:00:25. > :00:47.Show, with Alex Jones and tonight's guest presenter. Interesting!
:00:48. > :00:50.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...
:00:51. > :00:51...and for my Friday partner this week
:00:52. > :00:58.it's the snookerstar DJ himself, Steve Davis!
:00:59. > :01:06.I have never asked a question before, I thought that it was all
:01:07. > :01:08.about me, but it is not! Could be a long night!
:01:09. > :01:11.Our guest tonight is a man who's done it all, sold millions
:01:12. > :01:13.of albums, won numerous awards, received an OBE,
:01:14. > :01:19.and he's now co-written a West End musical
:01:20. > :01:24.So why in his own calendars does he never smile?
:01:25. > :01:37.look at the state of that, Take That 1995, Take That 1996...
:01:38. > :01:46.Not a murmur! Even 20 years later... Having made lots of money... Not a
:01:47. > :01:55.smile insight! Let's cheer him up! We will do our best, it is Gary
:01:56. > :01:59.Barlow! That is not a miserable luck. More of a determined look. I
:02:00. > :02:05.don't want you taking away my boring title! It should be the legend
:02:06. > :02:11.snooker player, not the star Snakebite. You didn't know that he
:02:12. > :02:15.was a DJ. A banging techno DJ. Glastonbury, have you ever done
:02:16. > :02:20.Glastonbury? I have never done it, now I know that you have done it, I
:02:21. > :02:24.am going to do it. -- not a star snooker player.
:02:25. > :02:27.Gary's here along with his co-writer Tim Firth to tell
:02:28. > :02:28.us about their Calendar Girls musical The Girls,
:02:29. > :02:31.and here's a photo we did find of Gary smiling,
:02:32. > :02:33.there they are stripping off together.
:02:34. > :02:39.Comparing notes...? Our beautiful cars, we had them in the last photo
:02:40. > :02:44.shoot one-year ago, completely naked, they were really up for it,
:02:45. > :02:50.great sport, we thought, it is only fair, as the writers, we should get
:02:51. > :02:55.our kit off. Was everything off, or just the top? We left on the kilt.
:02:56. > :02:58.And we had air on a G string playing... LAUGHTER
:02:59. > :03:01.when we've also got an exclusive live
:03:02. > :03:02.performance from France's hottest music star,
:03:03. > :03:08.and she'll be singing her new single for us,
:03:09. > :03:17.Definitely!, fantastic. Very good indeed.
:03:18. > :03:20.It's been ten years since laws came in banning using your phone
:03:21. > :03:24.and it was actually the very first story
:03:25. > :03:26.that Dom Littlewood covered for The One Show.
:03:27. > :03:29.So in a week when the RAC, the press and the government have
:03:30. > :03:31.all slammed motorists for ignoring the law in record numbers,
:03:32. > :03:38.to see if anyone's been shamed into changing their ways.
:03:39. > :03:44.VOICEOVER: We all know it is wrong and yet we still seem to be doing
:03:45. > :03:48.it, how many times have you looked down and spotted somebody sending a
:03:49. > :03:52.sneaky text message while stuck in traffic or making a sneaky phone
:03:53. > :03:55.call while driving down a motorway, problem or because they are bored
:03:56. > :03:59.and want to know how West Ham United did last night all what is for
:04:00. > :04:03.dinner. Maybe this week is different, maybe we have all taken
:04:04. > :04:08.notice. So I am going to take matters into my own hands. What we
:04:09. > :04:13.need is a bit of psychology, a bit of bluff, a different approach, meet
:04:14. > :04:17.The One Show's mobile phone scanner, don't worry, it is not real, but
:04:18. > :04:24.perhaps this little beauty can help me suss out who has been using their
:04:25. > :04:29.mobile phone on the road. Gary! Red! Bright red, just in. Where were you
:04:30. > :04:33.half an hour ago? Parked up, promise, definitely. I reckon that
:04:34. > :04:41.you were in your car at that point, driving. Have you made any calls
:04:42. > :04:47.while driving? Yes, one. Have you? In your car? Yes... This is bad.
