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That's why she'll never do that again. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Hello, friends, and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
And Chris Evans. Now across the country tonight | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
reunions are taking place to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
most important weekends of the Falklands War. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
We asked anyone who had pictures of that time to send this in. We put | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
them in a very special One Show exhibition. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
So tonight with the help of many of the families who sent in their | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
pictures we will be opening the first ever One Show public photo | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
exhibition. But now let's meet tonight's guests. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Desert Island delight - Kirsty Young. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
And footballing film star Michael Sheen. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
As you heard, we are putting together our very first One Show | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
exhibition, very exciting. Will you do the honours of opening it... | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
the public? I would love to. Have you opened anything before, Kirsty? | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
Probably a supermarket way back in the day. Really? How much did it... | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Probably more than you could afford. How about you? A packet of crisps | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
in my time! No, I opened a youth club in Port Talbot, any home. | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
you're both good with a ribbon and scissors? Yes. Was a ribbon | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
involved? It was. It's so Carpet Warehouse. We'll be speaking to | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Michael about his celebrity Old Trafford event in a bit And how | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Kirsty will be honouring the emergency services in a ceremony. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
In April we introduced you to daredevil Gary Connery as he | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
prepared for the stunt of his life. He was planning to jump out of a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
helicopter and attempt to be the first person ever to land without | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
using a parachute. And then it started to rain and | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
rain and rain. It's taken almost two months for conditions to be | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
perfect for the jump, but this week Gary finally took the plunge. | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
going to be exiting the helicopter at 2,400 feet. We fly approximately | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
a mile. Outwardly I am calm and obviously I don't step off the edge | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
until in my head I am ready. It scares me for sure. Yes, I am very | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
excited and nervous. When he goes up in that helicopter... How will | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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Come on, Gary! Come on, Gary! Gary! | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE It was so comfortable, so soft. My | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
calculations have obviously worked out - and I'm glad they did. I am | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
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relieved it's all over. The bird man! Congratulations, Gary, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
first of all. Thank you. But how close were you to opening that | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
parachute? Not at all. Seriously? Seriously. I - straight out of the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
helicopter, I knew this is it. I'm going for it. I did have the backup | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
of a parachute, but I had absolutely no intention of | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
deploying it. What about the seconds before you leapt out of the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
helicopter, the final checks - you were checking the path will, you | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
had the right angle of descent, whether you the right wind and | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
thins like that? Yeah, myself and my wing man Mark was helping me out | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
where we should leave the helicopter. He was the guy shooting | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
the footage. Thank you to Mark. He was excellent. Once we had spotted | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
and done some test jumps earlier in the day, we had spotted where it | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
was. Thankfully for your wife and children you were completely | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
unharmed in this. And any future children. Any future children. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
LAUGHTER Weirdly, the only person... Sorry. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
- that was harmed was our director Dan. Here's a look at what happened. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
I guess I haven't really digested myself what's happened. You all | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
right? Yeah, fine. Someone's just fallen over. Go on, Gary. You | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
didn't fall over. I have fallen from a much greater height than | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
that. Typical One Show - this guy leaps from a helicopter, not a | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
scratch. Our director falls straight over, nearly breaks his | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
leg. The poor bloke - no-one was interested. You cared about him. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Thank you so much. They were all just in the moment. You had the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
extra capacity, didn't you, to think about other things? You would | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
think with all of that preparation, someone would have cleared up all | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
of those boxes. Let's talk about those because you want a special | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
mention for the box people, don't you? Yes, I would like to say a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
huge thank you. We had support from a bunch of people we didn't know. | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
We put it out in forums on base jumping forums. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Some gave me a nice watch to wear. Everybody just pulled together. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Without them, it wouldn't have happened. When you hit, what speed | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
were you doing? 70mph, something like that? Mark?Ish! About 65. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
apologise. So when you hit box at 70mph, how does it feel? In truth, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
because of the preparation and sizes of the boxes we were using I | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
felt absolutely nothing. scrapes? Nothing at all. You're | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
lucky it worked. Is it time now to pack up the suit in a box and call | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
it day? Absolutely not. I have some other things in the pipeline. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
what? They're top secret. OK. Not necessarily this suit related - I | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
am going to get fired as a human firework. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
LAUGHTER All right. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
But obviously I've got to convince people it's going to work. But I am | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
hoping this is a springboard to allow to to happen. And convince | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
your wife. Oh, she's all right. She's not going to be in the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
firework. We heard a story that you carry your flying suit with you | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
wherever you are in case there is a flying opportunity. Absolutely. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
Come on. That can't be true. I have a rig with me plost of the time. | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
