28/03/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

Tonight, what happens when a star of Star Wars meets the new stars

Tonight's guest is a British actor who recently found fame as

the Rogue pilot in Star Wars Rogue One.

He also starred alongside Jake Gyllenhall in

Well to The One Show. Did you see the semifinal last night? Are you

aware of Monkman versus Seagull? Don't tell me, I have to watch it

back. You actually went to Christ Church College. They won in 2008,

were you tempted to get involved? They never invited me, I am still

hurting. Maybe they will take me on their team. Is it right you were

more into opening clubs in Oxford? Did you DJ? Yeah, basically, I

started off as a rapper. And I was doing that in London before I went

to university so when I got there, I thought I've got to find a way of

doing it. I spotted a gap in the market, and it helped me pay my way

through university. And you're still doing it today, are you not? Bits

and pieces? I am. I am releasing a new EP, and I'm playing the

festivals. And were going to be talking about your new film, City of

Tiny Lights, later on. Right now, we are talking about the new ?1 point

that came out today. Soon your old-fashioned

squid, nugget, goldie - whatever you like to call it -

will be replaced by this, Today is the day the new pound coin

is officially launched. I am in Manchester. With a little help from

my friends, were going to try to find out how easy they are to get

hold of. I'm in Glasgow and we will be trying to find out if the

infrastructure is ready for us to spend the new coins. I'm in London

where I'll be asking people what they think of them. 9am in Glasgow.

Coins are arriving at the bank of Scotland. Has there been any

interest? Massive queue at the front door this morning. Wow. I haven't

seen one yet, can I have a look? Of course, that's what like. It reminds

me of the old threepenny bit. These old ?1 coins, are they redundant and

worthless? Not at all. You can use it until the 15th of October.

Meanwhile, Angelica has managed to pick some up at the Trident Square

branch in London. In Manchester, it hasn't been so straightforward.

Having tried lots of banks already in Manchester, I've got my hands on

the brand-new pound coin. Brilliant. This is it. It has 12 sides made up

of two different colours and has a hologram at the bottom so when you

look at it in one direction, you see the ?. Move it in another direction,

you see the number one. This is aimed at stopping counterfeit coins.

It is lighter than the old pound coin and I like it. It seems it

isn't just us one show reporters making the trip to the bank trying

to get our hands on the pound coin. Thank you. Are coin collector? No.

There are others who don't even realise the new pound coin is out

today. No idea. Most people are unawares. Do you like it? Yes. Are

we ready for the new pound coin? First of all, parking meters. The

British parking association told us the majority of parking meters

should be ready. Let's give it a go. It's clear from our experience today

that there is still a way to go. No. They could be some frustrated

parkers in Manchester today. It doesn't want to take my money.

Despite the fact businesses of have had three is to prepare for the

changeover, not everyone is ready and the whole process isn't cheap,

either. In Glasgow, it's costing ?200,000 to convert 1,000 parking

machines to accept the new pound coins. What about supermarkets? The

moment of truth. Brilliant! Tesco say they are having to keep trolleys

and locked in a small number of stores while it converts them to the

new pound coin. Angelica has no problem at Sainsbury's. Although

most places seem ready to accept the pound coin, we haven't found many

people spending them yet. Angelica asked the chief executive of the

Royal Mint to worry. We are planning to release half a billion new pound

coins. Today is day one so that people should see the new pound coin

in the changeover in the next couple of weeks and months. We have had

mixed results today. Maybe you should just have one of these in

your back pocket just in case. I'm old enough to remember when the

old pound coin first came out back in 1983. You old person! Margaret

Thatcher was Prime Minister back then! There hasn't been a

significant upgrade since then. So we have a slightly bigger coin. It's

also thinner as well, just. And it is bimetallic. I've had a couple of

hours to have a look at it and I must say I am not bonding with it.

It looks like a wonky euro coin. See if you can bond with it, Riz.

Whether you want to bond or not, it has a 2016 date on it. This is 2017

and it becomes legal tender today but they've been making these coins

last year so the collector 's item is the 2016 coin, if you get hold of

one. They are being flogged the ?200 on eBay! We heard on film that there

have been some issues with supermarket trolleys, parking

meters. Are there any other issues we need to look out for on the

horizon? As we have seen, people are having problems spending these

coins. They've been in circulation for ten hours but they're not

working in certain machines. The Royal Mint says they've been working

with all these manufacturers for the best part of the last 12 months to

make sure they are ready to go. 80% of them are there already according

to their figures. The important date is 15th of October when they say

100% of these vending machines will be able to accept the new ?1 coin.

