24/01/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Michelle Ackerley.

As with every show, we had to make a few decisions

Choose some short films including one about 75 years

Choose a guest to interview, a guest who has been one

of Britain's most successful film directors for over 20 years.

Choose someone who won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire,

directed The Beach, 127 Hours, Steve Jobs.

And opened the 2012 Olympics in style.

So we could only really choose one person - Danny Boyle!

Of course we did. Danny, Ray to have you here. So lovely to have you

here. A bit embarrassed. We will be talking a lot more about what you

have chosen to do with your life through this programme.

Before we get onto that, the Oscar nominations were announced

today and as predicted La La Land has done well, receiving 14

What is it like for you to see a musical at the top of that list?

It's fantastic. Any film director, the ultimate dream is to do a

musical, an original musical, because it's the most difficult

thing I think you can do. It's the greatest achievement you could hope

for, really. Many of us spend our careers wanting and dreaming and not

quite getting there. I've seen La La Land. When you've got an Oscar you

are one of the ones that vote so you are not allowed to say even what you

like. But I saw it, and I saw Hamilton as well on Broadway, you

know the one that's coming to London. Because that's not in

contention, I can tell you that is an amazing musical. Completely

ground-breaking and I'm sure you'll be covering it. You must be really

chuffed with Dev Patel being nominated, one of your protege 's. I

don't know if you want to be called a protege any more, but dead chuffed

about that, and Naomi Harris as well. They've got a whole few weeks

of promotion still left to do, it is a whole circus you go on. But they

are brilliant, great pair, and will do well.

You won best-director for Slumdog Millionaire and this

That is a great dance, really channelling trigger. My kids, when

they were growing up, we used to watch the Oscars and I said if I

ever went up there I would do it like Tigger, and I was joking, of

course, such an impossible thing to ever think of. It happened and I

thought I could either be dignified or keep my promise to my kids, so I

kept my promise to my kids. They didn't even remember I'd said it,

they were too young. It meant nothing to anybody. They were

probably thinking, dad, what are you doing?

If you've ever felt frustrated while helping your children

with their maths homework because you're convinced

an answer is right, but the book says its wrong,

It might just be because the sums don't add up. Here's Joe.

We'll know when it comes to exams every little bit of revision can

really help. Which is why many parents are prepared to pay up for

these study guides and revision workbooks designed to give their

teenagers an extra edge. These books are produced by experts in the field

who often work closely with the exam boards themselves. You'd expect all

the questions and answers to be right, but you'd be wrong. We've

carried out a prog-macro investigation and found that these

revision guides can be littered with mistakes. Here at Fairfield high

school in Bristol, pupils aren't convinced that every revision guide

makes the grade. You expect to find the odd mistake, do you? Yes, and

then you aren't sure whether to trust it. You get more confused. It

really gets rid of your confidence. If you are stressed out from exams

that can tip you over the edge. For the head of maths at this school,

spotting and correcting those mistakes is all too often part of

his job. You spot them, you tell children you will change it in your

own but, next time at you give the heads up to the students. Is that

good enough? These are trusted resources. If there were more than

ten or 15 mistakes I would worry and consider using the publisher against

point we wanted to know just how accurate these revision books really

are, and better to help us out than our very own team of One Show

experts. Doctor Matthew is from the Cardiff School of mathematics. We

have given his team selection of GCSE and Scottish National maths

revision books. A QA, Ed Excel, OCR, SQA and WJ EEC. We asked them to

examine batches of questions from each book and they found mistakes

from the outset. Some of which caused some real head scratching. In

the answer they put eight, just in the top bit, that's not necessarily

true. Notebook was 100% mistake free. Oxford University press

workbook for the a QA exam had three errors in 174 questions. Perhaps

more surprisingly whether three books endorsed by the exam boards

themselves. The book for the OCR exam had eight mistakes in 1200

questions. The Edexcel book had eight mistakes in 563 questions. The

book endorsed by the Scottish exam board had five errors in 240.

