02/09/2014 The One Show

I tell you what, I'm feeling incredibly cult toured tonight. Is

that because Dame Helen Mirren is on the show? One of the reasons, but

the main reason is Lang Lang's here. You crack on and we'll start the

rest of the show. See you later. See you!

Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Today we

are joined by Royalty, Lang Lang, who will perform later, for day two

of the One Show music festival. First, we are joined by the Queen of

stage and screen, it's Dame Helen Mirren.

APPLAUSE Welcome, Helen. Welcome to the outside of the

studio. Very American. Helen. Welcome to the outside of the

studio. Very We thought it was such lovely weather and make the most.

End of the summer. As we were saying, we have incred Kibble

classical music and you were brought up with a real appreciation for it?

My dad was a classical musician and he played the viola and one of my

early memories is of my dad practising. My parents, or at least

my mum, would not let me listen to rock'n'roll music. I used to listen

to radio Luxembourg. Did you like that? I loved it. It was very much

disapproved of in my family. I listen to classical music, as my

music of choice. Indian classical music I love. Right. And obviously,

European too. I'm not knowledgeable at all. I don't know my Mozart from

my Beethoven. But I love it. Speaking of Indian classical music,

your film is based on an Indian family and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

We'll talk about that later and show you in action. Yes. If ever there

was a film to make you hungry, in one is it. Helen has won awards

during her arrear, Emmys, BAFTAs and Golden Globes and an aS core. There

is one that you will never win -- never ever going to get the award.

It's called the carbunkle Cup. There's an air about the archers. It

is hard to believe how one critic described St Paul's, this great

building, back when it was first built. Architecture is an industry

that will heap praise on you if you get it right, but if you get it

wrong, it will name and shame. Building exien magazine's the

Carbunkle Cup has a shortlist of six. The Chancellor's Building in

Bath. Trinity Square in Gateshead and the other are all in London. --

others are all in London. One reading of the magazine described

Unite's Stratford One in East London, "If I was a dictate O, I

would be very -- dictator, I would be very proud of this building." A

bit harsh. This is the favourite to win the Cup and this is what a

former councillor had to say, "An obstacle on Woolwich's road to

recovery and I regret my role as its midwife." Ouch!

This looks like telly buBy land around the outside of -- telly tubby

land around the outside. People say it's one of the you wiliest

buildings in Britain? It's not true. I like it. I wish to be there. Is it

attractive? No, it's a monstrosity. The Vauxhall Tower is the jewel in

the crown here and another contender for the title. Some critics have

said that this side of the Thames with the towers is beginning to

resemble Mordor from The Lord of the rings' films and I can see what they

mean. I like to see more natural products involved. Not just glass

and steel. Beautiful? What is beautiful about it? I build it. Were

you a building on it? Yes. The last of the offenders is given as an

example of the gross overdevelopment around Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.

The QN 7 flats in north London. The winner will be announced tomorrow.

This is an industry in which beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We'll cut from that section of London to this beautiful section.

There were some horrors in there. Yes. Absolutely! Can you imagine

being on that list? There are so many changes with time and very

often you have the shock of the new. I'm not saying necessarily any of

those buildings were that, but it is very often and I think that's a

tough thing with architecture. They have to have a vision for the

future. Do you have a favourite building? I love the MI5 building.

It looks magical and strange. There is another lovely building I love in

the City, I call it the Witchy building. It's modern and it has

pointy roofs on it. I agree with the guy who was saying why is it always

glass? What about natural materials? I do agree. Wood and stone. There's

no glass buildings in the new film. It is shot beautifully out in

France. Tell us about where it was shot and what the story is. It was

shot in an area north of Toulouse and incredibly beautiful part of

France. I had never been there before. Amazing Medieval villages,

talk about architecture. It's very, very beautiful and it looks exactly

like it looks in the film. It's a fantasy of France. It's the light.

It's the light. The little markets, and they look like that. And it's a

film about food. It's absolutely about food, about the appreciation

of food, about the making of food. It's about food as a cultural

signifier and a sig -- signifier, and a signifier of family. It's not

serious. It's enjoyable. Not to be watched hungry. Make reservations in

a restaurant or go and find one you like and go there after the movie. I

think you'll have a great time. We were absolutely starving. We went to

the screening and we were a bit late and they'd laid out all the lovely

food that we missed. You had to rush past. We were eating our own arms

coming out, we were there hungry. You say it's not serious, but

there's a lot of messages in there. I found it emotional. It's about

family and about immigration and issues in Europe in general. Why did

this film particularly appeal tow, because your character, she is quite

hard? She turns, though, doesn't she? She does. That is always a nice

thing. You look for that in a character who starts off Oneway and

finishes up another way. You see the softening and the sweetness in her.

I love France and I wanted to do a French film. It's not French, but

it's American, but I love pretending to be French and of course it was

produced by Steven Spielberg. You never turn that down. We'll look at

you in action, the moment that your character's tastebuds tell us

something. This is flavour that is fighting against the chicken. I I

added some spices, sauce and coriander and vegetables. Why change

the recipe that is 200 years old? Because, madam, maybe 200 years is

long enough. APPLAUSE

It's a version of the Bake Off. You must have been treated to some

lovely food. Somebody told us that Om Puri did some home cooking while

you were on set? He did and he's Indian and he cooked incredible

Indian food which is not easy to find in France, especially in a

small town. It's the food that I miss when I'm abroad is Indian food.

