07/08/2017 The One Show

We are live at Carrickfergus Castle in County Antrim. What are we

waiting for? Fire the cannon! We have left our studio for the whole

week as we explore what is a spectacular Causeway. Not many

people know about this in the UK. It is quite something. Absolutely

gorgeous. We have a plan. We will be travelling 85 miles along the

Causeway Coastal Route and this is the scenery you are looking at.

Earlier today we arrived in Belfast and made our way to Carrickfergus.

Tomorrow we'll be heading off to Cushendall in

On Wednesday we stop at the coast in Ballycastle,

before travelling on to the seaside resort of Portrush, and finally on

What are all of you up to on your holidays? We want a bit of evidence.

Send us your photos or your holiday highlights, a little video clip.

Send it in and if it is about ten seconds long we can put them

together. We will give it a go. We have got some very special guests.

We have the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor. Nice to meet you both. Thank

you for the welcome. You say this is the happiest place in Northern

Ireland. Yes, indeed. Just look around you. You will see the scenery

here. It is fantastic. We are delighted as Mayor of mid East

Antrim to welcome your programme here and this area is steeped in

history. You have postponed your evening meeting for us this evening.

What was on the agenda? Once we got the invitation for your show it was

a fantastic opportunity to have as here, not only for Carrickfergus,

but for Northern Ireland. We hope you have a fantastic week. We are

having a lovely time already. Thank you for having us. Shall we

introduce our guest? This is an actor and singer who has been away

for a while. We are going to let some of the locals introduce her.

Hello, my team, welcome to Carrickfergus. Next stop is her new

single. Say I'm Not Alone. # Nothing is as long as my

imagination. # Say I am not alone, I can't

believe it. You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. Do

you need three new back-up singers? We are available.

# Say you are not alone. Well, maybe not.

You are super first guess for our road trip. How exciting is this? We

are in these beautiful surroundings, but also your mother and father are

half Irish. So half and half makes youthful Irish. I like to think so.

Jack Butland as is your husband, a strong Irish name. His family are

from Limerick and mine are from Waterford. Do you spent a lot of

time here? Yes, I do, it is warm, and so friendly. I am not very sober

when I am in Ireland. Maybe you could give us some tips on the way.

You are back with the new single and we will talk about that a bit later

on. We have got to take you back to 1999. You released this. A song so

romantic that it has accompanied many newlyweds on the dance floor. I

love that song! Is it right your mother ended up getting married to

that song? Yes, it sounds so awful. I was the last person she wanted to

walk down the alt or, one of my songs. It was supposed to be You Are

The Sunshine Of My Life, but she won't, oh, I have forgotten the CD.

A friend of mine said, we will have to put your song on. As I am walking

down to my own son behind her eye and cringing. It was a bit

self-indulgent, but it did the trick. It is a perfect story for our

first film because here is the story of a newlywed couple and how they

managed to achieve their perfect moment. Steven Wynne and Philippa

Merricks have known each other since their early 20s, but it was only

when they began working together that romance blossomed. Last year

when they were running a half marathon in Uganda Steven decided to

pluck up the courage to ask Philippa to marry him. The wedding plans are

on the way and one of their wishes is to surprise their guests with a

memorable first dance. But it will not be easy because neither of them

have danced before. That is because both of them were born deaf and have

no real interest in music or dance, but they have an appreciation for a

well choreographed routine and thought something of that level

would come as a shock to their guests. Brian Argerich is signing

and interpreting. We are not big fans of music and dancing, so we

grabbed the opportunity to impress everybody and it is a challenge for

us as well. Hopefully something like that. She wants to be thrown around.

I will try my best. We have enlisted the help of one Briton's top street

dancers. He has been teaching dance for nearly four years and is the

perfect instructor for the pair because he is dead. A lot of people

assume that deaf people cannot hear music. But there are lots of

different ways you can access it. It is about feeling the beat.

Understanding the lyrics is important before he starts to

choreographed routine. To tap into the rhythm he uses what is known as

a base Pack which helps to feel the rhythm of the music. Are you ready?

Yes, I am ready. That is amazing, you can really feel that. When

Stephen and Philippa arrived he hands them a pack to see if it helps

them feel the music. What do they think? You can feel it. The sound.

It feels really different, like you are in a nightclub. It is good.

Chris has suggested Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud as their first

son. Without the music he takes them through the steps of the routine,

but for non-dancers getting to grips with coordination can be tricky.

