05/10/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show. On the 50th anniversary of the

first Bond film, I'm joined by odd- job himself, Mr Matt Allwright.

from Swansea With Love, Miss Funny- penny Jones. And we have a studio

of James Bonds, shaken not stirred. It's all to give a 007 welcome to

the longest serving Bond, Mr Roger Moore. I'm better with this!

nice to have you back. The it's lovely to be back. Big Bond news

today because a del's Skyfall has gone straight in there at number

one. The first singer ever to have a number one with a Bond theme.

What do you make of it? I just heard it for the first time, which

is interesting because I'm going to an auction at Christie's after

words. A lot that I'm auctioning is the manuscript of a del's in her

own hand. That will be worth a fortune. I sincerely hope so! The

money goes to UNICEF, which is important. We are going to be

hearing that tune later. It is a big piano number. With as, pianist

Peter Mitchell will be playing some of the best-loved Bond themes at

the end of the show. Time now for an exclusive, with more than a bit

of a Bond twist. Cavers in Somerset have spent the past four years

gaining access to a huge underground cavern they've called

the Frozen Deep, perhaps occupied by a secret army commanded by a man

bent on world domination in a rotating chair with a white cat!

No. Yesterday we were the first camera crew to be allowed into the

caves. This is the story of how Miranda journeys into the deep and

actually reveals whether the diggers have found the biggest

underground cavern in Britain. What could be more relaxing than a jaunt

in the countryside in the Mendip Hills in Somerset? This is not

quite what I had in mind! Today, a few hundred metres from that famous

Cheddar gorge case, I'm joining a group whose remarkable subterranean

discovery could turn British cave- in on its head. You've got about

250 years' worth of caving experience between you today. I can

add about a day to that! Martin is part of Mendip cave rescue. Deep

underground, he and the team found a vast open chamber which could

prove to be Britain's biggest cava. This was found in the early 50s and

was just a drafting whole, a crack. Cavers then make it bigger and its

lead to what's beyond now. What is the main chamber called? The Frozen

Deep. When we're talking about big, how does this cave compared to the

rest of the caves in the UK? biggest chamber known in Britain is

Gaping Gill in Yorkshire. We don't know yet if it is bigger than that.

We hope to find out today. Have you seen the size of that?! My

goodness! Blimey! I hope it's not like this all the way. I'm OK at

the moment. This is a nice bit, says Gavin. There's a lot of

spiders appear. Caving isn't just intensely physical, it is

incredibly psychological as well. As I'm going to find out. It's what

you call a tight squeeze. They are so many twists and turns and

squeezes. Every time I get to where I think the chamber is, there's

just more tunnel. This is because we are climbing? This is because

we're going down a drop. I will tighten it up for you. What is

interesting here is you remember this was dug in the 50s, they

stacked these boulders appeared using block and tackle. Some bodies

stacked all these boulders one on top of each other. They were

digging down at the same time and stacking the boulders or the way up.

Martin tells me that the main thing a caber looks for is the feeling of

a draft, indicating another chamber beyond and the right direction to

dig. It's so tight! This but I'm crawling through was literally a

only excavated a month ago. I'm one of the first people to have crawled

through it. There are literally only about 12 people who've been

through this little tunnel, and now me! We finally arrive. The Frozen

Deep is incredible. Wow! It's so huge. My light doesn't even reach

the back wall. It's brilliant. What I'd really like to do is give you

an idea of what it looks like all lit up. That's what we'd like to

see. Even with modern torch as it is just black in the distance.

put the lights on, please. It looks just magical. It is amazing. It is

fascinating seeing it with the light on. We didn't expect to find

so many formations. And the size of them, the pillars, which are about

five metres, the stalactites coming out of the ceiling. And then these

20 metre below stones. Astonishing. That was formed naturally. Over

thousands and thousands of years. When it comes to caving, size is

everything. You all want to have the biggest cave. Who owns the

record at the moment? Gaping Gill in Yorkshire. But you are hoping to

have some measurements which make this possibly the biggest. We are,

but we don't know the results. I have the results. Slightly

ridiculously to bring an iPad down here. Gaping Gill has an area of

2729 square metres. The Frozen Deep is... 2981 square metres.

Yorkshire cavers are going to be annoyed. They will be really cross.

Congratulations. All you've got to do now is carry all this kicked out.

Frozen Deep, it does sounds like the title of a Bond film. He does.

We used to go caving on live Volette died in Jamaica. -- live or

let dive. We have lights up in this enormous bit which was part of

whether villain was. I was standing at the back in the dark. I came

forward very slowly from the dark behind the third assistant, who was

called A blade. He was about 6 ft 5 and had long, thin legs in little

shorts. I came up behind him and went... He went up! Most people

fall down. Or jump. He just collapsed. Unfortunately, we don't

have a clip of that particular A, Mr Bond, there you are. You are

unexpected but most welcome. Two That was the second film I ever saw

in my life. After bedknobs and broomsticks. That was the real

cave? Half-and-half. That it was in the studio with the water, but most

of the other stuff we shot in the real cave. That was quite a nasty

bit of water. I think that was where I was taken up and I escaped

with Jane Seymour. Then we went in with the sharks. Just an ordinary...

