04/10/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. A

comic who's raised a fair penny. When it comes to jokes, he's got

many. So we'd like to say, on National Poetry Day. Give a big

Hit his National Poetry Day, are you a fan? I am a tough rapper from

the... From The Town of London, rough and ready, my iPod weighs a

ton, I have got an upset tummy, better get down the kitchen! Tinie

Tempah! Maybe we can do better, not saying it was not good. It wasn't

good. As it is National Poetry Day, we are going to see if we can

create a poem by the end of the show written by you at home.

theme of Poetry Day is the stars in the night sky. To get us started,

we have a first line written by a One Show viewer, John from

Yes, so what do you think the next line should be? Send your

suggestions to us. As quick as you can! Keep it clean! We will keep

adding to it throughout the show. We want to try and get four lines.

You have only got 5 million viewers! We are going to be here

all night! That is the thing, you have to put his in the subject bar,

I should have mentioned that. With the government struggling to get

the economy back on track, people across the country are facing

several more years of tightening their belts. In a moment, Robert

Peston will be telling us what he thinks we need to know to get

ourselves out of the mess. first Jenni Murray from Woman's

Hour has been to see how the people of her home town of Barnsley are

Barnsley, South Yorkshire. I have not lived here for more than 40

years, but his is still my home town. This is my old street in

Barnsley, where I lived from being three until I was nine. I was born

in Barnsley not long after the Second World War, and no-one had

any money then either. We were all tightening our belts. But one thing

there was back then was a job, for the men at least. You know, I do

not remember there being any and employment in the street when I was

a kit. -- unemployment. All the men worked at the mine, and you saw

them trotting home at the end of the shift. In 1952, 96% of men of

working age in the UK had a job. Around here, men worked at the pit.

The closure of the mines in the 1980s and 1990s was a hammer blow

for people here, and the town continues to find it hard to

recover. At a stroke, one in five jobs in Barnsley was gone. There is

one connection that remains with mining. I have always loved brass

bands, they are as Barnsley and as mining as it gets. They were at the

heart of every community event when I was little. This brass-band is

the descendant of my grandfather's Colliery Band. These days it is

made up of young people from the village, who, like everyone else,

are feeling the pinch. Fantastic! Oh, you are so good! It is harder,

no doubt. I remember my last year at school. Major employers like the

coal industry and the steelworks would come in and give a

presentation, begging you to work for them, and now it is the

opposite. Low-skilled jobs in the town are declining, but even those

with degrees are finding it hard to get work. Sometimes it is hard to

get a job because you are over- qualified for it. What did you end

up doing? I work at a glass factory. The bottles are made in the main

factory, and we put sleeves on them. But I have got a job for the time

being, I cannot really ask for more. 11% of the workforce is unemployed

in Barnsley, three points above the national average. Dean Taylor

worked in a textiles factory making suits, but his job went to the Far

East. His last job was in a call centre two years ago.

How many jobs have you applied for? I apply for about 17 jobs per week.

And you haven't had a single of their interiors? What were you

bringing in then and what are you bringing in now? I was on �14,000

per year, compared to benefits, which is �3,500. He would take

anything. Minimum wage, cleaning, anything. Barnsley people have

always been can he with their money. These days, the market is still the

place to go to save a few pennies. Business appears to be booming.

is much cheaper here. Higham having to be quite inventive, really.

high-street businesses and shops closing, the market offers a great

opportunity for entrepreneurs to go it alone. How good a place is the

market for young entrepreneur to set up a business and develop a

business? New line in the middle of the town, G Brand. -- she rent. It

has allowed us to open up in Sheffield and Chesterfield. Without

this market, we would not have had anything. I am very impressed with

Daniel. He is using the market to try to get past the economic gloom.

Ned and Stephen are a success story, too. They are still here after

setting up a stall in 1955. I probably saw them when I came with

my mum. What impact have the last five years also had on your

business? The market itself is still the beating heart of Barnsley,

and as you can see, on a day like today, it is busy. As a business,

we are not making the profits we were 20 years ago. We seem to have

the same amount of money every week, but expenses have gone up, and that

comes out of what is left at the end of the week. It is much harder

these days for people who lose their jobs, but in Barnsley there

has always been the will to work hard and make the best you can of

things. Make-do-and-mend could be the town's motto. In fact, it is,

judges by our actions, and Barnsley is doing its best.

