13/12/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. On

a cold and frosty evening, everyone wants to be in the company of a man

looks lovely in a Christmas jumper, so just as well that John Craven is

here! Now, John, we know that you have got Christmas off to a flying

start. I was at York Minster the other night, doing readings for the

carol service there. People singing their hearts out, the brass band

playing, the quiet making your scalp tingle like mad. Nothing

better than a carol service. What is Christmas like in your house?

Well, just like everybody else, I am fortunate that my children and

grandchildren live quite close, so we will be seeing a lot of them.

That is nice. Seeing who has bought what form. Putting batteries in

tourists. You have got a good range, John. Earlier this year he spent a

lot of time judging for the Countryfile calendar, the wonderful

photograph competition, and there are some beautiful shots, we have

put them on the big screen. Yes, we got over 50,000, incredible, isn't

it? We will talk about that later, but if you have taken a great snap

that matches the standard of this lot, send them in, John will judge

them and we will show some at the end of the show. Are you happy with

that? I'm getting quite used to judging by does! Many of you will

be watching this with a teenager tucked away in another room online,

and you may be wondering what they are up to. All those hours on the

computer could be setting them up for a very lucrative career, as

We are currently at war on a battlefield we cannot say with

weapons that most of us know nothing about. Every day, hackers

release more than 200,000 militias internet viruses. They are after

our files, our bank details and some of them are very identity.

Everyone needs its soldiers, and in this room new recruits are aiming

to demonstrate their skills. -- every war. This is a cyber security

challenge. These computer geniuses have been fighting it out online to

get here today. 18-year-old A-level student Luke and 21-year-old Chris

art self-confessed computer geeks. They are hoping they have the

talents needed to beat the hackers. It is the fun of it, the challenge,

it is quite exciting to take part in this sort of thing. Are you

confident? How are you approaching it? Pretty confident. I am cautious.

Welcome, everyone. This is a completely open book tests designed

to mirror exactly what it will take to protect and defend real-world

infrastructure. James is at the helm of this novel

recruitment drive, looking to find the next generation of cyber

Hackers, cyber criminals can cause billions of pounds worth of damage

just to the UK economy every year. We have, in the security industry,

we just cannot get the staff, so the reason that we have this

challenge is to try to find people in a more unconventional way. I

think we should encourage people at a much younger age to get into

cyber security, to end up on the right side of the law, helping to

deal with this problem. At school, Chris almost fell on the wrong side

of the law by hacking into the school computer network, but today

he is hoping to use those same skills to get a career. There are

situations when you are developing the skills, where you may find

yourself crossing boundaries, looking at something to match. At

secondary school, I was looking too deeply into things and got a slap

on the wrist. What are you hoping for from today? I might get a job

offer, which is unlikely, but sponsorship through university

would be called, fingers crossed! OK, well, the battle is well and

truly under way. This is the one of the most complicated video games I

have ever seen! Each one of these guys has got actual access to a

virtual computer network, and they have to find the holes that a

hacker would use, and then they turned each one of these red things

green. Last year, hackers stole nearly 188 million identities

globally, and in the UK 70% of large businesses were hit by cyber

attacks. This may look like a game, but success here could lead to a

highly lucrative career. Among the employers on the Scout is the

police central electronic crime unit and several cyber security

firms. We are interested in recruiting the best around. Our

invisible enemy is involved in a game of permanent cat and mouse, so

we are interested in getting the brightest and the best. These are

people you would offer jobs to? last recruit came here, he was a

finalist last year. We sponsored him, and now he is working for us

on some very important government programmes, work we cannot talk

about. The top eight or receive prizes, which could include

training, internships and industry sponsorship. Pens down!

Congratulations, you all survived. So have our young cyber soldiers

come through the battle unscathed? In first place, with a grand score

of 113, Luke Grainger-Brown. Chris is not far behind in 4th place. So

the youngest challenger here has managed to win the whole event,

hopefully securing himself a bright future in cyber security force.

He did very well to pick Luke as the winner! John, not a lot of

people know this, but if it wasn't for two criminals, your television

career might not have started. before the days of cyber crime, I

was a writer with BBC Newcastle, and I was pulling pints in the BBC

Club, and members of the committee had to take turns behind the bar.

