08/09/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker.

As soon as you hear him you will want to join in.

# Walk like a man # Talk like a man

# Walk like a man, my son #. # Grease is the word #.

# Big girls do -- don't cry #. It is nice to have you back. Now, we

know you performed in some of the greatest venues in the world, Boston

Square Gardens, you are about to perform in Hyde Park Proms In The

Park. But we hear your favourite venue to is here... In the shower.

That's right. We understand you spend up to one hour every day... It

is a warm up period. Singing is... Just like doing exercise. You have

to exercise as much as you possibly can. Keep the muscles moving. If you

take a shower everyday, and you are in the shower already, what is the

difference? I could not agree more. The two things done at the same

time. Is it right you got sound technicians to come in, monitor the

acoustics, and match them in the studio? Yes, we sampled the sound

and the Echo in the shower. Because I have a studio at home. We wanted

that same ambience to happen. Why don't you just record everything in

the shower? Good idea. We could save money.

This week we've been asking you at home how your lives

have changed since 2006, the year the One Show first

Apparently ten years ago Mary from banger was working in an office.

This year, she graduated from Ulster University with a bachelor of arts

in finance and she has turned 70. -- Bangor.

APPLAUSE -- in fine arts.

Please do keep sending your

Frankie has said that when he was a lad there were only

three ways to get out of his home state of New Jersey;

sign up for the army, join the mob or become a star.

We've met some pupils from schools in Yorkshire who've

First they had to build their own plane.

This is Doncaster airport. I have come here to witness the maiden

flight of this plane. Originally a kit plane. It has been reassembled

painstakingly over the past few years. And standing here is the man

about a pilot it. Feeling confident? Kind. There is a reason for his

hesitation. The people responsible for building it are these guys. --

kind of. Jack is the driving force behind the project. How did this

begin? I didn't see so many youngsters coming into engineering

or aviation. We need encouragement. There is a lot of deprivation in the

area. I just wanted to try and inspire some youngsters. We have a

hard core of about 15 who come two nights a week and Saturdays, school

holidays. Is it safe? Can people just build kit planes and put them

in the sky? They are inspected all the way through. It is probably

better than a factory built aircraft. Did you think it was a

crazy idea? I remember at the beginning, seeing everything laid

out on the table, and I have seen it progressing ever since. How has this

project helped you? It has helped ill .my confidence. I have recently

applied for the Royal Air Force. It has given me a lot of experience. --

it has helped me build my confidence. Before any of this I did

not have a clue what I wanted to do in life. Once I learned to fly I

wanted to fly this around the world. I want to be the youngest pilot to

circumnavigate it. In an aircraft that we build. You are Alex's dad.

Had he not been doing this, where would he be? Probably sat at home,

playing on his computer. It has given him the opportunity to develop

his engineering skills and social skills. How does it feel like to see

the plane take off? I was shaking. All the way over here I was excited.

I cannot believe how cool they are about it. I am nervous. The test

pilot's life is in my hands. 12,000 man hours later, assembling 33,000

parts, Spirit Of Goole is ready to fly.

CHEERING The Spirit Of Goole has created an

atmosphere around here, persuading these guys that the sky really is

the limit. Can you imagine that feeling?

Watching that. I know.

Brave pilot. Very brave.

I have heard a story. Is it right that when you were a lad you had a

handshake deal with a friend of yours you would give him half of

everything you and and he would do the same with you? That is true. --

earnt. Great deal for him. I was singing for a while. I realised

after a while that in order to have success in the music business you

needed first to have a hit song. And he played me some songs he had

written. He came out to see me before we joined forces. We were

both interested in creating this kind of partnership. I needed a

great songwriter. He needed a singer. It worked out brilliant. And

to this day? Yes. It is amazing that it has lasted so long.

We could do the same with country file -- Countryfile.

CHUCKLES Last time you and you said a movie

was going to be made about your life. It has happened. Clint

Eastwood directed it. Was there much poetic licence, or did they stick

close to the facts? Do I have to answer? Yeah!

CHUCKLES The movie wasn't quite what I

expected. Really? OK. Clint Eastwood is a terrific and talented director.

