:00:26. > :00:30.Friday One Show with Miss Jones and Mr Evans. We have gone all tried and
:00:30. > :00:37.prejudice this evening as we find out why many screen adaptations are
:00:37. > :00:44.wrong. It is also a universal truth that the case in point is all to do
:00:44. > :00:48.with TV sofas and shows, and us needing guests. As he is receiving
:00:48. > :00:58.the BAFTAs highest honour this weekend, he will pass muster. Very
:00:58. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:25.close have you come to looking like this in your career? Many sketches.
:01:25. > :01:29.Tell us about a few. George the first, I think. And is it the heat,
:01:29. > :01:36.or is it the desperate, the difficulty that it takes to achieve
:01:36. > :01:44.a comfort break? I am never quite sure in those. Had the fly been
:01:44. > :01:51.invented? I am trussed up for at least half an hour. I hope you will
:01:51. > :01:57.last. I am fine, this is easy. We are going to create a Pride And
:01:57. > :02:02.Prejudice themed ball. How is your dancing? Would you like to join in?
:02:02. > :02:05.That kind of dancing was drummed out of me when I was young. I used to go
:02:05. > :02:13.to a dance teacher, had it was like being arrested and taken into
:02:13. > :02:17.custody. I do occasional things on my own. I dance in the bath.
:02:17. > :02:24.look so cool and casual. Tell us quickly what is going on this
:02:24. > :02:29.weekend. Well, I have been awarded a fellowship, BAFTA. I do not know
:02:29. > :02:34.quite what it means. I will become a jolly good fellow of BAFTA. It is
:02:34. > :02:39.very nice. They show lots of your staff and they say, you can die now.
:02:40. > :02:44.That is the interview done excavation mark in Michael's
:02:44. > :02:49.travels, he has been to some in hospitable places but one of the
:02:49. > :02:57.most deadly is here in the UK. Dilger put on his wellies to see how
:02:57. > :03:02.we are trying to fix it. The River Earth on in mid Wales is a
:03:02. > :03:05.major tributary of the River Wye, one of Britain's's most spectacular
:03:05. > :03:10.areas of outstanding natural beauty and a designated site of special
:03:10. > :03:18.scientific interest. It is picture perfect, but all is not quite what
:03:18. > :03:23.it seems. Streams like this are usually brimming with life. If I
:03:23. > :03:27.disturb the bottom, I should catch all manner of invertebrates, like
:03:27. > :03:30.aquatic insects and crustacea. But just looking inside here, it is
:03:30. > :03:35.completely empty, which means to all intents and purposes, this
:03:35. > :03:41.watercourse is biologically dead. The problem lies in the quality of
:03:41. > :03:44.the water itself. And it is something Stephen has been
:03:44. > :03:51.monitoring and trying to control for the last ten years. What is the
:03:51. > :03:56.problem? Acidity. The effect is to kill off virtually all life in the
:03:56. > :04:04.stream. Very little can survive in a pH lower than five. What are we
:04:04. > :04:11.talking here? 4.2. Many hundreds of thousands of times more acidic than
:04:11. > :04:14.pure water. Getting close to lemon juice or vinegar. Astonishing! The
:04:14. > :04:19.acidification comes from the combined effects of acid rain and
:04:19. > :04:22.the draining of natural wetlands to make way for commercial forestry.
:04:22. > :04:29.This used to be a huge bulk but it has been trained just for the
:04:29. > :04:31.purpose of granting more trees. you lose the wetland, you lose a
:04:32. > :04:37.giant natural sponge that filters rainwater back into the river
:04:37. > :04:42.system. The water rushes off at a great speed and reaches the river at
:04:42. > :04:48.no time at all, carrying with it very low pH acidity, which in turn
:04:48. > :04:50.kills off all of the life we would expect to find in rivers. Row native
:04:50. > :04:58.conifers collect acid on their needles, which ends up washing into
:04:58. > :05:05.the rivers, exacerbating the problem. Left untouched, the acidity
:05:05. > :05:10.has an effect. No birds, mammals or frogs. It is a big trouble so
:05:10. > :05:13.Stephen and his team are tackling it in a big way. This does not look
:05:14. > :05:19.like your average conservation tool, but it is leading the charge in a
:05:19. > :05:22.pioneering project to save these rivers. The team have gone back to
:05:22. > :05:28.their chemistry books and have come up with a devastatingly simple
:05:28. > :05:37.solution. This is the antidote to the bad effects of acid rain.
:05:37. > :05:46.is it? Calcium carbonate, a mixture of sand and powder. Hopefully, it
:05:46. > :05:49.should neutralise. Exact me, that is what we are aiming to achieve.
