:00:40. > :00:45.Hello, friends, and welcome to your Friday One Show, with Alex and
:00:45. > :00:50.Chris. Tonight, a brand new double- act on our sofa, hoping that
:00:50. > :00:57.opposites attract. One of them is a grisly grumpy guts. The other is a
:00:57. > :01:02.fizzy fancy pants. It is Alan Davies and John Barrowman. Good
:01:02. > :01:06.evening, gentleman. We said that opposites attract, but if we look
:01:06. > :01:14.at this picture of a ten-year-old, I am not sure you can tell if this
:01:14. > :01:24.is Alan Lord John. What do you think? -- alone, or John. What do
:01:24. > :01:29.the audience thinks? Alan, what do you think? That is me. It is
:01:29. > :01:38.actually John. What a haircut! Thank you for not mentioning it,
:01:38. > :01:43.but I am wearing my pyjamas today. There is a reason for this. It did
:01:43. > :01:52.not deserve a round of applause, but thanks. It is down to little
:01:52. > :01:55.Oliver from Huddersfield. Oliver, why am I wearing pyjamas? Because I
:01:56. > :02:02.was fund-raising, so you must have to do it because I did it, so you
:02:02. > :02:06.must do it. That is right. He came on the radio show and told us what
:02:06. > :02:12.he had done and he said, you have to do it as well, Christopher.
:02:12. > :02:18.to check, he has come in. What? I thought you said he was coming. He
:02:18. > :02:23.is already here. So now we know why Chris is dressed like that, but if
:02:23. > :02:27.you are in your pyjamas, what is your excuse? Send a picture of you
:02:27. > :02:34.in your pyjamas and the reasons why to the usual address. Would you
:02:34. > :02:40.like to see Alex in her pyjamas before the end of the show? Yes.
:02:41. > :02:45.would I, but I don't think it is going to happen. What about John?
:02:45. > :02:52.Alan does not wear pyjamas, we have been told. Would you like to see
:02:52. > :02:57.him like that? It is a new double act, everybody. They are the real
:02:57. > :03:04.bananas in pyjamas! All night tonight we are joined by one of the
:03:04. > :03:08.world's greatest illusionists. Hans Klok is here with us. You can tell
:03:08. > :03:13.he means business. His assistants in the past have included Pamela
:03:13. > :03:18.Anderson, but who needs a star of Baywatch when you have a double act
:03:18. > :03:25.like Alan and John. Will you help him later? Happy to. As long as we
:03:25. > :03:29.do not get cut in half or anything! We are not saying anything. You
:03:29. > :03:34.have probably noticed it is pretty cold everywhere at the moment and
:03:34. > :03:44.there is snow forecast for the weekend. But as of yet, no sign of
:03:44. > :04:15.
:04:15. > :04:19.Very good. The delusions later, huge illusions. We sent Alison
:04:19. > :04:27.Craig to a breathtaking part of the country where snow is the star
:04:27. > :04:32.attraction. Four of the highest mountains in
:04:32. > :04:38.the country, 52 summits over 3000 ft and snow almost as far as the
:04:38. > :04:42.eye can see. What an amazing view. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the
:04:42. > :04:52.Dolomites? No, it is my home stamping ground, the Cairngorm
:04:52. > :04:59.mountains in Scotland. It is tremendous on a good day. It is
:04:59. > :05:03.challenging at my level. Cold but amazing. You do not want to go back
:05:04. > :05:08.down. You make the most of what you have got. Whilst some of the
:05:08. > :05:13.earliest Scottish skiing pioneers, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, headed
:05:13. > :05:17.abroad for their first foray on to the pistes, the Scottish slopes
:05:17. > :05:27.have been attracting a hardier band of outdoor enthusiasts since the
:05:27. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:35.1930s. But before railways, ski- lifts, etc, you had to climb up
:05:35. > :05:39.before you could come down. It has been 50 years since I started to
:05:39. > :05:43.ski here. That was walking from the bottom, of course, just a few of us.
:05:43. > :05:49.At the end of the day, we had to carry all have our gear up to this
:05:49. > :05:58.level and find a spot to ski on. These days, it is busier. Last
:05:58. > :06:03.season saw more than 120,000 skiers on these slopes. Some more graceful
:06:03. > :06:09.than others. The turning point for this mountain came 50 years ago.
:06:09. > :06:13.Prince Philip open Scotland's first mechanised ski-lift right here,
:06:14. > :06:17.called the White Lady. For the last 10 years, Bob, his daughter and
:06:18. > :06:24.grandchildren have had the luxury of hopping on board Britain's hires
:06:24. > :06:28.funicular railway that replaced the chairlift in 2001. -- highest.
:06:28. > :06:32.comfortable we are going to the top. It used to be sitting on an old
:06:32. > :06:38.fashioned chair, quite cold and frozen solid at the top probably.
:06:38. > :06:43.Now we will be ready to ski. You go up in seven minutes instead of half
:06:43. > :06:49.an hour. The trains can operate in winds of up to 80 mph, under the
:06:49. > :06:55.watchful eye of the Controller. The first female controller. That's me.
:06:55. > :07:01.Tell me the number of people you are getting up the hill every day.
