:00:20. > :00:28.Hello and welcome to The one Show with Angela Scanlon... And Matt
:00:29. > :00:32.Baker. There can't be many mums out there who said they had battled to a
:00:33. > :00:39.hurricane. Been attacked by flying fish... And rowed across the ocean
:00:40. > :00:43.nearly naked. But these mums from Yorkshire have by becoming the
:00:44. > :00:50.oldest all-female team to row across the Atlantic. Lovely to have you
:00:51. > :00:55.with us. We would like to hear about your adventures and sporty mums.
:00:56. > :01:00.Send us a picture of them, maybe in action and we will show some of them
:01:01. > :01:05.at the end of the show. We have a comedian who investigates the choppy
:01:06. > :01:14.waters of his own family history in his new show, it is David Baddiel.
:01:15. > :01:24.Good evening. How are you? Very good, how are you. Your show, My
:01:25. > :01:37.Family has been nominated for an award. Sir Lowry himself will be
:01:38. > :01:45.giving it to me himself. It is an interesting category? Because it is
:01:46. > :01:55.called My Family, Not The Sitcom it is kind of a family show, but not
:01:56. > :02:00.for children. I am up against Peter Pan and a ballet. I am a bloke
:02:01. > :02:06.shuffling around telling stories about my mum and dad. I am amazed.
:02:07. > :02:12.It has had rave reviews. I am pleased and honoured. We have
:02:13. > :02:20.tackled the pothole problem a few times here on The one Show. Father
:02:21. > :02:24.and son duo, Malcolm and Matthew who designed and ingenious pothole
:02:25. > :02:28.filling machine. But they keep coming and they can cost councils
:02:29. > :02:33.and motorists a lot of money. Kevin has been to see one council and how
:02:34. > :02:41.they hope to spot tired tarmac beat for it comes a whole lot worse.
:02:42. > :02:49.The potholes are bad on the bus routes. They are not doing enough on
:02:50. > :02:54.the roads. My last car was damaged with a big pothole. I didn't see it
:02:55. > :03:00.until the last moment. Their idea of patching it of is squirting a bit of
:03:01. > :03:06.cementing, they will not resurface the road. Potholes are a nightmare
:03:07. > :03:14.with motoring organisations say repairs could reach ?14 billion by
:03:15. > :03:17.2019. In Essex, the council says it has fixed 9000 potholes in six
:03:18. > :03:23.months last year. But that could soon change. The council hopes that
:03:24. > :03:28.potholes are about to become a thing of the past with the trial of an
:03:29. > :03:32.unconventional message in tackling the problem. The one Show has been
:03:33. > :03:36.granted exclusive access to see what they are calling the pothole spotter
:03:37. > :03:45.in action. I am surprised to discover a means joining the
:03:46. > :03:50.council's refuge team. To explain how the bin collections are helping
:03:51. > :03:53.to spot potholes, we are joined by Doctor David Greenfield, his
:03:54. > :03:58.research team are behind the trial. How are we helping to spot potholes
:03:59. > :04:07.in this bin lorry? We are taking imagery of the highway from the
:04:08. > :04:10.cameras mounted above us. It is sent back to the high-tech hub where we
:04:11. > :04:15.interpret the images and try and determine where the the defects are
:04:16. > :04:19.in the highway. How soon can the council then get to work? The
:04:20. > :04:26.council can get real-time information and manage the roads. It
:04:27. > :04:34.is like the council's Hawk-Eye? Absolutely. The Department for
:04:35. > :04:40.Transport has given the council ?183,000 to pay for the trial, which
:04:41. > :04:43.will run for the next two years. One local resident and taxi driver the
:04:44. > :04:48.council hopes will be pleased with this new technology is Ralph Morgan.
