19/05/2014 The One Show

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

Tonight we're joined by the mum who put the mmmmm into

Malaysian cooking when she lifted the Masterchef trophy on Friday.

Ping is busy cooking up her take on a '60s classic, because

our guest tonight is the star of a big new drama set in 1969.

Thank you for having me back. Mr Sloane starts this week. Yes, I

think it is Friday at nine o'clock. Your new show Mr Sloane starts this

week and, as well as yourself, it stars the hottest actress

in town, Olivia Coleman. She won her third BAFTA last night -

best actress for Broadchurch. A brilliant speech, speech of the

night. She is wonderful in green. I always say that to her.

Would you prefer her as your real sister or real wife?

Don't make me choose! Maybe she could be both. I think I would be

lucky to have either. I feel very honoured and blessed that I have had

a chance to work with her as much as I have. She is just a normal person

who happens to be a fantastic actor, and I think she is only one

of the only people where I actually find me moving out of myself during

a scene with her to watch her. I can feel myself levitating out of my own

body to see what she does. Last time you were on, you are telling us all

about your love of sci-fi. And as you're such a sci-fi fan,

we thought we'd introduce you to Linda is a real robot who performs

a very serious job. But first,

the days are long gone when all a bobby on the beat could turn to

was a truncheon and a whistle. More

and more policemen now have access Joe Crowley's been to see

how they're using it. Last month, this CCTV footage

emerged of a naked man being tasered in a police cell. It is being

investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and

sparked a debate about how the police use stun guns. It used to be

that only firearms officers could use a Taser, but since 2008, any

offers can carry one if they have been trained. In 2008, a Taser was

used to just over 3000 times, but that figure has increased

significantly each year, and in 2013, they were used over 10,000

times. That is up almost a third from the previous year. I have come

to west London to see these offices learn how to use a Taser. Three days

ago, they had never held one, and by tomorrow, they could be using one on

the streets. There are seven stages. Drawn, aimed, arcing, dotting, stun,

drive stun and firing. Only the last three involve stunning the target.

In over 50% of cases, just aiming with a red dot is enough to stop

people. Sergeant Andy Harding as an instructor. Yellow when it is fired,

two probes come out of the end and attach themselves to the person's

clothing or in their skin, and the electricity is passed down the wire

to that person. In simple terms, your muscles will freeze and you

fall to the ground. The number of police officers using them is going

up. Is that an increase in violence or because more officers are

trained? It isn't an increase of violence. It gives officers and

ability to deal with that violence at a distance. It is that distance

that was a problem in this case. 65 euros Colin was on his way to meet

friends when he was shot with a stun gun. He is blind in one eye. I could

hear voices, but I didn't think they would be speaking to me, they

shouted police! A police officer had mistaken Colin for a man reported to

be on the loose with a samurai sword. I fell to the floor. I

thought I was going to have a stroke. The trouble with a Taser is

that they don't know people's medical history. I would prefer a

truncheon, at least they would have to come up to me and get close

enough to see me. Are police getting trigger-happy?

