08/11/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show, with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.

Tonight's guest is an Irish stand- up, who is sitting on the funny

side of the periodic table. With comedy that is out of this world,

it is Dara O'Briain. How are you? Very well. Labouring under a bit of

a cold, as you do (coughs) that was genuinely. On tour, every night you

reaggravate, there is nothing the audience want to hear more than

that. Your throat, stuffed. Acenacia. I can't do a science show

and be in favour of that, that doesn't work! I need to see

evidence for that. The weird thing is, it is a joke, I went into a

chemist and said do you have anything, really proper stuff, and

the woman walked out, and went, I know just the thing, the

pharmaceutical woman, and said these are very good, because not

only have you suck them, but there is honey, and I stood there, and

said, I'm sorry pet, are you explaining Lockets to me. I'm a 40-

year-old man, they have been on the market for some time now. We have

mastered that. Other cough sweets of course? Of course, of course.

You are looking good to us. Lots of people say you look uncannily like

this character, from Despicable Me? I hear that a lot, I love it. In

the list of things that I look like, the Megabus man, a giant sausage,

that is one of the things. I say it every night, it gets a huge round

of applause every night. People say, "oh you do", I say don't clap, that

clap the jokes I write. Don't clap the fact that I accidentally look

like an animated villain. You have a neck. And chins. Over 40,000

people on Twitter say. Every time it is on the tele, people say it.

Tomorrow morning, six very brave tiejers will be setting off from

Llandudno at -- teenager, will be setting off from Llandudno as the

teenage Rickshaw Challenge gets under way. I am heading off to

North Wales after the show. They are on board the rickshaw now,

Ciaran is there, and Darren has a microphone. How are things up there,

you have less than 12 hours to go, what is the feeling within Team

Rickshaw? Everyone has different feelings at this minute. I'm a

little bit apprehensive, but I'm really looking forward to it. It

should be good. We are all raring to go. Have you had your last meal,

and if so, what did you have? sandwiches on the train, some cake

when I got here, I'm looking forward to my meal tonight, loads

of carbohydrate. Cake, very athletic. We will hear more from

Team Rickshaw later on. We will be talking to Dara about his new

science series as well. In the moon time, to get us into the thinking

mode, Dara has a challenge for you at home. I do, you wanted something

that was very simple, straight forward, a puzzle, four oranges, it

is very easy to. Do you get four oranges or any kind of apples,

other fruit available. You put them out, a simple puzzlek how can you

arrange them so they are all equi- distant, each orange is the same

distance from every other orange. Any way you want, how do you move

them, is it that, that, that. See what you can do.

Take a photo of your efforts and Take a photo of your efforts and

Dara will see who got it right. This summer, sporting fever swept

the nation, as the best of Olympic athletes swept to victory.

We all have our own memories of the games, some wanted a more permanent

reminder, the fact that people could buy a piece of the Olympic

legacy, hasn't quit worked out for everyone. The Olympics and

Paralympics, events that made Britain proud. It is no surprise

many of us, including me, wanted a souvenir to remember it by. I

reported back in July on a company called ReMains of the Day. Selling

off momentos from the Olympic village. The place was filling up

with bits and pieces, big and small, from one of the largest events

London had ever hosted. Many from the parts of the apartments the

athletes stayed in. I came away with a loo brush, I was lucky, we

have been in touch with many who are still waiting. For Kirsty and

her family, the Olympics was a once in a lifetime event. It was

fantastic, we started off with the Olympic Torch coming through our

town. The kids were able to see that. We saw the open-water

swimming. What attracted you to Remains of the Games? We would have

something physical in the house that had been part of the Olympics,

things we could keep forever. did you order? Three bean bags, two

cushions, a mirror and a folding chair. I was so excited, because my

stuff could be Usain Bolt sitting on it. How much did you spend?

If they don't turn up, I will be so disappointed. The website said the

items will be ready from mid- September, we are now into November,

and Kirsty as family are still waiting. In fact, we have heard

from lots of other frustrated customers who haven't received

their goods either. Some have written to us, others have taken to

social networking sites to voice their concerns.

