18/01/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Alex Jones.

And Matt Baker.

This week we've all been talking

about turning the tide on plastic.

Good news today.

Another big company -

a coffee chain - has pledged

to ditch plastic straws.

We are getting there.

Tonight, we're going green

in a different way -

we've created a perfect paradise

of plants in our studio.

Very nice. Are those benches real

stone?

We will turn the tide is on

them later!

And our guest couldn't

be more at home.

It's Monty Don.

APPLAUSE

Welcome back from your travels. My

word.

You have been too exciting

places.

I have been all over the

place.

We are talking plastic.

We

are breaking up with plastic. It is

about time and certainly this year I

want to see of gardeners can reduce

plastic, avoiding it altogether will

be tough. Trays, plant pots. Bags we

buy things in. One of the things we

notice is there is plastic that

cannot be reused, it is used and

chucked away. The type of plastic

will make a difference. If you have

plastic you can use five years

rather than once chatted away, we

will be trying all kinds of things.

Bring back hessian!

Bring back hessian! Monty is here to

talk about paradise gardens and we

want to celebrate your Winter

Gardens.

How is Longmeadow? It has

been a cold winter but the first

snowdrops are coming out.

It gives

you hope. If you have a mud patch

like Monty, or it is looking covered

with snow after the bad weather,

send a picture.

If you have a winter

gardening question for Monty, send

that in with the picture.

A survey released today has revealed

just how overstretched our GPs are,

with many saying they are carrying

out far more consultations each day

than is considered safe.

Dr Michael Mosley went to beat a

family inspired to invent a useful

tool. When I was at medical school,

you learned how to pull the clues

together and decide what is wrong.

Sometimes doctors get the diagnosis

right, sometimes tragically they do

not. Charlotte and Jason Maude

discovered in 1999 when their

daughter fell ill.

Isabel got

chickenpox and we took her to the

GP, who was not worried.

Isabel's

condition deteriorated rapidly.

The

spots on her tummy went purple. She

had green vomit and was in a mess.

She was rushed to a and E. We saw

her next on life support, struggling

for her life. We could not

understand why we had been told one

minute she had chickenpox and was

then at death's door.

It was not

until she was taken to a specialist

unit the problem was diagnosed, she

had a secondary infection,

necrotising fasciitis. She needed

major surgery to save her life. It

has taken years for her to recover.

I will have my last week of surgery

in September this year. That is a

lot of operations.

18 years of

operations. Do you think if they had

made the diagnosis earlier it would

have made a difference?

Definitely.

A lot of physical and emotional

trauma from one stupid mistake.

The

family wanted to help reduce the

risk this would happen to someone

else and so Jason and Charlotte quit

their jobs to develop an online

symptom checker named Isabel after

their daughter.

I thought clinicians

needed a check list so if they had a

doubt, they could type in signs and

symptoms and press a button and get

a list of diagnoses to think about.

This is not a diagnose yourself

checker but for used by

professionals. I am keen to put it

to the test using an example from my

own experience. One of my son is

almost died when he was a young

child because he developed symptoms

of something that a casualty officer

missed. Fortunately my wife is a

doctor and did not miss it. He had

abdominal pain. And he was vomiting.

And he was also dehydrated. And here

we have top of the list, the first

thing on the list is indeed what he

had. A surgical emergency

had. A surgical emergency when the

bowel is twisted and if you do not

do something fast there is a risk of

rupture and death. The system works

by searching a database and plucking

out diseases that fit the symptoms.

I tested it with Isabel's symptoms

and symptoms of another condition

called Crohns. Impressive and very

fast. There are 12,000 diseases

recognised by the WHO but most

doctors only come across a few

hundred. This professor has

researched symptom Chequers to see

if they can help doctors.

I work in

surgery on my own typically and do

not have anyone to ask them what is

good I can go into it and think, I

never thought of that.

The professor

looked at research comparing the 11

symptom Chequers and found that this

one performed best.

It is clearly

useful and doctors like to use it

but it takes time and when you have

a typical practice it is difficult

to integrate that.

More research is

needed into how and when the NHS

uses the technology but there is no

doubt the Isabel symptomchecker is

an achievement. I am impressed the

way the family have taken this

horrible event and use it to produce

something good because their system

genuinely appears to be helpful.

Whether it takes off in the UK, I am

convinced systems like it, we will

see a lot more in the future.

Thank

you, Michael and Isabel's surgery

went well and she is back at

university. We have GP Sarah Jarvis

with us. You are on the front line.

How pressurised is it for GPs and

could a symptomchecker like Isabel

help?

It is incredibly pressurised.

