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A bit nervous about tonight's guest. Another Hollywood A lister. Will | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Smith was lovely. Steve Martin was very chatty. Bruce Willis. Not so | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
chatty. Just over here on the left, mate. Anywhere would be great. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Thank you. Danny Devito. He's going to be great, isn't he? Talkative, | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
really good-natured. He'll be fine. This is the tip? You call this a | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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tip?! I'll give you a tip - get out Hello. Welcome to the One Show with | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We know tonight's guest as the star of | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Romancing the Stone and Ruthless People and Twins. But there's a lot | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
of affection for the role that started it all. Taxi for Danny | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
Devito. I need a cab for the weekend. I'm going to Miami. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Come on. No. Let's take it. Hold everything. OK, I got to get tough | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
with you guys. APPLAUSE | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Please, welcome, Danny Devito. APPLAUSE | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
So great to have you here. It was so much fun doing that show. Taxi - | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
it was a killer. It's back. 30 years after. In 1978 we started. It | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
was just a joy, because the writing was great, the cast - you don't | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
know what you're going to get. I had such a ball. Amazing. Five | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
years. We did 115 shows. It was like a family. It was really | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
terrific. Every time I see something like that, it just gives | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
me a kick. I bet. What does it feel like for you to be here, 30 years | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
later, actually talking about it, because it's coming back to CBS? | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
love it's going to be here in England. It's starting on 6.30 week | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
days. During the week. They're going through the years. When does | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
it start? 7Th or something. You're the one who's here. It's a lot of | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
fun. The humour is really vibrant and cool. Many people will, of | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
course, remember the original, but there will be a whole new audience, | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
like watching a brand new show for them? It's current and a lot of fun. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
We did character jokes basically. I just yell at them through the whole | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
beginning of the show. Nobody has ever seen me. It's not like I was a | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
movie star or a television star at that time. It was just like Danny, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the guy playing the part. For the whole beginning of the show I'm | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
screaming at them and telling them what to do. Bossing them around. | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
Then I come out and look up at them and it was sizic. You had to be | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
there. One person who knew all about you was your mum and you | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
ended up having your mum in one episode. My mum was in two. I | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
didn't really have her in the episode. The producers were looking | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
for somebody. There she is. They were looking for someone to play my | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
mother and they had met her, because she come out to California | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
to hang out and when we started the show. They asked me and I said I'm | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
not going to speak for my mother. My mother is in her 70s. You want | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
to talk to her, call her up. I knew what was going to happen, because | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
my mother is very vocal. They call her up and there was a speaker | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
phone and they said, we are looking for somebody to play Louis's mother. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Will you do the part? We won't write a lot of stuff. It won't be a | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
lot. She cut them off and said, "I can do dialogue." She was very | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
feisty. Danny, in honour of taxi, we have some questions for you from | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
taxi drivers in the UK. We'll look at the first one. See what you | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
think of that. Out of all your co- stars who would you refuse to pick | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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up? Not just in taxies. In all the movies? Not just in taxies. I can't. | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
I mean, the list goes on! Who would be least likely to give you a tip? | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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Arnold probably. He's a tight wad! In a moment we'll be asking Danny | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
if the rumours are true that there's going to be a sequel to the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
film Twins, that he was in, involving triplets. Because of | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
Twins, I don't know if you've noticed, but you did, you are not | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
seeing double or triple. I'm glad I had my glasses. Look at them. Look | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
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at the triplets. Twins there. turned out all bald! You look | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
exactly like the day you were born! The studio's rammed with identical | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
twins and the lot. Fantastic. What about the guys down below? Hi, lads. | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
Fantastic. The other one forgot his glasses, but that's OK. Even if he | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
doesn't need them, they put them on him so he looks like part of it. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
It's lovely to have you all. Really nice. | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
APPLAUSE There was a great line in Taxi, | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
where Christopher Lloyd comes on as Reverend Jim and it's the second | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
season. There was a great line and he was in there and he was very - I | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
don't know - always looped or something. You couldn't understand | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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him. That was his character. One day twins actually were in the show | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
and two really gorgeous girls are in the show and he just looks up at | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
them and his line is, "What happened, did the eggs split in the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
womb?" If you need any ideas for plots for the sequel, look at this | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
next film. When you are pregnant with triplets they are called A, B | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
and C and when they're born it's one, two and three. We went for the | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
12-week scan thinking we were having twins and it turned out | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
there were three, so we were really, really shocked. It took us quite a | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
while to get our heads around it. You do three bottles and change | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
three nappies and there's barely a gap in between, so it becomes a | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
production line really. They are a continual source of amusement, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
