:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones.
:00:20. > :00:26.Tonight we're going back to school - so pay attention at the back.
:00:27. > :00:32.Let us talk you though tonight's time table.
:00:33. > :00:35.We have double drama with Mr Adil Ray and Miss Sunetra Sarker,
:00:36. > :00:43.the stars of the new school based series, Ackley Bridge.
:00:44. > :00:45.Music master Mr Gareth Malone will be waxing lyrical
:00:46. > :00:50.about his new singing show, Pitch Battle.
:00:51. > :00:53.And, when it comes to art, we could all learn a lesson
:00:54. > :00:57.from the artist behind The Singing Butler, Jack Vettriano.
:00:58. > :01:01.Tonight his latest subject, Billy Connolly, will be telling us
:01:02. > :01:08.And here they all are present and correct -
:01:09. > :01:10.Adil Ray, Sunetra Sarker and Gareth Malone!
:01:11. > :01:24.Hello. You got the memo co-ordinating beautifully like a
:01:25. > :01:28.choir. Denim choir. Very good. Gareth you have been a teacher. Your
:01:29. > :01:33.wife is teacher? Very good teacher. She's watching. What does he she
:01:34. > :01:39.teach in English in a secondary school in London. I aspire to be as
:01:40. > :01:43.God a disciplinarian as her. I don't think I will make it. . What did
:01:44. > :01:47.they think of your teaching technique of using beat boxing? It
:01:48. > :01:56.was through talking to her, getting to the left... Years ago I went into
:01:57. > :02:01.a school and it wasn't working. Hello, we will do beat Bocking in
:02:02. > :02:06.and made choir cooler. From there you can work out. I learnt to beat
:02:07. > :02:15.box, too. We have to ask, come on. You have to beat box for us, come
:02:16. > :02:19.on. That's it. Please don't make me do any more.
:02:20. > :02:23.APPLAUSE I'm sorry I asked. So am I. That was
:02:24. > :02:27.not rears hadded, ladies and gentlemen. As we've mentioned, we
:02:28. > :02:33.will be joined later by Jack Vettriano.
:02:34. > :02:36.of three artists who've recently painted a portrait of
:02:37. > :02:38.Billy Connolly to celebrate the Big Yin's 75th birthday.
:02:39. > :02:41.All three portraits have now been supersized into huge murals and put
:02:42. > :02:45.on the side of buildings in Billy's native Glasgow.
:02:46. > :02:48.Tonight we've sent a roving One Show cameraman to race around the city
:02:49. > :02:54.Here's the route he's going to follow and, hopefully,
:02:55. > :02:56.he should be somewhere near Barrowland Park right now,
:02:57. > :03:10.This is the portrait by Rachel Maclean. Part-time performer and
:03:11. > :03:15.part-time film-maker. There it is. This mural is a large printed photo
:03:16. > :03:24.of a portrait she took of Billy. The outfit references some
:03:25. > :03:45.of Billy's famous jokes. Lots of detail there. The detail is
:03:46. > :03:51.a bicycle parked out of a bum. R what do you three think? That's my
:03:52. > :03:55.house. It doesn't look like Billy Connolly. It looks like Leonardo
:03:56. > :04:00.DiCaprio. While our Connolly-cam
:04:01. > :04:02.hunts out the next mural, let's head to Yorkshire and a food
:04:03. > :04:06.fight that's starting to heat up. What seems like a simple
:04:07. > :04:08.and effective scheme to combat food waste has now put it's creator head
:04:09. > :04:18.to head with Trading Standards. This is Adam Smith, he runs the Real
:04:19. > :04:24.Junk Food Project in Leeds they distribute unused food. It's in
:04:25. > :04:31.danger of being shut down. This particular area of work, this is
:04:32. > :04:34.your share house. This was the world's first waste supermarket.
:04:35. > :04:40.It's a network of people who come together to fight food waste or
:04:41. > :04:45.abolish unnecessary amounts of food wasted that is perfectly edible for
:04:46. > :04:48.food consumption. We get it from wholesalers and supermarkets and we
:04:49. > :04:52.have relationships with some of the biggest retailers in the country.
:04:53. > :04:56.The industry is classing it as waste, but it's fit for human
:04:57. > :05:00.consumption. We are highlighting what we can do with this waste food.
:05:01. > :05:07.He is sure it's fit for human con surpgs he is providing it it to
:05:08. > :05:12.schools. Hunger was a barrier to learning here at school. Children
:05:13. > :05:18.were coming here hungry. We were committed to do something about it.
