:00:19. > :00:28.Hello, welcome to the Friday one show with Alex Jones. And Chris
:00:29. > :00:31.Evans. Tonight's guest was in Star Trek and was also in The Last Of The
:00:32. > :00:41.Mohicans, The Commitments, Die Hard 2 and Con Air. Impressive, as is his
:00:42. > :00:54.latest role playing a father to James Corden's Paul Potts, One
:00:55. > :01:03.Chance. It's Colm Meaney. You have been busy. You have had two big
:01:04. > :01:10.films this year, Alpha Papa with Steve Coogan, and then One Chance.
:01:11. > :01:21.We hear you are heading to sunnier climes? I am going to Rio De Janeiro
:01:22. > :01:27.to start filming a film about Pele, but also the 1950 World Cup and the
:01:28. > :01:33.emergence of the Brazilian team. Who do you play's I play an English
:01:34. > :01:41.character called George Raynor, the manager of the Swedish team in
:01:42. > :01:45.1950. He managed the team over a 12 year period. He got them to the
:01:46. > :01:55.World Cup final in 1958. He was originally from Barnsley, so I have
:01:56. > :02:00.to do an accent. An accent! You can hide behind it. You will have to put
:02:01. > :02:10.plenty of sun cream on. How do you get away with the sun? I do not
:02:11. > :02:19.spend a lot of time in it and I wear a hat. We will talk more to Colm as
:02:20. > :02:24.the show goes on. Whilst Europe was being battered by St Jude the storm,
:02:25. > :02:28.one man from Devon was hoping for when the weather. We have been
:02:29. > :02:33.following extreme surfer Andrew Cotton in his obsessive quest to
:02:34. > :02:38.seek out and conquered the world's biggest wave. St Jude might have
:02:39. > :02:43.delivered the answer. Andrew Cotton is a British surfer
:02:44. > :02:50.with big ambitions. For most sufferers, waves of three or four
:02:51. > :02:56.feet are ideal, but Andrew's preferred waves are ten times this
:02:57. > :03:02.size. I started surfing when I was about nine. This is just pumped up
:03:03. > :03:07.surfing. It is my passion and my dream. Andrew lives in Devon with
:03:08. > :03:12.his wife and their two young children. I guess he is an
:03:13. > :03:18.adrenaline junkie. He is a pain in the bomb if he does not do it. He is
:03:19. > :03:23.an extreme guy, but in a nice way. Surfers are renowned for being
:03:24. > :03:29.selfish. I definitely put surfing in front of a lot of things but
:03:30. > :03:36.luckily, cute understands it. -- luckily, my wife understands it.
:03:37. > :03:40.Sometimes he will play down something amazing he has done. He
:03:41. > :03:48.will say he has had a good wave, then it will be on the front page of
:03:49. > :03:54.the newspaper. I do not perceive it as dangerous. Everything is positive
:03:55. > :04:01.once you are in there. There is a risk, but exactly did risk. It is
:04:02. > :04:06.petrifying, so I just pretend that he has gone plumbing, because he
:04:07. > :04:13.does a bit of plumbing. At least four people have died in one of the
:04:14. > :04:17.worst storms to hit the UK for years. It cut a trail across large
:04:18. > :04:23.parts of England with dozens of floodlights. What was ominous news
:04:24. > :04:27.for Britain was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Andrew. He was
:04:28. > :04:30.already awaiting the storm's arrival on the coast of Portugal. The
:04:31. > :04:39.current world record for the biggest wave ever surfed is 78 feet achieved
:04:40. > :04:44.in this same spot in 2011. What happened on Monday it was the result
:04:45. > :04:49.of that huge storm, St Jude. We have been tracking it for about a week.
:04:50. > :04:54.It has become apparent that the surf was like nothing any of us had ever
:04:55. > :05:04.seen before. This is the monster wave he had been waiting for.
