20/01/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to your Wednesday www. One Show with Matt Baker And

Alex Jones. Tonight Esther is here to celebrate the success of the

groundbreaking and life saving number she launched 30 years

agricultural. Join Esther is one of Britain's best stand-ups, he happens

to be from Canada, who cares. We will claim her as one of our own, it

Claudio Ranieri. -- Katherine Ryan. First here is Esther, 30 years

agricultural introducing that now famous phone line that gave children

someone to call when they had no-one else to turn to. We can announce a

brand new idea in this country, the launch of a national helpline for

children in trouble or danger. It's free, it's called ChildLine.

I still remember now the advert with the little girl running down the

stairs to the red phone box. I can't thank ChildLine enough for having

this service that's available to kids who don't know where to turn.

If it wasn't Forrester for Esther or ChildLine I wouldn't be here. Back

in 1986, I would never have dreamed that by now we would have helped

more than four million desperate children who had nowhere else to

turn. 30 years agricultural, Jo was being sexually abused by a family

friend. She saw the ChildLine launch and wrote to us. First of all I was

too scared to telephone iechl wrote a letter using my best friend's

address. I received a reply back asking me to give ChildLine a call.

I was so scared my best friend actually did most of the talking.

What is it that ChildLine was able to give you? Confidence. Strength.

Strategies to look after myself, keep myself safe. But also, the

opportunity to work through things on my own with their help and advice

rather than just sinking into depression. Today, ChildLine is a

service provided by the NSPCC. There are 12 chooild lain bases all over

the country. ChildLine's model has been copied in 150 countries. We've

come a long way since our pioneering days in 1986. Back then, the phone

lines were instantly busy when we launched. With just 4 #0s

volunteers, in a tiny office, we struggled to answer the 50,000 calls

we received on that first night. -- 40. I caught up with Rosenne Pearce

a ChildLine counsellor in our London base. It's so different from when we

started. There would be a lot of noise in the counselling room

because most children were ringing us. Now more children contact us

online. Can you help a child as effectively on-line? You definitely

can. Children do tell us about a lot of the most serious issues online

because they find it easier to talk online. It's somehow more anonymous

for them. When we started children were ringing about something someone

was doing to them, bullying, abuse and neglect. There seems to be this

unhappiness? I think that's partly because they are comparing

themselves to what they see online. Whereas they didn't have that in the

past. So, they see people on Facebook looking perfect. They see

celebrities looking wonderful. The images are so accessible now that's

hard for young people to keep up. Joe was frightened ashamed she

couldn't tell anyone about the abuse she'd endured as a child until she

was watching ChildLine's launch night in her mid-20s -- Jo. I had

not been able to say a word about my abuse until that programme came on

air. It's just the key that unlocked all my abuse that had gone on for

like seven-and-a-half years. I just wanted somebody to say - no, it's

all right. I thought no-one would believe me. This woman came on the

phone she said - but I do. Adam Bennett was ten years old and badly

bullied at school when he contacted ChildLine. Name calling, getting

spat on. Everyone's punch bag. I knew I should have spoken to my

parents about it, but I was too ashamed. What happened when you rang

ChildLine? I just remember the woman on the line making me feel very safe

straightaway. The confidence of the phone call gave me the confidence to

talk to my mum. That gave me the confidence to stand up to this kid.