:04:48. > :04:54.Where you still driving? No, I was stopped, I had stopped to get and
:04:55. > :05:00.drinks. Eight calls, since Chris... All while driving on the phone. Why
:05:01. > :05:05.did you not press by that, and call him back later on? Temptation! I do
:05:06. > :05:08.it, it is like a habit. Is the message getting through? The
:05:09. > :05:12.evidence will be on the roads, this is why I have teamed up with our
:05:13. > :05:17.very own The One Show bike rider, to investigate, my rider has seen just
:05:18. > :05:20.how often drivers flout the law in all sorts of ways, hitting the road
:05:21. > :05:24.with him is the perfect way to get up close and personal with
:05:25. > :05:32.offenders. On an average day, how many? Countless, numerous. It is the
:05:33. > :05:35.biggest single threat to a motorcyclist's health and
:05:36. > :05:48.well-being. No doubt. Let's crack on. Get off the phone! You are on
:05:49. > :05:54.your phone, I saw it in your hand. Why are you on your phone? You are
:05:55. > :05:59.driving, due in London, busy street, shouldn't be on your phone. -- you
:06:00. > :06:08.are in London. What are you doing on the phone! That was outrageous. A
:06:09. > :06:13.black cab, on the phone one hand, cigarette in the other! There you
:06:14. > :06:18.have it, time for a bit more diligence on the roads. Joking
:06:19. > :06:21.aside, it is a serious matter. People are getting killed, getting
:06:22. > :06:30.hurt and injured. You really have got to sort it out. STUDIO: It is
:06:31. > :06:35.not a laughing matter. Gary, do you ever allow your chauffeur... (!)...
:06:36. > :06:42.Two uses phone? Definitely not, driving is a good excuse to put your
:06:43. > :06:45.phone in the boot! It is about escaping from the phone, and being
:06:46. > :06:48.in your own world. The girls, the tickets went on sale today and I'm
:06:49. > :06:53.sure they have flown the shelves, so to speak, we have at the original
:06:54. > :06:57.Calendar Girls on, at the beginning, they did it to raise money for
:06:58. > :07:01.leukaemia, and you wrote the film, Tim, and the original play, you have
:07:02. > :07:08.gone on to a musical. Where did the idea come from? Two things, we
:07:09. > :07:12.return to it, because you feel there is unfinished business, another
:07:13. > :07:22.story to be told, about the husbands, the children, we call it a
:07:23. > :07:26.comedy Under Milk Wood, a story, a comedy, about a village green
:07:27. > :07:33.musical, which could work. And we have always said, I knew Gary when
:07:34. > :07:40.he was... Before take that? We met so long ago, we were in the same
:07:41. > :07:44.town. It seemed logical. We have always talked about this, the two
:07:45. > :07:48.things came together. I took him to see the play. We went to Milton
:07:49. > :07:52.Keynes to see the play, and I suspected that Tim may want to put
:07:53. > :07:56.music to this, and I loved the play, I thought it was amazing. Instantly
:07:57. > :08:02.heard the music, and I thought, for those emotional music, -- emotional
:08:03. > :08:06.moments, music would add to this, we have had great fun, he has been
:08:07. > :08:11.working on this for five years. Long job. Playing out of London, playing
:08:12. > :08:16.in Leeds and Manchester. To rave reviews. Coming to the west end in
:08:17. > :08:20.January. And you have raised a few quid for charity as well. The show
:08:21. > :08:23.itself raises money anyway. But the cast as well, it was of their own
:08:24. > :08:28.decision, they decided one night they would stand in front of the
:08:29. > :08:33.theatre, with buckets, and after every show they ended up doing this,
:08:34. > :08:36.every night, we would race round, in Leeds, in the Lowry, alone, those
:08:37. > :08:48.bucket collections raised over ?17,000, in coins, coppers, people
:08:49. > :08:50.coming out. Is a taste of one of the songs. The play is brilliant, the
:08:51. > :08:52.music has really added to it. This is one of the
:08:53. > :09:13.songs called Dare. The lovely thing about it, you said
:09:14. > :09:16.that you have already put it on in a couple of venues, you premiered it
:09:17. > :09:22.in the Yorkshire village where the Calendar Girls began.
