25/06/2013 The One Show

Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Tonight, we are investigating some very, very

strange goings on. This is the case of the spinning statue. Deep within

a Manchester Museum sits this ancient Egyptian artefact. The

statue of Neb-Senu. It sounds like we're joking, but it's all real. The

question is, what is causing it to turn seemingly on its own? Look at

this. This is a real time lapse taken by the museum. You can clearly

see that the sculpture is turning around. It ends up facing completely

the other way. Unaided! Could it be an ancient curse? Well, who better

to help us investigate this than everyone's least-favourite defence

against the dark art professor. You've been told that a certain dark

wizard is at large once again. This is a lie. It's not a lie. I saw him.

I fought him. Detention, Mr Potter. Please welcome Delores Umbridge, aka

Imelda Staunton. APPLAUSE

To be fair, you were quite kind in that little clip, because you were a

bit of a wrong one to Harry? It had to be done. Does the character

follow you? Do people boo you in the streets? Hang about? Not too much.

Children must quake slightly though? I think they do. When they come up

they get frightened, but that's job done. Have you heard of this

spinning sculpture? I wonder if that is just not one of though Covent

Garden entertainers? Just doing it slowly. It's pretty extraordinary,

isn't it? It is.Dark forces. I think it's rather lovely. I it's

nice that a statue has fought, "I've looked over there for 500 years. I'm

going to look over here." We have sent our very own over-sized Harry

Potter, Alex Reilly to investigate. Alex, is it spinning now?

really. I can't see it moving, but the museum's specialist tells me it

only started to move back in November when they moved it here. I

will be speaking to a physicist from the company university of Central

Lancashire and he has equipment that will help us get to the bottom of

this. We can't wait to find out more. We'll be back with that. The

Manchester Museum won't cost you a penny to visit, but with the

Government's Spending Review threatening cuts to budgets can we

still afford to keep them open without charging? Simon Calder has a

radical plan. Last year, over half of adults in the UK visited a museum

or gallery. I believe they are an important part of our culture. It's

the miracle on the Mersey, the museum of Liverpool. It's only been

open two years, but it's attracting one million people annually. Of

course, the reason it's so popular, along with all the other national

museums, it's free for everybody. Dr David Fleming runs Liverpool's eight

national museums. He isn't expecting to come away unscathed from today's

review, but he thinks not charging is the right thing to do. Because

it's free, we get more people and my business is about trying to get as

many people connected with what is in this museum as I can. I think we

have an impact on society and it's worth having them that are busy.

It's not the same value when there's nobody in them. But the cuts are

beginning to bite. What effect are they having? It's been tough for

three years. I am trying to work out how best to manage with less public

money. You have got quite a number of museums. Which ones are you going

to close? I hope we don't have to close any, but we are thinking about

closing on days of the week because we can't be assured that we can keep

them open. I'm not here to talk about the rights or wrongs of cuts.

They're our elected representatives and it's up to them what they do.

But, I do care about museums. These are the places that enlighten and

inspire and entertain us and if we are running out of money for them,

maybe we need to think of more creative ways of funding them.

Otherwise, museums might start to close down. Our national heritage

would be eroded and we would be completely stuffed. It's our taxes

that fund them to the tune of �425 million a year. Almost 20 million

overseas visitors also benefit from that. They visit for nothing. So,

here's my cunning plan. We can -- confess, terribly sorry, we are run

out of money, so foreign tourists are now going to have to pay

admission to our great museums. It might sound radical, but in the UK

we have a national policy that is unique and I have travelled all over

the world and coughed up a lot of cash to visits other galleries,

often paying more than the locals. For example, Russia's greatest art

museum The Hermitage, is the rouble equivalent of �8 for you and me but

just a fiver for Russians. Under European law we have to treat all EU

citizens the same. But would non-EU visitors to our museums be willing

to pay so we don't have to? I think so. I'm used to paying. Probably.

That sounds perfectly reasonable. Sure, definitely. I'm not sure.

Yes. It's nice to come to here and see the beauty and not pay. �5 is

reasonable. Even �10? Maybe not. It's a little too high. Probably. We

pay that back home. I must say, I'm amazed and very pleased by this. Of

course, it's not a scientific survey, but for every person who

says they're not paying, we have 12 who are saying, yeah, five -- �5 no

problem at all. If you extrapolate that across the UK, I would reckon

you would have �50 a year extra a year. -- �50 million a year extra.

would like to see it working in action. I've got a feeling we might

lose more than you expect when it comes to paying. We have a voluntary

admission charge. We only ask for �3, but we only get an average of

six pence per person, so people might say they're prepared to pay

and actually when they are given the opportunity they would rather like

the idea that it's free. When I'm travelling abroad and I hear the

world culture I reach for my wallet and I don't suppose our lovely

foreign visitors would mind doing the same here. If it means we can

keep our great museums open to enrich and maybe enchant the world.

