:00:13. > :00:18.Thursday, 4th September, 2014, two the One Show to talk about my
:00:19. > :00:26.diaries. I have made it clear I will not take part in any tomfoolery just
:00:27. > :00:51.to flog the book. Are you OK, Mr Pailin? I will be with you. Welcome
:00:52. > :00:56.to Thursday's the One Show. And Dave four of our music festival we have a
:00:57. > :01:12.performance from one of Britain's brightest young stars. Sam Smith
:01:13. > :01:16.this just 22 and he is already a global superstar. He will be singing
:01:17. > :01:23.his latest hit life for us before the end of the show. First, a man
:01:24. > :01:44.with a few more stamps in his passport than Sam, but can he sing?
:01:45. > :01:58.Yes he can! Yes, he can. It's Michael Palin! How are you, Michael?
:01:59. > :02:03.I am very well. I have been into the back legs of a tiger, a lion, and
:02:04. > :02:11.now a camel. Why do I always get the back legs? Because I have no sense
:02:12. > :02:16.of smell! It is where the power is. This week is about promoting good
:02:17. > :02:20.music. On your travels around the world, you must have encountered
:02:21. > :02:25.some pretty dismal stuff. What is the worst thing you have had to
:02:26. > :02:34.listen to and pretend to enjoy? There was a particular style of
:02:35. > :02:39.music in Lapland, in northern Sweden. They all said around in the
:02:40. > :02:44.tent. It is a vocal thing. They would not do it for quite a long
:02:45. > :02:48.time. We had to wait for two hours. They have a drink and wait for
:02:49. > :02:55.another two hours. Eventually you hear them start about midnight. I
:02:56. > :03:00.was convinced they were setting us up completely. It took about eight
:03:01. > :03:07.hours to film this strange sound like someone being violently ill.
:03:08. > :03:11.Tonight we are aiming to track down anybody who has met Michael on his
:03:12. > :03:16.travels, whether it is close to home or in far flung places. We are keen
:03:17. > :03:22.to hear from this gentleman seen here with Michael let's if you are
:03:23. > :03:31.that man, please get in touch, we would love to hear from you. Or his
:03:32. > :03:35.mate! Do send in your pictures from your encounters with Michael to the
:03:36. > :03:38.e-mail address. There is plenty of travelling today. We will take a
:03:39. > :03:48.climb to the top of one of Scotland's most beautiful and X --
:03:49. > :03:52.inaccessible pics. And we will hear about a mountain that has sprung up
:03:53. > :03:57.in Kent. Michael, you will want to include it in your series. A couple
:03:58. > :04:02.of months ago we shall do this... And 18,000 tonne mountain of rubbish
:04:03. > :04:08.which has loomed over this street and the people who live in it for
:04:09. > :04:13.the last four years. The dust is never ending. We get huge amounts of
:04:14. > :04:21.flies, rats running around. We haven't been able to open the doors
:04:22. > :04:25.or the Windows four years. Since our first film was broadcast, there have
:04:26. > :04:32.been some developments. The operator, the company called Waste
:04:33. > :04:36.For Fuel, have left the site. The Environment Agency moved on and they
:04:37. > :04:40.have removed 1500 tonnes of waste to the fire brigade could make the site
:04:41. > :04:49.safe as the rubbish have started catching fire. So, I am going in.
:04:50. > :04:55.Last time I could not get next to the dump. Being right on it, it is
:04:56. > :05:03.absolutely revolting, disgusting. There is a lot of plastic. There is
:05:04. > :05:12.a bit of so far, loft in show elation. There is a fetid puddle.
:05:13. > :05:17.What is unbelievable is the stinky mess is right behind these houses.
:05:18. > :05:20.While there are 15,000 tonnes of it left, it seems like no one is
:05:21. > :05:25.willing to get rid of it any time soon. There are 2 million reasons.
:05:26. > :05:30.Because the removal of this much waste could cost up to ?2 million
:05:31. > :05:35.and take months, there is still no decision on what is going to happen
:05:36. > :05:39.to it. The Environment Agency is reluctant to spend any more public
:05:40. > :05:46.money, saying the clean-up should be down to the company or the land over
:05:47. > :05:50.-- landowner. Waste For Fuel say they have been locked out and have
:05:51. > :05:57.no money to clear it up anyway. As for the landowner, 81 new old Alan
:05:58. > :06:03.Beazley next door... It is strange that I should come into it at all.
