01/05/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to your May Day One Show with Alex Jones.

As it's a Bank Holiday we've supersized the show

One is a Super Vet, the real life Dr Doolittle

who saves animals using pioneering surgery.

The other is a superstar who's gone from pulling beers in Cheers

to playing Hunger Games before ending up Lost in London

CHEERING It is nice to see you. Hello, how

are you? Have a seat. Sit down. It is nice to see you both, what a

treat for a bank holiday. It is great to see you. Noel is over the

moon because he is a big fan. Yes, big fan. This is great. Beside one

of my heroes. Thank you. Larry Flynn, you were amazing. Amazing.

Thank you. Andrew Detective. -- and true Detective full stop did you

enjoy that? Yes, that was fun. It was extraordinary, really good. We

are going to have a trip down memory lane, and also talking about your

new film Lost In London, this issue out in Cambridge, punting. -- this

is you. How did you get on with this? I'm a natural. How far did you

get? That is a wild little sport they've got going. You can get the

boat going the wrong direction. Pretty much in the balance, there.

The big news of the weekend, the boxing, and you were there? Yes, I

was. Seven rows from the front? Who do you know? Somebody, I'm not going

to tell you. They came out, both the machines, and what was

extraordinary, and they were in front of 90,000 people. They were

machines. A great advert for kids, and inspiration. It was mind blowing

in the fifth round. They came out. Joshua was doing amazing. You

thought the fight was over, and then Klitschko turns it around in the

same round. Amazing. When he went down in the sixth round, he was

standing up again, and that will be the making of him. It is still is

humility and perspective, you get down and you go up again. You played

a boxer in Play It To The Bone? Yes, I did. You were hitting each other?

We did a bit of actual hitting each other. Oh! LAUGHTER

Look at that! Is that really me? So weird. I remember, the first time I

actually did some boxing, the guy who was teaching me said, we are

going to do a couple of rounds of boxing. This was after training a

while. The adrenaline and everything, the cardio after, I

remember at one point, there was someone who has the time and they

said, one minute. Meaning we had only been at it one minute. And I

wanted to hit the person who said that, I was freaking out because I

was so exhausted at one minute. It doesn't bear thinking about. What

they do, the level of fitness. Extraordinary. We are going to talk

about your film, and you have a lovely hat. Lost In London. Yes, I'm

promoting it. It's only 15 years from now but man

has been replaced by machine - Sounds like the script of Woody's

next film but according to Top Gear presenter and technology expert

Rory Reid, science fiction Robots are capable of carrying out

increasingly sophisticated tasks. But it's claimed that by 2030 up to

a third of jobs could be automated. And we are not just talking about

jobs that involve lifting and moving things. It is thought robots could

one day replace more skilled workers, possibly even chefs and

surgeons. But how realistic is this? The government is certainly behind

the idea, they announced ?17 million of funding to review the development

of artificial intelligence for the UK in February and in a periodical

which London they are already putting this into practice. This

doctor introduces me to a robot. Nice to meet you. So, what is so

special about this robot? He is learning to carry out tasks by trial

and error. You have equipped it with a hockey stick. Yes, we are trying

to learn how to strike a hockey puck and get this to a target position.