:05:49. > :05:54.year for a decade they have dumped tonnes of this into the river system
:05:54. > :05:59.to neutralise its acidity. You put it down on the river does the hard
:05:59. > :06:06.work. It permeates every nook and cranny, I suppose. It gets under the
:06:06. > :06:11.stones and that is what keeps most of it in the river system. We are at
:06:11. > :06:16.the junction of two streams. One has been treated with lime and the other
:06:16. > :06:22.has not. I have the indicator solution. If I take some up, the one
:06:22. > :06:25.that is alkali should stay blue. If it is acid, it should go green. And
:06:25. > :06:30.that is definitively green. Conclusive proof that the treatment
:06:30. > :06:36.is working. Over the last ten years, more than 1000 tonnes of lime have
:06:36. > :06:40.gone into these streams, breathing new life into 40 miles of waterways.
:06:40. > :06:44.I am a few miles downstream, and when this project began, this
:06:45. > :06:50.stretch of river was so acidic that nothing could live here at all. This
:06:50. > :06:55.is much more like it. This is teeming with life. There are so many
:06:55. > :07:00.aquatic insects here. This is just astonishing. And it is not just
:07:00. > :07:03.creepy crawlies thriving. Wild salmon are once more finding their
:07:03. > :07:08.way, swimming upstream each autumn to spawn in parts of the river that
:07:09. > :07:13.have not seen fish for nearly 40 years. It is such a thrill to know
:07:13. > :07:17.that salmon are repopulating this river, and that such an unusual
:07:17. > :07:21.conservation project is working so well. Who would have thought that a
:07:21. > :07:28.pile of old limestone gravel would have such an amazing impact on
:07:28. > :07:34.wildlife? Thank you. Michael, you have
:07:34. > :07:39.travelled all over the shop in your time. The counter, behind the
:07:40. > :07:45.counter! What is the most polluted place you have visited gesture
:07:45. > :07:49.marked Ireland a place in the desert in Mauritania which was a huge iron
:07:49. > :07:55.ore mine in the middle of the fairly pristine Sahara Desert. It comes out
:07:55. > :07:59.of nowhere and it is just filthy. There is dust in the Sahara anyway.
:07:59. > :08:05.There is the iron ore dust blowing as well. And a lot of the people,
:08:05. > :08:11.especially young kids, come to this city to find work and they can't,
:08:11. > :08:16.and they stand around. I have never seen such a sad group of people as
:08:16. > :08:23.in this place, right in the middle of nowhere. It is pretty grim.
:08:23. > :08:29.could look at the audience for BAFTA on Sunday night! Let us know how
:08:29. > :08:36.they compare. I will not look at them. The lights will block them
:08:37. > :08:40.out. They are my family anyway. Eight p.m. On BBC One you have the
:08:40. > :08:47.film and TV BAFTAs. You are up for the fellowship. You are just going
:08:47. > :08:54.to get it, it is a deal. Whether you like it or not, you get it. What
:08:54. > :08:57.does it mean to BAFTA, and what does it mean to you? I am told it is
:08:57. > :09:00.their main tribute award. I think it means you have spent a long time in
:09:00. > :09:05.television and have done stuff that people remember and people consider
:09:05. > :09:09.of value. To me, it makes me feel that all those years doing silly
:09:09. > :09:13.things, which I thoroughly enjoyed, they have added up to something.
:09:13. > :09:18.Someone has looked back and said that as a body of work. And that is
:09:18. > :09:23.encouraging. In return, there will be great expectations about the
:09:23. > :09:33.speech you will deliver. Have you thought about this gesture marked
:09:33. > :09:35.
:09:35. > :09:45.yes. I have gone through many drafts. Give us the beginning or the
:09:45. > :09:47.
:09:48. > :09:53.end. Thank you. Thank you.Is that working so far? Have they given you
:09:53. > :10:03.a guide on time. Row have they given new -- I hope the audience are like
:10:03. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:14.that. I think they have said it is two or three minutes, but it might
:10:14. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:21.be 23. Is that all you get? For a lifetime? That is enough. I will say
:10:21. > :10:27.my name and my shoe size and get off. My phone number. It is right at
:10:27. > :10:31.the end. Everyone is very excited and they want to get to the meal.
:10:31. > :10:37.How do they tip you the wink? Do they say, we will give it to you if
:10:37. > :10:41.you turn up? Do you discuss with your wife, call your friends?
:10:41. > :10:48.just said, you have got it. They send you a letter, actually, like
:10:48. > :10:57.exam results. It says after at the top and says you have been awarded
:10:57. > :11:03.the Fellowship. -- it says BAFTA. Who is going to give it to you?
