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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Reverend Tim Alban Jones | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Matt Baker. Tonight's guest is a rock legend who is in his 30th year | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
of making hits like this. # Take my hand | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
# Your love is like bad medicine # Bad medicine is what I need | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
# I just want to live while I'm alive | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
# It's my life... # It's Jon Bon Jovi | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
APPLAUSE Welcome to The One Show. Thank you. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Suep tore have you. Dressed for the weather. Dressed for your studio | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
weather. It's nippy in here. Yes, budgets are tight on the Beeb. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
have arrived in the coldest week we have had this year. Snow, is it | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
still a big deal? It snows a lot where you are from? We grow | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
accustomed to it than you guys are here. People get worried. I | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
understand it. Roads freeze up and you are not used to driving in it | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
and it causes alarm. You still have fun, are you a skier? I do a fair | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
amount. I have a lot of stuff on to hide how foolish I look. I like the | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
snow. I get out. OK. As a man, who must have tribute acts all over the | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
world, we presume, we thought you might like this. This photographer | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
called Francois Brunelle, he has spent the last 12 years trying to | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
find unrelated doppelgangers, like these. They have never met before. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
They have come together have these photographs. Extraordinary. The two | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
guys in the middle... Have you met a group where you thought, you know, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
what you do look like us and sound like us? If I could get that guy to | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
do my interview that is would be awesome? Are you saying you don't | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
want to be here? I'm using The One Show to find that future | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
doppelgangers. Tonight is the night. If you or someone you know look | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
like Jon or Matt or me or any of our reporters send them in. It took | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
that photographer 12 years, we will do it in an hour. It's estimated | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
one in six schools have been closed or affected by bad weather over the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
past few days. More have shut their doors today. The situation so bad | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
that even, Jon, in your hometown your newspaper, the New Jersey | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
Herald is reporting on it. They are alarmed. All kids are wearing their | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
PJs backwards and inside out. Kids do this in America, inside out and | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
backwards and they run around counter clock wise around the table | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
to bring the snow to close school. The more you pay for kids to go to | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
school, the less they go. If two flakes fall the kids say, "no | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
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school" my kids don't want to go to school until May. I bet. Catherine | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
James from the National Association of Headteachers is here to defend | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Heads from complaints they have closed their doors too easily, but | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
it's not an easy call to make as we found out. Head teachers said they | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
had to consider the safety of their pupils. It's not over yet. With the | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
coldest temperatures expected tomorrow, minus 16 in the Midlands, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
freezing conditions later in the week could prove a further obstacle | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
to schools opening. It's a big responsibility for each Head | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
teacher to carry. I'm glad I don't have to make that decision. Here at | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Holycross Primary in Oldham one teacher is always up for the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
challenge. E she will do anything to make sure her school stays open, | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
whatever the weather. Sorry kids! Her top priority is to get the | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
school open, make it safe for the pupils and reassuring parents. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
have to check whether staff can get in. We have to check that we can | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
clear the site for the children to walk through. Yesterday, you did | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
really well to remain open. Over half the schools in the area were | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
closed. Do you think you can do it? By 7.30 am to 8.00 am we will make | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
that decision. Will you remain open, you have 100% track record? We are | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
staying open. We can chat to the site manager and see what he says. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Certainly will. How are things? have been around the school. Most | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
is gritted now. The footpaths are clear. I'm doing a path for the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
staff. Your hard work make sure the kids make it to school? Dead right. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Are you proud of that? Yes. Very proud. We are ready? Don't think so. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
I have a job for you. Oh, charming. Getting paths gritted and heating | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
on is only the first step to starting this school day. 41 | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
teaching staff are travelling from snowed-in villages. A few ab | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
stances could stop her from opening. Ab stances. Have you checked your | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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side roads. You think you will be able to get in? We can open now. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
The first teacher arrives and finds it difficult. Other teachers leave | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
their cars at the bottom of the hill. I walked up the hill to get | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
here. You get to teach the kids and training for the day? Parents have | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
childcare issues, we make sure we are in to support the community as | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
much as we can. 5,000 schools were reported to be closed at the start | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
of the week, sparking criticism from the Government saying schools | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
should prepare more for bad weather. How would your day change if the | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
school were to shut? I would have to ring into work and hope my boss | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
is understanding and say, "I can't come in today." Not everyone can | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
afford childminders. If schools aren't open, please lose money. | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
Here in Oldham it's business as usual. Good morning, everybody. | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
Good morning. You made it in to school. Yeah? In the snow. Make | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
sure you wrap up. We have loads and loads of snow outside in the play | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
