:00:25. > :00:31.Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Well, it's time to dig out the denim. Plug
:00:31. > :00:36.in the air guitar and loosen up the shoulders to get down, down with
:00:37. > :00:46.tonight's guests. # Down, down deeper and down
:00:47. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:58.# Get down, deeper and down... # They've been rocking all over the
:00:58. > :01:01.world for 50 years. Please, welcome Status Quo, and Rick Parfitt and
:01:01. > :01:06.Francis Rossi. APPLAUSE
:01:06. > :01:11.Lads, it's like you were saying, that was almost ten years ago.
:01:11. > :01:16.natural audience there. A good ten years ago 12 years. I would never
:01:16. > :01:23.know. We are so excited to have you here. Matt has been singing your
:01:23. > :01:31.songs all day. More excited than anybody else is glory Hunniford. --
:01:31. > :01:39.Gloria Hunniford. A little bird told us that maybe Gloria had a thing for
:01:39. > :01:46.you Francis? We had a few moments. Gloria, it won't be long. You'll be
:01:46. > :01:52.on the sofa very shortly. panting! ! We will also find out why
:01:52. > :01:58.Status Quo have gone all Fijian on us. Can't wait to find out all about
:01:58. > :02:04.it. That looks lovely. It's us to. It is. Have you ever heard of a
:02:04. > :02:08.Phoenix company? Yeah.Good. Well, for you at home, here is Gloria to
:02:08. > :02:16.explain all and how any one of us could lose money through no fault of
:02:16. > :02:19.our own. Nearly two years ago, Colin paid �11,500 for this - his family's
:02:20. > :02:24.second-hand motor home, but the very first time he took it away the
:02:24. > :02:29.problems began. Now you've got your dream motor home. A great reason for
:02:29. > :02:35.you to spend holidays with your family. What went wrong? The first
:02:35. > :02:43.hieple we used it we noticed that as the British weather goes, we had a
:02:43. > :02:48.little bit of rain and my daughter was actually sleeping in the above
:02:48. > :02:52.and it's over the window as you can see. She complained that it was a
:02:52. > :02:56.little damp. We'll go inside and look at the damage and everything.
:02:56. > :03:00.Right. It turned out to be much more than just damp. Actually, there was
:03:00. > :03:09.water in the light fixtures. So, Colin took the leaking motor home
:03:09. > :03:14.back to the original seller. They were Rivershore Limited. They agreed
:03:14. > :03:18.to fix it free of charge, but the next time they used it the water
:03:18. > :03:22.came through yet again. I was assured that the leak had been
:03:22. > :03:26.detected and that it had been repaired, it had been tested as
:03:26. > :03:29.well. Because the company's repair job hadn't actually fixed the
:03:29. > :03:35.problem, Colin was keen to get a second opinion from a different
:03:35. > :03:38.caravan firm. But their assessment was worse than he feared. It
:03:38. > :03:44.complied a detailed report, which described the caravan as maybe
:03:44. > :03:49.unsafe to use and worse of all, that the total repairs could cost Colin
:03:49. > :03:53.over �4,500,000. According to Colin, river shoe disagreed with the report
:03:53. > :04:02.and said that the problems were to be expected for an ageing motor
:04:02. > :04:06.home. Colin felt he had no choice but to pursue Rivershore in the
:04:06. > :04:10.Small Claims Court. But then something really unexpected
:04:10. > :04:16.happened. Because, the very day before he was due in court his
:04:16. > :04:20.solicitor had a call from an insolvency company to say Rivershore
:04:20. > :04:24.had gone into liquidation. This meant that Colin had little or no
:04:24. > :04:28.chance of getting his money back. To add insult to injury, very soon
:04:28. > :04:34.after Colin discovered that the firm was seemingly trading again, but
:04:34. > :04:38.this time under a different name - calling themselves Craig's caravans.
