05/03/2014 The One Show

We were having so much fun with the frisbee until you did that! You

could go and get down to then abseil down the building. Welcome to the

One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. A few reasons why this show

is going to be out of this world. Yes, hundreds or thousands of

telescopes are focusing on one planet this week. Later we will be

on the roof with Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who will be telling

us why we have the best view of Jupiter in 12 years. Looking forward

to that. And the start of a brand new series, Watchdog Test House,

Sophie Raworth and Lynn Faulds Wood, hello, Lee's! They have been testing

loads of products. They will be testing which of these products has

caused an alarming number of fatal accidents. And our team of the week

at the Nice Bristols, the Ultimate Frisbee team who are heading to the

World Championships later this year! We are saying there is quite a lot

to get our heads round tonight, so who better to join a stunning

graduate in mindfulness and cognitive therapy just happens to be

hilariously entertaining? Please welcome Ruby Wax! How lovely to see

you! Great to have you back. We have to say, congratulations, because you

have gained a Masters from Oxford. This is it! This is all to do with

your book. I studied at Oxford so I would have material for the book!

And then I would do a show about it, that was the plan. Everyone was

about 21, so I said I had that disease which makes you look like

you age really fast, and they believed me. So they invited me to

parties and then they found out I really was old! They must have known

it was you. They didn't know, they were too busy with their funny hats.

