26/02/2014 The One Show

Tonight on Jerry Springer, clash of the co-presenters. Matt, what is

your story? She makes fun of me, really bad. She calls me Barmy

Farmer Baker. Today, she left an inflatable sheep in my dressing

room! Lets meet this dreadful woman. Hang on! It is you that makes fun of

me. Why do I find this in my dressing room? Aleeks? Aleeks Jones!

This could be a long show... Don't worry, we buried the hatchet.

Welcome to The One Show with my best buddy, Matt Baker. And Aleeks Jones!

And the man that has brought us together, TV's most notorious

ringmaster, Jerry Springer! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

I'm glad you guys are back together again and all of the fighting is

over, I was getting so upset. I got his name wrong, can you believe it?

Let's not go there, we'll start arguing again. Happy 70th birthday

for a couple weeks ago. That's why they chant, Jerry! Jerry! They have

to repeat it so I remember my name. Now I hope they start yelling out my

address, so I know how to get home. It hasn't been a good week for a

British talk show host in the States. Piers Morgan, his show on

CNN has been canned due to, they say, poor ratings. Would you take

over that show? No. First of all, it is a different network. You know,

so... That is not even an issue. But beyond that, I think he did a really

good job. Why do you think he didn't work out, then? Why does any show

work or not? We don't know. There is no formula to a successful show, if

there was, there would be no failures. Everybody would follow

that formula. You never know. Television is changing. The format

may be much more difficult now. People are used to television being

very quick. Images, quick. You know? Now, all of a sudden, you are

sitting down and talking to somebody for an extended period and it's hard

to keep people's attention. Everything has to be within 30

seconds. On that very note, we have to move on to keep the energy going!

Are you serious? Can I stay? We've got an hour! Really? Jerry! Jerry!

It's a rowdy over there, also in the studio are members of what could be

one of the worst foot all teams in Britain. Tunstall Town FC are with

us! They are very nice, but they have

battled on for six and a half years without winning. This week, things

are different, eventually. What a week it has been. If you know of a

sporting try hard to put in the effort but never quite gets the

result, please send a photo of them and we will celebrate them, as best

we can, later in the show. We also have something you are going to

love, and probably won't have seen in 30 years of broadcasting. Phil

Tufnell has more details. Or is it Phil Shadow? I am with a dance group

that are true pioneers. They are called Pilobolus and they have wowed

audiences for four decades with mesmerising performances. They have

put together something special and exclusive just for The One Show and,

apparently, I am going to be in it. Without a shadow of a doubt, I think

we are going to enjoy this. I like the way he was reading as he went

backwards and got carried off. We also have Gaby Roslin here, with

some stars of her new show. Wonderful to have her in. We don't

want to frighten the dogs. Are they being well-behaved at the moment?

Very well behaved, look at the size of this dog. That is Monty, we will

get introduced soon. According to the latest official figures, the

average house price in the UK has hit two than ?50,000 for the first

time ever. Across the country, what you get for your money varies

hugely. -- ?250,000. To find out how big the gap is, we sent Anita Rani

and Simon Boazman to different parts of the country to tell a tale of two

houses. It is ten o'clock on Saturday

morning. If you are selling your house, this is the day you pin your

hopes on four viewings. In London, prices are soaring. Elsewhere in the

North of England, the Midlands and Wales, it is a very different story.

House prices have dropped or remained stagnant. I am in

Blackburn, an area that had a big drop in house prices, falling 19% in

the last six years. This three-bedroom semidetached behind me

is on the market for ?125,000. I am in West Norwood, the deaths of

south-east London. Like the rest of the capital, property prices are

booming. In the last year alone, they have gone up 20%. This

three-bedroom end of terrace is on at ?575,000. Roy and Julie have

lived here for seven years, but now wants to move so they can be nearer

their grandchildren. How long has it been on the market for? Six months.

No offers yet. How much did you buy this for? 118. It is on the market

for? 125. Did anybody suggest robbing the price? We did, we put it

on at 130, it's quiet at the moment. This house in London is getting 20

viewings in one day. You have an open day happening, what's that? It

is an up and coming area because there are some in the people

looking. The most efficient and effective way of getting everybody

to see it is all in one go. It means anybody interested can stay to see

it is all in one go. Is anybody interested can state their interest

right away. What is the most over the asking price a property has sold

for? In my experience, 15%. Like this going for 630. Is that normal

in London? Usually. Nine out of ten, we get asking price offers or

multiple offers. Are you, the estate agents, pushing values up by causing

this open day scenario, where you have loads of people coming, getting

people into bidding wars? I don't think we are the problem at all. We

have no control over the amount of demand varies. In Blackburn, Roy and

Julie have their first viewing of three months. This is the living

room. It's been decorated, to try and attract people. Dining room.

