02/03/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker And Alan Johnson.

Now, Al, take a good,ing long hard look at the world around you. From

next Monday it's all going to start looking a bit more like this.

Horrible! Yes, next week I'll be swapping the sofa for the deck of a

65-foot yacht, battling the wind and waves around the coast of Britain.

We've already started on the seasickness tablets. It's meant to

be brutal. I can hear gasping all over the nation. Don't. If this is

not enough. Look at the spray? I know. More to. We will reveal the

full extent of Alex's latest Sports Relief challenge throughout this

evening, introducing her to the experts who will be keeping her safe

and meeting the rest of her crew. It's not all-action and adventure

tonight. Our guests are two men who worked together. It's a shame they

don't seem to be able to get on together. James Norton was just an

utter joy. He sent me a lovely message the other day. It was funny.

We had a bromance. We went off to Wimbledon together and having a

lovely time. It was so good. Giving, patient. Love to go fishing with

Robson. Please welcome, Robson Green and James Norton.

APPLAUSE We had head in hands moments there. That was for real.

Wow. I wasn't expecting that. That was television gold. A that was

brilliant. What situation was that filmed in? Talking about the series,

Grantchester. What makes a hit show. Grantchester is a big hit on TV.

Sometimes it's the writing. Most of the times it's the writing,

sometimes it's the chemistry between the two lead actors. My interview

was all scripted! Mine was from the heart, mate. You wind each other up

as well. We saw footage of you, interesting, up on the roof in

King's College in Cambridge. What was going on here. What have you

done? What have you done. Crew footage. We are stitching you up

here. # Up on the roof... #

Oh, my goodness. The terrible thing about that is, I look like my dad

dancing. You can't tell, the roof is very severe. Difficult to dance.

When he found out I had a singing career he was like a rat up a drain

pipe. He wouldn't let it go. I found that filming up on the top of the

roof. I was humming the tune. By the end of the day the cast and crew

were humming it. Robson was like, please shut up. Did you not have the

single? My mum will watch that and thinking - Jerome's aged well. The

hits you will go on that tonight will be terrible. Your characters in

Grantchester, they can't solve every mystery under sun. For this one we

had to send in one of our own for our first film. Here is Christine on

the curious case of the disappearing roadside trees. Trees, they are a

precious natural resource. I love them and you don't need a long

career in horticulture like mine to understand their benefits. They

filter the air. They create shade in the summer. They restrict the amount

of water that is coming down and flood damage. They set your soul on

fire. Here's a cracker. Just look at this one. Here in Sheffield some say

these magnificent cathedrals of nature are under threat. A bitter

campaign is being waged over their future. I'm here to see for myself

what is going on. Take a look at this area called Greenhill. Very

apt. A lovely tree-lined street. Look at it now. Empty, barren,

characterless. Sheffield City Council has cut down around 3,500

mature roadside trees. It says they were diseased, dangerous or causing

damage. Granted, they have replaced every one. For my money, they've

gone too far. On this street, every tree has been removed. I can't

believe for two seconds that every tree needed to come out. And with

another 1,500 trees facing the chop, campaigners have swung into action.

This is one of the avenues set to go. Protesters have temporarily

halted the chainsaws across the city with a court order. This is one of

the trees that is earmarked to go out. In some ways I can see why

because there is a slight issue with the roots raising the pavement. It's

a healthy tree. Just look at it. I'd have liked to talk to someone from

the council, but no-one was available. I'm joined by members

from the action group. If a tree is dead, diseased beyond any kind of

curing, absolutely it needs to go. But I do believe that there's a lot

of trees that have been felled that are healthy. They shouldn't have

been felled because they still have years and years of worth left in

them. Whole streets of trees have been cut down. Healthy trees. Trees

that didn't need to go. With inadequate replacements. In one

street they were surveyed about the trees. The people received the

survey the day after their trees were cut down. The day after? The

day after. It's pathetic. The council admits the chainsaws did

swing into action on one street before residents were consulted.

Blaming an admin mixup for the letters being late, foil which

they're very sorry. Back in Greenhill, some feel the axe was

needed. Certainly, properties have been damaged with roots growing

under the brick works and causing subsidence. The main worries was the

roots coming up on the pavement. It was quite dangerous to walk on.

Others see it as a tragedy. We miss the beauty. This town, prance many

others, will be a concrete jungle. Sheffield City Council told us they

aim to protect the city's 36,000 street trees for years to come.

Adding, that they've listened to people's concerns with an

Independent Tree Panel and a survey of more than 5,000 households.

