:00:22. > :00:30.Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.
:00:30. > :00:36.And Don Bonfire Night we have a dynamite guest. Richard Hammond!
:00:37. > :00:43.The idea was to have you coming out of a firework. Like a birthday cake.
:00:43. > :00:48.Help yourself to a toffee apple. Mind your teeth. Maybe after.
:00:48. > :00:54.Didn't you set your shed on fire a one-time? That came from nowhere!
:00:54. > :01:00.Yes. Years ago as a kid in Birmingham and we had a thin garden.
:01:00. > :01:05.I had asked my dad if I could use it for a wildlife club. I carved
:01:05. > :01:11.the initials of wildlife club on the door, W C. That Bonfire Night
:01:11. > :01:20.we had a big fire. It was the shared. That is how not to do it.
:01:20. > :01:24.What happened to the wildlife club? We burn down the shed! If you're
:01:24. > :01:31.having a bonfire party tonight, but don't burn down your shed. We would
:01:31. > :01:39.like to put your sparklers to good use. Send us some sparky writing.
:01:39. > :01:44.We had a go at this. It works better if you put your camera on a
:01:44. > :01:50.slow shutter speed. Whatever you get, send us the results and we
:01:50. > :01:58.will show this ugliest snaps later. Did you do that today? Yes. Your
:01:58. > :02:06.days are weird! This is the Health and Safety bit. But some gloves on
:02:06. > :02:12.and get an adult present. Or don't do it, it is up to Newquay. -- it
:02:12. > :02:21.is up to you. I am not recommending it! My dog is here as well. This is
:02:21. > :02:25.Annie, she is in make-up. With the help of Sarah Fisher, they will be
:02:26. > :02:30.providing some advice for firework crazy canines. She is lovely.
:02:30. > :02:35.left a pair of shoes in that room! Well, they are not safe.
:02:35. > :02:38.remember, remember, 5th November, but the rear -- residents of one
:02:38. > :02:43.tell and in Wales were worried they might have to forget fireworks
:02:43. > :02:52.night this year. We sent Lucy to give their firework night a bit of
:02:52. > :02:57.This is Llanelli in South Wales, where the seaside community
:02:57. > :03:02.association, a small but dedicated group, spend a lot of time putting
:03:02. > :03:10.on events for the community to enjoy. Sadly, 2012 was something of
:03:10. > :03:16.a disaster. How would you describe the last year? Horrendous. The
:03:16. > :03:20.carnival was a total disaster. We ended up with a marquee up a tree.
:03:20. > :03:25.Her you had a striker couple of years ago. Nobody would blame you
:03:25. > :03:30.if you stopped, why do you carry on? When you have come so close to
:03:30. > :03:38.dying, you realise that life is about having fun. What can I do to
:03:38. > :03:44.help you? Generate me some enthusiasm, make it a success. Make
:03:44. > :03:51.it good. So it is the One Show to the rescue. The first port of call
:03:51. > :03:54.has to be something we know Peter really needs. We have a marquee, a
:03:54. > :03:58.really good marquee. That is so significant after what happened to
:03:58. > :04:03.the last one, a brilliant. We are also missing a bonfire and if we're
:04:03. > :04:10.going to have entertainment, we need some electricity. Do you know
:04:10. > :04:17.how much power you want? And no. How about 30? Sounds amazing. We
:04:17. > :04:22.need something to burn. A load of timber. You are one step ahead! Is
:04:22. > :04:27.this my bonfire? Yes. We have got the essentials for the fireworks,
:04:27. > :04:32.but I want to give this a real edge. I am going to track down some local
:04:32. > :04:42.talent and get them to perform tomorrow night. That will give us
:04:42. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:54.Thank you for stopping. What an amazing sound. Can anybody come
:04:54. > :04:57.along tomorrow night? Yes. I could cuddle you! Thank you. With the
:04:57. > :05:07.military band on the bill, I needed something else. Perhaps something
:05:07. > :05:11.
