07/12/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show, with Chris Evans... And Alex Jones.

And Mamma Mia, do we have a mean guest for you tonight?! She's the

female lead in the soon hit-to-be block buster Les Mis... Which is

our new favourite film. It's Amanda Seyfried!

APPLAUSE how are you? It is good to be here. Did you

enjoy your Welsh lessons? I used to save Radio, but now I say it

differently. That is why I did a posh hello. You have had the big

premiere of your film. How was it? It was interesting. It was the

coldest I have ever been in my life, but my heart was warm. I was very

excited to premiere this film, because I am so proud of it.

Possibly the Best Film I have ever done. Probably I will never do

another film like this again. is no sequel? There is no Sickle,

no. Could Hollywood not come up with one? So, tell us about the

party. The party afterwards? Well, we had some cocktails, at a big

place, called the round House, and then we retreated back to Brussels,

which is something that we do often. And were you up late at Russells?

was, and not only that, my mother was up late. I think she had a bit

more to drink and I did. But we are celebrating, and it is worth it.

really is. The other cast members have all gone home. That's it, just

me. Just taking care of business before I leave. So, you're going

home for Christmas, we presume. home is Allentown, Pennsylvania,

probably not somewhere anyone has heard of. We have now. But if you

need a driver to take you to the airport, we have got exactly the

person. The new One Show driver. Here he is. This is in New Zealand,

where they have just taught rescue dogs had to drive. Seriously.

was my reaction as well. This dog is doing the paddles and everything.

They are all rescue dogs. Is not doing the pedals! They told me!

course he is not doing the pedals are! Is really driving, but he is

not doing the pedals. There is no way, I have tried it so many times

with my dog. But they did pass the test within eight weeks. There is a

reason for this, because they are very intelligent dogs. That is a

person dressed as a dog. It is not. You have got a dog called Finn,

haven't you? Does he drive? He does not, and I do not want him to drive,

I am going to keep him safe in the passenger seat. He balances things

on his head. The thing is, the cheeseburger, it was not difficult,

I always give him a treat if he does it, but he has got this

amazing focus. I have tried everything. He just goes like this.

Bacon, I have tried everything. Where did you get the baby Doc

from? That was a gift from a costume designer friend of mine.

Does this improve his posture? has got a good posture. Sells like

a great kid. And his team, I cannot wait to see him. More chat soon.

But have you already put your tree up? If you have not, and you're

going to do it this weekend, before you decorate the house, stop right

there. Why don't you decorate a member of your family instead?

Don't put lights on them, because that is dangerous. Dad's favourite,

especially if he is asleep, take a photograph and send it to us.

a parent is sometimes the best job in the world, sometimes it is the

toughest, as Wendy Robbins discovered. My name is Mary Dhonau,

and I made the big decision to put my beloved son, Peter, who is 10,

into residential care, because I could no longer cope with him. Mary

and my's second child was born 15 years ago. He was an affectionate

and happy baby. Every detail of his first months and years was

documented in this diary. 8th April. He is such a lovely, adorable,

placid, smiling baby. Basically, I said, thank you, Peter, for the

best year of my life. When I finished that diary, I had no idea

what the future held for us. Just three months later, Peter's

behaviour changed dramatically. Peter had stopped sleeping, he

stopped being able to feed himself or talk or., and he stopped looking

at us, and his behaviour became incredibly challenging. -- or point.

What was the diagnosis eventually? Severe autism. It was as if I had

lost a child I had. The couple tried their best to maintain family

life, but Peter's behaviour became really difficult. Just keeping him

save was proving to be a massive challenge. You could not take your

eye off Peter, because he would devastate something. He would break

something. We had to have 8ft fences to stop him escaping. It was

like living in a prison. He regularly smeared poo over

everything. He did not sleep at night. It was lurching from one

disaster to another. I became nervous and tense, I lost friends,

I found it incredibly difficult to keep my job. My marriage had broken

down, and in fact, we were living in the same house, divorced,

looking after Peter. Life had become too difficult for Mary, her

husband and their older son James. When Peter was 10 years old, the

family made a big decision to put him into a residential care home.