ChildLine has been supporting and protecting children for 30 years. I

hope it will continue to be there for desperate children and young

people as long as they need our help. Sometimes we get children

coming through and saying - thank you so much. You've actually saved

my life. That's lovely to ChildLine works. Hear. I do my up most at all

times to try and support ChildLine. I feel like I'm a much Bert person

for it now because I dealt with it and I didn't bottle it up. Coming

out the other side of it, I'm so happy in myself. I like who I've

become. What a sentiment to finish on. We are joined by one of

ChildLine's counsellors, Elizabeth. We heard about the success of the

launch night. What prompted you to launch the service in the first

place? We did an item on a programme you are too young to children called

That's Life. We remember it! Nobody say "sausages"! That would be a

rather mysterious comment from me. I will explain sausages later. I know

That's Life it went to 1994, you were great on. It I'm a very old

man, secretly. We did this item about child abuse. Because there

were so many children in our audience we opened a special

helpline, opened 48-hours, it was for children who might have been

suffered cruelty. We got so many calls about 100 children rang

reporting sexual abuse which was at the time the great taboo they

couldn't talk about it anywhere else. I remember coming in the next

day and hearing this and realising it was more important than anything

I had ever done before. To protect children from avoidable pain was so

crucial. That led to ChildLine. Thankfully through all the people

out there and the people in the film you kept it going. The subjects

covered 30 years agricultural and less were a lot about physical,

sexual abuse, bullying, these days, you will know about this Elizabeth,

the subject matter has widen quite significantly, hasn't it? Yes we get

a high number of people phoning up about self-harm and suicidal

thoughts. Maybe being cyberbullied now there. Are new issues coming up

for young people. They were unknown in 1986. That's it. Katherine, for

those of us with young children your daughter is six-and-a-half, as mine

is too, you wonder about the world they are growing up. Is it a worry

for you? Absolutely it is. It's great ChildLine has evolved to

include an online forum for communication. That's really their

language now. I think it's so important for every child to know

that someone is listening. I tell my daughter most people are good. The

worse thing is to keep a secret. We laugh when things are cute. So many

times the child will say something, we laugh, they want to be listened

to and taken seriously. Yes, the dog does have eyes, you are correct.

That's a great point. Someone is always listening, I think is the

message. When children are confident enough to ring people like yourself,

Elizabeth, who volunteer, how do you deal then with those calls when a

child who is incredibly vulnerable on the other side of the line rings

up and you have to somehow talk them around or talk them out of a

situation? Well, we understand how difficult it can be for a young

person to call ChildLine and to begin to talk about something that

can be very difficult for them. So we listen to them and we reassure

them that calling ChildLine you can talk about anything at all. Whatever

you talk about, it will be a private conversation between ChildLine and

that young person. We believe what they say. We can support them, when

they think the time is right to get some help. We can support them with

that too. We tell them it's not their fault. The abuse that is

happening to them isn't their fault. They know that they can phone

ChildLine again at any time they want to speak about it again. Yeah.

Esther, we have seen high-profile cases of sexual abuse that have made

it to court, but haven't ended in a conviction. Do you worry that those

who might think of ringing ChildLine are reluctant because they may feel

they will not be listened to? The good thing is when you get a

high-profile case like Jimmy Savile, that actually enables and empowers

children and some adults too to talk about things that they thought would

be completely disbelieved and for the first time they realise that

actually they can report crimes against them and quite often they

corroborate each other. Do you notice a spike? We certainly do when

there is a conviction we do get a spike. Of course, the important

place for the conviction is in a court of law rather than elsewhere.

What worries me is whether our courts are sensitive enough to

handle these cases. There have been changes, that is another change in

the last 30 years. Things have improved. It's easier for children

now to report abuse and for an abuser to go to jail. You would like

people on the subject of ChildLine to get in contact with you this

evening, wouldn't you? Yes, we really would. The thing is, it's so

difficult for us, giving anonymous children, to know the end of the

story. Did it end well after that phone call or perhaps did it go

badly? So what we want is for any adults who rang ChildLine when they

were children to get in touch with me via your website and tell us

their story. It will be confidential. We won't pass it on,

but we can learn from it. It will make other children aware of it. For

those children to whom something happened, but they didn't ring

ChildLine, we desperately want to know why? We want to make ourselves

even more accessible. Perhaps children who have been groomed or

part of child sexual exploitation didn't feel ChildLine's line was for

them. Get in touch and tell us why and we will be able to work more

effectively in the years to come. Lovely. Thank you. ChildLine number

is free phone 0800 1111. Completely free. Now, normally, thank you

Elizabeth as well. Normally multi-million selling international

popstars are used to getting their own way in this world, aren't they?

