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Halo and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
And halo to you too, Matt Baker! | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Tonight, in honour of one of our guests we are handing out the halos. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
We're giving one to a singer with a heavenly voice. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
It's Lianne La Havas, who'll be chatting and singing live | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
She will be talking about her friend Prince. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
of the smallest and most intricate art you'll ever see. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
In fact, some of it is so small you can only view it | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
All that to come - plus elephants, Einstein | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
But, Matt - the guest who has inspired all | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
this halo business - where is he? | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Don't worry, Al - he's on his way and is even giving a lift | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
In the driving seat - it's the suave, sophisticated star | :01:04. | :01:24. | |
of the classic 70s series Return of the Saint. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
And with him, the documentary maker who has met both saints and sinners | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
in his quest to bring us the best stories from around the globe. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Welcome, chaps. Welcome to the One Show. Have a seat. There you are. | :01:37. | :01:58. | |
You were just driving in, you didn't realise that we have actually given | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
notes and halos already this evening. You can see yours, it is | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
behind you. You are wearing it beautifully. We might leave that on | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
for the whole show. We Robert Lee won't. I think somebody's arm will | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
get sore! You came in the original car from Return of the Saint. You | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
have had problems with it this afternoon? My friend Michael | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
discovered it in a barn in the Shetland Islands and has done a | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
complete restoration. He said he drove it too fast and has done | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
something terrible to it so it is no longer working, but it will again. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Thy goodness we have a wonderful special effect steam, you would | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
never have known! -- thank goodness we have a wonderful special effects | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
team. There you go! Well done! You were a fan of the Saint? Eight is | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
wonderful, my 70s childhood dream has been fulfilled. Now you will | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
tell me that you were three! Five! We want you to nominate your own | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
personal saints tonight. Someone who has gone | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
above and beyond to help Send in your photos - | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
tell us why they're a saint and we'll hand out some | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
more halos later. We have got tonnes of them! You | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
might well be one of those heading to the ballot box tomorrow to vote | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
in a wealth of elections all over the UK. On the 23rd of June, no | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
doubt you will be back to vote in the EU referendum. The subject has | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
split opinion, in some cases, even within families. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Brothers Nigel and Ian Baxter from Nottingham both followed their | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
father into the freight industry and set up firms just across the road | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
from each other. For the past 21 years, the siblings have been united | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
in their approach to business. But now? For the first time, they | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
are butting heads. It is all over the EU referendum and weather we | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
should Leave or Remain. Who better to sorted this family | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
feud? Me, of course! -- to sort out. We need your assistance. That is a | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
big 10/4, what is your 20? I am on my way, put your pedal to the metal! | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
I am doing it, man! Looks like we have a convoy! | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
The brothers have taken over their local truckstop cafe today. They | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
will both try to persuade passing drivers to vote their way in the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
referendum. I have come along to make sure things do not get messy. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Why do you want to stay in? Fundamentally, the EU is a single | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
free market of 500 million people, hugely important for trade. If we | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Leave, trade will be more difficult and uncertain, it will affect jobs | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
and investment. Why do you want is to get out? We need to take back | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
sovereignty of the UK Government, deal with the reams of legislation | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
that have affected us. We will have the opportunity to trade properly | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
with the rest of the world, take agreements and bring back control to | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the UK. The passionate pie dish out opposing views to the diners. A key | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
topic for both its free trade in the single market. Ian's freight company | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
manages the movement of goods across the EU. The process of exporting | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
would be made more difficult if we leave. There would be customs | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
clearance, there may be tariffs, documentation. That is difficult for | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
British companies, especially small businesses. But that he would still | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
want to trade with us, we are a massive customer for their goods? -- | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
but the EU would? But if it is easier for a car manufacturer to | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
locate it is business inside the single market rather than outside, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
in the future I think that is the choice they will make. Big Brother | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Nigel's truck repair and servicing business deals with manufacturers in | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
France, but he believes that trading will not be affected if we've vote | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Leave. I can't imagine a situation where we can continue to have a | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
sensible trading well Asian ship. It is in that interest to do an | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
arrangement with us. They are selling is virtually double what we | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
export. Why is it better to be Out? We can open up trading agreements to | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
the rest of the world, we have been hamstrung by the EU, which has | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
failed in many cases to make trading agreements. The brothers have | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
