17/02/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Anita Rani this evening. And

Matt Baker. Now, tonight you are going to have to expect the

unexpected. Yes. Take our new work experience lad, Brendan, for

example. Thank you for the coffee. You're welcome. Listen, Brendan is

actually the magic circle Close Up Magician of the Year everybody. He's

working for us tonight and sorting out our stationery cupboard. Before

you start a One Show you cannot have enough pens. Let's have more pens.

Is a red pen OK? Perfect. Watch the pen. It jumps from one hand - Oh, do

it again! One more time, please, Brendan. You want to see it again. I

will make it harder. Watch the pen. We will see more of Brendan's

award-winning act later in the show. Then there are these glamorous

ladies. There they are. Now, they might look like sweetness and light

back in the day they were the stars of London's naughtiest theatre, the

Windmill. Now, let's meet tonight's sofa guests, shall we.

One is the Australian stand-up comedian and star of Channel 4's The

Last Leg, Adam hills. And a Hollywood star who's played everyone

from Tony Blair to the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, Michael Sheen.

As The Last Leg presenter and big sports fan, are you aware of these

guyses? They are all skilled footballers. They all play for clubs

in the national legal, but they are all amputees. Have you seen anything

like it? Someone who wears a prosthetic yourself have you seen it

or have you played it? I've never seen it done - part of me is looking

at them going, get a prosthetic. You will have a go in a bit later on. I

would love to have a crack at that. Michael, we have something for you.

We didn't want you to feel too left out. We know that you're family are

big fans of the One Show? They may be your biggest fans. Love that.

They will be watching tonight. We know they are watching tonight.

Right. We can go live across to your old house. We have your dad,

Meyrick, your mum Irene and sister, Joanne. Hello. Have you got any

childhood photos for us, dad? Plenty of photos, we are going to embarrass

you Michael, don't worry about that. Here is one of you at eight years

old as can Captain Bird's Eye you were dressing up all the time.

Fantastic. Love it. Your dad has the best laugh. I had a full beard at

eight years old. We will be asking your family what they think of your

performance this evening. Great. They can be harsh receiptics? Very

hard, yeah. Online petitions are launched for all kind of campaigns.

More than 300,000 people have signed an onlinen petition calling for the

meningitis B vaccination to be offered to all children. Over 40,000

people have given their support to a petition calling for David Bowie to

be featured on the next ?20. No matter what the numbers or the cause

do online petitions make a difference. Michael here certainly

thinks so. Somehow something is going wrong somewhere, so I'm taking

part in a debate with some of the most powerful people in the Welsh

Assembly, discussing an issue that I've become more and more passionate

about as time as gone on. These are children who have been let down at

every stage, you know. We are talking about how homeless 16 and

17-year-olds in Wales are too often left to fend for themselves in

unsuitable B accommodation, something I want to see banned. I

wouldn't even be in this room if it wasn't for the online petition I got

involved with and which I handed over today. I've learnt, surprise,

surprise, that fame can be a powerful tool if you want to make a

difference. Our online petition attracted over 115,000 supporters.

It got us to a meeting with Assembly members who have the power to make a

real change. I started to see the power of social media last year when

I did a speech in support of the NHS. A symbol of equality, of

fairness, and of compassion. Someone who videoed the speech on their

phone posted it online. Thousands upon thousands of people were

watching it and responding to it. It started me thinking - are online

petitions in a way to empower individuals? Is it a way for people

to feel their voice can make a difference. Lesley Griffiths is the

minister on the receiving end of my petition. As far as I'm aware this

is the first time that an online petition has been presented to the

Welsh Government in this way. Do you think are a force for good?

Petitions are good. They raise issues in the public's mind.

Obviously, this is an issue as a Welsh Government we are aware of.

Just a few clicks online can get your argument viewed by millions of

people. When calls for - A total and complete shut down of Muslims

entering the United States. People can respond. More than half a

million backed an online petition calling for Donald Trump to be

banned from Britain. MPs in Westminster debated i The exclusion

of Donald Trump from the UK. Talking about my children. After all the

rhetoric, there was no vote. So, if politicians aren't going to vote for

or against change, is there any point to these petitions? Cat is

campaign's director of Change. Org. A lot of petitions on our site are

not about going through Parliament or getting Government change people

are sidestepping Westminster and asking CEOs of companies to change

things. Some people will say I got reaction to my petition because I'm

a familiar face? You care about this. You have a 17-year-old

daughter. You visited and have spoken to teenagers who are

experiencing homelessness. That is what connects you to the issue. That

is what people really relate to. It doesn't come more personal than want

being the best for your child. Mum, Katie Brown, knows how petitions and

social media can make a difference. He's a little boy that nobody knows

with a disease that nobody's heard of. It became a fantastic platform

for us to really tell Sam's story. Katie's seven-year-old son, Sam, ha

has a rare life limited disease. The NHS refused to supply the drugs he

needed saying they were too expensive to justify as the benefits

are uncertain. That decision was reversed when Katie and others took

their case online. We got nearly 9,000 people signing the petition.

