14/08/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Allwright.

Well, we say welcome to the One Show.

Perhaps we should say welcome to the Mad House.

And budget for this movie. ?48. What does it mean? Does that answer your

question. Any questions? I didn't understand a

word he said. It's 25 years since CU Jimmy was

on our screens. Is it that long? Is there are still

a little bit of Jimmy in there. Say what you like about Scottish

terrier types, but we were at the fringe yesterday and on the Royal

mile, there were ginger wigs everywhere.

You are responsible for that. I wish I had patented it! We want to know

if CU Jimmy is still alive and well out there. If you have got photos of

you wearing the wigs, e-mail them to us, please, and we will Boomers at

the end of the show. Nicely done.

Trish Adudu looks at plans to offer surgery to more overweight people

suffering from diabetes and other diseases and asks if that's the best

Never mind Great Britain, welcome to fact Britain. According to official

public health figures in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern

Ireland, the average Brit is overweight. Meet Philip, Darren and

Gary. They all have type two diabetes that is related to their

weight. They already do more than 400 gastric operations here at this

hospital in Chichester every year, a figure that could be about to rise

substantially here and across England and Wales. As it stands,

substantially here and across England and Wales. if you have type

two diabetes, you will only be considered for gastric surgery if

your BMI is 35 or above. But NICE's draft conditions could mean this is

lowered to a BMI of just 30. So a man with type two diabetes who is

five foot nine, the national average, winning 14 stone, just a

stone heavier, than the national average, could be offered surgery.

Philip is about to have major surgery, a gastric bypass operation.

How did you get to this stage in the first place? Overeating. I am in

classic example. In the lunch break, I would went down to the chip shop

and get a steak and kidney pie and chips. I had 12 cream cakes

afterwards. 12?! 12 cream cakes! I was a Gannett. Why do you not just

carry on dieting? It is not enough, I have to exercise. But with my

other problem is, cannot go running or jogging. I am in inactive. The

operation Philip is about to have costs less than a lifetime of

diabetic care. Diabetes UK argues that although surgery may result in

fewer people taking medication, it cannot solve the problem on its own.

Doctors here say that it is a start. Diabetes costs the NHS 25% of the

budget. We have to look at cost-effective ways of treating

people with diabetes. What do you say, Philip, to the people who say

that actually people like you are draining the NHS with operations

like this? Considering the number of tablets I'd take a month, and I have

taken that for 14 years, if you outweigh that cost against the cost

of the operation, it works out cheaper in the long run. If accepted

by the Department of Health, NICE's changes will mean that an extra

300,000 people with type two diabetes could be considered for

weight loss surgery. With obesity costing the NHS over ?5 billion a

year, and all diabetes almost ?10 billion, NICE say that something has

to be done. But does it have to be as drastic as surgery? Darren says

no. He is a traffic warden who lost six stone through lifestyle change

and has his diabetes under control. I am now free of insulin. You change

the way you eat and the amount of food you eat, and just by doing

that, I got the confidence to run. Knowing what I know now, I would

never go for the operation. Gary is a surveyor and he did go for the

operation. Before having the bypass, he weighed a whopping 30 stone.

Since having the bypass, he can only small portions. That will fill you

up? That is more than sufficient. And what would happen if you ate

more than that? It would be really uncomfortable. Even two years on

from the operation? Two years ago, I would probably have been sick. If

you did not have the operation, or what state would you be in? Surgery

as a last resort but for me, it saved my life, as simple as that.

NICE say that more than half of those who have surgery have more

control over their diabetes. They are less likely to develop diabetes

related illnesses. Philip is now out of surgery and hoping to get back to

his job as a coach driver. With his cream cake days well behind him. How

are you feeling? I feel like someone has kicked me in the stomach. Now

begins the journey for the rest of your life. I hope it will be healthy

eating and losing weight, becoming fitter. But only time will tell.

Professor Mark Baker from NICE who worked

These are just proposals at the moment.

How likely are they to come into effect? We have consulted on

these proposals and the consultation period has finished. We have started

looking at the 250 pages of responses that we have had. One

thing that will not change is the evidence that bariatric surgery can

help people with diabetes who are obese. It can help them to control

diabetes better and about one in five cases ceases to have the

diagnosis. That is a significant benefit for people. We're talking

about a shift from 35 to 30. How many more people will have to go for

surgery? That encompasses 400,000 more people. But there are a lot of

barriers to go through before we get to those people having surgery. The

mainstay of treatment for diabetes continues to be diet and exercise.

If that does not work, then we look at medicine. If people's diabetes is

still difficult to control, then we can consider surgery. But one of the

things that this draft guidance is suggesting is that we look at the

benefit of surgery early in the patient's career with diabetes,

echoes what we want to do is prevent them getting long-term convocations.

Diabetes damages the blood vessels and causes heart attack, stroke,

amputation and blindness. We want to change the story before those organ

affects Orquera. The earlier we look at using surgery, the better it

would be for the patient. -- effects occur. You mentioned diet and

exercise. We saw Darin in the film, who has turned things around. He has

changed his diet and he is exercising. At what point do you

decide that that is not working for this particular patient? There is

nothing like getting a diagnosis of diabetes to change your lifestyle.

Many people do succeed with diet and exercise to achieve the change in

lifestyle that they require. But some people do not. Some people find

it very difficult to diet. Some people, because of arthritis caused

by being obese, find it difficult to exercise. Some people, even if they

do lose weight, still find that their diabetes is difficult to

control. It is in those patients, people who can diet and are prepared

to be followed for a period of time, but who still have diabetes and it

is difficult to control, they can benefit from obesity surgery and

they are the people that we want to make it available to. And you can

find more information on BMI and type two diabetes on our website.

Now Russ here was lucky enough to work with the

legendary comic actor Frank Thornton in Last of the Summer Wine.

I'd rather be in combat gear. My wedding suit turned out to be combat

gear. Frank's daughter Jane gives

an insight into the man who liked to maintain

standards off screen as well as on. When I was young, I phoned my father

severe. He believed that behaviour was everything. No cuddles. He was

Captain Peacock. If you continue to get up my nose, I will be forced to

mentioned the number of days that you leave early. I'm able to blow my

top. Judging by the top of your head, you have already blown it. He

could be the funniest man but stubborn. It was a battle of wills

from the word go. When I was a boarding school, we had to write

home every weekend. But when he wrote back, all he did was pick me

up on my grammar and spelling. This is the street we lived in. We came

here when I was 18 months old, just after the war. I've still dream

about this place, I do not know why. My father had to augment his actors

salary by taking portrait photographs. Of well-known actors.

For the Spotlight directory. Famous people came here to have their

pictures taken, Clive Dunn and Hattie Jakes. He often used to bring

me to the science Museum. He loved teaching me things. We would head

straight for the children's gallery. He would have loved that. What have

we got here? It is also high-tech. I remember the automatic doors we used

a love going through. Quite a novelty in the 1950s. Hot hands. Do

you come here often? This is my 12th time. I was 15 when he got his first

big break, playing a patient in a Tony Hancock, deep that became a

classic. Some people are better placed than others. Let's forget all

about it. He never wanted to be a leading man. There was a particular

part that he was at solidly brilliant at. He played Eeyore in

Winnie the Pooh. Long faced, lugubrious, I loved him in that

part. I made in this and took it to his dressing room as a present.

Stand-by, please. In 1972, and you being served? , 13 years of it. The

biggest sitcom of its time. Are you free? I'm free! Will you take the

floor for a moment so why can discuss a matter with a member of

the council? I used to go to the recordings. They liked having me in

the audience because I laughed louder than anyone else. He was shy

and private and he never wanted to do this is your life. You could see

the look of fear in his eyes when he was approached by Michael Aspel.

Tonight, Frank Thornton, this is your life. Somebody has betrayed me!

There was the funniest moment when he recounted how he had left my

mother during the engagement. But she had the best reply. We had been

engaged and eye had broken it off, but I remember... You broke it

off?! He came back into the public eye in 1997 in Last of the Summer

Wine. It went on for another 13 years. We will head him off! We had

a coveted relationship but late on in his life he gave me a big heart

and said he was sorry he had been so strict, so that was lovely. In the

end, I followed him into the theatre, but backstage, as a stage

manager. I think they were relieved that they did not want to be an

actress. He was 92 when he died. Eye had mixed feelings about how to

remember him. A great sense of humour, but the uprightness and

correctness, the Englishness. I suppose I could say he was a

gentleman. Does that sound like the Frank Thornton you got to know?

