:00:18. > :00:28.Alex, stop reading the Newbridge and John Burke -- Newbridge Jones book
:00:28. > :00:30.that only you have a copy of. You are not going to believe how it
:00:30. > :00:33.ends. Forget that, how does our Sure
:00:33. > :00:37.Start? Welcome to the one show with Chris
:00:37. > :00:42.Evans and Alex Jones. Tonight, a Scouse comedian with more lookalikes
:00:42. > :00:49.than any other celebrity. There he is, waiting to come on. But look how
:00:49. > :00:57.much he looks like Frank Spencer. No way! It's a spit!
:00:57. > :01:02.And look a much more they looks like Bez from Happy Mondays.
:01:02. > :01:10.And is there any difference at all between him and Bee Gee Barry Gibb?
:01:10. > :01:14.You've got to admit that one. That is a winner, I'll give you that.
:01:14. > :01:24.Here is, the man himself, John Bishop. -- here he is.
:01:24. > :01:29.Barry Gebhart will go with. He looks exactly like you. -- Harry Gibb, I
:01:29. > :01:35.will go with. It is a national sports, the lookalike thing. You
:01:35. > :01:39.must have lookalikes. But it is easy, red hair and glasses. You are
:01:39. > :01:44.more subtle. There is a little kid, have a look, out with his mate.
:01:44. > :01:50.There you are. He has sent that to me. I think what happens is that
:01:50. > :01:54.anyone with big teeth seems to look like me. It is more than the teeth.
:01:54. > :02:04.We have moving footage of this guide. Here's bus driver. Look at
:02:04. > :02:13.that. There he is. Does anybody in Britain not to look like you? My
:02:13. > :02:17.kids. But they look a lot like that other fellow. The weird thing, the
:02:17. > :02:26.only person doesn't like you is you. -- look like you. That is you
:02:26. > :02:29.in your new book. Yes, when the teeth first made their public
:02:29. > :02:32.appearance. And there you are, your teeth are waiting for the rest of
:02:32. > :02:40.your face to catch up. Isn't it gorgeous, everyone? That was the
:02:40. > :02:45.point, that age, islet in that generation where your mum cut your
:02:45. > :02:49.hair. If you look at the hair, it was not the best of days. It was a
:02:49. > :02:54.little bit wobbly. We will talk about your book and your tour
:02:54. > :02:59.shortly but first, we have a Friday house ensemble led by Nicola
:02:59. > :03:03.Benedetti. She won the Best Female Artist for the second year running
:03:03. > :03:07.this week. You won't believe how many other people look like our. No!
:03:07. > :03:10.She is going to be performing at the end of the show. Well worth sticking
:03:10. > :03:13.around for. But first, in July we met Sean
:03:13. > :03:17.Conway as he journeyed from Lands End to John O'Groats in a way that
:03:17. > :03:22.no one else has done before. Any ideas how? I was going to say
:03:22. > :03:28.running or something but I have just seen a picture there. It gave it
:03:28. > :03:36.away, to be honest. You mean this one? OK. You are right, he was
:03:36. > :03:43.swimming. He was running and he was running anti-felon. -- and he fell
:03:43. > :03:49.in. When ice report about a man swimming from Lands End to John
:03:49. > :03:53.Brooks, at 40 had no hope. But he has proven me wrong. -- John
:03:53. > :03:57.O'Groats. The Scottish Highlands. To reach here, he has braced schools
:03:57. > :04:04.jellyfish, rough seas and cold water. Right now, he is facing
:04:04. > :04:08.dangerous times in the rivers. Mainland Scotland is here and this
:04:08. > :04:13.is the Isle of Skye. We are travelling down the channel in
:04:13. > :04:25.between. Sean Conway as to the north, three miles that way. We have
:04:25. > :04:35.found him, just ahead. Are you all right? How you? Are you called? It
:04:35. > :04:42.is not too bad today. Nice to meet you. Your beard was not so big when
:04:42. > :04:46.you started. I was clean-shaven. Why the earplugs? To stop the water
:04:46. > :04:52.going in. It is called swimmers here. It is just blue tack. It is
:04:52. > :04:59.probably not recommended by doctors, but it is the only thing that
:04:59. > :05:04.sticks? -- ear. When water gets in your ear, you have bacteria. How do
:05:04. > :05:07.you keep yourself mentally focused? You have bad days? Loads of bad
:05:07. > :05:11.days. When the wind is up and the You have bad days? Loads of bad
:05:11. > :05:16.support group cannot get near me, there big waves. You cannot actually
:05:16. > :05:24.properly swim. Your arms are just going all over the place. Well, get
:05:24. > :05:26.this hotpot to new. I'm going to swim with you if you do not mind. --
:05:26. > :05:31.this hotpot to new. I'm going to donor you.
