08/10/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Tonight we are joined by a terribly interesting fellow. He has won a

pile of awards, so he is clearly clever. And as he is the Lord of

West Stafford, he is a classy fella. The 80s Julian Fellowes. We got

there in the end. Your whole new role has been to adapt

Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, for the big screen. Romeo

meets Juliet, he falls in love with her and asks her to marry him

within minutes and it is almost like your story. To get it is true

I met my wife Emma and I instantly knew she was the one I was going to

marry. Why? It is my only psychic moment in my lifetime of being as

psychic as a door. A thing went off in my brain and 20 minutes later I

did propose. That is only because it took me 90 minutes to get up the

nerve. I looked at her and I knew it was her. She did not think I was

though one, she thought I was mad. I have been waiting two-and-a-half

years! It is recognition at first sight. You recognise your

lifetime's partner. If someone is making an equation between us and

Romeo and Juliet, you know that we are not identical. How do you ask

someone to marry you after just 20 minutes? Did you get down on one

knee? I think I said something like, it will you marry me? Just a matter

of fact. There is no point in not cut into the chase. She would not

even give me her telephone number. Playing hard to get. She wanted to

even give me her telephone number. get out of the room. We will be

talking to Julian about his new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

later. And Downton Abbey as well. First, Tony Livesey meets a two

young adults with autism whose lives have been transformed by

having the opportunity to work. It is bright and early on Monday and

having the opportunity to work. It 17 year old Zaid is getting ready

for work. Getting ready for work in the morning is something many of a

struggle with, but Zaid has an added difficulty, he is autistic.

It is incredible that he has a job. 700,000 people in the UK have

autism and a staggering 85% are out of work. Before he started his job,

he had never been out on his own and relied on his parents to take

him everywhere. Hello, we are off to work. How are we going to get

there? On the bus. What time does it come? It will come around eight.

You carry on eating. Before he got this job, how was his life? Is it

was quite tough. He feels he can do a lot more than this and socialise

as well. It is not only the job, he goes two different clubs now and it

has improved his independence. Because Zaid's brain is different

he needed help to get to work and was taught to memorise landmarks.

The programme is also responsible for finding him his job at

Nottingham City Hospital. What have you got on today? First I am going

to sort out the files. Is it easy? It is easy, but all the files get

mixed up and it is annoying. People do not put them back in order. His

condition means he gets frustrated when things are not in order and he

likes consistency. He works in the outpatients Administration

Department, sorting out the files. Andy is one of the project leaders

and he works closely with Zaid during the internship. What issues

do you have dealing with somebody like Zaid? It is not particularly

his issues, it is more around employers adapting to the needs

that he requires in the job. He is very good with figures and numbers.

If we can understand his skills, we can better place him. Her did you

feel when you first started? I felt more responsible. Now I am getting

really good at this. A as well as work experience, at the project

gives interns lessons in how to cope with their conditions. It is

not in Zaid's nature to join in the office chit-chat. It would not

occur to his brain to do that. But office chit-chat. It would not

with the help of Joanne, that hopefully it will change. Four

years ago the Government passed the autism Act. However, there are

still only a handful of schemes like this across the country. The

project in Nottingham started 18 months ago and one of the success

stories is Ryan. He has dyslexia and Asperger's syndrome. After

completing his internship, he got a job at the hospital. I never

thought I would be fit for this kind of role. I thought I would be

back stage IT. But they have put me on frontline support and that

shocked me. I had that in me to do it. What is it like having him

around in the office? He has got a massive passion for IT. He came in

with more understanding of I T than anybody expected. I believe that is

the printer. That has helped him get to where he is now. So I was

all over the place before the project came in. With Ryan and Zaid

both at the hospital they can share their experiences. I make eye

contact a lot more that I did at the start. I did it at first in

ten-second bursts. As time has gone on, that has got a lot better. What

would you say to Zaid? Get to know people and talk to as many people

as you can. It is good advice. A It is good advice. His it all going

in? It is going in the straight to my memory. I find myself at the

centre of a genuine good-news story today. Zaid is getting out and

about for the first time in his life, Ryan is interacting with his

workmates and they have organised his 18th birthday party. These

young people have not just found work, they are finding their places

in the world as well. And good luck to Zaid with his new

job. We need your help. Do you or your partner run a local shop? It

might have been in your family for generations or a business you set

up yourself. Are you open all hours like Arkwright and Granville. You

did not do the impression. He did in the rehearsals. Go to our e-mail

address and let us know. The adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. We

