12/01/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Angela Scanlon

Tonight we're joined by two stars of the BBC detective

series Death In Paradise - one is smooth but stern.

The other could occasionally give Inspector Clouseau

The best team chewing on TV, no doubt about it. -- the best TV theme

tune, no doubt about it. Apart from this one, obviously.

Please welcome the stars of Death in Paradise -

A world away from the Caribbean. We have got some great pictures from

across the UK. Not great, if you are struggling to get home, but

youngsters will be at the building snowmen. You have put this weather

down to the fact that debt in Paradise is so successful on TV? --

Death In Paradise. Yes, the BBC have made a rather astute choice in

placing Death In Paradise in the schedules when everyone is a bit

broke after Christmas, a little flat. -- fat. It is part of the

reason it is so popular. Escapism. Escapism, people like to be at home.

I love it. 8 million, nearly up there with Countryfile. LAUGHTER

You'll agree you don't necessarily agree with that, about the weather

being a big draw for the viewer? -- you don't necessarily agree. I think

it is do with the chemistry, the characters, that is what people are

really interested in. To see how we behave with each other. That is very

important. It is on again tonight, everybody. Nine o'clock. We have got

bigger fish to fry, it has been a dramatic day in the studio. We have

had a murder. It is a good job that you are here, we need you to solve

this murder. Lets take you to the

scene of the crime. One drank fast and downed five

drinks in the time it took The diner who drank one died -

while the other survived. So - why did the diner

who only drank one die? OK. Was it a peanut allergy?

LAUGHTER you can get thinking. We are hopeful

he will be able to solve this. If you at home have a suggestion

then send them our way. By now most of us have a good idea

of what fracking is - the controversial method

of extracting gas from subterranean rock -

which campaigners say Alex Riley has been to meet

the protestors setting up camp Just over there is a group of

protesters, opposed to a site across the road which is being prepared for

fracking. I'm not here to discuss the ins and outs of that fracking

project, no. I'm here to find out what it takes to be a protester.

Tina is part of a protest group and they have been at the site all week.

What are you when you are not protesting? I live down the road in

Blackpool and I write copy for websites. I'm concerned grandmother.

What kind of characters do you want to protest? I just love who we have

hired everyday, 13 of us. -- who we have had. Eight of those 13 in their

life had never done anything like this. We are likely to have some

newcomers in the next half-hour. They get a shift change and we get

ours. Why have you decided to come out here? I have been a protest all

my life. I don't mind being out in the cold. It keeps me young,

somehow. Walking in front of lorries all day is a little sense of some

power in my hand, I've got some opportunity to make a statement and

to be noticed for what I believe was I saw you dancing over there. I need

to do that, I used to do a lot of jigging, but I don't do is much now,

I'm stiffening up. I've been doing this five years now. I've been in

camps. I'm able to come out. What does it take to be a protester?

Knowledge, you need to know what you are talking about and you need

determination. Warm gloves and coffee. You have got to keep your

temperament because the moment you rise to aggression is the moment you

lose your argument. OK, yeah. They have told me that no media is

allowed to come in but the protesters have been let to the

fence with the police liaison officers and they will stand in

front of the lorry and make it difficult for it to get in. What you

need to become an activist is believed that what you are doing is

correct. We are a diverse movement and all activists come from

different backgrounds. Why do you need to stand by the side of the

road and possibly get run over? When investors see this, this is every

truck, everyday, for three months on the road, and as an investor, would

you invest? A separate group confront the police further down the

road in front of another lorry. There has been a couple of ways that

people want to go about, the way they to protest for the one wants to

do one way and the other the other way. You can have a more radical

group, but a protester who wants to make a change, that is what we are.

There is a barrier of bodies and the protesters are shouting a feuding is

at them, -- shouting a few things at them, but they have achieved their

object, slowing down the lorries. They have achieved what they set out

to do. It has been interesting meeting the protesters and the fact

that there are two different groups who have different approaches, but

what unites them, they have found a cause which is so important to them

that it doesn't matter they have two sacrifice their home and work lives

because they think what they are doing is making a difference.

Whether or not it will make a difference in the long run is

anybody's guess. How I judge those I stand by side, it is your intent, is

that the same as mine? We are all aiming for the same goal.