:05:31. > :05:48.My goodness. It is not warm at all. Sean spends anywhere between five
:05:48. > :05:52.and ten hours a day swimming. I've swam for just 20 minutes and that
:05:52. > :06:10.was more than enough for the called to bite. It was fine to seek -- it
:06:10. > :06:14.was time to say goodbye. I am a bit emotional, leaving him behind.
:06:14. > :06:19.Because that is a man of steel in every sense. As a clean and
:06:19. > :06:24.mentally. Respect to him. Absolutely.
:06:24. > :06:27.And Sean will arrive at John O'Groats in approximately three
:06:27. > :06:32.weeks time. Incredible. You were genuinely gobsmacked. I've
:06:32. > :06:36.done a few things but I have never known anyone to take a challenge
:06:36. > :06:39.like that. And to do that on your own, it is so lonely. That takes a
:06:40. > :06:45.lot of willpower. And nobody to cheer you on. Not unless they are
:06:45. > :06:53.swimming with you, like dolphins. OK, in the city that John was born,
:06:53. > :06:59.two favourite birds are set to protect their patch. Few people have
:06:59. > :07:07.seen them close-up. So we sent in the camera-copter. Look at that! The
:07:07. > :07:10.Royal Liver Building has dominated Liverpool's waterfront since its
:07:11. > :07:16.completion in 1911. Standing guard, 300 feet up, the two Liver birds,
:07:16. > :07:21.made of copper. They are taller than a double-decker bus. But the story
:07:21. > :07:27.of how they came to be there is as intriguing as the birds themselves.
:07:27. > :07:31.For 100 years, the creator of these enormous birds was written out of
:07:31. > :07:37.Liverpool's history. It was only recently that he was remembered and
:07:37. > :07:40.honoured by the city. It is especially strange given that the
:07:40. > :07:44.Liver birds that he created symbolise the spirit of Liverpool.
:07:44. > :07:52.The Royal Liver Building is the tallest office building in Britain.
:07:52. > :07:57.The first skyscraper. It is really unique. There is nothing quite like
:07:57. > :08:01.it. He wanted this to be a focal point for people visiting the city.
:08:01. > :08:04.It was the tallest building of its time. In fact, it was the tallest
:08:04. > :08:12.building in Europe for 20 years. Tell me about the Liver birds. They
:08:12. > :08:14.are mythical creatures, representing the city for many centuries. They
:08:14. > :08:19.originally started off as something like an eagle. But the ones that we
:08:19. > :08:27.have today are more like a cormorant. An eagle was first used
:08:27. > :08:31.on Liverpool's city charter in 1207. But over the centuries, it evolved
:08:31. > :08:36.into a unique bird of presenting the city and its people. --
:08:36. > :08:43.representing. The owners wanted this symbol to adorn the top of the new
:08:43. > :08:48.building. Not one, but two Liver birds. Want to face out to sea,
:08:48. > :08:52.guarding those the parting, and the other guarding the city itself. But
:08:52. > :08:57.how could they get the best possible designer for the Liver birds? They
:08:57. > :09:06.decided to hold a competition and a German craftsmen to part. -- took
:09:06. > :09:13.part. He enjoyed UK so much on honeymoon here, he settled in London
:09:13. > :09:19.in 1887. Tim is his great-grandson. He was a sculpture by -- sculptor by
:09:19. > :09:24.trade. He entered a wooden carving, very similar to this. He made that
:09:24. > :09:30.himself. And it was decided that he won. And so it was that a German
:09:30. > :09:33.born sculptor completed one of Liverpool's most famous landmarks.
:09:33. > :09:36.But he would not enjoy the affection of the public for long. When the
:09:36. > :09:44.First World War broke out, Germans living in the UK became a target.
:09:44. > :09:49.They were welcomed. -- they were not welcome. The German records were
:09:49. > :09:52.wiped out and businesses work looted. It wasn't xenophobia.
:09:52. > :10:01.Despite having a wife and British children, Carl was forcibly
:10:01. > :10:06.separated with his family in 1913. He was imprisoned on the Isle of Man
:10:06. > :10:09.in an internment camp. He died in 1955 with no official record
:10:09. > :10:16.remaining of his connection to the famous Liver birds.