However, bottom of the class was Hodder's an endorsed book for the W

J E C exam. Our experts found 90 errors, three out of 50 were

inaccurate, which of course is 6% if you want to know the maths. Making

that number of mistakes in an exam could spell the difference between a

pass and fail. All the examining board said final responsibility for

error-checking lay with the publishers. The publishers said they

do have rigorous processes in place, but accepted errors had been made

which will now be corrected. Pearson education added that it had already

spotted and corrected the eight errors in its workbook, it is now

being recalled and destroyed. But what about that workbook with 19

mistakes? Liz is Hodder's managing director. Yes, we fell down, but we

are human, we make mistakes. And this one has 90 errors in.

Inexcusable. Where our process fell down which is of real concern to me

and my team, there was not the final quality check that should have taken

place. We simply missed a stage because of the pressure of getting

the book out on time. Do you understand the stress and anxiety

this kind of mistake could cause? I know of a family where there have

been arguments, tears, fallouts, tearing their hair out, working

together trying to solve this and get it right but they can't, because

you've got it wrong. I absolutely understand that and sympathise

completely, and that is our fault. We have caused that stress. And we

are very grateful to the One Show for bringing these to our attention.

New and hopefully correct versions of this book are being printed. And

schools with this version are being told to bin it.

It is head scratching, all of the books had mistakes. Absolutely, and

a variety of mistakes. Sometimes you get the wrong answer with the wrong

question, sometimes you don't get all the information you need to work

out the problem. I've got some examples.

Here's the first one which asks you to find the range

An this isn't even a question, this is an example teaching children how

to do it. It is the difference between the highest and lowest

value. 27 is highest, five is the lowest, so 27, take away five, 20

two. That's not what they give you, they say the smallest number is six,

therefore the range is 21, so they've got the working wrong and

the answer wrong, not good. And this one is published by Cambridge

University press. Danny has seen this in the dressing room.

Turn your thing round, Danny, show your working. It's not been checked

by anybody. You have correctly found the prices. That is absolutely

perfect. You have times the correct numbers. You come out with ?14.85.

Danny, you got it right. Thank goodness! How pleased with yourself

are you that you got the right and the? I'm delighted. The book

actually says ?14.95. Oh, no. So it's 10p out. It's really close but

it's still wrong. An able student might spend too long trying to work

out why they got it wrong, less able student might just give up, and if

it shoots their confidence the night before an exam, it's a problem.

Frustrating and stressful. What happens to our high

streets if you take away Steve's been to meet someone who's

using some innovative thinking It's a real disappointment when you

see them closing. Hard work competing with the big retailers.

Supermarkets that do newspapers, birthday cards, butchery,

everything. Little shops are going out of business. The future of the

retail industry seems uncertain. Here in West Yorkshire one woman

together with local shopkeepers think they've found a solution to

take on those big businesses and revive the high Street. It brings

the local independent shops together. You choose what you like

from as many of them as you like, and you pick everything up from one

place. Customers want everything in one place and convenience but we

don't necessarily want to sell our principles or our soul or our town

to get that convenience. How can an app Compleat like this on cost? I

think it cost compete on cost. If I go to a supermarket I will end up

spending twice as much as I intended with all the special offers. When I

go to a local shop I get exactly what I need. Is it making a

difference to footfall? We can estimate it has been between 200 to

300 extra shop visits in the last eight weeks as a result of Shop

Appy. That can make a tremendous difference to a town. It is really

hard for independents to survive, so this will level the playing field

and let local people have a choice. Traders say it is running background

from supermarket click and collect services. Welcome to the butchers,

how are you doing with white do you think shops having an online

presence in this way can help build a community? I believe so because I

think we've lost that community spirit. Something like this can

bring back that community. If you haven't got time you can go on to

Shop Appy, if you've got time, pop in as well. Rosie, this has got to

be the perfect setup for you? It's brilliant, you just go online, click

the things I want and it's basically ready to pick up after I pick the

kids up. So when I get here at 6pm I've got everything I need for the

kids T. It's making my life a lot easier and I feel better because I

can support local businesses. In not lead the pick-up point is the local

pub. It's convenient and its social. Welcome to the tavern. Must be more

people coming through the door? Of course it increases footfall. Not

everybody who walks through the door will have a drink but even if they

only have a lemonade it still brings extra income to the pub. Shops by a

vital part in shaping the character of where we live. At in this modern

world they need an edge. The only way to compete against cheap

shopping online is to offer what it doesn't. Social interaction, and if

you're lucky, a drink with some new friends. Cheers. Not a bad idea, is

it? If it works, have a go, that's all you can do. We've got the lovely

Danny Boyle with us. Let's talk about Trainspotting 2.

