:00:23. > :00:28.Hello and thank you for tuning in. Read the next bit, Alex. Lovely to
:00:28. > :00:32.have you back, Chris. They do very much. Tonight's guest is the pop
:00:32. > :00:37.star, actor and sex symbol who graced a million bedroom walls in
:00:37. > :00:47.the '70s. Now he is Eddie Moon in EastEnders. Tonight, the only way
:00:47. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:00.is Essex, David Essex! Good evening. Thank you. Alex, stop having these
:01:00. > :01:07.cool dudes on on Friday night. look very smart. I made an effort.
:01:07. > :01:11.It is the weekend. Shall we go out later? If you want. Big Tom went
:01:11. > :01:15.out with us afterwards. We marked the guests on whether they come up
:01:15. > :01:20.with us or not. We will sort something out. It has been a big
:01:20. > :01:25.year for you. You joined EastEnders in June. Yeah, it has been
:01:25. > :01:28.wonderful. It is fast and furious. It is quite intimidating when you
:01:28. > :01:32.go into it. But to work with the calibre of actors I have been
:01:32. > :01:37.working with has been brilliant. The level of performance that I
:01:37. > :01:43.think the actors come up with and the writers and directors, all the
:01:43. > :01:49.way through, given the kind of intensity of the schedule is
:01:49. > :01:54.phenomenal. You have brought gravity to it as well. It has gone
:01:54. > :01:58.well. You have hit it out of the park. It is such a high-profile
:01:58. > :02:03.programme that if you get it wrong... And it is the first time
:02:03. > :02:08.you have been on telly talking about it. We will talk more later.
:02:08. > :02:13.David Essex was originally called David Cook. That's right, I changed
:02:13. > :02:18.my name because you could not join Equity if there was an existing
:02:18. > :02:28.member called Cook, and there was. So my manager said, what about
:02:28. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:34.Essex. Luckily, it was not Middlesex. This was inspired by you.
:02:34. > :02:44.So we have David Essex in Essex. I am rubbish at this. Up here, we
:02:44. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :03:01.have got Rod Hull. What about the That works for me. Let's go down a
:03:01. > :03:11.bit. We have Michael Bolton. about going to London for George W
:03:11. > :03:14.
:03:14. > :03:20.If we go to Wales, we have got Lisa Snowdon. At was grasping at straws
:03:20. > :03:25.this afternoon. Simon Weston Super Mare. You can join in with this
:03:25. > :03:31.game. We want to know if your surname is also a place in the UK.
:03:31. > :03:37.Send us a picture of yourself and tell us where you live. We look
:03:37. > :03:41.like weather presenters. We are looking for Manchesters in Bristol
:03:41. > :03:48.or Bristol as Machin Manchester. Send them in and we will show some
:03:48. > :03:52.of the best later. How about a bit of weapon in Edinburgh? Angela is
:03:52. > :03:56.there. -- a bit of Ripon in Edinburgh.
:03:56. > :04:06.Yes, you have joined me on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. I am
:04:06. > :04:07.
:04:07. > :04:12.surrounded by thousands of people. We have a fire-eaters and jugglers.
:04:12. > :04:16.And even statues. This atmosphere is amazing. It is going to stay
:04:16. > :04:21.like this for the next three weeks, because this is the greatest show
:04:21. > :04:25.of its kind in the world. More than 40,000 performances will be given
:04:25. > :04:29.here in 250 locations. We thought, what can we bring you that will
:04:29. > :04:35.give you the atmosphere of the Edinburgh Festival? So I looked
:04:35. > :04:40.through his extraordinary catalogue, and we came up with this. This is a
:04:40. > :04:44.group of young Colombian circus performers. They are from
:04:44. > :04:48.disadvantaged backgrounds. They were street children until this
:04:48. > :04:52.woman came into their lives. Felicity Simpson, how did you
:04:52. > :04:57.change these children from the streets of Colombia into a world-
:04:57. > :05:02.class -- world-class acrobats? is not down to me, it is their life
:05:02. > :05:06.choice. They are all graduates of the world's first circus school
:05:06. > :05:10.specifically for children from difficult backgrounds. What sort of
:05:10. > :05:14.skills did they need? Straight, clearly. It is a four year course
:05:14. > :05:19.where they learn acrobatics, ballet, all the different disciplines you
:05:19. > :05:27.will be seeing. But they also learn vital social skills such as
:05:27. > :05:32.trusting each other. You are going to catch me! And discipline. Or all
:05:32. > :05:38.of those things that will change their lives. We will see more of
:05:38. > :05:45.them later. In the meantime, take a bow!
