18/04/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...

Tonight's guest is a TV star who, once upon a time, also appeared

He had lustrous locks! # I wore my coat

# Bright colour shining #. Now he's back treading the boards,

hosting a new musical extravaganza - which might explain why he's

got his old coat out of storage. It's lovely! It wasn't my hair! But

it was your voice? Definitely. Take us back to the early 90s. You had

quite an interesting audition process. It was completely secret. I

said, I don't want to get -- this to get out if I am rubbish. I will

creep in, I will sing, and then you can say, you are rubbish, and I will

go. It was top secret, at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith. I went down

there and the musical director arrived first. He asked me to do a

vocal warm up, and I didn't know what he meant! Then Andrew

Lloyd-Webber arrived, and I mistook his PA for his driver. Then I got up

on stage and said, where would you like me to stand? And Andrew

Lloyd-Webber's voice came saying, in the middle might be good! And I

couldn't remember how the song went. In the end, they had to shoot me

like a rabid dog, because I went round and round. Then, the next day,

I got a phone call. You've got it! You are Joseph. It was the best,

best time. Now you are back on the stage. And potentially singing. We

will find out the facts. Now, if you or someone in your

family are considering further education, you are probably

knee-deep in propectuses as we speak, because it's decision

time for those choosing But with tuition fees

in England and Wales costing around ?9,000 a year,

it seems many students are shopping around for value for money,

and some are even going Dutch. Meet Brooke Andrus from Warrington

in Cheshire. While revising for her A-levels she is also thinking about

which universities to apply to. She is considering broadening her

horizons. My dad sent me a link to an article about UK students

studying abroad. The more I researched it, the better it looks.

Today, Brooke is going to the continent to check out university

life Dutch style with her dad. On their itinerary, the University of

chronic and, at two hours north of Amsterdam, ranked in the world's top

200 universities. Tuition fees here are much lower than the ?9,000 a

year in England and Wales. If they did the side to come here, the bill

would be roughly ?1600 a year. That would be a saving of more than

?22,000 over a three-year course. One of the key drawing factors is it

is cheaper than a UK university, substantially. They subsidise their

fees. Dad is concerned about the fees. Are you concerned about that?

Definitely, because the students in the UK are coming out with more and

more debt, and I want to avoid that situation if possible. In Scotland,

tuition fees are paid by the government. Here in Groningen that

they already have 300 British and Irish students. Gemma Scott from

Newcastle is in her third year. She has had to work part-time as a

studying abroad means no student loans. Gemma Steele believes she

chose well. Both of my sisters are right university in England. You

don't get the same value for money. You don't get -- you get the same

experience at university. I don't think I chose to come here because

of the seas. I really wanted to come abroad. The vast majority of

tutorials and lectures here are in English, and today, Groningen is

holding a special open day for more than 350 potential students from

Britain and Ireland, including Brooke. you could do international

law, and then specialise in one of the areas. The rating system is very

different here. This is the first session of the day, and the room is

packed. Gemma's account of working and studying abroad has hit home

with Brooke's dad. It struck me how important it is to try and

integrate, the good side and bad side of getting jobs. Why is

Groningen so keen to attract British and Irish students? This

representative of the university tells us why. We have a mix of

students, from Europe and China. The diversity increases the level of mix

and group work. Have you seen an increase in the number of students

from the UK and Ireland interested in studying abroad? Five years ago,

we may had a dozen UK students. Now it is much higher. It is a great

increase. It is the final session of the open day, and an opportunity to

catch some of the other British students who are tempted to come

here. The city is amazing. It is packed with bikes. The people are

very friendly. There so many cultures in the city, which I love.

Hearing about the standard of the teaching looks great. On your CV it

looks slightly different today. You have to stand out. When I saw the

cost, my eyes were popping out of my head. Brooke's dad seems reassured

by what he has seen. Safety, accommodation, how good the

courses... It is Brooke's opinion that really counts. Would you go

Dutch? I will have to look at the UK universities, but it is definitely

an option. Now I have seen it, it is more realistic. So Brooke has plenty

to think about as she heads home to revise. It will be interesting to

see what Brooke does. Having seen that, some viewers may fancy going

abroad to study. Some may have children who are thinking about it

already. What is the starting point? Find a course you want to do. Where

is that course? As we heard from Brooke are they teach a lot of

courses in English. Don't think of a language barrier all the time. Once

you have decided, use the world rankings to navigate your way

through. There are two sets of rankings, the QS world rankings and

the Times higher education rankings. Do your research. Contact the

University. And go to an open day. There is an extra bit of expense

there to travel and visit. And those rankings are to do with the quality

of the degree? Yes, but they have started to put in cost of living as

well. In the top 100 ARTs British and American universities. The top

ten, sorry. A lot of people do want to go to British universities. In

comparison to England, it seems relatively cheap. But when you look

at it globally, where is the most expensive place? England is

expensive. It ranks as the most expensive place in Europe and the

fifth most expensive in the world, including the cost of living.

