04/10/2013 The One Show

Alex, stop reading the Newbridge and John Burke -- Newbridge Jones book

that only you have a copy of. You are not going to believe how it

ends. Forget that, how does our Sure

Start? Welcome to the one show with Chris

Evans and Alex Jones. Tonight, a Scouse comedian with more lookalikes

than any other celebrity. There he is, waiting to come on. But look how

much he looks like Frank Spencer. No way! It's a spit!

And look a much more they looks like Bez from Happy Mondays.

And is there any difference at all between him and Bee Gee Barry Gibb?

You've got to admit that one. That is a winner, I'll give you that.

Here is, the man himself, John Bishop. -- here he is.

Barry Gebhart will go with. He looks exactly like you. -- Harry Gibb, I

will go with. It is a national sports, the lookalike thing. You

must have lookalikes. But it is easy, red hair and glasses. You are

more subtle. There is a little kid, have a look, out with his mate.

There you are. He has sent that to me. I think what happens is that

anyone with big teeth seems to look like me. It is more than the teeth.

We have moving footage of this guide. Here's bus driver. Look at

that. There he is. Does anybody in Britain not to look like you? My

kids. But they look a lot like that other fellow. The weird thing, the

only person doesn't like you is you. -- look like you. That is you

in your new book. Yes, when the teeth first made their public

appearance. And there you are, your teeth are waiting for the rest of

your face to catch up. Isn't it gorgeous, everyone? That was the

point, that age, islet in that generation where your mum cut your

hair. If you look at the hair, it was not the best of days. It was a

little bit wobbly. We will talk about your book and your tour

shortly but first, we have a Friday house ensemble led by Nicola

Benedetti. She won the Best Female Artist for the second year running

this week. You won't believe how many other people look like our. No!

She is going to be performing at the end of the show. Well worth sticking

around for. But first, in July we met Sean

Conway as he journeyed from Lands End to John O'Groats in a way that

no one else has done before. Any ideas how? I was going to say

running or something but I have just seen a picture there. It gave it

away, to be honest. You mean this one? OK. You are right, he was

swimming. He was running and he was running anti-felon. -- and he fell

in. When ice report about a man swimming from Lands End to John

Brooks, at 40 had no hope. But he has proven me wrong. -- John

O'Groats. The Scottish Highlands. To reach here, he has braced schools

jellyfish, rough seas and cold water. Right now, he is facing

dangerous times in the rivers. Mainland Scotland is here and this

is the Isle of Skye. We are travelling down the channel in

between. Sean Conway as to the north, three miles that way. We have

found him, just ahead. Are you all right? How you? Are you called? It

is not too bad today. Nice to meet you. Your beard was not so big when

you started. I was clean-shaven. Why the earplugs? To stop the water

going in. It is called swimmers here. It is just blue tack. It is

probably not recommended by doctors, but it is the only thing that

sticks? -- ear. When water gets in your ear, you have bacteria. How do

you keep yourself mentally focused? You have bad days? Loads of bad

days. When the wind is up and the You have bad days? Loads of bad

support group cannot get near me, there big waves. You cannot actually

properly swim. Your arms are just going all over the place. Well, get

this hotpot to new. I'm going to swim with you if you do not mind. --

this hotpot to new. I'm going to donor you.

My goodness. It is not warm at all. Sean spends anywhere between five

and ten hours a day swimming. I've swam for just 20 minutes and that

was more than enough for the called to bite. It was fine to seek -- it

was time to say goodbye. I am a bit emotional, leaving him behind.

Because that is a man of steel in every sense. As a clean and

mentally. Respect to him. Absolutely.

And Sean will arrive at John O'Groats in approximately three

weeks time. Incredible. You were genuinely gobsmacked. I've

done a few things but I have never known anyone to take a challenge

like that. And to do that on your own, it is so lonely. That takes a

lot of willpower. And nobody to cheer you on. Not unless they are

swimming with you, like dolphins. OK, in the city that John was born,

two favourite birds are set to protect their patch. Few people have

seen them close-up. So we sent in the camera-copter. Look at that! The

Royal Liver Building has dominated Liverpool's waterfront since its

completion in 1911. Standing guard, 300 feet up, the two Liver birds,

made of copper. They are taller than a double-decker bus. But the story

of how they came to be there is as intriguing as the birds themselves.

For 100 years, the creator of these enormous birds was written out of

Liverpool's history. It was only recently that he was remembered and

honoured by the city. It is especially strange given that the

Liver birds that he created symbolise the spirit of Liverpool.

The Royal Liver Building is the tallest office building in Britain.

The first skyscraper. It is really unique. There is nothing quite like

it. He wanted this to be a focal point for people visiting the city.

