27/09/2013 The One Show

Halloo, happy Friday and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones and Mr

Christopher Evans. Tonight's guest is the star of the BBC's big new

drama. You mean the lottery show? No, it starts tomorrow. It is called

Atlantis. It is so new that she is still filming it. But she has

dragged herself away for the day, along with half of the set and a

bus-load of peasants. A big welcome to the Queen of Atlantis herself,

Sarah Parish! Good evening, Sarah. to the Queen of Atlantis herself,

How are you? I am very well. Nice to see you.

Is it chewed that this picture was taken the moment you thought you had

not landed the role? Oh, look at that! That is actually

you. That is me in the Merlin. They cast me as a troll. But they have

come good in Atlantis. You look like this. Gorgeous.

It has been described as a mix of romance, bromance, and monsters.

She is a bit of a monster. She is bad to the bone, Queen Pacify. I

love to play villains. She is very power hungry. Really good fun to

play. Sarah may be the queen of Atlantis,

but later we meet somebody who has actually been there. That is Bettany

Hughes. She has a passport to prove it. First, something exciting. We

are about to broadcast some rare recordings of the beetle discovered

deep in the BBC archives. -- the Beatles.

1963. The Beatles topped the charts, and the popularity is spreading like

wildfire. The best way for any band to reach a large audience in the 60s

was by playing live on the radio shows. This is our singing actually

in the studio. In the early 60s, three national

stations provided all daytime transmissions in the UK. Most music

was broadcast live. For the Beatles, these programmes were the

perfect place to show their energy, ambition and sense of fun.

For a band to get onto those programmes was important for the

exposure of the music. The record companies didn't want us to play too

many records because they thought that if the BBC was playing records

all the time, they wouldn't sell so many. Also, the musicians union

didn't want us to lay to many because they wanted the BBC to

continue to employ live session musicians.

In three years, the Beatles recorded 88 songs. Some were recorded many

times, some just once. This is a request.

Kevin Howlett has written a book and compiled several albums of

recordings at the BBC. Unfortunately, the BBC didn't keep

many of those tapes. Fortunately, over the years, more and more

material has surfaced, often because people have taped songs off the

radio. We have managed, piece by piece, to put the archive back

together for this new compilation. Two songs to excite fans of the

Beatles are beautiful dreamer and I'm talking about you. The second

one is this fantastic Chuck Berry song but they performed live

straight onto the air in March, 1953. -- that they performed. They

are all done in just one take. The band is really going for it. George

Harrison described the recordings as warts and all. Get on with it!

They worked with Brian Matthew a lot. The relationship between him

and the Beatles on air is an interesting one. What happened to

our request? ! We sent it about two weeks ago.

What was it with the Bath tube thing? Bath tube? That was a John

Lennon name for me. It was the only way he knew how to talk. If you play

Lennon name for me. It was the only this for us, we will send you a

parcel of jam butties for Christmas. You seem to have an incredible

relationship with these guys. I can't explain it.

They were not trying to make gags all the time. But there was some

banter. It was the natural conversation.

They were like that. I have got one for little Sharon.

What does your say, George? This is for Irene.

Speed you realise when you met the Beatles that they were going to go

on and be so huge? -- did you. I honestly did. They are quite

different than anything else I have seen in this area, ever. The -- On

Air: Live at the BBC will be released later this year.

We are going to try to track some people mentioned in those

programmes. We will try to bring them back to the BBC. The Beatles

bill becoming back in October... But I have already said too much! Sarah,

what do you think we should do next? You should play a child for my

new show, Atlantis. Good idea! Jason.

Why am I? You are in Atlantis. Why was I brought here? Only you can

bring an end to the people's fear and suffering.

It looks brilliant. How can they get a TV show with a small budget to

look like a movie? We have worked really hard on it. We have got quite

a big budget for the show. We filmed a lot in Morocco, so that is where

you see all of the beautiful landscapes. We have got fantastic

costume designers. We have got a great director of photography, the

person who set up... We thought they were dogs! They were a great team,

the people who did Merlin. Coming on to a show like Atlantis is like

joining a well oiled machine. It is fantastic. It looks amazing, like a

film. You are still filming. It is a gruelling schedule? It has been a

long shoot. We are turning out 13 episodes. We have three heroes in

every single day. Not a bad thing for you, because they are lovely.

