14/10/2011 The One Show

And now for Wales. SPEAKS IN WELSH. Well done! Now, English. My English

is not so good. Oh you're well she's coming on. I have a good

teacher. Coming up, we have got the cutest it our all film in the world

and Jay goes Japanese on us. guest tonight is a man bursting

with wit, intelligence and musical talent. Who knows a lot about birds.

MUSIC: "Flight Of The Bumblebee" by It is Bill Bailey! Welcome back. We

saw you play the piano there. You play countless his tumours. I play

the kazoo. Bongos, theremin. I do that. Any more? I have a lot of

string instruments. I play a Turkish instrument which has just

three strings among and a sound box to it. And I play guitars. I play

the tune horns and the Alpine bells. And the Alpine horn. The wedding

you get one of those? Not just any alpine horn. I have a carbon-fibre

flick horn which flicks down into one bit and you open it. It comes

with a case. How much? In euros, 400. I would love to have seen that.

You can't just bring it out in public. You have to have a special

licence to carry it across London. It perhaps for the Olympics. Bill

is back on tour. We will be asking him why later.

Now, for more than 200 years, Scotland helped change the course

of modern medicine, from the introduction of anaesthetics to the

discovery of penicillin. Recently, engineers in West Lothian have

pioneered the development of the first bionic hand. Carrie Grant

meets 15-year-old Kelly Holmes to find out what it means to her.

Imagine life without being able to use your hands. It is a reality

that some people faced daily, but today I am going to find out how

cutting-edge technology is bringing life to one teenager's fingertips.

Kelly Holmes was three years old when she contracted streptococcal

septicaemia after being struck down with chickenpox. It turned out to

be a class a blood disorder. Her whole body shut down. The it

attacks everything in your body, all your major organs. The outcome

was unfortunately that Chloe not pretty much most of her left hand.

On her right hand, she only has half her index finger and thumb

left. It makes you feel helpless. Seeing your kid on a machine that

is making them brief and keeping them alive. When I was at school, I

would get the mickey taken out of my hand every day. People used to

shout out stumpy down the corridor. I would not be able to concentrate

on my work after that. I would be crying every day. But three months

ago, 15-year-old Chloe's life changed thanks to ground-breaking

technology. Livingston, Scotland. This is where they make

electronically operated bionic hands. I want to find out what they

are and how they work. Bionic is about taking the natural functions

of the body and using technology to mimic those functions. It could

take a signal from a person's limb and translate that into movement in

their hands. We start off with a motor which is assembled into a

gearbox. You can see that it bends like a real finger. We would

complete this with the rest of the digits. How many people have you

fitted these hands to? We have installed over 2000 of these hands.

Great in theory, but can I see how it works? Absolutely. Ooh! For

someone that does not have fingers, that must be incredible. You can

imagine. Today Chloe has travelled to Scotland for her three-month

check-up. We are going to see how many blocks you can get across, and

see how quickly you are able to operate the hand. You have a minute.

What do you remember about the first time Clare we put that hand

on? I had tears in my eyes. It was emotional. There was excitement

seeing her pick up things around the room. The confidence in her was

huge. She doesn't mind people looking at her. She is a lot more

bubbly. He in two months, that is great progress. She is a totally

different person. She is bubbly again. She loves it. Now that I

have got the hand, I can dry my hair, carry things, hold a cup

without spilling it. It has given me confidence to study. It has

changed my life. What a brilliant story. All the best to Chloe and

her new hand. Bill, you will shortly Bennett back on the road

with your tour, Dandelion Mind. The big theme of the Tories doubt. But

there is no doubt that the Welsh team will not win the rugby, is

there? No. You were saying that your mum is well? That whole side

of my family are Welsh. I have had many a happy holiday in Tenby.

what is their doubt about? whole edifice of Western capitalism

is about to teeter over the edge. Banks and politics and the press,

everything. All the things I used to think were certainties are now

no more. Was this a prophetic think? Sometimes people get novels

right two years before. Perhaps you think I caused it. You start

talking about finance and banks and crises and you think, perhaps I

assured this in. No, it is about thinking about the bigger questions,

plus the smaller questions about doubt in religion and the world.

Are you saying it is the time of doubt? It is the age of uncertainty.

But not in a bad way. Doubt can also mean being curious about

things. My researcher's called Thomas, doubting Thomas. If you

start with a subject that is quite a big subject, it leads you into

different alleyways. Music is a big part of your routine. What gets the

biggest laugh, the spoken stuffer or the musical stuff? It is about

even. Music affects people on a different level. The spoken word is

sometimes up slow-burn, so it takes a while to absorb the ideas and

respond. But music can get you on a more visceral level. It is a bit of

both. One of my favourite bits is when I play Cars by Gary Numan on

the car horns. Why didn't you bring all this in? You can't fit this

stuff in. It is all in a bunker somewhere. Are you a fan of James

Blunt? And not especially. Is that why he features in your act? You do

a good impression of him. I imagine he is going to sing at the Olympics

opening ceremony. It will be him on top of a giant mechanical bull dog.

You know he will be singing one of his lovely songs. Actually, James

Bond was on the radio, and my son said, turn it off, Daddy. I said

why? He said, it is spoiling my brain. I like James Blunt. He is a

brain spoiler. Let's see your version.

# But you are a beautiful flower. # You bloom every hour.

# ooh. # So precious, and revealing.

# Like a rabbit stuck to the ceiling. It is a bit cruel. It is

an affectionate tribute. He will not be watching. He lives in Ibiza.

He has a big house over there. is where I am going wrong. Bill's

Dandelion Mind tour runs from the first and a member and stars in

Birmingham. Tie now for Jay's Foodie Friday. If

you thought Chris's wealth was good, listen to Jay's Japanese. Naze

runchi ni sandowichi ni kawatte sushi o taberuyo ni natta no

As a restaurant critic, I get more than my fill of rich food, so it is

often a relief to know I can depend on lovely, fresh sushi. This

Japanese delicacy is a serious business for the supermarkets, with

the top five stocking it and one came selling a massive 30 million

packs of the stuff each year. Sushi is a dish consisting of cooked rice

with raw fish, seaweed or vegetables. Served with palate

cleansing portions of pickled ginger, soy sauce and for the

bravest among us, some eye-watering Japanese horseradish. But its

origins are far from mass- production. People have been eating

sushi as we know it in Japan for 200 years, but it has been around

for nearly 2000. It was originally a way of preserving the fish by

layering it on vinegared rice. But then, they used to throw the rice

away. While there are still some who will not like the sound of raw

fish, it is a big hit with many diners in the UK. There are now

more than 400 Japanese shops and restaurants in this country, from

Aberdeen to Plymouth. But while we might have taken sushi to our

hearts, few of us make it at home. Learning to make sushi takes up to

eight years. Some people look at it and think, it is just rice and raw

fish. Where is the skill? There is a huge amount of skill in the

polishing of the rice, cooking the rice, toasting it so that you get

that a Roma, and the handling of the fish. Each cut is different. I

have taken salmon here. I have cut it at an angle to get these marbled

fat lines coming through the. I have a piece of sea bream here. It

is important to draw it flat so that you have a nice edge. You want

to allow the soy sauce to catch on it. Prison taking is important in

Japanese food, but there is also an art to the eating. So how do you

eat sushi? You might imagine with chopsticks, but no, it is with

these. With your middle finger, you roll the sushi onto its back and

pick it up between her thumb and forefinger. Put the fish through

the saw source, and then it is fish side down on your tongue. Very good.

But is there any difference between the sushi we buy in the

supermarkets and what is served in the restaurants? Supermarket sushi

comes out of a machine. The Rice is cold. Here we have warm rice, made

by hand. Is it even fair to compare supermarket pre-packaged sushi with

the sort of thing made in a restaurant like this? I would say

yes. You are getting a degree of rice with a degree of raw fish.

Supermarkets sushi may be at an all-time high, but I would choose

to eat it in a restaurant every time. I adore the clean, fresh

taste of sushi, with the sudden hit of course French-based. Some of the

best meals I have had to have been Japanese, and sushi is a major part

It is not always healthy, is it? have this habit of shoving avocado

and mayonnaise it, which is a lot of fat. The rice is a lot of

carbohydrate. The fish is good for you, but you have got to be wary of

too much of the rise. Often you see the conveyor belt. It was invented

in 1958 by a man who did not have enough staff. That was simply it,

not enough staff, so he thought, how can I get sushi to my

customers? He went to heavier factory and saw the bottles on a

conveyor belt. So it was not the Japanese generation game with the

conveyor belt. I prefer that story, that is exactly what it was! Bill,

what about you? I love sushi. I went to Japan, I did not like it, I

could not eat it, but I got addicted. I love it, it is

brilliant. He will have to come to the Priory. I just love it, I love

raw stuff! Japan I love, because my name in Japanese is the same as

beer. When I introduce myself, I get a drink. Do you know loads of

stuff! If he doesn't, make it up. It is all about Wales now.

o'clock tomorrow morning. What can we have for breakfast, Jay. We have

a number of Welsh delicacies, lava bread. The great Gareth Edwards,

the rugby player, he used to read lava bread with cockles and bacon

before every match. You have a Gareth Edwards story. You want to

tell it? My dad would be annoyed! Glamorgan sausages. These are great.