:05:11. > :05:15.# Don't be afraid of the dark. was amazing. What I really, really
:05:15. > :05:24.want is for you to come and sing the tomorrow night at. A show of
:05:24. > :05:27.hands. That is pretty amazing. Thank you so much. If I was at a
:05:27. > :05:31.fireworks tomorrow night and I lived in that community and thought
:05:31. > :05:36.I could not be bothered to have a volunteer and keep this going, if I
:05:36. > :05:41.had that, I would absolutely want to get involved. It is the morning
:05:41. > :05:46.of the event and Peter's wife and some of the other organisers are in
:05:46. > :05:51.the cafe preparing. I think my wife said I was attacking her last night
:05:51. > :05:55.in my sleep. A bit of stress? a little bit. Peter is worried
:05:55. > :06:00.about the rain and whether people will show up. But once the marquee
:06:00. > :06:06.goes up and the sun goes down, Llanelli turned out in force. Is
:06:06. > :06:13.this the most people you've had? The most ever. Really? Absolutely
:06:13. > :06:18.amazing. I'm so relieved. You are? Yes. A few of our special guests
:06:18. > :06:28.start to arrive. Plus a few others we had up our sleeve do try to make
:06:28. > :06:28.
:06:28. > :06:38.this the most spectacular party What is it like to have the choir
:06:38. > :06:40.
:06:40. > :06:47.here? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. A pretty good display?
:06:47. > :06:54.Wonderful. We just can't believe what has gone on, we can only thank
:06:54. > :07:04.for One Show. What has been your favourite bit? The choir. Family
:07:04. > :07:24.
:07:24. > :07:31.reasons. Your dad used to be in it? Brilliant! Lovely. A big hello to
:07:31. > :07:36.everybody in Llanelli, we hope you had a great night. Richard, you
:07:36. > :07:40.investigated the gunpowder Plot ones. In 2005 because it was the
:07:40. > :07:44.400th anniversary. It was quite an elaborate thing. It was an
:07:44. > :07:49.experiment to set up to do. recreate the houses of Lords as
:07:50. > :07:56.they were in 60 No 5 and we did it for a fully. We had its structure
:07:56. > :08:03.the examined by architects and technicians. We put the correct
:08:03. > :08:13.amount of gunpowder in the right place and blew it up. Wow. You need
:08:13. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:45.your sparkly writing! Fizzes what What did you think? That was big!
:08:45. > :08:52.It goes without saying... younger brother co-hosted it with
:08:52. > :08:56.any! What did you learn from that? It would have been catastrophic.
:08:56. > :09:00.was for a fall in terms of the amount of gunpowder, 36 barrels of
:09:00. > :09:04.it. We could place it in the right place. If only half the gunpowder
:09:04. > :09:08.had gone off, everybody would have been killed because of the
:09:09. > :09:13.containment effect of the walls. You would have heard it miles away,
:09:13. > :09:20.it was devastating. It was quite a moment because that was the first
:09:20. > :09:28.time it was actually seen in a real analogues sense. Incredible to
:09:28. > :09:34.witness. It wasn't fun(!). questions continue, have a look at
:09:34. > :09:40.the screen. What do Carol Vorderman, Lord Sugar, Prince Charles and Mary
:09:40. > :09:46.Portas have in common? For they are all one that big TV over there.
:09:46. > :09:56.They are. But they are also expert government advisers known as tsars.
:09:56. > :09:59.
:09:59. > :10:02.Andrew Neill has gone tsar gazing! The tsar, autocratic boss of the
:10:03. > :10:07.old Russian empire and now part of the government of 21st century
:10:07. > :10:12.Britain. There are tsars everywhere in the coalition and for the first
:10:12. > :10:17.time, an attempt has been made to count them. The results are pretty
:10:17. > :10:21.startling. For newspapers gave the name tsar to cover a range of
:10:21. > :10:25.experts and advisers appointed by ministers to represent particular
:10:25. > :10:29.interests or find solutions in difficult areas of policy. The tsar
:10:29. > :10:34.trend started under the last Labour government and included the
:10:34. > :10:36.appointment of famous faces such as Carol Vorderman, Alan Sugar and
:10:36. > :10:41.even Prince Charles. But the current coalition has appointed
:10:41. > :10:46.nearly double the number of annual appointments compared with Labour.