to come up to me and get close enough to see me. Are police I

suppose the public might fear that the police are using the power to

inflict pain without really understanding the consequences. We

go into great detail about how this actually works and what the effects

are on people and what the medical implications are if it doesn't

according to go to plan. This is supposed to represent a real life

situation. You can see the already have their Taser is. Come out

towards me! Look at your chest. This is a Taser, 50,000 volts. They are

giving the morning they have been taught. It looked like they followed

the textbook training manual. Their training showed them that they need

to be ready, but not to go for that is the first option. The first

option is verbal communication. Commander Neil is the leading Taser

commander. There are seven types of Taser years, from drawing it from

the holster to actually firing it, but the number of times the Taser is

actually fired is not dramatically going up. Amnesty International says

it has documented 500 deaths are causing to Taser use in the US. Can

they kill people? We don't think it is a weapon that can kill. This is

not a weapon that should stop someone's heart. But the

manufacturers also say that you should not aim at the chest. If you

are of short stature, or have taken substances, it can carry some risk,

but any use of force carries a risk. If you have it on you, you are going

to draw it. I didn't realise those cables came out, did you? You know a

lot from watching the One Show! . Mr Sloane starts on Friday the 23rd

of May at 9pm on Sky Atlantic HD. What is his background? He is stuck

in the 1950s. His touchstones are his wife of tenures and his job, and

he loses both on the same day. So he has nowhere to go, and he doesn't

know what this weird world is around him with hippies and marijuana. And

he essentially crumples in on himself. It is a comedy, despite how

I have... It is one of those unfortunate things we were laughing

at one's misfortune. Let see the hapless Jeremy Sloane putting his

foot in it. Would you like to sit down? No, thank you. It's very kind.

I'm getting off at the next stop. When's it's due, your arrival? I'm

not... Nothing is due! You are very rude! Mind your own business! I'm

very sorry. Well done. It is hilarious, but you would never

do that in real life, would you? I did, sadly, when I was a waiter. It

was a table of two ladies, and I thought I would try and perhaps talk

about children, thinking she was pregnant to try to up my tip, and

she wasn't, and it was terrible. She left no tip.

