09/01/2012 The One Show

Hello, and welcome to your very first One Show of 2012 with Matt

Baker... And here whilst Alex is on holiday, it is Anita Rani. Happily

new year to everybody. If you have missed the best deals in the

January sales, today we have our very own bargain offer - two great

guests for the price of one! Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were

at the premiere of War Horse. looked gorgeous. Michael Morpurgo

will be joining us later to tell us how it feels to see his story

brought to the big screen. Before that, it is the woman all about

dropping the pounds - whether it is the Million Pound Drop or the

Biggest Loser. Please welcome Davina McCall. Nice to have you

back! I'm a massive fan of the Million Pound Drop. You experienced

that tension first-hand with your dad for charity? It made the way

that I am going to deal with the contestants on the show completely

different, I think. Now I understand what it feels like to be

on the other side. I will know a bit more... How much did you lose?

I think it was �50,000. Right. was - we had battled so hard to get

there. We had some really tough questions and we battled so hard

that it was ultimately disappointing. We talked about it

quite a lot afterwards. And both of us decided that if we hadn't been

with the other we would have both gone for that answer. There was

nothing - it wasn't like, "I would have gone for that one!" We are

back on this weekend. OK. Friday and Saturday. We will talk more

about that in a minute. Big advice for those who enjoy a drink - rest

that arm for a couple of days a week. Dr Sarah Jarvis will be here

to tell us why. January is a month when a lot of people vow to abstain,

including me! LAUGHTER Our wildlife man did it the hard way. He gave up

booze from December 1st to the minute Big Ben struck New Year.

Many of us enjoy a drink, myself included. Especially over the

Christmas period. Things were a little different this year for me.

As well as reporting on the One Show I also pop up on the BBC's

Inside Out series. Each region decided to set one of their

presenters the ultimate challenge. After a couple of pints, I learned

that I had drawn the short straw for my patch. It is November 30th

and I am just about to start a dry December, not a drop of alcohol

will touch my lips throughout the whole month. It could be a really

interesting experiment because this is my last drink. Cheers. Maybe a

few more before I jump on the wagon! I have never had a month

without alcohol. For some motivations, a forensic artist

joined us to show me the damage ten years of continued boozing could do

to my face. I also look about 15 stone! Which is a lot more than I

am now for the record! Yes, alcohol accelerates the ageing process.

Everything will drop a lot quicker than it would do if you weren't

drinking so much. You would also have some weight gain. After being

scared half to death, I decided the next morning to visit the doctor

for a full MoT. We have you on 30 units of alcohol a week. The doctor

will monitor my health at the beginning and the end of my month

of abstinence. A few days in, the party season is in full swing. For

everyone else that is! 6th December, I have come back after my first

Christmas party. I drank juice or water all night. Now I'm at home,

once again, I feel like I want a large glass of red wine. It's 12th

December, my 12th day. It's been a real task staying off the sauce and

also seeing all my friends for what they really are, which is probably

quite drunk! It is Christmas Eve. There's the tree. That is a glass

of wine. It's not mine! It is my partner's. Lots of Christmas

wrapping to do tonight for tomorrow. I have to say I'm absolutely

gagging for a glass of wine. It's 30th December, 30 days without

booze. Frankly, I have had enough now. I want to start drinking. I

don't know if I feel any healthier. Back to the doctors to find out.

The news is not what I expected. In a month, slightly lower blood

pressure, which is good and ever so slight increase in weight, which is

not so good. It was Christmas? was. In terms of my alcohol

consumption, what advice would you give me? Instead of reaching for

that glass, find a displacement activity - it might be a computer

game for an apple! A month off did make me feel much better. I will be

thinking a lot more about what I drink in the future. Viewers in

England can see more of Mike and other BBC colleagues taking the Dry

December Challenge on Inside Out straight after us on BBC One.

Sarah Jarvis is here now. It is a good idea to assess how much you

drink and cut it back if you can. A couple of days a week rest at

least? Absolutely. About 20 years ago, we introduced this daily limit,

the idea of three or four units a day for men, two or three for women.