rig? Yes, a base rig. I think we have some footage of | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Beachy Head and the Eiffel Tower. Were these opportune moments? | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Surely you must have realised with the Eiffel Tower - you didn't drive | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
up and go, oh, there's the Eiffel Tower? No, we drove up specifically | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
for that. Beachy Head? That was another day trip. Did they know you | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
were going to do that or did you go up as a tourist? No, I had my | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
parachute in a backpack. Was that naughty? Did you get arrested? | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
exactly. There is a long story. I won't bore you with it. Bore us | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
with it afterwards. A round of applause for Gary. Safe and well! | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Now, Michael, you actually get a mention in this next film, a film | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
we think you're going to love. Are you thrilled? | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
I am. Let's find out. Ruth Goodman's been to your home | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
town to learn all about one of your heroes. In this house in Port | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Talbot lived a man as Welsh as they come. | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
And with a voice to match. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen, pensioners, schoolteacher, postman | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
and publican, the undertaker, fancy woman, dress maker, preacher, the | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
web-footed cockle women and the tidy wives. That valleys bread | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
voice could only belong to the actor Richard Burton, and he first | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
learned its full power out here on the hills above the coal and steel | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
town of Port Talbot, but when he first roared into life in 1925, it | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
was not as a Burton, but a Jenkins. Richard was born one of 12 into a | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
mining family. When his mother died later in childbirth, he was sent | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
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away from an alcoholic father to his sister, Cecilia. Here, sis gave | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
him the attention he craved, but this didn't go down well in his new | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
home as his friend Betty remembers. The postman didn't get on well with | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Ritchie. I think there was a bit of jealousy. I think her wife made | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
more of Ritchie than he did. That's what we thought at the time. | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
Richard left home, and at 16, he was taken in by his English teacher | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
and mentor Philip Burton, from whom he'd take his name. It was Master | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Burton that helped him develop that extraordinary voice here in the | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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parlour. Used to bang on the door and go, will you be quote, boys? He | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
used to give him classes to get rid of the Welsh accent. When it was | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
all a bit too much for the neighbours, the hillside - what a | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
better way to learn voice projection? From the Welsh hills to | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
the Hollywood hills via a rave success on Broadway Richard signed | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to 20th Century Fox and became one of the highest-earning movie stars | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
of the '60s. To cap it all, in 1964, he married the other big star of | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the decade, Elizabeth Taylor. Two years later in Warner Brothers' | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, their fiery portrayal of a marriage | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
hitting the rocks hit the big screens, much of it inspired by | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
their offscreen romance. Liz won an Oscar, but Richard would be | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
nominated seven times during his career - a far cry from his life in | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
the steel and coal town of Port Talbot. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Richard's diaries, held in the archives there, show he was already | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
ready for bigger things. I was struck by the character that came | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
out of the pages. He was interested in drama. There is about 40 | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
mentions of Richard going to the cinema. He's going almost every | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
week. I think the cinema was an exciting window to the world for | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Richard. Despite his later stardom, Wales never left him. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Well, by God, James Joyce was right. There is one place you do belong to, | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
and it is in my case where I came from, Wales. Stick for stay, stone | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
for stone, blade of gra, blade of grass were exactly the same as when | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
I was a child. The coal that once poured out of Port Talbot has all | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
but stopped but it still churns out great actors. Antony Hopkins is | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
from here, and so too the young Michael Sheen. Who is to say | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
whether there will be more - mind you, it would be rather hard to | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
match THAT voice. Burton died at 58. Vodka and 60-plus cigarettes a day | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
hadn't helped. He was buried in a Welsh red suit with Dylan Thomas | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
poems by his side. There is talk of a blue plaque in | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Connault Street to this Welsh legend. Here's one to be going on | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
with. Come on. What did you open? You | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
just opened something. See on that blue plaque there - there is one on | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
the first house Richard lived in in London in Hampstead, which I was | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
asked to unveil on the morning I opened in Hamlet, a port that he | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
had played as well. How apt. Do you have a blue plaque in Port Talbot? | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
I don't. He's not dead yet. LAUGHTER | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
I have some paving stones. That's the main criteria for that. I see. | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
Yeah. OK. Let's move on, anyway. How much of a hero... Got a blue | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
shirt on. Yeah, I have drawn a little blue plaque and stuck it on | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
myself! Yeah, he was a huge, huge unfluence coming from a town where | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Antony Hopkins came from as well. They have produced some gems. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
some incredibly successful, talented people as well as Rob | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
Brydon. LAUGHTER | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Of course you're a friend of his, so you can say that. A massive | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
influence not just as an actor, but someone who came from a that town | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
and did very well, because coming from Port Talbot, not necessarily | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
feeling confident about people being interested in there, so | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
someone coming from there like Richard Burton, a massive influence. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Surely you must have had mentions of playing a biopic of Richard | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Burton. I was saying to Kirsty it's a tough thing playing someone who | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