Once you start reading this book, you get sucked in, it is about

getting through the 21st century. We will talk about that as we go

through the evening. With a large chunk of our gas supply going

through Ukraine, recent events are raising concerns again about the

future of our gas bills. In Lancashire, Cuadrilla are trying to

convince the local community that fracking can be beneficial for

everyone. In December 2012, the Government

lifted its temporary ban on hydraulic fracking for shale gas,

and one of the most recent places for exploration is in the filed area

of Lancashire. And one of those proposed site is in this field. But

fracking causes a fierce debate, is it a brilliant boost for the local

economy or a potentially dangerous step towards destroying the local

environment? We have gathered together this group of local

residents who are largely in two minds about whether it should happen

so close to where they live. At the moment, we have a house for sale,

and I am worried about selling the house, what it is going to do to

property prices. I know there were a couple of earthquakes in Blackpool

that they put down to fracking. I am very much on the fence, but I have

strong concerns. We have brought them to see first-hand the proposed

site and meet the people spearheading campaigns for and

against it. Putting forward the case for fracking, the head of Cuadrilla,

the energy firm planning to drill the site. Arguing against, Helen

Rimmer, a campaigner with friends of the earth. So this is the spot,

explain to us what you planned to do here. So the site will be in this

field, about the size of two football pitches, we will put the

rig about here. We drill down vertically for about two kilometres,

and then we drill horizontally for 1.5, then we remove the drill bit

and bring in the fracturing kit, which is basically pumps. We will

fracture the rock, and that allows gas to flow out of the rock. Just

about 25 metres away from here is a main transmission gas line, and then

to every house in the country. Your initial reaction. We are in the

middle of really important farmland dotted with villagers, two important

estuaries for wildlife, so this is a completely unsuitable area for

intensive drilling. The real risks are what is happening underground,

with multiple wells, and this is the first time it will be done in this

way in the country, so this is a test area, and the community here

are guinea pigs. Two miles away Cuadrilla operate a conventional gas

production facility. They want to show it to the local residents,

saying it will help them visualise what they say the shale gas site

will look like once they are supplying gas. This is the well

head, so if you can imagine four of these... But opponents say there had

been major disruption to people living nearby, including a constant

stream of lorries coming and going. In the long term, a Government study

has set up to 3000 sites could be fracked, providing up to a fifth of

our gas supply. On neutral ground and over a cup of coffee, both sides

are set out their arguments. We think this is a risky process for

the environment and communities nearby, but we also think that it is

potentially damaging to our climate and we need to address climate

change and move away from fossil fuels. I am not a climate change

denier, I accept we should be trying to reduce our fossil fuels, and I

actually believe that natural gas is essential to do that. The European

Commission found that there are high risks to ground water contamination,

water supply. We will only use fracture fluid that is nonhazardous

to ground water. If it does not get that rating from the Environment

Agency, we will not use it. We don't want disasters, you don't. No. It is

all about money at the end of the day. If you can do something that is

just enough, you will only go that far. We would not take the risk, it

doesn't make business sense. You do not talk about the amount of water

and chemicals that will be used. If we don't exploit our own resources,

and I appreciate you do not think we should, we will import the gas. You

assume increasing demand for gas, but we need to dig resit. Before we

started, six were undecided and two were pro-fracking. Now one is

against, two are undecided, but five have changed their minds and are now

in favour of fracking. All of the residents seems to have benefited

from the lesson, but do not think you can leave them to it. The

Government suggests that there could be 40 Explorer to drill right across

England, and fracking could be coming to a field near you very

soon. I might loosely joins us now, and we want to ask what you think

about this. -- Lucie joins us now. Fracking means something quite

specific, so if you look at hydraulic fracturing, which has been

used in the oil and gas industry for probably three decades in the UK,

the one that is really contentious, that people are talking about in

this topic, is when we are talking about shale gas, not the

conventional reserves which might be coal seams, for example. They are

talking about shale gas, and the other thing is that the drilling,

except for one instance, which was stopped last year near Blackpool,

has actually been not for shale and has been exploratory. So it is just

seeing what is down there first of all. So people like using it for

everything, but it is quite specific. I think of it as a high

colonic for the earth. That is a good description! Cuts to the chase!

Mind you, what you are extracting us what you actually want. I think that

is a good thing to put in your car! What else are you going to do with

it? That is a whole different subject! Is that what happens in

America?! Fracking? We do it all the time, but we have a different

meaning! Talking of America, it has really

worked over there. Yes, it is perceived as being very successful

in America, so you have seen energy bills lowered up to 40% in some

cases, which is a massive thing. The jobs market, directly and

indirectly, 1.7 million jobs created. But America is a different

place, as were just established! We are talking about it on a massive

scale, 40,000 wells by 2011. In 2008, they counted all the wells in

Europe, and we were up to 30. Also, it is different legally. If someone

comes to your backyard and says, I would like to explore this for

possible fracking, you say thank you very much, how much? Here, subsoil

gas reserves are owned by the state. So it is a little bit different,

actually. We heard from Friends of the Earth going through some of the

pros and cons, but let's just reiterate those. Well, starting with

the columns, pollution is the thing that Helen was talking about in the

film, and people are very concerned about water, as I think she said. It

takes many millions of gallons to do fracking. There will be waste water

with additives, but there are also naturally occurring chemicals coming

to the surface. It needs to be dealt with, can treatment centres get rid

of stuff like radon? There is lots of pollution. Also, people have

talked about it who are against fracking, talking about the

industrialisation of the countryside. Some reports have

suggested we would need up to 3000 wells, think of all the lorries and

all the infrastructure that is needed, air pollution as well.

Carbon was in the film as well, we are supposed to be using less

carbon, this is essentially a fossil fuel, with extra carbon emissions.

Financially, if we look at trying to keep the gas in the UK, what our

energy market encourages is for you to sell it at the highest price, so

if it was fracked, would it then be sold? So all of those things, oh,

and earthquakes, people are worried about earth tremors. So there is a

list of things. And a list of positives. We have had wars with our

cousins, over in Saudi Arabia, call me crazy... That is exactly it.

Everybody is digging in Notting Hill gate anyway, they'll almost at the

earth's caught in their kitchens, said we could get a fifth of our

energy needs from shale gas, fracked gas. That would be a massive thing

for energy security. Also, financially, for the economy. One

report has put a lot of jobs as a consequence of this. And for the

communities where this will take place, ?100,000 is what is being

offered by the companies when they start exploratory drilling, and then

1% of any profits if the shale gas goes ahead. I have seen one report

that puts that at about ?10 million per well. That is over 25 years.

Well, this leads us to tonight's vote, we are as King this question -

if your community benefited financially, would you be in favour

of fracking? -- as King. If you do have any comments on this

as well, why not send us an e-mail to the usual address? Thank you very

much, we will see you for the was also later on. Now, Ruby has met her

fair share of big stars, Bette Midler, Burt Reynolds, Tom Hanks,

she has even shared a Jacuzzi with Goldie Hawn, brilliant! It is a very

impressive list, but even she could learn a thing or two from twin

brothers Austin and how would from Surrey.

-- how odd. Celebrity culture, something new?

For the real thing, you need to go back to the time when Hollywood

first created stars who became the most famous people on the planet.