So, time to tackle the man behind the mess, Paul Levin from Remains

of the Games. On the website it said some people will get their

goods in September, it is now November. Why have they been

waiting so long? We underestimated the complexity and the way of goods

coming out from the venues. Goods coming out from venues in the

village, are much, much slower than anybody projected and certainly

what we were told. The goods that did come out, a lot of them were

damaged. The thing that has really upset people is not being able to

get in touch with you, either by phone or e-mail? Loads of things we

would have liked to have done a lot better. We are sorry for that, we

want customers to be happy, and we haven't achieved that. What

guarantee can you now give to customers who are still waiting to

receive their goods? We have over 80% of the stock in the collection

centres. That means e-mails are going out. Inviting people to come

and collect. Frankly, we want all the goods out of here. We now know

that we are going to be able to give the sort of service that right

at the start we wanted to give. With Paul promising that things are

about to change, I can't resist speeding the process up for one

family, at least. So, it's back to Kirsty's house

with the boot full of bean bags! Hello, I have got something for you.

Oh wow. Oh my God. Two cushions, keep passing it back.

So the last time you saw this stuff was when you ordered it on the

website some time ago. What is it like to actually see T I'm so

pleased, thank you so much. Yeah! So for one family, at least, this

story has a happy ending. Since then, the company has told us

that many customers have received their goods, if you haven't, you

should wait for an e-mail before you try to collect them. They have

promised refunds where orders have been lost or damage. Would you have

fancied that? I went to lots of things. Something like a javelin,

or, like a giant pole vault mat. Yeah! That massive thing.

They were the expensive things? Were they, could you get them.

Hangers were a bargain, 50p? I have hangers. I can't say I would want

that. I want to open my cupboards and get the glow of the Olympics

every time I'm grabbing a shirt. You had a great time over the

summer? I thought it was fantastic. I was one of these, the people who

were on the web page, refreshing, refresh, refreshing, to get T any

time something came up you grab it quickly I got a few tickets.

Anything to get to anything. I was mad into it. You are your legacy is

the picture you took? I blagged from the BBC into Katie Taylor,

she's the Irish Boxer, you have to guess who that is, by the way.

one person has that hairstyle? is a notable beehive. That is, I

love saying this to Irish people, that is Princess Anne, covering her

ears from the roars of the Irish crowd at the Katie Taylor fight.

The best thing about it is, I took the photograph, I thought this is,

slightly guilty, I took the photograph, she looked at me and

just went, I met her once before. And then she stayed for the fight,

she walked past, and we had a moment where we went like. That

neither of us knew what to say. Steve Redgrave said, I said Steve,

give us the hug, you are the king of the hugs, give us a hug. I have

no clue, we had a moment, I don't know if he knows who I am, but two

huge men hugging. Dara, your new DVD is out, Craic Dealer. We have

to point out the obvious, this isn't you wearing a hoodie standing

on a street corner? No, it is a pun that has proved difficult to sum!

It should be noted, it is not, the way of explaining this, this might

be very Bond Live And Let Die, this isn't me funnelling money illegally

in drug use by setting up a loss- leader DVD. Cfrplt raic is an old

Irish word for fun, it is great, next time I can do "craic addict"!

The thing is I have done it so much, the year of touring it, I was

passing through an airport in Dublin, a customs officers went as

I went past, "oh here he is, the craic dealer!". Here is you

pondering the London riots. I want have done it when I was 16. I

wouldn't have been phoning around organising riots at 16. When I was

16 we had one phone in the house, and it was in sitting room with the

television and the couch. There is no way you can organise that.

