15/05/2014 The One Show

Welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. On tonight's

show we are talking about heroic dogs. Dangerous dogs. Dogs that can

dance. And a guest who is no stranger to dog-collars or the dance

floor - often at the same time. It's the groovy Tom Hollander.

APPLAUSE Tom. Good moveses there. Not the first or

last time we saw them on Rev. No. The thing is. You had a hand in

writing Rev. Did you purposely put them in to showcase your moves? My

dancing - no! My dancing is quite bad. Obviously, in context it sort

of worked. The moves were given to me by my friend Charlotte Draper, if

she's watching. She was working on the show. I was going - I can't

think of anything to do. She was standing like this going - do this.

Thanks, Charlotte. She was the choreographer? She wasn't. She was a

really good production assistant. Are you into dogs? I grew up with

dogs. I had a dog, called Ruby once. You might have heard about the

incredible story today about the four-year-old boy in California

attacked by the neighbour's dog. Jeremy was playing on the drive of

his family's home when the dog appeared and grabbed him by the leg.

But, yeah, look who comes to Jeremy's rescue. Now, this is

Jeremy's cat. Tara fought off the dog, look. Chased it away. Turns

round and goes back to see if he's all right. What a supercat! Well

done, Tara. He did need 10 stitches in his leg, but he was OK otherwise.

That is good news. Serious dog attacks are mercifully rare. They do

happen. This week, laws over here to prevent them have been toughened up.

Are we in danger of demonising dogs? Lucy went walkies to find out. I'm

taking this Staffordshire bull terrier, Heather, forea little walk.

She is well behaved. I think she is adorable, but to others she

represents a potential lethal threat. So who is barking up the

wrong tree? Come on! This week, tough new prison sentences of up to

14 years have been introduced for owners of dogs involved in assaults.

Perhaps in response to a 6% rise in hospital admissions for dog attacks

last year. I want to find out whether the public's fear over

breeds of dogs like Heather is justified. First up, Battersea's

Dogs Home, a growing percentage of dogs admitted are bull breeds. Is

she a dangerous breed? No. She is a staffy. The they are lovely. They

are into their people. Good family pets. They have a mixed reputation.

Some people can find them intimidating they are a lot softer

than people think they are. Have we, as a nation, become afraid of dogs?

I think definitely we need, as a nation, our reputation of all breeds

to change. It's always down to the individual upbringing of every

single dog. So if properly cared for, the Staffordshire bull terrier

is essentially a safe pet to keep. Do the general public feel the same

way? Excuse me, would you mind looking after my dog while I go to

the loo. She is quite strong. You might have to like... Thank you.

# Walking the dog # Just walking the dog... #

Excuse me, if I asked you to hold this dog while I went to the loo,

would you be happy to? Why didn't you want to hold my dog for me? If

she I was by myself I would have. Because I have a child, all the news

I hear about dogs attacking a child. I'm a bit scared. I need to go to

the loo, could you mind the dog? You don't like them. This breed, in

particular, gets quite a bad rap, you were just thinking about, I

don't know, the dog jumping up on the pram? Absolutely, yes. I don't

think I would be able to control it. What happened to you? I'm a postman.

I was trying to deliver a parcel, as I was trying to pull my finger away,

the dog would still have the grip on my finger. It naturally teared the

skin away. Has it made you wary of dogs? Very. Very. The fact that

there are certain breeders/owners who breed them to fight, therefore,

I think that makes you more mindful of the damage they can do. What is

your opinion about this breed of dog? I think they've got a bad

reputation. It's not the dog's fault. It's the owner's fault. That

is generally the case. Toni brown Griffin is here with her assistance

dog, Hetty. We said about the laws toughened up. One helps assistance

dogs. If an assistance dog is attacked, then that dog, well, the

owner of the dog could go to prison for up to three years. That must

have helped you? Yes. It's very important. Hetty gets barked at

regularly. I have friends whose dogs have been attacked and instantly

retired because they can't cope. To have something like this to come in,

it won't prevent the attacks, as people realise there is a greater

penalty hopefully they will take more responsibility for their dogs.

Hetty is a life line for you? She is. What does she do for you and the

family? She is a guide dog and a support dog to alert me to my

seizures, empty the washing machine. Pick up things. Take my socks off

and pull my jumper off if I can't get d off. Find my house keys, the

list is endless. Fetch and carry for me. She will run upstairs for me.

