10/04/2017 The One Show

Well, hello and welcome to a new week on the One Show with Michelle

Ackerley. And Matt Baker. Tonight we have a performance good enough to

stop traffic from the cast of running wild. They have made their

way across town and they will be through into the One Show studio

before we know it. We just saw the zebra crossing! Also with us is an

actress whose latest role is arguably her finest. It is Gemma

Arterton. APPLAUSE

How are you doing? Seeing those animals must have brought back

memories for your first-ever acting role because you played an ox? I was

given the role of the Ox in the school nativity which at the time I

was quite gutted about because I obviously wanted to be Mary, so I

made my ox be the best ox. What did you have to do? I just had to come

on and be an ox and then I was in the chorus so I was singing but I

sang really, really loudly. I was about five, I would say. I do

remember the teacher saying you were very loud, went to? You made a mark!

Perfect. It is now you have moved onto rabbits because you are going

to be part of the new remake of Watership Down. What can we expect?

It is really exciting. We are updating Watership Down. It will be

an Netflix at Christmas. It has an amazing cast with Ben McEvoy,

Nicholas Houghton and Olivia Colman. It is the same as dial of animation

-- style of animation. Quite relevant for these times. And we

will be chatting about your new movie. But first, more than 5000

police officers from all over the country gathered in London this

morning for the funeral of police Constable Keith Palmer who died

during the terrorist attack at Westminster. One man had a special

role to play. His name is Sidney Mackay and this is his story.

I felt compelled to make this journey because I want to be there,

as a retired police officer, showing my support for the family and the

sacrifice that Keith has made. Today I am going to go to the National

Police Memorial in The Mall and update the memorial remembrance

book. I am a former Metropolitan Police officer. We are policing

family. My son is in the police. My daughter was in the police. Nina had

always wanted to go into the police. I wasn't particularly enthusiastic

for her to do it. In fact, I tried to dissuade her, but she was quite

determined and she was successful. She loved it. She and other officers

were tasked to go to a house to arrest an individual. An assailant

stabbed her through the chest when the door opened. She did not

survive. Nina is in our thoughts every day. The slightest nuance such

as a female voice saying behind me, dad, will still today turn my head

in the expectation that she is there. I think with Keith's family

that they will be going through a similar sort of thinking process. We

are so immensely proud to have it made a more formal process. I am

very touched. It can be quite emotional. We have now got some 4000

officers who have died on duty. Ladies and gentlemen, if we could

have a moment's silence in memory of fallen police officers?

Today will demonstrate to Keith's family that the police force are

there to support. There will be lots of other members of families there

who have lost a loved one while serving in the police. There to show

their solidarity with the family who are going through this tragic time

in their lives. Sidney joins us now in his capacity

as chairman of the police role of one trust and Lucy is here. You went

on to PC Palmer's funeral -- the police role of honour trust. There

were police officers from all across the country and indeed from Chicago

and New York. The Canadian Royal mounted police were there. It was

quite poignant, in that I never expected there to be so many police

officers and of course, the lining of the route was impressive from

Southwark to Westminster. Hundreds of police officers involved. But

more importantly I think for the police and the family was the

support of the public which has been demonstrated for the last nigh on

two weeks, in a variety of ways, an outpouring of sympathy for the poor

family that really had to witness an media the loss of a husband, in such

a cruel way. So it really was quite a poignant day and very reminiscent

of what happened to me nigh on 20 years ago. And incredibly emotional?

