:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight's guest presents a series on car renovations,
:00:00. > :00:17.Do you think you can get this clapped-out old classic back to
:00:18. > :00:39.As it's you, Alex, I'll give it a go.
:00:40. > :00:42.Hello and welcome to The One Show with a spit-and-polished
:00:43. > :00:51.Well, let's give our guest a proper welcome.
:00:52. > :01:07.APPLAUSE That took ages, didn't it? I have
:01:08. > :01:19.been here since three o'clock shooting that. The car that you are
:01:20. > :01:24.featuring in this Sunday's new series is the great British mini,
:01:25. > :01:33.which is timely. It has just been crowned as Britain's West car. You
:01:34. > :01:40.agree? I do. I know we bandy the word around a lot, but I do think it
:01:41. > :01:50.is a work of genius. I have it on good authority that Enzo Ferrari,
:01:51. > :01:55.when he was first brought to people's attention, he was asked
:01:56. > :02:01.what he would change about the mini, and he said he wouldn't change
:02:02. > :02:06.anything. Also tonight, we have a birthday boy in the house, Paul
:02:07. > :02:10.Heaton. Along with Jacqui Abbott, his former partner in crime from the
:02:11. > :02:15.Beautiful South, back together for a new album, and they will be singing
:02:16. > :02:19.for us later. But first, one of the cheapest ways
:02:20. > :02:24.to have fun in your garden this summer is the classic slide, light
:02:25. > :02:31.flats and put washing up liquid on it and slide down it. It has been
:02:32. > :02:39.super-sized for the city street, and it could be coming to a town near
:02:40. > :02:43.you. In 1922, Charles Wicksteed
:02:44. > :02:53.transforms childhood when he invented the slide. Ever since,
:02:54. > :02:59.slide designers have striven to build the best. This takes the slide
:03:00. > :03:07.out of the playground somewhere you never expect. Artist Mick Jeremy is
:03:08. > :03:11.better known for public projects such as the sky Orchestra playing
:03:12. > :03:17.music from balloons to the city and in. His latest project is a 90
:03:18. > :03:23.metres slide on one of the busiest streets in Bristol. Nearly 100,000
:03:24. > :03:28.people have signed up for the chance to get one of just 360 turns.
:03:29. > :03:32.Understanding the physics behind how water slides work is vital to making
:03:33. > :03:39.it as thrilling as possible while still safe to use. So how do you
:03:40. > :03:43.start? There are two macro forces involved when you go down the slide.
:03:44. > :03:53.The first is gravity that pulls you down, but the second is friction
:03:54. > :03:55.between the you and the slide, and it is the combination of these
:03:56. > :04:00.forces that will determine the speed. We have to get it right,
:04:01. > :04:07.because I am going to be the first member of the public to go down it.
:04:08. > :04:11.Paolo has put particle physics aside for the day and come up with a canny
:04:12. > :04:20.formula to estimate my speed on the slide. So my final velocity is the
:04:21. > :04:26.square root of two times gravity, H is the drop, and this is how much
:04:27. > :04:33.energy you will lose because of friction. This is the length of the
:04:34. > :04:43.slide. And that is the inclination of the street, 6 degrees. So what do
:04:44. > :04:48.we get? About 20 mph. That is quite fast and! And how we measure this? I
:04:49. > :04:54.will be at the bottom of the slide with a speed camera, so I will
:04:55. > :04:59.measure it. Let's go! As I make my way up to the top of the slide, I
:05:00. > :05:07.start to wonder what I have let myself in for. Thousands of people
:05:08. > :05:12.are waiting and watching, but before I hit the slippery slope, I want a
:05:13. > :05:20.quick word with the man responsible, Luke Jeremy. Why and how? I have an
:05:21. > :05:25.office on Park Street, and in the middle of the heatwave, it was
:05:26. > :05:35.awful, and I thought, wouldn't it be great to be able to commute home on
:05:36. > :05:41.a water slide. This is it. I am kind of hoping we don't do 20 miles an
:05:42. > :05:47.hour. But so did you get the full experience, I am going to wear this
:05:48. > :06:03.camera on my head. I think they are ready for me. Here we are!