Australia comes in at over ?27,000. How much? That is the most expensive

place for international students. But the barbecuing is fantastic!

Europe is the cheaper route to go down because then you can gain from

countries where they do not have tuition fees, or load tuition fees.

The advantage of the UK is that you can access student loans, and you

pay those back once you earn more than ?21,000. If you go abroad, you

have to think of paying how you will -- think of how you will pay

everything up front, like the tuition fees. It is not a one size

fits all solution. You have to do a lot of research, but it could be

worth it. Thank you, and good luck to everybody who is going to go to

uni. -- to uni. Now for something that's

going to annoy a lot of people. CCTV footage of an unmarked truck

dumping nearly three tonnes of waste in a residential area

in Croydon last week, Fly-tipping is a growing problem

that costs the UK Recently did show that in just one

year, there were 900,000 cases of fly-tipping in England alone. Some

were more brazen than others. Chris McEvoy is an environmental

enforcement manager. It is rare that someone comes back to the same

location more than once, which makes it difficult to track them. People

can drive in and drive out here, with nothing to stop them coming out

each end. There's no lighting. We are trying to address it. We are

getting better at identifying people who do it, and catching them. We can

seize vehicles which we were not able to do a year and a half ago.

Every day across the UK, an army of people are fighting the war against

fly-tipping. In Croydon, 25 vehicles are out clearing up fly-tipping site

every day. Chris and Ryan are part of that team. Are you busy today?

Busy every day. Fly-tips, 50 or 60 a day. That many just in Croydon? Yes.

Not nationwide. Is it all right for me to come along for the right?

Guess. Croydon Council and its contractors respond to up to 20,000

reports of fly-tipping each year. Is this a big oneprobably average. They

can be four times this size. If you left this, how big? You would not

get down the alleyway. Do you find clues, like envelopes with addresses

on? We have before. We have found information like an address, and we

pass it on and Croydon enforcement come along. On top of that yellow

building there is the actual text. People could go 500 yards and take

it to the dump there. Councillor Stuart Collins is Cabinet member for

Clean Green Croydon. In Croydon we have spent ?1 million in the last

five years clearing up this kind of rubbish. This is taxpayers' money.

We could improve the quality of people's lives using that money that

is wasted clearing up after the mess these are responsible people make.

Our streets are not refuse sites. -- irresponsible people. All of us have

a responsibility to keep them clean. I knew fly-tipping was a problem,

but I had no idea of the scale of it. The worst thing is that all

fly-tipping stuff lens up -- ends up in landfill rather than a recycling

centre. It is just lazy. Don't do it.

Thank you. On Thursday, you start in this

musical, Knights of Music. That is Knights with a K. Tell us about it.

We have an extraordinary West End cast, with Danielle Hope, who was

Maria. It is a great band. A mate in a pub said to me, do you miss it? A

lot of people don't remember that I did it. I did Joseph and Doctor

Doolittle, like 17 years ago. And I said, I do. It would be fun to do

something, but I can't. I have turned things down. A few years ago

I was offered pretty much all of the lovely west and roles. And I

couldn't do it because of TV commitments. So they said, what if

you just do four shows. And you can play. I said, I don't want to do

London. Let's take it out. So we are doing Cardiff, Ipswich, Northampton

and Southampton. It will be an intense weekend. And so your role is

what? Lets get to the nitty-gritty. Will you be doing any singing? All

the way through when we have been discussing this, and I have been

promoting it, I have said, you never know. I can touch you exclusively. I

walked into day and they started the song any dream Will do, and I said,

I have to do it. I can remember it. And are you doing the code and the

hair? I don't think so! This would look really bad long, this hair!

When you are up there, how did it feel? Was like 20 years ago? Bearing

in mind it was one of the best and most crazy times of my life, we

talked at the start about getting the part. It was so mad to me to be

on stage at the London Palladium, performing on that stage with all

the people who were there. And it was me!

