:00:19. > :00:24.Hello, friends and fellow travellers. Welcome to your Friday
:00:24. > :00:30.One Show with Alex Jones and Chris Evans. Quick question - how many
:00:30. > :00:34.pop stars, particle physicists, Top Gear presenters and DJs/One Show
:00:34. > :00:40.presenters fit in a pink car? He should know because he has been on
:00:40. > :00:45.a road trip with Gary Barlow, Professor Brian Cox, and James May.
:00:45. > :00:52.And guess what? I was not invited. You were invited but we forgot to
:00:52. > :00:57.ask you. What did you talk about? Find out later. What goes on in the
:00:57. > :01:00.car stays in the car. Somebody else who was not invited was Alistair
:01:01. > :01:06.McGowan, who has been all around the country finding out about
:01:06. > :01:10.different accents. Can you give us a clue where you have been? I have
:01:10. > :01:17.been finding out whether one of our iconic accents is alive and kicking,
:01:17. > :01:27.or whether it is brown bread. an Oscar-winner who has rubbish on
:01:27. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:39.Have you done any road trips? have. I ride a motorcycle, not one
:01:39. > :01:44.of those big pink things. Petersburg to Moscow, Los Angeles
:01:44. > :01:48.to Las Vegas through Death Valley, Munich took Monza, London to
:01:48. > :01:54.Florence, Abu Dhabi through the desert and back to Abu Dhabi. I
:01:54. > :02:01.love road trips, on a bike. Have you got one planned? I am thinking
:02:01. > :02:11.of going to Sicily. I was talking to the wife. What did she say?She
:02:11. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:15.seemed quite keen. She will be on the back. She will be my bitch.
:02:15. > :02:20.From pistons to pounding the road. This weekend sees the running of
:02:20. > :02:30.the 33rd London Marathon. After Monday's tragic events in Boston,
:02:30. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:35.this year's London Marathon is even When I heard the explosion, I was
:02:35. > :02:40.one street away. It felt like a Tube train going underneath me. I
:02:40. > :02:47.did not give it a second thought that it could have been a bomb.
:02:47. > :02:50.Amateur footage shows the moment of the attack. On Monday, the world
:02:50. > :02:55.stood still as bombs went off on the finishing straight of the
:02:56. > :02:59.Boston Marathon. 347 Britons took part in the race. For some of them,
:02:59. > :03:03.it does not end there because they will also be taking part in the
:03:03. > :03:07.London Marathon this weekend. were quite shocked and did not
:03:07. > :03:14.really understand what was happening. Everything was chaotic
:03:14. > :03:19.around there. To deliberately target families, to successfully
:03:19. > :03:24.killed people, it is just disgusting, unbelievable. After
:03:24. > :03:28.Boston, thoughts quickly turned to the London Marathon, but officials
:03:28. > :03:32.came back with a resounding message - London would definitely go ahead.
:03:32. > :03:35.Having run the London Marathon myself, I remember at this point a
:03:35. > :03:40.few days before the race my mind being full of anxiety and doubt,
:03:40. > :03:43.not knowing what lay ahead. I can only imagine the added pressure
:03:43. > :03:49.that the tragic events on Monday must be placing on some of the
:03:49. > :03:54.runners preparing for the big event on Sunday. School teacher Tricia is
:03:54. > :03:59.trying to focus on Sunday's race. Now that I am home, things have
:03:59. > :04:05.actually started to sink in. You start thinking how close you were,
:04:05. > :04:10.and all of those what-if questions, I suppose. I went to Boston to get
:04:10. > :04:16.a personal best, and it did not happen. But I do not mind. I do not
:04:16. > :04:19.think I will ever take my running that seriously ever again. Rodney
:04:19. > :04:25.moved here from South Africa 14 years ago and began running in
:04:25. > :04:29.order to raise money for the NHS hospital where he works. Has this
:04:29. > :04:34.impacted your decision to run the London Marathon in any way? Not at
:04:34. > :04:42.all. It has not changed me at all. Actually, it just gives me strength
:04:42. > :04:48.to do even more. I think people will be worried, but runners are
:04:48. > :04:51.quite United. We do this because we love running. And I do not think
:04:51. > :04:57.there is anything that will deter us from doing the London Marathon.
