:00:17. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Anita Rani this evening. And
:00:22. > :00:26.Matt Baker. Now, tonight you are going to have to expect the
:00:27. > :00:29.unexpected. Yes. Take our new work experience lad, Brendan, for
:00:30. > :00:36.example. Thank you for the coffee. You're welcome. Listen, Brendan is
:00:37. > :00:41.actually the magic circle Close Up Magician of the Year everybody. He's
:00:42. > :00:46.working for us tonight and sorting out our stationery cupboard. Before
:00:47. > :00:54.you start a One Show you cannot have enough pens. Let's have more pens.
:00:55. > :01:03.Is a red pen OK? Perfect. Watch the pen. It jumps from one hand - Oh, do
:01:04. > :01:10.it again! One more time, please, Brendan. You want to see it again. I
:01:11. > :01:16.will make it harder. Watch the pen. We will see more of Brendan's
:01:17. > :01:22.award-winning act later in the show. Then there are these glamorous
:01:23. > :01:29.ladies. There they are. Now, they might look like sweetness and light
:01:30. > :01:35.back in the day they were the stars of London's naughtiest theatre, the
:01:36. > :01:45.Windmill. Now, let's meet tonight's sofa guests, shall we.
:01:46. > :01:52.One is the Australian stand-up comedian and star of Channel 4's The
:01:53. > :01:57.Last Leg, Adam hills. And a Hollywood star who's played everyone
:01:58. > :02:01.from Tony Blair to the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, Michael Sheen.
:02:02. > :02:04.As The Last Leg presenter and big sports fan, are you aware of these
:02:05. > :02:08.guyses? They are all skilled footballers. They all play for clubs
:02:09. > :02:15.in the national legal, but they are all amputees. Have you seen anything
:02:16. > :02:20.like it? Someone who wears a prosthetic yourself have you seen it
:02:21. > :02:24.or have you played it? I've never seen it done - part of me is looking
:02:25. > :02:29.at them going, get a prosthetic. You will have a go in a bit later on. I
:02:30. > :02:32.would love to have a crack at that. Michael, we have something for you.
:02:33. > :02:37.We didn't want you to feel too left out. We know that you're family are
:02:38. > :02:41.big fans of the One Show? They may be your biggest fans. Love that.
:02:42. > :02:47.They will be watching tonight. We know they are watching tonight.
:02:48. > :02:51.Right. We can go live across to your old house. We have your dad,
:02:52. > :03:05.Meyrick, your mum Irene and sister, Joanne. Hello. Have you got any
:03:06. > :03:11.childhood photos for us, dad? Plenty of photos, we are going to embarrass
:03:12. > :03:18.you Michael, don't worry about that. Here is one of you at eight years
:03:19. > :03:25.old as can Captain Bird's Eye you were dressing up all the time.
:03:26. > :03:31.Fantastic. Love it. Your dad has the best laugh. I had a full beard at
:03:32. > :03:36.eight years old. We will be asking your family what they think of your
:03:37. > :03:42.performance this evening. Great. They can be harsh receiptics? Very
:03:43. > :03:48.hard, yeah. Online petitions are launched for all kind of campaigns.
:03:49. > :03:52.More than 300,000 people have signed an onlinen petition calling for the
:03:53. > :03:57.meningitis B vaccination to be offered to all children. Over 40,000
:03:58. > :04:01.people have given their support to a petition calling for David Bowie to
:04:02. > :04:04.be featured on the next ?20. No matter what the numbers or the cause
:04:05. > :04:12.do online petitions make a difference. Michael here certainly
:04:13. > :04:16.thinks so. Somehow something is going wrong somewhere, so I'm taking
:04:17. > :04:19.part in a debate with some of the most powerful people in the Welsh
:04:20. > :04:23.Assembly, discussing an issue that I've become more and more passionate
:04:24. > :04:29.about as time as gone on. These are children who have been let down at
:04:30. > :04:32.every stage, you know. We are talking about how homeless 16 and
:04:33. > :04:37.17-year-olds in Wales are too often left to fend for themselves in
:04:38. > :04:41.unsuitable B accommodation, something I want to see banned. I
:04:42. > :04:45.wouldn't even be in this room if it wasn't for the online petition I got
:04:46. > :04:49.involved with and which I handed over today. I've learnt, surprise,
:04:50. > :04:55.surprise, that fame can be a powerful tool if you want to make a
:04:56. > :04:58.difference. Our online petition attracted over 115,000 supporters.
:04:59. > :05:02.It got us to a meeting with Assembly members who have the power to make a
:05:03. > :05:06.real change. I started to see the power of social media last year when
:05:07. > :05:14.I did a speech in support of the NHS. A symbol of equality, of
:05:15. > :05:18.fairness, and of compassion. Someone who videoed the speech on their
:05:19. > :05:23.phone posted it online. Thousands upon thousands of people were
:05:24. > :05:27.watching it and responding to it. It started me thinking - are online
:05:28. > :05:31.petitions in a way to empower individuals? Is it a way for people
:05:32. > :05:35.to feel their voice can make a difference. Lesley Griffiths is the
:05:36. > :05:40.minister on the receiving end of my petition. As far as I'm aware this
:05:41. > :05:43.is the first time that an online petition has been presented to the
:05:44. > :05:47.Welsh Government in this way. Do you think are a force for good?
:05:48. > :05:54.Petitions are good. They raise issues in the public's mind.
:05:55. > :06:02.Obviously, this is an issue as a Welsh Government we are aware of.
:06:03. > :06:07.Just a few clicks online can get your argument viewed by millions of
:06:08. > :06:11.people. When calls for - A total and complete shut down of Muslims
:06:12. > :06:16.entering the United States. People can respond. More than half a
:06:17. > :06:20.million backed an online petition calling for Donald Trump to be
:06:21. > :06:24.banned from Britain. MPs in Westminster debated i The exclusion
:06:25. > :06:30.of Donald Trump from the UK. Talking about my children. After all the
:06:31. > :06:34.rhetoric, there was no vote. So, if politicians aren't going to vote for
:06:35. > :06:47.or against change, is there any point to these petitions? Cat is
:06:48. > :06:52.campaign's director of Change. Org. A lot of petitions on our site are
:06:53. > :06:56.not about going through Parliament or getting Government change people
:06:57. > :07:00.are sidestepping Westminster and asking CEOs of companies to change
:07:01. > :07:03.things. Some people will say I got reaction to my petition because I'm
:07:04. > :07:07.a familiar face? You care about this. You have a 17-year-old
:07:08. > :07:10.daughter. You visited and have spoken to teenagers who are
:07:11. > :07:16.experiencing homelessness. That is what connects you to the issue. That
:07:17. > :07:20.is what people really relate to. It doesn't come more personal than want
:07:21. > :07:25.being the best for your child. Mum, Katie Brown, knows how petitions and
:07:26. > :07:28.social media can make a difference. He's a little boy that nobody knows
:07:29. > :07:35.with a disease that nobody's heard of. It became a fantastic platform
:07:36. > :07:39.for us to really tell Sam's story. Katie's seven-year-old son, Sam, ha
:07:40. > :07:43.has a rare life limited disease. The NHS refused to supply the drugs he
:07:44. > :07:46.needed saying they were too expensive to justify as the benefits
:07:47. > :07:53.are uncertain. That decision was reversed when Katie and others took
:07:54. > :07:57.their case online. We got nearly 9,000 people signing the petition.
