13/09/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with a curve. And Michelle Ackerley.

We are starting on a dancing theme tonight. All of the guests have been

performing unusual dance moves. One of them set the nation shaking their

hips back in the 80s. Yes, Shakin' Stevens is on the One Show tonight!

There he is. I am so delighted. He is a legend. Now, there are others.

Their moves did not quite catch on in the same way. Have a look. I just

don't get it! It is Nick Nolte and Billy Byrne from DIY SOS. You are

going to have to put me in the picture here, what was this? -- Nick

Knowles. That is the elbow dance. Me and some mates invented it back in

Australia. We managed to convince everybody it was a craze sweeping

the nation. But we made it up. You did not look like you were enjoying

it as much as Nick? I don't have the movement. I am a grandad dancer. And

the Devon dumpling. Most moves have some sexuality about it. Steady on!

You will see that in nightclubs all across the West Country. That is for

George and Chris. Does look like you guys have a laugh. You have got to

get on, haven't you? All building sites have a lot of banter. When we

started its 17 years ago, we decided down rather than make the programme

the BBC would like, we would make it like a building site. We spent the

whole time taking the Mick out of each other and having a laugh. Then

when it became The Big Build and we had hundred buildings on site, it

carried on the same way. You work like Trojans. Ireland the last when

he came on you came fresh from a building site and you were

exhausted. -- I remember the last time when you came on. It is hard

graft. But there is a community which helps you through. And guys

who come off their sites and come to our site, they haven't spoken to

their wives for ages, they come in and have their tea and watch the

telly, but when they go one DIY, they say they were doing this today.

It has been boiling today. In fact, today was declared the hottest day

of the year. Cue the obligatory pictures of the beach. Everyone is

having a lovely time. You want to be under the Humber Bridge reading a

book. It is beautiful down there. That is the place to be. You sit

under the Bridge reading a book in the sunshine. Not a good day for a

chef in the kitchen. That is a rough day. Belfast, on the other hand,

along with many other parts of the UK has been cool, almost as cool as

the elbow dance! Marty explains. Today, we all take cool, clean air

for granted, thanks to air conditioning. But back at the turn

of the 20th century, it was unheard of, until that is, one building

right here in Belfast decided it was a matter of life and death. This is

the Royal Victoria Hospital, opened in 1903, it was the first building

in the world to have air con incorporated into its design.

This is the steam engine. It is gorgeous. For 20 years, Nigel Keary

has maintained this steam powered Victorian beast, the world's first

air conditioning system. How big is this fan? The fan is ten feet in

diameter. You can feel the wind blowing down. So it goes up that

corridor? Yes, to the old hospital. The process was simple but

revolutionary. The dirty air outside is drawn towards a wall of ropes

which acts like a filter. They ran hot and cold water down the filters

which washed the soot into the drains. That is warmed as it passes

by the hot pipes. Now clean and warm it is delivered through the hospital

by the massive fans in the bowels of the building. This was Florence

Nightingale's period and her big thing was about cleanliness. This

hospital with the Florence Nightingale wards and the nursing

system, this was the cutting edge of technology in those days. It was a

time when Belfast was at the forefront of engineering and it was

a place ideal for this kind of development. Lord Pirie was the Lord

Mayor of Belfast, when the hospital was being designed. He was also the

chairman of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and he was very concerned

that the position of the city as a leader in industry was threatened by

the poor health and the short life expectancy of the workers. Lord

Pirie was one of the driving forces behind the building of the new

hospital, and decided there must be a way of adapting the technology of

the shipbuilding industry to move water and clean air into the wards

of the new hospital. He found the answer in gigantic propellers which

moved ships like the Titanic forward. The same principle of

motion applies to the air con propeller where air is pushed

through the corridors of the Royal Victoria Hospital. This filter

system removed soot and other particles from the air which were

then washed away. It was also able to remove microorganisms which

caused deadly diseases like tuberculosis. And today's

technology, whilst much more advanced, is still based on the same

principles. Doctor Sara Head wick is a consultant in the hospital's

infectious diseases unit where controlling airflow is still a key

priority. We want to make sure that one infection a patient comes in

with is not spread to another patient. This is the infectious

diseases unit. Do you have some special additional precautions in

place? We control the pressure in the room with respect to the

corridor, so the pressure is lowest in this room here, so the air is

sucked from the corridor into the lobby into the patient's room and

out through the ceiling fans there, keeping the bugs away from all the

other patients in the ward. Saint air conditioning was introduced here

in Belfast in 1903, it has become an essential part of medical technology

in hospitals around the world. And its legacy touches us all. It makes

you comfortable in the front seat of your car, and makes life possible in

the towering skyscrapers in the harsh heat of Dubai. Air

conditioning is cooling and cleaning the air we all breathe.

