:00:18. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Now,
:00:24. > :00:24.if you have ever been to see a musical in the theatre, chances are
:00:25. > :00:32.it was produced by tonight's guest. Producer of the three longest
:00:33. > :00:54.running musicals of all-time. Selling 220 million tickets
:00:55. > :00:56.worldwide. Every night, 14,000 people around the world watch one of
:00:57. > :01:14.his shows. He's the most successful producer...
:01:15. > :01:20.Too low-key, I'm sorry. I'd like you to redo that one. It's Sir Cameron
:01:21. > :01:23.Mackintosh. APPLAUSE
:01:24. > :01:29.Thank you. It fell off. That is live. That is that he are for you.
:01:30. > :01:34.Yes. That is thaet are for you. Cameron, productions all over the
:01:35. > :01:40.world. Let us have a quick world trip what is on where? This week? Do
:01:41. > :01:47.you know? I thought you were going to do another film. Last night I was
:01:48. > :01:51.in Bristol, doing standing room only production of Barnum, with Brian
:01:52. > :01:56.Conley and Linzi Hateley. Fantastic. I go to Vienna. We will talk about
:01:57. > :02:07.Barnum later Yes, we are. I'm going to Vienna next week for the opening
:02:08. > :02:11.of that. We have Miss Saigon and Les Mis. So many countries around the
:02:12. > :02:18.world. 30 productions running at the moment. I have to open three this
:02:19. > :02:24.week and do a gala. Amazing week for you, or an easy week. 14,000 people
:02:25. > :02:29.in the world will watch one of your production. Cameron can pack them in
:02:30. > :02:33.all over the world. If you are a drama work and staging a musical
:02:34. > :02:38.this weekend, send us a picture of your production. Tell us who you are
:02:39. > :02:42.and where and when your show is on. We will give you a big can plug at
:02:43. > :02:47.the end of the show. If anyone can sell a show, this man can! Now, to
:02:48. > :02:53.the five-year-old that has captured the nation's hearts. Ashya King, who
:02:54. > :02:56.has a brain tumour, has gun his proton beam treatment in Prague. His
:02:57. > :03:00.parents had disagreed with doctors in this country and took him out of
:03:01. > :03:06.hospital, sparking an international search. Trish Adudu met a mum from
:03:07. > :03:10.Leicester who knows exactly what it's like to take on the medical
:03:11. > :03:15.establish am. I was terrified. What a huge chance to take with Alex's
:03:16. > :03:19.life. It wasn't easy to go against the doctors, what they were telling
:03:20. > :03:24.us in this country. It wasn't easy at all -- establish am. Roz was told
:03:25. > :03:29.that her three-year-old son Alex had a brain tumour it. Was to be the
:03:30. > :03:34.start of the biggest battle of her life, not only against her son's
:03:35. > :03:40.cancer, but the medical team caring for him? They did a scan and found a
:03:41. > :03:43.giant brain tumour. Really huge, nine centimetre brain tumour. When
:03:44. > :03:47.you get that news? I couldn't breathe. I felt like somebody was
:03:48. > :03:55.sitting on my chest. I couldn't take it in. The surgeons cut out the
:03:56. > :03:58.tumour, an operation which temporarily affected Alex's sight
:03:59. > :04:06.and mobility? Nine hourses he was in there. When he woke up he said,
:04:07. > :04:10."mummy, my eyes are broken" they scratched his optic nerves to get
:04:11. > :04:15.the huge trouper out. He didn't walk for a long He began 14 time. Months
:04:16. > :04:20.of chemothearpy. There was more bad news to come. Within a couple of
:04:21. > :04:25.months the tumour was back. The only way to get my brain around it was to
:04:26. > :04:37.say, repeatedly to people, my son has cancer. That's the only way.
:04:38. > :04:42.Alex's consultant put his chances of survival at 20% to 25% and
:04:43. > :04:45.recommended radiotherapy. He said, I have to warn you about radiotherapy,
:04:46. > :04:49.he is only four, it's not recommended until they are five, it
:04:50. > :04:54.can cause severe brain damage. Tl may not work. If it does work, he
:04:55. > :04:59.could be blind, deaf and in a wheelchair. With severe brain
:05:00. > :05:05.damage. At that point, I was panicking really badly. Roz and
:05:06. > :05:08.husband Paul needed to know more about Alex's condition. Like Ashya
:05:09. > :05:11.King's parents, turned to the internet for answers. I came across
:05:12. > :05:16.a link for the American hospital saying that they were offering
:05:17. > :05:21.proton therapy to babies and toddlers because it's safe. Did you
:05:22. > :05:24.go to the doctors saying, I have found this potentially miraculous
:05:25. > :05:27.cure? In I said I read about this proton therapy in the States they
:05:28. > :05:33.are doing. What do you think about that, could I take him for that? He
:05:34. > :05:37.said it's not tried and tested. If you take him there you will put his
:05:38. > :05:42.life in danger. They are only after your money anyway. Was it difficult
:05:43. > :05:51.to turn down the NHS's advice? Extremely hard. Very hard. They
:05:52. > :05:58.presented a united front. Back then the NHS was thinking of funding
:05:59. > :06:05.proton therapy treatment abroad for some children. With a hefty price
:06:06. > :06:09.tag ?120,000, they relied on family and fundraising to reach their goal.
