15/09/2011 The One Show

Welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Tonight, a

national treasure who has brought us so much pleasure. With a clever,

funny use of rhymes and wit. though it is a crime to introduce

her with a rhyme. We hope we are going to get away with it.

thought it was pretty good. I have heard some rubbish and. That was

very good. It did take us all day to come up with it. You made a very

good job with it and it had a nice rhythm so you get 10 out of 10.

have written the story of your life in your new book. We read that you

have written lots of your poems using an ironing board. I did. I

used to live in a flat, and I had a brown armchair, so I used to put

the ironing board across, and it made a sort of wide desk. I think

they are fantastic. It wasn't much good if you wanted to do the

ironing at the same time. That's true, but you can alter the height.

Roald Dahl famously wrote in his shed and that shed has fallen into

disrepair and is at the centre of Hello, is that removals? I have got

to move some staff from a shed. A chair, a table, a filing cabinet, a

few bits and pieces. About 500 yards. �95? Brilliant, sounds good.

�95 is not bad. Earlier this week there was an appeal for �500,000 to

move the contents of one very famous British off the's shed. This

is the shed in question. It is where Roald Dahl wrote his best-

selling books, and its context is being moved to just down the road

to this museum, at a cost of �500,000. I think it is a joke.

is too much. It is worth saving because it is part of the heritage.

I would do it for free. As your contribution to Britain's literary

heritage? Yeah. Roald Dahl rode here for 30 years, Pelling 27 of

his best-loved books. He died two decades ago but he still sells one

book every five seconds -- penning 27. You can lose yourself in your

work. It is my little nest. My womb. This is very strange. I am coming

into Roald Dahl's most private place, the shed, where he wrote

some of his incredible stories. Matilda and the BFG were written

here. He used to sit on this chair, he used to sharpen the pencils with

his pencil sharpener. These are his favourite objects that he collected

around him. It feels like a really private place. We are sitting

outside Roald Dahl's shed and no one can understand why it is going

to cost �500,000 to move a chair and a few ornaments. It is not just

picking it up and dumping it. We need to very carefully move every

object. Some of it has to be frozen, some of it has to have paper

conservation work. That is expensive. Creating a new structure

means more people will be able to see it when it is in the museum.

The family are pretty well off, couldn't they chipping? They

support the running of two charities with 10% of the royalties

and they do that every year. They have given us a significant amount

of the money we have already raised. So they have given to this project.

The impression that has been given is that you're asking the public to

help to save these artifacts of Roald Dahl's, why do need the

public's help? We have never asked the public. We are going to trust

foundation to support cultural institutions to do this kind of

work, and that is what the fund- raising campaign is about. Why is

it so important to preserve this place? It is a place where the most

amazing characters came from. Until now, only the privileged few have

been able to come here. We want to share it with as many Roald Dahl

fans as possible. I tell you what, you but I hope you

don't want to move your writing abode. I am going to say it will

cost �750,000! People adore Roald Dahl but they will be surprised to

know there is a begging bowl going around to pay for this exhibit. Who

is going to foot the bill? It has been a bit of a miss harp -- mishap

on the part of the Roald Dahl Museum. They say they were never

looking for the public to trip in - - chip in and were looking for

charitable trusts, they say it is a mistake and want to set things

right. You are right, the family has a lot of money. They have put a

couple of hundred Grandin. They do get the royalties from his books

and he is still very popular. plan is that it will be part of a

great display. They want to move it and make it into a proper display.

You saw some wonderful things. amazing things. The chair is a

wonderful thing, he inherited it from his mother, he wrote in it for

30 years, he just did it for himself. He was shot down when he

was flying in the war and hurt his back. He said he built this table

to write on. It is a very special, private place that he built for

himself. And not dissimilar to your ironing-board idea. I see

similarities when I see him there with his board over his lap. What

about these days, where do you write? When I first started to get

some royalties, I bought a Victorian partner's desk. I have a

lovely desk that I have had for donkey's years and it is quite

tatty now, with tea stains and all sorts of disreputable rips and

tears. But I don't want to change it or revitalise it, because I know

I wrote so many of the poems that stood me in good stead on it.

it for the exhibit. I will. A near �750,000 and it can be moved

whether you like! He had problems with his hips as well. He had one

of his chips removed. The surgeon gave it to him because he said it

was the biggest hip he has ever seen. Here it is, he kept it.

no! It is a beautiful thing. looks like a big crusty roll.

had the other one out and he used that as a handle on his filing

cabinet. If you have an operation, you might want to consider...

don't think I would consider it for very long. That got us wondering,

what is the weirdest thing you or your other half have in your shed.