:04:38. > :04:42.As far as Colin is concerned, everything but the name was exactly
:04:42. > :04:47.the same. I believe it's just changed the name. It's the same
:04:47. > :04:50.company. It's the same premises. The phone was still the same. Everything
:04:50. > :04:55.looked exactly the same as I remember it the last time I was
:04:55. > :05:01.here. It's just absolutely unbelievable that people are allowed
:05:01. > :05:05.to do this so easily. So, how is it that a company can cease trading one
:05:05. > :05:11.day, leaving Colin in the lurk and seemingly just start trading again
:05:11. > :05:15.with little or no responsibility to previous customers? Craig's Caravans
:05:15. > :05:19.could be what is known as a Phoenix company. Typically assets are sold
:05:19. > :05:24.from a failing firm to a new one. The new company may operate from the
:05:24. > :05:28.same address, with the same directors. Now, this arrangement is
:05:28. > :05:32.perfectly legal and allows the profitable elements of the failed
:05:32. > :05:37.business to survive, offering some continuity to both suppliers and
:05:37. > :05:41.employees. However, it's absolutely infuriating for people who believe
:05:41. > :05:45.they've been left out of pocket, so because often the pot of assets that
:05:45. > :05:50.is left is so small that there's nothing for the creditors to claim
:05:50. > :05:54.back on. Carrying out the liquidation process is the
:05:54. > :05:58.insolvency agent. They take charge of the company and it's their job to
:05:59. > :06:02.settle any legal disputes, sell off the company's assets using any money
:06:03. > :06:08.to pay creditors. They are also responsible for investigating why
:06:08. > :06:13.the business has failed. It's quite common, particularly for
:06:13. > :06:18.entrepreneurs in this country to try something and if it doesn't succeed,
:06:18. > :06:23.to then try again. In many respects that is something to be encouraged.
:06:23. > :06:28.In this case, is it worthwhile Colin getting in touch with the insolvency
:06:28. > :06:32.company? Colin should definitely get in touch with the practioner who is
:06:32. > :06:37.handling that case to set out his claim and to see if there is any
:06:37. > :06:41.kind of remedy that the liquidator is considering. It may help bring
:06:41. > :06:46.more money back into the pot for Colin to share. The One Show did ask
:06:46. > :06:49.to speak to Craig's Caravans, but they declined to be interviewed.
:06:49. > :06:54.With rivershore ceasing to exist as a company, the courts will never get
:06:54. > :06:58.a chance to decide whether or not Colin would have won his case. In
:06:58. > :07:02.any event, Colin is now stuck with a motor home he can't use and can't
:07:02. > :07:06.afford to repair. Well, Gloria is here. You said there
:07:06. > :07:10.in the film that Craig's Caravans didn't want to mention anything in
:07:10. > :07:14.an interview. Have they said anything at all? Nothing. In actual
:07:14. > :07:17.fact, I feel so sorry for Colin, because he's ill and he has put all
:07:17. > :07:22.his money from a pension into the home and he took it back originally
:07:22. > :07:27.when it was the original company and they allegedly fixed it, but the
:07:27. > :07:33.next time he took it out, bad as ever. Now, he has an independent
:07:33. > :07:38.report, but it's just a shrugging of the shoulders. The day before he was
:07:38. > :07:42.due to go to the court the company shut down and re-opened. As an
:07:42. > :07:47.individual, this is my opinion, I find it incredible that a company
:07:47. > :07:52.can go bust one day and re-open the next with the same directors in some
:07:52. > :07:57.cases, and I'm generalising and I'm not talking about this company, same
:07:57. > :08:00.produce and products and directors in the same spot, but it's legal.
