14/02/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker.

That was of course was 10cc, who as a special Valentine's treat,

will be performing their classic number one hit 'I'm Not In Love'

We will be showing you how to grow a diamond in a lab. Random.

Our guest tonight is the ideal Valentine's date, he's tall,

he's funny and he's by all accounts the perfect gentleman.

Welcome, sir. You come bearing gifts. Thank you. Happy Valentines.

I will just have a handshake, that's probably best. How lonely is

Valentines for you at the moment, you spend half your life here and

half in Melbourne S your wife with you? No, my wife's in Melbourne.

Over the weekend I went online and bought some flowers, made sure they

were delivered on Monday night with a note saying these are so you can

wake up to flowers on Valentines Day. I have a feeling she forgot to

get me anything. Because she called me last night are you going are you

home at 8am tomorrow morning. Yeah, she went good! I woke up this

morning got an e-mail saying happy Valentines Day, I am sending you

everything you need to make a romantic dinner. The doorbell went

and there was a supermarket delivery guy and he went, I have been told to

wish you happy Valentines Day! Love it. That's my Valentines Day.

You need to put 10cc on, because you are a fan. I am but I am not sure,

like me... # I am not in love... Go with the cricket one. You probably

know this, the song is all about someone struggling to express how

they really feel. So in the spirit of the song,

if you would like to remind a special someone just

how much you love them a special someone just how much

you love them here's your chance. Send in your message along

with your name and where you're from and we'll try our best to show

them a little later on. We will put them to the song. It

will look beautiful. One love affair that may not be

set to continue is our Not that long ago the government

was telling us that buying diesel But now with record levels of air

pollution, it's clear they got it wrong and some are saying diesel

cars could even be obsolete We sent motoring journalist

Vicki Butler-Henderson out Two busy delivery riders, two very

different cities with a potential for very different impacts on the

health of our cyclists. What's to blame? Well, some say it is the very

thing I am driving, diesel cars. In 2001 to cut dangerous greenhouse

emissions from petrol cars the Labour Government encouraged drivers

to switch from petrol to diesel using tax breaks on fuel. But

reports now say diesel's actually emit dangerous levels of polluting

particles into the environment. It's poisonous and dirty, you can smell

it and taste it, especially at rush hour. To find out how bad things

have got we have set up a One Show experiment to look at how much air

pollution we are exposed to on our city roads.

This is York-based courier Andy Mitchell and this is London food

delivery biker Billy Shannon and we asked them to spend a day wearing a

special piece of equipment. The black carbon monitors measure

exposure to soot by sucking in air as they travel. The presence of soot

indicates potentially dangerous particulates could also be in the

air. Meanwhile, mechanic Dave, a diesel technology and emissions

expert believes diesels days are numbered. The cars are subject to

much more stringent testing on the road. In my opinion diesel cars have

a limited shelf life. I speak and deal with a lot of customers who are

incredibly angry because they were promised by the Government

originally these cars were cheap to buy, cheap to run, and cheap to

repair, that's no longer the case. What does that mean for the price of

diesel cars and those who own them? Greg is a used car dealer in Essex

and he has seen customers take a hit. How are you finding diesel

sales right now? I would say they're probably dropped by around 25% over

the last five or six years. It doesn't look good for diesel cars,

if I am honest. Certainly on the - the real win for manufacturers will

be hybrid and electric type cars and they'll replace the diesel versions.

How did the Labour Government in 2001 get it so wrong?

John Prescott was Labour's Secretary of State for the Environment,

Transport and Regions at the time. What are your comments to the

millions of people who bought diesel cars on the persuasion of Government

back in the day, to being out of pocket now? I think they bought a

diesel car because it was more efficient, true we didn't see it as

a threat to their health and that's why it encouraged a lot of people to

go along that road. But that's the advance of science. Do you think

that we should ban diesel engines immediately or tax them so heavily

that it stops us from wanting to buy them? Clearly tax is going to be one

of it. They might use the car tax, it might give them more

compensation. There are a range of measures. But what's clear is you

have to intervene, it can't be just left to the market to sty what's

good for it. In April, the Government have to submit a new

proposal as to how they're planning to tackle the illegal amount of

nitrogen dioxide on our roads. Back on the streets and our courier

cyclists have been at work for eight hours in both York and in London

wearing some specialist kit to measure how much soot they're taking

in. I am on my way to get the results of

our test. This is a doctor conducting research into air

pollution at Queen Mary University of London. Air pollution is

attributable to up to 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK.