GPs work flat out. What patiently

maxi is we are there seeing patients

but between there is paperwork,

visits, clinics, meetings. For some

cases, a symptomchecker could help.

I have used Isabel many times. But

if you are in a consultation and you

do not have long, most cases I know

what it is in my head usually so

there will be times when it is

useful and may save lives but I

think that will be the weird and

wonderful, things I might not seem

more than once or twice in a

lifetime.

It is hard not to know

someone who has not have this

horrendous flu. How bad is this flu

season?

Figures out show it is a lot

worse, worse than 2010-11 with three

times more people in hospital than

we had this time last year. There is

good news. It looks like it might be

peaking because the rise is tailing

off and the number of people dying

seems to be fewer by comparison than

it was.

it was.

Beef flu jab has a

reputation because people say I have

had it and I still have flu. But it

only vaccinate against a number of

strains.

The World Health

Organisation takes an educated guess

at the beginning of every year what

strains will be most common, which

will cause most problems. It

prepares for the next year's flu

season and most years it is pretty

good but this year we have had

Australian flu in summer in

Australia and it protected against

that book one issue is the

Australian flu, the vaccine does not

seem to work as well as others

working against those strains so

maybe 20, 30% protection rather than

40%, 60% with other strains.

The age

at which you get your first flu, you

are protected better against that as

these come out.

People are worried

about the Australian one because you

tend to get the best immunity from

the first time you have got flu. It

is very different from a cold. You

know about it. The problem is the

strain did not exist before 1968 and

so older people are not protected

because it was not the first they

got and as you get older, you are

more likely to get it and when you

do, more likely to have

complications. Monty Don, did you

have the flu jab? I have not had my

flu jab. I am quite healthy

generally but I take your point, if

you get flu, they say if you can get

dressed, you have not got it.

It is

the best chance, by having the flu

jab.

Yes. There is one virus it is

not protecting against but the

children's flu vaccine is protecting

against it. They are super spreader

is so vaccinate them and you protect

yourself.

At what point in the

season is it not worth getting a flu

jab?

The season lasts from October

until March and if you have a cold

snap, if you had a mild winter and a

cold snap in February, it could

still happen, so I feel it is still

worth doing.

I will go to the

doctor.

Thank you.

Time now to open a window

into someone else's world

as we continue our series of films

A Room With a View.

We have been talking to Monty about

paradise gardens.

Here's Nick and his jungle garden

in the suburbs of Leeds.

My name is Nick and this is my view.

My view represents 20 years of work

creating the jungle garden. The

reason I created the jungle garden

across so many years was that I am

not over bothered about flowers and

I'm not very keen on mowing grass.

What you can see when you look out

of the window is the start of a

jungle pathway and it is leading you

on, enticing you what is around the

corner? What can I see and discover?

Like an imaginary place, where games

are played out and memories made. It

almost takes you back to being a

child, because you can think of

being lost in the woods. What is

around this corner, what is going to

come next? Shall I go that way all

this? It is creating a sense of

theatre and drama. To look at our

house from the front, most people

cannot believe what is behind the

garden gate. Some men have train

sets, my train set is outside. It is

the selection of plants, they are

just enormous, preposterous, jungle

leaves, it is smoke and mirrors,

sleight of hand, with the injection

of spots of cover every now and

again, it leads you to think you are

in the jungle. For me, the garden is

not so much a spiritual place, when

I sit in the jungle lodge, enjoying

a ladybird crawling across the leaf,

I am at one with nature. The garden

is possibly a reflection of my

personality. It is almost a stress

buster. You can sometimes hear a car

in the distance part for much of the

time, you can just hear the birds

tweeting and I am not in Leeds, I am

in Bolivia or somewhere.

Monty, what do you make of that?

I

love the strain of British

eccentricity. There is a fine

upstanding British eccentric.

Glorious. He could change his name

to Tarzan.

You will love him even

more because we have had this cold

snap and he sent pictures. There is

snow on the decking. That is the

garden. And this is the hallway. He

has brought the plants inside.

I

could not put up with that in the

hallway.

His wife has a similar

opinion.

How do you find your coat?

We have done a similar thing to

create a paradise garden, inspired

by the series that starts tomorrow

night on BBC Two. You visit stunning

Islamic gardens. This is you in

India.

The energy of this garden

does not detract from the facts like

all paradise gardens, it was

intended above all as a place of

contemplation. To sit here and here

the birds roosting and let my mind

to be still, I think is tapping into

the core of the paradigms garden,

and to have the playfulness it means

this garden works on lots of levels.

I like it a lot.

APPLAUSE

Monty, I always imagine you're

filming is very relaxed anyway.

That

was 40 degrees, and I was being

written a lot.

