19/03/2014 The One Show

Well, hello and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones, 26 hours into

her Sport Relief challenge, climbing Moonlight Buttress in Utah. These

are live pictures, of her going up that enormous rock. She has got to

go 1,200ft up to the top. With me tonight is Gabby Logan! Pleased to

be here, in London. And tonight, Matt all right has the results of a

One Show test into the caffeine content of the drinks from a number

of high street coffee shops. The results might keep you awake! Ade

Edmondson is also with us, not to talk about comedy, or coughing. And

we will also be speaking to Alex live in Utah, about her first day.

And goodness me, it has not been easy. It is incredible, it really

is. But now, we are going to be joined by one of the most important

people at the BBC. She is the head of output, responsible for

everything that the BBC broadcasts, in all formats! Well, the character

she plays is, anyway. It is Sarah Parish! I cannot tell you how

excited I am about the start of your new series, W1A, which starts

tonight on BBC Two. And your character is quite serious, I wonder

what she would make of this challenge? She would love it, she

would want to make this into some sort of live show. She would want

more celebrities in it, obviously. So that Alex could lift them up. But

she would love it! We had just froze those live pictures, unfortunately,

but she was making good headway. Hopefully, that satellite phone will

be working later on. Now, George Osborne announced today that it is

going to be all change for the good old pound coin, with a new one in

circulation by 2017. Let's have a look at the heads side. But it has

not been decided yet what is going to go on the tails side. What would

you like to see on the reverse of the new pound coin? Send your ideas

into the usual address. Have you thought about it? It is difficult.

The bottom of Alex Jones show! There is a flip side to anything! Because

she is not here?! Now, we are waiting to see how Alex has been

getting on after starting her climb yesterday. She is 26 hours in, and

today, we have received the first film back from Utah. Although it

shows her struggling, we want to assure you, she is with a very

experienced team, including her climbing buddy Andy and five very

experienced climbers. Well, today is the day. Three months

of hard training and anticipation is finally over. I am feeling pretty

nervous now. It has just hit me, I suppose, the enormity and the scale

of the challenge, and of The Rock. But before I can grapple with

Moonlight Buttress, there is a small matter of getting over the river.

Wait any longer, it is going to freeze over! Go, go, go! This trek

to the base, it is a bit like the walk to the electric chair, don't

you think?! You will not be untying it until you get to the top, so make

sure it is a good not. Should I be doing something? Just look amazing.

Climb when you are ready. Deep breath. Here we go. Just use the

knees. Yes. Well, we have done the first bit. Silly, really, but every

little bit seems like an achievement, a little bit closer. It

is just a relief to finally be on the wall. Today I think the plan is

to climb 450ft, and then to camp on a portaledge at 450ft. Oh God!

Are you OK? Hang on. Are you relatively OK? Yes. I mean, there is

just nothing. Andy, have you got me? Yes, you are safe as houses. Don't

let me go, for God 's sake. I do not know what to do, I am not standing

on anything. I can't! I just don't know what to do now.

Oh, God! There is no need to be afraid. We have got you nice and

safe. That is it. Come on. I know Andy is there, but... You are

nearly over the hardest bit. You are almost there. These shoes feel like

they are slipping. OK, here we go. I have got you. Get your leg on. Well

done. Remember when I first met you, and you said, the most important

thing, Andy, hit has got to be hard. That was a mistake, wasn't it?! It

will get easier, trust me. The truth is that all I genuinely

want to do now is get off this wall. But I will not be defeated. It is

just awe-inspiring. I genuinely think of all of the sporting

challenges that I have seen, it is one of the most mentally terrifying.

It really is incredible. Later on we will see the rest of Alex's first

day. Hopefully we will be chatting to her live from the rock face. We

are now joined by Niall Grimes, from the British Mountaineering Council,

who has 27 years of mountaineering experience under his belt. He has

actually climbed the Moonlight Buttress himself. Welcome to the

programme. We saw Alex there. Amazing. How does what she has

achieved so far compared to what is to come? Bad news for Alex, it gets

worse. I am so glad she cannot hear you right now! What she has done so

far is the easy bit, before you get into the actual meat of the climb.