:08:01. > :08:05.And just taking the best bits. legal. Providing the insolvency
:08:05. > :08:09.company, which by the way is booked by the company in question, but
:08:09. > :08:15.actually the onus is on the public. They are due to take the public's
:08:15. > :08:18.interest into account, providing they've done the search that there
:08:18. > :08:22.hadn't been unsuccessary asset stripping or fraud, it is perfectly
:08:22. > :08:27.legal to open up again the next day, which I think to the individual just
:08:27. > :08:30.seems incredible. Colin's situation, it's terrible, isn't it, but how can
:08:30. > :08:35.we then as individuals protect ourselves from this type of thing
:08:35. > :08:39.happening? Well, for example, if you were going to perfect something else
:08:39. > :08:43.and the most logical thing, although it's tricky in a way, you have to be
:08:43. > :08:48.arduous, you can go to companies house and get details on any limited
:08:48. > :08:51.company, so you can check that out and you can check out the credit
:08:51. > :08:57.rating through Status and you should check out directors to make sure
:08:57. > :09:00.that they have haven't been -- they haven't been involved. They call it
:09:00. > :09:04.Phoenix companies, because they rise from the ashes, as one dies the
:09:04. > :09:08.other rises up. You have to do a lot of homework to make sure you're
:09:08. > :09:11.trading with a legit company. thought if you were bankrupt you
:09:11. > :09:14.weren't allowed to have a bank account. That might be individual,
:09:14. > :09:18.but in this case you are dealing with a limited company. The people
:09:18. > :09:22.are supposed to check out this stuff out when you think the system's got
:09:22. > :09:28.it all done already? What happens in any of these cases, and I use Colin
:09:28. > :09:33.as an example, it's the small person that suffers. The company goes bust
:09:33. > :09:37.through a legitimate insolvency agency, you know, employed by the
:09:37. > :09:40.company, but working on our behalf allegedly, but what they would say
:09:40. > :09:44.now for Colin and this would apply to anybody, is that you should never
:09:45. > :09:48.give up on it, because you have got a few after news. You should lodge
:09:48. > :09:53.your complaint with the insolvency company that is acting in this case
:09:53. > :09:57.for the motor home company. You should also go to the Financial
:09:58. > :10:01.Services Authority, or to the Financial Ombudsman to fight your
:10:01. > :10:06.case, but as in any of these schemes, I'm not saying this is
:10:06. > :10:10.necessary a rip-off, but we call it such, you have to have tenacity and
:10:10. > :10:15.you have to keep at it. What about the money? If you are working,
:10:15. > :10:20.because it costs people money? does. Colin, who can't work at the
:10:20. > :10:25.moment because of dealing with his cancer, he has taken �11,500 out of
:10:25. > :10:29.the pension to buy a motor home and yet he's the one now who is out of
:10:29. > :10:38.bobbinget. We wish Colin all the best. We'll put a lot of links on
:10:38. > :10:44.the website. -- pocket. We wish Colin all the best. We'll put a lot
:10:44. > :10:48.of the links on the website. Now, the new film Behind the Candelabra
:10:48. > :10:53.celebrates Liberace's life and today it's no secret that he was gay.
:10:53. > :11:02.Incredibly back in 1956, when a newspaper columnist called him
:11:02. > :11:04.fruit-flavoured it resulted in a nasty court case. In showbiz an
:11:04. > :11:12.artist's reputation is paramount. There are many who have gone to
:11:12. > :11:19.court to protect it. But perhaps the biggest libel case of all dates from
:11:19. > :11:28.1959, when the world's highest-paid entertainer, Liberace, sued the
:11:28. > :11:36.country's highest-selling newspaper the Daily Mirror. Liberace began his
:11:36. > :11:42.career in the late 1930s. A flamboyant showman busting with
:11:42. > :11:48.music flare with his flirty wink he charmed the world and found knee
:11:48. > :11:51.kneeal popularity, especially among women. -- phenomenal popularity,
:11:52. > :11:56.especially among women. Now a new film tells a different story, about
:11:56. > :12:01.one of his many love affairs with a man. I love to give people a good
:12:01. > :12:05.time. On the platform at Southampton are one or two music lovers.