:04:58. > :05:02.And for Keith, Sunday will be a tribute to Boston. The Americans in
:05:02. > :05:09.Boston want London to be a big success, a Festival of Running.
:05:09. > :05:12.They want this to be a special day. I am really excited about Sunday. I
:05:12. > :05:17.think it will be a really positive experience for everybody in the
:05:18. > :05:23.running community, and the people of Boston. There is nothing that
:05:23. > :05:27.will deter me from doing the London Marathon. I am going to do it.
:05:27. > :05:31.is my favourite day of the year, my favourite Marathon. The emotional
:05:31. > :05:39.the start line, thinking back to Monday's race, Sunday will be very
:05:39. > :05:44.special. Tricia and Rodney are here in their yellow T-shirts. Good luck
:05:44. > :05:51.on Sundays. And to everybody who is running the marathon. Jeremy is an
:05:51. > :05:58.Oscar winner. Huge Hollywood star. He loves his rubbish. He loves to
:05:58. > :06:05.make films about his rubbish. Look at this. OK, what is he doing? Tell
:06:05. > :06:11.us about that. That is our little overture to your film. That is just
:06:11. > :06:14.south of Beirut Bint Liberton -- Lebanon. It is a massive tip, which
:06:14. > :06:20.is five storeys high, on the edge of the Mediterranean, where we all
:06:20. > :06:24.go on holiday. It is leaching into the Mediterranean and blowing in.
:06:24. > :06:28.Cyprus, Turkey and everybody is getting that particular rubbish.
:06:28. > :06:33.That rubbish is what happens to rubbish if you do nothing to it.
:06:33. > :06:39.And how much rubbish - I think that is about 20 years' worth of this
:06:39. > :06:43.small little place. We bury our rubbish and we Burnet, and we let
:06:43. > :06:48.it blow around, and we produce too much of it. It is a huge problem
:06:48. > :06:51.environmentally, and a huge problem for our health. Why I wanted to
:06:51. > :06:58.make this film so badly, it is a problem we can deal with if we get
:06:58. > :07:01.together and work it out. But it is not a problem that will go away. It
:07:01. > :07:06.is a problem that is increasing enormously and it depends upon our
:07:06. > :07:10.personal action, also won the action of councils to organise
:07:10. > :07:13.recycling in a comprehensive way across the country. Lots of people
:07:13. > :07:19.at home would agree with you and will think, we are doing what we
:07:19. > :07:29.can. We are recycling. But what proof is there that our rubbish is
:07:29. > :07:29.
:07:29. > :07:32.actually recycled questor mark some Even in London, there are different
:07:32. > :07:39.set-ups all over London, and nationwide there are different
:07:39. > :07:45.routines. I believe it should be a cohesive methodology over the whole
:07:45. > :07:51.country. We see in the film that in San Francisco they recycle 80% of
:07:51. > :07:56.what they produce. Which is amazing. All of the food waste is turned
:07:56. > :08:00.into compost with an Arabic Digest has, tiny little machines, which
:08:00. > :08:08.every school and hospital could have, creating compost utter waste
:08:08. > :08:13.food. There are many ways that we can do what they do over there.