You had 15 years of experience, she has had barely 15 weeks. The only

bit which is getting her through this at the moment is her ignorance.

You are in a really impressive piece of terrain, in the middle of

nowhere, your life will only continue when you get to the top, so

that is all there is to your world, getting to the top of this thing. Is

it meant a lot physical? Pretty much both. If a tear rolls down your

cheek, it will fall 900ft. On the serious side, it is a good couple of

days' Klein, she is spending the night on a ledge which is

effectively hanging? Yes, effectively, it is a rigid hammock.

It is very hard to get them flat. All the time you are climbing, you

are looking forward to getting into this thing. How did you sleep?

Badly. I had tigers chasing me. That fitful thing? Yes, only the most

dysfunctional mind would be happy there. Human beings are not meant to

be there. I am so glad we did not get you on before. But I am also

delighted to hear how somebody who has got 15 years of experience sees

it. Yes, this is a real climb. Anybody watching who thinks this is

not impressive, it really is. When you get to the top of this thing,

you learn so much about yourself, you have changed. You have put

yourself into an amazing experience. The only way to overcome

it is to rely on yourself. The same for her. Obviously, what she has

done already has been a massive achievement. She will take

confidence from that. You know her personally, does she use bad

language much?! Well... She is doing this climb for one reason only,

which is to raise money for Sport Relief. If you want to donate, it is

really very simple. You just have to text the word ALEX to 70005. ?5 per

text goes to Sport Relief. You must be 16 or over. Please ask for the

bill payer's permission. Now, for something Alex might well

be craving, a decent cup of coffee. Matt all right is over there. I do

not want to stop watching Alex. You have been doing some tests on the

nation's favourite tipple? Yes, it is the world's favourite drug. We

forget that it is a drug, but it is exactly that. What we do not know is

exactly how much caffeine is in a standard cup of toffee. What is a

standard cup of Kofi? We went to ten different purveyors, outlets, and

measured the caffeine in ten regular coffees, whatever that is. The

amazing thing is just how much the caffeine content varies from one to

the other. Do we know what you are actually allowed to have? We can

have as much of it as we choose, although it is a drug. The only

recommendation is if you are pregnant. If you are pregnant, the

NHS says you should not have more than 200 mg of caffeine in any one

day. But when it comes, there is nothing but when it comes, there is

nothing written on the side to tell you exactly how much caffeine is in

it. This is a dream item for Gabby, she is a coffee connoisseur,

honestly. I am dreaming about the first. Now, Alex Riley has been to

find out what effect these high caffeine energy drinks might be

having on teenagers. The effects on the health and

concentration of schoolchildren of these drinks have been blamed for

causing chaos in the classroom. According to one survey, two thirds

of ten- to 18-year-olds have tried an energy drink, despite the

manufacturers insisting they are not aimed at under-16s. At this college

in Manchester, the head has banned all energy drinks. Teachers were

telling me the strings where having an effect on young children, they

were not focusing, they were not concentrating just it was getting to

the stage where we had to stop it. -- these drinks. But today, the

headmaster is letting the drinks back into the college to take part

in an experiment for The One Show. We are going to see what effect they

have won a bunch of 15 year max. And here they are, 24 year ten noise.

They are well acquainted with the taste of these energy drinks. I was

12 or 13 when I had my first one. I drink about ten per week. For the

last 15 minutes of the lesson, I was lying down on the table. Today, we

have split the class into. Those in blue are each drinking one 500

millilitre can of energy drink, containing more than 400 mg of

caffeine and 78 grams of sugar. The same amount of caffeine as five cans

of cola. And this much sugar, 15 teaspoons. For our experiment, we

have brought in a consultant paediatrician and an educational

psychologist to oversee the tests. The students have agreed to have

their pulse rate monitored, to fill in questionnaires about how they are

feeling and to complete a particular type of test. Students have to look

at a series of words and name the colour they are rented in, and not

read the word. Their attention and processing speed might improve in

the short term, but after a while they may start to feel withdrawal

effects from the caffeine, which may slow them down.

We are conducting our test three times. While our tests aren't

conducted under laboratory conditions, the experts believe they

should provide enough data for a robust comparison. We want their

teachers to work out which group is which. I'm really confident I will

be able to tell who has had the drinks. I think they will be more

agitated in their hand movements, they might be more animated. We

would expect the ones that are more upbeat, looking around the room...

