13/07/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And as Chris is

away on his yacht, we have the pleasure of Matt Allwright. Nice to

see you. I'm thinking of buying a camper van! You have got a Panda!

Now, tonight's guest has collected medals for fun and they are nearly

APPLAUSE Please welcome the OARsome Steve

Redgrave - Sir Steve Redgrave! yes! One of the many questions on

people's lips about the Olympics is who is going to light the Flame at

the Opening Ceremony? It is between you, this is from what I can tell,

between yourself, Daley Thompson and Eddie the Eagle Edwards. Is

that right? You are if favourite? One of the things that always

happens, it never goes to the favourite. So being bookmaker's

favourite is doing me a disjustice. I would love to do it. I haven't

had the phone call yet. I'm hoping the phone will ring. I carried the

torch in Henley on Tuesday. I only found out the night before what was

happening on that day. So I can't really - people say you are keeping

it a secret - I don't know. You are rowing with one hand...

security guard is behind me. I gave him a rowing lesson on the way up

to the river. He had a great time. He loved it. He thought it was

brilliant. He wouldn't risk it rowing when we had the torch.

case the phone call does come, let's make sure you are up to it.

Would you do us the honour of Would you do us the honour of

lighting this candle here? It is a Look at that! It's lit! APPLAUSE

Round of applause. No way Daley Thompson could do it as well as

that! We have the man for the job. We will be talking to Steve about

his plan to create the gold medal winners of the future later in the

show. Now, space travel for the common man used to be the stuff of

science-fiction. These days it is closer than you think. In fact, it

closer than you think. In fact, it is just off the M3! Anita? It is.

It is at the Farnborough Air Show. It is open to the public all

weekend. Later, Richard Branson is having a go at my job and turning

One Show presenter. He will be giving us a personal guided tour of

that, the Galactic spaceship. You can't get more sci-fi than that! I

shall see you in a little while. Yes, you will. I can't wait to see

inside the Galactic. I don't think he will be that good. Doesn't need

the work! It is something you fancy doing, Steve? Would you love to go

into space? I would like to go into space. It depends how far into

space. I would like to... You get to come back. I think it would be

special. If it is just sort of a dip in and dip out, it is a lot of

money for an extended flight. will see inside that spaceship

later. Now, Michael Mosely has been to investigate a real-life event

that has been baffling everyone who has looked into it.

In July 1980, hundreds of children gathered in Nottinghamshire for a

marching jazz band competition, like this one. It was a beautiful

day, spirits were high. What happened next was extraordinary.

Right here in this field children started to collapse. One eyewitness

said, "It was like a battlefield, there were bodies everywhere" and

no-one had a clue what was happening. Children started to

faint for no apparent reason. legs seemed to buckle underneath

them. He was going down. Eyewitnesses were horrified at the

scene. There was a lot of shock involved and mystery. We all stood

there wondering what was going to happen next. Children were in a

very distressed state, difficulty breathing, red-eyes, similar to a

severe asthmatic attack. More than 400 people, mainly children, were

taken to hospital, but the cause of the incident was a mystery. There

were certainly plenty of theories. It was caused by food poisoning.

Contaminated water. It was the ice- cream. Radiowaves. And most

alarmingly, activity from outer space. For most people, one theory

stood out. About 40 of the children were brought here to University

Hospital at Nottingham suffering from nausea and stomach pains.

Although no-one's quite sure what caused the illness, the most likely

bet at the moment is a pesticide or insecticide. Locals reported recent

crop spraying by helicopter and also that the field and children's

clothes spelt on chemicals. It has to be a chemical reaction because

of the effect it had on the children. While children were

marching backwards and forwards, it would have disturbed that. But the

official investigation rejected claims of water contamination, food

poisoning and fertilisers or pesticides. With no physical cause,

medical experts came up with a different explanation. Mass

sociogenic illness. This professor is an expert in this area. Someone

gets ill and then instead of saying, "So-and-so has fainted" people go,

"What's going on here? I don't feel quite so good myself." People then

get anxious and you think, "We are being poisoned" and then it

explodes. On the day the public announcement system relayed

messages that fuelled fear. Don't eat the ice-cream. The problem is

with the ice-cream. More children started to faint. The tannoy came

on, "Don't drink the water. Don't use the toilets." Every

announcement, more people went down. The final announcement was, "Don't

touch the field, it is being sprayed" and pandemonium broke out.