It wasn't an emotional argument that Sam deserves the drug, it was

challenging the way in which the NHS was making those decisions and

bringing to the forefront that that was wrong. There is only 100 people

in the UK who suffer from the condition. To get that level of

response, for a disease that is so rare, I think is really testament to

the power of online campaigning. Once people start signing the

petition does it end there or is there more engagement? It makes it

easy for people to sign petitions. The orbits that go around it make it

easy for them to follow that story. You can change people's minds, that

you can fight for what is right. You can challenge things when things are

wrong. Petitions have been around for as long as Parliament. It seems

to me that online petitions do allow people to feel empowered. Of course,

some will be (inaudible) but others will be important and help bring

about change for the better. If that movement can get concrete results,

then that's amazing, you know. I don't think we should under estimate

the power of a click and what it can switch on and what it can light up.

Well, Michael we filmed that with you last week, didn't we? It's early

days. What has been the situation since? Well, the minister who you

saw me interviewing there has made a commitment in the short-term to

strengthen the guidelines to local authorities about whether 16 or

17-year-olds should be allowed to go to B the guidelines were not as

strong as in English, the Welsh ones. She has committed to keep them

as strong if not stronger than the English guidelines and said they are

committed to an outright ban. It's a question of keeping on it and making

sure it doesn't fall back and they are accountable. Joe is here to give

us more information about petitions in general. How do you go about

starting with un? Anyone can set one up, as Michael discovered. You can

go through independent sites. Michael went through change. Org.

There are many sites. You can start a petition on a Government website.

The key thing is - it has to be the right Government. If it's something

the Scottish Parliament controls don't lobby Westminster. You need

signatures to set it up. When you get or if you get to lots of

signatures, like 10,000, you would get a Government response. 100,000,

as we saw in your film with Donald Trump you might get a debate in

Parliament. Maybe no vote. Maybe a debate. It gets considered at that

point. You are going for numbers. In your own mind when do you decide to

submit it, I suppose, if it's live the whole time. Did you give a time

scale for yours? No. Some petitions can be successful with 100

signatures. It's not necessarily you have to have millions and millions.

It seems that if there is a famous person that - if they head it there

will be o loads of people doing it. People who have the most power to

connect is the people with the most personal story. Most of the

petitions that are successful are are the ones where people connect

next what is going on. Have you examples? We are talking about the

power of. It this little girl in Kent who lost her life. A petition

on the UK Government for vaccinations for all children. I was

refreshing that page earlier and watching the numbers go up and up

and up. It's well over 300,000 now. It's incredible. On a different

level, you know you can get success not just through the Government site

but independent sites. A young woman, Stevie Wise petitioned Boots

to end what she called sexist pricing. The same razors, charging

more for women's razors than mens. She met the CEO of the company. Off

the back of that they have changed, they are about to, they are changing

the prices on those two products and will look at other products. She

caught the moment and a petition was perfect. Did you worry about the

weight of the petition because it was online and there are so many

different things out there. I don't want to say it's easy, it's a

process to build those numbers up online as opposed to getting a piece

of paper and getting signatures on it Part to the Kiev it is building a

community. It's not just one of the criticisms is that it's easy to make

a click and you forget about it and think you have done something. In my

experience what I found is once you do put your name to something you

feel like you have got skin in the game. You feel like you have

ownership in there and want to find out more. That is what I've done.

Other people have done that. Have you put your name to something

online? I have indeed. People online have time on their hands. OK, there

is a website I found last week Called Trump Donald. Tl blows a

trumpet in Kop Donald's face and his wig blows up. There are people out

there who want to click something. Give them something worthy. Make it

meaningful. If each of those trumpets clicked a petition or

donated you have 65 million people getting on board something.

Absolutely. Of course, we have seen the power of that community you are

talking about with Stephen Fry. Is this something that you will cover

on The Last Leg We will be talking about it this week. People on

Twitter get caught in this feedback loop on the internet whether it's

negative or positive. If someone is backing up what you are saying,

whether it be a petition or whether it is getting anning rip at someone

for a joke. If you write something on Twitter and everybody agrees with

you. Thousands more agree with you. You feel validated it becomes this

snowball effect. If you can channel that for good, if all the people

that berated Stephen Fry for one joke jumped on board your petition

they would achieve something. It's so easy to retweet. How meaningful

is it if you are not taking to the streets to protest. How much do you

support this? What you want is change. You want to see that

something makes a difference. Part of what is attractive about what we

are talking about is at a time when people feel like maybe the political

system isn't for them, doesn't include their voice. They don't feel

they have much agency in it, here is something you feel - my voice is

having an affect effect. Does it create change? That drew tos me to

this petition. You could do something. I could go and talk to

them. You have done. It's happened. Good on you.