Let's have a look. So, will our panel of teachers be able to spot

the energy drink drinkers? Find out later. And also see what happens

when I take the experiment to extremes.

It is quite interesting seeing Alex Riley down a few cans of that energy

drink! LAUGHTER If you wondered what life is really like for the people

that work here at the BBC, a new sitcom starring Sarah, which starts

tonight on BBC Two, might give you a bit of an insight. If Paxman can

fall asleep on air, what is it like for the viewers? He was

concentrating on the answer he was being given. Who was he

interviewing? Alex Salmond. The daily senior team damage limitation

meeting, chaired by the director of strategic governance, is already

under way. Apologies, everybody. The meeting wasn't in my hour or some

reason. And then we ended up on the wrong floor. Many apologies.

APPLAUSE Hugh Bonneville plays Ian Fletcher, the man who delivered the

Olympics in 2012. That's right. He's come now to revamp the BBC and along

with him has come Siobhan Sharp. She gets a job. He is not very happy

about that. And so we reintroduce their characters into the BBC, so it

is great that they continue to be seen. You are already there? I am.

How do you come into all of this. You play Anna Rampton? She was head

of output, a very, very serious, quite scary woman, really. She is

responsible for the whole of the output for the BBC, so it is a very,

very important job that she is woefully inexperienced for and very

bad at. Which isn't to type at all? Carry on! LAUGHTER Matt is just

hanging on to his job! It was a great part to play. She is a tyrant.

She has realised that the moor stroppy and grumpy and ratty she is,

the more people will do what she says. That masks the fact she can't

do her job? It is working for her. You wanted a role where you could

smile a bit more? I never get to smile on television. I said it would

be great to crack half a smile and she said, "We have a great comedy

and you will enjoy it." I play THE most miserable character! You are a

bit worried that some people might think it is a documentary on the

BBC? They might, yes. It's incredibly realistic without being

rude. I have seen it. I agree! Yes. We are having a very gentle poke at

the BBC. Yes. The BBC is very good at laughing at itself. Exactly. Well

done BBC for commissioning it. Lots of characters and situations in this

you might recognise. Have a look at this. This is Anna Rampton. And

David Wilks. I never want this lunch to end! It is a different day

altogether elsewhere and somewhere in Central London Anna Rampton,

David Wilks and Lucy Freeman are meeting Carol Vorderman for salad.

It's Countryfile meet meets Bake Off. With a bit of The One Show

thrown in! Can you imagine that? Working on a programme that is

Countryfile cross with The One Show? We had to get a bit of The One Show

in! Carol Vorderman, what a great sport. She was fantastic. You

wouldn't have any problem getting people to play cameos in this. You

have a BBC pass? I did. It didn't work! I couldn't get into the

toilets. Nothing new! BBC Two at 10.00pm tonight, you can see Sarah

and the rest of the cast in W1A. Whilst Alex's mission has only just

begun, in the Philippines the effort to get the country back up and

running after last November's devastating Typhoon Haiyan is well

under way. Tonight, in her final film, Alex meets some of the

children from Leyte whose school was wiped out in the storms. And they

lost a lot more than their books. Once a tranquil paradise, in

November last year this region of the Philippines was ripped apart by

Typhoon Haiyan. Despite living among the wreckage, the spirits of the

people here, and particularly the children, remain remarkably high.

Typhoon Haiyan has flattened everything, from homes to hospitals.

Some of the worst-hit buildings were the schools. I was worried. I was

afraid. All the feeltings were in me. Maria, a Grade 4 teacher, shows

me around what's left of her school. Was this part of the school, this

building? Yes, this building here is for Grade 5 pupils. This was my room

before. Was there part of you, though, that thought, "I actually

can't go back"? Being a second mother to my pupils, it is one thing

that told me to come back to school. I know they need me. We do not know

where to start. How can we nurture the minds of the children in the

community, in this community with what happened? The cost of the storm

to people like Maria is difficult to fathom. It is not just books and

buildings that were lost. Two teachers and 18 pupils from her

school were taken by the typhoon. All across Leyte, schoolchildren are

trying their best to get back to normal, like here.

