28/05/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

Tonight we've discovered more rare film archive, this time of

Martin Luther King speaking to students in Newcastle in 1967.

And sitting down next to us are two actors who are both great friends.

It's Simon Callow and Christopher Biggins!

APPLAUSE What a night it's going to be!

What a night Good to see you. How are you? Very

good. Settle down, settle down. Good to see you. How are you? Very

exciting! We have got two old friends on

exciting! We have got two old seems? Yes, we are good friends.

Yes, if this picture seems? Yes, we are good friends.

go by. I'm on the right, no, the left. It was terrifying. That was at

Richmond. A beautiful theatre and we did Aladdin. It was great. We had a

scene in which... A very fetching outfit of air, Christopher. During

the show, we were outrageous. Did you see my legs, by

the show, we were outrageous. Did shapely. This must be a strange

experience for you watching this because normally you are lying down

watching this. I am. I love this show and every night, I'd lie on my

bed and the news comes on at 6pm and I go straight into the one show

bed and the news comes on at 6pm and after that, I go out. It's

marvellous. A lovely restful Herriot, so it's a joyful evening.

Do you close your eyes? Herriot, so it's a joyful evening.

Occasionally. If you want to lie down, you can

Occasionally. If you want to lie you with us.

A third of people in the UK admit to being racially prejudiced according

The Social Attitudes Survey found that the proportion had increased

in recent years returning to levels of 30 years ago.

Things were much worse in the 1960s though and it was

against that backdrop that the most famous anti-racist campaigner of all

In November 19 city seven, Doctor Martin Luther King travelled to

Newcastle to receive an honorary degree. I need not pause to say how

very delighted I am to be here today. Exhausted after 12 years

campaigning for equal rights for black Americans, he delivered a

speech that left his audience spellbound. This is the first time

it's been shown on national television. You give me renewed

courage and figure. Why would this giant of the American Society go to

such great lengths to receive an honorary degree from the north-east

of England? And what effect did his speech have on his audience? The

answers lie here at Newcastle University. We need to express our

deep and genuine appreciation to the University of Newcastle. This is

where the degree ceremony took place. It's very quite humbling to

know I'm standing exactly where Martin Luther King once was. It may

be true that the law can not change the heart, but it can restrain the

heartless. Professor Brian Ward has been searching the Civil Rights

movement for more than 20 years that researching. How did this honorary

degree come about? Newcastle look to him as someone whose work on racial

justice and equality is of great value, inspirational, and so I think

there's a genuine desire to actually bring him over here to recognise the

work he had done as a social activist. You are honouring me

today. In this meaningful way, it is of inestimable value. He was

exhausted, struggling to work out what the next move should be,

strategically, and to be fated by a city which says you're doing great

work, go back and carry on, was of disproportion value for him at the

time. The university events for him to have tea with a group of

students. You didn't take eyes off him from moment. He was a

fascinating man. I do remember him asking me what wielded and I did

dentistry, and he was very understanding and sympathetic and

didn't make any comments. He was lovely for thugs he said, that's a

useful profession, and then he gave you eye contact and listen to what

you said. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated but

behaviour can be regulated. I took away the fact that I thought there

was hope for the police said you don't have to like me, but the law

means you can't do anything against me. And there can be no separate

white path to power and fulfilment short of social disaster. That

speech didn't just referred to the USA but was also a warning to the

people of Britain that ghettos could USA but was also a warning to the

spring up here through economic and social dissemination. So that is a

challenge and a great one. Newcastle MPs was a child when he visited.

He's been the guiding spirit for most of her life. It's amazing to

think Martin Luther King came thousands of miles here to make that

speech, which still has such great resonance for us today. In the 60s,

you know, I had name-calling, windows were broken, dog muck was

smeared on them. There was racism. But values were what Newcastle tried

to honour Martin Luther King with. It must be defeated. We are not

there yet but I think we are It must be defeated. We are not

there yet but I think we a lot closer today. I can assure you that

this day will remain dear to me as long as the chords of memory shall

lengthen. Less than five months after visiting Newcastle, Doctor

Martin Luther King was shot by a sniper in Memphis. His assassination

sent shock waves around the world. Here in Britain, with a year if his

death, Parliament passed a new race relations act. Speed up the day

when, all over the world, justice will roll down like water and

righteousness, like a mighty stream. Thank you.

APPLAUSE And for more of that story you

can watch A King's Speech: Martin Luther King in Newcastle

on BBC One in the North East In the last 11 years of his life he

travelled over 6 million miles and did 2500 speeches.