does what you do, but better. don't mind. I don't, but can I say, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
that voice. Michael just did the voice while that film was on. It | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
was unbelievable. Will you do it? That charisma - that - no. It's | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
just - you hear - "You hear those tones. It's very hard to replicate | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
that." Is somebody writing the script? | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
believe there is a script. Honestly, I would like to develop something | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
myself, one day. I also think something that affected Richard was | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
coming from a town like Port Talbot and then going to Hollywood. Once | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
you have left a town like Port Talbot, it is very hard to feel | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
like you totally belong again, once you have done other stuff. You also | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
feel you don't belong in somewhere like Hollywood because you came | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
from somewhere like that. I identify with certain aspects and I | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
would like to explore that. He went back to do The Passion. You came | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
back to talk to us about that. 2000 people came to take part with you. | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
It was a non-stop 72 hour performance. One performance lasted | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
for three days over the Easter weekend, over 2000 local people | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
were involved. It began with about 200 people watching what happened | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
on the beach, Good Friday morning, at about dawn. It ended on Sunday | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
night with 15,000 people standing around a roundabout watching the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
end of the show. It was a life- changing experience. You were | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
incredibly supportive. It was amazing, how could you not be? You | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
like to push the boundaries. What next in your crazy mind? It is hard | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
to know where to go. You were playing football in 90 degrees on | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Sunday. 15,000 people were not enough, I'm going for 70,000 at Old | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Trafford. Kirsty, you are here to talk about the brand new BBC 999 | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
Awards. Very special people are being honoured for these. There | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
will be a special award. I'll tell you about them, the reason they | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
came about, it is the BAFTAs on Sunday. People on television and in | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
movies and good at giving themselves awards, but we know that | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
what we do doesn't matter that much. So many people work in the | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
emergency services. 999 has been going for 70 years. The phrase | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
unsung heroes is such a cliche, but it really does apply. We are giving | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
them out to people including 999 operators, who often save lives. On | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the night, it is going to be a swanky celebration. How do people | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
qualify? Well, they have been judged not just by their peers, but | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
people that they work with. We have been to people and said, can you | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
tell us about these people? They perform the most extraordinary | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
tasks every day, most of us would run in the opposite direction from | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
them. We ask their peers, they have been judged by the people at the | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
top of their profession, the chief of the fire service and police | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
operations. When it comes to the special One Show award, those | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
people are going to be nominated and they are just members of the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
public. They don't work for the emergency services, but we want | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
people to vote for a member of the public that has done something | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
extraordinary, above and beyond what most people would do. There | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
are going to be tears? It will be a roller-coaster of emotions. I'd | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
been reading through the nominations, and I'm already crying. | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
You know, when you have kids... People say, mum, why do you watch | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
the news, you get so upset? Now you know. I cried at Ground Force, at | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
somebody's decking. But the stories are incredible. I suppose the great | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
thing about the 999 awards is that it is an absolute celebration. Out | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
of some of the very distressing and tragic stories, there is a triumph | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
at the end. A lot of people are scared of watching them because | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
they don't want to be upset. But it is the right kind of being upset, | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
isn't it? It is more of a celebration of their work. As you | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
say, it is to honour these unsung heroes. Sometimes, it can make you | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
feel tender. I work on Crimewatch and every month you go through the | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
roller-coaster of watching very constructions, talking to the | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
senior investigating officers and you think that D world is a hellish | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
place. Every month, the calls come in and we get the most | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
extraordinary Leeds. The 999 Rewards is similar. You think that | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
terrible things happen to people, but there are many people out there | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
willing to do more than the right thing. We'll see if you feature on | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
that after this football match! The blue plaque might be needed. | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
legs are creaking a little. Last week we had the Olympic flame. | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
week what we have done is we have Setting fire to the Christmas | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
pudding. Is this all has become of the flambe in this country? Don't | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
bet on it. Gerry Wray is an expert in the art of flambe. He is the | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
master cook at Simpson's-in-the- Strand in London. Today he is | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
concocting a flambe spectacle for a group of diners well used to | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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dealing with a bit of fire. Meet the firefighters of Surrey. At 63, | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Area Commander Mythe -- modern styles is believed to be Britain's | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
oldest full-time firefighter. His dedication will be honoured when he | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
becomes an Olympic torch bearer. A lifetime dealing with flames, and | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
yet lunchtime at the station rarely gets more fiery than beans on toast. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
But all of that is about to change as the firefighters arrive at the | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