:05:05. > :05:12.Everyone got gigantic waves that day. I got one estimated at
:05:13. > :05:18.approximately 80 feet. It was the fastest I have ever been on a
:05:19. > :05:22.surfboard. I was focusing on not falling off, making the wave, but
:05:23. > :05:31.also trying to get to the bottom and then served as best as I could. --
:05:32. > :05:37.and then surf as best as I could. It was almost in slow motion, I felt
:05:38. > :05:46.every bump. I was trying to be in the moment. The big question is, has
:05:47. > :05:50.Andrew broken the world record? That is in the hands of the judges. I am
:05:51. > :05:56.really proud to have been part of that momentous occasion. I want my
:05:57. > :06:01.kids to grow up knowing that dreams are possible and pushing your
:06:02. > :06:08.personal ambitions is a good example.
:06:09. > :06:13.What a film! Cotty will have to wait until the Billabong Global Big Wave
:06:14. > :06:19.Awards in May to find out if the world record has been broken. He is
:06:20. > :06:24.still hoping to catch a 100 foot wave in Portugal this weekend. I
:06:25. > :06:32.would like to know how they measure it. Do they take a picture and
:06:33. > :06:41.guess? It is very technical. You know? I believe the base of the wave
:06:42. > :06:47.is the lowest point the surfer reaches, or the lowest point of the
:06:48. > :07:00.braking Whitewater. It is measured from that. It is true! And the
:07:01. > :07:09.peak? Well, the top is the top. The base is where to measure from.
:07:10. > :07:13.Hopefully you will know more about the plot of One Chance. River views
:07:14. > :07:20.so far. Can you summarise it for those who have not seen so far? --
:07:21. > :07:26.rave reviews. It is about a guy who overcomes incredible difficulties to
:07:27. > :07:34.live history. James Corden plays Paul Potts. I thought it was about
:07:35. > :07:46.the Cambodian dictator, which is a joke in the film! That is a joke in
:07:47. > :07:52.the film. When it was explained to me who Paul Potts was, I thought, do
:07:53. > :07:59.we want to do a film about a talent show? But the script was wonderful
:08:00. > :08:05.and the cast is terrific. What is wonderful about it, it is not about
:08:06. > :08:09.a talent show. Britain's Got Talent does not come in until the end of
:08:10. > :08:15.the film. It is about this guy's life and his struggle to fulfil his
:08:16. > :08:22.ambition, which was to be an opera singer. He was born into a working
:08:23. > :08:29.class family import Hulbert -- in Port Talbot, so it is a difficult
:08:30. > :08:36.ambition. Here is some action around the dinner table.
:08:37. > :08:46.Paul could get a job at the steelworks and a flat of his own. I
:08:47. > :08:52.would sooner sleep under a bridge. Paul is going to be a singer. Oh,
:08:53. > :09:02.God! I thought you only met this morning. How could I be his
:09:03. > :09:05.girlfriend if we only just met? It turns out when we thought he was
:09:06. > :09:18.looking at pornography he was e-mailing her. Look at him!
:09:19. > :09:28.That is one of those simple scenes that defines everybody's role. You
:09:29. > :09:39.can see the cast with Julie Walters and Alexander Roach -- Alexander
:09:40. > :09:50.Roach. Was a bright that James Corden was surprisingly serious
:09:51. > :09:59.onset? -- was it right? The director was quite serious and that sort of
:10:00. > :10:03.thing tends to come from the top. I really felt that everybody was
:10:04. > :10:08.committed to it. There was a lot at stake and for James, it is a very
:10:09. > :10:16.dramatic role. It is not a straight comedy role. He is superb in it and
:10:17. > :10:23.he really shows his acting ability and his range of talent. You are
:10:24. > :10:30.very good at playing darts. In The Commitments, you were a dad. In this
:10:31. > :10:39.film you play a young dad when you are older. Let's have a snapshot of
:10:40. > :10:45.The Commitments, a similar scene. I am putting a band together. Do you
:10:46. > :11:01.need a singer? # Wise men say only fools rush in #
:11:02. > :11:08.But I can't help falling in Love with you...
:11:09. > :11:19.#. It is embarrassing. The credits run
:11:20. > :11:27.and the credits for the music are there, and they have Fools Rush In
:11:28. > :11:33.and they put, originally performed by Elvis Presley, performed by Colm
:11:34. > :11:37.Meaney. There is no need to worry about that! What are you like as a
:11:38. > :11:43.dad in real life? You have one daughter who is 29 and one who is
:11:44. > :11:50.eight, that is a bit of an age gap. It takes me a long time to recover,
:11:51. > :11:56.you know? I hope I have been a better dad the second time round. I
:11:57. > :12:01.think I am more patient. I genuinely want to spend more time with her.