:11:03. > :11:06.is somebody I know. We are going with Terry Jones. There is going to
:11:06. > :11:10.be a Michael Palin montage, so because we are here, we would like
:11:11. > :11:20.to see one of your classic clips but we only have time for one, so which
:11:21. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:43.one would you like? Dead parrot? No-macro. Argument? No. Cheese shop?
:11:43. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:53.Yes. One of my favourites. Smoked Austrian? You do have some
:11:53. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :12:03.cheese? Yes, it is a cheese shop, so. We have... I am keen to guess.
:12:03. > :12:03.
:12:03. > :12:08.Wensleydale? Yes, sir.I will have some of that. I thought you were
:12:08. > :12:12.referring to me, Mr Wensleydale. it true that when you first heard
:12:12. > :12:19.about that sketch, and you still cannot get through it again without
:12:19. > :12:22.laughing if you have to do it live? I have never done it without
:12:22. > :12:27.cracking up, usually towards the end. At the back there are two city
:12:27. > :12:35.gents playing music. After a few minutes, John turns and says, will
:12:35. > :12:45.you shut up! It usually gets me by that time. But John and I crack each
:12:45. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:53.other up all the time. It could be John giving him the award. Yes.
:12:53. > :12:57.That is Sunday at eight o'clock on BBC One. Jay is here for Friday.
:12:57. > :13:01.Tonight, I am investigating how the cutlery with which you eat is a
:13:01. > :13:05.matter of taste. For great tasting food, we expect
:13:05. > :13:09.the ingredients and how we cook them to make a difference, but is there
:13:09. > :13:14.something else we should be paying attention to? Knives, forks and
:13:14. > :13:20.spoons do not just get food into our mouths, but influence how it feels
:13:20. > :13:25.and even how it tastes. This doctor is a materials expert who has
:13:25. > :13:29.studied the way cutlery affect the taste of our food. We are used to
:13:29. > :13:33.thinking of stainless steel as not having much of a taste but it still
:13:34. > :13:38.produces a metallic taste in the mouth. Stainless steel does not
:13:38. > :13:44.tarnish or rust, so why would it affect the way food tastes? To find
:13:45. > :13:50.out, I am joining the dinner ladies of Westminster Academy. We are going
:13:50. > :13:54.to sample three dishes. Tomato soup, a Thai curry and fruit salad. To try
:13:54. > :14:02.them, we are given three different metal spoons. First, stainless
:14:02. > :14:12.steel. How does that taste? Like tomato soup. I was going to say the
:14:12. > :14:12.
:14:13. > :14:21.same. Into the Thai green curry. Spicy! White macro but then we tried
:14:21. > :14:26.the fruit salad. You get a little bit of a metallic taste. Yes.
:14:26. > :14:30.you introduce certain foods, it heightens that taste. It is acidic
:14:30. > :14:33.food that causes the problem. The acid strips a tiny bit of metal of
:14:33. > :14:41.the cutlery and into our mouths. With stainless steel, the effect is
:14:41. > :14:46.mild, but it can be a lot worse. Our next spoon is made of copper.
:14:46. > :14:52.can taste is the aftertaste of the spoon. Like putting money in my
:14:52. > :14:58.mouth. No mistaking the taste. Copper is more reactive and
:14:58. > :15:03.stainless steel. Chefs cook in copper pans. Yes, that they are
:15:03. > :15:10.lined because the copper is reactive. But eating tomato soup of
:15:10. > :15:14.a copper spoon brings a surprising response. It tastes sweeter. That is
:15:14. > :15:18.one of the results we found, things eat off a copper spoon can taste
:15:18. > :15:23.sweeter. In the tomato soup, there is spice which increases the
:15:23. > :15:27.sweetness with the copper. research has found this effect
:15:27. > :15:30.happens with less acidic food containing herbs and spices, and
:15:30. > :15:40.there is another metal that can improve flavours even more
:15:40. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:48.This is better than stainless steel. What is going on with this gold
:15:48. > :15:53.spoon? Gold is not reacting in the environment of your mouth. We are
:15:53. > :15:57.tasting the food as it really is. Maybe for the first time. Really, if
:15:57. > :16:02.you want to find out the true taste of things, you need to save up and
:16:02. > :16:07.get a whole set of these? Zoe is working with restaurants to see how
:16:07. > :16:13.gold can bring out subtle flavours and how reactive metals like copper
:16:13. > :16:18.and zinc can enhance sweetness. For us at home though, stainless steel
:16:18. > :16:24.is still our best bet for cutlery. Zoe has one fine final taste test
:16:24. > :16:30.for us. She gives us two bowls of chilly con Carney. Can we taste any
:16:30. > :16:35.difference? The first one has got a tangyish taste to it than this one.
