:00:21. > :00:29.Good evening, friends. We hope you are warm enough. Welcome to the one
:00:29. > :00:34.at some Oh. -- snow. We were outside earlier rehearsing for
:00:34. > :00:39.something. Chris Evans is in his coat, for some reason! With us
:00:39. > :00:46.tonight, a man who has been basking in the Caribbean heat as a TV
:00:46. > :00:51.detective. The star of Death In Paradise, Ben Miller. Good evening.
:00:51. > :00:56.How are you? Very well. We have been told by our executive producer
:00:56. > :01:02.that we do not want any stories from you where you say it is so
:01:02. > :01:12.hard making a series in the heat. That is understandable. Actors love
:01:12. > :01:16.to my own. - they love to moan. You are wise to stop that. But it is
:01:16. > :01:22.hard when you see the show, and it is such a beautiful place, so
:01:22. > :01:28.exotic and extraordinary. You were there for six months. Six months,
:01:28. > :01:38.yes. This is the second series, so I have had 12 months on that island.
:01:38. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:43.We were going to ask the or snowman photos of the thought that was
:01:44. > :01:47.predictable. We would like to give a helping hand to those who are
:01:47. > :01:55.defying the conditions and are open this evening, petrified nobody is
:01:55. > :02:03.going to turn up. E-mail your photo to us. The One Show is officially
:02:03. > :02:10.open. Back in two. Dan Donnelly gets deep into the Welsh white
:02:10. > :02:15.stuff in the heart of the red zone. We are in the heart - MACRO the
:02:15. > :02:19.South Wales valleys, and yesterday the Met Office issued an extremely
:02:19. > :02:24.rare red weather warning, and this is what it looks like. We are going
:02:24. > :02:28.to head into it. Out of town, conditions were deteriorating. Many
:02:28. > :02:33.homes suffered power cuts and for a moment it looked like we were going
:02:33. > :02:38.to be stranded in the blizzards. The we have stopped here on the
:02:38. > :02:43.road to Bracken. It is zero visibility and the car has got
:02:43. > :02:48.stuck. The cameraman lost me in the blizzard before I got to the
:02:48. > :02:58.stranded car. Trust me, gave him a push. Even in her four by four, we
:02:58. > :02:59.
:02:59. > :03:02.got stuck. -- even in a four by four. The severe weather in the
:03:03. > :03:08.South Wales area convinced most people to stay home, but there were
:03:08. > :03:16.few who braved the elements, like the owner of his burger van. How
:03:16. > :03:22.are you getting on? We have a few customers, but not too many. Is it
:03:22. > :03:27.lighter than before? Yes. We have a big order going out at 10am.
:03:27. > :03:33.matter the weather, people still have to take the dog for a walk.
:03:33. > :03:43.Could do door cannot cope with the day off? No, she is a border collie.
:03:43. > :03:46.She has to walk. What do you think of this snow? But it was not a
:03:46. > :03:50.nightmare for everyone. Many saw it as an excuse for a day off work and
:03:50. > :03:55.the opportunity for some fun. not wait to get out and make the
:03:55. > :04:00.most of it sledging. My daughter is off school, so we are going to look
:04:00. > :04:04.at the local landmark, the castle. Excellent. I am supposed to be
:04:04. > :04:10.working but this is a better place to come. The snow is a bit thick,
:04:10. > :04:16.but we are having a good time. Remarkably, despite the amount of
:04:16. > :04:20.snow, many roads were just about possible. Geraint -- Jeremy Morgan
:04:20. > :04:24.and his highway team have been working round the clock to keep the
:04:24. > :04:28.roads open. Last time, it took everyone by surprise and we had
:04:29. > :04:32.serious consequences. What has been different this time? We have had
:04:32. > :04:36.good weather forecasts, advance warning of this, so we have been
:04:36. > :04:46.able to do parent put things in place. We were grateful for that. -
:04:46. > :04:51.
