12/04/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.

Tonight we couldn't be reporting live from a more beautiful spot

- feast your eyes on that - it's Perranporth in Cornwall

where Iwan has got a challenge for everyone who loves their local

Isn't that lovely. That is lovely, you just want to keep looking at

that. Here in the studio we're

going to meet three year-old Rosie and Ruby who were born conjoined

twins, their mum Angela And alongside us on the sofa to talk

about her new Saturday night game It is lovely to see you. It's nice

to be back. Tell us why it is called... # Can't touch this #. It

is quite a simple thing, a physical game show, you see the prize and

want to win the prize and touch it, hence the name Can't Touch This.

# Hammer time # We are going to talk more about

Can't Touch This, the desperation of people wanting to win. A luxury pan

set. Cars and drive on lawn mowers. Who doesn't want that? What is more

annoying than sleeping next to somebody who snores? May be eyeing

an end small ring recipe that doesn't work for you, here is Dom

and Mrs Dom. We all benefit from a good night's sleep but for snorers

and out bedfellows night-time can be a nightmare. My snoring got so bad

that ten years ago I had an operation on my throat to fix the

problem. It didn't work, though. Nowadays there are lots of products

claiming to stop snoring in its tracks, without surgery. What I want

to know is do any of them actually work? To find out I've come to the

sleep disorder Centre at Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex to meet

a sleep expert and snoring specialist Doctor Peter Vane.

How big a problem is snoring? It's an enormous problem, we 2500 per

year in this unit alone. It is an issue leading to things like type

two diabetes and blood pressure, heart disease, the snoring noise

itself will split partners up even leading to divorce on occasions. NHS

figures show as many as 15 million over as our regular snorers. While

it can affect people of all ages, its most common in the middle

middle-aged. If like me you and your partner have suffered tormented

sleepless nights, you know perfectly well you would do just about

anything to fix the problem, and that desperation has fuelled a very

lucrative market in products to ease snoring. We're putting five to the

test. First up, a chin strap that keeps the snorer's mouth shut, a

mouth guard that opens US Airways, nasal strips that come with a

moneyback guarantee, a throat spray made of essential oils and last but

not least, this watch, which delivers an electric pulse if you

snore. And these two noisy sleepers will be testing them out. Fiona

Bravery is a patient at the sleeping clinic and the other test is me.

Have you tried any of these before? I've never tried anything but I'm

prepared to give them a go. What would your husband say if you came

into the room with that? Not a night! Probably. And to collect the

results, the Snore app, leave the smartphone by your bed to record how

much you sleep and how much time is spent snoring. This is me. I don't

snore very loudly. Yes! LAUGHTER

I've got all of the gear and the phone app, all I need now is a bit

of shot I. At home we put the products through their paces over

five nights -- shut eye. Last night I used the throat spray and I think

it worked. I gave the watch a trial last night and needless to say,

couch! I used the nasal strips but I was aware it started to come unstuck

and I've got to find it now. What do I look like? Exactly! Really, really

tired, though. I was snoring like a bear. With our night-time testing

done and our apps full of dosing data it's back to the clinic to

crunch the numbers. I never thought you would end up in bed with me

today. I bet you didn't think you would. It is not something I thought

I would do. How were the products? There were winners and losers. I bet

it was the mouthguard. I couldn't put it in, couldn't tolerate it, I

was gagging. The favourite was the throat spray. That was good, it

wasn't unpleasant and I do feel it reduced snoring. I've got to say,

I'm totally with you on that, but that's what we think, they will look

at the stats from the smartphone app will stop Karen. Lovely. According

to this, statistically, the chinstrap reduced the snoring the

most. I wasn't expecting it to be that one. You did feel that it was

clamping and it felt very tight and felt it was holding everything in

place, you couldn't move, so, yes. So, the mouthguard had the least

impact on our not so scientific test will stop the chinstrap was our

snore Buster cutting snoring down to 50% of our sleep time. Good night!

Brilliant, thank you, Dom. We just said, you are a snorer, that

chinstrap. She doesn't know this from personal experience, I have

told her. It is really weird. It is not that attractive, Norman tried to

film me snoring last night to show you, but every time he put the

camera light on I would wake up. There was an amazing thing that I

think it was his mum back on the day when his dad used to really snore,

he used to sell a tape his mouth up every night. Apparently that works.

