10/02/2012 The One Show

Hello, friends, and welcome to your cosy, warm, television fire in the

corner of the room that is the One Show with Alex Jones and Chris

Evans. Forgive me, here is a warning. I will be smug later

because this week I found out I am a miles better than Chris at

something. What's more, it is to do with cars, and he is gutted.

there is a reason that she beat me, OK! Anyway... More of that later,

but let's get on to their guests. We are very lucky that the one

shows studio is on the first floor because Lady Agnes Holland does not

do downstairs. Let's hear it for the star of Upstairs Downstairs,

Keeley Hawes. Good evening. She is very beautiful, isn't she? Thank

you. What is better, upstairs or downstairs? Where would you prefer

to be? Now you are asking. Where would you prefer to be? Upstairs, I

think. That is the safe answer at 7:00pm! Also, never mind the BAFTAs

on Sunday, he has just been awarded a LAFTA prize for best joke of 2012.

Do you want to hear it? Take it away, Tim Vine. Conjunctivitis .com,

a sight for sore eyes! He once broke the record for one-liners in

an hour, 499. He knows so many jokes he could go on all night.

on the butlers, they can take it but cannot dish it out. I have a

friend to as a butler and his left arm is missing. Serves him right.

Black beauty, he is a dark horse. Exit signs, they are on the way out.

I went to Alcoholics Anonymous and he said, you want gamblers

Anonymous. I said, you are probably right, I never know where I am.

have to stop him, because we would get the biggest ratings ever and we

would be out of the job. And yet another special guest. Cumin,

special guest number three. Welcome to the programme. Sit down. You

look lovely as well. Thank you. What is your name? Bronwyn Taylor.

Where are you from? Inverness. I am 16. What are you studying?

Hairdressing. Why do you think she is here? We will give you another

clue. There is a shiny van parked outside, and she will be giving us

a lift in it later, but she will not be driving it could. Bath --

she will not be driving it. That was dramatic. The big freeze has us

in its clutches and it looks like it will be here for a while.

latest tactic is through -- freezing rain. We are slipping in

all of the wrong directions. Yesterday, we put pedal to the

metal to find out there who was the best in the pilot for our brand new

hit show, driving on ice. I love driving. Skidding on ice, I am not

sure about that. We are in the perfect place to practise. Is it a

good idea to drive on this? Most of it is about what goes on under here.

This is an environmental testing facility, where manufacturers' test

vehicles. I am here to find out exactly what you should remember

before you even start your car. This is a real car. This is real

ice. How come? Because it is absolutely freezing in here. In

fact, it is below freezing. A quick guide. Give us three tips for cold

starting. You need to give your battery charged. Second, anti-

freeze. Make sure your anti-freeze is up to the right level. Third,

screen wash, make sure it does not freeze when you squirt it on.

freeze is very important. We have four containers with different

levels of anti-freeze. This one is 50%, which will keep your engine

caul. This end, it is frozen solid, only 5%. We like these, but not

these. On a cold day, your engine can still overheat. If you do not

have coolant going around, you will overheat the engine and break it.

Check your levels. Engine, sorted. Next, how to keep your cool while

driving on ice. What are we doing here? Imagine your journey to work.

We will go round some Benz and round a roundabout and see how you

get on. Is it a competition? will time it, but it is about

safety, so you will be fined for knocking over cones. Not that your

competitive! Come on, Wales, England. Luckily, I have an

advantage, winter tyres. Once the temperature gets below seven

degrees centigrade, normal rubber starts to be less pliable. Imagine

this was a normal day. You would give it some gas as you pull away,

and feel what happens. Can you feel it slipping? Now, move away with no

gas, and it has found the grip. is giving the car a chance to grip

the road. Bring the wheel round quite hard. Did you feel it going?

Yes. What you did, as it skidded, you turn a bit tighter. As it skids,

bring the steering off and then tried turning. Come in here. Hard

steel left. And now bring the wheel back slightly. And then back on

again. When you bring you back, it will get a grip. Lets go. Put the

time on it. Let's go. How is my driving? Pretty good, actually,

Alex. I feel quite safe. I have stopped the clock. Many of the One

Show viewers have opinions about what to do while driving in the ice.

