15/02/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show.

With Matt Baker.

And Michelle Ackerley.

And a happy Chinese

New Year's Eve to you all.

Tomorrow marks the Year of the Dog.

As a strange coincidence,

both of our guests were born

in the Year of the Dog.

According to Chinese folklore,

that makes them "stubborn,

conservative and emotional".

Let's find out if that's true.

Please welcome Peter Egan

and Alison Steadman!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Welcome, both. Stubborn,

Conservative, emotional?

I am not

emotional!

Peter? I think I am

stubborn. Certainly emotional. And I

am also, because I am a wee brat and

a dog, I am quite diplomatic.

Good

characteristics. And as actors come

you have to be emotional, it comes

with the territory.

Yes, you have to

bring a tear to the eye at the click

of a finger.

And you were telling us

about a recent stubborn scenario.

And rightly so, with the plastic at

the latest screening of a comedy

drama.

Yes, you find wherever you go

you get offered plastic cups to take

into the cinema and theatre and I am

so against it. I am afraid I have

got to the point where I just go,

no, I am not accepting that! I have

just had it really. Good for you!

The only reason you get offered

these cups is because they do not

want to pay anybody to wash glasses.

It is terrible. Even at our West End

theatres, they are giving out

plastic by The Times. The National

Theatre, even. It is terrible, it is

really bad. So I saying no!

You

going for it! Good for you! We have

a special on plastics next week you

should watch. I will send you a

text!

First, we've all heard

about the controversy surrounding

stop and search over the years,

but what about so-called

'stop and scan'?

The Home Office has announced -

very quietly, critics say -

that it's rolling out new smartphone

technology which allows police

to scan people's fingerprints

on the streets.

A time and money saver for police,

or a dangerous new power?

Anita has been asking

for your thoughts.

In Bristol.

Fingerprints. A unique

key to our identity. And now with

new technology, police can stop

suspected colonels and take their

fingerprints right here on the

streets. And all they need to do is

a smartphone and a scanner.

A trial by West Yorkshire Police has

seen front-line officers equipped

with the new scanners checking the

finger prints of suspects against

criminal and immigration databases.

Because we only take the

fingerprints of people suspected of

offences and whose identity we don't

know, by identifying them on the

street, we would be able to use

other disposals like a caution so we

don't have to bring them into

custody. The data we collect in

order to search the national

database is discarded as soon as the

search takes place.

West Yorkshire Police made 175 text

with this technology in just 12 days

this month and following the trial,

it is expected another 20 police

forces around the country would pick

up the system by the end of the

year.

The police in Britain will be given

the right to be able to take

fingerprints on the street, what do

you think?

Good idea. There is just

not enough done towards crime.

I

think that is outrageous.

Intimidating. It might be to save

time, what about how we feel?

Do you

agree? I don't know, it might be

safer because there might be people

who are criminals.

It is tricky, it

really is. If they are going to

catch a lot of people, yes.

I find

that very embarrassing. Not so sure,

actually. If they think you have

done something wrong and to save

time taking people to the station,

why not do it there and then?

We

have had this issue, especially with

young black men and Asian guys being

stopped randomly searched.

Police

say this will save them time and in

doing that, save the taxpayer money.

You cannot put a price on people's

freedom.

And people here in Bristol

are not alone because simple

liberties groups also have concerns

about this new technology and how it

might be used.

Giving your finger prints to the

police is a uniquely identifying bit

of information.

It is like giving of

your DNA. You need safeguards to

make sure the police only take that

information from people at times

when it is right and appropriate to

do so.

We will not be going and

stopping and scanning people, we

will only use this when we have an

offence and we doubt people's

identity, that is what the

legislation says and that is what we

will use it for!

I think if

everybody knows their rights, it

should not be a big issue. It is

about letting the public know their

rights.

You cannot refuse? You can

refuse, but if they insist... They

can take you to the station.

So they

would arrest due to take you to the

station?

Yes, just to prove you have

not done anything.

So just say, OK,

get it done and walk away.