Judge us by our actions, and Robert Peston is with us now. We heard

from Jenni that she is worried about jobs in Barnsley, you have

any words of hope for the general public on this? As that touching

film showed, the problems we face in this country are pretty deep,

they are structural, they are to do with the way we were not paying Our

Way in the world. Dean's story was particularly striking, he lost his

job to competition from places like China and Asia. It is not the work

that you can do in a matter of days or months to fix an economy, when

you are not competitive in that way, but there is a bit of good news. We

went into recession a few months ago. My own view, based on the

indicators at there, we are probably out of recession now, but

we are not booming and the economy is not growing strongly. It does

not mean many new jobs will be created in a hurry. You have got

this book out... That is good news! Can you summarise it for us? In a

minute and a half! You were supposed to bring a book! I should

have consulted you, why can't you my agent? No, look, the answer is

that there are things we can do and are doing as an economy. New

businesses are being created to replace the kind of unsustainable

City businesses that we discovered, we thought they were the answer,

but they did quite a lot of damage. More manufactures and sellers of

services that the rest of the world wants. Those businesses are being

created but it is not happening very fast. Export is the key, then.

I thought you said Xbox! Export is plainly the answer. Our economy,

the American economy and much of western Europe became indebted

because we did not pay our way in the world, we did not sell enough,

and if you do not sell enough, you borrow. We all borrowed too much,

businesses and consumers. We became too reliant on shopping. Now, the

reality is... Shopping is great! Shopping is great, but

unfortunately you cannot run an entire economy, as we did for many

years, it is extraordinary, we ran the economy more or less on

shopping and not actually investing in making the stuff that the rest

of the world wants. When you look at these things from the position

that we are in today, it is common sense. But as I said, the truth is

that fixing it is not the business that you can do overnight. The

other thing that happened was we became too dependent on raising the

money that we do need, we borrowed too much. But we do need credit to

finance the new businesses and households need credit to buy

houses and that kind of thing. We became too dependent on banks.

Compared to the American economy, which has recovered faster, over

there businesses are much less dependent on banks, and that is why

they have recovered faster. We have to develop new businesses. The

internet is supplying new businesses with funny names, which

match people who have got a bit of saving with businesses and

individuals that one the money, cutting out the banks. Over the

long term, that could be really beneficial for all of us. Thank you

very much. Davies here with another As I gazed upon the Stars and

wonder which you both may be. Where are we going now? It is going

down a romantic path, isn't it? are after the third line now, keep

the mailing house, put it in the subject box. Switch it up now!

Jamie Crawford is always on the lookout for ways to take his

photography to new heights, and today he has done -- he has outdone

himself. Aerial photographs of a view of the

world that we do not often see. There are a number of ways to get

these Topshop. You could take it from the top of a step ladder, take

them out of your bedroom window or from a hot-air balloon, but for my

money there is nothing cooler than this. Professional aerial

photographer Jason has produced several coffee-table books of

Britain from the air. I happened to go flying in a microlight one day.

I did not like the fly much, but I loved the patterns that you could

see, even things that look boring from the ground, weird things. It

takes on a whole new perspective, so within a few weeks I bought a

microlight and started shooting from it. I have taken a lot of

photos, but never from a helicopter. We are flying in a twin-engined jet

turbine helicopter, so with one engine fails, you have got another

engine, and you really need a good pilot, because you are flying low

and slow all the time, which is dangerous. We are over the Medway

town of Rudchester now, and it is time to get our first shots.

want to be almost directly above, we are going to bank over a little

bit, look more straight down. what he meant about having a good

There I am concentrating on the odd these boats and the castle, whereas

Jason's specialist eye has managed to see the beauty in the mudflats

and salt marshes. One of the most important things is filling your

frame with the pattern, but sometimes it is nice to get

something man-made, even if it is just a person or a boat. You could

be 12,000 ft up or 50 ft, it is hard to tell what you are looking

at. Sometimes a single boat gives it a great sense of scale.

trying to put his tits into practice, but his shot still have

that extra something. It is unbelievably beautiful here.

coastline is stunning, and what better way to see it. I'm going to

start saving for a helicopter. We arrive at what looks like a scene

from the war of the world. We could These are rusting relics of

London's Second World War defences. An amazing orange colour.

