The Next Step, Bear Grylls & Penn & Teller Blue Peter

On today's show, all the way from America, masters of magic,

Penn and Teller are performing here in the studio.

Hip-hop dance champions Ruff Diamond perform a spectacular routine.

And The Next Step take on an ingenious make challenge.

All coming up on today's live Blue Peter.

-Hi!

-Did you just catch us dancing? We like that music. How are you?

Welcome to Blue Peter. It's a live show.

We'd like to welcome back Lindsey.

It is great to be back. I missed you guys.

You'll find out what I was up to later in the year.

So make sure you keep watching.

There's no time to rest because this show is bursting at the seams.

This is a live show. Want me to prove it?! (BLOWS RASPBERRY)

You wouldn't get that in a pre-recorded show.

We want to hear from you. Get in touch.

Penn and Teller have performed on stages all over the world.

We want to hear from you. If you could perform on a stage,

who would it be with and what would you do?

-Who would you perform with?

-I would be the pianist in Take That.

-I'd do all the piano playing.

-Would you really?

It's a big piano if you're playing it up there!

Let's ask the people here. Who would you perform with?

I would perform a drum solo with Will Champion.

-Can you play the drums?

-Yes.

Great answer. Alfie, who would you perform with?

I would do a black-flip on a bike with Tony Hawks.

Ooh, yes, that is a quality answer!

-Who would you perform with?

-I would do a dance with Hacker and Dodge.

Do you like them? Are they funny?

-Amelia?

-I would sing and dance with Little Mix.

-Yes!

-Great band.

These are all great ideas. We're live so we want to hear from you.

Head to the website:

What stage would you perform on, who with and why?

-We will read out your comments at the end of the show.

-Follow me over here.

A lovely camera shot to bring you over here.

If you are loving Help My School Trip Is Magic,

you will love our next guests.

They are quite simply geniuses. Genii? Not too sure.

Give them a huge round of applause. Masters of magic, Penn and Teller.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-Hello.

-Hello, hi!

-Welcome to the show.

-Good to see you.

-Thank you for being here.

And you're wearing your Blue Peter badge.

I have the pin right here. I don't think you gave Teller one yet.

-I'm sorry, I forgot to. But that is yours.

-Teller wants a green one.

Oh...

OK, now he has a green one. That's all good.

That's what we're here to talk about - magic. Now you're on tour.

Yes, we'll be playing right here in Manchester.

We will play in Birmingham.

We'll play London, starting about June 12th

and going through June 22nd.

We'll be over here with a lot of the big tricks from Vegas.

Everything you do is incredible.

Every time you perform any kind of magic,

every audience member is staring, wondering, how did they do that?

And that is the joy of magic. If someone is watching,

maybe picking up a pack of cards for the first time,

and wants to be a magician like you, what advice would you give?

It's a different time from when we learnt. Now you have the internet.

The internet is the best way to learn anything.

If you see a trick you like, chances are,

with some clever searching on the internet,

you can find the basics of that trick, how to start or how to learn.

With all that at your fingertips, you want to make sure

that you look inside your heart

at the stuff you want to say and also read a lot.

Even when you can see the video, it's still better to read

and get that into your imagination. It'll help you develop stuff

To be successful, you have to try your hardest. You can't cheat at it.

Well, magic IS cheating. Ha-ha!

Magic is one thing where you're going to want to cheat!

You have made a business out of it with a silent partner.

-You literally have a silent partner.

-Teller doesn't talk when we work.

He started working silently before he started to work with me.

When he did magic in school, he got sick of people heckling him.

He found out that if he just shut up, people grew tired of heckling.

And also he got interested in the idea of lying without speaking,

making the audience tell lies to themselves.

I would love to do an interview with, Teller,

to see if we could do it for a long amount of time. That would be good.

I presume you can do magic with absolutely anything?

You told me to bring these two cans here.

We have two soda cans here.

And I'm going to do a trick for you with these two soda cans.