Real composure!

LAUGHTER

-- I was being bitten a lot.

We went to India, Iran, Spain,

Bradford...

LAUGHTER

All over. They all obviously

shares

the same theme. Islamic. But the

original garden, it comes from

Persia, and the word paradise, it

means a walled garden.

I didn't know

that!

Yes, paradise is literally a

garden, the Garden of Eden. And this

thing, if you are in the Desert and

you are tribal community, nothing

grows, it is so bleak and harsh, so

if you come to an oasis and there is

water, green and shade, it is

heaven. It is the most beautiful

thing you could imagine.

And the key thing of course is

water.

You have been meeting head

gardeners from all over the world,

and they shed light on the

symbolism.

Yes, that is partly the

Koran, and also, the saying, water

is life, and they all have this, the

smoothing water, and because the

water moves the air is cool, and the

other thing is it is all in heat, it

is hot, very hot. No great

splashing, it is all gentle sounds,

fragrance. The other thing is they

all have the number four, and the

word used means divided up into four

parts, and you have the cube, the

perfect shape. So then four becomes

eight, the octagons are used. You

don't need to know this to enjoy it.

But the circle being heaven, the

square viewing the earth, all of

that.

Yes, you have centrepoint and

these sunken beds, where the trees

are to face height, and kept low,

the fruit, the colour, and you can

see it in the picture, they are sunk

down, and this wonderful sense of

fruit everywhere, really important.

And the hide and walkways you were

walking across.

With water, mosaics, tiles, and in

Iran for example all the waterways

have turquoise tiles at the bottom,

saw through the water you see this

turquoise shimmering, and it is so

beautiful.

It is a beautiful watch. I am

enjoying this, splashes, the

pleasure!

Yes, you're getting all

that!

I have some questions for you

later, which will feature.

Yes, and

I bet slugs feature in some of them.

Yes, but we will move onto schooling

now. You were expelled at school?

Yes, I went to boarding school when

I was seven and I was at a private

school, know.

Then I was kicked out of that at 15,

then I went to state school, so

there was I, a little privately

schooled middle-class, precious,

middle-class bad boy, not working,

went to state school and I rather

loved it.

We will meet somebody now

who has basically done the reverse

of what you have done.

It's about a young man

from Tottenham who's completely

turned his life around,

and his very proud former teacher

Mehreen Baig has been

to catch up with him.

One of Britain's biggest boarding

schools, Millfield in Somerset, has

a new head boy, 17-year-old Yuriel

Kpalobi from Tottenham has beaten

princes and the privileged to the

honour.

This term is full of

opportunities, some you should take

and some you should avoid.

But three

years ago he was on the verge of

being expelled.

We were fighting,

vandalising, shoplifting things,

playing with dangerous weapons, just

doing very anti-social things.

Yuriel was at his local state school

in north London when at 14 years old

his behaviour became his mum Ebby's

worst nightmare.

The teachers were

calling her up, "This has happened

again. Your son is in trouble,

again."

I was worried. Yuriel is not

about to ruin his life, just because

he wants to impress his friends, you

know.

After a series of incidents

Yuriel was suspended for two weeks.

In contrast his sister was being

made head girl at the same Ofsted

outstanding school.

I knew he was

capable of doing well, saw him

getting in trouble was disturbing

for me.

When I saw that I was like,

wait, we have come from the same

family, we have the same blood, so

why are we so different? She really

made me believe that I could do it

as well, I could bring the happiness

she brought to my mum.

He knuckled

down to his schoolwork and achieved

ten GCSEs. When he heard that

schools like Millfield offer less

well-off students are fully funded

bursary, he jumped at the chance.

bursary, he jumped at the chance. I

thought Yuriel GCSE English at his

old school.

old school. --. Today I am meeting

him to find out how life is after

switching to a private education.

What was appealing about joining a

private school?

Just a boarding

school environment, bonding with

people, a lot of people from Hong

Kong, Africa, America.

My goodness!

Our school is diverse, but that's...

Even more diverse. Learning to bond

with people and accept them for who

they are.

It cost almost £37,000 a

year to board at Millfield but that

does include a golf course,

Equestrian centre and Olympic sized

swimming pool in pool, far cry from

his home life.

I spoke to one of my

friends. He said, we went shopping

and spent £4000. On clothes, because

this is a very wealthy school! I

thought I would face snobby people,

but I think the kids are very

down-to-earth.

In the common room

Yuriel introduces me to some of his

new mates. Before you met him what

was your perception of a boy from

Tottenham?

I never really spent much

time in the city, so the image you

get, you only really hear about

violence and crime. That is what I

associate with it, but now we have

met Yuriel.