Elsewhere, it seems some councils are learning you can put a price on

the benefits trees bring. Nicky Williams from the Woodland Trust say

they include our health and wellbeing, more diverse wildlife and

better protection from flooding. How doo-doo councils compare, are they

better or worse than Sheffield? Some councils are calculating how much

value their trees will bring to theirers why. Wrexham, ?1.3 million

they value their trees. They are looking at the bottom line and doing

the economics they are proving the trees are worth something. The fate

of Sheffield's trees will be decided in court. Which ever side of the

argument you fall on, it's a sad state of affairs that it's come to

this. Sheffield council have lodged their papers to fight the injunction

with the court and say that even if they go-ahead with their proposal to

fell 14% of Sheffield's two million trees, the city will still have a

very strong claim to be the greenest city in Europe. Robson you are a man

of the outdoors, do you have a favourite woodland or tree? Next

door to my house is Hadrian's Wall and there is a sick more tree. It's

stunning Vista, when the sun is set issing. It's really beautiful. I had

trees knocked down by flood wall. I chopped them down. Health and safety

issue. Sorry. Difficult stuff. They weren't worth ?1.3 million What, the

house? That's all of them. Grantchester returns to ITV tonight.

We were talking about it there. If you don't know James plays Sidney,

the local vicar who developed a sideline in helping detective

Geordie, aka Robson, to solve mysteries. There is a disagreement

brewing this series between you both? Yeah, there is. The first

series we built up the characters, setting up the relationships. This

time round we have earnt the right to untangle those and threaten them.

We disagree over the death penalty and it starts to really challenge

our friendship. Right. The relationships were well established

in series one. Luckily, the audience seems to care about them and follow

them. One of the things you do with a great friendship is fracture it.

Great at the start, fracture in the middle, will they get back together

again. The death penalty is a major arc. If the 50s if you committed

wilful murder you were hung. We arele pos apart in our opinion. Both

arguments are valid. One of the reasons why the show is so good is

down to Daisy's writing and the casting and and the whole team that

make it. Daisy's writing is beautiful and economic. They deal

with the dealt penalty well. All the issues and themes of the programme

come out in the rips, especially this central one. We enjoyed the

first episodes. You make it your mission to find Sidney a girlfriend.

He is not giving up. Those looks of yours will fade. You can talk! Hair

stop growing on your head and grow out of your ears. Most disconcerting

when that happens. What is it with your hair? It's penance, for your

sins. One day you look back, sad and alone. Hairy ears and think - if

only I'd let him find me a It's a woman girl. He needs, not a Fine.

Girl. Find me a woman. All right then. Good. A little bird tells us,

the guy who sent the footage on the mobile phone, you spent a night in

the gym the day before and it got competitive, is that right? Let's be

honest. There were gym battles. Were they battles? Yeah, they were

battles. You won the war! It was a lot colder than that. That was

filmed mid October. That was chilly. It looked like the height of It did.

Summer. It must have been a battle doing your lines. It takes your

breath away. You are in there for a while doing the scenes? Just to keep

warm. To get back to the plot. Does Sidney find the one in the series?

Is there a sniff of a girl? There is the girl who Sidney is sort of - he

knows and she loves, everyone knows they are in love with Amanda. They

are star-crossed in the truest sense. Everything is set up against

them. The society, upbringings. She can't be a vicar's wife, she he

can't marry her. He tries to find another love. Grantchester is a real

place. You use locals as extras. The local vicar was leaving and somebody

said - Yeah, in the first series. The vicar of Grantchester was

leaving. One of the extras got confused and said - have you thought

about applying for the job maybe? No! Wait until we finish filming

I'll have a think. You promised to take James out fishing, extreme

fishing and the rest of it. Have you set a date, where is it taking

place? We will catch the trout. You have to your own show before you

catch a marling. We have fly-fishing we are calling it. Flying fishing.

There we are. Some nets for you. I love it. I love it. A great white or

a clown fish. Excellent. There is a technique in it. There you go,

James. That is how you do it. The new series of Grantchester starts

tonight at #.00pm on ITV. Extreme fishing. They got away. They

reassured me we will be kited out with the best safety gear next week

to help us through our sailing challenge #wi7 we launch on the show

later tonight. You might want to take some of this orange goo with

you. This stuff is unbelievable. According to Marty, it's just the

thing that you need if you are going to be hit hard by the elements. I

will chuck it over. Look at that. Extreme sports require extreme

attraction. Unless you're gay has a lot of restrictive padding, the

shock absorption can be limited. But accompanying Croydon believe they

have come up with a solution. I've come to meet to meet Kenneth. What

is so special about this phone? It is nice and soft and squidgy,

malleable, flexible, but if you want to hit it. There you go. It quickly

toughens up. You can see now it is nice and flexible again. The reason

the foam can do this is because of a key ingredient, orange goo. This is

the raw material we use in all of our products. It behaves like a

viscose fluid. But then Ken does something shocking. If you care to

put your hand on the desk. I can't feel a thing. But how can material

be soft and flexible one minute and rock-hard the next? Let me show you.

