16/12/2011 The One Show

Hello and welcome to do One Show with Chris Evans. And Louise

Minchin! She is here because Alex is in Blackpool ahead of the

Strictly final, even though she did not make it into the final. We will

be talking to her throughout the show. Are you there? Hello. It is

all happening in a very cold Blackpool. Tess Daly and Bruce

Forsyth are rehearsing through here. Over here we have the finalists,

the most important people. Jason, Harry and Chelsee. How are you

feeling? Ready for it. A excited. motion excited. Love it. Later on

we will be finding out about all of the dancers, the costumes, the

sequins and whether they have any tricks up their sleeves. And we

also have a surprise for you. All will be revealed later on this

Berkeley Strictly Ballroom. Wave goodbye. -- sparkling Strictly

Ballroom. Christmas would not be Christmas without seeing Sue

Johnston in a comedy drama. There she is. It is not the Royle Family

but we will be finding out what it is later. In an important week for

science we are joined by Professor Brian Cox. And his �1 million

diamond. Here has a real one with him and we will tell you why when

he comes to talk to us later. But first, comedy's Big Bang, and Lee

Evans! -- it is my Lee Evans! you. Thank you for having me.

is that? It is my dad. He looks very well. You are excited about

meeting Professor Brian Cox, why is that? Because we watch him on the

to be in our house, and you guys, too. Who do you prefer? Even I

prefer Brian, that's fine! I won't say. I like Brian. I like a

documentary but my wife prefers this show. We have got to both ways.

Absolutely. Are you a Big Science fan? I do like a documentary, if I

am honest. He made me get that mobile phone application because I

got interested in the stars again. It is the best one ever. I don't

like things like that but that one is right. You can see all the earth,

the planets. Have you tried it? came to our house and did it and I

thought he was making it up but it was true. It gets you interested in

the stars again because when you were at school, you are interested

and then when you grow up you have to pay the rent and you lose

interest. But Brian got us interested again. We forget to look

up. Well done for getting us interested again! What are my stars

this week? That is a different kettle of fish. Are you willing to

get involved in experiments later? Yes, but do they involve me? Yes.

You will get a lab coat and everything. Dry ice, mince pies, it

is all going on. That sounds like... A show? We have one here. There is

another start tonight. Please meet Lucy Chapman. She is the one in the

middle. She will be the very last Brownie in the Acton and grid

Waldringfield Brownie pack when her friends Caitlin and Olivia 1010 and

have to leave. Will she be reading the Brownie Promise by herself and

having a one built jamboree? -- girl. Do you remember the Brownies?

The laughter, great days? For 18 year-old those days could be coming

to a sudden end. -- for an eight year-old. A written the Brownie

movement started in 1914, -- originally. They were initially

called Rosebuds but they were renamed Brownies after a story was

written. I am fulfilling a lifelong ambition today by joining their

meeting. I am in Sudbury to meet eight year-old Lucy Chapman and the

other two members of a Brownie pack. Tell me what fun things you have

done. Campaign. And cookery, arts and crafts, going on outings. --

campaign. What is the best thing about being a Brownie? Being

adventurous. Although this Brownie pack has been going for 40 years,

it has a problem. With Caitlin and Olivia turning 10, they can no

longer be Brownies any more and this group is facing doom. What can

possibly happen? Unfortunately we cannot run it with just one child.

We will have to close the unit. It will be really sad. Do you feel

proud to be Brownies? The us because there are no boys allowed.

It may come to an end. How do you feel about that? Upset. How do you

feel? So sad. With these high stakes, something must be done and

Lucy has a masterplan to recruit children from local schools. We

have to make a presentation and we will do it together. I will be your

helpful assessment but you will do the speaking. -- helpful assistant.

Hopefully people will come in and become a Brownie. Hopefully it will

not close down. How do you feel If you don't join the Brownies then

At Brownies you have a lot of fun. You can get your badges, like

swimming. And we do cookery, like apple crumbles and Christmas

pudding. Are you allowed to cook Brownies? That is a good question!

