02/08/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with rogue catcher Matt Allwright.

have hot-footed it to Herefordshire to get ready

for tomorrow's special show from the wonderful village of Weobley.

We'll speak to Alex a bit later about how it's shaping up.

Yes, we're in charge tonight, and are they going to be sad

they missed tonight's guest, a bone-fide British film star!

People are all a little wobbly, I am not going to live.

And Weobley might be one of the only places he hasn't been to.

He's run through the streets of Edinburgh.

He's even traversed the deserts of Tattooine...

MUSIC: "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop.

All right? Wow! Thank you very much. Good, and today? 25 of my closest

friends. We mentioned some of the many

places you've been, and you're just back

from a trip to Iraq for Unicef, But we need to clear up a rumour

that has been doing the rounds, spread by a certain Mr Noel

Gallagher. How do you say it? He claims that your first light sabre

fight as Obi-Wan Kenobi was not with anyone from the dark side, it was

with him, can you confirm this rumour? Yeah, it is true! I found

out that I had got the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi and I went to a party

at his house, down the road from me in Belsize park at the time. It was

in the 1990s, so at eighth and next morning we were having a light sabre

fight in his garden. Using what exactly? He had light sabres there.

I didn't come with my own at that time! The noises and everything? He

didn't go easy with me. I bet he puts up a pretty good fight. Lovely

to have you with us. Great to have you with us.

On an August night in 2011, cities across the UK experienced rioting

and violence which escalated very quicky, some blamed social media.

But that same social media also gave a voice

to those who wanted to put things right.

Anita has returned to catch up with those who were swept up in events.

Five years ago, Britain was shattered by the worst riots in

decades. For a few hours last night, and icky came to the streets of

London... The rights broke out after 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot and

killed by police in Tottenham, north London. I live in East London, and

the riots were happening on my doorstep, so the following morning I

went to film a piece for the One Show the aftermath.

I have lived in this area for eight years, and as soon as I saw that

riots were taking place in Hackney, I had to come down to see what the

situation was. But what I saw was a complete

contrast to the madness of the night before, images like this became an

icon of determination, people wanting to clean up their street and

bring communities together. They were called the broom armies, and

their mission was to clean up the mess. I am trying to track down the

people who swept up the horrors of the looting. Many of those on the

rampage were teenagers, but 116-year-old had a different idea. I

was a bit shocked, but I headed to Twitter, which was quite popular for

news, and I saw the hashtag which had started, and then me and a

friend Patrick built this website to show people where they could turn up

to help clean up the streets. That is amazing, so as a 16-year-old

watching the news, you were driven to get involved? It was on the news,

it was being portrayed as youths were starting the riots, setting

fire to things, and I wanted to change how young people were viewed

in that way. So you have got the story there, then you talk about

what people can do to get involved. Did you get a sense that people

wanted to get involved? So overnight the hashtag amassed nearly 100,000

people following it, in Clapham 5000 people turned up with brooms and bin

bags, people with bands collecting donations. Peckham saw some of the

worst violence. Sally was working in her cafe that night. The first thing

I knew was that my neighbours of the city came in and said, you might

want to put your shutters down. There was something in the air, I

cannot really explain it, but it was menacing. What did you say? There

were military vehicles in my street, policemen in full riot gear, it had

gone from perfectly normal, central city seemed to apocalypse. I was

literally standing two yards from rioters hurling things, and they

were hurling things at our shutters. Were they saying anything to you?

They couldn't see me, I was in the dark behind the shutters, but they

seemed quite feral to me. After the violence, crowds of cleaners took to

the streets all over the country. Communities banded together to clean

up their shattered neighbourhoods. And the uplifted broom became a

symbol of solidarity. Five years on, we've brought together a broom army

to mark the anniversary of the big clean-up. People like to band

together and help each other at, and there was a much stronger sense of

community in the area afterwards, and you could feel it. I saw someone

on Twitter saying we should clean up. You were the actual person who

came up with that hashtag. That is right, yeah. There was something

about the hashtag which sparked something. It got picked up by

people like Simon Pegg, and it went from there. After the riot, 4000

people were posting their reaction, and most of them were saying how

much they loved Peckham, or what it meant to them. Five years on, and he

we are reminiscing about what happened in the aftermath of the

riots. I think the legacy is exactly what everyone has been talking

about, unity, solidarity, and above all community. All together now...

