29/09/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones

and her female-orientated brain. And Matt Baker with

his male-skewed brain. Or maybe not.

Michael Mosley's here. You've been delving

into the science of our brains. It is not quite as straightforward.

It is a hugely controversial area. Some scientists think there is a

spectrum from the extreme male brain at one end and extreme female brain

at the other. I can demonstrate with my lovely assistant. This is quite

something! This is the female side and the qualities associated with

the female brain which tend to be empathy. And this is the male brain.

Understanding systems, if you like and an obsession with facts and

logic. Well through the evening everyone at home will be able to

find out if there are more male or female. You have the first

experiment lined up. Just clasp your hands. Which some is on the top?

Just remember that. -- thumb. I shall tell you what that means

later. More of that to come. What about our guest tonight? He is the

star of the new BBC drama The Driver.

It is David Morrissey! Good evening. I ended up with right over left in

the end. We will find out what that means. Those experiments coming up

with Michael. But before we explain all that, do you think that your

brain is male or female? Well I'm looking forward to finding out more

about it. I more about the individual than gender. People are

all very different. It will be interesting. Emotions, being an

actor. And I'm terrible at the usual male things like judging distance.

And I will not ask for directions! Later on we will catch up with the

actor who was a young boy and found himself as the star of one of the

greatest British films of all time, cares. -- Kes. We note that was an

inspiration for you. I have that photograph on my kitchen wall. It

was a great influence for me. We have been inspired by that film and

we want to see the animals that have inspired you in your life. So send

us in an image of your inspirational animal. First we had to ( where they

are trying something new to cut down on late night drinking. -- we head

to Loughborough. Being breathalysed to get into a

club? To get into the hotspots has just got that bit harder. For those

revellers who may have already had too much to drink. It is part of a

pilot scheme aimed at stopping trouble before it starts. Staff on

the doors of five bars and clubs in the town have been given the

breathalysers and training by police to help them round out potential

troublemakers. Tonight we are at the student union bar.

I look out for people being carried by other people, or people who are

really quiet as well. Then I would think they had too much to drink.

This device allows us to use it as a tool so that we can confirm without

any doubt that you are drunk. The breath test is set at 70 micrograms,

twice the natural drink-driving limit. -- National. You could find

yourself left out in the cold. In the town centre there are four

more bars who piloted the breathalysed but they did not want

cameras around. PC Mike Green is heading up the scheme. The pilot

will be reviewed in November. It is for the benefit of everyone. It may

be help in people not to become the victims of crime. Someone could get

turned away from a participating venue and go into another, we accept

that. It is a trial. How do the clubbers feel about the breath test

idea? I think it is fair enough. If you're over the limit and you're

going to cause trouble. I do not think it is good for the town

centre, it will put people off coming. It is not to put people off

having a good night. If you had too much, with or without this scheme,

they're not going to let you in. It is ten o'clock and the student union

bar is getting busy. The bouncer is putting his breathalyser to use.

If you fail it is not necessarily that you are bad, it is down to

judgement. -- bad. 75. How are you feeling? From my

experience that is on the borderline. You know through

experience that he is not a troublemaker.

But not everyone is so lucid. The bouncer thinks this guy has had more

than a couple of drinks he claims to have had. The club thinks that he

should be allowed in. Matt does not. In my experience the night will

continue and you will deteriorate, you will start to bump into people

or be sick. You might as well go home now. He has been refused entry

here but he said he will go and try his luck in another bar. Most people

I have seen being breathalysed seem to think it is a good idea. If the

review in November is positive it could be rolled out to other bars in

Loughborough. Or even to a bar near you.

It is an interesting idea. It changes the mentality of people

going out to drink. Who knows what will happen.

Well to talk about the new drama, The Driver. You are starring in it

as a cabbie. It is on tomorrow night at nine o'clock on BBC One. But it

is not just the drunks that make like -- make life difficult for you.

Just explained the background. I think it is his life that is

dragging him down. Before I did The Driver I met some cabbies in

Manchester and they all loved her job. There are positive about it. So

I knew with the drama it must be something else in his life. He is a

man with two kids but his son has left home. We do not know where he

is and he is not able to talk about it. That is the weight that he is

carrying, he is in grief. Then one night he picks up an old friend he

has not seen for years. This friend has just got out of jail and starts

to put some work his way, no questions asked. My character has a

bit of a moral blackout and turns a blind eye. Then he gets more and

more into this criminal life and cannot get out. At first it gives

him back his Mojo, it gives him money but also a spring in his step.

You see him enjoying life. But once he is in there he cannot get out.

Well you can catch up on either player, it is the second episode

tomorrow and here we have a quick look at that episode.