restaurant. Jerry is hard at work in the kitchen. Why do we flambe? | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
For the spectacle. Alcohol goes in and a huge flame flicks off the pan. | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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It is a moment. Our starter today is flambe langoustines, in sambuca. | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
The flames are produced by heating liqueurs or spirits and setting | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
We are burning the alcohol off and taking it back to the natural | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
sweetness. The reduced alcohol sweetness makes a big impression. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
It's beautiful. It really does bring out the sweetness. While we | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
steady ourselves for the next course, I am keen to grab a word | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
with Malcolm about his Olympic torch duty. I'm honoured and proud | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
to be carrying the torch. Presumably there are fewer health | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
and safety issues when you are running with the naked flame? | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
had much banter from people at work. Time for the main course. It was | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
something that was in the mid- 80s. It was quite a big thing. He has | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
cut one piece of steak without alcohol and the other with a brandy | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
to see if the firefighters can This is the one that has been done | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
without brandy. It is lovely, but this one is far more tender and | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
sweet. The first bite you take is very sweet. Considering the branded | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
that went in there, it's quite delicate. I know you cook at home, | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
have you ever attempted to flambe? No, I don't want to set fire to my | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
kitchen. That would be a bit embarrassing! Some believe that it | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
was invented in 1895, when a clumsy French waiter set light to a plate | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
of pancakes For the Future King Edward the 7th. Whether they were | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
ever serve to King Edward or not, Craig Cizek is certainly on the | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
firefighter menu. They are cooked with orange liqueur. It's a big hit. | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
So, better than beans on toast? Certainly. Burnt toast, at that. | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
It's beautiful. I have a sweet tooth. The orange flavour is | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
beautiful. The best I had, really. Clearly, there is a lot more to | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
flambe than just Christmas puddings. It doesn't just make the food | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
looked terrific, it makes it taste terrific as well. Please, do as | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
they guys say... Please don't try this at home! Not even in the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Olympic year? You can have a flame in the kitchen. Not that big, you | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
:24:21. | :24:25. | ||
They loved that, there. They did. What was your favourite? Crepes. | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
:24:35. | :24:35. | ||
It's a classic. The marvellous liqueur, sugar, alcohol. Brilliant. | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
It doesn't happen enough in restaurants. Bring the theatre into | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
the dining room. Them are health and safety issues. You have some | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
experience of the catering trade. My old mining is in the catering | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
business. Have you heard of any health and safety issues? Not in | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
his restaurant, they just get on with it. One chef was saying that | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
they couldn't do it because their ceilings were too low. I'm just | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
passing on what I know. Should we get down to a Olympic news? We have | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
had a preview of what the prices could be for food and drink. A Test | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
:25:25. | :25:30. | ||
That had better be a good hot dog. Is it a real dog? The most | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
controversial, and these were just the once at the Test event, one | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
pound 60p for a bottle of water, especially seeing as you cannot | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
take it on to the site in amounts of more than 100 mm. They do seem | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
to be able to stow controversy, even when they don't need to. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Augusta, the Majors, the golf tournament, they do the opposite. | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
:26:03. | :26:04. | ||
It is $1.50 for a beer. They are good reasons for doing it, we know | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
why the tickets cost so much. Perhaps once you get into the | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
ground you should not have to pay �1.60 for a bottle of water. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Tickets, there have been more tickets discovered? They found 3000 | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
more. Down the back of a very large sofa? I put in for an enormous | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
number, knowing it would be difficult. I got two, beach | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
:26:39. | :26:41. | ||
You won. You know they are not going to be wearing bikini is this | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
year? That is why I am not taking them, I'm going on holiday so we | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
will have to pass them to somebody else. This Olympics, the last time | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
it was in London was 1948 during rationing. We have had a look at | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
what the athletes hand. We have a board showing what they had. This | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
was then in 1948. The average adult ration was 2600 calories. The | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
athletes had 5500, made up from a lot of fat and carbohydrate. Six | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
ounces of meat, 1 and a half pounds of potatoes. We had Michael Price, | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
the Olympian. His big memory was eating potato sandwiches. Its | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
carbohydrate squared. The luxury, he remembered, was bits of | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
pineapple. Some of the foreign countries competing, they were a | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
bit concerned about their athletes. The Chinese were sending bamboo | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
shoots. The Mexicans were sending in offal and the French sent a | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
refrigerated train full of French wine. Red wine? I would assume so. | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
They're very hot summer. We just want to welcome the whole of Wales | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
that have just joined us. It's Michael Sheen, your very own. | :28:07. | :28:16. | |
were they not with us before? been to Wales. Congratulations. And | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
you came back! They got you back out again... War back in again? | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
of the reasons the audience is so packed is that many of them are | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
here for the opening of the first ever photo exhibition made up | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
entirely of pictures sent in by viewers of The One Show. | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
Falklands anniversary exhibition has some amazing pictures. This is | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
Tom Chater and his pals playing during the occupation. He is here | :28:44. | :28:54. | |
:28:54. | :28:54. | ||
I mean, this is one of those photographs that sort of doesn't | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
need any explanation. I know you're going to give us one, but you can | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
