:00:20. > :00:25.The hello, and welcome to The One Show. Tonight we are very, very
:00:25. > :00:30.excited. Our guest is an hilarious Hollywood heavyweight with a long
:00:30. > :00:37.list of talents that to his name. He is our ultimate guest, an iconic
:00:37. > :00:44.comic, award winning actor, playwright, new dish and, showman,
:00:44. > :00:54.composer and band dry it -- and banjo player. It is OF the Steve
:00:54. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:17.Martin! He is with his band, the Steve! How welcome you are. Steve
:01:17. > :01:24.Martin, nice to see you. That was the shortest banjos on I have ever
:01:24. > :01:30.played. You have made your way over here from playing the banjo...
:01:30. > :01:34.exhausted from the walk! But on Capitol Hill on July 4th, you
:01:34. > :01:41.played for President Obama. played on the Capitol lawn, you
:01:41. > :01:46.have a rehearsal shot, there was no audience there, there was half a
:01:46. > :01:50.million people live. Half a million and four, we had four guest tickets.
:01:50. > :01:54.We played on a different occasion in the White House for 100 people
:01:54. > :01:58.for 100 people, and the fact that I play the banjo, at the White House,
:01:58. > :02:03.for the President of the United States, has to be one of the
:02:03. > :02:10.greatest thrills of his life. Without the dead! But he is a great
:02:10. > :02:17.fan of you. -- without a doubt! You have starred in some of the most
:02:17. > :02:22.iconic films of the last 30 years. You can have that. Matt and Alex
:02:22. > :02:27.say... You were a comedian before that, but has music taking centre-
:02:27. > :02:35.stage? It has for a while. My career has shifted, I have gone
:02:35. > :02:40.with the flow, I have written books, a memoir, novels, and what it is is
:02:40. > :02:44.that I am performing live again, I am doing music. When I did stand up
:02:44. > :02:48.by has a little bit of music, now I have a lot of music and comedy, we
:02:49. > :02:54.do comedy in the show, at least a third of it is comedy, or what I
:02:54. > :03:04.think of us, dear! Let's indulge ourselves in one of your most
:03:04. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:25.iconic movies, Planes, Trains and Tell? Why did you kiss my ear?
:03:25. > :03:35.are you holding my hand? Where is your other hand? Between two
:03:35. > :03:37.
:03:37. > :03:41.pillows. Those are not the lows! -- not pillows!
:03:41. > :03:45.John Candy was such a sweetheart. Shooting of that film, the story is
:03:45. > :03:49.about getting from one place to another, the shooting of it was
:03:50. > :03:56.quite difficult because we had to chase snow, we were going through
:03:56. > :04:00.the same chap -- troubles that the scripts indicated. John and I had a
:04:00. > :04:04.lot of long hours, it was really cold where we were shooting, we
:04:04. > :04:10.would amuse ourselves. We had a recurring joke that we would do
:04:10. > :04:15.with each other, we would never get boarded doing the same joke over
:04:15. > :04:21.and over. I would come up to her Mondsee, how is he? And John would
:04:21. > :04:30.say, not so good. I would say, what does the doctor say? He would say,
:04:30. > :04:33.well, the doctor says he is dead. Brilliant! We will be talking about
:04:33. > :04:36.your new album and all sorts of stuff. But first there has been
:04:36. > :04:43.dramatic news, the News of the World will print its final edition
:04:43. > :04:46.this Sunday. Question Time are doing a special at 10:35pm on BBC
:04:47. > :04:51.One, we can cross live to get the immediate reaction from David
:04:51. > :04:58.Dimbleby. I do surprise the paper has actually been axed and it has
:04:58. > :05:02.come to it? -- are you surprised? find it completely incomprehensible.
