17/10/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.

Now, we're so pleased to see tonight's guest after his recent

illness and extraordinary recovery. He is back in his right place,

helping us to make sense of world events over our Sunday morning

coffee. It is Andrew Marr. How are you getting on with your

recovery? It is like a sticky and muddy hill. There is a long way to

go. I am doing lots of work and getting better all the time. It is

remarkable really. You spent two whole months in hospital. I am very

good at sitting down. Were you a good patient? I was a rotten

patient. I did all the physio but I hate lying on my back doing nothing.

I think they could tell. When you say you are working hard every day,

what are you doing? I have a session at the New Road

physiotherapist to build some strength up. I am supposed to do

exercises at home but not every day. My wife is a Visio. One thing which

has helped Andrew on his road to recovery is his passion for drawing.

-- a physiotherapist. I am glad you are a fan of rickshaws. I have

ridden a rickshaw in Bangladesh. Really badly. I was chased by

children up and down the street. You are going to be cycling with

nine others. Good luck. As well as seeing more of Andrew's pictures,

we'll also be seeing a performance from a hi-tech magician later -

Jamie Allan. Have you seen Andrew's book? Look at that. What do you

reckon? Today, British Gas became the latest energy company to

announce a price hike. 9.2% on dual fuel bills from 23rd November. As

politicians argue over the rights and wrongs of freezing tariffs,

thousands of people could feel the freeze this winter. But, what is it

like to live without any power at all? Tony Livesey has met one man

who knows. Imagine a life with no lights

commit no hot water and no home- cooked meals. That is exactly what

British Gas revealed last week. You have had no power in your home

question I have had no heating, electricity or hot water. He has

been living without any electricity for over three years. Imagine that!

I have come to see Chris in my thermals to find out what life

without power is really like. Chris... Tony. Please come in. This

way. I literally cannot see a thing. I will have to switch the light on

the camera. Chris decided to take his stand against his power

supplier by refusing to pay the arrears on a bail. He admits that

now he is playing stubborn. It is a matter of principle. Some people

might do it for a day or a week but three-and a-half years? I backed

down and I asked for a key for the key meter. They sent it to me and

they wanted to charge me ?70 to fix it because it did not work. Three

years without electricity on a matter of principle basic clue. I

will not pay a bill I do not owe. - - basically. It is pride that has

got you into this position? Some people call it pride! Chris takes

me on a tour of his house. He rarely uses tortures or candles. I

switch off the camera light and tried to find my way through

complete darkness. He will know the house. I am going through a door.

Her cannot remember if the past is on my right or my left. I have

arrived unscathed in the bathroom. I am staggered to hear how having a

shower has been stripped back to basics. It is freezing in here. How

do you manage? I wash with a bolt and shampoo my hair with a kettle

filled with hot water. You stand in a shower, tipping a kettle on your

head. Once or twice a week I do shout at my mum's. It is really

weird. I do not notice it. Up until last week, Chris had hardly told

anyone he was living like this - not even his mum. I did not tell my

mum and my family. I am embarrassed. I cannot see a way of getting out

of this. Chris has had to be invented in finding alternatives to

his appliances. This is my home- made fridge. It does not too little

but it is better than nothing. You put a bottle of milk in a saucepan

of water. Most nights, Chris relies on sandwiches and tins of Spam. I

treat myself to fish and chips once a week. To you, it looks strange

but to me, it He has kept it out because he has only recently told

his family he is living like this. He has been falling his family. It

was a ruse, the iron was a ruse. With the big price tag, some viewers

might be worried about falling behind with payments being

disconnected. What can they do? That situation is very rare and power

companies are not allowed to cut you off like that. They must offer you a

payment scheme. The best advice is to go to the Citizens Advice Bureau.

British Gas, today, that is in relation to a price hike. That is to

add to the big six who have announced this. When will the next

be? Within the next few days. They always follow suit. They are all

going to be around the same figure. They will follow suit. Market

forces, that is. The allegation is that they are too close for comfort.

It is massive and Ed Miliband put it up at centre stage at the

conference. Everybody knocked him down at the time and said it would

never work. The public like it's and the coalition will have to come

through. A potential vote winner? We had Ed Davey on and he said about

the importance of Chinese investment. Unless they come up with

some answer to really upset consumers then I think they will be

leaving it to Labour. The energy company will be arguing that the

lights will go out if they cannot control the prices.