:04:51. > :04:55.Driving back to the base, and the road has been closed behind us, so
:04:55. > :05:01.conditions are getting worse up there. At least the sheep seemed to
:05:01. > :05:07.be coping. John Hammond is here from the BBC
:05:07. > :05:14.Weather Centre. Good evening. evening. And back on the sofa, Dr
:05:14. > :05:19.Ian Davies. The first, this is different, this
:05:19. > :05:23.snow. It is the wrong kind of snow. Something weird has been going on
:05:23. > :05:27.in the atmosphere. The Met Office have been keeping an eye on it for
:05:27. > :05:34.the last few weeks. It is an area of science which is developing, but
:05:34. > :05:42.we detected something in the stratosphere, a warming. What that
:05:42. > :05:48.does, it tends to stop the normal westerly winds, which give the mild
:05:48. > :05:51.average weather. And it allows the atmosphere to become blocked, and
:05:51. > :05:55.allow colder winds to come off the Continent, which is exactly what
:05:55. > :06:00.has happened. The Met Office were flagging this up a couple of weeks
:06:00. > :06:04.ago, and we knew that it was coming down the track, and it has arrived.
:06:04. > :06:09.The UK is a battle zone between the cold air coming from the Continent
:06:09. > :06:14.and the normal weather systems coming off the Atlantic. Within
:06:14. > :06:21.that battle zone, we are getting cold and moisture, which means snow.
:06:21. > :06:26.But it is dry snow. Yes. It is the fluffy variety, because the air is
:06:26. > :06:34.so cold it. Normally, snow in this country is wet and tacky. But it is
:06:34. > :06:44.very cold out there. Is it Westerleigh because of the jet
:06:44. > :06:48.stream? Yes. The jet stream this the ribbon of air. It has been
:06:48. > :06:53.halted in its path by stratospheric warming. And it has worked its way
:06:53. > :06:58.down through the atmosphere and it is with us now. How long it will
:06:58. > :07:07.last is another question. It also disproves the fact that it cannot
:07:07. > :07:13.be too cold for snow. Everybody will be asking what is going to
:07:13. > :07:17.happen over the next few days. Look into your crystal ball. Well, it is
:07:17. > :07:21.snowing at the moment out here but it is only light and it will get
:07:21. > :07:25.lighter through the rest of the evening and night. The main focus
:07:25. > :07:29.for this snow tonight is Northern Ireland, East of Scotland and
:07:29. > :07:33.north-east England. Not as much as earlier in the day in Wales and the
:07:33. > :07:39.West of England. Amber warnings in force from the Met Office. The main
:07:39. > :07:45.player tonight is going to be the ice. Temperatures are already below
:07:45. > :07:49.freezing and will not go up over the next few hours. And tomorrow
:07:49. > :07:54.temperatures will not rise much. Just flurries tomorrow. So it is a
:07:54. > :08:00.day to try to get back to normal. Let the kids go out sledging, but
:08:00. > :08:04.no disruptive snow expected tomorrow, but bitterly cold.
:08:04. > :08:10.Problems on Sunday. Something is lurking over the Continent. You can
:08:10. > :08:17.see it coming from France. That is a snow-making device. It threatens
:08:17. > :08:21.to bring snow to eastern parts of England. It is two days away, but
:08:21. > :08:28.we are getting increasingly concerned that it could give some
:08:28. > :08:35.disruptive snow later on Sunday. saw Dan Donnelly in Wales. How
:08:35. > :08:39.excited do you get when they are red warnings in place? It is a red-
:08:39. > :08:45.letter day. We have only had one in the last year, and that was for
:08:45. > :08:49.rain last summer. The last time we had a red warning for snow was in
:08:49. > :08:57.December 2010. We are all very excited at the weather Centre.
:08:57. > :09:02.do we stay warm? Eat fatty food. If you eat fatty food you will stay
:09:03. > :09:09.warm. We have been practising that! It is the only time you will hear
:09:09. > :09:15.no doctor tell you to eat fatty food. Lots of crisps and sweets.