:05:02. > :05:06.It is as though News Corporation had sent the News of the World to
:05:06. > :05:10.jail, instead of sending the people guilty of wrongdoing, and somehow
:05:10. > :05:14.that would end the story. I don't understand it, unless they feel it
:05:14. > :05:18.is commercially no longer viable because people have taken against
:05:18. > :05:24.it in droves. But time passes and people would probably come back to
:05:24. > :05:28.it. I suspect it is a clever move to defuse the thing and allow
:05:28. > :05:33.Rupert Murdoch to go ahead and take over the huge tank of television at
:05:33. > :05:39.BSkyB, which is what he is really after -- the huge chunk of
:05:39. > :05:46.television. Has this drawn a line under the whole affair? Absolutely
:05:46. > :05:49.not, no. Not politically, people will be asking questions about the
:05:49. > :05:53.connections between Murdoch and the Prime Minister, those close
:05:53. > :05:57.connections. People will ask what will happen to Rebekah Brooks, who
:05:57. > :06:02.runs News Corporation. There are a whole lot of cases that the police
:06:02. > :06:06.will look at, it will go on and on. That is why it is so odd, it is
:06:06. > :06:13.like punishing the title instead of the people in management
:06:13. > :06:19.responsible. We have got Hugh Grant on, by the way. You were boasting
:06:19. > :06:23.by your people, we have Hugh Grant! He has been very strong. We can cap
:06:23. > :06:28.you! He has come into great difficulties with the press and the
:06:28. > :06:31.bugging etc, he is a panellist, we will have to wait to see what he
:06:31. > :06:38.says. Do you think there is a danger that this will spread to
:06:38. > :06:41.other papers? It is difficult to tell. There have been allegations
:06:41. > :06:44.that other papers have been involved, but nothing on the scale
:06:45. > :06:48.of the News of the World. What is really interesting is does it
:06:49. > :06:53.affect the way journalists behave? Of course they will be more
:06:53. > :06:58.cautious about breaking the law. Does that affect police behaviour
:06:58. > :07:04.of cases are Provan against them for telling stories to the press in
:07:04. > :07:08.return for 500 quid etc? -- if cases are proven against them? It
:07:08. > :07:12.will for a while, but it is difficult to control these things
:07:12. > :07:16.forever. People say we get the press we deserve, we like the
:07:16. > :07:20.gossip and the salacious stuff, I'm afraid, so I suspect newspaper
:07:20. > :07:25.proprietors were always go after that. Thank you for your time. One
:07:25. > :07:30.thing is for sure, Hugh Grant can't play the banjo. If you keep
:07:30. > :07:34.listening you will hear Steve Martin, he is unbelievable. We went
:07:34. > :07:38.out on the streets, we heard about the public and what weight -- what
:07:38. > :07:42.they were saying, people will be buying the papers this weekend.
:07:42. > :07:46.am hiring some of the News of the World staff to get my telephone
:07:46. > :07:52.messages, because I have not been able to figure out how to do it.
:07:52. > :07:58.APPLAUSE. I will have four people on staff.
:07:58. > :08:02.In other news, the story of an extraordinary art theft, a $200,000
:08:02. > :08:07.Pablo Picasso was taken from a San Francisco gallery in the middle of
:08:07. > :08:12.the day. Can you believe this, the dirty, rotten scoundrel escaped in
:08:12. > :08:20.a waiting taxi in broad daylight. As you said, a $200,000 Picasso, I
:08:20. > :08:28.said, that must be a terrible Picasso! Have you got a Picasso?
:08:28. > :08:32.have a small drawing. You watch nobody steals that now. I'm hoping
:08:32. > :08:37.somebody will steal it, I can get more for the insurance, probably.
