19/12/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Matt Baker.

And Angela Scanlon.

We've welcomed some posties

in from the cold to say

thank you for working so hard,

ensuring that all our festive

post is delivered on time

in the run up to Christmas.

But they haven't got the night off.

They've also been busy

delivering tonight's films.

Shannon, what have you brought?

I've brought a film that has shown

how we create the Queen posed by

penchee on our stamps every day.

We

have the story of Tom Fletcher which

is full of Christmas surprise.

And as well as first class films,

we've also received a special

delivery from the dark and

twisted village of Royston Vasey.

There is that worrying music.

Two guests who really push

the comedy envelope!

From The League of Gentlemen,

please welcome Mark Gatiss

and Steve Pemberton!

Hello!

Higher!

What a night it was

last night. We're going to talk

about it.

Did you enjoy it?

I'm not

quite over it.

I was watching it in

bed from under the duvet. You guys

have been friends for so long. We've

got a picture actually.

We have

literally not changed. How can

anyone be that then? And have that

much hair!

And proof that you have

been mates since university.

31

years we have known each other.

EU

exchange Christmas presents?

Sometimes. Sometimes our greatest

wish is that we have someone with a

van take it all away. I'm into

decluttering.

I'll take some stuff

of you.

Are you one for Christmas

cards?

My brother Philip is a

postman and he is hard at work. I

gave Steve his card today. I have

had delivered three. I don't seem to

have the time to sit down. When you

get a card it makes you feel guilty.

I have a one in, one out policy.

Against the clock?

Yes.

Well, it's

great to have you here tonight. In

these cold winter months we

certainly rely on our emergency

services more than ever.

Including life-saving

volunteer rescue services

in remote parts of the country.

But what happens when

an emergency service,

becomes the emergency?

Joe has the story.

Smoke below is from a burning

building in south Wales.

Firefighters attempt to bring the

blaze inside under control. It is

hopeless. The fire is too intense.

The next day the devastation is

clear to see. Emergency vehicles and

equipment used by the Central

Beacons Mountain rescue team

blackened and charred. The rescue

team based here has been declared to

dangerous to enter and the damage

has left a charity without the

vehicles and equipment it needs to

save lives. This year has been the

busiest on record for the

life-saving charity. Volunteers and

rescuers called out over 136 times.

It is these that is of bravery that

have earned them publicity across

social media and the local news.

Viewers of BBC One will know them

from the identity segment that

appears between BBC One shows.

Holding floss the rescue dog is team

leader Hugh Jones. The team knows

that the fire was started

deliberately but that is little

comfort with the damaging estimate

to be quarter of £1 million. How

important are those vehicles and

equipment to you?

Essential. We

can't operate without it. To see it

go is devastating.

But the team

haven't stopped saving lives. Just

days after the fire, 21-year-old

Curtis Chapman was badly hurt

sledging. His brother Taylor rushed

to see him.

The sheet of steel tore

through a sled and tour quarter of a

way into his leg.

With gear

destroyed in the fire, rescuers used

their own cars to reach Curtis and

borrowed equipment from nearby teams

to rescue him. I know your brother

is still in a bad way but I know

that you came here to say something

to Hugh.

They didn't have to do this

because they are volunteers and they

do a great job. Thank you.

It shows

that we are beginning to cope.

Offers of help have continued to

roll in. An ambulance is on loan

from another mountain rescue team

and the temporary base has been set

up at a local fire station. Jane

Brown is organising a fundraising

walk from this rugby club.

Merthyr

Tydfil is an amazing place and

people come together at this time.

The mountains are my passion. It'd

be great if we could do this for the

rescue teams.

Hugh is taking me to

spot high up in Brecon Beacons.

This

is one of our main areas for turning

out to call outs. This peak is where

the BBC are identical was filmed.

How was it filming that?

Straightaway, we became proud of the

fact that we were representing UK

mountain rescue across the TV

screens of Britain.

Tonight the team

is better on a training exercise in

the forest above Merthyr Tydfil.

This is the real star of the show!

How was it? Floss isn't giving much

away. So how is it for the others?

People do ask if you were on the

telly. It's easy to say that I was

the one next to the dog.

After the

fire at base, the fact that the

profile has been raised, we've been

inundated with offers of help. It's

really uplifting for the team.

Now

we need to start the next bit of the

search.

They are still determined to

be active and ready for anyone who

needs them. The next time you see

them on your telly, spare after

bought for the real story unfolding

behind those pictures. -- spare a

thought. So many people grateful for

the fact that they are going strong.

