26/04/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.

Tonight's guest is a pearly king of the soaps. But how should we

summarise his character? What about a landlord who pulls pints and

barmaids, falls in love, breaks up, get back together, proposes, heads

off to Spain, ends up in prison, splits up, gets back together,

heads back east. And the Kat is away, so will he be tempted to

play? It is Alfie Moon himself, Shane Richie. Good to have a break

from the show. Me and my family just got back from Florida. We are

all a bit jet lag. We went to Universal and did the Harry Potter

ride. It is fantastic. I nearly wet myself. With fear? Fear. I was

sitting there with my five-year-old. He was screaming and my life -- my

wife was loving it. I didn't know what to expect. Then these dragons

start appearing. Really frightening. Good job you have been on holiday,

because it is a busy summer for you on BBC One. What role of the square

be playing? The EastEnders are getting very much involved. We have

a live episode around the time of the Olympics. That will be on a

Monday night. We record 25 minutes and then go live for five minutes

where the character who plays Billy Mitchell will be running around the

square with the actual torture. you allowed to say that? It is too

late now. There goes my job. -- he will be running with the Olympic

torch. We keep winding Perry up about it. What if he trips up? So

we are heavily involved with the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee.

We will be finding out all about your scandalous story lines in a

bit and finding out whether it is the end of the road for Alfie and

Kat. Say it is not so! I can't tell you. We all know about the ins and

outs of what happens behind closed doors in the square, but I wonder

if Dave Pearson's neighbours realised what was going on behind

his. Your average terraced house in

Lancashire would normally set you back about �100,000. But a legacy

left in this house behind me, when its owner Dave Pearson died, saw

its value skyrocket. When Dave's close friends opened the door to

his art studio, they found an incredible 50 years' worth of art

were crammed inside. You can't get far enough away from this to give a

real impression of the quantity of stuff. For one of them, Bob, the

huge challenge they faced was clear. We are trying to create some order

out of his work and listing it. It is just the beginning of a process.

He hardly sold any work. He was largely unappreciated. And yet he

was an exceptional man. With the house fallen apart and no

instructions left by Dave, the future of some 50,000 artworks hung

in the balance. This is very different from four years ago.

is amazing what has happened in the meantime. For a start, you can see

the pictures. And you can walk through. This is what it is like

after you did the work. You must have put an incredible amount of

effort in. It has been an -- a full-time job for Bob and I. Some

of the work was damaged? The ones that were damaged were downstairs

next to a wall that had dry rot, so we had to throw them away in skips.

But we did photograph them first so that we have a record. What kind of

man was Dave? He was very open and generous. And usually quite easy-

going, but there was an intensity behind it. If he was such a great

artist, why isn't he better-known? He was not interested in champagne

receptions or being famous. He just wanted to get on with the work. It

was the love of his life. Dave considered his most significant

body of work the Byzantium series. It was also left gathering dust in

the house when he died. Not any more, because with the first

exhibition since his death, the Dave Pearson Art Trust hopes to

change that. It is here at the Bermondsey Project Arts face. What

are we seeing here? This is something incredibly detailed.

Everywhere you look, there is a different small mark. When you step

back from the picture, all those marks blend together to give a much

denser colour. Is he up their with the Damien Hirsts and the Francis

Bacons, the great modern British artists? Are I think he is better.

Better? I think he will be regarded as William Blake is regarded now.

That is as an extraordinary, eccentric artist who had an

enormously detailed imaginative world. With these paintings be

worth money on the market? May be these huge pictures would make

�100,000, something like that. I would not be surprised to see them

making millions. The price tag is just one measure of an artist's

work. Another is the impact it has on people who see it. From what I

know about Dave Pearson, I am guessing the -- that is the one

that would matter to him. Dave's work can be seen at the

Bermondsey Art Space in London until May, before it returns home

to Lancashire. Did you like that? think so. I would love to set our

was an art collector, but I have pictures of Minnie Mouse by a

three-year-old around my house. What would they find in your house?