grounds, haven't we? This Head teachers decision to keep her | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
school open has paid off. As the snow hits other parts of the | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
country, it's more than likely to affect us for the next few days. As | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
you saw Catherine is here. Why can't more Head teachers go to the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
links that that Head did in that film? It's a difficult decision. No | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Head takes the decision lightly to close the school. We have teachers | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
who are parents. Heads are parents themselves. They know how difficult | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
it is when their kids are sent home. On the other hand, they have to | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
make sure that the staff are safe, that the pupils are safe, and that | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
they have enough staff in to run the schools. During that film, when | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
you sat down, Jon said, "how much inches of snow does it take to | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
close a school over here?" There is no clear answer? There isn't. It is | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
taken for each individual institutions. We were having a chat | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
saying that over here, it's very few days that actually we have such | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
severe weather. Particularly in the States you are going to have | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
preparation. You have the salt spreaders. People are prepared to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
put on their snow tyres and get on with it. That doesn't... We could | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
spend the money here to make all those preparations, but we wouldn't | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
have it to spend on something else. 800 schools are closed today. Is | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
there an argument, do you think, that Head teachers are too Kay shus. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Michael Gove seems to think so, would you agree? I would not | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
necessarily say I agree. I know some people think so. You have to | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
remember a lot of people are saying - isn't it better to air on the | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
side of caution. If your child was injured, I mean, can you imagine | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the repercussion that is would come back on a school like that you are | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
damned if you do, damned if you don't. What is the situation like | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
in the States with the suing culture? America gets into a lot | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
of... That is another story. In the North East where I live it's common | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
place there is more snow. There is a lot more preparation. We have | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
salt spreaders and ploughs, there is a lot of preparation prior for | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the sidewalks and the streets. It is easier to do it. In a school in | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
Russia in Jon it has to be minus 52 before the school closes? I'm sure | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
there are plenty places in Eastern European countries or Alaska that | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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laughs at New York yaes -- New York's snowfall. Airing on the side | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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of caution. Big shout out to caretakers. The cold nights have | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
probably left you scraping your windscreens each morning. Hopefully | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
you have done a Bert job of it than this maniac. If you are getting | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
frustrated at how long diseasing the car takes here's Marty Jopson | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
and science to rescue. The Highway Code say that is your windscreen | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
should be completely free of ice before you set out, not just a | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
little patch like. This what is the easest way to de-ice a car? We | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
brought in an expert to explain why ice is so hard to shift. Glass is a | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
particular type of surface that forms a bond to the ice. This is a | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
weak bond, there are so many of them, the iesz has stuck to the -- | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
ice has stuck to the glass and it is difficult to push off. Using a | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
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scraper on it is own. Are you ready, GO! 40 seconds dead. Well done. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
YES! We asked our second driver to spray a supermarket de-icer on to | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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her windscreen. 3-2-1. GO! We are allowing everyone to use their | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
wipers or scrape tore clear the ice, but not their car heaters. Stop now, | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
it's over two minutes. How is this supposed to be working. The de-icer | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
contains something like an alcohol which can disrupt the bonding in | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the ice to turn it back into water. It goes from the top down. That is | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
why it takes time to work. alcohol is the crucial ingredient, | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
vodka should work too, shouldn't it? This time, we will try the | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
penguin scraper as well. Clearly, the most expensive and stupid way | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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to do this. Are you ready? Yes. 2-1. GO! It does seem to work. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
I think you're done. That's 1 minute 7 seconds. Perfect. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
alcohol contained in de-icers works, it needs the scrape tore break the | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
icy bond with the windscreen. Is there anyway you can avoid scraping | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
altogether? We asked driver No 4 to spray a product called Night Before | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
De-icer on to his windscreen last night. The theory is it should stop | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
the ice sticking. 3-2-1. GO! Oh, not quite. A bit of frost over | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
there. That is amazing. 10 seconds. Just straight off. How does this | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
stuff work then? The ice that's forming on top of the windscreen is | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
forming on top of the de-icer which will prevent it from forming the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
ice network and bond together glass. Our final option is for those who | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
don't want to use chemicals but don't fancy the hard work of | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
scraping either. Jo you use boiling water, that is what you will do | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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today. Are you ready? Yes. OK, 3-2- 16 seconds, pretty good. But this | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
is not recommended by experts. can undergo thermal shock. There is | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
a rapid expansion on a hot areas, the cold areas are still contracted | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
and you get cracks in your glass. So, the results of the challenge | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
are in. The worst method turned out to be this one, using D I said that | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
you spray on after the windscreen is already frozen. -- D I said. The | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