:09:15. > :09:21.Pork scratchings? Salami is better. You are burning many more calories,
:09:21. > :09:26.but fatty food burns for longer. The Kendal Mint cake is a big spike
:09:26. > :09:32.of energy, but fatty food burns for longer. Before you go snowboarding,
:09:32. > :09:38.eat her beefburger and sausages. Nothing against Kendal mint cake,
:09:38. > :09:44.which is delicious. What sort of injuries to people coming to the
:09:44. > :09:48.surgery with? People falling over. In the old days, when you opened
:09:48. > :09:52.the door to get your milk of the match, at 8:30am Casualty would be
:09:52. > :09:59.full of people with broken arms and legs because people do not take
:09:59. > :10:05.precautions. They slip over. you give us your fantastic
:10:05. > :10:08.sleeping-bag tip, which I had no idea was the case? If you are stuck
:10:08. > :10:11.in the car and you need to get into your sleeping bag, most people
:10:11. > :10:16.would put on all of their clothes and get into the sleeping bag but
:10:16. > :10:20.that is wrong. In Antarctica, I stripped down to my thermal
:10:20. > :10:25.underwear before getting into my sleeping bag. Because you need to
:10:25. > :10:34.make it warm so that it can keep you warm. And it is you that warms
:10:34. > :10:43.the sleeping bag. Did anybody know that? Tom, did you know that?
:10:43. > :10:51.is the snow where you are, Ben? was late because there was snow on
:10:51. > :11:01.the roads. We all got very excited. You are going to Cambridge tomorrow.
:11:01. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:11.Both I was going to ask if that is We have seen how Dan Donnelly got
:11:11. > :11:21.on in South Wales, so let's see what it is like right now in the
:11:21. > :11:25.
:11:25. > :11:30.town of Merthyr Tydfil. How all Pretty cold. You know how it gets
:11:30. > :11:34.in the South Wales valleys. And we are still in the red zone in
:11:34. > :11:39.Merthyr Tydfil, meaning under that red warning from the Met Office.
:11:39. > :11:43.The most bizarre thing I have seen is a man walking towards the high
:11:43. > :11:47.street carrying his snowboard. He was hunting for powder. I dare say
:11:47. > :11:52.with six or seven inches on the floor, he probably had a good time
:11:52. > :11:57.this afternoon. Lots of people had a miserable day, trying to drive
:11:57. > :12:00.through this snow. It has been a pretty bad day for school pupils.
:12:00. > :12:04.Hundreds of schools were closed in Wales, but spare a thought for
:12:04. > :12:12.those who had to find their way Ian despite snow because they had A-
:12:12. > :12:16.levels and GCSEs, particularly pupils at one school. Two teachers
:12:16. > :12:22.who lived near the school managed to get in and warm up and make
:12:22. > :12:25.place for the pupils. Among those sitting exams was one person who
:12:25. > :12:31.walked in three miles, sat his exam and then walked three miles home.
:12:31. > :12:40.He must really like his subject! I hope the result comes out as he
:12:40. > :12:43.wished. This is the evening after the Oprah
:12:43. > :12:47.Winfrey interview, the Lance Armstrong confessions. We will have
:12:47. > :12:53.a film about famous Confessions. Have you got any confessions he
:12:53. > :12:58.would like to get off your chest? If I were going to confess, I would
:12:58. > :13:03.say sorry. I have noticed people say, when it happened, it was a
:13:03. > :13:09.wrong. That is not saying sorry. I have not seen the whole clip, but I
:13:10. > :13:12.hope that Lance Armstrong actually said sorry. We have got very
:13:12. > :13:22.skilled at avoiding any responsibility for things we do
:13:22. > :13:27.wrong. But that was not a confession from you. I cheated. I
:13:28. > :13:32.took Kendal Mint cake in the second Tour de France. You have a
:13:32. > :13:38.confession. Traffic and travel up dates are important. I used to do
:13:39. > :13:46.the traffic and travel. I used to make them up because it was so
:13:46. > :13:52.complicated, the data that would come through. Horses on the
:13:52. > :13:57.carriageway! Why would you risk horses on the dual-carriageway?
:13:57. > :14:04.was something exciting for the morning. She used to make up the
:14:04. > :14:08.traffic and travel! So naughty. I have a confession. My confession is
:14:08. > :14:14.that my wife bought me a jacket for Christmas and I said I liked it,
:14:14. > :14:18.but actually I do not. She will be watching this. I was told by the
:14:18. > :14:25.producer I had to come up with one. I did not want to say that on
:14:25. > :14:35.television. You are going to have a great night tonight! Last -- Lance
:14:35. > :14:35.
