:00:21. > :00:24.Hello. Welcome to your Wednesday hour-long edition of the One Show.
:00:24. > :00:28.Tonight a full house of One Show viewers and game makers who will be
:00:28. > :00:32.sharing their thoughts on some of the stories we will be covering
:00:32. > :00:35.this evening. It is a full house! We have also
:00:35. > :00:40.got Carrie Grant on stand-by to give a well-deserved treat to a man
:00:40. > :00:44.who has been a stalwart in his community for years.
:00:44. > :00:51.We will be meeting Paralympic archers Danielle Brown and Mel
:00:51. > :00:55.Clarke, who are here to show off their medals.
:00:55. > :01:02.Also, John Sergeant is about to blow a fuse over the end of the
:01:02. > :01:08.light bub. Me and him both. Our guest tonight, she has a list as
:01:08. > :01:14.long as your arm of block busting titles to her name. Harry Potter,
:01:14. > :01:23.Nanny McPhee. The list is endless. She is the only person ever to win
:01:23. > :01:33.an Oscar for writing and acting. It's Emma Thompson. It's lovely to
:01:33. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:42.have you with us. Thank you I just love the idea of describing
:01:42. > :01:47.Howard's end as a blockbuster. have to say, you look absolutely
:01:47. > :01:56.gorgeous, with earrings to match the theme of the new book.
:01:56. > :02:03.indeed. Do you want me to tell you now? I have written a book you see.
:02:03. > :02:09.A new Peter Rabbit book. He is 110. This is it. The dress, which you
:02:09. > :02:18.might have worried about, because who wears a big kilt on The One
:02:18. > :02:25.Show, it is the inside of the book you see. It is the same, tartan. It
:02:25. > :02:28.is designed for Peter. I went into a jewellery shop and saw some very
:02:28. > :02:33.interesting fruits and I asked the jewellery maker if she would make
:02:33. > :02:39.me a radish and a carrot, which she has. Which is great, but the only
:02:39. > :02:43.thing is when I take the book to read to children, they become so
:02:43. > :02:51.engrossed with the earrings, that they don't listen to the book. I
:02:51. > :02:59.have to take them off. But they are amazing. It is happening now.
:02:59. > :03:05.Everyone has been saying let me touch your earrings. Can I touch it.
:03:05. > :03:13.This is a big part of the story of how it all came about. The radish
:03:13. > :03:18.is intrinsic to the meaning and depth of the story. It is very
:03:18. > :03:21.radish-centred. I got this extraordinary, I got a little
:03:21. > :03:26.little parcel, it was two years ago, and I got a little parcel wrapped
:03:26. > :03:34.in brown paiper and string, which of course would appeal to my
:03:34. > :03:43.Victorian side. It was this. I brought it in to show you. There is
:03:43. > :03:49.a half eaten radish leaf on the top. Inside, the original is not there
:03:49. > :03:59.but inside was a small coat, belonging to someone that I knew
:03:59. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:06.well. I thought my God it's his coat. Then there was this, a bit of
:04:06. > :04:11.radish leaf with some radish left on it and saying for the attention
:04:11. > :04:17.of Miss Emma Thompson hand delivered by Benjamin bunny he is
:04:17. > :04:25.quir. Inside was a letter my Paul, a letter from Peter to write a new
:04:25. > :04:33.book. You accepted? Of course. If they had said from the publishers,
:04:33. > :04:38.I would say don't be so ridiculous, Bearix Potter has a genius. But
:04:38. > :04:43.because the child part of me thought this is from Peter Rabbit,
:04:43. > :04:48.this is actually from him, I really believed it, so I wrote back to him.
:04:48. > :04:55.So all the correspondence about the book has been between me and Peter.
:04:55. > :05:00.Has he ever been fazed out of the process. I pushed him out when the
:05:00. > :05:05.numbers went up and then I thought that's cruel. He only wants paid in
:05:05. > :05:10.radishes anyway. We will find out more about the whole process later.
:05:10. > :05:14.First up, the latest in our films about people who faced life
:05:15. > :05:19.changing decisions. Unlike some of the others, One Show viewer Lucy
:05:19. > :05:24.Gale had almost no time to weigh up her options. When you are watching
:05:24. > :05:29.this, ask yourself the question, would you have done the same thing?
:05:29. > :05:33.Two years ago I came across an accident on this level crossing.
:05:33. > :05:37.Two cars crashed, one was on the track and a a train was coming and
:05:37. > :05:42.I made my big decision to do something about it. Lucy lives in a
:05:42. > :05:45.small village in Yorkshire, with her partner Doug and 14-year-old
:05:45. > :05:48.daughter Rebecca. Two years ago she was work can as a local taxi driver
:05:48. > :05:53.and one evening in May was taking a regular passenger home, when she
:05:53. > :05:57.came to a level crossing. Tell me about the particular day of the
:05:57. > :06:02.incident. As we got towards the level crossing, the lights were
:06:02. > :06:05.flashing. Meaning a train was approaching. Yes and the barrier
:06:05. > :06:10.was down and I could see there had been an accident and a car had been
:06:10. > :06:15.pushed towards the tracks. I just got out of my car and went to help.