This part was created for you. Yes. Does that come with its pressures? I

put myself under a lot of pressure to be good and to remember my

lines, and to put the working, so I don't think there is going to be any

more pressure than, really. You never feel it as pressure. It is

like what you guys do here. You come to work everyday, and if you were to

of it as a whole, then you would feel pressure, but it is a minute by

minute thing when you are onset. But it is very flattering as an actor

have someone approach you and say, I want to write this thing for you. I

like all very much, I have known him for a long time, here's a weird,

creepy old fellow. I like him very much. And to get to work with him

every day was a treat. And it is set in 1969, so it is a modern -ish

period drama, in a way. Did you enjoy having the costumes and

recreating scenes from the nineteen sixties? It is not swinging. Our

production designer was a lovely man called Dennis who has been around

for ages and is amazing. In Sloane's house and every other set,

it is so densely packed with period objects that it just kind of makes

it so much easier. Every drawer or cupboard you open is full of stuff

from the 60s, which is amazing. Professor Alison Roberts is here to

launch a ?10 million prize to solve one of humanity's problem. You can

vote for the one issue you think is the most important book. Here are

your six options. 300 years ago, Yorkshire clockmaker John Harrison

solved the problem laid out by the first prize with this, the Marine

timekeeper number four. It allowed sailors to know exactly where they

were at sea, and in doing so, saved countless lives. The Longhi tutor

committee has now reconvened to administer a new prize fund with ?10

million up for grabs. They have identified six pressing challenges

facing the world today. But only one will be awarded the prize. In no

particular order, here are the six categories. First up, flight. Our

appetite for fossil fuels is suffocating our planet, and our love

of flight is part of the problem. Engineers are working to find

alternatives to create zero carbon flight. Will it be battery powered

aircraft, hydrogen powered engines or something not yet invented? Vote

for flight if you think the prize should go towards solving this

problem in the sky. Next, paralysis. Every year, over a thousand people

in the UK lose the ability to walk, whether from a stroke, disease or

injury. The number of war veterans injured in recent years has also

added to the number. Scientists and engineers are looking at ways to

repair spinal injuries, and to provide technology to better help

the afflicted. If you think this is humanity's most pressing problem,

vote for paralysis. Next, food. Over 1 billion people on

earth are deficient in some kind of key nutrients that a healthy person

requires. But with farmland running out, what can science and technology

do to help? Gene modification of crops may be the answer. All the

answer could be that more of us become less squeamish about what we

eat. Eating insects instead of livestock may be the solution. If

nourishing the world concerns you most, vote for food. Clean drinking

water is something we all need, at the world's population is growing

fast, and we have the same amount of fresh water to go around. So where

do you get more fresh water from? Desalination plants that turn water

from the sea into drinking water already exist, but they are

expensive. Perhaps the chief, -- a cheaper, more efficient technology

could be invented. If you think clean water is our most vital

challenge, vote for water. Antibiotics are only 70 years old,

and have revolutionised medicine. But overuse has minimised their

effectiveness. In our hospitals, there are already dangerous bacteria

that antibiotics have no effect upon. If this goes unchecked, the

health of salt could be in real peril. A simple test for bacterial

infections that can target the correct time to use antibiotics

could reduce antibacterial resistance. If you think our most

pressing concern is to address this cornerstone of modern medicine, vote

for antibiotics. medicine is that people can expect

to live longer but an ageing population brings new challenges of

its own, with a growing number of people living with dementia. It is a

problem that is likely to touch all our lives. If you think dementia is

the greatest problem facing our increasing population, vote for

dementia. 300 years ago when John Harrison won the original longer to

challenge, he was not a renowned physicist, he was a clockmaker from

Yorkshire. It is hoped the Longer choose to -- Longitude prize will

change the future and it is up to you to vote. What do you think?

Water. That antibiotics? What! It is nearly impossible. Professor Alice

Roberts is here. How can people vote? People can vote from nine

o'clock on BBC Two after the Horizon programme. You can vote by text and

online. And then voting will stay open for a whole month. And at the

end of the month, the 25th of June, we will decide on the winner and it

will be here. Then we will know what we need to focus on. How will this

?10 million prize fund be awarded? The important thing to remember is

that it is a prize fund. It may not be one massive lump sum to one

person at the end of this challenge. We may use some of the money to go

along to stimulate innovation and research. But there will still be a

significant amount, which is given to the person, the team of people,

that come up with a solution. And you have brought in lovely Linda the

Robot. She is roaming around over there. Tell us what she can do. On

the surface she looks quite unremarkable, in a way. You have

seen too many robots! It is what is inside that is really clever. She is

an autonomous robot, so we don't have to programme her to do just

what we want. She works out where she is, her environment, and what

she needs to do. For instance, she knows the difference between objects

and people. She knows that. And she will start working out what she

needs. At the moment she is being used in a care home. She does not

know much about personal space, does she? ! She is getting quite close to

me. But she has got to be very close to work things out. There are a few

versions being designed at the moment, a collaborative project

working at the University of Birmingham. She would not replace

nurses in a care home but help them. She might spot when things are going

wrong, when somebody gets up in the night, when somebody ends up in the

wrong place, if somebody falls over. She can act as an early warning

system, to help carers better look after people. And tell patients if

they have got a nice shirt! She can point that out. It is quite funny

because if she needs to reverse, you've just pushed her away. One of

the other huge issues is the world food issue and one solution is that

we should be less squeamish with what we eat. We have some insects in

the studio to try. How would this work? Again it is just an idea.

Malnutrition is a huge problem and we have a growing global population

so it will get worse. There are several things to think about,

providing enough energy and also getting enough protein. At the

moment we cannot possibly all eat as much meat globally as we do in the

UK. If we want to increase everybody's protein intake, that

insects might be a good way of doing that? What? ! They look quite

beastly like that but if you ground them into a party and put it in a

pitta bread with hummus, delicious. I agree and that is just one idea.

We want people to come up with original ideas and real innovation.

Something like the original Longitude prize, which was a

left-field idea from Harrison. It involves everybody. It could be

somebody watching The One Show tonight. Somebody who is not a

traditional scientist and comes up with a solution. But first we need

to choose the issue and voting open straight after Horizon this week and

we will be revealing the winning category on the 25th of June The One

Show. Are you ready? I am. I have practised this bit. I hat for you

and off you go. Please ensure your tray is stowed in front of you and

your seat is returns to an upright position and electronic devices are

turned off, except for your television. We have swapped hats!

