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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...

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It's been another busy day in Downing Street,

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with hirings and firings galore - and the first day on the job

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for new ministers like Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

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If any world leaders need advice on how to handle him -

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they could get some tips from our guest tonight.

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We do need to move on, we have a lot to cover. I will tell you what to

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corp. It is not the Boris Johnson Show it is the mar Armagh! I get to

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answer the questions. -- it's the Andrew Marr Show.

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Well, now we get to ask the questions, because it's not

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the Andrew Marr Show, it's The One Show with Andrew Marr!

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A lot of people were surprised that Boris was made Foreign Secretary -

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At first, I thought, what is she up to. What is going on? This is a man

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who has insulted many leading figures in the world.

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He has, he called Vladimir Putin, Dobby The House Elf and Hillary

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Clinton, comparing her to a sadistic nurse... Well, it is a grand tierlt,

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and Theresa May has to give the Brexiters a big job, and has given

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Boris Johnson a grand title. But the Foreign Office does not do as much

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these days, Downing Street does more. And there are two things that

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the Foreign Office has to do, that is to negotiate Brexit but that has

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been given to David Davis, out of Boris' brief and to renegotiate

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trade deals around the world, that has been left to Liam Fox. So Boris

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is flying the flag. It is a brutal piece of clever promotioning.

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Did you see that George Osborne would have no role? No, I didn't.

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Like a lot of people, I thought Philip Hammond was a lickly bet for

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the Chancellor but I did not think that George would leave Government

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entirely. That was a big surprise. I didn't see Boris Johnson going to

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the Foreign Secretary. I think Theresa May has surprised a lot of

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us today. The last couple of days.

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She's going to be quite tough? There is a sense that the silly boys have

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messed things up and it is time for a woman to come in and sort things

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out. Michael Gove off to the naughty step! There he goes.

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In Andrew's latest novel, the Labour Party tries to replace its leader,

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the Government has no plans for Brexit and the pound falls... He

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wrote this a year before the referendum! More from the man we are

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now calling Mystic Marr! More later on.

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It's a good title! Thank you very much. He may not be much of a

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novelist but a lot of the things in the novels have been predicted,

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Brexit. This is about a left-wing Labour leader and a Blairite coup

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against him. I don't know where that came from.

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Who wears cream suits. More about that later. But let's have a look at

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this photo. The first thing that that David Cameron did as a Tory

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leader was to hug a husky to boost green credentials, some may say it

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was hollow. But the Government has been

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committed to changing the climate, so how is that going? Drax Power

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Station. 40 years, it has been famous for infamous for burning

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coal. 10 million tons a year. Generating the energy needed to

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power 6 million homes. But by 2025, to combat climate change, the

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Government has promised no Kohlschreiber energy powered

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stations, so what next? Here our load is 165 re 50ing to of pebble

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yets. Touted as the environment's solution to energy problems. So I

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head up to meet the CEO here. Andy Cost. This year, two thirds of

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the electricity produced is from wood pellets. Koal is an old fuel.

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We made the decision to upgrade to make the plant run on wood pellets.

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Especially designed trains transport them. The train is above us. The

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pellets go into the containers here and at the bottom, a giant blue

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sieve that keeps the pellets moving on to the conveyor belt. The belts

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carry them across the sites, into the giant especially constructed

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domes that hold up to 80,000 tons of wood pellets. Enough to provide

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electricity for 40,000 homes for an entire year.

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And they are huge... Each dome was inflated on site, then covered in

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concrete. You hear that strange chirping? That

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is actually a especially designed Sonia system that tempts the

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controlroom how full the dome is. Normally it is saled and pitch black

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in here. When needed, the pellets are crushed

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into giant grinding mills and the wood dust is fed to the furnaces.

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The generating manager has overseen the change.

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The full length of the building is over half a mile. When I started in

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1980, there was half of this. So we doubled the size.

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Across the shawl the furnace, it reaches up to 1,500 degrees Celsius.

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Now to the giant Turbine Hall. This is the generator. It makes the

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electricity. All of that, boilers, fans, wood

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pellets, it all comes down to this? It is so small, isn't it? It is

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small. Critics say burning wood for power

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on this scale cannot be flavourally friendly but the CEO disagrees.

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We are saving 80% of the emissions we would produce using coal by using

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the wood pellets. Here you are still burning

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something, can it ever be environmentally friendly to burn

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wood? If it comes from a sustainable Forest, we think it is. We are not

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chopping the rainforests downs, we are using working commercial

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forests. Drax have been accuse does of green

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washing the facts, the managed forestry that produces this requires

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a long-term view, however. Dr Slayed, a lecturer at Imperial

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College London explains. One of the arguments is that a tree

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takes 20 to 100 years to grow, 20 seconds to burn, there could be a

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car Bonn saving but you don't get it now but in the future.

