16/05/2012 The One Show

flotsam and jetsam left on the sand. Heavy use his pieces of driftwood

to build sculptures. -- this artist. She takes random shapes and styles

them into life-size horses. Watch this. It just finishes his profile.

She has brought one of these back to the beach in Devon to photograph

it and I am going to give her a hand. Let's take them out of the

horsebox! Don't let him run away with you! He is quite frisky!

have brought it down here to be photographed. What is the best

angle? I don't know that I want to be lying on the beach because it is

cold. I am happy to get my feet wet. I will squat down and see if I can

get something against the sky with some water in. Beautiful. I just

love to bring them back to the sea because they make great shots.

looks lovely. This shows amazing observation about how the horse

moves. You say all the right things! But it does, so realistic.

You have got that from your experience withdrawing. Yes. I just

did nothing but horses in the field, drawing all the time. My heroes

were people like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. I am seriously

interested in drawing. Her love for drawing and figurative work led her

to leave her fine art course in the 1960s. She says that at the time,

her tutors were more interested in abstract and conceptual art, and

drawing was out of fashion. They suggested that she was not the

stuff proper artists were made of. Having found her own style, her

sculptures are in demand in Britain and overseas. Their prices range

from �250 for a drawing to tens of thousands for a big Sculpture.

is quite large. How long does a piece like that take? It depends

entirely on how much would I have got. I have four or five pieces on

the go. If I get stuck on one, I move on to another one. You could

be waiting for a back leg for months. Could do! How do you fix it

together? I start by taking a decision about what it will be

doing and I Weld a steel frame together. Then it is a question of

tying bits of driftwood and till I know where they will be. Then I

screw them in. It has been known for it to take three years but that

is not common. She likes to showcase the finished works by

photographing them back where they came from, the beach. Do you go out

and find the driftwood yourself? used to. Not any longer. Not this

size. I have people that can act for me. That is the wonderful thing

about driftwood. Even when it is completely dead, it has the sense

of being alive. That is why they are so fascinating to people.

has a strength and movement all of its own. Every bit of what seems to

be alive, flooring and furniture. And this is in its very natural

state. It has just got something about it. It has. It has get-up-

and-go. Really, you are taking nature's debris and recycling it.

am. It is extraordinary. It must take a lot of patience.

interesting thing about that is that if you are doing something

that you love, you don't need patience. You liked the look of

them, didn't you? Very talented. I am sitting here in shock. For me

that is just amazing. Have you got room for one of them at 10?

Talking about passion, you are very much your own boss. This album is

outside of Simon Cowell's label. Yes. Simon Cowell and Psycho did so

much for me. We did our first album together, Overcome, but now I have

moved on. The year that I took out to do this album was an amazing

year and a half because I am now the executive producer of the album

so it is challenging to say the least. Did you want more control?

Not really. To be fair, doing the first album, Simon gave me a lot of

control but I had to make it in six or seven months. I was able to take

my time with this one. With this album I really wanted to do

something, give something I had never given before, faith in the

fear of being more open. That is why it is called Heartbreak On Hold.

And I am very nervous about it because I am so open in this album

that it scares me a bit. It is about to be out there for the world

to hear. The new single is called Let It Go. It is the most fun that

we have seen anybody having on the London Underground. Let's have a

look at the video. #, on, baby, bring back the love.

# Let it go. # Let it go, let it all go.

There we are! It has still got the dance five. Yes. Alfie has

disappeared! It still has that dance element to it. Yes. I really

wanted to achieve something with this album, and I am a happy person

and I like to have fun, and I wanted my sons to be up-tempo and

vibrant. I still wanted people to understand the deeper meaning

behind the lyrics. That is why on some of the tracks I have stripped

down the vocal, stripped down the production, and an acoustic

versions so that people can understand the deeper meaning

behind the album. I want the songs to shoplift people, make them happy,

turn a negative situation into a positive. -- up lift people.

