05/01/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

For a little while longer. It is starting to feel real now. It is

exciting, but later, I have arranged for someone to give you help and

advice in what is to come over the next few weeks. This is Sarah-Jayne.

She shared her Labour win over a quarter of a million strangers.

Brave. She did this online. She is there to answer any queries you

might have. I have a long list of questions. How long have we got? We

have a lot of excitement here because the guests have promised to

arrive in style. They are coming in pairs. We are

looking for the Hairy Bikers, of course. Hang on a minute. Where are

Si and David? Nice to see you. Are you well?

Lovely to see you. Have we ditched the bikes? No. This is just a

transgression. Is it because you are doing comfort food and you are

trying to keep the calories of? I don't know. We will talk all about

the series in a little bit. It has not necessarily been a happy New

Year for those using the railways this week.

Fares have gone up by an average 2.3% and passengers have been hit,

Dom has been to see if concerns over driver only trains stack up.

You probably don't travel on Southern but spare a thought for

those who do. They have faced repeated strikes, staff shortages

and cancellations. The bill for lost fares and compensation is ?38

million and it is affecting their well-being, mental health and

ability to make a living. I resigned on Friday. Every day I have had

delays. I have not got home for my son. I have been crying on the train

because I have had to say good night to him on the train. What is the

dispute about? The company running the franchise wants to convert

guards into on-board supervisors, which means responsibility for

opening and closing doors moves to train drivers and if the supervisor

is not available, the train can still run. The unions say it is not

safe. There is a need for a guard on the train, to ensure you do not rely

on one person to look after passengers on trains that are more

and more overcrowded. But if you travel on other parts of the

network, you will know that is exactly what happens. 30% of the

network is driver only including this train travelling to London

Liverpool Street. You are on a train without a guard, did you know that?

Does it worry you? Yes. Because I feel they should have won in case

someone is ill, somebody with children. You need someone in charge

of who is coming and going. The driver? The driver, yes. It would be

nice if you saw a guard walking up and down, particularly, I think, of

an evening. Do you know if it has wanted a? I have no idea. Do you

feel less safe if I tell you there is no God? It does not matter. The

rail safety and standards board said the Southern proposals are safe.

They have been used since 1982. They are used all the time in London

underground and on international networks. Is it all about safety? I

spoke to the board and they seem not to think so. It is and the Railway

safety and standards board is paid for by the employers. They produced

a report that says how you can get rid of the guard off each train

which for a safety board, called independent, is pretty worrying. An

independent expert says the RMT safety fears are valid. The concern

now art nouveau using one person may be a 12 coach train with platforms

that are crowded. The drivers said the camera provided are not

necessarily good enough to spot that. The guards said there is

nothing as good as a pair of eyes. If the RMT is objecting to driver

only on Southern when it has accepted it elsewhere, some ask if

there is a political reason for the strikes. The union will lose its

ability when drivers are controlling the doors. The great newspaper The

Times did spread the other week where they talked about the left

trying to bring the government down and it had the shop stewards network

and the RMT, left wing organisations, coordinating to bring

the government down. Shock horror, we bloody well. Is it about safety

or politics? Solly about safety first and last. 100%? 110%. If you

spit on your own they wipe it away but if we split together we can

drown them. It is politics, surely. Your president is singing a

different him. It is fantasy to say our members on Southern are part of

a left-wing political conspiracy to take on the government. They are

ordinary working people. I tell you what our members say, ordinary

working people seeking to keep a guard on the train because they

believe it is not safe. The members vote me in every five years and the

executive. You have the wrong president because if members say it

is about safety and they vote the strikes, and your president says no,

and it is about bringing the government down, your president...

This is a dispute led by ordinary working people seeking to defend the

role of the guard and ensure trains are safe. This is what the dispute

is about first and last and will continue to be about. As you said in

the film, 30% of trains are driver only and the unions seem to have

signed off on them and there is a reason they are now disputing?

Southern are not laying anybody. There are no pay cuts. They said

they will use driver only when circumstances dictate. The drivers

union stated they never supported driver only trains but agreements in

place, they could not argue the point. They say trains are not safe.

