10/12/2015 The One Show

Hello. It's the One Show. Matt Baker and Alex Jones. There has been a

terrible incident. It's the snowman, he has come to a watery end and we

have no idea who has melted him. Listen, we are going to need a top

detective to solve this. And we need him now. And he's here, welcome

Luther himself, Idris Elba! APPLAUSE Idris, welcome. Hello, how are you?

Thanks for doing that. A bit of acting there! Really impressive. I

was feeling for the snowman. A big congratulations for your nomination

for the Golden Globe. APPLAUSE Thank you. Was it today that you

found out? I found out three hours ago. I was in my office. I was on

the phone, and somebody tapped me and gave me my phone and said, there

were 100 texts saying congratulations. It's a good

feeling. I'm sure it is. The Duke of Cambridge today presented 160 Army

medics with medals to recognise their work to help fight the deadly

Ebola disease in Sierra Leone. We went on to meet some recipients on

this significant day in history. When they told me I was going I was

nervous as anything. If we get told to go out there we just go out and

do it. I was nervous about going over there. It is something totally

different to what we are used to as medics. We are trained to use

rifles, not dealing with bodies and things like that. People were very

nervous. The family were very supportive. There were some

questions that I could not answer. The Foreign Office personnel sent

their families home and just as they were doing that we were going into

the country to face one of the most deadly diseases known to man. We

were very well on the bus journey to the location and everybody seemed

grateful for us being there. It was slightly tricky, wearing the suit,

the cap, goggles, visors and blurbs. It was tough. -- gloves. It made you

feel restricted about communicating with people because people can only

see your eyes. I was always holding people's hands and trying to

reassure them in that way. For those who we could not save, we consoled

ourselves with the fact that we offered the best end of life care in

Sierra Leone as well. I felt emotional. When I saw the first

patient who was Ebola free going out of the facility, I was so happy I

could have cried myself. It's a really nice feeling to know that we

have possibly help that person. Ever so grateful. I was there for six

months and I could see the difference, the changes. When we

first went out there, there was a lot of patience, but as we

progressed, the numbers went down and down. We had an interpreter from

the beginning called Mohammed who developed a dance and we would do a

survival dance for everybody who came out of the facility. I'm quite

happy that we have done the work and Ebola has gone. We started to get

ahead of the disease, it was like watching a City come to life comes

you get up early in the morning. But instead it was watching a country

come to life. The medals Parade today is a fabulous opportunity to

put every individual who we could get hold of in the spotlight to say

thank you and also a large number of family and friends travelling to see

them receiving medals from the Duke of Cambridge. He kept in touch with

the unit throughout the deployment, initially before we went and then

sent Christmas messages and regular updates on progress. Not many people

can say they have gone out and done something like that, people say they

want to do something and help the world but I have actually done it

now. Idris, we were just talking about what you did during the crisis

to raise awareness. I tried as much as I could to raise awareness, and

it is interesting because watching the film, ... Our focus on the

awareness campaign I did was for the health workers and it was a salute

to those guys because it is a thankless job, risking their lives

every day. Seeing a lot of people dying as well. I wanted to do

something for them to show that at that time when I did the campaign we

needed more people. It was a film to encourage people to help. Calling

health workers heroes. They are, aren't they? That is where your dad

is from? My parents are from Sierra Leone and we still have extended

family there, thank God they are safe. Obviously Ebola was close to

me and my family. As well as those recognise that the ceremony today it

seems only fitting to acknowledge the huge efforts made by the local

community. Including great examples. This is George on a Bangoura who

visited communities to provide counselling for those affected. --

Georgina. And this man had to organise the huge number of burials

in Freetown. And finally, this woman volunteered for the Red Cross having

been treated for Ebola herself. You know of many cases like that, people

who go back in even after they were affected? Once they had caught it

people were not scared to go back and help others, that is such a

beautiful selfless thing to do. Very brave. Many will not get enough

credit. That is true. Thankfully it is now gone. The new series of

Luther which we will talk about later is an epic, nail-biting

2-parter. First the resolution of our own epic 2-parter. Which we

started last night and we will now rejoin one of the world's top

climbers Andy Kirkpatrick and his children as they embark on a wintry

adventure with a difference. As dawn breaks the weather is looking

unsettled. This morning we had an ice storm and it rained and now the

temperature is dropping really quickly. We need to clear the ice

from everything, skis and tense and everything. It's never dull in the

mountains. At this time of year, they have just six hours of

daylight. It's really hard to see what you are doing especially when

you have huge gloves on. I don't know if he has picked up on this but

it's nice when someone does it for you. They cover another eight miles

and as they make it to the camp conditions are worsening.

