03/09/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Tonight, sees the start of the much anticipated new BBC drama Our Zoo,

based on the family who created anded lived at Chester Zoo in the

1930's, including June. Now June is all grown up. We will be chatting to

her about what it is like to have a lion cub for a best friend. Lovely

to have you with us tonight. And George as well. A man who has gone

from the Naked Chef to the Comfy Chef. We thought we would make him

feel as comfortable as possible. It's Jamie Oliver. Very comfy here.

Usually, cushions are banned on the sofa. I know. You upgraded it.

Normally we haven't got a budget for soft furnishings. We have you

slippers and all. I'm I allowed to keep these? My son would love

Zoo-themed for those. The evening. This is for you a hot chocolate. Dig

in. Thank you very much. There is a reason. You have a new show all

about comfort food and a book to go with it. Started Monday. We will

talk about it in due course. Food news in schools. Schools are going

back this week. You must be absolutely delighted. You started

campaigning years and years back. 10 years next year we started school

dinners campaign. Yeah, the last sort of week we have had, you know,

it's free school lunches for up to - 4 high pressure 7-year-olds. Really

important. The Government are behind it. It's really important. It will

be a little bit of extra work for our head teachers and cooks. If we

support this right this is an amazing thing for child health and

all that stuff. This is for state schools in England. Is it enough for

you at the moment? If you spoke to any paediatrician at a doctors you

would say, the place you need to start is with pregnant women and

nurseries. I don't want to ask for too much. I try to be realistic. A

lot of the habit change happens there. Absolutely, getting them in

primary school is a beautiful thing. That is where they love food and

trying. It will be interesting this time next year to see the difference

We have a real chance to make the graph of bad child health to go from

that to that. I'm pleased to that. The only hot meal some children will

have. A perfect show tonight we have hot chocolate, slippers and we have

Kasabian. I love a bit of Kasabian. You will dance along to them before

the end of the show. Animals, zoos gla lore. The children of George

Mottershead, the creator of Chester Zoo, had a childhood that most could

only dream of. Look at these photos. His daughter June is about to relive

it all. Her family's story is told in a brand new drama Our Zoo. Ahead

of tonight's first episode, June went back to Chester to share some

of her favourite memories. I always thought I had a normal childhood,

but people did think we were eccentric. My parents were Lizzie

and George Mottershead. My big sister was Muriel. My family also

included chimpanzees, lion cubs and elephants. I grew up in Chester Zoo.

When my father was very small he went to a zoo and the cages were all

small. He thought to himself - one day I'll have a zoo and give the

animals room to roa. My father had been very badly wounded in the First

World War. That's when his parents loaned him some money. In December

1930, when I was four, we moved into this house. The first animals we got

were the two bears that had been given to my father because they had

outgrown their enclosure. We put them in stables to begin with. The

local villagers objected. They were frightened of the animals getting

out. Cotton merchants and tea merchants and everybody from

Liverpool who had large houses and estates they thought it would let

down the tone of the place. After six months, we got official

permission to open the zoo. The visitors started to trickle in, but

the financial situation was chronic. In 1934, dad managed to turn the zoo

into a charity. That saved the zoo from closing down. My dad started to

court people to bring money in, and that caused a bit of a rift with my

mum because she was doing the work and he was doing the socialising.

During the war, people were frightened of zoos being bombed and

the animals escaping. A lot of animals had to be evacuated from

down south. We got two elephants in 1940. Father made me walk through

Chester in front of them so that we got as much publicity as we could

for the zoo. People thought it was a strange life, but to me it was

absolutely normal. I was brought up with Mary, the chimpanzee. It was

wonderful. If you taught her to put water on a brick, she could do that

-- mortar. Christy was a lion cub. We became, very, very close. She

loved coming up behind you and jumping on you. Of course, she was

so heavy, you just sank to the ground. Your knees gave way. If she

put her teeth on you, her open mouth, never closed them. She was

exceptionally good tempered. And then the time came when my father

swapped Christy, the lion cub, for a polar bear. That's when I stopped

really being too fond of animals because you are heartbroken and you

have no say in the matter. I felt I'd let her down. I am amazing that

the zoo is so large these days, but it's what, as a family, dreamed of.

