19/04/2013 The One Show

Hello, friends and fellow travellers. Welcome to your Friday

One Show with Alex Jones and Chris Evans. Quick question - how many

pop stars, particle physicists, Top Gear presenters and DJs/One Show

presenters fit in a pink car? He should know because he has been on

a road trip with Gary Barlow, Professor Brian Cox, and James May.

And guess what? I was not invited. You were invited but we forgot to

ask you. What did you talk about? Find out later. What goes on in the

car stays in the car. Somebody else who was not invited was Alistair

McGowan, who has been all around the country finding out about

different accents. Can you give us a clue where you have been? I have

been finding out whether one of our iconic accents is alive and kicking,

or whether it is brown bread. an Oscar-winner who has rubbish on

Have you done any road trips? have. I ride a motorcycle, not one

of those big pink things. Petersburg to Moscow, Los Angeles

to Las Vegas through Death Valley, Munich took Monza, London to

Florence, Abu Dhabi through the desert and back to Abu Dhabi. I

love road trips, on a bike. Have you got one planned? I am thinking

of going to Sicily. I was talking to the wife. What did she say?She

seemed quite keen. She will be on the back. She will be my bitch.

From pistons to pounding the road. This weekend sees the running of

the 33rd London Marathon. After Monday's tragic events in Boston,

this year's London Marathon is even When I heard the explosion, I was

one street away. It felt like a Tube train going underneath me. I

did not give it a second thought that it could have been a bomb.

Amateur footage shows the moment of the attack. On Monday, the world

stood still as bombs went off on the finishing straight of the

Boston Marathon. 347 Britons took part in the race. For some of them,

it does not end there because they will also be taking part in the

London Marathon this weekend. were quite shocked and did not

really understand what was happening. Everything was chaotic

around there. To deliberately target families, to successfully

killed people, it is just disgusting, unbelievable. After

Boston, thoughts quickly turned to the London Marathon, but officials

came back with a resounding message - London would definitely go ahead.

Having run the London Marathon myself, I remember at this point a

few days before the race my mind being full of anxiety and doubt,

not knowing what lay ahead. I can only imagine the added pressure

that the tragic events on Monday must be placing on some of the

runners preparing for the big event on Sunday. School teacher Tricia is

trying to focus on Sunday's race. Now that I am home, things have

actually started to sink in. You start thinking how close you were,

and all of those what-if questions, I suppose. I went to Boston to get

a personal best, and it did not happen. But I do not mind. I do not

think I will ever take my running that seriously ever again. Rodney

moved here from South Africa 14 years ago and began running in

order to raise money for the NHS hospital where he works. Has this

impacted your decision to run the London Marathon in any way? Not at

all. It has not changed me at all. Actually, it just gives me strength

to do even more. I think people will be worried, but runners are

quite United. We do this because we love running. And I do not think

there is anything that will deter us from doing the London Marathon.

And for Keith, Sunday will be a tribute to Boston. The Americans in

Boston want London to be a big success, a Festival of Running.

They want this to be a special day. I am really excited about Sunday. I

think it will be a really positive experience for everybody in the

running community, and the people of Boston. There is nothing that

will deter me from doing the London Marathon. I am going to do it.

is my favourite day of the year, my favourite Marathon. The emotional

the start line, thinking back to Monday's race, Sunday will be very

special. Tricia and Rodney are here in their yellow T-shirts. Good luck

on Sundays. And to everybody who is running the marathon. Jeremy is an

Oscar winner. Huge Hollywood star. He loves his rubbish. He loves to

make films about his rubbish. Look at this. OK, what is he doing? Tell

us about that. That is our little overture to your film. That is just

south of Beirut Bint Liberton -- Lebanon. It is a massive tip, which

is five storeys high, on the edge of the Mediterranean, where we all

go on holiday. It is leaching into the Mediterranean and blowing in.

Cyprus, Turkey and everybody is getting that particular rubbish.

That rubbish is what happens to rubbish if you do nothing to it.