Nice size. He's not a salesman, but he's giving it a pretty good girl.

Plenty of space outside, it's all right. -- good go. Come back any

time you like. It is nerve wracking showing a stranger around your

house, trying to sell them something you want them to buy. Have you

stopped daydreaming about the next place yet? I looked at one and then

it was sold. I thought, rather than suck my heart on one, I'll wait till

I get an offer on mine. -- set my heart on one.

We had 70 around one last weekend. It's just too small. But the

location... Six more viewings in one day? Not

that many properties, lots of people that want to buy them. It's very

much different since I last looked for a property five years ago. Now

it is all about open day Best, a two our window, smashed through as much

as you can, the whole thing takes two days. Hoping you win the com

petition, that is what it feels like, quite pressured. Kate is a

property analyst. Why is there such a flat market in the North? Part of

it is wages. In this area, wages have hardly moved in the last ten

years. There is then the ability to get a mortgage. If wages are not

going up, if the lenders are not willing to lend, you can't have

house prices rising as well. After spending the day with Roy and

Julie, you can see it as a completely different world appear.

From what Kate says, these guys are going to have a house on the market

for a little bit longer yet. You might be asking, is this property

really worth ?575,000? Well, if somebody is prepared to pay that

much, yes, it is. In London, it is definitely a seller's market.

Well, Anita wasn't that far away from our studio. Has it been snapped

up? It has had three of us, we don't know what they are. The good news

is, in Blackburn, Simon wants to take his wife back to have a second

viewing. Fingers crossed! If anybody is looking for a house in

Blackburn... We know that prices do vary between North and South. Has

that disparity always been there? Why don't we take a look back to

what the housing market was like? A fantastic One Show graphic. 1974, a

house in the north-west, ?8,000 would buy you one! On average, yes.

In London, ?13,000. I know, ?13,000 for a house! That's the interesting

thing, the difference in the middle. Let's fast forward to 2013. The

average house in the North West would cost you ?140,000.

In London, just over 2.5 times more. ?345,000. There has always been a

disparity. I often find London is almost like a

different planet. Mortgage news is out today, what does this tell us?

The good news for everybody is that more mortgages were approved last

year, ?8 billion with more by January of this year, up 50% on the

same time of the previous year. That is reflecting across the country.

There is movement everywhere. Why the interest rates are really low, I

suppose. Well, thank you for that. Jerry, you were born in London, but

not in a posh Mayfair house? Your life started in... I was born in the

subway station, Highgate station. How did you end up being born there?

What were your parents doing? They were making love! When you were

born? What happened, it was during the war. Often times, women in the

ninth month would spend an evening in the subway because those were the

bomb shelters. I was born at 11:45. Every time I hear a train go by,

even at this time, I go... You would think they would a little plaque

there, something that would say, Gerald was born here. We have a

great props department. We will get Dave to go and mail one in. We can

have a formal ceremony, and we can compare. I haven't changed. We'll

hold you to that. Jerry is not the only person to start their life in

an unusual location. Here are some One Show viewers that work born in

very strange places indeed. I was born in 1956 and a small aircraft

flying over East Africa. We were missionaries in Africa. We were

opening this place, a hospital for maternity work. We had four

children, expecting the fifth. Things went wrong and I was

haemorrhaging badly. We needed to get to the hospital as quickly as we

could. After 24 hours in labour, the plane arrived. It was a little

plane. There was a pilot, doctor and nurse, then they have a stretcher,

where I was on. I can remember having a big cylinder for oxygen. I

was pretty well... Didn't care what happened. You get to the stage

where... Am I a live one I not? You know? Halfway there, and our's

flight, I was born over the river or Fiji. It says I was born in an

aircraft in my passport. In my birth certificate, it says born in an

aircraft. I was born in the ball with police station, here. September

the 24th, 1991. She was saying, I need to go to the hospital, I think.