:06:15. > :06:19.The driver of the car on the tracks was pensioner Mary. She had been
:06:19. > :06:24.waiting at the lights at the level crossing when another vehicle hit
:06:24. > :06:28.her from behind, pushing her car on to the track. I need today get her
:06:28. > :06:33.out. She was really, really shocked. Her eyes were wide and she was
:06:33. > :06:37.shaking. With no time to spare, Lucy made her instinctive big
:06:37. > :06:40.decision. As she was struggling to free the injured pensioner from the
:06:40. > :06:43.car, a freight train carrying thousands of tonnes of coal was
:06:43. > :06:49.hurtling down the line less than two minutes away and heading
:06:49. > :06:56.straight for them. I needed help. She never hesitated. She didn't sit
:06:56. > :07:00.back in her car and think it might be dangerous, there is a train
:07:00. > :07:06.coming. She did none of that. She ran into the situation and she
:07:06. > :07:10.helped me out. Thanks to Lucy Mary was now safe, but her car was still
:07:10. > :07:15.on the tracks in the direct path of the freight train now about 40
:07:15. > :07:18.seconds away. The train driver had applied his emergency brakes and
:07:18. > :07:24.signalled his horn but the momentum of the train was too great. It was
:07:24. > :07:28.going to hit the car. So Lucy went back on the track. The worst moment
:07:28. > :07:35.was getting back into the car to move the car off the track and
:07:35. > :07:39.looking down the track and seeing the train coming. When I got in, my
:07:39. > :07:44.feet physically couldn't get to the pedals, the seat was too far
:07:44. > :07:47.forward. I was fiddling around trying to find a lever in a strange
:07:47. > :07:52.car that you have never driven before in such a high pressure
:07:52. > :07:56.situation, with the train coming. That was the scariest moment. I
:07:56. > :08:00.could still remember the driver waving his arms in the window of
:08:00. > :08:03.the train. That is how close he was. I could see him waving his arms.
:08:04. > :08:07.Everybody says what did you think when you could see the train coming.
:08:07. > :08:14.I don't remember being being scared. I just remember thinking this has
:08:14. > :08:20.got to be daub. Lucy managed to drive Mary's car off the track just
:08:20. > :08:23.moments before the train passed. The second the train went past what
:08:23. > :08:31.was your immediate reaction. Everybody is safe, that is the main
:08:31. > :08:36.thing. Everybody is safe. You had 60 seconds to move a strange car?
:08:36. > :08:44.Yes, move a seat, get it into gear. What was it like when the train
:08:44. > :08:49.rushed by? It feels like the air is rushing flew your ears. What made
:08:49. > :08:56.you do it It was instinct, human nature to need to help. You see
:08:56. > :09:00.somebody needs help, you do it. Lucy went straight back to driving
:09:00. > :09:04.her taxi but it wasn't long before the significance of her actions hit
:09:04. > :09:10.home. If Lucy hadn't been here that day and done what she z what might
:09:10. > :09:14.have happened? Potentially averted quite a major crash. We have
:09:14. > :09:19.tankers, electrical pylons there, can you see there is a small
:09:19. > :09:23.station, it was a passenger train waiting to come out, there was a
:09:23. > :09:28.freight train coming through. If that train had struck the cars it
:09:28. > :09:32.would have ploughed through and reached that passenger trained.
:09:32. > :09:39.told her on the day she was my guardian angel who just appeared
:09:39. > :09:46.and possibly I still feel that. is your guardian angel? Yes.
:09:46. > :09:51.never lost any sleep from what I did. Had I sat back and watched it
:09:51. > :09:56.unfold, I would never have slept again.
:09:56. > :10:00.Lucy is with us here in the studio to talk more. You have won awards
:10:00. > :10:07.after this, you have changed so many people's lives by the actions
:10:07. > :10:11.you had. Has it changed your life? Has it changed my life, it has
:10:11. > :10:17.changed by behaviour, but it's not changed my life. I have had some
:10:17. > :10:23.brilliant experiences from it. still work as a taxi driver, so
:10:23. > :10:28.when you get to a crossing then, how does your behaviour differ?
:10:28. > :10:32.Before, because I live in an area where there are freight trains, you
:10:32. > :10:36.can be waiting up to ten minutes if there is two going to go, before it
:10:36. > :10:42.was an inconvenience to sit and wait and I used to sit with my foot
:10:42. > :10:48.on the brake and huff and puff, like you do. Now I put my hand
:10:48. > :10:52.brake on and I sit and wait. It's not worth it. Do you ever mention
:10:52. > :10:56.to passengers when you have them in the car, you will never believe
:10:56. > :11:03.what happened here? No, never. about the passenger you had with
:11:03. > :11:08.you at the time? Mr HOLMES. I have seen her since and we discussed it
:11:08. > :11:14.on our way to the airn and she just said I got into a bit of trouble
:11:14. > :11:20.for getting her home late. After all that? She said her husband
:11:20. > :11:25.forgiven me now and would allow me to take her back to the airport.
:11:25. > :11:31.have Matt from Network Rail. You wouldn't advise people to take the
:11:31. > :11:35.same action? Of course, it was an incredibly brave act, but we
:11:35. > :11:38.wouldn't advise people to do that. We would advise people to get on
:11:38. > :11:44.and off level crossings as safely as possible. You end up with quite
:11:44. > :11:48.a few people on the railway lines not in heroic situations. We have
:11:48. > :11:53.incredible CCTV footage here. Obviously, you can see the red
:11:53. > :11:57.light and the lady is choosing with a pram to cross in front of a train
:11:57. > :12:07.while there is a red warning light telling her not to cross. She
:12:07. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:20.believes that is wosht taking that What happened to that guy? I think,
:12:20. > :12:27.the train clips his leg and knocks his shoe off. He's vaulted the
:12:27. > :12:32.barrier there, he broke his leg, he later checked into A&E. There isn't
:12:32. > :12:42.a barrier in this next footage. Look at that! This is a very, very
:12:42. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:49.near miss. What is the situation of barriers and level crossings then?
