:00:15. > :00:25.Hello, friends, and welcome to your pre-Bonfire Night One Show with
:00:25. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:33.Alex Jones. And Chris Evans. guest tonight is a bit like a
:00:33. > :00:36.firework, she exploded brightly onto our screens with her self-
:00:36. > :00:46.titled comedy show. And you know she'll always hit the ground,
:00:46. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:01.Lovely to see you. Thank you. have perfected that. Is there a
:01:01. > :01:06.crash mat? There was there, because that was hard corridor, that is the
:01:06. > :01:11.official term. Sometimes there is no crash mat, you are very good at
:01:11. > :01:17.falling over. In the studio, sometimes I fall onto the carpet. I
:01:17. > :01:24.am a slave to my art! In the writing process, when you think,
:01:24. > :01:28.this requires a fall? I write it all pretty much without falling,
:01:28. > :01:32.unless it is essential to the plot, like falling in the grave. If
:01:32. > :01:39.you're at a funeral, you are going to fall in the grave. Alex loves
:01:39. > :01:42.the show, she is your number one fan. Strictly, you are a big fan.
:01:42. > :01:47.am not just saying this, but Alex is one of my favourites. I should
:01:47. > :01:51.have said favoured, but I am being completely honest, Harry as well.
:01:51. > :01:57.Harry is brilliant. We have breaking news from Strictly
:01:57. > :02:01.especially for you. Are you ready? He has! Miranda, please do Strictly,
:02:02. > :02:08.we want your saucy moves on our dancefloor, and you are going to be
:02:08. > :02:14.doing it with me! Brendan Cole wants you! This is very exciting,
:02:14. > :02:20.but I am taller than Brendan. can sort that out... Somehow!
:02:20. > :02:26.wears big Cuban heels. He does. is the 10th anniversary, it has
:02:26. > :02:31.never been bigger or better, would you do it? Alex... That looks like
:02:31. > :02:36.Yes to me! It is brilliant, and you get to wear all those frocks and
:02:36. > :02:40.lashes. It doesn't matter, they could do with a bit of that! Carrie
:02:40. > :02:44.Grant will be telling us what gives fireworks their amazing colours.
:02:44. > :02:50.She has lied that a bonfire night in Wetherby. And we would like to
:02:50. > :02:56.see photos of you and your guys, not your families and friends,
:02:56. > :03:01.wheelbarrows, get them to us and we will show some good ones later.
:03:01. > :03:11.about we move from Guy's to pies? Just the mention of the word makes
:03:11. > :03:11.
:03:11. > :03:18.It is a serious title holder, the best of its kind, winner of the
:03:18. > :03:22.supreme champion at the British Pie Awards 2011. But this pie is only
:03:22. > :03:26.available to a select few, and I have not been part of the lucky
:03:26. > :03:31.clientele. To taste the current champion pie, I must pass through
:03:31. > :03:36.this gate into what is to make an alien world, football. I have never
:03:36. > :03:40.really seen the appeal of football, but to get a taste, I will have to
:03:40. > :03:46.face the dreaded game. Because it is here at much for football club
:03:46. > :03:52.where Graham Aimson makes his prize from scratch. -- Morecambe. So this
:03:52. > :03:58.is the best 2010 in Britain. It is. How do you feel about that? It is
:03:58. > :04:04.not something we expected. You are going against specialists in baking,
:04:04. > :04:08.from posh places. Unbelievable. What is the secret to a good pie?
