:00:24. > :00:30.Hello. Welcome to the One Show. Tonight's guest claims n his own
:00:30. > :00:35.words, he wants to redefine the evolutionary model of man. But he
:00:35. > :00:45.seems to spend most of his time building toy planes and driving
:00:45. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:55.very fast cars. 470! It's the giggling, James May!
:00:55. > :01:00.APPLAUSE Incredible. You look every inch the
:01:00. > :01:06.real man there. You do think that men have sort of lost their way a
:01:06. > :01:11.bit? It's not so much that, but the problem is I think that the way man
:01:11. > :01:16.is portrayed on television. That is a different thing. We are supposed
:01:16. > :01:21.to be endearing and useless. We have to stop being useful again.
:01:21. > :01:26.think so too. We'll be chatting to James about his book, where he
:01:26. > :01:31.teaches men all the things we need to survive. Including, how to build
:01:31. > :01:35.an essential crazy golf course. Look at Dom. He's done a super job,
:01:35. > :01:41.considering he only had a couple of milk bottles. It's not all about
:01:41. > :01:48.the men tonight. If you are a woman who is handy with a toolbox send us
:01:48. > :01:56.pictures of you and your creations. Please, don't let us down. James,
:01:56. > :02:00.are you quite happy with your parking? Parking a car? Yes, normal
:02:00. > :02:07.car. Yes. Doesn't sound very interesting. We all know about
:02:07. > :02:17.speed cameras, but there's a new one. Motorists be aware, it's the
:02:17. > :02:20.mobile CCTV parking camera. There's a new kid on the block. In 2008,
:02:20. > :02:25.councils in England and Wales were given a new weapon in their
:02:25. > :02:33.armourary against problem parkers. It's -- armoury against problem
:02:33. > :02:37.parkers. It's CCTV cars. They are a small, but significant tool, and
:02:37. > :02:39.equipped with the latest state-of- the-art technology. Since the new
:02:39. > :02:45.cars have been in operation penalties outside London have risen
:02:45. > :02:50.by almost 500,000. It's not clear the increase in fines is down to
:02:50. > :02:54.the cars, but drivers everywhere have locked horns with them.
:02:54. > :02:57.Michael Johns was find by Medway Council for parking illegal I. The
:02:57. > :03:01.only problem is he claimed he wasn't parked at all. He told the
:03:01. > :03:10.council he had been turning into an entrance, but had to reverse when
:03:10. > :03:15.he was filled by the car. The light seemed to indicate he was
:03:15. > :03:20.manoeuvring. I appealed against it, but Medway Council didn't allow it,
:03:20. > :03:27.so I took it into my hands and put it through to the advocator. I
:03:27. > :03:31.thought if I don't win it, I don't win it and I won it in the end.
:03:31. > :03:35.Despite this win, the council insist he was parked illegally. The
:03:35. > :03:39.video footage shows this and they say Mr Johns admitted this in his
:03:39. > :03:45.original appeal. They also said they were given insufficient
:03:45. > :03:50.notification of the hearing to be able to attend. The way the cars
:03:50. > :03:54.are used is a major issue. important thing is the councils are
:03:54. > :04:02.focused on how to use the vehicle and when to use the vehicle and to
:04:02. > :04:11.follow the guidance that is issued to them. Some argue that cars flout
:04:11. > :04:17.guidelines by hiding from public view. What are you doing, Bruce?
:04:17. > :04:19.assist the camera cars in doing their duty. The statutory goal is
:04:19. > :04:22.100% compliant with our penalties. When we are there they achieve
:04:23. > :04:26.exactly that, because people see the car and they don't commit the
:04:26. > :04:34.offence. Most of the people don't know they are about to commit an
:04:34. > :04:36.offence until we tell them. council still think that cars are
:04:37. > :04:40.extremely effective. If you park legally then you'll not have a
:04:40. > :04:45.problem and that would be my message to all. Park elly and you
:04:45. > :04:49.won't have to worry at all. even some of the cars have found
:04:49. > :04:53.themselves on the wrong side of the regulations. Nigel received a
:04:53. > :04:58.ticket in Richmond in August 2010. He successfully had it repealed
:04:58. > :05:01.after it was ruled the CCTV car that fined him wasn't properly
:05:01. > :05:08.licenced by the Department of Transport. His case has opened the
:05:08. > :05:13.floodgates and Richmond council is looking at having to refund 18,500
:05:13. > :05:18.tickets issued between 2009 and 2011 at a cost of just over �1
:05:18. > :05:22.million. Elsewhere, there are concerns about how the cars operate.
