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Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We're | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
iness teemed company tonight. We are Lording it up with a down ton | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
peer of the realm and a Walford Lady in Waiting. We booked a real- | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
life butler. Colin, would you dot honours, please. Please welcome, | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford and Miss Nina Wadia off the telly. | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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APPLAUSE Ho do we get ourselves into these | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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things? It would be nice if we had canapes. Julian, you've clearly met | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Colin before. He's a -- an important part of Highclere. It's a | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
very big job. I have come across him before. As we'll be talking | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
about, you've left or leaving EastEnders now? Would a period | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
drama suit? What do you reckon? Have you brought your CV? I have! | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
In just a few minutes, we've also got an exclusive look behind-the- | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
scenes of the real Downton Abbey, Highclere castle, with their butler | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
Colin, secret doors and all. With somebody else special who we will | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
meet shortly. Winterwatch continues on BBC Two later. Through the power | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
of this very special remote control, we can access - you're going to | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
love this. I can't wait. We can love this. I can't wait. We can | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
access their live cameras. There we go. Now these are two very young | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
beavers. These are known as kits. We think that yes there you go, | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
they may wake up. You can see one is actually, well, showing him in | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
all his glory. You could always kick the box. That would wake them | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
up. You're not a big fan of animals are you? Anything with more than | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
two legs. Not even baby beavers. That is a little bit cute. Though I | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
am in favour of shaking the box as well, I'm afraid. You'll be pleased | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
to know we'll keep an eye on them throughout the night, then. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
can't wait never, can you? We'll see what else turns up. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
whatever you're having for tea tonight, we are guessing, if you've | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
seen the news, that it's not burgers. Our very own food | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
inspector, Matt Allright went to see what people thought. If you | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
found out you had eaten a burger with horse meat in it, what would | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
your reaction be to that? Would it be revulsion? Initial shock, and | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
then I would wonder how it tasted. If it's horse meat, they were | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
saying that some of the products which were beefburgers had pork as | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
well. I'm not a pork eater. They muff tell the customers what is on | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
the shelf. I have eaten, well, not a whole horse, I have eaten horse | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
meat. Why did you find that acceptable? The same reason I find | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
eating cows, lambs and all the other animals acceptable. It's a | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
great source of protein. They're quite nice animals. People have a | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
connection with horses like with dogs. Whether it's a cow, you don't | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
have a connection with a cow. was to eat a horse, I might as well | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
eat a dog. And a dog has a personality and I don't know what | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
it is, it's just something I wouldn't do. The reason why you | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
wouldn't eat the dog is the psychological connection with | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
whatever the meat is. Recently been to Christmas market and had things | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
like wild boar, spring bok, canning ree, how different is horse. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
there was horse meat in the supermarket, would you give it a | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
go? 100%. We eat beef, lamb, pork, why not horses? Gosh. Matt, were | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
you surprised by the public's reaction? I was surprised bit range | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
of opinions. There was a chap there quite happy to give horse meat a go | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
and then there were people who were disgusted. The common thread there, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
whether people were prepared to give horse meat a go or not was | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
that they were disappointed to find out that there were things in their | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
food that they didn't expect. They weren't clearly labelled. With all | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the guidelines and restrictions about the way we handle our food, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
this somehow has found its way onto the shelves. That's the worrying | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
thing. That's the core question. It's not whether or not it's good | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
to eat horse meat but that you should think you're buying beef and | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the fact is it's not pure. Absolutely. There are nations that | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
eat horses. I'm not particularly anxious to do so myself. Clearly, | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
it is a meat. Even with the distinction of companyed meat or | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
whatever they call it, we eat rabbit. We have pet rabbits. It | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
depends on the country. You can't tell people they're buying one | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
thing and give them another. Exactly. We have to cover all bases | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
here. It's not all beefburg thaerz we're talking about. There's a lot | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
of British farmers worried about reputation. You even had burgers | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
for your tea last night. Yes, we do. How do you feel if you found out | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
there was horse in those burgers. Oh, my. I was taken by surprise. I | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
would not be happy. I would not be happy. Going back to that point. It | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
is just certain burgers. There are certain burgers from certain | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
outlets which have proved a problem. And there is a widely available | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
list of where they're coming from. If you have them, I mean it's your | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
choice, you can take them back to the shop. They will give you a | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
refund for those. That system is in place. How do you get your refund. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
You just test on them and discover they're horse meat. You don't have | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to test them yourself. There are specific brands which are affected. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
The shops have cleared the shelves of those items. Anything that comes | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
back they'll give you your money. We mustn't be too provincial. The | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
whole of the French nation eats horse meat and they all look pretty | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
fit to me. But it's false advertising. You want to buy what | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it says on the packet. You've been doing the series Food Inspectors, | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
are you surprised that a fast quantity of horse meat managed to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
get into the food chain? Again, we have to be clear, this is not a | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
