22/11/2016 The One Show

Well, to the one sure with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. We know parts

of the weather have been atrocious the last

24 hours so we hope you are seeing safe and dry out there. Never fear,

we have got a winter warmer of a programme for you. Our guests

wrapped up some very impressive numbers. This went in at number one.

She has pleaded many times on her Radio 2 show. And has put all her

favourite on a new album with three series. At Forfar at 11 and a half

she is a giant of musical theatre, it is Elaine Paige -- at four foot

11 and a half. To be honest we had numbers all the way up to 2.2

million because that is how many listeners you now have. It is

fantastic, who would have thought it? 12 years ago we started this

programme thinking it would be some kind of little eclectic specialist

programme for if you musical theatre lovers because at the time, 12 years

ago, it was a bit snobby about musical theatre don't you think?

People would never admit they liked musical theatre, even if secretly

they really did, they would never come out and say so. Things have

changed. I wonder what the key to that is, maybe your programme? I

think maybe it did help. Much to my surprise, people latched onto it,

and as you have said, the figures keep going up and up so it's

fantastic. We have always been very open about our love of musical

theatre. And our audiences also very keen. CHEERING

Part of the 2.2 million in tonight. One way to maintain your

independence whilst receiving the care you need as you grow older is

to move into a retirement property. Yes but some of these schemes can

have a financial sting in the tail which can hit families at the worst

possible time. Here is Joe. With many baby boomers retiring with

savings in the bank and final salary pensions it's no wonder property

companies have designs on them. Purpose-built retirement villages

are becoming more common with around 150,000 properties across the UK.

But some claim these new types of retirement property deals can leave

families with an unwanted financial legacy. Extra costs and restrictions

in the lease can make retirement properties difficult to sell. And if

you do, there may well be an additional hefty charge known as an

event or exit fee. Sebastian runs a campaign group calling for the

industry to be made more fair. It's good that all people live together

communally, they can help each other but unfortunately they can be the

worst property investment you make in your life. I am contacted by

people who are deeply unhappy with the circumstances and want to move

but cannot. Either because the property value has fallen so

dramatically or because they are such high exit fees and a sale is

simply an economic. Penelope and John from Beverley in Yorkshire have

first-hand experience of the complications which can crop up in

this new property sector. In 2012 Penelope inherited her mother 's

?125,000 flat. She wanted to sell it but found the lease with the orders

of the retirement village found it had lots of fees and restrictions.

We could not do anything with it. We were upset to find restrictions had

been imposed. It was just a ghastly business. It went on and on and on.

Even though her mother had died Penelope was being billed for

service fees totalling ?10,000 over 18 months. Including a care package.

I was so angry at having to pay a well-being package when there was

nobody there to receive any well-being. She was dead, how could

there be well-being? With mounting fees and falling house prices

Penelope finally sold the flat back to the Methodist Housing Association

for ?40,000 less than her mother bought it for. I was upset because

mother had died and to have all this going on as well, although she had

been happy there, she would have been mortified if she had known this

was the outcome. To add insult to injury Penelope was then hit with

another cost in the form of an exit feed. The housing association would

get 1% of the market value of the property for every year they had had

the flat which totalled almost ?6,000. Methodist housing insist the

exit fees and restrictions are fair and were made completely clear to

Penelope's 90-year-old mother at the time of purchase. The CEO Adrian

says the fees and well-being charges guarantee all residents have

round-the-clock care they expect when buying the homes. It's a shared

cross back across the community which is why every unit in the

scheme needs to make its contribution all the time regardless

of anyone living there or not. Methodist housing say they are

committed to transparent fees but other areas of this growing industry

have come under scrutiny recently. The Law Commission has found a lack

of clarity over fees with some developers. We did a mystery

shopping expedition and some of it has been absolutely dire, people

have not been told about event fees and have gone into it by which time

it is too late. We are going to introduced Acord backed up with

legislation which requires developers to tell prospective

purchasers at an early stage all about the event fees. With worked

examples which tell them how much they will have to pay, how the event

he is calculated and when it has to be paid. You are not going to

suggest best practice, it will be law in place? This code will have

teeth, basically if developers do not comply with the transparency

obligations then the event he is not recoverable. The new rules should

come into effect next February. Knowing you will have care on hand

when you need it is an expensive business. So checking the financial

small print is vital. That seems to be a clear message

coming out. Absolutely, many people buy a retirement property when there

is eight problem and that's the worst time because they rush into it

and when you rush into these things you make mistakes and the mistakes

come back to bite you. Part of those mistakes might be based on these

retirement properties being leaseholds. Many people are not used

leaseholds, they might have sold a freehold house to pay for a

retirement property and leaseholds come with all sorts of restrictions.