:05:22. > :05:25.There are occasions when the public come and say, well, look, it was on
:05:25. > :05:31.a double yellow line for five minutes whilst it was filming me
:05:31. > :05:34.and why should they park there when I can't? This was photographed in
:05:34. > :05:38.2010. Camden council said some of their vehicles have permits
:05:38. > :05:42.allowing them to park anywhere. Drivers have instructions they
:05:42. > :05:47.should only park on double yellows when necessary and safe. With so
:05:47. > :05:51.many questions being asked about mobile CCTV they are going to
:05:51. > :05:57.remain controversial and the focus of drivers' anger, but with other
:05:57. > :06:01.councils orderering even more, be warned because they are going to --
:06:01. > :06:06.ordering even more, be warned, because they are going to become
:06:06. > :06:10.much more prove lent. James, you are a chancer when it comes to
:06:10. > :06:15.parking? I have believed that parking - obviously inconsiderate
:06:15. > :06:22.parking is bad, but there should be an element about sport about it.
:06:22. > :06:26.I've seen an incident where an old guy pulled up by the side of the
:06:26. > :06:30.road and obviously left his wife at the supermarket and they were in
:06:30. > :06:34.their 70's and she was there with the two big bags. He stopped and
:06:34. > :06:38.did the decent thing and open the door and someone came up with a tow
:06:38. > :06:42.truck to take the car away. To take the car way? The local people
:06:42. > :06:46.rebelled and protected him while he drove off, but I thought that is
:06:46. > :06:50.picking on old people, which is very bad form and unBritish. That
:06:50. > :06:55.is certainly one case, but in general can you moan if you get
:06:55. > :06:58.caught? Of course. The first thing you'll hear about it is when it
:06:58. > :07:02.lands on the doormat. It will have the details of where you were and
:07:03. > :07:07.the first thing, if you know you're in the wrong you have to pay up. If
:07:07. > :07:12.you are not and you want to appeal, you have a right by law to ask to
:07:12. > :07:16.see the footage. The council will send you a DVD, or you can go along
:07:16. > :07:23.to the offices and request to see it within 14 days. They have to
:07:23. > :07:26.allow you. If you win the appeal, great. If you don't you can ask for
:07:26. > :07:30.an industrial tribunal to consider it. It shouldn't cost anything and
:07:30. > :07:35.they'll give their verdict. If you lose that one, you might as well
:07:35. > :07:41.pay up. If you've got any sort of threat hanging over like a parking
:07:41. > :07:44.ticket, if you register a dispute with the company then they are not
:07:44. > :07:48.allowed to enforce bailiffs until the dispute is resolved. Let them
:07:48. > :07:52.know you are aware of that. Quite often the tickets disappear. This
:07:52. > :07:56.is private companies? Even if you had a gas bill. If there is a
:07:56. > :08:02.dispute and you raise it with anybody and you say, "I dispute
:08:02. > :08:06.this." Until it's resolved no-one can bring in debt recovery agents.
:08:06. > :08:12.Let them know you know about that law and it often goes away. Away
:08:12. > :08:15.from parking, who would you say is the best driver, you, Jeremy or
:08:15. > :08:21.Richard? If we are brutally honest, we would have to say it's me.
:08:21. > :08:26.Because, it just is. I'm the fastest without crashing as we saw
:08:26. > :08:32.earlier on. You are notorious for being the slowest? The Bugatti was
:08:32. > :08:37.just about 259mph. My view is I take a rather sort of spiritualist
:08:37. > :08:41.approach to driving. Slow is what I'm saying is what I'm saying.