food hygiene risk as far as they tell us. This is not a problem to | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
our health, but it is just raises questions. I've been to abattoirs. | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
They are so strict about the way they handle meat. They have to be - | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
there's so much paperwork associated with handling livestock. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
To -- for this to reach this stage, in one case a large proportion of | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
horse meat in one product. Like nearly 30%. Yes. Matt, thank you | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
very much. Food Inspectors is on later. Now down ton fans will know | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
that head-buttler car ton for -- head butler carson has no time for | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
any riff RAF. We got an exclusive insight to Highclere castle. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
I'd like to ipbtd deuce you to the biggest TV star in the world right | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
now, yes it's Downton Abbey from hitd TV show, Downton Abbey. It | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
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turns out it's called Highclere Highclere castle near Newbury in | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Berkshire, it isn't just a film set. It is a real house, with a real | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
family living here. Just like in Downton Abbey, they have a real | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
butler called Colin Edwards. He's not called that in Downton Abbey. | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
So the dining room. This is the state dining room. Before you eat, | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
you have to polish the cutlery? it has been polished but we | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
repolish it to take off all the fingerprints. Is this one of a few | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
jobs that you do or, because it seems, when we watch Downton Abbey | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
of course, there's a huge staff and they all have quite specific jobs. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
We tend to multitask. In the olden days there was a person to do every | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
small job. One person would polish the cutlery. One person would wash | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
it. But now, we have to do everything. There are two sides to | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Highclere, there's the very private side with the family. Then there's | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
the very public side. It's the focus of attention around the globe | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
now. The Americans are the main visitors. They're just over the | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
moon. They're screaming when they come in. They just can't believe | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
that they're going to see the actual inside of the house. The one | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
thing I would like in my house is a system of bell pulls. Are they | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
still working here? They're still here, they don't work. Just imagine | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
you're down stairs and then you get ding, ding, ding and you've got to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
go. You get back and ding, ding, ding, the ladyship wants you. Then | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
the Earl wants you. It's a long way. This is the modern bell pull. I'm a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
little bit disappointed. Just a little bit. But I know it's | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
practical. There's been a house on this site since the 18th century. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
But in 1838 the home was transformed by Sir Charles Barry | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
into the grand mansion you see today. Diana Mitchell has the job | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
of explaining to ministers just what is fact and what is fiction. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Are there places where there are eerie similarities between the | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
history of Highclere and the fictional history of down ton? | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
the second series of Downton Abbey, we're in the wartime now, in | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Downton Abbey this was a convalescent home. In real life in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
the First World War we were an operating theatre for officers. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
you have genuine points where the scenes being re-enacted here are | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
earily similar to what was happening here at the same time. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Absolutely, which makes it very interesting because you can relate | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
to Downton Abbey because so much of it is following some of the lines | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
of the life here in Highclere. Some of our visitors think we are | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Downton Abbey. Of course, meanwhile I'm wondering which bedroom it is | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
here that all the saucy nonsense with the Turkish gentleman took | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
place? It's down this side, this corridor. The far corridor is where | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Daisy peeped out and could see them dragging the body along the | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
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corridor. Has Highclere kaftdle aka Downton Abbey. It turned out it has | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
a real butler and a real hiftdery all its own. | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
-- history all its own. It does have a real butler who has a night | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
off. Jim Carter who plays Carson, has he asked you for any tips? | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
Unfortunately, no. Not at all? he had a chat wu, surely! We've had | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
a talk, but he's never asked my advice on how he should play his | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
part. What do you think of his performance then? Very good. Do you | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
all sit round and watch Downton Abbey? Of course. Are you saying | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
that because Julian is sitting here. I was going to say that was an | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
unfair question. I thought he'd be working. Lord and lady Caernarfon | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
insist we watch it. Let's go back to the Christmas special. I've got | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
a bone to pick with you. I bet I know what that is. We were having a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
lovely time, the chocolates were out, there was sherry. Next thing | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Matthew leaves the hospital, everybody is in a great mood. He's | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
dead. Life's full of surprises. was obviously because Dan Stevens | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
was leaving. What was the moment when he said he had to leave. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
issue was really that he wanted to leave cleanly. He wanted to go into | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
the next part of his career. If he'd been playing a servant that | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
wouldn't have been an issue, they would have got another job and gone | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
off. But because it's a member of the family and Mary has a baby, how | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
believable is it that we would literally never set eyes on him | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
again. You couldn't -- he couldn't go off on a polar expedition and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
never return. Once he wasn't prepared to come back and do, you | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
know, a couple of episodes or something in a series, that would | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
have been fine, then he could have gone off on some Government thing. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Once he wasn't going to come back at all, I don't want to sound - I | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
mean, he's a young man. He's got his way to make and his career. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Running an acting career, you know, it's a gut thing. Nina has just | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
left EastEnders for exactly the same reason. You weren't killed off, | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
were you? No, I did ask. I wanted a huge explosion or I wanted to jump | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
