:00:21. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to the One Show, with Chris Evans... And Alex Jones.
:00:24. > :00:29.And Mamma Mia, do we have a mean guest for you tonight?! She's the
:00:30. > :00:38.female lead in the soon hit-to-be block buster Les Mis... Which is
:00:39. > :00:48.our new favourite film. It's Amanda Seyfried!
:00:48. > :00:58.APPLAUSE how are you? It is good to be here. Did you
:00:58. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:05.enjoy your Welsh lessons? I used to save Radio, but now I say it
:01:05. > :01:10.differently. That is why I did a posh hello. You have had the big
:01:10. > :01:16.premiere of your film. How was it? It was interesting. It was the
:01:16. > :01:19.coldest I have ever been in my life, but my heart was warm. I was very
:01:19. > :01:22.excited to premiere this film, because I am so proud of it.
:01:22. > :01:28.Possibly the Best Film I have ever done. Probably I will never do
:01:28. > :01:38.another film like this again. is no sequel? There is no Sickle,
:01:38. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:49.no. Could Hollywood not come up with one? So, tell us about the
:01:49. > :01:53.party. The party afterwards? Well, we had some cocktails, at a big
:01:53. > :02:01.place, called the round House, and then we retreated back to Brussels,
:02:01. > :02:05.which is something that we do often. And were you up late at Russells?
:02:05. > :02:11.was, and not only that, my mother was up late. I think she had a bit
:02:11. > :02:15.more to drink and I did. But we are celebrating, and it is worth it.
:02:15. > :02:21.really is. The other cast members have all gone home. That's it, just
:02:21. > :02:28.me. Just taking care of business before I leave. So, you're going
:02:28. > :02:35.home for Christmas, we presume. home is Allentown, Pennsylvania,
:02:35. > :02:37.probably not somewhere anyone has heard of. We have now. But if you
:02:37. > :02:46.need a driver to take you to the airport, we have got exactly the
:02:46. > :02:52.person. The new One Show driver. Here he is. This is in New Zealand,
:02:52. > :02:58.where they have just taught rescue dogs had to drive. Seriously.
:02:58. > :03:05.was my reaction as well. This dog is doing the paddles and everything.
:03:05. > :03:10.They are all rescue dogs. Is not doing the pedals! They told me!
:03:10. > :03:15.course he is not doing the pedals are! Is really driving, but he is
:03:15. > :03:22.not doing the pedals. There is no way, I have tried it so many times
:03:22. > :03:30.with my dog. But they did pass the test within eight weeks. There is a
:03:30. > :03:35.reason for this, because they are very intelligent dogs. That is a
:03:35. > :03:41.person dressed as a dog. It is not. You have got a dog called Finn,
:03:41. > :03:45.haven't you? Does he drive? He does not, and I do not want him to drive,
:03:45. > :03:52.I am going to keep him safe in the passenger seat. He balances things
:03:52. > :03:57.on his head. The thing is, the cheeseburger, it was not difficult,
:03:57. > :04:01.I always give him a treat if he does it, but he has got this
:04:01. > :04:08.amazing focus. I have tried everything. He just goes like this.
:04:08. > :04:12.Bacon, I have tried everything. Where did you get the baby Doc
:04:12. > :04:18.from? That was a gift from a costume designer friend of mine.
:04:18. > :04:24.Does this improve his posture? has got a good posture. Sells like
:04:24. > :04:28.a great kid. And his team, I cannot wait to see him. More chat soon.
:04:28. > :04:34.But have you already put your tree up? If you have not, and you're
:04:34. > :04:38.going to do it this weekend, before you decorate the house, stop right
:04:38. > :04:44.there. Why don't you decorate a member of your family instead?
:04:44. > :04:49.Don't put lights on them, because that is dangerous. Dad's favourite,
:04:49. > :04:53.especially if he is asleep, take a photograph and send it to us.