It was the tallest building of its time. In fact, it was the tallest

building in Europe for 20 years. Tell me about the Liver birds. They

are mythical creatures, representing the city for many centuries. They

originally started off as something like an eagle. But the ones that we

have today are more like a cormorant. An eagle was first used

on Liverpool's city charter in 1207. But over the centuries, it evolved

into a unique bird of presenting the city and its people. --

representing. The owners wanted this symbol to adorn the top of the new

building. Not one, but two Liver birds. Want to face out to sea,

guarding those the parting, and the other guarding the city itself. But

how could they get the best possible designer for the Liver birds? They

decided to hold a competition and a German craftsmen to part. -- took

part. He enjoyed UK so much on honeymoon here, he settled in London

in 1887. Tim is his great-grandson. He was a sculpture by -- sculptor by

trade. He entered a wooden carving, very similar to this. He made that

himself. And it was decided that he won. And so it was that a German

born sculptor completed one of Liverpool's most famous landmarks.

But he would not enjoy the affection of the public for long. When the

First World War broke out, Germans living in the UK became a target.

They were welcomed. -- they were not welcome. The German records were

wiped out and businesses work looted. It wasn't xenophobia.

Despite having a wife and British children, Carl was forcibly

separated with his family in 1913. He was imprisoned on the Isle of Man

in an internment camp. He died in 1955 with no official record

remaining of his connection to the famous Liver birds.

There were no records. We question is, why? You were determined that

people would know that he was your great-grandfather and that he made

of the models. Absolutely. Eventually, in 2011, on the Saint

Ellery of the Liver birds, my great-grandfather was given a

citizen of honour award by the Lord Mayor. Together with a plaque that

sits in the back of the Liver Building. Tim has never seen his

great-grandfather's work up close so we have been given special

permission to launch this, a camera which can fly right up and literally

get a birds eye view. What a way to see the birds eye

view. Finally, he has got the recognition he deserves.

Ah, the old town. That was lovely. recognition he deserves.

Very clever, that camera. Anyway, your book.

And we're back. There are loads of revelations in

your book but the biggest as this. Everyone thinks that John Bishop has

spent his whole life living Liverpool and we can't elated that

you have only lived there for 1.4% of your life. And that gets less the

older I'd get. -- we calculated. So you are just putting on the accent?

What happens, where we lived in Liverpool was knocked down. It was

declared a slum. It annoyed my dad because he had just decorated. The

council came and said they were going to knock it down and you would

have to move. So we had the choice of going to Kirby on Liverpool,

Winsford. So we went to Winsford. It was like a refugee camp. The

Wallabies Scousers picked up and placed in a little town. -- they

were all these Scousers. It was like a Scouse en clava. They were trying

to keep their identity by a Scouse en clava. They were trying

exaggerating their accent, by out-scousing each other. When I went

to Liverpool, no one could understand a word I said! I grew up

in these council estates outside Liverpool. And this happened a lot

in Liverpool. Scousers always got the blame wherever they went. You

lived in Warrington. Yes. Around there. But this is all in your book.

You talk about your dad going to prison for the first time, going to

visit him. He did not want you to visit him. Well, my dad defended

himself and ended up in prison. You would not want your kids to go, but

because he missed us, we went. When you write a book like this, you have

to say, what made me the person that I am in. And that is one of the

things. You go through that process where you remember something like

that and you come out of it stronger. Certainly, writing it in

the book, there is no shame. There stronger. Certainly, writing it in

is a sense of pride. My dad to want I think he should do in those

situations, he stood up for himself. What was it like to see him in

prison? It was not the best experience. I've remember as a

child, when we were there, we got given a chocolate bar, a Texan,

which you probably will not remember. They are illegal now. They

will take out all your teeth. In one fell swoop! It is unbelievable. It

is poison covered in chocolate. You are all right, though. I've remember

my dad gave me a Texan. It was a shame the time was in prison, but I

got a chocolate bar. It was not the best thing, and in the book, it is

at a point, the book is about my life up until last year, so it is

about that and how I'd got into comedy, and the stuff I did before.

There are a lot of things in there that people do not know. And the

other defining moment was how you got into comedy. And you were about

33, quite late. 35. And you put that got into comedy. And you were about

down to saving your marriage. That, and buying your wife a new wardrobe.

And I thought, lovely, really sweet, he bought all these lovely

clothes. But what happened? You have been really selective in your

picture. Your dad going to prison, and the wardrobe. Tell the story.

That is the point of the book. It is like an IKEA advert. The reality was

that we were poor, and we got back together and did not know how to ask

her to move back in with me. -- the reality was that we split up. I've

bought a wardrobe, and she said, reality was that we split up. I've

that is massive, you do not have a close with at. So I said, why don't

you come and put your clothes in it. Around the country, all the country,

although women have gone, aw, and all the men have gone, idiot. Did

you get the idea from sex and the city 2? To be fair, have some other

ideas from that movie, but that was not one of them. You know what I am

loving, people are seeing this without sound and they are thinking,

I wrote that. John's autobiography, How Did This

All Happen?, if you want to know the answer, it is out next week. Coming

up next, this is what Friday night television was made for! How about a

car horn concerto? Genius! It is the kind of noise that can

drive you up the wall, but even this is quite musical. My car one as two

pitches, but are all the same? Or can I turn this racket into

something a little more pleasing to the year? I need to find somewhere

with lots of porn is where I can explore their musical potential.

This scrap yard is home to lots of cars which do not work, but I bet

the forums do. -- horns. The two is happy for me to have a honk on some

the forums do. -- horns. The two is of his horns.