# I got The Eye of the Tiger... # These children have suffered great

pain at the hands of the storm. Typhoon Haiyan changed Patricia and

Sadie's life forever. How do you feel when it starts raining and it

is very windy? So scared. So scared. What can you remember?

TRANSLATION: We were confused and told to evacuate. We were in a panic

and we put rocks around the house to try to stop it from collapsing. Do

you still feel scared, Patricia? TRANSLATION: We were all frightened

and the water was forcing itself inside our classroom and rising

rapidly. Then I saw the wall was about to collapse on me, but I was

just able to escape. What was the most precious thing that you lost in

the storm? TRANSLATION: I lost my two siblings

in the typhoon. So you lost your brother and your sister?

TRANSLATION: Yes. What about you, Patricia? My father. Oh.

When once the girls would have played with their friends, now every

day after school they go to the church next door. Before the

typhoon, it had no cemetery. It's here I meet Patricia's mum, Connie.

My husband had a dream about our children. He told me that I like

that our children will go to school and... How long have you been

married? 13 years. He was a very loving father. Never in all the

films that we've done have I ever felt somebody's pain like Connie.

Connie has lost the man that she loves.

But amongst the sadness, there are a few places that have been set up

where the children can be themselves. Hi, how are you? Local

projects like this child-friendly space, help to try and relieve the

trauma that children like Patricia and Sadie have gone through. You too

can help these children to get their childhood back. All you need to do

is text "ALEX" to 70005 and you will have donated ?5. Thank you.

# Thank you once again. # An incredibly moving film there.

Those children and their families, the reason why Alex has taken on her

mission to climb this incredible rock. To beat the rock! It is not

just the aid effort in the Philippines, Sport Relief helps out

lots of other charities here and abroad. That's right. So, here is

Sarah in a scary corporate mode like the character that she plays in W1A,

to try and convince you to part with your cash. Text "ALEX" to 70005.

