06/07/2012 The One Show

Tonight, Joanna Lumley comes to the rescue of Peter Pan, and the man

who feels no pain. Hello and welcome to your Friday

One Show with Chris Evans. And Alex Jones. Plus Andy Murray through to

the men's singles finals at Wimbledon CHEERING!

Well done all of them. Loads coming up on the show, including a little

bit of this... Take a card. At any card? Yes, show

it to everybody. Don't let me see it. I will take it. Don't look at

it. I will put it about halfway down. On the table. And watch.

APPLAUSE. That is amazing.

Almost as amazing as Andy Murray getting through to the final!

CHEERING. More tricks later on. Welcome,

Dynamo. He has been called the hottest magician in the world.

But first, Joanna Lumley turns One Show reporter for the day.

A subject very close to her heart The legend of Peter Pan, the boy

who never grew up, is one of the most loved children's stories of

all time. For many, Jay M Barrie's famous tale is inextricably linked

with Kensington Gardens. But what you might not realise is the story

began far away from here in a Scottish garden. When the shades of

night began to fall, certain young mathematicians shed their triangles,

crept up walls and down trees and became Pirates. In the sort of

odyssey that long afterwards was to become the play Peter Pan. For our

escapades in a certain dumb freeze garden, which is enchanted land for

me, it was certainly the genesis of that nefarious work -- Dumfries.

These were the words of Barrie when he returned for the last time to be

given the freedom of the town in 1924. But for many years, the house

and the garden fell into a state of decay and dereliction. The Peter

Pan mode they trust was set up in 2009 to save the side from

demolition. The reason I'm so passionate about this place is that

although James Matthew Barrie was born around 50 miles north from

here in Kirriemuir, it was in this garden that he dreamed up Peter Pan.

It was here, looking down across this river and these extraordinary

blue hills in the distance, that Neverland was born. It was here

that Peter Pan really began to fly. Barrie started here from the age --

studied here from the age of 13 up to the age of 18. He was later to

say that the five years he spent here were the happiest of his life.

The young James made great friends with two boys who live here. They

played endless fantasy games, involving pirates and adventure, in

a rambling garden leading down to the river, and it was indelibly

etched on his imagination. "The horror of my boyhood was that

I knew that time would come when I would have to give up games and

have it was to be done, I saw not. I felt I must continue playing in

secret. On these magic shores, children at play are forever

beating their coracles. We too have been there, we can still hear the

sound of the surf, but we shall land no more".

For Barrie, it was a time of great friendship, blood brotherhood and

high adventure. For me, there seems little doubt that it was the

frolics and antics here that helped James conceive the idea of a boy

who never grew up. Now the trust is restoring the derelict shell and

they are aiming to make it Scotland's first centre for

children's literature, open to everyone, with a library, a reader

-- a writing room and a writ -- rider in residence. The aim is to

create a place where children can let their imaginations run wild,

where they can discover their own Neverland.

So dramatic! I love her. And the good news is repairs to make the

building watertight should be completed by the autumn. But the

bad news is we won't be able to tell when autumn comes, because we

hadn't had a summer! So true.

Moving on, as you can see, the magician Dynamo is with us all this

evening. We were also supposed to be joined by Jake Humphrey, he was

going to pot flitted from Silverstone to talk about F1.

the weather in Northamptonshire has been so atrocious, barely anyone

has moved anywhere, including Jake. So we told him to stay put and we

would join him there. Let's see if the satellite has survived the rain.

Hello, Jake. I feel so completely embarrassed to say I couldn't make

it because I am actually getting a suntan and I have my shirt sleeves

rolled up. It does look quite sunny. It is, but you can see a couple of

people in Wellington boots, that is evidence that it was raining and it

was muddy, but if you look over there, you can see it has not but

the fans off. There were no cars on the track for around 15 hours and

they are still here. It does seem quite ironic and people might not

believers, but the car park was flooded around lunchtime, wasn't

it? It was. At Silverstone, the way to do Silverstone, and they sure

are Chris Evans, is to camp. So there were tens of thousands of

people turning up and there can sides couldn't let them in. I was

told by somebody here that they were actually telling people into

the camp site rather than out. And because we have had the wettest

June on record, the water table was high, so they had to shut the car

parks and the campsite and it is still hard to get out. It does look

absolutely gorgeous! But the traffic looks horrendous.

