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Hello, welcome to the One Show. In rehearsal yesterday, we were caught

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out by very cheeky OAPs, who decided to play a joke, knowing they were on

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the show tonight. Little rascals. They were from a Sunday night TV

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show, Off Their Rockers. They will join us later, to gloat. I am very

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glad they are here. First, a different rocker. Tonight's guest

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has a musical career spanning five decades, and it is all down to these

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incredible fingers. Who's are they quelled -- who's are they? Please

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welcome Rick Wakeman. Hello, how are you? What a start to the show. It

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was a shortened version. It is nine minutes long. Are your hands

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insured? Never because I thought if I had to claim, they probably would

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not pay out. If somebody says do not get your fingers in the door, you

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are likely to do it, so they are not insured. We heard in rehearsal what

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you play sounds incredible. We are talking about pranks. Over 40 years

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on the road, you must have had a fair few. You did a lot of things to

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keep yourselves amused on the road. First in a band, you never fall

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asleep on the plane. If you get a cup of warm water and somebody is

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asleep and you dip to fingers in the warm water... There is nothing you

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can do about it. And you never hanged your breakfast notice outside

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the door of the hotel. The order. People in the morning would say what

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do you want 67 sausages for? And another one be used to do, every

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hotel door opens inwards. You would get a newspaper and tape up the

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newspaper on the outside so that when they open the door they just

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saw newspaper. People would walk through it. You would have suitably

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placed buckets of stuff. Tonight, we are calling on pranksters who are

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watching. You might have tied your dad's shoelaces, all, left buckets

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inside hotels, who knows? We want photographic evidence. Send your

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pictures and we will show some of them later. Last year, we went to

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capture the structure in Scotland being created. Six months later

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Sarah Mack went to see the finished article.

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The opening day of Off Their Rockers's Kelpies. The sun is

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shining. Thousands of people have come to see them -- the opening day

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of Falkirk's sculpture. When I visited in October last year, the

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two horse heads were taking shape. Ten months later they stand together

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in their 100 foot, stainless steel glory. Now, they are open and the

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big question is what does the public think? They are beautiful and it

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will bring people to the area, spending money. I can see myself

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coming quite often. It is tremendous, it has regenerated the

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area. We come to watch from the other side of the canal. It is

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amazing. It has been fantastic. A great achievement. A perfect place

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for a family picnic. It has changed a lot. A few years ago it was a

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building site. It is great. The Kelpies are amazing from the

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outside and you can go inside, if you take a tour. This man has the

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right idea. Is it a good view? Awesome. The project director has

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been overwhelmed by the response. He gave his reaction to the opening

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day. It has been positive. Everybody I have spoken to, it has met and

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exceeded their expectations. My children will be brought up here,

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and so will their children. The majority of local see that.

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Annually, we would hope to get 350,000 people. If we have weather

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like this today, I think we will smash that number. It is hoped they

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will boost tourism spending by ?1.5 million each year. The Kelpies

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originate from Scottish folklore and with the addition of these stunning

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sculptures, they look to set their place in Scottish history.

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They are quite something. It is so lovely to see sculptures that looked

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like something rather than something from a scrap metal yard. You will be

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on tour in Scotland. I think the band will want to go and see that.

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Beautiful. 50 million people bought your album Journey To The Centre Of

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The Earth. You do not want me to name them?! Initially, I read the

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book. How old were you? About 14. My father had taken me to see Peter and

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the Wolf and there was a story told to music and I fell in love with

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it. I wanted to do that and when the opportunity came at the age of 24, I

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thought now is the moment. I did not have the money to do it as I wanted

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to, in a studio, and then do concerts, because it was expensive.

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I mortgage the house and everything I had. We put it on... It was

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performed three times, twice at the Royal Festival Hall and also at

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Crystal Palace, and we recorded it live. That was the only way we could

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get a recording. It was the London Symphony Orchestra, and my band.

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David Hemmings narrated it. The major problem was when I rated it

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was 55 minutes long but because of vinyl records, you could only get 36

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minutes on them and I have to reduce it. The musical went missing. We did

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a world tour. We played three shows in England. The musical went

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missing. It was before computers. We did not play it for years. It turned

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up seven years ago. The conductor's score, in terrible condition. But a

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great friend managed to spend six months taking it apart and putting

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it onto computer, which meant we could re-record it, put them missing

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music on and the website went mad with people saying, take it on tour.

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In a fit of madness I thought it was a good idea. We are doing 14 shows.

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We will not do it again because it is ridiculous karting symphony

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orchestras and choirs around. We can go back in time to 1975 and this is

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you in Australia. I remember that. How much do you get

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lost in the music? It is a motive to watch you. At my age, I get lost

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every where! I had a wonderful music teacher who taught me from the age

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of five. She taught me, you are immersed yourself like in a bubble

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and you are totally unaware of everything when you do it. I think

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actors do the same thing on stage. We have to talk about the hair and

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the Cape. It was extreme. Where did you get the idea? It was not

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deliberate. The head came courtesy of my piano professor at the Royal

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College of music who complained to the principle that my hair was too

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long. It was just touching my collar. Being rebellious, I decided

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not to have it cut again. By the time I left the college. The Cape

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came about because there was a review in America. It said that Rick

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Wakeman had played well. But with his arms and legs, he looked like a

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demented spider. I became aware of this. We played a show in America

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and there was a DJ introducing the show, he was wearing a cape. He

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turned round and he was huge, I thought, that covers up everything.