out of a plane. But, no, I got huge respect and they've left me and | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
left the door open. I think I understand where he's coming from. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
You do, as an actor, you reach a point where you go, I've done | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
service to this show and I fell like I want to be creative again | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
and do something fresh and new. was interest in him in America. He | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
was offered a show on Broadway and We are devastated but there is a | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
new series of Downton, how are we going to cheer everybody up? I am | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
not sure I do cheering up? beautiful Indian woman arrives, | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
right? Yes, it is perfect! The truth of the matter is nothing is | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
harder to dramatise than happiness. That is why in a great Hollywood | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
movie, they kiss at the end and get married, they don't do it in the | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
middle, because once people are happy, they are kind of done and | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
dusted in terms of narrative. Now we have Paul widowed Mary, she has | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
the baby, she has the estate, how can she find happiness? We are off | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
to the races! And Julian, we know one of your other passions is the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
big houses. You class them as almost a character themselves, and | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
this is the basis for your new series. It is. I think the whole | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
sort of art form, one can really say, the English country house, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
which fascinates many people all over the world, it is because of | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
its kind of complete this, it is like a world, it has every layer of | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
society and every activity, and a real working estate, like Highclere, | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
farming, racing, it is all going on, all of these different skills and | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
lives being lived. And the opportunity came in for this | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
programme to have a look not just that the families who built these | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
great palaces, but the men and women who worked there. A you are | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
presenting this, it is not a drama. Yes, it is me, blathering on. | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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have a look catch you blathering on. He built this house to show a great | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
dynasty and to entertain his queen from a Elizabeth the first, the | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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greatest of the Judas. -- Tudors. But Elizabeth never stayed here. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
News of smallpox in the house kept her away. Life was fragile then. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
It kind of flip-flop between the stories of the upstairs and the | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
downstairs, and they are dramas in themselves. There is one particular | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
story that we deal with about an undercooked called Thomas, who was | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
killed, I am quite sure accidentally, while he was in | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
service by a guest of the Lord's. And when you follow the story, I am | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
sure it was terrible and everyone was very sorry, it isn't that, it | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
is the way it was covered up, the way he does it is so roofless, and | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
yet he was also a fantastically brave man -- roofless. In pursuing | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
the Queen of Scots, although she is a romantic heroine, but the fact is | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
he was putting the interests of the country above his so that could | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
have lost his head, so you have got this rootlessness, plus bravery, | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
which I suppose are the key elements of a Tudor or statesmen. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
We found a book in Camden library which has got a brilliant story in | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
it which could be turned into an historical series, but we can't get | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
hold of the author. I don't know if you can help us. Where is it? There | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
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we are. Very limited film potential in this one! Just and light and us. | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
I can do it. -- enlighten. The author's interests include writing, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
gardening and Phil Yates and she helped to run a children's campaign | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
and lives in Surrey with her dogs. In the second book, she had opened | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
a care home for dogs. Who is this? I am afraid, I have to come clean, | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
that is me. Let's read a little bed. There is | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
no limit to the amount of ridicule -- ridicule. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
"she could hardly get the words said. It has happened! I and his | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
mistress! He seemed to revive physically. The king loves me". | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
king loves Me! There you are. of that has rather drifted away | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
from my writing style. It is a bit 50 Shades. And the four people who | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
got it out of the library all agreed it is a good read. All right | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
then you can see Julian's Great Houses on ITV next Tuesday at 9pm. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
We are keeping an eye on the beavers that this sort earlier on | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
with the Winterwatch cameras. Shall we have another look? -- that we | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
saw. There is only one left. This could be either Timber for... | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
in a further. That burgers. There are nine of them. Mom and dad are | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
there, they are about nine months old. This is just like Big Brother. | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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I would stay in there, it is minus five. Poor little beavers. Nina? | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
Aww! We are going to be talking to the Winterwatch people later on in | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
the show. Two things you need to know about the next film, the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
hippocampus is located in the media temporal lobe of the brain. Clearly. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
And secondly, apparently taxi drivers have in large ones. Michael | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Mossley explains why we should help the modest cabbies. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Look around you on a typical high street. How can you spot people | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
with bigger brains than yours? Here in London, they are easier to find | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
that you might imagine. Or you have to do is stick your hand out and | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
hail one. London cabbies famously have fantastic memories. They have | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
all passed the test, the Knowledge, and they need to know the location | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
of all of London's Street, around 25,000. Even more impressively, | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
they have to know the shortest distance between any two points. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Researchers believe that cabbies are no more naturally gifted than | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
you or me, so does their remarkable ability to memorise the streets of | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
London make them geniuses? OK, King's Cross station to Hyde | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Park Corner. Euston Road, cut through Grafton Way, left on | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
Fitzroy Street, through Charlotte Street. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Into Piccadilly. And up to Hyde Park Corner. It seems we have | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
