11/11/2013 The One Show

APPLAUSE Welcome to Bolton for Dave four the

love XOR challenge. I tell you what, they are a very

very welcoming not here in the North West. Let me give you an idea of how

Team Rickshaw have got us here. We have got a walking map. This is

Andrew, who unbelievably has been in The Wizard Of Oz. What part did you

play? The tin man. This is what Team Rickshaw have been doing since

Friday. Friday morning they start of the Giants Causeway, and then got on

a ferry and then Team Rickshaw pedalled all the way across here. We

then got into Dumfries, down to Kendall and then 68 miles, all the

way down here. The question is, how far away are they? Well, thank you

very much indeed. We can say goodbye to the lovely cowardly lion. And

joining us this evening, for all of these festivities is two local lads

who hail from this part of the world. World-renowned singer, Alfie

Boe! And boxing superstar and near Calne! Hello. Welcome. -- and near

Calne. Goodness me. I tell you what. They are such a lovely bunch. What a

reception. We love the people in Bolton. They get behind us. You

can't hear me, can you? You're going to be turning on the lights. Have

you done this before? Yes, I've done it before in Bolton and it's a great

honour to do it again and I'm looking forward to it. We are also

going to getting that we are also going to get you to sing for us. I'm

going to sing Trust from my new album. I've offered to do a duet

with Amir but he has backed out. I can't think. This is Children In

Need, so it could be setting something up. I will try my best. As

well as that, we have got a very moving story from Dan Snow of

choosing a fallen soldier to be buried in the macro-finger. Tonight

we are following the progress of Team Rickshaw. You saw off on

Friday. A lot of happened in the last few days, so here is the story

so far. On Friday, they reached to Scotland. But Bethany is not well

enough to do a shift and her mum, Amanda, has to stay behind with

her. We are supposed to be at their cycling. I think she feels bad but

she is determined to do it. Martin is one of the strongest riders which

is just as well, because if the rickshaw is to arrive on Friday, it

must average speed of five miles an hour. But Martin soon is stopped in

his tracks. My gears are not going around any more. He can't get any

traction between himself and the bike. This could really hold us up.

And it's not just once. It's not changing gear. Twice, but three

times, we have to stop. This rickshaw is literally falling apart.

Our top team has told us it would take an hour to fix it which we

don't have this morning, so we're going to make do, aren't we? Yeah.

Would you be the same person if it is not for the help you had from

Children In Need? It's been a massive, massive help. It's

definitely worth putting your hand in your pocket and giving. Right, we

need to make up some time. OK, let's get moving van. -- then. Although

there has been some highs throughout the day, there's also been some

loans. Peter 's dad comes off the bike and it shatters Peter 's

confidence. I don't like this. It will be comes an uphill struggle.

Come on, you can do it. I'm not going to lie, I thought I was in

trouble. Alex helps push them through the night. At this time of

the morning, I don't think your body is quite geared up to doing these

hills. It's quite tough. And there's some roadside company. I think we

have got some cows running after us both at good morning, my friends.

Later Sunday evening, Bethany is back on the team but is finding it

difficult. There is one way to keep their focus, however, and that is

with a singalong on the rickshaw. # You don't know your beautiful... We

don't work in miles and Mick it's -- minutes, we work in songs. With the

team now in good spirits, the biggest challenge of the day is

about to be attempted by Bethany's number, Amanda, to take as to the

highest point of the whole 700 mile route. Very shortly, you will be at

the highest point in the whole way. You are going to get us there. Are

you ready for this? Yes, Matt. All you middle aged women out there

watching this, all those mothers passed the prime of their life, come

on. You can do this, seriously, you can do this. Come on, don't give in.

Bethany really pushed herself so tried to make it to the top here.

Come on, darling. Come on. Three, two, one, yes! You have done it. You

have done it, Amanda. You have done it. You did it so I had to do it. I

was so proud of you and I wanted you to be proud of me, too. Thank you.

Thank you. APPLAUSE

I told you it's all been happening in the last three days.