having the three together. They've worked out that one of them on | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
their own can't open the fridge, but three together can open it. | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
They definitely hunt in a pack and if they're out to cause chaos and | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
make trouble, the three together can do it very, very quickly. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
he walked through the ward, it all went quiet and he walked me mam and | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
said is there anything wrong? No, we are not having two, we are | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
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having three. We were never known as John, Jean and Joseph. It was | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
trips. The only worse thing, with us being two girls, we didn't like | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
being dressed the same, me and Joyce. Not me. Nobody really knew | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
us as triplets as we got older. We all did our own different thing | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
then and met our boyfriends or girlfriends and that. We have | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
switched me and her! We used to go to the toilets in the pub and | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
change clothes and come out. Confuse a few boyfriends! Although | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
we might not see each other day in, day out, we are still close. Yeah. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
We are there for each other. always have been. I've always | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
thought we've got one brain between the three of us, because where one | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
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can't do one, one's good at another and one there. Something else. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Having triplets we have always said feels like living in a public | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
swimming baths. The noise is always immense. There is always something | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
going on. We usually play together, because we like... Playing together. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Because we feel safe around each other. Sometimes we get in big | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
fights, but always sort it out. normal day is literally military. | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
Uniforms laid out, bags packed. Breakfast decided. Homework diaries | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
signed. Once I was at school and Annabel left and so I - we swapped | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
jumpers, so I went into her class and she went into my class and they | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
didn't find out. The girls are strong-willed and have their own | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
opinions and minds. People they we look the same so we are the same, | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
but it's not true. It's like we're all different. We've always got | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
someone to play with, so you don't have to worry about sleepovers, | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
because you always have one every night. They continue to grow, | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
thrive and just be aborable little girls. I always think we must be | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
doing something right. Don't mention the boyfriends to Gary. | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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please don't. Moving swiftly on! Danny, we have talked about Twins | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
briefly. Will there be a sequel then? We have been talking about it. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Actually, before I came to do the Sun sign Boys here in London we | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
were talking about it at Universal. We are trying to come up with the | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
right script and we decided at one point the possibility to call it | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Triplets and bring Eddie Murphy on. Is that going to happen? We are | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
trying to work it out. It's a possibility. We are trying to have | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
some fun. We like to come up with something that's - so Universe kl | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
Studios are working on -- universAl Studios are working on it. | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
Julius and I'm your twin brother. Obviously! The moment I sat down I | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
thought I was looking into a mirror! We are not identical twins. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Oh, no. I wouldn't be too sure pal. I don't lie. I am your brother and | :11:59. | :12:09. | |
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you must let me help you get out of here. I am your brother. I love him. | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
He's so much fun. We had a ball. A good time. A giant muscle-bound guy. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
That scene when he takes his shirt off in the motel room. Please! | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Incredible. Give me a break. Did you see Pumping Iron, the movie. | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
He's massive. That little song? made that song up. That was my song. | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
# Tonight is your night, bro... # I tell you the reason that happened. | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
It was really funny. You are improvising with that. I did a song | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
that is called Tonight. It's from a musical and I won't sing it on the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
show, because you'll probably have to buy it, but that was the thing. | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
I started singing the song in the rehearsal. The producer said, no, | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
no don't sing that, because we'll have to pay for it. I made up that | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
song. It's great. Can you believe it. A horn. That means we have | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
another question for you from a cabbie. Danny, you were married to | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Bette Midler in Ruthless People. Could you cope being married to her | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
in real life? Oh, yeah. I like her, she's really cool. She threw me off | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
a bridge in that movie. She has been a friend for a long time and I | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
think she's very, very talented and the only thing would be who can | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
carry those high notes better. It would be cool. These days, Danny, | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
you don't just act, but produce and direct and do all of that. Of all | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
of them, which do you prefer or the mix? Whatever comes along and gets | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
you going, tickles your fancy. If you're lucky enough to be working, | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
because that's all we want to do as actors, we - most people like to | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
work. If you can direct, if you know how to do it and you can do | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
and done it and try it and people let you do it, there's no reason. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
It's all what gets you out of bed and makes you feel excited about | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
going to work, so whether it's acting. Like I did the Sunshine | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
Boys for 106 shows at the Savoy. Fantastic. West End play. With | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
Richard Griffiths. I hadn't been on stage for 40 years before that. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
There I am with my white hair. did you find that, being on the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
stage? Great. The thing is first of all it's a Neil Simon play. A great | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
play. We had a great director and we had Richard, who is like just | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