Actually having to give him away, give him over to the care of other

people, it really tore my heart out. Because of that, because of the

huge love ahead for him, I found it the biggest decision I have ever

had to make. Peter, now 15, has spent the last five years at

Higford School, a local-authority funded residential care home which

provides specialist help for people with autism. We have a 24 a staff

team here for Peter. So, if he gets up in the night, there is staff

ready to support him and keep him come and make sure he is looked

after well. To do that every single day, on their own, I could not

imagine it. It is a relief to me that I feel, he is happy. And the

fact they ring me every night with a love in their voices for the

little antics he has got up to. Mary, it is Andy Turner at Higford

School. We hope they feel it is one of the best decisions they have

ever made, that this turn is safe and happy, and that he is becoming

the young man they wanted him to be. Peter spends most weekends back

home with his family, and even though challenges still remain,

Mary is more able to cope with him on this part-time basis. What would

have happened if you had not made that decision making a I think

Peter would have killed himself in some disaster which would have been

my fault for not looking after him properly. And that was why I made

the decision. I do not think I will ever feel properly happy again,

because I had to do that. Every night I wonder what he is doing,

with he is asleep, whether he is happy. I am not there to love him

any more. So, that will stay with me for ever, because he may be

nearly 16, but he is only a toddler. He always will be only a toddler.

Toddlers need their mummies, don't they? Right, we're going to talk

about Les Miserables again. Can we talk about was all crow's pre-

rehearsal techniques? Does he not get you all round to his house to

get to know which other? Yes, we do some karaoke. We have a live

pianist, the vocal coach, and we play until 4 o'clock in the morning.

Where is this? I cannot say. which country? In this country, in

the countryside. Is it near here? Walking distance? I do not think he

is at home right now. We were all kind of nervous to sing live anyway,

and I think it is a nice kind of initiation process. We all enjoy

singing, together as a round, give us a few drinks, and start crooning

and... It worked, obviously. It was great, we did not stop. Who sang

first? One night, Russell and myself to do a duet. It is usually

Samantha that Synge's first, but Anne is pretty good on the singing

as well. What was the duet? It was Adele. A I never got used to it,

and in fact, the night after the premiere, we all sang. Over was

just not in the mood. I was really shy. Anne brought me out. You mean

Anne Hathaway. We have seen it, but lots of people are desperate to see

the film, but they cannot see it until January. The best we can do

is to offer this 32nd trial. # We will be ready for these

A cash it is so good, so good! has happened again, there goes

palms are out. Genuine? Yes. But you really wanted his role, didn't

you? Just tell us how much she wanted it, and what the audition

was like. I would have killed for this part. Luckily I did not have

to. It took four months to convince them that I was the right person

for this role. It is the hardest I have ever worked in my life. It is

really satisfying, truly rewarding, when you actually get the part.

close do you think you came to not getting it? I don't know. We had

this connection, and I knew that Tom saw something in me. That's the

director, the director of The King's Speech, he is amazing. I

felt like he was on my side. I don't know. At some point, I was

like, I don't know what else I can do. But when I showed up to work, I

realised that every single person, including Hugh Jackman, who

auditioned, had had to fight for it. Anne Hathaway? You had better

believe it. Let's say, thank heaven you got the role, because you do

# A heart full of love will feel no regret the.

So # My name's Cosette. # I don't know what to say.

Amanda watched that with her fingers in her ears, but it sounds

lovely. But it can always be better. It doesn't have to be bad to be

better. I will be taking lessons till I die.

