02/05/2012 The One Show

Hello, welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and the remarkably

talented Alex Jones. This is extraordinary, playing live. Our

guest tonight is a former champion swimmer, a mineworker and teacher.

He's got an MBE, OBE, CBE and he is the famous inventor of the wobble

board. He is an artist, a musician. Is there anything he cannot do?

Alex, are you going to introduce him? I can't, I'm supposed to be

playing the didgeridoo! It's given the game away. It is Rolf Harris.

Of course it is! APPLAUSE Good to see you, Rolf. Tremendous. Did that

work? Did they believe it was you? I doubt it! Anyway, we want to be

the first to congratulate you. We hear you are having a BAFTA

Fellowship at the end of this month. APPLAUSE There we go. You will be

joining the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Dame Judi Dench and Sir

David Attenborough. That must have come as an amazing surprise. How

did you feel? Shocked. It feels absolutely fantastic. I realise of

course that, for the last number of years, six decades I have been on

television, so people have got used to seeing me around doing all sorts

of different things like cartoons and painting and Animal Hospital

and Rolf on Art and all sorts of stuff. Well deserved. The ultimate

accolade. It is wonderful. We are going to be talking to Rolf about

his BBC comeback and a brand-new exhibition of his life's work later

on. And we also have a bit of a challenge for you. Yes. We have got

three budding artists in tonight. Ilaria and Caspar and Tate. They

had their self-portraits projected on to Buckingham Palace last week

for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. saw that photo, yes. These three

were part of that. Tonight, we are asking them to paint something

suitably royal. Are you ready? You have 20 minutes. Off you go.

Good work. APPLAUSE Yes, indeed. Ah! At the end of the show, Rolf,

we will be asking you "Can you tell what it is yet?" It is all

happening tonight. Dom is also here. We will be asking him how companies

can get away with openly advertising the clocking of cars.

First, here is Anita Rani. In recent years, the car industry

has tried to make it harder for criminals to alter mileage but car

clocking is still a huge problem. There are more than a million

clocked cars on our roads and David Wood ward has got one of them. When

34,000 miles on the clock. But all was not what it seemed. David, what

attracted you to this car? It was in immaculate condition. It had

just 34,000 miles and it was �5,000. Seems like a good deal? Until you

found out what the mileage was, which was how much? Which was

140,000 miles. That's so many miles! It is a lot more. That is a

crazy amount. How did you find out that it had done so many more

miles? I was contacted by Trading Standards and they interviewed me

and dropped the bombshell that it had this extra 105,000 miles on the

clock. David was the victim of car clockers in the West Country. They

were buying cars at auctions, lowering the mileage and selling

them on at a profit. They clocked 19 cars by 1.5 million miles. It

was not long before their luck ran out. North Somerset Trading

Standards prosecuted the gang. The criminals pleaded guilty to fraud

by false representation and received suspended prison sentences.

How did you go about catching them? Two members of the public contacted

us with concerns about vehicles they had purchased. One owner had

taken his car in for a service at a main dealership and he was advised

by the engineers that the mileage was higher than indicated on the

digital odometer. Then we started to look into the vehicle history.

What can members of the public do to avoid being caught out? They can

check carefully the documentation that is put before them. They can

check the details online. They can check the previous history and

phone previous owners or previous garages that have serviced the

vehicles. They need to bear in mind that digital odometers can be

clocked. The problem according to some experts is down to the law. It

is legal to change a car's odometer. It is illegal to sell that car on

without informing the buyer. This motoring journalist is one of many

calling for the law to be made much tougher. He says it probably

wouldn't stop the most hardened criminals, but it might deter

private sellers who want to get a few more quid for their old cars.

Should the law be changed? Without a shadow of a doubt! It is an

unspeakable, horrible thing. It opens the door for crime. It

becomes so opaque. The law must be changed. Why does it exist in law?

There must be an occasion when it's OK to clock your car, legitimately?

There's occasions. They are very rare examples. Probably one-tenth

of 1% where maybe your two-year-old car, the speedo cars, the mileage

counter goes and your car went at 20,000 and the one you buy is at

40,000 and you want to wind it back to reflect the genuine mileage of

the car. That is pretty rare. a million clocked cars on the road,

it really is a case of buyer beware as David has found out to his cost.

When you buy your next car after this one, what will you do? I think

I will probably buy a new car. Brand-new, zero miles on the clock?

