15/03/2016 The One Show

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.

It's wonderful to be here. We are launching a special award here on

The One Show. Here it is. It's the contribution to the world of

entertainment. APPLAUSE AND

CHEERING Listen, because tonight's recipient

has had a career spanning over six decades. He is a multi-Olivier and

Tony award-winning star whose work encompasses film and television and

theatre. Drum roll, please. The winner is... Michael Crawford!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Michaelle, lovely to see you -- Michael, lovely to see you. Huge

congratulations. Sit yourself down, Michael. Michael, we are chuffed to

bits for you. We are. Here is the award in all its glory. You can see

here we have engraved your name on the... Oh, hang on a minute. It says

Dame Judi Dench here. Hang on. There you are. It's cheap, you can scratch

it off to be honest. Thank you so much. The reason we have done that

is because you are used to this. It's happened to you before. It did,

thank you for bringing it up again. It was 20, 30, 50 years ago. I was

up for Best Newcomer at the BAFTAs or whatever they were called then.

James Mason, a very big star had, I think, been overserved. Of course,

yes. He said, and, ladies and gentlemen, the winner is... Michael

Crawford. Great. And I was so excited. Over the moon. Over the

moon. Up I ran and got to him and he said, oh, no! No. There's been a

mistake. Judi Dench. I said, well, did I come second? You know, there

wasn't a big laugh on that. So I had to turn around and go all the way

back and pass lovely Judi Dench on the way saying, so sorry. But we got

actually more publicity because it was front page on the pages the next

day. We did quite well. Sorry to bring that up. No, thank you so

much. It's good to see it. Tonight we would love to hear from you, we

are going to go on with it now. If you have won a prize for something

that wasn't actually yours, I don't know, have you won a local bake

competition with your mum's carrot cake? Or maybe your grandfather's

runner beans with Best In Show? Send them in and we will show them later

in the show. An exclusive news on a Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em sketch to

be shown as part of Sport Relief this Friday. We are excited about

this. First, let's go from theatrical to cinematic.

A year ago, one team didn't dare to think the unthinkable. To rise from

the Ashes, see the impossible dream. 12 months on they've achieved the

stuff of legends. Their fans are already preparing to say... I was

there! So we sent Alex Riley along too.

I have come to Leicester to investigate some reports of strange

rumblings. Are you aware of seismic activity?

No. Have you felt the tremors? Only when I haven't taken the tablets.

I think I did the other night. Did you? Yes. It's happened before. It's

not the work of mother nature but excited Leicester City fans. It's

been dubbed the Vardy-quake. Excitement over the Facts success is

Galvinising the city. Is anxiety kicking in? For Mick this is unknown

territory. Leicester have looked invincible. We don't look as if we

are going to lose. That's the thing that scares me the most. I have an

expectation of coming away with points and never used to have that.

At what point did you start to get nervous? In the beginning it was

fun. Now it feels like you could get the biggest prize in football.

February I was nervous in February because I thought the bubble was

going to burst and we are in March and still there, two points clear

with a game in hand. I am nervous. Excitement nervous.

A handful of fans have gone one step further by backing Leicester to win

the league at the start of the season. Some had odds of 5,000-1. I

saw the odds, I had spare money so I decided to put a couple of bets on.

Cashed out on one of them. They gave you how much? ?1600. Why did you

panic? I am a student. I needed the money. You cashed in, as well? At

what point did you say enough is enough When the wife wanted a new

kitchen. It's still going to be tight to the end of the season but

after West Brom I checked to see what it would be if I was to cash in

and they said ?16,000 on Wednesday Tottenham and Manchester City and

Arsenal all lost. They said 29, I said OK. Are you going to go the

full distance? I believe Leicester can do it. They have the squad and

the spirit and there is a momentum there. So, I would love to keep the

bet. It's a dream to win the league and potentially have 50,000 on it is

possibly a bridge too far for a heart attack!

Well, the match has already started and I am wondering if we are in for

another Vardy-quake. Adam from the University of of Leicester is

monitoring the situation. The goal that your equipment

measured was a last-minute winner against Norwich. Was that the sound

of pure joy that you picked up or was it the vibrations of relief? I

think it was a mixture of both really. That crucial 89th minute

deciding goal, that obviously is going to be something for fans to

really celebrate. We think the goal tied in with our machinery at the

university and we realised that it was actually a goal scored. I mean,

an earthquake could be going off now. I can feel the ground moving!