:12:05. > :12:12.1956, Liberace toured the UK, but some traditional British voices
:12:12. > :12:16.disapproved of the American's camp razzamataz. And dropped a heavy hint
:12:16. > :12:20.that British women were waisting their -- wasting their time trying
:12:20. > :12:26.to catch his eye. Do you like my gold jacket? I'm glad, because you
:12:26. > :12:30.bought it. He was the summit of sex and the pinnical of masculine and
:12:30. > :12:35.feple mine neuter. This fruit-flavoured mincing help of
:12:35. > :12:41.mother love, he's the biggest sentimental vomit of all time. This
:12:41. > :12:47.is what William Connor, also known as Cassandra, wrote in his famed
:12:47. > :12:51.column in the Daily Mirror. The article Liberace was hoax sexual --
:12:51. > :12:55.homosexual. It was illegal in the United Kingdom then, so Liberace
:12:55. > :12:59.sued for libel. Why did he choose to go to town about Liberace? I don't
:12:59. > :13:03.think anyone can be certain about why he alighted on that. It provided
:13:03. > :13:07.him with a wonderful piece of propose. It's very, very nasty, but
:13:07. > :13:13.it's also, if you rise above it, very funny and clever. Most of the
:13:13. > :13:19.time, he had his finger on the popular pulse and he had a big
:13:19. > :13:23.streak, but he also had the deeply, dark conservative streak, what we
:13:23. > :13:28.would now call homophobia and he thought, "Here's a popular figure
:13:28. > :13:37.and isle take him apart." He misread the audience and most importantly
:13:37. > :13:42.the determination of Liberace himself. This QC has studied the
:13:42. > :13:46.case. Liberace was in character in court. He was asked some interesting
:13:46. > :13:50.questions by the barrister, and right in the middle he was talking
:13:50. > :13:55.about being fruit-flavoured and it well known that fruit in America
:13:55. > :14:02.meant gay and the key question in the case must have been why did you
:14:02. > :14:10.use the word if you didn't mean to say he was a homosexual. Are you a
:14:10. > :14:16.homosexual? No, sir. He was asked if he had indulged in homosexual in
:14:16. > :14:24.actions. He replied no. After seven days of trial, the jury decided that
:14:24. > :14:29.the article did indeed impune Liberace's sexuality. He was awarded
:14:29. > :14:33.a report �8,000 in damages, plus costs an eye-watering �500,000 in
:14:33. > :14:40.today's money. The case was a libel landmark and the aftermath for those
:14:40. > :14:46.involved was difficult to deal with. Bill was showbiz editor of the Daily
:14:46. > :14:51.Mirror and met Liberace. Bill Connor was winded by the experience?
:14:51. > :14:55.psychologically damaged. You rather fefle that Liberace was somebody --
:14:55. > :14:59.felt that Liberace was somebody who lied in court and the lie actually
:14:59. > :15:06.damaged the life of a journalist, who actually was telling the truth?
:15:06. > :15:12.Yes, absolutely. After all, he was a purgerer and he lied constantly
:15:12. > :15:15.through his life to protect himself that it was totally untrue. In a
:15:16. > :15:21.case based on money and lies, maybe truth was the biggest victim.
:15:21. > :15:26.Although, the Mirror had to pay up, the circulation didn't go down and
:15:26. > :15:35.eventually Cassandra was knighted axT as for Liberace, well, famously
:15:35. > :15:40.he cried all the way to the bank. -- and as for Liberace, well, famously
:15:40. > :15:44.he cried all the way to the bank. We are joined by a man who knew
:15:44. > :15:51.Liberace well, his publicist, John Rimmington. Why did you first start
:15:51. > :16:00.working with Liberace and secondly, John, where did you get the suits?
:16:00. > :16:05.Well, he gave me that as a gift for a wedding present. It was made by
:16:05. > :16:15.his costume lady and she gave my through him, as a gift, she gave my
:16:15. > :16:25.wife a fur coat. Fair enough.I started in 1972. Up until 1986.
