:00:18. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.
:00:20. > :00:33.You think we can talk fast. We have found the fastest talker you will
:00:34. > :00:39.ever hear, possibly. It's the auctioneer and comedian from Storage
:00:40. > :00:42.Hunters, it is of course Sean Kelly. APPLAUSE
:00:43. > :00:46.There he is. People are buying things without actually seeing the
:00:47. > :00:49.goods. In true Storage Hunters style, Sean, can you sell us some
:00:50. > :00:54.guest, my friend. Winner of not one, not two,
:00:55. > :01:03.but six Olympic Gold medals. He comes as a pair with a star
:01:04. > :01:38.of League of Gentleman, Please welcome Sir Chris Hoy and
:01:39. > :01:41.Mark Gatiss. Hello. . ?45,000. That's not bad. Have you bid for
:01:42. > :01:48.anything at an auction either of you? Yes. I bought two paintings.
:01:49. > :01:54.This leg and arm are still missing. Proper paintings? Yes. That's the
:01:55. > :01:58.thing with auctions if you lose you get your money back. If you are
:01:59. > :02:02.bidding on something. What about yourself? Charity auctions. I've
:02:03. > :02:09.never won anything. You bump the price up. You have to go higher. I'm
:02:10. > :02:15.a Scot, I'm stingy, this's the trouble. In films when you accident
:02:16. > :02:26.Ali sneeze and you pay money. Very exciting, genuinely exciting. I love
:02:27. > :02:33.auctions. We bought accordions. There's a programme in that. We have
:02:34. > :02:37.five novice I cyclists. They learnt in two hours yesterday. Am we will
:02:38. > :02:41.have all of the results a little bit later on. They are in the studio
:02:42. > :02:46.with us tonight. It's quite something that, isn't it? It is. Do
:02:47. > :02:56.you remember learning to ride a bike yourself? My brother's Rayleigh
:02:57. > :03:01.Jeep. You got that injury. The gravel in the arms. All the time.
:03:02. > :03:07.When you spin the pedals around and it hits you in your shins. Yes. I
:03:08. > :03:12.remember getting my flares caught in the wheel and having to go to school
:03:13. > :03:17.with the imprint of the chain. So embarrassing. Were you good at
:03:18. > :03:21.riding? Is I was about six when I learnt. I wasn't that young. I was
:03:22. > :03:24.at a friends house. His younger brother was four, he could ride a
:03:25. > :03:31.bike iech thought, I'm not having this. You made up for it. You have.
:03:32. > :03:35.We have 60-year-olds who had a go yesterday. Never riden a bike
:03:36. > :03:47.before. Never tried. See what happens later on.
:03:48. > :03:49.Sean is known for opening up and discovering the contents
:03:50. > :03:52.of storage units, so we've decided to do the same live
:03:53. > :03:59.This is the unit in Wales. It's Alex's. She hasn't looked inside
:04:00. > :04:04.this storage unit, have you, for the best part of a decade. How have you
:04:05. > :04:06.not looked in that thing? The day before I came to London I put
:04:07. > :04:13.everything from the house where I lived in there. That was it. Was
:04:14. > :04:19.that the same day your ex went missing? I'm nervous I don't know
:04:20. > :04:26.where I agreed. No idea what's in there. We have a camera live and
:04:27. > :04:31.opening it up shortly. Well, I don't want to be the only
:04:32. > :04:34.one doing this tonight. We want to open the garage
:04:35. > :04:38.doors of Britain. And who has got the weirdest
:04:39. > :04:42.items hidden inside? Send us a photo to the usual address
:04:43. > :04:46.and we'll get Sean's opinions later. Tomorrow, many of us will be heading
:04:47. > :04:49.to the polls marking an 'X' on a bit of paper and then dropping it
:04:50. > :04:52.into a box. Then it's a waiting game
:04:53. > :04:55.for the first result to be declared. In the North East, there's a fierce
:04:56. > :04:58.local rivalry to be the first We sent Iwan, our fastest reporter
:04:59. > :05:11.on two feet, to find out more. At the last general election in 2015
:05:12. > :05:18.the fist declaration of results was 48 minutes after the polls closed.
:05:19. > :05:22.The total number of votes for each candidate for the Houghton and
:05:23. > :05:27.Sunderland South constituency is as follows: In fact, Houghton and
:05:28. > :05:32.Sunderland South have been the first to deliver their results for the
:05:33. > :05:35.past six general elections. Now their neighbours here in Newcastle
:05:36. > :05:38.Central feel ready to give them a run for their money. I'm going to
:05:39. > :05:47.meet the people behind-the-scenes to discover just what it takes to win
:05:48. > :05:52.the race for the fastest count. This scout hut is transforming into one
:05:53. > :05:58.of 128 polling station across the country. At 10.00pm tomorrow night,
:05:59. > :06:04.when the polls close, the race will begin. Here it's the responsibility
:06:05. > :06:12.of Presiding Officer Joanne Riley. No pressure. Do you fancy doing a
:06:13. > :06:15.dummy run? We can do. Pretend it's Thursday night, 10.00pm. The box is
:06:16. > :06:20.ready. Shall we see how fast it will take you. No speeding. Don't want to
:06:21. > :06:24.do that. Let's go. Do you want a hand with it, are you OK? No, I'm
:06:25. > :06:28.fine. I won't be here Thursday. Joanne
:06:29. > :06:31.works as a medical secretary for the NHS. 10 seconds already. Come
:06:32. > :06:35.election night, she will make the four mile journey to the counting
:06:36. > :06:42.station with herbal lot box, and it could contain up to 1,000 very
:06:43. > :06:46.important votes. Do you know the quickest route? Yes. It should take
:06:47. > :06:50.five to ten minutes maximum to get there. Only if the traffic lights
:06:51. > :06:55.are on her side. You are just over three minutes at the moment. Oh,
:06:56. > :07:00.right. That's 20 seconds already at this light. We are now on ten
:07:01. > :07:04.minutes. We have another red light. The green Gods are not on our side.
