26/02/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to Heading Out. - - to The One Show. Joining us is a

woman who describes herself as much more dressed as mutton, but then

she is very much of the tongue-in- cheek persuasion. It is comedian,

conductor, Queen of cakes and now The power of air brushing! That was

taken from the Hubble telescope, that was miles away. It isn't even

the! Amazing photographers. What are the birds about? That was, we

had eaten a lot of game birds, I had a pheasant, partridge, I don't

know. Big Night tonight, Heading Out is on BBC2, your new sitcom.

What will you be doing? I will have a glass of something that is more

than 80% proof in my hand or sobbing in a skip. Will you watch

it? I will not, actually. I am going to let it go. That is my plan.

Are you on Twitter? No, it can be a cruel mistress. Tonight may be the

night I have to block somebody. Because comedy is very subjective,

but it is divisive. Will you have your phone on? Yes, you hope a

someone is ringing, that they are friend! Are you more on edge as a

writer, an actor? It is about 360 on age if I'm honest. Because I'm

sort of all over it. I cannot say, nothing to do with me! Because I

did created and I am in it! You can always a good -- blame the key grip,

I suppose. They do marvellous things, I cannot tell you what.

will find out more later. You can do the dance for me! Why not? See

how we go. Who would have thought it. A railway line that is causing

delays and disruption for it has even been built. Angela Rippon

wants to know whether the planned HS2 should be causing so much

heartache for homeowners. The planned route for the new high-

speed rail link to the north of England, HS2, has been announced,

and the expected controversy and debate has continued. People living

close to the proposed route of this 330 mile long railway, like those

living here and the peaceful Buckinghamshire village, are

worried about the effect it will have on their lives. It may be 20

years before it is billed but already they are beginning to feel

the impact. This nutter seven-year- old is the owner of the local post

office -- 97-year-old. Due to ill health, she had to move into a home

and her family need to sell the home to fund her care. It was a

difficult time with her moving into a home and worrying about what

would happen, to then deal with selling a house, but it was great,

it sold so quickly. Despite needing work, the Post Office was

considered a desirable purchase. A local architect had plans to turn

it into a family home. All the works would be sympathetic to the

age of the house. You know what you're doing, Europe architect. And

you have got planning permission! But his plans were seen to be

derailed by the Woolwich. The estate agent put a value of its

�275,000 on the property. When you applied for the mortgage, what did

they say it was worth? They came back with a valuation of zero. We

were in absolute shock. When the surveyor came out to look at the

property he said commit you know this is by HS2, we thought it might

offer us a bit less, but we didn't expect evaluation of zero. For both

families, the situation is far from ideal. You want to sell it, you

want to buy it me must be so frustrated. We have no way to go

with it, really. Granny was so pleased to sell it to somebody who

wanted to give money to the village, after that, to find that we cannot

carry on with the transaction both of us wanted is really frustrating.

Any home that lies within a 120 metres of the proposed line is

eligible for compensation. But the house here is around 500 metres

from the proposed line in that direction, behind that row of

houses. That is the equivalent of three football pitches. You are not

even going to see it. When it really have any effect on her home?

Experts say there is many a way to reduce pollution. Planting trees,

that was considered when building the first high-speed link to Paris.

When that was announced, there were similar concerns about the effect

of the line. And the value of thousands of homes were in jeopardy.

By the time it was completed, all the communities along the lines of

property values rise, even if -- in places where the train didn't stop.

So are the banks and mortgage as lenders being unnecessarily

cautious? Why are they so reluctant to lend money to people who want to

buy houses that are even up to three football pitches away from

the proprietor Salina? I think the problems are created by the

uncertainty that it implies, and for individual properties.