Do you go very, very spicy? I like spice. Not everything, but I like

it. What more could you want from a Film Set, beautiful surroundings and

gorgeous food? I know, sometimes you think that you're a very lucky

person and I do feel that. It was very nice to watch. The Hundred Foot

Journey is out next Friday, 5th September. Sorry, this Friday. In

this digital age you might think that the old exraple of -- scam of

turning a car mileage clock back was a thing of the past. We have

discovered it's anything but. Car clocking's on the rise. It's

reckoned one in every 20 cars on Britain's roads has fake mileage.

HPI check the vehicles all over the UK and they've recorded a massive

increase with cars with bogus mileage. It masks the fair wear and

tear that a car may have done, so when you wind it back, the danger

that you are putting not only the occupant the car, but every other

road user at, is phenomenal. It's a problem right across the country.

But PI believes -- HIP believes the West Midlands -- HPI believes the

West Midlands is the capital. We called seven firms offering a

mileage correction service, but we didn't want them to fix a faulty owe

Dom teR, which would be legal. We told them we wanted to wind back the

mileage before selling it. Five refused, but two were more than

happy to do the work. This is the car they're going to be clocking.

It's done more than 120,000 miles, but it's not in bad shape. If we can

half the mileage, the value is going to rocket. Time to go undercover. We

rented this house in Birmingham, rigging it with secret cameras and

invited the mobile car clockers to work on our car. First up, this guy.

His name is Jason and he works for a company called Dr Dashboard. When we

ask our motor medic to knock 30,000 miles off our car, he doesn't need a

second opinion. Jason scrubs up and gets to work on

our motor. He's a busy man and it seems this particular doctor's

always on call. With the doctor's work done, our car

now have 97,000 miles on the clock. But can we get it any lower? On to

mileage correction firm number two. This time it's Tony from Midland

Mileage Correction. Just like Jason, Tony's more than

happy to turn a blind eye. Watch what happens when we ask for a

receipt for the ?100 fee. Yeah, probably best not to have a paper

trail when you're breaking the law. In a little more than two hours, we

have almost halved the mileage on our car, adding hundreds to the

selling price. Time to find out what the experts think. Gerald Taylor is

motoring guru at the Trading Standards institute. I want him to

look at the fat oodge. Why have these broken the law? You've gone to

them and you've told them specifically that you want to clock

the vehicle to sell it and I don't think that any court in the land

would not convict them on the evidence. The One Show contacted

both firms, who are not connected to any companies with similar names.

Jason from Dr Dashboard maintains they did not think what he was doing

was illegal, but the company say they've stopped the service. As for

Tony, he didn't respond but the company he worked for, Midland

Mileage correction told us that Tony thought he was fixing a faulty

odometre. Beware, car clockers are still around and if you're thinking

of buying a car they might well have you clocked.

scenes look older than the milage... -- it's tricky when the car looks so

good. We were just saying that you like to do stunts in your films. I

like too, if I can. I once had to drive a car in a prime suspect

episode, and the camera was in the car. I've had to drive very fast

down a set thing and I'm completely forgot that the camera was mounted

on the side of the car, and I'd took a corner and smashed the camera off

the car. I'll arrived back going, I'm really sorry, I'm afraid I've

destroyed your camera! That was embarrassing. But I'd like to drive.

The quickest you have ever gone in a car? In Germany, I was and driving,

but probably 140. It was unbelievable. Fantastic.

In the 100 Foot Journey you play a French woman and this week it's

the One Show Music Festival and we thought we'd combine to the two.

Over here we have Alexa Sage, an expert French accordion player.

She's going to play a burst of a song that has a connection to you.

We can chat while the music is going on. This song had a profound effect

on you? It did. I heard it on radio Luxembourg, with my ears squashed up

against the radio. And I had never heard anything so sexy or so

incredible. The first time you hear Elvis, if you have never heard him

before, the first number is heartbreak Hotel, so beautiful and

sexy. Very memorable to me. On we go.

Slightly tenuous, this one. It refers to Queen, and is it right

that you are reprising the role of the Queen soon? I am in, and I do

want to break free! But I cannot for while. I am still joined at the hip

to Her Majesty, at least until June next year. I am doing it in New

York. That will be great on Broadway. How will it be received? I

don't know. It is very much about British history. But the Americans

that saw it in London absolutely loved it. They wanted to do it in

America, so we will give it a whirl. But from that point on, never again.

Much as I've respect, I am sure she wants to be rid of me as well. Will

that woman ever stop?! It's time for a bit of

Lionel Ritchie with Say You Say Me. Go, Alexa. Now, is this correct?

This reminds me of my husband. He used Lionel Richie in one of his

movies, which movie was at? Whiteknights, exactly. But he had

used him before, in a film before that. It seems incredibly romantic.