A zoo without bars. I'm sure they'd be very pleased. June is here, along

with her son, George. We heard, obviously, the sad story about you

saying goodbye to Christy the cub. The polar bear, there was a happy

story to that one? Christy was swapped. We got a male polar bear.

We had two females. The lucky thing was that one of them became pregnant

and had a live polar bear cub. It grew up. That was wonderful. Real

happy feeling within the zoo, even for the am malls to be breeding like

that? Quite something to breed polar bears. It was in those days. We saw

in the film you had all sorts of animals. We saw the chimpanzees were

handy with the cement and bricks there? Of course! I couldn't believe

it. You and your husband built the aquarium which stands at Chester Zoo

today, didn't you June? Yes. The old aquarium was in the basement of the

Oakfield. It flooded regularly. And, the electrics were rather dicey, to

be quite honest! The tanks all leaked because it had been closed

during the war. So we said to the Society, could we have a new

aquarium if we build it in our own time? So we built it in our own

time, after work. Wonderful, June. Also we had landing lamps, you know

for the aircraft. So we could work at At night-time night. . It is

still there. Good foundations? Yes. It's old fashioned a bit now. It

still works! The reason we are talking about this is because of the

big new drama on BBC tonight. You must have learnt so much about your

family history from this? We have, haven't we. We have been trying to

tell the story of the family for years. We weren't doing such a good

job. Fortunately, a producer from the BBC thought it might make a

great drama, that was four years ago. Four years ago everyone will

learn about the family. A gorgeous little girl called Honor who plays

you? She is fantastic. Let us see her in action. Here she is. Go on

then? Nothing to be afraid of. Behold the beast. Wow! He looked

right at me. Tell him about Sydney. Camels are 40 million years old. Not

this actual one, of course! You said you were going to get rid of them! I

can hear the echo around Britain now - we will have to watch this! It

looks good. She goes - she's going to be a star. I think so. It must

have been interesting for you to see and see on the television your

family there in front of it? Wonderful that the whole family were

in the series. My grandparents worked hard. My parents worked hard,

and my sister worked hard. The they didn't always get the credit they

deserved, I don't think. Is everybody will see it now, won't

they? I hope so. Jamie has some experience. You used to live next

door to a zoo Near to one. My best mate had a zoo pretty much in his

house. Really? There used to be 350 animals, club Scouts, he worked in

the local one as well. Its on tonight. Thank you for coming along.

Our Zoo starts tonight at 9.00pm on BBC One. Shortly we will be talking

to Jamie about what makes the perfect comfort food. Before that

Joe Crowley has been to find out which injustice from 1682 caused 300

women to meet up at a castle in Exeter. Here is a clue. WITCH LAUG.

You did that without moving your mouth? Cheeky! Double, double, toll

and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble I have come to Exeter for a

magical event, where not one, not two, but hundreds of witches have

come together for a Grand Witches tea party. What is this? This is my

broom. These are goddess eyes I have made. What is this? More rockon

green monkey skull. Yes. These are modern switches. Jackie is event

organiser and is proud to call herself a witch. Hundreds of witches

here today. There is something else behind this. Why are they attending?