Today, the Office of Road and Rail said following inspection of the

trains they are satisfied suitable equipment, competent procedures, it

is a safe method of working. On the flip unions emphasise the warnings

like equipment and procedures in place. It is all arguing still.

There are more strikes planned but measures being put in place to ease

the pressure? There are strikes coming up but at the moment the

Confederation of passenger transport say they will lay on 200 coaches

paid for by Southern. Priority will be given to key workers like nurses,

police, firefighters, TV presenters! National Express will put on a

service on certain lines like Brighton to London. Coaches versus

rail. Exactly. Nothing more depressing when they say get off and

get on the bus. Even more depressing for commuters, it may spread across

the country. It is not looking good. Merseyrail said they plan to bring

in driver-only operated trains. Also London Midland, South West Trains,

also reporting they might. The RMT says if that happens you might be

looking at more strikes. Not good news. Thanks.

Now, it's the time of year when lifeboat crews across the country

In just the last 48 hours, 16 lifeboats have been launched,

with strong winds and rough seas to contend with.

Recently, it was the 50th anniversary of one of the RNLI's

most dramatic rescues, and we've been given

exclusive access to the brave volunteers who were involved.

50 years ago this winter, RNLI cruising Wales were called out to

one of the most treacherous and daring rescues to date. A Greek

freighter Nafsiporos was sailing between Liverpool and Belfast when

storms hit and her engines failed. The ship and crew were stranded. It

was very nasty. Things are getting drastic. The Holyhead lifeboat was

the first on the scene. It was blowing an absolute hurricane. It

was out to 100 mile per hour storm. I had no clue what would happen. I

was the new kid on the block but I learned quick. Unbelievable. It was

like climbing mountains. Up one and down the other. You could not drive

through them. The second officer was on board the Greek freighter. The

vessel, because of the rolling, the chain. Visibility was reduced,

making it a struggle to locate the ship. The waves were pushing us. The

strong winds, to the rocks. The rocks look like knives. Big knives.

Time was running out. When we got to the casualty, when we got alongside,

I knew straightaway what to do, it is instinctive. You had to get these

guys. The lifeboat from the Nafsiporos was detached and hanging

off the ship, making the rescue more dangerous. The lifeboat is quite a

big thing. You went back and forth. The rowers came through the cabin.

Most of the people... The Greek sailors, that is their

life. We had to drag them off. The crew managed to get five of the

Greek sailors aboard before having to pull away because of damage to

their boat. Another Anglesey crew had arrived and were able to

continue the rescue. Both lifeboats returned to Holyhead together. You

don't think of the danger. You get on with the job. If you are going to

go, you are going to go. It is quick. I was never frightened. Our

job was to go there, get the crew off the ship and bring them ashore,

which is what we did. In a mission lasting 24 hours, the volunteer

lifeboat men managed to rescue 15 Greek sailors. And, thankfully,

despite appalling conditions, no lives were lost. All the lifeboat

men were honoured with medals at the time for their bravery and to mark

the occasion 50 years later, the RNLI are resenting the surviving

crew men with special commemorative awards. Although unable to travel

here today, the second officer from the Greek vessel has sent a message

to express his gratitude. We achieved something, to save those

lives. Because of us he is a grandfather and a happy one. It is a

nice thought. Not many people say that. There has never been a thank

you. We take it for granted. It is a job. We do not do it to be

recognised. We do it because we are members of the RNLI. I am proud of

my career and would do it tomorrow if I had the chance. Thank you,

thank you. Dave, we were talking about the RNLI and the fact you had

a place of Roa Island. It is half a mile off Barrow in Furness. I lived

there are about ten years. Just up from the lifeboat station and a lot

of my mates were lifeboat men. Especially Chunky. We have a

picture. That is not in his lifeboat man garb. He is going to kill us! He

was great. I would go for a cup of tea and we would ask advice. We

would set out for the Isle of Man but because of the prevailing wind

would turn up in Whitehaven! To be fair, you ended up in Fleetwood

once. That was thanks to Chunky. It is like ballooning, you're sailing.