:08:13. > :08:16.we could attack the sauce, and get preventive about it. I'm a great
:08:16. > :08:22.believer that we should not have plastic shopping bags. I walk
:08:22. > :08:28.around with this in my bag normally, not in my pocket. It is great. You
:08:28. > :08:34.go to the supermarket with this, and inside you have your bags. Like
:08:34. > :08:40.a magician. Four bags. Put all of your shopping in here and take it
:08:40. > :08:45.home, and have it for the next time. When did you become so conscious
:08:45. > :08:50.about this, and why? I love making movies and telling stories. I
:08:50. > :08:54.thought I would love to use my profile to deal with a problem that
:08:54. > :09:03.is solvable in this country, and draw people's attention to this
:09:03. > :09:09.problem. The woman whose birthday it is today... That is for you, for
:09:09. > :09:13.your shopping. Their guest who keeps on giving. She had all of
:09:13. > :09:17.this information and she said there was a film to be made about trash,
:09:17. > :09:22.so I educated myself. When I learned all we are doing globally
:09:22. > :09:25.and in this country I thought, we have to make this film. You go
:09:25. > :09:31.around the world looking at examples of these big rubbish
:09:31. > :09:37.landfills, and you get stuck in, as well. Here you are, helping to
:09:37. > :09:41.clean up a beach. 2.7 million kilos of trash was cleared from global
:09:41. > :09:46.shorelines in a single day. This is so nice, to wrap up your rubbish
:09:46. > :09:52.and leave it on the beach in a plastic bag. Isn't that thought
:09:52. > :09:57.for?! A staggering amount was from smokers. I feel holier than thou,
:09:57. > :10:07.because at the moment I am not smoking. But I notice a lot of
:10:07. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:13.cigarette butts. There will be. They are not biodegradable. It is a
:10:13. > :10:19.type of plastic. Inside, they also have all of the toxins that are not
:10:19. > :10:22.going into people's lungs. This is a film on genu -- general
:10:22. > :10:28.release. When you make a documentary, how do you decide to
:10:28. > :10:34.make it a film and not for TV? felt it would have longer legs as a
:10:34. > :10:41.film. Many TV documentaries go out one night, and that is it. We have
:10:41. > :10:45.been to film festivals around the world. It is showing in America. It
:10:45. > :10:54.is being shown here over the next month in about 20 cinemas. It is
:10:55. > :11:02.released on Monday online. I think people will know how to get it off
:11:02. > :11:09.the internet. You remind me of Keith Floyd him that. Really?I
:11:09. > :11:14.loved Keith Floyd. Would you play Keith Floyd in a biopic? Certainly.
:11:14. > :11:18.How good would that be? You can see the documentary from Monday.
:11:18. > :11:22.Alistair McGowan has been on his own road trip, looking at different
:11:22. > :11:28.accents from around the UK. On his latest journey, he goes in search
:11:28. > :11:32.of cockney, but did not find it where you might expect him to.
:11:32. > :11:36.The East End of London is home to an accent that is famous all over
:11:36. > :11:42.the world. The east end has given us film stars like Michael Caine,
:11:42. > :11:49.soap stars like Dot Cotton, footballers like David Beckham,
:11:49. > :11:54.style icons like David Beckham, underwear models like David Beckham.
:11:54. > :11:57.But the cockney accent is now under threat from a new kid on the block.
:11:57. > :12:01.Accent expert David Ormsby knows all about it. We are in the East
:12:02. > :12:08.End of London but we will not hear that much Cockney today. We will
:12:08. > :12:16.hear the new accent of the East End, MLE, multicultural London English.
:12:16. > :12:22.Porky pies? Straight up.We had better scarper. MLE is the voice of
:12:22. > :12:28.young London. I am originally from Stratford and have been here for 11
:12:28. > :12:35.years. When I started mixing with other people, I had their uses
:12:35. > :12:43.dialogue. Listening to the way that you are talking, it is like it is
:12:43. > :12:50.going through the back of the mouth. How we speak, it is more relaxed.
:12:50. > :12:53.That is very different. MLE is spoken by people from all ethnic
:12:53. > :12:57.backgrounds and its influence as our multicultural. It is a mix of
:12:57. > :13:03.sounds from places as diverse as the Caribbean, Greece, Asia and
:13:03. > :13:13.Africa. One difference is that I would have expected them to drop
:13:13. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:20.the H. But they are celebrating it. It is back. The speed of MLE's
:13:20. > :13:25.progress is astonishing. Charlie's mum is Cockney through and through.
:13:25. > :13:30.How would you say, they all have a different style of talking? They
:13:30. > :13:35.all have a different style of talking. Charlie? They all have a
:13:35. > :13:39.different style of talking, isn't it? They do not finish the words
:13:39. > :13:43.when they are talking, and that is what I feel we have to do nowadays.