We spoke to The Central Beacons

Mountain Rescue Team earlier

and they're hoping to get back

to their premises in six months

and hoping to have three

new vehicles in nine months.

A spokesman said they're

very grateful to Jane

and all the community fundraisers

efforts, trying to get

the service back on it's feet.

We wish them all the best.

20 years ago, radio listeners first

heard from the bizarre residence of

the fictional village of Royston

Vaizey.

Now they are back with some

recognisable characters. Hello?

Yes.

Is someone there? Can I help you at

all?

Are you aware that this block

is due to be demolished next week.

I

wasn't aware. I'm a woman. You

shouldn't be here. This is a local

shop for local people. There's

nothing for you here.

APPLAUSE

I have watched that the number of

times today. It doesn't get old. A

quid a 3-part special after 15

years. Why now?

We've all been busy

with other projects. If you're going

to do a special, you want to leave

long enough to remember it fondly,

and people wanted to come back. If

we had only waited five years,

people would be saying, not that lot

again.

What have you made of the

reaction?

It's been genuinely

moving. It was overwhelming. It was

trending worldwide last night. An

incredible response that is really

touching. It means a great deal to a

lot of people. You get stopped in

the street by a lot of people. They

say they loved it as a kid. You stop

and say what? They have grown up

with it.

Was it about pleasing those

loyal fans or about attracting a new

audience?

Mainly we did it for

ourselves. We've got to be happy. We

did it for the fans. You've got to

have one eye looking forward and one

eye looking back.

Like most of the

characters!

We wanted references

that people who have followed it

would understand but hopefully make

it available to a new generation.

Once you have tipped your noses up

and got back into the gear, did it

all come flooding back?

It was like

we had never stop. That is the

definition of all great friendships,

you pick up where you left off.

Filming, I thought it would take a

couple of days but it was like we

had never stopped. It was quite

strange. I hadn't watched it since,

I watched the first two series to

remember how the voices were.

What

did you make of your early work?

I

used to get cross with people who

said it was too dark. Then I

thought, well,... But it's nothing

to do with Gothic horror. The stuff

that is really dark is the themes.

It's quite bleak but that is what

people respond to.

Is it darker now?

I think people's eyes have just got

more cloudy.

Compared to what's

going on in the news it's

light-hearted.

And you're going on

tour?

Yes tickets go on sale

tomorrow.

We started as a live act

and we have done two tours and

people have so much fun with it,

jutting up, get in early and get

your tickets. As a father of a

teenage girl, I know how hard it is

to get tickets for big shows.

You've

gone to great success. Were there

any hesitations or reservations?

Some of the sequences. That train

sequence last night. We can't go

into details on a family show. Did

you think, hang on a minute? Was

there any hesitation at all?

No. We

were doing it for fun and not

because we had to. If you overthink

what people are expecting, we just

did it for a laugh. We had to be

true to what the show was like

before and also what our sense of

humour is. The world has changed and

certainly things you might rethink

now but largely it is a very black

comedy so we had to go with our

instincts.

Well, you looked great.

The League of Gentlemen continues

tonight and tomorrow night

on BBC Two at ten and you can catch

last night's episode on the iPlayer.

Watch it, if you are old enough!

If you've not posted your Christmas

cards or presents yet, in a moment,

our posties in tonight's audience

have some important

information for you.

Before that, here's Adebanji finding

out about the artist who 50 years

ago received a royal

stamp of approval.

This is probably the most famous

portrait ever created. It's an image

that has travelled all over the

world and endured for more than 50

years. I'm talking about one of

these, the British postage stamp. In

1965, the Royal Mail held a

competition to find a new design for

the stamp. Which, at the time, was

based on an image by society

photographer Dorothy welding. Arnold

may chain, a sculptor from Stoke on

Trent submitted his ideas. He had

previously worked for Royal Mint and

Wedgwood pottery is. He was the only

want to submit a sculpture of the

Queen. The judges told him to

develop his ideas which he chose to

do in the form of a plaster model.

His nephew Dominic Newton remembers

his uncle's passion.

This was ten

years work encapsulating. He

produced about 300 drawings. We only

have a view life drawings because he

had very little time with the Queen

but in terms of the paintings, we

know for sure about 500.

Tell me

about the life drawings. I am an

ardent sketch of myself and these

are terrific.

He only had four

sittings throughout the entire

period and eight each sitting would

be 45 minutes. For him, hair was

hugely important.

This was very

close to the final one.

You can see

early on in the project, the class

and beauty of the piece that Arnold

was all webby thinking about -- was

already thinking about it being an

injuring image.