:04:49. > :04:55.The conditions of the roads are not good. He said potholes are costing
:04:56. > :05:00.him three to ?400 every year in repair to his. They have got to get
:05:01. > :05:04.their heads together and be more efficient on how they approach and
:05:05. > :05:11.repair these potholes. It is not rocket science. Can Ralph be won
:05:12. > :05:16.over to the potential of the trial? David has invited us to take a
:05:17. > :05:21.closer look at the images. This is a particular piece of the highway. You
:05:22. > :05:26.can see here, it is a decent size pothole, but it is not huge. Fast
:05:27. > :05:31.forward five months to February and it has grown and you can see more
:05:32. > :05:36.cracks in the highway as a result of a growing bigger. Part of the trial,
:05:37. > :05:41.we have a snapshot every other week so we can build up for this bit of
:05:42. > :05:47.road and maybe 12 or 15 images over 12 months, so we can get a detailed
:05:48. > :05:51.viewing of how badly it deteriorates. Ralph is impressed
:05:52. > :05:55.with the technology, but with the council yet to use this to actually
:05:56. > :06:01.fix any potholes, does he think real improvements will be seen on the
:06:02. > :06:04.roads? Providing the council acted on the information supplied by this
:06:05. > :06:10.technology, you have got to rely on them to make the repairs as soon as
:06:11. > :06:18.possible. It is the speed at which the potholes will be tackled that is
:06:19. > :06:21.concerning other locals. Instead of putting cameras on the bin lorries,
:06:22. > :06:25.put that money into the roads. It is all right saying talk about it, but
:06:26. > :06:30.then how long will it be from them? It could be another year. They need
:06:31. > :06:35.to address the question now because a lot of cars are getting damaged.
:06:36. > :06:40.Ralph and I are taking the concerns of the local people to the leader of
:06:41. > :06:50.the council, Rod Gledhill. What about the existing potholes? If we
:06:51. > :06:54.can detect these potholes, we can save taxpayers money. We won't be
:06:55. > :06:59.sitting on our laurels between now and then, we will be responsive and
:07:00. > :07:04.fix the ones that are urgent. There are plans to roll the trial out to
:07:05. > :07:09.York and vulture, but has Ralph been converted by what he has seen today?
:07:10. > :07:13.I am very impressed and hopefully this council will move forward and
:07:14. > :07:20.get these potholes repaired. I have got to ask, can I have a lift home?
:07:21. > :07:25.I will put my Mitterrand. Let's hope they get sorted. It is a
:07:26. > :07:29.lovely feeling when you know there is a pothole and you drive over it
:07:30. > :07:38.and they have filled it in. Thank goodness it has gone. Let's talk
:07:39. > :07:44.about your Connor comedy. This is in the Playhouse Theatre. It was in the
:07:45. > :07:51.vaudeville, but I have brought it back to the Playhouse Theatre. The
:07:52. > :07:58.whole idea came at your mum's funeral? I wasn't writing gags
:07:59. > :08:03.during the speeches. But at all funerals, people were telling me my
:08:04. > :08:09.mum was wonderful. It was a nice thing, but I said, I am not sure you
:08:10. > :08:15.knew her. When people die or are lost to dementia like my dad, people
:08:16. > :08:22.idealise them. You forget who they were. My mum was wonderful, she was
:08:23. > :08:27.nuts, completely out there, obsessed with sex and obsessed with G. Keen
:08:28. > :08:33.to tell you about her love life always. I wanted to retain that
:08:34. > :08:44.person, the live person rather than the fairy tale person. A big fan of
:08:45. > :08:49.poetry. My mum wrote incredibly, books about golf. She had golfing
:08:50. > :08:58.memorabilia and she wrote books about it. Let's look at a poem she
:08:59. > :09:03.wrote. She always had a quote or a poem. What bright and life
:09:04. > :09:08.throughout the year and makes all cloud let's disappear. What binds in
:09:09. > :09:21.friendships, strong, sincere? It is G! Who knew that was the answer? I
:09:22. > :09:26.think a lot of people would feel that is the answer. In this show I
:09:27. > :09:30.delve into the deeper reasons for this and they were, my mum had a
:09:31. > :09:38.long-term affair, certainly in her own mind it was a long-term affair,
