:00:23. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to the One Show Matt Baker And Alex Jones. Tonight,
:00:27. > :00:31.a man who has had the daunting task of weighing up the achievements of
:00:31. > :00:36.the leading figures from the past 70,000 years. Then deciding who is
:00:36. > :00:39.in and who is out. We are about to his History of the World on our
:00:39. > :00:48.screens. It's promising to be controversial. Please welcome
:00:48. > :00:52.writer and broadcaster, Andrew Marr. APPLAUSE
:00:52. > :01:00.Andrew, you have had 15 months on the road. Have you been deciding
:01:00. > :01:09.who is in and out. You have left out Henry VIII and the Battle of
:01:09. > :01:13.Britain? Yes. Very interesting guy. Historically a fat sprat. Not a
:01:13. > :01:17.world historical figure. The Battle of Britain, most people who watch
:01:17. > :01:24.British television have heard of Battle of Britain I'm trying to
:01:24. > :01:29.give them stories they haven't heard about. You have clocked up 80
:01:29. > :01:35.flights. Travel something great. What did you do? You get bored of
:01:35. > :01:41.airports. I used to run. My knees have gone. I have done sketching.
:01:41. > :01:46.To calm down and enjoy myself I have done drawings. I draw on the
:01:46. > :01:52.iPad much I don't have to carry around ink, pencils and all that
:01:52. > :02:00.stuff. Do it all on this. How very now, Andrew? Exactly. Here is a
:02:00. > :02:06.thing for you. Don't often say that. Not about me. Will you do a sketch
:02:06. > :02:12.throughout the programme? I will do my best. Later we will meet the man
:02:12. > :02:21.behind one of the most distinctive guitar sounds in pop. It's Level
:02:21. > :02:24.42's Mark King. APPLAUSE
:02:24. > :02:28.With will meet doctors, nurses and health workers from a hospital who
:02:28. > :02:34.have been scrubed up by Gareth Malone for his new series on
:02:34. > :02:44.workplace choirs. Shall we have a burst of something relevant? It has
:02:44. > :02:46.
:02:47. > :02:56.to be relevant. Let's go. # Don't let your self-go
:02:57. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:10.# Cos everybody cries # Ooh, and everybody hurts
:03:10. > :03:15.# Sometimes # And everybody hurts... #
:03:15. > :03:19.APPLAUSE What about that. Everybody hurts.
:03:19. > :03:22.REM. We have a game like that coming up later. They have the
:03:22. > :03:27.Gareth Malone shine on them, haven't they? Very good. The
:03:27. > :03:31.posture and everything. If you have done something special with your
:03:31. > :03:36.work colleagues, singing, putting a theatre group together, send us a
:03:36. > :03:41.picture to: We will read out as many as we can throughout the
:03:41. > :03:45.programme. Yesterday, we heard from one show viewers about small acts
:03:45. > :03:51.of kindness that had inspired them to spread the love. Lucy meets a
:03:51. > :04:01.remarkable man with a very, very big heart, Oscar Brogden who has
:04:01. > :04:04.been havinglet same effect on the people of Gorton in Manchester.
:04:05. > :04:11.haven't got much money. Why wouldn't I want to help people out
:04:11. > :04:15.by putting money in their purse. Oscar Brogden, a security guard
:04:15. > :04:20.here has co-ordinated a city-wide scheme to reunite people with their
:04:20. > :04:30.lost and stolen wallets and purses. Oscar makes sure they don't go back
:04:30. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:34.empty. At last count, Oscar had returned �1,780--1,780 wallets to
:04:34. > :04:39.their owners. Joan had her handbag and purse snatched while she was
:04:39. > :04:45.out shopping. I felt sick. I felt really violated. I wanted to have a
:04:45. > :04:51.good cry. I did hold it back. About a week later, Oscar rang. When I
:04:51. > :04:57.got my purse back, there was a lovely hand written letter in there
:04:57. > :05:02.from Oscar and also �5. I thought, how kind of him to do that. That is
:05:02. > :05:07.lovely. It really did bring a tear to my eyes. It really did. Oscar
:05:07. > :05:11.earns �17,000 a year, which hardly puts him in the same League as a
:05:11. > :05:16.City or United player, he regularly digs deep into his own pockets to
:05:16. > :05:21.compensate the people who have had their purses lost or stolen. Oscar,
:05:21. > :05:26.how much money, over the years, do you think you have given away?
:05:26. > :05:32.�5,000. Where has that money come from? My pocket. It's your money?
:05:32. > :05:35.Yes. Female students are the biggest victims. I'll send them �5
:05:35. > :05:40.and pensioners. Really, really emotional when they get on the
:05:40. > :05:44.phone and they have had their Christmas money taken. A few years
:05:44. > :05:50.ago I put �80 in. I was going to buy a jumper. I thought, I have a
:05:50. > :05:55.jumper, why do I want another one. I put the �80 in. She came back
:05:55. > :06:03.here and I have a friend for life. How do you feel when people try to
:06:03. > :06:08.give you a reward. I send a letter saying "please do not send me a
:06:08. > :06:12.reward." Someone sent me �500, I had no hesitation giving it back to
:06:12. > :06:17.him. What do you tkpwhet return? try to do my little bit for the
:06:17. > :06:21.community with the help of the people who work here. His kindness
:06:21. > :06:25.doesn't stop with returning lost and stolen wallets and purses. He
:06:25. > :06:29.has saved thousands of old and rusty bikes that would end up on
:06:29. > :06:35.the scrap heap, repairing them and handing them over to the community,
:06:35. > :06:40.free of charge. We give four away a week to kids, member of staff. To
:06:40. > :06:44.people who don't have transport or somebody who had their bike taken.
:06:44. > :06:47.All these bikes end up on the tip. They are going back into the
:06:48. > :06:53.community. I put �100 a month out of my own money. We make sure when
:06:53. > :07:01.the bikes go from here they have got good tyres and good brakes and
:07:01. > :07:07.good seats. Some of these children have never had a bike before.
:07:08. > :07:13.has repaired and given away a stagger 3,5 81 bikes. The next four
:07:13. > :07:21.are for a new life with local children. Liam. Thank you, Oscar.
:07:21. > :07:27.Callum. Thank you, Oscar. Brandon. Thank you, Oscar. And victor.
:07:27. > :07:32.you, Oscar. Who knows the big names like Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy,
:07:32. > :07:37.one of these young people from around here might emulate that.