:04:53. > :05:01.a parent is sometimes the best job in the world, sometimes it is the
:05:01. > :05:06.toughest, as Wendy Robbins discovered. My name is Mary Dhonau,
:05:06. > :05:13.and I made the big decision to put my beloved son, Peter, who is 10,
:05:13. > :05:17.into residential care, because I could no longer cope with him. Mary
:05:17. > :05:22.and my's second child was born 15 years ago. He was an affectionate
:05:22. > :05:28.and happy baby. Every detail of his first months and years was
:05:28. > :05:34.documented in this diary. 8th April. He is such a lovely, adorable,
:05:34. > :05:38.placid, smiling baby. Basically, I said, thank you, Peter, for the
:05:38. > :05:43.best year of my life. When I finished that diary, I had no idea
:05:43. > :05:48.what the future held for us. Just three months later, Peter's
:05:48. > :05:53.behaviour changed dramatically. Peter had stopped sleeping, he
:05:53. > :06:00.stopped being able to feed himself or talk or., and he stopped looking
:06:00. > :06:06.at us, and his behaviour became incredibly challenging. -- or point.
:06:06. > :06:10.What was the diagnosis eventually? Severe autism. It was as if I had
:06:10. > :06:15.lost a child I had. The couple tried their best to maintain family
:06:15. > :06:19.life, but Peter's behaviour became really difficult. Just keeping him
:06:19. > :06:23.save was proving to be a massive challenge. You could not take your
:06:23. > :06:31.eye off Peter, because he would devastate something. He would break
:06:31. > :06:40.something. We had to have 8ft fences to stop him escaping. It was
:06:40. > :06:47.like living in a prison. He regularly smeared poo over
:06:47. > :06:51.everything. He did not sleep at night. It was lurching from one
:06:51. > :06:55.disaster to another. I became nervous and tense, I lost friends,
:06:55. > :06:59.I found it incredibly difficult to keep my job. My marriage had broken
:06:59. > :07:04.down, and in fact, we were living in the same house, divorced,
:07:04. > :07:08.looking after Peter. Life had become too difficult for Mary, her
:07:08. > :07:12.husband and their older son James. When Peter was 10 years old, the
:07:13. > :07:17.family made a big decision to put him into a residential care home.
:07:17. > :07:21.Actually having to give him away, give him over to the care of other
:07:21. > :07:27.people, it really tore my heart out. Because of that, because of the
:07:27. > :07:34.huge love ahead for him, I found it the biggest decision I have ever
:07:34. > :07:37.had to make. Peter, now 15, has spent the last five years at
:07:37. > :07:45.Higford School, a local-authority funded residential care home which
:07:45. > :07:53.provides specialist help for people with autism. We have a 24 a staff
:07:53. > :07:56.team here for Peter. So, if he gets up in the night, there is staff
:07:56. > :08:06.ready to support him and keep him come and make sure he is looked
:08:06. > :08:16.after well. To do that every single day, on their own, I could not
:08:16. > :08:16.
:08:17. > :08:20.imagine it. It is a relief to me that I feel, he is happy. And the
:08:20. > :08:27.fact they ring me every night with a love in their voices for the
:08:27. > :08:31.little antics he has got up to. Mary, it is Andy Turner at Higford
:08:31. > :08:35.School. We hope they feel it is one of the best decisions they have
:08:35. > :08:39.ever made, that this turn is safe and happy, and that he is becoming
:08:39. > :08:43.the young man they wanted him to be. Peter spends most weekends back
:08:43. > :08:46.home with his family, and even though challenges still remain,
:08:46. > :08:51.Mary is more able to cope with him on this part-time basis. What would
:08:51. > :08:53.have happened if you had not made that decision making a I think
:08:53. > :08:57.Peter would have killed himself in some disaster which would have been
:08:57. > :09:05.my fault for not looking after him properly. And that was why I made
:09:05. > :09:10.the decision. I do not think I will ever feel properly happy again,
:09:10. > :09:14.because I had to do that. Every night I wonder what he is doing,
:09:14. > :09:23.with he is asleep, whether he is happy. I am not there to love him
:09:23. > :09:27.any more. So, that will stay with me for ever, because he may be
:09:27. > :09:36.nearly 16, but he is only a toddler. He always will be only a toddler.
