. That is not

her real name. For the play she is good Salty because she is always in

and out of the Sikh moaning about and she comes out and she is all

salty! -- she is always in and out of the sea. It is a great show of

peace to do, Jackanory. The idea of the clutter in your boat is you use

the props to tell the story. He is an old fisherman who has collected

things for years and a lot of things in the boat are used in the

story. He says, whereas that pot of paint? There it is. I remember...

And he is of telling a story about a pot of paint or whatever. It is a

lovely series but recently spoke out about the state of children's

television. Yes, I did. I think that an awful lot of children's

television is, for me, far too noisy. Many flashing images, very

fast editing. This one has gone back to the gentle story telling

thing which we wanted to produce any way. And it works. Your two

children. Yes, and if anybody wants to see it, it is just before

bathtime. That is the old magic roundabouts lot, if you remember,

just before the old -- the early evening news. Mum was getting dad's

tea ready, I suppose, the kids were in front of the television and

totally absorbed. A brilliant spot. Lovely programme.

For the younger viewers and those who want to seek Bernard, Old

Jack's Boat is on the CBeebies channel on weekdays at 5:40pm.

is not just TV that you have done, you have been in some huge films,

including one directed by Alfred Hitchcock. We will talk about that

shortly. First, Larry Lamb has taken a look at the great

director's early beginnings here in They are coming, they are coming!

A master of his craft, Hitchcock's film's famously toyed with our

emotions through suspense and Without him, the Mob movie

landscape would be very different. -- that more than movie landscape

would be very different. Cinematographer and friend, Nick

Beal Taylor worked on Frenzy. knew everything about it. The cast,

everything that went on, he used it. Hitch was a most inventive director.

He was always looking to impress. Always something a bit big. He was

very much alive into everything which was going. Back projection.

Every kind of special effect that you could think of. Possibly

Hitchcock's greatest gift was he could generate and cultivate eight

basic, irrational fear, which will could begin as something harmless

and innocuous. He seems could last four minutes without dialogue. The

pictures and music alone build tension in the viewer. Where and

when did these techniques begin? Long before the Hollywood glitz and

glamour, as there was London grit. Pitch made 23 films right here in

Britain before leaving our shores in 1939. What you might not know it

is it was hitch's nine silent films that laid the foundations for his

remarkable career, a career which may well have founded after just

three features. The Llodra is about a murderer on the loose in London -

- and the lodger. They felt they had an investment and it was

acclaimed as the greatest -- greatest British picture ever made

to that date. There is a slim red line between failure and success.

Originally, Hitchcock shot 10 silent films but all reels of one

of them have sadly been lost. Since 2010, the remaining films have been

lovingly restored by the British Film Institute who have made some

fascinating discoveries. When one film was shown around the world,

regional editors cut it to suit them. Now the BFI have added 19

minutes of new material thought lost for 88 years, which have

transformed the film's rhythm, pace and structure. I am one of the

lucky first few to see it. What have you put back in? We have put

back a lot of performances of some of the secondary characters and

some of their scenes are vital to the understanding of the movie. We

have a couple of characters, the landlord and Lady of our leading

lady. They help us to understand that the character on the right,

Gill, is a little stuck-up say the least. We do not need to hear a

word from her, we know precisely what she thinks of the new woman

who has moved into her house. is the purpose of the dog? What is

fantastic about his performance is he is the moral compass of the film.

If you watch him and you know what to think. You know who the goodies

and baddies are. Unless you have seen the silent films, you cannot

understand Hitchcock's career. Everything that was to come later,

if you can see here right from day Time may have marched on, but who

moments free of language remained at the heart of his ideals and

global appeal. The power of cinema, in its purest form, is so vast. It

can go over the whole world, on a given night a film could play in

Tokyo, West Berlin, London, New York. The same audience is

responding, emotionally, to the same things. Thank you, Mr

Hitchcock. Is there anything you Gets me every time!

Antonia Quirke is here from Film 2013. You start being Frenzy. He is

portrayed in lots of different ways, what was your lasting impression

when he directed you? At that time, he was becoming a tired old

gentleman. He sat down, the whole time. I sat beside him one day and

we were chatting about the scene that I was going to play. We were

just going on talking and I made the mistake of quoting a limerick

or something like that. The next day, he brought in a book of

limericks. Apparently he is a nut for them. He loved little jokes.

many people said that he knew everything? That's right. Doing

that scene was very strange. He was sitting here. We came towards

camera, we went around the corner, up a flight of stairs. He didn't

actually see the scene finish. It got to the end, cut, he said. Sound,

absolutely fine. Lighting? That is fine. Camera? Nothing wrong there,

sir. OK, print it. He trusted his grip so much. You as well, I guess?

Buy stocks have been down, this past month. Watch what you're

saying? To which he? Our friend says I have been stealing his booze.

He always pays. I work with him. Keep Out Of This! Outside, you are

fired. He never stole anything in his life, he always put the money

in the tail. A thief or a drunk, it doesn't matter to me, I don't need

either of them. There were lots of moustaches! Antonia Hitchcock, he

spent a lot of time in Hollywood, but he returned to his roots?

Literally, it was filmed in Covent Garden fruit and veg market.

pub is still there, yes. His father had been a grocer. He spent a lot

of time at that market, so he did go home. There is a brand new film,

based on Hitchcock, out next month. It stars Anthony Hopkins, who looks

brilliant. And Scarlett Johansson. I think we have a clip. We are

going to have to go it alone, finance it ourselves. Anthoney

Perkins, the rage lurking beneath that grin. Think of the shock value,

killing off your leading lady, halfway through. You shouldn't wait

until halfway through, kill her off This film is all about his

relationship with his wife, whom he married when they were both 27.