:14:35. > :14:41.Armstrong is not the first Celebrities public confessions are
:14:41. > :14:45.often more dramatic than a scripted soap opera. I am deeply sorry for
:14:45. > :14:52.my irresponsible and selfish behaviour. I say to you now that at
:14:52. > :14:58.no time did I ask anyone to lie. the world of celebrity, no one ever
:14:58. > :15:03.says, you know what, I have got to stop lying to my fans, I am going
:15:04. > :15:08.to tell them the truth. No, they get back into a corner.
:15:08. > :15:13.If but seeking redemption can be complicated. So how do you make the
:15:13. > :15:18.perfect confession? Tell me about -- about the
:15:18. > :15:22.different platforms people can take. The advantage of it book is you can
:15:22. > :15:27.get it down in your own words and perfect it. It is a finished
:15:27. > :15:34.article. What about the chat show format? It gives you an opportunity
:15:34. > :15:38.to engage with the host, hopefully find a shoulder to cry on. I think
:15:38. > :15:44.you know in life pretty much what is a good thing to do and what is a
:15:44. > :15:54.bad thing and I did a bad thing and there you have it. If you look like
:15:54. > :15:56.
:15:56. > :15:59.a naughty boy reluctantly saying sorry. I would give Hugh Grant
:15:59. > :16:04.eight out of 10 for his confession and frankly, you have got to get 10
:16:04. > :16:10.out of 10 if you are to get out of jail. Why does a press conference
:16:10. > :16:14.work? You engage in journalism and give people the opportunity to
:16:14. > :16:19.engage on a human level but the disadvantage is it can go in any
:16:19. > :16:24.direction. Tiger Woods, he did not give the opportunity for questions
:16:24. > :16:30.and answers and it engendered that feeling. But he did say it so read
:16:30. > :16:34.very directly. He said it three times in 13 minutes. -- he did say
:16:34. > :16:39.sorry. This can mark the end of or the
:16:39. > :16:45.resurfacing of somebody's career. Indeed I did have a relationship
:16:45. > :16:50.which was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It is hilarious juicy
:16:50. > :16:53.Bill Clinton eating humble pie. What is brilliant about his
:16:53. > :16:59.confession is that he understands the nature of real political
:16:59. > :17:04.scandal, which nine times out of 10 is not the event, it is the cover
:17:04. > :17:09.up. People are not always forgiven for confessions but Bill Clinton
:17:09. > :17:13.has been. I don't know whether Hillary has but we have! Oscar
:17:13. > :17:19.Wilde and says it is in the confession and not the priest that
:17:19. > :17:25.we find solutions. A truthful account or calculated PR exit? One
:17:25. > :17:31.thing is certain, you can never guarantee the end result.
:17:31. > :17:39.I have just had a text from my wife. She says she knew and she has
:17:39. > :17:48.already taken it back. What a great wife! She is a keeper! Not just for
:17:48. > :17:54.that, as you know. You have been a writer, comedian,
:17:54. > :17:58.scientist and now a TV detective in a series set on a Caribbean island.
:17:58. > :18:03.Where does that rate on the list are brilliant gates? It is
:18:04. > :18:08.absolutely amazing. I got sent the script and I had never even heard
:18:08. > :18:17.of Guadeloupe. I looked it up on Google and a palm tree came up and
:18:17. > :18:21.I thought, that is a good start. are actually going there? I know!
:18:21. > :18:27.It is unheard of! Often in British TV you are filming in a warehouse
:18:27. > :18:34.in Warrington. We filmed absolutely everything on that island. We are
:18:35. > :18:41.talking of course about Death in Paradise. Give us a synopsis.
:18:41. > :18:45.is... In TV terms, it is a pudding. It is a bit of a treat. They are
:18:45. > :18:50.detective stories, there is a murder every week and I play a fish
:18:50. > :18:56.out of water detective on a Caribbean island, it quiet, Croydon
:18:56. > :19:01.detectives, who finds himself in an amazing tropical paradise, and each
:19:01. > :19:06.week as solve a murder. The murders... There is a very high
:19:06. > :19:15.murder rate on this island. It is a bit like murder She wrote, in the
:19:15. > :19:21.sun. Exactly! But with more murders. What are your favourite mergers?
:19:21. > :19:26.From the first series. A bride was shot by a harpoon. The beginning of
:19:26. > :19:34.the show was the wedding and then, bang! She fell off the top of a
:19:34. > :19:39.very tall building and landed on a rock with no blood at all. It is
:19:39. > :19:45.quite fun and tongue-in-cheek, the show. It is not taking itself
:19:45. > :19:49.seriously. But the wind whips up now and again!
