:00:22. > :00:35.been rediscovering his Welsh roots. Have you got anything for that?
:00:36. > :00:50.PLAYS BREAD OF HEAVEN Ah, the homeland. It makes me feel
:00:51. > :00:54.like singing! Thank goodness for the opening titles! So, who is the Welsh
:00:55. > :01:05.Essex boy? Please welcome Griff Rhys Jones! Lovely to have you here. My
:01:06. > :01:18.father never sign in many songs, but one of the songs he used to sing was
:01:19. > :01:24.bred from heavenses and beer from the Royal Oak. If you don't know the
:01:25. > :01:30.words, make them up! It's our second day in the new studio. Griff, you've
:01:31. > :01:34.renovated lots of homes in your time, is there a ritual you always
:01:35. > :01:40.do to christen a new home? Even if I like to go to a hotel room, I like
:01:41. > :01:46.to rearrange it. I had an office not far from here a little while ago in
:01:47. > :01:51.Percy Street, and I took for myself the basement area and made it very
:01:52. > :01:57.cosy with arm chairs and sofas, lights with lampshades, that sort of
:01:58. > :02:01.stuff. The problem was that everybody used to come into my
:02:02. > :02:06.office to hang out because it was the only worthwhile place. I was the
:02:07. > :02:18.only person who didn't really have any work to do in Talkback. It is a
:02:19. > :02:28.double-edged sword. We are going to use Matt's dressing room as our
:02:29. > :02:32.den! Well Griff, this is the first chance we've had to talk to you
:02:33. > :02:35.since Mel passed away last year. Let's have a look at one of your
:02:36. > :02:39.famous head to head sketches from Alas Smith And Jones. You know I was
:02:40. > :02:50.very into the hippie culture, very influenced by the West Coast. You
:02:51. > :03:06.mean down in Devon. San Francisco. I was one of the beautiful people. I
:03:07. > :03:15.was, yes. It was a bit before I met you, of course. Yes, it must have
:03:16. > :03:32.been. You are watching that with great fondness, of course. Pot and
:03:33. > :03:38.kettle, but the two of us had under hung jaws and one of our biggest
:03:39. > :03:49.fans was a dentist who used to use the picture of us to lecture! Very
:03:50. > :03:53.sadly, after Not the Nine O'Clock News, we used to make radio
:03:54. > :03:59.commercials and we have the microphone hanging between us. When
:04:00. > :04:03.we came to do the television show, we liked working in that way so we
:04:04. > :04:10.just took the microphone out and that is literally how it happened.
:04:11. > :04:17.It would be nice if it had been an artistic idea, but it wasn't. He had
:04:18. > :04:23.one of those faces that you just smiled and laughed, and you did a
:04:24. > :04:29.good job of keeping a straight face. Indeed, but the funny thing, during
:04:30. > :04:33.those head-to-head is, they were always one tape. If you are doing
:04:34. > :04:39.about six to eight minutes of that stuff, if any mistake was made, we
:04:40. > :04:43.couldn't start again because the audience had heard the jokes so we
:04:44. > :04:50.were always terrified about going wrong. Sometimes you can watch, Mel
:04:51. > :04:56.will always carry the burden, he had more stuff to say. He had the jokes
:04:57. > :05:01.and I would do the reactions, and he would have an auto cue just behind
:05:02. > :05:07.my left ear. Sometimes I would see him wandering away to check. Mel
:05:08. > :05:16.Smith, a brilliant comedian, and he will be missed. Building you own
:05:17. > :05:19.home is a dream for many people but what do you do if you don't have
:05:20. > :05:23.building skills or a Grand Designs-style budget? Tony Livesey
:05:24. > :05:30.has been to meet a group of people who think they have the answer. This
:05:31. > :05:35.might look like a normal night school class with people being
:05:36. > :05:40.taught the intricacies of DIY but this class is slightly different.
:05:41. > :05:45.Because this lot are going to take the skills they are learning here
:05:46. > :05:50.and use a piece of east London waste land to build their own social
:05:51. > :05:56.housing. John has been a social housing tenant all his life, but
:05:57. > :06:00.when his family swelled to five, his two-bedroom house wasn't big
:06:01. > :06:07.enough. Did you approach the council and ask for a bigger property? I
:06:08. > :06:12.did. I was told some people have been on the list for ten years and
:06:13. > :06:16.it is a long waiting time. John found out he might be able to get a
:06:17. > :06:22.bigger house with his name on it if he rolled up his sleeves and helped
:06:23. > :06:27.to build it himself. For the project to succeed, John couldn't do it on
:06:28. > :06:31.his own. He needed to find more families. They all needed to be
:06:32. > :06:35.eligible for social housing, they all needed more children in the
:06:36. > :06:44.bedrooms and they all needed to be able to build their new homes. John
:06:45. > :06:47.managed to get five families on board, but is it fair that just by
:06:48. > :06:51.showing some willingness to do some DIY they had all managed to get
:06:52. > :06:55.their hands on a big house with a lifetime tenancy? That is when there
:06:56. > :07:01.is an estimated 2 million people on the social housing waiting list.