When they put the music on the challenge is can they get the right

arm and the right leg, which is not the same for every human being. Over

the next few weeks Chris helps them, but for the actual day a base pack

might prove a bit impractical for the wedding dress, so Chris has the

answer, a discreet wristband version, allowing them to feel the

beat through their arm instead and this means they can practice at

home, work or just about anywhere. Nine weeks on and it is their big

day. Celebrations are well under way. And as they go into the

evening. It is time for the first dance. As their bewildered guests

look on, no one is quite sure what to expect.

To be honest I was so shocked. It is not like either of them. My first

dance was nothing like that. I have never seen them dance like that

before. It was really good. Wow, it was so amazing. I love everybody's

reaction. Everybody went nuts, it was so lovely. And so after all the

preparations in their first dance was a massive success, but they know

it would not have been possible without Chris's help. That song and

the choreography, it was so wonderful, I am so happy with it.

Chris gave us an opportunity to be so happy with for ever. A big

congratulations to Stephen and Philippa, they are off on honeymoon

now. That was a good effort. What was your first dance? Mine was Paul

Williams and the Carpenters. Did you practice it? No, Jack has got two

left feet. We were asked to do some reality thing and dance together and

I said, do this with me. I thought afterwards it would be the end of my

career if he did that with me. Did you have a choreographed dance? No,

we definitely did not. We just went casual. That is the best way. You

have had a break from music and we have not seen you for quite a while.

Why the break? I basically got very well with any and Lyme disease and

it is quite a debilitating illness. It is misunderstood. Both of them

are misunderstood unfortunately and I was lying on Richmond Green and I

got bitten by a tick and it poisons your system and you feel like you

cannot lift your arms up or your legs. Some days I was bedbound. How

quickly did it come on? Within days. But I did not realise. I only found

out at the beginning of this year that that was what was wrong with

me. I thought I had shingles or something. I have worked really hard

with what I have done, but I pushed myself beyond my limits. You just

never know when the next opportunity is going to come and you have to

make the most of it. So I did and I burned out. I had a baby, but my

body was so weak. My main aim was to become a mother. During those

difficult times my husband said, it costs nothing, just pick up a pen

and paper and write the music down. Even if you are not well enough, do

it for you. That is how you started in this industry as a kid, you loved

it. You must love it again. Bit by bit I wrote all this down thinking

nobody would ever hear it or if I would be acting again. It was years

later that somebody from a big radio station who was a friend of Jack's

who was in the industry who writes and produces who said it is

brilliant. A lot of people will relate to it. Her struggles are not

just her struggles, a lot of people go through this and they will relate

to what is on the album. When I thought all this stuff was going to

be out there I thought, is this what I want? Then I thought why not?

Music is one of the most honest things ever. I am thrilled you are

back, but how does it feel? It is quite a big deal coming back with an

album. My baby is not a baby any more, he is a year and a half. It is

wonderful. Before I did not have my husband or son to balance things out

and it was quite lonely sometimes because you would have these

glorious times and awards and working with the most amazing people

and then you go back on your own and it is a bit odd. Now I have got that

amazing life away from what I do, that balance. It is important. It

can be so hard to find. That is why I kept working so hard, but he

helped me write it down and the album is released and out on Friday.

And the single is called Say I'm Not Alone. It relates to what you are

saying. Jack, your husband, who is a singer songwriter himself, he has

been a big part of this as well. He has worked with all these different

acts over the years and it was all going on around me, so it was a bit

difficult. I was so close to it, but not well enough to do it. We had a

studio at home and I could see all these artists coming in and out of

the house. He said he saw it was killing me and I had to do it. So I

did. He would go away to work in LA or Nashville and it was affecting

him as well what was going on in our lives. He would write things down as

well and before we knew it we had a body of work and a label signed up

and now I am out there doing it and I feel so blessed and grateful to be

doing it, feeling well and having a lovely life away from it. It sounds

corny, but the lost and found title is so apt for this album. A friend

said to me, this sums up that difficult time, but get back out

there and do it again, it is your time again. It all happened

naturally, I It out on Friday and it is lovely

daddy back. Good to see you. Out on the day that we finish the Causeway

Paul Wood has been meticulously planned. We have had the guidebooks

out for a while. But we realised there is so much to see we needed a

bit of help so here is Angela. I'm starting my journey at Titanic

Belfast, a world-class visitor attraction.