:05:45. > :05:49.What a lovely evening in Edinburgh. Now, football is back. The
:05:49. > :05:56.Community should takes place this weekend. There have already been
:05:56. > :06:00.lots of Friendly's. Last week, a statue was unveiled at the Coventry
:06:00. > :06:03.ground of footballing legend Jimmy Hill. Why is he a legend? Because
:06:03. > :06:07.he revolutionised the way the game is played and the way the players
:06:07. > :06:11.are paid. He here is Phil Tufnell on wife Colleen Rooney has Jimmy
:06:11. > :06:15.Hill to thank for the size of her walk-in wardrobe and her heated
:06:15. > :06:19.horse box. That was Jordan. I can't keep up.
:06:19. > :06:23.Top footballers in England are superstars, paid what some say fire
:06:23. > :06:27.obscene amounts of money. But it has not always been like that. 50
:06:27. > :06:31.years ago, footballers were paid about the same as the average
:06:31. > :06:35.factory worker. Football club owners agreed on a salary cap,
:06:35. > :06:39.restricting wages to just �20 a week. But that changed in January
:06:39. > :06:44.1961, when the players threatened to go on strike. The players have
:06:44. > :06:48.long argued against the maximum wage. The campaign for a fairer
:06:48. > :06:51.system was led by Jimmy Hill, the head of the Professional
:06:51. > :06:56.Footballers' Association. ambitious lad who will be looking
:06:56. > :07:00.for his next pound or two to add to his wages has to turn his attention
:07:00. > :07:04.outside the game. That meant even star players like Tom Finney had
:07:04. > :07:09.part-time jobs on the side. He was known as the Preston plumber.
:07:09. > :07:17.Former England captain Jimmy Armfield and Tom banks were players
:07:17. > :07:21.keen to see change. Goal! They could not stop the magician and
:07:21. > :07:25.that is Phil Tufnell. It must have been frustrating being England
:07:25. > :07:32.internationals and getting paid 20 quid a week. We accepted it, and
:07:32. > :07:36.most of us were happy. When there was a disturbance, some players
:07:36. > :07:41.were apprehensive because they were wondering what effect it might have.
:07:41. > :07:47.What changed that? Jimmy Hill changed it all. He was the man with
:07:47. > :07:52.the ambition and the drive and the words. He got on television and
:07:52. > :07:55.changed everything. He was a gem. Meetings were held by Jimmy Hill to
:07:55. > :08:00.discuss strike action. Many players were happy with their lot and felt
:08:00. > :08:03.that they did not deserve more than people with normal jobs, but at one
:08:03. > :08:09.crucial strike meeting, Tommy Banks made a telling contribution that
:08:09. > :08:15.convinced many players that they deserved more. He said, let's get
:08:15. > :08:21.on with it, and got up. My dad works in the pit, and he only gets
:08:21. > :08:24.that. And he said, will there be 33,000 people watching him
:08:24. > :08:33.shovelling coal? Would you have gone on strike if push came to
:08:33. > :08:37.shove? If the union wanted us to go, we would have gone.
:08:37. > :08:41.But the threat of a strike was enough. The club's caved in to
:08:41. > :08:48.Jimmy Hill's demands, the salary cap was abolished and the wages
:08:48. > :08:55.shot up. I went to 40, and I thought I was a millionaire until I
:08:56. > :09:02.went to play for England. Then someone was paid �100 a week by the
:09:02. > :09:06.then chairman, and I suddenly felt undervalued. The wage cap had gone.