:09:23. > :09:23.Burnshall, the Yorkshire village where it all began,
:09:24. > :09:25.where you also premiered the musical,
:09:26. > :09:27.how much did the locals get involved
:09:28. > :09:28.and how did they help shape the show?
:09:29. > :09:32.If you want an honest reaction, get four shows full of Yorkshire
:09:33. > :09:36.villages, from the town, from the village, we gave them pieces of
:09:37. > :09:41.paper, little pencil, and said, tell us exactly what you think, which
:09:42. > :09:45.songs you like and do not like and boy, they did! I bet they did! It is
:09:46. > :09:48.great though, you get it straight from the horses mouth, before it
:09:49. > :09:53.comes to the west end. Definitely, with musicals, to get that story and
:09:54. > :09:58.the balance right, you have got to put it on its feet. Put it in front
:09:59. > :10:02.of an audience. We had this philosophy, for a musical to work it
:10:03. > :10:07.has got to work in a church hall with a piano and we did that, Jack
:10:08. > :10:11.told, piano. Not the first time you have work together. The first time
:10:12. > :10:18.he was 15 years old! What was going on? It was a songwriting
:10:19. > :10:25.competition, I had ended it sometime before. You often see these clips of
:10:26. > :10:30.the young Gary Barlow, if you turn the camera around, you would have
:10:31. > :10:35.seen me with a mullet, aged 20, as a judge! It was the earlier version of
:10:36. > :10:49.this show, Nationwide! Here is lovely Gary! No!
:10:50. > :10:57.APPLAUSE That jumper was very trendy at the
:10:58. > :11:02.time, I will have you know! The Girls at the Phoenix Theatre in
:11:03. > :11:05.London opens next January. And tickets
:11:06. > :11:07.are available from today. Now the Calendar Girls haven't just
:11:08. > :11:11.inspired Gary and Tim, there are literally hundreds
:11:12. > :11:15.of groups who've gone on to produce their own
:11:16. > :11:26.naked calendars since then, I am going to move in here... You
:11:27. > :11:32.are the Treasurer! Where are you three from? Upton upon seven, I am
:11:33. > :11:37.the Treasurer of the hot peppers WIA. Where did the idea come from?
:11:38. > :11:41.We wanted to raise money for the local doctor 's surgery. We went to
:11:42. > :11:49.the community, friends of the local doctor 's surgery. -- WI. Everybody
:11:50. > :11:58.benefited. You raised ?1370. -- 1000 ?750. I particularly liked Mr May.
:11:59. > :12:04.You look divine. Postmaster? Just retired. This was my first naked
:12:05. > :12:09.shoot. Very liberating! I really enjoyed it, I would recommend it to
:12:10. > :12:16.anybody. I like yours as well! Now, Rick... Alex... Hello, you were
:12:17. > :12:21.saying your photograph is very interesting, ?4000, Poppy Appeal,
:12:22. > :12:25.local church, thanks to your daughters, tell us about the
:12:26. > :12:31.picture, what are you holding... Hold it aloft! A part-time hobby at
:12:32. > :12:37.the weekends, I deliver wild bird food to people, and so I am selling
:12:38. > :12:42.this young lady, my wife, a bag of peanuts, which is covering... A very
:12:43. > :12:47.large bag of peanuts, I should say! LAUGHTER
:12:48. > :12:53.Would you like to buy a bag of nuts? Very nice! And you raised ?4000,
:12:54. > :13:01.thank you very much. Miranda, and win, here. We are from Rutland. We
:13:02. > :13:07.were raising money for Macmillan. Just under 3000. We particularly
:13:08. > :13:12.liked your photograph, Wynne, was this your first new modelling? At
:13:13. > :13:19.75, yes it was. Can you remember what the article was that you were
:13:20. > :13:25.reading so avidly? Was it liberating? I loved it! You have