:05:19. > :05:21.Working with Adam and the project we found surplus food and feed it to
:05:22. > :05:25.our children. Adam supplies nine calf yays around Leeds. Not been
:05:26. > :05:33.working recently because of my health. To have somewhere to come
:05:34. > :05:38.and take things home for my boy is helpful. You both work here. If
:05:39. > :05:42.something has a use by date on it, what would you do with that? If it
:05:43. > :05:47.looks all right to use, we will use it. If it's not all right to use we
:05:48. > :05:52.will put it in the compost bin. We won't feed anybody else it if we
:05:53. > :05:57.won't eat it ourselves. Trading Standards have been unhappy about
:05:58. > :06:00.you supplying some food that is past its used by date. What exactly
:06:01. > :06:05.happened? Basically, they found food in our fridge that had gone past its
:06:06. > :06:10.use by date. They weren't happy with it. 400 items. There is no proof to
:06:11. > :06:14.say we were going to supply the general public, it was in the public
:06:15. > :06:19.domain. Why? We were going to consume it ourselves or use it
:06:20. > :06:27.ourselves. Is there any of that food in there now? No. We told Trading
:06:28. > :06:32.Standards we will no longer make any food past its used by date in the
:06:33. > :06:36.public domain. Is that past its used by date? Use by date has
:06:37. > :06:40.legislation. It is about the safety of food. If you think of raw
:06:41. > :06:45.chicken. If you eat that food past its used by date there is a chance
:06:46. > :06:49.you can become sick. Do the customers of the project worry the
:06:50. > :06:55.food isn't safe? No. It doesn't bother me. It's a waste of time. It
:06:56. > :07:00.doesn't suddenly just go bad, does it? Fresh fruit. Often it doesn't
:07:01. > :07:05.have a date on it. You go to a market stall there is no date labels
:07:06. > :07:10.on a market stall. Give it a squeeze. You can look at it and you
:07:11. > :07:14.can tell. We would be concerned we have a robust risk assessment and
:07:15. > :07:21.proprocedures in place all the time we have been doing this nobody has
:07:22. > :07:26.been poorly. Even though Adam is saying he wants to challenge how
:07:27. > :07:29.food is labelled. The trouble with Can Trading Standards they are
:07:30. > :07:35.putting it at risk? They have the power to shut down the operations.
:07:36. > :07:38.Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencers who will not supply us with any
:07:39. > :07:44.donations of food. If we are going to be prosecuted because of a use by
:07:45. > :07:49.date why do we have these dates causing unnecessary waste and
:07:50. > :07:53.costing a problem cost wise and stopping us getting the food to as
:07:54. > :07:57.many people as possible. Trading Standards say they are unable to
:07:58. > :08:02.comment on specific details it's an ongoing investigation. Andy has his
:08:03. > :08:04.resolution meeting with Trading Standards on the 30th June. We will
:08:05. > :08:12.see what happens. We will incompetent deed. We will keep you
:08:13. > :08:18.updated. Are you sticklers for sell by dates on food? I don't know. I'm
:08:19. > :08:28.not. A week is all right after sell by. Milk becomes yoghurt. I can't
:08:29. > :08:34.sniff milk. Matthew is my personal milk sniffer. Smell my milk! Yes.
:08:35. > :08:40.It's lovely that you have a purpose. It has turned into Mrs Brown's Boys.
:08:41. > :08:43.She can't drink a cup of tea without me having smelt it. That's an
:08:44. > :08:47.insight. Let's talk about Pitch Battle. A big show starting this
:08:48. > :08:53.Saturday. How do you want to sum this up, Gareth? It's a fantastic
:08:54. > :08:58.Saturday night style shiny celebration of all the kind of
:08:59. > :09:01.wonderful different genres of singing groups out there in this
:09:02. > :09:06.musical country. We have so much talent here. You in the past have
:09:07. > :09:13.criticised shows like X Factor. Have I? Yeah, you have. We have quotes,
:09:14. > :09:20.Gareth Malone. All right. How would you describe this one in terms of
:09:21. > :09:24.how it is different? X Factor and The Voice is about finding artists
:09:25. > :09:31.to sell records or a pro ticket to the public. This is, like the series
:09:32. > :09:34.I did before, great groups who are entertaining. There is no record
:09:35. > :09:43.contract at the end of it. There is a cash prize. A big cash prize?
:09:44. > :09:47.?50,000. We have some of the contestants who have spent the
:09:48. > :09:54.?50,000. The major difference for me it's a show that is about the
:09:55. > :09:59.musical skill. All the panel are singers or performers or have a
:10:00. > :10:08.choral background. We are there to pick out the nitty-gritty like on
:10:09. > :10:13.Strictly, that is not a rumba. What is the concept of the competition?
:10:14. > :10:20.We start with six groups. By the end you have one. They can be from any
:10:21. > :10:24.musical genre. One versus another and we bring it down in a series of
:10:25. > :10:29.Riff Offs. They are the dramatic heart of the whole thing. They can
:10:30. > :10:36.be on a theme. It can be love or it could be hate or anything. Each, if
:10:37. > :10:42.you have seen the Pitch Perfect Movies. We love. Great fun. There is
:10:43. > :10:46.a swim in a disused swimming pool. One group sings a song and then the
:10:47. > :10:52.other group sings a song. They battle. The lovely key less is my
:10:53. > :10:57.co-judge and superstar judge and we Sid sit there and say - I didn't
:10:58. > :11:05.like it or we like it and chose one. Let's look at one of the Riff Offs.