Nothing wrong with that, you just have to understand the restrictions.

There will be service charges every six months, you cannot alter the

property without permission, if you cannot sell it you might not be able

to sublet the property post you're not there. All sorts of things going

on and you have the exit fees we mentioned on film and it might be a

1% fee on paper which doesn't sound too much but they have been

criticised for being an fair because it's difficult for people to imagine

the amount it will end up being because some of them are not just

1%, they can be much more or 1% every year you have been there. That

can be a considerable amount of money so you get to the point where

you cannot move or you do not feel you can move, you feel tramped. The

other thing to say is you are vulnerable, you are a tenant when

you have a leasehold property, if you do not pay the charges you could

lose it. There are a lot of things to be wary of and you should not

rush into them, you have to take time to read the small print. The

whole point of going is for the benefits, the social side, community

and security that comes with it. Is renting an option, how does it weigh

up? It's about taking time to read the details, renting can be a great

solution. Instead of quickly going in and risking the money you have

got, why not rent, try an area out and try that type of living? If you

don't like it you can move. But if you have bought somewhere and risked

the lump sum, you are paying everything else. Thank you,

brilliant. You have experience of this, Elaine, with relatives who

have chosen to go into retirement village? A friend of my mothers went

to a retirement, like a gated community in Surrey and had a

marvellous time! There was help at hand if anything went wrong within

her one-bedroom flat, she had a little garden with great views,

wonderful social life. There was a restaurant where they could have

meals prepared every day. Sign me up, that sounds great! That's what I

thought, better put my name down now! If you would like to know more

get in touch, we will put the address on screen. What do you think

is quickest, a ferret up a trouser leg or a rat up a drainpipe? Is it a

medal or a plastic drainpipe, corduroy trousers?

Faster than the speed of light is more than 186,000 miles per second.

Quick as a flash. Lightning travels in excess of 61,000 miles per

second. But what about some of our other quick phrases. Many cliches

evoke a sense of speed so I have set myself a challenge, to use science

to measure which speedy sayings are Usain Bolt. Sports scientist doctor

Gavin from the University of Southwark studies speed. How do you

measure these tiny fractions of time? Special cameras including

infrared. We can record footage at 100 thousand times faster than a

typical TV camera. First things first, the blink of an eye which

should be fast and easy. It feels a bit like clockwork Orange, it's not

going to hurt is it? It will be over in the blink of an eye! Ready? Like.

Blink. And blink. What is the result Gavin? It took 0.174 seconds and the

speed is 8.05 centimetres per second. That is not very fast, I

never realised my eyelids were so sluggish, let's try to beat it with

another cliche, but this one I will need the help of the seal. Who is a

rat. Time to send a rat up a drainpipe. To give her some purchase

we have angled the pipe by 45 degrees. Look at her go. Like a rat

up a drainpipe. She got distracted, come on! Come on! It's not going

well is it Gavin? It has been a lovely day out for her. It has.

Average bead of seven centimetres per second. For the next experiment

we need the help of the bravest member of our team, the researcher

who is wearing a pair of thick cotton jeans and a pair of oversized

over trousers to allow some room. I think you will need this as well.

It's a terrible job but in the interest of science Ed has got to do

it. The ferret is very happy to do this and I would like to assure you

that no ferrets will be harmed in this experiment. But I am not sure

about Ed. Can you please insert the ferret into the trouser leg. It's

in. LAUGHTER It's moving up quite fast, it's in

the middle, it's going down the other one. Second attempt. Going up,

lightning fast. Lightning fast. There she is. 8.16 centimetres per

second. She went up that trouser leg at the drop of a hat. I don't need a

researcher for this experiment, I can do it all on my own. Told you.