I get embarrassed to say. Just a load of Planet Of the apes.

they would find soap awards. There are a few. It is this weekend, the

soap awards. You are up for Best actor. Best had, best actor and

nice fingernails. What would it mean to you to win for a third

time? Just been nominated, it is a great event and very popular. Just

being nominated his lovely. It can be nerve-racking because the

expectations are great. It is all about storylines as well. Sometimes

it is a popularity contest. Do people buy into the storyline of

the character you are doing? To call somebody a better actor than

somebody else, I am a bit uncomfortable with. It is more

about the storyline. How does what you are doing with EastEnders at

the moment it in? You have had an incredible career. Are you enjoying

the serious acting side more than other stuff? I love it. I look

forward to go in to work. I had a long break from the show, five

years. I did game shows and some other dramas and some theatre. But

I have come back with a different attitude. I have a young family. So

I do not take it home with me and I do not take it as seriously. When I

was first in the show, the whole Alfie Boe thing blow up. It was

incredible. But after a while, you step out and see it for what it is.

I am a jobbing actor. That is how I pay the bills. But your character

is immensely popular. But there is only one girl for Alfie, she is

always there, Kat. Looking at this, we have an inkling that we know

what is going to happen. How can he see it and you can't? I don't

understand. I love you. I love you, Alfie Moon. Do you get it now?

a pleasure, working with Wheater as well. Hang on a minute. Alfie and

Roxy does not have the same ring to it as Kat and Alfie. Let's get that

straight. It is interesting about some of the publications which are

interested in soaps, how they have said, Alfie will go off with Roxy.

But as soon as he does that, he loses the high moral ground. I had

a meeting today about future storylines, and they are going to

be incredible, because Jessie Wallace is back at work. I can only

say that the stuff which happened last year is nothing compared to

what will happen over the next 12 months. It will be incredible. Will

there be an incredible Christmas special? Cap versus Roxy? Who says

it my be Roxy? My wife will be watching this

thinking, tell me more! But we can't keep going. You can see Shane

in EastEnders and about 90 minutes. Now, when Maggie Aderin-Pocock was

a little girl, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Luckily, she

grew up to be one of Britain's top space scientists. Her more recent

additions include putting on a hard hat and helping to blow up old

buildings. Dreams come true on The One Show.

This is the Oughtibridge paper mill in Sheffield. This chimney is a

local landmark. It can be seen for miles around. Built in the 1960s,

it was part of a power station and was crucial for the production of

paper here. Perhaps I should have mentioned - the chimney had come to

the end of its life, and today was There are many ways to bring down

structures. You can blow them up so that they fall in on themselves. Or

they can be taken apart bit by bit. Sometimes, you just have to pull

them down. What we saw here was a textbook example of what is called

the felling method. It is the method you use when the direction

of fall is the most important factor. This chimney had a river on

one side and an electricity sub- station on the other, leaving

little room for error. So how do you get a 16 metre chimney to fall

exactly where you want? The engineers started work a week

before the demolition. They removed three sections of the base. This is

key to the felling method. To see why this works, we have recruited

the help of engineers at the University of Sheffield. We built

our own Mini chimney. We are going to simulate blowing out the base of

the tower. OK, guys, poll. Not quite the direction will control we

want. We need to only remove the base from the side we want it to

fall, a bit like phoning a tree. The guys have just taken out cans

here. This is called pre- weakening. Now we will take out the front to

Wow, that was brilliant. It falls in the direction of where a base

support has been removed. Using the same principle, the engineers on

site have pre- weakened the chimney by measuring the weight and

circumference. They have calculated that they can remove a third of the

base. This pre- weakening means they can use the minimum amount of

explosives, just eight kilograms, to bring down this 1000 tonne

chimney. Now preparations are complete. Locals have come to see

the chimney's demolition. It is the end of an era. The time has come.

think it will be missed. It is an icon. Not long to go. Three, two,

That was impressive. There was an initial burst of energy when they

got the explosive going. But the actual fall in was quite graceful.