Eurostar has been running for the past 18 years, we know the effect

that the high-speed train will have on their communities. What are the

uncertainties you are worried about? The government has set out

specific proposals for compensation up to 120 metres from the rich but

there is more uncertainty about competition arrangements go beyond

that. How about criticism that you artificially keeping house prices

down? I don't think we are taking an action. Inaction! Mortgage

lenders are dealing with applications and taking into

account all relevant factors. Woolwich have told us they made a

mistake and evaluation of the old Post Office and that it does have a

believe. They claim link -- HS2 is not the sole reason for the low

valuation but included other factors like the condition of the

property, which meant they were not willing to lend. A second

government scheme has been set up to go to the families affected by

HS2 that are more than 120 metres away from the line. But they will

not know if I have been successful for some time. What will happen to

this House? It is just going to fall into disrepair. Because no one

can do anything with it. It has been here since the 17th century.

It looks as if HS2 will see the end of it, which is so sad.

Let's hope everything can get sorted for that family and so many

families going through the same up and down the country. I know you

are nervous, we are going to talk about your big night some more!

ramp up the attention! Did you do a Daniel Day-Lewis and immerse

yourself in the role of being at vet? A yes, I went into various

establishments, I performed establishment's -- operations on

animals, with mixed results! Some places, I cannot even get back to

it. I left a trail, put it that way, they call themselves victims... But

I didn't. In a way, I thought, if you get too immersed in the

procedural element of a vet, you are losing the situation where you

can make jokes. I'm sure a real vets it it might be watching and

thinking, we wouldn't hold the middle that way! I did have to give

an injection in the first scene of the first episode, there was a cat,

and we had a love freak -- lovely nurse on hand. My animals are wise

to injections now! I have two dogs, they are feisty. Where did the idea

come from? Was a trip to the vets that planted the seed in your mind?

No, in my head it was a comedy drama, a road trip, the original

idea I pitched was a woman on her 40th birthday, getting a certain

present as a surprise, and her friends bundled her into a car,

driving her to her parents, and making her come out to her parents.

Over the course of three episodes you saw them in the car, in petrol

stations, and eventually it was both a literal and metaphorical

journey and it is that pretension that minted never got commissioned!

So very wisely the BBC said they liked the idea but they needed a

sitcom. So basic comedy to a situation, and I thought, where do

I go? I do know that that's fairly well, it is a space where people

turn up and you get all walks of life. Tonight you swap for a

netball costume. All right! I am Yes? Me, back again. Just got my

Yes, just aware of how embarrassing that is on every level, so good

buy! Brilliant! He is a good co- star, that dog. Yes, he's not very

heavily of Parmesan. -- he smelt. Quite heady scenes with the dog in

a car. Is there an animal school where you get the extra-strong?

wish! Most of the doctor can instant dislike to the microphone.

The bloom is ferry and looks like a rabbit. A lot of labradors were

just barking. Then they tried to have sex with it. In between that,

we tried to make a comedy show! Produced snatched little fragments

when the dog was barking. -- we just snatched. Your I joined by a

lot of old friends in this, Dawn French. Yes, and June Brown. People

will not recognise her there! Basically, July last Canada and

plays an unregulated therapists but I go and see, Jim Brown plays her

mother, Steve Pemberton is an episode four, he is brilliant.

There is June Brown. Did you work with Judy Brown before? I just

thought, he would be brilliant in this? I don't know her, it would be

brilliant if I had just rung her up. Adequate I have seen you on the

television and "! She was run by her representatives, she liked the

script, and she liked the idea of playing somebody who is very

aristocratic. She is very posh in this, she is wearing fur, she is

just cracking. And then Mel turned up in episode four, which is rather

marvellous, as one would expect. One of the regular characters is

Nicola Walker, why have known since I was 18. -- who I have known.

much at that! It feels like we are holding this flame and the firework

is about to be lit. Let's hope it is not... I cannot think of the

name of a big firework! Catherine wheel. That is going round and

round. That is the awkward matter for, isn't it? It will be a

cracker! Heading Out is on BBC It is a massive sparkler! With your

best Marie hat on, I would like to help with his work. What makes a

good seal mother? I think education, obviously. Seals can be very unruly.