:11:06. > :11:15.It's not in a swimming pool by way. # I know that I let you down
:11:16. > :11:18.# Is it to late I'm sorry now? # Don't need anybody else
:11:19. > :11:30.# I can't help myself # I don't need anybody else
:11:31. > :11:38.# Saviour of the universe # Too sexy for this song... #
:11:39. > :11:43.APPLAUSE You are like this Gareth. Loving it.
:11:44. > :11:47.That says to me you are a supportive judge? Yeah, I am. When I like
:11:48. > :11:52.something I'm happy to say. I get excited. I get up on the table at
:11:53. > :11:57.one point in this series. I enjoy. It it's what I love. Amateurs and
:11:58. > :12:02.professionals and people who live and breathe singing. Joyious. You
:12:03. > :12:06.mentioned Kelis? Yes. A Ron doom pairing. No. Other than her
:12:07. > :12:12.milkshake what does she bring to the yard? Very good. She brought this
:12:13. > :12:20.boy to the yard. She's great. I think most people will know her from
:12:21. > :12:25.that songs quite R She was in choirs, Harlem Girls Choir. She's a
:12:26. > :12:30.proper musician. What is her milkshake like? It tastes great!
:12:31. > :12:35.Can't possibly comment. Don't go back there I will have to start
:12:36. > :12:41.smelling it before long. You are the milk expert. We have a Pitch Battle
:12:42. > :12:47.exclusive later when two of the groups in the show will battle it
:12:48. > :12:53.out in a Riff Off. We have them here. Are you ready for this?
:12:54. > :12:57.# Yes we are # YEEESSS! ... #
:12:58. > :13:06.Wow! APPLAUSE
:13:07. > :13:16.Before all that, let's go back to Glasgow.
:13:17. > :13:20.been on the hunt for the three massive Billy Connelly murals.
:13:21. > :13:22.We've already seen one and now he should be at the site
:13:23. > :13:26.of the second which is on the corner of Osborne Street and Old Wynd,
:13:27. > :13:29.Are you there? Yes, he's there. He's panning on to something. John Byrne
:13:30. > :13:38.is the artist. That's nice. John Byrne has been friends
:13:39. > :13:40.with Billy for many years and this is not the first time
:13:41. > :13:43.he has painted him. When Billy was in a band
:13:44. > :13:48.called The Humblebums, Their relationship has gone on for a
:13:49. > :13:53.long time. Mugshot style. I like this one. What do we think? I like
:13:54. > :14:04.it a lot. Billy looks like Billy Connolly. He's quite cross. Played
:14:05. > :14:09.with the fact it's his 75th birthday and initials. Has he been an
:14:10. > :14:13.influence to you, Adil? Fantasticing actor. Phenomenal. We will get on to
:14:14. > :14:19.your acting shortly. Sorry. Don't worry, sit tight everyone. Two
:14:20. > :14:27.down, one to go. I may be biased, but we're
:14:28. > :14:30.saving the best until last because the final mural is based
:14:31. > :14:32.on Jack Vettriano's portrait of Billy, and we'll be chatting
:14:33. > :14:35.to the artist himself very soon. But what does his
:14:36. > :14:37.portrait look like? Well, let's find out
:14:38. > :14:50.because this is what happened It's hard to believe I know, but I
:14:51. > :14:57.turn 75 this year. So I'm coming home for a birthday treat. Sensation
:14:58. > :15:01.seekers welcome to the show. To meet one of my favourite artistes who has
:15:02. > :15:07.offered to immortalise little old me. Jack Vettriano's one of the most
:15:08. > :15:10.successful artists around. His most popular painting, The Singing
:15:11. > :15:16.Butler, is one of the world's bestselling prints. Billy. Nice to
:15:17. > :15:19.see you, man. You, too. I don't know what this guy looks like iech
:15:20. > :15:24.couldn't pick him out of a police line-up. It's will havely to meet
:15:25. > :15:27.you. You too, you too. Jack doesn't usually do portraits.
:15:28. > :15:31.He has decided to make an exception for yours truly. I've followed your
:15:32. > :15:37.career. That first time on park kinson, I could see you visibly,
:15:38. > :15:43.sort of, trem bling. You were very nervous. It was so endearing. You
:15:44. > :15:47.are the King in Scotland, the Big Yin. What does it mean? The big one.
:15:48. > :16:01.The big one, I see! I finished that show and I flew back
:16:02. > :16:02.to Glasgow and I was coming through the airport and the airport started
:16:03. > :16:10.to applaud. I thought, I have done something
:16:11. > :16:16.here. To step into the limelight is weird. It is astonishing, Billy. I
:16:17. > :16:20.still get nervous because I think I don't belong here, this is not my
:16:21. > :16:26.patch. Well, I am very proud to be painted by you. Well, I am very
:16:27. > :16:30.flattered to hear that. I just hope I do it justice. I feel as though I
:16:31. > :16:36.should be standing on the beach with a tide going out. And a bowler hat?