We've just been discussing a subject Michael feels passionate about, but

our next film is something close to Matt's heart. It is the music. It is

wonderful. It is four decades it's to very day since the first

broadcast of this British countryside classic. All you need

for lasting success is a dog, some sheep and a great, great

partnership. I love this show! 40 years ago in February 1976 an

improbable TV show launched on BBC Two. It would win a place in the

nation's hearts. Capturing the skills of the sheepdog and the

amazing levels of communication between dog and handler, One Man And

His Dog pited the best shepherds in the country against each other for

the fiercely competed title of... International British sheepdog

champion. Nobody knew at first whether the show would be exciting

enough for viewers. It was the brainchild of producer Philip

Gilbert. I was on holiday in Northumberland. And there was a

small group of sheep, a man and a dog. I began to be fascinated about

the way the man and the dog were working together, and I thought, I

wonder how you would do that on the telly. What were the results when

the series first went out? We had been on tenterhooks, as we didn't

know how the audience would react. The first figures were 2 million,

very good for BBC Two. Gradually it built to become the highest rated

programme on BBC Two of the night. Could ask for more? It is probably

the best series I can ever remember. Preparing his sheep to perform One

Man ep to perform One Man -- to prepare The One Show logo is Derek.

Viewers would wait for the moment shepherd and dog lost control. Even

for a maestro like you, you had one old ewe who wasn't friendly didn't

you? In this game it doesn't matter how clerf you are, if you get an

awkward sheep... It wasn't only men and their dogs competing. Katie was

the first shepherdess ever to win the show's title. I loved being on

the show. It was so exciting. It was a tough week to get into the final.

When they read the results out, I was so happy. I hugged my dog, who I

absolutely adored. I remember getting them to buy me a drink. And

the winner... Katie Cropper of England.

APPLAUSE. Well done. It was one of the happiest days of my life. Time

for the The One Show shepherding challenge. Lovely sky, a ovely sky,

a nip in the air - perfect weather for mushrooms. Gerald Lewis is

hoping to herd sheep into the letters O, N and E, which we'll film

from the hill opposite. It will be up to me to try to control the

sheep, but I'm confident my two dogs will be able to handle it. The

letters will be shot individually and layered on top of each other

using software to form the One. There's a tremendous buzz of

interest on the sideline. And we are off! Gerald moves his sheep into the

O. He has them circling evidentlessly. Stay there! Y. Stay

there! Now for the N - steady! Tremendous shepherding, this.

Finally the most difficult challenge, the E. The loop is

proving difficult, with the light fading, the dogs need to work fast.

Down there. The away! There's a final call from Gerald. Look! Look!

How will the finished logo look? It is full marks to Gerald and his

dogs. We should use that graphic as the start of every single The One

Show. He's been sitting here saying, I love it. We are filming it for

Countryfile and it will be on later this year. I'm very much looking

forward to that. Adam, The Last Leg came back on Friday. Michael has

never seen it. Can you explain it to him? Three blokes with Ees, four

legs talk about the news. That's it pretty much! If you want to know

more we'll show a clip. You may not have noticed Josh has changed his

outfit. I did not notice. I was just a bit offended I didn't make the top

10 best dressed of the year, so I thought I would trial looks based on

the people in the top 10, so I've come as the Duke of Edinburgh. I'm

interested to see fit affects my views. You look so cute. Like a

little toy soldier. Oh, God, this is how the Queen must talk to me!

Standing next to Richard you would look like a little toy soldier. To

be fair, standing next to anybody he looks like a little toy soldier.

LAUGHTER. Richard os mon, he doesn't have to stand up. This show was born

out of the Paralympics. Did you imagine we'd still be talking about

it? When we started doing it we were on every night after the Paralympics

talking about what happened that day. We never thought we would be on

every year until the Rio Paralympics. We are going back to

Rio, but this is our 7th series. It was because the three of us got

along. There was something about the three of us on a couch together.

Alex is that South London puppy dog-type bloke and Josh is the weary

West Country, oh, everything's a bit rubbish! And in the middle I'm your

blunt, smiley Australian. You only have to listen to a news bull ten to

think how depressing it is, so to watch the news in that way, it is

informative as well as vastly entertaining. A lot of people don't

watch the news in the week, they wait until Friday night and that's

the way they get the news of the week. That's a big responsibility.