Oona King, one of Britain's first black MPs,

A significant piece of footage. You're no relation to Martin Luther

King. It's extraordinary. You said how many speeches he gave. What you

have to remember, those words changed the course of history. And

they didn't just change it for black people but for white people as well.

And he spoke to all decent people. That was the point full survey

brought people together for thugs just before he was shot, he said the

perennial ally of racism is economic exploitation. And I think you see

that today. That's why UKIP appeals for the people of the economic elite

insecure and that's when you are more likely to be prejudiced. We

heard on the way into that film, because of this recent survey, one

third of the UK admitted to being racially prejudiced. What do you

think that's about society today? Obviously, it's very, very worrying

but actually, call me an optimist, I think it's a good thing that people

are honest about the way they feel. There's so much... Everyone has

prejudiced. There's so much unconscious bias, people are too

scared to talk about it was one of the attractions of someone like

Nigel Farage, because he will say things that mainstream party leaders

will not say and that's one of the challenges for mainstream parties.

He said he doesn't want racism in his party. He says that but,

personally, I think his answers on every main issue are wrong. But I

think he is right to express people's concern over things which

have changed for the I live in East End of London and their people like

me and immigrants, people who look like me, are there and the white

population, basically they have moved out. Those are white people

like my grandmother and grandfather. They are not racist. It's hard for

them to deal with that change. You can't just sweep it under the

carpet, which is why you need some practical policies to deal with it,

which is what Labour has been looking at. I don't want the party

but will broadcast but you have to manage diversity. The day after the

election results were announced, we went back to the north-east, which

now has its first UKIP MEP to find out what the attraction of the party

was. We did actually vote UKIP. I don't know... I might get lynched

here. I can understand why people would vote for UKIP and I think,

they come over as people take our jobs and things like that. People of

God, we are seeing more people not British. People in the region, this

area, which is why people voted for that. People are frustrated with the

other party so I think they might be looking towards UKIP as an

alternative suggestion. I voted last time and I will vote next year and,

by God, they will get in, I hope they do. We need a change in

Britain. We should mention that was Sunderland, new. Newcastle. -- not

Newcastle. I think they need to do things we have done in our party,

which is to deal with the facts people have their wages and a cat.

When you have got economic migrants illegally here, being exploited,

that is the first thing which goes. Then other people here, British

people can have their wages undercut. You have to look at how

public services are delivered. There are specific proposals on health,

education, public services. You have got to proactively manage diversity

instead of not talking about it because some areas of the country it

affect it a lot and some, it doesn't force in London, where most people

from different backgrounds living together, you have the least amount

of prejudice. And often, the highest amount of prejudice in areas where

there are no so-called immigrants. Thanks. We will have to leave it

there. I live in Hackney, so I know this is true. We have a great

community therefore the bits marvellous for them so many

different races, it's fantastic. That's what makes it interesting,

doesn't it? It makes it interesting to live there, wonderful. There are

parts of the UK where you can go all week and not see a face of another

colour. Very true. That's where ignorant and confusion sets in.

We're going to move on to the education system now.

Since the Education Secretary introduced fines for taking children

Being a mother to four children, the government to court.

Being a mother to four children, education is high on my list of

priorities. However, being together as a family is probably even higher.

The trouble is, you go away during the school holidays and it's very

expensive. Last September, changing the law meant headteachers

expensive. Last September, changing right to grant up to ten days

holiday per year to their pupils. right to grant up to ten days

children out of school. I know it disturbs their education but I do

think the system is not fair. I do get annoyed, one day never misses

school and the first time ever, in two years, I ask, they said no so

was very disappointed. Parents now face a fine of ?60 per pupil if they

take their children on holiday during term time. If they don't pay,

they could face a ?2500 fine and three months in prison. But will

this stop them? Last year, we three months in prison. But will

on holiday and we knew we were going to be fined. A massive learning

experience for them. I would pay the ?60 fine. The year before last, it

was ?8,000 for a week for six of us. The cost of a car to go in peak

paying extra money for holidays for them to me, their education is more

important. I feel, even if I take one day off, it's a massive impact

because of what I would miss. Karen is campaigning for a U-turn in this

lawful is she wants to see a return to the ten days previously allowed.

