:00:23. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to the Friday One Show with a spongy Chris Evans.
:00:27. > :00:36.a delight fully edible Alex Jones. Who has turned us into a cake? It
:00:36. > :00:43.is our special guest, Jane Asher. Good evening. I think you look a
:00:43. > :00:47.little lecture us. I am very happy with the cake version of me. It is
:00:47. > :00:54.a thinner version of you. You look like Lynda Bellingham. That is not
:00:54. > :00:57.a bad thing. We are going to talk cakes and six decades of acting
:00:57. > :01:02.with Jane Asher, and Dom Littlewood takes the new pants to the street
:01:02. > :01:05.to see if they can suck a man in as well as they claim. And Phil
:01:05. > :01:10.Tufnell is back with some amazing little art you can get for free, if
:01:11. > :01:15.you were only more observant. summer is a great time to be in the
:01:15. > :01:24.garden, if you have one, but many people have to make do with a
:01:24. > :01:29.window box. Help is at hand from Christine Walkden.
:01:29. > :01:37.Something very odd is going on. I am getting my hands dirty, but not
:01:37. > :01:47.in compost. I am trying a spot of matchmaking. Not that sort of love!
:01:47. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:53.Garden in love. John grew up with a big garden but living in a London
:01:53. > :01:58.flat he has to make do with a few window-boxes. He is keen to garden
:01:58. > :02:02.and he applied for an allotment, but the news was not good. How long
:02:03. > :02:09.was the waiting list? Up to seven years. My partner was getting it
:02:09. > :02:13.for my birthday. That is when the matchmaking started. 88-year-old
:02:13. > :02:16.Ken has been caring for his garden since 1970 but a recent fall left
:02:16. > :02:22.him struggling to look after a patch that he has taken so much
:02:22. > :02:28.pride in over the last 40 years. How long is it since you were able
:02:28. > :02:33.to guard and effectively yourself? Two or three years. I fell, and
:02:33. > :02:38.that started it. It became difficult to bend. How did you meet
:02:38. > :02:45.John? My daughter said, why don't you go to the council and ask if
:02:45. > :02:49.you could be put on the list for a partner. A garden partner. That was
:02:49. > :02:55.when Ken, needing help with his garden, found John, desperately
:02:56. > :02:59.seeking one. Back in April, I went to give them a few tips at the
:02:59. > :03:05.start of the season. If we have them that far apart and then you
:03:05. > :03:10.cross them at the top... Come on, I need your help. We also have a
:03:10. > :03:15.problem with slugs. I suppose everybody does. You can use things
:03:15. > :03:22.like salt, but what I prefer is to come out later might, collect them
:03:23. > :03:27.and stand on them. 12.5 stone on your head, that works. This unique
:03:27. > :03:31.scheme is down to Sarah Jackson from Age Concern Wandsworth in
:03:31. > :03:35.south west London, along with the support of the local NHS and
:03:35. > :03:40.council. I think Garden sharing is taking off, but it works
:03:40. > :03:44.particularly well with older people, helping to alleviate loneliness,
:03:44. > :03:48.helping to prevent falls and accidents in the garden. Mostly, it
:03:48. > :03:52.is just about the relationships that people build. People like
:03:52. > :03:59.these, they have such a laugh together and that is as much what
:03:59. > :04:06.the scheme is about. We will take this one down. Get cracking!
:04:06. > :04:12.Sometimes, it will be the two of us in the garden for a couple of hours.
:04:12. > :04:19.It is nice and a serene. Very good. We have a laugh and a joke. That is
:04:19. > :04:25.what matters. Yes, it is nice to talk to him. Great fun. We have a
:04:25. > :04:29.couple of dozen. Can we put them in the glass house? It is obvious that
:04:29. > :04:39.they are having a great time. We will come back later in the season
:04:39. > :04:44.