tell it's so important and dramatic and poignant. I presume that's you | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
climbing on the boxes... That's me and my brother Bill on the right, | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
who has cheered up since then and my friend Simon on the right and my | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
other friend David with his back to the photo. My mum and dad had | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
opened a shop a few months before the conflict, and the various boxes | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
that the stock came down in and presumably a few old motorbike | :29:27. | :29:36. | |
wheels and so on - we used to make HMS Invincible or Hermes. We used | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
to argue over which ones the. Our bikes were Harriers. We'd have | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
wooden guns we'd use to shoot the Argentine soldiers as they'd walk | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
past. My mum tells me about this but you experienced this in the | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
'80s. You were occupied at the time. Were you scared? If you were, did | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
your family protect you from things you didn't need to know about? | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
I think mum and dad didn't sleep much. I remember being very scared | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
that morning. An Argentine patrol went around. I guess they went | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
around every house doing a census checking for any Marines that might | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
have been there. That must have been - Suddenly, you go from a | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
quiet existence to having armed soldiers with machine guns on the | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
door questioning why dad has just put the BBC on. They couldn't | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
understand why dad turned the radio on, and this is the BBC News - we | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
have reports coming in - the Falklands have been invaded. They | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
said "Why are you listening to this?" He said, "We're British." | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
was literally in your front garden. Yeah. You have your little four- | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
year-old. That's why you're here. You're here because of your son. | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
Tell thus story. Yes, we always lived in the Falklands, born and | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
brought up there, only came over here for college, training, so on. | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Few weeks before this guy was born, we discovered there was a possible | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
problem in the Falklands - you get a scan at 32 weeks just in case | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
there is something that has been missed, and there had been, so over | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
we came, and he is waiting for a kidney. He should have had mine a | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
week ago on Wednesday, but the surgeon was sick, unfortunately. | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
(Murmuring) But a big thumbs-up to the staff in | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
Bristol, they have managed to reschedule us for a week on Tuesday. | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
So you're four years in the waiting. Well, knowing we needed a kidney | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
for the last four, but we had to wait for him to get big enough. | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
Thank you for that. APPLAUSE | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
Fantastic. Right. Last week - got to go over here I | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
am afraid. I'll tell you why when we get to the VT - can't dell you | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
now. Last week an animal was reported missing from a zoo in | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
Devon. Miranda went to meet the brave men who caught the fearsome | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
creature. MUSIC | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
A wild animal on the loose sounds like something from the movies. | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
But for 12 hours last week, it was reality for this quiet little | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
corner of Devon. Thankfully, it was less a case of | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
Jurassic Park and a bit more like Madagascar. Has anyone ever told | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
you that you look like a supermodel? | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
As cheeky as King Julian from the kings' animated film, this lemur | :32:34. | :32:42. | |
saw an opportunity to expand his horizons and took it. This is the | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
naughty Sambava, who got out. He's a local celebrity. They have free | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
range of the park. How big is the park? It's 28 acres, and they think | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
the actual whole of the 28 acres is their territory. They have started | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
venturing outside the parks which is where we have a problem. Look at | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
those eyes. How could you resist those eyes? If that was to land in | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
your garden, you would want to keep it they're very mischievous animals. | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
What sort of things do they get up to in the park? They're very | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
naughty. We were a bit surprised to see them trying to aggravate the | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
lions. The lions weren't too happy. They go and annoy the pigmy goats. | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
We have seen them jump into the enclosure, and the goats try to | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
head-butt them, and they box them in the face. Did he get out on his | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
own? They tend to go out in a group of all five of them, and being the | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
only male in the group, whether he got fed up with nagging females and | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
decided to get some time out, maybe that was his choice. I like that | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
idea. They went across all of these | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
fences... Right. Because it is in that direction. And they can leap | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
across that quite easily? Well, easily. Now, we're here, and | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
Sambava eventually got picked up here over 12 hours later the next | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
morning a full two or three miles away. | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
And in doing so, he would have had to have crossed two roads, gone | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
through three areas of woodland and also crossed a couple of streams. | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
Potentially, dangerous for our little chap. The rumour is some of | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
the land around here is owned by Damien Hirst. We all know about his | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
track record with shark and cows. Whatever route he took, thankfully | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
he ran into someone friendly. The Denvers live in the village where | :34:31. | :34:38. | |
he ended up. Hi, chaps. It's not an everyday okurns finding a lemur in | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
your front garden? We were on our way to work and we saw a lemur. | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
Did he hop up on here? He waited down here for a little bit and then | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
jumped up on top of the porch. safely back home, the wildlife park | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
are considering a roof for their enclosure, but I have another idea | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
to make these cheeky chappies stay put - maybe some celebrity company. | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
Now, what about that? There is Chris, and there is Alex. Look. | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
She's very nice. Oh, Chris, you I know! OK. Kirsty got whipped by | :35:18. | :35:27. | |