Yes, the most amazing things. I have gone for the close-up. Jason

is looking for the big picture. Right next to the sea forts is a

huge offshore wind farm. It is amazingly dramatic. A strange

thing to look at. With the turbines silhouetted

against the setting sun, the picture is even more dramatic.

Luckily, I caught this one perfectly lined up.

P the lights start to come on as we fly along the Thames. I am giddy

with the novelty of this and want to shoot the obvious land marks,

but Jason wants to show me the patterns of the landscape on a

larger scale. This is the junction of the M23 and

the M25. We have a tiny bit of light in the

sky. It is a good shot with the orange

carving through. Yes, a good shot. The camera stays

perfectly still. Thanks to Jason's specially equipped helicopter. You

can see the result with this slow shutter camera, Jason's image on

the left is sharper than mine. Motorway junctions are something

that are so unbearably mundane, but to see it from above at night it

makes for some creative shots. Two hours in a helicopter, taking

aerial photos has transformed the way that I see jefr day things.

From a bit of sea to a motorway, it is all extraordinary from the air.

See, that picture of offshore wind farms is like your perfect picture,

you like them? I like the offshore wind farms. Very good.

I want to learn about film and camera. I would like to direct one

day. I think some of Best Directors know about the different lenses to

use there. Is the Denzel Washington lens that I am interested in. The

next time that I make a movie. But you are a keen learner. You

never want to stop learning? No. I think it is important, especially

as you get older, not to give up. My mum said, "You must have a

education, to have something to fall back on incase the oh, Betty

does not work." When she passed away I decided I would try to learn

some stuff. I applied to the Open University. I got a degree in

English. Then applied to Royal Hol yoway and got an MA in screen

writing. I'm doing a Ph.D now. I am trying to learn the piano as well.

Did the class feel OK when you turned up? Well, there was

something very funny, well, I thought it was funny, you be the

judge. A man made a Michael McTire replica on toast, I went to take

the O-levels at college in Preston, I walked in for the exam and a man

audible said, "Why is the man who says Gtanga, here ?" But you are on

the road now with a new show called Pop Life? It starts in Leeds

Variety on Monday it is about my love of music. I love everything to

do with music. It's been a part of my life since I was little. I did a

show last year, it was more autobiography in style.

I love music it makes me happy. I decided to work with Kim Fuller, it

was once a sad show, now it is more joyous, I get to be Beyonce, Prince,

I get to play the piano. It is very weird. This hand wants to go dumb,

dip dumb dumb, do, but when I play this hand it works but this hand

falls away. When I started grade one piano. As a black person I

thought I would sit down and there would be a horn section behind me.

# Get up, get on up. #, but I had to go... And hum the tune to

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. You actually have a grade four?

I got a merit as well. Thanks, Jane. Benedict, everyone who helps me

pass my exam, but it is lots of practise. That is the trick.

I have a band called Poor White Trash.

Shut up! It is as good as Coldplay. We did a gig on Friday, the

trumpeter had his privates cut by a fan! He played high! I was watching

them rehearsing for the gig. ( humming) He did it for an hour-

and-a-half. I thought I have never practised anything for that long.

It made me want to do more rehearsals and improvise. To

practise this much it frees you to improvise. So I practise the piano

a lot. I am still like a three- year-old Chinese child.

Right on for the Chinese! Thanks, lot, Len! Well, you can see Lenny

tinkling the I'veries. Can I mention Twitter. Everything

is on Twitter. It starts in Leeds on Monday.

Leeds City Variety. It is a long way to Tickle Mary!

Lenny, save your voice you are reading a poem.

This is a great poem. Can I read this one? You can read where we are

That is from Liz in Luton. Of course, you are rhyming C with

sea, that is imperfect. One more, let's see if we can get

it in before 7.pm. How shall it send in Why did I say

before 7.00pm. I mean before 7.30pm. Now, I have something here that

will strike fear into Alex Jones. There we are.

I am pretty frightened. The simple Allen Key. Yes, two days

to do a bed. Three days to do a chest of drawers.

It is 25 years this week since IKEA opened its doors, bringing flat-

pack to the passes. Lucy has hit the streets to see if, like me, you

can really put together the shelves oufs? For some us, the instructions

here, may as well be written in Swedish. So I have come to Glasgow,

to ask the people to pit themselves against one another and assemble

one of the bookcases. Let the battle commence.

