:00:11. > :00:14.Tell them what is on the show. OK, musical legend Jeff Lynne is here
:00:15. > :00:20.and we will be finding out where the food tastes better hot or cold. And
:00:21. > :00:25.the funny accent thing. I was just getting to that. Alistair McGowan
:00:26. > :00:34.will find out why everybody sings with an American accent. And we have
:00:35. > :00:46.the youngest many Scots -- mini kart racing driver on. Who is that?
:00:47. > :00:51.Alfie! Hello and welcome to The One Show with Chris Evans and Alex
:00:52. > :00:56.Jones. The weather is finally turning brighter this week and so
:00:57. > :01:02.what better get to have an van Mr Blue Sky? Is there a doctorate in
:01:03. > :01:12.the house? There certainly is. The man behind ELO, Jeff Lynne. Good
:01:13. > :01:17.evening. Do I have to stand? If you like. Let's all stand up together.
:01:18. > :01:23.Tell us about the medal around your neck. I have got a rather splendid
:01:24. > :01:29.medal. I was really chuffed. A couple of nights ago, I had a great
:01:30. > :01:36.ceremony with school leavers, university leavers, and there were
:01:37. > :01:42.395 graduating. And they gave me this lovely medal. We have to
:01:43. > :01:50.backtrack. Who gave you this medal from Wits University? Birmingham
:01:51. > :01:54.City University. -- which university? They are the nicest
:01:55. > :02:01.people I have ever known. So kind and so pleased to give it to me. You
:02:02. > :02:08.are proud. I am. And it is never coming off. Did you get the scroll?
:02:09. > :02:15.Yes, a lovely thing to hang on the wall. Show the picture! Oh, we have!
:02:16. > :02:23.We also wanted to celebrate your work, so we rustled up and ELO
:02:24. > :02:28.Midlands medley. # The sun is shining in the sky.
:02:29. > :02:33.There ain't a cloud in sight. It has stopped raining and everybody
:02:34. > :02:40.is here to play. Don't you know it is a beautiful new day?
:02:41. > :02:50.# Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why you had to hide away for so long.
:02:51. > :03:05.# Everybody walking down the street. # Everybody moving to the beat.
:03:06. > :03:09.# Getting hot down in the USA. # I turned to stone when you have
:03:10. > :03:17.gone. # I turned to stone when you are
:03:18. > :03:25.coming home. # It is a living thing.
:03:26. > :03:35.# It is a terrible thing to lose. # It is a giving thing.
:03:36. > :03:44.# What a terrible thing to do. # Give me some time.
:03:45. > :03:49.# I am living in twilight. # Oh, no, telephone line.
:03:50. > :04:00.# Give me some time. # I am living in twilight.
:04:01. > :04:15.# Hold on tight to your drink. # Hold on tight to your drink.
:04:16. > :04:18.# When you feel your heart is breaking.
:04:19. > :04:34.# Hold on tight to your dreams. Applause, applause! We understand
:04:35. > :04:41.that Jeff's manager has asked for a CD of that. We don't know what he
:04:42. > :04:45.will do with that! Copy or burn? Copy or burn? They are all from the
:04:46. > :04:52.Midlands but you cannot tell from the way they are singing, can you?
:04:53. > :04:56.No. Singing often has no accents and you have talked about this before.
:04:57. > :05:05.Most people think in an American accent whether they mean to or not.