Can I have one?

No.

We only bring them out for special

occasions!

Was he nervous about meeting the

Queen?

He phoned up the people he

need to phone up, and he was told

that the Queen was on holiday in

Balmoral. But they told him to come

up, and bring a dinner jacket. He

was ready to get to work, and the

Queen turned up in her curlers, so

only said it was just like being at

the family, very relaxing.

After

years of hardware, he only received

£150 for his finished design. Once

it had received personal approval

from the Queen, the first stamp with

his design was released in 1957 with

a value of four old pence. Since

then it has been reproduced in over

130 different colours, and today I'm

going to be using 2500 of these

stamps to create a very special

collards. It's going to be a bit of

a challenge, so I've called in some

posties to help me. We are in the

very room where he created his

designs for the stamp. I think I've

got a lot to live up to.

It is looking really good, really

good.

That looks absolutely

fabulous.

And what would your uncle

think of it?

He would think it was

wonderful.

And there we have it, a

Machin stamp to celebrate his

birthday. We all thoroughly enjoyed

that, that was news to all of us!

Right, the posties are in for

an important Christmas post alert!

The last day you can post anything

is Saturday.

Dave, when should people be

posting their second class post?

Tomorrow.

And first-class?

Thursday,

the 21st of December.

And if you

miss that, there is one to

guarantee, and what is that?

Friday,

that is the guaranteed special, the

22nd of December.

And if you haven't

posted it by then, do you really

care? That is 1

Angela has news of a Christmas

card that won't be

being posted this year.

Unless you can find an envelope 200

million times smaller than a stamp!

Here's the world's smallest

Christmas card, created by boffins

from the National Physical

Laboratory.

it is thinner than a human hair, and

ten times smaller than the previous

record-holder. The message was

carved using a focused iron beam.

What was the picture, was it a

little snowman?

I thought it was a

gingerbread man.

We all need one of

those beams!

When a pop star turned his

bestselling children's book

into a brand new Christmas musical,

he need to find a whole

new star to front it.

And he found three.

Here's Lucy.

This Christmas, eight-year-old Dan

is aiming to fulfil his dream of

becoming a star of the London stage.

The One Show has been given

exclusive access to some very

special editions for a brand-new

Christmas show. The Christmasaurus

is written by McFly Singer Tom

Fletcher.

The Christmasaurus has a

Christmas Eve with a dinosaur, and

William the character is a young

wheelchair user.

Christmas being

over isn't the reason I'm feeling

rotten.

Today is an important day

because we are casting William, and

we always want to cast a genuine

wheelchair user to give the

character authenticity.

I believe

you can fly!

There is nothing that

we can't do with an actor who is a

wheelchair user as long as you make

sure instead of steps you build

ramps.

The character William has to

use a wheelchair following a

horrible accident when he was

younger, in which he also lost his

mum.

Wiliame is worried that his dad

is lonely and his life, is his life

with just William enough?

This is

going to be incredibly difficult!

I

really like him, he is a real

character, really confident.

I am

going to take this one away. No one

is fighting the? Good.

The team

decided to offer three boys the

chance to play the part of William.

So Tom does a mad dash around to

tell them.

They have no idea I'm

coming and that they have got the

part of.

Jake from Essex, Archie

from Surrey and in Cambridgeshire...

It is Paul Fletcher!

I've got some

news. Would you like to come and be

William?

Yes! Yes! Yes!

When Dan saw

Tom he was so surprised, he dropped

to the floor with shock, and he was

just over the moon.

I never thought

I would get it, because I knew I was

probably not the best, but I gave it

a go, and I got it.

Dan has a rare

form of muscular dystrophy,

diagnosed when he was two. He can

walk a little with help, but mainly

uses an electric wheelchair.

He does

go to a mainstream school, and from

an academic point of view is doing

really super well, so his challenges

are physical.

He is very different,

it is hard, but he puts on a brave

face.

A keen football fan, Dan also

has a passion for music.

Dan loves

singing. He doesn't stop.

And he had

read the Christmasaurus and loved

the book, and the fact that it has

got a boy in a wheelchair in it that

he could relate to.

The thing I'm

most looking forward to doing is the

singing, definitely. It's lovely.

Tom is a great singer.

Today we are

at rehearsals. They are halfway

through a three-week schedule, and

there is still a lot of work ahead

for these guys.

He can't run fast,

he can't play with us, he just rolls

on past.

Sometimes they are

concentrating, sometimes not, but

these guys are incredible.

A

dinosaur in my bedroom!