:10:46. > :10:51.There's no central record of who has been made of tsar, when it or
:10:51. > :10:59.even why, until researchers here at King's College London did some
:10:59. > :11:04.rooting around and they made a head count. The result? We've had over
:11:04. > :11:09.260 tsars on British soil. More than the Russians ever had! So why
:11:09. > :11:14.has appointing a well-known often unpaid adviser become so popular?
:11:14. > :11:18.Very often ministers are looking for external and authoritative
:11:18. > :11:23.endorsement of something they favour. It might be a way of trying
:11:23. > :11:27.to find some consensus in a very contentious area. One do they
:11:27. > :11:33.choose famous folk? I think sometimes to raise the profile of
:11:33. > :11:38.the issue and possibly to provide rather more publicity to whatever
:11:38. > :11:42.it is they want to do. Usually the famous person has some expertise in
:11:42. > :11:47.the field. I've come into the streets of London and to find out
:11:47. > :11:51.if people know what a government tsar is an to find out if they know
:11:51. > :11:56.whether any of these stars have also been tsars. Do you know who
:11:57. > :12:02.that is? Prince Charles. Was he a government tsar? I don't think so.
:12:02. > :12:07.He was. Which one was a government tsar? Are Jeremy Clarkson. Carol
:12:07. > :12:14.Vorderman. Jeremy Clarkson. Wrong answer. Do you know what she was?
:12:14. > :12:19.Son thing to do with maths. Correct, she was for maths tsar. By a
:12:19. > :12:24.meeting tsar who spent six months writing an influential report on
:12:24. > :12:27.education. Who appointed do and why? Michael Gove. There was to
:12:27. > :12:32.look at what was happening to vocational education because it was
:12:32. > :12:36.in a mess and he did not know why. There have been quite a few who
:12:36. > :12:40.have had results and a lot of the time these are pretty murky subject.
:12:40. > :12:45.My hunch would be that the less visible for tsar, the more results
:12:45. > :12:50.they get. Sounds like you think tsars are here to stay and they
:12:50. > :12:52.should be. It is really important to have some quick, relatively
:12:52. > :12:58.informal mechanism which allows a minister to get advice on
:12:58. > :13:03.particular topics when she or he needs it, fast. Her during his time
:13:03. > :13:07.in government, John Denham appointed three tsars. None was
:13:07. > :13:11.famous bar all -- but all were experts in their field, including a
:13:11. > :13:15.doctor to help him to decide what to do with GP out-of-hours service.
:13:15. > :13:19.You have to bring in somebody from outside who can give it their full
:13:19. > :13:24.attention. Somebody who is respected in their field, he can do
:13:24. > :13:27.a job. You can't do it as a minister. Had your civil servants
:13:27. > :13:33.are not professionals. Somebody from outside can give real
:13:33. > :13:38.leadership. Is there a danger that the minister calls and a mate? It
:13:38. > :13:41.is a way of getting their way, someone they know. If it was a
:13:41. > :13:46.cynical as that, people would spot that at the beginning and people
:13:46. > :13:49.would say they've added nothing to the process. I think in each case
:13:49. > :13:54.for free people I brought in did things I could not have done myself.
:13:54. > :13:58.Her this work? It worked very well indeed. It changed things for the
:13:58. > :14:02.public as well. So they're here to stay. Ministers like them, they are
:14:02. > :14:06.quick, cheap and effective. But sometimes you wonder if politicians
:14:06. > :14:11.don't like just to be sprinkled with a little bit of celebrity
:14:11. > :14:21.Stardust and the danger in that is you end up with government by
:14:21. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:27.Thank you very much, Andrew Neill. Fancy being a car tsar, Richard?
:14:27. > :14:33.wouldn't know what one did, but I don't want to be in charge. It is
:14:33. > :14:40.not my thing. There is a lot of tsars. I could be the tsar-tsar.