:12:02. > :12:06.When you are younger, you say, yes, but you are busy doing other stuff.
:12:07. > :12:14.You are there but you are not there. This time, I am glad to come home
:12:15. > :12:20.and spend time with her. You can see Colm Meaney in One Chance around the
:12:21. > :12:27.country right now. Lots of us will be cracking open the
:12:28. > :12:33.sparklers and chomping on a toffee apple at bonfire parties. On Sunday,
:12:34. > :12:43.there will be fireworks to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of light. We
:12:44. > :12:58.have a very impressive display! It is not finished yet, but it looks
:12:59. > :13:05.good. Either that is the team finishing off or someone is stealing
:13:06. > :13:13.them. As with lots of festivals, there is food involved.
:13:14. > :13:17.Every week, two and a half million of us go to one of the UK's Indian
:13:18. > :13:22.restaurants to enjoy a curry and very little for after is. The
:13:23. > :13:27.trouble is, by the end of the main course I am so full of Indian food I
:13:28. > :13:33.can barely manage a couple entry meant. -- complementary mint. Most
:13:34. > :13:43.of us would not dream of a desert after a curry. Too many of your
:13:44. > :13:47.customers order Indian sweets? It is very rare. Most of them are
:13:48. > :13:56.reluctant to order a desert after a curry because they are stuffed. The
:13:57. > :14:04.full Monty of Indian dining out is not complete without an Indian sweet
:14:05. > :14:13.or desert. -- pudding. So I talked to find out what -- I talk to
:14:14. > :14:26.Ravinder to find out about Indian sweets. No one knows anything about
:14:27. > :14:36.them. Ravinder is making an Indian classic cult jalebi. It is plain
:14:37. > :14:41.flour, and it is cornflour, saffron, sour cream and yoghurt to
:14:42. > :14:50.mix it together. So, into the hot oil. You can tell it is so bad for
:14:51. > :14:59.you, look at that! And even naughtier after being put into sugar
:15:00. > :15:07.syrup. Are you ready to get naughty? And eight sweet enough? Really
:15:08. > :15:13.sweet. You would not eat loads. It is a treat. Indian sweets are not
:15:14. > :15:19.eaten after every meal. These are for special occasions like Diwali.
:15:20. > :15:23.Every year, Hindus and Sikhs celebrate Diwali with fireworks,
:15:24. > :15:32.family gatherings and party food, especially sweets like this. I
:15:33. > :15:45.didn't have a sweet enough to fall the jalebi, but a spiced doughnut
:15:46. > :15:54.looks more to my taste. Nice. Doughnut, Orrin G. Not too sweet.
:15:55. > :16:00.They are the best so far. But can we persuade British curry lovers to
:16:01. > :16:04.ditch after-dinner mints for genuine Indian sweets on Manchester's curry
:16:05. > :16:16.mile? We put together a delicious selection. I like that more than I
:16:17. > :16:22.thought I would. It's quite creamy. That's nice, I like crispy things.
:16:23. > :16:27.Very nice. It just never occurred to me to have a sweet, you are usually
:16:28. > :16:34.full after the curry. Great for his waistline!
:16:35. > :16:42.It's more like a doughnut. It's pretty good. If you go for another
:16:43. > :16:47.Indian meal, you wouldn't be averse to trying some Indian sweets,
:16:48. > :16:55.perhaps? I wouldn't. Now that my mind has been opened. Overall, the
:16:56. > :17:06.Indian sweets have been a success on the streets of Manchester. Thank you
:17:07. > :17:12.Alex and Ravinder is joining us now. Can you explain to us why Diwali is
:17:13. > :17:20.so important? It is important to both Sikhs and Hindus. Hindus
:17:21. > :17:26.celebrated because it is the Festival of lights. It is the
:17:27. > :17:32.triumph of good over evil. That is what it signifies. And there is a
:17:33. > :17:37.legend behind the whole festival. There is. Really epic, romantic
:17:38. > :17:45.story about lard Rama, and how his evil stepmother... Sita, being his
:17:46. > :17:49.loyal wife, she went with him. She was duped and tricked by this shape
:17:50. > :17:59.shifting gear and captured by a ten headed Demon. Then Rama went into
:18:00. > :18:03.battle to save his beloved. You've bought some sweet and savoury treats
:18:04. > :18:17.in here. Tuck in. These are little doughnuts. What are they? They are
:18:18. > :18:20.like a flaky, spongy doughnut. You were saying that every family has
:18:21. > :18:25.their own special at -- that shall to that they could during Diwali.
