09/03/2012 The One Show

Avast me hearties, and welcome to ye Old Friday One Show with the

fairest maiden on the high seas, except for Alex, if that is OK.

is OK. And this war the seadog, Chris Evans. Tonight, move over the

meerkat, there is a new cute animal in town. Up we host a pirate dinner

party in the studio. We snoop around Florence Nightingale's house.

And kitchen tips that might be a waste of time. But first, a man

whose latest film makes sense of I always go for two kisses. Of

course, you are not a pirate in the new film. I am not. I am a

scientist. Surrounded by pirates. Are you not a seafarer? I and

Charles Darwin, although not the version that the history books

would have us believe in. -- I am Charles Darwin. In real life, do

you take to the sea? Not very long time. We used to go sailing when I

was a kid. But only very occasionally. But that is fine for

my character. He does not have particularly sturdy sea legs. The

Lots of people have been seeing you dressed as a bottle of tomato

ketchup. That is a lovely look. is comic relief. You have to make

the effort. Will you be running a mile? I guess I will have to. I

cannot tell everyone to do it and not do it myself. Other people are

rowing the Channel and running marathons. Just the one mile for

you? I have dressed up as a ketchup bottle. What are you doing? Good

question! We are going to be talking about your Charles Darwin

character in a brilliant new film that I saw a couple of weeks ago.

We will also be joined by the BBC F1 team who will tell us... That

was not part of the pirate theme, that is just then you look! They

will say whether a British champion can happen this year. We are

getting back behind the British rhythmic gymnasts -- rhythmic

gymnastics ladies who have amazingly won their appeal and will

be going to be Games. Do you have trouble sleeping? Oh, yes. Well,

Alex Riley suggests the solution might involve waking up for hours

It is estimated that a quarter of us in the UK experience some type

of sleeping disorder. Perhaps as much of 30% of the problems will

either be directly or indirectly related to sleep problems. The

medical profession has not really been taught about sleep. In a five-

year training, many medical students will have just one lecture

on sleep. Maybe it is time to rethink the idea of a good night's

sleep being eight uninterrupted hours. Until relatively recently,

sleep was premature game of two halves. -- it was very much a game

of two halves. Historical diaries and literature are full of clues

that suggest that our pre- industrial ancestors would often

break their sleep in the middle of the night. References described the

first sleep, which began about two hours after dusk, followed by a

waiting period of one or two hours. This was then followed by a second

sleep. While a segmented sleep may have been popular in the olden days,

I am not sure it will catch on today. But I am going to meet a

woman who would not sleep any other way. Susie Phillips is a retired

teacher who lives in Wiltshire who, without even realising it, was

putting segmented sleep into practice. A few years ago, she

started waking in the middle of the night, feeling wide awake.

think, I should be asleep, but you do not feel sleepy. That is why you

think it is not right. Instead of worrying about it, you have

embraced it. Yes, I used the time to educate myself. What time do you

wake up? I should be awake by 1:30am. By will pop round. It is

the middle of the night and I am not sure what I'm doing a wake. I

am going to have to have a chat with someone who might be able to

convince me that segmented sleep is actually natural. Professor Roger

has done decades of research which reveals how and why people often

used to sleep in two segments. primary benefit to be drawn from

this knowledge is for those who wait in the middle of the night for

no reason. Their pattern of sleep, arguably, judge from the

perspective of history, is more natural than this week that most of

us aspire to. -- the sleep most of us aspire to. Why did it die out?

It died out over the course of the 19th century during the Industrial

Revolution, for reasons rooted in culture and technology. As a

Harvard scientist put it, every time we turn on a light switch we

are, in effect, ingesting a drug that affects our structure of sleep.

I am going to have to have a word with Susie. What exactly do you do

in this period between your two sleeps? I listen to Maya iPod, or I

have started reading a couple of books. -- my iPod. At the moment, I

am working out shrouding a's equation. It is not easy. To be

honest, this quantum physics is not going in. I'm going to have to go

Sleep tight. Good night. Do you have problems with sleep?

am persuaded by this argument. I was reading about it the other day.