:05:06. > :05:09.-- sing in an American accent. You will probably have practised in an
:05:10. > :05:14.American accent. The one that sticks out to me is George from the
:05:15. > :05:25.Beatles. He would be American all the way through until he came to the
:05:26. > :05:29.word her. Like the her on her head! He would define a natural way things
:05:30. > :05:39.were done in music and he would practice this Liverpool dialect and
:05:40. > :05:44.are used to love it. Does music lend itself to an American accent? It
:05:45. > :05:51.does. When you start, all the records you listen to and learn,
:05:52. > :05:57.they are all singing in this trendy dialect that sounds so cool with
:05:58. > :06:10.music put to it. When somebody very posh or does it, it just does not
:06:11. > :06:16.have any... Read them? -- rhythm? Flow? It just sounds wrong so we
:06:17. > :06:21.tend to go into the American dialect. Alistair McGowan has more
:06:22. > :06:27.on how come we don't sing how we talk. Music may be universal
:06:28. > :06:36.language but much of it had a distinctive American accent. Does
:06:37. > :06:46.Tom Jones's Welsh singing voice betray its roots? And what about new
:06:47. > :06:55.kid on the block John Newman. From Yorkshire! Would you credit it? Why
:06:56. > :07:02.is the mid-Atlantic twang so common? This real American, a linguistics
:07:03. > :07:09.lecturer, should know. When we hear this, the Internation differs,
:07:10. > :07:13.stress, accent placement, pronunciation. All of that is
:07:14. > :07:16.affected by singing. You stretch out words that he would not otherwise
:07:17. > :07:27.and you change Internation because of the melody. So the rhythm and
:07:28. > :07:30.melody neutralise the effects of accent and generate a new accent
:07:31. > :07:39.which happens to sound generally like an American accent? Like Angels
:07:40. > :07:44.by Robbie Williams, rather than pronouncing clearly. That letter T,
:07:45. > :07:51.with that puff of air, is too harsh for singing that many pop stars want
:07:52. > :07:57.to do. Is it also imitation, that singers want to sound like their
:07:58. > :08:07.heroes? Yes. Imagine hound dog by Elvis in a Brummie accent. It does
:08:08. > :08:12.not sound right! The American accent is discernible in generations of
:08:13. > :08:16.British vocalists. Sonia, she talks like a Scouser. Growing up, I was
:08:17. > :08:29.influenced by Bob Streisand, Elaine Paige. But whence sings... AMERICAN
:08:30. > :08:38.ACCENT: I will not stop Loving you. Did you think about changing it? It
:08:39. > :08:46.came naturally. Your pattern of speed is natural to Liverpool but it
:08:47. > :08:51.gets ironed out when you are singing. With your accent, the
:08:52. > :08:58.throat is cut off and you cannot sing. But when you sing, the accent
:08:59. > :09:03.have to disappear because it goes through the back. What does she
:09:04. > :09:10.sound like in her own accent? I can't do it!
:09:11. > :09:17.# You will never stop me from Loving you. It does not sound the same!
:09:18. > :09:23.Tricky the Sonia, but some British artists do sing in their own accent.
:09:24. > :09:36.Chas and Dave, some of the best-known. Well done, you are in
:09:37. > :09:41.the band! Would you always thing in your own accent? I didn't. In my
:09:42. > :09:49.early career I was singing in an American accent. It really came to a
:09:50. > :09:54.head when I toured America. I was singing in an American accent and I
:09:55. > :09:59.suddenly felt a fraud. People asked me what part of the states I came
:10:00. > :10:05.from. London, mate. That was the start of it. I tried things out in
:10:06. > :10:10.my own accent but translating things into my own accent did not work. I
:10:11. > :10:16.quickly decided that the only way to do it was to write my own songs. Is
:10:17. > :10:27.it the lyrics that make you go into a London accent or the music? Any
:10:28. > :10:34.Old Iron, for instance. If you do that in boogie Woogie style... That
:10:35. > :10:41.sounds pretty good! I will do it like that. On the whole, I rather
:10:42. > :10:45.like it when British artists use their own accent to make music that
:10:46. > :10:50.I am not sure if Frank Sinatra would have been such a success if he came
:10:51. > :10:57.from Nottingham. # And so I face the final
:10:58. > :11:04.curtain... Well, could catch on! # I did it my way.