We can put them so long as it is not the person! -- make them.

many of you would like to join? What do you think of that? Very

good. Lucy, you did so incredibly well that it is my honour and

pleasure to reward you with another batch. It is a completely unique

one. Only you will have it. It is the Brownie skills One Show badge.

Can I put it on you? Shall we give you a round of applause?

Lucy, they give you a big round of applause. What kind of person are

you looking for to join the Brownies? Somebody that likes doing

arts and crafts. And who likes cookery and being adventurous and

going out with their friends. think somebody might be joining you

in a moment. He looks very keen! Have you advertised anywhere?

have advertised in a newspaper and we have advertised because I went

to this school and I told them about Brownies in front of 14

people. No pressure, but this is a big advert. The 5 million people

watching. Usually something like that! What is good about being in

the Brownies? You make friends. then they leave you?! You make

friends and you can go on Brownie camp, and do cookery and arts and

crafts. It is fun. Caitlin and Olivia, are you going to be Brownie

Guides? Why is that? Sudbury. where is that? And you have

rehearsed something, Lee? Yes, I have been rehearsing the Brownie

Promise. Go on. Lucy, you can judge him. Can the events make it into

the Brownies tonight live on The One Show? -- Lee Evans. I promise

that I will do my best, to love my God, to serve my Queen and my

country, to help other people and keep the Brownie Guide law. What do

you think? That was good. How good? 10 out of 10. There is more. The

real test, what is the Brownie Guide law? This is a big test for

me now. Here we go. A Brownie Guide things of others before herself and

does a good turn every day. -- thinks of others. Admits apple

crumble! I present this bad to you for being so kind. Thank you. We

used date for the rest of the show? You don't have to. -- will you

stay? Thank you! And Alex is in Blackpool. You are dancing tomorrow,

aren't you? Yes, we all are and you are holding us up because we are

supposed to be rehearsing at the moment. Chris, you sad really

different from here! -- you sound really different. We have got lots

of people here. We use that to go out? It was the -- are you sad to

go out? And another lights have gone out! The lights have gone out

all over Britain. They will never come on again! There are six stars

out there tomorrow and I am so glad because they are fantastic and I

could never have kept up with them. They are brilliant. I don't know,

with that out of it! I just threw it on. I found this knocking around

in my suitcase. You have even got Lady Gaga's gloves. I am on the

edge! We got knocked out last week. We nearly made it. A together. It

was embarrassing. You and I were both dreading doing the dance at

the end. Give us a taste of what they might see tomorrow night.