:09:06. > :09:10.The players had started the transformation to the super-rich.
:09:10. > :09:13.And the superstars they have become today. It is claimed that higher
:09:13. > :09:17.wages have broken the bonds between the players and fans. In the old
:09:17. > :09:22.days, the players would get on the same bus as the supporters. Now
:09:22. > :09:26.they roll up in their Ferraris. Ahead of the player -- the head of
:09:26. > :09:30.the players' union is Sir Gordon Taylor. In my day, if you were not
:09:30. > :09:33.playing well, you still got booed. If you were doing well, they did
:09:34. > :09:38.not care what you earned. They have taken over from celebrities like
:09:38. > :09:42.film stars and pop stars. If you go to a concert, you are not bothered
:09:42. > :09:48.about what they are getting paid. It is the same with a film.
:09:48. > :09:56.Everybody has the right to do the best they can for themselves.
:09:56. > :10:00.the modern day superstars away debt of thanks to Jimmy Hill? I would
:10:00. > :10:05.include him in my prayers every night. So has big money spoiled the
:10:05. > :10:09.game? It has certainly changed almost out of recognition. Fellows,
:10:09. > :10:14.would you swap playing against Tom Finney and Stanley Matthews for the
:10:14. > :10:19.money they get now? I would have no second thoughts. If I could have
:10:19. > :10:23.what they have today. conditions are better, the pictures
:10:23. > :10:33.are better, the wages are better, everything is better. So it is
:10:33. > :10:37.better nowadays? Just about. Jimmy Hill revolutionised the game.
:10:37. > :10:43.Hats off to him. Speaking of football, you used to play for West
:10:43. > :10:51.Ham juniors. Yet, with the dinosaurs in the background. Quite
:10:51. > :10:58.a while ago. I got to about 13, and then I got besotted by blues music.
:10:58. > :11:04.And I thought, what can I do, play and his twin? So I start to play
:11:04. > :11:11.drums. And it went downhill from there. When did acting come into
:11:11. > :11:16.it? I was lucky. I had a mentor who was a theatre critic and spoke
:11:16. > :11:20.eight languages. He was my manager. I was a kid from the East End who
:11:20. > :11:25.had never seen theatre. But he started to take me to the theatre
:11:25. > :11:30.and I joined a repertory company when I was about 18. It was
:11:30. > :11:37.terrific. You learn so much. There were usually only about four little
:11:37. > :11:40.old ladies at the end of the peer, but it was a learning experience.
:11:40. > :11:47.Now you are and EastEnders. But weren't you supposed to join in
:11:47. > :11:53.2006? I know it. The timing was not right. But I am pleased I went in
:11:53. > :11:57.this time. This character that we came up with together with the
:11:57. > :12:04.writers, it has been a challenge and it is special to play him. I
:12:04. > :12:10.have enjoyed it. I am blown away by the quality of the actors, with the
:12:10. > :12:15.amount of pressure. And the scriptwriting. It is like a
:12:15. > :12:19.logistical nightmare, you can imagine. They are working ahead. I
:12:19. > :12:24.come out of the programme next Friday, but I am still on screen
:12:24. > :12:31.until October. There are some massive storylines coming up for
:12:31. > :12:37.the character I play. You have only been there since June. April.
:12:37. > :12:42.researched this?! That was my fault. Here is unit with your son, Michael.
:12:42. > :12:45.Don't pretend you have changed, coming round here like some
:12:45. > :12:55.reformed character does because you have a bit of grey in your hair. I
:12:55. > :13:02.see through you. You are so full of anger. I get that. I used to fill
:13:02. > :13:09.the same way, pent up, trapped. Not knowing which way to turn. Always
:13:09. > :13:18.one foot out of the door. difference is, I choose not to get
:13:18. > :13:23.pinned down. I don't pretend I and many different. Really good stuff.