The orange goo belongs to a peculiar group of substances with bizarre

properties called non-Newtonian fluids. Quicksand is another one, as

is this stuff. This is cornflour mixed with water. If I take my hand

and very gently push it in like this... It runs through my hands

like a liquid. This is because its particles are able to flow smoothly

past each other. But, if you apply sudden force, like

this, it stops behaving like a liquid and starts to behave like a

solid. The particles don't have time to

flow out of the way so instead they lock in position. The orange goo is

essentially an artificial version of the cornflour mixture. But just how

tough is the goo based foam? I am going to use this test rig to

drop a 2.6 kilo gram bowling ball on to this from et al. That will

produce 26 joules of energy. To protect the tile I have a piece of

standard foam, the sort you might get in a shin pad. Away you go.

When the ball drops on the standard foam it bounces half a metre in the

air. The tile beneath is completely smashed. And now, to use our other

foam, but exactly the same thickness.

This time the bowling ball hardly bounces at all. It's energy is

completely absorbed by the foam and the tile remains intact.

When the ball lands on the non-Newtonian foam, all the

molecules lock together and that stiffens the foam, absorbs the

energy and protect the tile that is underneath. The brilliant thing

about the non-Newtonian foam is it goes back to being all soft and

pliable. Surrounded tiles are one thing, but

how well can the foam that protect the human body?

This is why I am kitted out in a non-Newtonian super suit. I want the

people of Croydon to do their worst. Come on!

Had! Really? Yes, really. Did it hurt to you? Not at all. Have one

more go. One more. As well as protective suits like this one for

sports and stunts, other non-Newtonian materials are being

used in trainers and jackets for soldiers. And whilst it does not

make you invincible, it's probably the closest I will ever get.

Thank you very much, and amazingly we have been told in the last 15

minutes at that orange goo will be in the kneepads of the suits we are

wearing on the boat. Nice to be at one with the orange goo. James...

And actor with orange goo on the other with a hammer. What could go

wrong?! Apparently the harder you smack it, the better. Murphy's law,

if anything can go wrong, it well. Hit it hard. LAUGHTER

That is amazing. He is a good actor! Two years ago when I scaled that

12,000 Shia rock face of Utah's Moonlight Buttress I thought I was

done and dusted but apparently not. Alex will not be on her own for

this. We will find out later who is joining her. They are outside,

wrapped up so much we cannot see who they are. Guess who. It is time to

find out what they have let themselves in for.

It is easy to underestimate how tough this is going to be.

The ocean is unforgiving, it doesn't take any prisoners.

The sea will be cold, the potential of gale force winds, sleep is hard

to come by. There will be things that happen

that you have no control over. There are no showers, water,

heating. The English Channel with one of the

worst when it is bad. There is no way of getting off this

boat. Welcome to the Sport Relief Hell on High Seas challenge was that

we are pairing Alex and five celebrities with an experienced crew

of ocean racers to sail around the UK in five days. They will be

sailing one of two possible routes, dependent on the weather. The first

would see them sail from Belfast all the way to London. The second would

see them set sail from Belfast and head south to north Shields. Each

room is roughly 1000 miles and has to be done in five days. Ian Walker

has raced all over the world in some of the most challenging waters our

planet has to offer. Last year he led his team to victory in the Volvo

Ocean race. It saw seven teams racing 39,000 nautical miles across

the globe in a nine-month period. I need to ensure the safety of the

boat and the crew, about getting from a to B safely and keeping

everybody and everything in good condition and raise as much money

has become sport. Joining Ian is Ian. He will be the boat captain. A

role he was in last year when disaster struck his boat.

That was the sound of a mast snapping on the vessel. There were

240 miles north-west of Cape Horn. We had to get the boat up to Brazil,

2000 miles of sailing with a broken boat.

