08/04/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Jeremy Vine, a

man so keen to meet a night's guests, well, he has been sending

them subliminal messages for years. Music! Never ever have I felt so

low. Take me out of this black hole. Never ever have I ever felt so sad.

The way I am feeling, you have got me feeling really bad, yeah. I hope

you enjoyed it. No, Jeremy! Yes, it is All Saints, everyone!

That was brilliant! Somebody took ages to do that. That is impressive!

I should say, on Eggheads, you have been a question, All Saints has been

a question 11 times. Fantastic. We are so pleased you are back

together, this is big news, especially for people of my

generation, I guess, but you two live together now, you were saying

with your families. How do you split the jaws? Who does the bins? We just

watched this and the couch at home, this is what we do every night, we

don't do any chores, it is just a mess! And, Natalie, they are like

Joey and Chandler? Honestly, they are hilarious, they should have

their own show. Tonight could be the night! We have saved your of bother,

you can watch from right there. All Saints back together, they will be

performing at the end of the show, and hopefully they will agree that

singing makes you happier. And doctors have said it makes you

healthier too. We sing while we learn, we sing

while we celebrate. Now, I do like to sing in private, and when I sing,

I do feel happy, so maybe we should not be surprised that it has now

been biologically proven that singing makes us feel good. Recent

research from the University of London and the Royal College of

Music have shown that exercising our tonsils can improve our well-being.

Dr Iain Lewers worked on the study. What we have shown for the first

time is that it influences the immune system. When we analysed the

participants per' samples, we found they had a drop in a hormone called

cortisol, which is strongly linked to stress. It also showed a big

uplift in a whole range of difficult -- different chemicals which are

linked to the immune system. So we can achieve different things from

different songs. From the uplifting songs, people are more energised,

they are laughing. The more reflective songs, they can be

cathartic. We need to be clear, it is beneficial, but it is not a cure.

It is not a replacement. Did treatment, but it could be a serious

medical intervention for people who have anxiety or depression. -- four

conventional treatment. So singing in a group is good for us, but what

if you are not very good? # You were working as a waitress in

a cocktail bar... # The Tuneless Wire was set up in

Nottingham. I have wanted to sing for a number of years, and the music

teacher told me, please stop, you are spoiling it for everyone else. I

thought they should be somewhere for people like me, all together, to

sing. What is different about this choir? It is the group, the

community feel that makes it special. I have been in choirs in

the past, and you got in trouble if you sign the wrong notes. What have

I got in store for tonight? A treat! We are more likely to throw you out

if you sing in tune! Merritt sometimes I feel I've got to run

away # I've got to get away... #

Do you feel that singing in this choir has had a beneficial impact on

your health, Jo? Yes, it has. I had cancer, and my throat was really

closing up, and I think it is anxiety. What made you start coming

to this choir? My daughter persuaded me, and it is the best thing I have

done. That is lovely to hear. I do not feel embarrassed. For a tuneless

choir, it is not a bad sound! # And I would walk 500 miles and I

would walk 500 more... # So base eight you should sing as if

no-one else is singing, albeit badly. -- so they say. It may not be

great for people listening, but it will still be good for your health.

