01/12/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the one show

with my Friday Christmas pudding,

it's Ore Oduba.

It just seemed

appropriate on many levels.

So

appropriate.

Thank you and Alex

Jones. So today is a day of firsts.

Yes. It's the first day of proper

winter, according to the weatherman.

Some of the UK has even had their

first snow.

And as it is the first

of December, the pudding is out.

It's the first day of Advent. You

may have also opened the first door

on your Advent calendar this

morning. So we're going to open our

very own door number one to reveal

tonight's guests.

One's an award

winning actor. The other is a

superstar singer, come on out Robert

Lindsay and Gwen Steffani.

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Merry Christmas.

So nice to see you.

Hello Robert.

Where do you want me?

Wait for it. There's no answer to

that.

It's Friday, it's Christmas

and silly season has started

already.

I feel very underdressed

suddenly.

Just a little bit.

You

look amazing

Christmas pudding for

me. This just about works. Welcome

to both of you. For the first time,

Gwen on the show for the very first

time.

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I'm so excited to be here. I haven't

been to London in almost four years.

Isn't that weird.

This is the best

time of year with all the

decorations.

You're wearing the

right thing for the weather, it's

perfect.

Our wonderful guests are

embracing Christmas in different

ways. Robert is getting ready to

star on stage as scrooge. Boo.

Humbug!

Gwen, though, is becoming a

happy Christmas queen with your new

album. We can't wait to hear you

sing it later in the snow.

I can't

wait.

We've made an Advent calendar

for you both. Behind every door is a

picture that hopefully leads to a

lovely story. So Gwen, yours first.

Let's open door number one. Ah,

there's you with David Bowie.

I feel

like that makes me look really cool.

I'm telling you, like, that's David

Bowie. He is a legend.

Where due

meet him?

Tla was on some kind of

performance or award show or

something. I've met him a lot of

times

something. I've met him a lot of

times. I feel like my life is so

crazy. You're on the table with

David Bowie. Why choose me, I can't

speak. I sat with him at the black

ball which is Alesha keys fundraiser

that she does every year. I had

nothing to say. I was just like...

I

love that, still after all these

crazy meetings it's not normal for

you.

It's not normal when you're

sitting next to David Bowie. He's

not normal. It's just another level.

We have an Advent calendar for you.

It's not going to be, surely,

nothing can beat David Bowie. Let's

have a look behind your calendar and

day number one.

Hang on a minute.

Oh, my God, that's so long ago.

Wow

you're a babe.

Oh, wow.

How old are

you there, Robert?

Yes, thank you,

Alex.

LAUGHTER

.

Yes, I was a young man. I quaz

doing a musical on Broadway -- was

doing a musical called Me and my

Girl. Michael Jackon with Quincy

Jones. They came back stage to see

the show. The whole of Broadway was

closed when he saw the show. The

irony was he got up and said,

"Robert, can I use your phone? I

won't do his voice. I said, sure

dial 9 to get out. I was chatting to

Quincy Jones.

Another Lidge there.

There's a -- Ledge there. There's a

flag there that Emma Thompson gave

me reminding me of my roots. He

said, would you like to speak to

Bubbles. S?

As in the monkey.

I

didn't know who Bubbles was. I said,

sure. So I got -

Oh, no!

I did. It

was crazy. I was chatting away to

this noise. You know there was

nothing there. Obviously they've

gone. I did a show with Quincy Jones

in Washington a year later, and he

said, you really fell for that. You

said good night to a chime Panziera

eye. That's true.

--

Chimpanzee.

Today was the first official duty

for the newly engaged couple, Prince

Harry and Meghan. These two

absolutely beautiful, turned up at a

school in Nottingham for their first

ever royal visit.

I already love her

clothes. At a school in Bristol

pupils have a big day. Today they

found out if the name of their

school was going to change. So

Angellica has been to find out Y

-- why. Bristol, diverse city. 45

religions, 91 languages. 16% black

or minority ethnic. Bristol's modern

Diversity doesn't always sit well

with its past. Many of its buildings

and streets are named after Edward

Colson, a generous 18th century

benefactor, but one who made much of

his money from the slave trade.

Edward Colston was a successful

Americanant, MP and member of the --

merch merchant, MP and traded in

ivory, gold and slaves. As we as a

nation re-evaluate how we tell our

history, this has come into sharp

focus. This is the primary school.

The school has decided to use the

occasion of its 70th anniversary to

decide whether to change its name.

They're asking teachers, parents and

the local community what they think

and even the children themselves.

Has anyone seen that statue?

I have.

He was racist to the slaves.

As a

very diverse school in terms ever

race and religion, we began to ask

ourselves the question: Is this

really the person that we want to be

named after?