:07:02. > :07:08.Yes, says John, because in return they are getting their hands dirty.
:07:09. > :07:16.What did you think when he said, we will build our own houses? Scared,
:07:17. > :07:24.but excited. How does it all work? It is a community self build so we
:07:25. > :07:30.all pitch in, helping each other with their houses as we go along.
:07:31. > :07:36.Where will you find the time to work? We will find time in the
:07:37. > :07:42.evenings. Nobody takes holidays and we put in a certain amount of time
:07:43. > :07:48.each week. Be honest, when you do your own house, you are going to
:07:49. > :07:52.take more care! In this case the housing association has hired
:07:53. > :07:56.builders to do the bricks and mortar, John and the others have to
:07:57. > :08:03.do pretty much everything else. What happens if the people building these
:08:04. > :08:07.properties are not up to it? We have hired the services of a construction
:08:08. > :08:13.company to make sure it is up to scratch. What do you get out of
:08:14. > :08:18.this? It is part of a programme we are doing across London and we are
:08:19. > :08:23.always looking at creative ways to provide new homes. There isn't a
:08:24. > :08:28.builder amongst this lot, so since September last year they have been
:08:29. > :08:36.meeting twice a week at their local college to learn some skills. It is
:08:37. > :08:39.Hammer time! Hanging doors, fitting kitchens and bathrooms, plastering
:08:40. > :08:48.walls, these are some of the skills they are learning from scratch. Is
:08:49. > :08:54.this a skill you had before? Certainly not. How well have they
:08:55. > :09:01.done? Absolutely fantastic. They have taken to it really well. Have
:09:02. > :09:06.you had to dumb down your level of teaching? Know, in fact in some
:09:07. > :09:17.respects we have had to speed up a little bit. I have got the know-how
:09:18. > :09:21.now. This is a skill for life. Theoretically anyone can do this and
:09:22. > :09:25.the government has set aside ?30 million to help you do it, but the
:09:26. > :09:29.scheme is not for the faint-hearted. John has had to do a
:09:30. > :09:34.lot of research and persuading to get the right people on board. It
:09:35. > :09:41.has taken him five years to get this far and still not a single brick has
:09:42. > :09:47.been laid. That is due to happen in February. Good luck to John and the
:09:48. > :09:56.other tenants - I hope they get along. As this is your One Show, all
:09:57. > :10:00.week we are asking you to send in your family photos or pictures with
:10:01. > :10:04.loved ones, to create some artwork to decorate our new home. It is a
:10:05. > :10:08.bit there, we need something. We're after at least 2014 photos to make a
:10:09. > :10:12.massive One Show Family Mosaic. The Cartwright Family from Derbyshire is
:10:13. > :10:16.the first photo - they are going to be the end of Chris's nose. And when
:10:17. > :10:21.you send in your family pictures, you'll make up the rest of us. So
:10:22. > :10:26.email your family photo to us by Thursday.
:10:27. > :10:34.Last night Griff's new TV series A Great Welsh Adventure started. I
:10:35. > :10:41.have got a bone to pick with you. I knew this was going to happen. I
:10:42. > :10:48.thought if I ever need to make some extra money, I would do a series on
:10:49. > :10:55.Wales, and you have got in there. Listen to my accent, I don't sound
:10:56. > :10:58.really Welsh, I told this to ITV. I have a different point of view from
:10:59. > :11:03.the one you would bring to it, there is still room for you. My point of
:11:04. > :11:09.view is from somebody who does not know what the hell is going on. One
:11:10. > :11:13.of your challenges in the series is to find the Holy Grail. I'll tell
:11:14. > :11:20.you where it is, the first floor of a hotel in Aberystwyth. You will
:11:21. > :11:27.ruin it for everybody out there! Keep an element of jeopardy about it
:11:28. > :11:38.for goodness sake! Why did you want to make the show? What made me go?
:11:39. > :11:43.You were the executive producer as well so you were heavily involved.