:13:43. > :13:49.The fact that it has changed within one generation is quite alarming,
:13:49. > :13:53.isn't it? Exciting.What surprises me is that the shape of the mouth
:13:53. > :13:59.to produce the accent has changed. It has gone from the front of the
:13:59. > :14:03.mouth to the back of the mouth, and that is extraordinary. With the
:14:03. > :14:10.cockney vowels, the tongue goes on a journey. MLE, you keep your
:14:10. > :14:15.tongue still. I can hear when Debbie is talking, there is more
:14:15. > :14:20.movement of the mouth than when Charlie talks. It goes at the back.
:14:20. > :14:24.If the new sound of the east end is MLE, what has become of cockney?
:14:24. > :14:28.Since the end of World War II, many cockney speakers have been leaving
:14:28. > :14:32.London. We are going to Kent to find the accent we used to hear
:14:32. > :14:37.within the sound of the Bow Bells, the traditional home of cockney.
:14:37. > :14:41.The most popular thing is the bread pudding, which is made with custard.
:14:41. > :14:47.Charlotte is Kent born and raised, but has grown up surrounded by
:14:47. > :14:51.Cockney is. Many people have brought the London accent to us,
:14:51. > :14:59.saying words that have come from London which catch on. Her accent
:14:59. > :15:02.sounds very much like Cockney. of glottal stops. All of those
:15:02. > :15:07.things you would hear in London. With so many cockneys in Kent, what
:15:07. > :15:10.is happening to the county's traditional accent? The Kent accent
:15:10. > :15:17.is dying out, but John Phillips, who spent his life as a farm
:15:17. > :15:22.manager, retains traditional inflections. I worked on the land
:15:22. > :15:27.all my life, and as a schoolboy her work with horses. I am hearing a
:15:27. > :15:32.lot of unique sounds. These are typical sounds of the Kent accent.
:15:32. > :15:39.What is interesting is that all of the vowels are no different place.
:15:39. > :15:44.Something like Queen? He shortens that. Who celebrated her Diamond
:15:44. > :15:50.Jubilee last year? Her Majesty. That, of course, was the Queen. I
:15:50. > :15:54.have met her and shaken hands with her. The rise of MLE in east London
:15:54. > :15:59.and the spread of Cockney into Kent his accent evolution in action.
:15:59. > :16:05.This is how accents are changed and created. It is an incredibly
:16:05. > :16:15.exciting time to explore accents in this country. When next, Brother?
:16:15. > :16:27.
:16:27. > :16:30.is there a blueprint? This MLE, is there a what or who? It has been
:16:30. > :16:39.happening over a number of years, that is the exciting thing, it is
:16:39. > :16:42.such a fast spreading accent, but it does not come from any one person, I
:16:42. > :16:46.suppose Ali G may have been the person, and you have got Rio
:16:46. > :16:51.Ferdinand, he as the most high profile person who has something
:16:51. > :16:56.like that. Baby Plan B in the world of music hazard. But we have not
:16:56. > :17:01.heard it used in terms of newsreaders or presenters, we are
:17:01. > :17:08.not getting it in that area yet. It is like a melting pot, he is good to
:17:08. > :17:14.explain what is going on. The ethnic influences happening in cities
:17:14. > :17:17.around the country, Glasgow as well, Bradford, Bolton, Amir Khan, if you
:17:17. > :17:22.listen to him talking about the way that he fights and that, you can
:17:22. > :17:28.hear about the Bolton, but you can also hear the Pakistani as well, it
:17:28. > :17:36.is a mixture. It is exciting. I am so at my ring of this man, I cannot
:17:36. > :17:42.do accents! By the way, you can, Jeremy! To the old it yet, it is
:17:42. > :17:46.like Amir Khan does not know where he is from. Cockney is being eased
:17:46. > :17:50.out a little bit, but the Kent accent is being squashed, it is a
:17:50. > :17:58.fascinating geographical roasters. There were some fascinating features
:17:58. > :18:08.in Kent, the man in the film was talking about something you would
:18:08. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:18.know about, dropping your yods, it is the sort of thing a birdwatcher
:18:18. > :18:24.might not fancy. The yod is the word you pronounce, so you drop it in
:18:24. > :18:31.Welsh all the time, a word like perpendicular, the sound is missing
:18:31. > :18:41.in perpendicular. Perpendicular? Hugh Edwards does it all the time on
:18:41. > :18:44.