Can we look at the results then? Yes. You can see the highest peak

the London cyclist had was close to 200,000. For a normal commuter it's

usually from 40-50,000. What is the cause of this peak? This is when he

was cycling down a busy road. Shall we look at York. The peak 60,000.

That's incredible. I expected the London cyclist would have a higher

reading compared to York but the 200,000 peak is definitely a shock.

It is no surprise London is more polluted than York, but a reading

four times the normal commuter levels has shocked the doctor. It is

time to reveal to our riders just how big the difference is. You have

got three big peaks. That one is definitely huge compared to anything

you see in York. I wouldn't want to do this job if I was living in

London. On this evidence where would you prefer to live? Probably Yorks.

But I love living in London, but it could be great if we could discuss

the pollutions. What are we doing in the UK to tackle this problem?

Sadly, not enough. At the minute it is just proposals. The Government

has a deadline for April to come up with proposals to have cleaner air.

In London, again, more proposals. The Lord Mayor has suggested a

scrappage scheme to incentivise people to come out of their older

diesels, they're given money to help towards the purchase of a new petrol

car. Local councils in the country are turning buses into cleaner

buses. Things are beginning to come along but we are not doing enough.

Places like Paris, for example, or Madrid, and Athens, they have

pledged to ban diesel cars from their city centres by the next eight

years. Also in Paris right now they have certain areas where no cars are

allowed at weekends and also have a scheme where you are allowed, if you

have an odd number plate, you are allowed in on a machine and even

number plate on a Tuesday. That's running now? Yes. That's proactive

in comparison. Yeah, exactly. Here there is over 12 million diesel

drivers now. We saw the whole results for a city. Obviously within

that there is going to be vehicles of different ages and they say that

the more modern diesels are cleaner in comparison. But what can we do as

diesel drivers if we have one sitting on the drive? Exactly,

that's a good point. In 2001 there were only three million diesel cars

and now there are over 12. 5 million, which is a fantastic...

What a rise. Just try and be sensible about things, if you are

picking up your child from outside the school gates don't sit there

with the diesel engine on. Turn that off. In you are in static traffic

pull back a little from the car in front to get air going between the

car in front and your air circulation system in the car. Try

and not take the car, if you can. If you have a short journey walk or

bike. Or drive it differently to how you would a petrol car. We have put

some links up on our website if you want to look at your local area to

give pollution levels on a daily basis, thank you very much for

coming in. Forget flowers and chocolates

on Valentine's Day, according to a recent survey more than half

of us would prefer a good But for one couple,

their love letters were more They helped them through a dangerous

and uncertain time - as their children Sue

and Peter discovered. Four years sweetheart and I am more

in love with you now than ever before. Surely we will be lucky

enough next year to spend our fifth one together. After both our parents

had died I found this bundle of letters. The letters are just

peppered with touching words of love and dad was actually quite romantic.

Here we are together again at the usual time saying good night and

knowing tomorrow is but another day nearer reunion.

Love and kisses, Cyril. They got married a few months after

World War II was declared. So they must have known that my father was

going to be called up. He went round the South African coast up through

the Suez and to Cairo and that was where dad's war started.

The light is slowly fading. There is a full moon out over the palm trees.

The graceful fronds are waving in the evening sea breeze.

Mum died when she was very young. She was only 54. She died of cancer

and I was in my early 20s and it's only really through these letters

that I have come to know her as a person. You have been gone over five

months now. Somehow the time has passed, I don't quite know how.

Sometimes when I think about it it seems nothing short of a miracle

that I should have lived through it and yet I have.

I feel very proud of what they made of a very difficult situation. It's

so easy to drift apart when you are not in regular contact. Those

letters did keep them in their own minds in regular contact. I don't

think they were ever out of each other's thoughts. It isn't as though

I am short of friends. I have many and have made many more in the

course of my work, but no one can quite take your place.

I do feel it was the letters that kept him grounded in amongst these

extraordinary times. One of the last letters that he

wrote that he felt that he had been living on the edge of eternity.