:08:41. > :08:46.Safest, though, James. Yes, slow isn't necessarily safe, but it can
:08:46. > :08:48.be part of it. Cars are not actually about - for example, I
:08:48. > :08:54.don't like driving around racetracks because you drive the
:08:54. > :08:58.car as hard as possible and wear the tyres out and 1.38.25 seconds
:08:58. > :09:03.you are back where you were at the beginning and that goes against the
:09:03. > :09:08.grain of what the car is for, it's what it allows you to do which is
:09:08. > :09:15.great. I'm happy - my favourite bits are where we buy an old car
:09:15. > :09:19.and have to drive them across the desert. We'll have more of a chat
:09:19. > :09:25.about that later on, but Dom, thank you very much. We'll let you get
:09:25. > :09:31.back to the golf. I need some practice. Park yourself over there.
:09:31. > :09:37.Nice! According to BP, which has just announced it's biggest-ever
:09:37. > :09:43.investment in the North Sea there is black gold in the waters. The
:09:43. > :09:49.company is ploughing in 4.5 billion. We look back as how it all began.
:09:49. > :09:55.This is Aberdeen. Known as the granite city, it used to be famous
:09:55. > :10:03.for the flishing fleet and little else, but in November 1975 it was
:10:03. > :10:06.at the heart of the new industry. Aberdeen had always depended on the
:10:06. > :10:16.sea, but no-one could imagine the riches which lay out there and they
:10:16. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:22.could be summed up in one word - oil. The coming of black gold
:10:22. > :10:27.changed Britain. We became self- sufficient in oil. It began
:10:27. > :10:33.officially at least in November 1975 when the Queen came to
:10:33. > :10:40.Aberdeen to turn the tap on. If we use it right, this flood of energy
:10:40. > :10:43.can, without doubt, much improve our economic well-being. This
:10:43. > :10:48.professor has written the official history of North Sea Oil. Why did
:10:48. > :10:53.people look here for the oil? impetus for exploration was the
:10:54. > :10:57.discovery of the huge gas field in the Netherlands and in 1959. That
:10:57. > :11:01.led gentlemenologists to think that there could be gas extending into
:11:01. > :11:06.the North Sea. In the early days, there was little or no thought
:11:06. > :11:11.about oil. In fact, one famous quote from a geologist was he would
:11:11. > :11:13.drink any barrel of oil found in the North Sea. Others believed it
:11:13. > :11:20.was worth exploring for oil off Britain's east coast. They were
:11:20. > :11:24.right. The first major oilfield was 40s. Discovered in 1970. Others
:11:24. > :11:33.quickly followed and they couldn't have come at a quicker -- better
:11:33. > :11:37.time. 73 and 74, that was the time of the big oil crisis, when the
:11:37. > :11:41.price quadrupled, so to get oil on- stream from indigenous sources was
:11:41. > :11:45.a big priority. Northern Scotland became a hive of activity for a
:11:45. > :11:49.whole army of oil prospectors. It was like the gold rush. People came
:11:49. > :11:54.here from all over the world to seek their fortunes in North Sea
:11:54. > :11:59.Oil. But, unlike the old gold prospectors, they needed skill and
:11:59. > :12:03.experience in the off-shore oil industry. Very many of them were
:12:03. > :12:08.Americans, who had learnt their trade in the Gulf of Mexico. The
:12:08. > :12:12.North Sea was a different environment altogether. Oil
:12:12. > :12:15.exploration and production had never been carried out in such
:12:15. > :12:20.extreme conditions. Andrew Lawrie was one of the pioneering engineers.