I would like to see that again! Thanks to our multiple cameras, we

can see how the chimney naturally broke up on the way down. If it had

come down in one piece, it could have caused huge vibrations which

might have disrupted the milk's electricity supply. I thought it

was going to thump, but it sort of curls around. Yes. Metal would

flood, but it is breaking up as it comes down. We are pleased. This

demolition took just a few seconds. But they were a very well thought

Remarkable. Sue see these towers and they are gone in seconds.

was graceful. There was a pause and it tumbled down. It would be great

if you could do it like Jenga. Everyone stands around and you pull

a brick out. Funny you say that, we might have something for you in a

while! Maggie, you have the best job in in the world. You will be

blowing up a number of buildings. In the next few months. I don't

know what's coming up. Some of the demlations are scheduled quite late.

There will be something with a metal structure. I think there's a

tower block and a bridge. They have my number. It is reMacable the

cloud cover can affect this? wouldn't think the weather would

affect a demolition. The cloud can act as a cap over the demolition

and help focus the energy. One of the things with demolitions on you

don't want the energy going outsideways. It could blow out

windows on other buildings. If you have heavy cloud cover it will

direct the downforce and affect other things. Often, you want a

clear day. Thankfully, there's no cloud cover in the studio. Shane,

we have a real treat for you. You'll need these! My wife's going

to go mental. You're going to mess my hair up! You're going to topple

over that tower of tins but they have to land on the target. There

must be some skill involved. What has to land on the target? We've

cleared the studio. Put a nice cover on our TV. We're get egg

behind the sofa! Everyone's cleared out. I'm on me own! Pull it as hard

as you can. Maggie's giving you the countdown. Three, two, one...

at that. Absolute classic. Shane, come around here and have a look at

this slo-mo. There's the pole. As graceful as you can, it happens.

Square on. That's an absolute classic. Beans for tea, everyone.

You look like the YMCA. When Phil Tufnell called to us say he'd

filled med a cow -- filmed a cow standing on the top of a cafe we

thought it was another tale. It's true. You can't miss it, they said.

They said when you do see it, I'd probably do a double take. It is on

the A90 between Perth and Dundee. What could it be? Blimey, that's

something you don't see every day. A cow on a roof. This is the Horn

mill m bar. Even without a plastic cow on the roof, it is a remarkable

building. It is a classic 1960s milk bar. Banana milkshake, please.

I can imagine this, Jerry and the Pacemakers on the Duke box. Full of

Mods, scooters in the car park. Kenny is the owner. Why a cow on

the roof? My background's agricultural my mum and dad started

a Malik bar 50 years ago. We used the cow as an icon. It's done the

job. What do the Moor iss think of it? Some people love it. The patron

of the A90. People come to take pictures of cow. We took it doing a

couple of months ago. We didn't realise people would miss it. We

took it down, repainted it, took it down for a refurb. It is now back

in its position again and everyone's happy again.

The cow was designed by Kenny himself. Its success gave him an

idea. He now runs a business sideline. If you want an artificial

animal of any type, he's your man. Kenny has a full range of life-

sized creatures. But his real specialism remains his original

inspiration, the cow. Would you say the cow's your masterpiece? It is.

This cow is based on the eedeel cow. If you took this along to your

agricultural show ,ed ee -- I'd expect you to win first prize.

cow starts off looking like this. That's down to artist Ann Nicholls.

Ann works 40 minutes in the hills from the milk bar. She gets the

animals out of a mould and turns them into what people want.

Customers range from farm shops to those seeking and unusual gift. Ann,

how long does it take to to paint a cow. How long is a piece of string?

It depends on what you're doing. Some take ages. I have to find out

the right colours and work out the designs. This is reasonably

straightforward. I don't know too much about cows but this is green?

It's green! Why? Because the firm want it green. I suppose they are

wanting to show the cocoa-ness of the farm shop. It is something a

bit different. Suits me fine. other weird and wonderful ones have

you done? I've done one for an anniversary present for someone who

was married in Mistique. We did the island with little hearts autumn

over it. What about the won in the garden? He's a bright fael la?

Wonderful colours. The fun there was choosing the colours that go

beside each other just to get it all to come together. I think some

poor lady will have that as a surprise present for an anniversary.

The animals, the cows in particular, are not just used for decorative

purposes. They have an educational benefit too. We're doing the story

about what sort of cow this is. This school brings them in to teach

the kids about farming. How does the fafrpler get the milk out? He

squeezes the udders. Very good. They use Kenny's invention, a

special milking mechanism. Imagine you had to do that to get milk out

twice a day. Farmers had to do that all the time. I like it. I like it.