Anyway, we can reveal how the best pilots in the business prepare for

take-off. I have filmed birds in flight many

times before but how they achieve take-off is always fascinating. It

is something almost all birds do but it varies a lot between species. To

take off, you need lift and thrust. In aeroplanes, lift comes from the

wings and engines provide the thrust. But birds use their wings

for both, which is what flapping is about. Different sized birds have

very different take-off techniques. I am starting small. Small birds,

small camera, but one big advantage. I can trigger it remotely with an

app on my phone. This footage is four times slower than normal speed,

but even so, the wings flapping like crazy. Such mobile wings give them

great precision when taking off, something that small birds like

these ones do hundreds of times a day. They must have taken off five

times in a minute at least and it is actually very important for small

birds to keep that speed of take-off going, because there are predators

around here. Small garden birds have relatively large wings for their

body size, making multiple take-off is fairly easy, but for birds like

pheasants, which spent 90% of the time on the ground, getting airborne

is much more work. There is some vegetation here which I will use to

hide me slightly. Some of these pheasants are probably feeling

vulnerable and exposed and if something spooks them, they will

take off. That will be my chance to get a shot. When they left off,

their wings twist, enabling them to go straight up in the air. That is

not great for controlled flight but it is good for getting out of

danger. Take-off is a big deal for a heavy bird like a pheasant. How does

one of our heaviest flying birds, this one, solve the problem? This is

a unique natural habitat where the birds are thoroughly used to people.

There are still heard it here today and I have enlisted their help.

Swans always take off into the wind, which gives them a lift. They are to

the end of the lagoon and because they are so big, they are reluctant

flyers. By lowering -- by encouraging them into the downwind

end, we hope we can get them to take off here. Here we go. But our first

attempt does not quite go according to plan. Don't get too close. Come

on. Some swans do take flight, but much closer to me than I was

expecting. I am going to move. Just reposition. With my long lens, I

need to be much further back from their starting point to catch their

long run-up. By being in the water, I have now got a low angle, closer

to their level. The swans reset and I have one last chance to get the

shot. We have birds going. Swans can way 15 kilos, a massive bulk to lift

into the air. It is a huge amount of effort that the birds have to put in

to get going from stationary. They cannot twist their wings as much as

pheasants, so they need to gather forward speed to get airborne. Then

the legs are beginning to kick in, providing that extra thrust, running

across the water. Swans can sometimes run for 100 metres before

taking off, which is a bit like a 747 needing a runway over 1000 miles

long. And then finally we have liftoff. It is clear from what I

have been filming today that birds have evolved all sorts of ways for

taking off. Using high speed cameras to slow down the crucial moment of

take-off has given me an insight into the remarkable techniques some

of our British birds used to get airborne.

What a beautiful sight. A majestic creature. On Friday Ping Coombes

became the 10th person to lift the MasterChef trophy. Ping! How is life

treating you after you became MasterChef winner? It has not sunk

in yet that I am talking to you guys. It is kind of surreal for me.

It has been very busy, hasn't it? Yes, but I am enjoying it and I love

cooking. Thank you for putting us our dinner tonight but before we

tasted, let's sue the moment that you triumphed and it is quite a

moment. -- let's see. The MasterChef Champion is Ping. I am amazed by the

amount of work and the appearance of your dishes. It is absolutely

stunning. Didn't even touch the sides! Good

girl. Get it down you. We heard that you had a text message from a

special head of state after winning. What happened? I woke up and there

was a text from the Prime Minister of Malaysia. That is pretty special.

What did he say? He said congratulations to me. Truly

world-class Malaysian flavours. How did he get your number? We are now

going to sample the flavours that they were talking about. What have

you cooked for us? Today I have my take on duck a l'orange. I know you

are doing a programme set in the 60s. So that is my oriental take on

it, a Malaysian take. We have duck legs in this. Are we all write to

get tasting? Yes. -- all right. You said these were swans! I was joking!

Please dip into this. Into this? That is orange mayonnaise. They take

on duck a l'orange. -- my take. In situations like this everybody said

it is lovely but it really is first class. And we have crunchy salad to

freshen it up. That is all we have time for tonight. Thank you to Ping

for the lovely food. I must not speak with my mouth full! And good

luck for Mr Sloane. That tastes much better than the cricket! And

tomorrow we are joined by the original Eastender Ian Beale, Adam

Woodyatt. See you tomorrow. Goodbye.