We still have a hard road to travel in this world gone mad. Somehow I

don't care how long and difficult the future may be, so long as we're

together. In his own mind I think it was the

expression of love through these letters were just hugely important

to each of them. And so in this fantasy, my darling,

we will say goodbye to our day, rich in its memories of a happy past and

glowing with hopes of happy future. So good night, my love. Good night.

Well, how heart-warming was that? Peter and sue are here this evening.

APPLAUSE Well done for writing all of this

into this beautiful book. Sue, you typed up all 1,000 letters. Well, I

did have a little bit of help from a friend of mine called Hillary but it

took her three years to type them up. The whole project took over five

years because I then had to organise them and I organised them into the

order in which our mother received them and sent them. Because it was

quite a muddle getting and receiving letters during the war, as you can

imagine. Absolutely. It is such a romantic story. Peter, any of this

romance from your parents rubbed off on you? You better ask my wife! But

everybody - it's brought the whole family together in a wonderful way.

This is a side of your parents that you normally think of as providing

the mortgages and taxi rides and all of a sudden you realise they had

this wonderful life together during an incredibly difficult period of

our history. Listen, thank you for sharing the

story with us tonight. Very quickly, turn that book around. The title is

there. Good evening Sweetheart is that your mum or dad that wrote

that? They both wrote it. Lovely. . If you would like to read

the letters written by Olga and Cyril, they will be on display

at the Imperial War Museum. Adam, you are a busy man. I cannot

imagine anyone in 50 years' time going, can you believe our

grandparents sent over 1 million text to each other? This is a smiley

face and a heart emoji! So romantic(!) Your stand-up tour has

got extra dates for an interesting reason?

I did the tour last year, whenever I do a tour I have a couple of nights

with a sign interpreter. The last tour I played at the Hammersmith

Apollo, 3500 seats, some people could not see the interpreter,

some of the deaf members of the audience, so I am doing a couple of

nights so that people can see. You are known as the nicest man in

stand-up! There are extra last to be had with the sign interpreter...

Just one rude word... And you are back with a lined new series of The

Last Leg, it is in its tenth series. Have you

been caught in fake news? A little bit. Last October there was a fake

story that Bake Off had been sold... Paul Hollywood believed it... And he

would return my call! A lot of laughs to be had and also, as part

of the show comedies that one another challenges? We don't

normally Bert Alex has had a baby, I am a dad, neither of us do anything

in our lives any more! Last week we said each other challenges. This

week, Alex is going to wash a three hour long foreign language German

comedy with subtitles. He needs to watch the whole thing. I have to

learn Morris dancing! This is for Friday? You have two days, how is it

going? I haven't started! I want to see is dancing! We must have some

Morris dancing music? Is it like this? Yes! APPLAUSE

You've got it! And I have it on good authority that you can do a card

will, I won't ask you to do that! -- a cartwheel. Up to the minute

topical stories, you have been caught out in the past by trying to

be a little too topical? It has caught us by surprise, Brexit. We

recorded the show assuming that there would not be Brexit, and we

came in the next day and through the script at the window. When we went

to air the night after the US election, I remember before saying

let's write some jokes in case Donald Trump wins... ! And I found

out afterwards that everyone else in the office said, like that will

happen(!) We've been burned once, we prepare the show won a cheese day

but by Friday, anything can happen. What is in the news now... -- we

prepare the show on a Tuesday. Because you've got all of these

lovely things on your desk during the live show... We have created our

own! Which one would you like? They represent headlines. I might know

this... Is this about... Were Uber developing a flying car? It's not

really Uber, but you can have that... The world's first commercial

flying car is now on sale. A Dutch beer call, 2-person car -- the Dutch

vehicle. You can take those if you want for Friday. This is a full

bottle of Prosecco, and the Queen is looking for someone to run her

social media. No! These are great, thank you very much! The Last Leg

continues on Friday with Victoria Coren Mitchell as your guest.

Tickets for Adam's tour Clown Heart has extra dates added and are now

available. Let's go back to romance! If you're a real romantic,

chances are that today you might have popped the question with

the help of a girl's best friend... Is the diamond and everything it

stands for still a diamond if it is grown in a laboratory?