We were chatting about this one being about time and how it affects

people, what do you mean by that? Obviously it is the same four

characters but 20 years later. So what they look like is alarming,

really. Film is extraordinary, and television as well, it freezes

people in time, it's easier now and if somebody loves you in the show

they remember you like you are now and then they lose sight of you and

then they get the chance to see you in 20 years' time and that an

freezes time and brings the past image up to the present image. One

thing it does with these actors, film stars, they are kind of our

heroes, they rejoin us as ordinary people because we are all on that

same passage. It human eyes is then. I was in two minds whether I would

watch the first one before going, we went to the screening to see it and

I thought I will not, because I want to hold those memories. And actually

the long-term memories that you have from that first film and actually

how they affect you emotionally, when you watch it and you are

transported back through time, you can't help but make that comparison

between your life and there's and I had singles. It has a real kick.

Were you aiming for that effect? The latter the fifth way but that's

the shoot of the characters, they do change, especially late on, there is

an extraordinarily moving scene, and then with Renton and his father. If

you betray them honestly do hope it will have the emotional effect on an

audience. Everybody was so cautious about doing a sequel and then coming

back and having the same impact. We were on this tower block, filming

Spud on the top of the tower block, there is another tower block and a

guy hanging out of the window, watching us as we are filming and he

says, this better not be terrible, mate! What was it like on set for

the first day? Getting everyone back together, what was it like, elated,

nervous? It is sort of a school reunion, which is kind of intriguing

that could be excruciating as well. Hopefully it wasn't. It wasn't for

us, we all bonded well and they were raring to go, their appetite for it

was enormous. It kind of gave me a kick in the pants because they were

ready. They are hugely experienced actors now. As a film director you

make one film every two years, they make one every year, or a TV series,

they were raring to go once we started. For you aiming for the 20

years, it is kind of 21 now. We missed it by about three weeks! We

had a go at ten years, the script wasn't very good. Then John Hodge,

the scriptwriter, we went up with him to Edinburgh for a week and sat

with him in a room, and then he went away and he wrote something much

more personal about himself, through the prism of these characters can be

sent it and I thought, we will do that. And these guys will do it as

well. We have got a lovely clip. Let's have a look at Renton, and

Spud talking about her different their lives have become. I haven't

heard that 100,000 times? Have you got 12 more steps from the? So be

addicted to something else! Running until I feel sick? You've got to

control it. Some people boxing. Boxing?! Is just an example. So what

do you channel it into? Getting away. Absolutely brilliant. Some

beautiful scenes of Edinburgh there. In the original one, a lot of it was

focused in Glasgow but for this one, it was Edinburgh although they? Or

the criminal to Glasgow and we didn't have any money so we couldn't

afford to do it in Edinburgh. But this one we have more money so we

thought, we have got to do it in Edinburgh, the original stories come

from there. The film belongs to that town, really, so we decided to shoot

it there and everybody is delighted to welcome us now. They didn't

originally. There weren't as many fans originally, they thought we

were just annoying. Film crews on your street. But now everybody was

there with open arms. How did you know when it was finished? The

second one? You have done the edit, the whole lot, you put it out there

and you know you are not go to tinker with it any more. You track

away kicking and screaming, you never really stop but there is

always a turning point and this one was about four weeks from the edit,

four weeks in, we watched it together me and the editor, John

Harris and it was like, we thought we made this film about time, that

was our scenario. But actually it's about masculinity, about these guys

who behave like boys, they have the irresponsible recklessness, they

don't care about anything, in the first film. It's this movement

through masculinity, they moved to manhood, the film is littered with

children, some of whom they are the fathers of. Many of them are

disappointed in their fathers and women who were also disappointed in

them. A reckoning has to happen. Then I thought, that's the film,

really. You don't know you have made that film and then you see it envies

think, my God, it's about that! In a moment, we will be talking music

with you. We know that is a big part of your life, vitally important to

your films. could reveal to the nation that

Margaret Thatcher was a fan of Beethoven, Nigella Lawson loves

Eminem and that if Ian Hislop was stuck on a desert island,

he'd insist on having a lifetime This weekend that show

celebrates its 75th anniversary - You remember where you were every

time you hear one of these pieces of music. It's where I don't know what

to take refuge in something think the three different. One of Radio

4's most best loved programmes, desert island discs, has captivated

listeners since 1942. It cut through all boundaries. Castaways have

chosen music to stir memories. We used to jive, this is tremendous. As

a tribute, we're trying our own take on their winning formula but this

time our castaways are members of the public. My favourite would be

sitting on the dock of the bay. Bat out of hell. Sailing by Rod Stewart.