It was emotional and times like these are emotional and I have to be

careful I do trigger into words that caused me some distress. We will

leave it there, we do not need to go into any more detail, but Lucy, if

you could give us some numbers of the number of police officers who

have lost their lives in the line of duty this year? This year very sadly

five serving police officers have died will stop two of those have

been entered into the Roll of Honour today. Said beautifully described PC

Keith Palmer's funeral today. The other name that was entered was PC

Gareth Browning. He was hit by a car in November 2013 while executing his

duty, and he very tragically died on Saturday the 1st of April this year

aged 36. So entering those two names onto the role of -- Roll of Honour

brings that to nearly 1500 names of police officers who have lost their

lives in the line of duty. That Roll of Honour was started in the year

2000. Thank you. Much appreciated. Gemma, we are going to be speaking

to you very shortly about your new film Their Finest. And you play a

woman working in Amman's world fighting to be recognised? Yes. We

will get there shortly but first, is Emma Dabiri talking about a woman

working in a man's world, who went to extreme measures not to be

recognised. Women are now an integral part of

the Royal Navy and it is 100 years since the women's Royal Mable

service or Wrens officially recruited female sailors -- the

Women's Royal Naval Service. The story of women in the Navy did not

Berlin in 1917. I have come to see a precious document which shows a very

different story of women in the Navy. Historian Joe 's Stanley is

showing me the 1815 ships register of HMS Queen Charlotte. I am curious

about this particular entry, William Brown, dismissed for being a female.

This is totally exciting. This is proof that there was a one called

William Brown sailing in 1815 on the Queen Charlotte. She was 21 years

old. She was from grenade in the Caribbean. There is writing that in

this column about why people were discharged and it says, being a

female. The incident drew the attention of the Times newspaper.

Brown is described as about five foot four with considerable strength

and all the traits of a British sailor. One of the things that cross

stressed women sailors did which was as well as chewing tobacco which

meant they had awful teeth and adopting a rolling gait, they did a

lot of drinking because they had to seem like one of the guys say this

is what William was reported as doing. There are conflicting reports

about how long Brown served, either 11 years or more likely, just a few

weeks. I would imagine I would stand out a lot on a Navy ship, how did

she go undiscovered, this black woman in the 1800 's? She got on

fine as far as colour was concerned because there were nine people from

the West Indies on board and a couple of Africans. It was quite

normal for a ship to have as much as 30% non-British crew.

Black, no problem, woman, big problem! How many women were there?

I am thinking this is not very common. I have found 44 women who

cross stressed to go to sea. 20 were in the Royal Navy. Dressing as a man

might have pulled the other sailors when they were on deck but surely

William Brown might have been rumbled when it came to Bath time?

Victoria Ingles is the curator of the Naval Museum in Portsmouth. By

modern standards people are not washing as much as we do today said

they are not changing their clothes in front of each other so there are

less opportunities to notice. But equally, on board ship there would

have been a lot of boys, said she would not have stood out necessarily

if she did not have a big strong physique. What would be appealing

about a woman going to see? Might be the romance and a chance to see the

world and it was probably the chance to escape from something at

home as well. By disguising yourself as a man, you are immediately

opening up the possibility of earning a lot more money than you

could have done as a woman. Even after being dismissed for being a

female, it was reported that William Brown was so drawn to the sea she

declared an intention to keep volunteering for the Navy. 200 years

after the curious Case of William Brown, and 100 years after the

establishment of the Wrens, the Royal Navy is a very different

place. Would you say there is a quality at see? 100% quality if not

treated a bit better. Males and females do the same thing. What was

it about the Navy that made you want to

join? I wanted to join purely for the travel but also my dad was in

the Navy, and listening to him telling stories about when he was

away, really appealed to me. So I thought, why not give it a go? What

places have you seen? Just Scotland so far! The other women on board

become like your sisters and best friends. You spend all your time

with them and they literally are your family. Gemma, you were just

saying that your Nan was a really keen sailor? She was, she lived on a

boat and she sailed across the world. She and her partner just went

off and sailed everywhere. How often did you see her? Whenever she was

docked in Ramsgate! What a life! Very inspiring but it is

interesting, talking about inspirational women, it is like a

golden age for TV drama at the moment, we have semi-fantastic

female writers, Sally Wainwright, Heidi Thomas, K Mellor, but what are

your opinions about the film industry? Is it lagging behind at

all? I think there is so much room for improvement, it is definitely

better than it was. Our film is written by a one and it is something

that, I have set up a production company, it is something we are

conscientious about, giving a voice to female writers. Last year I was

on the Venice film Festival's Drury and there was only one film written

by a woman in the competition. -- the jury. What are you trying to do?

It is giving an opportunity. There are so mini women trying to write.