That must be the fastest yet? It tells us the hat was travelling at

360 centimetres per second. That is so fast! We are getting faster but

for one last supersonic test we are going to the dogs. The final

experiment has brought us to the dog track to see if we can beat the

speed of gravity, like greyhounds out of the traps. We are measuring

the greyhounds across a distance of three metres starting from the

moment they come out of the traps. That was quick! How fast is a

greyhound out of the traps? 1489 centimetres per second. It seems we

have a definitive winner in the league table of fast phrases. The

fastest cliche is like a greyhound out of the traps. At the flick of us

which speedy cliches have spread to the English language like wildfire

and they are here to stay, they are not just a flash in the pan. Hang on

a minute that three more experiments I could do! Does anyone have a

frying pan? Brilliant! Where is Gavin? Gavin? Gavin?

Is who? It's up a drainpipe, not at a 45 degrees angle. The man was

brave to have the ferret up his trousers. Indeed. Last week, Sting

came in. There were only ten tracks on his new album. I thought it was a

bit tight. Your new album, three CDs, 58 tracks. We love it.

Absolutely. Value for money from May. We are going to trigger some

Memories. We will put the music on. It is an interesting story how it

happened for you. I was coming home from a dinner party and I heard this

tune on the radio. The DJ said, I will play the entire theme of Andrew

Lloyd Webber's theme from his new musical. There was no lyric to it. I

loved the tune. I dashed into the house. I thought I'd take it. The

first time you heard it? It was the first time. I was nothing to do with

Cats at the time. Then this is the drag old, mangy cat appeared. I'd

lived in the house for two years and I'd never seen it before. I try to

get it across my legs because if a black cat crosses your path it's

good luck. I taped the tune and left the door open. The cat had followed

me in. I gave it a saucer of milk. I taped the song and said, tomorrow

I'm going to ring Andrew Lloyd Webber and say I have two record

this song because it did something to me. It touched me emotionally. I

didn't have to do anything because the next morning, the telephone rang

and it was Andrew offering me the part in the Cats. Isn't that weird?

And that old cat stayed with me for the rest of my life. It sounds like

I made this up. Honestly, it's a true story and I think it's a bit

spooky. What did you call the cat? What do you think? Rob Grisabella.

Some people are quite new to musical is and you have some contemporary

ones on there. Once that have come from films. It is quite a mix of

material. From old standards to new material. There is a wealth of

material. We could have had six albums. Save some for next

Christmas. It came out of the radio show because I am inundated every

week with people requesting their favourite songs. Being on tour

myself, I have some favourites and I thought I would mix and match. I

made my list and everybody else's list and we have come piled them and

managed to whittle it down. It is a lot. Three CDs but it is like having

my radio show in your own home whenever you like. There's no

escape. You are still on stage and the singing. Of the more modern

musicals, which one do you enjoy yourself? I don't perform to many

modern musicals in my own concert. I saw Wicked! And I loved it. I would

love to play in that. Last week, I saw Half A Sixpence it is my hot

tip. Go and watch it. Charlie Kemp is a star. Go and see him. Would you

ever go back onto the stage in the West End? Never say never but, eight

shows a week? You need to be young like these lovely guys. We would

love to see a lane back in the West End. We will be talking more about

her amazing career. Her album Elaine Paige Presents The Musicals is out

next week. Rosie King has been giving as an insight into life with

Asperger's syndrome. This week she went to university. Up stepped a

Hollywood A-lister with a secret to keep. Tom, we know that you love

typewriters. You can change the world with them. I'm going to send

one to Rosie. He sent one. It is so sweet, so strange how nice people

can be. " I think it is a month ago that we were on the one show. "

"Never Mind spell-checking, just go with the groove and get into the

creative process." Is there anything you want to ask this lot? You are

doing it. You are right. You are practising. Write it, rewrite it.

They were all so nice. They could tell I was really nervous. They were

absolutely lovely to me. The first sentence is just the beginning.

