24/08/2012 The One Show

Good evening everybody. Welcome to the One Show. On my way to the do,

and I thought I would host the show for a while. You look exsen

particular but lovely. It is Alex Jones here. And Chris Evans. With

days to go before the part of the Paralympics, tonight we're getting

into the sporting spirit. Joining us is Iwan Thomas. Who we love,

don't he. We have the torchbearers. And, this man... For London is

about to cry out with hearts and soul. Let the Games commence.

I love that bit. Let's enjoy the six syllables that are Benedict

Cumberbach. That was great. A lot of fun to do.

I was leaving the country to do a job, I told my friends and family,

there is a message you might want to like to see. Unfortunately you

weren't here to see. I missed so much of it, I saw it on America

television, I was in New Orleans, doing a film with Steve McQueen,

and it was, I was so proud, of our city, and our athlete.

genuinely missed the Olympics, so you're going to make up with the

Paralympics. What events do you want to see? All the track and

field. That's my favourite. Iwan Thomas will inform you of other

stuff like murder ball, in a moment, all night tonight, we're going to

play a little thing which we're going to call, Cumberfact or

Cumberfiction. Are you ready? Right. Shall we go

first. So you've told the Readers Digest, you thought the last series

of Downton Abbey, which people love, wasn't very good. Cumber fiction.

Well it was about one aspect, comparing parades, with Downton

Abbey, but we're different stories, there was one comparison with the

use of war, I used language I shouldn't have used but I would

never say about that in the series, my dad was in the Christmas special.

It is good? It is all the success it is getting, and recognition in

the States which is great. Were you taken out of context? It could have

happened. It can't happen on this show, because we're live. I fell

between two stools, don't tell me. It is impossible, can't happen on

the One Show. Never any controversy on this show, all was fine. You're

back with a new BBC drama that isn't sherlock and we'll hear about

had that in a bit. We are esuperexcited with nor nail-biting

sporting Olympics, with the Paralympics. This is nervous family

Paralympics. This is nervous family They were close boys, always did

things together. He had normal childhood, they lived a normal life.

Olyi and Sam Behind are my two boys, and we hope they'll do well in the

Paralympics Games in London. They're competing because they both

have a condition a type of musclar dystrophy. It is where the muscles

don't actually work properly, without Fatih and weakness there.

We started swimming with Sam, just after a-year-old, because they

advises us for therapy reasons, and for olyi, we did the same, we used

to take him mother and toddler when he was young. Musclar disto havefy

is degenerative, it is hard, you wouldn't be a mum and dad without

having that feeling, of golyi, both boys with the same condition, but,

you know, they've proved that they can do things with that condition

and disability and they're not letting them stop them. They have

the disability but they've overcome it and proud of it, when Sam won a

gold medal in Beijing, we were extremely proud of him, he was only

17, I'm pleased that Olly is going at that age, and we hope they'll

To have two sons competing is an amazing feeling, though nerve

wrecking and when we did go to watch them, I'll rather stay out of

the way and watching behind. Terry, Powell, I'm mark and Dan's

dad and I'm proud they're following in my footsteps. I'm Shelley Powell,

both sons mark and Dan are visually compared athletes, they're fighting

for Great Britain in the judo squad for Great Britain in the judo squad

and compete next Friday. My sons are registered with the visually

impaired and blind, through our family, we had a genetic disease in

the back of the eye. When Terry used to go training, we used to go

as a family, so they're aware what judo was, so I think it was matter

of time they went into it themselves. It was only when MMarc

got school age, he was cute who had glasses on for a couple of years,

then they had the same condition, and a few years later Dan was the

same. I'm proud of everything they do, and worked so hard. From

children, everything they did, they gave 100%. All right, thanks for

that. And Iwan Thomas is here. He knowss everything there is to know

about the Olympics. Basically, I've done a series of back Paralympics

show. I've got to try out the sports, like murder ball, for

example, it is called wheelchair rugby, imagine a wheelchair, as you

can see, a shopping trolley, it is organised violence, you got to get

the ball through the owe pents and only Paralympics sport where you

have a Formula One pit crew that weld your chair, it is like British

Bulldog, were the biggest boys, it is the same in wheelchair, it is

amazing, Britain are very good. We're ranked, fourth in the world,

but recently we beat the second and third best team, Australia and

Canada. We're up against Americans in the first round. How do you win?