Now, they were out of this world. James Stewart in the dark yet

sentimental It's A Wonderful Life, Katharine Hepburn showing all

potential were among the performances that captured the of

millions in Cinema's golden era. I have come to meet twin brothers

whose passion for the movies has taken them on an extraordinary

journey. We used to go to our granny's house on a Saturday and

watch some old black-and-white movie. It was a silent movie, and we

were completely transfixed, watching a film with no dialogue. Then the

boys had a brilliant idea -1 not right to their on-screen heroes? So

who was the first person to reply? This was the card she sent with her

letter. Gosh, that must have been something to get. We were really

excited, and we were 11. We never expected a reply. So when that

happened, you thought, we are onto something here? It was a snowball

effect. Lillian said, if you are writing to me, you must write to

these people. Douglas Fairbanks Junior then put us in touch with

Kirk Douglas, who put us in touch with Marlene Dietrich. And from

letters to more letters. And then telephone calls. There was one

occasion when Marlene Dietrich rang at three in the morning. That must

have been terrific. Absolutely. We were 16. We were bowled over by it.

It seemed that some stars could not get enough of the young Brit 's. A

movie star called Joy Hodges said, you have written to us, we want to

meet you. So all these people we have written to, we were suddenly

meeting. Who was the most exciting one you met? One was Ginger Rogers,

and the other was Elizabeth Taylor. Ginger Rogers was absolutely

almighty, like Moses. The room parts when she comes in. Jimmy Stewart is

a name as well. Yes, we had the pleasure of meeting him in the early

1990s. He invited us to his home for lunch. He asked if we would not mind

eating in the kitchen. And he made us lunch. Then he was looking at the

clock, so I said to him, would you like us to go? Oh, no, but the tour

bus comes around to see the Hollywood homes at three o'clock. So

at that time, walk down the lawn and wave. It was not just the biggest

stars. The brothers came -- became friendly with someone known for

appearance in the age of consent. She came to live in London. With so

many of them, age really is just a number. Mildred was 90, but could

have been 30. She was up for a part in the stage production of when

Harry Met Sally. She did not get it. My wife and I witnessed her anger at

not getting the part. I took her back to California to stay with her

daughter, and she died over there. But the last time I saw her, I knew

she was ill, but I never shared that with her. She would struggle out of

bed and put on a swimming costume and said, I will see you around.

Great story. There is something magical about black-and-white

movies. Ruby, let's talk about your new book. Sane New World, taming the

mind for the 21st century. When we last saw you, you were about to go

on tour and the subject of your tour was depression and the challenges

you have gone through. You have come out of that and written this book.

What do you hope people will get out of it? I am not the face of

depression. I went to Oxford to learn what is wrong with all of us.

We all share the same problems. There is something interesting about

being busy. Where did that start? And the very thing making us crazy

is how we check each other out on how well we are doing. It is a

status to be burning out. I tell people I have had a heart attack,

they go, fantastic. The reason I studied the brain is, if you have to

figure out where this comes from, you need to know the mechanics,

otherwise you are just blaming it on the internet. This stuff is already

here. What are you going to do, complain? It is about coping with

depression and giving tips on how to deal with things? I am not giving

little tips. I am translating from great minds, to say there is a

reason why more things are happening now. In the past, we were only

supposed to live to 30. Now, we just go on and on. There is so much

information we have to know. There is pressure to know what is going on

on the other side of the world. Then there is pressure about not being

Kate Moss or as good as the woman next door, because I have to read

about it in a magazine that she works 80 hours a week and knows how

to make a muffin. Exterminate her! I am feeling, I can't do that. You

illustrate all this really well, because there is a picture in it

that says all you need to know. It is called "What's in my brain?" .

Talk us through what we are seeing? Well, that is me. A self-portrait!

The point is, or our thoughts jump. You are rumoured eight and

regretting, and there is a narrative going on. Meanwhile, you are missing

the show. Your kids are in front of you. I spent their whole childhood

on the telephone, and now I don't know who I was speaking to. And the

addiction of e-mail, I am even answering spam now. Thank you for

enquiring about my inner erectile dysfunction! We don't know where our

tipping point is. When are you really being creative? When we are

focused. But someday, that focus is going to stop, and then what have

you got? So we have to learn to regulate our chemicals, get off the

addiction of adrenaline. I am a great example. I used to call taxis

to take me to the airport, and when they arrived at my house, I would

start packing, so I could get that hit of panic. It is being aware. The

minute you are aware of how it works on it will not go away, but

awareness is everything. I have not finished reading it yet, but it

really sucks you in. There are lots of sentences like, there is never a

solution for "I should have" . Pain and suffering are optional. We get

stressed about stress. It is so right. I think the book can help

everybody, living such a manic life as we do. And they can see you,

because you are taking it on tour? Not at home! I am touring 31

different places. And I signed the book after my show. That is my kick,

when people come up and say, I found this rebel, and that informs what I

write text. It is hilarious. If I was not in it, I would buy a

ticket! I try to do what Bill Bryson does. You take the really

interesting thing, the history of the world, and then you spin it into

comedy. That is when people get the information, but they are also

laughing. That is foreplay. If you want to get information into

somebody's mind, make them laugh. Can I say that on an early show?