They have not got any animal in them. It is a vegetarian sausage.

Cheese, leeks, breadcrumbs. Would you like one? I will have one.

like them, they are very filling. Is that good? If you have not got

any Kendal Mint cake handy, that will keep you going in a hurricane.

The one controversial one, Welsh rarebit, the name, it is believed,

it came from abuse of the Welsh by the English, because they did not

have any need to put on it. We have to stop abusing them and cheer them

on tomorrow! Come on, Wales. there is a supermarket near you and

you can be bothered to make this before 9 o'clock, the recipes are

online! We know you are a bird man, but can you do an impression of a

owl? I am the nemesis of the bowl! That is nice. We could not have

built on without showing a lovely third film, so how about some tawny

owl chicks branches out into the big wide world? Over to live --

over to Mike Dilger, then live owls in studio! Leaving home is a rite

of passage that everyone goes through, but for tawny owl chicks,

Their hesitant approach to the big wide world is called branching.

This involves hopping from tree to tree and the watchful eye of their

parents while slowly learning to become independent. They are

incredibly vulnerable at this time. Moving along the branch while

exercising their wings, they can lose their balance and end up down

there. However, using their strong claws, they can climb back up into

the tree. The problem arises when passers-by come across these young

holes on the ground and, thinking they are abandoned, pick them up. -

- owls. These checks are among so that 200 birds of prey to be

brought into this conservatory Trust in Andover each year. They

looked after by Dr Matt Stevens. Lots of tawny owls, why so many

coming into the centre? Well, they have all been brought in from a

very young age. They are very dependent on their parents for two

months have to fledging. We want to get them to an age when they can be

released into the wild. So it is all about rehabilitation.

Definitely, yes. At the Conservancy, they aim to relies every bird

brought in. Looking after them until they are old enough and

healthy enough to survive outside the hospital, Matt and his team

have a high success rate with howls as they keep human contact to a

minimum hand preserve their natural behaviour. -- owls. Unfortunately,

for some, it is already too late. This is Troy. What is the story?

Troy was hatched probably in 2010, and she ended up on the floor. A

passer-by found there, decided that the poor thing must be in trouble,

so she took her home. She kept her for about six weeks. Well-meaning

but exactly the wrong thing to do. It is, definitely. She thinks she

is a person, she cannot be released back into the wild. So for the rest

of their natural life, part of the furniture here. She cannot be

released, but she will continue to give people information about what

not to do with tawny owls. And also a tremendous amount of pleasure,

she is one very entertaining, So while Straw is a much-loved

resident, for the lucky ones here, they are almost ready to be

Well, it has been two weeks since I last saw the tawny owls in hospital,

and today it is time to see them regain their freedom. Before we

take them back to the wild, Matt and I need to give them a quick

health check. We need to measure, Way and ring them so we can track

their progress. As soon as that is done, we are off to find them a new

home. So, a lot of effort is taken to get them to this stage. The

ultimate question is, are they go into survive? Well, it is looking

good. The first few weeks are the most important, because they have

to get used to this habitat away from the hospital, but they should

be on their way. This is wonderful woodland, what do you reckon as a

release site? Great, we should go for it. Let's do it. Right, the

moment of truth, let's release the Oh, that is so lovely! It makes all

that hard work worth it watching that. Let's released the last one

Matt, put it there. Tawny owls, back where they belong, that is

what is known as a good job. Let's Mike has made some brilliant films,

that is up there with the best of them, brilliant film, well done.

This is surely the tawny owl, Nigel is a white face scops owl, and Bill

as Mulberry goodbye now. You took the barn owl. Yes, I fancied the

barn owl. Yes, I did. I thought he was speaking Welsh for a minute. It

is like owls as gangsters, I can stay in my head around! I love the

barn owl because they are beautiful, quite ethereal, ghostly, amazing

looking birds. Beautiful fees, amazing plumage. They are almost

like supernatural, you know, in the history of British culture. You get

people talking about ghostly apparitions, and they were probably

barn owls. One of our most beautiful birds. Very magical,

you're right. Is it true that you have a menagerie? Yes, I have

various different parrots, cockatoos, cockatiel, starlings, a

rabbit, four dogs, hissing cockroaches, a chameleon in the

bathroom. And you live in the city. He has, a one-bedroom flat!

looks after them when you are away! We just leave a load of crisps on

the floor and leave them to it. They will be all right, shut the

door. What about the difference between bird-watching and

twitching? Twitchers are really hard core, the ones with pages on

their hip. It goes beep, spoonbills, Devon, go! Birdwatchers are more

like me. Easy, Tiger! They are more sort of pastoral, go out for a walk,

watch a few birds. From natural art to human art. Pablo Picasso's work

has often been divided in two periods, blue, Rose, African.

has been finding out about his Pablo Picasso was arguably the 20th

century's greatest painter and sculptor. He lived in Paris,

Barcelona and the South of France. He came to Britain only twice, once

in 1919 to seek a ballet for which he designed the sets and costumes,

and then, in 1950, he came here, to Sheffield, the steel capital of the

country. On a grey November day... Why? The most famous artist in the

world had been invited to speak at the second international peace

conference, and to the surprise of many he accepted. Bill was part of

the delegation that welcomed Picasso to Sheffield. Do you

remember that November day in 1950 when Picasso came to Sheffield?

Very well, very well. I was appointed with two of my colleagues,

and we came to the station to meet him. We had great regard for

Picasso, because we all remembered his picture of Guernica, the anti-

fascist picture from before the war. He was a brilliant figure among

working people, particularly of the left. My colleagues presented him

with a bunch of flowers, and we saw him on the Transport and then he

was taken up to the rest are in town. We presented him with flowers,

but we took them off in for our next visitor, who was the Dean of

Canterbury. His arrival on the steps that City Hall was captured

in the newsreels, but unfortunately the conference was not to be the

great move to peace that had been planned. Has the event was

organised by the Communist Party, the Labour home secretary of the

day, at the last minute, refused to allow permission for some of the

international delegates to come into the country. The conference

had to be curtailed. However, Picasso still made a short speech

to the crowd that had assembled and told them how his father had taught

him to draw and how he believed in peace, not war. With time to kill

in Sheffield, he did what all international celebrities would do.

He got a haircut and stopped in at a local cafe for a bacon butty.

can remember being really sort of a bit stunned, you know, really,

Picasso? Not many world-famous painters appear on the platform at

Sheffield City Hall. What was he like? Well, I told my granddaughter

on the phone, he was a bit like Paddington Bear! All he needed was

a label, because he was small and had a lot of clothes on. I think

someone had told in Yorkshire would be very cold. I remember seeing him

with his pieces of paper, and he was obviously drawing, and then he

held up the paper, and he had signed this drawing. His famous

drawing of the dove of peace. he had the idea of auctioning them

to raise funds. Did you bid for it? My husband did, I was terrified. We

probably had �30 in the cost- savings bank. And there was your

husband bidding for a Picasso dart! What did it go for? Only 20 Guineas.

I wish we had... It would be priceless now. I would not sell

that, if I got my hands on it! think he probably would have

accepted the fact that the flowers, like the ones I've brought you,

were then taken away from him and given to the next visitor. If you

do not mind, I'm going to take this with me! You are naughty! The peace

Conference might not have been the success its organisers planned, but

the incongruity of a modern master in the city of steel has never been

forgotten. Even today, as visit -- his visit is elevated, and if you

look closely, above the chimneys here, you can see steel domes

inspired by Picasso's dove of peace. Pablo Picasso spotted in Sheffield.

Where is the strangest place you have been spotted? In the

Indonesian jungle. It took a little while to get there, planes, boats,

ferries, more planes, buses. Right in the eastern part of Indonesia

before you get to Papua New Guinea, quite off-the-beaten-track. I was

on a bird-watching trip, was in a river, and heart from the jungle

came these two Australians who had seen me and my show in Melbourne.

The bloke went, oh, it is Bill Bailey! He pointed at me like I was

a hologram or an apparition. He had to come and poke me in the chest to

make sure it was made. He was blown away, what the hell are you doing

here?! What do you have here? Somebody sent in this lovely

picture of two really cute owls. That his two Inuit women with

sleeping bags. Unsolicited, thank you very much, showing initiative.