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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones... | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
It's been another busy day in Downing Street, | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
with hirings and firings galore - and the first day on the job | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
for new ministers like Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
If any world leaders need advice on how to handle him - | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
they could get some tips from our guest tonight. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
We do need to move on, we have a lot to cover. I will tell you what to | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
corp. It is not the Boris Johnson Show it is the mar Armagh! I get to | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
answer the questions. -- it's the Andrew Marr Show. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Well, now we get to ask the questions, because it's not | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
the Andrew Marr Show, it's The One Show with Andrew Marr! | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
A lot of people were surprised that Boris was made Foreign Secretary - | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
At first, I thought, what is she up to. What is going on? This is a man | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
who has insulted many leading figures in the world. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
He has, he called Vladimir Putin, Dobby The House Elf and Hillary | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
Clinton, comparing her to a sadistic nurse... Well, it is a grand tierlt, | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
and Theresa May has to give the Brexiters a big job, and has given | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
Boris Johnson a grand title. But the Foreign Office does not do as much | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
these days, Downing Street does more. And there are two things that | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
the Foreign Office has to do, that is to negotiate Brexit but that has | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
been given to David Davis, out of Boris' brief and to renegotiate | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
trade deals around the world, that has been left to Liam Fox. So Boris | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
is flying the flag. It is a brutal piece of clever promotioning. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Did you see that George Osborne would have no role? No, I didn't. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Like a lot of people, I thought Philip Hammond was a lickly bet for | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
the Chancellor but I did not think that George would leave Government | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
entirely. That was a big surprise. I didn't see Boris Johnson going to | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
the Foreign Secretary. I think Theresa May has surprised a lot of | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
us today. The last couple of days. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
She's going to be quite tough? There is a sense that the silly boys have | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
messed things up and it is time for a woman to come in and sort things | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
out. Michael Gove off to the naughty step! There he goes. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
In Andrew's latest novel, the Labour Party tries to replace its leader, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
the Government has no plans for Brexit and the pound falls... He | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
wrote this a year before the referendum! More from the man we are | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
now calling Mystic Marr! More later on. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
It's a good title! Thank you very much. He may not be much of a | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
novelist but a lot of the things in the novels have been predicted, | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Brexit. This is about a left-wing Labour leader and a Blairite coup | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
against him. I don't know where that came from. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Who wears cream suits. More about that later. But let's have a look at | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
this photo. The first thing that that David Cameron did as a Tory | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
leader was to hug a husky to boost green credentials, some may say it | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
was hollow. But the Government has been | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
committed to changing the climate, so how is that going? Drax Power | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
Station. 40 years, it has been famous for infamous for burning | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
coal. 10 million tons a year. Generating the energy needed to | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
power 6 million homes. But by 2025, to combat climate change, the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Government has promised no Kohlschreiber energy powered | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
stations, so what next? Here our load is 165 re 50ing to of pebble | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
yets. Touted as the environment's solution to energy problems. So I | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
head up to meet the CEO here. Andy Cost. This year, two thirds of | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
the electricity produced is from wood pellets. Koal is an old fuel. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
We made the decision to upgrade to make the plant run on wood pellets. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Especially designed trains transport them. The train is above us. The | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
pellets go into the containers here and at the bottom, a giant blue | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
sieve that keeps the pellets moving on to the conveyor belt. The belts | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
carry them across the sites, into the giant especially constructed | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
domes that hold up to 80,000 tons of wood pellets. Enough to provide | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
electricity for 40,000 homes for an entire year. | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
And they are huge... Each dome was inflated on site, then covered in | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
concrete. You hear that strange chirping? That | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
is actually a especially designed Sonia system that tempts the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
controlroom how full the dome is. Normally it is saled and pitch black | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
in here. When needed, the pellets are crushed | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
into giant grinding mills and the wood dust is fed to the furnaces. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