I think I sleep in four our chunks. There is nothing worse than being

awake and thinking, I have to get back to sleep. That engenders panic

and then you are properly awake. If you can get up and do something...

There is no sleeping through your new film. Quite right. I could not

think of anything else to say. Smooth as silk. I should not draw

attention to it. It is an animation and you are in it, but you are not

in it. You do the voice. It has a different title in America. It does.

Here, it is called pirates, An Adventure With Scientists. In

America it is called pirates - band of misfits. Why? Don't ask me. Some

publicist can tell you. I had seen it and it is brilliant. One of the

reasons it is brilliant, Aardman are brilliant and you are pretty

good. I feel guilty taking any credit for it. We will not let you!

The script is really good, isn't it? How do the pirates meet the

scientists? The pirate captain, who is on the table, played by Hugh

Grant, he is desperate to win the pilot of the year. He is a pretty

He has to get his booty collection up, increasing his hit rate. He

goes to plunder whatever ships that he can find. It all goes wrong.

Every ship he comes across as no treasure. Finally, he comes across

Charles Darwin's boat on its way back from the Galapagos Islands.

Only to discover there is no booty on that, but there are some kidneys

from baboons and stuffed animals. Let's cut to that moment. Home,

Sweet Home. You don't get many women back here, do you, Charles?

Sweet Neptune on a bike! Don't mind him, just an old project of mind. I

have this theory. I thought, if you took a monkey, gave him a monocle

and covered up his unsightly bottom, he would cease to be a monkey and

would become more of a man monkey, if you will. It is such a brilliant

movies. That was the bit in the movie where they made the ship look

like a house in London. That is a different bit to the bit you

thought was coming but equally good. I apologise profusely. Did you get

to meet the other actors? Presumably you do it separately.

They would try to get us together when possible. But you had said in

the past you would rather be on your own. I do not like eye contact

with any human being! It is nice to do some bouncing off each other,

obviously, but that is dependent on schedules. Hugh Grant and I had a

session together, Martin Freeman and I had a session together,

Imelda Staunton. There are loads of brilliant people. Would you

describe yourself as over acting when you are in the clip room?

don't know what you're suggesting. Shall we have a look? This explain

what is going on. We have been told that you have to do more than you

would normally because you are not being seen. All you have is your

voice, so you have to pump it up, yes. Also, I was told by our

director to not shy away from that because the animators like as much

animation in the vocal performance as possible. We have an example of

that. I have remembered what we are doing now. Try to guess what is

happening when he is doing this. I think that is brilliant. I saw

that and I said, that is the bit when he is made to walk the plank.

Is that right? I could not tell you. There is a lot of falling over.

think you're being pushed to the end of the plank. Possibly. There

is a lot of balancing and falling out of things. It is a very good

film. I feel I can say that because I'm only a voice in it. It does not

feel boastful to say it. It's talk to somebody who can boast about it.

Mrs Jay Grace, one of the chief animators at Aardman Studios. Tell

us about your job. My job is animation director, so I worked

with the animators to get the best performance based on what David and

Sue and the other actors have done. -- hue. We would take the voices

and set up a video camera and act it out. Everybody who works Aardman

has an Oscar. Obviously you have. Unfortunately not. They brought us

the only one who has not got an Oscar. How many Oscars has Nick

Park got? He has four and Aardman has been nominated for nine. Where

does he keep them? Just around the house. I don't think he has ever

animated them. What happens when you go to the Oscars? Do you have a

big party? Yes, any excuse for a party. When he is there, we cannot

all go a long but in Bristol we celebrate. We think these are small,

but you say they are big for animated films. Generally speaking,

Wallace and Gromit would be up to the captain's shoulder. He is a

very small man in real life. they like stone-age compared to

these two? Stone Age is probably a bit harsh. The original Wallace and

Gromit designs that were done by Nick Park, he made them himself and

the design has pretty much kept faithful to that throughout. But

for this movie, we had to move the technology on a little bit. You can

see that we have got an armature that goes inside the pirate captain.