:13:23. > :13:28.But as you said, you are going away to do All The Fun Of The Fair, your
:13:28. > :13:36.musical. But this is your first telly chat. Will you come back to
:13:36. > :13:41.EastEnders? We want an exclusive. am not sure. You must know it!
:13:41. > :13:45.have been asked to come back because it has gone well. Hopefully
:13:45. > :13:48.a film of All The Fun Of The Fair is happening after the tour. Then
:13:48. > :13:53.there is another film I have been asked to do. I'd just finished a
:13:53. > :13:57.film before EastEnders, and I have done a soundtrack for that. There
:13:57. > :14:05.are lots of things. I am lucky. I seem to be able to work in
:14:05. > :14:12.different mediums. Her, on, would you say 50-50, 70-30, that you will
:14:12. > :14:18.be back? Give us something. It has been a great challenge. I have
:14:18. > :14:28.enjoyed it. He is sitting on his hands, literally. We will leave it
:14:28. > :14:29.
:14:29. > :14:36.Foodie Friday his back. Unfortunately its host isn't. He is
:14:36. > :14:42.still on holiday but Antonia Carluccio will be joining a Chorley.
:14:42. > :14:52.Here is virtual J on how we fell in love with the taste of Italy.
:14:52. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:02.The UK looks Italian food. Each year we spend billions on the taste
:15:02. > :15:07.of fresh herbs, tomatoes, and olive oil that typified Italian cuisine.
:15:07. > :15:16.Now Peter and pastis as familiar as pies and potatoes it is easy to
:15:16. > :15:21.forget how exotic it was a few decades ago. We were once so
:15:21. > :15:24.unfamiliar with pasta in 1957 many BBC viewers were taken in when
:15:24. > :15:29.Panorama played an April Fool with this film about spaghetti growing
:15:29. > :15:34.on trees. Many of you will have seen the pictures of the vast
:15:34. > :15:41.spaghetti plantations. Fast forward to today and sales of past they
:15:41. > :15:45.have risen a phenomenal 500% in 20 years rivalling the potato as the
:15:45. > :15:50.basis for the typical British family meal. How did the Italian
:15:50. > :15:55.edition of the British palate, back? I have come to our own
:15:55. > :16:00.Italian hot spot. Bedford? Here an estimated one in seven of the
:16:01. > :16:05.population is of Italian descent. In the 1950s the local brickworks
:16:05. > :16:15.needed labour and tend to young men from southern Italy. Many stayed,
:16:15. > :16:18.brought their families and brought food. This man arrived aged seven
:16:18. > :16:24.and his father at set-up this family restaurant after leaving the
:16:24. > :16:28.brickworks. When I used to go to school the kids would move away
:16:28. > :16:33.from me because they said I smelt of garlic. They didn't take to our
:16:33. > :16:40.food at all. What about customers today, do they know a lot more?
:16:40. > :16:45.can tell by the requests we get from customers. They want gold
:16:45. > :16:49.peppers, Parma ham, type of ingredients they were not
:16:49. > :16:54.previously asking for, but clearly they are now travelling more and
:16:54. > :16:58.expecting more. Do the locals embrace their Italian food
:16:58. > :17:04.heritage? There you are one of the Bedford Italians. If you brought an
:17:04. > :17:11.Italian ready meal would you be disowned dashboard. Probably, yes.
:17:11. > :17:16.It is not the same. I and Queen of the ready meals. In terms of pasta,
:17:16. > :17:26.pretty much of the shelf. The good it is easier? I have no idea how it
:17:26. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:34.is done. I'd do use microwave food. Ready meal versions are met with
:17:34. > :17:38.the movement -- amazement and scorn. I try and steal away from them.
:17:38. > :17:43.They are not Italian, they are classic replicas. What do you think
:17:43. > :17:48.about customers to come in and ask for pineapple on a pizza? It is not
:17:48. > :17:53.Italian food. Pineapple, barbecue force -- source, that is not
:17:53. > :18:02.Italian food. What is the worst thing? We do a fish Peter and
:18:02. > :18:12.somebody asked for Banana. -- Peter. They do have Paul Berrow and banana.