That is not bad. This is a robot that learns by itself? Yes, but we

still have to supervise it, but over time it should be able to learn new

skills on its own. Oh! It will learn to anticipate the needs of their

human co-worker and they will pass the right tool just before the human

needs it. They will get better and better until they can do it fully

autonomously. That is perfect. The ability of a robot to learn and

develop through its own experience is called reinforcement learning but

the ability of robots to imitate human behaviour is already being

applied to Comdex tasks like cooking. Which is why I have come

here to meet a fully automated chef. Robo chef. The inventor is Mark. He

can cook on the same kitchen like this and Robo chef can copy this

movement. The robot is looking at the physical movements of a human

and doing the same thing? Absolutely. It is time to see this

in action. There it goes. This is freaky. Although Robo chef has been

fully trained it seems it still needs a helping human hand now and

again. It is sticking. Masterchef winner Tim Anderson was amongst

those who helped with the training. Because it uses hands it can do,

eventually, everything a human can do because these are the most

effective tools we have for cooking and a lot of things. But how does

the cooking stand up against that of Tim Anderson? We have set our very

own One Show test. Robo chef and Tim Anderson will cook and we will put

them to the test later. Robots and gentlemen, let's cook. Tiny bit of

adjustment to make. Whilst I have my doubts that advanced robots taking

skilled jobs will become a reality any time soon, there are those that

view this would concern. According to a recent report by the global

employment Institute, governments might need to consider into juicing

human quotas for companies to protect jobs in the future. --

introducing. This woman that the report. If we think many jobs are

eliminated we have got to think, what we do with these people and so

we have got to think about retraining and another solution

could be to find different social security systems so that people

don't have to work and can do other creative jobs, but governments need

to think about it now and not we have mass dismissals. But for now it

is time to find out what is happening in our One Show test of

man versus robot. That should do it. Robo chef and Tim Anderson have both

made their soups so it is time to take them out to the streets of

London to see which one the public prefers. It smells nice. That's

really good. This one was made by Masterchef winner Tim Anderson. I

prefer this one. That was actually made by a robot. LAUGHTER

A robot. Masterchef Tim Anderson. By a robot. The robot. It is getting

tight. Masterchef winner Tim Anderson. So that is it, 5-4 in

favour of Tim Anderson that so the results are in. Who would have

thought? Well, he's good but he's not taking my job, and who would've

thought a robot could almost match the skills our Masterchef winner.

And why I do think -- and while I think robots are a long way from

taking the jobs of chefs in kitchens, this has given me food for

thought. Do you think we can ever get to a point where robots are

going to take over? I'm not going to be out of a job any time soon. I

think they can do a lot, it is remarkable what they can do and they

are quite clever, but they are only clever... Not intuitive, but it is a

cognitive thing, and I don't think they would ever have the skill set

of him as an actor or me as a surgeon because they can't make

those judgments. Dogs are smarter than humans, just think about it.

They understand a lot of our words but we haven't got any of their

words. Correct. I've said that recently, they speak a language but

we have chosen not to understand. Because we think we are all that.

You must have come across that in your movie with the apes? The apes

do a lot of things with sign language and they understand a

massive amount of words. They can communicate. With your lifestyle,

you lead a very eco-friendly existence. You live in off grade and

all of that, and I guess you prefer a lack of technology? I just want to

have a soft footprint on the earth. I feel like a lot of what we do in

terms of you look at our waste on a regular basis, just personally. How

much we throw away, plastic, paper. I tried to do as little of that as

possible. And my cars are either be -- bio diesel or Electric. You have

five varieties of avocado. Why is that? That is my favourite fruit?

Ten use ago no one knew what it was, -- ten use ago no one knew what it

was and they thought it was just a dodgy colour for a bathroom. OK.

Let's talk about this cat and your film Lost In London. -- cap. It was

shot in January in one take from start to finish and it was beamed

live to cinemas for the audience. Where did the idea come from? I

always have this concept, of merging theatre and film and I thought it

would be cool because if you can it something in real time, this is long

before other films try to do that. It was not technologically possible

at the time I have the idea because it was just film. You could not have

shot that long. Since I'm pretty slow from the germination of an idea

to its conclusion, technology caught up with the idea. And I thought this

would be great, this would be merging theatre and film to shoot

this in real time, in this case 99 minutes. In fact, that is not true,

you need an audience for this to be theatre, and then I thought, maybe

you could live stream it as you shoot it, if you are going to shoot

it in real time, anyway. Yes, why not. You have got the sound cues and

the music cues, but it seems like it would be possible. I didn't realise

what an undertaking it would be otherwise I would have bailed on

that idea. LAUGHTER It is based on a drunken night out

in London and at the beginning of the film it says too much of this

true, so how much of it is true? Too much. But how much is too much?

Let's keep it ambiguous. We showed it yesterday twice, at the picture

house, because they are our bodies, and it was great, the response.

People wanted to know that and I thought, I've already got enough...

You can hate me enough for what you see on that screen, and if I tell

you how much is true, that could be a problem. We have a clip. This is

Owen Wilson who is playing himself and he is trying to tell you how to

avoid a media scandal. You didn't pay? I tried to

negotiate. You cannot negotiate with Marty. But he is a lawyer, they

negotiate. You know who did not negotiate, the little people.

