08/09/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker.

After 30 years as one of Britain's best loved comedians,

tonight's guest has turned into a bit of a clock watcher, but then

Ever wondered if your legs will last?

Stop it, no, please, stop! Wellcome, Dawn French! Always lovely to see

you. It is silly, just silly! How did that one come about? A past

life, 40 years ago! Noel, 25 years ago, it was a Mickey take of an

advertising and that was on at the time.

Now Dawn, we call you a clock watcher because your new one woman

If we're sticking with that theme you and Jennifer Saunders wrote that

You are probably about right! It took us all afternoon.

What have you seen recently that would be ripe for the French

Needed programmes and adverts, anything could happen. I should say

that The One Show is gagging for it... LAUGHTER

Who would play who? I would like the jewellery... LAUGHTER

I could lend you some stuff. We will be talking about the show, in about

eight minutes. This is how we are going to do this.

And Dawn, you may have heard the phrase "as

much use as a chocolate teapot", well we've got one here and we'll be

seeing Marty putting it to the test and brewing up in about 20 minutes.

Are they any good? I have suddenly become very overexcited! You can

even eat the spout of the teapot! And I will! Will it work with hot

tea inside? 19 and a half minutes now!

in March that was struggling with how they were going to implement

the new government policy of free school meals for 4 to 7 years olds.

Tony Livesey went to find out if their homework has paid off.

When we last film, the food served to kids here had to be cooked at

another school entirely and then taken across town. We do not have a

kitchen in which we can cook fresh food. So the food is carried in? And

kept warm? Lack of kitchen and money meant that headteacher could not see

how a school could be ready for the big launch, Q, the government school

dinner tsar. She has a challenge and we are here to help her with it.

Five months on I am back here to find out what improvements they have

made and more importantly to find out it every child in the infant

school is eating for free. -- if every child. Deadline day, first day

of the new term, has the headteacher passed her big test? Last time I was

here, you were in despair as. We thought there was no way we could do

this, we thought we could not continue with the service we were

getting, because the school which cooked our meals needed to cook 130

more meals, they could not help us. We felt stuck. What changed? We got

the information and the knowledge that we needed to make informed

decisions, we got that from the food trust. The government gave ?150

million to local authorities to get school kitchens and dinner hall is

up to scratch. City ?7,000 from Sutton Council, a fully working

kitchen was bought by Katherine, in the form of a small but perfectly

formed pod. It is not about what is on the outside, it is on the inside.

Is it like the TARDIS? Do not judge a kitchen by its tiny little walls.

It is impressive! It means that we are able to cook meals fresh

on-site. We have our own team of caterers that are able to produce up

to 250, 300 meals everyday. Michael, the caterer. How is it going? It is

going very well! You want me to shut up and go away? I did not say that

but I will need to get through, we have a lot to do! Time for me to get

out of the way and catch up with the school dinner tsar. John Vincent,

what are your first impressions? I have got to say I'm ecstatic, last

time coming you were here, they were in despair, you know it was

difficult. This is like a fairy tale ending. Should teachers have to

worry about catering? It is the job of the headteacher to look after

children when they are in the school, and looked after the

well-being. For television chef Jamie Oliver, who began campaigning

to improve school meals tenures ago, this day is long overdue. The job

description of your everyday teacher and headteacher is getting longer

and longer, but I think most teachers agree that feeding children

correct on commence teaching, and learning, and retaining

information. This is amazing. The government says more than 15,000

schools met the deadline. A further 300 simple could not get him ready

in time. -- could not get ready in time. First dishes are about to be

served and the critics are queueing up. Roast turkey or vegetable wrap,

and plenty of vegetables and salad, a far cry from where we were last

time, pizza and sweetcorn. And what is more, there is not a chip

insight! What do you think of the food? Fantastic! -- not a chip in

sight. Is this better? Yes! Delicious! What do you like

especially? Chicken! It has not just transformed lunch time, the denser

the headteacher Catherine have been banished. The children's faces are a

treat, they are seeing their food... They are spoiled for choice! And

they are all talking about it. They are talking about it with each

other. I'm very excited. You are getting emotional? I am welling up!