Those modern scenes of Dubai and it all started in Belfast. It is

remarkable. Amazing, isn't it? Lads, let's talk about DIY SOS. You have

The Big Build specials. We do our house for a young Paralympian who is

aiming at 2020, Tokyo, but very nearly qualified to go to Rio this

time around. He has only recently switched sports. He was a shot

putter. He held the world record at shot put and then he went into

rowing. The only reason he didn't go to Rio this year is because he came

second and they only have one sports person per category. As he came

second, obviously the other guy came first. An amazing young man. The

house is the thing you were trying to help him with? He could not get

around the house. His mum had to wrestle him in and out. He is a big

lad. He had to go and get showered at the local sports centre and going

there for training was difficult. We got together with the community and

took the house apart and rebuilt it so it works for him and it has

lowered worktops so he could do cooking. He has no feeling in his

legs so we had a guy make up a special apron to protect his legs

when he is cooking. That is really touching and it is life changing.

There is a clip we want to show you where you tell Scott it is not just

a new house. Scott now has a sponsor. That is

amazing. You have to say a big thank you. That got us!

I should say, he is very chatty! He will say I cannot believe they

picked that bit. He is very chatty and fantastic. One of the great joys

of doing that programme is when I get to chat to people, they tell you

amazing things. He still dreams that he can run around and play rugby. He

gets up and falls because he does not have the use of his legs. Your

mind is constantly playing tricks on you. We could see you got so

emotional. I got close to him. We did a training session which is

called murder ball which is in wheelchairs. We had to get strapped

in wheelchairs. It panicked me a bit because if anything went wrong I

could not get up and run but obviously they cannot anyway. So we

were playing murder ball and it was amazing, how fast, how quick, the

agility. Everyone I was looking at, I admired. They did not feel there

was anything wrong with them, they were part of it. They kept crashing

into you. Because I can feel my knees, and of course it hurt. If

they crash it is different. This was not a motion, it was paying!

Whenever we do a reveal, he is always in bits and I am always

desperately trying to hang onto it. He is always the first to go. Yes!

Well, it is on Tuesday. The last time I saw you you were at a movie

premiere. Now another film is an the horizon. Golden Years is now on DVD

at the supermarket. Now I am writing another one. It is a period drama

set around the Napoleonic wars. I am late delivering on it, maybe I

should not have said that! We will leave it there! We should

move on. From houses finding a new lease of life to buildings which

have lost their purpose altogether. As Kevin has been finding out, with

the number of people going to church declining, many are closing their

doors for good. Everybody is absolutely gobsmacked.

It is not a celebration tonight, it is something very sad. It is the

worst thing that has happened to me since my husband died.

I have come to the west coast of Wales, visiting some of the furthest

outpost of the Catholic church in mainland Britain. But all these

churches have one thing in common. They are either closed or are

closing. The Catholic Church is shutting 22 of its 62 churches in

North Wales by 2020, because of what has been dubbed a mass exodus. This

church is in a beautiful seaside town and today's its last day.