:09:37. > :09:41.Toddlers need their mummies, don't they? Right, we're going to talk
:09:41. > :09:45.about Les Miserables again. Can we talk about was all crow's pre-
:09:45. > :09:51.rehearsal techniques? Does he not get you all round to his house to
:09:51. > :09:55.get to know which other? Yes, we do some karaoke. We have a live
:09:55. > :10:02.pianist, the vocal coach, and we play until 4 o'clock in the morning.
:10:02. > :10:08.Where is this? I cannot say. which country? In this country, in
:10:08. > :10:16.the countryside. Is it near here? Walking distance? I do not think he
:10:16. > :10:20.is at home right now. We were all kind of nervous to sing live anyway,
:10:20. > :10:26.and I think it is a nice kind of initiation process. We all enjoy
:10:26. > :10:34.singing, together as a round, give us a few drinks, and start crooning
:10:34. > :10:40.and... It worked, obviously. It was great, we did not stop. Who sang
:10:40. > :10:46.first? One night, Russell and myself to do a duet. It is usually
:10:46. > :10:56.Samantha that Synge's first, but Anne is pretty good on the singing
:10:56. > :11:03.
:11:03. > :11:08.as well. What was the duet? It was Adele. A I never got used to it,
:11:08. > :11:15.and in fact, the night after the premiere, we all sang. Over was
:11:15. > :11:21.just not in the mood. I was really shy. Anne brought me out. You mean
:11:21. > :11:26.Anne Hathaway. We have seen it, but lots of people are desperate to see
:11:26. > :11:36.the film, but they cannot see it until January. The best we can do
:11:36. > :11:41.
:11:41. > :11:51.is to offer this 32nd trial. # We will be ready for these
:11:51. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:13.A cash it is so good, so good! has happened again, there goes
:12:13. > :12:21.palms are out. Genuine? Yes. But you really wanted his role, didn't
:12:21. > :12:25.you? Just tell us how much she wanted it, and what the audition
:12:25. > :12:30.was like. I would have killed for this part. Luckily I did not have
:12:30. > :12:37.to. It took four months to convince them that I was the right person
:12:37. > :12:41.for this role. It is the hardest I have ever worked in my life. It is
:12:41. > :12:47.really satisfying, truly rewarding, when you actually get the part.
:12:47. > :12:53.close do you think you came to not getting it? I don't know. We had
:12:53. > :12:57.this connection, and I knew that Tom saw something in me. That's the
:12:57. > :13:02.director, the director of The King's Speech, he is amazing. I
:13:02. > :13:10.felt like he was on my side. I don't know. At some point, I was
:13:10. > :13:14.like, I don't know what else I can do. But when I showed up to work, I
:13:14. > :13:20.realised that every single person, including Hugh Jackman, who
:13:20. > :13:29.auditioned, had had to fight for it. Anne Hathaway? You had better
:13:29. > :13:39.believe it. Let's say, thank heaven you got the role, because you do
:13:39. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:52.# A heart full of love will feel no regret the.
:13:52. > :14:02.So # My name's Cosette. # I don't know what to say.
:14:02. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:09.Amanda watched that with her fingers in her ears, but it sounds
:14:09. > :14:14.lovely. But it can always be better. It doesn't have to be bad to be
:14:14. > :14:18.better. I will be taking lessons till I die.
