23/02/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.

Tonight we're going on a bit of voyage of discovery.

We'll reveal what inspired these mysterious works of art.

Intriguing. We'll also have this. Dad had to climb over this offence

because the pigs had got into the middle of the garden into one of

Margot's Gazebos. That was Lucy Briers remembering the set of the

good life as she renders her dad Richard. Lovely film. And why is

Maureen Lipman doing this? I have always been a ham. This is the last

appalling pun I will make. It's Maureen! Wow! You will never forget

your first pork walk. We have some experience of pork walking. What

were you doing? Just walking a pig. Give us the context. I'm doing a

programme called Discovering Britain. Part of that was a farm

shows. I got to choose. Often Larry Lamb would say, I want to do that

and then swap. I haven't been near a pig. I got to oil its spots. Really

nice animal. Pigs are lovely animals. Very clean. You can't help

give them a little scratch. It is not briskly. It is appealing.

Smooth. Toiling a pig's spots. Just another day in Hollywood! We had

sheep on another programme. We will have a chat about what you've been

discovering later. May be we can while a pig if we go to the

Yorkshire show again. I have friends who can and so it -- friends who can

sort that out. Being a victim of theft

is unpleasant under any circumstances, but imagine how

you would feel if it wasn't a just a possession that was

taken - but your pet. And unfortunately it's on the rise,

with more than a hundred dogs Dan's been to meet some

of the owners trying to track Stealing a dog and selling it on is

seen as easy money for some criminals who care nothing for the

emotional cost to others. With dogs like this, you can see how they

become part of the family. Monty was devastated when her dog Gog was

stolen. She was a local celebrity in Leicester. She loved posing for

pictures. She was just such a gentle, caring character. Gog's

devotion helped Monty deal with cancer. She would raise the alarm if

I collapsed. She would bark at people going by until somebody

helped. Gog was in a buggy when she was stolen from outside a shopping

centre. Police released a CCTV image of a woman wheeling her away.

Volunteers handed out hundreds of leaflets across the city but there

is still no sign of Gog. According to the animal charity Blue Cross

there are around 1500 pet deaths every year and police say that

organised gangs are now getting in on the act, often holding pedigree

dogs to ransom. Many dogs are never returned but sold on to buyers, used

for breeding on puppy farms but if there is no take, ending up just

being abandoned in centres like this one. Ella works at this centre in

Loughborough says that micro-chipping pets is crucial. If

owners had the pet micro-chipped it would prevent the situation because

dogs can be traced back to the owner. Micro-chipping becomes

compulsory across the UK in April. A simple scan will reveal the owner of

any dog. Chipping is not the only technology being put to use. Some

dog owners have taken to the Internet to get the message out

about stolen pets. When Murphy went missing while being exercised, his

owner put messages out on social media. I had 15,000 people following

Murphy's story. It went mental. We have 60 odd thousand now in total.

It's nuts. Three months later, all that online publicity paid off when

Andy received a phone calls from an RSPCA officer who had seen the

publicity. It's definitely him? His partner caught the moment on film

and posted it online. Murphy's coming home. Safely back with the

family, the site set up to find him is now being used to track down

other stolen pets. If I've got 30,000, 40,000 people following my

page, why not help other people? We can go nationwide within seconds.

The police are very busy and dog that is not a massive priority so it

is down to is, really. This is one of many campaigns online aimed with

finding lost and stolen dogs. Gog now has her very own hashtag. Owner

Monty is pinning her hopes on finding her. What are your hopes?

Just to get her back. I'm just asking everybody to pray for us.

Thank you, Dan. Our heart goes out to Monty. If you know anything, do

the right thing and contact Leicestershire police. Were joined

by Dominic, Tamsin and Kali the dog. We heard in the film that

micro-chipping is becoming crumpled three in April. It's quite a simple

procedure. It is from the six of April. The chip is the size of a

grain of rice. You just stick a needle in, job done. If you have dog

and you haven't had it chipped after the 6th of April, you will be fined

?500. Over eight weeks, it should be chipped as well. You should chip

your monkey while you're at it. It's important to keep the information on

it updated. When you move house, you change loads of things. Utility

bills, everything. You need to change that. You can scan it and a

code comes up and tells you who owns it. There are loads of points when

it can happen. Take it to a vet, if the police are involved. If it is

straight and goes to a rescue centre. Can you chip it again when

you move? Decode is registered to the owner. If it changes, you can

change that data. Putting a collar on your dog is really handy if you

tell people it is neutered or spade. People are frightened that the dog

might be stolen for breeding. It is something they panic over. On my

collar, I show that the dog has been spade. The scars from surgery are so

tiny so it's not obvious that it has happened, especially to a girl dog.

Just be aware of strange conversation, as well. If something

comes up. We love to talk about our dogs. If you are out with one,

especially one as beautiful as Kali. If people ask questions that make

you feel uncomfortable, about the dog's history, be aware of that.