:14:40. > :14:43.The tsar of all zars? Yes, probably the most pointless job.
:14:43. > :14:48.Now, Richard, we have to talk about Richard Hammond's Miracles of
:14:48. > :14:52.Nature. From tonight. It is incredible? I have never been so
:14:52. > :14:55.excited about getting something on air that I have been working on.
:14:55. > :15:00.This has been two years in the making.
:15:00. > :15:04.It comes from the natural world? is how we take inspiration from
:15:04. > :15:09.nature and how sometimes we don't even know how we have done it. We
:15:09. > :15:12.have been looking to a solution, then identified that our solution
:15:12. > :15:18.is what evolution provided. Sometimes looking directly at
:15:18. > :15:21.nature and copying it. Sometimes what an animal does, and applied it.
:15:21. > :15:31.It works. There are so many brilliant
:15:31. > :15:33.
:15:33. > :15:40.examples, but a giraffe inspires a fighter pilot? Yes, the GIRA F suit.
:15:40. > :15:46.It is very slimming, Richard? it? Elegant.
:15:46. > :15:51.What it is, specifically. Giraffes have twice our blood pressure.
:15:51. > :15:55.Simply enough they have to pump the blood a long way up to their head.
:15:56. > :16:00.Not a problem that I suffer with, obviously! That is fine when the
:16:00. > :16:05.blood is pumped to the head, but when it bends to drink, the head
:16:05. > :16:12.goes blow the level of the heart, technically the head should splod,
:16:12. > :16:17.but it doesn't. That is because it has a very clever neck of muscles
:16:17. > :16:22.and thick artery walls. So the suit, you saw me modelling
:16:22. > :16:28.it, you don't have to see it again, saw it, done! It works in very much
:16:28. > :16:31.the same sort of way it works. You go up paragliding it with cape
:16:31. > :16:37.vultures? That was horrible. The reason is that cape vultures have a
:16:37. > :16:42.set of problems. They have to take off, land in confined places, they
:16:42. > :16:48.really only live in one place, which is where I jumped off. That
:16:48. > :16:55.has been coppied, the way that their wings work has inspired a new
:16:55. > :16:59.type of mini submarine. It has short stuby wings to manoeuvre in
:16:59. > :17:03.tight circles. The vulture has the same issue, it needs to use the
:17:03. > :17:09.thermals. You may have to fly for days to
:17:09. > :17:19.find food, so they conserve their energy.
:17:19. > :17:24.Let's see you taking the skies -- taking to the skies.
:17:24. > :17:31.Look at the drop! I don't want to be a vulture. Are you OK?
:17:31. > :17:35.scared. On an Olympic scale! Look to the left... Wow! There are
:17:35. > :17:40.millions! Look at them now. They have come to join us! We are
:17:40. > :17:45.circling with them. It is astonishing. We are in the same
:17:45. > :17:48.thermal that they are. This is incredible.
:17:48. > :17:54.APPLAUSE Does that scare you to look at it?
:17:54. > :17:59.Yes, I am used to doing scary things, but the fear goes away.
:17:59. > :18:03.Like live TV, it goes away, but when you do something new, then
:18:04. > :18:09.bang it goes, but I thought I would be scared, then I would be fine,
:18:09. > :18:16.but I jumped in the air and the fear never left, ever! That is on
:18:16. > :18:25.tonight atpm on BBC One. On Friday our natural miracles, Lauren,
:18:25. > :18:32.Darren, Jack, James, Jamilla, and Ciaran are setting out on Llandudno
:18:33. > :18:37.on the 144 -- 411 mile journey to London on the Team Rickshaw.
:18:37. > :18:42.They have benefited from your donations in the past. They are
:18:42. > :18:46.eager to raise more for us. That is where you come out. Details how to
:18:46. > :18:52.donate are coming up. Yes, so it is time to get to
:18:52. > :19:01.another member of the team, this is Ciaran.
:19:01. > :19:08.My name is Ciaran Fitzgerald. I am 17. I am from Port Talbot in South
:19:08. > :19:13.Wales. It is a lovely place to live, Port Talbot.