But... It wasn't exactly what I wanted it. That is a shame. With the

musical, as well, because that started... The musical was a bit

more... We were more involved. And we had more say with it. The movie

was... It is a shame because you were so excited about it when you

were last here. I was. One thing you got control over, something you are

excited about, is Proms In The Park. This weekend. It is exciting. That

is what you are here, because you are singing. To do that is an

honour. -- why you are here. We could not say no. On Sunday we will

be back on a plane heading back to the US after performing on Saturday.

While that film was playing you said you really like the audience in the

UK. In fact, your favourite audience to play to. This is my home away

from home. The audiences in the UK have probably been the most loyal.

When they like you they like you. They have proven it over and over

again to us. They will be thrilled with the announcement. If you are in

Hyde Park at the weekend you will hear it then, but those who are not

your back on tour, aren't you? And anybody who does not come out Hyde

Park will be put on notice. LAUGHTER

-- to Hyde Park. But from April you will be on tour. Yes, we will come

back and be on tour. Just the UK. It will be about seven, eight days of

touring. We have Birmingham, Bournemouth, London, Edinburgh,

Leeds, Manchester and different gigs in those cities. Brilliant.

How high can you sing these days? It depends on what I am singing. And

how I am feeling that day. If you go in the shower everyday... I was

going to say, take a shower. LAUGHTER

You never can tell how high. Especially if you turn down the

temperature and it gets really cold. LAUGHTER

Coverage of Proms in The Park begins on Saturday at 5pm on BBC Radio 2,

with Highlights BBC One, BBC Two and The Red Button as part

With a musical legend in our midsts, it's only right that

tonight you're choosing which birthday clip we play -

and these are all unexpected musical moments.

Four LPs to choose from - are you going to go for:

Kylie Minogue. Stevie wonder, Happy Birthday. Billy Ocean, Singing To

Matt's Wife On Her Birthday. -- Stevie Wonder. And The Sex Pistols.

Which One Would You Like? They Are All Pretty Good. Stevie Is A Dear

Friend. An Incredible Talent. So Is... Would You Like Stevie? I Have

To Have Stevie. We Are Going With Stevie.

# Happy Birthday To You # Happy Birthday To You

# Happy Birthday # Happy Birthday To You

# Happy Birthday #. Cheering

He said to me afterwards, I hope you are pretty.

LAUGHTER I remember asking his assistant.

This was in the 1970s. He had just got married. He was asking about his

wife, and he said is she good looking? And this guy was really

nice. He said she is the ugliest girl I've ever seen in my life.

LAUGHTER He was kidding. Stevie had a great

sense of humour. Super nice man. He was great company.

Back in 2012 we met retiree Jackie Barrow,

who was using her free time to help children over 4,500

What she didn't know is just how well some of those

My name is Jackie Barrow. What do birds eat? You tell me and I will

write it down. My retirement has been pretty full and since I joined

the Granny Cloud. I like a juicy worms. That is great. There was an

article asking for people to be volunteers, to be surrogate

grandmother is to read stories to children in India. I have connected

with probably hundreds of children, I think, by now. Mostly in India.

Some in Colombia. More recently some in Jamaica. You call magpies robins?

They make a horrible noise. Granny Cloud opens up children's'

experience. There are other opportunities out there beyond

perhaps what they already know. It is done, yeah? It has all melted. I

am going to pour it into here... Even though the children I am

connecting with our in India, we are on separate continents, somehow, you

know, you build up a relationship. That in 2012, the One Show gave me

this opportunity to go out to meet the children I had been connecting

with. I don't know what they will make of it. I am feeling very

nervous. I thought perhaps when I was in the room I might be a

disappointment. They might think, oh, it is only her. I wonder if they

-- I wondered if they had built up a different image of me. Hello! As

soon as I walked into the room the children were so excited.

LAUGHTER After 80 minutes we all seemed to

feel at ease with each other. -- a few minutes. I went to meet some of

the children in their homes, in the slums, it was daunting, I didn't

know how I would feel. One of the regulars in the session, who had

been there for a while, it was his house we visited. They live in one

room. There was a motorhead in there, cooking equipment, the bed,

everything. -- there was a moped. His mother looked very old. She had

spent all of her life working on a building site. She wanted a better

life for her son than the one she had. I was worried they might feel

embarrassed at my seeing where they lived, but, of course, they were not

at all. They had no concept that I would be shocked in a way. So they

were going, Jackie, this is my home, this is my home, and were proud to

show me where they lived. And that was lovely.