Remember, you only live once. have also been a judge on the X

Factor. What do you make of The Voice? I love it. I am nothing that

there is a lot of opportunity out there for people to have a chance

in this industry. -- I am loving. I am always going to be a fan of

these shows for the simple reason that talent is being shown. It is

for people that cannot walk into a record label and get signed. It is

fantastic. The Voice is all about how good the singing is. Can people

see past the back story and how the performer looks? For me, nothing

should be about anything other than the voice, the talent, what you are

giving, what is coming out of you. It should never be about anything

else. On that note, you had a very interesting telephone call when you

were very young. You sang down the telephone. He was on the other end?

I am never going to forget this! My mother met Stevie Wonder and he

rang the house own and I got to sing down the telephone to him and

he sang back to me. -- the house phone. He did It isn't she Lovely.

Then I started crying, as I always do! I said I did not mean to this

respect him and I did not realise it was him, and he wanted to sign

me but my mother said I was too young. She was right, I was only 12

and I did have to finish school. She was right and everybody has

been right ever since! 27th May, Let It Go comes out. And the album

is out in June. This rain has been perfect conditions for our bluebell

woods. They have been in bloom for longer than usual but this can be a

growing problem. Yes, Britain. Your bluebells need you. Walk through

the woods at this time of year and you are likely to be rewarded with

a stunning spectacle. A carpet of purple stretching into the distance

and the sweet smell filling the air. Around half of the world's

population of wild bluebells are found in the UK, making our woods

internationally important. This woodland in Wiltshire is a classic

spot. Not all bluebells in Britain are native. There is an invader in

our midst, the Spanish bluebell. Spanish bluebells were brought to

the UK as garden plants. The problem is that they are incredibly

good at cross-breeding with our native bluebells. They are putting

this magnificent spectacle under threat. Native bluebells need our

help. Dr Fred Rumsey from the Natural History Museum is running a

survey to do just that, eye- tracking where the native and

Spanish invaders got to. It was here in the early 17th century and

it has been spreading slowly, we think, ever since. As it spread all

over the country now? It has got as far as Scotland but we are sketchy

about the details of where it is. Hence the project? Yes, we need

people to help find out whether bluebells are. Then we can keep

beautiful populations like this going. How do you tell a native

from a Spanish? There are some classic signs. For starters, native

bluebells have a gently nodding head, with all the bells on one

side. They are a dark colour, tubular, with lovely curved petals.

When you look inside, you can see the contrast between the dark

colour of the flour and the White, the pale cream anchors. And of

course you get that amazing smile. Gorgeous. -- smell. In contrast,

the Spanish bluebell is a very different beast, traditionally

found in gardens. The Spanish stands tall with flowers all round,

and instead of narrow belts, the flowers are open with blue pollen

and no cent. -- no smell. It is a hybrid that of the problem. As the

Spanish cross with the natives, they are creeping into the

countryside, threatening to push out the native bluebells. As they

are a mixture of both species, it takes a keen eye to spot them.

with all hybrid, it is an intermediate, with characters of

both parents. The colour is midway between the two. We have got a

fledge bell, but not very wide and open like the Spanish one. -- fled.

There is a trace of a smile, but not the lovely sweet, honey smell.

I'm surprised we have got hybrid plans on the edge of woodland in a

wild place. I would have thought they would be native. They are

common in urban areas, close to gardens, and little stretches of

ancient woodland around towns are increasingly filling up with hybrid

plants. The Spanish ones of crossing with the natives.

bluebells are pollinated by insects but we can help prevent the spread

of Spanish and hybrids by not planting them in our gardens and

making sure they are dead before we compost them. We can also do the

survey. How would you like One Show viewers to help? We would like

people to go to our website and then they can record on that where

they have seen bluebells, which ones and when they are flowering.