# You open the door # And you're here in my heart

# And my heart Will go on and on. # Where's Leo when you need him? As

with all journeys into unfamiliar territory, I need a guide so I've

enlisted the help of a local and an old mate. That's him. Oh, don't be

fooled by the look, he's not actually a sea captain. Joe Lindsay.

Hoy, my darling! Nice fat. It's a good look, a strong look. It is in

you will be my guide? Absolutely, I'm going to take you a few -- on a

few details on the cause of error, so it -- show you some alternative

Ulster. Are we going in a boat? No. Come and see. Is that a DeLorean? It

is. But why? Number one, this was as you probably know, built in Northern

Ireland. Didn't know that. Number two, Back To The Future featured it

and we are going back to someone for history. And three, it is so cool!

It's got wings, I'm in, but I'm driving, that is my condition. OK.

Take that look off your face! You are in good hands. Hang on. OK, Joe,

where are we going? First stop, Carrickfergus Castle. Let's do this.

They have arrived! You can come out! That wasn't my fault! 'S greeting to

hold. Do you like my wheels? This is something, what is it like to drive?

It's like driving a tractor, there's no power steering. Did you feeling

inside fans? I never doubted her for a second. Good. -- did you feel

inside fans. This issue is about driving around it and you are from

the south and you from the North Savtsova as the Brexit board is

potentially concerned, how complicated will it be if you want

to go and each other? We don't know yet, if it is a hard border, it is

310 miles, going across some people's Farms, some people might

need a passport to get to their barn from their house. We hope it works

out well for everyone. Everyone is looking for the best resolution so

fingers crossed. Let's get to this route you have been driving and the

road, because it is a must, the airport taxi driver said, "This is

the road to beyond!" Why is it so good? Its majestic, and I'm from

down south and I've come up and it feels like a different place. You

have mountains on one side and the ocean on the other, it is so green

and you see some of the most spectacular engineering, archways

through cliffs, at the time, very pioneering work and it looks

staggering and beautiful. If you are into telly-macro, this is the place

to be. But is it? It's a bit of a sore point around here, Alex. It is

but we're going to try to put it right right now.

Stefanie McMullen is the resident archaeologist here.

Let's it's these marks, has this place got a violent past? It

certainly does, it was built with defence in mind and this is one of

the defensive features, the Gatehouse, you would have been met

if you got this far with a pretty nasty welcome, the murder hole

above, you would have been rained on with rocks and hot oil and whatever

they had. Murdered hole, perfect for telly-macro! Have you got a medieval

banqueting hall where you could do mass poisoning is? I can't comment

on the catering standards but we do have a banqueting hall directly in

front of us, the great keep, and that is where a lot of entertaining

and feasting would have happened. It has never been an telly-macro but

plenty of warring clans have been fighting and trying to capture the

Castle. 750 years of constant siege and attack by Irish and Scots, a lot

of turbulence. And a female queen turned up on about, I mean. Queen

Elizabeth herself turned up in 1961. We were very fortunate that the

crowd came out to welcome her and still very warmly welcomed, in the

community. She did not bring dragons but she brought Prince Philip. We

are just waiting for the phone call now. We have set it up. If you are a

Game Of Thrones ban, we have got a special on Thursday from Portrush.

-- fan. But being here is the real reminder of the dramatic maritime

history that is along the coast. This is Belfast Lough, and

everything coming into Belfast has to go past us here but as Dan Snow

has been finding out, sometimes you have to go beneath the waves to find

the real goal. -- gold. This is Portballintrae on the north

coast of County Antrim. It is fairly calm inside the harbour but out

there, are the merciless waves of the Atlantic Ocean. This jagged

coastline is littered with the wrecks of many ships but the most

famous has to be the Girona, the greatest battleship of the Spanish

Armada, which went down near the giant's Causeway during a storm in

1588. 1300 lives were lost it all. But it was a report that the ship

was laden with gold and jewellery that created the birth of a legend.