Frank was charming, a gentleman. I remember when I first joined the

series, he said, welcome to the series. I thought, what a thrill.

What a compliment. You think of his past track record, his work, the

great actor, wonderful. He made me was -- most welcome. Let's talk

about Boomers, the first you have done since Last Of The Summer Wine.

You are playing someone younger. How does that work? I am fortunate,

playing my own age. It is still are cast. Stephanie Beacham plays my

wife. June Whitfield plays my mother-in-law. Alison Steadman and

Philip Jackson, Paula Wilcox and Jane Smith, a great cast. We play

three couples, in our 60s, from different backgrounds. We have

retired in this fictitious town, retired or semi retired. It is about

our approach to retirement. Some others are wanting to get on, some

others are moody. Great fun. I watched the first episode this

morning. It is like Friends for the recently retired! Even as Dell are

cast, they sit on the sofa, there you are on the park bench. For a

long time, actors of a certain age said there was not much workaround

but it seems the landscape has started to change. Yes, it will

appeal to my own generation and younger as well. It is everyday life

which you can refer to. I know those people, you and me, and George and

Mildred down the road. I could see my mum and dad when I was watching

it. This is you want your screen wife,

Stephanie Beacham, from tomorrow's episode. It is good to see them

after all these years. Yet He will jolly the women along. He tries hard

with the ladies, he tried hard enough with you. You are not still

thinking of that holiday. He was after you, not just in Weymouth. He

was just messing about. He was all over you like a rash. It is a

funeral, let's try and enjoy at! What a brilliant line! We have done

a bit of arithmetic. Those main characters have 324 years of showbiz

experience. Get away! 324 years of showbiz experience. When you get

together, who holds court and tells the best stories? It is difficult to

say. Most of the fund is when the guys are together and the girls are

together, because we talk about each other, as you do in life. The wives

talk about the husbands and the husbands talk about the wives. We

are all having a good time. Who is getting the biggest laughs, we are

all in there together. June Whitfield I am sure takes control.

She is remarkable. It is remarkable, she is such a talented

lady, so gifted. She is in a wheelchair, yet the presence is

there. We move about and she has two wheel into the scene and she's

there, the charisma is there. Magic. Somebody says she has a personal

trainer. Yes, once week. It pays its way! Have you got one? I do if I am

going into a West End run, a season, then I need ultimate fitness. I take

on a trainer for a couple of weeks. The giggles off-screen get onto the

screen eventually. Of course, we enjoy working together. When we

turned up for the read-through, we looked around the table, look at all

these people. We are all stars, altogether in One Show. Thank you,

Russ. Boomers starts tomorrow night, at 9pm on BBC One.

After weeks of harrowing images and horrific stories finding their way

out of Iraq, the Prime Minister says our involvement will be limited to

sending aid. The question is, is that enough?

Lucy went to an airshow in Eastbourne to ask people how they

think we should be responding. Over 1 million Iraqi civilians have

fled militants of IS, fearing rape, beheadings and genocide. It is being

reported that the US has begun supplying weapons to the Kurdish

forces, Depeche Mode, and now the French have followed suit. To

discuss what the UK should do to help and in order to gauge public

opinion on the extent of our involvement, I have come to an

airshow with an Iraq war veteran and director of military sciences,

Elizabeth Quintana. From humanitarian point of view, we

should get people away from that terrible area. Where do you draw the

line? Once you are involved, you are involved. We can provide

humanitarian relief and step back. How do we get out of it? We are in

there for the long-term. Are more arms in the Middle East than

anywhere else in the world. People should help out. The West can help

most by facilitating a political solution. Are you fearful of the

rise of IS? Any sort of rising in terms of extremist views is a

concern for everybody, but hopefully from now on, the Americans are

involved and it may die down. Is that likely? Is everything under

control? They have captured a lot of military equipment, they have

captured oilfields, so they are well supported and if they link up with

IS in Syria, we could have a lot of problems. I am worried about sending

tornadoes over there and not actually doing anything to help the

Americans in their bombing. If there is a western face on the response it

will not last and it will make IS more likely to react. What they are

trying to do is help the Iraqi response. The people causing the

problems in Iraq, where were they for the ten years we were out there

and how have they come back to strength? When you are dealing with

IS you have to do something radical, otherwise they will behead people

and chase down the minorities. Why is Paul wrong to call for this

intervention? What can be achieved with more boots on the ground that

we have failed to achieve in the last ten years? It is a good point,

there is no easy answer. A force of 800 that have been so dramatically

radicalised, has to be dealt with in a way that we have not dealt with

any others previously. Paul is right, the Iraqi armed forces are

not capable of dealing with the thread. We have to look at how else

we might help them do the job. You non must, this is a story you have

been following. -- Russ, this is a story you have been following. We

have to help these people. It is biblical, tragic. To bring up young

children witnessing beheading and trauma, what is that child going to

grow into? What will he think? How will he deal with his future? The

most important thing is the refugees, they must be helped and

provided for. We are doing that the best we can. We owe our services are

huge round of applause for their dedication to the task.

Time for story of a fun loving criminal, whose quest for la dolce

vita resulted in him crossing the wrong Italian. Gyles has a

cautionary tale. Dubbed by the press of the human

fly, and the King of the cat burglars, but between the 1950s and

1970s, Peter Scott scaled the sides of stately homes, told into

boutiques and let across the roofs of Mayfair to gain access to gain

access to the treasures of the rich. He was accessed from his -- he was

active from his teams to his 60s. His real name was Peter Craig

Dalston. He was a public schoolboy, cut from a different cloth than the

London underworld he was to become a part of. He claimed to have relieved

Alistair Kratz, celebrities and high-end stores of some ?13 million

worth of jewellery and luxury goods. Scott was so choosy, some of the

upper said it was an insult not to be robbed by him. It is my life's

work. He was lauded for his death-defying ability to climb up to

a high window or through a skylight. But to the law-abiding, his moral

compass pointed south. All agreed he had panache. He bought a new suit

for each job, dressing for the job. He said he was nothing more than a

dishonest window cleaner, but he had a high opinion of himself. He would

compare himself to the champion jockey, Leicester bigot. He said,

when he threw his leg over a horse, you could see the magic. When I get

my leg up a drain pipe, you can see the magic two. A police officer was

on the beat during his heyday. How did he operate? He was unusual as a

burglar. There were only three or four people who would specialise in

stealing from film stars. He would know who was going to London

parties. He would know the best time to burgle. Perhaps Scott's most

notorious job was assessed from the Italian Hollywood star some viola

rent. -- Sophia Lorentz. She was filming at Elstree. Scott had read

that she never travelled without a considerable collection of

jewellery. She went to her exclusive lodgings to unburden her of it.

Audacious and well-planned, he would soon come to regret this particular

theft. He had met his match. In an interview after review -- in an

interview after the robbery, she said, I come from a long line of

gypsies. You will have no luck. Scott was watching the interview and

admitted it sent a shiver down his spine. Her Gypsy purse -- curse

apparently came true. He lost every penny he had in a casino.

Undeterred, and between spells in prison, his lofty crimewave

continued. His targets remained aristocrats and film stars. But when

he burgled Judy Garland he claimed to find no ruby slippers or

emeralds, so left empty-handed. As this figure began to spread, it was

age, not the police that caught up with him. What happens to a cat

burglar when he realises he is an old dog? Crime reporter Duncan

Campbell became friends with Scott in his final years. He lost all his

money. He was down on his luck. He lived on this very tough estate. It

was quite a grim end, compared to what he had once had. When he was

described as a master criminal, 40 years in prison, four marriages that

ended unhappily in one way or another, I think he would confirm

that he felt he was an idiot. But he has had his excitement. Theft and

crime are nothing to celebrate, but the story of a thief and his lonely

and as a morality tale worth telling.

Are you ready for a good link? From gems to Jimmys. We asked to see you

in your CU Jimmy wigs. Check out these. Look at that. Anna Maria and

Patrick in Scotland. Russ, who have you got? Sarah Leach sent in this

photo of herself and Dave in New York City. We have had loads and we

have been inundated. Thanks, Russ. You can see Boomers tomorrow night

on BBC One at 9pm. Before that on The One Show, Vernon Kay and Anita

Rani will take over the reins. They will be joined by my fellow Tumblers

Louis Smith and Nadia We've got factory boys and butchers'

apprentices and office clerks Don't stop moving!

If you go back you'll die!