Then we can find out where they are and keep them apart. Only by

knowing where every native stronghold is in Britain will the

wildlife agencies be able to protect them from the invading

Spanish and hybrids. Now is the time to get out and enjoy this

wonderful spectacle and help our He was glued to that! You have to

go out and do the survey. What a lovely image.

To help out with the Natural History Museum's survey, go to our

website, where you will find a link to it. He will also see a short

video way you will find out everything you need to do.

Is is a great website, I was on it another day.

Anyone who have taken a flight with the young child will know the first

job is to strap them in and the second is to keep them entertained.

I got the safety card out to show my son the aeroplane and then I had

to explain to him why he could not have a go on the inflatable slide!

A Politics Scotland view of got in touch because she is questioning

whether sitting children on your lap is dangerous.

Every year, thousands of us head on our holidays trusting that the

airlines will get us to our destinations safely but one woman

wrote to the show with a serious concern. Why are toddlers and

babies expected to sit on their parents' laps when on an aeroplane?

It is not safe. In the same way as on a car, they should be in a car

seat and they should be properly protected. You could not imagine

getting in a car and putting ATOC lock on your lap. All UK airlines

allow children under two to travel on their parents lap. This is how

most of us live with a child under two at the moment. -- most of us

flyer. You are provided with a seat belt like this. Bring the baby on

to your lap. Everyone happy? We are ready. Rebecca has a 20 month old

daughter and is expecting a second baby. She has to do a lot of flying

because she works as an engineer on military jets in Germany. If you

had to stop suddenly, instead of going forwards, you a crushing the

baby on your lap. But parents might be concerned that this is another

charge for parents. I think a lot of parents would be happy to pay

the extra. Some parents do already choose to pay extra on airlines

that allow it but Rebecca is so concerned about the issue, she has

set up an online campaign and her worries were heightened when she

read an official report by the European aviation safety agency.

This report acknowledges that babies and infants would be safer

if they have their own seats with proper seat belts to restrain them

in the event of an accident. The experts to work on the report

carried out crash tests to analyse the effectiveness of look seat

belts, used to secure babies. This footage shows a similar experiment

in America, with devastating consequences for the baby. In

America and Canada, loop bells have been banned but in the UK, they are

still common thread is it --, the soap is it time for a new policy?

One of parents be concerns around this suggestion is that it would

increase the cost of going away to the point where they would not be

able to take their family on holiday any more. Lots of parents

had travelled with their children and not had any problems. Airline

travel is generally seen as very safe and so it is not men number

one issue when they are thinking about travelling -- their number

one issue. In the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority enforces the

rules and while they encourage airlines to offer a choice, they do

not think banning those types of seat belts are necessary.

position is based on 30 years of supplementary loop seatbelts been

used by UK airlines, and there is no statistical evidence to

demonstrate that carrying infants in that way is not safe. Currently

most of the large airlines will allow you to buy an extra seat for

a child under two but some insist that babies under six months old

must travel on an adult's lap. For Rebecca, having the option to use a

proper child seat on every airline would be a step forward. The

airline she uses has changed their policy, but not as a result of

Rebecca's campaign. EasyJet have changed their regulation so babies

under six months have the option to go for a baby seat so at Christmas,

we will be buying one and the baby will be safely protected and we can

see the family, which is great. you want more details on what the

Civil Aviation Authority says about this, there is a link on our

website. Yesterday we ask you to send our

question for Nu -- Planet Earth. June try to send her female Cup

into the wild but she was not taking the hint. The big question

I was in the woods with Fern and June and I saw June, Aspen back

together! Aspen was suckling on her mum! June is not very good at the

family break-up, she does not want to let go of the kids!

We have got time for some questions. How read books would like to know,

what is a bear's favourite season? -- Harry Brooks. And John would

like to know what a bear's sleeping pattern is like? Do they sleep

longer than humans? Next time I am out with a bear, I

will ask them what their six favourite season is. In Minnesota

they say, if you don't like the weather, come back in five minutes

of stock and bear sleeps six hours every night. They have a cat nap in

the day and that is what you can see Herbie and Fern doing up a tree.

