11/03/2016 The One Show

They've battled the wind, waves and freezing cold temperatures -

all while raising thousands for Sport Relief.

Now, after five long days of Hell on High Seas,

the crew of the Dong Feng - Alex, Ore, Angellica,

Hal, Doon and Suzi - are coming home.

Hello, and welcome to The One Show with Louise Minchin.

Yes, since starting out from Belfast on Monday Alex and the Hell

on High Seas crew have sailed 636.48 nautical miles around the Western

and Southern coast of Britain, and are now sailing up the Thames

on the final straight of their challenge.

We can see amazing images of the boat coming under

Tower Bridge just moments ago, with a water salute provided

We'll go live to Alex very soon but first let's meet a man

who was very nearly on board that yacht.

How is it that you might have been on board, but you are dry, warm and

on the sofa? The idea was floated, but my wife is two weeks from giving

birth. I decided I could not leave her and I would get lost on the high

seas. I get seasick on an elevator. I think that was a good choice. Of

all of the people that I've met, you know a bit about how she might be

feeling? Photographic evidence, you will remember this well? That brings

a tear to my eyes. AIDS and a half months pregnant. Exactly the same

stage as my wife. We should get a matching pictures. -- eight and a

half months pregnant. I should probably explain why I was pregnant!

I wasn't actually pregnant. That was for a film we did for Sky. Not on

board the boat tonight, certainly not pregnant, but you still have a

very important role to play. If you could look into this camera and

remind people at home how they can To donate ?5 text

the word HELP to 70005. To donate ?10 text

the word HELP to 70010. It is well worth getting involved,

I've been to is to see some of the projects and it is a fantastic

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or to donate any amount you want- Let's go live to the Dong Feng. Huge

congratulations, Alex. You are nearly there. How are you feeling?

It's such a relief to be back on home turf. I tell you what, it has

been a real privilege, cruising on this magnificent boat up the Thames,

in the glorious sunshine, to HMS Belfast, just behind me. The

overriding feeling is of sheer relief. It has been really tough. It

has been really difficult at times. The feeling that we all felt for the

majority of the journey was sheer fear. We are all looking forward to

a hot shower, some food and not being in each other's pockets. But

it is an experience we will always treasure and we hope it has raised a

lot of money. I know you will give us the total later. A big welcome

party waiting for you. Before you disembark, tell us about the final

stretch of your Hell on High Seas challenge. The last 24 hours, it has

been a mixture in terms of weather. A bit of turbulence at times. We had

this really great, exciting visitor on board last night. Look at this.

It was the last 24 hours of the Hell on High Seas challenge. During the

night, we were all surprised to see a helicopter flying on top of us. It

was the Coast Guard. We haven't called for help, it was actually

them that wanted our help. The Coast Guard need to practice air sea

rescue in the field. Tonight, they chose us to land on. All hands on

deck! There is a hero coming on board. Trust me, in these

conditions, it ain't easy. It doesn't take the guests long to

get below decks. Clean up guys, I think we are being inspected! We

don't mind, we are just glad to see a new face. It is quite comforting

to have a visitor at this point. You have seen everything in the channel.

Have you seen one of these coming through? Not one of the recent ones,

just a pleasure craft. We exercise as often as we can. It doesn't

matter the nature of the boat, because we never know what we are

going to get called to. In case we run out of petrol? As Gary departs,

he leaves a trail of admirers. Nice. He smells fresh and showered. We sat

down wind and absorbed his freshness from afar. We've dolphins, Ben

Ainslie, the maritime people are beautiful people.

By morning, we had reached the mouth of the Thames Estuary. The Hell on

High Seas forecast, from The Met Office, on behalf of Sport Relief...

We were on the home straight at the challenge. It gave us time to think

about what we had gone through. At moments, I felt terror, where I had

frozen and literally been hanging onto the boat. Every day, you have

to force yourself up, four hours sleep, get up, your kit on, and

there was nowhere to go. I never found my sea legs. I thought I was

quite soft and pathetic. Deep down, when it comes down to it, I have

been really tough. But then I am actually pathetic deep down as well.

This challenge was truly dangerous. It had a lot of jeopardy. At times,

I have never felt fear like it. Everybody has pulled together.

Everybody will go home with a huge sense of accomplishment. As we see

the Thames barrier, we can't help but feel we are finally home. Time

for celebration. Thank you so much to everybody for

all of your support on our difficult, but magnificent journey.

Amazingly, they have just made it. Technology being what it is, we

cannot speak to Alex at the moment. Or can we? I think she is there! You

have officially finished. I think you can tell everybody to get... She

can't hear us. But there is a visual proof that they have actually made

it. Very good news! Hopefully we will come back to you shortly. The

whole reason Alex is doing this is to make people really set up and

take notice of the important work that goes on because of the money

people give to Sport Relief. We know you have been following her journey

through the week. This is her visit to a maternity unit in Bangladesh.