As parents, you know that education is about emotional intelligence,

about how they see the world, about experiencing different cultures and

not just an academic attainment. It's not just what access to cheap

holidays for the Karen think the rules now penalised parents for

taking the children out of school in special circumstances. We have had

reports of people who've been fined for taking their children out of

school when people have been dying, family weddings. Parents are very

angry. Tony Draper is President of the National Association Of Head

Teachers. The law changes, children should be in school, learning every

day, and if parents withdraw them from school they are denying them

the right to education. That lost time can never be made. How far are

you prepared to take this? We have tried talking to the Department for

Education and tend to get the same response. We intend to take this

through to judicial review under human rights legislation. It looks

as though this change is actually unlawful.

The Department for Education told us that holidays should not be taken at

the expense of a child's education and the most recent figures show

that 130,000 fewer pupils are regularly missing school.

Simon, where do you stand? You think young children should be introduced

to Shakespeare and all sorts at a young age? Absolutely. We all know

what it is to be a child, to be learning something, slowly picking

it up, to have pressure from your peer group to keep pace in class. If

you are taken out for three weeks, you have lost that time, completely.

How do you make it up? What is revision for that? You could learn

from the holiday, if they went somewhere... You know. Also, you

could make your child do extra work on holiday. Does that happen? I

don't know, it could happen. There is a lot of pressure on people,

nowadays, the main holidays are so expensive. It is win-lose for

parents. It may depend on their age and what crucial stage they are in

their education. It's not clear cut, in my mind. Let's move on to

Porridge. You are celebrating 40 years. The show still attracts

really high praise from people like Sir David Attenborough, David

Walliams, Eric idle. Why do you think the show is remembered so

fondly? First, you have to say that the writers were very, very

important writers. Writers of such quality. Then you have to say,

Ronnie Barker. I always say he was a comedy actor, he wasn't a comedian.

I know you will appreciate this, because comedians are so selfish,

they take everything and you never see the whole picture. Ronnie saw

the whole thing. If he felt one of his lines was better served by

someone else, he would give it to them. His generosity of spirit, and

it is something I learned when I worked with him, it was fantastic.

None of us knew, 40 years ago, 1974, we would still be here talking about

it. Thankfully, Gold had this wonderful documentary, on tonight,

after our show. Shall we look at some classic moments? Prisoners one,

system zero. He might be a rock star, on a drugs bust. No, he was

short, bold and flat-footed. Could have been Elton John! I want you to

fill one of those for me. From here!? Sometimes I wish I was in

here with you lot. Care for a glass of toilet? Did you have any trouble

when he got out? No, I always go straight. Straight back into crime.

Fantastic. Simon, you were laughing and enjoying that. But actually you

have never seen a full episode? I've never seen Porridge. Is the

friendship over? There's a good reason, you didn't have a television

for long enough? That's true. I worked with Richard Beckinsale, just

fabulous. It's absolutely true, about his acting. He really was an

actor. He played Churchill's Butler, didn't he? Fabulous actor. I believe

the best actors are comics. They have an owner in sense of how you

time lines, how you get the information across. They really know

it is all rooted in character. But he was something else. It was very

sad to see Richard Beckinsale, who undoubtedly would be a huge

international star today. His talent was extraordinary. He died of a

heart attack? He had an enlarged heart and keeled over and died, such

a shock to everybody. One of the most moving part of it was talking

to Kate, his daughter. Let's have a look.

Good evening, sir. What will it be? The usual. Care for a drink first? A

large one, so? Mind your own business! They love going home and

being proud of the fact that he managed to become this delivered

figure in a really short time. That's from me. And this is from

myself. That's from me. And this is from

they nice? I will have That's from me. And this is from

other one when I get my bandage off. They are mittens! Let's talk about

your character, you played Lukewarm? I was the iro.

I did a doctor at sea before, I was an outrageous queen, really can.

They said, you can't do that, nobody is like that. I can tell you there

are lots of people like that. When we did this, the brilliant

are lots of people like that. When and producer of Porridge, he said,

let's do something different. The only thing I did that was a vaguely

camp was knitting. I knitted all the way through it. But it was wonderful

to be involved. Ronnie Barker gave the regulars of the first series a

silver tankard. Our names, initials. I got Lukewarm, Slade prison, 1974.

