05/10/2011 The One Show

I can't believe the brilliant Will Ferrell is on the show tonight. It

is good news, isn't it? He is on to talk about his new film, it is

about his wife throwing him out and she throws his stuff out tonne to

the lawn. I have seen the film. I get the

concept. Who is it that we've upset?

Oh no! I think we've forgotten So here we are. Hello and welcome

to the One Show. We have not been really thrown out

by the props man. He doesn't have the power to do that! But we are

here to make our guest feel right at home. Ladies and gentlemen, Will

Ferrell. APPLAUSE

Thank you. Hello, Will.

How are you? Come and sit down.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Your dressing room there, it is

just a screen, but you were surrounded by glass offices. What

was the point of that? It really was ill conceived.

Will, your new film is about your wife kicking you out and you set-up

home on the lawn. Do you like our effort? I love what you guys have

done here. I feel very at home here. I'm getting warmth off this hot

plate and this toast! Did you spend nights outside? Did

you do the method thing and spend nights... I did not spend nights

living on this front lawn even though my character does. I

probably should have, but I'm not, you know, I don't really try too

hard with my roles in terms of research! I'm a slacker!

The home that we shot in front of, they actually lived in it during

the night so I don't think they would want me to sleep in the front.

No, it would have been weird, but at the end of the film you hold

this sale where you sell off your possessions so you were welcome to

take anything you see, glitterball, plastic chicken

The world's biggest shoes. Are those a 22? They are a size 18.

Has anyone claimed the massive carp?

That's mine! We will talk about your new film

later. We needed a good clear out and a

good way to do it is to donate unwanted possessions to charity.

The charities encourage it with bags like these through your

letterbox, but not all are from genuine charities.

The police are cracking down on organised criminals to line their

own pockets. Lucy Siegle went to investigate.

It is the middle of the night in a Bristol car park and this guy is

helping his mate climb into a charity bank to steal clothes. How

low can you get? A withdrawal from this bank isn't as easy as it seems

and the thief gets stuck inside. He is in there for four hours before

emergency services get him out. Many of us are familiar with these.

They are charity donation bags, used to collect your old clothes.

It sounds a simple system - they recycle your old clobber, turning

clothes into profits for charitable causes, but there is one big

problem - some of those bags are not genuine. Bogus charity clothes

collectors cost charities an estimated �12 million every year.

The fraudsters make their money using different methods including

stealing genuine charity bags from people's doorsteps and some even

print their own fake charity bags or set-up companies that give the

impression of being a charity. And today, we are with the police

as they take on one of these gangs. Officers from the City of London

Police are about to conduct a raid on the warehouse of a gang they

believe are operating a fake charity bag scam worth over

�100,000 per week. I'm with the officers in one of the

vans on our way to the raid. It might seem over the top, there is a

lot of officers. There is vans, but the important thing to remember

this is a highly lucrative scam and we don't know how this gang will

react. Although the police were prepared

for the worst, on arrival, the suspects give up without a fight.

The scale of this operation is massive. These clothes are sold by

the tonne and this fleet of vans leaving here every week means

thousands of pounds in lost revenue for the real charities.

In total �20,000 in cash was seized during today's operation. It has

gone well. We've found our main subjects and they have been

arrested. We have found good evidence and we are starting to do

our search. We have had nine operations. They are sending vans

up to Scotland and Wales. They are nationwide.

The police continue to conduct raids throughout the day and in

total, four arrests are made. They were later released on bail pending

further investigation. The NSPCC is one of many charities

affected by gangs like these. Clothing bag theft is a a massive

problem for NSPCC, a growing one and one we're desperate to stop. We

estimate last year we lost over �130,000 to this unscrupulous crime.

There are two easy ways to ensure your clothing bag is legitimate.

First, check to make sure it displays the organisation's

registered charity number. Second, look for the give

worthwhile confidence logo. All charities can do is relied on

our continued goodwill and ask us to be vigilant about the types of

Louise Richards from the Institute of Fundraising joins us. Is it

getting worse? It is, unfortunately. There is a huge demand for good

quality second-hand clothes particularly in africk Caa in --

Africa and Eastern Europe and that could be worth �50,000 upwards.

Organised criminal gangs are targeting clothing collections and

making a lot of money at the expense of charities.