Broom army! That is lovely, it is really

difficult to imagine that was five years ago. It has gone so quickly.

I'm glad to say Angellica is here, alongside Lianna, and we will find

out about your story in a little while, but the broom army was one

example of a story where we have seen social media start something

small and grow and make a huge difference to peoples lives. The

truth is, whether you love it or loathe it, social media is powerful

and real. You might member two years ago the Ice Bucket Challenge, where

friends and family would nominate you do have to freezing cold ice

water poured over you, you would upload the video to social media and

donate money to a motor neurone disease charity. One in six Britons

took part in that, including Ewan. I did, yeah! And we raise ?5 million,

a pot much bigger than that! Lots of people did it, and a lot of people

thought it was just a stunt, a bit annoying, but the amazing news is

that last week it was announced that the money raised from this online

craze helped with a breakthrough for motor neurone disease. Scientists

have discovered a gene which contributes to the kind of motor

neurone disease which is passed down through families genetically, and it

would be us a better understanding of the disease and could lead to new

treatment possibilities. So this is like power people, really. The speed

at which it happened as well, and now there is a press up challenge.

Yes, 22 Pushup Challenge, US charity has called on people to film

themselves doing press up to raise awareness of veterans suffering from

mental illness, and it has come over here, 10,000 servicemen have been

doing it. Dogs! And even dogs, yes. It is amazing how quickly it can

turn around, and you are a perfect example of someone who started with

something small and possibly cannot believe what you have done. We

started last summer as a group of friends, we set out to raise ?1000

and collect clothes and goods to take to Calais, and we started

A-level hashtag and got on social media, and within a week we had

?56,000, 7000 packages arriving a day in our storage. We thought we

had to check they could receive these goods, we found there were no

major charities there, so we hired a warehouse, got networks going, a

volunteer programme, and it really grew from there. You have no idea,

you have to manage the success of what you have done, but you are kind

of responsible for making it work. None of us had any experience in the

charity sector, we had no intentions of doing this, it was an accident,

but a testament to the compassionate nature of the British public as

well, because we found so many people saying, how can we help? We

acted like a conduit, really. Best of luck with whatever happens next.

Angellica, thanks for coming in. Ewan, you have just come back from

visiting a refugee camp in Iraq, part of your role as a Unicef

ambassador, tell as about Mirna. Mirna is a lovely bubbly little girl

who fled with her family from a village near Mosul in northern Iraq

two years ago. And when Isis took over the village, they had to leave

with nothing, she left with 1200 other families from that village,

and they fled to a town where we were staying, called Irbil. So money

people were living in the streets, so many people were leaving their

villages, there was no infrastructure, no clean water, no

sanitation. And this village was allowed to use a half built shopping

mall, and they live there for... It was a desperate place, but they live

there for 18 months, and Unicef and other NGOs were really quick in

moving around, finding out where people work, because people would

suddenly appear, hundreds of people who had left their homes with

Nottingham. They worked very hard to get them water, get them some form

of sanitation, protection, ultimately help set up camps,

refugee camps and displacement camps. We have got a little message

from Mirna for you. TRANSLATION: I did not know him, but

when I got to know him, I was very happy. When Ewan came here, we

started to play and take pictures. And it was very, very nice. That is

a big smile! She's a sweet out, she really is. It is the extraordinary

thing, of course, we are sort of getting used to seeing images of

camps and refugees, and we hear about them all the time, and then

you go and see with your own eyes, and that is my job, as an ambassador

for Unicef, but a face to all those statistics, and that little girl was

going to school, now she is living in a camp. People in this company

becoming more or less? You get a feeling for that? I think we are

sympathetic in Britain, and we are caring. Politicians have used

refugees as a means to play their games to their ends, and they are

playing politics with people's lives, like that little girl. I went

to see how they are living in that situation, and it is bleak, and they

should be ashamed of themselves, the politicians who are using them as

statistics in that way. There is a lot of bleakness, is it your job to

go and try and inject a little bit of fun into it? You are a dad of

four... Well, they... Give them some semblance of a childhood? I do not

think it is my job to try and do that, but that is what ends up

happening, because the children want to play and have fun, regardless of

what situation they are in. And Unicef have these brilliant child

friendly areas, or in some instances actual schools in refugee camps and

displacement camps, and kids want to be kids, they just want to play. It

was 45 degrees, and we saw, in one camp, four Big ten switch were child

friendly spaces, and in one there was a level cartoon screen, in

another one there was crafts, others were running around, and they talked

about the children coming at nine in the morning, they would just appear.