A bit of Sir Tom. Dame Shirley, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber. We have got a

beak Beatles medley. Sir George Martin. That might come in handy. We

just wanted to check how your knowledge of musical Knights was. If

they are not in the show, I won't know. You won't know. It is time to

play Gongs for Songs. Your games! I know. We are going to show you a

face and you have to say what they were given, or maybe nothing. The

first one is... Luke he is knighted, because we have got the Rolling

Stones on the show. He was supposed to be given it in 2002, but the

Queen, we understand, refused due to his antiestablishment views, so he

was given it by the Prince of Wales the year after. The next one is the

June Clark. Oh my goodness. -- is Petula Clark. That is a tough one. I

will go for an OBE. It was actually a CBE. You mentioned the Beatles. I

know, we have got the Beatles section, and although Ringo is not

knighted, I think he is an MBE. He is! The whole band received MBEs in

96 to five. John Lennon returned his with a letter to the Queen in

protest to the foreign policy. George McCartney declined, declaring

he deserved a knighthood, and Paul McCartney received his knighthood in

1997. Another one, a quick one. There is only one gap left, so

either Annie Lennox has not been honoured, in which case that is

outrageous. I am going to say, I am going to go for the outrage simply

because I have done all right so far. She is actually an OBE. That

was a good game, I enjoy that one. Knights of Music starts this

Thursday. Good luck with the singing. Hopefully the weather will

warm up a bit sooner will be more opportunities to get down to the

beach. But if you're planning a dip,

you'd better watch your step - there's dangerous currents

hiding under the waves. Phillip - you grew up in Newquay

so have a look at this picture - We haven't used enough cardboard

tonight so we thought would users again. If you are heading off for a

swim, would you go. I think I would go, I have felt a

rip and I have gone in the sea, but spotting it, I would probably say

the. Here is Andy Torbet to tell us if you are right. We have

over 90 miles -- 90,000 miles of coastline, but there is a killer

that lurks beneath the waves but it is not a deadly marine creature,

actually rip currents. In the last decade, around 17,000 people have

had to be rescued from rip currents in the UK. Cathy Brown was swimming

with family of the amateur coast when she was caught in one. I dive

in, because I was in the furthest, then a few big waves came and I just

realised I could not touch the floor and we just being swept out to sea.

I turned round and shouted for help. Did you try swimming back to shore?

It was taking all my energy just to stay afloat. It was terrifying, I

just thought this is it, we are going to die out here. Because was

me and my brother, sorry,... That is OK. Luckily for Cathy, someone

managed to call for hope and she was rescued by the lifeguard. But what

exactly is a rip current, and how do you spot them? Dr Martin Austin

isn't oceanographer from Bangor University. So if I draw one

sandbank here, and I'm going to draw a second sandbag over here. These

are basically underwater mountains of sand. Exactly. The waves are

coming in from the ocean towards me, when they feel a shallowness of

those two sandbanks, the waves. Breaking, you see that Whitewater.

The water breaking now has to go somewhere. Once those two currents

meet in the middle, it can't flow towards me on the beach, it goes

offshore down the steep channel as the rip current. How fast can these

rip currents flow? At several meters per second, if you mph. Even a very

strong Olympics when it is not going to be a better fight against that

flow. But how many of us actually know where it is safe to swim? You

have a five-year-old grandson, John? That is correct. Where would you

take swimming? Probably in the middle, B. I would probably get in

at B. Actually B is the worst place, because there is a rip current, that

is why it is flatter, you would be dragged out to sea. That is good to

know, you have probably saved one of my children's lives! I will never

forget that. So what do you do if you get caught in a rip current?

Stuart Penfold is from the RNLI. Try not to panic. Wave for help, and if

you are a strong enough swimmer, tried to swim at 90 degrees, you

will break free of the rip and come back to shore that way. That is the

theory, how easy is it in practice? I am going to deliberately swim

where there is a rip current, and for safety I have Stuart's team

watching over me. OK, here goes. DRAMATIC MUSIC I am heading straight

into the rip current. And within seconds I am being pulled right out

to sea. I expected it to be like a river. You can feel the pull, but

you can't. I can't believe how far I am from the shoreline already, and I

am a strong swimmer. It must have been terrifying for Cathy, because

she would have looked up and seen the shore just get further and

further away. After a while, I could feel I was no longer being pushed

out, as the rip current has subsided, I need to textured's

advice. So now is the time to turn diagonally and start swimming back

to safety -- I need to take Stuart's advice and stop the RNLI said if

they see someone struggling, they should never enter the water and

should seek help me jelly. There are dangers on our beaches that you

should be aware of, but there are people around that can make it

safer, and it shouldn't put you off, because coming to this seaside has

to be one of the great British traditions.