Right, OK! Alex is all over the male Tahti in this already. She knows

them all off by heart. I just read my brief. Tell us about the men on

offer on Saturday nights. We do have our young lead. I think

his life is about to change. He is a very nice looking young man. He's a

great actor. Who else? I then all! I hope he is as well. -- I like them

all. There are other creatures as well. There is some fantastic CGI.

It is a real family show. It is a well. There is some fantastic CGI.

bit darker than Merlin, so it has gone on later. It is a real

adventure. In a moment or two we are going to

meet Bettany Hughes. We also have a Yorkshire pudding expert. What else

do you want on BBC One! She is talking about where Atlantis came

from. Where was he was filmed? In the glamorous town of Chepstow. It

was on an industrial estate. It was like a refrigerated Tesco warehouse.

That is where we have been living for the last seven months,

basically. It is so unglamorous. I don't know. South Wales is lovely at

this time of year. It was just eight big, cold warehouse. Three big

studios. The crew had bicycles to get between them. Don't get any

ideas, you not! This is you in action.

The people have done nothing to deserve this. How dare you question

your father! You bring shame on your family. There is a limit to a

father's love for his daughter. Even one as beautiful as you. You would

do well to remember that. As if the gesture wasn't enough. You

can see Sarah in Atlantis, a brand-new show starting tomorrow

night at 8:25pm, before Casualty. Strictly kicks off tonight. Stick

with us this evening as the Queen of Atlantis knows about Neptune. But

she may not know that they are still waging a battle beneath the waves.

The Pembrokeshire coast is the only coastal park in the UK. It reflects

the beauty of the area above the waves. Life below the waves is just

as stunning. In 2004, around 1400 square kilometres of the sea on this

coastline was designated a special area of conservation. Yet because it

is protected by law, doesn't mean the underwater is out of harms way.

A national clean-up in 2012 show the amount of litter on our shores had

increased by 15% in just one year. That rubbish can easily make its way

from our beaches into the marine environment, where the problem is

less visible. Out of sight is often out of mind. But not for Neptune's

army, Britain's only dedicated marine litter collecting team. Their

mission? To keep the underwater world pristine. Davy Jones has been

volunteering with them for five years.

Shopping trolleys, they turn up regularly. Plastic bowls. Cannons.

Loads of lead weights. Our record is 730 in one dive. No way. A whole

range of things you might not expect to find.

Where is it coming from? This sort of stuff is sadly fly tipped. People

find it easier to throw things in the sea than to go to the local tip.

Today I'm joining in with the clean-up. My diving buddy is Dave

committeeman who brought this to -- Dave, the man who brought this army

together. We have been going since 2005. We

have done over 100 of these. It amazes us how much we keep finding.

The place we have come to today has not been dived yet today. We expect

plenty of rubbish. Beautiful. I love this sort of

diving, where you can feel you have entered this underwater kingdom. The

diving, where you can feel you have walls are encrusted with all sorts

of sea life. Today is not a pleasure dive, though. It doesn't take long

to find what we are looking for. dive, though. It doesn't take long

Look, Dave, I bet you find a lot of that kind of stuff, don't you?

Weights, hooks, everything. Meters and metres of it. One more for the

bag. It is staggering just how much broken fishing line we are finding.

It doesn't just look unsightly. It can be really damaging, too. Just

imagine if you are a spider crab with those spiky edges, and you are

walking along the rocks and you meet one of those. Ouch! This footage

shot by Neptune's army, shows that much of the time is spent under

tangling animals caught in old fishing equipment. Lots of the

rubbish they find can leak poisonous chemicals which can kill wildlife.

It is astonishing, Oliver rubbish from the sea bed. Time to send the

hall to the surface so the boat can pick it up. -- all of this rubbish.