:07:05. > :07:09.In fact we hit seven red traffic lights on our journey to the
:07:10. > :07:12.counting station. You have not beaten your ten minute predicted
:07:13. > :07:17.time. 12.39. Saying that. We did have a lot of red lights. We did. I
:07:18. > :07:23.think come Thursday at 10.00pm in the evening you will go sub-10. 9.25
:07:24. > :07:30.is my prediction. I will go under nine. All of Newcastle Central's
:07:31. > :07:34.ballot boxes need to get here to the Northumbria University Sports Centre
:07:35. > :07:38.Arena. As the car arrives at the back door, it's actions stations. A
:07:39. > :07:43.marshal whips the box off my lap and hands it over to a highly trained
:07:44. > :07:53.relay team. They're quick. Wait for me! Jack, Brogan, Emily and Alex are
:07:54. > :07:59.four of 30 students who have been especially selected to run the
:08:00. > :08:03.ballot boxes. All members of the university's sports teams, the guys
:08:04. > :08:08.are in peak physical condition. Anybody tired yet? Not even
:08:09. > :08:13.slightly. That's fighting talk. Do you feel pressure? Yes. We like to
:08:14. > :08:17.take it seriously. We are competitive with ever other place
:08:18. > :08:20.doing that. We are sporty people and competitive. We will be out there
:08:21. > :08:24.trying to get the best time. The students deliver the ballot boxes to
:08:25. > :08:30.the vote counters, eagerly posed to tackle another essential part of the
:08:31. > :08:35.process. Michael Stephenson works in a casino. He is used to handling
:08:36. > :08:40.half million poker games, on be election night he will swap
:08:41. > :08:46.uncoulding cash for verifying votes. A lot of my money is counting money.
:08:47. > :08:54.You must have supersonic thumbs. You must be good with your hands if you
:08:55. > :08:59.work in a casino. Yes. If everyone in Newcastle Central votes, they
:09:00. > :09:05.could have their hands full. 50,000, 55,000. That's a lot. That is a lot,
:09:06. > :09:08.yeah. For now, as Michael's team practice, the vote that really
:09:09. > :09:13.counts is what biscuit will be selected to keep them all going on
:09:14. > :09:19.the night? Guys, who has won it? It's an absolute landslide for the
:09:20. > :09:25.bourbon cream. Absolute landslide. I knew it. Tomorrow night Pat Ritchie
:09:26. > :09:30.will announce Newcastle Central's results. Does she think they will
:09:31. > :09:35.can cross the line before their neighbours in Sunderland? Could you
:09:36. > :09:38.be the fist result in We were first to declare in the national
:09:39. > :09:42.referendum. The team were proud of that. I think for the team it would
:09:43. > :09:46.be great to be a very early announcement. So, will all the
:09:47. > :09:53.painstaking planning and detailed preparation pay off? We will find
:09:54. > :09:58.out tomorrow night! Joe is with us now. Houghton and Sunderland South
:09:59. > :10:02.have got the result in first for the last six elections. How are they so
:10:03. > :10:08.fast, Joe? The fist thing they would say it's not a race, it's a serious
:10:09. > :10:12.democratic process. You saw in Iwan's film traffic lights featured.
:10:13. > :10:16.There is a rumour the council alter the traffic lights to get the ballot
:10:17. > :10:22.boxes back quickly. That's hard to believe. The council deny that. They
:10:23. > :10:27.say they are focused on it being accurate and I fishent. We didn't
:10:28. > :10:31.see how they go about counting votes, the process they go through?
:10:32. > :10:35.When the polling stationses close, the ballot boxes are sealed, they
:10:36. > :10:38.are driven to counting locations. Emptied, checked the boxes are
:10:39. > :10:42.properly empty. They separate the votes by candidate, as you expect.
:10:43. > :10:46.With the pile of votes for each candidate they separate them into
:10:47. > :10:49.bundles. Predetermined numbers. One person counts them out. Another
:10:50. > :10:54.person will go through and count them again. Then a supervisor will
:10:55. > :10:59.flick through and make sure there is no obvious errors. They can count up
:11:00. > :11:02.all the candidates votes. For some it's an event or a day to go to the
:11:03. > :11:07.polling station. For others, it's quite different. We have this map.
:11:08. > :11:10.We have some places of some very quirky polling station, Joe.
:11:11. > :11:16.Remarkable ones. We start in the south coast. We have a windmill in
:11:17. > :11:23.Hove. A grade II listed windmill dating back to the 18 20s.
:11:24. > :11:31.Remarkable place. Beautiful. Another one is in Sheffiel the oldest
:11:32. > :11:40.football ground, dating back to 18 60. Is that is in Sheffield. We have
:11:41. > :11:44.a kitchen. Liz and Peter in Driffield in East Yorkshire. Very
:11:45. > :11:48.remote location. They volunteered their kitchen to be the polling
:11:49. > :11:54.station. They get 30 to 35 voters coming in. I believe Liz goes with
:11:55. > :11:57.the official and drives the box in. It's remote it won't be one of the
:11:58. > :12:03.first to declare. It will take a while to get that ballot box to the
:12:04. > :12:12.counting location. We have a laundrette in Oxford. Nice and warm,
:12:13. > :12:17.do a wash. Do they close it while the voting is going on? No word. We
:12:18. > :12:20.might have to go to the spin doctors! Wandsworth Council have a
:12:21. > :12:26.bus on stand by. An emergency bus. If one of their polling stations
:12:27. > :12:31.closes, a flood or power failure, they can get the bus there in 30
:12:32. > :12:35.minutes to take over and be the polling station. Thank you. Chris
:12:36. > :12:41.you are trying to recruit people, not for political reasons, but for
:12:42. > :12:46.cycling. Closing city centres and putting en masse bike rides Yes. The
:12:47. > :12:49.City Ride scheme. The first one is in Birmingham this weekend, on
:12:50. > :12:52.Sunday. It's basically they are closing down the roads. A mass
:12:53. > :12:59.participation thing. Not a race. Anybody can do it. It's free. You
:13:00. > :13:04.registered online at let'sride.co.uk. It's encouraging
:13:05. > :13:07.people to ride their bikes in a motorised traffic-free environment.