My initial is P. So it's Lukewarm P! The documentary is on at 8pm tonight

on Gold. The online trading unlicensed and

fake medicines is worth billions of pounds worldwide and helps fund

organised crime in the UK. This month has seen one of the biggest

crackdowns ever on internet drug dealers. Dan Donnelly has been in

the thick of it in Hertfordshire. Millions of dangerous and unlicensed

drugs are sold illegally over the internet every year. It's a

multi-billion pound criminal enterprise that has serious

consequences for the victims. It's something Helen knows only too well,

desperate to lose weight she bought slimming pills that contained a

banned drug linked to heart attacks, seizures and even death. I have

horrendous pain in my chest. I felt like I couldn't breathe. Within five

minutes, my health deteriorated. My friend drove me to A and I was put

into resuscitation. I friend drove me to A and I was put

what sort of affects this tablet would have. The dealers that are

selling illegally online, they must be shut down. Slimming pills are

just one of a huge number of controlled drugs smuggled in through

the post. Danny Lee Frost is an investigator for the regulatory

the post. Danny Lee Frost is an agency. What have we found? This is

the tip of the iceberg. This one contains an active ingredient

withdrawn from the market in 2010 because of the risk of heart attacks

and strokes. A banned drug, but still found in slimming pills sold

online. There are more parcels of unlicensed drugs, all of which are

online. There are more parcels of seized and tested. Danny and his

team need to get to the people behind this sort of criminal

activity. That means working with the police on an undercover sting

operation. We've made five the police on an undercover sting

purchases from this chap. We've bought over ?7,000 worth of

products. Demand they are investigating has been selling

addictive ascription only antidepressants and sleeping pills.

Shockingly, the seller works on the inside of the legitimate drugs

industry and has access to huge amounts of controlled Edison. Who is

this guy? The subject of the investigation today is a licensed

wholesaler. What he is not licensed to do is to sell to any member of

the public controlled drugs in pub car parks. After the undercover to

has left the scene, I go in with my camera. Two men are arrested and

taken away by the police. In the boot of the car, boxes and boxes of

pills. What seems like a batch of prescription drugs. Quite a big

batch. The deal was being carried out on the roadside. Thousands of

pounds worth of drugs, stored in crisp boxes and sold out of the back

of two cars. He's got cancer drugs, controlled sleeping drugs. I know

expert, but this is not a proper pharmacy? This is not a proper

pharmacy. None of this should be available to the general public

unless it is through disruption. And yet it is being supplied to a member

of the public from the back of a car. Code-named Operation Pangea,

today's arrests are part of a week-long international operation to

stop the criminals that sell these drugs. At the storeroom, Danny shows

me the scale of what is going on. There is a reason that prescription

drugs are wrong prescription. That reason being dashed on conscription.

That reason being that there is a risk with every medicine you take.

You don't know what is in there. Deal to much consequence of taking

medicines without a health care professional involved is death.

Another mission is to shut down as many dodgy websites as possible.

This one leads the team to an address in Northamptonshire. Danny

is hoping to close down yet another illegal online pharmacy. Once

inside, it becomes clear this is more than just a family home. There

are enough controlled and banned drugs here for a major supply

operation. The police take the couple at the address away for

questioning. Excellent results. We have seized the product that is

there. We've uncovered more offences we were not aware of. We have shut

this internet pharmacy down. As the week goes on, there are more raids

and more arrests. By the time Operation Pangea is over, more than

?8.5 million worth of lethal medicines have been taken out of

circulation. A huge result. 8.5 million! I know. Extraordinary.

Nice to see you, with a bowl of tricks? Yes. Quite a lot of these

represent things I have have had patients come in and see me about.

They are usually really shamefaced about the fact they have bought

drugs from the internet. We have got some here. These are slimming

tablets that used to be available, but they were taken of the market

because they were dangerous. People can buy them online. The most

popular ones people bought online, once for the bedroom. This one is a

jelly sweet version. The bedroom? Oh, yes...

