12/05/2016 The One Show

Welcome to the one sure with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. Tonight we

are all about the music. Later on we will be joining Mel Giedroyc from

the Eurovision semifinals in Stockholm. I love her jacket.

Tonight 's guest is one of the world's most highly regarded

classical singers and tonight his career will be taking him to

dizzying new heights. It's Jose Carreras. CHEERING

Great to have you with us. Very nice. It is wonderful. You are here

for a big performance at the Royal Albert Hall over the weekend but

your team, Barcelona, this weekend could be winning the league and you

won't be there. Unfortunately I will be rehearsing for the consort am I

am going to miss the game, who knows, maybe that is better?

LAUGHTER But we are confident that Barcelona

wins the Champions ship. If they win or lose will it affect your

performance? On a professional basis no, but if they win Rose I might

have to get psychiatric treatment! More of a chance than Leicester did

to start with but go on. The air will be more fresh up on the roof

which is a good thing because the world health organisation released

figures which showed that global air pollution has risen. No parent wants

their child exposed to high levels of air pollution but as Angellica

has been finding out it can be exhausting to keep them safe.

Exhaust fumes. They originate close to the ground, could it make a

difference to those at pushchair heights compared to adults? To find

out we recruited some help, Sarah and her four-year-old daughter live

in Streatham in south London. Today they are making the usual walk from

their home to the nursery have a mile away. Meanwhile in south

Manchester Matt is about to walk his two-year-old daughter to the shops.

We have asked the teams to carry these, specially designed a

monitoring boxes, so what ever the teams breathe in the boxes will as

well. Each has a Tubes positioned next to the parent and children's

mouth. The readings will show a difference if there is one. My main

road to the nursery, at around 8am it is very busy and there is lots of

cars and lots of children. If a big truck goes past blasting out

emissions you do sometimes wonder what effect it is having. They get

going and soon are both into their stride. The boxes and monitor levels

of particulate matter, bust and city deposits in the air. The results

will be analysed later. How's the journey been so far? The traffic 's

been quite bad, a lot of Lloris. This area is known for being busy.