Text costs ?5 and ?5 goes to Sport Relief. I'm doing it right now! I

will text again! Well done. Still in character as well. You have to be 16

or over and ask the bill payer's permission. For more information, go

to bbc.co.uk/sportrelief. If we take a look at Alex, we can see she's

clutching her phone. That is a satellite phone and, hopefully, she

can hear us talking to her now. Alex, can you hear us? Oh... The

line has gone! We are hearing. We will try again later on. We can't

hear her right now. We did have some audio from earlier of her describing

her first night's sleep on that ledge. This is our first morning on

the Portaledge. Andy has made us a cup of tea, which is nice. He is

digging into a bagel. I have not given into the beeny-weeny dark side

yet! I didn't sleep loads last night. I kept tossing and turning

because I was aware I was sharing a double bed with a stranger and I

didn't want to wake him up! I kept lying still and bits of me were

going dead, like my arms and my legs. It was nice waking up this

morning. It was a lovely clear day. So that's been the biggest treat so

far. Yesterday, it was a steep learning curve. They are trying hard

to get a connection. Just wave! She can't hear us. Hopefully, we might

be able to get hold of her before the end of the show. We wanted to

wish her happy birthday. Yes. Anyway, we will keep trying. In a

moment, we will be talking to Ade about his time out at sea. First, we

will be hearing about those boat boats - first, you might have

noticed the chippy that the cost of fresh fish has shot up in the past

few weeks as a result of the storms that affected Britain earlier this

year. I didn't know it was that. Yesterday, just yesterday, I went to

buy some haddock, it was ?12, which seemed quite expensive. A lot of

money. Now I know why. Lucy has been to see how the fishing community are

coping after the storms. Over the past few weeks I have seen

first of the storm is where I live, in the south-west. Now, I am in the

region to find out how the fishing industry is coping in the aftermath

the extreme weather. Local boy Craig has been selling fish in newly in

for more than 20 years. The recent storms have meant no boats were

working out of newly in harbour, and fish prices have soared. When there

is not very much fish around, who is the fish going to? Because it is an

auction, it goes to the highest bidder, and the highest bidder tends

to be high end restaurants, who have to have the fish. So, you were

priced out, basically? If I turned up to a pensioner's house and tried

to charge her ?5 for a piece of Pollock, I could not do that. That

would be half her pension gone. So, you have spent 20 years building up

this relationship, that has got to be worrying for you? There have been

times when I have tried to get out, in January, when we had a little bit

of fish coming in. Because the weather is still bad, they do not

expect you to come. It affects the whole community. If they have got

money to spend, they can spend it elsewhere, so the whole community

feels it. The fishermen are at the sharp end. Despite an improvement in

the weather, it is still a critical time it will be taking a long time

to get back to normality. We are talking to-3 years. For a lot of

guys, this will be it. After generations of fishing in that

family. They are saying, that is it, we cannot go on. It is no hyperbole

to say we have not got enough money to put food on the table. It is

driving people to despair. People are even contemplating suicide.

Since the beginning of February, the mission has given more than ?150,000

in emergency support to the nation's fishermen and their

families, an incredible amount in such a short space of time. We have

been overwhelmed by the response of the public, they have been extremely

generous for the fishermen. Excuse me. Sorry, it just gets to me

sometimes. The feelings run deep in newly in, a fishing port since 1435.

There are more than 300 fishing families who have had to go through

the last few months fearing for their livelihoods. Along the coast

in Exmouth, this skipper has been using his boat to help his fellow

fishermen earn a living. Good morning, how are you? What is it

like to be out fishing again? It is lovely. It is lovely to be back at

sea. How much did you lose in the storm? We have lost a lot of gear.

We have lost 100-150 pots. How have people helped each other? We have

worked other people's pots while they were out. We have gone out,

baited it again and put it back down while he has got his engine repaired

or what ever. Your gear is here all the time, but if you leave it for so

long, it will either get towed away, all washed away, or lost in

the storms. We work together, it is that simple. When you spend time

with people from this industry, as I have over the past couple of days,

you really get a sense of just how vulnerable they are to the weather.

But also, how it brought out their resilience as a community.

Thankfully, the forecast is improving, and let's hope the

outlook is bright for them as well. A big thanks to Lucy and everyone

who took part. We hope things will get back to normal as soon as

possible. Ade is with us. Yes, we have got the line up to Alex, we

know she can hear us. Alex, many happy returns for yesterday, now,

just bring us up today, how are you feeling today, because we saw some

harrowing scenes in the film earlier? I am so pleased to be able

to speak to you. Hello to all of you. It is good, Matt. Sometimes I

think I have bitten off more than I can chew, but I have got a great

team around me. Yesterday was pretty tense, but today is better, so far.

Andy made me a cup of tea on the portaledge last night, under the

stars, which was the nicest part of the Challenger so far. But we are

getting there, slowly but surely. I am holding my nerve. Just in case we

lose the line again, I want you to hold on tight, because you sound

like you need a bit of a boost, we want to tell you the total that you

have raised so far. Yes? It is... That really makes it completely

worth it. Thank you so much to everybody who has donated. I am

trying to see this shown Felder as a totaliser. Thank you so much for

everybody's generosity so much. You sound incredibly tired, but take it

bit by bit and get to that next point ahead of you. How long have

you got today, do you know? We have got another three sections to go.

So, quite a long day ahead of us. I am confident that we will get there.

You will, and one more night on that ledge, and then you are on the home

run. I know, Andy is hanging next to me here, he is brilliant. The team

are all great. I am sure we will get it done. On a positive note, what is

the best thing that you have experienced so far with this? She is

not deep in thought about that, I think we have lost the line. Don't

you think they are dragging too much up with them? Drop some of the

stuff! Those cameras! I do not know if you can hear us or not, but we

wish you all the best. Just keep doing what you are doing. You are

getting there. Just amazing. Ade, let's talk about your series. Yes,

it was almost as challenging as that. You have been out on the

waterAde At Sea. It is about our relationship with the sea. There is

nowhere in Britain that is further than 78 miles from the sea. It is

Tamworth, I used to live there. Let's have a taste. I have always

been fascinated by the sea, and I love harbours. There is something so

exotic about all the boats in a proper working harbour. Where has it

been, where is it going? That swallows and Amazons feeling,

heading into the next port... Everything is just so full of

folklore and history and tradition. I love it. Absolutely love it. That

seems to be the interesting thing, because that comes a point in every

TV person's life that you start jumping on board of boat and going

off? I have had a succession of boats and spend a lot of my time

sailing up and down the south coast, where I was there, actually.