:07:01. > :07:06.It four or five trains an hour, 120 tops. Talk us through this red
:07:06. > :07:10.button. The most important thing on the mountain. A place this item
:07:10. > :07:14.over the baton to remind me to do things. I do not know what it
:07:14. > :07:20.reminds me to do but I have to do something. I gather this actually
:07:20. > :07:24.as a bend in it, which is very rare. It is the only one in the world. It
:07:24. > :07:34.has a bend because it has to follow the Contador of the hill. I am
:07:34. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:41.desperate to press something. It has never been faster or easier
:07:41. > :07:50.to get to the top of this mountain range. But now comes the fun part,
:07:50. > :07:55.get into the bottom. -- getting to the bottom.
:07:55. > :08:00.Very nice. John, you lived in Scotland until you were eight. Did
:08:01. > :08:05.you go careering down the Cairngorms? No, but I have driven
:08:05. > :08:09.that way and I have seen the lifts. It would be nice to try it. Who
:08:09. > :08:15.knows, this weekend they might be able to do it. This is a picture of
:08:15. > :08:20.John on the way to the studio tonight. Speaking of Scotland, you
:08:20. > :08:23.are heading to Edinburgh for a different reason. Yes, I am doing
:08:23. > :08:29.stand-up, going to the Edinburgh Festival and then touring the
:08:29. > :08:36.country. I love the Edinburgh Festival. It is the first time in a
:08:36. > :08:41.while. I have not gone on tour for 13 years, since 99. I have not
:08:41. > :08:47.taught this century. But now you are 45. You have a lovely wife and
:08:47. > :08:50.a lovely family. You are content. Is that good for comedy? Being 45
:08:50. > :08:56.is good because there is more to talk about. However, you cannot
:08:56. > :09:01.remember any of your act. I have it taped up in the wings. I cannot
:09:01. > :09:06.remember it. I keep going over, pretending that I need a drink. And
:09:06. > :09:12.then I am looking at it and I think, I have to go back and do something.
:09:12. > :09:17.Have you been practising, doing dummy runs? I did a tour in
:09:17. > :09:21.Australia with the show, called Life is pain, a semi- ironic title.
:09:21. > :09:26.I loved it. Australia is a fantastic place to visit. The show
:09:26. > :09:31.went well, so I thought I would do it at home. I think 20 years ago, I
:09:32. > :09:36.saw you at a pub in Tufnell Park doing 20 minutes. It was free to
:09:36. > :09:40.get in and you were trying out new staff. Do you still get nervous? Do
:09:40. > :09:43.you feel different to when you started off? When I went to
:09:43. > :09:47.Australia on the first night at his big theatre in Melbourne I was
:09:47. > :09:51.really nervous, but then people started laughing and it felt
:09:51. > :09:55.exciting again. You need to feel that you want to get hold of the
:09:55. > :09:58.microphone. I had lost the love of it a bit. When I started in comedy
:09:58. > :10:02.clubs with other comedians, it was a great way to make a living in
:10:02. > :10:06.your twenties when you do not think of anything ahead. For then I
:10:06. > :10:11.started touring and there was less enamoured of it, with the motorways
:10:11. > :10:18.and the hotels, but now I love it. And now you fancy a motorway and a
:10:18. > :10:22.hotel. Yes, because I have two children and they are exhausting.
:10:22. > :10:28.You say that, but you have been doing a live tour with QEII, so you
:10:28. > :10:31.have been a wave. We went there to do it live, in theatres in
:10:31. > :10:35.Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Stephen and I went and we had
:10:35. > :10:40.Australian comedians on the panel. It is very popular there, shown on
:10:40. > :10:44.ABC. They loved Stephen and they tolerate me. The Australians were
:10:44. > :10:50.very good about pitching in. I stuck around for a few weeks and
:10:50. > :10:56.did stand up after that. It was good. When you do that Show Live,
:10:56. > :10:59.do you play music, guitars, what happens? Steve and has an
:10:59. > :11:06.interesting opening monologue. I eat chocolate and then I come out
:11:06. > :11:12.and steal the show. -- Stephen. John, have you ever tried stand-up
:11:12. > :11:16.comedy, naked comedy? Faith in my tour that I do, my entertainment
:11:16. > :11:20.show, I actually do stories of comedy in between. But it is not
:11:20. > :11:25.stand up. I am totally impressed with stand-up comedians at how you
:11:25. > :11:30.rattle it off. Everything has to be funny. For me, between songs it is
:11:30. > :11:37.funny and that is done. But everything has to be funny. Well, I
:11:38. > :11:45.do funny songs as well. We will be talking about acting later. Did you
:11:45. > :11:50.audition for the Hobbit? Yes, very dwarf. I was too tall. What was the
:11:50. > :11:55.height restriction? You have to be a dwarf. It was a very quick
:11:55. > :11:59.audition because I hit my head on the door on the way in. You have a
:11:59. > :12:06.head start over John if you want to be the assistant to Hans, because
:12:06. > :12:16.you were a magician's assistant in Jonathan's Creek. We come in, to
:12:16. > :12:18.
:12:18. > :12:27.find the table. And... On the night, we can but hope you will be smiling.
:12:27. > :12:32.Are you kidding? After that, we are not entirely sure you will be
:12:32. > :12:40.replacing Hans Assistance, the Divas of Magic. There they are.
:12:40. > :12:44.That is not going to work. He might let you switch on his wind machine.