:07:58. > :08:01.It wasn't an emotional argument that Sam deserves the drug, it was
:08:02. > :08:04.challenging the way in which the NHS was making those decisions and
:08:05. > :08:07.bringing to the forefront that that was wrong. There is only 100 people
:08:08. > :08:11.in the UK who suffer from the condition. To get that level of
:08:12. > :08:17.response, for a disease that is so rare, I think is really testament to
:08:18. > :08:22.the power of online campaigning. Once people start signing the
:08:23. > :08:26.petition does it end there or is there more engagement? It makes it
:08:27. > :08:30.easy for people to sign petitions. The orbits that go around it make it
:08:31. > :08:34.easy for them to follow that story. You can change people's minds, that
:08:35. > :08:37.you can fight for what is right. You can challenge things when things are
:08:38. > :08:42.wrong. Petitions have been around for as long as Parliament. It seems
:08:43. > :08:47.to me that online petitions do allow people to feel empowered. Of course,
:08:48. > :08:52.some will be (inaudible) but others will be important and help bring
:08:53. > :08:57.about change for the better. If that movement can get concrete results,
:08:58. > :09:01.then that's amazing, you know. I don't think we should under estimate
:09:02. > :09:10.the power of a click and what it can switch on and what it can light up.
:09:11. > :09:13.Well, Michael we filmed that with you last week, didn't we? It's early
:09:14. > :09:19.days. What has been the situation since? Well, the minister who you
:09:20. > :09:22.saw me interviewing there has made a commitment in the short-term to
:09:23. > :09:27.strengthen the guidelines to local authorities about whether 16 or
:09:28. > :09:31.17-year-olds should be allowed to go to B the guidelines were not as
:09:32. > :09:36.strong as in English, the Welsh ones. She has committed to keep them
:09:37. > :09:40.as strong if not stronger than the English guidelines and said they are
:09:41. > :09:44.committed to an outright ban. It's a question of keeping on it and making
:09:45. > :09:47.sure it doesn't fall back and they are accountable. Joe is here to give
:09:48. > :09:53.us more information about petitions in general. How do you go about
:09:54. > :09:59.starting with un? Anyone can set one up, as Michael discovered. You can
:10:00. > :10:03.go through independent sites. Michael went through change. Org.
:10:04. > :10:07.There are many sites. You can start a petition on a Government website.
:10:08. > :10:12.The key thing is - it has to be the right Government. If it's something
:10:13. > :10:16.the Scottish Parliament controls don't lobby Westminster. You need
:10:17. > :10:21.signatures to set it up. When you get or if you get to lots of
:10:22. > :10:25.signatures, like 10,000, you would get a Government response. 100,000,
:10:26. > :10:28.as we saw in your film with Donald Trump you might get a debate in
:10:29. > :10:33.Parliament. Maybe no vote. Maybe a debate. It gets considered at that
:10:34. > :10:38.point. You are going for numbers. In your own mind when do you decide to
:10:39. > :10:43.submit it, I suppose, if it's live the whole time. Did you give a time
:10:44. > :10:46.scale for yours? No. Some petitions can be successful with 100
:10:47. > :10:50.signatures. It's not necessarily you have to have millions and millions.
:10:51. > :10:54.It seems that if there is a famous person that - if they head it there
:10:55. > :10:58.will be o loads of people doing it. People who have the most power to
:10:59. > :11:03.connect is the people with the most personal story. Most of the
:11:04. > :11:06.petitions that are successful are are the ones where people connect
:11:07. > :11:11.next what is going on. Have you examples? We are talking about the
:11:12. > :11:16.power of. It this little girl in Kent who lost her life. A petition
:11:17. > :11:19.on the UK Government for vaccinations for all children. I was
:11:20. > :11:23.refreshing that page earlier and watching the numbers go up and up
:11:24. > :11:27.and up. It's well over 300,000 now. It's incredible. On a different
:11:28. > :11:32.level, you know you can get success not just through the Government site
:11:33. > :11:37.but independent sites. A young woman, Stevie Wise petitioned Boots
:11:38. > :11:43.to end what she called sexist pricing. The same razors, charging
:11:44. > :11:47.more for women's razors than mens. She met the CEO of the company. Off
:11:48. > :11:52.the back of that they have changed, they are about to, they are changing
:11:53. > :11:56.the prices on those two products and will look at other products. She
:11:57. > :11:59.caught the moment and a petition was perfect. Did you worry about the
:12:00. > :12:04.weight of the petition because it was online and there are so many
:12:05. > :12:09.different things out there. I don't want to say it's easy, it's a
:12:10. > :12:13.process to build those numbers up online as opposed to getting a piece
:12:14. > :12:17.of paper and getting signatures on it Part to the Kiev it is building a
:12:18. > :12:20.community. It's not just one of the criticisms is that it's easy to make
:12:21. > :12:24.a click and you forget about it and think you have done something. In my
:12:25. > :12:27.experience what I found is once you do put your name to something you
:12:28. > :12:31.feel like you have got skin in the game. You feel like you have
:12:32. > :12:36.ownership in there and want to find out more. That is what I've done.
:12:37. > :12:41.Other people have done that. Have you put your name to something
:12:42. > :12:46.online? I have indeed. People online have time on their hands. OK, there
:12:47. > :12:55.is a website I found last week Called Trump Donald. Tl blows a
:12:56. > :12:59.trumpet in Kop Donald's face and his wig blows up. There are people out
:13:00. > :13:06.there who want to click something. Give them something worthy. Make it
:13:07. > :13:09.meaningful. If each of those trumpets clicked a petition or
:13:10. > :13:14.donated you have 65 million people getting on board something.
:13:15. > :13:19.Absolutely. Of course, we have seen the power of that community you are
:13:20. > :13:23.talking about with Stephen Fry. Is this something that you will cover
:13:24. > :13:27.on The Last Leg We will be talking about it this week. People on
:13:28. > :13:30.Twitter get caught in this feedback loop on the internet whether it's
:13:31. > :13:33.negative or positive. If someone is backing up what you are saying,
:13:34. > :13:38.whether it be a petition or whether it is getting anning rip at someone
:13:39. > :13:42.for a joke. If you write something on Twitter and everybody agrees with
:13:43. > :13:46.you. Thousands more agree with you. You feel validated it becomes this
:13:47. > :13:51.snowball effect. If you can channel that for good, if all the people
:13:52. > :13:57.that berated Stephen Fry for one joke jumped on board your petition
:13:58. > :14:01.they would achieve something. It's so easy to retweet. How meaningful
:14:02. > :14:04.is it if you are not taking to the streets to protest. How much do you
:14:05. > :14:08.support this? What you want is change. You want to see that
:14:09. > :14:12.something makes a difference. Part of what is attractive about what we
:14:13. > :14:15.are talking about is at a time when people feel like maybe the political
:14:16. > :14:19.system isn't for them, doesn't include their voice. They don't feel
:14:20. > :14:25.they have much agency in it, here is something you feel - my voice is
:14:26. > :14:29.having an affect effect. Does it create change? That drew tos me to
:14:30. > :14:33.this petition. You could do something. I could go and talk to
:14:34. > :14:38.them. You have done. It's happened. Good on you.