I want to arrange a piece of music performed entirely on car horns, a

car horn concerto, but I'm going to need eight different pitches, and to

find them I am going to need to uncover the discordant history of

the car horn. In the 19th century, gloriously recreated here, horseless

carriages and early cars used a man with a red flag walking in front of

the vehicle to warn pedestrians. In 1896, long before even these boy

racers, it became a legal requirement to carry a bell or want

to warn of a car's approach. The car horn was born, and roads would never

sound same again. Simon is from Vauxhall, the oldest surviving car

manufacturer in the UK. He is taking me for a spin in an original Prince

Henry. Tell me about these early horns. Not very effective, as you

can see. How did we progress to a horns. Not very effective, as you

more modern horn? The modern motor and environment was changing,

volumes of traffic were getting a lot bigger, so for pedestrians the

noise needed to penetrate all that noise of traffic. But of course that

horn is not the classic sound we associate with these cars. You are

referring to the klaxon. It's just so happens... I have one here, or at

least this is Vauxhall's version of it. Klaxon is a trademark name. It

is brilliant, we have definitely got to have that in the orchestra. In

the 1970s, the musical horn became popular following the US TV show The

Dukes Of Hazard. Their Dodge Charger sounded like this... But in 1984,

honking your horn became less fun as legislation came in to make them

continuous and uniform with a range of 93 to 112 decibel is. With only a

small range of notes for modern-day car horns, I don't know how I'll

find enough to perform my concerto. I need some help. This man runs a

classic car parts business. This is a 1930s reproduction. I am hoping

his classic collection of horns might broaden my musical range. Wood

July to listen to them? Yes, fantastic.

That is E flat! Can I take all of these with me? This is going to be

perfect for my car horn concerto. Thank you very much.

I have managed to assemble another car horn notes from across the year

is to celebrate the history of car horns with an automotive classic. To

help me out, I have invited some musicians, and appropriately enough,

Vito has found black and white cars for my keyboard. Vito! One, two,

three, four! Can we have a round of applause?

That was absolutely brilliant! That was fantastic. Alex is not here, so

I can stretch out, this is the future! The reason she is not will

become apparent in a moment. Chapter two of your book is called my dad

and cars, and we are going to be seeing three of them, a Mach one

Ford Escort van. Thies. And a Moscovitch. Yes, the Russian car.

The Escort van was the first people carrier ever, because my dad cut the

sides out and put windows in and made the kids sit in the back. The

Hillman Imp, we went on holiday, four kids on the back, a dog, my mum

and dad in four kids on the back, a dog, my mum

we could not get up the hill. The kids had to get out to walk up the

hill. Sometimes we went faster than my dad and met him at the top and

went down like a toboggan. The mighty Hillman Imp. The Moscovitch

was a Russian car, everyone thought we were spies. That was in Runcorn.

Alex is outside with the cars, what is going on next? We have got the

Moscovitch year, the lovely turquoise Hillman Imp and the first

people carrier, let's play the game! What are we going to do, she is

going to climb in an car, without looking down at the corner of your

eye, she is going to start one of the cars up, revved up and Tom

Thorne. From those sounds, if you can identify which one she is in,

you can give us a fact about your forthcoming tedium. From the horn?!

you can give us a fact about your We did not use them in the 1970s, if

you were in the road, it was your We did not use them in the 1970s, if

own fault! Moscovitch. No, it is the Hillman

Imp! We would you be the third one for free. This is for an additional

bonus fact about your tedium. Car for free. This is for an additional

number two. She is climbing in now. She is on fire tonight, the girl.

That sounds like the man, that. That is the Ford Escort van. It is the

people carrier! Dell as a fact about your tour. I will be on tour next

year, it will be properly announced next month. Climb into the

Moscovitch now. Give us another fact. And it will be very funny! I

have not written a word of it yet. No, I have, I have started it. Give

us the Moscovitch. That is not a horn, that is an

invasion! That is a proper Russian horn, we are coming! That was

chapter two, John's dad and his cars. Come back in now, Alex! Never

take the first of, by the way! The 2013 is on Sunday night, going head

to head with Match Of The Day 2, a big decision, but this is the best

female artist of the year, it is official!

Pretty impressive! Nicola Benedetti joins us now, hopefully Alex Reid

joins us now, hopefully Alex rejoins us any moment. Good evening. Go...

Were their drinks after the classic risk was the mark is it as raucous

as the Brits? This is the second time you have won

best female artist, and you won best Young Musician of the Year. How did

you start? The fiddle sounds terrible at the beginning of the

year. I cried all the way through my first lesson, I am left handed, so I

wanted to pick it up the wrong way round. Second lesson, I started

making a reasonable noise. Can you not play left-handed? You can, but

it is not very sociable in an orchestra, if you are going the

opposite way to everybody else. Poking them! It was not always like

that, not so long ago... There you are! We will be able to

see you on the classical Brits at ten o'clock on Sunday, but John

loves classical music, so you are playing for us tonight. Great. John

Bishop's book is out next week. Thank you, John. Tickets for his

tour go on sale in a couple of weeks. We will leave you with Nicola

Benedetti, we will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend,

bye-bye!