:07:37. > :07:42.That would be absolutely sensational. I'm in Oscar's
:07:42. > :07:47.workshop. Have you just seen it. He has his bits of pedals and bike.he
:07:47. > :07:52.is not the tidest, as he freely admits. He uses everything he is
:07:52. > :07:55.given to fix up these bikes and get them out to the local community.
:07:55. > :08:01.Helen is here from the local community. You have worked with him
:08:01. > :08:07.a few times? I have. My auntie works with Oscar. She let's me know
:08:07. > :08:12.what he needs for the local people. People bring me food, bikes and all
:08:12. > :08:17.sorts. Whatever he needs? Yes. me about the Christmas hampers he
:08:17. > :08:24.does? I helped him wrap the hampers last year. The hampers that that
:08:24. > :08:30.huge you can't lift them. Is there any limits to his generosity?
:08:30. > :08:34.doesn't know the word "limit." Thank you. Helen is from the local
:08:34. > :08:38.community along with lots of people who Oscar has helped, we have
:08:38. > :08:42.persuaded them to come down here tonight to say thank you to Oscar.
:08:42. > :08:50.He is such a modest man. We have one man who is liing in wait for
:08:50. > :08:53.him, as we speak. Iwan Thomas, where are you? Well, thank you. I'm
:08:53. > :08:57.hiding around here because today has Allardyce been about secrecy.
:08:57. > :09:01.Oscar is such a lovely man. He doesn't like the limelight or a
:09:01. > :09:06.fuss. Tough, Oscar, tonight we will make a small fuss. The people who
:09:06. > :09:11.love you of this local community are turning out to thank you. You
:09:11. > :09:16.know, I may have pulled a few strings. Stay tuned. As you saw on
:09:16. > :09:26.the show earlier, on the little clip he loves Jason Kenny. I called
:09:26. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:31.him up. Stay tuned. We will catch up with you later. He will be
:09:31. > :09:36.distraught that people are filming in his workshop without him nothing.
:09:36. > :09:40.You will unleash on the world, Andrew Marr's History of the World.
:09:40. > :09:44.This is extraordinary. You have been reading for 30 or 40 years.
:09:44. > :09:47.You feel ready in your life to say this is Watt I think about the
:09:47. > :09:51.History of the World? Exactly. It has been a long, long time in the
:09:51. > :09:56.making. I have spent three years stuck in libraries, as you say, 25
:09:56. > :10:00.years before that just reading history. I have read a lot of
:10:00. > :10:04.history over my life. OK, what are the really important moments, what
:10:04. > :10:08.are the crucial turning points? It's not just, it's not our history,
:10:08. > :10:12.not just European history, I brought in China, India and South
:10:12. > :10:16.America. What was happening over there when stuff was happening here.
:10:16. > :10:23.Linking it altogether. That is the hard thing. There is so much going
:10:23. > :10:27.on at the same time? Absolutely. know what you left out, heny VIII
:10:27. > :10:36.and the Battle of Britain. How did you decide where to start? I could
:10:36. > :10:40.have done 13.5 billion years ago in the Big Bang. I thought, leave the
:10:40. > :10:46.science to the scientists. Leave evolution to the byologists. Start
:10:46. > :10:53.with the story of us. Mankind as we start to move out around the world
:10:53. > :10:59.and change it. That is 70,000 years ago when, it's now thought, one
:10:59. > :11:03.tribe breaks out of Africa and spreads around the world. All of us
:11:03. > :11:10.not from sub-Saharan Africa are related to that one tribe. One
:11:10. > :11:15.woman in that tribe is our nearly universal mother. I find it
:11:15. > :11:22.absolutely extraordinary and quite hard to believe almost. Yes, it is.
:11:22. > :11:29.To help you tell your historical tales you have lots of reenactments.
:11:29. > :11:32.Let's have a look. None of us can hope to know all of the human story,
:11:32. > :11:41.but it does help to have the big picture because it's really the
:11:41. > :11:51.story of who we are now. Our own ancestors long walk, the tiny
:11:51. > :11:57.things that changed the world. Nature biting back. Old glories,
:11:57. > :12:07.winners and losers. Truth seekers and astonishing discoveries.
:12:07. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:14.Revolutions in blood and in iron. Modern madness and the wonders of
:12:14. > :12:20.the digital age. APPLAUSE
:12:20. > :12:29.Modern madness, Andrew. That looks like it's a modern equivalent of
:12:29. > :12:34.picture books that Andrew Marr marr as a child nel love with. If you
:12:34. > :12:38.remember Ladybird books, all sorts of books. You are drawn in by the
:12:38. > :12:43.pictures. With television, those kind of reenactments are the bright,
:12:43. > :12:49.colour pictures which draw us in. The people who were down and filmed
:12:49. > :12:54.all of those did a fantastic job. Speaking of the people who filmed
:12:54. > :12:59.them. The cameraman rang up and said, ask Andrew about leaving the
:12:59. > :13:06.woman in the desert?? That is a terrible story. OK, really shameful
:13:06. > :13:11.story. A wonderful woman, who was part of a museum, we were filming
:13:11. > :13:19.the story of the Nazkar who have extraordinary priests with long
:13:19. > :13:22.heads, look like they are out of science fiction. Bound together in
:13:22. > :13:27.childbirth. She brought a skull down for us. She was going to her
:13:27. > :13:32.own town to vote. We all went back in the next day. We were all
:13:33. > :13:38.exhausted. We were heading back, about 200 miles north of where we
:13:38. > :13:43.had been filming somebody said, "What about the woman?" We had left
:13:43. > :13:48.her behind! She was standing outside... It was just the most
:13:48. > :13:53.terrible thing. We were all on our way for a last, sort of, lunch then
:13:53. > :13:58.we were going... We left her behind. Did you go back? Tell us you went
:13:58. > :14:05.back? If we went back we would have lost the flights. We arranged a
:14:05. > :14:09.luxury taxi to pick her up. Very good. It was the most shameful Alan
:14:09. > :14:13.Partridge moment of the entire thing. Awful. I'm going to kill
:14:13. > :14:18.Neil Harvey for telling you. That he is a dead man! We have our
:14:18. > :14:23.sources. There are eight of these programmes. You are going up
:14:23. > :14:31.against Downton Abbey as well. know. It's a great honour. Charge
:14:31. > :14:36.the machine guns, mate with Downton Abbey. You are following
:14:36. > :14:40.Countryfile. You will be all right. The programme starts this Sunday on
:14:40. > :14:48.BBC One at 9.00pm. There is also a book to accompany the series which
:14:48. > :14:52.People living in many care homes across the UK will be able to rate
:14:52. > :14:57.how good or bad they think they are. The cost of paying the home's fees
:14:57. > :15:02.can result in many families struggling financially and in some
:15:02. > :15:08.cases unnecessarily. Across the UK, there are 400,000
:15:08. > :15:11.adults who live in nursing and care homes.
