09/12/2013 The One Show

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

Just as the weather turns unseasonably mild, we have gone for

the full deepfreeze look. We have got penguins and robins all over the

place. And a bare behind. It is cold for a bare behind but we have got

one. Would you be surprised if we told you that a peer of the realm

has been involved in a major political scandal? Thankfully, this

one has only written a musical about it. Please welcome Lord Andrew Lloyd

Webber. Alex and I have had a easy weekend. How does this compare? It

is freezing in here. Are these things ice? They will not catch fire

well they? It has to be a constant -6 in here. Well let's get the show

going. What is the Andrew Webber grotto like? Is your tree up? What

colour scheme do you have? I always love a tree because the family love

a big Christmas tree but we do decorations with cards. We turn the

Christmas cards into something. Just cards hanging? People will be

sending them in in their droves. And you have got a brand-new musical

out, talking about the Profumo scandal but rocked Britain 50 years

ago which we will talk about later in the show. First there is a new

supermarket being opened on high Street with some ten think bargains.

350 grams of orange cream chocolates which were part of the cancelled

order should be ?4 but will be yours for just ?1 19. 200 grams of stem

ginger cookies, the recommended retail price is ?1 69, yours for

29p. That is an 83% discount. Bargain. But there is a catch. The

shop is only open to a select group of 500 people. Tony Livesey has been

to find out why. Meet Brian, Sue and John.

They have three things in common. They are from South Yorkshire. They

all live on benefits. And once they have paid their bills, they each

have about ?30 a week to live on. It gets a bit touch and go. I would

love to shop at Iceland but we have not got that opportunity round here.

I was fined at the beginning of the second week of my benefits it is

running down very fast. That is about to change. The UK's first

social supermarket is opening. 500 people who are living on benefits

and already registered for this scheme will be able to come here and

buy supermarket brands at heavily discounted prices. The products on

the shelves are here because they cannot be sold to the main

supermarkets, either because they are out of season, in perfect or

they simply had too much of them. But they will not be out of date.

They are perfectly fit for consumption. This one, when it went

through the manufacturing process, it got weighed and it does not wait

quite the right amount. This has gone on for years and factories

where workers have been able to buy cheap goods from the shop floor for

similar reasons. The company which operates many of these factory shops

is trying to broaden that out for shoppers who are short of cash. It

is called company shop and it has given Sarah Dunwell the chance of

making this work. Social supermarkets are common across the

rest of Europe. If you work in a factory, it has always been

practised that you can buy that product. We want to take that out

onto the high Street and instead of selling it to in factories, sell it

to people in food poverty. How'd you set your prices? We aim for a third

of retail prices. We keep a focus on household essentials so people can

start to build up a store cupboard of things which you and I take for

granted. But not everyone is happy about the idea of this cheap food

only being available to people on benefits. The local Salvation Army

say they have seen a 500% increase in food parcel distribution compared

to this time last year, to people from all kinds of backgrounds. We

are getting more and more people who are literate, educated, working

really hard part time but what they receive with benefits and part-time

workers not enough to feed their families. I am concerned because I

am not sure whether the community shop will cater for those type of

people. It is something which we knew would be challenging. Everybody

in Goldthorpe would like to have a card. This is a pilot so we do not

know what the answers yet. This trial paves the way for another 20

social supermarkets across the country. For now, if you are not one

of the few allowed to do your shopping here at these knock-down

prices, you might be forgiven for feeling a bit envious.

How much have you spent today? About ?4. On two big bag. On that is good.

I feel happier, less stress and less worried and I can have a little bit

of what I fancy. What kind of savings do you think you will make?

About 30 to ?40 a week on what we generally spend. That is a big

difference? Yes. If I had been allowed I could have walked out of

there with some nice treats and a big family shop. At least, 500

families are going to be able to do something they have not done before,

fill a basket and do what many of us take for granted.