A mixed

response to the new technology in

Bristol today, although the one

thing most people have in common is

that they want more information.

It is leading to an interesting

discussion.

Alison, the Home Office says this

isn't giving the police new powers,

it just brings the tech

onto the streets.

But what do you make of it?

I have got mixed feelings. Yes, on

the one hand, a great idea because

it enables the police to do their

jobs. Quickly and efficiently. On

the other hand, I do find the world

we live in now with cameras

everywhere, it is like... I was

talking to Peter earlier. I went to

a party in a hotel about year ago. I

went into the ladies toilet and

there were these cubicles and I

looked up and there was a camera in

there! Of loosely set up by the

hotel. And it was perhaps a place

where people must have been using,

taking drugs. There was definitely a

camera in the corner which was a bit

scary.

Peter, the officer said you

had to be a suspect.

However loose

that term may be. Do we all have to

volunteer our finger prints to begin

with?

No, you have to be on the

database to begin with.

I see, you

have to have a criminal record to

begin with. I was hoping it was not

like our phones when you put it in,

but my phone never works anyway! I

don't know really. If it helps solve

crimes, it might be a good thing.

But it is another restriction on

privacy, but then if it works from a

database which already exists, I

can't see it is a huge problem.

We

are being watched, but if it helps

to solve crime, the argument is

that!

Absolutely!

The compensation

will continue. National

conversation.

47 years ago, two GPs began

using what little spare time

they had to support ambulance

workers when they were called out

to serious emergencies.

What started as just two

volunteers has now grown

into a major organisation,

which regularly helps to save lives.

Here's Sarah.

Ambulance emergency.

On the morning of the 9th of August

2016, emergency services were called

to a serious collision on this road

in Cambridgeshire. Adam Sheila was

close to death.

I was travelling to

work on my motorbike. I then went

full body into the front of a

vehicle. I was swept underneath the

passenger side wheels and spat out

the side of the vehicle.

Luckily for

Adam, and emergency medical charity

which provides critical care was on

stand-by. The Air Ambulance or six

miles from the scene of the crash.

Daniel Reed was the critical care

paramedic on duty that way.

When we

arrived, his lungs were collapsed,

he had 18 retractions and a large

laceration.

Any artery bleeding is

bad news, this was one of the

biggest in the body.

A huge artery

bleeding a lot of fast.

The first

thing I said to my paramedic was,

was I going to die?

He became

unconscious and we gave him medicine

on the way to hospital which is not

available time you and services to

maintain his pressure to keep him

alive.

I was airlifted to the side

of the road and that saved my life.

Times of the essence with injuries

and this

and this is where this helicopter

comes in, but they did not always

have a helicopter.

In 90s to one, Neville Silverstone

and his partner -- and his friend

heard of a service where people

attended road accidents to support

the Ambulance Service.

I was so

impressed, I contacted the GPs in

and around the counties of

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon shire

to see if other GPs might be

interested. We had 300 GPs in the

area. And 100 volunteers.

What was

Magpas like in nearly days?

It

started really with a blank sheet of

paper. We had no money and no

equipment. And the doctors were not

trained.

The doctors were also

responsible for raising funds for

the service. They even used their

own vehicles to attend incidents.

1987, the medical team took to the

skies. It began working with

Cambridge police. Using the police

helicopter alongside their own rapid

response vehicles. The charity

finally acquired its own Air

Ambulance in 2013.

After his accident, Adam was in a

coma for 13 days. He then spent a

difficult couple of months in

hospital before being released in

time for Christmas. Now, Adam is

able to walk again and he has come

to meet Neville and the medics who

saved his life.

It is great to see

you. Your little invention, it is

more than just saving my life, it

returned me to my family. It is

something I don't have words for!

If

it hadn't been for the work of you

guys on that day, I would have lost

my husband and these two would have

not had a father. Yes!

How do you

feel now about what Magpas has

achieved and your part in it?

I

planted and a great oak tree has

grown! -- I planted an acorn, and a

great oak tree has grown!

So lovely!