:16:37. > :16:41.Yes, and a Butler. Jack works from photographs and he has been watching
:16:42. > :16:43.an old series I made back in the 1990s to inspire him, World Tour of
:16:44. > :16:50.Scotland. We are near John O'Groats. In
:16:51. > :16:54.tropical Scotland! Waterfalls go up instead of down, look!
:16:55. > :17:01.This was the first sequence I saw and I thought, I really like this.
:17:02. > :17:05.And that, I think, is the image. It is great, there is a lot of life in
:17:06. > :17:12.it with the water going through my hair. This is a bit of a challenge.
:17:13. > :17:19.Trying to let people see that. The biggest challenge is finding where
:17:20. > :17:24.to put the umbrella! It has been a real pleasure to meet you and more
:17:25. > :17:29.than that, it has been an inspiration to paint job portrait.
:17:30. > :17:35.Thank you very much. Now, get on with it! Right! That is me up the
:17:36. > :17:41.road while the master gets to work. It is terrifying! It really is.
:17:42. > :17:46.There is nothing scientific about that, I just start at the bottom and
:17:47. > :17:55.I work up. His hair is difficult to do. I am now working on a Scottish
:17:56. > :18:05.sky, trying to make it quite sort of stormy looking.
:18:06. > :18:14.Do you think you will like it? It is a year since we met and I have
:18:15. > :18:19.come to Glasgow's famous Kelvingrove Museum to see the portrait Jack has
:18:20. > :18:26.created for my birthday. As I live and breathe, Jack Vettriano! Lovely
:18:27. > :18:36.to see you. Enough of the chat, show me the work. Oh, my God! Oh, it is
:18:37. > :18:42.great! You have got it. I remember the day so well. I remember the cold
:18:43. > :18:48.and the wind, you have got the power of that day. The title is Dr
:18:49. > :18:56.Connolly, I presume? Which I thought was all right. OK with that? I am so
:18:57. > :19:01.pleased you like it. I do, I love it. Yes, I think you have passed
:19:02. > :19:08.your audition, Jack Vettriano, it will let you do another painting.
:19:09. > :19:13.Thank you. We are now joined by Jack Vettriano
:19:14. > :19:17.and we are so lucky to have a lovely and warm film and a lovely insight
:19:18. > :19:24.into yourself and Billy and you grew up with Billy? Yes, I first heard it
:19:25. > :19:31.Billy Connolly album when I was 20. I could not believe this quality of
:19:32. > :19:36.humour. Which was right out of the shipyards. I had been listening to
:19:37. > :19:42.Bob Monkhouse and God bless you if you there, I don't mean you any
:19:43. > :19:50.harm, but you understand? That sort of stand-up comedy, one joke at a
:19:51. > :19:56.time. Billy is an astonishing observer of just the tiniest things
:19:57. > :20:01.in life. And it just makes him... We will never see his like again, of
:20:02. > :20:06.that, I am sure. This opportunity came to you at a time that was not
:20:07. > :20:10.the best time for you because you had had a shoulder injury. Yes, I
:20:11. > :20:16.dislocated my shoulder. Because I have not had any problems with my
:20:17. > :20:23.body before, I just thought it would heal itself. I did not think it
:20:24. > :20:28.needed physio. And time went on and time went on, and it just was not
:20:29. > :20:33.working. And I got a call from the BBC to say, we would like to
:20:34. > :20:39.Commission you to do a portrait. And I thought, this has to be done. Had
:20:40. > :20:45.you been doing much painting? No, I had not. I had a physio session one
:20:46. > :20:51.morning and after the physio left, I thought, I am going to do this now.
:20:52. > :20:55.I always do a small study so I did the small study. I thought, you have
:20:56. > :21:02.not lost it! Thank goodness! We saw the finished
:21:03. > :21:07.article in a film, it is behind you. You did look quite nervous at the
:21:08. > :21:13.end when Billy came to see it. What was that experience like and how
:21:14. > :21:22.will you feeling? Well, I really paint portraits. And so therefore,
:21:23. > :21:28.what I do paint, I put it up on a wall and it is for sale and you like
:21:29. > :21:31.it or you do not. When it is a portrait, it is entirely different.
:21:32. > :21:39.You are desperate that the sitter loves it. I can imagine. I will not
:21:40. > :21:44.say too much, but nerves did play a big part that day! Well, the
:21:45. > :21:50.paintings that you have, they are so iconic. Going back to the beginning,
:21:51. > :21:57.where did you love of painting, from and where you from a family of
:21:58. > :22:03.artists? Well, my grandfather, my Italian grandfather, he used to love
:22:04. > :22:07.betting on horses and in those days, it was not computerised. You would
:22:08. > :22:13.go on and get a small white sheet of paper and you would put your horses
:22:14. > :22:24.in it. He used to bring back stacks of them, every ten seconds. I
:22:25. > :22:29.learned how to speed up a bit. And then it lapsed a bit and when I was
:22:30. > :22:36.22, a girl bought me a box of watercolours and I started to paint.