They come and they admit that they are getting is online? What reasons

are they giving you for going there? People who have taken slimming

tablets, it is usually because they have not been prescribed by the GP

for a very good reason. There is one slimming tablet available, but it

doesn't work on its own, you have to do it in conjunction. People want a

quick fix. The other one, people are embarrassed. The third most common,

people were taking tranquillisers and sleeping tablets. There are very

good reasons for not prescribing those, because they are unbelievably

addicted. A woman who came in with the slimming tablet, she came in

shaking, it turns out that the tablets contained amphetamine. They

were basically speed tablets. That's what they give you, isn't it? Not

any more, Peter! If it was OK to take them, the GP would prescribe

them. Some which were not routinely available on the NHS, your GP would

give you a private description. People find it easier, I suppose. A

lot of them go online, they self diagnose. You can get the bedtime

once for the doctor. Sleeping pills? No, the other one. Self diagnosing,

Wikipedia, 90% of those Wikipedia entries on health issues, there is

at least one mistake? Host of the mistakes they are not absolutely

huge, but some of the websites out there are completely unpoliced. You

can say anything you want. I actively encourage people to go and

look online, but I send them to really reputable websites. NHS

Choices, written by GPs and their patients. If you know what you have

got, it's really important. You are dealing with the condition. I want

people to know more about their condition. What we don't want is

self diagnosis. Read about it afterwards, maybe? Not all online

pharmacies are illegal? No, if you go to one that is registered, it has

the green cross you see on prescriptions, it is registered by

the General Pharmaceutical Council. It gives you a physical address. If

they offer to give you medicine without finding out about medical

history, don't touch them with a barge pole. If they give you

perception drugs without a prescription, they are not the real

thing. Now they are tiny, get stuck down

the back of the sofa and are agony Statistically there's

a good chance there's a bucket And, as Ruth Goodman explains,

it could have been a UK company It's one of the world 's most

recognisable toys. And the foundation of ?1 billion business

empire taking toys, theme parks and films. It's one of Denmark's

best-known products, as Danish as bacon. Or is it? In the 1940s the

ball they came along, a British toy company was selling an almost

identical brick for the company was called Kiddie craft. If it had not

been for a missed opportunity, children today could have been

flocking to Kiddie craft land or going to the Kiddie craft movie. The

Lego brick is the foundation of a global business empire whilst the

Kiddie craft owner ended up forgotten so what happened? Amanda

Berry child psychologist to studies what makes a good tight and bases a

lot of her methods on pages pioneering approach to try making.

He was so far ahead of the curve, watching children, watching them

play, and making toys which appealed to kids. He developed toys inside

toys. You can see examples of his work everywhere. His hours studying

children dead end to develop educational toys in newly developed

plastic, more safe and hygienic for children than the old painted and

wooden toys. He tested his new designs on his own twin daughters.

65 years on, Geraldine is seeing some of their fathers toys for the

first time in decades. Every developer much: He would let us play

with it. We were like guinea pigs. We played for hours with the bricks.

The self locking brick was introduced to the world in 1947, one

of his products. He went off to design advertise but if he didn't

see the potential, someone else did. Lego wanted to move into plastics

and seized an opportunity when a British company wants to sell them

and injection moulding machine. The manufacturers, included a sample of

his bricks. Two years after their brick hit the market, the automatic

binding brick was unveiled. Jim Osborne is aimed his -- owned his

toy shop since the 1950s and have a collection of vintage toys including

Kiddie craft bricks. This really does look like Lego, doesn't it? Oh,

yes, it is the spitting image. I think you will find the Lego will

click onto the Kiddie craft one. So, actually, almost compatible, yes.

Kiddie craft was on the market from the late 40s but of course, it was

never as popular. Lego took it off and took the market by storm. Lego,

in their own corporate video, admit they were inspired by page's type

and eventually paid ?45,000 for rights to the brick and took the

design and developed it. In 1950, they added tubes to help the bricks

connected better. A huge success. It was introduced at the Brighton toy

fair in 1960. And you have been selling at every since? Oh, yes.

It's the biggest name in the toy trade now. Hillary Page developed

other toys that were successful in their own right. But he never found

out just how big his little brick would become. In 1957, before Lego

came to Britain, he took his own life as a result of unrelated

business pressures. He had developed it and marketed it and went on to

other things. As the Kiddie craft bricks were not major part of his

range, he took his eye off the ball. Lego, to be fair, have produced an

incredible toy. Who knows what would've happened in the future.

Have no idea. Lego was universally loved and is made a huge empire out

of the humble brick but for a twist of fate, that empire could have been

British. And Hillary Page's name lauded all over the world as the

inventor of the most popular toy. I used to spend most of my mornings

doing exactly that. Simon, we love it when you're in a new drama.

There's a new one starting, Space Age. What are you doing up there?

I'm up there with Richard Wilson. I don't believe it! We play two

elderly astronauts. We're not actually astronauts at all but

volunteers. We are so old, there is nothing more to do with our lives so

we would like to do one last good thing. So we volunteered to man the

spaceship and go to an alien planet where we will start civilising,

making it possible for life, human life. So it's a very sad film in

some ways, in theory, but there are exciting plot developments I'm not

at liberty to disclose. It was a wonderful experience. It's a

brilliant script written by Ralf Little and Nick Moran, two actors.

They wrote this thing and it sat wonderfully with us. The writing is

fantastic. We shot it in Poland. Why? Because there was a studio

there built by a crazy Polish person with too much money, and he's in

love of science fiction and he built the whole studio like a spaceship.