so thoroughly enjoyed it. It is very accessible and you have

changed a bit. But it is a weight on somebody's shoulders to adapt

Shakespeare's work. You cannot think in those terms or you never

leave your bed. We had a strong agenda. We wanted to make a new

version for this generation that was very romantic and was shot in

Italy against wonderful castles and palaces and so on, with wonderful

costumes. There have been good versions, particularly Baz

Luhrman's 1. That was the Last versions, particularly Baz

Romantic one and we felt it was time somebody else did that. Beyond

that we wanted it to reach over its the scholar level and bring the

story to people who would not necessarily think they would enjoy

Shakespeare. They would think it was OK at school, or whatever.

There have been people saying, you must not a fiddle with it. But if

we had made the fall three-and-a- half hour original play, we would

not have got to them and that is what we are trying to do. It is

still 80% Shakespeare. We have tried to keep in all the memorable

speeches and phrases and exchanges all the way through. Nevertheless,

none of it is opaque. Every part of the story is accessible and

understandable. It is also quite relentless. We have taken a three-

and-a-half hour play and it is in 90 minutes. This young pair of

lovers are caught up in this thing and they cannot pull out, they

hurtle towards their doom. It is almost as if it is on a stage in

parts where you have got people coming on. Let's put your words

into pictures. Never was a story more mournful than theirs, of

Juliet and Romeo. I never saw a True Beauty Until this night. It is

Romeo, the only son of our great enemy. Come battle with me, boy.

Take this and drink until the last drop and there will be no sign of

life. It is beautifully filmed. You have studied Romeo and Juliet at

Cambridge. Did you know exactly what you wanted to do with it? I am

thrilled with the movie, but I went through a very good school and I

studied literature at Cambridge, but not everyone has done that.

There are plenty of intelligent men and women out there who have not

been given that equipment. I feel it is a shame to cheat them of the

pleasure of Shakespeare's reverse it is a shame to cheat them of the

by befuddling them. Lyndsay Johns spoke out in the Conservative Party

conference last week and said there was too much dumbing-down of

Shakespeare. Is it not better to entice a new audience to understand

it? I do not want to sound as if he does not have the right to his

opinion, because he does. Shakespeare scholars will be

shocked we have tampered with anything. I believe people have a

right to see it and enjoy it. The one thing I do not understand his

right to see it and enjoy it. The or less since

You know the ending, but you are still crying. The whole love of

Romeo and the surrogate father role in the lives of the friar is all

Shakespeare, but the actor has put that story into it, which makes it

Shakespeare, but the actor has put very moving at the end and adds

another layer to it. It is in cinemas from next Friday. So some

of the world's most distinctive and controversial airports, train

stations and skyscrapers have been designed by Lord Richard Rogers.

Arthur Smith has been to meet the man who is it in his 85th here and

is still coming out with jaw- dropping architecture.

Richard Rogers, Lord Rogers, has just had his 80th birthday and he is

still hard at work, proving again and again that he is one of the most

influential architects in the world. Some iconic work, the millennium

Dome, Lloyds in the city, terminal Some iconic work, the millennium

five at Heathrow. He is a campaigner, too. Look at this, a

low-cost, flat pack house you can put up in 48 hours, an idea for

tackling the current housing shortage. And the Royal Academy are

putting on a special exhibition to celebrate his birthday. Today he is

showing his wife around. She is an award-winning, too, with a Michelin

starred restaurant. I don't think one realises what 1's age is. People

say, when are you going to retire but I say, I enjoy what I do. There

is one thing he says that is more important than designing. Passionate

about a large family, 12 grandchildren, five sons and so on.