There is lots of things she does. She maintains my independence and

allows me to do the school runs and do everything with the children that

I wouldn't otherwise be able to do without a specially trained dog. You

are both appearing at the London Pet Show this weekend for a special

reason We are. Hetty is a hero dog. Which she's been granted an award

for her hero awards. Is appearing alongside lots of other talented

dogs. One that jumps up-and-down. This is Jack. Who looks like he is

giving you a run for your money there, Tom, with the groovy moves. I

like they are matching! Very good. Toni, thank you for coming along.

Later on we will meet two more competitors, Teddy and George. There

they are. We are going to be head-to-head with them on our

agility course to win a One Show dog-collar in honour of Tom here of

course. I'm backing the under dog myself. Here is the Dog Whisper. I

will hope. Get the dog treat, fine. You say that. Is I might take all

off those heels. We saw Tom get his groove on as the vicar with very

human flaws in the sitcom Rev. As the minister of the modern Anglican

Church he faces some 21st century dilemmas. Earlier today you

committed yourself to one another to a union, not here, but at the Town

Hall. We're married! You're not. Yes, we are. Yes, sort of. You were,

not here. It's against the law. No, it's not. It's against Church law.

What we are doing here is celebrating your intention to be

together for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and

in health and to love and to cherish till death do you part. I do. No,

you don't! Marvellous. Rev has been immensely popular with all sorts of

people, including people in the Church. A little bird tells us,

doesn't he, Matt, there is an important person, the Archbishop of

Canterbury, Justin Welby, is watching your perm formance on this

show right now? Now, he is watching? Yes. He was told you were on. He is

a big fan. He will be watching. That is not a live shot of him watching.

He's very still! So centred. He is centred. On balance, do you think

Rev has been good or bad for the image of the Anglican Church? No,

comment. I think it's been... I mean, you really should ask someone

in the Church. But I hope it's been good. I hope it's made people see

the human side of what it's like to be a vicar and that being a vicar is

quite like any other sort of job in some ways. In that, you know, you

have bosses and you have an institution which sometimes is

inconvenient but vicars are working very hard. Adam goes through a lot,

to be fair, doesn't he? As well as a dwindling congregation. At his heart

he is a man who wants to do good Exactly. Well put. It's about

kindness, isn't it really? Trying to do the right thing in a difficult

world. Bad old world. Is it right this character that you created has

made you look at yourself very differently? I read that. Is that

rubbish? I have said all sorts of things that... I thought it was

interesting. I look at myself differently. I know what that means.

It makes me look at myself differently, because now I can see

round the back of my head. It's because - well, as an actor to be

involved in a creative process, that is quite unusual, you are, most of

the time, giving life to someone else's vision. As in what am I

wearing? What do I say? Where do you want me to stand? You are the monkey

on top of the organ. Someone else is grinding it. Yes. When in Rev I get

my hand on the grinder as well. Very creative. That is a wonderful

feeling, let's have a character called Colin who says this and that

or the other and see what happens. Then someone like Olivia Colman

turns up. That is profundly satisfying. We love it. We hope it

will be back for another series at some On to point. Science now. Is

there one particular thing or problem that you would like to

solve, bear with us, you know where we will go in a moment - I have an

answer. Have you? Let us hear that one. Go on. The end of the question

a problem I would like science - In the world of science. In case it was

different. Technically the world of science. I'm obsessed with the

plastic floating around the Pacific Ocean, the size of France. All the

plastic bags. They are useful, they are also (inaudible) if there was

engineering someone could come up with to get rid of that, that would

be marvellous. Save the world. Save the planet. Science has destroyed

the planet. It could, you know, help to clear it up as well. On Monday,

the BBC is launching a competition that challenges every single one of

us, including you, Tom, to am could up with solutions to some of the big

problems facing the human race. This might interest you a little bit

more. With a ?10 million prize fund at stake, the organisers are hoping

it will have a huge impact. History suggests that they may be right.

Marty explains. This is the Royal Observatory, the home of Greenwich

Mean Time and the starting point for one of the greatest scientific

challenges of all-time. Throughout history, large cash prizes have been

offered by Governments -- governments and individuals to

encourage great minds to huddle around huge problems and solve them.

300 years ago, the British Government threw down the gauntlet

offering ?20,000 to anyone who could solve an age old problem of naval

navigation. Ships frequently got lost or were ship wrecked because

they didn't know precisely where they were. Working out your latitude

at sea, how far north or south you are, is relatively straight-forward.

You need to be able to see the position of the sun in the sky.

