03/04/2012 The One Show

Good evening. I Matt Baker. I am Alex Jones. On tonight's programme:

Diminutive One Show wildlife photographer mistaken for lunch by

a big bird. The nation's podgy pets are put on a diet. Finally, news

reading at night of the round subjected to a dodgy One Show

impersonation. -- night of the Brilliant! We have to say thank you

for being such a big sport, so Trevor McDonald! When you hear the

bongs, do you automatically go into newsreader mode? I am getting over

it slowly! If I bet you don't stop feeling that bars. In Australia, I

heard a similar piece of music and I was frightened. I thought I was

in the wrong place and that was terrifying. If we have uncovered a

remarkable photograph of your good self. If you do this on Thursday,

you could get into trouble. What is going on here? Can you remember?

What is that? It is you with a hosepipe and a pair of shorts.

know that was not during the hosepipe ban! I could get into

trouble. -- I hope that was not. that your gardening outfit? I am

not sure those shorts are allowed any more! This is a family show!

love that you have blanked that from your memory. I am doing it

even now! No more embarrassing photographs but we will be talking

to you about your new series later. Cases of super fit and healthy

people suffering heart problems have been highlighted in the news

recently. According to research, to match extreme exercise can damage

your heart. Iwan Thomas, Olympic medallist, was concerned for his

own well-being and went to find out more.

The many, exercises done out of necessity rather than pleasure. For

these amateur athletes, they take taking fit to another level. --

keeping fit. They are part of a growing number of people taking up

extreme endurance sports. I train six days a week, anywhere from two-

and-a-half hours a day to two sessions a day. We always tried to

be the time that we got previously. Sometimes I run to work, sometimes

I write and I am sometimes the first person in the swimming-pool

in the morning. As a professional athlete I always pushed myself to

my absolute limit and beyond that pain barrier in search of Peak

Performance and health. Now I am concerned. New research suggests

that training too hard can do you more harm than good. Extreme

endurance exercise can cause irreversible damage to the heart.

It is thought that repeated prolonged exercise can cause small

areas of damage which affect the way the heart functions. Professor

White from Liverpool John Moores University was one of the academics

involved in the study. We know that the heart is under strain during

exercise. One of my questions for these ultra endurance nutters, the

guys that do prolonged exercise over and again, I wonder if this

can be detrimental to the heart. We showed that six of the athletes,

half of the population that we tested, actually has this damage to

the heart. That worries me because as an athlete I was always taught

that I should train harder than everyone else and I would be

stronger, fitter, faster and better than them. After 10 years of

training so hard, have I damaged myself? The bottom line is that we

do not know. I should get myself tested to find out if a career of

training to excess has damaged my heart beyond repair. I will not be

alone. I will be joined by a local triathletes who has been competing

for over a decade in triathlon. have never thought whether my heart

is damaged. What affects am I doing to it for later years? This will be

interesting. We have both pushed ourselves for more than the average

person for 10 years. Could we have put our hearts and Rhys? A reason

why endurance exercise is problematic is that it puts stress

on the heart. It is a pumping very dramatically and the hormones are

rising. That is all problematic for the heart. This is what the blood

sounds like when it goes through the valves in the heart. Currently

the Government recommends that adults between the ages of 19 to 64

should do two-and-a-half hours of moderate intensity exercise every

week. This sort of exercise Professor White is talking about is

on a different scale. Endurance exercise can take the heart rate to

an extremely high level when done over a prolonged period. The heart

is beating very fast, but also very forcibly, to overcome the

increasing blood pressure that we get during exercise. It is during

this period of time that it is under the greatest stress. If there

is a problem with a heart, we are going to see it. I am properly

nervous. I think this test will be a complete eye-opener for me.

are going to stop now. Consultant cardiologist John specialises in

Sport and exercise medicine. He is worried about the increase in

middle-aged men undertaking endurance sports. Men over the age

of 35, at the, the scores of, and death is actually a heart attack. -

- the most common cause of premature death is actually a heart

attack. If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, if you smoke,

you should see the doctor to make sure that you are well enough to

take an event like that on. Critics of this research so that it was

such a small study that more long- term research will be necessary to

prove that damage to the heart can occur. The tests are over. Now the

results are in. Both of us will find out if years of exercise have

damaged our hearts. All the investigations are normal. You are

fit to continue training. Iwan Thomas. Right. The hard was

functioning beautifully and we did not see any problems on the ECG

tracing and no abnormal rhythms. In summary, OK. A few more years left!