I think it

is so important that we show kids

that we are not all the same, and

that is something to be embraced.

Opening night. What is the show

going to be like?

Incredible.

Electrifying.

Spectacular.

Especially for us, here's a sneak

preview of Dan's big number. There

won't be a dry eye in the house.

# All he has is me

# ...

When he comes on, we are going

to be so proud. Even just thinking

about it now, I can't wait.

# Someone more than me...

To know

what he has had to overcome to get

there, it will be such a wonderfully

happy occasion for us.

# Someone more than me...

It's just

the best experience I will ever have

in my life. It's awesome.

They are going to smash it. Well

done to Archie, Dan and Jake!

Absolutely brilliant.

The Christmasaurus is

at the Eventim Apollo,

Hammersmith in London,

from the 21st to the 28th December.

Mark, on our Christmas

screens you'll be appearing

as the Captain in Doctor Who.

Christmas Day, 5:30pm. Stephen

Moffat Stand last one. And this is

his last one? How does it rate?

It

is a beautiful story, very touching

and funny script. Peter Capaldi's

last one, Jodie Whittaker's first

one, David Bradley is back as the

first doctor, so it is like a new

three doctors. The regeneration

story is amazing. To be at the end

of so many eras is fantastic. It is

a bit like the League, we had a good

time making it. I saw it last

Tuesday without the end, some

secrets have to be kept. But it is

really great, and there wasn't a dry

eye in the house, I have to say.

And a lot of talk and noise when

Jodie was announced as the

successor, but surely she will be

amazing?

Sure she will, she is a

brilliant choice. I have been

lobbying for a female Doctor Who for

a very long time, so it is well

overdue, and she is a brilliant

choice. It is very exciting to think

where it might go next.

Inside number nine returns

for a fourth series,

a series you and fellow League

of Gentleman co-star

Reece Shearsmith write together.

Yes, that's right, and you don't

have to have seen the first ones,

you can just dive straight in. We

think it is the best one yet.

Is

there a reason why mark is not in

it?

We're waiting for the return

favour, we had him in Psycho Bill.

I

give you cameos!

Now, as we're a national show

for national people,

all this week we're heading around

the country, meeting some

of those who'd like to thank

others this Christmas.

Next stop, North Wales.

This Christmas I'd like to say thank

you to my mum, she means the world

to me and my little one.

I'd like to

thank my mum and my stepdad are

helping to pay for our wedding this

year.

I'd like to thank Chronos my

crime-fighting dog who confronted an

armed robber at our home address

whilst I was pregnant, and managed

to tackle and restrain them waiting

for police arrival.

I'd like to

thank my son Carter for reigniting

the Christmas feeling brain good

memories back. Have a good

Christmas, I love you, son.

This

Christmas I would like to thank

Yates is Ba Preston -- Yates' bar in

Preston forgetting back to me after

three years about the job.

Many

thanks for the Wrexham may -- Maelor

Hospital for looking after me this

year.

And we'd like to thank the mum

who raised £50,000 in memory of her

daughter Lauren, and we have made a

trip here today to say thank you in

person.

Thank you so much. It

doesn't matter how much money we

raise on this ward, we can still

never repay what you did.

Well,

thank you, Wrexham! Now, all this

week, we have been enjoying watching

you Kevin, spreading joy and

Christmas cheer within the

community.

Yes, it is a lovely

feel-good series looking at ordinary

people doing extraordinary things to

improve their community.

Kevin, Let's Get a Good Thing Going

sees you visiting a different

town or city every day.

The idea is for communities

to help fund projects

they will benefit from.

They make a donation and then pitch

their ideas, the people get a chance

to ask questions, and the person who

gets the most votes takes the pot of

money and implements the project.

Who has won money so far?

Bryant won

on Monday for the power chair

football, and tomorrow we have great

stories. We have Trish who works

with adults with learning

disabilities, she wants to do an

exhibition and show off all of their

work. Tom wants to create an

Internet hub for pensioners to help

them with the Internet. Adam wants

to fill up this gym with gym

equipment and offer free training,

and Sheila has a lovely story to

possibly help people who live with

dementia.

So they will be pitching

from 9:15am.

Lovely feel-good telly.

And it will give communities ideas

of what they can do, too.

Yes, we

have just touched a tiny bit of the

UK, but if you have got an idea, do

getting that.

That's all for tonight.

Thanks to Mark and

Steve for joining us.

The League of Gentleman continues

tonight at 10pm on BBC Two.

Tomorrow, Jenny Agutter,

Johnny Vegas and Tom Jones!