For British Gas, how much have prices risen? The BBC research unit

has been busy all day. Prices have doubled. They are paying 77% more

on heating and lighting and running appliances. Thank you very much. We

know you are proud of you Scottish roots so we thought there is no

Bron better in telling us what Akeld p is. It is a water Sprite. -

- no one better in telling us what a kelpie is. The mythical kelpies

are about to become very real as the subjects of one of the largest

pieces of public art in the UK. Sarah Mac has had a close up view.

The town of Falkirk in Scotland will soon be home to some

supernatural beings. These magnificent mythical creatures are

part of Scottish folklore. Now, the cull pay is part of an massive

current cultural regeneration in central Scotland. -- kelpie. It is

one of the biggest structural engineering projects in Scotland.

These works are internationally acclaimed. You are famous for some

big sculptures in Scotland. How does this compare? Not many

sculptors win a project like this. It has been a fantastic experience.

Inspiration comes from the legacy of the heavy horses that once

worked in the fields and canals across the West of Scotland. The

model was designed on two Clydesdale horses. I hear you have

a family connection with the area. I still have relatives living in

town. There is a sense of real legacy and direct association with

the town. One of them has their heads down and the other bed head

up. Why that way? It would be logical to have a gateway to merit

image forces either side of the canal. There was a dynamism and

tension between them. It creates a story rather than a straight for a

duplicate of each other. As well as being a monument to the industrial

past of Scotland, they have a modern day job as well. They

attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Helix Park, which

opens next spring. Standing taller than the Angel of the North they

should be easily seen from the nearby M9. They are just as

impressive on the inside as well. Wow! This is the cathedral. This is

incredible! It just goes to show you some of the complexity of the

steelworks structure inside these things. The idea is that people can

come in here into the viewing gallery. The design is under

consideration right now. We're working with architects to come up

with an appropriate design and experience the scale of the

sculptures. Also at the stainless- steel panels inside and out. --

also, the stainless-steel panels inside and out. I'm privileged to

get inside here. This is awesome! Once they are completed later this

year, Falkirk will have made its mark firmly on the cultural map of

Scotland. What an amazing day! I am so lucky to see the structures up

close. They will be seen for miles around. I love huge sculptures. The

Angel of the North sums it all up for me. If you want to see the

kelpies for yourself, as you've heard, they are at the brand new

Helix development in Falkirk just next to the M9. And they also form

the centrepiece of a brand new stretch of the Forth and Clyde

canal. They officially open next summer. And they are water sprites.

They are. You were completely right. Let's talk about your book. It is a

short book about drawing and that is why I called it that. You do not

call yourself an artist. Why? An artist changes the world around

them. They are pushing forward. Calling yourself an artist...

People say, you are an artist. I draw and paint. That is what I do

for myself. It is a bit like saying you can sing in the bath but you

are not placid though Domingo. -- Placido. It helped you recovery

after the stroke. One of the first things that many think it will be

all right is that they wanted to draw again. -- that made you think.

I draw up every day. It is part of who I am. A want to draw this bed

and bedroom and people around me. I am still me. I was a bit shaky.

Every good hospital has an art therapist who goes around and tries

to use art to help people recover and rebuild morale. It gives them

something to focus on. I like to draw representations - people and

trees and so on. You do not want to draw people around you. This was

one of the first ones. She took a photograph of me trying to stand.

That is the physiotherapist and that is her hand. That is my bottom

and that is me. It is a picture of stress as much as anything else. I

used her photographs. I enjoyed it at the time. You start the book

with that image and a description of what you talked about there. A

lot of this was all done just before you had a stroke. Every day

I would keep a diary. Good reading this. I am joking!