:12:44. > :12:47.If he lets you do that, he has let you into his life. Before we see
:12:47. > :12:56.him in action, Angellica Bell looks at a magic trick that back in the
:12:56. > :13:01.day was cutting edge. This film is In a building just over there on a
:13:01. > :13:06.winter's day, 91 years ago, people were horrified. They watched a man
:13:06. > :13:10.cut a woman in half. Buckets of blood were emptied into the gutter.
:13:10. > :13:15.Onlookers passed out. What a terrible claim to fame for Finsbury
:13:15. > :13:24.Park in north London. But it was all fake. One of the goriest stumps
:13:24. > :13:28.ever by one of Britain's favourite stunt magicians. It is said he was
:13:28. > :13:34.the first person in the world to dream up this extraordinary idea of
:13:34. > :13:37.soaring a woman in half. His glamour as a system, Betty, emerged
:13:37. > :13:43.serene and unscathed. The audience could not believe what they were
:13:43. > :13:47.seeing. He wanted to scare the audience, so when the stage hands
:13:47. > :13:53.came out before the start of each show with buckets of pretend blood,
:13:53. > :13:59.they told people, don't worry, it is just a rehearsal. Ambulances had
:13:59. > :14:04.been waiting outside, and he even hired stooges to sit in the stalls
:14:04. > :14:10.and faint. Finsbury Park Empire has long since been demolished, but all
:14:11. > :14:18.is not lost. This is the oldest surviving music-hall in the world.
:14:19. > :14:23.I have come here to meet Scott Penrose from the Inner Magic Circle.
:14:23. > :14:27.We will tire her by the wrists and ankles. He created many tricks,
:14:27. > :14:31.walking through a brick wall, and a trip where a lady travels from one
:14:31. > :14:37.barrel to another through a metal plate. He created so many tricks,
:14:37. > :14:42.and this was the one. He did something scandalous. Magicians
:14:42. > :14:46.always used men as assistance, but he was using a woman. In the year
:14:46. > :14:51.of the suffragettes, that was very mischievous. In fact, he went
:14:51. > :14:57.further. He cheekily invited Christabel Pankhurst to be his
:14:57. > :15:07.victim, with an offer of �20 per week. She saw this as silly
:15:07. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:17.Selbitt made the trip last ages. 40 minutes. -- the trick. He took his
:15:18. > :15:23.time, milking the fact that he was going through the body and the
:15:23. > :15:29.spine, and of course the lady comes out at the end completely unscathed.
:15:29. > :15:35.But how did he do it? I can't tell you, no, it is against the rules of
:15:35. > :15:42.the Magic Circle's. I would get thrown out. One man with a special
:15:42. > :15:48.interest in Percy sell it is his second cousin. He came from a long
:15:48. > :15:53.line of dairy meant and he was an apprentice to a silversmiths. They
:15:53. > :15:57.had rented out their basement to a magician and the person used to go
:15:57. > :16:05.down during their lunch times and watched the conjuror and learn
:16:05. > :16:11.tricks from him. When Percy decided to become a magician, he thought
:16:11. > :16:17.his real name did not sound good enough so he reversed the letters
:16:17. > :16:24.of his surname. He was very important in a timeline of magic.
:16:24. > :16:30.We are still performing the trick 90 years later. He created this
:16:30. > :16:36.trick and hit jackpot. He was so celebrated. Even George V came to
:16:36. > :16:40.watch him saw a lady in half, but there was a setback. He took that
:16:40. > :16:45.Act to America, where he discovered to his horror that another magician
:16:46. > :16:52.had worked out his own version. Percy suited, lost, and had to come
:16:52. > :16:57.home, but for audiences, the illusion still remains a mystery.
:16:57. > :17:01.You can't quite see it. I can see exactly how the audience would have
:17:01. > :17:08.found that astonishing and it is an incredible thing, that this is my
:17:08. > :17:14.cousin. I am very happy about this. He died at the age of 57. Twice
:17:14. > :17:19.married with four children and a single legacy: A wooden box that
:17:19. > :17:25.continues to mystify audiences around the world. A claim to fame
:17:25. > :17:28.for Finsbury Park that really is a piece of magic.
:17:28. > :17:38.Great film but more importantly, that the tie-up would be great for
:17:38. > :17:42.you. I am looking for somewhere to live. She is always flat hunting!
:17:42. > :17:52.Hans has got something pretty special for us and remember this is
:17:52. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :19:05.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds
:19:05. > :19:15.an illusion, not anything scary. # You only see what your eyes want
:19:15. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :21:00.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds
:21:00. > :21:10.Chris: Is there more? Where did He is the best! He is the best! Big
:21:10. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:55.No! No! No! That was amazing! That was amazing! That was amazing!
:21:55. > :21:57.
:21:57. > :22:05.No way! He gets the girl again! APPLAUSE. Do you want more Hans
:22:05. > :22:10.later? Yes! Yes! More later. The Harry Potter books have become the
:22:10. > :22:14.biggest selling series in history. They encouraged a generation to
:22:14. > :22:24.read and even inspired a few to have a go at writing. And that is
:22:24. > :22:26.