Just another day! You will be able to regale everybody with your tales

of Bond because you are on tour, starting in Melbourne on Sunday.

It's called An Evening with Roger Moore. What can the audience

expect? If they come? They will, it sold out. We are trying to get them

in Southampton and Bournemouth and Basingstoke at the moment. What I

will do is talk about my life up to Bond. And then Bond. And my life

since Bond. Which has been terrible! Looking at some of the

pictures, I don't know how you survived. It has been hell. We will

talk a bit about the book as well later on. Sean Connery was the

first man to play Bond on the screen 50 years ago. But he very

nearly wasn't. Who stole my guitar? Larry Lamb meets the man who was a

whisker away from playing the Sean Connery and James Bond. You

can hardly say one without thinking the other. But it wasn't always the

case. Things could have looked very different if the producers had

chosen somebody else. And in 1961, they very nearly did. Originally

the producers had somebody else in line to play the very first Bond.

50 years on, few remember him at The One Show has tracked him down.

His name is Anthony. Peter Anthony. When the Bond producers Cubby

Broccoli and Larry swordsman first wanted to bring Flemming's book to

the big screen, they had a hard task ahead of them because Fleming

left a lot to the imagination as to what Bond actually looked like.

don't have many clues in the books as to Bond's physical appearance,

other than that he's quite tall and has dark hair. Beyond that there's

not much to go one. Producers were very keen to modernise Flemming's

character from a 1950s era into something that was more into the

social and cultural changes of the 1960s. They wanted somebody who

physically fit the bill, who looked as if he could hand hymns --

Campbell himself in the action sequences. The producers were

originally reluctant to cast a known actor. So on 20th July 1961,

they deployed their secret weapon. After an unsuccessful series of

auditions, a national newspaper in collaboration with the studio run a

competition to find the first on- screen James Bond. Thousands of

people applied at one stood out above the rest. Peter Anthony. A

young model from London. And he didn't even know he'd been entered

into the contest! A friend of mine sent a photograph in and the nuns

to the. The next thing I know I get this letter saying had been

selected to have a screen test. Broccoli described him as a Gregory

Peck, and said he had an instantly arresting appearance. For him,

Peter Anthony was the face of James Bond. So he had the perfect look

but there was one thing missing. wasn't a dedicated actor. In fact,

I wasn't an actor at all. I've never been in the studio in my life.

I was fairly used to working in front of the camera but not a movie

camera. What happened next was I was invited round to Harry's office.

Do you remember what he said? Basically, well, you haven't got

the part. Really? We don't think you've got enough experience for

this role, which was obvious to me anyway. I'm happy that I did miss

it in some respects. I feel I've been so lucky in my life.

regrets? No regrets at all. In the end the part went to a young, up-

and-coming actor named Sean Connery. To date there have been more than

20 Bond bills and six official incarnations of the secret agent on

the big screen. Today the story of Peter Anthony, the first faint --

the first phase of James Bond, has all but faded from memory. But in

these celebrity obsessed times it's nice to meet someone who came very

close to fame but harbours no regrets. So, 50 years on, here is

our one show salute to what could have been. But a Martini, shaken

What do you think, do you think Peter Anthony would have made a

good Bond? He has aged better than I have! I remember that competition.

I'd never heard of this story but I remember there was a competition

going on in the Daily Express. They said that, after I started Bond,

they said that Ian Fleming had me in mind. But Ian Fleming was dead

The outfits are fantastically stylish - did you get to keep them?

Some of them. But I cannot wear them. The ones that I managed to

keep, I cannot wear them, because my waistline has changed somewhat.

But there was one particularly beautiful suit. It was done last

day of this particular sequence, and I was looking forward to taking

this suit home. And Cubby Broccoli was up a ladder, and he said, is

that it, boys? Everybody said, yes, Mr broccoli. And he hit me with a

whole bucket of paste. This beautiful suit. Because he knew you

wanted it so much. There was a double suit. Daniel Craig, he did

not take home those famous blue swimming trunks, because they have

been auctioned today. He has got a lovely physique, you have to say.

But at think you're the most handsome Bond there has been. Were

the producers particular about how you looked? Well, they said there

was a little overweight, my hair was too long. So, every day I would

staff and run for half a mile, fast! And then they would cut your

hair. Finally I said to them, why did you not get a bald-headed man,

who was nice and skinny, and saved me all of this grief? I look as

though I have had my hair cut now, don't I? It disappears. You look

good, you can carry it off, Roger. I had double pneumonia earlier this

year, I had a tremendous amount of antibiotics, and since then, my

hair has been falling out. Every day. And yet you still got more

than me. Have I? Yes, it is going at the back. Anyway, moving on...