Yes, lots of bosses and people going to work. 16 cities have been found

to exceed pollution limits including Manchester and London. Five of them,

Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton are now due to

introduce clean air zones to limit heavy vehicles. But Greenpeace say

it does not go far enough. Many cities are breaching standards,

London is one of the worst affected in Europe. The government is

introducing clean air zones, is that enough? They don't cover enough

cities, they are not big enough and not covering all the different

vehicles polluting the air. Our human guinea pigs have finished

their journeys and monitors sent for analysis. This child respiratory

expert has come to give us the results. This graph shows the

monitors we had. The orange line is poor pollution and the parent level

and blue for the pushchair. Looking at the numbers she is being exposed

about 5% more on average over 30 seconds than you. What is the reason

for that? We think it is most likely that when the cars go past she's

closer to the exhaust. You assume that the particles will drift up and

dissipate but you can see here they are going straight into the pavement

and I would imagine straight into our mouths. It's getting into the

lungs of those which are most at risk. In London as a prize is in

store as there is no significant overall difference between the

readings. But Abigail still has concerns. A number of spikes where

the body is high and her lungs are still developing. Being exposed to

higher levels at our younger age will do more damage. I think it's

more likely if we had a day with higher pollution levels we would see

that number grew more than that and if it was higher than that we could

see up to 20%. That is huge. Is there anything I could change? The

easiest thing to do is walk as far away from the side of the road as

possible. Your lungs are still growing, if you

are exposed to air pollution you have less of this growth. So it's

quite serious? Yes. It increases your risk of asthma and lung disease

when you get older, having heart attacks when you are an adult, so

many different things have been shown to be affected by being

exposed to this. Nobody expects traffic to disappear from the roads

but when it comes to pollution most of us would like to see more action

and a lot less hot air. That's the point, it makes you think. If you

have a small child, perhaps picking them up so they are at your level so

it would be so many levels. And those rain covers. That's a good

idea but I suppose when it is hot. But there are apps to check

pollution levels in your area. Anyway, Jose Carreras: A Life In

Music is on at the Royal Hulbert hall on Sunday night, this is all

about music which is defined career -- Royal Albert Hall. We understand

it was this man who influenced your career right at the start. The great

Mario Lanza, what was it about his voice? I was very young, six years

old. I went to the cinema with my parents, where we were living in

Barcelona. I coincidence the movie which was on was The Great Caruso

featuring Mario Lanza. The charismatic personality of Mario

Lanza, his voice, all about the glamour. That walk up in me some

interest for music and singing. He was a great inspiration for me. As a

six-year-old did you try to find a singing teacher are where your

parents supportive? My parents were desperate but I was so much

insisting that they thought this boy has a certain instinct for music so

why don't we sent him to the conservatory and I started at the

Barcelona conservatory to study music and piano but always with the

idea to become a singer, not just an instrumentalist or musician. It must

have been a surprise for your parents because your dad was a

policeman and your mum was a hairdresser so there was not a

musical background. Not really, they music but not at all, not involved

in music -- they loved music but were not involved in music. To give

everyone an idea of how naturally talented you were at that young age

we have tracked down one of your first ever recordings. This is you

age seven. APPLAUSE

Brilliant. Beautiful. We heard that even though you were sometimes a bit

naughty as a young boy, we heard your neighbours would open the

windows because they knew when you are having singing lessons and with

open them in anticipation because they used to hear you. That could be

an arbour legend! LAUGHTER -- and urban legend. My schoolmates

and the boys who played with me except maybe but I don't think that

was an addition at all. How did you get on at that time in your life

when your voice broke? Was that worrying? Of course, like every boy

when you turn 13, 14, the voice changes. When you are a boy you have

a soprano voice then you become a male voice. Baritone, Tenor,

whatever. Luckily enough I had a Tenor voice. For many years my

parents advised me not to sing, just to study music, to prepare myself,

if one day I could be a singer but not to sing. I was singing again

when I was 16, 17. I was starting my voice studies. We cannot have you on

the programme without talking about The Fabulous The Three Tenors. We

were reading about the night you were in the audience and Placido

Domingo brought you up on stage. That was the beginning of The Three

Tenors, that was when you talked about it. A few days before I was

arriving from Seattle where I had an important part of my treatment, the

second part. You had been incredibly ill with leukaemia. Unfortunately. I

went to the opera house and by coincidence or cedar Domingo was

singing Fedora and he realised I was in the audience and he asked me to

come on stage that I receive the affection of the audience, the

public. It was an extremely emotional moment. Let's remind

ourselves of the power of The Three Tenors.

Jose Carreras: A Life In Music takes place this Sunday at the Royal

Albert Hall, it's sold out but he will be to ring around the UK and

the rest of the world later this year. You will be singing for us

tonight live on the roof of the BBC. I do so, yeah. We have got you a

hard hat, if you want to start making your way up! Be careful, this

building is very tall! If any of your relatives served in France

during the First World War you will want to watch this next film very

closely. I treasure trove on incredible wartime pictures has been

uncovered but only a handful of the soldiers in them have been

identified. So we need your help. On a cold winter 's morning in 2011

a team of researchers entered a farmhouse in the French village of

the new core. In the dusty attic they found a treasure trove from

World War I. The team had tracked down a horde of about 4000

photographic plates, forgotten portraits of Allied soldiers who

fought in the First World War. Soldiers were posted to towns like

this when they were on leave from the front line. They would spend

their time relaxing, practising drills and writing letters home.

They also indulged in a surprisingly modern hobby. Having their

photographs taken. One enterprising couple were able to capitalise on

this interest. They set up a photography studio in the courtyard

of their farmhouse and invited soldiers in the town to have their

photographs taken for a small fee. For the troops this was a rare

chance to send home not just a letter but a photograph. A precious

reminder of brothers and fathers, husbands and sons. These images made

their way to families across the world. The printing techniques the

couple used where crude so most of the photographs faded quickly. Very

few, if any original prints survived. The glass plate negatives

were a different matter. Rather than disposing of them the couple kept

them in their attic, perhaps because they felt they were documenting our

unique historic event. They were recently rediscovered by a team

which was tipped off about their existence by a friend. Do you

remember how you felt when you find out there were that many images? I

was a bit in shock to be honest, a complete collection, 4000. It's

incredible. It is unusual because they are informal, very natural and

human. They are showing the war to the eyes of these people. War

photography at the time was tightly controlled, many images staged for

propaganda. These are all the more precious because they are so candid.

We have samples of how different they are. This soldier is sending a

message to the family, we will soon be home. It's fantastic. Very

personal message to someone back home. Yes, you have Indians. Posing

with a local boy? Yes, a local boy in the village. This could have been

the last artefact which documented the life of some of these people.

Some of these troops, especially the British, will be involved in the

battle of the Somme on the 1st of July with terrible losses. A lot of

these portraits are suddenly the last pictures of these men. The

original glass is now stored in Museum in Australia. Few have been

identified. One of the men whose family has been traced is captain

Richard when cup, the author Jilly Cooper is his granddaughter.