And how much rubbish - I think that is about 20 years' worth of this

small little place. We bury our rubbish and we Burnet, and we let

it blow around, and we produce too much of it. It is a huge problem

environmentally, and a huge problem for our health. Why I wanted to

make this film so badly, it is a problem we can deal with if we get

together and work it out. But it is not a problem that will go away. It

is a problem that is increasing enormously and it depends upon our

personal action, also won the action of councils to organise

recycling in a comprehensive way across the country. Lots of people

at home would agree with you and will think, we are doing what we

can. We are recycling. But what proof is there that our rubbish is

actually recycled questor mark some Even in London, there are different

set-ups all over London, and nationwide there are different

routines. I believe it should be a cohesive methodology over the whole

country. We see in the film that in San Francisco they recycle 80% of

what they produce. Which is amazing. All of the food waste is turned

into compost with an Arabic Digest has, tiny little machines, which

every school and hospital could have, creating compost utter waste

food. There are many ways that we can do what they do over there.

we could attack the sauce, and get preventive about it. I'm a great

believer that we should not have plastic shopping bags. I walk

around with this in my bag normally, not in my pocket. It is great. You

go to the supermarket with this, and inside you have your bags. Like

a magician. Four bags. Put all of your shopping in here and take it

home, and have it for the next time. When did you become so conscious

about this, and why? I love making movies and telling stories. I

thought I would love to use my profile to deal with a problem that

is solvable in this country, and draw people's attention to this

problem. The woman whose birthday it is today... That is for you, for

your shopping. Their guest who keeps on giving. She had all of

this information and she said there was a film to be made about trash,

so I educated myself. When I learned all we are doing globally

and in this country I thought, we have to make this film. You go

around the world looking at examples of these big rubbish

landfills, and you get stuck in, as well. Here you are, helping to

clean up a beach. 2.7 million kilos of trash was cleared from global

shorelines in a single day. This is so nice, to wrap up your rubbish

and leave it on the beach in a plastic bag. Isn't that thought

for?! A staggering amount was from smokers. I feel holier than thou,

because at the moment I am not smoking. But I notice a lot of

cigarette butts. There will be. They are not biodegradable. It is a

type of plastic. Inside, they also have all of the toxins that are not

going into people's lungs. This is a film on genu -- general

release. When you make a documentary, how do you decide to

make it a film and not for TV? felt it would have longer legs as a

film. Many TV documentaries go out one night, and that is it. We have

been to film festivals around the world. It is showing in America. It

is being shown here over the next month in about 20 cinemas. It is

released on Monday online. I think people will know how to get it off

the internet. You remind me of Keith Floyd him that. Really?I

loved Keith Floyd. Would you play Keith Floyd in a biopic? Certainly.

How good would that be? You can see the documentary from Monday.

Alistair McGowan has been on his own road trip, looking at different

accents from around the UK. On his latest journey, he goes in search

of cockney, but did not find it where you might expect him to.

The East End of London is home to an accent that is famous all over

the world. The east end has given us film stars like Michael Caine,

soap stars like Dot Cotton, footballers like David Beckham,

style icons like David Beckham, underwear models like David Beckham.

But the cockney accent is now under threat from a new kid on the block.

Accent expert David Ormsby knows all about it. We are in the East

End of London but we will not hear that much Cockney today. We will

hear the new accent of the East End, MLE, multicultural London English.

Porky pies? Straight up.We had better scarper. MLE is the voice of

young London. I am originally from Stratford and have been here for 11

years. When I started mixing with other people, I had their uses

dialogue. Listening to the way that you are talking, it is like it is

going through the back of the mouth. How we speak, it is more relaxed.

That is very different. MLE is spoken by people from all ethnic

backgrounds and its influence as our multicultural. It is a mix of

sounds from places as diverse as the Caribbean, Greece, Asia and

Africa. One difference is that I would have expected them to drop

the H. But they are celebrating it. It is back. The speed of MLE's

progress is astonishing. Charlie's mum is Cockney through and through.