How far in to the movie was that roughly and how much did you have to

rehearse to do this, so many questions! We had two months of

rehearsal. It was very intense. A lot of rehearsal for where the

camera would be. And you know, the production design had to allow for

the camera to look in every direction at any point. So the

writing itself as well. But for you as an actor, because you want to be

in the moment as much as you can but where you're just thinking ahead for

the whole time? That was a problem and in fact that was going on all

the time. I was doing a pretty horrific job as an actor until

finally it was the night of the shoot and Nigel Willoughby told me

forget the directing, you are just the actor. And I thought yeah, that

is true. And hopefully being my bread and butter I was able to pull

that off. You said yourself it was quite a gamble. This show is a

gamble every night and it is just 30 minutes. Were you happy with the end

result? There are some mistakes, there is one quite large mistake.

Where an actor did not come into his scene when he was supposed to. But

showing it to people, it is like a diamond with flaws. You're not going

to pay as much as you would for a non-flawed diamond. But I've shown

it to people and they do not know where the problem is. They do not

see it. I saw it, it was pretty obvious. Maybe the beauty is in that

the floor. But it almost didn't happen because of something that

happened on Westminster Bridge? Yes, Waterloo Bridge. That was a

significant occasion for us and then that night they found a World War II

unexploded bomb close to the bridge. They left this thing 70 years ago!

People had survived. It was the first time I ever had a personal

beef with Hitler. I never much liked and before that! Lost in London is

now at selected cinemas. Go and see it for yourself.

As Noel's here we thought we'd show a fascinating film about an animal

And it just so happens, Woody, that it's a woodpecker.

The nature reserve in Bedfordshire is home to one of the most peculiar

birds. This is a creature whose anatomy allows it to bang its head

into a tree trunk hundreds of times a day and still come back for more

the very next day. It is the woodpecker. The drumming of the

great spotted woodpecker is a sign that the breeding season is upon us.

Woodpecker is drawn to attract a mate automata -- to mark out

territory. But how do they help create our Spring soundtrack without

sustaining serious head injuries? I'm hoping to show you. Despite the

noise that woodpeckers make spotting one of these avian head-bangers is

not always as easy as you might imagine. To track the woodpecker

down I need some local knowledge. Lizzie Bruce is the RSPB warden

here. This site is amazing, great spotted woodpecker, the occasional

lesser spotted woodpecker, the green woodpecker. Where is the best place

amongst these trees to track them down? They tend to use the whole

area but generally we look for areas of Deadwood, standing Deadwood would

tell you where they favour because when they drawn into that it

resonates better. The most likely way we're going to find the

woodpecker is by using our ears, listening them. I have quite big

ears but they're not as big as Gregory, the wildlife sound

recorders, and his electronic year. I have a parabolic reflector and it

travels through the air and bounces off curved walls and is focused to

the central point where the microphone sits. To help locate the

woodpecker Gregory just needs to scan the landscape and listen for

the sound of the drumming. But you have a lot of landscape to scan. We

will be here sometime. After a lot of searching... That is one. There

is another. About ten, 15 metres in that direction. I cannot see it for

love nor money. Then finally... There it is. Even I can hear that. A

couple of e-mails are vying for the same territory. Normally this time

of year is all about the males scrapping for territory but we have

e-mails, all happening right above our head this female is clearly

trying to make their presence known. From slowing down the footage, I

calculate that this bird is drumming about 17 times per second. So how

does it avoid head injury? Recent research has come up with some

revelations. First there are microscopic spongy bones in the

skull that soften the impact. Next the woodpecker has an incredibly

long bone, an extension of its tongue. It acts like a seat belt,

restraining the violent recoil of its head. And lastly, unlike humans,

where the brain is more likely to rattle around on impact, the brain

of the woodpecker is packed tightly into the skull to reduce that

rattling. These are all fascinating discoveries. But they could also

have an important use. Scientists all over the world are looking at

the woodpecker to see how they can improve head protection technology.