the lemur's tale then? I did. calm, gentle. He just knocked my | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
photograph over in the cage! Really? Yeah, in the film. He's | :35:32. | :35:39. | |
just chewing up a few leaves. He's absolutely harm louse. It's Friday. | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
It's Foody Friday. It's lemur Foody Friday! He's a beautiful ring-tail | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
lemur called Curtis. He was born in captivity in Oxfordshire. | :35:53. | :36:02. | |
Unfortunately, he's the bottom of the pecking order. The females rule. | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
I know, Chris! Can lemurs survive in the wild? Certainly not in | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
Britain. He's born and bred in Britain. That's all he knows. The | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
climate here is kind of mild and wet - apart from at the moment. | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
Over in Madagascar, it's hot and humid and cool and dry - no chance. | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
Predators - he doesn't know what the predators are. He could be | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
picked off at any time. He'd probably get beaten up on the roads, | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
and he's imprinted on humans as well. He thinks we're our his | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
friends. And Madagascar, it's tough for the lemurs. It's tough to say | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
what's going on there - the problem there, deforestation. Most of the | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
lemurs live in forests. What's happened here is all the trees have | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
gone. Basically, they can't soak up the water when it rains. It runs | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
off, floods the whole area. Look at these massive plantation where the | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
rain should be. Unfortunately, the crops and plantation are done for | :36:57. | :37:03. | |
them. Unfortunately, as well, the Madagascar people love to eat | :37:03. | :37:10. | |
lemurs. Such a shame. How could you eat this lovely little beast. | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
one of the loveliest creatures I have had on television. | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
Right. Now, other escapees we might want to hear about? We have amazing | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
footage here of an imaginative Golden Eagle called Goldie that | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
escaped from Los Angeles Zoo in 1965. Look at this. The dog gets | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
easily as good as it gets, and eventually the Golden Eagle was | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
retrieved by the keeper after 12 days with a long line of rope and | :37:39. | :37:48. | |
Golden Eagle. Bear in mind this is an imagine that lives in the wilds | :37:48. | :37:56. | |
of Scotland and would normally be - - not be in the centre of Scotland. | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
Finally, in Longleat safari park in 1988 apparently one of the keepers | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
did a head count and couldn't find this seal. She swum 30 miles down | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
the loch. They tried to lure her back, wasn't bothered about her | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
kids. They managed with food, like I'm doing, to entice her down to | :38:22. | :38:31. | |
the culvert and recaptured her. Thank you very much. And thank you | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
to Curtis. Whipping her in the face - shame we didn't get that on | :38:34. | :38:42. | |
camera. Was it a whip or a waft? Was there pain? But I liked it. | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
That was my next question. Now, we all remember Boris Johnson | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
claiming that ping pong was coming home after the last Olympic Games. | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
The wait -- wait is nearly over, and for one family it will be like | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
the return of a long lost relative. Ping-pong is the fastest racket | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
sport on the planet. China might have claimed it as its | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
national sport in the 1950s, but ping-pong is as British as lawn | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
tennis. In fact, it started here over a hundred years ago. | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
Since 1795 the family business Jaques of London have been making | :39:22. | :39:30. | |
some of our favourite games. From Snakes and ladders to Snoop, they | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
have an eye for spotting a great game. | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
In 1851 the founder won a gold medal for croquet. | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
But he had another ingenious move. 1877, Wimbledon hosted its first | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
lawn tennis Championship, and the upper classes were hooked. Soon, | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
they brought it indoors. After dinner, the plates were cleared, | :39:57. | :40:06. | |
and cigar boxes became the bats, and they played tennis on their | :40:06. | :40:15. | |
tables - table tennis. In 1890, Jake Foster patented a game of | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
compendium, but one year later Jaqueffects would go one further, | :40:21. | :40:28. | |
he brought about another version of the table tennis game called Gosima. | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
He got it patented. The modern-day version of the game was born. At | :40:33. | :40:43. | |
the company museum, I am meeting Joe Jaques. Two bats and a very | :40:43. | :40:51. | |
light feather-weight gaul, feather- weight ball being named after the | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
light-weight goes imer Are the rules inspired by lawn tennis? | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
but it's not really tennis indoors. It's a whole new game. | :41:03. | :41:12. | |
Then they aced it, renaming their game ping-pong, the name inspired | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
by the sound of the game in play. It was when it was launched in | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
conjunction with Hamleys it really took off. Ping-pong went global | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
with a little help from Parker Brothers, the people behind | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
Monopoly. In competition it became the official-sounding table tennis, | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
and in 1926 London hosted the first tennis World Championships. | :41:36. | :41:44. | |
Tell me how the bats have changed. The early bats were Velum covered, | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
like with leather, like a drum. Then we had sand-covered paper bats, | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
moving into a cork phase, then eventually the rubber material we | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
see today, so they have a lot more power, a lot more spin. I doubt | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
without that progression it would have ever became the Olympic game | :42:00. | :42:08. | |
it is today. This secondary school will be the official training | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
centre for the Olympic Japanese tennis team. | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
Over 300 million people around the world now play table tennis. Only | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
football has more players. One man who knows his way around a table is | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
Douglas Dennis. Ranked suchth in the world at the height of his | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
career, this is a man who knows his ping from his pong. | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
Why is table tennis so popular? It's a rhythmic sport. You get | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
mesmerised by it, the sound. You start to sweat a bit. The heart is | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
really pumping. So you were ranked seventh in the world - that's | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
:42:59. | :43:01. | ||
pretty good. Not too bad. Shall we here's hoping our Olympic team fare | :43:01. | :43:10. | |
I think Angellica did a good job. love ping-pong. Who doesn't like | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
ping-pong? I love it. Show me a person who doesn't like ping-pong, | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
I'll show you a person who doesn't love life. But you were telling us | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