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By then, scientists believe it will be too late to reverse climate

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change. That's what is at stake here.

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Finding enough energy to power our communities, versus doing as little

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damage to the planet as possible. Well, as as far as the -- far as the

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near future is concerned, Greg Clarke is in charge for energy,

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business and industrial strategy in one.

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As we said, in your book you predicted the Leave campaign

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winning, and Government not having a plan for Brexit, the pound falling,

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did you personally think that would happen when you wrote it? Not when I

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wrote it but during the course of the referendum campaign, I thought

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we would go for Brexit. Unlike many of my colleagues I have been out of

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the centre of London, filming in Scotland, the mid--lands and the

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West Country, everyone I have met said that this was what they

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thought. That they were for out. That they were going out. I thought

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there is something really big happening in the country. I expected

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us to go that way. In terms of what happened after, no-one could have

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predicted that. I asked David Cameron on camera and privately

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again and again would he go if we voted Leave, he said absolutely not.

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That he would stay. This enhen went. After that, it seemed a lot of

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people, the Victor would be Boris Johnson. He was knifed by Michael

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Gove, who became the obvious person to succeed. It turned out that the

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knifing was so brutal he went as well. I don't think that anyone

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expected Andrea Leadsom to come forward, then when she did, for her

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to fall so spectacularly in that race. So one surprise after another.

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Still worth turning on the television to watch politics! The

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drama that we are witnessing, how does it compare to your book? The

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first book is about a British Government and a referendum campaign

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and we vote to leave the EU. The second novel is set further into the

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future. There is a Labour Government with a left-wing Labour leader in

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Number Ten, not regarded as doing a very good job. A lot of people, Tony

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Blair, and people like him think we know how to run the country, where

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the lever levers are, where the buttons are but no-one will ever

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listen to us again because of the Iraq war. What can we do, we are

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stuffed? So they decide what to do is to create new leaders to take

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over in their mould if you like genetically modified MPs! They try

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to persuade people to stand, once they become the MPs, they help them

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through the situation, how to get on the right select committee, how to

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deal with the Prime Minister's Questions. And they give a lesson in

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how to do politics. So the book is a lesson in how to do politics. So two

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of the MPs have to fight each other to replace the Labour leader. One is

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a Scottish working-class MP, not many of them left, and another is a

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gay woman from the south. It is a primary on dirty tricks and

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politics. As well as fiction we know you write

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about history. I do.

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How would you write David Cameron's legacy. In terms of David Cameron,

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he was a great election winner. He didn't make it the first time around

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and then surprised everybody by creating a coalition. He gave us a

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coalition politics, that we have never had. So that was radical. The

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second election victory in 2015, no-one expected him to win like he

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did. I don't think he did. He fought a tough campaign. The Liberal

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Democrats had come in, on the sofa snugly together, and David Cameron

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destroyed them at the election, that was brutal. Then he won that. He was

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an election winner, he played down the deficit. More people are in

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employment as a result of that. And also a period where the British

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economy is stronger than when they took over. That is solid. But I

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think he will be remembered as the pro-European Prime Minister who made

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a catastrophic misjudgment, gambled and lost and got out out of Europe.

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Is there a chapter title? I want to call it: Enough of Experts. Michael

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Gove said that he thought that the British people had had enough of

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experts. What followed on, why did so many people, when told by the

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Bank of England, the Treasury, every senior politicians in the country,

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they said not to do this thing, you will get poorer, don't vote to leave

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the EU but 17 million people said well, we are going to do it anyway.

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Why did they do it? Because of the 2008 financial crash and the

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destruction of the credibility of the bankers and all of those people

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and then the MPs' expenses scandal, the Iraq war, the Chilcot inquiry,

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by the stage of the Brexit referendum many people did not trust

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anyone in authority anywhere. Well, Andrew's book, 'Children of

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the Master' is out in paper become now.

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The next film is about another write, 10-year-old Jonathan, who has

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become a talented poet. His words, all the more powerful

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when you know that the doctors said he would never be able to

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communicate. Here is the moving story of how Jonathan proved them

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wrong. ... My...

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My name is Jonathan... I was in a car accident when I was 36 weeks

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pregnant. As a result, Jonathan got cerebral palsy. The consultants told

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us he might not be able to walk, talk, he might not be able to feed

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himself. Yet, when I looked at him in the cot, there was something

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about him that made me think "yep, he is in there, he is just not able

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to communicate to come out." We developed ways for him to

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communicate with us. A smile for "yes" a frown for "no". We realised

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that his eyes were the one thing that he had control over. Jonathan

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went to a special school aged four. There was a lot of activity and

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sensory play. A little bit of letters but not much. When he was in

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year three I decided to take him out of school for an hour a day and do

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basic literaciy. He was choosing words to write a story. But not an

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option to use a spelling board. When he kept looking at it, I realised he

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was unlocked. As a mother, I could ask him to talk with the spelling

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board. That was amazing. He looks at a square for a letter and then a

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colour to say which letter he wants to select.

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I carry on teaching him in the mornings. We do English and maths in

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the morning at home. Mostly because it takes in such a long time to

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write. And then in the afternoon, he goes and joins his peers at the

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school. Jonathan is life limited. We don't know how long we have got with

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him and so we live every day as a gift. I get my inspiration from...

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When Jonathan started communicating with us, he told us about a time

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when he had been very ill and he had in his words, been to Jesus' garden.

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He described something that is very like a we would understand heaven.

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His body worked, he was climbing trees. It fills Jonathan with joy to

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remember it and also with excitement to think about going back. Oh, that

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was a grumpy face! You usually like to talk about it. Is it because I'm

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talking about it? What do you want to say about it?

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Welcomer we have put some of Jonathan's poems up on the website

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if you would like to read some of them -- well, we've. And Jonathan 's

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campaign for nonverbal children to have an equal opportunity for

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education. He's got a petition which has currently been signed by over

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140,000 people. You did not get a sense of how long it took him to

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write one of those problems, the effort involved because they had to

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rush through it but he entered the 500 words, edition for Radio 2 and

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it took him 30 hours to write his short story. -- competition. Now the

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BBC Proms start tomorrow and hopefully it goes better than a

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notorious night in 1974 when the old saying, the show must go on, was

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pushed to the absolute limit. The Proms, world-class classical

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music. There would be no hope and glory without the legend Deri

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promenadings giving their ecstatic applause. -- in 1972, whereas is

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asked to do a bit more. This is the incredible story of how one man said

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the problems on a night when disaster struck. On the 7th of

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August that year, regular prommer Patrick McCarthy was getting ready

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for a night at the Royal Albert Hall. I was 27 and I've been a

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professional singer for about a fortnight. I'd been studying at the

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London presenter and I thought I would come and hear Carmina Burana

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sung by Jean Armstrong and Tommaso Allan and conducted by Andrew

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Previn. You are playing all the wrong notes! That evening, BBC

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cameras were there to film the performance by this stellar line-up.

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What could possibly go wrong? Well, that night, something dead. During a

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sweltering heatwave, they came on stage and Tommaso Allan began to

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perform. When he got up to sing the first aria, the pitch started to go

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down which was the unlike him. Suddenly come he fell back into his

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chair. Mid song? Yes, and his face was absolutely great. Goodness knows

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what was wrong, but he valiantly kept going for about a page or so.

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Then he just suddenly fell backwards, like closing the door.

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Straight down a flat onto the stage. The St John's ambulance men came up

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and they grabbed an arm and a leg each and they carted him. Do they

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sometimes have understudies? There was no understudy. With no one to

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fill his shoes, it looked as though the opening aria would be the final

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movement. That is until newly trained Patrick raised his head

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above the parapet. People nudging me were saying, you know this, you have

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done it, why don't you go and see if they got a substitute? I went

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backstage and they said, "You know it? Quickly put on the dinner jacket

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and go out and sing it". Andrew Previn had no idea who I was but he

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saw I was holding the score and he assumed I would be able to carry on

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singing and that is what I did. -- Andrei Previn. I had sung the thing

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before and I would not have volunteered if I hadn't. Inwardly, I

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was calm and confident. Can you still do it, give me a burst?

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Patrick can indeed sing, and back in 1974, there was nobody more relieved

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about this than our sopranos, Sheila. On this spot, where I am

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now, Sheila Armstrong. That's right. I have a surprise for you, if you

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turn around, CU is going towards us. Good heavens! You have not seen her

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since that night 42 years ago. When you heard him, what did he sound

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like? Were you immediately reassured? Of course because he

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clearly knew the peace. All the top notes were there, no problem. It was

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wonderful. And someone else appreciated Patrick's voice

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broadcast live on Radio 3. My mother was listening down in Brighton and

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she recognise my voice. She called out to my dad," Brian, it's

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Patrick!" And of course, she was right. When you got to the end, was

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there an ovation? Yes, there was, all of the audience went wild at the

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end. Patrick was hailed as a hero of the Proms. More importantly, it gave

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a big boost to his career as a professional singer. Sheila

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Armstrong continued to sing professionally to and thankfully,

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without anyone else passing out on her. And Thomas Allen did not do too

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badly, he made a full recovery and today he is Sir Thomas Allen. I,

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however, remain an undiscovered talent!