92-year-old Mary has been attending services here for nearly 50 years,

and her late husband helped build the church. This is the demolition

of the old church which was a hut. That is my husband there. It was a

happy time, it was very happy. What does the church mean to you? Well, I

have always regarded it as an annex to my home, and now it feels as if

part of it has been demolished. Falling numbers and a shortage of

new priests has been blamed for the decision to close a third of North

Wales' Catholic Church is. How has that gone down with those who do

still use the church? John and Gaynor have been

hairdressers here since 1971. My son was on the altar, and I was on the

altar. I'm coming up to 70 and we thought we would have our funeral

services here. You don't close a church, because then nobody can go,

can they? Husband John is equally upset by the closure, but is

pragmatic about the reasons behind it. I think the whole world revolves

around finance these days. It costs money to run a church. Our children

were the first to be cystened in the new church, and our little one which

we lost had a little service there, so it means a lot to us. We were

there at the beginning and now we are going to be there at the end and

that's tragic really. The man who marked Christ the King out four

closure is this Bishop. We join him as he heads to Aberdovey to

administer the last rites. At the moment I have six priests who are

beyond retirement age who are running parishes. I haven't got

anyone to replace those men. Attendances are declining and the

Catholic Church is not immune to that. And this decline isn't just

been seen in Wales. Recently the Bishop of Salford announced he may

have to close half the churches in his 150 parishes. Despite Britain's

booming population, the numbers going to church have halved over the

past 85 years to fewer than 5 million. But shutting churches for

good is still a tough call to make. A lot of people thought that once

the church was there it was going to be there for life, so can you

understand how upset and disappointed they are? I certainly

can understand, because inevitably there's a lot of personal feeling

tied up within the bricks and mortar. To say it's the last

service, that's going to be so, so sad. You said you didn't see today

as a celebration but more like a funeral? A funeral, yes. That's what

I think. That's why I'm dressed in drab clothing. Purple flowers. Like

so much of rural life generally, the issue of sustain about and the

viability of the church now need a new and different vision. It is a

sad service because it's goodbye to a church I've had a long association

with and special memories but I'll take those memories with me. How do

you feel? Gutted, absolutely gutted. Absolutely distraught really. The

Catholic Church is the people and the people are still here and we'll

continue to celebrate mass, but it is a sad day. It is very sad and

we'll miss this place. It's sad to see any building that's a big part

of a community shut down. And awful to see so many people so upset about

it. It was interesting hearing the Bishop talk there about rural

issues. We've covered quite a few on Countryfile about using churches in

a different way and taking them forward and using more community

space, taking out pews and putting in dancefloors. In a moment it's

going to happen, everybody. We'll be talking to '80s legend Shakin'

Stevens. Just warming up there. CHEERING. He's getting the crowd

going! But first he has taken us on a tour of the "Ole House" where it

all started. My name is Michael Barrett but you probably don't knee

me as that. To most of the world I'm simply Shakin' Stevens. "This Ole

House" once filled with children... I spent more time in the UK singles

chart than any other artist. Nearly 5 years if you add it up. But today

I'm coming back to "This Ole House" where I grew up in the Eli estate in

Cardiff. I used to help my mum with the garden. We used to play in the

streets, rounders or cricket. Also on the street is where I got my

name. Steven Walker, when it was his turn with the bat, he used to say,

ladies and gentlemen, Shakin' Stevens. I thought, that's a whacky

name, I'll use that. He didn't go into the music business but he loves

telling a story. God, I haven't been here in years. Many, many years. It

is very different. A sofa in the middle. TV over there. My dad's

chair was just by there. My dad fought in the 1914 war. He was

affected by gas. My dad, he liked a lot to drink. But his father before

him and back, back, back, those were the days really. He was a hard man

and hard on the kids then, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was the youngest

of 13 children and when I was born there were still 11 of us living in

this three bedroom house, if you include my mum and dad. This is

different. These bunk beds weren't here. That's still there. Because I

had many older brothers and sisters I was listening to their records.

The first I bought was Blueberry Hill. My first record, that was it.

I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill... We all sang songs. If there

was a wedding we would all be getting up to sing. We had a piano,

I think it came from a pub. I started vamping it and learning the

piano. Mum basically was a very tidy lady and she would have to move to

furniture to dust behind and not just at the front, so the piano had

to go. It was just round the corner where I put on my first public

performance. This is the infant school, and the junior school, I

went to both. We used to have fancy dress. The teacher, Mrs Cox, said

what about one dressing up as a beet nick and another as as a Teddy boy.

It is nice to come back to your home town and still be remembered. There

is an old piano and they are playing hot behind the green door. It is

nice to be recognised after all this time. I had a lot of jobs like

porter to builder, but I could work to pay my keep while freeing up the

nights to do what I do best, sing. This was the place too play. I

played with the Denims and the dukes. My dad was alive, so he was

very proud. Very proud of me singing. Here there and everywhere.

But the sad thing is when the success came, he wasn't around to

witness that or even see it. That was sad. He would have been over the

Moon. But that's life. As I get older I find my music draws more and

more inspiration from my background. Everything leads me back to where it

all began for me, Marcus Road in Ely. Ain't gonna need this house no

longer, ain't gonna need this house no more... Ain't gonna need this

house no longer... CHEERING. Welcome Shakin' Stevens!