One inventor in India came up with this cycle helmet which has a

lattice of cardboard inside that is meant to mimic the spongy bone of a

woodpecker skull. Not of course that I'm planning on going banging my

head against any trees. That was a nice first for you, Noel,

you have never operated on a woodpecker. I love operating on wild

animals. I was just watching that and I felt the fight on Saturday

night, the brain wobbling around, they could learn something from the

woodpecker. But with much to learn from animals and we choose not to do

it. Well Noel is probably the most famous vet in this country. Just

explain a bit about what you do. We save broken animals. What we do is,

we try and move technology forward to give animals hope. So stem cell

work, rebuilding body parts, trying to repair damaged tissue. But not

that any expense, just if it is morally the right thing to do. We

were talking a bit about when it is right to do something where is that

line. And this is something that we explore a lot in the show, in this

series, there is a lot of failure. And in fact this week is the most

difficult I have ever had it. You're talking about Bella the Boxer dog.

We have a case this week alongside the hedgehog, who all remarkably had

broken their left back leg, the mustard in crossing, you have a go

at it! They all broke their left back leg. But in that same show, we

have the single greatest failure I have ever been through on the

television show. It was not really about my pain even though that was

intense because you store all the cemetery of your fingers in your

heart. But it is about the beautiful human beings that allowed us to go

through that journey with them as a message of hope for those who have

no hope. Even though we failed, there was some kind of redemption in

the failure, a sense of peace that you'd done the right thing to your

friend. And that is what the show is about, the centrepiece that you've

done the right thing for your friend, who is a member of your

family and for humanity as well because animals put the human in

humanity. And I guess the difficulty for you is you are pioneering the

stuff and you have got to try it out in some way, shape or form and you

are learning as you go along. And you have this goal by the time you

reach 50, to be lying on the floor of a hospital. My goal when I was

11, I watched wolverine, I was a big fan of the avengers and I thought

what if we could rebuild them. I was friends with all the animals, very

few human friends, still to this day! So I lead a relatively

reclusive life and the animals were my friends. I thought, we can

rebuild them. I just build this new hospital, opening next year and my

ambition for my 50th birthday was to sleep on the floor in this hospital.

It is called the Fitzpatrick Institute for the restoration of

skeletal tissue. I'm going to sleep on the floor on the first night and

in that room I intend to die standing up operating with my

kneecaps locked like a horse. They can preserve me to look down and

give them instructions in future years. That is my goal. And the

children who write into the show gives me hope even in spite of the

failure is. We get letters from kids in war-torn regions, letters from

kids in a world gone mad. And they find hope in the journeys of those

animals and that is important. All those kids watching at home will

want to see it a clip and we have the perfect one. The hedgehog.

Hedgehog time. First one goes to x-ray, goes out, get the tables

lined up and we will run them through. Look at his face! I do not

even know what is the front end. We do not usually get little creatures

in, normally just cats and dogs, so it is exciting and everyone gets

involved. Telephone the outcome is? This

weekend in London at Excel I will give the outcome to all the kids

because I'm teaching them about taking care of hedgehogs. I'm

excited about interacting with them but I will tell you, am I allowed to

do that? Let's just say it was a hedgehog battle. It is on on

Thursday at eight o'clock on Channel 4. We found out doing some digging

that Noel did try his hand originally at acting. Oh, no! And in

the archives we found this. I cannot believe you wanted him to die. Stop

it! You are only making things worse for him. The longer he is alive, the

longer these sufferers. You mean the Longueuil that you suffer. -- the

longer. We will crying and Imogen Stubbs

cried at the right minute. I could not. Almost as if you are waiting

for the new Stormers -- star wars movie, the suspense! How is the

shooting going? It is going great, terrific directors, the actors are

great. Brilliant script. Amazing. There is a lot of secrecy

surrounding these films. What can you tell us about your character?

I'm a man tour and also a criminal. -- mentor. What a world to be part

of. Everyone these days get so excited about it. And for you guys

to be in there actually creating these memories for young people. I

guess that is why you do what you do. Absolutely. That is why I'm

heading in there at six o'clock tomorrow, to create memories! Do you

think about your legacy for the kids and things like that? You know, I

guess. I think it is cool, a lot of the movies I did, the kids can't go

to watch them so it is nice when they can. There's a lot of movies I

wished I had done that my kids could have watched. But, you know. They

have it, thank you so much for your company Noel.

We're back tomorrow with Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness - who knows