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Let's applaud Patrick one more time because wasn't he something else?

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Amazing. Brenda Emmanus is with us with more musicians who have saved

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the day. We are moving to rock and roll. Everything happened in rock

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and roll and a case in point is in the 1970s, 1973 in fact, The Who

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were promoting their uadrophenia album in the States. It went well

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for about an hour -- Quadrophenia. Keith Moon was a paper now and then

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he collapsed and they had to take him off and they carried on for a

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while without a drama. Then Pete Townshend shouts out, "Is anyone

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really good drama?" A 19 you Rod Gould Scot Halpin had boarded to get

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for the concert that morning, and his best friend said, "He's great".

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He got on stage and performed with his idols. This is the footage of

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him smashing the symbols. Here's like Animal! Relishing it, as you

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would do up on stage with The Who. That's a moment he would never

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forget. Sometimes even know what was my biggest voices need a helping

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hand. There was a time when the Queen of Soul became the Queen of

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Opera. Pavarotti was the star attraction at the Grammys in 1988

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but before he was about to go on stage, his doctor said he was too

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ill to do it. Aretha Franklin happen to be on the same set and decided to

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stand in for her mate. She gets up there, 20 minutes to prepare,

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Staying presenter on state and she gives the most beautiful rendition

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of Nessun Dorma in Italian. We've got to see this.

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A bit of Anna Riether riff in the middle, there. -- and Aretha

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Franklin ref. We will be seeing you again because I'm away on Monday and

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you will be sitting here. I have more preparation, at least I know

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what's going to happen! Actually... Actually, I don't feel very well. It

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has been pretty much a wash-out summer so far with the UK having a

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year's worth of wonder storms already. There's at least one person

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who's loving the weather, Marty likes lightning so much that he even

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makes it indoors. Lightning, it is one of nature's

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most impressive and dramatic shows, of sheer, awe-inspiring power. It

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strikes the Earth's surface an average of 44 times every second.

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But it is the intricate zigzag shaped that lightning makes and

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leaves behind on anything it strikes that I want to recreate today. These

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complex, fern-like shapes are named after an 18th-century scientist, who

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first recorded them. I have always been fascinated by their beauty and

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I want to understand exactly how they are formed and see if I can

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create one of my own patterns. But first, I need some lightning. OK, so

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it may not look much like a storm cloud but this device, all the tesla

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coil, works a bit like one and allows me to body is my own

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lightning. It creates a high-voltage charge that sparks into the air. By

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slowing it down, we can see how the electrical charge tries to find a

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route to the Earth. You can see the beginnings of the patterns. In

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thunderstorms, this electrical charge builds and builds within the

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clouds and becomes so great that it has to do escape. Suddenly, hundreds

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of tendrils of white, just like the ones we saw from the tesla coil,

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begin snaking their way down to the Earth. The electric charge bands

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out, taking the form of Lichtenberg patterns, as it seeks every route

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possible to reach solid ground and discharge. This all happens in just

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under an millisecond. No sooner than that, and they are gone again, as

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contact is made. It is over in a flash but it doesn't end there. As

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it strikes, the electrical charge continues to fan out, burning the

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Lichtenberg pattern into whatever is in its path, even people. It may

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look like a tad too but this is the scar left behind on a man struck by

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lightning. -- like a tattoo. So let's see if I can recreate this

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effect with some wood, some screws, and this transformer, which is going

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to take mains voltage and transform it up to 20,000 volts. I need as

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much voltage is possible. Time to connect it up. With this setup, what

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I've done is recreated the conditions to create lightning but

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rather than it being through the atmosphere, it is going to be

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through this piece of wood. I'm going to retreat to a safe distance.

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Time to turn the power on. The current flows from the transformer,

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through the cables and directly into the wood. Oh, it has started! Like

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lightning in a thunderstorm, you can see the tendrils of electrical

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charge weaving through the wood. You can see the Lichtenberg figures

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crawling across the wood. Success! We have managed to

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reproduce these intricate patterns with only a piece of wood, some

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screws and 20,000 volts. Beautiful, exquisite, and simply stunning.

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Lichtenberg's figures really are a true wonder of nature. Amazing but

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please don't try to make your own lightning at home, including you!

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The voice of authority has spoken. Not even in the garage. Later this

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year, we're teaming up with BBC Weather Watchers to tell the story

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of the summer's weather in photographs and we need your help.

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Make sure you take a photo of the wonderful weather you are

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experiencing and send it in to this address. A big thank you to Brenda

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and Andrew. Andrew's book, Children Of The Master is out now. I will be

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back tomorrow with Jamie Oliver and Brian Adam is. See you then.

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Goodbye.

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