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We were paid $200 a week. About ?50. I said I want to buy your cape. He

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said it was not the cell. I said I have $200. And he said no. He looked

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at the money and took it off and gave it to me. I went on and thought

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it was the answer. And then I have made. We have some audience members

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wearing capes. The tour begins this Thursday in Newcastle and goes

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around the UK. Are you wearing a cape? I have two from the 1970s. It

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is ending in Wales on the 10th of May. We will get a taster at the end

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of the show. We have checked and around 40 melodies are mixed

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together to make up the Journey To The Centre Of The Earth's 80 minutes

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of music. The art of mixing melodies to create music has been around

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longer than we think. Music defines a generation with the

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40s having swing, the 1950s, skiffle, and the 90s gave birth to

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the mash-up. The blending of more than one melody into something that

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is more than the sum of its parts. Today a TV show has popularise the

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form. Glee. But mash-up as a musical history. The German composer Bach

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was a master of technical composition. What does his music

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have to do with mash-up? I have one word, counterpoint, two distinct

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melodies composed so they can be played somewhat tenuously. Before

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counterpoint, Western music only had one melodic line, no matter how many

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instruments and voices were used. You cannot play any two melodies and

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expect them to work, they have to be composed so they blend. This is the

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essence of counterpoint. The mathematical part of the brain

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instantly gets counterpoint. There is something pleasing about the way

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complex tunes fit together. Take the orchestral Suite number two in B

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minor. First one melody. And then other compliments. Finally, another

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melody -- accompaniment. And you add them together. Counterpoint's time

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was almost up as the Barack era came to an end. It fell out of fashion to

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be replaced by piano led music of the classical era. By the 20th

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century there was musical theatre and composers looked the new musical

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devices to express differing emotions of actors and they again

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turn to counterpoint. Take this. The two characters express different

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emotions and counterpoint helps to express that. 50 years on,

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counterpoint is back in fashion in the form on the mash up. This is one

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of the mash up's biggest exponents. This is Drop The Pressure which

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sounds like this in its normal form. Nice baseline. Exactly, and it

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leaves some space to go over the top of it, like this song by Gloria

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Estefan. I can hear the similarity! Mash ups are made of two parts but

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let's see what they sound like together. They are fighting with

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each other but the result is really lovely to listen to. It is like a

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live DJ mix but more sophisticated in the way it is put together,

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seamlessly in the computer. My challenge is to see whether I can

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get some Bach into a modern mash up so I have taken some Daft Punk riffs

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and mashed them with Bach. What do you think to my track?

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Wicked. Did you dance to it? Of course I danced to it. Even stuff

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100 years ago, we can mash it up? Definitely, as long as it has a good

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beat to it. I'm sure Bach would be pleased the principles of

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counterpoint are still relevant today.

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In saying wicked, it is slightly wrong. As we mentioned earlier on,

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those folk over there, they cranked us during the rehearsals, can you

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believe it? They got us hook line and sinker,

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but that's because they do it for a living. I just got through to the

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final round and by tomorrow I could be crowned the UK's top male pole

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dancer. How do you spell pole dancer? Is it one L or two? Keep

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looking at the top of the building. You have a great profile. Would you

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like to see it? Put your glasses on. How about that? I think it

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really captures the raw essence of you. Thank you, I am glad you are

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happy with that. Seb and Rosie are here now. Lovely to see you. That

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was last week, so you are huge fan. I love Charlie under the car,

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brilliant! The whole concept of the programme is to prank people who are

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younger than you. You have grandchildren as well. Yes, they

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will take anything you throw at them. They throw more things at us

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but they are such lovely people. If you need help, they really do want

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to help you. You should know better! Rosemary and Seb, you came

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in yesterday, didn't you, and this is what happened. They got us.

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Perfect! Lovely! is what happened. They got us.

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to say, rosemary, please make me the happiest man of my life. You are so

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sweet. You know I don't want to get married. You have a jolly good thing

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going physically anyway, we don't want any more. Tell you what, let's

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go home and I will cook you want any more. Tell you what, let's

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favourite fish pie and then we will have an early night. That would be

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nice. That is not serious, is it? Did that actually happen? It

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nice. That is not serious, is it? actually happen. Anyway, let's crack

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on with rehearsals. We aren't from Off Their Rockers and we have got

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you! It was very strange, wasn't it? Yes,

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we thought, gosh they were so convincing! What is your background

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then? Are you actors? Yes, we are. Three clowns! Rosemary, you were

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telling us about a brilliant clip on the show next Sunday. I have

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supposedly taken a dog for the walk in the woods but I mustn't

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supposedly taken a dog for the walk anybody it is a dog so I say I

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supposedly taken a dog for the walk taken my pet for a walk. My pet has

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supposedly taken a dog for the walk run into the bushes, and I say that

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I am so tired, and can you help me? This is what happens next. Good

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boy! At last! William! This is William. Amazing. What about that,

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Rick? Absolutely brilliant, and you can see Off Their Rockers on ITV at

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7:30pm on Sunday. Technology is everywhere these days.

