:00:19. > :00:26.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.
:00:27. > :00:29.Tonight, Esther Rantzen is campaigning to get a change in the
:00:30. > :00:32.law to protect the relationship between children and their
:00:33. > :00:36.grandparents. Esther will be responding to One Show viewers who
:00:37. > :00:42.have been separated from their grandchildren. And Marty Jopson will
:00:43. > :00:47.be looking at the science of bubble making. And we will also be joined
:00:48. > :00:53.by this man who is very good with his bubbles. Look at that, lovely!
:00:54. > :00:58.Also with us is a man who describes himself as a mechanic, motorcycle
:00:59. > :01:05.racer, engine builder, mountain bike and tea addict. But his mates say
:01:06. > :01:11.this about him... We do not know where he is, he will be here in a
:01:12. > :01:24.minute. He is fit, he is fast. Every man and his dog wants Guy Martin to
:01:25. > :01:33.win. It is Guy Martin! Looked a bit dramatic or that. I couldn't fathom,
:01:34. > :01:37.what is your first love, are you a mechanic or a racer? Is asked me
:01:38. > :01:49.what my traders, or well, what is your trade? One Show presenter. I am
:01:50. > :01:56.a truck mechanic. Truck fit. It is the same thing. So the motorcycles
:01:57. > :02:01.are hobby? The TV stuff it, the mountain bikes and motorcycles are
:02:02. > :02:09.hobby. You told us you were doing some modelling this morning! When I
:02:10. > :02:15.was in that situation, it was like, what are you doing? They were
:02:16. > :02:23.talking French, wanting me to do this and do that. What were they
:02:24. > :02:27.asking you to do? Just hold things in certain positions. Shall we stop
:02:28. > :02:35.it there! We will talk about your sideburns. They are tremendous. Is
:02:36. > :02:43.that what you call them, tremendous? They are quite a feat. I had them
:02:44. > :02:48.since I was 16 years old. They have got a fair footing now. They are all
:02:49. > :02:55.right. We would basically like to see yours at home. If your sideburns
:02:56. > :03:00.have a fair footing, get your photographs to us. We will show some
:03:01. > :03:04.of them later on. Now, earlier in the year, Esther Rantzen met a group
:03:05. > :03:09.of grandparents who through family breakdown, were denied access to
:03:10. > :03:13.their grandchildren. Since that film you have been in touch to share your
:03:14. > :03:17.stories. And we have also heard from those who have been lucky enough to
:03:18. > :03:21.be reunited with their grandchildren. Esther went to find
:03:22. > :03:24.out more. It was awful. I have three young
:03:25. > :03:30.grandchildren that I have never seen. They are missing out. The
:03:31. > :03:35.words of grandparents who are heartbroken because they are denied
:03:36. > :03:41.access to their own grandchildren. Our report really struck a chord. I
:03:42. > :03:46.have had so many, around 250 letters and e-mails from other grandparents
:03:47. > :03:50.and grandchildren, talking about the heartbreak. And I am afraid the
:03:51. > :03:56.agony they are going through really shocked me. I had an e-mail from a
:03:57. > :04:02.grandson who is an adult now. He said... I was not allowed to see my
:04:03. > :04:06.grandparents before I died. As a child, you are powerless. These
:04:07. > :04:12.feelings have stayed with me or my life. He has emotional scars which
:04:13. > :04:17.have run deep. Feelings of loss and regret. In our first report, we met
:04:18. > :04:22.Jane Jackson who runs a support group in Bristol for grandparent and
:04:23. > :04:27.has been hearing from grandchildren. When you hear from the
:04:28. > :04:36.grandchildren, of what damage this is doing, it is just so powerful and
:04:37. > :04:42.so unnecessary. The happy news is after our programme there were some
:04:43. > :04:47.reunions. We cannot show because they are so scared that anything we
:04:48. > :04:54.do might jeopardise this fragile relationship, so, tell us about
:04:55. > :04:57.them. I sent my son a text message expressing how I was feeling,
:04:58. > :05:01.missing the grandchildren and generally asking that he not let
:05:02. > :05:06.them forget me. I received a text from him saying it would be good for
:05:07. > :05:11.us all to meet. It is a start. They're all sorts of reasons why
:05:12. > :05:15.grandparents may not have access to their grandchildren, bereavement,
:05:16. > :05:20.divorce or separation, sometimes a family row which cannot be resolved.