would say that we will be having a complete blast. We will be happy

that we do not have to survive this week. We will look proudly on at

our friends that we have grown to know really well. We are supportive

of all three of them. It will be quite sad. Who will win? Well, the

three of them are really good. This show has proved that the best

dancers get to the final. You were great, Holly Valance was great, and

I was amazing! Don't hide your talent! I have allowed them to get

through! The public kept me in for 10 weeks. Thanks to them. But I was

rubbish. You weren't. What was your highlight? They hit thrusting. I

have been told that I cannot do it but I will try. I think Harry,

Chelsee or Jason will win! Later I will be talking to the finalists

but we have to do some rehearsing now. Goodbye. Thank you, live from

Blackpool. More from Alex later. Man macro, your dad played in lots

of seaside towns. -- Lee. Yes, I grew up in Blackpool. It was

fantastic from the neck up. I spent many times knocking off school on

the seafront, and going up the Pleasure Beach. Fantastic. Your dad

Bob was your inspiration, wasn't he? Yes. Amazing how we drives the

car like that! That was the exhaust pump! That is me watching. That was

your dad, wasn't it? Yes. director is worried that it is

somebody else! Strictly is in 3D tomorrow and you are well ahead of

that game. We have just shot a video in 3D. I am going to do four

dimensions next. I always wanted to be the first to do stuff. We shot a

stand-up DVD and I decided to try to do it in 3D. I think it lends

itself to the live performance and it was great. We showed it in

cinemas across the country. Is it more tricky? Yes, I had to shoot it

three times, once without an audience to get some close-up shots,

then with an audience, then some more the next day in two and three

dimensions. This is all we can I like the goal-kick. Before they

kick the ball, they do a little skip. Some goalkeepers measure

every step, like that, and just before they kick the ball they have

an attack of physical Tourette's I don't like watching myself like

that. I don't like it. How does that routine start? How do you come

to write it? I sit in a darkened room and I spent six months writing

it, writing about four hours of material. I go to see my mate in

Brighton and he goes, don't do that. And we get it down to two hours.

What is so special about him? Simon macro I have been writing with him

for 25 years and he is my best friend. And he knows what is funny?

Yes. I spend longer with him than I probably do with my wife, actually.

I have promised my wife that after this tour I will spend more time at

home. You have said that before. After one week, I am out. The stage

show is your own work and there is a twist in the tail.

# From the kitchen chair I can look out and see the empty swing and our

favourite tree # I was never around when you fell

down and grazed your knee # Why can't I be there to ride at -

- to see you ride your bike # To pick you up and hold you

tight? # Kiss it better and tell you it's

going to be all right. # Always finish with a song. Have a

good opening and always finish with a song. We think that was a cross

between Elton John, editor of Billy Bragg in there, and a bit of

Gilbert and Sullivan. How his that, he really good mix. I change

material a lot Wenham on. You're putting bits in and taking them out

all the time, out of boredom, because you are trying to get two

good hours. We do everything, we designed a set, the music. I have a

studio - a microphone with a couple of instruments in it. I put it on a

recorder and I mix it and bring it to the gig. Are you a fan of

Christmas? No, I don't like it at all. I don't like Christmas

crackers either. They are a nightmare and you always end up

with the cardboard bit. Let's see what happens. By one. -- I won.

Where is the joke? That's where John Sergeant comes in.

Inspired by the twisted paper of a bonbon sweet and the crackling of

an open fire, it was a London-born sweet maker named Thomas Jay Smith

who first invented the Christmas cracker back in 1847. Today,

Christmas without crackers would not be Christmas. They have become

so much part of the whole business that it seems odd even to ask why

we like them so much, why do we need them? Crackers supply the all-

important daft paper hat, which is part of it. And then there are the

jokes. Did I say jokes? Well, hardly! So, away from the Christmas

table, how funny are the jokes? What award goes to designers of

door knockers? I don't know. Nobel Prize. Why don't docks tell

jokes when flying? They would quack up. The why did the germ cross the

microscope? To get to the other side. One man who knows what makes

us laugh is a comedian who runs courses in stand-up comedy. In each

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds

Why Cinderella not very good at football? Because their coach was a

pumpkin. What is a crocodile's favourite card game? So snap!

is responsible for these dreadful jokes? In South Wales, this is the

largest Christmas cracker producer in the UK. These boxes contain 25

million crackers, waiting to be shipped out across the country. I

have come to point and accusing finger at those responsible for the

traditionally terrible jokes. 2011 is already Christmas past here, and

they are concentrating on Christmas What goes on here? This is the hub

of the Christmas industry, where the creatives are getting ready for

Christmas. Where do you get the jokes? Children send them in, we

hear them on the radio, out of books, competitions. They are

always lots of jokes. Do you recycle them year after year?

we change them. We see which new ones have come in, which ones are

getting tired, so that you get some new ones. You have to be careful

what you say. Yes, we cannot put in anything that will offend anybody,

whether it be mother in-law, Essex, blonde, whether it is too topical.

Leave it all out. Nothing much left. You can see why they are not funny.