:13:08. > :13:11.You see the city centres in a different way. It's great fun.
:13:12. > :13:15.That's the thing that puts me off riding a bike in London. I'm Petula
:13:16. > :13:19.arified of the traffic. To have the opportunity to cycle through without
:13:20. > :13:23.any cars or buses or whatever on the Rhodes, that is a dream really,
:13:24. > :13:26.isn't it? It is. Can give people the confidence to ride in traffic. Once
:13:27. > :13:31.you get back on your bike you get the incentive. We are trying to
:13:32. > :13:35.inspire two million extra people to ride their bikes by 2020. This is a
:13:36. > :13:39.way to kick-start this procedure. Does it cost anything to join? Free
:13:40. > :13:44.to register. You turn up, anyone can do it. Do one lap, 20 lapse. Ride
:13:45. > :13:49.around all day. Would you turn it into a race? I'm competitive. Even I
:13:50. > :13:52.could have fun on that day. It's great, if you get good weather it
:13:53. > :13:56.make it is get better. Other activities go on too. You don't have
:13:57. > :13:59.to cycle, you can stop and enjoy other things too. It should be
:14:00. > :14:04.great. Is that something you would be interested in doing? I ride a
:14:05. > :14:08.bike a bit for exercise. It's terrifying to ride through London.
:14:09. > :14:11.It really puts me off. Huge admiration when you see people
:14:12. > :14:16.riding through traffic. It terrifies me. If it's traffic-free I would be
:14:17. > :14:20.very much up for that. Do you get scared riding in traffic, Chris? I
:14:21. > :14:24.think the more experienced you are, the more you focus on what you have
:14:25. > :14:27.control over and you ride defensively and you think ahead and
:14:28. > :14:31.you look ahead. It's intimidating for new cyclists. That is why we're
:14:32. > :14:35.trying to do these activities to make it an easy entry into making
:14:36. > :14:40.cycling a regular part of your routine. Families, parents with
:14:41. > :14:45.young children to ride through the city centre. If you listen to bus
:14:46. > :14:50.drivers or cab drivers it's like they are in Death Race 2,000. Their
:14:51. > :14:56.attitude to skiebg lists is horrible. Cycling has grown quickly
:14:57. > :15:01.in the last ten years. Denmark, Germany it has been part of their
:15:02. > :15:06.life for generations. It will improve. It's getting better. A move
:15:07. > :15:09.in the right direction. There are horror stories. As long as we
:15:10. > :15:12.pressurise the people to make decisions to improve the roads for
:15:13. > :15:17.cyclists for everybody. If you don't ride a bike it will help you, it
:15:18. > :15:21.will take people off the roads, reduce the traffic, congestion. They
:15:22. > :15:25.are happening all over the UK? Birmingham this weekend, 14 between
:15:26. > :15:28.now and the end of September. Main cities around the UK. Edinburgh is
:15:29. > :15:31.having it on the 3rd September. We are Epping hoping for tens of
:15:32. > :15:38.thousands of people to turn out. It will be great fun. Anybody who
:15:39. > :15:43.fancies it, come down, register online at let'sride.co.uk. Are you
:15:44. > :15:46.sure? I think so. While you have been recruiting cyclists for the
:15:47. > :15:56.City Rides we thought we would train up a few. We did.
:15:57. > :15:59.Tonight we have Sandra, Amanda, Sandra again, Darcy and Maggie.
:16:00. > :16:02.A big range of ages, as you see, but with one thing in common -
:16:03. > :16:06.Or rather, as of yesterday, none of them could.
:16:07. > :16:09.So we set up our very own One Show cycling school last night,
:16:10. > :16:11.under the expert instruction from some of the guys
:16:12. > :16:17.So, who managed to lose their stabilizers?
:16:18. > :16:26.Let's find out. We will start with Sandras. You both share the age, I
:16:27. > :16:30.hope you don't mind me saying, of 60, so the next question is how have
:16:31. > :16:35.you managed to get to the age of 60 without riding a bike? I was brought
:16:36. > :16:38.up on a very busy main road on my parents wouldn't let me have a bike
:16:39. > :16:41.because they didn't think it was safe for me to cycle in the traffic,
:16:42. > :16:52.which is probably fair enough and by the time you get to be a it is not
:16:53. > :16:55.cool to say you can't ride and it is too late to learn them, the longer
:16:56. > :16:58.you leave it, the harder it is. Shall we have a look at you trying.
:16:59. > :17:04.You look quite confident there. How did it feel when you were up and
:17:05. > :17:09.running? It felt fabulous. A little stumble, did that knock your
:17:10. > :17:13.confidence? No, it was a time of fun interspersed by total panic and
:17:14. > :17:18.horror but it was really good and it hasn't put me off and I am really
:17:19. > :17:22.excited. I am going to do some more lessons. I live near Stratford so my
:17:23. > :17:30.next step is to be with Sir Chris at the velodrome. Tremendous. Sandro,
:17:31. > :17:35.we know, I do especially, that you have a very inspirational cyclist in
:17:36. > :17:42.your family. I will let you as a proud mum explain. My son Alex did
:17:43. > :17:46.the Rickshaw Challenge in 2014. He learned that year and to go on and
:17:47. > :17:50.do that makes me feel like I want to do something myself. How was the
:17:51. > :17:55.experience the you, considering the reasons you weren't doing it before?