Change your route. Never leave them outside of the shops or in back

gardens. Dom, you have got some active cases.

Sky is a female rottweiler who was stolen from the rear

of the Smawthorne Hotel, Smawthorne Lane, Castleford,

on 2nd December in the early hours of the morning.

Whoever stole her, broke in and had to break a padlock. It was not an

opportunist. A word about Max the springer spaniel. He disappeared on

Christmas Day. It was being looked after by relatives who must feel

pretty bad. He's wearing a chain collar

and is micro-chipped. Important to take photos of your

dogs from different angles, if they have got interesting markings that

can help identify. Not just one of the face. Peter -- beautifully

behaved Kali there. Thanks very much.

First came the Loch Ness Monster. Then there was the Beast of Bodmin.

And now there's a new menace stalking the streets of Britain.

It's the rise of the smartphone zombie or "smombie".

And no matter where you go - you cannot escape them.

The smombies are here. They are everywhere. They won't stop for

anything. Smombies are people who are totally focused on their mobile

devices. Dangerously oblivious to the world around them. In

Birmingham, this woman was lucky to escape unscathed after walking into

trouble while sending a text message. This statue had to be moved

after entrance to smombies kept walking into it. What was happening?

People were walking straight into it while they were texting looking down

at the ground. The entrance to it is six foot five. Do you think people

are becoming smartphone zombies? You see whole families in restaurants

all on their phones. They don't speak to each other. Two years ago,

this artist predicted that we were all working in -- walking into

trouble. He is fascinated by the curse of the smombie. People are

used to having information when they want it instantly. It is an

addiction. You feel compelled to look at your phone. You want to see

what it is. You need to look up. There is a whole world that we are

not appreciating. Time for direct action. I am going to lift the

smombies out of their trans. I noticed that you were walking and

looking at your smartphone. I wasn't looking at you. Luckily, I dived out

of the way and there could have been a collision. I was walking down

Clapham high street and I was doing this, I banged into somebody and I

looked up and it was Mick Hucknall. Have you had any mishaps? I was on

my phone, she was on hers. She didn't see me coming and collided

into me. Higher. All right? You were walking, looking down. How do you

avoid this saps? Peripheral vision, avoid mishaps. Do the odd look up.

You don't want to miss the love of your life. LAUGHTER

I'm on The One Show, actually. Theron! Maureen! Are you one of

these smombies. Do you walk down the road oblivious? I'm appalling. I am

addicted. It is terrible. Our eyes. Function in. I have pictures of my

grandchildren. I have so many pictures I have stopped looking.

They can get on with it, I will just look at pictures. You've been

looking at all this beautiful scenery of Britain.

It is about the eccentricities of the British Isles and things you do

not know are going on, discovering things. It is my education. Me and

Larry Lamb, an old friend. We roused about together. We get on well, we

joke. Going to see artists studios and work in a pottery gallery, I am

not much of a traveller. To be on Crosby Beach, ten minutes outside

Liverpool and see the tide go out and all of the statues of Antony

Gormley was just amazing. They all have literature and on different

parts of the body. It is tough at the bottom really. I drank rum with

people in a Guildhall in Warwickshire and Castle Howard, I

actually persuaded George Howard to talk to me about keeping a stately

home when it costs an Armani and a leg. They were the first home to

open to the public, won't they? Famous set of Brideshead Revisited.

A very popular spot. Very popular. You queue for everything in the

world. To see Castle Howard, can there be anywhere more beautiful

than that place? It really is breathtaking.