:15:12. > :15:16.Around 40% of people in care homes in England have to pay for some or
:15:16. > :15:23.all of their care costs. The thing is, some of them shouldn't have to
:15:23. > :15:28.pay anything whatsoever. David from Watford was 65 years old
:15:28. > :15:32.when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. By April 2010,
:15:32. > :15:39.his condition was so bad that he had to be moved into a nursing home.
:15:39. > :15:45.Before he was ill, David was a very friend friendly, outgoing, social,
:15:45. > :15:48.chatterbox. He loved life and he loved living. I was devastated when
:15:49. > :15:52.I found out it was probably at zilers because I knew --
:15:52. > :15:57.Alzheimer's because I knew what was going to happen. We had plans for
:15:57. > :16:00.our future and our retirement and there wasn't going to be a pleasant
:16:00. > :16:05.future, it was going to be upsetting and very sad.
:16:05. > :16:08.In England and Wales, before someone goes into residential care
:16:08. > :16:13.care an assessment can be made of their needs. If they are judged to
:16:13. > :16:17.be medical then the NHS can pick up the costs, however if their primary
:16:17. > :16:24.needs are not seen to be medical then the local authority will do a
:16:24. > :16:29.means-test before it decides how much if anything it will contribute.
:16:29. > :16:33.The NHS assessment also takes into account ongoing care requirements,
:16:33. > :16:38.but despite David's Alzheimer's and the care he needed, the NHS decided
:16:39. > :16:43.they wouldn't cover the fees. I was horrified. I had hoped that
:16:43. > :16:47.with all David's problems that he would have been covered by the NHS.
:16:47. > :16:51.His primary needs got worse and worse. He started having seizures,
:16:51. > :16:57.he had to be hoisted. He just went from bad to worse.
:16:57. > :17:03.How much were you having to pay? was paying �1,100 a week.
:17:03. > :17:10.And how did you afford that? From our savings. From when we retired.
:17:10. > :17:15.We were using it up very quickly. David would have been horrified.
:17:15. > :17:19.In December 2010, David passed away. By that time, the couple had paid
:17:19. > :17:23.around �30,000 in fees for the nursing home. Susan still believed
:17:23. > :17:28.her husband's needs had been wrongly assessed. So she went to a
:17:28. > :17:31.solicitor. Two years later, the NHS have now
:17:31. > :17:34.said that their assessment was wrong and they will now be
:17:34. > :17:38.refunding all the care fees that she has paid. Do you think people
:17:38. > :17:42.understand that they can go through this appeal process? No, it is a
:17:42. > :17:45.complicated area and people aren't aware that potentially the NHS
:17:45. > :17:51.could pay the full cost of their care.
:17:51. > :17:56.Is it worth it? My firm represent 3,000 people and we have been
:17:56. > :18:01.successful in recovering over �25 million in wrongly paid care fees
:18:01. > :18:04.for 350 clients. The process is long. It is complex and it does
:18:04. > :18:11.take sometime and sadly, families are waiting two to three years for
:18:11. > :18:13.right decisions to be made. For Susan, the refund helped to
:18:13. > :18:17.give her peace of mind that she will be comfortable in her
:18:17. > :18:23.retirement. David would be over the moon. He
:18:23. > :18:26.was a fighter. He was a terrier as he called himself! He wouldn't have
:18:26. > :18:29.given up. If the boot had been on the other foot and it would have
:18:29. > :18:39.been me, he would have fought. It has been the most stressful thing
:18:39. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:45.that happened to me and I'm just so If you want to claim back care home
:18:45. > :18:49.fees, there is a deadline at end of the month. This deadline only
:18:49. > :18:52.applies to England. If you need more information on how
:18:52. > :18:55.people living in the rest of the UK are affected, have a look at
:18:55. > :19:04.website. It is all there. Anita has more news about the care homes
:19:04. > :19:09.I have. This week the Your Care Rating initiative was introduced
:19:09. > :19:12.which aims to rate care homes. Jane Ashcroft is from one of the care
:19:12. > :19:16.providers who developed the scheme. Jane, how is this going to work?
:19:16. > :19:20.Well, at this stage, there is 13 providers involved. 850 care homes
:19:20. > :19:23.and the 50,000 people living there have an opportunity to fill in a
:19:23. > :19:26.survey and say what they think about the care that they receive in
:19:26. > :19:31.the place that they live in. So you are getting a snapshot in
:19:31. > :19:36.time? That's right. Really importantly, the survey has been
:19:36. > :19:39.developed by MORI and it is confidential and it will give us
:19:40. > :19:44.that picture of what think people think are great and the things that
:19:44. > :19:46.people need to improve. Even though it is care providers
:19:46. > :19:51.who are behind it? It is independent. It is confidential.
:19:52. > :19:58.All the results go to MORI and it is straightforward.
:19:58. > :20:01.But what if my relative can't fill out that form? What then? Families
:20:01. > :20:04.will be helping people and other friends will be helping people so
:20:05. > :20:09.we want to encourage as many responses as possible.
:20:09. > :20:11.How can we be sure that whatever their rating, whatever they are
:20:11. > :20:14.telling us about that care home will be listened to and action
:20:14. > :20:18.taken? A commitment from everybody involved. That's why we're asking
:20:18. > :20:22.the question. There is lots of good things going on and we want to know
:20:22. > :20:24.what residents really value so we can keep doing the good and improve
:20:24. > :20:29.on the things that need to be improved on.
:20:29. > :20:34.If a care home gets a negative rating, will we be able to see
:20:34. > :20:38.that? We want all homes to be involved. We are the pilot group.
:20:38. > :20:41.We want other homes to get involved as well. We're being to publicise
:20:41. > :20:46.the information and then everybody will be able to look and say, "OK,
:20:46. > :20:52.this is the quality of this home.". Often you hear stories about
:20:52. > :20:57.neglect in care homes. But there are lots of brilliant care workers
:20:57. > :21:00.like Karl Martin. You got an award. So what makes a good care worker?
:21:00. > :21:04.think it is a genuine interest in people and what makes people tick.
:21:04. > :21:09.Everyone in a care home has a history. They have lives they've
:21:09. > :21:13.lived. They had joys and disasters, loves, every single person is
:21:13. > :21:18.different. It is all ensuring that we treat people as individuals as
:21:18. > :21:21.they deserve to be. You got your awards for activities.