:06:10. > :06:13.Within four days of hitting their target, they were on a plane for
:06:14. > :06:22.Florida. Over the next three months, Alex had more surgery and almost
:06:23. > :06:26.daily proton beam therapy. The treatment was so successful that
:06:27. > :06:31.after flying home, Alex went straight back to school. Now 10, he
:06:32. > :06:38.is in full remission from cancer. Who would have thought, your son,
:06:39. > :06:45.with a brain tumour, 25% survival Yep. Is now tackling! He is going
:06:46. > :06:51.for it? He was a bit mean! Come on, Alex. I don't know where he gets
:06:52. > :06:57.that from! No doubts, no regrets? No regrets because my little boy is
:06:58. > :07:01.perfect. He hasn't got any of those side affects we worried about. He
:07:02. > :07:04.hasn't got secondary cancer. He is a normal boy. If you look at him now
:07:05. > :07:07.you would never know he had anything wrong with Can you remember him.
:07:08. > :07:10.Anything about the hospital? I don't really remember the hospital. I
:07:11. > :07:18.remember going to Florida and arriving and going to my favourite
:07:19. > :07:24.restaurant called Captain Dees, a fish and chips restaurant. You found
:07:25. > :07:30.fish and chips in America! The NHS has funded treatment abroad for 293
:07:31. > :07:34.children since 2008. And the Prime Minister David Cameron has promised
:07:35. > :07:38.British facilities by 2018. Roz thinks more should be done. The
:07:39. > :07:42.treatment is so expensive, not everybody could be helped by the
:07:43. > :07:46.NHS? If we have the ability to help somebody and to help their child
:07:47. > :07:50.live and to live a good, long, healthy life. Haven't we a moral
:07:51. > :07:54.responsibility to do that? The parents of Ashya have been through a
:07:55. > :08:00.torrid time. What did it make you feel? When I saw they were arrested
:08:01. > :08:05.I was so furious I couldn't sleep. I was up all night fuming. They did
:08:06. > :08:09.what I did, they are doing all they can to save their son's life. My
:08:10. > :08:14.heart goes out to them. Good rugby player. He is. Lovely boy. Let us
:08:15. > :08:20.hope that Ashya's treatment is as successful. Ical Ron, the brilliant
:08:21. > :08:25.Miss Saigon is celebrating 2 #r5 years. It was in the West End, it
:08:26. > :08:30.came back recently you describe it as statement staple. Why is that? Is
:08:31. > :08:35.give us a bit of background for people who haven't seen it? That
:08:36. > :08:40.remark came from the first time that the people who wrote it gave me the
:08:41. > :08:43.demo. It was sung in French. I'm not particularly fluent in. Listening to
:08:44. > :08:50.it and understanding the story, which is of course set in the
:08:51. > :08:53.Vietnam War, end of the Vietnam War, of a disillusion soldier meeting a
:08:54. > :09:01.bar girl who has to sell herself in order to live. They fall in love. It
:09:02. > :09:05.gives him a reason to hope. They fall in love and then they get
:09:06. > :09:10.separated by the terrible withdrawal of the Americans. And, it's what
:09:11. > :09:15.happens to them and indeed he gets, he thinks she is dead much she
:09:16. > :09:21.gets... He goes back to America, Maris an American girl. They come
:09:22. > :09:26.and discover that he had a son. It is a tragic story of the greatest
:09:27. > :09:30.human sacrifice, which is a mother and her child. When you talk about
:09:31. > :09:35.the razor blade, is it going to work, is it not? It wasn't about
:09:36. > :09:39.whether it was going to work. We were doing a major spectacular
:09:40. > :09:44.musical. It's a rare musical. Like West Side Story and Billy Elliot,
:09:45. > :09:51.based on a real story. It's about real people's lives. The story of
:09:52. > :09:59.Miss Saigon is of many stories like that. Since we did it originally 25
:10:00. > :10:02.years ago, now we are seeing in Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, the
:10:03. > :10:06.Middle East, we could have set that story anywhere. That is one of the
:10:07. > :10:11.reasons that the audience is much younger and completely in it. So
:10:12. > :10:16.engaged? More emotionally powerful Not a dry eye in the house when that
:10:17. > :10:20.production finishes, without giving it away. There is a gala performance