The generating manager has overseen the change. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
The full length of the building is over half a mile. When I started in | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
1980, there was half of this. So we doubled the size. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Across the shawl the furnace, it reaches up to 1,500 degrees Celsius. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Now to the giant Turbine Hall. This is the generator. It makes the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
electricity. All of that, boilers, fans, wood | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
pellets, it all comes down to this? It is so small, isn't it? It is | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
small. Critics say burning wood for power | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
on this scale cannot be flavourally friendly but the CEO disagrees. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
We are saving 80% of the emissions we would produce using coal by using | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
the wood pellets. Here you are still burning | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
something, can it ever be environmentally friendly to burn | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
wood? If it comes from a sustainable Forest, we think it is. We are not | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
chopping the rainforests downs, we are using working commercial | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
forests. Drax have been accuse does of green | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
washing the facts, the managed forestry that produces this requires | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
a long-term view, however. Dr Slayed, a lecturer at Imperial | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
College London explains. One of the arguments is that a tree | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
takes 20 to 100 years to grow, 20 seconds to burn, there could be a | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
car Bonn saving but you don't get it now but in the future. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
By then, scientists believe it will be too late to reverse climate | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
change. That's what is at stake here. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Finding enough energy to power our communities, versus doing as little | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
damage to the planet as possible. Well, as as far as the -- far as the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
near future is concerned, Greg Clarke is in charge for energy, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
business and industrial strategy in one. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
As we said, in your book you predicted the Leave campaign | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
winning, and Government not having a plan for Brexit, the pound falling, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
did you personally think that would happen when you wrote it? Not when I | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
wrote it but during the course of the referendum campaign, I thought | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
we would go for Brexit. Unlike many of my colleagues I have been out of | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
the centre of London, filming in Scotland, the mid--lands and the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
West Country, everyone I have met said that this was what they | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
thought. That they were for out. That they were going out. I thought | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
there is something really big happening in the country. I expected | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
us to go that way. In terms of what happened after, no-one could have | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
predicted that. I asked David Cameron on camera and privately | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
again and again would he go if we voted Leave, he said absolutely not. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
That he would stay. This enhen went. After that, it seemed a lot of | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
people, the Victor would be Boris Johnson. He was knifed by Michael | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Gove, who became the obvious person to succeed. It turned out that the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
knifing was so brutal he went as well. I don't think that anyone | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
expected Andrea Leadsom to come forward, then when she did, for her | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to fall so spectacularly in that race. So one surprise after another. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Still worth turning on the television to watch politics! The | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
drama that we are witnessing, how does it compare to your book? The | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
first book is about a British Government and a referendum campaign | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
and we vote to leave the EU. The second novel is set further into the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
future. There is a Labour Government with a left-wing Labour leader in | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Number Ten, not regarded as doing a very good job. A lot of people, Tony | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Blair, and people like him think we know how to run the country, where | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the lever levers are, where the buttons are but no-one will ever | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
listen to us again because of the Iraq war. What can we do, we are | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
stuffed? So they decide what to do is to create new leaders to take | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
over in their mould if you like genetically modified MPs! They try | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
to persuade people to stand, once they become the MPs, they help them | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
through the situation, how to get on the right select committee, how to | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
deal with the Prime Minister's Questions. And they give a lesson in | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
how to do politics. So the book is a lesson in how to do politics. So two | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
of the MPs have to fight each other to replace the Labour leader. One is | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
a Scottish working-class MP, not many of them left, and another is a | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
gay woman from the south. It is a primary on dirty tricks and | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
politics. As well as fiction we know you write | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
about history. I do. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
How would you write David Cameron's legacy. In terms of David Cameron, | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
he was a great election winner. He didn't make it the first time around | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
and then surprised everybody by creating a coalition. He gave us a | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
coalition politics, that we have never had. So that was radical. The | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
second election victory in 2015, no-one expected him to win like he | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
did. I don't think he did. He fought a tough campaign. The Liberal | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Democrats had come in, on the sofa snugly together, and David Cameron | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
destroyed them at the election, that was brutal. Then he won that. He was | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
an election winner, he played down the deficit. More people are in | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
employment as a result of that. And also a period where the British | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
economy is stronger than when they took over. That is solid. But I | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
think he will be remembered as the pro-European Prime Minister who made | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
a catastrophic misjudgment, gambled and lost and got out out of Europe. | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
Is there a chapter title? I want to call it: Enough of Experts. Michael | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Gove said that he thought that the British people had had enough of | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
experts. What followed on, why did so many people, when told by the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Bank of England, the Treasury, every senior politicians in the country, | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
they said not to do this thing, you will get poorer, don't vote to leave | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
the EU but 17 million people said well, we are going to do it anyway. | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
Why did they do it? Because of the 2008 financial crash and the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
destruction of the credibility of the bankers and all of those people | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
and then the MPs' expenses scandal, the Iraq war, the Chilcot inquiry, | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
by the stage of the Brexit referendum many people did not trust | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
anyone in authority anywhere. Well, Andrew's book, 'Children of | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
the Master' is out in paper become now. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
The next film is about another write, 10-year-old Jonathan, who has | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
become a talented poet. His words, all the more powerful | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
when you know that the doctors said he would never be able to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
communicate. Here is the moving story of how Jonathan proved them | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
wrong. ... My... | :13:30. | :13:47. | |
My name is Jonathan... I was in a car accident when I was 36 weeks | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
pregnant. As a result, Jonathan got cerebral palsy. The consultants told | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
us he might not be able to walk, talk, he might not be able to feed | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
himself. Yet, when I looked at him in the cot, there was something | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
about him that made me think "yep, he is in there, he is just not able | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
to communicate to come out." We developed ways for him to | :14:16. | :14:38. | |
communicate with us. A smile for "yes" a frown for "no". We realised | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
that his eyes were the one thing that he had control over. Jonathan | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
went to a special school aged four. There was a lot of activity and | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
sensory play. A little bit of letters but not much. When he was in | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
year three I decided to take him out of school for an hour a day and do | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
basic literaciy. He was choosing words to write a story. But not an | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
option to use a spelling board. When he kept looking at it, I realised he | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
was unlocked. As a mother, I could ask him to talk with the spelling | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
board. That was amazing. He looks at a square for a letter and then a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
colour to say which letter he wants to select. | :15:28. | :16:02. | |
I carry on teaching him in the mornings. We do English and maths in | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
the morning at home. Mostly because it takes in such a long time to | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
write. And then in the afternoon, he goes and joins his peers at the | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
school. Jonathan is life limited. We don't know how long we have got with | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
him and so we live every day as a gift. I get my inspiration from... | :16:24. | :16:41. | |
When Jonathan started communicating with us, he told us about a time | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
when he had been very ill and he had in his words, been to Jesus' garden. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
He described something that is very like a we would understand heaven. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
His body worked, he was climbing trees. It fills Jonathan with joy to | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
remember it and also with excitement to think about going back. Oh, that | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
was a grumpy face! You usually like to talk about it. Is it because I'm | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
talking about it? What do you want to say about it? | :17:14. | :17:35. | |
Welcomer we have put some of Jonathan's poems up on the website | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
if you would like to read some of them -- well, we've. And Jonathan 's | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
campaign for nonverbal children to have an equal opportunity for | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
education. He's got a petition which has currently been signed by over | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
140,000 people. You did not get a sense of how long it took him to | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
write one of those problems, the effort involved because they had to | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
rush through it but he entered the 500 words, edition for Radio 2 and | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
it took him 30 hours to write his short story. -- competition. Now the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
BBC Proms start tomorrow and hopefully it goes better than a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
notorious night in 1974 when the old saying, the show must go on, was | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
pushed to the absolute limit. The Proms, world-class classical | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
music. There would be no hope and glory without the legend Deri | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
promenadings giving their ecstatic applause. -- in 1972, whereas is | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
asked to do a bit more. This is the incredible story of how one man said | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
the problems on a night when disaster struck. On the 7th of | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
August that year, regular prommer Patrick McCarthy was getting ready | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
for a night at the Royal Albert Hall. I was 27 and I've been a | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
professional singer for about a fortnight. I'd been studying at the | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
London presenter and I thought I would come and hear Carmina Burana | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
sung by Jean Armstrong and Tommaso Allan and conducted by Andrew | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Previn. You are playing all the wrong notes! That evening, BBC | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
cameras were there to film the performance by this stellar line-up. | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
What could possibly go wrong? Well, that night, something dead. During a | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
sweltering heatwave, they came on stage and Tommaso Allan began to | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
perform. When he got up to sing the first aria, the pitch started to go | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
down which was the unlike him. Suddenly come he fell back into his | :19:33. | :19:47. | |
chair. Mid song? Yes, and his face was absolutely great. Goodness knows | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
what was wrong, but he valiantly kept going for about a page or so. | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
Then he just suddenly fell backwards, like closing the door. | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
Straight down a flat onto the stage. The St John's ambulance men came up | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
and they grabbed an arm and a leg each and they carted him. Do they | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
sometimes have understudies? There was no understudy. With no one to | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
fill his shoes, it looked as though the opening aria would be the final | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
movement. That is until newly trained Patrick raised his head | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
above the parapet. People nudging me were saying, you know this, you have | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
done it, why don't you go and see if they got a substitute? I went | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
backstage and they said, "You know it? Quickly put on the dinner jacket | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
and go out and sing it". Andrew Previn had no idea who I was but he | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
saw I was holding the score and he assumed I would be able to carry on | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
singing and that is what I did. -- Andrei Previn. I had sung the thing | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
before and I would not have volunteered if I hadn't. Inwardly, I | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
was calm and confident. Can you still do it, give me a burst? | :21:07. | :21:18. | |
Patrick can indeed sing, and back in 1974, there was nobody more relieved | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
about this than our sopranos, Sheila. On this spot, where I am | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
now, Sheila Armstrong. That's right. I have a surprise for you, if you | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
turn around, CU is going towards us. Good heavens! You have not seen her | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
since that night 42 years ago. When you heard him, what did he sound | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
like? Were you immediately reassured? Of course because he | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
clearly knew the peace. All the top notes were there, no problem. It was | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
wonderful. And someone else appreciated Patrick's voice | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
broadcast live on Radio 3. My mother was listening down in Brighton and | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
she recognise my voice. She called out to my dad," Brian, it's | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
Patrick!" And of course, she was right. When you got to the end, was | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
there an ovation? Yes, there was, all of the audience went wild at the | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
end. Patrick was hailed as a hero of the Proms. More importantly, it gave | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
a big boost to his career as a professional singer. Sheila | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Armstrong continued to sing professionally to and thankfully, | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
without anyone else passing out on her. And Thomas Allen did not do too | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
badly, he made a full recovery and today he is Sir Thomas Allen. I, | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
however, remain an undiscovered talent! | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Let's applaud Patrick one more time because wasn't he something else? | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
Amazing. Brenda Emmanus is with us with more musicians who have saved | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the day. We are moving to rock and roll. Everything happened in rock | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
and roll and a case in point is in the 1970s, 1973 in fact, The Who | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
were promoting their uadrophenia album in the States. It went well | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
for about an hour -- Quadrophenia. Keith Moon was a paper now and then | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
he collapsed and they had to take him off and they carried on for a | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
while without a drama. Then Pete Townshend shouts out, "Is anyone | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
really good drama?" A 19 you Rod Gould Scot Halpin had boarded to get | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
for the concert that morning, and his best friend said, "He's great". | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
He got on stage and performed with his idols. This is the footage of | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
him smashing the symbols. Here's like Animal! Relishing it, as you | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