:04:44. > :04:50.to see how productive they have This is looking fantastic. Look at
:04:50. > :04:57.it! Broccoli, beetroot, all sorts of lovely stuff. And I must say, I
:04:57. > :05:01.am impressed with this. Look at them. Yes, we have managed to get a
:05:01. > :05:10.few. The key thing is to keep picking, pick regularly, every day
:05:10. > :05:15.if necessary. I am beginning to look like a beam. Give them away to
:05:15. > :05:19.the neighbours, whatever. But keep them well watered. If they get a
:05:19. > :05:26.cheque, if they get dry, they will stop producing, so water, water,
:05:26. > :05:34.water. We have grown a lot of vegetables. We have enjoyed doing
:05:34. > :05:38.it. We have plans for next year already. Fantastic! I am very
:05:38. > :05:42.impressed with these crops, but I am more impressed with the
:05:42. > :05:46.relationship that has developed between 10 and John. Won't it be
:05:46. > :05:54.fantastic if a scheme like this in Wandsworth can be taken right
:05:54. > :06:00.across the country. He does everything. He does it, and I sit
:06:00. > :06:06.and watch. Knockout those two cabbages and have cabbages for
:06:06. > :06:11.dinner tonight. What a lovely story, and they are here this evening.
:06:11. > :06:15.They have brought their families. And he has so many extra green
:06:15. > :06:24.beans that he has given us some. With your permission, we will give
:06:24. > :06:31.them to Jane, in return for the cake. Can we give them to her?
:06:31. > :06:40.Are these really the ones that you grew? Yes, we picked them today.
:06:40. > :06:45.Lovely. Can I give you a kiss? Thank you very much. What would
:06:45. > :06:51.have happened if it was a bunch of cucumbers! Before we move away from
:06:51. > :06:57.horticulture, how about a 23 ft sunflower. That is over four times
:06:57. > :07:01.her height. There she goes. started growing it in a friendly
:07:01. > :07:05.competition with her four-year-old granddaughter. We reckon there are
:07:05. > :07:15.other sunflower competition is going on and please proved us right
:07:15. > :07:15.
:07:15. > :07:22.buyer snapping yours in picture Jane, you have brought this amazing
:07:22. > :07:26.cake. We have been having a bit of a debate. What can you eat? You can
:07:26. > :07:31.eat this and the sofa. It is fruitcake, because you have had so
:07:31. > :07:35.many sponge cakes that I thought you might like fruit cake. Our
:07:35. > :07:40.relationship has been entirely based on cakes. Yes, nice to meet
:07:40. > :07:47.you finally. These characters have an uncanny resemblance. We can
:07:47. > :07:55.recreate it. That is enough. I think you look a bit like Pam Ayers,
:07:55. > :08:01.not Lynda Bellingham. Pam Ayres? you know who she is? You are so
:08:01. > :08:05.young! When did you start loving cakes, which is now aged huge
:08:06. > :08:10.industry for you? I don't know about a huge industry, but just one
:08:10. > :08:14.shop. It started as a hobby when I was a little girl. I know you are
:08:14. > :08:20.having an item about miniature things later. I always enjoyed
:08:20. > :08:24.making tiny things, whether it was drawing flowers... Somehow it got
:08:24. > :08:29.translated into cake decorating and I think my showbiz side came out,
:08:29. > :08:34.definitely. I started to make the cake is a funny and personal. In
:08:34. > :08:37.those days, cakes were straight forward. One friend suggested I
:08:37. > :08:42.should write a book about it. Everybody laughed because actresses
:08:42. > :08:46.did not write books in those days. I wrote to eight publishers and
:08:47. > :08:50.finally one took me on. I took pictures of the cakes, and it
:08:50. > :08:55.became a bestseller. I was astonished. That was when it
:08:55. > :08:59.stopped being a hobby and became much more. You said you started
:08:59. > :09:09.baking at an early age but you also started acting. Let's have a look
:09:09. > :09:10.