The problem is, you drink that much, you are drinking more than the old

weekly limits and what this advice is saying - you need to take a

couple of days offer, give your liver a bit of a break. You like

this idea? It is achievable. My husband tried to do a month off -

he lasted five days! He could do two days a week. What about this

month off? Does it work? It is not going to do you harm. The anxiety

would be if you took your month off, use it as an excuse, and now I can

drink what I like! It wouldn't do you any harm. People do

underestimate quite how much good they can do themselves by taking a

couple of days off. They also underestimate how much alcohol is

in things. That is a small glass of wine. If you go into a wine bar,

they have these big glasses... is enough for me! That's a woman's

daily alcohol allowance. Daily? Oh! LAUGHTER With your two days off

a week! People do underestimate it. One of the great things about

drinking longer drinks, you can water them down, that might make a

difference. What about a pint? is two units of normal strength

beer. Some of these strong beers are four units. It is all - they

have got stronger over the years. Thank you very much. Now, Davina

has become one of the UK's best- known fitness queens. She is not

the first to tackle the nation's waistlines. Gyles Brandreth has

taken a power jog around the Pathe's archives to see how Britons

fought the bulge. Long before the days of television British Pathe

was filming news reports for the cinema. One of the weightier issues

is weight loss. A nationwide survey carried out in 1951 found the

average waist size to be 70cm. When the same test was conducted in 2004,

that figure had risen by 16cm. Almost 25%. Experts have placed the

blame on convenience foods and our lifestyles. After 100 years of

covering the latest slimming fads, can Pathe teach us anything about

how to regain our 1950s figures? One thing is for sure, when it

comes to personal appearance, society's expectations 60 years ago

was as demanding as they are today. NEWSREEL: Wherever you go, the

accent is on weight. 15 stone 6 pound. NEWSREEL: To be slim again,

women are dieting, exercising and worrying. Every paper and magazine

tells you how to do it! We British have been searching for a miracle

cure, a quick-fix to this age-old problem, since newsreels began.

NEWSREEL: The rack used to be an instrument of torture. Now, known

as the traction rhythmic couch, it still looks like it. It stretches

the body, tones the muscles and makes a girl feel marvellous.

NEWSREEL: Just a few electric shocks. While today's buzzword is

detox, the diets of Pathe's day were more questionable. NEWSREEL:

What is the answer to the fat man's problem. NEWSREEL: In a day when we

had no agriculture and there was no starch in our food, everybody had

to live by hunting on meat and fat. I believe they were all slim in

those days. Now, if we stop eating these new foods, then we will get

our weight down. These fads really began to take off after the war as

rationing ended and the country began to pile on the pounds,

leading to a slimming and fitness industry and an institution which

would supposedly do it all for you - the fat farm. NEWSREEL: A few

years ago, physical jacks were practised by a few. The fat farm

offered a gruelling exercise routine ideal for combating those

post-Christmas bulges. Back then, the fat farm was such a novelty it

made the headlines. Today, the health spa is much more commonplace.

As well as exercise routines, the fat farm offered a range of beauty

therapies and slimming diets to pamper clients in between their

strenuous workouts. NEWSREEL: is a cocktail bar, too! The

cocktails are prepared from Ru bash, apple, grapes and carrot. They feel

better and probably look better -- rhubarb. Fortunately, these days

visiting a health spa is about relaxation rather than rigorous

exercise. Over the years, countless fads have come and gone, but a few

simple truths remain unchanged. NEWSREEL: Slimming is better

tackled before you get enormous. Don't eat more than you use up in

energy. So much as we would like to fool ourselves that there is a

miracle cure or a magic massage waiting over the horizon, the truth

is as it's always been, the way to health and fitness is a balanced

diet and regular exercise. Still, it can't hurt to try some of the

new techniques, can it? Mmm! LAUGHTER Absolute class! How much

do you love the fitness archive?! like the cycling. Does that appear

in the new DVD, your eighth DVD? but there's a lot of pointy toes.

Eight DVDs. You are a fitness goddess! How is this one different?