Some of the girls of their age in that slum don't attend school, so

the fact that those girls were coming to get the support, that's

extremely important. Really, the person whose health this altogether

and who has driven the granny cloud has been Sinitta, who is an

inspiration to us all. Hi, Sinitta, lovely to see you. I was wondering

about the children I met when I came out and wondered what they are up to

now? Mangesh, as you might have seen, he loves motorcycles, but what

he has started to do is to learn how to repair mobiles. Fantastic.

Lakshmi is continuing to A-level stage. All the children in the group

I met are in education which is really great to hear. These are

children who don't have a lot, don't expect a lot. We talk to these

children years later and you realise there is an impact deep in their

hearts. To see that this really is an important part of their life and

really does offer them opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise is

great. Thank you so much for coming and talking to me, I hope you've

enjoyed it. Goodbye, everybody, goodbye.

APPLAUSE That is so emotional. I agree. She

made such a difference to the lives of those children, lovely. Dan, our

resident history man is here. Do you know, one of my favourite images or

sequences of you with you on the beach in Blackpool, telling is the

story of World War I. It doesn't get better than that, just telling

people about great historic events. I get it does get better, the

greatest privilege for me has been meeting the people who have made

history over the years, ten years doing this has been a privilege.

Sadly some of them are not with us any more. Eric "Winkle" Brown is

written's greatest pilot, he has been on more aircraft types than

anyone else in history, flown 500 different types of playing, he has

taken off from aircraft carriers 2000 times, he has the records. John

Mossad, a Second World War pilot, he May 19 4120 in a tiny Camber Sands

string biplane and dropped the tour big hope that had Bismarck. -- John

Mossad. Still alive today, thank goodness. One month I will never

forget is Sir Nicholas Winton, Britain's so-called Oscar Schindler.

We didn't know this until the 1980s but rescued 669 children from

Czechoslovakia, they settled here in Britain and went on to have happy

and productive lives here and he was saving their lives. The point being

you touched on at the start, they are veterans and we are starting to

lose them. We are losing them but the best thing is the knowledge we

have created an historical record with the films, we have created

something that will endure. Anita, you have worked on a range of

different stories. There is one principal thread that links them

all, isn't there? Yes, we are about, well, we are not a news programme

but we tell the community stories and they are always about the

positive, uplifting spirit of this beautiful, fantastic island we live

on. Whenever something happens, let's take for example the flooding,

I know it re-occurs in the country, it's the way the world is at the

moment but last year, the Hebden Bridge, the banks of the river

Calder broke and it was devastating. It was Boxing Day foot when it

happened but two months later they invited is up and there you are with

your coats on because it was freezing that night, but they

invited us to show the community had come back together and they wanted

the world to see they were back on their feet. We have spoken to

Leslie, the landlady of that pub in Hebden Bridge and they have been

open since May of this year and pretty much every business in Hebden

Bridge is up and running. In 2011, when we had the riots in various

parts of the country but in London, the following day, it happened on

our doorstep, it happened in South London and in Hackney where I live,

and I turned up the following day at matter gentleman whose shop, it was

like a bomb had hit it in Hackney. He was devastated, in his van,

thinking and contemplating about his life, he didn't know what was going

to happen. This went out on the 19th of August and three months later

campaign had been put together and had been raised. To help him get

back on his feet. We had the Reeves family, they had a furniture shop.

We remember them coming in. They talked three months after the riots,

they had opened up their business and that is them now back on their

feet saying they feel strangely, both of them say they feel more part

of the community now after it had happened... Because everyone came

together. Community spirit is such a big part of what we do. Who knows

what will happen in the next ten years. Hot phone, boiling water,

vinegar, flame throwers, they all have one common enemy, did you know?