:14:39. > :14:45.We've just been discussing a subject Michael feels passionate about, but
:14:46. > :14:51.our next film is something close to Matt's heart. It is the music. It is
:14:52. > :14:54.wonderful. It is four decades it's to very day since the first
:14:55. > :14:57.broadcast of this British countryside classic. All you need
:14:58. > :15:03.for lasting success is a dog, some sheep and a great, great
:15:04. > :15:08.partnership. I love this show! 40 years ago in February 1976 an
:15:09. > :15:14.improbable TV show launched on BBC Two. It would win a place in the
:15:15. > :15:18.nation's hearts. Capturing the skills of the sheepdog and the
:15:19. > :15:22.amazing levels of communication between dog and handler, One Man And
:15:23. > :15:29.His Dog pited the best shepherds in the country against each other for
:15:30. > :15:32.the fiercely competed title of... International British sheepdog
:15:33. > :15:38.champion. Nobody knew at first whether the show would be exciting
:15:39. > :15:42.enough for viewers. It was the brainchild of producer Philip
:15:43. > :15:46.Gilbert. I was on holiday in Northumberland. And there was a
:15:47. > :15:51.small group of sheep, a man and a dog. I began to be fascinated about
:15:52. > :15:56.the way the man and the dog were working together, and I thought, I
:15:57. > :15:59.wonder how you would do that on the telly. What were the results when
:16:00. > :16:03.the series first went out? We had been on tenterhooks, as we didn't
:16:04. > :16:08.know how the audience would react. The first figures were 2 million,
:16:09. > :16:14.very good for BBC Two. Gradually it built to become the highest rated
:16:15. > :16:19.programme on BBC Two of the night. Could ask for more? It is probably
:16:20. > :16:29.the best series I can ever remember. Preparing his sheep to perform One
:16:30. > :16:34.Man ep to perform One Man -- to prepare The One Show logo is Derek.
:16:35. > :16:42.Viewers would wait for the moment shepherd and dog lost control. Even
:16:43. > :16:48.for a maestro like you, you had one old ewe who wasn't friendly didn't
:16:49. > :16:55.you? In this game it doesn't matter how clerf you are, if you get an
:16:56. > :17:00.awkward sheep... It wasn't only men and their dogs competing. Katie was
:17:01. > :17:05.the first shepherdess ever to win the show's title. I loved being on
:17:06. > :17:10.the show. It was so exciting. It was a tough week to get into the final.
:17:11. > :17:15.When they read the results out, I was so happy. I hugged my dog, who I
:17:16. > :17:20.absolutely adored. I remember getting them to buy me a drink. And
:17:21. > :17:25.the winner... Katie Cropper of England.
:17:26. > :17:30.APPLAUSE. Well done. It was one of the happiest days of my life. Time
:17:31. > :17:36.for the The One Show shepherding challenge. Lovely sky, a ovely sky,
:17:37. > :17:41.a nip in the air - perfect weather for mushrooms. Gerald Lewis is
:17:42. > :17:47.hoping to herd sheep into the letters O, N and E, which we'll film
:17:48. > :17:53.from the hill opposite. It will be up to me to try to control the
:17:54. > :17:57.sheep, but I'm confident my two dogs will be able to handle it. The
:17:58. > :18:03.letters will be shot individually and layered on top of each other
:18:04. > :18:07.using software to form the One. There's a tremendous buzz of
:18:08. > :18:14.interest on the sideline. And we are off! Gerald moves his sheep into the
:18:15. > :18:19.O. He has them circling evidentlessly. Stay there! Y. Stay
:18:20. > :18:23.there! Now for the N - steady! Tremendous shepherding, this.
:18:24. > :18:30.Finally the most difficult challenge, the E. The loop is
:18:31. > :18:36.proving difficult, with the light fading, the dogs need to work fast.
:18:37. > :18:43.Down there. The away! There's a final call from Gerald. Look! Look!
:18:44. > :18:50.How will the finished logo look? It is full marks to Gerald and his
:18:51. > :18:56.dogs. We should use that graphic as the start of every single The One
:18:57. > :19:01.Show. He's been sitting here saying, I love it. We are filming it for
:19:02. > :19:05.Countryfile and it will be on later this year. I'm very much looking
:19:06. > :19:09.forward to that. Adam, The Last Leg came back on Friday. Michael has
:19:10. > :19:14.never seen it. Can you explain it to him? Three blokes with Ees, four
:19:15. > :19:20.legs talk about the news. That's it pretty much! If you want to know
:19:21. > :19:26.more we'll show a clip. You may not have noticed Josh has changed his
:19:27. > :19:33.outfit. I did not notice. I was just a bit offended I didn't make the top
:19:34. > :19:38.10 best dressed of the year, so I thought I would trial looks based on
:19:39. > :19:43.the people in the top 10, so I've come as the Duke of Edinburgh. I'm
:19:44. > :19:48.interested to see fit affects my views. You look so cute. Like a
:19:49. > :19:53.little toy soldier. Oh, God, this is how the Queen must talk to me!
:19:54. > :20:00.Standing next to Richard you would look like a little toy soldier. To
:20:01. > :20:09.be fair, standing next to anybody he looks like a little toy soldier.
:20:10. > :20:15.LAUGHTER. Richard os mon, he doesn't have to stand up. This show was born
:20:16. > :20:19.out of the Paralympics. Did you imagine we'd still be talking about
:20:20. > :20:27.it? When we started doing it we were on every night after the Paralympics
:20:28. > :20:31.talking about what happened that day. We never thought we would be on
:20:32. > :20:36.every year until the Rio Paralympics. We are going back to
:20:37. > :20:41.Rio, but this is our 7th series. It was because the three of us got
:20:42. > :20:45.along. There was something about the three of us on a couch together.
:20:46. > :20:51.Alex is that South London puppy dog-type bloke and Josh is the weary
:20:52. > :20:56.West Country, oh, everything's a bit rubbish! And in the middle I'm your
:20:57. > :21:02.blunt, smiley Australian. You only have to listen to a news bull ten to
:21:03. > :21:06.think how depressing it is, so to watch the news in that way, it is
:21:07. > :21:10.informative as well as vastly entertaining. A lot of people don't
:21:11. > :21:14.watch the news in the week, they wait until Friday night and that's
:21:15. > :21:18.the way they get the news of the week. That's a big responsibility.