Don't use the brakes, use your ears to slow down, keep the car pointing

in the right direction. Are they right? There is nothing wrong with

using the brakes, but yanking on the brakes will give you a problem.

It is not going anywhere, is it? That is just slipping away. It is

the slowest thing you have ever seen. He is like an old man. My

grandfather could go round quicker. Come on! It is not going very well.

That is a penalty for the cones. did not knock it over, I just hit

it a bit. Beat that, winter tyres. What? Shall we have the Times.

Chris, your lap was... 34 seconds. Shall we have mine? 25 seconds.

am sorry. You lose, because the sound effects of the cheering was

played in before you gave out your winning time. OK. You did have the

winter tyres. I am just saying. Not that it bothers me at all, but she

did. Do you drive in the ice? love driving. Who is better, you or

your husband? Me. I think he would agree. Do you have winter tyres?

After yesterday, I would strongly suggest a winter tyre. Thank you,

motoring expert, Alex Jones. Let's move on to Upstairs Downstairs.

Spooks was a long time ago, action, fun-filled. Did you do any stunts?

I did some driving on Ashes to Ashes. But not so much on Spooks.

We will go on to Upstairs Downstairs now. It is back a week

on Sunday, 9:30pm, a slightly changed time. I believe so.

last time was not last Christmas but a year ago to Christmas but it

was only three episodes. It is back with a proper series. Six episodes,

which has given us a chance to get our teeth into it and get to know

the characters a lot better. What is the plot this time? What goes

on? Much the same as went on in the first three. Do not say that! Give

it a chance! It has moved on a couple of years. Les see a bit.

This is key in action. Would you ignore this lady? -- key. Will fit

into this household in a different way. We come and go through

different doors, eat at separate tables, but we all give 165 Eton

place as our address. And that means we're on the same side. From

now on, I expect your behaviour to reflect that, or how else will be

survival war? She is who you want in your Cabinet. We all loved

Downton Abbey. I think it is a great programme. But we have seen

the first episode of Upstairs Downstairs this afternoon, and I

just think that more happens in Upstairs Downstairs. I have never

seen Downton Abbey. I am that person. I have never seen it.

Well, not as much happens. Maybe that is good. This is building up

to World War II. My character, Lady Agnes, comes back and her and Sir

Hallam have had another child in the interim. And he has been very

busy with work, and he starts to go down a different road, as it were.

With whom? With another bird? might be another bird involved.

Actually, their marriage is the little bit on the rocks. They are

coping with a lot between them. This is good promotional

conversation but Alex is this but ask about a monkey. The one thing

that you have that Downton Abbey does not have is a monkey. So, is

the monkey back? I was taken by the monkey last time. How do you cope

with filming with the monkey, because it is apparently quite

nasty? There are three of them, like children, you have to swap

them around because of their hours. Everyone is furious with them

because they earn more than the actors. They have a better union.

You cannot look them in the eye. Like Madonna. We have to ask about

Jean Marsh, the co-creator of the show, who has not been very well.

How is she? She is much better. She came in and we shot some scenes

together. She is on the right track. Your rounded vowels made to seem

perfectly at home at 165 Eton Square, but this accent was not

natural. You have had 10 years of elocution lessons in the past.

went to drama school, saw the young, so I had voice lessons. I come from

London and my dad is a London cabbie. I was never cockney, but I

was ironed out a bit. We have never had some. Incredibly. Never too

late. It is great for everyone to have their own accent. Can you give

us some tips? One of the things that we used to do, for your vowel

sounds it is good to practise with a pencil in your mouth. Maybe you

could have one each. Thank you, Miss. You have to say your vowels

whilst keeping it in your mouth. That is not bad. Did you ever do

the Jaguar one? My father's car is a Jaguar and I drive it rather fast.

