:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and Welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.
:00:18. > :00:22.Matt, let's have a brainstorm about tonight's show.
:00:23. > :00:26.You say whatever pops into your mind, don't worry if it
:00:27. > :00:30.doesn't make sense there's no such thing as a bad idea.
:00:31. > :00:39.I'm thinking of a blue cat. Blue cat, hang on. Then there's a dummy,
:00:40. > :00:44.it's a ventriloquist's dummy. Looks like Lord Alan Sugar. I'm thinking
:00:45. > :00:51.sausages now. A piano made of sausages. I'm thinking of collars,
:00:52. > :00:55.big white-collars and hilarious video clips. Funny video clips. Like
:00:56. > :01:01.you've been framed, you mean, that sort of thing?
:01:02. > :01:09.Tremendous. Who'd all of them add up to then? Only one way to find out!
:01:10. > :01:21.Welcome to BBC One! Harry, welcome, welcome. How have --
:01:22. > :01:29.now you've got your head through that board, you can see our wintry
:01:30. > :01:35.set. Anything for publicity. The little robins are there and the
:01:36. > :01:38.hedgehogs with ear muffs on. We have a job for you.
:01:39. > :01:41.We need your help in injecting a bit of christmas spirit into a couple
:01:42. > :01:44.of modern day Scrooges in the audience.
:01:45. > :01:50.First impressions; is there any hope for them?
:01:51. > :01:59.They look very mean spirited. Like they are chewing wasps and maybe
:02:00. > :02:07.they look like the sort of people who'd push a younger boy down a wet
:02:08. > :02:10.slide to dry it out for them first. The sort of bloke that keeps the
:02:11. > :02:12.transit bolt off his washing machine on the off chance he moves house in
:02:13. > :02:17.the lifetime of the machine. Ruby Turner and the Rhythm
:02:18. > :02:32.and Blues Orchestra. They are outside for us now. Jools,
:02:33. > :02:37.what will you be performing later on? I hope to be doing Peace in the
:02:38. > :02:40.Valley with Ruby Turner. I wouldn't mind going inside and maybe Harry
:02:41. > :02:46.could give us a cuddle to keep us warm!
:02:47. > :02:47.We can arrange that! We'll move on from that.
:02:48. > :02:51.Some parents go to extreme lengths to get their child into a good
:02:52. > :02:53.school close to home, even moving house to be
:02:54. > :03:00.But do any go as far as the couple in this next film,
:03:01. > :03:03.who have decided the only solution to getting into a decent school
:03:04. > :03:13.What do you do if there are not enough primary school places in your
:03:14. > :03:17.area? If instead of a short walk your school run is across town
:03:18. > :03:21.through rush hour traffic? We went through hell for a number of months
:03:22. > :03:26.and sleepless nights. Under this Government, you can bid to start
:03:27. > :03:30.your own free school. And pitch your plans to the Department for
:03:31. > :03:35.Education. This is it isn't it, five minutes to go to the interview.
:03:36. > :03:40.We've got to do it. Prove your need one and start a fund of ?250,000 of
:03:41. > :03:47.Government cash is yours. Have you got what it takes? Breakfast time in
:03:48. > :03:51.a suburb of Leeds. GP Lucy Clement and husband Chris live here with
:03:52. > :03:56.three-year-old Max and Daisy who is five. Neighbour Elsa is joining them
:03:57. > :04:01.for the school run. Wellies on... The family struggled to get Daisy
:04:02. > :04:06.into a primary school near home. At first, offered a reception place
:04:07. > :04:11.almost four miles away. After an appeal, they are closer, but it's
:04:12. > :04:15.still a drive and then a walk. The area's a primary school black
:04:16. > :04:19.hole with 500 families in the same boat. Our area's completely
:04:20. > :04:22.disadvantaged and year on year on year, you've got families who,
:04:23. > :04:26.despite choosing five local schools aren't getting into any of them. We
:04:27. > :04:29.want to finally bring a school to the area that it deserves, a school
:04:30. > :04:37.that they are prioritised for, so the ultimate aim is to sort the
:04:38. > :04:40.problem for the future. Mums were galvanised into action
:04:41. > :04:44.after officially being offered schools miles from home. We went
:04:45. > :04:48.through hell, sleepless nights, not knowing what was going to happen,
:04:49. > :04:52.thinking we were going to have to send our children to a struggling
:04:53. > :04:58.school that had a really poor Ofsted inspection. After an appeal, their
:04:59. > :05:02.kids are now closer to home, as this school converted its library into an
:05:03. > :05:08.extra classroom. Some people might say this is middle class parents
:05:09. > :05:13.making a bit of a fuss? We were not fussing about a first and second
:05:14. > :05:18.choice, we have no choice. The school I was given was my 28th
:05:19. > :05:24.nearest, that's ridiculous. But there are critics, including
:05:25. > :05:27.Jonathan Savage. They are not free, it costs ?30,000 a year more per
:05:28. > :05:32.student. Also they can employ anyone they want to be a teacher, you don't
:05:33. > :05:35.have to have a professional teaching qualification, they can also teach
:05:36. > :05:40.children whatever they want, they can make up their own curriculum.
:05:41. > :05:43.Own ago free school isn't easy. There's lots of hoops to jump
:05:44. > :05:47.through. You have got to get the backing of your local community,
:05:48. > :05:57.gather hundreds of signatures from parents and write this 150-page
:05:58. > :06:01.document. This is Hunsley Primary near Hull, a new free school that
:06:02. > :06:05.opened in September. Lucy and fellow parent Mark will face the Department
:06:06. > :06:11.for Education with their bid. Time for a fact-finding mission.
:06:12. > :06:18.Lucy Hudson is the Head and wrote the school's application. Quite a
:06:19. > :06:21.tough road ahead. I sat down to do what they were
:06:22. > :06:24.doing now two years ago and put pen to paper and they've got the vision
:06:25. > :06:29.there, but putting pen to paper is difficult, there's so much to think
:06:30. > :06:33.aboutlet. It's exciting to see a purpose-built space for little ones
:06:34. > :06:37.to learn in. Crunch time for the Leeds bid is
:06:38. > :06:42.looming with a make or break meeting at the Department for Education. We
:06:43. > :06:46.need to do go to the DFE and fight for the school. The community
:06:47. > :06:50.depends on us. This is what we could create on our doorstep. So they have
:06:51. > :06:53.seen what's possible, they are left motivated and inspired. Their big
:06:54. > :06:58.meeting is next week. Can they pull it off?
:06:59. > :07:05.It's D-Day and the big meeting with the Department for Education. Get
:07:06. > :07:10.this right and their dreams of starting a school along with a
:07:11. > :07:14.?250,000 launch fund will become a reality. A few minutes to go before
:07:15. > :07:19.the meeting and they are here. How are you feeling? Lovely to see you
:07:20. > :07:24.again? OK, bit nervous. This is it! How do you feel, Mark? It's the big
:07:25. > :07:26.one, isn't it... 90 minutes to wait now. Everything
:07:27. > :07:36.crossed for them. Here they come, the 90 minutes is
:07:37. > :07:42.up. Guys, how did it go? All right. All right. Erm... You
:07:43. > :07:46.look a bit shell-shocked? Yes, there's a lot riding on it. So you
:07:47. > :07:51.kind of feel the tension. When do you find out? When are you going to
:07:52. > :07:56.get a yes or no? We don't find out until spring. My goodness. That's
:07:57. > :08:05.terrible. The Government wants another 500 free schools by 2020 to
:08:06. > :08:06.add to the 400 it's already got. Will Roundhey Primary be one of
:08:07. > :08:07.them? We'll catch up with Lucy
:08:08. > :08:09.and Chris in April to see Harry, let's talk about the return
:08:10. > :08:16.of the original nutty professor, Professor Branestawm.
:08:17. > :08:19.This is a children's programme based on the books of the same name
:08:20. > :08:22.about an inventor who is constantly Last Christmas he teamed up
:08:23. > :08:25.with schoolgirl Connie to take on an evil businessman who wanted
:08:26. > :08:28.to build a munitions factory Who is this year's enemy and what's
:08:29. > :08:38.he doing that's so bad? We've got a clip of Professor
:08:39. > :08:52.Branestawm in his lab, That is Professor Algaebrain. He
:08:53. > :08:55.finds himself in debt. The Lady dies, leaving a certain amount of
:08:56. > :09:02.money which is exactly the amount he needs to pay off his debts. Funny
:09:03. > :09:07.that. But he has to enter an inventing competition to win the
:09:08. > :09:15.money. But he's competing against his arch enemy, so that is the drama
:09:16. > :09:21.on which we hang the excitement and the fun of basically this madcap
:09:22. > :09:25.adventure. We are going to have a look at a clip that you have brought
:09:26. > :09:30.with you. Here is an exclusive clip for Christmas Eve.
:09:31. > :09:34.Professor Branestawm, Sir, we don't need...
:09:35. > :09:44.BANG... Oh, my! Oh, dear.
:09:45. > :09:49.Ah, Mrs... Whatever are you doing? I've been working on a new
:09:50. > :09:53.invention. Must have touched a live wire. This is no time to be
:09:54. > :09:58.inventing. We should have been at Connie's ages ago, if not sooner.
:09:59. > :10:11.When it comes to inventing, you must strike while the iron's hot.
:10:12. > :10:15.That hair took me ages to grow! So many family dramas with CGI all
:10:16. > :10:20.over it but this is classic slapstick? Yes, Charlie Hikingson
:10:21. > :10:25.wrote it and one of the things he wanted to do was to bring the
:10:26. > :10:29.old-fashioned physical comedy back to the screens and kids love all
:10:30. > :10:37.that, that kind of falling over and there's a bit where there's a penny
:10:38. > :10:43.farthing chase at the end and I end up in the river. Did you do most of
:10:44. > :10:49.your own stunts? I would like to say yes, but no, I didn't.
:10:50. > :10:54.I'm on the back of a lorry there. There's a stunt guy and he goes over
:10:55. > :11:01.into the river, then he gets up, walks out and I sit into the river
:11:02. > :11:04.and go "ohh", like that. It's based on books written back in 1933 and
:11:05. > :11:08.the illustrations are just fantastic in them aren't they, they really
:11:09. > :11:12.bring them to life. You have literally gone for the exact same
:11:13. > :11:17.look? Yes. That is Heath Robinson, he did the illustrations and I was a
:11:18. > :11:23.big fan of the books as a kid. They were written in the '30s, there was
:11:24. > :11:28.a big resurgence in them in the early '70s, so that's what I was
:11:29. > :11:34.keen to do. Were you scientific as a child? Yes, I did medicine. I was
:11:35. > :11:39.into chemistry and had a big chemistry set and I formed this
:11:40. > :11:45.little company, making and selling fireworks and stink bombs with my
:11:46. > :11:49.friends. How old were you? When I was about 11, yeah. These days, you
:11:50. > :11:54.know, in those days it was a bit of fun playing with matches and making
:11:55. > :12:00.explosions, these days I would probably be in Guantanamo Bay!
:12:01. > :12:04.But yes, I was very much that kind of child. In the '70s, there was a
:12:05. > :12:09.whole feeling that everything could be sold with strings and pullies and
:12:10. > :12:14.boiling liquids and stuff and these days it's more about tablets and
:12:15. > :12:20.computers. This is the thing. Have you continued with that inventingish
:12:21. > :12:30.as you have got older? I have come up with an invention. Go on? I know
:12:31. > :12:34.it looks like a duster, but what it actually is, is when you're walking
:12:35. > :12:44.down the street, you get recognised a lot by members of the public, it's
:12:45. > :12:50.very difficult for you, you know, when you get recognised by
:12:51. > :12:58.civilians, like when you are Matt Baker. Not Alex Jones
:12:59. > :13:02.What you do, I'll stand up for the cameraman. Tuck that into the top of
:13:03. > :13:06.your trousers and when you're walking down the street... That is
:13:07. > :13:11.ideal, yes. You just walk down the street and nobody will even... You
:13:12. > :13:14.will find that people recognise you less.
:13:15. > :13:20.APPLAUSE I might try that on the way home,
:13:21. > :13:26.Harry. You can use it for dusting. Very handy thing to have. Professor
:13:27. > :13:35.Branestawm is on Christmas Eve, BBC One at 5. 20. I'll try that! ?12.99.
:13:36. > :13:39.Another fictional character Scrooge is miserable, mean and one of only
:13:40. > :13:47.two men who can pull off a white nightie and matching cap. The other
:13:48. > :13:52.one happens to be Arthur Smith. A sinner, hard and sharp as Flint
:13:53. > :13:59.from which no steel had ever struck out a generous fire. These
:14:00. > :14:04.marvellous words from Charles Dickens' novel, a Christmas Carol
:14:05. > :14:08.described Ebenezer Scrooge, the man who came to personify meanness.
:14:09. > :14:17.And it's widely believed he was based on an actual person. So who
:14:18. > :14:22.was the real Scrooge? John of Suffolk was a notorious miser in the
:14:23. > :14:26.18th century, buried here in the church next to his equally miserly
:14:27. > :14:31.uncle. He became even better known after his death when a book came out
:14:32. > :14:35.about his eccentric lifestyle. The book became a best-seller.
:14:36. > :14:40.Tonight, I'm sleeping in his former home on the estate he inherited from
:14:41. > :14:48.his uncle. Today it's a school for weekly borders.
:14:49. > :14:56.I am meeting are five times great-granddaughter. We were brought
:14:57. > :15:03.up on him, it is definitely family folklore. We all referred to him as
:15:04. > :15:09.the miser. He would ride his horse on the grass verge so he didn't have
:15:10. > :15:17.to have shoes on the horse. He ate meagre scraps. He just used to eat
:15:18. > :15:26.the game he shot on his estate? In its last stages of beautification.
:15:27. > :15:32.Do you think Charles Dickens based Scrooge on your ancestor? I dare say
:15:33. > :15:38.he would have read one of those. It appeals to people that someone could
:15:39. > :15:43.he so eccentric and so wealthy, yet he mean to himself. A Christmas
:15:44. > :15:50.Carol was written by Charles Dickens in six weeks. Was his ghostly little
:15:51. > :15:56.book inspired by the spirit of John? I am convinced Charles Dickens had
:15:57. > :16:03.heard of him, he makes reference to him in Our Mutual Friend, which is
:16:04. > :16:08.later publication. Just before Christmas Carol comes out, the
:16:09. > :16:17.miser's daughter is published. The miser in that story, scarf, is
:16:18. > :16:23.particularly similar to John. And the two authors were friends? I
:16:24. > :16:29.believe so. It may have been the basis of the pictures in a Christmas
:16:30. > :16:36.Carol, particularly the eyes and the long face. John served three terms
:16:37. > :16:41.as an MP but when travelling, was often mistaken for a tram. To avoid
:16:42. > :16:46.paying for board and lodgings, he would fill his pockets with
:16:47. > :16:53.hard-boiled eggs so he had something to eat when he slept by the wayside.
:16:54. > :16:58.I am hoping, now his former home is a school, more will be on offer for
:16:59. > :17:07.my supper tonight. Lees, can I have some more? Wrong Charles Dickens,
:17:08. > :17:14.must be nearly bedtime. I am sleeping in the former stables. John
:17:15. > :17:17.sometime saved money on heating by sleeping next to his horses. He
:17:18. > :17:22.would often get up in the middle of the night checking the gold coins he
:17:23. > :17:28.had hidden hadn't been stolen while he was asleep. I might have a bit of
:17:29. > :17:38.a look around myself, while I am here. Having spent a cold, windy and
:17:39. > :17:43.austere night in his former residence, I thought about John, a
:17:44. > :17:51.contradiction, a bit of an enigma, but one thing is for certain,
:17:52. > :17:55.becoming the model for Scrooge, he brought a huge amount of pleasure to
:17:56. > :18:00.the world. I wonder what he would have made up the story of Scrooge,
:18:01. > :18:04.had he lived to read it. Perhaps, like the character, he might have
:18:05. > :18:08.changed his ways before it was too late. As something of a grumpy old
:18:09. > :18:15.man myself, I have been known to utter the words, are humbug, but in
:18:16. > :18:21.the words of Dickens, may I say, a Merry Christmas, one and all.
:18:22. > :18:23.Last week we asked you to nominate your family Scrooge.
:18:24. > :18:25.And just like Arthur Smith, we've found a family
:18:26. > :18:33.Meet brother Scrooges, Peter and John Shepherd.
:18:34. > :18:41.Both Scrooges of the highest order. Peter, we will start with you.
:18:42. > :18:44.Last year he did buy his wife Sue a present, his first in their now 28
:18:45. > :18:53.Christmas decoratons are a banned topic,
:18:54. > :19:01.But he does go in the loft to get the tree down.
:19:02. > :19:07.Doesn't lift a finger to cook or clear up
:19:08. > :19:08.Says his favourite thing about Christmas,
:19:09. > :19:27.That is terrible. But John is even worse?
:19:28. > :19:30.Wife, Steph, has decorated the house like a grotto,
:19:31. > :19:32.all he's done is free up an extension lead.
:19:33. > :19:35.One year he did so little to help, Steph took his name off
:19:36. > :19:37.all the presents to the grandchildren, which just
:19:38. > :19:50.He hasn't bought his wife a single Christmas present in 49
:19:51. > :20:00.Next year it will be 50. You cannot be proud of that, John.
:20:01. > :20:04.Only saving grace is he makes the mince pies, because he likes
:20:05. > :20:17.Jools and Ruby and the Rythm Professor
:20:18. > :20:21.but first let's meet another giant of the entertainment industry.
:20:22. > :20:27.He's had an album in the charts every year for the last 28 years.
:20:28. > :20:33.And he danced a mean waltz on Strictly.
:20:34. > :20:47.It's the name on everyone's lips, he is of course, Daniel O'Donnell!
:20:48. > :20:53.I am Daniel O'Donnell, although many people know me as a dancer, I have
:20:54. > :21:00.been in the music business for over 30 years. All of the qualities I
:21:01. > :21:04.have as a person I got here on the north-west coast of Ireland in
:21:05. > :21:11.County Donegal. This is it. This is where I grew up. This is the house I
:21:12. > :21:18.lived in from when I was born until I was about five and a half. Here we
:21:19. > :21:23.are. It is a lot different to what it used to be like. There was no
:21:24. > :21:33.water in the house, so there was no need for sinks. You went out to the
:21:34. > :21:38.toilet. Now you go out to eat, and bring the toilet into the house.