The money that he gave

to schools was from slave trading

and slave trading is bad.

If he's

been bad, why should we remember

him?

While the debate continues at

the school, I'm interested in what

the rest of Bristol thinks. I'm

meeting historian Madge Dresser at

the cathedral, which itself has a

window dedicated to Edward Colston.

He was a philanthropist, why judge

him by modern day standards. At the

time what he was doing was seen as

good.

When we think of slavery we

need to think of terrible

suppression of the slave people.

Many white Bristolians have been

sold sanitised versions of the

story. They had their first kiss

under the statue, they went to the

school, it's part of their history

and to completely eradicate his name

makes people feel they don't have

control over their city's identity.

Ex-Colston's primary pupil D Dash

Red uses music to express disdain.

Do you think the name should be

changed?

For me the first answer is

definitely, obviously, yes. On other

levels I think it's not really the

most important that needs to change

about Bristol's attitudes towards

African people, towards Caribbean

people. Just change the sybolism

without changing the reality is

ineffective. That's not enough, for

me.

44% of children at the primary

are from black and ethnic

minorities. What do they and their

friends think?

I don't want to

change it because I like it the way

it is and people might forget.

I

think we should change it, because

people would think that are a

supporter of Edward Colston.

You

can't forget history and pretend it

never happened.

It's decision time

for this year three group.

You may

notice that we've got a line in the

middle of our classroom here. On the

left people who think we should keep

the name Colston. This side, people

who think we should change the name.

Move to the side you believe in.

Hopefully everyone will realise that

the important thing is we've had the

conversation. It's been open and as

inclusive as we can possibly make it

and respect the result of the

governor's decision.

Why is everyone

moving?

Because they have the

freedom to choose which side they

want to be on.

This class is fairly

evenly split. The children's

opinions along with those of parents

and the local community will

influence the board of governors in

their final verdict. This passionate

debate has brought Bristol's history

from out of the shadows, questioning

the status of a man who was once

celebrated has made the city sit

back and think about its past, how

it acts now and its legacy for the

future. A future that will have its

own voice. Snment So do you want to

change the name of your school?

SHOUTING

Today that result was announced.

Colston primary school board of

governors has voted to change the

name of the school. No decision has

been made about the new name. It is

quite a tough thing, because it's

been called the same name for a

while now.

Attitudes are changing.

We're living in a society and

skeletons are coming out of the

cupboard for so many reasons, for

different people. I think the kids

are right. Power to the people is

what I say.

All power to you. The

London musical dheert's A Christmas

Carol is coming to the stage very

soon. -- theatre's A Christmas Carol

is coming to the stage very soon.

It

is totally a musical. I worked with

Alan Menkin a couple of series for

ABC America called Galivant. I love

his music, little mermaid and Beauty

And The Beast.

Legendary.

The music

is quite incredible. To get to play

in front of an orchestra of 32, you

know, I've done lots of musical in

the West End with 10, 15, but to

play with a full blown ark stra with

harps and strings and you know, you

add the story of Christmas Carol,

the definitive Christmas story and

Scrooge probably the definitive

character, Mr Misery guts. In fact,

my children think it's the best part

I've ever played.

They think you're

well suited don't they?

Don't get me

wrong, I love my family. It's been a

very lucrative series.

Nice! With

this, I mean, it is only two

performances. So if people want to

go -

Yeah one on December 11 and

18th. Last year we did one

performance. It really did, I found

it, profoundly moving. I think the

audience did. My family that came

after the second show, that one

show, just said you know, Christmas

has begun. It's that thing that

happens, I mean, I don't know like

you guys, I do get very grumpy at

Christmas. Christmas is a very

stressful time, particularly when it

starts about mid-October.

You don't

like that?

You guys love it.

You

don't like the big build up?

No,

it's stressful. You look at Dickens'

films, they're bringing out a film

now, the man who invented Christmas,

which is brilliant. And of course,

Dickens did invent Christmas. But

then it was a different time. There

were poor and there were rich.

Everyone happy, happy time. Now

people find it really tough

Christmas. You just walk around

Oxford Street now and you can see

the strain on a lot of people's

faces. It's hard work especially

with kids. And not working or

whatever. All the prob lemsz. The

great thing about Dickens, he did

care about the underprivileged,

which is very clear in Christmas

Carol. That's why you put music to

it, you know, and it becomes very

emotional. Actually I got very

emotional last year, I had to walk

off stage at one point. With tiny

Tim, and I picked tiny Tim up and he

says, "Merry Christmas Mr Scrooge -

I'm going now.

Oh, you are.

Incredibly moving.

Christmas is a

time when families come together and

there's a lot of good stuff about

Christmas, isn't there Robert!

Yes.