:22:26. > :22:31.It is a bitterly cold afternoon. I let my dog off the lead but now I
:22:31. > :22:36.cannot see the direction he went in. I look ahead and step closer and
:22:37. > :22:42.see a motionless two headed creature. Am I shaking with fear or
:22:42. > :22:48.the cold? Out of 30,000 children who entered the 500 words short-
:22:48. > :22:55.story competition last year, "winter woodland monster" made it
:22:55. > :22:59.into the top five. Alex, where did you get the inspiration? Well,
:22:59. > :23:06.normally I quite like writing about animals and the adventures of the
:23:06. > :23:11.animals, and I quite like having a twist in a story. The boy sees the
:23:11. > :23:16.monster and then what happens? comes closer and closer and
:23:16. > :23:21.realises that it is actually just an old man in a chair with a cat
:23:21. > :23:26.asleep around his shoulders. What was it like having your story read
:23:26. > :23:33.out on stage at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival? Incredible!
:23:33. > :23:39.Especially because it was read by the man from Horrible Histories, my
:23:39. > :23:43.favourite programme! Has he always written stories? Yes, since he was
:23:43. > :23:49.small, but the creative writing has been in the last three years.
:23:49. > :23:53.you planning to write a story this year? Yes. This time from the
:23:53. > :23:58.animal perspective rather than a human perspective. This year's
:23:58. > :24:02.judges are a collection of our finest children's authors,
:24:02. > :24:07.including a lady who has written for every age group, Dame
:24:07. > :24:11.Jacqueline Wilson. Children are brilliant at bringing emotion into
:24:11. > :24:17.their strawberries. I remember Alexander's story, I thought it was
:24:17. > :24:21.wonderful. -- their stories. What tips would you give to children
:24:21. > :24:26.thinking of entering the competition? It is fun so relax and
:24:26. > :24:31.enjoy yourself. Write the sort of story you would like to read. Try
:24:31. > :24:39.very hard not to copy anyone at all. We are interested in your original
:24:39. > :24:43.idea. Charlie Higson agrees. best ideas come to you when you are
:24:43. > :24:48.not trying, when you are not expecting it. You might be talking
:24:48. > :24:52.to someone and they face something or you see something on the TV or
:24:52. > :24:58.you are playing with your friends and something will come to you.
:24:58. > :25:02.Your friend is your magic wand and you can just make up anything.
:25:02. > :25:08.Today I am off to my three sisters busy creating their own imaginary
:25:08. > :25:14.worlds in 500 words or last. Is it a bomb? Did you ever wonder why
:25:14. > :25:21.bats have such big ears? Hallowed. Can you explain to me what you like
:25:21. > :25:25.the most about writing stories? like letting my imagination go wild.
:25:25. > :25:30.You can write about things that would never happen in real life,
:25:30. > :25:40.like magical things. Is there a way that I could perhaps appear in your
:25:40. > :25:40.
:25:40. > :25:45.story? Could I be a character? could be a prince. Sophie, have you
:25:45. > :25:52.got a character I could be? could be the naughty that and you
:25:52. > :25:57.could keep listening in to other people's conversations. Rosie?
:25:57. > :26:05.really fat and spotty and smelly, ugly troll. I think handsome prince
:26:05. > :26:09.is more of my street. Please yourself.
:26:09. > :26:14.Thanks. The competition was launched on my breakfast show on
:26:14. > :26:20.Radio 2 this week and the prize is my height in books. If you come
:26:20. > :26:28.second, it is Alex is's height in books, and if you come third, it is
:26:28. > :26:38.your height in books! -- Alex's height. For more details, go to the
:26:38. > :26:40.
:26:40. > :26:45.Click on 500 words of stock John's sister Carole is here. Apparently
:26:45. > :26:51.you have written a book together. We have, it is called Hollow Earth.
:26:51. > :26:58.It was out yesterday and today it was our first big thing for kids at
:26:58. > :27:03.Thomas Becket's school and we talked about the book and the
:27:03. > :27:13.history of it and the characters to get them interested in reading.
:27:13. > :27:19.they by any? Yes, they bought 300! It is very like lords of the Rings.
:27:19. > :27:23.-- Lord Of the Rings. That is wonderful to say that. I was not a
:27:23. > :27:31.big fan of JRR Tolkien. I preferred the Lion, the Witch And the
:27:31. > :27:40.wardrobe. I love your voice? De you like it in American or Scottish?
:27:40. > :27:45.she does Scottish, I will have to go Scottish! That is magic! You are
:27:46. > :27:52.a professor of English. Yes! you do the work and he phoned you
:27:52. > :27:58.up and said, have you finished yet? Carole does all the physical
:27:58. > :28:02.writing. I am not gifted in that way. But when we are doing
:28:02. > :28:05.characters am talking about it, wherever it happens, we get
:28:05. > :28:12.everything together and when she rides a chapter she will send it to
:28:12. > :28:17.me and say, is this what we had in mind? -- when she writes. I will
:28:17. > :28:23.not claim I can write. When we came up with the idea, we were driving
:28:23. > :28:27.from London to Cardiff and we had a lot of Percy pigs to eat. We
:28:27. > :28:37.started to come up with ideas and the imagination was coming... Dot
:28:37. > :28:42.dot! A amazing. He can't do that, of course. He could not go into
:28:42. > :28:49.weird characters, of course. have never seen that from him at
:28:49. > :28:57.all! Have you always got on well? He is a nightmare. Dish the dirt!
:28:57. > :29:07.locked him in the closet one time. No! At least I didn't have hair
:29:07. > :29:07.