Yes, that is fine! Don't let the mind drive you, you drive the mine.

-- the mind. Ruby's book, Sane New World, is available in paperback,

and the tour continues till the end of May. What is going through your

mind now? Would you know how long a meter is without measuring it? Women

have this constant ticker tape going through their heads. Matt is

thinking about how to measure things. Sizes everything! He walks

like Basil faulty around his garden to measure a metre. That is a metre.

Six and a half metres to the end of the studio. For a more scientific

analysis, I asked Marty Jopson. Well done.

Being able to measure distance and length is the cornerstone of almost

everything we do. Construction, engineering, design. The meter can

be found in all manner of things, from rulers like this to take

measures and even on wheels. If you have not got one of these as a

guide, how do you measure a metre? Back in the 1600s, engineers and

navigators desperately needed a standard way to measure distances.

One solution was this. Not the Conqueror, but the pendulum . Santa

's proposed at a standard unit of length should be the length of a

pendulum that takes exactly one second to travel from here to here.

That unit of length became known as the metre. I am going to time ten

swings. Should be exactly ten seconds. The longer the pendulum,

the slower it swings. 11 and a half seconds, that is too long. Let's

shorten it. I need to lengthen it just a bit. Ten seconds exactly! 99

centimetres. That is pretty good. But that was not good enough. By the

18th century, people realised there was a problem. The rate a pendulum

swings depends not just on its length, but also on gravity. Because

of the rotation of the globe, the gravity at the polls is slightly

stronger than at the equator. This tiny difference can have serious

consequences. If I made my pendulum at the equator, it would be three

millimetres shorter. In the 21st century, when we rely on countless

devices like sat-navs, which need to measure distance with pinpoint

accuracy, this would be a real problem. So today, we use something

far more accurate, light. The speed that light travels in a vacuum is a

constant. It is the ultimate tape measure of the universe. That means

we can use it to accurately measure a metre. Here at the space geodesy

facility in Sussex, they use like as their ruler. Graham, this is a

wonderful piece of kit. What does it do? The key to this telescope is

that we are using laser pulses of light to determine distances to

satellites. How do you take a measurement? The technique depends

on rhetoric does like this being on the surface of the satellites we are

interested in measuring. So the light that goes incomes out with

exactly the same path? Yes, we can measure the time of the flight from

the ground to the satellite and back. And like is not just used here

in Sussex. After years of relying on metal rods are standard, it was in

1983 by international committee that the definition of the metre would be

the distance light travels in just under one 300,000,000th of a second.

That means we can use lasers to measure with extraordinary

precision. The fire button! So exciting. And there it is, you can

see it! Is that hitting a satellite? Yes, these are pulses going all the

way up to a satellite and back. How far away is it 's you can see on the

screen here that it is 20,140 kilometres. We are making that

measurement to a precision of about one millimetre. A millimetre over

20,000 kilometres? That is a bit better than a piece of string.

Today, lasers are used as the hand that measuring tool across the

world, allowing us to measure unimaginable distances with

astonishing accuracy. Some wonderful science there, and we

are not stopping with the science, because I am on the roof with Maggie

Aderin-Pocock from The Sky At Night. Are you warm enough? It was clear,

and now it has clouded over. Which is a shame. It is astronomy week

must what is going on? Across the country from the first until the

end, we are having stargazing parties, where amateur astronomers

pick up their telescopes and show people what is out there. Where is

Mars? Mainly in the east. As the sun comes up, it disappears. We are now

thinking about Jupiter. I think you can actually see it. We are going to

try and cross live to Jupiter, which is behind some clouds. But you can

see it with the naked eye. We have got some pictures that we took while

I was running up here, which are a lot clearer. This is live, which we

are seeing now. Mark, give us an idea of what we are looking at and

why there is such a great view? Jupiter is big enough and close

enough to Perth to see a lot of detail with this kind of telescope.