At about 8:30pm, a phone call came through from A correspondent in

Durham, saying there had been a breakout from Durham jail, with

John MacGregor and Walter Probyn, criminals like that. And so I was

pulling pints at 8:15pm, and at 9 o'clock I was live on the news!

you been there this? Luckily, I had not been drinking the beer. Not

really, because it all happens so quickly. They said, right, you are

on there! I bet you had a few drinks afterwards! I did indeed! A

jailbreak was my big break. have got to thank them, weirdly, I

wonder where they are now. After almost two decades at the Times,

one of this country's most illustrious restaurant reviewers,

Michael Winner, put down his pen last week. But tonight he reviews

his own light as he takes a stroll My name is Michael Winner, and I am

going back to the street where I used to live during the war, called

Gloucester Terrace, Lancaster Gate, I lived on the first-floor of what

was then a kind of mini mansion block, and it was quite posh, it

This is there has. And those are the windows that I looked out of.

They have utterly changed now, Well, this is the first time I have

been here in 70 years. This was really a passageway to another

world. I went out, mostly to the movies. I just wanted to be closer

Goodness me! Well, this looks like it was part of my bedroom. I used

to spend hours and hours at this And I would look out of this window

at World War II, and I would see buildings blown up, and the sky go

red. It was like an incredible You were encouraged to give

hospitality to soldiers from abroad. There would be Polish soldiers,

Canadian soldiers, American soldiers, and my mother loved that,

she had great sparkle, and she loved a party. They got a jolly

My mother, when she was living here, was a congenital gambler. It was

only later that she became totally nuts. I mean, deranged! She gave a

poker party for my Bar Mitzvah. Nothing could intrude on her

gambling, nothing! I think you have to put some of their lunacy, and it

was lunacy, down to the fact that she was born in Poland and saw the

most terrible suffering inflicted on the Jews. They had to push peas

along the road with their nose until then nose had gone,

practically. If you see these things when you're young, they

affect you. I saw none of that sort of thing, so I think you cannot

rush to judge people without taking My father was an angel. He was

absolutely the most marvellous human being. They did not get on.

He suffered bravely, I think. At one point, he said, we are getting

divorced. I said, you cannot get divorced, because it was not the

done thing. I think that probably killed him, because he did not get

divorced. He died very young, he died at 65. I remember I was making

a film in Italy, and they rang me and said, Michael, you have got to

come back, your father is going to die in the next two days. I said,

you do not understand, I am making a film, I cannot leave it, that is

not an option. As it happens, he died a few months later. I never

spend the time I should have spent with my parents, because I was too

busy being Jack-the-lad, making movies. That is my greatest regret

in life. I never gave them visible love and the time that they

How incredibly honest to say all of that. Thank you, Michael. John, we

were just saying throughout that film, you used to do a little

street report, did you? That is right, my home was nowhere near as

grand as that, it was a cobbled street in Leeds, and I used to run

the street newspaper when I was about 10. I used to write it by

hand, knock on doors, and charge people one penny to read it.

you have quite a few customers? did! I learnt about the power of

the printed word. I learnt about a neighbour who had a vicious dog, I

asked her to read about it, she just about said the dog on me!

enough. For on dogs to ponies, most people have heard of Dartmoor and

Exmoor ponies, but what about their Welsh cousins? Miranda is headed

The beautiful mountains covering almost 50,000 acres, the largest

area of Highland in Wales. It is also home to one of our wildest,

most remote animals, the Carneddau mountain pony, found living at

1,000 metres above sea level, they are perfectly adapted to live on

these rugged hills. Small and sturdy, these are our oldest breed

of pony and our closest link to the ancient Celtic bony. Historically,

these tough, resilient Carneddau ponies were often used down the

pits and as war waltzes. These days they are left to roam the mountains

undisturbed. -- horses. But they are not completely neglected. There

is a group of local families that keep an eye on them, and farmer

Gareth Wyn Jones heads the Carneddau Pony Society. I brought

them up so you could see the special ponies. They are beautiful,

they blend into the landscape. Why did they survive so well? You look

at the coat, the strength. They do not need enough to live on. They

Ponies are left entirely to their own devices. Once a year they are

rounded up. This is done to ensure that the population is healthy and

to prevent in-breeding. We have to get the male fools off.