failed in many cases to make trading hour to impress, to which side of | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
the table to these people sit on? We should stay on, safety in numbers, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
if you pull out you are on your own. Out. I could probably work a few | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
more hours each week instead of Europe telling me I can only drive | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
for nine hours of the day. I am. Anyon, it | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
for nine hours of the day. I am. anyway. I think we should come out, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
people will not be able to anyway. I think we should come out, | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
It seems the drivers are as divided as the brothers. Can Ian and Nigel | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
see eye to eye on any of the issues surrounding the EU? | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
see eye to eye on any of the issues membership of the EU is good value | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
for money? Certainly not, we sent ?350 million a week to Brussels and | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
we get roughly half of that back, we could have much better distribution | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
of that money while saving ourselves. At Norway and Switzerland | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
paid more in per capita than the UK does for full membership when they | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
only have partial. They don't get a say over the rules. The cost is out | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
of control, it is escalating, if we vote to Remain we can look forward | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
to further escalation. We will have to contribute, even if we Leave, as | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
part of negotiations around trade, so we will enter with a similar | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
bill. With the diner drivers as split as the brothers on which | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
bill. With the diner drivers as the referendum should go on June 23, | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
bill. With the diner drivers as I reckon there was only | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
bill. With the diner drivers as settle this. A good, armed -- good, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
old-fashioned arm wrestle! It is too host to call. | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
-- too close. They are still going. You have to sort this out by the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
23rd of June, but we will leave you to it for now! Competitive. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Epicentre of the studio is our very own Mr Referendum, Chris Mason. -- | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
at the centre of the studio. A month or so ago you | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
at the centre of the studio. A month referendum out of it, how will you | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
display your impartiality this evening? Starting with the socks, on | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the left but we have a union flag, strict BBC impartiality, so on the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
other is an EU flag. Then there is mai tai, 12 stars, normally on the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
EU flag, so we've have five hole once in two halves, six. But the new | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
addition to the wardrobe, no halo for me, but a bowler hat. Strict BBC | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
impartiality, the paint has just about dried! ABI should wear this on | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
the news as well! We look forward to the next edition. -- maybe I should | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
wear this. How do you think the brothers put forward their | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
arguments? They were quite strong? Bye-bye strongly held views, it is | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
an insight into the conversations people are having -- really strongly | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
held views, it is an insight into the conversations people are having | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
when they are thinking about it. I cannot work out whether to keep this | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
on or take it off. I believe it for now. Part of it is the business | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
around facts. Most people come to me and say what I want is facts, juicy, | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
hard facts to make up my mind. Then you go the website of the two | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
campaigns, in the bin campaign it says 3 million jobs are connected | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
with trade with the EU. That could be quite a powerful argument. Then | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
in the Out campaign they say, if we leave, we will be able to trade, it | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
is fine. Neither of those are facts, they are both predictions. Nobody | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
has ever left the EU before, it is changing hugely if we stayed in, so | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
it is guessing. So are you saying go with your heart and guts? That will | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
be a big part. All the statistics are being flung at as in leaflets | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
through the door and people like me droning on in the news, from the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
campaigns, more and more, we will see the heart. The In campaign sake | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
we would leave Europe, as if the EU would start drifting into the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Atlantic, we would still be in Europe but outside of the club. The | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Out site say that we are a proud, independent nation and we are | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
shackled to this beast called the EU and we can get rid of it. Both of | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
those appeals to our hearts, people trying to get us to think about who | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
we are as a country rather than statistical stuff which can feel | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
scrappy and, let's whisper it, a goal nil-nil drawl. -- a dull, | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
nil-nil. Nobody has ever left the EU, so how would the changes come | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
about? Nobody has ever left, it is only expanded, so you have all these | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
facts, in inverted commas, which are just predictions. If we vote to | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Leave, the next morning we will wake up and we will still be In, so it | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
takes a while. This is a prediction. Some people say it takes ten years, | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
some people say two. Nobody is certain because it has never | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
happened. All sorts of questions would be asked if we were to Leave. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
But others say it is a massive decision to stay in, because the | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
club is changing beyond all recognition. The danger is those | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
that do not vote, some people are passionate about In and Out, and the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
floaters. When was the last time you ever saw a demonstration where | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
people were saying, what do we want? The same! When do we wanted? Now! | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Some would argue that it is not the same to stay in, that some people on | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
the In campaign are slightly fearful that very few people are passionate | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