But remember the best safety advice is to always swim at a lifeguard at

beach, where trained lifeguards are on hand to provide assistance should

you need it. My dad built the first surfboards of the UK, so I went with

the surface of the film, and we went forward the surf, you would think

that would be the best place. And everyone agreed. But my dad told us

never fight against it, if you are taken, let it happen, call for help,

well -- wait for someone and swim at 90 degrees. It is difficult to move

on from you saying your dad designed the first surfboards in the UK. It

is a live show and we don't have time. Here is George witnessing some

pretty spectacular swaling. Dartmoor in Devon, 368 square miles of

spectacular granite tours and rugged moorland. One of the most famous

national parks in the whole of the country. And yet every year, large

swathes of this van skate are deliberately set on fire. Dartmoor

has been managed for centuries to create a very particular type of

habitat. Thousands of years ago, people first started to use fire to

clear areas of woodland for crops and livestock. And the moorland we

see today is the result of those centuries of burning and grazing.

90% of Dartmoor National Park is still designated as farming land. So

a key function of the burning is to keep the land open for livestock,

including Dartmoor's famous ponies, but if well-managed, the Burns can

also help the biodiversity of the Mormons, as the head ranger for the

National Park authority explains. This is called swaling, it is the

local name for the burning, it is creating a mosaic and a very diverse

flora and fauna, if you like. We are creating a biodiversity habitat to

cover a whole range of very rare species. There are some people who

would argue that what you are doing is actually harming wildlife, and

actually you are not allowing nature to reclaim itself. It would

eventually become a woodland. We understand that argument, behind as

we have got very dense western gorse, very thick, and shading out

all of the younger violets and all the things that these bio diverse

pieces need. I am sure there are certainly areas that can be worded

in the future, and there are, it is happening in the valleys

predominantly. Burning small patches at a time between November and March

can create a patchwork of slightly different habitats, each of which

supports a different range of animals. The more is an important

site for a number of rare species, which need low vegetation, such as

this fritillary and the ground nesting skyline. The sections they

are burning today were last burnt over ten years ago. This farmer

Russell has been swaling for nearly four decades. It is as the ideal

sort of day for this. Threw we have had a future I daze to help dry out,

the wind is not too strong. It looks incredibly hazardous, but what you

are doing is highly controlled. It is, it can be hazardous if you don't

think about where you are standing when you are lighting it, and where

other people within the group are, so that you are not burning them.

When you are this close to it, it is pretty intense. It is, it gets very

hot very quickly, and it is not just the fire but quite a lot of smoke

comes after that ends well. You have to make sure you don't get in the

way of the smoke, because that can damage you as much as the fire.

Although intense, the fires burn out very quickly. All of this looks

pretty terrible. Just a few minutes ago, this entire area was ablaze,

but it is not as bad as it seems, because down here, just under the

soil surface, it is damp and wet, so any ache or insect or larval or pupa

will survive this fire very easily. If it is done properly, plant growth

will quickly begin again in burnt areas. Now, Rob, this area was burnt

two years ago. How has changed in that time? As you can see, the

courses coming back but a lot than it was. We have some great strands

of Heather here and here, and some bilberry coming through. So the

course has predominantly been burnt away, and the fertilisation and the

animals coming in here have created the heaven that is coming back. It

hasn't been shaded out or whatever, so the Burns recreated the area, and

the area that is being burnt now behind us hopefully will look like

this in a couple of years' time. The annual swaling season here in one of

our favourite National Park Service a chance to witness an ancient

practice is being managed in a very modern way.

Thank you, George Foster now we have a show coming up celebrating the

great British pub. We are asking why so many are closing down. Yes, we

need your help, we need your stories, whether you have recently

lost your local pub, it is under threat, or you have managed to club

together to save it. Please get in touch and tell us all about your pub

situation. I wasn't expecting that music! That is all we have got time

for, thank you very much to fillet, Knights of Music tours, this

Thursday in Cardiff. Tomorrow we will be here with comedian, Marcus

Brick stock. Good night.