Yeah, there you go. I can't believe that we just had a goal scored while

we are actually on here doing this! The way it's created by the fans,

that's travelling through the ground as we are standing here and that's

going to be picked up at our university on the machinery. Could

it be bigger than the one before? Who knows, maybe the fans have given

it all they've got and maybe. It was! Measuring 0. 5. Leicester

City's incredible season rumbles on. Even I enjoyed that and I know

nothing about football. Incredible support even from a Newcastle

supporter's perspective. Five points clear, who knows what will happen?

It's gone over my head! Let's talk about your new musical, Michael. You

are coming back to the stage. It's called The The Go-Between. It's

based on a book. What's the musical all about? It's a very complicated

story. To simplify it, there was a movie made of it years ago which won

the Cannes Film Festival with Julie Christie and Alan Bates. In the 70s.

A beautiful production recently on television about a year ago. None of

them have touched the way that the book was actually written about -

it's nationalated by the man himself -- narrated by the man himself whose

life it is about as a 12-year-old. It's 50 years back. On the stage we

can have the two of them together. I watch the reenactment of what went

on when he was 12. He goes to stay with a best friend who is an

aristocrat and meets his sister, the most beautiful girl and when you are

12 the most beautiful girl you never forget her. You have a crush. He has

a crush on her and will do anything for her. And becomes involved in

being a go-between her and the lover who is a farmer. You see what I

mean. It's pretty nasty. ''S already engaged really to another man. He

gets involved innocently. It's a beautiful story. It's the turning

point of someone's life at 12. What happens at the end of this story

never leaves him. It's disturbing in one's heart. It's truly a labour of

love for me this because it's really hard and I like a challenge. Just

basically the amount of time that you are on stage and the story you

have to tell? Yes. It's mentally going to be, eight shows a week, so

I am singing quite a lot through it. Really, I mean, that's an enormous

amount. But much of the music is quite beautiful. Other is part of

the dialogue. Working with the child takes me back to childhood when I

was 12 when I started. I started at 12 and I had to audition for

Benjamin Briton and for this musical I was keen on it and we couldn't get

a theatre easily when I finally decided I worked on it for two years

and finally when I said yes, let's go, we didn't have a theatre. So, I

got my agent to call the owner of The The Apollo and I said... That's

where you are putting it on. I said, would you listen to us in this

Church hall? I virtually auditioned for her. With the composer playing

the piano. I did the whole show for her. At the end of it we got it.

Fantastic. APPLAUSE

We got the Apollo. It's exciting. Previews start 27th May. And we open

on June 7th proper. Lovely. Don't come before then! Because you are

not ready. We have to talk to you about The Phantom of the Opera. I

came to work today because they said they would play this clip. Let's

enjoy it for a second. # Let the dream begin

# Let your darkest side give in # To the power of the music that I

write # The power of the music of the

night APPLAUSE AND

CHEERING Michael, I mean, you can see there

the minute that music came on and you saw that clip your breathing

changed. Everything about you was there. I mean, that changed my life.

Absolutely changed my life. It's nearly 30 years now since we did it.

It just truly seems like the other day that you did it. So, I... I

couldn't be more in love with that character of creating that man. He

meant so much to me. I mean, it is the 30th anniversary as you say.

Have they been in contact and said would you, can you, could you? No.

LAUGHTER Oh, we want to see that. Would you?

If they're watching... They couldn't have been as impressed as we were!

Oh, no. You would be fantastic to see. I sing it often when I am

warming up because I had the most wonderful singing teacher who I lost

a few years back, about five years ago. I still use his warm-up every

day of my life. I still play it. He still argues with me on the tape

every day. You play the... You must not do that, darling! I can't stand

what you are doing now. I said all right, can I try? Sno No, I am going

to turn this off. He turns the machine off because he loses

patience. Isn't that a wonderful insight into your life. Really

lovely. You will know all about the subject of our next film. Don Black.

You made your West End musical debut together in the show Billy. Tonight

he is talking about the story behind the Oscar-winning song Born Free.