:09:10. > :09:15.at this clip. Hurry! You have lost me a pheasant. Nevermind that, I
:09:15. > :09:24.think Oswald is dying. He has fallen in the pit. Please, he will
:09:24. > :09:29.put on your boots whenever you want him to. Come quickly! "You lost me
:09:29. > :09:37.a pheasant". You are doing two plays for the price of one. What is
:09:37. > :09:41.going on? I am rehearsing to very different ways. -- two. None of
:09:41. > :09:45.them is The Importance Of Being Earnest, which is very funny, and I
:09:46. > :09:49.am Lady Bracknell. The other play is about the theatre. It is written
:09:49. > :09:54.by somebody who in many ways is the father of modern theatre. He
:09:54. > :10:00.changed everything. He wanted naturalism, realism, not posing and
:10:00. > :10:03.overdoing everything. It is about an actress who is trying to do that.
:10:03. > :10:07.But the difficulty of combining doing something for truth and
:10:07. > :10:11.reality that she believes in, her art, combining that with
:10:11. > :10:15.commerciality is very difficult. It is still something that we struggle
:10:15. > :10:18.with today. And she has to schmooze millionairess to get money, and she
:10:19. > :10:24.finds that awkward and difficult. It is an interesting area to
:10:24. > :10:30.explore. They are both at the Rose Theatre. When is the matinee
:10:30. > :10:40.performance? Is it all the same cast, or do you -- is it just you
:10:40. > :10:44.crossing over? Farewell To The Theatre is just two people. We are
:10:44. > :10:48.both in The Importance Of Being Earnest. But all of the others will
:10:48. > :10:53.have some time off. So you have one player in the afternoon and a
:10:53. > :10:57.different one at night every day? Not every day. And they vary.
:10:57. > :11:03.Sometimes one is in the evening, sometimes the other. Which one
:11:03. > :11:09.should we pay to see? Darling, you have to see both. And they do deals
:11:09. > :11:12.if you see both. On the first night, what we have the first night of a
:11:12. > :11:15.Farewell To The Theatre in the afternoon and the first night of
:11:15. > :11:20.The Importance Of Being Earnest in the evening. If one of them is
:11:20. > :11:25.rubbish, have a chance with the other. That is a very good way of
:11:25. > :11:28.looking at it! I have a second chance in the evening.
:11:28. > :11:33.Importance Of Being Earnest and Farewell To The Theatre start in
:11:33. > :11:37.September at the Rose Theatre in Kingston. It is a lovely theatre,
:11:37. > :11:42.too, an exciting open theatre. We have young people sitting on the
:11:42. > :11:47.floor at the front. It has a wonderful feeling. Make sure you
:11:47. > :11:51.are wearing the right thing when you go. We all remember the scene
:11:51. > :11:56.in Bridget Jones when she gets lucky and then they go back to his
:11:56. > :12:03.flat and he pulls up her dress and she is wearing the big knickers. We
:12:04. > :12:11.all know, very embarrassing, and we feel for her. These new magic
:12:11. > :12:19.pounds - I have just taken them off - they squeeze in your belly. --
:12:20. > :12:26.magic pants. But do they work? Well, only one way to find out.
:12:26. > :12:36.Excuse me. What do you think of these? Oh, God, not to appealing.
:12:36. > :12:40.
:12:41. > :12:48.Silly. Not a good fashion accessory. Is it some but firming thing?
:12:48. > :12:54.at your bottom, citing a bit. they to hold in your belly? No! I
:12:54. > :13:04.would feel cheated. It is like granny pants on women, it is an
:13:04. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:14.instant turn-off. Can I talk you into trying them on? No. You are a
:13:14. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:23.good man. Come over here. Look at that! How are we doing? Good Lord!
:13:23. > :13:31.Are you ready? Everybody! Look! Don't you think the girls are going
:13:31. > :13:36.to like that? Look at that. What do you think? No. Definitely not?
:13:36. > :13:42.There is nothing wrong with his bum. It has pulled in his love handles.