Today, I'm going to be diving beneath the waves, having a look at

the area in which the Girona sank. 50 years ago, no one had a clue

where the ship for its gold would be found. Over the years, the promised

bounty of the Girona has inspired hundreds of divers to scour the

North Antrim coast for the elusive wreck. Among them was keen diver

Alan Wilson and his friends, seen here in 1967, on their way to hunt

down the Girona. We searched between here and Portrush, and down here. So

you guys were a bunch of young optimist, you thought you would bump

into a great big ship lying on the bottom of the sea? We thought it was

full of gold! The gold was there but not where they were looking. At the

same time, a professional diver from Belgium dropped anchor near the

giant 's Causeway. It was not long before he and his team struck gold.

Did you not want to get a piece of the action and get diving on it when

you discover the ship was down there? We came over but he followed

us around in his boat and one of the boys had lifted something off the

bottom and we took it off him. While you were diving? While he was down,

yeah. So things got a bit heated? It did, yeah. The sea bed scuffle even

make the newspapers added -- added a statement from the local MP

condemning the looting of the Girona by so-called frogmen. But as the

find of the site, they were entitled to the hall. Nowadays it is illegal

to dive on the wreck site but I have been granted special permission

under the watchful eye of government marine archaeologist Rory McLeary.

Fairly near logo I'd now so only about five or six metres of water

underneath us but it is still a challenging place to dive and you

can see the swell from the north-west and if you're not

careful, you can get bashed against the jagged rocks.

When they came here, the timbers of the Girona had long since rotted

away, hidden under boulders or in crevices between rocks, they found

the gold of the Girona and there was lots of it.

Although they were entitled to keep the Girona gold, it would soon find

a new home here at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Greer Ramsey is the

director. How are you doing? Good to see you. It is a big achievement

keeping the collection together because it would have been sold off

around the world. A lot of money came from the local people in

Northern Ireland to try to ensure the objects would be kept on

display. In 1972, Stenway was paid over a half million pounds in

today's money to keep the Girona horde in Northern Ireland. But the

real value of these artefacts is in the human stories they tell. What

about this delicate ring here? A beautiful piece, hard to believe it

was on the sea bed for 400 years. In many ways, I think it is one of my

favourite rings from the Armada, actually engraved in Spanish, "I

have nothing more to give the those great. It is a sentimental message

and it adds to the idea of the tragedy of the Armada. -- to give

the. And for the 1300 men who died, there were many more back home whose

hearts were broken and they would never know what would happen -- what

had happened to their loved ones. You can carry a bit of the Girona

around these shores because there is a beautiful picture of it on the ?10

note. Get yourself a fish supper on the way home! As we are here for the

week, Joe has come back onto the sofa and we are going through some

lingo that we could use, maybe come out and about. Your family are down

salto up north it is quite different so some phrases you will have to

use, two variations of one phrase, what's the craic, which means what

is happening, or the easy one, 'bout ye. That sounds a bit like Geordie.

You have really got it down. This is like Professor Higgins in My Fair

Lady. Sentence Macro Show -- so which the reply would be, then one

macro. -- maul. Sticking out was helpful for a while. -- was popular

before a while. Wanna poke means do you want an ice cream? Sorry it's

before the watershed. It was funny when you said that and that big

bloke said, "Yes, please. Someone says wee buns and that means how was

it for you? We put wee in front of a lot of things. Does it mean little?

We use it for something like that but wee buns particularly means it

is easy. Just come with us, make it easy. Martine, you might not want a

wee poke but you might want to get because we have employed the use of

the local cross to make gifts for our guess as we are here. And we

have got one for you. -- local craftsmen.

Have a look at this and see what Laura McClure

First we take a sheet of sterling silver and cut up the rough shape to

use the rest the process. Then after adding in the delicate wire work and

laying the fine details onto the rough cut, we take it all and press

it together. We are soldering the fittings now but that certainly is

not the end yet. Now we use a tool straight from the middle Ages, the

flail to add texture and scratches to the surface, giving it the

perfect imperfection. Finally, using electrolysis, we secure the final

golden touch, from the headlines to the shore.

And if you're still wondering what it is, here it is -

Wow! That is lovely, Laura. Thank you, it is beautiful. It is yours to

keep. Thanks, guys, that's so nice. I'm coming again! Thank you for

joining us, and your album, Lost And Found, is out on Friday. Great to

see you again. Shall we have a look at the plan for the next 24 hours?

This is the route. We are heading up the coast and our next stop is

Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim and we hear them lighting the

barbecues as we speak. I'm delighted because it is a food festival, free

cheese, here we come. The sausages on the griddle. It's going to be

tasty! Let's have a wave, good night, thank you one and all, team.