How would you say, they all have a different style of talking? They

all have a different style of talking. Charlie? They all have a

different style of talking, isn't it? They do not finish the words

when they are talking, and that is what I feel we have to do nowadays.

The fact that it has changed within one generation is quite alarming,

isn't it? Exciting.What surprises me is that the shape of the mouth

to produce the accent has changed. It has gone from the front of the

mouth to the back of the mouth, and that is extraordinary. With the

cockney vowels, the tongue goes on a journey. MLE, you keep your

tongue still. I can hear when Debbie is talking, there is more

movement of the mouth than when Charlie talks. It goes at the back.

If the new sound of the east end is MLE, what has become of cockney?

Since the end of World War II, many cockney speakers have been leaving

London. We are going to Kent to find the accent we used to hear

within the sound of the Bow Bells, the traditional home of cockney.

The most popular thing is the bread pudding, which is made with custard.

Charlotte is Kent born and raised, but has grown up surrounded by

Cockney is. Many people have brought the London accent to us,

saying words that have come from London which catch on. Her accent

sounds very much like Cockney. of glottal stops. All of those

things you would hear in London. With so many cockneys in Kent, what

is happening to the county's traditional accent? The Kent accent

is dying out, but John Phillips, who spent his life as a farm

manager, retains traditional inflections. I worked on the land

all my life, and as a schoolboy her work with horses. I am hearing a

lot of unique sounds. These are typical sounds of the Kent accent.

What is interesting is that all of the vowels are no different place.

Something like Queen? He shortens that. Who celebrated her Diamond

Jubilee last year? Her Majesty. That, of course, was the Queen. I

have met her and shaken hands with her. The rise of MLE in east London

and the spread of Cockney into Kent his accent evolution in action.

This is how accents are changed and created. It is an incredibly

exciting time to explore accents in this country. When next, Brother?

is there a blueprint? This MLE, is there a what or who? It has been

happening over a number of years, that is the exciting thing, it is

such a fast spreading accent, but it does not come from any one person, I

suppose Ali G may have been the person, and you have got Rio

Ferdinand, he as the most high profile person who has something

like that. Baby Plan B in the world of music hazard. But we have not

heard it used in terms of newsreaders or presenters, we are

not getting it in that area yet. It is like a melting pot, he is good to

explain what is going on. The ethnic influences happening in cities

around the country, Glasgow as well, Bradford, Bolton, Amir Khan, if you

listen to him talking about the way that he fights and that, you can

hear about the Bolton, but you can also hear the Pakistani as well, it

is a mixture. It is exciting. I am so at my ring of this man, I cannot

do accents! By the way, you can, Jeremy! To the old it yet, it is

like Amir Khan does not know where he is from. Cockney is being eased

out a little bit, but the Kent accent is being squashed, it is a

fascinating geographical roasters. There were some fascinating features

in Kent, the man in the film was talking about something you would

know about, dropping your yods, it is the sort of thing a birdwatcher

might not fancy. The yod is the word you pronounce, so you drop it in

Welsh all the time, a word like perpendicular, the sound is missing

in perpendicular. Perpendicular? Hugh Edwards does it all the time on

the news. That does not necessarily happen in MLE. What about the TH

fronting? That is the phrase that the net assists use, when you say

third, third instead of third. It happens in traditional Cockney, he

came third, didn't he? The old Cockney voices, the taxi driver, he

will probably be talking like that, an awful lot of mouth movement going

on. Mickey Flannigan, who we all know from the TV, he is from the

East End of London, you do not get many people move their mouth more

than what he does! It is very deltoid. And Mick Jagger. Mick

Jagger is proper. I do not know if it is a teenage thing, they moved

their mouth less. Charlie there hardly moved his mouth at all.

about that thing where everything goes up at the end, like the

Australians? That absolutely horrifies me, the rising

inflection. I think that has come from American. There are influences

from America a little bit, it is a street accent which is changing all

the time. The words that they are using, it is a dialect as well as an

accent, they change it. Charlie in the film said, I knew some of the

woods for a couple of weeks, then I think, that does not suit me no

more, that has gone out of fashion. It doesn't always happened, in the

20s and 30s, people would say, jolly good, simply marvellous, to divine.