:22:37. > :22:43.But not too seriously. And I think what the amateur artist as I was has
:22:44. > :22:48.to do is, they have to do something that gives them a quick result. So I
:22:49. > :22:54.did not have any ideas of my own, so I used a copy. And you name them, I
:22:55. > :23:05.have copied them. It is a bit like alchemy. You pick up things from
:23:06. > :23:15.Manet and you put them in a pot and you stir it and what comes out is
:23:16. > :23:23.me. Jack Vettriano! You said it! And I then had to find a style that was
:23:24. > :23:27.recognisably mine. They are so recognisably yours now, that is the
:23:28. > :23:33.amazing thing. Especially The Singing Butler. I had it on my wall
:23:34. > :23:38.at university. I would have signed it for you! It would have been worth
:23:39. > :23:48.so much, I would not have to be here! You would have put it straight
:23:49. > :23:55.on eBay! No. Yes! No. It is the most popular print in the world? They
:23:56. > :24:07.tell me that. Why? My view is quite simplistic. It is just a fantasy. If
:24:08. > :24:11.you are living in Grimsby and it is a cold and wet Tuesday afternoon and
:24:12. > :24:19.that is on your wall, you might be carried away with it. You might
:24:20. > :24:26.think, oh, dear. But I have several film scripts sent to me about The
:24:27. > :24:32.Singing Butler and two were quite reasonable. The third one, the
:24:33. > :24:38.Butler is a sex maniac. Let loose. We cannot discuss that! We can talk
:24:39. > :24:44.about your wonderful piece of work which is now on a wall in Glasgow.
:24:45. > :24:50.We will see if our Connolly camera has made it to the third mural, your
:24:51. > :24:56.mural. We will go live to a beer garden and Dixon Street. A beer
:24:57. > :25:03.garden? That is appropriate! It is incredible, the story. The location
:25:04. > :25:09.is suited to the water background of Jack's painting as it faces the
:25:10. > :25:12.River Clyde. The owner of the building the Hootenaney Pub was so
:25:13. > :25:15.keen to have the painting that he bought the adjacent plot of land and
:25:16. > :25:22.he has turned it into a beer garden and the locals call it Billy's beer
:25:23. > :25:28.garden. I just hope they give me free life membership! I think it is
:25:29. > :25:32.a definite, you are in. Lovely to meet you. You as well, thank you
:25:33. > :25:34.very much. APPLAUSE.
:25:35. > :25:38.If you want to see more of Jack's encounter with the Big Yin,
:25:39. > :25:42.you can watch Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
:25:43. > :25:45.tonight at 9:00pm on BBC Scotland and on the iPlayer.
:25:46. > :25:51.Soon, Sunetra and Adil will be telling us about all the aggro
:25:52. > :25:54.kicking off at Ackley Bridge, the Yorkshire school at the centre
:25:55. > :25:58.But no matter how exciting it gets, it might be hard to match the drama
:25:59. > :26:01.that took place at a school in Stepney, in London, 46 years ago.
:26:02. > :26:04.Here's punk poet John Cooper Clarke with a story of striking
:26:05. > :26:13.In 1971, 900 secondary school pupils flooded out of the school in
:26:14. > :26:18.Stepney. It was not home time when they walked out, they were on
:26:19. > :26:22.strike. The schoolkids strike made national news but I want to know
:26:23. > :26:29.what made them swap pencils for the picket line. 46 years later, former
:26:30. > :26:32.pupil Sharon, Ramona and Tim have returned to the school to tell me
:26:33. > :26:38.more. I loved the school, every minute of it, I loved being here.
:26:39. > :26:46.We'll could not wait to go to English. What was your teacher like?
:26:47. > :26:49.Unbelievable. The school's radical 27-year-old English teacher Chris
:26:50. > :26:53.Searle believed in the power of teaching poetry to children. Even
:26:54. > :27:01.though a lot of people see feelings is rather indulging, I think every
:27:02. > :27:08.child wants to be noticed. Poetry gives them the chance. I live in old
:27:09. > :27:12.flats with a fire escape. Brick Lane is a horrible place. I am in some
:27:13. > :27:16.otherworldly thinking of things not real. These poems by his students
:27:17. > :27:20.were part of an anthology crisp published in 1971 without the
:27:21. > :27:23.permission of the school. He was sacked as a result but his pupils
:27:24. > :27:29.were having none of this. Today, The One Show is bringing Chris back to
:27:30. > :27:36.school for the first time in over 40 years. Lovely to see you! What were
:27:37. > :27:40.your poetry lessons like? We used to go for a lot of walks and I asked
:27:41. > :27:47.them to imagine what was going on in the heads of the people. Timmy wrote
:27:48. > :27:53.this very short poem. I go to the park to look at the view.
:27:54. > :27:58.I see lots of people, maybe they are lonely, too.
:27:59. > :28:02.I get on a bus, there is such a lot of force.
:28:03. > :28:07.But I bet there is lonely people amongst all of us.