Take it out for this one. My father's car is a Jaguar and I

drive it rather fast. You wouldn't. You are the slowest driver in the

world! The slowest driver in the world. A school in Essex has called

on an elocution expert, but not in an attempt to get rid of the

estuary twang, but to try to open In Great Britain we have many

different ways of saying the same thing. For instance the way Bath is

pronounced can be different. In a region with a distinctive accent,

for some the only way is Essex. want people to say some words in

their best Essex accent. Then we can get a real sense of it. Do you

know what I mean? What are you like? Shut up, I am on a computer,

all right? Worryingly, the next generation are not just speaking

like that. They are spelling like that, too, and in Basildon they are

doing something about it. This teacher came up with a novel

solution. She decided to bring in a private tutor to give the children

elocution lessons. It was obvious that the way they were spelling

words and writing sentences was indicative of the way that they

spoke. For example the word sport, because of the way they say it,

they were spelling it with the letter B. And other offenders? Some

more tongue twisters now. The rain in Spain it stays mainly on the

plane. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane. Well done.

This elocution teacher works with the children once a week. One more

time. We work a lot with exercises which

originate from speech therapy. If you take the word thought, and we

work on the initial sound. It is teaching them the tongue movements.

We have worked on lots of sounds that help them with their spelling.

I am learning some interesting techniques. Perhaps I can teach the

children something. Can you do the letter a sound? That was very good.

And now try hay up. That is right. That is how you say it in

Yorkshire! Vowel wants to put your coat on. It means that it is cold

outside. Thou wants to put pie coat on. I feel like I am back home!

are rolling all our hard work! -- ruining. Lovely! Tim has joined us

now. Where do you stand on elocution? I went to the elocution

class and this guy strapped me to the chair and put 4000 volts

through me. I said that I had come for elocution and is said that is

not his vaults of! We were talking about this beforehand. We were not,

but let's pretend that we were! It is all to do with text messages.

They think that is why they cannot spell. And speak. You don't have a

machine gun one-liners for two hours. Not quite that long. That

might feel like that. It is 20 minutes. Our research has said two

hours! But you have done 500 jokes and power, is that right? I did do

that once. -- per hour. But normally I sing songs to break it

up. How do you remember it? Well, I learned it! How do I learned?

- some comedians can be OK if they get it wrong but yours are precise.

Yes, I lose my place quite a lot but people cannot tell. You deliver

scattergun, but your tour is called the Chat Show. It is a break from

what I have done in the past. I chat to the audience. It is there a

desk? The car is not big enough for a desk! I am on tour. We have two

chairs, and I bring people out, and I asked you if you are a maths

teacher, and if you are then I do a joke about it. My maths teacher

told me to draw a square, but I drew a circle and he made me stand

in the corner, but I said where was that?! You are like Jeremy Kyle,

then? Hopefully a bit more friendly. Jeremy Kyle shouts at people.

are you going on this tour? round the country. I think we start

in Burnley and the end in Torquay. You are the brother of Jeremy Vine

and to get on very well. Can you dish the dirt on him because I work

with him? I cannot think of any. There must be some! He is such a

hard worker. Does he still run to work every day? I think once in a

while. He cycles one day, runs another, walks another, goes hang-

gliding on the 4th... OK, we have a challenge for you! Can you make it

bigger, longer, can you get more out of your act? Take a joke and

make it bigger. I can try. This is probably a perfect example of why I

shouldn't do this. Velcro, what a rip-off. That sort of thing. Yes,

other comedians get half an hour out of that. Have you noticed

Velcro in the shops? It is extraordinary. Terribly highly

priced. Personally, whenever I see it at extortionate prices, I think

to myself, that will not do. That will not do. In fact I put it even

more succinctly than that. I think, but Crowe, what an absolute, and

let me make this clear, what an absolute rip-off! -- Velcro. Tell

us the car park joke from last year. Was it last year? It was the one

before that. The best joke at the Edinburgh Festival. I have just

been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I tell you what, never

again. What is the car park one? Crime in multi-storey car parks?