born in a trunk, if you can find a trunk big enough I'm only kidding. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
He's the sweetest man in the world. We had a ball. We are going to do | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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it again in the States in LA. Here is a film by somebody else who | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
knows how to spin a good yarn. Yes, I will see you later. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Did we ever have just walked down the street without doing something | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
else at the same time? Yes! The 1970s and look. Nothing electronic. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Then came the mobile phone. 80 million of them in this country | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
alone. Walking seems like a waste of time unless you are texting and | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
talking. What is everyone talking about? There has never been so much | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
chatter. Can't it wait? Sorry to interrupt, was it important? If it | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
was my wife. Maybe it is the most important phone call! And you have | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
two! This is for local calls and this is to international calls. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
admit it, the mobile phone can annoyed the living daylights out of | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
you have but one leading anthropologist describes it as the | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
new garden fence. The place for a chat. Having a good chat over the | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
garden fence does us all good. It is essential to have these little | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
conservation has -- conversations. It helps us get to know each other. | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
It helps us understand each other. That makes life move along smoothly. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
It is not the same. The quality of communication must have diminished | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
with these electronic devices. Research says the complete opposite. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Research tells us it is improving people's communication. But in the | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
past, gossip has been regarded as the death of good, efficient and | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
even dangerous. In the First World War, government posters claim that | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
careless talk costs lives. Dylan Thomas did not believe in | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
keeping mum. He said that there would not be any careless talk if | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
only people were taught to make intelligent conversation. Dylan | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Thomas of course was contrasting everyday chit-chat with the wisdom, | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
wit and elegance of the golden age of conversation. He meant the great | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Dr Johnson, but would we have enjoyed conversing with him in the | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
coffee house? Surprisingly, some say no. The point about | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
conversation, kit comes from the Latin meaning to change sides -- it | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
comes. It is about the exchange, the momentum. We might be delighted | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
to have Dr Johnson as a one-man Wikipedia, but maybe in the 18th | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
century that was exactly what you wanted because you did not have | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
television and Wikipedia, but I suspect you would also struggle to | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
get a word in edgeways. Conversation that is not. Dr | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Johnson did not even want people to question him! He would be no -- | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
most affronted by your approaches to me today. If that was not his | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
style, laughing, chatter, it is something to celebrate. Not mobile | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
the chat but real life. Great conversation is about finding | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
common ground with another person. We have so many ways of keeping in | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
touch and communicating that actually, face-to-face talk, where | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
you are exchanging a smile and noticing when attention is | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
wondering, is becoming quite a precious commodity. Many have | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
predicted that conversation is doomed. The Victorians thought the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
new electric light would lead to more reading endless talking. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
George Orwell thought radio would kill it. Our parents brought the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
villain would be an addiction to television. The mobile is the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
latest culprit. It could be the only major damage inflicted on | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
modern communication is financial. The average household mobile phone | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
bill now exceeds �1,000 a year. At that price, talks certainly isn't | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
cheap. No, it is not. Can you believe | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
this? Danny used to work in a hair salon. Is that where you learnt the | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
art of conversation? No, it is where I learnt how to flirt. My | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
sister had a beauty parlour in New Jersey, where I am from, and I was | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
18 and I was just out of high school, 17, 18, and she said she | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
would give me a job if I went to the discourse. It wasn't like | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
something I really wanted to do but I went and I dragged my feet all | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
the way. All summer she told me about it. She bought me the whole | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
thing, the kit. I went. I finally went to the school and walked up | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
the stairs, opened the doors, I was not very happy about it, I looked | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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in and there were 40 girls my age. It was fantastic! It was the best | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
semester I ever spent! I read somewhere that you can't help but | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
look at people and tell them if their hair works. Is that true? | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
do not do that. All right! I am attempting to look a little bit | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
like cute in their hair department. You are done for. You on your way | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
out. Look at those three guys, that is your future, it right there. My | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
gosh. They look like planets. have got it so wrong. I am regarded | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
as the British Bruce Willis. talk more than him! Anyway, picking | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
up on yours film... Research tells us that the British talk only about | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
the weather. The Americans are supposed to talk Principe about | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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sport and politics when they meet. A do not speak about sports. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
mainly about sport and politics. Mostly men. Are m in London. What | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
shall I talk about the weather? don't need to talk about the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
weather in Los Angeles because it is always good. In Asia and the | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Middle East, they talk about family. In the forest, they make a | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
conversation to discover people's pecking order, where you in the | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