(quietly) we are having a riot, leave me be, I'm on the phone. "we

will smash the system, and destroy capitalism, it will be amazing. I'm

allowed to make calls as well. See you in town in half an hour, very

good. I need a lift into town!" Dara, were you just getting too

comfortable then behind the desk, or in the book? People presume

because they see you doing the tele stuff all the time, that is what

you do all the time. This year, for example, we did 1, 12, Mock The

Week, 130 nights on tour. The TV stuff you drop in and do it so

often, and then back out five nights on the road. The Craic

Dealer DVD, is out on Monday. Someone we know was absolutely

delighted when he discovered we were running a film tonight about a

big-hearted bear that has been entertaining crowds for years.

Imagine his disappointment when he realised it wasn't all about him!

In August 1980, a full-scale air and sea search was mounted around

the remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. The hunt attracted

enormous media attention, and the story went global. But why all the

fuss? Who or what had gone missing? The fugutive was a bear. An eight-

foot tall, 06-stone grizzly called Hercules. Back in the 1970s, when

you could still do such a thing, professional wrestler, Andy Robin,

bought him from the local zoo for �50. He trained Hercules to play

fight as part of his act. The bear became a member of the family,

living and eating with Andy and his wife Maggie. Man and bear developed

a unique bond of trust. One day, I swear to God, I fell in the river,

he pounced on top of me. I thought, this is it, he's going to get me.

He caught my hair and lifted me up, I swear to God, and looked at me as

if to say, I'm not going to bite you. They travelled together in the

world on this bus. The man and bear? They wrestled together. They

loved to wrestle together. He had no chains on him, or barriers on

the ring. He could jump out of the ring any day he wanted. Hercules

graduated from the ring to TV appearances and commercials.

Shooting an advert in the heb does, Andy allowed Hercules a break, for

a favourite activity, a swim. Hercules promptly headed for the

horizon. Talk about irresponsible parenting, really? He thinks he's

in the pool he goes for a swim and taking off. Not knowing it is

limitless. What did you do? Complete panic, because, unless you

have been up there, you really don't realise the scope of the

place, the currents. Alan Shepherd remembers well the day he went

missing. How on earth could a bear this size disappear? It was het iry

moorland, he blended into that. The only way of seeing him was on the

move. Were the farmers worried the sheep would be ravaged? If one

sheep was found, it would have gone. The anxious parents were more

worried that he would starve to death before eating livestock. He

was something of a gas row gnome. He loved a good pot of sea in the

morning, he liked his roast chicken, his prawns. He wouldn't eat raw

meat. Of course not. Unless there was a roast lamb wandering about.

Three weeks went by, with no sign of the bear. Andy and Maggie were

frantic with worry. You went to bed at night, and I could hear him

crying into his pillow. And I was doing the same. But you were trying

not to bring it together to make it even worse. So it was just a

horrible time. Then, when all hope seemed lost, a sighting, on the

island of north Uist. I saw the bear. From what distance? A mile or

so. What was he doing? Walking across the moors. Tracked by

helicopter, Hercules was shot with a tranquilliser dart, and reunited

with Andy. But his time on the run, including the long swim to the next

door island, had taken its toll. has lost 15 stone. Because he

wasn't having the grub? He was very poorly, covered in ticks, I sat and

picked all them off him. Every single person, I think, in the

island brought milk. We had 1,000 pints of milk. 140 pints of milk

appeared. He slurped away at it. That seemed to relife him. How was

it for him when he got home? liked to be very close to you. He

thought, I'm not having any more of that outdoor stuff. I'm staying

close to home. Hercules recovered fully, and resumed his career. His

escapist exploiplts making him more popular than ever. After --

exploits making him more popular. He died from natural causes at the

grand old age of 26. He lies here in their garden. You miss him

still? He was a massive part of our lives, he made us laugh and brought

us an enormous amount of pleasure. We will miss him still. It is jaw-

dropping? That is like man in a suit. That entire report is a guy

in a suit. He was in the studio in a television studio. I'm sorry to

make it about us. Some show booked him as a guest. And there is

somebody with you, a second half of the double act, it is bear! Can you

imagine if we had one walking in from behind there, a big bear?

would have an empty chair for him to fill. I would be throwing

cameramen at him. That won insane. He loves a cup of tea. Pudsey is

looking on in disbelief. Could never imagine a bear in the studio.