It's called a Target Workout. You have two workouts which will last

45-minutes. If you want to do - say - may weak point are my legs and my

bottom. My upper half is OK. So, I'm always doing extra squats. We

have bikini bottom exercises and they target extra bits which you

can tack on to your workout. We have tricep workouts, abs. This Is

Your Life style. You do this, you stay fit. Will there ever be a

point where you think, "I've had enough, let the bingo wings out"?

No, I tell Yo for why. My husband married me when I was looking quite

nice and I feel like I kind of owe it to him to stay looking all right.

The other thing is, I get so much out of it myself. Fitness isn't all

about looking nice on the outside, it is about what it does to your

Indigo side. If I get my blood pressure taken, the doctor will go,

"You work out, don't you?" That makes me feel good. You know what I

do to my husband, I do that! I prod him. Is he lovely? He is amazing.

He is the love of my life! What is wrong with your tummy?! LAUGHTER

Can you work out what these are? know exactly what that is. That has

got to be something like that. you get it going... Will, I see.

Try and touch my arm with that. have got it ex mark! We shall move

on to this one, then. Try this one. You do that one. You must know what

that one is. It is a luncher. It is not too embarrassing. Oh! Try this

one. I don't even really want to pick it up for fear I may offend

someone. It will probably end up in the attic! Oh, I see. Have you seen

the one where the ball would Tates and you have to go like that to

keep it going? I just used bales of hay! You are so rare that! Now to

the story of War Horse. The film will be released on Friday. Before

we talk to the opera, we have found out how he has tried to please his

most dedicated of fans by turning fiction into fact.

In the old school they used now for the village hall, below the clock

that has always stood at 10 am, hangs a small dusty painting of a

horse. The opening words to the book, War Horse. That passage has

sent fans imaginations ablaze. Many of them have headed here, to the

Devon village to catch a glimpse of that romantically described

portrait of the novel's heroic horse. When the story was inspired

by real tales of first-world-war heroism and friendship, and why it

refers to her real village, the painting itself - it wasn't real.

War Horse tells the tale of his journey from a Devon farm to the

battlefields of France in the First World War and his close

relationship with the boy who grew up alongside him. As the popularity

has grown, so has the number of visitors which has given visitors -

- locals a headache. How many people have come to this door to

ask to see the picture? I don't think I could recount them all but

it has been quite a lot. village all his next door, what you

tell them? As the years went on, I had to make up a little stories to

say it has been taken away and it will be coming back. For some, the

story still has a very personal resonance. This Lady's husband

shared his war experiences with the all that. Woolford was a huge

inspiration for the book and now this major film, how does that make

you feel? Very, very proud. I feel that he deserves to mentioned.

Hopefully it will go down generations to realise what these

men really did. A solution had to be found. It has ended up being

this come a specially commissioned artwork which has recently been

unveiled and hung up in the village hall. A splendid read bay with a

remarkable cross blazoned on his forehead and with for a perfectly

matched white socks. The next time people come Colin... And will bring

them in here. Blurring between fiction and reality, it is nothing

new. I produced two pieces of artwork, one to go into the village

of permanently and the other was for the National Army Museum. For

me, the pressure was to produce the painting Michael had in his head.

Quite a lot of research went on to make sure it was right. In the

burger, the painting is signed by James Nichols sold the painting in

the village hall has that name painted on it. A that love people

to wonder if it Israel or not. been the of the's real words, the

black line has become a white one. There hangs a small, dusty painting

of a horse. It now sits proudly above the clock but what a little

artistic licence between friends? Michael, you were at the premiere

of the film last night and you promised to send the Duchess Of

Cambridge a copy of the book, had done so? I posted it this morning.

That is a lie, I sent it on a motorbike at some will stop it was

first published in 1932. Would you ever have imagined it would have

been so popular? It sat on people's shelves and it didn't sell in

bookshelves. I think it sold 2000 copies maximum a year. I think it

was out of its time. It merely wants a price but didn't. The judge

on there was Roald Dahl, who you might have heard of. He said that

this is not a book for children because it is about war and history.