hierarchy. What is always to be universally is you never talk about | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
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money. -- Pat -- what is always taboo. What is the etiquette when | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
it comes to taxes? Not what I do, I get into it and I close the window. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
That is because a live in London and I know on public transport, you | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
keep silent. When I first came to London, my first time, I was on my | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
way to work on the Tube and I sat next to somebody and I said, good | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
morning, and they got up and moved. That was it! It London, we do not | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
talk to one another. But cab drivers do expected to make | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
conversations. I first moved to New York after a did the thing with my | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
sister and I was 20, and I started studying acting. It was like that. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
You would go on a bus and nobody would talk to each other. You never | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
know what is going to happen. In a big city, you know. That is the | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
thing. Now people are listening to their headphones on the subway. | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
Thank goodness. I got mine! carry on. I have lost interest in | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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this conversation. Shall I tweet you? Danny DeVito! You have not | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
been on the show before but we switch topics quite often on the | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
show. We could switch to Boy Scouts and Hitler's Germany. It could be | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
anything. Tonight we have both of those | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
subjects, in oneself. Boy Scouts? Hitler? Really! | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
This pastime was once considered a threat to Britain. In 1937, a | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
combination of the Boy Scout movement and bicycle tours | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
attracted the attention of the security services and cast serious | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
suspicions over the movement's founder, Lord Robert Baden Powell. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
As chief scout, he turned scouting into a worldwide movement and with | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
war in Europe looming, he wanted to use that popularity to read out the | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
next generation of Germans. He thought bringing the British and | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
German youth movements together could build relations between the | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
two countries. There was just one problem. By that time, all German | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
youth movements had been absorbed into just one. The Hitler Youth. | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
MI5 were monitoring Lord Baden Powell, especially a memo he wrote | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
complementing the German ambassador and informing him that the Scouts | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
were keen to forge closer links with the Hitler Youth, and that is | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
exactly what they did. Say it's all Scout troops hosted visits from | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
groups of Hitler Youth -- several Scout troops. One movement from | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
here went all the way to Germany. They were very excited. Some of | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
them had never been further than Birmingham's are going to Germany | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
must have been massively exciting. They saw the sides but also went to | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
a Hitler Youth camp. In September, MI5 war on their guard as the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Hitler Youth completed a group to Padworth. The village took them to | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
their hearts. They were taken to be capped refectory of Bournville, to | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
William Shakespeare's house at Stratford upon-Avon -- Cadbury's | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
factory. They bought their own bicycles with them and they cycled | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
from Grimsby and whilst they were here, they were wandering around | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
and looking at the sites. But was sight seen all they were doing? MI5 | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
noticed as a special article in a European newspaper that instructed | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
German cyclists travelling abroad to make detailed observations of | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
the areas they visited, paying special attention to bridges. With | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
Hitler Youth groups cycling around Britain, MI5 suspected they were | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
spies. You are a reconnaissance experts. If I am a 1937 German | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
cyclist, what can I take home? you are going to be launching an | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
invasion of Britain, you need to control the bridges so people on | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
the ground would be a good way of finding out. The German | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
reconnaissance plan was to fly over the bridge. That would attract | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
immediate notice. A group of boys cyclists would arouse less | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
suspicion. German teenage cyclists on the Hitler Youth would not have | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
had a military view of the ground. They would have been more | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
interested in the local girls, if we are honest! By MI5 were taking | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
no chances. Some people even speculated that Lord Baden Powell | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
might be a fascist sympathiser. Today Scout Movement said those | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
people misunderstood the chief scout's motives are. Baden Powell | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
committed himself and the Scout movement to furthering world peace. | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
But the Hitler Youth are unlikely bedfellows? Perhaps he was naive | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
but one I would hold as well, that young people who camped together | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
and share food together are less likely when they grew up to want to | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
shoot each other. But the British Government was taking no chances. | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
When Baden Powell revealed he had been invited to Germany to meet | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
Hitler himself, he was taught very clearly not to go. Of course the | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
outbreak of the Second World War put a stop to any more exchange | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
visits and fears over spy-cyclists were replaced by fears that were | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
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much more real. Spyclists! What a turn-up! We | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
apologise for putting you on the same show. | :28:37. | :28:45. | |
We have time for one more question. Here we go. Danny, you have Alex | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
Jones, a great dancer sitting next to you. Any jobs are busting some | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
moves with her? I would not go that far! -- any chance of boosting some | :28:58. | :29:07. | |
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moves? I do not dance. Bob bins?! Don't Leave Me Hanging? -- have no? | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
Shall we do it will? No, I do not dance. But I will have a | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
conversation with you. OK, just chat away. That is all we have got | :29:19. | :29:25. |