04/12/2015 The One Show

Now time for the One Show with a guest presenter. Wow, that was a bit

fast. Faster than a spinning chair! Hello, welcome to the One Show w, me

Alex Jones and the chief himself, Ricky Wilson!

APPLAUSE Hi everybody. Hi viewers. Lovely to be here. Lovely to have

you with us. Thank you for having me. Panto season kicks off this

weekend. Do you love panto? I used to. But it's all behind me now.

Nice, see what you did there. If you turn around, in our audience, we

have a panto character, can you spot him or her? # They all look like

panto characters. There she is. In all her glory. That is Simon Howe.

We'll find out how he got into the dame game later on. How about

introducing our guests tonight in true panto fashion. OK. Soon we'll

chat to our recently crowned Princess of pudding, our very own

Cinders, Nadiya Hussain. First our Prince charming. It can only be Len

Goodman! APPLAUSE Len's here. Hello. Hi.

Sometimes Strictly can feel a bit like a panto. You have Craig, the

baddie. Bruno, Widow Twankey. Darcey, the fairy Princess, what is

your role? Baron hard up. Always trying to earn a living. One of the

most famous panto phrases of all time is... It's behind you! Tonight,

for the challenge, send in photos with something interested and

unexpected happening behind you. A bit like this selfie I took earlier

today. It's just rude. When people are in curlers, it's a no-go zone. I

should have covered up that spot as well. Just drawing attention to it

now. Lovely picture before. Send in your pictures to us and we'll show

some of them later on. Len was 60 by the time Strictly turned him no a

worldwide star. But you're about to meet four siblings who stepped into

the spotlight from the moment they were born.

In St Neots in Cambridgeshire in 1935 something rather unusual

happened. In the upstairs bedroom of this council house, four tiny babies

were born. No quad UUPlets had ever lived more than a few days before.

The nation watched as they battled to survive. Against all the odds,

ewe are at their 80th birthday party. I would like to introduce

Ann. I'm the oldest Myself earnest. Paul. And Michael. In order of age?

I was first, yes, ladies first. Then he came about 20 minutes later. Paul

was half an hour later. And Michael was about two-and-a-half hours. I

was late. You were the last one. Yes. They didn't realise it was

going to be quads. They thought it was triplets. So Michael was a

complete surprise. Oh, yes Absolutely! Zplt Doctor Who

delivered them earnest Harrison made the offer to take all four babies

into his own home for six months to give them 24 hours care. Dr Earnest,

yes, I'm named after him. Through his knowledge and care he protected

us and made sure we survived. The national press would report on every

minute detail of the quads' development. In these papers here,

it tells you that oh, she's got finger nails now and Michael smiled

this morning. They even charmed King George V who sent them ?4 for the

covers. -- coffers. You became instant celebrities. That's right.

The public paid money to gaze at them in their glass-fronted nursery.

They had us in prams in the nursery and they had to pay a bob to come in

and see us. Everybody scrutinised us as we moved as played. You felt it

as a child, really, you did feel it. It made you very self-conscious. I

think they tend to think that we're somewhat unique, almost like animals

in a zoo. Their parents had to take every opportunity to make ends meet.

Money was always tight with their father on a lorry driver's wage. He

only earned ?3 a week. It took ?10 a week to look after us. When you went

and bought a pair of shoes for one, the other three wanted a new air as

well. -- pair as well. You always had to have four of everything.

Well, you never got a new pair, did you? Mind you, his feet polished up

lovely. Nowadays quads are more common in the UK, up to four sets

born every year. In 1935 the miracle of these quads was a boost to public

morale at a time when the country was facing a threat from Germany

People were definitely worried. We were a bit of light entertainment.