about the EU. Even if you're going to vote to stay in, people do not go | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
round kissing their ties, they do not get that passionate. But if you | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
are keen to Leave you would probably really get out there. It is another | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
factor. We will see you again soon, thank you. I will keep working on | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
the wardrobe, thank you for having me. No facts, just links, on the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
website to help you make up your mind on the EU vote. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Louis, we are used to seeing you uncover lots of unusual stories from | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
around the globe, but we think that we have found one that will be new | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
to you. Here is the story of a young lady called Sheila who has packed | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
her trunk and said goodbye to Belfast zoo. Over to Jennie Browne. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
On the night of the 7th of April 1941, a squadron of Luftwaffe | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
bombers flew across the lough behind me to bring | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
One of the most bombed parts of the city was North Belfast, | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
At the time it was home to a collection of wild | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
and potentially dangerous animals and locals worried what might happen | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
One of the zoo's curators, Alan Cairns, explains. | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
Were people afraid that all the animals would get loose | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
The Ministry of Public Security decided a bomb could hit the zoo | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
and many of the dangerous animals would escape. | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
An order was given by the ministry for 33 animals to be put to sleep, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
to be shot, and that included wolves and polar bears. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
But one of the zookeepers, Denise Austin, pleaded for the life | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
There was such a strong bond between Sheila the baby elephant... | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
And Denise made the case at the time that this was just a baby | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
elephant, it wasn't going to cause any problems. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
Sheila was spared the cull but Denise was still concerned | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
about leaving her alone at night at the zoo amidst the bombing. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
So every evening, unbeknownst to her employers, she would secretly | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
lead Sheila out of the zoo at Cave Hill, down the city streets, | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
This extraordinary photograph shows Sheila here in her backyard in North | :15:32. | :15:51. | |
I am hoping that Denise's cousin, David Ramsay, can answer a question | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
Where exactly do you keep an elephant at your house? | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Denise's house, there was a large coach house to one side of it | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
and Denise just found it convenient to park Sheila in that | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Initially, I think when the first time the elephant was seen outside | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
of the zoo, they were a bit startled. | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
And then they thought, well, that is Denise. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
And over a period of time, when the elephant was coming out | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
of the zoo every night, they got quite used to it. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
In fact, some of the small children would have come along | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
and Denise would have set them on the elephant's shoulders. | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
Denise's daily elephant smuggling went well for three months. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
But then Sheila decided to chase after a neighbourhood dog. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Denise thought she had got away with it. | :16:46. | :16:46. | |
All seemed to be well, except a few hours later, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
some of the householders came up to the head keeper and asked | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
what he was going to do about repairing their fences! | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
The zoo changed the locks to Sheila's enclosure, | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
putting an end to her extracurricular day trips. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
But the ever-faithful Denise visited the elephant every night | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
during the bombing that spring to comfort her. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
And did you ever get to meet Sheila? | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
As a small boy, it was one of the treats for me to be taken up | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
to the zoo and then Denise would have called Sheila and Sheila | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
would have spun round very quickly, put her trunk out and then proceeded | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
to hoover Denise all over, just to check it was her. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
That just shows you that elephants never forget. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Sheila saw out her days at Belfast Zoo and lived | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Today, the zoo is home to three beautiful Asian elephants who live | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
It is kind of a retirement home for older elephants | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
And this caring attitude is a legacy of Denise and the Belfast Blitz. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
STUDIO: What a lovely story. You don't often deal with an elephant in | :17:54. | :18:12. | |
the garden, Louis, but often there is an elephant in the room in your | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
documentaries. Slightly clunky. How do you approach them? There is | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
always an elephant in the room. There is always something, the | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
reason I'm there, basically. It is either some weird form of behaviour | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
that on the face of it needs explanation, why someone chooses to | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
do this with job, or a source of trauma, sensitive question, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
do this with job, or a source of is a case of being polite, really. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
do this with job, or a source of About approaching it sensitively and | :18:52. | :18:51. | |
more often than not, people About approaching it sensitively and | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
talk about whatever it is, the big secret, the trauma in their life. It | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
is gaining their trust and going in there in a way in which they are | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
happy to talk. These documentaries are a great example, one of them has | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
gone out, extreme drinking, which I found, you are in a strange | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
situation where you are doing these strange and heartfelt interviews, | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
interviewing people heavily under the influence of alcohol. Did you | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
find that extraordinary, that situation? I knew what I was going | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
