29/04/2014 The One Show

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

Today George Osborne announced that Britain is coming back after another

record rise in the economy, wait for it, 0.8%! Massive! Theo Paphitis has

arrived in style, as you can see, in his mirrored a Range Rover. Very

low-key! He will tell us why that is very good news. Our guest this

evening became famous playing Joey in the city, Friends, and his series

Episodes has won a Golden Globe and international praise. The Times

thinks it is the must-see comedy of the year. USA Today said it was

easily the best new sitcom. At the highest praises from the start

himself, who recently said, it is just nice it doesn't suck! Please

welcome back to the show, the very modest Matt LeBlanc! Matt LeBlanc,

everyone! Good to see you! You are looking very well. Wonderful to have

you back. I read you love being in the UK because it reminds you of

Boston. The weather is cold, like where I am from. I have been living

in California for 20 years, but this reminds me of being home, you can

see your breath, it is kind of nice! You would love Wales, very cold! I

have learned some Boston slang just for you. ?! Shapmushgetting it? And

have you seen the quishter jivvels, mush? Does that make any sense to

you?! Quishter jivvels is pretty girls. We have got a whole studio of

them. What's up, mush? There are a couple more that I could mention, if

you were to say, eight, coy your moy... Is that? Yes, very good.

Probably the most famous one, don't be a div, Matt. Don't be stupid.

That is good you are saying that to me, normally I say it to you! I am

guessing that you have not been catching the Tube, the subway. There

was a long wait today. You didn't? That is because there is a two-day

Tube strike, and firefighters will be striking this weekend, and some

teachers are planning to walk out again in June. We sent the One Show

megaphone to Nottingham to hear what you think about the strikes.

The One Show megaphone! Nottingham, what do you think of

public sector workers going on strike? Step up and share your

views! Teachers have got absolutely every right to say, enough is

enough. I am a realist, if you are not happy, go to another job.

Everybody should be allowed to strike, even firefighters and

teachers? If their wages do not meet the demands of running a family,

keeping a car on the road, food on the table, I agree. With regards to

teachers striking during exam time, they are supposed to be disruptive,

but teachers are fighting for a better future for education. They

say their pension is not very good and it is not that they are changing

the rules, is that a reason to strike? No, Children in Need and

education, isn't that the priority? The reason they went into teaching?

-- children need an education. There are millions of people who have not

got a job, people who have no money will be thinking, I wish I had 30

grand or even half that. Nottingham, share your views with the One Show

megaphone! Working longer hours, not acceptable. Firemen? Who is going to

look after people if they strike? They are getting dealt a bad hand,

you have to fight your corner. There are different ways to deal with a

strike. If you are a firefighter and your pension is not what it should

be, would you go on strike? I would not want civilians in jeopardy. They

have to charge into a burning building, they should expect a

decent pension and pay. Your opinions are strong, your arguments

bold, thank you, Nottingham! Thank you very much indeed, and if

you have anything to shout about, head to our Facebook page and eight

your thoughts there. Let's talk about... You are doing that Boston

slang again, mush! Let's talk about Episodes, last time you were on, you

had just won a Golden Globe. Bring us up to speed and give us a flavour

of what is to come. OK, well, I will start from the beginning quickly. It

is a show about making a show in Hollywood, so it starts with this

British couple who have a hit show in the UK and they are cut worst by

a American network to bring it there, they promised the world but

every promise is broken, including that they can keep their lead actor,

played by Richard Griffiths. They are. I have me. But it is sort of

pseudo-bizarre drunk version of me. -- they are forced to hire me. That

is a disaster, and the show gets watered down and watered down, it is

put on the air, and it is not performing well, and I end up

sleeping with his wife and they is lit up, and so now we are at the end

of season two. -- they split up. Now I am sleeping with the head of the

network's wife. Definitely not good! And so there is a big fight, my arm

gets blown out of the socket, season three starts, the next morning, the

morning after the big fight at the end of season two, and I am with

Jamie, the network president's wife, Sean and Beverly are back together,

and from that point on things go downhill. Even more?! Yeah! We have

got a little clip, this is the fictional Matt LeBlanc, and he has

just been arrested for drink-driving, guess what the

arresting officer says. Isn't there some way you could give me a slap on

the wrist? Eight, Joey! You got me! It looks like we did! Isn't there a

way you could give me a slap on the wrist? I know somebody said that!