Thanks, Lucy, we did say it sing in private for us both. I am not great,

I wish I could. It breaks my heart when I try to hit a note, I have got

about three. It has been 19 years since your last number one, and you

are back with your new album, Red Flag, which we are very excited

about. Do you agree that singing makes you happy? Definitely, it

makes you euphoric, and I know it also connects you with the people

you are singing with, it creates a bonding, and it is definitely a

euphoric feeling. Even karaoke... I love karaoke! What is your karaoke

song, Mel? I don't know, maybe Abba, I am usually drunk by that point. If

you were in a karaoke bar, and an All Saints song came on... We have

done it, we have sung along. So I guess everyone knows there was a bit

of disharmony that led to you parting initially, water under the

bridge! That was an accident! That has all gone now, who made the first

call to get you back together? I think Shaz made the call, didn't

you? I think somebody called me up and asked if we would be interested

in supporting the Backstreet Boys, that was two years ago, which we

did. We jumped at it, because performing was one of the things we

did the least throughout our careers. We spent so much time doing

promo that we didn't really get to tour. To do the job, yeah. The

thought of doing it with no record to sell or any pressure was amazing,

we were just able to rock out and do shows over ten dates or something

like that. It was amazing. Did you will agree instantly, or were some

of you not sure? I think we all had to take a moment. Nicole, I am

looking at you! That is what I was going to say! Because we live

together, we think the same. No, we all had to, like, it was an easy

decision, that one, it was harder to decide whether we were going to do

the album, only because we had the love back for it after the tour. And

we kind of just wanted to carry on hanging out. We had such a good time

on tour, we wanted it to carry on, and the next step was an album, but

that was quite scary at first. You wrote nearly all the songs on the

album, Shaz, with a all in your head for ten years, or did you just have

a fortnight to write them? I spent a year or so writing, there were a

couple that I kept hold of, that always sounded like us. The amazing

thing was, getting ready downstairs, I could hear you all warming up, it

is All Saints! Badly! Not at all! But is it daunting, coming back

after 20 years? It must be no cracking with a live performance

coming up, how do you feel? It is like we're having an out of body

experience, it feels so weird. Very overwhelming. We not expect the

album, to be having an album, and we never end is it this. Being on the

One Show, that was never in our plan! You were practising earlier,

and I came out and watched in the crowd, I put my phone up to take a

picture, and I thought, I am one of them now. It is a different

situation, you have got kids, and some of them are in their 20s. Have

you had feedback from them? You did a big comeback gig on Monday which

had rave reviews, but what was their reviews, the kids? They loved it.

Loved it, absolutely loved it. I don't think we would be doing it if

they were not proud. But they are looking forward to going onto a

macro with us, we are going on tour in October. One of the review said

it was the coolest comeback gig of the week or something. Do the kids

say, yeah, that was cruel? They are still our kids, kids! Mummy! Shall

we do the fashion question? How do we raise this? Well, I mean, a lot

of people will be a member you for the combat trousers and crop tops,

including myself. So All Saints fans, if you rocked that look back

in the day, please send us a picture, you are in good company,

look at the crew. Look at that! Amazing! Oh, that is amazing. You

have to bring them on tour. That is... Who is who? David is even

doing Nicole's face! He has been practising for several days. The new

album, Red Flag, is out today, and All Saints will be touring in

October, and later they will be performing their brand-new track,

One Woman Man. Can't wait for that. On an evening with four

exceptionally stylish guest on the sofa, let's meet a man who was a

trendsetter of a rather different type.

Three years ago, James Young was involved in a train accident which

would change is life for ever. As the train was arriving, I was

walking alongside it, and then I just fell between two carriages. No

idea how it happened. Thanks to the quick action of a fellow passenger

and the emergency services, James' life was saved, but in the process

he lost his left arm and leg. He was in a coma for 12 days after the

accident, leaving his family to watch and wait. They probably coped

as well as parents could if you got that kind of news. My mum started a

diary immediately, which is typical of my mum. Is that the diary here?

It is a hard read. Feeling so hopeful that he will pull through.

The limbs are only a nuisance, not life-threatening, and to be able to

with anything... Are you all right? No, sorry, yeah. How do you function

with your prosthesis? Not that well, to be honest. I cannot really open

its wide enough. That would be all over you in a splash. I cannot

accept it as me, because it is not good enough. But that is all about

to change. Today James is being fitted with a new and rather unique

arm, created by a designer who is revolutionising our perception of

disability. Sophie de Oliveira Barata turns prosthetic limbs into

art. She began by making realistic limbs for amputees before starting

to experiment with more unique creations. One guy nailed it for me,

he said, people stop and stare, I would like to give them something

good to stare at. What do people ask for? One was a performing artist,

and she had a leg covered in crystals. This guy is ex military,

and he wanted something to trick the eye, so we mixed a realistic but

with these muscles. James is into gaming and technology, so Sophie has

teamed up with a games company for her biggest challenge yet. With the

help of Formula One engineers and 3D designers, they have created a

personalised arm reflecting his interests. We decided to put our

research and energies into alternative functions, so a torch, a

laser, a USB connection. James has a quadrocopter that he can attach to

the arm. I am so excited about seeing what his reaction will be to

this. I am not! No, I am, I am very excited! It looks incredible, but it

is up to James to decide whether this new limb has got style and

substance. Oh, my God! Watched you think? My

word! It is, like so robotic and bionic! That is what you wanted,

right? It is so cool! As well as lights and gadgets, the new harm as

a new trick up its sleeve - a fully functioning hand controlled by

sensors on his shoulders, and with a few tweaks it starts to come to

life. That's really strong. This is the

power grid, for picking up normal stuff. It's quite fun! It's working

really well. I can grab things, I can pinch things, I can point at

things. It looks awesome. It's fantastic. Are you ready for this?