Thanks to Neville, who looks

like he's enjoying a very

satisfying retirement.

Thank you to everybody looking after

those!

Which is something that proves

rather elusive for the characters

in the latest BBC comedy

'Hold the Sunset'.

Alison's character is looking

forward to moving on and making

the most of later life.

But then she gets an unexpected

visitor, which puts

a spanner in the works.

Hello, mum! Roger! Hello, do Diack,

where are you going to?

I have come

home! I have left Wendy, that is it,

it is over. What? I have left her!

Left her, what about the children?

I

have especially loved them.

Something must have happened. Stuff,

and then some. We had kids and we

spent nearly 20 years together. That

cannot be it?! It is quite enough

for me!

That is a brilliant clip. That is

when your son, played by Jason

Watkins, unexpectedly returns home.

timing couldn't be worse?

No, there is a nice scene with my

character who is a widow and John

Cleese's his character lives

opposite and he lives opposite and

they form a lovely relationship and

he pops over and she makes him his

favourite biscuits every day and

they have coffee and they go out

together and they have lunch. And he

is like, he keeps saying, come on,

we can sell our houses and we can

move somewhere nice. She is a bit

reluctant and suddenly, she goes,

OK, I am going to do it! She rushes

out and gets champagne and a couple

of glasses and there is a ring on

the doorbell and he says, don't

answer it and she says, they will

see who it is and of course, it is

her son! That sort of at the

applecart.

There is a wonderful

community feeling to this comedy,

Peter. Enlighten us as to where you

come in.

I am playing Mr Dugdale who

walks up and down the street with

his dog. One of the things that

first attracted me to the part!

He

is mad about dogs!

Am crazy about

dogs!

Were is the dog from and where

do you form the bond?

It was brought

in by a dog carer, a labrador,

absolutely beautiful. We immediately

bonded. It was lovely. I am mad

about dogs, I have five rescue dogs

myself.

So you turned up with the

meat paste in the right places!

No,

not meet. My dog is a vegan. So it

was that. Also, it is brilliantly

written, I will try that word again,

brilliantly written, with a great

cast. When you get a series that has

a wonderful marriage like you have

in this between, not literally, but

in terms of characters between

Alison and John, that is such a

wonderful chemistry to begin with.

And from my point of view, I was

thrilled about the idea of working

with somebody who has made me laugh

for 50 years or more, the legend

that is John Cleese.

He is

fantastic. You have both got

grown-up children.

grown-up children. If they're not on

your door and said, I am home, how

would you feel?

I would shut the

door in their face!

I love them to

bits but those days are over, I have

done all that! And Jason Watkins is

so brilliant. He just brings another

50% of his character. Very funny. He

just wants to go back to being a

child again with his Matchbox toys

and he just wants his little bed to

snuggle down in! It is just sort of

madness!

They are insane characters. They are

wonderfully eccentric.

But it is

that thing, mum can criticise him,

but anybody else criticises him and

she has every excuse under the sun

for him. And we are all like that

without children.

Alison, you

describe this as a gentle programme.

It's not shocking or controversial

but it's comfortable and I guess you

feel there is a real thirst for

that?

Well, I think so. We have

enough things on television with

explosions and murders and dark

places. Of course there is room for

that, but it's just nice for an

audience to be able to put the

television on and go, I'm safe with

this and I'm going to enjoy it and

laugh and find it warm and amusing.

It's pleasant, isn't it? There is a

place for that, watching something

that just makes you feel happy.

It's

comfortable viewing as well. I think

there's a huge appetite for really

good writing that isn't sensational

but is full of really good acting

and good comedy. It isn't really

punching you in the face. It's

allowing you to live with the

characters, enjoy the characters and

have a lot of locks along the way.

I'm a great fan of this series.

It's

wonderful. I was lucky enough to see

the first episode and I agree with

you, Peter. It's well worth

watching.

And in Hold The Sunset,

John Cleese wants to whisk Alison

away to a sunny beach as quickly as

possible.

Our George has beaten them to it.