:06:04. > :06:07.Mr Beazley agrees that he owns the land's freehold but as he least
:06:08. > :06:14.about six years ago he should not be made to play -- pee. It must make
:06:15. > :06:23.you anxious? More angry than anxious. We asked for an interview
:06:24. > :06:27.but they declined. The director said it had no income to operate or
:06:28. > :06:34.service its liabilities. This may not be the firm's only liability.
:06:35. > :06:37.The company has been accused of abandoning even more rubbish. I am
:06:38. > :06:45.on my way to Chatham docks in the Medway area of Kent. That is 23
:06:46. > :06:50.miles away from Waste For Fuel's site. This pile of refuse has been
:06:51. > :06:56.here for a year. Andrew is a local councillor. There are thousands of
:06:57. > :07:02.tonnes of waste abandoned in the docks by Waste For Fuels. I do not
:07:03. > :07:06.want this to be like Orpington. I want to see the Environment Agency
:07:07. > :07:11.take responsibility and get it removed. Are you confident that in
:07:12. > :07:16.the near future this is going to be clear? Not at this stage. The
:07:17. > :07:24.Emperor -- Environment Agency told us it is investigating ref use at
:07:25. > :07:30.Chatham docks. Shelley from Waste For Fuel told us that while she is
:07:31. > :07:35.aware of some refuse there she is aware not if it belongs to her
:07:36. > :07:40.company or not. Life next to the dump is still as rubbish as ever.
:07:41. > :07:47.You feel so sorry for the people in the houses. Our coffee table has
:07:48. > :07:51.been replaced with a massive map and on here we have got all of the
:07:52. > :07:56.journeys you have made over the years with the BBC. It is
:07:57. > :08:00.incredible. It is like different coloured spaghetti. In your new
:08:01. > :08:05.book, you cover three of those juries. You have your diary entries
:08:06. > :08:11.from Pole to Pole, Full Circle and Around the World in 80 Days. It is
:08:12. > :08:16.difficult to pick a certain spot to go back to but which journey would
:08:17. > :08:21.you like to relive? Out of the three you mentioned, I would do Full
:08:22. > :08:24.Circle around the Pacific again because it covers the area of going
:08:25. > :08:34.through Peru, which is extraordinary. You start at Lake
:08:35. > :08:40.Kitty Kafka and then go on to the railway, and then Machu Picchu. Most
:08:41. > :08:44.people get the bus back but we went on, did white-water rafting through
:08:45. > :08:53.a dangerous stretch of river, and into the Amazon. That stretch of
:08:54. > :08:56.Peru, as an adventure, it was great. It is great to look at these
:08:57. > :09:04.journeys, but what are you like now as you are a a little bit older. Do
:09:05. > :09:08.you stuff have the urge to travel? It is one of those things. It is an
:09:09. > :09:12.addiction, it is always there. Making the programmes is a wonderful
:09:13. > :09:16.way to see the world because not only with a BBC paying me to do it,
:09:17. > :09:21.but there was a small team, only six of us, and we made the decisions as
:09:22. > :09:26.to what to shoot each day. We started early and finished late and
:09:27. > :09:36.worked really hard and saw fantastic places. Travelling in a tour group
:09:37. > :09:42.would not have been the same. You have a little chapter there, or you
:09:43. > :09:46.were concerned. Even though they were a roaring success, you were so
:09:47. > :09:54.unsure that you were the right man for the job. Yes, in Around the
:09:55. > :09:59.World in 80 Days. You say, occasionally, the realisation that
:10:00. > :10:03.this project is supported on my shoulders and demands not just my
:10:04. > :10:10.survival but my energy, exuberance and enthusiasm, terrifies me. It
:10:11. > :10:13.always happens at the start of anything I do, I always question
:10:14. > :10:18.whether I will be able to do it and do it well. That is the thing. I can