Look how cute that is! Before I go. I have got some more Herbie and

Fern treats. This is then climbing trees, practising their real

important tree climbing. Two things you should not do when you are

climbing trees in Minnesota, do not climb dead trees and stay away from

the birch tree because they have a slippery bark. Guess what trees

they are trying to climb! What can we look forward to tonight? We have

the update on June and Aspen, the update on the meerkat, did he

survive the COBRA? Lovely to see you.

Goodbye! More animals now. More of the domestic kind. For all of you

taking photos of your dogs doing tricks, it is time to cover their

ears because this next film is all about the woman who made this

command famous. Walkies! In this House in Dublin live a

quintessentially English woman, who made us sit up and listen to her

every command. But a century ago, Barbara Woodhouse was called

Barbara Blackburn. She was born into the English elite when Ireland

was trying to break free from British rule. She was the most

unlikely TV star. She wore tweed skirts, a cardigan, happier in the

show ring than with showbiz, and preferred mucking out to going out.

A nation which had voted in its first female prime minister was

also happy to obey orders from Queen Barbara. The Guinness Book of

Records name to of the world's top trainer. Sit! She had made a career

out of being bossy. Keep your hand out of the way! That was good!

Barbara's father was an Anglican minister and when she was born, he

was headmaster at St Columba's College in Dublin. Many of the

pupils trained as future offices of the British Army. The family lived

in this school grounds. Her father, the Reverend, was a headmaster.

was a strict disciplinarian, a formidable person. Both parents

were undoubtedly distant figures. For example, Barbara did not see

her mother, only an hour every day. If animals were Barbara's best

friends, then the family nanny was her closest ally. She allowed free

passage of wild birds in the nursery. She tended sick rabbits

and she also looked after the family dogs and two donkey's. But

Barbara's Irish it will was about to be engulfed by a major political

storm -- Irish paradise. When Barbara's family arrived here,

Ireland was relatively peaceful and was still a part of the United

Kingdom, but there were younger radical stirring things up in the

background, who were members of secret organisations like the Irish

Republican Brotherhood, which was dedicated to a violent overthrow of

British rule. Easter Monday 1916, one of the most important dates in

20th century Anglo Irish history. Rebels raided the school and all of

its guns were taken from the armoury. The family were told they

were being targeted by the rebels. Barbara recalls that they were

awarded back to their property while they were out riding. That

evening, the family watched through this very telescope as the GPO

famously burned. They were witnessing the beginning of the end

But the death of her father, not revolution, would tear the family

from Ireland to England two years later. She swapped finishing school

for agricultural college and soon established herself in the world of

dogs, training 16,000 of our four- legged friends! It was a letter

though that 69-year-old Barbara sent to the BBC that made the

nation truly follow her lead. feel you are missing out on

something that would draw an enormous or audience. I have a gift

of training animals which I doubt if anybody else in the world has.

Wait! I want to feel something! Splendid! Her unlikely TV career

was born. A nation's ears twitched at the Founder's her voice.

Walkies! But her barking orders were cut short barely a decade

later, when she died of a stroke at 78. Barbara Woodhouse, the English

eccentric, made in Ireland. You love her, don't you. One of

your heroines. I have got the books.

Barbara or Neil Diamond? You have put me on the spot! I will

have to go with Neil Diamond! You haven't disappointed, we asked

we'll talented dogs watching the telly! This one says, enjoying the

show from Harry! That is nice. This is ruby with her German short-

haired, called Biscuit. Brenda's de peak, she also watches

the One Show! -- Brenda's dog. And this is Connie's golden

retriever. Look at Paddy! You on the telly!

Tomorrow Chris Tarrant will be here. On Friday, as the Olympic torch

arrives in the UK, we will have David Beckham Live!

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 141 seconds

This whole adventure is happening in May because this is make or

break month for wild young animals across the planet. Here in Kenya,