:18:26. > :18:30.Definitely, it is very regional. What Punjabis would eat at Diwali is
:18:31. > :18:37.very different to what south Indians would eat. Every family has their
:18:38. > :18:42.own dish. We have lots of Indian mothers in the audience, they
:18:43. > :18:48.brought in delicious dishes. So many ladies here, I don't know who to
:18:49. > :19:00.talk to. What have you brought? Is this your family's speciality? What
:19:01. > :19:05.is this? Diwali is not only about fun, family, fireworks and food, it
:19:06. > :19:11.is about decoration as well. This would be at the front of the house,
:19:12. > :19:17.welcoming friends, family and the gods and goddesses. It's about
:19:18. > :19:22.Sunday and Monday. Absolutely. A lot of wealth and prosperity into the
:19:23. > :19:27.house and for the family. What have you got here? All the sweets here,
:19:28. > :19:38.and some pakora. This is Bombay mix as well. This is a double effort.
:19:39. > :19:46.What have we got? Loads of savoury and sweet. And we have candles,
:19:47. > :20:00.which is tradition. What do you have here? Sweets and savouries. What do
:20:01. > :20:05.you have, Parthenia? All of this food for the crew for later. They
:20:06. > :20:16.are not going to be brushing off tonight like they normally do! This
:20:17. > :20:29.is famous for Diwali. All the ladies enjoy making all Diwali items. What
:20:30. > :20:34.do you have here? All of our festivals have a lot of religious
:20:35. > :20:40.significance. We prayed to God, Lord the nation, the elephant god. We ask
:20:41. > :20:48.him for lots of wealth, prosperity and blessings. Ten seconds each for
:20:49. > :20:53.you. I've got sweets here, different kinds of sweets that we make. They
:20:54. > :21:04.should have the great Indian bake off, it would be amazing! I've got
:21:05. > :21:09.sweets and savouries and very traditional sweets, something that
:21:10. > :21:19.the family would enjoy an Diwali days, not any other time. It smells
:21:20. > :21:25.amazing in here. That's not the end of Diwali. Stay tuned because there
:21:26. > :21:29.will be more later. The Paralympics highlight the fact
:21:30. > :21:33.that losing a limb is no barrier to achieving great things in life. At
:21:34. > :21:40.100 years ago it was a very different story. Here is Joe
:21:41. > :21:44.Crowley. On New Year's Eve 2010, Corporal Josh Bodgey was serving in
:21:45. > :21:50.Afghanistan when he had an horrific accident. We were out on a normal
:21:51. > :21:54.search patrol. I stood on an IED. I remember the wind being taken out of
:21:55. > :21:59.me. I tried to get up and it wasn't until I had a tourniquet on my leg
:22:00. > :22:05.that I realised I'd been injured. He had lost both his legs and an arm.
:22:06. > :22:10.Since 2006, 275 soldiers have needed replacement limbs after fighting in
:22:11. > :22:16.the war. Their road to recovery starts here. This is the defence
:22:17. > :22:21.medical rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court in Surrey. Caring for
:22:22. > :22:26.up to 200 injured soldiers at a time, it's the largest military
:22:27. > :22:31.treatment centre in Britain. New legs like this state of the art.
:22:32. > :22:36.They have a microprocessor in each knee, which, amongst other things,
:22:37. > :22:39.wirelessly feedback information so experts can make sure the limb is
:22:40. > :22:44.perfectly set up for the patient. It's part of a technical revolution
:22:45. > :22:47.began a century ago, when two enterprising brothers were inspired
:22:48. > :22:55.by their love of flying to overcome an injury from a horrific accident.