Traditionally, F1 presenters fly in in a different way each year and

this he was no exception, was it? That is right, we arrived on a

three-man bike, we have arrived by helicopter, so we thought, what can

we do next? This was the year of wing walking. David Coulthard and

Eddie Jordan as well. Under these planes are 70 years old. Eddie's

pilot was 60 years old. Eddie Jordan was the youngest part of the

wing walking experience. Is it true that Eddie was hit by a bird

strike? Yes! They have been doing it for 30 years and they have never

had anybody hit by a bird, Eddie was the first one. We have said it

is the closest he has been to a bird for 30 years! Moving swiftly

on... Do you have any proof of the driver struggling with practice

today in that allegedly really bad weather? It was bad, and if you see

the shops from today, you will believe me, it really was

torrential. It is a difficult one for the teams, I know you love F1,

you will know this, that they need to get out onto the track and get

used to the conditions, but you run the risk of damaging the car and

creating problems for the rest of the weekend and there was a big

accident for Bruno Senna, and also Fernando Alonso, one of the most

experienced drivers. So it was a tough day, but the likes of Jenson

Button and Lewis Hamilton will hope a wet weekend plays into their

hands. If it is raining on Sunday, you could have a rain delay, and if

you do, that means your programme notoriously gets a huge share, 45%

plus, you will be up against the tennis, Andy Murray in the men's

singles final. CHEERING.

If you wear at home, honestly, are you watching F1 or Andy Murray? --

if you were. You cannot ask me that! I would watch the Formula One,

because it doesn't get delayed if there is rain, notoriously, so I

would watch that on BBC Two until 2:30pm, and then I would turn over

to the tennis on BBC One and I would only have missed Andy Murray

winning the first set. You can get every experience. That is why he

gets the gear -- big bucks. Good answer. Jake Humphrey. Like a

drowned rat at Silverstone! Silverstone may have been hit by

the bad weather today, but up with that great British spirit, they

continued to get ready to race on Sunday. We want to know what the

rain has not stopped you from doing either. Send your photo to the One

Show website. We are talking F1, Dynamo, so what are the fastest

tricks you can do? I will do something that will test both of

usmphs. Hold your hands said. I have a two pence coin and a two

pound coin. Squeeze your hand tied. I wanted to choose a coin.

Squeeze it really tight. I am. going to go really fast and take

the 2p. That is... Was it fast enough for

you? That is absolutely spot-on, and that is why Dynamo's new show

on What is getting record figures. It is incredible, he is the best.

was watching it last night, I was mesmerised.

More from Dynamo later, but now of Dr Mark Porter has the

extraordinary story of a young man from Kent who has literally never

felt any pain. A pleasant day's caravanning in the

Surrey countryside. But for 27- year-old Paul Waters, even this

most gentle of pursuits is fraught with danger. Hammering things into

the ground. I wouldn't necessarily know I had hit myself, all I would

feel is a crunching of bones. I can still burn myself and not know I

have done it until it is too late. It would be hard for me to imagine

what pain feels like, because I have never felt it. Just before his

first birthday, Paul was diagnosed with can genitive that congenital

in sensitivity to pain, they are very rare conditioning -- condition

that his sister has already been diagnosed with. I jumped out of my

window, I was pretending to be Superman. I have broken my legs, my

knees and my ankles so many times, I really don't know. We had a

padded playroom put in the back of the house to keep them safe. They

had guards over their cots and around their beds. We had so many

precautions that had to be taken every day of the week. I was

leaning up against a radiator as a child and I didn't realise it was

burning me until it had ripped a chunk out of my shoulder. And you

felt nothing? Tragically, Paul's younger sister

Amanda died once you was just three. But doctors said they were chewing

on their tongs because they did not understand what they were doing. So

Amanda bit her tongue in half and she died four days later in my arms

of septicaemia. One of my fears is getting something like appendicitis.