That keeps me young and I have a very young wife, that keeps me

young! Richard did not do well at school, the teachers thought him

stupid. Years later he found out the problem was severe dyslexia. Now I

had something that I could hang my hat on, it did not make any

difference but it was good to know what it was called. It might explain

this report, he lacks the equipment to translate feelings into sound

building, his designs will continue to suffer while his drawing is so

bad. I have a team of people who can do things like Ike -- that I can't

do, like spell. Lord Rogers' first landmark was the Pompidou Centre in

Paris in the 1970s. It wears its insides, like escalators and pipes,

on the outside. It was radical, you love it or you loathe it. When the

building was completed, I remember sheltering on a rainy day. A woman

said, do you want to come under my umbrella? I said, thank you. She

said, what do you think of this building? Stupidly, I said I am the

architect and she hit me on the head with the umbrella. Among his regrets

architect and she hit me on the head is the number of commissions he lost

after the Prince of Wales called them carbuncles. I think all great

architecture and all great art is modern in its time. Christopher Wren

spent 40 years building Saint Pauls and the buildings kept on being

turned down. He got so fed up with the last one and he was in his 70s,

he built a fence so that nobody could see it until it was built.

This is nothing new and Christopher Wren was modern in his times. How

does he keep going? We stop, we are really good at stopping. We both

work really hard but we know when to stop. We have been in Italy and

France and Greece, we stop and come back and can't wait to start working

again. He looks pretty fit. He is really fit, he walks come he swims

again. He looks pretty fit. He is comedy bikes to the office every

day, he bikes everywhere -- he swims, he bikes. Lord Rogers has

made and continues to make his distinctive mark on Britain. This is

Lloyds, again hated at first but now at the heart of the city. And listed

grade one, an accolade he shares with the works of Christopher Wren.

Over the road, Lord Rogers' latest baby, the Leadenhall building. It

has already been nicknamed the cheese grater because of its wedge

shape. And around it, a hoarding, maybe not unlike the one that

Christopher Wren put around Saint polls. 80 years old -- around St

Paul's. 80 years old, he remains focused on the bigger picture. As

the ancient ode says, I hope to leave the city more beautiful than I

arrive. That is at the heart of what I hope to do. Just as well he is

still working with 12 grandchildren! It is not just Lord Rogers who has

saved negative reviews. -- who has received. Absolutely not, most of

our famous buildings have been savagely received. Take the Eiffel

Tower, built in 1889 as a celebration, a commemoration of the

French Revolution. Above 900 feet, it was the tallest structure in the

world. And people reacted with horror. Local residents took out

lawsuits against Gustave Eiffel, because they thought it was going to

topple over or attract lightning. It has been hit by lightning, to be

fair. A whole group of famous musicians got together to announce

it a useless and monstrous tower. Arguably he happy last laugh because

it attracts over a year. I don't look at it and think it is

beautiful. I am impressed by it. I love the Eiffel Tower but you have

to remember that the area is entirely dominated by the Eiffel

Tower. You can imagine if you lived in Belgrave Square and somebody put

the Eiffel Tower in the middle, you would be a bit ratty. What about

Barcelona? The Sagrada Familia is would be a bit ratty. What about

often called Gaudi's church but he was actually the second architect to

work on it. Picasso absolutely hated it. George Ola said it was one of

the most hideous buildings in the world and suggested it should have

been blown up in the Spanish civil war -- George Orwell said. We should

bear in mind it is still not finished, it should be finished in

bear in mind it is still not 2026 in time for the Saint Nery of

Gaudi's death. I always remember somebody said, lie heavy on him and

Gaudi's death. I always remember earth for he laid many a heavy load

on the. I don't think anyone gets away scot free. Certainly not the

National Theatre watch was built in 1976, which still raises blood

pressure. They made a mistake at the time in thinking concrete had life

in a building material, it had no life, it doesn't mature into

anything. It is built of dirty old concrete. Who would have thought it?

Thank you. Next night, Mike Dilger is on the hunt for Britain's biggest

fish. Instead of packing his fishing rod and tackle, he packs one of

these and a pan scourer. The Isle of Man is a hotspot for the

largest fish to visit British waters. Weighing up to eight tonnes

and as much as ten metres in length, the basking shark can reach the size

and weight of a double-decker bus. Armed with its window cleaning --

this window cleaning pole and a pan scourer, I am going to be helping

marine biologists with their research work into this endangered

and often misunderstood shark. I am off out onto the Irish Sea with

members of the Manx basking shark watch. Basking sharks have been in

long-term decline so finding out population levels is essential. Our

best guess, looking at genetic data, is that there are between 6000 and

8000 left worldwide and that is all. We are trying to find out as much as

we can scientifically about the animal. If you don't know what you

have got, you don't know what you will lose, you don't know how

precious this is. We are tagging them, doing individual passports for

individual animals. Basking shark passports, that sounds intriguing.