:13:42. > :13:48.Look at that, a bit firmer. They are yours, a gift from us. I will
:13:48. > :13:56.wear them all day. You can have them. I will hang them in my
:13:56. > :14:06.bedroom. Goodbye. Wouldn't it be brilliant if Dom Littlewood was
:14:06. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:12.here, wearing just those pants. Oh, he is! Poor Jane. How are you
:14:12. > :14:20.feeling? A little uncomfortable. There is something I feel I should
:14:20. > :14:25.not be looking at. You Are Not the Only One, trust me. Is it working
:14:26. > :14:32.for you? I have had more comfortable nights on the sofa.
:14:32. > :14:37.would rather see him without them. You do not need them, you have a
:14:37. > :14:44.great physique. That is right, it is cheating because you do not need
:14:44. > :14:52.it. I like it with the black socks! You have tried other items like
:14:53. > :14:57.this. These are not the only ones. I cannot take this seriously.
:14:57. > :15:02.are going to show you some. These are meant to improve your waistline.
:15:02. > :15:09.They are shaped enhancing. Marks & Spencer makes some which are
:15:09. > :15:14.designed to visibly flatten your stomach and your profile. And then
:15:14. > :15:23.we have these by Spanx, called an undershirt which is too firm the
:15:23. > :15:31.chest and narrow the waistline. That has worked. I preferred the
:15:31. > :15:37.black ones. What do you think of them? I do not like the idea at all.
:15:37. > :15:40.But girls have been wearing corsets for ages. We want our men to look
:15:40. > :15:44.lovely but we do not want to think they take trouble to do so. They
:15:44. > :15:49.should not be worrying about their looks. Of course they do, and we
:15:49. > :15:55.know that, but you want them to just walk out of the House of...
:15:56. > :16:05.Men should be men, shouldn't they? A round of applause for Dom
:16:06. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:11.Now, a man who would not be seen dead in a pair of magic paths, Jay
:16:11. > :16:18.Rayner. You are right, but it guys are worried about their waistlines,
:16:18. > :16:24.Foody Friday will not do for them a top, because I am trying British
:16:24. > :16:29.beers. Beer brewed with water, Bali, hops and used it was once the
:16:29. > :16:34.undisputed tipple of the British masses. In the Middle Ages it was
:16:34. > :16:41.preferable to water which could be contaminated by disease. The job of
:16:41. > :16:45.brewing often fell to women. Idyllic notions of farm labourers
:16:45. > :16:49.slaking their thirst on locally brewed beers has long been part of
:16:49. > :16:53.the British brewing tradition, but mass production has started to take
:16:54. > :17:00.British taste away from those local ales. British Beer has started to
:17:00. > :17:05.taste like the past. In the early 1970s, there were probably only 40
:17:05. > :17:10.breweries left in Britain. It had a male image in recent history. It
:17:10. > :17:16.has had a bad association with the lager louts or a real ale drinker
:17:16. > :17:20.with a belly and sandals. When did we see a resurgence? That has come
:17:20. > :17:23.from people getting very bored with the industrial products. We had
:17:23. > :17:29.then seen a change in taxation with a reduction in duty for smaller
:17:29. > :17:33.breweries. There are 800 breweries now it is reckoned in the UK.
:17:33. > :17:39.with the return to local, small- scale Breweries, the historic
:17:39. > :17:44.brewers of the ales, women, are also returning to the crack. Some
:17:44. > :17:51.of the breweries are headed by women brewers. This brewery has
:17:51. > :17:57.been run by a female in Leyton, east London, since 2008. It is a
:17:57. > :18:02.small brewery. We can be much more flexible and produce the beers that
:18:02. > :18:07.we won. The big, commercial breweries have to produce the same
:18:07. > :18:15.staff with the press of a button. How many have you brewed here?
:18:15. > :18:21.approximately 50. 50 different beers? Yes, fruit beers, Chile beer,
:18:21. > :18:26.stout, Porter. It seems these small breweries can experiment with
:18:26. > :18:36.almost any flavour, from vanilla to passion-fruit, to nuts and berries.
:18:36. > :18:43.What is in this? It is a raspberry beer. You can taste the raspberries.