:09:39. > :09:46.with a golfing memorabilia salesman. She was so obsessed with this bloke
:09:47. > :09:54.that she became herself, a golfing memorabilia sales person. It was
:09:55. > :09:59.quite open as you were growing up? If she had met you, she would have
:10:00. > :10:08.told you within seconds all about how... My brother tells a story
:10:09. > :10:13.about how my mother met his girlfriend at his market stall. She
:10:14. > :10:18.turned to the girlfriend and said, I have had a lover for 20 years. Then
:10:19. > :10:21.she carried on talking to my brother like nothing had happened. You
:10:22. > :10:27.wonder about the rest of your family and what their thoughts were about
:10:28. > :10:32.you putting this up on stage? They weren't that keen. My two brothers
:10:33. > :10:37.were not back keen. I said, you have got to trust me that this will be
:10:38. > :10:45.done with love and a celebration of how crazy my mum was, and how crazy
:10:46. > :10:50.my dad is. It is saying, this is mad parenting, it has made me who I am,
:10:51. > :10:54.it has made you who you are, we will wash our dirty linen in public with
:10:55. > :10:58.joy. Once they saw it, they loved it. Within the show, the washing of
:10:59. > :11:05.your dirty linen in encourages audience members to do the same? I
:11:06. > :11:09.do a question and answer at the end and people will put their hands up
:11:10. > :11:15.and say, I will have to tell you now, I used to go on holiday with my
:11:16. > :11:19.uncle. But it wasn't, it was someone having an affair with my mum and we
:11:20. > :11:25.went on holiday together. I have never told anybody before and now I
:11:26. > :11:31.am telling this audience. It gives people permission to tell family
:11:32. > :11:34.secrets. It is about my family, the show, but all families have weird
:11:35. > :11:42.stuff in it. And Andrew Lloyd Webber? What has led them to do that
:11:43. > :11:49.now. There has been a lot of interest. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber,
:11:50. > :11:57.a lot of interest. Very interested in taking it to Broadway? I was
:11:58. > :12:02.doing it in the West end, then he turned up one night with Tim Rice,
:12:03. > :12:07.by chance they came on the same night. I wanted them to sing Jesus
:12:08. > :12:11.Christ, Superstar. Andrew was incredibly nice and said I would
:12:12. > :12:17.like to produce this on Broadway. I said, you know it is not a musical?
:12:18. > :12:22.He said, I really like it. That would be brilliant. I am thinking,
:12:23. > :12:27.after this run, if people are still interested that I might take it to
:12:28. > :12:34.Broadway. Watch this space. There is another man who played a big part in
:12:35. > :12:38.David's life, Frank Skinner. Together they created a comedy
:12:39. > :12:42.partnership that allowed them to talk about football for a living,
:12:43. > :12:49.for a decade. Frank may have found a new partner, I don't know if you
:12:50. > :12:57.know about this, David. Angelica set them both a challenge for comic
:12:58. > :13:05.relief. What is it, Frank? The last time I did this, I was on horseback.
:13:06. > :13:10.This is difficult. I am feeling confident and hopefully I will pull
:13:11. > :13:15.it off. This should be funny, I have managed to bring together two the
:13:16. > :13:23.country's funniest comedians for a bit of a paint off, in aid of comic
:13:24. > :13:28.relief. Come on in. Now, your challenge will be to paint each
:13:29. > :13:37.other. Are you happy with that? Face painting? Now, on an easel. This
:13:38. > :13:43.will be your battle ground, Chelsea College of Art. Get inside. What
:13:44. > :13:47.Frank and Noel don't know, we have set a time limit. One hour and they
:13:48. > :13:57.will see their own portrait until the end. This is going to help
:13:58. > :14:01.Frank, because the colour is night. Will it distract you? No, if he had
:14:02. > :14:11.turned up in a white T-shirt and jeans, I would have had a seizure.
:14:12. > :14:17.Ready, steady... Paint! And our! Stop saying, an hour. I will start
:14:18. > :14:24.drawing first and then fill in like a child. Can I have a little bit of
:14:25. > :14:29.a stare at your face. I have never done this before but I have known
:14:30. > :14:37.you a long time. It is quite weird. Giving you a bit of a time check.