Thank you. Is there such a thing as too much exercise? Should we really

be pushing ourselves to the limit when we want to get fit? Moderate

intensity and moderate Duration activity is beneficial for the

heart. We should be promoting physical activity, without a shadow

of a doubt. It is only at the extreme end of the spectrum that we

see dramatic changes. Dr Mark Porter is here to shed some

light on the subject for none -- non-Olympians. Should people be

worried? I don't think so. You could be worried if you are a couch

potato. Training will do you good. It is about moderate intensity and

moderate Duration. I would even include the London Marathon as long

as you prepare properly and do not try to beat the world record. It is

about intensity and not doing too much. You can monitor that using a

cardiac training range. Look on the internet for that. It basically

means taking your pulse rate and keeping it within a healthy rate.

You can use a heart-rate monitor and gymnasiums have them attached

to the machines. You should never go above your maximum ideal heart

rate for your age. If you are 40, that is about 120-150. Less than

that and it is wasting your time and any more is putting you over --

under stress. And what else can you do? As you get fitter, you have to

push yourself harder, so it adapts with you. As we saw from that

photograph, you are really fit. Do you do much exercise? I must

confess that I occasionally go to the gym. I put it as likely as that.

You know that funny thing, you never tell yourself that it is

wonderful to go, but having been, you come back feeling much better.

And for some bizarre reason you feel a sense of virtue that you did

something that you think is good for you. On the way to the part in

the evening after playing tennis! Get the old endorphins pumping.

will be impressed with our wildlife photographer because Jamie Crawford

did some cardiovascular during office hours to capture the perfect

wildlife photograph. Keep those knees Up!

The chase of any predator as it hunts its prey is captivating to

watch. Some of the most exhilarating and difficult to

photograph of those in full flight. I went to counter the moment just

before it strikes its brave. The best way to do that is to make sure

that the play is made. -- make sure that the animal it is chasing his

me. I am going to allow myself to be hunted down by a killing machine.

The peregrine falcon is built to strike at speed. Lloyd is going to

help me get that killer shot. He is a professional bird trainer. I

would really like to get that moment of impact when it is about

to grab what it is chasing. How on earth can I do that? You want it

coming right up the camera lens? Yes. How can we tempt her? I will

use this, which they are trained to chase. If I can hold this just

above your camera lens, and ultimately let her take it, you

will get that strike. Is it going to take my head off? You have to

make sure that she has a clear run over the top, somehow. I am not

sure that this is a good idea! Even without the risk of several talents

near my face, speed is the next problem. This bird will be hurtling

towards me at an estimated 60 mph. Getting a photograph in focus will

be tricky. Earlier on, to get my eye in, I set out to shoot

something that would move towards me at high speed. But in a

controlled manner. And ideally something that is not armed with

deadly talons. But photographing something that speed has its

problems. -- at speed. These tennis balls are travelling too fast for

the auto focus of my camera. I have manually focused to a couple of

metres in front of me. The good news is that the camera can shoot

eight frames a second which gives me a real chance of getting the

photograph that I want. These balls fly less than half the speed that

the peregrine falcon can reach. When they get faster, I need to

increase the depth of field. That means increasing the amount of the

picture that is sharp. I am trying to be as brave as possible without

getting hit. Practising is all very well, but ball's bounce. It is time

for the real thing. Peregrine falcons fly at high speed to catch

their prey by surprise. And they Now you know what it is like to

have 60 mph or falcon coming at you. There are even tricks. We start

cutting it fine. That was my forehead! The problem is that he is

coming at such an angle and so fast that I cannot track him. I am only

getting half the bird. I am going to try and watch the bird with one

eye and the camera with the other. You can keep him in frame the whole

time by doing that and hopefully get the photograph that you want.

Better, but still not that killer shot with the talons out. But we

have a second falcon trained to grab the lower from the ground.

After a day of high-speed failure inches from those talents, I

finally got it. The view to a kill. Brilliant. If that dummy had gone a

couple of centimetres further forward it could have been lethal!