This is set inside him. The majority of this puppet is not even

Plasticine. The outfit is made out of rubber, the boots are silicon,

the beard is silicon and the only bit of Plasticine is his brow.

look amazed. I think there are glorious. Look at that! What a

piece of engineering! That is me, Charles Darwin. Very quickly, as

far as the animation is concerned, it took three years. The actual

shoot was 18 months but the development period before that was

The film is out on Wednesday 28th March. Now, there are not many

native animals left in the UK which this man has not seen. So, when he

heard that there was a rare specimen living in a garden in

Cheshire, Mike Dilger could not get there fast enough. This animal had

been hunted to the point of extinction, but it has been showing

a remarkable recovery, the polecat is back. And it has been popping up

in some unusual places. There's a lady who lives on this housing

estate in Cheshire, of whom I am incredibly jealous. Not only has

she seen polecats, she actually has them living in her back garden. I

could not resist coming up to try and catch a glimpse myself. One

Show viewer Fiona is the lucky woman in question. So, you think

they have been under the decking? Definitely, yes. This is where you

tend to see them coming out. Having them under the garden decking is

certainly far from normal. Yet polecats, just like other wild

animals, have obviously realised there is a lot to be gained by

taking advantage of our home comforts. The pond did have some

fish, but they have all mysteriously disappeared. They are

supremely opportunistic. I have done a little bit of investigation,

ever since the first time when my partner thought he saw one. But I

was not sure until I saw them just two weeks ago. I have to say, I

make my living as a wildlife expert, and I have never, ever scene

polecat, you could make a middle- aged man very happy, you know that?

Surely not middle-aged! Just about, I suggest, go inside and sit and

wait, that's all you have to do with wildlife. Related to weasels,

polecats are the wild ancestors of the domestic ferret. Over centuries,

they developed a bad reputation, and were hunted by farmers and

gamekeepers are like. As a result, they are now one of the rarest

mammals in the UK. Yet luckily for me, they have obviously taken a

fancy to city living. That is the first ever polecat I have seen. Not

in the wilds of Wales, but on a housing estate in Cheshire. Look at

that! And it is really close to Manchester airport as well.

Fantastic! Let's try and get a bit closer. The last time I saw a new

mammal to Britain was about three years ago. This is an exceptional

moment for me. There's myself and Fiona, a sound recordist, Cameron,

director, all in the back garden, and a rabbit jumping around, and he

is not first, he is coming out and taking bits of chicken. The only

worry that it could be which has cross-bred with a ferret, which is

effectively a domesticated polecat. But just looking at it, it has got

little tips on the ears, not much white it is streetwise, that's a

polecat. These animals are normally incredibly shy. It is just that

Fiona provides the perfect environment for them - shelter, no

predators, oh, and plenty of chicken. In the 1950s, these

beautiful creatures were on the verge of extinction, and I

personally find it astonishing that not only are they making a comeback,

but they're also taking advantage of our Homes, cities and gardens -

that is a result. I am known for getting easily excited, but I was

very, very excited that day. What else is there for you to see?

much, it has to be said. I have still been looking for Scottish

wildcat, we have tried to film it twice, and failed twice, but apart

from that, not a lot. Maybe it is a bit self-conscious. You have got to

stop calling it ugly. Everything is relative. And you have brought a

beautiful parrot with you. We have indeed, this is a beautiful bird

called Snowy, from Birdworld in Hampshire. He was captive-bred, he

is 22 years of age. It is now illegal to take them from the wild.

He comes from Indonesia, originally. Indonesia has got many species

which are critically endangered, so if you do by a parrot, make sure it

is captive-bred. Do you believe that pirates really kept parrots?