Because it spins so fast, rotating once every ten hours, that it draws

the clouds into streaks. The brown colour is caused by a ammonia and

methane in the atmosphere. This is something we recorded earlier, clear

images of what you are talking about.

You can see the moons of Jupiter, Ganymede is the largest in the solar

system on the right. Then we had Io, which is volcanic, very active,

then Europa League next to that, and off the screen is Callisto. --

Europa. When the clouds do clear a bit, could you see it with a pair of

binoculars? Yes, even the moons. If you hold them steady, it is amazing

how acceptable it is. Something amazing happening with Jupiter's

moons. Yes, we are looking at launching a mission to the icy moons

of Jupiter, they will rendezvous in 2022, and these moons have a shell

of ice with water on the inside. What we want to do is probe beneath

the surface and see if there is life out there. Good luck to everyone

involved in that mission. We can have a word with some young

astronomers here. You have been taking some photos, what is the

story behind this picture? Well, I was in the back garden, I was keen

to get out and use my telescope. I got the telescope for my birthday,

and I just took it with my iPod, holding it up to the lens. I bet you

couldn't believe it. I didn't think I would get a picture that good.

Many happy returns! We have some wonderful telescopes, but this is my

favourite, Alex, this is phenomenal. Tell everyone what it is made of. I

built this when I was 15, it is a Newtonian, made out of a large

cardboard postal tube. A postal tube, just to reiterate! It has a

six inch mirror at the end, and it has been really good, I have been

imaging Jupiter with a webcam. With this?! Goodness me! I am sorry that

you are tongue cannot see what I can see, because it is clear, even with

the cloud. -- you at home. You have not even upgraded it, have you? We

will hand down to Alex who is with the frisbee players.

I do not think he even found the frisbee on the roof! Did you know

that the first pie dish, the first frisbee ever thrown was a pie dish?

It was someone who was angry? We are dicing with death coming through

here! Well done, that pie dish has led to this group of ladies going to

the World Frisbee Championships in Italy this August. Thank you for

bringing the whole team in, lovely to see you. The World Championships

is a big deal, so how much training do you have to do? Well, at the

moment, alongside our weeknight training, we have two conditioning

sessions, a weights session, yoga, and we have to fit in time for all

the fundraising that we do. That is more than I am doing for my climb,

unbelievable! Surrey, who is the world champion of frisbee throwers?

I need to know! It is currently an American team! She knew that was

going to happen! We know how to throw a frisbee, if nothing else.

You think of standing in a circle and passing it around, but there

must be more to it in terms of the competition. Yes, it is a team

sport, seven aside, outdoors, on a pitch roughly the size of a football

field. It has two end zones like American football, and the aim of

the game is to catch it in the end zone to score a point. I have been

watching you this afternoon, and it is all about accuracy, isn't it?

That is right, you have to be able to throw far, get away from the

opposition, but you have got to be accurate. Do you get extra points if

you catch it in your teeth? No! The good news is they will give us a few

tips on how to throw the perfect frisbee. Are we ready? Drooling! You

are going to go and catch them, and you? OK, so I'm going to teach at

the backhand, the standard throw that you see in the park. Grasp it

in your fist, like this, and then it is all about the rest, less and,

more rest. -- wrist. You might need another go, I will leave you to it!

It is now just dangerous! Still to come on tonight's show, a very

moving story about how a dog rescued from combat in Afghanistan is given

comfort to a soldier's family here in the UK. But this is what happened

when Joe Crowley took to the skies and discovered archaeology from a

bird's eye view. Oh! Standing here by this pretty

unremarkable field near the A1 in Yorkshire, there is no obvious sign

of anything of archaeological importance, but from above it may

look very different. Observing the land from aeroplanes was a technique

which flourished in the First World War, when its value as a military

tool was quickly recognised. But eight years before the outbreak of

hostilities, this photograph of Stonehenge taken from a balloon

began a revolution in archaeology. When we look at this 1906 shot, what

is the significance? It was the beginning of aerial archaeology, so

we used that photograph as a start, 1906. What does it show that people

didn't know before? The main thing was the avenue, you could see it

from the air. It is an ancient pathway leading to the stone circle

which was only visible from the air because of the distinctive way crops

grow over features like this. Archaeologists call them crop

marks. Whenever there is a ditch or pit, crops will grow for longer,

stay green, and you can see the patterns from the air in a way you

would not at ground level. Today more archaeological finds are made

from the air than by any other means, but it seems outdated to fly

in a small plane taking photos out of the window in an age of high

resolution satellite imagery. The satellite imagery is taken on a less

frequent basis, so yes, you will find things by satellite, but there

is no substitute for getting into the air and doing archaeological

survey. Aerial archaeologist Dave MacLeod spends much of his summer

airborne photographing the ground. On a recent expedition, he has found

remnants of a 5000 -year-old henge, or stone circle, in the Yorkshire

Dales. Archaeologists investigated on the ground and confirmed the

binding. And evidence of a Neolithic tomb was found in the Yorkshire

world, which a ground survey revealed to be of great importance.