:11:05. > :11:09.Very good film. This morning I was in my pyjamas eating cereal in the
:11:10. > :11:15.kitchen listening to you two on Radio Two, and Chris opened a can of
:11:16. > :11:21.worms. He asked if you would go back on tour, to which she replied if you
:11:22. > :11:25.got 2000 responses and you got tens of thousands. 14,000 in a minute and
:11:26. > :11:30.tens of thousands by the end of the show. So we thought we would do a
:11:31. > :11:34.good luck thing for you. There is no way out since this morning. Five of
:11:35. > :11:38.the biggest promoters in the world contacted us, we did not contact
:11:39. > :11:48.them, saying they would pay and put the show on here and around the
:11:49. > :11:51.world. Wembley Stadium phoned at 11 o'clock to say you can have delight
:11:52. > :11:58.the 21st this year. Seriously! Are you free? I will have to check my
:11:59. > :12:03.diary. Live Nation said forget Wembley. They can offer five nights
:12:04. > :12:08.on the bounce at the O2 Arena and more if you want it. Come on, Jeff
:12:09. > :12:13.Lynne, what do you say? I will have to think seriously about that! We
:12:14. > :12:19.thought we had better check if you have got it still. You are not
:12:20. > :12:24.auditioning Jeff Lynne, are you? We better had. To be honest, it is an
:12:25. > :12:36.excuse to give him a banjolele. BBC budget again! Give us a blast. This
:12:37. > :12:41.is just a banjolele and it is not mine, I have just picked it up. I
:12:42. > :12:49.will play When I Am Cleaning Windows. You can all thing along. --
:12:50. > :13:33.sing along. # When I am cleaning windows! Very
:13:34. > :13:41.good! He has still got it. More than got it. Jeff, you have to think
:13:42. > :13:44.ahead now. Who would you like to support you? Maybe they are
:13:45. > :13:58.watching. Then we can sort it all out now. Chris Evans! They have just
:13:59. > :14:06.cancelled all the menus! It is all over. It is all about Birmingham for
:14:07. > :14:12.you on this trip. Tell us about the path of fame, the walk of fame. Yes,
:14:13. > :14:17.the walk of stars in the posh bit of the centre where they have just
:14:18. > :14:22.rebuilt it, for the last 20 years. All the time I have been away, you
:14:23. > :14:26.see, so I missed all of that happening. And it is wonderful. The
:14:27. > :14:33.buildings they have got to play in are just superb. Alongside any
:14:34. > :14:40.marvellous building in the world. What they have decided to do is give
:14:41. > :14:51.me a star on this walk. I am very chuffed about that, I have to say.
:14:52. > :14:56.Are you friends with Jasper carrot? Yes, we are powerless. He is
:14:57. > :15:03.basically going to take the Mickey out of me, probably, not that you
:15:04. > :15:07.aren't! He is going to do that, and he will probably have a few really
:15:08. > :15:13.good jokes up his sleeve. But he is doing the right thing, because he
:15:14. > :15:17.will not be mean, he will be nice. But I am so proud to have the star
:15:18. > :15:22.there. It is going to be great. The only thing I should say is, don't
:15:23. > :15:26.put me behind the bins. I do not think they will do that, you have
:15:27. > :15:38.got to be one of the biggest stars on there. One of the things Jeff
:15:39. > :15:46.told us he missed about the UK was an English curry. So, we have
:15:47. > :15:53.rustled one up for you. Can I eat it? Yes, you can. Nice try, by the
:15:54. > :15:58.way. You could really be in your bedroom reading this. Tonight, Alex
:15:59. > :16:02.Riley discovers it is not what spices you put in your dish, it is
:16:03. > :16:07.all about the temperature you serve it at.