It is so we can identify the individual animal again. They start

by taking photographs of dorsal fins to recognise individual animals, but

they are also collecting DNA samples. They do that in a bizarre

way. Remember the window cleaning pole and pan scourer? This is a

vital tool for the next stage of the basking shark's passport. You are

going to have to explain. Some years ago, a colleague in Ireland was

close to a basking shark and the tail caught the boat. He noticed

this black slime on one of the ropes. Being a clever guy coming he

scraped it hampered it in a jar and sent it to the University. Sometime

later they discover that this had DNA in it. The boat is allowed to

pass close to the sharks as part of a scientific license. Even though

the sharks travel at three miles an hour, getting alongside them is

tricky as they are constantly feeding on the moving plankton, so

it is anyone's guess where they will appear. There it goes, 200 metres

away. Oh! There are two there, look at the size of that!

Just seeing one basking shark is marvellous but two together is

Just seeing one basking shark is pretty amazing. Look at that! Oh!

Now it is down to me to see if I can get a DNA sample from at least one

of them. Just missed. If the huge tail flips

out of the water, I could be swept off the boat. Don't go down, don't

go down. I think I have got a swab. I got DNA! Thank you very much! Not

a huge amount, but I got some! See that slime on there, that is DNA

from a basking shark which I have just managed to get. Absolutely

chuffed to bits. These hard-won samples are sent to

the University of Aberdeen for analysis, in the hope it is going to

give Jackie further information about these individuals. We are

hoping to find out whether our sharks that we have got here are the

same as the ones in north-west Scotland and Ireland and France, or

whether they are slightly different. Early results back are showing that

it looks like these basking sharks are distinctly different to others

found around the Irish Sea, and they could be returning to this spot year

after year. I never knew that taking DNA samples of basking sharks could

be so exciting. Let's hope these passports continue to ensure that

these gentle giants graced the seas around the Isle of Man the

generations to come. I would have loved to have done

that. It was fantastic, congratulations. Onto Downton...

People were up in arms on Sunday because one of the most favourite

characters, Anna, was assaulted. Quite a dark storyline. Of course it

is dark and it is very serious. It is more reflective when you love the

character who is attacked. I feel it is legitimate within the Downton

way, you don't see much but what we examine are the results of this

attack and that is an's story for the rest of the series. A great cast

and a great choice. A very attractive, nice man. I wasn't going

to say that at it does help. It makes the danger clearer. You think

you are going to be able to identify someone who will attack you, but of

course you are not. The show is a global success, especially in the US

where they are eagerly awaiting the next series. Did you know there is

actually a whole course that you can do at a college in America, all

about Downton Abbey? Are you serious? Camden County College in

New Jersey has launched a new course, it is called Downton Abbey:

Life In A Country House. Why haven't I been given an honorary degree? You

can ask that question because the course director, Professor Ellen

Hernandez says they have such a good response with approximately 60

people signing up, it is more successful than ever, she joins us

live from New Jersey. I am so excited. We know that the course has

gone incredibly well but there are a few questions that your students

need answered. Yes, hello. Hello, Julien. I am here with some of my

students. The class is going great. We had some questions that came up

and I would like to pose them. I would like to ask, within a house

like Downton Abbey, what would be the difference between a cook and a

chef, and why different titles? A chef would be male in those days.

Some houses did have chefs, but not all of them. Some houses had chefs

and under chefs. When you are writing a show like Downton Abbey,

you have to limit the number of people you are trying to service in

a narrative sense. There would have been six or eight footmen but we

couldn't find stuff for eight, so we have limited it to two and we have

one cook. Let us squeeze in one more question, please. We wanted to know

if it was purposeful for you to make the two conniving servants, Thomas

and O'Brien, smokers? No, I think they made them smokers. I just made

them nasty. There is no link between conniving and smoking? We will have

to leave the transatlantic lecture. All the best, thanks for joining us.

Thank you to Julien Fellowes, Romeo All the best, thanks for joining us.

and Juliet is out on Friday. Tomorrow, Helen Fielding joins us

along with Graham Norton. CU just before 7:00pm.