:06:04. > :06:25.That was brilliant, but how fast was I going? 14 miles per hour. You lost
:06:26. > :06:34.some speed bumping into the sides. But it is not too far from what we
:06:35. > :06:40.expected. It certainly felt fast. But that didn't stop anyone else
:06:41. > :06:46.trying. So what did they think? I think taking the slide to work every
:06:47. > :06:51.day would be a brilliant idea. Why not? It would save my legs and my
:06:52. > :06:56.spider strength. When the slide was invented, it was just a plank of
:06:57. > :06:59.wood, but innovators like Luke Jeremy have taken the slide into the
:07:00. > :07:05.street, and I think Charles Wicksteed would have loved it. I
:07:06. > :07:11.know I did. The best One Show assignment ever.
:07:12. > :07:16.How many kids are wondering why we sent a grown-up to do that. He is
:07:17. > :07:18.the most grown-up person we have on the show, that's why he's got an
:07:19. > :07:40.action figure. So, Phil, as well as your car show,
:07:41. > :07:44.you're in a big new BBC drama Why has the series been described
:07:45. > :08:05.as a love letter to Manchester? It is a 3-part drama, and it is set
:08:06. > :08:13.near the Arndale Centre. The story that follows is really about if
:08:14. > :08:20.family, and the emotional aftermath and how they cope. And my character
:08:21. > :08:29.is a central figure to the story, basically. There is a lot of stuff
:08:30. > :08:33.going on. And it is about the Manchester bombing and the World
:08:34. > :08:40.Cup, and you go in the space of three hours, we go from 1996 through
:08:41. > :08:47.to the millennium. Let's see the clip. Something happens in your
:08:48. > :08:53.head, you are driving a fellow victim home from the bomb that day.
:08:54. > :08:57.You will have to direct me from here. Turn left, and we are at the
:08:58. > :09:13.end. It's not that bad, is it? No, I
:09:14. > :09:21.think are used to live around here. Using Judy? Yes, I did.
:09:22. > :09:30.APPLAUSE And that is where the journey
:09:31. > :09:41.begins. I worked with Liz White on Life on
:09:42. > :09:49.Mars, so I had definitely been around there! All of the drama was
:09:50. > :10:08.filmed in Manchester, and you recreated the scenes on the streets.
:10:09. > :10:16.We couldn't tell which photograph was from the film and which was from
:10:17. > :10:25.the real bombing. That is good, isn't it? We closed off a street in
:10:26. > :10:30.Manchester in the Northern Quarter, and we turned up on set, and the
:10:31. > :10:38.production design had done an incredible job and put all these
:10:39. > :10:41.stuffed dummies in shop windows, because we basically reimagined it
:10:42. > :10:49.as much as we could, because when it happened, people thought they saw
:10:50. > :10:52.dead bodies, and it was mannequins. It is a week on Thursday. 9pm, BBC
:10:53. > :10:56.One. In a moment, we'll be talking to
:10:57. > :11:00.Paul Heaton, whose first ever album with his band The Housemartins was
:11:01. > :11:03.called London 0 Hull 4. It celebrated the underdog,
:11:04. > :11:15.and as a city, Hull can certainly But it has since been declared City
:11:16. > :11:22.of Culture, has a brilliant aquarium, and a week on Sunday, they
:11:23. > :11:35.play Arsenal in the cup final. Phil's team. You make me sound like
:11:36. > :11:43.the new manager! Here is a Hull version of Happy Hour.
:11:44. > :12:00.# It's happy hour again # A loving place to be
:12:01. > :12:06.# The meaning of style is a night out with the boys
:12:07. > :12:11.# If you don't win, then you've lost # What a good place to be
:12:12. > :12:21.# Don't believe it # Don't believe it
:12:22. > :12:29.# The best thing about Hull is the accident. The people make it. The
:12:30. > :12:35.feel-good factor in the town is all good stuff. Everything happening,
:12:36. > :12:43.the City of Culture. They get a bad press from the people in the South.
:12:44. > :12:53.# What a good place to be # Don't believe it
:12:54. > :13:09.# Don't believe it. # Happy hour again and again and
:13:10. > :13:20.again # Happy hour again #.
:13:21. > :13:24.APPLAUSE We always have to do that line of
:13:25. > :13:27.people on the telephone when we do a video like that.
:13:28. > :13:35.Do we take them with us? And the irony is, Paul, you are not from
:13:36. > :13:44.Hull. No, but I lived there for 20 years. To give them the feel-good
:13:45. > :13:54.factor, we let them win the semifinal. Well, thank you, or we
:13:55. > :14:02.couldn't have made that video. So you are not a Hull fan? Excellent.