This is the same book shelf I have at home. I have built it for like

the third time. I can't work out the instructions.

One minute gone, everybody. Are you going with the instructions

or without? Without! I twist it. fingers hurt! We are coming up to

eight minutes. This almost looks like a piece of furniture. These

ladies are now assisting these gentlemen.

The day has had its ups and downs, the slowest, but sturdest

assemblers have put together a bookcase in 30 minutes, but the

fasters was these men in 10.27 seconds.

That is good. So, some good efforts, so bad efforts. Next week we would

like to feature your stories as the worst DIYers in Britain. If you

partner thinks that he or she is a dab hand at DIY, but is really a

disaster zone, we want to know. Tell us your stories and the not

graphic evidence. Now, it was back in August when

NASA's Curiosity recover touched down on Mars. Maggie Aderin Pocock

has been to meet the British space engineers planning a Mars landing

of their own. .British scientists have held lofty

ambitions in space exploration, but we have been overshadowed by bigger

players and had some expensive players.

No signal from the probe in 24 hours. The Beagle may have crash-

landed. The Beagle 2 was meant to land on

Mars on Christmas Day, 2003. But crashed into the hostile terrain,

putting our dreams of exploring the surface on hold, but the hold in

space exploration for Britain is growing. They are looking at Mars

again. The question that is bugging the scientists is whether there is

life on the Red Planet. Over the summer, Curiosity cure has

sent back the best images yet of the Mars terrain. It is searching

for life that may have once existed there, but once these spacecraft

land on Mars, there is a problem. They have never been able to travel

far across the surface, but British space engineers have been asked to

come up with a solution. I have come to Stevenage in

Hertfordshire, where they are building the next generation of

Martian Rover. Meet Bruno. Costing nearly �200 million. It will be on

the European Space Agency's EXXO mission in 2018. Ben is one of the

principle scientists behind the project.

This is Bruno? Yes, he is a prototype Mars rover, he is to room

across the planet and look for science of life.

How? It will be packed with instruments looking to apbl ice

samples looking for cells that are the building blocks of life.

The difficulty has been that the robots have to be steered from

earth. That sets a challenge, give than Mars is over 200 million miles

from us. Let's say we want to tell the rover to turn left. We have to

send a signal from Earth to a satellite orbiting Mars it can take

20 minutes for a signal from Earth to reach the Red Planet, but that

is just the start of the problem. To get the signal to the Rover, the

satellite must be directly overhead, but that only happens twice a day

and only for ten minutes. So to perform simple manoeuvres it can

take weeks. But this is not a problem for Bruno.

Its been designed so it can navigate and steer itself.

Bruno is very clever it will have eyes at the top of the mast and a

brain in the centre of the Rover. It uses these to drive around

obstacles and to keep itself safe on the planet's surface. Bruno uses

an array of cameras to take pictures of the terrain. It can

build a 3H D model of what is ahead. It can weigh up the obstacles and

decide whether to go over or awe round them. So now it is making the

decisions itself? Yes, all of the decisions are made on board. Where

to take the pictures, where to drive and what to avoid.

The Curiosity Rover is hoping to prove that life theoretically once

occurred in Mars. Bruno is to search for that life. Bruno will

have to withstand extreme conditions.

It is edusty, windy, the temperatures swing wildly from 20

Celsius in the day to minus 130 Celsius at night. Colder than on

Earth. We cannot use rubber tyres, they would freeze. We have to think

carefully about how we put things together.

I have always had a soft spot for Mars. If the mission is successful,

how will you feel? It will be a great engineering achievement, but

it is a very important first step on getting men on to the Mars.

And women! I had to say that! There is still a long way to go before a

Bruno is roaming the Martian surface, but the engineering k --

engineering behind it is ground break. The mission may prove

whether or not there is life on Mars.

Thank you very much indeed. Staying on the space theme it is time for

the world premiere of the poem you have written throughout the show.

STAR TREK THEME MUSIC This poem was written by John from London, Sarah

APPLAUSE Yes! What about that! Joelle Taylor

from the Poetry Society, are you happy with that? Extremely happy.

Impressed with that. You can find the details on the

website. Lenny, that was very good.