You have been quite close to a few Bond girls, but you were a bit

harsh with some of them. Let's just I did nothing! You will never guess

what - Caroline Munro, who played that Bond girl, in The Spy Who

Loved Me, is with us now. Even though Roger actually killed you,

what did you make of working with him? Well, what can I say, he is

always my Bond, nobody does it better. What can I say? His sense

of humour, obviously, it goes without saying. But what a waste! I

mean, a waste to kill you. I know. I think it was Barbara, I think she

pushed the bottom. Yes, I never had much time for her. What I would

like to know was, off-screen, off camera, did Sir Roger ever raised

his eyebrows at you in that way? certainly did. He does it so

beautifully. I wish I could do it. Will you do the eyebrows to camera

four? There Wiggo. It is the best. We think that nobody does the

eyebrows better, so we put it to the public test. How do I do this?

I think he looks really good, just like 007. Without the Aston Martin.

What a lovely couple, but nobody is as good as you, Roger. To explain

the science behind people's eyebrow raising antics is a consultant

surgeon, Carrie Newlands. Well, the human face has around 14 pairs of

muscles, the highest concentration of muscles in the whole of the

human body. We use them to convey expression to other people, and it

is one important way of interacting with people. When we raised two

eyebrows, we are generally demonstrating surprise, and when we

raised one, like Roger, we are sometimes conveying a question. It

is thought to be genetic. People have a genetic ability, and they

learn to do it as a child and they carry it on into adulthood. Have

you seen anyone better at it than Roger? I think he is the best.

sad thing about the eyebrow is that, I was under contract to MGM back in

the 1950s, and they said, keep your face static, because you're 60 foot

high on the screen, and if you raise your eyebrows, it will go up

20 feet. So, all my MGM years, I sat with a face like this. And then

finally, when I started the St, and nobody ever told me what to do, I

maybe raised an eyebrow, and then I ended up saying, yes, as an actor,

I had three expressions - left eyebrow, right eyebrow, and it

stuck with me. Well, it has done you very well. When John Sergeant

heard that Roger was coming into night, he could not resist doing

his best impression of a secret agent. Unfortunately, in John's

world, that involves wearing a tweed hat. In the world of

espionage, spies, like those who work for the Secret Service, have

always been worried about how their secrets are communicated. If you're

going to be a spy, you have got to know about secret messages and

invisible ink. From as early as Roman times, spies, like children

across the world today, have used lemon juice to keep their secrets

hidden, only to be revealed when heated. But in 1915, British

officials intercepted a sheet of music posted by a suspected German

spy, and this time, it was not heat that was required to reveal the

message, it was a chemical. This was no longer child's play. It was

the work of a top spy. He had a strange background - born in

Austria, he became a British musical entertainer. After he was

caught he was locked up for eight years in Dartmoor. I am at the

Imperial War museum in London to meet Roderick, an expert on

invisible ink. We have got a secret message here - how is it encoded on

the paper? He has written his message behind a musical score. He

has done it using an agent, invisible ink. This is then only

revealed by applying another agent, to react with the ink, making it

visible. This is quite typical of the secret world. The first thing

he says it is, can you send me some money. So, he does not really care

so much about the naval secrets which come later, it is, I want my

money. That's typical, isn't it? Absolut key. This began what became

the invisible ink equivalent of the arms race. No sooner had the other

side discovered the recipe, then it would change again. German spies

also took to hiding their ink in ingenious ways. Soap, antiseptic,

toothpaste and even their own clothing were used. We have a pair

of socks which belonged to a German spy, was instructions were to

dampen the socks and squeeze them, to get the ink out, which he then

what used to write his messages. 1918, the Germans were ready to

forget their socks, and they invented the ultimate secret ink

formula. In America, they thought it was so dangerous, they only

released the details last year. I am meeting a chemist to find out

why. The science, the chemistry, is complicated. We have got all sorts

of things in here. The alcohol has to be at 90 degrees, so it is quite

complicated to do. But the most clever part of this method is that

this complex chemistry was only required when the message reached

the German laboratory. All this by has to do is to have a tablet of

aspirin, and some water. The beauty of this is that it is so simple.

if you catch the spy, all he says is, I have got some aspirin, what's

wrong with that? The development of invisible ink did not go any

further because there was only so much information any spy could

laboriously right down. By the end of World War II, espionage had

embraced photographic techniques, which meant the messages could now

be made up of images as well as text. By the end of the war, secret

messages can be compressed into tiny dots, which were then

disguised as full stops in ordinary documents. Now, the Internet has

joined the spying Game, with messages buried inside otherwise

innocuous looking images. Secret messages have even been discovered

on popular online auction sites. Their contents have only been

unlocked when there Spy supplies the right code word. Aspirin, who

would have known? Exactly. As we said earlier, the new Bond theme,

sung by Adele, was released today, and went straight to the top of the

# Let the sky fall # We will stand tall and face it all together.

# We will stand tall. # Let the sky fall # Let the sky fall! It is a

brilliant song. It is beautiful. That is out on 26th October - are

you looking forward to seeing the new film? Yes, but I will not be

there, because I shall be in Basingstoke. Do they not have

cinemas in Basingstoke? I am doing my one-man bit. How does it feel to

see another man play Bond - is it strange for you these days?

Humiliating. No, they are all so damn good. But nobody does it

better. How clever! And in this film, the character Q is back - do

we know who is playing him? always had a lovely Desmond, who is

Welsh, by chance! All the best ones are, Sir boccia. Anyway, good luck