:19:49. > :19:57.Imagine you are taking a midnight swim and I decide to drown you.
:19:57. > :20:01.What do you do? OK, let me rephrase that. You are not a trained police
:20:01. > :20:08.officer, you are depressed woman with no apparent aptitude for self-
:20:08. > :20:16.defence. OK! All right. Then I am drowning, struggling for air. I
:20:16. > :20:22.guess I would struggle. Yet the victim showed no sign of restraint,
:20:22. > :20:28.no bone fracture. Characteristic injury patterns would have been
:20:28. > :20:32.impossible to avoid. I was saying we were in the eye of
:20:32. > :20:38.the storm, that was Hurricane Issac Luke that had come in the day
:20:38. > :20:43.before. We had that one small gap that we had to film that in. It
:20:43. > :20:48.came in the next day and washed away half of the beach. It is quite
:20:48. > :20:53.exciting when the hurricane season starts, in mid- August. We are
:20:53. > :21:01.there from April to October. It was a very fun time of year. It is on
:21:01. > :21:07.Sunday night. No, Tuesday at 9pm. OK! Good morning to Lincoln. You
:21:07. > :21:12.had done it quick this morning. 5:20am. 20 seconds. 2.7 on the
:21:12. > :21:19.Richter scale -- Lincoln had an earthquake this morning. Are you
:21:19. > :21:27.sure? No! It has been a tricky few days on the roads and it looks like
:21:27. > :21:31.it will continue into the weekend. Or is it? Scott Ellis is at the
:21:31. > :21:34.highways control centre at TBC on the M5. How's it looking tonight?
:21:34. > :21:39.The Highways Agency have the best view of all the major roads and
:21:39. > :21:44.they say for a Friday night, there is very little traffic. It looks as
:21:44. > :21:52.if people are heeding the advice and not venturing too far. Most
:21:52. > :21:57.motorways will only have to lanes open -- two lanes. This is how much
:21:58. > :22:02.snow we have had in the West Country today. Then it turns to
:22:02. > :22:07.slash. With temperatures falling now, it is turning into ice. The
:22:07. > :22:14.driving conditions are said to be treacherous. It is not just about
:22:14. > :22:19.whether you can survive the journey, but what about your car? The AA
:22:19. > :22:23.have handled 900 breakdowns every hour today so if you do venture out
:22:23. > :22:27.and things slow down and stop because of the weather, do you
:22:27. > :22:32.really want to be out in the cold looking for help?
:22:32. > :22:36.Where is the worst place to be in your car this weekend?
:22:37. > :22:42.At the moment, certainly it looks like it will continue to be the
:22:42. > :22:46.West Country and also South Wales, where we had a heavy snowfall today.
:22:46. > :22:52.If you go a bit further west, the Severn Bridge crossing, the first
:22:52. > :22:56.one, is frozen solid. It is closed. They are using liquid to try to
:22:56. > :23:01.shift the ice but they think it will be closed all night. It looks
:23:01. > :23:06.as if it will be this area of the West Country and South Wales. If
:23:06. > :23:13.you do go out, take a fully charged mobile phone. You can also take out
:23:13. > :23:16.a shovel. A match in bright high- visibility vest if you do break
:23:16. > :23:20.down but don't make the elementary mistake I made of putting on
:23:20. > :23:26.wellingtons, because your feet will be frozen solid in minutes and you
:23:26. > :23:31.will wish you had stayed at home. So stay warm!
:23:31. > :23:37.Yes. Matt Baker always keeps a spade in his car. Do you?
:23:37. > :23:39.Yeah, but what is that for? All right! Here's a true story.
:23:39. > :23:41.Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the pineapple on
:23:41. > :23:45.Guadaloupe, where Ben's show, Death in Paradise is filmed.
:23:45. > :23:49.But, as Jay's been finding out, you don't have to go as far as the
:23:50. > :23:53.tropics to grow them. No, just Cheshire.