You were going over 90 with 1.7 alcohol level, so... That is crazy,

I had a couple of glasses of champagne with this body mass!

Matt, you say that the whole premise is based on a failing show. Now, you

did experience this, not with Friends, but with Joey afterwards.

How ruthless is Hollywood when it goes wrong? How true to life is

Episodes? Well, Hollywood is ruthless, yes. If they show is not

performing, your show is not mere anymore, is pretty cut and dry. It

is not show friends, it is show business. But Episodes takes on that

ruthlessness, and they really sort of dig for what is funny about it,

what they can elaborate on, what they can dial back to really get the

most comedy out of it. And it is written by David Crane, who created

Friends, and I have a lot of faith in them. Did you think it would make

three seasons? Well, it is funny, working with them, I knew the

quality would be good, but once a show gets on the air, you do not

know if people will like it. I knew I liked their writing, that is all

you can do, follow your own taste. When it gets on the air, time slots,

competition, all kinds of factors are out of your control. We have

been really fortunate to get into a third season, and they have

commissioned a fourth season. We like it, it is on BBC Two on

Wednesday the 14th. Right, moving on, if you have ever wondered why it

is so hard to swat a fly, then wonder no more, because George

McGavin has carried out an in-depth study armed with a slow motion

camera and some rolled up newspaper. Try camera two!

As the days become longer and the nights stay warm, flies appear in

their billions until you cannot have a barbecue without them buzzing in

your ears and landing on your food. Flies have an extraordinary ability

to get out of the way to avoid being squashed, which can be very

irritating for us, but actually it is rather impressive. And it is down

to some clever biology. Like many insects, flies have tiny hairs that

can detect air movement, and this helps these high-performance insects

sense what is coming. Adding some smoke should show the movement of

air and demonstrate what I mean. If that is the fly there and I swat at

it with this newspaper, what I am actually doing is pushing air

towards the fly. The little hairs can detect this change in air

pressure before the swat hits, so it gives them a little more time to

react. And this is the case for a rolled up newspaper, your hands, a

slipper or any other solid object. And that is why a flyswatter usually

has holes in it, to lead most of the air through. But it can still be

pretty tricky to swat a fly, even with a proper flyswatter, because

they can see you coming. Flies don't just have two eyes, they have

thousands, and they are tiny. At about 200th of a millimetre wide,

they are best seen under a microscope. These eyes clustered

together to form what is known as a compound I. -- eye. It is rather

like a glitter ball, every piece is an individual lens, so flies have

lenses pointing in every direction. And this bulbous compound eye

protrudes from the head so the fly has almost 360 degrees vision. But

seeing and feeling the swat coming once saved the fly unless it's able

to process that information quickly enough to get out of the way, and

that is where its special skills come in. Recent research has shown

that small organisms with a fast metabolism can process more

information per second than larger animals. Scientists tested different

species by looking at how fast a light has to flash before it is

perceived as a constant light. This light bulb is actually flickering,

turning on and off 100 times per second, and that is so fast that the

human eye perceives it as a steady, constant light. As we slow it down,

we can see what the fly says, a pulsing light. Remarkably, the

humble flight can detect a flicker up to seven times faster than

humans. -- fly. There are many theories about how they do this. One

suggests that they invest a lot of their brain processing powers in

seeing movement. It has resulted in the fastest visual system known in

any organism, so something happening really quickly that to our eyes

would look like a blur would appear much slower to fly, giving it time

to react and get out of the way. This means flies effectively see the

world in slow motion. And with everything happening more slowly,

they have more than enough time to avoid a fly swat.

So that's why they are so hard to swat. And knowing all this, just how

do you swat one? Well, don't ask me, I wouldn't hurt

a fly! Now you know!

Matt, this Matt loves talking about farming. He's been talking to you

during that VT a bit and I would like to ask you a few Friends

questions, so to make it fair, we got a wheel. It's the big thing

these days. We got one of these and it's got Friends and Farm, we'll

spin it and you answer the question. OK? Let's go for it. Let's play

Friends or Farm. There we go, it's Farm! Brilliant. .

So you are going to love this, because as I said, we have been

talking already. Enlighten people about the cattle that you rear and

why? Well, yeah, I raise round about 100 herd of cattle, a Mexican cow.

