16/01/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show. And a big welcome back to Alex

APPLAUSE I missed you so much. It's really nice to be back and see

everybody. Fresh from a plane this morning. A bit just like to. Anyway,

they told me I spent half of the afternoon chatting away to

tonight's guest, but I can't remember much about it. Shall be

introduced him and see if we can jog your memory? It is Paul

McKenna! It's good to see you. What have you been up to? I don't want

to give the game away but you seemed a bit jet-lagged and so I am

a hypnotist, we had a conversation, a little bit of fun. We had a

conversation? And we filmed some of it. It was very entertaining.

won't give too much away but we will give you a taster. Let's have

a little look. Are you a famous television presenter? I am a

gardener, yes. Any other jobs? clean the windows. Terrible dirty

I just thought I had a sleep this afternoon! I hypnotised you that

you had been hypnotised, because I thought it would add to the comedy.

Rarely do why make people do funny things. Is she still hypnotised do

not remember what she said? Are we going to show more of that? You yes.

Taxi for Jones. Now things aren't looking too great for the economy

at the moment. So is it about time we all got behind the country's

businesses and made an effort to buy British? And should we be

calling on the services of Sir Bruce Forsyth to do some flag

waving? John it will explain all. In 1967, five secretaries to,

country's economic woes by starting a back Britain movement, offering

to work longer, unpaid, to improve productivity. It snowballed into a

government campaign encouraging everyone to do their bit and buy

British. And who was called upon to boost morale? Bruce Forsyth.

# We are all backing Britain today. # Let's keep it going, the good

times are going our way # Well, some things don't change although

it is now Sir Bruce Forsyth, but what about the idea of buying

British? Does it have the same appeal or it

to become much more difficult? We asked 11 high-street stores with

their goods came from. Most sell products manufactured here as well

as overseas. However, clerks make the majority of the issues abroad

and carries a say that don't sell anything made in the UK. -- currys.

Some factories are still going strong social and we help them by

buying their products? Although we are still the world's 6th biggest

manufacturer, the profitability of British manufacturing recently fell

to its lowest level since records began in the late Nineties. This

company make men's clothing. They used to be one of a number of

similar factories here. Now they are the only one in the area.

think, at the moment, it's more important than ever to support

British businesses like ours. Family run enterprises which are

swimming against the tide and facing huge adversity but managed

to get results. Anybody trying to do something positive in dark times

should be supported. Jean, who has worked here for decades, agrees.

should be doing things in this country, not abroad. We have

fantastic people in this country and we waste them because we sell

things abroad. According to research by one manufacturer, over

one third of consumers say they would buy British more often if

they were easier to identify. John Lewis say that they will rise to

this challenge. Our customers are asking about where products are

made, particularly whether they are made in the UK. We don't have the

information on the products. If you read this here. In the small print.

Yes, we want to make it more obvious. You will see a small Union

flag symbol appearing on a price tickets, online and the packaging.

Bill goes on in Britain? There's a huge amount of expertise in carpets

in the UK. British manufacturers use the best techniques. Will

buying British help the economy? Tim from the Financial Times argues

it might not always be for the best. Funny things happen in economics.

Every time a foreign firm sells something to Britain, they gain the

money which they can then use to buy British exports, so, in a

strange way, every time you refuse to buy something overseas, you are

indirectly damaging the British export industry. Some believe a

buying British props up companies that are not competitive. So how

much of people prepared to pay for buying British? I'm prepared to pay

a bit more. Sometimes, these things are double the price, and I can't

afford to do that on my budget. Shirt, trousers, I haven't got a

clue where it's from. I'd just bought them because I thought it

looked good and the price suited me. The campaign from the Sixties

fizzled out. Not helped that could T-shirts emblazoned with its slogan

were actually made in Portugal. Business and patriotism don't

easily mix. What was the last British the new

board? I bought some bitter in a pub the other day. I downloaded the

Sherlock Holmes series. I have to say, it's a brilliant. Fantastic.

We make some of the best TV in the world. This is getting everybody

talking, this hypnotism thing. Alex is not hypnotised at the moment.

I removed all the hypnotic suggestions and returned her to her

normal self. This is me, normals. You have moved away from that side

of things. Absolutely. Years ago, nearly 20 years ago, I used to do a

show on television where I hypnotise people to do daft things.