The open skies of the African savannah. A lion that longs to

return home and, of course, that song.

# Born free # As free as the wind blows.

Born Free, a British film about a couple who raise and release a lion

named Elsa became a hit in 1966. It was accompanied by a theme song

as memorable as the film itself. But this iconic track very nearly

didn't make the film at all because the lyrics were deemed it too

political. Don Black was the song's co-writer.

Today he is best known for iconic tracks like Diamonds are Forever,

The Man with the Golden Gun and Thunderball. In the mid-60s his

career was just beginning when John Barry approached him to work on a

new film. At the time, he was living in this

house in north London. The One Show has arranged for him to return for

the first time in over 30 years. Where would you have written the

song? In the kitchen, about here. John sent me the tune Onica set,

which I played until it was in my head, and then I stared out of

windows and had a walk in the park and I finally settled on born free,

as free as the wind blows, it seemed to write itself, somehow. It was an

outpouring. It was the biggest break of his career, Matt Ron -- Matt

Munro was enlisted to sing the song, but then there was a spanner in the

works. Everyone loved the song but the producer, Carl Foreman, he did

not like it, and he thought the tune was too epic and he thought the

lyric was too much of a social comment. He wanted it to be more

about lions in cages. In a time of apartheid in South Africa and racial

tension in America, Don Black's lyrics about universal freedom and

breaking boundaries had struck a nerve. And at the film's

star-studded premiere the songwriting team was in for a shock.

We were thrilled and excited, the royal premiere, and it was a shock

to be there that night and the song wasn't there. To everyone's surprise

the track had been taken from the film, but luck was on their side.

Shortly after, cover was released in America by Unison Roger Williams and

was an instant hit. -- by pianist. Realising their mistake, they

restored the original track and the following year it was awarded Best

Song at the Oscars. Do you still have the award? I have got it on me,

I keep with me all the time. Hello, Mr Oscar, that must have been quite

a night. It was indeed. Ever since then I have been introduced as

Oscar-winning lyricist, it stays with you. It is a lovely feeling.

Thanks to its inclusion in the film, Born Free would become famous the

world over, rallying cry for conservationists and civil rights

campaigners alike, not bad for an afternoon at the kitchen table.

# Live free... The ridge what makes the song so special? Why is it so

well loved 50 years later Britain there is something a song can do

that words can't, and Born Free goes to the heart of people, to be as

free as the wind blows. So many people would like to be in that

position, unfortunately. The ridge because you're born free...

# Bravo, that is absolutely beautiful. What a musical show we

are having. Anyway, it can't have a schedule noticed, it is Sport Relief

on Friday and there is extra excitement because Frank Spencer is

back. -- it can't have escaped your notice. APPLAUSE

On The One Show we are such big fans of the incredible stunts that you

did and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, and a few months ago our stunt team

did this in recognition of what you went through. We have stunt men

involved in this, but you did all this on your own. Yes. Jamie here,

he is playing the part. He was my boss for this sequence. Was he? He

was my stunt adviser. You watch this at home the night it went out on The

One Show? I did. Very bizarre. It was very strange. Especially when

Gyles came up and said, "That was me", and then I thought it was time

to have a drink. LAUGHTER 42 years since you have the roller

boots on and 38 years since the final episode of Some Mothers Do

'Ave 'Em, but you have brought along an exclusive clip that will go out

and Sport Relief on Friday. This is courtesy of Michael, we can have a

look. I got some change this time.

Congratulations, by the way. CHEERING

We want to see all of that now. I hope you don't mind, you are doing

all the stunts yourself at your age, were there any injuries? Yes, I got

that, I was hoping it would last a bit longer, but it has nearly

disappeared. I try to hide it before I got here, but it highlighted it.

That was it, so I was very lucky. For you, we were talking downstairs

about the fact that so many people have asked you to come back with a

sketch but you really wanted to do this, and this is your writing, as

well. Yes, I put a lot of that together, with the help, Raymond

Allen came in, he was the original writer, to put a few words in, and

they were true Frank Spencer words. No, we had not done it in 42 years

and we hadn't wanted to go back to it, because we had run our course.

