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Hello and welcome to the programme. And what has happened to Alex

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Jones' voice? It has happened in the last hour. Let's get on with it,

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tonight's guest is a star of stage and screen, and he is so end

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recognisable that in his latest musical, some people argued that

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the person they had come to see was not even in the show. Is it flame-

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haired crooner Mick Hucknall? Is it Welsh opera hunk Bryn Terfel? No!

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It is everyone's favourite musical star Michael Ball! How are, guys?

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Do not give me whatever you have got. Well, I did give him a little

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harder earlier on. But, praise indeed that your biggest fans came

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to see you and did not realise it was you. Yes, and honestly, they

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were arguing about whether or not in fact it was me, even in the

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poster. Well, I drove past and I did a double-take. I thought, is

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that Michael? It is a world away from what I have looked like before.

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In honour of Michael's new role in Sweeney Todd, we thought we would

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see if any of you have had a confrontation with a demon barber.

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We are looking for haircuts like this. Send them into us, and we

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will show them at the end of the show. Mind you, this will take some

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beating. That is phenomenal. Those were the days, hey, Michael?

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Separated at birth. Across Britain, our high streets are in trouble,

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with one in three shops empty in some places. But one business is

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bucking the trend. Simon Boazman went to investigate. It is just

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gone 8am, and most people are on the way to work. You will struggle

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to find a bank or a shop which is open, but one thing you can do is

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to put a bet on. Betting shop numbers have remained stable in the

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UK, at around 8,500, for the past decade. But overall, the number of

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major change shops has increased since 2009. It in a recent review,

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the Government concluded that bookmakers are especially prevalent

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in low-income areas. As the law stands, betting shops can open up

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in the same premises as a bank, estate agent or restaurant, without

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any change of planning permission. That means there can be several

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bookies on any high street. But what attracts the punters? How much

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would you spend every day? About �20 or �30. What does it give you,

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is it the excitement? If you win, it is nice to know you're proved

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right. I have just had a winner, which has put me up. I am up to

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about �20 overall, and I have bet around �5. It is a good feeling,

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which is what makes people come back. That is fine, for those who

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can handle it. I always think how much I need for the rest of the

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month beforehand. If the bookie was not here, would you bet at home?

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Yes, my friend, she bets at home. I prefer to come to the betting shop.

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Do you sometimes make sacrifices so that you can come and spend the

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afternoon at the bookies? I do not spend the afternoon here, I come in,

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have my back and go home. If you lose? I am not bothered. You can

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live with it? Exactly. However, there are around 450,000 problem

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gamblers in the UK, an increase of third in the last five years, and

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some believe high street bookies are part of the problem. In Suffolk,

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in London, there are more than 70 betting shops. This local

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councillor has campaigned for communities to have a greater say

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over the number of bookies in their area. A couple of bookies,

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absolutely fine, but when they are dominating the high street. Do you

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think they are really dominating the high street? There are more

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bookies than Baker's. When there are so many in one area, it ends up

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putting other businesses off. political parties share similar

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concerns. The bookies themselves say that they make a valuable

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contribution to high streets across the UK. We are a positive impact on

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the high street, we employ people, we pay rates. The ultimate test is

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whether customers choose to use it or not. And the type of batting

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available is changing. Fixed-odds gaming machines now account for 40%

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of profit in the industry. They're limited to four per shop. But

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critics say they are getting around this too easily. You can place a

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bet of �100 every 20 seconds on those machines, meaning you could

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lose �80,000 in one's up mack without speaking to anybody. With

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only four per shop, they are just opening a shop after shop after

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shop. Customers are increasingly looking for different kinds of

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betting activities. But would you be tempted to open up a second shop

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on a high street to allow you to put another four machines in?

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would not specifically be for that reason, it would be about whether

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there was demand for our services in a different part of the high

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street. This gambling addict has lost tens of thousands of pounds

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over the last 25 years. I was sometimes borrowing money to keep

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going, or to pay bills and make commitments, because I had gambled

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that money away. It really spreads into every aspect of your life.