Appendicitis can be fatal, if you don't get treatment in time.

Something could be abnormal but I wouldn't be able to explain that to

a doctor. Medicine currently has no cure for Paul's curious lack of

pain, but we've discovered he could hold the Q2 helping millions of

people who live daily in severe pain -- the key. The One Show has

asked the leading team of pain scientists to meet Paul. We need a

new treatment for chronic pain. Paul offers the hope of finding

those treatments, but understanding what nature has done to Paul, we

might be able to emulate that, for instance with a drug, which would

switch-off pain in an individual for a day or two.

Paul has volunteered for a battery of tests. First, to find out what

he can and cannot feel. That is just a vibration.

It's very light touch. Intriguingly, Paul's reaction to

none painful sensations is entirely normal. It feels like a brush.

is what it is. But when the tests get to a stage that would normally

be painful, Paul fails to register any pain at all. I can feel it a

sharper but it doesn't hurt. So you know that the tip is pointed, but

it doesn't been -- feel painful? All of the evidence we have shows

that Paul has the machinery to respond with tissue damage, but the

way that his brain processes signals mean he is indifferent to

pain. That is genuinely new, it is a new observation and it is an

insight that might have very far reaching consequences. Paul's

condition is almost certainly caused by a mutant gene, blocking

the pay channels to his brain. Professor John Ward is going to

analyse his genetic make-up. genes underpin your whole

development as a human being, so one of these is an electronically

activated signal to the break and if it is lost, the system doesn't

work. So it was very exciting to examine Paul's jeans and see if he

is something new. If scientists identified a new pain insensitive

gene in Paul, they can start developing powerful painkillers

that can imitate it. Paul's story is an extraordinary bond which can

produce some truly remarkable results. I am quite excited at the

prospect of really being be Q2 helping other people, which is what

I primarily came into this for the An extraordinary story. Welcome to

the programme. When did you first suspect as parents that there was

something different about Paul? mother realised when he was about

one month old. A didn't really pointed out to me because she knew

I would not believe it so when he was about nine months old she said

see, he does not feel pain. I didn't listen at that time. But

then we took him to the doctors. You used to hurt yourself when you

were small on purpose. You and your sister. That was mainly for

attention. We would hold hands and jump down the stairs, try and miss

every single flight, just for the sensation of flying through the air

and knowing that at the end of it there would be no downside besides

being waited on hand and foot. Presents, visits by friends and

family. As parents, how did you curb this? In was very hard. -- it

was. They would ask for ice-creams and if we said No They would break

their fingers in front of us to punish us. No way! They bit the

middle of their hands out. How do you feel about that now? If a good

turn the clock back and not do it, great. There are a lot of problems

I have given myself now that I would not have had I not made those

stupid decisions. The you're a child, you thought it was funny.

You're trying to get what you wanted a -- but you were a child.

You have now met other people around the world in a similar

situation, but not that many. Less than 100. That I know of. I could

not give you a figure. I am regularly contacted through my

website from people that I do feel they know someone with a similar

condition, or a link condition, or people who want to find out more.

People from America, for example, people at the universities contact

me and my friend were partnered up with to do the website in the first

place, numerous people have contacted me through that, the

website is called Pamela's people. Mainly for information because

they're intrigued by it but under the buttercup of people who have

contacted saying they think they might know someone. Sir it could be

thousands. May be. But I don't know. A extraordinary story. Now time to

talk about am... Our wildlife or memoranda has more. Maghaberry is

the largest jail in Northern Ireland and the Department of

Justice gave a special access to enter it. -- gave us. High fences

and thick walls protect the right side world from its inmates. --

outside world. The jail birds are protected but not the jailbirds you

might expect. I am here to see one of the UK's most rapidly declining

bird species, the Northern lad thing, which have been nesting in

the no-man's land around the jail. The Birdman of the gallery is

prison officer Denis Smith who was the first person to realise the

first -- the importance of the side. -- Maghaberry. To end years ago I

read an article which said lapwings had got scarce in Northern Ireland.

I always thought they were common. They had always been so many here.