Working out your longitude, how far east or west you are, is much

harder. If you knew the time in London and at sea you could work out

precisely how far east or west you were from Greenwich. What you needed

was an accurate clock that had Greenwich Mean Time on it. That

would allow you to work out exactly where you were anywhere in the world

to pinpoint accuracy. ticking of any timepiece was quickly

thrown out of kilter by the movement of a ship at sea. The solution came

from John Harrison, a Yorkshire clockmaker with his Marine clock. It

looks kind of ordinary but inside it is full of brilliant but tiny

innovations that mean it stays accurate if even the worst

conditions at sea. It remains the high watermark for competitions that

are channelled great minds towards big challenges. In the wake of his

triumph in the 18 hundredths, competitions across Europe were

launched in the hope that inventors would come up with brilliant new

ideas. Their biggest fan was Napoleon. His edicts across France

gave rise to things like the forerunner of the tin can, a machine

for spinning cloth, a new way of extracting sugar and a competition

to find that use for fledgling technology. Electricity. Cash prizes

were also being commissioned in Britain where the industrial

revolution was in full swing. In the 1820s, the Liverpool and Manchester

Railway Company offered equivalent of tens of thousands of pounds in

today's money for a fast and efficient locomotive which could

transport people along its new track. Fantastic prototype Comeau is

with equally fantastic names were entered. The perseverance, novelty,

which was literally horse powered. But the only one to complete the

course was this one. The rocket, invented by George Stephenson which

became the forerunner of the modern steam train. At point in history,

prices have helped to accelerate innovation. One of the most

high-profile science prizes have been the Ansari X prize which

spawned the invention of dozens of prototypes which could take people

into space. The winner was this man, with his spaceship one, which has

paved the way for space tourism. It hoped the new longer chewed prize

will focus the mind of the 's best inventors to try to create solutions

to some of our most pressing problems. History has shown us that

if we can tap into that competitive spirit, we really can change the

world as we know it. On Monday, the One Show will

announce the six headline problems the organisers have identified, and

we'll be telling you how you can vote for the one you think the prize

money should be spent on tackling. Now, some people who know

a thing or two about tackling big challenges are the servicemen

and women who will be taking part Big news. The Invictus Games tickets

go on sale tomorrow morning. To give you some background, they are games

for servicemen and women who've been, injured or been sick during

service and it was set up by Prince Harry after he saw similar things in

America. He wanted to bring something like that back into this

country, so these will take place in Olympic venues in London from

September the 10th to September 14. 400 competitors from across the

world and I was lucky enough to be at the selection process and

everybody was really keen to get on the team so they have all been

selected on the games are set to go. 40,000 tickets will go online

tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. There's lots of different sports

which will include athletics, archery, wheelchair basketball,

wheelchair rugby, swimming, volleyball, indoor rowing, and you

can see them on the screen right now. It will be a fantastic event.

Tickets are very reasonable. ?12 85 per person per session. If you

didn't get a chance to go to the Olympics, it's a good opportunity to

go and see the venues and support the men and women who've done so

much for this country. This year is the 100th anniversary

of the birth of All sorts

of events will be celebrating his life and work, as will a brand

new drama starring Tom here, about As I was easy about the lilting

house and happy as the grass is green, the night above the dingles,

let me climb golden in the heydays of his eyes and honoured among

wagons I was Prince of the Apple town. And once below a time, my

lordly had the trees and leaves trailer with daisies and barley down

the rivers of the wind light. APPLAUSE

Just the most beautiful words. Under Milk Wood, Do Not Go Gentle,

written about his father. Did you know a lot about him before you

played him? Not very much at all. What were the things that you found

out about him? The lesser-known facts, maybe? Actually, I suppose

what everyone should be encouraged to do is not think about him being

an alcoholic so much because the lesser-known thing for me was a

poetry. I knew that he was a great roaring boy and he died, and early

rock 'n' roll person. Bob Dylan changed his name to Dylan in memory

of Dylan Thomas. Living fast and dying young, that sort of thing, I

knew that. I didn't know the poetry so well. I'm hardly an expert now. I

only know a few of them, the ones we did in the film, really, but they

are very beautiful and so I learned about actually, he was obsessively

detailed in his work. He would tease over a single sentence for days. The

discipline of his life was considerable. So, in a way, this

film is trying to rescue his reputation from just, wasn't he a

drunk thing? There's also a certain amount of uncertainty as to what

actually killed him. I read a coroner 's report which said he

didn't actually have cirrhosis, but pneumonia. His father had it and his

son has a lung problem as well. You would think it would be depressing

to watch, but actually, it's rather uplifting, isn't it? It's got its

moments, hasn't it? It's both. Of course, it has to go down there.