:16:08. > :16:16.Serve your food piping hot. We have all heard that advice. It turns out
:16:17. > :16:24.that it could be wrong. To find out why, I am heading to Marshfield
:16:25. > :16:29.Farm, for a science lesson on taste and temperature with a professor
:16:30. > :16:32.from Bristol University. And I get to eat ice cream! Firstly, one that
:16:33. > :16:42.is frozen. Chocolate Fudge Brownie... That is delicious. And
:16:43. > :16:46.then, one that has melted. The chocolate tastes a lot more intense
:16:47. > :16:51.in that one, actually, and so does the Fudge, and there is a definite
:16:52. > :16:57.sweetness about it. When we put food in our mouth, whatever kind of food,
:16:58. > :17:01.the chemicals go into our taste receptors. Those receptors start
:17:02. > :17:06.sending signals to our brain. The rate at which they send signals
:17:07. > :17:10.depends upon the temperature. If you drop the temperatures, the amount of
:17:11. > :17:15.signal going will be with used. But we evolved a long time ago, we have
:17:16. > :17:19.probably optimised our sense and taste to work at a temperature of
:17:20. > :17:25.food going into our mouth which is roundabout body temperature. So,
:17:26. > :17:29.that is when the food tastes best? Yes, if the food is much colder or
:17:30. > :17:36.much hotter than that, we will get false signals. It may taste too
:17:37. > :17:41.salty, for example. Let's put the science to the test. We are offering
:17:42. > :17:44.people three identical solutions, containing water, sugar and salt.
:17:45. > :17:51.The only difference between them is the temperature. How will the first
:17:52. > :17:59.one, which is very cold, taste? What you think? Salty. Salty. Next up,
:18:00. > :18:06.the third solution, the hot one. Yes, sweet. Finally, the middle one,
:18:07. > :18:10.and remember, the recipe is exactly the same. The only difference is,
:18:11. > :18:20.this one is served at body temperature. So, to read, the
:18:21. > :18:25.coldest drink tasted the most salty, the hottest tasted the sweetest, and
:18:26. > :18:30.the one closest to body temperature had the best balance of sweet and
:18:31. > :18:37.salty, just as the professor expected. But how does this science
:18:38. > :18:41.applied to the real world? What is the optimum temperature to serve our
:18:42. > :18:47.food? Time to speak to some people in the know. John and Peter have won
:18:48. > :18:52.a Michelin star for the food at their restaurant in Bristol. To
:18:53. > :18:56.them, temperature is the key to cooking, and what is not always
:18:57. > :19:01.best. How do you decide what is the optimum temperature to serve a
:19:02. > :19:06.dish? When you are trying to get the perfect temperature, normally, we
:19:07. > :19:09.would serve it round about 60 degrees. From the perspective of the
:19:10. > :19:14.diner, that might be a little bit too low. But if it is boiling hot,
:19:15. > :19:18.honestly, it will ruin all the flavours in your mouth. So, our
:19:19. > :19:22.people prepared to eat dishes traditionally served piping hot at a
:19:23. > :19:28.warm temperature? The boys are making two batches of leek and
:19:29. > :19:32.potato soup. One will be heated to 70 degrees, the other to 40. Why do
:19:33. > :19:38.you think this will work better at 40 degrees? Flavour of the leak
:19:39. > :19:44.comes through better, you really get the delicacy of the potato. We our
:19:45. > :19:48.diners agree? Both soups are exactly the same recipe, the only difference
:19:49. > :19:53.is the temperature. The first one is warm, the second is piping hot.
:19:54. > :19:58.Which one was your favourite? The first one. I was the first one as
:19:59. > :20:03.well. First one was really smooth and creamy, the second one was not
:20:04. > :20:07.as nice. I preferred number one. Because it was not as hot as the
:20:08. > :20:13.second one, you could taste all the flavours. I preferred number two. If
:20:14. > :20:18.I did it at home it would be piping hot, so that is what I am used to. I
:20:19. > :20:23.really could not tell the difference between them. Number one let the
:20:24. > :20:26.flavours come out a bit more. So, three people preferred the warm
:20:27. > :20:31.soup. Two people had no preference, and only one person preferred the
:20:32. > :20:35.taste of the hot soup. So, it seems that when it comes to certain
:20:36. > :20:41.dishes, warm can be more tasty than hot. I agree. Interesting point,
:20:42. > :20:51.well made. By the way, joining that film, Alex on the sofa said, George
:20:52. > :21:02.Formby... No! Isn't he the one that does those grills? Write... !