Michael, would you go on ooze a guest? Absolutely. I would get to

wear that uniform? I think there would be a lot of female views who

would like you to wear a uniform of some sort. Will I be able to stand

next to the tall man? If he's there! So you've been writing today, all

been together with your production meetings. We all sit around the

table together, talk about the news of the week, come up with jokes. If

something is funny we write it down. And we come on with other jokes that

are fresh on the night. What are you top lining this week? We are really

going to try and make sense of the EU referendum, which is really hard,

because I don't think anyone really cares. Did you see that footage

today of Boris locked outside number 10. You've got to look at that. It

is hilarious. Bearing in mind a lot of our viewers are in the late

teens, so we are going to try to explain the EU like a boy band.

Britain is the first member out of the boy band. Going for a solo

career. Are they going be like Zayn Malik of One Direction, or will it

be more like someone from Blue. LAUGHTER. Who also have very

successful careers. They don't. Don't pretend. What about the fact

that the England rugby team have an Australian coach? That's great. Will

that get in there? Every time you win, we win. Your telly work aside,

your stand-up show, Clown Heart. Where was that born from? The idea

of Clown Heart is about laughing in the face of death. Part of it came

about because my father and my wife's father died when my daughter

was quite young. I had to explain to her what death was. It was this

really weird moment of sitting in the bath with my daughter, who was

four. I have had to check, it is alright to have a bath with your

four-year-old daughter isn't it? Yes. 19 would be weird. But we don't

19 would be weird. But we don't have a 19-year-old - she's the nanny!

Just a joke. Stay on message. I was sitting in the bath with my daughter

and she asked, what handed to Papa, my dad? I said, he got sick and then

got really sick and didn't want to be sick any more, so he floated up

to the sky. He looks down on us and he can see and hear us. She said,

ah, mummy said he died. I thought, right, I'm going have to explain

this now. We had a conversation, is she going to die, am I going to die?

Hopefully not for a long time, but while we are here, let's be clown

hearts. She said, no-one wants to die, do they daddy? I said no, and

she went, I can see your boobies! And the conversation was finished.

And your tour is on until 27th March? I'm doing a tour whilst doing

The Last Leg at the same time. Australia as well, so you are all

over the place. I did a show at the Sydney Opera House three weeks ago.

Wow! You must constantly not know what time zone you are in. The Last

Leg is on Friday 10 o'clock on Channel 4. A new West End musical

has opened celebrating the story of Mrs Henderson and her decision to

put on Britain's first nude review. It is based on the fame starring

Dame Judi Dench, which was inspired by the real Windmill Theatre. Lucy

went to meet some of the former star obvious the show. In 1932, a former

cinema in Soho changed the face of entertainment for good. After

struggling as a theatre, new owner Mrs Laura Henderson decided she

needed her shows to be a bit Morris Kay to pull the crowds in. And so

the Windmill Girls were born. They were the first women to appear naked

on stage in Britain. And now their story is being told here in the West

End in a musical. The theatre's motto was We. In Never Close, and

close they didn't, even during the Second World War. Margaret, when

were you a Windmill girl? 1948 to 1958. You did a long stints. Ten

years. Did you did ever get bored with it? Never. How do you hold a

pose? You have to stare at something. I'm no good, because I'm

a smiler. I do the can-can, the tambourine dance. There must have

been some people who were disparaging about what you did,

because you were breaking bounds ries? Not really, because we were

just titillating. I've got the fan, so you are not seeing anything, I'm

covering it up. The girls were so popular they had to perform up to

six back to back shows in a day. Thankfully the current musical

promises less gruelling run of eight shows per week. I play Maureen in

the show. She is the local tea girl who Laura Henderson discovers and

takes upon herself to bring on as her girl Friday. She realises she

could be her headwind mill Girl, her head nude. Sorry, Fred, I'm not much

of a ginger. How much of the show due spend nude? A good few moments.

Not only do I play Maureen as a statue. We do the fan dance,

properly nude. My feathers, if they are not in place, somebody gets more

than they bar gained for. What do you think we learn from those

original Windmill girls? Self acceptance. That's quite empowering

and rather wonderful. I think everyone should get naked. Decency

laws were distributeser in those days but Mrs Henderson saw a

loophole. The girl could pose nude as long as they didn't move. The

idea being it was no worse than you would see in museums. It was a

review show. The smallest part was the nudity and you wouldn't move.

That was a law. If it moved it was rude. What would happen to somebody

if they moved? They could shut you down. It was theatre. So in those

days we still had censorship. How do you look back on that now? I'm so

proud to have done it. We all are. It is like wow! Look what we did!