:13:26. > :13:28.raise lots of money. Thank you very much for coming along, Deborah, we
:13:29. > :13:32.loved it. Round of applause. You've got to be brave
:13:33. > :13:34.to strip off for a calendar, but it takes a different kind
:13:35. > :13:37.of bravery to swim the channel. Particularly when you're just
:13:38. > :13:46.eleven years old. VOICEOVER: Like all tough physical
:13:47. > :13:51.challenges, there are many different records for swimming the English
:13:52. > :13:55.Channel. Back in 1988, schoolboy Tom Gregory caused quite a stir when he
:13:56. > :14:01.became the youngest person ever to swim the channel so low. He was just
:14:02. > :14:06.11 news old, but in the year 2000, the regulations changed, you had to
:14:07. > :14:12.be 16 to attempt the crossing solo. So, this record will never be
:14:13. > :14:17.broken! Tom took just under an incredible 12 hours to swim across
:14:18. > :14:22.from France. Now 39, he works in the City of London. Tom, being back
:14:23. > :14:27.here, especially seeing the white cliffs, what memories does it bring
:14:28. > :14:30.back? It is a beautiful day, when I landed 28 years ago, it was a day
:14:31. > :14:35.similar to this. It is quite emotional. This was the end of a
:14:36. > :14:43.gruelling for a training regime, led by the late John Bullitt, the coach
:14:44. > :14:47.and inspiration behind the swim. He changed the lives of many people
:14:48. > :14:52.from our part of south-west London, it was his vision to push youth to
:14:53. > :14:57.go and achieve all that they can in this sport. Tom's parents were also
:14:58. > :15:04.a great support, and his sister, Anna, who was a member of the same
:15:05. > :15:09.swimming club. -- John Bullet. We had our reservation. Did people ask
:15:10. > :15:12.if he should be doing this? We knew that it was about trust and
:15:13. > :15:16.confidence, and John was a very competent coach. Cold water swimming
:15:17. > :15:19.was an essential part of training, Tom Wood make frequent visits to
:15:20. > :15:24.Lake Windermere, in the Lake District. It is colder than the
:15:25. > :15:29.channel, and the water, being fresh water, much clearer. -- Tom would
:15:30. > :15:33.make frequent visits. They say that if you can do a length in Lake
:15:34. > :15:36.Windermere, you can do the channel. He did it with some ease, that is
:15:37. > :15:41.when we knew that he would be ready. In the early hours of the morning,
:15:42. > :15:43.sick of September, 1988, Tom found himself on a beach in France about
:15:44. > :16:00.to take on this huge challenge. He briefly up, and 5:15 p.m., we
:16:01. > :16:05.stepped into the water. The first half was complete and I remember
:16:06. > :16:10.John telling me that, we are on for a sub ten swim. I think the last
:16:11. > :16:15.third, it is almost hard to talk about, it was unpleasant, I was in a
:16:16. > :16:22.lot of pain and I can remember falling asleep while swimming and
:16:23. > :16:26.being shouted out. Tom was clearly struggling so another coach, Claire
:16:27. > :16:42.Kent, jumped in and swam with him, he has not seen her for 20 years. Oh
:16:43. > :16:46.my word! Hello. It brings it all back! How did you feel, at the
:16:47. > :16:51.moment you saw him get out of the water and walk to shore? It was
:16:52. > :16:57.amazing, incredibly proud, to see someone achieve what they want to
:16:58. > :17:01.achieve. After he came ashore, he had to get back onto the boat to
:17:02. > :17:08.take him to Folkestone where he had to go through customs! Then all the
:17:09. > :17:18.camera crews were there. They got a quick interview with him. Tiring.