:14:38. > :14:43.Half an hour left. Half an hour? I am forsaking the palates, I am
:14:44. > :14:47.putting it straight on the brush. To get your hair wrong would be like
:14:48. > :14:54.painting the Queen and getting the Crown a bit wrong. Noel turns out to
:14:55. > :14:58.be an expert, he has a BA in art and an honorary Masters. He has
:14:59. > :15:02.exhibited at the Royal Albert and his paintings sell the lot. Frank's
:15:03. > :15:10.meet other excursion into painting in a comedy show the experimental
:15:11. > :15:18.art to an extreme. I was on a horse. What was the logic in that? It was a
:15:19. > :15:22.challenge. When I paint, I think I cannot do it. But he can, here's the
:15:23. > :15:31.proof. Is there a point where you think
:15:32. > :15:43.that if you keep going, you will ruin it? Yes, huge number of times.
:15:44. > :15:48.Clock is ticking, five minutes late. Are you apprehensive? I worry people
:15:49. > :15:52.would not know who it was. It is because I am painting may be the
:15:53. > :16:01.most distinctive looking public figure in Britain, with the possible
:16:02. > :16:10.exception of Emu. Three, two, one... Paintbrushes down. Shall I come
:16:11. > :16:19.over? Wow! I absolutely love it. It's amazing. It's got essence of
:16:20. > :16:24.me. I look like a crow. You down. It's a great chat up line - you
:16:25. > :16:31.don't look like a crow! I really like it. It's quite strong. I think
:16:32. > :16:36.the black is what makes it, and I love the way that the yellow is
:16:37. > :16:43.coming through. My girlfriend always says I have a head shaped like a
:16:44. > :16:47.light bulb. Big brain! It looks like my neck has had a really good idea.
:16:48. > :16:50.You can tell that has been done by someone who can paint because it has
:16:51. > :17:01.a real attack in confidence about it. You guys are kindly donating
:17:02. > :17:04.these to Comic Relief. I think they will fetch good money and they are
:17:05. > :17:11.really great, so thank you so much for being part of it. And thank you
:17:12. > :17:18.for your support and mild criticism. If I were producing the One Show, it
:17:19. > :17:25.would cut back to the sofa and there would be a much better painting. See
:17:26. > :17:38.if anyone notices! Be laughing Cavalier! -- the laughing Cavalier.
:17:39. > :17:41.You know him so well! They will be donating their artwork to Red Nose
:17:42. > :17:46.Day, and here they are in all of their glory. There are loads of ways
:17:47. > :17:50.to get involved. They are building, both really good. I am terrible at
:17:51. > :17:59.painting and I am glad I was not involved. They will raise loads of
:18:00. > :18:03.money. I hope so. Thank you, both, very much indeed. I will put those
:18:04. > :18:16.safely round the back. That is all for comic relief. You have come back
:18:17. > :18:20.from... From Kenyan. -- from Kenya. How was it? It was great. It
:18:21. > :18:25.involved some sadness, which these films always do, but there was also
:18:26. > :18:29.fun, and some danger for me and Hugh Dennis. He was not keen on my
:18:30. > :18:36.driving, so sometimes I was navigating, watches Noel which was a
:18:37. > :18:42.bigger mistake was at one point, I took in the wrong way down a Kenyan
:18:43. > :18:46.motorway. Then, suddenly, there were trucks coming towards us, and a
:18:47. > :18:52.Kenyan policeman trying to arrest us. I said, this is the bloke from
:18:53. > :18:58.Outnumbered, but it didn't make any difference. I eventually did say,
:18:59. > :19:04.we're from the BBC. Did it work? He let us go. I think it was because we
:19:05. > :19:10.were talking too much. You get on well and you are meeting up again.