:14:03. > :14:09.Jackie and Paul are back together, working on a new album. But you are
:14:10. > :14:17.not the beautiful size, are you? -- the Beautiful South. This is an
:14:18. > :14:23.extension of my solo career, not connect it to the Beautiful South.
:14:24. > :14:32.And you described finding Jackie again like... ? Opening up a garage
:14:33. > :14:38.and finding an old Rolls-Royce. Tellers about how met again. I
:14:39. > :14:43.hadn't seen him for 11 years, and I drove across to meet up with him. I
:14:44. > :14:48.think both of us were terrified. I got out of the taxi outside the pub,
:14:49. > :14:56.and we were soon reminiscing again. How come you have a pub? It has its
:14:57. > :14:58.own recording studio upstairs, and we were recording there, not
:14:59. > :15:05.drinking there, and we found it was going to be sold, so it was a sort
:15:06. > :15:11.of rescue package. And how is it going? It is going well. It has a
:15:12. > :15:26.beautiful theatre upstairs and is doing well.
:15:27. > :15:34.going to sing them, apparently. We have ladies who are called that in
:15:35. > :15:39.the studio. # Jennifer, Alison, Philippa, Sue
:15:40. > :15:51.# Deborah, Annabel, too... # There are other names in that song.
:15:52. > :15:57.What were the other names? You sung my bit and the other bit was sung by
:15:58. > :16:01.Dave. Cathy. Cathy. Jane. We have those names but we haven't got time
:16:02. > :16:05.for them. Everybody has sang the wrong words and put whatever names
:16:06. > :16:11.they want in. So, with your new single, it is called DIY? That's
:16:12. > :16:16.right. Johnny Vegas directed the video. How did that happen? How long
:16:17. > :16:22.did it take? He was very professional. He was great. He put
:16:23. > :16:26.his director's hat on. It came about because he's been doing quite a bit
:16:27. > :16:30.of radio work for Radio 4 and he asked me to help with a few theme
:16:31. > :16:36.tunes and I did that. He returned the favour. He rung me up and said,
:16:37. > :16:48."Do you fancy me doing a video for you?" It is an ironic title - it is
:16:49. > :17:01.not about home improvements? Yes. Phil, Beautiful South fan? Yes. He
:17:02. > :17:05.is not going to say no? I go back to The Housemartins and Caravan of
:17:06. > :17:10.Love. You left the band to look after your two kids. What is their
:17:11. > :17:15.reaction to mum going back? Did they know? Most of my family didn't know
:17:16. > :17:20.until it was in a local paper and they all rang me mum. My God, is it
:17:21. > :17:25.really back properly? It does seem like you have never been away. You
:17:26. > :17:28.look maybe better than you did before! You knew me in my wild days!
:17:29. > :17:37.Back on tour as well. People can see you. I heard this morning - I read
:17:38. > :17:44.it on Twitter - has the tour sold out? I think it is sold out. There's
:17:45. > :17:48.the odd ticket flying around. There were eight dates and they added four
:17:49. > :17:49.more. Lovely to have that sound back.
:17:50. > :18:00.Paul and Jacqui will be singing for us later on. They will. Now, we know
:18:01. > :18:07.Phil doesn't do wimpy characters so no chance of him playing this man.
:18:08. > :18:11.No. He's Popeye's friend. That's J Wellington Wimpy whose name inspired
:18:12. > :18:18.a famous burger joint that is making a bit of a comeback.