:10:21. > :10:25.on Monday which 100,000 people applied for tickets for? I believe
:10:26. > :10:30.so. In a few minutes. They all went. You have good news for hardcore
:10:31. > :10:35.fans. We have some seats. We can put back on sale in the morning. I think
:10:36. > :10:40.we have 100 seats or something like that left for anyone who still
:10:41. > :10:48.really desperate can queue up at the Prince Edward Theatre. You can hear
:10:49. > :10:53.it? You can. You have very good! It's going out on BBC Radio 2. By
:10:54. > :10:57.the great and wonderful Michael Ball. Therefore, you know, everyone
:10:58. > :11:02.in the country will be able to take part in the special evening which
:11:03. > :11:10.I'm doing one of my special great finales. I'm so thrilled that
:11:11. > :11:15.Jonathan Price will come back and join our wonderful stars and Simon
:11:16. > :11:20.Bowman the original Chris. A word on people getting out to see theatre.
:11:21. > :11:23.It feels like that regional theatre now is incredibly vibrant. Are you
:11:24. > :11:28.finding that with your touring production. Barnum... Barnum opened
:11:29. > :11:38.in Leicester last week. We got fantastic reviews. Brian Conley is
:11:39. > :11:43.fantastic at Barnum. I wonder when he is finished with it, you might be
:11:44. > :11:50.interested? Well, I would! A little birdie tells me that you started off
:11:51. > :12:00.as a gymnast. I did? And an acrobat. I did. Has anyone a wire. We could
:12:01. > :12:10.test you out. Right. Ah! There we go. Miss Saigon is on at the Prince
:12:11. > :12:15.Edward Theatre NOW! There you go. There Is A Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute!
:12:16. > :12:20.I wonder who will sing that in Scotland tonight! Moving on. Thank
:12:21. > :12:24.you, Cameron. The debate and arguments are almost over. Tomorrow,
:12:25. > :12:28.people living in Scotland will finally cast their votes to make
:12:29. > :12:33.that historic decision. Scottish independence, now that would make a
:12:34. > :12:38.good musical, it's not dividing the country, it's dividing households
:12:39. > :12:42.too! I want an independent Scotland. I want to remain part of the United
:12:43. > :12:47.Kingdom. I think it's time that Scotland was in charge of its own
:12:48. > :12:52.future. I want everyone, after the referendum, to be undivided. I'd
:12:53. > :12:56.like Scotland to change for the better. I want Scotland to be its
:12:57. > :13:01.own country. I think we are better together. We are the Andrew family
:13:02. > :13:07.we are divided over the future of Scotland. Since the debates came
:13:08. > :13:10.about, about the referendum, we have had just had to agree not to talk
:13:11. > :13:15.about it in the house. It caused so many arguments. I feel Kenny and I
:13:16. > :13:19.are fighting over hearts and minds of the kids. No getting away from
:13:20. > :13:23.it. There is a definite tension in the air. Diane will agree with
:13:24. > :13:29.everything that the Yes Campaign will say. I tend to have an opposite
:13:30. > :13:35.opinion. So, I think the fact it comes into your living room it is
:13:36. > :13:38.raising issues. If I ask a question about something, then they will have
:13:39. > :13:43.different answers. That turns into an argument. I like arguing as much
:13:44. > :13:49.as my mum. I support her in the Yes vote as well. I feel like, as a kid,
:13:50. > :13:56.who will be growing up in an independent Scotland, it will affect
:13:57. > :14:02.me. I need to speak out about it. Now, I feel there is more security
:14:03. > :14:08.for young people and generation is to come in an independent Scotland
:14:09. > :14:13.-- generations. I feel the level of risk associated with going
:14:14. > :14:18.independent is too great. It's irreversible. I work in the defence
:14:19. > :14:23.industry which benefits greatly from being part of a United Kingdom? He
:14:24. > :14:27.has been made redundant once. He has been threatened with redundancy
:14:28. > :14:32.number of times much it's not as if your job in the Clyde will be safe
:14:33. > :14:37.with a No vote. If you vote Yes, it's permanent. Exactly. I'm leaning
:14:38. > :14:41.towards No because, although it's not certain that my dad would lose
:14:42. > :14:48.his job, I don't like the idea of risking that. I work for the NHS.