:12:49. > :12:54.98% of crossings, in fact, we have nearly 7,000 crossings, only 116 of
:12:54. > :13:01.those don't have barriers. They have been assessed as being low
:13:01. > :13:05.risk crossings. There might be one or two trains per day, low speed
:13:05. > :13:11.trains, very little traffic there. But we have a project at the moment
:13:11. > :13:16.to install barriers at crossings like that. We have had a trial in
:13:16. > :13:22.Scotland, where we have put a barrier on what was an open
:13:22. > :13:26.crossing. Network Rail have been criticised a lot for not, people
:13:26. > :13:30.saying they are not doing enough to help people's safety. There is two
:13:30. > :13:33.issues here and the first is, we have now got a business change
:13:33. > :13:38.programme, a huge transformation programme. We are investing �130
:13:38. > :13:44.million over the next 18 months in improving safety. That includes a
:13:44. > :13:47.whole new operating regime for risk management. At the moment we are
:13:47. > :13:51.recruiting 100 level crossing managers through England, Scotland
:13:51. > :13:55.and Wales. We have improved training, processes and alongside
:13:55. > :13:59.that we have a huge safety enhancement programme that looks
:13:59. > :14:03.like innovation, technology, enforcement cameras at level
:14:03. > :14:11.crossings. And education campaigns. We have launched a campaign called
:14:11. > :14:19.lose your head phones. We are doing a huge amount. We have the safest
:14:19. > :14:22.level crossings in Europe. Another viewer that we want to celebrate
:14:22. > :14:28.tonight is Frank Kennington from Grimsby, who has been ringing the
:14:28. > :14:32.bells at his local church since he was 12 years ol. Since his
:14:32. > :14:36.retirment, frank has had to ring in a few changes as Carrie Grant has
:14:36. > :14:43.been finding out. Bell ringing has been my life, but
:14:43. > :14:49.it is a very sad day today. I am as fit as a 78-year-old can be but
:14:49. > :14:54.those stairs, they take the wind out of your sail. For the past 67
:14:54. > :14:59.years the people of Grimsby have heard Frank's bell ringing around
:14:59. > :15:07.the town during some of the most significant moments of their lives.
:15:07. > :15:17.Chrissenings, weddings and funerals. Frank rang for my wedding. What did
:15:17. > :15:18.
:15:18. > :15:23.that mean to you? Everything. Because that was Frank. Frank's
:15:24. > :15:28.retirement marks the end of an era for his family, the Kenningtons who
:15:28. > :15:33.have rung the bells here for over 100 years. Frank was introduced to
:15:33. > :15:37.bell ringing at 12 by his father who showed him the ropes on 8th May
:15:38. > :15:47.1945. From that day on his life would be dedicated to the bells of
:15:47. > :15:54.the church. It was full of joy, the end of the war, everybody was happy.
:15:54. > :15:58.There was my mother, my sister, two brothers. We all came up the Belfry.
:15:58. > :16:07.All along these walls are boards and the name Kennington appears an
:16:07. > :16:13.awful lot. This one is from 1905. Charles Kennington, that was my
:16:13. > :16:23.father. Johnny Kennington was his brother, my uncle. That is 107
:16:23. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:29.years ago. Before my time! Certainly is. How important has it
:16:29. > :16:35.been for you to continue the legacy? I have no family of my own
:16:35. > :16:39.as such of the. The only family I have are nieces and nephews. There
:16:39. > :16:42.are so many other attractions these day. I am the last one of the
:16:42. > :16:52.Kennington dynasty. Frank has always been keen to pass on his
:16:52. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:09.passion. So I thought I would give Don't be in a hurry. I dropped it,
:17:09. > :17:13.but not bad for a beginner. You have been married for 54 years.
:17:13. > :17:18.Does it feel like you have been married to the bells? The previous
:17:18. > :17:25.rector here said he had heard of golf widows but he knew that I was
:17:25. > :17:29.a bell ringing widow. How hard was the decision to retire for Frank?
:17:29. > :17:36.Sundays are very difficult, because I can tell that he is grieving that
:17:36. > :17:41.he is not up there. He is worrying about his bells, they are his bells.
:17:41. > :17:46.I know better than stressed that we come into town on a Sunday. Why is
:17:46. > :17:50.that?. I think it would upset him to hear them ringing. You must feel
:17:51. > :17:58.immense pride? I have become very proud of him. I sthi that's mainly
:17:58. > :18:04.because there's only me really knows the commitment that he's made.
:18:04. > :18:10.A lifetime of bell ringing. Let's go over to Carrie of news of a
:18:10. > :18:13.special treat. You are up to something, aren't you? I certainly
:18:13. > :18:19.am. Welcome to St James Garlickhythe in London and the
:18:19. > :18:22.location of the royal Jubilee bells. Which were cast especially for the
:18:22. > :18:26.Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. A couple of weeks ago
:18:26. > :18:30.Frank was reading a magazine and read about these bells. Little did
:18:30. > :18:35.he know two weeks later he would be here in London ringing them live to
:18:35. > :18:42.the nation. It is an exciting evening. This place was destroyed
:18:42. > :18:46.in the great fire of 1666. Then rebuilt in 1683 by Sir Christopher
:18:46. > :18:51.Wren. It is sometimes nicknamed Wren's lantern because of the way
:18:51. > :18:56.the light light shines through the windows. It has the highest ceiling
:18:56. > :19:01.of any of the London city churches. Bell ring something
:19:01. > :19:09.quintessentially English. We have been doing it for 400 years. It It
:19:09. > :19:16.seems right we used it as part of the Queen's diamond celebrations.
:19:16. > :19:20.The lead lead barge had a Belfry built on to it. Inside were housed
:19:20. > :19:23.eight bells. All of those bells named after members of the Royal
:19:23. > :19:31.Family and bell ringing on the Thames had never been attempted
:19:31. > :19:35.before. They had to hand pick the bell ringers very carefully. It was
:19:35. > :19:40.an incredible feat. The bells went from that barge and are now
:19:40. > :19:43.permanently housed here at St James here in Garlickhythe. Frank tonight
:19:43. > :19:49.is going to be playing them, ringing them live to the nation.
:19:49. > :19:58.More of that later. It's going to be very special. Emma,
:19:58. > :20:04.you have written The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit. How have you taken
:20:04. > :20:09.the story onwards from the original? I thought about it and I
:20:09. > :20:15.thought if he wants a further tale perhaps I should take him away from
:20:15. > :20:20.the garden and I was in Scotland when I was writing it and Bearix
:20:21. > :20:26.Potter loved Scotland. She's very interesting, she is the original
:20:26. > :20:31.bunny boiler, you do know that don't you. She was not soppy about
:20:31. > :20:38.animals at all and kept rabbits and knew them well and named them and
:20:38. > :20:43.then when they died would boil them and separate them out and sort out
:20:43. > :20:51.their bones. So So that is one of the things that attracted me to it.