:29:07. > :29:12.like that! Or Pants like that! was the 70s! That was in the
:29:12. > :29:18.extension that my dad built. would dress up like that. Can you
:29:18. > :29:25.see the little shot glass? That was my microphone. That is very early
:29:25. > :29:31.fake tan! Is it? When did you first realise you were into showbiz? Was
:29:31. > :29:37.it when you wore this bikini? is us getting ready to move to
:29:37. > :29:44.America. There he is! All I will say is that is my dad's fault! My
:29:44. > :29:48.dad dressed me like that because we were on a cruise and he said, go
:29:48. > :29:58.into this competition, and I dressed up in my sister's bikini.
:29:58. > :30:05.
:30:05. > :30:12.Put on the bikini, there is a cash prize! I won first place. All of
:30:12. > :30:17.the women in bikinis were livid! course I won. It is usually sisters
:30:17. > :30:23.who share clothes, not brother and sister. It was a sign of things to
:30:23. > :30:31.come. Speaking of authors, Alan, your wife is a successful
:30:31. > :30:37.children's author. Waterstones children's book of the year. She
:30:37. > :30:45.has a new one out in the summer. John, you are busy acting, because
:30:45. > :30:55.you are on TV tonight. Yes, I am in Hustle his evening playing a
:30:55. > :30:56.
:30:56. > :31:05.I had a gift, and it was my duty to share that gift and bring wellbeing,
:31:05. > :31:11.healing and happiness to others. That is when you joined the CIA?
:31:11. > :31:18.Enough of you. The guest is a busy man, so let's cut to the chase.
:31:18. > :31:24.Hustle, tonight on BBC One at 9pm. And their book is out now. Time for
:31:24. > :31:34.Alex to get to no one about guests better. Let's get in the mood. I
:31:34. > :31:51.
:31:51. > :32:00.will light the candle. Come and sit Stop right there. Surrey, it is not
:32:00. > :32:07.Before Christmas, we asked you at home to send us your spag bog all
:32:07. > :32:10.recipes, and you did not disappoint. All of York entries were gratefully
:32:10. > :32:16.received and we have whittled it down to three finalists who are
:32:16. > :32:20.battling it out for the title of Super spag Balfe. You cannot be to
:32:21. > :32:25.bowl of spaghetti bolognese, lots of pasta in a rich, meaty sauce.
:32:25. > :32:29.Done badly, it is the thing of nightmares, but done well it is
:32:29. > :32:34.simply gorgeous. Bolognese is actually the British take on an
:32:34. > :32:37.Italian dish, and on average we eat it once a week. We have sifted
:32:38. > :32:44.through your applications looking for taste and originality and we
:32:44. > :32:49.are down to three finalists. Meet Richard from Doncaster, Lynn from
:32:49. > :32:56.Sussex and Stephen from Cheltenham. Now they have to convince me and my
:32:56. > :33:00.fellow Judge Angela Gray. What are we looking for in a bolognese
:33:00. > :33:07.sauce? Something full-bodied, rich and full-on meaty and gorgeous.
:33:07. > :33:10.There is no agreed recipe for this, is there? No. It is one of those
:33:11. > :33:16.dishes that are born out of Italian ingredients and the Brits have put
:33:16. > :33:21.them together with our own interpretation. Let's get down to
:33:21. > :33:26.it. Richard has been making his bolognese since his student days.
:33:26. > :33:35.It takes 40 minutes to cook but it is full of surprises. Crushed
:33:35. > :33:42.chillies. In a spaghetti bolognese. And it does not stop there. That is
:33:43. > :33:50.mango chutney. OK! A bit of red tomato pesto. This is a complete
:33:50. > :33:59.mongrel, isn't it? You could put it that way. This spag ball does not
:33:59. > :34:05.have any mince. I am using cue-bid beef. Where did you get that?
:34:05. > :34:12.its elite last year. What other interesting ingredients do you
:34:12. > :34:17.have? The rind of Parmesan. Parmesan is a source of sodium
:34:17. > :34:24.glutamate, all of that savoury flavour. So I can see the point of
:34:24. > :34:29.throwing matin. With Stephen, it is mince all the way, and sausages.
:34:29. > :34:35.Pork, beef and pork sausage. No herbs and garlic whatsoever. This
:34:35. > :34:42.recipe belongs to my wife's grandmother. She is Italian.
:34:42. > :34:47.have the recipe from a real old Italian grandmother. I do, yes.
:34:47. > :34:52.are taking this on without using spaghetti. I am using rigatoni, the
:34:53. > :35:02.Tube pastor. That is because you think a lot of the sauce gets stuck
:35:02. > :35:07.down the middle. Yes. No spaghetti, but we did ask for originality.
:35:07. > :35:14.Time is up on the challenge, and on to the best bit, the tasting. I
:35:14. > :35:18.picked a bad week to give up eating pastor. Shall we start over here
:35:18. > :35:23.with Richard's. That meet needs to be cooked quite a bit longer. If
:35:23. > :35:26.you are using mins, it needs to be. But what is really hitting me is
:35:26. > :35:30.that he may have said that Chile was only there for a bit of flavour,
:35:30. > :35:35.but that is close to a chilli con Carny. There is mango chutney in
:35:35. > :35:43.there. What do you think it has brought to the party? It is overly
:35:44. > :35:48.sweet for me. If you serve that to some Italian mothers? Oh, dear.