And this is the same boat we are using for our challenge. The mast is

fixed and she is ready to get back on the open ocean. It is six metres

wide and 20 long. The sale is 420 metres squared. There is a gully

with 12 bunks, six on each side. The stern is safety and communications

equipment and a navigation desk. At the front a galley kitchen and

toilet. It weighs in at 12,500 kilos, that is the weight of 12

great white sharks. The celebrities coming on board,

they are not going to sleep for the first day, maybe even two days,

until they are so tired and sleep deprived they will pass out. They

will work for hours on an four hours off 24 hours a day, meaning no one

will get more than 240 minutes of sleep at any one time.

Sailing round the UK is a challenging course at the best of

times. You couple that with a group of soil -- sailors who have never

sail before and with the weather, it will not be I will be surprised if

half the celebrities are not crippled with seasickness. I think

the challenge will be the physical exertion coupled with the cold, it

is a hell of a challenge. That is genuinely the first time I have seen

that on the first time I have seen the boat. I wish I'd never seen it.

We have Dee Caffari and still with us. They will be part of the team

helping us to stay afloat and safe. Welcome to both of you. I wish I

could say I was pleased to see you... Dee, what is on the horizon,

so to speak? It has been quite vague up until now and we don't know what

we are doing. I can tell by the reaction on your face... You will

take a Volvo Ocean 65 foot yacht that we raced in the Volvo race last

year. You will set off from Belfast and sail round the coast and

hopefully we will deliver you safe and sound five days later to

somewhere where you can tell everybody, with a big smile on your

face, what an amazing sailor you are. We heard it will be a while

until you get some sleep. How involved will Alex and the rest of

the crew be? They will be learning as they go but eventually you expect

them to be for one involved? From the word go they will be fully

involved. There are more celebrities than sailors. How does that make you

feel? LAUGHTER Is that making you nervous? It

should. Rojer I will not get any sleep anyway. It is an experience

for them to see what we do. There will be a lot of lynching involved.

Give us an idea of the duties. In the four hours on deck we will be

getting wet and up front changing sales. On the four hours off, if we

have to change the sale we will wake everyone up. The photos we are

seeing are in the Middle East. We are sailing around the top of

Scotland, hopefully, which is a completely different scenario. Would

you normally sail at this time of year? This time of year is the

coldest water you will get. Great. I have just come back from the Middle

East and Phil from the Caribbean. We don't choose to saline waters in the

UK at this time of year. But we will be with you, encouraging new and

pushing you ahead to break the waves before they hit us. We will give you

the right equipment, life jackets and clothing so you are as safe as

you can be. The more you do, the more you will get out of it.

Emotionally and mentally, I guess that is a big part of this

challenge. The living conditions are so difficult. How do you deal with

that? Do you know you are in it together. It is quite comfortable,

considering some people go and live in remote conditions, camping in

much worse conditions. You get to lie down every four hours, as long

as no one changes direction or sales. This is it here. That is your

bed. That is a bench, not a bed! That's the kitchen. Is it space

food? Freeze-dried. It is a bit tight. We will get to know each

other quite well. That is where you sleep? That is where we will make

decisions on which way to go. Does this excite you, Robson? I have been

in a hurricane of their west coast of Canada. We honestly thought this

was it. I am not a religious man but for 36 hours I prayed to the

Almighty. What a great story! Honestly, I think you will not only

survive this but thrive on it. You will discover things about yourself

and that is the most important thing. You were sailing instructor

at one point, James? Yes, the boat I sailed in with the 20th of that

size. I used to teach kids how to sail for so you are very aware of

the concept? I would love to do that. We'd probably have space for

another member! Now we've revealed what it is we might have more space.

The are two options that the route, where does it stand and what is

involved in that decision? Looking at the weather, we have Gonzalo

joining us, he will make the decision. The final decision will

not be made until Sunday. We want to give you the best experience. There

is no good setting out and the wind dying because that will not benefit

you. We want good sailing. There is an option to go around the top, but

I have noticed from the weather it is a bit cold and snowy up there, so

let's hope the southern option pays off. The idea is to find the right

wind so we have good sailing. I have so many questions which I will get

to later on. Robson and James, we hope people will donate because it

is a great cause. Will you tell people how they can donate to Hell

on High Seas, our challenge this year. To donate ?5 text the word

HELP to 70000 and five. All you can donate ?10 by texting the word HELP

to 70010. All of your donation will go to Sport Relief. You must be 16

or over. Please ask for the bill payer's decision. And for full terms

and decisions you can go to bbc.co.uk/sportrelief. Are you OK? I

am feeling a bit queasy! This week Leonardo DiCaprio finally won the

Best Actor award for The Revenant. We will not mention Titanic. In The

Revenant Leo is buried alive and surprisingly not too happy about it,

which is a world away from the story of Mick Meaney. Here is Angela.