:05:21. > :05:24.It is lovely to hear about the reunions and reconciliations, but
:05:25. > :05:28.there are so many stories where there still warfare and heartbreak.
:05:29. > :05:33.It makes me wonder if what we really need is a change in the law. In
:05:34. > :05:38.France, children have an explicit legal right to stay in touch with
:05:39. > :05:44.their grandparents. In the UK, they do not. But the new Children and
:05:45. > :05:51.Families act says before they ask the courts to decide, they must go
:05:52. > :05:58.for mediation. Is it enough? Paul Cobb is a family lawyer. He thinks
:05:59. > :06:03.the crucial thing is for families to start communicating. I have so many
:06:04. > :06:08.letters from families who say it is so difficult, painful and expensive.
:06:09. > :06:14.I think it works in a lot of cases. Some cases it does not and that is
:06:15. > :06:19.sad and unfortunate, but what is important is grandparents understand
:06:20. > :06:25.that there are avenues open to them. Negotiated at degree -- no shaded
:06:26. > :06:31.agreements in the longer term are more likely to succeed. One
:06:32. > :06:36.grandmother took her son to court and she now sees him every two
:06:37. > :06:42.weeks. Can you remember the first time you met your grandson again? He
:06:43. > :06:49.ran into my arms and gave me a great big cuddle and we were both in
:06:50. > :06:56.tears. It was so nice. It was, nano, I have missed you, I have missed
:06:57. > :07:01.you. We were so pleased to see each other again. I have received 250
:07:02. > :07:06.letters from grandparents who described to me how heartbroken they
:07:07. > :07:11.are. What message would you give them? The past is the past. We
:07:12. > :07:14.cannot go back and change that. We can move forward and do what we can
:07:15. > :07:22.to mend and repair the bridges that have been broken. I am more than
:07:23. > :07:26.ever convinced that the voices that count are actually the voices of the
:07:27. > :07:29.grandchildren. Not just because they love their grandparents but because
:07:30. > :07:34.they need their grandparents. And if they aren't apprised of their
:07:35. > :07:38.grandparents, the feeling of loss lasts all their lives. I am hoping
:07:39. > :07:42.that maybe some parents watching this programme will think that they
:07:43. > :07:47.can forget the past and think about the future. And allow the
:07:48. > :07:53.grandparents back into their lives, for the sake of the children.
:07:54. > :07:58.Let's hope so. I think it is fair to say that there is a lot of
:07:59. > :08:03.complicated family situations at that and not all grandparents are
:08:04. > :08:07.saints. With my child line experience I know you can get
:08:08. > :08:12.abusive grandparents, violent grandparents, they are human, you
:08:13. > :08:15.get all sorts. What strikes me about the files of letters which came into
:08:16. > :08:21.the show is so many of them really do not know why. Perhaps they have
:08:22. > :08:25.made a mistake, perhaps they have been tactless, perhaps there has
:08:26. > :08:29.been a family row, a bereavement, a divorce, a separation, but why
:08:30. > :08:33.should that impact on the grandchildren? It is the
:08:34. > :08:39.grandchildren I think are the important pawns in this battle. If
:08:40. > :08:43.we had a change in the law, it would only be to put the rights of the
:08:44. > :08:47.grandchildren in place so if you go to court, the court recognises that
:08:48. > :08:51.those grandchildren will have the right, as they do in France, to stay
:08:52. > :08:57.in touch with grandparents whatever goes on. And as we saw in your film
:08:58. > :09:00.there are grandparents who are truly desperate to reconnect with the
:09:01. > :09:06.grandchildren. Would you say that court is absolutely the last
:09:07. > :09:11.resort? I am afraid I would. It is an elaborate process, it does take
:09:12. > :09:15.time, it does cost money. Even if you go to mediation first, that can
:09:16. > :09:21.be gruelling. Sometimes families cannot sit down together in a room.