Now, no one likes to see their local shops being closed down and

boarded up. One Liverpool community was so incensed that they decided

to do something about it. This is the Anfield district of

Liverpool, famous for one thing. But today, I'm not here for the

football, I'm here for the baking. The Anfield area has seen better

days. Regeneration schemes have stalled, leading boarded-up houses

and incomplete construction signs. Walking through this, you are

struck by the scale of the challenges facing the residents

living amidst this urban decline. Shops and businesses have also gone,

like Mitchells bakery, in the shadow of the famous Anfield

stadium. After almost a century of serving bread, it finally closed

last year. It you could not get bread like it anywhere. It was

beautiful. Very old-fashioned. could just smell the fresh bread

coming out of the ovens. It would attract anybody to come and buy

cakes. They were the only bakery around, and the food was tremendous.

It is a shame it is gone. But could the closure sparked a turning

point? A group of local residents have got together to reopen the

bakery as a proper community bakery, but it is clear that starting from

scratch is a massive challenge. took over the building and have

been renting it and we will be buying it soon. Are you baking

bread here? We don't have enough and yet. That is a significant

thing. If it is a drawback. We are fund-raising for another and, but

at the moment are baking is done either in our homes or at the

Community College. So you are raising money for your bakery?

we have a pot, and people put in a donation if they like the bread.

They give us what they think it is worth. And town by town, we are

getting there. What of the residents contradicting her time is

24-year-old Jess Doyle. I am doing a diploma and learning how to be a

professional Baker. It is quite empowering just to be able to bake

a loaf. What are you taking today? I will make a simple white loaf. It

is what we hope to sell in the future. This evening, the bakery

will assess local baking talent, and Jess will be taking her bed

along. She hopes to eventually become the shock's chief baker.

This is the bread that we want to make. It is very good. Nice and

crusty bread. There isn't anything better.

Jess's bread is still warm as she joins the gathering at Anfield's

shop. This variety and quality of produce is just what the bakery

will need if it is to thrive as a community business. And the

community certainly look like they appreciate the efforts. In tis a

really good idea. I hope it takes off. I would like to get involved.

Do you think a baker is important to a community? I do. The

supermarkets just sell white, stodgy bread. This fledgling

bakery's prospects are also boosted by having Liverpool FC as a

neighbour. Their capacity is 40,000, so you only need 1% of them to come

in to be quids in. At the it would subsidise the rest of the week. I

hope they succeed. Sometimes it is easy to forget that the food we eat

isn't just about filling up bellies, but about community, too. It is

brilliant to see the people of Anfield fighting to put their

bakery back on the map. I have just been told that Russell

Crowe is watching the show. Is he? I am with you! We are joined by

Jess Doyle, head baker in waiting. What has happened to the bakery

since we shot that film? We have managed to launch hour website. It

enables people to put on work, and you are allowed to donate. We are

trying to fund raised for an oven, which costs �15,000. It is a big

sum of money, but the oven will hopefully be there forever. And we

need some heating. You would think we planned this, but Amanda, you

are a keen baker? What is your signature baking dish? I like a

goodbye. I have made a lot of pies. Alike cookies. You are going to

show us how to need some bread. is really simple. You say that!

This is just 500 grams of strong white bread flour. A tablespoon of

salt, 300 ml of water and seven grams of dry cheese. It has just

been banged together. Put it in a bore. I hold it down with my left

hand and with my right, gently push my palm away. Do you make a lot of

bread? I have never made bread up. Well, this is a good start.

sometimes, it starts to stick, and I have had olive oil is better than

flower. But if you have the right ingredients, it should not be too

sticky. Kids love all of this. you could be aggressive with it,

but I am quite nurturing. Amanda, imagine you have a bad review, and

punched the boat. -- punched the dole. That will be the best love

you have ever tasted. He what happens after the needing? Then we

have a lovely, smooth dough. Then we leave it to prove it for about

an hour. Then we take it back and knock the air out of it. Then we

mould it and pop it into a tin, and then it should be ready. You are

obviously good at handling it. Could you be the Princess to the

king of baking? It is a possibility. Here is some bread you have brought

in for us to try. It is just a brown malt loaf. This one has got

rosemary and resin. There is nothing like proper bread. Can this

turn into that? That is the idea. Thank you very much for being here.