In those days, Victorian parents or grandparents were thinking, have you

heard the way these children talk today?! They were horrified.We

think of Cockney rhyming slang as quite charming, but the parent we

spoke to in the film was concerned about the way her son spoke. But

Cockney rhyming slang was invented so that people could talk to each

other in slang and not be understood by their parents, and also by the

police, if there was criminal activity, they invented word so

nobody knew what they were talking about. So that, in its time, had its

own connotations. Accents and languages have always been invented.

We could listen to you all night, we wish we had time. I thought we did!

We do, but talking about the evolution of David Beckham's

confidence through his voice. was a thing this week about his

accent is changing, and this might be one of the reasons this accent is

at the back of the mouth, but he started off talking more like that,

he was a very shy sort of person, and what has happened to him

recently, it has been picked up in the papers, not that his accent has

changed, but he has grown more confident, and when you do that,

your mouth opens up, it is the same voice, the same accent, but it has

gone from being quite tight... where he is going to end up...

car for a bit of a drive with three of his mates. Alistair, will you

give us a clue? Well, the first one is a judge on another channel, on a

programme about singing. And the second one talks about the billions

and billions of wonders of the universe and can't help laughing at

almost everything that he says! And the third one, unlike me, is mad

about cars. When I try to do his voice, it never gets a laugh. And

Chris was there, too. What we are trying to do is raise

awareness for this girl here, the FAB1, next year it is available for

rent, and all the money goes to Breast Cancer Care, a brilliant

charity. I think James is going to be a nice, relaxed driver. I think

it is going to be a nice ride when he is driving. No man would consider

driving a Rolls-Royce, it is inappropriate, you are supposed to

have your man driving it. Brian Cox, that is a good name for a driver.

Two of the most interesting characters on British television,

and also Chris! We think you should be driving us out of here, this is

the start of the journey, a big pink I already love the car. It is not

about the car! We have got to get to John O'Groats. We are already taking

double the time we ought to, so we will get there on Saturday morning

at this rate. Can you go faster than so long! I have not driven much

all his Top Gear moves, revolve, fast catch up, slow revolve, slow

pass, fast catch up, overtake. us one of those. Fast catch up,

shot? You do not want someone with a really monotone voice on a journey

like this. Especially if it is a northerner, imagine that, all the

is eight o'clock now, we are still south of Carlisle, which is halfway

to John O'Groats. It is going to be tight, but we should do it,

hours, talking about space with Brian at the moment, I am teaching

him about that, there are a few areas he is not up to speed on, so I

am filling him in. I have been teaching Gary a bit of keyboards. I

just thought, you know, some of his chord structures would be better

with just a bit more knowledge of jazz harmony. I have been

desperately trying to explain the origins of the universe to Professor

Brian Cox, I do not think he realises how big it is, it is

massive! They are all gorgeous, all brilliant. Health, relationships,

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

acupuncture and colonic. Not Get in the car, I will drive, James

has already started on the source. We will have breakfast and then open

that! Thanks to everybody. By the way, hello, great fundraising, what

is your name? I am Marion, Chris.I will be Marion, UB Chris! I am

running in memory of my cousin, she got over breast cancer, ran last

year's London Marathon and badly collapsed three days later, she

died. You are not just running one. I am doing Edinburgh in five weeks'

time. I am Esther, I am a breast cancer survivor. Breast cancer

survivor! I am running for my friend Gillian. I am running for my mum, a

breast cancer survivor. What is your name? I am poorly, and I am running

for Prime Minister! -- Orly. I am running for my friend Tony, who lost

his two-year-old. What about you, Gary? I am running for the Muscular

Dystrophy Campaign, and my good friend Scott, who has the condition.

He cannot run it on Sunday, so I will do my very best. This is going

to be your second marathon. Yes, I was in Paris two weeks ago, I am

running for a charity that provide wheelchairs, I am doing it for my