It is something I do when I am waiting to film or I am on holiday

or I am working in the House of Commons, I always have this with me,

it keeps me going. Talk as through some of the ones we have here. These

are cartoons. There is a wonderful organisation that tries to get

people to draw and they have a festival every year, and this is one

in London. This is the Guardian cartoonist, Steven Bell. Those are

drawings of him drawing. You get a much better sense of him working

than you would from a photograph. The movement and the intensity. That

is him, and that is him again from behind. Let's have a look at the one

behind you. It is Tony Blair. That is great. I very rarely draw

politicians. I am interested in Bewdley! Is that your lounge? Yes. I

was watching from home and it was the last few days before Tony Blair

fell from power. He was cornered at the school visits and he finally

agreed to set a limit on the term he would be in Number Ten, and he would

resign after that. You can see the tension on his face, and the pain. I

just freeze framed the television and drew eight. That is the corner

of the rug and some DVDs. That is the work of an artist, that says a

lot, that picture. It was an extraordinary day in politics. If I

had not drawn eight, I would have forgotten it. Of all the books you

have put together, you said that this is the one you enjoyed most. It

is the most serious one as well. This is a book about how to live

well. As you get older you start to think about what happiness is. It is

about concentrating on being alive and being aware of being alive. Some

people get it from singing or making music and I get it from drawing and

painting. My message from this book is that a lot of people can get it

from drawing. I agree. I draw to relax. I am glad to hear it. We

might show you one of Matt's paintings later on. A Short Book

about Drawing is out now. There is one spider that has been all over

the papers and the internets, it is the False Widow. This has been

causing panic across the UK and several people claim to have been

bitten by the spider. We have checked with the spider expert and

they say this spider has been in the UK for 100 years. George McGavin

says there is another spider that you need to keep an eye out for. Not

because it is dangerous but because it is written's eight legged Rebecca

Adlington. The UK is home to 850 different species of spider 's but

only one makes it home to hear. The scuba spider had already mastered

this technique. Taking its air supply under the surface, this

remarkable animal is the only spider to live its entire life underwater.

To create its diving tank, it first makes a underwater web. It then

visits the servers of the water to collect small air bubbles on the

hair of its body. Pulling the bubbles down, it releases them into

the web. Essentially comic it inflates its underwater house. It

can avoid predators like words. This ecologist works here. How common are

the spider 's? They are widespread. This is the perfect habitat. What

makes it so good? There are lots of different types of plants here and

lots of different structures, and that is what the water spider ones.

There are lots of invertebrates. I want to see the spider's air tank,

but with the habitat measuring just one centimetre in size, to see up

close, we will have to catch one. It is digging action, it not? This is

the bit I love. You have to open the vegetation up a bit. Oh, wow! What

is that? Oh, there is a leech there as well! There are literally

thousands of individual things in here. That is what makes it such a

good habitat for the water spider. Oh, look, there is one. Oh, there is

a water spider. Look at that! It is greyish brown but it has a velvet

cover and a small head which gives it a sheen. Out of the water it may

look dull and boring, but if I can get this into a tank, it will be

transformed and we will be able to see how beautiful it really is.

Vegetation and pray are ready in the tank and our camera is set up. It is

time to release it. Wow! Look at that, amazing. Immediately, it has

transformed from this dull grey spider into a Merc three coloured

sheen. -- Mercury. It is at the surface now. She is taking some air

on and she is back down. Wow, I have never seen that before. It could

take up to two days for the spider to start weaving its web, but Graham

captured another spider last week and this one has built its bubble.

There is a little air hole under the surface. Unlike most spiders, its

web plays no part in capturing prey. It's sole purpose is to maintain the

spider's underwater air supply. Look how dense the web has to be to trap

air. It is coming closer. Is it going to go in? Oh, yes, it is in.

The structure of the territory absorbs the oxygen. The carbon

dioxide, produced by the spider, that is diffused out. This means the

spider only has to do return to the surface once every 24 hours. These

spiders are truly unique. They are the only spiders in the world to

spend almost their entire lives underwater. They lay eggs under

water and feed underwater. They could be in a pond or a ditch near

you. That is remarkable! Underwater spiders. Andrew, last time you were

on, you were telling us about tablet art. It has not gone well. What has

happened? After my illness, I did not go back to it for nine months,

and you need a digital password, and I had forgotten mine. Eventually, I

phoned up Apple and said I could not remember my password. They told me

to press factory resetting. I thought I would lose everything, and

they told me I word. There was no alternative at all. Always back-up.

You did inspire Matt, and he had a go. I downloaded it. I thought this

was excellent so I thought we would show it. Well done. We want you to

fall in love with your tablet computer and so Jamie Allan is a

magician that confuses sleight of hand with modern technology to

create a new form of magic. He is here to show us some of his

high-tech tablets -- tablet tricks. Take it away, Jamie.

APPLAUSE .

macro re-on his iMagician tour around the country until the end of

November. Thank you so much. It was artistic. Your show is known for its

end of show performances. We will have him! Thank you for bringing

these lovely pieces of art in. You have an exhibition, don't you? We

are on Charing Cross Road in Central London until the end of November.

There will be some for sale for charities. On tomorrow's show, Chris

and I will be here rocking out with Queen drummer Roger Taylor. Thank

you, Andrew. Goodbye. Goodbye.