We can't have them here or there will be in-breeding. A few mares.

We watch after them in the best possible way.

Every year, the society works to find homes for the moved mares, but

finding new homes is getting harder. Now, ponies are in your blood, they

have been in your family for how many years? 350, that we can trace

back. What happens if you can't find homes for the ponies? It is

something that I never try to think of, but we know that some bigger

societies have had to get rid of them. Dispose of them humanely. I

would hate to think of that, to be honest with you. We have never come

to that situation. I would not like to think of myself as that... That

generation that lost those ponies. What is the solution? What can we

do? What we are trying to do is offer the ponies for nothing for

people to use them in a good conservation way.

A recent experiment nearby at Prest Haven Sands has proved a success.

Here three ponies are used to graze and keep the dune grasslands

healthy. The scientists think that they are

special here too. They are making interesting discoveries about their

behaviour. Working alongside the farmers, one of the scientists is

Chrisie Stanley from the University of Manchester.

How often do you watch the ponies? Since 2009, when I joined, and

every week since then. You must see some interactions? It is like a

soap opera. Now the group in front of us, are

they related? No, not at all, but there are strong friendships, like

in humans. There are strong bonds between the

mares and their sons and definitely signs of hierarchy within the

group! What do those ponies mean to you? They are an essential part of

the Welsh cultural heritage. They maintain the landscape as we see it.

Stpitss were helping the farmers to look at population management and

given genetic information to maintain their health, but I want

to ensure that they stay here for generations to come.

It is where they belong? Exactly. Running wild and free. These Welsh

mountain ponies are clearly a much loved and valued part of the

mountains. They have survived here for centuries. I hope that their

future is secured for many generations to come.

It is a good idea to let people use the ponies.

That is brilliant. Now, then, you two, the Countryfile

calendar. They are selling like hot cakes.

You must have so many entries for the picture that -- pictures that

go in. How did you choose them? Well, Jo Brand and Chris and myself

were the finist judges, but we look at every picture of the 50,000.

Then we are presented with the last 3,000 to choose the final of the 12.

It is a job, but a wonderful thing to do? It is every year the

standard gets higher and the competition is stiffer between the

three judges. Then we ask the public to choose

their favourite? Yes, what they think is the best.

They came up with this one here? That is not the overall favourite,

that was the overall favourite, the badger taking a walk on the wild

side. Hot news, �1..1 million has been raise sod far for Children in

Need. Thank you very much! APPLAUSE

That is very good. Wonderful m There are still a few

binding days to Christmas and New Year.

It is the perfect gift it really is! It is the perfect gift! Get

your Countryfile calendar. Now the judges choose their favourites. You

chose this one with the rainbow? That's right. That is taken on the

Isle of Skye. See the tiny little Crofter's cottage. That gives an

idea of perspective in the picture. Who did the convincing there? Was

it you you, Jo or Chris? It is difficult. We are going for

different things. I go for the commercial things that sell the

calendar. Jo goes for the whacky things and Chris who is a wonderful

photographer goes for the perfection in the photographs. So

it is difficult to get to the final That one of the man in the gale.

That is amazing? Yes, that was when the hurricane was hitting the tail

end of South Wales. Ian Thompson waited for over an hour in a force

nine gale in that position for the light to be just right to get a

picture like that the -- the dedication of the viewers.

Well, here we have seen the temperatures plummet. The majority

of viewers have experienced some snow.

And as you know, John, you never know how much snow will fall.

It's December, we wonder if this year will bring a white Christmas?

But when it comes we are unprepared for extreme winter weather. In 1963,

British pathaway captured footage of one of the worst winter records.

It was fun and games but also hardship. The British stiff upper

lip was frozen and truly put to the test.

Kievkiev 1963, below zero. -- ARCHIVE: A rapid succession of

blizzards pile up the snow faster than the people can dig out. This

tug of war is a common sight. It was to become known as the Big

Freeze. Across the country the temperatures were below freezing

for more than two months. Two feet of snow fell in London. So cold

that the sea froze over at Heroine Bay in Kent and there were 20-foot

snow stkrifts on Dartmoor. It was not just the humans left out on the

cold? ARCHIVE: Nature froze over the pastures... The Royal Navy was

called in to help the desperate farmers and tonnes of hey were

dropped over the worst-affected areas.