-- Wolds. Today we are going up to 2000 feet to survey the field I was

standing in from above. Dave believes it is rich in

archaeological treasure. What is the plan? Well, we will head south, we

will head down the A1 here, looking for crop marks. So the archaeology

affecting the way that plants grow, basically, creating shapes and

patterns we can see from above, probably a green pattern on a

greenfield. But different green, it should stand out well.

Now, to an inexperienced observer like myself, this is not obvious or

straightforward, but to the trained eye, every pattern and deviation and

colour change as potential archaeological significance. On that

field that you were standing on, we have a series of squiggly marks.

Those squiggly marks, each of those is a ditch that has been dug by an

iron age farmer. So we are looking at part of the landscape that

existed here over 2000 years ago. That is phenomenal, it is so clear!

Should we get some photographs? Somewhere in there would have been

one or two roundhouses, and then you have a series of paddocks,

enclosures for livestock. So it is an Iron Age smallholding. Yes, an

Iron Age farm, that is what we are seeing. There is no guarantee that

these things will survive, they are being slowly eroded, so this is

incredibly important. I could not see any of that on the ground.

Well, that was absolutely fantastic! I cannot wait to learn how those

photos will be used back here on the ground. What we do with photographs

like this is make maps of that archaeology, and we can understand

far better the context of not only that site but all the other bits and

pieces that we have photographed over the years around it. So by

continually flying over the country and plotting your findings, you are

building up this incredible map of our heritage. That is the idea.

There are still vast amounts of archaeology waiting to be

identified, and that is what keep aerial archaeologists coming back

for more, because every time they go up, they never know what they're

going to come back down wit. -- down wit. I had never known those

squiggly lines were potentially an Iron Age farm! A brand-new series

BBC One starts next Monday, Watchdog Test House. Can you be sure that

every appliances safe? Is everything a company tells you about a product

true? And are you getting the best value for your money?

This is the Watchdog Test House! And Lynn Faulds Wood and Sophie Raworth

join us now. Lovely to see you! Lovely to have you back on

Watchdog, Lynn! It is lovely to be back! It is lovely to be back

burning stuff. What are your highlighting this time, the same

kind of stuff, has it moved on? It shows you how Watchdog has put

things right over the years. My research was three and a sandpit

when I was last doing it. I was doing work experience, it was the

first thing I did at the BBC, when I was 15. This test house, tell us

about it. It is a house they have built on an industrial park, the

building research Establishment, it is a huge park just outside Watford

where they test all kind of products we use every single day, and that

house is honoured. They can test all kinds of things, like heating and

things. We spent weeks testing product we use everyday. The series

is great. You were impressed with that?! I am Scottish, quite often

the cheapest things we test our best. You have brought some

appliances in, and they have got some tragic stories behind them.

Let's talk about the oven and the grill. These are some of the things

we feature in the first programme, this Beko gas oven, and I must

stress this is not on the market anymore, it was recalled back in

2008. But we feature a story of two young men in their 30s, cooking

dinner, and accidentally the door to the grill closed. Now, the

manufacturer had said you absolutely do not do that because there is a

fire risk, but they closed it accidentally, and nobody realised it

caused huge amount of carbon dioxide to come out very quickly, and they

both died. Beko are very concerned, because at that time there were

30,000 of these on the market. They have got most of them back, they did

a big recall, so they want people to check and make sure that if they

have one of those models still in a house, get in touch with them. And

blinds are another area. Quite often manufacturers make something, and

nobody realises what can go wrong with them. We have known for a long

time that the loop type Blind, quite a few small children have died in

America, four children in the last few weeks, three in Sydney. We have

had 14 in the UK as well. So look around your home if you have got

them, because the manufacturers have been working really hard to try to

get round this. Safety measures have been taken, new laws are coming out.

With the oven, comedy, nobody knew that if you closed the doors, it

could cause carbon monoxide, but now those models are rigourously tested.