We left, going down the road, I got down Gateshead Road, halfway. She

said, were not going to make it. We went to the police station. I was on

my break and I was told there was a car, with a lady that was in the

car, downstairs, about to have a baby. I wasn't panicking at that

stage. Your body takes over and you go with the flow. I was at the

receiving end. Maybe being a cricketer, being a wicketkeeper, I

did the right things! You were panicking, his face was white. I

could see Jade, just the top part of her head was showing. So, I knew I

didn't have much time. Within 12 minutes, Jade, as we now know Jade,

was born. I was thinking to myself, do the right things. Make sure this

baby is all right. Well, I'm all right! Thank you. Thanks for helping

dad. And you are special to us. You are very special, you are a

wonderful direct. We don't have another one, thank you! This is a

black ruby, she was born on the A370, on a roundabout. I woke up at

2am and started getting contractions. My sister wanted to be

involved in the birth, because she wanted to be a midwife. I wanted to

be in hospital to ask midwives questions. We started driving to the

hospital. She started screaming, the baby is coming. The first time, I

didn't really believe her. I told her, can you check and see what's

going on? Just the head between her legs, looking at me. By the time we

got to the roundabout, I stopped the car and quickly just jumped into the

back. The first thing I thought was, OK, I've got to do it. This is it,

it's going to happen. She just came out. It was really exciting, just to

be the first to hold my little one. She is gorgeous. That film came from

a call-out that we did when we knew you were coming on. We said, "If you

have been born in unusual places..." Great idea to do that. You were

saying you were born in London. Your parents took you to the States in

1949? I left when I was five. I found out I couldn't be King! I was

ticked off. So I said, "I'm out of here!" Now I can't be President!

From an early age, they encouraged you to get into politics? Well,

politics - public issues were very much a part of our family's life.

Most of my family was exterminated in the concentration camps during

World War Two. It wasn't something we once in a while talked about. I

think out of that I developed this interest of politics. This is

exactly when we came over. I read this story - was it your dad that

encouraged you to talk about one story that you had read in a

newspaper? Everyone in the family had to talk about one story they

read in the newspaper. That is a great idea. Of course, when I was a

little boy, I used to talk about sports, baseball and stuff like

that. Then, eventually, I started moving up to the earlier pages of

the newspaper and started talking about political things. Then you

became - was it the Mayor of Cincinnati? Yeah. That was in the

'70s. I was very young. I was "the Boy Mayor". They used to run a crawl

at the bottom of the screen - "It is 11.00pm, do you know where your

Mayor is?" What an achievement. I think people voted for me because

they wanted to know where I was! LAUGHTER I don't know. Yeah, the

people were really nice. They voted for me. It was the best job I had

ever had, being a Mayor. Really? Why do you say that? It is important.

Secondly, of any political job, at least in America, except for the

presidency, it is the one job that is hands on. You are not debating

issues, you are not talking just about philosophy, you are running a

Police Department, a Fire Department, schools. You are really

hands on. That was the top of the tree for you. You couldn't run for

President because you were born here? What happens? I wind up doing

this uplifting show(!) But the best Mayor story we love is in 1981 when,

apparently, you wrestled a bear? LAUGHTER Please explain. It was a

fundraiser. OK. Maybe it is the same thing in television - your assistant

says, "We got a call, they want you to do this. It is four months from

now." I say, "Put it on the calendar!" It was to raise money for

a char tit. Every minute I could stay in the ring with this bear --

raise money for charity. Every minute I could say in the ring with

this bear, I would raise money for that charity. When I got there, I

was frightened. I bet you were! I'm the Mayor and it is live on the Six

O'Clock News. All stations went to it. And the crowd is cheering and

yelling and I'm scared to death. I would love to see this. I would. .

Shall we put it on? You have it? We think this is it! APPLAUSE You were

good! CROWD: Jerry! Jerry!

I had that bear scared! I'm dancing around for the first two rounds. The

trainer says, "You can play around, he won't hurt you, but don't touch

his nose." After two rounds, I figure I got this thing licked! You

didn't? I touched his nose. Boom! I was wearing glasses. I always wear

glasses. I was hurt. You can't cry. Wow. Of course not. He is on me.