:09:22. > :09:24.Sometimes they feel so strongly. I'm hoping that Dawn's advised that you
:09:25. > :09:29.heard at the end of the film, it is all about compromise for the sake of
:09:30. > :09:33.the children and it is all about getting that back into
:09:34. > :09:38.communication. Can I read you one of the many letters thanking the show?
:09:39. > :09:44.This is a lady who says: Thank you so much for tackling this issue. It
:09:45. > :09:48.is a very tangible pain and one that no one talks about. It is really
:09:49. > :09:50.hard when other folk show us pictures of their grandchildren
:09:51. > :09:55.which stirs it up over and over again. I wish there was some way to
:09:56. > :09:58.get across to parents not only the pain they are causing grandparents
:09:59. > :10:04.but what they are doing to their kids. She says, thanks for
:10:05. > :10:08.listening, many blessings. That is the point I would like to make.
:10:09. > :10:12.If there are parents listening right now who think, for the sake of their
:10:13. > :10:17.own children they can move forward, if they think we can be helpful in
:10:18. > :10:21.any way, maybe they could get in touch with my care of the show and
:10:22. > :10:28.maybe we can provide an example to other families that it is possible.
:10:29. > :10:32.Guy, from reading your book, you have a strong family unit and your
:10:33. > :10:38.grandparents have been a big part of your life. Oh yes, a big part. I
:10:39. > :10:45.have been lucky that I grew up with them all. That is double deck Lil,
:10:46. > :10:52.Mike granny. When she was a kid she was the size of a bus so they called
:10:53. > :11:00.her Double Decca Lil. She is not now! She is 90 or 91. I see how
:11:01. > :11:06.regularly. Why'd you want to see her so often? She has still got all her
:11:07. > :11:14.marbles about her, words of wisdom. She is just a constant. It is
:11:15. > :11:23.continuity, isn't it? That degree of separation, not quite as close to
:11:24. > :11:32.your parents. Will she be watching? I am sure she will. Let's give her a
:11:33. > :11:38.wave! Now, Guy, we know you drink 15 to 20 cups of tea a day which is
:11:39. > :11:45.pretty excessive. You came into the studio with one. It was just a small
:11:46. > :11:50.one. We want you to try this. Sit back, relax and enjoy this next
:11:51. > :11:57.film, because this tea is made in Scotland, of all places. Can I drink
:11:58. > :12:02.it now? Guess, you can while we go over to Sarah Mack.
:12:03. > :12:05.A group of thirsty Scottish builders. They love their tea but
:12:06. > :12:11.today The One Show has a surprise for them. It will not be Jasmine,
:12:12. > :12:19.Darjeeling or English breakfast with these lads. We are a nation of tea
:12:20. > :12:25.lovers. We go for 165 million cups of tea every day. As you would
:12:26. > :12:30.expect, most comes from India, China and Sri Lanka. These are the three
:12:31. > :12:35.biggest producers of tea in the world. Surprisingly, here in not so
:12:36. > :12:40.sunny Scotland, we are now producing our very own home-brew. This is the
:12:41. > :12:54.first ever Plantation in the country. Expert tea grower says this
:12:55. > :13:00.is the best spot to cultivate tea plants. I did think, are they crazy?