So pleased to meet you. What I find interesting is if it wasn't for

Elvis you might not have become a household name. Well, I was when I

did that for 19 months, it was time to earn some money, because I wasn't

earning any. It was a nice part to do actually. I'm fan of Elvis myself

actually. I've got some blue suede shoes on. You were in the musical.

What part did you play within his life? PC proby played the latter

Presley and I played the middle one with Colonel Tom Parker. And

shakin... It played for 19 month, ran loads of awards. I loved it. And

from there, 33 hits. Amazing. It took me 17 years to get there. Yeah,

but you have done it. Of all those songs what do you think it was about

them that people loved. Green Door. What's the secret? Good time music I

think it was. Very memorable. I think the legs had a lot to do with

it. Do you? You need to teach Nick some of these moves. What are you

saying? Your dance moves, Nick. I didn't come here to be insulted over

my dance moves! Tell us about your new album, Echoes of Our Times. I'm

very pleased with it. It is very personal to me. It is all about my

family and life and that. For people that haven't seen me live, those

instruments I use on the album like slide guitar, the Mandalay and mouth

organ, it is a blues folk rock album. There's some wonderful

stories, like... You didn't ask me that question, but I was going on

too my ancestors. I didn't know anything about my family until we

started researching them. I didn't know that my ancestors were down in

Cornwall. They used to go down the mines, the tin mines and the copper

mines. They used to go down, taking at least an hour to go down, two

hours down, there do 8 hours, two hours and back again. And that part

of your history has inspired this. Living and dying. Billy surviving.

APPLAUSE. It sounded like a Mike and the my cannics. It is pretty groovy

this album. It is quite dark and it has got lots of stories on it. We do

that on stage. People come to see me on stage, they'll see that. You are

on tour. Shaky is going on tour next year.

CHEERING. If you want to see any of that Mike and the mechanics and the

Delamitri groove, it is out on Friday. And it may be the first time

in ten years that anybody used the word groovy. That will be trending.

You'll be do dodgy and tricky next. We are going to play a game now. It

has a catchy title. It's... "This Ole House". ". This is how it works.

We are going to somehow you some houses and you have to work out

through our cunning clues who has lived in that house in the past. It

is a well known person. Listen for the clues. First one, are you ready?

Who lives "This Ole House" "Ole House"? It is a rather novel house.

Interesting "chimney potter". You can't see the Dumble-door. It is not

a cursed child that lived here. A quite. Let's find out. JK Rowling.

CHEERING. 1-0. Very good. Next, who used to live in "This Ole House"?

Just imagine all the people in Liverpool who... John Lennon. It is

John Lennon! APPLAUSE. And he came to live inta

"Ole House" with his aunt and live there had until he was 22. It is now

owned by the National Trust, so you can visit it. Finally, who lived in

"This Ole House". This one is in good Nick. Nick Knowles! That's my

house. That's the house in Southall at the bottom of Gregory Road in

Southall I grew up. That alleyway, I used to put my hands on one wall and

my legs on the other and crawl along. I remembered it as a huge

tower. It is lovely we all got to live around Shaky's house. We were

talking, wouldn't it be nice if we could look around Nick's house? We

are actually live inside your old house. You are not! Do you recognise

the inside? No, it looked nothing like that when I lived there. Where

are we at the moment? In my bedroom? They don't look anything like it. Go

left. That one. And on the right used to be twin bunks, me and my

brother. I see a Shakin' Stevens there There is! And on the left,

behind that, this is like the Golden Shot. Back even further on that

wall, not the make-up counter. My brother had a huge Peace sign,

because he was a hippy. He had pictures of famous people and he

drew Peace on the wall. That was my mum's room. On my right was my

sister's room. My dad caught a magpie in the house. We are going to

keep this footage running for Nick when we finish off ago, because it

is so incredible. Thank you to Nick, Billy

and of course Shaky. "DIY SOS: The Big Build" is on next

Tuesday at 9 o clock on BBC One. And Shaky's new album, "Echoes

of our Times", is out on Friday. Alex is back tomorrow,

when we'll be joined by Hollywood star Sam Neil and hearing

from Paul McCartney and