Now time for Gwen. She loves

Christmas. She is Christmas itself.

I like Christmas when it starts 12am

Christmas eve and finishes 4pm

Christmas Day.

It's too short. This

is my favourite Christmas ever. I

started in April.

LAUGHTER

Exactly. You're going to tell us why

you love Christmas and then Robert

is going to put his Scrooge spin on

it.

I'm your man.

Finish the

sentence, I love Christmas

because...

I love Christmas

because... It's family time. Time to

really be with your family, quality

time.

But you feel slightly trapped

with them sometimes.

I like being

trapped with my family.

Oh, good.

That's lovely. I do as well.

LAUGHTER

Wow, OK.

Let's go again. I like

Christmas because...

I like

Christmas because, Christmas music!

I mean it's the back drop to our

lives. It's our memories.

Scrooge!

If I hear, "it's Christmas! " I

don't know who sings that, but I

leave the house.

It's Slayed.

--

Slade.

Final reason?

I love the

traditions. I love Christmas

traditions. And my grandma. She went

big, she was an Irish like red head.

She would make -

She went big!

At

Christmas. She would literally do

Gingerbread village, not just

houses. They would be like a church

in the middle, pop corn snow and

trees. Then each grand child would

take home one of the houses.

I'm

loving the sound of that.

It's all

based on nostalgia. We're all

nostalgic for something we were

given - stop it!

Stefano

I was very

romantic last year, I bought my wife

a car cleaning kit. What as a

present? You would be out the door.

You have got to be practical at

Christmas.

I will be taking this

jumper off to tweet about Robert.

I'm so sorry, I did not know you

were coming.

I'm just playing

Scrooge, Di Maria romantic when it

comes to Christmas, really. -- I'm a

real romantic.

You concede A

Christmas Carol on the 11th and 18th

of December, the best Scrooge in the

house. -- you can see. Gwen has sold

30 million albums worldwide, and no

doubt you know all of her hits.

# Don't tell me because it hurts...

# My own world

# And I could be your favourite girl

# What you waiting for...

# This is a feeling I'm not used

to...

#

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The last video we saw, Make Me Like

You, the first song ever to be

recorded live, it was done in the ad

break for the Grammys?

Yes, it was

so intense, when they asked me to do

it, I said, are you sure, I can't

remember anything. It was a

choreographed video live on TV, and

interestingly, they put this on

YouTube recently, well, afterwards,

everyone in the control room was

watching and I started crying and

they were crying because it was so

intense. I did a bunch of takes,

maybe five, maybe four, and the one

before the live one I was

roller-skating, and as I was doing

that I went through a door, and I

landed on my head. That was the tape

before this one, and this is the

live one on TV.

Thankfully this one

went well.

It was a choreographed

thing, it was really amazing.

That

is very impressive.

I'm singing

live.

Yes, but you have pre-recorded

the music?

Yes.

Still,

roller-skating in the middle of the

Grammys.

Pretty amazing, though.

Well done.

Thank you. I just prayed

the entire time, I was by, oh my

gosh.

Fact fans, amongst you, 21

years since Don't Speak was

released. Where, when, how and when.

Did you have any idea at the time

how huge it would be?

I had no idea.

Before I wrote that song I don't

think I had written any songs, I did

not know how to write a song. It was

about getting my heart broken and

destroyed and being rejected, and

then I wrote that song, and right

that whole record Comanche, but I

have been in a band for about nine

years before that -- that whole

record actually. We were doing this

kind of music which would not sell,

it was a strange bad, but that song

took me around the world which was

my favourite... The blessing of my

life, being able to travel and see

different cultures. I would not be

in my mad -- band if it was not for

English groups, we were amazed by

Camden Town, and I never thought I

would be here, hanging out with this

guy on the couch, what's going on?

Broadway star.

Even though he's a

Scrooge.

You started off with a

great footing, and still the music

comes. The new album, You Make It

Feel Like Christmas, and this began

in April?

Yes, my favourite

Christmas ever, now I'm sitting next

to Scrooge, this is reaching a peak.

As a songwriter, I wanted the

dream... It would be to write a

Christmas hit, because then you get

to live on for ever. And revisited

every single year and be part of

people's memories, and all that

nostalgia. I was like, I'm going to

get the basketball and tried to make

a hit, and I had so much fun doing

it, and I don't know if I have done

it, but I wrote a song with a

country writer, incredible, Sheldon.

Sexiest man alive.

Have we got a

picture?

You can Google his name.

Even a part of it and I wrote part

of it, it is a very unlikely coming

together of our voices.

Many people

will be putting up their trees this

weekend and it is the perfect album.

The perfect time for me to be back

in London for the first time in four

years, I'm grateful to everyone,

they have been so sweet to me.