:21:21. > :21:25.Yes. What activities do you get your
:21:25. > :21:30.residents to do? We try to lead on life story so it is very important
:21:30. > :21:34.that I know as much about a resident as possible. We had a
:21:34. > :21:38.wonderful example last year where one of our ladies had loved
:21:38. > :21:42.swimming as a child, but when she had a husband and her family, she
:21:43. > :21:47.had to stop. We took her to the swimming pools at her request and
:21:47. > :21:52.for the first time in 60 years she got into that pool at the age of 92
:21:52. > :21:57.and out swam the activities co- ordinator!
:21:57. > :22:02.That's brilliant. For example, one of our gentlemen
:22:02. > :22:07.flew a mosquito. We were able to unite him. He went to see that.
:22:07. > :22:13.It is about being joyful. So what do you think about Your Care Rating,
:22:13. > :22:16.do you think it is a good idea? is a wonderful idea. Up and doub
:22:16. > :22:19.down the country -- up and down the country, there are people who work
:22:19. > :22:21.hard in care homes and this is a real opportunity for people to see
:22:21. > :22:29.some of the great work that goes on in care homes.
:22:29. > :22:35.Thank you very much indeed. Does all this make you think about
:22:35. > :22:38.your old age, Andrew? I they we all have to face the fact that many of
:22:38. > :22:42.us, perhaps if we're lucky are going to end up in care homes
:22:42. > :22:47.because we'll have lived for longer and there are some great ones and
:22:47. > :22:51.we know there are poor ones indeed. And the costs are just awesome and
:22:51. > :22:55.phenomenal and most of us, I mean I'm as guilty as anyone, we tend to
:22:55. > :23:01.think about tomorrow. We tend to think about next year, that holiday,
:23:01. > :23:06.that car, we should be salting money away for the serious stuff.
:23:06. > :23:14.Too much looking at the history. And not looking forward!
:23:14. > :23:17.Earlier we met Oscar Brogden. does all sorts of amazing things
:23:18. > :23:23.from fixing up old bikes and repairing them for children to go
:23:23. > :23:28.and enjoy. To reuniting people with their lost property. He is a hero
:23:28. > :23:32.in many people's eyes and Lucy is up to something!
:23:33. > :23:36.Somehow, we've got Oscar here without him knowing what's going on.
:23:36. > :23:42.Ewan is going to get him out of the car now and we're going to bring
:23:42. > :23:46.him in. Everybody, nice and quiet. Hello, Oscar. I will take your hand.
:23:46. > :23:50.Step out of the car. You are probably wondering why you're
:23:50. > :23:52.blindfolded on this dark, cold and quiet night. If you walk with me
:23:52. > :23:58.this way, all will be revealed in a minute.
:23:59. > :24:03.Are you all right? I'm good, thanks. You are not too cold.
:24:03. > :24:06.Well, you are live on The One Show. Mind your Manchester language! You
:24:06. > :24:16.are going to see why you are here. Thank you.
:24:16. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:21.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Oscar, all these people are here
:24:21. > :24:23.for you because you are such a lovely man and I know you don't
:24:23. > :24:26.like a fuss. Thank you very much. You can put it
:24:26. > :24:28.in a few words, top people. You never expect anything like this, do
:24:28. > :24:31.you? Top people. That's all I can. Thank you very much. Well, you are
:24:31. > :24:35.the top person. It is not just about the people here, we have got
:24:35. > :24:41.a few other surprises, one of which is with Lucy now.
:24:41. > :24:45.Hello Luy. We wanted to make it official. On
:24:45. > :24:55.behalf of the One Show, and the people from the community, I would
:24:55. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :24:58.like to unveil this. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:24:58. > :25:01.Every time you come to your den, that is for recognition and to
:25:01. > :25:03.remind you of what you mean to this community. You might not realise,
:25:04. > :25:08.you have touched so many people here. Everything you have done, we
:25:08. > :25:11.have got another surprise. Well all these bikes have been
:25:11. > :25:15.donated by Manchester Police Force. Unfortunately they can't be here
:25:15. > :25:19.because of yesterday's tragic events, but they wanted to say
:25:19. > :25:23.thank you and give you more bikes to work on to help the youngsters.
:25:23. > :25:28.Brandon, what does Oscar mean to you? He is one of the best guys in
:25:28. > :25:34.the world. Oscar, can I have another bike? Of course, you can,
:25:34. > :25:40.son, yes. How about you? What has Oscar done?
:25:40. > :25:48.He got me a brilliant bike. What colour? Pink.
:25:48. > :25:54.What does it mean? These are top people. I am an old bloke, I am
:25:54. > :25:57.getting emotional. You are just brilliant, I can't fault you.
:25:57. > :26:02.What do you think of Oscar? Just a walking angel.
:26:03. > :26:06.What a lovely thing. We have got a special surprise, haven't we?
:26:06. > :26:11.local community love you. I know you don't like a fuss, but there is
:26:11. > :26:18.someone special who wants to show his appreciation, you are a fan of
:26:18. > :26:22.British cycling. We have got double Olympic champion, Jason Kenny.
:26:22. > :26:27.APPLAUSE Look at that!
:26:27. > :26:32.What a top man! Fancy meeting you in person. Wow. What a diamond. My
:26:32. > :26:36.heart goes out to you. Well done, tremendous guy.
:26:36. > :26:41.Jason, what do you think? Amazing, thanks a lot, mate. Thank you to
:26:41. > :26:46.British cycling for getting all these kids out on bikes. Good work.
:26:46. > :26:49.A lot of these people here were watching you on the telly and you
:26:49. > :26:55.came and you did us proud. He is a very big fan.
:26:55. > :27:00.We are very proud of you tonight. We could talk all night. You guys
:27:00. > :27:10.live local, but me and luc have to get back to London.
:27:10. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:20.We better make a move, Ewan. Oscar, see you later.
:27:20. > :27:29.
:27:29. > :27:32.Lucy, wait! APPLAUSE
:27:32. > :27:34.There is so many people going on about a legacy and that guy there,
:27:34. > :27:37.giving those little bikes and that young lad summed it up brilliant,
:27:37. > :27:40."He is one of the best guys in the world.". The Military Wives Choir
:27:40. > :27:42.were led to the top of the charts by Gareth Malone. Bagging the
:27:42. > :27:45.Christmas number one spot. He has turned his attention to this group
:27:45. > :27:47.of workers from the Lewisham Healthcare Trust. They teased us at
:27:47. > :27:54.the top of the show. But here they are, the newly discovered stars of
:27:54. > :27:58.Gareth Malone's new telly series. If you want want blood, brackets
:27:58. > :28:03.you got it! LAUGHTER
:28:03. > :28:08.Who is in favour of that? I've had a good idea.