:14:18. > :14:22.Now, no one likes to see their local shops being closed down and
:14:22. > :14:29.boarded up. One Liverpool community was so incensed that they decided
:14:29. > :14:36.to do something about it. This is the Anfield district of
:14:36. > :14:41.Liverpool, famous for one thing. But today, I'm not here for the
:14:41. > :14:47.football, I'm here for the baking. The Anfield area has seen better
:14:47. > :14:50.days. Regeneration schemes have stalled, leading boarded-up houses
:14:50. > :14:55.and incomplete construction signs. Walking through this, you are
:14:55. > :14:59.struck by the scale of the challenges facing the residents
:15:00. > :15:03.living amidst this urban decline. Shops and businesses have also gone,
:15:03. > :15:08.like Mitchells bakery, in the shadow of the famous Anfield
:15:08. > :15:12.stadium. After almost a century of serving bread, it finally closed
:15:12. > :15:19.last year. It you could not get bread like it anywhere. It was
:15:19. > :15:24.beautiful. Very old-fashioned. could just smell the fresh bread
:15:24. > :15:29.coming out of the ovens. It would attract anybody to come and buy
:15:29. > :15:36.cakes. They were the only bakery around, and the food was tremendous.
:15:36. > :15:41.It is a shame it is gone. But could the closure sparked a turning
:15:41. > :15:44.point? A group of local residents have got together to reopen the
:15:44. > :15:48.bakery as a proper community bakery, but it is clear that starting from
:15:48. > :15:52.scratch is a massive challenge. took over the building and have
:15:52. > :15:56.been renting it and we will be buying it soon. Are you baking
:15:56. > :16:01.bread here? We don't have enough and yet. That is a significant
:16:01. > :16:07.thing. If it is a drawback. We are fund-raising for another and, but
:16:07. > :16:11.at the moment are baking is done either in our homes or at the
:16:11. > :16:15.Community College. So you are raising money for your bakery?
:16:15. > :16:20.we have a pot, and people put in a donation if they like the bread.
:16:20. > :16:25.They give us what they think it is worth. And town by town, we are
:16:25. > :16:30.getting there. What of the residents contradicting her time is
:16:30. > :16:34.24-year-old Jess Doyle. I am doing a diploma and learning how to be a
:16:34. > :16:40.professional Baker. It is quite empowering just to be able to bake
:16:40. > :16:45.a loaf. What are you taking today? I will make a simple white loaf. It
:16:45. > :16:49.is what we hope to sell in the future. This evening, the bakery
:16:49. > :16:57.will assess local baking talent, and Jess will be taking her bed
:16:57. > :17:03.along. She hopes to eventually become the shock's chief baker.
:17:03. > :17:10.This is the bread that we want to make. It is very good. Nice and
:17:10. > :17:16.crusty bread. There isn't anything better.
:17:16. > :17:23.Jess's bread is still warm as she joins the gathering at Anfield's
:17:23. > :17:28.shop. This variety and quality of produce is just what the bakery
:17:28. > :17:31.will need if it is to thrive as a community business. And the
:17:31. > :17:37.community certainly look like they appreciate the efforts. In tis a
:17:37. > :17:43.really good idea. I hope it takes off. I would like to get involved.
:17:43. > :17:52.Do you think a baker is important to a community? I do. The
:17:52. > :17:56.supermarkets just sell white, stodgy bread. This fledgling
:17:56. > :18:02.bakery's prospects are also boosted by having Liverpool FC as a
:18:02. > :18:06.neighbour. Their capacity is 40,000, so you only need 1% of them to come
:18:06. > :18:10.in to be quids in. At the it would subsidise the rest of the week. I
:18:10. > :18:15.hope they succeed. Sometimes it is easy to forget that the food we eat
:18:16. > :18:19.isn't just about filling up bellies, but about community, too. It is
:18:19. > :18:23.brilliant to see the people of Anfield fighting to put their
:18:23. > :18:31.bakery back on the map. I have just been told that Russell
:18:31. > :18:37.Crowe is watching the show. Is he? I am with you! We are joined by
:18:37. > :18:45.Jess Doyle, head baker in waiting. What has happened to the bakery
:18:45. > :18:50.since we shot that film? We have managed to launch hour website. It
:18:50. > :18:55.enables people to put on work, and you are allowed to donate. We are
:18:55. > :19:00.trying to fund raised for an oven, which costs �15,000. It is a big
:19:00. > :19:09.sum of money, but the oven will hopefully be there forever. And we
:19:09. > :19:16.need some heating. You would think we planned this, but Amanda, you
:19:16. > :19:26.are a keen baker? What is your signature baking dish? I like a
:19:26. > :19:36.goodbye. I have made a lot of pies. Alike cookies. You are going to
:19:36. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:45.show us how to need some bread. is really simple. You say that!