There were on a pedestal in a West End theatre. And people say, were

you really a Windmill girl? I say yes, we are. We are proud of our

name. By the 1960s Soho had become synonymous with sleaze and sex

shops, which caused audiences to diminish. After vowing never to

close, the Windmill girls hung up their fifthest in 1964. Tonight they

take their seats in the auditorium instead of on stage. The story of

the Windmill girls in Soho has gone full circle. Thank you Lucy. We are

now joined by Windmill girls: Jill, a trip down memory lane. There you

are in all your glory. There's Joan. Hello sailor! And Sylvia. Wonderful,

and Margaret. Here we go, Margaret. There's you. And Googie. That's me.

And you've hogged all the photos, Margaret.

What was last night like? Lovely. Very exciting. We went on stage.

They announce nounsed us. We did a little rehearsal. Yes. We oent on

and took the last bow. Wonderful. I bet you wanted to do a can-can. I

did. I nearly did the splits. I stopped her. I'm known to do that

every day. Listen, how old were you all when you you were doing this?

16-and-a-half I was. 20. 14 - not when I went on stage. When he signed

my contract. I can imagine the conversation with your parents was a

tricky one? No, my mum loved. It all our mothers loved it. My parents, I

come from Devon, my father knew somebody who was a friend of Sheila

Van Damm. My parents got me the job. They saw the show. They had seen the

show in 1938. Right. Are you still dancing now? Yes. With your clothes

on? With my clothes on. Hardly, at the beginning! These kind of static

routines that you had to do. 12-and-a-half minutes. Joan, the

stamina you must have had to have for that? Was self-discipline. It

Right. We all had to sign that we would pose, but it was a very small

part of the - we all covered every number. We all did - most of us did

can-cans, ballets. What was your favourite routine? The ballet.

Really? The can-can. You had choreographers from the Royal Ballet

- Yes. It was beautifully done. And the sketches with the comedians. We

fed the comedians their lines. They were their feet. We were good at it.

When you know of some of these shows and this and that and the other that

go on these days. What is your opinion? There is nothing like that.

There can't be. It was so unique. It really wouldn't work nowadays. No.

Very naive. Easy to put yourself back there. Oh, the memories. How

vivid that must be. The family at moss fierce was unique. They have

made another show of it. West End musical. Recaptured last night for

you. Absolutely. Especially the poses. The lighting was the

important thing. They got it right. Thank you for coming in tonight and

talking to us about it. While we are sticking on the theatre thing we

have this wonderful magician. Have you seen Brendan tonight? We have

our eyes on your stationery cupboard. We can see that paper

weight. Can you do something with that. I have a piper weight just for

you. This is a magical paper weight. Look at that. It floats. Stuck to my

hand. You know how it work, invisible thread. Look at that. Do

you want a big one like this or a smaller one? Oh, look at that. I

don't want to leave Anita without anything. Let us see if we can get

one for you. Right there. Ah, beautiful. Thank you, Brendan. More

frommed Brendan in a while. They are having a great time. The wgs wgs are

my heroes. Sylvia got her leg right up there. They still have it. We

will meet our amputee football players. While we head outside

here's Jean Johannson on how the sport is planning to spread north of

the border. We have all heard of the Premier League and the Champions

League, but not many of us will have heard of the Amputee Football

League. It has been established in some of England's best-known clubs

since 2003. But travel to Scotland and it's a different story. You

won't find any amputee squads competing. I've come to catch up

with Brian Murray a local who has to travel 160 miles to play for Everton

in the can English Amputee League. He wants to help start the first

ever league in Scotland with a special day of football trials. The

main aim is to get one team other two or three teams in Scotland. That

would be ideal. Why are there no teams in Scotland? I don't know.