:28:08. > :28:18.# Keep, bleeding, keep, keep bleeding #
:28:18. > :28:22.
:28:23. > :28:25.Any others? APPLAUSE
:28:25. > :28:28.So Gareth Malone, he lands in the Lewisham health trust and he gets
:28:28. > :28:32.you all involved. How did he rope you? There was auditions and we
:28:32. > :28:37.went ang long and he managed to -- along and he managed to get the
:28:37. > :28:42.talent down to 30 of us. I don't know how I did t but he did it.
:28:42. > :28:49.Joe, you are an anaesthetist, when you are putting people to sleep,
:28:49. > :28:54.are you singing to them? I don't use drugs anymore. I'm using song
:28:54. > :29:01.based an theseia. Fame could come calling. Are you
:29:01. > :29:05.ready to change the uniform for something spankly? I have resigned.
:29:05. > :29:12.I am available for supermarket openingings.
:29:12. > :29:14.You are a neo-natal nurse, surely you sing nursery rhymes? Yes, I
:29:14. > :29:19.sing other songs to the little babies.
:29:19. > :29:23.How did you get involved? I heard about the audition. I heard about
:29:23. > :29:29.the audition and my son said "mummy go for it. Since you are singing in
:29:29. > :29:37.the house, you might as well go for it." I went for it and I was chosen.
:29:37. > :29:39.Sarah, you did a concert in A&E? Yes, part of the process, we
:29:39. > :29:43.performed opened the new A&E department and it was brilliant.
:29:43. > :29:46.All our friends and family came. It was so funny. It was the first time
:29:46. > :29:50.we performed to anybody. It was excellent. We were on such highs
:29:50. > :30:00.afterwards. Well, you are a physiotherapist and
:30:00. > :30:14.
:30:14. > :30:24.you are going to sing Lean On Me. # Sometimes in our life we all have
:30:24. > :30:27.
:30:27. > :30:34.pain, we all have sorrow # But if we are wise, we know that
:30:34. > :30:41.there's always tomorrow # Just call on me brother when you
:30:41. > :30:46.need a hand # We all need somebody to lean on
:30:47. > :30:53.# I just might have a problem that you'd understand
:30:53. > :30:59.# We all need somebody to lean on # Lean on me
:30:59. > :31:04.# When you're not strong, and I'll be your friend
:31:04. > :31:13.# I'll help you carry on # Oh, for
:31:14. > :31:23.# It won't be long # Until I'm going to need
:31:24. > :31:26.
:31:26. > :31:30.# Ooh, somebody to lean on # Lean on me. #
:31:30. > :31:35.APPLAUSE Beautiful! Very, very big thank you
:31:35. > :31:42.to the staff from Lewisham Health Care Trust and the Choir starts
:31:42. > :31:50.tomorrow night at 9.00pm on BBC Two. Most musicians are waiting for that
:31:50. > :31:58.big break, that killer hit. When it happened to one 0's band it tore
:31:58. > :32:02.them apart. Carrie picks up the pieces and learns some lessons.
:32:02. > :32:06.Isle of Wight, laid back and relaxed. A young group of musicians
:32:06. > :32:13.used to play the pubs and clubs much. You could get to see them for
:32:13. > :32:16.the price of a drink. By the 0's they became Level 42 playing
:32:17. > :32:24.stadium gigs with Madonna and selling 30 million records. It was
:32:24. > :32:31.a track called Lessons In Love that brought international superstar
:32:31. > :32:35.status. It all began back on the island. The brothers and I met at a
:32:35. > :32:40.party. I got the chance to join the band that they were in. The Isle of
:32:40. > :32:45.Wight is a largely tourist based place. There were hotels you could
:32:45. > :32:52.play in and pubs and holiday camps. There was loads of opportunity to
:32:52. > :32:57.work as a working musician. Really learning your trade. Leaving the
:32:57. > :33:05.island behind, the band started to take shape in London. Moving from
:33:05. > :33:09.playing instrumental jazz funk to commercial pop. In 1986, following
:33:09. > :33:15.their first Top 10 suck sets ses in America they were asked to produce
:33:15. > :33:19.a hit single in advance of the next album. It had to be big. For me, I
:33:19. > :33:24.just thought, OK. Let's do it then. Let's try and do that. We had
:33:24. > :33:30.already sat down and made a decision, if we wanted to carry on
:33:30. > :33:40.in the business. It was well doing 60,000 units of an album and stuff,
:33:40. > :34:08.
:34:08. > :34:12.if we wanted to go to 600,000 every And that sequence, I'm sat there
:34:12. > :34:17.and I hated playing that because I thought "I'm 15 and I shouldn't be
:34:17. > :34:27.doing that." I couldn't get that idea out of my idea. The truth is
:34:27. > :34:28.
:34:28. > :34:30.# We'll meet again # Don't know where, don't know
:34:30. > :34:36.when... # # I'm not proud
:34:36. > :34:41.# I was wrong... # The base featured really heavily on
:34:41. > :34:45.that record? It's still one of the hardest lines to play. I have
:34:45. > :34:54.played some hard lines. Holding that going, because it's relentless.
:34:54. > :34:58.It never stops. # I've been trying to reach your
:34:58. > :35:04.shore... # The band wrote a hit to order. It
:35:04. > :35:11.worked. Selling many more than the desired 600,000 units, it was a
:35:11. > :35:15.huge global success. Not everyone was happy. The Gould brothers felt
:35:15. > :35:18.the track took the band in the wrong direction. Were they
:35:18. > :35:23.struggling with the record and the sound of the record itself or with
:35:23. > :35:30.success? A bit of both. I didn't know at the time that that was
:35:30. > :35:35.going to be the highest point for the band but what would be the
:35:35. > :35:40.architect of the band's downfall. It was so successful. Yet everybody
:35:40. > :35:43.that was involved in making it happen really wanted to be...