It is a Christmas cracker joke. It is meant to make you groan. They

are designed to make people groan. Yes, and everybody around the table

gets it. So remember, it is the crackers that make Christmas, and

if the jokes were better they would not be half as much fun. Drum roll,

please. What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations? Tinselitis.

That is pretty good, I think. Tinselitis, it's a cracker! Earlier

in the week we asked you to send in your favour cracker jokes. Lee, you

have some. The Brownies are back. For somebody who hates Christmas

cracker jokes, can you sell these? I have some jokes here that viewers

had cent. Are you ready? This first one, this is the best one. This one

comes from Dave. Why does Santa have three gardens? So he can ho ho

ho. Thumbs down. This one comes from Anne Marie. Why does Father

Christmas go down the chimney? are not supposed to guess! You just

say you do not know. Because it so its him. This one is from Bradley

Williams, the best of all. What is a snowman's favourite cereal. For

roasties. -- frosty is. You have been brilliant. Go and get a mince

pie and we will see you later. did a great job but they were not

having it. You have got a book out. A book! Yes, I do. I have been

doing book signing. I have just come from doing book signings.

Apparently there were so many that you had to keep them entertained

because there were queues. I had mulled wine and sweets and cake. We

took it along the queue. You should have seen it, they were out of

their box by the time they got to me. You came on our radio show and

talked about the book for an hour. What should I have asked that I did

not ask you then? I have never brought out a book before. I

suppose the answer is, really, I thought it was brilliant to do a

book. And it got to number one in the charts. I have never done a

book before. I am an idiot. I cannot believe I wrote this book. I

loved doing it, loved the process, so I was really proud when it went

on the shelf. That was the best thing. When I saw it on the shelf,

it was unbelievable. What did you find out about yourself? When I was

a child... I found out that the gibbering idiot you see before you

does not exist when he has sat alone concentrating. In a public

place, I get very nervous but on my own I am fine. Doing stand-up was a

necessity for you, wasn't it, not just a bit of fun? Have not found a

job yet. Your first ever gig was to pay the bills. Yes, me and my wife

had nothing. I entered a local talent contest and lo and behold, I

won. I won the money. The first one, but not with the act you intended.

Was going to be a musician because I can play a few instruments but it

went wrong. I ended up doing this with the guitar and people were

cheering. And it got some laughs. As soon as I stepped on stage, I

was a gibbering idiot, what you see now. How much it was the money?

Enough for therapy. You have sold - - signed so many books that your

hand must be a king. We have a present for you. I loved doing it.

If we have a prison. Sign this one. -- a present. Look what we have

made for you. Fantastic. Happy Christmas. Thank you. That is

amazing. Tuffers is our art buff who gets stuck in. He has tried to

get a painting into the Royal Academy and has even painted in 3D.

I am wearing a hat! Now he is turning to sculpture. For that, he

is stepping into the deep freeze. Sculpture is usually one of the

hardest wearing forms of art, but today I am going to try my hand at

a wonderful form of sculpture with a short shelf-life, ice sculpture.

It is thought it may have begun in northern China hundreds of years

ago when the farmers and fishermen first carved ice lanterns to

protect their lights from the wind. Following from the tradition of

having lavished centrepieces at banquets, top chefs started to

create ice sculptures to feature at the buffet is and to present ice

cream. In Britain, one of the first to carve an artistic career out of

the tradition was Duncan Hamilton. This is where we make the ice. You

lift that will stop it takes a four days to make a big block of ice. It

is crystal clear. Not like the ice at home. That is full of bubbles

but this is specialised ice. Let's get her out. Right. Look at that.

That is so clear. There she is. What are we actually going to make?