It's big in other countries, not just in England. Amputee football is

out there. Let us get it into Scotland. It's given me more

self-confidence. That is what we want. People who have lost legs they

don't want to join in sport. If they can see this sort of thing

happening, let's get them playing. That is the main aim. With big plans

for the game, Brian has persuaded some of his Everton team-mates to

help recruit new players who they could ultimately face. We want to

get more people involved. We will sacrifice a defeat in the future for

the benefit of the game. One of the guys hoping to try out is Michael,

who has not played football for 25 years. Can you see yourself in the

starting line-up? I don't know. I need to get my fitness levels up by

a big mark before I'm near these guys. It's good fun. What can you

get from it personally apart from the fitness? Meet new people and

build relationships with other people and you learn from them, I

suppose. There is that learning journey I will look forward to. With

the game under way I've been told playing is a lot harder than it

looks. So they've persuaded me to find out along with lots of other

young hopefuls. I'm so out of breath, you really have to be fit

for this, don't you? Especially upper body strength. Is there any

difference between coaching able-bodied players and these guys I

see it as normal footballers. At the highest level when we coach

international squads they are as good in my opinion as mainstream

players. So the sessions we do are the same sessions we adapt them

slightly. Another young hopeful is Lewis who lost his leg three months

ago in an accident. Get in there! I think at eight years old it must be

a help to be with other people in the same position? It does. He sees

how people are progressing. He will try to prove himself as well. We are

proud of him, no question about it. Do you think you have recruited some

players for our first league amputee Scottish team? Hopefully. A lot of

the big clubs, a couple of clubs here from Scotland, Partick Thistle,

they are keen to get something going. Good to see other kids there

as well. Hopefully, stars of the future. Thank you. We are here with

Owen and players James and Mark. Before we get going, Owen tell us

what it's about. What can and you can't you do? The guys playing just

now most of them have got a leg off playing sticks outfield. A lot play

in goals. We are inclusive egg league and teams. If you want to

play outfield everybody has equal opportunity. Bearing that in mind,

in homage Is It OK thing, is it all right for an able-bodied Michael

Sheen to have a go for tonight playing this sport? I'm going to

take nigh prosthetic off to fit in. Do you want to strap it on You're

making your own jokes up! We might not have time for that. In general -

Of course it is. You go over there. Get involved. We will film what

happens. Bear in mind your mum and dad and sister are watching. No

pressure. Mark, basically, this is a sport that has turned your life

around, really, isn't it? Yeah. To be honest, when I lost my leg I took

it quite bad. How old were you? 24. I was run over. I took it quite bad

much I couldn't even look at it. Couldn't really touch it. I spent a

lot of time in bed not really doing much. Then my little nephew had

football trials and I kind of went and watched him. I saw the spark in

them and it started to ignite a fire. I got introduced to these

amazing fellows. Here you are. I can see the smile in your eyes. Is he

any good, James? Is Being diplomatic. He's all right. This

isn't a Paralympic sport, you would like it to be? Would love it to be.

They have football, not our kind. They are played by the rich

countries you need ex-sentence Spencive legs or wheelchairs.

Football is the game of the ghetto. We are the game of the war zones

refugee. They play it in Liberia, seer Sierra Leone. They are not at

the Paralympics because they don't have the money, but that's probably

why we should be. We have five different teams. Peterborough

United, Portsmouth, Everton, a national league that takes place

once every month. The best players in those teams get selected to

represent Great Britain in World Cups etc etc. The goalkeepers need

to be an arm amputee. We are inclusive and want to get as many

people involved as possible. Shall we see how our boys are getting on.

Adam, tell us what you think about it. Earlier on you felt the players

should have had a prosthetic. Your upper body is feeling the weight of

this? It say it is all. I'm knackered. Absolutely knackered. It

clearly, it's all upper body. This leg is doing a lot of work. This leg

is overloaded the shoulders are overloaded. In the midst of all that

to kick it you have to balance on the crutches and swing with that

foot. It's - the core strength these guys must have is remarkable. James

said it should be in the Paralympics I'm amazed it isn't. I can't believe

it isn't. They have certificate pral palsy football. Fair play making me

do that and talk to you after. Did you have a go Michael? I certainly

did have a go. Did you not see. Two out of three goals. A natural. Yeah.

Good for you. Hard going on the old arms. For sure. Thank you all for

coming in. Some of the power that is generated. The footballs that have

been flying around here this afternoon. Thank you to Owen, Mark

and James. We told you to expect the unexpected. It's Mike's turn to

surprise us. Here he is with a story that brings a whole new meaning to

the phrase - a fish out of water. In the heart of the Cairngorms lies

this estate, home to an incredible avian hunter, the osprey. The hides

here provide the perfect advantage point to capture fabulous images of

ospreys plunging in for fish. Having settled in to wait it isn't long

before the drama begins. Bang! Oh, my word. That that's amazing. It's

got a fish. Oh, awesome. Fantastic behaviour from a remarkable

predator. Last summer brown trout were seen leaping out at huge

heights from these quarters. I heard of brown trout jumping before, not

in still water, only in rivers and streams, much like their close

relatives, the salmon. What exactly is making the fish here so jumpy?

The local ranger is scratching his head. It was first seen back in July

last year we noticed the brown trout started jumping. How high are we

talking? In the region of two to flee feet maybe a meter. Marine and

aquatic life have parasites in their skin could they be coming out to get

them off their skin? When we put the fish in the pond the finest quality

fish. We check the fish that are in the pond and put them back in.

Certainly nothing suggests that is the case. The fish are healthy. We

know they are not overcrowded. One possibility is that the fish are

jumping because of water conditions. First we are going to check the

temperature. 13 degrees. That's normal for freshwater in this area.