Catherine can be pleased with it, the chef can tell me the roast was

magnificent but the real test, what do the kids who ate the food thing?

What would you give the lunch out of ten? Ten! CHEERING

Lovely to see all of them tucking in and here is the kitchen team.

How has it gone since then? Last week was a brand-new team, we had

only been together five days, the team have settled in, working with

the school. The kids faces, when you see them... You can see on their

faces, when they see fresh vegetables. The salad bar... It has

been an experience. It is working? Yes, the pod is working, we have

found space, it is working very well. We could not believe how

versatile it is, the salad bar, look at that. Children rejoicing in a

salad bar? Do they really? ! What has been the big hit and what has

not been so popular? They love the roast dinner and the chocolate

beetroot brownie... Chocolate beetroot brownie? Fantastic! That

can go with the teapot! They have loved everything, they have wanted

to try it even if they have packed lunch. You said that you were

traumatised as a child... I was a very fussy eater, we were forced to

eat school dinner. This is so different, we do not force them to

eat anything, we encourage them to try things. We have tasted pots.

Every child is eating food and enjoying it, nobody is forced to eat

anything. Once I was forced to eat liver, it reappeared quite

quickly... ! LAUGHTER Sounds like it is going brilliant,

good luck! If there is a few pupils out there with bleary eyes tomorrow

morning, I think that they are allowed to stay up late to watch

you! It is a big week for the young royals, congratulations to William

and Kate on the day 's news, and everybody is getting behind Harry's

Invictus Games, we will be bringing you the opening ceremony live on

Wednesday on The One Show. Teams from 13 nations and all of the

athletes are servicemen and women who have suffered injuries. What is

it like for the families of those who have been wounded? I never

thought that Rob would be in any immediate danger... I did not know

how badly I had been injured... There was blood all over the carpet

in the cabin... Don't worry, dad, safest job in the army, that is what

I said. I am Rob, I served with the Royal

Engineers, I was wounded in Afghanistan. I am Karen, Rob's

partner. After the tour, he was due to get out, it was going to be a new

start. It was all positive, wasn't it. We never thought about anything

unimaginable happening... And it did. There was a loud bang, and I

felt the entire vehicle jolt. It went pitch black. I fractured a

vertebrae, in the thoracic spine, suspected brain injury as well. We

got home, you found it difficult to get out of the car, he could not

hear me when we were talking. His brain... We were not... He was not

the same person, that went away in September. 18 months on, if somebody

had said, 12 months ago, that we would be here now, doing these

games... I would never have believed it. Since sport is back in his life,

it has transformed him. I am Joan and, I am Craig's mother.

I am Mike, his father. I was injured in 2013 when I was in the Royal

Engineers, in Afghanistan. I am Craig. There was a bang that went

off, I landed on the deck... Looked down, I had lost my left foot. My

right leg was damaged as well. My groin area was... Very painful. I

was laying on the floor. There was a knock on the door, two smartly

dressed men in suits cut hair... Straightaway, I knew. Was so upset,

I did not hear anything. He said, "you all right, news alive...

Unfortunately we had to amputate his left leg". -- he is alive. He was a

mass of wires... He has done very well to get used to living the way

that he has got to live. I wish that it had never happened but it has. He

has got on with life, it has not stopped him. I am very proud of him.

My name is John strange, I was a chief Petty Officer on HMS Sheffield

during the Falklands conflict, and this is my daughter, and my younger

daughter. Initially, I remember a bang... By the time I came around

and woke up again, the compartment was completely engulfed in flames. I

was climbing up the ladder, I could see the skin falling from the back

of my hands... He looked so different, he had lost weight,

obviously with the burns as well, they were noticeable straightaway. I

remember him saying, "I told you that I would come home to you". I

gave him a big hug. It makes you very proud that he went through all

of that, and life carried on as if it was normal. He went through hell,

quite literally, and came out the other side. He was not changed by

it. Incredibly sobering stories, and a reminder, the opening ceremony of

the Invictus Games begins on Wednesday. You are already looking

forward to this. Yes, Invictus is Latin for "unconquered" and that is

what these guys and women are. In my opinion. Self mastery over massive

adversity, huge courage, and sacrifice, on our behalf. That is

the point. And the link to sport, I have nothing but praise. Good on

Prince Harry, for coming up with the concept. We should talk about your

one-woman show. 30 million Minutes, you have categorised your life into

how many minutes it took to do certain things! How would you

squished it all into 120 minutes on stage? ! I do skip a few bits which

would be boring, I go to the interesting stuff. I worked out I

have been alive for 30 million Minutes, 56 years, that is my age.