It's black and white. I like the part it didn't moo at all. It gives

me headaches. It may just look like a quaint restaurant with a cow on

its roof but the Horn milk bar is a real icon to the moo-torist! Get

it! This is a fresian! He's always wanted a cow.

Pretty good there, good technique? You did a one-off, Jim'll Fix It.

The hopes of the nation's childrens are pinned on you, Shane. Will you

do any more. Sadly we lost Sir Jimmy when I did it. It was a

tribute to him. It did really well.. It is trying to find time round the

shedual. A wonderful honour to be asked to do it? I was really

nervous about doing it. I'm so used to playing the character. Now going

in stepping into them shoes and the chair they made for me with all the

gadgets. Kids wrote N you think times have changed but kids have

that magical approach to television and you can make dreams come true.

I'd quite like to do it again. year, I jumped on to a rickshaw and

set off from Edinburgh. 485 miles and eight days later I reached

London. Despite vowing never to get on a rickshaw again, Matt was

tempted out of retirement for a special mission. As you can see,

I'm back on board the rickshaw. I have to be honest, it's bringing

back mixed emotions. My challenge was one of the many events which

took place last year to raise money for Children In Need. The reason

that Pudsey and I are back on board the three-wheel wonder is we're off

to see how some of the money raised is being used. Are you happy back

there, Sir? Very good. The mar low opportunity playgroup

in Buckinghamshire caters for children with a variety of physical

and learning difficulties. But it needs money to help with staffing

costs. I'm here to pass on some good news on behalf of you generous

One Show viewers. Hello everybody. Hello. I'm looking for Jane. Is

Jane around? Hello, Jane. Please to meet you. Surprised to see you here.

I parked my rickshaw in your car park. I'm acting as a mess jer

today. You applied for a grant. did, in October. I'm here with good

news and a friend. I hope you don't mind. Listen up, everyone, here's

Pudsey Bear with a cheque for �28,854. What about that? Jane is

the playgroup leader at marl owe. I'm keen to know how your money

will be spent. It will make an amazing difference. All the

children coming here have special needs. They need more support. We

provide that with them with the staffing by providing one-to-one or

one-to-two. We have specialist equipment, specialist toys and

activities. To get a big sum of money in like this will mean we can

really put our emphasis on the children rather than fund-raising

continually. Hopefully, Children In Need will enable the playgroup to

continue its great work. Last year, Ofsted rated the charity's early

provision as outstanding. So, what do the parents who bring their

children here think of it? This is is a bell. She's two-and-a-half and

she's deaf. She's also delayed in her development. Coming here has

made her so much more social and commune ative. -- commune I can

ative. It is great that they can be a child and play and get mess yes.

The centre makes sure the children receive the same experiences as

children in mainstream playgroups. How many mornings a week? Three

mornings a week since he was three Monday's old. So children are

brought in as young as that? think he was the youngest thech'

ever taken. -- they've ever taken. They take siblings too. So you can

all join in and have fun? That's right. What difference has this

place made to your lives? A real difference. We didn't realise there

were challenges with Toby. As he got older, we realised he was

slower. He have difficult things like writing off tor stpaiplt of

educational needs. This is brilliant. It is so welcoming, even

pour Pudsey. I'm so impressed by the commitment and enthusiasm from

the staff I wanted to offer some help of my own. We're all set.

Sorry, Pudsey, mate, you'll have to walk, I'm full, mate. Let's go.

We're not asking for any more money. We wanted to show you where the

money was going. You've been signing thank you cards. Yes.

Speaking of Children In Need, Matt was brave. Potentially you were

braver. You channelled your inner George Michael. There we go.

Powering it out. There was even a power grab. If you see closely,

nana Moon is down the front. You do have a pant,th preludes. -- The

Prelude. We've loads of gigs coming up. I grew up in clubs and music is

part of my life. What music? We're writing original stuff. Imagine

Kings of Lee Lyon meets... It is really finding time around

EastEnders. We That's all wech' time for tonight. Can I go? I have

to open up a pub and we're on in about a minute-and-a-half? See you

Foulkes. I have to go and open up. I have to bottle up. Chris and I