Some farmers in remote areas resorted to even more drastic

measures to ensure that their newly-born livestock survived the

winter. ARCHIVE: There was only one thing

for it bring the donkey into the house. A bit bewildering for the

dog to share the drawingroom with the rest of the family, but of

course, the humans are house- trained! Some brave souls resorted

to more active ways of keeping warm. White Hart Lane lived up to its

name that winter as Spurs played Burnley in the cup. Are in the

white tops. COMMENTATOR: Can they cope? When it

comes to something that the football has to pack up.

Heating oil and coal were soon in short supply.

ARCHIVE: With deliveries to houses out of the question, thousands of

folk made their way to the coalyards, then the water shortage.

The old people living alone, staggering through frozen snow for

a kettle full. Improvies was often the only way. You had to have hot

food at any cost. But pathaway was there when the big freeze brought

out the child in us all. ARCHIVE: Strange how many sledges

are tucked away in houses when we never are prepared for winter.

And many children decided to enjoy the winter wonderland. Fiona and

Philip were two of them. What was the worst of the winter?

It was freezing cold in the night and freezing cold in the morning.

You got dressed in bed and the clothes in the bed to warm up

before you got out. What was the best of it for you?

Well, for me as a boy skating most days on the ice.

How many were out on the lake? Saturday and Sunday a couple of

hundred. The ice would crack and make a wonderful high-pitched noise.

When you know it is firm it has to make this echo.

ARCHIVE: Winter is fun when the pond freezes like this one here in

Surrey. The white Christmas of 1962 was

certain one to remember. The Big Freeze that followed brought out

the best of Britain. Pathe's answer to ultimate winter weather seems as

clear as crystal... When all else fail, there is nothing else to

d'you but enjoy! -- else to do, but enjoy! What an entry, that is how

Gyles Brandreth arrived in the studio! Like Daniel Craig I do all

of my own stunts! Did you fall off? I didn't fall off. I stood up and

here I am. So, how nip which was it in 1963? It was the coldest winter

since 1740. The coldest spot was in Braemar, minus 22 Celsius. Pretty

cold. We are complaining now, but it is

not that bad this winter. It is changeable. That's the joy of

English weather. You never know quite what is going to happen. Do

you remember June 1975, John? Dickie Bird, waking up, us

following the cricket and telling us that on the cricket pitch there

was 2.5 centimetres of snow. The match between Derbyshire and

Lancashire was called off. Later in the week there was a heatwaive, but

then there was snow. You never know what is going to happen I think it

is getting more predictable. Longer spells of good weather and bad

weather and fiercer weather. And when we have the fiercer

weather we like to enjoy it. Here at 1978 we are at Heathrow Airport

and here are the air trafbl controllers doing what they do best,

enjoying themselves -- air traffic controllers.

And I can see you both doing a report there! Is there going to be

snow on Christmas Day? Who knows? The chances are good. You need one

snowflake for it to awe for -- account for a white Christmas.

odds are these: Place your bets now. There have

been 38whies Christmases in the last 52 years, so not that unusual.

There was one recently? Yes, 2010. What do you think, John, are you

feeling it I think it will be a wet Christmas.

He remembers the cold Christmas of 1957. I do. I was very small at the

time? What happened in your street? Which built an igloo. All of the

snow was shovelled to the sides and it was high enough to dig into it

and build an igloo. I like to build a snowman. Do you remember the

Christmas of 1942... There is the music... There is the music of The

Snowman. This Christmas we are guaranteed a snowman on television,

because the Snowman is returning. I have seen him on stage, of course,

he has been at the Peacock Theatre for 15 years, but this Christmas on

television, the The Snowman And The Snowdog, we have an exclusive clip

from it. APPLAUSE

Excellent! Thank you very much for the calls you have been sending in.

You have crashed the system, but here we are, the top three: Foxes

having a scrap from jefr ry -- Jeffrey Acherman. Here we have Stag

Breath. And this picture was taken this afternoon in Bradgate Park.

Is that your favourite? I think so. Super job. That is it for tonight.