Why do you have blood on your shirt? Coffee. It was not coffee. I

checked. It was coffee. You are lying. I know you too well. I am not

lying! Dad! Incredibly intense. And you get

almost like a physical reaction when you read a script? It is like to

read something that you really want to do and you get a little shiver,

like butterflies. You want to run towards it or sometimes run away

from it! I remember reading Blackpool and thinking, I cannot do

that. I did feel nervous about that. All those emotions to me meant that

I should do it. Sometimes you do a job and you imagine other actors in

the role and as soon as you do that you think, I want this! Danny

Brocklehurst wrote this and he is a writer I wanted to work with for

years. He pitched me the idea and I really wanted to do it. He came up

with this fantastic script. But I had that feeling in my gut from the

first time I had a sense of what it was. So it is about that feeling of

excitement. The interesting thing is you create a playlist for each

character. Sort of an album that goes with that person. Well with him

there was a lot of 1980s music. Stone Roses, things like that. My

best friend in real life, Ian Hart, also my friend in this, there was a

lot of music that he and I would have listened to. And music at me

and the woman who plays my wife would have listened to. -- that.

A couple of miles on the clock! That was a show called one summer on

Channel four. It was about to Scouse lads who run away. And here we are.

Five years later. And you can see David in action in

the next episode of The Driver tomorrow night on BBC One at nine

o'clock. Now to get back to male and female brains. We are excited about

the next test. This is a visual and spatial test. It should come up on

the screen in a moment. We are going to give you about ten seconds. You

have to choose which of these, if you were to fold them up, which

would match the one on top. OK. I am happy. I am happy. We are

not going to reveal the result just yet. Come and sit down and tell us

what it is about. Back in July three giant cooling towers were brought

crashing into the ground at Didcot power station in Oxfordshire leaving

a gaping hole in the landscape. Just before the demolition we went on a

mission to record their power and beauty with the help of an

award-winning photographer. As John Betjeman once wrote, if

there is some scenery, some uncontentious greenery surviving

anywhere it does not need protecting.

Soon we will be wrecked in a power station there. Constructed in the

1960s Didcot provided power the 2 million homes for 43 years, earning

coal and eventually gas in its generators. It was finally turned

off last year, forced to close due to EU pollution controls. And now

it's going to be demolished. Three of these 114 metre high cooling

towers will be blown up, removed from the Oxfordshire landscape in

one final puff of smoke. We've got the keys for today so we can give

professional photographer of the year might be a chance to preserve

the last moments of this vast powerhouse before it is destroyed

the good. What is it about these industrial buildings you find so

captivating? More than anything they are not places you would normally

see day-to-day. It gets me very excited with these grand shapes and

spaces carved out by concrete. How do you go about capturing the

scale of the buildings? One little trick I like to do is to

put somebody in the frame of the photograph, just so people can spot

them and is see how big the places in relation to a person that is

standing there. Esteemed architect Frederick Gibbon was tasked with

incorporating this giant power station into the beautiful rural

Oxfordshire countryside. What he did do was split them apart to make them

less imposing. So there is three over there in the north-west and he

placed three over here in the south-east.

Did Kate has certainly divided opinion. It was voted the third

worst eyesore by country life readers, whilst inspiring others to

celebrate it in verse. -- Didcot. Simon Holloway was here when the

site was turned off in 2013 and has worked at Didcot over 30 years.

All those years you've invested in this place and suddenly there is no

physical memory of it any more. It is emotional and seeing all the

recognisable scrap being chopped up, trying to keep a straight face

now, but yes it's very emotional. I think being in here really gives

you a sense of history and the cycle of change. At the beginning of last

year all this was fully functioning. And yet dilapidation has set in,

it's being torn apart, and in a couple of years there will be

absolutely nothing here, just a few memories and photos.

While it's still there and you feel you have captured the spirit of

Didcot power station? I certainly hope so. Looking back at it from

here now you realise how big a market is on this landscape. But to

see it from the inside, something that is about to be confined to

history, I hope I have done it justice. -- how big a mark it is.

The lifetime of this temple of the carbon age is coming to an end, and

with that the memories of coal burning power and the grandeur of

the cooling towers will be gone from this skyline for ever.

I could watch that again and again. Imagine being the person pressing

the button to bring them down. Anyway, Michael, you are back.

Michael presents a Horizon documentary: Is Your Brain Male or

Female? On BBC Two tonight at 9pm. Earlier on, this happened. I asked

you to cross your firm and you were ambiguous, I like that.

LAUGHTER Broadly speaking men tend to have

the left thumb on top because the left thumb is connected with the

right side of the brain and the right side of the brain tends to be

whether she will, spatial skills exist and verbal skills on this

side. That would suggest you have good verbal skills and you are in

touch with that side. We were the other way around. You are a man!

There is no wrong way round! There is no wrong way round, is there?

These are different skills and it's not the world's most scientific

test. We moved on to do the spatial awareness test with a cube. You

showed this cube with four options and if we folded them up which one

would make the cube that is on top. Which do you think was the answer?