The camps are so enormous, you cannot imagine the scale of these

camps. And the children arrive in the spaces, and they get to be kids

during the day, they get to play and have fun. To put myself in your

shoes, this extreme environment, you are going back to another extreme

environment, your life in LA with your family, do you feel guilty? Do

you feel that life is absurd? You are always remembering that their

life is carrying on like that, and that is what spurs me to continue to

want to do the best thing I can with Unicef. My life is my life, and I

have a family, and I am lucky my children are safe and go to school,

they are protected by me and my wife, but by going out with Unicef

and doing these trips, I am reminded it is not the case for all the

children in the world, and my job is to go and see children in situations

like this, come back and talk about it, try and encourage people to keep

supporting the work of Unicef. Because the work they do is release

of the most important work in the I think. If you would like to find out

more about the trip to Iraq and Unicef's work, go to their website

for more information. It is only three days to go until the real

Olympics. I cannot believe it has come around so quickly! We all know

the names from Team GB, the big medal contenders, but there are

plenty more hopefuls going out to try to win for Britain.

And here are three of those hoping to perch on a podium in the next

couple of weeks, all being given the big up by family and friends.

I am Sharon, her mother, and I am her auntie.

Asha did a different things everyday, her cousins would not run.

They said she would beat them. We did not know. The race that made me

most proud was her first senior race, she was on the line with the

big names, she'd made that transition from a junior to senior.

When she broke her leg, and she was at university, she worked very hard,

we had to regroup and rethink. She still wanted to run. She knew she

was coming back from that. She knew how important family was. At the end

of the day, she knew she could not do it on her own. We encouraged her.

We would get her to eat had food, to put strength in her body. We just

need to get to Rio de Janiero, she thought. I'm telling you, that is

for us. I have been here for 16 years. I've seen thousands of kids

come through the door, this guy walked through, stocky, climbed up

the stack of chairs, sat with his arms and legs crossed. You could

tell he was going to be amazing. Everything I asked him to do, he

could do. A handstand. He's one of the only gymnasts I know that has

won every single group. His dad was always his rock, was always there.

Before his dad passed away, he wanted him to get to the Olympics

and he promised he would do that. He had a freak accident, he snapped

both the bones in the bottom of his legs. To come back to that and

compete in the Olympics is unheard of. He promised he would get to the

Olympics to his dad. Let's hope he gets medals coming back from this.

My name is Lesley, I'm an instructor. I first met Bianca when

she was 11 or 12, she joined in. You could see there was something there.

She would come straight from school. She would miss nights out. You could

see she was going to go all the way. She went straight in. I remember

thinking, sorry, don't say sorry until after. Another kick in the

face and she said sorry. She had that good human nature to her as

well. She was fighting at the time. I stopped sparring when she got to

toll. I was coming away with cuts and bruises and I thought I did not

need that at my age! In 20 tell she was out. If she gets gold, I don't

even know what to think. Bianca has never forgot her roots. Even if she

wins a medal I will get her to come and see the kids. It is really hard

not to get swept up in it even if you don't know the sports. Every

time I think I will be interested. Ewan, you come from

quite a sporty family. Yes, they called him Wee Jim. He was

not very small! He was smaller than the other teachers. Was he teaching

you? They tried that not happen. When you're at the school where your

father teachers they try to make sure they don't. But if the other

one was sick I would be in my dad's class, I always like that. Were you

good? Did you bunk off a lot? I was not very good at sport. I let him

down in that respect. You've done all right for yourself. Was he

disappointed you are not off to the Olympics? My brother was very

sporty, that probably made up for it. I was not very good rugby and

terrible at cricket. May be the key was when running you were not being

chased by businessmen and a policeman through the streets of

Edinburgh. Look, you Olympic standard! Macae steady the headers.