My family, I have got a wife and three daughters, none of them were

ever particularly interested, because I never had a proper toilet.

So I spend a lot of time single-handedly sailing up and down

the south coast, from Penzance to Portsmouth. It came home to me once,

when I was going around Portland bill, if you do not get it at the

right time, with the wind in the right direction, it gets very

choppy. In the middle of all of this, booms and mast and everything

going every which way, my phone rang, and it was one of my daughters

saying, daddy, where is the Sellotape? It puts everything into

perspective! Is it the battle with nature, or is it the idea that you

could discover something? It is about the relationship that Britain

has with the sea. It is an amazing lifeline for Britain just 90% of

everything you see in Britain comes by boat. I was speaking to somebody

earlier, I was operating one of the new cranes on the new super port

down on the River Thames, which was quite good fun. The bloke said, if

we did not have the sea, we would starve, very, very quickly. That

thing about living on an island, as well. Talking of Portland bill, and

Ellie there is a lighthouse there, but in the first episode, you come

across an interesting lighthouse? Yes, I landed on it in a helicopter.

It was extraordinary. It is an automatic lighthouse now. But we

took back the man who was the last lighthouse keeper. He was a very

interesting blog. He used to spend three months at a time on this

thing. If it was to choppy, sometimes they would be there for

six months at a time! They did not have telly or anything. They spent

their time knitting. He came out of the lighthouse with one of his

jumpers. He has got a lot of spares, if you want one. Your girls and

Jennifer, are they happy for you to go off? Yes. I do love sailing, but

I do not really like sailing on my own, I wish they would come with me.

Must get a toilet! Get a super yacht and see how quickly they jump on

board. When can we see it? It starts tomorrow night, I believe.

Brilliant. Last Sunday saw the last of the Winter games in Sochi, and

great written's best ever Winter Paralympics medal haul was achieved.

Wendy Robbins has the story of one young hopeful who made a staggering

decision in the hope that she could one day realise her own Paralympic

dream. I am Danielle Bradshaw. I was born with a deformed right leg. At

the age of 11, my big decision was to have that leg amputated so that I

could run. As soon as she was born, doctors warned her mother that there

were problems with her right leg. They said, we need to prepare you

for the way Danielle looks. She had her knee back to front, and going

over her shoulder. I kept thinking it was my fault that she had come

out this way. There was nothing that they could explain to me, what had

actually caused it. They called it a freak of nature. Both of Danielle's

hips and her right knee were dislocated, meaning she could not

use her right leg. Doctors tried time and again to straighten her

right knee. I had so many treatments, I had leg stretches,

when they cut the leg, put pins through the skin to stretch it. They

would put me to sleep just to do exercises for my knee, because it

was so painful. Most of Danielle's primary school years were spent in a

wheelchair. Everyone started taking the make out of me, but I thought

that I was normal and they were different. I was always in the

classroom doing more work while they were outside having fun. How did

that make you feel? Absolutely frustrated. I just wanted to get up

and walk. I felt blocked out from the world. Three years ago, just

before her 12th birthday, doctors told Danielle and her family that

they could either operate to straighten her right leg or try to

reconstruct her knee. But there was no guarantee that she would ever be

able to walk. Danielle rejected both options. I did not want any of that

because I wanted to be free. I wanted to live a life. So I decided

to have my leg amputated. How did you break the news to your mum? When

I sat down, I made sure her favourite programme was on. She said

to me, ma'am, I have got something to say to you... I said, Mum, I am

sorry to say this, but I want my leg amputated. For a child to say that,

it is telling you really that they are in pain, and enough is enough. A

big decision to make for an 11-year-old? It is my body, I have

lived with this body for 11 years. I am determined to walk, determined to

run. Do you remember just before the surgery to have the amputation, what

you were feeling? I was at ease, it was like it was Christmas. Goodbye,

old life, and bring on what is going to happen in the future. Straight

after the operation, Danielle waved her stump and said, look, ma'am, I

am free. It meant that she could not only now walk, but was soon running

in her first competitive race against her school friends. The

first race I won was absolutely amazing. I was petrified at the

beginning of the race, because I had not run before. We did not think she

had a chance. We thought she might come fourth or fifth. And I

finished, and I was like, where is everyone? They are still running.