He's on the Merseyside coast,

on the search for a small,

but speedy creature.

Usain Bolt, the fastest man ever to

have lived, clocked at running

almost 28 mph. But even he has got

nothing on a beetle that lives

amongst the sand dunes here on the

system posed in Merseyside. This

dune area is a site of special

scientific interest that covers more

than 11,000 acres and it's the

perfect habitat for the Northern

June tiger beetle. These high octane

insects are actually voracious

predators who use their incredible

turn of speed to hunt.

turn of speed to hunt. Doctor Phil

Smith has been studying these

beetles for over 45 years.

It's

extremely rare. I mean, there are

only two localities in Britain, here

on the Sefton Coast and in Cumbria.

They are supposedly the quickest of

all the running insects.

What gives

them the ability to run so very

fast?

It's all a temperature

question. The tiger beetle basks on

the sand when it's very sunny then

it reaches its critical temperature,

which is between 35 and 36 degrees.

About the same as us. It's really

quite hot for an insect and as they

reach their critical temperature,

they are able to hunt.

As the sun

rises, the temperature of the sand

soon becomes warm enough for them to

come out of their burrows and start

to hunt. The ideal time to track

down one of these speedy predators.

But getting close is harder than it

looks. You can see them now because

they've warmed up. But to get one to

stay still long enough, ah, there is

one. No, it's off again. They are so

quick. After the midday heat dies

down, these frenetic insects finally

give me a chance to get a proper

look at them.

Well, I'm now face with one of the

fastest hunting animals on earth.

The tiger beetle can sprint up to

five miles per hour, covering 120 of

its own body lengths per second.

Usain Bolt would have to run at 480

mph to match this feat. But tiger

beetles have a problem. When they

move very, very fast and their prey

is moving fast, their brains are

almost incapable of processing the

large amount of visual information

which is coming in, so every so

often they have to is stop and check

where the prey is and then move off

again. It's a very effective

technique and means that they kill

prey probably one time out of ten.

I'm hoping to catch one of these

high-speed predators in action.

This parasitic wasp stands no

chance. With a loss of more than 80%

of the sand throughout this coast

since 1945, this species has become

threatened. But the work of many

organisations maintaining these

genes and encouraging Lord -- new

gene formation should hopefully

protect these turbo-charged tiger

beetles.

Quick as a flash,

George has turned up.

Alison was believed to that film

like nothing I've ever seen before.

I love it. I love beetles. I love

all kinds of creatures but I had

never even heard of this until now,

George.

It's a beauty.

With records being broken

in Pyeongchang, you're here to tell

us that the Tiger Beetle's

had its own speed record beaten?

It still holds the fastest insect

record but there's a tiny mite which

goes at 300 times its own size in a

second which is about the equivalent

to somebody my size going at 1000

mph, which obviously wouldn't

happen. Large animals can't run that

fast. It only works when they're

small. That is on land. But you

don't have to be fast on your feet.

That thing is the shrimp which has

two massive clubs at the front which

it fires into shelves and smashes

them open and it can strike in

3000th of a second and that Shell

has no chance. It is totalled.

Have

you always been fascinated by

insects?

Yes, since I was a kid. The

only insect I've ever been scared

off, I was once in the bath as a

child and I had a liver, not a bake

sponge, are properly far, and an

earwig floated out and I was only

about five and I can remember, they

are pretty scary looking creatures.

I remember leaping out of the bath

and calling my mum. That's the only

time I can remember being scared.

Apart from that, I would just

love... I used to spend most of my

time at the garden just turning up

stones and rummaging around as a

kid.

I used to love it. It's just

understanding them all, isn't it,

because they are fascinating

creatures?

You will adore this and

if you think you were out of the

bath fast, this is an ant whose

Georges move faster than -- whose

jaws move faster than anything on

earth. It catches prey with its fast

jaws but it can also buy them on the

ground and escape enemies. Watch

this. It's incredible. It keeps out

of the way.

It is still going. Look

at their skills Arr!

Look at the

triple twist.