There are up to 30 cases like this every year. Most go unreported. The

official investigation concluded that the children had suffered from

a hysterical chain reaction, brought on by heat and the stress

of competition. But many local people reject this. I don't think

it was mass hysteria, there was something else happening. There was

definitely something else. Is it common for people to react badly to

this sort of explanation? In most cases, no. When they do, it is

because it's been rather explicit about the word "hysteria" and

people think, "My God, they think we are make it up." That really can

be very destructive. This is something that can happen to anyone.

It is in all of us if we are in the wrong situation at the wrong time.

I think the mass sociogenic illness is the most plausible explanation.

But 32 years on, it is still incredibly controversial. I suspect

we will never really know what happened in this field.

Probably not. Whether it was the ice-cream, or the pesticides, I

don't know, but I don't think it was mass hysteria. You would go

nuts if it was your kid! You would. The Olympics are coming! Are they?!

Have you noticed? More worrying news today, though, about the idea

of the Army having to guard the Olympics and again some people who

have been priced out of tickets - you are our greatest Olympian - are

these going to be the Games that we expect and want them to be? They

will be very, very special. I think they will be absolutely incredible.

Every Games I have been involved in - and I have probably been involved

in ten - and a few Winter Games - there is always this dip. After

winning the bid, it dips down and, just before, it picks up. We have

seen the Flame going on. LOCOG have got to be pleased - whoever came up

with the idea of decommissioning the torches and handing them out

there and then. I have carried the torch before and it goes away. We

get to see it two months later. Walking around the streets - I have

been telling everyone, "You won't be able to take it away" and

thousands of people have been having their picture taken with the

torch. That has been amazing. I think we are in a better situation

security-wise because of the Army coming in. We had Army and forces

involved anyway, but more numbers have come in. I would prefer them

looking after us than the people who have been trained up to do it.

The target is 48 medals. The rowing team have been great at getting the

golds for us. Looking at the team this year, are you confident that

that can happen again? Our rowing team is the strongest rowing team

that we have ever sent to any Olympic Games. There's 14 rowing

events. We have got 13 boats qualified and racing. Last year's

World Championships - they won ten medals. We have had a reshuffle

around. So we probably won't win ten medals. I think around seven or

eight we possibly could win. That is good. We have to guarantee we

have Olympians in the future. I know getting kids into sport is a

big thing for you at the moment? Yes. I have been around the last

few weeks and was in Newham today at the Matalan Sporting Promise. It

helps our primary school teachers helping to teach sport. You only

get eight hours of training to teach sport. So if you don't have

the love of sport, it is difficult to have that volume of limited

amount of hours to teach it. We give them these cards which break

down sports into technical elements and the kids have great fun. They

use the cards from that point of view. Then at secondary level, we

introduce all sorts of different sports - parkour, jump rope, street

cheer. Some things I have never heard of before. They are all much

more engaging. When somebody says, "I'm not very good at football"

there are all these activities that people can get involved in.

Dodgeball is brilliant. They are throwing this soft ball around at

each other. All different sorts of competitions. The best of luck with

that. You may be wondering why there's been a Rubik's cube cake on

the table. Want me to put it into its right colours? No! The truth is,

it is Erno Rubik's birthday today. We thought it would be nice if you

could light this candle for us. can't have too much practice!