It was a bit of sunshine on an otherwise dark sky. I think it did

them a lot of good. Away from the cameras, the quads had fun with

their unique situation, especially the two identical brothers. He likes

pulling jokes a lot on people. I always had to run along because

nobody knew the dirchts between him and me. I got my brother into

trouble a few times. He'd have got spanked instead of me. But there you

go, that was life. The news reels followed them into their teens as

they emerged as four different individuals. I wanted to be my own

self. I think being a quad has made that more important to me than

anything else. I wanted to be me. The quads have clocked up more than

200 years of marriage, 13 children, 23 grandchildren and three great

grandchildren. So, am I right in thinking you have a new title from

today? Yes. Yes. You're not just Britain's oldest surviving quads

you're... The world's. Oldest surviving quads. And long may they

continue to be so. Ah, happy birthday to the quads. I

love them. One of my favourite one show films ever. So great. I have

room for them all at home. If you'd like to see more on the quads, there

is an exhibition running at St Neots museum until Christmas eve. When you

were born, is it right your mum was in a tricky situation. Yes. Nearly

ended up being born in Wales. If I was born a day earlier I would have

been born in Llanelli. Like my dad. I was upside down or something, or

back to front. We went to Swansea Hospital and they couldn't do it. So

they put me on a train to the London hospital. Got me in there. Then a

bomb went off, because it was during the war, '446789 bomb went off. --

it was '44. A bomb went off. Still not born, Farnborough in Kent, and

there, little Lenny came into the world.

Here's a picture of you. I look Chinese. No, you don't. Your poor

mum, back-and-forth. Yes! It was worth it. Look... Seven. You've got

a new album out, Len gooed God's Ballroom Bonanza. Shut up and we're

on the way to overtaking Adele. What! 57 tracks, all my favourite

ballroom and Latin dance tracks, plus if you're not a dancer, just

great to listen to. Some of them evoke special memories for you. They

all do. Some... MUSIC

Glenn Miller This is me and my dad going into the front room, putting

on the old gramophone, Glenn Miller, Bennie Goodman, and I used to jive

to this all the time. It always reminds me of me dear old dad. It's

a great albull. I listened to it -- album. I listened to it this week.

Waltzes, foxtrots, jive. Ella Fitzgerald on there. This is a

lovely song. I danced to this foxtrot for hours and hours. Because

you know, it makes me have goose bumps listening to her. Such a

wonderful... And come on, off I'd go. If we had time and room... We

would do it. We'd be there. Yeah. We wo. We've got time, I think. Ricky,

shush! I had such a wonderful time picking them all out and it's great.

We asked some of the artists on the album what they thought of being

featuredment and dame -- featured. And Dame Shirley Bassey was

delighted. Engelbert Humperdinck sent this message. Oh, how lovely Hi

Len, I'm delighted to hear you chose my song to feature on your album.

What great taste you have! Merry Christmas to you and all.

Yeah, lovely. You know, I ran a dance school for the best part of 50

years. Lots of classes. We always finished every class with Engelbert

Humperdinck's last waltz. I had to put that on it. Fabulous. We can't

be here and not talk about Strictly. Course. I've been a judge on another

BBC show, singing show. You can say the Voice. I've done it for three

years and I still feel bad sending people home. Is there anyone you

felt bad about? Yeah. The worst thing about it is when they're doing

the dance-off. Two of them go for one and one goes for another. Then

they say, well, it's down to you. It's as though I'm personally voting

them off. That, I hate, I really hate doing that. I feel as though

I'm the one, well I guess I am in a way, fortunately this series,

they've all been unanimous. It didn't matter. I didn't have to make

that terrible decision. When I do, and you always doubt yourself

afterwards. I always record it and I normally never watch it, but if I

have to decide, I always go and look at it again. It's an instant

decision. It's difficult. I hope I never voted you off. You never voted

me off, Len! Everyone's had a great time. You can't take that away from

them. This series, honestly, there's six in the quarter final tomorrow,

any one of them could win. Any one of them can go home. I think it's

that close. It's such a large group. Normally there's one or two and you

think this one or that one could win. There's six of them and it's a

fantastic series. Even playing field. All very good. Len's Ballroom

Bonanza is out today. What are you doing? Under a tenner. Now then.

It's time to open the fourth door of our Advent calendar. Behind each

door is the picture of a viewer whose Christmas is going to be

special. Get ready to give us a big aahhh... This is from Barry's

granddad Shaun Davies. This is Lottie, his first grand child born

at the end of November. There she is. Very cute. If you'd like to

feature in our calendar go to the website for information. She's

gorgeous She is. Len, you became a granddad for the first time

recently. July 5. Alice. How's she doing. Oh, love it! Show me again.

It's great. Shall we keep that up for the rest of the show. Leave her

there. You want to pinch her cheeks. It's great and I was so worried what

they were going to name her. When my son and Sophie, I thought oh, don't

give it some, you know... Alice is lovely. Andorra or whatever. Alice

is lovely. Gorgeous. Great! Congratulations. Thank you. Now like

many of you, we will be putting up our Christmas decorations over the

weekend. Yes, the One Show will be lit up from Monday. If only we could

think of a Bake Off winner who could switch on the lights for us.