Welcome to Kilburn in North London, a place with a large, proud and very

vocal Irish community. Walk into a pub around these parts and you are

likely to find any number of people willing to share a pint and tell a

story about days and colourful characters gone by. One tale is more

extraordinary than others. In the summer of 1968, this area was

brought to a standstill by Mick Meaney, a labourer from County

Tipperary. He was attempting to break the world record for surviving

under ground inside a sealed coffin. Digger O'Dell in the US was the man

to beat with his 45 days. Journalist Robert knows the story well. It

sounds like a lot of people's worst nightmare, mine included. Why did hi

want to bury him Seve live? He wanted to be famous for something.

He was a publican. Help was an amazing promoter. He came up with

the idea of having a Last Super in front of the press before sealing

the lid on the coffin. # My name is Mick Meaney

# My ears... Mick was buried in a nearby lorry depot. Aged 10, David

was the son of the owner and an eyewitness who saw how he was able

to survive under the strict rules of the competition. They had to put a

tube from the ground level down into the coffin because they had to get

the food and allow him to breathe as well. OK. Michael, how do you feel

down there? I feel fine. Have you changed your mine yet? Not changed

my mine at all. When he was down under, what did he eat, how did he

exist? Given the norm Al food. Steak and potatoes. I think drink was

being put down to him as well. OK. Apparently, he smoked while he was

down there as well. How did he go to the loo? A hatch underneath the

coffin. He could actually leave the thing down below. I don't even want

to think about the mechanics of that. In the end, digger O'Dell's

record was surpassed by more than a fortnight. 61 days later, knock,

knock, Mick is done. Do you remember that day? I do. I remember it well.

There was a photograph of that day and I recognise me that was there.

Oh. Look at all the police and arms linked just to keep the crowd back.

The world's press waited to see what would happen. The lid is taken off

the coffin. He emerges. He comes out victorious. There he was folks,

hairy, grimy but champion of the world. The doctor as examination, a

tense moment. He was ace live and well. Mick Meaney lives to be buried

again. But, there is a but. The Guinness Book of Records never

acknowledged Mick's claim to the title. In fact, they didn't even

have a category for being buried alive. Mick's record wasn't

officially verified by anyone. With the world's media as witnesses, who

could doubt his 61 days? His daughter, Mary, has flown in from

Ireland to meet me in the former lorry depot at the spot where her

dad made his bid for the record. It's a pit yes he hadn't told his

wife back in County Cork. Could you imagine that conversation. Ding,

ding, Alice, I'm going to break a world record and bury my Seve live!

Did he make any money out of it? No money. He had courage. For Mick, the

recognition he valued was in the worldwide media coverage and in the

crowds on the streets of Kilburn. Can you imagine thousands of people

calling your name. They say all the energy comes towards you. They say

the feeling is divine. He chased that feeling all his life. When Mick

Meaney died in 2003 he still claimed to be the undies pewed world

champion of the under ground. Before I left I went up to the graveyard, I

said to my father - get out of that grave and come with me. I could feel

him, his presence here. Although a son of Ireland, Mick will be

remembered for his 61 days in English soil. He looked excellent

coming out. Like a rock star. Amazing. Welcome to the team. Thank

you. He didn't hold the record for long after all that effort, did he?

He didn't. This is my worst nightmare. The lads are looking in

horror at what is happening. A lot of people are into it. Emma Smith

saw Mick Meaney supposedly boast about and decided anything a man can

do I can do better. She headed to Skegness amusement Park and took on

the world record at the time. She had over the course 60,000 visitors

and holidaymakers who came to say hello tochl watch her on the CCTV

reading, knitting, writing letters. They each paid a shilling. 5p, it

went to charity she broke the character. 101 days. People could

watch what she was doing? It was her head space and overcome her mind.

You would imagine that you would go crazy down there. Of course. She

held the record for 12 years after that. Until in 1984 a Texan guy

called Bill Whyte took it on. Beat her by 40 days. Is that him there.

Yes -- White. He held the record for a I will while. After Emma died her

son, who had been there at Skegness when she was, you know, in the thick

of it. He decided in her honour to give it a go and to try and win it

back for the Smith family. The fascination ran in the family then?

Absolutely. There he is. Stuff as nails. A good drama for you two.

