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points, do you think? He didn't get very many! Out of 380... | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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It is below 50. Below 15? It was 14. There we are. Andy, I am sorry, | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
I was close! For next film is about something whose success rate was | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
slightly higher, Marty Jopson has been finding out about how it goes | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
up and down. Since skyscrapers began dominating | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
the skyline is, we have been taking the lift, press the button, choose | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
your floor and weight. Most lifts are the same, but there is one where | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
you never have to wait. In Sheffield, there is Britain's | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
tallest university building and inside is Britain's longest | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
Paternoster lift, a passenger lift with no doors, no buttons and no | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
stopping, so how does it work? It continuously rotates with each cabin | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
suspended like the seats on a ferris wheel. As it moves up the lift | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
shaft, it is locked into side rails and detaches as it goes over the | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
top, swinging free, until it locks into the rails in the down shaft. It | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
is safe to travel over the top and down the bottom, but if shaken too | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
hard, it can get stuck. Its unique engineering has its devotees. Graham | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
lays claim to being the biggest fan in Britain. So where does the name | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Paternoster come from? It is the first two words of the Lord's prayer | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
in Latin, which is what people say when they are holding a rosary, | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
which is arranged in a loop similar to the cabin is on a Paternoster. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
They are a little bit of history. Today Graham has come to Sheffield | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
to write this one for the first time. You can go first. It is OK, it | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
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I just want to stay on it. Invented by a London company in the 1880s, | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
the Paternoster did not really take off in Britain until the 1960s. | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
Elaine from English explained why. It is the great era of motorways, | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
escalators, faster lifts, and it is all part of the dynamism, speed and | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
mobility. Universities were the real cutting edge of design in the 1960s. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Architects experimented, installing Paternoster lips, and students | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
eagerly adopted them. The stud and surge in popularity was abruptly | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
halted when the 1974 health and safety act prevented any new ones | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
being built. Concerns about accidents and disability access | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
meant many remaining ones were shot down and stripped out. Despite this, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Sheffield University decided this one should be saved, adding | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
emergency stop buttons and laser sensors to prevent accidents. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
are actually 140 ways of stopping it and only one way to start it. | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
Students often ride it over the top. They pretend to come down the other | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
side as if they have been upside down, but that is to be discouraged. | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
If we put it to the test against a regular lift, who would win? I hope | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
the Paternoster wins. We have gathered 100 students to travel from | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
the bottom to the top. Three, two, one, go! 50 will ride the | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
conventional lift and 50 on the Paternoster with engineer Brian | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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stream of passengers every 13 seconds. Meanwhile, only ten have | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
made it to the top so far in the conventional lift with the remainder | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
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languishing at the bottom. Have we won? Have we ever! The Paternoster | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
took 50 students to the 18th floor in nine minutes and 20 seconds. In | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the same time, the conventional lift only managed to transport ten people | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
to the top, so it is not simply a relic of the 60s but still a | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
practical way of moving people about. The Paternoster has got to be | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
the world's strangest passenger lift, a simple design, yet one that | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
requires a leap of faith by those that use it. I for one, though, have | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
found using the Paternoster and uplifting experience. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Brilliant! I could see you in one of those in your tower. It is bad | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
enough getting up the stairs when I get home from the pub, that is | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
terrifying. Health and safety would not allow that! Imagine it at | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
university, I think it is fraught with danger! So Millionaire is back, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
and we were quite surprised to learn that there has not been a | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Millionaire since 2006. Is that right? It has been a long time. I do | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
think that the economy has got a lot to do with it. People are really | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
frightened, understandably, of risking money. Things are hard. We | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
have noticed that in the last couple of weeks with members of the public, | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
they are really up for it, but at �20,000, they know the answer but | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
they don't want to risk losing 19 ground. Difficult for you and the | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
producers. You cannot say, go on, have a go! I think we all get lost | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
in the world of footballers' salaries, and most people in this | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
country earn something around �20,000 a year less tax. Millionaire | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
is tax-free money. If you suddenly got �20,000 in 2013, you are really | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
thinking, I don't want to lose 19,000. The other reason why, I love | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
doing it, but the reason we have not been giving away �1 million for a | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
while, it will happen, we have done so many celebrity shows. There is a | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
thirst for celebrity things, and celebrities will never risk that | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
sort of money, because it is charity money, you know? So you get Stephen | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Fry, he says, I know the answer, but just in case I am wrong, I cannot | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