best method was this. This is the one that you spray on the night | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
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This we haven't taken into account the cost, which is why I rely on | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
this, a scrape and elbow grease. The experiment was just a bit of | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
fun. But my lovely clear windscreen means that we are good to go, as | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
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long as we can get out of frosty I use a CD case. Not Bon Jovi's?! | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
have a lot of them that you can use. Mine is terribly boring, you just | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
put a blanket over the windscreen. But that requires organisation. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Which I don't have, unfortunately. We were just mentioning, that you | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
were due to come on that the show back in November, but you had to | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
leave very quickly because of Hurricane Sandy? Yes, I was here | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
when it happened. I did not heed the storm warnings. Nahal Oz meant | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
to do The One Show and some things here, when it hit in New York. For | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
good reason, I had to get home. There is some footage of my home | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
town. That was the day that I arrived, to see the devastation in | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
the town that I was born in. your house hit? Property damage, no | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
house damage but a lot of property damage. You took part in this big | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
benefit concert at Madison Square Gardens. I think we can see some | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
footage. How was the recovery, generally? Well, in our time of | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
need, people of different walks of life who, by New York standards run | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
past each other and never acknowledge each other, they come | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
together. If it was 9/11, or now Hurricane Sandy, we collectively | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
come together and take care of each other. It must have been a strange | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
atmosphere, in comparison to the other ones you had been doing | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
around the world? In truth, it helped you remember that when | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
tragedy hits somebody else, it is real and not just something you | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
witness on television. When it hits you in dockyard, you are even more | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
aware, next time it hits tornado alley, Downend Florida or wherever | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
it might be. You are much more aware because you have been through | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
it yourself. North of Manhattan, people were hailing cabs and going | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
to theatre, downtown, the lights were out for a week. Speaking of | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
families, you grow up with two parents that were in the Marines. | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
There are no musical genes in your family, until you came along? Where | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
did it come from? I don't know, you will have to ask my parents. Maybe | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
you have to ask my mother! Where did your love of guitar come from? | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Was there a lot of music in the house? Not particularly. I | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
gravitated towards it, like every teenager does, with a tennis for | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
racket and a broomstick. Visions of being in a rock'n'roll band. But I | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
pursued them, I was serious enough about it to make little steps | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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towards where I am today. Was it tricky in New Jersey? The drinking | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
age was 18. You could be 16 and sneak into a bath. That was very | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
helpful. -- sneak into the bark. There was no real responsibility, | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
no overhead like you would have as a grown man. When you were able to | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
write, there were places for you to play original music. That was, of | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
course, what differentiated Club bans from record labels. Can you | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
remember the moment when you thought, this is it, I've made it? | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
You always think it was from the block dance, to the record deal. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
But you think you have never got there, even today. You think, we | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
are almost there, we are almost big. You say we, you have been together | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
30 years. The old ball and chain! It's amazing you have been together | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
so long. And the complications, as you get older? It's fantastic. We | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
have been through everything from births, deaths, weddings, babies, | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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we have seen it all together. # I don't want to be another wave | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
in the ocean. # I want to be the one you run to, | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
when you need a shoulder. # I ain't a shoulder, but I'm here | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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Its from the album, What About Now. That is just one of the videos that | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
you have made? There actually four? Four completely different videos. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
It's almost like a mini movie. A man by the name of Fisher Stevens, | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
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he had just written a film that I Making videos is boring, we wanted | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
to do something different. He saw the album cover and he said, these | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
are the videos, he pointed to the photographs that are from different | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
songs. I said, you are going to put yourself into a corner and make | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
four videos. We made four a distinctly different videos that | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
tied back to the album cover. Because of this Augmented Reality, | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
now the album cover, you click on these images and it'll take you to | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
a different video to accompany Because We Can. You can piece them | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
together. Its out in March? that's right, the single is out now, | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
the album is out in March, the tour... We will come onto that! | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
American guests like to tell us that everything back home is bigger | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
and better. When we looked for a wildlife film to fit with a rock | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
and roll legend like Jon, we pushed the small birds to one side and | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
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A golden eagle, soaring high. These days, a rare sight in most of the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
UK. But here in the Scottish Highlands, there are still some | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
breeding pairs left. Two chicks are being raised in this valley are | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
almost ready for their first flight from the nest. Before they apply, | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