:10:19. > :10:22.get by but you want to make it special, as good as it possibly can
:10:23. > :10:26.be. I was on this boat three days I was on this boat three days out of
:10:27. > :10:33.England, and I suddenly got the feeling, what am I going to talk
:10:34. > :10:36.about? There is no script, and what am I going to be like? I am readily
:10:37. > :10:41.acting or will it be me saying my own thoughts? I thought it would be
:10:42. > :10:49.boring. It was like I was thrown into it and halfway down the cliff
:10:50. > :10:52.before hitting the sea below. You suddenly gained confidence that
:10:53. > :10:55.those moments just develop. We asked you for one of your favourite
:10:56. > :10:59.moments and you told us to dig out this clip, which is fantastic cost
:11:00. > :11:03.up you are en route to Mumbai and you meet one of the locals and give
:11:04. > :11:26.him his first experience of Bruce Springsteen. Is that all right? Full
:11:27. > :11:37.volume. Are you all right? Are you all right in there? He loved it. He
:11:38. > :11:40.was just great. He did not share my language, but in the seven days we
:11:41. > :11:47.were on the boat, we got to know each other so well. As we got off
:11:48. > :11:49.the boat in Mumbai, he just stepped forward and gave me a great hug. It
:11:50. > :11:53.was one of the best forward and gave me a great hug. It
:11:54. > :12:00.ever experienced. It is what Rus rings thing does! -- Bruce
:12:01. > :12:05.Springsteen does! There were so many wonderful insights in your book,
:12:06. > :12:09.Travelling To Work, which is out next week. The world has moved on
:12:10. > :12:11.Travelling To Work, which is out lot since Michael made these
:12:12. > :12:14.journeys and things seem to be changing faster than ever
:12:15. > :12:19.journeys and things seem to be current turmoil in the
:12:20. > :12:20.journeys and things seem to be the maps keep up?
:12:21. > :12:30.Times Atlas who made this one have Times Atlas who made this one have
:12:31. > :12:34.Here in Edinburgh, the National library of Scotland has a collection
:12:35. > :12:37.of 2 million maps. Some of them are over 600 years old.
:12:38. > :12:41.of 2 million maps. Some of them are at them I can quickly see how our
:12:42. > :12:45.view of the world has changed over the centuries. Here you will find
:12:46. > :12:49.one of the most iconic books in history. When it
:12:50. > :12:50.one of the most iconic books in it is recognised as the benchmark of
:12:51. > :12:56.excellence. It is the times it is recognised as the benchmark of
:12:57. > :13:00.Comprehensive Atlas Of The World and this month, they published
:13:01. > :13:05.Comprehensive Atlas Of The World and 14th edition. It weighs a tonne!
:13:06. > :13:06.Comprehensive Atlas Of The World and When it was first published in
:13:07. > :13:08.1895, When it was first published in
:13:09. > :13:15.engraved each detail by hand, When it was first published in
:13:16. > :13:22.time-consuming and took 15 years to When it was first published in
:13:23. > :13:24.complete. I am taking a closer look at the copperplate. What jumped out
:13:25. > :13:30.to me is that it is all in reverse. at the copperplate. What jumped out
:13:31. > :13:36.It is amazing. Everything has to be done as a mirror image, back to
:13:37. > :13:44.front. In the further decades there were advances but the skill of hand
:13:45. > :13:48.scribing remained. The skill of scribing was still the most common
:13:49. > :13:54.way to create maps until the 1990s. A map of this size could have taken
:13:55. > :14:00.100 hours to complete. These days maps are created by a
:14:01. > :14:02.100 hours to complete. These days with a click of a mouse. With
:14:03. > :14:07.advances in computer and digital technology, maps can be created in a
:14:08. > :14:13.fraction of the time and provide the stunning end results we see today.