feasibly court improved special memory. Tests show that parts are | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
the taxi driver's brain, the hippocampus, is noticeably bigger | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
than normal. I have come to London Hammersmith Hospital, where our can | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
be Paul has agreed to have a brain scan. He is under they supervision | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
of Dr Jennie wild. So what is the physical evidence | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
that taxi drivers have different brains? University College London | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
conducted a ground-breaking study where they looked at the size of | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
the hippocampus in London taxi drivers, and they compare that to | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
people who are not a taxi drivers, men who are not taxi-drivers, and | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
they found that the taxi drivers had a significantly larger memory | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
centre in their brains, which led them to conclude that being able to | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
navigate very well and learning the Knowledge through London led to the | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
paper camp has been wider. -- the hippocampus been wider. Sir Paul is | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
in the machine, and they are scanning his brain. That is to | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
measure if the hippocampus is larger than average. | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
Let's see if all of that training has made any difference? | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
They hit the canvas being larger can improve recall and navigation. | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Looking at this image of Paul's brain, the hippocampus is 28% | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
larger than in an average man. To see what difference this makes | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
beyond their taxi cabs, we are going to conduct an experiment, | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
here at the Maze in Leeds Castle in Kent. On one team, taxi drivers. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
And on my team, a couple of really smart cookies. Two senior lecturers | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
from Canterbury Christchurch University. We are confident. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Around the maze, we have positioned portraits of five famous geniuses. | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Both teams will have 30 minutes to navigate the maze, search for the | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
portraits and memorise their locations. Then one by one, they | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
will be asked to go from Beethoven to Stephen Hawking, to Isaac Newton | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
to Socrates and finally Einstein, in the right order. The quickest | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
route should take just 13 turns, but that means getting everything | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
right first time. The lecturer's seemed confident, but what about | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
:24:39. | :24:40. | ||
the cabbies? We had just gone round in a circle. It is the wrong way. | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
With 30 minutes are up, it is now their chance to beat the clock. If | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
like him, Paul's fellow taxi drivers have of the hippocampus | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
that is larger, they should beat mighty D handstand. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
I have the result and it is very clear. The fastest by a long way | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
was Adam. The slowest well long way was me. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
-- by a long way. All of the other competitors took | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
roughly four minutes. Although roughly unscientific, it does show | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
that paper qualifications are not enough to get around the maze and | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
when it comes to finding your way from place to place, the brains of | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
the cabbies come out on top. So, Michael, did you find your way | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
to the studio tonight? I had been here before! A you were supposed to | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
be here at the start! Earlier in the week, we saw the Radio Times | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
had featured the top 50 greatest British inventions and in your new | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
series, you get the chance to express your favourite. Yes, I love | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
inventions and inventors. I think we are in in difficult times and we | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
need to recapture that spirit of 100, 200 years ago when they went | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
out and did stuff and sold it to the world. What was your favourite? | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
My favourite was the steam car, the first one, which went off down the | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
road before the Battle of Trafalgar. Isn't that fascinating? I love that | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
sort of thing. Here he is, going full steam ahead. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
An inventor driven by economic beat to get around a costly patterned | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
ended up achieving something other inventors have been trying to do | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
for centuries. It was more powerful than the engine of James Watt and a | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
fraction of the size. And so he could put it on wheels, the age of | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
steam locomotion had begun. And to be fair, we wouldn't be | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
where we are today. No, it was the first time high-pressure steam was | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
captured. Why did we have a steam car now? We do. Why can't I have | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
one? The price of water is rather more acceptable than petrol. Yes, | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
that would Sorcha lead. There are steam cars that go at incredible | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
speed, it is making a comeback. would be thrilled by that. You have | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
learned something. Besides giving us entertained, there is civil | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
mission behind this. Absolutely, we should celebrate inventors, they | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
make things and sell things that we are fantastically good in Britain, | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
coming up with scientific things, theories and things like that, but | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
it is the stuff that people want to buy and that transforms the economy. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
We want to celebrate it. Americans are better at recognising | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
what they have come up with, so all of our great adventure does go | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
across the Atlantic. Delightful was not Thomas Edison, it was Joseph | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
Swan and the first place was the Savoy Theatre -- the light ball. | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
And the good old BBC, we have a whole season about this. Absolutely, | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
it is a celebration of that what Britain has done in the past and | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
what we are capable of now. You are going to love it, Julian. I love | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
all of this stuff, but it does annoy me how so many things that | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
were invented here but only developed... I am not attacking the | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
Americans, good luck to them because they see the potential and | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
I went to a medical science convention last year and they had | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
come up with plastic glasses filled with water and if you take a little, | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
it suggests it -- it just said so they can get their glasses out | :28:39. | :28:47. | |
cheaply. All of today, we have been saying "That is a good idea". | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Inventiveness is alive and well and we have three young inventors with | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
us, Emily, Jake and Dan. Let's go to them. I had a little go at | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
Emily's invention and the arm. The proof is in the pudding and I found | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