When she won it, it was like, fantastic, unbelievable. And that

was just the start. Danielle is now training to become a Paralympic

athlete. This woman is a scout for Britain's

next Paralympic stars. What are the chances of Danielle

ending up as a Paralympian? She has a very realistic chance. It is

there. Three years on, I have never looked back. I'm more determined

than ever. It's been life-changing, but for the best. Danielle is here

now along with some very special guests. Gold medal-win l-winning

Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Charlotte Evans, and Jade

Etherington and Caroline Powell. Part of the most decorated...

Welcome home. What's it been like? There is a hero's welcome in Belfast

for us. Fantastic. Jade, we know that Danielle has a couple of years

to go. She wants to get to the Paralympics. What should she be

doing then? Keep working and have that goal of the Rio Games. We only

started working together six months ago and if you work really well

together and focus on what you want, you can get some medals. It can

happen. It can. I do believe it can happen. Is training going well? It

is going brilliant. I have been injured quite a while. Are your

parents planning on buying those plane tickets to Rio? They are. I'm

like, "Let me try and get there first." You have all this experience

here that you can tap into, OK? You can have a good chat and maybe try a

medal on? Or not? It is up to you. I want to get my own! Thanks ever so

much. I hope you get back to Lincoln tonight! Thanks ever so much. In a

few minutes, we will be finding out the result of Alex Riley's energy

drink experiment. First, we will speak to someone who could do with a

boost. She is the Radio 2 presenter who is raring to go on her own

challenge, which involves quite a long time on the treadmill here

inside this Perspex box. It is Radio 2's Jo Whiley! APPLAUSE Jo... This

is so weird. I'm going to be in this box. This is my home for the next 26

hours. When you tell me to go I will start going. You will all lead your

lives, you will get on with your days, I will be here. Are you

broadcasting? Yes, yeah. Wow! How is this moment before you starting?

Very surreal. Are you allowed to go for a toilet break? I have five

minutes every hour. Maybe I can score them up! Are we going to do

this? Off you go, Jo. Good luck. Thank you. This is where you take a

deep breath. You have started. You are off! Now, we will talk about YOU

behind your back! There are a few folk in here - Professor Greg Whyte

and Ricky Wilson. I'm getting residency! It is not a Sport Relief

Challenge! Great support. I'm here all show. This is a real challenge?

Jo got up at 6.00am, so as well as the 26 hours staying awake, there is

another whole day, 40 hours she will be awake. She can run, walk and jog

a bit. You have gone for the run, Jo? Of course I'm going to, I'm on

the telly! Listen, whilst Jo tries to pace herself, it is time to go

back to Manchester to see what effect those energy drinks have been

having in class. We have taken 24 15-year-olds and given half of them

a high sugar energy drink to see how it affects them. We have asked our

medical experts to monitor them while their teachers try to spot who

has had the drink. As the test goes on, the blue team's concentration

levels dip. Boys, we need to start this one! Boys! What affect has it

had on you? I felt I could do anything and get away with anything.

It made me more tired. I wanted to go to sleep. Feel a bit hyper. I

wanted to do stuff, like mess about. Of course, the problem for a lot of

schools doesn't come down to one can drunk at lunch time. Children come

into schools, instead of having a breakfast, they have two cans of

energy drink. The impact on a small body of the caffeine, the sugar is

phenomenal. In fact, one survey found that 8% of youngsters are

drinking two cans back-to-back in a single session. We wanted to see

what effect that could have, so guess who got volunteered? If I was

12, and I was necking three of these before school, I could only - I

can't imagine - I can't talk! I can't concentrate. I don't want to

do a fourth can. I think three's enough. Three's plenty. I don't want

to feel more wired! Luckily, the doctor is on hand to monitor the

effects of down downing so many energy drinks in a short period. The

impact on my heart rate is minimal, but all that sugar has a major

effect on how I'm feeling. I can feel my head is a bit more, I don't

know, I wouldn't say I've got a headache, but it's buzzing. The

three cans you've had has 480mg of caffeine, which is equivalent to six

cups of coffee. 46-and-a-half teaspoons of sugar. So, it is a huge

amount. It is not surprising you are feeling an effect on your body.