:35:43. > :35:49.Wanted it to be that way. Wan wanted to follow that route. You
:35:49. > :35:55.either go with it or you don't go with it. I wanted to go with it. I
:35:55. > :36:00.think it was the beginning of the end for the original line-up of
:36:00. > :36:06.Level 42. The Gould brothers both left the band. Despite a change in
:36:06. > :36:10.line-up Level 42 went on to have another dozen Top 40 hits. Now,
:36:10. > :36:16.preparing for a new tour, Mark is reworking some of those hits
:36:16. > :36:20.including Lessons In Love. If you you would have said it me when I
:36:21. > :36:25.was nine or ten years old, do you want to be successful? I did. I
:36:25. > :36:28.wanted to be in a band an be successful. I wanted to be on telly
:36:28. > :36:37.and do all of those things. Here with a the perfect vehicle for. It
:36:37. > :36:41.I'm really grateful to the song. Mark is with us now. You said that
:36:41. > :36:46.was the beginning of the end, that song for the group. The orpbl line-
:36:46. > :36:49.up? For the original line-up, for sure. We had been together a number
:36:49. > :36:54.of years. We had been enormously successful. The success and the
:36:54. > :37:00.hard work you put into doing that it take as toll. You are back on
:37:00. > :37:06.tour now with Mike? Yes. We have been working together for ten years.
:37:06. > :37:11.He is such a great musician to play with anyway. Having more fun now
:37:11. > :37:16.than back then, less pressure? There is no pressure. I don't need
:37:16. > :37:20.to compete. I can swan about and keep my chickens on the island and
:37:20. > :37:25.go back on the road. The young ones didn't develop the slap base a
:37:25. > :37:31.combination of drumming and base playing? Yes, it is. It's... I
:37:31. > :37:41.began as a drummer. For me the idea of using two hands to do something
:37:41. > :37:48.
:37:48. > :37:53.as opposed to the usual (plays guitar) Oh, yeah! Yeah. Yeah!
:37:53. > :38:03.good. Peel one of those off for you. As you brought your guitar we will
:38:03. > :38:05.
:38:05. > :38:15.play this game. We have Carrie and Joe. We will place Ace of Base.
:38:15. > :38:20.
:38:20. > :38:25.The whole idea is that Mark will play a little bit of the baa line
:38:25. > :38:34.and you have to guess. I will look stupid here. It's like Name That
:38:34. > :38:44.Tune. Grab a card and pen. You write down what song it is. That is
:38:44. > :39:01.
:39:02. > :39:11.Joe looks confused, bless him! is too young. Before his time!
:39:12. > :39:20.
:39:20. > :39:29.is too young. See this. Get Around. No. Joy Division. YES! It was Love
:39:29. > :39:39.Will Tear Us Apart. Let's move on to the second one. Good luck with
:39:39. > :39:53.
:39:53. > :39:57.# Dadada... # # Oh, baby give me one more chance
:39:57. > :40:07.# Won't you be there # Be back in my heart... #
:40:07. > :40:14.
:40:14. > :40:24.It's there. What is it called? Jackson Five - I Want You Back.
:40:24. > :40:26.
:40:26. > :40:33.has Stevie Wonder. No. I've led a sheltered life. Jackson Five - I
:40:34. > :40:40.Want You Back. We have run out of time. Before this week who would
:40:40. > :40:45.have thought that our correspondents would have got so
:40:45. > :40:52.competitive over giant veg and homemade jam. When the title of
:40:52. > :41:00.Best in Show is at stake the gloves are off. Matt joins in the battle.
:41:00. > :41:05.This is Caddington where they take their annual village show very
:41:05. > :41:10.seriously. For one year only we have been challenged to enter the
:41:10. > :41:14.cauldron-like atmosphere of the Best in Show. There are 62 contests
:41:14. > :41:19.ranging from cookery to horticulture. I have been entered
:41:19. > :41:25.into the Best Cupcake competition. I think they have done this because
:41:25. > :41:29.I know I ride a motorcycle and listen to ACDC and therefore I will
:41:30. > :41:39.be rubbish and it will be funny. What they don't know is that I
:41:40. > :41:41.
:41:41. > :41:46.absolutely love cake. I'm certainly not alone. We ate 65 million
:41:46. > :41:51.cupcakes in the UK last year. They have their own week. It's safe to
:41:51. > :42:00.say they're popular. It means the competition will be ferocious at
:42:00. > :42:05.the Village Show. To win I need help. Step up cupcake Queen,
:42:05. > :42:09.Jennifer Boulds. She will give me a few winning tips. I intend to win
:42:09. > :42:16.with a carrot cupcake. I have never made one before. I have a recipe
:42:16. > :42:21.here. It says "easy." That is good. I have the ingredients put into
:42:21. > :42:26.bowls, like on telly. And, you know, how difficult can it be? Because
:42:26. > :42:31.the cakes will partly be judged on taste, my recipe has orange zest
:42:31. > :42:35.and mixed spices in to give it a bit of a kick. Time for a
:42:35. > :42:40.masterclass and some encouraging words from Jennifer. This requires
:42:40. > :42:46.all of my concentration. For you, you can do it blindfold. I could
:42:46. > :42:50.make a monkey do it. But not me? It helps to someone who believes in
:42:50. > :42:53.you. With the basic cake ingredients in, I am already
:42:54. > :42:58.struggling. It's disturbing when you have only put your dry goods
:42:59. > :43:05.together and you already have lumps. You can save cake at most stages.
:43:05. > :43:09.The key is not to panic. Yes. Don't panic. I keep calm and crack on,
:43:09. > :43:15.with the eggs! Look at. That what a beautiful mixture. Mix quicker.
:43:15. > :43:21.Pour in quicker too. To my basic mixture of brown sugar, whole male
:43:21. > :43:26.flower and eggs I add the carrot and a lot of. It I want my cakes to
:43:26. > :43:34.look perfect. Jennifer has a top tip. I have to destride equaly.
:43:34. > :43:39.Just for that. Like an ice-cream scoop. You get a perfect portion
:43:39. > :43:43.every time. An ice-cream scoop for your cupcakes. Put them in the oven.
:43:43. > :43:48.That is only half the challenge. Next is the topping. It should be
:43:48. > :43:56.thick and creamy. I'm going for a mix of icing sugar, soft cheese and
:43:56. > :43:59.butter. Oh, my God! No... No-one... Just stay where you are. My
:43:59. > :44:04.cupcakes have already been in the oven for 25 minutes. No-one was
:44:04. > :44:12.going to tell me. You weren't going to tell me. They are not that bad.