this absolutely brilliant. -- earlier on. They have a project on | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
the front of the handlebars of your bike which projects this image | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
around five metres ahead. Yes, it gives them a presence outside of | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
your normal food print which alerts drivers ahead of you who can't see | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
the bike. -- footprint. My normal bike light is on there, it is the | :29:22. | :29:32. | |
:29:32. | :29:35. | ||
whole thing. It is a bike light There it is. Are you ready? There | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
you go, look. Stop, there's a cyclist. That is the point. I felt | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
a lot safer having it on there, knowing that those ahead of me | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
would know I was coming before I arrived. Anything to make you more | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
visible as a cyclist and increase at wairpbs of the bike on the road. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
-- the awareness of the bike on the road. I have raised funds for it | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
and we're having conversations with the big retailers. It's all steam | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
ahead. Jake, I love yours. This is a vacuum cleaner with a difference. | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
Definitely. It still performs scablgtly the same as every other | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
vacuum on the market, but the outer shell is made out of cardboard and | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
cardboard has taken such a big rise in recent years. It's being used in | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
furniture, lielgting and construction. Why not a -- lighting | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
and construction. Why not make a light. You repair it yourself, you | :30:36. | :30:43. | |
can doodle over it. The box is the bag essentially. Yes. Pimp your | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
vacuum cleaner. Dan, your invention is brilliant. There's enormous | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
problems with catching fish that aren't ready to be caught yet and | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
wastage. Talk us through it. This is the escape ring part of a safety | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
net larger system. The money I've received from the James Dyson | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
foundation has allowed me to prototype this further. This fits | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
into the net and allows smaller fish to escape to freedom. It's | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
like an emergency exit. How many of those would you have on the net? | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
Ten to 15. Good luck. All of you, good luck to you. Hugh Fearnley- | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
Whittingstall is going to love you. He will. As will so many fish. | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
Michael's series The Genius Of Invention starts next Thursday at | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
9pm on BBC Two. One invention that's celebrating its 150th | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
birthday is the London underground. Over the years it's had a big | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
effect on some of you. I'm Tom. I've been a London Underground | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
busker for six or seven years. I love it because I like to brighten | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
up people's days. One day I was busk -- busking for two hours in | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
Waterloo and got a -- an apple from a lady. I got a Canadian girl's | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
number that day too. I think the underground is an important part of | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
London's cultural identity. It's something I'm really proud to be | :32:05. | :32:15. | |
:32:15. | :32:17. | ||
part of. I'm Michael. This is Rufus. He's a Pyrenean mountain dog. He's | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
72 kilos in weight. He comes with me every day because we go to work | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
together. He is the big celebrity of the underground. As far as dogs | :32:28. | :32:36. | |
go, he's been photographed in sces of 50,000 times by members of the | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
public. Whenever we travel with Rufus you have to allow half an | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
hour, 45 minutes longer. We always miss at least two trains. People | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
get on the train, going the -- go in the wrong way to sit with him | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
and make a fuss of him. They get off at the next station and travel | :32:56. | :33:03. | |
back. He's the best friend I have. People love him. They say the only | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
good thing in rush hour on the underground is if you get a spot | :33:07. | :33:16. | |
next to Rufus. I've been here for 13 years. I am the man that wakes | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
people up at the end of the night and gets them off the train, out | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
and home, hopefully. I've grown up with the underground most of my | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
life. My aunt used to own a confectionary come tobacco stall at | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
the old Trafalgar Square underground station. My granddad | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
used to have storeys about during the bombings in London in the | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
Second World War and going into the underground as an air raid shelter. | :33:41. | :33:50. | |
:33:51. | :33:51. | ||
I've always been brought up with that. 18 years I work for London | :33:51. | :34:01. | |
:34:01. | :34:02. | ||
Underground. I enjoy every minute of it. It was a cold November day | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
1965, somebody told me that there was something left in the ladies | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
toilet. When I went in there, I find this little new baby, so I | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
took it up, tried to do what I could to see that I baby was warm | :34:20. | :34:26. | |
and comfortable. Then I get my station master to come and take | :34:26. | :34:32. | |
over. Then I make inquiry and they told me that the baby was adopted. | :34:32. | :34:42. | |
After 30 years I was reunited with this young man that was one thing, | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
one moment that will never leave me, as long as I live. I will always | :34:47. | :34:57. | |
:34:57. | :35:00. | ||
remember that baby. One, two, three. You put the passenger in, in, out, | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
you shake them all about. Open doors, close doors, mind the gap. | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
That's what it's all about. When we retired we had to have something to | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
do. We decided to travel on the Northern line and get off at every | :35:11. | :35:19. | |
station and write about it. # All up the Northern line | :35:19. | :35:29. | |
:35:29. | :35:38. | ||
# Morden, Edgware, high Barnett # You were singing along? I was. | :35:38. | :35:46. | |
That's being taught at the nursery. "Yous off that EastEnders, aren't | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
you? Yes I am. Where is Walford east? There is no Walford east. | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
Yeah, it is. I seen it on the telly. I went, it's not real. I gave up | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
and I thought I'll join the loon. That's what he will have seen. It's | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
very considering. It's between Stratford east and Bow. And I left | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
him. It looks convincing. It does. You've left EastEnders. How did | :36:11. | :36:19. | |
your cast members take the news. You're a very tight-knight cast -- | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
tight-knit cast. Yes, quite sad if I'm honest. How does it work. Do | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
they tell you and they tell them? came to the decision in January of | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
last year. I thought about the decision for about three months. | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
Then it was time for my contract to be renewed and I said thank you, | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
but I think I'd like to make a move instead. A big decision. Very big | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
decision. I didn't make it lightly. It took me a few months to think | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
about it. I feel, a lot happened to me also last year. I lost some very | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
dear friends around my age. I thought life's too short and I want | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
to do something else. At least they didn't kill you in a sports car. | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
Yes. They obviously were kinder than we were. Yes. That sounds | :37:07. | :37:15. | |