:13:01. > :13:05.Are you mad? If you go to some of the areas of the Himalayas which
:13:06. > :13:09.grow tea, it is also very wet. With that and the low-lying cloud, the
:13:10. > :13:14.only thing we are missing is the sunshine. Strangely enough, if you
:13:15. > :13:21.are trying to develop a fine tea, you do not want overly synthesised
:13:22. > :13:27.-- photosynthesise leaves. You are definitely in the right place. Yes,
:13:28. > :13:31.there is a beautiful bush which is giving us the tips of the tea. From
:13:32. > :13:37.this we will make white tea which is one of the finest teas in the world.
:13:38. > :13:41.So the smaller they leave the more delicate flavour? Do you want people
:13:42. > :13:46.to be drinking Scottish home-brew? We have a lot of people interested.
:13:47. > :13:53.The British drink a lot of tea. We know the flavour of it and what is
:13:54. > :14:00.in the cup. Now what do we do? This is your basket. Growing the T here
:14:01. > :14:06.is only half of the process. The next stage, brewing, is where the
:14:07. > :14:12.tea comes to life. This is tea which is grown outside these fairy doors.
:14:13. > :14:19.You are the best brewer in town. I will do my best! As far as we know
:14:20. > :14:24.no one has processed tea leaves in a white tea fashion before so I would
:14:25. > :14:30.like to think so. If I was to buy a cup of this tea, how much would it
:14:31. > :14:35.set me back? I would like to think if someone was serving it in a cafe
:14:36. > :14:43.you would be paying 20 or ?30 for a pot. 20 or ?30 for a pot of white
:14:44. > :14:47.tea? Who drinks it? Tea connoisseurs. It is amazing how you
:14:48. > :15:09.can remind yourself how tea should taste. Cheers. Very nice. It might
:15:10. > :15:16.be Britain's favourite drink, but how do these lens compared to our
:15:17. > :15:29.favourite cup of tea? It is time to call in the experts. Tea is up! What
:15:30. > :15:37.do you think? It is the best I have ever had in my life. Do you like it?
:15:38. > :15:46.Very nice. Where do you think it comes from? India. No, up the road
:15:47. > :15:55.in Scotland. If you bought this in a cafe, it is ?25 for a part. Is that
:15:56. > :16:01.in the budget? Absolutely not. Although it may not be everybody's
:16:02. > :16:09.cup of tea, I quite like it. You think herbal tea is a bit
:16:10. > :16:21.poncey? Down here in London you drink all that fancy tea. My
:16:22. > :16:25.calibration has been knocked out a bit because I have a drinking
:16:26. > :16:30.normal, Yorkshire tea and Tetley tea. It is just a bit strange to
:16:31. > :16:36.come and drink this without added cow juice in it. It is not
:16:37. > :16:49.offensive. ?20 a part! But it is nice, different. Let's talk about
:16:50. > :16:54.your autobiography. You are 32? ! I know I am. Fancy writing an
:16:55. > :17:01.autobiography at 32, I would have said the same. What life experience
:17:02. > :17:10.have you got at 32? And so your own question. They have been asking me
:17:11. > :17:15.to do it for three years. I did not want to do it. So I did it. And then
:17:16. > :17:22.I thought, would they let me write it how I wanted to do it? I am not a
:17:23. > :17:25.complicated person. It was straight to the point, might offend a few
:17:26. > :17:32.people. I have quite enjoyed writing it. It took a year to do it. I am
:17:33. > :17:36.not surprised, but lots of the focus of it is some of the crushes you
:17:37. > :17:43.have experienced in your racing career. The worst one was in the
:17:44. > :17:50.Isle of Man in 2010? That brings back some memories. That is the
:17:51. > :17:59.picture, explain to us what is happening? I am amongst it
:18:00. > :18:06.somewhere. That bit in the bottom corner, that is my arm sticking out.