Brand-new from a reputable dealer, I think. Definitely.

Well, Dom is here to shed more light on the subject. Some

companies are openly advertising mileage correction. How can that

be? There's loads. We are going to put a clip to show you some of them.

Adjusting your mileage, recalibrating it, it is not illegal.

People need to know what they are buying and that is when the law is

broken. To adjust it is not illegal. There are some reasons why people

might want to do it. It is a bit grey. If you are interested in

buying a second hand car, are there any tell-tale signs? Definitely. It

is not just cars that can be clocked. What else could be

clocked? Motorbike? Yes. Boats. JCBs. Tractors. Anything. What you

need to do is look at paperwork. If something looks like it is done

300,000 miles and only showing 50,000, start to smell a rat. The

registration document will give you the present owner, the previous one

and also if you write to the DVLA - it is about �5 - they will tell you

about any previous owner's names and addresss so you can write to

them as well and ask them what was the mileage when you sold it? Look

at MoT certificates. That will tell you what was on it when the MoT was

done. Try and speak to the garage that was in the service book and

say, "Did you service that car on that date?" Checking the rubber on

the pedals, too? Holes in the carpet. That happens a lot with

ladies' high heels. We understand there are changes on the way to

help? There are. The Ministry of Transport don't like the adjustment

of mileages. They can't ban it. As of the end of this year, all new

MoT certificates will have previous odometer readings to help stamp it

out. Thanks ever so much. You can find out more details on

bbc.co.uk/theoneshow. Yes. It is time to turn back the

clock in a more honest fashion. like Rolf, Joan Armatrading has

been though stranger to the charts over the years. Carrie Grant went

to find out the secret to her success.

What makes a hit record? A profound lyric? The catchy chorus? Entire

books have been written on the subject. I would like you to meet

an artist who tried to analyse it in her own musical style.

# I'm not in love... # Joan Armatrading was already the

critics' favourite in 1976. It wasn't until her third album

release that she achieved top ten chart success. What was it about

Love And Affection? # With a friend

# I can smile... # The process of writing has always

been very organic. The song tends to write itself in the key it wants

to be written in. This is the song I am. I just basically go with that.

Quite often the songs don't follow the verse chorus kind of pattern.

Which Love And Affection does? When I said to the record company

that I wanted that to be the single, they said, "Remember, you asked for

it!" Love And Affection is a beautiful track. It is one of my

favourites. Partly because of the power of Joan's vocal performance.

When it comes to the vocal on Love And Affection? I haven't got a

clue! Don't say that! LAUGHTER haven't got a clue. No. I don't do

anything with my voice because I'm more interested in writing the song

than singing it. I sing because I write. You are quite fareless at

leaving things in -- fearless at leaving things in even when they

aren't perfect? Singing isn't about being perfect. It is about

expression, feeling and putting forward this emotion.

# I'm open to persuasion... # People did connect with that

emotion. Following the success brought by Love And Affection, a

song written with no preconceived idea of creating a hit, Joan

decided to play with the idea of what makes a record work. Instead

of writing to please herself, she set out to write a crowd-pleaser.

What were your aims with Drop The Pilot? To have a top ten hit. That

was the sole purpose of writing Drop The Pilot. I wanted it to be

bouncy. I wanted the quirky lyrics. If I went off into this typical

Joan thing I would rein it in. It is not like when you write Love And

Affection that pours out. This is where you have to think and close

your eyes and look up and the pencil in the mouth - it is that

kind of thing. Did that not feel like a compromise? No. It felt like

a challenge. It was really enjoyable. And even more enjoyable

because it was a hit. Drop The Pilot became Joan's third UK Chart

success and was also a hit in America. Having achieved the aim of

writing her perfect pop song, she never did it again. I have no idea

why I didn't do it again. It is because we write the way we write.

To write like Drop The Pilot all the time, I would be struggling. It

is not my natural kind of area. although both ways of writing

produced a hit record, it's Love And Affection that Joan thinks has

lasted the best. I have sung that song every single night on tour

since it came out in 1976. I never get fed up of it. The audience

never gets fed up of it. It feels very fresh still. Part of that

freshness is this thing of not having this kind of formula, if you

like, and Drop The Pilot, I haven't sung that every single tour.

may not have sung that one but we love Drop The Pilot. Rolf, we could

talk to you about music for hours. You are here to talk about your art

in this new exhibition, which wouldn't have happened if it wasn't

for this photograph of an 5th of I had taken a photograph of

this lady. She lived with her husband, a white guy who. They had

this little shack of a house that they lived in. She was amazing.