That is Geoff there. I spoke to him earlier on. Cool as a cucumber. Not

phased by the prospect at all he said the first night it was very

claustrophobia, really hot and he thought - I don't know if I can do

this. He ended up 147 days down there. The thing is, officially it's

not been recognised by the Guinness World Records, or the Book of

Records, because this is not an official category so to speak. It's

clearly quite a dangerous thing to do. It is. When he got dug up it

took him six hours to get dug up. His mum, 30 minutes. He walls six

foot under. There he is. He took a razor with him down there. The

perfect conditions to grow a beard. Mick Meaney looked amazing. He

looked like a rock star. And the shades as well. Loved it. Military

nit Lovely to see it. It's world book today tomorrow, Lucy has been

finding out that sometimes the old ones really are the best. Even

though the Harry downpour Potter franchise began 20 years ago, rare

and signed copies of the books are selling for silly money. A first

edition of Harry Potter recently sold for ?26,700. How do you know

what you are looking for next time you are going through the bargain

bin of your local charity shop? I went to Benjamin to help separate

the literary wheat from the chaff. What holds its value? Famous books.

You aren't likely to find those books. The condition is paramount.

The dust jackets have to be perfect. If the rest of the book is fine, if

the dust jacket isn't it can affect the value by 75%-80%. The other

thing to make sure of is the edition. You are looking at what we

call the edition line. The earliest number which is visible is the

edition to which the book belongs. In this case you can see 24681

097531. A first edition. If you see one you are in business? You are

business. Assad first edition it would come in ?100. With this it's

worth ?650. Can you turn a profit from a high street charity shop? I

will start by looking for big names. Jazz. The This is surely priceless.

I wouldn't want to sully this. I would read it in the bath. Pristine

and white. Nice ties on it. Internally very clear. The price is

?30. Very reasonable. Politicians and the press Lord BeaverBrook who

owned the Express. This is quite a big enskripgs. "To my friend

JBMellville who saves me from the wages of sin." ?30 that one. ?12. We

spent ?65 on our charity shop haul. To get it valued we head to a rare

book firm. What did you make of our little collection here that we

bought? I like the William Boyd and Tony Morrison. Good first edition.

Might get ?10. These are more unusual and more interesting, I

think. The bind something lovely. It might fetch ?25-?50 maybe. Would you

say a dealer might pay, the upper bit, ?50? You might if you did some

upselling. This is most interesting. It's in bad condition. Whitehall you

have here is that it's got the enskripgs. You get at least ?100.

High Five! ?20 up on that. We're, let us say ?90 up on that. ?107. Not

bad for a visit to a charity shop. Not bad at all. That is a lot of

money? I know. Thank you very much, Lucy. Hunting in the charity shops

at the weekend. No I will be in Belfast training for the boat. Tales

from Northumberland is a successful series, popular. Remarkable that you

filmed three series with one county and found brilliant things to do the

entire time. Do you think there is still mileage for a fourth? You

expanded the brand, if you want. It is a monster. It has space. It's an

astonishing county. You can be alone, but never lonely with

everything it has to ufr a. It's beautiful, dramatic. There are

characters there who changed the world. Proud to call it home. We

have scratched the surface with the series. They will expand it and call

it Can tales from the Coast and go

around the coast of Britain. We will come down the east coast, the in

ordered, it is a truly tremendous place to live. It's my favourite

county. That is me saying that from County Durham. You have paved my way

for my series about County Durham. Further south we go to North

Yorkshire. For your pitch for your North York I have how are you going

to better Northumberland? I'm presenting a series... We have so

much space. It's tremendous. Better puddings. There you go. It's a hit!

I'd watch it. Strong tea. I'm presenting. You you are busy at the

moment. The different things we watched you in James recently. Happy

Valley. War and Peace. From an era perspective, where do you feel

happiest because we have seen you in the 50s, modern-day, War and Peace.

I don't know. That's a good we question. As James I'm happy here.

Back to Warp and Peace wonderful the costumes and the lavish lifestyles.

A lot of suffering and trials. The 50s is fun. We love filming grant

gran. The music. It's near enough to our lives to feel nostalgic. Far

enough to feel the difference. It's fun. Happy Valley, which people have

been glued to. You are a nasty pasty! Nasty pasty. I'm glad you are

on the sofa and a lovely guy. You are a great actor. You are in the

theatre doing Bug. A Tracy Letts play. You play a character called

Peter. Bring us up to speed on how he fits into the plot? It's about a

woman played by Kate Fleetwood she is living in a hotel room with a

troubled past and drug addiction. Peter arrives and it's about a

relationship, we are not quite sure what is real and what's not. It

involves lots of bugs. How vague is that? It's brilliant. I don't want

to give too much away. It is in amazing theatre. It has a cocktail

bar. You will be out of the theatre by 9.45pm. Sound lovely. Robson we

were talking about when you were playing Jesus. Son of the All

Mighty. Who would have thought? My mum was proud. Share with the

nation. Opening night, there I am during crucifixion. Five hour show.