During the night the winds hit Gayle Andy has to try to stop the tents

from being buried in the snow. -- hit Gail force. About midnight I

woke up and the tent was almost completely buried under the snow

which could mean that we would suffocate or the tent might break so

we had to get up and spend 40 minutes digging the tent out and

building a wall to have liked some of the wind. It seems to do the

trick. The tent was only one third buried. Being buried alive in a tent

is not on top of my list of things to do. Experience is like this are

needed to build character. If someone said I was irresponsible for

going to the middle of nowhere with my kids I would say that it was

irresponsible not to. There is a risk but that is who we are, we are

those people and we have to grow into people who can manage risks.

Are you happy to go skiing on the ice? Yes. If anybody goes in, just

pretend you are Bear Grylls! We have rock-hard, frozen salami and

tomatoes. Is that good? No. In a four day loop the Kirkpatrick family

are back on the edge of the plateau and only a day away from their

starting point. The former Nazis atomic plant. Where are we going? We

will go that way. This time there is no handy cable car to get them back

to the valley but there is no handy route at all. I am not enjoying

myself at all. This is great! Imagine walking in mud up to your

knees. You think your foot is on solid ground and then you fall

straight down to your thighs. Instead of taking five minutes it

will take 15. I was really proud of you today, when everything was going

fine you were horrible to me and complaining and whingeing and when

things get difficult you suddenly snap into gear. Despite his

challenges he can look back with a sense of achievement. These things

will help me in future life. It is going to be windy so this has to be

secure. In my day to day life I am not averse to risks, let's just

experience it for what it is. After 22 miles and four days in freezing

subzero temperatures they are finally making it to the former

Nazis atomic plant. We are almost at the factory and we will try to sneak

in like the saboteurs. Where is the door? It is just over there. The

disabled access! Although getting inside is slightly

easier now than it was for the heroes of Telemark. Straight into

the gift shop! Absolutely. Well done to the Kirkpatrick family, I think

it will stand them in good stead in the future. He is a great bloke but

he's take them somewhere hot and sunny! Two and a half years since we

saw Luther, DCI John Luther, and he was in a bad place at the end of

series three. A little bit down. Is he happy now? Has he regained his

lust for life? Is Luther happy?! We did want to show that he is a human

being. Without spoiling it, at the start of this season we actually see

the effects of what has happened over the last season. We find him in

a place where he has too absorbed some rest time and chill out. He has

had a lot of bad luck. Is the 2-parter a good thing? It was really

good because we didn't have much time and we wanted to give the fans

something else having left it in a bad place. You know, I have been

saying in the press that I would love to see a film version and the

BBC have been saying we should do a two our special. It is really one

massive story and it's great. Here is a taste of what we can expect

next week and despite the iconic code not being new, you have a

Parker this time, it is still the same, really.

Good afternoon, I would like to speak to George Cornelius please.

I'm sorry, he's not in. Yes, he is. Hurry up.

You rang, my lord? George Cornelius? You know I am. Come with me, please.

Who are you again? Police. Which police? The police. It is as full on

as ever and you watch trailers at the moment and they are graphic.

When you are on set and when you see it cut together, does it even

surprise you? Is it intends on set? It is intense, shooting in London

and its very real on the street. When I see it back I am fascinated.

Where did we shoot that? All of these buildings in London look

amazing and that's what I love about it. It does surprise me. It's

petrifying. I will watch this at home but I have to prepare myself

because it is scary and I have to know when to drink my wine normally.

Is it scary? Nation it is over two nights, the

first night, and then the second night.