:12:20. > :12:25.It was wild water. The weather conditions and the winter time, it
:12:25. > :12:29.could be pretty rough. Work had to go on. Heavy lifts and boats coming
:12:29. > :12:32.in and cranes that had to offload equipment from boats. The drivers
:12:32. > :12:38.trying to time the lifts. Everything had a potential for
:12:38. > :12:41.disaster. Soon, millions of barrels of oil were flowing into British
:12:41. > :12:47.refineries, but the dangers of pumping gas and oil ashore were
:12:47. > :12:55.always at the forefront of workers' minds. The worst that could have
:12:55. > :12:59.happened wasen -- was an explosion, a blowout. That was the ultimate
:12:59. > :13:04.nightmare. The dangers became all too clear when the Piper Alpha rig
:13:04. > :13:10.exploded in July 1988. 167 men lost their lives in a disaster which
:13:11. > :13:14.resulted from a gas leak caused by a missing safety valve. Have the
:13:15. > :13:21.sack feists and hard work of the pioneers been work it? Oil was
:13:21. > :13:27.vital to the economy in the 1980's and contributing almost 5% of the
:13:27. > :13:31.GDP and almost 8% of tax revenues. Critics say the Government used the
:13:31. > :13:41.money to prop up day-to-day spending, instead of investing for
:13:41. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:47.the future. Rge -- Norway wanted to set up a fund to ensure people
:13:47. > :13:50.benefited once and for all. A lot of the oil revenues were in effect
:13:50. > :13:54.used for consumption purposes. Whatever your opinion on how the
:13:54. > :14:00.money's been spent, there's no doubt the North Sea Oil industry
:14:00. > :14:04.was a huge engineering achievement. It ranks alongside that of the
:14:04. > :14:10.great Victorian railway builders and the benefits are continuing.
:14:10. > :14:14.The fields are likely to provide oil for at least another 40 years.
:14:14. > :14:19.Thank you very much. Isn't it true that you were once saved by an oil
:14:19. > :14:24.rig diver? Yes. I like to think so. It was when I was making a problem
:14:24. > :14:28.about sharks and I jumped off a small boat with my diving kit and I
:14:28. > :14:34.had to throw the jacket in first and jump in and I got it on wrong
:14:34. > :14:38.and I got cramp and I thought this is is, I'm going to drown and there
:14:38. > :14:43.was a big bloke called Gary and he had worked on riggs in the 70's.
:14:43. > :14:47.Most of the friends were dead and all the rest of it. He had had a
:14:47. > :14:51.dangerous life and it was like a kitten who had fallen into the
:14:51. > :14:55.stream and he put me back on the boat. Made me feel feeble. I'm very
:14:55. > :15:00.grateful, if he's watching. A real man who doesn't really need your
:15:00. > :15:10.new book? Definitely not. Half of him was made of met eal at this
:15:10. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:23.Crazy golf is a great therapy. We believe it could be used to enliven
:15:23. > :15:28.the miserable lives of office workers simply by being set up on
:15:28. > :15:38.station car parks, public parks. It also allows you to be creative
:15:38. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:46.because the few -- if you build a permanent one, you can invent
:15:46. > :15:53.things out of bits of furniture... These are very sophisticated.
:15:53. > :16:03.obviously an expert. Step up to the plate. I never said I could do it!
:16:03. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:17.Theoretically, you should always be able to get a hole in one... That
:16:17. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:27.is all right. Keep going. Just keep going. That is what they do.
:16:27. > :16:31.Brilliant! Perfect! It is not just about how to build a crazy golf
:16:31. > :16:38.course. Your book equips men with the knowledge they need to survive
:16:38. > :16:42.the 21st century. I describe it as used on this is newt. You can't put
:16:42. > :16:47.everything in one book because it would be the size of this building.
:16:47. > :16:51.It is designed to inspire you to have a go at things, to allow
:16:51. > :16:57.people to acknowledge that being interested in having a spanner in
:16:57. > :17:01.the correct size is OK. There is the fashion for saying that means
:17:01. > :17:07.you are a bit sad and weird or you have never had sex but that is not
:17:07. > :17:15.true. It is OK to make things and it is quite good to get excited by
:17:15. > :17:19.pieces of wood. Great! Do you think girls need a similar
:17:19. > :17:24.manual? That is part of the inspiration behind the original
:17:24. > :17:29.idea. I am forever being told that girls are brilliant at everything
:17:29. > :17:39.and my experience is that that is largely true but... We should not
:17:39. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:44.have called it Jordan -- Man Lab. There are girls in Man Lab. I would
:17:44. > :17:50.like women to watch it. I called it Man Lab because I wanted men to
:17:50. > :17:54.start making a bit of an effort. You give some great tips on the TV
:17:54. > :18:01.series, which starts on Tuesday, and one of them is to remember
:18:01. > :18:08.Use the name frequently when you are introduced and find an excuse
:18:08. > :18:11.to say it a number of times. OK, I will keep saying their name. Don't
:18:11. > :18:17.overdo it otherwise they will think you are a nutcase.