E-mail us and it we will see if we can outdo Roald Dahl by the end of

the show. Thank you for coming into night. It is a special evening for

you and your wife. Your 10th wedding anniversary.

Congratulations. Inspired by my visit to Roald Dahl's shed and by

knowing I was going to be on the sofa, I have penned a little poem.

May I? It took me a while to write so the paper is a bit scrappy.

looks like Treasure Island. I have just been to see the shed, remember.

# You are like a shed to me. # The safe retreat to which I flee.

Where my life's story is writ. But unlike a shed, you're really

fit. You don't look convinced. I was

worried about the last line. I went the right way with it. You did.

you think he should have compared his wife to a shed? Will he be

sleeping in the shed? I am going to stay out of that one. If my husband

compared me to something, they shed would be fairly low down the list.

A Rose would have been nice. People love their sheds. And I love my

wife. Long may it continue. have a little Jack Russell, Pam?

little Jack Russell called Tattie. I never liked them because they

always seemed to buy two members of my family. It is funny you should

We are going to be spending some time with Jordan Shelley because he

is a dab hand with man's best Jordan Shelley is a dog behaviour

specialist. He travels the country, helping dogs and their owners work

through pogroms that can blight a special relationship between man

and his best pal -- problems. Jordan has transformed the lives of

troublesome dogs and their owners. Jordan is that the sanctuary. His

home and treatment centre in north London. At any given time, it can

be home for up to 12 docks. It is a place where clients can bring their

dogs for training, I work with rescue dogs as well. I have rescued

about 20 to 30 docks. They have all sorts of problems. Some don't want

to go upstairs, we have aggressive dogs, I get bits of everything. We

had a Maltese that had an ASBO, it was told off because it nipped the

postman one to many times, you get all sorts. Jordan trains dogs of

all sorts including puppies. -- all ages. I teach them to eat properly.

The first one to sit down and to be the calmest is the first one that

gets to eat. Today it would be him. The average day starts off with a

I don't drive. Some journeys can be We come back here and everyone has

Normally they go to sleep for a little bit, they will have an

afternoon nap. Then we do 20 minutes sessions with each of the

dogs, then they play in the garden Jordan's latest case has brought in

to Woolwich in south-east London, to visit Samantha and her Jack

Russell Roxie. They live with Samantha's mum, Jane together with

Tasha and Megan, her sisters. the postman puts letters through

the door she will fly from wherever she is, grabbing hold of the

letters, putting holes in them. When anyone comes in my room and

she is with me, she will start to growl and shake and if they move

towards me, have her teeth will come out and she has started to

jump off the bed and lunch at them. If Roxy is eating and someone wants

to take the bold away from her, she will show teeth and crouch over the

bowl. I am hoping Jordan can fix Roxie because we are on eggshells

with her. It makes me nervous because I don't want her to damage

my family or anyone else, because if it is anyone else, she will be

put to sleep, and I don't want to think about that. I think this

might be the place. Hello. I am Jordan, nice to meet you. I am

Samantha. Is that Roxy I can hear? It is. You run the house, what it

is like when Samantha is away? can get back. If we walk in, she

growls. -- get bad. If we go to take her food, she will probably

attack your feet. Megan, what problems have you been having?

After wear wellies because she attacks my feet. It is when she is

in some of the's room, when she is eating food. You are worried this

might get out of hand? Yes, she is my dog, I am awake quite a lot and

she stays in my family, -- a way quite a lot. She needs to listen to

them as well. What would you say if I said, in a couple of hours, she

will be behaving much better? for it. I would say it is a miracle.

It would be fantastic, amazing to have heard back the way she was for

but let's see what we can do. has lots of issues. They boil down

to insecurity. She is aware that sometimes people are in charge of

her but other times they are not, it is trying to find a balance to

realise she is beneath all the people in the house. We are going

to work with the family and Roxie to make sure she realises she is a

follower, not a leader. Jordan is in the studio tomorrow and we will

find out how he gets on at helping Roxy. You have a very apt poem for

Puppy Problems. I bought a book on training and I read it all one

night. When I set off out, I really thought we had got it right. With

titbits in my coat to give him once he got the knack. But he didn't so

he couldn't, so I hate him coming We will move on to your new book,

The Necessary Aptitude, what prompted the title? It is because

everybody kept telling me I didn't have it. In my early jobs, I didn't

make much of a success of my early jobs and people kept showing me the

door and said, I'm afraid you lack the necessary aptitude for this job.