That was in her kitchen. I was doing a programme about Degas, one

of the Impressionists. I was at Windsor racecourse, I painted a

picture of a jockey riding a horse, being led by a group. It worked

like a dream. A lovely impressionist painting. -- led by a

groom. At the end of it, I thought, why am I not doing this every day

of my life, I love it so much. The next morning, I was up at about

seven. Between 730 and 9 o'clock, I had finished that painting from a

photograph of Patsy. It's bad quickly? Yeah. -- that quickly?

it painted itself, it went so fast. The background was she sloshed in,

it did not matter, everything worked. Your body of work is so

diverse. In your 80th year, your 82, actually, can you now pinpoint what

your style is? It is basically impressionistic. If anybody doesn't

know what that means, an impressionistic painting is one

which starts off with a blur, and then refines the Blur to whatever

stage you want to leave it. You can keep refining it until it looks

like a photograph, but I don't like that. I like it to be casual and

relaxed. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the portrait you

did of the Queen for her 80th birthday. We are going to have a

look of you in the palace. missed a very good at changing of

the Guard. I know, you get all the fun of the music and everything in

the mornings. There was a great bank, they fired a gun at about

midday, which frightens the wits out of all of us -- a great bank.

Do you know why it was? No. Nor did I! I had to look it up. Brilliant.

On that point of refining it, was a difficult to know when to stop with

that one? Yeah... My aim was to get a like MS, first and foremost,

otherwise you are dead in the water, if it doesn't look like the person.

-- to get a likeness. And do have it looking like a real person,

rather than pomp and circumstance and a costume, I wanted to get the

real person behind the facade, as it were. I was very happy with that

warmth that came through that painting, I loved it. It captures

her personality. I think so. As she left the studio, she said, it is a

very friendly painting. I took that as a pat on the back. She never

says, I love that, or I hate that. Let's see how the three young

artists are coming on. How are you doing? Lovely stuff. You can see

Rolf Harris's work at the exhibition, Can You Tell What It Is

Yet?, at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.

After 10 years of Animal Hospital, you are going to love this next

film. Joe Crowley went to meet one little

girl whose life has been turned around by a cockapoodle.

This is a 3-year-old cockapoodle, but she is no ordinary family pet.

She has been trained as a working dog to help her 11-year-old owner.

Poppy suffered severe hearing loss when she was born three months

premature. I can't hear mummy and daddy talking. I can't hear the

sound of footsteps, I can't hear the radiator, I can't hear the rain.

Being a deaf child presents many challenges went sound is used for

everything, from communication to alerting us to danger -- when sound

is used. I find it difficult if my friends or family are talking at

once. It is hard to keep up. I am looking everywhere. Some of these

problems can be alleviated using technology, such as hearing aids,

flashing a lance and implants. For the first time, British Deaf

children are also getting canine support in the form of hearing Dogs

-- flashing alarms. They not only help in a practical way but they

let recipients to alarms and danger signals. They also come back --

combat the feeling of isolation. is here in Buckinghamshire that

puppies like this one than the schools to become working dogs,

like Maddy. In this purpose-built home environment, dogs are trained

to react in any sounds including telephones, alarm clocks and

crucially, fire alarms -- react to many sounds. This year has seen the

culmination of a pilot scheme where hearing dogs have been placed with

children, but can it really change a deaf child's quality of life?

benefits are right across the board, not just on the practical aspects

of what the dogs can do, but this great aspect of helping children

make friends and helping adults make friends. There are great

technological advances. This is another choice that you can make.

The added benefits are companionship, independence and

security that a hearing dog brings, a lot of people will choose that as

an added range of benefits. Maddy had a life-changing impact on

Poppy? Maddy sleeps in my room, opposite me. I can see her. I know

she will let me if something goes wrong. It gives me that bubble of

comfort. Maddy has given her the reassurance, and taken away all

those concerned to do with their disability, to create something

almost even stronger, in a beautiful way, I think, but I am

her mum. She is like my best friend. I literally couldn't do anything

without her. What the team they are. There is a

limited supply of books like Maddy available at the moment. It you

want to contact the charity, the details are on the website --

supply of dogs. Poppy and her mum are here, it is lovely to see you

all. Olivier, Poppy described Maddy as a bubble of comfort, which is

lovely, but there is a specific reason why you chose a cockapoodle.