:17:19. > :17:22.Very tiring. The next few days where a succession of television
:17:23. > :17:29.appearances. I was pressing record on the video. Now, if you are under
:17:30. > :17:33.16 and want to swim the channel, regulation state you have to be part
:17:34. > :17:39.of a relay team and today, this swimming club which Tom used to
:17:40. > :17:45.belong to, are in training. Here we go. And we have decided to join
:17:46. > :17:49.them. What advice does Tom have for anyone willing to take on the
:17:50. > :17:52.challenge? It is about that resilience to the cold, building
:17:53. > :17:58.that ability to cope with the distance. After 30 minutes, it is
:17:59. > :18:01.time for Tom to step back onto the English shoreline, just as he did
:18:02. > :18:10.all those years ago. I can remember turning around, facing back out to
:18:11. > :18:16.France, but there is a feeling, of year PE, but I was probably too
:18:17. > :18:21.exhausted. Absolutely incredible. You could not imagine an 11-year-old
:18:22. > :18:26.doing that now because of health and safety. Brilliant. Some work around
:18:27. > :18:31.the world there might be. Not the channel. It would not be called the
:18:32. > :18:36.channel. Steve has come in and he had the idea that he wanted to ask
:18:37. > :18:44.you as many questions as possible. Per minute. This is where I come in.
:18:45. > :18:47.Quickfire. They have to be interesting, because I am apparently
:18:48. > :18:53.one of the most interesting people in the country, so to entertain me,
:18:54. > :19:03.I will give you this. I like a bit of sound. I am boring. I am
:19:04. > :19:10.disturbed. Have I got competition? If it is, that is what you will get.
:19:11. > :19:14.I do not know if I am ready. How did the first take that big go? Very
:19:15. > :19:18.badly. A lot of us slipped over, we did not really know the words, it
:19:19. > :19:26.was a bit of a nightmare -- Take That. I wondered if there was any
:19:27. > :19:30.future! What do you reckon? I thought you were going to spill the
:19:31. > :19:36.beans on what was happening backstage. A lot of worry at that
:19:37. > :19:43.point. Most inappropriate thing -- time fan has asked you an autograph?
:19:44. > :19:48.In the toilet. Quite recently. People want self these anywhere and
:19:49. > :19:54.in the photograph, this guy wanted our photographs. -- photographs. I
:19:55. > :20:01.might not be able to put my other arm around you! That was a good one.
:20:02. > :20:08.We like that. Strangest thing you have been sent by a fan? I have had
:20:09. > :20:15.some strange ones. In the 1990s, I got sent by an 18-year-old, she must
:20:16. > :20:24.have been a policewoman, it was a picture of her in combat. That was
:20:25. > :20:28.it. Not for me to sign, it was a picture of her in combat with a
:20:29. > :20:33.truncheon, hitting someone. The weirdest thing. Odd. Who's your
:20:34. > :20:43.favourite snooker player of all-time? Got to be Ray Reardon!
:20:44. > :20:50.LAUGHTER. Got to be Steve. On a scale of one to ten, where was Gary?
:20:51. > :20:56.Got off to a bad start, but I think ten out of ten. Gary, you have been
:20:57. > :21:05.involved in writing pop songs and musicals and you know, I am a techno
:21:06. > :21:08.DJ, so neither of us know that genre, but I wanted to say happy
:21:09. > :21:13.birthday to all of the punks out there. British punk music is
:21:14. > :21:19.celebrating a big anniversary and Carrie went to see the band who
:21:20. > :21:26.started it all. 40 years ago a landmark gig took place at this
:21:27. > :21:29.venue in Oxford Street. The line-up included a newly formed band, The
:21:30. > :21:38.Damned and just a few months later they went on to release the very
:21:39. > :21:42.first UK punk single, New Rose. It was not saying we wanted to do it
:21:43. > :21:50.before anyone else. But we were ready. Even if it all stopped there.
