23/08/2011 The One Show

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

Tonight, 101 reasons to watch the show. They are Dalmatians, not just

a pretty face. And we are joined by a singer who is all things nice.

And sporty and spice, it is Melanie C! We have to offer our guests a

little drink. Usually, it is water. You are lucky, it is wine tonight.

Can you tell the difference between East two bottles of wine? One of

them is fake. On first look, no. Have a second look. No, they both

look pretty identical. A I'll give you the answer. It is this one. You

can tell because the level is a bit further down. It happens with lots

of different wines. Trading standards have seen a worrying

increase in the manufacture of counterfeit alcohol. What may seem

like a bargain at the time can you Many of us enjoy a drink. We also

like a bargain but with criminal gangs producing counterfeit booze

in convincing packaging, do we always know what we are drinking?

And his drinking fake booze really that bad? I have got a fake bottle

of vodka here. It looks and smells like a bottle of vodka and it

tastes, if I dare take a sip... Quite horrible, but just like neat

vodka. I don't feel particularly ill. I think it is time to see a

guy who can tell me exactly what is in this and how dangerous it is.

Criminals care more about profit than purity so the public analyst

which tests counterfeit Blues have been finding a range of harmful

chemicals. Give me the bad news. What is in the vodka or I sampled

and some of the others you have got? This sample has icy proper

milk which is an industrial chemical used in solvents, paints

and screen wash. It is not particularly harmful, luckily for

you. I might have been lucky but Chris has found chloroform in other

bottles. Chloroform is a toxic chemical. It is toxic to the

kidneys and liver. There is enough in this bottle but if you drank it

over a long period of time, you would get kidney problems. Are you

seeing much stuff with chloroform? We are, yes. It is one of the most

popular types of counterfeit spirits. And you have even got some

wine. This, we have had a number of counterfeit bottles of wine. This

is not one but we do not know what it is. That is worrying. Increasing

amounts of fake boos are being seized in Britain. Last summer, six

men were convicted of running an illegal distillery then London.

Alcohol was produced in a warehouse which churned out 24 fake bottles

of vodka or a minute. Fake booze is being found all over the UK. One

hospital consultant believes some of those who have been drinking it

are turning up in accident and emergency. We are seeing a large

number of people coming in with alcohol related symptoms. The

symptoms they are describing are much more pronounced. They are

claiming more of visual problems, more severe abdominal pain and

slurred speech. One wonders whether this could be related to

counterfeit alcohol. A lot of the patient that cumin describe the

symptoms as related to probably having their drinks spiked and

initially, that is what we thought. But aren't all the symptoms which

relate from drinking too much alcohol anyway? And as a nation, we

are doing that at an alarming rate. The symptoms that patients are

describing seem to be related to the ingredients of counterfeit

alcohol. Methanol can cause permanent blindness, it can cause

liver failure, it can cause kidney failure and these conditions can be

irreversible. With counterfeit alcohol, blindness can be permanent.

For sometimes people drink fake booze because it is cheaper but

sometimes it is because they do not know it is counterfeit. Trading

standards have begun a campaign to expose fake alcohol. There are

things which members of the public can look out for. Labels can be

crooked and creased. The Phil lines can be different. This one has a

slightly lower level to the genuine product. Smirnoff has recently

introduced a new silver label. This one here is a counterfeit and this

one is a genuine bottle. There should be a duty stamp. If there is

not, that is another indication that it could be counterfeit.

Another thing which could identify the vodka being counterfeit is the

price can be very low. The thing about counterfeit booze, you have

no idea what chemicals you are putting into your body. It could be

extremely damaging for your health. Sobering stuff.

You do have to be so careful. I have a story about home-brew. I was

on the Trans-Siberian Express and the bloke in the next carriage

invited me through. I had a couple of drinks. I do not know what was

in it. I needed somewhere so at the next station I got off and I was

standing there with no phone, no wallet and the train leaves the

station and I am sure -- stood in the middle of Siberia. I ran after

the train and jumped on to it. You have got to be so careful. That is

not like you, is it? Being stranded in Siberia because of vodka! View

of one busy lady. You ran a triathlon and came first in the

female group. You have starred in Blood Brothers in the West End,

released a 4th album. 5th album! And became a mother to lovely

Scarlet. Which one of those four things was the most challenging?

would have to say and I think all parents would agree, having a child

has to be the most challenging thing. It is so terrifying. You

want to do the right thing and there is a lot to learn and it

keeps changing every day. The first single from the new album, The Sea,

# If there's a chance or break. I love this song. I am really

excited about the whole album. look so glamourous. You are in a

skimpy dress. Do you think becoming a mother has made you feel more

sexy? I do feel more comfortable becoming a mum. I'm sure some of it

is becoming bolder. I am really enjoying my new role. I love Week.