:16:25. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:32.you still wear it? No, I sold it. Why ever not? I sold it to a music
:16:32. > :16:37.master at Eton college. Rick, you were saying that your mother was a
:16:38. > :16:42.big fan of Liberace? She was. We used to have the Liberace Show on
:16:42. > :16:45.every Sunday afternoon about 4.00pm. I was only a small boy, but I
:16:45. > :16:49.remember watching it on the black and white and she used to see him
:16:49. > :16:53.regularly at the pal laidium and I think he was the first person to
:16:53. > :17:03.come to this country with the waterfall, the coloured dancing
:17:03. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:07.water on stage. Fantastic.My mum saw it. She was soaked! John, I'm
:17:07. > :17:13.guessing that you knew that Liberace was gay then? Was it difficult for
:17:13. > :17:20.you over that period of time to keep it covered up? I had my suspicions.
:17:20. > :17:25.Yes, it was difficult. I think mainly because he feared and in
:17:25. > :17:32.those days correctly, that if he either openly came out or it was
:17:32. > :17:37.suggested in the media that he was gay, it would ruin his career.
:17:37. > :17:42.Didn't he go to massive lengths to try to stop it coming out? Yes.
:17:42. > :17:49.had a sort of pretend girlfriend didn't he? Debbie, yeah. That is
:17:49. > :17:54.true. There she is. He introduced her mid-way through one of the Vegas
:17:54. > :18:02.performances as the girl I'm mad about. He admitted later to me that
:18:02. > :18:06.she was very feple minute and she would make a wonderful wife and --
:18:06. > :18:11.feminine and she would make a wonderful wife. As it so happened,
:18:11. > :18:16.my story went to the British press first of course and it sparked off
:18:16. > :18:22.rumours that he was going to get married. That wasn't the case.
:18:22. > :18:29.got married and did you honeymoon in his house? He loaned us his house in
:18:29. > :18:37.Hollywood. My wife, Joyce and I spent a week there in the company...
:18:37. > :18:44.It's just like home. It looks quite plush. Is it - Just a little bit.
:18:44. > :18:50.Was it quite nice or a bit Gaudi? called it the Buckingham Palace of
:18:50. > :18:56.Beverly Hills and I'm sure the Queen has better taste. I would hope so.
:18:56. > :19:01.We'll leave it there. Diplomatic. Thank you, John. John's book,
:19:01. > :19:08.Liberace is nought now. As well as the Liberace film, the other music
:19:08. > :19:12.epic of this summer, you know where we are going, features Status Quo
:19:12. > :19:17.and it's called Bula Bula Quo. We'll look at this. What does it mean?
:19:17. > :19:26.# It's been a long, long time, since I felt so fine
:19:26. > :19:36.# Is it always here when I'm sane # You can ask me how and I know
:19:36. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:52.right now # Here I am on stage... #
:19:52. > :19:57.Come on, what does it mean? Hello. They say Bula in Fiji. You have to
:19:57. > :20:02.be very careful with it. It's a load of Bula. Are you making a film or
:20:02. > :20:07.you were out in Fiji to make the film and where did it come from?
:20:07. > :20:14.When we did Coronation Street many years ago the stunt co-ordinator,
:20:14. > :20:22.Stewart St Paul taught us to beat Les up and so we wanted to make a
:20:22. > :20:28.movie. It first came along and it was -- Wasn't it a Bruce Lee movie?
:20:28. > :20:33.More violent. It was going to be shot in Bangkok. I loved the idea.
:20:33. > :20:40.We didn't, so we waited for the new script and it did and it was a
:20:40. > :20:45.modicum of humour and shooting it in Fiji, so we went off. We do it a
:20:45. > :20:55.lot, this silly humour and it appeals to young people. I mean
:20:55. > :20:55.