:18:07. > :18:13.It looks a lot worse than it was. The ball in the top of the screen is
:18:14. > :18:17.the petrol tank? It is. The crushes would have shaped your career, but
:18:18. > :18:25.it was a crash that got you into racing, wasn't it? Normally they put
:18:26. > :18:33.you off! Why was that? Well, my book will tell you the story. At the
:18:34. > :18:40.junction, you turned right? I had had a bit of a heavy night the night
:18:41. > :18:51.before. Did you go through the mopeds stage? I wanted to get it on
:18:52. > :18:56.the road and go as fast as possible. I did thousands of miles on that. I
:18:57. > :19:02.had a crush into a car and I thought, it is dangerous, best go
:19:03. > :19:09.racing. So you thought you would go on a track? Yes, everything is going
:19:10. > :19:15.in the same direction and you have a meat wagon if it all goes wrong. We
:19:16. > :19:24.have a clip of you building up to that race.
:19:25. > :19:33.Unbelievable speed. Talk about doing all sorts of things on these bikes,
:19:34. > :19:40.recently you have been riding a motorbike across water? Yes. Who
:19:41. > :19:56.came up with this bright idea and what we're trying achieve with this?
:19:57. > :20:04.It looks great. We did loads of preparation. It was a Channel four
:20:05. > :20:11.series. We built the bike, made the skid pan for the bottom of it. Up
:20:12. > :20:17.until that, I thought it was great. We dug a trench out, bit of a
:20:18. > :20:21.practice run on the motorbike. I thought I had sussed it. I will go
:20:22. > :20:28.to the lake and I thought I would be able to go from Dover to Calais. I
:20:29. > :20:37.started there and I thought, is not going to work and what are you
:20:38. > :20:41.doing? ! You don't seem to have a fear of crashing. Is that why you
:20:42. > :20:46.talk about not being into getting married and having kids, is that
:20:47. > :20:52.why? You know what you do is so dangerous you don't want to involve
:20:53. > :21:00.other people in it? You could say that, I have had my eyes open. He is
:21:01. > :21:05.married with two kids and he had a bit of a crush Elli in the year. My
:21:06. > :21:11.mum and dad don't want him to go racing because a mortgage,
:21:12. > :21:15.responsibilities, a wife and two kids. With me, they don't really
:21:16. > :21:26.bother. I don't have any responsibilities. I am not married.
:21:27. > :21:35.You might be if you carry on with this modelling. We have seen him
:21:36. > :21:44.having a go at riding across some water. Now we will see him riding
:21:45. > :21:49.through a bubble. Marty Jopson explains the science behind what
:21:50. > :21:57.makes bubbles, bubbles. Who doesn't love bubbles? These
:21:58. > :22:02.perfect spheres of liquid are one of nature's wonders. Blowing a small
:22:03. > :22:05.bubble is child's play. I want to see if I can blow the biggest bubble
:22:06. > :22:12.possible. I will need something more than this. To beat the record for
:22:13. > :22:18.the world's largest free-floating, indoor soap bubble, I need a bubble
:22:19. > :22:29.more than two metres in diameter. This is going to be a monster. To
:22:30. > :22:37.give me a hand is this physicist, Cyril, who has been studying the
:22:38. > :22:44.properties of soap films for over 40 years. Cyril, why is it if I blow
:22:45. > :22:51.into pure water like that, I don't make bubbles, they don't survive
:22:52. > :22:55.bastion Mark the surface is not flexible and when you produce a
:22:56. > :23:03.bubble it is unstable and it bursts and releases the air. So it produces
:23:04. > :23:08.a flexible surface. One half is oil and likes to be out of the water.
:23:09. > :23:12.The other half mixes well with water, like a coin. When they are
:23:13. > :23:18.stuck together, something special happens. The molecules organise
:23:19. > :23:23.themselves in a layer. This quality makes soap good at cleaning greasy
:23:24. > :23:31.pans, helping the oil and water to mix. It makes the water surface and
:23:32. > :23:46.elastic. It needs a little stone with my scientific instrument. It is
:23:47. > :23:53.a toilet brush. We have added soap. The surface is flexible. When you
:23:54. > :23:59.blow it will flex and encompass the air in the form of a bubble. Two
:24:00. > :24:06.layers of soap molecules trap a thin layer of water. But for a giant
:24:07. > :24:10.double the real challenge is to stop it from bursting. Why do they burst?