:16:35. > :16:42.Bit of a difference from the first one to the second one, more
:16:42. > :16:46.metallic. It's not how it is eaten, it's how it is cooked. The first one
:16:46. > :16:50.was stirred with a stainless steel spoon. The second one was stirred
:16:50. > :16:58.with a normal wooden spoon. wooden spoon a good thing to cook
:16:58. > :17:02.with? Yes. Especially if the food is acidic. Stainless steel might not be
:17:02. > :17:08.the most reactive metal, leave it long enough in a hot pan you will
:17:08. > :17:13.notice a metallic taste. Stick to wooden spoons for cooking and keep
:17:13. > :17:21.stainless steel for eating, unless you can afford gold of course! Gold!
:17:21. > :17:27.Gold! Jay is here minus Pride and Prejudice and outfit, but you have
:17:27. > :17:37.brought dishes. I have sideburns. They are real. We have a gold spoon
:17:37. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:42.for you. Gold spoons and a BAFTA?We have parmesan ice-cream. What is
:17:42. > :17:49.wrong with that? Try it. Tell us what you think. Tell us about the
:17:49. > :17:55.Heston link? We think that savoury ice-creams is a modern thing, it was
:17:55. > :18:05.going on in Regency times this is the sort of thing you would eat late
:18:05. > :18:08.
:18:08. > :18:14.during one of your parties when you needed a refresher. Alex doesn't
:18:14. > :18:21.like any thing. I don't like cheese ice-cream. We are eating with the
:18:21. > :18:27.wrong spoons. They are in the cheap seats. Oh, my spoon is gone! I lost
:18:27. > :18:36.my spoon! Terrible, have you lost it. In Pride and Prejudice they
:18:36. > :18:43.would have drunk rum punch? They would. It is made with lemon grneata
:18:43. > :18:53.it has champagne and rum. What do you think of that? Why hasn't it got
:18:53. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :19:01.parmesan? It ran out. Not for me, I'm afraid... You are so smug.I'm
:19:01. > :19:08.desperate. Anything but smug. would drink this at the end of the
:19:08. > :19:18.party to freshen things up. That would get things going. Early cheers
:19:18. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:22.to Michael's BAFTA. Tonight, a new documentary on BBC Two puts to the
:19:22. > :19:25.test years of assumptions about what pivotal moments in Pride and
:19:25. > :19:29.Prejudice really looked like. Experts from all over the country
:19:29. > :19:38.were brought together to put on a ball worthy of the real Mr Darcy
:19:38. > :19:42.lipself. Everything that happens, all the romances, a lot of the
:19:42. > :19:46.misunderstandings start at the ball. In a way, Jane Austen is making
:19:46. > :19:50.fictional use of something which must have been in a case in a small
:19:50. > :19:57.town, this is simply the biggest event of the year. It's the moment
:19:57. > :20:06.that lights the blue touch paper. I love it when we play those short
:20:06. > :20:10.films? Art historian Alastair Sooke presents Having a Ball. . Welcome.
:20:10. > :20:14.Good to be here. What are the main misconceptions about that era? I
:20:14. > :20:20.think that we, all of us, don't quite understand Pride and Prejudice
:20:20. > :20:27.as we could. Tonight, we are doing what we think is a groundbreaking
:20:27. > :20:34.experiment, it has never been done, we are restaging the ball thrown by
:20:34. > :20:40.Mr Bingley, we are paying attention to detail. We can then understand
:20:40. > :20:43.the texture, what they smelt like and sounded like which modern
:20:43. > :20:49.readers of the novel don't know about. That is lost on us because
:20:49. > :20:53.Austen doesn't include this stuff in the book. She writes with quite a
:20:53. > :20:58.terse precision. We tried to reconstruct all the detail that is
:20:58. > :21:02.missing which she assumes people will get. She was getting on with
:21:02. > :21:08.the plot leaving us 200 years later to imagine what was going on. We are
:21:08. > :21:13.getting it wrong. It was quite raunchy? It was. You think of the
:21:13. > :21:19.costume dramas. Everything seems elegant. Women floating around
:21:19. > :21:23.ballrooms. Perfect recipe- I say, Michael! It was much more. It was
:21:23. > :21:29.animal spirits, robust, it was quite vigorous. We have the Danners in the
:21:29. > :21:33.studio. It was sexy. Add rum punch to the mixture. Are you saying, live
:21:33. > :21:37.on BBC One, ahead of your big show tonight on BBC Two the recreation of
:21:37. > :21:41.how it would have been from your piecing together from different
:21:41. > :21:51.experts from over the country and world and different books you have
:21:51. > :21:57.read it's more Carry On than the BBC Drama department? It was fun. It was