:21:19. > :21:21.Michael, would you go on ooze a guest? Absolutely. I would get to
:21:22. > :21:27.wear that uniform? I think there would be a lot of female views who
:21:28. > :21:33.would like you to wear a uniform of some sort. Will I be able to stand
:21:34. > :21:38.next to the tall man? If he's there! So you've been writing today, all
:21:39. > :21:42.been together with your production meetings. We all sit around the
:21:43. > :21:47.table together, talk about the news of the week, come up with jokes. If
:21:48. > :21:53.something is funny we write it down. And we come on with other jokes that
:21:54. > :21:58.are fresh on the night. What are you top lining this week? We are really
:21:59. > :22:01.going to try and make sense of the EU referendum, which is really hard,
:22:02. > :22:05.because I don't think anyone really cares. Did you see that footage
:22:06. > :22:12.today of Boris locked outside number 10. You've got to look at that. It
:22:13. > :22:17.is hilarious. Bearing in mind a lot of our viewers are in the late
:22:18. > :22:21.teens, so we are going to try to explain the EU like a boy band.
:22:22. > :22:26.Britain is the first member out of the boy band. Going for a solo
:22:27. > :22:30.career. Are they going be like Zayn Malik of One Direction, or will it
:22:31. > :22:34.be more like someone from Blue. LAUGHTER. Who also have very
:22:35. > :22:40.successful careers. They don't. Don't pretend. What about the fact
:22:41. > :22:46.that the England rugby team have an Australian coach? That's great. Will
:22:47. > :22:52.that get in there? Every time you win, we win. Your telly work aside,
:22:53. > :22:57.your stand-up show, Clown Heart. Where was that born from? The idea
:22:58. > :23:02.of Clown Heart is about laughing in the face of death. Part of it came
:23:03. > :23:06.about because my father and my wife's father died when my daughter
:23:07. > :23:10.was quite young. I had to explain to her what death was. It was this
:23:11. > :23:15.really weird moment of sitting in the bath with my daughter, who was
:23:16. > :23:18.four. I have had to check, it is alright to have a bath with your
:23:19. > :23:24.four-year-old daughter isn't it? Yes. 19 would be weird. But we don't
:23:25. > :23:28.19 would be weird. But we don't have a 19-year-old - she's the nanny!
:23:29. > :23:33.Just a joke. Stay on message. I was sitting in the bath with my daughter
:23:34. > :23:40.and she asked, what handed to Papa, my dad? I said, he got sick and then
:23:41. > :23:46.got really sick and didn't want to be sick any more, so he floated up
:23:47. > :23:51.to the sky. He looks down on us and he can see and hear us. She said,
:23:52. > :23:55.ah, mummy said he died. I thought, right, I'm going have to explain
:23:56. > :24:01.this now. We had a conversation, is she going to die, am I going to die?
:24:02. > :24:05.Hopefully not for a long time, but while we are here, let's be clown
:24:06. > :24:12.hearts. She said, no-one wants to die, do they daddy? I said no, and
:24:13. > :24:17.she went, I can see your boobies! And the conversation was finished.
:24:18. > :24:22.And your tour is on until 27th March? I'm doing a tour whilst doing
:24:23. > :24:27.The Last Leg at the same time. Australia as well, so you are all
:24:28. > :24:33.over the place. I did a show at the Sydney Opera House three weeks ago.
:24:34. > :24:38.Wow! You must constantly not know what time zone you are in. The Last
:24:39. > :24:42.Leg is on Friday 10 o'clock on Channel 4. A new West End musical
:24:43. > :24:48.has opened celebrating the story of Mrs Henderson and her decision to
:24:49. > :24:52.put on Britain's first nude review. It is based on the fame starring
:24:53. > :24:57.Dame Judi Dench, which was inspired by the real Windmill Theatre. Lucy
:24:58. > :25:04.went to meet some of the former star obvious the show. In 1932, a former
:25:05. > :25:10.cinema in Soho changed the face of entertainment for good. After
:25:11. > :25:14.struggling as a theatre, new owner Mrs Laura Henderson decided she
:25:15. > :25:19.needed her shows to be a bit Morris Kay to pull the crowds in. And so
:25:20. > :25:23.the Windmill Girls were born. They were the first women to appear naked
:25:24. > :25:29.on stage in Britain. And now their story is being told here in the West
:25:30. > :25:34.End in a musical. The theatre's motto was We. In Never Close, and
:25:35. > :25:42.close they didn't, even during the Second World War. Margaret, when
:25:43. > :25:48.were you a Windmill girl? 1948 to 1958. You did a long stints. Ten
:25:49. > :25:53.years. Did you did ever get bored with it? Never. How do you hold a
:25:54. > :25:59.pose? You have to stare at something. I'm no good, because I'm
:26:00. > :26:02.a smiler. I do the can-can, the tambourine dance. There must have
:26:03. > :26:06.been some people who were disparaging about what you did,
:26:07. > :26:12.because you were breaking bounds ries? Not really, because we were
:26:13. > :26:18.just titillating. I've got the fan, so you are not seeing anything, I'm
:26:19. > :26:24.covering it up. The girls were so popular they had to perform up to
:26:25. > :26:27.six back to back shows in a day. Thankfully the current musical
:26:28. > :26:33.promises less gruelling run of eight shows per week. I play Maureen in
:26:34. > :26:37.the show. She is the local tea girl who Laura Henderson discovers and
:26:38. > :26:42.takes upon herself to bring on as her girl Friday. She realises she
:26:43. > :26:49.could be her headwind mill Girl, her head nude. Sorry, Fred, I'm not much
:26:50. > :26:55.of a ginger. How much of the show due spend nude? A good few moments.
:26:56. > :27:01.Not only do I play Maureen as a statue. We do the fan dance,
:27:02. > :27:05.properly nude. My feathers, if they are not in place, somebody gets more
:27:06. > :27:10.than they bar gained for. What do you think we learn from those
:27:11. > :27:17.original Windmill girls? Self acceptance. That's quite empowering
:27:18. > :27:23.and rather wonderful. I think everyone should get naked. Decency
:27:24. > :27:28.laws were distributeser in those days but Mrs Henderson saw a
:27:29. > :27:33.loophole. The girl could pose nude as long as they didn't move. The
:27:34. > :27:37.idea being it was no worse than you would see in museums. It was a
:27:38. > :27:43.review show. The smallest part was the nudity and you wouldn't move.
:27:44. > :27:49.That was a law. If it moved it was rude. What would happen to somebody
:27:50. > :27:55.if they moved? They could shut you down. It was theatre. So in those
:27:56. > :28:00.days we still had censorship. How do you look back on that now? I'm so
:28:01. > :28:08.proud to have done it. We all are. It is like wow! Look what we did!