Your son Jack is a photographer, isn't he? That is right. I hope he

will make their life of this. He has a company, Jack Ross and

photography. What type of photography? Anything that people

will employ him for. He took this, of you doing some painting. Yes, I

think Jack wanted to record the fact that I dabbled badly in

acrylics. He wanted some evidence of that because he is a very good

artist and I am not. You are there relaxing, do you always wear a suit

to relax? I try to revive it is being taken by my son. He makes me

look like I fit the part. -- why try to if I am being taken by my

son. You are doing some travelogue now. The Mississippi is the current

one. It was a great idea because of the majesty of the river. It

touches the lives of people in 31 states. We started off in New

Orleans and you get a slice of civil history, the civil war,

slavery, plantations, and music, Elvis Presley. And to get to meet

people like Morgan Freeman, who has a blues club in Mississippi.

were going to say that you have in -- interviewed lots of famous

people but you were nervous about meeting Morgan Freeman. Yes, it is

out of in for me. I interview politicians and it is difficult to

stop them being interviewed at these days, as you probably agree.

We were not sure that we would get him and that he would do the

interview. I said to my colleagues, I tell you what, I will talk to him

for 15 minutes about invaders. He did the film, of course. I think

that would be a good way to introduce myself and it worked. At

the end of it, I said would you mind giving us an interview on

camera? And he said, do you have to ask? It was one of the most

wonderful moment of my life but I Let's look at one of the most

wonderful moments of your life. What do you remember about growing

up in this area? I still remember my childhood as being a lot of

freedom. I would get up in the morning, aged four, five, and go

hand up my best friend. And we would just run. It is that voice.

And he went on to tell you that his influential within his community,?

He had a great influence. Long after the civil rights legislation,

Proms were still and mixed. The white children went to one prom and

the black kids went to another. Morgan Freeman was instrumental in

changing that. He paid for a Prom in which everybody could mix. And

he is justly proud of that. For us, it was an extraordinary thing to

remember, that so long after the civil rights legislation in the

1960s, these practices still occurred. That was what we found,

making these films on Mississippi. There were so many slices of

American life which one could observe and so many historical

moments which one could look back on. The Mighty Mississippi starts

next Tuesday at 9pm on ITV1. His these times of austerity, some

people go to any lengths to save a few pennies. A Arthur Smith has

taken to marching up to the houses where famous people lived and

demanding a free bed for the night. It has worked so far.

My quest to sleep in the homes where famous British people lived

has often meant an improvised bed. But there is no camp bed or

slipping back tonight, because the former home of the writer George

Eliot has, conveniently, become a hotel. George Eliot was born near

Nuneaton in Warwickshire in 1819. The town's settings and characters

would later inspire her classic novels, like The Mill On The Floss

and Middlemarch. To clear up any confusion, I should say George

Eliot was a pen name. She was really Mary Anne Evans, the

daughter of the local estate manager. And therein lies a tale.

Marianne's father looked after the estate for a local family. Two

centuries later, it is still owned by the same family and the

farmhouse where Mary Anne was born is still the estate manager's home.

Her father must have been held in very high respect. And Mary and as

well. She would have been allowed to go where she wanted, when she

wanted. And she was allowed to use the library to read and further

education. And what a library it was, and is. Many of the books

would have been here in Mary and's time. She may not have realised at

the time, but she was soaking up these unusual surroundings for her

subsequent career as a writer. In one of her first stories, the house

appears as the castellated house of grey tinted stone. Another setting

inspiring scenes for her books was Griff house, once an ivy-clad

farmhouse, it became the family home shortly after Mary Anne was

born. She was a very clever young girl. You s, her education had to

finish 1836, because her mother was dying. So she had to come back here

and help run the farm, but she was intelligent and her father saw that

and was happy to pay for extra tuition for her. In 1849, after her

father died, Mary Anne moved to London to seek her literary fortune.

Eventually, she went to London, as we all must. Yes. Where she met all

sorts of radical bohemian people, and probably had an affair with the

man who owned the Westminster Review, for which she acted as

assistant editor for several years. And there, she met most of literary

London. She also met and began a relationship with the writer and

philosopher George Henry Lewes. Through his encouragement, she

began writing novels. How did she become George Eliot? She was living

with George Henry Lewes, but could not marry him because he was

already married. She wanted to avoid the equivalent of the tabloid

press getting on to the story and saying that George Henry Lewes'

common-law wife has written a book, so she used a pen name. She called

herself George, and she said Elliott was a solid sounding name.

Nobody knows exactly where the young Mary Anne Evans would have

slept when she lived here, but she certainly wrote about this attic.

George Eliot's novel The Mill On The Floss was largely

autobiographical. And this is the room where her principal character,

Maggie, would come on wet days, not to sow or paint Ornette, but to

drive nails into a dull to vent her frustration. "three nails driven

into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of

the earthly struggle". I was thinking overnight about Mary

Anne's obvious frustrations growing up here. A very bright girl facing

a constrained life ahead of her. But while she did manage to leave

that behind, she obviously never forgot her formative years in

Warwickshire. Her brilliant and witty observations of the people

and places of her youth pulse through her best fiction. She ended

her days as one of Britain's most celebrated novelists.