Wasn't she an editor? A brilliant editor. He depended on her a great

deal. Bear in mind, if you see this film, entertaining in its own right,

and if you saw the movie about The Birds, with Sienna Miller on Boxing

Day, neither film portrays him in a flattering light. However

entertaining they might be in their own right, he was a genius.

Therefore, there is nothing we like more than to tear geniuses down.

Also, he was rather secretive and private in real life, a little

strange. That has left him open to all sorts of interpretations.

Speculation. Speculation about his motivation. I am reading a book

about Ingrid Bergman, he is portrayed as a real father figure?

He was a gentleman, depending on who you listen to, exactly. It's

interesting how he used animals and all of that. To build suspense.

Fancy training all of those birds! Incredibly talented! Now it is time

We did ask him who would present Trials, Lucy and Mike. There is a

biscuit in front of each one of them. Tia is going to pick one. She

has gone for Mike. It is remarkable how she senses the animal magnetism.

Unfortunately, Gyles Brandreth was the only one available.

It is well-established that dogs have senses far superior to ours.

His nose has more sense receptors than our own. His ear can detect

frequencies far higher than us. What is less well-known is the

suggestion that they have a mysterious canine 6. -- 6NC. A

survey of dog owners, more than half said that their friends and

family reported that their pets relatively sat at the front door,

anticipating a return, long before they arrived. Meet our dog owners

and their dogs, Saxon and Sophie and Felix. They have agreed to take

part in a One Show experiment, with cameras placed in each of their

homes. We will be trying to tell exactly when they go to the front

door to wait for them. The experiment we have set up was

originally devised by Dr Rupert children. What are the obvious

explanations? Its routine, hearing a familiar car, smelling somebody

approaching, there is looking at clues from people at home. Once the

obvious has been eliminated, what are we left with? Not much apart

from telepathy. I think they are picking up the attention to go home.

It's a theory that many dispute, but it goes back to 1995. Pam Smart

claimed her dog had an uncanny ability to tell when she would be

coming home. A film crew made a documentary about her. The evidence

on tape is certainly compelling. Here she is, getting up to go home.

At the same time, her dog get up to wait by the window. That's 20

minutes before she gets home. Dr Rupert stands by his controversial

claims. My research has shown me that when we have people go at

least five miles away, come home at random times that are not arranged

in advance, when they are travelling by unfamiliar vehicles

and there is no possibility of them being smelled from five miles away,

the dog can no, over and over again. We have done this hundreds of times

with dogs that reliably do this. Our cameras took shots every 15

seconds. After running the experiment for three days, have we

captured similar, otherwise unexplained behaviour? Here he is,

waiting at the top of the stairs. It's possible he might have heard

hair coming, it was just before she came home. At Jenny's house, it was

different. One evening, she went to the door 40 minutes before her

owner came back from work. But on a day when she was early, Sophie was

nowhere to be seen until she opened the door. Sophie might not be

psychic, but she does appear to know her owner's routine. At Mary's

House, little sign of Felix. But these results were intriguing.

Whatever time Mary left work, the dog seemed to know about it. Day

one, 25 minutes before she came home. He got up and appeared more

alert. They two, he exhibited similar behaviour, becoming more

alert 20 minutes before the owner came home through the door, even

though it was a different time of evening. Day three. He gets up 50

minutes before Mary's return. Too early? Perhaps not. She got up at

the moment that Mary left work. What she didn't appear to know was

that the journey time would take longer. She arrives, shopping bags

in hand, after stopping at the supermarket. Coincidence or is she

psychic? It will take a good deal more research before the sceptics

think there is paranormal forces at work. I know what I think.

The most in coppiced experiment we have ever conducted! Tia was

absolutely gripped. We are now joined by Lisa Richards from the

RSPCA. What are your thoughts? an interesting one, yes. I think it

needs a little bit more research. But they are incredible. They are

really sensitive to subtle environmental cues. It is probably

more routine? They form associations with things. They like

predictable routines. I think there is definitely something there. You

have been inundated over the last few days with calls from worried

pet-owners? We have, we have had over 500 calls in the last five

days, mostly from people being concerned about dogs outside in the

snow. Not having access to somewhere warm and dry to escape

from the weather, really. How can people keep their pets womb? There

are lots of simple things they can do. Just providing a dry, warm

place for them to sleep. Somewhere for them to escape away from the

cold weather. Summer dogs are more susceptible to the cold, if they

are slightly underweight, old or young, they might need more

protection. They will benefit from wearing a coat. It's important to

make it well-fitting. Cats are very independent, but should you be

cautious if it is predicted to be really cold, shut the cat flap?

It's just about being aware. The most important thing is to provide

somewhere warm and dry they can go to. If they outside and they get

caught in a snowstorm they have somewhere warm and try to escape to.

We were talking about them gritting the pavements. For humans, that is

a brilliant thing. Not so much for a dog? It can cause problems. It

contains rock salt. If the dog eats it, it can be poisonous. It can

cause vomiting, lethargy and in severe cases it can cause kidney

damage. Prevention is key. And its blitz their pants? -- splits their

pads. We used to cut their feet in warm water. They like the attention.

Like a little foot spa! Just a little bucket with warm water.

Tia, you are looking fabulous, considering all of the snow. There

are lots of beautiful pets out there. We are talking about cats

going outside, this is from Katie, aged 12. Her kitten, taking his

first adventure in the snow. On a leash! But at that. Relaxing in the

snow, thanks to her Grant. Sup from Dunbar has sent in a picture of her

Looks a bit like yours? It does. And before we go... And you might