In Treasure Island, of course, but in the Caribbean, traditionally

they have used them as commodities, for trading, they're hugely

desirable. David, in the movie, the parrot is also used as currency,

but it is not really a parrot. is not, no, the whole plot hinges

on that fact. Should we not say? don't think so. We have got a call

from a lovely lady who is mad about McCaws. She knows exactly why you

should not keep parrots and less you know what you're doing. Because

people may not be sure about what you're doing, you have ended up

with 13 of them. Yes, some of them have come and stayed, some I have

bred, but most of them have been given up because people cannot look

after them any longer. This one is Marchella. On the rehearsal she

climbed right on to permit, she absolutely adores me. You have to

know what you're doing, they live a very long time, it is not like

having a dog for 10 years, it is like having a dog for 40 years.

runs into tens of thousands of pounds as well. It could do,

especially with the vet fees. is absolutely fascinated with

Marchella here. Tell us about other birds as well, we have got

something really special here. have indeed, this is from the

Oxford museum of Natural History, it is the only known example of the

flesh remains of a dodo. It is fantastic, because of course, they

were around way before Victorian times, first round in 59 th on

Mauritius. But within a century, they were made extinct. The Dutch

sailors were banging them on the head and roasting them. Within 100

years, they had completely gone. must explain, the reason we have

jumped to dodos is because there is a dodo in the movie. Yes, the

pirate Captain thinks he has got one of these, but actually, it is a

dodo. Thank you so much. This weekend marks one years since the

deadly earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. It was the biggest

in that country since records began, which we know because of a very

clever British scientist. In March 2011, Japan was hit by a

devastating earthquake, which killed more than 18,000 people, and

countless more lost their homes. Ancient Japanese philosophers used

to believe that catastrophic events like these were caused by the tales

of giant cat fish thrashing around underground. Our understanding is

much more scientific now because of an Englishman called John Milne,

who, in 1880, invented the world's first seismograph. But how was it

that a man from a country which hardly had any earthquakes would

end up pioneering the science of seismology? He graduated as a

mining engineer, left home and travelled the globe looking for

coal seams. But in 1875, aged just 25, he was offered the position of

Professor of geology at Tokyo University. Shortly after his

arrival in Japan, he experienced an earthquake. He was keen to

understand one of nature's most powerful phenomenon. But he quickly

discovered that the tools available to him were simply not up to the

job. What surprised him was how long the earthquake lasted, and the

number of aftershocks. Previous methods had always recorded an

earthquake as a single event. But Millmoor realised that we needed

something to continuously monitor the movements of the er, and this

was his Eureka moment. He invented the seismograph, a machine which,

for the first time, could accurately record movement in the

Earth's crust, non-stop. It could measure the full extent of an

earthquake's magnitude over time, and it is these measurements which

led the way in our understanding of earthquakes today. Using some

simple components, I can demonstrate the principle. What we

demonstrate the principle. What we have made here is essentially a

horizontal pendulum. We have got a heavy weight attached to a long

stick, and a wire which goes up and over the top. The whole thing is

sat on this, my earthquake simulator. It is just a tea-tray

with some tennis balls underneath. I'm going to create a massive

earthquake by just moving it slightly, like this. All you need

to do to turn this into a seismograph is to attach a pen at

that end and a rotating drum to record it. That is how it works.

The invention revolutionised how earthquakes were understood, and it

began to be used all over the globe. Paul from the British Geological

Survey is an expert on the impact Survey is an expert on the impact

of seismograph so on the scientific world.

What he managed to do was to set up a global network of seismic

measuring stations in British colonies around the world, which

all used essentially the same instrument, and all sent their

results back to him. It was the first attempt at having a

comprehensive, global seismic network. One thing this new network

recorded was the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Traces like this

made it possible to determine how far away an earthquake was, and by

how looking -- and by looking at how big the waves were, an estimate

of the size of the earthquake could be worked out. It was with this

kind of measurement that Charles F Richter was able to develop the

Richter scale. It was the foundation of seismology as we know

it today. It shaped our understanding of the planet. The

design of the seismograph was so successful that it was only

superseded by a digital version in the 1980s, but the principle is

still the same. Perhaps one day, thanks to this early work, we may

discover what he set out to find, the holy grail of seismology,

predicting earthquakes before they happen. Joining us now, we have

Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard, from the BBC's Formula 1 team. It

must have been poignant when you went back to Japan. Yes, it was, it

was towards the back end of 2011, it was a big moment for the sport,

and a big moment for Japan. Motor sport has got a long history in

Japan. The Moto GP had been there a few months before, and everywhere

we went were huge signs, thank you for supporting Japan. The Japanese

people were so happy to have as there. And Jenson Button, who has a

Japanese girl friend, won the race. We were proud to be there. It was

really emotional, on the grid beforehand. And it all begins again

next weekend. You're back. So, you are the expert, apparently, DC.