-- Beko. What if you have a poltergeist in your toaster? I knew

that was coming! It is all in the series, you will have to watch.

Bring Annex assist in to the kitchen? -- an exorcism. Talking

about dangers at night, this footage will petrify anyone with a

dishwasher. If you put the dishwasher on and go to bed... Well,

not any dishwasher! This is a simulator done at the Building

Research Establishment. There are something like 3500 fires caused by

electrical appliances, a quarter of them are washing machines and

dishwashers. That was to show how quickly it can catch fire, and they

do say that you should not put the machine on when you leave the house

will go to bed at night. Do not try that at home. What you see with this

series, 15 programmes over three weeks, what you see is that things

have improved so much. If people are worried, we will be giving them lots

of advice on where they can find out how to make these things safe.

Washed-up Test House begins on Monday at 11:45am. -- watchdog Test

House. Do not take part in our fracking vote, because the lines

have closed. Now to the house of a man who played the much loved Carol

Boycey in Only Fools And Horses. John Challis takes a trip down

memory lane. My name is John Challis, and I am

going to take you down to the street where I grew up on in Tadworth in

Surrey. I guess I was here in about 1948, to

begin with. I lived here with my parents, it must have been about six

years. Here we are in the dining room. I sat with my dad, listening

to the Goon show, crying with laughter. It was about the only

connection I did have with my dad, unfortunately. But we could always

laugh, and he always made me laugh. My father was fairly strict. But we

had a great impact it with comedy. He was a self-made man. He grew up

in working-class Sheffield. He wanted to better himself, so he

studied and got into the civil service very low down and finished

quite high up. I don't know why this stuck in my mind, but I remember us

giggling away to the Goon show, and my mother cutting away -- cutting --

cutting. The memory has remained with me ever since. My mother was in

many ways opposite to my father. She was a flamboyant figure, quite

theatrical. If the war had not come and she had not got married, she

might have continued in professional theatre. I guess that is where a lot

of my feelings for it came from. She would say things like, any talent my

son has got, he got from me. I suppose that is what brought me to

Only Fools And Horses, which changed my life. Thanks, mum. I was an only

child. Being an only child, you have to invent more. Not to sound sad

about it, but you are alone a lot more than if you have kids around

you and brothers and sisters. So there I am, playing test match

cricket on the floor, and also out in the garden. This is the place

where I made my unbeaten century against the Australians at Lord's,

the fastest bowler in the world. There it was. I raised my back and

my cap, and I walked off with an unbeaten century and by won the

Ashes. I could hear the applause ringing in my ears. This is my

bedroom. I remember being up here and listening to my parents argue

about whether I should receive the slipper for some misdemeanour, and

waiting for the foot on the stairs which meant my dad was coming up

with his slipper. That was what happened in those days. That was

considered discipline. This house featured a lot in my early life. It

probably started right here, or tending to be other people. My

father thought it was ridiculous and that I should get a proper job. He

was proud, but he would never admit it to me. And that was the one thing

I wanted. Very late on, when he got ill and he was on the slope, he was

dragged along to see a play I did in London called dirty linen. And he

suddenly said to me, how do you do that? I said, what? He said, get up

on that stage and say all those words? I said, well, that is my

job. He said, it is fantastic. I was so proud of you, and burst into

tears. It is quite nostalgic being back, I have to say.

Isn't that lovely that he had the recognition from his dad? Ruby, but

it would not stretch to Illinois to go to the house where you grew up.

It got fracked! But we found this photo of you in the RSC. That was

me. I was the ultimate wench. That was loves labours lost. The man who

played my boyfriend said one night, I am so ashamed. I thought I had a

really good accent. But supposedly, someone in my audience said, I

didn't know someone from Chicago was in Shakespeare. I was a

shepherdess. Just where your underpants on your head, and off you

go. How long since you saw that photo? I had never seen it. Now, as

we have been seeing for ourselves, the British withdrawal from Afghan

test and -- Afghanistan has seen convoys arrived back in the UK. And

that is not all. Afghanistan, an unforgiving and

dangerous combat zone for serving soldiers and the Afghan people, and

also for the thousands of animals that have in caught up in the

conflict. And for the huge number of stray dogs that roam the streets,

cruel treatment is commonplace, and some are even forced to dogfight.

But our troops on the ground have come to their rescue. Paratrooper

Conrad Lewis was one such soldier to do this, befriending a dog called

Peg at the dangerous checkpoint he was manning. How close were they?