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has banned himself from every book makers in his local area. Take your

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photograph into the shop, sign the form, and if they identify you as

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that person, they ask you to leave the premises. Eugene is worried

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about the increase in the number of bookies on the high street. My fear

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is that the more bookies there are on the high street, the greater the

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temptation for people who potentially have a gambling problem,

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and that could be just about anybody. Well, Simon is with the

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snow in the studio. Obviously, there has been a problem in this

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area for decades. If you compare it to the late 1960s, there were more

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than 15,000, and now, there are about half that number. It is not

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how many, it is where they are. There was a report last year which

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found that high streets in low- income areas were being blighted by

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bookies. One reason could be that bookmakers have always been in low-

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income areas, but as more retail space is becoming available, with

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shops closing, they're moving in. To give you a sense of scale,

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Harriet Harman's in the constituency, in Camberwell and

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Peckham, has more than 70 bookmakers. If you compare it with

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the Borough of Newham, a low-income area, with Richmond-upon-Thames,

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Newham will have three times as many bookmakers. So, it is not the

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total number, it is where. About one year ago, Mary Portas delivered

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her findings on British high streets. What did she say?

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response to that will be given in the spring. But one thing which has

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been announced already following her review is a thing called the

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Mary Portas pilot scheme, which is a competition for local areas which

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have an ailing high street to compete for a �1 million fund to

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rejuvenate the high street and turn it around. So, they have got to

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make a video, say how they will do it, send it into the local council,

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and the winners will be announced in May. It's a good idea, it could

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get the community spirit going. 12 winning town centres will be

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splitting the �1 million. So, it is not a great deal of money, people

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will have to be inventive. Thank you very much. Now, Michael, you

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are used to breaking into song at the drop of a hat.

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# A gentle breeze from harsher by mountain.

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# Softly blows... Lovely, that's so nice. The reason we are singing

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that is because the writer of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang passed away

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yesterday. Rest in peace. Here's another look at historic songs from

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the workplace, with Carrie Grant. The coal mines of Britain once

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employed one million men. The hot and dangerous work inspired deep

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traditions of strong men, strong unions and music. It is the brass

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bands of the Yorkshire coalfields which we associate most with coal

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miners. But another tradition also grew up - singing. There are now

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fewer miners than there have been for hundreds of years, but coal

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still binds together communities across the country, and for many

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miners, singing is the language which helps them to remember their

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lost work. They say, to understand Mining, you have to go underground.

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So, wish me luck. My guide is Ian, a writer and broadcaster on music,

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who is descended from long line of miners. Where they singing while

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they were working? You cannot, you're in a close in area, your

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briefing all of that dust, it is not... If you're breathing all of

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that stuff in, you will not be singing. But the music sprang up

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from the terrible conditions underground. This is about one

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metre high, but some of these tunnels were about half of that.

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And to think they would spend eight hours down here every day, you

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would really need to sing at the end of the day. Many coal miners'

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songs are sentimental and wistful, not unlike American working songs

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from the Deep South. I can draw a line from the Yorkshire coalfields

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to the Mississippi Delta. If you look at the blues and they're the

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app music, it is localised music, but it has a world appeal. -- and

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the Cajun music. It is talking about love, tenderness and kindness,

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and people in pit villages around where I live know about that as

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well. These things are universal. Why wouldn't you sing about it?

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None of these men work in the pits any more, but the Castleford male-

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voice choir still describe themselves as minus. -- as coal

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miners. They're singing Take Me Home, the lament of the boy forced

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to leave the mining community he # Take me home to my family. How

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important was singing when you were working? We used to sing on the

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train when we were going down. But Bath time, that was the real time.

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That is when all the young lads used to sing. With there are being

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hardly any mines left now, what do you think will happen to the songs?

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As long as there is anybody with any recollection of that era, the

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songs will survive. And I would like to think they will go on

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longer than that. Even though the coalmines from Yorkshire have

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largely disappeared, and get the feeling from everyone that the

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industry was about more than just work. And perhaps it is the music

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which is keeping the mind and spirit alive. -- the mining spirit.

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That has really touched me, thank you.