That is wrong on so many levels. Brilliant! If you have got a one-

liner, police said it in and we can read them out. -- please send it in.

I cannot help feeling that we are being watched. Are you paranoid?

Don't be. It is probably the spy drone that has been watching.

Everybody waves. That is incredible. If there were some cheeseburgers

that would be brilliant. We can try that later! But what about drones

nowadays? We have learned to live with CCTV.

We know we are being watched. Some estimates say that we are caught on

camera 70 times a day. As a nation, we seem generally to accept that

cameras are everywhere. There are 30,000 run by councils and well

over 1 million private ones. Many would say it is a small price to

pay if it catches criminals. But would we be so relaxed if these

things became widespread? They are highs in the sky, unmanned aerial

vehicles, and already one police force is using them and others have

tested them. Many experts predict that their use will only increase.

This one is called a scout, and it is a vertical take-off and landing

machine. You can put high- definition video cameras on board,

thermal imaging, for example. could be an answer for shrinking

police budgets. There are plans to cut the police helicopter numbers

by one third. This is stuff when you normally use a helicopter but

the cost of this is much lower, presumably? Significantly. A police

helicopter is anywhere from �1,000- �15,000 an hour. It is only a few

pounds an hour to deploy this. Plus the wages of the operator. It is

easy to operate. You touch the screen and it will go to that point

on the map, easy as that. Satellite holds it in position. There are

some heavy winds, but that is not a problem. These can fly to 4000 ft,

with a range of three miles from the operator. In theory they are

technically capable of tracking you without you knowing it. I can bring

it in to land by itself. Surveillance drones have a longer

history than you might think. Unmanned vehicles were first used

during the Vietnam war to take photographs and films of enemy

targets. They are now mostly used by the military for reconnaissance

missions to hostile and dangerous places where it would not be safe

to send human pilots. The military have been using them for while, but

is it something that the rest of us will have to get used to? There are

only about seven drones in the country at the moment but there is

a Home Office strategy document in which they talked about expansion.

It is only the Civil Aviation Authority holding it back for

safety reasons. They have to prove they really are safe and will not

fall out of the sky and crush somebody. It is likely to get safe

in the next few years and then they will relax about it. How realistic

is it that we will see them in our skies in a few years? I think they

will be used a lot. The motivator at the moment is the Olympics and

security services. If these things take off, campaign groups worry

about what they call function creep. Once introduced for the most

serious uses, but technology then extends to tackle the trivial.

lots of things, they are introduced for a small and reasonable task,

then very quickly they are used for a range of other things. Before you

know it, there are drones in the sky to see if your dog is in the

street. We want to see proper regulation put in place before they

are flying around. If they are used to keep the public say from

terrorism, I am sure the public would support that reasonable use.

These have not been taken up widely so far because of their space

regulations and the high cost of training. -- air space regulations.

But this is just the start. As they become more technologically

advanced, the chances are that we will be seeing them in the skies

above was. For the moment, we are safe. This one has run out of

batteries! Matt Allwright is with us this

evening. Our friendly drone is still picking us up. Civil

liberties. This is an issue. What is going on? Supporters of these

things say that they only do what police helicopters do, but much

more cheaply. They say if you have not done anything wrong, then you

have nothing to worry about. What other police doing to make them

appear less like spies? At the moment there is only one police

force using them at the moment. And the people that make them are

saying that they do not need to look like stealth monsters. They

can be brightly coloured, obvious, at so not secret spies, but

something we can welcome and used positively. It is like James Bond

for some people. They look like children's helicopters. Yes, but

that looks scary. It is pretty much the same technology, but it has

been developed so you can use it in a different way. The uses they are

coming up with are incredible. It is not just to violence. Farmers

are checking out where fertiliser needs to be used. And lost sheep?