:21:51. > :21:54.The Damned were at the forefront of the new movement kick-started by the
:21:55. > :21:57.Sex Pistols here in London. 40 years on, it's birthday has been
:21:58. > :22:02.celebrated by a special exhibition here at the British library. What
:22:03. > :22:06.punk did was question the status quo and look at the way things were
:22:07. > :22:10.done, look at the way record companies operated, looked at the
:22:11. > :22:14.way music was supposed to be an thought they did not have to do it
:22:15. > :22:18.that way, it may be more fun to do it another way to reflect the fact
:22:19. > :22:23.that punk was central to the culture of the late 1970s. It is important
:22:24. > :22:29.that we collect the records and everything that goes with it so that
:22:30. > :22:32.people in the future can compare the mainstream culture with the
:22:33. > :22:35.counterculture. The Damned emerge from a close-knit scene of
:22:36. > :22:43.like-minded people when the founder member Brian James advertised for a
:22:44. > :22:53.drummer. He said his name was Chris Miller. He attacked the drum kit and
:22:54. > :23:01.he was great he was re-Crescent Rat Scabies and introduced into Dave
:23:02. > :23:11.Vanni. I basically lied. -- Dave Vanian. I basically lied that I was
:23:12. > :23:19.a singer to get the job. They were joined by the bases, Ray Burns. He
:23:20. > :23:25.was very quiet. I think the second gig we did he reinvented himself as
:23:26. > :23:36.Captain Sensible. We just clicked and we had confidence. It was us
:23:37. > :23:42.against the world. A lot of that scene was really political, were you
:23:43. > :23:49.guys anarchists? No. The only anarchy I was interested in was on
:23:50. > :23:55.stage. I love avant-garde jazz and I wanted to play rock 'n' roll like
:23:56. > :24:00.that. I wanted freedom. There are single New Rose perfectly captured
:24:01. > :24:05.the moment. It is about the emerging punk thing and finally the music I
:24:06. > :24:09.wanted to play, I met people to do it with. It was just an exciting
:24:10. > :24:14.time and an exciting song came out because of it. Music is inspired by
:24:15. > :24:22.a situation. It was a difficult time to live but it was an optimistic
:24:23. > :24:29.time, creativity was everywhere. Everyone had something to do or say.
:24:30. > :24:37.The Damned managed to get the first release out in 1976, how did they do
:24:38. > :24:45.that? Mainly because we were on an independent label Stiff Records, it
:24:46. > :24:51.helped us to be more flexible. They did not have the high production
:24:52. > :24:55.schedules that other labels have, they were able to put The Damned
:24:56. > :24:59.into the studio and think they were a bit rough around the edges, but
:25:00. > :25:03.they put it out. The Damned went on to release the first punk album and
:25:04. > :25:15.became the first British punk band to tour the USA. Dave Vanian and
:25:16. > :25:20.Captain Sensible are still touring while O'Brien has his own band and
:25:21. > :25:25.they are giving us a special performance of New Rose, after all
:25:26. > :25:32.of these years -- Brian. What does it mean today when you look back and
:25:33. > :25:34.think our record was the first ever punk record in the UK? It is just
:25:35. > :25:43.one of those things, someone had to be first. What the hell, it is still
:25:44. > :25:51.the best. I wish I had written it, but there you go! Thank you so much
:25:52. > :26:00.to Carrie. We have a quick Take That update. Recording new music, tour
:26:01. > :26:04.next year, 25 years next year for us, big greatest hits at the end of
:26:05. > :26:12.the year. New album and new tour. Good news for many people. Thank you
:26:13. > :26:19.to Tim. The Girls is on at the Phoenix Theatre. Now performing
:26:20. > :26:20.their new single, Saint Claude from the album Charleur Humane, it is
:26:21. > :26:39.Christine and the claims. -- Queens. # Voila qui laisse deviner que tout
:26:40. > :26:52.se decide (cide-cide) # Tout detonne et tout me plait, les
:26:53. > :27:02.mains sont # livides(vides-vides) # But if you say just one
:27:03. > :27:28.word I'll stay with you # Que l'impatience comme certitude,
:27:29. > :28:08.collier a trois fils (fils, fils) # Fidele aux violences qui operent
:28:09. > :28:28.des que tu respires (pires, pires) # D'ordinaire cette
:28:29. > :28:29.ville n'offre rien # Et cette ville est
:28:30. > :28:46.morte je sais bien