I am here with Keith's family. This is Andrea. This is a me and I'm here

we have got Michael. Michael, have you been watching this? Yes. It's a

big bike. Can you ride a bike? Yes, with three wheels on it. Have you

been missing daddy? Listen, he has been amazing. He's very strong. Yes.

Allen has a tough time for them she was born the cleft palate. I know

her as a very strong, confident young woman but that's not always

been the case. She hasn't always been like that. From the age of

13-15, she was very withdrawn. Stopped talking to us. Was just a

very sad young lady, really, but she has picked up a confidence in the

last year, and this has done so much for her, it's unbelievable. Has she

been telling you how difficult it is? She says it's hard but she's

enjoying it. Alan has been a bit better than daddy. Is that a

surprise? Sort of. This morning, she was properly going for it. I have

been tough on her this morning, you know, because I know watches capable

of doing. She tells me you're not the housewife's favoured any more.

She is a tricky one. Here she comes. Go on, I will let you have that

moment. In you come, dad. Over you come. There we are.

CHEERING What about that? You know, this is

what this year's rickshaw challenge is all about because it's not just

the children benefit, it's the whole family, and the support as well, and

this just speaks volumes. They are getting so emotional over there

because literally they had no idea their family would be here tonight.

It's lovely to see them reunited this evening. They have worked hard,

unbelievable. We took it up a level. Jeff, how was it for you today? Very

tough. Matt was pushing us. It was very windy. I'm very tired. Martin

and I got the brunt of the weather. Have you dried out? Just about. We

are here now, that's all that matters. We do it again tomorrow. I

think it was the toughest day today but this is how you can support Team

Rickshaw and Children In Need. If you would like to show your support

for Team Rickshaw, all you have to do is text the word team to 70705.

Terms and conditions on the website. You must be 16 or over to donate and

please ask the bill payer's permission. Thank you.

APPLAUSE Nice to see you.

How lovely. This is your stomping ground, Amir, so we thought we would

ask you to help us getting the crowd text in. Can you do some trash talk?

Hello, guys. Get your phones out and text 70705. Do that. There's about

5000 people out there. We might get 25 grand. I'm sure they will be

generous. It's so loud, isn't it? If everybody at home does the same

right now, imagine how much we would raise in this half an hour. Shall we

find out how much we have raised so far? Alfie, you are a drummer. I'm

not very good but I'll try. In your own time, give us a drum roll. Here

we go. It's ?226,357! Thank you very much. Marvellous, marvellous. Good

stuff. Thank you to everybody who has donated so far. For anybody who

hasn't, there's still plenty of time. Speaking of making large

donations, you put a lot of money into the local area with Gloves

Community Centre. I wanted to give something back to Bolton. I bought a

boxing gymnasium and converted into a community centre. Hundreds of

children come there every week. It gets them involved in boxing, in

different activities. I also have a homework club for the kids, so they

can do their homework. They can sit there and do their homework.

Everything is there for them and if they want to get fit, nowadays kids

are obese but boxing is one the best things you can do. We get a lot of

children coming there. The police and Fire Service train there. We get

a lot of people in the community. I wanted to give something back

because boxing is changed my life. You are still fighting of course.

You run your big fight earlier this year and the room if you are going

to fight Floyd Mayweather. Ricky Hatton says you're the only bloke

who can is it true? Yeah, he's one of the best fighters in the world.

My dream is to fight someone like him for them it would be amazing.

Ricky Hatton is a great friend of mine. When he got beaten by Floyd

Mayweather, you have to play him at his own game. I think the key is

speed. But, let's hope, fingers crossed, we can get the fight.

Logistically, it is difficult to make these things happen, isn't it?

It's not as easy as it used to be. Nowadays, you have to get the

contracts done. Where will the fight happen? There's so much changes in

the contract side. At the moment, there's a lot of talk about the

fight happening. You are up for it? If he's watching, let's get it on.

Hopefully we can get it done. Alfie, more of a singer than a fighter?