You very romantic together? Not at all! Now, we never go out for a

romantic evening. We never give each other valentines cards. I'll

occasionally get a bunch of flowers if irony bully him into it. That

makes me feel a lot better! -- if I really believe. Thank you very much,

Alexa. Well done, once again. I love address as well. That was lovely.

I'd bought an accordion at an auction a couple of weeks ago is

that you will have to give me a election. -- a lesson.

Yesterday we told you about the wildlife project that's

attempting to reintroduce a rare bird of prey to parts of Europe.

It all started in Scotland but has spread its wings of far as Spain

Just over three weeks ago, 11 osprey chicks were safely taken from nest

in Scotland to be transported to a new home. As in Britain, this bird

of prey was persecuted in Spain. Until there were no breeding pairs

left in the north of the country. At close to the city of Bilbao, all of

that could be about to change as close to the city of Bilbao, all of

that could be these Scottish chicks are part of a plan to create a new

breeding population. And now they are ready to be policed in the

Basque country. -- ready to be released. The birds have been well

looked after in large cages since their arrival. This is so that they

forget any memory of Scotland and now regard what they are looking at

as their new home. At seven weeks old in the wild, the birds fledge

from the nest. So the Spanish project leader is keeping a close

eye on the chicks to look out for the tell-tale signs that let him

know that they are ready to leave. First, they begin flapping. That is

the first signal. Then when they jump onto the perches, that is the

second signal. And the last signal is when they begin to grab onto the

mesh. When we see that they are grabbing, we know that we have to

release them in three days or so. Roy Dennis, who pioneered the return

of ospreys, has spent the last couple of years helping Spanish

conservationists decide the best place for their new home. This

estimate is just superb. It fills up with water and it is full of grey

mullet. The coast is a great place to try to get ospreys to breed

again. Tomorrow morning, two of the birds will be released into their

new home. It is almost 6am on liberation day. The team are just

about to open the front of the cages, and hopefully, as the sun

rises, they will come to the front and take their maiden flight. It

does not get much more exciting than this. Lo and behold, the sun is up

and Dawn is happening. The birds have come to the edge straightaway.

Once the lead is down, they will come out like that. The birds have

already been satellite tagged so when they do fly off, the team can

follow them here and when they migrate to Africa. But it is taking

longer for them to fly from the cages than I anticipated. Two and a

half hours later, we're still waiting for them to leave. But the

longer we wait, it is actually good news. This is much better. Give them

plenty of time. The most important thing is that when they do their

first flight, they stay in this area and they do not get lost. After

three hours of waiting, this looks promising. It's gone. It's gone!

Look at that, its first-ever flight. After a survey of its new home, it

perches in a tree. A good sign is that it has not flown off. Five

minutes later, the second one takes to the air. How does it feel, Roy,

seeing it flying? You plucked this bird out of the nest a month ago.

Well, I feel very personal. From Scotland, with love. Absolutely.

Once the birds are released, they will stay here for around one month

before they begin the long migration south. They will spend the next two

years in West Africa before hopefully returning right back here

and being among the first ospreys for decades to breed back in the

Basque country, thanks to a little bit of help from Scotland. I think

Mike is no after a trip to West Africa.

We've migrated from the sofa to the stage to meet

the superstar of classical music, it's Lang Lang everybody!

It is lovely to be this close to the piano.

You've sold out venues all around the world but when you were

young, growing up in a small bedsit in Beijing, your neighbours weren't

I was practising, scales, and my neighbours knocked on the door.

Stop! And it all started when you are incredibly young, two or three.

How did you parents know that that was the thing for you? I was

watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and they were playing piano, flying

around. Remember that Tom had fingers like spaghetti. And I was

like, wow, that's cool! Had a little piano, about the size of his piano.

So since then, you have kind of wanted to be Tom, inspiring children

all over the place. There will be children watching you doing that,

thinking, let me have a goal. That is part of the reason. Are you

musical, Helen? I am completely not musical. My father was a musician,

professionally. But I did not inherit that gene. I think it is

very much inherited. And I think it is also a profound talent, that you

are actually born with in the way that Lang Lang was. And it comes up

very early. That kind of artistry is born within you. But you still have

to practice and learn. These books could be helpful. There is a whole

course out. I am a big fan of you and think everything you do is

amazing. Actually, I have preferred a book for you, level two. Thank you

very much. Fantastic. Wonderful. Have fun with the piano. That's it,

have fun. You watch little kids playing and they do not know what

they're doing but they just having fun. That is the way to start.

Absolutely. Thank you. And were we talking earlier about you having an

orange either side of the piano? Explain that. When you are learning

the piano, you need to be holding an apple or an orange, as the basic

shape. That is the basic handshake. You need to come up, round, and hold

it. I've realised that there was a Pita Akhi play with an orange. --

there was a piece I could play. Amazing. Thank you. Genius!

Thanks also to Helen Mirren, her new film The Hundred Foot

Lang Lang is going to play is out with Prelude in E minor by Chopin.

And you can watch Lang Lang's full set by pressing

the red button straight after the show. Take it away, Lang Lang.

They have fun together. Play. They play.

And I like them because they're really funny and they don't care.

He kind of tells adventures. He tells stories. Yeah.