we have a chance to enlist them for a special mission, which will allow | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
the RSPB to track their movements every step of the wave. First, we | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
have to get to them. The nest is high on a hillside. Young eagles | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
fly hundreds of miles to establish their territory. It's important to | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
know more about their flying patterns to help conserve the | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
population. The chicks are to be fitted with a GPS tracker so that | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
we can understand more about their movements. Stewart and Brian from | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
the RSPB had been monitoring them since they hatched eight weeks ago. | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
They have to move now to fit the GPS devices. It's just days before | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
the fully-grown chicks fly from the nest for the first time. It's a | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
steep approach up the mountainside to do this vital work. The good | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
news is that it will cause little disturbance to the parents, as they | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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have already flown off to watch Just go easy. They are massive! | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
Stewart is going in for one of the chicks. They are quite feisty, | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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Stage one completed! The chicks will be returned in no time and her | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
parents will be back to feed them as if nothing has happened. How | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
about that? What do you think, healthy? Very healthy, absolutely. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Covering their eyes will make the work of a routine health check as | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
stress-free as possible. I can't believe I've got a golden eagle | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
between my hands! The satellite tags have to be fitted when they | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
are fully grown, so their growth will not be impaired. Each one only | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
weighs the same as a mouthful of food, so it causes no discomfort. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Being solar-powered, it is good for up to five years. We can track | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
where they are going, but it is more than that? Unfortunately, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
there are people in Scotland and Britain who detest them, they don't | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
like them at all. Although it is completely illegal and has been for | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
decades, they will quite happily kill these birds. Having a | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
satellite tag to tell you where they are, it allows you to find it | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
if it has gone down, and, hopefully, act as a bit of a deterrent as well. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Personally, I am astonished that some misguided gamekeepers should | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
or poison them to protect their grouse stocks. Two chicks, how good | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
is that? Fantastic, there may be only 20 or 30 sets of twins each | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
year in Scotland, so having twins like this is really good. This is | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
:24:52. | :24:53. | ||
top territory. Look at that! What a wingspan. Isn't that amazing? You | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
can see all of the feathers. This golden eagle chick in my arms has | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
to be the most precious thing I have ever carried. The best thing | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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of all, when it pledges, we will be able to track it every step of the | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
Wonderful, wonderful. Stewart has made the trip down from Inverness | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
to tell us how those beautiful golden eagle chicks are doing. Six | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
months on, how are they doing? Fantastically well. They are | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
sisters, both female. The older one has been a bit of a stay at home. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Hasn't really moved more than five or 10 miles. The younger one is | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
showing her the way. It left on St Andrews Day on 30th November, | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
headed away from the territory and went into the Cairngorms. It stayed | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
there for a while. Then it shot back West, it wanted to see her | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
what the West of Scotland look like. It's so on Ben Nevis at the moment. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
What have you learned about golden eagles by using the tracking | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
system? All being well, they will roam around Scotland for four or | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
five years until they are old enough to set up territory and find | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
a mate. We can find out what sort of areas they are favouring. That | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
is important with things like wind farms, to keep them away from the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
best areas for them. The other thing that we are finding is how | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
and where they are dying. Unfortunately, as we said, there is | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
still a bit of a problem with persecution of golden eagles. We | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
have had then shot, poisoned, trapped. Unfortunately, a lot of it | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
is Indies intensively managed This technology is helping you with | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
other species across the world? technology is getting better and | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
better all the time. As it improves, you can put it on smaller birds and | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
small animals. You find out stuff that would be impossible to find | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
out any other way. Previously, you would have to catch a bird, put a | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
ring on it and then catch it again. All it tells you is it was at that | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
point when you caught it and another one when it was found. This | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
is more or less constant. I don't even need to leave my office. | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
Handy! It is sent directly to my computer. On a horrible, snowy day | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
like this, you can sit at home in the office and find out what they | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
are doing. Are you aware that so the new Jersey is a hot spot for | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
birdwatchers? Actually, I wasn't. It's one of the top places in the | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
world. When you say you're going to look for a bird in New Jersey... | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
It's a different thing, yes. We are going to bring snow up again. This | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
weekend, everybody can help, get out and feed the birds? You have a | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
special thing on the website? small birds do not do well when it | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
is snow and ice like its. Feeding them is really important. Putting | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
food out, giving them water. This weekend, we have the Big Garden | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
Birdwatch, which the RSPB has been running for the last 13 years. It | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
allows you to count birds, sending your information. It is collected | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