:28:09. > :28:13.There were on a pedestal in a West End theatre. And people say, were
:28:14. > :28:19.you really a Windmill girl? I say yes, we are. We are proud of our
:28:20. > :28:23.name. By the 1960s Soho had become synonymous with sleaze and sex
:28:24. > :28:27.shops, which caused audiences to diminish. After vowing never to
:28:28. > :28:32.close, the Windmill girls hung up their fifthest in 1964. Tonight they
:28:33. > :28:38.take their seats in the auditorium instead of on stage. The story of
:28:39. > :28:48.the Windmill girls in Soho has gone full circle. Thank you Lucy. We are
:28:49. > :28:52.now joined by Windmill girls: Jill, a trip down memory lane. There you
:28:53. > :29:01.are in all your glory. There's Joan. Hello sailor! And Sylvia. Wonderful,
:29:02. > :29:10.and Margaret. Here we go, Margaret. There's you. And Googie. That's me.
:29:11. > :29:14.And you've hogged all the photos, Margaret.
:29:15. > :29:21.What was last night like? Lovely. Very exciting. We went on stage.
:29:22. > :29:27.They announce nounsed us. We did a little rehearsal. Yes. We oent on
:29:28. > :29:32.and took the last bow. Wonderful. I bet you wanted to do a can-can. I
:29:33. > :29:38.did. I nearly did the splits. I stopped her. I'm known to do that
:29:39. > :29:47.every day. Listen, how old were you all when you you were doing this?
:29:48. > :29:51.16-and-a-half I was. 20. 14 - not when I went on stage. When he signed
:29:52. > :29:56.my contract. I can imagine the conversation with your parents was a
:29:57. > :30:00.tricky one? No, my mum loved. It all our mothers loved it. My parents, I
:30:01. > :30:11.come from Devon, my father knew somebody who was a friend of Sheila
:30:12. > :30:16.Van Damm. My parents got me the job. They saw the show. They had seen the
:30:17. > :30:22.show in 1938. Right. Are you still dancing now? Yes. With your clothes
:30:23. > :30:28.on? With my clothes on. Hardly, at the beginning! These kind of static
:30:29. > :30:33.routines that you had to do. 12-and-a-half minutes. Joan, the
:30:34. > :30:39.stamina you must have had to have for that? Was self-discipline. It
:30:40. > :30:44.Right. We all had to sign that we would pose, but it was a very small
:30:45. > :30:52.part of the - we all covered every number. We all did - most of us did
:30:53. > :31:00.can-cans, ballets. What was your favourite routine? The ballet.
:31:01. > :31:06.Really? The can-can. You had choreographers from the Royal Ballet
:31:07. > :31:11.- Yes. It was beautifully done. And the sketches with the comedians. We
:31:12. > :31:17.fed the comedians their lines. They were their feet. We were good at it.
:31:18. > :31:20.When you know of some of these shows and this and that and the other that
:31:21. > :31:27.go on these days. What is your opinion? There is nothing like that.
:31:28. > :31:32.There can't be. It was so unique. It really wouldn't work nowadays. No.
:31:33. > :31:38.Very naive. Easy to put yourself back there. Oh, the memories. How
:31:39. > :31:41.vivid that must be. The family at moss fierce was unique. They have
:31:42. > :31:46.made another show of it. West End musical. Recaptured last night for
:31:47. > :31:52.you. Absolutely. Especially the poses. The lighting was the
:31:53. > :31:56.important thing. They got it right. Thank you for coming in tonight and
:31:57. > :32:01.talking to us about it. While we are sticking on the theatre thing we
:32:02. > :32:05.have this wonderful magician. Have you seen Brendan tonight? We have
:32:06. > :32:09.our eyes on your stationery cupboard. We can see that paper
:32:10. > :32:14.weight. Can you do something with that. I have a piper weight just for
:32:15. > :32:25.you. This is a magical paper weight. Look at that. It floats. Stuck to my
:32:26. > :32:30.hand. You know how it work, invisible thread. Look at that. Do
:32:31. > :32:36.you want a big one like this or a smaller one? Oh, look at that. I
:32:37. > :32:43.don't want to leave Anita without anything. Let us see if we can get
:32:44. > :32:50.one for you. Right there. Ah, beautiful. Thank you, Brendan. More
:32:51. > :32:58.frommed Brendan in a while. They are having a great time. The wgs wgs are
:32:59. > :33:01.my heroes. Sylvia got her leg right up there. They still have it. We
:33:02. > :33:05.will meet our amputee football players. While we head outside
:33:06. > :33:10.here's Jean Johannson on how the sport is planning to spread north of
:33:11. > :33:13.the border. We have all heard of the Premier League and the Champions
:33:14. > :33:18.League, but not many of us will have heard of the Amputee Football
:33:19. > :33:24.League. It has been established in some of England's best-known clubs
:33:25. > :33:29.since 2003. But travel to Scotland and it's a different story. You
:33:30. > :33:39.won't find any amputee squads competing. I've come to catch up
:33:40. > :33:44.with Brian Murray a local who has to travel 160 miles to play for Everton
:33:45. > :33:48.in the can English Amputee League. He wants to help start the first
:33:49. > :33:52.ever league in Scotland with a special day of football trials. The
:33:53. > :33:57.main aim is to get one team other two or three teams in Scotland. That
:33:58. > :34:00.would be ideal. Why are there no teams in Scotland? I don't know.