:04:08. > :04:12.50% of it is the pastry, that has got to be the best pastry you can
:04:12. > :04:18.make, then using the right ingredients. Not the cheaper end of
:04:18. > :04:20.the meat. I am not surprised these pies win awards, because we are in
:04:20. > :04:25.the Great Pie making county of Lancashire, but it must be a
:04:25. > :04:30.nightmare preparing more than 1,000 highs to a high standard, all at
:04:30. > :04:34.once on match day. Half-time, 15 minutes, and in the home stand,
:04:34. > :04:39.that will be 1,500 people in one serving of 15 minutes. They do not
:04:39. > :04:44.like waiting around, I get lots of messages about it. There is a very
:04:44. > :04:49.good smell in his kitchen, pastry, meat, pie, I can't wait until half-
:04:49. > :04:53.time. The fans of Morecambe and tonight's rivals, Rotherham United,
:04:53. > :04:59.arrive for the match, and the pies are headed for the stands. For the
:04:59. > :05:03.first time, I am seriously envious of football fans. This is pie
:05:03. > :05:13.madness, serious pie action going on here! It is time for me to lend
:05:13. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:22.If it doesn't come out, what is the deal? As the half-time Rush hots up,
:05:22. > :05:28.it is clear I am more hindrance than help. What to think of the
:05:28. > :05:34.pies? Phenomenal, no wonder they won the award, tremendous. They are
:05:34. > :05:39.the best buys in the Football League. What makes them so special?
:05:39. > :05:49.Tasty, delicious. It has made to the Man U are today! The fans just
:05:49. > :05:53.
:05:53. > :05:57.As I joined them on the terraces, time to find out why. My first pie
:05:57. > :06:02.of the match. This is a good pie, proper filling, proper chicken,
:06:02. > :06:06.lovely pastry. Pies and football, made for each other. But could the
:06:06. > :06:11.Lee of the pie make me a fan of the game. All you hardened football
:06:11. > :06:16.fans do not need to worry, football was never really likely to convert
:06:16. > :06:22.me, but I am a fan of the pie, so I may well be back, but only at half-
:06:22. > :06:27.time. Good pie film, Jay! You have more
:06:27. > :06:34.award-winning pies. I have are the ones which won at the Great Fish
:06:34. > :06:39.Pie Championships which take place in April. How do get involved?
:06:39. > :06:42.to their website, and you have to be a commercial producer. It is not
:06:42. > :06:47.just your Andes pie, it has to be one that is commercially available,
:06:47. > :06:53.and it has to be a full pike, pastry, bottom, side and top, not
:06:53. > :06:58.just pastry on top. If this were Crufts, we are in the Champions'
:06:58. > :07:02.Ring. This is the award-winning pork pie, produced down in
:07:02. > :07:06.Leicestershire, walkers and sons. They have been producing this since
:07:06. > :07:10.1824. We have a picture of queues around the block on Christmas Eve,
:07:10. > :07:17.people queuing for these pies. We do have a picture, they have
:07:17. > :07:24.decided not to show it! We have seen it! This pie, apparently, you
:07:24. > :07:29.can see the fluted edges. fluted edges! 100% pork shoulder
:07:29. > :07:34.and belly, really good jelly. all about the jelly. Miranda,
:07:34. > :07:39.please. The tis very hard for you to smell them. It is one of
:07:39. > :07:45.Britain's great gifts to the world. Just the smell, the nose and that!
:07:45. > :07:51.That is delicious. The steak and kidney pie here, this is 10 and
:07:51. > :07:54.sons. This was voted the best steak and kidney. It is a combination of
:07:54. > :07:59.the flaky pastry, everyone is hand filled, so you get a perfect
:07:59. > :08:05.balance of steak and kidney. Don't you hate a steak-and-kidney pie
:08:05. > :08:09.with no kidney? It can ruin your day. How good is this? Really not
:08:09. > :08:18.just I am on the television good, it is properly good! What is your
:08:18. > :08:24.favourite? I will have to go sweet, apple-pie. Shut your face! This is
:08:24. > :08:31.from Leicestershire as well, and it is now yours! Always fresh apples.
:08:31. > :08:38.We know that npowers sometimes the Jay Moran do, we have a picture
:08:38. > :08:42.there. -- we know that pies sometimes feature in Miranda.
:08:42. > :08:46.were constant pies and cakes in the background, I was slightly offended,
:08:46. > :08:52.because I do look like her, and you might think that she is a woman who
:08:52. > :08:57.likes pies! That pie has been around for two and a half years.