I think in a way, he was proved right at the time. Or at that time,

it was the cold war and people wanted to forget the war should

there had been and I think there but it was nostalgic, maybe not

appropriate for children. The sad truth of it is that we do war again

in the last 15 years with Iraq and Afghanistan, sadly we have coffins

coming home and the whole awareness of war and what it does to young

men and women are too often forget for the families who live with that

for ever afterwards, all this has come home to roost. I think the

pity of war as well, is something which Omagh recognise again. It is

something that so important that young children learn about the pity

of war. We have to know where we come from. Steven Spielbergs then

got his hands on it, what was it like working with him? Have you

seen the film yet? It was brilliant. Then I can say I made the entire

song, Steven Spielberg had nothing to do with it!. The man was

wonderful. He consulted, he talked, we had meetings were his passion

for the story really come across. I felt I was in the presence, not

have a great Hollywood man but somebody he just loved telling

stories. He was the man he made the tea and Schindler's List. If you

can make those films in one lifetime, I thought, this man can

do War Horse. You were happy from of a's perspective? In the end, you

have to trust the person you hand it to. You cannot stand over the

shoulder of someone up like Steven Spielberg and pretend you can make

a movie. The great thing is to choose the right person. It is a

brilliant watch and it is out on Friday. George McGavin has a

brilliant idea for a new movie, a high-tech tale of an insect

counter-terrorism unit. Yes, after War Horse comes... Security Bee.

Bees are one of the most important insects on earth, providing us with

their honey and bonnet are for it and vegetables and now they are set

to revolutionise our national security. Here in Hertfordshire,

Freddie and his team of scientists are working on a clever idea to

harness the exceptional sense of smell of one of Britain's hardest-

working insects. What is happening here? We are training honey bees to

detect chemicals in the air. In airports for example, we need a

quick and cost-effective way and a reliable way of finding when people

are trying to smuggle drugs, explosives. What is wrong with a

wet nose spaniel? We know dogs are very sensitive and we also know

that these were extraordinarily sensitive. The idea is that we can

train at the to detect a chemical in the air in a matter of minutes

were as it takes several months for a dog. It all sounds a bit far

fetched so to prove his point, Freddie is going to show me how

these these are trained. What happens now? Now we're going to

take a be added this cartridge. are using very soft for ceps?

is right, just to gently told her. Then she goes into the holder like

this. It is not hurting her. The spring holds her gently in place.

Once in the capsule, it is over to the training area. Here, a tiny

trace of expose it has been mixed with air. It will be then be

battered over the the so she can smell it. -- wafted. We will turn

it on and allow her a few seconds to recognise the smell and then I

will feed her. How many times what you have to do that to train at the

be? As you see, often they will have already learned it. If I try

it again... Look, she is responding. That is just amazing. Or just one

trial, she has realised that the smell of this stuff means that she

gets it. That is right. This incredible memory this makes these

such expert at detecting food. Went out for a gin, if they like the

nectar of a flower, they instantly remember the smell and location.

Back at the height, they drop of their precious nectar and can then

navigate their way back to the exact same flowers, guided by their

extraordinary memory. It is this natural ability that is

being harnessed here. They are placed in a special device. Now is

the time for the acid test. Here we have six innocent looking suitcases

but two of them contain minute to trace its of explosives and drugs.

The question is, can these are find them? If the substance is detected,

the these extended tongue will trigger a sensor which shows up as

a red light. Oh, that is very, very Clear! Five of these bees have

responded and these are the ones that were trained. So, that bide

contained explosives? We will have a closer look at that. Now, my bag.

Yes, we have quite a strong response here for the bees that

were trained for cocaine. planted this in my bag! In this

bottle, I placed at the scent of cocaine and the bees have picked

that up. Having done their duty, but is back to the hive for these

girls and hopefully, with more testing, we will soon be seeing

some of her bees in airports all around the country.

Unbelievable! It was a fantastic film. We will have these presenting

next. You are presenting a new series of Got To Dance. �250,000,

the prize? The dancers this year are ridiculously good, better than

ever. This guy at the front was unbelievable, he is little rascals

but he had such attitude. I cannot tell you if they're on the

shortlist or not, you have to watch and see. That is all for tonight,