Comic relief is extraordinary. This young woman here, she did a

remarkable job last week, absolutely remarkable. Thank you, Michael.

CHEERING The stuff you filmed when you were

away, we were weeping at home, you could not help but weak, and when

you see these children and these people who have nothing, but we have

everything, we can give it, we can do it, and show people. The British

public than get involved and we are great at it, the British public are

great, they'll was have been. So supportive. -- they always have

been. You will do anything for that, it is humanity. Last week at the

carriage of going on that... I love sailing, but forget that. -- the

courage of going on that. If I was you, stick to the roller skating,

the velodrome, just talk us through this photo. It was full in there. I

don't know if Bradley Wiggins could feel me there, what I was doing to

him! LAUGHTER The appeal I was going to do

something with Bradley Wiggins at the velodrome, one of the nights at

the World Championships, this was two weeks ago now. This was the

climax of our work for four months and the crew had been together,

doing these stunts, willing us to do them, willing me to stay on the back

of the bus. When we got to the velodrome, there were 6000 people,

we have been a shooting from the morning, and we had been there from

630, at 1030 was our time to go on. I was quite nervous. We got inside

and as we went out, the crowd went nuts, they simply started jumping up

and down and we went round and we were going at 30 kilometres per hour

in the end. We can't wait to see it. Supple McCartney is also part of

this. Amazing. -- Sir Paul McCartney. CHEERING

It starts at seven o'clock. And now it is time for a bit more Gyles, but

minus the skates. Not that we are a competitive family, but toast and

family are never enough at our family table. Me and my daughter

needs serious brain food. What is better than a crossword? This one

has been specially set for The One Show them the crossword editor of

the Times newspaper. -- by the crossword editor. The crossword, the

idea crossed the Atlantic and it eventually appeared in the Times

newspaper in 1930. It evolved differently to America, and it

became the cryptic crossword which we know now, American crosswords

have simpler clues. What is the essence of a cryptic clue? Very nice

cryptic clue, object, puzzle going over 1's head, it plays on the

meaning of object. You don't object to a object going over your head,

but an object which might puzzle you might be a UFO. I'm still stuck on

one across. Put on yours truly and The One Show. You have got to look

at enabling, side-by-side, and not only that, but being trained by that

fact. You need to have an interesting background. You were a

spy? I was a civil servant at GCHQ, but all I used to spy on was the

coffee percolator. They'll say that! Yes, we have to say that. There is a

long tradition of the special services recruiting the ablest

crossword solvers. In the Second World War they had a fake crossword,

and people turned up two Feet St and they did these crosswords, and the

ones that did this the best, they would take the side -- they turned

up to Fleet Street. They then were taken aside and they were sent to

Bletchley Park and they managed to work out what the Nazis were

planning. The British lover crosswords is what has became -- is

what has won us the war. Crosswords also contains their own messages,

birthday wishes, marriage proposals, and more sombre news. I'm thinking

of John Graham, a puzzle of his appeared in the guarded with a

message at the top, it said, the clue, sign of growth, and when you

see the word sign, you think of signs of the zodiac, could that be

Torres or cancer? -- Torres. Your stomach lurches when you see

something like that. 14.7 million people in the UK do battle with a

crossword at least once a week, and with electronic access they are more

popular than ever. There can't be many addictions that Frank Sinatra,

the Queen and Sepp Blatter have in common, but this is one. There are

ways of cheating, this dictionary has 3000 possible solutions,

collected single-handedly over a lifetime by 85-year-old and

Bradford. An ordinary book of cryptic crosswords, I might do 12 in

one go and that might be about an hour. I have a strange brain. It was

discovered I could read upside down just as easily as the right way up

when I was quite young, new also need to be good at anagrams,

wordplay, and there is a great satisfaction in working out the clue

-- you also. It is great to get them. Dad, 32 minutes and 34

seconds, but I had to admit defeat and 17 across, I'm afraid, I could

not crack it. I got that one. Bernhard is an anagram of Brandreth,

so I managed to get that in just under 30 minutes, but then I'm old

enough to be your father. STUDIO: Thanks to them. We will put the

crossword on the website and also those photographs of things that you

should not have won, they also the website. Michael, good luck with the

show. Thanks