:11:44. > :11:50.Yes, but it was a way of getting back to my roots. I have spent the
:11:51. > :11:56.last 20 years with Mel, the furthest west I ever went was White city.
:11:57. > :12:03.From memory of being a child going to Wales was about 120 miles in a
:12:04. > :12:06.Morris Minor travelling through every single traffic light in
:12:07. > :12:25.Britain until you got there very late at night, and by nine, it would
:12:26. > :12:31.never cook for us because we arrived so late so we always had to eat
:12:32. > :12:37.salad so Cardiff is associated with salad for me. This is put together
:12:38. > :12:43.for me, the opportunity to find out about Wales. I encourage people to
:12:44. > :12:48.get out there and explore the countryside, and you don't hold
:12:49. > :12:57.back. Hats off to you, you have a go. Let's relive last night's
:12:58. > :13:11.episode when you reached 100 mph on a zip wire in Snowdonia. I am going
:13:12. > :13:17.at 90 mph! Wants at cruising speed, strange things start to happen to
:13:18. > :13:22.your face. They used to call it G force. The sensation is literally
:13:23. > :13:29.breathtaking. Much more extraordinary is the bird 's eye
:13:30. > :13:38.view of human endeavour in creating this vast crater.
:13:39. > :13:48.What else do you get up to? I am actually filming myself as I go down
:13:49. > :13:53.there. I go gliding in the brackens and I swim. My best thing was to go
:13:54. > :13:59.into the Beacons and swim in a mountain lake. As you may be aware,
:14:00. > :14:05.after about October it is impossible to buy a swimming costume in Wales,
:14:06. > :14:09.we discovered, so I had to do some skinny-dipping in the Welsh
:14:10. > :14:17.mountains. Lets not reveal any more secrets. You can follow Griff's
:14:18. > :14:25.journey around wonderful Wales on ITV every Monday night. Griff, you
:14:26. > :14:29.may have found the Holy Grail, but I bet you didn't find one of these on
:14:30. > :14:32.your travels. This is a fossilised tooth. Wow, that's a fossilised
:14:33. > :14:39.tooth? It's huge! It's not huge, Matt, it's mammoth!
:14:40. > :14:44.This is the North Sea. 85 miles off the Suffolk coast. Today, I am on a
:14:45. > :14:49.fishing trip with a difference. We are trawling a sea bed 25 metres
:14:50. > :14:53.below this vessel. But it is not fish we are after, we are hoping to
:14:54. > :15:00.catch something more extraordinary, mammoth bones. 50,000 years ago,
:15:01. > :15:04.this body of water did not exist. The Suffolk coastline is in that
:15:05. > :15:11.direction and the sandy dunes are over there. Beneath me, right now,
:15:12. > :15:15.was once part of mainland Europe, fertile breeding grounds, home to
:15:16. > :15:21.ice age giants. I have been invited on today's expedition by one of the
:15:22. > :15:26.world's leading mammoth specialists. Often, in the movies, mammoths get
:15:27. > :15:31.to pick it in a very snowy landscape. Is that what it would
:15:32. > :15:36.have been like here? No, the ice age woolly mammoth was living in a
:15:37. > :15:42.grassland environment. Much like the Serengeti. No elephants, but
:15:43. > :15:48.mammoths. No black rhinos, but woolly rhinos. Hyenas, Lyons. It was
:15:49. > :15:54.quite spectacular. This giant's paradise did not last for ever.
:15:55. > :16:00.Around 11,000 years ago, dramatic changes of climate place. The ice
:16:01. > :16:02.was melting and the environment disappeared. At the same time, it
:16:03. > :16:08.causes the extinction of these big animals. Britain became cut off from
:16:09. > :16:13.mainland Europe and this one is perfect habitat was drowned in what
:16:14. > :16:18.is now the North Sea. The remains of its past inhabitants are still here,
:16:19. > :16:24.though. As the first nets are brought in, the decks are busy with
:16:25. > :16:33.activity. And we strike lucky on the very first trawl. Luckier! Look! You
:16:34. > :16:49.see? That is amazing. Look at that! That is huge. Is this
:16:50. > :16:52.exciting, or not? Absolutely incredible. I expected a few small
:16:53. > :16:56.bits and pieces, but that is amazing. The next job is to get the
:16:57. > :17:02.bones out. You must be bursting with excitement? This is very, very
:17:03. > :17:11.exciting. Can you put that over there? Don't drop it. I won't. It is
:17:12. > :17:17.not all about size, though. Luck, a very nice bone of a female woolly
:17:18. > :17:26.mammoth. How do you know it is female, just by looking? Because it
:17:27. > :17:36.is so small. What have you got? It is a molar of a young individual.