If they are willing to pay, then charge. Definitely. You pay �5 for a

cup of tea or coffee or whatever in a big city, nothing is cheap in

London or New York or wherever. If I was abroad I would be happy to pay

that, but there will be people who can't afford that. I also think that

�5 or �10, you think �5 yes, but ten might be a bit much. It's all good

stuff in there. Exactly. It's money well spent over the centuries.

talk about your new play, because that will be money well spent.

Circle Mirror Transformation. It's by the Royal Court. You are actually

performing it in a community centre which is perfect? Yeah. We are

cutting edge! Keep your West End! How are you getting the seats in

there? Putting them in mate, shipping them in. Yeah, they are

putting the seats in. It's a wonderful play. The play is set in a

community centre, so they cleverly found one in East London. Here's the

venue. There it is.Lovely. Lavish. I haven't been there yet. Where are

you rehearsing? The Royal Court for to weeks and now we are in Clapham

and then we end up in the show next week. What is it about? You do a lot

of lie about on the floor we have noticed from the photograph.

personal life is my own. Don't drag it in here. There I am. I'm with

Toby Jones. It's set in a drama workshop in America and it's set

over six weeks. And they do all the drama games and you think it's

boring, but what happens in the six weeks and to those characters, what

happens to the story, is pretty amazing. There is something where

you think where is it going? Copy me doing this and that, but there's a

lot more happening and it's really cleverly written. Annie Baker wrote

it and it's surprising, I think. This time you are playing again

against Toby Jones, who you were in The Girl with. What is it like being

with him? Too funny. The play is funny, that helped. Not a -- a lot

of laughing. I'm a bit overtired. I should have had a lie down. Too much

laughing. It's very funny and moving and it's an extraordinary piece of

work. You played his Lady Hitchcock. What was that like? Was great. Mr

Hitchcock was the power. She was the strong woman? She was the script

editor and advised him on everything. That silent power and he

listened and it was great. We filmed that last year in Cape Town and we

were with Siena and it was a privilege and I was very happy to be

part of that. Looking back over the career, you say that your big

success was Vera Drake, which I would agree with. With Oscar

nominations - but before we talk about it we'll remind ourselves why.