:34:01. > :34:04.It's big in other countries, not just in England. Amputee football is
:34:05. > :34:08.out there. Let us get it into Scotland. It's given me more
:34:09. > :34:13.self-confidence. That is what we want. People who have lost legs they
:34:14. > :34:16.don't want to join in sport. If they can see this sort of thing
:34:17. > :34:22.happening, let's get them playing. That is the main aim. With big plans
:34:23. > :34:26.for the game, Brian has persuaded some of his Everton team-mates to
:34:27. > :34:36.help recruit new players who they could ultimately face. We want to
:34:37. > :34:40.get more people involved. We will sacrifice a defeat in the future for
:34:41. > :34:45.the benefit of the game. One of the guys hoping to try out is Michael,
:34:46. > :34:49.who has not played football for 25 years. Can you see yourself in the
:34:50. > :34:55.starting line-up? I don't know. I need to get my fitness levels up by
:34:56. > :34:59.a big mark before I'm near these guys. It's good fun. What can you
:35:00. > :35:03.get from it personally apart from the fitness? Meet new people and
:35:04. > :35:06.build relationships with other people and you learn from them, I
:35:07. > :35:10.suppose. There is that learning journey I will look forward to. With
:35:11. > :35:14.the game under way I've been told playing is a lot harder than it
:35:15. > :35:22.looks. So they've persuaded me to find out along with lots of other
:35:23. > :35:26.young hopefuls. I'm so out of breath, you really have to be fit
:35:27. > :35:31.for this, don't you? Especially upper body strength. Is there any
:35:32. > :35:35.difference between coaching able-bodied players and these guys I
:35:36. > :35:38.see it as normal footballers. At the highest level when we coach
:35:39. > :35:44.international squads they are as good in my opinion as mainstream
:35:45. > :35:51.players. So the sessions we do are the same sessions we adapt them
:35:52. > :35:57.slightly. Another young hopeful is Lewis who lost his leg three months
:35:58. > :36:00.ago in an accident. Get in there! I think at eight years old it must be
:36:01. > :36:05.a help to be with other people in the same position? It does. He sees
:36:06. > :36:10.how people are progressing. He will try to prove himself as well. We are
:36:11. > :36:14.proud of him, no question about it. Do you think you have recruited some
:36:15. > :36:22.players for our first league amputee Scottish team? Hopefully. A lot of
:36:23. > :36:24.the big clubs, a couple of clubs here from Scotland, Partick Thistle,
:36:25. > :36:29.they are keen to get something going. Good to see other kids there
:36:30. > :36:34.as well. Hopefully, stars of the future. Thank you. We are here with
:36:35. > :36:37.Owen and players James and Mark. Before we get going, Owen tell us
:36:38. > :36:46.what it's about. What can and you can't you do? The guys playing just
:36:47. > :36:51.now most of them have got a leg off playing sticks outfield. A lot play
:36:52. > :36:54.in goals. We are inclusive egg league and teams. If you want to
:36:55. > :37:02.play outfield everybody has equal opportunity. Bearing that in mind,
:37:03. > :37:04.in homage Is It OK thing, is it all right for an able-bodied Michael
:37:05. > :37:09.Sheen to have a go for tonight playing this sport? I'm going to
:37:10. > :37:15.take nigh prosthetic off to fit in. Do you want to strap it on You're
:37:16. > :37:20.making your own jokes up! We might not have time for that. In general -
:37:21. > :37:26.Of course it is. You go over there. Get involved. We will film what
:37:27. > :37:31.happens. Bear in mind your mum and dad and sister are watching. No
:37:32. > :37:35.pressure. Mark, basically, this is a sport that has turned your life
:37:36. > :37:41.around, really, isn't it? Yeah. To be honest, when I lost my leg I took
:37:42. > :37:47.it quite bad. How old were you? 24. I was run over. I took it quite bad
:37:48. > :37:51.much I couldn't even look at it. Couldn't really touch it. I spent a
:37:52. > :37:55.lot of time in bed not really doing much. Then my little nephew had
:37:56. > :38:01.football trials and I kind of went and watched him. I saw the spark in
:38:02. > :38:07.them and it started to ignite a fire. I got introduced to these
:38:08. > :38:11.amazing fellows. Here you are. I can see the smile in your eyes. Is he
:38:12. > :38:15.any good, James? Is Being diplomatic. He's all right. This
:38:16. > :38:20.isn't a Paralympic sport, you would like it to be? Would love it to be.
:38:21. > :38:24.They have football, not our kind. They are played by the rich
:38:25. > :38:29.countries you need ex-sentence Spencive legs or wheelchairs.
:38:30. > :38:42.Football is the game of the ghetto. We are the game of the war zones
:38:43. > :38:50.refugee. They play it in Liberia, seer Sierra Leone. They are not at
:38:51. > :38:55.the Paralympics because they don't have the money, but that's probably
:38:56. > :39:02.why we should be. We have five different teams. Peterborough
:39:03. > :39:05.United, Portsmouth, Everton, a national league that takes place
:39:06. > :39:14.once every month. The best players in those teams get selected to
:39:15. > :39:22.represent Great Britain in World Cups etc etc. The goalkeepers need
:39:23. > :39:26.to be an arm amputee. We are inclusive and want to get as many
:39:27. > :39:31.people involved as possible. Shall we see how our boys are getting on.
:39:32. > :39:37.Adam, tell us what you think about it. Earlier on you felt the players
:39:38. > :39:42.should have had a prosthetic. Your upper body is feeling the weight of
:39:43. > :39:46.this? It say it is all. I'm knackered. Absolutely knackered. It
:39:47. > :39:50.clearly, it's all upper body. This leg is doing a lot of work. This leg
:39:51. > :39:56.is overloaded the shoulders are overloaded. In the midst of all that
:39:57. > :40:01.to kick it you have to balance on the crutches and swing with that
:40:02. > :40:07.foot. It's - the core strength these guys must have is remarkable. James
:40:08. > :40:11.said it should be in the Paralympics I'm amazed it isn't. I can't believe
:40:12. > :40:17.it isn't. They have certificate pral palsy football. Fair play making me
:40:18. > :40:22.do that and talk to you after. Did you have a go Michael? I certainly
:40:23. > :40:27.did have a go. Did you not see. Two out of three goals. A natural. Yeah.
:40:28. > :40:32.Good for you. Hard going on the old arms. For sure. Thank you all for
:40:33. > :40:35.coming in. Some of the power that is generated. The footballs that have
:40:36. > :40:40.been flying around here this afternoon. Thank you to Owen, Mark
:40:41. > :40:43.and James. We told you to expect the unexpected. It's Mike's turn to
:40:44. > :40:49.surprise us. Here he is with a story that brings a whole new meaning to
:40:50. > :40:57.the phrase - a fish out of water. In the heart of the Cairngorms lies
:40:58. > :41:02.this estate, home to an incredible avian hunter, the osprey. The hides
:41:03. > :41:09.here provide the perfect advantage point to capture fabulous images of
:41:10. > :41:15.ospreys plunging in for fish. Having settled in to wait it isn't long
:41:16. > :41:28.before the drama begins. Bang! Oh, my word. That that's amazing. It's
:41:29. > :41:32.got a fish. Oh, awesome. Fantastic behaviour from a remarkable
:41:33. > :41:36.predator. Last summer brown trout were seen leaping out at huge
:41:37. > :41:41.heights from these quarters. I heard of brown trout jumping before, not
:41:42. > :41:45.in still water, only in rivers and streams, much like their close
:41:46. > :41:53.relatives, the salmon. What exactly is making the fish here so jumpy?
:41:54. > :41:58.The local ranger is scratching his head. It was first seen back in July
:41:59. > :42:02.last year we noticed the brown trout started jumping. How high are we
:42:03. > :42:09.talking? In the region of two to flee feet maybe a meter. Marine and
:42:10. > :42:13.aquatic life have parasites in their skin could they be coming out to get
:42:14. > :42:17.them off their skin? When we put the fish in the pond the finest quality
:42:18. > :42:20.fish. We check the fish that are in the pond and put them back in.
:42:21. > :42:25.Certainly nothing suggests that is the case. The fish are healthy. We
:42:26. > :42:29.know they are not overcrowded. One possibility is that the fish are
:42:30. > :42:34.jumping because of water conditions. First we are going to check the
:42:35. > :42:42.temperature. 13 degrees. That's normal for freshwater in this area.