:17:37. > :17:42.This is a milk molar, so to say. So it is like that, in the jaw? Yes,
:17:43. > :17:46.and that is the grinding surface. It is not just mammoth bones they are
:17:47. > :17:53.finding. Luck that this magnificent specimen, the woolly rhino. They
:17:54. > :18:02.were around at the same time? Yes. It is damaged, it here, here. This
:18:03. > :18:06.was eaten by hyenas. You can, it is absolutely right. Just mind blowing.
:18:07. > :18:13.That is a little story from the past, right there, in a bone.
:18:14. > :18:18.Throughout the next few hours, we pull out more and more of these
:18:19. > :18:22.wonderful artefacts. So are these just lying on the bottom of the sea?
:18:23. > :18:28.Not covered with layers of sediment? They are embedded in the sediment,
:18:29. > :18:33.in sand, covered by a layer of clay, preserving the bodies in this
:18:34. > :18:39.condition. The sand is dredged away from the sea bed, deep in the sea,
:18:40. > :18:42.and everything which is heavy, like the mammoth bones, remain on the
:18:43. > :18:46.floor. Then we come with our nets and take it. You and me, we are the
:18:47. > :18:52.first ones that have seen these bones. Nobody else has seen them
:18:53. > :18:59.before. I am the first person to touch that bone? Exactly, 40,000
:19:00. > :19:03.years old. This has been a really incredible day. These fines are
:19:04. > :19:07.amazing. So far, the team have brought up more than 1 million
:19:08. > :19:11.mammoth bones. Trawling is only part of the story. Next, we are going to
:19:12. > :19:12.find out how they fit together to help unlock the secrets of the ice
:19:13. > :19:23.age. What a trip! So, he is not a
:19:24. > :19:28.fisherman, he is a palaeontologist, in it for the science? But this is
:19:29. > :19:35.big business? There is quite a lot of money to be made. There are
:19:36. > :19:40.millions of bones. I filled my suitcase, it's a great talking point
:19:41. > :19:44.when people come round. The thing is, you can own a whole mammoth, if
:19:45. > :19:52.you wanted to. Collect the pieces and do a jigsaw. The last one that
:19:53. > :20:00.was for sale in Sotheby's in Paris, 2012, was 200,000 euros, about
:20:01. > :20:06.?170,000. He would take a while putting together the bits, wouldn't
:20:07. > :20:11.you? It is January, things are tight, if you cannot afford a full
:20:12. > :20:15.mammoth, what can you get? There are a few bargain basement items. This
:20:16. > :20:21.is the fossilised tooth of a woolly mammoth. This will set you back
:20:22. > :20:27.about ?60. Don't give it to me, I'm not going to buy it. I think that is
:20:28. > :20:36.reasonable. If you can't afford that, this is a fragment of a horn
:20:37. > :20:41.of a steppe bison. A mere ?25. Running around about 40,000 years
:20:42. > :20:48.ago? Yes, the same time as the bully mammoth. They just went down to look
:20:49. > :20:56.at the waves, look what happened. This is bargain basement, this is
:20:57. > :20:59.the toe of a rhino. That looks like something you could find in a
:21:00. > :21:04.bargain bucket at a fried chicken shop, how do you know? If you buy
:21:05. > :21:08.anything, you have to get a certificate of authenticity. If that
:21:09. > :21:12.is out of your price range, I have something you might be interested
:21:13. > :21:19.in. Why do you keep concentrating on me? This is free. I will set this
:21:20. > :21:21.up. You might witness some prehistoric magic. Look at the
:21:22. > :21:32.monitor to see what happens. If you fancy creating this origami
:21:33. > :21:36.dinosaur, I have the details on the website.
:21:37. > :21:46.Not quite as impressive as these. I leave them around house, people come
:21:47. > :21:52.and say, goodness me. But this is not even a fossil, it is like real
:21:53. > :21:56.bone. Thank you so much, Miranda. Thanks for bringing the stuff in.
:21:57. > :22:00.The second part of your mammoth hunt is on Thursday. You make programmes
:22:01. > :22:03.of three men in boats, another programme about three men in another
:22:04. > :22:10.boat. Have you ever seen a cargo like this? Look at the size of that.
:22:11. > :22:16.That is a massive oil rig. But how do you get that of the boat?
:22:17. > :22:22.Something very large is heading for these shores. It weighs over 22,000
:22:23. > :22:34.tonnes. It stands 236 metres tall. It cost ?123 million. It is a
:22:35. > :22:39.brand-new oil rig called Prospector 1. It has travelled from China to
:22:40. > :22:46.the north of Scotland by hitching a ride on a ship called The Talisman.