We returned to form, the DNA which makes Luther a thriller, it is

scary, all of the bad guys ask airy, you will be happy that there is no

one sleeping under your bed this time! I cannot bear it! Now you can

make the comparison between working here in Britain and also in the

United States, because your career, it is going incredibly well over

there, with movies, how do you find the two compare? This is home, you

always feel a sense of... I don't know... You get a deeper sense of

satisfaction when you come home and you have done well. America, they

are so celebratory, the real winner. Where is here it is more like, hello

mate! LAUGHTER You have got Finding Dory, you have

got Star Trek, Finding Dory is the follow-up to finding Nemo, and you

have Jungle book, that is a coup to be a part of that. Is there one of

those you are particularly excited about? -- Finding Nemo. The Jungle

Book, definitely. You are playing the Tiger! It is Jon Favreau, he did

the first iron man film, and the second, he has done a new iteration

of The Jungle Book, and he is a good director and a great actor as well

stop what you have got to get your character across through your voice.

They always say, Idris, come on. When you are playing a Tiger... And

I'm crawling about, and they say, we cannot record you if your head is

moving too much! LAUGHTER I loved it, and I wanted to do it

because I have kids, my kids cannot see all of my films, so something

like Finding Dory, The Jungle Book, they can see that. And judging from

the past films, those characters will live on! Concealers on the 15th

of December, 9pm, BBC One, second part, the following week. -- you can

see Luther on the 15th of December, 9pm. As a fan of speed, we hope that

you will like this next film, Marty is going to meet somebody who is

hoping to go faster than anybody else on two wheels. VOICEOVER: Back

in 1999, Richard Brown of Britain came near to the Bonneville salt

flats in the United States to break the world record for the fastest

thing on two wheels. He smashed it, travelling at almost 333 mph. To

qualify as a record, he had to do it twice! There was a problem... We

have blown the rear tire... On the second pass, disaster struck, with

the rear tyre blown, his record attempt was shattered. As they say,

that's all, folks. In September 2010, an American team raised the

bar, and set the record at 376 point 363 mph. Now, after 16 years, he is

back to try again. I believe that this record should be held by a

Brit, it is a perfect great British endeavour, we have got to do it! --

376.363 mph! The new bike is lighter, and it has an extra

stabilising wheel, and tougher tyres, but it is what lies under the

bonnet that makes this bike a potential record-breaker. Most

motorcycles use, you know, a motor, to drive the back wheel. There is

another way to propel something forward... Richard's bike uses a jet

engine, similar to those found in commercial airliners, to give it

more power, it has something called an afterburner. An afterburner

injects extra fuel into the hot exhaust fumes, this fuel ignites, to

create an explosive force, that will more than triple the engine's

thrust. How do you feel about being strapped into a missile? And

launched down a track! Reggie Dem nervous! But it is part of the job.

Today, Richard and his team are about to test whether or not the

afterburner works. When they tried it last time, it failed to fire, so

the pressure is on today. It is a tense moment, if Richard's new jet

reaction bike is to break the current speed record, the

afterburner absolutely has to work. It all hinges on this. This is it,

the moment of truth! Will be afterburner work? Only one way to

find out. -- will the afterburner work? Only one way to find out!

Richard! Well done! How was that? Absolutely fantastic! I am no expert

but it looked like you got some afterburner! Yes, really really did

it! It is fast before the afterburner, you go to the

afterburner, it is warp drive! Today's test was successful, the

afterburner worked, the bike reached 118 mph, but Richard will need to

top 376 to break the record in the USA! If he does, he will be the

first Briton to do so since 1937. -- 180 mph. STUDIO: Good luck! Good

luck indeed. What we always try to match films with guests, we have got

some which matched personally. This is the flying mile... This is the

seven mile Beach, basically, I tried to make a record that Sir Malcolm

Campbell owned for a long time, this is in Pendine Beach. It is doing a

measured mile, one way that way, he did it 172 mph, I did it at 183 mph.

The Bentley, that is like a bungalow on wheels! It is a bit boxy. I did

not know they could go that fast. It is a very fast car, we were going at

110 mph, and that is when it begins to hydroplane, echoes of the water

on the beach, it is literally flying, but I went 180 mph! We had

one shot, a helicopter, his downwind was pushing my car!