:42:43. > :42:46.Next, using a colour indicating kit, I will check the oxygen levels. I
:42:47. > :42:52.would say it it slots in somewhere around there. It means the oxygen in
:42:53. > :42:56.this pond is about 7 milligrams a litre. That is absolutely fine for
:42:57. > :43:01.the fish. We can't find any evidence there is something in the water
:43:02. > :43:06.that's making the fish leap. We don't think it's parasites or
:43:07. > :43:15.overcrowding. So what could it be? There is one possibility, it might
:43:16. > :43:20.have something to do with the an airborne insect around these parts.
:43:21. > :43:25.Scotland has over 30 different species. Their numbers peak in mid
:43:26. > :43:33.summer when most of the jumping has been seen. Lots of fish will leap
:43:34. > :43:39.clear of water to catch food. Crayling slide slap down on prey
:43:40. > :43:45.flying past. Look at the mass of insects dancing above the surface
:43:46. > :43:53.with the brown trout lurking below. No wonder they want to leap out and
:43:54. > :43:58.grab a few. Can we film? Once again we wait in the hide, camera poised.
:43:59. > :44:06.But we only see a couple of small jumps, what what we had come to
:44:07. > :44:15.film. But things are about to change. Boom! Oh, right in in front
:44:16. > :44:19.of my nose! Sometimes they just break the surface. Every now and
:44:20. > :44:24.again one completely leaps clear. That one there must have come out by
:44:25. > :44:32.three feet. Brilliant! Astonishing, right in front of me. What a
:44:33. > :44:39.brilliant view! It is estimated that in some parts of Scotland, maybe 25
:44:40. > :44:44.million midges were square hectare, so perhaps the leaping brown trout
:44:45. > :44:49.here are doing their bit to keep the numbers down and make life a little
:44:50. > :44:58.bit more bearable for the rest of us. Never disappoints with his
:44:59. > :45:03.wildlife film. 25 million midges? That makes you scratch just thinking
:45:04. > :45:07.about it. Brendan, you have become the Magic Circle Close Up Magician
:45:08. > :45:14.of the Year. Yes. We are all pretty close up here. Just amazing.
:45:15. > :45:19.Amazing. How much room do you need? This is good. Let's start with the
:45:20. > :45:25.ring. This is just an ordinary ring. Do check it out in fact. Make sure
:45:26. > :45:32.it doesn't come apart in anyway. You've seen magic on TV, right? On
:45:33. > :45:38.stage, if I have to make this pen disappear, the first thing I do is
:45:39. > :45:44.hide it. If I hide the pen you can't see the pen, so you don't know what
:45:45. > :45:50.I'm doing. All I have to do is turn my angle here. And now ky create the
:45:51. > :45:54.illusion that the pen... You are not falling for that. I can show both
:45:55. > :46:03.hands, my left and right. We'll come back to the pen later... Oh!
:46:04. > :46:09.APPLAUSE. Thank you. Now the ring. That's what you call dropping the
:46:10. > :46:15.ring on live TV. I will show you how magic works. Watch the Ringo on to
:46:16. > :46:21.my finger in a second. On the other hand... Oh! I will explain to you.
:46:22. > :46:28.Because I looked there, most people looked there. That's called visual
:46:29. > :46:35.misdirection. Watch the ring... From one hand to the other.
:46:36. > :46:40.APPLAUSE. There's a reason why they say, never do the same trick twice
:46:41. > :46:46.the same way, as people know where to look the second time. Watch the
:46:47. > :46:52.ring fly up to my finger. If I slow down, you will see me catch it and
:46:53. > :46:57.put it on. That's boring. But if you do it faster... In a second.
:46:58. > :47:03.APPLAUSE. They say quicker than the eye. From one finger to the other in
:47:04. > :47:09.one second. From finger to finger in a second.
:47:10. > :47:17.APPLAUSE. That's remarkable. From one finger to the other. Dear me,
:47:18. > :47:23.Brendan. From my left hand to my right hand, in one second. Right
:47:24. > :47:29.through. In fact I will do it this way so you can see the ring come
:47:30. > :47:39.right through my finger. Woe! You've checked the ring. It is solid. You
:47:40. > :47:46.might have seen a drunk uncle at one of your parties, but with a bit of
:47:47. > :47:51.practise, don't be alarmed, my fingers aren't coming off. Off, and
:47:52. > :47:58.back on. With the ring this looks really cool. Watch the whole finger
:47:59. > :48:03.come off. But people ask me two questions at this point. The first
:48:04. > :48:08.question is, are you single? No, how long have you been doing this for?
:48:09. > :48:12.The answer to this is about seven years. The second question I know
:48:13. > :48:15.you are thinking is, where is the pen, and can you bring it back?
:48:16. > :48:22.Right there. APPLAUSE. Seven years, but how many
:48:23. > :48:29.hours practise does it take? I used to practise two hours a day, but now
:48:30. > :48:33.not so much. What were you doing before seven years. How did you find
:48:34. > :48:39.out you had this incredible skill? Most kids start off as kids, with a
:48:40. > :48:43.magic set. But I started off in hospitality, working as a bartender,
:48:44. > :48:51.juggling bottles. I thought, let's fry a bit of magic. I was bitten by
:48:52. > :48:57.the magic bug, and I practised and worked harder. Was it an actual bug,
:48:58. > :49:03.like Spider-Man? Once you are bitten by the major bug, it is something
:49:04. > :49:03.you want to do all the time. Thank you so much.