Practice makes perfect! Anybody Practice makes perfect! Anybody

That's good. Look at that! APPLAUSE Lord Coe, if you are out there,

this is your man! Thank you, Steve. Good luck with the campaign. Now,

back in May Jamie Crawford managed to find some good weather for a

boat trip on the Norfolk Broads, which is about the last day it

didn't rain! You are right. Now, lucky for us he took some screen

save photos to remind us of what the sun does look like - screen

save photos to remind us of what the sun does look like. For the

eastern leg of my journey around the points of the compass, just to

show you that Britain's landscapes are diverse as well as beautiful, I

The Norfolk Broads are unique landscape, 200 kilometres of lakes

without locks, rivers and waterways, created by Peter excavations

flooded and naturalised over their years. A small electric power boat

like this one can get you into the quieter backwaters and closer to

the abundant wildlife. There I was, pottering along, thinking it looks

the same. But then you emerge on a scene like this and it is

spectacular. I am using a 400 millimetres lens to get close-ups

of the swans. With the sun overhead it is not ideal. We will put this

wider lens on and get this great landscape with the greenery in the

water, spicing up the image. Swan's bobbing about doing their own thing,

trees lining the horizon, pretty much perfect. I am going to break

the rule of thirds and actually make this photograph 90% water. In

this situation, I think that is actually more interesting. This is

my first screensaver nomination. The windmills make great focal

points, rising vertically out of the flat landscape. But when they

are accessible, you have the clutter of people and their boats

to contend with, so actually it is nice to hang back and take

photographs from a distance like this, where you can see it in a

more natural setting. You can use trees in the foreground to hide the

things that might spoil your shot. My favourite windmill is this one,

which is slowly being reclaimed by nature. This quintessential Norfolk

Broads scene is my second screen so the nomination. The Norfolk Broads

is not just about windmills. It is about wild fowl, too. If you can

find a bird on a nest, you have an immediate advantage because it is

not going anywhere. Once you have taken some photographs above the

water, why not try taking some underwater? These tiny cameras

produce surprisingly good images. Once you have got it locked safely

in a waterproof housing, you can take it anywhere. I have set the

camera to take one-shot every second. It is a bit hit and miss

but it is digital. In the old days, you would need rolls and rolls of

film, but with this, keep firing, delete as many as you want and keep

the good ones. My last stop is this national nature reserve, the

largest expanse of water in the Norfolk Broads. How big is the

reserve? 600 hectares. Massive. is. For the UK that is a Gibside

Nature Reserve. John Blackburn has been arranging here for 15 years.

What is the speciality? The common crane. On a gorgeous day like today,

these flat land look more like the African savannah than Norfolk, so I

need some hide. The reserve has got a 60 ft tower which will be just

the job. It has been a spectacular day in the Broads. What a way to

end it with a fantastic sunset. Some people think it is too easy to

take photographs of sunset, but frankly if you are tired of sunsets,

you are tired of life. Shooting straight into the setting sun can

give you serious lens flare. It is an aberration, but you can use it

creatively like this. For my final screensaver nomination, I am going

for this shot. They did exotic and atmospheric, combining water and a

vast horizon decorated by the silhouettes of trees. -- it is

exotic. It combines the decaying windmill and the swans and the

water weed. What was that all in the sky?

don't recognise it! -- that ball in the sky. If you are having

withdrawal symptoms you can get that sunset forever by downloading

the screen savers from our website at. Let's go back to Farnborough

and a brand new One Show presenter at Farnborough, the final frontier.

Thank you. Let me introduce you to something very cool. It has got a

camera in it and we have turned it into The One Show drone. It has

been flying around by itself for the first time in Farnborough, to

give you a sense of perspective at how future this place is. There are

lots of aeroplanes to see all weekend here and one of them is an

old favourite, the Spitfire. Stella Rutter was the only woman to work

as part of the design team. What exactly did you do? I was in the

Technical Publications Department of the Spitfire. I had three drafts

men that did the drawing is and gave them to me. I had to trace

them on to linen for the master copy. I had to make sure that the

detail was accurate. These were the pens that I worked with. They are

very special. You're the only woman on the team in 1943. How much did

you get paid? At the age of 19 I was paid �3, the same as the men.

How progressive! Probably before any other women. Absolutely. Thank

you very much. Another chap with an exciting job is Mark Bowman. He

works as the test pilot for British Aerospace. Tell us about the

pilotless aeroplane. We are looking at uninhabited air vehicle

technology and we are looking at avoiding clouds, and other vehicles

as well. Is the future going to be aeroplanes without the comforting

voice of the pilot? Will we be flown around by computer to Spain?

The technology is certainly there but the public will not be

listening to their captain in a hangar giving them instructions

somewhere. We want to have the confidence that we have in these

new aircraft. Thank you. The star of the show is behind me. It is

called the good at it. It is a spaceship. -- the Galactic. We have

listed a special One Show presenter to give us a guided tour. Hello.

This is Richard Branson. What I have on my right is a spaceship. It

can take eight people on board. Everybody will have really sexy

spacesuits, only because I like sexy outfits! It has enormous

windows, as you can see, so you can look out of the spaceship as you

float around and see the earth beneath you. Every spaceship has to

have a symbol. This is actually the face of my mother. My mother used

to be an air hostess. One day we hope, using this technology, to be

able to fly you from London to Australia in about three hours.