It is a sad fact that, as a woman, where you live in the world affects

you and your baby's chance of survival during childbirth. Although

Bangladesh has made huge progress reducing maternal mortality rates in

recent years, 5500 women and 16,500 babies still die in labour every

year. We are in the slums in the north-west of the city, no running

water, open sewers everywhere. Nobody would choose to give birth in

conditions like that without professional help. But two thirds of

Bangladeshi women have no choice. Reena was delighted when expecting

her first baby a year and a half ago. Could you tell me about your

first pregnancy? TRANSLATION: When I got pregnant, I wanted to see a

doctor. Traditional thinking forbade me from seeing one. We are brought

up to respect our elders, by not listening to them I would be branded

a bad person. Can you describe what happened when you first went into

labour? TRANSLATION: The labour was very painful. A traditional birth

attendant was called but decided I should give birth at home.

Traditional birth attendants are still common in Bangladesh. It is

often a village elder who has no medical training. When the attendant

tried to deliver my baby, she didn't wear gloves. It was very painful.

She also tied a piece of cloth around me to try to push the baby

out. It made me scream. When my baby was born, the soft head had been

damaged during birth. They told me the baby was a boy. But after he did

just three hiccups, he died and they took him away. I never got to hold

him. I was shocked to the core, when

Reena was telling me how they tried to get the baby out. Then, of

course, it ended in tragedy. With proper medical care, there is a

chance that the little boy might have survived. Which is why, across

town, this maternity Centre, funded by Sport Relief, offers women a safe

place to give birth with the help of a trained midwife. Josna had her

baby girl here. All sorts of things happen here, it is a bit of an

antenatal room, babies get weighed and mothers like MCA get an all over

check to make sure that after giving birth she is in good health. --

mothers like Josna. Before I know it, the baby does what babies often

do. Oh, no! You've got to laugh. Salea

helped with the delivery. She used to be a traditional birth attendant,

but has now had proper training. What have you learned here that you

didn't know before? TRANSLATION: I didn't know the proper procedures. I

used to cut the umbilical cord by tying it with a thread and cutting

it with a blade. Now I know the right way. Here, there is always a

doctor with me during delivery. Simple procedures which we take for

granted. But they are transforming care here. The lady in there, her

waters have broken, the midwife 's feel that the birth is not

progressing as they would like. They decided to refer her to the local

hospital. This shows how reactive and brilliant the maternity Centre

is. If she was at home, goodness knows what could happen. Many women

from the district have benefited from sports relief donations to the

clinic. Even for those that have experienced tragedy in the past,

there is light at the end of the tunnel. Reena had a second,

successful pregnancy. Here is the result. This gorgeous little girl. A

lot of the children here have this little black mark. It is the

mothers, they apply a bit of coal to the head to ward off evil spirits.

It goes to show how steeped in tradition the community is. It is

very difficult to change people's perceptions. Hopefully, Reena's

story will be the beginning of something much bigger, where people

do come and have their baby here. ?5 could buy 15 delivery kits for a

maternity clinic, helping the midwife deliver newborn baby safely.

?10 could pay for a week of invaluable training for a community

midwife. Please donate whatever you can. Thank you.

It really gives you an idea of where all the money goes to, lots of

different places over the world? In the UK and there. How can you not

want to help out when you see films like that? Hopefully we can go back

to Alex. We saw all of those babies being born into a safe environment.

You have seen it yourself, what would you say to people watching? As

you saw, people like Reena really, really hit home why we need to

donate. These projects, funded by Sport Relief, are so important.

Earlier in the week, I met three young boys, the little boy on

Tuesday, and then two on Monday, two ten-year-olds, street kids in

Bangladesh. They really need our help. I can't emphasise enough. That

is why we have been on this incredible journey. You have done so

brilliantly, we will come back to you later for some celebration. You

have been fantastic. Hopefully we will have the figures as well. Rest

a while and we will be back with you in a minute. Stephen, are you going

to do the important job again? To donate ?5 text

the word HELP to 70005. To donate ?10 text

the word HELP to 70010. Text messages will cost your

donation plus your standard network message charge and all your donation

will go to Sport Relief. We will be going back to Alex. It is

very exciting. Your new series is called Houdini Doyle. It starts on

Sunday. Explain what it is based on? Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan

Doyle, the writer of Sherlock Holmes, they knew each other in real

life. My character, Arthur Conan Doyle, believed in the spirit world,

in ghosts and fairies. He thought there was something out there, you

went somewhere when you died, it was possible to contact the dead. Harry

Houdini thought this was rubbish and went around trying to prove any

psychics and mediums were full of... You know, nonsense! The story is,

they get together and solve spooky crimes.