You have a brand-new science show as well? Started last week, this

Tuesday, five or six week of it, moving on to Christmas, Science

Club, we take a topic and go at it from a fairly hefty way. We

introduce it, it gets technical and we get into really good stuff.

show experiments everyone can do at home? Obviously my impression of

how you measure the speed of light would involve some massive

telescope and planets and speed and lasers, how are we going to do it

today? You could do it, or make cheese on toast. Lovely, that's

perfect. You can see the hot spots where it is melted, left over the

cold spots. Should we go for the centre. That should be half a

wavelength, if you believe your theory.

That should be correct. It is a very, very simple thing, anyone who

sees it next Tuesday can do it. You can use cheese on toast or a large

bar of chocolate, you measure the points and there is another number

you need. We will see next Tuesday. We know you are a mass of knowledge,

dar ra, we thought it would be quite interesting -- Dara, we

thought it would be quite interesting to step into Dara

O'Briain's brain! So, shall we spin the wheel? Surely

there is more to my brain than that! There is other things I like.

Last week we had Felix Baumgartner on the programme, can you, in your

terms, explain why Felix doesn't get faster and faster and faster

and faster? He got faster for a while and he slowed up. You reach a

thing called terminal vessel loss tee, the speed of you going down is

counter acted by the fact you are passing through the air, and you

have friction from the air. The thicker the air, the closer to the

ground, the slower you go. He hit a terminal velocity in thin air, and

slowed down until the air got thicker, until he reached the 125

miles an hour. Get in there again. As tron me. On Stargazing Live,

your other pro-- astronomy. On Stargazing Live you look at other

planets, is there life on other planets? Undoubtedly because there

are so many planets and stars. You need somewhere a bit like us, a

certain amount away from a heat source, with the right amount of

chemicals, there is bound to be somewhere else. We will never get

in contact with them. And Brian Cox went on a joke the other day about

how the BBC stopped us due to health and safety. We didn't, we

pointed a camera last January, we couldn't hearing anything. It will

be next to impossible to hear from them. One of the programmes is

about whether we can travel and hear from them in two weeks time.

Yes there will be life somewhere. The last one, we know it is maths

don't we! Earlier on you asked the audience to do this little

Chancellor edge, we have lots of people sending -- challenge, we

have had lots of people sending in their ideas? That is classic not

the right idea, that one is far away from that. An 11-year-old and

nine-year-old? That is spot on. That is exactly what you do.

That is another illustration on it, you have to move into another

direction. Science Club is on Tuesdays, BBC Two, 9.00pm. Our

Children in Need Rickshaw Challenge and the intrepid teenagers who make

up Team Rickshaw. Their incredible 411-mile journey

from London to Llandudno starts bright and early tomorrow. Pudsey

and I will be on the train any moment. We are going in about ten,

are you all set? I hope you have your thermals

packed. I will join them on Saturday, on the A470. Each of them

has been helped by Children in Need in the past. They are doing this

because they want to raise money for other young children.

So far we have heard from Lauren, Jack, Ciaran, James and Jamila,

which leaves, last, but definitely not least, Darren.

Get the phones at the ready, details of how to donate will be on

the screen during the film. Hello, my name is Darren, this is

my family. My sister, my brother Sid, my dad, my mam. Not to mention,

the four guide dogs. I'm a massive Doctor Who fan, as

you can see from the huge collection here, I even have my own

sonic screwdriver. I was born with a degenerative eye

condition which is hereditary. It is called gauk coma, it is passed

down from -- glauk coma, it passed down from my dad's side, my mum has

eye problems as well. My brother and sister both have glaucoma, you

have the sight troubles of your own, and living with people with worse

sights, so you have to be their eyes as well. It has isolated us as

a family from other families that have sight. You find it hard to mix

and mingle with sighted children. He can do the same things, but it

may take him longer. Today I'm rock claiming.