Oh, my sweet lord. After months of anticipation it's finally time for

James to show off his futuristic arm anticipation it's finally time for

in all its glory. Is pretty cool. Sophie has created a limb that

couldn't be more individual. It reflects James' identity and it's

changed the way that I is a doctor. And by creating these works of art,

hopefully more people will begin to see what is there, instead of what

isn't. Thank you very much to Doctor

Salayah Alsan, and James and Sophie, your baby is three weeks old and

downstairs. Yes. James Connolly you have had your arm for a month, it's

really changed the way you view your future, hasn't it? It made me think

about the future of what my body will be like in the future and kind

of what the limitations are in current prosthetic technology and

it's made me kind of explore stuff like titanium implants that I'm

fund-raising for, to try to get the forefront, get the most awesome

stuff basically into my body. The most awesome stuff. This is pretty

conjugated, but you have got to grips with it so to speak. Right.

You went to the supermarket, decided to buy some cider, as you do. What

happened? Yes, essentially I was going around Sainsbury's with my

basket shopping and loaded up two bottles, not too many, but

unfortunately the middle finger snapped. Does Sophie want to hear

this? I didn't really know the limits at the time, but basically it

meant that when I did a hand close everything closed except the middle

finger, which kind of leads to... Exactly. But you have got to grips

with it but you say you can't wear it all the time, because when you go

out it really does attract quite a lot of attention? Right, yes, it's

like in the street I usually get attention due to my applications.

And this phase, James! And the face but essentially people are really

intrigues and they have a childlike curiosity about how they address me

now and people are trying to take pictures and take selfies and stuff

with me. It's incredible. Sometimes I don't really want to wear the arm

because it's just too much and it requires a lot of energy. It's an

expensive bit of kit and you need funding from a gaming company to get

it made. Sophie, you have had experiences which have led you

towards designing this kind of thing and there's a particular young girl

called Pollyanna? She was instrumental in this. Yes, a really

lovely little girl and I saw her every year, I would make her a

realistic limb and she wanted something a bit different. She did a

beautiful drawing for me once of little jewels in her leg. We can see

it, she would have had store things inside her leg? Stored things, I

think it was inspirational and there must be loads of other people out

there, grown-ups with the child within, that want to express

themselves and do something different. Some of the ones you have

made have been remarkable. We have photos of different legs you have

designed. This one here is bejewelled, isn't it? Yes, this

lovely lady, Louis, she wanted the leg to kind of... She has all these

little stories she wanted to have hidden in the leg. There is a shark

on one side, which was a story about having her legs taken off by a

shark. It's a way for people to express themselves, both of you,

thank you so much for joining us. It was a brilliant film, thank you. All

Saints are live in just a moment but first, the EU referendum is only 11

weeks away and Jeremy will tell you all you need to know to make up your

mind on his Radio Two show. I'll be trying, but another argument has

been raging for years and for that we need Arthur Smith.

I five or one metre 80? Is this half a pound of butter, or 200 grams?

Five litres of petrol, or a gallon? Are you imperial, or are you metric?

Do you know how tall you are? Five foot, three and a half. Kilos or

pounds? Kilos. How far away do you live? A couple of miles. Not three

kilometres? I always going miles. In Britain, height, weight and distance

are a mash up of metric and imperial. But one thing most of us

agree on is that road signs are in miles. Or are they? Well, we are

going along the M25 here and signs at the side of the road say

something like M25, A, and then a number, 83.9 or something. They are

in kilometres. Road signs in kilometres? ! Do

people know about this? 133.8... Metres, Miles. Metres, Miles?