Yeah, I mean, it was an extreme life. Beautiful moments. You see

what he was capable of and then this terrible misery. Everyone's life can

be a bit like that. A Poet in New York is on BBC Two

on Sunday at 9pm. Celebrations of Dylan Thomas's work

will continue at the Hay Literary Chris and I will bring you the One

Show from Hay on Friday 30th May. In the early 60s things were

different until films like Billy liar came along. In 1962, Bradford

was the setting for one of the most memorable films of British cinema.

This is the story of William Fisher, better known as Billy Liar. Trapped

in an anthem of a working-class family and an undesirable job and

undertakers, he fantasises about running away to London. It was one

of the first films to highlight a very real fact of life in the 1960s

of Britain. Most people grew up and live their entire lives in the towns

in which they were born. If you had dreams and ambitions, of a better

life, the reality was very often much tougher. Expert on the movie 's

cultural importance is David Wilson. These films, Billy Liar, being a

good example, represented the first time when you had people speaking to

each other as they did in real life. It's true. I imagine they

could've done with some subtitles of the time. Suede shoes? If he wants

to go to London, you can go. It opened the world up to social

realism. Working draft people predominantly in the North of

England, angry young man who wanted a break out of that social class

they were in. Why would you say it such an outstanding example of that

genre? Because I think Billy Liar made more mainstream. An older

teenager, an angry young man, who wanted a break free from the

shackles of living at home with mum and dad and grandma and wanting to

experience the wider world and not quite having the conviction to do

it. Despite its gritty realism, his character spent much of its time

lost in his own imaginary world. This was one of the most elaborate

scenes in the film, shot less than ten miles away in the centre of

Leeds and required hundreds of locals to fill the crowd. Philip was

an extra in the film. There I am. With a bow tie on. Do you remember

how much you got paid? ?9 for a full day. It seemed like a fortune at the

time. It made me think, do did I fancy a job in this? Did you want to

do more films? Not really. You got a girlfriend, job, got married when

you are 21. It was a continuation of what our parents are done. I don't

think I would honestly want to leave Yorkshire. At the time, it was a

ground-breaking film set in a city where young people lived like their

parents and grandparents are done before but what would today's people

from Bradford think? Somewhere around the time of filming while

others will watch at very first time. Don't go to London. I will

come with you. It would be marvellous if we could.

APPLAUSE Everyone must stay at home, a

family, getting gauged. Nowadays, people are more eager to

move on. There's more social mobility between classes, more

education. You can go places easier, transport is better.

Aspirations are better. I think people are taught from young age

that you can do anything and you shouldn't be limited. For Billy,

following his dream was never going to be anything more than a fantasy

but for many of his generation, for the first time, it was a real

possibility. At the end of the film, he deliberately misses his train to

London and turns his back on success in the wider world. Billy Liar

bottle died in the decades to come, many others didn't. Well, what

would've happened if the court that train? Now, this is Dima. These dogs

are beautiful. This is Teddy and this is George. They will be

competing in the London pet show this weekend. We thought they might

need some extra practice. So let's see which one can complete our one

show at agility court -- course. Teddy will be with you and George

will be with me and there is one show sparkly dog collar at stake for

the winner. I have the secret weapon. You are very good at this

sort of thing. He will go first. I can then get some tips, basically.

Teddy. Teddy. Set. Good boy. Ready? Go. Teddy, jumper. Jump. Goodbye.

Teddy over over over. APPLAUSE

7.8 seconds. Come on, George Fulton here we are.

Jump. Jumper for the go for them in the tunnel. In the tunnel. Go

around. Yes. Yes. APPLAUSE

Whoops! The Daisy. How was that? How long

did that take? 14. Not bad for my first time. It was 10.8, even

better. The timings are all over. We will take the dog collar. Teddy, my

friend, here we go. Tom, come on over. Ever done any dog agility

courses? That was a beautiful thing. You will be doing the same? Yes, the

London pet show on Saturday. We are competing in dancing.

The London Pet Show is at Earls Court on 17th and 18th May.

A Poet in New York is on Sunday at 9pm on BBC Two.

Tomorrow Chris and I will be joined by comedian Ross Noble.

On my sofa this week, music from Sam Smith,

action man Bear Grylls, comedian and writer Dawn French