:08:37. > :08:41.But you have been a victim of art fraud? I have been, recently, but I
:08:42. > :08:50.don't know how much I can talk about it. I was in Paris and went
:08:50. > :08:58.into a very fine gallery and bought a painting by a German/Austrian
:08:58. > :09:02.painter, it was supposedly painted in 1915. Then I got a call, I will
:09:02. > :09:09.not going to the details, they said, we think your painting is a fake. I
:09:09. > :09:16.said, why? They said... That is it, that is the picture. They said, we
:09:16. > :09:21.did an examination and the painted dates only back to 1940. That was a
:09:21. > :09:25.pretty good indication. You will be interested in his next story. Phil
:09:25. > :09:32.Tufnell has the tale of a theft from the National Gallery big
:09:32. > :09:36.enough to get the law changed. If you were looking to frame a
:09:36. > :09:39.successful art thief, probably the last face you would it would be a
:09:39. > :09:43.disabled Geordie pensioner with an axe to grind about the television
:09:43. > :09:48.licence, but that was the precise identity of the man who handed
:09:48. > :09:53.himself into a bewildered Scotland Yard to four years after the theft
:09:53. > :09:56.of a painting worth �21 million in today's money, right here at the
:09:56. > :10:00.National Gallery. Kempton Bunton, a retired bus
:10:00. > :10:04.driver, claimed to the police he had travelled to London to see the
:10:04. > :10:08.portrait of the Duke of Wellington for himself after reading about its
:10:08. > :10:12.purchase for the nation to protect it from a proposed sale to an
:10:12. > :10:19.American collector. And he decided on impulse to steal the painting
:10:19. > :10:24.the very next day. But what on earth turns a mild-
:10:24. > :10:29.mannered OAP into a master criminal? A professor from the
:10:29. > :10:33.American University in Rome has studied the theft in detail. He was
:10:33. > :10:39.a particularly unusual art thief. He was 61 years old, disabled, a
:10:39. > :10:43.retired grandfather weighing 17 stone. How did he pull it off?
:10:43. > :10:48.According to his version, which may differ from reality, he used a
:10:48. > :10:52.former men's lavatory as his entrance and exit, a ladder from a
:10:52. > :10:57.nearby building site and he climbed up the ladder 14 ft, enter through
:10:57. > :11:02.the lavatory, grab the painting and go out through the same window.
:11:02. > :11:07.is just through here? Yes. What makes this different from any other
:11:07. > :11:11.art that? It coincided with the time when organised crime was
:11:11. > :11:15.becoming interested in art crime, and Scotland Yard thought there was
:11:15. > :11:20.some large mafia behind the theft. But in fact, it was a crime of
:11:20. > :11:26.passion and political motivation, misguided altruism. It was not
:11:26. > :11:31.about profit but making a point. Kempton Bunton return to Newcastle
:11:31. > :11:35.having jettisoned the frame on the way and stash the masterpiece in
:11:35. > :11:40.his wardrobe. The story captivated the nation and became a sensation
:11:41. > :11:45.in the press, and interest that Bunton kept alive by writing ransom
:11:45. > :11:52.notes, demanding a charity of his choosing should be set up with
:11:52. > :11:55.�140,000, the sum was painting -- the some of the painting had been
:11:55. > :12:00.bought for and an amount he calculated would pay for free
:12:00. > :12:07.television licences for pensioners. Colin was a trainee policeman on
:12:07. > :12:10.his first beat in Newcastle at the time. We knew he had been to prison
:12:10. > :12:14.twice for failure to pay television licence. I thought he was a
:12:14. > :12:19.misguided eccentric. It never crossed your mind he would have
:12:19. > :12:23.stolen the painting? Never in 100 years what I thought he was capable
:12:23. > :12:28.or would have had the ingenuity. handed himself into Scotland Yard,
:12:28. > :12:33.went to court, then what? He was charged at the Old Bailey with
:12:33. > :12:38.stealing the painting, the frame and demanding money with malice.
:12:38. > :12:41.But he could not be convicted of theft. Last any act of 1916 said
:12:41. > :12:46.that to steal you have to permanently deprive the owner
:12:46. > :12:50.thereof, where he had not, you just meant to borrow it and give it back
:12:50. > :12:55.when he was satisfied, and he was given a nominal sentence of three
:12:55. > :12:59.months for stealing the frame, because that was never recovered.