Yes. You could Shia the sheep as well! Fits some blades! And with

thermal imaging they can be used to keep firefighters say. Merseyside

police did not work out so well. They were trialing one, �13,000

worth, up it went, the battery went flat, it landed in the Mersey, and

never seen again! But it could have landed on somebody's head. Yes, we

must be thankful for that. What else can the quadrocopters do?

exciting bit, or the scary but, depending on how you look at it, is

that they are becoming autonomous. We have the quadrocopters from the

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They are not being

controlled by human beings. They are tracking that ball, working out

where they should be to play ping- pong with each other, without any

intervention from us. I don't know how you feel about that. You could

think it is amazing or scary. ground-breaking technology has

always been hijacked for bad in the end. Everything, any tall that you

use is down to whose hands it is in. That is why people but are

concerned about this are saying there needs to be legislation first

to make sure that the right people use it for the right reasons.

all technology. That think they make for 99 ice-creams, that has

never been used for bad. That was a suspected weapon of mass

destruction! There is also this. Commercially available? Yes, �300.

It is called the Parrot and you can fly it using a tablet computer or

smartphone. That has got a camera fitted to it. It has got a camera

as well! They you are. Move the cable because it is not working.

There we go. This is �300. Hold on, let me get it away from expensive

presenters! I am going to land it If you go on to do call Earth, you

can look at somebody's house to steal from it. -- do call Earth.

That is why it they need laws and regulations. You have something

here that could be used for good or bad, and maybe it needs a look to

make sure it is being used in the right way. The drone has been

killed, for now. It is time to reveal what makes our special guest

so special. There is Bronwyn, in her natural environment. Shall we

go and see her? Your natural environment. Why? I am being called

Britain's strongest teenager. qualifications do you have? Three

British Under 18 records of bench press, did lift and total weight

lifted. I got four gold medals. -- dead lift. How much can you bench?

At the Commonwealth Championships, I've bench pressed 50 kilos.

are only 16. And your brother is here. He is sporting for you.

is your goal? Where do you want to take the power lifting? I would

like to continue with the power lifting but I would like the

opportunity to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. I am not sure what

for, but I would like to keep the doors open. It is interesting how

this happened, because you just went along to the gym, training.

Tell us the story. My dad used to come home from the gym and Tommy

how great he felt and the great results he was seeing, so I asked

if I could join the gym. He said, yeah, why not. He spoke to the gym

owner who was happy to let the train as long as I was under

supervision at all times because I was under 16. And then you discover

you were naturally very strong. realised I had a natural strength.

Arms, legs? Everything. So you have a choice of what to aim for at the

Olympics. Have you seen your body changing? Are you begin your arms?

I have put on a bit of muscle. that bother you? No. That is the

impressive thing, doing all of this and keeping your nails like that.

You have a big competition tomorrow but you are going to do some bench

pressing for us. And in between the bench pressing and tomorrow, you

are going to tow us in a van. She is going to be pulling us in a van.

Even Jay is going to be in it! you want to lie-down? How much are

you going to be lifting. 50 kilos, This is about your weight. A bit

In action tomorrow. Before the end of this programme, Bronwyn will be

pulling us, just for a giggle. How many people can we put in the van?

5. And you're going to pull it and ask? Do you always have put one of

the cinema. Jay has found a cinema that is taking it further.

The classic Friday-night, relaxing with a movie and a pile of cinema

snacks. Popcorn, hot dogs, sweets, candy floss, fizzy drinks and

nachos. Hardly a magnificent seven of a menu. In fact, where

traditional cinema food offerings are concerned, it is the good, the

Bad And the ugly. In the early days there was no food in cinemas. It

was only in the 1930s Great Depression when American cinema

owners realised the potentially Moster profit from the King Kong of

Cinema food, popcorn. But Rowley is a top chef on a mission to deliver

a blockbuster meals to film lovers. A major cinema chain has recently

begun serving his restaurant meals to audiences during the movie.