Kilometres or miles? Kilometres. Really? These signs are introduced

-- were introduced in 2003 and are on motorways, but a recent survey

showed 76% of motorists don't know what they're for. It's a driver

location sign, it tells you what motorway you are on because people

do get that wrong when they are in a panic, it tells you which

carriageway you are on, as it happens B is the anticlockwise

carriageway on the M25, and that tells you where you are on the

length of the motorway, in kilometres and metres. What a mess,

but when and why did it all gets so complicated? I think there is no

doubt the world is going metric. Parliament debated introducing the

metric system throughout the 19th century. Scientists and

industrialists wanted the change to help trade with metric countries. In

1968, the government finally decided we should change. Start metrication

now. But it wasn't plain sailing. To investigate, I have come to the

obvious place, Imperial Guard, where pleasingly they have a nightclub

called Metric. When we joined the European Union, us Brits were given

special Wash special dispensation to mix imperial and metric, beer from

the tap has to be served in pints, but bottles must be in Millilitres.

Fuel consumption is on a gallon but we buy in litres. Highway codes and

speeds four miles per hour, and groceries have to be sold in kilos

but you can display towels as long as it's less prominent. In the

2000th some people objected to any use of telegrams and got prosecuted

as metric martyrs. Even two of the great sports invented by the British

seem to have gone their different ways. Now, young footballer fellow,

what's this? The six box. This is the 18 yard box. Rugby chat? The ten

metre line, the 22 metre line. How did this confusion between metric

and imperial arise? Compulsive metrication started by Edward Heath,

abolished by Margaret Thatcher and we are in a halfway house. Would it

matter if we lost our traditional units? We lose a living link to our

past. Shakespeare, the pound of flesh, Chaucer. And the kilo of

flesh doesn't scan as well. 0.454 kilo of flesh! That certainly would

take the edge off the performance. The journey to making Britain metric

has taken over 100 years. 100 years, is that metric or imperial? But we

are still neither one nor the other. It's a bit of a mess, but it's our

mess. Cheers, Arthur, I'm declaring The

One Show imperial. I think its users. That's right. It's a bit

random. Gyles, another super fun. Its historic, babies -- every baby

is born in pounds. What are the facts do you have? I have facts,

they create problems. In 1999, in the heyday of All Saints, a terrible

thing happened at Nasa. They send a mission to Mars that all went wrong

and cost, wait for it, $328 million. No! Why? Because the orbiter

engineering of this mission, that team used imperial measurements,

where the Nasa team were using metric measurements, so they overdid

the impact and all that money went up in smoke. So basic. It went on

for a long time. I take you back to the 1628, when the good ship Vasa, a

Swedish man of war, set sail and some on its maiden voyage. 30 people

drowned, 64 amazing Golden Kamensk sunk to the bottom of the sea. Why?

We discovered in 1961, when the ship was brought up again port side

rather heavier than starboard side. The reason being, asymmetrical, one

team building it, the Swedes, wait using one ruler, whereas the Dutch,

who also making the ship were using another ruler and the Swedish foot

contains 12 inches, whereas the Dutch one has only 11 inches. Had a

lean on it? It and the lean on it, it went down, all hands on deck.

Remember 1492? Not personally. I do. Columbus ended up in the Bahamas. He

thought he was going to India but unfortunately he was using Roman

nautical miles instead of nautical nautical miles. Even Sir Christopher

Columbus made a mistake. Exactly, you have to get it right. Gyles,

thank you. You can now enjoy our All Saints performance which you are

very excited about. Rat N'Diaye will be back on Monday, when Twiggy will

be here. -- Matt and I. From this very imperial programme what better

way to kick off Mark Rowley or weekend with a performance from All

Saints, here they are with one-woman man. Goodbye.

# This is getting crazy, tired of your playing

# These lies are heavy, someone's gonna regret it

# But I'm still waiting, back against the wall

# Yeah you got me in the palm of your hands

# You decide with your heart not your head

# I know you can make her understand

# Tell me are you ever gonna be a one woman man?

# Few that shan't accept it, no doubt unintended

# Two women committed, stupidly admitted

# It's time you end it and just let her know

# Yeah you got me in the palm of your hands

# Tell me are you ever gonna be a one woman man?

# Soaked with rotten beliefs # Filling with loveless seeds

# Hitting with crashing waves # Tell her that it's too late

# Cause I'm never walking away # My love is here to stay

# Oh, didn't she hear me say # I ain't going no where

# Yeah you got me in the palm of your hands

# You decide with your heart not your head

# Tell me are you ever gonna be a one woman man?

# Sometimes is it better to let go? # Better