They are trying to pull him off. I'm like - it was horrible. What a claim

to fame. You got the money. His name was Victor. ?550 - you wrestle a

bear! He probably would. Time to catch up with Phil now who is in

another television studio across town in Hammersmith. Phil, explain

to us why you are over there? Well, I'm here with a dance group

Pilobolus who are known for their amazing shadow performances. They

have done an exclusive for The One Show, but because their shadow

screen is so huge, we have had to come down to the Riverside Studios

here in Hammersmith. Now, here is a bit more info. It is all crazy. It

is all going on back there. This is what they do.

This is Shadowland - creating a performance that merges projected

images and front of screen choreography. It is the creation of

New York-based theatre company Pilobolus. They are here in London

to show me how it's done. Now, we have all seen shadow theatre before,

but you were the first? We started in 2006 with a commercial request to

make a car advert with no car in it. But just bodies creating the shape

of the car. Eventually, created Shadowland. Everyone has a

connection to shadows. It connects to childhoods and as we were falling

asleep, when we were seven or eight years old, it is astounding what you

can create on the bedroom wall. What are the difficulties with creating

shadows? All of these people are tremendous athletes. And they are

enormously gifted artists. When you walk away from the screen, you

become larger in shadow. When you walk towards a person, you become

smaller in shadow which is the opposite of what we normally

experience. When these artists are appearing to touch each other in

shadow, they may be five feet away from each other. It is tremendously

precise, completely intolerant of error and very difficult to achieve.

So, that is what they do. I'm excited because I'm going to be

performing with them tonight. What have you got in store for me? We are

going to put a little story together that tells of our journey from New

York, where we are from, to London, the great City of London, where we

will be performing in a couple of weeks. Fantastic. I have had a look

behind the screen and they are all in their underwear. Can I keep my

kit on? Whatever you like! As long as you also wear this raincoat.

Lovely. I have a prop. And THIS umbrella. A brolly, thank God for

that! I can keep me kit on! Join us later when you will see me make my

debut as a shadow performer! That's live on The One Show. Can't wait. I

like the way Phil is dressed as a shadow tonight. He looks nice all in

black! We know you took part in Dancing with the Stars? Yes. How did

you do? Well, I lasted pretty long. I think eight weeks. But people kept

voting for me because they wanted to hurt me. Ah. You go backstage and

they interview you and the contestants are always going, "Call

this number so I can stay on." I'm always going, "Please, I can't do it

anymore!" Don't call the number. Everything hurt. You did it for an

interesting reason? To dance with my daughter at her wedding. That was

great. It went well, did the performance at the wedding go to

plan? This is the silly part. Katie is wearing this beautiful wedding

gown so we are doing the father-daughter dance and Katie

says, "Dad, they can't see my feet." I didn't have to go on the show at

all. Who was your favourite judge? Oh, well, I liked them all. Len was

closest to my age so I related to him. Just as well. We do have a

message from Len. Are you serious? Jerry Springer, I remember you on

Dancing with the Stars so well. Oh, that final dance, the waltz, full of

rise and fall, beautiful flow of the body and you wanted to learn it for

your daughter's wedding. There she was in the audience and at the end,

you went over and gave her a kiss. How did the wedding go? I have never

found out. I'm available for lunch any time you want to pay. Good luck.

Ahh! He is a nice bloke. APPLAUSE That is great. We did go to lunch

right after that season, I was here in London. Did you pay? I DID pay.

That is why he wants to do it again. Good. What a nice guy. That was very

nice. Well, Matt is sick to death of talking about dancing so he has gone

to find the football boys. We met them briefly earlier at the top of

the show. Here are seven members of the Tunstall Town FC who haven't won

a game in six-and-a-half years - but they won last Saturday! CHEERING

Come on! George, you are the manager. That's right. How long have

you played for the team? 13 seasons. What was the score? 2-1. Who scored?

Hands up. What was the last five minutes of the game like knowing

that potentially you could win? Nerve-wracking. Longest five minutes

of my life! I don't know where the referee found the injury-time from!

Frank, 29 years on the team. What does it feel like to finally win?

Well, we had certainly given ourselves time to practice the

celebrations! What did you do? It involved quite a lot of alcohol.

Yes. Did you get bruised in the... Yes. Good lad! Very quickly, at the

end here, the next game is - you have high hopes for the next match.