And soon our islands are awash with memories.

Love song from the 18 hundredths. It was a song I listened to with my

grandmother. We were singing it on her hospital bed for the last week

of her life. It was on repeat all day throughout the entire week.

She was very much my best friend. Her personality was that of a

teenager. It was the love song to listen to with her. I couldn't

listen to it afterwards without crying or anything like that but I

joined the choir, we sang that song, so I was kind of forced to adjust

and adapt to it being part of my life. Since then I've even got a

tattoo of the opening line, I am it's surely carrying it around with

me. It gives me a lot of comfort having it on me.

My desert island choice would be I'm Alive by Celine Dion. I'm originally

by St Lucia, a tiny island in the Caribbean, quite beautiful,

friendly, I wanted to go back. I struggled with the weather, I was

feeling a bit sad, you have a lot to learn, food, style, it's like you're

starting all over again and I remember singing it and feeling so

exhilarated because I just felt, despite was alone in this country, I

had no family member, I was alone, I still felt excited, I still was able

to smile no matter what. It makes you just focus on the

positive and move on with it, that's why it relates to my journey as a

migrant in the UK. My favourite record is by Elvis

Presley, Bridge Over Troubled Water. He just sings it was such emotion

and feeling. It's just a beautiful song, I've listened probably every

day for a long time. Elvis's music gets me through a lot

of bad times and good times, makes you feel good, it really does. I

remember when my mother got divorced, mind and stopped me

playing Elvis for a while because it was too upsetting. The man's voice

is pure emotion. Simon and Garfunkel were good, but he sang it better!

There is a reason why Desert Island Discs has endured for 75 years.

Music brings memories flooding back. We are being flooded! My feet are

getting a bit wet. But you can see where they do it as a radio show.

75 years and still going strong! You were loving that film. The guy

talking about is grandma, that was very moving. They ask you for eight

tracks, you talked about doing it before, it's such a challenge for

you to choose. I couldn't go on. It would be to narrow it down to eight

tracks. We're going to ask you to narrow it down to one! You have come

up with a track for us, special children for you. Actually there's a

bit of it in the new movie, because I finally found a place for it, and

it's by the Watford clash. White Man In Hammersmith Palais. When I was a

kid, my dad used to buy the original Beatles songs, I have that as an

early shaping experience, when I was 18, punk happened, so it was a big

part of my life to be part of that movement. I used to go and watch the

Clash, when Joyce, passed away, I had never met him, I was so upset.

-- when Joe Strummer passed away. So that is a huge thing in my life,

that song, it is used in the film than they desperately try and

recreate the past, which is appropriate. The music in all your

films are so emotive, it evokes memories, how far in the process

does it come, do you think about the music you want to use at the

beginning? Sometimes, and it often doesn't survive because it's the

moral of going through it, you abandon it, really. It's more stuff

that goes on late on in the shooting or when you are working with your

editor and begin to see scenes from in front of you. One of the

tragedies of getting older is that I'd used to have an automatic access

to all music, I knew everything and suddenly you find you don't, you are

out of touch. You think, when did that happen? Now I do it through my

kids, they put me in touch with a lot of stuff in the new movie stuff

by Wolf Alice, and the Young Fathers, who won't recommend to

anyone. Is it right that you keep your Oscar under your bed? Yes... I

did have it out for a bit, and you can't look at it every day. It's

just like, oh, please! You got to live an ordinary life so keep it in

a box under the bed. Or maybe it's under the bed! In case a burglar

breaks in! When was the last looked at it? A long time ago. You don't

get it out at night? No, it's a wonderful thing, it's an

extraordinary thing and it's a wonderful process to go through, but

you have got to get on yourself. You are modest man, Danny, thank you so

much for coming in. Tomorrow we'll be joined

by two huge musical stars. From Broadway - Neil Patrick Harris

and 'she's the one that we want' - The Robshaws are going

back in time again.