Let us look at you arguing, we have a clip here. Do you really think so

much of yourself you can't accept there is anything out there bigger

than you? Why can't you accept this is all there is? Who died that is so

important you can't stop chasing the dead instead of enjoying the living.

Do of your worst. As much as I hate to interrupt, there has been another

murder. Sister Matilda. Suspense! It very dramatic. You said

they had met in real life but they didn't go and solve crimes. They did

look at a few crimes. Together. We have, they had a sort of, so people

thought a ghost might have done it. It is a genuine friendship and a

genuine sort of battle they had at the time. We have mucked round with

the dates. Thought it was earlier the time. We have mucked round with

than it was. He didn't quite have the moustache I am sporting there.

We will come to that in a minute. You have said that crime dramas are

based on the plot of Scooby Doo. I am a massive fan. The essence of

every crime drama, it can be boiled down schoolboyy do. The beginning

you have the crime, you have someone who look like they didn't do it but

they did it. Somebody who looks line they did but didn't and then the

murder is unmask and they explain why they did it. Who is Shaggy? That

is me. What is brilliant is it has those elements but it is is writ

been the guys who did House, and they are just masters at writing

fantastic scripts. We have looked at the first episode I it opens in

dramatic fashion. You are about to drown. You are fighting this rising

water, do you do your own stunts? I do all my own stunts but there

aren't that many because I play a writer. Mike was suspended upside

down, he was shackled. He dives into lake, I am at a type writer most of

the time. So I got the easy end of the stick. O Not that easy. We were

up to our necks in water in a specially constructed tank in a car

park in Salford. Nice. Sorry to have destroyed the magic. Last time on

the show you said Postman Pat the movie was the only thing your

children would have been allowed to see you are in. Is that... That is

still the case. That is too scary for them. And daddy, and my wife in

real life plays my wife in this show. And in the show she starts off

not very well at all. I think for a five-year-old to watch their mummy

being really ill on telly might be off putting. It is weird acting with

your wife? Weird but great. We filmed it up in Manchester and

Liverpool. So it meant I got see her. We got to catch up on the

children and stuff. You mentioned the moustache. I want to mention, I

want to show a picture. You are young, was this your own actual real

hopefully it will be there, hair? Oh, yes. That is my first starring

role in beauty and the beast. Before any writes any am playing beauty.

Not the beast. Look that the hair. Amazing. Thank you very much.

Houdini and Doyle starts this Sunday on ITV and ITV Encore. We are going

to go back to HMS Belfast where I think Alex is on deck. She can hear

us, what is happening there Alex? Well, we have all assembled here,

now on the landing deck, on HMS Belfast, all relieved, I think, yes?

Yes. Professional crew glad to get rid of us? No. It was sad, to step

off the boat for the last time, because it has become our home for

the last five days, and a home we felt and experienced so much in.

Ore, can you at all sum up the last sort of couple of days, because it

has been up and down, hasn't it, like the waves? Like a family, we

have grown together, simply the most incredible experience of all of our

lives, we were so worried and scared before we set out, to have got

through with such amazing peep, such incredible inoperational crew as

well. We can go home with a huge sense of accomplishment because it

has been amazing. Can I say, I know this boat is fix odd the floor how

good it is to be on dry and stable land. Are we still rocking? I will

just squidge in here if you don't mind. Doon, you did experience quite

a tremendous amount of fear, really onboard that ship. Take us back to

Wednesday and remind us what you went through on that particular

evening? We walled it waveageddon, I was woken up at 1.30 and I got on

deck and it was like a virtual reality hell, with a boat like that

people passing me from person-to-person, it was shocking. I

held on to some rope, tacked on and bucketed of water being thrown over

me. It was cold to the bone, to the marrow was, but exhilarating and

horrendous at the same time. Hal, we know you experienced terrible

seasickness, still a bit peaky but you will get over it on solid

ground. This is my usual look. Suzy and Angellica sum up the expense for

us, it has been exhilarating, terrifying, and everything in

between really. It has been sublime and ridiculous, we have experienced

more than most sailors will experience in their life. A bit of

everything. Terror, beautiful night sky, but we have hung on and what

Doon failed to mention, going up wind, crashing through the waves she

fell on top of me and nearly broke my leg. It was like that all the

time. We were clattering round we were buffeted round and we are here

to tell the tale. We have raised some money. We all want to say thank

you to you guys for taking great care of us. We couldn't have done it

without you. Thank you so much. All we need now is a total. Yes, we are

waiting for it. Please. Can we have it soon? You can. Not right now, we

will make you wait another couple of minutes or so. You are all

brilliant. Congratulations, well done. Fist, our chef Rick rib has

been invited to dinner at the home of a app an 80's music star, someone

who sang every time you go you take a piece of meat with you. Are you

sure it is meat? It is now. I am hoping to cook up heat with

this box of goodies but in someone else's kitchen.