:20:51. > :20:57.You don't include that in the in the book? No. Funnily enough I left
:20:57. > :21:01.that out. There I was in Scotland and I thought Mr and Mrs MacGregor
:21:01. > :21:07.could be Scottish and maybe Peter accidentally gets into a bit of
:21:07. > :21:15.luggage and ends up in Scotland. That is what I did. I took him up
:21:15. > :21:25.north. Would you read some for us? Yes Yes, absolutely. All sitting
:21:25. > :21:30.
:21:30. > :21:36.comfortably. He's gone to Scotland and he's met his cousin who is a
:21:36. > :21:43.big black rabbit called Finlay and he is defending his title at the
:21:43. > :21:50.highland games. He is this huge very big rabbit and Peter is
:21:50. > :21:57.watching him throw these things and then he gets bored because he has
:21:57. > :22:03.strong passions. He goes off and he finds a bit of will low fencing and
:22:03. > :22:08.it goes there, protected by will low fencing lay an unusually large
:22:08. > :22:15.radish. We have the pictures on the big
:22:15. > :22:19.screen. It must have measured three rabbits round. It also smelt
:22:19. > :22:24.delicious and Peter was very hungry. He thought no-one would notice if
:22:24. > :22:30.he took a little nibble off the end. Accordingly, he scratched his way
:22:30. > :22:37.under the willow fence and took a bite and then another and another.
:22:37. > :22:45.By the time Peter had stopped eating, he was inside the radish.
:22:45. > :22:53.Feeling cosy, he fell asleep. When he woke up the radish was jogling.
:22:53. > :22:57.Not again thought Peter. APPLAUSE
:22:57. > :23:04.Is this something you are going to continue on with, now you have
:23:04. > :23:08.started this relationship with Peter? Well, yes. He has asked me
:23:08. > :23:14.to write another one, so I started that this summer. I went up to The
:23:14. > :23:18.Lakes to visit Bearix Potter's old homes. She is an extraordinary
:23:18. > :23:23.woman because she bought most of the Lake District and saved it from
:23:23. > :23:27.development. I went to one of her first farms Hilltop Farm and made a
:23:27. > :23:32.new friend there, who is going to appear in the new book, who is
:23:32. > :23:38.called William, whose exact nature I am going to keep under wraps for
:23:38. > :23:45.the moment. Everyone knows that the baddie in Peter Rabbit is of course
:23:45. > :23:50.Farmer McGregor. Incredibly we have found a farmer in Scotland with
:23:50. > :23:58.that exact name. You went looking for the enemy. Not only that, he is
:23:58. > :24:02.standing by to talk to you via Skype.
:24:02. > :24:09.From Coldstream Mains in Berwickshire. Do you like rabbits,
:24:09. > :24:16.Colin? I haven't tasted rabbit pie but I can see after this, I am
:24:16. > :24:23.going to have to try it. Association Rabbits aren't really
:24:23. > :24:29.that welcome on your farm? really. They can do a lot of damage.
:24:29. > :24:36.Six rabbits can eat as much as one sheep. They don't eat sheep, do
:24:36. > :24:41.they, rabbits? We are not big fans of rabbits. Having said that Emma,
:24:41. > :24:46.they do have a big connection with Bearix Potter because isn't it
:24:46. > :24:53.right that Beatrix herself has stayed on the land of your farm?
:24:53. > :25:01.That is right. We discovered recently that, we are farmers here
:25:01. > :25:06.on Lenel estate, she actually stayed here in 1894 on Lennel House
:25:06. > :25:14.and so she is known in the area. After seeing Colin's face there,
:25:14. > :25:18.will you write about farmer ma Gregor in a different light now?
:25:18. > :25:24.You are much better without the side burns. You are in your office
:25:24. > :25:29.there and you have a picture behind you, who is in that picture? Yes,
:25:29. > :25:39.my wife, we were at the farmers weekly awards and it was my wife's
:25:39. > :25:40.
:25:40. > :25:47.computer. There is a picture of Matt with Jill. All the best Colin.
:25:47. > :25:50.Lots of love to Jill. Our gardening expert Christine has
:25:50. > :25:56.managed to grow a long list of famous personalities who invited
:25:56. > :26:01.her over to have a look around their gardens. Tonight she turns
:26:02. > :26:06.her attention to Maureen Lipman's back yards. When the time comes to
:26:06. > :26:11.move home, there is one thing the removal men can't get on the van,
:26:11. > :26:16.your garden. For most people it is starting all over again. Eight
:26:16. > :26:21.years ago Maureen Lipman lost her husband, the screen writer jack
:26:21. > :26:26.rosen that will. The family home began to feel too big so she moved
:26:26. > :26:31.from the house to a flat and from big garden to, well, let her
:26:31. > :26:35.explain. I have been here nearly five years. I moved from the big
:26:36. > :26:40.family family house where Jack and I brought up the children with a
:26:40. > :26:48.beautiful big garden, a phone box, a post box, a shed to play house in,
:26:48. > :26:58.and I have come here and this is my little girl flat. You can smell the
:26:58. > :26:58.
:26:58. > :27:04.fragrance from the jasmines. You have two, this is the false jasmine.
:27:04. > :27:12.It's like a jasmine and then you have the proper jasmine.
:27:12. > :27:17.What was the most difficult part of downsizing? Out with the Mahogany
:27:17. > :27:23.and in with the clean minimalistic lines and that lasted for about 12
:27:23. > :27:29.seconds. Don't throw that away, oh no, I can't because that was the
:27:29. > :27:35.time when we... So it's about as minimalistic as I am. Of course
:27:35. > :27:44.there are things in the garden that remind Maureen of Jack. That is
:27:44. > :27:54.Jack's rose climbing up the walls. What is with this plaque? That is a
:27:54. > :27:56.