She was not just a fine Victorian novelist, she was also a poet. We

understand you are a fan of poetry? I was made to like poetry. In

school, we were made to learn long passages and stand in the sun and

recite to any passers-by. Did you come to love it? I had come to love

it. I have always taken books of poetry with me when I went to

places like Beirut, when they were fighting. It was relaxing. Each it

is just as well that you like it, because we asked our viewers to

send in limericks about you. We will see how many we can read.

their broadcastable? We will see how many we can do in 45 seconds.

The newsreader remembered forever. A bespectacled fellow named Trevor.

McDonald his name, and massive his fame, a talent both gentle and

clever. There was a young man named Trevor,

who always preceded the weather. The most eloquent of men as he read

the News at Ten, no better newsreader was ever.

There was a young man called Trevor, who decided to report the news for

ever. He travelled far and near, and then relaxed with a beer,

before spending the evening in leather. Had a good day find that

out? A wonderful night called Sir Trevor,

at newsreading is terribly clever. When you hear Big Ben bong, you

can't go wrong. I wish he could go on forever.

From the Trinidad Macdonald clan, comes a newsreading giant of a man.

The whole nation loves Trevor, may he go on forever - he is the pin-up

of everyone's gran! Are a must take you guys with me. You could do my

career some good. In his 20 years anchoring the News

at Ten, Sir Trevor introduced for thousands of light-hearted items,

which officially became known as "and finallys". So Sir Trevor,

would you do us the honour? finely tonight on The One Show, to

Bradford, where Angellica Bell brings us news of the final

preparations for the animal games. Yes, Trevor, you join us at a

critical moment. British hopeful Deco is at the starting line, ready

for his 180 qualifier. -- 100 metre qualifier. Something is definitely

wrong with this picture. And this one. And this one. In fact, there

are over 6 million obese cats and dogs in the UK. Figures even

suggest that a quarter of all rabbits are obese, too. 84% of

these pets' owner has mistakenly believe them to be the right weight,

and this compounds a serious problem. We are in the middle of a

pet obesity epidemic. It is having a huge impact on their health and

their quality of life. We are getting the same weight related

problems we see in people - arthritis, diabetes, heart disease.

It is sad. A to combat this, the UK's leading pet charity, the PDSA,

has come up with a solution that is more carrot and stick. Becker,

Samantha, Fifi and 15 other podgy pets will spend six months working

out, dieting and toning. The Crown will be the -- the prize will be

the crowd of pet fit champion 2012. How did Samantha get so big? I had

got a 32 rabbits, because I rescue them. She just exploded. No thing

to do with what you are feeding her? And no, because the other

rabbits are slim. But she was getting fatter and fatter. The

other rabbits run around the garden, but she would not move. She would

sit there like a blob. He was getting a full bowl of food price

today. And as he grew, he got a bigger bowl, and he would have what

was left on our plates. Have you had to change your lifestyle?

Definitely no treats whatsoever, from a packet of crisps to a

biscuit in the morning. Fifi got fat because she was found starving

as a kitten. I think that fear has stayed with her. At any opportunity,

she used to gorge herself. What made you decide you needed to sort

it out? She could not seem to stand. She would walk and then collapse. I

want her to be happy and live as long as she can. Relay competition

like this make a difference? Diet and exercise. You can take dogs for

a walk and play in the local park. Cats actually like to play into

adulthood. You can encourage them to chase things. And rabbits need a

nice, large exercise run with things that they can jump on.

pets like depot might not give Jessica Ennis a run for her money,

but if these pervy creatures turn their waddles into walkies, it will

be an Olympian effort worth celebrating. We were let you know

how Deco, Samantha and Fifi get on over the next few months.

I could be wrong here, but I think a cat's whiskers are as long as the

wit of his body so that when it goes through something, it can

gauge how wide it is. So if a cat puts weight on, do the whiskers

grow longer? Maybe viewers can help out. It is a tricky one. I can't

help you. So you're new series starts on Tuesday. Any more travels

planned? I would like to think so. I would love to work in America. It

is very easy to work there. People know about television and they know

about television's bizarre requirements. A anywhere you would

like to go? I love most of America. Thank you for coming in. The Mighty

Mississippi starts on ITV won at 9pm next Tuesday.

Are you a fan of Little Britain? have seen it. I watch so much sport