I think it is a term that people associate with failure. Really it

is about me looking for a job for which I did have the necessary

aptitude, which I am happy to say I It takes us up to 1975 and

Opportunity knocks. Let's remind ourselves. Come with me out to the

empty garage. We have not been there for a week or more. We will

bear our heads and gays in silent homage at the spots of oil upon the

floor. We will think of when we had a motor car of their -- had a motor

car of their that used to take us out in rain or shine. Before the

price of petrol went beyond us. And we will make believe we kept it one

more time. Your book ends in 1975. Is there a reason for that, because

you must have met incredible people following Opportunity Knocks.

but not enough to write a book about. The reason I stopped when I

was about 30 was not so that I could then get another bite of the

cherry and write another one. I will not write any more. I think

the reason is that the interesting bit is the transition. The

transition from a very ordinary sort of life, the youngest of six

children in a council house in Stanford in the Vale, which was

then in Berkshire, and it is about that journey from that modest start

to being in a position where I have played the London Palladium, Sydney

Opera House, performed for the Queen, got an MBE, all those lovely

things that happened. After that, it gets repetitious. You say, then

I wrote another book and removed to a bigger house. Then I had another

tour of Australia. It tends to be the same again. I have noticed that

with other autobiographies. The fascinating bit is how the person

strived, if they strived, and got to the position where they were

successful. I think that is enough, really. Also, I wanted to spend

time describing the village, because it is different now. It is

still lovely, but the post war period has gone, and so I feel very

affectionate towards it and I wanted to try and described it for

people. Because I know that where there is now a housing estate, they

used to be a barracks and the cinema and a cook house under a

hospital and a morgue, and all those things that nobody would know.

-- and a hospital. Well, you explain it incredibly. We have been

inundated with e-mails about weird things in the shed. Ashley said, we

have a pig's head preserved in a jar. It was there when we moved in

and we have been too afraid to move it. Belly buttons, all sorts of

things. I went to a freak show when I was younger and they had little

monkeys spreadeagled and pickled, which reminds me of the pigs head,

horrible, creepy things. I would throw that pigs head away. We are

now going to talk about running. This weekend, thousands of you will

take part in the Great North Run. But a lot of you will be running

using the wrong technique. Dougie Vipond is in training for a couple

of big events, and here he is putting his right foot forward.

When we go running, we rely on trainers for support. The cushioned

heel of the modern trainer has fundamentally changed the way we

run. The padding makes us land on our heels and then our toes. But

that impact damages our joints. At Dundee University they can measure

how the way that we run affects our bodies. When I try heel to toe

running, you can see how hard my heel hits the ground when I land.

But if I land on the ball of my foot, it is more springy and there

is a reason for that. It is how our ancestors ran in their bare feet.

So what can we learn about the way we used to run before training

shoes were invented? This Professor studies the effects of different

running styles. What do we do with our feet when we run barefoot?