# Where ever I lay my hat # That's my home. Paul Young's

kitchen to be precise. Back in the '80s his home was where

ever he laid his hat. But after years of touring the world, home is

in Hertfordshire. Today, his music has a distinctly Mexican flavour,

and apparently so does his food. # Doing my job

# I'm the high way patrol. # Everyone is here for a family feast.

Paul's wife Stacy, daughters, and their brothers.

So why Mexican? I got into the music primarily. I loved it so much, then

I got into the culture and then the food. What dish are we making today?

This is marinaded pork, in tequila and orange juice and slow cooked.

Nice and easy. Where did you get your passion for cooking from? I had

a keyboard player, and he cooked a lot. As we started to travel more,

he started to widen his cooking skills, and so, I started to pick up

things off him. I have read that food can bring you to tears. It has

happened in restaurants a couple of time, when I think about all the

trouble they went to, I kind of get emotional about it. Does he cook for

you much? Yes. I do the basic day-to-day cooking, if we have

something like a dinner party, I will say Paul, go on. Is this going

in the blender? Yes, it is. Ground spice, all in. Don't forget

the... The most important thing. Tequila. Your splash or my splash.

Enough to swim in. I like the way you're thinking.

Banana leaves. It smells so nice, but so different.

All we have to do is bung it in the oven for three or four hours. Paul

has become known for his cooking skills with appearances on Hell's

Kitchen and Celebrity MasterChef. Our quarterfinalist is Paul.

Back in the '80s he was all about the music.

# Come back and stay for good. # His career took off and so did his

love like. I met Stacy on the video. She had to play my girlfriend I was

was asking to come back and stay. He was becoming one of the biggest

stars of the '80s but he was getting sick of being on the road.

# Everything must change. # Sometimes would find their way into

a hotel. It got to the point I couldn't leave my room and I started

developing claustrophobia, I took a couple of years off. I wanted to

stay at home and be a family man. That couple of year, of being

together, made all the difference, you know. The kids, I think have all

turned out well. Thank God. I did have a period when I didn't have a

label. The first time it felt strange. I thought, right, music a

big part of my life so now there will be a gap so I fill it with a

band which I started. It was only meant to last a couple of years

until I got another record out. And it was too good to stop.

Being in the limelight has its pressures, and Paul and Stacy once

separated but now they are back together, and closer than ever.

Think it is tough. If it is your vocation, for music you have to put

a lot of man hours in. You have to have a strong wife. It is never

ending. It is no easy to find a rock 'n' roll wife. I think I lucked out

really. The new album due out, the future is

looking good and the food is not looking bad either. I bet you don't

look like this at uni. Not close. You are the spice man, you like

spicy food? Just to prove it he has eaten a whole chilli. You come back

to keep your food bills low. Yes, to let dad cook. This is you in your

Pappy place? Yes, I have family, food, all here together, that is the

best bit. -- happy place. What a civilised

family meal. Is that how it is your your place? Why are the children not

screaming about the green stuff on their plate? In my house it is

chaos. Let us go back for the last time to HMS Belfast and the Hell on

High Seas team. Alex, time to reveal the amount of money that you have

all raised for Sport Relief. We have some City of London Sea Cadets there

on hand, so, sea a at thes step up. The The total is on its way. Come on

cadets. Come on in. Lovely. Thank you so much.

Now, I think the skipper of the boat, where are you Ian. You should

do this. Come on. Than, to you lending us the boat and

coming with us. You read out the total. Right. I am very pleased to

say the total is ?944,000. APPLAUSE

That is an amazing, nearly a million pounds, we have to be happy with,

thank you to those of you who have been generous, it meant so much to

get us here. That money will go and support brilliant brilliant project,

both abroad and here in the UK. Thank you so much once again to even

for being part of this. The Hell on High Seas, and going back to you, I

will be back on Monday. A round of an Muze. Incredible. Remember, there

is still time, isn't there, there is still time you can donate.

Absolutely. still time you can donate.

Eddie Izzard's Marathon Man challenge. That is all we have time

for tonight. Thank you to Stephen Mangan, Houdini and Doyle starts on

Sunday night on ITV. Matt and Alex will be back on Monday with Heston

Blumenthal and the draw for the FA Cup semifinal. Have a great weekend.

Bye.