So I thought, OK, I shall see if I can tell my life story, the good

bits, the bad bits, the challenging bits, the joys and sorrows. As much

as I can, encapsulating it all, and that is what we do. We have a laugh

on stage but there is poignant bits as well. I do not shirk anything

that might be a challenge. I take the audience to some difficult

places but then it is my job to pick us all up. How therapeutic is that?

Is it has been interesting. Talking about a family all things that have

happened to me. Emotionally, lighter. I did not set out to do

that but that definitely is happening. The whole thing is quite

a new experience for you? Were used to seeing you as an author of late

but the one-woman show, are I was absolutely terrified. All the way

through rehearsals, I was directed by Michael grounded. That is what I

wanted and he is also Cornish. I kept that lovely. But he kept saying

to me, please take centre stage. Stand in the centre of the stage.

Why are you bearing to I am not used to being in the centre was it

wonderful when Jennifer the relationship has

She does not come offering approval, I would seek approval, but she came

to me with tears in her eyes, and that is enough for me. The Tories

nationwide until December six. Right, not long now, before... Until

the teapot? -- the tour is nationwide until December six.

Smell the lid, just smell the lid of that teapot... LAUGHTER

Not often somebody asks me to smell the lid... Is that OK? Before we eat

the entire thing, we have a celebration of the most ridges of

traditions, the cup of tea, with chocolate. The English language is

full of unhelpful idioms pointing out the of unhelpful idioms pointing

out favourites: Those that refer to useless inventions. As useful as an

inflatable dartboard... A cat flap on a submarine... A chocolate

teapot... Is building a chocolate teapot as ridiculous as it sounds?

First, I need to look at why chocolate melts in the first place.

One of the magical things about chocolate... At room temperature, it

remains solid but at body temperature, it melts in your mouth.

The secret ingredient that gives chocolate its perfect melting

point, is also the substance responsible for its less desirable

side-effect on the human... ! Fat! John is the Professor of liquid

crystal chemistry at York University. Is making a chocolate

teapot completely ridiculous? I don't think so, chocolate itself is

hydrophobic, it will not dissolve in water, and it is a good thermal

insulator. Heat would not get through the chocolate that quickly.

The tea should not mix with the chocolate, and as the inside melts,

it should provide a thermal barrier. Time to put the theory to the test.

I need to make a chocolate teapot which is not useless, which can hold

boiling water for at least two minutes. These four clear Perspex

tubes have been filled with chocolate plugs of varying

thickness. Next I'm putting recently boiled water on top of each one...

Like this... And I'm going to see which one lasts

for two minutes. So the half centimetre chocolate

melted and the water came pouring through almost immediately. The

centimetre thick chocolate, it lasted about one and a half

minutes... Not bad, but not good enough for the teapot. The two

centimetre chocolate, slight problem, it's developed a leak

rather than melting, we cannot count that. The three centimetre

chocolate, here, still holding strong. Clearly, we need to make a

teapot with walls this deck. The master chocolate heir at Nestle,

John Costello, has spent the last week trying to turn scientific

theory into confectionery reality. -- master chocolate maker. I love my

job! Fantastic! Repeated did things has provided a sphere which should

hold boiling water. They chocolate balloon is one thing but for a

teapot, we need a mould. It should be in one piece, instead

teapot, we need a mould. It should egg, where you have two halves and

you stick them together, we need structure and strength in one piece.

Turn it upside down, drain out the chocolate. Only one way to test it.

This is it, the moment of truth. I have got my boiling water and my tea

bags, here we go... It has been one minutes... No sign of buckling, and

it is completely called to the touch. -- cool. Looking pretty good!

Writes... -- right Malton on the inside but the molten chocolate is

clearly in selected the outside of the teapot, which is still... Which

is still rock hard. -- it has gone Malton on the inside. There is

definitely a hint of chocolate but it is not a bad cup of tea! -- it

has gone Malton. Thanks to the incredible properties of this

stuff, it is not as useless as you might think!