Does Britain have any chance at all of having a world champion at the

end of the season? Yes, absolutely. You will have either Lewis Hamilton

or Jenson Button. The guys are so evenly matched, and McLaren

definitely are in better form, according to the winter testing.

They could win the whole thing? of course, absolutely. And they of

course think they could do so, otherwise they would not be taking

part. But Red Bull will be the favourite. Yes, no question. By how

much blankets Sebastian Vettel, youngest-ever world champion, he

has been testing well. We spent the whole of the winter trying to teach

him how to say the name of the world champion. We do things

differently in Scotland. Actually, my reasoning to justify my

pronunciation is that nobody ever pronounces my name correctly.

of changes this season as well. Lots of people concerned about the

Sky Sports have got involved and are taking every race live of

Formula One. But the good news is that the BBC still have every race.

Half of those will be live, as they always have been, with myself,

David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, walking up and down the pit line

making a nuisance of ourselves. The other half are highlights

programmes. Louise was saying since she had kids she cannot watch, but

now the lunchtime races are prime time, 5:30pm to 7pm every Sunday. I

look forward to lots of messages from you about Formula One. One of

the exciting things was Martin Brundle's grid walk, which he will

be doing on Sky. Come on, pirates! But you are going cheek to cheek

with him, because you will carry on the grid walk for the BBC.

three of us will be there and we will do something different. Martin

is fantastic and he has made a good walk his own, but we will do

something different. We will try to not get in the way of... It will be

like a stand-off. It will be squaring up in the car park,

pistols at dawn in the pit lanes. The ratings will be through the

roof. Of the drivers will be wondering what is going on with

everybody bumping into each other. And so will you say, I am here

first? It will be a eyeballs. Wibble did on race victories.

Whoever has the most. Is it true that some drivers pay to race?

It is something that very few people understand about Formula One.

If you took Wayne Rooney from Manchester United and played

somebody who was giving Manchester United �10 million for the

privilege, people might find that a difficult concept. It has always

been the case in Formula One. It is an incredibly expensive sport and

certain drivers, perhaps they have a sponsor. There is one who has a

lot of Venezuelan money and he gives some of it to the team. He

keeps some of it for himself for the salary and gives some to the

team, so although he may not be as quick as somebody who is talented

but does not have much money, he can make the car quicker.

understand this. I don't understand anything. You like cars, and you

pay for the privilege of having a nice car. You would if you could,

but where does it start? What about if you fancy becoming a Formula One

driver? Is it within your reach? Are you younger than any of us?

Angellica Bell has been to find out how you might go about it.

0-60 in 4.5 seconds. Your backside an inch off the ground. And did I

mention 20 other drivers and their families, all of them willing you

to fail? If you thought karting was a bit of holiday fun, you were

wrong. This is a serious business. For the last 50 years, if you

wanted a career in motor sport you had to start racing karts at places

like Strathclyde, just like world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson

Button. And a certain chiselled Scottish driver cut his teeth on a

circuit like this in the 1980s, and he wasn't too bad either. Of course,

it is raw talent that is the foundation for all of this, and

these guys have buckets of it. The hope of each of these young drivers

is to catch the eye of a sponsor or a scout from a professional team.