:21:57. > :22:07.sweaty. It was quite raunchy. Strictly Come Dancing. More Sid
:22:07. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:19.James than Hugh Boneefeild. Our ex- Star has been in training this
:22:19. > :22:25.afternoon, not that she needed it, obviously, it all stays with you,
:22:25. > :22:30.never leaves you. Yes. It still could go very wrong. Thank you to a
:22:30. > :22:34.Brit called John Shaw at least the music will be in tune. An orchestra
:22:34. > :22:40.tunes up, it's part of the excitement and anticipation of the
:22:40. > :22:45.performance to come. There is a humble device without which
:22:45. > :22:50.musicians risk being totally out of tune, and it's this, the tuning
:22:50. > :22:55.fork. John Shaw was a trumpeter, when he split his lip and couldn't
:22:55. > :23:00.play any more, he took up the loot. The instrument was hard to tune. He
:23:00. > :23:06.fashion a device from steel to assist him, inventing the first ever
:23:06. > :23:10.tuning fork. How does it work? we strike the tuning fork, it
:23:10. > :23:18.vibrates, often hundreds of times per second. These vibrations
:23:19. > :23:23.determine the pitch we hear. If I strike it, it's vibrating 523 times
:23:24. > :23:29.per second which gives us C. What makes the steel tuning fork
:23:29. > :23:34.revolutionary? When we strike any object and allow it to vibrate, we
:23:34. > :23:40.often have multiple vibrations occurring stim taniously. Here is a
:23:40. > :23:44.computer representation of a cymbol being struck. There is not one
:23:44. > :23:48.frequency, there are lots and lots of frequencies. The same
:23:48. > :23:53.representation of a tuning fork you can see something remarkably
:23:53. > :23:57.different. Makes it special is the clean tone? Exactly.What did it
:23:57. > :24:04.mean for musicians? Before tuning forks an instrument like a violin
:24:04. > :24:09.had to tune with an instrument with a fixed pitch, perhaps a trumpet. No
:24:09. > :24:19.trumpet, well then you are left guessing, times with rather
:24:19. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:33.displeasing results. The tuning fork brought unity. Musicians embraced
:24:33. > :24:38.this new invention, including, it is said, the great 18th century
:24:38. > :24:42.composer, Handel. The story goes that is he gave one of his tuning
:24:42. > :24:52.forks to the hospital in 167 51 following a performance of the
:24:52. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:59.Massiah. Today, a very special package is on its way to me. --
:24:59. > :25:04.1751. This is the fork, I'm excited to be holding it. This is Handel,
:25:04. > :25:14.cool, contemporary, embracing modern technology. I have been given
:25:14. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:27.permission to sound it. Beautiful. Has this device changed since the
:25:27. > :25:34.days of Handel? This company have been making them since 1846. It's
:25:34. > :25:44.the same shape, same style and made with the same materials. They create
:25:44. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:51.a frequency. For the first time across the world, musicians were
:25:51. > :25:55.tuning to the same pitch. In honour of this simple but ingenious
:25:55. > :25:59.invention we will try something unique. The Sheffield Chamber
:25:59. > :26:04.Orchestra is attempting to perform a special piece of music, for one
:26:04. > :26:14.night only, they are the One Show forkestra. Time for me to slip into
:26:14. > :26:51.
:26:51. > :26:53.brilliant. So at 9. 00pm tonight BBC Two are recreating Pride and
:26:53. > :26:57.Prejudice Netherfield Ball as it most likely would have been. Stuart
:26:58. > :27:02.Marsden is the dancemaster. We have been practicing a dance. This has
:27:02. > :27:07.never been seen on television before, has it? Absolutely not. We
:27:07. > :27:11.researched the music from Jane Austen personal collection.
:27:11. > :27:20.Beautifully written by hand that she played on her piano. We found the
:27:20. > :27:27.dance instructions from her niece's Lady Command beyond from her own
:27:27. > :27:37.niece's she stayed with her in 1805. The dancemaster played a pivotal
:27:37. > :27:40.role? He did.Why? He was a match maker. It was Regency speedating. If
:27:40. > :27:45.you fancied someone on the other side of the room. You couldn't go up
:27:45. > :27:55.to them directly you had to talk to the dancemaster. See if any of that
:27:55. > :27:55.
:27:55. > :28:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 44 seconds
:28:40. > :28:45.got right down to it. There is another one which was a saucy French
:28:45. > :28:52.gig that tried many different partners. Thank you to the dancers