:10:16. > :10:20.There were no records. We question is, why? You were determined that
:10:20. > :10:24.people would know that he was your great-grandfather and that he made
:10:24. > :10:28.of the models. Absolutely. Eventually, in 2011, on the Saint
:10:28. > :10:33.Ellery of the Liver birds, my great-grandfather was given a
:10:33. > :10:37.citizen of honour award by the Lord Mayor. Together with a plaque that
:10:37. > :10:43.sits in the back of the Liver Building. Tim has never seen his
:10:43. > :10:47.great-grandfather's work up close so we have been given special
:10:47. > :11:01.permission to launch this, a camera which can fly right up and literally
:11:01. > :11:08.get a birds eye view. What a way to see the birds eye
:11:08. > :11:28.view. Finally, he has got the recognition he deserves.
:11:28. > :11:35.Ah, the old town. That was lovely. recognition he deserves.
:11:35. > :11:42.Very clever, that camera. Anyway, your book.
:11:42. > :11:45.And we're back. There are loads of revelations in
:11:45. > :11:48.your book but the biggest as this. Everyone thinks that John Bishop has
:11:48. > :11:52.spent his whole life living Liverpool and we can't elated that
:11:52. > :11:59.you have only lived there for 1.4% of your life. And that gets less the
:11:59. > :12:03.older I'd get. -- we calculated. So you are just putting on the accent?
:12:04. > :12:11.What happens, where we lived in Liverpool was knocked down. It was
:12:11. > :12:14.declared a slum. It annoyed my dad because he had just decorated. The
:12:14. > :12:17.council came and said they were going to knock it down and you would
:12:17. > :12:25.have to move. So we had the choice of going to Kirby on Liverpool,
:12:25. > :12:31.Winsford. So we went to Winsford. It was like a refugee camp. The
:12:31. > :12:38.Wallabies Scousers picked up and placed in a little town. -- they
:12:38. > :12:40.were all these Scousers. It was like a Scouse en clava. They were trying
:12:40. > :12:53.to keep their identity by a Scouse en clava. They were trying
:12:53. > :12:56.exaggerating their accent, by out-scousing each other. When I went
:12:56. > :13:02.to Liverpool, no one could understand a word I said! I grew up
:13:02. > :13:06.in these council estates outside Liverpool. And this happened a lot
:13:06. > :13:09.in Liverpool. Scousers always got the blame wherever they went. You
:13:10. > :13:16.lived in Warrington. Yes. Around there. But this is all in your book.
:13:16. > :13:19.You talk about your dad going to prison for the first time, going to
:13:19. > :13:27.visit him. He did not want you to visit him. Well, my dad defended
:13:27. > :13:31.himself and ended up in prison. You would not want your kids to go, but
:13:31. > :13:35.because he missed us, we went. When you write a book like this, you have
:13:36. > :13:39.to say, what made me the person that I am in. And that is one of the
:13:40. > :13:42.things. You go through that process where you remember something like
:13:42. > :13:45.that and you come out of it stronger. Certainly, writing it in
:13:45. > :13:49.the book, there is no shame. There stronger. Certainly, writing it in
:13:49. > :13:54.is a sense of pride. My dad to want I think he should do in those
:13:54. > :13:57.situations, he stood up for himself. What was it like to see him in
:13:58. > :14:02.prison? It was not the best experience. I've remember as a
:14:02. > :14:09.child, when we were there, we got given a chocolate bar, a Texan,
:14:09. > :14:14.which you probably will not remember. They are illegal now. They
:14:14. > :14:20.will take out all your teeth. In one fell swoop! It is unbelievable. It
:14:20. > :14:24.is poison covered in chocolate. You are all right, though. I've remember
:14:24. > :14:29.my dad gave me a Texan. It was a shame the time was in prison, but I
:14:29. > :14:36.got a chocolate bar. It was not the best thing, and in the book, it is
:14:36. > :14:39.at a point, the book is about my life up until last year, so it is
:14:39. > :14:45.about that and how I'd got into comedy, and the stuff I did before.
:14:45. > :14:48.There are a lot of things in there that people do not know. And the
:14:48. > :14:50.other defining moment was how you got into comedy. And you were about
:14:50. > :14:58.33, quite late. 35. And you put that got into comedy. And you were about
:14:58. > :15:04.down to saving your marriage. That, and buying your wife a new wardrobe.
:15:04. > :15:11.And I thought, lovely, really sweet, he bought all these lovely
:15:11. > :15:14.clothes. But what happened? You have been really selective in your
:15:14. > :15:20.picture. Your dad going to prison, and the wardrobe. Tell the story.