The canteen, the corridor, it's like a spaceship, so we took the whole

thing over and shot in the canteen over there and really looks rather

better than 2001, if you ask me. Your space of a very impressive so

let's have a look at it. Observation, please. Bloody hell!

This is the closest we get to a windscreen. Where are we? Let's have

a look, shall we? Navigation, please. That is where we started.

That is where we are now. And that's where we are going. Home sweet home.

Not long now. APPLAUSE

You said it sits very comfortably on the end of your time and, my word,

are you a big fan of science fiction?

No. Not at all. I know nothing about science fiction so it is rather

exciting for me. Whole New World full Richard Wilson is very, sort of

Patrick Stewart, isn't it? Don't you think? Is it just the two of you in

it? Well... Well, yes. My hands are tied. You and Richard have been

friends since the 1980s. What trouble did you get up to in Poland?

Trouble? It is a very tight ship, only one week we were there, and it

was -12 degrees. Fun is hard at -12 degrees, but we did manage to

stagger into a few excellent Polish eateries. Vodka is the antidote to

that. It's like filling up your carburettor with it. We had a

delightful time, vodka and work, that was it. Richard said he was

slightly concerned, as he gets older, of remembering lines. I don't

know how you feel about this. Worrying about Richard not

remembering? Richard has a fantastic memory. He really is a wonderful

superb technician. I mean, you know, it's just a question of time. Every

actor has some sort of technique for remembering lines. We couldn't

survive without it a question of time. Every actor has some sort of

technique for remembering lines. We couldn't survive without it for them

you just have to give yourself time to do it properly. Is that what you

do, Christopher? I hate learning lines. If it awful, boring thing.

Early on, if you a good script, it was easy, I Claudius, because it

sort of comes naturally. But sometimes, things are really tough

and as you get older, tougher. Of course, in film very often, you

don't really rehearse but in the theatre, you rehearse for three

weeks. It's embedded in you then. It's the hardest, most important

thing for an actor, if you lose your memory you're in big trouble. I

don't know why nowadays wouldn't have little openings other side of

your brain and put a microchip in. And when you go to France, you speak

French Brindley. Or you can put your lines, the Tempest. -- French

Brindley. -- brilliantly. Space Age is on Sky Arts 1 on June

5th at 9pm. Now, the weather this half-term

has been a bit of a wash out. So if you're looking to entartain

the kids indoors, Phil has just

the thing to inspire you all. The story

of an art master who did some of his best work with only scissors

and coloured pieces of paper. Matisse is one of the founding

fathers of modern art. A master of colour, his bold vivid paintings

span over half a century. But in 1941, at the age of 71, at the

height of his fame, the French artist was diagnosed with cancer and

was unable to paint for that looked like his career and his life were

over but he didn't give up. We can and often confined to a wheelchair,

he came up with a revolutionary technique -- week. He did this with

just a pair of scissors and some paper. He swapped his paintbrush for

scissors and created new works with strips of painted paper called

cutouts. Now the largest ever exhibition of cutouts is on display

at the Tate modern and it's on track to become one of its most popular

exhibitions of all time. We had exclusive behind-the-scenes access

before the opening. Some of these are the last cutouts ready for

installation for that now, these works are absolutely priceless. So

it's no wonder that this part of the process is run with military

precision. The exhibition has been five years in the planning and this

man is one of the curators. The scale of it, it's huge. How did a

frail man, an old man, do this? He had some help. He had assistants

working with him. They would paint under his very strict supervision,

very large sheets of paper. Was the bedridden, in a wheelchair? A bit of

both. He came up with this system, a little

bedridden, in a wheelchair? A bit of both. He came up with kind of desk

bed made so he could work from his bed. His 1952 cutouts are arguably

some of the most famous and popular works of modern Art in the world.

Each piece is carefully unpacked I team of art handlers before the

curators decide where each piece should hang. It's a bit like buying

a painting and getting at home and sticking it up on the front wall.

You have a sit down, think where it goes on the principles are the same

except these are modern masterpieces. They look very sort of

simplistic and familiar. Why were they so radical at that time? What

makes them so important as he made lots of paintings in the 1920s, 30s,

but here he is working from memory. What we see is not a specific woman,

but a very radical sympathy case in female form. And he's doing all of

this summer just cutting into paper. One of the final cutouts was the

snail, part of the permanent collection at the Tate, which is

being restored especially for this exhibition. This is a very famous

piece, the snail. You can recognise its snow the spiralling forms. You

can see the marks where it has been cut. It's full of life and colour.