Do you think you would

be able to go to a state school?

I

think it would be a good change for

a lot of people I know, to get used

to real life, because often private

schools can tend to be big bubbles.

Yuriel is among just 1% of students

with the opportunity to get a

private education for free. Back in

Tottenham, Yuriel's friends are

doing their A-levels at the local

college. But they don't feel a lack

of private education will hold them

back.

Maybe being at a boarding school or

private school would be better for

networking and stuff like that, but

it is how bad you want it, and how

much effort you are willing to

pretend to get there.

It might be easier for one person to

get to the same destination, but you

will both eventually arrive there.

If you keep working hard and want to

reach their badly enough.

Today

Yuriel is giving his first speech

head boy, in front of the school and

his mum.

There is a universal law

that states if you give, you will

receive. We make a living by what we

get, but make a life by what we

give.

To have my son as head boy at

Millfield is a very great

achievement, so I am so happy at the

way he turned his life around and I

hope he continues. Well done, well

done. So proud!

Just like his older

sister was to him, Yuriel is an

inspiration to his younger brother

Raphael.

I wake up every morning and

study. I want to do the same as them

are even better, like Eton!

LAUGHTER

There you are!

Yuriel and Mehreen are here now -

Yuriel, congratulations

on becoming head boy.

How is it all going?

It has been a

wonderful experience. I have said

this to a lot of people. Largely it

was the best year of my life.

So

far?

Seriously.

Do you get your own

room at boarding school?

Yes! That

is thanks to my housemate, who has

given me my own room since I started

there actually.

I love your flower.

Is that in aid of Monty Don?

He has

no idea of the Monty Don is, quite

correct!

LAUGHTER

You look very dapper.

Isabelle, you taught him in year

ten. Were you surprised to hear how

badly behaved he

badly behaved he was -- Mehreen, you

taught Yuriel.

Yes, I heard it and I

said, I heard a little rumour, that

you used to be quite naughty? And he

said, nearly

said, nearly excluded, Miss. The

most amazing part of the story is he

decided to make that change for

himself and I know we can all be

motivated by that, and I am.

What do

you plan to go on to do, Yuriel? Of

all the subjects you study, what are

you really passionate about?

For

University I am looking to study

actuary science...

We like it! Do

you feel you are now in a better

position. I mean, you must go back

and speak to your friends. Do you

feel you have given yourself the

best chance you can?

Definitely,

because there are a lot of things I

have experienced in just a year that

I may not have experienced in

Tottenham, if I stayed there for the

rest of my life, so I have.

Mehreen,

obviously Yuriel is passionate about

going on to university but there are

statistics out there that show that

as far as the top universities are

concerned, in relation to privately

educated students, State students

face real challenge is getting into

those top places?

Absolutely. If you

look at the top universities in our

country, Oxford, for example, they

have the laws proportion of state

educated students, at 55.7%.

Cambridge I think is slightly better

at 62%, so there is a massive issue

in the country right now with social

mobility, but things are improving.

Oxford University says they are

working very hard to improve access

for underrepresented groups, and

universities have committed next

year on giving £860 million to

improve access to students from

disadvantaged backgrounds, so state

educated students should definitely

apply because they are wanted, and

there isn't a lack of...

That is the

problem, isn't it? State educated

students are fearful of applying

because they think they will be

rejected or the people teaching them

think they won't stand a chance.

Remit yes, but there is not a lack

of talent or ability in deprived

boroughs, or state schools -- remit

yes, but there is not a lack of

talent or ability. We are trying to

make an active change.

.

It is up to

the pupils to go for it really,

isn't it? Well, thank you.

Sit

tight, and we will move on to

questions. Nothing from your school,

but for you, Monty, all about

gardening. Is it OK to prune fruit

trees and fuchsias at this time of

year?

Yes, the perfect time. Apples,

pears, but whatever you cut hard

will not grow back next year, it

would be two. Perhaps wait a month

or so. Abigail asks, my boyfriend

and I have just grown and outdoor

vegetable patch. Can we plan

anything yet or is it too early?

If

the ground is not too wet and cold

they could put in some onion or

shallots, a little bit early to so

any seeds. Indoors, on the

windowsill.

But enthusiasm is good!

Absolutely, tomatoes and chilies.

A

eucalyptus tree has blown over and

her seven-year-old son wants to

replace it with a monkey puzzle

tree. One word answer. Do you like

them or not?

No, discourage him!

Monty, good luck

with Paradise Gardens.

It starts tomorrow

at 9pm on BBC Two.

I'll be back tomorrow

with Michael Ball and star

of Breaking Bad, actor Bryan

Cranston.