Chris Dean, what is the answer? Weeds. Lurking in the cracks on

every corner there is a menace plaguing our streets and Gardens,

weeds. For years we have used every tool we can to defeat them,

including these. Weedkillers with synthetic chemicals that are swift,

efficient and lethal. But these products losing their lustre? The

active ingredient in many mainstream weedkillers, like the one Edinburgh

Council is spraying here, is glyphosate, but the World Health

Organisation is branded it probably carcinogenic. The makers say there

is no foundation to the claim. Either way, these herbicides are

falling out of favour with an increasing number of environmentally

conscious local authorities. Keen to keep things natural, several

councils across the UK have begun trialling alternatives. Edinburgh

Council is one. David Jameson is the city's head of parks. Are you

looking at alternatives at the moment? I think it's inevitable that

there's going to be greater demands to reduce the amount of chemicals we

use full stop is important we try to find alternatives now before we

might be forced to do that. It's not just councils. We are all more

environmentally aware these days. Busy mum Emma Hutton stopped using

mainstream weedkillers altogether. I've got a young child and a dog who

are very nosy and it's hard to keep the dog off areas that I may have

treated. OK. You've got quite a few weeds but fortunately the vast

majority of them are relatively easy to control if you know how. The

great thing about you, Emma, is you are concerned. People are quite

blase with garden chemicals. But what are the alternatives and do

they work? Time for a 1-shot experiment. With weeds staging a

takeover Emma's backyard is the perfect testing ground. We are

dividing her patio into four and each quarter will have a good going

over with a potential substitute weedkiller. On patch number one, Leo

has created a phone wash. Hot phone, the deadliest natural products for

weeds. On patch number two, Wayne has his steam machine out. Get down

to the root, weeds are in hot water. On patch in the three, Emory is

using an off-the-shelf weedkiller which contains a Seatech acid,

concentrated vinegar. Cheap and cheerful but does it work? On the

fourth patch, we have a flame, what could possibly go wrong? Leo's using

hot water, using biodegradable phone, claiming to kill the weeds,

sterilise the seeds and damage their roots. Like most commercial

herbicides, Emma's sprays nonselective so you have to be

careful where you spray. Wayne's giant kettle will Boyle believes

that killed some of the shallow roots. My flame-throwers, one for

the scorched earth approach. Now for the real test. We are leaving Emma's

patio for nine weeks to see if our alternative methods can kill weeds

for the summer. Come September and we are back for the reckoning. Which

has worked the best, Emma? A flame-thrower works best initially

but overall they are the same. We have the flame gun, the hot phone,

the ascetic acid and boiling water. I'm pleased to see they have all

worked but they have also all have a bit of regrowth. Out of a score of

one to ten, I would give them all five out of ten because they are

very similar and that is what I would expect. The methods we used to

take off the top growth, they don't kill the roots. You need to use a

systemic weedkiller and with those you would apply it and we wouldn't

have the regrowth as quickly. They all work it's a case of which

timespan do you want to use and how often. Edinburgh Council will decide

later this year which method it will plump for for next summer.

Eventually Christine, you just can't escape them. You have to keep at it.

Frankly, just to warn you, every time Christine turns up the sofa,

they always end up getting involved in a bit of gardening no matter how

big the name is. Course! Here is Michael, from REM. Owner was Adam

Sandler, he had no choice. It's important they engage. It is

important and today is no different, is it? Absolutely, what I'd like you

to do with plant something with me. This is something very special. It

might not look like that at the moment but by the time you have

finished it, it will be spectacular. I want to take this out of here and

I would like you to plant that in that corner, just in there. If you

watch very carefully, this is what is known as a transplant! Check out

the puns! Welcome on The One Show! In it goes. This is the great

reveal. Get it in there. One, two, three... We will get our magical

camera and you can see... Happy birthday!

APPLAUSE Lovely. Chris Dean, over the years

you have taken our lovely viewers into spectacular gardens. Which

garden for you stands in your mind? It has to be virulent's, not

necessarily because of the plants but because of her. My mum and dad

would have been so proud and it would have meant something to see me

doing that interview -- Vera Lynn. There was so much chemistry between

us, she was beautiful with me. That would have been, hey, look at our

Christine, she has made it! You never get starstruck. I am not

starstruck but that and being at Buckingham Palace, my mum and dad

would have popped with so much excitement, it's untrue. Christine,

no doubt you'll keep gardening foreheads. I hope to keep sowing

seeds and planting plans. That's all we have time for. You can see and

hear Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons performing at Proms in the

Park on Saturday night. I will be back tomorrow with Cold Feet's Faye

Ripley. You're not here. As I'm not here tomorrow, I wanted to leave you

with one of my highlights, the Rickshaw Challenge. With your

support over the last five years team Rickshaw has raised an

incredible ?12 million. APPLAUSE

# If I lose control # If I'm lying here

# Will you take me home # Could you take care of the broken

soul # Will you hold me now

# Will you take me home # Will you take me home