:24:11. > :24:17.Evaporation from the surface. A small hole appears in the film and
:24:18. > :24:23.this rapidly expands and then bang, the film is gone. Anything that
:24:24. > :24:31.reduces evaporation will help. Melissa Reid will help. It will hang
:24:32. > :24:38.on to the bubble and stop it from evaporating. I am using one part
:24:39. > :24:43.glycerin, ten parts washing-up liquid. But what about the wand.
:24:44. > :24:50.Does the shape of the frame make any difference to the shape of the
:24:51. > :24:55.bubble it produces? No, any shape will always produce a spherical
:24:56. > :24:59.bubble because it will want to take up the surface with the minimum area
:25:00. > :25:05.associated with the volume of air and that is a sphere. For my record
:25:06. > :25:11.attempt I am building a Giants, flexible wand to try to seal the
:25:12. > :25:29.bubble. I have got my mixture, I have got my ones, it is bubble time.
:25:30. > :25:39.-- wand. Nice big film of bubbles. That was close. The mixture is
:25:40. > :25:43.working. The problem is closing the bubble at the end. That was too
:25:44. > :25:55.quick. I am going to add a bit more glycerin. Lift and separate, walk
:25:56. > :26:00.back. For a split second week got it. That was definitely a bubble,
:26:01. > :26:09.but was it big enough? Just before it burst we got a complete, sealed
:26:10. > :26:13.bubble, it is a whopping 1.4 metres diameter. Not quite a world record
:26:14. > :26:20.but certainly a personal best. The only way to celebrate our bubble
:26:21. > :26:28.attempt is with a bottle of bubbly. Cheers.
:26:29. > :26:37.Sam, the bubble man is the record-holder for the world's
:26:38. > :26:45.bubble. He was having problems closing off, you obviously didn't.
:26:46. > :26:54.How big was your bubble? You could fit a small car inside. You have
:26:55. > :27:01.been for ever blowing bubbles, pardon the pun. When did you start
:27:02. > :27:06.and how did you start? It started in 1989, I had a bit of a double
:27:07. > :27:13.epiphany, a moment of inspiration. And then I turned professional in
:27:14. > :27:20.2000. Now I get to fly all over the world doing fun things with bubbles.
:27:21. > :27:29.I was at the opening ceremony at the Olympics. Earlier, Guy Martin talk
:27:30. > :27:38.on the role of your assistant. Look at you, going through a bubble. That
:27:39. > :27:43.has never been done? It is a first. To the best of my knowledge, it has
:27:44. > :27:46.has never been done? It is a first. never been done before. Is that
:27:47. > :27:54.right? I think I had my eyes closed at that point. Scariest thing you
:27:55. > :28:04.have ever done! You showed us your bubble net. My dad gave me a dying
:28:05. > :28:11.wish to scatter his ashes over the cliffs of Cornwall in bubbles. It is
:28:12. > :28:16.a windy place so I invented this net to do that. Then I got picked up by
:28:17. > :28:25.a windy place so I invented this net the idea and we had 55 people using
:28:26. > :28:30.it at the Olympic opening ceremony. Earlier we asked for your sideburn
:28:31. > :28:37.pictures. You did not disappoint. Ready? This is the first one.
:28:38. > :28:48.Jonathan, and these sideburns are 14 weeks old. Look at Harry, he is only
:28:49. > :28:54.seven. Look at this, this is Roy. Absolutely perfect. That is all we
:28:55. > :28:59.have time for tonight. All the best Absolutely perfect. That is all we
:29:00. > :29:01.with your autobiography. Tomorrow, Paul Heaton and Philip Glenister are
:29:02. > :29:04.here.