:08:57. > :09:05.You have got a foodie firework, what is this? This is a chocolate
:09:05. > :09:09.bomb. We imported it from France. We have, as you will see, you may
:09:09. > :09:12.have to put the apple pie down, because we have got bobbles for you,
:09:12. > :09:18.because it is the BBC and we are very safety-conscious for you. I
:09:18. > :09:22.would rather like it if he would retire behind the sofa. It is a
:09:22. > :09:32.special effect, but you can buy these! Please do not make one at
:09:32. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:38.home. The French have given us many It takes a while! It is a slow
:09:38. > :09:48.burner. It was worse than is in rehearsal, honestly! Can it really
:09:48. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:56.take 30 seconds? We have got all That was rubbish! What was that?!
:09:56. > :10:02.Either way, in rehearsal, it did exactly the same thing. However, we
:10:02. > :10:08.have got a hammer. We can see what is inside. Please, take a seat.
:10:08. > :10:13.Sarkozy now has that to answer for as well, everybody! And that brings
:10:13. > :10:19.us to the secret ingredient, sorry, that should have been in that bomb.
:10:19. > :10:26.Over to Marty Jopson on the birth We are captivated by things that go
:10:26. > :10:32.bang. The bigger, the better! Explosives have revolutionised both
:10:32. > :10:36.industry and warfare, but where did it all begin? The exact date we
:10:36. > :10:42.started blowing stuff up is lost in the mists of time, but the earliest
:10:42. > :10:48.reference to an explosive mixture is over 1,000 years old, from
:10:48. > :10:53.ancient China. And that was black powder. Explosives expert Dr David
:10:53. > :10:58.Kenyon is going to explain how a subject that changed the world was
:10:58. > :11:04.discovered by accident. -- substance. This is charcoal, I can
:11:04. > :11:07.tell that. Silver, I am guessing. Sulphur, years. And saltpetre. So
:11:07. > :11:12.these were the first ingredient. These were the regional ingredients
:11:12. > :11:15.as discovered by the Chinese back in the 8th century. They were not
:11:15. > :11:19.looking to blow stuff up when they discovered it. Their scientists
:11:19. > :11:23.were looking for medicinal uses of chemicals. They were actually
:11:23. > :11:26.looking for an end next year, the secret to eternal life, they mixed
:11:26. > :11:31.all of these things together, and it blew up, and they thought, we
:11:31. > :11:34.will use this for something else. The recipe was smuggled out of
:11:34. > :11:38.China in the 13th century in scholastic writings. Through Arabia,
:11:38. > :11:43.it arrived here, the Royal gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey in
:11:43. > :11:47.Essex. For 300 years, it was the centre of excellence for Britain's
:11:47. > :11:52.explosive empire, providing gun par for the Napoleonic, Crimean and
:11:52. > :12:02.Boer wars. I am going to make the same type of explosive used back
:12:02. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:09.Just like the new concoction itself, news of black powder spread like
:12:09. > :12:15.wildfire, especially when scholars worked out the secret of making it
:12:15. > :12:19.go bang. To 10 that fireball into an explosion, what you need to do
:12:19. > :12:24.is contain the gunpowder. -- turn. If you contain the gunpowder at the
:12:24. > :12:28.end of a long tube, you can use it to shoot a projectile out of the
:12:28. > :12:33.end, like a bullet or a cannonball. Across Europe, black powder found
:12:33. > :12:38.immediate and widespread use in just this way, hence its more
:12:38. > :12:41.common name gunpowder. The first recorded guns and Cannon appear in
:12:41. > :12:47.Europe than the 14th century, and gunpowder stayed in military use
:12:47. > :12:57.until the 1800. But it was not just used in warfare, it was soon
:12:57. > :12:57.
:12:58. > :13:00.Gunpowder, Nadir at Waltham Abbey, was one of the driving forces of
:13:00. > :13:05.the Industrial Revolution. -- made here. It was used to create
:13:05. > :13:09.everything from canals to railway cuttings and even sewerage systems.
:13:09. > :13:14.Gunpowder is still used in quarrying, but today it has one
:13:14. > :13:17.main use. Gareth Barnes runs a specialist fireworks factory, one
:13:18. > :13:22.of the last in the UK. He makes pyrotechnics for pop concerts,
:13:22. > :13:27.films and commercial displays, and he has offered to help me make a
:13:27. > :13:32.custom firework. It is not like the ones you get on a high street and
:13:32. > :13:35.includes a range of complex chemicals. Where does the stick go?
:13:35. > :13:40.These days we fired them out of a mortar, a bit like an artillery
:13:40. > :13:44.shell, so we put a black powder charge underneath and fire them out.
:13:44. > :13:49.So this is going to go together like that and we will shoot the
:13:49. > :13:52.whole thing in the air. Correct. am this is modern gunpowder. Yes,
:13:52. > :14:02.more than milled gunpowder, very fast in comparison to the older
:14:02. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:10.gunpowder. And there we go. Only OK, what do I do? Stand back so
:14:10. > :14:20.your head is not over the tune, gently lowered it down. I think we
:14:20. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:41.Cool! That was the one I made! Fireworks are my favourite use of
:14:41. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:53.Very nice, very informative, as always. Miranda, for a special
:14:53. > :15:03.secret surprise prize, guess what he is going to be talking about on
:15:03. > :15:08.Monday. Dynamite. Excellent, you win your series in box set. There
:15:08. > :15:14.is not a better gift. Now we can cross live to Carrie Grant, who is
:15:14. > :15:21.about to set this guy alive in Wetherby, Yorkshire. Hello. -- to
:15:21. > :15:26.set the sky alive. We have got the fifth annual firework display here,
:15:26. > :15:33.and they have to be 1000 people here. Some of those pies made their
:15:33. > :15:39.way up here. What do we reckon? don't think Chris Evans would eat
:15:39. > :15:45.it with the burnt bits on it. is because it is a Lancashire a pie
:15:45. > :15:50.and you are a Yorkshire man. Marty was speaking earlier about
:15:50. > :15:54.gunpowder being over 1000 years old. We have got more sophisticated. I
:15:54. > :15:58.wanted to chat to our expert, Martin. There will be thousands of
:15:58. > :16:02.displays this weekend. I get scared by the rockets but it is the
:16:02. > :16:08.sparklers that are dangerous. the humble sparkler that causes the
:16:08. > :16:15.problem. 2000 degrees centigrade and held in a hand. That is why you
:16:15. > :16:20.were wearing gloves. Yes. What is the most popular firework?
:16:20. > :16:30.rocket. I hope we are going to get rockets tonight. Are we ready for
:16:30. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:47.the countdown? Five, four, three, What are we seeing?, it's. How do
:16:47. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :17:02.they get the colours? Technology, Fantastic glittering comets.
:17:02. > :17:10.She is worth the licence fee on her own. Thank you. We have some of
:17:10. > :17:18.your pictures. This one was sent in by Lauren and Garry Jenkins from
:17:19. > :17:27.Birmingham. I have got a small one. This is from Ruby, seven. And this
:17:27. > :17:32.is a tall one. The biggest Guy Fawkes we have had so far this year.
:17:32. > :17:37.Are you going to a fireworks display? Working around the
:17:37. > :17:42.Strictly schedule, obviously! Obviously. I am a bit scared of
:17:42. > :17:49.fireworks, scared of an unexpected bang. How can you have an
:17:49. > :17:53.unexpected one on Bonfire Night? They are all expected. It is not
:17:53. > :18:02.knowing when it will go off. cannot stand the suspense. Control
:18:02. > :18:10.freak. De you think? Well, she loves a complex. It is good
:18:10. > :18:18.material for series 3. Nice link. Series 1 and two out on DVD. You
:18:18. > :18:28.are working on series 3. Have you written any yet? All right! I am
:18:28. > :18:28.
:18:28. > :18:33.starting to write it now. When? Right now. This is all fodder.
:18:33. > :18:38.characters? Yes. I cannot give you much because I have not really
:18:38. > :18:44.written it. It is series 3. The BBC have commissioned it, but you have
:18:44. > :18:50.not started to write it at all. This is the nature of the beast.
:18:51. > :18:55.And it is going from BBC Two over to BBC One. Is that pressure?
:18:55. > :19:05.a bit, although it was pre- watershed, so it is the same show,
:19:05. > :19:11.really. One question, will Gary be back? Gary will be back. What about
:19:11. > :19:21.Alex, she would be great in that show. You could dance into the shop.
:19:21. > :19:25.What else would you like to-do? could buy some things. Now, that is
:19:25. > :19:32.funny! Alex has chosen this clip because she watches the show
:19:32. > :19:42.religiously. This was chosen especially by Alex Jones. To mock
:19:42. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:53.or belittle, nine letters. Disparage. Who are you? Last night
:19:53. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:15.was great. I did it. There was one Hello. The best thing about it is
:20:15. > :20:20.that the girls at home can identify with Miranda. Is that the most
:20:20. > :20:24.important thing to you? Is that the inspiration? It is amazing that
:20:24. > :20:29.anyone watches it, let alone likes it. And still bewildered by that
:20:29. > :20:32.and it keeps me going. I did not write it with women in mind. I
:20:32. > :20:37.tried to make it as universal as possible because I deliberately did
:20:37. > :20:42.not want it to be a show for women as such. Do you really write it on
:20:43. > :20:48.your own, or is there a Stephen Merchant to your Ricky Gervais?
:20:48. > :20:51.the beginning I have two people who help with the story line, they will
:20:51. > :20:58.be to formulate it. And at the end I have some people who do some
:20:58. > :21:02.jokes, but mainly it is me. Aside from Miranda, you are doing serious
:21:02. > :21:07.acting in called the midwife. have been doing the drama, thank
:21:07. > :21:15.you. It is called call the midwife and I think it is out in January.
:21:15. > :21:21.Look, there is me, acting. Looking serious. I have got glasses on, so
:21:21. > :21:25.that is proper drama, that is. It is 1950s, sit in the East End,
:21:26. > :21:33.based on memoirs of midwives at the time. I play a very posh fish out
:21:33. > :21:36.of water character. Did you enjoy that? I loved it. If you have
:21:36. > :21:42.ridden bicycles for Sport Relief from John o'Groats to Land's End --
:21:42. > :21:52.Lands End. Matt is going on a rickshaw for Children In Need. Any
:21:52. > :21:55.advice? Vaseline. A bucket, minimum! How far did you cycle?
:21:55. > :22:03.did a relay. We did John o'Groats to Land's End but we were not all
:22:03. > :22:13.doing all of it. Two hours on, two hours off. Can you read that?
:22:13. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:41.I think your jobs are safe! This is a helmet and we have the rickshaw
:22:41. > :22:46.challenge. Will you partake? could go top of the leaderboard
:22:46. > :22:54.after this. Here is Jamie Crawford on how to capture the perfect
:22:54. > :23:03.seasonal snap. Welcome to the North York Moors,
:23:03. > :23:08.the perfect place to photograph the fantastic colours of autumn. I have
:23:08. > :23:13.come to a remarkable landscape feature, three-quarters of a mile
:23:13. > :23:19.across and 400 ft deep, a lot of people think it is a crater caused
:23:19. > :23:24.by a meteorite strike. Nice idea but not the case, as Peter tells me.
:23:24. > :23:30.This started as a fairly small valley with spring's coming out of
:23:30. > :23:36.the sides. After heavy rainfall, the natural course of time, the
:23:36. > :23:45.soil would have been washed away and the whole would have been
:23:45. > :23:48.widened and deepened as a result of that spring action. This giant
:23:48. > :23:52.landscape is absolutely fantastic and you would assume that as soon
:23:52. > :23:56.as you take a shot of it it will turn out just as spectacular, but I
:23:56. > :24:02.often find that if you just shoot the entire wide frame without
:24:02. > :24:05.anything to put it into perspective, it ends up looking flat. Instead, I
:24:05. > :24:13.tend to search out something to help to give a bit of depth to the
:24:13. > :24:18.photograph. By using these bright yellow flowers in the foreground of
:24:18. > :24:22.the photograph, it hopes to give some perspective. This shot,
:24:22. > :24:29.highlighting the contrast between the autumnal shades of the giant
:24:29. > :24:33.hole and the small yellow flowers is my first screensaver candidate.
:24:33. > :24:37.The North York Moors Railway slices through this beautiful landscape
:24:37. > :24:40.and it is taking me to my next location. The weather is against me
:24:40. > :24:45.today, but the beauty of digital photography is that taking a chance
:24:46. > :24:49.on a shot, even if the odds are stacked against you, costs nothing.
:24:49. > :24:54.Probably best if you are photographing to take it off auto
:24:54. > :25:00.focus, otherwise it will focus on the window and not the scenery. And
:25:00. > :25:05.even a gamble can sometimes yield an interesting picture. Next stop,
:25:05. > :25:09.Blakey Ridge, the highest point of the more, with James and Vicky, who
:25:09. > :25:14.run a local bike hire company, in search not only of the lovely,
:25:14. > :25:18.muted colours of autumn, but its glorious textures. Sometimes it is
:25:18. > :25:22.worth mixing things up and having landscape combined with a bit of
:25:22. > :25:28.action. Use a fast shutter speed to freeze the action. You might have
:25:28. > :25:32.to take your camera off its auto setting to find this. This
:25:32. > :25:39.combination of action and landscape is my second candidate for an
:25:39. > :25:45.autumn screensaver. But for real colour and drama in autumn, you
:25:45. > :25:53.need to be among the trees and the turning leaves. I have come to this
:25:53. > :25:59.arboretum, with a collection of trees from around the world. I have
:25:59. > :26:03.started with my macro lens to get some close detail. We have perfect
:26:03. > :26:08.water droplets on the leaves to get -- with the back filled with lovely
:26:08. > :26:14.autumn colour. And you can look beyond the leaves. The colours and
:26:14. > :26:19.textures of autumn can be found in details like Bach and acorns. And
:26:19. > :26:22.don't be afraid to tinker with the natural order. These rich brown
:26:22. > :26:27.concurs are irresistible against the green foliage. I have helped
:26:27. > :26:35.the composition of it to get a lovely shot. Sometimes you have got
:26:35. > :26:39.to push the limits the bit to get the shot you want. Climbing this
:26:39. > :26:44.grand old oak tree will give me a Birdseye look at the arboretum. I
:26:44. > :26:50.am not guaranteed a great shot, but it is worth a try. I am about 40
:26:50. > :26:56.feet up. It is a great view. I think at this point I will opt for
:26:56. > :27:00.the One Show bum shuffle, that well-known move. It becomes mildly
:27:00. > :27:04.nerve-racking. There are if you uncomfortable bits on this branch.
:27:04. > :27:08.The height allows me to get some shots from an unusual perspective.
:27:08. > :27:15.The glowing colours of the trees make autumn what it is, and this
:27:15. > :27:18.photograph, to me, captures its magical properties. So here we are,
:27:18. > :27:25.the three shots that best reflects this wonderful season for
:27:25. > :27:30.photography, any of which would be ideal for an autumn screensaver.
:27:30. > :27:35.Thanks, Jamie. You can download his autumnal screen savers from the
:27:35. > :27:39.website. As we mentioned earlier, next week, Matt will pedal from
:27:39. > :27:48.Edinburgh to London for Children In Need. He would love your support,
:27:48. > :27:54.so donate to the number one screen. -- the number on screen. Can you
:27:54. > :28:02.beat Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's time of 34 seconds? I could do 34
:28:02. > :28:07.minutes! We have a leaderboard. Liked Top Gear. Exactly. In and out
:28:07. > :28:17.of the cones, and then you have to pick up Pudsey. How much does the
:28:17. > :28:26.
:28:26. > :28:31.41.61 seconds to beat Rob Brydon. 34 seconds to beat Hugh Fearnley-
:28:31. > :28:39.Whittingstall. She has picked up Pudsey at the halfway mark. Oh, my
:28:39. > :28:44.goodness! She is doing pretty well. In fact, she is doing very well.
:28:44. > :28:52.She is doing unbelievably well. She has experience of cycling. She is
:28:52. > :29:02.through the heart. Stop the clock. Stop the clock. With no cones, you
:29:02. > :29:08.have scored 28.7 and you go top of the leaderboard. Unbelievable!
:29:08. > :29:11.There you go. That is all for tonight. Miranda's DVDs are
:29:11. > :29:16.available on Monday just in time for Christmas. Next week, Gary
:29:16. > :29:21.Barlow, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Gene Simmons, Peter Jones and Neil