:21:03. > :21:06.Anyway, Ireland take on Italy, Scotland take on France and the
:21:07. > :21:11.mighty Wales will take down England... This is your bit! This
:21:12. > :21:16.weekend Wales will take down England in the Six Nations Championship. But
:21:17. > :21:20.if England beat Wales, we can still walk away with the Triple Crown,
:21:21. > :21:25.because you can't, because you lost in the first game. Phil Tufnell has
:21:26. > :21:28.already been to the hallowed ground of Twickenham to see if he can
:21:29. > :21:31.capture the excitement of the game on canvas. Who wants a George Formby
:21:32. > :21:39.chicken burger? The Six Nations is one of the
:21:40. > :21:43.biggest tournaments on the rugby calendar. This year there is still
:21:44. > :21:46.everything to play for. All of the players are at the top of their
:21:47. > :21:51.game, and the media cannot get enough of it just they are filmed,
:21:52. > :21:56.photographed, and some even captured on paper, the old-fashioned way.
:21:57. > :22:01.Sports illustrator Paul Trevillion has been sketching sports stars for
:22:02. > :22:05.decades. Over the years, he has captured some of rugby's greatest
:22:06. > :22:12.players, including bill Beaumont, Joe Mulumbu and Jeremy Guscott. I
:22:13. > :22:18.love rugby players. When you look at them, they are Greek gods. They are
:22:19. > :22:22.so wonderful to draw. He got his first rugby sketching job in 1971,
:22:23. > :22:28.when he grew one of the -- when he drew one of the great Welsh players
:22:29. > :22:36.of the day, Barry John. The one which really caught my eye was Barry
:22:37. > :22:44.John. I loved the penalty kick. The game has changed considerably
:22:45. > :22:48.since the 1970s. Rugby players turned professional in 1996, and
:22:49. > :22:53.today's England players can be up to two stone heavier than when Paul
:22:54. > :22:57.first started sketching. When you luck at a rugby player, they are so
:22:58. > :23:01.different to football players. Their upper body strength is incredible.
:23:02. > :23:06.Their shirts fit them, they really do fit them. You put a shirt Honor
:23:07. > :23:14.Oak replay, nobody is going to pull it! If you could draw a rugby ball,
:23:15. > :23:19.you could draw a rugby player. The first thing you have got to do is
:23:20. > :23:24.the shoulder line. Then you have got to do the body-line. Take it down to
:23:25. > :23:29.the hip, and the hip is almost horizontal. From there, you can draw
:23:30. > :23:36.the first leg. And then, from the knee, you come down. And if he is
:23:37. > :23:41.holding the ball, one arm is there, up to the elbow, that goes along,
:23:42. > :23:46.there is the body shape. So, you have got the figure. And then you
:23:47. > :23:56.put the head in. But at that, you are ahead. Since the 1970s, the body
:23:57. > :24:04.shapes of players have changed. They now have more muscle and bulk. They
:24:05. > :24:08.have strict diets and training regimes which average used their
:24:09. > :24:18.overall body fat by 5%. Their muscles are elongated. England
:24:19. > :24:20.players like Chris Robshaw and Owen Farrell are finely tuned machines,
:24:21. > :24:24.so how do you capture their movements on the pitch? The only way
:24:25. > :24:30.you can get movement is, if you move the pen fast. You must move it fast.