It's amazing this was the last bit of work he did before he died. Yes,

it's quite incredible when you think that this was made one year before

his death. And, you know, it's like a burst of joy, colours, everything.

It almost feels like everything up to now has exploded. It opened up

new Explorer eateries in art but he was dismissed by the critics. In the

1950s they were too radical for the art world. Mitty is made making

masterpieces look easy but is it? The one shows that the great British

public challenge and let's see how they got on -- Matisse. The

inspiration makes you think you can do it too but actually, it's not

very easy. People believe drawing and painting as art but cutouts are

also included in that. If you're getting sick of scissors, just start

ripping it up. Matisse said of his cutout years, only what I created

after my illness represents my true self, free and liberated. In the

face of death, he made art that was full of life. His inspiration to

afraid to try something new. afraid to try something new.

That's the point, I think, just have a go! It's good it brought all those

people together. They had a great time. If you do like Matisse and you

can't get to London, there are other ways to see it? There is Matisse

lies, at a cinema near you. Tuesday the 17th of June, 7:15. You'll be

shown around by the director of the Tate. There will be rare archive of

Matisse, interviews with his friends and lots of other things going on.

At last is about 90 minutes. If you can't get there, go to the cinema.

You were just saying you would love to be an art dealer? I have been

collecting art for 45 years. Wallpaper is not something we have

in our house, we have paintings. I just can't stop. I've got too,

because we don't have enough room. We were talking about not buying

from galleries because they charge so much. Just buying from friends.

You see something and think, oh, I'll have that. It's so joyous to

look around our house and think of all of the things... Certain things

bring back memories. Why we bought something, you know? It's wonderful,

art is fantastic. Some sad heart News, last Friday there was a big

fire in the Glasgow School of Art. Such a beautiful building. Terrible.

Designed by Charles Macintosh, grade one listed. This is the library, the

jewel in the crown of the building. On the upside, 90% of the exterior

and 70% of the interior has been saved. Some of the priceless archive

of material and furniture has been saved as well. The students did not

come off too well. This is some of their stuff coming out. They have

been given bursaries to carry on their work. An absolute tragedy. As

many people pointed out, most art colleges are physically hideous.

This is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Every single

item was designed by Mackintosh himself. Every door knob, every book

case, every shelf. The library is amazing. They are going to rebuild

it. He gave such a wonderful ways of how... Everything, the plans are

there. They will be able to recreate it. A lot of his work is around, if

they are a bit stuck. Tragic. We are about to see the band James

performed. While they warm up, there they are, here is John Sergeant,

giving his own electric informants. -- performance.

The wind in your face, the sun on your back. Cycling is great fun on

the flat. The hills can be a problem. But not for me today. I'm

not on a push bike, I'm on an e-bike. There's a motor in the front

wheel that gives it a bit of oomph. It's catching on in Britain. All

Stamford runs one of the largest e-bike distributors. It's like a

bike, but it's not? As you pedal, the electric motor kicks in. When

you stop, it stops. But not like a motorbike? No, it has to stop

assisting you at 50 mph to comply with legislation that makes it a

bike. When you drop below that, it will kick in to assist you. The

e-bike revolution is being propelled mainly by the over 50s. These

enthusiasts are really sold on the idea. E-bike, that stands for

excitement? What is the advantage for you? And 77 and I've been able

to continue cycling despite arthritic knees. I've got

fibromyalgia. You run out of energy very quickly. If it happens when I'm

on a walk, I can't get back. On a powered bike, I can. We have been

here before. Sir Clive Sinclair has launched his latest creation, an

electric bicycle. It's far more advanced than it appears. But it

flopped. People didn't seem to like the small wheels or scooter like

appearance. Only 2000 were sold after it launched in 1992. Now it is

a collectors item. The new breed of e-bike has a better range, better

batteries and, on some models, you can choose when to in gauge the

motor by simply flicking a switch. To the casual observer, it looks

like an ordinary bike. Could they catch on and revolutionise urban

transport? Cycling expert Carlton Reid is a fan. If you want to go out

with a strong partner, you can keep up with them. If you want to go to

work and you don't want to get sweaty, well, you can hop on your

e-bike. If you want to go up hills, get up on the hills, it's far better

than on a standard bike. Let's put that to the test. These lads and

lasses are members of cycling clubs. They do 80 miles without breaking a

sweat. I'm not even a fair weather cyclist. They might have muscle

power, but I've got a motor. This is a tricky slope. The Lycra lot are

probably going easy on me. But sailing past them is still a bit of

a thrill. You don't think it's cheating for me to be on this? Not

at all. We got overtaken by someone on a e-bike, going up the hill, he

sailed past as we were puffing and panting. He went, morning! We

weren't bothered by it. I think it's great, if it gets people out cycling

and people can get involved with that, I'm all for it. Evened the

traditional cyclists, wherein the special gear, they think it is good.