I thought we would make a snowflake. Lovely. We need to cut a slice off,

and I had better do that. Duncan was working in a London restaurant

in the 1970s when the head chef asked if anyone could make an ice

sculpture. He volunteered to give it a go, as he had once seen a

demonstration at catering college. He became hooked and he abandoned

professional cooking to do it full- time. What reaction did you get

when you first started. People were amazed to see an ice sculpture

because they were not aware that such things existed. Nowadays, the

ice -- the art of ice and snow has got to is more widespread. The

largest to date was called romantic feelings and it was 35 metres tall

and 200 metres long. This table is heated. It is for ironing ice.

makes it flat. Yes. What do ice sculptors get used for? All sorts

of special occasions. I made 400 miniature swans for a super wedding

party. For James Bond, we made his gun, and the London skyline, which

I made in Covent Garden, an open- air, public thing. Now I want to

cut out a circle, so it is easier to sculpt. It is like tracing it

out. Just follow the lines. Looking How does it make you feel working

on pieces that you know will melt? We know it will, so that is the

deal. It is like a performance, really, just for one day. That is

the last bit done. Key going. Look at that. Now we have this to put

Oh, no! I have broken it off. worry, it is ice. Have you got any

glue? Yes. That is handy, it sticks itself back together. Fantastic. I

What do you think of my handiwork? I think it is really good. This

will last about 12 hours. The room temperature melts the ice and makes

it more beautiful. It will become more abstract. What is so amazing

about the finished ice sculpture is that like a siren, it caused you to

appreciate, love and admire it, before it vanished in front of your

eyes. Look at this. Did he just about ice and Higgs boson, quantum

physics, generally baffle us with brainpower, Brian Cox.

Where shall we start? Ice? It is very pretty. You might think it is

very common and that we understand it but there are 15 known types of

ice. That is just known types, there are maybe more than that.

Even water, we don't really understand it. It is one of the

most complex liquids, if not one of the most complex things in the

universe. Vital for life because it is complex and the molecules stick

together. You would think that we understand everything about it, but

we understand the universe better. No way! How does it become 15

different varieties? Water is two hydrogens and an oxygen, and that

bombs together in lots of different ways. In water they are stuck

together and that provides a scaffolding for biological

processes. We think that it has unique properties, vital for us to

exist and interesting when you freeze it. Gorgeous. You are back

on television on BBC Two at 9 o'clock. You have brought your co-

star. Here she is. Yes, the show is about the structure of matter. We

start with this, which does not look like much, maybe, but actually

it is one of the most valuable diamonds in London. It is 296

carats, and worth well over �1 million. That one?! It was

discovered 100 years ago and it is 3 billion years old, almost as old

as the earth. Would you like to touch that, Lee? Can I? Amazing.

That is how it came out of the ground. It is also very heavy.

Surprisingly heavy! We are not allowed to do fake things on the

BBC and that one is real. It is over �1 million. There are lots of

security guys going crazy. It is not my fault! How can one of the

hardest substance is known, which can cut through everything, which

lasted for 3 billion years under the ground, how can it be like

that? But light can shine through it? It is transparent. It is so

hard and solid. The and the answer? It is to do with the structure of

atoms, which is what the lecture is about. 99.99 percent empty space is

what the world is made of. There are 139s on the end of that! You

are ready space as well. -- 13 at No. 9s. And you have set James May

on fire? Grab that hydrogen in the soap bubbles. How is that? Don't

look at what I am doing. What I am going to do is encourage a chemical

reaction to happen from over here. Are you all right?! Please don't

try that at home. In the newspaper this week you said it was one of

the most important weeks in scientific discovery. Is that true?

Yes, we caught a glimpse of the Higgs particle, which we have been

looking for since 1964 when it was first proposed. We think it is

responsible for the origin of mass in the universe. Why is my hands

solid, the little particles that build it up, how did they get solid,

how did they get mass? The universe is full of this kind of treacle and

we are interacting with it. That is why we have structure and why we

exist so it is one of the most profoundly important things in the

universe for us. We may have caught the first glimpse of it after 50

years of searching. Do you think we have? That is not very scientific.

We may have. It is all about statistics. Tossing a coin and

seeing if it comes up heads. you going to stay for the

experiments? Are you up for that, Lee? Yes. Are have got the diamond

and every time I move my hand, the security guards are watching!

we also are searching for the best mince pie in the country.