Look at that. Eye of the Tiger. That is coming round again. Did you

expect this? I did not. The sequel came out ten years after

Trainspotting and came and went and no script came out of it. Only last

year that we suddenly get copies sent to us from Danny Boyle and John

Hodge who wrote the original screenplay wrote a blinder. He

really managed to make the sequel we were waiting for. Was there a

conversation with Danny worldview in from the start? It has been a slow

burn with Danny over the last five years. We've mentioned it here and

there. I was always a bit reluctant to make a sequel to Trainspotting

because I did not want to damage the reputation of the original film and

I did not want to make a sequel that was not as good. When I read the

script I went, this is not what we are doing. I was in. It's been busy.

You've made your directorial debut. American Pastoral. How did that come

about? I was attached, it is funny seeing bits of it there. Is that the

first time? It is the first experience I've had of living with a

film for 16 months. My job as an actor is coming on board for a few

months. Then I walk away. This film I've lived with from the beginning,

for 16 months. It was an amazing experience, I love that very much. I

was lucky I got to do it. I've been attached to act on it for three

years. A bit like the drummer in spinal tap we kept losing the

director. I don't think any of them died! One of them, maybe. I finally

suggested myself because I had wanted to direct for a long time and

I thought maybe I could have a crack at it. I enjoyed it and I worked

with some billion people. Very best of luck with that.

Matt and Alex are in Webley getting ready for the special tomorrow.

Argue settling in? We are! It is lovely. I'm here, the trucks are

here, Matt is doing some last minute prep for the Olympics but is on the

way. It was lovely when we arrived, all these posters up to welcome us,

everybody looking forward to the show. We will include as many

residents as possible. Alan Jones made a lovely film about the summer

affect that happened here last June. Look. Can you hear that? Tell me.

Cakes and T. Flowers and games. Put them together and you've got the

village set. I've lived here for 30 years and I love it. We are

celebrating the 900th birthday of the church and Pat has been

arranging the flowers. We thought we would ask the organisations if

they'd like to be involved. We have a new vicar and we are fairly

elderly. We are the labourers, we put the bunting up. Anything else

but we are instructed to do. The church needs a lot of money. We are

putting on the finishing touches before the grand opening. We've

asked Julius to move it. Now the formalities are over, the fund can

begin. This is the ladder game which we've

done every year for at least 20 years. Completely compulsive. It is

a heartbreaker but it makes money. This comes naturally now because

I've done it a lot. I love doing it, even when my children were small I

did this. Usually I would make fruitcakes. It is half price today.

I've made this because I was married here 40 years ago. This is me and

this is my husband. We were very nervous, and we live in the house

that is being converted from where we had a reception.

They don't make too big a thing of this. One thing we wanted to do was

better at some of the games. So far they've cost me quite a lot of money

without winning anything. I don't think many of them had had a shot at

the horses, they have got used to it now. The children like it, it brings

the community together. I hope this will continue and always be

remembered for going out with a bang.

As the church clock strikes to, it is bang on. It is going to go. Stand

back. That was good. Over here! Perfect.

Muscles holding up? Brilliant. Thank you very much. Really. Thanks to

Alan. No wonder that film was good because we found out today that he

was the film editor on the movie Pink Panther. Lots of talented

people in Weobley. They've come out to see us and they will be the stars

of the show. We are looking at the problems that face villagers in a

city like -- in a village like this. The locals rallied together to bring

it back and this is going from strength to strength. We are meeting

and, who is in her 90s and is putting off retirement. And this is

very familiar to people living in villages like this. The history of

the place is not all chocolate boxes. There was a workhouse here

and it is luckily closed. The grand finale will be squeeze playing in

the bus stop. I'm going to head to my digs. An early night for us. We

are done. Goodbye. I don't know how she can sleep! You got your own

gathering of the MacGregor clan later! It is the Crieff Highland

gathering, which is a great Highland games. All across Scotland they

happen at different weekends and there is a heavyweight competition.

It is a wonderful day out. It brings the community together. Thank you

for your company. For more information head to the websites.

Absolute pleasure sharing the so far, don't forget to tune in.

nothing says Rio de Janeiro quite like it.