:49:04. > :49:14.APPLAUSE. Marty is shining a light on a
:49:15. > :49:19.life-saving device which has saved lives for two centuries. But this is
:49:20. > :49:24.all about the science. This year is the 200th anniversary of a rather
:49:25. > :49:28.remarkable invention. This miner's safety lamp may not look
:49:29. > :49:32.particularly special but it has saved many miners' lives. The design
:49:33. > :49:37.is ingenious. The lamp was invented to some of a grave problem. I've
:49:38. > :49:42.come to the national mining museum of England to learn more about its
:49:43. > :49:48.history. At the start of the 19th century there were no electric
:49:49. > :49:53.lamps, so miners had to work by candlelight. But a naked flame is a
:49:54. > :49:58.dangerous thing in a mine full of flammable gases. Explosions were
:49:59. > :50:04.common. It was one particularly devastating incident in the May of
:50:05. > :50:11.1812 that led to the call for a miner's safety lamp. In an explosion
:50:12. > :50:17.in a pit in the North East, 92 people died. It was the regulator
:50:18. > :50:22.who buried most of these people that was instrumental in setting is up a
:50:23. > :50:32.safety committee. And for help they turned to the most famous scientist
:50:33. > :50:37.of the time, Sir Humphrey Davy. Davy was a brilliant chemist but this was
:50:38. > :50:43.a challenge task. He had to come up with a flame that would like to way
:50:44. > :50:47.for miners underground but not set fire to flammable gases. After weeks
:50:48. > :50:51.of intensive work, Davy discovered a principle that would be fundamental
:50:52. > :50:57.to his lamp. I can demonstrate what that was with the help of a
:50:58. > :51:03.blowtorch and a sieve-like metal gauze. If I place this over the
:51:04. > :51:08.flame the flame doesn't come through the gauze. That's because the Metal
:51:09. > :51:14.carries all of the heat of the flame away, and the gas that's coming
:51:15. > :51:19.through the gauze can't catch fire. Davy had discovered that as the
:51:20. > :51:24.gauze absorbed the heat, the flame was no longer hot in terms of to
:51:25. > :51:28.ignite the gases. He had successfully built a safe light
:51:29. > :51:34.source for miners. It is easy to demonstrate how it worked. I've made
:51:35. > :51:42.my own tiny version of a Davy lamp here, but instead of an oil lamp
:51:43. > :51:51.I've got a candle in it. If I light that, like this, and then enclose it
:51:52. > :51:58.in my own model mineshaft... I can show you what happens if you
:51:59. > :52:03.introduce gas into the mine. OK, so, I'm going to let the gas in. Here it
:52:04. > :52:09.goes. The gauze of the Davy lamp prevent the flame from igniting the
:52:10. > :52:11.gas that's filling the chamber. Look what happens when I take the gauze
:52:12. > :52:21.away. Davy's design was a success, but
:52:22. > :52:28.that wasn't all. He also discovered the lamp was a gas detector. When
:52:29. > :52:32.gases nearby, the flame grows higher which to a miner's trained eye
:52:33. > :52:37.spells danger. It was this unexpected benefit that saved many
:52:38. > :52:42.lives. Andrew Smith has been mining since he was 16 years old. He knows
:52:43. > :52:50.only too well the benefits of having a flame safety lamp to hand when you
:52:51. > :52:58.work around flammable gases. One day we were working, in a colliery, and
:52:59. > :53:02.methane burst in and we first picked it up with the flame safety lamp
:53:03. > :53:06.before monitoring equipment got it. A lot of people wouldn't be here
:53:07. > :53:12.today without that flame safety lamp today. Nowadays we have more
:53:13. > :53:17.sophisticated gas analysers to detect gases, but some miners still
:53:18. > :53:21.use the Davy lamp as a dependable back-up. It is Testament to Davy's
:53:22. > :53:28.clever design that the lamp has been in continuous use for 200 years.
:53:29. > :53:34.Thank you Marty. That brilliant moustache. Michael, we've had your
:53:35. > :53:39.fantastic family watching The One Show, so it is time to find out what
:53:40. > :53:44.they made of your performance. How do you think he's done mum, Irene?
:53:45. > :53:50.Oh, I think he did brilliantly. He's got such an easy relaxed way of
:53:51. > :53:56.talking to people, but he is also able to put how passionately he
:53:57. > :54:07.feels across as well, so yes, out of 10, 12. And what about Adam?
:54:08. > :54:14.Silence. Well, Adam was excellent. Good! When he was playing there, and
:54:15. > :54:18.he did get a little bit out of breath. Didn't have so much breath
:54:19. > :54:27.as Michael, but Adam was fantastic. There you go. Praise indeed. Joe an,
:54:28. > :54:32.what was it like growing up with him as your Big Brother? Well, it was
:54:33. > :54:36.quiet annoying, because he was so good at everything. As you have
:54:37. > :54:41.seen, he is quite competitive as well. But there is one thing I've
:54:42. > :54:47.got on him. I passed my driving test first time, and I also did it before
:54:48. > :54:52.him. So a little win for me. I will tell you what, there is some delay.
:54:53. > :54:57.Port Talbot is a long way away! When did you first realise, mum and dad,
:54:58. > :55:06.that your son had the acting talent and he was going to spend the rest
:55:07. > :55:15.of his time doing this? Well, I believe that when he was 12, I think
:55:16. > :55:20.it was. I was appearing in local musical theatre of Camelot. When we
:55:21. > :55:27.were rehearsing, the director, professional director, said we want
:55:28. > :55:34.two boys in this production. They had to split for performances. And
:55:35. > :55:37.would... So when I came home from rehearsal that night, I said to
:55:38. > :55:42.Michael, would you like to audition for the part of Tom of Warwick in
:55:43. > :55:47.Camelot? He said he would and he auditioned and he got the part. In
:55:48. > :55:52.fact he was talking to the guy that was playing Merlin there and he
:55:53. > :56:01.learnt a lot. And he heard a lot about the stage. And when he came
:56:02. > :56:06.back, it was the only show through all these years that Michael and
:56:07. > :56:13.myself have been in the same show on the stage. Lovely. Meyrick, does he
:56:14. > :56:24.get his talent from you then? Oh, dear, what am I going to say here?
:56:25. > :56:28.LAUGHTER. He was having an honorary degree at the University of South
:56:29. > :56:35.Wales in Newport. It was arranged for him to have an interview. That
:56:36. > :56:42.was arranged outside. As soon as he came out of the procession. Irene
:56:43. > :56:48.and I were watching it and all of a sudden the interveer said, Meyrick,
:56:49. > :56:55.would you like to sit on the stairs and come into the audition? He said,
:56:56. > :57:00.the presenter said, who do you attribute Michael's talent to? I
:57:01. > :57:06.said, well, he's got his mother's intelligence and he's got his
:57:07. > :57:11.mother's command of English, but his acting ability comes from me. What
:57:12. > :57:17.do you think Michael said. Dad, you are not an actor, you are a
:57:18. > :57:22.performer. Listen, thank you so much for all of the family. You are so
:57:23. > :57:25.talented that you are going to be directing yourself soon? Very
:57:26. > :57:31.possibly. This time next year, fingers crossed. My first film. We
:57:32. > :57:36.were inside our home, there but where is home for you these days?
:57:37. > :57:41.You are a huge star in Australia. How much time do you spend there? It
:57:42. > :57:46.is all over the place at the moment. My wife and kids are in Australia.
:57:47. > :57:51.Every morning I set the alarm and I read them a bedtime story over Face
:57:52. > :57:56.Time. My two-year-old takes the phone to bed with her and I tell her
:57:57. > :58:01.a little story. She says goodnight and goes to sleep, and I get up to
:58:02. > :58:07.go to work. Michael, what hate been like to look at home there? You
:58:08. > :58:14.spend an enormous amount of time in LA? My daughter lives in America, so
:58:15. > :58:19.I've grown up there with her. I miss being here in Britain and Wales. It
:58:20. > :58:24.is a bit peculiar to see my own family in the house I grew up with
:58:25. > :58:30.on the show! But not quite as peculiar as in a pair of tights. You
:58:31. > :58:37.did look good. I love the stuff around there, the painting and the
:58:38. > :58:39.trophies. Trophies. Thank you to everybody in Port Talbot.
:58:40. > :58:41.That's all we've got time for tonight.
:58:42. > :58:43.Thanks to everyone who's taken part, including Michael, his family
:58:44. > :58:46.Don't forget The Last Leg is on Friday at 10.00pm
:58:47. > :59:04.I'll be back tomorrow with Alex, when Bear Grylls will be here.
:59:05. > :59:08.Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley with your 90-second update.