Next, using a colour indicating kit, I will check the oxygen levels. I

would say it it slots in somewhere around there. It means the oxygen in

this pond is about 7 milligrams a litre. That is absolutely fine for

the fish. We can't find any evidence there is something in the water

that's making the fish leap. We don't think it's parasites or

overcrowding. So what could it be? There is one possibility, it might

have something to do with the an airborne insect around these parts.

Scotland has over 30 different species. Their numbers peak in mid

summer when most of the jumping has been seen. Lots of fish will leap

clear of water to catch food. Crayling slide slap down on prey

flying past. Look at the mass of insects dancing above the surface

with the brown trout lurking below. No wonder they want to leap out and

grab a few. Can we film? Once again we wait in the hide, camera poised.

But we only see a couple of small jumps, what what we had come to

film. But things are about to change. Boom! Oh, right in in front

of my nose! Sometimes they just break the surface. Every now and

again one completely leaps clear. That one there must have come out by

three feet. Brilliant! Astonishing, right in front of me. What a

brilliant view! It is estimated that in some parts of Scotland, maybe 25

million midges were square hectare, so perhaps the leaping brown trout

here are doing their bit to keep the numbers down and make life a little

bit more bearable for the rest of us. Never disappoints with his

wildlife film. 25 million midges? That makes you scratch just thinking

about it. Brendan, you have become the Magic Circle Close Up Magician

of the Year. Yes. We are all pretty close up here. Just amazing.

Amazing. How much room do you need? This is good. Let's start with the

ring. This is just an ordinary ring. Do check it out in fact. Make sure

it doesn't come apart in anyway. You've seen magic on TV, right? On

stage, if I have to make this pen disappear, the first thing I do is

hide it. If I hide the pen you can't see the pen, so you don't know what

I'm doing. All I have to do is turn my angle here. And now ky create the

illusion that the pen... You are not falling for that. I can show both

hands, my left and right. We'll come back to the pen later... Oh!

APPLAUSE. Thank you. Now the ring. That's what you call dropping the

ring on live TV. I will show you how magic works. Watch the Ringo on to

my finger in a second. On the other hand... Oh! I will explain to you.

Because I looked there, most people looked there. That's called visual

misdirection. Watch the ring... From one hand to the other.

APPLAUSE. There's a reason why they say, never do the same trick twice

the same way, as people know where to look the second time. Watch the

ring fly up to my finger. If I slow down, you will see me catch it and

put it on. That's boring. But if you do it faster... In a second.

APPLAUSE. They say quicker than the eye. From one finger to the other in

one second. From finger to finger in a second.

APPLAUSE. That's remarkable. From one finger to the other. Dear me,

Brendan. From my left hand to my right hand, in one second. Right

through. In fact I will do it this way so you can see the ring come

right through my finger. Woe! You've checked the ring. It is solid. You

might have seen a drunk uncle at one of your parties, but with a bit of

practise, don't be alarmed, my fingers aren't coming off. Off, and

back on. With the ring this looks really cool. Watch the whole finger

come off. But people ask me two questions at this point. The first

question is, are you single? No, how long have you been doing this for?

The answer to this is about seven years. The second question I know

you are thinking is, where is the pen, and can you bring it back?

Right there. APPLAUSE. Seven years, but how many

hours practise does it take? I used to practise two hours a day, but now

not so much. What were you doing before seven years. How did you find

out you had this incredible skill? Most kids start off as kids, with a

magic set. But I started off in hospitality, working as a bartender,

juggling bottles. I thought, let's fry a bit of magic. I was bitten by

the magic bug, and I practised and worked harder. Was it an actual bug,

like Spider-Man? Once you are bitten by the major bug, it is something

you want to do all the time. Thank you so much.