How many people were there? 12 people. If people want to come and

see you, where is the match? It's in Stoke-on-Trent and everybody come

down and give us a cheer and give us sponsorship! Great. It is just

around the corner from George's house. So they can all park on your

drive! Good lad. Lads, thanks ever so much and good luck for the

weekend! Come on! Very shortly, we will be chatting to Gaby Roslin and

finding out why she has joined us with some furry fenced and Alex is

outside with them now -- furry friends and Alex is outside with

them now. I'm on pooper scooper duty. My absolute favourite(!)

Before we chat, there is another in our series of looking at the stories

behind some of our favourite dog breeds. This is Honey, a German

Shepherd dog that we re-homed from a rescue organisation. She is an

unruly new addition to our family. I used to watch Rin Tin Tin on TV so I

have associated German Shepherd dogs with the Army and that kind of work.

Rin Tin Tin would race to the aid of the US Cavalry. I would like to know

where the whole dog thing came from. She is off already! And my hunch

that the German Shepherd had links to the military appears to be right.

It owes its existence to a cavalry captain in the Prussian army. He was

out on manoeuvres and his attention was absorbed by noticing a shepherd

down in the Valley, working his dogs with the flock. Often, the shepherd

would control him simply by gesture, rather than command. The moment

occurred to him that he wanted to devote his life to evolving a dog

that have those qualities. Honey, we're talking about your great,

great, great grandad! And many more generations! Her ancestors can be

traced back to this dog. The cavalry captain believed that aesthetics

should be ignored. He said about promoting the breed as a working dog

for the Armed Forces. As a result, tens of thousands of them work used

by the German army in the Great War. We have come to a military museum to

find out more about how these dogs worked in the trenches. Goodness me,

look at this. So, we go from being a shepherd dog, to this? Indeed. There

are given so many important husks to do. Unravelling telephone cables,

carrying medical supplies to the wounded. Scenting out the people

that were badly injured, dying on the battlefield. Their contribution

to the war effort did not go unnoticed by Allied forces. They

impressed the British soldiers that brought them back to England and

established them as they breed in England. By World War II, the German

Shepherd had proved its worth on the battlefield and would serve on both

sides. It would be the Nazis that would set up to hone their

aggressive instincts. I have many Jewish friends, obviously, they are

quite shocked I should have a German Shepherd. They were very vicious in

the camps. Indeed. That is the appalling story of how this glorious

breed was exploited by the Nazi party. Training dogs to be

aggressive, to be, in effect, killers. The Nazis as years is would

be difficult to shake off and it was time for some much-needed

rebranding. If they called the breed a German dog, that would have dam

that from the outset. So, they called it an Alsatian. The kennel

club played down its origins by renaming it Alsatian, after the

French border region. It wasn't until 1977 that the club changed the

name back to German Shepherd. Today's owners, like this group in

Huddersfield, stay true to the vision of a working dog, trained to

a high level. Today, the German Shepherd continues to assist police,

military and rescue forces around the world, and these little cuties

will be trained to do just that. But what about the rescue dog, Honey?

She's never been trained. Can we teach this old dog new tricks?

They are so smart, these dogs. I think they can learn just about

anything. If I could encourage people not to be frightened of them,

and if you've got one, to get it trained, I would be delighted. That

would be delightful. They are really cute when they are

puppies. Gaby Roslin is here with some of the stars of the show. Would

you introduce them? The Springer, Tuffy, standing in front of Jerry

Springer! This is Monty. He is a therapy dog. They both took part in

Top Dogs. This is Sport Relief? Sport Relief's top dogs. Three

weeks, the best fun, really happy, smiling dogs. And this is a big dog.

This is a lot more than just sitting, tell us about... Yes, not

just a dog sitting down. Not really exciting. It is like It's A

Knockout, with dogs and their owners. There are two teams, led by

a celebrity captain and their dog, a pet dog and their own. They took

part, and those are the owners over there. Luckily very proud indeed.

What type of games do they do? Anything from Reservoir Dogs,

Pawmula One. Some great things happen. Something with coconuts?

Ainslie and the dogs are so alike in their behaviour. They do say dogs

are like their owner. You would have been amazing on this

show! I would have loved it. Bring your dog, next series. Monty can do

something impressive, this might remind you of your Piersbear moment.

Let's see if we can do it live. But! I will hand him back to you. We got

something very special for you. Come on over. This is a jerry can of

beer. I'll put this down here. Let's hope this works. There we are, my

dear. If you say fetch, hopefully something interesting should happen.