You know they're both carbonated,

these two beverages. You can see these hands look normal,

but actually they have incredible powers over carbonation.

-Over the fizz in the drink?

-Over the fizz in the drink.

These are the hands that control the fizz in the drink

and I want you to pick either one of these two cans.

OK. Are you doing that thing where you try to make me choose one?

Maybe I am. You can change if you like.

That one was closer to you, so maybe you want to take that one.

You can take the other one further away from you.

You could go, you want to go with that one?

I'll take the original one. Let's give it a spin.

The trick will only work if you happen to pick the exact one.

-Did you pick the right one?

-Yes.

-Shake it up.

-Shake it?

Shake it, shake it like a freak, shake it like a freak! Like a freak!

Shake it! Shake it! Shake it! More, more, shake it! Make it pop!

-Shake it, shake it, shake it!

-Right.

-Tired?

-Yeah.

-Shake it some more.

Hop up and down. Shake it, shake it, shake it. Here's the important part.

You want to keep track of which one you shook up.

Place it there. That's the one that's been shaken up,

that's the one that's placid.

That's the one that's shaken up, that's the one that's placid, OK?

So this is the one that's shaken up, this is the one that's placid.

I can take my hands right here, I take the power of the shaken up one.

I take all that fizz out, I move it into my body,

I move it across my body and take all that fizz

and put it into the one that is placid.

That's the one that's calm.

Note that's the one that is full of anxiety,

that's the one that's shook up.

For all intents and purposes, you shook that one up

but this is the one you shook up and when I open this,

if I didn't have the power of carbonation,

-when I open this one, it would pop like crazy. Ready?

-Yeah.

-Nothing to it. Just a refreshing drink.

-Wow. OK.

And this is the one that was completely placid.

You hadn't shaken this at all. Not at all. And yet!

APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER

It blows up like this because I have the power of carbonation.

-There's still some left in there.

-Thank you very much.

-That's surprisingly cold.

-Refreshing.

-Definitely true.

You are magic. You took the fizz from one can, put it in the other

-and I can prove that absolutely.

-You sure can.

-You'll come back for more later?

-After your wet T-shirt contest.

I'm going to get a bath first if that's OK.

A huge round of applause for Penn and Teller.

We absolutely loved that, didn't we?

We can't wait to see more from Penn and Teller later in the show.

Now, fearless outdoor fanatic, Bear Grylls, knows a thing or two

about survival, so a few weeks ago I went to meet him, armed with

just your questions to find out a bit more from the man himself.

Bear Grylls, there is nothing this ex-SAS trooper doesn't know

about surviving extreme environments.

He's led record-breaking expeditions to the world's extremes,

climbed cliffs jumped from helicopters,

and even eaten scorpions.

You could say he wrote the book on extreme survival.

There is one thing this tough guy has never had to contend with.

And that's me, Lindsey Russell.

-Hi there, nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you too.

Now I've got a bit of a Blue Peter challenge for you today.

-Can you build a den out of these items?

-Yeah, piece of cake.

I've got a groundsheet, we'll lay that out on the ground

so when you sit down, you don't get wet. We've got some rope.

I always say, if you don't know knots, do lots.

-Then we've got a duvet cover, love the colour.

-I really like it.

-Flowery and pink, quite camouflaged.

-This will keep the predators away.

Grab an acorn, put it inside, and then you see it holds it in place,

so when you pull it, it's not going to come off.

And we've got some sticks.

If you want to know one knot, this is my favourite,

it's called a clove hitch.

You make a loop and then another loop, one in front of the other,

stick through it, pull it tight, and that will secure it.

Very nice job.

We are going to make a fire without any matches,

without any lighter, no blow torches, nothing.

That would be my first port of call.

-We're just going to make it with that.

-Wow.

It's just called a fire steel.

What you're doing, bring that down and you're striking,

and you get a flame.

I'll tell you what, we'll get you to do this. Go.