:23:53. > :23:59.Gammon and pineapple and the whole way impede self. We have hardly
:23:59. > :24:04.covered ourselves in culinary glory when it comes to conquests would be
:24:04. > :24:08.pineapple. They don't even originate from Hawaii? In fact, the
:24:08. > :24:14.pineapple is indigenous to South America but today I am a long way
:24:14. > :24:19.from the heat of the tropics. This is a most unusual extremely rare
:24:19. > :24:26.crop, the Great British pineapple, but how did this come to be so far
:24:26. > :24:31.from home beneath the winter skies of Cheshire? The Tatton Park estate
:24:31. > :24:38.has its very own pineapple House, dating back to the late 17th
:24:38. > :24:40.hundreds. It is one of only two working pineries in the country and
:24:40. > :24:45.after a multi-million-pound restoration project, it has just
:24:45. > :24:50.produced its first major crop in more than a century. They require a
:24:50. > :24:56.very steady heat, it is an equatorial crop. They need turning,
:24:56. > :25:00.they need warming, they need a bit of TLC, a bit of water on their
:25:00. > :25:05.outside of the leaves. You say they are easy to grow but you have to
:25:05. > :25:11.turn the plants, wipe moisture from the leaves and then are you are
:25:11. > :25:17.guaranteed to get some fruit? three years under your belt, yes.
:25:17. > :25:22.You heard that right. Grubbing one pineapple is a three-year job. --
:25:22. > :25:28.growing. In Jordan Britain, producing it was the horticultural
:25:28. > :25:34.equivalent of a rowing gold -- Georgian Britain. It was the
:25:34. > :25:43.ultimate status symbol on your dinner table. It was Georgian bling.
:25:43. > :25:50.A Yes! Very much to say, we are who we are, we have a right, we are the
:25:50. > :25:54.elite. But by the 20th century, improved shipping and the Canning
:25:54. > :25:57.process had cut the need dramatically and suddenly the
:25:57. > :26:03.obsession with growing British pineapples look like an expensive
:26:04. > :26:10.folly, so why bother to grow them here when there are imported once
:26:10. > :26:14.in every supermarket? What we are going to do is bring back some of
:26:14. > :26:22.the historic varieties of pineapple, like the black Jamaican, and bring
:26:22. > :26:26.back the taste of too -- 200 years ago. Where better to test out the
:26:26. > :26:33.new crop than in one of the kitchens where British Cook's first
:26:34. > :26:38.got to grips with one of these unfamiliar tropical fruits? It is a
:26:38. > :26:46.privilege to be able to cook with something that has been grown by my
:26:46. > :26:50.gardener. Can I try? That really is a lot sweeter than I expected. I
:26:50. > :26:55.could quite easily eat a whole one by myself, it is a pity they are
:26:55. > :27:01.rare. To show off the versatility of the pineapple, he has baited
:27:01. > :27:06.with guinea-fowl and so did with potatoes. -- he has cooked it.
:27:06. > :27:11.not always a fan of meat with fruit but this guinea-fowl with pineapple
:27:11. > :27:18.is pretty much a revelation. It is sweet, it is rich and it gives real
:27:18. > :27:22.depth to the bird. For dessert, a Victorian pineapple pudding. The
:27:22. > :27:27.pineapple is added to stiffly whipped cream and gelatin to help
:27:27. > :27:33.it is set. Pineapple cream off from a recipe by the venerable Mrs
:27:33. > :27:39.Beeton, the great Delia Smith of the Victorian age. Actually, it is
:27:39. > :27:41.a superb showcase for the pineapple. It is not too sweet because the
:27:41. > :27:45.Victorians had less of a sweet tooth then we did, partly because
:27:45. > :27:50.the cost of sugar, and that means the pineapple things through when
:27:50. > :27:54.you bite into it. So the great British pineapple lives on, even if
:27:54. > :28:01.they will only be growing around 100 each years. What better way to
:28:01. > :28:07.celebrate than with a very classy and elegant pina colada?
:28:07. > :28:13.We have one here. Hello to everybody, the staff at the Parks
:28:13. > :28:17.restaurant in Uttoxeter who are open for business tonight!
:28:17. > :28:22.Your village Chippy is most definitely open!
:28:22. > :28:25.We are going to have a snowball fight in a minute.
:28:25. > :28:32.No, and we will have a target practice.
:28:32. > :28:38.Really? Yes. A quick picture of Ian. This
:28:38. > :28:46.is how hard he is! Snowballs to the target! Closest to their target