Absolutely. I was having my make-up done and it didn't do anything for

my masculinity! You have got a new album out called

Trust. Lots of popular songs are not so much opera? It is in a different

direction. I have gone down the country route, there is a gospel

element. It is a different direction, but it is music that I

grew up listening to one that I love. The feel that we had in the

studio when we were putting the music down on disk, it transfers to

the listener. You have stepped into drama? You are in Mr Selfridge? I

have done Mr Selfridge, I am in an episode. I am looking forward to it.

How was it? Great, it is something I am not that used to because I am not

a screen actor, I have not done much. But the cast really brought me

in and help me out and encouraged me and made me part of the team, I

loved every minute. Will there be more acting? I hope so, it is a

direction that I want to aim at. For Armistice Day, Dan Snow has the

story of the grave of the unknown soldier. Choosing one casualty from

the First World War to represent all of the fallen was no simple matter.

Westminster Abbey has been the final resting place of kings and Queen

since Edward the confessor was interred in 1066.

17 monarchs lie in peace, but the most conspicuous grave is not a

royal, but holds an ordinary, nameless soldier, brought back from

the battlefields of World War I. He was buried in 1920 with the

trappings of a state union -- funeral. A million people filed past

his Coffin to pay their respects. The grave of the unknown Warrior,

the first or reel of eight kind ever. It has been widely replicated

around the world. The story of how he comes to lie here begins with one

man, the Army chaplain who served on the Western front in World War I.

One night he came back from the front and he went back to where he

was billeted, it was comparatively still, the guns were silent, he went

into the garden at the back and about five or six feet from the back

door there was a grave, and on the grave there was a simple cross, on

which was written in black pencil, and unknown British soldier. And

that just started my grandfather thinking about that person's family,

and wondered what could be done to ease their pain and grief. The

reverend had an idea, to bring the body of an unknown servicemen back

to be buried in Westminster Abbey, amongst Kings. In August 1920 he

wrote to the Dean here, and he took the idea up and made it happen.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George, aware that almost every family in

the land had lost somebody in the war, rushed to the idea through

Parliament. With hundreds and thousands of war dead lying in

anonymous battlefield graves, one had to be carefully selected. It had

to be completely random, everybody in Britain had to subscribe to the

fact that it really could be their lost son, husband, father, buried in

Westminster Abbey. Digging parties like this were said

to four battlefields, each retrieving one anonymous British

body. They were taken to the British military headquarters and placed in

a corrugated iron shed which served as a chapel. It was lost... Blocked

and left under armed guard until midnight when the commander chose

one of the four bodies at random. Why the cloak and dagger secrecy?

The decision was taken in 1950 not to return any bodies of the British

dead for burial, because the prospect of an endless procession of

Coffin 's choking the ports and railway stations and overfilling

graveyards would have had a devastating effect on public morale.

The unknown warrior was one of very few who came back, so for everybody

in Britain it became the tomb and the tombstone of their lost loved

ones. The body was shipped across the English Channel and transferred

to an oak casket. The coffin began its journey to Westminster Abbey.

War veterans arrived in their thousands, it was a huge event, the

procession bringing central London to a halt. King George laid a wreath

on the coffin, and in a ceremony coinciding with the funeral,

unveiled the Cenotaph, a memorial to the war dead. Finally, the coffin

arrived at Westminster Abbey. The King, the Prime Minister and the

Dean were in attendance, but for once, the majority of the

congregation was made up of ordinary people. For them, the anonymous body

was someone real. Finally, a focus for their grief. And the simple idea

had become a reality. I think the recognition for not just those who

work unknown but all those who had served, that there should be a place

in the Abbey, as you would say, with the greatest of the land, was of

great importance to him. They buried him among the Kings, because he had

done good towards God and his house. But perhaps the most significant

good he did was in death, by providing this potent memorial.

What a story. We are joined by two of the wonderful members of Team

Rickshaw. Daniel, earlier we said we might have a treat for you. We still

might, so bear with us for now. Carroll, first of all, has this

turned out the way that you thought it would? It has been amazing. I

didn't know what to expect, really. It is a chance in a lifetime,

brilliant. Has Daniel surprised you in anyways? He is loving it, he is

so excited. He is really putting the effort in, it is really nice, but it

is very emotional sometimes when stuff happens. You have put so much

effort in yourself, how are your legs? Not so bad. As long as you get

a downhill bit after some of the hills... You are known as the Hill

magnet, because every time you get on, hills just arrive.