Downing energy drinks back-to-back is something industry

representatives, the British Soft Drinks Association, say no-one

should be doing. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying these

drinks in moderation. It is like everything. Actually, they are not

intended to be consumed can after can. Meanwhile, at the college, our

experiment has been revealing. While there was a slight improvement in

the test results for both teams, the biggest improvement was in the reds

who didn't have the energy drinks. Unlike the blues. Having the energy

drink made no difference to their cognitive performance, their

attention wasn't any better, their speed of processing wasn't any

better. Their levels of arousal seemed to increase. We noticed it in

their behaviour. They moved around more. They were getting up. They

talked a lot more. They were getting louder. In the red team, the average

pulse rate dropped by five beats per minute. The energy drinkers' rate

went up by four. We ended up with a difference of nine between the two

groups. The heart is beating more times in a minute so that means it

is working harder. Did our panel of teachers work out who had had the

drinks? Blue. Blue. Could the group who drank the energy drinks please

stand up? So, you were spot on. Well done. The industry may not agree,

but at Burnage College the ban on energy drinks is here to stay. As

for me, it will be a long time before I can face one of these

again, I can tell you. If you are not a fan of energy drinks, you

might be surprised to learn how much caffeine you consume in coffee and

tea and Matt is here. The drinks in the film state how much caffeine is

in them on the outside of the cans. We don't know, do we, with an

average cup of coffee? Caffeine is a drug. You can have too much of it.

It would be nice to know. What we did, we went out on to the high

street near here and got ten regular coffees. They differ in size, of

course. That is what you asked for? Yes, from ten different outlets.

What we came back with was ten - these are black coffees - we test

how much caffeine is in each one. The results varied hugely, from the

least, 120mg of caffeine, all the way up to 280mg of caffeine. All in

a "regular" coffee? They do vary. You can get double the caffeine in

one coffee that you would get in another. That is quite shocking. Can

you tell us which brand was the highest? The one that ended with the

most caffeine was Starbucks in our test. As they say, a different

coffee on a different day from the same outlet can give you different

caffeine. Caffeine occurs natural naturally and level levels --

naturally and levels vary. Customers can make an informed choice. It can

vary in one shop. Even it varies from who is making the coffee?

That's right. I would make a strong one for you! Instant coffee at home?

If you compare - this is what the Food Standards Agency said - if you

compare filter coffee, it comes out with more caffeine. It feels like it

needs to be regulated? Yes. Thank you very much. Let's go back to Utah

to see what was in store for Alex when she reached that Portaledge. It

is the end of the first day and we've made it. It may not be the

biggest hotel, but I'm glad of somewhere to rest. I have a surprise

for you. Have you? Before it gets dark, in one of our many bags... I

knew you were a romantic! What is that? Is that a birthday present?

Yes, I made it myself. It's a little birthday cake! No way! Has it

survived? My God, it's survived. Oh, wow! Oh, it's a little birthday

cake. Happy birthday, Alex. Ah. That is quite impressive. Really

impressive. Thank you for carrying that up. My pleasure. Thanks for

looking after me today. Pleasure. That's what I'm here for. Topped off

with a lovely birthday cake. # Happy birthday to you

# Happy birthday dear Alex # Jones

# Happy birthday to you. # APPLAUSE

Very good. Earlier on, we asked for your suggestions on what should be

on the reverse of the new pound coin. We have been inundated with

suggestions. You have that - do the one that you had on the top. The

Blue Peter Badge on the back! A Dalek on the back. Very good. Ruth

thinks Morris dancers. A bit English for a coin that is used around

Britain. It is like putting bagpipes on! Eileen would like to see a

Spitfire. You would like to see a boat? Someone there said they wanted

to see Benedict couple beer batch. Why not? You can see our guest

guests on ITV tomorrow night and W1A on BBC Two tonight. Thanks to Alex

as well. I'm back tomorrow with Joanna Lumley. Bye. Bye.

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