05/06/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.

Tonight we've got two fantastic guests.

The first is one fifth of the biggest boyband in the world -

And the other is one third of a trio of grumpy old men

Please welcome Niall Horan and James May!

We're starting with the sad news that Peter Sallis passed away. He

was 96. Some people compare you three, to the guys from Last of the

Summer Wine. Are you all right with that? Without wishing to sound sick,

with all due respect to him, it was the role I would have wanted. God

rest in. If you were lucky enough to meet Peter then send us a picture.

Niall, you were last night at the One Love Manchester concert. What

did you take away from that experience? There was a real sense

of unity but I couldn't believe. You know what they are like up there,

just full of strong characters. It was great to be involved. I was

really happy I got the invite, it was an honour to be there. There's a

great sense of unity at a terrible time. It was unbelievable to see. It

was all very last minute. Yes, Ariana called me a couple of days

after it happened and said, I want to do something, if I do something

really get involved. Obviously, no-brainer. She's a good friend of

mine as well. It was a beautiful concert. It was a great night,

everyone stayed around until the end. I was so happy I went.

Our Michelle was also at the concert which raised ?2.7 million,

bringing the latest total for the We Love Manchester Emergency

And she spent the day with some of the audience members who'd been

at the Ariana Grande gig during the attack two weeks ago.

Two young girls getting ready for a night out. In just seven hours'

time, Molly and Maddie will be heading to their second ever

concert. Their first was at the Manchester Arena just two weeks ago.

The first part was really fun, the atmosphere was really great and

everybody had their phones out, taking pictures. What was it like

when the attack happened? Someone yelled bomb, and then everyone was

pushing and shoving and screaming. When we got outside, everyone was

really upset and crying. To do their bit to help raise money for the

Manchester emergency fund, they have decided to do a sponsored swim. Why

was it important for you to do some fundraising? I know a lot of

people's best friends are in hospital at the moment. So that

people know we are there for them. Obviously you guys are going to Old

Trafford tonight. You've got your T-shirts, you're all

set up, how are you feeling about tonight? Excited but still a bit

nervous, after the London ones as well. Accompanying the girls are

their mums, Emma and Helen. They were at the first concert too. If

you days after the 22nd, I was thinking that was their first

concert and that's all they know. To be offered free tickets to go here,

even though we both felt shaky, it wasn't too much of a decision. They

are going to see a good time, they are going to be fine. On Saturday

evening there was the attack in London. It brought back memories. It

is teaching our children that the world is a bit of a scary place,

unfortunately we can't always protect them from everything. What

happened was every parent's worst nightmare. You can only minimise the

risks. They need to know we can't stand and hide in our houses, we

have to get up and get on, really. It's two hours until the concert

starts and there is a positive atmosphere amongst the crowd. I'm

keen to catch up with father and daughter Jamie and Poppy. Last

Friday they told The One Show they felt compelled to come back and see

Ariana tonight. How do they feel? In light of what happened in London,

another attack, how do you feel? Have your opinions changed?

Absolutely not, even more determined to be here. Obviously senses are

heightened, a bit apprehensive, probably more than we already were.

But it's a tribute to those who have lost their lives or been injured and

we owe it to them to go and have a good time, and also showed terrorism

they aren't going to win. What does it mean to you to be her? I want to

show my support. For many of the 14,000 here who were at the original

concert, emotions are running high. I was waiting for her, fortunately

we are all here. One of our friends got injured quite badly. They are

all right, those. You're here, what made you come? Tough, we have to be

tough. We can't let them beat us. Dad, don't cry! It's incredibly

emotional. It's important we are here. And the artist as well, you've

just got to carry on. Is the anticipation builds, that's a view

shared by everyone here tonight, including Maddie Molly. We're

excited, we are all good to go! CHEERING

Behind to beat, almost 50,000 people are joining Ariana Grande in have

found not to let hatred win. And, after a moment of reflection, it's

time to let the music do the talking. MUSIC

The music is loud, but more importantly, the voices of the crowd

are even louder. They are hip to support the victims of the

Manchester and London attacks, and deliver a message of resilience to

the rest of the world -- they are here to support the victims. All of

the artists were brilliant but Ariana handled herself with such

poise, it was such a difficult concept for her. I sent her a

message on the way home, thanking her for inviting me and putting on

the show in what was probably seven or eight days. She put it all

together, called everyone, getting the license and stuff like that.

From day one she was unbelievable. She was fantastic.

Niall - at the concert you performed your new single Slow Hands,

which you are singing live for us at the end of the show.

It's very folk with old rock. Kind of Fleetwood Mac style. Is that what

you set out to do always? I was brought up with two parents born in

the 60s. I was brought up with the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac... Look at his

face! I was going to say you're too young but it was your mum and dad!

They get all the credit! I always knew if I was to make an album, I

would make it on what I grew up on. I try to make it a good blend of

everything. There's no date for the release but we need a date tonight.