Abstract expressionist sailing. We were supposed to be in the Isle of

Man because we were filming. We were supposed to take the catamaran from

Roa Island and we had a crew and it started to get rough and it was

awful. He popped his head up above the cockpit and said Will you get me

off this flaming thing? We went, shall we go to Fleetwood, Dave? We

called the lifeboat man and said what do you reckon? He said you daft

beggars, get into Fleetwood. We have the crew on the Isle of Man and hat

to phone them from a chip shop in Fleetwood.

You have got a programme all about comfort food. It is the perfect time

of year for it in January. Who doesn't like a bit of comfort food?

It is all about nostalgic food, isn't it? What did you grow up on?

We have pictures of you as little boys here, which are very sweet.

That is you, Dave. That is me, my dad and my mum at Christmas. Very

posh around yours! What were you eating? That is me on my dad's

scooter. We had a sugar basin which fit a tin of salmon, butter, brown

bread. If you make the tin last a second day, my dad would mash it up

with a boiled egg and make spread. Look at this picture! That's me dad

standing there really proud! That was in... Which one is you! I got

two types of nits. One of the monkey and one off the flaming parrot!

That's the first time on a motorbike. That is my dad's Phantom.

I would hold the handle bars when he was up the back street, coming back

from work. You like mince and mash. Anything with gravy and mash. You

two have... We have dirty, guilty secrets! I don't know about everyone

watching... In the series we cook beautiful food. The best we have

ever cooked. We have gone back in the minds of our mind and I came up

with this one, it is Marmite and marmalade. So, you see it is sweet

and sour. I like both separately. But never together! It works. Some

we made earlier. As pregnant woman, who knows. It may be the best thing

ever! Yes! It's good! I love it! That is

delicious. Then it goes a bit quirky! What do you mean? This is

good student food. It is meaty sweet! What about the cheese and

biscuits then? A bit of a guilty food pleasure, this. I mean I've

gone a bit posh because I'm not just squeezing it into my mouth now and

eating pineapple chunk, I have it on a biscuit. Now according to the

Dicktry... Can you do healthy eating with comfort food? You fluctuate,

you go as dieters one minute and then comfort food the next. We are

normal people. One of the most comforting things I love is a roast

chicken dinner. I have to cut down on the spuds. That is because you

have to. One of the... One of the stuff that my mum used to do, it was

flat rib broth. It is healthy. There's no fat in it.

Full of goodness as well. Quickly, mean you've got chefs and people

from all over the world involved as well. So who do you think does the

best comfort food? Is it us? Yes. It is. And it's great because we the

multi-cultural nature of our society has brought all that together.

Comfort food, there is so much and so many. We hope so, because we're

going to do a new series! Put in the Marmite and the

marmalade. You can see it every weekday afternoon. It is pub grub

tomorrow. Yes. Very nice. We are sticking now with nostalgic dishes

because the latest instalment of Ricky's A to Z of British food is up

next. We are up to F. We have not gone far! See what you think!

I'm on a journey across the country to discover Britain's best regional

food. And I'm using your suggestions to

guide me. We map the A to Z of brilliant British food.

You sent me loads of suggestions for F. Stuart Evans wasn't the only one

to suggest to me to head north. Loads of you suggested fish and

chips. I headed to Harrogate to try a fats aal. Dozens of -- dozens of

you tempted me with faggots. They were popular in South Wales, during

rationing after the Second World War. I have come to a food market to

meet fifth generation butcher, Chris, known for his faggots: Come

on in. Our faggots are made to a traditional Welsh family recipe. My

grandmothers, and it is all fresh ingredients. What is in it? Onions,

belly pork. My secret ingredients, fresh liver and some dry bread. Have

you ever changed the faggots to make them more modern? We have changed

them in the past, but we always keep on coming back to this simple

recipe. It is fool-proof. Years ago it was a waste product. It was all

the waste from the pig. The only waste on a pig is its squeal.

Once the ingredients have been mixed, Chris rolls them into balls

and pops them into the oven. While our faggots cook away, I will speak

to the people of Carmarthen and see what they think about one of the key

ingredients - ofal. Awfully good or bad? Awful!