C. C. C. You are absolutely right. This is the 1 that blokes tend to be

better at. You will be good at this! Evolutionarily blokes have to

do a lot of fighting and need better spatial skills to be able to punch

and things like that. I see. It's also why little boys perhaps

preferred guns and things like that. You have one more test for us to see

who is the male and female in this relationship. What is the final one?

I'm looking forward to this test! LAUGHTER

This one is about emotions. You very kindly acted some emotions. I asked

you to do the emotions, but to do them with a jibber -ish language and

what you have to do is guess what the emotion is he is expressing. OK.

So here is the first one. Here we go.

Great acting! It depends on the level of acting, that's the thing.

But it is one of the words on the screen. It reminds me of watching S4

see when I was a kid. Nothing wrong with S4 C. I'm going with disgust.

It was regret. It depends how well you know the person as well. Shall

we have a look at the other one. Here is the second one.

What would you say, David? Bogarde, I'd say, is there a doctor in the

house? Amusement. No! I've seen that look many times, admiration. That's

right, admiration. Time for the last one.

David. LAUGHTER

Is it regret? No, it's anxiety. LAUGHTER

Sum it all up for us. LAUGHTER

What does it all mean? Please tell us. That is part of a more

sophisticated test known as the Geneva emotion recognition test, and

there is a much longer and complex test. Thank you, Matt. Women tend to

be better at recognising emotions in other people. It's used for testing

kids and things like that. The thing about the male and female

differences and you may have some of these strengths are not, your son or

daughter may have different qualities, but the idea is if you

recognise them you can nurture them. This is obviously very

engaging and there is a lot more about it on Horizon: Is Your Brain

Male or Female? On BBC Two tonight at 9pm. Now to Kes, the film that

inspired David to act. Many people think it is one of the best British

films ever made. Ruth Goodman has been to South Yorkshire to speak to

its lead actor who found himself thrust into the spotlight aged just

14. In 1969 the film Kes shook the world

of mainstream cinema. It told the story of an isolated teenage boy

called Billy Casper, who stole and trained a baby kestrel. It was set

in Barnsley in one of the many mining communities that dominated

this part of the country at the time. And on the surface it was a

story of friendship between a boy and his kestrel. But it went much

deeper than that. Casper! On your feet! Disengaged at school Billy was

the victim of bullying, even by the teachers. At home he was an easy

target for his half brother Jud's bad temper. Billy was played by

local boy who was a pupil at the school featured in the film. Hello,

lovely to meet you. Nice to meet you too. There was a rumour going on

around the school that a teacher Barry Hines had written a book

called A Kestrel for a Knave and a film company in London were going to

come into town and actually use school pupils. The director was Ken

Loach, who brought the reality of British working class life to the

screen, often using non-actors for authenticity. There was one

particular scene, in the caning sequence, where reality went a

little bit too far. The headmaster actually hit us and we went on

strike. It was the producer Tony Garnett that got the boys back

onside. He offered us 50p extra per caning, per hand and we made about

?4 50 that day extra. At the time secondary modern schools were the

schools children attended when they failed the 11 plus, an exam every

child sat in the last year of primary school. Here children like

Billy were expected to go on to more manual work when leaving education.

Barry and Ken and Tony Garnett were kind of pointing a finger towards

the education authority to actually highlight the fact these kids do

have special talents, if you can actually motivate them. Through Kes

Billy discovers his talent for Falk and re-. For the first time in

school people listened to him when he recalls his experience training

the bird. -- falconry. Like lightning. Straight onto the glove.

Sadly, for Billy his new-found purpose in life was short lived. Kes

was killed by Judd after Willie failed to put on the winning bet for

him at the bookies. Although the film had a tragic ending it left a

positive legacy when a bird project was set up. Tom Parkin completed the

eight week course and in a case of life imitating art it has changed

his life too. Who is this? It is J, a hawk. Usually I just sit on the

PlayStation laying games. But then I went into training. Just as Billy

did in the film Tom has developed a passion for birds of prey. It's had

a big impact on my own life as well as my school life. Any chance of

seeing him fly? Yes. To celebrate the film and its legacy

we've brought together young people from Barnsley, as well as members of

the Kast for a special screening at the heritage centre will stop it

shows except Lee what it was like living in Yorkshire -- cast. I feel

privileged I was actually part of the film. Nobody knew it was going

to last so long and be so iconic. But what did our younger audience

think? Can they sympathise with Billy? I think a lot of us go

through that at some point in our lives. I didn't fit in at my old

school sometimes. Whilst he has a bird that makes him happy, it's

amazing and his world makes him happy, it's so inspiring. Although

Kes was made 45 years ago it still resonates with people young and

old, not just because it's a film classic. But for its message. That

we should see the potential in everyone.

I couldn't agree more. You have been sending us your pictures of your

inspirational pets. This is from Lisa. This is my son's first pony,

he tore him so much more than how to ride. This is my ferret who was

found in a drainpipe but she has given me lots of pleasure. We were

on the top of Snowdon last weekend. And this is Edna, the super cat

isn't she brilliant!