into when I started but what was different, we had a young man called | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
Joe and in a sober state he was very well spoken and very nice and | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
intelligent, but when he had been drinking he was just a mess, | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
basically. For various reasons he did not have the support network | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
around him, friends and family had felt they needed to keep their | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
distance when he was drinking and it fell on my shoulders to do some of | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
that emotional stuff. You could see that, you became like a father | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
figure to him. This character Joe really got under people's skins, | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Ian, because his mother was also a alcoholic, how do you gain their | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
trust but also keep a distance because you could tell that you | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
really felt for joy when you wanted to look after him a bit more than | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
just making the documentary -- for Joe. I don't know if his mother was | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
an alcoholic, actually, but there was drinking in there somewhere. It | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
is about spending time with people, showing them it is more than just | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
making the programme, that there is a juicy of care, that we spend time | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
after the show making sure that everything goes | :20:54. | :20:54. | |
after the show making sure that duty of care. My director was | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
superb, they make sure they kept in touch with Joe and they showed him | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the show, but emotionally it is not always easy. In the next documentary | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
you deal with brain injuries. A very different and difficult subject. | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
What did you find out yourself from making that documentary? I've always | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
been fascinated by psychology and people whose brains work in | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
different ways. What I discovered, with brain injury, not always but | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
often, there are changes which go along with it, personality changes, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
and some of those are challenging for the person in question and he's | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
or her family, they can be in polls of Ms, disinhibition. -- | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
impulsiveness. If you have got a husband or partner or kids, they are | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
having to adapt and fit around that, as well. You have brought an | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
exclusive clip and we can have a look at you are meeting Amanda and | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
here she is with her husband after she has moved back into the family | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
home. At the risk of asking an intrusive question, you have been | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
together 22 years, were you happy together? Yes. We were a good team. | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
Best buddies. It was good. It still is good, just different, for the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
time being. We will get there. LAUGHTER | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
That is the plan. Yeah. Stop tapping. I know, drumming, | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
constantly. Stop it. STUDIO: Gosh. Lovely couple, actually. Such raw | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
material, but clearly there are complex, but there is also a lot of | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
love and it is about finding the balance in the story. You must have | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
had psychologists with you at certain times, because you did not | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
want to go too deep. We did much of it under the umbrella of a group | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
called the brain injury rehabilitation trust and actually it | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
is brain injury week this week and it is a good time to talk about | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
these subjects. We made sure that they were involved and we took their | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
advice. Your new documentary, A Different Brain, is on BBC Two at | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
nine o'clock on the 15th of May. Which photos, if any, do you share | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
online? Do you take a picture of your dinner and then post it for | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
everyone? Maybe you feel your timeline with little fluffy kittens. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Maybe like Joan Collins, posting pictures of her shoes and then her | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
puddles. Outside her house. Chances and you do not post pictures of | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
piles of rubbish, but one man who wants to do just that is now finding | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
himself in a battle with the social media giant. It is all over a four | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
letter word. Tommy Sandhu explains. Telegram. For me? There is a man in | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
Kent who has created an app called littergram, but he has been | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
contacted by the noise of Facebook who own Instagram because they would | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
like to change the company's name -- contacted by the lawyers. Danny | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Lucas, the littergram man. How does it work? It is free to download. You | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
take a picture of litter and it knows exactly where you are, you | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
share it and instantly goes to a receiving end for the local | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
authority. They can message you back straightaway to say they will deal | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
with it or they can say when they will deal with it and then notify it | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
is done. We got a little traction towards the end of last year and we | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
got the first UK Council on board and we wanted to protect our logo. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
When we did that, the lawyers from Facebook said you cannot use the | :25:27. | :25:38. | |
word gram. Come on, Facebook, it is time you smelt up and -- woke up and | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
smell the instant coffee. Before there were any filters and hashtags, | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
the word gram was used for hundred A.D. In the dark ages, that is like | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
1600 years before Instagram was even thought of. The word gram is old. | :25:57. | :26:09. | |
Old like grandma. No more kissagram is, no more stripper grams. The same | :26:10. | :26:19. | |
applies for you. Celebrities give back your Grammys. No more, sorry. | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
Nothing is sacred. Mr parallelogram is now known as Mr rectangle. This | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
means no more gramophones, diagrams, TV programmes, cardio grams, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
sonogram, mammogram, and potentially no more littergram. I have a copy of | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
the letter. It says, "Our client appreciates the objectives behind | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
littergram but they say using the name is not except a ball and they | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