Nothing since romance like a diamond. There are rare, twinkling

beauty has always beguiled us. The diamonds are forged underground by

intense heat and pressure, before being brought up to the surface in

magma. Rough diamonds are skilfully cut and polished to reveal a

shimmering gem. But scientists have now come up with a way to create

real diamonds in a laboratory, in a matter of months. The one carat

stone in this ring is one of them. So, how do you make diamonds in a

laboratory? The building blocks for the rarest of gems are actually all

around us. Diamonds are made exclusively from the element carbon,

found in almost everything from people to plants, to call and

pencils. It is also the main ingredient of the natural gas

methane. Here at the University of Bristol, chemist Doctor Neil Fox has

a machine which can turn this invisible gas into solid diamond. In

essence, it works like a kitchen microwave. Inside, methane is heated

to 5000 degrees, almost as hot as the surface of the sun. At this

temperature, methane begins to break apart. The carbon becomes free,

which falls down and is coding the surfaces which we put below it. The

carbon from the methane forced to the bottom and a diamond begins to

take shape. This is how these crystal trees work. In this case,

liquid at the bottom soaks into the tree, evaporates, and crystals start

to grow. It takes Doctor Neil Fox only three hours to grow a diamond

from scratch. But, the finished product is not as glamorous as you

might expect! We end up with a wafer, like this. That is diamond?

Pure diamond. Less than one millimetre thick. I'm not being

funny, but if I gave it to my Mrs, she would not be impressed! It is

completely black? Indeed, they are tiny crystals of diamond all locked

together so it appears black. This piece of diamond has grown for much

longer, and you can see that it is more transparent. But what his

creations lacking last year and make up for in other ways. He uses his

creations to research new, industrial uses for diamonds. The

applications are in electronics, a microchip or laser is cooled by

putting it on diamonds. In future, they are likely to be a key

component in your smartphone. The special gem in my ring hails from a

laboratory in the USA and was made in exactly -- using the same

technology, but are they as good as the real thing? Let's go to our gem

expert, Steve nightingale. Laboratory grown diamonds are as

good as mine is diamonds. There is no difference. If I am buying one,

can I tell the difference? No, I am trained and I cannot tell the

difference -- diamonds from a mine. The anywhere you can be sure is to

search for the microscopic inscription that all lab grown

diamonds are required to have. That is it! Laboratory grown in the USA.

And then there is a number. Laboratory diamonds are around 30%

cheaper. But will they hold equal value for the people of Bristol? If

I were to tell you that this was a laboratory grown diamond, does it

change your opinion? I would prefer a natural one. It would not bother

me. It would bother me, because I am old and I think that diamonds are

beautiful. There is a general feel among the

band, you could have saved a fortune! 10cc are here!

CHEERING You and the band are about to

perform I'm Not In Love, a classic song, but it never nearly happened?

It was written by me and Eric Stuart, we recorded a version in a

bossa nova style, and it did not feel right. But we loved the song

and knew that one day we would wake the right record with it and

eventually we did. We kept trying. And you start your Greatest Hits and

More tour in March, Telus about that. There are

some surprises but we will keep them as surprises! We begin on the 28th

of March, and we play in London on the 13th of April at the London

Palladium. You were telling me that you are doing this because you just

love it. I do, I cannot keep away from it. We've been together for so

many years, it is like another family. Well, we are very excited

and looking forward to it. That's almost all we have time for tonight.

Thank you for your Valentine 's messages, you're happy stories and

apologies! You've been looking out for the apologies! And a big thank

you to our guest Adam Hills, The Last Leg is on Friday at ten o'clock

on Channel 4. Now, 10cc, tickets for their Greatest Hits and More tour

are available now. Adam Kirby you don't look too lonely there! --

Adam, you do not look too lonely there!

We'll be back tomorrow with the stars of the new series

But now with 'I'm Not In Love', it's 10cc.

# It's just a silly phase I'm going through

# And just because I call you up

# Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made

# That doesn't mean you mean that much to me

# Don't tell your friends about the two of us

# I'm not in love, no no

# You wait time for me # Ooh, you wait a long time

# You wait a long time for me # You wait a long time...

# It hides a nasty stain that's lying there

# I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me

# I'm not in love, no no

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