You made it look so easy. 'Always stay safe around fire.

'If you haven't got Bear to help, make sure you grab a grown-up.'

-Yes!

-You've done it. OK.

Now we get this onto it and then we get the kindling.

Now, all fires need three things, it's called the fire triangle.

It needs heat, fuel and oxygen.

And if you don't have one of those things, the fire, like you,

is going to die.

So this has the heat that came from our initial spark, the fuel,

in all this nice wood,

and the reason we do this crisscrossed like a square

is that it keeps the oxygen going in.

-Only one thing for it, I think we need a cup of tea.

-Yes!

Cheers.

We're going to do something now that I like to call Grilling Bear Grylls.

Bluegreensparklyacorn says, "What was your most frightening,

"terrifying, heart-thumping experience?"

Probably when I broke my back in a free-fall parachute accident.

-I should have died, but survived.

-Lived to tell the tale.

Bluenetballelephant says, "What was the naughtiest thing

-"you did at school?"

-Probably the naughtiest was putting

somebody's underpants on the top of the school flagpole.

-It was on the top of this very high spire.

-Did you get told off?

-Well, they never found out who it was.

-Well, they know now.

Amberleapinglemur says, "If you were an animal, what would it be?"

I'd quite like to be my dog, because he has the most nice, relaxed life.

-He lies on his back, gets his tummy scratched.

-Living the dream.

In the wild, probably an eagle, just for sheer fun of flying.

Beryltinyapricot says,

-"What is the most disgusting thing you've eaten?"

-Probably elephant poo.

-In the wilds of Kenya.

-Why did you do that?

You can drink the juice out of elephant dung because they have

such fast digestion, it's almost sterile when it comes out.

-It just might save your life, Lindsey.

-I'll bear it in mind.

Zoocompostgirl says, "Hello, what is your favourite ice cream flavour

-"and why?" Another really important one here.

-Probably raspberry ripple.

Quite specific.

And last but not least, Creamsmilingcondor says,

"Which animal or insect are you scared of?"

Is there anything Bear Grylls is scared of?

I'm careful of tarantulas because their hairs can kill you.

If you don't cook that tarantula well enough and swallow it

-and it's still got hairs, it'll kill you.

-I love that you said "cook".

I was expecting you to say "hold" or "look at one"

-but you're giving tips on cooking tarantula.

-I've eaten loads!

They're delicious if you burn them enough.

Again, I'm going to leave that one to you.

Bear, thank you. It's been great. Thanks for the den.

You're probably not going to want to spend any more time camping now!

No.

Barney, I don't think you quite got the hang of this camping malarkey.

I can't quite work it out. But then I don't have a tree,

do I, or rope or a Bear Grylls,

for that matter. I look more like a pink ghost. It's not great.

Let's just do the interview. David, what do you like about...?

-No, Barney, that's not David, that's Emily.

-I can't see anything.

-Radzi, you do it.

-I'm not Radzi. There you go, Radz.

David, you're an outdoor enthusiast.

What do you get up to when you're outdoors?

We grow potatoes, beans, onions and more in our lovely garden.

That's very impressive. In fact, I think we've a picture

of you in action with Jessica and Emily. There you are,

planting away at school. That looks very cool.

And Jessica, you actually won an award, didn't you?

-Tell us about that.

-We won Young Gardener of the Year 2014.

Yes to that title! Well done. And Emily, what did you do to earn that?

We had to design a fun garden

and I put a rainbow waterfall in mine.

A rainbow waterfall?! That's amazing.

High five! Low five! There we go! Well done, guys.

Yeah, congratulations, guys. You win £1 million. I'm only joking,

you don't win anything. But you do get a green Blue Peter badge

which is more than money can buy. Now take a look at this.

It's called the Badge Wall because it's badge-shaped.

Have a look and see if you can spot your picture.

This is how you earn a green Blue Peter badge.

This is from Thomas from Staffordshire

and he's made a plaque. He's varnished it

and it's even double-sided with the green Blue Peter badge.