It is a brilliant pasa doble song for all the ballroom fans.

always comes back to A strictly! The Sea is an interesting name. Why

did you choose that? Each morning I would walk along the seafront to

the studio. I found it a really inspiring time. The opening track

is The Sea. You can hear the waves crashing. An interesting story.

When we did the shoot for the album cover, we were up in Whitby and we

recorded The Sea and the tide coming in. We have used on the

track. And going back to the whole blood brothers thing, you were

nominated for an Olivier Award, have you thought about doing some

more theatre? You were pretty scared. I was petrified. After

having my little girl, I felt really courageous. I want her to be

proud of me. All of the things I really wanted to do but was too

frightened before, I am thinking I want to do it now like the

triathlon, a working in the theatre. I had an amazing time. I did not

know what to expect. I got great reviews. Yes, brilliant reviews.

got a real taste for it but I really missed my music so it was

time to make a new record but in the future I would love to do more.

What about Spice Girls The Musical? I went to see it We Will Rock You

at last night. I have always been a big Queen fan. A brilliant show. It

made me get really excited about Spice Girls The Musical. Have you

had an involvement in a? We talked about it for a long time. We always

thought the Spice Girls music would be perfect for a West End show.

When we spent time together doing the reunion tour in 2007, we talked

about it. We decided to get proactive and start making some

producers. When we got back we started to do and we met Judy

Cramer who produced Mamma Mia, the stage show and the movie. We

thought she was the perfect lady for the job and then she got

Jennifer Saunders on board to write the story. It is a dream team for

us, really. We are very excited. When will it be on the stage?

are hoping it will be finished for the end of 2012. And back to the

rest of the girls, you are all mothers now. Do you still see a lot

of each other? We tried to see each other as much as we can. Two of the

girls live in America so sometimes it is tricky but I think the

children have brought us closer together. We like to share

birthdays and spent time together. I'm sure loads of people ask you

this but are you reforming for the Olympics? I wish! I would love to

do it. I have never been approached so we don't know where the story

came from. It has never got through to me, I'm afraid. I'm sure they

would love to have year. A but Spice girls than musical is

definitely happening. Get your tracksuit ready. -- Spice Girls The

Musical. Before Gyles tells us about how one

potter became a ceramic millionaire, for the next part of Canal Week...

We should really go and visit one. Thank you. It is gorgeous where

they are here in Scotland. I am at the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival.

There are some boats here in the Firth of Forth and Clyde. Here we

have Tommy Lawton who is from the Canal Society. Good evening. Back

in the day, the marina was a hub of activity. This was a very busy

marina. They built boats here, they launched them and brought coal from

the coalfields. It made culture before everybody. This was

originally a Weaver's town which turned into an industrial town.

did the Canal Society get involved? We had been going for 31 years. We

decided we would campaign to have it opened as there was a blockage.

We had money from the lottery and the seven councils which were

involved and he had the whole seek to see canal reopened. It looks

brilliant and it is fantastic for the community. I am not up here

alone. Joining me we have The One Show Scotland man, there's Maclean.

I have brought the local weather and I have brought the home crowd.

It will be a Scotland versus England affair tonight. How would

you fancy going head to head along this canal in these -- in those

inflatable toilet roll things? would be insanity but I think that

is what we will be doing. We tried it earlier and this is how we got

Are you supposed to feel sick? I feel a bit queasy.

One more time, let's hear it for Scotland! Let's hear it for England.