:17:56. > :18:03.It was nerve-racking. I was very, very nervous but it felt wonderful
:18:04. > :18:08.once I moved on. There you go. There is that feeling of freedom. What has
:18:09. > :18:12.been holding you back? Is it fear? Yes, I am a bit of a coward and a
:18:13. > :18:15.bit of a wimp and don't like anything dangerous. What would you
:18:16. > :18:20.say to anyone watching this, looking at you as a real inspiration? You
:18:21. > :18:24.can do it, you have just got to get out there and do it and I want to do
:18:25. > :18:29.more lessons and I want to be out on the road at some stage. Good for
:18:30. > :18:32.you. Amanda, you did lose the stabilisers but we will find out in
:18:33. > :18:37.a minute, you didn't even start with any. How will you feeling in the
:18:38. > :18:41.morning in comparison to the afternoon? I was really nervous
:18:42. > :18:46.yesterday morning but I surprised myself, I got on the bike and did it
:18:47. > :18:52.and it was great. Do you want to see your effort? Go on, then. There you
:18:53. > :18:57.are, looking very good. David Howell practising inside or did it feel
:18:58. > :19:01.strange in a sports hall? -- did it feel better practising inside.
:19:02. > :19:05.Because it was quite enclosed, it was a safe environment. The only
:19:06. > :19:09.problem was then, I nearly went into a flag. Those things happen and you
:19:10. > :19:13.are here to tell the story. Are you going to get a bike? Definitely,
:19:14. > :19:17.going to continue with some of my lessons and get some confidence and
:19:18. > :19:21.take it from there. Let's have a word with your instructor. Michael,
:19:22. > :19:26.what is the key to this? In some cases, we are talking less than an
:19:27. > :19:31.hour. Yes, in less than an hour in some cases. The key is balanced so
:19:32. > :19:36.we aim to use not any stabilisers so that the riders can find their point
:19:37. > :19:42.of balance and we often start of by taking their pedals off, so we could
:19:43. > :19:46.have saved Chris's shins years ago. We take them off and get them to
:19:47. > :19:52.start striding, walking with the bike and then they settle themselves
:19:53. > :19:55.onto the bike and let the bike basically... We take their feet off
:19:56. > :19:58.the ground and let the bike run and when they have found the balance
:19:59. > :20:02.point, we put the pedals back on and they are off. And Philippa, it
:20:03. > :20:07.doesn't really matter what age, if you are talking about balance bikes,
:20:08. > :20:13.a soonish you can walk, you can have one. That's right, as soon as your
:20:14. > :20:16.feet touch the ground, you are off and if you are a child, you stick
:20:17. > :20:22.the pedals back on, or your parents do, and off you go. It is when you
:20:23. > :20:26.get bigger, overthinking it and learning to ride a bike as an adult
:20:27. > :20:29.is life transformational because you just don't believe you're going to
:20:30. > :20:33.do it. I am going to have a word with two of the youngest members,
:20:34. > :20:40.Darcy and Maggie. Let's give you all the huge round of applause. You
:20:41. > :20:46.absolutely smashed it. Darcy, what was the hardest bit for you? The
:20:47. > :20:49.corners. Let's have a look at you, it doesn't look like you are having
:20:50. > :20:56.any problems with these corners at all. Your dad is a big member of
:20:57. > :20:59.Cycle Confident. Did we see the corner? Let's have a look at the
:21:00. > :21:07.corner, this is the best bit. There you go, all the way around, look at
:21:08. > :21:10.that. Absolutely superb. And, Maggie, we know you did very well
:21:11. > :21:18.indeed. Let's have a little fist pump, well done. I think you all
:21:19. > :21:23.deserve medals from a six time Olympic gold medallist, so, Chris,
:21:24. > :21:28.come on in. Here we go! There we are, we've got Darcy, Maggie, all of
:21:29. > :21:34.the Sandros and Amanda and we have to say a very big thank you to
:21:35. > :21:36.everybody and certainly the cycle instructors from Cycle Confident,
:21:37. > :21:38.getting people cycling in less than an hour.
:21:39. > :21:41.Absolutely brilliant. It's amazing what can happen
:21:42. > :21:44.when you try something new. Here's Matt Allwright on how one
:21:45. > :21:46.novice sportsman conquered the world of male synchronised swimming,
:21:47. > :21:56.and his story is now being made Midlife crisis is are dangerous
:21:57. > :22:01.times for a man. Before you know it, in your 40s, you are doing things
:22:02. > :22:07.you always wanted to but never dared to. Going to Glastonbury, joining a
:22:08. > :22:10.band, buying a sports car, a motorbike or synchronised swimming.
:22:11. > :22:13.A slightly less macho Fixborough midlife crisis but one that was
:22:14. > :22:19.perfect for Dylan Williams. And as luck would have it, he filmed his
:22:20. > :22:22.own unusual journey of self-discovery for a documentary. I
:22:23. > :22:26.had moved to Sweden from Wales and was a little bit lost. I had kind of
:22:27. > :22:31.moved over there because I had a baby and got married and suddenly, I
:22:32. > :22:37.didn't have a job and I didn't have any friends. When I guy who I knew
:22:38. > :22:40.came, a bunch -- he said a bunch of us are going to start a team and
:22:41. > :22:45.would you like to be in it and I said yes before he even told me what
:22:46. > :22:47.the team was and he said it was male synchronised screaming and I
:22:48. > :22:52.thought, fantastic, I am in for that. -- synchronised swimming.