Fetch! It's the accent. Fetch! Fetch, by golly!

There we are. I'll hand it over. You are a real big dog lover, because

you are hosting the show, but you haven't got one? It's because my

husband is allergic, I had to choose between my dog or my husband. I

could be your dog. This is hilarious. Jerry, comeback. It's

getting a bit weird, Jerry. Getting a bit weird... Just a reminder, it

all starts for real on Monday. For three weeks, 6:30 on BBC Two. In his

series exploring British accidents, impressionist Alistair McGowan has

chatted to everyone from... Brummies... Scousers... I can't

remember Cockney! It's a jerry, get down, you are putting me off! Just

when we thought there were no other voices left to analyse, he turned

the microphone on himself. Evesham, a picturesque market town

in Worcester, and the place where I grew up. I'm going to listen to my

native accent, the accent of my childhood, and ask the big question,

why don't I sound like I come from here? Professor Clive Upton is on

hand for some expert accent insights. To hear what an Evesham

boy like me should sound like, where better to go than a traditional

market garden? Have you spent much time away from this area? No, I

wouldn't want to. I haven't been on holiday for about eight years. What

do you grow? Tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, everything. Asparagus? If

you went to the dentist and he had to take something out of your mouth,

what would it be? Tuth. What about enough you might eat at Christmas?

Walnut. I always say truth, but I want to say tuth. It sounds wrong to

me. This place has its own dialect. If my ears aren't deceiving me,

these two workmen are bantering in perfect dialect. What are the couple

like? He's been bevviting about in his garage. It means he's been

looking for something, he's not sure what he's looking for, but is

looking into everything. Then there was a yupa tack stuff. You're making

it up! People are made to think they are speaking incorrectly because

they are using these old forms, but they are the ones that have the

pedigree, using forms you find in Shakespeare and Chaucer. Today, it's

only really spoken by people like Will and John, fighting to keep it

alive. But that wasn't the case when I was growing up. I can member at

school, lot of children would use this. She isn't pronounced like

that, is it? Shup! I haven't heard that since I was a kid. It's time to

ask some people who knew the young Alistair McGowan very well why I

didn't pick up the sounds. My uncle Mike and Patsy. How do I sound

compared to now? Pretty much the same. I think it was your

environment, your mum didn't speak with a Worcester and. You were sent

to live with a schoolteacher who spoke with a refined accent, and I

think your mum picked her accent. My father was brought up in India, he

used to correct me if I make the stakes. He'd get very cross when I

said wuz, if I said, I wuz, he would say was! For most children, the

strongest influence would be the sounds of the playground. But my mum

and dad clearly weren't having any of that. Your parents would have had

to have worked to overcome the influences you were getting from

school, so there was clearly a lot going on in your make-up to prevent

you from sounding very much like Evesham. All down to my mum and dad?

My dad's rod of iron. Despite your attempts to correct me. He must have

gone through a nightmare when I went to visit, he was trying to correct

you on these words and I was coming around and using them. He never

corrected me! I love the sounds of this area, but I'm comfortable with

the way I speak, I sound the way I do because of my mother and father.

I could try and sound more like I am from Evesham, but I think I am

getting a bit long in the tuth! Lovely to see lots of local

characters there. Jerry, your show, it is not short of a few characters.

It didn't actually start out the way that it ended up? I know it

evolves... Yeah, it wasn't always stupid. Now it's stupid. The first

three years, it was a normal show. At the time I started this, there

were 20... Oh, look at that. Just outrageous. But you can't stop

watching it. Oh! And we have to drive clean those

carpets. Nobody cares! But it is shown in a staggering 40 countries,

it has been going for ages. Does it still have the capacity to shock? Or

have you hit the limit? You can't be a grown-up and today's world and be

shocked by anything you see on our show. All you have to do is open a

penny newspaper in the world, by the time you go to page three, I've got

20 shows. There is nothing shocking on our show. What was shocking when

it started was that normally we didn't see this stuff on television.

But I can't pretend to tell you, I was so surprised. We may be shocked

when it happens to someone we know. But it's crazy, walked down the

streets of London. Have you ever have a man on all fours barking like

a dog on your show? Cent you see, people are going to say, did you see

on The One? They have a man... I apologise.

At the age of 70, you are still going. You obviously can't stop?