I can feel the Love out there. Before chaos ensues, here is Gyles

Wedgwood. The very name has a ring to it. As far back as the late

1700s, this Staffordshire made cream where was so renowned,

royalty made -- eight their dinner off it. Josiah Wedgwood wanted his

crockery to grace the less regal tables as well. Wedgwood's ambition

had a very rocky ride. Only the clay from Cornwall gave him the

creamy finish you needed. But the journey by plodding horse and

Mughal, it was painfully slow. The finished wears often fared even

worse on the road to market. Wedgwood's vision was to take his

goods on a new, quicker route, by canal. In the mid- 18th century,

crockery was produced in small pottery is dotted around the West

Midlands. His Cornish china clay had to be shipped north to

Liverpool before trundling by road down to Staffordshire. Josiah's

solution would help spark the industrial revolution decades later.

His plan transformed his injury -- industry and made him rich. Moving

his raw materials by water at 30 tonnes a time made it quicker and

cheaper and the Potteries could export their goods to the world in

one piece with fewer breakages. The competition was literally barged

In 1761 England's only canal was the Bridgewater out of Manchester.

His proposed canal would link the rivers Trent and Mersey. But a

rival navigation company on the nearby river Weaver objected.

Wedgwood's new waterway would ruin their trade. They had been in

business 30 years, maybe 20,000 tonnes a year and didn't want

anybody to take their business away from them. His opponents dreamt up

canal routes that by-passed the potteries all together. To Joshua

campaigned up and down England bringing landowners and public on

side. But before kafbing the second only canal through the country they

needed to get it through parliament. In 1765 Charles Darwin's

grandfather helped draw up a campaign. Darwin could get a little

bit sarcastic with his amendment. This is one typical Darwin-type

comment, a very garolous sentence. This draft ends up as this, this is

what goes to the Houses of parliament.

With his arch rivals still calling the plans miserable and flimsy,

Wedgwood nevertheless won the day. It made the statue book in July

1766. The Trent and Mersey canal was

opened here five years later. He ensured that the canal was routed

right past his new factory. And just let everyone know he was truly

home and dry, he built this grand house on the other side of the

water. When he died in 1795 he was worth a staggering �500,000, �30

million in today's money. He pioneered the industrial revolution,

mechanised production and put good crockery on the tables of the

masses. The Wedgwood name stood alone before the business went into

receivership in 2009 and was sold off. Today travellers on the Trent

Mersey can be grateful that he finally got his way.

A story beautifully told and we are now enjoying a civilised cup of tea

from Wedgwood. And we should raise our cups to one of the great men of

our country, he pioneered as it were the fight against slavery and

he was an industrial reformer, one of the fathers of the industrial

revolution. A great man. This is something he invented. What do you

think this is? I did say it looked like a giant Kit Kat in the

rehearsal. It was invented to measure the temperature in a kiln.

Until he invented this there was a character called a kiln man who

stood by saying yes, I think it's hot enough to have baked the

pottery but sometimes he didn't get it right and the pottery was

smashed. This device in which the clay is put, as I am sure you will

have discovered in school, what happens to the clay it gets smaller,

contracts and you can measure the temp temperature by the size of the

pottery going down the clay as it went down here. It's measured in

what were known as Wedgwood grades. He invented this and because of

this mass production became possible. It changed the world. He

gave us creamware, he sent some to Queen Charlotte, she loved it and

because the Queen liked it the middle classes began to adopt it.

Oh! That is worth some �4,000. The sauce boat �2,000. Let's hope we

are insured! He could have touched this as well. This is from the

museum. These items could have been touched by him. Are you a fan?

beautiful, I am very nervous sitting here. Do you have any

Wedgwood in your house. I don't think so. You could afford this.

This is made of Jasper ware. This was a new kind - like like

porcelain. This is a re-creation of an old vase. The British Museum had

one and he made a copy of it that would now retail for �100,000, if

you could buy it. In the 1800s the British Museum one was broken they

used Wedgwood's model to re-create it. Could I point out Nigel here

from the museum, as Giles is waving his arms around he is sweating and

diving like a goalkeeper. The men in white coats are over there. One

is going to take that lot and the other will take me. Why not.

have another collectors item here. For one of my heroines, so look

what I have got for you. Wow. own Wedgwood plate. It's proper.

Made in... This will cost you �12,000 and this certainly �1.20.

We are informed it's worth �16. After the musical it will increase.