On the face of it, it does seem like a win-win situation but as you

alluded to at the end of the film it has divided the community? Yes,

there are people in work who say they should be allowed to shop

there, why should people on benefits get another benefit? And a lot of

will on benefits who are outside the geographical area said they wanted

in Oz well. They did not want to be on camera. But that is good news to

have people who want to shop there? They have had to limit it to 500

because it is a pilot and they have an educational hub above the

supermarket, teaching people cookery and dealing with interviews because

their aim is to get deeper into work and off benefits. The people who

have the cards, if their circumstances change, do they have

to give the card back Esmat yes, they are reassessed in six months

and of their supermarkets change day have to give the card back and that

will free up a place for someone else. It is a commercial company

behind this venture but they say every penny will go back into the

community. It seems to be a win-win situation. Our supermarkets going to

pop up in other parts of the country? The plan is to open up

another 20. In London, Boris Johnson is interested. And they hope to open

some more in South Yorkshire, maybe that Paul and Hull and areas of

desperation. -- Blackpool. What do you think, Andrew? It is a bit like

prepped do when they give away sandwiches to the homeless. If this

was not going to the supermarket most of these products would be

burned. As far as the price of food is concerned, supermarkets have come

up with some big news saying if Scotland vote yes for

independence... They have said the price of groceries will go up in

Scotland. At the moment Morrisons subsidise the price in Scotland

because of the rest of the UK supermarkets and because of the

levies on alcohol and cigarettes. Andrew, can you help us out? What is

the connection between you and this classic TV show from the 1950s both

Mac oh, no! That is not you. How did you know? When I was a little boy, I

have to say I do not ride but I was auditioned to be the little boy at

the front of Ivanhoe was said, Ivanhoe! Thank goodness I could

not. Could you imagine that every single TV show I would come on, you

would be putting me on that little horse. The other one I lucked out on

was I was asked if I would play the role of Mozart in Amadeus. But I

said I am not doing that. The more I kept saying no, the more they said

it must be about money. I said no, I do not want to play this role. They

often say the key to success is what you turn down. Well done! Back to

Ivanhoe. It was based on the works of celebrated Scottish novelist Sir

Walter Scott and Arthur Smith has spent the night in the little castle

he called home. Built on the banks of the River

Tweed, this Scottish baronial house was created and designed by Sir

Walter Scott. When Scott lived here in the early 19th century, he was

the most famous novelist in the world, and arguably, the most famous

man in the world. He built the house for his wife Charlotte and their

four children but they had to share it. With hundreds of ancient relics,

the skull of Robert the Bruce, swords, sporrans and armours owned

by Scots historical heroes Rob Roy and Ivanhoe, stories which became

international vest sellers. Everything he earned was spent on

Abbotsford. Scott wrote it was a type of conundrum castle are no

castle was complete without Haaretz. The landscape of the Scottish

Borders had inspired him since childhood. He collected local tales

and poems and published them. His reputation was made. What do think

it was about his work which made him hugely international and successful?

I just think they are cracking good stories. They are rip-roaring

adventures. The characters cut right across society. We have peasants and

the aristocracy. It is almost a measure of a great writer what

phrases they introduced into a language and Scott was responsible

for a few, wasn't the? Yes, like Lock, stock and barrel. It is

interesting how people will often use his words without knowing it. It

is thanks to Scott that tartan became the Scottish National Party

after he got his mate King George IV to wear it to a grand pageant,

although Sir Walter was not one to follow suit. He was essentially a

modest man. No tartan for him. Around the house he always wore his

shepherd's plaid trousers. Scott's day started at 5am. While the

household slept he was at his desk writing. At nine o'clock he would

rise the crew ride five miles to his day job as the court sheriff. But he

was not very good at his job. He made one man his gamekeeper.

Servants were his friends but Abbotsford was about living the life

of a baronial laird. Birthdays, Hogmanay and Christmas were all

celebrated in style. In life, as in his verse, the hall was dressed with

Holly Green, out to the would be merry men went to gather mistletoe.

Wordsworth, Turner and Disraeli all dined at this table. There must have

been some good hard to hear? Yes, Scott enjoyed a good party. He had

plenty of visitors. His nickname was Colonel grog and that stayed with

him. Scott complained his guests deal his time by teaspoon. But he

could not turn them away. Instead, he made use of secret escape routes.