:12:59. > :13:05.Kempton Bunton served his time and retired back into obscurity, but
:13:05. > :13:10.his actions had a lasting effect, directly causing the Theft Act to
:13:10. > :13:15.be redrafted in 1968 to prevent similar crimes. However, his wish
:13:15. > :13:20.for the over 75 to receive free TV licences was not granted until the
:13:20. > :13:27.year 2000, 24 years too late for Britain's most unlikely and
:13:27. > :13:31.idealistic art criminal. He died in 1976, almost completely unknown.
:13:31. > :13:39.Except by the only remaining witness to his unlikely criminal
:13:39. > :13:46.career, back in its rightful place where it can still be seen today.
:13:46. > :13:55.Got, Kempton Bunton, he had a bit of a nerve! Oh, we have some extra
:13:55. > :14:05.sound! If they were making a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, what
:14:05. > :14:08.piece of artwork which you love? -- would you love? There is a
:14:08. > :14:14.beautiful portrait in a museum in Boston by an American painter who
:14:14. > :14:21.came to London, he was the head of the Royal Academy for a while. It
:14:21. > :14:26.is that one. He looks like Jack black! It is an amazing portrait of
:14:26. > :14:30.Jack Black. He was a silversmith and a famous patriot. I don't want
:14:30. > :14:35.to remind the British of that. A famous American patriot.
:14:35. > :14:42.Interesting choice. It is a beautiful American portrait, he was
:14:42. > :14:49.a silversmith and tools -- and he has his tools. That is the painting,
:14:49. > :14:53.I stole it. We notice there is an amazing illustration from inside
:14:53. > :14:58.your album cover. It is your brain divided up into all the different
:14:58. > :15:04.parts. Some artist friends who designed the album did this. It is
:15:04. > :15:11.a little arrogant but I said, it is your idea, go ahead. A large chunk
:15:11. > :15:16.is dedicated to the banjo. When did you start? When I was about 16 or
:15:16. > :15:21.17. I had no musical gifts. By the way, I had no gifts at all, I could
:15:21. > :15:25.not act, sing, dance or do anything, which I think contributed to a
:15:25. > :15:30.quirky way of doing things. I did not have a conventional way of
:15:30. > :15:36.doing anything. You have gone from nothing to having Paul McCartney on
:15:36. > :15:43.the brand new album? I can't believe it. How did that happen?
:15:43. > :15:46.is too long a story, unless we want to run over, but... I knew some
:15:46. > :15:51.friends who knew some friends and I had met him a couple of times, very
:15:51. > :15:58.sweet, I recorded the song that I had roads on my iPhone and I sent
:15:58. > :16:02.it to him. We got a little mixed up and he said, I will do it. And it
:16:02. > :16:06.went on for a couple of months and we set a date to record, we were
:16:06. > :16:14.going to have lied to him, and about two days before the date came
:16:14. > :16:19.up he said, what parts you want me to sing? I said, what?! I said, all
:16:19. > :16:22.of it. He said, I thought I was going to back you up. So I ran into
:16:22. > :16:28.the studio and recorded his best as I could, but I said, I am a
:16:28. > :16:32.terrible singer. -- recorded as best as I could. I sent him the
:16:32. > :16:36.tape, we were there, he was so sweet and he said, when you told me
:16:36. > :16:46.you were a terrible thing I thought you were being humble, but you were
:16:46. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :16:58.This you men cannonball? I looked at it the same where you did, it is
:16:58. > :17:05.just weird. That is something they put in. The ice is a new talent you
:17:06. > :17:11.could take up. I could, we are high enough. Do you have a cannon? Can
:17:11. > :17:15.we open the window? It could be a nice finish to my career. Of all
:17:15. > :17:21.the movies you have made, what has made you laugh the most? I don't
:17:21. > :17:30.look at my old movies so I respond to what people tell me. I get a lot
:17:30. > :17:37.of feedback from Dirty Rotten scoundrels, from Father Of the
:17:37. > :17:42.Bride. A lot of fathers come up and say my daughter made me watch that.
:17:42. > :17:52.Jim my favourite scene from Dirty Rotten scoundrels is you in the
:17:52. > :17:56.