One of your produces is a friend of mine and said, would you mind doing

something to Alex? What I do is hypnotise people now to overcome

problems, lose weight, quit smoking, get confident and my new book, I

Can Make You Smarter, is about increasing intelligence and memory

and those sorts of things, so some of the things we did the starting

grid to show how imaginative people can be. That's what we will show

later. The book, I Can Make You Smarter, how does it work? I took a

look at the best of the learning techniques in the world. Some of

them are mine and others are scientists and researchers. I put

them together in a system with hypnosis CDs so if you want to

improve your concentration, stay smarter, confidence when you go

into an exam situation, a lot of people know the stuff that gets so

freaked out on the day of the exam, this will keep you come up. Also,

it will help you be more creative. That keep you,. It's more than just

being academic and learning things up. It's about being creative, as

well. I wanted it to be as broad as possible and also to be understood

by as wide a range of people as possible. Well, you helped lots of

people over there years but not quite as successful as the skies.

I've lost my way and my confidence. Have you read my book? No, I

haven't. It's a very useful and there's a good exercise here. I

could do it on the right now if you would like. Look into my eyes, my

eyes, all around my eyes, you are a worthless piece of scum, how do you

think you can compete with me, the great Paul McKenna.

They had to do that 20 times because we kept on laughing. I

could see him laughing. It was a terrific fun. I've known them both

for a long time and one day, David said they had invented this

character. I said, it's brilliant. The highest form of flattery.

hope that's not what you did to me earlier. Lots of people think 16th

January is the most depressing day of the year. Any advice for people

struggling with the New year's resolutions? Yes, everybody

struggles to some extent. Pretty much everyone, because very often

people set the bar too high, and if you can do something each day,

that's a good thing. Usually people said massive expectations and by

the third week of January, they had stopped going to the gym, stopped

the diet, whatever. If you can just do something to move in the right

direction, you're better. His book, I Can Make You Smarter is out now

and we will be showing the results of Alex and Paul's session later.

can't wait. Over of the weekend, the film War Horse, the story of

one animal's epic journey during the great war, went straight to the

top of the box office. But it wasn't just officers who relied

heavily on their horses to do their job on the frontline, as Phil

Tufnell discovered. Yorkshire attracts tourists from

all over the world, drawn by its glorious countryside. Most people

go north bypassing this beautiful area of East Yorkshire. It's a bit

of a hidden gem. You never know what's around the corner. I want to

look out for people tell me is a really unusual war memorial. There

it is. Looks like a stately home. In miniature. There are hundreds

and hundreds of war memorials across the country. But this one,

with its intricate almost cartoon carving, and must be one of the

most unusual and it tells an unusual story. The memorial was

designed by the end of a nearby sled more house. He had left the

family seat to fight in the ball, returning as a government adviser

on foreign affairs, he saw the outbreak of war would become world

war one. He was determined he would do everything he could to prepare.

As war clouds gathered, he said skills of agricultural workers

would be useful. He came back from the war and saw the men are working

on the farms knew how to drive a special type of Wagon, which was

unusual, the sort they had in the army. The men's skills in a moving

heavy loads over rough terrain it would be invaluable. The armed

forces would take six months to train anyone but these were already

trained. He got them signed up before the war as reservists, and

then they were called up. The memorial tells this story in

pictures. The men are in the harvest field and a postman has

brought them the orders to go and join the Army Service. They gave

sterling service burying his applies to the front line. After

the war, the memorial was designed it -- at burying supplies. He was

concerned that they would not be remembered. They were just deserves,

so he put this up in the centre of the estate. Local people are proud

of their contribution and there is a museum in their honour. The

museum is set up in the grounds of the house and they couldn't be a

better place for it. Sandra is a curator and try to find out what

happened to them. Do we know what happened to them? Some of them, yes.

This is wagoner Leighton. A tough life. Yes. What happened to him?

This is a photograph of him in uniform, the first one to be killed.

There were others, we don't know exactly how many, because tracing

their histories is quite difficult because they moved from regiment to

regiment. Did they stay for the duration? They signed up for two

years and were given the option at the end of two years to come home.