Let's talk to the man himself. Daniel, we heard that you are big

fan of Liverpool. We have a very special letter for you, and Alfie is

about to read it to you. Dear Daniel, I just wanted to drop you a

short message to wish you all the best for your rickshaw challenge in

aid of Save the Children. To be able to do this after

everything you have been through is a credit to your determination not

to let things hold you back. -- in aid of Children in Need. This is --

you are a true inspiration. I have enclosed a signed shirt. You will

never walk alone, good luck, Steven Gerrard.

APPLAUSE What about back, Daniel? -- what

about that? Daniel, we had that little chat

about how people will be watching and taking note, and now your hero

has written that to you. Wow. That is the first time he is lost for

words. Good lad. Weldon, Daniel.

Alfie is going to sing for us in a moment, and for all the good people

of Bolton. This is ultimate busking. A few days ago, we went to Guildford

to do some celebrity busking. This is how it all turned out.

I have been given four hours to fill my guitar case with as much money as

possible for Children in Need. My first port of call, the local radio

stations. Guildford High Street from 11am until 3pm. Shout outs sorted,

time to meet Pudsey. Let's hope the radio show toad works for us. With

the clock ticking, my radio plug seems to have reached the local

performers and brought in the crowds.

# I'm going down the road, feeling bad.

# You don't know what you've been missing, old boy, when you're with

me. Who knew Guildford had such talent?

Despite the efforts of my buddies, I appealed to the crowd again as my

guitar case is not exactly bulging. It is all for Children in Need, we

can't stress how the money would be appreciated.

It is very far from being full. Pudsey has clearly been pulling in

some favours as two top pop performers turn up to boost the

challenge. Eliza Doolittle!

Thank you, guys. And the good people of Guildford let them money to the

talking. Thank you, sir. The guitar case is covered on the bottom, I am

happy to say. Chas and Dave are coming soon, and we have had some

wonderful performers. With minutes to spare, dynamic duo Chas and Dave

show up. # Shine a light on me. And the crowd

weren't going to let the boys go without playing a classic.

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, Robert... APPLAUSE

That's it, what do you reckon? All those buskers, Eliza Doolittle,

Shane from Westlife, Chas and Dave. Let's go and count the cash and have

a cup of tea. I can't believe she didn't take her

hats off! It was the years thing to do. They raised ?1412. Thank you

very much to Eliza Doolittle, Chas and Dave and to Shane. We have Alfie

Boe here, let's have some live music. Here he is, singing from his

album Trust, Trust. # We jump through hoops and we dance

on wires. # Walk on broken glass and play with

fire. # We turn on the light.

# I know that everything will be all right.

# If you trust in true love and trust in time.

# Trusting forever, trust this heart of mine.

# We can lose ourselves, just like lovers do.

# If you trust in me like I trust in you.

# Trust in me, like I trust in you. # Trust in true love, and trust in

time. # Trusting forever, trust this heart

of mine. # We can lose ourselves, just like

lovers do. # If you trust in me like I trust in

you. # Trust in me like I trust in you.

# Ooh. APPLAUSE

Thank you! Alfie Boe, ladies and gentlemen! Good stuff! Thank you,

thank you. Thanks, lads, lovely stuff. We have got the Mayor and

Mayoress, Amir Khan, and here comes Santa Claus with a lovely present.

A large switch. Thanks are coming, we know it is a very busy time of

year. Quiet, let's lose the streetlights.

Five, four, three, two, one! Amir, term alights on! -- turn the lights

on. Bolton is littered beautifully. We

will be leaving shortly. Who is going to be riding the rickshaw out

of town? Alex, my dear? We are going to head out, we have

100 miles to do tomorrow. We will be in Manchester tonight,

Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Wolverhampton, then we will see you

tomorrow night in Birmingham. From all of us in Bolton, good night.