It is because Poppy's dad is highly allergic to dog hair. Maddy is non-

shedding. Also we are a petite and energetic family and we could not

imagine having a labrador, because it wouldn't be us. Hearing Dogs

tailor the docks to the families. Is there anywhere that you can't

take her?? I can't take her to school or the swimming pool. That

would be understandable. You must be so excited to get home from

school and to see her. Yes, I am. How is life with a dog because you

have never had one? No. My son and I were terrified. A bad experience?

I did, but in my nature, I was quite scared of them. She has cured

me, she has been an amazing comfort for Poppy and has made our family

complete. You make a great team. And a bubble of comfort, or a

beautiful thing. Thanks for coming in. It is not just the likes of

Maddy that are proving their worth in the animal kingdom. A close look

at fish has given technical boffin some fresh ideas for underwater

propulsion. So who got access to this James Bond like world of

underwater gadgets? Miranda Krestovnikoff, of course.

Traditionally, boats have been powered by sales and propellers.

Now, scientists are finding new ways for propulsion, from the

animals that do it best. Seabirds, and of course, fish. This is a fish

and 82 south-east Asia, and has some impressive moves. -- native to

south-east Asia. That has inspired mechanical engineers at the

University of Bath. That film is really unusual, on the bottom of

They have beautiful control over what the body can do, a normal fish

cannot do that. A normal fish has to bend or of his body and is only

able to make one motion. This guy, he can just move his feet in and

generate thrust in all kinds of directions. He is going backwards.

Knife fish are most active at night and can be found in flooded forests

and swans. His fear and helps them navigate around tree roots and

It gave the team the idea for a robot that can live in similar

environments. You are basically managed to recreate a knife fish in

a robot. Two motors drive a bunch of beers that go down to two shafts,

and each one drives one of the Big it looks a bit creepy, at the

way it is wriggling around. It is just a wave motion? -- it looks a

Right, moment of due have -- moment of truth, let's see what happens.

This is designed to explore rocky or shallow waters, where propellers

That back, that's forwards. Wow, that is going great. It is going

backwards as well. Brilliant. manoeuvrability is a better as well.

You can fine-tune exactly where you want to be more easily than with a

propeller. Just like the knife fish? Yes. Fish are not the only

marine life that engineers have Penguins use their wings to

literally fly underwater. William and his team have come up with the

Seebohm, a human powered submarine inspired by the way the birds move

in the sea. My initial impression is it does not look much like a

penguin, but it is torpedo shape and it has got fines on it. It has

wings, so it flies like a penguin. When he is flying, his wings are

going up and down. He is always doing this. For a submarine, it is

not great. By taking this in principle but taken at the other

way, we can balance the forces, and then we can steer in a nice

straight line -- but taking it the other way. It needs an air supply,

and it has one on board. OK, lovely. Pushing down on the pedals makes

the foils on the side flap like wings, to propel the submarine Ford.

My legs are exhausted now -- the submarine forward. This is what it

feels like to be a penguin. I would be rubbish. With a lot of effort,

my top speed is nearly four kilometres per hour. Some species

of penguin can swim up to nine times faster. Although this

submarine was billed for a competition, it is hoped this

design could lead to more eco friendly submersibles. And it just

goes to show that if you take a look at nature, it can give you all

sorts of ideas, like swimming Are young artists are putting the

finishing touches to their paintings. You have got a special

programme to coincide with the Jubilee? We start painting tomorrow,

Windsor Castle, it is very exciting. And then Anneka Rice comes in?

is organising an exhibition we have got a. Huge numbers of people,

about 60 people coming in to paint, all different qualities and styles

and ages. One is about nine or 10. A youngster, a fantastic painter.

We have got people as old as me. Not that ancient. We can see that

on BBC One. Yes. There will be a pop up exhibition. On that note, it

is time to stand around behind your easels. We will reveal your artwork

to Rolf Harris. Ilaria, what have you gone? Is this Buckingham

Palace? It is Buckingham Palace. Have a look at Caspar's. It is

fantastic. You did a smiley face there. It is the Royal barge.