Given the kind of life they had been living, for some of them, it

was quite exciting to stay in the army and two-thirds did and went

through the war. Only a few authentic poll bargainers remain. -

- or Wagon us. How skilful were the guys are driving this? Very skilful

because they were doing it on a regular basis. The same scale as a

HGV driver these days. Sadly, the memorial to the wagon as was not

live to be seen but it's a fitting tribute to a group of men whose

skills on the farm were put to good That story, could have some

connections to my family because my great granddad had two horses and

he took the artillery to the frontline, I tried to ring the

museum before we came on air and they were closed.

He could have been a Wagoner. That story struck a chord with you,

Phil? My granddad, William, there he is there, a good looking lad. A

pair of ears on him to be fair! He was in 46 Scraud ron. He was a

coppersmith and he used to patch up the aircraft and go out and drag

them out of no-man's land and keep them working. So yeah, it really

did. It is funny you should mention the

resemblance. Let's have a look. Which one is the granddad?

LAUGHTER You actually had a chance to go up

in one of the planes? It was amazing. It was an Avro. It was

amazing. It was scary. It was like a kite. I was sitting on a wicker

chair over the fuel tank and it was a bit scare scary. They are so

light. It fluttered up, fluttered around and it was only 11 days that

their expected life span was on the front-line.

You got a chance to go up in one? Spooky, really. But it was really

interesting finding out what he did. Lots of individual soldiers had

their mem mem morals. There is a good example of one in North Wales.

I'm glad you said that. There is hundreds of them around the country

and here is Hedd Wyn. He was a farmer turned poet, he got called

up to Belgium. And wrote a poem call The Hero and he won, sent it

back and it won a prize at the National Estafodd. He got killed, I

am afraid, a sad story and they erected the memorial in his

hometown. Thank you, Phil.

From disused power stations to concrete blocks. One One woman had

a reason why she want add local King's Lynn on Sunday morning.

Sarah Griffiths is about to begin the detonation of one of the town's

most eye-catching landmarks. This has been a 16-and-a-half year

desire to blow up this building. But this story began much earlier

with a factory that provided livelihoods for hundreds of

families. For over half a century, Cam Bell's Tower dominated the

skyline here. The tower was Campbell's first base outside

America. Roy, how long did you work here for and what was it like on

site? I started in 1959 and I finished in 1998. All my family

worked here. You make friends in a big place like this. I had some

brilliant times. I saw it built and I never thought I would see it

knocked down. From 2007, the factory stood empty

and with the tower hours from demolition, the whole place is

making way for a shopping and leisure complex.

Sarah Griffiths put herself forward to press the demolition to close a

painful chapter in her life. In 1995 her father Mick Loch was

involved in a fatal accident. The accident involved him being

engulfed in super heat steam. This building is constantly on my mind

as I come into contact with it every day. I have been quite irate

when I have parked in the traffic and I look at it and I think of

what was taken from our family. To some people it is bricks and mortar,

to me this changed the course of my life and my family and we were a

large, close family and my dad was the centre pin of it.

You are doing it for him tomorrow? I am certainly doing it for him

tomorrow. I have had a chat down the cemetery and I said, "This one

is for you.". The demolition is almost ready to go ahead.

How do you blow up a building like this? Where is the dynamite?

explosives are stacked at the bottom of each leg and all the legs

have been cut, top and bottom. The explosives takes the legs out and

leaves the back five legs standing and then she will fold over.

Why is there a brick here? That's a crash mat. A crash mat? It cushions

the fall. With the tower prepared, Sarah is

looking forward to the closure she That feels good. Yes, for my dad.

That's good to see that Sarah got Well, it is the moment that lots of

other people have been waiting for! It is to see what happened when you

met up with Paul this afternoon. have got no idea what is about to

be shown. Well, you were fresh off a plane

from New Zealand and Paul hypnotised you and this is the

story. When you wake up, I would like to

remove the number seven from your memory. I didn't do well at maths

at school. How many fingers have you got.

One, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

You have got eleven fingers. The police are looking for this man?

saw this man the other day. Really? He was in the Post Office.

Why would they be looking for the Post Office? Because he robbed

everybody in the Post Office. He made everybody lie on the floor and

then I think he took the stamps, but he didn't take any money and

then he ran out. LAUGHTER

Close your eyes and sleep. When you wake up, the number one will be

missing from your memory. You can count and say the numbers except

from one. I was saying this is a great programme you do, what's it

called, it is called the... Show.