Pretty sure we'll be seeing more from that camp

From Lancashire to the Caribbean. Don, you have been in Death In

Paradise since the very beginning. Kris, this is your fourth series. It

has gone very quickly, my son was eight months old when I started and

now he's about to start school. This year is has been a bit different, it

must have been quite difficult. I had a daughter in January last year,

she will be one tomorrow, actually. Happy birthday. Thank you. Elsie?

Yes. They came with me for three years but they could not come this

year because she was three months old. And my son was three years old,

he wanted to be on the beach, but he couldn't. Champagne problems.

Champagne problems! How does that affect the experience for you? I

have much more time at the bar. Not all bad! It is freezing at the

moment, do you wish you were back out there? Much of your recent live

has been spent in the Caribbean. Yes, I quite like the winter

actually. I like it. I like snow. It is lovely to look at for top I don't

want to be in it, but I like looking at it. With the fire lit. Yes, just

through the window. Lovely. And you don't love the sunshine? No, I do

love the sunshine. My skin is quite leathery. Although I don't look it,

but I do brown quite easily. I thought you would have had a similar

colour to me, I'm not exotic and the sunshine doesn't really agree... I

would beg to differ. Now we can have a sense of what is going to happen

tonight. Who is Baptiste? She wrote a novel that we all read at school.

The flame tree. I had no idea it was set on the island. It is about an

image man who marries iris against her will -- enrichment who marries.

She kills herself. How? She jumps from the cliffs. APPLAUSE

Wow. There was a bit of a kiss last week. Bit of a bumbling, he's not

great. But he's not exactly smooth, easy question up I think he's a dark

horse. -- he's not exactly smooth, easy? I think he will be a laugh

Areola, maybe a clumsy love for you. --

I have wondered if it was a slight affectation. If he slightly puts it

on. I haven't worked it out. I hope it's not. That would make him

calculated. I think it is slightly put on. OK. Talking of boss,

Commissioner, let's hope your character can find some romance,

because he has dabbled with various characters. He is a dabbler.

LAUGHTER maybe he will get something more

permanent. That would be very nice. It would be interesting to see him

in that role as a romance and I think he would be very smooth. I

couldn't agree more. The series is coming back to London for a couple

of episodes? We have a double episode, this serious, which is a

lot of fun and it gives us doubled the time to solve a murder -- this

series. We think so. It is based in the Caribbean and you get that, how

does the element of the UK fit? It is about a character who is a fish

out of water, Englishman abroad, and it turns it on its head. I become

the guy who is not the fish out of water and my colleagues are the fish

out of water, so it turns the premise on its head. Level the

playing field. Very much looking forward to tonight's episode. I'm

off to Countryfile, so I will watch that on the iPlayer.

Now, Don - keep an eye out for the title of the poem that

Arthur Smith has dug out in the next film - we think it will be

Here he is going underground to find a hidden river.

If you walk the streets of London for long enough you begin to see

small clues to a time when this was a more watery place. Hundreds of

years ago, there were 20 smaller rivers that fed into the Thames and

today they have all but disappeared and they are known as the lost

rivers of London. I'm here to find out why these rivers disappeared and

how they inspired a marvellous poem called Rising Damp.

The little fervent underground Rivers of London

Effra, Graveney, Falcon, Quaggy, Wandle, Walbrook, Tyburn, Fleet

Whose names are disfigured, Frayed, effaced.

My first stop is the coach and horses in Clerkenwell where I am

meeting Paul, connoisseur of these lost waterways. Why have you brought

me here, are we going for a pint? No, we are going to listen to this

drain in the middle-of-the-road in Clerkenwell. What can you hear? I

can hear the loud sound of flowing water. And it smells a bit, as well.

That is the river fleet that flows from the heights of Hampstead Heath

down to the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. There were many rivers? All

over London, yes. Different parts, Bermondsey, Camden Town, Bayswater.