:28:08. > :28:12.Sitting outside in a Church ground next to their school, the kids
:28:13. > :28:16.reduced a bounty of words and Chris was convinced they should be
:28:17. > :28:21.published, but the school governors disagreed. Any idea why? It was
:28:22. > :28:28.poetry with a critical edge. That it was also poetry in the language and
:28:29. > :28:33.the imagery of the young people themselves. And I think in a way,
:28:34. > :28:39.that was a threat to these governors. Chris did publish them
:28:40. > :28:45.and was told not to come back next term. Word quickly reached the kids.
:28:46. > :28:49.One of the older girls came round with a flyer saying, we on strike
:28:50. > :28:53.tomorrow and it is organised by the time we left at three o'clock. When
:28:54. > :28:58.you showed up for work that morning, what did you think when you saw this
:28:59. > :29:03.happening? Well, it was one of the moments that changed my life,
:29:04. > :29:08.really, I could hear them singing, roll out the barrels!
:29:09. > :29:16.# Oh, are sailing... Give Chris a chance. The strike lasted a couple
:29:17. > :29:19.of days but national media coverage but unilateral calls for Chris to be
:29:20. > :29:26.reinstated and after an eight-month fight, he finally was. Poetry is
:29:27. > :29:28.still a thriving discipline at Sir John Cass Foundation Redcoat
:29:29. > :29:32.School and I have invited 14-year-old poets along with their
:29:33. > :29:37.teacher Amy Huygens to create a new polling -- a new poem about Stepney
:29:38. > :29:42.with everybody contributing two lines. The kids study a diverse
:29:43. > :29:50.range of poetry and spoken word artists like yourself. Who would
:29:51. > :29:57.that be? There ain't nobody like me! So how do our Stepney Words sound?
:29:58. > :30:02.Back in Stepney after 46 years. Came back home all alone, parents
:30:03. > :30:04.gone. Being home carries me through the
:30:05. > :30:10.night. I is that tell different stories see
:30:11. > :30:14.the same sunrises. A rich jewels sparkling in
:30:15. > :30:20.excellence. Children in Stepney, your lives blow with the River
:30:21. > :30:25.Thames, the future in your flames. You got a result, it is a new way of
:30:26. > :30:30.writing poetry. Everybody got really involved, enthusiastically. As a
:30:31. > :30:32.community, the morals have stayed the same over time. You have got a
:30:33. > :30:40.good poem out of it. The full version of that poem is on
:30:41. > :30:46.our website. That brings us to Ackley Bridge. The second episode on
:30:47. > :30:52.tonight. Sunetra give us an idea of the premise if anybody missed the
:30:53. > :30:57.first episode. Previously on. It's a drama about two schools, an Asian
:30:58. > :31:00.and predominantly white school coming together, merging as one. It
:31:01. > :31:06.was the first day of school last week. Two girls live next door to
:31:07. > :31:10.each other, Asian and white, they have been best friends since they
:31:11. > :31:14.were little, they now go to school and it causes differences in how
:31:15. > :31:18.their friendship works. It's between the two girls and how they have been
:31:19. > :31:23.mixings and the cultures. The teachers and the sponsor of the
:31:24. > :31:28.school funding it. Dinner lady. A lot of good intentions. Community
:31:29. > :31:33.coming together. The connections between community, the clashes the
:31:34. > :31:37.misunderstandings sometimes. I think it's really contemporary and
:31:38. > :31:42.something new we haven't seen on TV. It's a new topic. It's complietly
:31:43. > :31:48.new it's your first serious acting role, isn't it? First time I've done
:31:49. > :31:53.anything without the beard, hat and accent. It's very different. Doing a
:31:54. > :32:01.sitcom, the first time I did any acting, you can play it big in front
:32:02. > :32:05.of a studio audience. Working with Sunetra and Jo and Liz was great for
:32:06. > :32:10.me. Doing this kind of thing is not acting. It's been a challenge for
:32:11. > :32:14.me. I really enjoyed it. How was your approach different then? When
:32:15. > :32:19.you are acting in comedy you are playing it for laughs but being
:32:20. > :32:25.serious in that role as well to make sure it's riepth. How does it
:32:26. > :32:29.compare? When I play Citizen Khan once the costume goes on you are a
:32:30. > :32:33.big character. It's a totally different character. With this you
:32:34. > :32:39.are finding bits of yourself in it as well. Trying to connect with the
:32:40. > :32:43.character you are playing. This character was the sponsor of the
:32:44. > :32:48.Academy. The local boy who has done well and has put most of his money
:32:49. > :32:50.into the Academy. Trying to be an honourable father and businessman in
:32:51. > :32:53.town, he's not. We will find out in tonight's
:32:54. > :32:59.episode. On Channel 4 at 8.00pm. Nicely done.
:33:00. > :33:06.I did that very well. He is not as honourable as we are led to believe.