:44:12. > :44:17.I mean, look underneath it's still moist and lovely. You could just
:44:17. > :44:24.take the top off. Fill over the top and no-one will know. Disaster
:44:24. > :44:30.averted. Off comes the tops. On goes the icing. My confidence is
:44:30. > :44:36.restored. No mention in the recipe of lime zest in my cream cheese
:44:36. > :44:41.topping. It's how I'm feeling tonight. The icing creates a
:44:41. > :44:47.moisture seal so my creations won't dry up. It needs a steady hand. I
:44:47. > :44:51.think I've cleared the final hurdle. Which parts of my cupcake game do I
:44:51. > :44:58.need to work on? You need to be more relaxed about. It stop being
:44:58. > :45:05.so intense and pressurised. It's just cake. It's a start. What I
:45:05. > :45:11.didn't realise until right now is that cupcake making is like
:45:11. > :45:19.engineering with NASA-like quality control. Unless I brush up my act,
:45:19. > :45:24.I'm going to end up looking like a The pressure was on there! Andrew,
:45:24. > :45:29.we know you like a bit of cooking, rumour of a main course or a
:45:29. > :45:35.desert? Main courses. Fish pie. Killer fish pie. People think they
:45:35. > :45:42.have eaten fish pie, they haven't eaten my fish pie.
:45:42. > :45:48.A little bird told us you put anchovy in it? Anchovy paste, lots
:45:48. > :45:54.of parsley, deadly! Very nice. I don't like anchovies.
:45:54. > :45:59.You think you don't like them. Bring some in in tupper ware and
:45:59. > :46:04.I'll try it. Keep it to fish and potatoes. You
:46:04. > :46:10.can see Matt making more cup cupcakes on Friday when, he and
:46:10. > :46:16.Mike and John Sergeant fin out if they have won. Matt is live in the
:46:16. > :46:20.in the Watchdog studio. Thanks for dropping cakes off on the way past.
:46:20. > :46:25.Somehow, they went home and never came out again! But wait until
:46:25. > :46:32.Friday, it will knock your socks off. Matt, last week Ann asked for
:46:32. > :46:40.The One Show viewers help for a BMW story. This week you want their
:46:40. > :46:45.help? We want to hear from anyone who had a problem with animals they
:46:45. > :46:49.bought from Pets At Home, we discovered some of their animals
:46:49. > :46:54.were kept in shocking conditions. You will see the results later, but
:46:54. > :47:00.if any One Show viewers have worries about animals they bought
:47:00. > :47:05.from Pets At Home get in touch. And are you on the hunt for more
:47:05. > :47:10.rogue traders? We are on the streets of Surrey with a company
:47:10. > :47:14.whose salesman tried to scare old ladies into buying their over
:47:14. > :47:24.priced alarm systems and boy, oh boy, do they not like it if you
:47:24. > :47:30.
:47:30. > :47:35.Yeah, we didn't take too kindly to the way he was treating our beryl
:47:35. > :47:42.so we sided to have a word with the wheelspin doctor there. You just
:47:42. > :47:49.had Mark King from Level 42 on the show. I am going to enlist my 80s
:47:49. > :47:55.pop legend to teach that salesman a lesson. Find out who at 8pm.
:47:55. > :47:57.Pop back for Ace of Base later on! Don't eat any of Andrew Marr's
:47:57. > :48:00.anchovies. Dring cakes.
:48:00. > :48:03.-- bring cakes. We are not sure about the fish pie.
:48:03. > :48:07.Andrew, you have been drawing throughout the show.
:48:07. > :48:11.I have. You have come up with something amazing. I haven't seen
:48:11. > :48:16.You should be able to see it properly.
:48:16. > :48:19.That's good. That is Matt and I.
:48:19. > :48:27.APPLAUSE Yeah.
:48:27. > :48:30.Your garish set behind you, it is tastefully garish. Yeah. So there
:48:30. > :48:34.we go, I will give that to you later on.
:48:34. > :48:39.We have got quite a few of the pictures up there. That looks good
:48:39. > :48:44.up there. That was the caves, amazing caves in South Africa where
:48:44. > :48:54.we started the whole show. I was talking about 70,000 years ago and
:48:54. > :48:55.
:48:55. > :49:00.they are they are sculpted into the amazing shapes by the wind. The
:49:00. > :49:08.cleverest man in the world, chess master against IBM's computer, who
:49:08. > :49:13.wins, the computer. A really important moment in our story.
:49:13. > :49:21.That's an interesting story, a cold filming. I was shivering and that's
:49:21. > :49:25.my fur hat at the bottom of the picture. And that's Kiev.
:49:25. > :49:30.How long do they take? Shouldn't you have been filming? Well, they
:49:30. > :49:34.mess around so much, that guy Neil Harvey who was phoning in. He was
:49:34. > :49:36.playing around with his batteries and his camera! You have got to do
:49:36. > :49:41.something to fill the time in and that's what I do.
:49:41. > :49:48.Where is the most unusual place you drew? Most unusual place, I guess
:49:48. > :49:54.we were on the steps of Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, living in a tent,
:49:55. > :50:04.what they call a ger, there is no electricity or plumbing and it is
:50:04. > :50:08.very rough indeed. Mongolian cuisine, there is a lot of fairly
:50:09. > :50:11.rancid cows. LAUGHTER
:50:11. > :50:15.And sheep goo. Don't go for the cuisine.
:50:15. > :50:21.They didn't have the anchovies. We have been asking for unusual
:50:21. > :50:25.things you have been doing with your work colleagues. This is the
:50:25. > :50:28.Bradford Chamber of Commerce on the Three Peaks Challenge. They raised
:50:29. > :50:38.�7500. Well done to them.
:50:39. > :50:39.
:50:39. > :50:47.This is the employees of scarp Scarp Of Thermo Fisher.
:50:47. > :50:51.This is from Carol, it is an Andrew Marr self-portrait.
:50:51. > :50:56.One more. Lorraine and her colleagues at EDF cycled from
:50:56. > :51:01.London to Paris over the weekend. Well done to them.
:51:01. > :51:06.Well, it is 50 years since the birth of one of Britain's favourite
:51:06. > :51:11.cars cars. Here is Alexei Sayle on the Ford
:51:11. > :51:14.Cortina. My parents were communists and
:51:15. > :51:19.communists always distrusted cars. For them, the only good car was
:51:19. > :51:24.painted dark green and had armour on the side!
:51:24. > :51:31.So all through my childhood, I grew up thinking that cars were these
:51:31. > :51:35.rare, beautiful, exotic jewel-like creations.
:51:35. > :51:40.And there was one car that for working families was more exotic,
:51:40. > :51:48.more jewel-like than anything else, the ultimate motor for a dad and
:51:48. > :51:52.his his lad, the Mark I Ford Cortina.