Everywhere had a river. They were used for drinking originally,

supplying cattle with water. It's these subterranean rivers that

inspired the modern poet UA Fanthorpe to write her moving poem

Rising Damp. These are the currents

that chiselled the city, That washed the clothes

and turned the mills, Where children drank and salmon swam

And wells were holy. Ursula Askham Fanthorpe only began

writing poetry when she was in her 40s, in 1974. She had left her job

as head of English at Cheltenham ladies college to become a

receptionist at a hospital psychiatric unit. She felt a deep

sympathy with the patients, a sympathy which released a well

poetry within her. One of the things that interested her most was the way

the past is written into the landscape of today. But why did

these rivers of London disappear? It was around about 200 years ago,

these were really covered over, as the population went up they were

getting more and more clogged up with debris and so on. They became

open sewers. The solution was building London's Victorian sewage

tunnels and diverting the rivers into them. This is what I call a

pair of waders! I have been given an opportunity to explore the remains

of the River Fleet with engineering team leader chemical nick Fox. I'm

on some suspenders. What do you do at weekends? So this water is the

River Fleet. Yes, coming down from the Hampstead area, the original

Fleet. Presumably it was once on the service? We think it's pretty much

covers the same line that the Fleet did in 1800. It comes out just under

Blackfriars bridge. We are standing in a river underneath London. UA

Fanthorpe died in 2009, but her words still flow through the

anthologies of English verse. Here is a little poem I wrote for her.

Once we danced and sparkled like gems through the fields to Father

Thames, but now we are dark and deep and brown and buried deep beneath

the ground. We are the bowels of London town will stop.

Thank you, Arthur, wherever you are! The poem Rising Damp, you see. Yes,

I saw, excellent. I am glad it wasn't wasted on you. Miranda is

here. These rivers are not unique to London. , No they are happening all

over the country. We have a picture here Bradford Beck. I come from

Bristol. Residents there are familiar with the fact that we have

the river Avon dominating the landscape, but we also have the

River Frome running through the city centre, and yet we don't see much of

it. We walk over it and drive over it everyday. As a result, the

Environment Agency pledged about five years ago to restore 9500 miles

of rivers around the country, and there are 4600 projects going on or

completed, so a lot is happening. Let's have a word on Rochdale,

because the River Roch, we have a picture from a hundred years ago.

This is what it used to look like. It was important as a transport

system. They transported will from Yorkshire to the mills in Rochdale.

And then the trams came along and they covered over the river to make

way for this new form of transport. Now the river is being uncovered

again, there is a restoration project that has just been finished.

Here is some footage of it. It has been a success because, during the

Boxing Day floods in 2015, the floodwaters didn't get up as far as

the town hall, so that heralds the success of the project. There is

also one in the pipeline in Sheffield, the River Shaef. This is

mostly hidden tunnels under the city and it was covered over during the

building of the railways. There is a section of the storm drain that is

now called the mega trompe which is being used by daredevil weight

borders, in the storm drains. These guys are called Josh and Brad. I

don't think it is open to wake boarding. Yes, not for public

access! To these tend to be more in urban spaces? Know, all around the

country. There is one in the Lake District, a river called Swindale

Beck. A couple of hundred years ago, they straightened the river to get

room for more farmland but they realised that, in doing that, they

increased the river flow and the fish could read in that river

because the river was flowing too fast. -- the fish couldn't breed. So

now they are putting the natural bends back into the river. It looks

much better like that. We have just heard that someone had been spotted

spawning in the river and those eggs should hatch in the spring. Back in

the urban areas, it is going to increase an enormous amount of

wildlife and bring that into the cities. Yes, and the rivers are

getting cleaner, bringing more species back. If there are fish in

the river, you have got the things that eat them, so birds, even otters

have been spotted in Bristol. These projects are great for wildlife.

That was Sheffield. Yes. Lovely. Thank you, lovely stuff. We have

always been known as a nation of shopkeepers and today they come from

all corners of the globe. We said our street barber to cut a world's

worth of hair in one road in Leicester. This is Narborough Road,

a mile long stretch of businesses and family homes just south of the

city centre in Leicester. It looks like a typical high street but it's

not. It's exceptional. That's because a recent survey has shown

that this road has got to be just about the most multicultural street

in the country. But don't take my word for it. The people here want to

say hello. THEY SPEAK IN THEIR NATIVE

LANGUAGES. The people living and working here

were born in 22 different countries. It is what is known as a super

diverse community. One thing that unites them... First, I am saying

hello to the man who runs a body-building and food supplement

shop. His story is typical of the people coming to this country and

his parents arrived in 1973. My parents originate in India, Punjab,

but I was born and bred the UK. Was it predominantly an Indian area?