:19:45. > :19:50.This is just 500 grams of strong white bread flour. A tablespoon of
:19:50. > :19:56.salt, 300 ml of water and seven grams of dry cheese. It has just
:19:56. > :20:01.been banged together. Put it in a bore. I hold it down with my left
:20:01. > :20:11.hand and with my right, gently push my palm away. Do you make a lot of
:20:11. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:15.bread? I have never made bread up. Well, this is a good start.
:20:15. > :20:22.sometimes, it starts to stick, and I have had olive oil is better than
:20:22. > :20:29.flower. But if you have the right ingredients, it should not be too
:20:29. > :20:35.sticky. Kids love all of this. you could be aggressive with it,
:20:35. > :20:45.but I am quite nurturing. Amanda, imagine you have a bad review, and
:20:45. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:52.punched the boat. -- punched the dole. That will be the best love
:20:53. > :20:57.you have ever tasted. He what happens after the needing? Then we
:20:58. > :21:05.have a lovely, smooth dough. Then we leave it to prove it for about
:21:05. > :21:09.an hour. Then we take it back and knock the air out of it. Then we
:21:09. > :21:17.mould it and pop it into a tin, and then it should be ready. You are
:21:17. > :21:23.obviously good at handling it. Could you be the Princess to the
:21:23. > :21:29.king of baking? It is a possibility. Here is some bread you have brought
:21:29. > :21:36.in for us to try. It is just a brown malt loaf. This one has got
:21:36. > :21:43.rosemary and resin. There is nothing like proper bread. Can this
:21:43. > :21:47.turn into that? That is the idea. Thank you very much for being here.
:21:47. > :21:52.A Team GB won an outstanding 29 gold medals in the London 2012
:21:52. > :21:56.Olympics. One of those athletes was canoeist Tim Baillie. A but you
:21:56. > :22:01.will never guess what inspired Tim to get on the water in the first
:22:01. > :22:06.place. At Olympic gold medallist Tim Baillie comes from a long line
:22:06. > :22:09.of canoe enthusiasts. His uncle was the first person to
:22:10. > :22:14.canoed down dude cosy, the major river that runs off Mount Everest.
:22:14. > :22:19.As soon as he was big enough to hold a paddle, Tim was put on the
:22:19. > :22:24.water. As soon as I could swim, I was put in a canoe on the end of a
:22:24. > :22:29.string and just left to float about a bit. Both my parentss' main hobby
:22:29. > :22:32.was canoeing, so we were always around riverbanks. Of the tit was
:22:32. > :22:37.tales of a certain animal that further Sparv Tim's love of
:22:37. > :22:43.canoeing. My mum told me about beavers,
:22:43. > :22:48.because I was into canoeing and I had a paddle with a tail. And they
:22:49. > :22:53.also used to build dams, which was something I liked doing as well. I
:22:54. > :23:00.used to block streams and try and make rapids and stuff. It turns out
:23:00. > :23:10.that beavers have inspired a bit of canoeing kit as well. That is a
:23:10. > :23:17.traditional beaver tail paddle. It has a flatter blade shape, whereas
:23:17. > :23:20.this one has a curve. So a gentle paddle for Olympic gold? Yes.
:23:20. > :23:25.Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain had more than 400 years
:23:25. > :23:31.ago. Nap bail Forest in the heart of Argyll is where the first beaver
:23:31. > :23:36.reintroduction in the UK took place in 2009. Four families, now
:23:36. > :23:44.numbering 16 beavers, are found here, with five new kids born this
:23:45. > :23:49.year. And keeping a watchful eye it is Simon Jones. That is a beaver
:23:49. > :23:57.lodge, and there is a pair of beavers living in it. Be it is a
:23:57. > :24:04.bit of a feat of engineering. Particularly when they build dams.