Well, I can't stand on two beat any more. What is it about the show that

makes you want to continue? It's pure fun, that is the honest answer.

I don't want to retire and just sit around. People obviously still like

the show otherwise it wouldn't still be on. We are in our 23rd year. It's

fun. I enjoy entertaining. It is 3am, I go downstairs because I want

something to eat or a glass of milk. The light bulb goes on when I open

the refrigerator and I do five minutes! So many episodes, can you

remember a favourite episode, the funniest, the happiest? Well, the

craziest, I never know what the show is about, I'm not allowed to know

the subject matter, the craziest was the guy that married his horse. We

did a follower show, because the horse left them. A man married his

horse? Who lived in Missouri, about 50 miles of St Louis. We went to his

home and the hallways were extrawide, because the horse lived

indoors with him. I didn't know this. I said, here is Bob, a

middle-aged man sitting in a chair. What's going on, Bob? I'm having

problems with the neighbours. Why? They don't like my wife. Why? I

don't know, she keeps to herself. All I have on my card are the names.

OK, let's meet Pixel. Outcomes this horse. They don't tell me. So,

Pixel. Here is what is really sick, as if the rest wasn't, every time I

stood between Bob and Pixel, Pixel would nudge me out of the way, Pixel

wanted the line of sight. Was Bob really bad looking? I did say, "Why

the long face?" LAUGHTER I'll be here all week! What a mare! You can

see Jerry's 16th series on the CBS Reality channel on Sky, Freesat or

Virgin. Dan Snow is in tonight. Dan will reveal some of the amazing

history that the recent floods have uncovered. Look at that. Don't want

to miss that bombshell! He's discovered another devastating flood

that happened 150 years ago. This one had nothing to do with the

weather. Bradfield sits in the hills above Sheffield. This was the scene

of total devastation, subject to a catastrophe that destroyed much of

what lay in its path and killed over 200 people. It was the great

Sheffield flood. The floodwaters came from a giant reservoir, created

by Dale Dike Dam. The original dam was 300 metres that way. It was

built by the Sheffield Waterworks Company. It was designed to give the

many industrial mills down this valley a regular safe supply of

water. It would have looked like the current dam, a 100-foot-high earth

embankment with a water-tight wall made of clay. After five years of

construction work, it was just about complete. Malcolm Nunn is a local

historian. A problem with the dam was discovered in 1864. He walked

below the summit o the reservoir to shelter from the stormy night. He

found a small crack big enough to get a flief blade in. The -- Knife

Plaid in. The company's Chief Engineer was summoned. Before

midnight, it collapsed and a huge wall of water was unleashed on the

valley below. It's terrifying to think of this massive embankment

giving way. One eyewitness said it was as if the earth itself was being

ripped asunder. The resulting devastation was shocking. The dam

breach was so sudden that there was no way of warning the sleeping

people in the valley below. In Sheffield City Archives, Peter

Machan showed me a map that revealed the extent of the flood. All away

down here into the built-up area of Sheffield, about eight miles

altogether. The damage down here would have been not just the sheer

amount of water, but the debris being washed down from up here?

Absolutely. One of the sounds that the people heard was the pop, pop,

pop of fully-grown trees snapping. You have to imagine something like

an enormous steam hammer coming down and simply smashing everything in

its path. It is the kind of thing you see in Hollywood films, not

knowing it's happened before right here in Britain. Altogether, 2 0

people were killed and thousands of buildings were damaged. The

waterworks company was ordered to pay compensation for people's losses

and the resulting tribunal considered some 7,000 claims. This

is his shop. Sweets, four bottles of whisky... He was claiming for ?198.

He got about two-thirds of it. What about loss of life? If we look over

here, we've got a claim - he is claiming for the loss of his son,

?50 for Eliza and ?50 for William. He got nothing. These children were

evidently not of employable age. You could claim for a pair of shoes, but

not for the loss of a child? You could. But why did this disaster

happen? Modern-day dam inspector Dr Andy Hughes believes the watertight

clay wall was fatally undermined by small natural springs which flowed

underneath it. It is likely it was probably due to the springs causing

internal erosion and the dam settled and on that night the storm would

have forced water over the top of the dam and caused the dam to slip

and then it released all the water. Local churchyards are dotted with

the graves of people who lost their lives in the flood. But the dam was

rebuilt and despite the disaster, Sheffield's industry continued to

prosper and grow. Perhaps it is that spirit, the spirit of not looking

back but getting on with things that's ensured that the great

Sheffield flood remains one of Britain's greatest forgotten

disasters. Well told, Dan. Thank you for that.