:33:07. > :33:09.Has a little moment with Jo Joiner's character, Mandy, the head teacher
:33:10. > :33:13.at school. Let's look at your character in action. Here you are. I
:33:14. > :33:19.thought we talked about this. About her. She's my best mate. I aallowed
:33:20. > :33:24.to hang around with who I want. You represent us. We should be sticking
:33:25. > :33:27.together. Because we look a like and believe in the same thing I have to
:33:28. > :33:33.think like you as Are you taking well. It off now? Clearly, I wasn't
:33:34. > :33:36.wearing it for the right reasons. You are embarrassing yourself. Have
:33:37. > :33:40.you not listened to what I said. Don't tell other people how to live
:33:41. > :33:45.their lives isn't that what half the country think we do anyway?
:33:46. > :33:49.APPLAUS You eluded to the cast earlier.
:33:50. > :33:54.There is a lot of real people, if you like, in this Sunetra as well.
:33:55. > :33:58.Is it right producers scoured the street to bolster the cast in We
:33:59. > :34:02.were authentic trying to get the real deal for the schools to be
:34:03. > :34:05.naturalistic with each other. To bring a flavour of the Yorkshire
:34:06. > :34:11.background we wanted the show to look like and sound like. Because
:34:12. > :34:15.they were new to television, they also weren't inhibited, sorry -
:34:16. > :34:20.that's the word. They weren't as nervous say as they might be had
:34:21. > :34:23.they been on television before. When you can get nervous and say wrong
:34:24. > :34:31.things like I have just done then. They were good not knowing what the
:34:32. > :34:35.end product would be like. They were natural, keen and enthusiastic. The
:34:36. > :34:39.director walked around the streets of Bradford looking for young
:34:40. > :34:44.actors. One girl was on the phone to her parent complaining how she had
:34:45. > :34:49.been suspended from school. Penny over heard her on the score saying,
:34:50. > :34:53.it's good you have been suspended you're now going to be an October
:34:54. > :34:58.are. You must have found a pool of new talent doing it that way? Watch
:34:59. > :35:03.this space in ten years time they may be sitting on this sofa telling
:35:04. > :35:07.you how they started. For a whole crew to descend on you for three
:35:08. > :35:12.months as a community, it can feel discomforting. When you are part of
:35:13. > :35:17.it. If you include them. It's about inclusion. That is a good ethic
:35:18. > :35:21.about this show. Shot in a disused schooling. Nobody lost any
:35:22. > :35:29.schooling. They had their tuition on the side. Well, Ackley Bridge is on
:35:30. > :35:33.tonight at 8.00pm on Channel 4. Turn over, 8.00pm Channel 4.
:35:34. > :35:35.Tomorrow you'll be able to vote for the British invention you think
:35:36. > :35:39.is the greatest in a big live show from the Science Museum archives.
:35:40. > :35:41.For the last few days we've been hearing celebrities
:35:42. > :35:43.champion their favourites and tonight it's the turn
:35:44. > :35:51.of Angela Rippon and Nick Knowles to duel it out.
:35:52. > :36:04.This invention is a magic bullet. Bullet. It's made childbirth 35
:36:05. > :36:24.times safer. It saved 200 million lives. Without it, you would
:36:25. > :36:28.probably be dead. It's antibiotics. I'm advocating antibiotics because
:36:29. > :36:33.of the immense impact they've had on all of us. You, me, in my case, for
:36:34. > :36:38.instance, I developed tuberculosis when I was six. Now without
:36:39. > :36:51.antibiotics, I probably won't be here now. My invention is an unsung
:36:52. > :36:55.hero. Ubiquitous but overlooked. Unloved, but steadfast in its
:36:56. > :36:58.service to us all. Many would argue that man's best friend is the dog. I
:36:59. > :37:02.would argue that humanitarian's best friend is all around us. It's
:37:03. > :37:10.strong, it's dependable and always there to support us. Welcome to the
:37:11. > :37:15.wonderful world of concrete. Concrete is the building block of
:37:16. > :37:20.our civilisation. This stuff builds our schools and our hospitals and
:37:21. > :37:25.all of our major infrastructure. Am tunnel else and railways, bridges
:37:26. > :37:29.and flood defences, docks and airports, power stations even
:37:30. > :37:35.sewers. Some 70% of the world live in concrete homes. Most of the rest
:37:36. > :37:44.of us have concrete foundations. The result is the most used man made
:37:45. > :37:47.material on earth. Tommy is here. Back by popular demand. Yes.
:37:48. > :37:53.Yesterday we called you Technical Tommy. We are still calling you
:37:54. > :37:58.Technical Tommy. My new name. We have a prey for you. Look at this.