Of

course they have.

Gwen's album "You Make it

Feel Like Christmas" is out now

and she'll be performing for us

at the end of the show.

If you've gone 'all out' this year

on your Christmas lights -

we'd love to see them.

We're looking for the brightest,

the best and the barmiest

on your street.

Send in your photos and we'll show

a selection on Monday's show.

When we will be switching on the

lights on the Shard.

Get your air-guitars ready for one

of the greatest examples

of Worksop Rock ever recorded.

St Elmo's Fire, the film that

introduced us to future Hollywood

royalty, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, do

me more and immediate Estebanez, and

it launched the rock musician John

Parr, when the title track became an

international hit, but the song

happy unlikeliest of origins,

beginning right here at the miners

welfare club in Worksop,

Nottinghamshire. -- had the

unlikeliest. Why is this play

significant you?

My hometown. My

first paid gig, I got six guineas, I

was 12, it was a mecca of

entertainment are people in Worksop,

like the London at -- Palladium, it

was a hotbed of talent, and I wanted

to be as good as they were.

John may

have the trappings of a successful

rock star but it took him 20 years

of hard graft before things started

to take off.

I was in a band playing

the Northern clubs, you are in a

little pool, a big fish, but I had

envisioned. -- ambition.

Unable to

secure a record deal for his band,

John turned to songwriting, and

American artist meatloaf got in

touch for stop things happened

pretty quick. Meatloaf got in touch

and wanted to work with me, and then

I was in Connecticut studio with

him, and his band, and little old me

from Worksop.

John went on to score

a hit record in American self, with

a track called naughty naughty, and

then he got a call from Hollywood.

David Fuster, legendary producer, he

said I'm writing the score for a

movie, would you like to write a

song.

David wanted John's help with

the title track for St Elmo's Fire

and together they wrote the music

very quickly but struggled with the

lyrics.

David said, this is nothing

to do with the film script, but the

boy came in the studio last week and

he showed me this video cassette.

It

was a video about Rick Hansen, a

sportsman who had broken his spine

in a truck accident, he was

embarking on a journey around the

world to raise money for spinal

research.

Every time we reach an

obstacle, we believe there's way

around it or through it.

I thought,

this is it, and I wrote the story of

what I thought had happened, St

Elmo's Fire was the embodiment of

history and that he was moving

towards, a phenomenal of nature. I

came to the studio the next day and

I sang that is if I was the guy in

the chair and that is why it is so

passionate.

With a 24-hour deadline,

the song was approved and recorded

in haste, the cast were reluctantly

recalled for the promo video.

The

actors did not want to be there, to

do this song. It is hilarious.

The

song went on to become Rick Hansen's

Hansen and a big hit everywhere he

travelled around the world.

He said,

when I feel I can't wheel another

mile, I play this song and then do

another 20.

Despite his success,

John lives locally, joining him for

a special performance in Worksop for

his famous track, some of his old

music mates.

I believed in him

because of his songs and music, the

man himself, his persona.

We never

saw anyone practice like John, he

practised hours and hours until he

was happy.

I knew he would become a

superstar.

# And you're trying to break free...

# Did the story reflects you?

I was

geographically trapped, slightly

different, but I thought, I will get

there, and I never lost faith.

# St Elmo's Fire...

#

Beautiful. Some very excited

people behind Triple H, -- excited

people behind us, by the way.

If you want to see John perform

live, he'll be supporting

Foreigner next year.

Thanks to Robert and Gwen

for getting our weekend off

to a cracking start,

and Robert good luck

with A Christmas Carol

at the Lyceum.

Matt and I will be here on Monday

with Sue Perkins but now -

with the title track from her album

"You Make it Feel Like Christmas" -

- here's Gwen Stefani!

# I want to thank the storm

that brought the snow

# Thanks to the string

of lights that make it glow

# But I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas

# It barely took a breath

to realize

# We're going to be

a classic for all time

# I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas

# Sweet gingerbread

made with molasses

# My heart skipped and I reacted

# Can't believe that

this is happening

# Like a present sent from God

# Sleigh bells singing hallelujah

# Stars are shining on us too

# I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas

# Thought I was done for,

thought that love had died

# But you came along

# I swear you saved my life

# And I want to thank you baby

# Cause you make it

feel like Christmas

# Sweet gingerbread made

with molasses

# My heart skipped and I reacted

# Can't believe that

this is happening

# Like a present sent from God

# Sleigh bells singing hallelujah

# Stars are shining on us too

# I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas

# I never thought I'd

find a love like this

# But I found forever

in that very first kiss

# I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas

# Oooh, thank you baby

# I want to thank you baby

# You make it feel like Christmas #.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE