14/12/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to a very festive Wednesday One Show. With Matt Baker

And with Alex Jones. A it's the season of goodwill, we will go big

on the giving theme tonight. . We will meet the teacher who gave the

gift of life to one of his pupils. Tom Daley and Strictly star, Claudia

Fragapane, will be giving a young sports star a very special honour.

Crowning them BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. To keep us

company on the sofa this evening, we give you three guests who all come

in the same sanlt it disguise. Can you guess who they are? Behind the

beard of Secret Santa number one is... An actor and comedian who

makes us go Ho, ho. Underlet hoot of Secret Santa is another actor and

comedian who make us go. Ha, ha. And Secret Santa number three is a

Prince of pop who make us go Olly,ology iy, Olly. Oy, Oy, Oy!

It's Johnny Vegas, Sally Lindsay and Olly Murs. Come on over. Have a

seat. There we are. Come on in, Johnny. You have to make an effort

with the decorations. What do you think, elaborate. Wonderfully

middle-class and under stated. Many comments have been made in my

streets in London about the amount of lights I put up. The Set the

scene, what is happening? Not loads, I don't think, for the actual shop

front. Small sparkling icicles and a bush that looks like it should be

talking to Moses. We went for lights inside. We have four trees. It's

excessive. Four? I have old ones because I think it's nice. Then I

get new ones. If's gone silly. Your family all dress up. That is my nana

and pops. They are lovely. This year we are doing PJs. All day? Whoever

gets the best one gets a special present. A lovely idea. A bit of

fun. It's your wedding anniversary today isn't it? It is. Many happy

returns. How many years? We have been together 13, but it's three. It

took a long time to get round to it. What are you doing here? He's taking

me for dinner. That is why I did my hair. It wasn't for the One Show. We

will talk about Still Open All Hours. Olly is performing his brand

new single. We've said that tonight

is all about giving and let's start with a scheme that's giving some

much needed hope and It's the brainchild of one man

with a radical idea, he's put the word 'shelter' back

into bus shelter. I'm on my way to the Isle of Wight

to see a man about a bus. This is no ordinary bus, it's a double-decker

that's been converted to provide shelter for the island's rough

sleepers, making it the UK's first mobile homeless hostel. It's the

brain child of Kevin Newton who was once homeless himself. Kiting out

the double-decker was his own work. Brilliant. Is while the council here

has hostels for the long-term homeless the only emergency shelter

closed in February. Sleeping 16, the bus has an open coal fire and

working kitchen. People can stay as long as they need to. The

qualification for coming on board is that me US able to register with the

council as homeless. No drinking or smoking and no drugs. Everyone is in

bed by 11.00pm, up by #.00am and we are one big family. He bought the

bus for ?7,000 and raised a further ?35,000 to help convert it. Tell us

where did the inspiration come from? There was a sleep bus in Australia

in Melbourne. That drives around and collects people. I wanted to do more

than just collect people. I wanted to change their lives. It's a great

idea. Do you think it could be seen as a big bus badge of shame for the

local authority? I think it probably has been a little embarrassing.

There are people sleeping in forests and woods. I don't think they

realised there was as many rough sleepers. What we've done is we've

brought everybody together. Currently, 15 rough sleepers call

the bus home, including Gary and Kay who have been living rough rough for

a couple of months. Where were you before you came here? Sleeping in

tents, one park we went to and a lot of kids threatening to burn the tent

down, throwing sticks and stones, whatever they could. It was

horrible. Is it fair to say you feel really safe here? Yeah. Knowing

there are volunteers you can talk to as well when you need to. The doors

are always locked at night. Loads safer. Many rough sleepers come with

addiction and other health problems. The bus has a permanent PO Box

address sos these can register with the doctor, register for work and

council payments. We are waiting to hear about a one bedroom flat. It

would be nice for him to go back to work to get money together. Could

the bus hostel catch on? Gareth Edwards works for a charity that

provides homelessness services for Worcester Council? What brought you

here? Someone approached me saying they heard about what was being done

here. I thought if someone has done it, it makes sense to come down and

see if it will work as an alternative tole night shelters. The

bus picks peoples up around the island in the day. It parks in the

same spot overnight. It's 5.30pm and every guest gets an evening meal.

Matty has been using the service after sleeping rough in a tent and

then at the back of a shop. I was freezing cold, Kevin said, come down

for an interview. I came down and I've been here ever since. A

week-and-a-half. It's brilliant. The best thing that's ever happened,

really. The project has the backing of Cllr Julia Smith who oversees the

island's housing. There was a shelter that was returned? The

building was turned back to education for a school. I had taken

over my role. All of a sudden I got hit with - the night shelter is

closing. Kevin came to see me and say - I want to turn a bus into a

homeless shelter. Having been homeless myself I can really

identify with people and it breaks my heart to note there are a number

of people who have fallen through the net for some reason. They are

the people that Kev is picking up and introducing back into the

system. Have you got coal? Fantastic. Could the bus idea be

heading to Worcestershire with Gareth? What is the most surprising

thing you found when you arrived at the bus? The fact it has a nice

community feel. As funds get tighter we need to think of progressive

solution that is could work everywhere. Next morning, the bus

delivers me back to the ferry. There is no easy solution to

homelessness, even on a holiday island. I mean, the bus may have its

critics, one thing is for sure, it provides cheap and effective

support. We can get on board with that. I'm sure loads of people

watching that, it's a brilliant idea. It's brilliant idea. I could

offer to drive that bus. You have your licence now. You should do it.

A brilliant idea, brilliant scheme. Bocking day night Still Open All

Hours. It started three years ago as a one-off thing. It has become a

really big series again, hasn't it? Yeah. It was a pilot. We blagged a

part on it, didn't we? We did. As husband and wife. It's the most

watched thing on TV in terms of a sitcom. Is it? I should have own

known that, shouldn't I? You have plans, you told us in great detail

you are out on boxing night. Will you watch it with your families. My

kids are six now. They have been watching the re-runs. They start

crying, laughing. You can watch it with little ones. It's unusual. It's

a cosy sitcoms that you enjoy to sit down and watch together. It's that

community. Is that how it feels, even from the read through stage do

you have a laugh and joke? It's one of the nicest casts, isn't it?

Stephanie Cole. Love you. Legend. She so funny in rehearsals. It's

lovely. You feel you have been adopted by the original cast. You

are, working with these people. Watching it on Christmas Day, you

are watching something you used to watch with your mum and dad. We had

that many pictures next to the picture of Ronnie Barker. We are

like that... We can't believe it. We are in this cast. It's unbelievable.

No egos. The bigger you are, the less ego I found. We are the

juvenile leads, aren't we, kid? We are always kicking off about the

catering. You are Kath and Eric, a married couple, not exactly love's

young be dream. We are in love, ish. You are always... In character you

are telling me you are love. You are not asking me if we're in love. Are

you hoping for a thunder storm this series? Yes. Always trying to get a

cuddle. She is playing hard to get? She is terrible. Keeps him under the

thumb. On the Christmas special will are lozenge's that may solve his

problems - or may not. I can't say much more than that. They have

fallen for scam. He wants love and attention from you. You are look at

me like it's real. I heard him say - wedding anniversary and got carried

away. You have linked beautifully to the clip we have of you two. Let's

have a look. Let's get this over with and we can go and make some

magic together. You've got to pick my mother up. You will regret this

when I'm irresistible to women. There will be a queue. Maybe if

you're at a bus stop. Very sweet. Sir David Jason is back. He is the

Don, does he rule the roost? He is lovely snoochl he is lovy. It's his

show. He is a legend, isn't he? He is fantastic. He's very funny.

Massive ideas. He is executive pro duder as well, he is in charge. He

is lovely. Normally you can't shut me up. I'm sat next to her and I'm

actually playing the husband. I'm just nodding. And agreeing. It

starts Bocking day night. There are seven episodes. Yes we have seven.

You can speak. What do you want me to say? Just agree that we can enjoy

it for a few more weeks. Fantastic. Lovely to be back. Every year it

comes back it's one of those jobs you go - it ease not work, it's

going out to play every day. You are nervous when you bring a show back.

The original writer, Roy, they have done a lovely job of bringing in the

old cast, new cast and we get to have fun. You do a little bit of

acting in your music videos, Olly? Not as good as these two. In the

music videos you touch on a bit of acting. I do enjoy it. When I was

younger at school I did drama. I really wanted to do it more often

when I finished school. I never got around to doing it. I went into

music. Do you fancy it later down-the-line I would want to study

again and learn more about it. Doing a music video and singing my own

song is not really acting. I would love to do it. I'm very hung up on,

we never trained... I did acting lessons. Not officially. Sorry. I

did a bit of training. He is a potter, that is his training. Mad on

ceramics. Nothing thrills your nine-year-old

son than opening a punch bowl! If you are a good boy next year I will

make you the ladel to go with it. You can see Sally and Johnny on

Still Open All Hours on Boxing Day at 8. 30pm.