risk it, because I could lose children with leukaemia �150,000. So | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
that is why I love members of the public, it is proper, it is how we | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
started, and it is like changing money, but it is noticeably tough, | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
it has been these last few weeks. And now you have got this app, this | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
new device. Play along at home, you get annoyed with it, you stupid | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
woman, you must know the answer! A lifeline, oh, please! Now you can | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
play along at home. You play this a lot. If I am a long flight, I will | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
watch for 30 hours until I get to 1 million. 30 hours of me! She will | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
not give up until she gets to the million. It is important for you to | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
keep it fresh, we said at the top it has been going 15 years, in America | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
they saturated the market. They ran it for two years, every single | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
night. That is very American. It started like us, ten nights in a | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
series, but they milked it to death, it was a huge hit, but it was dead | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
within two years. I could not be working at the sort of rate we used | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
to do it. Every night of the week, that was when I was doing the | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
breakfast show. We do quite a few a year, all specials, with members of | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
the public also liberties, and it is much more manageable. And I still | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
love it. And it is on tonight. Again! Time now for another blast | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
from the Eurovision past, you need to guess the year and how many | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
points they got. I got quite close on the last one. Please step | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
forward, Jemini with a J. # cry to me, baby. # must Must have | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
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been crazy. # Lied to me, baby. | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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I was still doing radio, they were about 2004. Oh! It was 2003! And the | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
points? I don't think they got very many, I think they got stitched up, | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
I think they got about 20 or something. Sorry, guys, I am | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
insulting you. How many did you get? We got a big fat zilch. You were | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
stitched up like Belarus. You were the only ones to get nul points, so | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
that is a claim to fame. What are you up to now? I work in retail | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
management. I have got my own business, but we still do the odd | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
gigs, twice a month, still singing. Did you have a lot of stick at the | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
Eurovision? Yeah, we did, it was expected. I will have it emblazoned | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
on my gravestone when I die. You are the only one, it is a kind of fame. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
Scousers will take it on and get on with it. Thanks for coming in, we | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
thoroughly enjoyed it. Europe is proving a headache for David | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Cameron, not only with UKIP snapping at his heels, but some of its top | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
teams say they would vote to leave. We have been to market still has the | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
big European question that no-one has been brave enough to ask. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
It is these you that is dividing the country, they say we are putting | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
more into it than we get out, they say we are being slammed in the | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
never regions by tactical voting, they say it is time to ask whether | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
we are in or out. I think a lot of people would say no to Europe. But | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
yes to Eurovision. Every time I have watched it, we have missed. Pull | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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out. Out of Europe? But what about Eurovision Song Contest? It is | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
embarrassing for our country. in the worst state of our lives. | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
What about European Song contest? But the quantity of what Britain | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
has... Careful what you say!I am not impressed. What about a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
referendum for Eurovision? To be honest, if we don't stay in Europe, | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
it wouldn't make much sense to stay in Eurovision. Some people would be | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
upset. It is rubbish! We need to stay in, otherwise other countries | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
will not be able to do it. We don't win a lot of things, but we still | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
carry on because that is our spirit. We can run our pop industry without | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
Eurovision. We can run our pop industry and our country. It is | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
fuddy-duddy business now. We always lose! So? It is the taking part that | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
counts! Is it? Justin Rowlatt is never afraid to | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
ask the right questions. Chris, it is time for some or Eurovision | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
classics! I have done quite well, it is not very good for my street cred. | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
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# I do view my heart and my soul, baby, give me your love. | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
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# Better the devil you know than the It is still there, whatever it was! | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
So, Chris, year and points. You were playing with one of my kids who is | :27:47. | :27:56. | |
now very big and growing up, it was about... 1990 something. Yes...It | :27:56. | :28:06. | |
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was about 1993. Come on! And the points. I don't know, one! She came | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
second to Ireland, so she would have got 150 or something. 164, well | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
done. I have done extraordinarily well. How do you think Bonnie will | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
be feeling now? The pressure is mounting as we get towards Saturday. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
The nerves will be creeping in, but she will be at a stage where she has | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
done that many rehearsals, you just want to get on and do it. You are so | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
excited, the butterflies in your stomach, you feel anxious and you | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
start to look at the other artists, thinking, she was good, he was good, | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
oh! She is very experienced, she has got a great gravel voice. With all | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
that experience, I am sure you will agree... She has been on a million | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
stages, it seems like she is having a ball. Good luck to Bonnie and | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
thank you for coming in, both of you. Thank you to the contestants, | :29:09. | :29:13. |