Ashun tape up his mouth. We did a film and apparently singing is a

good cure for snoring because you have a muscle at the back of your

mouth that apparently if it is floppy you will snore a lot but it

is tightened through singing. Try that. Painful sounds coming from me

everywhere! Because we couldn't get the footage, we asked everybody on

Twitter and Facebook to name and shame your loved ones by sending in

snoring videos. And we have had a deafening response. Terrible! Let's

look at the 1st one sent in from a very tired Lorraine. Here is her

partner Peter. SNORING. He was having a good night, apparently!

That is right in your face. Next, here is Mark from Wales courtesy of

his wife. This is quite impressive, on the sofa as well. SNORING. We

have it on good authority he is not watching The One Show. And how could

you mad with this? It is quite a relaxing noise. Here is the culprit.

Shadow, the black Labrador, dreaming of chasing rabbits, probably. That

is very sweet. Lovely, relaxing finish, thank you to those who sent

in the videos and sorry to those who featured. There is a final remedy,

Snore-no-More. I will give that to Norman, that will sort it out. We

know that you live on the beach in Sussex so the next item should be

something close to your heart. Iwan is in Perranporth in Cornwall, good

evening, Iwan. Yes, I'm here down in sunny

Cornwall to take part years the amount of marine litter

washing up on UK beaches That is a cost to the local

authorities of around ?18 million every year to try and keep these

gorgeous beaches clean. They are doing well but it is a hard battle

and that's why the great British public are putting on their rubber

gloves and taking matters into their own hands.

I'm absolutely gobsmacked, walking in the space of a few metres I've

got a lighter, prick stick, bottle clock, what is this? We have got a

table, cotton bud sticks, people often throw them down the toilet,

every single piece of plastic you can see on the beach is minimum 450

years to break down but it will never go completely. How much of a

problem is this to society? Huge, animals mistake it for food and it

is dangerous for children playing on the beach and it's only getting

worse. The beach up there was bad but this is horrendous. It is, I

found a lobster tag from America from 1980s and I found it this year,

so that has been in the sea for 30 years. The turnout is doing the area

proud. It is. I'm pleased, when you leave the beach put one or two

pieces of rubbish with you and put it in the bin because then it will

be gone for ever. Shall we keep tidying up? Yes, I think we should,

let's get back to it. We'd been working hard all day, I would love

to take the credit but I can't, these amazing helpers have helped to

add a 1.5 tonnes of waste. You are from surfers against waste, where

will this go? The majority is plastic and we will recycle all of

the plastic that we get. I was gobsmacked how much of rubbish we

found but this isn't just off the back of boats, I assumed it was but

it is not. Huge amount from land-based sources all around the

world and a surprising amount, 6%, goes down our toilets, things like

these cotton bud sticks we found today have been put down toilets and

they last many years in the marine environment. Don't put things down

the toilet. Only flush the four Ps. And what is this? We have a can of

Orange Crush that doesn't exist any more. Probably from the 60s. This

has been around since the 60s, so this is how much damage we are doing

to our environment. These fishing pods are not from Britain. They are

not used by UK fishermen, they are from America and have washed over

here, made from plastic, hundreds of years to breakdown like all of the

other plastic we find on our beaches. You lot are doing a

fantastic job and if you want to get involved, go on to the Surfers

Against Sewage website, find out if there are activities where you live.

We have a map to show what is happening in the next three days and

I have noticed one of them is in Brighton, Zoe Ball, you live in

Brighton, get rid of the dancing shoes and put on your gloves and I

will meet you there to do some tidying up. I will bring my yellow

gloves. I know an artist who elect the bits from the beach and makes

beautiful art from the plastic, recycling. That is a good idea. I'm

still going through the Ps., I think I have got them! Let's not dwell on

that. Iwan, your sun-kissed, we hope you are wearing suncream and not oil

like you were when you went to Turkey. This has been on the

television! It is incredible, fully greased up! Take it off! ? Don't

worry, it has finished. Keep your shirt on. That was really hilarious!

I thought he looked very good. Everybody does greased up. We are

moving on to Can't touch this, this is a dream for anybody that loves

soft play areas and desperately wants to go as a kid will stop you

take your children to soft play and wonder if you can go in the ball

pool when nobody is not looking. I look at the course like Mousetrap

the game. Yes, Mousetrap! Do you want to be in a catapult and be

flown through the air and run on a travelator soaking wet and they are

like, yes please, I want to do it. The catapult is brilliant, you can

see them in slow motion, brilliant. And some of them fly like Superman.