It is to honour the last three women in England to be hanged for

witchcraft. That was Suzanna Edwards, Mary Trembles and Miss

Lloyd. They were single. What are you hoping to achieve? We have a

petition which we are gaining signatures to try and get the

pardoned. We are also imagine a world which is more tolerant and

more loving and more compassionate. How important is it to remember

these three women? Today we are trying to honour and mend some of

the wrong in the past. A lot of innocent women were killed because

they looked different or dressed different. Everybody here today, all

felt such an emotion towards these three women from 1682 and for each

other. It doesn't matter what your belief is, Christian or Muslim, you

could be Jewish, a witch, pagan, I'll still be a woman standing next

to you saying - that is OK. Whatever you believe is fine. The event is

attempting to break the world record for the largest gathering of

witches. The current record stands at 765, just over 300 people have

come through so far. There is a long way to go. 380! Unfortunately, no

world record. The fight for the three women continues and today

their memory was marked by a reflective one minute's silence. No

shortage of sterotypes here. Wonderful and weird witch costumes

what it is about is celebrating the right to be different. We were

talking about cauldrons you said nudge me when I get boring. I love a

cauldron. Everyone used to cook on cauldrons. A lot of things in Roald

Dahl what went in them was normal food. We ate anything that moved in

the old days to feed our family. Cooking over fire makes the most

incredible food. You sort of do it in this new series. You are making a

curry over a fire? I love going into the garden. It's anti-British, we

look after our gardens. I dig a hole where there is a nice view and the

sunsets, I'm like a fire. I love cooking over fire. It's one of the

best things. Smoke and cooking over fire is the secret seasoning we have

missed since the invention of the electric oven. You are investing it

in comfort food. For so long it has been about quick meals, 15, 20

minutes? I have tried to answer questions from the public. Faster

food, great value food. Comfort food is 100% JO. It's eccentric. You kind

of think, is he all right, is he insane? I have gone to classics like

burgers and stuff like that. We have gone around the world to make it a

global comfort food book. I have gone ballistic. Stuff that takes

time. It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? It's hard to do a cooking show.

There is normally some jeopardy or purpose. To cook is almost

impossible. OK. I have had my chance. This is the thing. We think

we need a national warning. The physical you haven't had your tea

he, you are going to want it after seeing this clip. Have a look at

this. One little thing I love is just a tiny little pinch of cayenne.

Tiny, you won't see it, you will taste it. Not as in hot, but as in

KICK! Can you see how it's peeling away like that? That is a good sign.

Be rough with it. Don't be scared of it. Then you get underneath it. You

just hold it. You can do ten and turn it over and

it is a crown. I've spent a day were developed that developing that

recipe. Only three ingredients, but the thing is, I used to love the

bits that is doubt. That contrast, with the gooey bits inside, amazing.

Even the cheese sandwich does not go down a normal path. It want to get

people excited about going over the top. To be honest, you can do that

by just looking at the pictures in the book. Isn't it?

When you were growing up, what defines cooking for you? We were

talking about the changes. I've realised early on when it started

writing the book, I would ask around, e-mail my team, and nobody

said, it is this dish, everybody said, it is this dish and I've

remember it and it is because of that. And every person has their own

comfort food. What I love about this book is that it is quite eccentric

but hopefully you either learn something or think you can do it

better because you have your own. I love that emotion. Comfort food is

very emotional. It picks me up on a few rough. And guess it has come at

an interesting point in your life. We read recently that you feel like

you want to slow down. You feel like you want to take online? I have been

very busy for the last seven years. And I am a liability because I will

give anything a go. I'd think it is time to focus and concentrate on

what I love. And be better and less. It is interesting, comfort food

might reflect that very thought. I do not think will ever write a

better book than this. I don't think so. I would be surprised if I do.

Really? 100%. It is the pure brandy, no water, no ice. And I want to do

it as a gift, I want people to give it to people. Spend time doing it.

People can read the book and see it for themselves. Jamie's Comfort Food

continues next Monday at 8pm on Channel four.

One of the biggest British bands around Kasabian are getting ready

to perform outside for day 3 of The One Show Music Festival. There's a

Another group of people waiting in anticipation are those who

literally live right on the Scottish English border.

It's two weeks tomorrow until the referendum,

and Andy Kershaw's visited Berwick Upon Tweed, to meet a man who won't

know how much of his farm will be in the UK until the votes are in.

This beautiful and historic landscape between England and

Scotland is home to more than 100,000 people. It is one of the

oldest border areas in the world, and the British have been able to

come and go as they please. Joining me on the road trip is a Professor

from Northumbria University who has written about the potential impact

of Scottish independence on people living on or near the border. Why is

the referendum of particular significance to those living here?