They are not raised for beef or dairy, for rodeo. So when the horns

get maybe about that big, right when the rope will stick on their head,

we sell them to families that have kids that are practising for the

rodeo. It's good. And the mums eat the grass

because... Two questions! Mums eat the grass because? Well, they eat

the grass because they keep it noise and short so I can ride the moto X

bikes. Here go. Are you a square Bale or a

round above ale man? Round. Let's go to Friends? Is there going to be a

Friends reunion? No. Yes! Let's talk about calling in the

cows then. If I was going to call them in, you would go "hup, hup",

what vocal would you say? I would get on the horse and get in around

behind them and push them and go "har! ". ".

# I'll be there for you". We heard that Courtney Cox held a dinner

party and you weren't there, what was your excuse? I was chasing the

cows around. She didn't give me long enough notice. I said, "I got cows

to chase". Great. Loves the farm section, go

on! It's Friends. Did you steal any

props from Joey's apartment? I did, I stole the Magnadoodle

Etch-a-sketch thing that was on the back of the door. All ten years Paul

was there, the guy that did the sketch on the Magnadoodle and it was

always something that had to do with the story, always kind of relevant,

so I stole it and gave it to him. Friends or Farm, ladies and

gentlemen! Now, it's the second instalment in

our new series about small businesses from Theo Paphitis. In a

moment, he'll tell us why the announcement of a 0.8 rise in the

British economy is such big news. Here he is with a couple who've

broken the golden rule of business. People are always asking me, is this

a good time to start a business. And the answer is always yes, as

long as, of course, you do your homework.

Londoner James packed up his job as a consultant with a Japanese food

chain, Wagamama and moved his wife and family to Gloucester. They have

taken over a cafe around the corn fresh Gloucester cathedral. We fell

in love with Gloucester, simple as that. You didn't come because it was

a great place to have a business, you came to Gloucester because you

fell in love with Gloucester? Yes. Yes. What if Gloucester was a bad

place to have a business? Gloucester may have had, you know, a couple of

challenges over the last few years. A couple of challenges. 20 empty

shops just within a stone's throw. We believe in Gloucester, it's on

the up. I admire James and Becka's enthusiasm, but three cafes have

already closed down. They have to earn ?3,000 a month just to break

even. How much did you pay to buy the business? ?300,000. Did you

borrow that from the bank? No, we had some savings, sold our house in

London, we had some equity there so we used those funds to buy the

business. Putting your personal savics and

family home into buying a business is always a big risk -- putting your

personal savings. My biggest worry is the location of the cafe. You

have Caffe Nero and Starbucks opening up, so it's not easy on the

high street. But my biggest concern remains, you need footfall this end

of the high street because if you don't, you are going to end up like

that and like that. Hedley's simply isn't getting enough

customers through the door. They have to start turning a profit

quickly and they need to work out whether it's the pricing or, as I

think, the location, that's keeping the locals away.

I found my vocation. I suggested that we head down to the busier part

of town with a range of Hedley's home-made cakes and sandwiches.

James and Becka think they offer something different to the other

cafes in Gloucester. We want the locals to tell us what

they are prepared to pay. Yummy. What would you pay? ?6. 50!

Slice of cake... There wasn't a bigger one? ?5.99! ?7 or ?8.

This is what it's all about. The results are in and it turns out

the public think James and Becka's prices are fair, but there is a

theme emerging and, as I suspected, it's the location that's putting

people off. It's a bit out of town. I wouldn't normally go there because

it's so far down. With the lunch time rush over, it's

time for some home truths. You are totally relying on people going to

the cathedral for your customers. That's not the way to earn money.

You are absolutely right and we are going to do everything we can to get

as many people down to Hedley's as we can. We have a lot of corporate

customers to come in and sell sandwiches through to them. For this

to work to you, you need additional revenue streams? We do. And

stretching the brand, delivering, corporate, buffets? Exactly. Then it

will work? Yes, it's going to be Hedley's across three or four

dimensions. Without that, the dream is going to struggle? I think it

will, yes. Time is critical. James and Becka

only have six Monks to -- months to turn this business around. I'll be

back to see if they make it. Here he is back. In his reserve car,

not even the number one car. I've been buffing it. We know you like

things wrapped in tin foil. We have got you these tuna sandwiches. Do

you mind if I keep them for later? You can eat them on the way home. We

are talking about this, George Osborne 0.8%. Declan Curry explained

it. It's a bit like a rear view mirror because it's already

happened. But looking forward, what does it mean? We've had five

consecutive quarters of growth which is brilliant. I'm a shopkeeper. All

convenience stores in the UK and abroad now, there we are seeing a

marked increase in confidence, in consumers spending money. When

consumers spending money, it means we can employ people. When you

employ people, they pay their taxes, they spend money, it creates further

employment and we get growth. Is there enough confidence there though

because we are lagging behind America, Japan, France? We are being

a tiny big negative. We have growth the same as 2007 now.