:37:59. > :38:03.That is me, Technical Tommy. The question is - who
:38:04. > :38:06.invented the T-shirt? We haven't got time to get into that. It wasn't
:38:07. > :38:13.British. That's a separate show. Antibiotics? Dr Alexandra Fleming
:38:14. > :38:17.discovered antibiotics. Fay lousily by accident in 1928 in a hospital
:38:18. > :38:23.not far from where we are now. It was developed by two other British
:38:24. > :38:29.people. Howard Flory and Ernst chain. A British invention. Recently
:38:30. > :38:37.this year, in February, they auctioned the petri dish that the
:38:38. > :38:44.original blob of mould was when they first discovered penicillin. It went
:38:45. > :38:48.for ?25,000. It's connected to British life and people are proud of
:38:49. > :38:53.it. The jury is out on concrete, go on? It caused controversy. Concrete
:38:54. > :38:57.is down as part of the show as one of Britain's greatest inventions. We
:38:58. > :39:02.had complaints after Monday's show. I have to do a shout out to Geoff,
:39:03. > :39:07.Linda, Paul, Cliff and Peter who wrote in to say, hang on, concrete
:39:08. > :39:11.is not British. It's Roman. It is. It comes from the Latin word
:39:12. > :39:17.Concetus, which means to grow together. Concrete will feature as
:39:18. > :39:26.part of the show tomorrow it's not a British invention. Cement developed
:39:27. > :39:35.from it is a British I inventioned. Discovered by John Smeaton and
:39:36. > :39:42.developed by Joseph Aspin who is credited for reintroducing concrete
:39:43. > :39:45.to the mainstream in 18 74. What is your favourite invention? The piano.
:39:46. > :40:03.What would life be without a piano auto. Nothing. Any facts? It was
:40:04. > :40:08.invented Byam-Cook an Italian maker. The largest piano is eight foot
:40:09. > :40:14.wide, 156 keys as opposed to the usual 88. A big piano. Big hands you
:40:15. > :40:21.needed to play that. Thank you. Favourite inventions you two? For me
:40:22. > :40:26.it's the egg timer. I've got this egg... Forget the wheel, OK. The egg
:40:27. > :40:34.timer. It goes into the boiling water and it will hum at you when
:40:35. > :40:43.the egg is soft. My egg... It will hum. Killing Me Softly when it's
:40:44. > :41:00.soft and a Hard Day's Night when it's hard. We have run out of time.
:41:01. > :41:06.You can vote for your favourite 8. 30pm.
:41:07. > :41:09.That's all we have time for tonight but we're back tomorrow at 7.00pm
:41:10. > :41:13.A big thank you to Adil Ray and Sunetra Sarker.
:41:14. > :41:15.Ackley Bridge is on tonight, Channel 4 at 8.00pm.
:41:16. > :41:19.Of course Gareth Malone Pitch Battle starts Saturday, 7.30pm, on BBC One.
:41:20. > :41:22.To give you a taste of what to expect here's LMA
:41:23. > :41:24.and Vocal I Sing with a special One show riff-off.
:41:25. > :41:35.# One way or another # I'm going see you
:41:36. > :41:37.# I'm going to need immediate you # One way or another
:41:38. > :41:41.# I'm going to win you # I'm going to get you, get you
:41:42. > :41:46.# One way or another # I'm going to see you
:41:47. > :41:49.# I'm going to meet you # One way or another
:41:50. > :41:59.# I'm going to hold you tight # I want to hold you tight
:42:00. > :42:04.# One way or another # Singular sensation
:42:05. > :42:12.# Every little step she takes # For the girl is second best
:42:13. > :42:24.tonight son measurings oh, give me your attention
:42:25. > :42:27.# Do I really have to mention # She's the one
:42:28. > :42:31.# One love # For the mother's pride
:42:32. > :42:35.# One love for the time's we cried # One love
:42:36. > :42:39.# Got to stay alive # Oh, I will survive
:42:40. > :42:44.# Love me, love me, love me # Hold me, hold me, hold me
:42:45. > :42:47.# Love me, love me # Love me
:42:48. > :42:49.# I will survive # One love
:42:50. > :43:00.# We do believe # One love is all we need
:43:01. > :43:08.# You say I'm crazy # Cos you don't think I know what
:43:09. > :43:16.you've done # But when you call me, baby
:43:17. > :43:28.# I am know I'm not the only one # No, no
:43:29. > :43:32.# I know I'm not the only one # One man
:43:33. > :43:36.# One goal # One vision
:43:37. > :43:41.# One flesh # One true religion
:43:42. > :43:46.# One voice measuring one hope # One real decision
:43:47. > :43:50.# Give me one love # Just give me
:43:51. > :43:55.# One man, one more # One day
:43:56. > :43:58.# Just give me, give me, give me # Fried chicken
:43:59. > :44:05.# You'd better shape-up # You better understand
:44:06. > :44:09.# To my heart I must be true # Love for me and you
:44:10. > :44:13.# You've the one I want # You are the one I want
:44:14. > :44:16.# The one that I want # You are the one I want
:44:17. > :44:21.# Oh-oh, honey # You are the one I want
:44:22. > :44:25.# Oh-oh # The one I need
:44:26. > :44:31.# Oh, yes indeed # You are the one I want!
:44:32. > :44:38.#. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:44:39. > :44:40.Hello, I'm Louisa Preston with your 90 second update.
:44:41. > :44:43.At least 12 people have died and 18 are critically ill