:18:19. > :18:23.Today you can have your burger any way you like it - fast and cheap,
:18:24. > :18:34.gourmet, trendy and with a multitude of toppings. The market has come a
:18:35. > :18:38.long way in over half a century. 60 years on, Wimpy is still here. It's
:18:39. > :18:44.still sticking to its way of doing things. While the menu may be
:18:45. > :18:50.glossier than I recall, there are still items on it that I remember
:18:51. > :19:02.from back in my childhood. The wimpy Grill. And the sundae. Wimpy opened
:19:03. > :19:06.in London in 1954. Its low prices created a whole new market in eating
:19:07. > :19:13.out. It took its name from J Wellington Wimpy, a burger-loving
:19:14. > :19:18.character from the Popeye cartoons. Come on, hurry up... Throughout the
:19:19. > :19:23.'60s, it grew to have around 600 stores in Britain. It dominated the
:19:24. > :19:31.UK burger market and was part of the cultural fabric providing a backdrop
:19:32. > :19:37.for Dudley Moore. For six years now, I have been in love with you. I only
:19:38. > :19:45.live to hear your voice. One cheeseburger, one shandy... But the
:19:46. > :19:55.good times couldn't roll forever. This bit of British Americana was
:19:56. > :20:03.under threat. In 1974, the first McDonald's opened. And their speedy
:20:04. > :20:07.counters started to make Wimpy's waitress service looked
:20:08. > :20:11.old-fashioned. Even the management were impressed with the American way
:20:12. > :20:14.of doing things. It showed us how popular catering could be done. We
:20:15. > :20:19.didn't think it was possible to achieve the sorts of standards of
:20:20. > :20:24.service and hygiene that is typical in America. And so we quickly looked
:20:25. > :20:32.at what we were doing and set about changing it. So, they emulated
:20:33. > :20:39.McDonald's counter-style service. Those branches were taken over by
:20:40. > :20:43.Burger King. Today, there are 1,700 McDonald's and Burger Kings
:20:44. > :20:47.competing with the remaining table-service Wimpies. There were
:20:48. > :20:52.many branches of Wimpy. There are now 100. Are you trying to trade on
:20:53. > :20:57.a certain nostalgia? We can't walk away from 60 years of history. What
:20:58. > :21:01.we can do is look towards the future, menu design, restaurant
:21:02. > :21:07.design, our offering and build on that offering. There is no thought
:21:08. > :21:11.of trying to ape the other fast-food restaurants and put your burgers on
:21:12. > :21:15.a tray and get people to do self-service? No, we are
:21:16. > :21:20.table-service. We are waiters and waitresses. You want a cup of tea?
:21:21. > :21:24.You will get a cup of tea in a china cup served in a teapot. There is
:21:25. > :21:31.something different about Wimpy. And their die-hard customers do seem a
:21:32. > :21:35.loyal bunch. For me, it's from childhood and given the option, this
:21:36. > :21:41.is where I will bring my children. I'm 91. Rose is 94. How often do you
:21:42. > :21:46.come? Once a week. Sometimes twice a week. Upmarket sit-down burger
:21:47. > :21:51.chains have emerged as further competition. But while a burger and
:21:52. > :21:54.chips there can cost up to a tenner, at Wimpy prices are closer to
:21:55. > :22:03.fast-food outlets at less than a fiver. So, does that combination of
:22:04. > :22:06.the fast-food prices and table service appeal to a younger
:22:07. > :22:11.generation of diners that I have invited from a local college? Good
:22:12. > :22:17.burger? Bad burger? It is a really good burger. It tasted like proper
:22:18. > :22:22.meat. Would they eat here again? No. I don't have the time to come in and
:22:23. > :22:26.sit down. Kat? I would. There's a definite need for sitting around the
:22:27. > :22:30.table and the quality time with your friends. Zoe? There is nothing wrong
:22:31. > :22:36.with the food. It is great. I would want to take it away with me. Will
:22:37. > :22:40.Wimpy survive? It is a historic brand on the British high street. I
:22:41. > :22:48.like to think that after 60 years, it still has a future.
:22:49. > :22:52.Oh, doesn't that look nice? Now, this is one of the beautiful cars
:22:53. > :22:58.that you have restored as part of the series. Tell me what is so
:22:59. > :23:08.special about this Land Rover? Well, the fact that it's a Series 1. It is
:23:09. > :23:17.dating from 1958. It was a - well, not a wreck. It had been unloved. We
:23:18. > :23:22.sort of just - it is his favourite car. OK. It is a piece of British -
:23:23. > :23:30.it is like the Border Collie of cars. Gorgeous. There is a plaque on
:23:31. > :23:37.the dashboard which says, "Tom's." Who is Tom? How do I describe Tom?
:23:38. > :23:43.He is Lawrence of Arabia had camels, Tom had Land Rovers. He was an
:23:44. > :23:50.explorer? He's been all over the world. He is 81 now and he still is
:23:51. > :23:57.exploring and he is looking to go back to Algeria, I think. Right. He
:23:58. > :24:02.is the most extraordinary man. We thought it would be fitting to put a
:24:03. > :24:08.plaque in. Land Rovers have been his life. I love this car. How much? You
:24:09. > :24:12.know, I'd do a deal with you. The problem is we haven't put it to
:24:13. > :24:16.auction yet. It hasn't been out. We have to wait for it to go to
:24:17. > :24:21.auction. Got anything else? There is a little number over there. Go on,
:24:22. > :24:31.then. Skip over. What about this, baby? Same colour as my first Mini.