As the schools start to break up over the next week,

teachers up and down the country will no doubt be getting

But one teacher has already given a present of his own

to one of his pupils - the most precious gift

I'm a teacher in a school and I work with children with special

educational needs. It's quite exciting to be the champion for

people that sometimes others forget. She is a pupil at the school I have

worked with for a number of years, a student with lots of different

needs. She has hydrocephalus which is water on the brain. My daughter

was having too much fluid in her head. Which compressed the growth of

the brain. It did have some complications for her learning. And

her growth was very, very slow. If she's six then she is like four

years old. But she was doing fine, doing well. At age 13, Alya was

diagnosed with kidney failure. We've always known that she had medical

needs but the kidney problem was a bit of a shock, really. I'm a bus

tries but when Alya went to dialysis three times a week I had to go part

time. We are in kind of a difficult situation. Alya is in pain, her mum

has to stay with Alya in the hospital.

Every now and then you get one of these little light bulb moments. I

just suddenly realised there is something you can do. I've got two

kidneys, she needed one. I just said I'd put my name down on the

register. When I put my name forward Alya's dad had put his name forward

but there were some medical complications. It's very rare for an

outsider to match. There was one doctor, he said it was not possible.

First of all you have to check your blood match and then your kidney has

to be a match. There are six marks on your kidney and you have to be at

least three of them to be a match and I was at three. And they were

quite shocked because we are totally different ethnicities.

When I told my wife, Elaine, she was very positive. I spoke to the

headteacher and the governors of the school and they were totally

supportive because they knew it wasn't just a matter of giving

someone to make their life a bit different but it was actually

realistically it would be saving her life. We did worry for his health,

is he going to be sick? Because he has got a family to look after.

We've looked at all the risks. I ride a motorbike every day. As much

of a risk of me coming off that. As long as you've got one healthy

kidney, that's all you need. That was a slight concern of my parents,

what about if the other kidney goes wrong? But I don't like to leave it

in the ifs. If you can make a difference that day, make a

difference that day. It is life or death, things might go wrong. But he

was normal, he was happy. It was painful for just a few days.

But then it was like as if nothing has happened. She was happy. She can

drink as much as she can and she can eat any food. At the time of the

operation I was 53 and two years later it has made no difference to

my health. There's a saying that it's better to than to receive. The

family have taught me about great commerce. If I go to school, Mr Coe

is the teacher. But outside the school he's member of our family. I

just call him Ray. Sometimes I call him brother. I haven't so much lost

a kidney, I've gained a family. There isn't a dry eye in the house

here. And Ray and Alya are with us this evening. How are you both?

Really good, aren't we? Your face, watching, honestly that was so

wonderful, it really was. Ray, please tell me you haven't set any

homework for Alya? Just a little bit! Thank you so much. If you are

interested in becoming a donor there is more information on our website.

You have encouraged all of your family? That is the most amazing

thing. All the boys when they were born, they are on the register, I'm

on the register, it should be mandatory. In Wales we asked who I

don't know the argument, it's a bit of a done deal, really, it should be

rolled out. Yes top white absolutely. The good news is that

Olly will be singing later so you can have a bit of a dance. Shortly

we will be revealing the winner of the young sports personality of the

year award. We've been joined by gymnast

and Strictly semi-finalist, # This woman is my destiny

# She said shut up and dance #.

Well. Many of the dances were amazing, the Charleston blew my

mind. How do you feel looking back on the weekend? We are devastated

for your. You can't believe she's not in the final, can we? Of all of

the four you definitely were not the worst one, honestly it was super.

Everybody is so good, you don't really know what to expect. Whoever

was in the bottom two it was going to be a bit dramatic. But it was my

time to go out unfortunately. I really enjoyed my time and

definitely got an amazing experience. I never moved my body so

much in my life. Even for a gymnast? Even for a gymnast. You have some

who are very flexible and then you've got the stiff and powerful

gymnasts, that's me. To do something completely different, out of my

comfort zone, I really enjoyed it. Will you put anything you have

learned from strictly into your gymnastics? Definitely. I wanted to

put some of the moves into the gymnastics. I can't wait. But

there's a bit of pressure with that. When will we see you doing your next

floor routine, what's the plan? Hopefully in March at Liverpool at

the Echo Arena, performing my new floor routine, the British

Championships. AJ won't be joining in. I wish he could join in. You may

not get a gettable but you are presenting the young sports

personality of the year award. You won back in 2014, so what did it

mean to you back then? It meant everything because you work so hard

in the year to achieve all your goals. I won four golds at the

Commonwealth Games. Just to work so hard and get rewarded at the end as

well as getting medals, huge rewards to say how well you've done and what

you've achieved. It pushes you to be the best you can be and bring on the

next years and just be the best. And gives you an idea of the impact that

you've had on people that are outside the sport coming to it for

the first time. Definitely, and everybody just wants to push

themselves to the best that they can. As an athlete you kind of just

one too, obviously you want to beat everyone and you want to be the best

at all so it's beating yourself. When I go into competitions I like

to do the best that I can, beat that score, go to another competition and

do even better. It's really great. To find out which the young sporting

superstars make up this year 's final short list, over to another

previous winner. Who has reached huge

heights in his career - and then dived off them -

it's Tom Daley. The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is

home to some of the most memorable moments of London 2012 and a fitting

place to take a look at the three contenders for this years Young

sports personality of the award. This award goes to an outstanding

athlete in recognition of a remarkable sporting achievements.

Some past winners have gone on to enjoy huge success including Wayne

Rooney, Ellie Simmonds, Andy Murray and during my career I've been

honoured to win this award three times. Tom Daley. Tom Bailey. I'm

sorry I can't be with you guys in Birmingham but I'd like to thank the

judging panel for giving me this award and I'd like to thank my coach

for supporting me and getting me through the ups and downs of my

diving career so far. That's nearly ten years ago, look how young I was.

Tom Bailey. The judging panel met in November and included an Olympic tae

kwon do silver medallist, a British sprint star, and the Paralympic

cycling champion. Let's look at the top three contenders as announced on

Blue Peter last week. Durham's Amy Tinkler made history taking a bronze

medal in Rio, becoming the first ever British female gymnast to win a

medal in that event. Paris swimmer Ellie Robinson took gold in the 50

metre butterfly. Unbelievable! She also won a bronze medal in the 100

meter freestyle, all at just 15 years of age. He has not only broken

into the ospreys side this year but also into the Welsh national squad.

In his debut season he managed to score eight tries in his first four

games including a hat-trick away at Lyon in the European challenge cup.

Best of luck to all of the top three contenders and a massive

congratulations to the winner. I'll see you in Birmingham. And Tom Daley

will be our first guest when we come back in the New Year. Three very

worthy contenders. And we were out in Rio supporting Amy. You know who

it is, that's why they are here today, what would you like to tell

everybody at home? The BBC Young sports personality of the year 2016

is Ellie Robinson. Huge congratulations, well done. Are

you adding this trophy to the Paralympic gold, how does it feel to

add that to the trophy cabinet? Such an amazing year and just the icing

on the cake to be honest. It's been a surprisingly. Something I've not

really expected. Has it been a surprisingly? It has actually, I

only really started swimming properly about three years ago. So

it's just gone so quickly. It has kind of snowball. I'm taking it one

step at a time and it has gone so quickly. And it all started for you

in London 2012 when you popped into the Paralympic swimming? Yes, I

remember watching it and at the time I had been told I might be all right

at swimming. That was when I was like, yeah, I want to start swimming

now, she was definitely my main inspiration. Huge congratulations

once again, Ellie Robinson. And you can see BBC sports personality of

the year on Sunday at 6:40pm on BBC One. Well done, once again.

Johnny, you were out in Rio for the last leg? I was coming year. It had

a big impact on you? Unbelievable, it still is. Just the impact it had

on everybody. You go out there and you go, the commitment, everything

was kind of overwhelming. It was having to leave, when you are

suddenly so invested in something. It was so accessible. You are

meeting everybody. You are rooting for everyone. I've never quite been

caught up in something that has made me feel, know what I mean? You come

out on such a high. The amount of people stopping you on the street,

the entire coverage of it. The whole thing just took it to an exceptional

level. The amount people going, you know what, it's far more

inspirational. I don't want to offend the other athletes. But it

was better. Now, if you're anything like me,

you'll spend the run-up to Christmas on a mad dash around the shops,

while quietly cursing those I was going to say, don't look at

me. I saw your bags at lunchtime. I'm packed, everything is done. You

can do mine, now. I just had a bust up over a click and collect today.

Seriously, was it bad? I can't tell you what they walked away with

because it is a surprise for someone. Try standing in a shop

saying "I'm meant to be on the one show!" That's why you were late!

But one decade after thousands of Christmas Club

savers lost their cash, how safe are they nowadays?

UK shoppers are set to fork out a record ?77.5 billion this Christmas,

it works out at ?800 a household. Saving up for all those presents and

enough food to sink a battleship can be a year-long stress. We've all got

different ways of sorting out our festive finances. If I haven't got

the money, then I don't buy it. It's as simple as that. When you go out

on a night out, and have money, I put that in the pot. I had ?1,500

the last time. I know. Get to the November, panic and hope for the

best. Hundreds of thousands of us use traditional Christmas saving

clubs to spread the cost across the year. Some of our leading

supermarkets are getting in on the action. From Tescos and Asda's

Christmas Club Cards to the Co-Op saving stamps. The customers pay in

money until Christmas when it's paid out, often as vouchers. Christmas

clubs can be completely unregulated. Anyone can set one up. So how safe

are they? Notoriously, ten years ago, the Christmas saving scheme run

by Farepak collapsed leaving more than 100,000 families ?37 million

out of pocket, just as Christmas arrived. Families like Deb Harvey's

from Newport. Nice to see you. As well as saving with Farepak she was

a local agent, collecting money from friends and family. When the firm

collapsed, together they had lost more than ?2,000. It was horrendous.

One lady had five little kids. I'm telling you, 10 weeks before

Christmas everything she paid for it gone. She has been campaigning for

financial protection for Christmas club savers ever since, what do you

think should happen? Full regulation. If I hand you ?10 I need

to have assurances that ?10 will be there when I come to spend it. Her

Christmas wish might be granted. Earlier this year a

Government-backed study of the Christmas club sector was carried

out by the Law Commission. This is its fine al report. It says

Christmas clubs can be high-risk and that there's no laws to ensure the

clubs protect the money. If the business goes bust, you can lose the

lot. It says all Christmas clubs should hold on to our savings in a

ringfenced trust account, separate from the main business finances. So

if the company fails, our money is still safe. It sounds simple enough,

but we've discovered Asda, which has over a million Christmas savers,

doesn't hold their money in a protected account. Tesco believed

their Christmas savers scheme uses a properly constituted trust and they

say they are form allising the trust in accordance with the Law

Commission's specific requirements. Both supermarkets insist saver's

money is safe. The Co-op used a properly ringfenced trust account.

None of the supermarket schemes are regulated. What about the rest of

the industry? John Herdly is from the Christmas Pre-payment

Association. Although Christmas clubs don't have to join it. The CPA

has a code of practice and trust arrangements which make sure that

Farepak could not happen again. Not everyone is a member of the CPA?

Absolutely right. What has been the response of the supermarkets? We

have approached the supermarket to see if they would be interested in

joining. If companies don't wish to do so, there is no way of forcing

them to do so. As a financial service it's surprising to me it's

not regulated by law? That's a matter for the Government. The

Government told us it won't respond to the Law Commission's report until

the new year. In the meantime, Deb believes all savers should be

careful with their Christmas cash. Unless you have got cat goric full

100% protection, don't do it. Put it in a bank account, at least you've

got the safety and the security of knowing your money is going to be

there. Just the worst time of year. Exactly. It's strange that the big

supermarkets aren't regulated. Isn't it. They will be now, you watch. We

mentioned in that fill than your uncle has a great way of saving. It

was weird. He told me in the car at the weekend. Him and his auntie, my

auntie, were talking about saving for Christmas. 1st January I put 1p

in, 2p on the second, 3p, 4p and 5p for the rest of the year. I forgot

to ask how much you get at the end. Good idea. Put 1p in each day and

just keep going. Do you remember the massive whisky bottles. They don't

do them any You used to more. Hit it with a tin opener. It's November,

can we start with a penny again. You are getting tangerines! They used to

say, don't eat it, put it back in the fruit bowl. Lots of people will

be saving up for your new album, 24 Hrs. It's very personal this one.

Yeah. It went to number one. Thank you to everyone who brought the

album. It was partly about my break-up with my ex a year ago now.

I can't believe it's only been a year. A year ago we broke up. It was

nice to get in the studio and write about that. At the same time, it

isn't just a heartbreak album. It has happy stuff on there. How do you

tell the ex you wrote an album about the break-up, how does it... Did you

have the conversation? I think she understood that was probably going

to happen. I didn't have the intentions of going into the studio

to do that. I've never done it before. Never been that honest with

the songwriting. When I went into the studio it was the only thing

that came out. Go with it. When it was finished I felt like, I have to

play her the album before it comes out. I couldn't... Imagine hearing a

song written about you on the roochl I played it to her. We went for

something to eat. I played her the album? In the restaurant! No. Can I

have my album on, please, guy! Are you not afraid she will do a re-mix.

"I treated you well" "no, you didn't". "I bought you flowers -

from the garage forecourt" That could album. It was 50-50 I don't

suppose she liked most of. It I felt it was the right thing to do. It

must be heard to listen to? It's hard for me... You don't say that

about someone's album. That's his career! It must be hard to listen

to! In a poignant sense. It's hard to sing the songs, they come from a

different place. It's great. I'm hoping my fans are liking it as

well. You have said, the fourth album to go to number one. The

pressure ta you must feel when be you are writing this stuff to go -

is this the one that is not going to go to number one? Listen, I don't

take anything for granted. Do you know what I mean? When I do an album

I want to do it because I feel excited and proud of it. When it

goes to number one it's up to the fans to like it. Fourth consecutive

number one is amazing. It really is. Like I say, I have great fans and

great supporters. Thank you. Off on tour on Tour in March March. . I

will be on the road in March doing the arenas. A summer tour as well

next year. I will be touring most of next year. So many songs. Jool we

are doing the racecourses. Bigger gigs. Big county grounds, cricket

county grounds. I will take my mates to the racecourses for the day. You

haven't got time for a girlfriend now.

Come to Haydock Park. You will sing Years and Years Ted end from the

album 24 Hrs. It's released Friday 23rd December. Whose birthday is

that. Matt Baker. If I had an album based on a break-up it would be -

really. It's not really enough for an album, is it? Oh, dear. You will

love this. Sorry. We asked Father Christmas if we

could have old letters from boys and girls out of his old files. We got

three viewers to bring in their letters. They will read them. When

it comes to asking what they want, they will leave a blank. OK. You

will guess what the gift is that they wanted. OK. We will call this

game, this is quite... Let us not tell everyone. Let us put it on.

This is it. All right. Let's play this...

The first letter we got back we reunited the owner with is Johnny.

You are an the example. This is genuine letter. That was his letter.

Dear Father Christmas. I hope that you will be able to deliver me a

BLANK and a remote controlled car. If you cannot get me a remote

controlled car, I would like a computer game. PS, I will leave you

some mince pies and shop sherry. Yours faithfully, my other namens

will Beautiful hand writing, by the way. We will put the picture up.

What do you think this little boy would have wanted back then? A bike.

You You think a bike. There he is. Look at that. Olly, bike, you reckon

Potter's wheel. What was it... A bike! Here we go.

All the way back to 1958. We will say, hello to Richard. In 1958,

Richard. You can read the letter you have been reunited with. Dear Father

Christmas. I do not want much this year. I want a pear of BLANK, a toy

guitar and some sweets. Love from Richard. Don't foregoat call in. A

pair of BLANKS. Pants. Roller skates. Good. I went roller skates

or rollerblades. Spectacles. What did you want in 1958? A pair of jet

anies. -- jeans. Don't know what they are. What were jet jeans. I

asked the same. They were black and call "Jets". All the rage. Matthew

now with his awesome Christmas jumper. 1986. You were seven or

eight. Yes. Give us a read of the letter. Dear Santa, how are you?

Have you had a nice long rest? I hope. So my name is Matthew

Crighton, if you have enough presents to go around could you

please bring me a BLANK, wishing you a happy and holy Christmas, God

bless you on Jess's birthday. Love Matthew. Let us look at your face

when you were just seven. There you are. 86/87. It could be a console.

Yeah. ZX... Action Man? Console. It might have been something that

Johnny wanted. A bike. A remote control car. We are excited about

this last letter. Rebecca, what happened with the letter to start

with? My dad never posted it. It never got posted. But why we ask.

What was wrong with the address. I addressed it to sant it's evils not

San it's elves. With have our hands on the letter. Rebecca will open it

live. She can't remember what she asked for. We have to guess. It was

1994, you were six. What was the rage there? Post Cabbage Patch. I

was into the Smiths then so... Let's look. I'm going for pram. Care Bear.

That is good. Hello. Lego. What about a dressing table? This was it

then. This was you. Dear Santa I think you are very kind... Dear

Santa elves I think you are kind helping poor Santa making those

presents for the children in the world. Here's a gift for you. I

wrote him a card. I gave him a gift. Gift.

Oh, sweetheart. That is the spirit of Christmas. We will continue... It

wasn't posted and Santa retired. We will continue all this wonderful

Christmas theme with a classic carol. This is definitely in the

Kiev B. # Of all the trees

that are in the wood, Looking spectacular even to rout the

barren month it's only right that Holly is celebrated. For animals the

berries provide food whilst its prickly leaves create cover. But

although it's often overshadowed by the vibrancy of Holly, Ivy is just

important for wildlife. Especially if you're a bee. Like Ollie, Ivy is

an evergreen plant, and it flourishes as the year comes to a

close. These small green yellow clusters of flowers are remarkably

rich in nectar and flowering late in the season means ivy becomes an

important free fuel stations in six before winter hits. I've come to

Hastings to see one particular bee whose life cycle revolves around the

flowering of ivy, the aptly named ivy bee. This bee was only

recognised as a separate species about 20 years ago. That's right. It

appeared in the UK in 2001 when specimens were found in Dorset.

Within a few years it spread widely across southern England. In the last

three or four years it has made big inroads northward. It's a solitary

bee but that's not what makes it really interesting. No. It will nest

in absolutely colossal numbers. Sometimes numbering tens of

thousands, these huge groups have become known as bee cities. There's

hundreds of them, look. Although they look similar to the honey bee,

ivy bees have much more distinctive stripes on the abdomen. You only see

these bees at the end of summer? That's right, they are dependent on

pollen from ivy plans so they have to time that emergence and flight

period to coincide with the flowering of the ivy. What's

happening here with these bees flying around, they are males?

That's right, these males are careering around, trying to pick up

the scent of the females. Emerging first, the males tirelessly

patrolled the boroughs. Heading deep inside, the female gives off

pheromones which the males can sniff out. But it's what happens when she

emerges that I want to see. Being at the right burrow at the precise

second she comes out is practically impossible, as there are hundreds of

burrows in this one small area. George, I think we've got something

here. Oh, good. Now, there we've got something very interesting

happening. Certainly we have. The female has recently emerged and the

males have let on her, each one desperate to mate. This is called a

mating ball. So it's a free for all? Absolutely. How many males will try

to mate with her? Well, as many as can pick up the scent and get in, so

it will be about 30. He's mating balls roll around on the ground,

often travelling meters away from the nesting hole. But only one male

will succeed. Correct. Is that the only time that female will mate?

Yes. Once mating is over, it's time for the female to dig a new burrow

and then provision in the nest with the all-important ivy pollen. The

males die, and once the females have laid their eggs inside the burrow,

they too died. For the next 11 months this bee city will be silent

whilst the larvae develop into adults. The bees won't be seen above

ground until the ivy flowers again next year. Holly really plays second

fiddle, for then it's the ivy that bears the crown.

What a beautiful film, these three were laughing about 20 seconds ago,

I don't know what that. We've got some Christmas DVDs here,

one each. We start with top of the pots from 1980, Saint Winifred

Squire, who was in this, we wonder, Sally.

# Grandma, we love you # Grandma, we do. There I am. There

you are! It's the gift that keeps giving. If you haven't guessed, this

is before they were famous, OK? Johnny, you ended up on telly before

we knew you as the wonderful Johnny Vegas. Please don't show this. This

was Johnny before he was famous. I am try to break into the world of

comedy. Isn't that lovely? It takes a lot to embarrass Johnny, to be

fair. I don't know why you are laughing, Mr Murs. Deal or no Deal,

anybody? Let's see it. There he is. You've not changed at

all-star blue that brings back bad memories. You almost won a lot of

money? I turned down 26 grand, I think it was. What did you win? At

ten. No! The thing is they invited me back to the celebrity special and

I only won 50p. And now you are doing your uncle savings scheme. I

was drawing a bulldozer and he kept calling it a digger-upper, and I

really needed the money. We need to keep enough time for Olly to sing.

If you're wondering what the chances are

of a white Christmas - our friends at the BBC

Weather Centre told us earlier today that

whilst it's not the mildest winter on record, it is unusually mild

Things will get cooler next week but at the moment the chance

of a White Christmas is a snowball's chance in hell.

And if you don't know what that is...

That old devil Marty has measured it for us.

When we want to say that something has a very slim chance, we use

idioms like pigs might fly, or a snowball's chance in hell. But I

want to use science to find out if a snowball could actually survive in

hell. To recreate the devil's Inferno we need to establish its

precise temperature. And where better to find that information than

in the Bible? Specifically the book of Revelations. It states "The

fearful, and unbelieving, shall have their part in the lake which burned

with fire and brimstone. Brimstone is an old-fashioned name for this

stuff, sulphur. And if you heat this up, first it melts and turned into a

liquid, and then at 440 Celsius it begins to boil and turns into a gas.

So hell must be between 115 and 444 Celsius. Otherwise it's molten lake

would evaporate. Luckily for me Southampton University's engineering

and environment Department has another Mac can reach this hellish

temperature. And some students are on hand to help out. The team

discovers that that hell's tempered it takes less than three minutes to

burn another ready pizza and reduce jellybeans to molten sugar. Surely

our snowball stands even less of a chance. Ice is always going to melt

at 0 degrees, so what can we do to help our snowball? Make the surface

area small by compacting the snow as much as possible. When hot water is

poured over loose snow it melts almost instantly. Whereas a compact

it snowball hangs around for a while. A chilly air temperature

should help, too. With his expert knowledge of snow, we hope he will

help us build some suitably sturdy snowball is. I started when I was

eight years old as a kid in Romania where we have a lot of snow,

building snow forts and snow mound that my dad created from shovelling

the drive. On a sunny day like this how can we make snow? By bashing

some ice in a blender. You want to get rid of the water, so you freeze

the water with liquid nitrogen. Repeating the process of blending

and freezing you gradually powder down the ice. A real powder snow.

Powder snow, exactly. First the students make a snowball by hand as

we would when playing in the snow here in the UK. This should be just

below 0 Celsius. They also create a super snowball, densely compressed

with a weight of 200 kilograms, and chilled by liquid nitrogen and a

deep freeze to a temperature below -70 Celsius. Like the coldest

Antarctic winter. Our ovens reached the temperatures of health. Our

snowball 's are ready. First up, our hand compact it snowball. Let's see

what happens. That's quite amazing, actually, it has been in for a

minute. Here it goes. Starting to go quickly. It's gone. Four minutes and

ten seconds. How about our super Antarctic snowball? It has been in

their half a minute. It is starting to go. We've got two minutes now.

The big plate has cracked. Super snowball is bad for glass is what we

have discovered. We have still got a snowball, not gone yet. It has gone

at four minutes, 50 seconds. So our super Antarctic snowball gave as an

additional 40 seconds of life in hell.

They have given us hot chocolate to warm up. Thanks to salary, Johnny

and Claudia for joining us. Thank you very much indeed.

We'll be back tomorrow with the stars from Dr Who and Sherlock -

Here's Olly Murs with his new single 'Years and Years'.

# And I'm alone in the dark, a painted picture inside my mind

# Of all the things that I wanted but I never thought I would find

# Maybe you know, maybe you don't but it's a question I have to ask

# I know we're young and we got life but life always goes so fast

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm willing

# Years and years, we won't forget the time and place that we met

# You signed your name on my heart saying you were here

# But we came close maybe once or twice

# We got burned but we learned not to listen to bad advice

# Now I know you're mine 'cos it feels like time's on our side

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm willing

# Years and years, we won't forget the time and place that we met

# You signed your name on my heart saying you were here

# It's all I want, it's all I know

# This feeling's never ever getting old

# It's all I know, know, know, know, know

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm willing

# Years and years, we won't forget the time and place that we met

# You signed your name on my heart saying you were here

Hello, I'm Asad Ahmad with your 90 second update.

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