:22:56. > :23:00.Over Easter 1913, four years after the first flight across the English
:23:01. > :23:04.Channel, Marcel De Soutar was one of the fearless young British pilots
:23:05. > :23:10.showing off their skills at Hendon aerodrome. He was just 19. During an
:23:11. > :23:13.exhibition flight disaster struck and the aeroplane nosedived. Marcel
:23:14. > :23:18.survived but his leg was shattered and had to be amputated above his
:23:19. > :23:22.knee. Marcel was fitted with a simple wooden leg, but it was heavy
:23:23. > :23:26.and not flexible enough to operate the controls of an aircraft. His
:23:27. > :23:31.flying career seemed to be over, but then his brother, Charles, came up
:23:32. > :23:36.with a solution. Aged 17, Charles was obsessed with making model
:23:37. > :23:41.aeroplanes, and he was about to reveal an unique flair for precision
:23:42. > :23:48.engineering. Charles' son, Roger, has joined me to tell me more.
:23:49. > :23:53.Marcel came along with that ghastly wooden leg and father thought, we
:23:54. > :24:00.can do better than that. He had a model aeroplane which had a fusilade
:24:01. > :24:05.which was made out of this new, miracle, light metal. He said, I can
:24:06. > :24:15.make another tube like that, which could be the top of your leg. It
:24:16. > :24:19.also had a hemispherical knee. The leg he created for Marcel was a
:24:20. > :24:23.revelation. Only half the weight of wooden legs and much more flexible.
:24:24. > :24:33.With it, Marcel could drive and even fly again. He was very thrilled. He
:24:34. > :24:45.went skiing in Switzerland. That's just showing off! Charles' spark of
:24:46. > :24:48.engineering genius transformed his brother's life, and within a year
:24:49. > :24:54.there would be an business opportunity here to help improve the
:24:55. > :24:58.lives of thousands. After the heavy artillery bombardment of the First
:24:59. > :25:02.World War, thousands of soldiers needed new limbs. So Charles and
:25:03. > :25:10.Marcel opened a factory to manufacture them. The business
:25:11. > :25:13.boomed. In 1921, the Government and the Minister of pensions decided to
:25:14. > :25:22.make it the standard limb for amputees. By 1925, they'd made
:25:23. > :25:27.18,000 limbs. Building on Charles and Marcel's pioneering invention, a
:25:28. > :25:31.century long wave of artificial limb innovation means hundreds of
:25:32. > :25:37.soldiers have fought their way back to fitness. Like Josh. I love hand
:25:38. > :25:42.cycling, I cycled from Paris to London in June. That was 420 miles.
:25:43. > :25:45.I decided I really enjoyed doing it. Being around the other guys who were
:25:46. > :25:49.in the GB Paralympic team already, it makes me realise that is
:25:50. > :25:54.something I want to do. You are setting your sights high. Yeah, who
:25:55. > :26:00.wouldn't want to sit on a beach after competing for their country in
:26:01. > :26:05.the Paralympics in Rio? Good luck to all you with your recovery. Thank
:26:06. > :26:08.you for coming into night. We are talking about your latest project.
:26:09. > :26:15.Let's go back to your first appearance on TV. Have you seen your
:26:16. > :26:23.Z Cars episode from 1978 recently? I don't think I've seen it since 1978!
:26:24. > :26:31.? because we are going to play a little bit of it.
:26:32. > :26:42.God give us and he take it away. You have the ultimate theological
:26:43. > :26:48.argument. A knife. He's given us something and he's taken it away
:26:49. > :27:01.from you. This ?360 here. We'll take it as a down payment. Was that Pete
:27:02. > :27:09.Postlethwaite? It wasn't him. You look exactly the same. Has anybody
:27:10. > :27:13.aged better than column? Red thank you for being here. The film is out
:27:14. > :27:30.now. Are you going to do it? OK, to
:27:31. > :27:36.finish, from Walk The Plank's "Spellbound" , this is the story of
:27:37. > :27:44.how Prince Rama had to rescue his beautiful wife, Sita, after she was
:27:45. > :27:46.kidnapped by the Demon King Gravano. -- Gravano.