Someone did a pike the other day, really graceful command some people

never get out. As a gymnast I spent a lot of time in the fall pit and

there is a technique to getting out of them. A lot of people don't know

it! You've got to swim out. Really? There is one man, that we have to

show this, who had a real issue with the foam pit, here it is. There is

nothing one browsing than being stuck in foam.

APPLAUSE That gorgeous man is Eddie Murphy,

good evening, Eddie. Is his name Eddie Murphy? Yes, the other Beverly

Hills Cop. When you empty that pit it will be like the beach! He was in

there for about 40 minutes. Such a legend. He needs your technique. He

needs to know about the swimming. We saw Ashley banjo. My hardest job

doing that show was to keep Ashley from leaping over everything because

Diversity, he is like a gymnast, trying to stop him leap from the

car, I had to keep him on a leash, state, sit! He just wanted to... The

day the show wrapped and finished he ripped off his top, he had a vest

underneath and threw himself off everything and into the foam pit and

started leaping about and I did a polite mum forward role, there we

go. He's so much fun to work with. You want everybody to do well. We

saw you laughing away but some of the Falls people take, it must be

difficult to watch it at times when you want them to go home with the

prices. You want them to win prizes and do well but why do we find it

funny when people fall over -- prices. If they are laughing and

they are laughing it is OK but when they are not laughing, you think we

might need some help. I have to say everybody left with a smile on their

face, even if they were wheeled out they were still laughing and smiling

at the end of it. And obviously very damp a lot of them as well. I would

be him, sliding write-down and in. Look at that face plant. The pole

vault. People say it is impossible. It is possible, it is doable. What

do you have to do, run, grab and jump? I'm not allowed to give away

the secret, I'm obviously a natural and can do it like that, but it is

possible. If we ever do a celebrity special you are in the running,

definitely. Look at him, he has a twinkle in his eye. I'd love some of

the prizes. The travelator. Sue Perkins is so funny. She is a

goddess and hilarious and I feel she brings the whole show together, she

is great. If you have not seen it yet, the next episode of Tim threw

is on BBC One on Saturday at 6:10pm. -- Can't touch this. Here is Angela

with a story of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton born over

100 years ago when attitudes were very different to how they are

today. The midwife attending the birth Mary

Hilton, her and her husband called the Queen's Almsmen and Mary offered

to take the twins on board. The midwife who ran the local pub with

her husband took them home out of the goodness of her heart?

Supposedly. And then she had them as a showpiece in the window in a

basket overlooking the street and passers-by would see them and come

in and it was good for business and she charged them 2p for a postcard,

which was a picture of the twins. Violet and Daisy, English Siamese

twins, and the quote iswe have interested you, kindly tell your

friends to visit us. That was how it all started, they went from this pub

and ended up in America by the time they were nine. Obviously in between

times they had had lessons to teach them to play musical instruments. So

they were investing in the girls to become performers, so that they

would earn more money. In 1931 the sisters took their

abusers to court and at last they won their freedom.

Despite the injustices and exploitation they suffered while

growing up they clearly had a taste for fame and fortune. They were

determined to become established stars.

They were one of the biggest sraud victim acts in the country --

sraudville acts in the country. They always got top billing. Tell me

about the film they starred in. Freaks came out in 1932 and the

director was one of the biggest directors in Hollywood at the time

for horror. He didn't want to do actors with make-up, he wanted to

cast real circus performers and into this mix was also thrown The

Hiltons. Initially they were reluctant to get involved because

they didn't consider themselves freaks but they saw it as a good

opportunity to get into a movie. It's a mainstream Hollywood movie.

They're not in any horror scenes, though. They're base cle shown

mostly in a domestic environment, you see them talking to the husband

and that sort of thing. Freaks was banned in Britain for 30 years

because it was considered too shocking. But Adrian believes the

film had an unexpected impact on the people who did see it. Getting to

see these people behind the scenes, so we are not seeing them on the

stage, we are finding out about their personal lives, finding out

that they are just normal people. That perhaps made audiences question

their own relationship to the real freak shows. By the 1960s, the

sisters had retired and were living quietly in North Carl line in a.