This was a short cut to his bedroom. A tiny spiral staircase

connects his study to a of rooms. I shall be paying homage to sub Walter

by sleeping here in his dressing room. Humble but grand, Scott was a

conundrum like his castle. He was also a force of nature. Sound the

Clarion. Having spent the night here, surrounded by all the strange

artefacts of Abbotsford, I realise Scott had created a kind of theme

park just for himself, which he could use as an inspiration to write

all his novels and poems. The house did overstretch Scott but it was his

business links with his bankrupt publisher which ruined him in 1826.

He vowed my own right hand will pay the debt. But the increased workload

ruined his health and he died six years later. Here, in one of the

great houses of European Romanticism, he turned marauding

highlanders into heroes, made tartan the national dress and reimagined

the history of his own country. It seems somehow appropriate that the

country in question is Scott land. Thank you, Arthur. Andrew, you have

been busy writing as well. Your first musical since 2010 is about to

open to the public. It centres around the infamous Profumo affair

that brought down the Macmillan government in 1963. It starts in a

waxwork museum. Why is that? Cousin Stephen Ward ended up as an

exhibitor in the chamber of horrors. -- because. It really intrigued me.

How could it be that this man, who was the most popular man in London,

and easily so. How could he, a great friend of Prince Philip and other

famous people, end up in the chamber of horrors? I began to research the

story. It was almost unbelievable. If I really told the story now to

you, you wouldn't believe it. You would say that it wouldn't remotely

fly as a musical because it seems so incredible, yet it happened. What I

find really, really fascinating now, as we have played five shows before,

is the entreaty reaction of the audience. We are getting teenagers,

who didn't know anything about the story, saying, could this have

happened? There are so many parallels with what is going on with

the press and the police today. And you are getting older people who

really remember it. One woman came up to me after the first preview and

said, I was dreading this. I used to work for Jack Profumo when he was

doing his charity work. As you know, because he ended up resigning,

he did charity work for the rest of his life. This woman said, you have

got it completely as it happened. I can't tell you about this one, but

what I can say is it is very funny. It is very witty. It is a great

history lesson. Let's have a little look at it now. This is John

Profumo's wife, Valerie, paid by Joanna Riding, singing about her

disgraced husband. Start somewhere you can't stay with him, that's what

they'll say. Starts # And hopeless when it comes to you.

#. You have been working closely with Mandy Rice-Davies, who was at

the heart of the scandal. What do you want people to take away from

it? She has given me a lot of advice. Of course I want people to

say that it has been a great entertainment and they have enjoyed

themselves, but hopefully, I want them to take away a little bit more.

I want them to be moved by it, and to question how on earth something

like this happen. Having Mandy tell me exactly what happened, really

what went on in terms of the manipulation, that is the word -

manipulation. Of everybody. The girls were made to give evidence

against Stephen Ward in court and the like. It has been unbelievably

valuably. And those papers are still remember -- and those papers still

remain under lock and key. Simek exactly. Stephen Ward starts at the

Aldwych Theatre in London. Thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants

have landed in the UK without any controversy whatsoever. What is

amazing is the fact they got here at all. We went to find out how.

I have just flown from the UK to Iceland. To make the 1000 mile

journey possible, the captain has been using a huge array of

instruments to help him. An alternator to work out how high they

are. GPS to work out exactly where they are. And preloaded flight

information to calculate the exact route. Just how do thousands of

birds manage the same journey? And how do they do it without any of

this technical assistance? 35 species have been here in Iceland

reading over the summer. Here is a nice line Dick -- and Icelandic bird

expert. We have very few predators. They have plenty of time to have

their young and raise them, and prepare them for the autumn

migration. I want to track down the Hooper Swans, a British species to

us, but after hatching here in Iceland, they will also spend this

spring and summer here. Right now, they are preparing for their

migration to Britain for summer. -- for the winter. And we are lucky to

find a whole flock of them here. That is the largest flock of Hooper

Swans I have ever seen. They really are beautiful birds. It is an

amazing spectacle, seeing this many. Why don't they spend the whole

winter here? Soon it will freeze over, and we will have snow covering

the ground. For the Hooper Swans who choose the British Isles for their

winter destination, it is almost 1000 miles from here in Iceland.