Do they score points like rugby? You got to get the ball across,

there are tactics, there's another one gold ball, you've got blind

folds, black out blind, it's a 4 K- Fed sin ball so you can hear it in

the last minute, and they throw at you, you're in a big goal and you

have to save it, you're launching it at each other, and they do crazy

spin tech teex. They change the feature of gravity of the ball?

keep the bell on the outside spin spining, so last minute, you have

to dive. It is dangerous. How long is it?

Half an hour. Is that going to be amazing. Technology we've got, I

think people who are excited by the Olympics, normally the Paralympics

has been the ugly sister coming along two weeks afterwards, no way,

they've solid 2.2 million tickets, it will be huge. Are you hooked?

Benedict. I'm there. Wheelchair racing, which I tried as

well. I did a half marathon, the hardest thing was having to train

with Dave Weir. He had an advantage? He is lighter and power

to rate rasha, he can bench 140 kilograms, uphills he was pushing

Dave is ranging, his range of ability, he is the best in the 100

metre sprint. We have so many talent athletes. Although you have

everything, does trying the sport give you a different perspective

won't say I had loads of respect now, but now I have it. Aren't they

doing well, I used to do say, but having spend time with them, they

are professional athletes, who train harder than the able-bodied

athletes. I represent them so much, what they've gone through, and the

life storeics what put them in the a wheelchair. We've soldiers,

coming back, changing their lives around and becoming athletes. It

opens that door. You may think there is no sport for me, but there

is. 12 days, it starts on Wednesday, the torch procession starts on

Tuesday. You're working for Channel 4. I will be reporting. Very good.

Thank you very much. Win or lose the dedication of all those taking

part in the Olympics and Paralympics inspired our younger

generation with a host of new deserved role models. Very

different from a year ago when the rights from sparking so many

negative headlines. But the darker side of youth culture was nothing

new. Last year's rights shocked the country. One of the most disturbing

elements was the age of the ring leaders. But violent youth culture

is much older than that. It can be traced, back to these streets in

Victorian times. By the 1870s, the Industrial Revolution, made

Manchester the workshop of the world, abundant factory work put

money in the pockets of men, and they spent some of it sharpening up

their look. Andrew Davis from the University of Liverpool, has

written by the troublesome trend seters. They wanted to look

different, so they cultivated a style that made them stand out.

They wore peaked caps, which they wore at a tilt and angle and

distinctive hair cut, where short back and sides Boulogne fringe, a

donkey fringe. The other thing is the bell bottomed trousers, these

were very wide flares, they would round off the uniforms with brass

tipped pointed clogs. The Universal, identified the young men as gang

members and awarded themselves a nickname, skut letters, like modern

gangs, with the uniform and name came territory, turf wars and

violence. This joo this young man was the leader of the green gate

skuters from Salford. That face is astonishingly familiar, which could

imagine walking past him, through Manchester City centre today. You

get the same feeling when you look at the different scuttleers, we

think we know them. They would they afford this gear? This is something

a young person would save up for over time. Their clothes were so

important to them, as badge of status, they would money aside.

Newspapers of the times, are full of accounts of vicious battles

between gangs of scuttleiers. He said he was attacked by Callaghan,

was fell by a blow a bar of iron, whilst lying on the ground he was

kicked by others of the gang. But what they're trying do here is

fighting, not actually killing each other are they? They're not looking

to inflict fatal wounds but gain kueed yos, but showing they can

scuttle better than anybody else in the city. Why man chest sner

Manchester is the first industrial city in the world, the houses are

overcrowded. Their lives are lived on the streets. And that's really

where the spark for scuttleling came from. It looks similar to what

people today as describe as respect culture. By the end of the century

in slum areas like Salford, scuttleling lost its appeal. There

was plenty of poverty but in this area, there was a beacon of hope,

the Salford lads club. Still thriving today the club was

established in the erm 20th century with a simple mission - to get

young people off the streets and away from crime.

Lesley homes has worked here for many years. This club was set

newspaper August 1903, by these three gentlemen, who were wealthy

businessmen, along with others, they want a better workforce. On

the opening night there was more than 600 boys wanted to come in

here. They offered music, arts and education. This was the motto, to

"to brighten young lives and make good citizens". It is about getting

everybody involved in the society. The intention was to make sure the

gangs would fade away? Within a year, they had six football teams,

cricket teams and all sorts of things. If you could engage them,

you could socialise them and put them on a pathway. Getting

teenagers, strange new race of people, doing something was a major

step. It is believed this club keeps youngsters out of trouble.