:15:20. > :15:28.That is the point of the book. It is like an IKEA advert. The reality was
:15:28. > :15:33.that we were poor, and we got back together and did not know how to ask
:15:33. > :15:35.her to move back in with me. -- the reality was that we split up. I've
:15:35. > :15:40.bought a wardrobe, and she said, reality was that we split up. I've
:15:40. > :15:44.that is massive, you do not have a close with at. So I said, why don't
:15:44. > :15:49.you come and put your clothes in it. Around the country, all the country,
:15:49. > :15:57.although women have gone, aw, and all the men have gone, idiot. Did
:15:57. > :16:02.you get the idea from sex and the city 2? To be fair, have some other
:16:02. > :16:11.ideas from that movie, but that was not one of them. You know what I am
:16:11. > :16:19.loving, people are seeing this without sound and they are thinking,
:16:19. > :16:22.I wrote that. John's autobiography, How Did This
:16:22. > :16:28.All Happen?, if you want to know the answer, it is out next week. Coming
:16:28. > :16:35.up next, this is what Friday night television was made for! How about a
:16:35. > :16:40.car horn concerto? Genius! It is the kind of noise that can
:16:40. > :16:46.drive you up the wall, but even this is quite musical. My car one as two
:16:46. > :16:49.pitches, but are all the same? Or can I turn this racket into
:16:49. > :16:56.something a little more pleasing to the year? I need to find somewhere
:16:56. > :17:03.with lots of porn is where I can explore their musical potential.
:17:03. > :17:12.This scrap yard is home to lots of cars which do not work, but I bet
:17:13. > :17:15.the forums do. -- horns. The two is happy for me to have a honk on some
:17:15. > :17:21.the forums do. -- horns. The two is of his horns.
:17:21. > :17:29.I want to arrange a piece of music performed entirely on car horns, a
:17:29. > :17:33.car horn concerto, but I'm going to need eight different pitches, and to
:17:33. > :17:39.find them I am going to need to uncover the discordant history of
:17:39. > :17:42.the car horn. In the 19th century, gloriously recreated here, horseless
:17:42. > :17:49.carriages and early cars used a man with a red flag walking in front of
:17:49. > :17:53.the vehicle to warn pedestrians. In 1896, long before even these boy
:17:53. > :17:59.racers, it became a legal requirement to carry a bell or want
:17:59. > :18:05.to warn of a car's approach. The car horn was born, and roads would never
:18:05. > :18:09.sound same again. Simon is from Vauxhall, the oldest surviving car
:18:09. > :18:14.manufacturer in the UK. He is taking me for a spin in an original Prince
:18:14. > :18:20.Henry. Tell me about these early horns. Not very effective, as you
:18:21. > :18:27.can see. How did we progress to a horns. Not very effective, as you
:18:27. > :18:29.more modern horn? The modern motor and environment was changing,
:18:29. > :18:35.volumes of traffic were getting a lot bigger, so for pedestrians the
:18:35. > :18:41.noise needed to penetrate all that noise of traffic. But of course that
:18:42. > :18:48.horn is not the classic sound we associate with these cars. You are
:18:48. > :18:52.referring to the klaxon. It's just so happens... I have one here, or at
:18:52. > :18:59.least this is Vauxhall's version of it. Klaxon is a trademark name. It
:18:59. > :19:05.is brilliant, we have definitely got to have that in the orchestra. In
:19:05. > :19:12.the 1970s, the musical horn became popular following the US TV show The
:19:12. > :19:21.Dukes Of Hazard. Their Dodge Charger sounded like this... But in 1984,
:19:21. > :19:26.honking your horn became less fun as legislation came in to make them
:19:26. > :19:33.continuous and uniform with a range of 93 to 112 decibel is. With only a
:19:33. > :19:38.small range of notes for modern-day car horns, I don't know how I'll
:19:38. > :19:45.find enough to perform my concerto. I need some help. This man runs a
:19:45. > :19:53.classic car parts business. This is a 1930s reproduction. I am hoping
:19:53. > :19:57.his classic collection of horns might broaden my musical range. Wood
:19:57. > :20:07.July to listen to them? Yes, fantastic.
:20:07. > :20:16.That is E flat! Can I take all of these with me? This is going to be
:20:16. > :20:22.perfect for my car horn concerto. Thank you very much.
:20:22. > :20:28.I have managed to assemble another car horn notes from across the year
:20:28. > :20:34.is to celebrate the history of car horns with an automotive classic. To
:20:34. > :20:42.help me out, I have invited some musicians, and appropriately enough,
:20:42. > :20:48.Vito has found black and white cars for my keyboard. Vito! One, two,
:20:48. > :21:24.three, four! Can we have a round of applause?