:35:48. > :35:52.quite like the texture of this one. It is a nice dish of pasta. It has
:35:52. > :35:56.full flavour, and the meat is cooked beautifully. It is a good
:35:56. > :36:03.all-round flavour. There is something compelling about the
:36:03. > :36:08.lumps of beef. You are liking them. This is the rigatoni with the three
:36:08. > :36:13.meet bolognese source. You are unlikely to use spaghetti with this
:36:13. > :36:20.sort of sauce. For me, it has a nice complexity to it. Despite not
:36:20. > :36:26.having any wine in it. It is a very simple construction, this. OK,
:36:26. > :36:29.Angela, time to make a decision. Do you think you are up to it? I think
:36:30. > :36:34.so. We sit you're a really difficult challenge. They are so
:36:34. > :36:38.many recipes, twists and turns, that wars have been fought over
:36:38. > :36:48.less. Getting you to complete his a gladiatorial battle, but there has
:36:48. > :36:54.
:36:54. > :36:58.to be a winner. And the winner of Congratulations. And he did not
:36:58. > :37:05.even use spaghetti. But we agreed that the mix of pork, beef and
:37:05. > :37:13.sausage was the superior bolognese. A big round of applause for Stephen.
:37:13. > :37:18.Well done. We would like to reward you with a ginormous pepper mill.
:37:18. > :37:27.Thrilled to bits, look at him! Stephen, no garlic, no herbs, no
:37:27. > :37:37.red wine. Where does the taste come from? The cooking process.
:37:37. > :37:41.let's get Claudia Bar back. He is How good does this taste, without
:37:41. > :37:46.any of the things normally found in spaghetti bolognese? It was
:37:46. > :37:50.fantastic. We would not have given its first prize if it had not been
:37:50. > :37:54.deep and rich. He was cooking it for hours which gave it the flavour.
:37:54. > :38:02.I was surprised there was no garlic, no herbs, no red wine, but there is
:38:02. > :38:10.a lot going on. Secret recipe, from Britain or elsewhere? Really, it is
:38:10. > :38:15.from Italy. Who is the influence? My wife's grandmother. Trying to
:38:15. > :38:23.get recipes from grandmothers is so difficult. I was nagging her for
:38:23. > :38:29.many years. By the way, Alan, we have some garlic bread because we
:38:29. > :38:32.know you are vegetarian. One of the interesting things about this was,
:38:32. > :38:36.you will have noticed, not spaghetti but rigatoni, which is
:38:36. > :38:40.the way that it should be in Italy. They would never serve bolognese
:38:40. > :38:44.with spaghetti because you want pastor that the sauce will cling to.
:38:44. > :38:48.It became part of the history here, we think, because British
:38:48. > :38:53.servicemen coming back from Italy wanted to drive a dish and the only
:38:53. > :38:59.pasta we had here was spaghetti. -- they wanted to drive a dish. We
:38:59. > :39:04.have your Italian wife, Jessica, here in the audience. We got a
:39:04. > :39:11.message from your grandmother in law, which hilariously Alan is
:39:11. > :39:21.going to read in Italian while John translates.
:39:21. > :39:22.
:39:22. > :39:31.TRANSLATION: I am very proud of you both. For the commitment that you
:39:31. > :39:35.put into a projects, and you're beautiful son, Jamie. Well done. I
:39:35. > :39:45.am extremely flattered to hear that I was welcomed to be on the One
:39:45. > :39:47.
:39:47. > :39:57.Show on Friday. And you are all invited to have dinner at my aim. -
:39:57. > :39:57.
:39:57. > :40:01.- at my house. To all Italians, I am very sorry. You had a go at
:40:01. > :40:08.cooking vegetarian spaghetti bolognese for us and Jews sent a
:40:08. > :40:15.photo. I did. It was delicious. Professional judge, Angela Gray,
:40:15. > :40:20.she tasted it and gave you a bit of a judgment. Are you ready? I am
:40:20. > :40:23.sorry, I am eating garlic bread. She said she was not sure about
:40:23. > :40:26.that chunks of carrot and the bolognese and was worried the
:40:26. > :40:36.amount of liquid would mean that you would need to wear a beard to
:40:36. > :40:36.
:40:36. > :40:43.eat it, but you got eight out of nine. If you cook it for so long,
:40:43. > :40:48.how does the meat not get kind of funky tasting? Did you have a funky
:40:48. > :40:53.tasting meat Ball? No, it was delicious but I thought it would be
:40:53. > :40:59.overcooked. We have never had a guest finish anything. Listen, if
:40:59. > :41:09.it is free, I am not passing it up. Was there something in the food
:41:09. > :41:10.
:41:10. > :41:20.department that your granny made? What did your grandmother make?
:41:20. > :41:23.
:41:23. > :41:33.Deep-fried Mars bars. Spam. Spam fritters. Those are still warm.
:41:33. > :41:33.