:24:32. > :24:36.This is gorgeous. Isn't it? You have various standards to live up to. One
:24:37. > :24:43.of the particular groups - you have to be so careful towards - are the
:24:44. > :24:47.enthusiasts. Who are these guys? Well, basically, there's a
:24:48. > :24:52.particular engine in this. It is made by a family called the Harris
:24:53. > :24:57.family. You do not want to get on the wrong side of them. That is the
:24:58. > :25:03.Harris family. They are keen to check out the car. Hopefully, I had
:25:04. > :25:08.to bargain for the engine. They did us a deal. Alright. Let's talk a
:25:09. > :25:12.deal. As I said, we haven't gone to auction with it yet. Oh no. What
:25:13. > :25:16.else have you brought? Get yourself on the phone. I will give you the
:25:17. > :25:20.number. What else have you got? There is a green number over there.
:25:21. > :25:26.This is from Sunday's show. She is so gorgeous. I love Minis. You have
:25:27. > :25:31.restored this one. I love this car as well. This is its original
:25:32. > :25:39.colouring. Original fittings and everything. This is a Mini Cooper
:25:40. > :25:44.1964. Perfect. Here is what you and Ant said when you first got your
:25:45. > :25:48.hands on her. This is incredibly collectible. I will find it really
:25:49. > :25:53.hard when this car is finished to let it leave the workshop. It will
:25:54. > :25:56.be a recommission. All these beautiful gauges need to be put back
:25:57. > :26:01.to how they were when it left the factory. The steering needs to be
:26:02. > :26:07.recommissioned sensitively. If you did a bit of a spit-and-polish, how
:26:08. > :26:14.much would that increase the value? So, you are talking about tart it up
:26:15. > :26:25.and flip it? Yeah. Oh, Philip! Don't tell us. Not for sale, yeah? Yes.
:26:26. > :26:30.Alright. That is all for today. You can see From There To Here on BBC
:26:31. > :26:34.One on Thursday 22nd May at 9.00pm. Kylie is here on Monday. We have to
:26:35. > :26:38.say go Molly at tomorrow's Eurovision. Now from the album, What
:26:39. > :26:48.Have We Become, it is Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott with DIY.
:26:49. > :26:51.# Some girls lose their boys after years
:26:52. > :26:55.# Standing in line, it's a question of time
:26:56. > :26:57.# Who's gonna be the next broken heart
:26:58. > :26:58.# My heart belonged to a love so strong
:26:59. > :27:01.# I would love him 'til the day that I die
:27:02. > :27:03.# But I didn't lose my love to the Lord above
:27:04. > :27:12.# D - she was so determined to take him right out of my hands
:27:13. > :27:16.# I - if you're idle enough they can steal from the very first dance
:27:17. > :27:20.# Y - she was young and pretty and young and pretty is better than I
:27:21. > :27:23.# But we gave them all our kisses Now they found another Mrs
:27:24. > :27:30.# Some women feel if you put her on a seal it will keep your fella
:27:31. > :27:34.# But it ain't always so if you can grab him from below
:27:35. > :27:36.# That's a lesson every woman can teach
:27:37. > :27:38.# But my man was just the sort you could trust
:27:39. > :27:40.# You could look a fella right in the eye
:27:41. > :27:42.# If it wasn't for deceiving But suddenly he was leaving
:27:43. > :27:49.# D - she was so determined to take him right out of my hands
:27:50. > :27:54.# I - if you're idle enough they can steal from the very first dance
:27:55. > :27:58.# Y - she was young and pretty and young and pretty is better than I
:27:59. > :28:01.# But we gave them all our kisses Now they found another Mrs
:28:02. > :28:10.# Come on girls, if she's wearing a dress
:28:11. > :28:14.# She got high heels and he couldn't care less
:28:15. > :28:32.# H - I - S - T - O - R - Y Come on folks, just an ordinary guy
:28:33. > :28:36.# D - she was so determined to take him right out of my hands
:28:37. > :28:40.# I - if you're idle enough they can steal from the very first dance
:28:41. > :28:45.# And young and pretty is better than I
:28:46. > :28:47.# But we gave them all our kisses Now he found another Mrs