:00:18. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones... And Matt Baker.
:00:23. > :00:36.Coming up tonight... Practice is nearly over for the big performance
:00:37. > :00:41.tonight. Wayne Sleep and his big ballerinas will say why size doesn't
:00:42. > :00:44.matter if you want to be a dancer. Yes, looking forward to that.
:00:45. > :00:53.Geraldine Ward is going to ask for your help to find the owner of that
:00:54. > :00:58.medal she's holding. And Marty Jopson is going to do this. Blowing
:00:59. > :01:07.up a piece of cotton on his hand. And he is going to do it to him.
:01:08. > :01:14.Billabong! How come you are setting fire to my hand? Well, we were so
:01:15. > :01:29.grateful because you said yes. You are such a lovely chap. Yes, set
:01:30. > :01:32.fire to me, why not?! In Lee's new TV show, called Duck Quacks Don't
:01:33. > :01:38.Echo, famous facts are put to the test, like the fact that your
:01:39. > :01:41.armspan is the same as your height. So, in honour of Duck Quacks Don't
:01:42. > :01:45.Echo, tonight we have our own One Show boffins in the studio, and
:01:46. > :01:47.they're ready to verify your favourite facts. They are Mike
:01:48. > :01:50.Dilger, Sarah Jarvis and Marty Jospon. Here is my favourite fact.
:01:51. > :01:57.Rain drops aren't tear-shaped, they are shaped like mini hamburgers.
:01:58. > :02:01.That gives people a different perspective! On the rain falling at
:02:02. > :02:05.the moment. Isn't that right? If they are big enough and the wind...
:02:06. > :02:15.Yes, they will come out as hamburgers. Yeah, the recipe has to
:02:16. > :02:19.be perfect but there you go. This is my favourite. You know people say
:02:20. > :02:25.there is no word that rhymes with orange. There is a word. And it's
:02:26. > :02:31."sporange". That's a rarely used botanical word that's part of a fern
:02:32. > :02:39.or similar plant. Well, aren't you the party pooper for finding a word
:02:40. > :02:43.that rhymes with orange! We want everybody at home to get involved as
:02:44. > :02:46.well. There is the address, so whatever it is you have been
:02:47. > :02:50.fascinating your family with four years, send it to our team and we
:02:51. > :02:53.will verify it. Well, those hamburger raindrops are still
:02:54. > :02:57.falling, and millions of pounds are being spent on flood defences. But
:02:58. > :03:01.Tony has met a man who has been doing it on the cheap, using some
:03:02. > :03:07.fallen trees and a leaky barrier, and that is the technical term.
:03:08. > :03:11.One of the worst hit areas was in Kent, where the ledges spent
:03:12. > :03:18.Christmas day with floods gushing through their streets and into their
:03:19. > :03:22.homes. When David Cameron came to view the damage, one villager,
:03:23. > :03:28.Erica, took the chance and confronted him. Since Monday we have
:03:29. > :03:36.been trying to contact them. Nothing! Nothing? A month on and I'm
:03:37. > :03:42.eating Erica. She is still dealing with the damage of the floods. It is
:03:43. > :03:49.up to waste time now. The whole floorboards, yes, all over the
:03:50. > :03:55.floor. What will this cost you? At the moment we are looking at
:03:56. > :03:57.?10,000. The government says it is investing ?3 million in flood
:03:58. > :04:02.defences but demand is high and towns and villages across the UK are
:04:03. > :04:07.queueing up to get flood defences. In Erica's Village, where 200 homes
:04:08. > :04:16.flooded, there is no guarantee they will get any. That's see if we can
:04:17. > :04:21.find some kind of solution. OK. The parish council proposal is budgeted
:04:22. > :04:25.at ?50 million. Could there be a cheaper way? I have brought Erica to
:04:26. > :04:29.Belford in the north-east of England, where the village suffered
:04:30. > :04:36.five floods in two years. Until an unusual scheme was implemented.
:04:37. > :04:39.Doctor Paul Quinn from Newcastle University is responsible for the
:04:40. > :04:44.Belford flood alleviation scheme, funded by the Environment Agency. He
:04:45. > :04:50.takes the unique approach of using natural methods to stop flooding.