:41:33. > :41:42.Nothing beats that! He is a vegetarian! Does any one on the
:41:42. > :41:47.crew want a deep-fried Spam fritter. You can find Stephen's recipe on
:41:47. > :41:55.our website. I think in a few weeks we should have another competition,
:41:55. > :42:00.and I think it should be shepherd's pie. The next item is right up your
:42:00. > :42:06.street, because we know you are a huge fan of the Stranglers. In my
:42:06. > :42:15.teenage years, very much so. I have all the records. I saw them in 1981
:42:15. > :42:25.and again in 2006. Can you play editor of the Stranglers? -- a bit
:42:25. > :42:32.of. And now, Carrie Grant has the story behind another of the
:42:32. > :42:37.Stranglers hits. The year was 1977, and what a
:42:37. > :42:43.turbulent year it was. Britain bounced between street parties for
:42:43. > :42:46.the Queen's silver jubilee and bitter strikes. Music fans would
:42:46. > :42:55.mourn Elvis and would groove to old-style disco while being knocked
:42:55. > :43:00.out by a completely new sound topping the charts. It was the age
:43:00. > :43:04.of punk, and write out front were the Stranglers. Their first two
:43:04. > :43:09.albums went top 10 and today they have sold over 20 million records
:43:09. > :43:14.worldwide. But in 1977, their anthem, No More heroes, summed up
:43:14. > :43:20.what punk was about, the rejection of the past, from politics and
:43:20. > :43:25.people to fashion and pop. title of the song is a bit of a
:43:26. > :43:30.slogan. I think there was a certain feeling that all of the new bands
:43:30. > :43:34.were a kind of anti-heroes, and that if you're going to do anything
:43:34. > :43:38.you were going to do it yourself, Be Your Own Hero, don't look up to
:43:38. > :43:43.anyone else. It was a chance for people who were not hugely
:43:43. > :43:47.proficient at music just to make a bit of noise. What was the
:43:47. > :43:51.quintessential punk sound? As far as I'm concerned, the
:43:51. > :43:56.quintessential punk sound did not exist. Some had keyboards, some had
:43:56. > :44:02.a metal field to their guitar- playing. It was kind of anarchic.
:44:02. > :44:06.People started using terms like New Wave, as well, punk, New Wave,
:44:06. > :44:11.whatever. It just described something which happened
:44:11. > :44:18.spontaneously all through the nation. It was just provocative.
:44:18. > :44:24.Were you ever banned? Yes, all the time. We were banned from countries,
:44:24. > :44:32.we were banned from London by what was then the Greater London Council,
:44:32. > :44:37.for wearing a provocative T-shirt. What was it that you stood for that
:44:37. > :44:40.was so offensive to people? tell me. I don't know. I suspect we
:44:40. > :44:50.stood for freedom and something which was questioning the status
:44:50. > :44:58.
:44:59. > :45:07.quo at the time. It was not safe # Whatever happened to the heroes?
:45:07. > :45:13.It was Co written by John Jack Burnell and Hugh Cornwell. Hugh
:45:13. > :45:17.Cornwell wrote most of the lyrics and he sang it. Because it was
:45:17. > :45:27.quite competitive, the riff at the beginning is me showing off, that
:45:27. > :45:35.
:45:35. > :45:44.In every way, The Stranglers refused to sit the stereotypical
:45:44. > :45:48.# Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?
:45:48. > :45:57.# The great Elmyra. # And Sancho Panza? What did those
:45:57. > :46:06.people you were writing about mean to you? Sancho Pantsil is the real
:46:06. > :46:11.hero in Don Quijote, but he is his sidekick, and the other one is an
:46:11. > :46:14.art hero, like an anti-hero, and Trotsky as well. These were people
:46:14. > :46:19.who would not be obvious he rose and we considered ourselves more to
:46:19. > :46:24.be like that, we questioned everything -- would not be obvious
:46:24. > :46:30.he wrotes. Intellectually that is the important part of being in a
:46:30. > :46:35.democracy, isn't it? What do you think about when you hear the song
:46:35. > :46:41.now? I enjoy playing it because I like the reaction to it. The great
:46:41. > :46:46.thing about music is it is a medium to express yourself. It should not
:46:46. > :46:53.be a bland and soporific wallpaper. There is so much to write about in
:46:53. > :46:58.the world anyway. The Stranglers. Huge fan of The
:46:58. > :47:03.Stranglers. You wrote a book about your heroes? Yes, and The
:47:03. > :47:08.Stranglers with definitely a part of that time. You love one thing
:47:08. > :47:12.one year and then another band and another band at that age, but The
:47:12. > :47:21.Stranglers will always there, my number three favourite banned for
:47:21. > :47:26.life. I had a big Christina Aguilera phrase! Really?! We were
:47:26. > :47:36.looking through the archives and we found a clip of you and it is safe
:47:36. > :47:37.
:47:37. > :47:47.to say it is a million miles away # If you like it, then you should
:47:47. > :47:54.
:47:54. > :48:00.Explain! That was between takes on my show and I was mucking about.
:48:00. > :48:05.Are you sure? I am positive! Aggregated that by me just being
:48:05. > :48:13.silly one afternoon -- I created that. Honest! The trousers are part
:48:13. > :48:23.of the suit. Do you wear it? No! you take it out for a walk? It is
:48:23. > :48:23.
:48:24. > :48:29.in my closet! I think it is plastic leather. No, it is silver satin. I
:48:29. > :48:38.don't know what you call it! made it up! Speaking of trousers
:48:38. > :48:48.and pyjamas, you have sent us lots I have got Claire and Maria from
:48:48. > :48:48.
:48:48. > :48:53.Belfast. I have Alison and her sister from Devon. Every Friday is
:48:53. > :49:01.a fun Friday at their house. Clare week aged three from Ripley,
:49:01. > :49:11.Derbyshire. Her mum said it is very cold and that the snow is coming.
:49:11. > :49:15.
:49:15. > :49:23.This is visible and Emily from This is Emily from Featherstone.
:49:24. > :49:29.She is watching us. Nice! This 10- year-old is getting ready to go to
:49:29. > :49:35.a pyjama party in Enfield. That is William and Ethan from Chester.