:19:13. > :19:20.There are good places to go for walks. Beaches on the doorstep.
:19:20. > :19:27.Good places to go cycling. I live with my mum, my dadened my younger
:19:27. > :19:32.brother, Danny. Because of Ciaran's traumatic birth he lacked oxygen.
:19:32. > :19:37.So he has cerebral palsy. Ciaran's disabilities are the fiscal
:19:37. > :19:42.disabilities. It affects his balance, his fine motorskills and
:19:42. > :19:48.the speech is slurred. You have to give him time to understand him
:19:48. > :19:54.when he is speaking, but he tries to conquer his disabilities with
:19:54. > :19:58.sky skiing, cycling and football. I play tennis once a week. I also
:19:58. > :20:06.enjoy cycling. I've been doing it more now because
:20:06. > :20:12.of the challenge. He's a very ambitious boy! I hope to go to
:20:12. > :20:19.university after I finish my A- levels. I would like to study
:20:19. > :20:25.journalism. I am interested in writing and the media in general.
:20:25. > :20:33.The turning point in Ciaran's life was Mess up the Mess, a drama group.
:20:33. > :20:38.Since then he is far more confident. I made a lot of new friends.
:20:38. > :20:45.Funding has helped. My drama company has put on several
:20:45. > :20:49.productions. It gives me the opportunity to act, but also to
:20:49. > :20:56.write my own place. He is the life and the soul of the party for
:20:56. > :21:00.defendant. He is great. I am excited about the rickshaw
:21:00. > :21:10.challenge. It is over 400 miles. It is only going to take a lot of
:21:10. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:19.energy. It is going to be physically and psychological ally
:21:19. > :21:25.draining. I think if anyone can do it, Ciaran can. I am excited for
:21:25. > :21:29.him, doing this, I know it means the world to him to raise money for
:21:29. > :21:39.Children In Need. Just because I have cerebral palsy does not mean
:21:39. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:47.that I'm not able to push myself as hard as someone who is able-bodied.
:21:47. > :21:54.It will give me the feeling of achievement. It will be great to
:21:54. > :22:00.know I have done something really good and given back to Children In
:22:00. > :22:06.Need for how they have helped me in the past.
:22:06. > :22:12.APPLAUSE What a guy! He really will push
:22:12. > :22:22.himself. We will be there to look after him. Richard, will you do the
:22:22. > :22:33.
:22:33. > :22:38.honours in your best fundraising I few all of that. That was in my
:22:38. > :22:48.head. I happened to know it. Thank you, Richard.
:22:48. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:56.You can also donate any amount you like by sending a cheque to:
:22:56. > :22:59.We want lots of you to cheer us on the journey next week. So go to the
:22:59. > :23:09.website, have a look at the route that we are taking.
:23:09. > :23:10.
:23:10. > :23:15.Yes, come out and see us. What is the time, Matt? Well, it is
:23:15. > :23:20.nearly 7.20pm. Bonfires all over the country are starting. We asked
:23:20. > :23:26.one of our help to take a photo of a bonfire. It was a simple task,
:23:26. > :23:29.but he had to do one better. Bonfire Night is a great chance to
:23:29. > :23:36.take dramatic pictures, but today I'm getting closer to the flames
:23:37. > :23:41.than ever before in the attempt to photograph the nature of fire. It's
:23:41. > :23:47.going to be big, it's going to be hot and it is definitely going to
:23:47. > :23:51.be dangerous. This training centre at West Yorkshire Fire Service,
:23:51. > :23:56.teaches 800 firefighters a year to understand the science of fire. To
:23:56. > :23:59.identify the key danger signals and to stop small household fires
:23:59. > :24:04.getting out of control. Dave, what turns a burning piece of
:24:04. > :24:09.toast into a roaring house fire? Everything is made out of chemicals.
:24:09. > :24:13.When you apply heat to that, it breaks down into the chemicals. The
:24:13. > :24:18.chemicals given off in a form of gas that burns.