I know why you're here. Why?Because of what I do. Because of what you

do? Yes.What is it that you do, Mr Drake? -- Mrs Drake? I help young

girls out. It's heart-breaking. The aim of an actor is to make it as

real as possible and that was incredibly convincing and it was -

it was improvised, wasn't it? all Mike Leigh's work you improvise

it all, but not on camera and again unlike any other piece of filming,

we rehearsed for six months and filmed for three, so we knew it. I

know the character inside out. But once you are on film I've never felt

so safe. It's not like - people think it's like OK, you be funny and

you be sad and off you go. It's not like that. In his hands you feel

totally safe and I think that was just a great piece of work whoever

was in it of film-making and story telling with a very difficult

subject. It was. Very well done. We have noticed that you are quite

little? I'm standing upactually!We have a lovely picture of you and

your family with you and your husband Jim. Look at the size. I

look like something that has fallen out of their pockets. That's our

daughter. : Look at that. This is the thing, we know there is a big

height difference, but we know lots of families out there who do not -

well they have small children in them. We have been talking about

This earlier on. Are your parents a lot smaller than you are? If so,

send us a picture. Circle Mirror Transformation is at the Rose Lipman

Building in London on 5th July. It's time to meet another great actor,

main who successfully played the part of a loyal MI6 agent for over

20 years. That is despite be a ait traitor. Giles has the real story

about the real Ferdinand. The last time I spoke to a Communist was some

time in 1934. This is the press conference held by Kim fill by,

British spy and former head of the MI6 section to deny he was a

card-carrying Communist. He was one of the 20th century's greatest

liars, who rose to the top of the secret service. His secret and lies

shook the British establishment to its core. The press conference was

held here in a flat in Kensington, the home of his mother, Dora. By the

time of the conference, he had served in some of MI6's key

positions. He had been stationed in Washington, where he was the crucial

figure in transatlantic Cold War intelligence. Gordon Corera is an

author. Who is Kim Philby? He had joined the British secret service in

the Second World War. He was ambitious and he was social and he

used to drink and hold parties. People liked him. A lot of people

thought he was heading for the top, to be chief of MI6. He had been

recruited in 1940 at this hotel by his Cambridge friend Guy Bur --

Burgess. They celebrated the job offer with a weekend of drinking

here in this bar. Donald McClean would drink here too. What their MI6

bosses didn't know was that all three of them, since their Cambridge

days, had been drawn to Communism and were in fact working as double

agents, supplying Britain's Cold War secrets to the Soviet Union. He ran

a lot of operations and he was the liaison between MI6 and the CIA. He

was privy to a huge amount of information and he passed all of

this on to his KGB handlers, leading to the deaths of many of the agents

who were sent Ianed the Iron Curtain. In 1951 he discovered that

Donald McClean was under suspicion of being a Communist. He sent fellow

double agent, Guy to tip off McClean. They both fled to Moscow,

leaving Philby alone and in danger of ex-posture. People suspected a

mole -- expose tour. Almost immediately people suspected a mole,

a third man. He was under suspicion and despite his denials he was

forced to leave the secret service and resume life as a journalist.

After four years of rumours, culminating in an MP outing him in

Parliament, he called his infamous press conference. Would you regard

Burgess as a friend? I consider the action deplorable. On the subject of

friendship, I prefer to say a little as possible. It would be eight years

before he was named as the third man by a Russian defector, so what made

him such a good liar? Dr Donna Youngs is an investigative

psychologist. What do you make of that? He's completely mastered a

number of the things that normally give liars away. People think that

liars don't look at the person they're talking to. They stare at

the person they are trying to convince of something. He is subtle,

but his pattern of eye contact is none the less is unnatural. There

are points when he's genuine and they contrast markedly where the

points he's telling the story and his lie, when he becomes much more

focussed and controlled. There is a rigidity and self-consciousness and

awkwardness, that really jars with the smoothness of the way he is

saying what he is saying. Examples? His face becomes that of a naughty

child that has been found with their hand in the tin. There is another

moment when you see a smirk across his face. There is nothing that

indicates truthfullness. What are they? Emotionality. Extra details

for example. Items out of order. press conference bought him some

time. He even went on to work as an agent while employed by The Observer

in Beirut. But when MI6 confronted him with the truth the game was up.

He vanished and ended his days in Moscow, where he followed the

cricket scores on the BBC World Service and read the London Times.

His treachery cast a long shadow over the story of espionage. In

fact, an in fiction. -- and in fiction. Looking very dapper there.

You starred in a dramatisation of that very story. I did.We have got

a picture of you. I played our very own Queen Mother. Looking good.

good! Justin is here to talk a little more, because obviously

Philby very good there. Uncomfortable moment in a press

conference there. We have a selection of some other very

uncomfortable ones, but it's delightful. David Cameron's first

press conference with his new partner in Government, Nick Clegg.

This is good fun. It's a little like a wedding. They are out there and

decided to leave and they are out in the garden. Everybody is sitting on

lovely chairs there. The couple are going through their vows and talking

it through and one of the guests unfortunately starts behaving badly.

Prime Minister, do you now regret when once asked what your favourite

joke was you replied, "Nick Clegg." ? And Deputy Prime Minister, what do

you think of that? I'm afraid I did once say that! Aim off!-- I'm off.

He does it well. He goes on to score a point and said there are going to

be differences between the two of us. I think he handled that really

well. He did well. This one is not so easy to talk your way out of.

This is December 2008, President Bush's last visit to Iraq. As far as

he's concerned, he's won the war and this is a victory celebration. Once

again, not everyone in the audience agrees with him. Look at this.

was a good bit of ducking action there. Throwing shoes, that is a

terrible insult in the Arab world, so that is very bad. The journalist,

Muntazer al-Zaidi said, "This is a farewell gift from the Iraqi people,

dog. This is for the widows and orphans of all those killed." Not

really the message that President Bush was looking for at that moment.

He said after he thought it was an amusing incident. Odd

interpretation. He said he didn't know what the guy's beef was. It was

a bit odd. At that point, 90,000 Iraqis had been killed and there

were over four million refugees. Possibly a little insensitive there.

This is the most uncomfortable moment. This is February 2010. Tiger

Woods' big apology. This is the world's greatest sportsman and first

millionaire sportsman. Greatest golfer ever. Various women come out

and say they've had affairs. He crashes into a fire hydrant and

arrested by the police. He feels he needs to apologise and he sets up

this odd press conference, because he's in one room with his mum and a

few selected journalists and then there is another huge room, so it's

very managed. Obviously, he felt he needed to say something, so this is

what he said. I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish

behaviour I engaged in. I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I

cheated. What I did is not acceptable. And I am the only person

to blame. What do you think? didn't realise he was in a room with

his mum. And others. You can look around. He is catching people's

eyes. He said after, I have worked so hard for it and then there are

all the temptationsen and I thought they were my right. -- temptations

and I thought they were all my right. Did you, Tiger? It was your

right, was it? OK. Thank you, Justin.