Well, let's see you and Larry turning on the castle's rather

Shall I start it? It is tough. Catch hold. It is. We did that. We did

that. This is a first. I have never turned on a fountain before. Have

you turned on anything else? I'd turned on a sixpence. I did when

they told me I would work with you. It is a lovely relationship. He is

little, playful. He is playful, a bit of a whinger. He is a really

attractive man. He is. This is the way it is going. It is unusual to

get an actor in this country who is a big bruiser and very sensitive as

well. He loves it. He cannot get out there quick enough. What we going to

see today? That is great. I am cynical and ballroom dancing with

elderly... Actually people my age in Scarborough. He is the perfect

travelling companion them. -- Ben. Discovering Britain continues

tomorrow night at 9 o'clock Viruses usually mean staying under

the duvet and hot drinks in bed. But artist Luke Jerram believes

they can also be things of beauty and has created a series of glass

sculptures to challenge the way People respond to the work in all

sorts of different ways. Most people are really drawn to it because the

objects are incredibly beautiful. When they realise what it is they

are slightly repelled by it. The number of people who are HIV

positive... The ebola epidemic threatens society. This is how they

look. I am being truthful to nature. The idea came from looking in

newspapers actually of images of viruses. I found out quite quickly

that viruses do not have any colour. Scientists often add colours to the

imagery to highlight particular areas but also to add emotional

impact. I started creating this body of work to reflect my understanding

of viruses, as these invisible and colourless objects. The artwork ends

up in museums around the world. This is a glass sculpture of HIV. This is

papilloma. This is avian flu. I was suffering from swine flu whilst

doing this, it was very strange. suffering from swine flu whilst

Right now I am going to make a diagram to illustrate the HIV

sculpture we are going to make. This is not the first time I have created

this sculpture. Gradually I am having to adapt and change the model

to keep up with scientific understanding. Now I can go and see

Brian and Norman to make the artwork with them. Now we are off to

Sunderland. Brian and Norman have been making this work and working

with me for ten years. They have a whole lifetime of experience. I

think we are in safe hands. Out of the blue he asked us if we would

make some glass virus sculptures. What is that? The first thing we

make some glass virus sculptures. need to do is pull a point on the

edge of this achieving. There is some magic with glass. We create all

the interior DNA that is going inside the virus. All of that will

be made first. Then, I will put some of these little spots on free hand.

Then we sandblasted it. This is the crucial part. If it is not done

right, it will fall to bits and you have to start again. You have to be

as though the inner glass is floating to the outer. There you

are! That is the finished object to the next stage. For me, this is the

most exciting part of the process. We are going to get the DNA of the

artwork which will be sealed in to the glass sphere. A bit more. That

is enough. That's fine. That is it. We are now at the end of

the process, which involves fixing the glass proteins on to the final

sculpture. Using special glass blue which fuels with ultraviolet light.

sculpture. Using special glass blue Look at that! There we go. -- blue.

This is the final, completed artwork. It looks brilliant. It will

fit in a glass collection or museum somewhere in the world for the next

years. It is a thing of beauty and quality which we can all be proud

of. Brilliant! Wonderful craftsmanship from Brian and Norman.

A big shout out to them. I would love one of those! I would love one

of those! The exploration of the body inside is the next great

continent, isn't it? The brain and cells. Discovering the body, that is

the new series. I do not have to go inside Larry's body! Shall we have a

quick look at some of your artwork? This is more head in. Angelemur

Jolie. Brad Pitt Bull. Benedict Humperbact. We just need to have a

look at Matt. Bat maker, I love that! Salamandra Jones, I love it!

It is like seeing double. Many of us will remember

Richard Briers as Tom in the Good Life -

not least for his tatty jumpers Here's his daughter Lucy

and her personal memories When my father died, the news made

the front page that he would have been taken aback by that.

I remember the one where the chicken escapes and manages to leap onto a

bus. The funny thing is that my father was really not keen on

chickens. I think because they were just a bit thick. And this is where,

posher than posh, Margot Leadbetter lived. She was outraged that her

next door neighbours have made their garden into a farmyard. I remember a

pig escaped through this bit of friends and dad

pig escaped through this bit of the fence because the pigs had got

into the middle of the garden to one of Margot's gazebos. He realised

Margot was looking straight at him. Morning, Tom! The Tom Good jumpers,

most of them were my dad's that my dad was not a big Gardner, he would

mow the lawn and that was it. My sister and I used to see where all

the interior shots were filmed and there was a particularly exciting

time when the Queen was watching. My father would be so nervous before a

live recording that he would often be sick before it started. I'm just

going to pop back there and have a quick shake. He was always worried

that success would not last and we would be left with nothing. I was

nine when I decided I wanted to be an actress. My father would come to

watch school plays and say, I do not think you are good enough. I tried

to stick to drama like pride and prejudice. I never wanted to be seen

as a less funny version of my dad. He was incredibly supportive. I was

lucky enough to do a play with my dad and my mum, the actress, and

Davis. What I loved was his sharpness of wit. He never liked to

be away from the family for longer than six months. When my father

asked the monarch of the Glen writers to Gil him off, they found a

rather cruel way of doing this he put explosives on a model boat and

his rather uses dog thought he wanted it brought back to him and,

bang! In his 50s, my dad got really tired of being then principally as a

TV actor and he returned to the stage with big, classical roles. He

was really nervous about it but he should not have been. I always

thought your dad was the perfect casting for Uncle Vanya. He made me

laugh every day I worked with him. I would bite my lip and try not to

courts will stop he was like a humorous hand grenade and explode

with humour in every direction. You never knew it was coming. Losing him

was terrible. My mum and dad were married for 57 years. We were a very

tight unit and we had to work hard about what we do as a three. I

remember a really wonderful supper we had after he had seen me in a

play. He said to me, I'm going to pass the Batten on. You are doing

things on stage I could never do. It was a very lovely and beautiful

thing for a father to say to a daughter.

That's all we've got time for tonight.

Maureen's programme, Discovering Britain,

continues tomorrow night at 9pm on More 4.

We'll be back tomorrow with some of the stars of Let's Play Darts

And shadow theatre group Attraction, former winners

of Britain's Got Talent, will be performing.

So here we are at the starting line of this year's Sport Relief games.

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