If that involves stripping off in a field of barley in County Down, who

is going to stop them? I will tell you who is going to stop them. Go

on. Alan is going to stop them. Go on, son. Meet Alan Graham, a church

going farmer from Bangor Northern Ireland who in 2011 became the

centre of a media storm when he went head-to-head with one of the world's

biggest megastars # You can stand under my umbrella...

# Pop diva Rihanna was appearing in

concert in nearby Belfast when she decided to shoot her new video using

the local scenery. For one sequence Alan's bareliy field seemed perfect.

It happened on a Friday afternoon. I had barley to cut at that particular

time of the year. That was the background that the film crew were

looking for to film this video of a lady running through a barley field.

As filming progressed, it soon became clear to the deeply religious

Alan that Rihanna might be getting too close to nature for his liking.

They moved into that back field behind the trees. At that point

that's when the dress code became unacceptable to me. So I went to the

film crew, just told them it was over. It was inappropriate. Rihanna

however used to getting what she wanted was soon pleading with Alan

to change his mind. What was the interaction between you two? She got

herself wrapped up and came over and had a chat. Shook hands. I told her

I was a Christian and she was very respectful to my point of view. We

shook hands four or five times. Then we parted company. The crew packed

up and that was that. Or so Alan thought. What he didn't know was

that lurking in nearby bushes were some paparazzi and they had caught

the whole altercation on camera. Local photographer Justin was among

the throng and he knew the story was tabloid gold? I filled one of my

cards of 4,000 5,000 images, constantly shooting. She moves, you

shoot it. Did the incident with Alan and Rihanna in the field add to the

appeal, do you think? Of course it did, yeah. It make it is a lot more,

sort of, tasty that the local farmer came down and told Rihanna off, you

know! As news of the story spread like wildfire, farmer Alan was about

to have his 15 minutes of fame riebth around the world. Rihanna

will have to find a new location for her next video. An Irish farmer told

Rihanna to put her clothes back on. She was wearing a bee kinny. Who

does that? In the press Alan was headline news.

I didn't realise what the media interest would be that that morning

camera crews were arriving at the farm at dawn and people, journalists

and newspaper people were ringing me and it was becoming a big story.

Bearing in mind I had to still get my barley cut. Online, someone

accusing Alan of being a God-fearing fuddy-duddy. Thankfully, however, he

was getting support from like-minded people around the globe. This card

here came from a lady in California. It came sometime after the shoot.

What did she say? She was very, very encouraging and tells me somewhere

that I'm a hero and the world needs me. We had the supreme privilege of

seeing your intervention. I think the ordinary people want a wee bit

better from show business. When the video was eventually released the

world was able to see just what all the fuss was about.

It's been a number of years since Alan has watched Rihanna's video, so

how does he feel now? Do you feel vindicated in the end? Welcome at

the local newspaper did say that Alan Graham was right, so I suppose

I did feel a certain amount of vindication at that stage. Are over

it? Yes, I'm over it. Get into those chips now. In the end of the single

went on to sell over 10 million copies and video set in Alan's

barley field won eight Ramey award. Alan used his bit of fame to help

his own profile committee is currently the mayor of the local

borough council, not such a hopeless place after all! -- Grammy award.

It was so interesting that Rihanna doesn't get away with it but Matt on

countryside can do anything he wants -- country file. I'm often seen in a

pair of hot pants, topless in a field! Whose side are you on, Alan

or Rihanna? I've never seen an Irishman tried to tell a woman what

to do with her body! You speak of authority, don't you? I'm on

Rihanna's side because the song is biblical, found love in a hopeless

place, perhaps Rihanna stripping off in the field was God, because

Rihanna is made in God's image, appearing before him, congratulating

him on being such a holy man! If that's not an act of God, what is?