:17:56. > :18:02.buffet car with a meal and the three beers. The eye can't remember
:18:02. > :18:07.that scene. It is one that people quote to meet! We know you are busy
:18:07. > :18:16.on tour with your album and the band, but is there another classic
:18:16. > :18:22.in the pipeline? Right now, I am fixated on the album and writing
:18:22. > :18:27.music. I am writing the score for a movie in Los Angeles, one of those
:18:27. > :18:31.animated 3D movies which is funny because the banjo is very suitable
:18:31. > :18:36.for an animated film, this one happens to be about turkeys. Look
:18:36. > :18:41.ing at the collection of stuff, including the cannonball which I am
:18:41. > :18:48.sure you will go on to do, you are incredibly talented at juggling
:18:48. > :18:55.everything. What are you happiest doing? When you are very involved
:18:55. > :18:58.in something, if it is in writing it can be just the turn of the
:18:58. > :19:03.phrase that makes you happy for the rest of the day. If you are doing a
:19:03. > :19:08.show, if it is a good show, you feel extremely good for the rest of
:19:08. > :19:12.the day. It is the tiny things. If you are writing a song, it can
:19:12. > :19:19.really make you feel good. It is the little things that make you
:19:19. > :19:26.feel good. Excellent. We will be hearing some of your music. Right
:19:26. > :19:32.now it is The One Show. His new album called Rare Bird Alert is out
:19:32. > :19:35.now. The bird in our next film is not rare, but extremely shy and we
:19:35. > :19:43.were surprised it made an appearance for the cameras. You can
:19:43. > :19:47.see it now in Des four of Mike and Miranda's penultimate summer
:19:47. > :19:50.holiday watch. The Isles of Scilly is the first
:19:50. > :19:53.landfall in the UK for any migratory birds travelling north
:19:53. > :20:02.for the summer, but we heard a couple of special ones who have
:20:02. > :20:07.decided to stay. We keep hearing this bird wherever we go. Surely
:20:07. > :20:12.everyone recognises the cuckoo. The reason they are here - have a look
:20:12. > :20:18.at this incredibly unpalatable caterpillar. Nothing much eats
:20:18. > :20:22.these, apart from the cuckoo, which gobbles them up. You tend to hear
:20:22. > :20:29.these birds rather than see them because they are very shy and timid,
:20:29. > :20:35.but these ones are incredibly bold and visible. Explain the colours to
:20:35. > :20:41.me. It is black and white stripes on its belly. And grey all over?
:20:41. > :20:45.Yes. It has got a caterpillar. Fantastic. Normally we would not
:20:45. > :20:50.get within a couple of hundred metres of this bird, but this
:20:50. > :20:54.cuckoo is the most confident I have ever seen. I have been bird-
:20:54. > :21:00.watching for 30 years, I have heard cuckoos thousands of times but I
:21:00. > :21:10.have never been this close. 40 metres away? It is not bothered by
:21:10. > :21:15.us at all. There it goes. That is my highlight! Brilliant Cocom
:21:15. > :21:21.behaviour. The waters around the Isles of Scilly have plenty of
:21:21. > :21:24.visitors passing through during the year. Fingers crossed, we are going
:21:24. > :21:30.to see one of nature's greatest predators which has just been
:21:30. > :21:36.spotted on its way to the island. It is the blue shark. How are you
:21:36. > :21:42.feeling? Fantastic, I am so looking forward to it. Have you ever seen a
:21:42. > :21:48.shark in the flesh before? Only in a tank. It would be amazing to see
:21:48. > :21:52.one on the deck. A today could be quite special. These sharks migrate
:21:52. > :21:56.from the east Coast of America, arriving here in early June before
:21:56. > :22:01.heading off to the as us. Due to the concerns about falling
:22:01. > :22:11.population, local fishermen have been catching them for the last 20
:22:11. > :22:15.years on behalf of the UK shark tagging programme. How is the
:22:15. > :22:19.population doing? Not great, numbers are definitely lower than
:22:19. > :22:24.20 years ago but at the moment they seem to be holding their own. It
:22:24. > :22:32.has been fairly steady in the last couple of years. To try and bring
:22:32. > :22:36.the sharks to the bait, mashed up fish is put overboard. Once they
:22:37. > :22:46.are enticed to the boat, there is a very tasty fishing line loaded with
:22:47. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :23:01.mackerel. Now it is just a case of After one hour, we catch the first
:23:01. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:21.blue shark I have ever seen in the I am so excited. That is brilliant.