Where are they nesting? Over from that wall there. In the past

Northern lapwings were a common sight but numbers have plummeted.

Northern Ireland has seen a 70% reduction over the last 45 years.

Just one over there. In 1999 it was estimated there were 1,700 breeding

pairs in Northern Ireland. But now it is thought just a few hundred

remain. At times this small area could contain up to a 10th of that

entire breeding population. There are chicks. How old are they?

a week. They are up and running. They were nesting here since the

prison was built in the early 1970s. How big a site is it? I about five

acres. War do the prisoners think of it? They are very interested.

They asked me every day about the birds, how they are doing, how the

nests are coming along. They'd call them my birds. I soon as Dennis

recognise the importance of the side he notified the RSPB who have

been helping him manage it for the past 10 years. To gauge their

numbers Donald Black has a tactic for getting a closer look. If we

get into a vehicle, we will not scare them, they're afraid of

humans but they don't recognise vehicles so they won't realise we

are a threat. Ramblings art ground- nesting birds and need a specific

habitat to reproduce -- lapwings. They now only breed in a few places

in Northern Ireland. What makes it such a good place for them to be?

No human beings, no disturbance, no predators. They can rest in peace.

-- nest. There is a chick. Do they have to go far to find food? In the

countryside they cannot always get food. They have to travel from the

nest to a food source, they can get wet and get hyperthermia.

chicks need to feed on small invertebrates so pools of water

have been dug specifically to encourage large numbers of them to

breed. Lapwing chicks can walk within just a few hours of hatching.

This family behind me will stay together for about five weeks, or

until the rent -- the young can fly. That was just eggs last time you

were here? Just four eggs, now it is chicks. That will add to the

other 17. He might only get three pairs together in the countryside.

We have 15 players on the site. A - - pairs. These lapwings have

breached the prison fence is to find the perfect habitat to bring

up their younger and now this no- man's land has been declared a Site

of Special Scientific Interest, at least this next generation is

You have been sending us photos of what you have been up to in the

rain. Jade got engaged. Congratulations. That is her finger.

I think we know that. It did not stop me watching my daughter from

running with the Olympic torch. Very good. Still going. It has not

stopped Johnny Gibbons from surfing. That was not taken today! Far too

good to be sent him. He will be on the phone to say it is real. Double

points them. We did not stop my daughter and a friend who refuse to

get of a funfair ride. Thank you for those. Dynamo, we saw you last

night, you have been touring the streets are showing people tricks

and you leave groups of people incredulous and then walk away. He

is that what made it addictive for you? People working out how you do

the tricks? The excitement I get from it is just, it takes over my

whole body, it is an adrenalin rush. No matter where I go every single

reaction is different. It never gets boring. You know how actors

have script writers and comedians have joke writers, do magician's

hat trick writers? I just have a crazy, vivid imagination. You write

your own material as it were? They are in much. Let's look at last

night's episode. Teas, money? -- It was all over Twitter last night.

In was the number one topic Worldwide. To get over one million

viewers, that his record figures for the Channel. We have a few more

viewers than that tonight so what are you going to do? Why on last

thing... I am going to try something a bit weird. We like

weird! I've got Crohn's Disease. So food pretty much goes straight

through me. You're have had this since you were a child, haven't

you? That is how you got into magic. It was the one thing that took my

mind off the pain. I have also learned it is not just food they

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds

can go straight through me, but Dynamo, Ladies and gentlemen!

you. You know when you say don't try it at home, why did you try it?

I am not at home. By you must have tried it at home. I'd tried it at

school. Unbelievable. To see it up close is very weird. The it is.

To see it from 200 miles away was weird! Very impressive. Hands up

who is camping in the rain this weekend? They are all here because

they want to see who is on pole position which is where we are

standing. This is the spot, this is what they will fight over. Join us

for that. It is important I point out that Silverstone have said

today if you have just a general admission ticket and parking then

please do not come tomorrow, sadly that applies to about 20,000 people.

They are still struggling with the car-parks, with the weather, but

fingers crossed for those that do make it. Then the race on Sunday,

Well done everybody for being here. Thank you. Who will win? Lewis