:18:43. > :18:48.Yes. It seems to me that the micro- brewery culture has much more in
:18:48. > :18:53.common with fine wine than hard boozing. Many at the bar see
:18:53. > :19:00.themselves as beer connoisseurs and there are now up beer some early
:19:00. > :19:04.years which specialise in which peers go with which food. There is
:19:04. > :19:09.something for everyone. There are a wide range of different flavours.
:19:09. > :19:17.My wife never drank beer until I opened this brewery. She thought it
:19:17. > :19:22.was an old man's ring. Is it female-friendly? Massively. But can
:19:22. > :19:32.be a really appealed to the ladies who lunch ensued well? What you
:19:32. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:42.think of that? Yes, that is nice. No. That has definitely got more
:19:42. > :19:48.bite to it. Is this your first experience of beer? Yes. It's nice.
:19:48. > :19:56.Did you like that? It is fruity. the end of a hard day's work it is
:19:56. > :20:01.time to slake my own turf -- thirst. This bitter is cheery, with caramel,
:20:01. > :20:06.deep flavours. With his plate of pub food it is the perfect
:20:06. > :20:15.companion. It is easy to see how this stuff used to be called liquid
:20:15. > :20:24.bread. I think the pub sign rivals the cake. Do not draw attention to
:20:24. > :20:28.it. Welcome to the pub. I have some special beer to go with food. We
:20:28. > :20:37.have got a Belgian, wheat beer which is meant to go well with fish.
:20:37. > :20:41.If you want to try that. I thought we'd beers were rather light.
:20:41. > :20:47.of them can be. All of the beer that we have here is widely
:20:47. > :20:54.available. This was designed to go with fish at Rick Stein's
:20:54. > :20:58.restaurant in Padstow. Beer enthusiasts are obsessed with
:20:58. > :21:07.telling us you can use beer in the same way you can use wind. The who
:21:07. > :21:11.is next? You are. You have got a curry and an Indian Pale Ale.
:21:11. > :21:18.Originally they were exported. love the smell of curry, but
:21:18. > :21:25.combined with the smell of Alex's fake tan, it puts me off. He's said
:21:25. > :21:33.he was not going to mention it. you like the new, brown colour?
:21:33. > :21:38.That is nice. It works. I have got something that is browner than you.
:21:38. > :21:45.You have got a Double chocolate stout. There is chocolate in the
:21:45. > :21:51.beer and chocolate in this doubt. The nation awaits your verdict.
:21:51. > :21:56.That is really nice. It is so strong and bitter, it is
:21:56. > :22:01.overwhelming for the fish. There is only one thing for a curry, a cold
:22:01. > :22:07.lager. I make no pretence. I am clearly a wine drinker, look at
:22:07. > :22:14.this shirt. I prefer wine with food. But I have been watching the social
:22:14. > :22:19.media all day and the beer obsessive people are obsessed. They
:22:19. > :22:28.knew we were doing this tonight. You know those really pale, white
:22:28. > :22:35.and looking, beers? I am not a beer expert. Cheers, everybody. The
:22:35. > :22:39.other food news. Any preservative, bisin, has been discovered and
:22:39. > :22:44.scientists say it can preserve the shelf-life of certain food for
:22:44. > :22:48.months, even years. Preservatives have been around for a very long
:22:48. > :22:53.time. Obviously, a good preservative will cut down on food
:22:53. > :22:58.waste. But it is also good for manufacturers to cut their losses.
:22:58. > :23:04.The longer you can preserve food, the cheaper it is. They have always
:23:04. > :23:10.said preservatives are bad for you. No, they have not. We pickle things.
:23:10. > :23:15.Most of them are not bad for you. The we have run out of time.
:23:15. > :23:19.have to mention the garlic Festival. I have got a garlic beer. I bet
:23:19. > :23:25.Phil Tufnell would have loved to have been here tonight, but he is
:23:25. > :23:33.at the Test match. But we have a film all about his other passion,
:23:33. > :23:37.art, in this case many art. Cheers, Phil. Major art might now be
:23:37. > :23:47.considered a small part of the art world, but its origins go back for
:23:47. > :23:47.