throughout the UK and gives you an idea of how they are doing. | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
will love this, you can do this on your bird table at home. Put a | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
ping-pong ball in the water. Doesn't that help? It moves around | :28:37. | :28:46. | |
and stops ice forming. Have you got that, Jon? Thank you very much. | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
In the hostile driving conditions we have had to put up with recently, | :28:49. | :28:56. | |
thank heavens for the shining beacons of hot food and warm covers | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
that out roadside cafes. If you have to pullover in Lincoln, make | :29:00. | :29:09. | |
sure you have the camera at the At first glance, you would be | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
forgiven for thinking that Lincoln is the very more of a classic | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
cathedral city. For much of the 20th century, it was home to one | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
architect, whose buildings were so cutting-edge that they are only now | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
beginning to be appreciated. Perhaps because their beauty lies | :29:25. | :29:35. | |
:29:35. | :29:37. | ||
With steel rationed in post-war Britain, concrete was the go-to | :29:37. | :29:45. | |
material for roofs. Sam Scorer took this material and gave it wings. | :29:45. | :29:55. | |
Scorer's roofs were based on a gee metric shape. This church, designed | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
by Scorer was completed a decade before the Sydney Opera House. It's | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
built on the same principles. In its simplest terms it can be | :30:08. | :30:18. | |
:30:18. | :30:20. | ||
explained with this. It has one concave curve along this axis and a | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
curve along this one. It wasn't to everyone's taste. People were | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
astonished. When it was being built people were full of rumours about | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
what it was going to be like. They wrote letters to the paper saying | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
it's awful, not proper church architecture. They got this amazing | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
construction which nobody had expected. Outside it might have | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
appeared a little aircraft hang ar- like it's inside that the roof's | :30:49. | :30:58. | |
design makes sense. Not only is the shape dramatic, it's very strong, | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
:31:08. | :31:08. | ||
creating an uninterrupted space with no columns or or support | :31:08. | :31:18. | |
:31:18. | :31:22. | ||
pillars. His work mirrors other architects. This service station on | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
the A1 is north of northing ham. Originally an elegant floating roof | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
structure, it late her a brick building added underneath to form | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
what became known as Britain's only architect tuerl significant Little | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
Chef. Despite being derelict today, it's arresting lines are more than | :31:44. | :31:53. | |
enough to turn heads. AliLampard drove past it one day. The first | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
time I saw this building I was blown away by how unusual it is. It | :31:57. | :32:04. | |
moved from a pyramid to this beautiful exotic shape. I just | :32:04. | :32:11. | |
resolved to be back there, that evening, with a tripod and take | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
some photographs. His love grew to object cession. He has returned | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
several times over the years to photograph the building, even as it | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
fell into disrepair. Today, we have had permission to access one view | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
he has never seen before. And, I think you might say his face says | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
it all. Once you are up on the roof of this remarkable building you can | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
appreciate the gee news of it is design. It's phenomenonal | :32:44. | :32:53. | |
hyperbolic, even the name is space age. Sam Scorer died in 2003, | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
nearly nine years before English Heritage Grade II listed this | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
structure recognising it as being nationally important. I think the | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
shot to get is the one from up here, looking north, looking up to | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
Darlington, Newcastle. I can almost see Edinburgh from here. What | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
better place to display it than this, one of the last ever | :33:15. | :33:22. | |
buildings he designed, a gallery that still bears his name. For the | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
people of Lincoln at least, Scorer's modern vision still | :33:26. | :33:32. | |
resonates. It shows that we had a very forward thinking architect at | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
that time. That I think is a legacy he has left behind, one we should | :33:37. | :33:44. | |
look to maintain. You have to hope it's not too late for this jewel in | :33:44. | :33:52. | |
Sam Scorer's crown. You know where to stop now when you are on tour. | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
Little Chef, got it. You spend a lot of time on the road. You are | :33:56. | :34:04. | |
coming up to your 15th World Tour. In the studio we have all your tour | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
T-shirts in chronological order. Any particular favourite? All of | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
them. Did you deany of those? always have your hand in. It I'm | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
involved throughout the process. it a big deal the Tour T-shirt? | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
is when you prized one as a kid. I think so, you want it to be | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
timeless and classic. I hope they like the ones they've got. We have | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
Eddie here. Where is Eddie? There you are. Eddie has an incredible. | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
Tell Jon what your connection is with him? 1984 I saw you with Kiss | :34:46. | :34:54. | |
when I was 11. I went with my friends and my parents. Your first | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
gig here. One of your first ever UK gigs. The headliners were Kiss. | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
2,500 people were there. From the moment that show finished everybody | :35:04. | :35:12. | |
was talking about the band, Bon Jovi. 29 years on. Do you remember | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
that? I do. It reminded me of a high school gym. It was rather | :35:18. | :35:27. | |
small venue. That band, Kiss, who took us here in 1984, on our fir | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
ever tour really -- first ever tour really of the UK we expected to see | :35:32. | :35:38. | |
Madison Square Garden we walked into a high school gym. One of the | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
band members was painting something on his amplifyer with his spray | :35:45. | :35:55. | |
paint. He paut little on his amp and his face. -- put a little on | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
his amp and his face. Jack you spent a special moment with Jon | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
here. What happened in Coventry? went to Coventry to see him. We got | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
tickets to go to the to the side of the stage. He came up to me and | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
invited me on. What did you say to him if he asked to you come up? | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
didn't know exactly what he meant. I tell you what he meant. We have a | :36:19. | :36:26. | |
brilliant, brilliant moment. Show. This will take you back. | :36:26. | :36:36. | |
:36:36. | :36:45. | ||
# It's all right # It's all right... # | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
APPLAUSE Jack, that was brilliant. It was. | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
Have you done that again since? No other band has come around. You | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
are not doing a tour of your own yet? We will have to do the reunion | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
tour. I don't know if I could lift you any more. You have grown quite | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