:04:51. > :04:54.What are you doing, Paul? Well, basically, we're trying to work with
:04:55. > :04:58.the forces of nature and getting them to do what nature does.
:04:59. > :05:02.Basically fell these trees and put them across the river and it causes
:05:03. > :05:07.a flood wave to hit it and slow it down, and all the rest of the water
:05:08. > :05:11.is thrown onto the flood plain and flows slowly back into the river. To
:05:12. > :05:19.look at it, you would not believe these were flood defences. 90% of
:05:20. > :05:23.our flood water comes through these channels and if you wait, it is too
:05:24. > :05:29.late. But you need them all over the land. And in the fields, there is
:05:30. > :05:33.another unusual flood defence. This is a leaky barrier, designed to
:05:34. > :05:37.leak. When it is really rainy, the land flow flows downhill, comes to
:05:38. > :05:44.this point and we put a barrier here to stop it. In full flood condition,
:05:45. > :05:51.the barrier creates a pond, holding back the water from the river long
:05:52. > :05:54.enough for the storms to pass. There is the water coming in and then the
:05:55. > :05:59.water leaking over the top and going through... That is where we were
:06:00. > :06:05.standing now. And the key thing is, you need a network of these. We have
:06:06. > :06:10.put 40 of these features in and it has been spread across six square
:06:11. > :06:14.kilometres. What is the cost of this? Well, the traditional scheme
:06:15. > :06:21.was estimated at ?2.5 million and the scheme we have put in is
:06:22. > :06:29.?200,000. Much cheaper. And it looks nicer. The key is whether these
:06:30. > :06:35.would work elsewhere. Exactly. What works for one place might not work
:06:36. > :06:38.for another. Catherine is from the chartered institution of water and
:06:39. > :06:43.environmental management. It seems so simple. Why isn't the Government
:06:44. > :06:47.doing this everywhere? It takes a long time to gather the scientific
:06:48. > :06:51.proof for flood risk management and I think the Government is naturally
:06:52. > :06:55.cautious about where it invests its money. There are currently about a
:06:56. > :07:03.dozen natural flood management pilot schemes in the UK. One of the
:07:04. > :07:07.problems with this would be dealing with landowners? You have to work
:07:08. > :07:10.with them and has to be in their interests to be able to make it
:07:11. > :07:14.happen. They have to want to make it do it. You cannot force farmers to
:07:15. > :07:20.do something they don't feel is right on their land. This won't be
:07:21. > :07:23.perfect for everywhere, will it? They work especially in the right
:07:24. > :07:29.place. There will be a way of finding the right technique for your
:07:30. > :07:33.area. So, after a day's research in the north-east, what does Erica
:07:34. > :07:37.think? These things do work. I've seen for myself that they work. And
:07:38. > :07:43.if it is going to prevent all the misery and heartache, then why not?
:07:44. > :07:47.Fighting flooding is a complexes you and I know every case is different.