:21:24. > :21:30.That was absolutely brilliant! That was fantastic. Alex is not here, so
:21:30. > :21:38.I can stretch out, this is the future! The reason she is not will
:21:38. > :21:42.become apparent in a moment. Chapter two of your book is called my dad
:21:42. > :21:51.and cars, and we are going to be seeing three of them, a Mach one
:21:51. > :21:59.Ford Escort van. Thies. And a Moscovitch. Yes, the Russian car.
:21:59. > :22:04.The Escort van was the first people carrier ever, because my dad cut the
:22:04. > :22:10.sides out and put windows in and made the kids sit in the back. The
:22:10. > :22:13.Hillman Imp, we went on holiday, four kids on the back, a dog, my mum
:22:13. > :22:17.and dad in four kids on the back, a dog, my mum
:22:17. > :22:22.we could not get up the hill. The kids had to get out to walk up the
:22:22. > :22:27.hill. Sometimes we went faster than my dad and met him at the top and
:22:27. > :22:31.went down like a toboggan. The mighty Hillman Imp. The Moscovitch
:22:31. > :22:39.was a Russian car, everyone thought we were spies. That was in Runcorn.
:22:39. > :22:44.Alex is outside with the cars, what is going on next? We have got the
:22:44. > :22:50.Moscovitch year, the lovely turquoise Hillman Imp and the first
:22:50. > :22:56.people carrier, let's play the game! What are we going to do, she is
:22:56. > :23:00.going to climb in an car, without looking down at the corner of your
:23:00. > :23:04.eye, she is going to start one of the cars up, revved up and Tom
:23:04. > :23:09.Thorne. From those sounds, if you can identify which one she is in,
:23:09. > :23:16.you can give us a fact about your forthcoming tedium. From the horn?!
:23:16. > :23:19.you can give us a fact about your We did not use them in the 1970s, if
:23:19. > :23:20.you were in the road, it was your We did not use them in the 1970s, if
:23:20. > :23:36.own fault! Moscovitch. No, it is the Hillman
:23:36. > :23:39.Imp! We would you be the third one for free. This is for an additional
:23:39. > :23:46.bonus fact about your tedium. Car for free. This is for an additional
:23:46. > :23:55.number two. She is climbing in now. She is on fire tonight, the girl.
:23:55. > :24:03.That sounds like the man, that. That is the Ford Escort van. It is the
:24:03. > :24:09.people carrier! Dell as a fact about your tour. I will be on tour next
:24:09. > :24:14.year, it will be properly announced next month. Climb into the
:24:15. > :24:19.Moscovitch now. Give us another fact. And it will be very funny! I
:24:19. > :24:23.have not written a word of it yet. No, I have, I have started it. Give
:24:23. > :24:34.us the Moscovitch. That is not a horn, that is an
:24:34. > :24:40.invasion! That is a proper Russian horn, we are coming! That was
:24:41. > :24:48.chapter two, John's dad and his cars. Come back in now, Alex! Never
:24:48. > :24:56.take the first of, by the way! The 2013 is on Sunday night, going head
:24:56. > :24:59.to head with Match Of The Day 2, a big decision, but this is the best
:25:00. > :25:24.female artist of the year, it is official!
:25:24. > :25:30.Pretty impressive! Nicola Benedetti joins us now, hopefully Alex Reid
:25:30. > :25:41.joins us now, hopefully Alex rejoins us any moment. Good evening. Go...
:25:41. > :25:44.Were their drinks after the classic risk was the mark is it as raucous
:25:44. > :26:03.as the Brits? This is the second time you have won
:26:03. > :26:05.best female artist, and you won best Young Musician of the Year. How did
:26:05. > :26:14.you start? The fiddle sounds terrible at the beginning of the
:26:14. > :26:19.year. I cried all the way through my first lesson, I am left handed, so I
:26:19. > :26:24.wanted to pick it up the wrong way round. Second lesson, I started
:26:24. > :26:28.making a reasonable noise. Can you not play left-handed? You can, but
:26:28. > :26:32.it is not very sociable in an orchestra, if you are going the
:26:32. > :26:36.opposite way to everybody else. Poking them! It was not always like
:26:36. > :26:55.that, not so long ago... There you are! We will be able to
:26:55. > :26:59.see you on the classical Brits at ten o'clock on Sunday, but John
:26:59. > :27:06.loves classical music, so you are playing for us tonight. Great. John
:27:06. > :27:11.Bishop's book is out next week. Thank you, John. Tickets for his
:27:11. > :27:14.tour go on sale in a couple of weeks. We will leave you with Nicola
:27:15. > :27:17.Benedetti, we will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend,
:27:17. > :27:19.bye-bye!