Thousands of people travel across-the-board each day for work

on the basis of an open border. A shared currency, and free trade. If

Scotland offers independence, there will be a number of challenges but

these are the sorts of issues that other European countries deal with

on a day-to-day basis practically. I'm taking the Professor to meet

some of the locals who travel across-the-board every day for work.

Peter Greenwood owns a garage one mile from Scotland. I'd go over the

border every day four or five times, will only the passport? Will only

day work Visa? Is he going to need a passport? The short answer is no.

For my point of view, I think as long as we are members of the trade

area and we have EU membership, the flow across-the-board on a

day-to-day basis will not change. And how about family life, you think

that will be affected? Where do you go to the hospital? At the minute,

we go to hospital in Scotland, because it is quicker to go there.

This might be an area where independence might not make much of

a difference. The NHS in Scotland is quite independent from other NHS

systems south of the border. I think health is an area that will not be

that affected. But the Better Together campaign says there's no

guarantee that people like Peter would be able to use the Scottish

hospitals if the country is split. Three of Peter's employees travel to

work from Scotland and they are interested in which currency and

independent Scotland would use, and the future of pensions. Graham is

one of them. Nobody has said that this is how pensions will work. What

of the economy goes belly up? The pension guarantee scheme covers the

UK. The Scottish government says they will have a similar scheme but

there is a doubt as to whether Scotland could afford the pension

payments. This time, it is the yes campaign which disagrees. They say

Scotland's financial position is strong enough to provide a

high-quality pension system. We are on our way to meet a farmer called

John. He lives in the most northerly house in England. His land straddles

the border. 70% of his farmland is in England and 30% is in Scotland.

John has never thought much about the border running through his farm.

Until now. Are we in England or Scotland? We are in England. But one

more field and we are in Scotland. You constantly driving in and out of

Scotland? Every day. But you never think about it. That is us crossing

the border now. We are in Scotland. As a UK farmer, you get EU

subsidies? We do. Because the biggest part in England, Scotland

has to pay England and England pays us. So we do not get paid until

Scotland pays England. The campaigns disagree as to whether an

independent Scotland would automatically be in the EU and carry

on getting farming subsidies. Businesses rely on that income. They

would struggle without them. An independent Scotland will have to

apply for separate membership which could take a while. Because the

policy payments are higher for independent countries, the Scottish

side of your business will eventually be higher. And we are

crossing the border again. EU membership, pensions, keeping the

pound, health care, just some of the areas where the campaigns disagree.

And we have had a word with Andy about getting his dog a seat belt.

To explore more of the latest stories, analysis and

reports on the Scottish Referendum, visit bbc.co.uk/scotlanddecides.

Now we're here on stage with Kasabian -

You are going to do one song live on the show. What do you have for us?

Bumblebee. And three more, including Empire, and the iPlayer. A giver

joining us tonight. Jamie's Comfort Food continues next Monday at 8pm on

Channel four and the book is on now. Tomorrow, Michael Pailin will be on

the sofa and Sam Smith will be on the stage. We leave you with

Kasabian and Bumblebee. # Get him a message, a message from

me # I'm caught up in love and I'm in

ecstasy # What can I do now, when nothing's

the same? # And all that i know, I wanna do it

again # Well tell me now

# Life is so simple when you are with me

# 'Cause when we're together, I'm in # I'm in ecstasy

# I'm in ecstasy # All you pretty things, get on

board this mothership # All you got to do is be ready for

action, baby # Don't think I'm twisted, as a

matter of fact # Where I fight off robots, and the

men in the suits # Wear out the souls of your monkey

boots # Well tell me now

# Can't get enough of the sunshine # And all the colours that are

coming on strong # Trying to hold on

# Trying to hold on # Can't get enough of the mantra

# All we will ever feel is ecstasy # We're in ecstasy

# Everybody go! # All you pretty things, get on

board this mothership # All you got to be is ready for

action, baby # All you pretty things, get on

board this mothership # All you got to be is ready for