There is no reason why kids coming to the cinema should have to eat

junk. Why can't they need something reasonably civilised. So I sit in

my seat, pick up the menu and what do I do? You press the button and

the steward will come and ask what you would like. You tell them what

you would like to start, and then what else you would like, and that

is it. It comes very quietly, flowing, nicely. To avoid spoiling

the enjoyment of others, the food is served from the back of the

cinema by waiters dressed in black, one black plates, and placed on to

rubber coated tables to minimise the noise. And that is before

thinking about the food, which has to be suitable for eating in the

dark. Visual elements are less important. Texture and flavour has

to be more important. You have to accentuate the flavour. And you

also have to think about what is going to work. Chicken noodle soup

is not going to work. But I have questions about eating restaurant

food in a cinema. If the film is too good, will it put me off the

food. If the food is too good, will it put me off the film? And could I

stomach the Texas chainsaw Massacre accompanied by a hope of steak? Do

you have to think carefully about the films that you can scream with

food? If it is a horror movie in 3D, that may be a challenge to people's

willingness to eat food while they saw Sabahs -- buzzing and the limbs

are flying. Is their willingness to pay �30 or more for a night out in

the cinema? The tickets for the evening show is �18, but, yes,

people are now spending �12 on average on food and drink. People

combine entertainment with eating for an evening, and actually it

works out at pretty good value. may be coming to a cinema near you.

If it does well, there are plans to roll it out nationwide, but how

willing are we to swap popcorn for a gourmet meal? The cinema is dark,

so how would you see what you're eating? It sounds good, I would

like that. If you wanted food, you should have done it before, or

after. How about my first time as a foodie film critic? Believe me,

this is nothing like a box of popcorn or a hot dog with yellow

sauce. Little fritters, Italian pork sandwich with fennel and

garlic. It is a little odd eating good quality food in front of a

cinema screen but I could get used to it. I wonder if I can fit in

desert before the end credits. do we think? Are you a fan of

eating in the cinema? No. I went recently and four people came in

and they brought fish and chips with them and knives and forks. It

is just wrong. Did they know they were in the cinema? Who takes

knives and forks with them? smell might put you off. They serve

a fish and chips at this place that I have just made a film about.

take quiet food to the cinema, me and my wife. I went to the cinema

the other day and a blog behind me started wailing. I got hit in the

head with a harpoon. We have a quiz. We will show film posters and ask

you to identify the food associated with the film. Here is the first

one. Which food applies to that film? When Harry Met Sally. I am

going for the pastrami sandwich. Obviously, the pastrami sandwich

was an important scene in the deli in New York, when Meg Ryan's

simulated having pleasure and the great line was the woman saying, I

will have what she is having. Pastrami has caught on, but we have

been served the bad stuff in this country. It is dry and thin. But

they are couple of places where you can get proper pastrami. You have

been to the place where it happened. There is a big sign they're saying,

will you have what she had? No. Two. Alex. Which food? We like a bit of

Pretty Woman. It is the snails, of course. Yes, that scene when she is

trying to hold onto them with the tongues. Have you had this

experience? You squeeze them and they flick out. Do you know what

slugs call snails - gypsies. Blazing saddles, which food. Baked

beans. Are we allowed to say farting. The great farting scene,

we did think this was the first farting scene in cinema but it was

not. Her 1932 Japanese silent film included a farting scene.

thought it could be confused with this new silent film that is up for

all of the Oscars. Tim, Forrest Gump. You are only left with one

thing. A bunch of grapes. A box of chocolates. The question, his life

like a box of chocolates? I don't think it is. This chocolate went

past me the other day. It was a Ferrari. There is no point going

anywhere else! All about Hollywood. Are you a big fan, Keeley? I like

it. I would not love to live there. I like it here. I would not mind

working there. Are you going for the pilot season? Maybe. You are

not to averse to Hollywood!. Jay, the competition. We want the best

One Show savoury pies. What makes yours the best. Include a picture,

details on how to enter on the website with terms and conditions.

We have a treat for you, because you have come here on your birthday.