:18:44. > :18:49.the news. That does not necessarily happen in MLE. What about the TH
:18:49. > :18:57.fronting? That is the phrase that the net assists use, when you say
:18:57. > :19:02.third, third instead of third. It happens in traditional Cockney, he
:19:02. > :19:05.came third, didn't he? The old Cockney voices, the taxi driver, he
:19:05. > :19:11.will probably be talking like that, an awful lot of mouth movement going
:19:11. > :19:15.on. Mickey Flannigan, who we all know from the TV, he is from the
:19:15. > :19:24.East End of London, you do not get many people move their mouth more
:19:24. > :19:30.than what he does! It is very deltoid. And Mick Jagger. Mick
:19:30. > :19:37.Jagger is proper. I do not know if it is a teenage thing, they moved
:19:37. > :19:40.their mouth less. Charlie there hardly moved his mouth at all.
:19:40. > :19:45.about that thing where everything goes up at the end, like the
:19:46. > :19:50.Australians? That absolutely horrifies me, the rising
:19:50. > :19:54.inflection. I think that has come from American. There are influences
:19:54. > :19:59.from America a little bit, it is a street accent which is changing all
:19:59. > :20:02.the time. The words that they are using, it is a dialect as well as an
:20:03. > :20:06.accent, they change it. Charlie in the film said, I knew some of the
:20:06. > :20:11.woods for a couple of weeks, then I think, that does not suit me no
:20:11. > :20:18.more, that has gone out of fashion. It doesn't always happened, in the
:20:18. > :20:21.20s and 30s, people would say, jolly good, simply marvellous, to divine.
:20:21. > :20:28.In those days, Victorian parents or grandparents were thinking, have you
:20:28. > :20:32.heard the way these children talk today?! They were horrified.We
:20:32. > :20:35.think of Cockney rhyming slang as quite charming, but the parent we
:20:35. > :20:40.spoke to in the film was concerned about the way her son spoke. But
:20:40. > :20:44.Cockney rhyming slang was invented so that people could talk to each
:20:44. > :20:47.other in slang and not be understood by their parents, and also by the
:20:47. > :20:52.police, if there was criminal activity, they invented word so
:20:52. > :20:56.nobody knew what they were talking about. So that, in its time, had its
:20:56. > :21:04.own connotations. Accents and languages have always been invented.
:21:04. > :21:09.We could listen to you all night, we wish we had time. I thought we did!
:21:09. > :21:13.We do, but talking about the evolution of David Beckham's
:21:13. > :21:16.confidence through his voice. was a thing this week about his
:21:16. > :21:20.accent is changing, and this might be one of the reasons this accent is
:21:20. > :21:24.at the back of the mouth, but he started off talking more like that,
:21:24. > :21:28.he was a very shy sort of person, and what has happened to him
:21:28. > :21:31.recently, it has been picked up in the papers, not that his accent has
:21:31. > :21:38.changed, but he has grown more confident, and when you do that,
:21:38. > :21:43.your mouth opens up, it is the same voice, the same accent, but it has
:21:44. > :21:53.gone from being quite tight... where he is going to end up...