I am just quite depressed. I was quite seized with what we were

doing, a really important job, I thought there was real purpose, but

this may be feel quite upset. And there is lot more out there. You

feel like you have made a difference. Experiences like this

remind me of just how critical volunteers are to wildlife

conservation. These guys might be the only dedicated team of marine

rubbish collectors in Britain but I hope that through their work, they

will inspire more people to get involved. The sea certainly needs.

We have but Sarah in her rightful place. Let us keep that ocean theme

going. Peasants, get back! Historian Bethany Hughes is here and she has

Atlantis stamped on her passport! Kind of. Where have people thought

Atlantis might be? May have looked all over the world. The Nazis but it

was in type it and the Americans thought it was in the mid-Atlantic

and the sleeves for that was in Sweden. There was a man who took a

picture of the sea bed and there were these lines running time and he

said it was the buried city and he realised they were the shadows of

his camera! We always think we have find Atlantis. What belief can do!

This is based on the theories of Plato? Did he base that on something

that he knew was fact? Plato is a philosopher, and he is the first

person to give us the story of Atlantis and he described it in

great detail. That is what people have tried to look for, his version.

I reckon there is a kernel of truth in that, we would like to believe

that. There have been proven lost cities underwater? There is a

brilliant one in North Egypt. Close to Alexandria, being excavated. An

incredible hole under water city and the racing these huge sculptures.

That is about 40 foot high. There is jewellery and at least 64 boats and

That is about 40 foot high. There is that collapsed into the sea about

1200 years ago and we thought that was a myth until it was fined one

decade ago. And there is a place in the North Sea. Doggerland. That is

when we were connected to Europe. People have looked underwater and

have find all of these two camps where people walk through and we

could find out what the good eat, nettles, and what words they caught

and what fish. This is called Doggerland. That is 10,000 years ago

and we know what that looks like and that is under the North Sea. What is

your favourite? I think everyone is looking in the wrong place for

Atlantis. I think Atlantis is the modern-day island of Santa really.

The peasants agree! It has to be because what was on this island 3005

years ago -- 3500 years ago was the most beautiful sophisticated

civilisation but the island itself is a massive volcano so it exploded.

It was the biggest geophysical event in human history. 40,000 times as

vague as the bomb in Hiroshima and all that material went 35 miles into

the sky and it was huge. As it exploded, this incredible

civilisation was lost to the world and the sea came in and buried at

underwater. We could talk all night. You have a question? In one episode

we have only been. Is there any historical evidence? Plato says that

there was bowl leaping in Atlantis and they have these huge stadiums in

the middle of the palaces where they would lead over giant prehistoric

bulls, one metre high, as a test of strength and it was also a fertility

ritual as well. Because you give birth to a half baby, half bull! You

are through to the next round! Thank you, that was brilliant. Mix them

together and you have the perfect Yorkshire pudding. At is the theory.

Yorkshire pudding time! A roast beef dinner is not the same without one.

A Yorkshire pudding is the essence of Yorkshire. I just love them, I

love the taste, the texture, the shape, the way they are poor pared

to hold gravy. My grandmother's were delicious and my mother 's or

incredible. But I never cook them myself. That will change. The one

show has entered me into a Yorkshire pudding making contest against some

of the finest cooks in Yorkshire, watched by Yorkshire men in York. At

this restaurant in my hometown of Sheffield, Yorkshire pudding is one

this restaurant in my hometown of of the specialities. And the chef is

confident he can teach me some tricks of the trade in a few hours.