That's when your round pound goes out of circulation. Don't worry if

you have forgotten to spend your round pound because after 15th of

October, you can trade it in like-for-like, pound for pound at

the bank. Children In Need wants everyone else's old coins.

With the new pound being launched today, there are millions

of coins in jam jars, piggy banks and down sofas right

across the UK and we've got 200 days to round them all up.

Children In Need are launching Pudsey's Round Pound Countdown.

We'll keep you posted on The One Show on how you can get

involved and use those forgotten pounds to help change the lives

of thousands of children across the UK.

Thank you. Thanks again. Let's talk about your new film, City of Tiny

Lights. You play a private detective, and it is set in modern

day London but you suddenly become embroiled in a dark world, street

crime, corrupt businesses, religious extremists. Tell us about it. We

will be familiar with the classic detective movies, like Chinatown,

Mona Lisa. It's kind of as classic as Star Wars is as classic superhero

movies. This is in the mould of one of those films. We will be familiar

with this kind of film but the twist is it is set in modern day London

and why shouldn't it be? London is as exciting as Los Angeles or New

York or Chicago, where the old films are set. These times are as

interesting, you could say, as many generations have lived through. It

is a classic detective kind of film noir set in modern day London. How

would you describe your character and why did you want to play him?

Well, my character isn't a high-flying detective. He is looking

for pupils lost pets and working out if husbands are cheating on wives,

this kind of thing. One day, a lady comes in and says my friend has gone

missing. When he starts digging that story, and tries to put together

that case, he delves into his own past. And it takes into some stuff

way beyond his pay grade. He finds himself in at the deep end. I the

character to have a whole heart even though he's a detective who

sarcastic, grumpy, chain-smoking, heavy drinking, he has a lot of

heart, soul and warmth. I connected to that. Here's the moment you're

reunited with your old flame played by Billie Piper.

You're going to need stitches. I'll be all right. Do you feel confused?

No more than usual. Look at us. We're old. Speak for yourself. What

happened to us? I don't know, you left. What was I supposed to do?

Stay. Ms Stevens? Thanks. APPLAUSE.

From that clip, there is a lot of history between the two characters.

There is, yeah. As I said alongside this kind of film noir element, it

is a film about friends and family, friendships that have drifted,

friendships that could've been, family fading away. There is a heavy

sense of mastalgia in the film, nostalgia for people and also for

the city you know? I think there is a kind of strong emotional core at

the heart of what is an exciting, modern day thriller. It is

multilayered. I hope so. And it's out one week on Friday. Let's talk

about Star Wars. We mentioned it at the start. This was a part, Bodhi,

the Imperial pilot, that you desperately wanted. I can be quite

obsessive. When you're on a film set, time is ticking, every minute

on a film set costs money, so you only get a certain number of takes

many have to move on otherwise you fall behind schedule. But when I can

do auditions at him, there's no one to stop me so Gareth Edwards called

me up and asked me to audition, he gave me his e-mail address, that was

a mistake. Over the next four days, I sent him a couple of takes. Didn't

get a response so I waited. I sent him a couple of more takes, why not?

I had some ideas over lunch, so I thought I'd send him a few more. Got

to dinner time, something else got in my mind. Over the next four days,

I sent him 14 takes. We have some of those audition tapes, actually, so

let's take a look. They shouldn't... If you had... Can you not just bluff

your way through? What did I tell you? What did I tell you? Wow! It

worked! You got the part. Yeah... I need to stop doing that, someone

save me from myself. We have some budding drama students in the

audience... Maybe help them out a little bit. They don't want any

lessons from the! I'm lucky he didn't take out a restraining order

on me. This is a masterclass on how to deal with auditions. We've got

some props. We've got some goggles, flowers, put them on to above your

head to get into character, we've got some motivation. Here is how the

scene starts. You are the hero and everyone around you is celebrating

your safe return, OK? Here we go, action. Thank you, thank you very

much! Thank you, people! I wish I could see you and I could thank you

properly. You get the phone call from a galaxy far, far away and

you're dreading it. Is that Darth Vader? Sorry, can't hear you, you

are a bit breathy. You turn to the dark side. As much as I hate

fighting for the dark side, they have some cool weapons.