:22:53. > :22:55.Dylan and his friends thought they were the only men doing synchronised
:22:56. > :22:58.swimming but he soon discovered they were wrong. They also learned there
:22:59. > :23:10.was a world championship taking place in Milan.
:23:11. > :23:15.They had just three months to get their act together but nobody in
:23:16. > :23:29.Dylan's Swedish team thought they stood a chance of winning.
:23:30. > :23:35.Getting to know and had been an achievement in itself. Now they just
:23:36. > :23:42.hoped they wouldn't come last -- getting to Milan. The team have
:23:43. > :23:47.parts in a new movie based on their story, but they are not playing
:23:48. > :23:50.themselves. A version of Dylan is played by the multitalented Rob
:23:51. > :23:53.Brydon, who has had to learn a new set of skills.
:23:54. > :23:59.You have been training very hard, I understand. What is the first thing
:24:00. > :24:03.I should learn? The eggbeater. It is very hard to do. So there is the
:24:04. > :24:11.fire and there is the lower part of the egg, the Sinn -- there is the
:24:12. > :24:15.five. The foot then comes out. They crossover each other but come out at
:24:16. > :24:18.the same time and if you do it properly, your body will come out of
:24:19. > :24:26.the water to about there, you can move from side to side but, I mean,
:24:27. > :24:35.it has beaten me. I am in the film as a Japanese
:24:36. > :24:43.supporter, obviously. SPEAKS JAPANESE. All of these guys have
:24:44. > :24:48.their back story, whether it is forgotten dreams, one is a widow
:24:49. > :24:52.facing life on her own markedly -- his own and as the film developed,
:24:53. > :24:57.you develop their back stories and the workings of the characters and
:24:58. > :25:02.that was the quality of the script. In Milan, Dylan's team gave a
:25:03. > :25:03.quality performance. So good, in fact, that they won the competition
:25:04. > :25:20.and became world champions. Are we seeing here writ large on the
:25:21. > :25:25.silver screen your midlife crisis? I didn't know what I could do in life
:25:26. > :25:30.and I was feeling a little bit lost. I think for me, this film is about
:25:31. > :25:34.community. I found a group of people who with I could escape and learn to
:25:35. > :25:41.find myself again and learn to play, finding my place in society. What a
:25:42. > :25:43.story. And I am looking forward to seeing Rob Brydon do the eggbeater.
:25:44. > :25:46.You have heard the technique. The film, Swimming With Men,
:25:47. > :25:55.is in production now. Mark, we saw Daniel Mays there,
:25:56. > :26:00.starring in the film, and you have been working with him recently. Yes,
:26:01. > :26:05.I have just been doing a drama called Against The Law, for the 50th
:26:06. > :26:11.anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in this country. It
:26:12. > :26:16.is a fantastic drama about the Peter while Brooke trial. And I am also
:26:17. > :26:23.directing and curating a series of monologues for the BBC around the
:26:24. > :26:27.same subject, it is the 1967 act. Time has flown. That is the thing,
:26:28. > :26:31.it is whether or not you are acting, directing, the mix. But you do.
:26:32. > :26:36.Still no synchronised swimming. No Olympic cycling.
:26:37. > :26:40.This is the ninth Doctor Who you've penned.
:26:41. > :26:48.We have it on good authority that it is the Ice Warriors versus the
:26:49. > :26:54.Victorians. I am baffled. Fill in the blanks, what is going on? Well,
:26:55. > :26:59.the Ice Warriors, one of my favourite monsters from the 1960s
:27:00. > :27:03.and 1970s. And there are Victorians on Mars, as the doctor discovers,
:27:04. > :27:13.they have got there, so it is kind of like Edgar Rice Burroughs kind of
:27:14. > :27:21.treat, and the ice Queen is there. Set the scene for us, is this... As
:27:22. > :27:29.far as writing this is concerned, the room you are writing income ie
:27:30. > :27:32.wearing a pair of slippers...? No, I was on Mars no, I have a room at the
:27:33. > :27:37.top of the House, no phone, no Internet and if the landline rings,
:27:38. > :27:42.it is always my dad and it is somehow always just too far to get
:27:43. > :27:47.to before it rings of. I have timed it appallingly. But it is a nice
:27:48. > :27:51.little room, a conducive place to conjure up these things. Do you
:27:52. > :27:55.write in the morning or the evening? I am a morning writer. I have tried
:27:56. > :27:59.all kinds of things but morning is definitely best, I fade as the day
:28:00. > :28:05.goes on. And there are no boundaries, the brief is so wide.
:28:06. > :28:08.How on earth do you decide? That is the brilliant thing but at the same
:28:09. > :28:12.time, you have to think about how it is going to be achieved. One of the
:28:13. > :28:16.great things about Doctor Who always is the settings will tend to be a
:28:17. > :28:21.kind of isolated group of humans under threat, rather than an
:28:22. > :28:26.enormous... I have done the Ice Warriors on Mars but it is not the
:28:27. > :28:29.whole civilisation, it is an isolated Victorian expedition and a
:28:30. > :28:34.kind of tomb, so you have to think about how it is achieved. Are you
:28:35. > :28:40.given those pieces, if you like, like the Ice Warriors? Sometimes it
:28:41. > :28:43.is a shopping list. Steven Moffat is leaving, Peter Capaldi is sadly
:28:44. > :28:51.living and I just said, can I do the story I have always wanted to and he
:28:52. > :28:55.said, go on -- sadly leaving. I would like to see inside your head.