:07:48. > :07:51.But having spent the day here in Belford, where they have harness
:07:52. > :07:55.nature, you have to ask the question, should the Government be
:07:56. > :08:06.spending more of their annual budget on fighting floods this way? Some
:08:07. > :08:10.very canny ideas there. It is so clever and so cheap and it is
:08:11. > :08:20.working with nature rather than against it. And we saw you flying
:08:21. > :08:22.over much of the area in Somerset. Prince Charles was following in my
:08:23. > :08:29.wake! Absolutely dramatic, though, what is happening. He was on a boat,
:08:30. > :08:34.was in a helicopter. This is Dawlish in Devon. This is the ready famous
:08:35. > :08:38.railway line, one of the most bit dress in Britain. The surge came in,
:08:39. > :08:42.washed away the sea wall. You can see the rail is suspended but
:08:43. > :08:46.Network Rail reckon it will be closed for four to six weeks and
:08:47. > :08:51.that is the longest closure since it was built in the 1840s by Isambard
:08:52. > :08:55.Kingdom Brunel. We have been seeing images like that for weeks and up
:08:56. > :08:59.and down the country we have been battered by these floods. I'd guess
:09:00. > :09:06.we want to know how we can help, so are they charities that are set up
:09:07. > :09:10.already? There is an Emergency Committee and I'm at the Red Cross
:09:11. > :09:15.and the Salvation Army, who are coordinating what is going on on the
:09:16. > :09:21.ground. Part of the pots that you put in will help what is going on in
:09:22. > :09:26.Somerset and further afield. Prince Charles donated ?50,000 from the
:09:27. > :09:29.countryside fund. 25,000 is going to the farmers and 25,000 towards the
:09:30. > :09:34.community trust in Somerset. The Duke of Westminster has matched that
:09:35. > :09:37.and the RSPB have a flooding from, too. And local people and local
:09:38. > :09:41.charities supporting whatever is happening locally in the area, so
:09:42. > :09:47.watch this space for details. Lee, you've been hit by the floods,
:09:48. > :09:55.haven't you? We had it quite easy. Nothing like that. I want to make it
:09:56. > :10:04.sound ground but there is a Japanese the house. I'm not very good... How
:10:05. > :10:10.big is that? -- there is a dapper beneath the house? -- a hole. The
:10:11. > :10:18.costume woman on this very show... Herself is flooded as well. So come
:10:19. > :10:23.Friday, you will be in trouble! She keeps the costumes down there. It is
:10:24. > :10:28.all right because it is not the river that has gone over, it is the
:10:29. > :10:34.water table that has risen. Your vintage wine collection? Yeah, both
:10:35. > :10:41.bottles of Lamborghini are knackered! We mentioned Lee's show
:10:42. > :10:43.earlier. He's been asking celebrities to bring him their
:10:44. > :10:51.favourite facts. Here's Dara O'Briain's. Touching somebody's up
:10:52. > :10:57.mum will help you get what you want from them. -- pop-up arm. If it is
:10:58. > :11:05.somebody you dislike... Get a cup of tea food. There is probably a curve
:11:06. > :11:16.in the chart. Could you make me a cup of tea... A cup of tea? A cup of
:11:17. > :11:22.tea! See, we've naturally been trying out that theory. And it works
:11:23. > :11:29.a treat. What did you get out of it? Nothing! You've got to want
:11:30. > :11:32.something! You've got to ask something where there is a no and
:11:33. > :11:45.then you touch the arm and there is a yes. Let's start at the beginning,
:11:46. > :11:49.though. So, the show, Duck Quacks Don't Echo. Is that fact? Well, they
:11:50. > :11:53.are bringing on some things which are supposed to be true to some
:11:54. > :11:58.degree and we test out how true they are. So the title of the show has to
:11:59. > :12:03.be true and we found out too late that it is not true at all. So now
:12:04. > :12:12.can I say, it is a terrible idea and it was not my idea! So they do echo.
:12:13. > :12:19.But if you called the show Duck Quacks Do Echo, that would be a
:12:20. > :12:29.weird show. Can't remember who brought this on but we talked about
:12:30. > :12:35.the custard condensing. If you get a speaker from a hi-fi and you pour
:12:36. > :12:38.custard into it, on its side, otherwise it will fall out, and you
:12:39. > :12:43.pump music through the Speaker, it has to be a certain type and
:12:44. > :12:46.consistency of custard, just putting the kids off trying it, the custard
:12:47. > :12:50.will change from liquid to a semisolid and start dancing up and
:12:51. > :12:54.down and you can pick it up in your hands, and it will suddenly melt on
:12:55. > :13:03.your hands. But it would be something with a beat, like dance
:13:04. > :13:10.music? Our first Friday show and we ran this, because when you hit it at
:13:11. > :13:18.a certain speed it becomes hard. Tonight on the one show, running
:13:19. > :13:21.across batter! But do you think Google has killed fact? Because
:13:22. > :13:26.people used to sit around and discuss facts but now we can check.