You need to stop them reading early. Discipline, a regular mealtimes,

seal mothers can be really awful and can pretend they live on other

promontories. Luckily, we do have might involved, he knows that all

you need is a remote controlled car, a camera and the sound of a howling

Most pet owners will say their dog or cat is an individual, with its

own unique personality. We do not necessarily feel the same way about

all animals, like a herd of cows or a school of fish. Every animal make

act as an individual but does that mean every animal has a personality

of its own? Scientific studies are showing distinct personality in a

wide range of creatures. One of the latest has been looking at the grey

seal. I am heading to the uninhabited Isle of May in Scotland

to find out what it is about this marine mammal that has scientists

so excited. For 25 years, researchers have been studying the

seals that return here annually. One thing that became very

noticeable during the course of our studies is they all had individual

quirks. Some animals spent a lot of time with their pups and others

wandered off. That was a key moment in deciding this was something that

really needed investigating further. Researchers have been studying the

fitness of the seal population by measuring the pups survival rate.

Whether or not a pub did well could not be explained by obvious factors,

like the size or experience of the mother. Scientists were stumped.

They had a brainwave. Could it be something in the mother seals

individual behaviour which caused the variation? Could the answer lie

in a Seal's personality? Many mothers are instinctively

protective of their young. In seals, there is a good way of measuring

this. In a pub check, of the mother is constantly and purposely

directing her attention to her offspring, to make sure all is well.

A novel way to investigate this is used by a doctor from Durham

University. Meet Rocky. This is Rocky. That is right. You hold on

to that. What a beast! It is a remote-controlled vehicle, kitted

out with a camera. It means we can approach the seals without us being

anywhere near them. If you pull that Leaver... That sounds like a

wolf, which would be, in certain locations, a natural predator.

idea is that cities and natural sand but one witches novel and new

-- which is a novel and new to those here on the aisle of May.

Rocky allowed us to observe at close quarters two very different

seals - Sam and Amy. Sam placed herself between Rocky and her pup

and increase the amount of pup checks. Sam was quite solid. She

did that kind of thing where she put herself between Rocky and the

pup to make sure she was safe and secure. The behaviour of a knee was

very different. She was nervous and skittish. She potentially exposed

her pup to any kind of threat. differences were not just on any

one day but consistently - and not just across weeks but years. I have

watched Wildlife for decades. Different individuals behave

differently. Isn't it going far giving them a personality? There

are consistent differences in the way they behave. We can show that

Amy will always be nervous and some will always be confident. As a

naturalist, I am always cautious about attributing human emotions to

animals, even though it is hard to avoid with cats and dogs. At least

in the case of grey seals, they are all individuals. The beauty of that

bond between Seal and her pup. Mike, you formed that bond, didn't you,

just after 9 o'clock? Mike build jet is a dad. I never thought it

would happen. She has had a really difficult pregnancy. Mr Mills, the

consultant, the midwives come at the nurses and the doctors, they

have all been amazing. Three hours later, I am off. See you later!

must be shattered. Shattered but ecstatic. What do you mean, he must

be shattered! There are some really unlikely species that make really

great mothers. We are talking about one of the most unlikely, which is

the alligator. They make amazing mothers. The fee now creates a

rotting nest of vegetation, which breaks down and makes warmth. The

eggs hatch. The mother knows. She picks them up incredibly delicately

in that this the mouth. She takes them down to the water and releases

them into the water. She would look after them for a year before they

go their separate ways. 34 degrees and above, they are all males and

34 degrees and below, they are females. Is that the only species

that can do that? Not the only one but they are incredible. Insects

are not well known for being great mothers, all great parents. They

produce lots of eggs and hopefully a few will survive until adulthood.

The wake produces very few eggs. -- the earwig. She licks them from a

killer fungus. When did she stop doing this? When they are hatched.