:21:54. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:05.car for a bit of a drive with three of his mates. Alistair, will you
:22:05. > :22:11.give us a clue? Well, the first one is a judge on another channel, on a
:22:11. > :22:16.programme about singing. And the second one talks about the billions
:22:16. > :22:20.and billions of wonders of the universe and can't help laughing at
:22:20. > :22:28.almost everything that he says! And the third one, unlike me, is mad
:22:28. > :22:34.about cars. When I try to do his voice, it never gets a laugh. And
:22:34. > :22:41.Chris was there, too. What we are trying to do is raise
:22:41. > :22:44.awareness for this girl here, the FAB1, next year it is available for
:22:44. > :22:51.rent, and all the money goes to Breast Cancer Care, a brilliant
:22:51. > :22:55.charity. I think James is going to be a nice, relaxed driver. I think
:22:55. > :22:59.it is going to be a nice ride when he is driving. No man would consider
:22:59. > :23:06.driving a Rolls-Royce, it is inappropriate, you are supposed to
:23:06. > :23:10.have your man driving it. Brian Cox, that is a good name for a driver.
:23:10. > :23:14.Two of the most interesting characters on British television,
:23:14. > :23:24.and also Chris! We think you should be driving us out of here, this is
:23:24. > :23:27.
:23:27. > :23:33.the start of the journey, a big pink I already love the car. It is not
:23:33. > :23:36.about the car! We have got to get to John O'Groats. We are already taking
:23:36. > :23:46.double the time we ought to, so we will get there on Saturday morning
:23:46. > :23:55.
:23:55. > :24:05.at this rate. Can you go faster than so long! I have not driven much
:24:05. > :24:26.
:24:26. > :24:32.all his Top Gear moves, revolve, fast catch up, slow revolve, slow
:24:32. > :24:42.pass, fast catch up, overtake. us one of those. Fast catch up,
:24:42. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:55.shot? You do not want someone with a really monotone voice on a journey
:24:55. > :25:05.like this. Especially if it is a northerner, imagine that, all the
:25:05. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:24.is eight o'clock now, we are still south of Carlisle, which is halfway
:25:24. > :25:34.to John O'Groats. It is going to be tight, but we should do it,
:25:34. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:41.hours, talking about space with Brian at the moment, I am teaching
:25:41. > :25:48.him about that, there are a few areas he is not up to speed on, so I
:25:48. > :25:53.am filling him in. I have been teaching Gary a bit of keyboards. I
:25:53. > :26:03.just thought, you know, some of his chord structures would be better
:26:03. > :26:06.with just a bit more knowledge of jazz harmony. I have been
:26:06. > :26:10.desperately trying to explain the origins of the universe to Professor
:26:10. > :26:18.Brian Cox, I do not think he realises how big it is, it is
:26:18. > :26:28.massive! They are all gorgeous, all brilliant. Health, relationships,
:26:28. > :26:28.
:26:28. > :27:11.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:27:11. > :27:14.acupuncture and colonic. Not Get in the car, I will drive, James
:27:14. > :27:24.has already started on the source. We will have breakfast and then open
:27:24. > :27:32.
:27:32. > :27:42.that! Thanks to everybody. By the way, hello, great fundraising, what
:27:42. > :27:48.is your name? I am Marion, Chris.I will be Marion, UB Chris! I am
:27:48. > :27:52.running in memory of my cousin, she got over breast cancer, ran last
:27:52. > :27:58.year's London Marathon and badly collapsed three days later, she
:27:58. > :28:05.died. You are not just running one. I am doing Edinburgh in five weeks'
:28:05. > :28:10.time. I am Esther, I am a breast cancer survivor. Breast cancer
:28:10. > :28:19.survivor! I am running for my friend Gillian. I am running for my mum, a
:28:19. > :28:27.breast cancer survivor. What is your name? I am poorly, and I am running
:28:27. > :28:34.for Prime Minister! -- Orly. I am running for my friend Tony, who lost
:28:34. > :28:37.his two-year-old. What about you, Gary? I am running for the Muscular
:28:37. > :28:42.Dystrophy Campaign, and my good friend Scott, who has the condition.
:28:42. > :28:48.He cannot run it on Sunday, so I will do my very best. This is going
:28:48. > :28:55.to be your second marathon. Yes, I was in Paris two weeks ago, I am
:28:56. > :29:01.running for a charity that provide wheelchairs, I am doing it for my