:18:17. > :18:25.A new crowd of guests have arrived. Time to tried technique number one.
:18:25. > :18:31.Hello! Nice to meet you, Clare. How are you doing, Clare? Are you all
:18:31. > :18:41.right, Khaled? Well done, Clare. Michel, a nice to meet you,
:18:41. > :18:44.
:18:45. > :18:51.Michelle. Drink it up, Michelle. Well-matched has ago, we will move
:18:51. > :18:56.on to the next one. -- while Matthew has a go. Otters are
:18:56. > :19:05.brilliant at the art of survival and they love having a play with
:19:05. > :19:09.40 years ago, Britain's rivers were in a terrible state. Polluted with
:19:09. > :19:14.pesticides and chemicals, the wildlife that live in them was in
:19:14. > :19:19.serious decline and otters suffered more than most. But with a
:19:19. > :19:23.nationwide clean-up, many of our rivers now tell a different story.
:19:23. > :19:27.The River Stour in Dorset is one such river that hosts an abundance
:19:27. > :19:32.of otters like never before and whilst the townsfolk go about their
:19:32. > :19:40.daily business, plenty of them have had some good sightings. In between
:19:40. > :19:44.deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Stephen has found a special
:19:44. > :19:50.affinity for the otters of this river. Stephen, how did you first
:19:50. > :19:53.chanced upon their otters? decided a river walk would be nice
:19:53. > :20:01.in the mornings so we started walking the dog and one morning, I
:20:01. > :20:06.saw a family of four otters playing happily and from that moment on, I
:20:06. > :20:11.was hooked. Since then, not only has even been taking some cracking
:20:11. > :20:15.photos, but by charting the positions of his sightings on a map,
:20:15. > :20:19.he is providing valuable information for the local wildlife
:20:20. > :20:25.trust, and us. Fantastic! These red circles
:20:25. > :20:30.indicate all the locations that you have seen them regularly. Yes.
:20:30. > :20:36.Where are we at the moment? We are opposite number three. They are not
:20:36. > :20:42.moving a huge distance. How far is that on the map? That is probably
:20:42. > :20:51.600 metres, 700 maximum, though it is quite a short area. Let's go and
:20:51. > :20:55.Otters might be making a comeback but from my experience, they are
:20:55. > :20:59.extremely elusive and require an early start and lots of patience.
:21:00. > :21:06.But even with Stephen's map and his amazing local knowledge, I wasn't
:21:06. > :21:16.expecting to find an otter in less than 30 seconds. Right at the
:21:16. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:25.bottom... We have got an otter! It That is brilliant! I think I am a
:21:25. > :21:32.pretty good naturalist, I have some good rides for spotting things, but
:21:32. > :21:42.you were all over this! You can see that lovely outlay, the big broad
:21:42. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:52.head and the body and the flattened I have to say, I am blown away. I
:21:52. > :21:56.thought we might get a glimpse. I had no idea he would be going up
:21:57. > :22:00.and down and feeding. As the otter disappears, we used Stephen's map
:22:00. > :22:10.to see if we can find any more, and the morning just got better and
:22:10. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:34.Look at the trail of Bubbles... On the water.
:22:34. > :22:42.LAUGHTER. He just pops up into shot! The sheer number of otters on
:22:42. > :22:47.this river is that standing. -- outstanding. The River Stour is
:22:47. > :22:54.special. It is at Chalk River, with gravel beds, which makes it ideal
:22:54. > :22:59.for fish to lay their eggs. This creates an abundance of food for
:22:59. > :23:05.wildlife and a perfect habitat. So perfect that Stephen has seen up to
:23:05. > :23:09.nine otters living a long is a very short stretch. Considering 40 years
:23:09. > :23:14.ago, these animals were virtually extinct in the UK, I just can't
:23:14. > :23:20.believe how many otters there now appear to be.