really exciting. You are supposed to be getting married to Masood on | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
Valentine's Day. Is there going to be a duff, duff moment that messes | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
that up before then? You can't ask that? I'll ruin it for so many | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
people. So many millions. We can say that you were a fiery character. | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
Here she is dising out a bit of relationship advice. You don't want | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
to appear too keen. But then you don't want to appear too cold | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
either. The really important thing is that you must get what you want | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
from the man before he gets what he wants. That is the golden rule. It | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
lays the foundation for a lifetime of female dominance. You took your | :37:51. | :38:01. | |
:38:01. | :38:03. | ||
Now that you're off the East Ender tread mill, what has that enabled | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
you to do then? My husband and myself have our own production | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
company. We made a movie called Four. And we're starting the next | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
movie, which we will start in March or April with Stephen Lord. It's | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
change Strangeways Here We Come. You were in the Keith Lemon thing. | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
We can't show that. I'm not surprised you can't show anything | :38:29. | :38:35. | |
from that movie. Tune back in four hours' time. Are you hoping for | :38:35. | :38:41. | |
more comedy roles? Yeah. I think it got a bit heavy for me for a while. | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
I am looking forward to doing that. I'm looking forward to writing | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
again. There's a world of opportunities out there. We've | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
picked up somehow during the show that you're not too keen on animals. | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
I don't mind animals. Having said that, we're hoping to convert you | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
now. Last time you were on the show, you named a baby gore illa. That's | :39:04. | :39:10. | |
different. You settled on kukenga, different. You settled on kukenga, | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
which means "love". Here he is now. The big one? No, the little one. | :39:17. | :39:26. | |
my goodness me. He's lovely. He's almost as adventurous as you are. | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
He's like the main attraction there. Was it the little one you named? | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
The little one. The big one looks as if he'd name you. He'd own me. | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
We put it out to the viewers and you chose it. That was the nicest | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
name that came through, you're right. It was something about love. | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
Yeah it means "to love". It is time to join some animal lovers in | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
invernnessshire. It's the Winterwatch team. We heard earlier | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
on, it's minus five up there. How is the wildlife coping, obviously, | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
snugled up? Yeah and we're a bit snugged up. We have loads of layers | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
on. We look a bit like Tellytubbies. Some of the wildlife hibernates, | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
some migrate and some of it, like the beavers that we've been | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
privileged to watch on our live cameras over the last few days, is | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
perfectly adapted. You wouldn't think it, watching that one. But | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
that is a kit, first Time Out on the ice. As you can see struggling | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
a little bit. Skraiting on thin -- skating on thin ice. One of the | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
contestants from Dancing On Ice, I think. We've had a question from a | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
One Show viewer, asking why are birds singing through the night at | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
the moment? Do you have the answer? Well, if they're in towns, the most | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
likely animal that's going to be is the Robin. They sing all year round, | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
particularly under street lights. In our cities at this time of year, | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
when robins are beginning to argue about their territories with spring | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
in mind, there's a lot of Robin singing going on, occasionally a | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
few blackbirds as well. After a busy night on Christmas eve, Martin, | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
you're showing some reindeer action tonight. I am. It's a great story, | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
this, because a Laplander came over here to Scotland, looked around and | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
thought "there's something missing." so he brought some of his | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
herd over here. That's the origin of these reindeer. Tonight I'm | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
lucky enough to get hands on with these lovely creatures. It would be | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
good if a Brazilian came over here and got them to import football as | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
well. LAUGHTER | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
Chris, you're looking for One Show viewers' help. Well, down south | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
we've had a lot of hard, heavy weather at the moment, lots of snow | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
and ice. We'd like any interesting sightings of things that have come | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
into people's gardens, birds and mammals, anything like that. | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
Contact us via our website bbc.co.uk/Winterwatch. Pictures, | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
comments, anything. Thank you guys. Winterwatch is on BBC Two tonight | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
straight after us. When did he bring the reindeer in, when did | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
that happen? I'm not sure. We can't go back to them now. That's | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
disappointing. I can tell you an interesting fact. What reindeer do, | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
they have this incredible coat on them, they stand into the wind. So | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
if you see a reindeer, it closes its eyes and puts its ears back. | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
The reason is so that the wind flattens down its coat, which keeps | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
it warmer. If you're cold, stand into the wind. It wouldn't work for | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
me. But after that, Julian, how can some people out there want to | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
gratuitously harm some of our country's wildlife. Here's a story | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
of how one brave walker turned prosecution witness in a wildlife | :43:00. | :43:06. | |
crime. For hundreds of years, badger | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
baiting, where people set dogs on badgers for entertainment, was one | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
of Britain's most gruesome blood sports. But despite being outlawed | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
badger baitding is still going -- baiting is still going on today. | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
This is the story of an artist who stumbled across this medieval sport | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
and then risked his life to bring the badger baiters to justice. For | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
25 years wildlife painter Robert Fuller has been finding inspiration | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
for his work by taking photos of his subjects. In January, 2011, he | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
was doing this with a friend along the river Derwent in Yorkshire, | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
when the normally serene sounds of running water and bird song were | :43:49. | :43:55. | |
interrupted. I could hear a lot of dogs barking, very anxious dogs, | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
out here on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. It was quite an unusual | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
event. As we got closer, I could hear a badger squealing and | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
chitering and wailing. It became obvious that something was | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