The cross collapsed and went straight into the audience Row 3.

History was changed before people's eyes. Victor Lewis Smith was a

critic. Said, "I'm not sure Robson Green was playing at, it's hard to

believe anyone would follow him across the stage, let alone Israel."

We call that nit picking. Was anyone hurt During the run two people died

in the audience. No. Had heart attacks. I swear. Quite a

performance you put on there. Two people died. You are full of -

Hopefully Bug will go better. Full of stories this evening. You two

stay on dry land now as we head out to sea. You more reluctantly than

me. Let's go. For this year for Sports Relief Alex will be sailing a

65-foot yacht around the coast of Britain on one of these two routes.

It's all depending on the weather. Now, basically, all she needs is a

very willing and let's say, Hardy crew to help her out on this, the

Hell on High Water Sea challenge. Let's point out who they are.

Petrol head and gadget lover, Suzi Perry! Come on, Suzi. Keeping up our

spirits be comedian Hal Cruttenden. We have seen many sporting Mexican

wave but is he ready for the real deal? It is already do bar. -- Ore

Oduba. And doona McKeown can. And our very own Angellica Bell. Here

they are. Great to see you. We are off on Saturday to Belfast to do

some training and Monday it all kicks off. Did you see any of that

terrible footage they showed us? They didn't tell us what we were

signing up for. We didn't hear what the lovely sailors were saying. I

was saying this time next week they will say, remember last week when

you were on The One Show and you were jolly and full of good spirits

and now we are freezing. They haven't showed us the toilet! I saw

it on the diagram and it looked very small. That is not a toilet! It is

called the head, you don't say toilet on a boat. You sound very

knowledgeable! Have you been doing some research? No. You have been

quizzing the guys back stage. I have. Knowledge is power. In the

nicest possible way Alex came back and said I'm a bit worried about

Hal, he is a bit of a warrior. Are you? I have been trying to control

it. I am trying not to spread panic or I will be chopped off the boat.

Do you know what happened? He said he can't believe anyone picked it

up. He said, I'm worried you will leave me behind if I fall in. What

if you fall off the back and nobody notices? Man overboard you are

worried about. Hal high water! Ore What about you, seasickness? My

experience of boats goes as far as ferries. I haven't yet suffered any

seasickness. It will definitely happen next week! These are also

good for being sick on. To be honest, I think a lot of dignity is

going to go out of the window. RU quite happy... It will be quite fall

on. They asked if I had used a she we before and she said you can

crouch over a bucket and throw it overboard. That's what we are

dealing with. I think it will be really fun and really exciting and

the trip of a lifetime. Yes, it will be really difficult. I think the

weather will be a big thing for us. To be cold and wet all the time. But

what an opportunity, what an amazing thing. Doon Has bought us these good

luck Hindu chance. If you find them washing up on a beach, send help!

LAUGHTER I think the main thing we will

struggle with because of the time of year is temperature and being

outside in the middle of the night, three in the morning, not being able

to feel your hands and having to do the tasks to keep the boat moving.

How are you feeling about that? As you know I am not very good with

cold or water. Don't laugh! I think we are going to have to work

together and keep busy on the boat. And try not to think about it so

much. Just think about the destination where going to and all

the money we will raise the charity, because that is why we are doing it.

There wouldn't be any other reason! You have hit the nail on the head.

After doing the climate I know the power of a challenge like this to

raise money. All we can do is do it and hope other people get inspired

and get involved and donate as much as they can. The worse the weather

will get the more money we will raise. We will be throwing up and

crying and more money will come in! I am sure you have so many questions

for Dee and Phil who are in the Green room watching this. They are

not even listening! LAUGHTER Talk among yourselves. We have had a

message that has been sent in from someone who knows a thing or two

about epic Sport Relief challengers. Day nine and I am running my eighth

marathon, which doesn't match up. 27 marathons in 27 days, a salute to

Nelson Mandela, the years he spent in prison. It has been tough but

anyone in the UK can help. I hear Alex, you are going in a boat. If

the weather is good, you could hit good weather and it will be easy. If

you hit rough weather for the whole time, like the Spanish Armada, you

could be gale force nine and it would be a nightmare. Good luck to

you and good luck to me. Thank you so much to Eddie in South Africa,

what a hero he is. West of luck to him. One more time,

let's have a little round of applause. Good luck and we wish them

all the very best. The team will encounter some wildlife on board,

maybe dolphins, seals, Gannett 's. Richard Taylor Jones has discovered

a novel way of filming birds but he was slightly calmer waters.