That's all it is. The mechanics take awhile to get used to the result is

right there on paper. With some adjusting the spacing, you can make

room to edit all you want with a pencil. He added that. "I Hope that

it your days at University are happy ones and that we meet again. It

doesn't have to be on TV. Yours, Tom Hanks." It's beautiful. I love the

colour. I love the way it types. I want to say thank you for him being

so kind to me. I hope my dream comes true and I become a writer,

hopefully, I will write some books on this. That is amazing. Imagine

getting a typewriter from Tom Hanks. It's just extraordinary. We are

going to send that film to Tom Hanks and Benny can see how much he

appreciated. Elaine, as a decorated stage actor, we know you are

familiar with the term tableau. It is when actors freeze in character

onstage. It reminded as of the current Internet sensation, the

mannequin challenge. People are doing it in the pubs, at schools,

weddings. It gave as an idea. We have been doing some mannequin

challenges in the office today. What have you been doing? We have been

representing moments of your career. Basically, they have been acting

them out. In tableau, the mannequin challenge. So you have to tell us

what is happening at each stage. The music is a clue to the musical. "

The age of Aquarius." I know what that is. When I was in Hair. I was

one of the last of the cast to get naked. I was a bit of a wimp. My

friend Gary Hamilton, told and handsome, he said he'd stand next to

me and hold my hand for moral support. When the terrible moment

came, it was such a shock to stand in front of the audience naked.

Fully naked. Nothing. I put my hand out, like that, to hold hand.

LAUGHTER There we are. Just one more. Here we

go. So, there you are. You are in a stairwell. People can't see you very

well. So it's Sunset Boulevard. I got to Broadway with Sunset

Boulevard. It was the last day before my opening and I was coming

down the staircase where Norma Desmond makes a grand entrance. And

the stairs and the banister were such that you couldn't see me. The

stairs were, you know, everybody else who played the role prior to me

was average height. I'm only four foot 11 and a half. As I was coming

down the stairs, they couldn't see me. They had to build the stairs up.

The last step, they didn't tell me, the last one was really deep because

they couldn't get the extra step in. And that's all we've got time for in

the mannequin challenge game. Moving on slightly. This morning was the

first day we had a serious conversation about Christmas

presents. Who wants what. I haven't put my order in yet. It seems as

though wildlife cameraman Richard Taylor Jones is basing his shopping

on the 12 days of Christmas. The turtledove used to be one of the

most evocative sounds of the British summer but today your chance of

seeing one is remote. Numbers have decreased by 93% over 20 years. But

all is not yet lost. John is an RSPB scientist working with a

conservation partnership to save this bird. Why is this happening?

There is strong evidence that they have been negatively affected by

agricultural intensification over the last few decades. The abundance

of their favourite food plants has. Diminished They face of threats as

they migrate. As they passed through France and Spain they are legally

hunted. Their wintering ground in West Africa is also under pressure.

Here the problems are habitat loss and drought. With threats wherever

they go, it's crucial for conservationists to pinpoint what

regions are important for them. To that end, a satellite tag was put on

a turtledove christened Titan and tracked the exact route he took on

his three-month journey from Suffolk to Mali and back. The information is

absolutely fascinating. If you look at this map, you can see the 11,000

kilometre round trip he took. Along with, crucially, where he stopped

off along the way. This will help focus conservation efforts but more

information is needed so this year they have typed ten more birds and

we want to track them down before they set off for their migration.

The data, is it telling you that there particular hotspots to look

for? There are congregations not far from where we are. The signals lead

us to a farm in the south-east which has received grants to improve the

habitat for this bird. Careful management has allowed annual weeds

to grow, replenishing a natural food source to increase. Other farmers

have put out supplementary food. Here at Glebe farm they have

increased their number of birds using a special seed mix. Our best

bet is to stake out the feeding spot. Pink chested bullfinches, a

yellowhammer and, finally, a turtledove. That is a very beautiful

bird. Absolutely stunning. That lovely pattern on its wings. That

tortoiseshell pattern. It is not why they are called turtledoves. No. The

purring sound is where they get their name. Living proof that this

operation is working. Tagging, monitoring the efforts of the

farmers, all contributing to help save this beautiful bird from the

edge of extinction here in the UK. So you will never sing that Carol in

the same way again. Thank you to our guest tonight, Elaine Paige.

Elaine Paige Presents the Musicals