:20:55. > :21:01.young people. Are you singing a lot in the movie? We have written, nine,
:21:01. > :21:07.ten, 11 songs for the album song track. There's quite a bit of
:21:08. > :21:14.singing, but it's more of a chase, I guess. Yeah, we being chased by
:21:14. > :21:20.Wilson. He's a baddie. Actually, when you see John on the screen he's
:21:20. > :21:24.mesmerising. We were both taken with him. He did one of those on shot
:21:24. > :21:28.when he shouldn't. It's a caper. What happened to your hair, Rick? It
:21:28. > :21:32.has grown back. I had a bit of a rash on my skin a couple of years
:21:32. > :21:37.ago and I went to the doctor and he told me to steak the steroids. I
:21:37. > :21:42.took them and my skin was beautiful, but all my hair fell off. Literally,
:21:42. > :21:48.just as I was starting the movie, I was combing my hair. It started
:21:48. > :21:52.growing again. Did they put it into the storyline? No, not at all. As
:21:52. > :22:00.the movie was going on, my hair got shorter and shorter and by the end I
:22:00. > :22:03.didn't have any hair. It is all cut short. For me, it was a frightening
:22:03. > :22:09.experience, because I've had long hair all my life and all of a sudden
:22:09. > :22:14.it's coming out by the comb-load so I'm trying to grow it back axT at my
:22:14. > :22:18.age, it's ridiculous. I watched it coming out day by day. Marvellous.
:22:18. > :22:24.Last year, it was the 50th anniversary of the band starting
:22:24. > :22:29.out. You all got together at Wembley. How was that for you?
:22:29. > :22:32.good. It was difficult, I think. But it was seeing the audience, the way
:22:32. > :22:37.they took it. There were people crying, whether it was that bad, I
:22:37. > :22:41.don't know what it was, but we were both taken with the way the audience
:22:41. > :22:45.were taken with seeing us four together again. People came from all
:22:45. > :22:50.over the world. I can't believe it. It was like Led Zeppelin and people
:22:50. > :22:55.were saying the same to us, it was the same sort of thing. Your music
:22:55. > :22:58.has been soundtracks to people's lives. There are 100 singles.
:22:58. > :23:02.It's weird. It just goes by. It's best not to think about it. Me and
:23:02. > :23:09.him never think about it. It's just people come up and give us the
:23:09. > :23:15.statistics. Someone said after taking a photograph and 100 singles
:23:15. > :23:19.and we carried on. We had no idea. You made this documentary as well to
:23:19. > :23:22.coincide with the 50th and you found that you had a few closet fans, one
:23:22. > :23:29.of them being Paul Weller, surprisingly. How did that come
:23:29. > :23:31.about? You remember Paul. I always thought Paul, to his credit, he was
:23:31. > :23:38.very much instrumental in helping the guys when they were first
:23:38. > :23:44.learning to play and they've held a thing that he never admitted. He put
:23:44. > :23:49.it right. I gave him an amp and he has never given it back to me when
:23:49. > :23:55.he started out. Gosh. It is incredible, because you were saying
:23:55. > :24:04.about your dad. He has been influential for you. Very much so. I
:24:04. > :24:09.started in the working men's club and I joined an association at
:24:09. > :24:16.holiday camps and I met Francis and we teamed up and here we are.