is very old-fashioned stuff, it is kids playing together working as a

team. But across the country, clubs like this, have been in sharp

decline for a long time, haven't they? It is something we lost in

society, and this this has gooted lessons for everybody. Bored and

potentially violent young people were given outlet's for their

energies N sport and social clubs like this. We're bound to skrks

could that be the answer, once again? Good question. Thank you

very much John. Benedict let's talk about your big shiny new costume

drama, it starts in about, an hour- and-a-half on BBC Two. It is called

the parades end. At the heart is a love story? It is a triangular love

story between a man who marries, a wonderful character assaulted

Sylvia, and he is Christopher, and it testimony strange marriage, she

plays out and is thoroughly scurrilous and scandalous, and has

affairs, and basically tries to knock a reaction out of him, beyond

what he is giving her, which is passive kindness and tolerance. The

third party joins their lives, called, Valentine. Valentine. Well

done. Well done, from Alex Jones. One up, and you immediately see

they are like minds and like souls and there's this incredible

connection, and because he is incredibly damagingly virtuous man

he can't do anything about it, he sticks to the marriage vows, and

about the torturous outcome. It is funny as well. You want to grab her

and give her a kiss, this is you and Christopher being pompous.

I see the Association of Domestic servants is against the insurance

bill why would that be? Now is the chance to ask. Go on then. Well

bridge jit. I'm sure I don't know Sir. I'm sure I do, it is because

the national insurance bill violates the intimacy between the

servant and their mistress. character, taking on the mother-in-

law there? She represents her intelligence and knows Sylvia's

married not to her intellectual equal. He knows he can make a point

in front of her, and she will be fascinate, she is correcting the

enclieck peeda Britanica, he's doing it to keep his head down.

this a subplot between him and the morl? Not, Janet is stunning, but

that wasn't an intentional subplot. You say she realises her daughter's

married above herself Can I get her Does your mother-in-

law say that about you. Not about that legislation no.

appreciates him for who he is, and he sees the rifts. People are dying

laughing in my ear. Rebecca, plays Sylvia is phenomenonal. She's a

knockout. Now we've got a Cumberfact or Cumberfiction ready.

You said, that you are so sick of people criticising you were Posh,

that you were headingtor America for good? Cumber fiction. I've been

lucky in my schooling and professional career, to have a huge

amount of advantage, so I work hard to try and make the best of that. I

have done that by playing a variety of roles. It is easy to say

something and blow it up into a national debate, especially about

class. It is an important debate and should be good. If somebody is

seen to say something about oh us poor Posh people, immediately that

will vilify me, I never said that. It was bizarre, yes. Taken out of

context? I was out of the country, I got these texts and e-mails,

there are for Posh, arguing and your name is following the argument

through press and television. You're definitely not typecast as a

costume type actor, you've done different things, you're in The

Hobbit playing a dragen and Star Trek 2.

Is space class snls The future is rid of all class. It is all about

how fast your space ship is. Well, yeah. Who do you play in Star

Trek 2? That person there. There's lots of fighting in it. It is

different then to the Parade's End, you couldn't get more. There's not

so much fighting in Parade's End. Verbal jousting. Having said that,

there are obviously, a great swathe of the drama set in World War I,

which is very extraordinary. And moving. But, yeah, not the kind of

fighting you'll see in Star Trek. You get more brand new Cumberfact

or Cumberfiction in Parade's End. Now, we've not seen Jay for a

little while. As it is summer, sort of, we thought we'd send him to the

seaside. Don't worry, we made him keep his clothes on. The sun is

rising and the race is on. Just gone 5am and I'm on a tractor,

going out of more comb bay sands, in search of one of Britain's

greatest seaside creatures, they're out there, somewhere. We've got to

get to the fishing grounds quickly, the tide is quickly. We only have

half an hour. We're hunting for Morecambe Bay shrimp, trawling with

tractors. Are we then going to drive off with

these. Yes with these behind us, and these will cause a wave and the

shrimps are in the sand and they jump in the net. With the net set

the trawling can begin. But the rising tide isn't the only fracktor.

The hardest part is the weather. When you get the raining, driving,

sleet, It is not 9-5 job, is it? you go when the shrimps come.

shrimp are best caught in late summer on a low tide. Whatever time

of day that may be. Something calm be about this, you

have the engine and lap of the water. And behind us back there,

hope three, we're drawing in a harvest of lovely Morecambe Bay

shrimps. It is easy to forget we're miles

from shore. We've been trawling for 20 minutes now and it is time to

bring in the catch. So. There it is. The lovely little brown shrimps of

Morecambe Bay. The tide has tumped we need to leave the fishing

grounds. Micheal has been tractor trawling for two decades, his

father started 50 years ago, with a horse and kart.