But the reality for the parents is that this is one of the most

expensive sports to participate in. Many people think go-karting is for

rich kids. What would you say to that? We work very long hours to

try to fund his racing. We have not had a holiday since 2001 because

everything, and I mean everything, goes into his racing. To complete

in seven rounds of the British championship would cost �10,000,

and that is just for starters. We know there are huge costs in go-

karting. What do you spend the money on? It generally just running

the kart - tyres, engine tuning, going from A to B, the price of

fuel. We enjoy it. He loves it more, you or him? Is the goal to get to

Formula One? Definitely. And you can get some of the money back that

you have put in. Hopefully, it would be good to get some money

back. We have spent enough. With these financial pressures,

motorsport careers can be over before drivers get out of the pit

lane. But if everything clicks at the right time, something special

can happen. Local boy Paul HIP that big time in 2009 when he became a

Formula One driver, and he owes it all to karting. I believe it is the

most important thing of any racing driver's career. You build your

foundations there, your race craft. It is really a big family

orientated sport. There are a lot of parents spending serious money.

They think you can buy it, but it cannot be bought. Skills cannot be

bought. It is about hard work and determination. It is about family

support and enjoying the family -- enjoying the hobby as a family.

have seen the kids do it so it is David Coulthard, eat your heart out.

Do you remember those days? Absolutely. Fantastic times. You

can see the talent there immediately. If you can drive karts,

you know they have talent. But for heaven's sake, look at this clip of

That is painful, painful! I thought you were really good. Not at

football, but acting. I am very bad at football. You did not like that,

did you? I thought that had disappeared into the mists of time.

Last year somebody showed it to me on YouTube. Nowadays, nothing will

disappear again. It is from an anti-smoking film that Glasgow

council made in 1987 or something. My first ever paid acting job. I

think I was 15. We have a picture of you here, DC. Can you see my

steely focus? I think I was 12 years old. That was in the village

in Scotland where I grew up, in my father's yard. I used to practise

around the yard. Look at Jake, looking forlorn. We could not have

one of you, could we? Yes, because your wife is friends with the

producer. Look at little Jake. Superman. A look about as old as

Sebastian Vettel. You are doing Spiderman in a Superman costume.

could only afford one costume, so he had to improvise. It is the same

colours. Do you fancy a pirate banquet? Jay Rayner has been

preparing a feast for feisty pirates, but first, how about Jay

debunking some food meths. This is For centuries, we believe the Earth

was at the centre of the universe, that the world was flat and that

eating crusts make your hair curly. But there are some scientists who

say there are long-held beliefs in the kitchen which are long past

their sell-by date. Why do you sift flour? To get some air into it.

do you sift flour? To get the lumps out. What if I told you you did not

need to sift it? I would probably still go on sifting it, habit of a

lifetime. Cooking tips are often passed down from generation to

generation without question. Professor Peter Barham from the

University of Bristol specialises in the science of cooking. He's as

some of the age-old tips, such as sieving flour, are completely

pointless. You are going to mix other things in there and the lumps

will go. You're saying you do not need to sift it? It just wastes

time. Where did it come from? mum used to go shopping to the

grocer's when I was a child and there was an open top of flour.

Think what else might be in there. Some wildlife? Exactly. You do not

want mouse droppings in your cake. He wants to convince me, starting

with a state, searing the Jews in, as the cookbook says. It does not

happen. So you want to Brown mistake, but you're not sealing the

Jews in there. -- Brown at the stake. But you're not ceiling in

A couple of minutes each side and the evidence is clear. The moment

of truth. If it has been sealed, it should still weigh the same. 271.1

grams. And falling, as even more of the juices evaporate into the air.

It is not doing a good job of sealing it. They will carry on

coming out for a while. He wants to bust another myth. We habitually

add salt to boiled greens, but can we taste it? Call me when you are

ready. Only he knows which plagues of beans have been boiled in salted

water. -- which plates. I think that one, that one and that one are

salted and those ones are not. got one of each wrong. Oh, dear. I

did get four out of six right, but judging by previous experiments, he

said that was a random chance. take them out of the water and the

water drains off and takes the sort with it. By and large, nobody can

get this test right. I am not going to feel bad about this. Finally, a

meringue. Strictly egg whites, apparently not. That is the amount

of a joke that most home cooks would regard as a disaster in their

egg whites for a meringue. Here goes. The egg yolk contains fat. If

you get that into the egg whites, you have to beat harder. And the

old days, by hand, you would need a lot of energy to do it, but with an

electric beater, no trouble. My pure egg whites are soon whipped

up to a peak. Peter's with the added egg-yolk, take a bit longer.