# Happy birthday to You # Happy birthday to use

# Happy birthday, dear Keeley I am going upstairs. It is a

beautiful cake and we will share it with you later. Thank you for

coming on your birthday. I always thought you could not sing that

song because it was copyrighted by Disney. Now, from a noise in

cinemas that you do not want, to one that you do. Sound effects.

A film's soundscape is often overlooked as an element of your

viewing experience but it is vital, allowing you to immerse yourself in

the emotion, tension and scares, often adding huge lead to the

experience. You might be surprised to know that most of what you hear

in film and television is added to the soundtrack in post-production.

Sounds that the microphones could not pick up, like the rustle of

clothing, are we created later. out of their at once. You will

market with your shoes. Shepperton Studios is home to world-class

audio post-production facilities that have attracted everything from

James Bond to Harry Potter. Peter and Glen have worked together to

help to create many of the soundscapes for these films. I

think we should start with a bang. What sort of sound could we make?

Why don't we try the explosion from I think the first thing we will go

for is the flame effect, the fireballs exploding. Of all things,

we will need a plastic bag. Is this going to make me jump? No. There is

air trapped in there. I am not going to poppet. When I hit it, it

will buffer against the microphone. The explosions would go like this.

And then you have the sound of flames flickering at the end.

Genius. It is just practice. You go through life listening to things.

People underestimate how important the sound is in a film, and the

time that goes into it. People just see it on the screen and they

As well as the fireball, which I have just done, I get my trusty

mallet and in sync with what is happening on the screen, I do that.

This is just a normal roller blind. And she used that to make sound for

a film? Why on earth have you got that? That is the sound of the

winds. It is just cloth. Glenn's role is to layer and

enhance the sounds to create the audio effect. For the Harry Potter

movies there are magic creatures, which are not really there,

computer-generated. We have to do the noises for those as well.

will not save you now, Harry Potter. It only obeys me. As you can see,

there are lots of layers. Splashing water and footsteps, but if we

concentrate on the basilisk, he goes through water. We dive him

into water first. We have already made a mess on the floor, so we

might as well do his belly running along the floor. More water down.

More sand, maybe, to make that pretty sound. -- sound of grit.

is simple but so effective. It is an audio pollution. I am making a

sound which suggests a snake to people. Next time you are jumping

out of your cinema seat, remember that it is probably thanks to the

skill of people like this, and their creative use of surprising

props. Angellica is here for the first

time since giving birth to her beautiful baby boy. Congratulations.

How are you feeling? Really good. new look very well. I am wearing

black to hide a multitude of sins. You look gorgeous. Hello to Michael

as well. Is he watching? Yes, and he is watching with the baby, who

should be in bed! We are talking about sound effects in films. Like

the dinosaurs, these Foley, are they an endangered species with the

gimmicky technology? Most films have a library of sound effects

that they can use but sounds cannot always be recreating it. Foley

artists will be around for while and they are indispensable. The

dinosaur eggs hatching in Jurassic Park was made by squelching melons

and ice cream cones. They go through and think about what can be

used and what cannot. They are very good. And on the theme of the

weather, you have some examples of creating crunching ice and snow.

Can you hold the microphone, Tim? Recreate the sound of walking on

snow. Foley artists use cornflour. CRUNCHING.

That does sound like walking on snow! I don't want to make a mess.

She is very tidy. She is a mum now! And now ice braking. Close your

eyes. Does that sound like ice breaking? They have to turn it up.

The kids are loving it! They use lots of creative things. Are you up

for a challenge, Tim? Certainly am. You should be quite good at this,

Angellica, because you have been with the experts. Oh, no! This is

just a game! Keeley, you are in the film business, can you judge them?

Go over there and joined Jay. front of Jay, Angellica and Tim,

some props. We have taken some scenes from Upstairs Downstairs and

removed the sound. They have to recreate the sound using whichever

prop they think fits best. This is your scene, Jay. Watch for the

perfume and collect your prop. won this in her Ladyship's bed, 18

inches from the bottom, slightly to the left. What is that? She went

off Shalom off. We have taken out the sound of the dirty nappies

falling into the sink in this one. Take the nappies alt. -- out. I am

getting used to it already. Tim, your go. This scene comes from an

intense dinner dance downstairs and the soundtrack adds to the tension.