:14:49. > :14:51.I'm an A receptionist. Le if we were independent the Government
:14:52. > :14:55.would decide themselves what they want to spend the money on, we could
:14:56. > :15:01.have a bigger budget. I'm a pensioner. I feel we have a pretty
:15:02. > :15:05.good life as it is. I think that's the root of everything. What are we
:15:06. > :15:10.changing for much we have everything. I like things the way
:15:11. > :15:15.they are. Kenny ended up getting fed up with me posting all my Yes w
:15:16. > :15:23.stuff on Facebook he unfriended me. She does post a lot of stuff, a LOT!
:15:24. > :15:28.Campaign wise I would say the Yeses have won it. For a start, they have
:15:29. > :15:31.been out for the last 18-months knocking on doors and you have had
:15:32. > :15:37.the posters up. There has been much more presence. I would agree that
:15:38. > :15:42.the Yes Campaign has certainly been more visible and more vocal. I think
:15:43. > :15:48.there is an intimidation that goes with that. I feel. Personally. I
:15:49. > :15:52.don't think so. Personally. As a family we will go on as we were
:15:53. > :15:59.before. We won't hold grudges. We won't... That's the most important
:16:00. > :16:03.thing. But for the record. Diane deleted me as her friend, I did not
:16:04. > :16:10.delete here. He threatened to unfriend me. I got in there first.
:16:11. > :16:16.Thank you to the Andrews family. Let's catch up with Nicky Campbell
:16:17. > :16:27.who has been touring Scotland or 5 live. He began in Starbuck --
:16:28. > :16:32.Stornoway and moved on to Aberdeen and Edinburgh. I imagine the
:16:33. > :16:46.arguments will go on well into the night. Are we right? Do we have his
:16:47. > :16:55.voice? Start again, we did not have your microphone turned up! Just as
:16:56. > :17:01.well. Can you hear me? There are a lot of people want a lot of
:17:02. > :17:06.microphones to be faded out because it has been a long campaign. I have
:17:07. > :17:18.just done a debate which I go presented and we had a lot of yeses
:17:19. > :17:23.and a lot of noes. A lot of placards. The best place for the
:17:24. > :17:31.result is going to be on 5 live on Friday morning. I will be on from
:17:32. > :17:37.5am. That is the best place to hear the result of this momentous
:17:38. > :17:44.decision. It is historic because 16-year-olds are able to vote. How
:17:45. > :17:49.exciting. It almost feels like Christmas Eve. We are the young
:17:50. > :17:54.children waiting for the next day. It is a great opportunity. Fully
:17:55. > :17:57.mature enough to make this decision. I remember the first time making
:17:58. > :18:03.that cross, the power and importance. It is empowering. It is
:18:04. > :18:09.an honour to be trusted. I am excited. I feel really excited about
:18:10. > :18:14.tomorrow because for the first time young people are going to be able to
:18:15. > :18:24.influence politics in Poland. It is fantastic knowing that this is such
:18:25. > :18:31.a close call -- Scotland. Show your appreciation to these voters. There
:18:32. > :18:49.is only one way to sort this out. Ready, steady, go! I have to say, it
:18:50. > :18:53.is also my close to call. -- too close.
:18:54. > :19:01.We will find out on Friday morning who has won.
:19:02. > :19:06.Cameron has made some big gambles in his time and arguably he has taken
:19:07. > :19:11.one by casting an unknown in the lead of Miss Saigon. This is her
:19:12. > :19:20.first professional role. These welcome Eva Noblezada. Tell us your
:19:21. > :19:25.story. What were you doing this time last year? I was in high school,
:19:26. > :19:31.senior year. I was wondering what college I should go to. There is
:19:32. > :19:38.this amazing competition that they might do in New York where it is
:19:39. > :19:45.amazing events that Yorkies 's young talent and I was one of the
:19:46. > :19:50.finalists and I was able to sing -- showcases young talent. The casting
:19:51. > :19:57.director pulled me aside and said she had the perfect audition. I was
:19:58. > :20:03.like, all right! How intimidating was it to audition in front of
:20:04. > :20:12.Cameron? She was as cool as a cucumber. It was amazing. She is so
:20:13. > :20:17.special. There you are. From that to the stage in London. At first it was
:20:18. > :20:22.in a room with a lot of other people. I thought, I cannot believe
:20:23. > :20:26.that someone who has not been on the stage before... Even though she was
:20:27. > :20:34.the same age as the character, she had been a star since the age of
:20:35. > :20:40.eight. She went on the stage and she looked so much at home. She was at
:20:41. > :20:44.home. The gods of the theatre have been brilliant. We are going to
:20:45. > :20:48.experience that. You are going to do your first live
:20:49. > :20:51.performance on television this evening.