:24:31. > :24:35.If you start to hesitate when you draw, that is not movement. Movement
:24:36. > :24:40.is fast. They do not grab the ball, they just hold it, you can actually
:24:41. > :24:44.see the ball through their fingers. They are not grasping it. This is
:24:45. > :24:49.what we are emphasising. And that is the other part of the arm. That is a
:24:50. > :24:56.bit tricky, that bit. No, you are doing well. He has got hair, now, to
:24:57. > :25:06.do the face... Some of them haven't! Do one eye, the nose, a
:25:07. > :25:09.little bit of the mouth. Then you put a shadow under the chin.
:25:10. > :25:19.Remember, they have got big, strong next. How do you reckon I did? That
:25:20. > :25:24.is a rugby player! Sort of! I think you have done fantastic. The reason
:25:25. > :25:28.it looks so good is because you followed me and you did not think
:25:29. > :25:31.what you were doing. You just let the pen do the drawing. That is what
:25:32. > :25:38.has got the movement. Shall we signed them? Yes, you sign it. I
:25:39. > :25:44.will sign mine. Although if I was to sign yours, Philip, it would not
:25:45. > :25:51.look out of place. Yes, every dog has his day. Good luck to England at
:25:52. > :25:54.the weekend. In a minute we will be meeting the three drivers of these
:25:55. > :26:04.three cars. But first of all let's find out what they get up to when
:26:05. > :26:09.they are oval racing. Banger racing - the rules are simple, be the first
:26:10. > :26:14.to get around the track 15 times. No hits allowed to the driver's door.
:26:15. > :26:25.But anything other than that is allowed. Brilliant stuff. It is
:26:26. > :26:33.absolutely crazy. Let's meet the driver of this car, 13-year-old
:26:34. > :26:40.Alfie. How are you? I am fine. Hello, Alfie. Dirty hands. So, tell
:26:41. > :26:48.us, there are two types of drivers, aren't there? Yes, there are roders
:26:49. > :26:51.and wreckers. The roders are the ones that go for the championships
:26:52. > :26:57.were to get the points up, and then you have the wreckers, where you are
:26:58. > :27:02.aiming for one team, or one specific person, to take you out of the race.
:27:03. > :27:07.There is a lot of bad blood, lots of scores to be settled? Yes, there is
:27:08. > :27:12.a lot of battles that can go on. I am a roder at the moment. Your dad
:27:13. > :27:17.is here, he is more of a wrecker, isn't he? What do you want him to
:27:18. > :27:24.grow up as? A successful raising driver, hopefully. More of a roder.
:27:25. > :27:30.It is a lot less work. What do you do at the track, mum? I like to film
:27:31. > :27:35.Alfie's racing, just support him in his hobby. Alex, what are you
:27:36. > :27:45.doing? I have got Billy and Steve, slightly older. I am a roder, and
:27:46. > :27:54.then, it has to be done, I can be a wrecker, if there is anybody in the
:27:55. > :27:59.way. I am wrecked! Well, it is a young man's game! You must have had
:28:00. > :28:03.some pretty serious injuries? Yes, I have broken everything except my
:28:04. > :28:10.skull. You are like the bionic man? Very much so. How do you modify a
:28:11. > :28:13.car like this? Right, it is a normal streetcar, everything stripped out,
:28:14. > :28:17.the glass, the window... All of the windows are gone, all of the seats
:28:18. > :28:22.are gone, so there is nothing flammable. Then we have got a roll
:28:23. > :28:26.cage put in, we have got batteries, the fuel lines are all inside. We
:28:27. > :28:31.have got the harness. And for you, Alex, we have even taken out the
:28:32. > :28:38.airbag and removed the CD player. Let's go over to Christopher. She
:28:39. > :28:43.loves the colour, by the way. Let me just put on my glasses. That is it
:28:44. > :28:46.for tonight. Fast And Fearless - Britain's Banger Racers is on BBC
:28:47. > :28:52.Two, straight after Top Gear this Sunday. Thank you to our stock car
:28:53. > :28:59.drivers, and of course, Jeff Lynne. Thank you to Alfie, everybody! Have
:29:00. > :29:02.a great weekend, enjoy the rugby, and I will see you on Monday.