I'm doing loads of promo. I'm going to be flat-out doing that. When I

get back, I'm hoping October or November. So before Christmas. Give

yourself a deadline, it's always good! LAUGHTER It's finished but

I'll text you when it's coming out! How do you choose all the songs? I

read that you wrote 6070? I wrote about 50 songs. You go through

phases of writing terrible stuff, too. I whittled it down nice and

slowly and here we are. You recorded This Town with Frank Sinatra's

microphone, didn't you? Yes, I spent the day at Capitol records and we

got to use the studio and we used Frank's actual microphone. That's

quite a moment, isn't it? I'm a huge fan so it's really cool. Did you try

and take it with you? Nope. Good answer! James, you studied music at

university, didn't you? I did but mainly classical. I didn't think I

would have a career in it. I didn't think I was good enough. At the time

it's what I could do. I have played Marvin Gaye's piano, though. It was

in a corner and they said you can have a go, I played it for about

five minutes. The flaw is all worn away underneath it where people tap

their feet. It's a funny moment for you because all of you boys are

releasing around the same time. We had carried on two weeks ago. If

that tough, is that a lot of rivalry? I guess you support each

other but it's hard for the fans to know which way to go, I suppose. You

can have all of us at the same time! LAUGHTER I think it's brilliant. We

didn't overthink anything in terms of releases. Do you try and plan it

so they don't coincide? Obviously we try and stay away from each other in

some respects but we don't overthink it. We are all in touch and

congratulating each other and stuff like that. Do you have a favourite

song of the other lads? Me and Harry would have this closest taste of

music so we would have listened to a lot of the same stuff. Harry

probably the closest. His new stuff is really good, his album is

brilliant. James May, favourite 1D song? Your first hit, the one where

you up on the beach? LAUGHTER I like that! I remember watching the video

and thinking, that was me, wants, without the singing and the music!

And the cameras! Before you became Last of the Summer Wine! LAUGHTER We

did pounds around on the beach to the Rolling Stones and things, quite

nostalgic! We believe we may have found one of the earliest pictures

of Niall playing the guitar! That's a beauty, isn't it? Was that a

Christmas present? I'm sure it was. I was destined for it! Absolutely!

James doesn't just like to play guitars, he likes to take them apart

and put them back together again. I've just finished reassembling this

classic electric guitar which has taken me six hours and 11 minutes.

I've built Lucifer's leapt up from its individual parts carefully and

lovingly. Now it's time to wake up the rock gods and see if the bad boy

works. PLAYS GUITAR. Sounding good! It looks like you've

taken one of Niall's guitars apart! That wasn't me actually playing, it

was just a joke, I can't play the guitar! If you keep watching there's

a bloke standing behind me and he's put his arms around it. I can only

play the piano. Our coffee table has somehow collapsed and we've got a

new one for you to rebuild. You have seen me play the guitar. To

be honest, I used to have this coffee table, it was the cheapest

one in the shop but it was the cheapest one in the shop but it's a

very civil. It looks... I'm not sure. What do we think? This is all

to do with your series called The Reassembler and all of the items are

being reassembled into this book. Shall I help or will I make an idiot

of myself? Alex struggles with the concept of reassembling, don't you?

A bit, the pictures in the book are pretty amazing. Look at this comedy

is so into building the coffee table. We are busy! James Connor the

book has these amazing pictures of items you have completely taken

apart and laid out the components. I don't take them apart, someone else

does otherwise I would know what to do. And then you put them back

together so what is the idea behind it? I don't know! LAUGHTER

The idea is, it is a way of learning about the history of technology, it

is a way of warning yourself from history that the past was not quite

as nice as we thought, a lot of things in the past were quite

terrible like that old telephone. It is also a form of therapy, I think.

The book is not a how-to manual or an instruction book, it is a book of

philosophy which will sit on library shelves next to Barthes and

Descartes, or maybe in the little thing that says two for 50p. We saw

a lovely picture of Niall playing guitar when he was young so when was

the first time you find your love of reassembling? Well, it starts... I

can't do this and talk. You could just leave it, sit back down. You

were expecting Jeremy Clarkson, weren't you? You don't need that. It

probably started, one of my earliest memories as a small child was trying

to take an alarm clock apart that my parents had. This was the 60s

because I'm the same age as your parents probably but their alarm

clock was a proper clockwork one that made noises and I knew

something was happening inside. This is all in the book. I had learned

what a screwdriver was because there was the kitchen drawer and I

thought, "If I take those out, I will see what mysteries inside the

clock". But of course, it is a wind-up alarm clock so you take the

screw out and it explodes. I didn't get it back together but maybe that

was the moment that made me think at some point in my life, I have to

complete this process which started as a child and there was no closure.

All right could just be really dull and like putting things together, I

don't know. A bit of both. You have got an obsession with tools which we

can't quite into because we have to move on but we wanted to ask you

about screwdrivers. We like it for opening paint. Wrong. They are for

doing up and underling screws and that is it. Just stick to that.