are giving you a few months to stop using the term gram -- is not accept | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
double. You're not a threat to Instagram, that is celebrities | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
taking selfies. Exactly. It is everyone's right to use social | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
media? We are only using it as a means of getting the attention of | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
the local authorities. We reached out to the team at Facebook and they | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
gave us this comment. What would you like to see happen? I | :27:31. | :27:49. | |
would like to see Facebook almost support what we are doing morally | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
and said this is a great cause, and with their blessing, littergram can | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
continue. You want to keep the gram? Yes. We hope it gets resolved, one | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
way or another very soon. Ian, we can now talk about your book, your | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
memoirs, Once A Saint. You took over from Roger Moore. As the wonderful | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
Simon Templar. How did this come about, how did you get the part? My | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
agent called me one day and said a man would like to have lunch with | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
me, this was in the early 70s, and he said he bridges to the Saint with | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
Roger Moore -- he produced. He said he thought I would make a good one, | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
which was very nice of him. His wife had seen me in upstairs downstairs. | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
She fancied you. The character was very weedy, asexual. I wondered how | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
she would make a connection between that character and the Saint, and | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
the answer is because I looked a little bit like Roger Moore, and | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
that is why I got the part. I never did an audition, I just walked | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
straight into it, it could not have been any easier. We can have a look | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
at you in full Saint mode. Look out! Are you all right? Yes, | :29:08. | :29:40. | |
thank you. Mr? Simon Templar. APPLAUSE | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
We have enjoyed watching that this afternoon. Are you surprised at how | :29:45. | :29:54. | |
attitudes have changed since then? It is full of girls in bikinis, | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
draped all over you. Sorry, attitudes have changed? What is | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
wrong with girls in bikinis? Nothing. You are quite right, it has | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
changed completely, and for the better, probably. Maybe less fun, a | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
bit drier, but I don't thing in those days, feelings were very | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
bruised and hurt and it is good that we have stopped it. | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
You had fun with the reunion with the car, but there must have been so | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
many pros and cons to playing the Saint. One of the prose was that she | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
became a household name instantly. You could get a good table in a | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
crowded restaurant instantly, but there was not much else. You two are | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
very famous and you have probably made a lot of money, but I did not | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
make money. It was very poorly paid. There were no foreign sales or | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
residuals. The last money I saw from the Saint was a 1979. Your agent | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
must have been rubbish, they did not negotiate that very well! | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
LAUGHTER Either that or maybe I was too keen | :31:09. | :31:18. | |
to take the part and they said, there is a sucker, here! Always | :31:19. | :31:20. | |
pretend you are not keen! That was the sad thing. It was difficult | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
being very famous or not having much money. Was it difficult for you to | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
move on? It was, ibid. For a while, I did not really work on English | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
television because they said, you are the Saint. I have been | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
television because they said, you America for the past 26 years. The | :31:38. | :31:37. | |
difference between America for the past 26 years. The | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
English is that if they make you famous they think you are worth | :31:43. | :31:43. | |
money and they will famous they think you are worth | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
something else and exploit you. At that time in England, I hate Word | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
typecasting because it that time in England, I hate Word | :31:51. | :31:52. | |
really mean anything, but it meant that time in England, I hate Word | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
that they would say, we can't use you, you are the Saint, that was | :31:56. | :31:57. | |
sad. I did not do a lot after that. That lots of other | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
stories in the book. You did lots of after that. That lots of other | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
other television and theatre. But we were really confused, because this | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
is on the cover. That is me in a play. Here is the thing about the | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
cover of an autobiography, they always look the same, a | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
cover of an autobiography, they black-and-white photograph of the | :32:22. | :32:21. | |
person looking glamorous. I my publisher, I want a photograph | :32:22. | :32:22. | |
that people will go, what the my publisher, I want a photograph | :32:23. | :32:31. | |
is that? We did! If it is on the table with lots of other | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
autobiographies, I want mine to be the one they up. Radiant. Ian's | :32:35. | :32:42. | |
memoir, Once a Saint, is out tomorrow. Get ready to squint, soon | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
we will be hearing at sculptures so tiny they are not visible to the | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
naked eye. The first, Cerys Matthews travels to | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
Liverpool to meet twins who specialise in another type of | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
miniature art that requires the patience of a saint. | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
For over 30 years, the Singh twins have been creating intricate art | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
works using the tradition of Indian miniature painting. An ancient tech | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
recombining very fine brush work with vibrant colour to create images | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
of exquisite detail. And although work is created here in a shed | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
studio in their family home, off this leafy street in Liverpool. | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
Hello. Nice to meet you. Lovely to meet you. I have been calling you | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
the Singh twins, it is not being rude, that is how you like to be | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
referred to? Yes, it very much reflect the fact that we have always | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
worked together and we never have individual ownership of any work. | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
Icon from a bedtime when we have not been scribbling, painting or drawing | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