:28:56. > :29:07.It is like your storage unit! I have not! Here is one of the encounters
:29:08. > :29:14.from Saturday. What the devil is going on? Let me sort this out. Who
:29:15. > :29:18.the devil is this? The Empress of Mars. And you think you can go
:29:19. > :29:29.around slaughtering my men willy-nilly? Your men? What does the
:29:30. > :29:32.pink thing say? It will have loads of people talking, thanks bring
:29:33. > :29:36.enough. As far as Doctor Who is concerned, you were talking about
:29:37. > :29:41.the style the story and it is very educational, it is sort of real
:29:42. > :29:45.history... There were no Victorians on Mars. Wasn't that the original
:29:46. > :29:53.idea with Doctor Who, Tich kind of teacher? There is a semi-educational
:29:54. > :29:57.element to Doctor Who. The first one I did at Macca delete with
:29:58. > :30:01.Christopher Ecclestone, which had Simon Callow as Charles Dickens, I
:30:02. > :30:04.had lots of messages afters, Harry Enfield sent the one saying his kids
:30:05. > :30:10.had been googling the Charles Dickens for three hours. It is a
:30:11. > :30:15.lovely thing to think that that is what shows such as Doctor Who do so
:30:16. > :30:17.well, you can present complicated ideas and a very accessible format.
:30:18. > :30:20.We look forward to Saturday. If our next film was an episode
:30:21. > :30:27.of Doctor Who it'd probably be We know you are super excited about
:30:28. > :30:32.this one. I am. But, as Mike's been discovering,
:30:33. > :30:34.rather than keeping them out, people are going to great lengths
:30:35. > :30:45.to make sure they get Having hatched in the mid-Atlantic,
:30:46. > :30:49.European eels cross the ocean, for most, on a journey to freshwater
:30:50. > :30:55.rivers but once they arrive to our shores, their party is being
:30:56. > :30:59.blocked, causing many to perish. So to see what's going on, the One Show
:31:00. > :31:01.takes to the air in Somerset. Andrew Carr is from the sustainable eel
:31:02. > :31:11.group. All over Europe from Iceland to the
:31:12. > :31:15.westerned a landic Seeboard to Morocco every single river, Brook,
:31:16. > :31:21.estuary has a cement wall and steel door. Thousand shall not pass? Flood
:31:22. > :31:26.defences have been built to protect land and property they have a
:31:27. > :31:32.detrimental effect on this species. Thanks to the work of Andrew's
:31:33. > :31:36.group, these structures are being adapted to allow safe passage for
:31:37. > :31:40.the eels. There are lots of mod nigh cases. The Brits are really good at
:31:41. > :31:44.it. We have put in hundreds and hundreds of them. In particular,
:31:45. > :31:50.when you get these flat doors. You can have a cat flap model. A mini
:31:51. > :31:56.pet flap opens and closes then the eels can come through. This doesn't
:31:57. > :32:00.come cheap. The water companies are spending ?80 million in the next
:32:01. > :32:10.four years introducing all sorts of passage solutions. It strikes me
:32:11. > :32:21.that one species you are spending a lot of money to conserve them.
:32:22. > :32:27.Everyone eats eels, if you are a heron or an otter. They come across
:32:28. > :32:32.other obstacles, but eel passes have been installed to help them on their
:32:33. > :32:40.way. Richard is from the Environment Agency. It's simplistic in design.
:32:41. > :32:43.It's effective. It has a channel with bristle brushes which enables
:32:44. > :32:48.them to grip and wriggle up-and-over the structure. Eels prefer to move
:32:49. > :32:56.during the dark, on moonless nights and when river levels are high. Help
:32:57. > :33:05.is also coming from a more traditional method. Looking
:33:06. > :33:09.up-and-down the bank I can see quite a few eel fishermen out tonight and
:33:10. > :33:13.women. Why are you fishing an animal which is already registered as
:33:14. > :33:18.endangered? So many projects we do to help them along. Without the
:33:19. > :33:22.fishing you wouldn't get the data to improve they are endangered. The
:33:23. > :33:29.only way to count baby eels is for fishermen to do what they are doing.
:33:30. > :33:34.They are caught further down river before encountering flood defences
:33:35. > :33:39.or other obstacles? . We have five or six there. I have had worse. Full
:33:40. > :33:43.of admiration for you doing this for three or four hours. I've done one
:33:44. > :33:49.and it's quite tiring. It is exhausting. You do get more used to
:33:50. > :33:54.it as you go along. From Anna's catch some will go on to be farmed
:33:55. > :34:01.for human consumption. Over half are given to restocking projects like
:34:02. > :34:07.the one run by Andrew. Today he is releasing 15,000 eels into wetland
:34:08. > :34:12.habitat. How is it going so far the project? If you asked me the
:34:13. > :34:17.question in 2009 when the west country fishermen caught a million
:34:18. > :34:20.eels we were in despair. Here, and now, we are catching on average 15
:34:21. > :34:25.million a year. Things are improving. Technique for releasing
:34:26. > :34:33.them? Yes, slowly let the water in. Then just watch them go. Wonderful.
:34:34. > :34:41.Look at them swimming away. That is terrific. The the very best of luck.
:34:42. > :34:45.Beautiful. Job done. It's down to Andrew and his team and other
:34:46. > :34:48.agencies and the fishing communities working so effectively together that
:34:49. > :34:53.will hopefully give this fish a fighting chance so that the European
:34:54. > :35:02.eel remains a fixture in our rivers and wetlands for many years to come.