:19:11. > :19:15.Yes. There was me, Hugh, Russell Kane, Reggie Yates. Everyone was
:19:16. > :19:20.really nice and I liked everyone, which is unusual for a bunch of
:19:21. > :19:24.comedians, but we genuinely got on. You can see David in the documentary
:19:25. > :19:30.about the red nose convoy on the 23rd of March at 9pm on BBC One.
:19:31. > :19:36.Shortly, we will meet four mums in about who will tell us about their
:19:37. > :19:41.Atlantic adventure. But first, this adventurer has crossed both polar
:19:42. > :19:49.icecaps. When we asked him to go back to his roots, he had to face
:19:50. > :20:01.the challenge of the high Street. How's it going? Slow but sure. I'm
:20:02. > :20:04.Ranulph Fiennes, and as an explorer by profession, I have experienced
:20:05. > :20:08.lethal situations in some of the most extreme places on the planet.
:20:09. > :20:15.But today, I've come back to the place where my sense of adventure
:20:16. > :20:25.first began - here in Lords worth in the heart of West Sussex. -- Lords
:20:26. > :20:29.worth... My family moved to South Africa after my father was killed in
:20:30. > :20:35.the war, but I did return to England with my mother and three sisters
:20:36. > :20:42.when I was 12 years old. It hasn't changed much at all. Built back in
:20:43. > :20:49.about 1370, something like that, you've got miles and miles of
:20:50. > :20:56.forests, fields. Wonderful. Time just goes straight back. Basically,
:20:57. > :21:03.I lived here in an all-female household. I had three sisters and a
:21:04. > :21:07.mother. No dad. Come to think of it, it must have been so difficult for
:21:08. > :21:15.my mum. She did really, really well by herself with four children to
:21:16. > :21:23.bring up. She was a wonderful mum, and she made this into a wonderful,
:21:24. > :21:31.homely place for us. I was here initially when I got sent to Eton,
:21:32. > :21:37.and I was pretty wimpish and got bullied. It was wonderful in the
:21:38. > :21:41.holidays as a refuge, but then, as the next term approach, you started
:21:42. > :21:45.to get apprehensive and frightened, and it got worse as the dreadful
:21:46. > :21:51.time occurred, and I took up boxing. I thought, if I was sufficiently
:21:52. > :21:55.aggressive, it might go better. Things got much better, but this was
:21:56. > :21:58.always the Anchorage, the home to go back to. This house was also the
:21:59. > :22:07.place where I got to escape from authority. My friend from nearby,
:22:08. > :22:18.Pete, and I used to play games in here. My mum had old oil paintings
:22:19. > :22:27.and stated that -- build oil paintings of ancestors hung up on
:22:28. > :22:37.the wall. I put a spear through one of the paintings. Peter! Nice to see
:22:38. > :22:44.you again. I saw you were looking at the roofs. That one there must've
:22:45. > :22:52.been a problem, trying to get round that chimney, because it is mid-set.
:22:53. > :22:57.Peter and I explored every knock and cranny of the surrounding
:22:58. > :23:07.countryside together, especially the nearby woods. It was there that we
:23:08. > :23:12.mixed the explosives. I can remember us shaking all the windows in the
:23:13. > :23:19.village on one occasion. I don't know how they put up with us. But
:23:20. > :23:24.this was also where I first learnt to be resourceful and resilient. My
:23:25. > :23:32.first long-distance adventure began here, on the banks of the River Lod,
:23:33. > :23:37.when my sister and I continued all the way to the sea. We set out from
:23:38. > :23:41.here, and the first three miles was pretty hellish. I remember that. We
:23:42. > :23:46.camped in a field that night, and I think it was the first night I spent
:23:47. > :23:50.under canvas. The next day, we canoed for around 11 hours until we
:23:51. > :23:54.came to a bigger river, and eventually went round to Aaron Dell
:23:55. > :24:05.Castle and the sea. We reached the sea from here, and -- Aaron Dell --
:24:06. > :24:19.Arundel. What a house! So Ranulph Fiennes'
:24:20. > :24:24.first expedition may have taken place in a canoe, but anything he
:24:25. > :24:42.can do, these ladies can do. They have riled 3000 miles. -- rowed.