:22:47. > :22:51.Transporting such a massive cargo 15,000 miles across the open sea is
:22:52. > :22:56.a huge engineering challenge. But now that they have got us here, and
:22:57. > :23:01.it is perched upon the ship, how do they get it off the ship and into
:23:02. > :23:09.the water? That is the challenge facing Darren Sutherland from
:23:10. > :23:12.Prospector Offshore Drilling. I bet you can't guess how they do it. You
:23:13. > :23:19.have your new oil rig in place. How do you get it off the ship? The ship
:23:20. > :23:22.is designed to submerge, a bit like a submarine. Later tonight, the
:23:23. > :23:27.decks of the ship will be under the water and we will float it off when
:23:28. > :23:32.it is underwater. You are going to sink the ship? We are going to
:23:33. > :23:35.partially sink the ship. Underneath the oil rig and below the water line
:23:36. > :23:40.is the equipment that makes this possible. But hang these walls are
:23:41. > :23:45.the ballast tanks in the bowels of the ship. -- behind these walls. 50
:23:46. > :23:50.of them are running end to end. When it comes time to submerge, the crew
:23:51. > :23:54.will pump 99 million litres of water into the tanks and, before you know
:23:55. > :23:59.it, the decor will sink beneath the waves.
:24:00. > :24:07.But sinking a ship with a 22,000 tonne structure on top of it is not
:24:08. > :24:17.easy. Imagine that this is the first, and this is my version of the
:24:18. > :24:23.talisman. But the rig on top, and it becomes incredibly unstable. My ship
:24:24. > :24:28.has one, large, half filled tank, so all of the water moves to one side.
:24:29. > :24:32.That causes the ship to roll. By filling smaller tanks, one at a
:24:33. > :24:40.time, it means that most of them are completely full or completely empty.
:24:41. > :24:48.Lower it into the Cromarty Firth and... It's stable, because you
:24:49. > :24:55.don't get sloshing about. It is 5pm and the final sea fastenings are
:24:56. > :25:01.being removed. Eight hours later, the process is well and truly
:25:02. > :25:05.underway. It is now 1am in the morning and the sinking of the ship
:25:06. > :25:11.has begun in earnest. It's really very strange. I was stood down there
:25:12. > :25:17.a few short hours ago and now there is a good foot of water, with the
:25:18. > :25:20.waves lapping over the edges. While this is happening, the engineers are
:25:21. > :25:25.carefully monitoring the flow of water into the ballast tanks and
:25:26. > :25:31.checking the stability of the ship and the rig. At 7am, the ship has
:25:32. > :25:38.sent a total of 12 metres. That is the height of a 4-storey building.
:25:39. > :25:43.It's a bizarre sight. Now, the most tricky part of the whole process is
:25:44. > :25:49.about to begin. So, how long have you got to get it off the ship?
:25:50. > :25:52.Essentially we have the slack tide, for one hour. We need it because it
:25:53. > :25:55.is such a large vessel and we need to be able to control it very
:25:56. > :26:01.carefully and avoid colliding with the ship as we take it off. When the
:26:02. > :26:10.crew get the call, they have to act quickly to release the lines. With
:26:11. > :26:15.minutes to spare, it is finally floating free.
:26:16. > :26:22.But for the ship that carried her here, the journey is far from over.
:26:23. > :26:27.Behind me is what is left of The Talisman, the bow and the stern,
:26:28. > :26:34.poking up like two islands in the sea. But that is all about a
:26:35. > :26:39.change. Now the process is reversed as the water is pumped out of the
:26:40. > :26:42.ballast tanks and The Talisman rises from the waves, ready for the next
:26:43. > :26:46.massive load that needs to be moved around the world.
:26:47. > :26:57.Utterly mesmerising. I have never seen a ship that big half sunk. Next
:26:58. > :27:03.time, three men in a cargo ship! You can see Griff's Great Welsh
:27:04. > :27:07.Adventure tomorrow. Tomorrow, Honor Blackman and Vernon Kaye will be
:27:08. > :27:11.here, and Vernon Kaye will be talking about the next series of
:27:12. > :27:17.Splash. If you have any videos of you, or your child's first dive,
:27:18. > :27:26.please send them in. Now, it is our 14 pianists from Kingston School in
:27:27. > :27:27.Bath, playing Beethoven's 14th Sonata to celebrate the start of
:27:28. > :27:30.2014.