Their screen careers now far behind them. In later years they were

offered the opportunity to have surgery and be separated. By then it

was a simple operation. They declined. Having spent a lifetime

side by side, they lived out their final years as they were born,

together. Thanks, Angela. Attitudes have

vastly improved in recent years as have medical treatments to help

successfully separate conjoined twins. Great Ormond Street surgeon

Joe is with us now. You don't know for definite but how do they think

this happens biologically? Twins are formed by the original embryo

splitting into two and each those form ago separate child. We think

that process of separation goes wrong and there remains a point of

connection between the two developing embryos. You are part of

this big team that work on this a lot. How successful are the

operations, I suppose it's case by case? It is. If we have a chance to

prepare and the child is well then our success rates are in excess of

90%. Wow. Gosh. I suppose it depends on which organs are joined and are

shared by both children. Yes and if the children are unstable and unwell

and we have to do an emergency separation there is lots of extras.

Of course. We will bring in Angela with three-year-old daughters Ruby

and Rosie. I think we have the best dressed girls in town here. I think

so. In you come.

We have a Little Teddy bear for you. Would you like one? Just run over

there quickly. One each. There you are. Thanks for

coming in. How did you feel when you found out that you were carrying

conjoined twins? I was really scared at the outcome and I was told that

they probably wouldn't survive the pregnancy. Every scan I went to in

the back of my mind I thought I wouldn't be having them. Then as it

got closer and closer to their due date and they were still thriving

and growing I started to get excited. In the back of my mind was

always the worry about their surgery and when it would happen. Of course,

yeah. How much do the girls know about what went on? They know that

they were joined at their bellies and I hear them talking about it

sometimes. That's all they know at the moment. They're so close.

They're very close. You had a C-section with the girls at 34

weeks. Did they operate straightaway They were born at UCH and because

they were doing well they were transferred after two hours to Great

Ormond Street. They had some tests done. They decided they were going

to do emergency surgery the following morning. Joe, is it

normally one operation or is it a succession of operations that

happens as the girls will get older? It's mostly one operation to do the

initial separation. Then dependent on the organs that have been shared

dictates about what the future needs for surgery will be. Angela, would

you say that the girls have a special bond? Lily is with us, their

elder sister, but there is a special bond? They do. More an than not when

I go to bed they're in bed together, they sneak out. We hope you enjoy

the bears, girls. Thank you for coming in. It's lovely to see you,

thank you so much. Have a safe journey home. Now

listen, last week William Wordsworth would have celebrated his 236th

birthday. To celebrate the legendary poet Christine is in the Lake

District, the region which inspired some of his greatest works.

With views like these it's not surprising the Lake District is the

birthplace of romantic poetry, and it was Wordsworth's love of

spectacular scenery that inspired him to write some of the best known

verses in the English language. One journey in particular through

this countryside would have a profound effect on his career.

Professor Simon Bainbridge is one of Britain's leading Wordsworth

experts. It happened in the autumn of 1794,

and at this stage William was still a minor poet and he was travelling

from Keswick with his friend who was ill. His companion was so frail that

they had to stop in Penrith. Wordsworth stayed by his bedside and

looked after him during his illness. He died sometime in early to

mid-January. That must have had a profound effect on Wordsworth.

Obviously it has a great personal impact on him. He has lost a close

friend. It also has a significant impact on his career as a poet

because he leaves him ?900. I think the gesture is very important for

Wordsworth because it shows that someone believed in him as a poet.

The bequest allowed Wordsworth to dedicate himself to poetry and over

the next decade along with Coalridge would define romantic poetry. Many

poems were written while living in Grasmere. It was whilst out walking

nearby with his sister one spring morning that the inspiration came to

write his most famous poem, Daffodils.

With the flowers in full bloom, the people of Grasmere are celebrating

this spring poem with a special recital for One Show. I wandered

lonely as a cloud that floats on high or vales or hills. All with the

once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath

the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars

that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way. They stretched in neverending

line, along the margin. 10,000 saw I at once. The waves beside them

danced but they outdid the sparkling waves. A p. I gazed and gazed. What

wealth the show to me had brought. They flash upon me which is the

bliss of solitude. Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with

the daffodils. Well, thank you to Christine and to

the residents of Grasmere for that glorious rendition of Daffodils. We

are joined by Lily now. You are a big fan of Can't Touch This. We know

that. She has worked out how to do the pole. You are the open one! It's

nice that you joined us to say goodbye. Can't Touch This continues

on Saturday. We will be back on Thursday. We are not here tomorrow.

We will be joined by Sir Ben Kingsley. See you then. Good night.