We are doing very well. Back to where we started? Yes. In the 1930s,

the recession was bad. Kelloggs was one brand that did fantastic?

Textbook grand. You probably don't rep the deep rescission do you?

Kelloggs. No, 1932? I ain't that old. They carried on marketing and

advertising their brand. Others became huge brands as other people

contracted, so the old adage is, keep marketing, don't listen to the

cannots and stop spending, you need to make sure people now you're

there. The other one, was treats, like I call it, rev London, they do

nail varnish. -- Revlon. It was in the recession again. A little treat,

a few dollars and it's easy for people to buy treats. Low ticket

price items do well in a recession. It's the big ticket stuff; white

goods and those sorts of things. Thank you, Theo. Enjoy the

sandwiches. I'm sure Matt's worked with some eccentric types in

Holyrood, but here in Britain, we've got plenty of our own to choose

from. Like film maker Ken Russell for example. Here is his daughter

Vicki with some lovely memories of what it was like growing up with an

unconventional father. My dad was known for his highly controversial

films about musicians, artists, their sex lives, religious beliefs.

My dad was Ken Russell. Screen it at another angle I think.

Pf Dad was well known for bushing the

boundaries, films like Women in Love, the Devils, of course, which

is still censored because of its religious violence, and Crazy

scenes. So people might expect that I'd had this outrageous upbringing.

But in fact, he was fun-loving, music loving, life-loving. To me, my

family loving dad who was actually quite Victorian. During the week,

we'd live in our house in Brad broke Square. It was actually quite a 9-5

lifestyle. There was five of us. We'd all have to tidy up and wash up

and everything was, you know, we had rules in the house, my mum found

this fantastic sign from an old mine that said "danger, man at work" and

she'd hang it outside the living room and we knew he wasn't to be

disturbed because he was writing. Mum and dad met at art school. Dad

was studying photography and mum was studying fashion design. They

collaborated from when they were students. He was good at taking the

risk and the chance on people, like Twiggy, for example in The

Boyfriend. More this way, Twiggy. Dad always wanted us to be in the

films as well. My first Royal was playing Oliver Reid's daughter and

that was for the monitor arts series for the BBC. They were pretty much

the first docu-dramas. The biggest role was Sally Simpson in Tommy

which was the first ever rock opera. He was a trend setter. Films like

Women in Love with the famous naked fight scene between Oliver Reid and

Allan bathes caused so much controversy. A girl at school said

to me "oi, your dad, he makes all those sex films, doesn't he? ". When

I was 14, my parents split up. And it was like a bomb going off, you

know, in our family. I think it was just down to midlife crisis. People

think he's a wild drunk, but no, he's definitely not mad. He was just

unique. I sent a script to Channel 4 the other day. It came back saying

"thank you to for your script, it's not cinematic enough. " I nearly

went mad. One of my favourite things was when dad would drag out his arm

chair and we'd watch the sun sets because they were so spectacular. We

had the entire heath here. Occasionally his music, glass of red

wine, sun set. Paradise. Dad lived until 84. He'd had a

series of strokes, a couple of heart attacks, but he died in his sleep

quite peace fly and we do miss him very much. I'm just blessed that I

had him as a dad because he was just so inspiring. One of my earliest

memories. I was five or six years old and I spotted in the distance a

twinically mass of buildings, chimneys of smoke and all this

stuff. I was like, what's that over there, dad, my first factory I'd

ever seen and my dad just turned round and said "that's fairy city"

and that's been my template for the rest of my life.

Aw, some lovely pictures and footage. Thank you very much indeed.

Can you believe it, that's all we have time for tonight.

Tomorrow, we'll be having a go on a bucking Bronco because Jason Donovan

is here, starring in a new musical, Annie Get Your Gun gun. He is. Huge

thank you to Matt Le Blanc for joining us tonight.

If Jason is going to have a go at this bucking Bronco, one top Tim for

him? Hold on for dear life. There you go! You can see Matt in ensoedz

on BBC Two, Wednesday 14th May at 10 o'clock. Thanks for your company.

See you tomorrow.