:24:18. > :24:25.In this designed multi-storey burn chamber, the chemicals are studied
:24:25. > :24:31.to a point as to when they catch fire. It is known as florbover when
:24:31. > :24:36.a fire in a room because overcome with fire. The men put pallets on
:24:36. > :24:44.the floors, walls and the ceiling to mimic the flammable elements of
:24:44. > :24:47.a fire. They can practise then how to tackle the fire. All they set
:24:47. > :24:52.alight to is this small pile of sticks.
:24:52. > :24:57.How do I know when it is going to go up? The back and side wall looks
:24:57. > :25:02.like burning toast. It gives off white gas. We will let you know
:25:02. > :25:05.when it is likely to happen. When it happen it is ignites and runs up
:25:05. > :25:13.the wall. As well as a lot of firefighters,
:25:13. > :25:17.I'll be joined by the specialist photographer, Brian Saville. His
:25:17. > :25:22.pictures are vital, showing how fires progress and pinpointing
:25:22. > :25:27.where it gets out of control. It is different every time.
:25:27. > :25:33.Sometimes it dives around the walls and comes over. It is dramatic.
:25:33. > :25:38.Have you lost cameras? Not many. The flasher that we put on is the
:25:38. > :25:46.same level of protection that we put on the head.
:25:46. > :25:51.I have only one chance to get that flash over moment. So I have Brian
:25:51. > :25:55.best advice in mind, to keep shooting. To start off it is like
:25:55. > :26:02.sitting around a bonfire. In a house a smoke alarm would be going
:26:02. > :26:06.off. After ten minutes there is the
:26:06. > :26:10.tell-tale flashover signs, the smoke in the air and white smoke
:26:10. > :26:19.coming from the walls. It will be a few seconds now. Here
:26:19. > :26:26.we go. Suddenly there is a huge wall of
:26:26. > :26:30.flame. One minute white smoke, the next it is 200 degrees where we are.
:26:31. > :26:34.This is the moment firefighters here are taught to recognise and to
:26:34. > :26:40.control, left to burn the fire spreads fast.
:26:40. > :26:44.Now, there is a river of flame above my head. It is called
:26:45. > :26:50.rollover. It is caused as the hot gases spread across the ceiling.
:26:50. > :26:55.It is like the air is on fire. It is incredible. Moving through a
:26:55. > :26:59.normal building, firing find more fuel and get hotter.
:26:59. > :27:05.It is 350 degrees in the middle of the chamber now. This is as close
:27:05. > :27:09.as we can get. Wow! That is amazing. It is much,
:27:09. > :27:19.much hotter. This is the terrifying nature of
:27:19. > :27:19.
:27:19. > :27:24.fire. I am thoroughly cooked, but I think
:27:24. > :27:34.I have amazing photos of fire. And Brian's approval.
:27:34. > :27:35.
:27:35. > :27:39.That will do for me. You got good shots? Yes.
:27:40. > :27:46.Bonfire Night is not for everyone. We are talking dogs. Sarah Fisher
:27:46. > :27:51.is a dog behaviour expert. I have my dog in. This is Annie. She is 15
:27:51. > :27:55.months old. This is her first time. She may have some ang diet.
:27:55. > :27:59.Obviously there are no fireworks going off, but -- anxiety.
:27:59. > :28:05.Obviously there are no fireworks going off for the moment, but for
:28:05. > :28:10.people with animals, and it being Bonfire Night, what should the
:28:10. > :28:15.owners do? Annie is amazing in a new environment. To keep the stress
:28:15. > :28:25.levels low and the dog is happy for you to handle them, stroking the
:28:25. > :28:45.
:28:45. > :28:51.ears slowly from the base out to the tip of the nose.
:28:51. > :29:00.So lots of soothing strokes. Now, you keep doing that. You have
:29:00. > :29:05.sent us lots of sparklers. Lara in Canada has made this for
:29:05. > :29:08.her cousin Megane. There is a lovely heart there.
:29:08. > :29:13.Louise who is ten has done this. Thaep for that.