Lucy told us to look for the charity number on the bags. What

else can help us determine if the bags are legitimate? Apart from the

spelling mistakes. There is no land line telephone number for you to

ring to see if it is a genuine collection. There are into

kitemarks. It doesn't talk about a designated cause. It is vague about

what cause it is going to. For people at home, they might not

care where it ends up really, as long as it is gone and off their

doorstep, does it really matter? does matter. It does matter because

this is costing charities a lot of money, between �15 million and �20

million, a conservative estimate is lost to charities every year

because of theft and because of fraud. The Institute of

Fundraising's website has a lot of information about how you can tell

a genuine collection from a bogus one and it is really important

because particularly now in these economic times every penny counts

for charities so it is really important that people don't get put

off by this. That they are aware of the problems that can happen, but

that they keep on giving. Well, what about you? You must have

loads of jackets in your garage? feel terrible because I have

invested in a company that makes fake charity bags!

LAUGHTER I think I have been at the centre

of this problem! I didn't realise it. I didn't realise it.

There is the answer! LAUGHTER

His character gets thrown out of the house by his wife. How do you

avoid an argument turning into a full blown feud? The people of

Birmingham seem to have the answer. A a survey declared them to have

the happiest marriages in Britain, but as Carrie Grant and her husband

David find out, even they have The the trouble with my husband,

that's him, David. That's me. He never let's go of the remote

control. If Carrie had the remote control we

would be watching wall to wall CSI. And... There is only so many dead

bodies I can take! Do you ever argue?

Yes. All the time. LAUGHTER

We don't argue. When was the last time you had an argument? This

morning. What do you argue about when you

argue? Everything. He looked through my phone.

His driving does wind me up. When you went off and played

football and left me with the children.

LAUGHTER Don't kiss me in public, please.

What's the longest time that you haven't talked to each? Weeks.

I could go weeks. I remember I stopped speaking to

him for a few days. The word "sorry" isn't in his

vocabulary. Why is that? Because he is a man!

As you get older, you learn to live with it because what's the use of

arguing? I think we agree to disagree.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I don't know, I

never tried the other side so it might be!

Do we argue? Occasionally. All the time!

Even the people of Birmingham, it seems, have their problems, but we

have the solution because we have Will Ferrell, a very quick agony

clinic. If you argue with your partner about bad driving, what

should you do? Take the car keys away. Give them a bicycle to ride.

What if one partner is checking the other person's text messages?

would have their hands removed. Simple as that. It is a simple

medical procedure. It is not a big deal.

Arguing about your husband going to play football without asking. What

should you do? That's every man's right to play football whenever

they want. There is no argument there.

The women have to succumb to that. You and I would not get on, Will.

You're right. Now what about your own life? What

gets you going? What makes you argue? You know that she is so

beautiful and smart that she always wins every argument. Yes.

Good answer. Good answer. You are really in the dog house right now,

aren't you? I have been in trouble all summer. I'm climbing my way out.

You are the peace maker then. Do you solve arguments with your kids?

I just, you know, any issues I have with my children, I just shower

them with toys. LAUGHTER

And candy and in fact they are on a strict diet of candy.

They are slighty plump, but they are very happy. So we don't have

any issues in our house. You are not there anyway? Yeah and

I'm not there. I just check-in 15 minutes a day, I

live somewhere else. I live in that city that has all the good

marriages. The one we always put on TV.

The city we were talking about... Birmingham.

Birmingham. In your new film Everything Must Go,

it is a full blown argument with the wife. She throws you out and

you are living in the garden. Tell us about it.

It is a drama about a gentleman who in the course of one day loses his

job, his wife leaves him, locks him outside the front of his house, and

changes the locks and puts all his personal possessions on the front

lawn and he is at a low ebb that he decides to just live there and

figure out what he is going to do next.

Let's look at you coming to terms with front lawn living.

You know the moment that you even thought about having a drink, you

should have just called me. Well, let's see. Yesterday, what

happened? I got fired from my job. And my wife left me. So somehow

calling you slipped my mind. I got it. I got it.

They say the dining room is the least utilised room in the house. I

think it is the front lawn. It is starting to look good, don't

you think? APPLAUSE

Will, there are, you know, this is a serious film, as you say, but

there are funny moments, but it is a tragedy. This guy's life has hit

rock bottom and that's a change for you to play that role? Yeah, it was

an interesting and fun challenge. It is outside of my comfort zone of

what I'm usually known for doing and that's why I loved it. And it

is an excellent cast, Rebecca Hall, Christopher Walker, there is a boy

in the in the neighbourhood who is a lost soul himself and we find

this friendship that helps both of us kind of find our path.