It's hard work. Now, Peter, I can see that if we did this for long

enough it would go like that. I think the advice has to be, don't

put egg yolks in your egg whites. Good advice, because it does take

forever. Science may prove that a yokes do not ruin a meringue, but

when it is such hard work, in this We are sitting at Captain Rayner's

table. Before we tuck into this, any more myths about food? People

assume red wine with neat, white wine with fish. If you are buying

the wine, you can do what you like. There is red wine are you can do

with fish, as long as you avoid the tannins, the rough stuff that comes

with the appeal and the seats. Go for a light red wine and it will

work perfectly with fish. You can do what you like. They are eating

behind us. We did think addressing me as a pirate and we thought we

did not need to. -- thought of dressing me up as a pirate. If you

are red sea for a long time, there is a lot of sorting and pickling.

Those are great methods of preserving food for a long time.

Salt beef particularly is wonderful. If you put it in Brian Conley can

You can eat. You might not want to, but please do. This is a stew, but

nobody is entirely sure what has to be in it. This one has chicken,

pickled vegetables, anchovies. You're not a huge fan of anchovies.

But I am liking this. It dates back a long wave. What is a ship's

biscuit. It looks like bread. pretty much his bread. You put the

flour and water together. Should I Of course, there is this thing

about wickets, and people who worked on boats. It is true, if

you're out at sea, you're not going to get much in the way of fresh

vegetables. Once they realised that scurvy was caused by a lack of

vitamin C, they could do it with their rum punch. So, pirates were

amongst the healthiest people on the sea? I would not say that, they

had a very low life-expectancy, it is not a healthy lifestyle.

David's new film, the pirates also We could not carry on without

talking to our pirates. You're from the Isle of Wight. We are indeed.

We are actually a pirate charity, we do performances all over the

place, and educate people about pirates. Why would you do that

Benstead people want to know about you, so you get to teach them about

what pirates are really like. They are not what you might think. Most

people think they're a bit too nice these days. That's thanks to

Hollywood. In fact, they were criminals. Exactly. So they were

not particularly nice people. But on the other hand, they were not

quite as nasty as people said at the time. These pirates, they still

had their wenches. So, what's your name? Marina. How come you got

involved with this lot? I was part of a medieval re-enactment group. I

got involved in this kind of thing, so I moved on into the pirate thing.

I am Sue. Who is the best here at On the family grave in Hampshire,

two initials commemorate one of the most famous women in British

history, Florence Nightingale, widely regarded as the founder of

modern nursing, and legendary for tending wounded soldiers during the

Crimean War. She was born in Florence, hence the name. I knew

she came from a wealthy family, but I wasn't expecting this. This is

her family home in Romsey, Hampshire. Florence's father paid

�125,000 for it in 1825, when over �9 million in today's money. I am

spending the night here to find out how her childhood influenced the

woman she was to become. This grand house is no was cool, but there is

plenty Florence would recognise. I like this! The library was very

important to Florence, from her earliest years, when she arrived

here, aged five. She learned everything from her father,

including philosophy and history. She is recorded to have been a

superb mathematician, and a lot of that came from her father.

young Florence grow up at a time when a woman of her class was

expected to be a wife and mother, but she wanted something different.

These are just some of her writings, thousands of letters and essays,

statistical studies. She also sang and played the piano and later

would recommend music as therapy for patients. The popular view of

Florence Nightingale is as a gentle figure, wafting around with her

lamp, but that was not necessarily the case. No, if she had been

gentle, she would not have got anywhere. By the standards of the

age, she was extremely feisty. If you thought of Margaret Thatcher

with a lump, you would be much closer. Florence never got married,

and often described herself as a man of action. -- with a lamp. By

the 1850s, she was running a small hospital in London. When she set

off in October 1854, she was just heading off an expedition of nurses,

but when she found that the situation in the Crimea was so bad,

and because her work was reported so favourably, immediately be she

became a media star. So, where and my sleeping tonight? They have put

me on the ground floor, where the butler slept. I know my place.