definitely wrong there. The two men wanted to investigate | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
where the commotion was coming from. From behind some branches Robert | :44:16. | :44:26. | |
:44:26. | :44:26. | ||
I concede two dogs attacking a badger and a group of men were | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
watching -- I could see. There were several other dogs and a call to my | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
friends straight away to call the police and when I ran back through, | :44:34. | :44:41. | |
I grabbed my camera. Robert started taking photographs to document what | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
was happening, just 70 yards in front of him. At times, he could | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
clearly see the legs of the badger being flung around by the dogs. | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
Robert was potentially putting himself in harm's way, as the men | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
were carrying shotguns. You must have been incredibly | :44:59. | :45:06. | |
scared? Yes, it was quite a tense moment. Robert collected as much | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
evidence as possible and he even managed to capture the moment of | :45:09. | :45:15. | |
the badger's death, with the smoke from a shotgun hanging in the air. | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
This was also the instant when he knew he had to get out of there. It | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
appeared one man had spotted him. Robert beat a hasty retreat, | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
holding his own close to his chest to avoid raising further suspicion. | :45:27. | :45:33. | |
He gave the emergency operator their exact location. 15 minutes | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
later, the police arrived. The men were still close by and all of them | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
were arrested. This was the first step in getting a conviction but it | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
would take the expertise of the RSPCA to bring the men should test | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
-- to justice. A lot of the time we don't have the evidence there. In | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
2011, we had 192 big -- incidents of badger-baiting reported, and | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
seven of them have resulted in prosecutions going to court. | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
this case would turn out to have no lack of incriminating evidence. | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
Along with Robert Fuller's photographs, the police found part | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
of a locator collar carried by the men. A tour of modern badger- | :46:15. | :46:22. | |
baiting, they offer to around a terrier's neck, before it is set to | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
find the badger. They then use the locator to dig at both of them up. | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
Once out, the larger dogs are released on the badger. It would be | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
easy to think that this case was closed, but to get a definite | :46:35. | :46:42. | |
conviction, the team needed proof that badgers had been killed. They | :46:42. | :46:49. | |
had to find the bodies. A police sniffer dog found one badger dead | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
in a marshy area, ripped to bits and shot. And the second dead | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
badger was found when they dug down. This was the conclusive proof of | :46:58. | :47:05. | |
the officers needed. In January 2012, Paul Tindall, Alan Alexander, | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
William Anderson and Richard Simpson were each jailed for 16 | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
weeks. Two other men, Christopher Holmes and Malcolm Warner, were | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
given 12 weeks suspended sentences. And a teenager who stood on the | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
sidelines was placed in a youth rehabilitation programme. And none | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
of this would have been possible without Robert's bravery in taking | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
the photos in the first prize. Every year, it is thought that | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
thousands of badgers are tortured and killed by badger-baiting as in | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
the UK, but as the public become more aware of this gruesome and | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
horrific crime, hopefully it will become consigned to the history | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
books. Hopefully. Miranda, Robert showed | :47:50. | :47:56. | |
incredibly -- incredible bravery. Yes, he was a total hero, he has an | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
award from the RSPCA to acknowledge his bravery. Here he is receiving | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
it. We need more people like him out there. What can you do if you | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
do see always best a wildlife crime? You need to do what he did, | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
he Brown 999 because he was that the scene of the crime. If you are | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
not there, and you want reported later on, go to your local police | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
station or you can go to your RSPCA offers, because they have the power | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
to prosecute. You cannot condone killing like that, it is barbaric, | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
but there are people who believe that badgers spread tuberculosis, | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
we have covered the item many times, and the proposed cull was postponed. | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
Yes, there was a big U-turn. The Government announced the cull in | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
September and there was a U-turn in October, to postpone it until at | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
least the summer. That is just in England. In Scotland, there are not | :48:49. | :48:54. | |
any cases of TB. The Welsh Assembly have decided to go down the | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
vaccination route and in Northern Ireland, they are looking at the | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
eradication programme providing vaccination with a possible cull -- | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
combining. One has to remember that for farmers, it is their livelihood. | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
It isn't enough to just have one's eyes welling with tears. This stuff | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
is horrible and as long as it tense, that is great but if there is a TV | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
risk, we have to take it seriously, like grown-ups -- TV. We do but | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
more research is to be done and scientists say that even if you do | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
have a cull, it is not necessarily going to reduce the risk of | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
tuberculosis. More work needs to be done, more money and research, | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
before they announce something like that. It will be a trial cull when | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
it goes ahead. Very controversial. There are so many sides to this, | :49:42. | :49:50. | |
you can go on and on. Sorry... general, there has been an increase | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
in wildlife crime. Wildlife crime Serran the increase. You look at | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
them and you think it is something that happened he hundreds of years | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
ago -- are on the increase. Badger- baiting, hare-coursing. I did a | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
piece recently on cock fighting. And there is a blood sport caught | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
Lam Ping, which is very popular in the winter months, long and dark | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
nights, where people that with very bright lights and dogs and try and | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
bring down foxes and deer and badgers. It is Justice Board, there | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
is no financial gain and it is on the increase -- just a sport. | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
Potentially, there is so bad news for the Wildlife Crime Unit. As if | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
there wasn't enough, the national Wildlife Crime Unit are at risk of | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
losing their funding in March this year. This is a very small number | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
of incredibly dedicated people, people who are committed to | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
eradicating rhino horn theft and trade, and trade of reptiles and | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
persecution of birds of prey, and they may lose this funding in March | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