Alan will be knocking on your door soon! Yes he is. Last time you came

on you talked about your tour KathBum, as of course that is your

nickname as we found out. You honed it at Edinburgh but now it's in full

flow and full swing. What type of topics are you covering? What have

you been honing? KathBum is ready. Never thought I nickname that I

hated when I was young would become my name on Twitter, the name of my

show and the name of my limited company but I do miss home sometimes

and my family, especially one of my sisters!

LAUGHTER You know, you're the one -- the

other one, you cannot help who you are sisters with. One of them is

getting married and I talk about news, celebrity culture, that is my

first love, the late night chat show, the monologue, that's how I

was get my news, even today. How do you deal with the process? Listen to

the breakfast News and start scribbling? What is the process? You

two might be in the gym, that's my gym! Doubtful! You can strip off in

my field any day! I won't see it as a sign! That is my gym, I love to

write about the news, I love to hear about the news from a satirical

angle so I always open the show with that and then I look back and talk

about my family and growing up in Canada and what my life is like now

with a daughter, and really I'm an immigrant single mum, just the two

bus in Britain for eight nine years now. We have a moment of you on the

stage talking about your daughter. My daughter's English, I didn't see

that coming at all, she hid it very well as a baby, you could not tell

where she was from for about a year and then all of a sudden, money, she

started to talk like this way. I thought she was just mocking me at

first but it turns out she's British. They are sneaking into my

own body. Nigel Farage did not see that coming, did he?

APPLAUSE You were talking about your daughter

last time as well, and saying used to take her on the stage with you as

well, strapped to you when she was smaller. Now she is six and a half,

does she understand what money does? For a little while she thought

everybody's mother was a comedian and then she learned the truth, most

mothers do far more admirable things and that. Violet knows lots of

stand-up comedians, she comes with me almost everywhere I can bring her

if it doesn't interfere with her school and she hates it! . She?

She's mortified and it's perfect because my parents had academic

careers, Violet will rebel by going to law school! That is ideal! It's

interesting because you talk about your life in Canada and what have

you, and he worked in a place called Hooters. You say it like you've

never been! A place I've never heard of! It is true! Apparently they say

it is a family restaurant with an edge. Just explain the concept. That

is how I should build myself, I'm a family restaurant with an edge.

Listen, I grew up very much a product of mainstream pop culture

and these images of beautiful women and Britney Spears when she was

attractive by accident and I thought that was the best thing you could

be. A calm, quiet, subservient cheerleader. I didn't know any

better growing and I worked at Hooters where that is the archetype

of the waitresses there. I met some amazing women who really had a lot

of chat. It taught me to be a comedian working at Hooters, which I

wouldn't recommend now but I was 18 years old. And I really had a good

time and found my voice working there. And you are writing a sitcom

about it and all sorts of things. You should never speak about

anything until it happens because once I said I was writing a sitcom

about my time waitressing and now people are asking me, no one wants

to make it! I may or may not but I'm trying. They will watch this show

and they will be listening! For KathBum fans, good news, the Torah

has been extended, and will be across the UK from now until the

21st of May. We are doing the Hammersmith Apollo on the 25th in

London. Good venue! Last Wednesday we asked you to send

us pictures of long lost friends that you wanted to get in touch with

and we've been pretty successful. We showed this very picture here sent

in by Dawn and her husband Michael is on the right in his wedding suit,

and he lost contact with his best man, Rate, for the last 14 years. As

it turned out Ray had been trying to get in touch too and because of The

One Show they will be meeting up and going for a drink. They haven't

actually met, we just put the pictures together, by the way. We

don't want to stop there because this week we have heard that the

famous site Friends Reunited will close for good. It's the website

that put old friends, and even old flames, back in contact. We want to

hear if Friends Reunited changed your life and if you have a story to

share you can e-mail the show at bbc.co.uk/theoneshow with the

subject line Friends. Let's turn our attention to a creature that is

right at the bottom of the food chain. Here is Mike Dilger.