:49:35. > :49:39.These are inspired by Oliver who said the challenge on the radio,
:49:39. > :49:44.from Huddersfield. The ladies went Mad For Your hair on Jonathan Creek
:49:44. > :49:50.and then you cut them off and the producers went even more mad!
:49:50. > :49:55.I had to have extensions. Those are not extensions. OK, we were told
:49:55. > :50:02.they were... Talking of dodgy hairpieces, we found another
:50:02. > :50:08.picture of John. Are they extensions? I am wearing a week! I
:50:08. > :50:17.am standing next to Robert de Niro. Maybe he liked it! I was doing the
:50:17. > :50:21.musical Hair. He came backstage. He was very good friends with the
:50:21. > :50:25.writers of the show and he came back and wanted to meet everybody.
:50:25. > :50:34.I think he was more interested in my girls and he was in anything
:50:34. > :50:37.else. You did your best. I am not interested in him! That would have
:50:37. > :50:47.sent our street barber into a spin but he has been dealing with
:50:47. > :50:50.
:50:50. > :50:54.flyaway hair anyhow at an airbase Today I have come to RAF Marham,
:50:54. > :51:04.one of the busiest and largest RAF bases in the country and it is home
:51:04. > :51:06.
:51:06. > :51:12.to three squadrons. Tornado. How ace was that! It must play havoc
:51:12. > :51:22.with their hairstyles? Pilots on his serve all over the world. Keith
:51:22. > :51:25.
:51:25. > :51:32.is a flight lieutenant in 31 This is Keef. Woody to everyone
:51:32. > :51:37.else. You have just come back from Afghanistan? A week ago. Have you
:51:37. > :51:44.ever been sick into your mouthpiece? Thankfully, no. But I
:51:44. > :51:52.can drop some names. How fast does it go? 420 mph, which is seven
:51:52. > :52:02.miles a minute. I can push it up to 600 mph. To take a look! Good stuff.
:52:02. > :52:02.
:52:02. > :52:07.This is the shop. Not a tornado in sight. A teddy bear! With Woody
:52:07. > :52:17.smartened up, I might try and find someone with a bit more head to
:52:17. > :52:21.
:52:21. > :52:26.This is the senior aircraft person at the RAF. Aircraft woman! What do
:52:26. > :52:32.you do? I am a member of the tactical Wing. I analyse the
:52:32. > :52:39.imagery when it comes back from the aircraft. I do not want a bop!
:52:39. > :52:43.is my speciality, everybody knows that. It is all I can do. These go
:52:43. > :52:50.past all the time? Yeah, especially when you are trying to watch
:52:50. > :52:57.EastEnders. Have you been up in a fighter jet? Can I go up? If you do
:52:57. > :53:02.a good job. It feels like a proper job you do. It is! Unlike the one I
:53:02. > :53:11.am doing. In the grand scheme of things, my job is all fluff. Do you
:53:11. > :53:21.know the pilot? Like Tom Cruise in Top Gun? Unfortunately not! Take a
:53:21. > :53:28.
:53:28. > :53:37.Hair Force! I wonder if I am qualified. What do you do? I am
:53:37. > :53:40.eight traffic controller. -- a traffic controller. Matt and I did
:53:40. > :53:47.you nothing to get that and we went on to win the British Championships
:53:47. > :53:55.in the 90s. -- and did gymnastics together. I have never Moore felt
:53:55. > :54:02.like the look Skywalker! I meet a cigar! Carey has been with the aria
:54:02. > :54:08.for eight years. When did you last get a haircut? Two months ago.
:54:08. > :54:17.Presumably you get to deal with weapons? Yes, small rifles, pistols,
:54:17. > :54:24.machine guns. Sniper rifle, 0.5 calibre rifle. You enjoy your job?
:54:24. > :54:31.Definitely. What were you doing previously? Pensions! My big
:54:31. > :54:41.problem is the hair restriction! you go back in history... Would you
:54:41. > :54:45.
:54:46. > :54:52.not rather do something more This place is great but it is a bit
:54:52. > :54:56.too far away from home. By my calculations, at 600 mph, one of
:54:56. > :55:06.these will get me back home in 10 minutes.
:55:06. > :55:06.
:55:06. > :55:11.Do you get flyaway hair? I do now, thank God! We have lots of e-mails
:55:11. > :55:17.asking about torch would. Russell T Davies has some personal issues and
:55:17. > :55:21.we are taking a break so I do not have any news. But if they want it
:55:21. > :55:27.back and want me back, I love it and I would do it at a drop of a
:55:28. > :55:32.hat. I am captain Jack! Hans is about to perform some more magic.
:55:32. > :55:39.He was brilliant earlier on. Apparently this one is even better.
:55:39. > :55:45.A lot of magic on Jonathan Creek. We had an adviser. We tried to make
:55:45. > :55:53.all of the tricks work. And then we found that some of them didn't work.
:55:53. > :55:58.So we cheated. But because you are not a member of the Magic Circle,
:55:58. > :56:03.were there the rules about how far you could go? The only trick I
:56:03. > :56:08.learnt was the very first one, to go like that! We like that one!
:56:08. > :56:14.Shall we have some more? Let's go to Hans for more magic. Remember,
:56:14. > :56:24.this is an illusion, so don't try this at home. It is expensive so
:56:24. > :56:24.
:56:24. > :58:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds