:00:22. > :00:28.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. In
:00:29. > :00:33.1989 the world was introduced to a perfectionist. His shoes were
:00:34. > :00:42.polished immaculately. Anything in the least untidy tormented him.
:00:43. > :00:49.There wasn't a speck of dust on him. Please welcome the man behind the
:00:50. > :00:59.moustache, David Suchet. Welcome back. How lovely to see you. Have a
:01:00. > :01:07.seat. That scene we saw of the camera, that was 24 years ago. 25
:01:08. > :01:10.years ago. That was the very first shot I ever did in Twickenham
:01:11. > :01:17.Studios on the very first day of the shoot. How do you feel now, David,
:01:18. > :01:24.Poirot's television career is nearly at an end? I know, everybody is
:01:25. > :01:30.saying you must be feeling sad? Of course I am, I am saying good night
:01:31. > :01:36.to a dear friend. But an unexpected privilege and joy. It was never
:01:37. > :01:42.intended I would do the whole lot when I began. I was signed up for
:01:43. > :01:46.ten short stories. I am elated. So many others have been watching the
:01:47. > :01:53.final episodes. Have you been watching from home? I always do. I
:01:54. > :01:58.always have done. My wife and I sit together and watch what is before.
:01:59. > :02:07.And then I think, will they stay with it? And then we sit and watch
:02:08. > :02:12.it. With chocolates and wine? More on the final episodes later with an
:02:13. > :02:16.exclusive clip thrown in. In David's, we have a couple of murder
:02:17. > :02:25.mysteries are you at home to solve. This is the first one.
:02:26. > :02:33.A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife called the police.
:02:34. > :02:38.The police questioned the wife and staff. The wife said she was
:02:39. > :02:45.sleeping. The cook was cooking breakfast. The butler was getting
:02:46. > :02:52.the post. The gardener was picking vegetables. The police instantly
:02:53. > :02:57.arrested the murderer. Who did it, and how did they know?
:02:58. > :03:02.Have you got it? If you are struggling, Poirot himself will
:03:03. > :03:09.gather us together at the end of the show to reveal all. And we have more
:03:10. > :03:19.music from Classic BRIT winner, Amy Dickson as well. David refers to
:03:20. > :03:25.Poirot's whodunnit as how don't it. Now we have one of our own.
:03:26. > :03:31.Something very big is approaching Britain's shores. It has travelled
:03:32. > :03:40.15,000 miles, been battered by violent storms, but after three
:03:41. > :03:47.months it is finally here. It is a crane! Not just any old crane, it is
:03:48. > :03:53.one of the largest ever to be delivered to the United Kingdom. It
:03:54. > :03:56.has travelled all the way in Shanghai to be installed alongside
:03:57. > :04:00.seven others on the banks of the River Thames in Essex. This area is
:04:01. > :04:04.being transformed into London Gateway, a brand-new port designed
:04:05. > :04:13.to handle the world's biggest container ship 's. These cranes have
:04:14. > :04:17.been engineered to lift containers from ships like this on to the
:04:18. > :04:23.quayside, but today it is the crane itself that needs to be moved from
:04:24. > :04:30.the ship onto the key. And all in one piece. Each crane weighs in at
:04:31. > :04:35.nearly 2000 tonnes and standing at 138 metres high, they are taller
:04:36. > :04:41.than the London eye. I can stretch across 25 rows of containers and
:04:42. > :04:45.pick up 80 tonnes in one go. Normally, when you want to move a
:04:46. > :04:50.crane, you use a bigger crane. But when the crane you are trying to use
:04:51. > :04:55.-- move in the first place is one of the biggest in the world, you have
:04:56. > :04:59.to think differently. Andrew is the head of engineering in charge of
:05:00. > :05:05.this mammoth operation. Andrew, how are you going to get the crane off
:05:06. > :05:11.the ship? The crane is jacked up on temporary rails. We create a bridge
:05:12. > :05:16.between the land and the vessel. We get all the rails connected up and
:05:17. > :05:20.then physically pull the crane off. As if that wasn't enough, the ship
:05:21. > :05:26.is moving up and down with the tide, which can vary by as much as six
:05:27. > :05:32.metres here. We need to make sure the bridge across is as level as
:05:33. > :05:37.possible. We do that at high tide. If it is at high tide, is there a
:05:38. > :05:45.time limit? We have about one hour to do it. And our! Correct. When
:05:46. > :05:50.does it actually start moving? About half an hour until the tide is odd,
:05:51. > :05:55.then off we will go. For such a gargantuan task, Andrew and his team
:05:56. > :05:59.have a genius solution. This is a simple pulley and a bit of rope and
:06:00. > :06:04.I will move this to move that truck. If I put that on there.
:06:05. > :06:09.Before I start, let's see if I can move it on my own. I can barely
:06:10. > :06:16.shift it. Now, I am going to try with the pulley. Actually, all I am
:06:17. > :06:23.doing is changing the direction I need to pull. I am going nowhere.
:06:24. > :06:36.Maybe I have got a pulley in the wrong place? Let's try attaching it
:06:37. > :06:42.to the truck. Easy, one-handed. I haven't magically got stronger, I am
:06:43. > :06:46.affect every pulling with two ropes. And that means I only have two put
:06:47. > :06:52.in half of the effort. Half of the effort, twice as easy. The more
:06:53. > :06:57.pulleys you have, the easier it is. It is these principles that help
:06:58. > :07:01.Andrew shift the crane, but on a larger scale. We have one rope
:07:02. > :07:06.connected to a winch on the vessel, comes round this pulley, back to the
:07:07. > :07:12.other pulley. Nine loops to reduce the force which will enable the
:07:13. > :07:18.crane to be pulled. We are at high tide, less than an hour to get this
:07:19. > :07:30.enormous crane onto dry land. We are off! 2000 tonnes of crane are on the
:07:31. > :07:40.move. Thanks to the police, the crane makes it onto drylands, just
:07:41. > :07:44.in the nick of time. -- dry land. It may be one of the biggest cranes in
:07:45. > :07:52.Britain, but we managed to get it off a bout in under 45 minutes using
:07:53. > :07:57.pulleys and ropes. Not bad, really. I want to go and move a car with a
:07:58. > :08:07.pulley. I really do. I am so intrigued. The first ship will
:08:08. > :08:14.arrive on Thursday all the way from South Africa, carrying fruit. David,
:08:15. > :08:18.we have been saying, the final episode of Poirot is next Wednesday.
:08:19. > :08:26.The penultimate episode this Wednesday. We do not want to spoil
:08:27. > :08:33.it, so you tell everybody. I am not allowed to tell everything, but the
:08:34. > :08:38.book has been out since 1975. So the fans will know what happens. The
:08:39. > :08:43.first time you seep while Roe is the only time in the whole canon where
:08:44. > :08:48.he is a tiny, little old man in a wheelchair riddled with arthritis.
:08:49. > :08:54.He is in a particular house, the first house Agatha Christie wrote in
:08:55. > :08:58.the first book. It goes full circle. There is going to be
:08:59. > :09:03.obviously a murder. He knows who the murderer is, but he cannot prove it.
:09:04. > :09:08.He has to do something unbelievably catastrophic in the story that he
:09:09. > :09:16.has never done before. I have two say, will never do again. Because, I
:09:17. > :09:24.can say it is curtain. There you are. Let's have an exclusive look at
:09:25. > :09:37.a scene where while Rowe always seems to know more than he is
:09:38. > :09:42.letting on. I need you, to be my eyes and my ears, to go to places
:09:43. > :09:50.where I cannot go. To sniff out the snatched conversation, report back
:09:51. > :10:00.to me. There is amongst us, and murderer and that person must be
:10:01. > :10:06.stopped. You just whispered to me that you cannot believe that is you?
:10:07. > :10:12.No, when I see him - I always talk about him. I am at a distance from
:10:13. > :10:20.him when I watch it. It is a strange feeling. He is not looking at his
:10:21. > :10:25.best. 2.5 stone less than I am now because he is a very old man. He is
:10:26. > :10:30.very sick with heart problems. Which is ironic, because for the rest of
:10:31. > :10:37.the Poirot episodes you have always worn a fact suit? Yes, it is the
:10:38. > :10:45.first episode I have ever felt my costume around my chest and my
:10:46. > :10:52.stomach. Very strange. You do have a wonderful little trick. It is in
:10:53. > :10:58.this little bottle. My make-up artist carries this around. Poirot
:10:59. > :11:05.in the box always uses lavender whenever he washes his hands. He
:11:06. > :11:11.carries a little bottle with him. Just before I shoot, if I am very
:11:12. > :11:21.tired, the make-up lady, I will go, can I have a squirt. She comes up to
:11:22. > :11:36.me like that and I smell it. It really invigorates me. It is
:11:37. > :11:42.lavender. It is very nice. That was used in the last episode. And that
:11:43. > :11:49.is what I do. Will you wear it now after Poirot is finished? Not for a
:11:50. > :11:59.bit. It is like a very posh downstairs toilet. It is. I have
:12:00. > :12:06.never heard it described as that. We have to reveal some Poirot secrets,
:12:07. > :12:12.if you don't mind. We read somewhere that to perfect his walk, you walk
:12:13. > :12:17.round and round your garden at home, and I don't know how to say
:12:18. > :12:22.this delicately, but you had something in the cleft of your
:12:23. > :12:29.buttocks? I am so pleased I did not have two say that. Do you mind I
:12:30. > :12:33.said that? It is done, it is out there now. In the cleft of my
:12:34. > :12:42.buttocks, I held very tightly, a penny. Because it made me,
:12:43. > :12:48.seriously, it made me not be able to take long strides. If you take long
:12:49. > :12:53.strides you drop the penny. There was a description of his walk which
:12:54. > :13:02.I could not find for a long time. He crossed the lawn in his usual,
:13:03. > :13:07.rapid, mincing gait. The only way I could do that, remember Laurence
:13:08. > :13:15.Olivier when he played the Lord, he did the same thing. So I pinched his
:13:16. > :13:20.trick. It worked. Is any of his meticulousness rubbed off on you in
:13:21. > :13:27.everyday life? A lot of people do say they could wish -- they wish
:13:28. > :13:35.they could live like Poirot. He is so neat and tidy. He has made me a
:13:36. > :13:42.better listener. He actually says, I listen to what you say, but I hear
:13:43. > :13:47.what you mean. And he really hones in on you when you are talking. He
:13:48. > :13:53.is listening, not to what you are saying, he is trying to find what
:13:54. > :13:58.you mean. He has taught me, not how to do that, but when you listen give
:13:59. > :14:05.100% attention to the person who is talking. That is a lovely trait. The
:14:06. > :14:11.final two episodes are on ITV this Wednesday and next Wednesday at 8pm.
:14:12. > :14:27.Now it is time for our second Murder Riddle on the Orient Express. Do
:14:28. > :14:31.play along at home. The police tell a man of his wife has been murdered
:14:32. > :14:33.and she should return to the crime scene as soon as possible. He drops
:14:34. > :14:36.the phone and returns. And he reaches that, he is arrested for
:14:37. > :14:43.murder. How did the police know he had committed this crime? What do
:14:44. > :14:51.you think? Any clue? My brain has been asleep... But yes! All will be
:14:52. > :14:58.revealed at the end. In the drawing room with the lead pipe! It's common
:14:59. > :15:05.knowledge that The Savoy Hotel in London is a very expensive place to
:15:06. > :15:08.get your head down for the night. But 73 years ago a group of
:15:09. > :15:12.Londoners with no significant shelter from the Blitz had little
:15:13. > :15:15.choice but to invade the hotel, with dramatic results for fellow
:15:16. > :15:19.civilians. September 1940 and London was being pounded. On the first
:15:20. > :15:24.night of the Blitz, 2000 people were killed and by the ape-like, the mood
:15:25. > :15:30.was grim. Amid the air raid sirens, the signs of a protest could be
:15:31. > :15:39.fined. -- air raid. Open up the underground. For the safety of the
:15:40. > :15:42.ordinarily, working people. Access to safe shelter was a major issue at
:15:43. > :15:48.the start of the war. Families had a grim choice. Alex Howard within the
:15:49. > :15:53.confines of their basement or use a shelter in the garden. You have
:15:54. > :15:56.never heard of the invasion of the Savoy but it might have played a
:15:57. > :16:00.crucial part in persuading the parties to open up the underground
:16:01. > :16:06.to Londoners sheltering from the Blitz. 98-year-old Max remembers
:16:07. > :16:13.taking part in the protest, organised by the Communist Party.
:16:14. > :16:18.What were you protesting about? There is a difference between the
:16:19. > :16:27.rich, who were able to get deep shelters in hotels and other places.
:16:28. > :16:36.The part that we played was to ensure that the working people had
:16:37. > :16:41.the same safety as the rich. On a Saturday evening, as the sirens
:16:42. > :16:45.sounded, Max and dozens of others is through the front doors of the Savoy
:16:46. > :16:49.Hotel, one of the glitziest hotels in London. They knew it was illegal
:16:50. > :16:58.to turn people away during an air raid. They were not able to remove
:16:59. > :17:04.us. Even then, because there was an air raid going on. Max and his
:17:05. > :17:08.fellow protesters were led into the basement of the hotel. A cavernous
:17:09. > :17:15.space were guests could shelter. Today, it is a wedding venue.
:17:16. > :17:20.Historian Matthew suite has photographs of what the room looked
:17:21. > :17:27.like back in 1940. Here we are. Yes. Extraordinary photographs. This
:17:28. > :17:30.is a photograph of the ring that we are in and that scaffolding would
:17:31. > :17:36.have been painted in Patriot collars. To make people feel more
:17:37. > :17:43.comfortable. How many people would be accommodated? You could get more
:17:44. > :17:47.than 100. Couldn't you? And here are these rather well-to-do guests and
:17:48. > :17:52.these men have come down from their room. You would be in trouble if you
:17:53. > :17:57.had a busy night! There would be people walking up and down, making
:17:58. > :18:04.sure that you were not snoring too loudly. They would set out the
:18:05. > :18:07.bombing in as much style as could be mustered. If you can drink a
:18:08. > :18:12.cocktail at the Savoy during the war, maybe we will win! The invasion
:18:13. > :18:17.was picked up by the press but not just the British? It was barely
:18:18. > :18:23.reported here but the German press took this up for its proper value.
:18:24. > :18:26.In the Nazi papers, a lot is made of this and there are accounts of
:18:27. > :18:32.desperate Londoners coming here to be forced out by the police. It was
:18:33. > :18:37.useful for propaganda. This by protesting, Max enjoyed the same
:18:38. > :18:45.comfort that night as the hotel guests. How long did you stay? About
:18:46. > :18:52.12 of us stayed overnight. And we had a in the morning and toast. And
:18:53. > :18:59.it was a night when we were free from the noise and the arms. --
:19:00. > :19:03.bombs. Max and his fellow men might not have been the only people
:19:04. > :19:07.calling for better shelters that he believes the invasion of the Savoy
:19:08. > :19:13.Hotel played an important part in persuading authorities that
:19:14. > :19:18.something had to be done. It forced the government to meet the following
:19:19. > :19:26.day. And this was a victory for the people of London. One week after the
:19:27. > :19:31.invasion of the Savoy Hotel, Aldwych station opened as a shelter. And
:19:32. > :19:40.that access gave the population hope that they could ensure the Blitz and
:19:41. > :19:46.win the war. -- injury. Thank you. Gyles joins us now. After World War
:19:47. > :19:50.II, the Savoy was used to throw a few parties for Agathe Christie?
:19:51. > :19:57.Very lavish. And she hated all of them! She was shy. And was a famous
:19:58. > :20:03.party, the 10th anniversary the Mousetrap, opened in 1952, the party
:20:04. > :20:08.was at the Savoy and there she goes, and she was refused entry. She
:20:09. > :20:13.called it hell at the Savoy. The Porter does not recognise me. He
:20:14. > :20:17.would not let in and she had to fight her own way in. But several
:20:18. > :20:25.other players were put on at the Savoy and when she died, aged 85,
:20:26. > :20:28.they lowered the lights. Murder in the vicarage was the play and
:20:29. > :20:36.honoured her. And at Saint Martin's Theatre, where the Mousetrap was
:20:37. > :20:39.playing. She was the true queen of crime and she sold 300 million books
:20:40. > :20:46.in her lifetime and since then, global sales are to billion. One
:20:47. > :20:54.early on in English and 1,000,000,044 different languages.
:20:55. > :21:00.Helped of course by David Suchet! 700 million people watched Poirot.
:21:01. > :21:05.That is just extraordinary! I was told that recently and I cannot
:21:06. > :21:11.believe that. 700 million. I am a theatre actor. You could not get
:21:12. > :21:18.them in! It is extraordinary. When you think about that. She took her
:21:19. > :21:22.mystery to her grave? She loved mystery and she took her last story
:21:23. > :21:28.to the grave with her. It was not published until years later. She
:21:29. > :21:34.enjoyed creating mysteries around herself. In 2020, we're coming up to
:21:35. > :21:39.the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Miro in 1920. And we are
:21:40. > :21:45.persuading the campaign to start tonight, to bring him out and we
:21:46. > :22:01.shall be in touch with Agatha Christie on the other side! We will
:22:02. > :22:06.leave you chatting! In only four days, Team Rickshaw's children in
:22:07. > :22:15.need challenge begins at the Giant's Causeway. We have visited Bethany
:22:16. > :22:18.and Amanda. And Daniel and Carol. Tonight we're off to get to know
:22:19. > :22:21.Martin who, on top of the Rickshaw Challenge, has an additional
:22:22. > :22:28.challenge all of his own. He's racing with Alex. Poor lad! Your
:22:29. > :22:43.donations are very important and the way to do it will be on the screen
:22:44. > :22:48.during our film. My name is Martin and I am training for the Rickshaw
:22:49. > :22:56.Challenge. I was born without my left arm from the elbow and my right
:22:57. > :23:04.arm from the rest. Also, my left leg stops through my knee and I have
:23:05. > :23:09.always walked with a prostatic. I am his oldest brother and I was always
:23:10. > :23:14.protective of him. He will not ask for help. He will do it first. And
:23:15. > :23:20.if he struggles, he will keep trying, and then he will ask. I feel
:23:21. > :23:24.that because I was born like this, I have simply learned like everybody
:23:25. > :23:29.else. You just have to get on with things. My mother is quite proud of
:23:30. > :23:35.him as well. She is emotional as well. That is my boy. Growing up to
:23:36. > :23:41.do a big challenge like this. There is no stopping him. It is an
:23:42. > :23:44.incredible challenge, 700 miles, that will raise an incredible amount
:23:45. > :23:52.of money for people who really need that. It has made us very focused
:23:53. > :23:57.and determined. Using just one league to propel yourself. It is his
:23:58. > :24:02.determination that means he will do it. I cannot complain that I have
:24:03. > :24:07.been selected to cycle alongside Alex Jones. But she is not committed
:24:08. > :24:15.to the hill work! Or the night shift. She will do her best... I
:24:16. > :24:18.have been given the training programme that myself and everyone
:24:19. > :24:23.on the challenge must follow to ensure that we are physically fit
:24:24. > :24:30.and we can last the full seven days. Due to my lack of arms, we have had
:24:31. > :24:35.to have specialised handlebar is. This means that when it is my turn,
:24:36. > :24:43.we can simply clipped them on and then we're off. -- club. Children
:24:44. > :24:47.have sponsored us in the past so to give back, that is what we are
:24:48. > :24:54.therefore, to raise a great amount of money for those people who
:24:55. > :24:59.needed. I play table tennis and through the help and support my club
:25:00. > :25:01.has given me, I have represented Scotland internationally and have
:25:02. > :25:07.moved into presenting great at an internationally. He was aged
:25:08. > :25:14.children, what did you think of Martin and he says, -- they say, he
:25:15. > :25:17.is ready good. All of my friends and family think I am crazy for
:25:18. > :25:22.undertaking such a massive challenge. 700 miles is an
:25:23. > :25:28.incredible journey for anyone, to be on a bicycle, that is incredible. If
:25:29. > :25:36.you put some self to something, he will do it. -- if he puts himself to
:25:37. > :25:49.something. We need your help, so please donate. He is such A*! Thank
:25:50. > :25:55.you so much to all of you who have donated. We really appreciate that.
:25:56. > :25:57.Amy, would you be able to play some saxophone to accompany David's
:25:58. > :26:07.reading of the Rickshaw Challenge donation terms and conditions?
:26:08. > :26:12.Text messages will cost ?5 plus your standard network charge and ?5 will
:26:13. > :26:13.go to Children in Need For full terms and conditions, visit the
:26:14. > :26:29.website. Wasn't that lovely! Thank you! And
:26:30. > :26:32.please do also let us know via the website or Facebook page if you've
:26:33. > :26:41.got any fundraising events planned of your own. We'll try and stop by.
:26:42. > :26:49.Gather around. We will reveal who the murderer is. The first clue, a
:26:50. > :26:51.man was found murdered on Sunday morning and his wife immediately
:26:52. > :26:57.called the police and they questioned the wife and they got
:26:58. > :27:00.these alibis. The wife said she was sleeping. The cook was cooking
:27:01. > :27:09.breakfast and a gardener was cooking vegetables and the police instantly
:27:10. > :27:17.arrested the murderer... Who was at? It was the Butler because is no mail
:27:18. > :27:20.delivered on a Sunday! And manners told his wife is murdered and he
:27:21. > :27:23.drops the phone, gets there in 20 minutes to the crime scene. When he
:27:24. > :27:31.gets there, they immediately arrest him. How did they know he did it? It
:27:32. > :27:36.is so some. Because the police did not tell the husband where she was
:27:37. > :27:44.murdered! Well done to everybody who got that. And to all of our rulers.
:27:45. > :27:52.They were not even actors! And what is this? On your top lip? This is a
:27:53. > :28:06.little moustache. One purpose. Movember. It will get better! That
:28:07. > :28:10.visit. Thank very much to David. The final episodes of Poirot go out this
:28:11. > :28:15.Wednesday and next Wednesday at 8pm. Tomorrow, Frank Skinner will be
:28:16. > :28:18.here. But, as promised, here's the brilliant Amy Dickson to play us out
:28:19. > :28:21.with Nocturne Number two. This is from her new special edition album,
:28:22. > :28:30.Dusk and Dawn. Goodbye.