:24:04. > :24:11.They are creating homes, and they help the wetland wildlife. Would
:24:11. > :24:16.they always live in a large? They could have more than one large.
:24:16. > :24:21.Have you ever seen beavers in the wild? Never have. I have seen quite
:24:21. > :24:26.a lot of what life when paddling, but never beavers. Our best chance
:24:26. > :24:31.of seeing them is when it is dark, as beavers are mainly nocturnal. So
:24:31. > :24:38.at dusk, we head out into the loch in the hope of seeing Britain's
:24:38. > :24:48.largest rodent. It was not long before we got our first indication
:24:48. > :24:53.that they were out there. Did you hear that? Where did it come from?
:24:53. > :24:59.Just over here. There was a slap on the water. What was it? Well, there
:24:59. > :25:06.used their tail so to communicate, so they can slap the water to pass
:25:06. > :25:10.messages. Big splash. We go in the direction of the noise, but beavers
:25:10. > :25:16.can swim at speeds of up to eight kilometres an hour and can remain
:25:16. > :25:26.under water for 15 minutes. After more searching, we catch our first
:25:26. > :25:33.
:25:33. > :25:37.glimpse of a wild Scottish beaver. Got it. Can you see it? A wow.
:25:37. > :25:41.The to be there is tag on its ear for identification. This one is
:25:41. > :25:51.called Frank. He is one of the original adults that was introduced
:25:51. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:57.three years ago. Stealthy. Scottish beaver trial has a couple
:25:57. > :26:03.more years to run, and if deemed a success, there could be an
:26:03. > :26:08.expansion of beavers in to other parts of Scotland. How was that?
:26:08. > :26:18.Really great to see one in the wild. I have never seen one before.
:26:18. > :26:24.
:26:24. > :26:28.It was a wild beaver. The best kind of all.
:26:28. > :26:33.Anyway, over the last few weeks, you have done us proud with your
:26:33. > :26:37.stories of the Rolling Stones. your destructive pets. Now, we want
:26:38. > :26:41.to hear about you and your 18-year- old self-. What stories would you
:26:41. > :26:44.tell your 18-year-old self- that he or she would not believe?
:26:44. > :26:49.That is for next week. To night, we asked you to rehearse
:26:50. > :26:55.your Christmas tree dressing on members of the family. Amanda, you
:26:55. > :27:05.have room at first? We have a viewer from Bournemouth, having fun
:27:05. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:10.with the Christmas decorations. He probably did that himself. Emma
:27:10. > :27:17.sent this in from Leeds. This is her dad, Stephen, sleeping again.
:27:17. > :27:25.She said, this will teach him. we think grandma Lydia is happy
:27:25. > :27:29.about this? Her grandson Christopher got to work on her just
:27:30. > :27:34.after 7 o'clock, and this was how it ended up. Thank you for sending
:27:34. > :27:40.them in. Before we go, we have just got time to do a bit of Les Mis
:27:40. > :27:47.blind date. So you have got Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eddie
:27:47. > :27:55.Redmayne, all very dishy. Out of these three leading men, which one
:27:55. > :28:00.would you love to go on a blind date with? Or marry? Blind Date
:28:00. > :28:10.first. A blind date is with someone you haven't met, but I have met
:28:10. > :28:10.
:28:10. > :28:19.them all. If I showed up for a blind date and one of those guys
:28:19. > :28:25.was there, I would say... Issued Jackman. A would-be second? -- who
:28:25. > :28:29.would be second? See lorry, Eddie! Russell. I thought you would have
:28:29. > :28:37.gone for Eddie. Then you're acting must be really good, because you
:28:37. > :28:42.picked him last. He is just a little young for me. Les Miserables
:28:42. > :28:47.is out in cinemas on 11th January. You have to wait over a month to
:28:47. > :28:54.see it. Have a safe journey back to New York and a happy Christmas.
:28:54. > :28:59.Thank you for being here. What about the reindeer? Oh, that is my
:28:59. > :29:05.best friend, Rachel. She is a Liverpudlian. That was taken half