Is there anything that says Christmas more than a mince pie?

Rich, buttery pastry enclosing a sticky mince meat inside. We have

sifted through applications looking for skill and originality. Now it

is down to three finalists who reckon there mince pies will make

mincemeat of the competition. Veronica from Northampton, Eileen

from North Yorkshire and Andrea from Surrey. They need to impress

me and my fellow judge, Angela grave. What makes for a killer

mince pie? -- Angela grey. I have for me it is the perfect marriage

between the outer crust and a third delicious insight. Both are

important. Is it ever OK to buy your mince meat from the shop? Yes,

you can Dr it and add your own touches. Let's get down to it.

Veronica is following her family's traditional recipe. Originally my

mother used to make mincemeat and my grandmother. Up until fairly

recently my auntie made mincemeat. She is now 96. As she stopped? What

a slacker! Her mince meat contains ground almonds, orange rind, and

suet and carrots. Second finalist Eileen's mince pies include shop

bought mincemeat, p cans, and an unusable in Greenock. Dark

chocolate. -- unusual ingredient. I thought there were laws against

that sort of thing! Is that allowed? You will have to try

yourself. She makes batches of hundreds. At Christmas time we were

inundated with Christmas cards and instead I decided to make mince

pies. Last year I made 1800. 1800! Did you stop making them in March?

Andrea likes to give her mince pies are continental twist. What is

this? Frangipani. In it is named after an Italian but it is a

French-based of almonds. What is that doing in a mince pie? I am not

overly keen on pastry tops because they tend to be stodgy, too crumbly,

too sweet. I thought I would try something different. She has some

surprise ingredients in her mince meat, too. Crystallised ginger,

fresh cranberries and black pepper. The black pepper, were you feeling

mischievous in the kitchen? Yes. look forward to this. There is a

temptation to stick my finger in but I will be good. Right, time is

up on The One Show mince pie challenge. Will the pies survive

the tasting? We have a spread of mince pies before us. Veronica's

traditional mince pie. Let's try this. Very nice. Crispy, flaky

pastry. I am concerned that there is a lot of pastry. There is a big

hole in the middle of mind so the ratio of pastry to filling is not

really equal. Veronica's mince pies are the ones with carried in.

don't know if that is what is crunchy but it is really nice.

we have these interesting little ones. To me they look like P can

tart. I like the chocolate, it is bitter. The traditionalists will be

sniffing at this. The ingredients would be a no-no, but I think it is

quite lovely. Over here we have the frangipane mince pies. The pastry

is so good. Very buttery. I love the frangipane. It is lovely and

soft underneath and toasty on the top. It breaks it up beautifully.

Quite a challenge to choose between them. It is. You really are all

winners because you've got to this point but there has to be a winner

and the winner of The One Show And here she is. Well done.

Fantastic. Would you like a fabulous mince pie? What is it that

is so special for you? frangipane, really. Frangipani,

frangipane? Which is it? We have a wonderful expert. OK, frangipane,

frangipani. I contacted Heston Blumenthal by text message and it

is frangipani in Italy and frangipane in France. I went on

Twitter and other media are available, all coming up with

different definitions. The Oxford English dictionary says frangipane,

with the letter E. What do you call it? I will go with what you say

because you won! Van de Paris! -- frangipane! I have eaten lot of

mince pies but this is delicious. Look at the entropy. Falling apart?

Very good. This is nothing compared to what

mince pies used to be made of. Ivan Day is a food historian.

Good evening. You were in Prague yesterday setting up a food museum.

Mince pies through the ages. Are you ready to test them, Lee? We are

starting off with Shakespeare's mince pie. Alas, I knew him well!

This is what it would have looked like. I used the same ingredients.

Pickled herring mince pie. I bet you can't wait. Try that. Pickled

herring from the 17th century. We are going to move through the ages.