I wonder whether you might pass the Are you ready? Have you selected

your prop? You only get one take. I want this in her Ladyship's about

18 inches from the bottom placed slightly to the left.

BLOWING. You need to take the nappies out.

SLOSHING. I wonder whether you might pass the

salt? BUMP, BUMP.

What do you think? It has got to be Angellica! The nappies. They will

be hearing that sand for a long time to come. So tasty years ago

today anybody heading into Bristol city centre would have seen

something strange. -- 60 years ago. World War Two was over, and Dan

Snow, who I love, has been meeting the people prepared to deal with it.

This is post-war Britain. The streets are littered with

casualties. The rescue services are stretched to the limit as they deal

with the horror of an atomic bomb. But this was just a marks a narrow

and it was called Exercise Medusa. -- this was just a mop up. By 1961

there was a more devastating threat than the Blitz. Nuclear warfare.

The scenes witnessed at Hiroshima, when the Government knew they were

unprepared and something had to be done. Bristol became the very first

city to try to construct the potential devastation that would

follow an atomic attack. Exercise Medusa outlined how Bristol would

deal with the aftermath. The two- day event would bring together

Britain's armed forces with ordinary members of the public who

joined the Civil Defence Corps. They were trained to do crucial job

site first date, fired events and rescue work. They were ready to do

their bit. -- like first aid, fire events. We found this footage of a

gene working on the day. What was your role? I was a fake a casualty.

I had glass in my face and blood running down. We picked spots in

the rubble and waited to be rescued. Unfortunately I was never found. I

would still be there to this day if it had been real! Was it exciting?

In a way it was fun. Although the training was taken seriously.

this time a shop snowstorm had added an extra trial, giving it the

grimly realistic atmosphere. Did it feel important at the time? It was

important to know that perhaps we were ready if something drastic

happened. One of the crucial job that volunteers were trained to do

was to detect radiation. If the nuclear bomb had gone off, you

would have been walking around with the Geiger counter? Yes. If it was

too much, we had to back away. That was what the counter was for.

Hiroshima had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb just six years before,

so everybody had a clear idea of the devastating consequences of an

atomic attack. Was it just propaganda, what was happening in

Bristol? Exercises like this were creating the impression of an

atomic war which could be survived and managed. At the same time they

genuinely believed that training like this would save lives in an

atomic war. Surely there is not much you can do if a nuclear bomb

goes off? There was not in the 1950s. The atomic bomb is an

enormous weapon, but within one mile of the epicentre there would

have been enormous numbers of people who would have survived.

volunteers in Bristol, the threat of an attack was very real and they

wanted to be ready. Why did you join the defence corps? With the

Cold War, I thought it was very useful to help people. When you

went to the pictures, did you see her Russian on the news reels?

was sickening. -- Hiroshima. you think you're making a

difference? Yes, I wanted to help the people that were alive. With

hindsight, would it have helped if a nuclear bomb had gone out?

this had really been a nuclear explosion, I don't think we could

have gone in there because life would have been finished. Just four

years after operation Medusa, a top-secret Government document

revealed the true devastation that the new hydrogen bomb could cause.

The focus moved to deterrent. The Defence Corps continued until 1968

but its role became more about reassuring the public. Their

efforts may seem naive now, but in fact they are testament to the

lengths to which ordinary people, like the volunteers in Bristol,

were prepared to go, to protect their cities in the face of a

terrifying threat. Thank you. We are outside and

Bronwyn is in her vest. Very brave. She is also strapped to the harness

attached to the van that she is attempting to pull. Keeley and Tim,

go to the finish line with the ribbon. Is that OK? Yes. Matt, get

in the van, please. Keeley's mum, in the van. Which do you want to

pull? Both of them! Double jeopardy failed. She is up for it! You are

going to pull and then we are done. It is about three tonnes. Off you