When did you become aware of these photographs? A sweet man wrote to me

that he had some information on my grandfather. The photographs

appeared. They are fabulous, aren't they. This is my grandfather, such a

brave man. He was a vicar in Yorkshire, and he went to the front

and served there for two years. How did they identify your grandfather

from this photograph? I suppose because he was a padre. He was in

the West Yorkshire Regiment. They must have gone back to that. The

most heartbreaking thing in France is the graves saying, a soldier

known only to God. Now, all these soldiers known only to God will be

known to millions of people who find them, so it is wonderful. The work

for researchers studying the images is ongoing but they need your help

in naming these lost Tommies. There are some clues in the cap badges and

other markings on the uniforms, but little else. The fact that the vast

majority remain unidentified, their fate unknown, adds a haunting power

to these extraordinary images. We heard you say that 1500 photos of

British soldiers have been found. How many have been identified? Very

few, just 56 British soldiers have been identified. When you think of

the hundreds in the photos, that is a tiny fraction. Service records

have been lost or destroyed. Of those identified, most are officers

because they are more likely to be documented. Talk us through somebody

have put a name to and how they were dented pride. First, we have Captain

Hepper, sporting a rather fetching fur. He looks very happy. Soldiers

would have hated those because when they got wet they stank, but he is

proud of it here. He was identified because a brave souls sat in the

British Library Reading room going through the regimental histories,

looking for pictures. They found this slim volume called Captain

Hepper's Great War diary. In that diary was that picture of him

wearing that, so they could put a name to him. But that is extremely

rare and shows the lengths you have to go to. Most have not been

identified. We can look at one where we have what could be two brothers,

two soldiers, certainly. There are a number of clues that I think we

should talk through. If we look at the cap badge, you can see it as the

Royal Berkshire Regiment. And if we look at the standing soldier, his

upper right arm, the chevrons show that he is a corporal. If we go a

little further down, you have to be good, but you can just see the edge

of three overseas service chevrons, which dates this to no earlier than

January 1918 when they started to appear on uniforms. On his left

breast pocket, you can see a ribbon, so he is decorated. On his lower

left sleeve you have four lines, which show he had been wounded four

times. Lots of details. A lot of information if you know where to

look. Possibly his brother, they look similar. We would love to find

out who they were, because they had survived maybe three years serving

overseas. What happened to them in the final months of the war? How can

people help? It is very exciting. We will put all of the photos involving

British soldiers on the One Show Facebook page. You can link to it

from the One Show website. If you know anything about any of these

photos, if you recognise a clue, if you might know someone, if it

matches a backdrop in a family photograph at home, let us know by

writing on the comments under the photograph. To build up a picture.

We will follow and trace all of the comments, look into the leads, and

hopefully we can put names to some of these lost Tommies. They did this

illustrator and the response from the public was fantastic. -- we did

this in Australia. Many of the photos have been put in a book

called The Lost Tommies by Ross Coultart, out next Thursday. Jose is

over 90 feet above us getting ready to sing from the rooftops. There he

is. First, time for music of a very different kind. Eurovision Mel

Giedroyc is in Stockholm ahead of this evening's second semifinal.

Tonight, we will find out who the UK will be facing in Saturday's final.

There is a lots to talk about so bring us up-to-date. Good evening.

We are, of course, in Stockholm, gearing up for the second leg of two

night's semifinal. The arena is literally half full in a moment. In

one hour it will be rammed and buzzing. There is so much to take

in. Break dancing astronauts, wearing a jacket similar to my own.

A naked man singing to a wolf. Robes, cloaks, tassles, so many

tassles. And it would not be Eurovision without a reveal. By a

reveal, I mean when a singer or performer suddenly out of nowhere

has a huge item of clothing ripped from them to reveal another outfit,

probably more outrageous, underneath. This happened with great

aplomb on Tuesday night, courtesy of Croatia. It was a marvellous moment.

Tonight, of course, 18 countries will be whittled down to ten. It is

all getting very tense. The big question in the UK is, Joe and Jake,

can they do it, can they win? I don't know if they can win but I

sincerely hope that they make it onto the left-hand side of the

leaderboard. It has been a long time since we have been on the left side

of the leaderboard, possibly even 2002 when Jessica Garlick came

third. They have a very catchy Choon. They are effortlessly natural

onstage. There is a lot of love for them in Stockholm. And they

absolutely smashed it in the personal yesterday. I caught up with

them this morning over breakfast in the hotel. I tried to get in over

some scrambled aches. They weren't that interested and I suddenly

realised I am literally three times their age. Of course they were not

going to be interested. Sorry about that saliva, I don't know where that

has come from. Always professional! Love and luck to Joe and Jake. I

hope they can do something. I would like to welcome two special guests

who are through to Saturday's final, Malta and Spain. Lovely to see you.

You are through to Saturday, congratulations. I am very excited

about it. They held us right to the end. I was having a nervous

breakdown. You are singing for Spain, it must be amazing to be

through to the final. Of course. I don't think it is fair. I would like

to compete like the rest of the candidates, but how can I change my

own country, you know? I would like to talk about your dancing. Take me

through your dance manoeuvre. You know how to do it. Let's do it

together. It's a bit like a school disco in the 1980s, but this is the

move everyone is enjoying here. It is hard on the carpet. You are

pregnant. Are you going to call the baby Eurovisiona? I don't think so.

Back to you. You can watch the second semifinal

tonight at 8pm. Don't miss the final on Saturday at 8pm. For the first

time in Eurovision history, the final will be broadcast live to the

US, so we expect random comments on social media from Americans over the

weekend. Jose is up there on the roof, ready to perform. We will be

back with Bradley Walsh tomorrow. And Adrian Lester will join us ahead

of the last episode of the hit spy thriller Undercover. We wish Jose

all the best on Sunday. Here he is, playing us out with Passione.