-- rock climbing. We set this up because of the lack of support for

vision-impaired children in the north eefplts thanks to Children in

Need we have been able to run -- north-east, that is to Children in

Need we have been able to run many activities for visually impaired

children, the sorts of things normally they wouldn't be able to

access. Darren has grown up with us, he has been very involved in

everything we do. Very active and coming to nearly everything. His

self-confidence and self-esteem has really improved since he has been

coming to these sorts of activities. How was that? Fine, I enjoyed it.

When I went to Useful Vision, that was the turning point in my life,

really. They offered support and other families that had visual

impairments. I could talk to them, and kids my own age, who had visual

impairments. It was like I'm not the only one, I'm not alone, there

is other people going through this as well.

It is going to be more difficult for me for the Rickshaw Challenge

because of my sight impairment. On coming obstacles that may move,

such as traffic, may be less visible to me. There will have to

be someone who tells me that. I have been doing some training, I

have been training in the gym in Newcastle College, 20 minutes a day,

three days a week on the bike machine. Just doing plenty of

walking, hopefully it will help towards within I do the challenge.

If it starts getting tough, me and his mum will be thinking about him.

Keep on meddling and going, it is a very good cause. I'm a bit nervous

about the bike ride, because of the sheer distance that has to be

travelled. There will be loads of difficulties along the way, but I

can hopefully combat them, like I have combatted everything in my

life. Bring it on. (rings bell)

A lovely family. There we are. Could you tell everybody how they

can donate. I would be delighted, to show your support text the

details below. You can also donate any amount you

like by sending a cheque, can you It is time to go to Angellica who

is with Team Rickshaw in Llandudno. Hello. Hello, yes, welcome to

Llandudno. We're all in high spirits here, as you can see the

rickshaw is outside. It has had a full maintenance check, it is safe,

a God polish and all set to go. We have come in-- a good polish and

all set to go. Here are Team Rickshaw. You might recognise six

of the face, say hello to Sam and Shannon, who are reserves, just in

cautious you will be there, whipping them, getting them in

shape. I want a quick word with Lauren, how are you feeling?

Feeling really good about it, I'm feeling really excited. You are

looking forward to raising lots of money for Children in Need? Yes,

once I start a job I finish it. are my sort of girl. You guys do

not know who is starting off tomorrow morning. I can tell you

the person starting off is James. Yes. You didn't expect that, did

you? Everyone was going I don't want to start. How are you feeling?

Well, that's pretty cool. I think it will be, yeah, I better get

going. I'm going to let that sink in. We

have a nice meal coming up later, I need to tell you about the route.

Tomorrow it starts off at 6.00pm. It goes through Snowdonia National

Park, off to Ffestiniog, then Ganllwyd, then Dolgellau, and

hopefully by early evening you will be there, I hope I did the

pronunciations right. If you live along the route it is the A470,

cheer the guys on. You want support, don't you. We know last year when

Matt did the Rickshaw Challenge he was astounded, and it really

boosted him the amount of people who came and supported him. The

last thing we did before we tuck into real carbohydrates, no more

cake. As you know Bradley Wiggins was supposed to much recorded a

special message, but he had an accident. Why not give Bradley a

message from us. Let's look down the camera, what do we want to say.

Get well soon Bradley! Back to you guys. We have some food to eat! All

of Team Rickshaw, good luck, of course. It is going to be a big one.

It is so funny it dawns on you that it is actually happening, and there

is no way back. It is great, I would love to see what message

Bradley Wiggins would have sent today, a very different tone, I

would say. After tomorrow's tough ride to Dolgellau, the route

continues to Lampeter, Swansea, Cardiff, Reading on Thursday,

Salisbury, and we will be broadcasting from all those towns

live next week. You can track our progress via the

Children in Need website. Please, please, just donate

whatever you can. If you go to the website it will tell you exactly

where the rickshaw is, you can rush out and see it.