October is the main southerly migration for hundreds of species

making their own journeys to their wintering grounds, some covering

staggering distances. These birds navigate an incredible 19,000

miles, from Siberia to central Africa. The Arctic turn is the only

bird to fly from pole to pole. How do birds manage these navigational

miracles with no technology insight? Holly Kirk is a bird navigation

expert. The understanding is, when they are first-born they are using

things the stars, the moon and the sun to orient themselves. When they

are younger, they start to develop their magnetic sense, something we

don't have. They are able to tell which way is north or south, and

they can work out where they are by sensing changes in the Earth's

magnetic field. What other queues today use? Once they have actually

flown to a place a few times, they start to recognise landmarks on the

way. They will be able to say, I have passed this mountain range or

this lake. Some birds use their sense of smell, the same way you

would use it to find the bakery in a supermarket. You follow your nose.

Often, they will use more than one at the same time, so they integrate

this information and bring it together. Although each of these

senses must play a big part in how birds find their way from one place

to be other, what gets them moving in the first place is something

else. That is in strict. -- instinct. The Hooper Swans need a

combination of environmental changes to occur before they will leave.

Temperatures need to drop. Daylight hours need to shorten. The wind

needs to be blowing in the right direction. Once all these changes

coincide, the birds instinctively know it is time to get going. I

November, most of them will have left Iceland. Flying about 20 metres

above sea level, it will be a battle against autumnal weather to find

their way to the British Isles. My flight will take around four hours

to get back. For this one is, if they hit the wrong wind direction,

it could take up to five days. The Swans might take a break on the

water, but they will not have any food along the way. When they

finally arrive, I will be there to meet them, and find out what told

this epic journey has had on their bodies.

These penguins were glued to the film! This little fella cannot wait

to tune in tomorrow and find out what happened. Now for Cats. There

is talk that it may become a film. Is that true? It has been in the air

for years. The success of the movie of lame is has meant that everybody

is looking at old musicals, and looking at the possibility of making

them again. -- the success of Les Miserables. Joseph and the

Technicolor Dreamcoat is definitely happening. Is that an exclusive? It

is! That has been signed on the dotted line. Congratulations. We

know that you are working on School Of Rock at the minute. What could be

better than a Christmas song from a fantastic Rock Choir? With a very

nice, neat haircut. Listen to that. The sound of

Christmas. This is the local branch of the Rock Choir, and I am joining

them for the day. First there are some faintly bizarre warm-up

sessions. This is Nick, and he seems to be the leader of this band. Is

that the case? Choir leader is my job title. The feeling you get from

singing with a group of people is quite unique. Yes. The only thing

that stops people from singing is their preconceptions of what other

people think of them. Is there an audition process? No. It is about

having some fun, getting them warmed up, and then starting to teach

them. It is like building wick by brick, sing after me, learn the

parts, and get them going. Then people can go away and practice in

their own time. How many people belong to a Rock Choir around

Britain? About 17,000. We have 300 towns around the country that are

rehearsing every week. Take a look. What do you think? Brilliant. Are

you happy? More than happy. Brilliant. The choir rehearsed once

a week, and it costs members ?25 a month to take part. This is the

lovely Shelley. She is a Sopranos. Have you sung before? Not really.

Only at home. In the shower, doing the dishes! There is something very

joyous about it. It is an uplifting thing to do. It is. You have a

rotten day at work, and you come along here and rehearse, and you

feel so different. Have a look. That is really lovely. They play all

sorts of venues. Today, it is a shopping centre in the middle of

Leeds. This is the lovely Trish. What do you do in the choir? Icing

altos. -- icing alto. I think I probably would sing alto. Why did

you get involved in this? I went along to a taster session. I said,

I've been looking for something for ages and I didn't know what, and

this is it. There is an amazing family feel. In the last year we

have done Living On A Prayer. And this is an opportunity to let that

in a rock star out. Is there anything more Christmassy than

singing Christmas songs? No. # MoJ me of a white Christmas. #.

How is that? That is awesome. Christmas songs just make you feel

good. That is all we've got time for

tonight. Thank you to Andrew and good luck with the Stephen Ward at

the Aldwych Theatre. Tomorrow, the Queen of Walford, Dot Cotton - aka

actress June Brown - will be here. Goodbye.