A Team GB won an outstanding 29 gold medals in the London 2012

Olympics. One of those athletes was canoeist Tim Baillie. A but you

will never guess what inspired Tim to get on the water in the first

place. At Olympic gold medallist Tim Baillie comes from a long line

of canoe enthusiasts. His uncle was the first person to

canoed down dude cosy, the major river that runs off Mount Everest.

As soon as he was big enough to hold a paddle, Tim was put on the

water. As soon as I could swim, I was put in a canoe on the end of a

string and just left to float about a bit. Both my parentss' main hobby

was canoeing, so we were always around riverbanks. Of the tit was

tales of a certain animal that further Sparv Tim's love of

canoeing. My mum told me about beavers,

because I was into canoeing and I had a paddle with a tail. And they

also used to build dams, which was something I liked doing as well. I

used to block streams and try and make rapids and stuff. It turns out

that beavers have inspired a bit of canoeing kit as well. That is a

traditional beaver tail paddle. It has a flatter blade shape, whereas

this one has a curve. So a gentle paddle for Olympic gold? Yes.

Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain had more than 400 years

ago. Nap bail Forest in the heart of Argyll is where the first beaver

reintroduction in the UK took place in 2009. Four families, now

numbering 16 beavers, are found here, with five new kids born this

year. And keeping a watchful eye it is Simon Jones. That is a beaver

lodge, and there is a pair of beavers living in it. Be it is a

bit of a feat of engineering. Particularly when they build dams.

They are creating homes, and they help the wetland wildlife. Would

they always live in a large? They could have more than one large.

Have you ever seen beavers in the wild? Never have. I have seen quite

a lot of what life when paddling, but never beavers. Our best chance

of seeing them is when it is dark, as beavers are mainly nocturnal. So

at dusk, we head out into the loch in the hope of seeing Britain's

largest rodent. It was not long before we got our first indication

that they were out there. Did you hear that? Where did it come from?

Just over here. There was a slap on the water. What was it? Well, there

used their tail so to communicate, so they can slap the water to pass

messages. Big splash. We go in the direction of the noise, but beavers

can swim at speeds of up to eight kilometres an hour and can remain

under water for 15 minutes. After more searching, we catch our first

glimpse of a wild Scottish beaver. Got it. Can you see it? A wow.

The to be there is tag on its ear for identification. This one is

called Frank. He is one of the original adults that was introduced

three years ago. Stealthy. Scottish beaver trial has a couple

more years to run, and if deemed a success, there could be an

expansion of beavers in to other parts of Scotland. How was that?

Really great to see one in the wild. I have never seen one before.

It was a wild beaver. The best kind of all.

Anyway, over the last few weeks, you have done us proud with your

stories of the Rolling Stones. your destructive pets. Now, we want

to hear about you and your 18-year- old self-. What stories would you

tell your 18-year-old self- that he or she would not believe?

That is for next week. To night, we asked you to rehearse

your Christmas tree dressing on members of the family. Amanda, you

have room at first? We have a viewer from Bournemouth, having fun

with the Christmas decorations. He probably did that himself. Emma

sent this in from Leeds. This is her dad, Stephen, sleeping again.

She said, this will teach him. we think grandma Lydia is happy

about this? Her grandson Christopher got to work on her just

after 7 o'clock, and this was how it ended up. Thank you for sending

them in. Before we go, we have just got time to do a bit of Les Mis

blind date. So you have got Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eddie

Redmayne, all very dishy. Out of these three leading men, which one

would you love to go on a blind date with? Or marry? Blind Date

first. A blind date is with someone you haven't met, but I have met

them all. If I showed up for a blind date and one of those guys

was there, I would say... Issued Jackman. A would-be second? -- who

would be second? See lorry, Eddie! Russell. I thought you would have

gone for Eddie. Then you're acting must be really good, because you

picked him last. He is just a little young for me. Les Miserables

is out in cinemas on 11th January. You have to wait over a month to

see it. Have a safe journey back to New York and a happy Christmas.

Thank you for being here. What about the reindeer? Oh, that is my

best friend, Rachel. She is a Liverpudlian. That was taken half