She would be on patrol. She got up when they got up. She shared his bed

space. All the guys loved her, but he chose that she would sleep in his

room. One of his earliest letters back, he told us about her. He said,

I don't know if I told you about the dog I adopted. I have told her to

sit and give me hope for. You give her a biscuit, and she stashes it

somewhere. And Conrad always said he wanted to bring the dog back to the

UK? He said, I am going to bring her back. Tragically, Conrad ever made

it back, as he was killed on duty. Obviously, after he could not come

back, our job was to get the dog back. So that was what we did. Their

decision to get pegged out was a mission in itself, only made

possible by Conrad's friends in the regiment and the Nowzad dog charity.

She left on one of the last helicopters out of the area. She was

put in a Hummer and the Afghan National Army guys drove her to

Kabul. We were lucky. She has a lovely character. In our minds, I

can't look after Conrad any more, but I can look after his dog. It was

worth it. The Nowzad dog charity was set up by a former paratrooper who

brought his own dog back when his tour ended, although not all the

dogs end up with military families. Sally Baldwin felt compelled to act

after seeing an Internet appeal I Nowzad to adopt a dog from

Afghanistan. What was it about bring that made you want to adopt him? It

was such an incredible story, the fact that a stray had done so much

for the lads in Helmand, Afghanistan. The thought of him big

left behind broke my heart. The Taliban seized stray dog Bryn after

he alerted British forces to a home-made bomb left on their patrol,

saving their lives. What did the Taliban do with him when they

kidnapped him? They had kidnapped him -- they had kicked him in the

side. They gave him very little water. He was heavily changed. I was

determined to get him out. He was eventually rescued, and Sally

successfully campaigned to bring him to the UK to live with her. I never

think we actually own Bryn. We care for him, and he belongs to all the

lads and lasses he was with in Afghanistan. He is a joy to our

lives, and we are grateful that they trusted us with him. Since its

formation in 2007, Nowzad has found homes for more than 300 dogs, both

from Afghanistan and abroad, meaning dogs like Bryn and Peg now have a

future. And for owners like Tony and Sandy, it is a precious link to

their much missed son. And for more info on the Nowzad dog

re-homing charity, you can go to The One Show website. The news, Lucy is

back. We are about to reveal the outcome of our fracking vote. We

asked you earlier if your community benefited financially, would you

allow fracking in your area? The results are very interesting. The

yeses, 47%. 53% said no, so it was close. Just 3%.

One -- who won? Nobody won. I thought there was a prize. I am sure

Cuadrilla were watching closely. We have had a lot of comments on it.

Yes, Colin was saying no. He said the problem with this is that the

gas retrieved will be sold to the highest bidder to keep the price

high, so we will not see any financial benefit, just like North

Sea gas. Another person said, we were hoodwinked into believing that

wind turbines would bring us cheaper electricity, and that was a lie, so

no to fracking in my area. Stuart Hamilton is in the yes camp. He

said, the rest of the UK were happy to see the coalfields destroy

agriculture. Fracking would be less destructive. Elliott Green from

London says, I would only allow fracking in my area if I knew it

would reduce the nation's asked Bill as a whole, otherwise those

benefiting would be the gas companies. We need to be assured

that the savings will be passed on to the public. Also, make sure the

check is cleared when they give it to you. Can we finish on a happy

note and wish somebody a happy birthday. 116 years old today. This

is Misao Okawa. We would sing happy birthday, but we have not got time.

That is all we have time for for today. Thank you to Ruby. Her book,

Sane New World, it's out now, and she's touring the UK. You can see

Lynn and Sophie's watchdog Test House on BBC One on weekdays at

11:45am . And thank you to the Nice Bristols and good luck in the

frisbee championships. If you would like to be our team of the week and

come to our studio for Wednesday's show, e-mail us at the usual

address. You don't have to be in a sports team. She is so naughty! But

it has been lovely to have you here. X factor winner Sam Bailey will be

here tomorrow. As we are in the middle of a strongly weak, we leave

you with some of your pictures from across the UK of Jupiter. See you

tomorrow. Goodbye. MUSIC: "Jupiter", from Gustav

Holst's The Planets. Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your

90 second update. A ?100 million draft plan's been

drawn up to combat severe flooding in Somerset. The BBC's seen it -

ministers get it tomorrow. The proposals include a tidal barrier

near Bridgwater. Oscar Pistorius fired a gun in a

restaurant and then