Now Charles II. I knew him as well. Oranges, but they also had mince

pies with tripe own. Charles's lady on the side used to sell them at

the theatre. That is right. Ivan Day made these this morning himself,

fresh back from Prague. What does it taste like? You should have won.

I do like tripe. That is gorgeous. The pastry is lovely and the

dusting of icing sugar, very good. Where next? Queen Victoria. This is

1841. It is roast beef, ginger, rum, old port and brandy. Rum and brandy

in this one? He is still eating the I am liking that one. It is like a

mince pie shot. What do you think? That one is the best. Shakespeare,

Charles the second, or Queen Victoria? Queen Victoria. I liked

the tripe. The news this Christmas is about Heston Blumenthal's Ben

Spies. But you say he draws inspiration from these. -- mince

pies. He was named after the service station. For me, he

basically takes ideas from the past as well as the future. He has a bit

of you and editor of Brian Cox. Thank you for being here. -- a bit

Scientists think they have found the Higgs boson. But who is going

to win Strictly? Live to Blackpool. You cannot ask me that, because

that is a difficult question but I am here with the finalists, Jason,

Chelsee and Harry. Before I speak to you about your big day tomorrow

- not jealous - let's have a look at what the locals had for you. --

what advice they had for you. I am going to meet some locals who have

been dancing longer than Len Goodman. Who would you like to see

lift the trophy tomorrow? Chelsee! Why would you like to see her win?

Fabulous HIPs, lovely movement, her arms are excellent. What tips would

you have for her? Remembering the wardrobe malfunction early in the

series, some good supportive tape would prevent the worry of anything

going wrong. To keep things balanced, it is only

right I get some tips for Jason. Who better to ask than the youngest

swingers in town? Jason is really energetic and he just goes for it.

He always looks like he is having fun and enjoying it. He tends to

forget his moves, so he needs to practise them and go for it when he

dances. Go for it, Jason! Last but not least, tips for Harry. I am

meeting his biggest fans, who happen to be some of the most

elegant ladies in Blackpool. Good luck, Harry. He is in the final and

nerves will play a big part. How can he control them? He has to get

into the zone. If he makes a mistake, he has to keep smiling

through it. What does he have to do to win tomorrow? Take off his top!

Three contenders, 1 Crown and a heap of useful advice. Blackpool

has spoken. It is all down to you. It really is down to you three now.

We have one minute left, so tell us what is on the menu tomorrow.

the show dance, the tango, it is going to be really exciting. Not

the quickstep. I have a couple of tricks, some lists and a relief on

routine. Quickstep, showed dance, Argentine tango and American smooth.

Good luck to everyone. It will be an exciting night on BBC One. Sue

Johnston has joined us. Hello. bit of Strictly for you? I am

tempted because they had such a great time, but I don't know

whether I would be very good. think that is open to a

conversation. Brian, would you go onto the dancefloor? No. Straight

forward. Dancing, or you do not like Strictly? I am useless at

dancing and it would be a massive embarrassment. No Royle Family

Christmas Special this year. What is the story? The they did not

write it in time. The BBC ordered it in -- they ordered it. Ralph

little has written something and someone else from the royal family

directed it and they had to edit it pretty sharp. I think they over

estimated the time that they had. So no Royle Family this Christmas.

It is postponed. You cannot have a Christmas special when it is not

Christmas. You could have an Easter special. You are on BBC One on

Christmas Eve. It is called Lapland about a Northern family from

Liverpool. It is a little family who have lost my husband, grandma

and grandpa. He has died, so they changed Christmas to try to get

away from it. The family, her son, daughter and their respective

partners and the Grand children go to Lapland. Special, magical. Let's

have a look at you with your Jack. Jack, what's the matter,

what's happened? I've messed up. It was my last chance to see Santa.

I'm not going to see him now. come with me. Come on. I thought

you did not like husky rides. not, but I love them now.

