17/10/2011 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.

And a just this morning returned from the gymnastics Matt Baker.

Konichiwa. How was it?

It was good but if I start speaking more Japanese later, you know why.

With us tonight is an actor who played a man so effortlessly cool

that his catchphrase only needed one letter.

It is of course Henry Winkler! For a minute, I thought you had

cloned to me. Do they not look identical? Exact look the same.

That was you in 1974. I still have the motorcycle. I

write it to brush my teeth. understand that that motorcycle is

up for auction. Here is why I am excited. It is the same motorcycle

that Steve McQueen used to jump the fence in the Great Escape. I got to

sit on it because I don't actually know how to ride a bike. Those are

the same boots I wore in another TV show, because I like to take one

piece of something into another. the Fonz does not know how to ride

a motorcycle? No. That is how good I was. It is called acting Exmouth

people also thought I was taller. They say, you are so short! Henry

is in the UK to talk to school children about his dyslexia and

have children with learning difficulties should not give up

hope. For many young people who have just

left education, hope can be hard to come by.

Youth unemployment is at a record high and to make their voices heard,

some have taken inspiration from a March that happen 75 years ago.

Lucy Siegle went to find out. In 1936, during the Great

Depression, 200 men from the once great shipbuilding town of Jarrow

near Sunderland marched the 300 miles down to Parliament in London

to protest about mass unemployment and extreme poverty across the hall

of the north-east of England. Femme de five years on, a group of

protesters on two weeks and 150 miles into a new march, following

the footsteps of the original Jarrow Crusade, but it is not

family men marching, it is young people. Hallows. Can I walk with

you? Of course. What a UWE margin for? I came out of college with

three A-levels. -- why are you marching? I am now on the dole

looking for work. What about other jobs? I have applied and applied

and applied, and knocked back after not back. What about stacking

shelves and apprenticeships? I have tried McDonald's, Tesco's, Burger

King, all of the unskilled jobs and I have been knocked back at every

opportunity. Young people have not got the experience of older people

have got and are failing to get into the job market and as a result,

have not really got a future of. They have been joined by a retired

workers who fear us for the new generation. I have been able to

retire at 65 but many of my friends cannot afford to do it and I think

that is ridiculous, especially when you have got a million kids with no

jobs. Official statistics reveal both Matthew and Peter's age groups

have unemployment figures at their highest since 1992. They have just

arrived here and a lot of people have turned out. I am just going to

speak to some of them. My son has been out of work, what, two years,

and he can't get anything. can't get a job because you haven't

got the experience, you can't get the experience because you haven't

got a job. My dad went on the Jarrow March, he was only 14 and he

was working at the pit. When the original marchers arrived in London

75 years ago, Stanley Baldwin refused to see them but this time

it is going to be different. While Matthew marches, the One Show are

putting his questions to the Employment Minister. The de see

what a generation of people left on the scrapheap? -- does he want?

do not have a magic wand but I can say, we will give you the best

support we can. You have let this age group down. We have schemes

designed to help them get into the workplace for the first time. The

work experience scheme is helping tens of thousands of young people

get a foothold and the work programme will deliver much more

tailored back to would support and help to help them as individuals.

If the schemes were genuine, if they offered genuine training,

people would not be unemployed and on marches like this. Of course,

the market is tough, the economy is in a difficult place, but at any

one time, we at the JobCentre Plus are taking in 90,000 vacancies

every week. That is between four and 5 million jobs every year. I

don't want any young person to feel on the scrapheap, or any order

working either. -- what much older workers either? There has been

cynicism about this March. Some people say it is a mockery of the

original March 1975 years ago but these people feel so strongly about

this and there was a lot of support. We met people whose parents had

been on the original Jarrow March and there is a huge depth of

feeling about this issue, particularly for that younger age

group who are very vulnerable. have come across a study which

shows us what the long-term effects of youth unemployment is. A lot of

research has been done at Stirling University in Scotland and the

financial penalties are twofold. It means that it is not just the

singular bout of unemployment. If you are unemployed in that age

group, you are likely to be unemployed in the future. The

weight penalty will stay with you until your mid-30s -- wage penalty.