If someone said to you the greatest migration on earth, what would you

think of? Wildebeest crossing the Serengeti plains, Cariboo Crossing

the Arctic tundra? Nice guesses but no, because its plankton and this

amazing journey happens just off our shores.

The animals that take part in this huge migration underpin all marine

life in the British Isles. For the most part you will probably never

even have seen them. I've come to the west Coast of Scotland and the

beautiful island of Mull. To take a closer look at plankton. These tiny

but incredibly important organisms. During the summer months the seas

off the British Isles transform, filling up with swirling patterns

covering hundreds of square kilometres, which can even be seen

from space. These patterns are in fact plumes of tiny plants called

phytoplankton. Most no bigger than a pinhead. These tiny plankton are so

numerous they produce over half the oxygen we breathe, and they even

give the sea its smell, and most importantly they are the food of the

creatures I've come to investigated a. I'm on a quest to find some of

the weirdest animals on the planet and they are so small that we need

to look out for the predators that feed on them if we want to find

them. Zooplankton make an incredible journey each day, moving through the

waters where they feed and the dark depths where they are safe from

predators. Some of these tiny individuals travelled to depths of

500 metres, this monumental feat by so many minuscule animals makes them

part of the biggest migration on the planet. Here off the Hebrides in

waters rich in nutrients creates a pint and hotspot and in the waters

off the coast it isn't long before we find what we are looking for.

This is fabulous behaviour. The animals that feed on plankton are

being pushed to the surface by bigger fish and birds piling in from

the top and gannets diving from 25, 30 metres up and slamming into the

water and they are feeding on the shoals of fish. And where there are

fish there are going to be huge plankton blooms, and that's what we

want to see. Zooplankton may be amongst the most numerous animals on

earth but catching them isn't easy. So we brought it plankton professor

to help us, with his specialist net system we soon caught some marathon

migrate as while they were up at the surface feeding, and headed back to

the land. -- migrate as. This is a whole new world, David. Talk me

through this creature which looks like it has a fan tail. It is about

seven millimetres long and it is the lion of the sea, it is carnivorous

and eats the other chaps. There is another one that is distinctive with

long antennae that also has the colour red running through its body.

Across the North Atlantic and up into the Arctic, it's important as a

source of fish food for commercially imported species. You can see an oil

sack, it is Lippett, that basically. Herring and mackerel feed on them in

huge numbers and that transfers into its tissues. Bastia mega three that

we need to eat for our own diet. -- that is the omega three. Exactly. It

is incredible to think that the world's marine life is so reliant on

such tiny animals so the next time you settle down to a fish supper,

remember, it's all down to the plankton.

Thank you very much, Mike. He can't be here today because we have

dispatched him to a very chilly Totnes in Devon to find out how some

birds keep warm and out of the temperatures now that they have

plummeted. Mike is a lovely lad and sent some

satellite images that could rival that will stop this picture of the

phytoplankton from space. Have a look at this one, it is Halley eBay

in Antarctica. Some initially unassuming brown patches -- Howie

they are Penguin to, Penguin Gouano, this picture was taken 480

kilometres away and British scientists from the British

Antarctic Survey have used these images of Penguin to to monitor

colonies in space so they can tell the difference between the species,

adults and chicks, and the researchers discovered there were

twice as many colonies of Emperor penguins in Antarctica than

previously thought. Who knew it was so handy. I have another fact,

today's Penguin awareness Day. Yes. And cheese Day. Cheese Day! Double

Day. Penguins do not eat cheese, fun fact. Which were you celebrating out

of the cheese and Penguin Day? It is a close call!

LAUGHTER That would be a hard-won. Let's on

because you might like this, it was in Canada. This is the world's

biggest beaver dam. Canada from space. That's what it looks like

close-up as well! LAUGHTER

Thank you to Katherine for joining us, you can see her on her KathBum

Tomorrow, Mary Berry will be here - see you at 7pm.

If you watch later we will see you in a while.