:51:52. > :51:58.Codenamed the archbishop, the Cortina was launched 50 years ago
:51:58. > :52:01.in 1962. And was for for for most of the following three decades
:52:01. > :52:04.everywhere you looked on Britain's roads. The advertising promised
:52:04. > :52:10.more car for your money and it delivered. But more than that, it
:52:10. > :52:14.was classy. It was exotic and it was even named after an Italian ski
:52:14. > :52:18.resort. We are at Cortina Italy, driving
:52:18. > :52:24.the Ford Cortina. With stunts like this, bringing an
:52:24. > :52:30.air of glamour to the car. The roads are becoming a best seller
:52:30. > :52:33.was more prosaic. Harry Colton was the Cortina's
:52:33. > :52:36.press officer. If you looked at a new car in the
:52:36. > :52:41.show room, you were looking six to nine months delivery before you
:52:41. > :52:45.could have your new car. With Cortina, all the dealers in Britain
:52:45. > :52:49.had a stock of 30 motorcars for the day it went on sale and they knew
:52:49. > :52:52.there was a constant supply following it. Suddenly for the
:52:52. > :52:58.first time, there was a car that you could see and you could buy it
:52:58. > :53:05.and you could drive away in it. Simple supply and demand, you might
:53:05. > :53:11.think, but sales exploded making it Britain's best selling car from
:53:11. > :53:16.1982 to 1991 and keen to snap them up was another new breed, the
:53:16. > :53:20.travelling salesman. The success of a man's career symbolised by the
:53:20. > :53:30.model of Cortina he drove and why did he want one? Because Ford had
:53:30. > :53:36.
:53:36. > :53:44.made had sexy. Coopers chasing crims were bursting
:53:44. > :53:48.through our screens in the 70s. It was a macho testosterone fuelled
:53:48. > :53:55.time when women were considered a pretty accessory to the lifestyle
:53:55. > :53:58.offered by the car. She doesn't care that the seats
:53:58. > :54:02.have been designed with extra legroom in the front. She just
:54:02. > :54:05.knows she is comfortable. But at the Dagenham plant, the
:54:05. > :54:10.women workers were far from comfortable. Being paid less than
:54:10. > :54:13.their male counterparts. We are on strike.
:54:13. > :54:20.REPORTER: All of you? All the machinists anyway.
:54:20. > :54:25.So no car car seat covers for Ford? Not from us anyway.
:54:25. > :54:29.Walking out in 1968 for three weeks, it was a struggle that was
:54:29. > :54:34.instrumental of bringing about the Equal Pay Act of 1970, but for the
:54:34. > :54:42.Cortina, it was an early warning of trouble to come.
:54:42. > :54:49.And as the the mark II became the Mark III, Dagenham factory was
:54:50. > :54:53.under threat. In 1982 this mark V was the last Cortina off the
:54:53. > :54:57.production line. Phil Lewis remembers the Dagenham plant in its
:54:57. > :55:00.heyday. I worked for ford for over 30 years
:55:00. > :55:04.and this was a car manufacturing plant. Of course, you come back now
:55:04. > :55:10.and it doesn't make motorcars. I wouldn't really know where I am now.
:55:10. > :55:13.For these die hard Cortina fans, it is time to return to their
:55:14. > :55:20.spiritual home. Tell me with you are heading to?
:55:20. > :55:24.Cortina. Where are you off to? Cortina. Where are you off to?
:55:24. > :55:32.Cortina. They are off to the Italian ski
:55:32. > :55:39.resort that inspired the dream. Phil, start up the archbishop.
:55:39. > :55:49.It might only be 600 miles. But for these guys, it is a trip back in
:55:49. > :55:52.
:55:52. > :55:59.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Look at that. Arriving in style. Oh,
:55:59. > :56:04.the brakes are a bit spongy, we're joined by loads of Cortina
:56:04. > :56:10.enthusiasts. We have got Phil and Jenny.
:56:10. > :56:14.General yip, can you let her -- Jenny, can you let her out? That
:56:14. > :56:19.was all right, Andrew. Phil and Jenny, what a momentous
:56:19. > :56:24.journey. It is quite a long way to go in a car of that comfort level?
:56:24. > :56:29.Well, it is not too bad, you know. You get numb after the first few
:56:29. > :56:33.miles and you are so worried about the car keeping going, you don't
:56:33. > :56:37.worry about things like discomfort, but it was more of an adventure
:56:37. > :56:44.than a journey. Is that the same for you Jenny?
:56:44. > :56:49.When he said, "Shall we go on this trip?" I thought scwths thought "he
:56:49. > :56:53.wants to go and I am not keen." But we did enjoy it.
:56:53. > :56:56.How much time does he spend with his cars? Well, he is in the garage
:56:56. > :57:02.a lot. It is essential to keep the
:57:02. > :57:04.marriage going! LAUGHTER
:57:04. > :57:09.And he is not down the pub. True enough.
:57:09. > :57:13.It was Eventful. Rod and Viv, tell us what happened on the way? Just
:57:13. > :57:19.before we got into Cortina, my brakes failed on the hairpin bends
:57:19. > :57:22.on the way down. The fluid boiled and I had no pedal. Luckily I
:57:22. > :57:27.managed to stop it on the handbrake and pull over to the side of the
:57:27. > :57:32.road and we bled the brakes and carried on. But it was a bit hairy.
:57:32. > :57:38.Viv, how were you feeling? It was a bit worrying. A few more grey hairs.
:57:38. > :57:42.You have lovely memories in your lovely white Cortina. What's your
:57:42. > :57:49.happiest memory? Going on camping holidays with the children, Spain
:57:49. > :57:53.and Portugal. It was our family car. Isn't it time Rod bought you a
:57:53. > :58:02.sporty number? Well, I have got another car at home. Well, you are
:58:02. > :58:06.Have a look at Andrew Marr! LAUGHTER
:58:06. > :58:10.Isn't that just fantastic. Lyn, well, you had a right time on
:58:10. > :58:15.the way. Let us know what you did about half-way along the journey?
:58:15. > :58:18.My husband asked me to get into the car and take it on to the grid at
:58:18. > :58:23.the Hockenheim ring and we kept going around the circuit. It was
:58:23. > :58:27.brilliant. I loved it. I want to do it again.
:58:27. > :58:34.Lyn Got in before you? The first time my car is on a racetrack and
:58:34. > :58:38.she is driving. But I am going to buy her a day's driving at Brand's
:58:38. > :58:43.Hatch for her birthday. We're going to jump into your car.
:58:43. > :58:47.Alex, are you driving or do you me me to? You better drive.
:58:47. > :58:53.This is brilliant. Right... OK, here we go.
:58:53. > :58:56.Don't forget, you can see Andrew's History of the World on Sunday