:24:43. > :24:48.They are three mums in about, known as the Yorkshire Rovers. You wrote
:24:49. > :25:08.these ladies into it - how did it come about? -- the Yorkshire Rowers.
:25:09. > :25:11.Helen is a stunning not so secret weapon. She has a core of steel,
:25:12. > :25:18.though she doesn't look like it. She is spiritual and brought the Angels
:25:19. > :25:21.with her on the boat. Janette is a go-getter adventurer. If you give
:25:22. > :25:26.her an opportunity, she says yes straightaway and thinks about it
:25:27. > :25:30.later. And Nikki is probably the most organised human on the planet.
:25:31. > :25:35.When we go out, we don't need to take anything with us because it is
:25:36. > :25:40.in her handbag. How did you all make? Was it through the children?
:25:41. > :25:46.It was at the school gates, but we had the opportunity to have two
:25:47. > :25:51.hours on a Saturday morning, so we decided to learn to row. We met,
:25:52. > :26:00.bonded, and we went from the river to the Atlantic. As you do! With the
:26:01. > :26:06.kids, two months away, it's a long time - how did they cope? Very well.
:26:07. > :26:13.They don't need you as much as you think. They were great, so excited,
:26:14. > :26:17.but actually, it was something they got quite bored with after we talked
:26:18. > :26:25.about it for a while. My little one, when we went away, we were facing
:26:26. > :26:29.the Atlantic, 3000 mile, and I spoke to my little one on the phone and
:26:30. > :26:35.said, how are you doing? He said, can I pass you back to Daddy because
:26:36. > :26:42.mycelium is going soggy? Wets Jeannette, you brought some bits and
:26:43. > :26:46.pieces. What do you have? In the book, it talks about my reason for
:26:47. > :27:00.roving Boeotian. It was so I could fit into these, which is why it took
:27:01. > :27:06.67 days -- rowing the ocean. I will grow back into them again! And then,
:27:07. > :27:09.we met some lovely, wonderful people who really supported us on the
:27:10. > :27:14.journey. We were in Leeds one day with the boat raising money and we
:27:15. > :27:19.met a lovely lady called Isabel, and she gave us this lovely angel. I
:27:20. > :27:24.don't know if you can see yet there. It was lovely, is very rusty now
:27:25. > :27:28.because it has been at sea for 67 days, but that was our angel on the
:27:29. > :27:37.bug. So the Angel looked after you, but were there any points for you
:27:38. > :27:43.thought, oh, no? Look at this, it is quite amazing. We're really
:27:44. > :27:48.uncomfortable. We can't move in here. We are squashed together, and
:27:49. > :27:53.we have had water in, so it is a bit wet in here as well. It is very
:27:54. > :28:03.uncomfortable. It is very hot in this cabin. The storm is raging on,
:28:04. > :28:09.and we are a bit bored. Most men would be crying at this point.
:28:10. > :28:15.APPLAUSE That was intense. Very close
:28:16. > :28:18.quarters. I can't even imagine the stories, and you have put them all
:28:19. > :28:27.in a book. There is talk of it being made into a film as well. I tweeted
:28:28. > :28:37.about that, saying it sounded like Calendar Girls, But On The Ocean.
:28:38. > :28:41.The book is very inspiring, and we know we have lots of mums out there
:28:42. > :28:46.who are very inspirational in their own right. Thanks for these
:28:47. > :28:50.pictures. Jackie said she doesn't feel quite as accomplished as the
:28:51. > :28:58.mother is on tonight's show, but this is her and her son, Chris. This
:28:59. > :29:03.is Leo's mum Alex scuba-diving in Leicestershire. That is extreme.
:29:04. > :29:14.Scuba diving in Leicestershire! One more, this is Moira, Claire's mum,
:29:15. > :29:26.in her new hat. She is 84 and 11/12. Buy thanks to our guess. -- guests.
:29:27. > :29:29.We will be visiting the Viceroy's house with Hugh Bonneville and the
:29:30. > :29:32.film's director. Good night.