LAUGHTER If I had known you were down there,

I would have come to wave the flag! As Luther hits our screens, you have

a character album out as well, you did this before, when you played

Nelson Mandela, but a lot of people will not know what a character album

is. It is a love letter from me, the actor, to the character, and then

written in music. Well! It is also, my love affair with music, very

public, and I was trying to find ways that I could do good work as an

actor and as a musician, this is it, writing songs about John Luther,

writing about the experience of being a murder detective, writing

about the aesthetic of the show, writing a show about Alice. I met a

producer, Fred Cox, talented producer, and we visualised Luther.

We made it into... Not visualise, sorry we turned it to music. We got

a very interesting eight track album. As a guest on The One Show,

would you be able to music ... Could you put us to music, could you

"musicalise" The One Show? You would have songs about sofas... A bit of

Elaine Paige musicals... Definitely! Neil Diamond. Soft rock, power

ballads. Dad rock, and some food, because you cook every now and

again. We should work on that, next time, work on that and next time

coming and we will have a listen! Speaking of music. We sent Gyles on

the hunt for some Christmas mood music and guess what, he ended up in

the park! SINGING. VOICEOVER: While shepherds

watched, one of the best-known carols, but near Sheffield, here,

they sing it a little differently, and not in a church... The sportsman

Inn, licence to sell an uncommon brand of Christmas spirit!

This is a Sheffield Carroll in full swing. You will recognise the words

from while shepherds watched, but the tune is totally different. --

carol. How long has this been going on? Generations, my parents had this

pub, when I was a little girl, they kept me awake, I was trying to sleep

upstairs! I could hear their singing. It raises the roof. I hear

it is due the demolition anyway(!) you sing yourself? A little bit.

Around here, locals gather in pubs between Armistice Day and Christmas,

to belt out songs known as Sheffield carols, like this secure version of

while shepherds, which you are unlikely to hear anywhere else.

Professor Ian Russell is a leading authority. This is the hundreds

years old! Why isn't this the version that I know and recognise?!

Song in my parish church? Victorians played a trick on you, Gyles

abolishing this sort of Christmas Carol. What was the motive?

Sacrilegious about this, it is a wonderful celebratory Christmas

Carol. It was just too much fun, I think! They thought it was decadent,

you have got to be prim and proper. Truman driven out of the churches,

into the pubs. They loved it so much. They did not want to lose this

music, so they went and took it to the pubs, and why not, because the

pub is such a welcoming place. -- driven out of the churches, into the

pubs. Sheffield carols are being kept alive by local pub goers, who

passed the songs down over generations. Once they are in your

blood, you cannot stay away from them. I was coming here when I was

five years old... So you have been coming here 50 years. 60, almost! It

makes Christmas very nice. Whether they will survive the copy shop area

is anybody's guess(!) but there is new blood waiting in the wings. I

often come here with my grampa. Will using the carols one day? Yes! Long

live the Sheffield carols, that's what I say, one more chorus,

Yorkshire style! Don't expect to hear this version in a shopping

centre near you, the Sportsman Inn, on a Monday, one of the few places

it belongs this Christmas. STUDIO: Thank you, Gyles We were

trying to do the original... Listening to that, it has gone.

Speaking of a Christmas Carol, is there somebody exhibiting

Scrooge-like behaviour in your family? We want to name and shame

them, get in touch. Terry Gardiner has been in touch, his 11-year-old

grandson, Lee, has been very ill for a very long time, the good news is,

he's able to go back to school, on Monday, for the best part of term,

the games! We wish in the best of luck and a happy Christmas from all

of us at The One Show. Idris what is the perfect Christmas for you?

Honestly, sitting in front of the Xbox, playing Fifa! It really is!

LAUGHTER I am that guy, another inspired,

please! So it is all about games. Yes, and just at home, chilling out.

To be honest, that is what we will be doing! Listen, Idris thank you so

much for your company, one more time, Idris Elba! , looking forward

to Luthur which starts on 15th December at 9pm right here on BBC

One and his album 'murdah loves john' is out then too. Tomorrow,

Jasper Carrot will be co-hosting with me, Nadiya Hussain is backed by

popular demand, and we will be chatting to East Enders's Danny

Dyer! There once was a sprout

with love to give Looking for friends

to spend Christmas with