Our film is about a female screenwriter. It is about getting

them made and, it is tricky getting films made in general but it is

about making female centric movies with women behind them as writers is

what we are trying to do but it is tricky!

It does link nicely to your current film, a young screenwriter in a

man's world, is that why you became attracted to the role? She is

strong, but this film is set during the Blitz in World War II, and this

was such an interesting time for women, because the majority of the

men were away, so there was this gap, and women were needed. They'd

never be needed in this way before, so suddenly women were driving

buses, going into munitions factories and making, working, doing

manual labour, and suddenly there was an influx of work. And what I

liked about my character that she only gets the job, she think it is a

secretarial job, but you only get it because she is there to write the

slop, the women's dialogue in films, basically. Her voice comes, and she

gets confident through the experiences that she has. But yeah,

it was a time for women that is not necessarily that she is strong in a

kind of typical sense, it is something that emerges within her,

and I think that is why I was attracted to it. Let's have a look

at your character, one of the moments she realises she has got

more about. I might say that we'll be the first clever thing April has

ever done in her life. Do you see? Just a -- just a word -- of humour.

Excuse me. It is just that the caption at the end is going to be

coming he is not listening, but the enemy might be, it is a joke for

women who think their husbands never pay attention. If you start

answering, the caption will not make sense. I wrote it. I will be in my

dressing room if anyone needs me. APPLAUSE

Great partnership with Bill Nighy, and your accent as well.

It is great! Thank you! I am used to working with somebody was quite a

strong Welsh accent so... We did actually listen to her when I was

trying to get it! She was in there, then on Thursday, I was doing her

accent, and the producer, I remember being answered, all these heads were

looking around, I was worried, and they said, I think we need to tone

it down a bit. Just like the One Show, it is bang on! Interestingly,

you were very enchanted by the year of the 1940s as well, not just the

fashion but everything that it stood for. Yeah, it was a really

interesting time, because it was a war zone in London, and people were

losing people daily, their houses were being destroyed, and yet they

had this sense of pride in the way they presented themselves to the

world. It was like a way of saying, we are still going. The way that the

dress was... I mean, all of my clothes were original 1940s, all of

ours were. There was a real pride in the way that they looked after

themselves, very chic. It is all encompassed in the title, Their

Finest is out on April the 21st. Soon we will be meeting the Thiem

behind War Horse, who are bringing a new cast of characters to life. That

is after we meet a man who's going one better, storing the power of

flight two birds who would never otherwise fly again. -- restoring. A

raptor demonstrating a bird's mastery of flight. The secret is in

their bones. Bird skeletons are as light as possible so they can get

airborne with a minimum of effort. The bones need to be strong enough

to take flight but they need a very light construction to enable

take-off. Two pieces of bone have been cut in half here, this is from

a mammal, a fox. This is from a bird, a Peregrine file can, and you

can see the differences. The bird bone has a much thinner

cross-section and looks as though it is hollow inside. The strong but

lightweight bird bones come at a cost. If the bird injures itself,

often the bones just shatter. And shattered bone is extremely

difficult to repair. Every year, millions of birds break limbs

colliding with cars, pylons and buildings. Accidents that would

normally lead to death. But orthopaedic vet Neil is on a mission

to experiment with a revolutionary technique. Metal supports both

inside and outside the bone keep the fragments fixed precisely in place

until they have healed. So who have we got here? This is an injured wild

buzzard that was brought in with a fractured forearm, the break is just

underneath here, I am checking how it is doing. This is a brilliant

technique, inside and outside scaffolders. Yes, we have a number

of rods, one in the middle of the bone, others from the outside, and

they are all bolted together, and that gives us a really rigid repair,

which allows us to get them back in the air afterwards. Neil is doing

this work as a passion project, as he believes it could help some of

the world's rarest birds. But for now, his latest patient is another

buzzard, found injured on the M25. So can this operation restore the

bird's flight and even return it to the wild? The whole principle now is

to repair the bone so well that the bird can move its joints and move

its wings within 48 hours of surgery to prevent stiffening occurring. So

what we have to do is get two pins in either end piece, in order to

achieve proper stability. Cutting off the sharp end is now, there we

are. Six weeks after surgery, we are back disease of the buzzard is

getting on at the international centre for birds of prey with Holly,

who has been caring for it. How is he doing? Really well, we're so

pleased with his progress. And he wasn't an easy patient. Certainly

not easy, we got infection in the bone, but we got him on the right

antibiotics, and four and a half weeks afterwards we could take the

pins out. Was case case of buzzard physio? Yes, we did a little bit of

physio when we were handling him, and then he can fly in here, do his

own physio, extend his wings. Is he ready for release? Absolutely, yeah.