We're headed off to Luton centre to turn on the Christmas lights. Ten...

Nine... Eight... Seven... Six... Five... I'm Nadiya. I grew up in

Luton. I'm part-time house wife. I have a lovely husband, lovely home,

lovely family. This time last year, I had secretly applied for the Bake

Off. That's stunning. The winner is...

Nadiya. I should change my second name to "off the Bake Off" nobody

says anything else. It's still a shock to me now. Sometimes I just

sit up in bed and think, "You won the Bake Off. You actually went and

won the thing." I am never ever going to put boundaries on myself

again. I'm never going to say, I can't do it. I'm never going to say

"maybe... " I don't come from a family who bakes. My mum used her

oven for storage. After I had the kids, I just started to spend more

time in the kitchen baking. There's nothing nicer than when you make

something and they go, oohhh. And you're like, aahhh. It's hard when

you're a house wife and you've been at home for eight, nine years, you

do lose your confidence. Even though you think your confidence is still

there, you only have to say, oh, I stay at home with my kids and

someone says, "Oh, do you? I'm so happy for my daughter and she has

been honoured. She has been recognised. I hope everybody follows

her foot steps, never to say no, you can't do it.

You're a cheeky monkey. We've had so many fantastic opportunities come my

way. Never in a million years did I imagine that I was going to be up

there turning on Christmas lights, because dad said to me the other

day, you know you've made it when you're turning on Christmas lights.

Sharing her happiness with Luton makes me more prouder. Bye!

Abdul drives fit in the back now! Anything I can do to help.

To be in this position where I am turning on the lights, it is so

cool. No idea is a big role model for Muslim women. Especially going

on TV and wearing the hijab. She is a good baker and she loves baking.

It is my birthday on Christmas. We have no excuse not to get together.

My dad always gets the turkey. We watch the Queen's speech and that is

what we do. CHEERING

I have seen this town Hall my whole life, walked past it, never walked

in it and here I am on the balcony setting of the Christmas lights. It

is just so real. -- surreal. Nadiya, it is great to see you. So

many girls there said you have become a role model and an

inspiration. That must be a great feeling. It is a lovely extra to

winning the Bake Off? I did not think I would get onto the show but

then I applied and I went on. I had bad days, good days and then I won

it. People said you are an inspiration. I did not expect that

from winning a baking tray. I just thought, keep going and doing

whatever it is, if you can inspire someone then just keep going until

there is no more steam left. There are downsides because you cannot go

anywhere without people asking you to bring something with you or cook

something. And Len, look at that. What have you brought us? It is

cinnamon and treacle fudge. It will weld your mouth together. Not ideal

on a live show! This is county standard, it is absolutely

delicious. Since you have won the Bake Off, how have you found things

have changed? What nice stuff had he been able to do? I have been really

busy. I have been trying to work around the children and things like

that. I think the main thing I have enjoyed the most is, even though I

am away from home, the kid say money has got to work, they think being

famous is going to work. I think they are really proud of me and they

always say, money is going to work. They see that I am really happy and

that makes them happy and that makes me happy. And you went to Strictly

as well. I did. I saw you! Oh, yes, I remember! Would you fancy doing

it? I have got two left feet. You could bake get and shake it. My

hands are good but my feet are no good. They teach it. It is a

wonderful experience. You have a host of celebrity fans and there is

a Hollywood a lister you have been hanging out with. Nicole Kidman, of

all people. What I like is there is a a name tag saying Nicole Kidman,

actress. Mine said 90, winner of the Bake Off. I kept it -- no idea.

Everybody knows you. Even your husband who is gorgeous, he is

having a lot of attention. That was unexpected. It took ten years to get

him to wear a wedding ring. I said, we need to get a ring on you. This

is not good. He had a couple of tweets on Twitter and there was one

specific one where someone said, does this beautiful man wash his

face with unicorn tears? I do not even know what that means. Do you

wash your face with unicorn tears? No, sunlight soap.

Nadiya has also brought in some Bombay potatoes. You are a fan of

the spud? I am a fan of potatoes. They are spicy. It is a camera and

Bombay potatoes so it is a different way of doing a potato. -- Cameron.

And onion bhaji potato? You can call it that. It has got a curry flavour.