:35:03. > :35:07.What a wonderful story. Hopefully that will help the eels watching who
:35:08. > :35:14.want to go on holiday. Whoop knows! Is The eels went to Morocco. Chris
:35:15. > :35:22.your latest adventure is cycling in the Southkm Pole you are always
:35:23. > :35:27.looking for adrenaline-filled adventures. Why this one? It's a
:35:28. > :35:31.freezing cold one. There's the bike you will do it on? That's it. We
:35:32. > :35:36.will will cycle from the coastline to the South Pole faster than
:35:37. > :35:40.anybody has ever gone on a human powered journey. What is the record
:35:41. > :35:45.at the moment? Just over ten days. The human powered record I think,
:35:46. > :35:50.done on skis, was about eight days or seven days. Trying to do quicker
:35:51. > :35:55.than that. It will mean about 12-hours of cycling and then jumping
:35:56. > :35:59.in a tent, get food, sleep and back up in the morning and do it again
:36:00. > :36:03.for a week. At what stage are you at with this then? Are you doing it on
:36:04. > :36:07.your own? Potentially we found a partner to ride with. They are
:36:08. > :36:13.somebody who is not a cyclist or a sports person. Pretty high-profile.
:36:14. > :36:17.It's me! It's one of our guests tonight who just learnt to cycle,
:36:18. > :36:22.actually. Not confirmed. Not confirmed. They are going through
:36:23. > :36:26.testing to see if they will be ready for it or if they have a baseline
:36:27. > :36:31.that will be able to get to that level of fitness. Male or female?
:36:32. > :36:34.Can't tell you that. You could have said Matt Baker. He would have been
:36:35. > :36:40.up for it? He hates the cold. Well... For any of you in the mood
:36:41. > :36:44.for something floral this weekend. Look no further.
:36:45. > :36:47.The people behind the Chelsea Flower Show have just opened the first
:36:48. > :36:49.new show at the historic Chatsworth House in a decade.
:36:50. > :36:52.We sent Angellica behind the scenes, and even the rain couldn't
:36:53. > :37:07.Chatsworth House is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devon shire. It has
:37:08. > :37:12.been passed down through the family since the 1500s. It's the home for
:37:13. > :37:17.the fist time to the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show.
:37:18. > :37:21.It's stuffed full of display gardens and flowers set around the River
:37:22. > :37:24.Derwent which runs through the grounds. It's a wet day, the
:37:25. > :37:29.exhibitors are braving the conditions and some are hoping to
:37:30. > :37:32.win medals. Tell us about this masterpiece, Jonathan, that you
:37:33. > :37:36.created? It's my floral bridge at Chatsworth. It's a flower explosion.
:37:37. > :37:41.It's a flower show. People want to see flowers. What would you say is
:37:42. > :37:47.the Mona Lisa of flowers? I should show you. Come on. It's atmospheric
:37:48. > :37:50.in this part here, isn't it? Moody and full of particular textures and
:37:51. > :38:02.colours. It invites you into it. What flower will you show me? For me
:38:03. > :38:08.it has to be this. English, perfect and smells great. They demolished a
:38:09. > :38:11.Victorian glasshouse which was the centrepiece here, just for the show
:38:12. > :38:19.they recreated this with this massive inflatable one. It feels
:38:20. > :38:24.like I've walked into the middle of a tropical rainforest. Slap back
:38:25. > :38:28.bang in the middle is a Glitterball. In keeping with the show's
:38:29. > :38:33.celebration of design revolutionaries, Tony Hay word's
:38:34. > :38:41.pick and mix installation has a surrealist theme? It's dark,
:38:42. > :38:45.carnival esq. It's dis-Topiary. How do you think it will be received? I
:38:46. > :38:51.hope it's sort of makes people stand back a little bit. Gardens are
:38:52. > :38:54.supposed to be places where you are calm and go to as a retreat. This is
:38:55. > :39:00.not. One exhibit that is different from the rest is the Climate Change
:39:01. > :39:05.garden. It shows a garden of today and how one might look in the
:39:06. > :39:10.future. The main thing is a lot more rain, but milder. We needed to think
:39:11. > :39:14.about how we store water and how things are planted around the garden
:39:15. > :39:18.to stop it getting hot. There are water butts under the bench. They
:39:19. > :39:26.over fill into this pond, down here into a rain garden. Some of the
:39:27. > :39:29.plants are used, poppies and different piecies of marigolds. We
:39:30. > :39:34.are controlling where the water is going. Preventing flooding. When the
:39:35. > :39:39.water comes at once after a storm it's going somewhere but benefitting
:39:40. > :39:42.the wider environment. 350 exhibits set in a space bigger than the
:39:43. > :39:45.Chelsea Flower Show there is plenty to see and do. RHS Chatsworth is on
:39:46. > :39:56.until Sunday. You can see more coverage of the
:39:57. > :39:59.Chatsworth House Show on Gardenaries World this Friday.
:40:00. > :40:02.Now, would you buy a storage unit full of random items,
:40:03. > :40:05.The contents could make or lose you thousands.
:40:06. > :40:08.Well, that's exactly what the people in Storage Hunters
:40:09. > :40:14.For those of you not familiar with the show, here's a taste.
:40:15. > :40:24.Are you ready to do this? Yes. Cut the lock. Let's do it. Come on, man.
:40:25. > :40:39.I'm liking it. I'm liking it a lot. Mine. Relax. Oh, I will. Have it.
:40:40. > :40:48.Once, twice. Fair warned. Natalie... Yeah. Yes. Look at that. Nice. It's
:40:49. > :41:00.a canyon. I'd be chuffed. I would be. Let's welcome, Sean Kelly. Hi.
:41:01. > :41:03.It's a brilliant, brilliant concept for a television programme which
:41:04. > :41:08.you've sold to lots of countries. You are the creator though, aren't
:41:09. > :41:21.you of this? I came up with the idea for it. Filmed it. Two people get in
:41:22. > :41:26.a fight. I was like - this is Antiques Roadshow like WWF. I took
:41:27. > :41:32.it to a television company and sold it. Were you going to be an
:41:33. > :41:35.auctioneer from being a young lad I'm a stand-up comedian for 19
:41:36. > :41:40.years. As a comic you struggle a lot. My day job I worked as an
:41:41. > :41:45.auctioneer. It was the same skill set. On the stage every night doing
:41:46. > :41:51.comedy. As an auctioneer you are up there. I was looking for TV shows as
:41:52. > :41:56.a comedian. When I saw these two guys at it I was like - why am I not
:41:57. > :41:59.filming my day job. This is amazing. That is how we came up with the
:42:00. > :42:04.idea. What is the best thing you found in one of these lock-ups? The
:42:05. > :42:10.cameras weren't on. In California. The guy win as unit for $125, ?90.