Well done, Thomas.

And then this one here is from Rebecca from Somerset.

This is all about hedgehogs and how you should keep them safe

and I couldn't agree with you more,

but it's a very impressive hedgehog but it's not a hand hedgehog!

That's what Grace has made there. That is genius, Grace! I love that!

-He's all fingers.

-Hey!

-What about this one?

-Indeed.

A few weeks ago I was on the beach, I did a litter pick

and that's inspired Annabel.

There's my spring-like hair there, buckets and spades.

We picked up loads of litter. I think there was about 165 kilos.

-I don't like the whale.

-You're not a big fan of whales, are you?

-No, it's scaring me.

-It's a lovely country.

-You know how this was inspired by what you did?

-Yes.

Well, Lucy saw Foxes perform on the show last week

and she didn't draw this because of that, she just drew a fox.

It's lovely. The eyes are very similar to Foxes',

and the nose is wet like hers was.

Thank you very much. It's a brilliant picture.

Now Anna down here is my favourite this week

because this is a 3D picture. Anna is nine and from Hampshire.

And look, this has got a little bit of a 3D bounce, why is that?

-Because it's spring.

-We write all our own stuff by the way.

-You can use that one.

-Anna has also written a lovely poem inside.

Thank you. But this is just genius at the back.

Her dad is very talented and creative

and he's actually made the bird box that she drew.

If you look at the centre of the photo,

you'll see the bird has made a visit there.

Congratulations, guys, thanks for sending us your stuff,

and everyone who has get themselves a green Blue Peter badge.

Now we absolutely love The Next Step, don't we?

You might remember that a few weeks ago,

we had The Next Step here in the studio and after the show,

I caught up with them and set them a very difficult make challenge.

Hi, cast of The Next Step. We've got Lamar, Brittany and Trevor.

Thank you for coming in today.

It's great to see you're wearing your Blue Peter badges with pride.

I'm going to show you how to turn this hoodie

into something pretty cool later. I'm not going to tell you what it is.

It's going to be a surprise.

-Is this the kind of thing you would wear to dance class?

-Definitely.

-For sure.

-I wear this practically every day.

So we're going to show you how to wear this to dance class

and turn it into something cool after class.

If you're feeling hot and sweaty, you can just change it into something.

Now we are all loving The Next Step in the UK. We are all hooked.

What is the best thing about being in that show?

The fact that we get to do what we love as a career, as a job.

We get to go there every day and just dance.

I think that's pretty awesome.

You guys are all fantastic dancers, so for somebody watching who thinks,

I really want to get into dancing, what's your big piece of advice?

Just start doing it, honestly. Lamar is a perfect example.

He never had any training.

-I'm a self-taught dancer from a very young age.

-Wow!

I mean, I got the show being self-taught

-and everything like that.

-Just go for it.

So try it in your room, try it at home, in the garden.

-Dance with some people.

-Now we are going to get started.

I'm going to show you exactly how to make these.

So watch carefully because you might need to do it later.

All you need to make this, it is very simple.

You need a hoodie and elastic bands

or hair bobbles you might find lying around at home.

And all the details are on the website

if you miss any of the instructions:

But you won't, because it's very simple.

So the first thing you need to do is take the left arm of your hoodie

and then just gently get it through the pocket like so.

So it comes out the other side.

The next thing you need to do is get the right arm of the hoodie

and this time you need to put it

through the left arm so it goes through.

Now you don't want that to come undone

so this is where your hair bobbles come in very handy.

You need to just grab that.

This is really just to secure it so that the arms

stay together like so.

It doesn't have to be neat because the next step - the next step!

-Ahh!

-No pun intended!

The next step is fold that through so the arms are in the pockets,

so it looks like you've got your arms in your pockets. OK?

Then you need to go to the hood and just really carefully pull

that together like so until it is as tight as you can get it.

And then again we need to secure that.

That is how simple this Blue Peter make is.