a bit. Hi, Jack. The UK leg of your tour starts in June here, doesn't | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
it in Manchester? Yes. All these people are wearing their T-shirts. | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
Some have bought tickets already. Have you doing Living On A Prayer | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
and all the classics. Anyone who comes to see us the classic are | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
obvious. The set lists change all the time. OK. Who knows where we | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
will be on any given night. There is a lot of material from a lot of | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
albums to play. You made a point of keeping the prices of the tickets | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
down so many people can come? too. I think it's important just | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
because we're touring it doesn't mean that you have to give an arm | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
and a leg to come and see it. We're very aware that people are having a | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
hard time and the economy being what it is. How many of you lot | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
have tickets? Yes. Nearly all of them. The Because We Can starts in | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
Manchester. You added a new date as well, haven't snu Hyde Park. Yeah. | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
So, we will be back in Hyde Park. I love that venue. It was a dream | :38:11. | :38:17. | |
venue when we first did it in 2002. We were given licence, growing up | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
having seen the pictures of the Rolling Stones paying there after | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
Brian Jones passing and Jagielka coming and the doves flying I | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
wanted to play there. The first time we did it. Now, it's a bit | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
nostalgic. It's kind of like another check mark. Did it, did it. | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
Are we good audiences for you. You have the whole world? We have | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
played a lot of venues. We closed the Old Wembley stadium. Yes, you | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
did. It was all planned. We were closing the old one and opening the | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
new one. Ask the construction crew what happened there? I went and | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
actually took the pictures of the venue when the arch I'm standing | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
outside. I should have gone inside to realise it wasn't done! We have | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
done it all. We have gone from nightclubs to the biggest stadiums | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
there are. We have done it all. Look forward to the tour. There has | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
been a chill on the high street this winter with well-known names | :39:18. | :39:28. | |
from Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster going under. Each week though many | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
more local shops disappear with no fanfare, not because they've run | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
out of customers, but because landlords have pushed up their | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
rents often by thousands of pounds a year. With household names going | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
bust, it's no wonder businesses are worried about their future. As we | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
reign in our -- rein in our spending more businesses are going | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
out of businesses whrfplt you rent office space, restaurant or retail | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
property you might be finding it hard to meet the rent bill in the | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
current economic climate. What are businesses paying on this high | :40:03. | :40:11. | |
street? In 2002 this shop was paying �20,000 a year. In 2012 he | :40:11. | :40:20. | |
paid �33,000. This shop was paying �34,500. Last year it was �52,000. | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
Rent increases are managable when the economy is growing. When a | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
business's takings drop, paying a high rent become as problem. This | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
shoe shob shop has been here since 2004 when they were paying �30,000 | :40:34. | :40:41. | |
a year. Now it's nearly �50,000. to probable 18 months ago I would | :40:41. | :40:48. | |
say our average turnover annually was between �400 to �450,000. We | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
are down 30%. Can you afford to stay in business? That is | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
questionable. I'm funding my business out of my personal funds. | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
That is how we keep going. We are a business in danger r. Some shop | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
keep remembers finding their rents are more than their business can | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
cope with. It seems bleak. I need to have a cup of coffee to recover. | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
We have been here for four years now. Our rent has gone up from | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
�18,000 to �23,000. A huge increase? It is. It is going up. | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
65% of our outgoings is rent alone. Landlord is getting a pay rise all | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
the time. When is the last time you got a pay rise? We took a pay cut. | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
Is everyone in the same boat? you are in the lease landlords are | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
reluctant to negotiate. Two businesses have closed their doors | :41:44. | :41:51. | |
for this reason. New tenants have negotiated a lower starting rate. | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
new coffee shop can get a Bert deal than you can? Absolutely. This shop | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
is 700 square foot. On London's Bond Street it would cost you | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
�350,000 a year. A similar prime spot in Birmingham would be closer | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
to �140,000. In Manchester, �120,000. Many businesses are | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
struggling with high rents and dropping income. Some have no | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
escape. Locked into long, expensive and inflexible leases. Rents are | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
unresponsive to what is going on in the high street. Small businesss | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
have to incur costs in terms of their raw materials and pay staff, | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
pay rates and the rents. Rents are going to keep going up. Whilst | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
small businesss are struggling it will make it difficult for them to | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
compete and many might even consider moving elsewhere, maybe | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
where it's cheaper or going out of business altogether. Judy run as | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
shop at the opposite end of the high street. Her rent more than | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
doubled over 10 years. Last year, her landlord wanted another 20%. So | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
she fought back. I stood at my door and I looked out. I looked at the | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
awash of "to let" boards within 10 shops of my shop. I took | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
photographs of what was in my area. Some of these shops had been there | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
for 30 years, they had closed. I said to them - I can't do it. Do | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
you want another board outside my shop? I appealled. I said 20% was | :43:21. | :43:28. | |
unrealistic. They asked me what I was freepd play. I said p.-- | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
prepared to pay. I said 5%. Landlords have to make a living, | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
they do. What Judy has shown is that some are willing to negotiate. | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