There is one catch. They are pricey. An average model sets you

back about ?1000. The typical cyclist only spends around ?200 for

a standard bike. You are talking a fair bit of wedge above the average

price, that's a huge barrier to the sales in this country. Despite that,

I must say, I'm impressed. The chance to ride in the fresh air

without getting sweaty or out of rest, it might just make e-bikes a

winner. My type of bike! A bit of help. When

you are going up a hill, it's brilliant. Tim Booth from James is

here! You came to talk to us just before

you get out there. We were just saying, as he sat down, your band

has been through an incredible amount. What were the biggest

challenges you come up against? The biggest challenges? Ego is back, I

think. Every band is like a dysfunctional family. We have had

times when we have loved each other and hated each other. Luckily, we

are in a place at the moment where we love each other. The fans are

delighted. We've got the biggest turnout we have had for a while. For

Simon and myself! They are getting very excited. You've got some very

dedicated fans. How dedicated have they been over the years? Always

amazing. You will find there are people here from South America just

for this one concert, Canada, from across the world. We haven't played

for a year. It's very touching. You were asking me earlier, there was a

lady that run a psychiatric hospital in Cornwall. She said the favourite

album of the inmates, the patients, was Laid. Their favourite song was

Out To Get You. Another lady came across from America and brought the

ashes of her daughter for us to take and scatter in different places.

It's a very personal connection. I think that aspect comes from... My

lyrics are quite as honourable. I'm not necessarily writing about how

good I am in bed, which a lot of bands seem to be writing about. I'm

usually writing about how crap I am. In terms of a live band, we change

it every night. A thrilling live band, trumpets and violins. We

change it every night. No gig is the same. You'll see us in Athens and

Manchester and it will be a totally different concert. So many of the

songs seem to strike a chord with everybody. We'll have a listen to

your single, Moving On. # I'm on my way, soon be moving on

my way # Leave a little light on, leave a

little light on # I'm on my way, on my way, on my

way, on my way Leave a light on, leave a

little light on It's an incredibly emotional video.

What was the story behind it? My mum died, and we have this great

animator that we knew as a friend, called Ainsley Henderson. I

basically talked to him about how I had gone back to LA, I got into my

mum's hospital, she was 90, I got into bed with her and sang to her,

and she died in my arms. It was beautiful. It was clearly a birth.

Nobody tells you that. This song, Moving On, it's about the more

positive aspects of dying. A friend died recently, she is in that song

somewhere, and that was a more painful death. But this song is

about losing somebody that you love. It's incredible, the best video we

have made, he will win a BAFTA for this. I plugged this one, because I

was blown away, I wept when I saw this video. So did two members of

our office. Your fans are desperate for you to get out there, so off you

go, to get ready. Now, we are having a festival theme this time next

week. We want to hear your festival stories. Perhaps you have been going

since the very beginning, perhaps you are organising your own

festival. It doesn't have to be a music festival. Maybe you'd like to

come and pitch a tent here, just for fun? Maybe not! Send us an e-mail at

the usual address. Fans to Christopher. The documentary

celebrating 40 years of Porridge continues tonight on Gold. Thanks to

Simon as well. Space Age is on Sky Arts 1 on June the 5th. Tomorrow, we

will be in North Wales, in Caernarfon, for the latest web of

the Commonwealth Batten's journey, with Hank Marvin, can you believe?

We have heard screaming fans, that must mean he is in position. We will

see you tomorrow. Now, playing Sit Down, let's hear it for James.

# I'll sing myself to sleep A song from the darkest hour

# Secrets I can't keep Inside of the day

# Swing from high to deep Extremes of sweet and sour

# Hope that God exists I hope, I pray

# Drawn by the undertow My life is out of control

# I believe this wave will bear my weight, so let it flow

# Oh, sit down Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down Sit down next to me

# Sit down, down, down, down, down In sympathy

# Those who feel the breath of sadness

# Those who find they're touched by madness

# Those who find themselves ridiculous

# In love, in fear, in hate, in tears

Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update.

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