Yes, but it has changed in the last ten years. 30% of our customers are

from Poland, Estonia, Slovakia, so it has increased a lot. Why do so

many people from different countries come here? It is the Premier League

champions! I forgot about that! And with that? Fantastic, I look ten

years younger. Getting to Britain is one thing and fitting in and they

need a home is another ball game. Cecilia, who recently opened this

boutique store, arrived from Zimbabwe in 2003. Did you like it

here or were you unsure? A little bit I wasn't very short, but I

realised that mostly Africans, using Caribbean 's, Americans, Indians...

It is like everybody has been in Leicester. It makes you kind of like

fit in. OK. Just because you are from somewhere else as well? Yeah.

But not everybody who chose to settle in Britain originates from

the far corners of the globe. This man from Sicily opened his barber 's

shop 40 years ago and his son now works here as well. Any trendy

haircuts? Afro hair can be difficult. Europeans, Middle

Eastern, they landed short on the sides. Do you tend to find that most

people speak English? Yes, and if they don't they normally come in

with somebody who politely says, my friend doesn't speak English, this

is what they want, or they get their phone out with a picture. It makes

me wonder how many of the 22 countries of birth represented here

have had their hair cut here. This morning we have had Indian, Polish,

Italian, Portuguese, Slovakia and Irish. That is already today.

Everybody gets on. It's good. Something else that's good is the

many different kinds of food available, mirroring perfectly the

diversity of this community. This man runs a Kurdish cuisine

restaurant. I am Kurdish. Is there a big Kurdish community? Yes, some

from Iraqi Kurdistan. After the Iraq war is to mock yes. The reasons for

being here are diverse, from war, displacement, economic migration to

trying out a different European city. How do they all get along? I

think there is mutual respect and the students come to make friends

from different backgrounds. It feels like there is a generation of young

people that don't have any prejudice. The younger generation

are hopeful. We are, you are right. OK, you are looking good. Thank you

very much. ... What strikes me about this place is it is massively

diverse, yet it has the greatest sense of community anywhere I have

ever been. Thank you, Michael. We were talking earlier, Don, you were

born in Trinidad and venue moved to my neck of the woods, Newcastle.

What were you expecting and what was the reality when you got there?

Well, I was small and I wasn't expecting much, but I did expect to

arrive in this sort of golden palace. Because that was our

expectation of England. Unfortunately, it didn't quite live

up to that. Newcastle, back in the day, wonderful, don't get me

wrong... Don't knock Newcastle. It's a lovely town and I'm grateful to it

in lots of ways. It was a shock. It is a shock to the system. But I

think, when one is young, you adapt very quickly. So, within the space

of weeks or so it feels, I became a Geordie. I can tell by your accent!

I know! So, from there, you went on to be in Rising Damp, which we all

remember. How was that? In a nutshell. It was what happened. I

don't know what to say. I was at drama school. They were casting it.

There you go. Did it feel ground-breaking at the time? No,

just like a job. It was my first job and I was excited and we didn't know

what it would do, and it turns into this thing that is still going on.

Played with stereotypes and turned them on its head, we love it. We

need to resolve the mystery before we go. Do you want to give out the

figures? Two friends went for dinner and they both ordered iced tea. The

boys have been racking their brains. One drank it really fast and got

through five drinks. The other had one drink. The one who had one drink

guide. All of the drinks were poisoned. Why? Luke thinks that I

was told to pay the bill as he's faking it. Lisa thinks that the

waiter is an alien and poisoned the rich guy so she could steal his

money to buy weapons to take over the world. Diane thinks the real

mystery is how Don looks no older than he did when he was in Rising

Damp. All of that Caribbean sun. We worked as a team. We think that the

lady who had five iced teas must be desperate for the loo. But we think

it's something to do with the ice. It is! The poison was in the eyes

and, because the person who drank the five drinks so quickly, the

poison didn't get into the drink. Thanks to both of you for joining

us. I am back tomorrow with Al Murray hair and Lee Mack there. Good

night. Wood good night one and all! Body of a young woman's

just been found, I know this is a difficult time,

but I need to ask a few questions.