It is not called the anything else? The BBC Show.

The BBC Show. Are you Are you sure there is

nothing else in the name? I'm on And close your eyes.

Well! What do you make of that? I thought that I had a really nice

nap for ten minutes. I have no recollection. I am sorry Matt, you

would never steal from a Post Office! But at least he only took

the stamps! Where was that coming from, Paul?

One of the things that I wanted to show is that we are creative and

imaginative that we think and purely Alex is a creative person so

I just gave you suggestions about making up things off the top of

your head and, but believing them, but you would be straight faced

about it. We opened the floodgates of your imagination because

normally we don't want to do, we need to know who we are, where we

are. We took the limiters off and had fun!

Gosh, it is strange, I have no recollection.

I am teaching people about memory, but I am showing you can forget

something as well. If you can do it one way, you can do it the other.

You had a lovely nap. I felt refreshed.

When I saw you this afternoon, you looked at me really oddly.

LAUGHTER Now, Mike Dilger talks about

Can be a little bit wearing at parties.

But he was left speechless when he met the superheroes of the bird

world! Swifts, true, aerial acrobats,

spending their lives in the air, they have mastered the skies above

They can mate, bathe and even sleep in the air so it is no wonder that

their scientific name means no fete as they hardly ever land.

And it is no wonder that for centuries, scientists have all been

asking the same question - how do they do that? How does a bird that

weighs less than a chocolate bar spend its entire life in the air

and why? The answer to that can be found in

the city of Oxford where there is a building that has informed our

understanding of swifts more than any other. The Oxford Natural

History Museum. Sandra is a scientist who is studying the

swifts here. Ah, it is just such an amazing call.

Look, there is one going in. Only time swifts ever come to land

is when they are breeding. So seeing an adult going into the

tower is a sure sign that there are chicks up here waiting to be fed.

It is very dark in the tower and so as not to disturb the nesting

swifts, we're going to use infrared cameras.

It is difficult for me to keep my voice down particularly when I'm

voice down particularly when I'm excited, but can we have a look?

There is two chicks in this one, nine days old today.

Wonderful. I presume their parents are flying

around Oxford catching insects at moment? Yes, I saw both of the

parents out foraging trying to find to make the little ones grow.

In next number two, it is feeding time.

The adult has just come in. Two adults and two large chickens

in this box now. We can just see the chicks being

fed. They are a lot older these chicks. They are, these are 24 days

old and they have developed very well. They are all feathered and

pretty. With both parents gone, Sandra is

able to carry out a health check on the chicks, this gives me the tune

to see how swifts have the perfect body design for life in the air. It

is not a bird that likes being on terra firma, is it? They don't walk

very well, but they fly amazingly well. They have a very short neck.

They have very long wings for their body size. So they are among the

fastest birds in straight flight with about 60mph as their maximum

speed. How long before these guys are

ready to fledge? About another 20 days.

After that, it is a life in the air? It is for the first couple of

years they won't touch ground. Is there any chance of me being

able to hold a swift? Yes, of course.

This small bundle of feathers has just a few short weeks before it

embarks for a life in the air, but before it makes that leap into the

unknown, it needs to go through a rigorous series of preflight

preparations. For up to a month before they take

takeoff, the swifts will strengthen their chest muscles by following a

strict exercise regime of regular press-ups.

So when they leave the nest, they are in tiptop shape for their

maiden flight, a staggering 4,000 miles, all the way to sub-Saharan

Africa and they don't stop for a rest as they can shut down half

their brain at a time, catnapping on the way.

It is for this reason that in a swift's lifetime, it can fly up to

four million miles. That's to the moon and back eight times!

If many people were asked to pick their supreme birding master of the

air, many would say the peregrine falcon. Perhaps others would choose

the Arctic tern, my pick is going to this bird up here. The moment a

swift drops out of that hole, it doesn't touch the ground for two

They have got some stamina. Haven't they just? It is all coming

back to you. I remember you showing me the

picture of Matt and what I came up with is just awful!

Paul, you have written I Can Make You Thin... And And even mend a

broken heart. What is next? Good rest. Can I say

to my mum, get well soon. This is her favourite show. She loves you

guys and she she hasn't been great and I hope she gets better soon.