The recent water damage that we have witnessed, that has uncovered some

extraordinary things? All round the coast, like the way that water

scoured through the valley in Sheffield. Our coastlines have been

reshaped and we found some amazing stuff. Like? Go on? We could start

with the amazing forest on the west coast of Wales. Look at this, it

stretches - these tree stumps are - they look so recent, they are

petrified wood. It ex-tense. Nobody knew that that was there before now?

One or two of them used to get uncovered before in big storms. But

they didn't realise the extent of this forest. It will be interesting

to see if they are preserved? I suppose probably the best thing that

could happen is another storm will cover them up again. We have to talk

about that as well. Yes. You came from Britain and went to America.

This came from America and is now in Britain. This was - this is an

example of a bomb dropped by an American aircraft on a training

facility here in the UK. The storms have meant that these training

ranges are by the coast, unpopulated parts of the UK, Pembrokeshire and

Poole harbour and North Devon, North Somerset. The tides have meant the

coastline has been scoured away and there are lots of these on the

beaches. It is pretty heavy. If you see one of these at home, you should

not approach it. There's been a lot reported. Take it back! The blue

means it is training. But don't go anywhere near it. Thanks, Dan. Now,

it is time - the time has come for our One Show shadow dance as

performed by - who are they called? Pilobolus. That's them. Featuring

Phil Tufnell in a raincoat and carrying an umbrella. Phil, are you

ready? Yes, this lot are definitely ready.

Dim the lights. # Ooh, New York

# If I can make it here # I can make it anywhere that's what

they say # One hand in the air for the big

city # No place in the world can compare

# Put your lighters in the air # Everybody say yay, yay

# New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of

# There's nothing you can't do # Now you're in New York

# These streets will make you feel brand-new

# The lights will inspire you # Here in the New York. #

# London's calling # Now war is declared

# London calling # Come out of the cupboard

# London calling # Now don't look to us

# London calling # See we ain't got no swing

# Except for the rain # And the truncheon thing

# Meltdown expected # Engines stop running

# 'Cos London # Live by the river... #

# The Ice Age is coming # The sun's zooming #

Engines stop running # The wheat is growing thin

# A nuclear error, but I have no fear... #

Hope you enjoyed it, Jerry. See you later! Excellent. Those legs at the

end, Phil! Brilliant. Pilobolus are performing at the Peacock Theatre at

Sadler's Wells in London from March 11s. That was excellent. Very good.

Earlier on, we asked you for your sporting try-hards. You did not

disappoint. No. Do you want to start? You go. Newly-established

team. They don't win many games but they always try their best. Well

done. Ahh. Emma has sent in this photo of her friend, Anne, who

worked tireless to start Ruch ford Rugby Club. -- Rochford Rugby Club.

This is Merlin from Norfolk. He keeps trying to beat his dad at

snooker. Come on, Dad! Dad's got a boo. Soon he will win. Kelly from

Newport admits that she is quite rubbish at running. She came 427th

in her last race. But she carries on because it's all for charity. Good

on you, Kelly. One final applause for Elise Christie who had three

attempts at the Winter Olympics but no sign of glory. APPLAUSE Thank you

very much indeed to all of my guests tonight. The Jerry Springer Show is

on CBS Reality. Good luck with Jeremy Paxman. You are on Newsnight

tonight. He is a pussycat! Tomorrow, Darcey Bussell will be here. We

leave you with a final thought from Jerry. What do you think we have

learned from tonight's show? That you should never have me on the show

with dogs! Well, we have learned about house prices, but remember it

is not where we live, but hoe we live that is important. We have

learnt that some of the most interesting lives start in Tube

stations, that when life throws you into the shadows, the best thing to

do is dance. Most of all, we have learnt that no matter how bad things

seem, if you keep shooting for glory, eventually you will score a

goal. Take care of yourself and each other. Yes! APPLAUSE

CROWD: Jerry! Jerry! Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your

90 second update. Fighting broke out in court as the two men who murdered

soldier Lee Rigby were sentenced. Michael Adebolajo will never be

freed. Michael