:18:12. > :18:16.They used the excuse that their Your dad died a few years ago, what
:18:16. > :18:22.would he have made of the way Italian food had become part and
:18:22. > :18:25.parcel of British culture? He would have enjoyed seeing what had
:18:25. > :18:35.happened and seen how the client tell enjoy their Italian food.
:18:35. > :18:39.to taste Bedford's genuine article. That is the way he should be. Crisp,
:18:39. > :18:43.ingredients are fresh, you can see where the flames have got to the
:18:43. > :18:53.edge of the crust. You don't get anything like this if you get one
:18:53. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :19:01.Antonia Carluccio is here. How were you? Extremely well. What else have
:19:01. > :19:09.you given us we should be unbelievably grateful for? Shall I
:19:09. > :19:18.be a stereotype and say it love? want the truth. Food, we have here
:19:18. > :19:23.the famous carpacchio. That has been transformed into something
:19:23. > :19:32.because you have carpacchio or fish or whatever. The original was this
:19:32. > :19:39.one in Venice. A woman came from the exhibition about carpacchio and
:19:39. > :19:43.she was pale and the waiter said it a bit of meat, I am. He gave her a
:19:43. > :19:50.slice of beef like this. They went to the kit chin, got some mustard
:19:50. > :19:58.and catch up, and that is what happened -- kitchen. We will get
:19:58. > :20:04.stuck into that. The travesty now in England is that they don't beat
:20:04. > :20:14.it as they should be. Can I apologise? We promised to beat it
:20:14. > :20:19.harder and better. Beat the meet, I know what you're saying. What have
:20:19. > :20:29.we really messed up? If you take for example spaghetti bolognese,
:20:29. > :20:30.
:20:30. > :20:40.this is a horror film. Look at that. First of all, it is not spaghetti,
:20:40. > :20:45.
:20:45. > :20:54.it should be tagliatelle. It responds better to the taste buds.
:20:54. > :21:04.Carry on. And hand-made tagliatelle, it has another effect on the palate.
:21:04. > :21:05.
:21:05. > :21:15.The taste is the most important thing. So you have tagliatelle
:21:15. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:30.ragout. -- ragu. This is made in England by English. No good. Sorry,
:21:30. > :21:40.that is miles better than ours. But in cream in carbonara. I see one
:21:40. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:45.has even mushrooms. This is the British carbonara. That one is the
:21:45. > :21:55.one from Rome. It is only just you can Begg, a bit of panned ETA and
:21:55. > :22:00.
:22:00. > :22:04.nothing else -- the joke from one egg, a bit of ham. --yolk.
:22:04. > :22:14.Interesting how food changes. When Indian food came over all the meat
:22:14. > :22:19.was on the bone. Have a taste of that. That is really good. Antonia,
:22:19. > :22:28.Cammy saving you very much for coming in. You an absolute legend.
:22:28. > :22:34.-- Antonio, can we just say thank you very much.
:22:34. > :22:40.Moving on, time for our final visit to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Rescue
:22:40. > :22:43.Centre. Miranda is hanging with the chicks.
:22:43. > :22:49.My week here at Tiggywinkles has been full of the joys of spring. I
:22:49. > :22:55.have seen little, Herod -- heads held -- a hedgehog and herons,
:22:55. > :22:59.ducklings and deer, but sadly it is my last day. This is probably the
:22:59. > :23:02.one place that needs my help most. The bird nursery where all the
:23:02. > :23:12.little baby birds come when they enter the hospital. I have just
:23:12. > :23:15.been handed, look at this, these tiny birds. It is feeding time.
:23:15. > :23:22.Pretty much twentyfour seven in this room but they have just
:23:22. > :23:25.arrived so they are due for eight feet. During May, June and July
:23:25. > :23:32.3,000 baby birds arrive here usually having been orphaned or
:23:32. > :23:37.fallen out of nests. Over 200 are mixed together in indoor aviaries,
:23:37. > :23:47.rather clever dog will nests. You have got a veritable assortment of
:23:47. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:56.Baby Bird. A lot of great tits, a little piqued. Blackbirds as well.