There are other effects like depression and corrosive bonuses,

like malnutrition. So many things are linked to unemployment in this

age group. And it is all carried over from that time? Yes. There is

very strong evidence. Henry, a lot of your work is saying, go out and

go for it. In America, they started occupying Wall Street and then that

has spread all over the world so if you say that this is a small group

of people who are now marching, that group of people will grow

because those occupying Wall Street, which was that there are no jobs,

that has now spread all over the world. Do you think enough jobs are

being created to turn the situation around? We knew there would be a

drop in public sector jobs. The government hoped the private sector

would pick up the shortfall and that does not seem to be happening.

There were 221,000 jobs coming up for the second quarter. But what is

interesting if you look at the figures, a substantial proportion

of those, 70%, were taken up by EU nationals so that brings up the

whole thing of British jobs for British workers, although 90% of

jobs in this country are occupied by British workers. There is still

this shortfall. Interestingly this morning, Radio 1 did a survey and

they spoke to the main employers in this country and a lot of them said

that they did not want to employ young people because they did not

think they had the core competences in maths and English, which will be

heartbreaking for you to hear as well. If you are trying to get a

job, tonight on BBC Three at 9pm will have experts sharing their

wisdom on this very matter. For Children In Need of help,

ChildLine has been an eel on the end of the phone for 25 years.

Esther Rantzen looks back at what she and her charity have achieved.

That's Life reached an audience of 18 million viewers with his

peculiarly British sense of humour and an unflinching quest for

justice. That's Life was made here for 21 years so I have so many

happy and funny memories, but the Day That Changed My Life and

changed the lives of 2.7 million children was the creation of

ChildLine. ChildLine is the 24 hour helpline, which children can get

help in confidence. It celebrates its 25th birthday this month and it

has been copied in more than 150 countries around the world.

ChildLine is there to help children all over the world. ChildLine India

foundation. And it all began on That's Life. 4,000 people have

written to say that they will help us with our survey into cruelty to

children. Thousands filled in the survey and

recounted, often for the first time, terrible tales of the abuse they

had suffered. There was a phone line after the programme that

children could call if they were suffering. But it was only open for

48 hours. The next day I came into the office to be told that around

100 children and young people had phoned the helpline talking about

abuse, suffering, that they have never been able to disclose to

anyone before and then I realised this was the most important project

I had ever been involved with. is hurting you? I believe we ought

to make it a permanent fixture. The experts said that would not be

possible. We went ahead and it was launched as part the BBC programme

in 1986. -- as part of a BBC programme. BT gave us their

engineering number, simple enough for the youngest child to remember.

Money poured in. For children in trouble or danger. One of the

children who caught ChildLine in the early days to talk about

terrible sexual abuse at the hands of her father was Maria. He was

violent and he would hit me and threatened to kill me. He would

tower over me and say, if you tell anybody, I will kill you. That is

the sort of thing he would say to me for my silence and I believed

him. Maria's father knew the serial killer, Fred West. She met him

several times. On one occasion, she was left alone with him. When

ChildLine was launched, but Maria was in her teens and she made the

brave decision to call. The eye would phone and if there was a ring

10, I would hang up -- I would telephone. If there was an engaged

tone, I would feel relief and hang up, but people started answering

and then I would hang up. Each time I rang, it got easier and easier.

How did that make you feel? first time somebody listen to...

And actually kept and without any other vested interest there was a

stranger at the other end of the phone, I knew what ever I told them

it would not get back to my father. Some people wonder why ChildLine is

confidential. How can we keep abuse secret, and self-harm, and

bullying? The answer is, it is what the children need. We are the one

agency in the UK that can keep that confidentiality and that is hugely

important to children and young people because often, there is no

where else for them to turn to. build up a child's confidence and

we work in partnership with them at their pace. We only in four others

if a child's life is in immediate danger -- we only involve others.

ChildLine changed the culture from a position that we do not talk

about unpleasant and nasty things, to a default position that it is OK

to talk. In fact, it is the right thing to do and be want to here.

Today, ChildLine is part of the NSPCC and it is still going strong.

And now children can get help online, over Messenger services and

e-mail. But for me the really important achievement is the impact

we have had on individual children's lives, children like

Maria, whose lives we have saved and protected from pain, and the

abuses we have been able to bring to justice. That is why I think we

can really celebrate ChildLine's 25th birthday.

After Branson will be back next week to talk about what she thinks

still needs to be changed -- Esther Rantzen.