:42:11. > :42:15.He goes, what do think of this painting? It looks pretty nice. I
:42:16. > :42:23.couldn't quite tell what it was. Long story short it goes to auction
:42:24. > :42:27.house. After taxes commissions this guy clears $450,000 and pays cash
:42:28. > :42:37.for his first house. He was 23 years old. Guess how much I got. I got 10%
:42:38. > :42:44.of the $125. ?12. You mentioned your stand-up. You are on tour around the
:42:45. > :42:48.UK until the 22nd July? I'm out doing shows, 50 at the Fringe. I'm
:42:49. > :42:53.doing 30 nights in a row around the UK with two of my friends from
:42:54. > :42:58.Storage Hunters. Green Mile and T Money. We have comedians we met 19
:42:59. > :43:01.years in clubs. I got them on the show with me and we will tour
:43:02. > :43:11.together. Will do you auctions within the show? We will do a proper
:43:12. > :43:17.stand-up comedy. I'm a comic. We ask the audience to bring stuff from
:43:18. > :43:22.home. We talk about the items. We auction it off and give 100% for Hep
:43:23. > :43:26.for Heroes. Isn't that awesome. We do it for our fans and close to our
:43:27. > :43:33.hearts. I served in the Middle East. It seems like the right thing to do.
:43:34. > :43:37.A lovely idea. Is it's time to open up Alex's storage unit. Oh, no. We
:43:38. > :43:41.have been waiting for this. It's been the best part of a decade this
:43:42. > :43:47.thing hasn't been opened for. It's somewhere in Wales. That is all we
:43:48. > :43:52.will say at the moment. I've no idea what's in here. I feel literally
:43:53. > :43:58.sick. We are on the door. I've been doing this for years. For you to
:43:59. > :44:12.open this up in front of Britain - I'm glad our researcher is there. Go
:44:13. > :44:18.on, Glen. I hope it's a canyon! Oh! What is that? That was... It's from
:44:19. > :44:23.when I used to wshg on children's telly. They made a cartoon of us. A
:44:24. > :44:27.cowboy hat. I went to that ranch in Arizona on
:44:28. > :44:37.that programme. That's from there. Take the box out. Take the box out.
:44:38. > :44:47.Oh, no. That is awful. That is lovely. A lovely photo. Oh no. It's
:44:48. > :44:54.a diary. Clutch bag. Cheap clutch bags. Look at that. Anything a bit
:44:55. > :45:00.more interesting in there? Videos. Oh, right. I've been looking for
:45:01. > :45:07.that suitcase for ages. Wellies. Handy bits and pieces in there. How
:45:08. > :45:14.much is this worth? A good solid ?25, ?30. A random sock. If you want
:45:15. > :45:23.to bring me down we could get you a lot of money. What's in the box.
:45:24. > :45:31.What is inside the suitcase. Lord Lucan! Tip it out. Tip out the box.
:45:32. > :45:47.Don't tip out the box. Oh, no! Watch it there. Careful. Here we are. Oh.
:45:48. > :45:55.I've been look looking for that. Cowboy boots. You gave me hassle for
:45:56. > :45:59.loving country music last night. Well done.
:46:00. > :46:12.APPLAUSE Is a sure that was the South of
:46:13. > :46:18.England and not the south of the US? Cowboy boots, cowboy hat? Shall we
:46:19. > :46:21.look and everyone else's carriages are any UK? You have been sending in
:46:22. > :46:28.your pictures in droves, thanks so much. This is Sandro, who lives in
:46:29. > :46:37.Terry's garage. Make-up done professionally by a marker pen. And
:46:38. > :46:41.Doctor Who poster. That is Kylie Minogue's garage. A few bikes on
:46:42. > :46:49.that one, perfectly you, Chris. Is this your garage? You could make a
:46:50. > :46:52.lot of money on that one. Those are car boot items, people pay a lot for
:46:53. > :46:58.those, everything I see, car boot, car boot. How many bikes are in your
:46:59. > :47:04.garage, Chris? I haven't got that many but my mum and dad's is stacked
:47:05. > :47:11.from floor-to-ceiling with my old rubbish. Oh, yes! Look at that. This
:47:12. > :47:16.is Richard's garage in Surrey. It is a picture, look at the bottom left.
:47:17. > :47:23.It is a poster, someone is trying to fool us. You didn't fool the
:47:24. > :47:34.auctioneer. Well done. Here is the most unusual thing, what is that? It
:47:35. > :47:40.is a drum, isn't it? Disturbing. Maggie's husband has a collection of
:47:41. > :47:44.shaving cups. The amount of weird things I have seen, that is a good
:47:45. > :47:47.one. That's finished on a bar, last orders. That is all we have got time
:47:48. > :47:49.for. City Rides starts this
:47:50. > :47:53.Sunday in Birmingham. There will be events taking place
:47:54. > :47:55.all over the country over the next several weeks -
:47:56. > :47:58.check out their website for details. You can see his
:47:59. > :48:01.episode of Doctor Who Tomorrow, I'll be back
:48:02. > :48:05.with Gabby Logan presenting. We'll be joined by Eleanor Tomlinson
:48:06. > :48:12.and Tom York from Poldark. Good night, one and all. Thanks for
:48:13. > :48:19.joining us. Hello, I'm Louisa Preston
:48:20. > :48:23.with your 90 second update.