:23:56. > :24:02.Because they have such small stomachs and high metabolism in
:24:02. > :24:08.needs to people constantly feeding them all day. Why do they have to
:24:08. > :24:17.be fed so often, they are tiny? the mild -- in the wild their
:24:17. > :24:23.mother would constantly be feeding them. They do manage to do it every
:24:23. > :24:27.15 minutes which is quite an achievement as there is special
:24:27. > :24:33.food for the seed eaters, worms for the older insect eaters, and a
:24:33. > :24:40.special concoction for the others. What is that? That is something we
:24:40. > :24:46.may cure ourselves with dried insects, water, supplement. Is that
:24:46. > :24:51.exclusive to Tiggywinkles? Yes. Where so we start? With these guys
:24:51. > :24:56.ever hear. Look at that reaction, that is amazing. The moment you tap
:24:56. > :25:00.them on the beak their mouth is wide-open, gaping, just ready for
:25:00. > :25:06.their food. It is a testament to the staff feeding from dusk till
:25:06. > :25:12.Dawn that 80% of the baby birds survive. But the novelty wears off
:25:12. > :25:16.after you have done it? No, it doesn't.
:25:16. > :25:21.On my last day I couldn't leave without visiting my favourite
:25:21. > :25:26.patient. Earlier in the week I introduced you to a very special
:25:26. > :25:31.visitor here. This is Casper, the White Fox. He has lost the use of
:25:31. > :25:34.his back legs. He spent the last couple of days dragging his legs
:25:34. > :25:41.behind him and will work it is thought his back is any bruised we
:25:41. > :25:48.want to see if he can use his legs by testing them in water. He can
:25:48. > :25:51.swim. They are moving backwards and forwards. They are really working.
:25:51. > :25:58.Because most mammals have a swimming reflex it is a great way
:25:58. > :26:03.of testing limbs and swore -- stopping muscles from wasting.
:26:03. > :26:07.automatically swims so the back legs on moving. Great news but as
:26:07. > :26:16.this is his first swim that is plentiful today. Shall be taken
:26:16. > :26:19.that now? Have you had enough? -- shall we take him out now.
:26:19. > :26:24.Just amazing that whatever you can do for humans, you can do for
:26:24. > :26:29.animals. He cannot use his back legs but a bit of hydrotherapy, he
:26:29. > :26:33.will be back on his feet soon. What a lovely way to end a fantastic
:26:33. > :26:38.week here. The baby her job there was pushed out of the nest is still
:26:38. > :26:43.doing well. -- Hedgehog. And the baby shrews have been sent to a
:26:43. > :26:49.foster farmer. The blue tits in the ashtray have fled as well so time
:26:49. > :26:54.for me to go. In a couple of minutes we will be
:26:54. > :27:04.fledging as well. To where we always fledged two. It is amazing
:27:04. > :27:11.Kaspar is better. He was white and he has got more red. Time to get
:27:11. > :27:17.back to Angela who is making itself comfortable in Edinburgh.
:27:17. > :27:24.I don't get an opportunity to do this every day. While you have been
:27:24. > :27:34.a way they have Tormey one of their trucks. Ready? If you thought that
:27:34. > :27:34.
:27:34. > :28:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 60 seconds
:28:35. > :28:39.was good, wait till you have seen I am going to teach you how to do
:28:40. > :28:44.that when I get back. Thank you so much. David, you are
:28:44. > :28:53.touring. You might be going to Edinburgh. No, we are going to
:28:53. > :29:02.Glasgow. I have somebody called Mr and Mrs Irvine. They live near
:29:02. > :29:08.Glasgow. This is your tour, All The Fun of The Fair, kicks off. Stars
:29:08. > :29:15.and Bellingham and goes for six months. We have got that
:29:15. > :29:20.Derbyshires from Derbyshire. The Yorks from York. And the Eccles