Chocolate tea, and that is fantastic! Three centimetres thick.

The spout on this does not quite work, we have got to tip it out this

way... The most interesting bit is the melted bit inside here. Drink

straight out of the teapot! I think that I'm going to drink in a very

sophisticated manner... APPLAUSE

While you are enjoying the teapot, a little quiz for you. Because the

show is called 30 million Minutes, we have got three sets of minutes

here, all about different periods in your life, and you have got to guess

which they referred to. is a Vicar of Dibley. The amount of

time that you spent on screen. That was a very long time, it was all

over the news. We did make ?1 million for Comic Relief. I wish it

had been longer! OK, good. That was the amount of time you have been

friends with Jennifer Saunders. The other thing? That was the case. No,

that was the amount of time I have spent exercising in my life! Today

is the start of the abstract art season on the BBC and the one Show

was involved in a spectacular event inspired by one of the founders of

the movement, Mondrian. Ewan Thomas went to find out why Liverpool is

hosting a block party with a difference. In 1940, a Dutch painter

arrived in Liverpool to set off at his new life in America. His name

was Piet Mondrian, and his abstract art would become recognisable over

the world for its precise grades and geometric locks, influencing

everything from architecture and fashion and hair gel to even baking.

Today, he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of abstract art. A

pioneering painter who did by using just coloured rectangles and it is

good but just lines and squares? Why is his work so influential? A short

walk from the pier, a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool is

showcasing his modernist masterpieces. The curate is

Francesco. What makes this so special? You can imagine they are

completely revolutionary, at the beginning of the century, Cubism and

Picasso fragmented a figure from different perspectives and Mondrian

at the idea of using primary colours to represent new relationships and

death inside one canvas. How did he produce something so different?

Abstract art is about taking something and reducing it to its

most simple all elements, like the roof and the side and the floor and

removing anything unnecessarily. So it becomes something completely

different yet the essence does still remain. What Mondrian did was take

the style of painting one step further, creating art that had

absolutely no basis in the real world. And one run in the exhibition

shows how he planned to take this approach further. It feels like I am

walking into one of his paintings. In some ways it is, this is a

reconstruction of his studio in Paris in 1926, which is where he

painted most of his famous paintings and for him, this is a living and

working space and it is like a laboratory. Mondrian saw his

painting as a first stage of his art, he wanted this relationship

between colour and the lines and the shape to become like something

invading the world, to become his biggest architecture. This is the

only place where he could experiment, you can see the stiffer

and squares and different shapes of colours that literally look as if

they have just migrated from the canvas. In 1938, with Europe on the

brink of war, Mondrian letter studio for London. And two years later, he

came to Liverpool to set off on a journey that would take his

revolution to America. Although he was only here for one night, do you

think Liverpool represents a fresh start for him? Definitely, you can

imagine one of the inventors of abstract art living in Europe, he

took that to the new continent and this iconic moment happened in this

very city. Mondrian died in 1944. 70 years later, the people of Liverpool

are preparing to pay tribute to the artist on a massive scale. For

weeks, village halls and community centres have been gearing up for

something special. A huge public event involving hundreds of people.

The idea is to create a giant living artwork inspired by the great man

himself. And the designer in charge of this is Stephen Graham. So, this

man-made piece of artwork with 1000 moving jigsaw pieces? I want them to

move and the idea is this is completely living, this is a

completely unique experience for everyone involved and the viewers

because we will not have seen anything like this before. It works

in our head but let us see what happens on the day! And the Mondrian

exhibition will be running at the Tate Liverpool until the 5th of

October and you can see how that inspired people for the big event.

And the BBC Four series, abstract artists in their own words, starts

tonight at 9pm. I am looking forward to that. You will try to catch this?

Yes, Mondrian was great, because children love him because it is

exactly what they want to do, colouring in between black lives.

Neoclassicism, it was called! We have run out of time, you can see

Don's one-woman show, 30 minutes from tomorrow, and the nationwide

tour in December. Tomorrow, we will have Rick Stein. Good night!

It's summer term! CHEERING