For Neil, this is a big moment - has the wing healed well enough for

flying in the wild? I am quite excited, how does it feel for you

releasing him? This is the very first time I have released a bird

that I have fixed, I am really quite emotional about it. Let's go for it.

Right, Mr Buzzard, good luck, sweetheart!

I cannot believe it is already sparring with another buzzard.

Absolutely fantastic! Stooping and soaring, aeronautical acrobatics

just for the sheer fun of it. I am thrilled. All that is left now is to

wish our bus good luck. -- our buzzard.

We have seen some animal releases on this show, that was a good one! From

flying wild to Running Wild, a spectacular show based on Michael

Morpurgo's book of the same name in which a young child is saved from a

tsunami by escaping on the back of an elephant. It might sound like

fiction, but Amber is real, and she is here tonight, along with the

puppets director of the show, Toby Olie. Your story is amazing, but

talk us through what you remember about the day. On the morning it

happened, we felt an earthquake, and we went down to the hotel, but we

didn't think anything had happened. I went to play with the elephants, I

was riding the elephant on the beach, just walking along, the sea

had gone really far back, and it was picking up all the fish, putting

them in the bat, then the elephant steered to safety. He carried on

walking, then all of a sudden the tsunami came rushing in, I was on

his back, we ran off to a high stage, and then I was put in safety.

Wow. Toby, the story was picked up by Michael Morpurgo, it is now on

stage with all of these beautiful puppet characters, talk us through,

how is the elephant working? Are you all right, Gemma?! We have got four

property is on Oona, and they synchronise the elephant's, and they

all have a different emotional indicator. -- or puppeteers. One is

vocalising the nostrils of the elephant, James is operating the

head, he has got bicycle brakes to operate the years, he is in charge

of the eyeliner and the mouth. So she can open her mouth! Gary is in

the chest of the elephant, he is in charge of the breath, bending his

knees to tune into the emotional state. And Scarlet is in the mind of

Oona, in charge of the tail, very important! It is so complex, just

how challenging is it, taking a puppets like this on tour? We are

touring most major cities in the country, and it is a challenge, I

often referred to the puppets being more like musical instruments, they

need fine-tuning, bits of them wear, some of them need tightening. All of

them have a dedicated stage manager to look at them. Amber, how much

were you into elephants before your holiday? And what is it like to have

your story on stage? I really liked elephants, but I had never seen them

before, but I fell in love with them on holiday. It is amazing, the book

and the play are amazing, I feel honoured to be part of the

inspiration behind it. It is remarkable, really, Toby, how we

have got into this state of ignoring, in the nicest possible

way, the puppeteers. Absolutely, we can direct them in the rehearsal

room, so if Oona wants to be aggressive, or anxious... Can she

say goodbye? We need to leave you to get into position and get ready for

your performance. Gemma, you are coming with us! That is all we have

got time for, Their Finest is in cinemas from April the 21st. We are

going to be back tomorrow with funnyman Micky Flanagan. Two and a

show, this is when Amber was saved by Oona the elephant, this is

Running Wild. Oh, hello, orangutan! What is your

game? Are you following us? Don't think I haven't seen you watching

me! It is all right. I am not going to hurt you. I promise. See? I am

your friend. Whoever you are, you are beautiful. Yes, Oona, you are

quite pretty too! Oona, watch out! No! No, get away,

get away. Oona, please get away, Oona!

Oona, you saved my life - again! You did it, you just stood up to the

biggest killer in the world! He didn't stand a chance. You are the

smartest elephant, the Queen of the Jungle! We have to find my mum, we

will go back to the coast and find her, both of us.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHILD: This is

a major scientific breakthrough.