of the Home Office do not renew it. There have been a lot of cuts in | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
police funding and they are one of the people who may suffer. We will | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
see what happens. Miranda, thank you very much. Julian, the reindeer | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
we saw earlier on, that was for 1952. I thought it was 19th century. | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
So it was nearly there. Anyway, we are polite bunch of The One Show, | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
and that is not being a economical with the truth, if you understand | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
what I'm saying. Gyles Brandreth is no exception and he has had a look | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
at the British obsession with euphemisms. | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
Euphemism. Euphemism. I am looking for an alternative and I can't find | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
one. But perhaps I don't need one, because a euphemism is the | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
alternative, and when the 18th century lexicographer Dr Johnson | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
was compiling his first comprehensive English dictionary, | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
he actually left the word out. He was a man who liked straight | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
talking. If you go back to the Greek, the origin of the turbines | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
to speak fair, which is what you can listen does. There is a | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
wonderful definition by Quentin Crisp, he said that euphemisms are | :52:03. | :52:09. | |
run pleasantries wearing diplomatic Cologne. I think that one defeat | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
describes how we sidestep something unpalatable. It is there to make | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
something sweeter, gentler. exactly, to add a bitter foe. | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
Rees rota book on euphemisms, helped by his better half -- wrote | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
a book. My wife has a good definition, which is when you don't | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
call a spade a spade. You call it an agricultural lifting instrument, | :52:32. | :52:41. | |
to avoid using the D-word, spade. Of course, the subject that we | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
think we need change according to the times we live in. | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
Victorians for fat childbirth, bankruptcy, prostitution -- avoided. | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
They used to cover up the legs of chairs. It may not be true, but | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
linguistically they referred to chair legs as "Limbs". Similarly | :52:59. | :53:04. | |
with chicken, we were not allowed to talk about "Chicken breast", it | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
had to be "White meat closed with - - white meat". Winston Churchill | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
was asked and he said he would like rest and was told in no uncertain | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
terms they were not allowed to use the word and he asked what to say | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
and they said "White meat". And the next day, legend has it, he sent | :53:23. | :53:29. | |
the woman who said that to him a course large saying "but this on | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
your white meat". Some of them have been constant for centuries, like | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
getting drunk, procreating and going to the lavatory, a euphemism | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
in itself. The most charming euphemism for going to the lavatory | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
was from a woman in Norfolk tennis club, who broke off playing and | :53:48. | :53:58. | |
:53:58. | :54:01. | ||
said I'm just going to "Turned a My uncle said"I'm just going to | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
make a telephone call to Henry". Death, of course, remains something | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
we are all squeamish about and a lot of the accepted words we use | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
about it today actually started out as euphemisms themselves. We talk | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
about undertakers, which began as simply anybody who would undertake | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
a task. We talk about funeral parlours, memorial centres. Even | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
the lead coffin began as a euphemism because it means a little | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
basket. There is a whole soft focus surrounding all of these subjects | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
and they have been many wonderful sketches that have played on that, | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
including the dead parrot sketch. It was used by Margaret Thatcher -- | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
Margaret Thatcher. She quoted Monty Python to refer to Liberal-Democrat | :54:47. | :54:57. | |
and the legendary dead Python sketch. This is an ex parrot. It is | :54:57. | :55:05. | |
not merely stunned, it has ceased to be, Expired, and gone to meet | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
his maker. Everybody got the joke that she did ask if Mr Patten was | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
one of us? Politics is an area rich in euphemism, it is all lies, damn | :55:16. | :55:26. | |
:55:26. | :55:29. | ||
lies and euphemism. So, to you for advice or not to you for mice? | :55:29. | :55:37. | |
euphemise. I suppose people uses to cannot be direct, to avoid it, | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
which they should. You can use it to deliver irony, kindness, humour, | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
almost anything and as long as we are social animals, we will always | :55:45. | :55:55. | |
:55:55. | :55:55. | ||
needed. If you would excuse me, I have got to see a man Got to turn | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
the vicar's bike around. I have got a wring out my socks. | :56:00. | :56:08. | |
Wring out my socks? Julian, you are writing a 4th series of Downton | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
Abbey, you have to get that phrase about turning the bike around. | :56:12. | :56:22. | |
:56:22. | :56:25. | ||
is rather a big task, I think we could do it by just having the | :56:25. | :56:32. | |
vicar in. Gyles Brandreth is the only man I have and I had a bath | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
with. We were both three years old. We tried to get hold of that | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
photograph, but basically he told us it is in one of his mother's | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
family albums. Now, we are going to put your knowledge of stately home | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
salacious stories to the test. It is time for this. | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
We will read out stately home shenanigans stories and you have to | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
guess which stately home they happened in. Very easy. Colin has | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
got a plate of fresh scones, with some jam and cream on them, which | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
are up for grabs, but you have to get three correct. Are you ready? | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
We shall start. In which house did the infamous | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
Emma Hamilton Lady -- later become mistress to Lord Nelson, and she | :57:23. | :57:33. | |
:57:33. | :57:34. | ||
danced on the dining table that Let's find out from the map. That | :57:34. | :57:44. | |
:57:44. | :57:44. | ||
is correct. Very good. You are at a slight disadvantage. A slightly! | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
The Lady of this house was considered slightly eccentric. She | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
continued to hunt until she was in continued to hunt until she was in | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
her 80s and had to be strapped to your cause, despite being almost | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
blind and been told where to jump. -- her horse. She nearly burned | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
down the west wing of her house when her feathers caught fire. | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
Hatfield House. That is correct. Yes! | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
Here we go. In which ousted the gardeners insert a tap into the | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
pipe carrying beer from the brothers' house to the seller so | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
:58:28. | :58:31. | ||
they could have a cheeky find? -- brewer's? Chatsworth House. That is | :58:31. | :58:37. | |
correct. Yes! correct. Yes! | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
Very quickly, on Friday's show, we will be talking about confessions, | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
so if you had anything you want to get off your chest, e-mail us at | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
The One Show. That is all we have time for, thank | :58:48. | :58:54. |