:21:39. > :21:43.From my earliest memory, there was music in this house. My mother came
:21:44. > :21:47.from an island off the coast. A lot of people would be stranded because
:21:48. > :21:54.of the bad weather and couldn't get back. People would ease sitting
:21:55. > :22:03.there all night. Just singing. It was a great house. Just before I was
:22:04. > :22:11.moved from there to here, we had no need for a removal van. We had
:22:12. > :22:15.little to take and not far to go. Kathleen, my sister lives here and
:22:16. > :22:19.the house is always open and welcoming for us. This is one of the
:22:20. > :22:24.few pictures we have of my mother and father together. This is around
:22:25. > :22:30.the time they got married. If you look, I even have the same crooked
:22:31. > :22:34.nose he had. We moved in here in November and my father died the
:22:35. > :22:39.following August. She never got over his death even up until the last
:22:40. > :22:43.anniversary, she would cry. She always sat in this corner and her
:22:44. > :22:47.phonebook is there. It was like her Bible and she would like in the back
:22:48. > :22:53.of it when people were born and when somebody bought a fridge and when
:22:54. > :22:58.they got their washing machine! She always wanted me to sing, everywhere
:22:59. > :23:04.we went. Don't be a shrinking violet, put yourself forward. I was
:23:05. > :23:09.born on December the 12th, so birthday time around now. Christmas
:23:10. > :23:20.is one of my favourite times of the year.
:23:21. > :23:23.There was five or six of Christmas mothers and we would go around
:23:24. > :23:29.singing Christmas carols and we would have the soup after the mass
:23:30. > :23:39.on Christmas Eve. We sit and chat. We still do it, because she passed
:23:40. > :23:46.away a couple of years ago. This is the first place I sang in public.
:23:47. > :23:54.Getting the opportunity to sing with every hand that came, the good
:23:55. > :24:08.feeling I would get from singing was certainly set alight here.
:24:09. > :24:13.Rocking around the Christmas tree... All around, people were great
:24:14. > :24:21.dancers. We would stand back and watch them all quick stepping around
:24:22. > :24:25.here. The Strictly pose. I have been very fortunate to have a great
:24:26. > :24:32.following. The last 28 years, at some point e.g., I have had an album
:24:33. > :24:35.in the charts in the UK and that is thanks to the people who have
:24:36. > :24:39.supported what I have done. No matter where I go in the world, I
:24:40. > :24:44.always return home. There is nowhere like it. You can take the boy out of
:24:45. > :24:57.Donegal, but you will never take Donegal out of the boy.
:24:58. > :25:24.If you have a piano or a keyboard at home, Matt has put this on Facebook,
:25:25. > :25:30.an easy way to play Silent Night. Jools Holland and Ruby Turner are
:25:31. > :25:39.here. Ruby has done so many good things but they are not in the one
:25:40. > :25:46.place. She is the boogie will be queen. She is fantastic. Do you have
:25:47. > :25:53.a Christmas song everybody should listen to over the period? I always
:25:54. > :25:59.love Stevie Wonder, What Christmas Means To Me. Silent Night. On the
:26:00. > :26:08.Facebook page. Jools and Ruby,
:26:09. > :26:10.you get ready to play. Thank you to Harry
:26:11. > :26:12.for joining us tonight. Professor Branestawm is on at 5.20pm
:26:13. > :26:15.on Christmas Eve on BBC One. Tomorrow Dame Shirley Bassey will be
:26:16. > :26:17.here with the boys from Blake. Now, with Peace in the Valley
:26:18. > :26:21.from the new album "Jools and Ruby", here are Jools Holland,
:26:22. > :26:23.Ruby Turner and the Rythm and Blues # Calls me away,
:26:24. > :26:53.oh yes. # There will be peace
:26:54. > :27:10.in the valley for me, some day. # There will be peace
:27:11. > :27:14.in the valley for me, # There will be peace in the valley
:27:15. > :27:27.for me, for me. # And the lion shall lay down
:27:28. > :27:45.by the lamb, oh yes. # Changed from this
:27:46. > :27:57.creature that I am, oh yes # There will be peace
:27:58. > :28:02.in the valley for me, some day. # There will be peace
:28:03. > :28:06.in the valley for me, # There will be peace
:28:07. > :28:24.in the valley for me, # There will be peace
:28:25. > :28:34.in the valley for me, # There will be peace
:28:35. > :28:40.in the valley for me, # There will be peace
:28:41. > :28:54.in the valley for me,