In tough financial times, for some businesses it could make the | :43:40. | :43:49. | |
difference between staying afloat If so many shops are empty, why | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
can't landlords just reduce rent? Some landlords say they can't, | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
because the rent agreement they have with the shop owner says that | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
when rents are reviewed they will only go up. A lot of rental | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
agreements have that written in to them. The other reason is that some | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
of them just will not. They have gone into property because they | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
want the rent, but they also want the property to keep its value. | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
They worry that if they cut the rent, property values will fall and | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
they end up paying twice. As Matt mentioned, we have already seen big | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
high-street chains like Jessops, Blockbusters and HMB, but there is | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
some news on HMV today? This is really interesting. It is | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
effectively being controlled by a company which is a turnaround | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
specialist. The interesting bit is that we hear this afternoon that it | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
is also interested in buying the Jessops brand name. Not the shops, | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
but the name. If it ends up with both, you might see Jessops cameras | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
on sale in HMV. It makes it more distinctive. The one to watch is | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
the record companies and the movie studios. If they do not have HMV | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
selling their CDs and DVDs, they have to do more business with Tesco, | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
Amazon and Apple. They are tough to negotiate with. It's in their | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
interests that it survives. You had a strong relationship with HMV? | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
They did very well by us for a lot of years. Declan is right, it's | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
going to be very difficult to negotiate when there is nobody to | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
negotiate with left. It's very hard to get the music into the hands of | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
people to hear it again. A lot of people would have bought their | :45:35. | :45:43. | |
singles and their Bon Jovi albums there. Watching these mom and pop | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
shops go down, that is more difficult. That is what gives the | :45:49. | :45:55. | |
culture personalities. What is the high street like? Or is it out of | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
town in the States? It's the same thing, they went away and they are | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
trying to come back about as many big boxes. Are you nostalgic over a | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
certain shop that you remember going in? It would be a lot of | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
those things. A shoe store or a record store that you supported, | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
eventually went back again, and it's gone. It is also easier, it | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
is... It's a difficult place, it's easier to press a button. It's | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
easier to press a button and get your shoes delivered. But you want | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
to support those stores. So many brands that we have to keep our eye | :46:33. | :46:41. | |
on, because we are not out of deep woods yet. Do you remember Athena? | :46:41. | :46:49. | |
I used to love going through their Men are vulnerable people have had | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
their GP checking on them at home. In the Cotswolds, Dr Ian Davies's | :46:54. | :47:01. | |
patients can have peace of mind that he will get there, because | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
when he's not there he is a polar explorer. | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
Today is a really snowy day in the Cotswolds. I look after lots of | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
remote patients, boast the farmers. Most of them live down dirt tracks | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
in the middle of nowhere and they are particularly susceptible to bad | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
weather. The husband of a lovely farming lady, unfortunately wasn't | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
very well. I saw Mrs Partridge yesterday. She was OK, I gave her | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
some treatment. The idea was to keep her out of hospital. I called | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
first thing this morning and she had had a terrible night. She was | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
not well enough to stay at home. Unusually for Mrs Partridge, she | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
actually wanted to go to hospital. For me, that meant that she really | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
was quite unwell. The ambulance service has done a great job in | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
this terrible weather and managed to get us up to the door, which is | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
incredible. The only other option to get a patient out of here is the | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
air ambulance. With this low-lying fog, that is really tricky to do. | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
It can get hairy, particularly with weather like this. Nice to see you. | :48:05. | :48:11. | |
How are you? A little bit watery eyed. It has been tricky, with your | :48:11. | :48:20. | |
wife? On the back of the tractor. That is me. Throwing hay out to the | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
animals? What is the deepest you have seen? 16 locked. So we are | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
getting a bit worried about half a fat, and you've seen 16? I saw it | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
was your wife's birthday, she would be 86? She is still prepared to get | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
onto the tractor, she has still got it. When your wife comes out of | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
hospital, you are worried, or if they are saying things in hospital | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
you do not understand, call me and I can explain it to you or ring the | :48:51. | :48:58. | |
hospital. Dearing visits like this and looking after somebody like Mr | :48:58. | :49:04. | |
Partridge reinforces why I do medicine. Its huge job satisfaction. | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
Side-effect free, it doesn't cost anything to knock on somebody's | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
door. Hopefully it reassures him that people around. I am just a | :49:12. | :49:19. | |
small cog in the wheel. Most of the work is done by district nurses, | :49:19. | :49:26. | |
midwives, district health workers. Sometimes the local policeman will | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
knock on their door. That is how it happens in the countryside, up and | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
down the country. It's fantastic. There was some post in the door, I | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
saw, save you going to the doorstep. Because it is a dangerous place at | :49:39. | :49:47. | |
this time of year. Very slippery. You just had a delivery of shopping, | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
do you want me to put it away? all right, I'll -- the helper to do | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
it when they come. Are you sure there is nothing I can do? It all | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
right, Doctor. You have somebody coming in a bit? Nice to see you | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
again. He's lived on his own like that for a long time. A lovely guy. | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
There are people like that up and down the UK, getting on with life | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
in the snow. All of the services that support them, they struggle | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
along and I think that is what is great about Great Britain. | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