:27:56. > :28:06.rhinoceros. He needs to be freed. Jack used to collect rhinoceros. I
:28:06. > :28:11.have I haveen 18 in the flat. My bedroom looks ought on to this
:28:11. > :28:19.courtyard, so I could sit in bed and watch the birds. I went to the
:28:19. > :28:25.garden centre and bought worms and fat balls and wild bird food and
:28:25. > :28:29.all sorts of bird food, not a bird since. Never mind the birds, plants
:28:29. > :28:37.and small shrubs fill this courtyard like a haven of
:28:37. > :28:43.tranquility. So we have this tropical lush paradise, but in the
:28:43. > :28:51.other courtyard, nothing grows. Nothing at all. You will see why in
:28:51. > :28:57.a minute. It is the beast of W 2. This is warren. Warren is
:28:57. > :29:05.responsible for this carnage. will eat almost anything that's
:29:05. > :29:09.below his own height. Of course. is a dear fellow. What could I
:29:09. > :29:18.plant in here that would be Warren proof. Standard trees and you would
:29:18. > :29:22.have to put a rabbit guard round the stem. You mean like an oak.
:29:22. > :29:28.a tree on the clear stem, can be anything from three foot to however,
:29:28. > :29:35.but if you had a nice fuchsia and standard roses, only this height,
:29:35. > :29:40.so the the vegetation would be out of the way. Fortunately Warren
:29:40. > :29:46.never gets near the main courtyard garden where a lovely green curtain
:29:46. > :29:50.envelopes this place. It is what Maureen had hoped for. I wanted d
:29:50. > :29:58.to enclose me. That is the big thing, I am on my own and it feels
:29:58. > :30:03.safe. Now I feel a bit more like the air has come into me and I am
:30:03. > :30:09.not grieving so much, or just wanting to be in my own word, I am
:30:09. > :30:18.back in the world and life goes on. I think this garden is very you.
:30:18. > :30:24.you? I must have done something right, as they say in the song.
:30:24. > :30:30.In honour of Emma's book, we have brought lots of rabbit-loving
:30:30. > :30:36.viewers into the studio. They would like to show off their rabbits. You
:30:36. > :30:43.have started a business. Yes. us an idea. Who is this? He is enor
:30:43. > :30:51.husband. This is Bruno, a continental giant. How does he fit
:30:51. > :30:58.into your empire? We have continental giants, mini lops,
:30:58. > :31:04.dwarfs. Did this come from a love of Bearix Potter? Yes, I like
:31:04. > :31:09.rabbits, I used to have loads of rabbits when I was younger. I have
:31:09. > :31:19.had good experience with them. I was read the Bearix Potter books
:31:19. > :31:19.
:31:19. > :31:24.when I was younger. He is a very gentle soul. Bruno is absolutely
:31:24. > :31:34.lovely but Emma and I are in love with these two. Richard and Sally
:31:34. > :31:41.and we have Arty and Galaxy. These are aning gor ra rabbits. Yes.
:31:41. > :31:48.Angora. Are you showing Galaxy at the minute? I am about to. You are
:31:48. > :31:55.showing Arty. I am, yes. What makes a good Angora? They should be well-
:31:55. > :32:01.behaved. Which they are. Two, they should have a long coat, which Arty
:32:01. > :32:10.has. They should have a really good texture, they should feel like silk.
:32:10. > :32:15.He's lovely. Most importantly, they should have nice tufts on their
:32:15. > :32:25.ears and look like a little snow ball. We hear you are called the
:32:25. > :32:27.
:32:27. > :32:33.rabbit man. I am known by many as either a bunny boy or rabbit man.
:32:33. > :32:40.think the Angora goes well with your dress. The reason the rabbit
:32:40. > :32:50.is shaking is because I have been talking about making into some sort
:32:50. > :32:52.
:32:52. > :32:58.of stole. I don't mean it. This Polish rabbit, it is actually
:32:58. > :33:03.native breed. One of our few English breeds. We have had them
:33:03. > :33:13.around since 1880. They are well establish indeed this country. They
:33:13. > :33:16.
:33:16. > :33:21.have their own club. We nurture them. You have 250 of these?
:33:21. > :33:28.several species, but yes I do have that many. Hutch cleaning must be
:33:28. > :33:32.brilliant fun. If anybody wants to help... Do you spend your entire
:33:32. > :33:38.life shovelling sawdust? Shovelling something, yes!
:33:38. > :33:47.I have to ask, why do you keep picking it up? Because on his own
:33:47. > :33:54.he will probably sit down. He likes to know you are there. He has been
:33:54. > :34:01.trained to kill, you know that. They are a long way from Peter
:34:01. > :34:05.Rabbit. As well as Peter Peter Rabbit another character who has
:34:05. > :34:15.delighted children is nanny McPhee. When you need me but do not want me,
:34:15. > :34:17.
:34:17. > :34:26.I must day. When you want me but no longer needly, I must go. It's
:34:26. > :34:36.rather sad really, but there it is. We will never want you. Then I will
:34:36. > :34:37.
:34:37. > :34:43.never go. Is it true, did it take you seven years to write Nanny
:34:43. > :34:49.McPhee? From door-to-door, from the moment I put pen to paper, it was
:34:49. > :34:55.nine years actually. It took a long time to develop. It is curious
:34:55. > :35:01.which is why I have so much respect for Potter. They seem very simple,
:35:01. > :35:06.they should seem very simple but should go very deep. It takes a
:35:06. > :35:10.long, long time. To work out what the story is, how to -- I don't
:35:10. > :35:15.know why it takes so long. The second one was five years, a bit
:35:15. > :35:21.less. On the nanny theme with Tom Hanks, is it right you are starring
:35:21. > :35:25.in a movie about the writer of Mary pop pinss? It is most odd because
:35:25. > :35:33.dad writing The Magic Roundabout and me writing Nanny McPhee and
:35:33. > :35:43.being asked to write this and one of PLTravers heroines was Bearix
:35:43. > :35:45.