Poppier out of the Earth's atmosphere and then back down again.

-- pop you out. Many people might be able to go to space and we want

to make it affordable so that you can, too. That is our aim anyway.

am going to book myself a place on that! See you on the moon!

Thank you. Three hours London to Australia? Thank you, Farnborough.

We have dug out The One Show barbecue. It has not had a single

outing all year. Even though the forecast is rain, we are going for

it. Yes, we are. While we get ready, you have sent in your recipes will

the ultimate burger and Jay Rayner gave the three finalists are good

grilling! -- a good grilling! Junk food? Not always. Done well,

burger is a thing of beauty made with proper quality meat, great

salad, lovely bread and relish. It is the kind of thing that can grace

any respectable menu. The best way to cook the burger is on the

barbecue. We asked One Show viewers to come up with a nation's

favourite home-made barbecued burger. Meet our finalists. Leon,

geography teacher from Plymouth. burger is really warming and when

you bite it you want to keep on eating. Matt from Oxfordshire, who

works in nuclear safety. It is the best burger that I have ever tasted

so it will be the best but the judges have ever tasted.

finally Martin, a keen mountaineer from Weatherby. It is hardy and it

sets you up for the day. They have to impress me and fellow judge

Angela grave. The quality of the meat is what it is all about and

then the things that you add to it are just there to enhance it a

little bit. The burgers will be barbecued over the coals, but not

before the ingredients are correctly prepared. Leon has set a

goal of barbecuing 100 times this year. Today will be the 41st this

year. 41? Have you seen the weather? Every time it is sunny, we

are cooking outside with my wife and kids. I have got some her loony

to go on top of my burger. She's that is very salty. It comes into

its own when it is cooked. This means meat is all held together

with an egg. Matt is cooking a spicy burger inspired by his

travels in the southern USA and Mexico. It is beef mince, has sold,

pepper, and my secret ingredient. They are dried chillies? That is

right. They are boiled for about an hour with salt, pepper and vinegar

and they look like that. It will have a definite bite to it. What is

this? My secret weapon, the burger price. He has a burger price! --

Press! And finally Martin with his mountain ingredients. I have got to

the beef mince, then I put the bacon in and black pudding.

quail's eggs. Are they soft-boiled? Yes. Why it kind of a thunder had

you been on the night before that you came up with this! -- what kind

of party had you had before? I just came up with it! It is time to get

the meat on the coals. Can I have a look? No. Every time you lift the

lid, you lose the heat and it takes longer. OK. I am going to start

them off over here and then finish them on the coals to get the

charcoal flavour. That is just Now this is a proper British

barbecue. It is brollies out and time to judge the burgers. Shall we

start with this cheese burger? think that is delicious. There is a

really lovely cake in that and the cumin is really nice and aromatic.

That is a pretty darn good burger. Now the Mexican fest. That has got

some heat! The mayonnaise is stunning. It is a smorgasbord of

lovely things. I took the mickey out of the press, but it has got a

very good texture. Can Martin's breakfast burger really work? In

the middle of this is supposed to be the quail's egg. It has got a

runny yolk. Perfect. Very clever. You can taste the smoky bacon.

is very nicely done. But it is a breakfast burger so it will set you

up for the day. Quite a few days! Three fantastic burgers, which

unlike the weather did not disappoint. They were all

stupendous and the winner of The One Show Burn a competition is

Matt! -- burger competition. Angela and I agreed that the most of

chilli heat and guacamole makes it a winner.

And welcome to The One Show barbecue. It is not raining! And

that is good news because we are joined by Jay Rayner and Matt. Tell

us what it was specifically that made his burger stand out from the

rest? There was lots of pig in it! The flavour explosion in your mouth.

To -- Spanish sausage, explosion in your mouth. Tell us about the trick

that inspired this burger. I went to this place in California where

they closed the streets and have these massive medieval looking

barbecues. It is like a big party for all the locals are, every week.

We used to have that in Reading a lot. It was fantastic. Really?

really! There are rules about cooking burgers. The Food Standards

Agency says you must not put them medium rare, nothing gained in the

middle because you will poison yourself. -- nothing pink in the

middle. I understand the rules but if you saw some meat properly,

store it properly and means it yourself, then lots of people do

that across the USA and they don't die. How was that burger? Fantastic.

Is there a prize? There you go. Brilliant. Many put it down for a