Swivel this upside down.

Because this is going to be the top of your rucksack.

No way!

-How good is that?!

-Cool! You can put stuff in there.

It's not going to fall out the bottom and you can go to dance class.

-And you've got a little tail.

-I've got a little tail.

-That's really creative.

-Not bad, eh?

Now, guys, it would not be a Blue Peter challenge without

getting you involved, so I hope you were watching carefully. Were you?

It is very simple and we need all three of you to have a go

and see how quickly you could turn your hoodies into a rucksack. Ready?

On your marks, get set, make.

Lamar's off to a very neat start.

Well done, Brittany. Oh, Trevor seems to be in the lead.

Are you creative, Lamar? Are you good at this kind of thing?

-Yes, I would say so myself.

-We'll see. He's already on the hood.

The hood's gone a little bit skew-whiff.

Brittany, not far behind. Oh!

Yes! Brittany is the winner!

-Show us, Brittany. Do a nice spin?

-I want to put some stuff in that.

Yes.

Lamar, you've let yourself down. Both of you boys did. Brittany, well done.

The Next Step, thank you so much for coming in today.

Remember all the details are on our website:

Thank you for coming in.

You know what, we are all hooked to the show.

We cannot wait to keep watching the episodes. Thank you.

They are such a nice bunch of guys.

If you want to catch the next episode of The Next Step,

you can see it on Monday at 5pm here on CBBC.

So from one lovely bunch of dancers to another,

would you please give it up for Ruff Diamond!

-Wow. Welcome to Blue Peter. How are you?

-We are very good, thank you.

How did you guys start dancing?

We were all schoolfriends and we just made use of my mum's dance studio

when it was empty. And it just went from there.

How do you go from that level to be the 2013 UK hip-hop champions?

I'd say, obviously hard work.

And just studying the history of dance,

working hard, working together, and being yourself.

It's really important that you're individual and original.

And Zac, what's the coolest place you've ever performed?

We actually performed in Greece.

A little girl saw us on another TV show

and her mum flew us all over to Athens to perform at her sweet 16,

so we got to fly over to Athens, danced at her birthday party

and got to live in a tennis club for the weekend, which was amazing.

And bring us right up to the present day, what's next for Ruff Diamond?

We've been touring a lot, gigging, performing around the country,

so now we are going to get back into competing

cos that's where we are at our best.

And hopefully put on the kind of hip-hop show,

a bit of hip-hop theatre, something to test ourselves.

We look forward to that. But before then,

you've got a very special performance.

I cannot wait. Take it away.

HELICOPTER ROTOR SOUNDS

AMBIENT SYNTH CHORDS

MUSIC: "WILD" by Jessie J

DJ Rockstar...

# Rascaller, double the dollar I'm a jetsetting brother

# More hits than a white collar

# But I can't be boxed, flow tight like Bob Marley's locks

# I can't be dropped

# I'm at the peak and I can't be touched

# I'm wilding out, I've lost the plot, I can't be stopped

# Pull up in a gnarly Warri, buy me what?

# Opposite, I can't believe I bet I get the party... #

MUSIC: "Cinema" by Skrillex

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

What an amazing performance. Thank you very much to Ruff Diamond.

Radzi taught them everything they know.

Now, shows and performances come in all shapes and sizes.

We saw one artform there in dance and now we're going to see magic.

My personal favourite, there is nobody in the world as good

as these two, in my opinion. Please give a huge round of applause

for Penn and Teller.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you.

We're going to do the oldest trick in all of magic, the cups and balls.

We've travelled all over the world, seen street performers

all over the world, and just about every magician you ever meet

has their own version of the cups and balls.

And the trick doesn't change very much but the props do.

Like in China, they have these wonderful metal cups,

handed down generation to generation.

In India, they have these handcarved wooden cups,

but we are representing the United States of America

so we used plastic cups, and aluminium foil balls.

And in our version of the cups and ball, it starts like this.