:23:47. > :23:53.millennia. In fact, these are over 35,000 years old and they are only
:23:53. > :23:57.six centimetres told. From 3000 year-old Chinese sculptures to
:23:57. > :24:02.miniature portraits of the court of Queen Elizabeth, the world of tiny
:24:02. > :24:06.objects has continued to hold a fascination across the globe. Even
:24:06. > :24:10.miniature Bibles and 19th century ships in bottles were highly prized
:24:10. > :24:15.possessions. The discipline continues to reinvent itself and it
:24:15. > :24:21.is still going strong today. Two British artists are taking
:24:21. > :24:28.miniature art to new heights. Tessa Farmer uses nature as the
:24:28. > :24:34.inspiration for her sinister world. These are fairies. I used dead
:24:34. > :24:42.insects, bones, their animals, plant roots. That is pretty strange
:24:42. > :24:47.stuff to make art from? I suppose so. I started at college and became
:24:47. > :24:57.quite obsessed with skeletons. The skeleton ferries were born a few
:24:57. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:05.years later. What is that? Feathers are good. These can be good for
:25:05. > :25:09.making the skeletons. What have we got there? AB. A good find. We have
:25:09. > :25:18.found some materials, so it is time for me to try my hand at creating
:25:19. > :25:23.some art. What have we got going on here?. There are beetles and
:25:23. > :25:30.hornets to make it fly. There is only one fairy on the ship at the
:25:30. > :25:40.moment, this one at the front. This is one that is half done. It has
:25:40. > :25:45.
:25:45. > :25:51.got one leg already. You need to put on... Another bit of his leg.
:25:51. > :25:54.It looks like Jake the ferry with the extra leg. It is going to be a
:25:54. > :26:01.three-legged fairy. The are really fed Lee, how long does it take you
:26:01. > :26:10.to make one? A few hours. How many would be in a sculpture? About 20
:26:10. > :26:16.or 30. So there are a lot of ours. I am a bit of a workaholic. Whilst
:26:16. > :26:20.this art is rooted in fantasy, for another artist, Slinkachu, it is
:26:20. > :26:30.the gritty reality of city life that inspires him to create his own
:26:30. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:46.brand of street art, just like this I use miniature figures I place
:26:46. > :26:53.around the streets and take photos of. I deal with real problems like
:26:53. > :27:00.crime and litter and poverty. Today we are going to make this with a
:27:00. > :27:05.dropped ice-cream. I have got the miniature figures in here. He is
:27:05. > :27:11.going to be there sometimes sweeping that lot up. I put this in
:27:11. > :27:15.the street and take photos of the figures and to leave them and it is
:27:15. > :27:20.either a spotted or it gets abandoned and lost or destroyed.
:27:20. > :27:26.All you are left with is the photo. Yes, I quite like that, to be
:27:26. > :27:31.honest. I like the idea that someone might find it. Miniature
:27:31. > :27:34.art can take you to a fantasy world or pose questions about your own.
:27:34. > :27:41.The next time you are strolling through the countryside, stock and
:27:41. > :27:47.have a look around. You never know what you might find. The ones in
:27:47. > :27:55.the street are amazing. Stop it. We have been playing with our new toy,
:27:55. > :28:02.the celebrity slo-mo camera. Earlier we got Jane to do this.
:28:02. > :28:11.That is marvellous, that is magical. That is cool. It is very pretty.
:28:11. > :28:17.You are very pretty. You are like a sunflower. Look, here is a
:28:17. > :28:24.sunflower from viewers. This is from 1982. This is sent in from
:28:24. > :28:30.Kate Morgan in Brecon. A competition at work. This is Judit
:28:30. > :28:36.Burgess at home in Leamington Spa. Lucy, aged six from York. Thank you
:28:36. > :28:42.so much for all your sunflowers. Jane's plays starred in Kingston at