APPLAUSE. Marty is shining a light on a

life-saving device which has saved lives for two centuries. But this is

all about the science. This year is the 200th anniversary of a rather

remarkable invention. This miner's safety lamp may not look

particularly special but it has saved many miners' lives. The design

is ingenious. The lamp was invented to some of a grave problem. I've

come to the national mining museum of England to learn more about its

history. At the start of the 19th century there were no electric

lamps, so miners had to work by candlelight. But a naked flame is a

dangerous thing in a mine full of flammable gases. Explosions were

common. It was one particularly devastating incident in the May of

1812 that led to the call for a miner's safety lamp. In an explosion

in a pit in the North East, 92 people died. It was the regulator

who buried most of these people that was instrumental in setting is up a

safety committee. And for help they turned to the most famous scientist

of the time, Sir Humphrey Davy. Davy was a brilliant chemist but this was

a challenge task. He had to come up with a flame that would like to way

for miners underground but not set fire to flammable gases. After weeks

of intensive work, Davy discovered a principle that would be fundamental

to his lamp. I can demonstrate what that was with the help of a

blowtorch and a sieve-like metal gauze. If I place this over the

flame the flame doesn't come through the gauze. That's because the Metal

carries all of the heat of the flame away, and the gas that's coming

through the gauze can't catch fire. Davy had discovered that as the

gauze absorbed the heat, the flame was no longer hot in terms of to

ignite the gases. He had successfully built a safe light

source for miners. It is easy to demonstrate how it worked. I've made

my own tiny version of a Davy lamp here, but instead of an oil lamp

I've got a candle in it. If I light that, like this, and then enclose it

in my own model mineshaft... I can show you what happens if you

introduce gas into the mine. OK, so, I'm going to let the gas in. Here it

goes. The gauze of the Davy lamp prevent the flame from igniting the

gas that's filling the chamber. Look what happens when I take the gauze

away. Davy's design was a success, but

that wasn't all. He also discovered the lamp was a gas detector. When

gases nearby, the flame grows higher which to a miner's trained eye

spells danger. It was this unexpected benefit that saved many

lives. Andrew Smith has been mining since he was 16 years old. He knows

only too well the benefits of having a flame safety lamp to hand when you

work around flammable gases. One day we were working, in a colliery, and

methane burst in and we first picked it up with the flame safety lamp

before monitoring equipment got it. A lot of people wouldn't be here

today without that flame safety lamp today. Nowadays we have more

sophisticated gas analysers to detect gases, but some miners still

use the Davy lamp as a dependable back-up. It is Testament to Davy's

clever design that the lamp has been in continuous use for 200 years.

Thank you Marty. That brilliant moustache. Michael, we've had your

fantastic family watching The One Show, so it is time to find out what

they made of your performance. How do you think he's done mum, Irene?

Oh, I think he did brilliantly. He's got such an easy relaxed way of

talking to people, but he is also able to put how passionately he

feels across as well, so yes, out of 10, 12. And what about Adam?

Silence. Well, Adam was excellent. Good! When he was playing there, and

he did get a little bit out of breath. Didn't have so much breath

as Michael, but Adam was fantastic. There you go. Praise indeed. Joe an,

what was it like growing up with him as your Big Brother? Well, it was

quiet annoying, because he was so good at everything. As you have

seen, he is quite competitive as well. But there is one thing I've

got on him. I passed my driving test first time, and I also did it before

him. So a little win for me. I will tell you what, there is some delay.

Port Talbot is a long way away! When did you first realise, mum and dad,

that your son had the acting talent and he was going to spend the rest

of his time doing this? Well, I believe that when he was 12, I think

it was. I was appearing in local musical theatre of Camelot. When we

were rehearsing, the director, professional director, said we want

two boys in this production. They had to split for performances. And

would... So when I came home from rehearsal that night, I said to

Michael, would you like to audition for the part of Tom of Warwick in

Camelot? He said he would and he auditioned and he got the part. In

fact he was talking to the guy that was playing Merlin there and he

learnt a lot. And he heard a lot about the stage. And when he came

back, it was the only show through all these years that Michael and

myself have been in the same show on the stage. Lovely. Meyrick, does he

get his talent from you then? Oh, dear, what am I going to say here?

LAUGHTER. He was having an honorary degree at the University of South

Wales in Newport. It was arranged for him to have an interview. That

was arranged outside. As soon as he came out of the procession. Irene

and I were watching it and all of a sudden the interveer said, Meyrick,

would you like to sit on the stairs and come into the audition? He said,

the presenter said, who do you attribute Michael's talent to? I

said, well, he's got his mother's intelligence and he's got his

mother's command of English, but his acting ability comes from me. What

do you think Michael said. Dad, you are not an actor, you are a

performer. Listen, thank you so much for all of the family. You are so

talented that you are going to be directing yourself soon? Very

possibly. This time next year, fingers crossed. My first film. We

were inside our home, there but where is home for you these days?

You are a huge star in Australia. How much time do you spend there? It

is all over the place at the moment. My wife and kids are in Australia.

Every morning I set the alarm and I read them a bedtime story over Face

Time. My two-year-old takes the phone to bed with her and I tell her

a little story. She says goodnight and goes to sleep, and I get up to

go to work. Michael, what hate been like to look at home there? You

spend an enormous amount of time in LA? My daughter lives in America, so

I've grown up there with her. I miss being here in Britain and Wales. It

is a bit peculiar to see my own family in the house I grew up with

on the show! But not quite as peculiar as in a pair of tights. You

did look good. I love the stuff around there, the painting and the

trophies. Trophies. Thank you to everybody in Port Talbot.

That's all we've got time for tonight.

Thanks to everyone who's taken part, including Michael, his family

Don't forget The Last Leg is on Friday at 10.00pm

I'll be back tomorrow with Alex, when Bear Grylls will be here.

Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley with your 90-second update.