Do you think that every comic at some point wants to be seen in a

more serious role? I have no idea what you're talking about!

LAUGHTER When you do it, you got to do the

face. No, come on. There we are.

I mean, I'm not particularly obsessed with that and yet at the

same time I think anyone who is creative likes to just mix it up.

Yeah, of course. To keep themselves interested and

to keep the audience interested, so yeah.

You are still funny. I'm still 30%. So funny that you

are about to receive the Mark Twain Prize for Humour and that will be

accepted in front of other comedians, in fact 300 comedians in

the room. Does that make you nervous? No, it is an audience at

the Kennedy centre in Washington, so there will only be the people

we've invited to talk on my behalf. It is regular civilians. It is a

big deal. It is a huge deal and there has

only been 14 other recipients, but the list includes Steve Martin and

Richard Prior and some giants in American comedy.

It is good company. Brilliant.

I don't know who Mark Twain is! Well, we asked the same question.

He wasn't that funny. Everything Must Go is out on Friday,

If I have read one of the most popular pieces of music, I would be

pretty happy about it. But not Percy Grainger. He hated the sound

of his most famous work. A country garden. Perfect for

drifting through in a picturesque fashion. But I am ashamed to say

that my producer has committed the ultimate sin. Listen to that. He

has put on the soundtrack of an English country garden, what a

cliche. It is quintessentially English and painfully conventional.

There couldn't be a more predictable tune. The curious thing

is, the man who made it famous was anything but conventional. Percy

Grainger was a brilliant Australian pianist, who emigrated to Britain

in 1901. Gloriously eccentric, he made his own clothes out of towels

and would drop between concert halls, leaping over the piano on

arrival -- would drop between. His compositions were often

experimental and off the -- he built a giant music machine in his

living room. He is very interested in the future of modern music but

also intrigued by the past. Absolute be. He came over here from

Australia, launched into folksong music movement, collected over 500

folksong, some by hand, some by phonograph, and use these to make

arrangements for the rest of his life. And this is where the big hit

came from, the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers of Oxford. A century

ago, they sent -- the accordion player used to play an obscure song

called Country Gardens. Bravo! Wonderful stuff. Congratulations,

gentlemen, well done. That was magnificent. You are the squire of

the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers. And this tune, it is

thanks to this actual team of Morris dancers that we know it. How

did Percy Grainger get hold of it? As far as we know, he got it from

the folksong collector, and he met up with the Headington Quarry

dancers in 1899. He wrote down the dunes and Percy Grainger did his

famous piano arrangement from that notation of Country Gardens -- Road

downer the tunes. And this is William Kimber's concertina? You

knew him? I knew him, but he told us at school. Can I shake your

hand? It is fantastic. Grainger's piano arrangement of Country

Gardens became a massive hit, selling 450,000 copies in one year.

Here it is, it performed by local Do you think Percy Grainger would

have approved of the setting? much so, it is typical. He said

most English country gardens Was he a one-hit wonder? Well, yes.

With country gardens. It was the millstone around his neck, because

he wanted to know Baghdad to be known by his original country -- he

wanted to be known by his original compositions. He would have people

saying, give us Country Gardens! Right until the end of his life,

and he hated it. Bravo. A brickie - - a Bekele is called for. A bunch

of turnips. Grainger would have He was always disappointed that his

own music failed to set the world alight. Country Gardens haunted

Percy Grainger for the rest of his life. He came to think of the tune

as his personal musical albatross. He died in 1961, regarding himself

as a failure. And leaving behind 500 original works. Most of which

Such a shame. I want to hear some Percy Grainger. We should unearth

it. Are you familiar with Morris dancing? Not at all. It is

surprising, I know. I know a lot of different things. Every English man

every Saturday Morris dances, it is what we do. It is a British form of

folk-dancing, but you have done some European folk dancing yourself.

It looks slightly like square dancing make some sort of

Germanic... It is a bit similar to Look at that. The denial that first

time? That was one take. -- bid you nail that. And I really got to slap

Matthew Broderick. Did you enjoy the lederhosen? You mentioned every

Saturday that the British man does this dance, every Saturday I wear

my lederhosen. We have some Morris dancers with you tonight, what did

you think of Will Ferrell's effort? I think they are lying! Are you

lying? Yes! That is all they say! Marty Jopson has been touring the

country's laps to see who inspired the current generation of

Award-winning British scientists, Professor Anthony Hollander, leads

the cutting-edge field of the tissue engineering. I absolutely

believe that it can help us to transform the way we treat the

whole range of diseases. Tissue engineering is a revolutionary

technique, which involves creating new human tissues and sells like

skin and blood vessels. We can make a difference to people's lives.

That is why I wanted to do science in the first place. Anthony's

passion for science started early. Aged nine, he became fascinated

with the idea for fixing people and created a list of tools he needed

to do the job. He sent his Mr Blue Peter, asking for, amongst other

things, a model of a heart and a diagram of how the body works.

got a lovely letter back from Billy Baxter, taking it very seriously,

suggesting perhaps my GP might be able to help with some of the

equipment. Receiving that reply was important to me, and I think if

they hadn't written back, perhaps I wouldn't have pursued my fledgling

scientific dreams. Fired with enthusiasm, Anthony went on to

study pharmacology. At university, he discovered his science hero,

this man, Dr Edward Jenner, the father of vaccination. The first

time I came here, to Edward Jenner's House, was when I was a

PhD student, in my early 20s. It was 1929. -- 1989. It was in this

House that the sides of vaccine and him in his son was born. -- the

science of a vaccine and immunisation. He had heard the

story that farm staff who developed cowpox would never go on to develop

smallpox. Edward Jenner said out to test this theory. He injected

cowpox pass into the arm of an 8- year-old boy, James Phipps. After

that, Jenna then tried to infect him with pass from a small pox

patient, and the boy never developed smallpox. When published,

his results were rejected as dangerous and lacking prove. I was

very inspired from hearing how Jenna, after this rejection, simply

persisted. He tried again and again. And he was right. Over 200 years

later, smallpox has been eradicated. Today, every vaccine we used stems

from the breakthrough made by Edward Jenner. Anthony holiday's

own break through the moment came three years ago. A Spanish woman

has become the first person in the world to be given a whole organ, a

wind but grown from her own stem cells. Claudia Castillo, a mother-

of-two from Spain, had a diseased windpipe which left an able to

breathe. A conventional organ transplant ran a high risk of

tissue rejection. Thanks to his 20 years of research, Anthony had an

alternative solution. The idea we had was to take a donated windpipe,

and remove the cells that naturally occur, because we didn't want this

windpipe to be rejected by the patient. Claudia Castillo's

themselves were used to grow a new wind pipe around the donor

structure. Because the new organ was made with their new cells,

there was less chance of tissue rejection. This was a medical first.

Her away function returned to normal and has stayed absolutely

normal ever since. Following the success of her operation, Anthony

Holland it plans to use stem cells to repair knee cartilage. He

credits Edward Jenner for continuing to inspire him. When I

face scepticism about my work, I will often think back to Edward

Jenner, and be encouraged just to carry on. Eventually, I know I will

get there, and people will understand that this science can

really make a difference. Edward Jenner took a random trialled, put

cowpox and then smallpox... Can you imagine allowing... Would you allow

your child? He walked up to a random trialled, and said, I am

going to inject you... More or less. Sign me up right now. All three.

All three boys, give them a go, if it is going to help humanity.

back to your own childhood, who was your comedy hero when you were a

boy? I had a number of comedy heroes. I laughed Dan Ackroyd and

Bill Murray and the original Saturday Night Live cast members.

Steve Martin is a big idol of mine. We love him on this show. Peter

Sellers, I loved his work, the fact he was able to do comedy and drama.

When you first got your job on Saturday Night Live, that must have

been a big deal for you. Huge. Somewhat surreal. It still is, when

I think I was on that show for seven years. It feels like a hazy

wonderful dream. Especially having watched that show my entire life.

And finally getting to be on it. A dream come true. Isn't it true that

you took a briefcase full of fake money, to try to bribe the

producers during your audition? thought it would be really funny

joke, to stack a pile of fake money on Lorne Michaels' desk and walk

out, but I got extremely shy in the interview. And I just held a brief

case the whole time. Later I thought, what comedian holds a

briefcase with them? I thought I had completely sunk or my chances.

But you still got it. In hindsight, he thought it was really funny.

Your mum must be terrifically proud of you, she is in the audience

tonight. My mum is here. Mum... Are you proud of me? Yes! OK, I wanted

to check. Thank you so much. Everything Must Go is out on Friday