They used to call the more comb sands the gold mine. Fishermen

would make a week's wages in one day. But the tide has turned on the

shriching industry. Shrimp stocks are declineing. Today's catches is

pitiful, worth about �30. You have half a box and a good box of place.

It is hard core way to make a living, not a route to great riches

and wealth. No. That's why there's no-one left.

Micheal and his dad are part what is part of a dying tradition. When

they stop doing it, it doesn't look like there's going to be anybody

else t would be a shame because we're going to lose what is one of

Britain's greatest delicacys, they're fabulous. But if there's

nobody to catch them, we won't eat them. Back on dry land and the

shrich are boiled for ten minutes. They've been in for four or five

minutes, and starting to turn the colour, they're going to brown.

They're cooled on racks just as they have been for centuries n the

past they've been peeled by hand, fiddly and time-consuming job.

you want me to pour them in. That's changed in the modern poting

factory, the shrin are sorted automatically and peeled by this

remarkable machine. It sucks the shrimp up, sends it down the tubes,

and actually takes one side off, and the other with the pinchers.

The peeled shrimp are cooked in butter and special mix of spices

passed down through the generations. Do you know the recipe. Go on you

can tell me No. After chilling the shrimp are potted and sealed as is

traditional, with a lair of soft butter, it keeps them delicious for

up to 12 days. They're a delicate flavour, spicey, you can eat them

hot or room temperature. I prefer to warm them and have them with hot

toast, so the butter soaks through. There is curiously heroic, as so

hard won from the treacherous sands of more comb bay, rushing against

the tides to get them in. And they're so tiny, delicate and

subtle. They're one of the great regional foods. Now, over the next

few days, four cauldrons will be letting England, Northern Ireland

Scotland and Wales, ahead of the Paralympics Opening Ceremony. There

was a special event to mark the start of a weekend of similar

celebrationness Belfast, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. At stock Mandeville,

580 torchbearers will start their relay to the Olympic Stadium, so

give them some support. For details, go go to this website. Chris is

with torchbearers, over there. Them are here, with a shiny new

torch. But first, Scouts, Lin, this is Lin, she was given a week to

arrange and Scouts, to go Snowdon This is high team, we were

accompanied by a Lord Coe as well, who came with us, and he was cheeky

chappy up there. And we walked in Snowdon and in adverse conditions,

these wonderful young people that I have in my care, lit a flame. The

flame was used to light the torch. Which was then held up on the top

of stho done, so we started the yourny of the Welsh flame. The guys

then lited their miner's latches, from our fire, and carried the

miners' lamps down the hill, and now in Cardiff. Your scouting group

is girls, boys, disabled and non- disabled. You have your flint do.

It live. Pressure' on, what a bright spark. And Ellie, what was

your job? I piled the sticks on top of the kindling and kept the fire

going. It is not easy? The wind was very strong. Well done the kouts

everybody. Thank you very much. My friendship knot, and now we have

members of the blind women's cricketers, blind and partially

sighted. Diane and Danielle, and Sarah and Teresa. Good evening,

welcome to the programme. How blind are you? Total, nothing. And you

still play cricket? Yes. When I'm at the batting crease, I stand and

wait and listen to the bowler, when he shouts play and throws the ball,

I go on the one knee and whack it. That's amazing. I can see it and I

can't see the ball. You're an all- rounder. Tell us the greatest

moment on the cricket pitch? bowled eight major player out.

Sarah, tell us about how you got involved with the team? I got

involved with cricket through cooking for change, and it went

from there, went through the young person's programme, and then they

introduced me to ladies team which was setting up, and from there,

getting better and better. You have the guide dogs here, do they get on

the pitch? No. But maybe next year. Sarah, sorry, you're with us as

well, tell us when you're taking the torch away? On Wednesday

morning, just after.30, we will be carrying it past Lords. - Lords.

And we need to hear everyone out there. You've just woken up a man

at my feet. That's fine. Apologies, we have to move on. Don't miss

these guys, you have to turn out for the torch. We have Louise and

Ian and Will. How did you get involved? Involved through by my

dad and swimming coach. So I got nominate. Bill, you're amazing,

generally? Jiefplt great. Round of applause for all the torchbearers.

Benedict, just before we go. Fans out there, are desperate to know

what will happen in the third series, sherlock, he tumbled to his

death, are you a ghost? How long have I got? 20 seconds. Well the I

think that is going... Is something, I can't talk about it. He is back.

Sherlock is back everybody. And if you want to look at Benedict, you

have 90 minutes, to see him in the first episode in the first costume