would do up on stage with The Who. That's a moment he would never | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
forget. Sometimes even know what was my biggest voices need a helping | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
hand. There was a time when the Queen of Soul became the Queen of | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Opera. Pavarotti was the star attraction at the Grammys in 1988 | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
but before he was about to go on stage, his doctor said he was too | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
ill to do it. Aretha Franklin happen to be on the same set and decided to | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
stand in for her mate. She gets up there, 20 minutes to prepare, | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Staying presenter on state and she gives the most beautiful rendition | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
of Nessun Dorma in Italian. We've got to see this. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
A bit of Anna Riether riff in the middle, there. -- and Aretha | :24:36. | :24:53. | |
Franklin ref. We will be seeing you again because I'm away on Monday and | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
you will be sitting here. I have more preparation, at least I know | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
what's going to happen! Actually... Actually, I don't feel very well. It | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
has been pretty much a wash-out summer so far with the UK having a | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
year's worth of wonder storms already. There's at least one person | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
who's loving the weather, Marty likes lightning so much that he even | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
makes it indoors. Lightning, it is one of nature's | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
most impressive and dramatic shows, of sheer, awe-inspiring power. It | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
strikes the Earth's surface an average of 44 times every second. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
But it is the intricate zigzag shaped that lightning makes and | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
leaves behind on anything it strikes that I want to recreate today. These | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
complex, fern-like shapes are named after an 18th-century scientist, who | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
first recorded them. I have always been fascinated by their beauty and | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
I want to understand exactly how they are formed and see if I can | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
create one of my own patterns. But first, I need some lightning. OK, so | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
it may not look much like a storm cloud but this device, all the tesla | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
coil, works a bit like one and allows me to body is my own | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
lightning. It creates a high-voltage charge that sparks into the air. By | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
slowing it down, we can see how the electrical charge tries to find a | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
route to the Earth. You can see the beginnings of the patterns. In | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
thunderstorms, this electrical charge builds and builds within the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
clouds and becomes so great that it has to do escape. Suddenly, hundreds | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
of tendrils of white, just like the ones we saw from the tesla coil, | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
begin snaking their way down to the Earth. The electric charge bands | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
out, taking the form of Lichtenberg patterns, as it seeks every route | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
possible to reach solid ground and discharge. This all happens in just | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
under an millisecond. No sooner than that, and they are gone again, as | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
contact is made. It is over in a flash but it doesn't end there. As | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
it strikes, the electrical charge continues to fan out, burning the | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Lichtenberg pattern into whatever is in its path, even people. It may | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
look like a tad too but this is the scar left behind on a man struck by | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
lightning. -- like a tattoo. So let's see if I can recreate this | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
effect with some wood, some screws, and this transformer, which is going | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
to take mains voltage and transform it up to 20,000 volts. I need as | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
much voltage is possible. Time to connect it up. With this setup, what | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
I've done is recreated the conditions to create lightning but | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
rather than it being through the atmosphere, it is going to be | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
through this piece of wood. I'm going to retreat to a safe distance. | :28:05. | :28:14. | |
Time to turn the power on. The current flows from the transformer, | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
through the cables and directly into the wood. Oh, it has started! Like | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
lightning in a thunderstorm, you can see the tendrils of electrical | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
charge weaving through the wood. You can see the Lichtenberg figures | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
crawling across the wood. Success! We have managed to | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
reproduce these intricate patterns with only a piece of wood, some | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
screws and 20,000 volts. Beautiful, exquisite, and simply stunning. | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
Lichtenberg's figures really are a true wonder of nature. Amazing but | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
please don't try to make your own lightning at home, including you! | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
The voice of authority has spoken. Not even in the garage. Later this | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
year, we're teaming up with BBC Weather Watchers to tell the story | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
of the summer's weather in photographs and we need your help. | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
Make sure you take a photo of the wonderful weather you are | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
experiencing and send it in to this address. A big thank you to Brenda | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
and Andrew. Andrew's book, Children Of The Master is out now. I will be | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
back tomorrow with Jamie Oliver and Brian Adam is. See you then. | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
Goodbye. | :29:32. | :29:33. |