:14:14. > :14:18.Given that some societies, like China and India, they are growing so
:14:19. > :14:22.rapidly, how do you look out for changes? We consult a variety of
:14:23. > :14:27.sources. Their's journals, governmental sources, we scour the
:14:28. > :14:31.media to see what is happening, and we have a cartographic digital
:14:32. > :14:35.database which means we can update it as quickly as possible, almost to
:14:36. > :14:39.the second. Given it what is going on in the world these days, Heidi
:14:40. > :14:47.represent disputed territories like Ukraine and the Middle East? -- how
:14:48. > :14:51.do you represent? They are represented by a broken line. Crimea
:14:52. > :14:54.is represented as a disputed territory. The broken line
:14:55. > :14:59.represents the dispute in the border. Given that you do everything
:15:00. > :15:04.click of a mouse and most of us, if we want to access something we go to
:15:05. > :15:08.a search engine and find something in seconds, how many people actually
:15:09. > :15:14.use this Atlas? Is the atlas still relevant? It is usually relevant. It
:15:15. > :15:26.is a snapshot of the world as it is today in 2014. Online there are lots
:15:27. > :15:28.of conflicting views. You're not sure of what your sourcing is
:15:29. > :15:31.accurate. We are spending a lot of time making sure the information is
:15:32. > :15:35.as accurate as possible. You cannot travel the world with this! It might
:15:36. > :15:37.take up your luggage allowance but it is a great Atlas to dream about
:15:38. > :15:51.travel is and to plan your travel. I like that phrase, dreaming about
:15:52. > :15:55.travel. We are joined by another man who is getting to see a lock of the
:15:56. > :16:06.world. It is singer and songwriter Sam Smith. Good to have you. We were
:16:07. > :16:09.watching the maps and a stuck your head in every country were your
:16:10. > :16:19.album has charted and it is incredible. Does a big head mean it
:16:20. > :16:27.has gone global? This is crazy. Can I keep it? Put it in your pocket.
:16:28. > :16:31.You have got to go to all these places. To thank them personally. It
:16:32. > :16:41.is odd to look at it like this. Incredible success. We have worked
:16:42. > :16:52.it out, you are 50 years apart. When is your date of birth? 1992. In May.
:16:53. > :17:01.I was May 1943. But I can't sing, you can. Can you remember where you
:17:02. > :17:08.work on the day Sam was born? I would be travelling probably. We
:17:09. > :17:16.have got your diary. You were in the North Pole and you had a bit of a
:17:17. > :17:24.tricky time. Oh, yes. On my birthday? Yes, on your birthday. We
:17:25. > :17:28.were dropped from a plane, well, the plane landed and we landed on an ice
:17:29. > :17:33.flow and it was late in the season and we should not have landed. You
:17:34. > :17:43.are quite afraid of flying. Yes, I am scared. How do you get over it? I
:17:44. > :17:48.try and drink. I tell the stewardess when I get on, so they will be nice
:17:49. > :17:55.to me. It is getting better slowly, but I feel like I am going to die.
:17:56. > :17:59.You have just come back from the States and all the stars made a
:18:00. > :18:05.beeline to have their picture taken with you. We start with Katy Perry.
:18:06. > :18:19.And we have Miley Cyrus. And Beyonce. That was the one. She said
:18:20. > :18:25.your voice was like butter. I have watched it every year and when they
:18:26. > :18:33.told bit I was going to meet her, I was almost sick. She was amazing.
:18:34. > :18:41.Maybe you could sing with her? That would be great, but I think that I
:18:42. > :18:50.am done, that was the best thing in my life. I am doing a tour all over
:18:51. > :18:59.the UK. I will be in Crawley on Sunday. We are going to hear your
:19:00. > :19:08.new single very shortly. Before that, Andy Torbet has been to one of
:19:09. > :19:13.the toughest ascents in Scotland. The towering mountains of Scotland
:19:14. > :19:18.are a mecca for adventurous and many are especially interested in taming
:19:19. > :19:27.the highest and the wildest of the peaks, those over 3000 peaks, the
:19:28. > :19:34.Munros. The list ended up being almost 300
:19:35. > :19:40.peaks long. The tables since then have been a tick list for anyone
:19:41. > :19:48.wanting to try every single one. But one stands out from the rest, the
:19:49. > :19:53.most difficult of them all. It is named the inaccessible pinnacle.
:19:54. > :19:59.That is where I am headed. The sheer difficulty of it has proved one of
:20:00. > :20:03.the biggest challenges to those trying to complete Munro's list.
:20:04. > :20:13.Even Sir Hugh Munro himself never made it to the top. Steve Fallon
:20:14. > :20:19.holds the world record. I will just go to the summits and take them off.