You have been talking about your troubles with dyslexia, and

motivating and inspiring children. As an actor, it must have been

difficult for you to deal with the scripts? This is what I found out

if you want something, you will get it. Reading was hard, school was

hard, but I read the scripts slower than everybody else and I was able

to memorise quickly. So, you know, God giveth, and God taketh away. I

could not read, but I could memorise.

How did you find out you had dyslexia? My stepson who is now 40

was tested and everything that they said to him, it applied to me.

When you go to the schools what do you talk to the children about?

Today I was in Maidstone in Kent, I know... I know... It's good

geography. Yes, I was there with all of these

kids, about 300 children. I told them my story that I'm in the

bottom 3% in America, academically, but here I am talking to them. That

I was told I was stupid, lazy, I would never achieve and the Queen

of England gave me an honour. I mean, what a journey. The thing

that I tell the children is that it does not matter how you learn,

you've got brilliance in you, your job is to figure what it is and

give it to the world as a gift. You talk about the gift from the

Queen of England. This is the OBE and this is Alfie. Now, Alfie,

there we are... Now, Alfie is one of the kids that you inspired.

Alfie remind us, when was it that Henry came to your school? What did

he tell you and what did he give you? He came to my school and he

told us that you can be whatever you want, you just have to believe

in yourself. Everyone has the ability to be exactly what they

want to be and better but we just have to find it inside of us.

do you do now? Are you the spokes person? Yes.

What do you want to go on to do? be a dyslexic spokes person.

Do your friends understand dyslexia more now? They do now as I've

explained it to them. As part of this, Henry, you have

written a book? Yes, Hank Zipzer, the World's Greatest Achiever.

You have read some? Thank goodness! It is the emotional story, that is

me and the comedy that we made up, I write with my partner, Lynn

Oliver. We have had the misamazing time, we've been writing the books

for young people to read. Well, good luck with it all. Henry

is designing the Hank Zipzer books at WH smfplt on Saturday at 3.00pm

in the afternoon. -- at WH Smith on Saturday at 3.00pm in the afternoon.

There it is! Yes, I have had a tattoo of it, it itchs a little bit.

You are going to get one as you are so great. You are so great. That is

true. Here on The One Show we think that

everyone in the UK has a claim to frame. Something that they can be

proud of. Tonight we sent Angellica Bell to Yeovil to meet the people

who have had a hand in theirs. Ask anyone here what is special

about their town and they can't decide between the famous ewestern

helicopters or the football team, the Glofrs, however, go back few --

a few years and there is no contest. Making gloves was big business in

Yeovil for 700 years. In Victorian time it is became the world's

capital, producing more than 3 million pairs in one year, but

things have changed. The industry is still here, but from 40

factories in the area, there is now less than a handful.

Some beautiful work from down the centuries is all in storage. I have

been told to wear gloves to sneak a look. There used to be exhibits in

the local museum, but now it is closed, so they are stashed away in

box after box of heritage ster vaults, unlabelled and undated. So,

who bought them? One export is -- pert is trying to catalogue the

whole collection. Firstly just explain how much

gloves were a fashion accessory back in the day? It is known that

in the 19th century a gentleman in society would be expected to wear

at least six pairs of glove as day. That's a lot! Yes, and very

expensive. So it was only the rich that could afford that.

I understand that glove-making made Yeovil quite a pungent town, is

that correct? It did. There were two ingredients, the women that

collected the dog pooh and the men who worked in the urine shops. They

were put in vats and the little boys were engageded to trade it on

to the skin. It caused a massive stink? Yes, it

did. A few miles from Yeovil, one of the

last remaining local companies, a family business founded by David

Southcombe. Today his great, great grandson wears the glove! We've

been here since 1847. We've made a lot of gloves, but it's not always

been easy. We have had to diversify into several areas. At the moment,

it is fire-proof gloves. They are used by the Emergency

Services and sold all over the world. The hope is that they can

bring designer gloves back into production. Now Nick is one of only

two of the people that is making here the gloves in the traditional

way, there used to be hundred dreads.

It is a shame we can't make more of the bulk production here, it is

mostly done in India, we don't have the skilled workforce here. We make

the prototypes here and then send them to India where the bulk

production is done, but we are always aiming to bring back that

production to the UK. The tkwhrovs -- gloves may be made

on the other side of the world, but the material comes from a couple of

miles way. This is another family business, one of the biggest and

oldest tanries in the UK. Combining craft skills with modern

science, the leather goes into laboratory for testing for

toughness and colour fastness. How has your business survived

where the glove-making has declined? We have diversified for

the global market and now make shoe leather, clothing leather, you name

it, whatever the sport, we are in There are other towns in Britain

that make gloves, but for Yeovil it's been a claim to fame since the

1700s. At one opponent they reckon there were 20,000 glove makers.