Be nice. I am being nice! What about roast potatoes? It is that time of

year when people are cooking them. What do you do? I do not use goose

that, I used up fat because I do not like to throw anything away. I'm not

that in a pan. I always parboil them and give them a good shake in the

pan to give them that crusty edge. I will use that a tablespoon of flour

in. And Jamie Oliver uses an acid like lemon or vinegar and a herb and

it reacts. It is quite scientific apparently. Well, no matter how you

cook them, Ricky Andalcio has been in search of the perfect potato for

your plate. Marys Piper is Britain's most

popular potato. That is because it is a good all-rounder. We eat three

times more than any other variety. When it comes to roasting, King

Edward has held the crown for the last century. Finding a new variety

is the holy grail for potato growers.

Each plot is eight metres and we are evaluating the varieties. David

Nelson is responsible for helping to develop new varieties of potato. Why

is there a need to develop so many varieties? Different bride teas are

suitable for different cooking uses. It is important that we

improve what we offer to our customers. We are looking at how we

can make them easier to cook, faster to cook but with the best flavour

available. There is a floury potato and a waxy potato, what is the

difference? It is the amount of water in the potato. But affect the

texture and how it performs when it is on the plate. More water in the

waxy potato, less in the floury types. If you want a good roasting

potato you need a floury type in the beginning. At the end of the growing

season, all the potatoes are harvested and put through a range of

different tests. It can take ten years to develop a potato which is

ready for the consumer to try. One thing we do was look at the cell

structure. We have a standard potato at the top and you can see the dark

pack shows are the starch granules. As the potato cooks, the starch

granules swell. In the standard potato the distribution is very

uneven. In a new variety we are developing, you will see the starch

granules are much more evenly distributed and the cell structure

is quite small. This is what we want to aim for for a quick cooking

variety. They conduct regular blind taste tests with staff to see what

they as ordinary consumers prefer. Here, three different types of roast

potatoes are being evaluated. The results are matched up to this

machine which analyses why some potatoes taste better than others.

You have the sweet, sour, built in this and saltiness and also the

Moorish nests which no one can understand. -- bitterness.

This machine will quantify that and identify the compounds which are

driving the flavour. The testers do not know it that one of these

varieties is newly established and is up against two longer bright is.

Which was your favourite? I like see, the fluffiness. I eat a lot

Which was your favourite? I like roast potatoes! My favourite was the

second one. It was buttery for me. The overall result was a tight so I

get the deciding vote. I think I will go with a. My winner today is

the new variety, currently being trialled in supermarkets. It tastes

great and cooks much faster than your standard potato. King Edward

could lose its crown? It might well do.

So that is Christmas dinner sorted. How about the Christmas

entertainment? As we said, it is panto season and we are joined by a

man who has the tradition of damehood coursing through his

veins. Please welcome Simon Howell! Lovely to see you. Like the outfit?

Page 86 of the Argos catalogue! -- Simon Howe. Tell us what makes a

great pantomime dame. You are the third-generation? Might grandfather

was captured in the war and he started performing as a pantomime

dame in the trenches. Then he carried on until the 50s. My father

took over the mantle playing the game until the 1980s and then I took

over. It is not just the talent that was passed on from generation to

generation, it is also an item of clothing. Let's have a drum roll.

You will like this, Len. Those bloomers belonged to my dad. I wear

those and I have a handkerchief that I wear which belonged to my grandad.

What makes a great pantomime dame? I am not happy, boys and girls. It is

worse than that. I am trying to lose weight, the problem is, it keeps

finding me! I am on a diet, well, I am on two,

you don't get enough food on one. I went to my dressmaker and she said

Dolly, you are now a Mark F. I said what is that? It is one above a

marquee. Thank you. You can see sign in Snow

White at the The Oakengate's Theatre in Telford.

Now look at your it's behind you photos. Let's have a look. Calum has

been asking what happened to the tiny man he found on Southsea beach.

That is so cute! This is from Eleanor in Shropshire.

It is one of her childhood photos. That looks terrifying!

This is someone in Birmingham whose dog popped up when he was taking a

selfie. And Mark on an average day of work. Brilliant!

Thank you to Nadiya and then for joining us tonight. Len Goodman's

ballroom dancer is out today. -- Ballroom Bonanza. Matt and I are

back on Monday with Christmas Day may be the highlight

of the holidays... Oh, yes. ..but all that pressure

in the kitchen... Oh, it's wonderful. ..can definitely

put a dampener on your celebrations. ..I've got all the recipes you'll

need, with some fantastic tips to make the day go off

without a hitch.