:35:45. > :35:53.Potter. PL Travers, said she didn't write for children, she wrote to
:35:53. > :35:58.please herself. Bearix Potter was quite grumpy with children who came
:35:59. > :36:07.into her garden. It is a particular creativity. The film is about Walt
:36:07. > :36:12.Disney and PL Travers and their relationship. It was very
:36:12. > :36:16.belligerent. She was passionate about, she was family in the same
:36:17. > :36:20.way Mickey Mouse was Walt Disney's family, but they created these
:36:20. > :36:24.characters to get them away from the torture of their own child
:36:24. > :36:28.childhoods which were very difficult. It is a film about how
:36:28. > :36:33.artists are using their art to heal themselves from very painful
:36:33. > :36:38.experiences when they are little. Staying on the children's theme,
:36:38. > :36:48.you are working on a brand new remake of Annie, which we are
:36:48. > :36:50.
:36:50. > :36:56.really excited about, with Jay Z and willow Smith. What stage are
:36:56. > :37:00.you at? It's still script work and music work. They keep saying we
:37:01. > :37:05.will make it next year, and that might happen. It will be in the
:37:05. > :37:12.autumn, but that's been in the works for a year and a bit, because
:37:12. > :37:16.I wrote it last summer. You have plenty on your plate. Yes. Earlier
:37:16. > :37:20.we met Frank Kennington who has been ringing bells for 70 years in
:37:20. > :37:26.his local church. Frank had to retire because his knees couldn't
:37:27. > :37:31.take the qulim the climb of 69 steps to the bell tower. His story
:37:31. > :37:35.chimed with us sob tonight we thought we would arrange for him to
:37:35. > :37:40.ring the royal Jubilee bells live at the end of tonight's show. All
:37:40. > :37:45.along Frank's wife has been keeping this a secret from him. We have
:37:45. > :37:52.managed to surprise her. After we found out she's absolutely bonkers
:37:52. > :37:59.about Matt. A very good afternoon. How are you
:37:59. > :38:05.doing? How lovely to see you Maureen. Fine thank you. This is my
:38:05. > :38:15.surprise. I was wondering what would your reaction be if we told
:38:15. > :38:18.
:38:18. > :38:22.you we have organised for you to ring the the royal Jubilee bells?
:38:22. > :38:30.We would love it if you would ring them tonight live on the show for
:38:30. > :38:34.us? Sure! You would do it for us? Yes. Isn't that lovely.
:38:34. > :38:40.He was shell-shocked. We have word Frank and Maureen have arrived so
:38:40. > :38:44.we will go over to Carrie Grant and her welcoming party of bell ringers.
:38:44. > :38:52.I don't know who is more excited Maureen for Frank because Maureen
:38:52. > :39:02.was very excited about meeting Matt. They have come all the way down
:39:02. > :39:21.
:39:21. > :39:25.The Roland ringers have been laid on for Frank. The red carpet no
:39:25. > :39:31.less. Maureen come on down.
:39:31. > :39:35.What do you reckon to all of this? Amazing, to say the least.
:39:35. > :39:39.weren't expecting this yesterday when we were in Grimsby. What does
:39:39. > :39:47.it mean to you to be able to play with the royal bell ringers and
:39:47. > :39:52.with these bells? It means quite a lot. These are the experts. You are
:39:52. > :39:58.not going to be shown up. He was talking about this yesterday.
:39:58. > :40:06.was. This afternoon when they told him he was almost in tears. Let's
:40:06. > :40:10.get you in, up the stairs for live tonight bell ringing.
:40:10. > :40:16.A man of few words but full of emotion. Yesterday we saw the first
:40:16. > :40:26.part of John Sergeant's trip around the sea loches of west Scotland
:40:26. > :40:40.
:40:40. > :40:46.where he met fisherman and sailed The sea loches of the west coast of
:40:46. > :40:51.Scotland for an amateur sailor like me. Today I am exploring the
:40:51. > :40:56.stretch of water between the mainland and the wildly beautiful
:40:56. > :41:06.Isle of Skye, with a good boat, dramatic scenery and today the
:41:06. > :41:13.sunshine, what more could you want. My journey starts with a sail past
:41:13. > :41:18.probably the most scenic castle in Scotland. What a magnificent site.
:41:18. > :41:22.There has been a castle here since the 13th century. If it looks
:41:22. > :41:29.familiar, that is because it is. It's been used in television and
:41:29. > :41:33.films, including highlander and the Bond movie The World is Not Enough.
:41:33. > :41:43.But time heading for a relatively new landmark in the Scottish
:41:43. > :41:44.
:41:44. > :41:51.landscape. The Skye Bridge. Sailing beneath the 500 metre
:41:51. > :41:55.Longbridge is a real treat. But when it opened in 1995, it was
:41:55. > :42:00.immediately mired in controversy. The link from the island to the
:42:00. > :42:04.mainland carried a toll of over �10 for a return crossing. And the
:42:04. > :42:09.islanders protested. A lot of people on the island have criminal
:42:09. > :42:15.records because they refused to pay, so to this day they have a criminal
:42:15. > :42:20.record. The campaign was ultimately successful and the bridge is now
:42:20. > :42:30.toll free. We are part of the mainland, some people would feel
:42:30. > :42:41.
:42:41. > :42:51.I like gliding screenly along the calm surface of the loch, but there
:42:51. > :42:52.
:42:52. > :43:02.is a chance to get a glimpse below and is keep your feet dry in a
:43:02. > :43:22.
:43:22. > :43:28.On deck the seals are popular and I am heading six miles to the north,
:43:29. > :43:33.to a village which lives up to its guide book description, uncommonly
:43:33. > :43:39.picture echbleing. -- picturesque. These windless conditions won't do
:43:39. > :43:45.for a serious sailor, but I just like to enjoy the way the evening
:43:45. > :43:52.light plays across the seascape. No wonder this is a big draw for
:43:52. > :43:57.artists and photographers. Miriam came to Plocton 11 years ago and
:43:57. > :44:02.stayed. She runs drawing and painting classes and is even
:44:02. > :44:09.prepared to find hidden talent in me. It is a west coast village
:44:09. > :44:14.facing east so we get light shining in on us, water all the way round.
:44:14. > :44:18.In the summer we have light at strange times. What time is it now?
:44:19. > :44:25.It's nearly 10.00. It is very strange. You only have about four
:44:25. > :44:33.hours of darkness. We hardly have any darkness tonight. We have got
:44:33. > :44:38.to reproduce this. You are asking me to do this. But just try to see
:44:38. > :44:42.the blocks of colour, don't worry about it being the right colour,
:44:42. > :44:47.just keep looking at it, rather than looking at your page. Forget
:44:47. > :44:52.what you are doing, trust your hands. Look at the sea. You are
:44:52. > :45:00.getting it right and I am getting it wrong. There is no right or
:45:00. > :45:09.wrong. It is like dancing, you just enjoy it. I know a bit about that.
:45:09. > :45:14.Mine looks like a child's activity pad. Hasn't it made you look more
:45:15. > :45:19.at what you are seeing. It changes your vision. I agree with that. To
:45:19. > :45:28.be honest, you don't have to look very hard to find beauty in a place
:45:28. > :45:33.like this. John, that was a beautiful setting. Fantastic. The
:45:33. > :45:40.weather of course held perfectly. When I went on my normal sailing
:45:40. > :45:48.holiday, poured with rain, gales in the Westcountry. It is an area you
:45:48. > :45:57.are fond of as well. That is where I wrote the book. We could have met
:45:57. > :46:03.up Emma. I was working. Working hard! What's coming up tomorrow?.
:46:03. > :46:12.We go further north and we meet a community that can only be reached
:46:12. > :46:17.by boat. It is really interesting. It is a terrific area. I have been
:46:17. > :46:27.looking forward to our next story because I can't stand energy saving
:46:27. > :46:27.
:46:27. > :46:37.light bulbs. Last week the traditional 40 40 Watt light bulb
:46:37. > :46:41.was consigned to the history books. I am incandesceent. You have a
:46:41. > :46:46.store?. Not a little store, but just enough. I don't want people
:46:46. > :46:51.running around thinking I have got them all. I have the rest of them.
:46:51. > :46:55.There is a loophole. We are not allowed to have them because they
:46:55. > :47:00.are meant to be not saving energy but they do have them for
:47:00. > :47:05.industrial use. If you go to a shop, which I did in West London,
:47:05. > :47:09.specialist shop, they are called rough service bulbs. It is not
:47:09. > :47:12.against the law. And they are the industrial ones. They work just
:47:12. > :47:16.like the old ones and you can be happy forever. You are feeling
:47:16. > :47:22.around in the dark for what feels like hours when you switch on.
:47:22. > :47:31.is a cold light. You can't see and feel you feel cold. What's to like,
:47:31. > :47:39.nothing. Would you rather write to a candle I do sometimes, we get a
:47:39. > :47:49.lot of power cuts in our area. These will be contraband and they
:47:49. > :47:57.will be precious items. You can't get lamp shades to fit over these.
:47:57. > :48:02.They make dimmer switches blow. Is there much of a difference between
:48:03. > :48:12.the energy saving bulbs and this one? I can hear people screaming at
:48:12. > :48:16.the TV. How do you feel about these new energy saving light bulbs? A
:48:16. > :48:20.lot of people are telling me they're not that keen. But I want
:48:20. > :48:25.to know if they can really tell the difference between the new ones and
:48:25. > :48:30.the old ones. I am rigging up a cunning spemplt
:48:30. > :48:33.to test -- experiment to remain those who need to be convinced by
:48:33. > :48:38.energy saving bulbs. It is a national debate that gets people
:48:39. > :48:45.hot under the collar, nowhere more so than here at the Shropshire star
:48:45. > :48:53.newspaper. Journalist Karl wrote that energy saving bulbs were still
:48:54. > :49:01.too dim and ugly. It went berserk. It was the most
:49:01. > :49:05.commented on article last year. People were saying thank goodness
:49:05. > :49:09.someone else has voiced this. I am not against eco-friendly light
:49:09. > :49:14.bulbs, but when I want a reading light or when I want a light at the
:49:14. > :49:21.top of my stairs that becomes bright quickly, I have yet to find
:49:21. > :49:27.an equivalent to the old-fashioned ones. Time to put them to the test.
:49:27. > :49:33.Can they tell their traditional bulbs from their low energy
:49:34. > :49:43.lighting. I have arranged four identical lamps but can they pick
:49:44. > :49:46.
:49:46. > :49:55.out the traditional 40 Watt bulb? That is a halogen bulb, 30% more
:49:55. > :50:00.efficient than an old-fashioned bulb?
:50:00. > :50:06.BulbB, it is the old inefficient one. I am not going to decide until
:50:06. > :50:12.the end. Bulb C.
:50:12. > :50:21.. The LED is the longest lasting and most efficient of the bunch.
:50:21. > :50:27.This is the least appealing light of the three. Bulb D.
:50:27. > :50:32.That is the compact fluorescent, couragely the most common energy
:50:32. > :50:37.saving bulb. I wouldn't like to read with that light over me.
:50:37. > :50:43.Before we let the guys know the results, I want to know more about
:50:43. > :50:51.the current crob of energy-saving bulbs. What is wrong with these old
:50:51. > :50:56.style bulbs? This bulb, 90% of the energy is wasted in heat. They are
:50:56. > :51:01.very inefficient. But what about the new ones. People say the bulbs
:51:01. > :51:06.are too dim, they don't like the colour. They are coming from the
:51:06. > :51:16.earlier generation of bulbs. Things have moved on hugely. You could
:51:16. > :51:18.
:51:18. > :51:27.light your whole house with 200 watts. Our compact fluorescent cost
:51:27. > :51:34.�2 more than a digsal -- traditional bulb. Which one do you
:51:34. > :51:40.think is the old style bulb? Bulb B is the correct answer.
:51:40. > :51:50.Karl has got it wrong. Why did you go for B as the old style.
:51:50. > :51:52.
:51:52. > :52:00.thought it was brighter. I thought the light was whiter and sharper.
:52:00. > :52:06.The old was bulb B. Karl, how do you feel about that?
:52:06. > :52:13.7% of the people who opposed me on the website are probably cheering.
:52:13. > :52:19.Bulb A and bulb B were the best two. I thought it was a clearer light
:52:19. > :52:25.bulb A. Maybe I need to change my bulb supply. It would be wrong to
:52:25. > :52:31.draw too many conclusions from our unscientific experiment but it
:52:31. > :52:36.seems the debate looks set to shine on. With some people clinging on to
:52:36. > :52:45.the old bulbs, it will be sometime until they are finally switched on
:52:45. > :52:52.for good. The debate has been going on and on. We have games makers
:52:52. > :52:56.Adam and Nathan. You have some strong views, you are divided.
:52:56. > :53:01.are twins. Your feelings are very similar but what are your thoughts?
:53:01. > :53:06.It is a constant source of conflict in the house. I am against them. I
:53:06. > :53:11.am against these ecobulbs. They are so dim. In the morning I need to
:53:11. > :53:16.make up and they take ages to warm up. I need to wake up in the
:53:16. > :53:26.morning. They are just too dim. am for them and they last longer.
:53:26. > :53:29.
:53:29. > :53:34.You are saving money. You save energy, saving the world, bulb at a
:53:34. > :53:41.time. They are difficult to dispose of as well. We should get you back
:53:41. > :53:51.on next Wednesday. The GB Paralympic archers Danielle Brown
:53:51. > :53:53.
:53:53. > :53:57.and Mel Clarke join us now. This is you on the front of the
:53:57. > :54:06.Times. A beautiful photo. How many copies of this have you bought
:54:06. > :54:10.today?. We got one each. It's a beautiful shot. Good nails.
:54:10. > :54:14.Fantastic nails. That picture is very, very beautiful. How does it
:54:14. > :54:18.feel to be front page of the national newspaper?. It is
:54:18. > :54:24.incredible. I am overwhelmed with the amount of coverage we have had.
:54:24. > :54:28.When I won a gold in Beijing and I did two interviews that night and I
:54:28. > :54:32.have not stopped doing interviews since yesterday afternoon. To be on
:54:32. > :54:36.the front page of the Times is incredible. During the competition,
:54:36. > :54:41.you two were going head to head really until the last minute. How
:54:42. > :54:45.tough was that then? It was really tough, to meet any opponent in a
:54:45. > :54:52.medal match, but to have a Brit tlrks we knew we were going to have
:54:52. > :54:59.a gold and silver and it was who was going to keep the nerve. It is
:54:59. > :55:04.down to the fact it is a home Games but what do you put the difference
:55:04. > :55:08.down to? It was a fantastic experience, and it was just great
:55:08. > :55:11.being able to perform in front of my friends and my family, my
:55:11. > :55:18.personal coach and everyone who supported me on my journey. It's
:55:18. > :55:28.been a long and hard journey getting here. You are incredibly
:55:28. > :55:33.
:55:33. > :55:37.young. One of team-mates turned 64 so. The brilliant thing about the
:55:37. > :55:41.Paralympics, is that we have all learnt so much about different
:55:41. > :55:47.sports. Things we have never heard about before. But saying there are
:55:47. > :55:52.some people out there who think I fancy giving archery a go, how do
:55:53. > :55:58.you sport, because they are things that aren't mainstream. Doing an
:55:58. > :56:07.internet search and finding out about your local club. I know there
:56:07. > :56:12.are new initiatives about doing archery in schools. You can lean
:56:12. > :56:19.towards the sporty type, we have a great shot of you playing volley
:56:20. > :56:27.ball. Oh, God. It's you in your new film.
:56:27. > :56:33.Over the summer you were doing a romcom. I was rubbish, I am so bad.
:56:33. > :56:38.I bought my husband an archery set, that sounds sad, but not a little
:56:38. > :56:43.thirntion but I bought him that heavy thing and the thing, it's so
:56:43. > :56:52.hard, but the the thrill of it going, that noise that it makes
:56:52. > :56:58.when it goes in, it's fantastic. The trajectory of it, I was hitting
:56:58. > :57:07.lights and everything, it's hard. It is really hard work out how to...
:57:07. > :57:14.We have good news. We have the volley ball picture.
:57:14. > :57:18.They are my own teeth. Paralympic medal board is filling up thick and
:57:18. > :57:24.fast with ten more medals added today. Great Britain are still in
:57:24. > :57:29.second place. The moment has come for our unsung
:57:29. > :57:34.hero Frank Kennington to ring the royal Jubilee Bells live in front
:57:34. > :57:39.of millions. We have come up a lot of steps to
:57:39. > :57:44.the ringing room here. I want to ask Frank, what does it mean to you
:57:44. > :57:48.to be about to ring these special bells? Absolutely fantastic. I
:57:48. > :57:58.never thought anything would like this would happen. It is happening
:57:58. > :58:13.
:58:13. > :58:17.What does that mean to you seeing Frank? It makes me feel very
:58:17. > :58:22.emotional. I never thought I would be near to tears, but I am. He has
:58:22. > :58:26.a big smile on his face. I don't want to turn round, if I see him
:58:26. > :58:34.again, I will probably burst into tears. He's had a wonderful time
:58:34. > :58:38.coming up here. APPLAUSE
:58:38. > :58:42.A lovely way to end the programme. That is all we have time for.
:58:42. > :58:46.Thanks to our wonderful audience tonight. You have been brilliant.
:58:46. > :58:50.Good luck to all the athletes competing in the road cycling and