Thereare three factories in the area with real high-tech -- skills,

but the individual craftman that the old timers would reknieniez,

well, you can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Henry, you are a Milwaukee claim to fame? I am, an honourary citizen of

Milwaukee. There is in fact a Bronze Fonz,

look at that. Yes, it has great teeth! What is

really great is that people don't know on one hand the veins of the

hand form an edge. -- form an H and on the other hand it forms an S

that is for my wife, Stacey. And people dress up the statue.

In the winter I have a scarf on. My co-star, he now directs, he took

a picture with the Bronze Fonz and I have that on my wall.

Lovely. Now, if you were in Newcastle

recently, you would not have seen the Bronze Fonz, but were

approached by a stranger asking to take your pulse, well, don't worry.

It was probably our street doctors Sarah Jarvis and Mark Porter,

trying to cure the country one patient at a time. We are on a

mission to make Britain a healthier place and we're coming to you. This

week we're in the north-east, meeting, greeting and treating the

people of Newcastle. My morning begins at Newcastle

train station, where there is no shortage of patients.

No problems? Waiting in line for a consultation

is Claire, who has noticed a lump in her neck over the last year.

I have been concerned, ever since I had my baby it has not been quite

right. Can I stand behind you. I'm sure

that there is a problem with the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland

in the neck. You could have an enlarged gland,

or Derbyshire neck if you are south of here. It is a sign you are

struggling. So, you may be sluggish, tired. You may put weight on?

have put weight on easily. In the last four or five months, it has

been an extra stone. OK. Have your thyroid level check

and if it is low, you may have to take a tab the.

There are things that can be done, but hopefully if we treat the gland

it won't get worse and it will come back down again and you can get

your beautiful neck back! Thank you very much.

While Mark's been treating by the tracks, I've set up on the streets.

I don't have any leeches today! Waiting to see me is gorge evena,

she burnt her arm on a kettle and is concerned she may have a scar.

Did this buildister? No. --. Yes. Did you pop it? I went to the

hospital, they took a scalpel to it. Well, if you are on your own never

pop it. I know is dark at the moment, but it will not scar. If

you have a first-degree burn, the burn that is superficial, then that

will often damage one layer of skin. The layers underneath will come up

and they will reverse that. If you have a burn, the best thing to do

is to run it under cold water for about 20 minutes. Never, ever put

butter on a burn, it frys your skin, but that should disappear

completely. Next to see me is Edna. She is

worried she may have shingles on her face it is a reoccurrence of

the chickenpox virus. It can be serious in older people. This does

not look like shingles, there is a little bit of inflammation. If

there is anything on both sides it is never shingles. You have

scratched it, the reason it is hot and sore is because it is infected.

The good news is that a short course of antibiotics should solve

her problem. After my morning at the station I

joined Sarah on the street. There is a steady stream of cases

throughout the afternoon. My neck patient is Amelia,

concerned about the skin on her arms.

I have white spots all over my arms that I have had for a few years.

So, these little patches here and here? Yes, they come up more when I

have a tan. Do you have them anywhere else?

It is a fungus. It often looks like someone has

dropped water over you and it has dropped down the arms. The

treatment is easy. You go to the chemis and buy an anti-fungal sham

pew. Mix it with the -- shampoo, mix it with water and do it for a

couple of nights overthe week and that should get rid of it.

Our day in Newcastle is coming to an end. There is enough time to see

a few more patients before we shut the surgery. Claire had blood tests

to check for an underactive thyroid. Although they were normal, they

were on the borderline. Edna has finished her course of

antibiotics and her skin infection has cleared up.

Now it is time to pack our bags until the next time we hit the

streets with more no-nonsense advice.

A busy day in Newcastle. Now, then, Henry, you are here

doing the schools, as we know, but you sometimes come over to do panto,

are you over this year? No. My daughter is having her first child.

So I have to be home for that. You know, the Ambassador Theatre's

first family bring me for that and First News, the newspaper for

children brings me over with a tour, so it is really lovely.