Pandas can spend two years trying to have a baby but they are not

always the best mother. Difficult to conceive and rubbish mothers.

Bamboo has a low calorific content. They only ever looked after the

stronger of the twins. The youthful, a small whippersnapper dies of

hunger. They are hopeless. He has become very tactile. That is not

the first time he has done that role play. In the Green Room

earlier. Congratulations! We have a little get. There we are full

stumped I do not know if you will get into it. He will be in that

tomorrow. Let's have a quick look Well, they looked innocent enough

but they rode bit of a handful on the pavement. Weighing up to 150

kilograms, some mobility scooters can travel on the roads and the

pavements. They can go at four miles per hour on the pavements but

eight mph on the roads. Getting hit by one of these is no laughing

matter. Anyone can hop on to a mobility scooter and start driving.

Nine-year-old eyes it was struck down by the Mirror Has Two scooter

when he got out of a taxi. -- Isaac was struck down by a mobility

scooter. When I saw how badly he was bruised and how upset he was, I

thought it was not right. Did he naturally stop after he hit him?

did not. My staff stopped him. He was shocked and apologetic.

only legislation that can be applied to rectus scooter driving

is an old Victorian law designed to tackle wanton and furious driving

of horse carriages. The police and courts a relatively powerless to

take any action against rogue scooter drivers. His mum has

started a campaign to see a change in the law. What are you

campaigning for? A proficiency test. Also that it is disabled people or

people who need mobility scooter is that use them. Also identification

on the back of them to identify when incidence do happen. In the

absence of new laws, the police in South Yorkshire are hoping there

might just be another way in reducing the number of incidents

involving ability scooters. In Rotherham, they are using a

purpose-built Street set to give people advanced training, some led

to a cycling proficiency test. We've found some scooted users who

will be put through their paces by this policeman. I have actually

never had any proper training. I'm keen to give it a go. I am thinking

this all looks pretty easy. As I approached the post office counter.

This policeman put a yellowed pull behind my scooter, simulating

someone queuing up behind me. stop you? It is really important

that you check behind you before you actually reverse. That is the

most fun you can have in a rare ability vehicle. Is the one aspect

of behaviour which causes most concern? -- a mobility vehicle.

These guys are coming off the road and to link aid Mars are now -

twice the speed of people walking. -- and doing eight miles an hour.

Will it make it more expensive for people? There is no cost for

registering the vehicle. I am keen to find out if my fellow scooter

riders have learned anything. have shown me have to reverse.

did not know if you're travelling on the road and then on to the

pavement it was illegal to travel over four miles an hour. I am

concerned it will make their ability scooters unattainable for

those who need them. If we all took had been shown as a major we got

some proper training, new laws for scooters would not be necessary. --

took out insurance and we got proper training. Tonight, we want

to know how well tuned in your taste buds really are? It is a

Supersized Bake Off. This lady used to have a future issue with her

teacakes. I am not ready. I do not know what to do. I am not ready.

What do you mean, they are not ready? They are broken. Do you mean,

of the base is separating? Look! What will I do? Fridge and pray.

Cathryn is here because we asked her to make two that is of teacakes.

Some are very nice. These are bait to the recipe of Paul Hollywood and

that bat had been filled with four different types of food from

different eras - Elizabethan, Restoration, Victorian and World

War II. To win these delicious teacakes come up or you have to do

his taste bees and tell us which era you think they are from? -- all

you have to do his taste these. will accept that. It is the fact

they are covered. Aren't they beautiful compared with earlier

efforts question marks yes, Surrey. -- earlier efforts? Yes, sorry.

can spit it out if you like. Which is read do you think that is? --

which era? That is onion. Who puts onion in a teacake? Oh, God!

Horrible, horrible. I am going to sate Elizabethan. No, that there be

more spies. I'm going for poor time. You are wrong. It is Victorian.