Brilliant. Thank you, Giles. Now last week we discovered what part

spaniels have played in British history. And in our series of films

about man's best friend Joe Inglis traces the role of Cruella De

Ville's nemesis, the Dalmation. They've played a unique role in

British history. No one is certain of the Dalmation's origins, but a

popular theory is that they hail from a region of Croatia called

Dalmatia and spread across Europe with the travelling Roma. They

reached Britain by the 1700s and the breed soon became popular with

the aristocracy. Even Queen Victoria was a fan. But it wasn't

just their striking looks that made the Dalmation appealing, these dogs

were willing to work hard, which was perfect for the needs of

Britain's upper classes. The breed was given a unique role,

of running alongside the horses and carriages of the rich and powerful.

They were called simply carriage dogs. That's fantastic, I have

never seen anything like that. Anne Dickens is a member of the society

and she's a Dalmation fan. Tell me what was the original purpose of

having carriage dogs. Two main reasons really. First of all,

they're a status symbol, they're pretty dogs and they decorate the

carriage. Secondly, they're good guard dogs. So, they would guard

the valuables, carriages were often targeted for money and they would

see off the highwaymen. An ancient car alarm. What is it about them

that makes them suited to this work? It's a combination really,

they have a natural affinity with horses so they love running in a

team with you. They have amazing stamina. They can run for 20 miles

a day and it's nothing to them. guess that endurance ability comes

from some of their particular physical traits. They have

fantastically well muscled legs and springy paws which gives them a lot

of bounce on the road and the coat means they don't overheat. They

have lots of heart and lung room and a nice balanced construction

means they can go all day, yes. the 20th century when the motor car

replaced the carriage the Dalmation moved into our homes, and their

role changed from working dogs to pets.

When the novel The a 101 Dalmations, their role in British hearts was

cemented. It's inspired three films, and when Disney's 1996 version hit

our screens the number of Dalmation puppies being registered shot up by

25%. But the energy that made these dogs such good carriage dogs a

couple of centuries ago can make them quite a handful for

inexperienced dog owners. Chris is a Dalmation enthusiast. Last year

1,500 new Dalmation puppies were registered with the Kennel Club.

Dalmations make wonderful pets but they need a fair amount of exercise

and they really like to be around you. They don't like to be left

alone for any length of time. Can be demanding really. Is there a

problem with people not being able to cope? Yes, often because they're

very much a favourite with children, obviously. Everybody loves the

spotty dog. People often buy them without really researching what

they need. We do get a few coming to the welfare, unfortunately.

welfare charities around the UK get at least 300 Dalmations through

their doors each year. Thankfully most of these are rehomed.

Britain's love affair with Dalmations has stayed strong since

they reached our shores hundreds of years ago. 50 years on from 101

Dalmations we are still spotty about these dogs.

That was more under control, wasn't I love that line at the end. These

are very well behaved. This is Hector and UnA. Not sure if my one

is well controlled. You are doing well there, Melanie. These are only

seven weeks old. I have a couple of Dalmation facts. When they're born,

they're born completely spotless. Pure white. They don't develop

their spots until they're about two weeks old. They have to have a

hearing test as well. You are being brave because you are allergic to

dogs. I have my best clothes on as well! I am allergic to most animals.

I love animals. It's a bit of a case. Do you remember on the show

in 2007 we gave you something less cute to hold then. Yes, last time I

was here I had a tarantula on my hand, which was fine. Here we go. A

little bit of footage of that. You are being brave. I was going to

wear that Clarence House again today -- wear that blouse again

today, that would have been embarrassing! 5th September the

album is out, so it's an exciting time. Yeah, single and album. It's

the first in four years. Don't worry about Una, the owner is over

there. I will put her down. Have you played the albums of the other

Spice Girls? Yeah, Emma loves it, she's been playing bits on Heart.

It's going great. It's getting well received at radio. Before tonight

were you aware it was Canal Week on The One Show? I am sad to say I

wasn't. Have you thought about a boating holiday. I have had friends

that have done it and had a fantastic time. Here we go, it's

time to return to Kirkintilloch Canal Festival for our One Show

race. To find out who is water borne and who is water forlorn.

What are the tactics for the race? I am going to keep going and I have

a little pin in my pocket, if he comes near me I will detphraet him

-- deflate him. We have some stats here. Des's hero