:20:20. > :20:30.He has been to every one of them 15 times. It is a 2 and half hour climb
:20:31. > :20:37.to get to the base. Prior to the 1890s people thought there were only
:20:38. > :20:41.30. Munro studied maps and the Victorian maps were not very
:20:42. > :20:46.accurate, so he decided to climb them all to be certain. He employed
:20:47. > :20:51.a little instrument like this, it is a little barometer. It is similar to
:20:52. > :20:56.the one he would have used. It is looking at the pressure and as you
:20:57. > :21:02.climbed up, it would tell him what height he was at. At the moment it
:21:03. > :21:07.says 3000 feet. Mountain ranges may have several points above 3000 feet,
:21:08. > :21:16.and not each peak qualifies as a separate mountain. You can see the
:21:17. > :21:23.difference. That is a Munro. To the right it has got a bit of a rise,
:21:24. > :21:30.not enough to be a mountain. He found there were 538 peaks in total
:21:31. > :21:38.and 283 were distinctive mountains and they were called Munros. There
:21:39. > :21:42.are two distinct peaks on the same mountain and only the highest is a
:21:43. > :21:52.Munro. In the case of this particular hill, Munro made an
:21:53. > :22:00.important decision. Even the entropy in rock sticking on the site is 20
:22:01. > :22:04.feet higher. As Munro was only a moderate client he never made it to
:22:05. > :22:08.the summit of the pin. You can understand why somebody like Sir
:22:09. > :22:14.Hugh Munro with limited climbing experience would have found this,
:22:15. > :22:20.especially in bad weather, a serious proposition. The Munro tables were
:22:21. > :22:25.revised in 1921 to list the end pin in its own right, so it has to be
:22:26. > :22:31.done by people who like to bag them all. For an experienced rock climate
:22:32. > :22:38.it is relatively straightforward. But for most hill walkers it can be
:22:39. > :22:45.challenging. Of course, any attempt by Sir Hugh Munro would have been
:22:46. > :22:50.harder because of his boots. I am not roped up because I am confident
:22:51. > :22:56.of my ability, but I strongly recommend safety gear if you try to
:22:57. > :23:05.attempt it. It becomes a bit eerie when it is like this. Even the first
:23:06. > :23:11.man to bag every Munro, Reverend Archibald Robertson, left the end
:23:12. > :23:21.pin until the last. He climbed it in 1905. The top, finally. This is one
:23:22. > :23:27.Munro I can take off. It is a bit intermittent with the clouds, but
:23:28. > :23:31.when you get a gap, you get that or some of you. One Munro himself never
:23:32. > :23:39.made is amongst the most spectacular.
:23:40. > :23:45.Well done. And congratulations for the crew getting up there as well!
:23:46. > :23:48.We asked for photos if you had bumped into Michael and we have got
:23:49. > :24:01.We asked for photos if you had a few. Heavily sent this one in. It
:24:02. > :24:03.is in 2006. That was a big year for you because Jim Campbell is here
:24:04. > :24:11.with you at a book signing in Glasgow.
:24:12. > :24:16.with you at a book signing in one-man tour, this is all about the
:24:17. > :24:21.diaries? It is based on the diaries. Half the tour is about travel, the
:24:22. > :24:24.other half is about comedy, how I got into comedy. A shy boy in
:24:25. > :24:30.Sheffield gets got into comedy. A shy boy in
:24:31. > :24:34.time you were on stage was at the O2 got into comedy. A shy boy in
:24:35. > :24:37.Arena and you have recovered? Yes, my head is still in the cloud a
:24:38. > :24:43.Arena and you have recovered? Yes, little bit. The nicest time I spent
:24:44. > :24:48.with the patience for a long time. It has been a pleasure to have you
:24:49. > :24:53.as always. Tickets for the tour are available now. Tomorrow we are back
:24:54. > :24:58.with Robert Plant. Now it is time for Sam Smith. You can see the whole
:24:59. > :25:01.set by pressing the red button at the end of the show. He is kicking
:25:02. > :25:30.off with I'm Not The Only One. You and me, we made a vow.
:25:31. > :25:45.For better or for worse. For months
:25:46. > :25:57.on end I've had my doubts. But I know that I
:25:58. > :26:14.still need you here. Cos you don't think I
:26:15. > :26:25.know what you've done. Even
:26:26. > :27:01.though Lord knows you kept mine. Cos you don't think I
:27:02. > :27:12.know what you've done. You've made me realize
:27:13. > :27:42.my deepest fear. Cos you don't think I
:27:43. > :27:59.know what you've done. Cos you don't think I
:28:00. > :28:23.know what you've done.