Yorkshire pudding has been around for centuries. Originally, there was

a train but under the open fire so the meat juices would drop onto that

and they would make batter from that and took it. You would get all of

the flavours from the meat into that pudding. Some recipes go as far back

as the 1730s and Lee's swears by a classic batter of flour, eggs and

no. It is dropped onto home-made lamb and beef fat which must be

sizzling hot. What are the vague mistakes that people make? They

don't get the oil hot enough. I put it on at 220. After 20 minutes, they

come out of the oven and this is what a Yorkshire pudding should look

like. Nice crunch. Lovely. The consistency is perfect. Crispy on

the outside, soft on the inside. Lee gives me some dripping in a sturdy

pudding trade to give me the edge. But once you enter the food

festival, I have two minds. You are kidding yourself if you think you

can pick a Yorkshire pudding as well as these people! Go home! It is in

your blood! Your grandmother was brilliant. And you are, too. Come

on, you can do this. As a crowd gathers, I try to get insider

information from my opposition. Professional champion, then cocks,

and amateur champion Chris Blackburn. Whip the Aix too much and

you break down the protein and you need the protein to rise. I have

done things with Yorkshire puddings that you could not dream of. What

are my chances? You have none. Charming. Let's get the ingredients

together. Chris is using beef dripping. It can withstand a crucial

height than temperature better than vegetable oil and it also tastes

better. My fellow contestants look like they have doubts about my

batter. It has gone lobby. I start to have my own doubts once icy the

fat and smoke in the oven. But Lee 's Toft Ray miraculously controls

the heat and my batter starts to rise. They look like doughnuts. At

last, time to get the pudding out. There we are. I am quite pleased

with mine. The others looked very good as finally, the judges

deliberate. Then give their verdict. The judges loved his light pudding

texture and a hint of sage and vegetable stock in the batter. Chris

get second place so I get bronze, which is technically also last

place. A little bit on the outside so not for me but still a very good

effort. I did not win and they did not make a fool of myself. And now

that I have made my first batch of Yorkshire pudding, I've been like

the complete Yorkshire man. And you know what, that tastes good. Very

good. A Yorkshire pudding for the weekend. Bronze is not bad. And the

man who came second made us this brilliant Atlantis. Would you like

to flood Atlantis? Yorkshire pudding Atlantis! You are our in-house

Yorkshire pudding expert. I have that a meal made out of Yorkshire

pudding. Little starters with roast sirloin and Porsche vanish. Toad in

the hole. We love this thick onion gravy. This is a great Yorkshire

pudding, feel that with chilli or stew or something. Children know

that because it is like a meal in one. You can also have it as a

pudding, sprinkled with Golden Circle. I also like to fill them

with ice cream. A particular favourite is liquorice ice cream.

Very Yorkshire! Lots of people shy away from Yorkshire pudding, so what

are the golden rules? Equal eggs, milk, flour, pinch of salt and good

fat, lard or ripping or goose fat. milk, flour, pinch of salt and good

As hot as the oven can be. Get the fat slightly smoking, cold batter.

20 minutes. Do not touch them or open the door. 20 minutes later -

perfect. If somebody does open the door, can you rescue them? They will

sink a little bit but they will never rise the same again. What

about reheating? And a lot of them are premade. Is any trek, like

flicking water onto them? Wrap them in cling film, it makes them go soft

and you can pop them back into the hot oven for a fee moments. Never

the same as fresh, though. Do you make them fresh or are you a frozen

Yorkshire pudding girl? I am frozen! And she is never coming onto this

show again! That is all full. I am not a very good cook. Neither am I.

One more? Roast beef, roast potatoes and lots of gravy. Perfect. Round of

applause! With Yorkshire puddings you must have potatoes and you grow

your own vegetables? Have you seen you must have potatoes and you grow

the ease? -- have you seen these? Tom-tatoes. Don't they grow at

different times of the year? We have a little game. Michael is part of

this process. One of this is a Tom-tatoes planned. If you guess

which one is, you get to take that home. Get it wrong, and we shall

play your Waddingtons advert from 1992! I think it is the one in the

middle. If this is right, you can take that home... It is not! Show us

middle. If this is right, you can the right one. Number one. Look at

that! Amazing! This cream helps you stay in the sun just a little bit

longer. You could stay here as long as you like, Chuck! Hey, the! Fancy

a top up? Not have! And give us another rubdown with that chip fat!

And other beers are available. Atlantis begins tomorrow night. Next

week we have Emma Thompson. Paul Merton, John Bishop also. Have a

great weekend and be nice to the people you like and avoid those you

don't. Goodbye!