APPLAUSE. Put it onto DVD, we are sending that to Hollywood.

Now, with Article 50 triggered tomorrow we could all soon

You know the rules - no smiling, neutral expressions only.

As Emma recently found out, the only rule used to be "anything goes!"

The British passport is one of the most powerful document in the world.

If you have got one you have the liberty to travel to 173 countries

without applying for a visa beforehand. But with Brexit on the

horizon our passports and ability to travel freely around the world could

change was up and not for the first time.

This is the oldest piece of evidence that we have of passports being used

in the British Isles. It is an act of Parliament from 1414 from the

reign of King Henry V of England. He calls them safe conduct letters and

they could only be issued by the king. The main function was to

prevent subjects from being slain, robbed or spoiled while travelling.

For centuries letters like these could be issued to anyone, British

or not. And that resulted in a notorious abuse of the system.

In 1858 Italian revolutionary porcini used to British passport to

enter France and throw a bomb under the coach of Emperor Napoleon III.

The French tighten their border security and British passports from

then on were only issued to the British. But as the railways opened

up foreign travel, Continental security relaxed again. By about

1862 years ago to Italy, to France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, without a

passport. That is a huge turnaround. What changed customer they were

looking at ways to do away with passports altogether. To get away

from their idea of regulated travel through Europe. But with the

outbreak of World War I came paranoia about spies. From 1915 any

British person entering or leaving the country had to have a passport

bearing their photographs and description. But unlike today you

could dress and pose how you wanted. Young man there, 19 years old,

emigrating to Canada. To find a new life. That is a big decision for a

19-year-old. It is huge, Ukip get a greater sense of his character, or

even what he is experiencing than from a modern photograph. I think

you do. A blue cover-up was added in 1920 and replaced by a burgundy

European Community won in 1998. Someone who has seen many of these

changes and more passports than most, is BBC world affairs editor

John Simpson. I remember once, the night of the channel and square

massacre in China. We were filming what was going on and the secret

police arrived. To prevent us. And my translator, my Chinese translator

made the mistake of opening the door of the room in the hotel where we

were staying and they grabbed him immediately and pulled out and I

pulled out my passport and waved it at them and said, British passport.

And they let him go. And they went away and did not stop us. So all

those famous pictures we got off the man with a shopping bag standing in

front of the tanks, or because of a British passport. And have you had

any incident we have lost a passport? I've only lost a passport

once, I think. It was under fairly rough conditions. It was in Angola,

so long time ago, during the war in the 1970s. How did you feel? I felt

bad because at that stage I thought no passport, no lie. I've learned

long since that is not the case and you still exist as a human being,

you know, regardless of whether you have one of these are not. With our

relationship with the EU poised to change the future power of the

passport is hard to predict. I have an 11-year-old son and I would love

it if he could just go anywhere he likes and not have people trying to

restrict. And I hope one day, wondering, that is what we will do.

It is interesting how things have changed. Your experience of waving

your British passport had not been quite so positive. I'm really lucky

to be a British citizen, I think we all are and should appreciate that.

It certainly helps in many ways helping us travel. But my experience

has been a bit strange. We are living in scary times and sometimes

we overreact, you know, living in this age of terror and we alienate

or suspect entire communities or people who look a certain way. So

every time I get on a plane to go abroad and especially America, I get

pulled aside for a second search before boarding. Which is kind of

weird. How does it make you feel? It feels kind of like you are being

singled out and it is racial profiling ultimately which is not

that helpful ultimately. It is not intelligence led, they are just

going all you lot, you are people to be suspected. It builds especially

weird when the present swap anew for explosives also asking for a selfie.

And recently you have been lecturing in Parliament about how ethnic

minorities are represented in film and television as well. And you have

said there are three stages that you will find yourself in through your

career. It is just something I observed watching the journey of

women on film and television, or black people or Asian people. The

portrayal of people from the gay community. Often you start with

stereotypes, quite obvious character jurors pottering quite lazy

stereotypes about those characters. -- caricaturist full-back then

hopefully move beyond that and the story is about the sexuality of a

character, there is the city or race. But may challenging some of

those stereotypes so not completely free from the way you look all your

identity but challenging some of the stereotypes. And the third stage is

when you break free of that completely and you're just a person,

just a character like the character from City of Tiny Lights. And we

start to see each other as human beings instead of types. We live in

divided times and it is important to relate to each other as human beings

as best as we can. Riz's new film City of Tiny Lights

is way too urban for our bug He's much happier in a Countryside

of Tiny Lights, illuminated In the summer evenings are

illuminated by some very unusual insects.