on walls or books when we were very small. -- I can't remember a time. | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
Ernst is covering a shared love of miniature art as teenagers, they | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
have painted together every day, often working for hours on the same | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
tiny piece. It can take 50 hours to 1000 hours. You often have to hold | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
your breath to make sure the lines are straight. You are siblings, do | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
you never disagree? I don't think we would be normal if you did not | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
argue, that we are very much in chewed with each other. Indian | :34:26. | :34:27. | |
miniature paintings have appeared in manuscript since the 14th century, | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
where they were used to decorate religious texts and mythological | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
epics. By the 18th-century they were India's dominant art form. The | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
twins' worker updates the tradition to reflect modern tradition. Their | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
Indian miniature is included Princess Diana, the beckons and even | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
Liverpool footballers. -- Liverpool football supporters. Their work is | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
owned by galleries worldwide and they were recently awarded an MBE by | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
the Queen. They are bravely allowing me to put the finishing touches to a | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
brand-new painting we are creating for a future Liverpool gallery | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
exhibition. You can do a small bit of the top of this figure. You see | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
the flowers on her top, we have left a few of them incomplete. That is | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
it. You are there. This is so exquisite. It is fine. No, I am | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
doing rubbish. That was absolutely terrifying. Luckily for me, this is | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
just one part of this many layered artwork, inspired by the twins' | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
personal fascination with the history of the Indigo dyed trade | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
between India and Britain. Hidden in the painting are a multitude of | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
objects and art from local Devoto museums. Her husband is the one who | :35:50. | :35:58. | |
put a monopoly on indigo in India at that time. She is associated with | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
the city where the Taj Mahal is. It was built as a mausoleum. Where does | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
Queen Elizabeth come in? She ran a commission for the English merchants | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
to trade with India, she is woven into the carpet design at the bottom | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
of the painting. Quite often you incorporate your home city of | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
Liverpool into your work, and we have a pair of Liverpool genes. | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
Flemings was the first company to manufacture denim in the Liverpool | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
area. Denim originates in India. Fascinating, we can't look at denim | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
in the same way. All of these objects can together in the final | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
artwork, for which the twins are mixing tradition with technology is | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
gunning in each individual miniature painting to create a digital | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
masterpiece. -- by scanning in. We have scanned it in and we are | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
dragging it across to the final image, where we put in the final | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
piece of the jigsaw. Absolutely stunning. I love how your eye is | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
just drawn to this indigo blue world. It is all the more beautiful | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
knowing the amount of work at the weeks of preparation that have gone | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
into it. The Singh twins' paintings might be miniature, but their | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
artistic ambition, combining Indian history and modern day Britain, is | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
truly giant. The Singh twins, making beautiful | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
art. We have another miniature artist with us, John Good. Welcome. | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
You have a steady hand! I hope so. This is mesmerising. When and why | :37:41. | :37:47. | |
did you decide to start drawing so intricately? This is all pencil, | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
coloured and lead pencil? I have always painted, but they were mostly | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
on a large scale. My style of painting has always been to have | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
detail. A number of years ago, when I saw the Royal miniature Society | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
asking artists to submit work for the exhibition, I thought that it | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
sounds like me when I looked at the work that was on offer in the | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
exhibition. Trying to get detail into a small area, that appeal to | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
me. There is an amazing amount of detail. How long would it take to | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
complete one of these and how wrong is it to go wrong? For me, they | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
generally take longer than a big painting because of the effort | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
involved in it. It can take, for one of these, 30 or 40 hours, maybe. | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
Yes, things can go wrong. With painting, it is not too bad, but | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
with pencil work you really do not have a second chance, if you make a | :38:46. | :38:53. | |
mistake it is too hard to rub out. When we rehearsed this section you | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
were telling me that you sharpen your pencil with sandpaper? That's | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
right, literally a couple of lines at a time, re-sounding. The irony is | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
that the smaller it is, the more you look at it. From miniature art to | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
microscopic arts, made by MBE Willard Wigan. Willard, thank you. | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
Remarkable. You are doing art in the eye of a needle? Correct. This blew | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
our minds this afternoon. I can't get my head around this. You are | :39:27. | :39:34. | |
looking at a standard sewing needle. Show it to the camera, if you would? | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
There is a standard sewing needle. In the eye of the needle, you will | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
see William Shakespeare. Now! Yes. Look at that. | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
With the words to see or not to see? How do you go about creating | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
something like this? What is he made of and what tools do you use? This | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
type of work requires excessive skill. You have to have this | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
obsessive type of skill. It is almost like trying to put a pin | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
through a bubble, I had to train my heart rate to do it. I work at | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
night. It is something I have done since I was five, it started when I | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