:13:27. > :13:30.I think it is the opposite. People accept everything on Google as fact
:13:31. > :13:33.so now there are more facts but half of them are not true. Because if you
:13:34. > :13:37.type something in a read it back, you will read it and go, that must
:13:38. > :13:44.be true, and deny read it and find out I'm Russ Abbot's nephew, which
:13:45. > :13:50.I'm not. -- and I've read it. My favourite fact? Probably ever, it is
:13:51. > :13:54.from the show, and did like the idea that the safest place to be in
:13:55. > :13:59.lightning is in a car. Because I was led to believe the opposite because
:14:00. > :14:04.it is metal. They put us in a car and electrocuted us with lightning.
:14:05. > :14:07.Terrifying! Nothing worse than thinking you're going to die,
:14:08. > :14:12.looking to your left and seeing a member of JMS! Nobody wants to go
:14:13. > :14:21.like that! I am going on tour. This has more facts based on it now? Yes!
:14:22. > :14:25.No fact in the tour, you will be pleased to hear. We read a quote and
:14:26. > :14:31.you said, I am once again very excited about the prospect of being
:14:32. > :14:37.able to eat food that pasties alone in a service station at 3am. They
:14:38. > :14:40.are marvellous! It is getting to eat like a pig but not feel guilty
:14:41. > :14:46.because you have no choice. What else can you eat at 3am apart from a
:14:47. > :14:49.Cornish pasty? That is how I'm justifying it to myself! And I will
:14:50. > :14:56.miss the screaming kids every morning! It will be awful in the
:14:57. > :15:04.hotel, lovely, quiet! But you can mix it up. Absolutely. And all your
:15:05. > :15:11.adoring fans. Let's auburn fans. Not sure about adoring. So, the show
:15:12. > :15:16.starts on sky one at 10pm on Friday. Some viewers have sent in their
:15:17. > :15:25.facts for our panel, so keep them coming in. Let's see if some of them
:15:26. > :15:30.are true or not. if Stephen Price has been telling everybody this the
:15:31. > :15:35.years, you can make a syntax inch and a -- a 6-inch nail from all of
:15:36. > :15:41.the iron in the human body. I am taking it that it is an adult. What
:15:42. > :15:46.you make of that? It is such a bloke question, I am hard as nails! You
:15:47. > :15:51.are only half the man you thought you were, it is a 3-inch nail, not a
:15:52. > :16:00.6-inch nail. Most of it is in your blood. I am in your blood. There you
:16:01. > :16:05.are. -- iron in your blood. A good effort, though. Technically, if you
:16:06. > :16:14.want to be picky, it is fiction. A bit harsh. If you are really tall,
:16:15. > :16:18.it is a 6-inch nail. I have one here for Mike, and it says, is it true
:16:19. > :16:32.that snails have approximately 25,000 teeth by Schumacher --? I
:16:33. > :16:35.have never counted them but they have a conveyor belt full of teeth
:16:36. > :16:44.and it goes round and round and basically grinds down vegetation. I
:16:45. > :16:47.have a world record for sales on my face on the One Show and I can
:16:48. > :16:53.confirm I felt a lot of teeth, so it is true.
:16:54. > :16:58.Well, we need more of your so-called facts, keep them coming in. Here is
:16:59. > :17:01.a fact that it doesn't need verifying, never trust an offer that
:17:02. > :17:05.sounds too good to be true, especially when it concerns giving
:17:06. > :17:08.someone you don't know your entire pension fund.
:17:09. > :17:14.When money is tight, the idea of accessing your pension fund a bit
:17:15. > :17:18.early can be sorely tempting. But whenever there is a lump sum of cash
:17:19. > :17:22.to be had, you can be sure someone else has got their eyes on it. Craig
:17:23. > :17:26.from Derby wanted to go to America, so his youngest son could meet his
:17:27. > :17:30.grandfather for the very first time. Craig already wanted to
:17:31. > :17:36.transfer his ?25,000 pension to a new scheme. So when he found a
:17:37. > :17:39.company willing to pay him to do that, he thought he had also found a
:17:40. > :17:45.way of funding that family trip. So what did the company of you? For my
:17:46. > :17:48.?25,000 transfer into one of their schemes, they give me