:24:16. > :24:22.at it. That's movie two. Right, on we go. It turns out we should have a
:24:22. > :24:27.new-found respect for this, the humble pen pencil. Marty Jopson
:24:27. > :24:32.explains how this could re-write the future. The familiar gadgets of
:24:32. > :24:36.everyday life, they get faster, slicker and slimmer. But an maizing
:24:36. > :24:41.new material discovered by British scientists will transform this
:24:41. > :24:51.technology forever. It will allow us to slim it all down, so thickness
:24:51. > :24:55.will be the thickness of a piece of paper. It's called graphine. It won
:24:55. > :24:58.a Nobel Prize for the two scientists who found it and it's been lauded as
:24:58. > :25:03.the miracle material of the 20th century. It's stronger than diamond
:25:03. > :25:07.and more conductive than copper and flexible than rubber and it's so
:25:07. > :25:12.thin you can barely see it with the naked eye. It's made from the stuff
:25:12. > :25:17.in your pencil, graphite. And graphite is millions of microscopic
:25:17. > :25:22.layers of tightly packed carbon. When I put my thumb into the graph
:25:22. > :25:28.graphite, and give it a rub around, it gets covered in a layer of it. If
:25:28. > :25:33.I then press that back on to the paper, millions of layers are peeled
:25:33. > :25:38.off. If I keep smudging my thumb across the paper the layers of
:25:38. > :25:48.graphite get thinner and thinner. And if I keep going eventually I'll
:25:48. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:59.end up with a layer of graph ITV1 atom thin thin and at that point I
:25:59. > :26:05.
:26:05. > :26:10.have graphine. This doctor -- graphine one atom thin and at this
:26:10. > :26:19.point I have it. This Dr Works with the men who found it. It is 200
:26:19. > :26:23.times stronger than steel. To demonstrate the properties, Aravind
:26:23. > :26:28.dissolves graphite and injects is into a special printer cartridge.
:26:28. > :26:32.This sprays a thin layer on to a cellophane backing, which holds the
:26:32. > :26:40.thin layer together. What we have here then is cellophane coated with
:26:40. > :26:44.a layer of graphine. Are you sure? Yes. On its own cellophane cannot
:26:44. > :26:49.conduct electricity, but when graphine is added, something
:26:49. > :26:52.remarkable happens. We have an LED lamp there and as soon as you wire
:26:52. > :27:00.it up. It starts to glow. It means that there is current flowing
:27:00. > :27:04.through the piece of plastic. is so thin, there is very little
:27:04. > :27:08.lectical resistance, making the most conductive material ever created.
:27:08. > :27:13.Allowing scientists to shrink our circuit boards, leading to smaller
:27:13. > :27:18.phones and computers. But it has another key property flexibility.
:27:18. > :27:24.You can pick it up and you can bend it and you can twist it and still
:27:24. > :27:29.the current flows through it and the lamp stays on. It's incredible. This
:27:29. > :27:35.flexibility is getting electronics giants excited. Prototype an maces
:27:36. > :27:39.show it applied to super-thin bendy plastics, making phones and tablets
:27:39. > :27:44.foldable. This is really revolutionary. This will change
:27:44. > :27:49.things? Yeah.The thinness also means it is 97% transparent.
:27:50. > :27:54.Tackling a problem we face with touch-screen technology. Today's
:27:54. > :27:58.mobile phones contain an element called indium, to make the touch
:27:58. > :28:05.screens work. It is rare and becoming more expensive and the
:28:05. > :28:12.coating that it makes is brittle in inflexible. On the other hand, super
:28:12. > :28:16.bendy, conductive and transparent graphine is made from carbon which
:28:16. > :28:20.is abundant, but high quality is currently hard to manufacture on a
:28:20. > :28:25.large scale. Any imperfections in the process reduces the
:28:25. > :28:29.conductivity. If scientists it crack this problem it won't just be
:28:29. > :28:35.consumer technology that will change. Electric car batteries built
:28:35. > :28:43.from millions of layers of graphine will charge in minutes thanks to the
:28:43. > :28:49.high conductivity. Microscopic sensors in our body could detect
:28:50. > :28:57.harm harmful mie coeBs -- microbes. It may well be the biggest
:28:57. > :29:01.revolution since the silicone chip. It's the future. Incredible. Thank
:29:01. > :29:09.you. Thanks very much to Rick and Francis and Bula Bula Quo is out
:29:09. > :29:12.now. You can see The film on 5th July. Sir Tom Jones will be here on
:29:12. > :29:15.Friday and we are trying to find children of other dads called Tom