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I was listening to those songs and my grandfather was a cold miner, my

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Uncle Tom worked in the colliery, they are all members of a choir. I

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am a member of a male voice choir and there is nothing like it. You

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know that, that is where the voice comes from, from the Welsh side!

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Your role in Sweeney Todd is a bit different.

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You are incredibly versatile. thought you were going to say,

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incredibly attractive in that picture! One of the things that

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appealed to me about it, the idea of having left the West End as an

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overweight mother of one in Baltimore and coming back as a

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serial killer was appealing! Being able to transform myself and

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perform Stephen Sondheim's extraordinary music. You are

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bringing the show to the West End but to started in Chichester. Let's

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have a look at this. -- you started # Pretty women #.

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# Sitting in the window, standing on the stairs #.

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APPLAUSE. That is weird. I went to a hairdresser's, an old-fashioned

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barbers, to sit and learn how to do the cut-throat razor and they did

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it on me and it is quite nerve- racking. Is that how you do it's

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now? No! Having someone do it for you, using a razor, you are in

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their hands. It does make you think. Was it your idea to bring this

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back? Yes. I saw it six years ago on Broadway. I had known the music

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but I had never seen the show before and I thought, I would

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desperately loved to play the part but to do it on a big scale. We

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have a cast of 30, an orchestra of 16, and it is at the Adelphi

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Theatre, which has this big stage. A great big production. We are in

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rehearsal at the moment. I will be driving back to work through the

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night to get it ready for Saturday. Were you waiting for him of the

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Staunton? Yes, she came to do my radio show. -- Imelda Staunton. I

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could not think of anyone more perfect to play opposite me. I

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asked three years ago on my radio show and she said yes. I thought, I

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have got it recorded, there will be a lawsuit if you say no! She has

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got me back. She has broken my ribs. Seriously. We were recording the

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album last Saturday and I hurt my back to win the big number. She

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said, lie-down. She climbed on top of me, to try to kick it back into

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place, and it cracked my rib. We had some grand plans for another

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item but we will tell you about it later! Sweeney Todd is at the

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Adelphi Theatre in London on Saturday.

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Yesterday, we found out on the show that you should not cuddle a swan.

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Today's wildlife fact is that 80% of the animal species in the world

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are insects! And really? This is good news for George McGavin, who

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tonight is looking at how grasshoppers spring into action.

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The evolution from hunting with Spears to developing bows and

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arrows was a massive step for humanity. Exploiting potential

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energy is the key and it is what makes the bow and arrow such an

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incredible hunting tour. But 100 million years before us, something

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else had mastered these principles of physics. The grasshopper. To

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someone like me, the jump of the grasshopper it is miraculous. For

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such a small animal, they can jump a very long way indeed. They can

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jump up to 20 times their own body height so I want to know why and

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how they can do it. There is only one person I know that can help me

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get to the bottom of this. My old university lecturer, Dr Henry

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Devitt clock. If I was hitting a target and hunting an animal and I

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threw this, it would be very hard. Your muscles work too slowly.

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doing this as hard as I can! You're on is the equivalent to the

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muscles of the grasshoppers lakes. -- your arms. These bits of the

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springs of the knee joint of the grasshopper's leg. The arrow

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represents the grasshopper. When the grass couple wants to jump, it

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stores its energy... Then releasing good catch. 20p if you hit the gold.

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20p! That is just typical of George!, Henry. I have obviously

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mastered being a notch up. We have a super high-speed camera that will

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give us the best ever view of the grasshopper as it jumps so

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hopefully we will be able to see are supposed to do! Jump! Why is it

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they never jump when you want them time? My powers of persuasion

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finally started to work and with a few jumps in a can, we can really

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start to see the finer details. When a grasshopper wants to jump,

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but first thing it has to do is spend its back legs. A special

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catch in its new joint, it holds its legs in position as they begin

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to strain their tendons. This strain creates massive potential

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energy, so when the need is released, the grasshopper is

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catapulted into the air with Why did grasshoppers have to jump?

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It enables them to move much more quickly over the ground because if

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you progress as the series of hops, you can cover the ground faster.

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The other thing is that grasshoppers are good bird food.