We take the ball, we place it in our hands. We vanish it.

It appears underneath the cup.

That's how it's done all over the world.

We take the ball and we place it in our hands,

we vanish it and it appears underneath the cup.

Here's a little variation Teller came up with.

He takes the ball, places it in his hand,

shows us where it is in the cup and it still appears underneath the cup.

Now we take that centre ball

and place it, visibly, underneath the centre cup,

the two side balls, they still regroup underneath the centre cup.

I'm going to come over here, and do a little bit of juggling,

and while I'm juggling,

a giant ball appears beneath the centre cup.

One more giant ball on either side, and, of course,

for the finish, it's an American baseball.

And that's the American cups and balls.

We've been doing the American cups and balls for a while,

we wanted to kind of zoom in and do a Penn and Teller cups

and balls, which involves breaking a few rules of magic.

Now, the first rule of magic is you never do the same trick twice.

So we are going to do the same trick twice.

Second rule of magic is you never tell an audience

how a trick is being done.

So I'm going to tell you exactly how the trick is being done.

The third rule of magic is you never let the audience

see your secret preparation.

They must not know what is hidden in which pocket.

And the fourth rule of magic is unwritten.

We think any magician in the world would agree with us in a second,

that you never ever do the cups and balls with clear plastic cups.

So here is the Penn and Teller version of the cups and balls.

We take the first ball, pretend to place it in our hands,

having already snuck it underneath the first cup.

The second ball, simultaneously secreted beneath the cup.

Place it in our hand and show it.

The third and final ball, pretend to place it in our hand,

pretend to place it in the cup, then secretly reveal it.

Now the second half, three balls on top,

the centre ball placed in the cup.

The side balls, we don't need them any more.

We have three duplicates. I've come over here, and this is not juggling.

This is misdirection. While you look over here,

Teller sticks the final ball under.

One more on either side, and for the finish, it's an American baseball.

Right there.

APPLAUSE

Absolutely amazing. It doesn't matter how many times

you watch that, it's still incredible.

And even the bit at the end when you can see in the cups,

it's still incredible. Absolutely brilliant.

If you want to try it yourself, we're going to load it

on the website this evening, so try it out and see how you do.

-Good luck.

-That's difficult.

At the beginning of the show, we asked you to get in touch and tell us

if you could share a stage with anyone, who would it be with

and what would you do? And the first one is from Pearlcupcakebuzzard.

Go for it, Amelia. You would share a stage with?

I would share a stage with Harry Potter and do magic.

Like Penn and Teller. We like that one.

Navybluelightningconkers says, "I'd perform with a trapeze artist

"at a circus and do tricks on a trapeze." Like that a lot.

Redmusicalseahorse - these names are getting better -

"I'd share the stage with the National Ukelele Orchestra

"because they are so amazing and I'd play along with my yellow ukelele."

Have you ever heard a better idea for a Blue Peter film?

-I'm doing that one.

-Blueviolettalkativepapaya says,

"I'd share a stage with Dick and Dom of CBBC

"and I'd tell jokes with them." They are legends of CBBC.

Opalminikoala says, "I would sing with Jessie J..." Yes.

"Because she is my idol. She is the best singer EVER, in capital letters.

Redbaseballchicken says, "I'd perform with Barney.

-"He could play the piano and I'd sing."

-We are there.

Thanks for getting in touch and sending us your e-mails.

We love to hear from you. Here's what's happening next week.

Make sure you're around for it. It's a cracker.

We're going to be joined by celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver.

He's going to be showing you how to make

-a yummy and colourful healthy snack.

-You don't want to miss this.

Barney and I go head to head in a monster hovercraft race.

It is the best thing I've ever done.

And I'm going to be showing you how to make your very own hovercraft

using an old CD or DVD, a sports bottle cap,

sticky tape and a balloon. Thanks to Penn and Teller for being here,

for Ruff Diamond too. Have a great week. We'll see you next time.

See you later. Bye!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING