04/01/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to our first show of 2016 with me Matt Baker.

And because Alex is taking a few days off after getting married,

Anita Rani has waltzed her way into the hot seat this evening.

Did you have a good Christmas break, Anita?

You must be jet lagged because you have had a Christmas holiday?

Disappeared to Vietnam, now I'm ready to carry out forensic

questioning of our guest for this evening, a woman who is used to

working with uncommunicative subjects. She'll be chattier than

they usually are. Please welcome to Emilia Fox. How was your break? Very

quiet, lots of family things and a lot of ice skating this year. A big

family Fox get-together? Yes. My bit of the family, then we were meant to

meet with Lawrence and Jack and everyone on Boxing Day for ice

skating but they couldn't make it. They turned down the ice skating

invitation, is that what happened? Yes. The decorations are down now?

Yes. So sad, I want it to carry on. I was taking the icicle lights off

the gutter as you do, first thing this morning.

At the forefront of everyone's mind this Christmas were those who had

homes their and businesses affected by the recent devastating floods.

With many flood warnings still in place, particularly

in Scotland, the misery is set to continue for many.

Lucy spent the weekend with families in one of the worst affected areas,

Hebden Bridge, as they tackled a monumental clear up.

At the end of 2015, Britain took a battering from Storm Frank as it

carved a trail of destruction across the UK. With record levels of

rainfall came severe flooding. This is Hebden Bridge near Halifax

where almost 600 homes were damaged by the floods.

This was Hebden Bridge yesterday. As the floodwater has subsided, things

may look like they are getting back to normal. But some residents still

can't access their homes while others haven't got power to heat

theirs or even cook. Help is coming from some unexpected places. I'm

here in Bradford 17 miles away where a group of Sikh volunteers have

spent the last week cooking up a heart felt response to the crisis in

Hebden Bridge. Ravi is the founder of this

humanitarian relief agency that's provided emergency aid around the

world. Hebden Bridge is the latest crisis zone to benefit from his

charity's work. For my personally, being a British

Sikh, this is the greatest honour. As an international charity, we rely

on the generosity of the public, so when things like this happen, we

should be the first turning up. What is happening today? We are serving

chick peas and potato curry. What response have you had about the

food? They have asked for more on a daily basis, so that is part of them

saying that they appreciate it. How many will this feed? Just over 100.

The other 300 or 400 will be done by the Coventry team. The first

despatch off to Hebden Bridge. Off we go. Back to one of the worst-hit

flood areas and, at the town, hungry locals tuck into Ravi's food. Spent

plenty of money on Indian food. To have a hot meal is wonderful. It's

the best curry I've ever had. You know, these guys have travelled so

far, you know, it's just incredible. It's really welcome at a time when

people are really suffering. To get some hot, nutritious food, it makes

you feel really supported and like somebody's taking care of you.

Having a hot meal pays dividends when there's still work to do. The

local infant school was devastated in the floods, but volunteers are

working tirelessly to get it up and running for the start of term in a

few days' time. People just flooded in from absolutely everywhere and

we've seriously, we can't thank people enough and couldn't have got

it done without the, I was going to say the army, but it's more like an

Armarda of people who came in and just helped us out. When this is all

finished and the sun comes out again, we are thinking of holding a

giant street party and everybody's welcome, you know, to come and

celebrate with us. This is your tractor, Bob? Yes. How many loads

have you done? About 25 in three days. So people have given their

whole like festive period to this? Yes, yes. Literally everyone is

getting involved? Even my grandson. Is it right that you are all

expecting to have the kids back at school this week? We may be a day

late, but we've got a fully functioning school on the top floor.

The school will carry on as normal and the work will get done and

hopefully we'll be back to normal within two month, something like

that. To be honest, when I first came here

and they said they were planning to open the school this week, I

thought, really? But, after 20 or 30 volunteers have spent a couple of

hours in here, now I think they might actually do it.

Gosh, incredible to think what they've gone through, then to see

the look on their faces of appreciation and all the effort.

Absolutely, and to get carry as well, that is special!

If you've been affected by the recent floods

and would like to share your flood pictures and stories with us,

please get in touch with us via Twitter, Facebook or email.

Emilia, you were saying that you have been flooded in the past,

nothing like that though? Nothing like that, but when I first started

Silent Witness, there were flash floods one summer and I remember

going back into the house and, as soon as I walked through the door,

the smell was like overwhelming and I was like, something's gone wrong

here, I don't know where it is and I went downstairs to the basement

where the kitchen and living room is and everything had come up through

the floors and the Loos. It was horrible. I really, my goodness, I

really empathise with people there. Particularly at this time. Yes. The

timing is bad? Any time it must be... Roan douse but at Christmas

time you want to be at home, it's absolutely horrid -- must be

horrendous. Silent Witness is back

on our screens tonight in the first I watched a preview last night

and was a bag of nerves by the end. When you read the script,

could you feel the tension? Well, I was excited about this one

because it's got such a personal element for Nikki and it's a

psychological thriller which I really love. It's got lots of twists

and turns right up until the very end. Yes, it's an eerie one, it's

not just your average one, it delves into her whole personal life which

begins to crumble and her professional life. She gets

ostracised from the rest of the team and so yes, it was a fun one to

play, fun in, you know, it was good to get into it. We have a moment

from tonight's episode. Let's see you in a state of paranoia. Remember

I told you about the watches at both scenes, you said something like, of

course you are going to pursue a link, you are Nikki, you were

certain of it because you know me, what happens if the killer also

knows me. It was almost certain that I would look for a link. He would

have banked on it. They wanted me to make a critical error, a mistake,

they succeeded, I missed a murder, maybe that's what this is all about.

Gripping stuff. APPLAUSE

Really tense and brilliant. What is it like when your character, after

12 years of playing the character and you are really at the heart of

the story line, particularly because you are so involved, what is it like

when you have to get that tense and into it? Well, it was easy to do

because the writing was so good on this episode and I think yes, she

has a breakdown so every scene that we did, there were high stakes in it

and it really helps having worked with David Caves for so long now so

you feel that you can push it that far. You feel that he could go with

it and that particular scene, I remember doing it, it could be quite

dramatic but because you are familiar with the crew as well

who're around you, then it's OK to do that. It's hard to believe it's

been 12 years. In that time you have come across a lot of bodies. Yes.

They are all real people lying there, aren't they, they are not

statues or anything like that, so the actual people, do they ever, I

mean do they ever start laughing, does it ever get a little awkward?

Do you get a corpse in corpse is my question? Yes, you often do. You

often get a sleeping corpse because they lie on the mortuary slab all

day long. So they fall asleep? A few have fallen asleep on the slab.

Actually, they are sensitive situations because it's quite

exposing isn't it? Of course. What about this gentleman who is in

tonight's episode. He's having his armpit shaved, people are tickling.

Once you have introduced yourself, you know, you have to say, I'm

Emilia and I'll now be touching you all over and I hope you don't mind

if I put things up your nose and take things out of your mouth, so

yes, you know, one tries to make them as relaxed as possible in a

very odd situation. You've said in the past you were very squealish,

are you more relaxed now? No, I'm really squeamish, I'm hopeless with

anything, if I had to deal with anything medical, I'm not your go-to

person. I've been to two postmortems and I thought I was going to be

really squeamish when I was at those but in fact I sort of put myself

into the head of Nikki, my character, and it was so riveting

seeing the pathologists at work and how you find cause of death through

the body, it's a detective process that made me realise that sort of

fascination with silent witness, certainly for me.

Silent Witness is on tonight at 9 on BBC One, part two is tomorrow

Solving the next crime will be easy for you, Emilia.

If you were going to steal a priceless painting from a world

famous art gallery, the chances are, you wouldn't simply lift it off the

wall and brazenly walk out the main entrance and down the front steps.

But that's exactly what happened here at the Tate Gallery in London

on 12th April, 1956. The heist was captured on the film by a photo

journalist who took a snap of the get-away.

But it would soon transpire that it was the thieves themselves who'd

made sure the press photographer was conveniently nearby. The men who

pulled off the heist were 25-year-old Irish art student Paul

Hogan and his accomplice Bill Fogarty. It wasn't until 2015,

nearly 60 years later, that the files were declassified and made

public. They revealed that the case had in fact caused panic at the

highest ranks of the British Government. The records show the

police now that Hogan and Fograty were the ones who had taken the

picture. The authorities were reluctant to prosecute. There was a

reason this particular painting was the target and the men wanted to be

caught. John Kerr is a criminologist and

expert in art theft. They wanted publicity because of the

Hugh Lane collection, which was a collection of paintings originally

bequeathed to the National Gallery in Britain, but the Irish believed

that it was theirs. Irish art dealer Hugh Lane was one of the foremost

collectors of impressionist art, only works by Renoir and Monet. He

amended his will with an unwitnessed codicil, leaving his art to Dublin.

The National Gallery didn't recognise his apparent change of

heart and held on to the collection. Steven Hogan is Paul Hogan's nephew

and knows the story of how his uncle came to play a pivotal role in the

controversy over the ownership of the collection.

Paul and his friend Billy Fogarty decided they had to to something,

that a Dublin man should go in and claim one of the pictures to try to

kick-start the negotiations. He goes to Room 24, sees the picture and

takes it off the wall. It was that easy to walk away with a painting

today valued at ?7 million. It's only on a chain and a hook.

This priceless piece of art. Paul makes his way out the main entrance,

he's going down the steps and, at that very moment, the photographer

on duty takes this iconic picture of Paul walking down the Tate with the

painting under his arm. Billy's task was to jam his foot in the revolving

door in the event of a pursuit. Where did they go next? It was

decided symbolically if they could get the picture on to Irish

territory which in that case was the Irish Embassy in London, that the

point would have been made. At this point, huge publicity had been

generated. Once deposited, it was immediately returned to the Tate.

The secret files reveal why no case was brought against Hogan and

Fogarty. If the men were charged, they would be heroes or martyrs, so,

did their stunt achieve anything? The publicity they generated and the

great triumph of this story is that four years later, an agreement to

share the pictures was reached between Dublin and London.

Today, eight paintings including the stolen one rotates between the

National Gallery in London and what is known as the Hugh Lane Gallery in

Dublin. What a heist! Gyles is here with more examples of crimes that

not carried out for financial gain, but to a point. A protest. That was

an Irish protest but I have a Scottish one. The Stone of Scone,

also known as the Scone of -- Stone of Destiny. For hundreds of years it

was in Westminster Abbey but it began as the Scottish king's throne

and then the hammer of the Scots, Edward the first in 1296 took the

Stone of Scone from Scotland as a spoiled of war and he brought it to

Westminster Abbey where it remained for hundreds of years until 1950.

Christmas Day, four students led by a man called Ian Hamilton, who is in

the foreground smoking a cigarette there, he and his friends and a girl

called Kay Matheson got into Westminster Abbey in the night in

1950 and stole the Stone of Scone for the honour of the Scots.

Unfortunately as they were stealing it, the Stone dropped on Kay's toes

and broke several of them and broke the stone itself. They got out of

the Abbey with the Stone in two parts. They put one of them in the

back of her car, a policeman came along, so two of them begun getting,

pretending they were trying to find somewhere for bed and breakfast, as

they say! They got away with half of the stone and eventually they got it

into Scotland, they reunited it, and ousted in whiskey to bring it home

and then they left it at Arbroath Abbey on the high altar, where it is

found by the police and returned to Westminster Abbey where it remained

until 1996. I happened to be in the room when the then Secretary of

State for Scotland decided it should be returned to Edinburgh. Now it is

in Edinburgh Castle where it will stay until it is required for the

next coronation. Can you tell us about the Duke of Wellington one?

You have 30 seconds! A painting by Goya, bought for the nation in 1961.

Stolen by this man, Kempton Bunton, who was a retired bus driver. He was

prosecuted for failing to pay his TV licence and find two pounds. He

wouldn't pay, he only watched ITV, never the BBC! They put in in prison

and he was outraged, he emerged and said he would steal the painting and

hold it for ransom. He stole the painting from the National Gallery,

you may have seen it in the 1961 film, Doctor no. It wasn't Doctor

no, it was a bus driver who said he is stealing the painting, up for

ransom, ?140,000. If the government can spend it on that, they should

spend it on TV licences for the poor and elderly. It was his protest. He

decided to give it back and he left it in the left luggage office at

Birmingham new Street station. Great story, prolific told. You had the

best Christmas presents, two -- present, a seventh grandchild. He

may be called Gabriel, a Christmas name.

Now for an incredible tale of one man's life long search.

thank you to the stranger who saved his life 45 years ago.

Roy Moorehead has been the local milkman in County Down for 35 years.

He's a much loved face in the community but his life story have

been very different. When he was a young boy, Roy plucked him from the

sea in dramatic rescue, seeing him saved from drowning. Brings back bad

memories of that day. The three of us almost drowned. Roy and his two

order brothers were on a seaside jaunt here in the town of Whitehead

without their mum and dad -- older brothers. That's me on the right and

that is true and that is Ben. -- Kampl. We had these toys from a

cereal packet and somebody had the idea of floating them at the sea. I

fell into the sea. You must have been scared. My brothers were

reaching out to me, but I was starting to drift out. In the panic

to save him, Roy's brothers ended up in the water as well but as they

were close to the shore, a passer-by managed to pull them out. Did you

ever think, no one is going to save me? I did, yeah, I really thought

that, I thought I would ground. By now, Roy had been in the water for

several minutes as was -- and was getting weaker but he saw somebody

jump into the sea. A woman appeared and she said, turn around on your

back and don't struggle. When they reached the shore, his rescuer

disappeared as quickly as she had arrived. But Roy has never forgotten

her. What would it mean to you to meet the lady who saved you? I would

just like to say thank you so much to her. With Moira not remembering

her name or how old he was this was an almost impossible task for our

people finding expert, Catherine. He thought it was reported in the

newspaper, from 1966 until 1972. I had to go through each of the papers

looking for details of the rescue. Despite searching, nothing can I

couldn't find anything. I had to do some doorknocking and see what I can

find in Whitehead itself. Visited the library, spoke to the local

historian, went into a cafe. By this stage everyone was trying to help

me. She was still drawing a blank but then she got a lead. Roy's

brother said that the only name he could remember was the name live and

somebody else remembered that a girl called Olive had moved out of the

area and it turned out to be her. We contacted her, she ran with the

rescued and still has the certificate she was given for her

bravery. Now Olive is going to meet Roy just yards from where she

plucked him from the sea. We have some great news for you, we have

found a lady who saved you. Her name is Olive and she's coming to join us

now. Not going for a swim? Cold today!

Thank you, thank you. I'm so honoured that you have thought of me

all of these years. To me, it was second nature. All I remember is

running towards the water, seeing you in the water, a little boy. When

I look back I am quite honoured that you gave me the opportunity to be

brave. Thank you. Now, Roy and Olive can compare memories of that fateful

day. I didn't see it from your point of view, you were very young and it

must have been very true magic. It was. -- very traumatic. I didn't

mean to upset you. Very me. It has been an incredible experience,

reuniting two people brought together by chance and to give Roy

the opportunity to say the thank you he has been waiting 45 years to say.

What a statement from Olive, to say thanks to Roy for giving her the

opportunity to be brave. Incredible, those stories, reuniting, always so

powerful. Kat who does the work finding people deserve say thank you

as well because cheap as her heart and soul into it.

Now for a project that I reported some months ago, a scheme aiming to

put a roof over the heads of those who have done more than their fair

share for their country. A year ago we visited this wasteland to see

something special under construction, home is not only fit

for heroes, but built by heroes too. And there is a need for them because

in Bristol as many as one in four better runs were found to be

homeless and living on the street, or in hostels, after leaving the

Armed Forces. 18 months ago I became homeless. Not eating, just drinking.

Thanks to the community's self build charity and a local housing

association, these veterans were given the tools and training needed

to build their own homes. As the brickwork has gone up and everything

else, it's amazing. Actually starting to see where you are going

to be living. 11 months later and according to the timetabled flats

were due to be completed this month. The question is, have they done it?

-- timetable. They have, the homes are finished, it has passed the

building inspections, they have received keys and they have invited

me to join them for the big move in. The man behind the scheme, ex-Army

major, Ken Haynes. 12 months and you have completed the project, how do

you feel? Ecstatic! Tired as well. Really pleased, we've made it, all

ten builders are in their flats. They gave up their time voluntarily

and they are not paid. How do you find something like this? Simple

things like bus fares, helping them with their rent, because they are

not being paid, and the cost for training, which is the key element

of it. Getting them to a place where they can get some qualifications and

then move into work. Hello, Anita, nice to meet you. You have got your

keys! Yes, I can get in. You must be really excited. Really excited, like

a kid in a toy shop. I will show you around. The only woman on the

project, Anita Wadkins, found herself with iron on friends for a

bed after leaving the Army catering call. Absolutely ecstatic --

catering Corps. Like the address says, it is new hope. Now I'm here I

know that everything will be fine. Hang on, two seconds. My furniture

has arrived! Your furniture? Excellent. How long since you slept

in your own bed. It has been years. This is my home. It hasn't been

anybody else's, it is my home and it is going to be for a long time.

Anita hopes to work in human resources but has also picked up

some handy practical skills. I've never moved blocks, cement, anything

like that, but I had a good go. I was good at the insulator, so I know

how warm the flat is going to be! I put it in the side walls. Grenadier

Guardsman Danny served in Afghanistan and since leaving the

Army he has been diagnosed with post-somatic stress disorder. He

spent the last few years living in hostels but today he is moving into

the home he built. How does it make you feel that you have your own

home? I don't think there are any words to describe it. I have come

from nothing, sleeping wherever I can most nights. Amazing to be

finally home. I have got my sanctuary. There has been more life

changing news for Danny and his partner, Nicky to. Not only have you

got a new flat, you are expecting a new baby, congratulations! That is a

new beginning. It is. He has a roof over his head, somewhere he can grow

up. The veterans are moving in with long leases and affordable rent.

They haven't just build new homes here, they have built a whole new

community too. Nine times out of ten you wouldn't know the person across

the hallway, but we know everybody who is moving into these flats,

which is a good thing. Yeah, a little family. Thanks to a file and

good luck to the community. Thank you for your company, it merely.

Silent Witness is on tonight at 9 o'clock on BBC One.

Where are you going to watch it? I will be at home!

Tomorrow we'll be joined by actor Adrian Lester.

There are many ways to pass the time, aren't there?

Or you could accidentally knock over a colleague... Miles...