That is a gold medal,

that, isn't it?

You are right,

Peter.

It holds them open and the

second a hair is touched, it springs

open like that.

I'm a bit like that.

It's amazing.

You were saying to me

earlier, George, that you have

invited Alison.

I have. I didn't

know she was so keen on bugs. I have

hatched a plan to take Alison off to

the jungle and look at bugs for at

least a couple of weeks.

Alison, how

do you feel about that?

A couple of

weeks. Amazing.

That is further out

of reach than I thought. I thought

you were going to say Merseyside.

From amazing natural designs,

to striking man-made structures now.

Marty is in Dundee, at one

of the UK's longest bridges,

investigating its dramatic past.

This is the Tay Rail Bridge. It's

over two miles long and carries

trains from Edinburgh in the South

over the river to here in Dundee.

But it's not the first Tay Bridge.

The original collapsed in a terrible

storm in 1879, plunging a train and

all its passengers into the river

and their deaths. It was Britain's

worst rail disaster. It's now

thought 59 died and today, the peers

of the fallen bridge still rise

above the water. Everyone wanted to

know why this had happened and it

became the first disaster to be

scientifically investigated. This

needed a machine big and strong

enough to test the giant iron

girders that held up the bridge.

Such a machine existed in Southwark

in London and it still works, 150

years later. Run today by volunteer

engineers, Lucy and roles. Wow, this

is a beautiful piece of kit but more

importantly than that, which is the

machine?

She starts over there,

comes all the way to here, about 47

feet. So the whole of this is the

machine.

Fantastic. What made this

machine unique?

So, it was the first

universal machine.

It could stretch,

compress, bend and bulge iron and

steel. I have here a piece of

genuine Victorian wrought iron, just

like they would have used on the Tay

Bridge. Can we tested to

destruction? Can we break it?

Absolutely.

Yes, we can.

In its day,

this machine could test girders so

big they step out of the door and

stopped traffic. So it had to

generate huge force.

£1 million

worth of load could go on a sample

which is about 146 times.

It is

powered by water pumped into a huge

cylinder attached to one end of my

iron bar. So, I think we are ready

to go.

to go. Ros keeps an eye on the water

pressure. Lucy whines a heavyweight

along the beam. When the bar breaks,

we will know the load this piece of

iron can stand. The universal

testing machine was built by

Scottish engineer David Kirkaldy.

His obituary called him the best

hated man in London. I think he

really didn't trust other people's

results. He knew he was right.

He

didn't bend on that. The Tay Bridge

had tall supports and those supports

were made up of six vertical

cast-iron columns and where the

pasta is, they had iron cross

braces. Where the cross braces met

the columns, the iron failed and

that meant that in the high winds

blowing, the vertical supports

snapped and the whole thing tumbled

into the Tay. After the disaster,

some of the pieces were brought here

for testing. Tension is literally

melting. -- is literally mountain.

As mine extends, scale falls from

the surface, a sign that the end is

nigh. That was great. What did that

go out?

We can tell from the scale

that the load was about £30,000 at

breaking point, about 15 tonnes.

Kirkaldy's tests found that the

cross braces supporting the Tay

Bridge were not strong enough. The

enquiry found numerous design and

manufacturing faults. Blame fell on

the bridge designer, Sir Thomas

Bouchier, who was disgraced. Thanks

to David Kirkaldy, these days the

materials and designs for bridges

are tested before they are built.

Thank you, Marty. Now, we

accidentally touched on it earlier

but you are a "Peter? How

complicated is life in general?

It's

incredibly simple. It's creative and

very easy. I find it the best diet I

can think of. It's definitely the

healthiest diet on the planet. I am

happy vegetable curry tonight.

I

think will be round for that. Very

tasty.

That's your lot for tonight -

thank you to Alison and Peter.

Hold The Sunset starts Sunday

evening, 7.30pm, BBC One.

I'll be back tomorrow

with Greg James.

We'll be joined by Miles Jupp

and we'll have a performance

from Jessie Ware.