used to build houses as a kid. -- houses for an is as a kid. A dog | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
destroyed the ads' nests, so I felt sorry for the ants and I started | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
making houses and furniture for them. My mother told me that if I | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
went smaller, my name would get bigger. That is what I have done. I | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
have done the smallest man made sculptures in the world, handmade. | :40:52. | :40:58. | |
What tools do you use? As you can see, the tools are made | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
individually. There is a little hook, a blade, they are individually | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
made. It is not the type of thing you can make easily, the tools | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
themselves can be a work of art. It is a punishing process. As you work | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
on it you are not enjoying it, but you enjoy it when you finish. It is | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
the slowing up the heart beat and making sure you do not make a | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
mistake, if you do, it is all over. You have inhaled your art before? | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
Yes, I have. He would be devastated! I was working on the Alice in | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
Wonderland story and I inhaled Alice. I managed to make another | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
Alice which was better than the one I inhaled. That was the right wrong | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
thing, it was a lot better. It is utterly mesmerising to look at. This | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
one here is my brother, I brought him down to size a little bit. Such | :41:57. | :42:05. | |
lovely detail, thank you so much. One more for luck. This is a | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
pinhead, incredible. I have made our house. And a forest. | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
Look that bad. APPLAUSE | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
. Thank you, we'll art. -- look at that. You can see John 's work, and | :42:21. | :42:30. | |
will's work is being exhibited at the Central Library of Manchester. | :42:31. | :42:39. | |
Here is Esther with another dilemma. Dear Esther, my ex-husband sent me a | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
photo of this together on a beach from a holiday we went on in happier | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
times. But we have been divorced four years. Is this a good thing of | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
a bad thing? Should I just ignore it? We will get advice from the | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
people of Portsmouth. She should just ignore rich. Or tell | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
him to stop sending her those kind of pictures. I would probably reply | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
him to stop sending her those kind with a nice message and hope that | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
they are OK. I think I would just walk away. Throw it in the bin. The | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
God I would evaluate it, see what the problem is, see if it is | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
solvable. Do you want to have problems or want to be in love? I | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
would rather be in love. He is adorable, but he has not grasped the | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
point, has he? If he is doing bad, he's not worth bothering about. Just | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
getting on with your life and enjoying it. Maybe give it another | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
go and relive the holiday. What do you think? I agree, because I am | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
going along with the wife. Have you no mind of your run? I just agree | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
and do my own thing. Did you know he was doing that? | :43:54. | :43:54. | |
LAUGHTER was doing that? | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
She does now. Why have you sent this photograph, | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
how would you explain yourself? I am trying to make a jealous, show her | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
how much of a good time I am without her. Oh, the photo is with her? | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
how much of a good time I am without is getting there! Aston we split up, | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
you send that to me. May be a reminder to say how much I still | :44:22. | :44:28. | |
love her. He is sweet. I know how you would respond. You would go | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
crazy? I would rip it up and sent it you would respond. You would go | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
back to him. I just ripped everything up and put it in the bin. | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
Thrown anything out of the window? Plenty of times, lumps and all | :44:44. | :44:53. | |
sorts. Lumps. He is reaching out to her, he should probably get back | :44:54. | :44:56. | |
into her chair and CSA could spark at the old flame. You are much nicer | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
about this than the women I have spoken to. They are all tough. You | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
could say I am a romantic at heart. She should not be absurd. She can | :45:08. | :45:13. | |
either take that as a sign from him, or she can just think, actually, I | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
will not think anything of it, I will just think about that every | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
time we hadn't forget about it -- she should not be upset. He must | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
want her back. Sending a reminder of what you are missing. I suppose it | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
depends why they split up. If he did something wrong, just ignore it | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
because he is not worth the time of day. Here's something I never knew, | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
women are much tougher than men. Funny, that. There you are, I have | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
only been around for 75 years and I had no idea! | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
STUDIO: That is a dilemma, it depends on the exes, I suppose. You | :45:51. | :46:04. | |
probably have more. LAUGHTER I'm just saying it! If you have a | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
dilemma and you would like to take to the streets of Britain, get in | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
touch through the usual ways, and we will get Esther Rantzen on the case. | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
Sorry, I've lost my mind, I feel very bad. We can now talk to Lianne | :46:22. | :46:32. | |
La Havas. You are a guest on Coldplay's world tour, very | :46:33. | :46:40. | |
exciting. How is that? Amazing. It has been so... I've never played in | :46:41. | :46:48. | |
stadiums before, and it is absolutely amazing. We got back from | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
Latin America. I'd never been there. I'd never played music there before, | :46:56. | :47:04. | |
it was unbelievable. We have shots of you in Mexico. You have this | :47:05. | :47:16. | |
incredibly soulful and relaxing worldly voice, where does that come | :47:17. | :47:27. | |
from? I don't know. Your dad is Greek. Yes, my parents parents were | :47:28. | :47:36. | |
from Greece and Jamaica. Grease on my father's side and Jamaica on my | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
mother's side -- Greece. And they made me! I like to think my style | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
and music is very eclectic and I think I owe that to my parents and | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
grandparents, for the eclectic taste. Prince was very impressed | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
with your style, and you worked with him and you became friends, how did | :48:02. | :48:11. | |
that come about? He basically phoned me. Out of the blue. He said, I, | :48:12. | :48:22. | |