run on the ball of the foot. The body will act as a spring top,

soaking up the impact and making it less painful than running on the

heels. Grant is a keen runner and recently he has been suffering from

knee problems, making running painful. I had surgery to try to

alleviate the problem. I love to run and if I could find alternative

ways of running, adapting my style, I would. He wears markers on his

joints, and trainers containing 99 pressure sensors. These measure the

impact on his body when he lands on two special force plates, using

different running styles. First, his heel strikes the plate. The

pressure sensors record the impact. The markers on his body relay the

stress on his joints. His main problem is the pain in his left

knee. If you look at the impact, you can see it is going through the

knee. Repetitive impact on that force will cause a lot of problems

in the knee, because it is being loaded. The muscles are not

functioning in the right way to absorb the impact. When we run a

heel to toe, it creates a force equivalent of up to three times our

body weight, which puts immense stress on our bones. There will be

impact forces affecting the ankle, the knees, the HIPs, all the way up

to the spine. Grant tries the new technique, landing on the ball of

his foot. This mimics the action of running barefoot. There is no

pressure whatsoever under the heel area. At the point of impact, the

actual force is behind the knee. That is on loading the joint itself,

and all of the impact is being absorbed by the muscle of the calf,

the calf muscle at the back. That is where the muscles are acting as

a spring to absorb the shock and release it later to assist him to

move forwards. Better to put the force on the muscle which can cope,

rather than the joint which cannot. What does it prove? By avoiding

that, you avoid all kinds of injuries that might affect the

ankle, the Sinn, the knees and so forth. What about Grant? The pain

goes away when I run on the balls of my feet. I will see how things

go. When we run on the balls of our feet, the impact on our bodies is

significantly reduced. Our calf muscles act like a spring between

the foot and knee to absorb most of the force, helping us to run more

efficiently and less painfully. If you want to try it out, you don't

have to throw away your trainers. Just be aware how you ram. It is

technique that is important, not the issue, so you don't have to go

on a spending spree, unless you really want to. Changing the way

you run should be done gradually. Warm up properly and increase your

distance bit by bit. So, if you love running but the aches and

pains are stopping you getting out there, try running a different way

and see if it makes a difference. Everyone at home is now running up

and down. We worked out are running styles are earlier. Good luck to

those taking part in the Great North Run. Further south, Park Hill

Estate in Sheffield was built in the 1950s to deal with the acute

housing shortage. After years in the doldrums, it is on the up, and

Roy Hattersley, who was there at the start, has been back for a look.

Park Hill Estate in Sheffield. Back in the 1960s, the idea was to take

families from the backstreets zones and transport them to shiny new

streets in this guise. We thought it was a visionary blend of

concrete and community spirit. is like being in heaven. These

places are lovely. It is modern and it looks better than anywhere else.

Park Hill Estate was built by Sheffield City Council in 1961. I

was the chair of the committee that commissioned the work. We had no

doubt we were doing something special. When you moved in, you

felt you were part of a family, part of the community. In Park Hill

Estate, you moved five yards away from your front door and you were

no conversation with somebody. That was the duty of it. But all too

soon, Park Hill Estate became a byword for neglect. The area gained

an unsavoury reputation and those who could left as quickly as

possible. Police were called. Neighbours suggested the man living

there could be armed. playground is underneath the part

of the complex and police suspect the shots were fired from there.

the 1980s, standards and attitudes changed. Park Hill estate lost its

charm and the building began to fall into disrepair. The streets in

the skies had begun to crumble. was looking a bit rough. It was a

monolith stuck in the middle of town. Of course, people thought, it

is a mucky place and the people are mucky and all. Frankly, the area

never escaped that reputation. At one stage, it looked as if

demolition might be the only answer, but this is Europe's largest listed

building. So now, one of the country's trendiest developers,

Urban Splash, is going to try to turn Park Hill Estate around. But

will a total makeover entice former residents to come back? The lifts

are beautiful. It is like a James Bond film. Time for retort to see

how times have changed. I reckon this is intended for young

executives, don't you? Can you remember any of your old families

living here? Not like this. They would have a table with the TV in

the corner. This is the living room. You have got central heating and

big windows. We like it. This is even more trendy than the living

room. It is for a young couple. You would not expect anybody over 35 to

live here and nobody with he -- with a child could live here.

is my bedroom, a pretty big bedroom but not quite big enough. I am

impressed with the windows. I like them. They are a great feature. I

have seen the show flat. High quality workmanship but clearly

intended for a special sort of oh no - young, trendy, well-off. Part

of the mix, but we need some others as well. -- a very special sort of

owner. In my day, council owned Park Hill

found -- housed 1000 families. Now, the redevelopment will only provide

300 flats. There will be people who will say, is that really what this

building should be used for? Should it not be concentrated on housing

need, not who can afford to buy at �90,000? I do not think that would

work in the long term. That is not the council's strategy. We need

affordable housing across the city, but what we do not want to do is to

take a short-term approach. much cash is the City Council

putting up? A nun. There is cash from the home communities agency

and from English Heritage but the council has not putting any cash

into the development. The council is putting in the land and

buildings. Some argue that public resources should not be given to

urban developers. Urban Splash insist they are trying to build a

genuine community, not make a quick buck. 50 years ago, we would have

liked to have made it a mixed development, with tenants living

next door to owner occupiers. People said it could not be done.

Do you think things have changed and it will be OK? We are trying to

create a mixed tenure, mixed income community. People can, Dr Piet on a

variety of different bases. -- people can come and occupy. We try

to cater for a wide audience. have been inundated. What a great

call-out this has been. The weirdest thing you have in your

shed. You go first. Lewsey has got over to brave it she dugout herself,

from a dinosaur. My dad has a cockpit, front section and the

Wings of a buccaneer. It must be a big shed. With an aircraft hangar

in the back garden. The working parking meter. This has been signed

by everybody at my 30th birthday party. Janice and Roy have World

War II helmets and gas masks. this is your garden. Look at that.

Beautiful! I do not do it all myself. I have a nice chap who