Glow-worms, not actually worms but Beatles, only the females glow,

producing light to attract a mate. But the attraction to light is

putting these extraordinary creatures under threat. In a case of

mistaken identity glow-worm males are often attracted to some

streetlights. The artificial brilliance outshining the tiny glow

of the females and meaning that the males in the females just never get

to meet. # Light up, light up. Light

pollution is a big issue for the UK glow-worms. In many places over 80%

of streetlights are left on all night. I've come down to Somerset

where they are tackling this problem by turning out their streetlights

wherever they can. The good news for the glow-worms and glow-worm

spotters. I'm teaming up with camerawoman and glow-worm addict.

Hello. Hello. How did you get into glow-worms? Growing up in India when

I was a child I used to see so many of these magical creatures. When I

moved to the UK I wanted to know if there was an equivalent and then I

discovered the glow-worms. We're in a pretty good spot, how many do you

think that we will see. I think at least tonight. 40! Definitely. I do

not think I've ever seen 40 in one place. And we already have the ball

rolling. There is one just here. That is just incredible. Look at

that. Little glowing segments, really quite bright. Surprisingly

bright. That has to be one of the most magical things you can see in a

hedgerow in England. That is our first glow-worm and I think I should

put back exactly where we found her and see if we can find any more.

Our timing, about half an hour after sunset is perfect to catch the

females going. But what I would love to find is one of the rarely seen

males. I saw a light over here that has got dimmer and now it is not

shining at all but I did see one. Oh look, yes. They're mating. I have

never seen that before. It is amazing. The mail is half the size.

Yes, they are tiny. So she has crawled out onto the grass just buy

the edge of the path, she has been successful and mail has come in and

she will mate they do not make for very long. I do not think so, he

will be off soon and she will go back down into her help and prepared

to lay her eggs. Each of the females collate up to 150 eggs, they will

hatch and emerged as blase next spring. She puts all her energy into

the eggs and knocked into flying around so she can produce a lot of

eggs but she then has to attract the mail to her. If you look at the

males, when you see their eyes, they have very big eyelids like a

baseball cap. And apparently that is to protect them from the moonlight

so they do not get distracted and only look at the females. All

beautifully planned. Well it is not every night that you come out and

see something you had never seen before. And that is a very special

thing indeed. With the majority of the population unable to truly

experience the night sky because of light pollution, perhaps these tiny

glow-worms have shown us that sometimes it can be good to be left

in the dark. Thank you, George. Spoiler alert if

you did not see University Challenge last night, we are about to talk

about it. Time for a quiz but first your opponents, the team captains

from the epic University Challenge semifinal last night. Eric Monkman

and Bobby Seagull. My name is Bobby Seagull. My name is Eric Monkman.

You all know the rules, fingers on Seagull. My name is Eric Monkman.

the buses, your first starter for ten. The Gunpowder Plot. Correct.

1936. Correct. Demilitarised zone. Correct. No, it was Kimberly.

Correct. You guys are very, very clever.

Welcome to the show. Safe to say that you are friends. We have a

picture of you hugging it out, everything is fine. And as friends

you're going to be joining forces to play against us, Cambridge against

Oxford. We gave you 24 hours to swot up on all things related to Riz

Ahmed. Time to test your knowledge now and see if you know more about

his life than he dials. Fingers on the buses, let's play.

Which "Episode" in the Star Wars saga is Return of the Jedi?

Riz was the star of series The Night Of,

Steven won an Oscar for writing which film?

That was cheating! Schindler's List. Yes, well done.

Riz spent a month shooting Nightcrawler

The beautiful Maggie. Very good. We are out of time. You just smashed

it. Well done. These guys are amazing. That is all we have time

for today. Good luck with your new film.

City of Tiny Lights is out on Friday 7th April.

We're not here tomorrow, but I'll be back on Thursday

with Angela and we'll be joined by John Legend, Sir Steven Redgrave,

James Cracknell, Sophie Rayworth and comedian Mark Watson.