Baggaley that's it for a mains tester but that is usually

accidental. Can we talk about the second series of Grand Tour Oztumer

yes. How will it look in comparison to the last is because you put a lot

of your own money into it so are you spending more on the second series

than the first? As little as possible! No, it's about the same,

it's quite expensive to make the show, there's a lot of travel

involved. There's a lot of crew and very high-tech involved, we film in

4K, storage and stuff, that is quite boring so it will look largely the

same but we have moved it on in a way I can't really tell you about

because you are the enemy and it is the grid. When will we be able to

see it? October is when you will first be able to see it but then you

will be able to see it whenever you want, I'm told to say that because

it is on demand. Someone else we know

who loves a construction And the one he's been

following is slightly bigger For four years, The One Show has

been following the construction of the new Queensferry crossing outside

Edinburgh, the largest engineering project in Scotland for a

generation. The engineers have had to overcome huge challenges. Back in

2013, they held back the waves, to build the foundations on the sea

floor. This is amazing! I love it! A year later, they constructed the

bridge's nearly two mile long span and finally, last year, they erected

the cables to support the highest bridge in the UK. The engineers have

one final anniversary to overcome. And traffic chaos again as the Forth

road bridge is closed. A lorry has blown over Armstrong went in the

northbound carriageway and hit the central reservation. The existing

Forth road bridge has been plagued by disruption due to high winds

throughout its 50 year history. Transport Scotland are determined

the Newbridge won't suffer the same fate. The engineers have been issued

with a challenge. A high sided vehicle like a double-decker bus or

a lorry has to be able to travel across the bridge at 60 mph in a

gale force wind. The man charged with finding a way to keep the

bridge open, even in wild winds, is engineer Mike lover. If you can get

to the bridge, whatever the weather conditions, you will be able to

cross it. That is quite a promised so how is science going to help him

achieve it? The key weapon against the weather that Mike and his team

have at their disposal is a wind barrier but the design of the

barrier is all-important. What I have got here is my bridge section

and I have installed onto it a solid wind barrier, here. Which is going

to rather spoil the view of anybody driving across the bridge, but, you

know, safety first. What I need now is some winds.

At first, it looks like my lorry is protected by the solid barrier but

as I increased the speed, a serious problem arises. A solid barrier like

this acts like a giant sale, capturing the wind. The real bridges

nearly two miles long. If you had a barrier like this along the entire

length, in high winds, it would rip the bridge apart. So these days,

bridge engineers use wind barriers with holes in which have a

surprising effect. You would think that if you have large gaps in your

barrier, the wind would just blow through and the traffic. Well, let's

see what happens. -- and hit the traffic. As the wind picks up, my

barrier is put to the test and yet, my lorry does not blow over. This

design of wind barrier works because the slatted structure diffuses the

wind. Although some of the wind goes through the barrier, it does not

trouble the lorry because the slats break up the wind. It turns one

giant gale into lots of little breezes. But even slatted wind

barriers can't usually keep high sided vehicles moving at motorway

speeds in strong wind. Mike and his team worked on a design that could

achieve this for four years. First, they used computer modelling to

assess the effectiveness of different configurations of slats,

to disperse the wind. They then tested their most promising designs

in one of the largest wind tunnels in the world. The unique design may

have finally installed is a 3.5 metre high steel and Perspex

barrier. The slats are a very specific angles, and the spacing is

closer at the top than at the bottom which means that the wind is forced

up and over the traffic. The geometry of a windshield is

particular to the location but there are certain characteristics that I

think will be carried through into bridges into the future. The new

wind barrier means that for the first time, buses and lorries should

be able to zoom across the Forth at motorway speeds, even in the highest

wind and thanks to this small yet significant piece of engineering,

this sound... The Forth road bridge is closed in both directions...

Should be a thing of the past. Fascinating. Earlier, we asked for

pictures of you with Peter Faleh Suwead Al Ajami away today at the

age of 96. We have this one here from Sue in Bristol on set with

Peter in 2002. She says she used to go to what watch them filming in

Yorkshire and he always knew his life and was a real professional.

Elaine has sent this in, a picture of Alan onset at Holmfirth with

Cleggy or James May! His book 'The Reassembler'

is out now. Now, though, performing his

new single, Slow Hands, # "We should take this

back to my place" # That's what she said

right to my face # I've been thinking

'bout it all day # And I hope you feel

the same way, yeah # Like sweat dripping

down our dirty laundry # That I'm leaving

here without you on me # Yeah, I already know

that there ain't no stopping # We could do this,

baby, all night, yeah # Like sweat dripping

down our dirty laundry # That I'm leaving

here without you on me # Yeah, I already know

that there ain't no stopping # Wanna be with you all alone

# Take me home, take me home # Can't you tell that

I want you, baby, yeah # Like sweat dripping

down our dirty laundry # That I'm leaving

here without you on me # Yeah, I already know

that there ain't no stopping # Like sweat dripping

down our dirty laundry # That I'm leaving

here without you on me # Yeah, I already know

that there ain't no stopping # Your plans and those

slow hands (woo) With you beside me -

whatever life sends. # Will I ever get better,

better...? #