Awful! It is terrible! It is wonderful. You

like it? Especially faggots. Faggots It is bad. I am a child of the war.

You made use of any bits. Do you think we should make more use of it?

The animal is dead, why waste it. After a while the faggots are there

for me to taste. Oh, really good. They are moist. They are like a

meatball. It is fat-free, just about. We could modernise the way

they look maybe a little bit, maybe we would get people to fall in love

with ofal again. Let's do it. All they need is a makeover. I am going

to dress them up, using the best Carmarthen market has to offer. I

have been around the market, got my ingredients, now time to jazz up my

faggots. For my new-look faggots I need salad, caramelised onions, some

bacon, the mixture, of course and a slice of blue cheese, before serving

in a brioche bun. Now for a taste test. What will the people of

Carmarthen think of my modern, boutique faggots. Would you like to

try one? No, thanks. What do you mean, no! Ladies, come on? I could

eat and eat it. It is really nice. I am on a diet. Tell them that!

Yeah. Would you be prepared to try one for me? No. OK. This character

here would. I am not feeding these to the dogs! How could you say, no!

? Maybe if nobody tries them. And I have some left! Chris, we have heard

what everyone else thinks. You are the man who matters. Tell me what

you think of the job I have done with them?

To die for! I think a lot of chefs around this

area will catch on to this now. They will be copycats. It is good, isn't

it? Exceptionally good. Chris, will you do me an honour of sticking

these faggots on my map of A to Z of food. That is F ticked off. Where

will J take me on my A to Z tour? That sticker they stuck on South

Wales was not particularly attractive!

LAUGHTER I mean! I am so glad you say that,

Alex! I mean, I apologise to everybody watching from the area.

You are fans of faggots, aren't they? You? You could do the hairy

faggots! There's a certain following we've

got, you know! So many programme ideas! It is incredible. Ricky is

still on the hunt. You will lose it again, like last night, if you are

not careful. It is your last show, isn't it? The last show tonight.

As many of you will know, I am off on Fridays because I do Countryfile.

This is really our last show together before... We will obviously

see each other. Yes. Will you be at the birth, Matt, or not? I don't

know. I will see what I'm doing. With all of this in mind we have

found somebody to give you a little bit of last-minute advice. I

mentioned her at the top of the programme, but this lady, two weeks

ago gave birth in front of 250,000 people. You are joking! Sorry it was

her labour. The labour! I have juice arrived at the

maternity wing. The contractions are coming every

five minutes or so. Definitely ... I am in the hospital being monitored

at the moment. Can somebody else do this? I don't want to do this bit!

It will all be worth it! Hi. It's SJ and baby!

Sarah-Jayne joins us live now from Richmond. We have time for a couple

of questions. Sarah, Jayne, massive congratulations. The baby is

gorgeous. On a scale of one to ten, how much did you want to jump out of

the window? Definitely a nine-and-a-half. I did

it all on gas and air. It is fine! What kind of reaction did you get

and how far afield were people watching you from? Well it was

shared on the channel Facebook page, which is an on-line village for

mums. Positive from them. As it got wider I think more and more, that we

were so shocked so many people watched it. People who thought we

shared the actual birth live thought it was crazy. It was just the pre

early labour and the birth announcement. Very positive. What

did your husband say about all of this? Was he OK with it?

Yeah. He was very happy and supportive. The whole family watched

from Sweden and in the UK. He was just, we didn't want to share the

birth. Even he was not too keen on watching that bit of it. Yeah, he

was very supportive. Listen, all the best with everything. Thank you for

joining us live here. I know you want your birth to be as private as

it can be, but apparently the radio times and BBC One have got together

and I mean this is quite extraordinary... To be honest with

you... This is birth live on BBC! And we have commissioned these now,

Call The Midwife now! And planet birth, and I'm I'm a celebrity get

me out of here. That is all we have time for now.

Serious comfort food every weekend afternoon.

Paddy Kielty's with me tomorrow, and we'll be joined

we've run at almost completely 100% capacity.

We've got lots of patients now competing. There's no beds.