this is Prince? Yes. He had seen you somewhere? I think he heard my music | :48:23. | :48:31. | |
when I released my first EP in 2011. One day I got a message from my | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
management saying that Prince would like to have a phone call with me, | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
we did not know when it would happen. I just had to have my phone | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
on me. How did you feel at that point when it was him on the other | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
end? Completely ridiculous. The most surreal phone call I've ever had. It | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
gets weirder, he ended up in your flat, performing. Right at the | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
beginning was the phone call, and after we spoke, we stayed in touch | :49:07. | :49:17. | |
ever since. We became friends. He basically e-mailed me one day and | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
said, I've got this idea and I want to do a press conference in your | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
living room. What did you said your flatmate? LAUGHTER | :49:29. | :49:36. | |
I said, so, Prince is coming round tonight. It was just amazing. Any | :49:37. | :49:46. | |
time that I spent with him was amazing. He had his way of making it | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
feel like it was your birthday or the time. We are very sorry you have | :49:52. | :49:59. | |
lost a dear friend. You must be very jealous, you are a big fan? It would | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
have been amazing, what was he like? Was he quite normal? He seems so | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
otherworldly. He was otherworldly and he seems to maintain that even | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
when we just hanging out. -- he seemed. He was absolutely lovely. | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
Where was your flat? I'm trying to visualise it. It was a terraced | :50:25. | :50:37. | |
house and it was in Leighton. -- Leyton. Did you make him tea or | :50:38. | :50:48. | |
coffee? We made him build a's T. -- builders do. You will be back in the | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
UK, performing? We will be back on the road from the 24th of May. | :50:57. | :51:03. | |
Lovely. Lianne will be performing for us shortly. Albert Einstein | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
pointed out in 1905 that time is relative. It is so true. If you are | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
ever struggling to understand the theory of relativity we have one | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
scientist with crazy white hair to explain the theories of another. We | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
are all familiar with the regular tick and talk of a clock, as it | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
measures out time. But what if time was not regular? Suppose it could go | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
faster or slower. What sort of world would that be? The idea that time | :51:38. | :51:46. | |
can speed up and slow down came out of the most important science idea | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
of the 20th century, the theory of relativity, invented by the great | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
Albert Einstein. I will explain it using a tennis ball, torch and a | :51:57. | :52:09. | |
train. I'm throwing this ball around ten mph and the ball is travelling | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
at that speed. Right? Not so, says Einstein. Imagine there is somebody | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
watching from outside the train. Here comes the train. I told the | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
driver to go at ten mph. I'm looking for some bloke playing catch. There | :52:29. | :52:38. | |
he is. Right. The ball went past me at 20 mph and that makes sense, | :52:39. | :52:46. | |
because the speed of the ball was ten mph plus the speed of the train | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
itself. For me, on the platform, the ball was moving at 20 miles an hour. | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
But for me on the train, the ball is travelling at ten miles an hour and | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
that is relativity. The ball does not have just one speed, only a | :53:05. | :53:08. | |
speed relative to where you measure it from. But now things get really | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
weird. Einstein was interested in the speed of light, is mathematical | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
calculation is leading to a startling conclusion. The speed of | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
light is always the same, no matter where you measure it. Let me show | :53:23. | :53:31. | |
you why this is weird. This time I have got a beam of light. The speed | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
of light measured on this train is about 186,000 miles a second, what | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
happens if I shine a light out of the window, though? You might think | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
that it would be the same as with a tennis ball, the speed of light plus | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
the speed of the train. But if you measure the speed of the light beam | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
from the platform it is exactly the same speed as the light beam on the | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
train. No matter how fast the train goes, the speed of light is always | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
constant. Cup of tea, please. Light is constant and speed is relative, | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
but what about time? Einstein proved that time, just like speed, was | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
relative, anchored speed up and slow down depending on how fast you were | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
travelling -- and code. This meant a clock on a fast moving train runs | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
very slightly slower than the one left behind at the station. This is | :54:35. | :54:42. | |
the National physical laboratory in Teddington, their atomic clocks are | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
some of the most accurate in the world, accurate to one second in 150 | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
million years. With clocks this accurate, Einstein's weird ideas | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
about time can be tested. In 1971. The Joseph from Saint Louis but | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
three seats on an aeroplane, one for him and two from Mr Clarke, Mr | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
Clarke was an atomic clock and they also left an identical clock at | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
home. Mr clock food wise around the world, East first of all like this, | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
and then all the way West bash flew twice around the world. They then | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
compared the clocks and the times were different. It was only a | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
minuscule difference, but they exactly matched Einstein's | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
predictions. Einstein's genius was to take a simple idea and to run | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
with it, and it took him some strange places. But he changed the | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
way we think about time for ever. STUDIO: Thank you. We have time for | :55:51. | :56:00. | |
a few of the saints. This is Margaret, a real-life saint, that is | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
because she spends her time caring for the community young and old. | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
Sally sent this photo of her bone marrow donor. He saved her life | :56:13. | :56:20. | |
seven years ago. Give him a halo. And this was sent in by her husband | :56:21. | :56:29. | |
Matt, she has been looking after him because he has man flu. | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
We'll be back tomorrow night with comedian Susan Calman. | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
Now, playing us out with Tokyo from her album Blood - | :56:39. | :56:42. |