Ian has become our snow doctor. We have discovered him during the snow. | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
Best discovery ever! Have a look at this. This is a | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
musical instrument. Have you seen one of these? I actually have, yes. | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
Have you tried playing one? With one finger, yes. We might be | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
needing that. Thomas Bloch is an absolute expert. Give us a run-down, | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
for everybody looking at this and wondering what it is. How it is | :50:46. | :50:52. | |
made up and how it makes the sound. You used wet fingers and you rub | :50:52. | :50:59. | |
the cups. Then it rains, normally. By luck! -- rings. How long does it | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
take to get a sound? If you are a professional, like I am, it takes | :51:07. | :51:17. | |
no time. Otherwise, maybe one or two years. Only five of you play | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
this? Professionally, in the world, yes. And it was invented by an | :51:21. | :51:27. | |
American? Benjamin Franklin. Do you see the link? You have prepared a | :51:27. | :51:37. | |
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I will try. I don't know if he will For those that don't know, what was | :52:04. | :52:14. | |
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We were wondering if you could teach Jon to play? Oh, that's a | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
little pressure... I told you, one finger. OK, go for one finger. | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
While Jon has a goal on the glass harmonica, here is the tale of the | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
man who invented it. If 1998, builders were carrying out | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
work on the basement of an historic London town house. Days into the | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
job, work was halted when one of them they made eight macabre | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
discovery. They were digging down here. They unearthed a bone. It | :52:51. | :52:55. | |
appeared to be a human thigh bone. The police were called immediately | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
and unearthed a shallow grave containing more human remains. It | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
proved to be Sam 1900 bones in all, from at least 28 corpses. The sheer | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
quantity led to the possibility that they had stumbled on the lair | :53:10. | :53:18. | |
of a Serial Killer. Dr Simon Halla San from University College London | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
led an investigation to identify the origins of the bones in the | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
basement. They were the bones of humans and they were cut up. They | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
were dated to the late 18th century. That ruled out a modern-day murder | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
investigation. For the police, the case was closed. But the doctor | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
began to piece together the truth behind this grisly mystery. These | :53:41. | :53:50. | |
are some of the bones. This is the top part of the skull. These were | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
dead people's bones? There is no healing. When that happens, new | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
bone is deposited. We can see nothing like that. Somebody was | :53:59. | :54:09. | |
cutting up dead bodies at the home occupied by Margaret Stevenson at | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
the time. The lodger there was no other than Benjamin Franklin. Here | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
he is, adorning the 100 dollar bill. He was one of the founders of the | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
United States of America. He signed the declaration of independence. He | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
helped draft the constitution. Before that, he lived here in | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
London. He was one of the greatest Americans. This is his only | :54:32. | :54:40. | |
surviving home. He came to be a colonial agent, in a sense | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
Mediatique on behalf of the columnists in the dispute between | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
Britain and America. As well as a diplomat he was a scientist, | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
carrying out early research into the nature of electricity. It would | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
be truly shocking if the first American had also been | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
experimenting on the dead. Then a clue changed the course of the | :54:59. | :55:08. | |
investigation. A turtle spine used in a bizarre experiment. Further | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
research revealed a record of that in the Royal Society in 1770. The | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
scientist was William Houston. He turned out to be a friend of | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
Benjamin Franklin and shared the same address, 36 Craven Street, | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
from which he was running a private anatomy school. In Georgian England, | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
a growing demand for an education in surgical medicine led to the | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
creation of such schools. The only legitimate source of bodies for | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
study were the corpses of the 50 or so criminals executed each year in | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
the capital. To acquire enough bodies, he must have occupied the | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
shadier fringes of the Age of Enlightenment. Demand for fresh | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
corpses for the anatomy schools far outstripped the official supply. So, | :55:57. | :56:01. | |
Houston turned to those gentlemen of the night known as Resurrection | :56:01. | :56:10. | |
nests. They were body Snatchers and procured bodies for cash. Craven | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
Street was ideally located for a supply of dead bodies. At one end | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
was Hungerford Dock, where the bodies of those who had died at sea | :56:17. | :56:25. | |
or been drowned on the river Thames were brought to dock. At the other | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
end, the notorious gallows, just behind chairing Cross station was a | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
graveyard. We may never know the whole truth. But it seems unlikely | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
that Benjamin Franklin would have been unaware of the nocturnal | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
comings and goings. They couldn't simply return the cut up courses. - | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
- corpses. He decided he had to bury them in the backyard, away | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
from prying eyes, where they remained hidden for more than 200 | :56:55. | :57:02. | |
years. As for Benjamin Franklin, he returned to America and said | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
goodbye to 36 Craven Street. An embassy, an historic house and a | :57:07. | :57:17. | |
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Slightly morbid, music to match. Listen to that. Jon Bon Jovi on the | :57:18. | :57:28. | |
:57:28. | :57:30. | ||
You heard it, I am walking away and leaving it to the professionals. | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
Considering it takes a year for some people to get a sound from it, | :57:33. | :57:42. | |
good going. He was good down dissent, the lower note. He had a | :57:42. | :57:49. | |
good teacher. Back in history, a lot of composers used this. Mozart? | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
And many others, yes. 400 works have been composed on this | :57:54. | :58:01. | |
instrument. What is the most bizarre instrument Bon Jovi | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
experimented with? We tried some different kind of strange | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
instruments especially over the years. This is what you need! Get | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
him on board. Would you give us a little bit of something special? | :58:13. | :58:23. | |
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Classical music? Whatever takes Look at that, for a double. This is | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
my partner, Orlando, with my daughter. It doesn't say who it was | :58:47. | :58:52. |