Susan Sarandon has a ping-pong club. She does. She has a ping-pong club | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
in New York. There is one in Los Angeles as well, but I was in the | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
one in New York a few weeks ago, and I played table tennis, ping- | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
pong, with Chandler from Friends. How showbiz is that. More | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
importantly, who won? He beat me, but I kid you not, he has a machine | :43:41. | :43:49. | |
at home that plays table tennis with him. That's so LA. He's not | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
busy then! Shall we subtly bridge from one sport to another? Oh, look. | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
It's the football tactics map. Beautiful. Tell us what's going on | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
on Sunday? On Sunday, there is the biggest pro-celebrity football | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
match ever in the world all for Soccer Aid all for the greatest | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
children's organisation in the world, UNICEF. All money raised | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
goes to UNICEF to save children's lives around the world. We have a | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
team - England versus the rest of the world. England's captain is | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
Robbie Williams. Captain of the rest of the world is me, and here | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
are my celebrities... Here is the rest of the world. Here is the rest | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
of the world. We have half ex-pros, half celebrities. You have some | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
massive names - yourself, Will Feral. I don't know what Gordon | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
Ramsey is doing in goals! Mike Meyers, Gerd Butler. How were these | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
people convinced to come over and take part? Will Farrell is the | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
biggest film star in the world. Partly because two years ago Woody | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
Harrelson came over here. Woody Harrelson didn't have a lot of | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
football form, I have to say, hadn't played a lot of it, hadn't | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
seen lot of it, hadn't kicked a lot of it, yet stepped up to take a | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
penalty. I had run out of players to take penalties. It was sudden | :45:05. | :45:15. | |
death. I thought, right. Woody, off Even if you can barely kick a | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
football, you can still beat Jamie Theakston in goal? Apparently so. | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
But Woody Harrelson goes around showing everybody that on his | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
telephone. He convinced Will Ferrell and Edward Norton to take | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
part. Robbie Williams is apparently still sour that you won the last | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
one? Absolutely, he is out for revenge. What are the chances of | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
the Rest of the World winning? Apart from the celebrities, which | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
are obviously all brilliant, we have ex professionals like Roy | :45:49. | :45:57. | |
Keane, Jaap Stam, Edwin Van der Sar, Hernan Crespo, Freddie Lundberg, we | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
have incredible players. I think what we lack in the celebrity area, | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
we make up for in the professionals. Playing at your age, with your | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
level of ability... Of Union my mid-twenties? It will be really hot | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
on Sunday. It's going to be 90 degrees pitch-side. You've | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
genuinely got to be careful? have. The match will take place in | :46:19. | :46:26. | |
the evening. It will still be hot. Baking all day. My legs are | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
creaking a little bit already. It will be a bit cooler in the evening. | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
As you approach middle-age, having a game of football, as a kid you | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
run for the ball time. You have to select your runs. The other day we | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
went on to the training pitch and we had been training all week. We | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
got out there and they have loads of footballs hanging around. You | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
saw everybody trying to kick the ball into the goal. Roy Keane said, | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
it doesn't matter how high up you are, or you want to do when you get | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
onto the pitch, you just want to shoot for goal. Patrick Kielty is | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
in goals and we are just kicking at him. You turn into an eight-year- | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
old. How can they only have it every two years? You must be | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
chomping at the bit for an annual competition. It takes that long to | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
recover! This is the 4th one, and UNICEF raised �7.5 million. It's | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
incredible. For the first time, the Government are going to match every | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
donation. Please watch on Sunday, 6 o'clock. Donate and the Government | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
will double your money. We want to make as much as possible. I'm never | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
enthusiastic about programmes for the enemy, but this one is a belter. | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
Let's look at another one of the photographs that are part of the | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
Falklands exhibition. Let's go over here. This is a picture of Stephen | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
Smith, also known as Smudge, returning home from the Falklands | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
to his two daughters. This is one of my favourite photographs. We've | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
had lots of really good ones, Smudge. Can I call you that? Give | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
us the background. How vividly do you remember that? We flew to Brize | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
Norton. An aircraft was pitched to come in separately. Prince Charles, | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
for when they came down. We were unaware of what was happening. We | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
thought we would just come back, get on at the bus. It was | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
overwhelming. Friends, family, everybody was there. Waving flags. | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
How relieved were you to see your girls? They are all grown up now? | :48:41. | :48:48. | |
Totally relieved. We had no contact since we left to, throughout the | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
campaign. As the first time I'd seen them since I left in | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
Southampton with 42 Commando. there a moment during the conflict | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
way you thought you might not see them again? No, I kept my mind | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
focused on what I was doing, trying not to think what was happening in | :49:06. | :49:13. | |
the UK. I knew that her indoors would be looking after them. | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
real general is at home, as always. Michelle and Kelly, that is the | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
right way round? You are of the -- obviously overwhelmed by the | :49:24. | :49:28. | |
occasion. I would have thought you would be so happy, but you are | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
bursting into tears, almost like a wife would? You haven't had contact | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
with your dad for so long. You didn't know where he was going, | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
what he was going to do. You are hearing lots of stories, your man | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
is telling you not to worry. To have him presented in front of you, | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
all of the emotions, no matter how old you are, they poured out. There | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
