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