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You can control your central heating with a smartphone, you can even buy

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cars that parked themselves. I need one of those. But there is one place

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you don't expect to see it, that is until now. This is one of England's

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oldest municipal graveyards, a until now. This is one of England's

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be told. It is all here. Wars, epidemics and catastrophes, the

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lives of ordinary people. The information on the gravestones is

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tantalising but the me it is never enough. But now we can learn more

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because here, smartphone technology enough. But now we can learn more

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is being used to bring history back enough. But now we can learn more

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to life. This is ordinarily found in magazines and adverts. You scan them

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with your smartphone, usually to take advantage of an irresistible

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offer, but in this instance it is take advantage of an irresistible

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for something far more meaningful. A special app can tell you all you

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need to know about the late Henry Whit. He was a fireman on the

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Titanic. Suddenly, Henry becomes more than just a name on a

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Titanic. Suddenly, Henry becomes You get a sense of the living man

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and what he did. Just a single click can give you information, and it

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will let future generations know who their ancestors were. Mr Davies has

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secured one of these on this grave. Scanning it takes people to a

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website filled with material about his father's exploits during the

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war, much of it recounted by the man himself. My father achieved such a

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lot and experienced such a lot in life that using this website and the

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code, I can basically share life that using this website and the

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story with many other people. Dorset life that using this website and the

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-based funeral director Stephen was one of the first in the UK to offer

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one of these codes. His firm has made around 100 in the past 18

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months, but with it costing up to ?275 for technology that

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months, but with it costing up to be outdated, and they anything more

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than a high-tech gimmick? In be outdated, and they anything more

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years' time, these things might be outdated, and they anything more

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redundant and we will have gravestones dotted with

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redundant and we will have default codes. This is the

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technology at the moment. Equally, we will keep up with the technology

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and if necessary these are removable and we can replace them. For Niki

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Hastings, the idea of creating a living memorial has a particular

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Hastings, the idea of creating a resonance. You are thinking of

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putting together one resonance. You are thinking of

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interactive memorials but it is not for a friend or relative, is it?

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No, it is for myself. I was diagnosed with breast cancer years

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ago, and at the time they said I had diagnosed with breast cancer years

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only months to live but I am diagnosed with breast cancer years

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really well. Eventually what do you think your

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really well. Eventually what do you this thing? I think it is a

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permanent memorial written down all about my life and

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my memories so that they know about written down all about my life and

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mummy if I am not around to tell them those things, and

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mummy if I am not around to tell are just an extension of that. It is

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mummy if I am not around to tell a piece of social history really,

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isn't it? Her children are now just a piece of social history really,

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seven and nine, she hopes they and future generations will be able to

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seven and nine, she hopes they and scan the code while

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seven and nine, she hopes they and the special videos on her memorial

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website. I think it is a nice way of the special videos on her memorial

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future generations being able the special videos on her memorial

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what great grandma looked like, to hear my voice and see my mannerisms.

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And just to be able to remember you. It is this idea of a virtual

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And just to be able to remember you. that could make these codes more

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And just to be able to remember you. than just

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And just to be able to remember you. link not just to a website but a

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connection between one and another. Initially I was sceptical about that

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but having seen that... Oh, the first time that has gone to

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technology! You were saying you remember your father with an old

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piano? Yes, he was a great piano player and when he died I inherited

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his piano, which is an 1899 upright piano which I love to bits. I have

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had a restored. I play it every day, I have a picture of my

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had a restored. I play it every day, top. I remember him playing it

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vividly, and my mum singing. I remember him playing it more than

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vividly, and my mum singing. I mum singing! It was a great

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encouragement to me. What a lovely tribute. Earlier on we asked for

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pictures of you pranking your friends and family. We have got a

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lot as you can imagine. Daniel covered his friend's car in cling

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film! Five-year-old Trent did this to his big sister who fell asleep

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film! Five-year-old Trent did this after a glass of wine. These people

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used their jet-lagged father's head as a table. We are in for a treat, I

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have been looking forward to this as a table. We are in for a treat, I

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all afternoon. We heard you tickling the ivories as you came in this

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all afternoon. We heard you tickling afternoon and now you are going to

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play us out, aren't you? From his Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

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tour, which continues Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

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UK until the 10th of May, it is Rick Wakeman with his version of the

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Beatles track Eleanor Rigby. You've become an Eeyore.

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And you've got to be a Tigger.

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