:23:21. > :23:25.To save the shark's stress, they have just two minutes to weigh it
:23:25. > :23:30.and target. Is that about average? Yes, slightly below maybe. This is
:23:30. > :23:35.a young female about six years old, and she could eventually grow to
:23:35. > :23:39.well over three metres. If the shark is quarter again, the tag
:23:39. > :23:48.will identify where she has been an help calculate any changes in
:23:48. > :23:53.weight and length. All this information is valuable for future
:23:53. > :24:01.conservation. I am not putting my hands anywhere close! Throughout
:24:01. > :24:07.the season, they will tag around 30 blue sharks. I was expecting
:24:07. > :24:16.nothing really. I was expecting a sunny day out on the boat. We were
:24:16. > :24:19.eating our lunch. Then somebody shouted shark! Really exciting.
:24:19. > :24:29.Next to close encounters of the Third Kind, as tomorrow I get close
:24:29. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:35.to some very friendly seals. They were lovely. You can catch their
:24:35. > :24:39.final film tomorrow, it is another good one. We have moved over to
:24:39. > :24:44.join the band here, the Steep Canyon Rangers. They are all set,
:24:44. > :24:50.give them a big round of applause. Loads of people have been getting
:24:51. > :24:59.in touch, interesting e-mails, and all sorts. Debbie from Birmingham
:25:00. > :25:09.wants you to do the pointy bird call. Pointy birds, pointy pointy,
:25:10. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:15.anoint my head, pointy. If give us a flavour of what the audience can
:25:15. > :25:21.expect to see from your band. a music show we comedy. There is a
:25:21. > :25:27.lot of chat, but the music is quite serious, serious blue grass, but we
:25:27. > :25:32.do some comedy songs. We are serious musicians but there is a
:25:32. > :25:39.lot of humour in the show. How long have you been together? About five
:25:39. > :25:44.minutes. Didn't you go on holiday and that is where you met? You us,
:25:44. > :25:49.we met at a party. We started touring together when I made these
:25:49. > :25:55.records and it has worked out to be a great collaboration, but they are
:25:55. > :26:00.their own band but I come in and out, like a bad dream. You're going
:26:00. > :26:04.for around Britain, are you looking forward to this tour? Very much. We
:26:04. > :26:09.played the Royal Festival Hall last year and it was one of the best
:26:09. > :26:16.shows ever, and that is why we are back. Thank you, it has been
:26:16. > :26:24.amazing to meet you. We will let you get ready now, Steve and the
:26:24. > :26:28.Steep Canyon Rangers's album Rare Bird Alert is out now. Take it away,
:26:28. > :26:34.with Jubilation Day. I will just explain that this song is based on
:26:34. > :26:44.the fact that not all break-ups are bad, some of them are the best
:26:44. > :26:54.
:26:54. > :27:04.thing that can happen to you. This # I'm walking away. like Rupert
:27:04. > :27:14.Murdoch told me. A # I'm walking away the self-help book implored me.
:27:14. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:34.# I'm walking away. My best friend had warned me. Even your mum said
:27:34. > :27:44.you were not. # In my dreams... I'm walking away.
:27:44. > :27:44.
:27:44. > :28:58.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 74 seconds
:28:58. > :29:05.# I'm walking away. Let me get my things. I'm walking away. Where did
:29:05. > :29:15.you hide my banjo strings? walking away. I will be over you by
:29:15. > :29:29.
:29:29. > :29:34.lunchtime. A I'm walking away. # I'm walking away. Let's only
:29:34. > :29:40.remember the good times. walking away. Like when you were