It's time to dig out your brushes, oils or watercolours and kick-start

your imagination, because tonight we're launching a big new art

competition. Here is Tuffers with all of the details. In the UK

drawing and painting is one of most popular pasttimes and this summer

we'll be showcasing some of the best amateur art in the country. What is

it that you love? The feeling of freedom it gives me to be creative

and express myself. This is fantastic. What do you get out of

it? Everything. I really enjoy it. Today, we are launching the One Show

Art Competition 2013. We want to see your drawings and paintings. They

can be in ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic, whatever you like. The only

thing is, it has to be your own, original artwork. No copies of

artworks are allowed. We want to see your very moan masterpiece and to

make it easier, we are setting a theme. Where I live. How you choose

to interpret the theme is up to you. It could be a painting of an inside

or outside. Your next door neighbour or anything that catches your eye.

It could be East London or anything. It could be where I live inside my

head. I would, for example, paint a person or some people. Find

something that insurance spires you and set up and paint. What else do

you need to know? The competition is open to amateurs over the age of 18.

So, no professional artists, please. Because we want the work to be

original, the work could not have won any other competitions. Drawings

and paintings will only be considered so no computer art. The

One Show team will select the 24 best entries to be on display in

July and August at the One Show Summer Art Exhibition in Salford

Quays. The 24 will be brought down to four by experts and professionals

who will then set the four a brand new challenge to decide the overall

winner. I want to see an individual's personality. I would

want to see some technical skill, a strong come mowsition and exciting

use of colour. -- composition and exciting use of colour. Murks, na is

a exrudge who knows what she is looking for. Something that stops me

in my tracks and makes me looks twice. Also casting his eye over is

professional artist, Leo Stevens. How do you think people will

interpret it? It's important that the place is somewhere that is

important to them. You think of landscape painters like Turner and

Constable, but there is Van Gogh's bedroom, which was his place. There

is a lot of people out there and there is a lot of people with

important things to say. This is the opportunity. Entering the

competition couldn't be easier. Simply take a photograph of your

work and with a form from the One Show website send it to this

address: The deadline for entries is 5.00pm on Monday, 8th July. The work

is A1, 33 inches by 23 inches in old money. If your work is shortlisted

we'll get in contact and ask you to send the actual painting or drawing.

Only one piece of work per entry, so put your name and address on the

back. Don't send by e-mail, because they won't be considered. Are you

happy with that? I am. A few more touches. You obviously will be

entering the competition? Of course. Good stuff. What are you waiting

for? Get the pencils and paints out and good luck. Cheers, Phil. All the

details and forms are on the website. Don't oh go sending in

photographs of other people's work because you will have to send your

original in. It's the bit that we've all been looking forward to. It's

time to go back to the Manchester Museum, where this Egyptian

sculpture, look, it's been moving on its own accord. We'll look at this.

This is a live shot. Has it moved at all? Maybe a littlement Alex, you

are very close. -- a little bit. Alex, you are very close. Has it

moved? It's a 4,000-year-old statue and it has started turning on its

own. Anna, you are the specialist here. What do we know about the

statue? So, the statue dates to around 800 BC and it depicts a man

called Neb-Senu and we don't know where the statue is from, but it's

likely that it came from Neb-Senu's tomb and the Egyptians put statues

in so if The Mummy was damaged or destroyed then the spirit had

somewhere else to live, so it would live inside the statue. Basically,

The Mummy in Egypt could have been destroyed and then the spirits come

all the way to Manchester and it's looking around saying, "This doesn't

look like a pyramid." Is it a hoax to bring punters in? Absolutely not,

no. You can see here and from the video that the case is locked.

a mystery. We need to find out what is causing it. Over now to Stewart

Ayres. What do you think? I have viewed the video and I noticed

during the day when people were walking past there were x-ray braGSs

-- vibrations. Pef picked it up now. It is fairly calm now. In the day we

measured vibration as as people -- as it vibrates it rotates. We can

see it is working. It's a physical situation. Differential friction.

It's nothing to do with some It's nothing to do with some

ridiculous mummy's curse. We hope he's all right. Thank you to Alex

and all of you for sending in your picks. Joe and Nicky here.That's

all. Thank you and good luck with Circle Mirror Transformation at the