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Yummy yummy! If they can see a bird coming at them and then jump out of

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the way, they will live to fight As if this marvel of microbe

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engineering wasn't enough, most grasshoppers can also fly. Their

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wings give them a turbo boost, propelling themselves into full-

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blown flight. Human beings are constantly trying to invent better

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ways of doing things, yet nature has evolved one of the neatest

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examples of micro engineering ever. That was magical. George is jet lag

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because he is back from a South American trip to the jungle and he

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has got a travel book... Terrible! Anyway, you had some phenomenal

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footage. 20 times of a grasshopper. Imagine a human three, 200 times

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University last year and when they slowed it down, they realised that

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instead of muscles, they have coiled springs in their legs and by

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this leave the system, a dig spines in and suddenly we least the coil

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springs, which causes them for fire for 200 times of their own body

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length! This is a Bombardier beetle! When it wants to get rid of

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all of its pests, like bees ands that are bothering it, look at

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that! -- like these and sos. It is a noxious Clywd. It is an

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instantaneous hot boiling reaction. It fires be chemical out of its

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bottom. It can control exactly where it's braise it. It is

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disgusting and incredibly effective! Bumble bees to finish

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off. Slow-motion footage. Scientists do not know how bumble

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bees fly but when a slow it down, they have worked out they flap

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their wings 230 times every second, and they also fly in a figure-of-

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eight, which enables them to press down twice as much. Look at them

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flying through this war tics of smoke. -- a vortex. It enables them

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to lift up. It is amazing. You liked the Beetle the best! That was

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An alarming number of adults only have the maths level of an 11-year-

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old. Earlier on, we put you to that test with a maths test. I had no

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idea. Before you find out, we sent our reporter to see if one class of

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kids were better at maths than their mums and dads.

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Five and five... There is no doubting the enthusiasm in this

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classroom but outside the school gates, it is a different story.

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Nearly half of adults only have the maths skills of a child of primary

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school age and that is a problem for all of us.

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17 million adults have the maths skills of primary school students.

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This matters a lot for them and it matters for us as a country. If you

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are one of those, you are twice as likely to be unemployed. If you are

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still at school, you are twice as likely to be excluded. If you have

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basic numeracy, you are likely to earn 26 more -- 26% more. And for

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that to happen, things have to improve inside and outside the

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classroom. You have got a very enthusiastic

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class of six and seven-year-olds. How would you get adults to respond

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in the same way? Children are so enthusiastic about maths that they

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go home and it has a knock-on effect. Parents see their children

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being enthusiastic. They can't wait to have a go. The parents think, my

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seven-year-old can do it, I can too. How will the parents of a group of

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nine-11-year-olds do in a One Show Maths Challenge? Who is not looking

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forward to this? The majority! What is the reaction? Calculator! I hate

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maths. I haven't got a clue. I am dreading the next question! I am

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going to play it safe and be the quizmaster and if you are answering

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at home, no calculators allowed! Here is a few of the 10 questions

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asked. If I eat two pieces, and she is

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three pieces of chocolate, which fraction remains?

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Some grasshoppers at the long jump competition. Calculate how much

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Who will come out top of the class? The pupils got 80. Collectively.

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And the adults got... 81. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Can I just

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say, parents, to bring you back down to earth, you should have all

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got top marks because that maths paper was for 11-year-olds, so your

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parents got virtually the same score as you. Does that disappoint

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you? Kind of. How well did you do? I got five, half. That means I am

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not even at a nine-year-old level! How did you do? I got four. It is

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still embarrassing that my son is proud of me and the job I have got

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but... This speaks for itself. it ever too late to learn?

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Could they improve their maths? Yes!

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It is the moment of truth. We have your results. I'll be

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ready? Michael Ball, who scored seven out of 10. -- are we ready?

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But you have a great voice! Thank you for the photos you have

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That looks a bit like me! That is journeys from East Sussex. It is

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like a page boy, I had one like that! What about Geoff Pearson from

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the West Midlands! He looks a bit Simon Grundy! This is from Sylvia

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Beaumont in Scotland. With Michael Ball in the 80s!

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