:20:52. > :20:57.Another of Cameron's leading ladies is Elaine Paige, who starred in Cats
:20:58. > :21:11.and became one of the biggest names in musical theatre. Where did you
:21:12. > :21:18.get that from? How life began far from the glitz and glamour.
:21:19. > :21:23.This is Barnet, Hertfordshire, Barnett High Street, and this is
:21:24. > :21:43.where I was born and brought up. I used to live up there. My gosh! It
:21:44. > :21:56.is just the same. It is tiny. This is bizarre. I remember this as a
:21:57. > :22:02.huge long room. Over here, we had a radiogram and my mother loved Ella
:22:03. > :22:06.Fitzgerald and Perry Como and Andy Williams, people like that, and this
:22:07. > :22:11.is where I started to think that I could maybe... I used to like to
:22:12. > :22:18.sing so I used to sing a lot with Ella Fitzgerald. Can you believe it?
:22:19. > :22:23.My parents were wonderful people. My father was a drummer and he had his
:22:24. > :22:30.own band. Every weekend he would go out on gigs. Good people, down to
:22:31. > :22:38.earth, kind, funny, a wonderful sense of humour. This window, I
:22:39. > :22:43.would spend hours staring out watching the world go by and that
:22:44. > :22:47.plays over there, that used to be my mother's hat shop. At the end of the
:22:48. > :22:52.school day I would usually, instead of coming here, I would go to the
:22:53. > :23:04.hat shop. Up this there is. To my bedroom. -- the stairs. There is a
:23:05. > :23:10.double bed in here, but I sure there's room with my sister. I
:23:11. > :23:24.remember this view. You looked down over London. It twinkled. I remember
:23:25. > :23:31.thinking it was like fairy land. When I was 11, we moved from Barnet
:23:32. > :23:48.High Street here, to suburbia, east Barnet. My mother and I would watch
:23:49. > :23:54.television programmes here. I can remember being inspired by Fred is
:23:55. > :24:03.there and Ginger Rogers and those wonderful old movies of the time.
:24:04. > :24:09.This was the beginnings of how I started to really find out about the
:24:10. > :24:13.fact that I loved to sing. My parents had to give up a lot to send
:24:14. > :24:20.me to drama school. Money was tight, and the fees were high, Saul there
:24:21. > :24:27.was a lot of sacrifice on their part to give me that beginning and when I
:24:28. > :24:32.started to get work, and usually quite well paid, even then, I think
:24:33. > :24:40.they were thrilled and excited and they were always there for me. This
:24:41. > :24:46.is the beautiful garden that was the pride and joy of both my parents. My
:24:47. > :24:50.father, who was a good amateur photographer, or so he thought,
:24:51. > :24:57.bless him, hung a sheet from this tree to this tree, so I remember
:24:58. > :25:04.clearly standing here and pointing my right foot like this and going
:25:05. > :25:10.like that. Being back here in this house after 50 years, it is my whole
:25:11. > :25:16.life. It is my whole childhood. This is where my childhood ended and
:25:17. > :25:41.where I left home and ventured out into the big wide world.
:25:42. > :25:47.Memories. I will not even go there! This is the youth section who are
:25:48. > :26:03.looking forward to performing. This is all other -- Oliver at the
:26:04. > :26:10.Wyvern. This is from the brand-new Miss Saigon.
:26:11. > :26:42.# And you should know it's love that brought you here
:26:43. > :26:49.# And in one perfect night when the stars burned like new
:26:50. > :27:00.# I'll give you a million things I'll never own
:27:01. > :27:08.# I'll give you a world to conquer when you're grown
:27:09. > :27:21.# You can choose whatever heaven grants
:27:22. > :27:28.# As long as you can have your chance
:27:29. > :27:35.# I swear I'll give my life for you
:27:36. > :27:41.# Some nights I wake up reaching for him
:27:42. > :27:50.# But there's just moonlight on my bed
:27:51. > :28:03.# Then by my side the proof I see his little one
:28:04. > :28:27.# You can choose whatever heaven grants
:28:28. > :28:34.# As long as you can have your chance
:28:35. > :29:17.# I swear I'll give my life for you! #
:29:18. > :29:21.Is rocket science easier than you think?