:23:20. > :23:28.Thrilling. Amazing. Absolutely thrilling, Stephen. The best view
:23:28. > :23:32.of otters I have ever had. I get this every day. Absolutely
:23:32. > :23:38.beautiful. It was recently revealed that otters can now be found in
:23:38. > :23:44.every county in England. Good news. Are you a fan was might
:23:44. > :23:49.I am now. Are you an animal lover? I am a bit soppy about animals
:23:49. > :23:54.because I am a townie. I see a fox and go, look at the Fox, whereas
:23:54. > :24:00.Richard Hammond thinks I am an idiot for saying that, but he lives
:24:00. > :24:10.in the countryside... 800 years ago. He we won't go into that! We have
:24:10. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:26.Pat, not bad for 64! I have this woman on the winds. -- on Toulouse.
:24:26. > :24:36.It is like extremely soft porn. this is E in's wife doing welding
:24:36. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:44.I know her! That is my Meccano bridge! Really? Yes, she was the
:24:44. > :24:50.chief designer and engineer on that project. You can take at home then.
:24:50. > :24:56.James, isn't it correct that your full name is James Daniel? Are you
:24:57. > :25:01.happy with it? Yes, I think so. James is my middle name.
:25:01. > :25:05.And mine. But a growing number of people are opting to change their
:25:05. > :25:10.names! What is in the name? That is
:25:11. > :25:16.Shakespeare. Quite a lot if you got in the public life. Reg Dwight
:25:16. > :25:21.became Elton John. Marion Morrison became John Wayne. Stephanie German
:25:21. > :25:31.Otto became Lady GaGa. Although you have probably already guessed, she
:25:31. > :25:32.
:25:32. > :25:40.Do you like your name? I love it. Why? Because it means a person who
:25:40. > :25:46.is good with anything arty, music, throwing... I was thinking of
:25:46. > :25:51.calling myself Max steel? It is silly. My brother had a nice name
:25:51. > :25:56.and my sister had a good one and I always hated mind. Why did you not
:25:56. > :26:00.change it? It is what my mum called me! Ten years ago, the numbers of
:26:00. > :26:05.people changing their names were in the low hundreds every year, and
:26:06. > :26:10.now it is up to the tens of thousands. One of these was Pixie,
:26:10. > :26:16.who changed her name from Rachel. decided to change my name to move
:26:16. > :26:20.on with my life. I didn't tell my family until after I had done it so
:26:20. > :26:27.there was not a lot they could do. What does her boyfriend Nigel make
:26:27. > :26:37.of it? Pixie is different to Rachel. Rachel is very quiet and nervous
:26:37. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:42.but Pixie enjoys life. She is a different person. What motivated
:26:42. > :26:46.Pizzey to change their name she was born with? Sometimes people want to
:26:46. > :26:50.create a break between who they were and who they are now. Some
:26:50. > :26:54.people change their names because they see it as aspirational, so it
:26:54. > :27:01.associates with someone they want to become. I have a more positive
:27:01. > :27:06.outlook. I am not living in the past as much. I feel like I am
:27:06. > :27:11.reborn with a new identity. Maybe there is more to a name then just a
:27:11. > :27:17.random collection of letters. Maybe it have the power to influence your
:27:17. > :27:23.future and you happiness. Maybe if I had been caught Julian and Thorpe,
:27:23. > :27:29.a would-be prime minister by now. Or in prison... -- Julian Ogilvie,
:27:29. > :27:37.I would be prime minister by now. James is number 10 in the top 100
:27:37. > :27:44.best boys' names. Jeremy is pour hundred and 22. That does not
:27:44. > :27:48.surprise me. -- 422. Look at these sisters. They are
:27:48. > :27:55.twins! Are they?
:27:55. > :27:59.And this is memory, plastering the kitchen. It is that way round!
:27:59. > :28:05.It depends if she is plastering the ceiling!
:28:05. > :28:08.Sophie is 13 from rugby. She is assembling a rabbit hutch.
:28:08. > :28:12.This is one of those mobile parking...
:28:12. > :28:19.That is the wrong way round! The other way!
:28:19. > :28:23.It has tipped over! Good! I hope he got a ticket for that! Dom has been
:28:23. > :28:28.super and has built the golf course, taught us about parking and now he
:28:28. > :28:33.is about to do the final lurch into manhood. Come on! What is
:28:33. > :28:40.happening? This is all about how to cheat at playing the guitar in
:28:40. > :28:50.order to serenade the one you love. More details on the TV programme,
:28:50. > :28:55.