He's diving water birds are infamous for their escape ology. Is the

slightest disturbance may make an instant exit. No doubt about it,

they are incredibly wary birds and when you come to a lake like this,

if they are here it is guaranteed they will pop up on the other bank.

I have never come anywhere like this and got a decent photograph of them.

So I have enlisted the help of a wildlife photographer David Plummer.

He invents ingenious ways to get close to his subject and has just

the thing to get me close to a little greeb. This is a floating

hides, very effective at getting close to much shyer birds out there.

To get good shots, we have to get close. I took these last season.

Wow. A more hen and a great crested greeb. The low angle gives it

intimacy. How close do you think you were when you took that? Within two

meters. Do you think we will get anything like this today? I am

hopeful. David has built me my own floating hide and I am going to test

out on a lake where we have spotted a little greeb nest. Time to prepare

our hide, get into our dry suits and get out onto the water.

It is a whole different perspective being out here on the water. I feel

like I am in the swampland of Louisiana, not sorry. -- not Surrey.

This is a pretty unusual way to start a day of photographing, but I

am intrigued to see how it will work.

I may look like a talking Bush but by not casting human silhouette, the

bird shouldn't see me as a threat, or at least, that is the plan.

What's great about this hide is I am not fixed in one position, I can

easily swivel round. I have got myself stuck! I got my foot caught

between some branches. There is a little duckling coming, just in

front of me here. Haven't reached the greeb yet, but the duckling

could be the ideal thing to get me used to being in this hide. I am

completely covert. None of the birds seem to mind me being here. I feel

like a spy on the lake. I can communicate with David by

walkie-talkie. Do you think it would be a good time to stop? Is this the

moment we should see she's happy with this?

She looks pretty relaxed, I would stay there and hang fire for a

while. Stopping about five metres away from

the nest, I'd start to take my first images. This is a typical little

greeb nest, a floating platform made believes close to the water's edge.

The birds covered the eggs with the leaves to protect them from

predators. It is a beautiful day but the trees

are blocking out the light. I am going to use just enough flash to

provide a bit of extra bumps to the foreground of the picture.

Whilst the birds are relaxed I try to see how close I can get. In some

little greebs have a chestnut throat and cheeks. I want to capture that.

I must be one, one of the half metres away. I just can't believe

you can get this close to such an incredibly shy bird.

Mission accomplished. David and I have managed to sneak in undetected

and make the most of our covert encounter.

Thank you. That was utterly extraordinary. I

might have a go. As we are going to be at sea

together, we are going to do a bit of a bonding exercise. To help us we

have the National Scottish Indoor Tug of War Team. They are going to

help us learn how we can all pull together, so to speak! We need all

the help we can get. With two honorary members. Yes! Will you be

on our team? Yes. Good luck. I will have a word with Bob. You have just

come back from the World Championships. Give us an idea of

how well you did with regard to how many teams you entered? We won

three, we came home with three gold medals. Three out of four. There are

quite a few slighter figures among you. I am quite surprised this is a

tug of war team. I guess it is about technique? Yes. They are in

different weight categories, so I would need smaller guys to make a

lighter weight category. It is to do with the balance of the team. Is it

more up and down or side to side? More side to side. A pushing action

rather than a pulling action, pushed the rope back rather than pull it.

You have this secret machine? Yes, but we can't tell you about that. We

didn't get to win a team gold medals by giving away our secrets! We have

to keep some of it back. We have 45 seconds until the end of the

programme so I would get yourselves at the end of some rope. So we can

get set up here. We might as well say goodbye. Yes. That is all we

have time for tonight, thank you to Robson and James. The second series

of Granchester begins at nine o'clock on ITV tonight. You can sign

up to take part in the Sport Relief games on Sunday March 20th.

Hopefully you will be joining us for that. You can walk, run, swim or

cycle yourself proud. Tomorrow we are joined by the start of My Big

Fat Gypsy Wedding 2, Nia Vardalos. The losers end up in the water. Off

you go! They look like they could be taking

a dive into the swimming pool! He's gone! Face first.