Clearly, I was not going to make a film about Florence Nightingale

without brandishing one of these. This is the type she used in the

Crimea. Not the type seen so often I slept very benignly beneath the

lovely big picture of Florence Nightingale. I wonder what she felt

like being in this great big place, with these big gardens. I think she

might have got a bit bored. I am thinking she really wanted to get

out into the world. Another thing that struck me about this house is

the fact that the windows had wonderful views. Particularly here,

in the drawing room, which was added as an extension to the house

by the Nightingale family in the 1830s. She later wondered about

turning it into a hospital ward. She might have preferred this place

to have been a hospital, but I doubt she would have minded it

being a school, a place to inspire young people to get out into the

world and follow the example of Florence Nightingale, get things

done. Good advice. If you're worried about the pirates, things

have calmed down over there. It was always the way, apparently.

Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations are on their way, and

you are all invited to the big street party. The man handing out

the invitations is the Eden Project's Tim Smit. We are hoping

to put together the biggest gathering of people on the streets

of our country since VE Day. It is happening on June 3rd. There's four

days of celebrations, the wonderful pageant on the River Thames in

London, the concert on the Monday, the beacons all over the country,

and the thing which takes place everywhere in Britain will be the

Big Lunch, where ordinary people get out and meet their neighbours.

You have done this before, you were not sure whether to do it again,

but you had all of this correspondence afterwards? Yes, we

had about a million people taking part, and then people said, it has

changed our neighbourhoods, we have set up babysitting circles, cycling

clubs, it has created a fabric in society. Last year we had four

million people taking part. You have Barbara Windsor on. Yes, live

on the show. Absolutely, but this year, already come on the website,

we have had more than five times the number of people who took part

last year have registered already. You have said that one of the most

difficult things is just knocking on the door and saying hello to

your neighbour for the first time, for some people? That's right. It

carries through right into your adulthood. The Big Lunch gives you

permission to knock on that door and say, a friend, let's have lunch

together. Do you know the names of your neighbours, Jake? Yes, and

didn't quite proud of that, because it does not always happen in London.

So, the names are...? We have flats next door to us, Peter and Maddie

in the top flat, Peter is a West End star, John and Gustav

downstairs. A couple of South African brothers. Barbara

downstairs, and above Barbara, they have just moved in. But I do not

know their names. What about you, David, you live in Monaco? Yes, so,

Prince Albert is my landlord, I guess. Can you get him involved

with the Big Lunch, please? Is bunting biggie in Monaco? I'm not

sure. I am in a racing block, for racing drivers. I have got Felipe

Massa as my neighbour. His little kid running up and down, or maybe

it is him. What about you, David Tennant? I am very well acquainted

with my neighbours, but I'm not going into it on national

television. Very diplomatic. Good luck with this, and thanks for

being here, Tim Smit. And we have got more about that on our website.

Here's a story, last month, Britain's rhythmic gymnastics team

were on the show, fearing that their Olympic dream was over, after

a misunderstanding on qualification. The last time they were here, they

could not have been more sad. But I bet they will be a lot happier now,

because they will be participating after all. Come in, Sarah, can you

hear us? Yes, we can hear you. us about the moment you realised

you were in the Games. Oh, it was just fantastic. We all gathered

together in a room, we were holding hands, and we got the news, we just

screamed.. Could you believe it at the time? Well, yes, because we

always knew we were right on the documents. But it was great that it

finally happened, and we were going to the Olympic Games. I know it was

really emotional, but what was the moment actually like? We had to

prepare ourselves for the worst, so we were hoping for good news, but

obviously, we were not so sure. you scream and shout? Screaming,

shouting, crying, everything. That's the way to do it, hope for

the best, prepare for the worst. are really looking forward to

seeing you perform in the Games. And they have done something