Very nice, very beautiful. Where was it filmed? Norway, on the

Arctic Circle. Did you go? Yes, you just saw me. There is the David

Attenborough thing! Yes, we went. An hour and a half further north

from Oslo. We were in an army camp, so we got up at half past five and

staggered into make-up in the cold and the dark, and the army would be

there. They would be lined up, doing their routines. Did you see

the Northern Lights? Yes, they feature at the end of the film.

Were you driving the huskies? Did you have a stunt double? May be in

one other thing. But not that. I was on the huskies. It is a special

night tonight because it is our staff Christmas party. He is the DJ.

You know him as a DJ already, don't you? When did he DJ for you? He did

it for my son when he was six, and he is now 32. I hired him for �25,

him and two friends. They came and entertained them brilliantly and I

have the photos to prove it. So can you tell them that I can do this DJ

thing I am doing later. He can do it, but make sure they signed their

cheques, because we did not. I will be starting with Nellie the

Elephant. Now, some Christmas nostalgia with memories of

At that time, we lived in Cookstown. The windows in the houses were very

small sash windows. This was the first year we had a Christmas tree,

so my mother had this paper and his glitter and my father had the small

tree. It was on the windowsill. Even how small it was, it was still

too big for the window so we had to trim the branches. My mother had a

National dried milk tin, and she covered it with Christmas paper and

my father filled the inside with sand and the tree was placed in

there. Then he decided he would like to make a star. My father was

very particular about measuring and he drew out the star, all of these

points. And then my mother had fairy lights port, and he measured

the diameter of the fairy light, so that he could cut the whole. I was

sitting at the kitchen table watching him. I was fascinated with

the whole thing and how you could do this. And then he cut two layers

of cornflake packet and glued them together. And this was all very

carefully painted. The points were painted with glue. And then the box

of glitter. It reminded me of soap flakes that you could get at that

time. This was carefully sprinkled over and we had to wait for it to

set. It seemed like ages but eventually the glue was set and my

father dusted off the surplus Glitter. In the meantime, my mother

had some matchboxes and she wrapped them with the Christmas paper and

tied them with coloured wall. These were hung on the branches. And then

some cotton wool was put on the branches for snow. And the

remainder of the Glitter was sprinkled over the tree. And then

we decided which coloured light would be the best to show off the

glitter. We tried several colours but decided that red was the better.

The red ball was put into the star and my father wired them round and

connected them. And then the big switch on. By the time we had made

it, it had got dark. We switched off the light in the living room

and I remember going out onto the street and looking in and it was

just beautiful. I just think how privileged and proud I was of him

that day because he made a Christmas special by making that

star. When I close my eyes, I can just see the tree and go to that

house. It was a very special Christmas, the best Christmas of my

childhood. Christmas gone by. That was Anne

McGuigan's story. Those images were cut from household magazines from

the 1950s. We cannot have Brian Cox on the show without an experiment.

Lee, Sue, are you up for this? is liquid nitrogen, minus 200

degrees. The Large Hadron Collider is 27 kilometres in circumference,

underneath Switzerland and a bit of France. It is 70 degrees colder

than that. I want to show you what happens when you do things with

this. This is the temperature of some of Jupiter's moons. There are

places in the solar system where it is this temperature on the surface.

I will show you what it does to living things. Imagine building 27

kilometres of machine colder than this. That is a rose. Look at that.

We need to do another one. reason I have got these on is

because there is an egg there. I dropped a fresh egg in there and

we're calling it down to see what it does to it. The most amazing

thing about the technology of the machine, we talk about the

discoveries, but the fact that you have to use things like this to

make it work. Three, two, one. Amazing! Do not do this at home, do

not put your hand in liquid nitrogen. Give that a whack. There

are many places in the solar system where it is that cold. It has

frozen the outside completely. It did not freeze the inside. You are

back on TV at 9pm on BBC Two. And you have a book out. Yes, an