were smiles afterwards. There are sceptical people in the world that | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
might not believe you are the real deal. I think we need to recreate | :49:58. | :50:08. | |
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the programme. You have both got to A round of applause, please. | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
Another important memory from the Falklands war. HMS Coventry, 30 | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
years ago today, Joe Crowley met up with one survivor to hear his story. | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
In the spring of 1982, HMS Coventry was returning from exercises in the | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
Mediterranean. On board were 300 young sailors looking forward to | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
their Easter leave back in Britain. One of them was electronic warfare | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
intelligence officer Chris Howe. were looking forward to going back | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
for Easter, a nice feeling, to get back to your families. On the 2nd | :50:48. | :50:54. | |
April, things changed. Argentina invaded the Falklands. Mrs Thatcher | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
underlined her determination to use force. We are assembling the | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
biggest fleet that has ever sailed in peacetime. A taskforce headed | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
for the Falklands. Would it went HMS Coventry, leaving Chris's wife | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
at home with the boys. Very worried, very upset. We were looking forward | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
to him coming home. All I could think was, I don't know what I | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
would do if I lost Chris. A month later, Coventry was in the | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
Falklands. Air raids were frequent. This is the operations room, the | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
centre of any ship. We are on the HMS York. How similar is this to | :51:30. | :51:37. | |
HMS Coventry? They were from quite a similar time? Very similar. | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
would you have been? Exactly here. By 25th May, troops were landing at | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
San Carlos. Coventry was stationed near by to provide cover. Being so | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
close to land made radar less effective. We knew that we were an | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
easy target. We would know the threat was coming, but it was too | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
late to engage them with missile systems. What was the captain | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
response? It must have seemed like a suicide mission? He was not happy, | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
but we obey the order. We did our job. But the attack they had | :52:11. | :52:17. | |
anticipated soon came. There is this dull thud. Everything seemed | :52:17. | :52:27. | |
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A massive force just hit me in the face. On to my side, followed by a | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
rapid heat, a fireball whooping around the operations room. After | :52:39. | :52:46. | |
that, I remember coming to. All of the screams were fire, melting. I | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
could hear the water lapping into the port side. I was tied down with | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
headset wires. My arm was on fire and I thought that was when my life | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
would end. I could see my wife and my boys. I ripped out the why and I | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
started to make my way towards that starboard door. I came across my | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
colleague, Sam. I'd lost most of my clothing. Very little was left on | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
and we came to the ladder. But it was disintegrating, it was gone. He | :53:15. | :53:23. | |
had to push me from below. I decided my life was not ending them. | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
This is where you made your way out onto the deck? At this stage, I | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
really realised how badly burned I was. It felt as if there were | :53:33. | :53:38. | |
blowtorches on my back and my face. I have some pictures that were | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
given to me some years later by the surgeon commander. 27% burns in | :53:43. | :53:50. | |
total, the way they SST it. Just terrific, isn't it? It shows my | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
ring, the St Christopher, that I still wear today, that survived. | :53:55. | :54:03. | |
took just 20 minutes for Coventry to capsize. 19 of the crew perished. | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
I was stunned at the kitchen window with a baby in my arms. I had to | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
see the neighbours talking to a man at the door. She pointed across to | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
our house. When he turned around, I saw that it was a vicar and he was | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
making his way across to my house with what I thought was a Bible in | :54:20. | :54:28. | |
his hands. I just felt my knees buckling. He came in and said, your | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
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husband has serious injuries. We do When I finally got back to the UK, | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
it was complete relief that the episode in my life was at amend. To | :54:44. | :54:49. | |
get back and see Margaret and the boys again was fantastic. My mother | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
said when he came home, Chris, your guardian angel was watching over | :54:54. | :55:03. | |
you that day. She was right. was right. HMS Coventry played its | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
part in retaking the Falklands. 30 years ago, her crew did their duty. | :55:08. | :55:18. | |
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Today, they remember friends that Thank you to Chris Foy making that | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
film. Thanks for sending your photos from the HMS Coventry | :55:33. | :55:40. | |
reunion tonight. 120 former crew members, this is from Chris Clarke | :55:40. | :55:48. | |
We have so many brilliant photographs that we decided to have | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
a real public display. You can come and see this for the next week at | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
White City. Then it moves to TV Centre. It is not on tour, I don't | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
think. There is a journey involved. It is only 500 yards, but you can | :56:04. | :56:10. | |
see it. We have special guests to open it. If you would like to make | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
a speech, you are very welcome to. I declare this were done well and | :56:15. | :56:25. | |
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Just time to have a look at a couple more of our favourites. With | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
us now is Trevor, Joe and Kirsty. Trevor, this is a picture you tap | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
when you went back to the Falklands? I went back with an | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
organised trip. It was a contrast to what happened in 1982, when I | :56:40. | :56:48. | |
served on the Exeter. A great picture, thank you very much. Who | :56:48. | :56:55. | |
do you have? Hello! You are very welcome, but we just need to be | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
able to see this photograph. Good evening, you featured in his | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
photograph? We thought we would bring you over here. Tell us about | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
your Falklands photo. This was taken 30 years ago this week, on | :57:12. | :57:18. | |
board HMS Fearless, the Met Office. That is me and my boss, Lieutenant | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
Commander. We are in San Carlos and we are just getting some Met Office | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
charts through. That was a couple of days after that when we started | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
getting attacked by Argentinian aircraft. All of the smiles had | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
gone. The calm before the storm? Thank you so much. We will send the | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
photographs back once the exhibition is over. Let's say | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
goodbye to Michael, Mandy. Details of how to see the photographs for | :57:47. | :57:53. |